The Express. — London, England, 1863-10-31 00:00:00

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Asoa.—AW TM/ HONOUR OF TILL MOIL Elea WATIA A? ?LONDON BilDilt Tas DAT —ltem lng. illt 19• . Alluniuma. 4h. 46% falicsaow Maeda& 5.. 615... .Allmesss. 50. 26 LONDON, BAT(7IIDAY, OCTOBER 31. THE affecting story of SARAH EMILY MITCHILLL, told in evidence at the Central Criminal Court this week, ought not to pass and be forgotten without a word of comment. It draws aside for a moment the veil that usually hides the wide-spread irregularities of our decorous social life, and reveals with sad distinctness the bitter shame and intoler able anguish produced every day and hour by a fashionable code of honour opposed to every dio tate of higher morality, and which is not unfre quently in its results alike inhuman and unjust. As the history is already familiar to most of our readers, it will be sufficient to recall its main features. About four years ago, Sinai RIMY Mircnin.i., the daughter of an accountant at Liver pool, entered as housekeeper the service of a gen tleman named CHAPPLZ, living in the neighbour hood of the town. Mr. Cairn. was a widower, living with his grownup daughters, and evidently in easy circumstances, as he had a house in London as well as in the country. About a year after she had entered his family a closer intimacy sprung op between Mr. CHAPPLE and Miss MITCHILL, and in June, 1862, she came to London fora week or two, and was confined, the child being registered in Mr. Cairns's name. A few weeks after this Mr. Cairns decided to remove the young mother to London, taking her formally under hie pro tection, and giving her his name. Ile provided her with a home first in Weymouth-street and after wards in the Marylsbourroad, both localities being near his own town residence. She was always called Mrs. Cairns, Mr. Cairns havin intro duced her as his wife when she first came to London. "She wore a wedding-ring, and Mr. " Cairns always talked of her as Mrs. Cairns." On her establishment in Loudon, her sister ELT:Lamm eszne from Liverpool to be with her as companion and nurse. Mr. Cairns was constant in his visita, and all went well tall the spring of the present year, when the young mother discovered that she had a rivaL The discovery appc as to have roused her from the first to a sense of her time position, and to have produced the results that might have been expected in a et:miserly nature which, though erring, was not corrupt. It not only utterly destroyed her peace of mind, bat filled her with an agony of shame, and jealousy, and indefinable dread. The excitement end din tress brought on the premature birth of a sesond child, which died immediately after it was born. This was at the end of April, and by this time Mr. Cnirrts's visits had become leas frequent. Towards the end of May, however, he came up, and be in terview with his reputed wife, still an invalid, led to a terrible scene, which almost unsettled her rea son. She fell into a state of deep melserhaly, and was occasionally the victim of hallucinative.. A few weeks afterwards Mr. Cairns sent her a letter, in which, from the tenor of one despatched at the same time to her sister, there can be no doubt he announced to her his determination to leave her. Referring to this her sister says, " She " was es distressed at the one which the had re " osived, and which led almost driven her mad, " that I did not show her mine." In leaving her Mr. Cairns proposed to make liberal provision for the mother and her child, but she paseiona'sly rejected the offer of money, refteirg even to listen to any proposals for a settlement. When the lawyer called to see bar for this purpose she fell into a fainting fit ; and when the surgeon who had all along attended her attempted, reldr.Cairris's suggestion, to discuss the subject, she told him that she "would not receive any mote money " from Mr. Cairns unless elm had his affection." This was three weeks before the end. Sober quently she appears to have sunk into a condition of fixed despair, and there being nothing further to hope for or to live for, all her thoughts were concentrated in the one resolve to put an sod to her own existence and that of the child. Aocord ingly, on the 30th of July, having got her agar out of the way, she stabbed the child sod at tempted to destroy herself. All the *Ahem proves that she was devotedly attached to the child, and one of the motives which In boy darkened and confused mind prompted the dread ful deed was the fear that it would be takes away from her. The child died two days after, bat the mother eventually recovered. She was acquitted by the jury on the ground of insanity, and, as Baron MARTIN said, there can be no doubt the verdict is perfectly just. When the frightful deed was done all light of reason had fled before the one absorbing determination to escape by any means, and as speedily as possible, from a life of intolerable misery and shame, . . This is the narrstive, and the man of the world on reading it will naturally observe to his neighbour that there is nothing in the least remarkable about it ; that, however sad, it is quite a common ease ; and then pees on to some topic more interesting or more agreeable. Unhappily, this is only too true. The case is common enough- u mere incident of every-day life. Thousands of such victims are thoughtlessly or ruthlessly trodden down around us in the eager pursuit of unlawful pleasures, and the conventional necessities that are held to require it not to justify the sacrifice lead so ciety to turn away from the stifled groan, and refuse even a passing sigh to the sufferers. But common 1 THE VXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1863. as the case is, we do not often see it this stripped of all illusion and disguise in its purely human ele ment of pain and misery, of anguish and remorse, of madness and despair. When it is thus brought home to us, it is impossible not to feel that the relation which produces such results must somewhere involve an enormous amount of cruelty and wrong. And after all it is a serious question where the respon sibility rests. Baron MARTIN justly said, "There " was no doubt that under the combined feelings " of jealousy and shame the mind of the pr;soner " had given way." And some will no doubt ask who or what wrought up these essentially womanly feelings to