The Express. — London, England, 1853-06-20 00:00:00

THE COLOGNE CIIOHAL Cr;ION AT THE CRYSTAL PALA( E. The world-famous I:sth of June wag Celebrated e rs Saturday, at Sydenham, in a novel and gratifying manner, by the assemblage there of hundrels of distils. gei•lied Frenchmen , Germans , and Englishmen, who met. ri e at formally to close the temple of Janus, at least to re joice is the progress of another temple devoted to peace, re ,grrs., and the retiaiseariee of high art. fhe rants of the slay were the gentlemen composing the Cologne Choral Coma, ',beeline anxious, previous to their return to their festive oun•ry, to see the crude faros of the future Crystal Pal.ne. The directors of the Crystal Palace Company, with the ir usual lib, rality, promptly acceded to their desire, and resitations were iSalltd to a numerous and fashionable com pany, to meet the distinguished and talented strangers. the company were the Duke of Leinster and lefty, the I haseellor of the Exchequer and party, Sir Robert pass I. Eal of Leven and friends, Chevalier and Mame. nai.n u and party, the Duchess de Beetle, Hon. L. Parsons and trends, Mr. Robert Chambers and family, General Sir j . cocreell, Bishop of Salisbury, Dean of Winchester, English, Rev. Harden, Mr. Evelyn Denison, el , Lady Franklin and bliss Franklin, Leo Schuster, , and Lady, M. and Madame Vieuxtemps, Madame Berlioz, Mr. Ede and party. Mr. W. Longrnin and party, pm. Candlish, Cunningham, and Sir Henry Moncrieff, of the Free Church of Scotland ; Dr. Duff, Indian Mis sionary ; Rev. Win. Chalmers (London) ; C. Venting, Esq and party, Mr. Jos. Maudsley and party, Sebastian Garrard, Messrs. Broadwood (two), Messrs. Collard, Erard, Angel, Sheriffs Carter and Crull, stc. The German party were accompanied by Mr. Mitchell, e nd amongst them were the celebrats el Chevalier renkomee, Herr Schneider, the great organist, Herr Weber, leader of the choir, stc. Mdlle. Rachel and M. Regaier were also amongst the visitors. Mr. Lalag,ekair rasa of the Crystal Palace Company, Mr. F. Fuller, manag ing director, and Mesas. Anderson, Farquhar, and Calvert, direr tors, received the gentlemen of the Choral Cann, at the Norwood 'striate, and Mr. Grove, secretary, •LVOli• ponied them over the interior. They sensed quits amazed at the extent of the structure, and exorcised unqualified admintlllll of the general design, which is now euSciently developed to allow of the visitors forming an opinion. Having perambulated the long galleries, followed by a fashionable, but not fashionably intrusive mend, and often stopped to admire the beautifel scenery without, the whole choir were marshalled in the great transept gallery by their leader, Hen Schneider, and kindly performed a little volunteer concert for the gratification of the compooy. The find chord exercised quite an Orpheus power over the workmen. A thousand hammers were silenced in a moment. Mendota sohn's " Hunter's Farewell" was listened to with profound Waitron, and at its conclusion the hammers rang out again in a merry but rather noisy chorus. One of Weber's " Lyre and Sword" songs followed, and the choristers amelmied with the national anthem, pronouncing the words with a cotrectone that indicated their affinity to the island race Just as the national anthem tennivated, another national whet y of thrilling interest to British workmen, namely, the dinner bell, struck out • and our Os rm in friends were perfectly electrified at the mode in which these daring fellows endeavoured to economise the time allotted for mastication. lastead of deeceading by the ladders or stairs, they each seized a rope as it dangled at a height of upwards of a hundred feet from the ground, and slid down at various rates of ,yelocritY, performing sundry feats of agility by the way, in perfect contempt for the extreme hazard of their position. Ex clamations of different degrees of riaintelligibility, marked the descent of this industrial shower, and when all were safely landed on terra firma quite a sensation of relief was experienced by the spectators. We had previously fully appreciated Mr. Henderson's ability in organising end training his sad armies of workmen, but did not know until Saturday last that such agility, on the eerie was to be reckoned amongst the results of his system of drill. The company having fully gratified their eyes and ear's with the wonders of the Crystal Palace and the harmonies of the Cologne Union, descended to the suite of rooms onlthe ground floor, where an elegant and abundant luncheon had been prepared for them. When all—English, French, and German—had assembled round the table, Mr. Laing, chair man of the company, happily seised the opportunity of making a few observations apropos of the day and the node ' 1 in which it was then being celebrated. Having apologised for the unfinished state of the works, which prevented the directors receiving their friet.ds as they could wish, he said that although the mode of this meeting put the f , rmal tarmac:l of toest-giving completely out of the question, yet there was one sentiment so peculiar to the present occasion that he trusted he should be excused if he took advantage of the presence of so distinguished a company to refer to it. On that very day 38 years ago, the representatives of the great n .tions of the civilised world were employed in an occupation very different from that which just then made Sydenbas look so pleasant. (Cheers.) On the 18th June, 1815, the representatives of the great civilised nations of the world met, armed to the teeth, on the formidable battle field, their minds filled with but one idea—that of shedding each other's blood. What a contrast was presented by their meeting of the 18th lane, 18-53 ! What did he then see around him ? Gentlemen from those very nations—a nu merous and distinguished assembly, many of them esteemed friends from that sister country across the Channel with which, in 1815, we were straggling in deadly hostility ; others from that equally distinguished country a little farther north whisk had also taken a pontoon% part in the' dire seeps to which he bad alluded—wily to deplore them; but all now met in a spirit of perfect amity and good will, and uniting their hearts and voices in singing the Eng'ish National Anthem, in Dwain of on, own beloved Queen. (Loud cheers.) He hoped then that their present laming might be the emblem and commencetnist of a happier era than that in which their fathers bad lived. (Hear, hear.) He mahased, that diarist the Exhibition of 1861 cm of the great advantages he expected to remelt trim it, was the more familiar intercourse betwes. &idiom which had lee keg bees separated, or which had met oaly in eol lidoa is the battle-geld ; and he believed that the hops of beading as istematiosal trysting pines, a palace of pesos and geed will, had ►een the mimatiat idea with the dime. lees of the Crystal Palm Company, la projeeting their met vadertaking at Sydenhast. (Loud cheers.) Fig him self, he should be disappointed if each buildings did not beeme multiplied over Europe, end if there did not mese frequent mitetiags like the present, in which the reprises.: tativea of daises% nations Amid sesemble is pea's sad good will, to celebrate the triumph of intellectual peogreem of eivilisatiem, sod of poem over war and bloodshed. (Can timed theorist.) One other remark sight be appropriate to the oteaslos. That great warrior who had led our hosts to battle ea ties evestfal day to whist' he had alluded, had lately passed away from mewl us, dm the last assivsnary we had lost the illustrious Alm of Wellingtoe —(hear, hear)—but he (Mr. Wag) felt persuaded that so street was the lore of team is the breast of that illustrious ma, that, if his spirit could be &amongst them at that reo mat, it would participate in their gement joy at the pro spect of peaceful progress and the emmeseenient of a better are. (Hear, hear.) He would therefore couple the me mory M that illustriess warrior sad statesman with the El ise of our beloved Queen, and propose the united seati most as the single toast of the day. It is alma supeedeons to say that the toast was received with the utmost enthmeiamn, sad pledged by the foreign teatimes after the maser of their respective countries, w►de the Ileglish gums exhibited their usual earnestness in their densonstrations of loyalty and regard. Immediately after this little episode in the day's proceed ings the majority of the company retuned to town. DEATH OF THR MARQUIS or HUNTLY, K.T.