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must be left to imagination. Owen Swift, the referee,
was saved all question as to the winner.
DAY AND METCALF.—The 120 yards race, for 5/.
aside, between Metcalf (the St. John's-wood Novice) and
Day, was run yesterday, near the Wellington Inn,
Highgate. It was nearly four o'clock before the men
started, which they did well and level. After twenty
yards Day got the lead, kept it, and after a well-run
race, came in a winner by a yard.
H. ORANGE AND T. DANCE.—The six-mile walking
match between these nsen depending upon a double
event, was lost by Dance, although he gave Orange
one minute start, and overtook him in three miles,
beating his man by one minute and a half. He
had, according to articles, to walk a second competitor
the like distance, or forfeit the stake. This he failed in,
giving up at the second mile.

TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN
RUSSELL, M.P.
LETTER NO. 111.
_

My Lord,—Having satisfactorily disposed of Mr.
Scrope's plan for the reclamation of w.:ste lands in Ire-
land, by showing that its principle is fraught with the
very evil under which that country at present labours,
and, even supposing his plan were not open to such in-
superable objection, that it would be impossible to bring
it into practical working, I now propose to lay before
your Lordship and the public the plan which I suggest
should be adopted, with the mode in which it might be
safely, and, considering its importance, easily carried
into execution, and which is, in fact, the very plan which
I have successfully pursued here for the last ten years.
I trust neither your,Lordship nor any person w;11 fancy
that I hold out the reclamation of waste lands as the
only panacea for Irish grievances. No! I only believe
it to be one of the most effectual. Equal laws—a strin-
gent poor-law enforcing the claims of industrious labour
to support from the land—an extension of the fisheries,
and a well-arranged plan of voluntary emigration are
all excellent, perhaps necessary remedies, and should
assuredly receive the best attention of the Government.
Before stating my plan, I would observe that another
great advantage it bas over that of Mr. Scrope's is its
comparative simplicity and cheapness. That gentle-
man's Bill proposed that there should be an entirely new
board, with commissioners in. chief, assistant-commis
sioneis, engineers, surveyors, clerks, collectors, re-
ceivers, and other necessary officers. But even this is
not all. The commissioners were to have model farms,
and appoint bailiffs and superintendents thereof, and to
establish schools, and to plant and cultivate any of the
lands, and to execute such roads and drainings, and erect
such houses, cottages, buildings, and fences as shall be
deemed proper and expedient for the improvement of
such land. No person in the slightest degree acquainted
with the public or private character of Mr. Scrope could
for a moment imagine that he wished to perpetrate a
great job, entailing upon the country enormous ex-
penses, and those who have not the honour of knowing
him, and who, from reading his life, might be led to form
a different conclusion, would feel relieved by the lith
clause, which limits the expense to a sum not exceeding
two millions; and for this amount the Honourable Gen-
tleman seriously, proposed not only to perform the above-
mentioned work, but also to purchase the fee-simple of
the lands! Yet stern Cocker declares that 2,000,0001. of
money divided among 3,000,000 of acres would give
exactly 13s. 4d. per acre for these objects, a sum which
would not enclose the land.
My plan would only require the cost of commissioners-
in-chief, who, after personal inspection, would have to
report upon the several memorials which were presented.
These reports would be made to the present Board of
Works, who would require what further information or
explanation they might consider necessary. When they
were satisfied, the memorial and reports would go before
the Chief Secretary for his final decision. The com-
missioners would act perfectly independent of each other,
and, as the comparative success or failure of each reels •
motion would in a great degree depend upon the cor-
rectness of their reports, Government would only ap-
point the mcst competent persons, whose several reports
annually laid before Parliament would secure an honour,
able rivalry between them.
The first step would be to lay down certain genera
rules, upon compliance with which Government assis
ante would be given.

The second, to divide the waste land in Ireland capable
of being profitably reclaimed into two classes.

Ist. Those belonging to proprietors who are willing
to take the reclamation upon themselves if assisted by
Government.

2d. Those which belong to proprietors who are un-
willing, or too incapacitated persons, who are incapable
of undertaking the work, and these lands would have to
be purchased by Government, under authority of au Act
of Parliament, and resold or /et to persons willing to
embark in the reclamation.

The most important engagements into which the
proprietor would have to enter, as a condition of-receiv-
ing Government assistance, would be—

Ist. That the land should be mortgaged to Govern-
ment for repayment of the advances with fair interest ;
such repayments to be made at stated periods.
2d. That the land should be divided into farms of such
size, and let upon such terms, as would induce men of
intelligence and capital to take leases, which ought not
to be for a shorter term than 30 years.
Supposing the necessary Act of Parliament obtained,
there would be two classes of memorials sent in—one
from persons in the neighbourhood of waste lands, the
owners of which were unwilling, or incapable, of enter-
ing into the undertaking; and these would simply state
the fact, and pray that the land might be purchased for
the purpose of reselling or letting—the other from pro-
rrietors desirous of entering into the undertaking upon
their own account ; and such memorial would set forth—
Ist. The number of acres, and the value per acre, in
its present state.

