The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1842. 4-

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

TIMES.—Now that the Income-tax Bill has passed into a
law, the public must be prepared for its vigorous and prompt
execution. It transpired in the City this morning, what may
be received, perhaps, as the commencement of it, that the
clerks at the Bank of England are busily engaged in making
the calculations for such deductions as will have to be made,
under that Act, for the dividends payable in next month. As
the Act dates from the sth of April last, there will be, it is pre-
sumed, a tax of half a year. or 3d. in the pound on the July
payments, where the total income of the parties exceeds 1501.
per annum. Such is the quantity of business which is created
at the Bank under this new arrangement, that most of the
clerks, it is expected, will be deprived of the summer holyday,
which they have enjoyed heretofore.
The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 40k, and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being. 25 50, it follows
that gold is 0.38 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 429 per
mark, which, at the English l‘lint price of 31. 17s. 101,4 d. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 7, and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 Bi, it
follows that gold is 0.69 per cent. dearer in London than in
Hamburgh.
By the official returns published by the Customs, the export
of the precious metals to foreign and colonial ports for the week
ending Thursday last, were as under, viz.:— Ounces.
Silver coin to Hamburgh 122,000
Silver coin to Madras and Calcutta 20,000
Silver bars to Hamburgh 38,534
In the foreign exchanges there was not much doing, the rate
for bills upon Hamburgh again further recovered from the de-
pression recently experienced. Amsterdam was rather higher,
and Paris remained the same.
A letter has been received from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in
which the writer states that the alterations recently made in
the conveyance there of mails from London are daily producing
great dissatisfaction. The morning mail, which until the 29th
ult„ used to arrive at nine o'clock in the forenoon, has been
discontinued, and the consequence is that only one mail a day
from London is received, and that at a most inconvenient hour,
since letters cannot be delivered in Newcastle before three
o'clock P.M., when the business of the day is over. Thus a
whole day is lost in the correspondence with London, while
still greater inconveniences are suffered with respect to com-
munications with the Continent. Thus, on Tuesday last, the
Dutch and German malls not arriving till the afternoon, three
days were lost before the mails were made up in London for
Hamburgh, and nearly double that time before they could be
made up for Rotterdam. As a remedy, our correspondent sug-
gests that the mail-coach from Lancaster to Newcastle, by
Stanemore and Bishop Auckland, should start from Lancaster
when the train from London arrived in the evening, or that the
way of York should be taken, by which route there is a railway
communication to Darlington. Either of these methods would,
he says, give Newcastle the advantage of an early mail.

LAW INTELLItirENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, June 8.
HARVEY V. HARVEY.
The arguments in this cause, which had been part-heard yes-
terday, were resumed to-day.
The principal question turned upon the construction of the
will and codicil of Peter Harvey, which bore date 1816. The
details, which were of considerable length, were totally devoid
of interest.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Mine 8.
The COURT was engaged the whole morning in hearing the
arguments in the case of the Duke of Beaufort v. Gough. The
question in dispute was as to the right of property in a certain
waste fn the Lordship of Gower, underneath which there
were valuable veins of coal and of stone. The Duke
had brought an action of ejectment, and had gained a
verdict. Sir Thomas Wilde hid obtained a ruli nisi for a new
trial on the ground, first, of misdirection by the Judge, and,
secondly, that the verdict was against evidence.
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL showed cause against the rule.

BAIL COURT, June 8.
No case which would justify a repot came before the Court
•

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 8.
The Court went through a number of cases on the special
paper ; no point of any general interest was raised in the
course of the argument..

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, June 8.
IN RE WILLIAM FELTON BANNERMAN.
The insolvent was mate on board the Royal Mail Packet for
India, in which capacity he was allowed to supply the crew
with articles of clothing, but having entered upon further spe-
culations, which were disallowed by the Admiralty, the unsold
goods were landed at Southampton, where they were detained
in the Queen's Dock, and would become available to the
creditors on the return duties being paid.
His application to the Court was to be admitted to bail until
the day of hearing.—Granted.
IN ILE. JOHN JAMES FRASER.
The insolvent in this case was a vocalist, well known at all
the minor theatres, and who had also been a favourite at
Drury-lane some time back. He passed through the Court
in the latter end of the year 1840, and now appeared aga'n to be
discharged on bail until his final hearing.
Bail having justified in the sum of 1401., he was ordered to
be discharged.
The Court was generally occupied during the morning in
hearing uninteresting applications for bail.

