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London, England, 1847-01-05 00:00:00

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sidered by the session to be a very useful and necassary 1
undertaking.
COUNTY OF ROPCOMMON.—Mr. Fitzstephen French, I
M.P., presided at the adjourned sessions of Frencb-psrk,
on Wednesday.
Mr. French commenced by expressing to Captain
Burmaster and Mr. Bushe, the officers in attendanCe
from the Board of Works, the thanks of the magis-
trates and associated cess-payers, for the zeal with
which their duties was performed, and the assistance
they had uniformly afforded to the local gentry. Since
their last meeting, Lord de Freyne had forwarded,
under the Treasury Minute of the Ist of December,
his application for an advance of 24,0001., to be ex-
pended in reclaiming waste lands in that barony, and
in all probability instructions would be received by
the next day's post by Mr. Burke to report on the
memorial. lie (Mr. French)' trusted that the other
landed proprietors in this district would follow this
course, and that every person having a stake in the
country would perform his duty. If not, let petitions be
forwarded to Parliament to allow the magistrates and
cess-payers to tax the lands of those not giving employ-
ment for reproductive works, subject to the sanction of
the Board of Works. The sum voted on Saturday was
for three months' employment for the destitute poor of
the barony, to save this district, if possible, frxn the
horrors of starvation; and his object in requesting the
attendance of the officers representing the Board of
Works, at this their adjourned meeting, was to arrange
with them the method in which this could be most se-
curely and effectually done. He had prepared a return,
showing the amount unexpended of the sums voted at
their September sessions—the sums now allotted for
each new work, and the number of men who, in the
opinion of the engineer, could be conveniently em-
ployed on each. He would recommend that work should
be laid out for each person to the amount of 21. Bs.
The sum they had just voted was for three months'
employment at Sd. a day. This would enable each
person, by daily labour, to earn 2/. Bs. Let the relief
committee send such numbers to each work as would
enable this work to be carried out. Whether working
in gangs or not, letlthe persons taking the tasks be al-
lowed to bring to their assistance such members of
their own families as they please ; and, if possible,
to have the task finished, and the sum required for their
subsistence, the 21. Bs., earned in six weeks. The re-
maining six weeks out of the three months, the wages
for which they have in their pockets, should be devoted
to their own tillage, and some attempt made to arrest
the impending famine of next year. He would also, in
the most earnest manner, press on Mr. Bushe the expe-
diency of not allowing any person to continue as stew-
ard of public works who could not satisfactorily show he
was, on his own land, giving employment to one or two
persons, and that his land was in preparation for early
sowing.
The address of Mr. French appeared to give great
satisfaction to a crowded court.

Mr. Busiia and Captain BURMASTER stated their de-
sire to co-operate in every way with the magistrates, and
to avail themselves of every suggestion which could be
rendered effective. _ _

The remaining business was gone through, and the
schedule forwarded to the secretary of the grand jury.
COUNTY GF MEATH.—THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.—
The following letter }as been addressed to the Irish
agent of his Grace the Duke of Bedford:—
" Bedford Office, Bloomsbury, Dec. 28, 1846.
" Dear Sir,—The Duke of Bedford desires me to re-
quest that you will hare the goodness to inform the
High Sheriff of Meath that he has received and considered
the circular addressed by him to his Grace, in which,
after adverting to an application made to his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant, to call an extra baronial present-
ment sessions in the barony of Lower Navan, for
presenting for reproductive works, the High Sheriff,
Charles Joly, Esq., inquires whether the Duke of Bed-
ford will join in a plan to provide employment for the
people, without the intervention of the Board of Works,
on the principle of subscriptions equal in amount to the
assessment which would have to be made for productive
works under Mr. Labouchere's letter ; and whether,
in the event of that letter being adopted at the en-
suing sessions, his Grace would be willing to undertake
for reproductive works (giving the required guaran-
tee), and to what amount ? And the Duke of Bed-
ford also wishes you to be so good as to inform the High
Sheriff that it is very satisfactory to his Grace to find
that the proprietors in the barony are anxious to come
forward and provide employment without the interven-
tion of the Government ; and that he is willing to join
in, and bear his share of any reasonable plan for accom-
plishing that object ; and in determining upon the steps
to be taken for that purpose, his Grace hopes, where the
sowing of wheat has been neglected, that the expediency
of sowing spring crops will not be lost sight of.
" I beg to add that the Duke of Bedford is pleased to
hear that you have created employment for such of his
tenants as required it ; and I quite agree with you in
the opinion you express, that if every landed proprietor
would do the same, it would do far better than applying
to the Board of Works.—l am, dear Sir, yours truly,

" CHRISTOPHER HARDY,

" To Charles Joly, Esq."
INAUGURATION OF THE LORD MAYOR.—At eleven
o'clock this day the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and town
councillors assembled at the Mansion House, and shortly
after proceeded in state to the City Assembly House in
William-street, for the purpose of installing Alderman
Staunton in all the civic honours attached to the station
of Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin. On reaching the
City Assembly House, the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor
elect, and Mr. O'Connell were received by the people
with loud cheers. On entering the council room, the in-
troductory proceedings having been speedily disposed
of, the insignia of office were placed on the shoulders
of Alderman Staunton, who made and subscribed the
oath prescribed; after which the ex-Lord Mayor de-
scended from the chair, to which the Lord Mayor
ascended, and, having made his bow to the council, his
salutation was received with loud cheers.