— This ble nobleman died on Friday morning, at his town house is Chapel-street, aged 92 years. He Was the son of Charles, fourth Earl of Aherne, by Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of the sixth Earl of Galloway. Having married in 1791 the secend daughter of the late Sir Charles Cope. his lordship succeeded his father as fifth Earl of Aboyne is 1794, and his kinsman. the fifth and last Duke of Gordon. ea ninth Marquis of Hastily, In IS3I. His lordship was premier Marquis of Restlaad, Knight of the Thistle, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Colonel of the Aberdeenshire Militia, and a Deputy-Lieutenant of the Counties Aberdeen and Forfar. The second Marquis of neatly was be headed at Edinburgh for the support be afforded Charles I.; his fourth son was created tint Earl of Atioyam and was the present marquis's ancestor. The three elder eons in herited, suecessively, their father's honours, and the young. st of the three was created Duke of Gordon—a title which expired is its fourth possessor. When the issue of the three elder sone became extent, the present peer inherited the honours of the second Marquis of tluntly as heir of his fourth son, while the dukedom of Gorden be came et but. The deceased marquis is succeeded in the family honours and estates by his eldest son, the Earl of Aboyne, now tenth Marquis of Huotly. The demise of his lordship places several distinguished families In mourning. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE—We understand that Major-General Anson will not vacate his seat for South Statedebire immediately, as his departure for his military command is &coal will not take place, in all probability, betore the end of the session.—Skiffordshire Advertirem ELECTION EXPOSURES. LIVERPOOL. On Saturday, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., in an able address, which occupied from eleven o'clock to half-put four, summed up the evidence adduced on behalf of the petitioners, and which extended over eighteen days. Ile stated, at the close of his analysis, that be had, on the part of his clients, to contend that the case was one which went not only to affect the validity of the return of Mesas. Tur ner and Mackenzie, but one which furnished a strong pre sumption that an extensive system of bribery and corrupt prieticm prevailed among the constituency of Liverpool, illustrated by the accumulating facts adduced in evidence of the payment of ss. each to the freemen on the day of the election, and the extensive treating that took place at the various wards, which were converted into polling districts. The hon. chairman complimented Mr. Macaulay on his able condens ition of the 18 dap' evidence in an analytical speech of five hours, and Mr. Freshfield observed it was • synoptical feat well worthy the attention of future ex pounders of the Budget. The committee then adjourned to 11 o'clock this day, when Mr. James will reply for the sitting members. It was not determined (says the °Diener) yesterday whether evidence would be called on behalf of the sitting members, but • consultation was to be held upon that subject, and, should it be so settled, the inquiry will extend over • still further period, more especially as counsel for the petitioners will be entitled to a reply. The witness Williams has been released from the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, on the intervention of the chair man, and without payment of what are termed by that functionary " the tees " PLYMOUTH. - - On Saturday, when the committee, Mr. Aglionby (the chairasan), Marquis of Chundoa, Mr. O. C. Olyn, Mr. Dunlop. and Mr. F. Child, reassembled, and after beans( acme further evidence, adjourned to t►is day. TAUNTON. Io this committee, Charles Webber, a musician, examined, said—Pitman offered him 71. to leave Taunton and go to Bath before the election day. They went toge ther, the intention being not to let witness poll, but wit ness gave the slap to his companion and returned sad voted for Bedrock. The witness denied it was a " plant." Pitman, on being celled, denied the whole of this state ment, and said that the 71. was a loan to the last witness to enable him ts go to Bath and fulfil a drum-beating" ea gammen!. He ked Webber for his vote. Gracie Farmer deposed that her husband gave her 191., and gave her to understand he received it for his vote. Robert Farmer denied this, and said he had been in the habit of " saving" up and wurying it about his, and that he gave the money to his wife to keep because there was a hole in his pocket. The committee adjourned to this day. New writs were on Saturday issued for Durham and Peterborough. NAVAL. Powrsmourit, Jung 19.—The Agamemnon, 91. screw steam-ship, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, which left Spithead on the Bth of May on • cruise to Madeira, returned to Spithead 7coterday afternoon. The Arrogant, 48, screw steam-frigate, Capt. Fremantle, came into harbour yesterday morning to receive new boileh. An inquest was held yesterday at the Royal Naval Haspital at Has sr, before C. IL Longcroft, Esq., coroner, on the body of Mr. Arthur Henry Tyacke, midshipman on board the Hogue, 60, at Spithead, whose death resulted from a sad accident on board that ship on Thursday last. It appeared that the crew were lowering sails, and that deceased being in the main-top the clew of the sail caught him and dragged him out. He fell on deck, a distance of nearly 70 feet, fracturing his skull and left arm and dislocating his wrist. Deceased was 17 years of age ; be was • remarkably Sae youth, and greatly esteemed. He wee the son of • clergyman in Cornwall. The verdict was that death was caused by fracture of t h e skull. LAUNCH Or A MAIL-OF-WAR. —The launch of the Princess Royal, screw steam-ship, of 91 guns, is now defi nitively fined to take place on Thursday next, the 23rd jest , at Portsmouth. Some platforms and stages for the accommodation of those who may be fortunate enough to procure the entree to them are being erected, and other necessary arnngements are being made. TRIAL OF THE BO.VERANO SCREW PRO- FELLER. PORTSMOUTH, Juni 18. A second trial of the Bomerang screw propeller, the invention of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, and the ides of which was suggested by the Australian instrument of war of the same name, was made today. It will be recollected at the first nt' in the early part of May one of the blades snapped In half at the outset, and so brought the trial to a premature does. This accident was attributed to the inadequacy of the strength of the blades for • ulna so heavy as the Conflict, to which it was fitted for trial ; the weight of the Bomerang being only 1 ton 19 cwt., whereas the Conflict's common screw was nearly 4 tons and a half. This fault was now rectified, although the Bumerang tried to-day only weighed 2 tons 19 cwt. The first propeller on this invention tried was a " modified " one, that tried to day being • " concentrated " one (each baying two blades), the difference betwen the two being that whereas in the first-named • portion of the blades was eat of to enable the propeller to be fitted to the Conflict's narrow aperture ; in the latter there is a continuation of these blades in stricter accordance with the instrument used by the natives of New South Wales. In order to fens an accurate comparison between the merits of the Bonterang and the ordinary screw used in the navy, • trial of the Cootie* common propeller was made on Wedneeday at the mewed mile in Stokes's Bay, when the mean average of several runs she then made was found to show a speed of 9.0613 knots per hour. To-day the Conflict, under the command of Capta.n Hendersos, C.B. of the Blenheim, having Sir Thomas Mitchell and several scientific