The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 28, 1847.•

latter la a practical suggestion, and is already in active
operation in several workhouses. The report was
tad-following memorial was adopted at the last
meeting of the Nenagh guardians on Thursday.
There was one diamentient from the general unani-
mity, and Mr. Head stated the grounds of his dissent I
clearly and forcibly. They were these That
pauper labour is of little value in any oountry.
2nd. That the document was mixed up with farming
societies, with which it had no connexion. 3rd. That
pauper labour did no good is England, and a fortiori
would do lea, if it were possible, in Ireland. The
'guardians were in the resolving mood, and socord-
uigly did resolve--
na: by the ousessme el lust metes el as piss,* of
pal altose NOW helm edodlioi as Who elloommases of
Inbred, It Is melt to bs hand that m 1 owes era
Ter, ameraillmosibelh Imam ths tost dismal=
are otherwise Mmisi. notes wet gem nun UM* le weed ef'
them eauppossillra ths sztools• etas ssids• et the att
I & 2 Mho" NI. •1211 polio ast sot atm tin Webs wee of
had. MINIM . the lo should So as& earldom flat
#he MINS ID to shisiesi hum sash hs ow ilvas sossosi up
remistessh sseldesoos air 1I l nit, Segvizitro.
Amen wtiri.wa The alliamosat at serlsolaird
la es* udift, the lire gattlios Wag air mu is weft as
oipsnolsoll mosesmort
sins: = Cirghtill lbw to shasbal Y orb aim.. of
I Ms May up a mhos ohs Welt fressireall, peon mei miserfee
Misr es hams or 1•111110 sat
list
bind et assuals.
Ito thrash Ns • broths• tho osestry mart.; ads wort.
how Isms deposihot es the allsslis• drift he Ils melohnsare.
the hoe= of ths whist yealoolois of efrotry. thus
climbed*. dr moutft salad lbe peopstim lo edemas of
Ireland. Ma pease et risals. arignika by OW rese.her
£ntellidell Mt aloha he thus Wm* sod mods use ex es
the tratitbenee anis alma • dna so i to at 1M to amhpste,
with b *IMO= sod wet to Is. assatej lbeY
Wets eie ie. hublatare night the asiesetvety reclaim
the male bale et beim' ereosit the soesay et the poor leer.

SUMMARY OP THE ACCOUNTANTS DEPART-

M ENT OF THE RELIEF COMMISSION. W.
To the relief commiaioneri acting under Act 10 Vic., cape.
land 22,

Oct. 15, 1847.—1 beg to submit the annexed returns to the
eisomissioners, to accompany their final repnt.
The first paper (A) shows the number of rations issued
OIL the 1 Ith September (the day previous to the final stoppage
of relief under the act) to be 442,739, equal to the support of
605.984 persons daily, being a decrease more the 28th August
of 599,816 persons. The unions in which the greatest dis-
trem existed were continued until the final close of relief oa
the 12th September, and their names will be found on paper
B. The nsnal return of money advanced by the commis-
sion has not yet been prepared, in consequence of the
apportionment, now being made, of grants in aid of
rates, to be submitted for the approval of the Lords of the
Treasury, preparatory to the legal notice being served upon
the treasurers of uniuns for repayment under the 17th clause
et the est. This mode of final adjustment 1 referred to in
the stseusery annexed to the fourth report of the commis-
sioners. fio much care being required in the compilation
and final ekes of each great detail, that I purpose, with the
sanction of the commiaaionen, to forward to the Lords of the
Treasury, in a supplementary appendix, the required laws
elution relative to each electoral division in Ireland.

The Lords or the Treasury, by their letter of the 286
September, having determined that the entire advances made
for fever purposes, under Act 10 Vie., cap. 22, shall be con-
sidered so a grant in aid of rates made to the electoral
diri-
sions comprised within the district of each hospital, I beg to
annex a list (paper C) of the temporary lever hospitals, with
the amount advanced to each, making in the aggregate the
sum of 119,0551. 16s. The amount paid to Commimary-
Oen, ral Sir R. Routh, for provisions supplied from commis-
sariat depot. (or the use of committee* is 136,7951. Os. Bd.
The total sum advanced in money, in fortnightly proportions,
to the several electoral divisions/br relief purposes amounts
to 1,420,4171. 141. lld. Them three sum• form an aggregate
total of 1,676,2681. lls. 7d., expended by this commission.
This account may yet be altered in a trifling degree, in con-
sequence of small outstanding cheques, drawn by finance
committees, remaining unpaid on the withdrawal of the ba-
lances from the treasurers, in order to close the accounts on
the termination of the service.