WooLvricir, JAN. 3.—ENROLLED PENSIONERS.—
In consequence of some misunderstanding in the minds
of the pensioners and their wives and families as to the
condition under which: they were to serve as an embo-
died corps in New Zealand, an order wasissued on
Saturday from the Secretary of War, stating that, in
the event of any pensioner dying in that colony before
the expiration of the seven years appointed as the period
of enrolment, their wives and families, if they prefer it,
will be sent back to England at the public charge; and
if, at the end of that period, the pensioners wish to re-
move to any other part of the colony, the Government
will give them, in lieu of their cottage and acre of land,
an allotment of twenty acres in any part of the colony.
MISERLY HABITS OF LORD CHANCELLOR TREVOR.
—He lived ever afterwards very privately, and found
his chief delight in accumulating money. He became so
great an economist, that he even grudged a glass of wine
to a poor relation. It is recorded of him, that "he had
dined by himself one day at the Rolls, and was drinking
his wine quietly, when his cousin, Roderic Lloyd, was
unexpectedly introduced to hint, from a side door. You
rascal,' said his Honour to the servant, ' and you have
brought my cousin, Roderic Lloyd, Esquire, Prothono-
tary of North Wales, Marshal to Baron Price, &c., &c ,
&c., up by back stairs. Take my cousin, Roderic Lloyd
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vain remonstrated, and while he was conveyed down the
back stairs and up the front stairs, the bottle and glasses
were removed by his Honour—some law books and
papers taking their place."—Campbas Lives of Chan-
cellors.

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THREATENED SECESSION FROM THE ENGLISH
CHURCH. —The Rev. Dr. Holloway, incumbent minister
of Fitzroy Chapel, London-street, Tottenham- court-
road, London, has addressed a letter to the Lord Chan-
cellor, in which he prays his Lordship's opposition to
some " novel regulations and further encroachments upon
the pristine liberty of the labouring clergy," which it is
intended to introduce into the House of Lords in the
course of next session. The Rev. Gentleman, after ad-
verting to the laws in force with respect to the clergy,
alludes to the proposed regulations for the " correction
of clerks," which he severely condemns, inasmuch as he
contends that if more absolute power be made over to
the hierarchy, so that any and every bishop, ad al bi.
trum suana, may depose bib man for preaching, propa-
gating, or implanting what such bishop, according to
his own views and sentiments, may consider " unbe-
coming a clergyman," there will be no class of men
in Christendom placed in greater jeopardy or more ab-
ject slavery, than the evangelical clergy, against whom,
he alleges, the shaft is directed. Dr. Holloway views
with great alarm, these and other contemplated
changes, and assures the Lord Chancellor that, if per-
sisted in, a large number of clergymen (probably as
many as 4,000) will leave the pale of the Established
Church.

SUNDAY TRAINS.—The list of names subscribed to
the memorial presented to the Board of Directors, for
the re-establishment of the two passenger trains on Sun-
day, has now been published ; and we have no hesitation
in saying, that we never saw a more influential list of
names, embracing men of all parties, to any document
relative to any matter of local interest. A contempo-
rary, in its remarks relative to this list, clearly esta-
blishes, from distinct quotations from all the written
documents on the part of the memorialists, that they have
from the first to the last, limited their demand to the
Sunday trains, as used for the last four years, and the
use of which has been suspended so arbitrarily by the
directors, and that nothing beyond this is contended
for. An appeal having now been made to the share-
holders, and as to the result of which no doubt is en-
tertained, we would particularly impress upon the Scottish
shareholders firmly to express their opinions, as we f, el
confident that a vast majority of them must be satisfied
that their directors have committed a most egregious
blunder, to say the least of it. This is particularly
called for at this juncture, in order to prevent a new
ground of clamour, which will inevitably follow, that a
measure is forced upon the country, by the votes of
Englishmen, contrary to the sentiments of the people.
Certainly there can be no justice in any such outcry, as
we consider that the partners of any joint stock com-
pany, whether resident in England or Scotland, are en-
titled to manage their own concerns in their own way ;
but from the character of the opposite party, we are
sure that the result will be as we state, unless the
Scottish proprietors do their duty.—Glasgow Saturday
Post.
DEAD MAN'S WILL.—I can tell you of a fancy
that some people have in the wilder parts of Craven,
that if the mark of a dead person (the body, however,
not being cold) be put to will, it is valid in law. A few
years ago a case of this nature occurred. A farmer had
omitted to make his will. He died ; and before the
body was cold a will was prepared by some relative (of
course in his own favour), and a mark, purporting to be
that of the deceased, was made by putting the pen into
the hand of the dead man, and so making his mark to
the will. The body of the man was not then cold. The
will was contested by some parties, and, I believe, pro-
pheli
eedoefdotfotha
etripaalratitelsawo,amweheonut in thecircumstaneofthe
evidence.--Corres-
pondent of Athenwum,

LAW OF LIBEL.