The Express. — London, England, 1851-10-30 00:00:00

Vie •xvreicl4. country affections, allegiance, and duty to the power which claims a universal fealty superior to all national obligations, to sow the seeds of discord, dis order, and disaffection, amongst people of the same: origin, when separated by difference of religious belief; a kindred inculcation and expressiut of doe trine', views, and principles, destructive of national, unity, public morality, and constituted power, where they are antagonistic or opposite • to 'the designs el law; the same exercise of acts of public authority 1 In 'gantries entirely independent of all connexion with the papacy ; the like audacity, threats, and demands; all of course modified by the chador it circumstances, by . improved mental cultivation, and by the higher social development of the century is which they are now again displayed. And yet not so greatly modified or so skilfully draped in modern thought and language, but that the old spirit occasionally speaks plainly ; as if to warn us of the immutable character of Roman supremacy in all times and countries; immutable, not because of the superior wisdom of Rome, but be cause founded on, and springing out of (as by far the ablest defender of protestant truth in our times, Archbishop WHATZLY, has so irresistibly shown), those corruptions of the human heart, the growth of which is rankest if not kept under strict subjugation. The doctrine of qualified obedience to laws they dis like or may deem hostile, not to their church, but to their own personal status or position in their church, has once more been openly avowed by bishops newly clothed in papal honours; a great society has been attempted (without much success, however) to be formed by the prelates of Ireland, for the purpose of defending those who disobey such laws, and so may bring down on themselves punishment; one of the recog nised publications of the church of Rome in this metropolis (conducted, it is said, by recent perverts from the church of England) defends the practice of persecution for the exercise of freedom of thought in religion, therein following only the example of the leading newspaper of the priestly party tin France; in Ireland, the Roman catholic epis copacy is endeavouring to work out the direc tions of the court of Rome in the question of higher education, and for that purpoee . is levying funds on those accessible to their spiritual influences ; whilst in that country there is a commingling of revolutionary sentiments and designs quoad England with delight and approbation at all the despotic doings of that first friend of l'to NONO, King BOMOA of Naples. In short, the church and the court of Rome is again indulging the world with a display of all its most extravagant pretensions, all its inordinate ambi tion, and all its unparalleled unscrupulousness. Again it is united with despotism where despotism will serve its turn, with revolutionism where that will advance its purposes ; once more it has every where shown itself the determined foe of rational liberty. Herein the present age is at 0110:1 unfortunate and fortunate. Unfortunate because the successful resistance of this great con spiracy (as Lord boils Itessett has very justly de scribed it) is troublesome, costly, and dangerous: for tunate, because in successfully resisting the swelling waves, it will have the happiness of securing for times hereafter a mat career of substantial improve ment and national happiness, denied perhups to this generation. Not indeesl that our success in abating this arrogance will destroy the system whence it springs. That can not be hoped. For Rome itself is only the manifestation of that system. For papacy is of human origin; overthrown at Rome, it would arise elsewhere under other and no. less dangerous guises. Its ultimate sent is the human heart, its perennial source of strength and power human weak nestles and vices. Men desire a papacy, and there fore create one. And so they will continue to do. And hence it is that persecution, or penal laws, or repressive legislation is powerless to protect society against the religious errors and the political conse quences of ltomanism. In our own Puseyisiu we have seen the growth of Romanism ; how men seek ing after an infallible earthly guide have soon found one; how, attaining it, they have surrendered their understanding, their hearts, their affections, their allegiance, and their every faculty. to the service of the blind guide they have blindly adopted; how that service imposes on them alienation from their own country, a species of hatred and detestation of its government, an active enmity to its policy, a satisfaction over its reverses ; how it alters their views of what a human society is, of the nature of a temporal government, of the character of a state; how they claim for the church they have adopted rights, and powers, and authority, and duties in every country independent of the constitutes' machinery of he government ; how they regard any interference with these pretensions as acts of state tyranny and despotism ; and how, under the guise of reli gious liberty, they proclaim it lawful to resist such acts. All this the present genets- I tion has limn, or might have seen, the growth of in England; until now we have, in the heart et this country, a band of perverts, who, educated, and nurtured, and reared in the senseless bigotry and dull toryisni of Oxford, are now affiliated with those abroad who hate this empire, who seek to disturb its repose, and who look to the I'uscyites as the prime agents in such designs. The revival of penal laws can he no remedy against thews dangers. Our best protection is the maintenance of the power and authority of the state to claim, and assert, and put in motion fur it authority over and superior to all ecclesiastical organisations, I no matter whether of our own or any other churches, to regard all churches as human communi ties for spiritual 'purposes only, to deny the exist. ence of any such corporation as a church universal, and to recognise the right, and consequently the duty of every nation, or bodies of men within a na tion, to choose and establish what spiritual organisa tion it, or they may deem best for their own salvation. " It has been said , is the noble language of LUTHER, " that the l'OrE, the bishops, the priests, and those who dwell in convents, form the spiritual or ecclesiastical state ; and that the princes, no bles, citizens, and peasants form the secular state or laity. This is a fine story, truly. Let no one, however, be alarmed at it. All Christians belong to the spiritual state; and there is no other difference between them than that of the functions they discharge. • • If any pious laymen were banished to a desert, and having no regularly conse crated priests among them, were to agree to choose for that office one of their number, married or un married, this man would be as truly a p riest as if he had been consecrated by all the bishops in the world. AUGCBTINE, Amnaose. and Cvetuss were chosen in this manner. Hence it follows that laity and priests, princes and bishops, or, as they say, the clergy and the laity, have in reality nothing to distinguish them but their functions. They all belong to the same estate ; but all have not the same work to perform." TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Awed Labia of► "TM Miami." scauMum mob Moises ▪ OmAbk" pub3Mod irny Truly sal Vella Oils. la time ist wog. Ahmtomameslaimled for "TM Emma." Lemke Ameba yomy. owe at a the (Mm, 10, bomono-mmet. by Two Volseb Ms ay