The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-17 00:00:00

DEVONPORT ELECTION.

A meeting of the electors was held at Stonehonge
cm Monday 'violas. Mr. C. CKAPPLI in the chair.
Sir J. ROhIILLY addressed toe electors. After referring
to the different circumstances in which he then came to ask
them to return him es their representative, the hon.
gentleman went on to state at considerable length the
grounds on which he had supported the foreign, the commer
clod, and the domestic policy of the government. The
foreign policy had been weed upon principtee which had
long been recognised se those which ought to guide the
intercourse of a great nation with other powers—
interfering not in a violent and offensive manlier.
In respect to the commercial policy, when ha last presented
himself before that constituency a stuing feeling wag evinced
in respect to the navigation laws, which many persona were
diepost d to regard as a bulwark of the country, the removal
of which would be most disastrous; but he would venture to
ask now, had any of the evil predicted followed the removal
dame laws ? On the enstrary, was It not the fact that
shipbuilding was never more actively carried on in the vari-
ous ports of the country than now ? He regretted that any
parties should suffer in the carrying out of free trade ;
but it was better that the landlords should suffer than
that the food of the people should be under the restriction of
taxation.
After some questions by Mr. Katy and Mr. WILLIAMS as
to certain proposals for economising the *apeman of govern-
meat, in answering which
Sir JOHN ROMILLY said be did not think the army,
navy, or ordnance establishments of the country could be
further reduced with safety in the present jealous feeling of
foreign powers,
A resolution was proposed by Dr. SMAITORD, and seconded
by Mr. H. B. Sutra, expressing approval of the statement of
Sir John Romilly, and pledging the meeting to support him
at the election, and cuugratalating him on his appointment
to the odic* ofAttorney-Gentral.
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The resolution was at one. adopted, and the meeting gave
three cheers fur Sir J. Manny and separated.

CHESTER ELECTION.

The elevation of Sir John Jervis to the bench
having caused a vacancy in the representation of
Chester, the eitiztns have been on the gui rive re-
specting candidates presenting themselves for their suf-
frages. Placards of every conceivable size, colour, and
character, already adorn the walls of the old city, and on
Monday addruses were issued by Mr. Jervis, the son of the
late member, by the Hon. \V. 0. Stanley, son of Lord
Stanley, of Alderley, in this county, on the liberal interest,
and by Mr. C. B. Egerton on the tory iaterest. On Saturday
evening a public meeting took place at the Albion Assembly
Room, for the purpose of taking into consideration the ex-
pected vacancy in the representation. Mr. Jervis attended
the meeting, end entered into an elaborate explanation of his
political views. It wu announced that Mr. Stanley intended
to come forward, upon which Mr. Jervis said that rather
than divide the liberal cause he would retire. This rather
divided the meeting, but on a resolution being put affirming
Mr. Jerrie to be " a fit and proper perms to represent the
city of Center in parliemeet, and an amendment in favour
of Mr. Stanley having been lost on a show of hands, Mr.
Jervis expressed himself to the effect that, taking the hieing
of the electors to be in hie favour, he should proceed on
Monday with hie canvass.
The Hon. W. 0. STANLEY addressed a numerous body
of the electors at the Royal Hotel on Mouthy evening. In
the course of his address Mr. Stanley explained that he ap-
peared before them because he had been requested to offer
himself as a nadidate on the liberal interest by an influential
portion of that interest who declined having anything what-
ever todo with the son of the late Attorney-Generak He
(Mr. Stanley) was determined, however, not to remain in
the field with • second liberal candidate, er Mr. Beaton
(the eonservative) would in all probability be returned. Ile
suggested that some steps should be taken for **dunning
whether bimetal or Mr. Jervis was the most acceptable to the
constituency, pledging himself to retire if he had not a de-
cided majotity in his favour, and expressing a hope that Mr.
