The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONITON, WEDNESDAY
_EVENING, AUGUST 269 1546.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The
and Prince Albert accompanied by the 1
brine° 01 Wales and the Princess Royal, and attended
J the royal suite, landed yesterday morning from the
!al Victoria and Albert yacht, and arrived at Os-
one House soon after ten o'c:otk.
6La ,
119 r Royal Highness the DucheLs of Kent. attended
Anna Maria DaWOll, Baroness de Speth, and
viirsit
George Couper, Bart., arrived in the afternoon on a
• to her Majety. Her Roy al HihnP:s left her
Frogmore House at half-pa,t eleven o'clock
rsterday morning, travelled to the Farnborough sta-
Ci, and proceeded from thence by the South-Western
lwaY, crossing to the Isle of Wight in the Fairy.
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
Thursday) afternoon at Osborne House.
Ikills Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
I7eklenburg Sterelitz left Kew on Monday, for the
e°t Wight- His ioyal Highness went to the King-
,s,,°e station, and proceeded from thence by the South-
stern Railway,
Railway.
Gper Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester left
oucester House yesterday afternoon, for her resi-
u▪
eece at Richmond.
eheir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
ierlickbleindbgue; and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
efternoon. g Strelitz, returned to Kew yesterday
121. Stratenus, the Netherlands Charge d'Affaires, had
interview yesterday with Viscount Palmerston at the
Foreign-office.oMr. Hume and Mr. Loch had an interview with Earl
ley yest,:nsday at the Colonial-office.
//oThe Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most
eourable Privy Council had a meeting yesterday
afternoon at the Council-office. The Lords present were
the Lord President, Lord John Russell, Sir George Grey,
th• e
Chancellor of the Excheauer, the Earl of Auckland,
toe Earl of Clarendon, and Viscount Morpeth.
Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted busi-
tlese yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Bell had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey
t the Colonial-office.

DEATH' OF THE EARL OF
STR ATHMORE.
We have to announce the demise of the Earl of
~..'trathmore, which event took place on Saturday last, at
golyrood House, Edinburgh.
The deceased, Thomas Lyon Bowes, Earl of Strath.
1114,csre and Kinghorn, Viscount Lyon and Lord Glamis,
."•_lll3nadyce, Sydlaw, and Stradictie, in the Peerage of
.4uotlane, was born on the 3d of May, 1773, and sue-
riled to the family honours on the 3d of July, 1820.
0l Lordship was thrice married: first in 1800, to Mary
Getzlheth Louisa Rodney, only daughter and heir of
in lge Carpenter, Esq., of Redbourne, Herts, who died
latelli; secondly, in 1812, to Eliza, daughter of the
1817-(l'onel Northcote; and thirdly, after her death in
„id t. Marianne, daughter of John Cheape, Esq., and
the °RA' Sir Alexander Campell, of Ordkinglass. By
datc,7,r,st marriage his Lordship had issue a son and
niar'rr,". The former, Thomas George Lord Glamis,
steade,u, in 1820, Charlotte, daughter of Charles Grin-
sow ' and died in January, 1834, leaving issue two
o„alia One daughter, the eldest of whom, Thomas
hies 'be, a Lieutenant in the Ist Life Guards, succeeds
tgrandather.
withYoatiingular coincidence, Sir John Paul, in whom
others, the castle and estates of Glamis have been
fared since the year 1820, by the will of the tenth Earl,
the7,enniulation, arrived in Edinburgh, on his way to
trtle, with Lord Glamis, now Earl of Strathmore,
The very day of his Lordship's death.
the Present Earl of Strathmore succeeds at once to
of /latates of his grandfather, in London and the county
tru,tells, and in the year 1850, at the expiration of the
estate to the ancient Castle of Glamis and the large
s surrounding the same.

(I'ARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
r°lll tlae Vtes and Proceedinps of the House of Commons.)
Messes TUESDAY, AUG 25.
to Whichges from the Lords brought up the following Bills,
their Lordships have agreed
A _Leunnatic Asylums (Ireland) Bill—New Zealand Loan Act
jeivadin, ent Bill—Income-tax Deduction Bill—Navalln
814 r3y Departments Bill—Turnpike Roads(lre a d)Bill
Orel, Licenses and Duties Bill—Baths and Washhouses
) Bill—Public Works Commissioners (Ireland) Bill
pauper Works, Fisheries, &c., Bill—Lunatic Asylums and
CoJer Lunatics Bill—House of Commons Offices Bill—
gt3; Works Presentments (Ireland—No. 2) Bill—Com-
a) nloure (No. 3) Bill—Public Works (Ireland—No.
Works and Fisheries Bill—Dublin Wide
laZets Bill—Exclusive Privilege of Trading Abolition (Ire-
Inept) Lill—Amendments to Marriages (Ireland) Act Amend-
13ill—CorkandWaterford Railway Bill—Sir Richard
fail:l3lls' Estate Bill—Duke of Norfolk's Estate Bill—Mac-
Pitailif, (Glasgow College) Estate Bill—Virgin amend-os-
nletit“l,,ewcastle-upon-Tyne) Estate Bill, witho.ut Com reek and Salvage Bill—British Possessions Bill—
A", Diseases Bill—South Devon Railway (No. 2
", ndnaent and Branches) Bill, with amendments.

