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they were.—(Laughter.) Now he was Prepared to sup-
port the Bill which he suggested, and which with one
clause would effect all that was necessary, and he was
convinced it would meet with the approbation of Par-
liament.
The RECORDER willingly took upon himself the blame
of opposition to the grand remedy of the Honourable
Alderman. He fervently hoped that the Court would
not think of proceedit.g -with a Bill so limited. He
hoped the Corporation would not meddle with the qua-
lification of electors without looking also to the qualifi-
cations of the eleeted.—(Rear, hear.) He thought it
was contrary to the interests of the Aldermen to go to
Parliament to legislate without the acquiesencl
of the other branch of the Corporation—to attempt
to alter any of the institutions of the City with-
out the consent of the Court of Common Council.—
(Hear, hear.) Ho was opposed to the idea of cobbling
the Corporation with a single clause—of carving out a
little novelty to send to Parliament to be licked into
shape.—(Laughter and cries of "Hear, hear.")
The petition of Mr. Ashurst was then referred to the
Committee, and the Court adjourned.

COURT OF ALD
A Court was held on, Tuesday for the dispatch of
bUsiness.
litTizinolvlNc OPEN OF THE LORD MAYaR'S COURT.
Die.
..William Henry Ashur ,t appeared .t the bar.
n,
tio'n:Aiderman Hooper pr2,ented the following pea-
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayer ani Aldermen
Of the City'-
14111 of London. The resp,!‘c-tul petition of Wil-
Leee"..2llrY Ashurst, of 137, C'neapside, en the City of
--4‘012, attorney-at-law,
,_7S.heweth—That your petitioner has obtained from
__eee alajesty's Court of Queen's Bench, her Majesty's
yt7eraptory writ of mandam ,<, commanding your Lord-
t•tup and the Court of Aldermen to cause yonr petitioner
f;,,be admitted an attorney of the Mayor's Court of the
NAV of London.
the Bight
That he has caused such writ to be duly served upon
B.ight Hon. the Lori Mayor and other Aldermen of
ue Coy.
fail; That the said writ Of mandamus was issued after
tha argument and discussion raised by the attorneys of
said put Court tv:airut your petitioner. and they have
him to very considerable expense and delay through
0, medium of the City solicitor, and your peritioner
believes at the expense of the citizens of London.
" That your petitioner has heard and believes that the
4tto
rneYa of the said Court have main applied to your
enourable Court to further resist your petitioner's
application, and that instructions• may be given by your
I.l:!enourable Court that the City Solicitor may .o
utrectod to bring a writ of error upon the said judg-
ment, and further postpone obedience to the said writ of
'fldamus,
Your petitioner submits it would not be wise to do
either, but to allow the lawyers on both sides to fight
Out their cm n litigation, and that it would be right for
Your rtonourable Court to obey the Queen's writ, unless
those who wish to keep the Lord Mayor's Court shut up
'rem the public can convince her Majesty's judges that
Courts of justice are not at this day intended to be cpen
to all her Majesty's subjects, and will themselves bear
the costs of so hopeless a task.
"Your petitioner respectfully prays to be heard in
oPposition to the petition of his opponents."
Mr. Ashurst, upon being asked whether he wished
to add anything to his petition, said he was desirous to
say a few words. About three years had elapsed since
he had commenced his efforts to throw open the Mayor's
Court to the citizens of London, against whom it was
practicably shut, inasmuch as the attorneys employed
by individuals were not allowed to act there in cases with
Which, from their acquaintance with the affairs of their
Clients, they were best qualified to act. As a peremptory
mandamus had been issued by the Court of Queen's
Bench to admit him to that Court, the Court of Alder-
men ought not now to allow the City purse to be
resorted to for the purpose of opposing an individual by
by a process involving great additional expense. He
sought a public g,.d, and seeing the way in
which justice was administered in the Mayor's
Court, the Court of Aldermen ought to
wish to have the facilities and privileges
of that place extended. So slight was the practice there,
arising from the contracted sphere of its operations, the
business being confined to three persons, it was fre-
quently the case that on the day appointed for the sitting
of the Court, no Court sat, Now, at a time when the
Government were throwing open all the courts in the
empire, it appeared most preposterous that the City
Court of justice alone should be attempted to be made
the exception. It appeared that the attorneys of the
Mayor's Court were petitioning to continue the exclu-
sion, against the unacimoue opinion of the judges, and if
the Court of Aldermen determined that the expen-es of
these gentlemen should be defrayed out of the City
Purse, it was certainly but reasonable that his expenses
should he paid out of the same fund. He would answer
for it, that if such should be the intention of the Court
of Aldermen, from a fondness fir disputation, they
should have abundance of litigation. He hoped
the Court would not give to the attorneys
of the Mayor's Court the opportunity of
adopting the means of further procrastination, and
!nu" putting him to additional expense He was
ZerPlY desirous of the simple privilege which was ex-
-nded to all other corporations. He wished that the
Public should be allowed to come into the Mayor's Court
with their own attorneys. As the case was now, if he
Wanted anything done for a client in that Court, he was
cliged to co to a stranger, so that double lawyers were
to he
he paid, for gentlemen of that profession had not the
'ePtitation of acting for nothing.—(Laught.r.)
Alderman WOOD said it course
wrongly asserted, that
the Court of Aldermen in the course they were pur-uing
rit,',.this case assisted the attorneys of th 3 Mayor's Court.
e
proceeding in the Queen's Bench was against the
the aYcir and Aldermen, and not against the attorneys of
te Mayor's Court, and the application for the new re-
ar 11_ to the writ of mandamus was, under all the circum-
c
, n, ,es Of the case, the only course which the Court
cann adopt.
The following report of the Committee was then read:
Committee
whose names are hereunto subscribed, your
for General Purposes, to whom, on the 23d
illeyorodferMarch last, it was referred, to consider Mr.
de conamuttication in relation to the judgment
_uhvered in the Court (.1 Queen's Bench on the manda-
Q__ granted by that Court, calling upon the Lord Mayor
;:_ctrAldermen of the City of London to admit William
7r Y Ashurst (an attorney of one of the Superior
eurts of Westminster) to be an attorney of the Lord
Mayor's Court ; told to whom it was likewise referred
oto confider the petitions of Messrs. George
Thomas,
ola.ert rt-ynot, Jet,, Carter, and George Ashley, three
toe atterneys of the Lord Mayor's Cou"t, in relation
to. the said jedement, do certify that we have proceeded
lyirisethdeaenodneti,;s•ru-altti;in o.f the said refereed, and have ad-
Pearson, and haveMr.th Recorder and Mr. Solicitor
Rey-
sell, Carter, and Ashle been attended by Messrs. Rey-
said Court, who purchayst:dthree of the attorneys of the
who were heard and exami sir respective situations,
it appearing to flief upon their petitions ; and
or •applia.ition must bneuiVensable that a return
Queen's Bench on the first madeor ttoermel: fur eCtohuertcoor-
the writ of of
potation to be pertnitted to make a new return to
tnendarnur
Record,
referre.l it to the solicitor,
under the advice of the; r, Mr. Gurney, and Mr.
Ilugh Hill, the Counsei employed City in the previous . on the part of the
such measures tereP.irnoceaest:ings in this matter, to take
