The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1447.

tog mould bevel:nen very seeerage; and what they have said of Capt.
Booth's intentions maybe safely set down is their own conjectures.
And the following plausible enouth conjectural account of
the origin of the casualty is suggested
It le quite amerent to or, then, wok? all the circumstances. that
when the wiod shifted to the bulb, bee ealbt h•viart hem blows
away, tee F.:mouth most lays late to and drifted, whieb, from the
state of the weather and current, could not have been et • lan sate
tban 2 or 2; knots per hour: and this would bays brought her to the
Ill= Just about the thee that the ea Inevitable son.
strophe—happened. After • Waste linos °Me chart by which
the unfortunate versa mot have been steered, the theory we have
stated le, we think, the only one that can In fairness be adopted.
RESIGNATION OP A POLICE MAGISTRATE.—John
Benricke Greenwood, Req., who foe many years has been a
police magistrate, end for loam yea!" has sat at Clerkenwell
has voluntarily resigned his appointment, and If. P. Tyr-
, white, Req., of Brick-court, Temple, special pleader, has
been appointed in his stead.
A BRITISH SHIP SUNK, AND THE CAPTAIN AND
OFFICERS XIIEDIRID ET TR. Caw.—Letters were re-
ceived on Saturday from Launceston, communicating the
pertitulars of the sinking of the ship Prima Donna, and the
under of the commander, Captain Jones, and his officers.
by the crew. TM mud, it appears, had called at Lewbock
for water and rice, being hound firma China to Hobart Town
and England. In the latter part of December last, the
Prima Donna's long boat, containing 14 of the crew, all
Manilla men, arrived at the port of Bailey (in the Java sea),
the ship, according to their statement, having foundered
southward of Java, and the captain and his officers had
perished. Subsequently, when questioned more fully as to
their fate, their statements differed so widely, that no rea-
sonable doubt could be entertained but that they wire
cruelly murdered, and the ship plundered and sunk. The
whole of the crew have been placed under arrest, and search
is being made in the locality, where the ship is said to have
been scuttled, for the remains of tho captain and officers. It
was expected several would divulge the circumstances The
'hip and cargo were valued at 8,0001.
CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, an
accident occurred at the lower end of the Regent Quadrant,
near Piccadilly, by which two children and a young woman
sustained the most serious injuries. Mary Killington, in the
employ of Mr. Fletcher, watch maker, of Regent-street, went
out with two of her omelette's children (the girl four years
old and the boy three) and, on reaching the bottom of the
Quadrant, attempted to crow the road, having one by the
hand and the other in her arms. At the same moment a
gentleman's carriagi come in contact with them before the
coachman had time to pull up. All three were run over and
trampled on by the animals. Before they could be extricated,
the female child had got, by some means, between the front
and hinder wheels of the carriage. With the mistime of the
police and by-s waders the sufferers were taken to the
Charing-cross Hospital, seriously injured, and the servant
is in • dangerous condition from a kick on the breast.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday,
about 2 o'clock, p.m., a Mr. Leeson, and Mr. Bone, wine
merchant, of Pall-mall, were rowing up the river, when, es
they pasted through Bath-nen-bridge, the boat filled, and
the two gentlemen were thrown into the water. John
Styles, captain of one of the "Citizen" steam-boats, put
off in a skiff, but was only able to save Mr. Lemon. At six
o'clock the body of Mr. llone had not been found.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. AT BETHNAL-GREEN. On
Friday night, shortly before eleven o'clock, a fire broke out
on the eremites belonging to Mr. Miller, cabinet and musical
instrument maker, at Nn. 5, Fuller-street. Several
engines promptly attended, and, under the superin-
tendence of the chief officer of the district, the fire-
men net to work, and, by dint of great perseverance, they
succeeded, by about half-past twelve o'clock, in getting the
fire entirely extinguished. By that period the whole of Mr.
Miller's stock in trade and his men's working tools were
destroyed. That part of the premises where the fire began
was burnt out. The contents of the adjoining house, occupied
by Mt. Liegwood, fancy trimming manufacturer, are also
severely damaged by removal, as is the stock of a silk weaver
over Mr. Miller's premises. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The whole of the property destroyed is uninsured.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MAT 15.