A very bad system ins prevailed throughout the country,
which I have endeavoured to break through, of passing
cheques from hand to hand like Bank notes, st being some-
times many months before they are presented for payment.
The local auditors attached to the commission have com-
pleted their examination of the general account for the
month of August, and are now proceeding with September.
The laments also of the treasurers of finance committees
they are proceeding with for the month of July; some incon-
venience will now arise in the investigation of these accounts,
from the withdrawal of the inspecting officers from their re-
spective unions, but every facility possible shall be afforded
to the auditors in their examination of the aceounts.,Tbe ad-
vantages of an immediate and local audit have been so fully
developed in every stage of this important service, that I
cannot omit to record the confidence I have felt as a public
accountant, in carrying on the financial service of the com-
mission, by the immediate discovery and adjustment of
errors ; nor can I omit to mention the tourney I have always
received from the auditors, Mr. Andoe and Mr. Creed; their
labours have bees incessant, in order to keep pace with the
immense machine that daily produced MAIMS of accounts
and vouches for their audit.

It is now my pleasing duty to bring before the commis-
sioners the services of the gentlemen in my department,
wttnout whom willing aid, it would not have been possible
for me, with so limited an establishment. to have overcome
the difficulties I had to contend with. I found it necessary
to divide my department into three branches • one to under-
take the examination of the numerous setioates as received
in oill:e, numbering nearly 2,000 every tertedibt, aastber
with the financial correspondence; *ls I herestel to Mr.
Malkin, a gentlemen of superior stleinnsents, who hes been
of the greatest possible assistance tome. Another hem* I
placed in charge of Mr. Null, on, book-keeper, whom I
held responsible for the daily record of the account
transactions of the C01:11111146i011 • the advances at one
time exceeded 60,0001., a day, 'distributed over nearly
2,000 accounts. Mr. Nash, by his correctness and exer-
tions, has fully confirmed the high opinion I pre-
vioualy entertained of his ability, which induced me to select
him IN my bock-keeper, when I was ordered to undertake
this service. I believe him to be well worthy of special re-
commendation to the Lords of the Admiralty, to which de-
partment he belongs. The third branch I intrusted to Mr.
Coles, of the paymaster-general's department, who acted as
my chief clerk, and had the registry of the papers, accounts,
and correspoadenoe. To this gentleman lam indebted for
the very peat seal he has always exhibited in the perform-
ance of hts heavy duties: his common attendance at his °Mos
has been ten hours a day, oftentimes more. As some index
to the labour imposed upon him, I may mention that in four
months more than 17,000 letters were received in my de-
' partment, and paned through hie buds, together with the
registry, arrangements, andemminalion ler auditing of nearly
10,000 accounts with their vensinian. Unice I had had a
gentleman in Mr. Coles's whims, @squinted with *Salmi
habits, I should not have been ebb le keep such a mm el at-
counts and papers free fromemilmicm; Menton hops that
favourable mention may be made end= to H.M.'s
general. To the other gentlemen stmy d mash ere.
ait is du km their ever reedy miasma. bops Tay dissetly
to aloes the Imeasid seasons Girths semissa. I meet ma
omit to mattes the readham lad smillease afforded to the
commildsa by Mr. Woke, the seperfedeedset of the Ike-
tiatery-olles in Dublin, end the EmstraMay employed mew
him, who so ably and easrgelledly exerted tbmeselves, mm
especially in :supplying the greet quantity printing and
paper necessary helm the not mold be t into opera-
tion ; end the rapidity with whisk this orders and
directions were gabled and skeekted, L deserving of the
greatest credit sad admire tea. I beg to annex the con-
donation forma sod armless 7i M 411 Inermo mitering lo
the details of sy=st—R. Baostia4, Accountant
to the Relief Css

