The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-27 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY.

The aseeei meeting et she ehartiveiders-ht the
eeempasy took Woes miesity at the eau, New Bred.
street J. R TODD, ling , the adonis et the hued el A.
wefts, presided. The Wastes of the lout aseethig havlog
hits errearnatel,
The llacitseurr reed the entiel repel% ken whisk we
utraet tbe i•i^g :
" Particular htvontselea of the emopeee's property ea the
31st October last, have boos resolved, sad emust to
302.97111 Is. Bd.
111* rapid IMIDOOSII Of AO pOpliktin•,tbe&eueral progress
of the ecilsoy, and itn eatsadiag commaree, mentribute to
the hometown' of rear proper', sad ham& The dine,
was have loop d year natal es Oho seek moue et
your mean*, sad ewe whisk they maideatk sakeipatod
wield rapidly improve. It W very estithetery to Wm to
unease*, es it maw he so the shershilders to hem that
thus anticipations sr. being pereeeedeely realised.
The following were the reemple tee the year ending the
31st oowber last :
Anneal natal of the towel property
Ditto ditto port buildings ..£3,080 8 6
Do. receipts from the wh0r1.... 2,669 13 8 _

. -
5,650 1 2
Ditto rental of connt►y lands

£14,496 6 4
The 'mount r.eeired from tbs.* ,oaiees for
the year eadtrig October 31, UM, was .... 11,034 16 0

Increase during last year
"Numerous leases, particularly of the country leads, at
very favourable rates, continue to be effected ; but in the
ems of a large properties of them the entry did not take
Flew till Michaelmas or Christmas IseL The increase in the
medal of the town property is chiefly owing to the renewal
of least. at isdeareed ratite, and to granting building Imam*
la theme. amuse favourable legalities, SOL per sons= had
b en received as ground rental for one acre on a bailding
lease. We have upwards idea hundred acres is Adelaide as
yet sierectinied.
" The tied* of the c3lonv 'tontine.. to extend, ro that we
have had to provide additional 'commendation, both by an
extension at the wharf and the erecion of a new warehouse
at tbe port, the returns from which are likely to prove mut
satisfactory. Toe basement of oar new building was rutted
as a tiondel warehouse as soar as it was finished, on tM 22nd
Januery I.st.
• With regard to the sale of leads, Me. Odes has been
fully ircructad as to the views of the board and of the
shareholders. In the tree of the town lands, it is, how-
sloe, goal policy when the company have a number of
coutriguous acres to diopose of a few, so as to
'orut the nuelrus of an improving neighbaurbecod. As to
couirry land., the b aid is very adverse to any sale*, ex-
cope under peculiar eireaustaitess and at • high advance on
the inventory rat.. As to the land at the port, it is very
desirable Mint:seem **number of thooe who are interested
in its continuance at the present site; and, therefore, Mr.
Giles has bees encturaged the hoard to sell small allot.
siesta, especially as he has bees enabled to wore very high
Deices. Acting agreeably to these htetructio, s, he has dia.
pined of a few town acre., and portions of town acres of
which he had previously sold a part, and protium' an ad-
vance shave totem va'usta of fl.. 9J. Of the ei-untry
lands he ha, sold only two factious (161 ac mt. and 20 rem
of another section, which yield an advance over last in
of 3061. Toe hales of load at the Port have consisted of
ratan allottneare, bat thee have yielded an advance above
last valuation of the large sum of 2,271/ 10s., mains thus a
total of profit an the sales of land turieg the year of
3,1071 111....92, _ .

