The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-07 00:00:00

THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the various members and friends of
the above aaaociation took place last night at Exeter Hall,
when the chair was taken by Mr. J. Hamilton Stmey.
After a prayer from the Rev. Dr. Holloway,
Th..: CHAIRMAN, in opening the proccedirgs, stated that
he felt it to be the bounden duty of all men to do their utmost
to prevent the progress of popery, which, under the auspices
of the Catholic Association, was maklng great and insidious
strides, both in Ir. land and in this country•.
The Rev. J. R. BIRKS moved the first resolution, expres-
else of thanks to Almighty God for having delivered the
Protestant Church, on the sth of November, of the present
workings of popery within the pale of the Established
Church, being an evidence of the displeasure of the Almighty
God fur the national insensibility to the blessings granted to
them.

Captain GORDON seconded the resolution. He hoped that
every Protestant would do his utmost to prevent the further
progress of popery, of that church whose history was cha-
racterised by the Gunpowder Plot, the burning, of Bloody
Mary, the persecutions of Simon de Montfutt, and of Louis
XIV., and the massacre of the sixty thousand Protestants
in Ireland,—of that church which was founded by a mur-
derer, and which was the living and p-actic.il type of the
murderer Cain. (Loud cheers.) He declared that the pro-
gress now making by the Church of 11.' me was entirely
owing to the principle adopted by the Established Church of
letting the Roman Catholics alone; and he urged the estab-
lishment of a great Catholic mission, for until the church re-
turned to the practice as well as the principles of the old re li
-
formers, and revived the suspended work of the Reformation,
by making Protestantism an aggressive force, there would
be no suspension in the advances of popery. (Hear.)
The resolution was then carried. _

The Rev. lit:O11 STOWELL proposed the second resolu-
tion, declaring popery to be opposed to every principle of
Christianity, to civil freedom, and to national prosperity;
and that it was incumbent on every christian freeman to use
his utmost endeavours to prevent any encouragement or en-
dowment of the church of Rome, by returning to parliament
perwins who coincided in these views. lie regretted the ab-
sence, on this occasion, of many friends whom they were in
the habit of meeting in that hall, at their various bible and
-nisaionary societies, as it wu necessary that they should all
unite to crush the reptile that had been nourished in the
bosom of the church. Although the purport of his reso-
lution might be political, and it might be east in their teeth
as it was often done, that they were meddling with what
they had no business, he could not see how politics,
which were the promotion of the general good of the
nation, could be separated from religion or adverse to re
ligion ; it was only when politics were adverse to the
principles cf ChriAlanity, that they felt it to be their
duty to make their voices heard. They were not met to
oppose the present government. They knew not the name of
Conservative, or of Itacileal, of Whig, or of Tory ; they were
Constitutionists, w Ito wished only for the national good, by the
promotion of Christianity. For his own part, he would
rather have the honest Whig than the dishont st Tory ; he
would rather see that man in power who boldly said he
would endow the Roman Catholics, than the man who,
under the cover of Christianity, nursed in his bosom the
cockatrice egg, which, when hatched, brought forth the
Maynooth Grant. (Hear, hear.) It was not, therefore,
with men but with principles that they were warring ; but be
hoped that there was a mighty spirit of confederation ruing
up in the country, as shown in the National Club, and in
the Protestant Association, which, without the aid of party,
would, at no great period, enable them to succeed
in warding off the future blows impending over
Christianity. It was the misfortune of the Protestants
that their efforts had generally been too late ; their proper
time for exertion WAS, when Parliament was in the egg ; as
the man then, who had branded their protest against May-
nooth as the bray from Exeter-hall, would on the hustings
at Edinburgh bow and cringe before that self-same bray.
