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APRIL 8, 1847.

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WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS, at the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET,
BED FORD-SQ UARE.
Mr. WILSON begs to announce that, on MONDAY EvErnNo, the
12th of April, at Eight o'clock, he will commence his Series of En-
tertainments on the SONGS of SCOTLAND, when he will sing
several songs for the first time in London, and also bring forward
some old favourites.—Pianoforte, Mr. and.
PROGRAMME.
PART FIRST.—My Heart's in the Highlands—The Bonnie House of
Airlie—Bonnie Bessie Lee—The Married Man's Lament—An Thou
wert my ain Thing —Auld Gudeman, ye're a Drucken Carle—The
Irish Mother's Lament—Won't you lave us a lock of your hair?
PART SEcorin.-0 Jeanie, there's naething to fear ye—The Stuarts
of Appin—My joe Janet—Go fetch to me a pint o' wine—Green
grow the rashes 0.
Tickets, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes for Six Per-
sons, 15s. ; for Eight, 11.
During the season, Mr. Wilson will give his Entertainments its the
Music•hall every Monday Evening, at Eight o'clock.

twelve months. He also adds, that the spread of oats
is far beyond that of 1846 at this pericd. Notwith-
standing this prospect, there are thousanils of small
occupiers who are totally unable to sow their farms.—
Trake Chronicle.
SOYER'S MODEL KITCHEN.
DUBLIN, APRIL 5.--This day M. Soyer exhibited an
experimental trial of his cooking apparatus, in the Es-
planade at the Royal Barracks, and the subject of his
model kitchen for the poor having excited a considerable
degree of interest iu this country, an immense concourse
of persons of the first respectability, to whom tickets of
admission had been issued, repaired to the ground, in
order to assure themselves that Soyer's plan was, or was
not a project only. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant
having expressed his intention of being present, the at-
'motion which the Noble Earl and his interesting family
never fails of creating amongst the citizens of Dublin
contributed to swell the number and the elegance of the
persons who attended. At three o'clock a grand military
salute from a guard of honour which had been stationed
on the ground announced the arrival of his Excellency
and the vice-regal party, amongst whom we perceived
the Ladies Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Captain
Williams, the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. Corry Con-
nellan, Captains Henry Ponsonby and Williams. On the
ground we perceived the Earls of Charlemont, Roden,
and Meath, Lord Brabazon, the Lord Chancellor. Lieu-
tenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, the Hon. Frede-
rick Ponsonby, &c. &c. On alighting from his carriage,
his Excellency and the vice-regal party were conducted
to the tent where the cooking apparatus had been in
operation. They-let—tlio:Nere and were speedily fol-
lowed by a numerous train of visitors, who accommodated
themselves as best they could, standing at the outside of
a range of tables which extended along the square of the
tent, Soups of various kinds were then served, and the
company having discussed the merits of each decoction
as-

