The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1847.

SOf erourt.
.111. Queen and Prinoe Albert, accompanied by his
g4ham the Prince of Leniogen, aad attended by
rA-L—Paget, left Buckingham Palace soon alter eight
calyeantorning, for Clarence-house, St. James's,
ayMk
po Iwo R.H. the Duchips of Bent, envious to
Lamson for the Comment. H.R.H. the Duchene of
Foi flit Clarence-house at half-past o clock, sews-
by his Serene Highness the Princeof Lenungen,
in
and tour, for Woolwich. H.R.H. was attended
;;
hys Lady A. M. Dawson, Sir G. Cooper, and Lord J. P.
Her Majesty and her royal consort returned to
kw*
agbarn Palace. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent ern-
gogi at Woolwich, on the Garland steam-packet for
Oiled, et rage to Breasels,
fall Prince Albert presided, yesterday afternoon,
• ot the Cornms.siou for Promoting and
West.
• the Foie Arts, in the Rebuilding the Palace of West.
Wasir. H.B.H. mired at the New Palace at a quarter
ore three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in M siting,
wine. The Commissioners present were, Lord
iiinutoe, Lord Colborne, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon.
yo ft Peel, Sir R. IL. Inglis, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Hallam,
..A Nr. Vivian. The Secretary, Mr. Esstlake, was in
dome. The Prince and the Commissioners left the
esereinseroom at four o'clock, and went to Westminster-
wit. to Mope: the oil-paintings sent in for competition.
0.11. &oil the Comm.sumers left the hall at half-past fire.
ii the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, Vice
timiesl de Lutke, and Lieut• Colonel the Hon. Charles
gisy, dim.' with the Queen yesterday at Buckingham
Not —At nice o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert,
seammaied H.I. IL the Grand Duke flonstantine left
pa,ct Theatre to honour the perforMance
tM
vita tkeir presence. The R ,}'al suite emulated of the Via-
O us Jocelyn. Lade Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Paget,
bid cisoys, Vice Admiral de Lutke, Lord Alfred Paget,
a ?heretic and Lieut• Col. the Hon. Charles Grey.
li.theGrand Duke Constantine of Russia, H.R.11.
to Dab's. of Glouc,ster, their RR.fill. the Duke and
whim of Cambridge, their ItR,FIII. the Hereditary Grand
poke and Grind Duchess of Sane Weimar, and H.R.H.
ft,. George went to Chiswick yesterday afterno a and
kecerad the Duke of Devmulhir• with their company.

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Mr. Glyn and Sir Cnaries Douglas had an inter-
To with the Right lion. Edward Strutt yesterday at the
aced the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George-
west.—The Rev. Daniel Wilson had an interview with Sir
Now Grey yesterday. Sir Charles Lemon had also an in-
tries sti a ihe right hla, Dart. at the name
imputation, consisting of Mr. Alderman Johnson, the City '
Rminstassesr, Mr. Edward Harrison, Mr. Richard Lam-
km yawn, sad Mr. John Wood, had an interview with
lard John Rsaell yesterday.—The Duke of Ronburghe and
Kr B. B. Roche had interviews yesterday with the Earl
Clanocloa.—Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with the
Cliamositor of tlr Exchequer yesterday at.his official resi-
Jam is Downing-Arca.
Me Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
sausatee meeting yesterday.

From last night's Gazette.
BrCat'Gß.tM PALACE, JUNE s.—This day had
adieu* of her Majesty, E.O.M. the Prince Oicar of
Sweden, attended by his Excellency the Baron de Re-
hears, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires, to which U.R.H.
was introduced by Vise. Palmerston, CJ C .8., stud conducted
by Col. the lion. Sir B. Cost, K.C.H.
DOM:INC-STREET, JUNE S.—The Queen has ap•
misted C. Andersen, Esq., to be Chief Commissary of Police
ir the island of Mauritius, and T. J. Hugon, Esq., to be
Protector of Immigrants into that island.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 7.—The Queen appointed
I.ltorgan, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Rio Oraede
do Sul ; also, A. J. Kayat, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul
g Ufa.
OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, Jrxe, ISt%
lorFar.ArtiErsry.—Brer. major T. O. Cater to be lieut-col.,
rat, op, :0.. on f.-p.; See. Capt. G. Gambier to be rapt; Fleet
Iry t T.lbat to be pee. eapt.; Bee. Lieut. .1. J. MacDougall to be
lie lieut.
Ordeuwe Medical Department.—lL D. Alllmon to be anise..siarg.,
Ole lawsosi, pram