Jervis would do the same if he was not the most acceptable
candidate. After briefly stating his political principles, he
concluded by intimating his determination not to peril the
liberal eau, by announcing himself as • candidate.
The meeting was then addressed by Mr. W. Jackson,
M.l'., Mr. Wardell, banker, and Mr. Boron, all of whom
vehemently maintained that Mr. Stanley wee the abler and
the better man, that he had the confidence of the gnat
body of the liberal electors, and that Mr. Jervis was bound
to retire.
The question was then put to the meeting whether Mr.
Stanley or Mr. Jervis should be their esedidate, and the
former was adopted by an overwhelming majority. The
meeting was thee dissolved, but the runts seems to have so
far satisfied Mr. Jervis and his friends that he must sues.
sully withdraw, that at noon yesterday Mr. Jervis's formal
Illaiduation appeared. The cuate4 now lies between Mr.
Stanley and Mr. Burton. Both parties are exortingthem-
ulna to the utmost, sad a spirited sussesmost, is anticipated.
Mr. Banta% wee to address • meeting of the *looters last
evening,

MR. BARBER'S CASE.

TO TWO IMITOIk OF TUB DAILY MIL
8111,—The interest which you bare taken in My
ease, and the ability with which you have advocated my
MINN
des me to hope you will oblige me by the :auction
of this
The judgment el the Court of Queen's Bench, delivered
an Saturday wee, I doubt not, the result of meoh cond.
, dendmi, earl I belle* that their lordships had no
' ether &mire than to do perdue judge betwesa me and my
eggsaests. I say between se and my opponents,
leetress I have moos to think that the public, with
10111 eSSlOtion of t very small raluarity fatted, desires
girip, as far as possible, be replaced in the poeitlon
I tease
y peessentert, her Majesty's government, have
weilselemdly driven.
210 with every duke to do justice, the emit hat, I midi
he permitted to say. parelepated fa that misepprehest-
gDad evemigla whisk have been betrayed by al.
11=peso* mho lee bean peofrsioeally case.'
s lemmillie sad is the investigation of
ludas% lag bee abbe I have been the only
mama I alma hope to be allowed epees to peat out all
that I is pespesed to prove is wholly fallacious in their
lemleslgs'Jmigemele but I entreat that I may be permitted
Its =meg striking ezamee.
IMO tie Cleft remarked that the dividends dad I
est bees smoked hr 23 reveries to the date of the will, and
that this was a sksamsteace so striking that it ought to have
attracted my attention, and that I oaght to have made in-
quiries apse it • but this was a het of which I was totally
tamest, and without the means of knowledge. The Bank,
waverer, did know, and they nude no inquiry whatever.
The fletitions will was dated 14th Deeembee,lB22, and the
deceased was represented as bevies died in the sew useatb.
All the dividends that were sinned by the meserer were
hos the date of the will, and I think the most gateau
dietary thing Is, that when the application for the 12 years'
dividends was made, and the beck; upon referring to their
hooks, saw they lied not been received Saes 1806, sad
I that, cocuqueutly, 86 years' dividends were in fact due,
they should have paid the 12 years' dividends only, and
I lime Detained the previous 23 years' without the slightest
or observation. The first time I ever heard
Freltaxiliduatelehdoes the deceased's
my apprehension.
death-71. 0.41211,18:34; :dB
enewateref the deemed Mary Lint there gave his eel-
dense. Thejudges,llll it appears to me, have laid greeter
stress upon theme circumstance of my supposed knowledge of
the actual time when the dividends ceased to be received
than any other point in the whole cue, for Mr. J'astice Fat-
hom' read that part of the judgment with marked emphuis,
lad it was dwelt upon even to repetition ; and I firmly
Wins this miitake materially influenced the decision. I can
tact rebels fame ehesevieg that, if the Beak had done their
duty as the earesiel guardians of this property, the fraud in
Meat's ere meet have been prevented ; or it is utterly ha-
ritlak Amhave e net to been struck with so startling
et let the applisant only demsading the dividends from
ISIS when they had actually scented due since 1806.
