The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRITARN 5, 1816

THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE CF

all listeners to be of good cheer ; that she wa'
about to visit ParadiSe for objects essential to their
spiritual interest, but would return, if permitted, in nine
days, if not in the same number of years; or, at all
events, at the end of half a century, to perform the
miracles previously marred by want of faith on the part
of her people. All these dreams sunk deep into the
mind of the confiding Innes, who, after the spirit had
fled, preserved the body until it became offensive, and
was complained of as a nuisance by his nearest neigh-
bours. To soothe, therefore, the public mind, he gave
out the corpse had been privately interred in the garden
behind the house: and as time rolled on, and decomposi-
tion so far ran its course, nothing more was said on the
subject until Innes himself had been numbered with the
dead. This event occurred the week before last ; and, strange
as it may appear, it is not the less true, that on the trus-
tees entering the house to take an inventory of effects, they
discovered in an upper chamber the identical remains of
Elspeth Simpson alias Mrs. Buchan. This apartment
he had converted into a sort of shrine, which he was in
the habit of visiting, as long as able, twice or oftener
evey week, and covering the skeleton with warm blan-
kets, in the belief that re animation would assuredly
return as the end of the half century drew nigh—con-
duct that would have been scouted as utterly incredible,
had not the tact b come a matter of local history, amply
demonstrating the verity of the saying, that " truth is
sometimes stranger than fiction." The remains, thus
tr,tasured with a miser's care, bore a strong resemblance
to an unroled mummy ; and a medical g' ntleman, who
examined them cerefully, describes the skin as clinging
to the bones, and the whole quondam tabernacle of clay
exhibiting little more consistency than a skeleton, with
the exception of hair of a sandy colour, luxuriant, fresh,
and even elastic. In his will or testament the recently
deceased left strict injunctions that his own and the
remains just described should be interred in the same
grave—the female coffin to be undermost, and the male
uppermost, in the full belief, as the neighbours say, that,
if Mrs. Buchan rose at the time appointed, his own
emancipation from the silence of the tomb would not
only be contemporaneous, but unavoidable 1 And on
Friday, the 23d ult., his wishes were complied with in this
respect, both corpses having been consigned in the posi-
tion enjoined toe resting place in the garden, where nine
1 more of the sect were long since buried.
Mr. Nicholson, bookseller, Kirkcudbright, publisher
of the " History of Galloway," has in leis possession a
characteristic letter from old Innes, dated 1842, in which
be says, in reference to the priestess he to the last fol-
lowed, " She was rather below the middle size of women
than otherwise. Although always cl. an and mat in her
dress, she. was no way gaudy. Hee countenance was
commonly sad, rather of the melancholy cast, and a little
pitte I with the small-pox. The sound of her voice
bore testimony of her being truth, and reveal d, with-
out the help of words, the very sentiments of her own
mind and heart."
Mr. Evans, in his " History of Sects," gives some ac-
count of the Buchanites ; but it is rather meagre, and
upon the whole incorrect. In these circumstances, we
are glad that Mr. Joseph Train is about to favour the
public with an authentic history of the Buchanites—st
work for which he has been collecting materials for
several years. No man can do the subject more justice;
for, as Sir Walter Scott often said, he was of alt his
cum- spondents the best in ferreting out the forgotten
lore of Scottish antiquities, and the most devoted in
looking through what Young calls " the dark postern of
things long elapsed."
From an American gentleman we learn that of the
remnant of Buehanites who emigrated to North America
—Mrs. B.'s spinning maidens pioneered by Mr. Whyte
—one and all have disappeared from the stage of time.
Their doctrines, it appears, found no favour in the new
world; and, as they were averse to intermarrying with
other sects, not a trace of their existence remains
behind.
In a letter reedved this morning from a respected
correspondent, it is said—" Innes was a wheelwright by
trade, and has left considerable property in money and
houses. His principal heir, I hoar, is a daughter of
Elsepth Simpson (Mrs. Buchan), at the present time
residing in Dumfries."

