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LONDON,

THE ARMY.

ARRIVAL OF THE 57TH REGIMENT FROM INDIA.—
On Saturday night a detachment, comprising three
companies, arrived at Chatham Barracks from Graves-
end, whence they arrived and disembarktd from the ship
Hindostan Captain Pooh, that day. Their strength
consisted Of 10 sergeants, 5 drummers, and 202 rank and
file, with 13 women and 29 children, under the command
a Captain W. J. Saunders, with Captain L. Trost,
Lieutenants Cassidy, R. F. S. Solighton, C. G. D. An
nesley, Ensigns G: Artiastrong and E. J. B. Brown, and
Assistant-Surgeon E. W. Tupper. These troops em-
barked at Madras on the 16th of April last, some days
after the Mary Ann had left with the head-quarters.
The ship Westmorland had sailed with the other divi-
sion of the regiment on the 10th of July. The ship
Hindostan put in at St. Helena, and sailed on the morn-
ing of the 12th. During the passage, owing to several
of the men being worn out and of broken cor.stitutions,
six of them died. One child died, and five children were
born on board. Captain Saunders' lady, and also the
lady and two children of Lieutenant Cassidy, came w ith
the above ship. Ilium inspection of the. men it was
found necessary to forward to the • Hospital Depot at
Fort Pitt about 80 of them. The 57th has been in India
twenty-two years : its strength is about 650 men, and
their depot at this garrison is about 250 strong. At the
time the Hindostan put in at St. Helena the troops on
board heard that the Mary Ann, containing the head-
quarters, had been towed into the Cape by a steamer.
The 57th occupy quarters at Brompton Barracks.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain Thorndike's company,
4th battalion, and Captain D'Arley's company, Ist bat-
talion, at Woolwich, to embark on Friday next, the for-
mer to relieve Captain P. Markland's company, 4th bat-
talion, stationed at Barbadoes since December, 1841 ;
and the latter to Bermuda, is relieve Captain J. R. Wil-
son's company, 6th battalion, stationed there since
January, 1842. Lieut. Colonel Strangways, R.A., pro-
ceeds with the companies to relieve Lieut. Colonel Bell,
who has been commandine. at Bermuda since December,
1843. Surgeon George Farr, of the Ordnance depart-
ment, also goes with the detachment to relieve Assistant
Surgeon Ross Hassard, at Bermuda. Lieut. H. A.
Smyth, of Captain Thorndike's company, does not go
to Barbadoes, having_ been, placed under arrest to pro-
ceed to .Dublin to be tried by.a. general Court-martial on
charges preferred-against him, arising out of some tran-
sactions which occurred previous.to his leaving that city
on his promotion in July. -
Royal Horse Artillery, Portobello Barrack, Dublin.—.-
The troop, consisting of Captain Teesdale, First Lieuts.
Goodenough, Brandling, and Lennox, 10 non-commis-
sioned offices, 3 artificers, 1 farrier, 2 bombadiers, 47
gunners, 19 drivers, with field battery of two light 6-
pounders, two 12-pounder howitzers, two ammunition
waggons, one forage waggon, 65 troop horses, and eight
officers' chargers; will march from Limerick for Dublin
18th September, halting at Nenagh, en route, Sunday,
20th, and will arrive by 25th to occupy barracks. A
troop, consisting of Captain Levinge, Lieutenants
Turner, Anderson, and Johnson,' 5 staff sergeants, 5
sergeants, 3 corporals, 3 artificers, 2 bombariers, 44
gunners, 18 drivers, 4 ammunition waggons, and 2 light
6-pounders, two 12-pounder howitzers, 2 ammunition
waggons, 1 forage waggon, 11 officers' chargers, 70 troop
horses, will march from Dublin, for Limerick, Sept. 23,
halting at Roscrea, Sunday, Sept. 27, and will arrive by
Sept. 30, to relieve Captain Levinge's troops. Officers
-en leave of absence:—Lieutenant Colonel C. E. Gordon,
9th battalion; First Captain Tylden, 9th battalion;
Assistant Adjutant General in Scotland ; Tuhoh, Ist
battalion, Inspector of G unpowder Manufatory, Waltham
Abbey; Second. Captains, Franklyn, 3d battalion,
Travers, 4th battalion, Hon. Robert 'Charles .Henry
Spencer, horse brigade;, First Lieutenants, Johnson,
horse brigade, Strange, Ist battalion, Leslie,, 4th .batta-
lion; Second Lieutenants, Macdougall, Ist battalion,
Godley, 3d battalion.
sth. Fusiliers, Plymouth-3 companies (2d division),
on board of her Majesty's steam-transport Rhadamanth us,
arrived from Cork. The following officers accompanied
the detaehments:—Captains Guy and Woodward; First
Lieutenants Master, Darell, Renny, Bellew, and Hogge.
6th Regiment, Reserve Battalion, Cork—ls held in
'readiness to march to Buttevant, there to occupy the
barracks.

The Very Re-. Dr. BURKE, parish priest, then rose,
and was warmly received. The reverend gentleman re-
viewed the condition of Ireland, socially and politically,
during the last half century, regretted the misery under
which the people laboured—trusted that a better state
of things was about to dawn on Ireland—and, as a e..n-
vincing proof that the Raman Catholics did not desire
ascendancy, -or that they -were opposed to aristocracy,
especially when its members were devoted to the pros-
purity of their country and their kind, instanced the
fact, that though candidates were plentiful, and might
be easily procured, nevertheless, they (the Roman Ca.
tholic consituency) had met that day for the purpose of
electing a Protestant representa'ive, in the person of
the Hon. Cecil Lawless, a gentleman, too, of high aris-
tocratic bearing—but of the right sort.
Alderman HACKETT, in brief but energetic terms, se-
conded the nomination.