The next Parliament would either make or break this coun-
try, and though they might have been deceived once, they
would not be betrayed again, and it was their bounden duty,
if they wished to tell on the next Parliament to work at once
on the constituencies, and to find true Christians and honest
and zealous Protestants to represent and defend Christianity
in the next Parliament from the attacks of unwise statesmen
After enumerating several signs of the increasing dominion of
Popery, the rev. gentleman, being aware that the reporters '
were not taking notes of the whole of his very long and very
violent speech, declared one of the signs of the times to be
the want of moral courage in the reporters to report his
speeches ; and another to be the want of spirit on the part of
the newspaper proprietors. The rev. gentleman, after a
sharp attack upon the frivolity and folly of Punch, Nicholas
Nieldeby, and other works of the same kind, which he de-
clared to be one of the great evils of the day, concluded by
denouncing the scheme of state education without religion,
as pernicious and sinful, and as a great additional aid to the
advancement of Popery.
The resolution was seconded by the Rey. J. C. GOOD-
HART, and was carried unanimously.
Dr. KELLEY proposed the third resolution, to the effect
that the late proceedings at Madeira, with regard to the
treatment of both native Portuguese and British subjects,
manifested a determination to crush all efforts to examine or
to recede from the erroneous system, and that while
Portuguese of the Popish religion were permitted to
remain in this country without molestation, and also
to seek the advancement of their religion here,
it ought to be provided by treaty that the same
social and religious liberty should be accorded to
British subjects in Popish countries. The reverend doctor
favoured the meeting with a long narrative of the late re-
ligious disturbances in Madeira, reports of which have ap-
peared in this piper, and exhorted the meeting to com-
bine and struggle against the further advances of Popery.
The resolution having been seconded it was carried unani-
mously, as was a vote of thanks to the chairman, and, after
a prayer and a collection, the meeting separated at tea
o'clock.

ROYAL LONDON MzuriA.—Commission by her
Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy.--C. S. P. Hunter,
En. to be Capt. vice Capt. H. Butterworth.

PARISI' OF ST. JAMES.—INEQUALITIES OF ASSESS-
' II EXT.—This question, whick was not heard at the last special
petty sessions held at the vestry-room for this parish in
August last, in consequence of the Hon. Mr. Byng being
the only magistrate in attendance, came again before Mr.
Byng and Sir J. Kirkland, Mr. Tidd Pratt, and other magis-
trates. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Cooper, of Old Cavendish-
street, appeared as counsel and solicitor for Mr. Cafe, the
appellant ; Mr. Clarkson appeared for the vestry, with the
vestry clerk. Mr. Ballantine, in stating the case, remarked
that Mr. Cafe came forward iu this instance as an old in-
habitant, having considerable property in the parish, which in
consequence was very likely to be more highly rated. He,
however, came forward on public grounds, and with a view
of convincing the magistrates, and also the vestry, that the
system they were pursuing in the assessment of the parish
was unjust to the poorer classes occupying houses in the nar-
row and confined streets ; they were rated on the actual
rental, while the greater portion of the best streets, including
Pall-mall and Regent-street, which had increased in value
very much, were rated at two-thirds, and frequently at only
half their rental. Mr. Clarkson objected to the form of Mr.
Cafe's notice, lie did not state himself aggrieved ;in fact,
put himself out of court in stating he was underrated. Mr.

objecting to tt
0 aPladlantialmiele be t
anII:olyt liapenaftilooeur.coareqnntieunnihrduaedbititatahntat the p.rotth,
for inequality or underrating of others."lTt'se„.
having decided that the appeal ought to be ee„.:/_414,
Mr. Ballantine quoted, amongst other
in Oxford-street, returned to the income. '
165!., rated to the poor at eee and 61/..tazetq
Regent-street, returned to the aseeee."%..--
3001., and 267/., rated at 1301. 1210( and
Pall-mall, returned to the income " -""^
at 210/ ;tt
6251., rated at 901., 771., and 1401• respect' el„,-e
cases in Pall-mall being selected, ale Hire,„„lTl-''
clerk, was called to produce the rate-book 0-''"
house in Pall-mall was rated on a g rental
per cent. was the deduction, leaving 77!. of
the
The rate was made on a valuation in 1832.
then 861., the value 961., from which 20 Der
deducted. Every house in the parish is sinelarll
Income-tax assessor end collector preyed
Income-tax 270!., and that the house was worry"re
let again. Mr. Clarkson contended no legal e,;-'l.l.
