The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1849.

of labile filth. Ile should vete kr the rewinding the me- i
lefts GM' bawd et direelore.
Mr. PAIIIOIIIII wet elms se spiels that the Rajah
se Ilittera had boa fishy treated, sad had hem deposed
beim Me ereerdgetty ifisess whisk aught only to have
hien made the mead dm legalities.
OIL SYKES tell the ealy question the court had to con-
sider wok net se nue\ the riot of adoption, for that could
hardly he diouted, bet whether they weld not carry out
the spirit, it not the letter ot the treaty of the Bajah of
Satter.. (Hsu; hear.) That treaty mimed on the rajah
the sovereignty el Blears daring his !Melee, and to hie heirs
tad onsoftele sairwarda. No see weld would dispute with
Na that holm ot bleed met Me precedents of
tn.:sollettiel bele% smithies halts were to be found,
thee& it they wen head their dame ought to be
admitted.
Mr. MILLS, another director, treated the resoletios es
vote et erasers, sad deftaded that the quake involving
auk a oseesqessseokieid be desided by Wilt
Wire OLINIAIIT di het has that weabil ea the row
lathe. It woe trite he a prootieter hp awns it
lobbed imendieg to maw ow Mr se met of sealifte
la the direeteve.
After ewe further discosioa,
Mr. SULLIVAN briefly maid, die sting that nothing
was further trout hie intuition fa moving the resolutioa than
is eating a vet of maw" on the directors.
' Mr. MILLS having descended a bsu
The court adjthrned, having appointed Tuesday ant for
taking the ballot, at twelve o'cloeh.

LADIES' SOCIETY FOR NEGRO EDUCATION
IN THE WEST INDIES.
Yesterday a meeting Of the friends end promoters
of this moiety took place at Willis's Booms, King-street, St.
James's. The Marquis of Cholmesdeley In the chair.
The secretary read the report he the het year, from which
it appeared that the society commenced its operations
in the West lodise in the
orinr2s, by the iatroduc-
lion of infant schools for mei as went too young to
be employed on the odds. At that time, out of 150,000
tine ehe ce. under 10 years of age, sot one in 15 was re-
m:ivies thehiessing of even oral instrootion. On the memo-
eak lot 1111 4884, the society had he infant schools la
&WPM IWillfMni Is the West ladies, sad from 1837 to
11148 moles& as anneal grant from her Nejesty's govern-
meat, whisk smalged it to eta pseadoes. Ta 1840,
with ma imam of 1,8001., the soc”mted 145 schools,
iambi& kola 7 to 8,000 children and aalts were taught to
wad lla Bible. Is 1841, in the Island of Justice alone,
the smother of children under intro:don amounted to 2,571
in 38 achcols,27 of which were in connexion with the Ladies'
Society. The funds of the society had always btes some-
what small, compared with its claims es well as with the
geed which It had been enabled to effect. The largest ea-
sing increase was in the year 1840, when it amounted to
1,8001. From that time it had decreased till the year 1847,
whea it was only 7201. By the great efforts made duds;
the last year the receipts amounted to 9341. 4s. With this
sum 106 schools were helped with grants, averaging from
51. to 151. The report concluded by stating that notwith-
standing they had no incumbrances in the shape of debts,
yet stib:they were at thel lowest ebb, and that auks; the
public came forward sod assisted them with subscriptions,
now that the government grant bad been withdrawn, they
would be forced to lessen their sphere of action—a course
they would adopt with regret.
The Bishop of OXFORD proposed the second nada-
' tioo, whisk was to this effect :
That while this iambic deplores the extensive withdrawal of the
aid of varlwasmilgises sedsties from the West Latta schools', it m-
aiden ft to he Impeatthe ape the meths eseaby M sapper% the W-
eaned= et the alsain emir their peethst
_lllthaties. sag that to
+Masai& nth ail tea she ethahme tathrothea of the labourers at
thepeesset wile well be elite a dealledia el duty sod a atethare
of the stoma pail to thou eekthea
The right reverend prelate observed that It was sometimes
charged upon such meetings as the present that the proceed-
ings were eonducted in an exaggerated tone, ant that expeo•
talons were held out which could not afterwards be fulfilled.