The usual period baying elapsed, and no other candi-
date-having been proposed, the Mayor declared the
Mu.. Cecil LYnless duly (.1,-cted to serve in the Imperial
Parliament for the borough of Clonmel. Three cheers
were then given for the Mayor, Lord Cloncurry, repeal
of the Union, Mr. O'Connell, -&c.
The Mayor having vacated the chair, and Dr. Burke
having been called thereto, the marked and especial
thanks of the burgesses (on the motion of Alderman
Hackett, seconded by Town-Councillor O'Neill), were
accorded to Mr. Bianconi for his unwearied exertions in

the cause of Ireland, and more particularly fo; his
anxiety at all times to preserve the indel)endence of Clon-
mel. The return was afterwcrds signed by many electors
in the judges' chamber, and thus terminated the election
of a Member for Clonmel.
Mr. Lawless, who is in Scotland, published no address,
nor has any communication whatever been received from
him. This apparent indifference had, for some days,
caused the deepest dissatisfaction ; but the friends of
Mr. Lawless explained the matter by stating that that
gentlema❑ had not been apprised of his selection as a
candidate, in consequence of the shortness of the inter •
vening time.

OPEN-AIR MEETINGS OF TUB PEASANTRY,

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
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DUBLIN, SEPT. 13.--.l_.beg your attention to the fol

lowing important proceeding; in the county of Limerick,
where the movement of the peasantry is conducted, even
according to the accounts in the Tory papers, with order
and tranquillity:—
LIMERICK. SEPT. 12.—Pursuant to notices posted on
all the ch4pels in the barony of Kenry, a meeting was
held on Thur-day at Ceurt-hill, in this county, for the
purpose of calling on the landlords to assemble and try
by every means in their power to avert impending fa-
mine. On arriving at Court-hill and Court-bridge, at
one o'clock, our reporter saw a multitude of near 4,000
persons, including women and children. From Massy's-
bridge to Court-bridge a strong military force, compris-
ing a troop of the Bth Hussars, with Captains Todd.
Grant, and Day's companies 85th, under command of
Col. Cox, Quartermas:,er-General, from this garrison,
lined the road side banks, being held in reserve for pre
caution, but did not approach the meeting.
At one o'clock the Rev. TIMOTHY FOLEY, P.P., of
Stonehall, was called to the chair. He said the present
meeting was convened for the purpose of inducing the
landlords to come forward, and as far as lay in their
power to assist in mitigating the present distress. He
Continued to say that the general failure of the potato
crop was probibly a wise dispensation of Providence,
and he hoped in the end would turn out for the best. He
warned all those persons assembled to go home peaceably
and quietly when the meeting was over, and on no ac-
count to drink intoxicating liquor. The Rev. Gentleman
throughout was cheered by the multitude.
The Rev. Mr. TUOMY, R C.C., then proposed the fol-
lowing resolution:—" That we, the inhabitants of the
barony of Koury, have assembled here this day peace-
ably, legally, and constitutionally, for the express pur-
pose of sending our humble petition to our most Gracious
Sovereign the Queen, informing our Sovereign and her
councillors of the impending famine, and the distress
consequent thereon." The Rev. Gentlemen stated that

15th Regiment, Depot, Waterford.—Lieut. Hague and
a detachment occupy barracks at Duncannon Fort.
Effective strength:-284 rank and file ; at head-quar-
ters, 4 companies, under the command of Major Pinder.
26th Regiment, Royal Barracks, Dublin.—Paymaster
Craigie is on leave to the 30th September. Officers pre-
sent:—Colonel Mountain, C.B. ; Majors Hogarth and
Paterson 2 • Captains Mylius, Whittingham (brevet
major), •Layard, Carey, Edgar, Johnstone, Rodgers,
Freerd, and Cameron ; Lieuts. Park, Wallace, Duff,.
'Long:flora Campbell, Rudyard, T. Andrews, Roberts,
Cresswell, Mountain (adjutant), Dickens, arid T. W.
Andrews ; Ensigns Clerke, Preston, lion. Alexandlar
Erie, G. Sinclair, Blackett, Blair, Bell, and Noyes
Quartermaster Daines; Surgeon Stewart, and Assistant-
Surgeon 'Home, M.D. Effective strength:-793 rank
and file. Lieut. Betts is at Newcastle-on-Tyne, super-
intending officer of the recruiting district. Captain-
Nicholson is a student at the Senior -Department, Royal
Military College, Sandhurst.
33d Depot, Birr, has received orders to move. to Mul-
lingar, there to be stationed, relieving the, 79th depot.
38th Depot, Londonderry.—Captain Murray's com-
pany, with Lieut. Scott, marched from Lifford, Sept. 10
(having been withdrawn), for Omagh, relieving a com-
pany of 92d Highlanders. Major J. J. Lowth is in com-
mand of the depot companies.
55th Regiment—Seven companies, with the band and
colours, staff, &c., arrived at the Cove of Cork, from
Devonport, occupy Cork Barracks. The following
officers and men are present, viz.:—Lieutenant Colonel
%Van-en. Captains Coats, Chaproniere, Whimper, and
Cuddy. Lieutenants King, Schaur, \Verge, Lloyd, and
Briscoe. Lieutenant and Adjutant French. Ensigns
Torrens, Walker, and Marsh. Quartermaster Grigg.
Ass;stant-Surgeon Smith, M.D. Tne march of this corps
for Limerick, on the 9th; 10th, and head quarter division
on the 11th September, was countermanded, as the regi-
ment will remain at Cork.