APPEAL COURT, Doctors'-Commons, June 7.

WOOD AND OTHERS P. GOODLAEE, HELPS, AND OTHERS

The last stage in the long-pending contest for the money of
the rich Gloucester banker was reached to-day, and the
struggle, now the main point is decided, was carried on with
the same vigour and animosity which has characterised every
step of the proceedings. The bill of costs was offered for sig-
nature to this Court (in which the formal business of the Pre-
rogative Court is generally transacted) by the proctors for the
several parties who have claimed either as heirs, or legatees, or
executors from James Wood. It will be recollected that the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council pronounced in favour
of the validity of the paper presented by Sir M. Wood and the
other executors named therein, but directed the costs of all the
parties to be paid out of the estate.
Mr. Bum:Tom, the proctor for Mr. Hitchens, who was ad-
mitted a next of kin of the deceased, but who has since died,
presenteil his taxed bills of costs. The principal bill for the
main cause amounted to 1,311/. 13s. I Id., and there were
three other bills, the first of which was 486/. I Is. Sd., tho
second 2,6761. 12s. 3d., and the third 171/. 4s. Bd.
Mr. LONGDEN, proctor for the executors, was directed to
oppose the bills, as taxed by the Registrar, and prayed to be
heard on his petition against them.
Mr. BUCKT )N denounced this proceeding as unheard-of.
The executors of the late Mr Wood, who had unexpectedly
come into possession of all his wealth, were desirous, by a
quirk and quibble of the law, of preventing him from obtaining
his fair costs. lie asked to be sworn as to the truth and accu-
racy of the bills, as in case of his death no one could recover
them, and the executors would then escape aly.gether.
The COURT granted its permission, and Mr. Buckton took
the customary oath as to the correctness of the items in the
bills of costs.
Mr. LONGIDEN—But the Court will net at once sign the bills?

Dr. DAUBENY—Certainly not.
Mr. TOKER., the proctor for Sirs. Goodlake (another of the
parties opposing the validity of the papers propounded by Sir
M. Wood, arid claiming as next of kin), then presented his
taxed bills of costs. The first7was for 1,4741. 2s. 9d., the
second fer 3961. 12s. 3d., the third for 2,6281., and the fourth
for 2841. Is. A similar conversation took place in this as in
the former case, with the addition of Dr. Phillimore expressing
his opinion that the proceedings were disgraceful to the prac-
tice of the Court. It ended by the Court expressing its deter-
mutation to refer the whole ease to the Privy Council when the
petition against the bills had been brought in. The bills of Mr.
Pulley, proctor for Mr. Helps, was also given in. but in con-
sequence of his absence from illness, the consideration of them
was postponed. They amounted, severally, to the sums of
3,2741. 13s. ld., 6921. 19s. 9d., and 4,1381. 12s. Ild., making
altogether 8,1051. sq. 9d.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREE7'.

Mary Smith, a very old woman, was charged with stealing
9id. in copper from a till.
Sarah Rossiter, the keeper of a beer-shop in Great St. An-
drew-street, St. Giles, stated that the prieir.er went into her
shop on Tuesday and called for half %pint of porter, with which
she was served, and which she remained at the bar to drink.
Witness retired far a moment into another room, and imme-
diately afterwards she heard the till rattling ; she returned to
the shop directly, and observed the prisoner's hand in the till ;
the hand was immediately withdrawn and the prisoner placed
it in her bosom. The money was found upon her.
The prisoner, in defence, s/ aced that she was drunk, and did
not kno x what she was about.
11r. Twyvoan fully committed her to take her trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Caroline Bigsworth, aged 22, was placed at the bar for final
examination, charged with having attempted to destroy the lite
of Selina Just, her illegitimate female infant, and afterwards to
commit suicide. _