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of
Winne
Tat VEnLORAIII.II STATE OF THE GILTSPVII.-STREET
Pesos.—The Sheriffs having made their report on the state
of *env prisons,
Alderman Witsow said he had received a letter from
de town clerk, written by the direction of the com-
mittee of the whole court, requesting his immediate atten-
tion, ea visiting magistrate, to the disorderly conduct of the
piemers contused in tiiltapur-street compter. He begged
to remark upon that communication that he had not been
inattentive to his duties, but that he had long been fully and
harfully alive to the dreadful state of disorder which pre-
vailed in the gaol ; and he begged to say that he by no means
deserved the imposition of the personal responsibility now
thrown upon him, but he would call upon the court for
joint muistance. (Hear.) lie had been occupied
'haat daily in endeavouring to restrain the pri-
nters teen the perpetration of acts of violence ;
and, notwithstanding all his efforts, the greatest
dangers were to be apprehended to the public peace, in cense-
nonce of the existing insubordination. It was in vain that
la addressed them in the language of expostulation and
menace. One of the ries/leaders in tie disorder in a very
Mort time demolished sixty-nine panes of glass, others fol-
lowed the example in that description of outrage, while
othencommetted violent assaults upon their fellow prisoners.
The removal to separate cells produced no abatement of the
noise and disceration to violence amongst the abandoned
inmate'. They threatened the governor, assaulted the turn-
keys, and pulled to pieces their beds and every other kind
of furniture they could lay their hands on, and he had at
last been compelled to put in force the act of parliament
authorising the infliction of corporal punishment, an
extremity to which he had never before resorted,
to bring the principal offenders to • sense of their
duty and of commou decency. The whole of the gross
misconduct he had faintly de-crihed arose, he must
ay, ben the want of the means of accomplishing classifica•
doe, from the want of a sufficient number of cells for the
separation of the unmanageable from the well disposed, and
the impossibility, in a place tie overcrowded, to make any
practicable arrangements for the observance of order. He
us determined to press the necessity of government inter-
knee, and the buil ling of a new prison, in order to pre-
vent the serious misthiefs which eery one who witnessed,
nib bad witnessed, what constantly occurred in the Comp-
ter, meld not help Anticipating. It would be desirable to
hiders:fed by Sheriff Challis, who was the chairman of the
'gilding Committee, what was the cause of the delay of a
an prison, and what difficulties presented themselves an the
Posecritioa of the labours of that committee ?
Alderman and Sheriff CHALLIS said the reports which he
sad his brother sheriff presented, differed in nothing from
the mons usually handed in to the Court of Aldermen ; and
the books of the visiting magistrates contained all the details
tithe daily occurrences with unirdermitted regularity, and
was produced before the committee every Saturday. He
admitted that great evils arose from the want of the means of
deifying the prisoners in the compter. In the absence of
thus means the necessary discipline could not be organised;
teethe magistrates were doing all they could do to improve
*Prison as far as was compatible with its size and existing
egebilities. They had appointed • sub-committee who had
embodied a system of rules for its regulation and manage-
ment, and that system only required the sanction of the
Secretary of State to be carried into effect, and they had
determined to raise the salaries of those who had the superin-
Mildew:tot the inmates, so that a better class of men would ,
be engaged in the performance of the duties. As regarded
the new gaol, no time had been at all loat. The committee
mastantly assembled for the purpose of carrying out the ime
%mined the court, impressed with the urgent nature of flee
setiuity.
Aldermau SIDNEY strongly condemned the still issistlagt
abomination of Odtapur-street Prison, the dreadful state of
which was the cause of the transportation of such sates of
the PeoP'e. He was convinced that if the means of eland&
seam were not adopted, and the magistracy did not show
more activity in carrying out the great Inject of those who
maul well to the community, government must take the
whole business into their own hands, and erect a building
adapted to the exinacies of the time.
JUDGMENT iv THE CASs OP THS SIINFACTORS AND
Baoeene.—The Case came before the court by a petition
from Mr. Stephen Curtis, complaining that Meson. Goad
and Rigg, brokers licensed by the court, did, previously
to a sale, announce, as one of the conditions, that
one-half per cent. was to be paid by the buyer
into the hands of the selling broker, on receiving
the order for the delivery of the goods; that Mr.
Curtis remonstrated it the time of sale against the condition,
but the sale was proceeded with in spite of his remonstrance;
that he purchased a certain quantity of bides at the sale ;
that on subsequently tendering the price of the hides, less
the half per cent., the brokers refused to receive that sum,
and made a demand by their attorneys for the whole sum,
including the half per cent., which he vas thus constrained
to pay. The petitioner averred that he did not in any way
employ the broker, and that the double brokerage was con-
trary to the civic laws and usages, and injurious to trade.
The broken, in their reply, stated that the charge of one
half per cent. was just and legal, and the long established
nage of the trade. They quoted a legal opinion, that they
were acting rather as factors or auctioneers, and might legally
make the payment of the half per cent. a condition of the
sale, which the party busing on that condition could not
then refuse is pey, and they confidently hoped that the
court would not interfere with the custom of the trade.—
The Recorder stated the following to be the judgment of
the mart:
That the petition baring been read, together with the answer
thereto, hod U proofs r allegation, and proo of the parties considered, said
Omani beard thereon, this court Ms renolved that under all the cir-
evananees this court will not take any further preening. thereto.
The solicitor for Mr. Curtis eon to address the court, but
the Recorder said the judgment of the court was in the terms
be bad expressed, and that there was no comment or ex.
Planation to be made.—Alderman liughes Hughes: It is
too, that the parties should understand that the
lodgment was unanimous.—Upon the motion of Alderman
maghes pinghe:, seconded by Alderman Lucas, the petition
of kir. Curtis was then dismissed.
Tag- rho •