Upon the effect of the pardon the(court observed : "A
paten so pardoned is released from all coasequences of the
amebas. The applicint must therefore be treated es if he
bad net bees convicted, otherwise the court would set con-
trary to the authorities, and would questioa the propriety of
the 'mese of the crown's prerogative." Bat I respectfully
ask, is set the court acting in violation of the preciple
the? thsclves have thus recognised ? Doss not this decl-
aim*. question, and to a certain extort neutralise, the'
menthe of the crown's prerogative ? Are they not con-
tinuing to inflict upon sae the consequences of the cowrie
tie.? What else has oxsaioned the painful struggle of the
het 18 months? What else has impeded the enjoymeet of
ay professional rights ? But for that conviction I ahculd
have renewed my certificate, in November, 1843, as a
natter of coarse ; and, indeed, if my pardon had been patted
la that year, I should have had a right to my certificate, as
in former years, without the necessity of any application to
theeseet whatever.
The court admits there is no reason to suppose that I de
deed scything from these transactions beyond my proper
profewnonal fees, yet eutertains the idea that I may nave
knowinglyjeopardistd all that was dear to me on earth.
The jury by which I was convicted having noticed the
argument upon the rule in Hilary term lut, had al
aonferenoes on my case, which resulted in a declaration on
the part of eight out of the ten who were alive and acces-
sible, that they considered my conviction attributable to my
having been denied a separate trial, and that they would
have undoubtedly acquitted me upon the facts which have
dale come to light. This declaration not having been re-
ssimit until after the arguments had been commenced, my
eeuassl considered it could not be added to the evidence laid
before their lordehips.
The main cause of the decision of Saturday was the unfair
'Guru punued by my powerful, and I mut add, unscrupu-
loes opponents. Pretending to desire only that the real facts
should be before the court, they have done everything in
their power to exclude important esidence, and even to
mislead the court by direct misstatements.
At one of the earliest meetings before the Muter they
expressly disavowed the imputation of guilt, proposing to
iequire into my supposed culpability for negligence. To
which the Muter replied, " No, it cannot be expected that
I should be called upon to try a qetstien of felony. In the
whole coarse of the inquiry before him, extending over
several months, the above disclaimer was never witudrewn.
My answer was therefore prepared, to explain the points of
supposed negligence only, yet, notwithstanding this, when
the case came on for argument, they suddenly turn rcund
and call upon me to justify the decision of the government
in my fivnur, although they did not pretend that they bud
succeeded in bringing forward one tittle of new evidence to
disparage such decision.
Soon after the inquiry commenced, Mr. Maugham applied
to see the originals of the document. which had been laid
before Sir George Grey, and which are published in my
pamphlet. These were accordingly produced to him, when,
!savior compared them with minute and careful attention,
he raid be was satisfied of their authenticity, and that lie
was aretutinted with the signatures of many ref them. At
the next meeting before toe Master, he handed him
one of my pamphlets, marking the copies which
he had examined, and striking out the merely
narrative porticos, which latter, the Master, he
said, could not receive as evidence, but it was distinody un-
derstood that the documents themselves, of the genuineness
of which he had satisfied himself, were edmitted, and it was
quite clear that this was the understanding of the Master,
tor he has more than otter referred to them in his report. In
the face of this my oppocents, when the cue came on tor ar-
gument, took a technical objection (although it had beea
distinctly agreed that no technical objection should be taken
on either side) to the re teiog of the above mentioned doi u-
men•s, and L was thereby shut out from a material
branch of evidence, not merely as to my conduct in cir-
cumstances of great trial, but as to the important facts of
she case.