gentlemen on board, went out to Stokes's Bay at eight o'clock, and made four revs each way. The new in vention had to contend with a strong wind against Mr in one direction, and a strong tide la the other, either amount ing in the opinion of nautical men to • restates.), equal to • quarter of a knot. The man average of the nuts mute under these eircumstames gave a speed of 9.126 knots per hour. This did not come up to the expectations of the inventor, although the as (avowable character of the wind sad tide to-day as compared with Wednesday mast no doubt have told die- Mventsmously. Otheradventages, however, wen claimed fer the Himerang, among which was the that that it at tained the above speed with eight revolutions per minute less than the number required by the common screw to produce the lessee speed, with mare favourable wind and tide—this difference causing, it is computed a saving of one-eighth in the quantity of fuel consumed. It is also n pertod the Coniliet was quite free from vibration during the working of the Bonierang—an advantaje, if sustained, of great value. It may be added that the Cotdiet is by no means a suitable vessel to try the qualities of either the Beenerang or the common mew ; she is one of the old school, en* a round bow, and not at all calculated to mu peas sue knots, whatever screw may be used. UNEXPECYKD ROYAL four o'clock -- es Theegisy &heroism a carriage diem p dose to the grime ef Mr. Mae, the whit gerimeg, as the Lower WetMehreed. wieteirdes throe Wise, who slighted in esseeqesese *fief of the bogie) beaky reerived amiss slight =. width wet talus away _he impedes. One of the Mr. hat Imes sea-in-law) at the gate inemisetT ill : ilea if he !mew of any quiet retired pica they - weld walk is till the bane returned. He, not keetrimi the illustrious persosagre, told them there was so Mem close there, but if they would like to walk in the grounds of a market gardener they were quite welcome; which limitation they aompted, and requested that he woelii essempany them, when their at tention was drawn to the 1111110iat portions of vegetation in the garden, particularly the vary Ins &swains beds, with which, after witnessing the process of tatting, they ap peared much delighted. After various walks themes the grounds, the servant ameemmed M ler royal highness the carriage was ready, wins the IlleMises personages proved to be her Royal Highgate the Deattem of Cambridge, Prin ems Mary, and the Dashes of ors Smelts, whe ea their departure very peeteedywaked three bouquets of Bowen from Mrs. Hunt and NM mass, with ea inti mation, from the reception they heed, it might not be the teleils* of their visit.—KentasA Minywr y. WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.—THE WELLINGTON AND UNITIID BZUVICIS_ BERIVOLNAT Saturday a touting of the webecriben to this proposed in stitution wu held at Willis's Roams, St. James's, for the purpose of promoting the fouodation of a charity foe the relief of veteran non-commissiusd aed petty °Sous, soldiers, sailers, sad marines. Lord Erskini lithe 'hair. There were only seven persons present, sad of these one stated that he attended under the impression that it was to be a meeting of the seaseribers to another institution 'mer les the same name. The only business transacted was the reading of the minutes of previous committee meetings, and the passing of a resolution proposed by Lord Clarence Paget and seconded by Sir J. Ross, appointing an executive coun cil centistinr o f the following noblemen and gentlemen." The name% to be supplied at a future period. Mr. H. Tentmay, jun., the secretary, stated that the funds sub scribed in the country bad not yet been paid in to the Lon don banker, but when all was collected the sum would amount to between 2,0001. and 3,00111. DEA= or MR. MAURICE O'CONNELL, M.P.--The death of this gentleman took place suddenly on Friday sight. at kis apartments in 22, Half-moon.strest,Piceadilly. Mr. O'Connell appeared in his usual health in the House of Commons on the prowling night. On Friday morning he was found by his servant to be taken suddenly ill from an apoplectic attack. Immediate medical assistance was called in, and more than two or three medical friends saw him in the course of the day. Towards evening, however, be began to sink rapidly, and be breathed his last at mid litThe deceased gentleman was the eldest eon of the elebrated Daniel O'Connell. After having represented the county of Clare from 1830 to 1832, he was returned Ira the borough of Teske in the latter year. and continued represeet it for the last twenty years. He will probably be succeeded as member for Trales by a member of hit family. His eldest son, a very One boy, is a midshipman in the Royal Navy, not long returned from tho West In dies in her Majesty's steam frigate, Dauntless, where he was one of the many who suffered from the yellow fever in the West Indies. THE- EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE - 20, 1853 IRELAND. Denim, Jetta It. The rumours of changes on the Irish bench which prevailed in legal circles last week have subsided, owing to the recovery of Baron Lefroy, who it is now expected will be able to go circuit. There is, how ever, no doubt that that learned judge is anxious to retire from the labours of office. The decided and progressive improvement in the prospects of the Great Industrial Exhibition is a source of general satisfaction. Each day there is a perceptible increase in the number of visitors, and the expected arrival of steamers end railway trains, with large excursion parties, will have the effect of very considerably swelling the number. On Thurs day the number of admissions was 8,742, yesterday it was swelled to 9,432, and to-day, although a half crown day, the attendance is very numerous. Mili tary bands are in attendance three or four times a week, and on other occasions there are performances en the great organ, or on some of the grand pianos ; but although these musical treats may be an attrac tion to the Dublin loungers, I doubt whether it can be an advantage to those who come from a distance, not to hear music, but to see the Exhibition. The committee themselves now seem aware of the fact that the leading manufacture of Ireland—that of linen—is not adequately represented at the Exhibi tion. A letter from Mr. I)eane, the secretary, to some of the northern manufacturers, plainly ex presses that deficiency, and makes it a subject of some complaint. The Cambria steamer brought over five hundred passengers last evening, chiefly from the midland counties of England, and principally no doubt for the purpose of visiting our Exhibition. The express steamer last night also conveyed a considerable num ber of visitors, several of whom were foreigners of distinction. The city is beginning rapidly to fill with strangers. The reports of our harvest prospects are just now of no slight importance, and I rejoice to say that from all parts of the country they are satisfactory. If there be any exception it is to be found in the complaint that there is still a little too much drought ; and in a report which is mentioned in the Cork Eratniner, that in some of the western dis tricts of South Munster the old disease has manifested itself in the potato in a slight degree. It is added, howeeer, that the symptoms vanished after some rain, and that so far from having excited any alarm, the extreme slightness of their appearance has been rather assuring. In Limerick the potato is described as being in a flourishing condition, and the Leinster Express gives us an equally ramifying account of the crop in the midland counties. A Donegal paper says the potatoes never exhibited a finer appearance, and from other districts in the north we have a similar account. The state of the other crops is also spoken of generally in the most encouraging terms, and our Irish agricultural reports at this moment may be epitomised in the following sentence of a letter from a central locality:—" The crops of every description, particularly the potato crop, were not for many years bank in so forward and luxuriant a state at this sea son of the year as at