should appear these und. r the circumstances,
ff which gentlemen to be most expedient.
n°tl bl ea we submit to the judgment of this Ho-
e Court.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, APRIL 12.—PROGRE8S OF EMIGRATIO'.3.--
The extent of the emigration this season from all parts
of the country will far surpass all the calculations that
have been made upon the subject. Thep easantry—the
larce as well as the small farmer and cottier—the cattle
and pig dealers, the small traders and shopkeeper-, are
flying from the country in all directions. A vast number
of vessels employed in the importation of food are taking
return cargoes of emigrants; but still there is not halt
enough of shipping accommodation at the various out-
ports, although great numbers proceed every tide to
Liverpool, or some other Englisl4ort, to seek a passage
across the Atlantic. The progress of emigration from
the metropolis is thus described by the Dublin Evening
Pos4:—
" There are
.now eleven vessels in berth in the river,
one for Quebec, and two for the United States. Every
one of these will sail within the next five days for the
American coast with nearly 5,000 emigrants from Ire-
land. About half the number of these will be provided
by their late landlords with a free passage, rations on
the voyage, and money on their arrival in America. We
believe the remainder of that number will proceed on
their own account, and after defraying the expenses in-
cident to their passage they will carry with them a very
considerable sum of money, the produce of their own
chattels which had been submitted to sale, added to the
remittances they had received from their friends, who
had had the good fortune of being on American ground
before them."
CORK, APRIL 10,—The tide of emigration to America
seems, within these few days past,. to have reached its
full height in this city. Though there are this year less
vessels leaving direct from Cork than usual, and the
passage money to New York is increased 50 per cent.,
the demand is beyond the power of local agents to ac-
commodate. The quays are daily thronged with cars
containing bedding, boxes, &c., belonging to the emi-
grants, the greater number of whom are from Kerry,
Limerick,
and Tipperary. This morning the Nimrod
steamer, bound to Liverpool, left the quay with 1,080
deck passengers, besides children, who had paid the
passage money, 10s. each, to Liverpool, and it was cal-
culated there were at least 200 more who rushed on
board, and who were to have paid, as the vessel cleared
out between the quay and the passage. It may be easily
conceived what those poor creatures would suffer on the
passage, being absolutely as densely packed together
on the deck of the steamer, as any " monster meeting
we have ever seen assembled, On Tuesday six hundred
and ten deck passengers sailed in the Ajax, direct to
Landon, not one of whom came under the denomina-
tion of a pauper, the greater number being able-
bodied labourers and their families, and agricultural
and domestic servants. Many of the former were to
proceed to France, where they expscted to get work
on the. railroads. There were a great many females.
also, who went to look for employment as domestic
servants in England. Yesterday a vessel from Scot-
land, in which 500 berths were engaged at Cork, passed
the harbour without calling, haling made up her full
complement there, and the agent will have to send the
people, by Liverpool, the best way he can. Oar quisys
are almost impassable from the crowd congregated on
them, a'l seeking to obtain a passage to " the lard of
plenty," while numbers are every moment hurrying
through the streets making preparation for their respec-
tive voyages. Most of these emigrants are of the better
class of farmers, and, generally speaking, have had in-
terests in their farms, and small sums of money at their
disposal, but the failure of the potato crsp, and the con-
sequent burdens which have been placed on the hind for
the repayment of the money advanc, d by the Beard of
Works, c ,upled with the fear of the introduction of the
contemplated system of out-door relief, has created such
a panic amongst them, that they have thrown up their
farms to the landlords, drawn out what money they had
been saving for years from the bank, and are leaving a
country in which they saw nothing but ruin staring them
in the face. The land which they have thrown up is, in
many cases, left unfilled, in consetinence of the inability
of the landlords to cultivate such large tracts ; but there
are many instances in which the ground has been broken
up and sown with oats. In many districts of the country
the cultivation of this crop during the present year is
unprecedented, but it is tar from be ing as economical a
grain for food as barley.—Cork Reporter.
EYRECOURT, COUNTY GALWAY.—Deep and dire is
the distress which prevails here, and were proof of this
melancholy fact required, evidence of its truth may be
evinced from the immense crowds of emigrants daily
departing from this land of wretchedness and woe,
leaving behind them friends, home, and country, and
not caring whither they may he borne from this scene of
misery. Some are going to America, some to Australia,
and, in fact, to mostly every quarter of the known world,
where there might be a prospect of ameliorating their
present condition. Not alone persons who were eking out
a miserable subsistence by their daily labour, but men
who possessed many " broad acres," and who could live
comfortably on their farms, are abandoning their hold-
ings, eager to fly. Some landed proprietors in this
neighbourhood have purchased the farms of as many of
the tenants as may be disposed to emigrate; and, in
consequence thereof, the people, for miles round, are
busy making preparations for the long journey, and so
intense is their desire to be away that they are
disposing of their effects at half their value, and
not even procuring the articles necessary for the
voyage. I can safely say one-third of our people
are going, or have gone. I have counted no less than
from 16 to 18 families who have left a small district,
the extent of which is not more than a mile in circum-
ference ; and from one village near this town, sixteen
young women are on the point of embarking for Ame-
rica, the majority of whom, if they staid at home, could
obtain a dowry of some 201. each ; but still they are
better satisfied to trust themselves to chance in a pros-
perous and free country than live here at home, where,
like many others, they might end their days in misery
and wretchedness. lam glad to have to inform you that
mortality is considerably on the decrease since my last
communication.—Galway Mercury.
WATERFORD.---Etnigratitin from the port of Water-
ford is increasing every day. The stsamer William
Penn sailed from our quay on Friday, carrying out to
Liverpool about six hundred American emigrants. Every
available portion of her decks, fore and aft, from stem to
stern, was crowded with passengers. It is confidently
asserted by persons who have an opportunity of knowing
it, that those emigrants carry out with them upwards of
10,000/. in cash.— U aferford Freeman.
GRAND CANAL.—Great inconvenience has been felt
for the last two days in the' town, by poor emigrants
and other passengers, in consevence of the basis being
prevented running as usual, by the bursting of a tunnel
between Shannon harbour and Tullatnore. It will take
some days to repair thei'amage, and in the meantime the
passengers from Dublin will be conveyed on cars from
the breach to the fly-boat, by which means they will
reach Ballinasloe in the course to the day. The poor
emigrants who have been delayed here are the greatest
sufferers.— Bullinasloe S'tur.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