The Lord Lieutenant's dissolution is momentarily
expected. The bulletins issued to-day are these :
Tex o'cLoca, A.m.—The Lord Lieutenant's strength is
much reduced since yesterday.
Two o'ctoca, P.m.—The illustrious patient does not feel
restored from the prostration of strength he suffered during
the night.
Foca O'CLOCK, P.M.—Hie Excellency is not worse than
ha was We morning.
The extreme excitement which, in the early part of
this week, prevailed throughout Limerick and Clare,'
has subsided; and quiet, if not content, has been re-
stored. This better order of things has been much
waisted by the measures of the local authorities. The
promptitude with which troops were brought to the
places where outbreaks were contemplated manifested
• vigour with which it was imprudent to cope, while
their appearance at the centres of commotion contem-
paraneously with the disturbers proved that the au-
fithorities were well informed of what was progressing.
The disturbances do not appear to have been the re-
salt of organisation, but rather to have been produced
by the large dismissals from the public works acting
upon a temperament of the public mind necessarily
embittered.
The Evening Post, just published, speaks of riots
at Rathkeele, Limerick, and Ennistymon, Co. Clare ;
but they need confirmation.
The accounts received to-day of the condition of
the growing crops, are most cheering. In Loath
and Down—and the description may be regard-
ed as agreeing with the statements respecting
the Midland Counties, and some also in the south
—the oats "have completely rallied" from the sickly
cast lately developed in their growth, " showing a
splendid exuberance of vegetation." The wheat is
similarly healthy in appearance, and though the sow-
ing of barley has not yet ceased entirely, yet much is
overground already. Early potatoes look healthy,
and of leguminous crops one-half so much had never
been tilled in any previous year.
The people are in no humour for the refrain of the
" Sword Song." The sound and fury of stimulative
declamation are lost upon their drooping spirits. The
Irish " confederation " hived off from the parent
stock, in the hope of a popular and permanent settle-
ment. The old machinery of assays and
of council meetings which never took place, &Tn. in-
dignant
oratory which never excited, was put into
requisition; but the funds were still low, and the'
confederates few. The council of six hit upon the
expedient of fortnightly assemblages to overshadow
the venerable parent on Burgh Quay. But that did
not succeed, and decline has already set in with fear-
ful
rapidity. At the meeting on Thursday night,
just at the close of the proceedings, Mr. S. O'Brien
moved a resolution that the future meetings would be
convened "according to circumstances." So are we
soon to be at peace from periodic presumption and
vanity.
We are following, although with unequal pace, the
exertions of the London philanthropists in providing
baths and wash-houses for the poor. Arrangements,
however, are being made by the corporation for their
speedy erection. A committee, composed of the most
intelligent and practical members of the council, have
been for some time inquiring into the subject. Plans
and estimates have been called for ; communications
have also been had with the Board of Works to
obtain advances under the act, which, so soon as the
requisite preliminary forms are complied with, will
be extended. It is also to be hoped that, before the
close of the year, one of the most important improve-
ments in the sanitary condition of the city and the
most valuable additions to the health and comfort of
the inhabitants will be in active operation.
A circumstance has transpired in a southern county
which perils the character of one of its leading men
and chief magistrates. The gentleman who is re-
ported to have traded on the sufferings of his fellow-
citizens was a member of the relief and finance com-
mittees of the districts. A quantity of Indian corn
had been forwarded, through his influence, to a neigh-
bouring mill, to be manufactured into meal. Ile was
a dormant and unacknowledged partner in the con-
cern. When the produce was returned it was found
to have been adulterated to a very large extent :
about one-half the corn having been abstracted.
Inquiries were set oa foot, and the foal taloned".
brought home to the guilty parties.

