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London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

S N9 APRIL LI, 1846.

instructions should be given to the police magistrates to
make a private communication to the governor on the
committal of any prisoner who is insane, or suspected to
be of insane mind, or inclined to commit suicide.—l am,
Sir, &c., " S. M. PHILLIPPS.
"C. P. Allen, Esq."
THE POWER OF COMMITTAL II THE CORONERS.
The report alluded to the power of committal by the
coroners, which had been a matter of dispute between
hem and the Court for some time.
Thomas Wakley, Esq., one of the Coroners of this
county, having, on the 2d ult., exninitted a prisoner,
charged before him with murder, to this prison, to be
subsequently taken before an adjourned inquest to be
held by him, and the visitingjustices entertaining doubts
of the coroner's power to make such a commitment,
they caused a letter (of which they lay a copy before the
Court) to be addressed, on the 10th ult., to the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, on the sub-
ject ; in reply whereto they have received from the
Home-office the accompanying letter, dated the 25th ult.
In consequence of the opinion of the law officers of the
Crown, as conveyed in the last-mentioned letter, and con-
firmatory of the judgment they had previously ex-
pressed, the visiting justices have instructed the
governor of the prison not to receive into his custody
prisoners committed by a coroner, in any other manner
than to be " discharged by due course of law," and they
have also transmitted to Mr. Wakley a copy of their
letter of the 10th ultimo to the Secretary of State, and
of the reply thereto from the Home-office, and acquaintei
him with the directions they have given to the governor
and they trust that this topic of long and irritating con-
troversy will never be henceforth revived.
" Carlisle-street, Soho, 10th March, 1846.
" Sir,—l am directed by the visiting justices of the
House of Correction, at Westminster, to transmit you
the enclosed copy of a warrant ilmed by Thomas
Wakley, Esq., one of the coroners for Middlesex, to the
governor of that prison, requiring him to receive, and
under which he accordingly received, the body of Mary
Ann Martha Hicks, charged with wilful murder, and to
keep her in his custody until the 9th instant, and then
to tare her before the coroner and his adjourned inquest.
The vtOting justices have been informed that the pri-
soner had been previously sent by the coroner to New-
gate, and thee refused.
"To the visiting justices it appears to be doubtful
whether a coroner has, by law, the right of committing
a prisoner charged before him to custody, for the pur-
pose of ' securing his or her presence before him and his
inquest,' and that he has only the power, either as a
conservator of the peace without holding an inquest, or
as coroner
discharged by due course of law), and oo
nn eerh
aafterrge thecharged
beforeverdict of
earn
againstinquest,
w of fo committing
a verdict
a person
may have been returned (as the case may be), to prison,
' until discharged
opinion is confirmed by a pamphlet lately
cetoris
published on the subject by David Jardine,
Esq., one of the metropolitan police magis-
trates. The visiting justices are anxious on
the one hand to protect the governor of their prison, and
on the other hand to take care that due obedience be
paid to the warrant of a coroner, and they are therefore
desirous of being favoured with your opinion, or with
that of the law officers of the Crown, as to the legality of
a commitment by a coroner of a prisoner for the pur-
pose etsee nmc
tie k
eat t
hai
sn
rae dqjuoeusrtnbe)d
that the law should not remain doubtful, but should be
tPi: es
iecr Inquest.ooknf ns
securing
n ewceTlureahrditengi yogeat rhhoeaif steyntooheureor
ushrueabrlect has been brought under
the office, and by their conviction
settled either by a judicial determination or a legislative
enactment.—l have the honour, &c.
(Signed) " C. P. ALLEN,
" Clerk to the Visiting Justices.
" The Right Hon. Sir J. Graham, Bart.'
" Whitehall, March 25, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Sir James
Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your clerk's letter,
dated the 10th inst., inclosing a copy of a warrant of Mr.
Wakley, one of the coroners for Middlesex, for the com-
mittal of a person charged before him with murder, and
requesting that the warrant nisght be laid before the law
officers of the Crown, and their drinion asked as to the
power of the coroner to require the gaoler to receive into
his custody, and bring before him at an adjourned in-
quest, the person so charged. .And lam to inform you,
the law officers are of opinion that such committal can-
not legally be for safe custody for the purpose of bring-
ing the party before the inquest, but only until the
party shall be discharged by due course of law ; I am
further to suggest that it may be proper to give notice
to the coroner before you act upon the information here
communicated to you. I !save, &c.,
"S. M. PHILLIPPS.