been given, and the Income-tax was n -thee--
poor-rate. After remarks from Mr. Ily: hiae
oche
crates, that they were not of Mr. Clerkeee-,
room was cleared, and on the re-admie.ion, 31,-1
chairman, said the magistrates were of opeeee•
was not in accordance with the l'arochialty
and that, after this intimation, the vestry *ea",
"ecrethwaseAassifelse:dislttTrahiLe)OtenteNPasi nrwrdoijolvallyunl.TdueuvathirE.yhnelnei"ity:dtade..galNijan:twesunittrthh:heete:dthtiithtPreiseeseetom°7-Pwr'ex*:)ht:
mpueebl:ienirm,easetinthgEweedf:ourpr;rof.ti:rhtrp:yerla:ayiboddr:..rlofottothin:eol,fu_wcg:thmthhikbeyits:uptt.uthn:::;h:_eee,:::t
Scientific Institutiun, Hackney-road. Cheek, CZ
took the chair, and introduced the Bev. Mr. of
rg:Leonnutitni,ld.,ecinmeo,
nufaleinikrlieym.
crime
eof
" That the punishment of datb was utterly inipkui
He felt certain that the experienced and unfit...jute
ish
death had totally failed in preventing crime. The,
of this country o:early proved that fact. Some elm
the abolition of punishment by death, brought fee
Scriptures and the old Mosaic economy, to prove th
rity which they had for taking away life. Re
stand on the Scriptures also, and without going be,
old Mosaic doctrines, whose jurisprudence we
founded on the principle of retaliation, k
allude to another lawgiver, who came r,„,
Heaven to rebut the meneiple of T 0440
to prove that the ancient law was tuned
instead of good purposes. Tnere was not
passage to be found in the New Testament rem,
or justifying the punishment of crime by death,
attested by universal experiene2 that bad and bee
laws produced a bad people, while on the coke
laws, which left opportunities of retormatioa to
created: a good people.?-1 hos. Arundel Tegg, Ea.,.
the resolution, and impressed the meeting with th
sity of getting rid of a law which was at once next
unrighteous. He repudiated a system which Watt
to return, in many instances, verdicts contrary e
deuce brought forward, in consequence of thee
to expose even a guilty man to a punishment waie
demoralising and unchristian. (Hear, heare-le
the Rev. Joshua Fielding, and other gentlemen, he
dressed the meeting in favour of the resolution vi
put forward, it was unanimously adopted.-Tluab
been voted to the Chairman, the meeting separefei
ItEGENT'tt CANAL COMPANY.-A meeting
proprietors of this company was held at the ea
office. Macclesfield-street, City-road, yesterday. to
the expediency of forming a line of railway free I
t in to the Thames, in cenjunetion with the exists.
The chairman (Mr. Bethune) commenced the pro
by reading an elaborate report of the committee of
prietors, recommending the adoption of the where
application to parliament for pewee to amend theeth
fur constructing such railway by the side of the tats
be worked in connexion with it. The reponof the
Meiners appointed by her Majesty in April last to inert
various railway projects of which the proms',
nations, according to the schemes then beta
liament, would be situated within or in the is
vicinity of the metropolis, was entirely In
to the construction of the proposed line. I
port of Mr. Kende), the engineer, as to the pisti
of the proposed line, was also read. It steed i
expense of the line would be about 68.5.000/.; the,
he carried along the north bank of the canal, nor d
in any instance more than 100 yards from it; thee
distance of the proposed main line to Limehouseele
be about eight miles, and a branch to the West lett
about one mile. The engineer also stated the
• would not interfere with any valuable property,
it would be easy of construction. Alter a loot
sultory discussion, the report of the committee, aid
of resolutions founded on it, were carried with mly,
sentients, in a et °wiled room, one of the resonate
that the expense of the application to parliament the
ex reed 255. (per share. Thanks having been wed
chairman, the meeting dissolved.