SPORTINU IN TELL IGENCE.
have EGHAM RACES—TUESDAY.
have nominations for the events, that for a long period
4,ltlion'amed the staple of the meetings on Runnymede,
trie ijrh admitted to be an improvement on the average of
eotri;‘ Silt or eight years, were ill supported by the plate
;he ,od the list generally contrasted unfavourably w
_h
14,014:taorie bill of fare so recently offered in the north,
feeble
,out small inducement to sporting men, and but
I°o-7),:eia:tractions to the customary attendants at races on
assenlb,' °Hit. Still the weather was so favourable that the
indiZ liege was larger than we had expected ; the sport was.
ob elent, and so well was the advertised time of starting
to Serlred, that by a few minutes before four it was brought
thea conclusion. We can promise better things for to-day ;
programme comprises a two-year-old stakes with eight
nominations, the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes, for which
Ave Or six will run, the Queen's Plate, with two entries,
'(Wolfdog and the Hero,) in additicn to those already made
Public • the Amateur Stakes, in heats, for gentlemen riders,
WesternB;,e 'en Public;
entries; and the Egham Stakes, to which the South
Company have very liberally contributed 201., this
has four and will be run in heats. Owing to the
number of events the first race will be run at one o'clock
Jecisely.
Ile Magna Charta Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 25 added
Por three yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. Win-
ners of any stakes of 1001. each 7lbs extra, of the Derby.
101bs extra ; maidens at starting alllowed 51b. Old mile.
(7 Subs.
rCoHeat)
unt hcote's Japan (Chapple) 1
Battliyany's Muster ..
4"1„ • Death's Thrapston .
3
%Vain Marten nd Camelia
ettilg-7.t0 4 agst Thrapston, and 2 to 1 agst Japan.
k "'en by three lengths; Thrapston a bad third.
Devil. loft ; weight for age. One mile—Mr. Dyson's
6 tvoll"t°-Pay, 5 yrs (Nat), beat Mr. Oldaker's The Witch.—
,„, 4on Devil to Pay, who won as he liked.
'lle Gold Cup of 1201. (in specie), by subscription of 10 sovs.
"4i; the second to save his stake, and the winner to be
Id
for 400/. ; three yrs old, 7st ; four yrs, fist 71b ; five
; SiX and aged, 9st 31b ; mares, &c., allowed 3lbs.
Mr, d'ohniiLes. (12 Subs.)
Lord E "s Bourton, 3 yrs ... (A. Day) 1
Sir Ex Days
Sister to Pergularia, 5 yrs
e,hathcote's Japan, 3 yrs
G i'-",ichmond's Red Deer, 5 yrs
~The--`„ agst Bourton and 5 to 2 each agst the others.
%vas between the first two all the way, Bourton
a le, tlg
plat gth, the running, and winning rather cleverly, by half
_Bl.;veeoefnxti,•• given by the County Members, added to a
3 ' --cuies of 5 sovs. each ; three yrs old, 6st 121 b ;
3folubr.
4189 Bst 71b ; five yrs, 9st ; six yrs and aged, 9
heath allowed 31b. The winner to be sold fort 200/
Sir S. o's, two miles. (3 Subs.)
Cou„.4"-;PrY's f. by Sir Hercules, out of Taglioni, 4 yrs 1 1
44.-s•zatthyany's Master Stepney, 4 yrs
Thompson nd Barmy Lass, s_Yrs dis
Even on Master Stepney. Won in a canter.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
The pre STOURBRIDGE RACES.—MONDAY.•
stwood Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added. Heats,
:r. Sillubb's one mile and a half. (4 Subs.)
Ilr. avenport's Florine 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Denman) 3 1 1
Hyacint , yrs, 7st
Thre• Pc,arr's Felix, 3 yhrs,i7st 41b lib
1 2 2
3 1 dr
n?!ourbridge Stakes of 7 sovs. each, 2 ft, if declared, with
tt..•)/a. added. Mile and a quarter. (34 Subs, 19 paid.)
14. -1'
.rr's Dulcet, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
iirr -Fltntoff's The Rhine, 6 yrs, 7st
• Fryer nd Sweetbriar, 3 yrs, sst 61b
Th 3
At. -...e following also ran :—Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah,
11,'•d• Knight's Jolly Beggar, and Mr. hooks Buttress.
'e Stand Purse of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 soya.
each. Heats, one mile. (4 Subs.)
Sir C. Cockerell's Amazon, 3 yrs, Est lllb (J. Sharpe) 1 1
r• Davies' Kitty Wee, 4 yrs, Bst 41b.
*r. Raworth's Engineer, 3 yrs, 7st 41b
4118 East Worcestershire Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 80 added.
Heats, one mile and a half. (5 Subs.)
lir. Barton's Reliance, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
ii.r• Whitehouse's Charlotte, 3 yrs, Est 31b
',qr. Jones's Sailor, aged, Bst 31b 3 3 dr
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.
THE LEAMINGTON STASES.-3 to 1 agst Mongrel, 7to 1
agst Roderick.
toSI• LEGER.-5 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes (taken)-15
ta agst The Traverser (taken)-15 to 2 agst Brocardo-11
to , agst Fancy Boy (taken)-14 to 1 agst Grimston-15
Er' aROt ga Poynton (taken)-15 to 1 agst Sting-20 to 1 agst
'-Bragh.

Tb ROWING MATCH.
-e scullers' contest between Loader and Blinkoe, two
zeateurs, came off yesterday, and terminated, in conse-
ta:Lee of an accident happening to the latter, in favour of
arait",!r; The distance was from Chelsea-bridge to Hammer-
thj" °ridge, and the stake 101. aside. Loader went off with
hart ea
tl3d, closely pressed by his adversary, and off the White
~ boats fouled, Loader at the time retaining a slight
the ,Islinkoe, whose boat's head was upon the quarter of
eat ()13er'e, went to clear himself by a smart stroke, but
fuelling a crab was thrown out of his boat. Loader conti-
his „A °,°.and won, although his adversary, having resumed
dreea"n the boat, rowed after, and came up within a hun•
Yards of him at the winning-post.