Ile was quite sure that the resolution he now proposed
would be cousidered entirely free from any such imputation.
He thought the experiment which this society desired to
carry oat was of the highest importance, both in a rn^ral sad
spiritual point of view. tiniest the efforts of the society
were supported by such eminence as was required at the
present moment, the schools could not be maintained, and
the negro population must grow up untaught. Even
amongst our peasants at home, who loved labour for the
sake of labour, how much degradation was produced by the
want of education 1 What, therefore, moat be the CMG with
a population who naturally hated labour, and who would
sink into absolute indolence from the want of the proper
stimulants to mental exertion 2 The result must newsanly
be a constant retrocession from that vantage ground
which the country had hitherto helped th• m to make.
What grim the state of St. Domingo at this
moment, owing to the changes which had taken place in the I
island and to the neglect which the unfortunate natives had
experienced from this country ? It was a state of utter
misery, degradation, and ruin—revolutions occurring as soon
as any power began to declare itself as a governing bcdy.
Commerce was gone— so entirely gone that if the whole
island were submerged in the ocean which surrounded it,
sot a single flag of a single ship would bear testimony to the
I event. The free introduction of Cuban and Brazilian slicer
bed caused the demand to be almost unlimited. There was a
mot extent of ground in Braml adapted to the growth of
sugar; and British capital might be bad in abundance to cul-
tints that virgin soil. The result would be, that recourse
wnuld be bad to the oast of Africa for dams to supply the
labour, amid this was the consequence of the changes which
had been' effected in the sugar trade by the government of
this country. He had said them things elsewhere, and he
new emphatically repeated them. He thought it was in the
power of this society to prepare that unhappy people for
that change in their condition which this country had
brought upon them. Endeavours ought to be made to raise
them to the condition of a christian peasantry, and the only
chance of attaining so desirable an end was by giving sup-
port to those schools which the present society were anxious
to maintain.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. C. 11. Cieuw, and
was carried unanimously.
Various rmobsions were then pissed in conformity with
the objects of the meeting, and a vote of thanks having been
passed to the noble chairman, the assembly broke up.

TH6 NEW ZEALAND COMM Y.—Teeterday it meet-
ing of the shareholders ha this company was held at New
Zealand-house, Broad-Mmet-buildings, to consider the adop-
tion of erasures to prevent the stigma likely to be east on
New Zealand by making it a penal settlement. Mr.
Aglionby, 11. P., presided, and expressed his opinion that the
directors ought to offer no opinion at present, but to hear the
views which bad led so many of the shareholders to request t
that such a meeting au ghs be called. Mr. Watson moved a
series of resolutions condemning the introduction of convict
emigration into New Zealand, and urging the company im-
mediately to adopt steps for averthet such a calamity. He
pointed out ae grounds for the conclusion that government
Intended including New Zealand among the coloniesderined
to receive convict emigrants: First, that the operation was
to be canted into effect with such secrecy that no colony
should know of c :evicts being sent to it till they had
arrived. 2nd. That a pledge of Lord Nornemby's, that New
Zealand should est be subject to this aspen, had already
been broken or evaded. 3rd. That • dispetek had been re-
ceived by the scent from Berl OM. pelag out New
Zealand as one oldie colonies to whisk new plan of sea-
vict mired= leinkt be properly applied; sad, lastly, that
this immesh lei been withheld hem the mon relating to
New Zeeland messily laid before Pediemlak while the di-
rectors of the company, notwithshmlieg their Intimate
those wick with the Colealal-ethee, were mat& to bases the
proprietors whether eaything of the kind was In sentempia-
doe. Mr. Walesa west M te thew that the expmfimeat
already made in AGM*. of Lied MemeanWe pledge MI
signally failed, the menists having diappeeeed mans the
naive melatien, propagated vim mil DMA to dasesey the
virtue end meaty saki had been panted with se mock
are be New Zealand by the gamy Moen. The go-
vernante night attempt te saugele maviels into that colony,
but se these wen sere to amedde with the aisselniess, it
mild set eh* seek • sown whiesat dame** greatest
chary to themes of shrilkatien. Mr. irsdria Teem, in
Msessading the meelelisee, Oats& eat te the meeting that
armee* w net beasellemingest the way in which
easikee Weid best be d for, but simply
MMU OW that none she he sent to the adeny over
the intimate Of whisk it had te midi. Colonise were either
sinks for the admired pepelatica of the mother country, or
outlets fee the mar esterprisiag and adventurous porticos
of her people. It was apes the last plan that the colonies-
tioa of New Zealand was uadereskes, and se thousands had
emigrated on the faith that this sane would be persevered
in, a gram breath of public faith would be perpetrated if
the system were now Maned. The tide of emigration
meld then cease altogether and the company's land became
valueless. Mr. Haswell, • judge In New Zealand, in sup-
cilia" the resolutions, stated that in his judicial capacity
tried three at the bap mat out from Parkhurst, and
that two of them had been leMilesd from the colony. Mr.
