The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-13 00:00:00

(From last night's C.zette.)

CROWS-OFFICE, Auc. B.—The name of the peer
of Scotland chosen to represent the peerage of Scotland in
the parliament of the 1, rifted Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, in the room of James Andrew John Lawrence
Charles Viscount StrathalLm, deceased: Lord Colville, of
Culross.

DOWNING-STREET, Arc. 12.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Joseph Cutfc, E 4., to be Itegiutrar of
the Supreme Court of the bland of Ceylon.

A VACANCY has been created in the representation
of the East Riding of Yorkshire, by the death of Mr. Henry
Broadley, who expired on Friday la-t, in his 58th year.
EXPERIMENT WITIIA NEw LIFE-110AT.—MT. Wit-
ran (chairman), Captain Paxton, Captain Saumarez, R.N.,
Captain Perrott, members of a committee of the National
Shipwreck Institution; Mr. Lang, master shipwright; Mr.
Chatfield and Mr. )'cake, assistants to the master ship-
wright ; Mr. Greener, gunmaker, Birmingham, one of the
competitors for the Duke of Northumberland's life-boat
prize of 100 guineas ; and a number of naval officers and
gentlemen assembled yesterday afternoon at the basin
at the west end of Woolwich Dockyard to
witness the buoyancy and facilities for rowing of a
life-boat constructed under the superintendence of
Mr. Peake. The boat is constructed entirely of wood,
and is 30 feet long by 8 feet 9 inches wide, and her draught
of water 1 foot 5 inches. The bottom is deeply padded
with cork inside ; and a band of the same material, covered
with prepared canvas, is carried round the outside of her
wales, and both ends of the vessel aro alike in construc-
tion, that she may be steered either way by an oar. On
each end several air-tight cases have been fixed, and, with
the cork, give her a buoyancy equivalent to two tons, that
number being also the tonnage of the boat. A coxswain,
or steersman, and 10 rowers having gone on board, they
proceeded round the basin several times, to show her capa-
bilities for rowing; and they then all sat on one side to
show her stability in the water, and their whole
weight did not bring her down on one side to nearly the
edge of the water. Eight plugs, about four inches each in
diameter, were then taken out of her bottom; but the ad-
mittance of the water made no perceptible difference in the
immersion, and she was again rowed round the basin with
equal facility as on the previous occasion. Double the
number, in all twenty-two men, went on board, which gave
her an additional draught of water of about five or six
inches ; but as she is built to be high out of
the water, nearly similar in appearance to the
north of Scotland fishing boats, she might be
crowded with as many persons as she could hold,
and still prove a good sea boat. It was intended to have
her filled with water, but that experiment was deferred to
a future thy, when the carriage making for her at the
Royal Arsenal will he ready, and the facilities fur moving
her on shore and other experiments will be made. Lieut.-
Colonel Colquhoun, of the carriage department at the Royal
Arsenal, was also present yesterday. His Grace the Duke
of Northumberland, the President of the National Ship-
wreck Institution, is using every exertion to have life-boats
of the most approved construction made, to be placed on
the various localities where they may be most required, ar,d.
has, with a view to their efficiency, approved of rules for
their management.
FIELD-t. txe RAGGED Settoom.—The ninth an-
nual report of this celebrated seminary has just been printed.
The committee gratefully acknowledge the heartiness of the
response elicited by their last year's appeal, and the large
measure of success which has attended their operations.
During the past year it is stated that homes, formerly the
seat.' of vice and misery, have been made orderly and happy,
thieves' and low lodging-houses have been constantly
visited, their inmates have been invited, and numbers of
them regularly attend the Friday evening and Sunday
schools. Boys giving evidence of reformation have been
provided with a refuge, and been enabled afterwards to
gain a land remote from the degrading influences of their
past life. From these emigrants highly gratifying accounts
lof their progress have been received. Females, again, who
had fallen, have been rescued from degradation ; others,
previously sent to asylums, have since been restored to so-
ciety, and are now either with their friends or in situ-
ations in honourable families, beyond the reach of infamy.
The numbers attending the day schools for infants and
children, and the evening schools for youth and adults, have
increased. The industrial classes arc more popular and
useful. For a long period it was a source of anxious regret
to the committee that they had no refuge to offer to the
destitute, no alternative but to send the penitent or re-
morseful back again to old haunts and companions, there to
renew the intimacy and inclinations of vice. By the aid of
a kind benefactress, a night refuge is now opened, contain-
ing one hundred separate sleeping berths, and three hot
and cold water baths. This refuge is placed under the
superintendence of a qualified person, and the inmates,
previous to leaving the dormitory, are supplied each with
six ounces of bread. The report is crowded with details
respecting each of these departments of exertion, whose
number gives to the original school all the development and
organisation of an institution. The committee hold fast by
the principle of not incurring debts ; but as there is a cer-
tain annual outlay of 3501., independently of 150/. for the
recently-added night refuge, and as the yearly subscriptions
have hitherto not reached 901., it is clear that much re-
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Policy Policy, British
Guiana, admitting into this colons. foreign reprints of
English books on the payment of an ad valorem duty on
the Goon fide price of 20 per cent.—whereof five per cent. is
to go to the collecting officer, and the remainder to the
English author. The publication of this ordinance has
excited a warm controversy in our columns, a reference to
which will at once convince our English copyright author,
that even in this distant land they have a sturdy and rep):
lute champion.—Demerara Colonist.
GERMAN MINING CO3IPANY.—It is found impos-
sible at present finally to wind up this company's affairs, in
consequence, it is understood, of the continued unsettled
state of Germany. The property at sale is estimated to bo
worth 20,0001., and Mr. Odenherman, Government Sur-
veyor of Mines in Germany, confirms the value of the pro-
Pert/.