RAGGED SCHOOLS.
A lecture on and in behalf of the ragged schools for the
destitute poor was delivered on Tueelay evening by the llev.
Robert Ainslie, at the Literary and Scientific Institution in
Aldersgate-street. The theatre of the institution was not so
well filled as we should have wished to have seen it, but the
audience was of a most respectable nature. '
After a short but fervent prayer,
The Rev. Mr. Ainslie rose and commenced his lecture, by
observing that he appeared before the audience in the cha-
racter of an advocate fer the juvenile portion of the poorer
population, for the purpose of urging upon their attention
the necessity cf judicious measures• being adopted for the
improvement and education of children born into the world
under circumstances of a most unfavourable nature, born in
the midst of more want, distress, infamy, and crime, than
it was possible to conceive in an intelligent and free country.
It seemed to him that the present state of the public mind
and of public morality was very adyantageouafor the improve-
ment of the community. Something of improvement was
now being attempted in the shape of free schools, known as
the ragged schools for children. The origin of the name was
the fact that the clothes of the children were all in
a ragged condition ' • where one was ragged the others
were ragged eleo. The county of Essex lad lately been
building a large county prison, at an expense of nearly
thirty4ire thousand pounds. How much better would
it t. ot be to have spent that sum iii educating the poor than.
in building a prison for punishing them ? He had lately
been itivited down to Epping, where they wanted a school of
this nature, and in one day there they raised 309/., and esta-
blished the school. He found, however, that there were one
.hundred and fifty children in the town who ought to be re-
ceiving the benefits of education, and were entirely without
them. It was matter of surprise to him when that was the
state of a small to an like Epping, that more prisons were not
wanted, and more crime was not committed. (The reverend
lecturer here quoted some portions of a return lately made to
Parliament, end which showed that in six of the counties of
England, taking one hundred of the men who annually came
to the registrar's office to be married, there were from forty
to sixty who could not write their own names; and that out
of one hundred of the females, there were from thirty to fifty
who could not write their own names.) The moral debase-
ment, the disgrace and crime in the metropolis was equally
great, if not worse; of that there could be no doubt, white
we needed such an extensive police to protect us.. There
was not a greater disgrace to the metropolis than the police.
He was not speaking with reference to the force or
their character. It was a most dreadful disgrace to
us, that we should require six thousand men to keep
us in order, at an expense of a qua•ter of a million
of money annually ; and until that disgrace was wiped
out by the universal education of the people, we had no-
thing whatever to boast of. Prison after prison had been
built ; there was the Milbank Penitentiary, and lately the
one erected at l'entonville, With solitary cells, into which
man after man was put, where instead of thinking upon the
causes that had led to their imprisonment, they were most
likely nourishing feelings of enmity against those who had
placed them there, against the laws of the country in which
they were born, and against their more fortunate fel-
low. creatures.—(The reverend lecturer here gave a shirt
account of the general principles of education.) He ap-
pealed on behalf of the education of the young persons, be-
cause of our common humanity. The great Creator had made
us all alike. He appealed for it also on account of the great
advantages, both social and moral, that would accrue from
it. Last year, the total number of persons imprisoned in
the United Kingdom was 24,149 males and 4,993 females.
He would ask how many of those 24,549 men 4341 they
suppose had received a superior education ? Did they
think fifteen, ten, or five thousand, or the remaining
549? No I The actual number was only 109. He stated
that fact as a reason for his appeal to them on behalf of the
poor, and to show the advantages that would accrue to society
from the general education of the people. Oft he 4,993 females,
to the honour of England, to the honour of the female sex,
and to tie honour of the cause of education, only three of
those females had received anything like a superior educa-
tion. He had lately paid a visit to Windsor, where a school
had been established on the ragged school principle. There
were upwards of 100 young persons present from the age of
18 to 10, boys and girls, all behaving with the greatest deco-
rum and respectability, tolerably well clothed—for, educate
the mind, and it immediately revolts at the body being clouded
in rags—they wore in a shed, not boarded, the floor of earth,
with a fireplace to keep them warm and comfortable; and
there he had heard them read, some very well indeed, and
answer questions which but a few weeks ago might just as
well have been put to the very hoards upon which they were
sitting. And who had done all this? Not the Court! Not
the peers! Not the clergy ! Not the Dissenting ministers!
Not the wealthy inhabitants of the neighbourhood! No, it
had been done by a poor and humble chimney-sweep ; who
had himself been a bad and abandoned man, but who was
reclaimed, and who now sat there, with his dirty face, teach-
ing and doing more good than thousands of others of ten
btimes his capacity. What was wanted was, that the inha-
itants of London should collect together, in various places.
the wretched and needy—those in danger of being tainted
by crime—the juvenile portion of the poor—clothe them,
educate them, and give them a just and proper notion of their
stations in society, their social, moral, and political position
in this world. They proposed to educate all, without refe-
rence to sectarianism, bigotry, or any party whatever, but to
lay the Bible before them, instruct them in the good princi-
ples it contained, and bring them up in a manner that would
teach them to respect themselves, respect those placed in
situations above them—but giving them at the same time
the primary means of attaining to the highest statians in
life, should their talents and their assiduity bring them
within their reach—to honour their fellow-creatures and
their Creator, and by so doing to benefit the whole commu-
nity. The Rev. Gentlemen concluded his lecture by thank-
ing the audience for their attention, and appealing to them
to promote as far as lay in their power the cause of the
Ragged Schools.
The Reverend Gentleman then sat down amid loud cheers;
his lecture was frequently interrupted by very warm ap-
plause.

LIVERYMEN.