"To the visiting Justices of the Rouse
of Correction, Westminster."
TaNidlLbEefOoTrFeENtiDieEß
The report was received.
Courts.
The CHAIRMAJNUIr
memorial
from the committee of the Philanthropic See.
Aety for
the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders. [This docu:'ceut
has already appeared in our columns.] Ile said th.."‘
the subject was one of infinite magnitude, and no time
which they could command would be lost, if de-
voted to the consideration of this important branch
of criminal jurisprudence.—(Hear, hear.) It was diffi-
cult beyond conception to take up the subject, and still
more difficult to suggest a practicable plan for the attain-
ment of the object they had all so much at heart.
The justices of that county had, however, overcome di-
fficulties in respect to prison discipline, and the treatment
shouldNou lodsubject— in
av all
mI l
et its
l hye,
of the insane, which at first sight appeared insuperable,
and that induced him strongly to desire that they
whue'oouusil
dud
suggested
gial
eokstet
esud stultify
thisltthiy the
t
amplitude. As had been done in another quarter,
yet:
h a tmoreCCourt,
o u
Court important
and
they also
vd
appoint a committee to inquire into the whole subject. It
benefit of the combined experience and wisdom of gen-
tlemen, many of whom had devoted their lives to the
amelioration of the condition of their fellow- crea-
tures.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) In his opinion the
present system of dealing with offending children was
a most expensive way of bringing them up in vice,
and he had an ardent hope that the philanthropy of
the age would yet succeed in devising an ameliorative
system of treatment for these poor children. He con-
cluded by moving that the memorial be referred to a
committee to inquire and report to the Court respecting
the best mode of checking the growth of juvenile crime,
and promoting the reformation of juvenile offenders.
Mr. WILES seconded the motion, but thought that it
was a matter in which Government alone could efficiently
interfere.
The motion was then agreed to neat. eon.
A numerous committee was then named.
The Court, after transacting some further routine busi
tress, adjourned.

WINDING-UP OF RAILWAY
SCHEMES.
CLAUSE PROPOSED BY MR. HUDSON TO BE INSERTED
IN ALL RAILWAY BILLS OF THE PRESENT SESSION
BY WHICH NEW COMPANIES ARE TO BE INCORPO-
RATED.

And be it enacted that the directors shall, within
three months of the passing of this Act, cause the
names and addition of all the several corporations and
persons entitled to shares in the company, to be entered
in the " Register of the Shareholders," directed to be
kept by " the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845 ;" and the said directors shall cause an extra.
ordinary meeting of the shareholders in the com-
pany to be called within six months from the pass-
ing of this Act, for the purpose of consider-
ing and determining whether the company shall proceed
in the execution of the powers of this Act, or whether
such company shall be forthwith dissolved ; and it
shall be lawful for such meeting so called, at which
three-fifths at least of the shareholders shall be present
either personally or by proxy, to determine either that the
company shall proceed in the execution of the powers of
this Act, or that the company shall be forthwith dissolved;
provided that before such meeting be called, it shall not be
lawful for the company or the directors to put in force any
of the powers of this Act relative to the taking or
using a land; and in case such meeting so called shall
determine that the company be forthwith dissolved, the
company shall be thereupon forthwith dissolved accord-
ingly, except for the purpose of winding up the affairs
thereof as hereinafter mentioned; and thenceforth all the
powers of this Act with relation to the taking or using of
land, or otherwise, shall absolutely cease and determine
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstand-
ing (subject, and without prejudice to all existing debts,
liabilities, or agreements contracted or entered into by
the company, and subjects to the provisions hereinafter
contained); and the directors, after full payment and
satisfaction, in the first instance, of all the debts, liabi-
lities, and agreements contracted or entered into by the
company, and of such compensation as hereby provided,
shall divide the residue or surplus of the moneys and
effects' of or belonging to the said company, rateably
among the shareholders in the said company in propor-
tion to their respective interests therein ; provided ne-
vertheless that the company shall make full compensa-
tion to all owners, lessees, and occupiers of land and
others, inithe same manner as is herein provided in cases
of compensation for land required for the purposes of
this Act, for all loss, damage, costs, charges, and ex-