2d. The probable value per acre when reclaimed.
3d. The cost of reclamation per acre during the firs
course.

4t h. The probable value of the crops per acre during
the same period.

th. The amount of assistance required.
Immediately upon receiving such memorial, Govern-
ment would send a commissioner to report thereon, and
if such report were satisfactory on all points, assistance
would be given, and the proprietor might immediately
begin. My next and concluding letter will enter into a
detail of the advantages which the country will receive
from the adoption of this plan.
I have the honour to remain,
Your Lordship's most obedient servant,
R. W.

DEATH OF SIR GEORGE H. BARLOW, G.C.B.—
We have to record the demise of Sir Geore Hilaro Bar-
low, Bart., who expired, after a lengthened illness, at
his seat, near Fareham, Hants, on Friday last, at the
advanced ace of 82 years. He was fourth son of Mr.
William Barlow, of Bath, and Miss Butcher, daughter
of Mr. Robert Butcher, of Walthamstow. He was, at
an early age, in the civil service of the East India Cora-
pany, and in October, 1805, on the death of the Mar-
quis of Cornwallis, succeeded as Governor General of
India. After retaining that appointment till May, 1807,
he was then selected to fill the office of Governor of the
Fort St. George, at Madras. In 1803, previous to be-
coming Governor-General of India, he was created a
Baronet, and eventually, for his public services, had the
honour of the Civil Grand Cross of the Order of the
Bath. He married, in April, 1789, Elizabeth, daughter
of Mr. Burton Smith, county Wexford, by whom he had
a family of fourteen children, but he was divorced from
that lady in 1816. The deceased Baronet is succeeded
by his third son, Robert, now Sir Robert Barlow, Bart.
O'rAnElTE.—Lord Palmerston has made the follow-
ing reply to the memorial from this city, respecting
this unhappy island, which was transmitted to his Lord-
ship:— _ _

" Foreign Office, Dec. 5, 1846.
" Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the'27th ult.,
transmitting a memorial from the Bath Auxiliary to the
London Missionary Society, requesting that measures
may be adopted for ensuring the independence of the
Society Islands, and for procuring permission from the
French Government to allow those natives of Otaheite who
may be disposed to withdraw from that island, and to
seek an asylum elsewhere. And I am directed to ac-
quaint you, in reply, for the information of the memo-
rialists, that her Majesty's Government will pay due at-
tention to the subject of their memorial.—l am, Sir,
your most obedient bumble servant,
" W. T. Blair, Esq."
—Bath Journal.

" E. J. STANLEY.

DEATH FROM THE LATE INTENSE COLD AND THE
WANT OF THE COMMON NECESSARIES OF LIFE.—On
Saturday afternoon, Mr. G. J. Mills, deputy coroner for
Middlesex, held an inquest at the Grapes-tavern, Ful-
ham-road, New Brompton, on the body of Anne Boyce,
aged 56 years, whose death it was alleged had been
caused by the want of the common necessaries of life.
It appeared from the evidence brought forward, that
deceased was the widow of a soldier in the Life Guards,
who died about two years ago, and that she usually ob-
tained her living by washing and charing. She had
latterly had ls. 6d. per week from the parish of St.
George's in the East. On Saturday, the sth instant,
she rented the back kitchen of the house, No. 3,
Yeoman's-row, Fulham-road, for which she agreed to
pay ls. 3d. per week, and it was in this apartment she
was found on Tuesday last, by her landlord, stretched
upun two boards placed across a couple of chairs, without
anything under her or over her, and in a state of com-
plete nudity. She appeared to be very cold and faint,
and nearly insensible. There was a bit of fire in the
grate, but not bigger than could be held in the hollow of
his hand, and there was neither food nor a farthing of
money in the room. As soon as her wretched condition
was discovered, she was helped to a cup of tea and some
bread and butter, but she gradually sunk, and was found
lying dead on the floor on Wednesday morning, at 5
o'clock, having, it is supposed fallen off the boards. The
deceased was never seen to have food all the time she
was in the lodging ; but she was a very close woman.
and was not in the habit of speaking of her circum-
stances. She had often been asked to go into the work-
house, but she refused, saying, she would rather die in
the streets. Mr. Madden, the relieving officer of the
parish of Kensington, deposed that deceased had never
asked for more than the Is. 6d. she received. On a post
mortem examination of her body there was not the
slightest particle of food found in her stomach. The
surgeon (Mr. Moulls, 45, Brompton-row) could not ac-
cuunt for death from the appearance of the body ; but
from the history of the case, which he had heard, he
considered that death had been caused by exposure to
cold during the intense frost of Sunday, Monday, and
Tuesday last. The jury returned a verdict that the do-
ceased died from exposure to the intense cold and the
want of the common necessaries of life.
THE ALLEGED REMOVAL OF THE WELLINGTON
STATUE TO THE PARADE, ST. JAMES'S PARE.—What-
ever may be the ultimate destination of this statue, its
final resting place will seemingly not be here, the recent
excavations said to be for that purpose on' the Parade,
fronting the Horse Guards, being yesterdiy filled up and
'itbandoned.