The particulars of this most digressing case have already
appeared. It will be recollected that the prisoner had lodged
at the house, No. 3, Clarence-street, St. Luke's, in eohabita-
tion with the father of the child, a brass-founder, named Charles
Just, who deserted her, on Monday se'nnight, and was said to
have since lived with another woman. After his departure the
prisoner was observed by her fellow-lodgers to be in a very low
and desponding state, and, on the succeeding Friday morning,
one of them discovered her suspended from a rope in the back
kitchen, and the child was soon afterwards found lying on the
bed insensible, and at the point of death from the effects of
drowning. A pail was found in the room containing some
gallons of water, in which it was afterwards ascertained that the
wretched woman had immersed the child until life appeared
extinct; after which she laid it on the bed, and proceeded to
the kitchen, in order to conclude the tragedy with self-destruc-
tion. Both the mother and the child were at the last extre-
mity when they were discovered, but through the prompt
and persevering exertions of a medical gentleman, named
Mack, their lives were saved. A letter was found in the priso-
ner's room, addressed to the mat► Just, in which she appr►sed
him of her criminal designs; and, in simple and touching lan-
guage, intimated a desire that the child and herself might be
placed in the same coffin, and that the expenses of the funeral
would be defrayed by the authorities of Walthamstow, to which
parish she belonged.
The depositions of the several witnesses having been com-
pleted, they were read over by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, in
the presence of the prisoner.
In answer to some questions from the Magistrate, respecting
her intimacy with the man Just, the prisoner, in low and
broken accents, said that she became acquainted with him about
three years ago, and was in the service of a • family living in
Bislaopsgate-street when he effected her ruin. The child was
born about a year and nine months ago, and she had been since
living with a family at Islington, but about seven weeks sinew
Just induced her, under a solemn promise of marriage, to leave
her situation, and place herself under his protection.
The child, a lovely little creature, was in Court during the
investigation, and its serene and smiling looks were in strong
contrast with the heavy and heart-broken aspect of its un.
happy mother.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that although he could not help sym-
pathising with the situation of the unfortunate prisoner, who
was the victim of the most cruel and heartless villany, it was
his duty to prevent an impression from going abroad that any
degree of ill usage or suffering that a woman could sustain would
justify her in committing the dreadful crime of attempting to
destroy the life of her innocent child. He sheuld commit the
prisoner for trial, but it was his sincere hope that the Court
would deem it compatible with the public safety to take a mer •
ciful view of the case. —The prisoner was fully committed.

ADVERTISEMENT.—D ENTITION.—There is per haps 110
part cf the human frame which more admirably exemplifies the
wisdom and bounty oft he Creator than the structure andarrange-
ment of the Teeth ; for while among the animal races, some
tribes are endowed with teeth which allow them to live only on
vegetable diet ; Others being furnished with an apparatus cal-
culated only for animal food.; man is provided with teeth which
render him omnivorous, and enable him to live either on animal
or vegetable substances, as either may be most conducive to his
well-being. The embellishment, care and preservation of these
important parts of the hue an economy are objects highly im-
portant ; and, among the various preparations offered for the
purpose, the (Mont°. invented by Messrs. Rowland. of Hatton-
garden, stands unrivalled as a dentifrice, excelling all others in
its capability of embellishing, purifying, and preserving the
teeth and gams.

MORBID NOTORIETY, AND AT-

TEMPT TO FRIGHTEN THE QUEEN
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUP.

SIR-I highly approve of your remarks upon the proceedings
against John Francis. He could not have any possible motive
for attempting the Queen's life, and should at once be pro-
nounced mad, and for ever secluded from public view.
I have not the slightest idea that either he or Oxford ever
attempted the Queen's life. Men do not commit murder with-
out a motive, and they could not have had any object in at-
tempting the life of our amiable and beloved Queen.
Oxford wished for notoriety. He laughed in his sleeve at
the formal and legal proceedings against him, and facetiously
asked—is she killed—is the bullet found? knowing perfectly
well that ex nihilo nihil fit. .