Mira.—On
—On
Itti4jllEAnytrt ACCIDENT IN A POWDER .
0 Way morning, about half-past eight o'clock, a
on
neargel
leererrrence took place at the Karnes powder- 11
powder-mills,
sWera just
abe,Y, side of the Kyles of Bute. The workmen
the ' to commence operations in the corning-house, where
eotsPeoivder undergoes the operation of sieving, and where
d hen by sonic'
aoateciotientin a large quantity is gathere N
building was in a
Ino_
ountable accident, this portion of the
fi -a in number,
el:r e t blown into the air. The workmen,
Wered the fate of the building; and their mutilate r d emains
who
,tas found scattered at a great distance. A workman
bet •at some distance, although severely bruised, is Still alive,ll
baviis not expected to survive. The scene is described
to
be 0 been awfully grand. The report was so loud as ;
IpitZd at Inverary, a distance of forty miles.—Edinburgh
ur9l
TUE 1)
tow; , 14ALLOON Rem—The " Albion" and " Corona-
kl. _._ nail
Ur, °ens, which ascended on Monday night, with Mr.
Gree„-een, the veteran aeronaut, and his brother, Mr. H.
I)itto-' made their safe descents—the former at Thames
ore, n; and the latter at Kingston—the former having, there-
eietepne the greater distance. Mr. C. Green was ably as-
-1)4,4'3; bY the inhabitants, and subsequently was most !los-
boure entertained by Mr. Walker, a farmer of the neigl.l-
- Air. H. Green, unfortunately, met with aW-
hy thception, as his machine was very roughly handled
usage, tovnie
People of Kingston, find suffered very serious
turn, '`u-r• C. Green arrived a t the Gardens, on his re-
-111,1 is a out eleven o'clock, and he was soon after followed by
oher,

POOR EMPLOYMEN _IRE LAND.

A BILL
TO FACILITATE TriE EMPLOI MEET OF THE L 'RING

POOR FOR A LIMITED PERIOD IN DISTRESSED DIS

TRIM'S IN IRELAND.
[NOTE.—The words inserted in italics are proposed to
be inserted in the Committee.]
Whereas by reason of an arprehended failure of a
portion of th. potato crop of the present season of Ire-
land, it is expedient to make provision for facilitating
and encouraging the employment of the poor in districts
*here distress may prevail.
Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in the pre-
sent Parliament assembled, and the authority of the
same, that whenever, on representation of the existence
of distress in any district, it may seem expedient to the
Lord-Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of
Ireland, that an extraordinary presentment sessions for
any barony, half barony, county of a city or county of
a town in Ireland, the county of the city of Dublin ex-
cepted, should assemble and make presentments for the
execution of public works in such district, it shall be
lawful for the Lord-Lieutenant, or other chief governor
or governors of Ireland, from time, to time, by a notice
to be published in the Dublin Gazette, and also in one
or more newspapers circulating in the respective district,
and of which notice copies shall be posted in the usual
places for posting public grand jury notices in such dis-
trict, to direct and require that an extraordi-
nary presentment sessions for such barony, baronies,
half barony, half baronies, county of a city or
county of a town, as the case may be,
shall meet and assemble at such place or places in such
district for the purposes of this Act, on such day or days
and hours as shall be specified in such notice, not being
sooner than ten nor later than fifteen days after the pub-
lication of such notice in the Gazette as aforesaid; and
it shall and may be lawful for every justice of the peace
for the county, county of a city, or county of a town
respectively, not being a stipendiary magistrate, to
attend, and such justices respectively, and the cess-
payers associated with them respectively, as hereinafter
mentioned, are hereby required to assemble and hold
such extraordinary presentment sessions respectively,
for the purposes of this Act, in such place or places,.and
t such time or times, as shall have been so appointed.
And be it enacted, that the justices or justice present
at every such extraordinary presentment sessions,
together with the number of the cess payers appointed
by the grand jury at the then preceeding assizes of the
county, county of a city or county of a town in which
such sessions shall be held, to be associated with the
ustices at the ordinary presentment sessions to be holden
next after such assizes for the purposes of an Act passcd
in the 6th and 7th year of the reign of his late Majesty
king William the Fourth, intituled, " An Act to consoli-
date and amend the laws relating to the Presentment of
Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland," for the
barony or half barony, or the county of a city or county
of a town, as the case may be, for which such extraordi-
nary presentment sessions shall be holden, shall constitute
such extraordinary presentment sessions ; and the pro-
visions contained in the said recited Act of the sixth and
sexenth years of the reign of King William the Fourth,
relative to the selection of a chairman and of the cess-
payers to be associated with the justices or justice
at presentment sessions, and to the casting voice of
such chairman, shall, so far as the same are applicable
extend to such extraordinary presentment sessions
under this Act, and the secretary of the grand jury
and the county surveyor or surveyors shall attend
thereat; and also an officer or person appointed by the
Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, if the said
Lord-Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors
shall so think fit to direct.