pfabibmikm NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE . Twos Day —Moralag, In. MI6 AfteTwa. MM. Taweasew—noismit, N. 11... LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. IT would seem that the great war of freedom ' which Louts Kosstrit waged in Hungary, and which the invasion of the Russians caused to end in his overthrow and exile, was but the first act of a gnat drama, the starting-point for new struggles I and events, instead of remaining an isolated piece of history, terminating like that of I'oland in oblivion as wales discomfiture. The great fact which opens a new era in the his tory of Europe is the readiness—we may add, the eagerness of the people, and consequently of the go vernment, of the United Ste tes tocome forward and take part in those struggles which convulsed Europe, and which affect even the empire of Asia. Hitherto the Americans have been mere spectator; of European events., and it is but true to add, that as spectator', their desires rather went against Great Britain than for it; because the Americans could not but see that the power of Great Britain during the war, and for a long time after it, was directed rather to the support of despotism than in hostility to it. A long period has now elapsed, during which not only the sympathies of Englishmen, hut the efforts of their government, have been mainly on the right side. And we see the Americans stepping forth at length, not to be our antagonists, but to be our brothers and allies. This new birth of America to lively sym pathy and interest in European polities, might have remained still in an infantinc state, growing hut yet dormant, but for the striking events which took place in llungary, so well calculated to captivate admira tion, and give to polities that invigoration of senti ment which they so often want. Heroes are rare, and so are statesmen before whom the masses even of foreign and distant countries bow. But Kosscrlt seems to he one of these, and the greatest result of the Hungarian struggle has been, perhaps, to create and develop such a man. His appearance and character have advanced by perhaps half a century the period when the United States were no fling the sword and trident into the European balance of power. This they have already dune. The vote of Congress in favour of Kosserii, the vessel sent to receive and take him to constitutional lands, the preparations for his personal reception, the enthusiasm of public opinion, necessarily eniloodied and expressed 111 the opinions of all those who have tilled, or hope to fill, offices of importance in the United States, all indicate that if within the last century Russia has sprung up like a coltissus, to uphold the victoriously waving banner of despotism, and that with a consistency, a determi nation, and a power, which France and England, the mineral antagonists of such a principle, want Inc courtier(' or the unity to combat, a new power, equally ettbssil with Russia, equally anlent, has sprung up in another hemisphere-, to nuse the standard uneaten,- nistie to Russia, and so alous to cry " stop " to the aggrevoive• march of despotism. We will not deny that there are many ein-am stances conneettsl with this great fact of the day, that one might hare wished otherwise. It would have been more satisfactory, for example, had Great Bri tain Mom., or Great 'Britain and France, sulfieed to defend the nascent and prognssive liberties of Europe; for we Sr.- not certain that, the sword of Ame rica nitre &Ansi in European strife, it may not he led astray by the errors of young ambition, and a love of glory, as superior to that of justice. The fault, however, is that of our own weakness to defend the cause of European li berty, and the readiness of our Anglo-Saxon relatives to tate it up. llow much this new pluesis alters all the great questions of Europe, that of the Itospho run and of the Baltic, we need not point tout. To lan - is Kossent must be assigned the honour of having given birth to this combination, this alliance and understanding of all the members of the Great Anglo-Saxon race, on behalf of the old Maxon principle of melt-government; but to him also is clue the credit of having perceived this great fart coining, of having acted upon it, and directed his actions and his words to realise, to strengthen, and to establish it. llad ItoelS ; ism , fit, indeed, done nothing but this. he would he entitled to rank amongst those previous agents of the will or. Providence who are deutined to change the fuce of the world". 'whey, and give pn•thimioanee to a prineiple, that till then had to struggle fur ca6ti.ttee. of the long prevailing semixithy of the American people fur European libt 7 rty, as well as of their dote "on to uphold it by something more than sampathy, there has come forward a most able anaeloquent exponent in the Honourable Mr. W %lAEA. This American statesman is nu married away by newly kindled zeal ; he no exile, no oppressed foreigner, taking a neces sarily selti.h or feeling view of the wrongs and the hopes of Ilungary, or of the oppressed East. Mr. W sutra is a veteran, whose political life has been passed in the debates of Congress, and amidst the figures of the Treasury, and the realities of official life. lle cones in hi, grey hairs and well-earned renown to support the cause of Kosserit, to de nounce the tyranny of Russia. and to oder the right hand of American fellowship to that large party of English liberals who are willing to undergo every risk fur the maintenance and extension of eon alituti,mal freedom. Mr. WALKER drew a must vivid picture of Englund, threatened by a coa lition of European despots. And that is no visionary picture. It was nearly realised by the older ll i mum,: before they fell. And the political events and changes in Europe are at this moment tending toart , , , useitation of the same idea. But Mr. WALKER di m aki n g ave the picture there, with Eng land alone head against the leagued des pgism of Europe. Ile pourtrayed also the armed and ardent young population of America, ready at a moment's warning, to fly to the succour of their old fatherlancLaa clear and gforiuus to their recollect ion,as entwined with their interests. We heard that grey haired American shadowing forth by his eloquence that noble picture of the alliance of two great and kindred nations; and whist his voice glowed with the eloquence of inspiration. it faltered, too, with the tenderness of affectionate and reverential feeling. Mr. W ittxa's wax the most remarkable speech we have heard for many rears. Kossrrti himself could not surpass it in depth of meaning, or power of expreapion, and in that rare species of political elo quence, which comprises all that is practical in the statesman with all that is noble in the man of feeling and philosophy. This, indeed, was the character of the speeches made at the Southampton dinner; and these in consequence require to haws been heard ream than to he read. Foe no stenography can give ma idea of the enthusiasm of feeling which inspired each orator, and which pervaded the audience. In truth, there was more of the fervour of a religious meeting in it than of the logic of a po litical one. Few of those present will forget the moment when Kossunt row to kiss the hand of the Mtvou, as that noble.minded citizen spoke of all that he had done and all that he hoped in the present alum Southampton has on this occasion nobly done its duty ; it takes foremost rank amongst us for ardent support of municipal and political liberty. And Europe, as well as England. will look to it as the first city in which was proclaimed the alliance of England and the United States for the maintenance of constitutional liberty and national independence all over the world. Tua state of the Roman catholic world, in spite of a little temporary prosperity, is nevertheless truly distressing. In some respects it resembles the desperate effOrts made by the courts of Rome and of Spain in the half century following the Protestant Reformation and the Roman catholic rerolution, to regain the power and the dominion of which Daunt had deprived the papacy, and, through the pvikey the great Roman catholic monarchies of Europe. There air the same mighty schemes and sanguine hopes: the like comprehensive organisa tion and course of action ; similar efforts to detach j subjects from their rulers, to alienate from their Ca 1711071 TO rite PUBLIC.