A NATIOXAL MOWS FAIUL—Kr. Raimme, 17OUTONST to
the county of IfMare, a patinae* well sepaleted with
the meal measmia of Imbed, alines Me Hayal Agri.
mamma MeoW ea the imaiwoman of the mall fanner
sad labourer. Tier the a* be mointe Ms allocation of
350 We Of the Hurrsoh, sow seprated by the Cahn
Railway, and the lesty dthe mown. Here he would
eetabliat • sensed mean tars on a sueptams shale. As
to the labourer, be resimmende :
Let aerelel tient hew trom haiku aim le mewed lend,
daidelids fewrynne—aineet toease it nem,
theme* es tie lam MUM while mdwies•
weed of emmefeelamea was ef awn"
awl lbeflaMmt Ilare.ereeleh animigilAsia Om&
▪ elfwailer Mee frr la it lie lhallwe a theyemay
raw= afro= Pew refillep emordea.
dam era masa at has 118. weak a bed.
ammo the Wane a pump la Roane are am& Wee
aarloymmt, ead, aweela•M wil
you wM lad Mh ils Manama. O
dy sad
hint is amen to lead a away, rea
wane..
&rate OF TIM COIIIIITRY.—The Belfact Vindicator eon
the falewing wanes* of the calms which have revived
" Yr. Timmy Dowsidre," aa well as the code to be ad-
Wheideral AM lopeletter :
a Sows, Drowsdaft* a pet way Maid is " Wes Maly
lairdee. a mi. lilies." Weir, bee made We
=Tis ale OM Imam lale derame for • Walk at
impani aims,dieseammear the pima of per
eau wiles ile eats numb tepees la re pm& le the
*Wet este be WI ohm to hi pill. lis tiembew iw a dasay
UM ea ea* awl wiry me Ma Medleys ill eammd. moon
retrlehmellews ei Wad te Oa pound"
hi, wad whemiem. Me ies rawer helm Year-
lad In any weather lit le abeam hat tarat mania his
onel landlord—rim pinaleal wad as pielmlis of Iment-nrit.
What hie torrid Ida alma= le the per wale I Maim a • low to
!dm swop tint dew esifisfraule eflielmikaila is
wet a
re
lea WM area In &Pa Oak Me Walkman pram lie Tate
aid la lie MEP eat at ae mi. mho lie Wawa Yale te pay the
mare amen Mew 216 kr Om alma blesellie far Os per
alma to deter ma awe geM mobs le IP abeleewle pea to
Mait. dOE aqua ..andes data Willowde—a
reielladma Malty adhere to—tbs snake imam of the
aim alb apes lie who haw no redrew miew Pam Te-
ma. le ma unease es " Unsay." This ma/My insist of
the
homy hinarda Masa e
doubt. We tree maw of the eamosellwe
Deinsike

SCOTLAND.
11.D1M11171011. OCT. 23.
The opinion of counsel regarding the validity of the
recent appointment to the Hebrew chair in the Edin-
burgh University having been given to the effect that
the choioe of Mr. M'Douall, so fix as election is ore-
cerned, is quite legal, and that the presbytery has no
active right of interference, the town council have
signed the commission of that gentleman, and =lees
• positive order against induction be issued by the
Court of Session, the appointment will be consum-
mated without undue delay. The came generally
stands much in the same way as Baron Rothschild's
stands with the representation of London; at the pre-

sent moment he is de facto one of the members for 1
the metropolis, and continues so until the House of
Commons interposes its kids. Mr. M'Douall is in the
same position. His commission carries him to the'
senators, and the imposition or non-imposition of tests
depends with them.
In reference to presents sent to her Majesty, Sir
Denis le hiarchant acknowledges the receipt of a
volume of penmanship from a writing-master in
Glasgow, and the Scotaman has the following notice
of a gift which has been offered and accepted without
the intervention of the under-secretary:
The Pseud OF WAIJS'S WHISZT.—We Ilakndaad that Mr. Me-
&ead, distiller, Bee Neste (better team es " Load ki:".2; W
tseeived the Waal's'. permission.. dated on loud the royal t off
Csmpteltode, to reseal the Prime of Wales with a east "ridgy,
to be kept at .diiiiidisam Palace till hie Royal Higlines is of age.

