The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-05 00:00:00

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTLNG THE AMEND-

!SENT OF THE LAW.

On Wednesday, evening the usual monthly general
meeting of this association was held at the society's rooms,
21, Regent-street. Lord Brougham in the chair. The
meeting was attended be Mr. Commissioner Fine Mr.
Spence, Q.C., Mr. M. 1). Hill, Q C., Mr. Stewart,
Mr. Swart, M.P., Mr. Serjeant Manning, Mr. Macrae, and
other influential members of the society. The minutes of the
last meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. P. Taylor
presented a report from the committee on criminal law ap-
pointed "to consider the various plans which have been tried
or proposed for the improvement of the treatment of
criminal and young persons likely to become criminabo, and
further to report on the principles on which punishments
ought to be awarded and conducted." The report was read
at length by Mr. P. Taylor, from the pages of the Lase
Review for the current month, and after stating in a volumi-
nous manner the various topiesehislk had engaged the atten-
tion of the committee, it eameiaded by recommending the
following suggesting re sisputra :-
1. That all pois mime matmlwebsi lelmaseme he Awe& *odd
be abolished. 2. Tbst stake sorditel re user rid rimer
should be allowed le mask Is pikes le • der of bilmer. P. flat
tread-wbeel labour ihert be aboard. 4. Ibet dr Weft et Ille•
trial priaona stria Morel tree droll he mitred wrsaleary.
3. That sorb prior ober! be se bar is Is allied leper le raw
modatioe to each Omer. I. Mr mild Mar, tkt
rag,basket, or set error
repo Ac., he. Anti be milerris bliehmed le all eror.
7. That them respihr drat le lay* by mmeeleft
per attached le web perm S. Mr tern dim et
routers should be esperiet rib kers Errs ase ret It diver
be wommimayeamery mid le Mimi said
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Me tad Mkt amities Whim re lir Weber wire
reit be aldildri, ea a creep errs pro to Or proposed
bp C Prase. Seri edbrar, ers tired we that the dia.
*tims he asks' melly ran.
Mr. EWART, M.P., erelee_sk rdir regarded the
report just read u a meet valuate, isms..*, lee could not
hut think it omitted to deal with see berettert point ; vie.,
the results wheb had attended the prudes of the separate
system of confinement. He further thought, no improved
system of secondary punishment would be effectual or bene-
ficial which did not reserve transportation as a supplement
to incarceration.—Mr. M. D. Hill. Q.C., also approved
highly of the report, and at considerable length urged that
punishment ought to have in view the reformation of the
offender ; and tsis could not be done without submitting
the individual to a most painful procera.—Lord Brougham
concurred with Mr. Hill, and thought that a month's
imprisonment world not afford time to effect a reformation ;
indeed, six months would in many instances be scarcely suf-
ficient. True it was, that referenalion of the offender ought
to be the main object of punishment, and he was happy to
observe that of late yeari the public mind had been weaned
from the old-fashioned notion that the only object of punish-
ing offenders was to deter others from following their perni-
cious and evil example. It was this principle which had
kept up the barbarous continuance of capital punishment,
the effects of which, as the means of deterring from the corn•
mission ofcrimc, had been proved to be exceedingly small. The
most successful mode of preventing and deterring from crime
was by the education of the people, and by teaching the rising
generation a hatred of vice in every shape. At the same

