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PIA E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1847.

to labour in London for the moral arid mental regenera-
tion of his oriental fellow-countrymen. Through that
spirit almost as much as through force of arms, new
relations of amity have been established between
the Emperor of China and our belovod Sovereign.
And very recently, through that sanb benign and enlarg-
ing spirit, a cordial understanding has for the first time
been arrived at between the head of the Papacy and the
Mahometan Sultaun. For these reasons we are disposed
to welcome this little tale by Mr. Daunt with pleasure.
The times are those of progress and liberality, and the
book is in accordance with the principles of the times.
Hugh Talbot is the chief victim of the laws of confisca
lion—being a priest. Eveline is the heroine, and, for
the advantage of her father and the benefit of the priest
Huh Talbot, and also for the gratification of her own
lust of power, she sacrifices herself by marrying an old
nobleman, Lord Carthwaite. The incidents of the story
are numerous and interesting, particularly those descrip-
tions of the various escapes and perilous adventures of
Hugh Talbot himself. Altogether the tale is a genuine
original.

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTU-
RAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Vol. VII.

Part 11.

Another of those important and elaborate volumes
which have in their character something absolutely
national, is lying before us. As a specimen of the industry
of the persons engaged in its composition, and as a sign
of the comprehensive efforts ma'ie by the society from
which it proceeds it is peculiarly remarkable. Agri
culture, at this particular period. is attracting more
notice in Great Britain, than it has ever done previously;
and it is attracting more notice, for two reasons, first,
because there is a manifest necessity for an increase of
our enterprise as cultivators of the soil, now that we
have to compete upon the same footing with the agri
culturists of the whole world ; and secondly, because
the vegetable disease, now afflicting Ireland and Scot-
land, is a fresh inducement to us to study yet more pro-
foundly the mysteries of the growth and nourishment of
plants. On these accounts, the present part of the
voluminous library of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England is invested with more interest and importance
than any of its predecessors.

IMPORT AN T EXPERIMENTS
SCHOENBEEN'S GUN COTTON.