And be it enacted, that any such extraordinary pre-
sentment sessions are hereby authorised and required to
make presentments for such public works within the
district for which such sessions shall be held as they may
think fit, specifying in all such presentments the maxi-
mum amount which shall be raised for the execution of
any such work, and the San extraordinary present-
ment sessions shall sit from day to day until all the
business which may come before them of the nature
hereby described be dispatched, or may adjourn for
any period not exceeding three days; and every such pre-
sentment so made by such sessions shall be as valid
and effectual for the purposes of this Act as if the
same had been duly presented by the grand jury, and
fiatod by the court at any assizes or presenting term.
And be it enacted, that the chairman at such sessions
shall cause to be made out, and shall sign with his name
a schedule of all works which shall have been duly
approved and presented at such sessions respectively,
and shall deposit such schedule with the secretary of
the grand jury of such county county of a city or county
of a town, who within three days shall transmit to the
Lord-Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors
of Ireland, a copy, signed by himself, and verified by his
declaration before a justice of the peace, of such schedule
of works so presented at such presentment sessions. and
it shall be lawful for the said Lord-Lieutenant or other
chief governor or governors, if he or they shall so think
fit, to cause the same, or copies thereof, respectively to
be reported upon by the Commissioner of Public Works,
and to be afterwards transmitted to the CommissiOners
of her Majesty's Treasury for their sanction or approval.
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury from time to
time, to authorise the Commissioners of Public Works

in Ireland to execute the said works so presented and
specified in any such schedule of works, or such of the
said works, or such part of them, as the said Commis-
sioners of the Treasury shall think fit, at and for the
amount so presented for each such work respectively or
proportionate part of it ; and it shall be lawful for the
said Commissioners of the Treasury to advance and
place at, the disposal of the said Commissioners of Public
Works the several and respective sums of money so
presented for each and every such work, or proportionate
part of it, so authorised to be by them executed, to be
by the said Commissioners of Public Works applied and
expended respectively to and for and in the execution of
the said several and respective works so to be executed
by them, and to be accounted for to the said Commis-
sioners of the Treasury. .
And be it enacted, that the said Commissioners of
Public Works shall, upon the receipt of any such war-
rant of the said Commissioners of the Treasury, cause
the execution or construction of any such respective
works therein authorised to be proceeded with, subject
nevertheless to such directions as they may from time to
time receive from the same Lord-Lieutenant or other
Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and shall for
such purpose have and use all such powers and authori-
ties as they are by any of the Acts now in force for the
extension and promotion of public works in Ireland in-
vested with for the construction whereof a grant shall
have been sanctioned by the said Commissioners of the
Treasury, and also all rights, powers, authorities and
privileges of any county surveyor or contractor acting
under and by the virtue of the said Act passed in the
sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty
King William the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to conso-
lidateisnd amend the Laws relating to the Presentment
of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland."
And be it enacted, that the several county surveyors
in Ireland, and their assistants, do and shall, from and
after the passing of this Act, in addition to all their other
duties, obey, perform and execute, either alone or oon-
jointly with or subject to the direction of any other per-
son or persons to be appointed for that purpose by the
slid Commissioners of Public Works, all such orders and
directions as the Commissioners of Public Works shall
from time to time transmit to them, or any of them, re-
specting the planning, laying out, superintending, or
overseeing any such work or works within their re-
spective counties, as shall be specified in and by such
orders or directions, or the disbursing any such sums
of money which shall be placed at his or their dis-
posal for that purpose, and cause to be expended
on such works so presented, any sums not exceed-
ing the respective sums presented for the same
respectively, and for such purposes shall have power,
subject to such directions as aforesaid, to employ suffi-
cient workmen, either at reasonable wages, or by task-
work, and also an overseer for each such work, if he
shall deem such overseer to be necessary, at reasonable
wages, sanctioned by the said Commissioners of Public
Works, and shall account to the said Commissioners of
Public Works for the execution of such respective
works, and for the expenditure thereon, and for the
sums advanced to him for such works ; and all and
every the powers and authorities or provisions given or
contained in the Acts for consolidating and amending
the laws relating to the presentment of money by grand
juries in Ireland, with reference to the execution of
works thereunder, shall, as far as the same are appli-
cable, extend and apply to the excecuting of such works
as aforesaid by the county surveyor or his assistants ;
and any such county surveyor or surveyors or assistants
(in addition to his or their usual salary), shall, in con-
sideration of such employment for the purposes of this
Act, receive such further remuneration as the said Lord
Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors shall
deem fit and sufficient.
And be it enacted, that the moneys from time to time
to be advanced pursuant to the provisions of this Act,
by the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, for the
execution of any works under this Act, in any county,
county of a city, or county of town shall be repaid by
grandjury presentments by half-yearly instalments not
less than four and nor exceeding twenty in number, as
the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury shall
direct, with interest at the rate of three pounds ten shil-
lings per centum per annum; and the Commissioners of
Public Works shall from time to time certify to the
secretary of the grand jury of each such county, county
of a city, or county of a town, in which respectively such
works shall have been executed, the amount of the in-
stalment or instalments so to be repaid ; and each such
secretary of the grand jury shall lay such certificate be-
fore the grand jury of such county, county of a city,
or county of a town, at the next assizes or presenting
term after he shall receive the same ; and it shall be
lawful for every such gi and jury, and they aro hereby
required to present the sum mentioned in every such
certificate relating to such county, county of a city, or
county of a town, to be raised and levied in the manner
hereinafter mentioned off the respective baronies or half-
baronies, county of a city or county of a town in respect
whereof the works for which any such moneys shall be
so advance' by the said Commissioners shall have been
presented; and the treasurer of such county, county of
a city, or county of a town, shall pay the sum so pre •
sented by the grand jury, when and as by him received,
into the B ink of Ireland, to the credit of the paymaster
of civil services, on account of loans under this Act, or
in such other manner as the said Commissioners of the
Treasury shall direct: Provided always, That such
Treasurer shall issue a separate warrant for
the levy of the sum mentioned in any such
certificate; and if the grand jury of any county
county of a city, or county of a town shall fail to pre-
sent the sum, or any part thereof contained in any such
certificate, relating to such county, county of a city, or
county of a town, the treasurer of such county, county
of a city, or county of a town, shall and he is hereby
k acquired to insert such sum, or such omitted part there-

