The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1846.

'RESTON.—INQUEST.
lust an inquest was held on the eight
heir lives in the explosion of fire-damp
it the Coppull colliery. Particulars of the
aced in this paper.-- William Booth said—
le employ of Mr. John Hargreaves, and
c called the " Coppull Pit." Every morn-
rkmen go into the pit, a fireman goes down
imp, to see if all is safe. About an hour
down, the workmen go down to work, it
onsidered that an hour is sufficient to enede
o through the pit. On Tuesday morning
ist four o'clock, Thomas Grime, the fire-
the pit with a Davy lamp, to examine and
safe. I was the first person to enter
he fireman. I work between 200 and
,e the place where the fireman was
own. I commenced undressing me to
Ark, and during that time several of
:people passed me to go down to their
c where Thomas Grime, the fireman, was.
tot my clothes off before I heard a loud re
ver part of the pit. James Turner, another
a Davy lamp, and we went together lower
o search for the workpeople. We found
the fireman; he was insensible. We got
ad not been able to get lower down before
ion took place.—By the jury : I have not
ached to any one. I do not think the fireman
perienced man, as he was not brought up in a
e Coroner : The fireman has acted six months.
res a man with a full knowledge of a colliery
ierienee. Ho has been an engine tenter at
Ir. Gaskell: I have never complained of the
one. Ido not think a man not brought up a
fireman.
said—l am the manager of the Coppull-pit.
1. Grime is a competent person to fill the
eman. He has been employed for the last
It is my opinion that this acecident would
iened but for the workpeople themselves
rules of the pit. It is the duty of the fireman
:andle in a workman's place until after he has
it it is safe, and the placing of a candle by the
nal that the pit is safe, and the workmen may
n Thomas Halliwell's place of work I found
acket, and working materials. There had not
placed there by the fireman, consequently
',ell must have gone into his place of work
candle before it had been passed as safe, which
n explosion of fire-damp if the pit was foul.—
The fireman was going to Halliwell's place.
been with a candle before the fireman in-
are.—A juror : Halliwell seems to have been.
not Grime.—BT Mr. Haskell The three females
aployed below in the mine. Halliwell himself
daughter as drawer. I have frequently told
not bring her again, as Mr. Hargreaves would
Halliwell said I did not know it was a female
here all dressed in men's clothes). I told him
her examined. when he replied, " If any body
drawer,' I'll put the' pick' (an axe) through
ury, after consulting for a few minutes, re-
Mowing verdict—" Accidental death, caused by

T HAM CHARITIES are likely to form a subject for
the Court of Chancery. Up to the present
have been appropriated under the auspices of
it, from the erection of two new churches, it
ble that a portion T,hould be distributed by the
of each, viz., St. John's Church, Stratford, and
Plaistow. Several meetings have been held in
ward with a view to facilitute this arrangement ;
en was last week presented, by two or more of
in.to, to the Court of Chancery relative to the
mess an immediate and satisfactory arrangement
it is probable that a protracted Chancery suit

HABLE FALLS OP THE CLIFF have taken place at
within the last few days, and fresh groynes arc to
'n between the Wi,b awl Seaside to prevent the
;rouhment of the sea.

THE "DAILY NEWS." AND THE COMBiarma,
JOURNALS.
THE hearty and general assurances of support
which we have received, and continue to receive,
make individual acknowledgment impossible. We
must, therefore, entreat our subscribers to hear with a
little personal talk —even though our self-reference
may have the appearance of self-complacency. Let
them regard the present article as a " Notice to Cur-1
respondents" gone astray, —and masquerading it in
larger type than altogether becomes the modesty of
so personal a paragraph.
Good wishes with the worldly wise pass, we know,
for mere words ; but in an experiment like that to
which we are committed, they are a great deal more.
Good wishes are the very element out of which our
success is to be made ; and, for ourselves, we have
faith and find encouragement in them. But we have
that to show which passes words—which even the
worldly wise must accept as of value. When
strangers come forward with proposals to share our
risk—when subscriptions are offered to carry on the
paper—when persons, with whom we had no previous
acquaintance, desire to print and distribute pro-
spectuses at their own cost—when merchants forward
information received from their private corre-
spondents—when men of position and influence at
foreign ports offer all the services in their power,
to the extent, even, of acting as agents without
fee or reward—when bank-notes, and orders on
bankers, are remitted to us without waiting for our
previous acceptance—there is no questioning or over-
estimating such tokens of public feeling and determi-
nation. The Times itself cannot mistake these thingsfor
signs of bankruptcy or death.—Orders on bankers,
bank-notes, and all such substantialities have, of
course, been returned, with grateful thanks. We did
not venture on our bold experiment without having
calculated the cast; and our fends are sufficient as
well for our original purpose as now to defeat the
short-sighted policy of the Newspaper Combination.
Pecuniary aid we do not need,—but all other forms of
public support are welcome : welcome, were it only
as proot that our cause is recognised as good—has
for it the public sympathy and adoption,—and that
the question of a cheap newspaper literature is settled
now and for ever.
This manifestation of the public will is, in itself,
sufficient to dispose of all sophistries and mystifica-
tions. The calculations of the great Arithmetician
and the hopes of the great Combined alike vanish in
its presence. That the Combination cannot succeed,
some 9f its members—perhaps all—begin already
trembhngly to suspect. But the lesson which they
are learning from the present was already written
for their instruction in the past ; and might
have saved them from the pain of a personal experi-
ment, if selfishness could read with a steady eve and
interpret with a simple and honest heart. They are
but playing an old game over again—and so are we.