On Wednesday last, a series of experiments, to test
the efficiency of gun cotton in blasting, as compared
with the known powers of gunpowder, took place in the
Standedge Tunnel, on the Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway. As the occasion was one of peculiar interest
to the scientific world, many gentlemen connected with
railway and other extensive works availed themselves of
the opportunity of being present, amongst whom we
obsersed Wm. Leigh Brown, Esq., of Meltham Hall,
and Thomas Varley, Esq., of Huddersfield, acting di-
rectors of the company ; Chas. Brook, Esq., of Melt-
ham Mills ; J. A. Barron, Esq., of Stainmoor, Middle-
sex, the legal representative in this country of Chevalier
Schoc nbein ; P. Brumes Hall, Esq., of the Dartford
Gunpowder Works. one of the patentees of the Gun
Cotton ; H. F. Maekworth, E,q., resident engineer ;
Morland Jee, Esq., and R. W. Wall, assistant engineers;
W. A. Purdon, Esq., principal engineer, under Mr.
Brunell, on the Dublin and Wicklow Railway ; Thomas
Nicholson, Esq., contractor of the tunnel ; Mr. Clark,
of Liverpool, and many other gentlemen, who take a
lively interest in scientifie pursuits.
The place selected for the experiments is in the midst
of the great Yorkshire chain of hills between Hudders-
field and Manchester, where a tunnel is now construct-
ing through huge beds and masses of millstone grit, and
which, when completed, will be the longest in existence.
The rocks, which are situated at a depth of 155 yards
below the surface of the mountain, consist entirely of
close grained quartz. of which some idea may be formed
by the fact that in 110 yards of the tunnel now completed,
no fissure or joint is perceptible in the whole length. At
the same time, therefore, that it afforded the surest test
to the power of the guncotton, a more distinct compa-
rative test could not be instituted between its powers and
that of gunpowder. A rough estimate having been
made with firearms of the relative strength of those ex-
plosive compounds, a charge of gun cotton having the
same effect on a wooden target as six times its weight in
gunpo 'der. Holes were drilled 2 inches, 13 inches,
and 1 inch; s diameter in the millstone grit, and the
charges of gun-cetton varied from 1-6th to 1-3 d of the
weight of powder ordinarily made use of in blasting.
Cartridges, containing the guncotton, were dropped into
holes, with the patent fuse attache:l, and the quantities
varied from 10 ounces in the larger, to 6 ounces in the
smaller tubes: the quantity cf gunpowder employed for
similar blasts varying from 1 to 3 pounds.
The shots prepared in the tunnel were twelve in
number, 10 being charged with gun-cotton, and Nos.
4 and 11 with gunpowder. The shots numbered 2 and
7 in the south hesdings, and 12 in the north heading,
were declared by Mr. Nicholson, the contractors of the
works, previous to their being fired, to be those on
which the test of the strength ot the gun-cotton com-
pare d with that of gunpowder woulsl be most certain,
both as to charge seed position. No. 2 was charged
with 10 oz. ot gun-cotton, and did wonderful execution,
exceeding in everything the expectations of both the en-
gineers and miners. No. 7 was charged with ounces
of gun-cotton,and did the same work as six ounces of gun-
powder would have done. The crowning experiments
were Nos. 11 and 12 in the north heading. No, 12 was
charged with 16 ounces of gun-cotton against 3 pounds
4 ounces of gunpowder in No. 11. The shots exceeded
anything the engineers or miners had before tested.
The gun-cotton exploded first, and threw against the
side of the heading, and broke into nine pieces, 220
cubic feet of rock, or about fifteen tons weight. This
shot with its connexion with No 11 was supposed to
eave assisted it materially. No. 11 removed to the dis-
tance of shout one yard 224 curie feet of rock, or about
161 tons weight, but was br-ken only into six pieces.
The following properties were established in these
experiments. Ist. That the gun cotton may be con,i-
aered three or four times the strength of gunpowder.
end. That it is entirely free from smoke—a qualification
of great importance in tunnelling operations ; as the
miners can recommence work immediately after the
shots have exploded, which is not the case with gun-
powder. In works in Cornwall, where blasting opera-
tions have hitherto been carried on, ou a large scale
with gunpowder, eight hundred men have been obliged
to leave their work for an hour every time the shots
have been fired. This, with gun cotton, is entirely ob
viated. 3d. That no risk is incurred in stemming the
holes. 4th. That in keeping the cotton on the works,
and its being handled by the men, there is not so much
risk from explosion or loss from waste as with gun-
powder. sth. That it ignites with more certainty than
gunpowder. 6th. From the decreased size of the charge,
the depth of the drill hole may be diminished, and the
power more concentrated.
Its other advantages are—that it may be kept under
water instead of in a magazine. Schoenbein has kept it
tinder water for six weeks without damaging its
strength. It never misses fire or fouls the gun, and ie
more instantaneous in its discharges. It possesses all the
qualities of the best gunpowder, and there is no danger
of its exploding from frequent firing. It explodes at
350 degrees.
The advantages just recited apply themselves to all the
conditions under which explosive mixtures can be em-
ployed, so that thsre is no doubt that when the powers
of the gun cotton become generally known, that a com-
plete revolution will be effected in the use of materials
holding such a prominent position in the arts of peace
and war. We will just add in flue, a curious fact, pro-
bably unknown to our readers, that the so-called gun
cotton is no longer, strictly speaking, cotton, having
undergone a chemical change, and become, according to
the experiments of Berzelue, the first chemist of the
ege, a nitrite of lignine. There is in fact as much dif-
ference as between lime and gypsum.
Li the evening about twenty gentlemen sat down to a
sumptuous repast, prepared by eir. Joshua Hall, of the
New Inn, at Meriden ; %Vile. Leigh Brook, E-q., occupied
the head of the table, supported on the right by J. A.
Barron, Esq., and on the left by P Brames hall, Esq.,
F Mackworth, Esq., occopied the vice-chair.
The health of Mr Barron was drunk with honours. In
returning thanks he stated that t_ h• valier Schoenbein
wished the gun-cotton to have a fir trial, so that its
properties nrght be fairly tested. M, ssrs. Hall's, of
Dar, f,,rd, had not hesitates to make the case their own,
when they saw that its powers were so gigantic. Its
destructive qualities had been urged as a plea against its
use, but they hoped to look to better things than that of
warfare. They looked to its use in civil operations, and
0 the great utility and benefit it was likely to prove in
mining and engineering operations. Mr. Hall, in re-
turning thanks for the ha,;(lsome manner in which his
heahh had been proposed, stated that they had found the
gun co, ton to be far superior to gunpowder.
Mr. MACKWORTII, on his health being drunk, bore
testimony to the experiments having succeeded well. For
blasting purposes the gun-cotton hail been found to be an
agent ut stronger power than what modern times had
hitherto produced : when its qualities become generally
known it will supersede :all other agents, and by using it
properly it weuid offer a better security for the work-
man's life.

Mr. NICHOLSON, c!intractor of th- tunnel, on his health
being drunk sa►d, as far as his humble efforts would go,
nothing should be wanting to test the efficiency of the
cotton.

On the health of .Ir. Alfred Jee, the acing engineer
of the line, being proposed,
Mr. MORLAND .TEE returned thanks.

The health of IV. A. Purdon, Esq., engineer on the
Dublin and Wicklow Railway, was drunk with honours.
Mr. HALL proposed the health of
uocfhW L. Brook, Esq.,
reply stated thateng ihneeewr,
mr.mawgerk.aictihed by having
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their line A i railway progressing so favourably ; °he'
thought no railway would superseee it The country
through which it passed presented the most romantic and
picturesque scenery in England. They had many beau-
tiful viaducts on the line, and would have one of the
longest tunnels hitherto constructed. He begged to
propose the healths of two gentlemen connected
with the undertaking, who, bad they been pre-
sent in their little company, he felt sure would
take a lively interest in their proceedings ; he al-
luded to W. Aldam, jun., Esq., M.P., the chair-
man, and J. Brook, Esq., of Greenhead, the Vice-
chairman, of the board of directors, gentlemen who ever
felt alive to the interests of the undertaking, and whom
he bet:-red would work well to the end.
The healths of the gentlemen connected with " the
Press" were proposed by Mr. Nicholson: he had felt a
pleasure, he said, in walching the anxiety with which
they hal overlooked the experiments made that day in
the lower regions, and doubted not but what they would
chronicle the scenes that they had witnessed, not only
with a good
many flourishes, but with faithfulness.
Our representative at Huddersfield, who had attended
to witness
the Thankscompany were voted to the chairman and vice chairman,
and
then separated.--Loses Mercury.