—BASE Col)l.—The officers of her Majesty's Mint have received information that the coiner. in the metropolis have adopted a new pro ens fur the production of boas coin with which it is of setae intametanee the public should be acquainted. There are at the reeint time in circulation a large quantity of counter feit lisalliwwwns which have been produced from dies in brass and then electroplated with silver, and by this method the has min has much more the appearance of silver than that produced from moulds, many of the defects ap parent in the latter being by the new process altogether avoided. Fur instance, she milling round the edge of the coin menet from the die is as perfect as that on coin issued from the Mint, and it is well known that the greatest diffi culty the coiner had to contend against was to mill the edge of the spurious equal to the genuine coin. To these brass halfcrowns the little "coin detectors - now in general use ' are of no avail, for they cannot be bent by them. The preparation of these dies is a rather expensive affair, and one set have already found their way into the paned= of the authorities. These halfcrowns have been pronounced the best imitations of the genuine coin yet produced, and they an only to be detected by the peculiarity of the ring, and by their *eight being lighter by one pennyweight than the genuine hal(crown. The moulded counterfeit half crown is about three pennyweights lighter. The police are endeavouring to trace the manufacturer of this spurious coin, there being reason to believe that all the halferowns of this character at present in circulation have emanated from one source. j FREEITOLD LAND MOVEMENT.—On Monday CY,D ing an inducistial public meeting of the inhabitants of Msrylebone was held at 79, Great Portland-street, for the purpose of forming a Freehold Land S o vi e ty for this impor , Lint wish, Dr. I'ritchsrd in th e c h a i r Th e meeting -was addressed by several gentlemen, and after some discussion, upon the motion of Mr. Deeks, seconded by Mr. 3l'Dowall, a committee was appointed to draw up rules, and to or , 'anima the proposed society. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1851. GERMANY. VIENNA, Orr. 26. A reduction of the army, so long promised, so little expected, has at last been ordered. The Aus trian Soldier's Friend, a military journal, notorious for its good information on all army matters, pub lishes what it calls an imperial resolution, dated Cra cow, Oct. 12, 18.11. I quote the entire paragraph: 1. The infantry of the line, frontier and rifle battalions, belonging to the 4th, sth, 7th, and Bth army corps of the bri gades tistairkories, Kudriaffskr, Paumgarten, and Schmers ling, are to remain upon their present footing. Those of every other corps are to be reduced to 100 men in each company. The 4th battalions of the regiments belonging to the German recruiting districte,with the exception of that in Mayenec, are to retain their present establishment of sixty privates per company ; wherever this number may not be !sufficient to perform the local duty, assistance is to be obtained by the dislocation of the battalion which is mobile. Every fourth battalion of Italian and Hungarian infantry of the line is to be reduced to sixty men per company. 2. In those armed corps which are not excepted above, the lance corporals of the line and frontier regiments are to be reduced to eight, and the leaders of patrols in the rifles to twelve per company. 3. Thole battalions of the line and frontier infantry which arc to reduce their establishment to 180, and those rifle re giments which are to reduce to 160 privates arc to grant permanent leave to one pioneer per company. 4. The number of sub-pioneers belonging to the eight pioneer companies cantomal in Italy are to be reduced from 120 to 70; the other pioneer companies arc to retain their present establishment. 5. Every battalion of landwelir is to dissolve the third division, but to establish the cadres of the other four (tom panies, so that the officers, non-commissioned officers, and servants, shall remain on the war-footing, and on the provision -lists; the lance-corporals, drummers, tramplers, pioneers, and pirates, are to be dismissed.' By the third landwehr divisions the officers are to be dismissed as " surplus ;" the non-commissioned officers and privates are to be enrolled in the other four companies and sent on furlough. Those battalions of landwhcr which have been increased since 1818, not from the usual supplies of landwehr-men, but from clas.sis of the population whose duty it is to serve in the regular army, and therefore bound to eight years active service, have to send to the ministry of war correct lista of all such inclisiduals. _ . _ ..... 6. The cadres, however, of the third and 'fourth batta lions of the newly.crcuted regiments of infantry—Nos. 56, 46, and 50—are to be established at once, and the privates to be enrolled at the next recruiting period. The reserve divisions formerly in existence will thus be abolished. The corps Teti:mil to have to effect the arrangements contained is the foregoing paragraphs immediately; not forgetting, however, that, n 4 compensation for the bands and trumpeters, the regulated number of privates be dismissed. These arrangements require official confirmation before they are implieitv credited, notwithstanding that they are announced in the &Niers Friend. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSR. • PARIS, Ocr. 29. I Voe Ear Account. mosey. oliwwlwe llWhew. , I.owew.! Chwio4 —1 • per Q•sts. xi. cents .. . ... _ ISr SS II • 10 • 89 60 89 75 yew Cents, New join! .. ... ... ... wr i scut". 4 ... ... ... put Cent*. 3 per Cutts. 5 per rents .. ... I 8$ 35 N 3 per cent., ow Loan' ... imr (seta". ,44 put Gut. ' 0 it ... . ... Ezetunge on Lotukm : ~t sollBt, 25 25; 90 8878, 2574. Belpi i. 12, ~ 1015 Du. 5, ISV — ... itons4B Ltnin, 19.51 748 .. ENt. 4 Dm 24 rte.!. 5 p.Ct 7O 90 . , l$ $lO4 Mac" PARIS, Oil'. 29.—Versailles (right hank), —; ditto left tusk), 20,1 75; Pads and Orlr Ins, 855; Parus and Roues, 517 Itotten and Ilaere, 2111 3140willes anti Artgison, 210; Strasb.,urit sal Bab, 145 73; Conte, 420; Boulogne and Arsier.s, '56..5; 5: wthern, 15375; furl , tsl -tr st'sturg, 317 50, Tours sad ?Lutes. 236 25; Mortereor an I Tro)c , , 91. NIADRID, Ocr. 24.—Three per Cents., 361; after Ilolsa, 36 p. Four per Cents., 14 ; after itolsa, Five per Cents., 151 ; after llolsa, 15! p. Coupons, 8; after Bolan, 8. Passives, 51; after 13olsa, 5 15-16 p. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 901 p. FAchatige on London, 50.75. (By EleVrie Telegraph.) ANTWF:AP, Oct.. 29.—Five per Cent. 116talligues, 741 ; ditto Ardoins,l3 7-16. 'three per Cent. Interior, 351. Itussian Four-and-a-Mir per Cents., —. Ex change on London, 25.30. BRUSSELS, Our. 29.