The appeals from the decisions of the Revising Bar
risters having now been all heard by the Court of
Common Pleas, it may not be unwelcome to direct more
especial notice to some of those cases that must be of
peculiar interest to metropolitan voters, as relating to the
elective franchise of the liverymen of London. In the
appeal alluded to, the judgment pronounced by the
court, confirmed that franchise. It has long been a
litigated question, whether a liveryman, who has ac-
quired his freedom by purchase, subsequently to the
passing of the Reform. Act, March 1, 1831, is or is not
prevented from voting tor Members of Parliament for the
city of London, by the operation of the 32nd section
of the said Act. Our readers are aware that this ques-
tion has been each year contested with much zeal by
the representatives of each party, and with varied suc-
cess at the periodical meetings of the Registration Court
for the city of London,' there having been one decision
against, and two in lamer of the right. We now sin-
cerely congratulate th. e advocates fel. the intended fran-
chiee on the result of their unwearied exertions for the
attainment of so desirable en object. The case to which
we ref. r, it may be remembered, is that of Croucher
(appellant), Browne (respondent), being one of the city
of London appeals against the decision cf the Revising
Barrister, at the list Registration Court. The qualifica-
tion to vote fur Members of Parliament for the city of
London, before the passing; of the Reform Act, had three
roquisivs:—lst, cclom of a company; 2nd, freedom of
of election.
had
he City ; 31d, Livery of the Company whose freedom
been acquired 13-12 months before the day
These three conditions were essential to the existence of
the right. It was contended by the advocates for the fran
chine, that an elector in London voted as a "freeman"
and " liveryman!", as contradistinguished from one whe
voted in other cities or in boroughs as a freeman or
burgess ; that the general Ecopo and intention of the
Reform Act wa. s to prevent corruption and au improper
introduction of freemen on the eve of a registration, as
i
had been the practice n many cities and boroughs im-
mediately preceding an election; that the constituency
of the Corporation of London could not be augmented
by such means, inasmuch as to entitle an elector to be
registered, he must have been a liveryman for twelve
months. That
wasimmaterial to the question at
issue whether a liveryman had acquired his freedom by
birth, by servitude,. or by purchase, and that the
reason why the city of
franchise,Landon of hicwhas
citiest o
wereln the
deprived, was, that while the statute
of the 18th Gee. 1., cap. 18, was unrepealtd. the Cur:
apllermit otherled
poration .of Louden had no power of itself to
.make
voters, and, consequently, there could be no swamping of
the constituency. It st us further urged, that consider-
ing the vast importance of this metropolitan city, the
high position it held in the earlier periods of our history,
undiminished in the present times, and the extent of Its
franchises and privileges, it was probable that the Legis-
lature had seen reason not to disturb the electoral rights
of London further than by the introduction of a
class of voters, being 101. householders, and the limi-
tation to a residence within seven miles, of the old
franchise to liverymen ; and lastly, that the Reform
Act, being in the nature of a penal statute, ought to be
construed liberally, unless it contained a clear ex-
pression of an intention to disfranchise liverymen
who had been made freemen by purchase at the Ist
March, 1811. The Lord Chief Justice Tindal
decided that the disfranchising part Of the 32d section,
before referred to, was inapplicable to the- city of Lon-
don, and did not disable from voting for Members of
Parliament for that city, liverymen who 'sad acquire)
their freedom otherwise than by birth or servitude, sub
sequently to the passing. of the Reform Act. The judg
ment of the Revising Barrister was, therefore, affirmed;
and the Chief Justice, referring to his sound determina-
tion, paid, as is admitted by all parties, a well-merited
compliment to Mr. Arnold. Thus this important ques-
tion has at length been satisfactorily decided, and further
litigation thereof prevented. It may be added, with re-
spect to the other apreals to the Court from the decisions
of the Revising Barristers, that, though the arguments
of Counsel have been heard in all of them, several of
those cases are not decided, their Lordship? judgment
not hiving been pronounced.