" lir. Giles has been in treaty with two parties for the pur-
chase el tenets portions of our flock% but no sale was
effected. As intimated is the sepplemeetary report, pre-
sented to the shareholders on the 2.8.. h December last, the
clip of wool netted 6,6821. Is. The greater pones of the
current yeas'. clip Ilea been already sold, and averaged
Is 30. per pound, yielding so advance of 2d. per pound, on
the sales of the previ us year. We have yet to receive
from the e.:cmy about 5 t bales, value, 7501.
" The rrices of butcher's meat are very low in all the Ana.
Italian c,lonies, so that oar sales of sheep continua to he very
livai•ed. amounting during lest year to £1,243 12 7
While those killed for ration. amount to 698 0 4

£1,839 12 11
Being an armors of nearly 5.. 3.1. per head.
" In carrying into effect the wi•hes of Ow shareholders in
disposing of the hems, a considerable loss was saavaidably
incurred, ant 'satin, to 9931. la. _ _

The (awaits, is the sessaary cf the :erenue for the last
roar:

14n.a1 of the town proparty £2,107 16 11
Ditto of Port boildwea, aad mslpta trn

wharf

&C. 50 2 2

Ditto of country lands
Profit on sales of land—town, port, awl
country
-..... . -

Net proceeds of wool • 5,662 1 0
Bsles of ►he.p to the butchers, including value
of those killed for rations

£21,105 16 0
" The total current expenditure in the colony, exclusive
of that eounteted with the matcral operaions, woo as
follows :

.Rlnries and WSW is Adelaide £954 2 0
151.scillaneous ebarys thorn .... 419 19 0-I.3RA 1 0
0 levant of the sheep 5,229 19 6
WO of the t twn and port property sad
country hinds

£7,697 15 1
The total mount of salaries and charges is
Loodqn daring this last par, Jaen Ping tha
income tax, is. 1,691 6 2
Inters► on debrotures, 921 1 6
2,812 7 8

£lO3lO 2 9
" The mining operations of the colony have proneded ca
the whole oetisfsetorily, and leave no room to doubt the in.
memo extent of its mioeral restored The same caution
whieh the &Teeters have hitherto .I,o:titled will continue to
mend to this breach of your operations. No er-at malts
have, as yet, arisen from them ; but Cap•ain Reinfry. full
reports, which are open to the insi.ection of any share-
holder who eta affrrd the time be their penile' hold
out encouraging prospects of success. Mewls.
Thomas cot tlienly anticipate increased produce from
the Kensantoo mine, as they are extending their smelting
establishment. _ _

iteotiTai;t the mine doting the year
amounted to £3.518 18 11

While the relue et the ores rsibsd was

£1.b91 1 10

"A email parcel of 17 tons of richer ore than we are
accustomed to smelt in the eolony, has been lately r: mired
here, and is now at Swansea, where it will be sold on the
11th proximo. Some specimens of gold from the heels of
ricers ia the campany 'shod have been received. A careful
experiment is row being made by Captain Resery, to test
the value of these undoubted aurifero,s monde, bf ascertain-
log the exact cost of extracting the gold from them.
" It would bees sfforded your directors much plenum to
have reponamended to you, on this occasion, to declare an in-
creased dividend ; but, after • mo.t careful c insiderativin of
your revenue applicable to this object, and The present state
•if year flume's, their unanimous opinion is. that the moos
prudent casino will be, for one year longer to continue it at
f .sr per cent.; but they have, at the same time, the satis-
faction of 'souring you of their conviction, that your rapidly
increasaig rent roll alone, w.ll secure you a larger one next
year.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said it was ea fair and full as would be agreeable to the snare-
holden. Tie f stare progress sad semen of the company
were now subject to very halls doubt, the only matters which
could aff, et teem being the sheep, the mini rale, and the
program 01 the railway. On the mineral account there was
a considtrab:e deficiency, but that had been mainly ones.
sioned by putting the miens in a state fit for letting. At the
last amounts the working was profitable, and it was not
likely that any further balances would appear on the wrong
aide the account. The extension of the railway wee • very
cleanable measure for the company; they had therefore
sent out a dredging machine to assist in the operations.
The land might fairly he looked to for a full return for their
capital ; they had 24,000 acres to let, which world be very
productive. It was to their colleague, Mr. Divot% M.P ,
that the company was mainly indebted for the improve.
mints that had been Introduced into the Australian Cole.
nim Government Bill. (Hear, her )
Mr. TI3IIBON seconded the adoption of the report and
accounts. which was agreed to untniencualy.
Mr. ANGUS. is moving the deelarati en of a dividend of
4 per nat. said he thought the di.ertors might have gone
a little farther; but probably then caution would be a benefit
to the company in future. He erangr..talated the company
on the fact that they had not a Hudson to preside over
them. (Hew, hear.) Of the thoonanda who had emigrated
to the colony, he had is,,, betted of one who repented of
the step he had taken. (Hear.)
Mr. DIVETT, H P., in answer to • question, said he
believed the Auetralisa Colonies Bill would soon become
law. Great hostility had been expressed to it in many
quarters, arida* chi, fly out cf colonial jealousies. The op-
position of the Colonial Reform Society had been signally
defeated in the House of COWIIOII4, and, up to this time,
is the Hoses of Lords else.
. . . . . . .