INQUESTS.-SUICIDE OF A CoLOUR San e
THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.-Before Mr. H. lath
coroner for Westminster, at the canteen of St. GMT
racks, as to the death of Colour-Serjeant Richard Ca
age, id 38, of the first battalion of the Coldstream Gee
blew nearly one side of his head off with his mai
John Webster,
Guards, pay said, a cnlou ra-t 20 serjemaniLetNt
tthe lithe
the Coldstream a
was going up to his room, which is immediately reT
ceased's, who is a single man. Witnesee wife.telai
and said a gun had gone off in the deceased's m
smoke was coming out of the key-hole ; the dawn
and the key had been taken out. The door was not
and the deceased was found sitting en the bed with I
against the wall and his fusee between hir legs; t?
side of the face was shot away. The fusee oughtan
loaded, but ammunition is kept in his room. He to
want his discharge, for he could have discharged his
he had served 18 'mane-Setae Major A. Hale sts
a key was found on deceased which opened his box, i
was found 51. 6s. Bd., and his ledger on being Mai
found to be quite correct.-The Coroner: Can 'Du
way account for the act ?-The Setaeant-Major said t
morning at 12 o'clock the deceased was taken hel
commanding officer for taking a sum of 18/. from
Smales to pay for his (Srnales) discharge, which
contraryto the standing orders of the ormy. He was
by the commanding officer to produce themoney whon
a
ceased said it was at a friends outside. The commie
car told him to write a letter to his friend, and the
major should send it. The deceased wrote SS order
on Mr. Dicken of the White Hart, Tottenham-on
Mr. Dicken sent an answer, " I have nomoney of I
Gardener's, nor ever had." While the serjeant.w
with the letter the deceased committed the set -act
Belcher, who had been on guard with the deceased,
he had seen no difference in his manner. He m
about the 18/. to him, and the deceased smiled ant
was all right. He was a very high-spirited man,
far above his station. The money had been gives,
liens for Sruales discharge, and he believed they had
to the commander-in-chtef to know why be had not
it. The money in his box was only sufficient tn
company.-Dr. James Morro, the
was at 21 minutes past one. He examined the
said the deceased, when he saw himPl,l3W'
which was that of a musket-shot. The right ncteent,
and head were quite shattered. The ball
orbit.
under the chin, and, passing right up, had lhadiroke.°
of the face, and came out just above the
never recollected him to have been ill or he Sh
seen him.-The Coroner shortly summed up the e,
this deplorable mem, and after a short delibera 10a
imcianqw.touthe..der
returned the following verdict, "That the deco
himself while in a state of temporary insanity, arc
pecuniary embarrassment." -VoLUNTARY SIAM .%1
Mr. Mills, deputy-coroner, at the Royal Midelnpman
street, Clerkenwell, on the body of Elizabeth C. 117,1
72, a single woman, who was in possession of in
which she pa
cuiinn
mtahiretliacesn,kaotoffNE,ono.fullaita_ry.dr,
yaneosdtalaotitdion:cdfr-unTilheer the folk
a week. She was of very eccentric manners,
allow but two persons to enter her room, which
cleaned. She was of the most miserly habits, one
herself of the common necessaries of life, being c.
effects of whet
She
living her Neely was reduced to a skeleton.
bread
hraing pendentafonrduhpopeerni,din,w_phuneadtdrlfonoil,
feowroaniumrsth-ted,cenohfera.
hailffpeshne!b;
been out of bed for a fortnight, where she was 00
seen by the wife of a tradesman, of the name. I
living in the neighbourhood. On Tuesday morale
but seen alive by her landlisdy, who, on going gf
her about five o'clock, found life extinct. The
Coroner observed that death was produced bye?
intent of destroying life, but for the purpose of
tffrohroemmdechwecaransdtemdoiref diet nnoouftrorimt4sh whichmvsopeelnuntt:dtahryer m
trrvaapeypet.isonr"l.-lenrdicit:
money." Her property goes to a niece, who is in la

ItISBRIDGE UNION.-CASE OF ABP
SLATER.
lIAVERIIILL, SUFFOLK, FRIDAY.-A
the guardians of this union assembled this mortal);
purpose of taking into consideration the recommes
the commissioners relative to the prosecution of I
on a charge of cruelty and misconduct tower& a
pauper, named Webb, which recommendation ht
out of an investigation made by Sir John Wald
assistant-commissioner, the particulars of which asi
the Daily News of the 22nd ult. Sir John Walsha
attendance. The board consisted of the following s
D. Pannell, sen., who in oonsequence of the Rev.
having refused to officiate in that capacity, after the
decision of the board against Slater, presided as c'
the Rev. Mr. Syer, the Rev. Mr. Mad, Messrs. l!