the pitch of madness and despair. We have no desire to speak harshly of Mr. CRAPPLZ. He, no doubt, stands acquitted at the bar of con ventional honour. He proposed to provide for his victim, and was thus ready to make for the wrong he had done her what the code of worldly custom would probably consider the only repaution in his power. The relation he bad fo •med with Miss Mrrcusu. is one that has latterly been regarded with • good deal of fashionable ts'ersece, if it does not actually enjoy d;rect social recognition. It is talked of freely in good society. It figures largely in the light literature of the day, being not unfrequently represented in recent works of fiction as greatly superior to the marriage state. Letters to the same effect appear now and then in leading organs of opinion. The theory of the relation is thus familiarized and indirectly applaudcd. Under these circumstances, it is well that we should sometimes see to what it actually leads in practice see in its naked reality the hopeless misery and desola tion it produces. In the light of such • revelation it is impossible not to see that the accepted maxims of worldly custom, the code of conventional honour, are in this point not only directly opposed to the higher laws of social duty and the first prin ciples of Christian morality, but perfectly com patible with the worst forms of refined cruelty and bitter social wrong. Had Mr. CUAPPLE been as ready to break through the cruel maxims of cies convention as he was to disregard the higher laws of morality, he might undoubtedly have made his victim a real reparation. He might have given her a legal claim to the title he had W-nself accorded her, and no doubt led her to b3lieve would be hers. She was respectably con nected, and apart from the error into wbich he had led her there does not appear to have been the slightest reproach against her character. She was evidently strongly attached to him. He had taken advantage of her dependent position to gain he!. affections, and make her completely his own. But the poor girl's love and devotion having been secured only as a temporary luxury soon palled. The bloom of her life having been crushed out, she was to be left with a settlement as soon as weari ness set in. But without him life had no charms for her, and if she was to be leftaloneinmisery and shame, her only care was to be quit of it at once, and lie down in peace with her child. The result is madness, murder, and attempted suicide. This is the pr.oe at which a gentleman takes his pleasure. But society must divide with the individual the responsibility of the cruelty and the wrong. We believe we may state that there is no truth in the rumour circulated in some of the Irish papers that Canon Stanley is to be the successor of Arch bishop Whately. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge aad the Primer Mary hared to have Cambridge Oohs,. Bow, ea Saturday next, to paw a few weeks at 13r;gbtoa. Prince Ladislas Czartoryski and the Prinoeu Mathew d'Amparo) have kit Lando& for Park The Marchioness of Salisbury and Ladies Cecil left Hatfield Howe, Heats. yesterday. to pass a week with Ur. Header lioseell. /LP., and Lady Elisabeth Hama, at Oakley Park. Dear Bedford. The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at their midges. is Caritosiardosi, last maim& from &milky Roial, ow Ripos. _ . The Right Hon. Thomas IL Gibson, M.P., and Yet Moos have evvt-oied a peer , tereaveasent by the death at their eldest eat at Hoag Haag, intolliseace of who's death was received yortiaday maraud by the tele. 1-44 i. Among the fashionaMes sojourning at New market dot:og the wr 3k have been the Doke sad Dasher d Beaufort the Seri sad Coutes el Chseterdeld. the Sari sad Count= el Weekaorelaad, the Bed sad Casatre af Oudigari, lard sad Lady Gimp Maarten, and Mr. G. W. sad Lady Nary Craves. The marriage of the Marquis of Tallibardine, rely sea of hie Orme the Duke of Athol% and Lowist AM* daughter of Sir Thomas Moverieffe, But, of Yew aisle, wee celebrated on Thursday afternoon at Nenerieffe Benet Bridge of Fire, the madame of the bride's Whet Owing to the Mews of his Orace the Dabs of Atha, the eiremeny was emsdocted is the mat prim** rawer prank, the only parties relent being theme conneeted with the two familia and a few intimate friends. The Army and Navy Gazette mays :•—" There are prat diflcultioi about the Orsoley eourtmartiaL Mary a the soldiers' dos% masa; Ws so bog ago.' Tleo mole mei riasrdo is a very eintsemasiag mow, sad Mr. Desk= ma, ve fear, make little art el the ease so far as them Mismees are comereed. It i sot likely he will be ready belay the sad of this south. We twit to boar of the per talsooadoet of some of the kid batch of idioms; who arrived at Aldershot is a most umessoly sad were osly restorsd to order by a large gaud from map." Monday next, November 2, is the last day on whisk fatties of Hue Mack tat the tertheamies settle show .1 the Smith!lekl slab au b. received. The dad et Mr. B. T. Bandreds Gibbs. the bus any ..matey, is at the sense at Half Meeeetreet, Plead Sly. The entries far the tattle show at Binh* Hall, Birmingham, aloes this day. The extraordinary depression of the barometer, sad rapidity ol its fall (Gee lash mad upwards la 12 boos). oa Thursday has suited mach intoned. There hod bees a gradual diminution et temperature, sa well se fall et kereesster, ors the lad three sights, with sr rly duller "and by day. The French court will sot, it is said, proceed to Compiegne until about the TN d November. That N/I. jetties will ramie there mall the ant weak i• December. --•••—,•••••• - WILLS AND BIIQUINTII.—The will of the Rilht Hon. Sr Crigswoll Crugswoll. Haight, woo pond in the mind* milky. Tb. porgoualty was swots ander 36,000 f. Sir Onsowoll stt load tho ago of 70. The family sass was loalarby, which his father anhangni for 011111111.011 is 1821. The testator was mina to the Ur at the Inge Temple in 1819 ; appointod a Si* I. the Omar' of Commas Plan in 1842 ; transferred to the Clout of Probate sad Divorco. December. 1857 ; and c ot we i o ntariguntiot a. P. for Liverpool ia 1837. Sir azointMd his will in 1861, which is entirely in his own handwriting, and has bequeathed to his sitar num. so &assay of 2501., together with sal immediate lapsy of 5001., sod loaves her all big fondling, as., alostot law boob ; thin b direct. to be as welly his shares ia this Sock Amman Moo, sod wproosids, togititor with .11 other 'negotiants ad asoarit to be bald in Mast. Lopcios are loft to some Mating, to each of his a. to arms pommel fetlock and to big oximithrs. t eb r aare eddim of his property, subjoin to eastinganglas. ho rraito lb. twin slabs, of Oamsaandor Wm. Arthur, 71 . 