it was said the Irish people were ungrateful, but he
bore willing testimony, as far as his own experience led
him, to contradict the assertion. He hoped that the
landlords and Government would do what they could
and at once to allay the fearful distress, and concluded
by proposing three cheers for the " Queen and Prince
Albert," which were heartily responded to.
Mr. J. SHEEHY seconded the resolution.
T. RosE, Esq., Court, proposed the second resolution
—" That we, the farmers and labourers of the barony of
Kenry, most respectfully call on the landlords of this
barony immediately to meet their respective tenantry,
and to suggest means with them to alleviate impending
famine, and to give to their tenantry the means of sup-
port for themselves and families." After proposing the
resolution, Mr. Rose said he would be most happy in co-
operating with the landlords of the district, and he
earnestly hoped they would acquiesce in the spirit of his
resolution.—(Cheers )
Mr. M. FITZGERALD, of Pallaskenry, seconded it.
Mr. M. POTTER, Spring-lodge, proposed the third
resolution—" That we do respectfully call on the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland to order a baronial meeting for
this our barony, to ad-pt means to carry out the provi-
sions of the 10th Victoria, to give employment to a
starving population." Mr. Potter then said he would
not ask a penny from any man who had potato ground
from him this year whose crop had failed—(Cheers)---
nor would he see a neighbour of his want while he had
a pound in the world.—(Great cheers.) He knew the
Earl of Besborough was inclined to do good, and he
earnestly hoped the landlords would co-operate with the
Government—and he would be happy in giving them his
hearty support.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Jonsr O'IIEGAN, Repeal Warden, Pallaskenry,
seconded the resolution.

79th DepOt—Two companies marched from Mullingar,
for Castlebar, Sept. 3. Head-quarters, and one com-
pany, under the command of Major Elliott, marched
from Mullingar, for Castlebar, Sept. 10, and will arrive
by Sept. 17, to occupy barracks, relieving the depot
88th Regiment. Captain Reeves' company, stationed at
Arvagh, will march f. Castlebar Sept. 16, to, oin head-
quarters, on being relieved by a company of the 92d
iliehlanders. Captain. Taylor is on leave of absence
to Sept. $O.
83d Regiment, Limerick—The march of this corps for
Dublin is countermanded. They will remain in the
Limerick district. Captain St. Auhyn is on leave of
absence to Oct.-30, and Paymaster Brough to Sept. 28.
88th Depot, Castlebar.—The Ist division of two com-
panies rriatehed for Birr, Sept. 9, and will arrive by
Sept. 15, there to occupy barracks. Major Shirley, with
head-quarters and two companies (2d division) will pro-
ceed en route in a feW clays for Birr.
92d, Enniskillen.—A field officer has been ordered
from head-qUarters for 'Belturbet, to take the command
of a company of this corps. The company under Brevet
Major Atherley marched from Otnagh for Arvagh, Sept.
11, and will arrive by Sept. 16, to relieve a company of
-the 79th (Highlanders) depot.
93d (IlighlaiV.ers) Depot, Naas.—Officers on leave of
absence :—Lieut. Lloyd to Sept. 30 ; Ensigns Thompson
to Oct. 26, Good to Dec. 31, Middleton to Dec. 31,
Assistant Surgeon Smith to Sept. 30.• Ensign Carden
and a detachment-oecupy barracks at Athy. Major
Burgh is commanding at head quarters.
93th Depot, Tralee.—A draft, consisting of Captain
Baines, 2 sergeants, and 100 rank and file, are held in
readiness to embark- for Hong-Kong, there to join the
service companies.

Mr. JOHN MAHONY, R.W., Castletown, proposed the
4th resolution, " That the 'thanks- of this meeting be
given to the landlords, gentry, and farmers of this dis-
trict, who came tbrward so liberally last year with sub-
scriptions in aid of the distress, and particularly to those
gentlemen who gave employment to their tenantry."
Mr. Mationy particularised General Caulfield and Mr.
Stephen De Vere.

Mr. WILLIAM RICHARDSON stood up and said that
the Reverend William Waller ought to be mentioned
as well as them, as he was always most forward in re-
lieving distress, and devoted two days each week in at-
tending his loan office, besides what private charity he
bestowed.

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The CHAIRMAN, to restore harmony, said it was ir.-
viduous to mention names.

Mr. Jourt M'NAMARA, R. W. Kildimo, seconded the
resolution.

Mr. MORRIS proposed that the Reverend Mr. Fcley
do leave the chair, and that Michael Potter, Esq., be
called thereto, and that the thanks of this meeting
be given to Mr. Foley, for his proper conduct in the
chair.

Rev. Mr. FOLEY, on leaving the chair, again warned
the people assembled, in the most emphatic manner, to
go home soberly and quietly, which they all said they
would ; and we are happy to say they kept their word,
for out of the immense crowd there was not one man ob-
served"drunk.

