The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

UNITED STATES. The America, Captain Leitch, arrived at Liverpool, yesterday afternoon, with dates from Boston to the 26th, and Halifax 27th ult. Her day of sailing from Boston was fixed for the 25th, but she was detained till two o'clock of the morning of the 26th. She brings 35,000 dollars. Not the least interesting portion of the Mail's news is that of the " Forefather's Day " Celebration. The celebration was is the shape of a dinner given at Astor House, and the occasion the anniversary of the New England Society. Sir Henry Brawn and Daniel Webster were among the gnats; and in reply to a speech from Mr. Webster, complimentary to England and its minister, Sir Henry made a very eloquent eivh, which was moat warmly received and ap plauded. New Yolk has been visited by a severe worm. On the 22ud nit, it commenced and lasted some time, doing much damage—flooding wharves and damaging many ship. The sloop 'f alma (says the Nese York Enquirer), dragged her anchors, and is now ashore alongside the Battery walL She has received cor.siderable damage, and if the wind con tiauer, will b. a complete wreck. There were four men on board, who landed is safety. The ship Niagara, Captain Smith, from Liverpool, lying at anchor at the S W. Spit, has cat or carried away her fore and maitimmts, and her miun-topmast 'Seaborne. A sloop named the Good Return, of Greenpoet, was discovered tossing upon the waves in the North River. partially a wreck, and without any parson on board to constiand her. A large number of vessel, lying at dater's% wharves along the North Riser, were more or less damsged by chafing against each other and the docks. A block of new buildings is proems or weetioe on Madison Avenue were blows dews. la Brooklyn, eight frame buildings, in progress of minion, on the corner of Smith sod Mill-street, were blown down—not a stick left standing. Tne subject of it uniform system of cheap postage had been under discussion in the Howe of R:presen tatives, but no action had been taken as yet. No important business has been transacted in either House. Mr: Webster's reply had been sent to the Austrian minister, and was soon to be called for in the Senate. The chargé app-inted to Austria left Wanhingtos without his commission, and the diplomatic relations between the two countries are thus left in a state of rmspesee. A court martial was in session at Washington for the trial of Commodore Jones, of the United States navy, for alleged frauds on the government while he was in command ,on the Pacific station, and for scan dalous conduct and oppression. The apprehension and examination at New York of a man of colour, named Ileory Long, who was alleged to be a fugitive slave, had caused considerable excitement, although there was no disposition t o I resist the eztctition of the law. At the time of the' steamer's departure the case was undecided. New. from California is to Nov. 15, by the Cherokee, which brought two million dollars of gold dust from Chagrea. The prevalence of the cholera wee the principal topic of importance. This epidemic bu raged wilt gent severity, especially in the City of Sacramento. 'the mortality in that city has been about three times se great as in Ban . Francisco, although the population is lees by three-quarters. In San Francisco the deaths have taken place chiefly among the transient weeidests. It is supposed that the diem., travelled scram the continent with the emigrants by the overland route. Not a single case, according to the most authentic accounts, came is by sea. A fine of steamers between lien Fran ciseo and the Sandwich Islands was contemplated, with every prospect of being speedily established. The trial of the rioters at Sacramento City was to commence on the 16:11 at Benicia. The complete acquittal of the prisoners was confidently anticipated. During the approaching winter a larger proportion of misers than usual will remain in the mountains. This will inertias the amount of gold, as heretofore, in the twister season, mining operations have been almost entirely suspended. The tininess of quartz mining is sow &Meeting much attention. New veins are constantly diecovered, and the most extraordinary re sults Sr. expected from the establishment of a tho- rough system of scientific mining. An extra ses sion of the legislature was demanded by the exi gencies of the state, and would probably be called by the executive. The difficulties with the lodiens eta continued, ■nd were the source of a good deal of trouble. A fire Lad occurred at Sacramento city, de stroying property to the amount of 40,000 doll., Art or six buildings being destroyed. Tt • Americ► remained at Boston until Thursday morning waiting for the Canada mails, which had been kept back by a heavy snow storm. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH FROM NEW YORK. INCLIDAT, r M., Die. 26. HALIFAX, Die 27. Commemitstion from Baltimore this afternoon's date states positively that Jenny Lind and party left Will miogton for (lerlesion, by steamer, on Sunday last ; that the vestal has not reached Charleston. Cottua market to-day is firmer, bat the brokers do not alter quotations. Flour and grain markets doll in conse quence of the firmness of the holden.. No quotable change since steamer left. Stock market very buoy ant. No sale of government stocks today, but large business in raliway sod others: upwards of 2,003 Beading sham, bought. . . . Nzw Yoak, J 1 7 .m.—Ltter dispatch from south says, Jenny Ltud and suits arrived oafs at Marie,- ton. [For Commercial latelligence ace last page.] CANADA. Our correspondent writes so follows: MONTREAL. Inc 23. _ _ ---. --- A meeting wu held at tho town of Cobourg, in Upper Canada, last week, for the purpose of taki , ,g into consideration the preliminary steps for the construction of a railroad from that town to Prescott. Cobourg is situated ea Lake Ontario, cr arty midway between Toronto and Kingston ; and Prescott, as I have in a (wept letter intimated t. you, is between the letter city and Montreal. This Cobourg meeting may be conaidered subsidiary to that which was a skort time ago held in this city. The railroad between here nod Prescott, Montreal must, and 1 believe will, have before a very long time transpires. It is gaits likely, also, that the Cobourg people, and those of other towns, will construct other links of the road, to judge from the tone of the meeting held at Coboarg. The Col:airy Near states that almost every man of indiums belonsieg to the town was present, and the tone or t►e meeting appears to have been very decided in favour of having the road. This proposed road may be eon siderrd at the continuation of the St. Lawrence and Atlaatic Railroad, which will be completed in a couple of years; and if we further old to this all the links now in 66st 'nopletion, we shell have a chain of railway from the A•laatic to the heed waters of the hf issiuippi. Nor is the idea by en means Utopian, but from the nature of the cJuntry, and the ascemities of the population, we are forced to conclude that such a road must be made. There is oner:marl:;olf;ct about the tone Cana dian prose at present, that it is entirely devoted to the du. curios of the devel,pment of the vast resources of the country ; and we see very little of that acrimonious strife that formerly so unfortunately chAraeterieed it. Railways are now the chief topic of diacimasion. And I notice b the Montreal Gozatto the proposition to sail a railroad eseves lion for the purpose of earning out the line that l heirs above alluded to. The idea M a good one, and I may add by way of explanation, theism:mentions of this kind are • peeu.iarity of this continent ; and especially is the United States they are the cum= mesas of political organisation. Two large meireastile Muses la Quebec have published tab's, and a review et the