To enable the society to get up their charges against me
with every possible effect, they applied to the Treasury, for
all the papers connectel with the orminsl proiseutior, , which
application 1 did not optede. Ine papers were accordingly
' handed to the Master by a clerk from Mr. Fres; tiehie
dike, when Mr. Maugham propeeed that hr the eon.
virulence of the society they should he intrusted to him
sad kept at the hall, where he said Mr. Stephen-
son, or myself, could at all times have mese* them. To
this arrangement Mr. Stephenson assented. At the end of
about a montht,Mr. **ohm having intimated that the
*sage of the society was completed, Mr. Stephenson and I
applied to inspect the documents, to enable me to prepare
my answer, when to our astonishment Mr. Maugham said
he was instructed to refuse any inspection. The indignation
of Mr. Stephenson may be imagined, and he did not hesitate
to point out to Mr. *eighteen, both perionally and by
I letter, end to protest against, the clear breach of faith of
which the society had been guilty, but they persisted in
lchatting me out from this inspection, and I was compelled to
I comp'ete my answer from the v ry elsnder materials in my
possession, newly all my books and papers being scattered
and lost, a very small portion of them only having been
found in a hatter's shop in New Bond-street, which had
been purchased with offies furniture at an auction sale after
my trial. Toe society picked and culled from a volu-
minous statement of the whole of the forgery cases which
doubtless had been in great put complied from the hooks and
supers taken from me by the prosecutint, and which I have
seen sines they left my office; and they well knew
that the only means by which I could fully answer such
queries, would be supplied by the papers to which they
denied me access. My opponents not only sought by every
artifice which their counsel could devise to shut out all the
material evidence in my favour, but they went the length of
stating to the court teat which cannot otherwise be desig-
nated than as a deliberate falsehood, as will be clearly seen
by the following correspondence :
"1, Victoria-street, Holtormbridge, Much 8, 1850.-
Bir,—l take the liberty of recalling your attention to the fact
that 1 had the honour to receive a letter dated the 10th
of November, 1348, written by Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis,
under your authority and direction, enclosing her Moat Gra-
cious Majesty's free pardon for Mr. William Henry Boroer,
upon a full and anxious consideration of all the documents
in your possession. In the Matey term following (1849) an
application was made on behalf of Mr. Barber to the Court
of Queen's Bench (or the usual role to enable him to obtain
his certificate, so es to resume the practice of his profession
of an attorney, which application was opposed by the Incor-
porated Law Society, who hate endeavoured to impugn
the decision of her Majesty's government. I have grcat
satisfaction, however, in stating, that after a most
tedious, and to Mr. Barber harassing, investigation,
already occupying upwards of thirteen month., not a tittle
of evidence has been produced which tends to weaken his
case. In the course of the rant argument before the court
it was stated by Sir Frederick Timmer that ' inquiry has
been anxiously made ea to what had become of the supposed
oonteraions of Joshua Fletcher and William Sunders, made
in the year 1844 ; what was done with them, how they were
procured, and how they were used ; and no satisfactory an.
ewer has been given.' This statement I heard with inex-
preseible surmise, because, so long ago se the 19th February,
1849, I produced to Mr. Maogbam, the secretary of the
incorporated Law S niety, for his examination, the originals
of the various documents set out in Mr. Barba's pamphlet,
exempting those which had been forwarded to her Majesty's
government; and with regent to the original conte+sions of
Fletcher and Saunders, I referred Mr. Maui/hem to the Home
office, where I acquainted him they had been deposited
immediately after they bad been made, and not the slightest
• Iditional ineptiry has ever been made of Mr. Barber ar
myself respecting them. As the solicitor to the Treasury,
doubtless under the authority of her Mojeatj's government,
has afforded the Incorporated Liw Society all possible feel-
lithe for obtaining the fullest informed= upon Mr. Bar-
ber', cue by an iospectista of the various books sad papas
eounec•ed ate* the terigiaal proseiratio 1, I cannot doubt that
if appl on had beta made to you on Whetter the Lamm
pore w Swim (ter that purpo 4, the °tidier'. °cohe-
sions ( very existence of which la now far the Ant date
disputed), would have been also produced for their semi-

AWOL Is the inquiry before the Maser, so doubt
the lifetimes or gesains character of thee,
essfenlona was ever far one moment expressed
and I esnlaml beard them alluded te as .• supposed " eon-
terises, with semething more than astonishment. I shall
beels, ennead, obliged if you will direst inquiry to
mide whether the original endenione of Flamer and
Studer% dated respectively the 28th of Jane, the 4rh of
July, awl the 9th of July, 1844, are still in the custody
'of the Home Department, and whether any application
has at any time been made for their prodaetion or 'learnt-
anise, or 'Sherwin respecting them, on behalf of the
Inceperated Law Society ; and If so, with what result.