The same principles, as we have shown, have
triumphed heretofore in France and in America:—aye,
and so they have in England. It is now, if we mistake
not, some fifteen years since the Athetueum took the first
bold step in the direction of cheap periodical literature.
That paper preceded the Penny Magazine, the Satur-
day Magazine, Chambers' journal, and, of course, all the
cheap works —the numbers numberless—that followed
in their train. The price of the literary journals was
at that time Ba. and Is. :—the Athenwum came down at
once to fourpence. We well remember the confidence!
with which failure was predicted. There was no
such thing, it was said, as a literary public to whom
the difference in price was a consideration ; and wagers
were Laid that " The Fourpenny," as it was con-
temptuously called, could not hold out for three
months. Well, the three months passed away-- and
the Athenaeum lived on. It lives still, to discredit
the prophets; and its lusty and vigorous manhood
speaks trumpet-tongued of the abundant nourish-
ment to be found in low prices. The only
changes that have since been made in it have
all been in the same direction, of increased
cheapness. From time to time, it has en-
largcd its size—from 16 to now 24 pages--still con-
tinuing satisfied with the despised fourpence. Ulti-
mately, it has dragged down the most obstinate and
reluctant of its opponents, with a shattered constitu-
tion, to seek—if not too late—for healing on the name
ground whereon itself had gathered nourishment sad
strength.
If it be strange that this " foregone conclusion"
should not have had its influence, as a teacher, with '
the Combined. it is yet more so that they cannot read
the signs and portents of the coming hour. The
principle which the Daily News has asserted is fast ;
spreading before their eyes. Already, there are half-
a-dozen
cheap newspapers started in the provinces.
At the moment, we remember the Blackburn Stan- '
dard, published at threepence ; the Norfolk News, at
threepence: the Bolton Free Press, at threepence:
the Hampshire Guardian, at threepence:—and our
paper last week contained an aunauncement of the
Lirerpool Weekly News, at threepence. I tote me-
tropolis, too, the wise infection has begun read.
The Atlas and the Court Journal have each, this week,
reduced their price to sixpence, and the Ernirerse
is now published at fortrpcnce. Do the Combined
really imagine that it is in the power of Combination
to defeat a movement like this ? Do they believe
that a London morning newspaper has a charmed
life, which enables it to stand unmoved and un-
harmed in the direct tidal way of an onward rush of
circumstances like these? Will all old experiences
reverse their oracles for the " thunder " of the 7lmes?
Cannot the Combined see--because they have
been enabled to maintain a monopoly for half a cen-
tury—that the public are now awake, and that
therefore the days of monopoly—almost its hours
—are numbered? Surely the Times, which has
been itself successfully engaged in the destruction of
monopolies so much more powerful, might read the
certain fate of all monopoly in its own columns,—if
it dare look into them on such a question, for very
shame! The lesson, however, cannot befact"—b escaut ped.
The Daily News is not merely " a great a
fait accompli ; the " glass" which has, now, to show
to their reluctant eyes the " many more" that are
following and to follow.
As we have been compelled to speak of ourselves,
we may be allowed to make a clear breast of it. It
is desirable, now, that every part of the principle on
which we rest our claims to public favour— ;
respecting which, on sonic points, there appears to be
a want of knowledge—should be put clearly before
our readers. Many} persons, for example, have recom-
mended us to publish double sheets more frequently
than we do. Our answer is briefly, that the difficulty,
at this period of the year, is to find news to fill a sinyk
sheet. To insert all reports, inquests, accidents, para-
graphs, and so forth, as hey reach us—and as they
arc inserted in the morning papers generally—
would be a far easier and simpler task than
that which we prescribe to ourselves. We could
thus, indeed, and very easily, cover an acre of
paper if it were desired,—and spare ourselves much
labour. But the newspapers have long needed revi-
sion in more important respects than price and the
economy which we offer has not for its sole expres-
sion the pecuniary one. Every paragraph that ap-
pears in the Daily News has been previously tested,
compared, and edited—stripped of its non-efficients—
with labour and cost. We will put the matter fami-
liarly: Let the reader of a column, or two columns,
has
of
intelligence in any other morning paper, when he
gone over it carefully, tell us what he has extracted.
When he has repeated all that he has gathered and
brought away—that, we reply, in the same succinct
and substantial form and in clear unincumbered
Istatement, is what we desire that he should find in
our columns without the labour of expressing—ex-
pressed, in fact, to his hands—for threepence. The
additional twopence he pars for the vetbiage which
he has rejected, as yielding nothing—the mere
worthless residuum which he throws away.
of What-
ever be the price of the Daily News—or any
other cheap paper which furnishes him with all the
intelligence to be had—just so much is the real value
to him of the Times, Chronicle, or Herald; and all
above that, their purchaser pays for what it were gain
.
to him, every way, to be without. For the extra price
is not the whole of his loss. Not only does he pay
twopence a-day for this mere husk,—but time besides.