—Belgian Five per Cents., 90; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 90; ditto Two and-a-Half per Cents., 494. Exchange on London, 25.30. AMSTERDAM, OCT. 28.—Fire per Cent. Metal- Blues, ill. Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Belgians, —. Five per Cent. Arduinv, 13 13-16. Three per Cents., Interior, 35. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 10.14. Two-and-a-Half per CM. Integrals, 57 3-16. Exchange on London, 11.871. _ _ VIEN;A, ()CT. 29.—Five per Cents., Metalliques, 921; Exchange on London, 12.18 ; on Paris, 1401. Agio on gold, 291 ; on silver, 23. ILAmuutto, OCT. 29. —Three per Cents. Inte rior, 32Z. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., ¶Mi. FRANKFORT, OCT. 29.—Five per Cent. Alntalliques, 733. Three per Cent. Interior, 33 1-16. Exchange on London, 1191 ' • on Vienna, 96 Z . BERLIN, OCT. 29.—Voluntary Loan, 103; Na tional Debt, 881; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., Russia, 101. WESTMINSTER AND PIMLICO PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE. —Last evening a public meeting was held at the Lecture Hall, Vauxhall-bridge-road, for the purpose of promoting the principles of popular progress and secular education through the medium of an institution bearing the above denomination, Mr. Charles laishingmn, M.P., in the chair. Letters were read from Mr. Cubdcn, M.P., Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., Mr. T. Duncombe, M.l'., and others, expressing their regret that circumstances prevented their being pre sent. It appeared that with tho view of supporting the objects in question it woo proposed to give lectures and hold discuscons on science, literature, the tine arts, theology, morals, social and political economy, &c., to establish schools for the children of all parties and denominations, and to adopt other means for the purpose of improving the condition of the industrial classes and pro pagating amongst them those great public topic which affect the interests of the people at large. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said he con curred most cordially in the objects sought to be promoted by this institute, and he was glad to find so large an assem blage of the in dustrial classes on this occasion. There was no civilised country in the world in which the people acted Ito independently, so judiciously, so peaceably for them selves, as in England. In order to show how deserving the working classes we'e of encouragement in undertakings of this description, the honourable gentleman pointed out that the conduct of the people during the Great Exhibition was of so praiseworthy a character, that notwithstanding five millions of persons had assembled to witness the magni• ticsnt spectacle of the Crystal Palace, and although on some occasions as many so 100,000 persons were present at once, not a single theft of any importance had been com mitted, and no case of disorder or outrage had occurred. lie argued from this that it was unnecessary to maintain a standing army for the preservation o f peace, when the people themselves were its guardians and conservators. The people had gloriously shown, during the lost five months, that they were to be trusted, and, in his opinion, an insti tution whose object was to promote their moral and social welfare was eminently deserving of encouragement. Mr. Wilford proposed a resolution to the effect "That the Westminster and Pimlico People's Institute was well cal culated to remedy the evils occasioned by the want of suc h an establishment i n this district, admirably fitted as it is to elevate the condition of all connected therewith, mental y morally, politically, and soc i a lly ."— M r. 11. Kindred seconded the motion, which was supported by Mr. F. J. Furnival, and was carried unanimously. Other resolutions ' in furtherance of the desired object having been passed, the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman. AT TIIE PRESENT TIME there are very few persons confined in the Queen's Prison and Whitecrosa-street Prison for debt. In the former only 140, whereas some years back the number exceeded 700, and in Whitecross 'vett Prison the number is equally low. CIIPAP thoitnesEs.—Sir,—As cheap omnibuses have commenced running, permit me to observe that a route starting from the Doswell-street cad of Old-street, terminating at the East,rn Counties Railway, would he a very convenient line, a., throughout the length of Old street there is no omnibus run ; its great, width would pre vent any fear of obstruction.—l am, &c, Column 0/ OLD-srusr. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The event of the day passed in. the Court of Agana. You are aware that M. Cartier has brofiet, an motion for libel against the Berotiction for copying is paragraph from the Emancipation of Toulouse, stating that the prefect had bought a property worth dolt a million of francs at Sens. M. Cartier op pealed in person. His cause was conducted by the ex-minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Baroche, and M. Duvergier. The court condemned MM. Vatripon and Leguevel, editor and erant of the Rr.o/ution, each to eighteen months of imprisonment andll,ooofr. fine. Neither of the editors appearing, judgment went by default. The name of the paper alone would would account for a sentence of condemnation from a Seine jury. The more or less official disavowal of the Constitn inquiet in the l'atrie with respect to Dr. Veron's foreshadowing of the message, and the latter's die. respectful allusion to the influence of M. de Persigny at the Elysee, have tended somewhat to lift quiet people out of the state of alarm into which they were thrown yesterday by the revolutionary designs gravely attributed to * Louis Napoleon in the news paper, supposed with the more reason to represent his views, as its great prediction has been realised. Nothing exhibits more aptly the danger of a half confidence ; for let Dr. cron now say what he will about the Presidents intention, he is sure to be be lieved, while the contradictions of the Patric, how ever o ffi cial in aspect, are blown away as chaff. There is little political news. The general cry among the conservative league is "Netts attendruns le message," and en attendant they throw as much dirt as they can at the President. On one point they seem at present very firm, and that is to oppose a serried phalanx of opposition to the proposition for abrogating the law of May 31. The h, bats of to day is very decisive on this point. It says the law of May 31 is not like a law on sugar or drinks, but a law ofpublic safety, and a whole political programme in itseli. Whatever be its pretensions or language, a government which throws away such a precious guarantee, abandons the cause of order. The ma jority will not follow him. The day on which it made such a sacrifice it would abdicate in the face of de magogy, and surrender up the country to socialism. It would commit suicide, and prepare the ruin of France. The ./iNwits knows the Assembly, and will not offer it the affront of doubting its attitude and vote. In a week the Assembly will meet. The message of the President will no doubt be presented as early as possible. Then will be the moment for explaining the formation of the present ministry and its policy. This is speaking out pretty plainly. Now, if the majority should, when it comes to the tug of war, turn faint-hearted, and run, leaving that previous guarantee, the law of May 31, to be disposed of at the good pleasure of Louis Napoleon and demagogy ! In that