t.me, if he stood *lone, he was ind prepared to glee up tlie
punishment of loath as a means of deterring others from the
mmmission of certain offences.—Mr. Se .x urged the
aecess.ty of the adopt:iu of a salinsary jarisdietien, by which
,tunishinent sh ned iastantlp follow the offente. -After a
,hurt di•tiksion, the del. lite on the report was airy mrned to
'he next meeting of the so 'jety on the lith inst., and the
mectiLg adjourned.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SoCIETY.—The 26th annual
meeting of the members of the institution was he wed-
,escily at the &Hee in King William-street. Mr J. Lebou-
enere presided. The annual r port, read by 81r. Hanley, the
secretary, detailed the prose-riling- of the committee during
the peat year, and alluded to the donations wile' had been
receiv:d from the Ki. g Of 111110.er and the Clear: e gevern-
meat, tinily gifts, whirl:, our readers may be aware. have
already been asknowledged at a quarterly ac' ti:-g. The
number of patients altruists d during the past year was 2.112.
Advie medicine, and ire ducal stores, was s provl.6d for 1,629
out-rat ients, mahing a t .1 of 3,941 ew.men re'..ev nil during
that t.eriui • aid since seamen ment of the r%, rarity,
7tl9l;ssrl.s.,SlitOurn'tiii'viys,' •Yar.:;:tG.3'.'ll:l(ii.l4ltgeas thteovi,%7l:o;iviluirTUt:i nii;v7tl),7autta.
dhe total receipts fa? 4131• year amounted to 8.8131. 1 li.
including donations, beryls sts, &e.: and, deslneting the ex-
penditure, a balance of 3801. remained. The report basing
been agreed to, the chairman, ice• Admiral ;Young,' ad
stressed the meeting Friel e, and expressed confident hopes
that continued aid would lee afforded to so useful a charity.
LONDON AND Ci .I'N rT JOINT-STOCK BANK.—
trOterdav, en annu,ll nieeth.g of the onsprietors was
'held at the London Tavern, Bishispigate-strict. -W.110.1118,
presided, and opened the yoccedioge in .1 brief
statement of this condition of the company as shown in
the report. The director' therein stated, that in laying be-
fore the proprietors the financial statement of the London
and County Bank fur the last year, they had again to report
the continued prosperity of the company. They reveal-
mended a dividend of aix per cell.. ( free from incomest ix)
fse the half year ending Dec. 31, 1846, and that the sav:slus
of 1,830. 17s. 7d., which remained after the payment 01 the
dividend, the expenses of the establishment, the interest on
current and deposit aeessunts, the rebate of bill. not due, and
the allowance for had and deuleful debts, be carried as
heretoeore, to the credit of the reserved fund, which would
then am-unt to 22,2421. Is. Ild.
UNITED I EF ASSOCI.‘TIDN.—YeSIPrdity a public
meetioe, called together by this association, which has bleat
formed fur the general relict of those sufferi..g from the
prevailing famine in Ireland and Scotland, nes held at
Exeter ylall ; Samuel Gurney, H.q., in the chair. The
chief object of the meeting was, to hear from various clergy-
men, from those convenes, of all dennminations who had
come to London for the purpose, authentic mel detailed
statements of the awful suffering under which the penele in
their respective districts are at this moment labouring, and
which, it is feared, the progress of the season will greatly ag-
gravate; and thus to stimulate toe people of England
to support and sympathy. The meeting was very nume-
rously attended, and, atter a iew words from the chairman
in explanation of the (Netts for which they had ono ridded,
the Rev. Mr. Monk, from Ireland, the Rev. Mr. Macleod,
from Glasgow, and several other clergymen from lath coun-
tries, addreooed it, and gave the meet appalling deseriptions
of the arena of destitution and death of which they had the
misfortune to he the almost daily witnesses; thousands were
actually dying for want of food, and nothing but a eonstan
and abundant supply for at least twelve month
could save the nation from t'se low of the grtater
portion of its poor population. It would require not Ices
than 5000 tons of food per day to be poured into the port
of Ireland alone for the next twelve months t, sore this
country from depopulation, for the estimated lots of the
last year's potato crop, there, was from sixteen to twenty
millions. Ls this awful calamity, it was not douhted that the
people of England, of all claws and Cr, eds would come for-
ward to save their fellow-creatures and fellow-sulnects,
through this association, which had no sectar:an objocts,
as it was composed of clergymen and Laymen of all
denominations, and the link of whose co-operetion was solely
that of christian benevolence to soothe the feelings and miti-
gate the sufferings of those who were laboweng under so
dreadful a v.sitation. In the distribution of the funds by the
association, there would he no distinction of creed or party,
the only recognised claim being that of destitution and scant.
There appeared but one unanimous feeling amongst those
assembled at the meeting, to use all the means and greets in
their power to forward the good work for which they had
met, convinced as they were by the unthubted, heart-rend-
ing, and vivid statements laid before them by the respectable
clergymen who had sp iken, that nothing but a universal
effort in England could preserve the two other branches
of the empire, s specially Ireland, frem utter desolation end
ruin. Several noolutions, in fultheramx of the pin pro sof
the meeting, were agreed to, after w'vich, thanks having
been voted to the chairman, it broke up, all sorely afflicted
by the sad recitals to which they had listened.
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.--Mr. George Thompson
i has declines! to coated the coming vacancy in Westminster.
Mr. Charles Ludsington will, therefore, receive the united
support of all the Liberal section of the constituency.
Tug Hay. Mn. HEWLETT.—We announced, POlllB
days since, the decease of this gentleman, anther of Peter
Driggins," and other contributions to magazine literature.
We have since learned with much regret, that his wife and
, large family have been left with twaisllhy. eam
mui e e tat
nt
de.
Mr. Hewlett appears to have had but slender opportunities
per
Softalmealasririndgge'nEysseprox,pewratsy.no Tmhoerevalue
0t.7:7
he only held it since 1840.
THE SCOTCH DISTILLERS.—Sir,—I em a Scotch
distiller, and I have read, with much astonishment,
a leading article in the Express of Saturday last,
on the distilling trade. It is, in my opinion, eltareeter-
lied by extreme vagueness, and writti n in a mostobjection-
able spirit. You make a charge arainet the whole 'body,
because one individual addressed Lord G. Ilentinek,
and you next impugn the accuracy of the statement sent,
without proving it wrong in any particular. I have nothing
to do with " cramming" his lordship, hut I lear.essly assert
that every line of the statement transmitted to him from
' Leith is correct; and I challenge you to disprove any part
of it. The mere assertion on your part that it is incorrect
does not prove it so, and it is not creditable to any journalist
to make assertions without proof. It is not dented that a
quarter of good malt may produce 18 proof gallons : this
' part of the subject does not weaken the malt distillers' case,
as I will endeavour to show ; but it is not touched on in the
statement you attack. If we were to be autrected to fair
s competition with rum, we would net complain ; hut the pro-
; posal to admit rum at 4s. 2d. per gallon, while we pay
several pence more. is unfair in Pself, and doodle so when
all the circumstances of the case are mouldered. Allow