Mr. HEATH @impeded the resolution, which was adopted.
The retiring direeten and genitors were re-eleeted, and
thanks were voted to the chairman and director,.

BATHS AND WASHHOUS6II.-A special Meeting of
the treaties of the parish of AU Sainte, Poplar, Wee held (in
parsusuee of a requisltios) is the Town-hell on Tawidiy
messing, fer the wpm of adopting the ects for the esta-
blishing of bulls and washbowl. in that ',wish, Mr. B. 0.
Bluett, chaschwardea, i• Me chair. Mr. Kemp, the •
clerk, read the modem maven's' the 'IMMO', together with
the seta of podiums' homing on the subject. Mr. H. I.
Peterken then moved. sad Mr. E. Coleman seconded, "That
this meeting is of opinion that the 9 el 10 Vie , cep. 74, ie-
tituled ' An Act to encourage the establishment of bathe sad
wiehhous a,' and the 10 a 11 Vie ,esp. 61, iatituled ' An Act
to emend the set for the establishment of public bathe sad
washhowroe,' ought to be adopted for this perish, and they
are hereby adopted accordingly." The r.. solution wee then
eupoJeted by Dr. Bvirkett, Mr. Redpath, and the Rev. Mr.
11 z Is, rector of the parish, and after wrote otwerestions from
Mr. Hall, end e■ intimation from Mr. 8. Kuiiht that the
1B on and West India Dark Company rally concurred I. this
movement, it wee carried unaninomly maid the cheers of
the meeting. It was then moved by Mr. C. Cooly, seconded
by the Rev. Mr. Baiely, sad earned ussalmowdr, " That
the foregoing neoltitioa be signed by the 'halms& on behalf
of the meeting, and forwarded to the fßarttary of Mate kW
the Home Dept:tout for hie approval."

. -
comagacia irRA:VELLIRW . SCHOOLS.-
ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.

