The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-28 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINIIOBOII, Atm. 26.
The proceedings of the Edinburgh Registration
Court have closed, and the results are as follows :
There is a total decrease on the registration of the
year of 294—the conservatives having lost 95, the
liberals 189, and the neutrals 15.
A potato panic teak place in Perth last week.
From an apprehension that it was doomed to imme-
diate and total destruction, about one hundred cart-
loads came into market, and the price fell from 255.
per boll to ss. In due time, a re-action took place,
sad the price is now 20s. per boll. Disease has, no
doubt, been found to prevail, but not t 3 such an extent
as to jeopardise the balk of the crop.
The other day, the Duke of Buccleucb, accom-
panied with two of his sons, visited the mines at
Wanlockhead—a district which figures so much and
so unfortunately in the report on sites. His grace
was respectfully and enthusiastically received.
Dr. lang's scheme for the colonisation of Cooks-
land, Australia, by emigrant cotton-growers from
Scotland, is exciting some attention as well as op-
position, the Nrath British Mail, is particular,
maintaining that means should be taken to reclaim
the waste lands in the Highlands before attempting
the cultivation of the Australian deserts.
The Scotch bench of bishops has lost one of its
members. Dr. Moir, diocesan of Brechin, a gentle-
man of much amiability, died last week. He was
ordained fifty years ago, and consecrated in 1837.
PROVINCIAL.

II PROPOSED CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN Aus-
TRALIA..—The Her. Dr. Lan, a gentleman, who has re-
sided in Australia, and who has also visited some of the
cotton-growing states in America, had a long audienoe with
the directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on
Wednesdiry, to lay before them hie opinions as to the cepa-
, &lidos of the north-eastern portion of Australia for growing
I cotton. Dr. Lang describes the climate of the portion of
country he se'ects, which is front the thirtieth parallel of
south latitode to the tropic of Capricorn, along the South
Pacific Ocean, as occupying the sumo tract of land in the
southern hemisphere that ancient Egypt does in the northern
hemisphere, and which is known to grow cotton well. He
also states that the climate is very similar, the at-
mosphere being dry but with sufficient moisture to
render it more suitable for this purpose than any in
India ; and he argues that cotton might there be
serrated by Europeans without risk to health, and thus free
labour be brought into fair competition with slave labour.
He proposes a chartered company to take land, to mad out
people to be settled on the land with farms at about 80
acres each—the company not to grow cotton, bat la establish
a model cotton farm, under the superintendents* of an
American eottoo-grower, for the general lama d the
colony, and to seek repayment of capital by lb& nub of
the land. He contends that it would be men peedfilabie
than wool-growing is there, and that a gnaw Groom mew
realising a shilling per lb. in the present Mete of Om towhee
could be grown sou to compete with America. lice=
that the growers should not clean the cotton, as is

but that one large establishment for that purples should
occupy a central position on the many narigab'e ricers in-
tersecting this tract of eountry.—A long conversation en-
sued between the board and Dr. Ling.—The president
thanked him for his comssituiesSise.__

WARWICKSHIRE.
JENNY LINO IN BIRMINOHAIL—On Thursday
evening a brilliant audience assembled in the town hell to
welcome thisvocalist. She was accompanied by Solari. Gar-
doni and F. Lablathe, and was received with the utmost
enthusiasm. Notwithstanding the ems of the hall, her
slightest whisper seemed to fill it, as if the air had become
musical from sympathy. She received several encores,
which she cheerfully obeyed, either by repeating a portion
of the piece, or by one of her curtaeys, which partake so
largely of her winning simplicity. Haire accompanied her in
all the pieoes, with the exception of the Swedisa melodies.
COUNTERFEIT TURKISH COINING AT BIRMINGHAM.
—Yesterday, a man named Darwin, war brought up before the
magistrates at Birmingham, on a charge of coining counter-
feit Turkish money.—Mr. James, solicitor of Basinghall.
street, attended ea the representative of the Turkish ambas-
sador, and M. Zohrab, tne consul general to the mobility,
was present to watch the proceedings.—The prisoner (who
is respectably connected), war accompanied by numerous
friends.—James Tyrer, a button-maker, residing in Ryland-
street, .Birmingham, was the first witness. He stated that
he first saw the prisoner in the month of October, 1841 ; on
that occasion he came to him and uid he wished to see how
cold silver, which is used for burnishing buttons, was worked'
he saw witness silver two small blanks, and at a later period
in the day he came to him, and showed him sumo
coins, very similar to those produced in court; he
said that the dies of these coins were at a place near Brom-
grove, and asked witness to go and sec them. He did so,
sad after inspecting them, he told the prisoner that the
stump would do, hut that the die would not, it being too full
in the centre. The witness here produced a number of good
Turkish coins which the prisoner bad given him to make
dies from ; and he said that, in compliance with this order,
be had struck off about 45.000 pieces. The prisoner said
that he would give him five pounds a week, and all ex-
pense*, if he would work for him. The coins, when struck,
were sent to Crowley'a, the carriers, by order of the prisoner;
and in this manner, about 50,000 were disposed of, repre-
senting fictitiously various Turkish values. A number of
letters were here produced by Mr. James, which purported
to have been written by the prisoner to the witness (Tyrer),
but they were not read, in consequence of there not being
a sufficient identification of the handwriting. In continua-
tion, Mr. Tyrer said that he sent off about nine casks of the
base coin by the prisoner's orders, three weighing about
cwt.; but that about five weeks afterwards three of the
casks were returned, the coins not having been sufficiently
silvered these the witness melted down in his ordinary
business. Prisoner paid him altogether about 1,5001., and
ri quested that the matter might be kept quiet, as negotia-
tions were going on between the British government end the
Turkish, which, if they were successful, would ensure the
witness the sum already named weekly. It appeared that
Mr. Tyrer had not given any information of this matter until
requested to do so by the police. Glossop, a police-officer,
produced a quantity of dies which he had found in
the prisoner's possession, and which he had given
up readily. Walker, a packer, who had been in
Darwin's service, deposed that; be had frequently seen
him weighing foreign coin, and that on one occasion the pri-
soner gave him one at his request, which he marked and
gave to the police officer. Mr. Edmund Zohrab was next
examined He said that the coins produced were good imi-
tations of those in circulation in Turkey, but that there was
no person in this country authorised to make them, and that
to do so was regarded as a grave offence by the Turkish law,
He further said that be had reason to believe there were
other persons connected with the prisoner in his akar ; be
therefore wished the inquiry to be further extended. The
prisoner was committed for trial, the magistrates postponing
, their decision on his solicitor's application for bail. The
nine casks of counterfeit piastres sent by the prisoner from
- are said to have represented not less