THE 40TII RECIMENT.—On Monday evening, the 2d
inst., the head-quarters, the 7th company, and Grenadiers
of the 40th Regiment. attended by their band of drums and
fifes, marched into Chatham barracks from Gravesend, where
they had disembarked from the ship Seringapatam, of 1,000
tons burden, Captain Geding, after a pas=age of 123 days.
The ship put in at St. Helena on the 13th of November, and
during last month they encountered a very heavy gale that
last eight days. The head-quarters embarked on the 3d
of Octoer. Their strength consisted of G staff sergeants,
4 sergeant, and 113 men, with 9 women and 16 children,
under the command of Major Fitz H. Coddingtor, with
Lieutenant and Adjutant T. L. K. Nelsen, Lieutenant
W. 11. Queade, Lieutenant John Cormick, and Quarter-
master Thomas Walter Hives. During the voyage they
lost only one man, named Robert Taylor, a private of
the 7th company. The whole of the troops are very
healthy; they brought home with them two Mahratta
cobure, which they captured on the 29th of December, 1843,
at a place called Gowan, during their attack ou the Mahratta
army. This regiment have had granted them a bronzed star,
with the inscription " Maliarajpore," they also wear a second
medal in honour of their services at Caudahar, Ghuznee, and
Caubul. This regiment has been from England upwards of
twenty years. The head-quarters are to remain at Chatham
until the arrival of the second and third division. when they
will join their depot at Canterbury.
THE ENSUING SPRING ASSIZES.—The following are
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LATE EXPLOSION at LAMBETH,
Yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, Mr. W. Carter, the co-
roner for Surrey, and a jury, assembled at the John Bull
Tavern,- Tyers-street, Lambeth, touching the respective
deaths of William Kenyon, aged 19 years, and William
Holmes, aged 16 years, who lost their lives at the late ex-
plosion in King-street, Lambeth-walk.
The jury having been sworn, proceeded, with the coroner,
to the workhouse to view the bodies, which presented a very
shocking spectacle. The features of both were quite charred
by the action of the fire. Upon the return of the jury to the
inquest-room the following evidence was adduced
James Robins, a labourer, of No. 2, Francis place, Lam-
beth-walk, deposed, that about 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon
last, while standing in front of the bar of the Fountain
public •house, Lambeth-walk, he heard a cry of " Fire, fire 1"
Witness ran out, and proceeded to No. 14, King-street,
where he found the lower part of the premises on fire. Smoke
was then issuing from the back cellar. Upon entering the
apartment witness found it filled with smoke. He searched
about, and then discovered two persons lying on the floor
apparently dead, and dreadfully disfigured. There were
several puppies in the corner of the room completely roasted.
Witness obtained assistance, and succeeded in dragging the
men out of the room ; they were then quite dead. A stretcher
was procured, and after a few minutes the police arrived,
and carried the bodies to Lambeth workhouse. Water was
thrown into the room before they could be taken out.
Their clothing was entirely burnt off by the fire. Witness
had no idea how the accident originated. When witness
first reached the spot a ladder was being placed in front of
the house, which was on fire also on the first floor, where
the inmates had made their escape.
Frederick Kenyon, brother to one of the deceased persons.
said that he could identify both of them. He knew his
brother by the boots, and he recognised the young man
Holmes by his neckerchief and dress. On the day in ques-
tion, while sitting at dinner with his mother, brother, and
father, they Were all alarmed by hearing a loud explosion.
The deceased were making " stars," which consisted of
sulphur, 'saltpetre, and antimony.
By the ConoxErt.—After they were made they were placed
round a fire in the back cellar to dry. A candle had been
used that day by the deceased (Kenyon). Ile usually kept
it on his board in front of him. Witness believed that there
were about 2 cwt. of the composition in the lower room
at. the time of the accident, and it would easily ignite. The
chief portion was in a dry state, and made up into tubes.
Witness, in continuation, said that when he left his
brother he was packing up about twenty gross of " stars," to
take to the house of Mr. Darby, as they were dry and in a
finished state. Witness was of opinion that the accident
occurred by the candle falling on the combustibles. Smith,
Kenyon, and Spiers were with him at the time, and all
seemed on the most friendly terms.
Other evidence precisely similar to that taken before Mr.
W. Payne, the City coroner, at Guy's Hospital, having been
adduced, the Coroner briefly remarked on the melancholy
nature of the case, after which the jury returned a verdict,
" That the deceased individuals had lost their lives acci-
dentally."

the last days for full notice of trial for the several Places
specified :—Lancaster, Friday, Feb. 6; Appleby, Monday,
9; Carlisle, Wednesday, 11; Newcastle, Saturday, 14;
Swansea, Monday, 16; Hertford, Tuesday, 17; Reading
and Winchester, Wednesday, 18; Northampton and Dur-
ham, Friday, 20; Chelmsford and Aylesbury, Saturday,
21; Oxford and Haverfordwest and town, Monday, 23; Oak-
ham, Tuesday, 24; Lincoln and city, Bedford, York and
city, Welchpool and Salisbury, Wednesday, 25; Maidstone,
Friday, 27; Worcester and city, Huntingdon and Cardigan,
Saturday, 28; Nottingham and town and Bala, Monday,
March 2; Cambridge and Dorchester, Tuesday, 3; Carnar-
von, Wednesday, 4; Lewes, Derby, and Carmarthen, Friday,
6; Stafford, Saturday, 7; Bury St. Edmund's, Beanmaris,
and Exeter and city, Saturday, 7; Leicester and borough,
Tuesday, 10 ; Liverpool, Ruthlin, and Brecon, Wednesday.
11 ; Kingston, Friday, 13; Coventry, and Norwich and city,
Saturday, 14; Warwick, Shrewsbury, Mold, Presteign, and
Bodmin, Saturday, 14; Chester, Wednesday, 18; Hereford,
Friday, 20; Taunton and Monmouth, Saturday, 21;
Gloucester and city, Wednesday, 25.
REPRESENTATION OF MANCRESTER.—Notwithstand-