The same with Francis, who says there was no ball in the
pistol. I have not the least doubt hut that he speaks the truth,
and I most fully and firmly believe him.
These young madmen should be treated with humanity, but
the public never should be allowed even to see them ; and
these attempts to frighten our beloved Queen will then lose
their romance and notoriety, and we shall hear no more of them.
I also approve of your remarks upon the " disgusting thea-
trical exhibition made of Daniel Good," and hope the public
voice will prevent a repetition of these scenes.
I can only attribute these exhibitions to a desire of adminis-
tering to a disordered and depraved feeling, and the attendance
of ladies on these occasions can only be compared to the Roman
matrons witnessing the convulsive agonies of the dying gla-
diators. Ido most sincerely hope we shall reform these dis-
gusting exhibitions, and that the greatness of a man's crime
will not be considered any reason for showing him the greatest
kindness, attention, and consideration.
We can well imagine that Good did not believe he was to be
hanged, when he received so much kind and marked attention
from ladies and gentlemen ; and when, though in perfect health,
he had coffee and port wine, or any other indullence that he
might fancy, even to the putting off the prison dress. Let such
criminals only be allowed the common prison diet and din•
cipline, and no strangers ever be permitted to see them, and
then they will soon cease to be the admired heroes of our fair
countrywomen. Your most obedient servant,
June 6. EPHESUS.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS.

On Saturday evening Mr. Walker, the President of the In-
stitution of Civil Engineers, gave his annual converzazione.
As is usual, in addition to a most hosi.itable reception, he sup-
plied ample food for curiosity by a remarkably well selected
collection of works of art and models of machinery, all of
which our limits will not permit us to particularise. The
Admiralty had, with becoming liberality, sent a number of
their beautiful models of men if war, showing the superi-
ority of the mode of construction introduced by Sir Wil-
liam Symonds and his assistant, Mr. Edye. Near these
were appropriately placed a collection of models of improved
marine engines, by Maudslay and Field, Miller, Seaward, and
Fairburn. From among the multitude of other models may
be selected Dockray's self-acting signal ter railways, mallets
for raising ships, the Maplin Sand Lighthouse, by Messrs.
Walker and Burgess, bridges by Gravatt, Roe's arrangements
for cleansing sewers, Captain Reid's water-wheel, Oldham's
machine for numbering bank-notes, Palmer's corrugated cast-
iron roof, and a beautiful collection of tools made by Bodmer,
of Manchester. Cheverton's mechanical carvings in ivory,
and Braithwaite's pressed carvings in wood, exhibited the
close alliance subsisting between the fine and mechanical
arts; Dent's astronomical clock, made for the Emperor of
Russia, and that with Professor Airy's new scapemerit, at-
tracted much attention • as did also the models of Wilton
Church and the Cambridge Courts, by Salter, from the designs
of Wyatt and Brundon ; and that of Railton's Nelson memo-
rial column, with the simple and mechanically contrived scaf-
folding with which Grissell and ?eto are now erecting it. A
bugle-horn, covered with platinum, by means of Mons. Roulz's
electro-galvanic process, showed a very successful substitution
of a chemical for a mechanical process.