MARYLEBONE VESTRY•

ASSESSMENT OF MARYLEBONE TO THE
COUNTY AND POLICE RATE.
On Saturday, at the Marylebone Vestry, Mr. FLOOD,
the vestry clerk, reported, " That pursuant to an order
from a committee of her Majesty's justices, acting under
an Act of Parliament passed in the eighth and ninth
year. 4 of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled,
an Act to Amend the Laws relating to the Assessing
of County Rates,' he attended such committee at the
Clerkenwell Sessions House, on Tuesday last, and was
examined as to the mode adopted by the vestry of Mary-
lebone, in assessing the poor-rate, and that he was in-
formed by the committee (James Wm. Freslifield, Esq.,
in the chair), that the magistrates' construction of the
Act of Parliament the 6th and 7th Wm. IV., intituled,
an Act to Regulate Parochial Assessments,' is that the
rateable value to be assessed to the poor means the rack
rent, after deducting therefrom the probable average
annual cost of repairs and insurance, that is to say—that
a pers.m paying a rent of 1001. a year, and the presumed
average annual cost of repairs and insurance being 101.,
he should be assessed en a rental of 901. To the Vestry
of St. Marylebone, 2d March, 1847."
Mr. G. DAIiIELL, in moving that the report be received
and entered on the minutes, observed, that the parish of
Martlehone had for a long time struggled to obtain
some alleviation with regard to the immense assessment
charged upon them as compared with other metropolitan
parishes. In consequence of this excess, the vestry had
hoped that the magistrates would have been enabled to
trice theta some relief mirk r the Act 6th and 7th Wm.
IV.; but, from the construction pat upots that Act of
Parliament by the committee of magistrates, it. appeared
that very little, if any, relief could be afforded. The
magistrates told them they might appeal, and if success-
ful, they, the magistrates, would then have to assess
other parishes higher to the county-rate, in order to
produce a sufficient sum to meet the expenditure ; but
any parish appealed against which could prove that
there was even a single house in the parish appealing,
not assessed upon its rack rental, then such appeal must
fall to the ground. The Poor-law Commissioners had
also the power to grant relief in such cases, but that
parish not being under the poor-law were deprived of
it. The parish of Marylebone, at that moment, was
nasoselessssedattsiutmhethcaonunty
370,a2n1d6Lp,;leicrea-nrantiejmu.pon a rental of
Mr. NICHOLAY seconded the resolution, which was
carried.

BILL FOR THE REGISTRATION
OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS
IN SCOTLAND.

The following is the Registration Bill for Scotland,
which has been introduced by the Lord Advocate :
Clause 1 and 2 propose to enact, that after the pass-
ing of the Act, an office is to be provided in Edinburgh,
to be called " The General Registry Office of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages," for keeping a register of alt
births, deaths, and marriages iu Scotland, and the Queen
to appoint for the said office a Registrar-General of
births, deaths, and marriages, in Scotland, removeable at
pleasure ; and that the Registrar-General may appint
an assistant ; but who shall not have power to make,
alter, or rescind any rules or regulations, or to dismiss
any person from any office holden during the pleasure of
the Registrar-General.
3. The Lords of the Treasury to appoint officers,
clerks, &c., and to fix the salaries ; but the saLry of
the Registrar-General not at any time to exceed the
sum of SOOL yearly.
4. That the salary of the Registrar-General, of the
Superintendent-Registrar, and all the expenses of the
General Registry Office, including clerks, officers, scr
vants, books, and stationery be paid out of the Consoli-
dated Fund.

5 and 6. The regulations for management of offie,
and duties of officers to be framed by the Secretary of
State, and submitted to Parliament ; and an Abstract
of Registers to be laid annually before Parliament.
7. Every county in Scotland, and the towns of Edin-
burgn, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee,
Greenock, Perth, and Dumfries, sev,--rally shall form a
district, to be under the superintendence of a Superin-
tendant-Registrar, the boundaries of each burgh to be
those of the Retorm Act ; but that no county shall in-
clude any burgh or town forming a separate district fur
the purposes of this Act.
8 and 9. The Sheriff-Clerks of each county, and the
burgh Clerks and Town-Clerks of burghs and towns re-
spectively, to be the Superintendent Registrars of their
dirtricts; and deputy superintendant-Registrar may be
appointed by Superintendant.
10. The districts to be divided into sub-districts, con-
sisting of parishes, or, where it shall be deemed neces
sary for convenience, into parts of parishes, in which
last case each parochial board, acting under the Poor-law
shall, on or before the Ist of August, 1847, divide the
parishes into as many sub-districts as shall be necessary,
which shall each be distinguished by a name or number,
and shall be a Registrar's district; and each parochial
board shall, on or before the Ist of September. 1847, ap-
point, in each sub-district a Registrar for the registra-
tion of all births, deaths, and marriage:. which shall take
place within the parish or sub-district, and such Regis-
trar shall be a person possessing such qualification as the
Registrar-General shall, by any regulation to be made
by him, require and prescribe.
11. Deputy-Registrars may be appointed by the Re-
gistrar.
12. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall
not be lawful to appant any Parish Schoolmaster to
the office of Registrar or Deputy-Registrar under this
Act.
13. Every Superintendent-Registrar, Registrar, and
Deputy-Registrar, to hold his office during the pleasure
of the Registrar- General ; but on any such officer being
dismissed, notice of such must be published in some
newspaper circulated in the district ; but no Superin-
tendent-Registrar shall be so removed without the appro-
bation of one of her Majesty's Secretaries of State.
14 to 19. Appoints the offices of the Sheriff-Clerks,
Burgh Clerks, or Town Clerks, to be the register offices
of the Superintendent-Registrars for the purposes of
the Act. Registrars and Deputy-Registrars to dwell in
sub-district ; and names of Registrars and Deputy-
Registrars to be affixed on church doors two Sundays at
certain periods. . _

