The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-20 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, JULY 18.
The excitement connected with the annuity-tax has
not yet subsided. First the Lord Advocate has ordered
an investigation to be made as to the causes of the late
riot, a step the precise utility of which it is difficult to
divine, but the result of which it may safely be pre-
dicted will be nothing. Secondly, Bailie Stott has
given notice of a motion to petition parliament in
order that the congregations presently assembling in
the fifteen city churches may hereafter be congre-
gated in five of these edifices sufficient, as he alleges,
to hold all the seat-paying worshippers; the remaining
ten to be sold to pay off the debt due by the church
to the city ; but the proposition of the worthy magis-
trate is too extreme to be carried. Thirdly, the milli-
rem and dressmakers, conceiving that woman has a
mission to discharge in this matter, have resolved on
a female petition against the impost, to be signed by
tied

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CLLIIENDON.—Wisereas by 1111 Set paredin this present session of those lady-tenants—who are annually wish _by the
tailoring is eminently prosaic, lied unity and fraternity could
how-
not overcome the chilling levelling sensation creeping on parliament, in the Ilth year of her Majesty's reign, intituled "An s,note given to him by ...is brother. The instpXtrates,
eseh man, that, work as bard or as skilfully as he pleased, he Act for the better prevention of crime and outrage in certain ports of collector : and altogether the tax seems in danger, ever, resolved to commit the prieoner for trial at the present
could make no material addition to his remuneration, which Ireland, until the lst dp.aruf December, 1849, and to the cad of the but it has already braved so many storms that lam assizes ; but intimated that they would take bail, himself in
would be the same u that of the indolent stupid man behind ;!aeo onntseadeof
w n oenr In the ' dgratc il' joßfatte Lordfluttleinnagn't enacted,ar °the chary about propheayindgefdanelcitveinrathinces to be 5001., and two sureties in 2501. each. The sureties wets net,
all Scotland—the only exceptional
him. The end of the attempt was, according to the curious chief governor or governael:of Ireland, by and .nt
ht the advice of the Chartism seems to be however, forthcoming.
account of it in the Econontast, that not only was there no privy council of Ireland, it shall be necessary for the prevention of indeed, throughout DERBYSHIRE.
surplus fund, but there was a positive deficiency. The men crime and outrage, that the said act should apptyto any county, county instanceRESTORATION OF STOLEN PROPERTY.—In the early
in their subsistence money were paid less wages than goad of a city, or county of a town, or any barony or baroniee, half barony being the fining of a flying stationer for
workers would have got from a contractor who was clearing or half baronies. in any county
m barony
large,i,moLaily dist:blachoLleits.erz.ting singing a doFgrel lament for John Mitchel through tied to Tamwo
part of the year 1846, Mr. S. Watt., builder, of Derby, p
his
starkers station, for the purpose ot paying his
bb profit ; and yet they received too much on the
and forKnr the 174-r half
Lientenan7 le other clitet governor or goner- the streets Of Glasgow.
than
The convention of royal burghs is not to dissolve men engaged upon a contract on the Trent Valley line. in
sommunist principle ; and just because that principle is not non of Ireland, by and with the advise of the privy council of Ire-
but improve itself. For this purpose it has been su ' his carpet bag were fifteen 51. bank-notes, together with
a sufficient stimulus to production. land, to declare by proclamation, to be published in the Dublin, books and papers. On alighting at Tamlthaetiwonduonirth,
insbtaguttpijnoothp., Mr.
iartgy
Indeed, the more this matter is considered the more it will Gazette, that from and after a day to be named in such proclamation, 6- Watts missed his carpet bag, and immediately telegraphed
be seen that it is not to the abolition of competition among the said act shall apply to any county, county of a city, or county of a gas ted that the period of meeting should be chaned
from July to March, the latter being the time when twhaseltalictcitotedWtoilniewiesd toanthdeßdiscoirmivnegryhamot
the working classes that we must look for this elevation in
town, ortany I'morl'ilinardiabilmitrictn'Of blet eb*mxteil:tytholnhaanliynrbaorroanely orm tiZ
the social scale, but rather to its increase. It would improve barony ain Ireland. bow, we, the Lord•Lleutenant, do, by this our Scotch measures are generally brought forward in until Sunday morning week, when the rumor of Derby
them more than any theories or projects that ever were de- proclamation, in pursuance and execution of the said act, andsy and parliament, and also that any party being a burgess received the following note by post, enclosing 761. :
Wed, if one could infuse into them an ambition to rise in the with the advice of her Majesty's privy council in Ireland, declare, shoald be eligible for a seat in the convention. The To the Right Worshipful the Maryor.—London, July 8, 1348.—Sir,
—The encleeed 15 bank notes, at 51. each, have been 104 in the early
world. When the workman steadily forms and acts up to that from and after Saturday, the 22nd day of this pre-
the month of July, 1849, the end act tutu apply to health of tons wonld be an eligible subject for this part of the ye. 18PL hLtdr. liaratlal matt.. its and Immo?, from
the resolution of making and umulating money he is •
taZoibt inAnfreor in
thrind for the cgoonntyml d.j....the coir,theof Wa. body, but colons, as parliament shows itself incapable arDer.brio ecc,:echig-Erthe'V'ehhce.„Yout,Linuhhcda° an.rethdm"",chti canwed,',4:eZve
gained man. AU the eloquent denunciations of popular di.