me to enumerate e.ome of the restrictions under which the
British distiller is placed, and from which the colo-
nial distiller is free. Besides British taxation, the
British distiller is trammelled by EICifI3 forms in the
erection or alteration of his works, which causes him to lay
out a considerable sum ; he is not allowed to produce spirits
from whatever.article he finds hest suited for the purpose ;
he is obliged to stop his mashing process while distilling,
and suspend his still-house operations while masking ; he is
obliged to pay an exorbitant price fur patent locks,
and is not allowed to get the most trifling re pairs
made on them without having th. rn sent to London;
he is exposed to loss and overcharges from the
mode of collecting duties, rig., on a compare of wash,
low wines, and spirits; he is exposed to double low in
the event of an accident occurring during the proceed o.
distillation, as, besides the lees or matenal, the duty is
always exacted ; lastly, he is obliged to pay the full
duty on spirits warehoused, while rum is charged
Cuty only on the Quantity which comes out of warehouse
and actually goes into consumption. Now, sir, are these
reitrictions nothing, or wee the Chancellor of the Excite-
qu,r not right in estimating them at Cd. per gallon.
I do not undetstand your argument in the following
paragraph ; you say—" But the statement in, we
are assured, quite inaccurate, inasmuch as a quarter oa
good malt will yield nearer 18 than 16 gallons of whiskey;
and if so, the Scotch malt distiller and the West Indian
rum manufacturer will centribute squally to the revenue."
I admit that a quarter of good malt does yield, during some
months of the year, nearly 18 gsllooa per quarter, nod the
revenue is annually benefitted by such a large extract ; but
how thisplaces the Scotch enaltdinillerand Weatlndian rum
manufacturer on the same footing, is more than I can com-
prehend. The duty in the ease of Scotch spirits on the twe
products would stand thus: 1 qr. malt producing 18 gallon*,
would pay, independently of malt duty, 21. 18s. 811., or 3s. Bd.
per gallou ; 1 qr. malt producing 18 gallons, would pay in.
dependently of malt duty, 31. ; and in addition, the duty
on 1 bushel malt on the 2 gallons surplus, at 2s. 7d. and
per cent., making together 31. fle. 81d., or 3s. 90. per game
I hope you will condescend on particulars with reference
to this point. It will also confer a favour if you state in
detail the "revenue advantages" yea mention as enjoyed
by Scotch over Irish distillers. Like all others will have
embarked, it may be their all, in a mercantile undertaking,
we are alarmed at the prospect before us, but we expect that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will yet, before passing
the measure, alter the scale of duty so as to do justice to
our trade, and we also expect from the press an unpre-
judiced and impartial statement of our case. As a tub-
a: Tiber to your paper, I hope you will allow these re-
marks to appear in its columns.— I am, &c., D. A. CAMP-
new., distiller.—Greenock Distillery, reb. 2, 1847.