MORE MIIILDBILIL—The paps, tad nand • feeder
brutally deliberate, pwpetratad se as aM tentless mood
Paxton, residing in the county d Down. The old gost-
tleman resided alone his only imerdo ths bran mo a
housekeeper. On T.ssday, the Lea., Ye
heard a foot upon the stain, whit* is serrearalk=
of her muter. She slept again, and was andlsOnebod
morning, when, on rising she saw the dramood, wed dim
yardsfrom his own doer, murdered; Ms Wail hod bra
beaten in by a Lire rano, which woo hurl ram to
body. There la r yet. no else lo prratroites,
or to the natives whisk urged tee to to doe& As
Mr. William Jelsoolemot halter realm oar Air, meaty
Cavan, was wombat ear some Indian mid •kw days
since, ha wee est opoa and killed. The meal woo a* ease.
In the mos county, a Ihroar, named Coyle, herr. a arse
psis,
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ewe wen stealing away the plants. Be
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non Mk mod then Coyle mognieed him
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to= nod late tho sea blare a megierata ; when he
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This outrage is recorded in a Dublin paper of this morning,
which adds: " The cause of this outrage is alleged to be the
eviction of some tenants."—Mr. Umber's name has been
frequently before the public in connexion wi'ls pmeeedinsoi
of that nature. A man named Darcy, Tipperary, was fired
at on Wednesday, near Fethard, by a f -input, but the b
honing strue.k Darcy's waistcoat p eket, was turned aside by
some money deposited there, and he ramped.
lioustermisli.—lt is stated in the public journals, that
persons have, in many localities in Tipperary, beer. known
very recently to he subsisting upon horcfit sh.
Tire BANN ILOBEERY.—The parties referred to in my
eoranunieation of the 12th, as haring been taken into cus-
tody foe a robbery at the Royal Bank, were discharged the
same day, for want of evidence.
FALLINO IN or • BRIDGE—A deplorable accident occurred
yesterday on the Waterford anal Kilkenny Railcar, near the
latter city, by the falling in of a bridge over which the men
were passing with wagons loaded with rubbish. Oae man was
killed instantaneously, and eleven others badly wounded.
ROTA!. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY DT DIELAND.—The
Duke of Leinster presided at the half-y arly meeting yester-
day. There was little novelty in the proceedings, and from
the state of the fund, it would appear that the landed pro-
prietors are not ea active in the cause of improvement as
their trembling fortunes imperatively require. The available
income of the society, including the grant of 5001. from the
Derry cattle show, and the interest of their funded capital,
falls short of 2,0001. a year, of which sum about 1,2001. is
paid in premiums, the entire sum being wholly ineffective to
produce any permanent or extensive results on so wide a
surface for improvement. Nor are the higher classes many
degrees superior in activity and industry to the lower, which
finds a painful illoetration in the I that for tho 5001.
granted by government to encourage draining, only Il com-
petitors came forward to contend. By the balance-sheet it
appears that the total receipts of the society for the past year
were 1,9661., and the expenditure 1,9661., leaving a balance
of 21. However, the prospects of the society are beginniag
to improve, as a number of Rewriters were admitted,
including the Marquis of Londonderry, Earl Fitewilliam,
Viscount Chabot, &c. At the close of the proceedings, a
conversation areas, relative to the encouragemeut of the
Chemico-Agricultural Society, who solicited the patronage
of the chief body with the privilege of meeting once a month
in their board-room. Sir R. Kane made some very sensi-
ble observations, and though he deprecated the word " pa-
tronage," of which we have far too much in Ireland, he
declared that nothing could contribute ro much to the popu-
larity of the society as to place it in the same connexion
with the Dublin Institute as the Chemico-Agrieultural So-
ciety of Scotland stood to the Highland Society. The question
was referred to the council of the weir ty.

SCOTLAND.
EDINBURGH, MAY 14.
Last year a work was published in Edinburgh
which inter alio discussed the legality of the tenure
by which certain existing Nova Scotia baronets hold
their titles, the same being alleged to be forfeited by
the extinction of male heirs. Only a limited number
of copies were printed, and consequently the contents
of the volume were discussed in antiquarian circles
alone; but the "Gentleman's Magazine" for this
month has taken up the subject, and treated it with
all the erudition that was wont to characterise the
school of St. John's Gate. After such prominent dis-
section, the matter cannot well sleep, and it is possible
that unless the Queen interfere, some well-known
baronets in the north will be unfrocked. The Nova
Scotia order was instituted by James I. in 1621, and
from his reign up to that of Anne, when the patent
ceased to be issued, the number of creations was
upwards of 280; and of these, about 170 are at pre-
sent existing.