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, APRIL s.—Fever still continues to incl.( gull
to an alarming extent in Cork, Sligo, Mayo, and varieul
other counties, and, indeed, the pestilence exists to it
greater or less degree generally throughout the country.
In the union workhouses, especially, the malady pre-
vails, and the mortality in some places is very consi-
derable. As yet Dublin and the surrounding metropo-
litan districts have escaped, but there is reason to ap-
prehend that with the approach of warm weather the
capital will also suffer as well as the provinces.
In some few counties--for instance, in Cork and
Sligo—famine is still at work, but generally there ap-
pears to be a decrease of destitution. The new relief
measures, it is to be hoped, will produce a decided im-
provement, as well in regard to the sustenance of the
poor as the ravages of disease.
The provincial journals mention the names of many
more landlords who are suaplying seed to the small
occupiers on their estates. There are, however, bitter
crmplaints of the total indifference of several extensive
proprietors, who have as yet taken no steps to promote
the cultivation of the land.
A landlord and tenant association is in opepttion in
the county of Wexford, from which much practical good
may be anticipated. Most of the principal landed pro-
prietors, including the Earl of Courtown, Lord Carew,
the Honourable S. Maxwell, Sir W. Cox, Messrs.
Gwyan, Morgan, Doyne, Walker, &c., are members of
the association, which held a meeting at Ennisworthy on
Thursday last, Lord Courtown presiding. Resolutions
were adopted with a view of establishing safety harbours
for fiahing4soettwand .of _obtaining- information on all
matters calculated to employ the labouring poor in a
useful and profitable manner, as the best means of lessen
ing taxation on the land. An address to the landowners
was adopted with the same object, earnestly calling for
their co-operation in setting the surplus labourers of the
county at work, and urging them " to unite while there
is still time to prevent the degradation and final ruin
which threaten this country." We extract one important
paragraph from the address :
" The evil of out-door relief, when grappled with sys-
tematically, will not be found unmanageable. On the
20th of February, when more than 20,000 persons were
employed on public relief works in this county, the pro-
portion was one person so employed to 25 arable acres in
the county."
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.
The Sligo Champion contains the following reports of
the miserable condition of affairs in that county:—
SLIGO, APRIL 3.—Notwithstanding the reduction
which has taken place in the price of Indian corn, our
agricultural labourers are still enduring the moat dread-
ful sufferings. The deaths from starvation are multiply-
ing every hour; and notwithstanding all that has been
done by the Government, and the generous people of the
British nation, thousands upon thousands will be swept
away by absolute hunger during the present spring and
the ensuing summer. The people have given themselves
up to despair. In the remote districts there is nothing
whatever doings the only soil turned up by the spade is
the rank earth of the graveyards. There is not a burial
place in the county that is not at present overstocked
with dead; and we do really believe that the mortality
is greater now than it was when the cholera raged. At
present—it is right the fact should be known—no in-
quests are held upon the bodies of those who die of star-
vation. The grand jury, at the last assizes, desired the
coroners not to hold inquests in such cases.
FEVER IN Seroo.—We deeply regret to say, that
lever is rapidly on the increase, and the disease is now
turning out to be of a very malignant character. A new
fever hospital was established in this town within the last
fortnight, capable of holding ninety-six patients. It was
filled in throe days. In the country districts typhus
ever is raging to a fearful extent. The following is an
extract from a letter we received from a correspondent
residing in Ballinabill :—"Fever is greatly on the in-
crease here—average of deaths weekly, twenty." In
Gurteen, Ahamlish, and Tireragh this awful scourge is
equally general and fatal. It has spread to the higher
ranks, and those who were secure from death by famine
now find that they are exposed to it by pestilence. Mr.
Lawlor, the agent of Mr. Cooper, died a few days ago
of fever. Mr. William Ormsby and Mr. Luke Hester,
both pay clerks, are ill of the same disease.
STATE OF KILFREE.—Nothing can be more deplor-
able than the condition of this parish ; the following ex-
tract from the letter of an esteemed correspondent will
serve to show the miserable state to which the wretched
people are reduced :—" Since my last we have had awful
times here. On last Sunday there were eleven people
dead in this parish. Of this number, John Fahy, of
Mulroe, Andrew Ferrell, of Drunbushand, and John
Grady, of Amaghmore (the father of the boy whom you
some time since stated was carried in a basket from the
public works, and who died the same night), died of
absolute starvation. Were it not for the timely donation
of 101. from our venerated Bishop, Dr. M‘Nichnlas, aided
by the liberal subscription of a charitable commercial
friend in Sligo, many more would have shared a similar
Lottoroin Wonxnotiii..-s4l6,number of deatliOn
our workhouse, and the fever hospital attached,' from
Ist to the 31st March ;inclusive, were 174 ;'4n February,
176 ; in January, 116—making a total of 466 for the
quarter, exclusive of the many deaths throughout the
union, and this town and neighbourhood, from fever and
dest itution.—Longford Journal.
LONDONDERRY UNlON.—During last week, 80 patients
are reported to be ill in fever, and 80 convalescent ; in
hospital from other diseases, 108 ; making in all 268
patients under medical treatment. The clerk and four
of the resident officers have been attacked with fever,
and are at present incapacitated from performing their
du ty.--Londondet ry Sentinel.
TILLAGE OF THE LAND.
WEXFORD, APRIL 3.—lt is cheerful to behold several
of our resident gentry acting in accordance with the
principles of humanity and sound policy. A few days
since the agent of Lord Kilmaine
applied to a corn
merchant in Enniscorthy for 200 barrels of seed oats, to
give his Lordship's tenants in this county, to seed their
land; but this order could only be partially complied
with, iu consequence of Mr. Farmer having previously
engaged 1,200 barrels of seed oats and barley, for the
tenantry of the Rev. B. H. Bridges,
Mr Blacker, and
Lord Carew, 800 barrels being for his Lordship's tenants.
.
His Lordship's agricultural steward is visiting the
tenantry in this county, bestowing to them quantities of
various kinds of turnip seeds,
and giving every en-
couragement of sowing green crops as extensively as
possible. Mr. Glascott has also contracted for two
hundred barrels of seed corn for the same benevolent
purpose of seeding the land for his people. Mr.Grogan
Morgan is supplying every teuant on his property that
seeks aid in that way with seed oats, barley, and the
necessary seeds for green cropping,
so that not an acre
of his extensive estates will be permitted to remain un-
productive this year.— TVexford Independent.
CAHIRCIVEEN, MARCH 30.—The Centaur steamer is
in harbour with seed oats and some potatoes. The
Marquis of Lansdowne has sent some barley seed for his
tenantry, and also Mrs. Mahony, of Castlequin.—
Tralee Chronicle.
THE NEW RELIEF MEASURES.
Generally the relief committees are making arrange.
ments to commence operations. In Dublin the commit-
tees will be at work in a few days-
As a specimen of what is doing in the provinces, in
those places where the gentry have taken the matter
earnestly in hand, we select the following:—
KILLARNEY.—The Killarney Union contains twelve
electoral divisions; but for the Temporary Relief Act it
is divided into nine relief districts.
Captain Stewart, R.N., a most active and zealous
officer, has been appointed Government inspector of re-
lief committees for the union. The finance committee
consists of Henry A. Herbert, D.L., Christopher Gal-
way, Daniel Cronin, Jas. O'Connell, and the Government
officers. The Earl of Kenmare has consented to act as
chairman of the Killarney relief committee.
Every committee in the union is working with zeal for
the general good.
The following orders have been issued by Captain
Stewart in reference to employment on public works:—
" Every overseer is to report to me (Captain Stewart)
any labourer on the public works who has any land, who
is not taking the proper measures to get it tilled, that
an inquiry may be made as to whether or not it be ad-
visable to discharge such person from the public works.
Every check clerk, overseer, and gangsman should slake
himself thoroughly acquainted with all the particulars
respecting labourers under his charge on the public
works, so as to be able to give such information to the
committee or to any authorised person, as to how many
personso will Si conduct
in
n each
labwoourrkesr; hstfae mily are employed on either private
or number of cows, and the quantity
of land, or other means of living, as in many
cases la-
Ilsu
such
ice as to afford me an
bourers on the public works have been known to have
ee money, also other
opportunity of recommending the most deserving to the
consideration of the Board of Works. The overseers
are to see that when men or women of one family are
ctohnemsalev property.de' themselves
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ind trust inthisthteha btaank
, important sums
in
service
s
employed on the public works, they are to be on the
same road."

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LIAN CE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
The LIALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND on the STOCK of the
ALLIANCE BRITISH and FOREIGN LIFE and FIRE AS-
SURANCE COMPANY will be in COURSE of PAYMENT on
MoNnev, the 12th Inst., and every following Clay (Saturdays ex-
cepted), between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock.
A. HA_MILTON, Secretary.

Bartholomew-lane, April 8, 1847.