SUICIDES.--On Monday evening, about half-past
six o'clock, 'panicle was committed by Maria Murray, a ser-
vant. The dammed, who neatened considerable personal
attractions, had formed an attachment to an engineer lately
employed by the South Western Railway. Company, bat
who is now at Bristol. A day or two since this man wrote
to the deceased for money, stating that be was in a state Mt
great distress. This fact made a deep imprewion upon the
wad of the ponr girl, who declared she should never see him
soda. Oa Monday morning the deceased was found lying
the bed all but strangled by a handkerchief which she had
twisted round her neck. In the evening, at half-pea
=leek, Mrs. Bryant, mistress of the deceased, left her in
the back parlour alone whilst rite went up stairs to put the
child to bed. The deceased immediately threw up the sash
and jumped into the garden. Mrs. Bryant bearing the noise
said, " Maria, is that you ?" and deceased replied, " Yee,
Rood bye, Gad bless you." Mrs. Bryant instantly followed
the wretched girl, but had hardly entered the garden when
she beard a splash, and she then knew that the deceased had
thrown herself into a deep pond which is in a field at the
rear of the garden. Within 15 minutes, Mrs. Bryan met
with a policeman, to whom, ' ' - "
curved ; the man took the li
at the pond and one or '
beat. Police-constables
were informed some time

sueoeeded in ',Wag
Tuesday, wit Mr.
bolding an low* in
tion of the feßowing
gentleman named H. B. _
past been payieg his addresses

hom she communicated whai had as;
he light offered him, ctrelessly looked
r two ditche., and then" on his
Spree, 43 V, and01..„..,;,."1..4 -V,
time after of Olt
the body mr
Mills, the9l,4lk
Marylebone,
act of eelf d • • ;VW.
Fisher. Mr. Y
&beams to lea • - ..7
vs! • A.,.