Oa Titaaday the third mad examlostion of the
boys, end &seethed,' of pines to the mare deserving pupils,
took glass at the ludhasisi, Warmed,* possemee or •
WEI at et Wham' patkintea. Mr. WootAnaros
o.mgltd he Pak dialog the Ise part at thi pentatiago,
sod the anbauosen he anambetien wound of
SZlliendseilmmtle, musk, I. peatmar,
vithe mailmeim measaration, algebra,
Frown, Latta, he. Ilt Ete dam of the examissibin (the
rush st whisk sehmled peat midis apse the meson of
the saes% the sat inn to as onesetelneaset, which
had beta pusuM4 he thing ea thilawn at he leek of Me
premises, nod • hassediately allormards the iihnibetion of
prime leek glass sailer the pealeney et Sr. Wllemes,
aetrile& of the beard et monispmeat, maimed by Mr. Rs-
, tort Clarke, the donor Almada.
The fiellowing wain he somisedel candidates :
Bon.—Fine &soden: Jobe Arthur Jesse, fiamusl
Kt ri7, James Richard Henson, William Elliott 13tandfield,
Alfred Witherill, J. A. Jamas, T. H. Harris. Wm. H.
Hope. Ileased Bemis: William Maros,. William W.
therili, Alfred Carter. Thomas Charles Willis.., Wm.
Marrow, Edmund H. White, William George Telt, Bursae'
8. Hope.
Charm.—Firet Smiles : Eliza Justine, Barak Ball, Maria
Byers, Allot Goddard, Mery Ann Loodri.!ge, Mamba
Wicks. flocesd Section: Elisabeth Edwards, Caoliue
EC:RI, Emma Jardine, llama Killer, Clara Coplestone,
:Cotton, Margaret Load.
The creasony haviog °occluded, Sr. Charge Moore, trea •
surer to the institution, made a short address to the °out-
play. He had great pleasure in iatroducing to their
nodes a gentleman named Cole, who had, by his
own individual exertions, sameeded ie anemia" 700 i. In the
town of Bristol alone. This sum would rb towards the
fund which they were now raising for the pur-
pose of one. Jag • sew building la place of
that which was at present occupied be the echoes.
Ha proposed that the thanks of the compasy be tendered to
Mr. IVoollertos and 111 - Cole.
Mr. OUNTON wooded the motion, sad stated that no
liltstood higher than Bristol la its desire to promote the
ects of charity and besevoleses.
r. COLE, la returning thanks, said he bad only done
his duty is aolMetieg subscriptions towards the erection of a
building se easestiai to the welters of the institution. He
was happy to fled that his efforts had met with the approba-
tion of his friends, and he should be very willing at all
times to reader what service he could to so praiseworthy •
society.
Mr. WOOLLERTON then returned thanks, saying that
he feared be was not able to muter much benefit anon the
institution, but he was very glad to do all in his power. and
he thought that if every trisect to the s ciety would do the
seam, they should have very little difileulty in obtaining
the sum respired.
Mr. INGLEPIELD proposed a vote of thanks to the
chairman and deputy-chairman of the board of management.
Mr. PORTER seconded the motion, outlet; that the
prosperity of the Institution was greatly promoted by the
ezertiors of Mr. Wileoson and Mr. Robt. Clmke.
Mr. WILCOXON, in acknowledging the compliment,
said that the institution had received his warmest maps.
thin from its outset origin and he should have the greatest
possible pleasure is eastinuing the support which he bad felt
it his duty to eaten° towards it.

Mr. it:CLARKS, the deputy chairman of the board, then
expressed his thanks for the compliment which had bean
paM him. He highly approved of the system arriving prizes,
provided they were judiciously bestowed, and he hoped that
the principle would continue to be productive of beneficial
results.
The proceedings of the day then terminated.

THE LATE ARCEBISHOP OF CANTERBCRT.—The mu-
bla mosmasat to the memory of the late Dr. Howley, by Mr.
Riebald Westsamott, has tilt I week been erected is Ce,,tcr-
bevy Cathedral, nearly opposite the throne. The model is
in the preeeot exhibition of the Royal Academy, and bas
bees already noticed among the secomalul wotki of art et
the year.

A WINDSOR PIO-NIC. Prince Albert having
granted permission to the children attending the schools in
connexion with the Rev. Mr. Herschell'a chapel to visit the
state 'pertinent* of Win leor Castle, on Monday Last, the
appointed dry, the schools mustered for a holiday, and pro.
needed to Windsor. Arrived at their journey's eni, they
soon reached the park, and by and bye, in small battalions,
they marched to the castle, and threaded their way through
its storied halls and magnificent banquetting rooms. No
murmurs remind them save those of admiration and de-
light. Such splendour had never before met their gine :
I the suppressed utterance, the glistening eye, end the lin-
I Ruing la k gave token of waat was passing within. The
I world of Charles-street had passed away, and the mind ben
become filled with new images of the beautiful, of which
before it had nit the leas'. unception. Theeescattered bands
afterwards reas enabled on the lawn, and formed a host
above a thousand strong, Having partaken of refreshments
and sung a hymn they started on taeir homeward journey,
which they completed in eivetp.
THE WRECK OF TUE ORlON.—Captain Denham,
R.N., arrived at Portpitrick on Sunday night from London'
and is sow punning his inquiries reepectiog the lase of this
vessel. A female and child were got out of her on Sunday,
supposed to be Mrs. Scott, of Montreal, and her child. Her
husband was one of those who unfortunately perished ; he
was alive w.:ea brought on shore, but died in a few minute..
Her sister, Mrs. Scalds, &widow lady, was also drowned; she
left 10 children behind her at Montreal. Both &DlN's were
on their way to Glasgow, their native town, to make ar-
rangements for settling there. On Monday ttrre bodies
were got oat by the divers; one of them is known to be a
Glasgow merchant, but the other two have not been iden-
tified: one was a lad about IS years old. Captain
(Collinsay), whose body has not been yet found, had his
Ilife insured for 20,00 W. On Sunday evening instructions wire
received from the Lord Advocate to apprehend Mr. Hender-
son, the commander of The Orion. The warning were pat
into the bands of the polios here. We understand that he
will be admitted to bail.