present, nor with a promise of so early or such an abundant harvest." The Northern IVhig,in summing up the week's agricultural results, says : Merely judging from a town experience, the fall of rain since last Friday would appear to have been oonsiderable. By our agricultural reports, however, of this morning, from nearly every district of the province, it would seem that, welcome and useful as the rains of the last fortnight have been, much more is still required. The complaint is, that the rain we had has been showery, whereas a copious and continuous fall would be necessary, such was the parched and hardened state of the ground. We, however, agai., repeat that great and positive good has been produoed upon all crops by the rain ; that of flax, indeed, has been saved from utter destruction by it. The shortness of the growth is still generally complained of. MEL.4NCHOLY ACCIDENT .4.VD LOSS OF LIFE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 18. - Morning a lamentable accident happened at the manufactory Of Mr. George Smith, cotton spinner, Moor-lane, in this town, by which the life of one man was sacrificed on the spot, a second dreadfully if not mortally wounded, two more variously injured (one rather seriously), and several other perms placed in imminent peril. The following are the particulars of this shocking casualty :—During the last day or two workmen have been engaged in the formation of a boiler-house for Mr. Smith's new mill, now in course of re-orection adjacent to his original establishment (the first building having been blown down when nearly completed during the great hurricane of Christmas-day last.) The new boilers were to be placed in a part of the old mill, recently used as a waste room, and situated under the scotching-room at the back of the premises. To make room for the toilers, it was necessary to take down a partition wall dividing the waste•roos from an adjacent palmate. This wall was twenty-one yards in length, eleven feet high, and three bricks thick. Yesterday morning, three labourers, named Dennis Murray, James Dirties, and Joseph Persons, together with a man named Swindlehurst, who, we understand, acted as a sort of " gaffer" deer t►em, commenced the demolition of the wall by the incautious process of undermining. While thus engaged, they were visited by Thos. O'Brien, engine -tenter, who states that he remonstrated with the men on the impropriety sad danger of the course they were punning in thus undermining the wall, and said they had much better commence operation, by the removal of bricks from the top. Dimes (the unfor tunate man who was killed on the spot) expressed his eon currents in O'Brien's views, and added he was cure that if they went on as they were then doing, they should all be killed. Swindlehurst, however, is alleged to have given utterance to a different opinion, and they proceeded with the removal of the lower brickwork. The melt resumed their dangerous employment at 6 o'clock this morning, and had undermined a lengthcf about seven yards when the whole of the wall suddenly fell with a great crash into the waste-rem. The accident occurred a few minutes before seven, and seven men were at work i n close proximity to the wall at the time. The three labourers already named—Birasa. Parsons, and Murray— were engaged on the waste-room side of the wall, and the fint-mentiened two were completaly buried in th • ruins. Murray, who was dressing bricks nearer the end of the wall, bad his legs covered with the wreck ; but contrived I to extricate himself, his injuries not being of a fatal chit. racier. Bwindlehurst, who wee in what proved to be a safer position, merely sustained a few contusions and abra sions. Three other labourers, who were excavatieg in the passage, within a yard or two of the wall, escaped without injury ; the whole of the bricks having fallen in a MISS in the opposite direction. Active measure' were of course peomptly taken for the extrication of Birnes and Parsons, and in about five minutes they were removed from the debris. Birnes expired almost immediately, having sus tained a fearful fracture of the skull, besides other injuries. Parson' presented a shocking 'pease's, his limbs being broken and his breast dreadfully crushed, in addition to other wounds: he was removed to the hospital, and was still alive when this account was written. The deceased has left a widow and one child; the bereaved woman being in a position indicative of a speedy addition to the family. Parsons is a single man. The inquest is to be held on Monday. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR BIRMINGHAM. At midnight on Saturday a fire was discovered, and a few minutes afterwards it bunt forth and spread with extraordinary rapidity, on the works of Messrs. J. H. Porter and Bon, situate beyond Sluing-hill, near the Heath, • short distance from Birmingham. The buildings, which were still far from completed, ex tended over a very large area, and had been recently erected by Messrs. Porter for purposes connected with the galvanised iron manufacture, and especially for the con 'traction of iron buildings for California and Australia. The demand for this novel description of building bu within the last few months, become so enormous, that Messrs. Porter have been compelled to hurry on the manu facture before the works• were thoroughly completed, so that in addition to the extensive ranges of shedding on the premises there was a very large quantity of timber for future use. Up to • very late hour at night everything ass appareatly safe at the works ; they were so seen within a quarter of en hour of the fire bunting forth with the vio lence above described, when dames soddenly shot out and spread instantaneously frem shed to shed with so much fury, that in a few minutes the whole range of buildings was wrapped in one huge volume of flame, so great that the valley on our side and table land on the other, for a mile round, was lit up with a terrible grandeur. This effect was increased, too, by the euessive darkness of the night, and although the rain poured down In torrents, for the first quarter of an hour, tb• fire increased so prodigiously, that there wu little hope of saving any portion of the premises. The population turned out in thousands, and express having been dupatehed to Birmingham, in a very short time the engines from the various fire-efilees were on the spot, and in full work; but in the meantime the fire had gained ground so rapidly that for some time little progress was made in checking the progress of destruttion, the huge sheets•of fianse,which the piles of burning timber mint forth, being but slightly dimini►hed by the streams of water poured upon them ; but towards one .o'clock the Are had been considerably subdued, sad when our reporter left shortly afterwards the worst inlaid of this unfortunate occurrence Wei aver. At the time of writing this, no prethe information had reached us uto the cause of this occurrence, but there seems good mama to believe that it was entirely accidental neither have we any particulars as to the mount of the damage, though this must De a very eonsiderable sum, ins• 'petite of the very heavy lase the proprietors will sustain by the entire stoppage, we protium' (for *time at lout), of t►eir extensive operations. ROYAL COLLIGI 07 EitiltOZONS.