Robert street. Paddington. On Tuesday morning, at eight i
o'elock, he went out, and was seen walking with the Tamar
lady in question, in the neighbourhood, and engaged eith
her in earuest conversation. He returned home shortly
• after sine o'clock, and, in a few minutes. went up stairs to
his bedroom. About ten, a carp:atm who had been en-
gaged to make some alterations the shop, came foe that
rapcf2sal Mr. Farmer being out of towu, the youth left
ran up to the deceased's bedroom, and having
eall7l hr. Fisher several times without receiving any an-
swer, he opine I the door, and then di,covered the deceased
lying ea the fluor struggling, and apparently in the agonies
'adored. He raised an alarm, and two or three medleal
gootlemen were sent for, and promptly arrived. Antidotes
were admiaistered, but Mr. Fisher diod in two or three
minutes after. A cup was on the table, which, on °swains-
lion, was found to contain • strong dose of prussic acid
mixed with brandy.
INQUEST:A, YRSTRRDAT.—DEATR FROM STRANGU-
LATION.— By Mr. Wm. Payne. at the Depend Abercrombie,
Blackftiareroad, on the body of Sarah Phelps. The de-
cease/ was a woman of very dvsipated Uinta, end obtained
• line-heed by hawkieg fish. On Monday mor sing last, at
an early hour. she proceeded to the bar of the shove house,
and obtained some rum, after which, she returned home,
and when her husband returned home to breakfast, he dis-
covered her huddled up in a heap on the floor. He raised
her up, sad found that she was black in the faee and evi-
dently dying from strangulation. He examined her dress,
and fogad that, while she was in • stooping position, a
piece destine!, which she bad put round her neck for a sore
throat, was quite tight, and had choked her. He then
sent for • surgeoa, who attended, and pronounced life
quite satinet. Death had been caused by strangulation.
The woman was much given to drinking, and the impression
is that she fell down from the effects of intoxication. —Ver-
diet, " Accidental death."—Suicion.—fty Mr. O. J.
Milk, at the Rape Arms, Oxford-street, on the body of
Henry Barnet Fisher, who committed suicide by taking
promo Reid. The particulars of this cam have already
appeared is this paper. The jury ultimately returned •
verdict, "That deceased destroyed himself, Ind what was
his state of mind at the time there was not sufficient evidence
to show."

FIRST REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SUPER-
VISION FOR THE RELIEF OF THR POOR IN
SCOTLAND.
In our publication of IVoduesday we adverted to
this report, which we had received the day before. We now
presses our Scotch readers with an abstract of a document
whiel oseaot fail to possess much interest f,e them. The
spas* aftessatily devoted to the new, from India yesterday,
multbe ear apology Lir its not appearing earlier.
This report u the first official ',fitment of the working
of the act for the amendment and better adrnioistratiou
_ _

of the laws relating to the relief of the poor in Scot
land. This act was passed by the legislature in ISO. The
report is dated August, 1846. A board, consisting of eight
members, was constituted, who hare met weekly. Standing
committees were app dated to inquire avid report to the
board—first, on tho number of members which it might be
ads isabk to elect to the parochial board of each assessed
par:sk ; second, on the appeals against modes of assessment
which have been adopted in parishes ; third, on the condition
of pauper lunatics, and the intoner in which they were
disposed of and cared for. Special committees hare also been
appointed, as occasion required; and more recently a cam-
mittee of the whole ho trd has been named, any two members
to be a quorum, to ezamine eases of piupers complaining of
inadoittato relief, with power to remit to the parochial biarda
for fasilser information, but without power to dismiss the
complaint iu any ease. By this arrangement, the final dis-
posal of the cu es is expedited, while, at the same time, no
ewe can be decided against a pauper without the concurrence
of the board. _ _ .