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.
OFFICE, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital 500,0001.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na-
tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance-
ment of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having received
the approbation of a considerable body cf the active members and
officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan
Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a
Branch Office in connexion with those Societies and the Operative
Classes generally, in which their services might be sueekimfUlly en-
gaged, a Committee hag 'been sanctioned by the Directors to open
communication with the different Societies, with the view of more
effectually disseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus-
trious classes, and a plan has been oroposed with that object.
ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE.
Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to
bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and
money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal-
culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either
immediate, contingent, sr deferred benefits.
A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con-
struction of these associations or societies is defective; and that in-
stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment,
which should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar-
rowly the channel through which a benefit can alone be secured ;
and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed,
their utility is limited. For example, it is not to every individual,
or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision
in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a
pecuniary sacrifice ; white to others such a provision appears more
attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness is a risk
against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state
of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say,
instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more
contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate
benefit should have its separate contribution.
It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of
two dissimilar funetions, and by confounding a sick allowance and
an annuity fund in one and the self-same payment, that much of the
evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies.
No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick -
ress-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso-
ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing it. By
this means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and
none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it.
But the same perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable
where a fund is to to cumulated through a succession pf years,
and where results arebear oat calculations, money investment
being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes.
For these reasons it is clear that the funds destined for a provision in
sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a
provision for old age :-
Ist. Because the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently
connected, do not depend on the same calculation.
2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to secure a
larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing
for probable sickness on themselves.
3d. Because the responsibility of managing a provision for old age,
continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible
with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre-
sponsibility, and more exposed to a failure in the performance of
such a contract, that when undertaken on the same principles that
ordinarily govern commercial bedie..
4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when
wilted in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi-
nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en-
danger the one for the sake of the other.
Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge
of the discussions passing within the bosom of many of the existing
Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here-
unto attached, have had several meetings, with a view of proposing
or adopting a remedy for these and other evils ; and in this manner
to give an additional force to the principles of brotherhood, unity,
and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding
them from the risks of sudden dissolution.
After much diligent search amongst the combinations ingeniously
proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal
objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal
in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought
and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan
proposed by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. It is
true that the author of that plan has firrnished an argument against
provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex-
pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can read the
other part of the plan itself, without being fully satisfied that the
convenience and safety of Friendly and Benefit Societies will be
greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick.
allowance from an annuity for old age.
A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan
Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to
them for the establishment of a separate office for the transaction of
business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in-
dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con-
stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its
number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an-
nexed prospectus, under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society,
and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected
with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their
opiniongreatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection
to the working clematis in old age and adversity. which nothing up to
the present day halt adequately secured to them.
Thomas Burthom, F. 0.8., Ancient Order of Foresters.
Jahn Fussell. C.R„ A.noiont Order of Foresters.
John H. Gordon. D. 8., Ancient Order of Foresters.
James Hale, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters.
Henry Hunt, P.G., Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows.
Joseph Nugent, Pro. C.S. Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows.
Joseph Reeks, 8.0. F. Order of Old Friends.
Samuel Timbre% D.R.. Ancient Order of Foresters.
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ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payments
of 2s. 2d., mars on attaining the age of 60, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 10/. 19s. 2d. ; Cash down, 1071. 38. ; or a Policy
on his Life, 1371. 175.
Example.-A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at-
taining the age of 60, an Annuity of 101., with the other options, by
the annual payment of 11.65. 9d., or a single payment of 22/. 17s. 3d,;
or on payment of 61. 14S. Id. for disparity, he will be entitled to
the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. lid., the same as
or age 20.
Example.-A. person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 74., or monthly payment
of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d.; cash down, 1481. 12s. or a policy on
his life 1751. I is.
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-
ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly paym
of 25. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 181. Oe. 4d. ; cash down, 1481. 125.; or a policy on
his life, 1751. 116.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The new steam basin in
this dockyard, fast approaching completion, and pre-
senting such a splendid addition to the great resources of
this establishment, will most probably be opened in the
early part of the ensuing year. The south wall is nearly
complete, being connected with the south-east inlet and
east wall; the apron of this inlet is completed. The west
wall is nearly ready, to receive the coping. Both -en--
trances to the basin have only one course of stone to set
before receiving the coping. The harbour wall running
west from the north entrance is more than two-thirds up
to its intended height; the circular pier, with its inner
and outer north walls, for a considerable extent has only
one course to set before receiving the coping; the east
wall, between the north and south inlets, is up half its
height, and there only remains 150 feet run to complete
the whole formation of the walls which form the basin,
the excavation being done and part already piled. Tne
dam for the extension is nearly complete, which, when
finished, will be the largest in the world, its length from
east
ey off thesttaorwest being 3,000 feet. The new Hard for the
u publicsuperior it so
the
one,
rapidly, d
therely , and w
beill a
quay
be found
enabling vessels to lie alongside to discharge their car-
goes; the foundation of this is formed. Part of the
plinths are set for the brass foundry building; the
foundation is in a forward state for the large factory
building on the west side of the basin; this building is
to be 635 feet long, and will form the finest workshop in
the whole establishment. The quantity of granite stone
that has been received on the works amounts to 800,000
cubic feet, in addition to 400,000 of Portland and Pur-
beck, making a grand total received up to the present
time of 700,000 cubic feet of stone; 1,200 men are at
present employed exclusively upon these works. The
First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by his official
colleagues, and attended by Captain James, Royal En-
gineers, paid an official visit to the steam basin last
Wednesday, and was pleased to express himself in most
complimentary terms towards the constructor, and par-
ticularly as to its very apparent state of forwardness,
which he had not expected; this must have been most
gratifying to all concerned in the formation of the work,
but more especially to Mr. Peter Rolt, the contractor.
When this magnificent basin is finished, the nation will
doubtless feel that its gratitude is due to those whose
ideas first contemplated such a structure, to the engineer
officers designing it, and no less to the contractor for
completing it.
Halal Pacha, Lieutenant-General in the Ottoman Ar-
tillery, and Osman Bey, Post-Captain in the Ottoman
navy, accompanied by M. Zohrab, Ottoman Consul-
General, arrived at this port to-day on a visit of inspec-
tion. The distinguished visitors were conducted over
the dockyard by a member of the master shipwrights'
corps, and received every attention in their inquiries, the
Lords of the Admiralty having ordered that every
respect was to be paid them in their perambulations.
They visited the steam saw and wood mills, the black-
smith's shop, the new steam-basin, and the ships build.
ing and in dock, going on board the Royal Frederick,
110, Princess Royal, 90, and Arrogant, 46, on the
stocks, the Retribution steam-frigate, in the basin, &c.,
and afterwards embarked at the King's stairs and went
on board the Victory and Excellent, and inspected all
the other objects of interest at the port. Captain Osmilti
Bey, it may be remembered, fought the flag-ship of
Admiral Walker at Acre. He has brought with him to
England nineteen Turkish young gentlemen, many of
whom are of high distinction, to be educated in various
departments of our Government establishments at the
national expense.
The Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, C. 8., arrived at
Spithead this morning from the fleet of Vice-Admiral
Sir W. Parker, off Lisbon. She has brought no news,
having left the Tagus nearly ten days ago, in company
with the Superb, 80, Captain Corry, and the America,
50; Captain Sir T. Maitland, on a trial of sailing by
order of the Admiralty. Several trials have taken place
under almost all circumstances of wind and weather, in
all of which the Thetis has come off eminently victori-
ous. In fact, she has beaten one competitor completely
out of the field, having driven the America into Vigo
with loss of cross jack yard, mainmast, mainyard, and
mainboom sprung, and foremast damaged. She parted
company with the Superb on Monday morning, about
150 miles from Plymouth, into which port the Thetis
put yesterday, and landed some of the supernumeraries
she brought home. She came up to Spithead this day
about noon through the Needles, under topsails, top-
gallant sails, royals, foresail, jib, and spanker, and came
into harbour this afternoon. She will be docked with-
out delay, to repair the damages sustained by getting
ashore in entering Lisbon.
The Maria Somes transport, having on board the
second division of the 48th Regiment, arrived at Cork
from Jamaica on the 2d inst., and sailed the same day
for Belfast to join the depot, and whither the first divi-
sion preceded her on the Ist in the Blenheim transport.
Captain Mountsteven, of the 48th, unfortunately suf-
fered a fracture of the leg on board the Maria Somes,
sustained by a fall while the vessel was struck by a
heavy sea.
The Kestrel brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Baker,
is in the basin, fitting for sea and entering men. She
will only carry two guns.
The Avenger steam-frigate, Captain S. C. Dacres,
having completed her cargo of seed corn, sailed this
afternoon for Ireland.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 6.—Her Majesty's frigate Thetis,
36, Captain Henry J. Codrington, came in last night at
twelve. She left Lisbon Feb. 28, and Vigo on the 24th
ult. The Thetis on her departure from the Tagus was
accompanied by her Majesty's ship Superb, 80, Captain
Armar L. Corry, and her Majesty's frigate America, 50,
Captain Sir Thomas Maitland. These three ships made
an experimental cruise to test their sailing qualities, and
by the diagrams on board the Thetis it is evident that
under a variety of circumstances in every trial she has
proved her speed greatly superior to the others. On one
occasion in a gale of wind she split and carried away
her maintopsail, and without the aid of this sail held
way with the Superb. In a heavy breeze the America
carried away her mainyard, and returned to Lisbon to
refit. On Monday, the sth inst., at noon, the Thetis
parted company with the Superb 79 miles south-west of
the Lizard, bound to Corunna and Lisbon. Wind S.W.
The Thetis, besides her excellent sailing qualities,
possesses good capabilities for stowage, and altogether
reflects great credit on her constructors. About two
months since she scraped her bottom on a shingle bank
which has been for a long time forming on the north side of
the Tagus, and will in consequence require docking. For
that purpose she is ordered to sail at two o'clock this
afternoon for Portsmouth.