—The following genternen having sailsormathe amsasary ozaminations for the diploma, were adodieird miembses of the college at the meeting of the Court of Bainmisin on the 17th inst : Messrs. James Godwin, Hants; William John Palmer, Bed Lion-square • f heel a Thick Brea, Chelten ham; Edmond Taylor, Maneheater ; Arthur Oakes, Birmingham; Ambrose Newbold, Carnew, Wicklow; Nicholas Coalethus Whyte, Reliatatowo, ; William Faulkner ' Drary-lane • Edward Vernon, Kensington ; Jame. Lovell, Canterb u ry ; sad Richard Chapman Left home, Bradford, Yorkshire. At the same misting of the court Hr. G. L. King, passed his examination as naval aeristant. The following radiomen have just been elected fellows of the college :—lllesms. W. A. Anderson, Thump. ton-row; T. M. Ashton, Onaskirk, Lancashire; J. Barker, Colsehill, Warwickshire ; W. F. Barlow, Westminster, Hospital; T. C. Beard, Welbeek-etreet ; T. Stadion. Billingbormigh, Lincolnshire; L. Bromley, Halifax; B, L. Bryan, Holton; T. R. Collage, Cheltirahant ; A. Crabb Pools; A. Cumming, Chatham;_ R. Dent, Hon. Bast India Compa S o rrie r ; K. Ellison, Liverpool ; J. U. C. Fair clots, Northampton; C. W. G. Onthrie , Bast; S. Hants , Reading ; W. Harris, Worthing ; G. T. Hester, Oxford ; T. G. Julius, Rbhmnd ; J. C. Langston, Oxford terrace ; J. Mash, Northampton ; B. C. May, Tottenham High Cross ; J. L. Minshule, Liverpool ; J. Kona), Army; H. 0. Potter, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; J. Pugh., Aberdevy; T. Radford, Maids-hill ; J. Rigby, Cborley, Lancashire ; J. Skevington Ashbourue, Derbyshire C. R. Vachon', Cardiff; W. 'Walker, St. John - street -road; R. Wells, Bennenden, Kent; W. C. Wilkinson, Spa/ding, Lincoln, chin. At the sante time, Messrs. R. T. Lodge, of Liver pool, and 0. Wolstenholis ' cf Bolton, Licentiates of th e Faculty of Glasgow, ware admitted ad esineless =anthem of ' 1 the college. PRRSONATRIG GOVERNMENT EMIGRANTS. The Talavera, government emigrant ship, which left South ampton a week or two since for New South Wales, was detained at the former plate for several days, in consequence of some Irish emigrants appointed by government to be sent out in her not being fsgehrensing when they were wanted. These emigrants wen, however, personated by others, who, baying been detailed, were taken before the Southampton mosistratee last week. The principals preyed to be highly reepestable and ineedligent persons : an Irish man named Peens, his fasale servant, named Rock. and five children. mimed Keetianegb, were charged before the Imagistrates by thegeweremen emigration agent, with per sonating a family named Dann, and the two sisters of Pellans were charged also with personating persons named Claire. The children above alluded to belonged to • magistrate's clerk in Ireland, and they were actually about to be sent out of the country by their father with Pollan for the purpose of getting a free passage to Australia. A constable came all the way treat Ireland to prove that the would-be emigrants warn not the persons they represented themselves to be. It appears that the Darceys and Claire+ having altered their minds about emigrating, they sold the tickets for free passage, which they bad obtained from the emigration tommissioners, to the penonators. Pollens was convicted in the penalty of 101., or one month's im prisonment by thy. Southampton magistrates, and his sisters in the penalty et 21., or one week's imprisonment. The children were discharged. - - A PLEarruas VAN ON Fags.—Yesterday after noon n oloisour• Tan, which was returning with a party from Hampton Court, in cruising Wimbledon Common, took fire from one of the party dropping some lighted tobacco amongst the straw at the bottom of the vehicle. The "raw blazed up furiously, and set fire to the curtains. Sotrre of the females hail their clothes burnt before they ertild get out, but fortunately no one sustained serious injury. CLERICAL. We are authorised to state that the late Hon. and Rev. A. P. Perceval was not, at the time of his decease, one of the chaplains to her Majesty. He resigned that ap pointment in 1850. VACANCY.—The Mastership of the Temple has become vacant by the promotion of the Venerable Archdeacon Robinson, D.D., to the Rectory of Therfield, by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral. Puomorcog. —T he Rev. Dr. Francis Hussy, Head Mu ter of the Kensington, has received the appointment of Incumbent of St. Bantams. Kensington, rendered vacant by the promotion of Mr. Kempe to t►e Rectory of St. James's, Piccadilly. UNDERTAKERS' CIRCULARS. TO TEI IMO* OP TUX IMPRESS Blft,—The competitive struggle of trade has long since been accustomed to manifest itself through the me dium of circulars, detailing the extraordinary merits and ridiculously low prices of Mr. A.'s wines and spirits ; Mr. B.'s linendrapery, or Mr. C.'s turn and coffees; but to such matters (at least so far as my experience goes) has this mode of fishing for custom been hitherto chiefly limited. Now there is nothing in this to excite more than a smile and a shrug of the shoulders. The numerous missives of this description which I have from time to time received, cer tainly n had any other effect on me—they never yet induced me to change my wine-merchant in the of getting "fine nutty old brown sherry at 20e. the dosen " —to vary . my liasodraper and haberdasher with the hope of procuring "the best India silk handkerchiefs at le. 9d. each," or to discard my tea-dealer under the impression of ob tabling elsewhere " the mostsplendidgguuapowder at 2a. 2d. per lb." Such invitations may, ami do, succeed with some—whether they do or sea, browews,tbere is no offence, no violation of decency In thin—dma the spetarn seems now to be applied in a way which attacks mil "becks the feelings to an extent that is perfectly intobialle. When, instead of being invited to try Mr. B.'s shirts, I am requested to try Mr. D.'s shrouds, or, in lieu of Mr. C.'s coffees I am offered Mr. B.'s coffins, the thing is too ghastly foe en durance, and it is time that this phase of the nuisance should be put down. A member of my family is just recovering from an Blum which, for a dais, kept all about her In daily apprehension. The fact of the Illness becoming known in the neighbour ' hood, I am forthwith inundated with undertaken' circulars, in which all the horrid paraphernalia of the tomb are set forth, together with the various merits, " readiness " "dis patch," dee. of the applicant, expectant of his job , and all this is shamilessly, indecently, waatouly, thrust before the very eyes of aMleted relatives, with* the sick bed with feelings naked between the alternans of hops and detour. Their griefs are to be thus rudely probed and in sulted by a rulfenly small trader, fey the sake of his pick ings out of the pave. I say nothing against undertaken as a class—they are useful and , and those who ply their calling quietly end, unobtrusive y may escape any refection on the unp leasant nature of their trade—but practices like those to which I refer It seems to me cannot be too widely held up to public disgust and abhorrence; and I would recommend all who may be served es I have been, and who feel as I do, to follow the course which I have adopted. I called on the sender of the only circular which had escaped the kitchen fire—told him that the ill ' nue" which, I presumed, had elicited his application, had not (he might, perhaps, be sorry to hear) terminated in death—that it would save him any future trouble to take a note of my address, end to refrain from "ending his demises there, under my fill assurance tha whenever I should unhappily require each services as those he sought to render, be undoubtedly would not be applied to. And thus, even at come personal trouble, I mean to act (when the happy issue of an illness may enable me to do so) towards any touting undertaken who may have fa voured me with their anticipatory applications ; and if this course wen generally followed, it might have some influence in abating the nuisance, and perhaps preventing its occur rence in instances where death, afterwards resulting, renders the survivors too prostrate to resent the wanton outrage. I am, sir, London, June 18, 1853. VIVANS. ESCAPE TROY KENDAL HOUSE OF CORRECTION. — An attempt to escape from the Howls of Correction, in Kendal, apparently quite unpremeditated, but of a very rash character, took place on Saturday morning last. The hero of the exploit is a young man of the name of James Leonard, aged 24, who was convicted at the Easter Seuions of larceny, and sentenced to four months' im prisonment. It appears that he had been placed by the Governor in one of the rooms on the debtors side, a reom certified by the government impeder as well fitted for separate confinement, and had been let out about seven o'clock into the yard for the purpose of going to the privy. Hs, however, took the opportunity, during the momentary absence of the turnkey, of