penses, which they may respectively have sustained or
been put unto in consequence of the proceedings of the
company in obtaining this Act, or under any powers
thereof ; the amount to be ascertained, in case of dis-
pute, by the verdict of a jury, or by reference to arbitra-
tion, as hereinbefore provided in other cases of disputed
compensation ; and all corporations and persons to or
with whom such debts, liabilities, or agreements shall
have been contracted or entered into, or who shall bo
entitled to any such compensation as aforesaid,
shall, notwithstanding the determination of such
meeting, have such and the same rights and
remedies against the said company for the recovery
and enforcement thereof respectively, as they would
have had if ;no such meeting had taken place, and as if
the company had continued to exist. And be it further
eacted, that if the directors shall not within four months
from the passing of this Act, cause due notice
be lawfulceofsucli
extraordinary meeting to be given, i
for any six or more of the persons tshall
entitled
to shares
in the said undertaking, holding in the whole shares_
or stock to the amount of at least 5,0001., to call
such meeting by notice, signed by
suchtshareholders,is
and published in the manner required 1
Act, with regard to extraordinary meetings of they this
Act, Com-

pany, and the prcceedings of the meeting so called by
such shareholders, at which three-fifths at least of the
shareholders shall be present, either personally cr by
proxy, shall be as valid, and shall have the same force
and effect as if such meeting had been duly called br
the directors ; and for the pdrpose of winding up the
affairs of the said company, in case such meeting shall
determine on the dissolution thereof, it shall Le In wit.
for such meeting to appoint a Committee, consisting;
such number of persons as they shall think fit, beim,
shareholders in the company ; and the directors Shull
forthwith transfer to such committee all documents,
books, papers, and accounts of or belonging to the
company, and shall also transfer to such committee
all moneys, security for money, and other effects
and property of or belonging to the company ; and
snch committee,' or the survivors or survivor thereof, shall
forthwith proceed to wind up the affairs of the company,
and shall, in the first place, convert into money such
of the effects as shall not consist of money, and pay and
discharge all the dobts, contracts, and liabilities of the
company, and subject thereto, and to the necessary ex-
penses of such committee in the execution of their powers,
the surplus of the said moneys shall be forthwith divided
by such committee rateably amongst the shareholders
in the company in proportion •to their respective
interests therein ; and in the event of the directors
refusing or neglecting to transfer to any such committee
documents, books, papers, and accounts, moneys, and
other property and effects of the company, within ten
days after demand, in writing, signed by such com-
mittee, or the survivors or
survivor of them, and
delivered to any one of such directors, or left at his
last or usual place of abode, it shall be lawful for
such committee, or the survivors or survivor of
them, to pass a resolution that such company is
desirous but to wind up its affairs ; and upon a copy of
such resolution, signed by any one or more of such
committee, being filed in the office of the Lord Chancel-
lor's secretary of bankrupts, every such company shall
be deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy at the
time of filing the copy of such resolution, and thereupon
such proceedings shall be had and taken for the purpose
of winding up the affairs of the said company as are di-
rected in and by an Act passed in the eighth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for faci-
litating the winding up the affairs of Joint-Stock Com-
panies unable to meet their pecuniary engagements," in
the case of any of the acts of bankruptcy therein mentioned
being committed by the companies therein referred to ;
provided that notice shall be given by the directors or such
committee as aforesaid, if appointed, of the determination
of such meeting of shareholders, to be called as aforesaid,
with reference to the proceeding in the execution of the
powers of this Act, or the dissolution of the company,.in
the London Gazette, and in one or more newspapers of each
county, in which the lands proposed to be affected by
this Act shall lie, within fourteen days from the holding
of such meeting; and at any such meeting to be held as
aforesaid, the voting shal take place in the manner
prescribed in the " Companies Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1845," with reference to meetings of shareholders
therein referred to.

EXTRAORDINARY HIGH FLOOD
AT DONCASTER.
(Abridged from the Doncaster Gazette.)