He pays for the privilege of wasting what is man's
most precious capital, be his calling what it may.
lie pays threepence for the nut--twopence more
for the shell—and has, besides, to crack it. If the
Daily News saved him only that labour and loss
of time, it would be a cheaper paper than its
rivals—even at their higher price. Nay, he would be
a gainer if he paid the double price for the smaller,
because sifted and carefully edited, paper. The Daily
News saves him time and trouble--carges him of
for doing so; and affects no Quixotic spirit of
self-sacrifice in all this: but shows that there is

pin for all parties—for the reader and the purchaser
most.

Since we have entered upon these confidential com-
munications, we will reserve some other explana-
tions and remarks that occur to us in further illus-
tration of the subject, for one more personal talk with
our readers :—and then, they may go forward with
us in the cause of economical journalism, with a good
understanding and a full determination to make it
triumph.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Nov. 26.
Ilene:OUß IMPROTEMENT.—Captain Bedford is at present
surveying the port and harbour of Galway, which afforded
an opportunity to the Harbour Commissioners of communi-
cating through him with the Admiralty as to certain improve-
ments which would render that port one of the first in the
empire. How a small and well-applied outlay stimulates
commerce and develops our; resources is proved very strongly
in the case of Galway. When the commissioners procured
their bill they were authorised to borrow 53,000/. on the
security of the tolls. At that time the tolls brought in 3001.
per annum. On such small receipts they obtained a loan of
20,0001. for the construction of docks. The improvement
rapidly increased the value of the tolls. From 3001. they
increased to 7001.—thence to L2001,-1,7501., and now they
exceed 2,150/. per annum, having in a few years increased
700 per cent. The commissioners now seek the re-
mainder
of the sum they were empowered to raise, and car- i
thinly they come before the government with strong claims
ifs rapidly increasing revenue be an adequate security. Gal-
way, too, contemplates the preference of its port as an Ameri-
can Packet Station, which would shorten the sea-going dis-
tance by nearly 400 miles, and bring England two days
nearer to her dependencies and connexions in the western
world. Valentia, however, is a very formidable rival.
POOR EMPLOYMENT Act.—Sir Richard Levinge, vice-
lieutenant for the county of Westmeath, applied for informa-
tion to the Government on the following questions:
I. If drainage is asked for only by some persona in an electoral
division, will those persona be subject to a portion of the tax of
the public works of the whole barony, or only of those belonging
to their own electoral division?-2. Will there be any additional ex-
pense Upon persons applying for drainage presentments beyond the
amount of the preamenuent—if so, of what nature, and to what
amount ?-3. Can a landlord charge an additional rent upon a tenant
holding a lease, if he guarantees the payment of the tax !--4. Whe-
ther we are to consider drainage presentments made at road sessions
W be under the 9th and 10th of Viet., chap. lot, or under any or
which of the drainage acts t-5. Whether there is any particular form
of guarantee to be given by these who ask for drainage presentments,
and where to be obtained.
The following is the reply :
Dublin Castle, Nov. 21, 1846.
Sir,—l am commanded by the Lord Lieutenant to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of toe 14th inst., submitting certain queries
with respect to the Poor Employment Act, lac., and in reply I am
directed to acquaint you-1. That if the proceedings at any sessions
are conducted in the manner pointed out in the Chief secretary's
letter of the 4th of October, each electoral dist, let will only be liable
for its proportion of the atom agreed to be assessed on the whole
barony; and that if only a part of that amount is appropriated
to drainage in such electoral district, it will be ehargeut.le for
other works merely with the residue of the angement thereon,
and not with any portion of the assessment noon the remainder of the
barony. 2. In drainage or other works, no greater amount eau
be charged upon the lands than ban been actually presented,
out of which the expenses of overseeing will, as in ordinary works, be
defrayed. 3.11 is proposed that the conuniseionere shall have the same
powers of declaring what increared rent stall be paid by a tenant
holding by lease, as is given under the general drainage act, 5 and 6
Viet., chap. 89. 4. The drainage presentments which are passed at
sessions under Mr. Laboucheres letter, cannot be considered as made
in vecordance with the 9th and loth Victoria, c. 107, which applies to
strictly public works; neither can they be regarded as applicatiorue
under the ordinary drainage acts. 5. rearms of proceeding, and also
of the necessary guarantee, are in the porseseion of the cittc en. of the
Ward of Works, and a copy of the former is herewith dent for your
informatkin.-1 have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient
servant, T. N. aILUINOTUX.
THE MAGISTRACY AND MEDICAL PROFESSION.—The
memorial to the Lord Lieutenant, adopted at a meeting of
the physicians and surgeons of Limerick, was on Tuesday
laid before the Executive. I give a passage or two :
Your memorialists respeethily submit to your Excellency that,
however wide a discretion may be given to a Lord Chancellor as to
the selection of magistrate,—however limited it may be is each indi-
vidual CA.e taken on its own merit, he cannot emstitutionaey pro.
scribe whole classes of her Majesty's- ,objects, nor deprive them of
privileges which the law of the land hes not denied them. Such an
arbitrary exercise of power, if once woictioned, would obviously be
pushed to an extent which would not only indict great injustice on
inuividuals, but tend to weaken the eontidence of the people in the
administration of justice. Independent of the -se cinsiderations,
we
submit to your Excellency that it is difficult to understand
upon wiled principle physicians and surgeons are marked for
general proscription. Your memorialists presume it wa not the
Lord Chancellor's intention to insult them Ina class that he did rot
mean to insineate--they were lees upright or Independent, less intel-
ligent, or leas humane than the practising merchant, practising hur-
risme, or practi.ing attorney. Your memorialists believe that in all
these points your excellency and the public will admit that they are at
le 4 us eligible: and, in their intimate knowledge of the relation of
the social condition, the virtues and vices of their humbler country-
men, they are indubitably more so. Your nienuniaiints cannot but
consider this new rule of the Lord Chancellor's, no regarding practis-
ing medical nien, in every way intompreleneble, and whether as re-
gards the medical profession or the public, equally calls for expla-
nation, and such explanation seems the more imperative, as it was not
acted upon by former Lord Chancellors in England or Ireland.