case the great men of the parliament will have less right than ever to sneer at the littleness of those ministers who have undertaken to carry out the new policy. It is indeed carrying assurance to the verge of impudence, and remon strance to bulleying, to greet the new ministers with a mingled shout of derision and rage, when the leaders of the majority make it impossible to enroll names of ,chit by refusing systematically either to take the responsibility of office on themselves, or to leave it to men like Billault, from whose moderate liberality they shrink with horror. M. de Cronseillies, late Minister of Public Instruc tion, is appointed Commander of the Legion of Honour. M. Buffet, late Minister of Commerce, is appointed chevalier of the same order. M. lupin arrived in Paris yesterday. A week ago you might have seen at the entrance of the square of Marigny from the Champs Elyskes, lifted on a pedestal above the heads of the curious crowd, a colossal equestrian statue in bronze. The black horse was pawing the air, his rider clad in complete mail, brandishing a banner in his gaunt leted hand, had his face and body half-turned to the rearward in violent action, as if cheering on his followers to the charge. In the crowd below an old woman, with a Ferrel of printed hills upon one arms, was holding out a copy headed with a wood cut of the statue, and crying in a cracked voice " Biographic de Guillaume-le-Conquerant, un sows." An Englishman's car was naturally caught, and his eye arrested. The great bronze statue was going to be erected at Falaise, in Normandy, the birth place of the Conqueror. To-day we have in all the papers a long account of this ceremony, together with a neat speech of M. Guizot at the inauguration. The ex-minister of Louis Philippe shines upon these occasions; the truth is, that Guizot was built fur an academician, a professor; and, had he stuck to that sphere, he would never have exposed himself to the failure that invariably attends the " gator " who ven tures "ultra erepidam." 'file gray old shattered tower in which the cradle of the Norman bastard was rocked eight centuries ago, still stands above the busy queer old town, in a square of which, as M. Guizot reminded his hearers, some centuries later blazed the terrible auto-da-fe of Joan of Arc. M. Guizot winds up with a graceful allusion to those peaceful bonds which have replaced the fierce an tagonism between England and France, which dates from the Norman Conquest. The submarine tele graph and the Crystal Palace come in for a share of notice. But you meet read the whole speech to eny those peculiar academic graces of M. Guizot's urbane and formal style, reminding one, be it spoken with all reverence, of the crisp curls of an abbe's wig. The following is the last will and testament of the Duchess d'Angouleme : In the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I submit myself in all things to the will of Providence; I do not fear death, and, notwithstanding my little merit, I trust entirely to the merry of God, at the same time be seeching Him fur time seal grace to receive the last sacra. menu of the church wick the most fervent piety. I die in the Roman catholic and apostolic religion, la which I have lived as faithfully as it was possible for me to do, and to which I owe all the consolations of my life. Atter the example of my parents, I pardon with all my soul, and without exception, all those who have injured or offended me, sincerely praying to God to extend to them his mercy, as well as to myself, and beseeching him to par don all my faults. I thank all Frenchmen who have remained faithful to my family and to myself, for the proofs of devotedness which they have given us, and for the sufferings and afflic tions to which they have been subjected on our account. I pray God to spread his blessings on France, which I have always loved, in the midst of my most bitter afflictions. I thank the Emperor of Austria for the asylum which he has given in his states to my family and to myself. lof grateful fur the proofs of interest and of friendship which I have received from the imperial family, particularly under the most painful circumstance,. lam also sensible of the sentiments which a great number of his subjects, parties larly the inhabitants of Guritz , have manifested towards me. Having always considered my nephew Henri and my niece Louise as my children, I give them my maternal ben,. diction ; they have had the happiness of being brought up in our holy religion. May they always remain faithful to it—may they always be the worthy descendants of Saint Louis! May my nephew devote his faculties to the accom plishment of the great duties which his position lappaasaeese on him! May he never depart front the paths of malelation, of lustier., and of truth ! I constitute my nephew Henri, Count de Chambord, my universal legatee. I wish my remains to be deposited at Goritz, in the tomb of Franciscans, between my hush:and and his father. Ido not wish any solemn service to be performed fur me, but only masses for the repose of my soul. " The above will is followed by legacies to several old servants, to the poor, and other souvenirs of affection. The funds continue to sink sensibly. To-day the Fives closed at s'J.7a.i, with a fall of 40 centimes. The Threes fell 23c., and closed at 53.40. TURKEY. With regard to the reply of Abbas Pasha to the Porte, the Paris Cunstitqttannel says:—" In despite of the formal assurances given by Sir Stratford Canning to the Porte, of the striking success obtained in Egypt by the mediation of Lord Palmerston, it appears that Abbas Pasha is not so disposed to sub mit to the just exigencies of th e i m p er i a l divan as was supposed at the English embassy. "Theanswer brought on the 11th by Haireddin Pasha had not yet oozed into publicity; but it was reported to be not so favourable on all points as Sir Str.tford had caused to be hoped. Abbas l'asha evades in particular explaining himself in a categoric way. lie pretends to fear that, in submitting to the demand of authorization exacted from him, he should alienate a portion of his rights, and be confounded with the class ofcommon governors of provinces. Sir Stratford Canning had, on the 13th inst., a fresh conference on this subject with the Grand Visier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The course which the Porte will take mkthis subject is not yet known. On the 15th 1 1 there Nns a grind council to deliberate on the answer of the Viceroy. " Letters from Alexandria state that the engineers, iroricdten, and a considerable quantity of materiasl hail arrived long before from England, but that the works had not yet commenced on the Ist of this month." The Patric says that the Turkish government is examing at present whether the resources of Egypt will suffice for this enterprise There is every reason to believe that the railway will be established, but that it will be administer . ed by public functionaries appointed by the Porte. The 111. its says that although the arrangement of the Turco-Egyptian differences was not yet officially known a pacific solution of the difficulty was gene- rally expected. -gbe-Court. • WINDSOR, OCT. 29. The Rord Dinner party yesterday included the Dnohees of Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal High• nese, the Baroness de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, Colonel Sir W. Reid, R.E., and Lady Emily Sernour. fhe Band of the Royal Horse Guards attended during dinner in the Castle, and played the following pieces : Overture, " Don Gilf•/10 Paleet , oa, "Camp of enrols'' Waltz," Orient den" Ltbilzky. &U.