POSTAL SUNDAY ARBANGLMENTS.—Our Bristol
correspondent Itches that the altered postai arrangements in
referent* to Sundays have formed a subject of general con-
versation in tr at city, especially In the commercial circles.
The general feeling is that it offers too great as in'erruption
to mercantile pursaitr, and occasions too much 'accessed-
enee generally, to be tolera ed as a permanent arrangement ;
altho-tgh there seems to be • di.psettion to limit the hours
of %volutes on Sundays and the consequent labour of the
clerks and °Heists to the lowest necessary point.
A VIEW OP SHARP'S ALLEY.—It is a large
knaeker's yard, furnished with all the usual appnratus Sr•
slaughtering diseased or wort:-out bones, and plentifully
bestrewn with the reeking members and frightful refuse of
the mornintra work. But even before the eye—usually the
first and quickest organ in scticn—has time to glance nand,
the MOH of smell is not only mailed, hut taken by storm,
with a molt horrible, warm, moist efilivium, so offensive,
and at the gams time so peculiar and potent, that it requires
no small resolution in any one, not accustomed to it, to re-
main a minute within its prceliscts. Three of the corners an
completely filled up with • heap of dead bones lying upon
their backs, with their boots sticking bolt upright; while
two other angles Ia the yard are filled with a saw of bodies
and fragments, whose projecting legs and other numbers
serve as stretchers for raw skins,—flayed from their com-
panions, or from themselves, lying all discoloured, yet
in all colours, beneath. By this means the skins are
stretched out to dry. A few live animals are in the yard.
There Is one horse—waiting for his tun—as the cx party
some la ; his bows an bent, his head is bowed tow.rds the
slushy ground. his dripping mane filing over his face, and
almost reaching with its lack end to the dark muddled gore
in which his fore hoofs are planted. A strange, ghastly rat.
ding sound, apparently from the adjoining premises, is helot
up without intermission; a sort of inconceivably rapid
divil'e-tatoo, by way of acoompanimeat to the hideous scene.
Two dead bones are being skinned; but all the other ani-
mals—of the four-footed clue we mean—are bullocks, in dif-
ferent stages of disease, and they are sewn in number.
These latter have sot been condemned by the inspector, bat
have been brought here to undergo a last effort for the pur-
pose of being made salable—washed end scrubbed, so as to
have the chance of finding a purchaser by torchlight at soma
very low plies ; and, failing in this, to be killed before
they die, or eat up as soon after they die as pos.
tibia. They were all distinguished by slang terms according
to the emus end stages of their diseases. The two best of
thew bed ballads/ ars designated as 't ishoppen." the three
wheae hides ars torn in several places, are called "rough-
ens ;" while tho e who are in • drooping and reeking condi-
;boa, with literally a death-sweat all over them, are playfully
' called tt wet-uns.' To this latter class belongs our poor os,
who is now brought in, and heatedly introduced by the in-
spector as diseased, and condemned. The others he does
not see—or, at least, does not notice—his btriness being with
the or, who was the last comer. Having thus performed his
duty, the inspector retires! But what is this cesselem rat.
thaw tattoo that is kept up in the adjoining premises ? The
walls vibrate with it ? Weiner; of some kind ? Yes—it
is eichopping machine •*.astd here you behold the " choppers,"
both horses and diseased t allocks, who will ober ly be in a
fit state for promotion, and will then be takes pine-meal
nest door. Ay, it is so, in sober and dreadful seriousness.
Here, in this Bharp's-alley, you behold the largest bone
slaughter house in the city ; and Isere, nest door, you will
find the largest sausage manufactory in Loados.—Dirliens'a
licisethoki Words.