W. T. COPELAND.
" Tubs. CHALLIS.
Alcier!rtnan WOOD said it was ob‘j'elictileods.tcrtOhOeDC'Ourt of
si, ,Rt-r 1 that they k
feutnnat of the ,
Mayor's
the great body of the profes-
Ma)or s Court. Now, what was the ef-
pristettihne
that Court.
? To admit the petitioner to
!business were was
here ? What would the petitioner do
vole London
It w
the fact that nine-tenths of the
; andpendent upon the customs of the city
consequences
sortie opinion might be formed of
Mayor's Cowl h
s„tlen he of ignorance of those customs,
stated that one of the attorneys of the
ecognisances" had been obliged to pay 6001, in sense
,citienc° ref an ova act in the simple 'matter of taking
b„t lie was anxious to throw open the
th
Cher we e Court of Aldermen should take care that
re not involved in pecuniary responsibilities by
gnor•
ange
asance of the profession To accomplish such a
r:froergrearsidt'eldrwyats contemplated by the petitioner it would
be tx„ce
to have an Act of Parliament calculated to
all other entirely. It was said that there was an analogy
„ courts between the City of London and
c er corporations. He had thought that such was
..es.ntase, hut he .found that by the Municipal Act the
.nis of the courts of all the other corporations were
~nriihattd, while the proceedings in the City of London
-, entirely depended upon their customs. Alderman
Were perfealyjustified, upon legal grounds, in issuing a
writ of error. -
The RECORDER said the Court of Aldermen was
Undoubtedly in this case the defendants nominally, and
they were acting under his and Mr. Gurney's, and Mr.
Rill's advice, in instructing the City Solintor to apply
for a writ of error. The gentlemen of the Mayor's
Court bad purchased their places for very large sums of
money, and the Court of Aldermen were bound to show
that they did n bt loosely hold the character of the
offices, or the responsibilities attached to them. They
were bound not to yield to the application for admission
to the Mayor's Court till it was clearly ascertained by the
opinion of the other judges that the writ of mandamus
was maintainable. He should be glad if the Mayor's
Court c 'uld be put in such a position that gentlemen
could practise in that as they practised in other courts,
but it was impossible to regatd the question without re-
ference to the peculiar practice, the heavy liabilities arising
from errors of judgment or ignorance. and the losses to
Which the attorney's of the Mayor's Court would be sub-
sated,4 if the whole profession were to pour in upon them.
The Learned Recorder then core particularly described
the nature of the duties of the attorneys of the:Mayor's
Court, and stated that the Court of Aldermen were act-
ing upon his suggestion to proceed deliberately, without
in the slightest degree prejudicing the interests of either
Party.
• Alderman WILSON considered, that instead of ex-
Pending the City'i cash, the Court of Aldermen were
doing- all they could t' save it. He wished the Court
of.Comtnon Council, to which the petitioner belonged,
Would show some disposition of that kind.—(A laugh.)
What the attorneys of the Mayor's Court wanted was,
riot to exclude Mr. Ashurst, but to receive compensa-
tion for the 9,0001. which the gentlemen of the Common
Council had taken from them for their offices.—(Hear.)
Alderman HUMPHERY said the Court was bound to
tiro') the matter altogether, as Mr. .Ashurst had ob-
tained the writ of mandamus, and let the attorneys fight
',tout amongst themselves. The opinion of the Queen's
'winch would, he had no doubt, be confirmed, and what
winild the Court of Aldermen do then ? The sJest
Way was to allow Mr. Ashurst to fight cut his battle in
tue Court of Queen's Bench, and not trouble the Cur-
Poration with more law.
Alderman MUSGROVE suggested that the petition of
)4r. Ashurst should be referred to the committee from
which the report had emanated, and thought that some
means might be adopted fur the avoidance of litigation.
Some conversation here arose on the subject of re-
forming the corporation.
Alderman WILSON started up and said, " By the bye,
what progress is Alderman-Hutuphery making with his
Reform Bill ? '—(Laughter.)
Alderman HUMPHERY said the answer to that ques-
tion would in some degree involve the Recorder. His
Proposition had been agreed to, and the Berrenahraneer
had been instructed to draw up &Bill to repeal the 11th
of George 1., without the opinion of the Recorder and
Common Sergeant ; however, that officer could not get
on, and the Recorder happened to be so oecupied that
he could not give any opinion on the subj4ct. The
Learned Gentleman, however, gave an opinion in the
committee, which the followed. Be said they ought
not to proceed with they Bill, and the majority agreed
With that opinion, which showed what sound reformers

Cork, Sligo, and two or three other southern and western
cotinti s, are still most s mei) of .cted by pesti:ence.
:s'utjoiaed are seine details supplied by the provincial
journals
CORK, APRIL 10.—MORTALITY AMONG THE POOR.—
In cony quence of orders received from the constabulary
authorities, the police of this city have ceased to supply
coffins to the poor. The accounts from the several stations
have been furnished to Thursday night, the day on which
the aid of the constabulary, in this particular. ceased.
In the Gaol-road district Acting Constable Casey ob-
tained 53 coffins from the Ist to the Bth instant, for that
number of unfortunate people who had died within that
period ; and on yesterday, up to about two o'clock in
the evening, 24 or 25 more applications were made to
him, which, however, he was obliged to refuse. In the
same period (Ist to the Bth instant) Constable Porter
supplied 57 coffins-16 of which were given out on Wed-
nesday. In eleven of these cases the bodies were brought
to the barracks, and left there, or in the old market, for
the police to coffin and bury! In 22 cases, out of the 57
just mentioned, Constable Porter was obliged to hire men
to convey the bodies to the graves. there being none to
care whether they rotted in the ground or above it. We
understand that Major Beamish, with his characteristic
humanity, has made arrangements for the supply of
coffins, till the operations of the new relief committee are
in full work. The deaths from fever and destitution are
still as numerous as ever, and, notwithstanding the re-
duction in the price of food, the people are fast dying off,
relief having come to them at too late a period. Any
person walking up Great George's-street would be horri-
fied at the scenes which meet the eye. There is scarcely
a hall door, or unoccupied shop,, the door of which is
not taken up by a group of starving and exhausted crea-
tures, and when the public thoroughfares present such
a picture. in what state must the miserable lures and
alleys of the city be in. On yesterday the last member
of an entire family namen Reilly, consisting of six per-
sons, died, all of whom expired within the week ; while
the last of another wretched family named Crowley,
consisting of seven persons, expired at Gaol-road at
about the same time. Another evil which afflicts the
people, in addition to fever, is the small pox, in the
various stages of which numbers of half-naked ehildren
are to b' seen daily lying in the streets.—Cork Reporter.
The Cork Repmter states that fever has broken out to
an alarming extent in the constabulary force of that city,
so much so, that not more than one•half the usual num-
ber are able to do duty.
SLIGO, APRIL 10.—Ne have been informed, by what
we mu t consider the very best authority—the medical
men of the town—teat there are no less than a thousand
fever patients within the precincts of our borough 1 In
some of the obscure districts from two to eight persons
are lying under the one roof, in fever.—Sligo Champion.
Some days ago a man died of typhus fever, upon the
property of Sir linger Palmer, in the barony of Tireragh.
His wife, an -old decrepit broken-hearied cre-i;nie.
crawled about for a day or two, t.. procure tnea. s to
bury her husband, but she begged from beggars, and her
solicitations were consequently in vain. She retired to
her miserable bore!, and died. For ten' days the two

JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, BY SIB GEORGE
SIMPSON, GOVERNOR IN-CHIEF OF THE IitUDSON'S
BAY COMPANY'S TERRITORIES.—This narrative, which
will probably be found oneof the most interesting among
all tho,e of our adventurous travellers, is to ba published
in a few days by Mr. Culburn. The great novelty of
the expedition arises from its having been performed
priccipally overland ; and the position and influence of
the author, his enterprise and scientific attainments have,
it is said, enabled him to make extensive additions to our
limited knowledge of the various interesting portions of
the globe which he traversed. The contributions to the
geography of the great American continent, in par
ticular, over which he proceeded from Canada to Van
couver, will, doubtless, be extremely valuable, as well as
his notice:4 of the various tribes of the aborigines with
whom he came in contact—his residence at Silka, and
account of the Aleutian Archipelago—his descriptions of
Kamschatka and Siberia—and his journeys over those
vast regions of the Russian empire concerntrg which we
have hitherto received such scanty information.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON —lt is understood,
from a source upon which we may rely, that as his Grate's
son (the Marquis of Douro) intends next month to visit
the Scottish estates of his father-in .law, the Marquis of
Tweeddale, in the county of Haddington. he will be ac-
compahivd by the Duke, who will r,ruain at. least one
day at 131-rwick, in order to enjoy the society of a distin-
guished military character in the vicinity, whose gallai.t
conduct in Spain very speedily secured him his Clrace's
approbation and patronage.—Berwick Advertiser.

TB SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MOANTNO, APRIL 15, 1847.