"E NEW EHERIFES.—The gentlemen who arc to
beproposed forsheriffs of London,and will doubtless be elected,
are Charles Hill. E,q , of the firm of Hill, Fawcett, and Hill,
aleck and sharsbrokers, Threadneedle-street, and William
Cobitt, Esq., the builder sad engineer, of Gray's-inn-lane-
LINCOLN'S INN, JUNE S.—The following gentlemen
were this day tolled to the degree of Barrister-st•law, by the
Ron. Society of Lincoln's Inn, viz.:—Edward Leigh Pent-
hett". ion Eiq. ; Alfred Coops, Esq. t Richard Baertres
Turner,Eeq ; Thomas Anthony Marsden, Esq. ; S. Brown-
Shw Gray, Msg. ; William Newton Warren, Esq.; and
erman Kay, Esq.

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. WILDERSPIN. .
On Monday last a wird party of Mr. Wilderspin's
Mends met b Stratton-street, Piccadilly, for the
_purpose
Of preseuting fo hie • tion.pieoe, purchased by the Teichers
and Children's Puny Tribute Fund. It was the workman.
ship of Mr. J. Bennett, Cheapaide, a simple and extremely
handsome article, with a group of children at study on the
to The iesaiptions were :
"The Teachers and Children's Gift to Saamel Wildenpin,
Juvestatis Amator et Amor. Jame 7, 1847."
"Fertile, WM tremor Mevalefte format MM.
Wedl eve eneltesd,
d sad
this settee desimp heft
bead Me burs by Thee se well,
AM fr
Ma iselly misesess ebr Mere Ned.
Whom lempuet la eve's bee work has sped."
The gift was processed by Me. DANIRL 0411 KILL. He
said Mr. Wildenpin bed been augured more than a quarter
of a century in promoting the isquevement of infant educa-
tion, and in the laborioeseempatbeefonening infant schools.
In this cause he had made a gnat sacrifice, both of health
and property; and having been so eminently successful in
the art of teaching, and having introduced a ey stem so be.
eedeial in its results, it did appear to us that in his &deemed
gee he was fairly entitled to same valuable proof of national
gratitude. Under this impression' a subscription was en-
Owed into. Mr. Wilderspin had been no sectarian in his
views ; he had opened schools for all, without distinction of
met or party ; and on the list of subscribers will be found
the names of persons of aimed every phase of political and
religious opinion—many of the highest rank, both in church
and state, and many amongst the humbler classes of society.
The subscriptions received up to this time amount to
nearly 1,800/., a small sum, if regarded as a compensation
for the labours and services of Mr. Wildenpin ; but, coupled
with the pension of 1001. a year, which her Majesty has
graciously conferred upon him, it will be sufficient to re-
lieve him from much present anxiety, and prove a great
comfort in his declining years. In presenting this offering
Ife you, air, I know you will not estimate it according to its
pecuniary value, but that in your estimation it will derive
`chief value from the source whence it proceeds. Teachers
and taught have long been the object of your peculiar care,
and this tribute of affection and respect from them will
often recall to your mind the sweetest recollections. I hope
Many descend to your children's children, and may prove
a stimulus to them to employ their talents (as you have em-
ployed yours) in promoting the improvement of [nankin!.
Mr. WILDIRSPIN replied in terms of affectionate gra-
titude to the donors, and giving a slight but most interesting
sketch of the progress of his early career —how he had
suffered from the persecution which so frequently attends
those who stand aloof from party, who hold all in the wide
embrace of catholic humanity. He alluded to the result of
his labours. He saw oa the roll before him, inscribed with
the autograph or name of 1,000 children, the sympathy of
the Church of England, the Wesleyan, the Independent, the
Catholic, the Unitarian, the Jews (who in one poor school
had subscribed 160 farthings), and the Friends. lie hailed
the prospect of an old age, not of poverty nor yet of affluence,
but of ease and comfort, sad he thanked the source of every
good for the prospect.
Mr. Me:scums Mitses, though all he felt had been'so
ably and clearly expressed by Mr. Gaskell and Mr. Wil-
denpin, could not withhold the sympathy he had in the
object of the meeting. Mr. Wildenpin was a man
of genius, and he had devoted it to the highest object
—the cultivation of the human race from its earliest youth.
Every day added conviction of the importance of his mission,
and every day unhappily added a sense of its difficulty :
obstacles to any plan of general education seemed to increase
with the knowledge of its necessity,—the perascuted were
becoming the persecutors. But he would not despair, for
on looking around him, and finding the subject was becoming
one of universal interest and perpetual discussion, hope
brightened the horizon of the future.
Mr. CHARLES Dicuave regretted that a severe cold
and hoarseness would prevent him saying half he felt. lie
was grateful for the information he had received, not being
before aware of the extent of Mr. Wilderspin's labours and
services. He rejoiced that a subject so connected with the
wants of infancy, and the threatened destitution of a public
benefactor, was brought forward by a woman, and with the
expression of his cordial sati.faction he united his hopes
that Mr. Wilderspin might long live to enjoy his well-
merited honour,.
Mr. THORNTON HUNT briefly, but most heartily, con-
gratulated Mr. \Vilderapin's friends on the success of their
persevering labours and untiring exertions; after which the
separated.

