The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY.

This institution, which was established ill the year
1600 for the pupae of providing, by annual subaeriptions, a
feed for greasing annuities to aged and disabled :commercial
travellers beim. sontributon teethe fund, eel/busted its 49th
anninnary yesterday by a dime, at thallium Lovegrove.%
the Loadoa Collsehouse, liodgete-hill. The Lord Mayor
wm in theiduir, supported loy Cheriff Goodhert, Alderman
Sir Chapman Mandell, the president of the society ; Mr
Bevan, elle banker ; and about 40 of the friends and sup.
marten of the institution, including the representatives of
several et the principal marlin firms of the 'metropolis. The
cloth having been removed.
The Loan MAYON, in proposing the first tout—the health
of her most gracious Majesty—said that at the committe-
emen of a new year it wee scarcely necessary for him to lents
their attendee to the happy state in which the advent of the
year found this country es compared with others. Ilmpily,
we lived under a comautud n which gave to all equal laws
and equal liberty, and happily also we had • son reign Ws ly
seated on the throne of her anemone, protected and sup-
ported by the &fictions and loyalty of her people, We had
seen curing the pest year surrounding nations shaken to
their fouadaticas, and civil moiety left in them without a
chart or compass to steer by, while all we had experienced
was the warning which the state of society In those countries
gave as the consequence of setting clue against dun end the
uprooting of settled institutions by violent metes. The
loyalty sad peaceful demeanour of the people of this court.
try during the past year, and especially ea one or two me-
morable occasions, proved that they were Handed with the
free constitution under which they lied—end, in returning
thanks for the blessings they enjoyed. he was sure they
would never forget to pay a tribute of loyalty and
affeetioa to that sovereign who was as distinguished
for her love of constitutional liberty as for
her private virtues, and whose greatest happiness was the
welfare of her people —The Want was drunk with the usual
, honours, as were those which immediately fAlowed —the
Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wal s and
tne rest of the Royal Fundy, and the Army and Navy.
The health of the Lord Mayor was then proposed by
Alderman Sir C. MAIIIAZALL, end having Woad:oak with
honours and acknowledged by his lordship,
The Loan MACTOS gave the health of the president of
the society, Sir C. Manhall, sad prosperity to the Com-
mercial Travellers' Institution. By the aceouate pro seated
to him, he fogad • list of recipients of the fund,
including 66 member., 83 widows, and 3eeildren, the aLow-
ances to whom amounted in the gen. to 1,6231. • year.
Since its witablisuseat the society had distributed upwards
of 80,0001. amongst its decayed members and their families.
With such limited means, he believed no society h.d done
men good. Nadas' of men were more valuable or amid in
• community like this than the nautili nisi traveller.;
and he hoped the
de oi, who, whitenr the misfortu lee of late years, were
Yew entering upon better times—would not forget the
claims elf a body so useful to themselves. He

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SA gamey caseided at . hagerwbe of tko cow
memdal Tram, ' filet this. as
that ln providing fir the yang they would sot forget to—re.
won twig old to the eid, sues were past labour, and vows
to support themselves. He might add, in conclusion, otio.:
nroosmasmiladen to the sootily, that betas* of seas thr
wareiedusaWl with lOW ore aad eosaosay.
Aid. Sir C. Misaawars., in returning chalks, 'quoit
k regret that the mule of the society would am alto. thaw
to give the amount of relief orightelly Intended. [
lose lied kw decoyed embus woe originally, we were in.
faemod, SOL a yearE:: week ;it is now reduced to 1114
a year. It is but tto say !bat toast of the *Wawa
are comparatively te.] While be rejoiced at the mu,
purity of the school, he hoped tho pareat institutive "sold
not be allowed to die._ _ _

The bealth of the Sherif of London sad Mic:ffinsx
test
thes gists and acknowledged by Mr. Shen, Goodson, she
of
spologised for the absence of his colleague, Alderson aid
finenifFinale, who, he said was in avow anal on the j
at the Central Criminal C,ourt. The usual west/ ot
stewards and the officers of Institution thawed ; aid
after the announcement by this honorary secretary that glot
had bee. collemed in the room, the Lord Mayor seated,