inof, such separate warrant for raising, such moneys as
if such sum had been duly presented by such grand,
jury, to be ra;sed in manner hereinafter mentioned nil
the respective baronies or half baronies props ray charge-
able therewithail as aforesaid, or county of a city, or
county of a town (as the case may be) and the same
shall be raised and levied off such barony or half barony.
county of a city, or county of a town (as the case may
be) accordingly as if the same had been so presented ;
and the said treasurer shall pay over the amount by
him received as hereinbef ore provided in the case of such
money being presented by the grand jury.
And be it enacted, that any sum of money so to be
raised and levied off any barony, half barony, county of
city or county of a town under the provisions of this
Act shall be charged upon, and applotted, raised and
levied upon and from the occupiers of, and other persons
rateable in respect of lands and hereditaments within
such barony, half barony, county of a city or county of
a town respectively, and rated under the then last pre-
ceding rate or rates made, or from time to time made in
respect of' the same, under the provisions of an Act of
the first and second years of her present Majesty,
intituled, "An Act for the more effectual Relief of the
Destitute Poor in Irelanfi," and any Act amending the
same, and shall be payable by the respective ratepayers,
who under the said last preceding rate or rates shall
have paid or contributed or been liable to pay or
contribute rate in respect of property in such barony,
half barony, county of a city or county of a town,
according to the several valuations and proportions
according to which respectively such last preceding
rate or rates shall. have been so made, charged upon
and payable by the rate-payers in respect of such lands
or hereditaments respectively ; and any such sum of
money shall be assessed and levied by the respective
collector of grand jury cess for such barony, half barony
or plea', as a poundage assessment equally upon the net
annual value, of the several lands and hereditaments
within such barony, half barony, county of a city or
county of a town respectively, rated as aforesaid, as such
net annual value shall have been stated in such last pre-
ceding rate or valuation as aforesaid ; and on receipt of
the respective county treasurer's warrant as aforesaid,
such collector is hereby authorised and required to levy
the money therein mentioned ; and such money shall
and may be collected and levied, sued for and recovered,
by such and the same ways and means as any grand jury
c* ss, or the money applotted on the several persons
liable to pay any grand jury cess, may be collected and
levied, and with like powers, authorities and privileges
to any such collector, as in case of the levying of any
grand jury cess.
The tenth clause authorises the grand jury collector
to take a copy of the last made rate from the rate-book.
And be it enacted, That when any person occupying
such lands or hereditaments within any such district
shall be liable to pay a rent in respect of the same, he
may deduct from such rent, for each pound of the rent
which he shall be liable so to pay, one-half of the sum
which be shall have paid as such assessment in respect of
each pound of the net annual value (whether such rent
shall be greater or less than such net annual value), and
so in proportion for any less sum than a pound.
And be it enacted, That where any person receiving
rent in respect of any such rateable property within such
district, shall also pay a rent in respect of the same, he
shall be entitled to deduct from the rent so paid by him
a sum bearing such a proportion to the amount of such
assessment deducted from the rent received by him as
tithe rent paid by him bears to the rent received by him :
Provided always, That every lessor assessed instead of
any occupier of rateable property shall be entitled to de-
duct from any rent paid by him in respect of such pro-
perty a sum bearing such a proportion to one-half of the
assessment on such property as the rent paid by him
bears to the net annual value of such property.
The third clause empowers the grand jury to present
for the payment of the secretary and collectors such
sums as may be deemed compensatory for their additional