20. Every Registrar to inform himself carefully of
every birth and every death which shall happen within
his sub-district from and after the last day of Decem-
ber, 1847, and to learn and register, as soon after the
event as conveniently may be done, without fee or re-
ward, in one of the register books, the particulars re-
quired to be registered according to the forms in the
schedules annexed, touching every such birth or every
such death.
21. And be it enacted, that the parents or parent of
every child born, and the occupier of any house or tene-
ment in Scotland in which any birth shall take place,
and the medical attendant and midwife present at such
birth, from and after the last day of December, 1847,
shall, within eight da) s next after the day of birth, give,
or cause to be given, notice of such birth to the Regis-
trar of the sub-district in which the birth occurred, under
a penalty, to be paid in case of failure by the parents, or
either of them, of forty shillings, and by such occupier,
medical attendant, or midwite, of twenty shillings i
but such penalty shall not be held to have been incurred
4r be recoverable, if such notice shall be given by any
one of such persons.
22. In ease any person shall find any new-born child,
or the dead body of any child exposed, such person shall,
under a penalty of forty shillings in case of failure,
forthwith give notice of the finding of such new-barn
child to the Inspector of the Poor, acting for the time
under the said last recited Act, or of the finding of such
dead body to the Procurator-Fiscal of the county.
23. The parents of every legitimate child and the
mother of every legitimate child born in Scotland, from
and after the last day of December, or in the case of the
death, illness, absence, or inability of the said parents
the occupier of the house or tenement in which such
child shall have been born, or the medical attendant and
midwife present at such birth, or other person being an
inmate of such house or tenement, and having know-
ledge of the particulars, shall, upon being required
I personally, or by written requisition, within three
months after the date of such birth, to do so, and under
a penalty of five pounds in case of failure, give informa-
tion to the Registrar, according to the best of his or he-r
knowledge and belief, of the several particulars hereby
required to be known and registered touching the birth
of such child, and shall then and there sign the register
in the presence of the Registrar accordingly; provided
always, that in the case of any illegitimate child, it shall
not be lawful for the Registrar to enter the name of any
person as the father of such child.
24. If any child of a Scottish parent shall be born at
sea on board of a British vessel, after the said last day
of December, the captain of such vessel shall forthwith
make a minute of the several particulars required to be
inserted in the register, and shall, on the arrival of
such vessel in any port of the United Kingdom, or by
any other earlier opportunity, send a certified copy of
such minute through the Post-office to the Registrar-
General, who shall file the same, and shall cease a
true and correct copy thereof, verified by his own sig-
nature, to be entered in a book to be kept for that pur-
pose in the General Registry-office, to be called " The
Marine Register."
25. After the expiration of three months following
the day of the birth of any child, it shall not be lawful
for any Registrar to register such birth, save as after-
wards provided—that is, it shall be lawful for either of
the parents of any legitimate child and the mother of
any illegitimate child, or for the lawful guardians of
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cording to the information of the person making the
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intendant-Registrar shall be entitled to demand a fee of
two shillings and sixpence from the person requiring the
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above the fee hereinafter allowed in respect of every
birth registered by him, shall be entitled, unless the de
lay shall have been occasioned by his default, to have a
fee of five shillings from the person requiring the same
to be registered ; and every person who shall know-
ingly register or cause to be registered the birth of any
child otherwise than herein, after the expiration of three
months following the birth, shall forfeit a sum not ex-
ceedingfi fifty pounds.

26. No register of births, except in the case of
children born at see, shall be admissible in evidence to
prove the birth of any child, wherein it shall appear
that six months has intervened between the day of the
birth, and the day of the registratien of tne birth of
such child ; and ev. ery person who shall knovvingiy re-
pSeen.aelltaynil of, whose birth shall
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re-
gister the birth of any child, after the expiration of six
months, shall
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aercntcooirnad ing to the Act., shall, within
six months atter having been registered, have any name
given to it in baptism, or shall have the name by which it
may have been registered altered in baptiein, the parent
or guardian of such child, or other person procuring such
name to be given, may procure and deliver to the Regis•
tray or Saperintendent-Registrar in whose custody the
register of the birth of the child may then happen to be,
a certificate according to the form annexed, or to the
like effect, signed by the minister or clergyman who
shall have performed the rite of baptism, wideh certiti-
este such minister or clergyman is hereby required to
t:livir immediately after the baptism, or weeeever the
s tme shall he demau led, within :ix months ; and the
said ltegistrar eer Superintendent-Registrar, upon receipt
of such certificate, and on payment of the fee of one
shilling, to which he shall be therefore entitled, shall,
without any erasure of the original entry, forthwith re-
gister the name by which the child was baptised. and no-
tify the same to the Registrar-General.
28. In the case of children of parents not recognising
the sacrament of baptism or infant baptism, the parents
or guardians, within six months after the birth of the
child shall have been registered, when any name shall
have been given to the child according to the rites or
usage of the sect to which the parents belong, to deliver
to the Registrar a certificate signed by such parents or
guardians, whereupon, and upon payment of a fee of one
shillin ;, tke Registrar shall, without erasure as afore-
said, register the name of the child.
29. The medical attendant or other person present at
the death, or in attendance during the last illness and
until the death, of every person dying in Scotland from
and after the said last day of December, and the occu-
pier of the house or tenement, and if the occupier be the
person who shall have died, the inmates of the hence or
tenement in which such death shall have happened,
shall, under a penalty of forty shillings, within forty-
eight hours next after the day of such death, give or
cause to be given notice of such death to the Registrar
of the subdistrict in which such death shall have hap-
pened ;
but such penalty shall not be held to have been
incurred if such notice shall have been given by any one
of such persons.
30. The medical attendant or other person present at
the death or in attendance during the last illness and un-
til the death, and also the near relatives of every person
dying in Scotland after the last day
.of December, or the
occupiers of the houses or tenement in which such death
shall have taken place, shall within fourteendays,huder
a penalty of five pounds in case of failure, give informa-
required, to the registrar, according to
ttihenbu:spn being
toofhisknowledge and belief, of the several par-

