The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBUROR, JULY 17.
The object of the recent deputation from the Scot-
tish board of dissenters to the education committee of
the privy council, was to urge, 1. That " no grants
should be made to schools belonging to any single
denomination of christians in their denominational
character, whether established or dissenting ; " and,
2. That " no increase of emoluments be made to the
parochial schoolmasters of Scotland, until tests for ad-
mission to that office be abolished, and the general
management of the schools freed from the interference
of the established church."

The lord-advocate has agreed to introduce at nest
session a bill for relieving the proprietors of entailed
estates in Scotland of incumbrances imposed by sta-
tutes, public or private, similar to the bill introduced
during this session for Ireland.
To-day unfolds more instances of tampering with
the " lungs " of towns. Mr. Baillie, of Jerviswood,
wi'hes to interdict the magistrates of Lanark from
" riding the marches " of that town—all the more
singular that the Duke of Buceleuch failed in the
attempt to deprive the town of Hawick of a similar

privilege. In the north a complaint is made of a
professor of King's College, Aberdeen, having closed
op one of the accesses to Powis burn.

PROVINCIAL.

THE WHITS BAVAOII;jI7CIVIMPOOL.—The Albion of
yesterday says: "There were a number of dreadful assault
caws heard at the police.court on Saturday. In one of them
a prisoner had made a furious assault upon a pullet-officer
with an unusually large-sized carving knife; and, in an-
other, a prisoner had sworn that be would eat a man who
had in some wry or other incurred his hostility, and had
absolutely attempted to put his threat into execution by
biting a piece out of the m.th's thigh. The number of cases
is which females had torn the cape, bonnets, and clothes
aad the very hair out of each other's heads were, sa usual,
many and serious. Mr. Rushton made a remark applicoble
to nearly the whole of these assaults. He said be had read
much about savage life abroad, but none of the hooks he had
perused gave anything like so terrific an account as might be
written of the occurrences amongst the lower classes in
Liverpool. The worst of it was, too, ho observed, that some
of those who figured before him in these dreadful onslaughts
upon each other pretended to be religious people l"
YORKSHIRE. .

EPIDEMIC AMONOST iiTTI:E.The disease called pleuro
pneumonia is prevailing amongst the cattle in many parts
of the country. In the neighbourhood of Bawtry it has shown
itself ; and on one farm 1G head of fine cattle have fallen
a sacrifice to it. We know of nothing satisfactory to account
for the cause of pleuro pneumonia, but a peculiar condition
of the atmosphere is supposed to itroduca it, and me great
authority on matte,. of this kind (Professor &moods, of the
Royal Veterinary College) inclines to this opinion, tend be-
lieves also that rabies in the dog originate' from the same
cause. Some particular breeds of cattle are said to be less
subject to pleuro pneumonia than others. The short-horns are
amongst this number; but none are altogether exempt, and
when once it makes its appearance in a stock, most become
alike affected, although some resist its influ' nee for a longer
period than others. If agriculturists attended to their cattle,
seeing them late and early, some little derangement
would readily be detected, by which the treatment might
he modified, and the cure made much 1. es difficult. But
as it is, the disease being insidious in its nature, the con-
stitutions of the animals are so shaken by it before any
very marked symptoms are noticed, that it is rendered in-
I curable. The early stages are characterised by a spasmndic
breathing, followed by, in some instiences, loss of appetite.
and a law grunting at even expiration. 'io these succeed
pain on pressure to the sides, cough or " Imam," coldness
of legs and ears, rigors, constipation of the bowels, and
sometimes the reverse of this, deirrham. No particular
plan of treatment can he laid down as adrisable to be pur-
sued; hut we would strongly recommend our agricultural
readers areek for the best advice, and this as esr;y as pos-
sible, remel.bering the established maxim, that to delay is
dangerous."—Sheffidef Times.
WARWICKSHIRE.
THE BRITISH AUCHAKOLOGICAL SOCIETY yesterday
opened in the town-hall, Warwick, the proceedings of their
annual meeting. Lord Brooke, M.P., ofd-iated as chair-
man. Mr. Pettigrew gave a general history of the associa-
tion. In primeval antiquities many additions had been
made, by discoveries of Roman and Saxon remains in New-
castle, in Yorkshire, Kent, and other places. As yet the
association bad not received any such specimens from War-
wickshire, but there existed little doubt as to the success
which would be met with in their contemplated excursions.
He alluded to the paucity of members, the num-
ber not exceeding five hundred, and trusted the society
would rapidly increase. He particularly referred to that
enemy of the antiquary, " whitewash ;" and lamented the
loss of many curios, and valuable frescoes through its
means. He instanced a case which recently occur., el in the
Isle of Wight, where a specimen of ancient art had been de-
stroyed, even during the time when associates of the so-
ciety were engaged in making drawings of it. Sir W. Betltara
informed the congress that he had brought 41 drawings of
antiquities, found in Ireland, to lay before them. The
meeting was not so numerously attended as was expected.