labour. -
And be it enacted, That when any public work shall
be presented or executed under the provisions of this
Act, it shall be lawful for any occupier or owner of any
ground taken and occupied for the purpose of such work
to demand and obtain from the officer of the said Com-
missioners of Public Works or the county surveyor, as
the case may be, by whom such work shall have been or
shall be executed, a eertificate under his hand, which
such officer or surveyor is hereby required to give,
stating the quantity of ground belonging to such
occupier or owner which shall have been so taken and
occupied for the purpose of such work, and an estimate
of the average annual value of such ground, the tenure
of such occupier or owner thereof, and an estimate of
the total damage sustained by him or either of them by
the taking and occupying of such ground for the
purpose of such work; and upon giving or tendering such
certificate it shall be lawful for such officer or surveyor as
aforesaid to proceed in the execution of such work without
interruption of any person; and it shall be lawful for any
such owner or occupier, or either or each of them, giving
ten days' previous notice to the secretary of the grand
jury, to make application to the grand jury at the assizes
next following the giving of such certificate, or the next
subsequent assizes, for the amount of such damages
specified in such certificate, whereupon it shall be lawful
fur the grand jury to present, without previous applica-
ticn to presentment sessions, such sum or sums of
money, for the use of such owner or occupier, or each of
them, as the case may be, in respect to the damage sus-
tained by him, as they, upon inspection of such certifi-
cite, shall deem reasonable to be raised off the barony
or half barony in which such ground shall be situated,
and to such presentment -no traverse shall be
allowed .or received ; but in case such owner
or occupier shall not think fit to make such application
to the grand jury, it shall be lawful for him, at the
assizes next following the giving of the said certificate,
or at th 3 next subsequent assizes, upon giving Ten days'
notice, previously tlf such assizes, to the secretary of the
grand jury, of the amount of damages intended to be
claimed, to have a traverse for damages entered in the
crown book in respect of such damage sustained by him;
and thereupon such traverse shall be tried in like man-
ner and like proceedings shall be had, and like present-
ment made in respect of the same, and subject to like
provisions, as far as the same can be applied, as in the
cases of traverses entered for damages under the Acts
for consolidating and amending the laws relating to the
presentment of public moneys by grand juries in Ireland.
Clause 15 is the usual interpretation clause; and
Clause 16 enacts that no sessions can be holden under
the Act after the 15th day of August, 1847.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS
THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND.—The weather con
inues very unsettle d. The intervals of sunshine and
dry weather during the week have been few, but every
advantage has been taken of them to push forward the
labours of the harvest. A considerable breadth of crop
has accordingly fallen before the sickle. Wednesday
was a charming day, but yesterday was gloomy and
drizzly in the extreme. Harvest wages are still high,
and labourers scarce. We observe that the East Lothian
farmers have been paying 18s. to 1/. per week, with
victuals. Considerable quanties of oats have been
cut in that quarter with the scythe, at 95., including
gathering and binding, and without victuals. From
the same district we have the inauspicious intelligence
of a destructive disease in the bean crop, which is thus
described in the Mercury:—" Many fields are already as
black as they generally are in the end of October, and
when the pods are opened, there is found on many of the
immature beans a black speck, not larger than the head of
a pin, on each side of the plumule. As the affected bean
advances and darkens in colour, the spots become invisible,
but on examination the bean is found to be tainted through
its whola substance of a dull yellowish brown colour;
the vegetative power has evidently been destroyed, and
when boiled they remain hard and tough. The roots of
the diseased plants are in general knotty, and exhibit
numerous minute whitish-coloured tubers." Harvest
is now general throughout the country. In the nothern
counties, says the Inverness Courier, it is " interrupted
only by unfavourable weather, or the difficulty of ob-
taining shearers. Yesterday (Tuesday) rain fell during
nearly the whole day, to the discomfiture of many hun-
dreds of farmers and labourers,:who were ready to com-
mence operations in the corn field. On Monday a great
deal of barley and oats was cut down, and several flue
fields of wheat." In the Carse of Stirling the weather,
more than any want of reapers, obstructed the progress
of harvest. The Observer of yesterday says—" A great
part of the beans is cut, and also a considerable
quantity of wheat, but very little barley, and still
less oats. The Perthshire Advertiser of yesterday men-
tions that " a day foul and a day fair is the rule ;
nevertheless, the stocks on the hairat rig' are in-
creasing in number, and the farmers evidently seizing
every propitious moment for cutting down their golden
treasure. Indeed, on Monday last, some persons were
observed busy • leading' on the banks of the Tay, a little
below Newburgh, apparently determined to place their
produce beyond the teach of the changeable weather, by
safely stowing it under ths,ck and rape.' " In Ayrshire
the wages of reapers have run up as high as 3s. Bd. a day.
In Kilmarnock, on Monday, 3s. 2d. was given, and on
Wednesday as. 6d. In Maybole, on Monday, wages
varied from 3s. to 3s. Bd. On Wednesday shearers were
engaged in Irvine at from 3s. to 3s. 6d. In Girvan, 3s.
and 3s. 6d. can easily be got. In Colmonell, reapers are
exclusive of victuals, besides
from the field. The harvest in
receivingbeing
conveyeds . and
to 3 s
ti.n6dcl.'
Ayrshire is proceeding slowly, owing to the obstacles of
bad weather and paucity of hands.
THE HARVEST IN OXFORD:HIRE. During the
past week we have been visited with frequent and
heavy rains, which have had a most prejudicial
affect upon harvest operations. The wheat is nearly
all housed, and from information derived from
nearly all parts of the country, it is gratifying to
know that the crop has been quite an average one
and that the quality is rather superior. There is a
great deal of barley cute and only waiting for fine
weather to get it ricked. The crop is considered
rather deficient, and very inferior in quality to that
of last year, and unless we very soon have fine weat
ther, there will be very little good malting barley in
many fields in this county will only be fit for
the pigs. Oats are abundant, but, the bean crop his
very bad. The late rains have proved very beneficial to
the turnip lands, which are looking remarkably well,
and also to the meadows and pasture land. The crop of
Lattermath is exceedingly thick, and promises a heavy
crop. Several meadows near Oxford are already cut.
The potato disease is developing itself to a most-alarm-
ing and fearful extent. Wheat rose yesterday (Satur-
day) in Oxford market, 6d. per bushel.
During the present week, we regret to say, the wea-
ther in this neighbourhood has been such as materially
to retard the labour of cutting and housing the crops.
With the exception of Sunday, every day since Saturday
last has been showery, and at times the rein
has fallen very heavily. Yesterday the wea-
ther was pleasanter, and although a little, rain fell,
and the sky was cloudy throughout the day, there
were tokens of a change to fine weather. Should such
be the case, the farmers will be working double tides
next week, feeling tea they do that there is now no time