timber trade during the put year. They are Interesting sad important for those engaged in the Caned an timber trade; bet as they are very long, occupy fog about five columns of thejuursal above mentioned, I must °oedema for you the matter they contain. Marrs. Forsyth and Bell circumstances, prices have maintained assuming wonder fully, and the fluctuations have been fewer than was antici pated by those interfered is the trade. In red pine there hes bean, oe the whole, greeter languor than is pettier years, and a las quantity exported. Oak hes been steady all the mason, with warmly any fluctuation of price. la elm the demand Me bid fair to exhaust the supply, for this wood is not abundant la our forests. Tamarac and raves have both bees in demand. Deals, owtog to the poor price ob tained is Ragland, and the increasing demand fur this kind of timber in the Valted States, have almost ceased to come to the Quebec market. . — This gllowing stows the stock of lumber in the port of Quabse (Maiming both enorchantsble tad culls) let Dec., 1860 : 0494 711,400 feat ; elm, 635,104; ma, 29,195 ; birch, 39,092; basswood, 1,621; samaras, 63,188; white pine, 6.045,647; tad pin., 3,069,272; standard staves, 966,4,3,20; W. 0. madame awes, 244,3,3,10; R. 0. nashipsa storm, 123,0,3,20 ; lettel staves, 1202,3,29 ; mil mem, 22,0.0. 5; ;pine deals, staadard, 837,980; 16 , 661 Usk. standard, 114,999; I sod lima standard, plash, 66,223 ; soh oars, pain, 6,971; latbweisd, Garda 906; diapers, 116,194. The following shows thip supply and ezprwee for the same yes, to sad from Qoebee:— Oak, supply, 1.082,664 feet ; vapors., 1,116,240. Mu, 1,604,6601 1,626,640. Adt, 82,,97; 47.280. Birch, 69,761 ; 180,20). Tanana. 266,414; 36,600. Whlta pia*, 14 336,593 ; 13,010,520. Red pine, 2,121,316; 3,566,640 8 tandard, 2,036 ; 1,266. Puncheon, 4.274; 4;02. Burnt, 107 Pins, standard, 1,462,1 00 ; 2,207,066. Pine, spruce, 390,000; 614,277. Cords, 2,180 ; 4,423. _ . lelleerlitor are the prises current Odabar Iron Moen. Portlei: sad B.4Pe Curator :—Wltite Pine, plod teed sup ries, 4141.1161 d. ; ditto in shipping order, 6d. to 61d. ; red pine, in shipping order, 40 feet average, 9d. to 944. Oak, by the dram, la. 14d. to le. 2d. ; ditt o , Lakes Br. Cliff and Huron, Is. 3d. Elm, in dipping order, 38 to 10 feet, 10d. to 1044. ; ditto, in the raft, according to average quality and manufacture, 7d. to 10d. Tamarac or Haesaatac, square, 91.; ditto, flatted, 84. to9d. Stave', standard, per M., fair ep.cifioation, 361 ; ditto pipe, 371. 10g. to 401 ; ditto, W. 0. Pun., according to quali.y, 101 ; ditto, R. O. Pin., ditto, 71. 10,. to 81. Deals, pine, ird, 91, re 91.191., and Ids for 21.. ; ditto bright, 101. to 101. 10e.„ and Ida for 2ads.; ditto sprees, Ist qa.lity, 71. to 71. 101.; ditto, 2nd quality, 61. to 61 101 Parties in England should bear In mind that timber sold In the raft subjects the purchaser to great expense in dressier, butting, and at times heavy loge for galls. If gold in shipping order, the 'apogee el shipping only to be added. In the mime, Hoar, and grain markets there le so little doing, that it tt not necessary that I send you quotation,. We hors had severe weather et late, and each snow has I believe it is underMonel the provincial parliament is to be conveaed on the Stk Feb. asst. Accounts from Toronto to the 21st ult. state that the inspector-ger.eral had proposed measures of reta liation, in order to force reciprocity in the American Clogrees. CENTRAL AMERICA.—We learn by oar most recent advice% from Central America that De !demist& hes been appointed minister to Spain to solicit a recognition of t►e hadependenee of the state of Salvador, and to form en ami able political and commercial treaty. Presider t Luido has given an official expression of his unlimited confidence in the protection of the Unimd States. lie has also issued • proclamation, ordering the national standard of elle Central American Co•tcderecy to be raised in the rate. The repel,- mutation is to he on the basis of one for every 3O 000 souls. The 'tattoo( Costa Rica and Uustemala, it is supposed, will __ is the arrangement. VENESUELA.-IVe have dates from Venezuela to Nov. 21. The election of General Monaca* to the Presi dency was considered certain. The old Peet party are now generally enlisted in hie support. Ile bus gained • good deal of populati.y by a recant measure of the gevernment, permitting the release of all persons who had been con fined in tba didereat provinces of Venezuela for the late political disturbenese. It is supposed that Monages will great a general amnesty, the Congress being favour able to inch a policy. The cowry was in a tranquil state, and the business provedta were highly flat tering. The importation duties on three cargos*, widen had just arrived at Caracem, two firm England and one from Hamburg, amosinted to 150,000 dots. Ina leaning articles of produce were in demand at good pricer. The mop of coffee was expected to be one-third lees than that of last year. A project has been prrented by Gen. Costelli, in behalf of a mercantile hoes' in New York, for the coaetrue tion of a railroad between Caraecas and Lagnayra. It has been recommended to commws by the legislature of Caraccu to grant him the exclusive priv.leze of budding end conduct ine the rally tad for a period of ninety years. SANDWICH ISLANDS. The accounts from the Sandwich Islands, yin United States, are In the highest degree encouraging. The whalers have bad a remarkable degree of success during their summer cruise. The harbi.ur of Honolulu is drecribed as presenting an animated spectacle. Over 100 vessels were in port, watering, discharging, and taking in cargo. LA FLATA.—Letters from 13aenos Ayres to the 4th November lead to the belief that the war talk was almost 'stately ended. Exchange ruled at 74.. per doubloon. FLOODS IN CUMBERLAND.-ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASHIRE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. On Wednesday evening, says the Carlisle Patriot, and, indeed, during the whole of the night, a violent pale prevailed from the south- west, accompanied at intervals with heavy rain. The effect was that the waters of Vile water Leka (augmented by the downpoururg upon the mouatain range amid chick i . . is ctuate) were forced into the channel of the Earnest end thecae into the Eden, which by Than! ay 11107011.11 et daylight WY WOOS swoll.n, we believe, than it has been since Februery, 1822. The Caldew and Pettaril also TOY tar beyond their {wonted volume; the latter, in particular, so much overflowed its wonted bounds, that the fields, right and left, and the high road to Warwick on the 'MUM side of the Peter' Bridge, were laid under water, in some plums several feet in depth, cutting off ell aommunicatioa with the city on that side except on horse back or in carriages, carts, or other high wheeled vehicles. All the low and level grounds bordering the Eden for miles, both above and below Carlisle-bridge, were covered with a body of water which bad the appearanoe of • vast lake. The inhabitants of Riekergate were naturally in a state of great apprehensioa, lest the embankments which shielded them from inundation should give way or be over. topped ; of the latter there appeared to be imminent danger about two o'clock year relay atternoon, at the water was then within two feet of the top and still rising. When the tide of the Solway began to retire, however, the !hod also began to fall, and last night there was a considerable dimi meth= of the watery ii.vesion. Though there was not, so tar as we hays heard, say los of human life, the deluge done is consideethle. Mr. Ferguson, Mr. John Irving, and others tr. Cray, ibe., lost a considerable number of sheep ; and more would have perished had they not bun taken off from elevated spots, to which thee had found their way, by persons in boats. A few cattle