titulars hareby ri,quirecl to be registered toachieg tha
death of suCa person; but in every CJ.- e in which a pre-
cognition touching the death of a person shall b 2 held,
the Procurator-Fiscal shall inform the Registrar-General
of the result of such precognition; and the Registrar
shall, without requiring- the Procurator-Fiscal to sign
the same, make the entry according, stating the Procu-
rator Fiscal as his informant.

31. If any of her Majesty's Scottish subjects shall die"
at sea on board of a British vessel, after the said last day
of December, the captain of the vessel shall make inti-
mation in the same way as provided for in the case of
births; and the Registrar shall insert a correct copy
thereof in the "Marine Register," verified by his own
signature.
32, 33. Every Registrar immediately upon registering
any death, or as soon thereafter as he shall be required
so to do, shall, without fee or reward deliver to the in
formant, for the use of the undertaker or other person
having charge of the funeral, a certificate that such death
has been duly registered; and such certificate shall be
delivered to the person having the charge of the place of
interment; and if any dead body shall be buried, for
which no such certificate shall have been so delivered,
the undertaker or other person having charge 6,f the I
funeral, and the person having charge of the place of in-
terment,
shall within forty-eight hours thereafter give
notice thereof to the Registrar of the sub-district in
which such death shall have happened, under a penalty
of 101., the information given to the Registrar to be
signed by the informant.
34. Every Registrar aball make out an account, twice
in every year, of the number of births and deaths which
he shall have registered since the last half yearly ac-
count, and the Superintendent-Register shall verify
and sign the same ; and the Parochial Board, on pro-
duction of such account, shall pay to the Registrar for
the first twenty entries of births and deaths in every
year which he shall have registered, two shillings and
sixpence each, and one shilling for every subsequent
entry of births and of deaths in each year ; and in the
event of such fees being inadequate to his remuneration,
such further sum as the Parochial Board shall think fit.

35. In all cases of marriage contracted in Scotland
from and after the laNt day of December, 1847, the
persona contracting such marrage, at the time of the
contraction thereof, or within two months then after.
shall sign, along with two witnesses, in the presence of
the Registrar, the entry of such marriage in the re
gister-book to be kept by the Registrar, and if this be
done within ten days, the Registrar shall for such entry
be entitled to a fee of five shillings ; if after ten days
and within two months, the Registrar shall be entitled
to a fee of ten shillings ; or it shall be competent to the
persons contracting marriage to require the Registrar of
the sub-district to attend at the contraction, or within
two months thereafter, at any place within such sub-
district, and such Registrar is required, upon a written
notice of forty-eight hours given to him to that effect.
to attend with the register book accordingly, and to
make the proper entry therein ; and for such attend-
ance and entry, if at the contraction or within ten days
of the contraction of such marriage, the Registrar shall
be entitled to a fee of one guinea, besides the sum of
sixpence for each mile which he shall be obliged to
travel in going from his place of abode to the place of
such marriage ; and if such attendance shall be required
after ten days but within two months of the contraction
of such marriage, the Registrar shall for such attend-
ance and entry be entitled to a fee of two guineas be-
sides the sum of sixpence for each mile ; and any per-
sons contracting marriage and failing to register the
same, and sign the entry thereof in manner herein de-
scribed during the period of two months thereafter, shall
be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds, and in default of
payment to suffer imprisonment for one month.
36. In case of either or both of the married parties
dying within the ten days or two months, the marriage
unregistered, it shall be competent to the survivor, or
for any near relative of either of the parties, to obtai❑
registration of the marriage, they, along with two
other witnesses who have been present at the marriage,
signing register, which must also !,tate, in the entry,
the death of the person who may have contracted the
marriage.

.•
37, 38, 39, 40. Marriages may be registered after
two months by the Registrar. Clergyman or person
present at solemnisation, celebration, or contraction of
marriage, to send nctice to Registrar within ten days,
under a penalty of 21. Certified copies of register
books to be sent half-yearly to the Superintendent-Re-
gistrar, under a penalty of 101. Str...erintendent-
Registrar to transmit registers half-yearly to Registrar-
General.

41. Every Registrar and Deputy-Registrar who shall
have the keeping for the time being of any register-book
of births, deaths, or marriages. shall at all reasonable
times allow searches to be made of all register-book in
his keening, and shall, if required, give a copy, certi-
fied under his hand, of any entry or entries in the same,
on payment of a fee fir every search extending over
a period not more than one year the sum of one shil-
ling. and sixpence additional for every additional year;
and for certificate the sum of two shillings and six-
pence for every entry contained in such certificate.
47. Every Superintendent Registrar shall forthwith
cause indexes of the register-books in his office to be
made and kept with the other r, cords of his offit.e ; and
every person shall be entitled at all reasonable hours to
search the said indexes, and to have a certified copy of
nny entry or entries in the said register-books, under
the hand of the Superintendant-Registrar, on payment
of the fees ; for every general search the sum cif five
shillings, and for every particular search the sum of one
shilling, and for every such certified copy, the sum of
two shillings and sixpence.