J. A. Smith expressed Me 611 amsenenee in what bad
been said. Ile did net Mak that there sea any chance of
lief hem preammea, sad Nisei what teems Mr. Bar-
nand eMaa te pussy& The War eimilethatielaurz
suggested that petition should he preemesi
tun, end dist the while psellemseesey Mamie ef the com-
pany skald he eat in motile. Gemmel Bebop sawed a re-
solution that the lest security soled tie Ma of sonvict
emigration wee d& be to grant the edam a elesner d free
11=This resolution was reerl by Mr. J. A.
O
disweedea r. Earl Grey wee
to mere anxious than
any me obi te m *free Malted= Mewea Zland, and
he hodismillal ma mfr lbai Wpm came in progress,
and wield be Meld Me dMt ae seem as possible. The
chairman, Mr. G.P. Gamey, eel eihme, espoused them-
selves in the ease some, let the ismielisa was eventually
seeded enesierreasly. It wee that speed thee a petition
be yeamelei mmt ; and atm the meal vote of
Omit te Ore ehaleeaala
the =sties terminated.
OMAN Wonsan; Sc RoOL.—Testeriey the ordi-
naq half yearly meeting of the governors of this charity
man Yid et the London
Bee TOM= ; John Remington Mills,
. prefileatee the institution, in the choir. he Seat-
INF NA t e repo m for the last half year, which stated, that
the MleMithmeat during that period had been fees from
anise. The childrea's school bad been well attended, and
dm Mama themselves were well conducted. There were
, IV/ children in the school, 115 boys, and 66 girls ; and
after the
boys present election
and wod be 200 children in the
lasethatims, Ltd 71 thengirls.ulTen children had left
pmt as
pmts, and three were retained in the
as ser till they reached 15 years of age.
The esemittee had hoped that they would have been able
to sleet twenty-five children on the present occasion;
but as there was a deficiency of 7341. 10s. on the ordinary
' receipts and expenditure, it WSJ found inexpedient to take
more than 20 into the estehlithenect. The committee were
' not unmindful th it the public had kindly and generously re-

spmda to the appal made for the sew building, and that i
it wee mere than probable • large media of the 2,0211. lbs.
meleibeted toast repose la 1818 would have goes Mae
Ml=esesime br sash appeal ; sal it mast be resets.
a amount had not been naive& to
OMR the memo of the weeds& by seedy MN., ma
thweihre k was usemeary to contiens it, is osier to NOM
the Mask MI out kir that purpose. TheMaltore• uus
Am w Illst Doe., 1847, Si the 31st Dee., 1848, showed
that the
let.,
and extramdisary, ensonnted
to OM end the expenditure, ordinary
sad emzesellaary„9oBl. Os. Bd., [mitts a balance at
the Web" m the 31st of Dec., 1848, of 201. 2s. 9d.
I& Nam mid that he had but a single obsertMlon to maks
siNeemmo te the report—namely, that the ordinary upon.
atm of the institution was more by 7341. than the ordi-
nal, wed" whisk fact furnhhed an answer to a statement
to MN fatal Villoppers, that they were not doing as mush
as that' swag is with the funds in their hands. The m-
ain seed. mut be Wee& up to the ordinuy exposit-
OW% *sy vela bale to enema upon tke hails
etas ierillatioa, which would had te very unpleassat eon-
septum la the whole of the simarrations wads in the
uswipsper there was not a stogie ems whisk could be tamed
to the ailmatep as the 'aimed of this isatitatios. Now,
he begged to state on the part of the committee that
they were most 'mhos to maim say Isformatius which
multi be gives to them at say Man Wahl& this 'mantles
could be melds more perfect ; by whist he onstelams could
bs susailedor the inPrests of the children la it is any way
trod. Maar, hear) They made so preesesteas to in-
? bility, bat they claimed credit far honasty led integrity.