Aft r making up the roll of the poor, and naming an in-
spector, each parochial board was required to determine as to
the mode of raising the funds required for the relief of the
poor. Scotland is divided into 878 parishes. By the latest
official returns, anterior to the passing of the recent act,
which were made up to 1842-3, 230 of these were then le-
gally slimmed. The number which has now resolved to raise
the funds for the relief of the poor by &casement is 418.
Some pariOrts have requested to be permitted to raise the
funds by voluntary contribution. Though great difficulties
oesurred in the mode of assessment, yet it is stated that all
the parishes hare now provided the funds required for the
relief of the poor.
The rule which the hoard have endeavoured to enforce
with respect to the removal of paupers is, that a poor per-
son who has applied fir relief in any parish is not to be
removed or provided with the means of removal to any
other with in Scotland than that which has been ascer-
tained to be the parish of his settlement. English and Irish
paupers, by this rule, are sent to their respective countries.
The Aet declares it to be expedient that poorhouses should be
built in populous parirhes, and authorises the parochial
board of nhy parish, or combination of parishes, which
contains more than five thousand inhabitants, to erect a
poor -borne as soon as the resolution to that effi.ct has
bees approved by the board of supervision. Several
parishes, says the report, have taken into consideration
the expediency of building poor-houses, but hitherto no
resolution In erect one has been transmitted to the board.
The parochial board of Edinburgh has made some progress
toward, the establishment of industrial schools for pauper
children • very important Idea/rams are anticipated heir
these manures. In a considerable number of parishes a
medical officer, with a tied salary, has been appointed;
but we observe that the board are far from considering that
the medical relief afforded to the poor in Scotland gene-
rally, and especially in the rural and remote parishes,
is on a satisfactory footing. At the close of 1816, re-
turns were obtained of the amount of vacant accommodation
for peeper lunatics in the public and private licensed estab-
habituate in Scotland. From these it appeared, that there
was then available in the public asylums accommodation for
82 persons, and in the private establishments for 52, making
134 vacancies in licensed houses fur pauper lunatics.
Returns of the latter show, that there are 1,621 in Scotland
who had not been placed in any licensed establishment, and
it was, therefore, impracticable to enforce the removal of
even a Moth part of those cases. The board greatly regret
that the accommodation for pauper lunatics if so very
limited, and that the existing asylums are for the most part
filled with incurable patients, to the exclusion of curable.
From Scpternber. 1815, to August, 1846, 597 cases of pau-
pers oomplainiog of inadequate relief hare been before the
board. Of these 303 have been dismissed on the informa-
tins contained in the schedules, and 94 after communication
with the parochial boards. In 182 cases the allowances have
been Managed ; 18 cases were not disposed of The amount
raised ON the relief of the poor in Scotland iacreaaed from
171,0481. in 1836 to 218,4811. in 1841, being an in-
crease in six yearn of 47,4391. During the year end-
ing Feb. 1, 1816, the amount raised was 306,0441. The
sum expended on relief during the year ending Feb. 1,
1845, was 268,8111. 19s. l l Icl , sad deriog the year
ending Feb. 1, 1846, 295,2321. Bs. Id., being an increase
of 38,4171. Br. lid. The increase in the sum raised
ea Vt. tea years from 1836 to 1848 has been 133,0011. or al-
assetie pr sent The population fa 1841 was 2,620,184.
The sum raised last year for the poor is therefore equal to
2a. 4d, per head. In 1836 the aura raised was 171,004., and
the pqalatlen wording to the wants of 1831 was 2,366,114.
The cast of the poor for that year wee therefore equal to
Is. Sid per head of the population. The number of poor on
the relts of all the wishes in Scotland for the year ending
Ist February, 1846, was 63,070, or about 1 in 42 of the popu-
latioa. In the following year the number of poor on the
rolls we. 09,432, or about 1 in 38 of the population.
The board greatly regret that since the legal provision for
the pear has been extended, pasties legally bound to main-
tain their peer mistime have manifested a greater dispoei
ties era Ihemerty to seeds this obligation and to throw the
whole Inwthen eupperting eves their parents and children,
on the parish. • voluminous appendix follows the report, eon-
DON11111:11-11 hewed by the board of supervision. 2.
=efeemedemes. 3.lpeenal minutes of the board or spe-
Widnes. 4. Missellawassinfonnetiou received by the
board. & Video abetesele eel returns. From the latter we
slinadaelleeriegiatereeelaiperaeuters :—Theantnial value
dmellggsgrely fa 1113 was 9,320,7841. Bs. 2d. ; sow raised
Ist the pow la tie year eadiag Fin. 1, 1846, 306,0441.,
whisk was thus dhtributed : —On relief of permanent poor,
211,1111111. 9s. 101 d.; on relief ofooeulonal poor, 24,6331.95. 3d.;
en medics! relief, 4.0551. 17s. lid. ; on management,
17,4641. 13s. I id. ; and on litigation, 2,6461. 10.. Ild. A
separate table gives the sum expended on the relief of the
poor la the large tows* daring the y 1844 and 1845.
The esneent in the former year was 97,,1g33991.
7,1391. 105. ;la the
latter. 1414,21141. 3s. 31d. In 046, Edinburgh expended
27.173 E SI. 154 d. ; Glasgow, 40,a31. 7s. 81d., pa the relief of
their respective poor.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Ina. 3.
These is no news from the country. The famine
my by gene down, bat the southein papers bring a
partial{ revival. The Cork Reporter at yesterdayson-
Mils reports of several inqueets in the misty, and city,
in whin & " death from starvation" was the recorded
verdict. The city must suffer from distress and dis-
ease when the workhouse numbers 5309 inmates, and
the hospital 430, with 1,030 extern patients. The
very seasonable relief of supplies by the London com-
mittee has operated most favourably on the condition
of the coast population, month-west and neeth-west.
• Foam in universal on the promptitude and munifi-
cence of the committee.
The letter of the Rev. Mr. Woodyard, in the
Exprose of Monday, and republished in the Dublin
papers, has elicited the following remarks from the