Purkiss, Pannell jun., W. Day, E. Woolland, Fry
son, Green, Turner, Goodchild, Payne, Johnson,
Lamprell, Spencer, linwin, C. Decks, Sturmete,
Bumpstead, and Daily.
It having been intimated to our reporter that soll
tion bad been raised to the admission of reps
addressed a note to the Chairman, stating that the,
his visit was to report for the Daily Nees the prnet,
the board in reference to the case in question, asd
to be informed whether be would be admitted for I
pose. After about half-an-hour's delay, he was inf.
Mr. Jardine, the clerk to the guardians, that ams
been made by Mr. Martin, and seconded by Mr.
" that reporters be not admitted," which was I'
amendment " that reporters be admitted ;" and that
gival m ition had been carried by 13 to 2, the only
who voted for the amendment being Mr, Johnson

the proposer aq seconder; but Mr. Jardine added
he was directed to inform the reporters of any decision
otat might be come to in Slater's introducedy the clerk
ow that upon the subject being a motion was
ode by Mr. Johnson, and seconded by the Rev. W.
Nod, that " Abraham Slater be prosecuted by the guardians
a.. the alleged assaults on the late John *ebb, as recom-
;jaded by the Poor-law commissioners in their letter of the
Os of October, directed to J H. Jardine, Esq. ;" to which an
toodment was moved by Mr. J. Martin, arid seconded by
gr goodchild, "That Abraham Slater be not so prosecuted ;"
bill was carried by 11 to 2—the mover and seconder only
.I„aatting the original motioa. It waa furtht r stated that
4rjahh Walsham protested against the exclusion of
;lows ; and in reference to the proposed prosecution, mid
thee the commissioners felt so strongly on the subject that
should, in the event of guardians refusing to prose-
eaufeel it their duty to briog the matter under the not ce
the secretary of State. The reason alleged by the
s for not prosecuting was, that they did not consider
eta guilty of the charge made against hint, and that
...asaecution must fail for want of proof.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 6.

EIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—His Excel-
way left town this morning for the family residence, Bes-
bgough, in the county of Kilkennycement ofExcellency
eipeexpected ill town again at the commen the ensuing
week. THE LABOUR RATE ACT.
PRESENTMENTS MADE IN LIMEMICK.—The total amount
of presentments granted at the recent E xtraordinary Present-
ment Sessions for all the baronies of the county Limerick is
312,4771. 9a. 4d.
NONE ALTERATIONS CONTEMPLATED IN THE LABOUR
Bars Act —At the late Extraordinary Presentment Sessions
of New Koos, Wexford, Mr. It. C. B. Clayton was appointed
a deputation to wait on the Lard Lieutenant, to represent to
him the opinions of the members of the session, respecting the
Labour Bate Act. The result of Mr. Clayton's interview,
disclosing the intention of the government with respect to
further change= in the abour Rate Act, will be found in the
following extract of a leLtter of Mr. Clayton to the gentlemen 1:
who deputed him
"Maus, OT. 30, 1816.-1 hare just had an intersiew with his
Eicegenry the Lord lieutenant, who paid the utmost attention to
the memorial addressed to him by the meeting held at Sew Rom
wfd,,,,,,,tay Lut. With regard to the first point mentioned— the
utmost of the period of repayment of advances fur works of a pro-
active nature, from 10 to 21 yearn--his Excellency observed
that ether applications having been made of a similar purport,
the matter was under consideration of the Commissioners o her
Wieey.'S Treasury. As to the difficulty stated, of the sessions
mammas strictly conformed to the instructions contained in Mr.
Weatherers letter, his excellency requested me to communicate to
the magistrates and crs.m.tycrs that, on application, he would order
rather extraordinary sessions to be held for those baronies which
bad not obtained prest ntments for works of a reproductive nature, or
had not made On ir applotntent according to electoral divisions. In
reference to the third point contained in the memorial, as to whether
it would be esmpetent for the tenant to furnish assistance by horses on
his farm, it Mina a matter of detail, his excellency begged to refer me
to the Commissioners of the Beard of Works."