ing the declarations made by Mr. Mark Philips some time
ago, of his determination to retire from the representation of
this borough at the next general election, it has been
recently suppo3ed by many parties that Mr. Philips
had been, or might be, induced to reconsider the subject,
and permit himself to be again put in nomination as a
candidate. We are sorry to be compelled to state, how-
ever, that this opinion is altogether erroneous; and that
we are eirectly authorised by Mr. Philips to state, in the
most explicit terms, and with the view of enabling the
electors of the borough to make their arrangements in the
selection of his successor, that it is his intention to retire
whenever a dissolution f Parliament shall occur. We are
quite sure that this announcement is ill be received with re-
gret by a great majority of Mr. Philips's constituents ; includ-
ing a large number of those whose political opinions are at
variance with his own.—Manehesier Guardian.
SCOTCH FREE-TRADE FARIVERS.—From all We can

learn a great number of the more intelligent farmers of this
district are not only reconciled to free tree, but would prefer
the immediate abolition of the corn-laws to any tempo-
rising measure. In some parts of Buchan, the usual toast is,
" Sir Robert Peel and freo trade ;" and amongst the agri-
culturists generally the feeling is, the sooner this much-
vexed question is settled, and settled finally, the better for
all classes. Several farmers who were in town yesterday,
and heard of Sir Robert Peel's proposal, objected to it, mainly
on the ground that the repeal i 3 not to be immediate. They
argue, and not unjustly, that the three years' delay—while
it is sure to produce a large influx of grain in 1849, and
consequently create an injurious panic, if not a serious de-
rangement of prices—will be used in the meantime to pre-
vent an adjustment between landlord and tenant, in the
cases where it may not be necessary; and they would much
rather have free trade at once. Their own experience
teaches them that, from the impossibility of putting more
than a certain quantity of soil into cultivation in one year,
the importation from abroad mutt be almost too gradual to
enable them to know what their future position is to be. If
it is to be bad (they argue), they want to know the worst
and be done with it; or, as the yeoman at an English meet-
ing wittily remarked, they would rather be "drowned at
once than ducked to death. '.—fiberdcen Herald.
THE GAME LAWS SUPPORTED BY BLOODHOUNDS.--

MURDER NEAR MANCHESTER.
MANCIIESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—This morning Na-
thaniel Curry, a srinner, in the employ of Messrs. Murray,
of Ancoes, who is in custody upon suspicion of having
thrown a young woman named Ann Ellison into the Rochdale
Canal, at Newton, near this town, was brought up at the
Salford New Bailey for examination, before H. L. Trafford,
and James Hayward, Esq,.
Mr. Bcswick, chief-superintendent of the Manchester
borough police, conducted the prosecution; and tLe prisoner
was defended by Mr. Aspinall.
The evidence was to the following' effect :—On the even-
ing of the 10th of December last, at about half-past nine
o'clock, a man named Scott, who lives near the Rochdale
Canal, at Newton, observed a young man and woman
walking together on the towing•path of the canal, but
on the other side of the water to where he was stand-
ing. The man had his arm round her neck, and had got
one of her hands grasped within his own. After walking
together a short distance, the female called out " murder;"
but presently walled on with her companion. In a short
time they got out of sight of Scott, who again heard the girl
call out "Lord! dear me; don't murder me; do save my
life." This latter sentence be describes as having been
ejaculated in a half-stifled voice. As he would have had to
go a distance of a quarter of a mile to have reached the bridge
which crosses the canal, he appears to have troubled himself
no further in the matter, but walked quietly home. In the
course of half an hour afterwards some young men, who
were on their way home, saw something in the canal, and
upon getting a stick from the hedge succeeded in getting
to the bank the dead body of a young woman. They
sent for the police, and upon searching her pockets two
books were found in such a condition that it was quite
clear she had only been a short time in the water. The
body turned out to be that of Ann Ellison, and an
inquest was held on the body on the following day
by Mr. Rutter, tae county coroner, and a verdict of
"Found drowned" returned. From inquiries which were
made by Mr. Beswick, the prisoner was apprehended. The
girl was a "big piecer" for him at Messrs. Murray's mill ; and
as he had been known to be extremely lax in his conversa-
with her, at times, it was suspected that he had some hand
in the matter. Two young women, named Russell and Far-
rington, swore most distinctly to having seen the prisoner
with a young woman answering the description of the de-
ceased, in a field close to the canal, on the night in question,
a very short time before the body was found; and upon the
body being exhumed, it appeared that the unfortunate young
woman, who had always borne a good character for exemplary
conduct, was three months advanced in pregnancy.
Other circumstances were stated in evidence, tending, in
some degree, to strengthen the suspicion against the prisoner,
who was remanded until Tuesday next, for further exami •
nation.