1111 will of Jobs. Humphrey, Esq.. of Clapham cesinoon, ono of the sideman of dm city of Lenora, woo pawed is kW Ilajiny's Omni of Pro , km. oo the 15th inst. The psionalty woo swam =dor 180.0001. Thin rispostal aldsoman owned hi wilt, with a eadieil, on the nun day—tho 96th of floptamhor lin. bang two iloys priming to his Mignon H. divides his property. nal gad porootiol, into them imwal path and =this to his relict anir- h u l l shore beyond all gthar pro in bar favour, leaving bar also the giloctio• of for. niter, for a residence, and as immediate lorry of ROL ; tho other half-share b becistatlis to his daughter. To of his ten lOW he looms a. eleventh sham in biz *tiro =y. Moro are legatees to his executors, to his cloths, other poison, as also to his servants. Dlimirstel Lowden Nam AMERICA. (!T ILICIILIC APO INTERNATIONAL TZLZORAPL) (Per the Penis, rid Etoehe's Point, Oot. 31,10.36 ii.te.) WILDNISDAT, 001% 21, 11 A.IL The latest despatches from Virginia report that General Lee's whole army has returned to the south aide of the Rappahannock. The Confederates have so thoroughly destroyed the Orange and Alexandria Railway, from Manas sas to Rappahannock Station (a distance of twenty miles), that the repairs can only be effected at the rate of one mile per day. It is stated that General Burnside has possession of 40 miles of the East Tennessee Railway, and is advancing upon Lynchburg, Virginia, General Lee's __ Abi ngdon, base of supplies, having already reached which has necessitated the hasty falling back of General Lee. Despatches from Louisville, of the 20th, declare General Thomas the successor of General Rose crans. General Grant hasbeen put in supreme command of the departments and armies of the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Ohio. General Rosecrans is ordered to proceed to Cin cinnati, and report by letter to the Adjutant- General at Washington. In consequence of the directions of the British Consuls at Richmond and Charleston to British subjects taken by conscription into the Confederate army, to throw down their arms if required to engage in actual conflict with the Federal forces, the exercise of the functions of office of these Con suls has been suspended by President Davis, and themselves ordered to quit the Confederacy as quickly as possible. Gold, 146. The Persia takes 294,516 dols. in specie.—Tina (Second Edition). LATB3T INTELLIGENCE. POLAND. ADDRESS TO THE FRENCH NATION. The subjoined address to the French nation has just been issued by the National Government of Warsaw : For • knit time past Europe contemplated, with a feeling of melancholy regret, Poland fallen from her former power, and looked upon • body from which the soul appeared to have departed. To endwise succeeded forgetfulness, even where honour and oonscieoce should have perpetrated the same remembrances of glory. "It is a corpse ! " said the nations. " Falsehood l" replied Poland. "Blood cannot flow from the bosom of a corpse !" A cry of menace ant suffering, the echo of superhuman enmities', turned public attention towards a martyred people demanding an exist mos which bad been too long contested. " Poland is not deed!" said the nations. " She is not dead !" you en claimed, noble chimes, in proem* of the French people, of whom you Sr. the living language. That cry resounded in our fraternal harts like • sigma of deliverance and wel fare. We said to our brothers in arms, "The love of Po land has at all times been the moral nobility of France ; she ow only be deprived of that distinction at the cost of her downfall as an initiating nation in progress and liberty." We all, sons of that suffering Poland, children of that land bathed in the tears of old men and mothers and the blood of martyrs and heroes, embrace you cordially for your sym pathetic participation in oar struggles. Friends of Poland, rewire the salute of those who are about to die! (Here follow 20,000 signatures of landed proprietors, members of the clergy, Jews, and pessintx) (scorn's TILIG11•118.) THORN, Ocr. 31. An Imperial Ukase, dated from Livadia, the 13th instant, assigns pensions to the widows and orphans of officials assassinated in Poland. BRITISH DESPATCH TO RUSSIA. The Paris Nation of last evening says that Lord Na pier was to hand Prince Gortchakoff on Wednesday a despatch conciliatory in contents and form. The despatch terminates thus :—" Russia must not for get that the rights of the Poles are written upon the same treaty which gave Poland to Russia." PARIS. BAIRIDAT liosarnio. The Courrier du Ditnanehe says that Earl Russell has sent a despatch to St. Petersburg, the argu ments of which are less positive than those of his preceding notes. According to the Courrier, the present despatch dote not affirm that Russia has forfeited her treaty rights to Poland. The Courrier also states that Prance ;was not disposed to adhere to the English despatch on ac?ount of its insignificance. General Bedean is dead. FRANCE. PARIS, .ocr. 31, EvErnra. (Delayed, owing to ieterreptioe ol the lice by the storm.) The Empress arrived here at 3 o'clock thii morning. A letter has been published from the administra tion of the Menageries Imperiales, correcting the accounts of the fire at Ciotat, sent yesterday. It appears that only the joiners' workshops were burnt. The loss is estimated at 100,C30fr. OHYDIBOIIRO, Ocr. JO. Enarns. The Confederate steamer Georgia ,has arrived here to re-victual and take in coal. MKXICO. PARIS. Oct. 31. News has been received beta, via pt. Nazaire, from Vera Cruz to the Ist inst. Intelligence from Mexico to the 27th Sept. states that the condition of affairs is favourable, that nu merous adhesions to the French intervention ars being given in, and that the organisation of the rural militia is being developed. Great disorder existed among the adherents of Juarez, the majority of the governors disavowing his authority. Marshal Foray has addressed a letter to the Em peror, describing the present state of affairs, and making some observations upon the stipulation of the Archduke Maximilian that he will only defini lively accept the crown upon the adhesion of the majority of the Mexican states. This adhesion, Marshal Foray says, may perhaps be considered already accomplished, the populations of all places from which the adherents of Juarez are absent having spontaneously recognised the French inter ' weatiOa. ITALY. TU11127, OCT. 31. The Ministers of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Justice, and the Marine, will secompany.the King during his Journey to Naples. Upon his return his Majesty will remain • few days in Tuscany. THZ BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, OM. 31. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Magdalena, from the Brazils, km arrived here, and will leave for Southampton at 8 a.m. to-day with 57 passengers ; specie, 25,5731. ; 25 barrels tapioca, 48 balm cotton, 653 roll' tobacco, and 175 packages of sundries. (By telagrapit from Lisboa.) RIO DR JANIIRO, OCT. 9. Exchange on London, 27} to 27f. Coin, 7,500 to 8,3004 ?) rein. Shipments sines the departure of the last mail, 04,052 begs, including 46,850 hags for the Channel. Sales, 115,900 bags; 110,000 bags. Freight., 40a. to 45e. BAEUL, Oct. 1.1. Faohange on London was quoted 27* to 27t, Cotton, 23,000 to 24,000 refs; sugar , 2,030 tq 2,400 rain ; browns, 1,900 nit PELINAMBI7OO, Ocr. 15. Exchange on London, 21 to 28. Sugar ,i,OOO reis ; browns, 1,800 reis ; cotton, 23,600 to 23,809 nix. The Messageries Impedeles steamer Bearn left this port for Bahia on the 13th inst. A Paris letter in the Journal du Havre says : " Awarding to a rumour cement is Anassial oinks, Baron Rise, the Viewers baster, has come to Paris forte. purpose al aegotiating the sew Austrian loan. It is also said that Baron de Meer, the Austrian Minister of Maass" has already reosived smog often for the loan, aspesielly from the Orilla Mobilise and the Cita Folmar." ... . _ . A steamer arrived at Liverpool on Thursday with a eargo at cones direct from Wihnisstes, See* Omahas, la 17 dam. Her dater from Richmond me to the 7th lost, at which period mach minutiae prevailed I. aseepaesse of the resist sum of the immeasee at the Ocatederate army is the West. Waarosa Pzoreem tx PIANOL-74. Mathieu (de k Dress) has just net with a rival His predictions it. mite tame when °prepared with these of M. Antooin de Virignaa la a letter addressed to the Academy of &sienna the sew weather prophet ariaotiness theta terriole laudation. having its metre ie the pisios of Nimes, m os ap e tw r . and Basereire, will rarer _the Sea* of Preens frees the 2nd d Notstieber to the lath of Jammer,. This predietien be bed already Lade us a Wier of the 16th of August, addressed to several Journals. M. Realties (de la Theme) is therefore throws lot., the shade. The toes of MOIIIIOOII of IL Aetoeie Virienas is even r thae that of X. Mathieu. " What I have • "be says, "will take plasm ie every particular. frost Nimes to the M only a vest sheet of water will be mew" The WOOL growers of illinoie have formed a " Wool Growers' Asecetatioa " and adopted renelutiows recominendleg a sommoe organisation throughout the . Usited Slates, to protect themselves from rosehinalswe of speculators sad monopolists. —Nor York Journal of COM- Ilierol4 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ROY 0171 OWN 001 PARIS, FILDAT &aura. I find the following paragraph in Galsrani: The democratic electoral oommities of Parrs ltsa defini tively decided that It Flavin and IL Jules Pane shall sleet to sit, the former for the Measelte, and the latter for the Rhone ; also, that the candidates to replace them at Paris shall be ML de Laboulaye and Ream. Not believing the above news, so far as regards K Renan, I have endeavoured to trace it to its source, and I cannot find that there is any autho rity for it beyond a paragraph in the ultramontane journal, the Union. None of the recognised organs of the democratic committee say anything of the kind. It would be very bad policy of the opposi tion to cause disunion in the liberal party by bring ing forward such a name as K Remit, the merits or demerits of whose celebrated book stand upon grounds quite separate from politics. Although I have no certain information on the subject, I feel certain that this rumour is the invention of an enemy. K lAboulaye would be an admirable candidate; and for the second vacancy no better man could be found than K Dufaure. I hope that the democratic committee will ultimately agree to bring him forward ; but there are doubts about it, for many are very jealous of his talent, and there are some who think him not liberal ' enough. 1 can state positively, however, that most of the rumours circulating about the plan of 1 campaign of the liberal party are unfounded ; the majority of the liberal deputies are not yet in Paris. The France take, exception to the statement of &London journal that the French government has recently " withdrawn" an authorization to build war ships for the Confederates in French docks, ) and affirms that, having reference to the French declaration of neutrality, " which it has always faithfully observed," it is quite impossible that any such authorisation can ever have been given. The Pays contradicts en bloc the bad news from Mexico contained in the English journals, and asserts that, with the exception of a " few cues" of vomito, the health of the troops is satisfactory, and that "tranquillity" universally prevails in all the parts of the country subjected to French arms. A telegram says that the damage done by the fire at the Menageries Impiriales at Ciotat amounts only to 100,000 fr. instead of 3 millions, which was the original exaggerates: statement. The Empress has arrived at St. Cloud on her return from her trip to Spain. At Toulon yester day she gave a grand dinner on board her yacht, the Aigle, to the port admiral, Vioe-Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, and a distinguished party. She was present at the launching of the iron-clad frigate the Provence. M. and Madame Nader have arrived in Paris, having travelled in a railway carriage fitted up with beds. Dr. Richard having examined M. Naclar's leg, reports that there is a broken bone in the foot The Opinion Nationale, " with great regret," announce that the statement which it reproduced from the Correspondance Builier, that the Polish national government had sent eight millions of florins to General Idieroslawalki for the purpose of raising recruits, is " unfortunately " not true. WEATHER REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) SMVIDAT. °masa 81. 