were also drowned here and there, Arothi r source of lass le the washing away of in .nure Mid upon the grass land in clew prom enPy with the Eden and Petteril. We have experienced more violent gusts of wind than those which prevailed on Wednesday night, but it is a great many yeses since there was a hurricane of longer continuance. On the Boteherby read some amusing seen= presented themselves. We ob. served • whole party closely packed in Mn. Hamilton's molest cart, among the garrote and onions, for the purpose of getting into town dry shod. At Armathwaite, a cure dent informs u, "th. Eden overt! Aired its banks on Thursday morning more extensively than at ary period since the " great flood" of 1822; the water was feet in depth in Armathwai•• Castle, out of the seats of the But of L In the village the waters carried off upwards of 60 loads of manure." The bossiest Shod of the river Eden that has been brown at Appleby sine* the memorable Candlemas fisod of I 12.:, smith created such vast destruct ion of bridges and property in the north, was witnessed at Appleby on Thursday morning. Doris, the latter part of Wedamdsy the rein began to lad in torrents and the wind to blow a tremendous hurries's,. Tne storm eon. Maned with unabated fury until about 4 o'clock on the Gllowing morning. The river, which was previously heavily chorged, began to overflew its backs at an early hour of the night, end soon after midniiht had completely inundeted the lower ITC , uncle in the neighbourhood, laying waste the hedges in every direction, and sweeping with its impetuous force every loose object with which it came in contact. The lower port of the town of Appleby, especially in Chspel.lane, was • complce see, and the inhabitants of most of the houses in that locality had to remove tittle furniture into the sound story, the depth of water in the houses averaging about three feet. The vicar'. croft, adjoining the church yard, was one dense stream of water, and the hedges of the Butt's Gardens were entirely covered. In Cnopel lane the current was eo strong that to pug along it was utterly impossible. The water extended in this direction as far as the Doomsgate Corner, and up the Post-otficsWitird, nod other intervening pla:es. Oa the Bongate side of the bridge the water overflowed the road from Bowsaw Foot to the foot of Battleborough. About 25 yards of the wall of • the 11,14 belonging to John Beth', Esq., adjoining the road opposite the Court Houses, gave way, and mode an outlet for toe water, which many think was the means of saving the bridge, the quantity o: water being aptarently greater than the two arches would admit. From six o'clock the water begin gradually to subside, and by eleven o'clock had fallen sufficiently to enable pedestrians to pass along the Sande and the other puts of the toed end streets which had been flooded. The destruction of property at Appleby, ea fur as we ham been able to sectrtsia in the limited time for inquiry, does not appear to be great ; but it is to be feared that in the course of the river considerable damage to property will have been done. The corporation of Appleby have recently bees at muck expense in planting trees end Improving the banks of the elect, which had been rendered nugatory—the young trees have all been uprooted and washed away, as well as the valuable new pales which bad been put up for their proteetho. On Tuesday morning the non-arrival of the down London mail at Carlisle at Reappointed time gave rise to apprehen sions Sr its safety, particularly as the appearance of the suburbs of the city were a selseeboly evidence of the violence of the storm which had raged overnight. Alter some hours of suspense the mail arrived, when it was Amer- Mined that en accident bad lathered, but of a competitively trifling description. A small watermarse in the neigh brarhood of Shap, called Ship Beck, runs parallel with the railway for some distance, aid erases and mucous the line. In dry weather it Is but an iasigniticant stream, and runs harmlessly along its appointed route , ' but, from the deluging showers that have recently fallen, it had acquired all the fury of • mountain tor rent. Overtiowisg its natural boundaries, it laid • soasiderable portion of the line under water, bursting • strong use culvert which paws wader the embankment at Thrisany, end endertniaing a considerable portiere of the earthwork On the arrival of the logger train, which I leaves CarliCe shortly miter '0 p.m. at this spot the bridge gave way. Singularly enough p.m., engine shot over the ebastm, bat the tender and some of the waggons went down with a mash. A sane of omission mused. • great quantity of geode, such as gingham', suttee, &e , get lean and floated down the stream. The storm was raging with unabated fatty at the time. On the following morning the down mail Wain sou delayed several boon, as above stated, in oonee quince of the engine plunging into the water on rosining this spot, and extinguishing the tire. In feet, every train wee delayed for • time by the inuodation. The mail bogs were ocaveyed some eistane• on their route in a car - , and l passengers transported safely beyond the dangerous sicinity in every obtainabe vehicle. Fortunately, DO person ane tained the slightest injury, and though the tender still i remains in its awkward predicament, workmen are busily employed in clearing the line, which will be won put into a I state of thorough repair. ACCIDIUST.—TIM American packet-ship Empire State encountered very severe weather on clearing the channel, and two men were required at the wheel. Otts behest called away, the men left in charge was im mediately overpowered, and received a severe blow on the back of the leg from a handle of the waeel. The limb beesse much swollen, and mortification ensued. The v. soil retureed to the river on Saturday lot. sad docked on Moseley, and on Thanday the men, +ease nesse =, as wee taken to the oospi•al, where his limb w in 7 asoputratwi. Be lies in a very precarious state.—Liecrpooi Mercery. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1851. LADY MORGAN, CARDLWAL WISEMAN, AND ST. PETER'S CHAIR.* Oar notice of this piquant brochure has been post poned, in the hints that we might be able to pick up a copy of the" Remarks" to which it is an answer, and thus be able to arbitrate between the disputants after a careful perusal of the arguments of both. A long chase of it we have had through the bookshops of London ; twice we came upon the scent of his Eminence's pamphlet; but in both instances we found on attempting to put up the bird that our pointer had am the place where it had lately been sitting. We are therefore reduced to the necessity of gleaning Cardinal Wiseman's arguments out of the quotations made from his " Remarks" by Lady Morgan. Should it turn out that her ladyship has omitted anything of moment, we will return to the subject when the car dinal publishes a second edition or pats out a Lew statement. That he will do so there can be no doubt. He is a disputant who leaves no assailant unnoticed. After gravely arguing with Punch—as Leatherhead, in Ben Jonson's " Barbolomew Fair," argues with the poppet—he cannot refuse the challenge of a real flesh and blood author of considerable repute. The Catdi nal's onslaught upon Punch, in the Dublin Review, is certainly one of the richest passages in polemical lite rature. Punch's Roman prototype, Pitman, has assailed many a Cardinal, but we never read that any of them ever entered the field against that pro voking wit. Punch is quite competent to his own defence, but we cannot help observing that the Cardinal hes mutely treated him fairly. Until Punch began to joke about the Cardinal he was " the playful compa nion of everybody's railway journey." The Cardinal was highly delighted with the liberties which " the cocky little bird perched upon two twin letters " took