That very sage and highly-venerated personage,
"the the oldest inhabitant," possesses, amid the rich stores
of his memory, no recollection of a greater flood than
that with which the banks of the Don have been visited
during the present week ; not even that of '24, when
a vessel was forced by the current out of the river, and
placed across the very unnatural turnpike road, beyond
the Mill Bridge. This will be found to be the case
when the better drainage, and the more elevated
position of the roads, are taken into the estimate. A
considerable quantity of rain fell during Friday last.
On the following afternoon, there was a very heavy
fall of sleet, with a piercing wind blowing from the
east. Indeed, from that time to Wednesday morn-
ing, the rain scarcely ceased; and at intervals the
wind veered mid blew a regular north-wester, not with
steadiness, but with sudden gusts and extremely cold.
Many indications were presented, from the chillness of
the atmosphere—the heavy masses of clouds, and the
want of even one struggling sun-gleam—that serious
consequences might possibly ensue, with regard to the
prevalence of floods ; especially if, as seems to have
been the case, the weather on the moors of Derbyshire
and the intervening locality should partake of the same
portenteous character.
The river began to rise during the night of Saturday
and the following day, so as to present the certainty that
the navigation would be stopped. The stream rose
higher and higher, and at length overflowed both its
banks, and presenting, in some localities, the appearance
of immense weirs, speedily laid the adjoining lands under
a sheet of water—higher and higher still, until reaching
where the water had never before reached, it was
evident that the highest flood ever known was about to
be experienced, with all its unavoidable, and, in many
instances, lamentable consequences. Thousands of acres
were covered to a very considerable depth. Indeed, the
sik 4it presented from the top of the tower of the parish
chore,,, vas that of an immense inland sea ; awakening
the appre.
4.wpsion that the cultivators of the soil, along
.ry in question, would have to endure
the line of c,:tt":
the troubles of ah. a• -v but unavoidable visitation. The
' on Monday when the
increase. ,
waters still continu.`a
rain poured down in torre,;.rs, and reached their highest
nd one o'clock on Tuesday.
point between twelve 0
The flood worked its' course through all opposing
obstacles.' It tore itself thiniugh hedim, and gates, and
palings ; threw back the intVeasing streams from old
drains and water-courses ; „,,,ioed itself over opposing
•
eminences of the ground, chalet** and fretful ; roared
through bridges and culverts ; att,Ned water-wheels,
mill-wheels, and steam engines-1%0:1,-y, corn-mill, and
foundry, and all their multifarious operai:olla rushed
into the cellars of dwelling-houses, and prept up-
stairs to the house apartments ; dashet.l clean through
others ; stole into back yards, finding all the nooks
and corners of coal-holes and all descriptions Of
out-buildings, stables, cow-houses, her!-roosts, ana
so on ; filled saw-pits to the brim, and set l'imber-trees,
planks, and battens afloat ; found its way into village
lanes and by-roads and stopped up all communication
in that direction ; spread over meadow, pastor.', and
corn-field ; drowned hares, rabbits, and partridzes ;
plunged through sower-grates and gushed up from
others ; worked Its way through earth. bank, and stooe-
wall ; and, while it found some repose in quiet gardens ,
and near stone fences, the main flood hurried onwards
as if impatient to find a resting-place, or lose itse in
the tidal waters, and finally in the sea itself.
We are sorry to state, that, during the prevalence ot'
the flood, the occurrence of a fatal casualty took place.
The sufferer is a man of the name of John Ellis, a
skinner, who resided in the yard near Mr. Geo. Armi-
tage's steam corn-mill, near the Mill-bridge, and occupied
some premises, a portion of the old maltkiln, which
abuts upon, and has steps connected with, the river,
for the purpose of his trade. He was last seen
shortly before seven o'clock on Monday evening, pro-
ceeding towards a door connected with the premises just
mentioned. It is presumed, that, in attempting to open
this door, or to accomplish some purpose connected with
the building, his foot gave way, that he slipped into the
river, and was hurried away and drowned in the over-
whelming impetuosity of the current. He has left a
widow and large fimily ; but the latter are nearly all
grown up. Ile was en industrious, a careful, and an
honest man ; and his unhappy fate is much commiserated.
The body has not been found, and, probably, never will.
We have already stated that the flood reached its
highest point soon after noon on Tuesday. At half-past
five o'clock on the following morning, it had only fallen
two inches, although indications soon afterwards pre-
sented themselves that it would gradually subside.