CHOLERA.—Yesterday, the following frail meg
Wen reported to the Board of Health :—Walworth, I.
fatal; Cbeleea Workhouse, 1 &anon, near Bury St. la;
mum's, 1; Carlisle, 2, 1 fatal; Ediaburgh, 11, 6 saw .
Gleam,
_177, 76 fatal ; New lionkland, 22, 7 fatal; oij
Kookiest. 16, 9 fatal; Bones, 3 fatal; Greenock, 1 tam.
illazwelitown and Dumfries, 3 fatal. Thal new cases, 234;
107 deaths.
THE CITY OAS QUBSTlON.—Yesterday a deptter
Lion from the• inhabitants et Parringdon-Ward Without,
waited upon the Lord Mayor with a requisition signed by
upwards of 60D of the inhabitants, praying that his lordship
would convene a wardmote for the coosideration of the qua,.
Gen of the enormous price of gee in the City of London. HA
lordship appointed the wardmote to take place on Friday.
the 12th inst., at the Court-house is the Old Bailey, at $
o.'clairk in the evening.
THE ARCHBISHOP OE CANTERBURY AND THE Ne.:•ri
TIONAL SuCisTY.—it will be remembered that a few wesen •
since certain neg .tintions were penning between the Na-
tional Society and the Committee of Privy Council, win*
failed. Hence, by numerous members of the Nstional Se.
testy, it was deemed expedient that an address should be
drawn up for presentation to the archbishop, and Sgned
pm.by
as many as kit the necessity of requesting his grace, ma
sident, 'to convene a publie meeting, ter the pa pose of
considering whet measures it will be expedient to adopt..'
This aurae having been decided on, a requisition, with the
eigoutures of upwards of 400 members of the National So-
ciety, was forwarded to his ince, to which he mid, Ow
Rama reply annexed :—" Adefingten Park, Dec 27,1848,
—Reverend Sir,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of
an add,. es, which you have forwarded to me gaud by
fora hundred and Sty-seven members of tie National
Society, ant requesting me, as its presid-nt, is convene a
public meeting, for the purpose of considering whin m.slurs
it will be advisable to adopt in consequence of the failure of
the late negotiations with the committee of council tor edu-
cation. l am sorry to disappoint the wi-hea of so many of
the society's friends by declining to made to their desire.
The requisition is grounded on an assumption which 1 Mad
admit, that Me recent neastiations have failed. But, rode.
pendently at skis objection, the ineonveniesces of say ninth
discussion cedes terms of a @if& .11 and delicate negotiate*
are teeming ad obvious to be encountered without a roved
of some propertionate advantage attainable hs ao other way.
The only advantage of the proposed meeting would be the or
portunity it might afford of &equalities the committee
whom the "management and government" of the society le
vested by charter with the sentiments of the members then
assembled. This object may be secured by other mesas use
open to exception, by such written etaten.ente, for initeaco,
u the committee way deliberately consult upon. They afif
already in possession of letters from =icy individual mein.
be,,, and have received communications from several dio-
cesan boards, which they have taken, and will continue to
take, into unous an/ patient consideration. Wi h all due
respect, therefore, to the names appended to the requisition,
I must decline to sanction a measure which has un preos.

dent in the practice of the society, and trona which I cra
foresee no advantage at all commensurate with the incoove.
minces and dangers.—l remain, rev. air, your faithful
servant, J. B. CannLea."
THE FARMERS AND REFORM OF THE TAEEB.-11*
SIOUX Advertiser of yesterday says :—" We tear we shall
hardly gain credence with our readers when we state the we
have received the following from a correspoudent at Pet-
worth. After alluding to the market held there on the
Saturday, the writer observes :—' The farmers are regularly
in the "dump." ' We asked several what they thought of
Cobden's proposition ? The reply was, 'lt was quite time
that some one should move, in cutting down the enormous
expenditure of the country, so as to relieve tte nation from
such a burden of taxation as it groans under.' What will
the protectionists in Petworth say to this ? We kcow what
our readers will say—' The straw moves."_.