Her Majesty's own presents, although not so long
deferred in their operation as " Long John's " aqua
is to be, are, nevertheless, tedious in some cases.
Thus, the commissioner of the Mail asserts that the
1001. given by the Queen to the poor of Blair Atholl
took two years in being distributed—it being giveu out
by the Kirk Session in sums of 3/. from time to time, and
was a relief to the heritors rather than to the poor, as, in
many eases, it was substituted for the allowance which
the poor would otherwise have received from the
parochial fund. As
_might be expected, the present
state of pauperism in the vicinity of Olen Tilt is not
favourably spoken of by the commissioner. There is
no legal assessment for the poor, and the general
allowance to the 70 paupers of the pariah is 6d. a
week. Some enjoying the special favour of the Duke
of Atholl are better off, but for the most the charity
of neighbours is the stay of the pauper in Blair
Atholl, verifying the saying of William Thom, the
weaver poet, that but for the poor the poorer would
perish.
Referring to the proposed appropriation of the
surplus funds of the -Highland Destitution Board to
the making of roads, bridges, piers, &c., end the re-
placing of nets, the North of Scotland Gazette perti-
neatly remarks:
Is aliggne te the million and • quarter of money ,pent on the Ca.
worm maw.* ragas and • quarter more has been ,peat in mak.
Ix bench nag %Ogee* in the Highlands—the interest of the
whole hilt In YAM 30,0t01. swing ; and yet it appears that
ths In the Highlands hare neither tended to the benefit
of He Maw nor the improvement of his land, and therefore the emu.
WSW Mit bitter give up the idea of ependiog the mosey of the bend-
eeling 'lair for snaking new roads or dreining ilighlund huge. As
resinegi lb tromegement of the fl-beries, we would remind
tae aninglinis JIM •we of 12,0001. ix now annually voted
by pletketet kw tkk and disbursed under the dine-
tlon of the Herring Plubtry exclusive of 5,7021, or there-
abouts, annually, laid out o is pieta, and fee repairs of beats
of poor flahermen." In idditlicit to thi-, the flaberies get • moiety of
2;00/. annually, placed a the di
of •.truntees for ftheries and
manufactures and when we state the fad, that just in proport on
as our fisheries have been thrown on their own resources hare they
increased In wealth and importance, the conclusion will not hence be
drawn that It **old be either wive or politic to seek foster, by
Mob soungien, this branch of trade. In view &all these considerations,
ma think the practical course for the committee is to tt give luck the
money,. or let the subscribers themselves determine how it should be
applied. We are glad to find that the Aberdeen committee are not
empty handed. They hare got sane .even or eight hundred pounds
in the honk and we counsel them to hold it hat there until the sub-
scribers decide how it is to be disposed of.

From Haddiogtonshire bad accounts arc coming as
to the extensive appearance of disease amongst pota-
toes, stored or pitted for winter use and as seed for
next season. In Perthshire the floods have greatly
injured them, but as this proceeds from a local cause
the destruction there is of a less formidable character
than what is reported from East Lothian. The quan-
tity of foreign potatoes in Leith is unusually large,
direct steam communication with Hamburg facilitat-
ing their importation.
On two points Scotland reckons herself infallible—
theology and currency, and she looks with a contemp-
tuous eye on all attempts to indoctrinate English no-
tions of those subjects into the national mind. On
theology we say nothing, but, in regard to currency,
there will not perhaps be found one intelligent man
on this side of the Tweed who does not hold that the
wide-spread constituency of the Scotch banks,
their twice-a-week exchange' of notes, and
consequent immediate convertibility, and, to crown
all, their caution in business, rendered Peel's
bills, so far as they were concerned, absolutely
mischievous and uncalled for ; and nothing but the
circumstance of all future banks being prevented
from becoming banks of issue, and so conferring a
practical monopoly on existing institutions, would
have prevented an uproar in Scotland from one end
to the other, similar to what took place at the threat-
ened
suppression of the one-pound notes twenty years
ago. The same causes still operate: Peel's bill
amended would please bankers and bank-shareholders,
who are legion in number, but, abolished in foto,
the gates of competition would again be opened.
Nevertheless, as the pressure tightens, and the ques-
tion becomes bill or no bill, the latter will carry it
to a certainty.
' In answer to a communication from some Fife

agriculturists, regarding the halogenation of diseased
cad* the Board of Trade Mimed osr answer:
ltd OM 011mislems stallions bon slat dreiliso is
enir Mom le links sed et WI the Veiled
le emir Ss imp will=ripsilii Ma
laptllorAll ibe mai dirk wombs is bo Milli Mb
Ray RA to yank wale be iiiissei issiesioll lad
men as le sweedans s ismenet mem, sal is ins-
numisie lie eireessinsis *Mlle* le In limi et Cellino kr
tenbir dineillem 11l MS tale is nem is Mine in. doss Se
Imo 'Men diriellim is is lad nn, sly Bede er asm Mind
Mb in, venison et Mir Melillo dens ball leis inatei or
one ImperteL