8 Lt. TKB STORM OP YESTERDAY. -•-- ISTRAORDINARYAITD FATAL AOCIDENT AT ---____ _ NEW-CROSS. Yesterday afternoon the metropolis and its neighbourhood was visited by a terrific storm, thus verifying the prediction of Admiral Fitzroy, who bad sent waminp to the various outporte that a hurricane might be expected. The whole of the outskirts man to have suffered more or lea, but the most serious accident which occurred during the day took place at the Newsross Station of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Bulway, and which resulted in the instantaneous death of one man, three others being so seriously injured as to leave little hope of their recovery, and a number of others slightly injured. The accident occurred at the engioedepotof the company. As every one who hasocaudon to travel on any of the lines from London-bridge must be aware, there are several large engine sheds in the neigh bourhood of Hatcham-park. In one of these sheds yester- day afternoon about a dozen men were working, principally ' engine fitters, "token, and drivers. There were also four or five engines getting up steam, two of them being ready to go out, when, without the slightest warning, the wind rushed in at the open sod of the dad with terrific force, and there being uo vent for it, it first blew off the roof notwith @trading it wee braced with heavy iron girders, and then one side of the building, which might perhaps be fifty or sixty yards in length. The side-which was blown out fell SCAM the rails of theCroydon I ine,com pletely blocking them with a mass of bricks and rubbish. The other side of the building, spies* which some hundreds of toes of coke were piled, fell inwards on the apace occupied by the building, which was imam , :Irately covered by a masa of bricks, heavy iron girders, and I broken beams of timber. In point of fact, the building was as completely demolished as if it had been a card house blown down by a breath of wind. The men espied in the building fled for their lives at the first alarm, but before they could get out several of them were completely bariedin the ruins. One man, named Hairy Woodrow, was killed on the spa by the felling of an engine upon him. He wee found oompletely doubled up, his back being broken and both thighs smashed. His bead was also fright fully wounded by the felling of iron rods. He was an engine -fitter, and we understood leaves a wife and family. Three other men, mined George Cutts, William Smith, sad Charles Privett, were also eo injured by the falling girders that but little hopes are entertained of their recovery. Cutts bad his back broken and his right leg broken in two places. Smith has both legs broken, and Privett his legs sad arms broken. All the unfortunate men were removed as soon ma they could be dug out of the ruins to Guy's Hos pital. They are covered with bruises in different parts of the body, caused by the falling bricks and coke, which com pletely covered them. The other men, about a dozen in camber, who were mapped in the shed at the time, for. tuastelyeeraped with no greeter injury thane:named b;roses. Of arum the alarm was iostantemous ; in fact the burst ing of the building is described as being accompanied by a report like that of a park of artillery, then followed a hideous wash mingled with the shrieks and groans of the sufferers. Mr. Craven, the superintendent of the engine department, and the chief officer at the New-eras same, happened fortunately to be in his office at the time, and immediately hurried to the spot. For a few minutes there was an awful Keene of confusion ; the demolition of the place was complete, and nothing wee to be sees bat a confused mass of bricks, broken beams, sad coke, heavy iroo girders and rods sticking up bore and there engines overturned, and the whole sessional I. s tem from the broken engines. Mr. Cravea's first care we, to slop the traffic both on the up sad down lines, sad to see that none of the rubbish had fallen on the main hoe to Brighton, which was only a few yards off. This precaution was taken instantly, end it warn well that it was so if the statement which wee made to the reporter be true, that within five minutes of the accident, and consequently before any stoppage of traffic could take place, a down train at full speed mused over pert of the line from which some loose bricks had just been removed. Oa the first alarm sane hundreds of men from the neighbour* Sheds rushed to the spot where the secideut had occurred. Under the direction of Mr. Craven, one party commenced clearing the line" while soother body of . _men proceeded with the work of digging oat the men bur ied in the debris. This, however, proved to be a work of tame, and one, too, requiring considerable oare and caution, because in most oases the sufferers were found lying eider the heavy iron girders. The accident occurred at half-past three or a quarter to four o'clock, bat it was not natal some time after five that the three non could be got out. After a portion of the rubbish had bees removed it wee found that the rails bad been completely destroyed in every direction. Four or five menu were either lying on thei vides or prone on the ground with their wheels off. One engine, however, escaped al and was shortly after taken oat sad placed in me together, of the other sheds, but all the others were injured more or less. Very shortly after the accident words of people agape. i gated n the neighbourhood of the station and on the bridge. All of the persons who were in soy way concerted with the works, or who had relations on the premises were admitted to a large yard komidiaraly adjoising, tho se who were able beim employed is reederiag assistance, while others who hod relatives engaged is the works remained is the meet anxious mamma till the semis of the injured were samaneed. The value of the property destroyed must be several thousand pounds,. sad it as stated that it was all the work at Most Gee minutes. It is a eingular fact that while this she was thus instantaneously destroyed, another sad much larger one in the immediate vicinity had a mod miraculous serape. The same blast of wind which levelled the one lifted the vast roof of the other oompletely