COMMENTS ON COUNTY COURTS PRACTICE.—A
decision of Mr. Palmer in the Bristol Court, reported below,
is the event of the week, and not only has it occasioned much
controversy in legal circles, but it has attracted public no-
tice, and been made the topic of two clever articles in The
Times. Nor has its importance been exaggerated. If the
decision be good law, and ultimately supported by the su-
perior courts, the jurisdiction of the County Courts is in-
definitely extended beyond the limits nominally cosigned to
them, and which the farmers contemplated. Half of the
remaining business of the superior courts will be absorbed
by the County Courts, for whe will resort to the former
when he has a remedy so much simpler, readier, cheaper,
and more efficient in the latter ? There are some dissenti-
ents, and they, too, persons of no mean authority; but the
general opinion supports Mr. Palmer's judgment. And
we think there can be little doubt that he is right,
although the conditions under which alone the rule is
applierible are such that it cannot be so extensively em-
ployed as at first might be supposed. Tho principle is clear
enough. Each distinct order and delivery of goods is a dis-
tinct contract, and therefore a distinct cause of action. For
each an action will lie. But practically the superior courts
will not permit distinct actions to be brought for items that
may be joined, fur that is properly deemed to be the using of
the processes of the court for the needless vexation of a
defendaat ; and so, upon application, they will compel the
plaintiff to consolidate his actions, and mulct him in costs
for the attempt to haws. Mr. Palmer says, very properly,
that this rule is equally applicable in the County Courts.
Their jurisdiction is limited t i causes of action not exceed-
ing 201. Each item of goods sold and delivered at different
times is a distinct canoe of action. Bach is, therefore,
within the jurisdiction of the court, if below 201. There
is no rule of law which prohibits a man from bringing •
separate action for each cause of action; the courts will
only use their power to compel a consolidation ; and'
as their jurisdiction is unlimited in amount, that power
would extend to the whole debt, however large.
Applying this to the County Courts, Mr. Palmer
says that he will exercise the same authority, and adopt
the rule of the superior courts to the limit of his jurisdic-
tion. If a plaintiff bring several actions for items which
together do not exceed 201., he will compel him to consolidate
them and make him pay the coats of the proceedings. But
his jurisdiction is limited to 201. When that sum is de-
manded, he cannot look beyond it to see if there be more I
due. When that is answered, and an action brought for
another 201., he can only inquire whether it has been already
recovered and paid. It would be no answer to such an an.'
lion, that the plaintiff had already recovered 201. for a differ-
ent cause of action. And so the whole debt may be recovered
by piecemeal. But there are limits in practice to that form
of proceeding which it may be as well briefly to notice. A
question will, in most cases, arise as to the precise cause of I
action, for that will turn upon the nature of the contract,
and the greater number of such contracts being implied, and
nut expressed, it will be open to the courts to put what con
struction they please upon the nature of the contract, as
determined by the course of dealing between the partite,
and other circumstances. Where, far instance, a man orders
his baker to send him so many loaves per day, and pays him
at the end of the month or quarter, the contract is for the
sale of so many loaves to be delivered and paid for at certain '
times, and the whole would probably be held to be one con-
tract and one cause of action. And it seems to us to be
open to great doubt whether, In all cases of continuous
I dealings, where hills are sent at stated intervals, as yearly