SUPPLY OF FOOD.—A correspondent of the Cork Exa-
miner states the following: "Since the date of my last
communication there have been some arrivals of flour and
meal. Last week the Nancy, of Baltimore. with forty-two
tons of flour and meal, and the Jame. and Ellen of the same
port, with thirty.cight tons of meal, arrived at our pier. Mr.
Charles Sugrue, of Cork, sent down the smack St. Patrick
with thirty-cive tons of barley meal for his own tenantry. A
great reduction has taken place in the price of ali sorts of
provisions. Indian meal is now selling at Is. 1011. per
stone, and when some other vessels that are expected every
day come in prices will be much lower. A brigantine from
St. John's put into the harbour on Saturday, for orders. She
states that on the passage she saw a number of wrecks. Tit:
Kerry Examiner complains that there is out a single pound of
Indian meal or corn in Tralee. The same journal complains
that there are fully 1,000 men without employment in that
neighbourhood, in consequence of the limitation of the pre-
sentments by the Board of Works to 4,0001., whereas the
presentment sessions had allowed presentments to the
amount of 16,0001. Further it is stated that if new works
be not immediately sanctioned, those in operation will be
exhausted in three weeks within this district, and 3,000 men
will be thrown out of employment. Within the
last week 11,639 barrels of oats were exported from
this city to London and Glasgow, and in the
, same time 2101. duty waid on the importation
of Indian corn. 47,000 firkinass ofp butter were shipped from
this port since let May. Only 67 loads of potatoes were
brought to market last week at Limerick, less by 19 than
the week hef ire. Price, 10d. to Is. Id. per stone. Of 700
labourers employed in the city of Limerick by the relief com-
mittee, many of them earn 9s a-week each, at task work,
which system is now universally adopted, in preference to
daily wages. The ship Samuel, from Trieste, with Indian
corn to J. N. Russell, of Limerick, is supposed to be lost,
baying Railed four months ago. Indian meal sells at the rate
of 2s. 4d. per stone, or 181. a ton. Some of the worst
descriptions of potatoes, called " lumper," have, says the
Telegraph, been hawked about at Isd. a stone.
DEATH IROR Sraievarros.—The Cork Examiner of last
night states, that art inquest was to have been held on Mon-
day last at Skihbereen on the bodies of three men, said to
have died from the effects of starvation. On tho examina-
tion of the bodies, after being exhumed, there was found no
trace of food in the stomach or intestines. The greatest sen-
sation pervades the locality, it being currently rumoured and
believed that certain officials connected with the Board of
Works are averse to, or wish to procrastinate, an investiga-
tion into the cause of this dreadful mortality.

SCOTLAND.
SUNDAY IN EDINBUROH.—in Edinburgh, there are 986
licensed public houses, of which 431 are open ou Sundays.
One publican declares that on a recent Sunday Le drew 20/.
after the gas was lighted ; but taking him as a Tilton among
minnows, and assuming 51. as the average Sunday income,
we hare 21701. spent on drink every Sunday, or 112,8101.
per annum. Most of this expenditure takes place round
about the very house where John Knox lived and died.
Paris is remarkable fur having somewhere about an equal
number of sch.aols fur teaching mathematics to of schools for
teaching dancing, and henceforth Edinburgh will, or ought
to be conspicuous for having open on the first day of the
week, a nearly equal number of spirit shops and Sabbath
schools. The juvenile part of the population taught theo-
logy, and the adult drunkenness—where is all this to end ?
A correspondent says, " Bailie Gray, who supplies the above
statistics, threw himself into the breach, is order to curtail
the number of licenses. Be lost his seat in the town council
in consequence of that, and for having voted against ,Ir.
Macaulay ; so that it would appear vintners have influence
not only with their victims, hut with ten-pound electors.
Nevertheless the time is coming when Britain, like America,
will cease to be drunken,"
COMMISSIONS BT THE LORD LIEUTENANT, DUMBARTON.
Sir A. I. Campbell, Bart., and W. C. Bontine, Esq., to be
Deputy Lieuts.

the New Poor-taw, Friel& of the short-time bill and of early closing,
Opponenta„of all usonopodes : John Walter, Esq., is the man to re-
present youth Yerftement!—therefore reserve your votes, as means
enticing taken to induce him to consent to be put in nomm..tion.