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elmorres, this Is as alas se at • &re peas& “ tole
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thin Bette lan Ise asy siaaasslve massimt against Oa
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pasafaiar, pamplaw nas maw anabeatios;

and so important did it seem in their eyes, that a
general meeting of the entire body will take place on
y next, todeliherate upon it. The following
resolution was agreed to :
That It I. most Arguable, for the (012•111105 C• deeming on the
beamed the body, that lelhrwedee seat from the smutty, on web.
Jests miff the conederedee etthe entraittee, ahead be tremeircee
IS the issrelories previous tell=iita cash week ; and the owe.
WM= heltelee wed the rneuree
new ban ken polite Iran =he iedindeals
theemeltset rewitry.
In answer to ths application of' the committee no
government requiring the estalilishmant of seed
depots, Mr. T velyan writes :
TreemyChesherft kte. te, 1617.
eir,-1 ant wmllpsded by We leede Camaireleree et her its-
jetty's Tema-y to aeruilat you, wm/t/ to Wee se tas
la-L, that their liellaidin have /1/1M Iliess the
delivered by you le_ 1 lAbeffeettwee base et =
productive Watts Osemittee, reeeemodikte the ineeeres
✓eed to loped by We peweemset le supply the May
et sod ebb& is elippleed te cart le dawn. verb d Irelamd ;
see, stet a emit seisidoetter at the they we sate
fled the. the Medlin to the way d sad
distribeee. Wee gemilles et wed, esti thevete ante Neel Ovate eeemey, which meat le the emelemse et
depend upon pewermeet wish a weater,
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112s=e to hessikee ie the 11111112111 IrsommisiL
an WOW% howorer, that Is order to glee see segeereeleememt
awn Iles wet destitution, her Malatya two dem.
adawleatil& le periLimeet Res a ewe of arty theerml peuldft le
be bond felarl repsyshb aftere, cwt berme, to boded prevision
alp leelle milt their Imele in providing Ned • sad the
Lard lieeleiset hes hew requisted le advise teestamed ender w
Meg the aleve•nestered sum lien he appropriated.-1 am, Fir,
utr -- 23, Lower

vnor Ameba servant, C. Tams.--
ha. Cos, 23,
publtn."
Mr. William Stanley has been appointed secretary
to the relief department, under the new organisation
of the relief commission. Mr. Stanley has tilled
similar situations for several years past, with ability,
fidelity, and zeal; and his services under the com-
missariat department, during the destitution of 1845-
6 and 7, point him out as eminently adapted for Isis
new loaition. Mr. Stanley has earned considerable
reputation as a statist, and no man in this country is
better acquainted with the details of public business,
The baronies of Upper and Lower Ormond are the
most turbulent in Tipperary, and consequently in be-
land. Additional pollee are wanted to protect public
officers and the transit of provisions • and the magis-
trates have applied fur one hundred, who will be
allowed an extra shilling a day, provided they he em-
ployed 'six hours per diem in guarding such injurious
public characters as pay-clerks, and saving food from
plunder. This disposition to every criminal disorder
is the less excusable when the number of men em-
ployed cri public works in the Nenagh district, for the
week ending the 21st of January, was over 11,000
men.