or half-yearly, the contract, as implied from the conduct of
the parties, is not that the whole should form one account,
to he payable at such periods; and whether, by plating
them all an one bill, and adding the amounts together, and
demanding • total sum, the whole is one cause of action
arising o.i the account stated. It is upon this principle that
the early items in a running e'eount, although beyond six
years' date, are excepted from the Statute of Limitations.
The account is the cause of action, and not the original
contract. But this is a subject which will require repeated
consideration, and must frequently offer itself for discussion
in various shapes. We per now to the still vexed question
of the fees. These are the facts :—The schedule of fees
fixes for the judge a certain fee for " every order or judg-
ment," and for the clerk a fee for " entenng and drawing
up every judgment and order, and copy thereof." The fee.
book gives, as a specimen of the mode of entering the fees,
a fee to the judge both for order and judgment, and a fee to
the clerk for drawing both judgment and order. Some of the
judges and clerks read the schedule as giving only a single
fee to both for the order and judgment ; others consider
that It gives it only to the judge, and not to the clerk; and
others that it gives the double fee to both, as stated in the
form of the fee-book. It is remarkable, that in one the dis-
junctive is used, in the other the conjunctive. At first we
were inclined to think that this difference in the language
implied a difference in the meaning ; but, on further re-
flection, we are satisfied that both judge and clerk are en-
titled to the fee, both for the judgment and the order ; and
we have requested the author to amend the table accord-
ingly, end we recommend those who possess it to do the
same—Lam Times.
BANK OP BRITISH NORTH MitatlCA.—The share-
holders of thisbank—established to extend monetary facili-
ties to the North American colonies—had their annual meet-
ing yesterday to receive the usual statement of affsirs, and
upou other routine business. The chair
re was taken by Mr.
Tura. The following was the port of the directors :
There has been aeonslderable extension of commerce and agricul-
ture in Canada, and the state of trade generally has been very satis-
factory. Cornieering, however, the high prices obtained for agricul-
total produce Is thleCountry, owing to the deficiency of the crepe,
and the probability that with • favourable harvest some reaction may
take place, the directors have been led to recommend to their mana-
gers each measures of precaution as are calculated, in their opinion,
to protect b 4th the bank itself and its customers from the effect& of
such • change. The severe prewure now felt on the money market
at borne renders them precautions the mere requisite, and the direc-
tore rely with confidence on the vigil .nce and discretion of the kraal
directors and officer. le carrying out their Ontructions. The state-
ment of the results of last year's Mennen. I. as follow.:—The amount
of undivided net prate to Dee. 31, 1845, was J 6,7391. lee. Id. ; the
net profit for the year 1846, after deduction of all current charges,
and providing for all had and doubtful debts, was 74,7231. lee. Id.;
amounting in all to 111,4571. Ss. Gd. From this awn hes teen taken
the amount of dividend• paid, at Midsummer and Chthtmas,
1846, which was 50,000 f.: the undivided net profit, therefore, to I
Dee" 1016, is 61,4571. as. fel. Out of this the directors intend paying,
on the sth of July next, a half-year's dividend, at the increased rate
of a per cent. per annum.
The contents of the report were received with much satis-
faction. The Chairman, after recapitulating the accounts
of former years. and showing that the prosperity of the
estab:ishMent haapru;stetisively increased, stated that should
any anforeseen dincultiee arise to impede the progress of the
corporation 'le directors would not hesitate, as thy hid

