The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-08 00:00:00

n nv STE.IM NAYIGATIO.V COMPANY. 1.01-yearly guanol meeting of the proprietors c. usi..ny was held on Saturday, at tin Lrndon , li.shopsrats-strect ; IL T. Mori:, Esti , the chair the company, presiding. is • , the ss cutely, then read the report, of which r.:,'w114 i..re the prilt . psl ar ms : • your ihrtctots, since the last meeting, in pursuance of :sews of the charter us inewrporation, which nquires .. 2 0 . 000f. , houlci be paid up before any contracts are :r .1 tat.. 1. , r Luilding al. ps, a esll of 2!. per shate (in •• the ',Ott ate. ..1 U. already pail, had been l'sosi•iwecl arrangements hare been concluded for •nstru• tide of the chimps ead of the bull of the first assn Ur. sr , . Jrtuta Watt rod Co., of Soho, and 31 Russell an , l e ,of London. The ship will be built awl Ia ;.•. be eupleted in eighteen months. r .wee of th., ships is intended to be es fo r .owlL : 630 feet; breadth, 83 feet; dep h, •• . wi h w nw and paddle engines, nggregate nominal , euwwt 2.040. 'a his being in the opinion of the direc t. . 1 ... that wit irltqlliittly secure the inills . • r . ,i•ite• •f c fsit, rya err:mousy. Ths se !.. . w:11 i arty potash ht cir.l for the whole ircwf agr, and • v.. d. 4,) (from 32 is 20 days) and expense of w• s 4,1.1 from their evilest to touch at the coasting stations f r .. g . p. a, sell the cot of takins out coals to those ste n... r.st he beo/ le,iCti will h.: tken Lulu •: its mu.oftwill wan 12s. to 14s. per a ton. On w. s t:e ',hat% ships to Austrolia or India Mr. 'VA& ao hum., the Cl,llMl.lptiutt amount% to from 4,090 to 6,0110 •autald aupi-4 16 to 20,11.10 tone ii n . 1 , at tar pnt in it...to:dint.) comntunicnti.•n •:. iL c ti w. Lut yt ar t Sy,. will carry besides thtir ow:: •, 11, •••11TO• ,•1 0.110 tees measurement of mer eel wtll have 51,0 cabins for ;mummers te . else*, with ample space fer troops sill :our C. 4111 imes.viern. hi se you will not only be abie t retry at rates much smaller theta those by MI shies, hut with an unprecedented 3 ,110111%! P.M?, e•enfeet, end convenience which the great ten et tee v. ie !, wall melee you to ettore. In thee iectie-ine tl.e viz. of your shir, your dip-eters believe that t.:ey are a'se er teineg the elements of a speed hereto fur. ' , e leven ; au i if hereatter mais applicable to thc pur pa,s of seem . ' applied from tee wines of Australia, t ee eur : ehe ceseeity of reir eeiee, both for cergo uud - WV! be preportioe vole increased. The great keel. of ships will, according to all present expe thiu e, (n : tie mto pies through the water at a velocity of sty a Loos an hoer, with a smaller power in proportion to t mullein , than ordinary vessels now require to Make tan kaots. Speei. is in Int another re sult of geese ►se. It is belieriel that by this peat 'p.c.: . e• • eat"nset with tke absence of stoppages, the l ever :h. twee e Eue.and and leen, by the Celle, will be named to leen thirty to thirty-three days, and between Laelaul and Atotralia to thirty-three ce thirty-six (ley,. TM- of et such improvem eats in the means of COMMUOI• COCO% between these countries must certainly be to greatly ineTe.re the intvrenum*. The hulls of the ships will be of ow and of nee , th ee ti o• N I ler ngth, while the magnitude of their dim. neon, will Wird peculiar facilities for intro diecg tasey precautionary measures conducive both to Witmrth sad recoil. The whole of the ship's bottom, sad up to de Let above the water line, will be double, and of a tender censtruetien, so that soy external injury will not aff.et the tigh:scai or the saf:ty of the ship. The up per .let': will alto be strerethened on the same principle, so that tees 'hi, will be a cenplete beam, similar to the tube of the Britannia-bridg e The Tunis will be nivieled Mei ten •ev.tritt wet• r•tight cetapartmente; and as the in t: traedette spec: s 'aro sufficient in such ships, being each • y test an I. mob, to allied a conecuient arrangement ot cr.rate sal ene tied cabins, the bulkheads can be carried completely to the upper deck, giving an efficiency to the sreent of compares Ms which has nut yet been attainable, tad 'ten compartntete: netted of further subdivision up it. the I:wer deck, which will be from tour to eight feet above weer. Se ante sets of engines, each with several