COLLIERS STRIKEs.—In the laSt report of the
Commissioner of the Mining Districts, under the Act
5 and 6 Victoria, cap. 99, some interesting particulars
are given relating to the " strike" of the colliers in 1844
in Northumberland and Durham. The last was the
fourth strike in the north of England, and was the most
complete combination yet effected among the colliers.
In the words of the Commissioner—" It was set on foot
by certain delegates p tid by various districts, with the
avowed object of causing all the collieries and iron
mines of the United Kingdom to limit their hours of
work, to reduce the supply of coal and iron ore, to force
up the prices, and then to make the public contribute to
pay them higher wages for their diminished quantity of
labour." The strike commenced on the sth of April,
1844, on which day nearly the whole of the persons
employed below ground in Northumberland and Dur-
ham, amounting to upwards of 22,000 men and boys,
ceased work, and not until the end of July did they
resume their labour in the usual manner, and on their
masters' terms. It was the fourth great disturbance
of labour that had occurred in that district since
1826 ; a strike of some duration took place in
that year, and again in 1831 and 1832. " Hitherto,"
states the Commissioner, " the expectation among
the best informed persons in those districts 'has been
that an extensive combination or strike will occur once
in every ten years. The experience of 1826, of 1831,
and 1832, had no cffect in preventing what took place
in 1844. Two years have since elapsed, and having re-
cently, in the course of an official tour through those
counties, informed myself as to the ultimate results of
that obstinate struggle and as to the measures since put
in operation by the masters in the hope of preventing
is recurrence, I conceive it falls within my duty, as
commissioner of inquiry into the state of the mining
population, to record for your information any facts
which may have a tendency to bring about a more har-
monious state of things for the future, in a district so
populous and important as that of the coal fields of
Northumberland and Durham." It seems that the con-
duct of the large body of people was, with few excep-
tions, peaceable and exemplary. Two or three attempts
at resistar.ce to authority occurred, but they were soon
put down. Their demeanour showed, that though ca-
pable of being misled, their general intelligence and
their sense of right had undergone an im?ro e neat.
The commissioner is of opinion that sound religious in-
struction is needed, and he gives an account of the im-
provements effected in that respect. Much, however,
remains to be done to counteract the poison of hired de-
egates, both in politics and religion.
RE-OPENING OF FLEET-STREET.—The carriage-
road of Fleet-street was, after considerable delay, re-
opened yeltercley.

Head-constable O'Malley and the police from the se-
veral district stations were in attendance, but had ro
occasion whatever to interfere, as the greatest order and
decorum prevailed.

The Limerick Chronicle, a Tory paper, contains the
following : On Thursday last a laze assemblage,
chiefly composed of the labouring clasies, took place on
the summit of Knockfirinch. This hill is situated to the
southward of the road leading from Croom to Bailin-
garry,:and about mid-way between those towns. As
this meeting was called by means of anonymous notices,
some danger to th., peace of the district was apprehended,
and the police, unier Inspector Smyth, were on the
ground at an early holt.. No disposition to violate the
law, however, was manifested, and the parish priest,
Archdeacon Fitzgerald, having appeared on the ground
about two o'clock, prevailed on the assembled multitude
to. adopt with 'perfect unanimity the resolutions which
appear elsewhere in our columns, and which, on the
whole, are characterised by good sense and-moderation.
The meeting gave loud cheers for the Queen and Daniel
O'Connell."

. _ IRELAND. . , , . , were willing to give all the potatoes they had grown for
.. ... .. . CL(tN AEI, ELECTION. . - the payn-eit or poor-rate.
RETURN-01"mi,, HON. CECIL LAWLESS. 'W. D. GraFFitns, Erg., J.P., proposed the next re-
(Frem the• Times Reporter.)
solution. paying f‘:r the resumption of the works re-.
CLONDIEL, SATURDAY EYENING.—I have just time to cently discontinued, with the view, as be supposed, to
apprise you that the son of one of Ireland's truest pa- allow the corn 'crops to be cut down.
triots has. been elected to serve in Parliament for this . F. couvN, Eq , J.P., seconded the motion, which,
fine town: Of Mr...Laysltss personally little or nothing being put from the' Chair, passed nevi. COIL
was known here. The fact, however, of his being Lord L. S. MANGAN, Esq., T.C., proposed the resolution
Cloncurry's son. was a recommendation, in the opinion respecting the execution of the Lough Corrib drainage
of the burges e, of the strongest possible character, and navigation, and ' the opening up of the coast line of
At eleven o'clock his worship the Mayor, as returning Connemara, according:to the plan of the late Mr. Ninimo
officer, repaired to the Court-house for the purpose of and others.
. holding the election.' I noticed near the bench the Rev. A labouring man here expressed a hope that, when
Dr. Burke, -Aldermen Keily and Hackett, Town Conn- the works were resumed, advantage would not be taken
eillors Kenny. Edward O'Neill, Ginton, Corcoran, Bar- of the poor to compel then] to work for so low a rate of
rett, Messrs. P. O'Neill, Counsellor Murphy (the return-
wages as lod. per day,
ing officer's assessor), Dominick Honane, E. O'Shaugh- ! The resolution passed unanimously. -
nessey, &c. I Rev. (roux D'A Rey next addressed the meeting, and.