bodies lay in the hut, without a human creature coming f STATE OF THE CORN MARKETS '
near them. At length the people of the place deter- IN FRANCE.
mined upon burying them, and a group of peasants All the letters received on Monday in Paris from the
assembled for that purpose, hut such was the stench from towns round the capital, without exception, speak of
higher prices having been insisted on and obtained at
the bodies, far gone in a state of decomposition, that
and Saturday's markets. Ttiey also express a conviction,
they feared troesr(e)imveociveulvh,:lythicrtripmwsingofdothwenptehserihleonucsec:
over
they finally that from the shortness of the supply offered for sale
prices must again advance. The following is given by
the remains of thlectased ! In the barony of
Tireragh, and the county of Sligo, this most awful these advicea as the amount of rise in the hectolitre of
sepulchre can be seen at the present hour. Sir Roger wisest in the following markets :—Rouen, ; Villers-
Palmer keeps a town residence in London—we saw it
Cotterets, 2f. ; Beaumont, 2f. ; Lagny, It. to 2t. ; Bray-
some months agre and can state that it is not excelled by sur-Seine, 2E to 2E 60c. ; Erampes. 2S to 2'. 75c. ; Or-
any other mansion in the metropolis of the world—and leans, 3f. 30c. to 4f. ; Vernon, 2'. to 2f. 50f, ; Versailles,
yet his tenants, the people who by their industry enable • If. 33c. ; Soissons, if. 50c. to ; Pentoise, If. ; Dour-
him to live in this state, die and are buried after the dan, 3E ; Melun, 2f. •, Uontereau, 21. 66c. to 3f. 33c. ;
fashion we have described. Oh God ! is not this horris St. Quentin, 2f. ; Le Mans, st. 25c.
ble ?—Sligo Champion. The accounts which we receive from Belgium state
COUNTY OF LONGFORD.—At cur quarter sessions, that the corn markets in that country were again very
which ended on Tuesday evening, 2,055 processes were firm, and that in some instances there had been a de-
entered, 1,600 decrees and dismisses obtained, and five tided advance in prices. The independence Beige says:—
men, namely, Patrick Mulligan, Thomas Hourican,John The fall in corn which began to show itself seems
Pettit, Bernard M•Grarry, and John Judge, were i already to have stopped, although the fall which to .k
sentenced to transportation for stealing cattle.—Long- place in the last fortnight of .March was far from
ford Journal. being so great as the enormous re.° which took
MONAGHAN QUARTER SESSIONS.—James Major, Esq.. place during the first few days of the same month ;
assistant-barrister, is just now presiding at one of the and although she priess are even now at a price so
largest sessions ever known in this cetiety. There are I excessive that it ought to ineuce holders to realise
upwards of 1,000 civil bid entries, and the ejectments their profits, the prices continue firm in all the markets
more than double any preceding year. Every person to of Belgium. The variations in our market on S Iturday
whom money is due is resorting to legal proceedirige, sot
were of little Consequence,
and the same was the case a
that they may get decrees to arrest persons preparing Ant,,,,er„ Ghent, and Louvain*. Today the provincial
to go to America. The needy landlords, too, are en- papers and our own private'' letters inform us that
deavouring by this meats to get some rent from their prices have remained without variation at Mons, Iles-
impoverished tenants. Small lessors, fearing the opera- selt, and Namur, and that there was a slight fall at
; but at Brues Lion of the Relief Act, are endeavouring to snatch all Poperinghe and Verviers wheat rose
they can get, while the only persons who can aid the poor from 2E to 2f. 50c. pet hec:olitre.
are the large proprietors.— Monaghan Standard. The tariff for bread, at Brussels from the 12th of
COUNTY OP KERRY.—KENMASE.—On Sunday last, April, is fixed as follows --F 'Am per kilo-
there were no less than five dead bodies in the streets ofir4e qua y, •
gramme; second cm litbread, 46
3,53 c., and brawnc-
Kentnare, without a human being to claim them or look Compared with a- •
the previous fortnight, there is a fall of
after their burial, till Mr. Daniel Mahony and another ic. on the first and second qualities.
respectable shopkeeper had them sevenths conveyed to
the grave in a false-bottomed coffin.— Tralee Chronicle.
COUNTY OF Giewar.—The labourers disbanded under
the twenty per cent. proclamation have been in many in-
stances recalled, or suffered to enter again on the works',
in the neighbourhood of Loughrea.—Ballinasloe Star.
TILLAGE or the LAND.—Generally the accounts are
still favourable, with the exception of those western and
southern counties where, between the apathy of land-
lords and the poverty of small occupiers, large districts
are entirely neglected. In many cases tenants who pos-
sess the means of purchasing seed, but who are in arrear
for rent, are afraid to crop the land, lest the landlord
should seize upon the produce.
THE CORN MARKET.—IMPORTS AND EX-
PORTS.
Colts, APRIL 10.—During the week we have had
large arrivals of grain and bread stuffs from America,
and several European ports. On Thursday and yester-
day the following vessels arrived at Cove :—Venelia.
from New Orleans, carrying nearly 900 tons. registered
burden, 581 ; Ramble, Prom New York, 397 tons ; Pu-
ritan, from New York, 300 tons : Ruth, from New
York, 159 tons ; Uncas, from Norfolk, 422 tons ;
Louisa, Odessa, 120 ; Harmony, Caminho, 170 ; Ru-
perto, Bilboa, 150 ; Luisna, Norfolk, 299 ; G. Skof-
field, New York, 430 ; Fronde, Philadelphia. 180 ;
Montreal, Norwich, 392 ; Redport, Carril, 173 ; be-
sides a considerable number of others in our Cove Note,
but the tonnage of which we have no mention.—Cork
Reporter.
WATERFORD, APRIL 10.—The receipts of home grain
to market continue light, yet, under existing circum-
stances, larger than might be expected. Wheat ad-
vanced Is. to 25., and oats folly Is. per barrel on Wed-
nesday's currency. Barley rules heavy, the trade being
confined to seeding. Few fresh arrivals of Indian corn
to note, but there is a very large quantity at our quays,
and in store; and some cargoes being unfit for human
food, the prices rule very various—some so low as 275.,
anti good sound corn 345. to 355. per barrel.
EXPORTATION OF AMERICAN FLOUR FROM CORK.—
It is a singular fact, that one thousand barrels of Ame
ricer) flour, imported direct to Cork, were shipped for
Liverp :01 to-day, per the Nimrod, and a considerably
larger quantity was offered for shipment but there was
no room in the vessel, which carried an en•irite :us freight
and an unprecedented number of passengers.—Cork
Remoter.
EXPORTS FROM WATERFORD.—It will appear to our
readers paseiug strange, that wheat and flour are being
shit pod from a land where thousands are daily perishing
of famine. Wheat aid flour are being shipped for Lis-
bon tram the city of Waterford, and Idian corn to Me-
den a, from the city of London.— II ate'ford Freeman.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the Association was held this
day, Mr Sullivan. solicitor, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in a few words, expressed his regret
that the overtures made by Mr. John O'Connell on the
last day of meeting, to the Young Ireland party, for a
reconciliation, had been rejected.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL then adverted to the proceed
ings of the " Irish Confederation" on Wednesday last,
which, he oloserved, greatly depressed him. It had been
intimated to him that, in making the advances towards
a reconciliation which he had made, he had gone too
far, and - had received communications from the
highest names in the country to that effect. The
speech of Mr. Smith O'Brien had filled hint with
surprise. That gentleman had accompanied expres-
sions of personal kindness towards him (Mr. John
O'Connell) and his father with a charge against
them, which, if true, would have rendered them
unworthy of the kindness or personal regard of any
man, and which ought to subject them to the reprobation
of every honest, good, and patriotic man in I reland—
(Clmers.) If they were traitors, as the charge implied,
they ought not to have been complimented, they ought
to have been denounced.—(Hear, hear.) if that charge
were true, the people ought to pet them down—if the
charge were true, they should be driven with execration
from the political stage—(Hear, hear)—and every man
conscious of their delinquency in that resin•ct, was him-
self a delinquent, if. holding a position of influence he
did not use his influence in ga:ltering the opinion of the
people against them —(Cheers.) Mr. Smith O'Brien
had charged them with a Whig alliance, and with the
most terrible consequences resulting from that alliance
—the death of the people from starvation. With
regard to that Whig alliance, he (Mr. O'Connell) did
not wish to use any term of personal offence
to Mr. O'Brien—he would not for every light
and unguarded expression which a man might utter,
wish to violate the laws of God, and reply by
bitter and acrimonious language to those unguarded ex-
pressions.—(Cheers.) He took those expressions of Mr:
0' Brien as unguarded, and his answer to them was this
—without meaning offence to him or to any one what-
soever, but solely in the vindication of his (Mr. O'Con-
nell's) character—that the assertion of a Whig alliance
between his father and himself was an utter, an entire,
and a most complete falsehood.--(Loud cheers.) A
falsehood without the shadow of truth.—(bear, hear.)
A falsehood that could not be supported, and therefore
caght not to have been advanced.—(Hear, hear.) A
falsehood most cruel and grievous in its effects—a
falsehood lightly uttered, and one which he challenged
the man who tietered it to make good, or prove against
than—(Cheers.) It might be stated that he (Mr. J.
O'Connell) was again showing the white feather, if he
added that he did not mean any personal offence to Mr.
f 'Bpi- n in using the eiephatic expressions he bad uttered.
Mr. Bri-n might have believed what he stated, but it
was not the less a tahehood.—(Cheers.) It was a false
hood propagat' d by the en, mies of the country, and he
deeply regretted that Mr. O'Brien should have adopted
it. up .n such light grounds without the shadow of proof,
or attempt at proof. To be sure Mr. O'Brien had used
some personally exculpatory e2cpressiens towards them.
as it a.cribing the " all ants " to an impaired state of
his (Mr. O'Connell's) tither's facteties, or that he was a
traitor to Ireland without knowing it. 'they did not
shrink from the charge which had been preferred against
them by Mr. O'Brien ; but all he would say was, ae
the charge had been made, let it be proved. (Cheers.)
Arid what :were the cons. quences which had been im•
puted to them? By reason of the Whig alliance, the lives
of the people had been saerificed. He (Mr 0 Connell)
would deal with that subject as calmly, a. coolly, and as
collectedly as he could with a charge which he knew to
be unfounded. It was one of the weightiest charges that
could be brought against any man—a charge which, in
the excited state of the country, was likely to be taken up
without examination, and was calculated to raise a cry
against those wh.,, withinit fee or reward, were d,s-
charging their duty to this country in those disastrous
times.—(Cheers ) Who was it, he would ask, that first
reminded the Whig Government of the inist,ke they
were committing ? Was it the Young Ireland party?—
(No, lee) Was it Mr. Smith O'Brien ?—(No, no.) It
was in that hall that their policy was first combatted,
and it was from the same place that the " parrot
cry," as it was called, " of food, food for the
people" proceeded.—(Cheers.) The Honourable Gen-
tleman, after some further observations in vindication of
his conduct, concluded by saying that ho had done for
ever with "Young Ireland," and that any advances for
a reconciliation should proceed from that party.
After some further business had been disposed of,
viz., the adoption of a petition to Parliament in favour
of the Dublin Improvement Bill, and an appeal to the
constituencies of Ireland in favour of the repeal candi-
dates ; Mr. John O'Connell moved that a sentence from
a le'ter to John Russell from Sydenham should be dis-
played on the walls' on Conciliation Hall, viz., " That
the people of England did not care one rush for your
Irish hobby-horses."
The rent for the week was 19/. 4s. 9d.

PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN

COTTON.

The specification of this patent (taken out in the name
of Mr. John Taylor, of the Addphi, became due and
was enrolled the other day.—The following is a correct
abstract of its contet,ti

The patentee states that the invention consists in the
manufacture of explosive compounds applicable to min-
ing purposes and to projectiles, and as substitutes for
gunpowder, by treating aid combining matters of vege-
table origin with nitric an-{ sulphuric acids. The mat-
ter of vegetable origin which he prefers, as being best
suited for the purposes of the invention, is cotton, as it
comes into this country freed from extraneous matters;
and it is stated to be desirable to operate OVA the clean
fibres of the cotton in a dry state. The acids are nitric
acid of fr0m.1.45 to 1.50 specific gravity, and sulphuric
acid of 1.85 specific gravity. The acids are mixed toge-
ther in the pvportion of 1 measure of nitric acid to 3
measures of sulphuric acid, in any suitable or c .nv, nient
vessel not liable to be afruted by the acids. A gr, at de-
gree of heat being generated by the mixture, it is then
left to cool until its temperature falls to 60 or 50 degrees
Fahrenheit. The cotton is then immersed in it, and, in
order that it may become thoroughly impregnated or
saturated with the acid-, it is stirred with a rod of glass
or other mat rid not affected by the acids. The cotton
should be introduced in, as open a state as practicable.
The acids are then poured or drawn off, and the cotton
gently pressed by a presser of glaz'.d earthenware, to
press out the acids, after which it is cover. d up in the
vessel and allowed to stand for about an hour. It is sub-
sequently washed in a continuous flow of water until the
presence of the acids is nut indicated by the ordinary
test of litmus paper. To remove any nucombired p, r-
tions of the acids which nyty remain after the cleansing
process, the patentee dips the cotton in a weak solution
of carbonate of potash to one gallon of water, and par-
tially dries it by pressing, as before. The cotton is then
highly explosive, and may be used in that state; but, to
increase its explosive power, it is dipped in a,weak so-
lution of nitrate of potash, and, lastly, dried in a room
heated by hot air or steam to about 150 degrees Fahren-
heit. It is considered probable that the use of the solu-
tions of carbonate of potash and nitrate, of potash may
be dispensed with, although actual experience does not
warrant such an omission. The patentee remarks, that
nitric acid may be employed alone in the manufacture of
explosive compounds, but that, as far as his experience
goes, the article when so manufactured is not so good,
and far more costly. When used, care should be taken
to employ a much less quantity by weight, to produce
the same result, than of gunpowder ; and it has been
found that three parts by weight of the cotton produces
the same effect as eight parts by weight of the Tower-
proof gunpowder. The cotton, when prepared in the
manner before mentioned, may be rammed into a piece
of ordnance, a fowling-piece, or musket ; or may be
made into the shape of cartridges ; or may be
pressed, when damp, into moulds of the form of the
bore of the piece of ordnance for which it is intended.
so that, when dried, it shall retain the required figure ;
and that it may also be placed in caps, like percussiou
caps, and made to explode by impact. Lastly, the
patentee states, that although he prefers the use of
cotton, other matters of vegetable origin may
.be
similarly treated with acids to form an explosive com-
pound, and that acids of an inferior specific gravity may
be employed. The patentee having thus described
the nature of the invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, states, that he does not confine
himself to any of the details above specified, so long as
the peculiar character of the invention is retained, :ix.,
he manufacture of explosive compounds from matters
of vegetable origin by means of acids. But to acl;,pt the
patentee's own expression, What I claim is the manu-
facture of explosive compounds from matters of vegetable
origin, by ro,ans of nitric acrid, or nitric and sulphuric
.scads."—Mechanics' Magazine.