to lose : the potato blight will, no doubt, add to their
anxiety for their other crops.—Manchester Examin. r.
INVERNESS.—Tire weather, we may say for the week,
has, been the most unfavourable we could have had
at this season of the year. We can complain very
little, howeVer, in this neighbourhood, beyond the
stop put by the rain to cubing down. It has not yet
been so weighty as to occasion material damage, further
than what a few days of good weather would repair.
Still it is disheartening, when activity should every
where prevail, to be cinspelled to submit to listless
idleness and delay. This, though the danger be not
evidently near, may bring it eventually. The rains we
have had about town were neither alarming nor con-
stant, and perhaps were rather provoking than either.
In the south, we see the same complaints exist, of
" changeable weather, rainy and dry days having alter-
nated almost regularly." Our correspondent in Bade-
noch writes:—" Further continuance of rain, which we
have often in torrents, will cause incalculable loss and in-
jury where it has not done it already. This same day
(18th), with a storm of wind and rain, is more like a day
in Octoter or November, than this early period." This
corresponds with reports which we have from various
quarters. The crops still continue to hold well to the
eye. There will be no loss in this quarter if the heavy
August rains, so frequent, be no severer than they
have been hitherto. In the upper districts great loss
has been sustained. The authority shove quoted says,
" The crops, which we thought not long since would
have been stinted by extreme heat, are, iu many places,
laid level with the -ground, without any prospect
of its ever rising. In some places clover hay is still
on the fields. The natural hay is all uncut, and some
of the best in this country is irrecoverably lost by spets
which cover the meadows with mud." The potato dis-
ease has now unhappily established its reign in this
vicinity, and our correspondent thus describes it as it is
in that quarter, " There is no denying the disease is
making rapid strides among the potatoes here." It is
yet more prevalent in the parish of Laggan, the highest
parish in Scotland, where it made its appearance in
several places at the same time ; but during the last few
days, it is supposed, that no other parts of the country
are visited by it. He proceeds—" Nothing can exceed
such of the oats as are approaching to ripeness, and
the grain promises 'to be of good quality. The here
crop is very deficient in many places, owing, it is sup-
posed, to the extreme heat which continued so long be-
fore the rain came. That, and if the potatoes are de-
stroyed, as at present threatened, this part of the High-
lands will feel its share of inconvenience, however safely
the harvest may be got in."—lnvernas Journal.

THE LATE DEATH OF A CLER-

GYMAN IN ST. rANCRAS.

Yesterday, pursuant to adjournment from the previ-
ous Tuesday, a special and very fully-attended meeting
of the directors and guardians of the poor of St. Pan-
cras, took place in the Board-room of the workhouse,
King's-road, for the purpose of proceeding with ther
investigation into the case of the Rev. Charles Cay,
whose death took place under the melancholy and mys-
terious circumstances already laid before the public.
The CHAIRMAN said Mr. M‘Gahey, the clerk to the
Board, had been instructed to make inquiries into the
way in which the Rev. Charles Cay had become an
inmate of University Hospital, and how he came into
St. Pancras Workhouse, and they had better now hear
his evidence.

Mr. M'GAHEY stated that Dr. Quain said that the
Rev. Charles Cay was brought there by Mr. Montague
Cooper and Mr. George Cooper, of Keppel-street. This
was on the Saturday when he was away, and on the fol-
lowing Monday morning he found him raving mad; that
Mr. T. H. Cooper, the parish surgeon, called in about a
woman who was there, and that on his showing Mr. Cay
to Mr. Cooper, the latter recognised him as a client .of
his brother's, and there being a card over his head, with
time address on, " Wilmot-street, Fitzroy Chapel," but
afterwards rectified, " W ilmot-street, Brunswick-square,"
Mr. Cooper wrote a note to the overseer fir his imme-
diate admittance into that workhouse.

The CHAIRMAN considered it quite clear that the Rev.
Gentleman improperly became an inmate of that work-
house through the misrepresentation of Mr. T. H.
Cooper, the parish surgeon, to the overseer. If Mr.
Cooper, the solicitor, had anything to offer in explana-
tion of what he might consider imputed pn his conduct,
the board would be ready to hear him.
Mr. WILLIAM DANANT COOPER said Mr. Montague
Cooper and Mr. George Cooper, of Keppel-street, were
the persons who took the deceased to the hospital. They
were no relations of his, nor did he know anything
about the occurrence until Tuesday, the 4th, the day on
which the Bev. Mr. Cay was admitted to the workhouse
from the hospital, and when he received a note inform-
ing him of the fact. He sent a verbal reply back, to the
effect that Mr. Cay was a man without much money,
and the best thing was to deal legally with him and
send him to Hanwell. He did this, fully believing that
the Rev. Gentleman belonged to the parish of St. Pan-
cras, and as a proof of it, even so late as Monday last,
the letters of administration described the Rev. Gentle-
man as late of that parish. He also produced the
cheque alluded to. which was on Messrs. Robarts and
and Co. for 3,000 L, dated the 11th of October, 1825, and
the bankers' book, which proved the money had been
received, and the Rev. Gentleman's account closed the
following day.
The CHAIRMAN said, after the statement of Mr. W.
D. Cooper, together with his production of the cheque
and bankers' book, there could not, he thought, be the"
slightest impression that he had acted in any way im-
properly in the matter, and he had no doubt the public
press would set him right with the public.
The Board then proceeded to investigate the conduct
of Mr. T. H. Cooper, the workhouse surgeon, in the
affair. _ _ _

Mr. T. H. COOPER complained, in defending himself,
of the course the Board had thought proper to pursue,
in sending for letters behind his back, and the injury
inflicted upon his character by the publication in the
papers.
After a long and rigid investigation and discussion, in
which same of the members of the Board declared that
it was clear that Mr. T. H. Cooper had used undue in-
fluence with the overseer to get the Rev. Mr. Cay into
that workhouse, and others considered he had only com-
mitted an error of judgment,
A resolution disapproving of his conduct was passed.
Mr. Cooper was then called before the Board and ad-
monished by the Chairman, who expressed his opinion
that the resolution was an extremely moderate one,
and he hoped that Mr. Cooper would feel the force of it.
The proceedings connected with this protracted and
extraordinary case then terminated.