BISHOP OF OTFORD.—Bir —A leading article ap-
peered in the Express of Tuesday in last week on the
"object of the ecclesiastical commission. Permit me to cor-
rect one or two mistake. iato which you have inadver-
tently fallen. With the general question at issue Ido not
here concern myself, but with one of the per" onal illustra-
dons which you employ. I am persuaded that on a matter
not of them y but of fact, Mitering individual character,
you will be glad to do the fullest justice in your respectable
paper. I write solely on my own responsibility, but as well
acquainted with the facts of the case, and I send you my
name for your private satisfection. The article in your
paper represeats that Bishop Wilberforce, with 4,500 i. a year
found the peke*year,
at Cuddeeden uninhabitable. This Dr.
Begot, with 2,000 L, was " compelled to live in unrepaired."
That after expending 3,5001., Bishop Wilberforce ob•ained
1.300 i. more for "beautifying the epirsooptil gardens," and
was afterwards permitted to ' charge his see with 1,70 W. to
pay the balance of unauthorised expenditure due in respect of
the adornment of Cuddesden Palace. Now,the facts are these:
1. The see hose, at Cuddesden had net for many years been
the regular residence of the bishop, for which indeed in its
unaltered stall it was unfit. Better pieces of preferment
were always held with the bishopric to make up the income,
and accordingly Bishop Begot resided much at hie deanery
at Canterbury and at his rectory at Blithfield. And thus.
too, Bishop Lloyd at Christ's Church, Oxford; Bishop
Legge. at All Souls, ltc. One of the reforms specially
contemplated by the constitution of the ecclesiastical
commission was to prevent translations, by providing
se* houses and incomes sufficient for the poorer
sees. With this view the act which enabled bishops
to borrow money for building on their sees was repealed, and
this new mode substituted. Before Bishop Wdberforcee
appointment the commissioners were pledged to provide a
see house for the bishopric of Oxford, and inquiries were
actually en foot for the purchase of • house and place. Tie
the expense which would have thus arisen Bishop Wilber-
force objected, and proposed to make Cuddesden available
metes& The plans for this purpose w.r• approved,
and • sum granted. This sum was intended-1. To
remove a public-house and three tenures from the
bishop's garden, Sc. 2. To make the house suffieiltlz
huge and commodious for its purpose. 3. To build cba
The plans first approved of in sextersso were never alto or
inereased. But when it was found that from the difficulty ef
meddling with en old building more expense than was
expected arose, the commissioners being satisfied that se
needless wet keel been incurred in carrying out the plans
they had approved of, allowed the bishop to borrow • tardier
sum, as any parochial clergyman might on his own living,
for which he pays annually the full interest. And after all,
as I happen toknow, be has been left to pay a large sum him-
self towards the repairs. I have seen the alterations at Cad-
deed's, where there is nothing, I can wore you, of finery or
decoration. The alteration' are such as to enable the bishop
to receive the candidates for orders, who now. sometimes to
the number of twenty or more, sleep under his root (,wenty
more lodering near), and spend with him the days of exami-
nation. 111 tkus, too, can receive his rural deans and other
clergy. who resort to him continually. In short, the house
is constructed and used, as they who know it will tell you,
not for display or for the bishop's personal comfort, but as
the see house of • diciesse.—Ora or THU CLEIROT or raa
Dicers' or °upon.") —Dee. 28.

OUR FOREST Srantm.—A correspondent of the
Gloucester Journal, who subscribes himself " A Forester,"
records the following startling facts respecting the Forest of
Dean. He says, have now before me a list of nearly a
Needled persons who have been proceeded against, in the
Forest of Dean, for deermtealing alone. Stine of them par-
ties have since been convicted of other crimes, and sentenced
to imprisonment and transportation, and their first entrance
upon a mares of idleness and crime was In the peonies of
poaching and deer-stealing in the forest. In atdition to Mese
deer-steeling prosecutions, we have a multitude of aim*
offeseea against the game-laws • and the casualties and acci-
dental sacrifice of human life liave been most appalling. Not
long ego, one of our foresters out at night in pursuit of game
or deer, stumbled into a coal-pit, and was killed; another
was accidentally shot and killed, on a Sunday, by his com-
panion ; another accidentally shot himself, and died after
suffering amputation of the arm. In each case the widow
and children were left burdensome to the rats payers."
NUISANCRE IN ST. PANCRAB.—A correspondent of
the Journal of Public Health says ; " I would wish to point
to the neglected and disgraceful condition of some portioned
the parish of St. Pancras. There is a main thoroughfare
(Cambridge-streat, north of Hing's-tuorn), which is unpaved
and nosewsted—a very sty of filth and impurity, bounded
on one aide by manunrwharb, where swine revel in putre-
faction; on another by a gas manufactory ; on a third, in the
centre of human dwellings, by a large church-yard. Such is
the eondrion of the chief street—you can easily infer the
state of the by-streets of the district. Your space will not
permit me to enter into further particulars , but I may be al-
lowed to mention that there are ether streets and alleys in
the pariah which, though not in as primitive a state es Agar-
town, are full of disease, misery, and wretchedness, brought
on by reateveable causes."
INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—TWO CHILDREN BURNT
ro Deara.—Baton Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew
Hospital, on ens bodies of Jane Irons, aged six years, and
Shadrach Fulsrd, sand five. In the case of the first it was
shown that on Saturday last her fatter left her.in a rooinwith
a younger sister ; and attempting in his absence to reach a
picture from the mantel-piece, her frock caught light, and in
an instant she was in flames. Her head and face were
frightfully Murat from her earl papers having caught firs.
The flumes were speedily entiaianed by a man who threw
his coat over the child, but the burns wire so Nevem that she
'died the same day, hall an hour after her admission to the
biepital. Toe deemed in the second case had been left
alone, while his events weat to work, and was attempting
to take the teakettle off the fire, when his clothes ignited.
He was removed tothe hospital, and died from the effects of
the burns on Sunday last The coroner remarked that
grist many of these fright'ul accidents might be pro/mud if
per iv, wn, Were oblioed to go out to work would send their
Children to achotel, instead of leaving them at home locked is