working himself, by means of his hands and feet, up the wall, which here forms an angle, on to the top, whence he dropped down a distance of twenty-two feet in to the high road on the ether side. He could not have been more than two minutes in accomplishing the feat, and when it is added that there was • broad and projecting flag on the top, which he bad also to surmount, it will be readily believed that he evinced no little alacrity. He did not, however, fare so well as regards the result of his attempt. In falling on the hard road, be severely hart himself, having sus tained a compound fracture of the left leg, with consider able injury to the right ands. He was found lying in this stavi on the ground by • milkman who was pasaiog at the time with his cart, when the governor was immediately ap prised of the fact, and the unfortunate fellow, whose pre mature close of his incarceration seemed hardly worth try ing for at such a risk, was carried back to undergo a term of confinement much more protracted than his original sentence, and under suffering which Was not meant tu woos. pally Patrioi. THE FORTUNE-TELLERS OF THE Li; JON POOR. TO THI 'DITCH& OP m IMPRESS. SlR,—The fortune-teller, of the poor are a motley, and often a vagrant, body, men end women, sly and supple, while the victims they pray upon are principally poor women (but not this very poor), who are so 'ignorant as they ere sanguine, and who will part with the means of procuring a dinner, or some necessary article of attire, to learn about the mysterious wealth and the approaching good forune which will be theirs—" one of those days." Among these credulous creatures are a good store of servant maids; needlewomen who live barely, to spare a sixpence or • shilling to the fortune-teller—(fourpenny and threepenny " bits " not being rejected but pronounced " unlucky ;") and a great number of street-walkers, both slatternly and well dressed, who hiving been ruined in the past, are impover ished at the present, and think and hope only about the fu ture. Silly women, even with tolerable means of sub sistence, cannot rest without prying into " what the future hes is store for them," and after having been a hundred times defrauded auf deceived, come with renewed faith to the hundred and Lint time of deceit. Spinsters wish to know if their destiny be a rich husband and • handsome family, and the wives of labouring men or small shop keepers what may be their lot—when widows. One quiet mannered woman, now above 30, well and even highly connected, but not well educated, the daughter of a lieutenant who died in her infancy, has paid ls. every week, at lent, to have her fortune told, and has paid it for years. Her earnings are those of a shirt maker, one of the first class, and her fortune to all who knew her was told long before, for she was the mother of an ille gitimate child, the father being a coarse low fellow ; who worked "very hard," he said, for his living, and who loft his paramour, with her child, to her own resources. _ Every Monday inorolag—for the fortune-teller told no fortunes on a Sunday—the money was forthcoming from Kiss —, to hear a lying old story, with variations ; or if, from slackness of work, or sickness, it was not forthcoming, • shawl or a gown was pawned, and the fortune-teller's fee called forth another week's vain hopes or expectations. Among snob people as eh..., smtrnlngry is rather hoots.), as being "too far off to tell anything," while the astrologer ridiculer t►e notion that the lines of the palm of the head can indicate the past or the future. Fortunes are told for small sums, by means of playing-earls (sometimes so dirty as to be hardly,distinguishable); by the look and com plexion ; by the veins on the wrist, and the lines on the palm (one being the "line of life") ; by the moles or marks on the body, or the face or limbs; and chiefly by the guesses and flattering prophecies of the fortune-teller. A fortune will be told to a servant girl, at her master's door, in a mi nute or two, merely from the colour of her hair and eyes, and a look at her palm, especially if she be, or thinks herself to be, pretty. A natural defect is an advantage to a low fortune-teller, for those who have faith in such knin- vish foretelling believe that deformity, or deafness, or dumbness, is atoned for by the 'filleted having the gift and privilege to know alike the put end future of the owner of • sixpence. I witnessed, by chance, the truth of this. I was making inquiries of two respectable and elderly women on the subject of their business, when a fortune teller arrived with a note from • friend, a few allies dis tant, who spoke highly of his skill and trustiness, while he was deaf and dumb, and she had known him long. This seemed to be really the cue. The family was called in, and five shillings was paid by five persons to the man for his answers to the Questions to be put to him. He had no tongue, as he soon displayed to the company. He drank some gin, but only a little, and, in swallowing it threw up his bead like a chicken, making a low, gurgling noise. He was well dressed, and, when he sat quiet, was not • vulgar-looking man. lie carried with him a slate and pen. cil, sad the inquirer wrote a question on the elate, to which the f, rtune-teller wrote, in a sprawling 'band, a not very ill-spelt answer. To the inquiries of the mistress of the house he wrote the following information, sometimes volun teering a remark, rapidly scrawled. " You have had two husbands ; the ;second is living, but living with aaother women ; ho is not a good man. Yon have a son, J. L. (he always used initials to indicate any person), and he is married, and has a child. He is about clocks, and watches, and rings, and jewellery. He has had ill health, but will live long, for he has baffled two doctors. You once thought he wouldn't live a month ; he had blisters on his chest. You'll leave this house through • shop. You have money you're entitled to on a lady'. death in Dublin, but you won't get it. That is (seeing his (varlet look blank), you'll not get it yet. You'll do very well ; you'll have a good spring and a good summer this your. Your second husband never liked your sister, and your son never liked him. I never saw your son or your husband ; I never saw any one in this room before. I Gan tell all that has happened or will happen, fur I've been Misted from my birth." The fortune-teller then answered some questions put by the sister (a widow) of the first inquirer, and his answers she said were quite correct. To a sister-in-law, who had ferried a second time, he also returned proper answers, "Your first husband lost his reason,' he said; "M died mad, in a strait-waistcoat. I never knew bra; no more than I know the Queen, that I never saw. Yee, if she'd been sitting here, I should have known wilts she was. Nut from seeing ber picture. hut because I leaf power. Your husband lost his reason from a dream. Tee lost a child, it was scalded to death." The women new looked very much frightened at all this man knew, sad he answered the husband of his lest questioner, that be had been a soldier, and had marched with the Duke to Paris, but his regiment came too late for Waterloo. To a sisighbour who was present he answered a question which Minified her so that she would auk no more. The man then went his way with his easily d 5.., and the neigh bour said that she was too religious to believe that this man bog his power from God, for she went to church twice every Biteday, and her husband had an office under government ; bat the fortune-teller had his knowledge from the devil. Twenty-one years ago she met withauch another man, but he Would only admit one person at a time into his room, and be, she was certain, had dealings with the devil. It may be mentioned that all these people were respeet able in their way. They were aware, too, for he wrote it on his slats, that the man had be en in prison as an impostor in preteadingg to toll fortunes; and yet every on. expressed belief in his more than natural powers, 'tor he could know nothing about them, and all he said was true." The mention of