off, bat the wind Boding sufficient vent the root settled into its former position without any other injury than the smashing of a few panes of glare. As soon as the intelligence of the accident reached Lon don-bridge several of the chief officers of the company proceeded to the spot, but the prarautioes taken by Mr. Craven against further accident were so effectual, sad the removal of the rubbish wee being so rapidly and carefully done, that they bad nothing to do but exprees their satis faction at the course which had been adopted by that gentleman. No blame appears to attach to any one on ac e:cunt of the accident. All last night the workmen were eagsged in removing the debris and edam the girders sad engines sou to enable them to repair the damaged lima. The isms blast ot wind which levelled the amine. shed at Newt:roes to the ground, she unroofed three houses at the end of the Old Hest-road. Two of them were shops occupied respectively by small tedious of the names of Sutton and Adams, but fa tuously in these cases the inhabitants of the houses es caped. One eir two passengers in the streets, however, just avoided being berried under about a couple of toes of brick., which fallen to the pavement. I n the other case, bowever,they were not so fortanatia On the opposite side of the road to those occupied by Salim and Adams is a small house, oast pied by • maa named Mabony, carrying on the Waimea of a tailor, who was sitting with four other mai wcwkiag, when the w hole of the upper part of the honer was blows away, ands pile of chimneys tallies soughed the rafters , which toll upon cue of the men, and inflicted such moors injuries ss to reader hie recovery doubtful. At the some time every bit of furniture in the room was destroyed. Mabooy him self escaped in the most marvellous way. He wee sitting by the side of the man who is Dearly killed, but happening to look out of the window, and observing the elates from the root flying way freely, be left the room to were his wife to take the children into the house, wires at that moment the stack of chimneys fell. The other wee I. the room were fortunately sitting under another rafter which misted the force of the wild and the falling bricks. and they escaped with • few bruises. The roof d the roan ad also fell is with a frightful crab, destroying thi n g in the room. The unfortunate people inhabiting _ house, who appeared to be very poor in their cinema- Masers, were driven into the street, sod toonisstarily en peotcd the fall of the whole building. Two or three 'disci new clothes and a quantity of cloth were entirely destroyed by the fa' of the roof. The police report numerous ossualtiss in this district by the fall of tiles sad bricks, and a good dial of glans was b.oksc, but the above are the only 'O&M aceidads re ported ea die various police stations. We have received a report from the Crystal Palace to the effect that the storm passed over it without injuring mingle pane of glees. Some of the telegraph wire' have boos blown down, and several minor casualties have bees reported from the East rid and other parts of the town. Mast of the homes in jured axe reported by the police to hare been in • bad conditioe I t IL V. 7. Z. Q. L ii. 8. It ars .... - 64 I 8.1. W. 4 • It 00.171 AlaWisa ; 1 141 11 LW. 4 8 18 b 2 W O lie I W. 0 1 86 b 2 *MY UM! 4 1.1 11 8 SO o 4 = IS 4 B.W. I 0 Iht c O. 7 . - - - - - 1 ( 4. 1 = — : : : :: -- : 7. : _ W ULU 47 II B.W. 4 .7 2* • ••• • ...- 20.1447 2 B.W. 0 II a 0.12 4 Wontooko 20.4 4. I W. I 08 b 0.15 7 Peumot ..- 19.01 1 W. 10 WI oOM 0 16 L Itochsloli lO3 La 1 W. II 10 0 0.86 7 ele W 1 W. 10 MI 16 0 0.80 8 .. ssull".. " Lie • W. 011 18 c 0.0 I 1 =0 1- t . 18 1 W.S.W. ,4. 4 W. 111 10 c 0.43 8 &Woo 130.14164 4 RAW. 8 U U 0 0.31 - woo, ._ . __IOWA* 1 W. 8 1.0 00 b 0.36 8 Tonowlb OA 1 W.B.W. 11 12 VI 1) Leta 2 41110010011 111. 201 0 W.S.W. II U 111 1 0.11 9 FLEETWOOD. FRIDAY Mom The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution os this stales his rendered most important swim to a shipwrecked crew oc the Barnard Sand-bank, some distance from this path Last night it was blowing • violent gale from vv . tn. so u, when sigmas of &stress wen eheseved to be eshibited from a versa between Fleetwood sad the Foot of Wyre lighthouse. Thew feboat iconoclasts!, put off in tow of the Mom tog which towed the boat as near the mods ari she 000ld with safety, and thee east her off, when the lifeboat wee soon Wades from sight. The boat thee proceeded through the broke. IMMOr on the back towards the signal lights, and soon sum im sight of the schooner Northere Light', of Piasters, whisk was beat. log over the sands with several sails set, the sea Within over her with terrific force. After repeated trial* sad ouctrageous egoramee to gm *l mpid*. they at length succeeded in =the whole mew oe board the lifeboat, amidst the cheers of all hands. The lifeboat was then so far to leeward of Fleetwood that it was thought impracticable to make headway in the teeth of the gale, tide, and sea, sad she therefore as before the gale for Ruoderkod, emir Lae moor, where they all leaded in silty about midnight. The cost a this valuable lifeboat was recently pressand to the National Institution by Was Was'''. &-berometer corrected wed redone] to St. et belt tide Wel. DROGHEDA, Fiume Nroor. ash ten feet, of vertical Mention, comiar sheeteee heaths:kb During s terrific gale of vied this morning troop the or an inch DIMINUTION : and each tea depose, shove SP. flaw- west the lifeboat of the Natithel Lifeboat Institution sta tes nearly three hundredths INTIM= 3.-Isposed theme- tioo. d a tibis piece was the menus o f mo w." th. mew of meter in shone. D.-Difference of wet helk (for *vaporetto& said i„_ dew point). W.-Wind. direetioe of Pace-two is Lam et ww ••••• rm. t h is k w /$ . l w ith wmht fr o m Pratt " , seagnetic). 1.-Fetes it to It-estimated). 1.-11zweete DM* I which saw ashore on the mirth Wall , at since lest report. Q.-Quarter whence astamrg faros N 11=f, ; the harbour, where she now remits& no lifeboat behaved to mon I. -Initials : b.-blue sky; e.-reads (de t ac he d:) othoodtegl, well on the ocessioe. y -fag ; h. -bats: 1.