hail been presented, the signal bell to retire was
tolled, and the great people gave way to an equal number
of paupers, in order that they might regale themselves
upon M. Soyer's soup. The contrast was sudden and
bold. A moment before and a great number of lovely
faces smiled their approval of everything they saw, and
a moment after decrepid age, upon whose faces it would
be hard to say whether time or hunger had made the
most havoc, were ranged at the same table. Ladies
Emily and Kathleen Ponsonby, Mrs. Williams, the
Misses Brady, Mr. Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. C. Connellan,
the Lord Chaneellor, the Dean of the Chapel Royal, and
several others, remained inside the square formed by the
range of tables whilst the poor people were enjoying
their meal, and the pleasure which those benevolent per-
sonages derived from seeing the poor people give every
token of their approval of the " steam-engine-soup,' was
visible upon every countenance, the ladies seeming W
take the deepest interest in the subject.
REPEAL; ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the association was held this
day. Mr. M. Murphy in the chair.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, in reference to aletter from the
Rev. Mr. Campbell, Clogher Head, Drogheda, inclosing
rent, adverted to the attempt which had been recently
made by the landlords to impose the entire payment of
poor rates on the tenants solely, and observed that if
any thing were wanted to fill to overflowing the cup of
landlord oppression, it was that attempt. He expressed
his apprehension that the felon attempt would again be
made in the House of'Lords, and would in all probability
be successful. It would be advisable that some plan
should be adopted to make their Lordships aware of the
ruin that would inevitably fall on the tenant-farmers of
Ireland if the clause sought to be introduced by Lord
George Bentinck were suffered to become law. That
base attempt of the Irish landlords entirely removed from
his (Mr. O'Connell's) mind—and he thought it ought to
remove from the mind of every man of common sense—
any
those lingering
lands feelinghieh
wereof
threatenedsympathy
with confiscation.
would, therefore, welcome the accession of English
proprietors
He
of
capi-
talists to the possession of those estates, if they would
f
only take care of the people—if they would only be
humane to the people—if they would only preserve the
lives of the people ; and if they acted so they would be
heartily received.—(Cheers.)
The letter of the reverend gentleman, to which Mr.
O'Connell alluded, contained the following passages :
"Here we have not joined in the foolish yell that has
been raised against Roebuck and some other English
Members, for their attacks upon the Irish landlords.
A harsh and disgusting picture of them he has given,
but I fear there was little creative power engaged in
perfecting it. Take a glance at the original, and judge.
The relief committee of Clogheran, Walahestown,
applied to the landlords of the district for contributions
to the relief fund established in the parish. The letter
of application stated that great distress existed in the
neighbourhood, and that great exertions would be re-
quired to meet it. The landlords of the parish are Sir
Patrick Bellew, having acres, 1,135; Smith Barry, ditto,
1,864; E. H. Byrne, ditto, 869; A. Newcomen, ditto,
852; J. Godley, ditto, 366; Major Bonner, ditto, 217;
George Ball, ditto, 213; Braluvwys.fiitto,
.1 t 4 6.
- Amount "Of subscriptions received from the abiii4e,-
20/.—being 101. from Sir P. Bellew, and 10/. from E. H.
Byrne. The other honourable gentlemen (for they are
all—all, honourable gentlemen) did not even condescend
to reply. Thus the entire burden of the support of the
poor has been thrown upon the unfortunate occupiers,
and well and nobly have they borne it. It would be
uninteresting to detail their exertions, though perhaps
their contributions might excite shame, if such a quality
be an attribute of an Irish landlord. And is it to the
tender charge of this merciless class the Premier of
England would consign the Irish poor? A Poor Relief
Bill in the hands of the Irish aristocracy! Out upon the
hideous mockery—the ugly delusion. What effect, think
you, will the proverbial hard heartedness of the class,
excited by fear of confiscation, give to the law? Well-
informed persons believe, and I think prove, that out-
door relief amongst us must work confiscation. And
what of that? Place the London banker, the Yorkshire
manufacturer, or the Liverpool trader in the position of
landlord—would he be deaf to the cries of hunger and
destitution and death? Would he, when the wail of

famine and pestilence is borno on every breeze, clutch
closer his money-bags, and pull tighter their strings?
No; he has sympathy with his kind; he has not been
schooled in inhumanity; he has not exacted his pound
of flesh; the widow's tear and orphan's blood have not
swelled his cup of revel. But perhaps the Premier in-
tended this grim-faced grace to execute vengeance on
the landlords, by making them the instruments of their
own annihilation—complacency in the thought would
be cruel. I would rather punishment less circuitous,
though not so bitter—direct deprivation of property
where the owners leave its duties unfulfilled. Ah I
spoliation, robbery. Not more so than disarming an
insane man, or the depriving a child of a dangerous
plaything. And a dangerous and destructive plaything
Irish property has been in the hands of its owners."
The reverend writer suggests, by way of postcriptl
that

LIFE ASSUR ANCE.
Example.—A person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure
the sum of 1401. payable at his death, whenever it may happen, and
also participate in the Annual Division of Profits, by the annual pay-
ment or 21. 3d.
Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay-
m.,nt of 4s. per month, or is. per week, may secure the sum of
1121.55. payable at his death. whenever it may happen, and like-
wise share in the annual
F profits of the Society.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON,
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
ha,,, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense ;or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted at the lowest possible
rates