leaving the house " through a shop " was explained, as the landlord was about to convert the house into a new workshop, hie own premises running up to the back. It appeared - to me that the fortune-telling man was not deaf, even if dumb ; but that is only conjec ture. He was in the habit of taking refreshment at an inn where the landlady had consulted him as to the best way of =rid of her husband, for he made bar unhappy, and landlady came the note. The inn Is very probably a place of gossip, and there this "dumb genius" of tame picked up the information he detailed ; besides that I the women spoke freely to each other all the time, relying es the fortune-teller's deadness. An elderly woman, manly dressed sad with a strong squint, so that no one been which way was looking is a purchaser of old dikes and * forinne-teller, from the marks on the fan sad pfrosa. A maid servant who had Awed some . with her mistress's unction—for her Miff wee wig s--inquired of this woman, who gad ell Wiese, if a jour eyman sawyer who was keep illeggla essEy, wanted to marry her, because ale had rasa" e uthings-baek book, or if he loved her for Issollf 1 " witch," as the servant called her, received a dialft, sad closely examined a mole on the left side of the rer's forehead, covered by the hair and cap, and • kris*lnele on her right shoulder. The fortuneteller said it was a remarkable ease. and she would consult her books sold think over it, sad dream on it, and all next day, when is would require another shilling. She called accordingly, Mg said if Blisabeth had been a man she would be luoky A buildings, and make • deal of money from the mole on her forehead, backed by that on her shoulder, for every age bad its fate. On Sunday week she was to walk in liple.park, no matter for what quarter, or for what time easy, for she (the witch) had worked " • charm" from her Item. A builder would speak to her, and he would be dot mon she would marry, and when they had • li ea together a week, all her building luck would be shared by him. " Aye, my dear ,' she said, " you may depend on all I say. The son of a woman who lives in the same house as I do, was a sailor, and had made a voyage. He had moles on **eh side of his windpipe, and I told his mother not to let him go a second time, for it would be sudden death. He would go, and was drowned." This shallow trap secured the silly girl's two shillings. Cards, it is • maxim among soak fortune-tellers, when dealt in a particular way by them, cannot err. " It's non sense," said an elderly woman with a bloated countenance, whom a young man consulted, writing down at length all she bad said, which I °oedema, "it's all nonsense calling cards the devil's books, for the Queen plays them ; and when I was young I lived with • very rich parson, who war a great card-player, and • very good charitable man. He used to tell fortunes with cards in • joking way like, when I'd put the wine on the table ; but I learned a few things by watching him. There (dealing the cards), all that's rub bish, except the nines and deuces. It's the court cards that tells the fortune. Here you go with a one and a two, and this is the luckiest pack of cards in London. I wouldn't have them cleaned on any account. From what I've seen of them, it would spoil them, and I wouldn't take five pounds for the pack; I can depend so upon it. I have a system of my own, you may depend, and I'll keep it to myself. Now, that's you (the king of hearts), you're a fair man, you know, and so is he. What next ? The nine of diamonds. That's queer now ; that's the Pepe, and is called the curse of Scotland ; it's all on the cards, popes and all. And here's the Jack of spades. 0, dear, but we are getting into mischief. Will you send for a qu srtern, eir ? and that may brighten the cards and the luck ; not as I care about it myself." The gin was procured and drunk, and the rest of the deal, or whatever it may be called,called proofs of coming good luck to the young man in some un exPit'.ned way, which was the woman's secret. She offered also to interpret his dreams, for all dreams, in her own words ' were " omiums " . The foregoing incidents, which might be greatly multi ! ida p l l l ie sue i p l, ard s e l:o ifto w how .:envden willmn o hbe n oo ey is waswh wee eedtohned hoe d l u e n d i froml employededucation many their w i s h c o n myeocattre. Legs in estrologinal end other fortune-telling, but I did not Lear Of my a! the cement Inquiry. Dr. Parent D uc h ate l et P o mp outi Ily the evils of fortune telling in Paris, and more particularly on his priecipal subject, and he recom mends that in schools, children should be instructed that fortune-telling is a thing based on folly end rottenness. Per haps °fall the poorer, or poor classes, in Lmilsn, the Irish Catholics are the only one whom the exhortations of their priests keep from this idle wastefulness. Some fortunes are told for drink is the top-rooms and beer-shops, but the landlords diseoursge it. One great evil among the low women fortune-tellers is their connection with thieves and ho,sebreakers, and their kitchen to te from hese the being often thieves th emse l ves. If one of these women dm coax the fem a l e servants to admit her into the their fortune perhaps teld ,she will of long practice, to detail t o h er " pa l s " the state of the i house and the possibility of entering it burglarionsly. Such a woman will carry off any portable thing she c an secure , and the rats do not like to accuse one they have ad mitted "without leave," and perhaps some innocent person is blamed. These fortune-telling women, when they have an opportunity, recomme• d" • charm"—a word which is very attractive to their dupes. The charm, usually con sisting of money, is tied up, by the fortune-teller of course, in a bankerchief, or even sewn into a hem of the vi c ti m ' s petticoat ; it is left in her possession with a strict charge not to leek upon it until a certain hour, or the charm will be broken and the fortune spoiled ; the shillings are found to be farthing.. Police report* show instances of this, but for one culprit brought before a magistrate fifty at least escape. The servants are afraid to tell all they know, and the master or mistress will not take the trouble to prosecute, it is disagreeable and a sacrifice of time; or it may be difficult to insure conviction from the reluctant evidence of the servants, who are sent " about their business" without a character, and perhaps are lost for life. Many of the servants. in London, heavy, fate checked, and ignorant young women, are from the country, and are preferred is having no to*n con nexions," and so being the more likely to be honest, but they are more easily imposed upon than the London-bred girls. Some of the fortune-telling thieves are gipsies, but they are less numerous than they were, the atmosphere of fairs and races suiting them better. The domestic servants are the most numerous of all the callings in the metropolis; and the excitement caused by the fraudulent fortune-tellers amongthe maid servants fora know ledge of lovers who are to become husbands is not easily sib deed, and so householders are robbed and the domestics themselves impoverished or corrupted. Of the number of such fortune-tellenthereis no sure criterion : but there are prubattly kola 300 to 400 of them. A VOICE FROM THE STREETS. EARNINGS OF SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS. The following notes front tho conversations of Spitalifields weavers may be interesting. A weaver, about thirty years of age, was working flowered rilk at 13!d. a yard. lie said he worked from fourteen to sixteen hours a day. "My earnings from Christmes to Christmas last year were not more than 10s. a week. lam obliged to play' when work is slack ;—that means, after finishing a ' cane' (an inch of silk, &c.), I have to wait until more is ready ; sometimes this is a fortnight, or three weeks, or perhaps more. The slack times cause wages to be reduced. This is not don. in a hurry, but by a halfpenny, or even a farthing • time. A man with a Gamily cal:s at these had timee for work, and is shown some for which something lees thee his former price is offered ; to save his family from the workhouse he agrees. I never in my experience knew th' price of work auxin raised when once reduced. Five years ago I remember very well I could have earned with greater ease and in less time 16s. than I can now 10s." An old women, the widow of a weaver, whoa/ husband had died a short time since, said she earned 4d. • day by winding satin (working thirteen or fourteen hours • dav); her daughter 2s. 6,1. a week for working the same long hours. The rent of their room was Is. 6d. a week. A weaver, his wife, and two grown-up daughters, working at ultramarine and crimson velvet, said they could each complete one yard in a day of flout thirteen to fourteen hours, for which they were paid Is. 3d. a yard ; this would come to 7s. 6d. a week for each person, but there are many drawbacks. "I have a yard measure there's" said the man, pointing to his loom, " exact according to act of par liament, but I never take home any work without having • deduction made in consequence of the diff•reece of mea sure. A web of velvet is worth, when finished, about 101. 