They thweght a• media of time tee greet to devote to the
interests of the charity; and if any gentleman could tell
them how Ho prosperity amid be premeted, they would b
happy to ress Mat iefwmaUes ea all emulous. (Hear.)
—TM chairman said that it was not asesesary to say my-
th'," oe the amenity of keeping the 'Wilms expenditure
ineb the ordinary income, for unless they did so they mew
make essidlerable Inroads on the haled property of the
IMINIMime, which would be • most unjust use
of the beashotime of former governors. (Hear, bear.)—
The smart gad the amounts were then received.
A resiatha wee that pimei, approving of the fixing of
the nal et the lerperaties le made documents relating to
the adimbillealien et the property of the institution.
0 lase
resiatime et a howl =tun were elm passed. The elu-
des et obeys and six girls late the charity was then
Tax Eltlg tkrz.tsizit ha been appointed to take
out ehiplotter snails for Gibraltar, Malta, Dardanelles,
CoestaMismam Samsonn, and Trebiand, instead of the
Batten stammer ; and, in mum of the 29th happening
as a Seaday, the Eris will not re Southampton befall two
o'clock on Monday afternoon.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—YESTERDAY.
Tat LATE BOILER EXPLOSION IN ST. UEORGE-IN-
THE Easy.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Red Lion, Batty-
street, Commercial-road But, on the body of Ellubsth Ann
Bailey, aged 67 years, who died from fright mossioned by
the explosion of the boiler at Mr. Key's sawmills in Back-
church-laps. The particulars of the accident which calved
V. unfortunate woman's death have already sppeared in the
Express. Verdict " Natural death." It was stated
that the other sufferers by the explosion were recovering from
the effects et the injuries they had received.

ENCUMBERED IRISH ESTATES BILL.
This bill, which was partly explained by the
Solicits-General in his speech on Thursday night, proposes,
it is asid, the appointment of five comminionen (two to be
a quorum, and two at least to be privy councillors) who are
to be entitled, "the commissioners for the tale of imom.
bend estates it Ireland." Their term of office together
with that of their secretary and clerk is not, we hear, to ex.
esedsennyeen. The amount of each Walvis not yet fixed, aa
all exposes for earryiaagg out the mauve are to be voted by
parliameat The eommlWonen only who are not members
of thorny esumell an te be paid commissioners.
All the rules he themerposes of the act to be framed by
the commissions shiest to the approval of the privy coun-
cil, end the privy iseasell of Ireland, and to be enrolled in the
Court of Cluintray. They may be altered from time t 3 time
by the eesteeheiseere, soh alterations to be confirmed also
by the privy teresdh. All such general rules to be laid be-
fore parliament widths one month from their eoefirtaatioa by
the privy councils= or if parliament be not then sitting
within one month after next meeting of the house. Mesa-
while they are to have all the force of en act of parliam-rat.
The Important feature in the bill is, that It will supersede
Chancery proceedings, Ass the commissioner en to have the
power of summoning ands wearies witness*, end to have a
Jurisdiction similar to that of a court of equity.
After giving the power to owners of incumbered estates to
apply to the commissioners for the pitries of sale, the bill
defines when lands or leases shall not be deemed subject to
incumbrann.
I Having inquired into the state of the ineembranees, and
having been satisfied that a sale of the estate, or any part of
it, is proper, or whether, by reason of the incumbranose,
effective cultivation is p ted or discouraged, the commis-
sioner* may et ones direct a sale. The purchue money to
i
be paid into the Bank of Ireland ; and, n order to nears to
the purchaser en indisputable title, the conveyance executed
by the 'malodour' in his favour shall be effectual to peas
to him and his heirs the fee simple and inheritance
of the land, discharged from all former rights and incum-
limns whatsoever, except such as may be specified in the
conveyance, and such as do not affect the rights of lanes or
oseupiers in possenion.