The appearance of this placard led many people to doubt
whether Lord Lincoln was ooming forward, and it wan sup-
posed that the Conservatives had gone to Mr. Walter as the
' next best" man. A few hours dispelled this doubt, how-
ever, for in the course of the forenoon, the Conservative
agents wore seen
.carrying a printed requisition to Lord
Lincoln about for signature. It is now a fact pretty well
known that a deputation consisting of Mr. Alderman
Potter, Mr. Jeremiah Garnet, editor of the Manchester
Castro:inn (both gentlemen being Whigs who have deserted
the Liberal camp from pique at Mr. Bnght's nomination by
that party) ands Conservative gentleman left Manchester
a few days since to wait upon Lord Lincoln, and have writ-
ten to say, that if a numerously-signed requisition is for-
warded to him, his lordship will consent to be a candidate.
There can scarcely be a doubt that a very numerously-
signed requisition will be got up, for it will have the whole
strength of the Conservatives, and the names of some half-
dozen or half-a-score Whigs attached ; and then it is almost
equally as certain that Lord Lincoln will stand. Mr. Walter,
for a place like Manchester, would stand no chance ; it is
probably only a ruse of some injudicious friends of the short
time movement; if Lord Lincoln comes, it will be a
better fight, but with little prospect of success for his lord-
ship, for there never was a time, perhaps, when the Liberal
party were so strong on the register—the Conservatives
having disbanded their registration staff in despair two years
since, and left the other party in undisputed possession of the
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blishmeat, and minister, of dissenting churches. Before the
immediate Medina% was entered upon, the Rev. Dr. Massie
read a circular from the London Missionary Society detail-
ing the circumstances under which the French government
have taken possession of Tahiti. The Mayor opened the
business by expressing his own sympathy with the objects is
view, and called upon the Rev. Dr. Rally, Indepeafiest
minister, who addressed the meeting at some length, sad
was followed by other speakers. Ultimately, it was agreed
to address Lord Palmerston.—The memorial, which is of
great length, states that the memorialists have long observed
with pleasure the progress of Christianity and eistlisation in
the islands of the Pacific, and especially in the Georgian and
Society groups, which had always maintained frieudly rela-
tions with this country, and had been raised by the efforts of
British missionaries to their present condition of moral
and religious advancement, yet who have been brought by
French aggression to a state in which it was y robable that,
without the friendly interposition of her Majesty's goveru-
went, those labours were likely to be lost. That the memo-
rialists have no wish to dissurb the friendly relations between
this country and France; that they- believe interpotitious
of a friendly character have often prevented war between
nations; that they have reason to believe the Society Islands,
KR distinguished from the Georgian, have never been under
the sovereignty of Queen Pomace, and that therefore if the
assumed protectorate of the French over that sovereign were
to be acknowledged, the Society Islands ought to retain their
independence, and if that could be guaranteed they would
afford a safe and hospitable reception ior the persecuted
Queen and people of Tahiti; and that it is believed if the
people of Tahiti were assured of such a refuge, they might
be induced, with the assistance of the London Missionary
Society, to avail themselves of it. The document concludes :
" Your memorialists therefore most earnestly implore your
lordship and her Majesty's government to adopt such mea-
sures on the one hand as may secure elan and distinct recog-
nition of the independence of the Society Islands ; and on
the other, may obtain an assurance from the French govern-
ment that the n rives of Tahiti, in peacefully leaving their
island, shall suffer no molestation from the forces of France.
Should this concession be obtained your memorialists will
have the great pleasure of attributing to her Majesty's go-
vernment the honour of preserving a friendly, civilised, and
Christian people from the horrors of extermination by fa-
mine, or of destruction in desperate a- d useless attempts to
obtain the liberty of their country, ur to avenge their wrongs
upon their oppressors."
YORKSHIRE.
TERMINATION OP THE WOULCONIBERS' STRIKE AT
K mon ter.—Within the last few days arrangements have
been made between the worsted manufacturers at Keighley
and their woolcombers for terminating the strike which has
existed for some time fur an advance of wages. Through the
good offices of Frederick Greenwood, Esq., a magistrate re-
siding in the neighbourhood, it has been agreed that the
cumbers who can obtain work shall take it at the old prices,
on the understanding that should improvemeut in toe trade
of the district take place before the beginning of the next
year, sufficient to warrant the increased prices asked, they
shall be given from the commencement of January.
WARWICKSHIRE.