SUICIDE THROUGII BODILY AFFLICTION.—Tuesday
evening Mr. W. Payne, the City coroner. held an in-
quest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Richard Filse,
aged 67, a hat dyer, lately living at
No. 31, Martin-
street, Blackfriars-road. The evidence. proved that the
deqestsed had, for a considerable period, been confined
to his bed with dropsy, a disease of the heart, and a
complication of other complaints. It was the general
opinion that the deceased's mind had become impaired
by reason of his bodily suffering. On the night of Mon-
day last he took advantage of the temporary absence of
his wife, and with a razor he inflicted a terrible wound
in his throat. He was removed to the above hospital,
where he died yesterday morning from the effects of the
injuries inflicted. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMFORT, SAFETY,
HEARING, &C. IN THE NEW OPERA HOUSE.—The
means of properly heating and ventilating the house
appear to have received dud attention. Hot-air stoves
are fitted up under the pit stalls, with flues to conduct
the warmed air over the house ; and every gas lamp in
the corridors has a ventilating- pipe above it. On thesis,
and some other points, however, we reserve our opinion,
not venturing to form one hastily. For the extin-
guishing of fire, should it occur, mains, supplied from
cisterns in the upper part of the house, are provided,
with cocks end hose on each tier. As to the general
safety of the building, notwithstanding the rapidity with
which the works have been carried on, they have been
(lore in the soundest and most 'substantial manner, and
so as to entitle Mr. Albano, the architect, and all con-
cerned in them, to great praise. As regards the con-
veyance of soiled, We are disposed to consider the new
opera- house singularly successful. During the perform-
anee we visited every part of the house, and found in
every place that the lowest sound from the stage was
distinctly audible.— The Builder.
MONEY MARKET.---The premium on gold at Paris is
11 per mill , which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 100 per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of s 5 42 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25 $5, it follows that gold
is 0.51 per cent dear.-r in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4304
per mark, which, at t he English Mint price of 3/. 17s. loid.
per ounce for standard ash', gives an exchange of 13.71;
and the exchange at H anbtirgh on London at shat t
being 13 64. it follows that gold is 0 47 per cent. dearer
in Hatnburgh than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London is 104 per cent. ;
and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 23.40 per cent., it follow
that the exchange is 5.58 per cent. against England
But the quoted exchange at New York being for
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted frcin
the above-difference.
FEMALE EDUCATION IN TEE EAST.—On Tuesday
evening ttie members of the Ssiftety for PremotingFeinale
Education in the East held' their tenth anniversary
meeting at the Music- hall, Store street, Bedford- square.
John Lsbouchere, was in the chair, supeorted by
the Hon. end Rev. H. W. Noel, the Rev. Dr. Legge,
from China; the Rev. J. R. Graf, from Sierra Leone;
the Rev. 'Dr. Cumming, &c. &se The Chairman, in
opening the proceedings, said that a favourable oppor-
tunity now existed of establishing a female mission at
JerUsalein. A lady was ready to undertake the manage-
ment of a school in the Holy City, under the direction
of the Bishop. The report read by the secretary stated
that the receipts of the past year amounted to 2001., and
the expenses to 521., the balance being paid over to the
central cotruitte;.:. The report was unanimously adopted,
after which several resolutions were pissed, and the
c tmmittee of ladies having been elected, the meeting
separated.
ALLEGED MURDER IN STEPNEY.—On Tuesday Mr.
William Bsker, coroner, received informatien from
Webb, the constable of Whitechapel, of the death of
IVilliam Beige, aged sixty-two years, a painter, of No.
3, alorgan-strset, St. G. urge's in the East, who died in
the London Hospital on Monday last, from the injuries
he had received from a female named Rance, who keeps
a Eper shop in Jubilee-place, Stepney. It appears that.
On Tkursday evening, the Ist inst., the deceased and se-
vheoruasle,otwhheernm
sheenwreurseh
es idn gtihntgothe inthr
pacer in
her hand, and threatened to strike them if they did not
roitohm of Rance 's
s
leave off singing. She was very much intoxicated, and
the deceased endeavoured to quiet her, but, instead of
doi ig so, she struck him a violent blow on the abdomen,
which rendered him insensible. While upon the ground
upon she commenced jumpingeootamp
w
him in a most violent
manner. The deceased bled most profusely. from the
mouth, and he was with great difficulty rescued by his
companions. The poor fellow was immediately carried
to the London Hospital, where he expired on Monday
last, from the injuries he had received. Mr. Bake.
directed that a post mortem examination should be mader
At the Western Literary and Scientific. Institution
on Monday evening, an interesting and valuable paper
was read by Mr. W. Smith, C.E , "On the best means
of Protecting Buildings, &c., frem the effects of dis-
charges of Atmospheric Electricity." The subject was
ably handled, and beautifully illustrated by diagrams,
models, &c. The meeting was well attended. These
meetings are a new feature in this institution, and will,
no doubt, prove highly attractive, and are in addition to
the Thursday evening lectures. The first of these
meetings was on the sth April, when a paper, by Mr.
Claudet, on " The Recent Improvement in the Daguer-
reotype Process" wits Md.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF (SLUES.—Tuesday evening
the anniversary festival of the Benevolent Society ot
Blues was held at the Louden Tavern, Bishop.gate-
street, when 180 of the patrons and subscribers of this
society attended and partook ot an excellently arranged
dinner, provided Isy the Messrs. Bathe arid Breach.
The objects of this society, which was Imitated in the
year 1824,- and has from that period steadily advanced in
its reseurses and use' ulness. are the providing relief to
distressed persons educated at Christ's Ho .pital, stud to
their widows and orpeans. The Right Honourable the
Lord Mayor presided, supported by Mr. Alderman
l'h--iripson, Major-General Sir Adolphus Dalrymple,
and Benjamin Bend Cabhell, Esq. After the usual
loyal toasts his Lordship proposed the toast of the even-
ing, " Prosperity to the Benevolent Society ot Blues."
The secretary read the list of subscriptions, from winch
we select the Q teen and Prince Albert, 25 guineas ;
Duke of Cambridge, 20 guineas ; Alderman Thompson,
101. 10s. ; Lord Mayor, 101 ; Mr Shetiff Challis, 101 ;
B. B. Cabbed, Esq., 101. ; Miss Nixon, daughter of the
late President, 101- Lieutenant-Colonel
Pettigrew, 101.;
which with others Of a .imilar and less amount'swelleo
the list to nearly 700/. The vocal arrangements were
tinder the direction of Mr. T. Cooke, assisted by Mrs. A.
Nt.ivt,n, Miss Cubits, and Messrs. ill, Shoubridge. and
Martin, whose efforts were loofa warmly applauded.
Thanks having been voted to the chairman, the company
broke up at a late hour. Mr. Harker officiated as toast-