First among the specimens of the fine arts must be placed
Thoings Landseer's beautiful engraving of the beautiful Miss
Power; some portfolios of spirited sketches by Nixon, and, by
Oliver ; and Tatham's striking likeness of the Lablache, may
also be singled out without making an invidious distinction.
Bailey's busts of Fuseli and Stoddart, and his model group of
charity, of course were admirable, and it was scarcely fair to
place so near them the busts of the President and Mr. Sibley,
which were modelled by J. E. Jones, in which, however, so
much talent vt as displayed that he has little cause to be dis-
tif stied at any comparison, especially as we learned that he has
hitherto laboured with amateur love at the art of modelling,
being professionally a civil engineer. The principal model-
room was too brilliantly lighted by Faraday's light—the same
as that which illuminated the throne-room at the Queen's
late fete. Defries exhibited his ingenious dry gas-meter in
the same room ; and the other rooms were lighted by Wil-
kins's dioptric lamps, and Cross and Blackwell's improvement
upon Palmer's candle-lamps, which appeared to be really an
improvement.
The attendance of the Council and Members of the Institu-
tion was so numerous as to point out wherein lay the strength
of the body over which Mr. Walker so efficiently presides.
The visitors also were very numerous, and many of them were
of high rank and distinction. The Duke of Wellington made
the complete circuit of the rooms, and examined everythtng
with so much interest, as to make us envious of Mr. Manb),
the Secretary, who had the agreeable duty of attending his
Grace, and affording him any explanation he needed. Among
five or six hundred visitors we noticed particularly—His Grace
the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl
of Devon, Lord Bexley, Lord Lowther, Lord Monteagle, Lord
Blayney, Baron Rolfe, the Right Hon. the Speaker of the
House of Commons.

SlRS—William Burnett, George Rose, Henry Ellis, M. J.
Brunel, Peter Laurie, William Pearson, George Mu+ ray, Dun-
can M'Dougal, Jephson Norreys, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Chas.
Clarke, Edward Cust.
General Pasley ; Admiral Dundas ; Colonel Sykes ; Majors
Anderson, M'Clintock, Mercer ; Captains Norton, Locke,
Groves, Porter, Henderson, Doran, Vetch, Probyn, Kinnaird,
Goodwyn, Brandreth, Beaufort, Johnson, G. Smith, T. Dick-
enson ; Lieutenant Amsinck.

The Reverend Lonsdale, Principal of King's College.
PROFESS° as—Wheatstone, Vignoles, Cowper, Len is, Hall,
Hosking, Partridge.
DOCTORS —Farraday. Simpson, Willis, Ure, Liston, Reid,
Arnott, Ruckland, Paris, Granville.
Massas.—Mackinnon, M.P., Herties, M.P., Headley, C.
Wood, M.P., Pendarves, M.P., Hodgson, M.P.
Chevalier Benkhausen, Consul-General for Russia.

Scum.Tons—Messrs. Bailey, Rivers, Wyon.
ARCHITECTS—Messrs. Fowler, Hardy, Moore, Hogg, Cant-
well, Bossevi, Stulers (to King of Prussia); Stack (to King
of Prussia), Chawncr, Hopper. Barry, Ferrey, Newman,
Angell, Crake, KPy, Abraham, Woolley, Shaw, Wyatt, Hake-
well, Brandon. Tite.
ARTISTS—Messrs. Stanfield, Knight, T. Landseer, C. Land-
seer, Doyle, Stone, Boxall, Stephanoff, Scanlan, Smith Smith,
Lake Price, Hullah, &c. &c.

The guests separated at a late hour, delighted with the re-
ception afforded them by their host, and with unanimous wishes
for the success of so useful and well-conducted an institution►
as that of the Civil Engineers, which is fortunate in possessing
so hospitable as well as so scientific a president.

THE " PROTESTANT CONFEDE-

RATION" OF BittMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY.—The following is a reply frem
Sir James Graham to an Address, which waa forwarded to him
for presentation to her Majesty, by the Members of the " Pro-
testant Confederationof Birmingham ."
" Whitehall, June 4, 1842.
_ _

" Sir—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to
acknowledge the receipt of a written paper, addressed to her
Majesty, in the following terms:—
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.—Most Gracious
Sovereign, we, your Majesty's most, loyal and dutiful subjects,
the Members of the Protestant Confederation of Loyal
Orangemen of Birmingham and its vicinity, beg leave most
humbly to approach your Majesty's throne with the most heart-
felt abhorrence of the treasonable attempt which has been
made upon your Majesty's life and person.
"' Anti while we would on one hand adore that Divine Pio-
vidence which has thrice protected your Majesty fromiihe hand
of an assassin, we would also implore the same Divine Provi-
dence that it may continue to watch over and protect your
Majesty from treasonable violence and Popish machination.
" Signed on behalf of the Gmfederation,
" WM. FRENCH, Grand District Master,
6, Smallbrook- street.
" WM. GREATWOOD, Worshipful Master,
Prince of Wales's Lodge.'
" And I am to inform you that Sir James Graham is of opinion,
this is an address which he ought not to present to her Majesty
for acceptance. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" To Mr. W. French." " S. M. PHILLIPS.