Some hot-house potatoes in the neighbourhood of
Edinburgh have failed—those in the open air promise
well externally, hut it is premature to predict results
at this stage of vegetation.
The Trades' House of Glasgow, in petitioning for
the abrogation of the blank Act, make the following
statements:
That Lanarkshire, in which the petitioners reside, is one
of the chief seats of the commercial industry of Scotland,
and is possessed of great mineral wealth, and the rapidity
with which its manufactures and commerce have increased
is evinced by the acts that in twenty years custom duties at
Glasgow have advanced from 4.5,0001. to upwards of 600,0001.,
and the harbour dues from 7.0001. to nearly 60,0001. The
trade of Glasgow requires a corresponding increase of the cir-
culating medium. That prosperity has arisen under the
free system of Scotch banking ; and the restrictive tendency
of the act of 1844, as applicable to Scotland, is felt to he
seriously injurious and oppressive, and ,lelte uncalled for.
That the section of that act which requires the
Scotch bankers to keep in their cellars bullion to
the full amount of their issues beyond. their cer-
tified amount of circulation at the peering of the
Act, subjects the industry of Scotland to a charge of not less
than 60,0001. per annum, and this charge must go on to
increase as her trade extends. That the natural resources of
Scotland, the capital, the industry, and integrity of her
manufactures, were held to be sufficient security for her cur-
rency before the passing of the act, and the stability of the
Scotch banks is in no degree hammed, but rather dimin-
ished, by beinc compelled to keep upwards of a million of
bullion unemployed in their coffers. That white the peti-
tioners recognise, to the fullest extent, the ntoewity of
having a supply Of bullion to pay the foreigner. who will
not take British manufactures in exchange for their com-
modities, they deny the necessity for requiring a foundaties
of bullion for the internal currency of Great Britain, on the
score alike of its expense, and, if carried to its fullest extent,
impracticability.
The Whitsun term, which occurs to-morrow, is
looked forward to with fear and trembling, both by
landlords and tenants, borrowers and lenders. The
bankers declare that the present state of affairs is
worse than in 1826.
The following extracts from letters received from
Capt. Elliott, the Highland Destitution Inspector,
reveal the difficulties attendant on developing industry
by eleemosynary effort:
1 ion the sowing of the land in Ullspool the most gross Ivo-
mace of the first principles of husbandry prevails. Ths seed
is sown after the fashion of • paralytic lady readies her irres-
rite poultry, here a little Red there a little, and di loss a
surface perfectly smooth ; ohm which, the humid, alba
unwieldy maa.harrow, patties at sought all samismieel pelle•
espies, or the only left cumbrous mil seism meshes ssios,
in vain seek to fulfil the duties eddied Sale; asst the MOM
they harrow or rake the more the seed won't jp &mem la
this district there was an ample suer of seed ass Osotsla
Elliott had furnished a supply of till the UM ethos.
Regarding Applecroes, he says :
Anything more disgraceful or akin to the elegytil Yam alf
the Cornish wreckers I cannot imagine; up to Ibla ale the
arrival of meal seems in many, if not in mad iledele, le
have been the signal, if not for indiscriminate pleb,, der• I
tainly for indiscriminate abuse. lam sickened and alp&
ed at the scenes that open up to me of fraudand omodesam
that have been the practice more than the exceptinosepe-
cially in the early stage of this calamity.
lie then states that he had entirely remodelled the
local committee at Applecroes and other districts, sad
adds:
I bead five men on one committee dispensing relief to
themselves.
DaIIPATCR or BOBINIMIB.—The Stirling Town Common
have spud that no member be allowed to speak asomi than
ones on say subject; and in the cowrie of mess after ►dimes-
des gas of the swabs= proposed that, ia piees al aro or
Pt
g laam&b= =lobs tirslior. Nay 1111111 be allowed
to a
MDRIIIVst ROM COMMISSARY Comm.—Aa Mai of poem.
went patronage is at present dimmable by tie ai' of Mr.
Oracle, the principal clerk of this evert. The emolaments
are about 8001. per annum, and the duties little =Gee than
nominal.