General and Lady Susan Reeve and family have
arrived at their house in Portm .n-square.
AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—A few evenings
ago, about dusk, a man name,' Mugg, of Burton-on-the
%Voids, having been to see his brother, at Sherwood.
near Nottingham, in returning home on the Flood-road.
took it into his head to jump over the wall opposite the
skinner's house, and mistaking the locality, he tell, not
upon the bail, as he intended. but into the canal. The
water at that place is very d. ep; and, as he was unable
to swim, his situation was one ot extreme peril. He
contriveo, however, by dint of much struggling, to reach
the side; but being ni ar the seven arches, there is a
smooth wall down to the water's edge, so that he was
unahle to get out. Fortunately, he found a corner in
which there was a ledge sufficiently low for him to cling
to; and in that position he remained for two or three
hours. His shouts for help were not noticed by the
passers by; or the place when, the poor fellow was fixed
was so removed from sight that it could not be ascer-
tained whi nce the cries proceeded. At last, a person
discovered . Mugg's " a hereabout.," and immediately
went to the Trent Bridge Inn for assistance. It was
DOW quite dark, but four young men procured from the
Trent side a light skiff, and, launching it in the canal,
proceeded to fetch him off. Some time was thus lost,
for the boat had to be carried a good distance over
land; and when they arrived at the spot,. they found
that some persons had let down a rope from the bridf.,e
close to him, but he was so benumbed as to be quite un-
able to grasp it. He was, in fact, in the last stage of
exhaustion, and there can be no doubt that had assist-
ance been only a few minutes later, he would have
slipped from his hold and been drowned, He was with
considerable difficulty lifted into the boat and conveyed
to the Union Inn. where he was put to bed. He had,
however. so completely lost the use of his limbs, that he
was obliged to be curried into the house; nor was he
OA to utter a word. Every attention was paid him,
and he at length recovered.
A PICTURE OF EGYPT, DRAWN ON THE SPOT, BY
MISS MARTINEAU.- -01 e imprerbi..n hail taken me by
surf rise. I used to wonder—ane always did till now
—at that stupidity of the Israelites which so angered
their leader—their pining after Egypt, after finding
it impossible to live there. It was inconceivable how
they could long to go back to a pia, e of such cruel
oppression, for the sake of anything it could give.
I now wonder no longer, having seen and felt the
desert, and knowing the charms of the valley of the
Nile. One evening lately, just at sunset, the scene
struck upon my heart, oppressing it with the sense of
b7auty. A village was beside an extensive grove of
palms, which sprang from out of the thickest and
richest clover to the height of eighty feet. Their
tops waved gently in the soft breeze which ruffled
the surface of a blue pond lying among
grassy shores. There were golden lights and
sharp shadows among the banks where a stream had
lately made its way. The yellow sand-hills of the
desert just showed themselves between the stems of
the more scattered palms. Within view were some
carefully tilled fields, with strong wheat, lupins
and purple bean blossoms ; and some melon
and cucumber patches were not far off. Cattle were
tethered beside the houses; and on a bank near sat an old
woman and it boy and girl, basking in the last rays of the
sun with evident enjoyment, though the magical colouring
given by Egyptian atmosphere could not be sostriking as
to English eyes. But whatmust it have been in tbe memory
of the Israelites, vvandering in the desert where there is
no colour, except at sunrise and sunset, but only
glare— parched rocks anc choking duet or sand! I
will not attempt now, for no one has ever suc-
ceed( d in such an attempt, to convey any impression
of the apt-aline dream in. ss ot the depths of the
d sort. I ran only say that when it rose up
bef ire me in contrast with that nook of the valley
it sunset, I at last tuid.,rs,ood the surrender of heart
and reason on the part of the I-rat-lit, s, and could sym-
pnthiee in their forgetfulness of their pasi. woes in their
pining tor verdure and streams. for shade and good food,
and for a perpetual sight of the adored river, instead of
the hatefol sands which hemmed them in, whichever
way they turned.—People's Journal
M. RONGE.—A letter from Breslaw of the 3d
says:—" In tile month of March, 1846, M. Renge wits
condemned to a month's imprisonment, for having
preached at Magdeburg without the permission of the
authorities. It was thought that the execution ot this
condemnation hail been abandoned by the Government,
but such is not the fact. The day before yesterday M.
Range received from the police of Breslaw an injuncti. n
to undergo the sentence pronounced against him, and
yesterday he rendered himself a prison, r. Upwards of
two thousand persons accompanied him on his pas-
sage, crying, • Rouge for ever!' Religious Liberty
for eyi•r!' But this demonstration gave rise to no dis-
turbanee."
BE JuaT BEFORE You ARE GENEROUS.—A shep-
herd in the county of Caithness lately lest two or three
of his master's sheep, and, being determined his employer
should not bee loser in the matter, stole the same num-
ber from a neighbour, for which he has just been com-
mitted to the gaol of Wick.—liess-shire Advertiser.
DEATH AT A BALL.—On Tuesday -evening last a
festive party given by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitztnaurice,
at his residence, in Berkeley-square Cheltenham, was
shocked by the awfully sudden death of one of the guests,
a young lady named Quinelar, who had formerly been
a governess in the family. The deceased had after
supper danced a quadrille, and bad just partaken of an
ice, when she was suddenly taken ill, became insensible,
and though a medical gentleman was as one of the
party, she expired within a few minutes. Death was
caused, it is presumed, by effusion of blood on the brain.
An inquest was held on the body on Thursday evening,
by the deputy-coroner, when the Jury returned a verdict
of " Died by the visitation of God."—Gloucestershire
Chronicle.
BARLEY.--This valuable grain, which may be said
to be the "staff of life" of so many of the humbler
classes of South Wales, has been so exceedingly scarce
in this and the two adjiining counties of Pembroke and
Cardigan, as to have occasioned great distress. The
price, consequently. has been enormous, as much as
7s. Gd. a bushel in many places, at the same time that the
labnuring poor have been obtaining from 7s. to Ba. a
week wages. Under these circumstances, we are re-
joiced to find that a merchant of this town has had the
foresight to import several cargoes from different foreign
ports. We hope it may prove beneficial to the spirited
importer, its it certainly will be to this neighbourhood.
—Carmarthen Journal
INCENDIARY FIRE.—A little before midnight on
Saturday last an incendiary fire was discovered on the
farm of Mr. Hill, at Murton, three miles from South-
well, in the county of Nottingham, which destroyed a
stack, containing upwards of seventy quarters of wheat.
The flames were first observed by Miss Hill, who saw a
red glare through her bedroom window, and on giving
an alarm her father proceeded to the stackyard, but the
fire had gained too great an ascendancy to leave any
hope of saving any portion of the stack. An engine from
Southwell, and a crowd of people from the villages
around flicked to assist, and by great exertions pre-
vented the tame= from communicating with the other
stacks at d the farm buildings. The owner, who is
utuvet sally respected, is fully insured in the Nettineham
and Nottinghamshire Fire-office, and the damage is
estimated at 2601.

master.
THE LATE INQUEST AT ST PANCRAS.--In conse-
quence of the absurd heading, viz., " The late myste-
rious affair and supposed murder in St. Pancras," given
death, by the penny a-liner to an account of the inquest held
otrhenew
,Fii
otri inrdya yw has, a
gone
bodyonnnatethueralde of William Henry
behen Mssve'rr.d Mill
an c
t abroad,ol a, that the unfor-
tunate
nothwithstanding
t
man was the victim of foul pia...
Nothing can be
more unfounded. It was clearly proved by the evidence,
ilii
imsr
that he died from the bursting of a blood-vessel in the
lungs, and nothing transpired.at the ;
.nquest to justify
the very absurd beading which the penny-a-liner gave
to the paragraph.
THE RIVER PLATE.—A handsome monument is
about to be erected by Rear-Admiral Inglefield, Com-
rnander-in-Chief of the fleet in the River Plate, and his
brother officers, in honour of the men who fell in the
aetion of the 20th November, 1825, at Punta Obligato.
The top of the marble is decked with various naval em-
blems, surmounted by a wreath of laurel; underneath is
carved a highly-finished representation of the place and
tort in sight of the fleet sent against it.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.
—Tuesday the monthly meeting of the meinb,rs of this
a ciety was. held at their ehawbers in Lincoln's Inn-
fields. There were present the Bishops ,-,f London,
Winchester, Durham, Peterborough, Lichfield, Carlisle,
El', , Worcester, Lincoln, and Hereford ; the Dean of
Chichester, the Dean of Hereford, the tev.
Dc. Spry,
the Rev. .B. Dalton, the Rev. W. J. Hall, and a large
number of other church-dignitaries. A lengthened dis-
cussion took place with reference to the religious state
of the colonies and dependencies of the British Crown,
and liberal grants were made in aid of the society's ob-
jects in the newly-formed diocese of Morpeth (Austra-
lia), the Cape of Good Hope, Adelaide, and Newcastle
(New South safes). Several letters from destitute con-
gregations were read• end requests complied with, after
which upwards of 60 gentlemen were elected subscribing
members of the society.
FURIOUS GALE.—The Scotch papers contain se-
veral accounts of the gale which prevailed so generally
on Thursday last, but which appears to have raged with
niwonted fury in the north. There was a great loss of
lite in small boats along the coast, and many vessels were
seriously illillled; but we have not, yet heard of any ex-
tensive shipwrecks.

IMPERI,

AMEN T.

HOUSE Ok COMMONS, April 14.
-The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-
SHIRE It AILW AY.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition against
this Bill.
WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENT.
Mr. GREENE preseno•d srpttition against t he West-
minster Inwrovemern. Bill, us well us several others on
different subjects.
HARBOURS OF REFUGE.
Mr. CH RISTOPH ER presented
,petitions from seve-
ral places praying that the Rouse woull take measures
for retaining the advant)g-s of the harbour of Harwich,
as well as several other harts Airs on the coma.
GOVERN ‘I ENT EDUCATION PLAN.
Mr CHRISTOPHER a so presented a petition from
several parishes in Lincolnshire in favour of the Govern-
ment ran.