Cortriers.—Yesterdsv some very interesting re-
turns to parliament were printed connected with the consist
system. In Bop/lend and Wales, is 1847, 61 eonviette were
sentenced to death, 60 In 1848, and 69 in 1849; whilst in
1847, 2 806 were sentenced to transportation, 3,251 in 11848,
and 2,844 in 1849. In Seethed only 11 were sentenced to
death la this three yeas*, 1,180 were sentenced to trenepor-
taloa, and 6,206 to imprisonment In Ireland, in 1847, 25
were sentenced to death, 2,186 to tnieepartation, and
persons to imprisonment. In 1848 the number in Ireland
wee 60 sentenced to death, 2,698 to transportation, and
12,968 to imprisonment; whilst in 1849 the number Ben-
tone. d to death wee 38, to tran.portation 3,060, sad to lea-
wieonatent 15 443. Is England and Wales the sums paid
by the Trseaury for food, &c., for convict. and misdemean-
ant. in the year ending the 30 cti September, 1847. anionated
to 05.9321. 16. 6d , in the following year to 81.9541. 1.. Id.,
and lut year t 76,1671. 16s. ld., betides 10,3531 6t. 4d. last
year for transports in gaols. In Scotland the expense pant
by the Treasury for food &a. was 10,4371. ss. 7d. last year,
sad in Ireland it was 9:7921:34. ld.

Tits APPROACIDNOBANTLET' IN THE BANAT AND
flaavtA prowess to yield Moot abundantly. The wheat,
bark', and rya are in very tall ear ; the appsarance of oats
sad noise is that of esabereace. The wise Demos la Simi&
sed Tasks Qua will be very good.— nem' o.fficsal Ga-
NU&

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1860.