/Wresting the favour of your early atteation, I have the
honour to be, sir, yew very obedient servant. A. STAVIN-
BOX.—Tho Right on. Sir George Grey, Bart., M,P.
" Whitehall, March 21, 1860,—Sir,—I am directed by
Secestery Sir George Grey to acquaint you, is reply to y3ur
letters et the Bth and 20th instant, that " The Confessions of
Pletcher, in referee* to Mr. Barber," are still at the Home
Ofilog, and probably that of Saunders also, though the latter
has been misled, and cannot foe the moment be need. No
application has been made by the Incorporated Law Society
reference to these documents.—l ant, sir, your obedient
servant, H. WADDINOTON.—A. Stevenson, Esq., 1, Victurin
street, Holborn-bridge.
I leave your readers to say whether ouch *nand indicates
a desire to promote the honour cf the professes or a deter-
mination to crush a partkulaz member of it. Look, sir, at
the position of my case. I was convicted upon circumstances
of unexplained suspicion, because I was denied the means of
explaining them, by a separate trial. I have suffered four
years of misery, enceeding, I verily believe, that which has
ever fallen to the lot of even the guiltiest man living, much
more of any innocent one. All the confederates in the frauds
have separately and at different times declared my inherence.
lavestigniens were instituted at Norfolk Island, at Hobart
Town, at Sydney, atMadras, sad at Paris, by the meet eminent
men, legal and otherwise, and all of which resulied IEI ray
complete vindication. Her Majesty's governmeat, af.er two
successive and moat patient investigations, issued a free
pardon, accompanied by an acknowledgment of my perfect
innocence, and all this has been cohfirmed by the declaration
of the jury who convicted me, and yet I am denied the poor
privilege of once more resuming my profession, having been
arript of a valuable practise and everything that could render
VG ea enjoyment.
The dimities of the court has bitterly aggravated my
injuries, and hes sun • weight of suffering and difficulty
upon me which nothing bat the consciousness of • righteous
cease sad a perfect conflileam in its ultimate swims could
'noblesse to sustain.
My 'evillest* is my just right, and as it involves • gaie-
ties of character, not mosey merely, my struggle IC r it snail
never ease but with my life. Apologising for nnevoidatly
trespeeicg upon your columns at so much length.
I have the honour to be, sir, your HENRYie levant,
W. BARBER.
Howard-street, Norfolk-street, Strand, July S.

THE

MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, JaLT 16.

We had a meeting of the local committee for pro-
moting the Exhibition of Industry in 1851, yesterd c even-
ing, at the Town Hall, which was attended by Cslonel
Loyd, one of the special commissioners, who communicated
some interesting informed= respecting the most recent
' arrangements of the Royal Commission. Restated that the
building for the intended exhibition would contain 800,000
square feet, of which it was intended to devn•o one-half tor
the contributions of the United Kingdom, 100,000 for the
exhibitions of France, and bO.OOO for those of the United
States. Calculations were making as to the space to t.e ne-
voted to different towns, the went of assurances oa :nit
point having hitherto operated as a discouragement
to exhibitors, who naturally were unwiUing to
put themselves to trouble and expense so long as
there is any uncertainty on this point. It was stated that
one manufacturer here was preparing models of a complete
sat of mschines used in the manufacture of cotton, of the
full size, which would require a imams equal to the floor of a
large manufactory. It was ultimately resolved to hold a
public meting on the let of August, in Manchester, in aid
of the Exhibition, and with a view to augmenting ths, sub.
scriptione. An unsnimous opinion was expressed in the
committee In favour of the site in Hyde-park.