of grasping this Kraut refcrm, local bodies should not be has tally proved to you that he Went:Wed to lt. i shall not
fail to discharge my thinks for your trouble in • more mattrinta
vines against mammon are thrown away when launched of the said m, 0, the city of „,„,ced, ..L.,.. pease 0=
and all others whom it magEneern, are to take notioe. Given at be blamed for supineness. One small advance in the
=the working classes, for this is not their vice
p; and
mon who denounces it to them is as uselessly employed the Council Chamber in Du " this 15th dailof July, 1818. Henryanthropic cane has to be recorded. There are m'grribtan marehoTtait W.".".atts reoNeVr:ujitne auirjolanuedx;
as that ordinary of Newgate who, doing duty for a fellow- Brady, C. F.. Blakeney, Fred. ivbout 1,86.5 deaf and dumb children in Scotland Loilidon, Julyes;lB4B.—ii Mr. Samuel Wane, bullder.—Sir,—Yon
Oxonian in a remote country perish, warned one of the most Monahan. God save the oneen...; '_chdi ..
G.ree_ De'_jamen Henri
ott are to be taken into ere nquested to go immediately to the mayor, and to prove yonnicit
primitive congregations in England against the vices and Similar proclamations have been issued for the county of destitute, and of these (if
p.m.)
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propensities of the London swell mob. the city of Dublin, to take effect from Thursday, the 20th
Indeed, the working man would be better than he is, if he inst. ; the county of Dublin, from the
autneeday day; the baronies Donaldson's hospital, Edinburgh. by Samuel Watts, or by some paws most Ukeiyimoern to him. The
The Clydesdale bank, in common with the other person woo has lost that money Is, and than be hereafter, entitled to
had a better appreciation of the advantages of gaining of Bilcullibeen, Middlethird, _ and G ulti re, In e county
Scotch establishments, is keeping up its dividends. pr
ison
nubs rate a I per °Mt* d ilea MS kti:rbie." ii'''' be mot
eclectically paid, but at no regular now which hams
money. The appreciation he should have is not that of the of Waterford, from the 22nd inn.; the county of the any
cabman who extorts • double fare and spends It in the gin- of Cork, from the 22nd ; thud
baronies of orn. Fennoy, and The amount declared by this bank, which is amongst been lustre now in the hands of the mayor, into wit be re..dy to ra.
store that money and to render justice. P.& flboold you leave Derby
palace, while his wife is starving and his daughter is on the Condone and Clongibbons, in the county of Cork, from the the youngest, is 61 per cent. at a future time, leave your address always with the mayor of Derby.
street. La gloirs, rumour, la frafernild, are fine things to 22nd ; and the county of the town of Drogheda, from the Heritable property, the great haven for investment May the nth of July prove always a happy day fix 'cu.—Wuxi=
contend for, but the object of the plain working man, who 22nd.b in troublons times, is becoming a drag in the market. Fuo
does his best both to make and to apply his money,. is not It is currently-stated that Smith O'Brien would be The properties advertised for sale are unusually nu- moneyT has been paid to Mr. Watts. No doubt the
utterly without its dignity. Independently of any wise rule arrested
. for his speech last night in Drogheda. In merona, and many attract no bidders. This was the signature to the letters is fictitious.
of Providence limiting the circle of those for whose interestSTAFFORDSHIRE.
human nature will make eacrifiees, a man's wife and trutii, the party are going too fast for public order or case with the Blair ironworks and the estate of Pit- COMMISSION BY IHE LORD LIEHTEMANY.—}IOI:I.
his children are human beings, and it does not their own safety. Then is a very uneasy feeling con, both belonging to the Ayrshire iron Company— Y. Gough, to be deputy ututinant.