49. Indexes to be kept at General Register Office,
where they may be searched, on payment of the follow-
ing fees :—For every general search the sum of twenty
shillings ; for every particular search the sum of one
shilling ; and for every certified copy the sum of two
shillings and sixpence.
44. Seal to be kept at the General Register Office'
and all certified copies of entries sealed or stamped
therewith to be admissible throughout the United King-
dom and other of her Majesty's dominions. in evidence
of birth, death, or marriage, to which the same
relates.

45. Every sum received by the Registrar-General to
be accounted for and paid into the Bank of England, to
the credit of her Majesty's Exchequer, or to be applied
by order of the Lords Commissioners in discharge of the
expenses of the said General Register Office in
Edinburgh.

46, 47, 48. Penalty for giving false information—
Transportation for a period not exceeding seven years,
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Every Registrar who shall refuse, or without reasonable
cause, omit to register any birth, death, or marriage,
and every person having the custody of any register-
book who shall carelessly lose or injure the same, shall
forfeit a sum not exceeding 501. for every such offence.
Penalty for destroying cr falsifying register-books, or
certifying any writing to be a copy or extract of any
register-hook, knowing the same to be false, ace.—
Transportation for a period not exceeding seven years,
or imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years.
49, 50. If any error shall be discovered to have been
committed in any entry in any of the register-books,
the Registrar-General is to examine regarding it on
oath, and if he shall be satisfied that any error has been
committed, he shall cause a rectified entry to be made
in a separate register-book, to be called " The Register
of Corrected Entries ;" and he shall also make an entry
upon the margin of the original entry of such birth.
death, or marriage (but which original entry shall re-
main unaltered), distinctly referring by volume, and
page, and date, to the entry made in the register of
corrected entries. Errors in the entry may be corrected
before signing. . . . .

51. All pen"alties and forfeitures imposed by the Act
shall be recoverable before the Sheriff of the county in
which such penalty shall have been incurred ; and the
penalties and forfeitures, if sued for by the Registrar-
General, shall go to the Registrar- General, and if sued
fer by any other party, shall go, the one moiety to the
R gistrar-General, and the other moiety to the party
suing ; and the deci,ion of the Sheriff in all such cases
shall be final and conclo,ive, and not sutject to review
in any court or by any process whatever.
52. The prosecution for every offence punishable
upon summary convi-tion by virtue of the Act, shaU be
commenced within three months after the commission
of.the offe:ce, or Lifter c.tttsc of actio:, shall have uc-
curred.

53. Correspendenee of Registrar-General relating 'o
the Act to pals through the Poil-office.

54. Provided alwAys, that nothing herein eon•ained
shall affect the registration of baptism. burial., or Inst.-
riages, us now by law etti bl is h ed, or the right of any
Kirk-session or their clerk to receive the tees now
usually paid for the r,•gistration of any bipeistr.,
marriage, or proclamation of banns.

55, 56. Acts requiring to be done under this Act, to
be published on church doors, and notices to officers may
be sent by post.
57. Interpretation chuse. The word " oath " shall
include affirmation In the case of Quakers. or other de-
claration or soleinnity substitu•• d for an oath in
the case or person. exempted by law from taking an oath.
The word "Sh"riff" t, ineltiOe the -heritr Sohwitute.
The " oeciip er" shall include the master, iv-eper, or su-
perintendent ..t every prison, or hon-e of correction,
worklituve, hospital, tunanc asylum, or pabl.c or charit-
able institution. •
58. Act to extend only to Scotland.
59 Act may be repeated or amended in the present
seuion.

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THE NEW HOUSES OP FARM AMENT.—In pur-
suance of the pledge given to the Government by Mr.
Barry, the architect, that he would sufficiently complete the
new House of Lords for the reception of their Lordships
after the ensuing Easter recess, the works and fittings-up in
She interior and of the necessary apartments required for
use are proceeding with great rapidity, and in order to pre-
vent any hindrance or obstruction to the progress of the
works, no person but those employed will be allowed to have
access to the building after this day. The interior is a gor-
geous display of modern art. In the public hall the flooring
is of great magnificence, being composed of Minton's
encaustic tiles in colours. The outer gates of their Lordships'
House are made of braes, and are of exquisite workmanship.
In the works at the new House of Commons not much pro-
gres is making.
NORTH OF ENGLAND JOINT. STOCK BANK.--The
directors of this establishment at Newcastle-upon-Tyne have
made a call of 51. per share, to meet engagements which can-
not be postponed, and they propose calling the shareholders
together at an early day, when a statement of the liabilities
of the bank will be laid before them, and the course of future
action determined upon.
ABRAHAM PARK ERS.—The curiosity of the inhabi-
tants of Southampton was excited by an influx of about 20
Abraham Parker., or Turkish students, from Constantinople,
who were imported by the Tagus stearne-r. Abraham Parker
seems to let a generic term regularly entered in the South-
ampton vocabulary for all who appear in the dress, or who
come from the neighbouring country of the renowned bra .
him Pacha.—Hampshire Guardian.
We understand that an amateur theatrical perform-
ance, in aid of the funds of the Printers' Pension
take place on Saturday, April 24, at Se'ciety'
will
Theatre.the Royal Olympic
Theatre.