At the adjourned meeting of the Peel Monument Cntnmit-
tee held to-day, in the Town Hall (the Mayor in the ch•-rh
the total amount of subscriptions up to this morning was
stated at 3,8381. Among the recent snhectibers were, the
&shop of Manchester, 20 guineas; W. Brown. Eq.MP,
20 guineas ; E. Buckley, Esq , M.P., 20 guineas; U. J. Slater
and Co., 20 guineas ; end Pnilip Lucas, Esti ,20 guineas. The
members of Manchester police force have also subscribed
154 17s. It was resolved that the foil-,wing name, alt OL,!#l
be added to the committee : —The Bishop of Manches,er,
the Yen. Archdt aeon Rushton, and Messrs. Samuels, Bar-
bour, Waterhouse, Carter, and Grandy.
Am accident occurred on the London and North Western
Railw►y this morning, by a luggage train gettio, off tho
rails on the lofty viaduct screw the Dace, at Holmes Chapel,
20 miles south of Manchester. The particulars have nut
reached Manchester up to this hour (.5 p.m ). butt under-
stand no lives have been loot. It is stated that some pose
on which wires belonging to the electric telegraph were
. supported, have been destroyed, and nearly a mile of these
f wises have been broken down. It is maid that one waegcn
was flung over the viaduct. The accident occurred thrz.u;rl
1 the axle of one of the waggons having broken.

DEATH OF MRS. GLovert.—With deep regret we
announce the death of Mrs. Glover. The distressing event
took place at an early hear yesterday morning, and wee.
happily, unaccompanied by any perceptible evidence ot
physical suffering. There is something inexpressibly shock-
mg in the tact that on Friday night Mrs. Glover was in
person the object of a great popular demonstration in her
honour, and that on the morning of the following Tuesday
she ceased to be among us. The first and most natural im-
pression on the pu'•lic mind will doubtless be that the
ex:dement inseparable from her last appearance on the stage
must have accelerated the deplorable event; and when it
is known that, for the fortnight antecedent to Friday, Mrs.
Glover had been confined to her bed, the impression wenld
not seem ill-founded. Her medical advisees, however.
state their deliberate opinion, that the nervous ',iris
taoi.st) arising trom 'Um would have rendered
it more dangerous to check the impatience she felt to kat",
faith with the nubilc than to yield, however reluctactiF. to
her strong ansi- ty. Mrs. Clever hid announced that see
would appear, and, with thorough English courage, the del
' appear. In the lamentable result we find ground for (Leo
regret. This is not the moment for a eulogy of Mrs Glover's
private character, or a critical examination of her prof. mime!
merits. Tu both ample justice will be done. Now, having
briefly announced the deplorable event of her so 'den ei•so-
lutiort, our duty is limited to a repetition of our own sincere
sorrow—and we are sure we only echo the general voice—at
the unlooked-for disruption of a tie that has endured with
undiminished etrenath during more than halt a century.