The barbarous system of employing bloodhounds to hunt
down and worry human beings found offending against the
game laws, has recently met with a check in the neighbour-
hood of Stamford. The Marquis of Exeter, some months
ago, obtained possession of three ferocious animals of this
species, which, for the safety of the persons having the care
of them, it was found necessary to keep constantly muz-
zled, though even in that state they proved to be most
formidable antagonists, it being asserted that each of
them possessed the strength of three or four
men. To try their powers and instinct, one of
them (a bitch) was put on the track of a strong
man employed at Burghley : her scent was found to be sure,
and before the other men could come up with the animal
she had severely injured the person she was net upon, although
at the time she was closely muzzled. It seems that about a
fortnight ago two watchers were out in Collyweston Spinney
at night, accompanied by the bitch, when two trespassers
were discovered ; the brute was forthwith set at them. and she
was about to worry one of the strangers when the other levelled
his gun and shot her dead. The two men, who were
believed to be poachers, then made oil, and the
keepers
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poaching, satisfaction is expressed that so cruel and un-
English a mode of attacking trespassers has met with a
proper chock. On the night of the occurrence, a man named
Joyce of Collyweston, was taken from his bed by Pocock
the constable, charged by the watchers with being one of
the men who were in the Spinney when the dog was shot ;
and on the following day Mr. Thompson, sen., appeared
against him, before Dr. lloPtinson and the Rev. C. Atlay.
Joyce was defended by Mr. Atter, and, after considerable
argument between the attorneys, was discharged, on account
of a defect in the information.—Stamford Mercury.
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tielceesrracqtutihreedwtoarobldsoelwivheerreed,
theto tghoeodslocalrseerdeoproseittiesdtomsms'd-
offiauthorising the delivery of the same from the bonding
premises, be recorded in the book kept by them of the
deliveries which take place the instant the same are re-
ceived by them, and before they have been acted upon ;
and the lockers for delivery of wines and spirits at the seve-
ral dock, and for dry and wet goods at the legal quays,
wood docks, and sufferance wharfs on the banks of the river,
o
observe
the superintending
this regulation ;
and it has been further intimated
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flia have r
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ant they {enjoined
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will be held responsible for seeing that this
order be fully carrid out from the present time. It is pre-
sumed that this regulation has been adopted in consequence
of the discovery some time back of some irregularities having
occurred with respect to the delivery of some goods from the
bonding premises to a larger amount than was justified by
the official document showing the payment of the duty due
on importation, and previously to the delivery taking place,
with a view to the prevention of similar attempts at fraud,
and, if attempted, furnishing a ready mode of detection; and
also for the better security of the revenue and the property
of merchants housed under bond.

AN EXPENSIVE PAurEn.—The parish of Longhope, in the
Westbury-on-Severn Union, has had a pauper of the name of
Elizabeth Outfield, in the Gloucester Lunatic Asylum for
more than twenty years. She has cost her parish nearly
500/. ; and what is most remarkable, she died on the 24th inst.,
sired 'Q.—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
THE WEATunu.—The unusual mildness of the
present season has brought forward the early flowers, and
hastened the fruit• trees to such extent as will hardly qualify
them to sustain late frosts without injury. The benefit of
such weather to the poor during the present scarcity of food
has been very great.--Bath Journal,

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN

TRADE DURING TiIE PAST WEEK.

In another part of our paper a full account will be found
of the plan proposed by Sir Robeet Peel on Tuesday evening,
and our remarks as to the probable effects of the mewure on
the agricultural interests. In this place we have, therefore,
principally to confine our notice to the commercial, rather
'than the political bearings of the question. That the mea-
sure, if carried, must in a comparatively short Space of time
have a depreciating influence on the value of all articles the
produce of the land, there can, we think, be no question ;
but, from the peculiar circumstances in which this country
is at present placed, the effect on prices of grain is not likely
to be fully felt until another harvest shall have been secured.
That the last crop of Wheat was defected, not only in Great
Britain, but all over Europe, is so universally admitted as to
pat the matter beyond doubt.. This, of itself, may be re-
garded as sufficient cause to prevent prices of that article
falling to a low point. Wheat, however, was not the only
crop in which there was a deficiency—the next in importance
, a 3 affording human food, viz., the potato, was affected to a
j much greater degree by the cold, wet summer. The full con-.
sequeuces of this state of things have not yet been developed ;
but that something very like scarcity is likely to be felt be-
tween this and next harvest, has been publicly declared by
ministers is Parliament. Nothing but the uncertainty as to
the nature of the anticipated alteration in the corn-laws
could, therefore, have prevented the value of bread-stuffs
ri (luring the winter months; and, now that the inten
tious of the government on this point are known, we fully
expect that the demand for the article will revive, and that a
portion at least of the late depression will he recovered.
That Sir Robert Peel will be supported by the free traders
is more than probable; and, as many of his own party, as
well as the majority of the Whig members, are likely to vote
with him, the agriculturists Shave little chance of obtaining
better terms than these he offers. The law of 1842 may,
therefore, be considered as virtually at an end; but until the
new measure shall have been passed, some degree of uneer-
tainity will continue to be felt, which may perhaps for
time prevent that rally in the trade which all parties anti-
cipate to fellow the final settlement of the matter. Some
slight improvement has, however, already teken place in the
demand for Wheat; and the stipples brought forward hay-
ing been small, the turn has been in favour of the seller at
several of the principal provincial markets held during the