with the reverend orators of Exeter-ball and the Anglican bishops; but he can see no wit and roach harm in jukes levelled at himself. The Cardinal bestows his priestly eulogy on the "bright talents" for caricature "lodged in a catholic breast." The Belt denial of the really talented and amiable gentle man alluded to—in refuting to continue ft lucrative connexion with old friends who made a jest of what he deems sacred—merits a more substantial acknow ledgment at the hands of the CardinaL The Cardinal has, indeed, a most catholic—all embraoing—taate for literary and artistica ability so long as it does not bespatter his own red stockings. He not only enjoys all the jolero and caricatures of Punch (apart from the anti-Romanist ones); he has a good word for "the bold, uncompromising, and truly masculine elcquencs" of the Dispatch, albeit, it is at times sadly "sullied with irreligious language." The archbishop would, probably, purify oar periodical literature after the fashion in which a priest of his church, in former days purified Boccacio—by substi tuting "Emperor" or "King" for -"priest" and "abbot" in the most lubricous tales of that fascinating author. lint we are forgetting Lady Morgan. Her ladyship drew down upon herself the some what vituperative eloquence of the Cardinal, by tell ing a story, in her " Italy," of the chair preferred in the Basilic of the Vatican, and said to have been St. Peter's, incompatible with belief in the authenticity of that relic. The anecdote is es follows: The sacrilegious curiosity of the French broke through all obstacles to their seeing the chair of St. Peter. They actu ally removed its superb casket, and discovered the relic. Upon its mouldering and dusty surface were traced carvings, which bore the appearance of letters. The chair was quickly brought into a better light, the dust and eshwebe renv.ved, and the inscription (for an inscription it was) faithfully copied. The writing is to Arabic characters, and is the well-known confession of the blahometan faith: There it but one God, and Mohonset is his prophet. It is supposed that this chair had been, among the spoils of the Crusaders, offered to the church, at • time when a taste for antiquarian lore and the deciphering of inscririons was not yet in fashion. This story has been since hushed us, the chair replaced; end none but the unhallowed remember the tact, aid none but the audacious repeat Yet such there are even at Rome. English readers may be surprised that a light of the Romish church should take so much trouble to controvert this one passage in a book, which contains many more important though playful sallies against the priesthood of his church. But, as Lady Morgan remarks in her letter, the episcopal chair or throne appears to be the foundation of the Cardinal's theo logical system. Take the chair front beneath it, and that system tumbles to the ground. In proof of this we refer to the address delivered by the C.,rdioal at his late installation. The bishop's chair in general, and of course that of St. Peter in particular, is, in the Cardinal's estimation, the seat of that centripetal force which holds the whole doctrinal and discipli narian Romisb system together. To assail the au thenticity of St. I'eter's chair, is to attack the funds.. mental position of the Romish church. There is another consideration of some weight. To deny that the chair ever was St. Peter's is to call in question the infallibility of the Pope who caused it to be placed in its present position, and of all his succes s Ore who have allowed it to remain there. It it is not really St. Peter'. chair, they have all—in the most charitable interpretation of their conduct been deceived, as any fallible mortal might be. Now we frankly admit that the only evidence pro duced by Lady Morgan is her own assertion that Denon told her the above story. This is only what English lawyers call "hearsay evidence?' But, in the first place, the story is probable and characteristic: we know that Denon and his brother sarans were rather fond of indulging in such inquiries and exami nations when an opportunity of making them pre sented itself. Again, both Denon and Champollin were alive at the time the anecdote was published, and never contradicted it. Nay, more, though Lady Morgan does not mention the fact in her published letter, we have been shown a private letter in which she mentions an interview with Bacon after the publication of her "Italy," in which he expressed himself pleased with her notice of the incident. But, did any reasonable ground for doubting the strict accuracy of Lady Morgan's story exist, the arguments advanced evilest it by Cardinal Wiseman are of a nature rather to confirm than to weaken it. Though he gives a very minute description of the chair, he admits that he has never seen it. Nay more, he declines to adduce what he himself say would be the strongest evidence that the story is on true: The most compendious course to confute this unblushing eabarany would he, to quote the attestation of those who have been in the service of St. Peter's Church since a period ante adept to the invasion of Rome by the French, to the fast that the seals were violated, nor the relic inspected by them. But it would be replied to this, that the men who could deceive the public in the impious manner which Lady Morgan supposes, would hare little scruple in giving any testimony necessary to countenance that deceit. His Eminence's logic is rather at fault here. That the keepers of the church, at the time of the French invasion, affirmed the carefully covered up chair to be St. Peter's, only warrants the inference that they be lieved what was told them by their predecessors. Men may make a mistake of this kind, and yet be per fectly credible witnesses as to a transaction which, if it ever occurred, must have been seen by them. The excuse for the non-production of this testimony is insufficient. It is so shallow and absurd as necessarily to suggest the conclusion that Cardinal Wiseman did not produce their attestation because he could not pre vail upon them to make it. Without imputing to them much scrupulosity, it is conceivable that they might demur to making a statement which could be contradicted by living witnesses. Again, we are not aware that Cardinal Wieemsn has positively , averred that the inscription mentioned by Lady Morgan does not exist upon the chair. And this is the one enacted point of the controversy. If an inscription, in Cutic character, to the e ff ect, that " There is but one God, and lifahomet is his prophet," is upon the chair, that fact is incompatible with the belief that the chair has been constantly prNerved in Rome since the days of the Apostle. Cardinal Wiseman may have denied the existeoce of the inscription, but if he hos done so the passage has act been quoted by Lady Morgan. It is, however, still open to him to doily it, and (if he can) adduce evidence to its non-existence. The existence of the inscription, if proved, is fatal to the authenticity of the relic. But its non-exist ence would still leave the question of authenticity ffee. The earliest witness to the preservation of St. Peter's chair at Rome cited by the Cardinal is Mimed's. We have not at present the works of that historian at hand; but if any passage to this effect is to be found therein, it has escaped our memory. Waiving this consideration, however, it must be kept in mind that Eustatius was born more than two centuries after the date assigned to the martyrdom of St. Peter, and that there is no mien • Lotter to Cardiaal Wiseman. in answer to Ids .. &marks on Lady Ifforea's Stotoolooto ?glutting St. Pates's Mak.. Sy Sydney lAdy Mari. WAGE Clarks Wostenoo. 