RAILWAY RIOT.—For soma time past diecues,:och
have been going on between the Sbtewsbory and Birming-
ham Company and the London and North Westem C. in-
party, under the name of the Stour Valley Railway, which
they have leased, as to the right of the Sbrewshuty and
Birmingham Company to form a connection at the joint
onion at Wolverhampton with the Birmingham CADS'. It
appears that such a connection is necessary for the
cuveni-
care of the public and for the due conduct of the business
of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Compan; , as they have
at present no access to Birmingham by railway. The forma-
tion of this canal appears to have excited the appreltervions
ot the London and North Western Company, who have
thrown every obstacle in their power in the way. Atter some
preliminary skirmishing it became obvious on Pfladi last
toot a serious collision of the rival companies was likely
to ensue. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company
having been obstructed on that day in forming a tem;orary
connexion with the canal within the station limits, deter-
mined to persist on the following morning in completaint toe
necessary work and carrying on their business. 'lns Lon ion
and North Western men mustered in greet force, there hey.
log been collected six or seven hundred of the " navvies"
employed in the construction of the Stour Valley line.
About twelve o'clock, a train containing thirty or forty wag-
gons ot the Surewsiory and Birmingham Company, loaoed
with materials,whichwete intended to be conveyed by the canal
wets brought (town along the Shrewsbury and Bvtuingtam
line, accompanied by a body of workmen, for the purpose if
transhipping into the canal boats. They commenced to lay
down planking for that purpose, but it was immediately torn
up by the London and North Western men, and scattered
about in a reckless manner, upsetting a number of people
and breaking one man's leg. At this stage of the proceed-
ings the Mayor of Wolverhampton, accompanied by the
constabulary and military, slide their appearance. The
Riot Act was read, and the mob ordered to disperse. 'rns
mayor stated aloud that finding the Shrewsbury and Lir-
osiogham Company in possession of the station. and they
being the only company now using it for the purposes of
traffic, that the police and military would protect them
while conducting their businces,and that he would cause every
person to be apprehended who attempted to obstruct them.
The planking was immediately laid down, under protection
of the military, mid the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Com-
pany immediately proceeded to tranship the matetials from
the railway *sums into the canal boats, without further
interruption. At this period, however, the Linden
and North Western were ordered to take their places in a
set of contractors waggons, which was brought by an engine
ts the spot, as it was believed, for the purpose of removing
them altogether; instead of which, however, the waggons
were first pushed for several hundred yards in the direction
of Shrewsbury, when the men all jumped out of the waggons,
and the waggons were then upset, turned upside down,
and mattered over both the up and down line of the Shrews-
bury and Birmingham Railway, thus completely obstructing
the main line of that company, there being ore paseenger
train about to start at th • time, and another train sue. '11:o
London and North Women mon were immediately charged
by the polio* with drawn swords, and the min Cory alvenced
with fixed bayonets. The rioters were at nest vi al. tit slid
stubborn, and the police, unformnately, hod to use their
swords. Several wounds were indicted, and one, we believe,
MP very serious. They were at last driven from the groun.l,
and, under the promotion el the authurittee, the waggons
upset upon the line were cleared elf, and the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham trains were enabled to pass a it boo t further
obstruction. A number of the most leading at.d eicfive
rioters were apprehended, and are immediately t e he brought
before the magietrates. Tbisc tee seems to be an egeravated
repetition at the other end of the Shrewelnire line of the
Chester station disturbance, upon which the Lord Chancellor
unrested so decided an opinion.
BaITISIL Mt:SECY.—A correspondent says it is
expected that Lod Londesborough will be cite" tt a trustee
of tht British Museum, iu the room of the late S.r It. t
ap- I
and that his Royal flightless Promo Albert will be
pointed by her Majnty as trustee, in tSs pines ot the late
Disks of Cambridge.

JULY Is.
The Repeal Association, at its nisei weekly meat-
ier: yesterday, was adjourned sits* die, Mr. John
O'Connell stating that be would be prepared to re-
cipes Osaciliatiem-hall, or meet elsewhere, as soon as
Ise received seenreaces of support ban the country
that would *dry him is doles so. The repeal rest
for the week amounted oaly to 41. 10a, to which
minimum, the chairman observed, it had descended
from a weekly sum 0(3,5001.