_
IRELAND. •
Dosing. 'yea W.
There were five peewees advertised for sale yes-
terday (Tausday) in the Encumbered Estates Court,
and the business of the day was commenced with the
sale of some honest, the property of Joseph Walker,
and a lot of laud on which helms are in coons of
construetioe' on Waster-road, Ratbmines, near Dub-
lin. The houses, Nos. 30 to 34, yielding &profit rent
of 1781. were purchased for 1,7301., and the building
lot for 7601., both by Dr. Egan.
The estate of Mr. Johnston, situated near Ballyshan-
coo, in the county Donegal, was next put op. Lot
1., assisting of a lease of lives renewable for ever, of
the lands of Tally, eoetaining 88 sores, and producing
a clear profit rent of 881. 18s. Bd., was purchased by
Dr. Shed for 1,0001. Lot 2 was adjourned.
The estate of Mr. Walter George Carew came
next. Lot 1, the he-simple of 172 acres near Ard-
more, in the county Waterford, producing a yearly
rent of 2201., subject to rent charge of 384 10.., was
purchased by Mr. Law for 2,1001. The sale of two
other lots of the same property was adjourned to a
future day.
The sale of the Montgomery estates situated in the
county Kilkenny, and containing 1,892 am., 3 rood',
34 perches, was also adjourned. Mr. Sadleir, M.P.,
who appeared for an English creditor, expressed an
opinion that sufficient publicity had not been given to
the intended sale, especially in England, and he
thought it would be very desirable that liihographed
maps of large properties like that should be prepared
and circulated in England some time before the sale.
Mr. Hargrave, the commissioner, did not think it
likely that parties in England would purchase Irish
estates without Brat coining over to look at them; but
Mr. Sadleir assured the court that a considerable por-
i ion of the property sold there had been purchased by
English gentlemen who had not seen the land., but
who relied upon the integrity of the lithographed maps
of Purvey. Having offered some of the lots separately
and no adequate bidding being made,the commissioners
thee offered the whole estate, consisting of 13 lots, is
one; bat the highest bidding was that of Mr. Duckett
for 29,0001. ; and Mr. Sacheir assured the court that
very few years since Captain Keys had offered
60,0001. for the estate, a gentleman present adding
that so much as 65,0001 had been offered for it. The
sale was ultimately adjourned.
The fee simple of the lands of Neilatown. containing
186 acres, and producing a net rent of 2361. 14s. 5d..
the property of Thomas M'Farlane, as-ignee of
Charles Naugle, a bankrupt, was soli for 3,3501., Mr.
Clay being the purchaser. The leasehold interest of
Hoystowo, in the county Wicklow, containing 240
acres, belonging to the same proprietor, was then put
up. The rose rental of this lot is 2121. 19.., and the
outgoing. to which same is at present liable is
131 1 le. 10d. for rent, and 100/. a year payable to
Julia Bnbason, who is now about 40 years of age, a
tithe rent charge of 71. oe. 9d., which leaves a present
net rent of 921. 6e. sd. Dr. Henry Fulton was de-
clared the purchaser at 1,5001.
Lord Naas has been appointed by Lnrd Carendon
a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Kild .re.
A meeting was held last evening in the theatre of
the Royal Dublin Society for the purpose of hearing
Mr. Jasper W. liners explain his mode of using peat
charcoal for sanitary and agricultural purposes. At
the clove of the proceedings a resoluron was proposed
to the effect, that the meeting being of opinion that
some effectual means are required for removing the
general refuse of the city, do approve of the principle
of deodorisation explained and illustrated by Mr.
Roger,, as well calculated to effect this most desir-
able object. Mr. Mallet objected that the meeting
was taken by surprise, and they only supposed that
they were invited to hear a lecture, and not to pro-
nounce en opinion on a subject of so much impor.
Lance. The resolution, however, was adopted.
At the annual meeting of the Dublin Statistical
Society, Captain Larcum read a highly important
document, embracing a vast mass of statistical in-
formation on the present condition of Ireland. The
following extracts from this very valuable paper will
be read with interest :

The population increased 51 per cent. between 1831 and
1841, inclusive of emigration and other drains, which ave-
raged 57,000 per annum. It we Marne these proportions to
have continued, we ought to have in 1851 a population
amounting to 8,594,317. But during the last three years the
emigration from Ireland to the colonies and United States,
acoordiog to the recent report of the emigrevion commis-
stoner', has Red 200,000 per annum ; and it does not
appear to be materially dientashiog by the returns of
the first quaver of this year. If this should continue,
4.,a the emigration of the lut five years of the current
decade should thus emceed th• aaaaa go by 143,000 per
annum, we shall have 715,000 to deduct from our com-
puted number for emigration alone. Then numbers are
vague, yet their import and indications are clear enough.
When, an addition to this, the diminished number of mar-
riages, and the diminished fertility of many of those mar-
rimer, is also taken into account, as well as the deaths either
caused or hastened by famine, fever, and distress we must
W prepared to snficipate that a forminable chairs will be
presiosted by the census of 1851.
In fact, cur numbers can scarcely exceed, if they equal.
those of 1831, viz. 7.767,401. Any estimates, however, of
the population of Ireland in 1851 can rut only on tne most
'acne conjecture. It has been though', and apparently
with go •el ressoo, that the e .nsus of 1821 was too low, and
that of 1831 too high—so that the increase between those
years was es than the 14 per cent. which their figures
afford ; and if 1831 was too high, the 51 increase which the
census of 1841 gave on it was less then the trait. In feet'
the Census Commissioners of 1841 expressed an opioi m that
the real increase during those ten years was little, ti at all,
lees than 12 per cent.
We have, therefore, no sufficient data to compute what
the population of 18.51 wool t have been in ordinary circum-
stances, nor to frame any numerical estimate of the loss we
have sustained during the late calamitous years. Still less
can we anticipate the strange dislocation which the whole
population will probably have undergone. Entire families will
have passed away by emigration and death, and nor, remain
to account for them—nay, populous townlands and Ma
tricts may be without their old inhabitants, while towns
will in some cases be more populous than before. The eked-
fication of ages will probably he in like manner anomalous,
and present carves which will defy equation. We have no
registry of marriages of the whole community, but in the
limited ciao' for which we do pones. them they have seriously
diminished. from 9,344 in 1846 to 6,943 an 1847, the 'mat
date :o which the returns are published. Of births, we are
without any general record, but the isolated statements and
observations which have been made from time to time show
great diminution. • • • •
• • • • • - -