THE LONDON AND NORLII WESTERN RAILWAY AND
THE CAEKIi.RS.—A meeting of the merchants, traders, and i
others was held at Birmingham, yesterday, to take into con-
sideration the notice given by the London and North '
Western Railway to the carriers on the line to the effect that
they would be excluded from carrying goods on the Southern
section of their line after the let of January ; to endeavour
to ascertain how far the interests of the public would be
affected by the change, and for adopting such measures as
might be deemed advisable. The circular convening the
meeting was signed be the house of Scholedield and Son, and
by all the principal merchants and manufacturers. Jame
Bourne, Esq., occupied the chair, who having briefly stated
the objects of the meeting, T. S. James, Esq., moved
the the adoption of a memorial to the railway
commissioners, fully setting furth the question at
issue between the railway company and the public, and the
injurious te Idency of a proceeding by which the entire traffic
of this important district would become a monopoly in the
hands of a monster company . it went on to allege that the
general carriers were the best acquainted with the wants and
wishes of their customers, to whose interests they were com-
pelled to attend, consequent on the competition that existed
amongst them. A number of resolutions were paned. The
first, setting forth the probable injury to the trailing com-
munity by the adoption of the proposed plan, was moved by
Ciament Scholefield, Esq., and seconded by G. F. alatchett,
Esq. ; and in the course of the discussion which followed,
it was asked how it was that the carriers could be
driven off the line, seeing that they possessed the power
of carrying on it on certain condolems : to this it was
rejoined that such right was all but valueless, inasmuch
as the company were allowed to charge a certain rate of toll
to the carriers, who had, in addition, all the trouble and
expense of collecting, loading, delivery, ete. but in order to
run the carriers off the line, it was believed that the railway
company intended, for a time, to carry goods from a trades-
man's door in Birmingham to the warehouse of the con-
signee in London, tit the same rate as they have hitherto
charged the carriers. It was further stated, however, that
there was reason to believe the rates would speedily be in-
creased when all competitors were out of the field, and the
public would then have to pay even a more excessive charge
than at present. Mr. Lloyd cited a case in proof—that
of the Birmingham and Gloucester Company, who at
one time took the carrying department exclusively
into their own hands, the result of which was
great public inconvenience and loss; and as a proof of
the domineering spirit of these companies, he observed that
having himself refused to sign an agreement to send the
whole of his corn and merchandise by the Gloucester Rail-
way, if he required a truck from the company, he was told
to go down the line and seek it ; such, in fact, were the
annoyances to which he was subjected, that, ultimately, he
was compelled to scud goods in the name of his clerk. Mr.
Lloyd entered into some arguments, to show the necessity of
a competing line of railway, and declared, in conclusion, that
he fully coincided with the memorial which had been
adopted. Other gentlemen spoke to alike e ffeet, and resolu-
tions were next passed for the formation of a committee, in
order that the requisite steps may be taken to early out the
object of the meeting.
NOTIMCGELAMBIIIRE.
SEWAGE MANURE COMPANY IN NOTTING KAM. —ThC
mayor of Nottingham presided at a meeting on Thursday
last, the object of which was the formation of a company for
the purpose of (*lining the manure of the town, and apply •
ingit to agricultural purposes.
DISCOVERY OF A DEAD CHILD IN A RAILWAY PACIIAOE.
—About a fortnight ago a wicker basket was booked at the
Nottingham railway station, and was sent oft' by train to
London. The person bringing the basket particularly re-
quested that it might not be placed outside the carriage, nor
crushed, and if possible that it might be put upon a Rat
along with the passengers. The parcels office being thronged,
particular notice was not taken of the person bringing the
package, but who is recollected to have been a female, rather
low in stature, and of dark complexion. On Thursday the
basket, having been refused, was brought back to the sta-
tion, and was, according to usual custom when an owner
c innot be found, opened. To the amazement of the
porter (whose name is Willoughby), he discovered
it to contain a dead infant, decently attired. Under
the infant was a quantity of clothes, and a letter ad-
dressed to a gentleman in Suffolk,
village within six miles of Nottingham. It enjoined the
from a young female in a
father of the infant to take care of it, and warned him against
seducing any one, as he had done the writer. The basket
and letter a ere handed over to the police, and in the even-
ing a coroner's jury assembled, which was, however, ad-
journed till this evening, to allow time for a post ntortem ex-
amination, and to obtain evidence. The police have been
despatched to apprehend the parties supposed to be implicated
in this affair.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE AGKICI:LTURAL ASSOCIATION.—
GLOUCESTER, Fatoicts—The fourteenth annual meeting of
this association was held yesterday. The exhibition of live
stock was inferior, as compared with that of former years.
In the evening, the annual dinner tool place, under the
presidency of Robert Blagdon lisle, Esq., M.P., one of the
members for the West Division of Gloucestershire, at the
King's Head Hotel. The speeches were unusually dull
and uninteresting, and did not present a feature worthy of
notice. Draining, the present state of the agricultural
labourer, and leases, were the only topics tsuched upon.
Some parties inclined to the belief that Mr. Grantley Ber-
keley would attend. Not one member, however, of the
house of Berkeley was present and Earl Duds,
the principal prop of the association, was, through
indisposition, absent. The health of the latter
gentleman was, however, received heartily. At the close
of the meeting, Mr. Clifford, of Frampton, near Gloucester,
alluded to the subject of leases. Some of his opinions were
combatted, and there appeared an evident desire on the part
of several tenant farmers to speak in opposition to his views.
The Chairman, however, together with the leading members
present, who thought, we suppose, disciedon the better
part of valour, vacated the chair, while a young farmer at
the lower end of the table was attemptiva to address the
cha;r. The party Rparated at 8 e'clock.

lEbe Drama.
ST. JAMES'S.—Perlet made his first appearance last
night; but (in consequence, no doubt, of his late severe ill-
ness) only in a single piece, in one act, called " L'Homme
de Soixante Ana; ou, La Petite Entetie." It is a very
pleasing little drama, and afforded M. Perlet the opportu-
nity of showing his fine qualities as a comedian—his great
simplicity of manner, quiet humour, delicacy, and feeling.
He performed the art of Monsieur St. Julien, an infirm
old gentleman, testy and abrupt, but warm-hearted and
benevolent • one of those characters which the peculiar
talents of I. arren have rendered frequent on our stage, and
in which Perlet constantly reminded us of our English
comedian, though where they differed the Frenchman had
in some degree the advantage. He was more suemasful
in the art of concealing his art ; and his acting consequently
appeared more impulsive and natural. This old gentleman is
to marry a young girl, the daughter of a friend; but Angelina,
of eaurse has a younger lover, Ertgke, the old man's nephew.