-lightning : -reistr i V a l ; o. HOLYHEAD. FILIDAT Noon% ), :fece s. - ta i npo t rt. -sea j aub.:; f e s s it a in ro r I Captain Prime, R.N. reports the following valuable ser- IWI vices rendered to • foreign vessel by the lifeboat Working • Itireeek ira osi bet at a p... 12011411118 SONDLY. ON St NONDAT. N.W. to N.IL and book 70m-limit. N. to W. aid S.W., to 14. W., strong to sta ple, with rain or some a& times N.N.W. to S.W., a WINS 03ANIS. As above. trertari t° y *".lll , • al uali to 7. Sotrrmaleota. N.W. to draw fresh, squally, show- to friab_ ers. to N.N.W. and bins-ILin. N.F.W.. to W.S.W., back. Maw& squally strong to fresh. Cautionary signals on north sod west meats on Wednesday, and on all coasts on Thursday .ii.l South Come under drum on south and coasts on lriday. Nortiviestwesitiotees to Lincoln. Wink= to ow.. wall. Southwassiosel aid Discs, Coma. Swillir Weis it Dover to Lincolnshire sad Nsilgolsad. the National Lifeboat Inetitation stationed at this port. He 14104111:—" It was blowing a miry heavy gale bete yesterday, veering from 8. to W. At two p.m. then were three wee seta in the hay, anchored in dangerous preitiorie, with Dale of diagram flying. A steam-tug went o u t, and took in tow a foreign trig, but owing t o the Molise of the wind and heavy silk the tog wag =from her, and the vessel was left in immiynt on a lee shore. The lifeboat wan thereupon lox,- diatay launched, and proceeded to the Timers essistaace, Upon reaching the brig, two of the lifeboat's crew were pat on board, under where guidance she fortunately eu. needed in weathering Carmel Point, and eventually bore up safely for Bammaris. The lifeboat behaved admirably on the °caudal). There was so much sea on that the boat, masts, and sails wee frequently lost s igh t of Iso m the ways, as noticed from a legit tower oo Sore" LATEST PA.KTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.) OTOPEAOI OP SZVZHAL Nana AND INTUIT LOWS OF TILOPZITY. The wind blew in violent gnats during the whole of ti e night. An enormous quantity of rain has fallen and many hundred acres of land are under water. The tow* paths along the river were almost impuesln e . The male carriage road from Esher to Claremont could sot be passed esoept on horseback or in vehicles. The donna. lion of rates and plants in the neighbourhood woe Tray great. The rod from Godalming to Hodgman is an immerse. 'lichee, and the rain ran down the hill with immense force, inundation the lowlands, and destroying many of the 'mud iog crops. At the church of St. ilm7, Aldsrmanbury, Watlingstreet, a great quantity of the lead was etripp e .; uli the roof, and the skylight was broken. Several bargee wer e overturned In the neighborrhood of Rotherbithe, and in the basin at Shadwell ; Rod on the opposite sided the river near the entrance to the Commercial Locks much dump has bees done to the shi p lag ; and the market gradi ent Rotherhithe and Bermondsey have been laid under water. At the General Post-ofßm this morning it was ascer tained that aye of the mail•begs from se cnie , postal districts, due this morning, bad not arrived. At Greenwich the water rushed down the streets hoot the hills, and flooded many of the small homes seer the pub, The road leading from Blackheath to Erith at one time me rendered impassable by the great accumulatioa of wskir. Each post this morning from the suburban district, bebop amounts of the ramps made by the gale to home pro perty, prdea pound, tic. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. The general committee of the London Committee of the Albert Ilegeorial hied held a emoting retards, at the lfameoe-Itease. The Right Hoe. W. ANDIMOI Ron, Lord Mayor, was in the chid. ; and &wept the gentle men present were Sir Wentworth Dilke, Bart, dklerman and Colonel Wilma, a pagan, BVE., M.P., Mr. Bodkin, R. N. Yowler, ~ G. Godwin, Fag., Jame Spicer Esq., Charle sH Mr. Deputy Obbesd, Mr. Hitrattlge, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Winkworth, Mr. Chinn, Mr. Goodman, and Mr. Browne. The report of the saboommittee was read, and stated that the contributions received amounted to 54,351 W. 7s. sad that after payment of the expenses Marred is advertising, printing, and other disbursermsets, the com mittee had invaded 34:4131. 15e. in the perches* of S pit oat. Fist Jodi* stock, and 17,0091. in Three per Cast Consols, in addition to the accruing interest upon those tends, amounting to 3,009/. 4s. Id., which had also Ira invested in Consols, making • total of 54,242/. 19a. Id., sad that then was a balance of 2.1W.98.9d.in the hands of Mews. Smith, Ban* and Co., the beakin, to the credit of the fund. _ _ L pursaimee of $ power °outfaced upon the treasurer sad trustees by the gamma committee to pay out of the had such slues of mosey as might be required by the committee of advice Laminated by her Majesty the Queen ! 600 plums had been paid to the architect selected to submit deups for the immerial, red 434 4s. to defray other effacers, making a total 016734 44 _ _ _ M.P., moved the following rem lutioo, " Her Majesty the Queue having intimated her pleasure that the amount now vested in trustees be trau Jeered to the trustees appointed by bee Majedy, to whom the funds voted by parliament ham alread bees paid, this muting authorises the trustees at this fe n d to treader the amount so inverted,io aocordasee with her Majesty's Motu.* The motion was wooded by Mr. BODIUN, who mid he thought it was quite right that it should be et., as be did not think it would be well to bare a divided accout. Scene slight discussion took place, and the motion was saanimoudy agreed to. W. Tim, Rm., M.P., proposed a vote of coodolemos mid regret for the km of so useful and eminent a man es their much lamented abeirmsa, the late W. Cubit; Each HP., which was sereadedd Aldermen and Colonel Wil soo, and unaoimouely to, sod the peocesdinp ter minated with a vote et to the Lard Mayor. Yesterday morning, a public breakfast was given by the Liverpool Emannpation Society to the Rev. Ward Beecher, who returns today to the Staten. The break. fast was served in the Si. James's Hall. Mr. C. Wibon, chairman of the Liverpool Emancipation Society, presided, and there were preempt abowt 200 process, some being ladies. THE REEPRERENTATION OP WlNDBOR.