to the county gentlemen the necessity cf
out.
The galleries were densely crowded, even though it pointed
ma m trket--d- ty. ~ making a great line of road between Galway and Bailin-
The precept was read by the Town Clerk, after which Asloe upon: improved prineil:bs, so as to level the hills
The MAYOR (Mr. Blaneeni, proprietor of -the eele- alcl fill up the valleys, a resolution in favour of which he
brated car establihment) said the duty would now do- moved the adoption of.
volve on the burgess,!,s of electing a representative in ' JOHN FVNN, Eq., Ballymagibbon, seconded the me-
Parliament in the room of the Right lion. Mr. Pigott, tion, but was in favour of having a railroad constructed,
lately elevated to the judicial bench. He was therefore which would. give labour to thousands, and which could
ready to hear any gentleman who wished to propose a ' afterwards be 1 1 so-L to a company.
successor to that gentleman. 1
M. D'AncY had nO objection t-) alter the terms of the

resolution according to the suggestion of Mr. Fynn, and
being so put it was csrried,
A Committee meeting was subs?quently held, at which
several of the landed proprietors of Mayo and Galway
were present, for the purpose of receiving assents to the
proposed works on Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra.
THE IRISH POOR-LAW—THE DISTRESS.
The Poor-law Commissioners have issued the follow.
ing important document, in the form of a circular to the
various unions. The subjoined has been received at the
Lisburn union. The object of the Commissioners is to
render Ihe existing poor- law as extensively available as
that very imperfect and insufficient measure is capable
of, at the present emergency:—
" Pool-law Commission-office, Dublin,
10th September, 1846.
"Sir,—Adverting to the information received from
the board'of guardians regarding the state of the potato

crop in the Lisburn union, I am directed by the Poor•
law Commissioners to express their deep regret that the
report of the guardians is to so great an extent unfa-
vourable.
" The Commissioners anticipate, in consequence
hereof, a great increase of poverty and distress among
the labouring population of the union ; and it is their
earnest wish that those means of affording relief which
the law has placed at the disposal of the guardians
should be made available, to the utmost practicable
extent.

" They recommend, therefore, that the guardians
should promptly bring under review the subject of their
contracts for provisions and other supplies, the present
state of their stocks of bedding and clothing, and the
general state of their finances, so as to be prepared, in
due time, f.ur any accession to the number of inmates,
which the present circumstances of the union render
probable.
" In making such preparations, the Commissioners
urgently advise and call upon the guardians to base the
estimates for their financial and other arrangements, on
the assumption that the whole accommodation which
the workhouse affords will be placed in requisition

during a considerable period, commencing from the
close of the present autumn. The means of relief placed
at the disposal of the guaraians being limited, it
will ba a source of satisfaction hereafter, both to the
public and to the guardians themselves, if nothing
bc left undone to make the utmost use of
those means, so far as may be found necessary, especially
in the relief of the primary objects of the Irish poor-
law—aged, infirm, or otherwise disabled persons, to
whore relief the recent measures of Parliament, enacted
for the employment of labour, apply only in an indirect
manner, and who may therefore be expected to form the
class most liable to destitution in consequence of the pre-
sent calamity.
What number of inmates may be safely and properly
accommodated in each department of the workhouse is a
question upon which the guardians will not fail to con-
sult their medical officer, from time to time, as occasion
may require.
" With reference to any change of the workhouse
dietary, which may become desirable, through failure
"of a supply of sound potatoe4, the Commissioners call
the attention of the guardians to their sealed order of
.the 27th October last, which remains in full force, au-
thorising such departure from the prescribed form of
dietary as to the guardians, subject to the approval of
the Commissioners, shall seem fitting and expedient.N
" The assistant-commissioner, in superintendence of
the union, is specially instructed to afford the guardians
on this occasion all the assistance and co-operation it
may be in his power to give.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant,

" B. BANKS, Clerk First Class.
" To the Clerk to the Guardians, Lisburn-Union."
SUPPLIES OF FOOD.
LIMERICK, SEPT. 12.—The Alban steamer dis-
charged " bread stuff" this day at the quay, and the
Pluto returns to Tarbert with a supply of coals for the
Stromboli.

The Stromboli steam-frigate, Captain Fisher, has ar-
rived at Tarbert, from Cork, with a full cargo of
"bread stuff-," for the Commissariat in this city, which
are being transrerred to the Alban and Pluto Govern-
ment steamers, and landed at the quays here. The
Stromboli from eleven until ono o'clock on Monday, op-
posite Whitebay, Cove, fired 68-pound shot and large
shells, at a target moored off Rostellan, a distance of
two miles. The bursting of the shells in the air had a
grand effect.

THE ARMY.
LIMERICK, SEPT. 12.—The 83d regiment, in this
garrison, unexpectedly received a countermand on
Thursday morning, from the Quartermaster-General's
office, Dublin, and will, it is supposed, remain for the
winter. The first division was to have marched hence
yesterday morning for Dablin, and the baggage was
actually packed up.
The 55th regiment landed in Cork, from Devonport,
en route to this garrison, are also countermanded, and
will remain in their present quarters.
THE CROPS IN THE WEST.
_ . _

We have lat3ly had an opportunity of inspecting per-
sonally the state of the crops in a large district of this
county, and with regret we are obliged to say that one
universal scene of desolation, so far as regarded the
potato crop, presented itself to our view. We feel as-
sured that, in a fortnight at furthest, there will not be a
sound potato in the county of Galway. The oat crop,
in saving and cutting down which the people were tor
the most part engaged during the week, promises a fair
return, but not so abundant as was that of the last year,
and wheat, which is all safely lodged in the haggard,
appears to yield more than an average return. If kept
in the country, there would be plenty of provisions for
the support of the people, but if some check be not
given to exportation, we have the worst apprehensions
for the safety of the nation.
We are happy to state that on Wednesday night the
hardy fishermen of the Claddagh met with more success
than has attended their labours on any occasion during
the present season, several of the boats engaged in the
herring fishery have taken over three thousand each. We
sincerely hope they will prove even more fortunate in
future, and that there will be.. a good supply of fish for
the use of the poor as well as for the rich. The price at
market on Thursday was 13s. per thousand. Yesterday
there was a good supply of coarse fish at Market._
Galway Mercury of Saturday.