week. _
The accounts from Liverpool, of Tuesday, are decidedly of
a firmer character than previous ads-ices, though no actual
advance on former rates was established. On Friday, how-
ever, the inquiry again slackened, ard factors could scarcely
succeed in obtaining the terms of Tuesday for even fine qua-
lities. Bonded Wheat was generally held at enhanced prices,

which checked business, and very few sales were made.
Front the leading towns in Yorkshire the reports are firm,
At [lull and Leeds the business done was not extensive; but
holders were by no means anxious sellers at previous terms,
vrhilst purchasers manifested a desire to add to their stocks.
At Wakeiied, on Friday, full prices were obtained for good
qualities of Wheat.
In the western and north western markets Wheat has
slightly risen in price, though hitherto the inquiry has not
become particularly active. At Bristol, on Thursday, the
millers declined taking more Wheat than necessary for im-
mediate use, and quotations scarcely varied from those of
that day week. At Birmingham, however, an advance of
Is. per quarter was insisted on, and in partial instances ob-
tained. The farmers do not appear to have been much sur-
prissd by the Mini-terial declaration of Tuesday, having long
since lost all confidence in the Premier. For several weeks
past they have brought forward very small supplies, and the
same course has also been pursued this week; prices of
Wheat, and indeed of all kinds of grain, have therefore
been quite as firmly supported at the chief markets in the
agricultural districts as at the large consuming towns, and
the opinion appears to be general that the value of grain
will not recede even whets toe stocks now in bond shall have
been liberated.
By our ietters from Scotland, it appears that less confi-
dence was felt there in quotations being maintained than in
the south. The Edinbu-gh market, though by no means
largely supplied, opened very heavily on Wednesday; and
before progress could be made in the disposal cf either Wheat,
Barley, or Oats, a reduction of fully Is. per quarter had to be
submitted te ; Bonded Wheat was, however, held ls. to 2s.
per quarter highs, and met with some attention at the ad-
vance. The accounts from Glasgow are even more dull than
those from the town first named. Old Wheat was offered at
less money without meeting with much demand, and new
was nearly unsaleable. Barley was quoted Is. to 25., Oats
6d. to Is., and Beans and Peas Is. to 2s. lower. Flour was
also pressingly offered, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per sack.
From Irelend the reports relative to the potato disease con-
tinue unfavourable; stilt the trade in grain does not seem to
have improved there, and at several of the leading markets
the value of Wheat and Oats had rather tended downwards.
The shipments of Corn for England had, however, in no
degree increased.
The arrivals of Wheat coastwise into London have been
rather more liberal this than the preceding week, 6,128 qrs.
having been reported up to Saturday evening. The greater
part of the supply is irons the east coast, and has gone direct
to millers. Front the neighbouring counties very little has
been received, nor has much been offered by land-carriage
samples.
On Wednesday, the Essex, Kent, and Suffolk stands were
completely bare; consequently few sales occurred, and quo-
tations remained nominally. unaltered. On Friday, a few
runs were exhibited; and being in somewhat better condition
than the wheat brought forward earlier in the week, no diffi-
culty was experienced in placing the same at fully the cur-
rency of Monday.
At present there is Very little free Foreign Wheat of good
quality in the market, and as only the finer sorts arc suitable
for mixing with the damp conditioned parcels of English, the
transactions have since our last been unimportant. • -That the
millers are much in want of serviceable qualities of old is
proved by the fact that they have from time to time liberated
small quantities by bonded certificates, at a cost of 103. to
Ils. per qr., notwithstanding the prospect of being able, by
waiting till the proposed law comes into operation, to release
their Wheat at a 4s. duty.
Bonded Wheat has met with some attention during the
week, but no material enhancement has taken place in the
value of the article. A cargo or two of very good Danzic
have changed hands at 555, to 56d., and Red Lower Baltic at
51s. to 535. ; whilst for Polish Odessa it has been impossible
to obtain above 495. per qr.
The stock under lock in the 'kingdom consisted, on the
sth January, of 947,992 qrs., of which there were in the
port of London 391,202 qrs.; the receipts since then have not
been important, and there are probably not above 1,000,000
qrs. in the United Kingdom at present.
The metropolitan bakers have at length resumed buying
Flour; the demand, however, has not been active, and no
adVance has taken place in prices of either town or country
manufactured.
The supply of Barley has pr..ved amply sufficient for the
demand; the inquiry has been almost wholly confined to the
finer sorts, as it is presumed that the value of the inferior
kinds will be depreciated by the free admission of Indian
corn. Su trifling has been the business actually transacted
since our last, that it has become difficult to state whether
the prices have really varied; but, on the whole, the ten-
dency has certainly been downwards.
Choice Malt has maintained its previous value; in ordinary
kinds little or nothing has been done.
The market has been rather better supplied with Oats
than the preceding week, 5,647 quarters having come to
hand from our own coast, 966 quarters from Scotland, 1,128
quarters front Ireland, and 7,748 quarters from abroad. The
retail purchases made on Wednesday were at fully former
terms; but on Friday rather more anxiety was manifested to
realise, which gave the dealers a slight advantage, without,
however, enabling them to buy cheaper than in the beginning
of the week.
Beans and Peas have been neglected ; and to have dim posed
of any quantity of either.article lower prices must have been
accepted.
REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
Though the weather has not been quite ss mild on the con-
tinent as in this country, still the frost has not been nearly
so severe in the northern countries of Europe as in ordinary
years ; and, from present appearances, it seems likely that the
shipping season in the Baltic will commence early in spring.
At present the advices from thence are of very little interest ;
busetess having; in consequence of, the uncertainty as to
what alterations the English corn-laws might undergo, been
nearly Suspended at the leading markets.
The lat est accounts from Danzic state that scarcely a bargain
had been closed during the preceding fortnight, all inclination
to speculate having ceased ; holders of fine yheat appear,
nevertheless, to have remained very firm, and fine qualities,
whether new or old, had varied but little in value. A good
deal of damage was said to have been done to the wheat-
fields in the surrounding districts by the overflow of the
river Vistula, which, with the reports of scarcity from Poland,
had tended to counteract the influence which might other-
wise have been produced by the discouraging English
accounts.
From Stettin we learn that increased supplies of wheat had
been brought forward by the farmers, and the inquiry having
at the same time fallen oft; it had been necessary to accept
lower terms to make sales. Good 611bs. Uckermark had
been freely offered at 475., and fine 62Ibs. Pomeranian at 48e.
per quarter free en board, without exciting attention. In
Spring Corn nothing whatever had been done.
At Rostock, on the 26th of January, there was decidedly
more disposition to sell than to buy Wheat, and there was no
want of offers to ship'good qualities in Spring at 465. to 475.
per quarter free on board. The future range of prices would,
it was expected, depend principally on the advises from
hence. Supplies from the growers had increased, and the
warehouses were gradually beginning to fill.
Letters from Rotterdam of the 27th January, informs us
that news had been received there to the effect that thc,
Prussian Government had issued a decree allowing the free
importation of wheat; and it was thoueht that the Rhenish
provinces would thaw supplies from Holland. This had given
a firm tone to business at Rotterdam, though no advance had
been occasioned thereby in prices.
At Antwerp a good deal of excitement was caused by the
intelligence front London, as it was concluded that the pro-
posed alterations in the English corn-laws would prevent
further shipments of wheat from hence to Belgium. The
immediate efl'ect on prices has been a rise of 2e. 6d. per
qr., and Polish Odessa was then held at equal to 575. 61.
per qr.
F one Hamburg we have prices of Tuesday; business was
then unusually dull, and prices of most kinds of grain had
receded since the previous post day. Good qualities of Marks
wheat on the spot were then only worth 50s. per qr., and
other sorts were offered at equally moderate terms.
From the Mediterranean we have nothing fresh to commu-
nicate, and from the Black Sea the reports are not of much
interest ; quotations of wheat being relatively higher than in
the British markets.—:2llark-/ane Express.