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, FEB. 3.

The Lord Advocate has intimated to the Scotch
member, of Parliament that he intends brMging in a
bill for the consolidation of the acts rclating to lu-
natics in Scotland, and for the erection of asylums for
pauper lunatics. Four or five such edifices, he sup-
poses, will be sufficient, and he contemplates the di-
viston of Scotland into a corresponding number of
districts.

The excessive expense entailed on some parishes by
their pauperism, and the comparative exemption of
others, has led to a proposition of a central fund, to
which all parochial collections should be sent in the
first instance, and then all the parishes allowed, under
certain restrictions, to draw wording to the amount
individually required by them.
The Board of Trade has written to the Trinity
House, Dundee, and it is presumed to maritime boards
in other ports to ascertain if any good Effects have as
yet followed from the voluntary examination of
masters and mates for the mercantile service. About
twenty-five young men have undergone strict exami-
nations at Dundee, and so far as yet can be learned,
the system having been in operation only for twelve
months, with good results.

REPRERSWIATION or OLASOOW, &C.—A correspondent
says "This subject is beginning to excite considerable in-
terest in the city of Glasgow, and it is now certain that, at
the period of a general election, the present members—viz.,
Mr. Oswald of Auchencruive and Mr. John Dennistoun—
will not be returned without a struggle. Since the passing
of the Reform Bill, the members for Glasgow (except in
the ease of Mr. Ewing) have invariably been returned by
the nomination and influence of a large association of gen-
tlemen of Liberal polities, familiarly known in Glasgow by
the cognomen of the " Clique." During the last
haar or two, however, the bonds of this party
ve been materially relaxed; and within that. few
months an exte vine secession from its ranks is under-
stood to have taken ghee. The difference between the
two sections has arisen from conflicting opinion' as to the
future representation of the commercial metropolis of Scot-
land. The charge against the preseut members is that they
are indolent—that they have been found to bo of little ser-
vice to any of the numerous deputations who have visitel
London on Glasgow business, and that they were totally de-
void of that ability and senatorial status which should dis-
tinguish the members for the second city of the empire. A
private, but very numerously attended, meeting of liberal
electors was held last (Monday) night, to concert measures
for an election campaign ; and, in initialibut, they came to
the resolution that the representation was in an unsatisfac-
tory state. The meeting, however, did not openly indicate
a preference for, or pledge themselves in favour of, any parti-
cular candidate; but it is well known that the majority wore
disposed to bring forward Mr. Macgregor, of the Board of
Trade, at the proper time. It will be necessary :or them,
however, in the first instance, to prove their sincere desire
for a change by providing the funds for the contest, ea
it would be unfair to throw such on Mr. Macgregor,
and it is well known that from the ample means of Messrs.
Oswald and Dennistoun, a struggle for the representi.tion
of Glasgow would be a very serious matter indeed. These
gentlemen, too, are popular with a very large portion of the
electors. Mr. Joseph ltume is spoken of by some; but his
cause has not yet attracted many supporters. It is regretted
by many here that Lord Lincoln has toyed to much with the
Manchester electors, for he would have secured a large sec-
tion of the moderate Liberal constituency, and a vast I
majority of the Conservatives. The manner in which !
hie lordship managed the late contest for the Fel.
kirk burghs, as welt se his intimate connection with the
ducal bowie of Hamilton, has made him well-known and liked
in these parts. The rejected of Manchester, however, if his
lordship really be each, would not go down with the menet
Glasgow. The Conservatives have paid little or no atten-
tion to the registrations fir the last few years; but still they
are sufficiently strong to turn the scale or carry a man of
their own, in the event of a split in the Liberal camp, which
now seems inevitable. . .

" Tnde in Glagow as in • wonderfully active state, consi-
dering the dearth of provi. ions, end other adverse influences
at work over the country."
HIALTH or Towns.—M• town council of Glasgow are
to appoint an inspector of alaughter-houses at a salary of
1201, per annum.