done before, to redoes the dividend.—Mr. N. Lewis wished
to learn what leans kmd hers granted by the hank, to whom,
aid the rate of interest paid F—The Chairman said the
directors lent ample. mosey, es other beaks did, at the cur-
rent rate of interest of the day, to parties of the highest re-
spectability and on good security. Of course the names of
such parties could not be mentioned. In reply to a ques-
tion tile chairman said the ineomotax would be deducted
from the dividend as before. The dividend hsd been in

creased from 6 to 6 per cent., and that was doing all that
had been thought advisably. A motion was made and
seconded that the dividend should be free of the tax.-24r.

Carterdirector) 111111 there was an o is ectton to . The
(a
intorno-tax on profits did not apply to the colonies, and if
the amount were not to be deducted front the dividends to
parties in this country a corresponding amount must be
added to the dividends of eobnial shareholder,. The

tion was immediately withdrawn.—Mr. G. R. Robinson
observed that the amount of the income-tax would go into
the capital, and be employed for the benefit of the bank and
its proprietors.—After the adoption of the report, the re•
election of the three directors who retired by rotation, and
the usual votes of thanks, the meeting adjourned,

RAGGED Scnoots.—Last evening the first general
meeting of the supporters of the Grotto-passage Pegged
Schools was held at the Literary Institution, Edward-street,
Portman-square.. An interesting feature in the meeting was
the presence of twenty or thirty of the poor children for
whom the schools are intended. The secretary read the re-
port, which mated that the schools were formed to instruct
the ignorant and depraved youth of both sexes, and since its
establishment, a year ag had received 150 boys and 130 girls,
the avenge daily attendance being 30. The cxrueitlee and
teachers hed found by experience that the greatest reward
they could offer for good behaviour, war to teach writing and
arithmetic to the most orderly. This plan had been followed,
and the results were most beneficial, for a very marked im-
provement took place in their behaviour a few days after
they entered the school. The bodily wants of the poor
children had not been neglected ; by the kind contribution
of several ladies, many of the children had been provided
with decent clothing. To carry on their operations the
committee had received the sum of 1621., and had expended
all but 81. They now appealed for further support to keep
the schools in existence. The report having 'Jaen adopted,
resolutions on behalf of the schools were carried, and the

meeting broke up.
TETE LATE SIR EARDLET WILMOT.—The late Sir
Burney Wilmot was descended from a branch of the ancient
family of Wilmot, in Derbyshire' and from the Dudley', of
Eardley-hall, in the county of Staff.ird. His father, Mr.
Bardley Wilmot, member ter Coventry, was the friend of
Mr. Pitt, and was selected by that minister, at the period
of the declaration of American Independence and the
French Revolution, as the chief commissioner for settling
the claims of the American Loyalists and French Refugees.
His grandfather, Sir Eardley Wilmot, chief justice of the
Court of Common Pleas, was a lawyer of eminent and ac-
knowledged ability, but was so averse to politics that he
twice refused the chancellorship with a peerage; once at
the termination of the Duke of Orafton's administration,
and again upon the death of Chancellor Yorke. The late
baronet was born in February, 1783, and when he died, on
the 3rd of February last, had not completed his 64th year.
lie was educated at narrow, and subsequently went the
Midland Circuit for several years. Soon after his marriage,
which took place in 1808, with Elizabeth, daughter of the
celebrated physician, Dr. Parry, of Bath, and sister to
I Captain Sir Edward Parry, he left the her, and went to
reside on his estate at Berkswell•hall, in the county of War-
wick, where he discharged the duties of magistrate and
country gentleman with the respect and esteem of the whole
county. In 1818 he married, secondly, Eliza, daughter of
Sir Robert Chester, late master of the ceremonies to her
Majesty. In 1821 he was created a baronet, by his M•jesty
King George IV., as a reward for the public services of his
father and grandfather. It was soon after this period that
be was elected to preside over the quarter sessions for
Warwickshire, which post he occupied till his departure for
Van Diemen's Land, in 1843. Upon his resignation of this
office be received the moat honourable testimonials of
respect from his brother magistrates. In 1832, the Reform
Bill having constituted two divisions for the county of War-
wick, he was invited, in consequence of the high estimation
in which he was held for ability and active habits of busi-
ness, to stand for the northern division. He was returned
to parliament at the head of the poll, Mr. Dugdale and Mr.
Renting being the other candidates. His politics were
liberal; but when Lord Stanley and Sir J. Graham left the
Whig party, in 1837, Sir Eardley accompanied them. Sub-
sequently to 1832 be stood two other contested elections,
but was never defeated ; and at the last election, in 1841,
he was returned to parliament without opposition. In 1843
he was invited by Lord Stanley, then colonial minister, to
accept the lieutenant-governorship of Van Dieman's Land,
on account of his experience in criminal law, and the deep
interest he had always taken in the reformation of
juvenile offenders. This last subject lead occupied Sir
Eardley Wilmot's careful attention from an early period of
his life. lie left England in the spring of 1843, accom-
panied by two of his sons. The coneludeig portion of kis
life bas acquired a melancholy notoriety, and the intelligence
of his death has arrived at a momeot whit n his triumphant
acquittal from calumnious charges brought against him in
his absence was fully established. Soon after he heard
the tidings of his sudden recall in the month of
September last, he was attacked by sickness, from which
he never rallied, and final:), closed his mortal career on
the 3r3 February in the present year. He is succeeded
in his title and estate by his eldest son, Mr. Eardley Wilmot,
barrister-at-law, who married in 1839, Elixa, sister of Sir
R. Williams Bulkeley, Bart., M. P., a niece of Lori
Dinorben. Sir Eardley left seven other sons and three
daughters. Of his sons, the second, a captain in the artillery,
' has just been appointed on his return from the Cape (where
he held a scientific post connected with the Magnetic Obser-
vatory for several years) to preside over the Military Academy
at Woolwich, a position requiring the highest qualifications
of conduct and character. Another son, now a commander
in the navy, was Admiral Sir William Parker's flag lieute-
nant in China, and lately at Lisbon, where, upon the death
of Captain Lockyer, he was appointed to command the
Spartan in the Mediterranean. A third son, also an officer
of artillery, at the outbreak in New Zealand, quitted his
father in Van Diemen's Land for Auckla'.d, to take charge
of a gun u a volunteer. Hie services in that colony mo-
t cured him his majority, and he was honourably mentioned
in the public dispatches.
•