—Yeeteeday morning the writ for the election of • member to eminent the borough of New Windsor in parliament. is the roan of Mr. G. W. Hope, was received by W. Beason, Req., the mayor. The election is expected to take plans about the middle of the ensuing week. la coneequeace of nertaia persons having made rise of the name of Colossi Sr Thaws K. Biddulpb, C. 8., in order to induce some of the electors to withhold their support from the conservative candidata, Bulkeley, chairman of Colonel Vyse's committee, addressed that officer • letter upon the subject. To this letter Colonel Biddulph soot the following reply :—" I cannot understand how my man can have boss, either officially or unofficially, mod is order to iodine any elector of Windsor to vote use way or the other at the wain election. I hays authorised no owe to nes ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL, HAVREBTOCR-HILL. —The half-yearl insatlng for the electioa of 30 children out of list of 12 9 condidetss took place yesterday at the Laden Tavern, when, is the &bosom of the tremors? hoot illness, the chair was oocapisd by J. J. Tanner, Faq., V.P. No report wearied, but it seems that the charity is greatly in west of foods, owing is some measure to the heave pe =arling out of snore sickness among the chiMren ei the spring sod lately, radio meamary mein is the hones and grounds. We may also mention that the estab lishment coutaias room for 400 children, but only about 300 are there. It in sad to know than 100 more poor might be provided for if this valuable charity bad n r baw erthoosands a year mom for ita k iro port. It is the oldest charity of the kind ia the • om, having bass established ia 1758, and ought to be sa w supported seamy, as it is as hands confemod that it is most admirab ly anodize:4d. MIRTINGB OF SCIRNTIPIC SOCIRTIIig FOR THE &Mlle° WElL—Nowday : Baia& Architects, 8 ; Ento- mological, 7 ; Royal Lastitation, 2, Gees & Moot* Rest intspa'reelcia day : Photographic, 8 ; Anthropological, 8. Convolutions of • Micromphalic Brain," by Protesser J. Marsha ,• " Can at Burgbead," Hr. Roberta and Professor Bask ; "Indian Toles of Yanceaver's lolana," Captain Jambs. Wsdasoday, Goo. logical, 8, " Ichthyolites from New South War," Sir P. de M. G. Egerton ; "Geology of Nile Valley, Jut" Mr. Adams. Thonday, Chemical, 8, " Detection of Nitric Acid," Dr. Spiegel; " Pitysiokigioal Variations of Hipper% Arid in Urine," Dr. Thudicenni. Friday, Philological, 8. MONZT ORDEVA.-1n future when delay of pay. ant of • • mosey order for ten days is desired, the remitter must, at the time of issue, affix • peusy receipt stamp on sloe order, and write his name across it. The order most then be banded to the timing officer, so that the nommary motivation's may be given to lie paying Ain—By command the Postmailar-Carrel, BONLARD SILL, flearstray. Loan CLTDI'II Wll.l.—Tbe will of Field-Marshal Load Clyde—signed at Chatham, mind, where his lord ship died—is written, " strange to say, es • sheet of paper bearing the Athenscrun Club mark." The inference is obvious. A man snot get Minimum paper except at the Athenrom. Suck papers out sold at Chatham, where the last codicil to his lordship's will is dated. And so ties painful belief is forced upon as, that a peer, a field marshal, weelthy, respected, illustrious, could pocket paper at his club, and carry it away with him to the country. OM fancies the hall porter conscious of the old lord's iniquity, and holding down his head as the marshal pears the dom. What is that roll which his lordship weir! Is it his marshal's baton gloriously woo? No: it is a roll of foolscap conveyed from the club. What bas he on his breast, under his greatcoat ! Lit his PAar of India ! No; it is a boodle of envelopes, bear* the bead of Minerva. some sealing• wax, and • half some of pens. Let us imagine how in the ball of one or other of them clubs this strange anecdote will bs discussed. "Notorious screw." says Serer. "The poor old fellow's avarice ins long been known." " Sup pose he wishes to imitate the Duke of Marilsorough," says Simper. " Habit of looting ooutracted in Indus. you know ; ain't so easy to pt over, you kaow," eye Soigger. "When oaken dined with him 4 India," remarks Solemn, "it was :Notorious that the spoons were all of a different pattern.* "Perhaps it isn't true. !Seepage be wrote be paper at the club!" interposes Jones. "Well, well, we have all our washbasins," sighs Robiasoa. " Seen that article, Thompson, is the &were, about Lod Clyde, sod the club paper! You'll Sod it apeman. In the third column of the fifth page towards the bottom of the page. I suppose he wain, poor he couldn't afford to buy a quire of paper. lido% (Dormice is the world. Obi no!" . . . And now, if you pintas, we will tell the reel story which has furnished this scandal to a newspaper. this tattle to club gossips and loungers. The Field Marshal, wishing to make a further pro vision for a friend, informed his lawyer what be desired to do. The lawyer, member of the Atheneum Club, there wrote the draft of such • codicil as be would advise, and sent the paper by the post to Lord Clyde, at Chatham. Lord Clyde, Sadism the paper perfectly mos. factory, signed it sad sent it back and hear. we bare the story of " the **dial bearing the signature of Clyde. P.M., and written, strange to say, upon paper bearing the Atheesreim Club mark."—Mr. Thinkers'', in the Coraidl Hammier for November. According to the new constitution of Venezuela, slavery is brewer abolished is that state ; every slave who please his feet upon her soil will be considered fns and taken under the protection of the republic. A code' remand fo The coo miner sod told them me sad at book of "17f:d i ; with Rile so dials. I my heed, • L very of joint. sail the were bran the prima the surge° MOM till The on that you The cow ill. ii; kicking t The pen was wroth liz_Coi Th - e Cor 1,0 broagb before gob Willig IN mower* himself as Mr. ligyr whereby t Mary, till Mr. Let given the end had p! penes. W passed to April 30, 1 from St. Margaret's from St. 1 to the per sem coed primmer b WSWft the prima P u b me Choliosba he (the al family hr regular an *aim& wif elm west I work for mile ra b h p aot go to did so be goiag is nary bdiffirop Mr. VI oat, sad e be towing reed= to - iii. - Ali that Oct. w i a s tat a b to leT dances: The an n . e . a b ~:~ lion at tit est salsa mak ftroc Yrs. &at that ha partite, la p t oat l[r"—. potion. au did as he neighbour repetition The ape should be Harriet atiomplial be=r obi hawk who hod d to follow ',abed thi ;Wont fOlb Ide sister I The pri she bad fc The pri edict eke I al V* wicked am her aseerk l'ite prk ~630 . - : - 4 - f.r 1 3114e1e. to a AMC Wok she, of the pn