- Assuming, then, in the absence of precise information,
that we start in 1851 with the population of 1831, let us
look to the means sow at our disposal, which did not then
I ciat. We have lest the crops, much of the stock, and m•ny
of the people our crops and stock supported. Bet we have
not lost the soil they grew upon, nor the means of producing
crops u ►bundant ss before the lamine—nay, since 1831. •
m Ilion of cues have probably been a cl.cl to our produrinit
area, and at least ate millions to the capital invested 10
them. • • •

The registered tonnage of Irish • 'eels has increased
from 128,469 in 1836, ta 269,742 in 1848, employing about
16,000 men instead of 9,. 00, the number in the former year.
8 earn navigation has increased in perhaps a greeter ratio,
having now 106 easels, with a tonnage of 39,918.
The Ordnanee survey, which bad scarcely commenced in
1631, is now completed, and has been followed by a geolog4
cal survey, now in rapid progress, while the Industrial
Museum, under our distinguished vice-president, Si, FL
KIM., b silently and gradually accumulating knowledge,
and the means of making knowledge available to all the
useful purposes of practical improvement
Since 1831, too, what ',rides has education made. The
schools of the National Board, established since that time,
numbered on their rolls, in 1848, no less than 607,409, and
they Maya been steadily pouring out number., yearly in-
creasing. Infant education begins their course, the
agricul-
tural schools continue it into practical life, and a normal
school at the same time ins. runts new schoolmasters.
Within the last year the Queen's Colleges have been opened,
to close and crown the acad. mic scale.

PROPOSED COLLEGE MR DERRY.—The Derry
Standard says:—" We ropy the following from the journal
of yesterday: It will be recollected that the late Mn.
Magee, of Dublin, brqueathed 20,000:. for the establishment
of • college la connexion with the General Asmtubly of
Ireland, the site of which was to be selected by the exe-
cutors. We are informed by a correspondent In London that
• negotiation with respect to that eilltrre has been concluded
between the Hon. the Irish Society and the Rev. Dr. Brown,
of Aghedoey, one of Mrs. Keret execaton, acting for him
self and his colleagues; and, though our correspondent does
sot pretend to a knowledge of the minute details of the
treaty, be sautes us that he can vouch for the taithfriness of
the following outline, which, we are certain, will bo meet
satisfactory to the presbyterian public.' This most grotifylog
announcement may he somewhat prematurely made, but we
believe it is true. We are chli,,hted to record such en in-
stance of liberality and of regard for the interests of Derry
on the part ol the lesis Society. It is a wisely directed
munificence which will, we fully expect, excite a spirit of
generous emalatitia la the when L,ndmi emspealex"
- - -
RAILWAY ACCIDRNT AT BURY.—On Monday haat,
about half-past nine o'clock In the morning, as Mr. Barry,
manager of the goods department at the Bury station of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, was walking on the
line agar to the station, be met en extortion train from
Yoikehins that was meet,. leg to Liverpool and Fleetwood.
Homed oat of the way of the train, when a goods tram
from Bolton, prooeeding in an opposite direction, came up
and etruek him on the side, driving him on the slope of the
ling. He was immediately conveyed home insensible. A
surgeon speedily attended, and it was found that Mr. Home's
right arm sad four of his ribs were broken. The medical
men have expressed an opinion that if fever in the head an
be kept down he will probably recover.