-Um " Freltehtrz" Her Majesty's Private Band afterwards attended in tho evening, and performed the following selection Overture, "Leo Mousquetaltet de la Rome" latruttuction, "Itsjdev' Andante sad Rondo Her Majesty walked in the Home Park this morning. Prince Albert proceeded to town this morning by a spe cial train of the South- Western Railway, attended by Col. F. H. Seymour and Col. the lion. Charles Grey.: The Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family, took their usual walking and pony exercise. Prince Albert presided yesterday morning at a meeting of the Surplus Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition in MR of the Works of Industry of all Nations. His royal highness, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lieut.-colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, arrived at the New Palace at Westminster at a quarter before 11 o'clock, having travelled from Windsor by a special train of the South Western Railway. The ether members of the committee present were, Earl Granville, the Right lion. Henry Labouchcre, M.P., Sir William Cubitt, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Sir Charles Lycll, and Mr. Baring, M.l'. Mr. Bowring, secretary, attended. Dr. Mayfair was present. The meeting of the committee broke up at five minutes before 2 o'clock, when Prince Albert, attended by Col. the Hon. C. Grey and Lieut.-colonel F. li. Seymour, pro ceeded to the Vauxhall Station of the South Western Rail way, and re , urned by a special train to Windsor Ca,tle. Mr. Baxley was present at the mectine of the royal com mission for the Exhibition of 18.31, held on the 23rd inst., at Windsor Castle. _ . A meeting of the finance committee of the royal commis sion fur the Exhibition of I&II, was held at the Board of Trade yesterday. There were present Earl Granville (chairman), Sir W. Cubitt, Mr. Baring, M.l'., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Bowring (secretary). Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, and Mr. Carpenter, were also present. The Cambridge University commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the freasury, Downing-street. Present : the Bishop of Chester, Sir John Herschel, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. 11. Bateson (secretary.) THE GREAT EXHIBITION. It is a remark which has become almost an ape phthcgm, that whilst it is a work of great difficulty and labour to build up, the process of demolition is an extremely easy one. However true this may be with regard to poli ties and puddings, we will take upon us to say, without much fear of contradiction from any householder in London or elsewhere, that the process of removal is altogether a difficult, disagreeable, and dilatory affair. If this is the ease with every individual who has had the misfortune to undergo that most painful operation, it is not to be wondered at that the removal of the goals of 1 17,000 exhibitors front beneath one roof is attended with perplexity and delay; the more especially as a very large proportion have to find an outlet through the narrow channel of the custom-house authorities, who, however , diligent and obliging, require the observance of certain formalities, which are invariably a source of loss of time, and not unfrequently of temper also. On the British side, where these forms are nut necessary, and where the greatest amount of activity might be expected, the courts and stalls are well nigh " cleaned out," a few diwil mentbra lying scattered here and there as a sort of specimen " feet" to indicate, but how inadequately! the proportions of the mighty "Hercules" that has been packed up and wheeled out. In the transept, of the numerous grimes which lately gave life to and graced its precincts, the soli tary occupants are the equestrian statues of her Majesty and Prince Albert, as though it was intended to testify thus mutely, but not the less significantly, to the deep and lasting interest which the royal house all along took in the fortunes of the Crystal Palace, even to the fiend dissolving view. The Sibthorpian tree, too, looks bravely under its shade of glass, teed still bears a verdant covering, of which its more exposed compeers have been roughly shore. In the foreign section the " clearance system" seems to progress but slowly. There is, indeed, an infinity of paper and packing-cases, straw and stragglers about, but it must still take several dnys, per haps some weeks, before the contents are completely cleared. Indeed in some departments there are stalls which have not been disturbed, and which seem as if determined to insist on keeping possession. It is to he hoped, however, now that no useful purpose can be served by leaving the goods in their present position, that greater activity will ho displayed in diatislging those which still remain, and allow ing an opportunity of contemplating fur once the Paxtunian Palace as a vast solitude. CHANCERY REFORM. Last night a meeting, numerously attended, was held ut the Literary Institution, Woolwich, for the purpose, of considering the evils of the practice of the Court of Chao eery, and the necessity for its abolition. The night lion. Lord Erskine took the chair. Lord ERSKINE, on taking the chair, said he had great pleasure in meeting the persons assembled on the present occasion, as the principle for which they bad long con tended was now recognised in high quarters, and on which he Jimmied his highest hope of stneess. it was true that little progress had been matte in gaining their object, but what progress had been made was in the right direction. The steps that had been taken by her Majesty's ministers were encouraging,, and he might say that he believed that they were imbued with the highest principles of good govern ment, having supported them by his votes in both houses of Parliament for the hest forty-five years. Ile, however, augured a pro•ps.•ct of success on the subject, for now public opinion was directed to it, and it must ultimately prevail. Thy public press had rendered essential service to their cause, fur he believed without a single exception they were opposed to the present system of the Court of Chancery. Without the assistance of the public they could do nothing, but with it they could do everything. They had got a small instalment of justice, hut they would continue to urge their claims until they got the whole debt that had long been due to them. (Cheers.) Mr. MERE WETII ER T U RNE R, in along and argumen tative speech, moved—" That, though this meeting has no dis position to depreciate the value of reforms recently effected in the practice of the courts of law and equity, and in giving an extended jurisdiction to the county courts, it i., never theless, deeply impressed with a conviction of the under in adequacy of our jurisprudence and judicature to meet the want. of the country, and it is especially iinpres,ed with a sense of the hardships and ruin entailed nom. thousands of her Majesty's subjects by the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, and its cumbrous, dilatory, and costly form of procedure." Mr. G. WALKER. seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. W. CARPENTER moved: " That the distinction between law and equity, and the separate and supreme jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, has no foundation in reason, and are productive only of uncertainty, vexation, delay, and expense ; and this meeting highly approve , . of the course taken by the council of the Chancery Reform Association, in demanding tile aboli tion of this arbitrary and vicious distinction, and the adoption of one uniform system of jurisprudence, and the exercise by the same tribunal of all the powers heretofore divides! between the courts of law and courts of equity. Mr. TURNER seconded the motion. Lord ERSK INF:, before the resolution was put, begged to say that a few years ago he was of opinion that the Court of Chancery might be reformed, but that now he was an advocate fur its entire and utter abolition. (Cheers.) The resolution was then put, and agreed to unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the noble chairman, who ac knowledged the same, and the meeting was dissolved. I THE EGYPTIAN RAILWAY.