The purchase money to be paid over to owners or locum-
brancen want delay, less the costs of ale and conveyanx ;
but no payment in part to affect the right of iacumbrancer for
the balsam Where a revenionary interest In any encum-
bered lease exist, the commissioners may, on the application
of the owner of such reversion, sell it with the lease itself.
Another function of the Court of Chancery is, it is said, to be
conferred on the commissionees, by giving them the power
to appoint guardians of infants and lunatics for the purposes
of the act.
Ia order to cut short chancery proceedings, the swamis-
"loners will have the power of ordering estates to to be sold,
altsoullti proceeding' are pending in the Court of Equity
ng them, and even although they have already berm
.0:7•71 to be sold by. the laid court ; and when the order for
eels has once been given, all law proceedings to be immedi-
ately stayed, and no new suit can be commenced without
leave of the commissioners.
The pretending, of the commissioners will, we fear, be so
far arbitrary, that they will not be liable to restraint by in-
junction or removal to other tribunals by certiorari, but ap-
peals can be made to the privy council against these decisions,
only, however, with their sanction.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
INVESTIGATION.
THE EVIDENCE.
We now proceed to publish the evidence
taken 'adze the committee of investigation; pre-
mising, however, that in their preliminary state-
ment the committee set forth the following facts :
The Eastern Counties Railway now includes the
Northern atd &stern, which, with branch lines, ex-
tends over 228 miles. The Norfolk Railway, with its
branches, including the extension from Dereham to
Fakenham, is 94 miles long, acd is now worked,
under lease, by the Eastern Counties ; the Newmarket
and Chesterfard4 which gots over 18 miles, is also
worked under an agreement; as is also the 5 mile
branch of the East-Anglian Company from St. Ives
to Huntingdon ; the total length of the railways under
the direction of the Eastern Counties Board therefore
is 343 miles. In oonnexion with it are the Eastern
Union lines, about 92 miles, and the East-Anglian,
about 64 mills in length. The whole system of rail-
way communication has an aggregate length
of about 500 miles, as we mentioned yesterday.
The committee believe that the capabilities of Har-
wich Harbour have not been over-rated, but will be
fully developed when the Eastern Union Company
. make the branch line to Harwich, with a pier or jet .y
r for embarking and lacding passengers at the steam-
' packetatation. The cost of the railway, which is
' about 11 miles in length, with a single line of rails,
together with the pier, is not to exceed 200,0001.
Tne Eastern Counties agree to take a lease in per-
petuity, paying the Eastern Union Company 41 per
pewees the capital expended, and granting them
to run trains upon the line, dividing the receipts
after deducting 33 per cent. for working expenses.
The Eastern Counties Company purchased the St.
Ives and Wisbech line at a premium of 33,8201. ; the
Stratford and Thames Junction at a premium of
7,0001.; the North Woolwich at a premium of
3,000/. ; the Malden, Witham, and Braintree, at a
premium of 5,0001., plying the parliamentary ex-
penses, 6,3001. They purchased the Southend Pier
for 17,0001., including 11 mile of shore rights. Had
the amalgamation taken place with the Newmarket
Company, tla: latter would Lave become entitled to 3
per cent. upon their capital for the first two years, and
31 per. cent. afterwards. The direeors have en-
tered into an agreement to work the Norfolk line
with their own for seven years upon equal terms of
profit, from the Bth of May, 1848. The mmittee
unanimously recommend that the amalgamatiocon with
the Norfolk Company should be completed, and think
that an arrangement mutually satisfactory may here-
after be made with the Newmarket Company. Oa
investigating the accounts of the Wisbech, St. Ives,
and Cambridge Railway, and comparing the books
with the scrip so paid, it was discovered that 2,0001.
was paid to Mr. Hudson and 2,0001. to Mr. Wadding-
toll for which no scrip could be found, nor have the
committee limn able to ascertain that any other as-
thority than that of those gentlemen themeless le
Mr. Roney existed for these payments. Whether
Mr. Hudson and Mr. Waddington ever paid the de-
posit upon the 1,000 shares is respect of which the
sum of 4,0001. was paid the committee have endea-
voured to learn, and think it is probable they did so,
because there stands at the credit of the Wisbech and
Stives account in the books the sum of 2,0001. against
which there is no explanaiion.