DINNER TO M. SOTE.R.—A dinner was given
last evening, at the London Tavern, to N. Sayer, by
his friends, in acknowledgment of " his philanthropic and
disinterested exertions for the relief of the poor in Ireland;
and likewise to ameliorate the condition of the destitute in
every other civilised country." About 150 gentlemen were
present. Mr. B. Smith presided, in the absence of Sir
Andrew Leith Hay, who was unable to attend. The arrange-
merits' both substantial and ornamental, were all of an
extra kind. The dinner, which was of a description well
worthy the distinguished guest, and the display of gold
and silver plate on the table and sideboards, ailing
forth general and unqualified commendation. After
the usual routine toasts, the chairman proposed the
health of M. Soyer. M. Sayer, in returning thanks,
observed that it was with the most grateful &elicits that
he did so. both on account of the warm and hearty ex-
pression of feeling by the chairman, and the manner in
which the toast had been received. With regard to his
naiad= to Ireland, he considered that the duty which he
lasi performed in Dublin was only in fulfilment of the laws
of nature, one of which was to relieve the suffering of our
fellow-creatures as long as was in a man's power. On that
important subject he was delighted is helium them OM MI
his economical principles for prodnaingshaap hod kg the poor
had tar surpassed his most sanguine expo:ander. At
the present time from 20.000 to 25,000 poor poems, were
being daily relieved, without the slightest confusion, from
the central kitchen in Dublin: all the city depots were sup-
plied with whAesome and nutritious food bread include
and at a saving of above one penny per lied per diem, com-
pared with the old system of preparing food in the unions.
The economical plan was still in its infancy, the above
being the results of their small model kitchen, small, he said,
compared with the extent to which he could carry it with a
very trifling additional outlay. After detailing some of the
improvements which he had effected in the preparation of
food, and satisfactorily showing the great saving rendered
thereby, M. Boyer concluded by returning his best
thanks for the honour which had been conferred
upon him. The other toasts were, " The Freedom of the
Press," acknowledged by Mr. Barrow • the health of the
Chairman • and that of the Stewards. The party separated
shortly afterwards. A new kind of bread, the invention of
M. Sayer, was handed round after dinner : its merits con-
sisted in the length of time which it would keep without
becoming uneatable. The specimen in question was twelve
days old, and the apparent freshnem of its condition excited
general astonishment.
GOVERNMENT INSPECTION.— DIE ENNISKILLEN
RATLWAY.--Sir—While reading with much pleasure the
article in your paper of yesterday upon the question of public
safety in connexion with railway travelling, I was somewhat
startled by the paragraph "The works on the Enniskillen
Railway had just been approved, when we had to record the
fall of an entire arch over a public thoroughfare, as a regi-
ment of soldiers were about to pass under it." Being deeply
interested in the Londonderry. and Enniskillen Company,
and that being the only " Enniskillen Railway " which has
undergone the process of a government inspection, I made
immediate inquiries, and find that no Ouch occurrence has
taken place upon that line, which is working most sans-
factorily, both as regards traffic, receipts, and public conve-
nience. From the accompanying paragraph, which I have
extracted from the Irish Railway Gazette of yesterday, it
would appear that the accident to chick you allude occurred
on the Waterford and Kilkenny, and not on the Enniskillen
Railway. May I request that yon will kindly rectify this
error, as if left unexplained it would cause much uneasiness
to those interested in the Londonderry and Enniskillen Com-
pany.—J. K. A.
NARROW ESCAPE.—Yesterday, shortly before 11
o'clock, as the Dryad Woolwich steamer was coming into
Blackwell, in her attempt to pass another steamer, Water-
man No. 10, she came into collision with a small boat,
attached to one of the yachts lying off Blackwell, and cut it
completely asunder. The boat sank but a man who was is
it seising a favourable moment, leaped from the boat, ar.4
clung to the rails of the Dryad till he was rescued,
INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—MIRTERIOUS, DgATE.._
Before W. Carter, Esq., at the Waterms;x6 Anne, Surrey
Canal, on the body of Mr. Oeorge sged 56, who was
found drowned.—Mr. James
of 8, Church-street,
Trinity-square, clerk to M:.
solicitor, of the
city, stated that the Uecer.sed had been for upwards of 30
ran the eoe.ll4'ntial clerk of that firm. On Wednesday
&d
night, at 0 irk, '
the deceased left witness and another
fellow ^.lerk, at London-bridge, to meet his wife in Surrey-
Be was never seen afterwards alive. They had
oeen having some wine, and the deceased was merry, but not
intoxicated. On Saturday the body was found near Taylor's-