MEH ;,MET ALI and THE SULTAN

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 27.—A notion seenis to have
got abroad that Mt hemet Ali was not well received
here : that he was designedly humbled, and subjected to
many slights and indignities by the Sultan and his
ministers. There is not a word of truth in all this : and
a fact or two will at once prove the contrary. It is said
that he was treated like a common Pacha. He might.
have been so treated without any violation of etiquette.
But when did the Sultan ever advance into the ante-
chamberof his hall of audience to take a common Pacha by
the hand and lead him to a seat placed on the same level
with his own? When was a kiosque of the Sultan ever
placed at the disposal of a common Pacha? When was a
common Paella everinvited to dine with the Sultan Valide?
None of these favours have ever been known to have
been conferred on any mere subject of the Sultan, how-
ever. illustrious ; nor were the two last ever extended
before, even to a crowned head. They must be taken,
therefore, as untnistakeable tokens of the high distinc-
tion with which the Sultan intended to receive the
Viceroy of Egypt. Nothing can be more at variance
with the character of Abd ul-Medjid than that he should
have taken advantage of the voluntary visit of Mehemet
Ali to pay off old scores by a peevish stinting of honour
and hospitality, and to requite the wars of an illustrious
rebel by such little revenges as a woman might use, of
frowns and turnings of the back. No—whatever the
Sultan's faults may be, he is emphatically a gentleman.
His conduct towards Mehemet Ali has been marked
throughout with dignity; he had it in his power to mortify
the foe of his house, and that under the pretext of a cere-
monious necessity, by levelling him with the herd of his
vessels. But he preferred to treat that foe generously,
and to show him all the distinction he could without com-
promising his own relation as sovereign paramount.
Much stress has been laid upon the fact of no salute be-
ing fired when Mehemet Ali took his departure. This
arose from the pretension of the Viceroy to be answered
by as many guns as he gave—namely 21—as if he were
an independent sovereign ; whereas the Porte declined
to consider him as of higher rank than the Grand Vizier,
who upon such an occasion would receive only nineteen
gun,. Therefore it was agreed that no guns should
be fired on either side. Nor was this the only point
in which Mehemet Ali comported himself in
regal style. He insisted that he should not be re-
qaired to return the visits of ministers ; in which pre-
tension he was humoured, and Kiamil Pacha was
charged with the vicarious acknowledgment of these.
It is sail, that during his first interview with the Sultan,
he shed tears; and excused himself humbly for the harsh
proceedings to which he had been driven against Mah-
moud. Upon receiving the assurance which he implored
of the Saltax's pardon, he is reported to have said, with
much effusion of feeling, "I was the slave of your
Majesty; you emancipated me ; but now lam become
t}ourhat
ss,l)tervteoaig•otir a speech not entirely destitute of
iiio;'n'tal grace which the Turks accuse
him of being deficient in. The Sultan presented him
with a diamond, worth 2,500 purses, excusing the
smallness of the gift. Mehemet Ali replied, that had
it been a pebble, that he should henceforth rank the
present above all his other jewels. People are wild
here to know the meaning of this strange visit. The most
improbable and contradictory reports prevail. One is,
that the Viceroy's journey was prompted by the desire
of changing the succession of his kingdom in favour of
Abbas Paella, whom he left governor ad interim, and of
excluding Ibrahim. I confess this idea appears to me
extremely unlikely, considering the great superiority of

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Ibrahim to Abbas in point of talent, while the old Vice-
roy, shows no signs of that dotage which could dictate so
undesirable a change. Be this as it may, it is cent 'n
that nothing less than political ends of the greatest im-
portance could hate dictated so enormous an outlay ; for
besides 2t)0,000i which he brought with,him, he is said
to have drawn on the bankers here, to the tune of
150,0004