—A letter from Lord ' Palmerston has been received by the Southampton Chamber of Commerce in reply to their memorial respecting the questions now pending between the l'urtc and the Pasha of ' Egypt, stating that whatever questions of etiquette and i form may hive arisen between the Sultan and Abbas Pasha in regard to the construction of a railway between Alexandria and Cairo, or in regard to the introduction of the Tansimaat into Egypt, no apprehension is entertained that I the construction of the railroad will be stopped, or that the local government of E,typt will b e d e p r ived of the means of maintaining order in that province. ATTEMPTED MERDER NEAR BERY.—At the Bury Guildhall on Monday last, George Thring was examined ' before Wm. Salmon, Esq., Dr. Probart, and 11. Le °rice, Esq., on the charge of feloniously attempting to discharge a ! pistol at James Frost. James 1. rout deposed: I live at No. l 0 in the Vine-fields, and am a labourer ; the prisoner, who is a servant out of place, ives next door to me. On Saturday night in consequence of his improper conduct I ordered the prisoner out of my house ; he refused to go, and used bad language ; I then put hint out by force, and shut the • door, but he returned again; I put him out a second time; I then heard him go upstairs in his own house, and he come in again with a pistol, and asked " Where is the beggar that turned me out of the house ?" I said, "I am the man that put you out," and he then presented the pistol, and pulled the trigger, but it missed fire; I heard the snap: it was not like the explosion of • cap. I struggled with him, and he struck me on the head with the pistol; in the struggle he dropped the pistol, which was afterwards picked up. I sent for the police ; before the police came the prisoner went again into his own tl house, and came back with a stick, which I laid hold of, and Thomas Middleditch drew it away frum him. I held the prisoner till policeman Smith came. I asked prisoner what he went upstairs for; he said, "I went fur the pistol with intent to sh:ait you." I said, " You have not shot me ; " he said, " I will, if ever I have the chance." Ile did not appear drunk. Robert Smith, a supernumerary night policeman, deposed—When I took the prisoner into custody I examined the pistol in his presence, and found it losded with powder and shot • it had a cap on. It was loaded nearly up to the muzzle. The prisoner said there was only shot in the pistol, and that he kept it for shooting cats. The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the assizes, agreeing to accept bail, two sureties in MI., and himself in 100 L; 48 hours notice to be given.—Bury Post. MEETING OF REFORMERS AT OLD: A meeting of the constituents of Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., and of reformers generally, was held at Oldham, on Monday evening, to hear from that gentleman a review of the proceedings of parliament during the last session, and an exposition of his views on the leading questions likely to engage attention on the re-assembling of the legislature. . The chair was taken by JOHN PLATT, Esq., and oa the nts of o t i fie thc le b n o d r i o n u g gh r . eformers and on rising to address the meeting, m Pl os it t ibna reopee rre ta re ble n inhabitants w V as . J. receivedt OXw, Esq., ithenth M u . s P iae " tic eheering,which continued for above a minute. The hon. member congratulated the people of the borough on the evidences of general progrees in which they, es a portion of tffe community, shared; a progress which should have its effect upon the educated claws, and upon those who aspired to rule, no that the latter might legislate with a due regard to the present chit, teeter of those they legislated for, perceiving that they well not a horde of slaves and savages, but forming in the ag gregate a free and intelligent nation. Ile thought the main Cause of that progress was free trade, which, having placed the means of getting food abundantly with greater ease in the hands of the people, had enabled them to devote more time to the cultivation of intellect. That free trade had been wrung from parliament, however, after many years of agitation ; and lie asked if :t parliament I which so reluctantly emelt d to the demands of right and justice, did not stand in need of reformation P The events of the last session had strerigthetie l the deep conviction with which lie entered the tweet., that it was not adapted to the progresaivo intelligence of the people. Much of last session had been occupied with what ought never to have had a place in the house-e• theological discussions. It seemed at one time as if this Council of Trent had risen from the dead to hold an aggregate meeting with a Praise-God Bareboues rent. (Laughter). The honourable member rapidly re viewed the acts passed in the last session of the elect public import, and especially offered for the support of his consti tuents the proposal to establish partnerships cat coatatatalits as established in France, because of the service he believed they would be to frugal and skilled workmen, and to young men of skill and integrity. Naming Mr. Gibson's conunittee oe the stamp duties, lie declared that the advertisement duty was a dirty way of raising money for a great nation to adopt, and that the stamp duty was a very practical censor ship on the press, as under it the Bolted of Inland Wrenn* had very large and very arbitrary powers to determine what should and what should not be considered a news paper, the government actually raising a duty by the exer cise of that censorship. Respecting the income-tax, his own opinion was that property wits a proper object of taxation, but he was opposed, with Mr. Hume and others, to the in equalities, inquisitions, and injustice of the existing income tax. lie would suppress the Excise altogether, believing that it was wrong to enhance the price of articles of food or luxury by indirect taxation. lie would repeal the malt-tax, of course, in abrogating the Excise, but he would not do it on the plan proposed last session by certain parties, who merely wished to shill the burden and place it on industry.... parties who were not siacere in their di sire for the mitelione tion of the condition of the people, fur they voted s. ith the government in every proposal for extravagant outlay. lie was not prepared to exchange the duty on beer for one on bread—(cheers)—as they desired when they put forward the moderate fixed duty on corn proposal. lie had voted fur the admission of Mr. S.doinons into the House of Commons, and he looked forward to a court of justice overriding the deci sion of the Commons in reference to that important matter. Who should parliament treat London and Greenwich in the same way as they laud treated Sudbury for gross corruption, by depriving them of their members ? Ile hail voted against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, which he believed would prove a dead letter. Ile looked with hope on the proceedings of the session witlt regard to the question of education, and ho referred, apparently with peculiar plea.ure, to what he con ceived to be the altered tone of the dierussioit wheat his bill was before the house. The plan which had been sanctioned by the Bishop of Manchester and hit clergy claimed to be vastly superior to the opposite plan, beeuuse it included the .