It is to be feared, however, that many injuries have
been inflicted in some localities, and that we shall have
to record their occurrence, particularly in the districts
which embrace the lower lands down the river, in the
neighbourhood of Barmby Dnn, Stainforth, hl is a -e,
Fenwick, Moss, and in other places.

EAST RETFORD.
Since last July the seasons generally have been more
than usually dry, so that in many places water had be-
come exceedingly scarce, the springs have seldom been
known so low, and in many instances it became difficult
for the agriculturist to get his seed into the ground
either on clay or sandy soils. At length this state of
things has been put a stop to, and we have, in this dis-
trict, at least, suddenly verged into the opposite ex-
treme. The barometer which had gradually been sink-
ing gave indication of the approaching change, and on
Thursday last about noon, the rain began to descend,
and continued without intermission the whole of the day
and night. Next morning it literally passed down, and
throughout the day until about five o'clock on Saturday
morning, when it ceased. At two p.m., however, it com-
menced to rain and snow, and kept at it in right good
earnest until midnight. During Sunday we had much
rails at intervals, and on Monday it rained again the
greater part ofthe day, keeping the game up all Monday
night and the greater part of Tuesday. The conse-
quence of this was, as might have been expected, an im-
mense overflow of the River Idle, and its tributary
streams, which, in its course, has inundated many
thousands of acres, and been serious destruction of
property, and it is to be feared in some instances
fatal to human and animal life. On Sunday and Mon-
day morning many of the lower lands were seen gradually
covering, and during the night of Monday the cars of
Retford on the west side of the river were quite deluged.
In this state they remained for several hours, but it was
evident from the continued accumulation of water, that
the east, or town side, must share the same fate ; and
much anxiety was evinced to ascertain whether the em-
bankment, made at the recent enclosure for the pre-
vention of floods, would be a sufficient barrier. At the

noon of Tuesday the water had risen nearly to the sum-
mit of the bank, and shortly afterwards it found its way
over the lower parts, and at two P.M. it came over gene-
rally, so that before five, many of the gardens were from
three to four feet deep, and a great number of dwelling-
houses rendered totally uninhabitable by the ground floors
being from one to two and three feet under water. Great
anxiety was manifested by many of the tradespeople on
Tuesday evening that the water would find its way into
the market-place, and if so, it must of necessity get into
the cellars, warehouses, and shops. From throe to ten
o'clock the waters rose nearly a foot, and continued to
rise until one o'clock this morning (Wednesday), when
they were at the height. At the period of our writing
(10 A.M.) the Bocci has declined about tWO inches, with

RECEI PTS for USING the FLOUg
INDIAN CORN or MAIZE. -
To make griddle cakes—Best way to make them is to
use milk altogether instead of water—two eggs, yellow
and white, to be allowed for a pint of corn meala-the
milk to be a little warmed, and the whole to be well beat
up with a spoon or ladle. There must be milk enough
used to make the whole so liquid as that it, will pour out
the saucepan on the griddle, one spoonful of wheat flour,
and lard (pure butter still better) the size of a walnut.
Tlie griddle—Much nicety is to be observed in the-pre-
paration of the griddle, which, as must be well know,n, is
a flat round iron concern standing on three legs, 401 d or
guy
would tt`hmeuesat kbees eel tieddei not
eveetryb•
eh t
ed .
well b gt-- cr
ea au s warm, that
it may be perfectly smooth, so that the cakes
may be easily turned, that they may be done brown (not
burnt) on both sides, to promote their turning easily is
the object of adding the wheaten flour. Be it rt4ions-
bered that the dough, or rather the batter, above di-
rected, must be well beat up and prepared directly before
being cooked, though it might set an hour, this is men-
tioned to prevent it being supposed that it, like some
other bread, would bear to be mixed overnight. Tea
cakes are usually poured on until they spread on the_
griddle to the size of thebottom of a breakfast plate. Yost
think this receipt rather prolix, but it is my way in all
such cases to be very exact. Better be too particular
than to omit any essential item.—J.S.S. Egg Pone:—
Three eggs to a quart of meal (no wheat flour) to be,
made also with milk—water would make it heavy—a
spoonful of butter,
. all well beat together and made up of
a consistence thicker than thecakes—too thick to pour out
but just thick enough to be taken up with a spoon—may be
baked like the cakes, immediately after being mixed—must
be baked in a tin pan, which must be placed in a Dutch
oven, not too hot at first, but the fire under it to be in-
creased. The object is to have it begin to bake at the
bottom, when it will rise in the process of baking, be-
come brown at the top, and when put on the table and
cut, resemble what we call pound cake. If your friend
will exactly follow those directions, and then eat his
cakes, or his egg pone, hot, with good fresh butter, he
will find that Indian corn bread is fit for other persons
as well as pigs to eat, the assertion of a corn-law Mem-
' ber of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding.