10s. in the market; so on our four looms we have forty guineas' worth of property at the least. If it should happen that a web should be lost, either by roguery or ac cident, the whole of the weavers in the employ of the per son to whom the last web belonged would have a sum stopped from each until the amount was entirely made up," which, together with the time spent in waiting for work, would reduce the wages of this family to about ss. a week each—li. in all ; and in order to live comfortably and have sufficient space for their work, they are obliged to pay as rent not km than s'. a week, leaving 15s. a week for food and clothing.— The Builder. FUNERAL OP THE LATE JAMES HARMER, FsQ.— Os Saturday the remains of this gentleman were removed from Cricklewood, Middlesex, to Kensall:green Cemetery for interment. Ineependeatly of the deceased's personal friends and relatives, many gentlemen who highly respected him for his kind and humane disposition to the poor also followed the deceased to hi. last earthly resting plate. children,PßOT of n Sn a i n t tdrd aP t j u o n yi nin h f d mi r:efa 8 printed o n r . e t thpreventinvEgaeret:".dr:AatuaNyc t a f n , u :r l F t t se h z e uo eWpb upon women Z e w r i no p l lr t . e h — e v en e O . n ad t:iii i Pin parts of the criminal law." The act came into opera tion when it received the royal assent on Tuesday last. Only one clause relates to assaults, and it provides that when any person shall be charged before two justices of the peace sittine at a place where the petty sessions are usually held, or before any magistrate of the metropolis sitting at the police courts, or before any stipendiary magistrate, with an assault upon any female whatever, or upon any male child, Whose age shall not, in the opinion of such justices or ma gistrates, exceed 14 years, either upon the complaint of the party aggrieved or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the said justices or magistrates, if the assault is of such an aggra vated nature that it cannot be sufficiently punished under the provisions of the statute 9 Geo. IV., e. 31, to proceed to hear and determine in a sum mary way, and if they shall find the same to be proved to convict the party accused, and every offen !er so con victed shall be liable to be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding six oalendar months, or to pay a fine not exceeding (together with costs) the sum of 201., and in default of payment to be imprisoned as aforesaid, with or without hard labour, for a period net exceeding six calen dar months, unless such fine and costs be sooner paid ; and if the magistrate or magistrates shall ao think fit shall be bound to keep the peep and be of good behaviour for any I period not exceeding six calendar months from the expire ' lion of such sentence, and such conviction shall be a bar to .011 future proceedings, civil or criminal, for or in respect of the same assault ; and no person convicted under this act shall be entitled to appeal against such conviction to the general quarter sessions of the peace, anythiag to the con trat7 notwithstanding. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, I . l a, young man, named Stephen Northeott j aged 19, was killed ex the North Devon hoe of railway, now in course of con struction. It appeared that the poor fellow was driving four trucks laden with earth. In going down the inched plane, the horses want hater than usual; the deceased's foot slipped, be fell across the rails, and the wheels passing over, near:ly cut his body in two. THE NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—On Friday the select committee of the House of Commons, of which Sir William Molesworth was chairman, concluded its in quiry on the preamble of this (government) bill, the ins,- pintail object prepaid by it being to remove the preps* dilapidated structure, dating from the reign of King George the Second, to build a new bridge on or near the site thereof, and to transfer Westminster-bridge and the estates of " the Commissioners of Westminster-bridge" to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Build ings, under whose superintendence the new bridge is to be constructed. After the examination of some witnesses, the committee declared the preamble of the bill proved. MEASURING LONDON FOR ITS CABS.—On account of the new Hackney Carriage Act coming into operation next month, the Metropolitan Police Commissioners have issued orders for a measurement of all the leading thorough fares and principal streets in London. When the distance between a large number of principal points and the various cab-stands shall have been ascertained the results will be embodied in tables for the use of the public, as well as for cab-drieere, and the police at the stands. OARRICK.—h the nisei Castle collection of plc tures, autographs, and other articles, illustrative of the fine arts, is the following letter of David Garrick : " Loaders, 21 de Jan.—Monsieur,—Je viensd'appreadre de Monsieur Fab, qui part pour Paris dem tin matte, et je no vondrais pas lelaisser partir sans voos Mire par cette wea -1 sion mes remerciemens, sous Waves 'hue inflniment en m'envoyant vote* outrage, dans lequel se trouve mutes les l beautes de l'origiaal, avec cells dolt sous raves encore embelli. Si votre intention etait de venir en Angleterre I pour apprendre notre languc, et de voir plus pees lee glandes et sublimes beautes de notre poste minortel, ja erois sous devoir les entrees de nos spectacles, comme stn hommage qui eat des aux pins que roue avies pris ayes tent de seem de (sire connsitre sotto Shakspeare en France, d'uoe maniere si avant/teense. Jo serai charme de irons voir ici, et de poaveir sous temoigner combien je suis, monsieur, B. r,vo o t A re au tr i e c s x. b , umble et tres obeissant servtteur, (s 'IIIE LATE NUNCIO.—Mgr. Garibaldi, the pope's nuncio, who died so suddenly on Thursday last, passed the greatest part of his diplomatic life in Paris. From 1826 to 1831 he was attached as Secretary-auditor to Cardinal Lambruschini, the then nuncio. After Mgr. Lambrus chini's departure be remained at Paris as charge d'aff,iiree till 1837, when he was named internuncio. He was re called to Rome in 1843, and soon after was sent as nuncio to Naples In 1860 he returned to Paris as apostolic nun cio with the dignity of cardinal- It has been stated that he fell down in an apoplectic fit whilst walking up and down his drawing-room with a friend, but this was not the case. Ho had just written a despatch to his government, and had risen from his chair to go to his carriage, whit ia had ordered to take him to the ministry of foreign affat4Nwhen the fatal event took place. Mgr. Garibaldi obs Wed a few days age that M. Donoso Conies was the find atatHumider in l'aris that had died at his post. Orders have been when for the celebration of Mgr. Garibaldi's funeral in Notre Dania on a scale of grandeur commensurate with the high tank held by the doused in the church and dipiontatic world.