cylin der, and separate bolero , will rs be applied to work the screw, dishact ft , m those working the paddle-wheels, so dee in the event of temporary, or even permanent derange ment cf any one of the In e elnee, or of either the paddle wheels. or of the screw, the other engines and propellers would still he available, and the only result would he a proportlmate uimiuntion of speed and eon sueptiou of fuel, thus rendering the chances of sty serious di lay almost infinitely remote. Your directors having satisfied themselves that the practical lad anhanicel serene: meats proposed are adequate to ware the aceompeahnsmit of their mej..ct, will now merely state the cm:chalets at which they have arrived, that com mercially the undertaking often a sound guarantee of sue s:tee Their experitnes and inquiries have satisfied them that such vessels placed on the Calcutta line would, by eon veyine cords and passengers wi h much greater expedition and convenience than at present, and at rates so moderate a.- to pea elude competition, prove highly remunerative to the owners. Since those inquiries were made, the rapid de velopmesit of the Australian trade renders it pro bable that the line to Australia by the Cape of Good Hope, to which your steamers will be peculiarly adapted, may afford a still more remunerative trade than that to India. I ftc , et an route to the foces of Australian connexion with Europe is the direct route, and it is Mu the route which has the advantage of being free from tolls, and the ekteeue and &ley of transhipment, and it will be impossible fur • setal.er clue of ships by any roues to tnaka the voyage to Australia in so short a time as our vessels. Your directors would have refrainel from pu blishing anything like esti mates, but havin r to meet the predictions of failure made by these interested in the present class of vessels, they think it right to state that the result of their calculations (made co the assumption that the carrying capacqy fur goods oat. ward should be ceeupied at the rate of 41. 101. per tou r being considerably below prevent freights, and only one half of the cabin room occupied, at rates for first-class pus seugers, 651. ; second clam, 351 and third class, 251., in cluding provisions, giving to each of the respective classes enlarged accommodation, and assuming that only one-third of the vessel's capacity would he occupied on the homeward voyage) is that, after making the moot ample allowance for working expenses, depreciation, wear and tear, and insur ance, v surplus remains equal to 40 per cent. per annum upon the capital invested. In conclusion your directors desire to state that they believe the vessels of this company will supply the great desideratum of the day, and will of 'rd the speediest, the safest, most punctual, and most economical means of communication ever devised between this country and her most distant eastern colonial posses- Mr. BISOOOD moved, and Mr. C. F. GREEN seconded, the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously, sad the business cencluded, with the usual complimentary vote to the chairman and the directors. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. A meeting of the general committee of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, was held at the offices, John-street, Adelphi, en Friday. Capt. LAIIIIIRT Pgaaorr, in the chair. Capt. Davie% R.N. ; Capt. W. H. Hall, R.N. ; Edward Harry, Req. ; Capt. M'llirdy, RN. ; Capt. Ommanney, B.N. ; Major Palmer; Capt. Washington, R.N.; and Capt. Ward, R.N., inspector of life-boats to the institution, wen also present. Mr. Lawie, the seeretuy, baring read the minutes of the previous meeting, the following rewards were ordered to he panted. The sum of If. 10s. to several men for their services to the new of the schooner Navarino, of Guernsey, which was wrecked a short time ago off the Isle of Wight. Having, with Deirlett's rocket apparatus, succeeded on effecting a communication with the stranded venal, her crew wen, by means of a hawser, hauled on shore. On account of the tremendous sea that was running at the time over the rocks ea which the men were standing their lives were placed in greet peril; red it seemed that had it not been for their prompt and persevering erections every soul on board the vessel must have perished, as it was impossible for an ordi nary boat to live in such a sea ; the ship's boat having been previously dashed to pieces. It appeared that the institu tion bed eranted rewards, from time to time, for saving the lives of about 130 shipwrecked persons with the useful appa ntus of the late Mr. Dennctt. The amount of 21. 