"If some Member of Parliament were to move for
a return of the relief committees in Ireland, and of the
applications made by them for relief to the landlords,
of the number of acres held by these landlords in such
districts, and of the sums received from them, this would
unmask the hypocritical exertions of several of the
Irish party!"
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL subsequently addressed the
meeting at considerable length. In compliance with his
recommendation, the committee of the association had
determined to request of the Catholic clergy to furnish.
as far as they could possibly do it, an abstract of the
number of deaths which had occurred since the com-
mencement of the famine. Having spoken at consider-
able length on a variety of topics, the honourable gentle-
man concluded by reading the address of the association
to the people of England, thanking them for their pri-
vate subscriptions in aid of their fellow- countrymen in
Ireland.
The rent for the week was announced to be 251. Is. sd.
The meeting then adjourned.
THE IRISH CORN MARKETS.
CORK, APRIL 3.—Supplies of grain to our market
continue to be very limited. The same dulness and de-
pression which we had occasion to report so frequently
of late, continue to characterise the trade in every de-
partment. For Indian corn we have had a heavy
draging trade, at gradually declining rates, say 20s. to
to 30s. per ton on the week; cargoes on the spot have
been sold as low as 121.. to 121. 55., and in small parcels
at 121. 10s. to 13/. per ton; a better feeling, however,
has been manifested in this article for the last couple of
days, owing to the improved tone of the English
markets.
BALLINASLOE, APRIL 3.—The corn market was very
plentifully supplied; the prices were lower than last mar-
ket. There was a large quantity of potatoes offered for
sale. Wheat, 455. to 495.; oats, 16s. to 19s. per barrel.
Potatoes, 2d. to 10d. per stone.
TRALEE, APRIL 3.—lndian meal, which not long since
sold so high as 2s. Bd. per stone, fell on Thursday last
down to 2s. 3d., and is now selling at 2s. 2d. Other
bread-stuffs exhibit a tendency downwards. In the
several markets of our county, too, the potatoes, which
so long lay perdu, are rolling in in unexpected abun-
dance. To-day the supply has been enormous, and prices
averaged from 14s. to 15s. per half quarter of 10 stone
for minions; white, 7s. to 9s. per ditto: black bulls, for
seed, Bs. to 10s.
GALWAY, APRIL 3.—Our corn market to-day was but
moderately supplied. Farmers were demanding prices.
irrespective of the recent considerable decline, and few
sales were made until an advanced hour of the day.
There is more than the usual show of potatoes.
CORK.—MOST IMPORTANT.—At the advanced hour at
which the subjoined reached us, it would be impossible
to do mora than place it before the public. We may add
that a finance committee has been, we are told, appointed,
viz.:—the Mayor, the High Sheriff, Mr. Sarsfield, and
Captain Broughton:—

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and Increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

rf 1
7) '4 Bonus Bonus In 15 o 5 Assured
1a g Premium. .42 added. Cash. Ei g may
ge, ts.. 0 Borrow.
. ---
A 1837 £217 15 1 £lOO 011 £l6 0 4 £445 0 0
Z £ 6. 1838 192 3 0, 87 1 4 13 10 2 395 11 I
8
GO 1000 3 4 183940 116 165 17
1 101 74 1 9 17
18 101 3 11
296 34 413 4
1841 111 6 82 3
1 1 81 54 010 1
4910 0 710 4 247 4 5

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made In
member of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CLIKROUX. Secretary.

MUNIFICENT Girr.—A gentleman called last week
at Messrs. Berries and Co., in St. James's-street, and
left, under the initials Z. Z. Z., five hundred pounds in
aid of the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn-road. We
are glad to find, that, while enormous sums are being
given by the benevolent for the alleviation of Irish dis-
tress, the charities of our own country are not forgotten.
THE GOVERNMENT AT THE CAPE.—Sir Peregrine
Maitland, the late Governor and Commander-in-Chief at
the Cape, is expected to arrive in England shortly. The
Gallant Officer, who has lately been promoted to the
rank of General, has been warmly congratulated on the
fact of his administration having witnessed the submis-
sion of nearly the whole of the malcontent chiefs. Lady
Pottinger still continues in London, and it is not likely
that her Ladyship and family will join Sir Henry for
some time, if, indeed, as the Gallant Major-General,
having undertaken the responsible and onerous office
solely with the view of rendering service to his Sove-
reign and country, is likely to retire as soon as peace is
firmly re-established in the colon x.
SEED POTATOES FOR THE HIGHLANDS.---A Con-
siderable quantity of very healthy seed potatoes and
oats, with other necessaries, for farming were shipped
at Beauly last week for the Highlands. Inverness
Journal

THE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Edinburgh, 15, George-street. Lonon, 58, King William-street.
Established d 1843.
Capital 300,0001.
This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF
THE SEVEN I'EEN LIFE OFFICES,as contained in the Report
of their Mortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, in
its constitution, the advantages of both the mutual and proprietary
systems of Assurance. The SHORT PERIOD RATES will be found,
in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourable to
Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is
consistent WITH PERFECT SEat CURITY.
For prospectuses, &c.. apply the offices as above, or to any of
the Agents throughout the kingdom.
By order of the Directors,
T. YUILLE WARDROP, Secretary.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 29, LOMBARD-STREET, corner of Clements-lane.
Capital 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
TRUSTEES.
John Shaw Leigh, Esq. I R. ?I. B. H. Blundell, Esq,
JOSIAS BOOKER, Esq., Chairman.
HUGH J. SANDERSON, Esq., and CHARLES TURNER, Esq.,
Deputy Chairmen of the Board of Directors in Liverpool.
DIRECTORS IN LONDON.
Samuel Baker, Esq. I William Wainwright, Esq.
Robert Dudgeon, Esq. I George Young, Esq.
Summons—E. A. Lloyd, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital ; and Hugh J. Sanderson, jun., Esq.
ACTUARY—Percy M. Dove, Esq.
BANKERS—MOWS. Robarts, Curtis, and Co.
SOLICITOR—C. T. Jenkinson, Esq., 29, Lombard-street.
SURVEYOR—John Newman, Esq., F.S.A.
SECRETARY TO THE LONDON BOARD—G. H. Whyting.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company. consisting of a
large body of responsible proprietors, beg to announce that they are
ready to afford to the • public many important advantages in effecting
either Fire or Life Insurances.
Tables of Rates, and any particulars that may be required on the
subject of Assurance, will be given on application at either of the
Company's offices, or any of its appointed agents.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager.
The Directors are willing to receive applications from per-
sons of influence, intelligence, and activity, to undertake agencies
in the vicinity of the metropolis, it being their determination only
to appoint agents possessing those qualifications.
N.B. All Fire Insurances becoming due at Lady Day should be
paid on that day, or within fifteen days after.

—.___
HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTIONEERING.—Two out of
the three Members who represent the county are re-
ported to be desirous of retiring; and all the gentlemen
who have been thought worthiest to succeed them have
coyly withdrawn from the flattering proposal. Colonel
Calvert, Mr. Hale, Mr. Spencer Cowper, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, Mr. Bosanquet are reported to have turned a
deaf ear to all such suggestions. Mr. Brand has been
retiring for fifteen years, or, more properly speaking,
refusing to come forward, for ho never actually an-
nounced himself a candidate. But now, at last, when
the general voice points to him as the fittest person,
and the most certain to unite the suffrages of one party
at least, he has consented to do violence to his inclina-
tions, and to sacrifice his preference for a country life in
order to perform the duty which will be thrust upon him
of serving the public as a Knight of the Shire.—Hert-
ford Mercury.
ACTIONS FOR SMALL DEBTS IN SUPERIOR COURTS.
—There was only one cause set down for hearing in the
Secondaries' Court yesterday. A. jury was sworn, and
in a very short time concluded their labours. The
action was for 11/. 3s. 6d. for goods supplied ; and the
defendant, in one of his letters which was read, admitted
the debt, and expressed his opinion that the costs had
exceeded the original claim. The jury gave a verdict
for the sum claimed. It is very probable that very few
cases will now be tried in this court, on account of the
new county courts.