Divers other preparations of corn and corn-meal might
be given. For instance, " hominy and cheese cakes,"
which a certain George Washington had cooked for his
own eating till the day of his death. P.S. Salt of course.
added as usual, in both cases.—J. S. S.—lndian Meal
Breakfast Cakes : Pour boiling water into a quart of
corn-meal, stir it until it is wet : then add two well-
beaten eggs, and milk enough to make it a thick bat-
ter ; measure a small tea-spoonful of dry salteratus,
and dissolve it into some warm water, and put it into
the butter, with a small quantity of salt ; butter square
tin pans, fill them two-thirds full, and bake in a quick
oven ; when done, cut it in squares and serve hot.—ln-
dian Muffins : Pour boiling water into a quart of corn
meal, stir it well ; let it be a thick batter ; when it is
cooled a little, add to it a table-spoonful of yeast, two
eggs well beaten, and a tea spoonful of salt ; set it in a
warm place to rise for two hours ; then butter square
tin pans, two-thirds fill them, and bake in a quick oven ;
when done serve hot, or cut in squares, or bake as wheat
muffins.—Corn Bread : One quart of milk, one pound of
Indian meal, two eggs, small lumps of butter, a little
salteratus ; bake in a flat pan.—Artificial oysters : One
pint grated green corn, one egg, one table spoonful of
wheaten flour, one spoonful butter ; fry them brown.
—Baked Indian Pudding : One quart of milk boiled,
stir in seven spoons of meal while it is boiling hot,
mix it quite thin ; when it is moderately warm
add molasses, a little ginger and salt, four eggs, a lump
of butter the size of an egg.—Corn Pudding: Take four
ears of green corn, boil them until half done, cut off the
corn as tine as convenient, mix it with two spoonsful of
wheat flour, one pint sa eet milk, salt and pepper to
season ; bake it well.—Green Corn S.:eke: Mix one
pint grated corn with three table spoonsful milk, one
tea-cup wheat flour, half a cup of melted butter, one
' .gg, one spoonful salt, half a spoonful pepper ; drop
this mixture into hot butter by the spoonful, let them
fry eight or ten minutes.--Boiled Indian Pudding:
One tea-cup of molasses, a piece of suet the size of
two eggs chopped tine, eight spoonsful of meal, scald
the meal with boiling water or milk, mix it quite thin,
when it is nearly cold add four eggs well beaten. It
requires three hours' boiling in a strong cloth.—ln-
dian Gruel: To one quart of boiling water, stir in two
table spooisful of Indian meal, mixed with a little cold
water, boil fifteen or twenty minutes—a little salt. Johnny
Cake is prepared from the corn meal scalded, and this
dough rolled or pressed out to half an inch in thickness,
is cooked one side at a time in front of the fire after
being put on a board, sheet of tin, a plate, or any ma-
terial of suitable shape. Ash cake is prepared from the
corn dough made as above, and is cooked as follows :
Make a bed by scraping away the ashes on all sides,
r,:-.11 the dough, after being made into form, between two
eabba,Ze leaves, place it in the bed and cover it with
the previously removed ashes and embers : a little
practice will determine the length of time requisite
for cooking. The process resembles that of roasting
potatoes. Common pones are prepared from the corn
dough made into oblong pieces about three inches
thick, and baked in a covered bake-kettle with fire
above and b3low. Corn dodgers are made of the
corn dough, in balls about the size of an egg, and are
boiled in the pot as an adjunct to " bacon and
greens." Shovey is made from the dough cut in slices,
and fried with a piece of fat bacon. Stappeys arc pre-
p eyed from the corn meal scalded, and after being made
into a thin batter with eggs and milk, are baked on a
rithelje. Corn Cup Cake :—Take two cups of corn
-meal, and one of wheat flour, or in that proportion ;
make them canto a thin batter with milk and eggs, and
cook theta on a
griddle.