10s. was also voted to five poor IrWo , fishermen whe had saved two of Ave persons from a m ated fishing boat in Courtmaseherry bay, on the coast of Cork. The accident happeeed about half a mile from the shore, and, the sea running high at the time, three penes, were unfortunately drowned bzfore assistance could reach them. Two new boats, on Mr. Peake's design, were ordered to be built, and to be stationed at Dangeneu, Kant, and Crandaeld point, on the coast of Down. The life-boat, on the same plan, belonging fa the lutitu nu at CuDemote, Northumberland, was reported to have saved during the late tempestuous weather a number et poor fishermen, who, while engeged in their hazardous oc cupation, were overtaken soon after sunrise by a heavy gale from N.N.E. The life-boat having been sent to their assist ance succeeded in bringing ten boats over the bar, some of which would, with their crews, inevitably have been lost but for the timely help of the life-boat, the wind and sea having risen to such a height u to leave no place of safer! for them to rein to. A communication wag read from the Lincolnshire Life- boat Association requesting the institution to accept 501. in grateful acknowledgment of the original gift in 1825 of their first lifeboat by the institution. The boat, which is sta tioned at Magness, was said to be in an elßeient state, and to have saved about 100 lives of shipwrecked persona. CURIOUS VEGETARIAN BANQUET. (From the Mawlkster Grard.44.) The sixth annual banquet of the Vegetarian So eistr was held in the Town-hall, Salford, Tut evening, ekes there was a numerous gathering of vegetarians and their friends. The room was decorated with festoons of TWO yaws, which at different points surrounded iniCriP -6011!, enaseiting of extracts from the Bible, the works of ' Cuter and other authors, mottoes directly or indirectly ~..baring epos the practice of vegetarian um. The busts of mike* and Shaksnere occupied positions ow each side of the orchestra ; and beneath the bust of each was a quota tion hut hie works recommending an abstinence from a Sisk deg. In the orchestra there win a band, which per !md a retention of mote during the banquet and in the Wirral/ between the speeches which followed. Mr. JANES St4e, , ,te, the rirsident of the society, was in the chair ; and amongst the gentlemen present were Misers. Alderman E arl, Schofield, With, Martin, Haskell ; J. W. Beck Nl , l J din :1A . ..., jun., Boston; WilliansVfard, Cambridge; tend &nand, Halifax. LALXCU OF THE JASON. Oa Saturday afternoon an important addition was Rade to the ft :et of the General Screw Shipping Company, by the launch of a new steam-vessel, of the first-elass, be,a ini the well-seasoned name cf the Jas.os ; a 4 of the same size and in evcry respzet descry resembling Of, Crresus. The event was witnessed by a leer concourse of spectators assembled in Orchard-yard, Blaekwall, where the vessel all built by the Messrs. Mare, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. Thomas Waterman. At throe o'clock the signs! having been given, Lady Gerntier threw the bottle against the bows, and the vessel iirmeiliately glided into the water amidst loud cher re tram those assembled, producing by her msjestic appearance an impression that, in a national as in a commercial point of view, a valuable accession had been made to tho marine establishment of the I country. The special cleitinationot the Jason is the Ans i tralian voyage. it is intended she shall be ready to proceed t 3 Port l'hillip in December next; and, considering th A ruly retie or live months have cl.iised since is!te was laid en the sacks, this, if realised, will be a most marvel lons result. The Jan n is built entirely of iron, and 'I, of course, to be worked with the screw. lier general dims n *ions are as follows :—Length between perpendiculars, 280 1 feet; lenzth ol keel for tonnap, 254 feet; bread:4, for ten- nage, 43 feet; depth of hold 31 feet G inches. The registered burthen is 2,660 tons. The propulsion w ill be