HARVEST PROSPECTS.
y l
übtnbratiatnyeveprlyacthesing would re-
mising aspect.—The Potato—.
CORK, APRIL 3.—Considerable progress has been
made in out-door work; vegetation is said tobubte awigtobod
deal retarded, and the young a
office this morning a sample o wheats are reported as
oirepudkrnooldness of which rather surprised
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us, and tend to encourage the hope that the root may
yet, with care and attention, bo cultivated with success.
The potatoes, which,
we believe, are of the description
called White Quarries, were planted in March, 1845, and
Battersea cabbage was sown in the same ground in 1846.
On digging the ground this morning a considerable
quantity of fine sound potatoes was found there, without
any symptom of the disease heretofore so destructive to
that esculent. They were found on the land of Mr. John
to us to be able to announce that,
Sadleir, Gaol-road.—Cork Reporter.
TRALEE, APRIL 3.—While we would be far from en-
yeearurisA, itgln en-
couraging th
ra
in various parts of this county, where an early crop of
this esculent has been tried, every promise of a healthy
growth is exhibited. We have conversed with a public
officer, who has been through the entire of the county,
gratifying
sowing of potatoes to the extent of former
and he assures us that not only are the early potato crops
giving token of all absence of disease, but that a greater
quantity has been sown than was apparent this time

" Cork, Ist April, 1847

F REEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

" Gentlemen—l am instructed to make known to your
committee, that the reduction of 20 per cent., which has
been made upon the public works will be shortly followed
by a further reduction, and that great distress and con-
fusion will necessarily arise unless prompt and energetic
measures are taken by the relief committees for giving
effectual relief to destitute persons in their districts.
The relief commissioners are prepared to advance money
where it is necessary to the finance committees, when
the required preliminary steps shall have been taken by
the relief committee. the finance committees, and the
board of guardians, but the commissioners are wholly
unable to act until these steps have been taken. I there-
fore earnestly request you will lose no time in calling

11, WATERLOOPLACE, P ALL-M ALL, LONDON.
Business transacted in all the branches and for all objects of Life
Assurance, Endowments, and Annuities, and to secure contingent
Reversions, &c. Loans granted,

Information and Prospectuses furnished by
JOSEPH BERRIDGT., Secretary.

No. 61, GROSVENOR-STREET, BOND STREET.
ME S SRS. MOSELEY, SURGEON DEN-
TISTS, have REMOVED from 32, Haymarket. Their
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without lessening the taste of the palate by artificial covering, or in-
juring the adjoining_ teeth by use of wires. Their teeth are unchange-
able in colour, and perfectly resemble the original. Decayed teeth
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your committee together, and complying with the re-
quisitions contained in the instructions.—l have the
honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" W. E. DELVES BROUGHTON,
" Capt. Royal Engineers, Gov. Inspector.
" To the Chairman or Secretary of the City
of Cork Relief Committee."
AMERICAN SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND.

The following letter has been addressed to a gentle-
man in the neighbourhood of Londonderry :
" Charleston, South Carolina, March 2, 1847.
" As a committee, instituted for the relief of Ireland,
we have, within the last month, remitted to a committee
of the Society of Friends in Dublin, viz:—Joseph
Bewley, James Perry, and Thomas Pim, jun., the sum
of 1,3001., in two remittances, one of 1,0001., and another
of 3001.

" We now beg to hand you the first of a bill for 5001.
drawn in your favour by the Bank of Charleston, upon
the Bank of Liverpool, which we desire you to distribute
at your discretion amongst the suffering poor of Ireland.
The only condition we dsire to impose upon you is, that
you distribute the money where it is most needed, and
where it can do most good— all else we leave to yourself.
" In imposing this duty upon you, we are quite aware
that we are calling upon you to take upon yourself no
small degree of labour and trouble ' • but from the known
benevolence of your character, we doubt not the trouble
will be considered a pleasure, and- that you will derive
as much heartfelt satisfaction from administering to the
wants of the needy and afflicted, as we can possibly do
in being made the instruments of forwarding so pure and
holy a purpose. We have the honour to be, with.,great
• , ...
respect, yours,
" JAMES ADGER, Committee of
H. W. CONNER, the Hiber-
ALEX. ROBINSON, nian Society.
" To William Ogilby, Esq., Kilcatten, Claudy,
County of Londonderry."
E MIG RATION.

If the tide of emigration continues to flow with the
same rapidity which it has for the last month, the
country will soon become desolate indeed. Every sea-
port in Ireland is full to overflowing. We have been in-
formed that one noble Lord in the province of Connaught
is about to ship not less than thirteen hundred families(!)
off his estate, paying half their expenses. If things pro-
gress in this way, there will be very little use for the
bailiff, and " Gerrardism" will vanish from the land.-
7'uam Herald.

From every part of Ulster the middling and small
class of farmers are leaving in hundreds for the purpose
of seeking a future home on the other side of the At-
lantic. The English and Scotch steamers carry out with
them, weekly, immense numbers for Liverpool and
Glasgow, the impatience to quit Ireland being so great,
that should a vessel not be ready to sail immediately
from Derry for America, they set oat with all possible
speed for the above ports. We have been informed that
within the last three weeks fully fifteen hundred persons
have embarked at Portrush, the steamers on arriving
there being scarcely able to take all the passengers
offering.--Londonderry Sentinel.
ROBBERY OF THE BALLINASLOE COACH.—The day
coach, running between Ballinasloe and Dublin, was
robbed on Tuesday evening last of 300/, money sent by
the Board of Works for the payment of labourers, &c.
It seems that the perpetrator was an acting guard em-
ployed during the sickness of the permanent guard.
He broke open the box and took three bags of silver to
the above amount. There was a large sum in notes
which he did not touch. He has absconded.—Galway
Vindicator.
The Board of Works have considerately appointed
Mr. Abraham Prim, pay-clerk, county Kilkenny, in
room of his murdered cousin. There were forty appli-
cations.— Waterford Freeman.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
CORK, APRIL 2.—James Buchanun, a corporal in the
73d Regiment, was indicted for the murder of Corporal
Thomas Frisby, of the same regiment, at Cork barracks,
on the night of the 2d September, 1845. It appeared
that the prisoner, in a fit of intoxication, fired the shot
which deprived the deceased of life. The jury, after a
long delay, returned a verdict of guilty.
GALWAY, APRIL I.—Several persons have been tried
and convicted of stealing cattle and sheep.