The herring fish-curers of the north, grudging the
commiasion, and disapproving of the chicanery, of
their amedgemsse in Stettin, the great European
herring nark are taking steps for the establishment
of a home of business in that port, to be carried on by
a whirled Teenager at the joint expense of the home
trade. The abuses of the existiag system arc thus
departled by a speaker at the public meeting held in
Wiek in rdmenee to this matter.
owerr mug% hr Se lit leKre, i*ma earl borer of
harms hme emu* kaa rieri holahrts
MOW TAY el ail geolly rigged es
alma Sorel whinere. et • rereargliarleemei=
dr* tab leireet. vE mime ro SM .NsAbate. are mire
=ihorn Is el della n the ert err d
rseketere srlartls berme
oramir to . fets,=ar• to filet the
orart Wyss se MM la a pa M pier eels Ora el
eireer mama ea der. best omit et eservel
peer ; Omsk ersellet. the wort Se hi ast Mee SOF
WO • iteleat IS. teat It lege eiV affillemeriormied ter
maiglele the kerb aselrle. be pireabbila Sip ht pother
*war rid ea tweet arr. hte Ira theilt vin.
=l,Ste impellre ieller.lhot the INNS e.
Mims et barer. Se rest led ea* Drab
Munk or Sere az• lama arms /hi; ea mit aesrae.Mq
—r to aver the sett if SOL As elell or they
sirelrer) betemeraki versebeg Se sloe el
*se
Sr Weeoon A
are al hewn la •*Mk yrs hoe& sad bey he Orr sea
reametM eerie
Ora tereaspille fat a dart purr Ae arettet, Mr rode
of leualarehey *dee tarry pre* at the expense Of their els-
OM the owe
went an to way that—
no vssitillsirdlon ast lases ves a drawback data. mil ea
pep=edlatelsartre le=magesi'voldit wait ere
M"..-Imatitai alien at the ert meet ef.M.le arsolee three
lexterell. ead Set tweeldre sr terther, Orr
rem* meal be le • mew snow
when al Mel `teame ef Os Sea&
esterdibuMe. ImerleL wassipe reishil awaryaellak
the memo were at greet 4111L—ead a nibs of
er inn nerNe4 verb beide' Nor* is Ws ems

It wee agreed to apes the "reposed eeenting-heene,
V that the on-operation et two-thirde of the
Valle were resolved, sal of thistles. is little doubt
A carious inseams at the Noel= way in which
vital statistics w sallesled by esaiae eiaks in Scot-
land has been recently brought bailee the civil and
ecclesiastical courts. A sesonon-slink he a pariah in
Perthshire is charged with having wale no smirks in
his register eines 1843. He is taboo is tub =ski
@canon, presbytery, and synod; but shollselng
by technicalities, either right or wrest, be curia his
case to the supreme ecclemastiod judicatory, the, gews-
ral assembly ; and parallel with his amiss of spiritual
itigielittne also ran the gauntlet of the civil courts,
of the substitute sheriff, Wog carried to
the ableff incipal, and it in its turn carried to the
Lord Ordinary of the Court of Semis& Had the
Lord Advocate's registration bill beta carried, and
had this party been in the wrong, a point which we
of course assume only for illustration, the fiat of the
registrar-general would have settled the business as
rapidly as the postmaster-general can give an erring
country postmaster his quietus.

ALLY:tux° I mornTtox.—The talibridag lempting invits.
Boa to Y' ado add be bdisi," it bow Weed-by in Edin-
bomb caatatory lIIMPSIP net 0111 sod idling with which
the sioorlduant is deneuisi
T.
b unparalleled.
THB
"reed we ore'
Nem to chid' add& di or oareelyne
it the Now UM; es it d born to die
Wass ellallill id awn I *
Te
..11,40.0e1i=11, aletsbetintig
widielati.wo he lot
to poem edidedir to any elm den of
to seendry. The weß dims dee tide eidelety, der
Odd ell do Ike di ineneedeloi de dads irk mg Ihe peek
dl ends elm Oilled et Id lod4 died dor MILIJOINII, =LO.
do% di desieuregile ohm
.Itaw um* Arils pole* inalle•
while the mid bionbers d de udreee•
ti:
is ihs d.
demoreNsinArrireier 111-'l.. liZert oweeld/a ills.
Melo
egbat mire COW whilitirellealloasumtroo seeirdledi to the
:Alai; yea Via dem. spedvd lo lima In Added yet
huierp. • wag puet t_ Bre pew* brim dm.
add reuelds to the did et Ur didespetCheda. The eseepony
pees sagadat lassam. AM all dhow Mad requides. r... ex-
trema, amodiralL