I bridge, Surrey-canal. Ile appeared to have been in the water
two or three days.—The deeseaed's daughter stated he was
in the habit of walking by the canal of an evening, and said
the family had gone out on Wednesday on a visit, so they
mold not tell if the deceased had been hume.—lt seemed
the deceased had a sum of V. 6s. when he left the city, and
as neither this nor his bat could be acetunted for, the jury
returned a verdict of "Found drowned, but there was no
evidence to show how he came in the water."

THE ACCIDENT ON TUE NORTH WESTERN RAIL-
RAY.—Of the persons killed by the late accident, Mr. Cope
—one of those of whom nothing was known when our last re-
port wee sent up—is found to have been a clerk in the London
and Westminster Bank, and was proceeding to Wolverhamp-
ton on leave of &donee ; of Mr. Smith nothing is yet known.
The per.ons injured were, Messrs. W. Turner, of Bythefield
Hall, Staffordshire; Henry Shannon, Oldham-street,
Manchester; Thomas Bader, cook at Regent's Hotel,
Leamington; and James }laden, of Dublin. The official,
of the company, in all the departments, from the highest to
the lowest, have done all in their power for the survivors of
this melancholy accident. These injured, and who are lying
at the inn near the sta ion, are visited almost every hour by
Mr. Rogers, the surgeon, and the greatest solicitude is shown
for their recovery. This afternoon the report wa, that they
were progressing favourably. Fioden, who was much cut
and contused about the head, was able to get up. Mr. Shan-
non, who is upwards of 60 years of age, has received a lovers
contusion of the leg. Mr. Turner, much hurt about the
legs and cheat ; and Eades is similarly cut. On Monday
a number of the carpenters belonging to the factory at this
place were employed In making coffins for the bodies of
those killed. The Coroner, on the adjournment of the in-
quest, made out his warrants for burial, and on Monday
night the bodies of Makinson and Bherratt were removed to
Rotten and Lichfield. Those of Millar and Clifton were
brought up by the York mail to London at 2 o'clock this
day, and that of Cope was forwarded to Wolverhampton.
The body of Mr. Rsttrey is not yet coffined, the company
having ordered a leaden one to place it in, in oonaequence of
the distance it will have to travel. The body of Mr. Smith,
should it not be owned, will be buried in Wolverton church-
yard on Thursday. The company have taken upon them-
selves the expense attendant on the funerals of all the sufferers.
Tony, the constable, who canoed the accident, is confined in
the Newport Pagaall station-house, where he will remain
until alter the inquest.