DEATH FROM STARVATIOX.—A correspondent of the Cork
Examiner, writing from Macroom, states that a poor wo-
man, the mother of several children, who had come into
that town on Monday last, for the purpose of participating
in some casual relief distributed at the workhouse, died of
destitution on that evening, after having dragged herself to
her miserable home.
DESTITETION.—A Roman Catholic clergyman, of Cork,
the Rev. Mr. Haynes, writes thus of the destitution of his
neighbourhood, of the slow payments of the Board of
Works, and the benevolence of Lord Bandon:
OWe hare had for the last three weeks, and are on the eve of be-
ginning the fourth, a line of rend, carried on under the Beard of
Works, to Faninasishery, and up to this date themen on it have not
received one penny of their hire, Mr. Lamb and I, drawing on our re-
sources. distributed Go/. amongst the most famine-stricken of the
SOU employe' in the work. If our hearts were not of steel from the
severe we witnessed, we could not but have recourse to some means
Or other whereby to relieve a degree of destitution that no language
could exaggerate. When dinner hour comes there may he seen here
and there an odd person devouring a raw turnip while the far larger
number look at them with eyes seemingly feeding on the same vege-
table. On Friday lastl wrote to lord Bandon, sliding the extremities
to which I know the preettre of famines would drive the people, and I
am happy to ray that his lordship, with a benevolence and humanity
that do him immortal credit, sent to the line on the hollowing morn-
ing • horse-load of bread, all the milk the surrounding dairies oould
supply, and other provisions besides. This immense number,
and others besides, hail an abundance for breakfast and
dinner, and after each repast gave repeated rounds of honest Irish
cheers foe Lord end lady Bandon. Even this very morning I have
been towed with a letter from Lord Bernard, ststing that another
supply of provisions will be sent to us early to-morrow morning."
THE LATE MURDERS HY Mae. OVIAADY Ix LIMERICK.
—The Limerick Chronicle of yesterday contains the follow-
ing particulars in connexion vs ith this hideous transaction:
sir. O'Grady was of the class known in Ireland as ° edentlemen-
farmers," i. is farmers on a 1 lege scale. The husband and wife were
only fire months married, and at the time of their union, the husband
received a fortune of 91/10, with his partner. Previous, and subsequent I
to their marriage, two brothers of the huslond resided in the same
house with them; but for some cause the wife took a dislike to both,
sal insist upon their leaving, stating that unless this was done, she
would not remain herself. Fondly attached to his brothers, O'Jrudy.,e
refused to comply; but as deans-tic unhappiness increased,
be yielded to the solicitations of his wife, and his two
brothers were removed to Kililnane. Subequently an occurrence
took place which led him to suspect that the servant girl (a misfire
re ellen of hue wife) had mixed poison, instead of soda, in es cake she
bad prepared fur breakfast, and upon examination a small portage
was discovered in her box, containing arsenic. This induced the
beelined to summon the maid to the petty sessions, when the ease was
dismissed, and he then discharged her from his service. The wife
knowing the female, whom she brought to live with her from her
father's house, urged the husband to take her back, but he refused,
whereupon the wife left him, and went to live again with her pa-
rents. Three weeks elapsed before she returned, when her husband
consented to reinstate the servant girl. However on Satutday last
(November Eve), the husband wished to have his brothers spend the
festival with him, to which his wife was opposed, hut nothingoccurred
to creole suspicion of the fatal catastrophe which followed, and the
hurdle retired to bed as usual. Next morning, it is presumed some
quarrel took place between man and wife in their bedroom,
when the Metaled, maddened at being restricted in the manage-
ment of his household, seized either a razor or a knife, and
laying violent hands on his victim cut the wife's throat.
The servant girl, attracted by the shrieks of her dying
mistress, ran to her a.ssistanee, but being observed by the murderer,
he bunted her down to the kitchen, and from thence to the stable,
where, grasping a pitchfork, he killed her on the spot, having stabbed
her in several tarts of thb body. The bloodstained criminal then fled
his house, but wt taken next evening in one of his tenants' cabins,
about a mile distant from the fatal scene of this double tragedy.