THE LATE COL. DEIVIIII.E;
Amongst the losses which we hive this 1
depl6re, is that of the gallant Col. Del-,ne, who fell
leading his regiment (11. M. 13th) against the enemy
at Jellalabad on the Gth April, Col. a mile entered
the Royal Army as an Ensign on the Ist January;
1800; was promoted to Lieutenat, by parCbils
.on the 4th August, 1804 ; to Captain, by pur-
chase, 4th October, 1810 ; to Major, by purchase, on
the 19th April, 1821 ; and finally to Lieutenant-Co-
lonel, also by purchase, on the Gth July, 1832, having
been the whole forty-two years of his service on
full pay. Tie served in Incta during the campaign
under Lord Lake in 1825-26—was present at the
capture of the Isle of France in 1810—and greatly
distinguished himself during the Burmese war in 1826-7
where he was severely wounded. In acknowledgment
of his services on this occasion, the Order of the Bath
was conferred upon him. lie was with the army
throughout the Afghan war, from 1828, to the period
of his death. He led the storming party at Ghuznee,
and was the first man within the walls. On this occa-
sion, from some unexplained cause, he appears to have
laboured under the displeasure of the authorities—the
honours conferred on his juniors in service, and in-
feriors in rank, having been withheld from him. Of
this he respectfully but bitterly complained to
the Commancler-in-Chief, the Governor-General, and
Horse Guards, but received no satisfaction. Through-
out the Affghan campaign acknowledgments of merit,
however exalted, were suppressed when the party
entitled to them chanced to he in personal disfavour.
The man most distinguished at the storm of Ghuznee
was slighted in the despatch, and insulted with the
offer, which he scorned, of the third class Dooraunee
Order. In the middle of September, 1840, he was
dispatched in quest of the Wullee of Khooloom then
in the field, with 10,000 men in support of Post
Mahommed. After a series of difficult and brilliantly
executed manoeuvres amongst the defiles of the
llindoo Koosh, he succeeded in bringing the enemy
to battle at Bamecan on the 18th of September,
where, with a force of less than 1,000 men,
he dispersed 10,000 of the enemy—about 800
having been killed or wounded. This action was
so decisive as to terminate the campaign, and
compel the surrender of Post Mahommed. Colonel
Dennie was now offered the second class Doorannee
Order, and he properly refused it. These were the
days of mutilating public documents when displeasing
to the Government. The victory was too brilliant; and
half the despatches referring to it were suppressed. He
was shortly after still further punished for a service
snore distinguished than that which won Gen. Keane
a peerage. He was deprived of his brigade! On
forcing the Khoord Caubul Pass between the 9th and
30th October, he commanded first the rear-guard ;
then, on Sir R. Sale being disabled by his wound, the
charge of the force devolved on him. 'this duty he
continued to fulfil thrOughout the greater part of th*
siege of Jellalabad, just at the conclusion of which
he fell gloriously in battle. He had, meanwhile been
appointed Aide-dc-Camp to the Queen, but before
the intimation of this reached Jellalabad, he had
fallen. Few officers have deserved better of the
na-
tion than Colonel Dennie, and few have suffered snore
frem the unworthy jealousy of superiors. His fa-
mily have deep claims on his country.

IREI.AND.
DIMINUTION OF CRIME IN TIPPERARY.