.4ayeliita is a hot-headed little damsel—a petite entete'e ; and
the lovers have a quarrel on account of the o'd gentlemen's
eddies-es ; the youth being jealous and the lady resentful!
Meanwhile the treaty of marriage goes on, and St. Julien
has an interview with the young lady, in which he prose
cutes his suit; an excellent scene of quiet comedy, in which
the old gentleman is very candid on the subject of
his years and infirmities, and describes, with much
grave humour, the " worshipful rociety," his wile
will enjoy at his chateau in the country. The
denouement is a sort of comic version of the " Bride of
Lammermoor." The parties ore assembled to sign the mar-
riage contract ; the notary with parchments ; Anyelina, pale
and trembling, but resigned to her .elf sacrifice ; her lovcr-
burning with grief and anger at her infidelity. The bride.
groom signs the deed, and the ftanci,e, with a violent
effort over her feelings, fellows his example. The
lover sees that all is over, and the girl sinks
fainting into her chair. The old man's eves are
suddenly opened; in a tumult of agitation he rushes after
his nephew, brings him back, and bestows upon him the
object of his love. This scene, which was well acted in
every part, was extremely affecting; Perlet's performance
in it was an exquisite mixture of quaint humour with simple
pathos. The curtain fell amid shouts of applause, which
continued till Perlet appeared to make his bow of acknow-
ledgment. The high spirited young Icily was exceedingly
well represented by Mademoiselle Vallee; and Berou
was an interesting annual. Resides this piece, three
others were performed, in all of which Mademoiselle
Brohan appeared, and in each of them was a soubrette. The
first was L.sette in " Le Roman dune dente," already per-
formed several times ; the next was another Lisette, abso-
lutely identical with the first, in a lively one-act piece called
" Le Mari and L'Amant ; " and the last was one of hloliere's
admirable animates; Marinette in "1,. Depit Amoureux ;"
which was reduced to a very entertaining two-act piece, con-
tainiug the quarrel of the two pairs of lovers, and their
racommodeneent. Nothing could he richer than the humour
with which Cartigity and Mdlle. Brohan, as the valet and
waiting-maid, imitated the quarrel and rt. conciliation of their
master and mistress. The house was crowded, and the boxes
full of fashionable company.

RIOT IN COVENT-CARDEN I'ItEATRE.—Last OWIIIIII4
Covent-garden Theatre was the scene of a riot which lasted
during nearly the whole of the first part of the concert, and
which at one time threatened the most serious consequences.
No sooner were the doors emit than the entire space of that
immense area was speedily crowded from the baisemt ut to
the ceiling, stage and all. /slotwithstanding this money was
still taken at the doors, andthe stream kept poring in until
the people were li..erally packed together in one solid mass.
The first overture, " was played by the band, and
the usual movement was attempted towards what is most im-
properly termed the " Promenade," To this movement a
formidable obstruction opposed itself at the proscenium on
either side rat' the orchestra in the shape of a barrier, which,
on being discovered, excited the indignation of the audience,
at least that portion which had the misfortune to be located
in the Promenade." From this moment a scene 5f uproar
commenced which almost baf.es description. The music
was stopped by groans and yells, and it was with much
difficulty that even Miss Birch obtained a hearing. The-e
were loud and repeated cries of " Remove the barriers.'
The new Vella., The Garland, and the solo perfor.aances of
Herr Kmuig, were dumb show, and the appearance of a body
of police only added fuel to the flame. Another piece of
music was stopped, and M. Jullien esuiyeal to tnlas CS,. the
I discontented; but the groans and hi sex for seine time pre-
vented his being heard ; ultimately be declared that those
who were dissati.fied should have tickets given for the fol-
lowing evening. (Cries of " Why take our money when the
place was over full ?") lie assured them that a placard was
put out, announcine that the theatre was full. (Cries of
" False, false.") The music ag An proceeded; but the riot
now assumed so serious an aspect that a reinforcement of
police was deemed necessary, and in a few minutes a large
Lady of the I' division, under the orders of Mr. Superintendent
Pearse, made their appearance and took up their station at
the barriers amidst yells of disapprobation. The post, how-
ever, was not yielded until the police truncheons were exer-
cised pretty freely. The concert proceeded amidst cries of
" shame,"—" Jullien, give us • the police quadrille,' Jul-
lien's new police polka,' " &c. &c. Ultimately, the first
part terminated hut not until nearly an hour after the proper
time. A general feeling appeared to prevail that the num-
ber of persons admitted ought to have been limited.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
°renal., Nov. 27. —C arrsaserr lho mows, - The Rey. the Regius
Professor of If rbres (Ike. Posey), at Christ Church, Sunday morning;
Rev. It. Mueslestone, Woralater College, Sunday afternoon at St.
Man's; Rev. Palmer, Worcester College, ut. Andrew's, nt
St. Mary's.

CAMSRIII4I., Nov. 27. The Regius Profeoiot of Divinity ham
Riven notice, that be intends to mume hb lectures on the plirty-nine
Articlis neat term.

PEETEPNE,ETA—Rev. W. Sprigs., to Brickley 8., Suffolk, r 1.30.