CARBONIC ACID GAS IN STEAM

BOILERS.

An extraordinary occurrence has taken place within
the month in the boilers of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Company's steamer Montrose, .at Southampton.
The vessel having been laid up for repair, made a trial
trip to the mouth of the Southampton river, and about
forty- eight hours after her return, when the boilers and
machinery were all cold, a man, who was sent into the
boiler for some purpose, suddenly fell down, as it was
thought, in a fit. The alarm being given, the engineer
of the vessel went in to bring him out, but no sooner had
he reached the lower region of the boiler, than he too
fell down in a state of insensibility. Fortunately, Mr.
Lamb, the engineer of the company, happened to be on
board, and he immediately dispatched in another person
with a rope round his waist, so that he might at once be
pulled out if similarly affected; but this person, on being
lowered down, immediately became senseless, and had to
be drawn up again with all possible dispatch. As there
happened to be a man-hole door directly over the fur-
naces, Mr. Lamb caused this door to be instantly re-
moved, and no sooner was this done, than the men
within the boiler begari to revive. They were then
taken out through the lower man-hole without inconve-
nience, and, after a little spirits had been administered,
they perfectly recovered.
Our opinion having been requested as to the cause of
this mysterious occurrence, we have tested some of the
water taken from the river at Southampton, and upon
pouring some of it into lime-water, a flocculent precipi-
tate was abundantly deposited, showing the existence of
a large quantity of carbonic acid in the water. We have
here, then, an explanation of the mystery. The effects
produced were precisely those due to the presence of
carbonic acid, and, as the whole of the water in the boiler
was taken out of the river, without being diluted by
cater from the sea, it is not difficult to understand how
the carbonic acid gas might accumulate in the boiler SO
as to produce the effects observed. When the boiler
was blown off it would contain a mixture of carbonic
acid and steam. The steam would be condensed as the
boiler cooled, leaving the carbonic acid, on which the
entering air, being lighter, would float. Had the mud-
hole doors been opened, as well as the man-hole door in
the top of the boiler, the carbonic acid could not have
remained in the boiler, for, being heavier than ',air, it
will run out of a hole in the bottom of a vessel in the
same manner as water. It is very expedient, therefore,
that in all steam-vessels entering the port of Southamp-
ton, or any other river the water of which holds much
vegetable matter in suspension, the mud-hole doors
should be for some time removed, and the man-hole, or
safety-valve, be for some time left open before any one
ventures into the boiler; and before venturing he should
lower a light.—Artizan.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, TITESDAY.—The royal yacht, with her
Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family On board,
accompanied by the Fairy and the Garland steam._
packet, hove in sight round Egypt Point, West Cowes,
at half-past nine o'clock this morning the yacht having
the royal standard at her main. The squadron pro;
ceeded off Osborne-pier.
Her Majesty descended into the barge at 58 minutes
past nine A.M., when the standard was struck on board
the yacht and hoisted on the staff on the summit of the
new tower at Osborne. Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and suite, landed at Osborne-pier at five minutes past
ten.

The royal yacht and the Fairy anchored in Cowcs
Roads after the debarkation of the royal party.
The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-
=ruder Cook, arrived this morning from Plymouth, and
came into harbour to replenish fuel, prior to proceeding
to Rotterdam for the Queen Dowager.
The Netley tender arrived yesterday with supernu-
meraries from Devonport, and returned the same day.
The Acheron steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Aplin, left to-day for Woolwich, to be paid off, taking a
umber, ofsupernumeraiies.

ale Fairy royal yacht, with Commander Crispin on
board, came into harbour this afternoon from Cowes, to
embark her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and
convey her to Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty and
Prince Albert, whose birthday will be celebrated to-
morrow, Her Royal Highness arrived in the Clarence-
yard at 5 minutes past 3 in her Majesty's state carriage,
per special train on the South-Western Railway, and
was received by Sir Charles Ogle, Bart, the Com-
mander-in• Chief; Major-General the Hon. Sir Hercules
Pakenham, K.C.8., Captain-Superintendent Carter,
R.N., and the officers of the Clarence-yard, the chief
officers of the South-Western Railway Company, and
other officers. Her Royal Highness took the arm of Sir
Charles Ogle, who conducted her to his barge, which
was steered alongside the Fairy, on board which her
Royal Highness and suite embarked at 12 minutes past
3 o'clock, and left the harbour 10 minutes afterwards
under royal salutes from the Victory and platform bat-
tery; and as the Fairy crossed the Swash the Nortila Star
at Spithead also saluted. A few minutes after 4 her
Royal Highness and suite arrived at Osborne.
The Curlew, 10, has been brought into the dockyard,
Camber, for conversion to a mortar vessel.
• The Manceuverer navy lighter arrived yesterday with
stores from Woolwich, and sailed again to-day.
Mr. John Fincham, the master shipwright of this
dockyard, assisted by other scientific officers, commenced
his annual survey of the ships in ordinary at this port
3 esterday, in order to ascertain their state and efficiency,
and provide for their necessary repair.