Washington's breakfast bread,
if prepared with the corn dough make up with eggs,
milk, and a little sugar, to be baked in a tin pan as an
ordinary pair loaf. Hoe cake prepared by corn meal
and cooked in
with boiling seater; is made is
into a cake,
front of the fire, on a board
.or plate, It was originally
put on a hoe,
itswhence
Mush :—This is made in
different ways ; bat This resembles
the Johnny cake.-
be easiest mode is that which
r
resembles the making starch or arrow root. Thus—
put,er the fire into a pot or skillet,
fire pints of water over the
then take 0110 pound of Int meal, well sifted from the
bran, and
mix with a little colti water, so as to make a thick
water batter; add salt. As soon az the
boils add the batter;
stir it well, and keep it stirred and boiling for at least
twenty minutes. It should be about the consistence of
hasty-pudding, porridge, or eir-about, and may, indeed,
be made in the same way. Take it up, and eat it with
milk, butter, or treacle. In this fo.em it can easily be made
and distributed to the poor from soup houses. Benevolent
individuals, too, might prepare the mush in their own
kitchens, and give it to the hungry and destitute. This
is the most manageable and convenient of all the
preparations of maize ; it is used daily in a large
number of American families, and considered a
most wholesome diet. What is not used at ene meal is
cut into slices and fried or heated on the gridiron at the
next meal, and eaten with butter or treacle. It is Tamper
to state that many of these receipts are differently p."e-
pared in different parts of the country ; but in selecting
the above I believe I have chosen the most popular forms
in use. A. proper seasoning with salt is necessary in all
cases. The meal should be carefully sifted from the
bran ; and the bran after being scalded is excellent food
for pigs and poultry. Of the different receipts given
above, the most easily prepared are the mush, the
Johnny and hoe-cakes, and the ash-cake. The latter
can be cooked with great facility in the turf fires com-
mon in Ireland. In all cases the article must be well
and thoroughly cooked, or it will not be nutritious or
digestible.—Bartlett on Maize.

1846.—The following is the House List of Governors
and Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing.
viz..—

FOR GOVERNORS.
Deputy-Gover .
FOR DIRECTORS.
,E
John Benjamin Heath, Esq , Governor.
William It. Robinson, Esq., ner
James Pattison, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq.
Sir John Henry Pellv Bari.
Bonamy Dobree, Ea Christopher Pearse, Lisq,
sq.
ArthurEdvrard Campbell, Esq. John HoesieY sq.
Clias. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq.
Henry James Prescott, Esq.
John Hanker, jun.. Esq.
William Little, Esq.
lmson E,-,.
James Malco , -I
'lump
John Gherellyibsratn. dj foi.:un
Esq.
James Morris, Es 9.
Sheffield Neave, l'-eq• Esq. David Powell, Esq.
Sir John Rae Reid Bart.
11 :lhi oo nmi aa ss
Thomas Chas. Smith, Esq.
bbMainldl'inay, Wm. Thompson, Esq., Ald.
13.N.GIa°tktel;ijausn \''VEeg6qualin,
!Francisancl p e plllVtyil.sGono,v
eErsqn
o.r
will
he
, E,(i.
George The la
electionrds Norman,
mdionv'eFrnsogr.
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 14th of April, and for Di-
rectors on Wednesday, the 15th of April, from ten o'clock in
the forenoon till four o'clock in the afternoon.
A letter from St. Petorsburgh of the 22d ult., says that
Sir Moses Montefiore had been twice received by the Em-
peror, and his audiences had not been without some good re-
sults, as it is affirmed that his Imperial Majesty has ordered
the suspension for four years of the ukase which ordained
that the Israelites dwelling on the western frontiers of the
empire should remove to the central or southern Provinces of
Russia.

ANOTHER CLERICAL CONVERT TO ROME,--The Roy.
Mr. Wells, curate of St. Martin's•in-thc-Fields, Liverpool,
who has been wavering for some time, has this week con-
formed to the Church of Roma—Liverpooldifercery.