At the meeting of the Mayo Isdepeadeat Club,
convened to secure the liberal interests at Ilte ap-
p roechiag election, it was annomiced that Mr. Joseph
McDonnell had withdrawn his claim is /avow of the
ether Memel candidate, Mr. O'lliggiss. It is there-
fore moderato:id that the latter gentleman will obtain
the undivided support of the liberal porticos of the
coostituescy. In the meantime, the utmost efforts
ate making to muster the landlord forces
for Mt. Batt, and to entrap liberal electors
into protectionist delusions, The contest will amount
to a pitched battle between protection and free trade,
but not by any means on such fair terms as the same
battle might be fought in most other Irish con-
stitueocies ; for the protectionist candidate is this in-
stance will bring to the aid of his mom whatever
eclat he obtained professiooally by his oratorical dis-
plays on the side of liberal principles at the state
trials : and the landlord system having worked with
more desolating effect is Mayo than an perhaps any
other county of Ireland, the liberal owns mast ea-
counter all the consequent disadvantages of an all bat
annihilated constituency. The election heehaws fixed
for tie 25th fastest.
The prisoners, who were arrested for an assault on
the police at Belfast, on the morniog of the 12th in-
stant, when two of the Orangemen were wounded,
have been admitted to bail to take their trial at the
assizes.
Mr. Smyth, the Clue magistrate, who has been
charged with procuring the death of his mother, has
been admitted to bail to take his trial at the next
Wises.
At toe Waterford amine, James Casey, James
Crotty, and James Lyons were severally convicted of
haring bean of the party who attacked the police
barrack at Cappoquis on the night of the 16th of
September last, and sentenced to be transported for
foot teen years. Thomas Wall was tried and convicted
of a eimilar diem* and, with James Ryan and Tho-
mas Rein, wb, pleaded guilty, were several) y sen-
tenced to be transported for fourteen yews. Edward
Ctiri,topher was tried and convicted of the murder of
Michaelliogaa, at Eagle-hill, cad found guilty. He
has not yet been sentenced.
The oommercial article of the heseerin's Annual
contains the following
Tae topic of the week in the mosey motet km been the
advance by Mrs. Kelly, whom name has been se frequently
before public is he celebrated will 11111111, of the lane mu
of 135,0001 to the Midland Great WNW& Railway CM.
easy, w enable the latter tediscbarge the balms of the
parttime mosey due to the Royal Coos' Company, betas
about that amount. Mrs. Eel., naives a trawler of the
combat dims: Ines the Canal Compsoy, as/ lotomesedm gat
iseambrubsur ea it, the )Mal mot having been upwards of

The Cbrk Examiner contains the followin4 eon-
xonoicatioe, furnished by the reporter of that panel
specially 'misted to snake imputes into the state of
the crop in the south fpnmeelly :

A:endless to year inatrnetione, I kayo made inquiries is
the several standee to know the state of the Grope. I have
travelled *neigh a great parte( Cork.Waterkied„ Hammy,
sad Tipperary visiting as several towns mad country mad
wash. Mediate:, Coo lemartyr, Yooghal, Clubfoots,. Danger-
Xilmasibmass, Waterford, Pultowis, Farther, Carrick,
Clocoul, &u. I have made 111811•4•11 inquiries, portieularly
girt. :sleet to 1` • potato crop, which never losk-d better
at this woe of the year. No sppearaaaa of blight or Jodi-
entire of it Cho be detected throsghout the manserons fields
it early to blame, bat all aro healthy and la:origin.
Several of the towns erintiame to be well soppbed with new
potatoes, at from 91 to 1.. a stone, and of excellent quality.
Ti. trope is general acpear delightful in the various
WI through which I have passed. Altogether, the harvest
promiem to be • vary abundant oast. I have met several
respectable agrieulturiate from the vicinity of Cabir, Tippe-
rary, Cashel, and Thoriss, woo esprossod the moat magnate
astir.; aliens as to the coalition of both the potato sad
meal erupt I. their respective diarists.