O'Grady was kept in Eiltinene Bridewell yesterday, to await the re-
sult of the coroner's inquest, and brought into the county gaol this
day. to abide his trial at the next assizes."
k'oon AND PHlCES.—henry Spaight, Esq., of Corbally,
County Clare, has sold a large quantity of wheat to the poor
classes of his neighbourhood at the reduced rate of I'. ext.
per stone. The gentlemen of Newmarket have adopted
such measures that they will dispose of wheat, in the town,
at ls. lid. per stone, and of barley Is. They have also sent
for a mill, to grind corn for the poor at Id. per stone, being
half-price. The letter of Lord John Russell, which was
received in Limerick city on Friday. morning, had the effect
of causing a further rise ru the price of food. The price
of Hour increased in the course of the morning to the
amount of Is. per bag. Wheat also experienced a rise of a
halfpenny per stone, and barley 24d. per stone. Flour and
i oatmeal s retailed to the poor at Mr. Russell's mills,
Askeatea, at 3d. per atone cheaper than it could be pro-
cured in this city. A Cork paper announces the arrival at
Cove of three vessels, with about 800 tons of India corn,
from the Mediterranean.
EXPORT or Csrrt.g.—Within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant (says the Limerick Chronicle) there has not been
so large an export of horned cattle and pigs as this season so
far as it has advanced.
WHITE WHEAT, WITII RED HILL.—A Carlow friend
baa just communicated to us, says the same journal, the
gratifying intelligence, that they Eire now growing a moat
productive and hardy wheat in this county, hearing the
above name. It completely resists the humidity of our
climate, smut never affecting it, yields from sixteen to twenty
barrels per acre, is much sought after by the millers, and
commands a better prize than either Lammas or any other
description of white wheat.
PAHANIPS.—We take the following from the last number
Of the Farmer's Gazette :
"Last week a person connected with a Large public establishment
went to Carlow to purchwo parsnip*, where they wore grown pretty
extensively, and the prices at which he could get them were 101. and
ISI. per ton. Parsnips are excellent, wholesome, and substantial
Sheet All good growers of this excellent vegetable know that hem
30 to 40 tem per acre is a very general crop on well-prepared land ;
hat sae half the lowest produce (3el tons) at half the lowest price
now dimanded and obtained in (.%slow, the value of such a crop
would be 75f. tote acre. Who, we nets, knowing this, will not prepare
their land for this and such crops!"

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SCOTLAND.
Tua Scorrnit FISBERIEII.—The sportsman knows that
there is no better fishing in the empire than in the lochs
and rivers of Scotland ; yet, commercially, their produce is
almost wholly neglected. In dread of the impending famine,
the following opportune and practicable suggestions have
beta made by a gentleman, whose knowledge of the caps-
blitks and neglect of this branch of industry, give his
great weight. His flint suggestion is:
[lee government select throughout the distresied districts,
aligned for fishing, and there place a superintendent. That
••••=fisident have authority to procure boats and tackle, and,
as lit, adequate to the number of people capable of being
21.41_1 ad that the entire prows of catching the fish, curing it,
~_ •11f it he shipment or for sale in the neighbourhood, be
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'"lngement. That a steer., boat or other vessel be pro-
• ifiga aft to time to carry off the produce of the fishery to the
sash station having credit for the amount for which Its
▪ ming4RZ that amount being divided amongst those employed
_,,a1"1118 Wffie usual rate. Tinit until the account of the produce
es Ma Wm shall be leer-iced, the superintendent supply to the
i^a catching and in curing and stos ing the ash,such
wrrrif of glad es shall be required by them, charging them the
bat gising them trust for payment until the amounts
It% %Mihail be made up : the rate of payment being what is
flralimrey—say, for catching the fish, one share to each man, and
am am a half for the boat, tackle, and bait.