FREE TRADE IN PRANCE.
At a numerous agricultural meeting which took place
on the Bth inst., at Famine (Seine Inferieure), which
wee attended by several thousand farmers, agriculturists,
and manufacturers, the Chairman (M. Barbet, Peer of
FronceVook occasion to attack, in a prepared discourse,
the Free Trade Society. Fortunately, one of the most
enlightened of the members of this association, M.
Anisson Duperron, Peer of France, as as on the platform
beside the chairman ; he immediately accepted the chal-
lenge made by M. Barbet, his impromptu speech being
received with much favour by an auditory that could
not be supposed prepossessed. In his speech M. Du-
perron said that when invited to take part in that agri-
cultural fe'e,. he had not been informed of the attack
which their chairman meditated on a national, serious,
and important association, to which he had the honour
to belongs He was a zealous member of the association
recently and legally formed in favour of the principles
of freedom of trade ; it was, therefore, his duty to take
upon: himself its defence, and their indulgence would
excuse him if an attack, entirely unforeseen in a meet-
ing such as'that, found him without preparation to meet
and repulse it. No, their association was not inimical
to the national industry, for it had been constituted pur-
posely to aid it in circumstances of the greatest danger
by which it had ever been menaced, and which, perhaps,
many among them did not perceive ; the very existence
of their foreign commerce was at stake. In favour of
their prohibitive system of duties their Chairman ap •
pealed to the measures of reform recently introduced in
England against the same system by that able minister
Sir R. Peel. Those who now held such language should
permit him to say, that they understood neither the cha-
racter nor the tendency of that great revolution ; if they
would grant him a few moments attention he would
briefly explain it. England had declared the complete,
actual, and radical abolition of taxes on raw materials
entering as primary elements into the composition of
her productions of all kinds. On this condition she
hopes ta produce at a very low price, and renounces the
principle of protection by tariffs against similar foreign
productions. Let them consider the consequences of
that measure on the two great industries of which they
there that day represented the interests, in the very
place in which they were then assembled, those were
the agricultural interests and the cotton manufacture.
He could not speak of their relations of direct trade
with England ; they would undergo but few changes,
se long as they persisted in the tariff regulations of
which their Hon. Chairman had invoked the mainte-
nance. Let them rather speak of the foreign markets,
into which they felt the necessity of pouring the sur-
plus of their products ; where these prohibitions had no
access, where they
.would experience the inevitable com-
petition of the foreigners, and where they must present
their goods at prices relatively as low as his. How
would they sustain in those markets the competition of
unburdened products, freed from all those charges
which weighed down their own productions, when be-
yond this the inventive genius and persevering activity of
the English producer should be still more excited by the
necessities of a competition he has not feared himself to
attack and provoke ? He told them, with sorrow and
conviction, that if they followed the counsels that had
been given them, their exportations were at an end. Did
they know what their tax on iron cost their agriculture
alone ? He had the right of saying it there, for he had
detailed the-incontestable calculation, even in the tribune
of the Chamber of Deputies, supporting it by the very
documents of his adversaries themselves, and that calcu-
lation had remained uncontested. To agriculture, and
agriculture alone, that tax cost more than forty million
francs a year, and that solely for the profit of the
owners of forests and coal mines, without a single
penny of i 1 entering the coffers of the State. As to
the cotton manufacturers, their Chairman and the
hon urable manufacturers by whom he was sur-
rounded, and who were listening to him (M. Duperron),
well knew that they paid for taxes on the raw material
they used, independently of iron and coal. Did they be-
lieve that it was by quietly sleeping behind their pro-
tective tariffs that they would be able to oppose free
trade England in foreign markets ? England was
not asleep ; she had long attacked them by differential
duties and protective imports of all sorts, and France had
parried with the same weapons, to the misfortune of both
countries. Now, in spite of the cries, and the rage and
fury of her agricultural producers, England has opened
her ports to the grains of all countries, and consequently
to the products of every industry. She attacks all
rivality by liberty. Let them reflect on that. That
was a powerful flag ! It was not they who were to be
taught that. There was but one method in the world of
subduing the diamond ; it could not be cut but by the
aid of the diamond • in the same way, it was only by
the aid of liberty that liberty could be resisted. Let
them have confidence in that and in themselves, and
they would succeed ; and if they followed the road that
their Chairman advised them, they would be beaten and
driven from every market in the world by low prices,
and they would perish and succumb under the blows of
freedom. We advise the defenders of protection through-
out France well to consider these few remarks of M.
Anisson Duperron. They show how extensive and how
rapid has been the progress of free trade principles in
that country—principles which will, it is to be hoped,
incite her to more peaceful emulation with England than
has hitherto been the case.

CLEVER DETECTION.—A gentleman residing at the
village of Muttonhole, who had occasion to be in Edin-