• religious bases." Ile denied that he had C‘er said that a child ought not to be religiously tilueatisl ; he only denied the right of the State to interfere with this. parental right and duty to teach religion. The new Man chester selteive, though it made some provision tier et ligioue teaching, made none fur the improvement of education. or for raising it to a higher standard. Ile eulogised the Irish system of education, given under governmental sanction, as producing proper effects, such us were not presented in thin country. The educational system in that country, which did, fu fact, entrust the secular anal the reli gious part of the training to separate halide, raised up that barrier against crime which the state of }MOM& gaols showed was not set up by education as given in England. In this country the per ventage of criminals who had Inca, educated wits increasing, hut in Ireland it was decreasing, anal he held that to he a Let distinctly proving his view of the comparative merits of the two systems ; for more chil dren were being educated in Enalaiti, yet more gut into gaol. Ile objected to the Manchester new scheme that It did not provide tor graituateilinstruction, and that, therefor*, it would he inellicient, while the school rats would become little more than a large and additional endowment to the church, which had already several millions a year for teaching religion to the people, anal per cent. of the national grant for education. The hon. member sae*. quently referred to his well•known ,views on electoral i•e form, and concluded a lung speech amid much applause. It was thou resolved unanimously: That the thanks of this meeting be given to Wan. Johueon Fox, M.P., for 116 very able and eloquent address; and thug meeting testifies its approval of Mr. Fox's parliamentary conduct, and pledges itself to support him in any future election." Alter a brief response from Mr. Fox, and a cute of thanks to the eliairut.in, the proceedings terminated. THE FATAL EXPLOSION NEAR MANCHESTER. In the Express of Tuesday we gave n short account of an explosion of gunpowder at a shop in Pendle bury, near Manchester ' by which a Mrs. Musgrove was seriously injured. She died on almulay afternoon, from the edicts of the injuries she had received. The inquest upon the body of the deceased was held at the Royal Oak lon, Pendlebury, yesterday afternoon, before Mr. W. S. Rutter, county coroner. After the jury had viewed the body, the following evidence was taken:— Robert Atkinson, Peuillebury—The deceased lived oppo site to where I do. About half-past six o'clock on Friday evening last, I was in my kitchen. I heard a loud report, and in consequence ran nut to s e e wh a t it av ow from, and saw the house of deceased falling down. I went to it, and then heard a scream from the deceased, who was amongst the ruins, but could not see her. There was a smouldering of tire amongst the ruins, as of clothes burning. There had been a shop attached to the house ' and the sound I heard appeared as if the deceased wa s between the counter and the Willi. I raised up the counter, which Was nearest to me, and the deceased then put up her arm. I took huld of it at the dhow, but my hand slipped down in consequence of the skin cooling off. I then took hold of her shoulder, and pulled her until others could get hold of her as well, and shc was got out and carried into the Royal Oak public house. The deceased screamed when we pulled her out, bat said nothing. tier clothes were burned off up to her waist, and her legs were shockingly burned. Nathaniel Wardle—l live near to where the deceas. d did. On Friday night, I was leasing work and heard a loud re port like the sound of a cannon. That was followed by two similar sounds immediately afterwards. I then ran, and 54W that the house of the deceased lied Mika down. No one was to be wen, but I heard the deceased scream, and could sec that her clothes were burning. I helped to re move the bricks until we saw her, and then I assisted 10 pall her out. She called out, " Don't pull me." After getting her out of the ruins, we laid her down and began to put out the fire. She was then brought to this 110U141. After that I saw the youngest of the children got out appa rently from behind where the deceased was. It was burned, and was brought here, as was also the other, upon being found shortly afterwards. James Cropper—l live about 20 yards from Musgrove's shop. On } riday night last, whilst sitting at nay tea, I heard a noise like a laid falling. I run out and found the road full of smoke. Five or six of us stood, and iu a little while we heard some ono making a noise, but could not tell where it was. In about 10 minutes the smoke cleared away, we heard the deceased screaming, and then we went to wards where she was. When we got to the house we found that it was blown down. We found that the deceased was behind the counter, and some of them broke it down and pulled her out. There was a great smell of gunpowder; 110 strong a smell that it made me go away. After she was taken out the deceased was brought here. I did nut OW anything of the children. John Musgrove, shopkeeper, Pendlebury—The deceased, who was my wife, was 32 years of age. One of the children is between three and four, and the other between seven and eight years of age. At the time the accident happened I should be about Windsor-bridge, on the road to Man chester. I arrived at home about eight o'clock. I imme diately went tone my wife. I said to her, " Sarah, how ever has this happened ?" She replied, John, I don't know." I asked her if she had been weighing gunpowder, and she sail that she had not at the time, and that then was no customer:in the shop. She haa not told Inc how it happened, but has several times said that she did not know. I kept gunpowder. The unopened casks were kept in the store-room, over the shop, where I never went with a light. The cask from which we were selling was always kept on a shelf in the shop. There was in the shop at the time of the explosion, about 161 b. or 171 b. I had two other unopened casks, neither of which exploded. About 21b. of the powder in the shop I was in a cask, another portion in a I age jar with a lid, both of them being upon a high shelf. The remainder of the powder was in a glass bottle with a patent cork, and that was kept on a shelf near the window. We used gas in the shop. I had no other explosive matters In my shop. I had some spirits of turpentine and oil in the cellar; but that is all safe. Dr. Davenport has attended the deceased. The deceased was over venturesome, and rather headstrong in dealing with the powder, and I hare often blamed her myself. About twelve months since she told me that she had dropped the candle into a cask of powder and took it out again without the occurrence of an accident. _ _ The coroner having briefly summed up, the jury, after very little consideration, returned a venl iet of " Accidental death from the explosion of gunpowder." The two children of the deceased are still lying at the Royal Oak Inn, in a very precarious condition, and but slight hopes are entertained of their recovery.