Rev. J. H. Warneford, to Salterhebble, P.C., Halifax. Rev. R. Wilson
to be chaplain to H.M.'s ship Queen. Rev. M. H. Whbh to Alderley,
R., Gloucester; value, NOS., with residence: patron, It. 11. 11.
Hale, }:sq. Rev. 0. James, MA., to Klribaugh It., Northumber-
land ; TAithe, 70/..
VACANT.—WaIthAIIIkOW, St. John, P.C., Essex : ,ho. London : pat.,
the Vicar of Walthamstow : by the death of the 11ev. K. K. Nichotlx.
lexltltzwell V., Devon. ,e. IlittlilanibToot-Saints C., dio, Exeter;
value, ilaff. with residence: patron, Col. W. J. Jonas; vacant by the
death of the Rey. C. W. J. Jones —, Itearley P. C., Warwickshire,
dio. Worcester; value, G 21.. patron., King's College, Cambridge;
vacant el death of Rev. P. h. Ward.
lIM
THY. NEW Bt-nor AM, tits ILLIIPTON IJX`TCIUS. —lt has been
assumed that. because Archdeacon Shirley ha. been elevated to the
see of Sodor and Man, he is there fore. disqualified for fulfilling the
duties of Bampton lecturer, to which he was appointed during the
last }faster term. This is, however, an error. A bishop may deliver
these lectures quite as well as an archdeacon, without infringing any
of the clauses of Mr. Psutiptmes will. The sole qualification named
by the plow cannon of Salisbury was, that no person should preach
the eight sermons, or Ireton., who had not taken the degree of
MA., in rate of the two Universities, Oxford and Cambridge. We
may add, to set the matter at rest, that we are informed by good
I authority that the venerable archdeacon, notwitlistsoiling hls eleva-
tion to the insular see above named, will deliver the Hampton lectures
at Oxford daringthe ensuing year.
New CHUUCH At COLN I,IOIOK, Bef go—ln consequence of an ex-
treme want of church areommodation at Colebrook, it bus been
deemed advisable by the Bishop of Oxford (in whose diocese the
patifh i., situated), and also by the incumbent, that a church should
be built on a new site, capable of containing 450 sittings, of which
3on should be free. An estimate of the expenso of crectnig the pro-
posed new church, securing tbe additional advantage of a burial-
and around it, which would amount to not more than 1,5001., has
ust been submitted to the bishop, with all the nocessary plans, awly
approved of.
IWGILLAi to,' I'IAEVIE3I.—The Rev. Thomas Pascoe, the vicar of St.
miry, in Cornwall, has altered the parish register. The woo', in
the schedule, which en prescribed by the Act of Parliament, the Re-
gistration Act, are "according to the rites and ceremonies of the
Eatablished Church ;" but in the parish church of St. Hilary., parties
are described as having been married according to the rite. and
ceremonies of the "Anglo Catholic" Church. A writer, who has
called attention to this alteration, says that Mr. Pascoe ha' , rendered
himself liable for ranking this alteration to a proseeutiur . for misde-
mcsutour.—Charck and State Gazelle.

NAVAL.
POF.TPMOUTH, Nov. 27. The CYocodik was to mroirsioned this
morning for the Irish s•;ition.—The Murine is twine into harbour to
have her composes tuljusted.—The IPlfriale, Ce pt J. Kingeorne,
arrived last evening at St. ilelen's.—The Royal Ir'rederick, building
in this yard, is to be completed with as much sp..“l as the otter
engagements of the yard will penult, as she is to a be latuiched early
text spring.
Woonwieu.—E•LAIWICIENT OF WOOLWIC.I DOCKTAID.—It has
been positively stated that a gentleman ft um the firm of Messrs.
Gine! and Peto, the eminent contractors, 'nag recently surveyed the
lead between the Dockyard boundary wall at New amion, and the
Manor Way in the Greenwich mashes, • .ith the view of preparing
estimates to be submitted to parliament in the isent !elision, for con-
verting a large area of the numb land into a capacious basin fur the
vessels of the Royal Navy.
Dislanonlo• or Pate. -741exee•—T ne Gavler or last night con-
tains a notice to the officers and company of her Majesty's
ramp
Alert, who are entitled to chase fur the Portuguese brig, name
unknown, captured on the 4th of .; one, 1511, that a distribution of the
moiety of the nett proceesls, and of the tonnage bounty granted for the
said capture, will be made at N u. 22, Norfulk-rtreet,Strand, on the sth
•k _r of December rust : and t. tat the shares not then paid will be re-
called at the came place, acri.rehly to act of Parliament :—Com-
mantle?, 70. 10s. 6d.: fire:class, 30/. 17e. fitd.; second, 141. lOs. 71.1. ;
third, W. ba 3:d- : fourth, r,/. 3.60.; ft th, W. is. so. ; sixth, 21.15.2 d. •
reventh, if. Os. 7d. Ihr.mauney, Son, and Co., agents.—Notice is aim;
' given to the decent and company of H.M.'s chip Cleopatra, Captain
Christopher Wyvill, that, on the 16th of Dec. neat, they will be paid,
as above, their nruiturtions of bounty money reerived forabe following
prises: and the air re. nil: I— re.alled every Wednesday nd Thu sing
for three months to come, agreeably to Act of Parliament —Progrougi,