burgh in the course of Monday, hired a minibus in the
evening to convey him home. After leaving town, the
gentleman, who was accompanied by a friend, fell asleep
in the minibus, as did also his companion. On reaching
his destination, he was somewhat surprised to find, that
from, the time he entered the cab his money was miss-
ing. Being convinced that it must have been taken
from his person while asleep, be determined to secure
the driver and another cabman who was along with him,
till such time as the matter was cleared,up. Accord-
ingly, on alighting from the vehicle, he asked both of
these individuals to bring into his house some articles
which he had purchased in Edinburgh, and which were
lying in the bottom of the carriage. The parties, not
suspecting the object he had in view, readily complied.
On their reaching a room with their burdens, the gen-
tleman 'closed the door, and placed his back against it,
to prevent their egress till the arrival of the constable
at the village, for whom he had sent. The constable,
whose name is Beaton, on his arrival, on being informed
what had happened, searched the bottom of the mini-
bus, and amongst the straw he found 81. inclosed in three
separate paroles. This sum being 3/. short of the loss
sustained by the gentleman, the search was continued,
when the remainder of the money was discovered con-
cealed in the cushion of the driver's seat. Both cab-
men were thereupon taken into custody, and were on
Tuesday remitted by the sheriff for trial.—Scotch paper.
A SHERIFF'S OFFICER OUTWITTED.—It is, indeed,
very seldom that a sheriff's officer " nabs" it himself
whilst " nabbing" others, but on Thursday night week,
Mr. Edmund Hartley, the sheriff's officer at Rochdale,
caught a Tartar in the person of Mr. John Taylor, of
Howarth-cross. Mr. Hartley having called in at a
public-house, the Chapel House, in Rochdale, about half-
past eleven o'clock on Thursday night, met Mr. John
Taylor there by accident, against whom he held a war-
rant, granted upon an attachment out of the Court of
Chancery, for a contempt, in not putting in Ws answer
to a bill filed on behalf of the infant children of the late
Edmund Turner, Esq. Hartley having made Taylor
acquainted with the unpleasant document in his
pocket, claimed him as his prisoner. Taylor begged
that his- situation might not be exposed, and re-
quested the officer to accompany him to his re-
sidence to obtain some papers he had there,
and which were necessary to enable him to pre
pare and put in his answer. Hartley consented,
and they proceeded to Taylor's house in a cab, Mr. Par-
tington, a solicitor, at Rochdale, and a friend or ac-
quaintance of Taylor's, and who was present, accom-
panying them by riding outside with the driver. The
cab was ordered to pull up about 300 yards from the
-house.. _Here they dese:nded, and proceeded towards it,
and, on arriving, Taylor went up stairs, followed by
Hartley. Taylor then took from a drawer in his bed-
room a small pocket-book (supposed to contain his
money), and then said he was ready. They left the
house, and after proceeding some distance towards the
cab on their return, Taylor. put . out his foot and gave
Hartley a most tremendous blow in the face, which
stunned him and knpcked him down, as well as some of
his teeth into his throat. Taylor made off across the
fields, and has not since been, heard of. The sheriff's
officer, we understand, has suffered most severely from
the blow, and has not been able to eat or swallow, any-
thing since. A reward is offered for the apprehension
of Taylor.—Local Paper.
A WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BROUGHT TO JUDO-
MENT.—On Tuesday the sitting magistrates at the pub-
lic office were called upon to adjudicate in a case wherein
one William Shakespeare appeared to answer a charge
brought by a rosy, good-looking female of the Dame
Quickly department, for that he, the said Willie, had
made use of divers threatening expressions, the fulfil-
ment of which would have led to the annihilation of not
only the good-looking complainant, but also the happy
man who gloried in calling her wife. The lady having
made the bench sensible of the nature of her complaint,
" the very head and front of his offending," which by the
way had its origin over an ash-hole, the defendant was
called upon for his defence. William Shakespeare here-
upon stood forth, a diminutive man, with a coast-of
Guinea complexion, a full dark eye, " in a fine frenzy
rolling," and a mouth, the measurement of which ap-
peared admirably calculated to "speak volumes." Hav-
ing placed himself in an oratorical attitude, the defen-
dant began by saying—" His dear and honourable
wife—dear to him as the ruddy drops that visited
his sad heart—had informed him, what time he re-
paired to the home she sanctified to renovate his strength
by eating his dinner, that the complainant had accused
her or for man and wife are one body '—of crimes
at which his blood curdled, and which made his hair to
stand on end, 'like quills upon the fretful porcupine.'"
The namesake of the immortal bard was hero requested
to come to the point, when he most energetically and
pathetically prayed that he might be heard for his cause.
"It is the cause, it is tha cause, my soul ; yet Pll not
shed --." The complainant was here asked if she
really feared the defendant would do her some injury ;
and on her answering in the affirmative, the gentle
Willie was bound over to keep the peace and pay 6s. 6d.
expenses, upon which—his eyes turned up, the mouth
extended its unfair proportions, and with a look "dark
as Erebus," William Shakespeare left the court, mutter-
ing that he "stood upon his bond, "which he was re-
commended by the court religiously to keep.—Birming-
ham Advertiser.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE

CROWN-OFFICE, SEPT. 14, 1846.
ME3IiIER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR,

LIAMENT.
Borough of Derby—Edward t.strutt, Esq.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset.
West Sottierset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieut.
W. A. Sanford to be Captain, rice Blake, resigned, Sept. 9;
Lieut. C. N. Welman to be Captain, vice Lethbridge, re-
sioied ; Cornet T. J. Clarke to be Lieutenant, vice Welman,
pronoted, Sept. 10.

BANKRUPTS.
Henry Drysdale, auctioneer, Lamb's Conduit-street, to
surrender Sept. 25, at three, and Oct 27, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assir;ree, Abchurch-
lane, Lombard-street; Van Sandatt and Cumming, King..
street, Cheapside.
John Hardy, cat tl e, deal er, Castle Doni n gton, Lekestersh i re,
Sept. 17 and Oct. 20, at twelve, et the Birmingham District
Court. Bit tleston, official assignee, Virmintgliam ; Scott and
Tahourdin, Lincoln's Inn- fields ; Smith, Birmingham.
Henry Deverill, corn-factor, Stoke•upon-Trent, Stafford-
shire, Sept. 29 and Oct. 15, at ten, at the Bit mingharn Dis-
trict Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Wads-
worth, Nottinghanr; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
William Mullinger Higgins, laceman, Birmingham, Oct.
3 and 31, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
official assignee, Birmingham; Everest and Co., Hatton-
garden.
Peter M'Shane, cattle dealer, Dundalk, Ireland, Sept, 25.
and Oct. 20, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Cszenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Messrs. Gregory and
Co.. Bedford-row ; Green, Liverpool.
William Warburton, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct.
5, at half-past ten, and Nov. 5, at half-past one, at the New-
castle upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
-Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Jobling, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
- Bell, prod( rick, and Bel. Bow Ciairck•yard.
Jonas Milnes, Joseph Lang, Joseph Wiiby, and Thomas
Brook, blanket manufacturers, Littletown, Xorkshire, Sept.
26, and Oct. 24, at eleven, at the LeedsDistrictCortrt. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds; Jaques and Edwards, Ely-place,
Holborn ; Bettye and Firth. Birstal ; Bond, Leeds.