1161. to believe he _ever visited Rome. His testimony would be insufficient to establish the preservation of such a relic at Rome even in his day. And the Car -1 dinal has adduced no continuous chain of evidence to identify the chair now preserved in the Basilic of the Va ican with any chair that may have been mentioned by Pembina. But the Cardinal has recourse to probabilities. " The chair of St. Peter," he says, " is precisely such a one as we should have suppose.: to be given by a wealthy Roman senator to a ruler of the *hutch which he esteemed and protected." Lady Morgan has justly observed, that the luxurious and splendid deco rations of the chair, as described in the work from which the Cardinal's account of it is taken, is utterly inconsistent with the known poverty and simple habits of the apostles. But there is a still stronger consideration. The bassi-relievi on the chair repre sent, according to the Cardinal, " the exploits of the monster-killing Hercults." It really appears to us that a chair decorated with such heathenish emblems is precisely such a one as a Roman convert would not have presented to an apostle—to one who strenuously warned his disciples against having anything to do with things savouring of idolatry. We may observe here that there is a startling dis crepancy between the accounts of the chair given by two venters, both of whom are cited by Cardinal Wiseman. Turrigio declares that the ornaments on it are of pinchbeck ; Cardinal Cortese that they are of fine gold. Turrigio states that, " because from great age St. Peter's chair was going to pieces and had got somewhat ricketty, it was encompassed round with iron hoops and bars of wood." Cardinal Cur teses description ignores both the hoops and the bare. Were these two authorities describing the same chair? In his eagerness to establish the authenticity of the chair in the Vatican, Cardinal Wiseman goes out of his way to throw discredit on a kindred relic pre served at Venice. The chair said to have been St. Peter's, preserved in the Church of St. Peter at Venice, he admits must have been constructed in the eighth century, and can never have been used by the apostle. Nay, more, though he acquits Assetnanni of any intention to deceive, he admits that that learned man gave an erroneous Interpretation of the inscription on the Venetian chair, of a nature to coun tenance its claims to authenticity. Tbis is gratui tously unkind, for though of the three coats, said to have been our Saviour's, exhibited in three different Raman catholic churches, two must of neces sity be spurious, St. Peter may have had more than one chair ; and to throw doubts upon one of the chairs has a natural tendency to lead men to have mis givings respecting the ether. There is a good deal of truth, too, in a sly insinut. tion of Lady Morgan's, provoked by the Cardinal's gorgeous description of the chair at Rome. Leo X., and his successor Clement, were as arrant collectors of pretty nick-narks as Horace Walpole himself, but we nowhere read that St. Peter had any taste that way. We confess that there remains not a shadow of doubt on our minds that Lady Morgan's account of Denotes statement is strictly accurate, and that that statement was perfectly true. But we are bound in fairness to admit that, could our other doubts be got over, there is one way in which we could reconcile the existence of a Mahometan inscription on the chair in question, with a belief that it had °lice belonged to St. Peter. There are some who believe that the east, and not the west, was the scene of St. Peter's labours and sufferings. It is clear that, down to the period at which Luke's "Acts of the Apostles" ter minate, St. Peter had rot visited Rome. His two epistles are addressed to those of " the dispersion" in farther Asia, and the first is written from Babylon. It has been said, indeed, that Babylon means Rome; bat why should St. Peter call that city by its mys tical name when St. Paul always calls it by its own ? The epistles of Peter have nothing of the mystic character of the "Revelations" about them : they are as plain and matter of fact in relation to mere mun dane affairs as St. Paul's. Babylon, a famous Beet of Jewish learning, was the natural head-quartets of the apostle labouring "along those of "the dispersion." And the second epistle is evidently written under a prophetic sense of immediately impending martyrdom. Now, if the scent, of St. Peter's labours was tarther Asia, it might be that the Mahometan conquerors might get temporary possession of his chair, and inscribe their confession upon it : at Rome this was impossible. We give Cardinal Wiseman the fall benefit of this explanation of the difficulty; but if be adopts it, he must give up St. Peter's visit to Rome, and his tenancy of that bishopric. Here, then, we leave the question till Cardinal Wiseman favours us with further elucidations of the subject. It is one of little importance in the estima tion of us heretics; but it is one of vital importance with reference to the claims of his own church to infallibility, and with reference to his own somewhat peculiar system of divinity. Au reate, Lady Morgan's letter will be found to contain much cutlet?' matter not directly bearing upon the controversy. As in most of her former publications, she is rather discursive, and atter a Par thian fashion discharges many arrows thnt her oppo nent will find it difficult to ward off. In the com mencement she vindicates her novel,. from the charge of being mere works of amusement brought against them by the CardinaL This she is well entitled to do. Ste was a friend of the Irish—and, above all, of the Moth Roman catholics—when their friends were fewer and more needed than they are now. She is entitled to more respectful and considerate treatment than she has experienced at the hands of edignitary of the Ro mish church. A little of the Cardinal's tolerance for . . the " irreligious language" which " sullies " the Div patch ought to have been extended to the author of " The O'Brien. and O'Flaherties," and of " Florence Macarthy." At the close of her letter Lady Morgan addresses to the Cardinal, in earnest and eloquent language, some good advice, whicb, to judge by the general tenor of his writings and orations, will be en tirely thrown away upon him. Vbe court. WINDSOR, MONDAY, he. 6. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took walking agel ii'my exorcise in the grounds around the Castle. Pril i 4lbert went out shoot 'mg this morning, attended by lau 'Ciampi, Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel the Hon. Charles my, and Lieut.-Colonel 'F. H. Seymour. The Doke of Cambridge arrived at the Castle to•day, on avisit to the Queen and the Prince. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower are expected to arrive today, on a visit to her Majesty. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the Duchess of Kent. the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Lieut.-Colonel the H. n. C. B. Phipps. The band of the Royal Hong Guards will attend during dinner. Ike Queen's private band will after wards attend in the Castle. The Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday for Windeor Castle. A meeting of the Royal Commission for the pro motion of the Exhibition in 1851 of the Works of Irdostry of all Nations was held at twelve o'clock yesterday, in the New Palen of We'tmimter. Present Earl Granville (in the chile), Sir Richard Westmennt, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Cubite, Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. John Shepherd (Chair man of the Ent India Company). Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Colonel Loyd, special commissioner, were present. Mr. Scott Russell (Secretary of the Royal Commission) and Mr. Bowring were in attead anee. The meeting broke up at two o'clock. Mr. Abbott Lawrence, the American Minister, bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-int:li. Yesterday a deputation of patentees of new inven t dons in the West Indian colonies, counting of the Hon. F. Berkeley, M.P. for Bristol, and Messrs. Botch (of Loudon), Cerpinael (lor patentees in Barbados.), Bessemer (of Lon- don), T. D. Botch (of London), Archibald (ot Porto Rice), Wilson (of London), Gadsden (of London), Tinsel (of Bristol), Hardman (of Liverpool), and Brown_ ((rep resentin g Dr. Schoffern of L on d on ), aceomenied by sir.Angustin Mason (solicitor), bad an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labonehers, at the Board of Trade, on the present state of the law as regards Royal Gruen of Letters Patent for Inventions in the Colonies. The Rev. B. Hoene attended at the Home-eta yesterday, to present a petiqon from the push of Weston, Hens, for transtahaion to her Majesty, against the papal &wake. Sir J. Emerson Tennent had an interview with But Grey yesterday at the Colonial.efliee. Mr. Howe bad also an interview with the noble earl yesterday. A deputation, consisting of the HOG. Mr. Berkeley, DI P.,Mr. Philip Miles, M.P., Mr. B. Drew (chairman of the oad Muine Bard of Bristol), Mr. R. P. Kim Mr. W. Putman, and Mr. P. Green, had an interview yes terday with the Right Hon. Henry Lehmann. IN THE LAST CMITRT.-1101111. day night some villains robbed the Ken•fsh-town stage, sod stripped the paesertprs of their money, witches, and buckles. la the harry they spared the pecki•is of Mr. Corby'', the druggist; but he, content to hive neighbour's fare, called out to one of the torus, Stop, friend, you hays forgot to take my monay."—Notes and Queries. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DAY. OLD COURT. Strom Te■ Itzcomant. INCITING TO SISAL -ROMANY OP INDIGO. Moses Barnett, 67, was indicted for feloniously inciting one Henry Sellers to commit a felony, and also with remelt. g part of the stolen property. Mr. Bal!entice conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Huddlestone. It appeased from the statement of the learned counsel foe the proercution, and the evidence that was adduced in sup put of it, that Sellers, the person mentioned in the indictment, wes a lad, fifteen years of age, and was employed as errand boy to Myers. Wich, Newman, and C s., Indigo brokers. According to his testimony, about the month of October, while he was standing near the Commer cial Sale-rooms, in Mincintlsne, the prisoner entered Into conversation with him, and, after Disking some inquiries reepecting the amount of salary be received, and other matters of the same kind, he told him that he could put him in the way et getting more money ; and he then said that if he brought some indigo to his house, he would buy it of him. Sellers at first refuted to have anytbieg to do with such a proceeding; but be said that the prisoner was continually throwing hintaelt in his way, and suggesting that he should do what he pro• posed, sad at length he said that he consented, end on the le.h of December he took five pounds of indigo from a box in Messes. Week's warehouse, and carried them to the pri soner's house iu Grace's-alley, Well-street, and the prisoner weighed the indigo and said there were only three pounds of it; but, upon Sellers tellies him there wee more, as he had weiehed it, the prisoner said he had male • mistake, and then gave him five shiaings for the indigo he had brought to him. Alter this, according to the statement of the boy;he carried on a regular system of plunder, stealing a quantity of ind go and cocnineal almost every day, and the whole of it b. ing sold to the prisoner. At length it ap peared that suspicion was excited; and, upon Sellers being about to leave the warehouse of the prosecutors upon one °SCALD°, he was stopped, and ten Fe owls weight of indios were found in his possession. Upon this discovery being made, the boy threw himself upon his knees and begged forgiveness, at the scale time detailing the whole of the transactions that had taken place between him and the plischer. An officer was then called in, and the indigo was marked, and the lad was allowed to take away a portion of the Indigo, and be was followed by the officer to the house of the prisoner; and, upon his coming out, the officer and one of the clerks to the prceecuturs went into the prisonet's shop, and behind the counter they found the merkea indigo in • scale, and Sellers handed over to the officer the money he had received for it from the prisoner. Mr. Hudiffistone addressed toe jury for the defence, con tending that the charge had been trumped up against the prisoner by the boy Sel:ers, in order that he might get him . self out of the scrape, and that there was no confirmation of his testimony. Two respectable witnesses gees the prisoner a good character. The Recorder .ua.rned up, and the jury returned a ver die: of Guidy.—Judgment was respite& POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. BOW 6TItEET. E 0 BB ERY AT AM m orning, Hurst ..— This a respectably dressed young man, who gave the name of John Gray, but who refused to gin his address or occupation, was charged under the following circumstances Mr. L. Turner, a eure.yor of taxes, in Lincolnshire, seal that last night he slept at Evans's hotel, in Covent garden. In the middle of the night he was awoke by hearing a noise in his room, as if same person had talleu against the wash hand stand. Witness jumped up, and he saw the door of his room close. He quickly opened the door, and saw • man going up stain with a candle in his hand. Witness called out I timss , " What have you been doing in my room." The man made no answer, but, on repeating the question, be replied as if he was intoxicated. " It is all right, you have lost nothine in your room." Witness then fancied that the man was drunk, and had entered his room in mistake. Witness returned to his bedroom, and missed from hn Mum' pockets one half severeign and some silver and copper. He called up the night peter, and they proceeded to the prisoner's room. Tiny knocked at the door, and a voice, wnich witness im mediately recognised as the one which answered him on the stairs, asked woo was there 1 The porter said, " The gen tleman down stain has lost his mosey, and accuses you of soling; it. Tt e prisoner opened the door, and replied, "Oh, has he, I hove lost four sovereigns too." Witness called for a constable, and gave the prisoner into sustody. The night porter aid the:prisoner bad only slept in the hotel that night. He knew nothing of him. A folic:-constable of the division, said when he took the prisoner into custody he appeared intoxicated, but on ruchieg the station he seemed quite t ober. Witness found in the prisoner'. room • halt sovereign and some silver lying upon the dressing table. There was also a bunch of keys, one of which had been filed down to ellen soy la k, and a a pair ef pliers wrapped up in paper under the In d. Tho prisoner denied the charge, and Hr. Jardine com mitted the prisoner for tri SOUTHWARK. UTTERING COIINTEItiItIT COIN —Ann WiIIiGNIS was charged with passing oil bose coin to John liersey, Lung. lane, Bernsoncley. Prosecutor deposed that last evening the prisoner ante red his ►hop and asked for a penny worth of bread, tendering what seemed to be a shit. I ling. About two hours afterwards she again en tared has shop, and purchased half an ounce of tee, fur which oho paid with another shilling, which he found to be counted* it. He then !gave her into custody. On ex amining the taut' shilling, he discovered that at also was bad. The prisons, dented entering the prosecutor's how.* on the occasion first referred to. As for the shil:iog last referred to, she did not know it was bad. Alieckett remanded her until Saturday, for tho attendance ut the oullator of the Mint. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY -STATION. This morning in inquest was held before Mr. Thomas Wekley, at the City of York, Maiden-lane, Battle bridge, on the body of John Kendal, aped 20, who wail killed by the falling of a girder and a portion of the works in Course of erection at the above station, on Saturday last, on which occasion two other persons, named Green and Tyler, received such interies that it was found necessary to remove them to the University Hospital, and one of whom, Green, bee since died. Stephen Richardson, of Stanmore•place, Somers Town, labourer, depud that he knew the decreed, who was a carpenter. He was working close to him on Saturday last, when they were in the ace of placing the girder in its place. He had got one end over. He gave the word to lower it. The crab was fixed, and he had got on the column on which the girder was to stand, when the eye rope snapped. The deceased was standing on the scaffold. The girder, in falling, carried everything with it, and the deceased mast have been knocked down by it. He fell through into the water. The rope snapped, in his (witness's) opinion, front the sudden jerk of the shear legs 'lipping. Witness was acting as foreman of the hoisting at the time. The whole of the girders had been hoisted on the same principle, and with the same tackle, without any accident. The girders are double, and are raised is iitwo portions. The weight of the girder is about one and a half ton, and not sax, as 'taut!. The rope was perfectly sound, and about one sad a half inch thick. Henry Atherton, carpenter, corroborated the last wittiest. as to the manner of the accident. The sheer-legs did mi broth, and he was confident that it amee from pure accident. and that no one was to blame. In future he would recom mend the use of a preventive gye. Witness was stending on the scaffold, about six feet below, but the girder mined him. J. Higgins deposed he was assisting in hoisting another girder at the time of the acci.tent; he assisted in getting the deceased out of the water. It was an hour and a halt before he was got out. Did not thick there was any difference be tween the tackle used in raising the girder about which he was engaged and that which caused the accident. The coroner did not think any one was to blame. Every pt. esutim was taken. It was suggested that a luff tackle should be med. He bad no doubt in future every precaution would be taken. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," adding that no blame at , achrd to any one HIL.tRY Tzam.—Yesterday the lists of the arrears in the cc= non law courts for the ensuing Hilary Term, commencing on Saturday next, were exhibited. In the Court of Queen's Bench then are 50 special cases and de murrers for argument. There are none for judgment. In the new trial paper there are 3 for judgment and 39 for argument ; snaking, exclusive of crown cases, 92. In the Common Pleas the amen only number 26, consisting of 4 demurrers, 4 enlarged rules in the remanet papir, and 15 rules for new trials, with 2 matters steadieg for the judg ment at the court ; whilst in the Court of Exchequer tr. e somber is 61, of which 6 rules are in the peremptory paper There are 18 mitten, including new tnala, special cases, and demurrer, 'tending for judgment. 'I ben are 4 demur rers for argument, and 8 special cases and 25 rules in the new trial paper. The arrears of the three courts only num ber 179, showing a marked diminution in the lists compared with Hilary Term list year, partly arising from the operation of the County Courts Act. DESTRCCTIrE CONFLAGRATION AT BERMONDSEY —This (Tuesday) morning, about a quarter put one o'clock, the neighbourhood of the Gr►nge road, Bermondsey, was again thrown Into a state of confusion in consequence of the outbreak of soother destructive fire. The disaster corn , menced in a spacious two.story building, from 60 to 80 feet long, occupied conjointly by Mr. Warne, a parchment ma nulocturer, and Mr. Theater, a cooper, *imam in Little Georae street South, .Greage.road, Bermondsey. The beam were first perceived by the constsole on the beat. The progress of the fire, however, was such, that before suel ewnt time bad elapsed to despatch the necessary intelligence to the engine station, names in immense bodies shot through the building. Without 100 of time numerous engines of the London ntabliehment, West of Ragland Company, and parish, attended, u well as the tire escapee. Plenty of water having fortu nately been procured from the mains in the diet:feu, the firemen set their ear ince to work, Gut in spite of their mcst a:Tenuous exertions the Ihmti continued to travel, tad i: was not until half-past two o'clock that their further progress could be urestad4wben all danger of their filtuter extolls= wu at an end. It is understood that the property destroyed was insured. INQUEST ON A PAUPER LUNATIC, WHO DIED AT PECKHAM-HOUSE, PECKHAM Yesterday an inquiry was held at the Adam and Eve public-nouie, Peckham, into tue circumst a nces which to the death JiMomes Wiilism Browe, - 1;787137C:i11117i; inmate in the Lunatic Asylum, Peckham !louse, Peckham. Mr. Low attended for the Commissioners of Lunacy, and Mr. Bennet for the guardians of Clerkenwell. Mr. Carter having sworn a jury, Mr. Low, sub sheriff for the county, stated that he appeared on behalf of the COniIIiN:JUVIS of Laascy, and that he was prepared t 3 take every step necem ,ry for furthering the ens ju,ke. Mr. Bennet, assio•out clerk to the Bard ot O.,ardiana of Clerkenwell parish, stated that be attended with a similar object. The superintendent of the infirmary was examined—l knew the deceased. He was in the asylum as a lunatic patient. I have known him for five or six menthe. I was present at his death, which took place in the infirmary where lam an attendant. He came there about tour days More he died, about the 26th or 27th of December. He never had been under charge before, except for a night occasionally. Coroner—Why did he come under your are ? Witness—On account a the treatment. _ Coroner—Now, don't talk of whiiT•l - you beard. Wan...A—Well, he was in bed when I ease and took thaw of him.. . . . . A Juror—Yea had not charge of the icfirmery pre vieu►ly ? Witness—No. He was under the care of the medical at tendant, Mr. Burt.m. Ile survived about four <lsm 1 was up with him three nights, another person one, end he died on the following morning. I make no metnur.indum, but it is my duty to report the death to the domor. I did so immediately the death occurred. The witness here seemed confused about his deter, aril a juror asked why he noun not state the dime or death exact? b. Witness—Why, we tate so little notice of days in thorn he asylum) that I regime some time to count. Coroner—Why, an deaths ao common there ? Witness (quickly) —N o, sir. It was on Wednesday night, but two other deaths occurring on the same night cantuttd me. I attended him for three nights, and another 'tenon, named Shepherd, was always sitting at his bedsi 'a. Ho was a complete lunatic, fail of faunas, and Mooted there were boards in ht. body all the time. He bad Ste, but ro- ceived co injury while under my hands. He p.tient t did not complain. Nothing occurred to him while under my care to cause his death. I cannot say whether the arm was broken. All I beard of it was, that one patient raid homey Hill do it, and *nether said he did it himself. One ot thaw patient* woe named Donnelly, the other Attwood. Thomas Stevens examined—l am in the service of Mr. Arriwrong. I knew the deceased ; I knew him trim April last. He was a patient, and a very bad one. lie never would take his food without forcing at ell times. I fcd him myself for two months. I had at all tiaus a great ditSculty in getting him to take it. We used to stand oval him aril feed him with a spoon. He used to clench his teeth, and we were sometimes obliged to torte them open. We used to foree them open with a spoor, but w. to not allowed to ose any other means. He has hod two very severe fihr. He had the first tit on Sunday, toe next on Monday. One side wee constantly