IREL A N I).
CONCILIATION II ALL.
DUBLIN. FEB. 2.—The usual weekly meeting of the Re-
peal Association took place in Conciliation Hall on Monday
last. James O'Kelly, Esq., M.P. in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN addressed thel meeting at considerable
length on the present political prospects of the country, in
the course of which he expressed his determination not to
attend his duties in Parliament.

Mr. STEELE next addressed the meeting, and denounced a
series of resolutions which had been prop9eed in the Ameri-
can House of Congress, suggesting the annexation of Ireland
to that country upon requisition from Ireland. Those reso-
lutions have already appeared in the London journals; they
were brought to Europe by the packet-ship, arrived at Liver-
pool last week.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN addressed the meeting at considerable
length, and spoke of Sir R. Peel's policy as being wholly di-
rected to the advancement of English interests, regardless cf
benefit to Ireland, and asserted as his opinion that that would
be in a great measure its effect. lie contended that the
police of Ireland ought to be borne upon the public revenues,
without any reference to a corn-law. Mr. O'Brien went on
to detail his views upon the corn laws, which are not, as his
speech at Limerick will have shown, in unison with those of
Mr. O'Connell. But upon one view of the effect of the re-
peal of the corn-laws, the Hon. Gentleman said there was no
difference of opinion, and that waQ, that repeal of the er,rn-
laws would advance repeal. It was certain that the admis-
sion of Irish corn into England without the imposition of a
duty had been bestowed upon Ireland as an advantage, and
the Irish people were not so stolid as to give up this
advantage without feeling that wrong was inflicted upon
their country. The kith gentle :lon Wad that Anima can