Duellist, uNE letter has been teceivcd in town from
a very worthy anti intelligent Jtagi,trate, residing in this
county, who states that the persevering efforts of the Roman
Catholic clergy (continued in despite -of threats of vengeance
from the leaders of the secret societies) have aire-Ay produced
comparative tranquillity, and tha', there is reasonable ground to
hope that the organised system of outrage will soon be entirely
suppressed. This letter, which is dated on Friday last, contains
the foll wing passage:—
" I feel bound to state we are indebted to the exertions
of the Roman Catholic priests for giving- the first check—
and I am persuaded it will prove an effectual check—
to the villanous procet-dings of the Rockites," Terryalts,'
and Starlights,' who have been leagued in a common con-
federacy by the fellows called ' Paddy M'Kews,' who take
advantage of the distresses and discontents of the peasan-
try to swear them into illegal associations in order to be-
tray them afterwards. Even before the Government had
their measures fully arranged for a more rigid police and
military surveillance, which might possibly have given a
temporary check, or removed the disturbances to another
quarter, the priests here, by their persevering zeal, are drawing
away the peasantry from the sanguinary combinations, and
inducing them to surrender their fire-arms. From long ex-
perience, it is my conviction that this is the only mode of
securing permanent tranquillity. Day by day you can see the
priests moving through the country, and I am told that some
of them have received threatening notices, warning them that
priests have been shot before now for their intermeddling, and
that the same might happen again. These notices, of course,
have come from the ruffianly Paddy M'Kews, most of them dis-
charged policemen, whose trade has been spoiled by the priests.
" The movement of the priests commenced at Dunkerring,
near Moreygall, on the borders of the King's County, where
the parish priest, named Nolan, an energetic but most bene-
volent man, became alarmed upon seeing the rapid diminution
of the Temperance Society in his district. He caused an im-
mense meeting of the peasantry to be convened, and produced
such an effect by his solemn remonstrances, that crime has
since been diminishing, and lots of fire-arms have been given
up. 'I he other priests in this quarter have acted in the same
spirit with zeal and effect.
I " Three men accused of the murder of Kennedy. perpetrated
a few weeks since, have been sent off to Clonmel, under a mi-
I litary escort. They have been arrested on the evidence of an
approver, who has given information at. Dublin Castle."
SCARCITY IN IRELAND.

A sudden alarm of scarcity has raised the markets in the
west of Ireland beyond 30 per cent. Oats, which lately sold
at Bd. a stone, are now eagerly bought at Is., and potatoes
have all at once mounted from 3d. to 5d., with a general. ap-
prehension of a much greater increase.
it is strange that the fear of a deficient supply was not en-
tertained during the planting of potatoes, when a temporary.
advance in prices ordinarily takes place. 4 very great breadth
of land has been cropped with seed purchased at 2d. and 3d.
a stone; and it is only within the last fortnight that any doubt
of the supply being other than most abundant for the rest of
the year appears to have arisen.
It is much to be feared that great suffering and privation
must be endured by those poor people before the growing crop
comes to their relief. Two months at least must intervene
before they derive any sensible benefit from it. The season is,
how ever, remarkably propitious, and the promise of abundance.
both of corn and potatoes, most consoling.