twitching. A Juror—Paralysis ? Which side was it ? Witness—The si-e opposite the aim. Coroner—We don't want to know that. Which side Witness—The right side. Cothaer—W hat was the nature of the injury ? Witness—lt was a sever* bruise. The arm was epite black. I dressed it under the inspection of the doctors, Mr. Dickenson and another medical attennant. They were b sib most attentive. I don't know how the bruise army, except by hearsay. I only know what the patients say. Coroner—We cannot take that of course. Witness—A. man named Hill found it oat, and reporftd it. When I came to want him I found the body bruieeil. Nothing was &no to him while I was ever Lim. 0., Ban day he had • fit which !sated semo hours. I rent for the doctor, and he attended. His irate of mind was very bad. He fancied he was made entirely of boards, and need to pull open his 'Dirt to show the boards in his chest. Ile :was a decided lunatic. He had another fit on Tuesday. appeared to me to be paralysis. His right side was aa affected and his right cheek quivered for hours. He never spoke after Sundae. I raw hem kit on Wednesday, and did not thick he was dying. I laid him out. Coroner—D:d you discover any injury on his perm ? Witness—There was a blackness on his shoulder and arms. Ha had extra (coil most of his tune, mutton diva, porter, Occ., bemuse his habit of resistance had made him very weak. Coroner—The body appean much attenuated, how do you account for ft ? Wilness—From hia habit of refusing his fool. Two or three bad charge of him during his residence, but Hill had charge of him in the infirmary. Ile was nadir his care about six weeks. I did not attend on him in the infirmary until after his smelliest, when I was sent to attend on Lim by day, Coroner—ln what state did you find him ? Watnesa—l found him in bad, Dr. Hill having called ma up. Nothin,f happer.ed to him while I was in a•tendanto (except the al. I do not know from what tba blafkneu arose. Ido nit know that the &ceased had soy coniplairt except frum lunacy. I never knew him him a tit before Sunday. C Jr.:inn—Da you knew whether he received any hurt ? Witness-1 don't know, but I board he did. lia was sTnt up to the infirmary wi.h soave instep. He wee anst.ya weck from refuting food, but he could walk. I have had no cos sssssssss with Hill. Hs wee at once shifted .ut of the in drmary. . . The coroner eked when Hill was ' and wu informed be wu in custody. Tile eoruner said baabottld not have bean committed until beard before bum Mr. Law said that if the guardians had not committed him, he should hove demanded that course himself. The commission, re had taken a great deal of trouble with the case, and bad examined witnesees on oath presious to toe man's death. They considered it a very grave cue, and had refused bail. Mr. J. T. Burton examined—ls surgeon and apothecary in the asylum. Knew the deceased ; had known him since the 30th of Merck. On Friday, 27th December, ray atten tion was drawn to the state of his left arm, by the attendant of the ward, Samuel Hill. It was very mach serallen, in flamed, ant braised, about the shoulder and upper arm. and on examicing is clouly I found it, fractured close up to the joint I sent kr Kr. Fidler, the visiting surgeon, and he applied the prop., treatment. At that time the patient was very sullen, and would answer no questions. I then loft tae ward, having done what was necessary far the man. I had previously nguested Mr. Arran:ono( to see the man. I teen met Dr. Ludt, the late superintendent, and requested him also to tee toe man. Ahaut an hour alter 1 took a stat,meot from the patient himself as to what happened. Coroner.—l cancot take a statement from a lunatic in a matter affecting a man'. life. Several Jur..rs.—We should lake to hear the statement, and judge for ourselves. Coroner.—At present we'll omit that statement ; I think it more advisable. Go on with your evidence. Witness.—Tee man gradually Income exhausted until be died. I saw Lim three or four times a day. Ile end at six on the morning of the 2nd inst. His body exhioited no *thin injury but that on the shoulder, extending over the arm and the upper part of the chest in front and the blade bone be hind. Mr. Fidler also saw him, and Mr. Dickenson, the assistant surgeon. Iwu called on at eleven o'clock to see him in a fit. I found him with convulsions affecting the side of his face and the right arm. Coroner—To whet do you ettrilinte that fit ? Witness—lie was a man likely to have fits at any time. I attribute it to the previous state of the brain. I raw Cana again on Tuesday, end was told he had had a fit. 11, was unconscious, and had been so since Sunday. Coroner—Want, in your judgment, had given rise to the injury yen found him to have sustained ? Witness—Vi-lence from another. Coroner—Might it not have resulted from a fel; ? Witnese—l think not. I am satisfied they were from external violence. If they had happened from a fall I think the condition of the soft parts would have been different. I was not present when he died, but saw him five minutes after. He bad been in the infirmary for a month, under treatment for a alight Weer on the antic. It was en open ulcer. He had no other his food. He was ne v e r tempt feebleness. I sate:bated that state to general suasion was necessary. Ile nave a good deal trouble in f P o l Le ai rt i s s itak an a d i h t " , to ha m bi y t k o n f o r w efu le s cl i g n e g , but a great deal of per that way, bat no other. Ido not think his attenuation iree• feel; food being withheld from him, but frOreE7l—E: inclination to take it. He was usually en the extra diet. I had some conversation respecting him wish tne attendant, Hill, on the morning of the 27th, when the in jury was discovered. I asked him how long the arm ro.d been bad ; he mil he had only discovered it that morning; that his patient had been previously co m pl a i n i ng ot having i boards n his shoulder, and that ho was always taikiag nonsense of that sort; and therefore he (H. 11) thought nothing of it. I said he must have bad a fall or some vio lence, and UM said he knew nothing about it. I asked bim no more questions at that time or lime. I have nothing fur ther to state. A Juror—Da you think the man was ever sufliciantly rational to have any reliance placed on hie statements ? Coroner—That question has been answered alseedy. Mr. Law—Nl, sir, I have been waiting for that question. Coroner—Well, I have another question. Was any per sonal coercion nectasary with this man ? Witness—Me had been in the habit of atrippiag himself, and the muffs were placed on his bands. To my knowledge no personal coercion was necessary. Coroner—When were the commissioners mode arqsaiend with the accident ?—On S.turclay it was plated. The guar dians were informed on Monday. Mr. Bennet said the overseen did not bear of it until the patient was unconeciotts. _ _ Mr. Bennet-1n point of fact, if be had recovered would we have had any information at all ? The wanes, was un derstood to answer in the negative. The Caoner intimated that he cenlit go no further with the eau then, and its further investigation was accordingly adjourned anvil 10 o'clock on Tuesday next. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. On Christmas night, $ dreadful occurrence took place within air mites of li.➢rush. Bridget Haugh deemed barrel( in man's clothe, and, having blackened her face, want to her fath. r.M.law's house to have some diversion. Her brother-in-I.m was takinr cared the house, as his father was not at }vine • be bad • loaded gon in his 1 aid, sad when he saw at he thou4ht the man blackened, he presented the gun at his a:stir in-law anditeed, and lodged the contents of it between her shoulders. Sky died at once. There we an isq4est hold on her b.xlv, and the verdict returned was manslaughter against Michael Haugh, demesed's betta-in-laar.—Lisecrick &emitter. 1J