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SIR HENRY HALFORD'S BILL TO
REGULATE HOSIERY MANUFACTURES.

(From the Nottingham Review.)
The following is an abstract of the provisions of a
Bill brought into the House of Commons, on the 12th
instant, by Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Packe, and Cclonel
Rolleston, in tit uled—

" A Bill to repeal an Act for making further regula-
tions respecting the tickets of work to be delivered to
persons employed in the manufacture of hosiery in
certain cases, and to make other provisions instead
thereof, and to make further provisions to secure the
wages of persons employed in the manufacture of
hosiery."
1. The preamble states it to be expedient to abolish
the Ticket Act, and to give further and more efficient
protection to the workmen engaged in every department
of the hosiery trade.
2, The old Act to expire on the Ist of next Septem-
ber, on which day the present Act is to come into force.
3. The interpretation clause contains the limitation
of the term " manufacturer," to mean any person fur..
nishing material to be wrought into hosiery goods to
be sold or disposed of on his account ; " agent" or " ser-
vant," any person meting for and in the name of the
manufacturer; workman," any person by whom the
materials furnished are to be actually wrought and con-
verted into hosiery.
4. Declares the p-actice of receiving materials by in-
termedi,te earti,s. and employing workmen under them
to convert the same into hosiery goods to be objection-
able, and ought to be abolished and discontinued, and
enacts that no person, save the manufacturer, being the
real and absolute owner of the materials, and interested
in the sale of the mat-rial when wrought up, shall give
out work, employ workmen, or enter into any contract
whatever for that purpose.

5. A partner may act for a firm, and make a contract
and d -liver out materials.

6. Permits an owner to act by an agent or servant ;
the lets of such to be binding on.the principal.
7. Enacts that every manufacturer of hosiery shall,
on delivering out any materials to be wrought up,
whether cy, his own premises or elsewhere, enter in a
book nr books to be k"pt by him for that purpose, a
statemet.t of th particulars of agreement between such
manufacturer and the workmcn by whom such mate-
rials are to be wrought and conv,rted into hosiery goods,
such entry to specify names and places of abode of work-
men. and be in form in every respect and particular of
schedule annexed, and be signed by the manufacturer or
his agent.

The schedule for stockings requires twenty-three
columns of particulars, besides signature.
That for socks sixteen columns.
For gloves seventeen columns.
For shirts sixteen columns.
For caps ten columns, and eight columns for any other
description of hosiery.
8. Inflicts a penalty of not exceeding 50L, and not less
than 51., for contravening, in any respect, the provisions
of this Act, on proof before two justices; whether it re-
gards contracting between manufacturers and smaller
masters, or non-inserting, altering, or obliterating the
particulars of contracts with workmen as ordered.

9. Requires the book containing particulars of agree-
ments entered into to be kept at the ordinary place of
the manufacturer's business, and makes it lawful for
any workman, being at the time, or haring been within
fourteen days in his employ, to apply for and obtain in•
spection of, and to take copies of any entry er entries
therein, at all suitable times. Any person hindering or
refusing to allow inspection of copies, to be liable to a
fine of not more than 20/., nor less than 51.

Ia ow of dispute arising, this book to be pro-
duced, and the entry shall be evidence respecting the
particulars contained in it.
11. Except where the dispute arises from alleged im-
perfection of work, when the piece of work in question
shall be produced, or if not, it shall be taken to have
been well made.

12. Makes the wags contracted for a debt, to be paid
without any deduction whatever.
13. 1/-Glares that frame-rents are unjust to workmen,
and have given ride to many evils, and therefore ought
to be altogether nbAshed, and goes on to enact that no
person shell let .n hire any frame to any workman, or
take from him any tn.,ney, rent, gain, or pt.( fit, or de-
duct from his wages on account of Li.: renting, hiring,
or using any such loom, frame, or a oaratus for making
hosiery.
14. Enscts pen,thies for breach of the preceding
clause ; but the sum is left blank, to be filled up in
Committee.