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with such nourishment, bedding, clothing, medicines,
and medical appliances, and other necessaries, as may
be necessary for the due care and treatment of the-
poor persons admitted into every such hospital, " and_
also such a number of competent nurses and attend-
ants as the Commissioners of Health may think ne-
cessary for each hospital, and also to rent, hire, or'
procure a house, building, or room, to be used as a
dispensary, or office, for the medical officer of such,
union, and to provide such other medicines and
medical appliances, including nutriment, if necessary,
as medical officer
boffiecaerffeemteayd
wreigthuidriesetaoseo.ut-destitute,
personsthe md
whoe
may
The fourth clause declares that three members of
any relief committee can constitute a quorum; and
the fifth clause vests the management of hospitals and
dispensaries, procured as before directed, in the relief
committees, subject to the superintendence of the
Commissioners of Health. Persons affected with fever,
or other epidemic disease, to be admitted under the
authority of the committee, or by their officers, duly
authorised; and the medical officers appointed under
the provisions of the existing Act shall be continued
for the purposes of the new Act.
The sixth clause, which, with the two succeeding
clauses, has been taken from the 58th Geo. 111., esp.
47, empowers the relief committees to give such diree.
tions as they consider necessary and expedient for
preventing the communication of fever or other
epidemic diseases within their respective electoral
districts or divisions; and for that purpose to order
that all streets, lanes, courts, gardens, &c., shall be
cleansed and purified; and that all manures prejudi-
cial to health shall be removed therefrom; and that
all houses in which any sick persons were residing
shall be ventilated, fumigated, white-washed—the
building and furniture to be exposed to the air,
washed, cleansed, and, if absolutely necessary, burned
and destroyed.
The seventh clause vests the relief committees of
those districts where fever hospitals have been esta-
blished with power to remove infected persons (not
under proper medical _care, and not placed in such
circumstances and under such precautions as may
most probably tend to prevent the communication of
disease) to hospital, upon the certificate of the medical
officer, after due inquiry into the circumstances of the
case. This power is, however, accompanied with the
following proviso :—" That the said relief committee
shall in all cases of such compulsory removal of any
person into such fever hospital, make a special report
thereof to the said commissioners within two days
after such removal shall take place."
The eighth clause imposes a maximum penalty of
51., or one month's imprisonment, upon conviction
before two magistrates, on any person who shall
resist or oppose the execution of the powers of the
relief committees under this Act, such conviction not
to be quashed for informality, nor to be subject to
any certiorari proceeding or appeal whatever.
The ninth clause declares that the general issue
be pleaded in any action brought against relief com-
mittees, collectively or individually, or their officers,
and that, in the event of the plaintiff in the suit fail-
ing to establish his case, the tribunal before whom the
case underwent adjudication shall award costs to the
defendant.
The tenth clause enacts that the necessary ex-
penses incurred by any relief committee, in carrying
any order of the relief commissioners into effect, and
in the execution of the other purposes of this Act, shall
be defrayed out of the funds from time to time placed
at the disposal of such relief committee, under the
provisions of the Destitute Poor Act of the present
' session.

The eleventh clause enacts that, notwithstanding
the 10th Victoria, cap. 7, sec. 3, which declares that
no relief committee shall be continued after the first
day of November in this year, unless for the purpose
of settling or closing their accounts, " in any case in
which previously to the first day of November any
relief committee shall have received instructions from
the relief commissioners, for executing the provi-
sions of the Act of last session, in any electoral dis-
trict or division, such relief committee, and also, -the
finance committee for the union, shall continue: for
the purposes of the Act of last session, and of this Act,
during the continuance of this Act, or until the Lord-
Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of
Ireland, shall, by any order to be published in the
Dublin Gazette, dissolve such relief or finance com-
mittee.

POOR-LA W FOR IRELAND.
The following is a copy of the petition adopted on
Friday last, at a meeting of the Parochial Board of the
city parish of Glasgow, in favour of the Ministerial
Poor-law for Ireland:—

The twelfth clause declares that in the case of
certificates issued by the Board of Health, after the
Ist of November in this year, the provisions of the
10th Victoria, cap. 7 (under which the relief com-
mittees are appointed) shall be extended and applied
to such cases ; and the costs and expenses of carrying
the same into execution, after the disbursement of
the funds in the hands of the finance committee and
relief committee on the Ist day of October in this
year, shall be paid and provided by the board of
guardians of the union, in like manner as in the .Axt
of last session.
The thirteenth clause provides for the decent in-
terment of destitute persons dying of ,fever, by em-
powering relief committees to defraribk-exrpees 9f.
'the same out of the itinds placed at theii. ditposidir,:t:o4l4
The fourteenth clause fixes the duration of tai@ 1 —7-
fifteenth she
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clause,
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se n
thed of
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the
Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be
passed in this session of Parliament.

" UNTO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

" The petition of the Parochial Board of the city
parish of Glasgow,
" Showeth,—That your petitioners, as the represen-
tatives of the ratepayers of this populous city parish,
have, in the discharge of the arduous and responsible
duties imposed upon them as managers of the poor's
fund, experienced much difficulty and annoyance, A.R well
ap-araeoz its an unprecedented, increase-of expe4atur
utmost entirely from the extraordinary influx of im r
tent', i.r....4,nie, and diseased Irish paupers into 's
parish.
" That your petitioners, while deeply sympathising
with their distressed Irish fellow-subjects an the
calamity that has overtaken them upon the failure of
the potato crop, cannot but express their surprise that so
little should have been done by the wealthy classes in
that country to ameliorate this distress—a distress as
yet that has had to rely for its relief upon British
chatity and the taxation raised from British industry.
" That, in the opinion of your petitioners, an absolute
necessity exists for the introduction of a sufficient Poor-
law into Ireland, whereby an adequate provision shall be
made for the relief and support of the impotent, infan-
tine, diseased and aged poor of that country, and that
the fund for this purpose should be raised by an assess-
ment upon all incomes, whether arising from real or
personal property.
" That your petitioners feel persuaded, had such a law
as this existed in Ireland, they would not have had to
complain of the present influx .ef Irish paupers, who,
from their wretchedness, destitution, and disease have
not only absorbed and are absorbing a large proportion
of the rate levied for the poor properly belonging to this
parish, and spreading contagion among them, but are
also setting a most pernicious example to the lower
classes of this city, by accustoming and instructing them
to look to parochial aid for support, instead of depend-
ing, as Scotchmen were wont to do, upon their own in-
dustrious exertions.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE BARON

c_wohnYnnseessxt ellorandmawye DE BODE.
thhmasohrianskilng
eeasdayltchelnealiimrsetnidawinnensrieveodrfesaptlohsiis nobleman,
sympathy
final resting-ault
place,
Church, ricsh,
necessary St. J ohn
lact
o' se:
ws
taoaot John's-wood.
that subjacentfam ily t O
arrangements the
vented his numerous friends from paying until now the
final tribute of respect to his memory and his virtues.
The present Baron enjoined on his brother to waive the
rites of sepulture till his return from Russia, and, con-
sequently, the name of deceased, who has been dead
since Oct. 2d, 1846, is again introduced to a sympa-
thising public. Just as some prospect of success began
to cheer his gloom of disquiet and disappointment, he
passed away, leaving to his successor the pending doubts
and dangers of the law.
On Tuesday, 8 P.m., the corpse was privately removed
from the family residence, 18, Grove-end-road, to the
church, and at 12 o'clock yesterday, after a solemn high
mass, the crimson-velvet cushion, ornamented with the
insignia of six orders, the baronial coronet, the dark
plumes, and the gloomy pall, were removed. The
heaving hearts and tender tears of the mourners, among
whom we observed Mr. Sergeant Manning and Matthew
Davenport Hill, Esq., were in perfect keeping with the
gloomy drapery of the edifice. The slow and plaintive
notes of the organ during divine service, accompanied
by the solemn hymn of the choristers in the Dies tra
dies like thrilled the hearts of all present. The coffin
was then borne on the shoulders of six bearers, pre-
ceded by the officiating clergyman, the acolytes, and
sacristans. The m9urners, seventeen in numbvr, fol-
lowed, and the De Profundis having been chaunted .
the vault, they returned from the " narrow house,"
where the late Baron de Bode rests free from pangs and
pains.
The universal sympathy for this victim to legal tech-
nicalities induces us to hope that his successor will reap
the harvest for which the departed so long and justly
laboured, and that English justice and English inde-
pendence will be ever prompt to repudiate any decision
1 which may interfere with the honour and integrity of
our national glory.