reference to sea fishing, he observes
Inglis boats best adapted for fishing in thee seas, are what are
beta and much used in the north of Ireland, as Norway yawls,
about Infection, and carrying four men, and they cost, when bought
in the moth from the Nor gegians, who Import them, about a 15r. ;
bog ordinary alio-boots of that size, or thereabouts, would do equally
well; and as boats which would be considered unfit to carry to sea
'old at all events for the present': do fee fishing, an abundant sup-
&Lot those might be Punished from government or private stoma.
want of proper tackle may be yet more easily supplied. The
h,„‘ line" is the chief article, and the material for maksng theme
•111sPlied, th'i people themselves could make them ready
r " Bait," however, is the chief difficulty, especially
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the isleionsf. The best ',fait neat to herrings, which are only to
oe obtained at certain seasons, is mussels, and this, for the meat part,
must bc brought from the ;nein land. Now the steamers, or vessels
rbl'ed carrying the Ash to market, might keep up a supply of
„lot o,r other kind of Mit, and might also greatly economise the
. W carrying the fish out of the boats. as caught, to the land.
mead of a new establishment the officer of the coast guard might,
Perform the duties of the stlyrintendent, aided as be must
m sacheme by t so or three hands experienced in the best mode
u4rlM4gand cornet tins. There is no doubt that dealers can be
fbaadwho week! ..ndertake the disposal of soy qtrantity of fish that
;nil be delivered at Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol, Mc., and that eta
"4n Wee. Th. . erection of sheds for curing and stowing the fish
would be one iof the first duties of the superintendents, and would
afford Meroedime employment, and to these must be added, in many
sts, temper try ehoit-r for Inc peopte en gaged. Whether this or any
phn b. adoptel, it met ho hoed on the following farts —The
Ink tomluicatibie round all the islands andon the coastof Scotland;

the people st the present moment are helpless, and peeress theme' lees
this mut eof evidence' and what they require is-1. Boats, tackle,
and bait 1. Instruction how to the them with effect. S. Protection
'and aid, each asancemer can at bi lag out to and returning tram
the deep fishing grounds, to winch, such protection, they are
afraid to venture. As &public work there is none that can be compared
with this for the extent of the t which can instantly be
Muted, and with an instant return the attention given to it. All
the skill that is required, when once they are under proper control,
with proper materials, is to had in a line and rmv • beet ; and for
those who may be unequal to this, there I. constant employment
shore baiting the hooks, curing and soaring the fish, n which the
women and children, in numbers far excseding the fishermen them-
selves, will find employment !will not further trespass on your time
than to beg of you not to relax In preming on the government this,
the most efficient, 2B it is, beyond doubt, the most truly economical
mode of saving the lives of the deserving population of the isles and
highlands of Scotland."
A Dim:mace To not ClTY.—With this heading the
Glasgow Constitutional gives the following :—" Yesterday
morning, about eight o'clock, we observed three children,
half-naked, sitting on the cold pavement of a close in Argyll-
street—the eldest, six years of age, was busy softening in her
mouth a piece of cold potato, which a shivering infant, seven
months' old, was swallowing very greedily. The other
child, four years' old, was sitting on • step, trembling with
cold—want being visibly painted in her death-like counte-
nance. She was looking wistfully after the potato, butthere
was none of it to give her. On inquiry, we found that the
mother lodged in the High-street, and that they hail come
out to be ready, when the shops were opened, to try what
they could get, as the mother, who was said to be sober end
good to them, could work for no more than would pay the
lodgings. This is no solitary case, but merely one amongst
a thousand of the same kind ; and we say it is • positive dis-
grace to a Christian community. Here were children, with-
out fault, obliged to eat garbage, which neither dog nor cat
in the city would have looked at,"
DRINKING CUSTOMS AT FUNERALS. Some time ago,
the provost, magistrates' and ministers of Dunfermline,
having taken into consideration the prevailiug custom of pie
Denting liquors at funerals, appeals(' is the community, and
recommended the abandonment of this useless and per-
nicious custom. In August last the recommendation was
made from the Pulpits, and published in the local journals,
and since that time the alteration has been effected without
the least symptom of dissatisfaction from any party.
THE NUMBER OF DEER KILLED by the Duke of Leeds
and party in his precious forest of Mar, is no less than 7d
head. These alone would go far to teed a good number of
the poor Highlanders who have lost their potatoes.