15 to 18 Prescribe terms of legal proceedings, and
give penalties to ri-e Crcwn,
19. Declares n rem val by certiorari allowable, nor
any conviction to he inva id for want of form, nor any
but special damage recoverable in case of any irregularity
in proet edings.
This Bill, though short, is of an extraordinary and
sweeping character. It abolishes frame rent, but
makes no provision foe securing the owner's right of
preperty in frames, hitherto exercised. not so much by
removal, for in many cases they have been continued in
the uninterrupted custody of the same workpeople for
twenty, thirty, or forty years, as by the weekly charge
of frame rent, and by payment of the expense incurred
by the larger rerairs. Who is to pay for these repairs
in future is not stated I neither does it deal with the
question of who is to compensate the owners of inde-
pendent frames for this legal destruction of their property.
It makes every workman tt workwoman independent of
any control but that of the hosier. All journeymen and
apprentices are under this Bill to become their own mu-
ers. A hosier could not under it glee out work to a
husband for his wife, or to a parent for a child. No
excep'ions are contemplated ; the sole object seems to
be to get rid of unjust charges, by destroying every
species of intermediate agency at any cost. No one is
to make a bargain for a working stoekingmaker but him-
self or herself. The hosier may employ a paid agent.
but the workman must appear in person, and be dealt
with separately. Each one must have his separate agree-
ment with the hosier, both as to money and material—a
thing impossible. Will the hosiers be willing to increase
the number of their accounts four-fold? Or to intrust a
frame and materials to every stockingmaker on his own
account? It is very unlikely. The chief places where
materials are given out, and stockings are taken in, from
the workpeople, are Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfieid,
Belper, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, and Hinck-
ley ; by the Bill, all the 40,000 men, women, and
youths must waste their time, and strength, and money
in going to these places, instead of three-fourths of them
staying at home to work at the frame, clean the house,
garden, or otherwise both profitably and safely employ
themselves. How will this help them?
In the county of Nottingham, for instance, there are
16,280 frames, gathered into about 5,200 shops. At present
each shopmaster only attends the hosier's warehouse.
In this county alone, therefore, this Bill, if it could be
carried into effect, would oblige eleven thousand people,
instead of five thousand, to travel every year four hun-
dred miles each, chiefly on foot, and this for the purpose
of crowding still further warehouses already too much
resorted to, and exposing them to temptations and ex-
penses.—The book containing particulars of agreements,
is to be open for inspection and copying. Any one
working for the house may see and copy all the entries
he pleases, and do with these copies what he pleases--
publish them if he chooses. Is this fair dealing with
the employer's business ? An apprentice may be pu-
nished for revealing his master's secrets—a workman
may do it with impnnity,—No workman can incur any
penalty under this Bill.
We desire, as well as the gentlemen whose names are
to this Bill, to see the stocking-maker disenthralled
from his difficulties, and raised in his station and means.
Bat this mode of dealing with the -object will no more
answer any good purpose than d:d the " ticket" Bill,
which we predicted would soon he repealed or fall into
disuse, as it has done. In this effort at trade legisla-
tion we have another proof that Parliament can only be
looked to for power to a.i.jost trade matt. rs , the exercise
of that, power must be placed in hands accustomed to
the dettAls and neeess,tics of the various businesses sub-
jected to their aet;en. reel heir.< stns e.

ALLEGED DEATH OF A CHILD FROM CRUEL
TREATMENT.—Ye,terdav Mr. W. Career held an inquest at
the Three Stags, Lambeth, on the body of William Ralph
age• nine :Fears, a son of a beer-shop keeper living in
aleait's-row. The inquiry was instituted in consequence of
intormation having been sent to the Coroner that the child
had died from the elects of corporal punishment inflicted by
his pater ts. Police. constable Beal, H 7 L, said that he had
be,,n residing in the same house as deceased, and about six
or eight weeks since the deceased crept up stairs to one of
the lodger's rooms, and begged for a piece of bread. He
was then in a very dirty and deplorable state. During the
late bitter cold weather wirness bad seen deceased with no-
nbetwit
asnlidirtm.rs.RKeliiencgc,a
aEndll'hland. se%Anstyhleumgr-epalatec:l
said she
brutality practised by both towards deceased. On one occa-
sion she saw him tied up by his hands to the skylight. The
last time she saw anything done to him was a fortnight after
when Mr. King beat him with a double rope,
lknockedastC
hrishrinr down, pushed his nose on to the flooring until
the blood ran from his nose into his mouth. Alice Anderson
said that she had been engaged at Mr. King's as charwoman.
She knew the deceased. He was an exceedingly dirty child,
and ion,' of pilfering any hing he could lay hold of. She
had seen his father beat him, but she thought the chastise-
ment was not at all excessive She did not think deceased
wa4 right in his mind. The jury returned a verdict of
" Natural death."
MONUMENT TO LORD BYRON.—We have much
pleasure to learn that the British Government are about to
pay a just tribute of respect to the memory of our immortal
bard Shakspere, by the purchase of the house in which be
was born, at Stratford-upon-Avon; and we hope the same
noble and generous feeling may extend to Missolonghi,
where Lord Byron died. The erection of a monument at-
tached to the Vice-Consulate on the spot would tend to per-
petuate the memory of one so renowned. Indeed, weedi
thatlteharait
from a correspondent who recently visiiltledbe recMissoolloiencgt
Missolonghi
the actual house in which Lord Byron died no longer exists,
having been totally destroyed, as it w
on the Turks storming that garrison, seventy aged men,
women, and children, entered a magazine and blew
them-
selves up, preferring death to cruelty and slavery. With
this heroic act fell the house sacred to
,our last immortal
poet. The proprietor of the site not only generously offers
to give it for the erection of a monument, but also will give
a handsome sum towards it, and surely the' friends, the rela-
tions, the Government, and the admirers of his Lordship will
at once set on foot a subscription for so noble a purpose.—
Malta Paper.
An acre of beet will yield as much true food as
five acres of oats, or three and a half of wheat. Sugar beet
makes excellent bread; nearly as good, that is to say as
nutritive, as wheaten bread ; and therefore it is clear, that a
man who has an acre of that kind of root, is in the position
of the man who has three and a half acres of wheat ready
for the sickle. If en acre of wheat will produce one thou-
sand loaves, an acre of sugar beet will produce three thou-
sand five hundred.
THR REWARD OF MERCY; OR, DISAPPOINTMENT
MITIGATED.—'The following paragraph appears in the last
by personst
h the
re-
ceived American (New York) Sun:—
a man Thou hduanogf,
assembied at Racine, Wisconsin, to see
name of Bonham, sentenced for murder. The sheriff informed
the people that Governor Dodge bad reprieved the prisoner
for thirty days, whereupon they hung the effigy of the Go-
vernor, and then separated peaceably."