" That your petitioners fear, unless your Hon. House
interfere and prevent this fearful ingress of Irish pau-
perism and disease, all the efforts that may be made,
whether by private or public benevolence, to ameliorate
the condition Pf our native poor, or to raise the condi
tion of the lower orders in this city, either temporally or
spiritually, will be rendered abortive.
" That your petitioners have seen with alarm that her
Majesty's Ministers, in the Irish Poor-law Bill which
they have introduced to your Hon. House, have ad-
mitted the principle of granting out-door relief to the
able-bodied poor—a principle your petitioners hold to
be opposed to sound political economy, as well as inde-
pendent feeling and sound morals among the lower
orders ; and, should your Hon. House sanction such a
principle, your petitioners do not hesitate to aver that
it will lead many to trust entirely to the poor fund fur
their support who but for this enactment, would assur-
edly trust to their own exertions ; while it will alsocht-
stray all feeling of gratitude on the part of the receiver
of that aid—a feeling which ought ever to exist, and
which your petitioners earnestly desire to foster and
encourage, rather than destroy, and which they pray
your Hon. House to carefully watch over and protect,
and not supersede.
" That your petitioners, as the representatives of this
populous parish, feel themselves especially called upon
to give utterance to their opinions on this question, as
they have to provide not only for the maintenance of
their own destitute poor, but also, under Ihe recent Poor-
law Act for Scotland, they are compelled to provide
temporary aid For an overwhelming number of their im-
potent, infantine, and diseased fellow-subjects, having
no settlement in this parish, and for the relief granted
to whom they have no resource whatever.
" May it therefore please your Hon. House to pass a
measure for establishing an efficient Poor-law, by which
adequate relief shall be provided for the impotent, in-
fantine, diseased, and aged poor in Ireland, and other-
wise adopt such measures as shall relieve your peti-
tioners from the intolerable and oppressive burden to
which, from the causes set forth above, they are at pre-
sent subjected.

"And your petitioners shall ever pray.
" Signed and sealed in the name and by appointment
of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Glasgow,
at Glasgow, this 27th day of March, 1i47."

EASTER TERM.—Yesterday, on the opening of the
offices of the Common Law Courts after the holidays, the
lists of the arrears for Easter Term, commencing on
Thursday next, were exhibited. As the first of the
three Courts, the Court of Queen's Bench requires par-
ticular notice on the present occasion. Hitherto the
new trial paper of that Court contained many causes ;
and, on reference to the time the rules were obtained, it
was ascertained that 18 mouths or two years had elapsed;
and it was found that, to obtain a rule nisi, was in effect
to d lay justice for no inconsiderable pesiod. The
Learned Judges, by their exertions, have made great
progress in diminishing the arrears, and thejiwf
aortrhe now
only en-
suing term clearly reveals their laboturas, th.o earliest of
aslabours. There
I
only 62 rules tp be argued for newT
tawnd.o..oofthserresm. remain-
special cases and
ing for judgment,
demu
one
errcse Easterwill
decide ;
oneun for
et
judgment. In the Court of Common Pleas, the re-
p
its 5 enlarged rules and 46 rules for new
trials, all of which, with the exception of two„ were moved
in, l
ands, since Michaelmas Term ; there are's rules for
m
_judgment. In the demurrer paper there are 23 rules ap-
pointed atopebr exhibits
(3 n the 21st nst. The peremptory
paper of the Court of Exchequer has 5 rules for argu-
ment. Of cases in the special paper there are 22 for
argument and 1 for judgment; whilst of demurrers there
are three for judgment and 26 for argument. In the
new trial paper there are 6 rules for judgment and 36
for argument, all of which, with the exception of 6, were
moved in Hilary Term. It is not too much to say, that
the lists.of the three Courts present, on the w bole, a very
healthy appearance; and that, by renewed e) rtions, the
Court of Queen's Bench will shortly reach th.e two other
I Courts in the number of rules for new trials..
MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The- deaths re-
gistered in the London districts during the: past week
(the first of the spring quarter in the Registr ttx-General's
returns) were 1,004, being a decrease of 25 on the mor-
tality of the previous week. The weekly average de-
rived from the deaths of the last five :springs, and
corrected for increase of population, is 914,, but as many
of the deaths occurred before the expire tion of the
winter quarter, the mortality of the week in ay be com-
pared with the winter average, which is 1,018. Deaths
from diseases of the epidemic class continued -.to decrease,
being only 107, of which 33 were from /ice:Ting-cough.
Diseases of the lungs ranged between the spring and
winter averages, and bronchitis was still more than
usually fatal, especially to persons advert( led in years.
The week was remarkable for the lowness o, f temperature
which prevailed throughout; the thermometer on three
days registered below the freezing point, and on Saturda7
last was 8i degrees below the temperature of_ thf.,
day on an average of 25 years. As comp! !red. with
the
previous week, the atmosphere was
_covldoiet
_D.YeZevi.x'2
10 degree—a circumstances which will
any increase observable -
tered in the present week.
in the number 0 g aeß4`3l 4

FEVER BILL (IRELAND). _
The following is an analysis of the Bill pmrerpaLread.
and recently introduced into Parliament by
Act
foorf
thethe
bpouurpchoseereofanamd
enthdeinglriasihld Solicitor
tn-Genera
poor per-
last session providing for the tree
declares that the Poor Act
sonTshaefflpicreteadmwdethbfreiveeflryinlreland.
of last session can be more effectually carried out by
relief committees appointed under " The Act for the
Temporary Relief of Destitute Persons in Ireland,"
which received the Royal assent about four weeks
since, than by the board of guardians of any union
for the relief of the destitute poor.
The first clause enacts that the present Fever Bill,
which was to have expired on the Ist of next Sep-
tember, shall, subject to the amendments hereinafter
contained, be continued until the Ist day of Novem-
ber next, and thence until the end of the next ses-
sion of Parliament.
The second clause authorises the Commissioners of
the Board of Health in Ireland, from time to time,
as they shall think fit, to transmit, under 10 Victoria,
cap. 10, to the relief commissioners, a written certifi-
cate of the necessity of medical relief being afforded
to the destitute poor affected with fever, or other
epidemic disease in any electoral division, for which a
relief committee shall have been constituted.
The third clause directs that the relief commis-
sioners, on the receipt of the previously mentioned
certificate, shall issue their written orders to .the relief
. committees to provide fever hospitals and dispensaries,