WORKING OF THE NEW CORN BILL.—It will be
seen, from the monthly returns of foreign grain, that there
were in bond on the sth of May upwards of a million quarters
of foreign grain, and three hundred and sixty-eight thousand
cwts. of flour and meal. A small quantity of this has been
liberated since that time, but a larger quantity has been im-
ported from abroad, so that the stock of grain and flour now in
bond cannot be much less than a tniilion and a half of quarters.
The liberation of this grain at the present moment would have
an excellent effect on the prices of food, and on the trade of the
country, but how can it be expected under the present law?
This week the duty on wheat is twelve shillings per quarter,
the aggregate average price of the six weeks being titts. 9d.
An addition of 3,1. per quarter to the aggregate average will
reduce the duty to lls., by raising the averages to 615., and
last week's return alone renders that addition certain. Now,
it is as &ear as day-light that, the prices remaining the same,
every holder of a thousand (planers of wheat. will gain fifty
pounds by the change of duty in the emirs, of next week, and
certainly fifty pound notes are not so abundant just at present
as to be refused, when they can thus he obtained by waiting a
few days, more especially in a case like thi,s, where there is a
chance of gaining in the price as well as in the duty.—Liver-
pool Times.
LOCKING CARRIAGE-DOORS UPON RAILWAYS.—
ALTERATION UPON THE LINE OF THE GREAT WESTERN
kAILWAY.—The Directors of the Great Western Railway
Company, in deference to the wishes of the public, and agree-
ably to the suggestions made a short time since in Parliament,
have resolved to discontinue the system hitherto pursued of
locking the doors of their railway carriages, and the new
plan of leaving them unfastened came into operation through-
out the line on Monday, immediately upon an official commu-
nication to that effect being circulated. In conseqpence of
the adoption of this regulation very considerable alterations
have been made at the several stations along the line, by
the erection of wooden barriers upon the different plat-
forms. The circumstance of leaving the doors unlocked
renders it. necessary that the tickets for the journey should
be collected at its termination, instead of (as hitherto)
previously to entering the carriages ; and in order to
maitre this collection the passengers, upon alighting at
the various stations, have to pass through a narrow passage from
the platform (which is railed off for that purpose) to present
their tickets to an officer appointed by the Company, and with-
out which they will not be allowed to pass. At Paddington, as
no tickets will be required to be produced and presented before
taking a seat in a carriage, the Company's police have received
orders not to permit any persons to pass through the booking-
offices on to the platform, unless they show their tickets, in
order that no persons should intrude themselves upon the plat-
forms who are not about to proceed by the Company's convey-
ances. In the event, upon the arrival of a train, of any pas-
senger attempting to pass the barrier with a ticket short of the
distance he has travelled, he will be made, of course, to pay the
difference of fare to which he may be liable. At the Slough station,
where several thousands will arrive and depart during the
-Ascot races, the Company have adopted every necessary and
available precaution to prevent accidents from either the folly
or carelessness of a certain class of the race-going public.
THE CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—(From a Corres-
pondent. )—lt was mentioned in the morning papers, a short
time back, that the rumoured alterations in the circuit of the
Judges required the sanction of an Act of Parliament. No-
thing further has occurred on the subject, nor as the matter
been officially announced. It seems, however, that fur the
present, any measure on the subject will be in abeyance, as the
Northern Circuit has been fixed, and York still remains in the
usual list, and has not been removed to the Midland Circuit, as
it has been stated would take place. The number of civil
causes tried at York is considerable, which, with the business
generally provided at Lancaster and Liverpool, has always made
the Northern Circuit a very laborious one, comprising, as it
at present does, Durham, Newcastle, Cumberland, Westmore-
land, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the city of York, whilst the
Midland Circuit consists of Northampton, Oakinghain, Lin-
coln, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Warwick, and Coventry.
Should the rumoured change be effected, it must be productive
of considerable diminution in the business among the bar of the
Northern Circuit.

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Sheep-stealing- has not yet received any check in
the Forest of Dean. On Monday week, five skins were found
in a stone quarry, in Bieslade. Three of them were evidently
those of sheep that had been killed in the past night, and the
other two appeared to have lain a fortnight where they were
discovered.—Monmouthshire Merlin.

EDWARD HAMLIN ADAMS, Esq.—Died, on Thurs-
day, the 2d inst., at Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire, in the
65th year of his age, Edward Hamlin Adams, Esq., ate one
of the Representatives in Parliament for the county. lie was
a most. affectionate, kind husband and preat, the most upright
and impartial Magistrate, and a good landlord. His less will
11,e deeply regretted by his family and mends and the poor in
the neighbourhood will long lament the death of their best
friend and benefactor.

We have received a letter from our own cor-
respondent, dated Birmingham, stating that P, left Ant-
werp on Sunt'ay afternoon, and that his jrsurney throughout
from Antwerp to London, by the General Steam Navigation
Company's British ship Rainbow, ant'. by the railway train from
London to Birmingham, only occupied '22 hours.