performed' by engines main:Edema by Messrs. J. Watt and Co.. I The average cost, thus far, is about 28 , . per ton; probably chant per ton will have sufficed to pre pare ter the first voyage. With the addition thus made, the company has on the ocean about 25,000 tons of shilying, the whole of which is constructed of iron, and in accordauce with the company's name, propelled by screw. A ti..et f this gigantic extent Las been formed within the space of about three years. It is now e.arying on regular continued eathms between Plymouth and the Cape, and thence to Cslcutta, and also between the Cape and Natal ; while, in the case of the Ilarbing.m., the Australian voyage, whitii at one time seemed likely to b..ffle the utmost efforts of science and enterprise, was performed within 70 days. It remains for the company to see whether this space cannot be made matey of calculation, and all but certainty. For such a desirable consummation the character of such vessels as the Jason will aft, & facilities. The second ship of this com pany, the Argo, I,S:i9 tuns, sailed 18th April; the third, the Crcems, is to sail in October ; en 1 the Jason, the fourth* in December. The fifth, the Golden Fleece, is to he launched in six weeks, and to be ready for si.• in February next. MEETING OF DOCK LABOURERS. On Saturday evening, at seven o'clock, the labourers on strike at the London, Sr. Katherine's, East India, and West India Docks, assembled by adjournment at Bishop Donner's &ids, Victoria-park. About 3.000 la bourrrs were pre s ent, and the crineipal were from the vicinity of Blackwall. The proceedtais were opined by a working man, named Berry, who spoke in very indignant term+ of several of his mmpanions fatly employed in the London Docks, who had gone in to wcrk that morning for 21. Ga. per day. lie cuisidered them traitors to their cause, and they ought to be marked. Ile did not mean for any of the true men to vio late the law, but his meaning was that they ought to he branded and discarded from their society. (Hear, hear.) Tile company, to his knowledge, had eight persons at the present time to do the work three of the regular men could ; coniequently, they were paying dearly for their tyranny and obstinacy. They had the men from the Eut and West India Docks with them, and, if they only kept true to each other, the rights of labour would triumph. Only :act with unity, for unity wes strength, and, with orderly conduct, in • few days their demand would be amicably arranged. Several labouring men from the East and West India Docks having addressed the meeting, one of the delegates and most active members of the committee said that a con siderable sum of money had been collected during the day, which would be fairly and honourably divided amongst the men on strike. Oa Monday authorised persons on the committee would be duly appointed to receive money for the relief 'of the labourers engaged in the struggle, and boxes would be provided in which the cash would be put under lock and key. A resolution was proposed and seconded—" That the men belonging to the London, St. Katherine's, East India, and West India Docks continue the agitation for an adnnce of sixpence per day for their arduous labour, and that this 'netting be adjourned until Monday morning next, at ten o'clock, wheu all hands muster to carry out the objects of the strike." The resolution was then put to a show of hands, and was carried unanimously, and at nine o'clock the vast crowd se parated in peace and quietness. THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS. Caroline Sherwood, the young woman who was sentenced to be executed at Lewes, has been re prieved. Two memorials were forwarded to the Home Secretary a few days ago, and on Thursday let the follow ing reply was received: Whitehall, August 3, 1831— Sir,—lriseount Palmenton having carefully considered your application in behalf of Caroline Sherwood, I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that under all the circumstances . - he has felt warranted in advising her Majesty to commute the prisoner's sentence into transportation for life.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, H. WADDINOTON.—John T. Auckland, Esq., solicitor, Lewis." A similar commutation of punishment has also taken place in the case of Jane Chenworth, convicted at the recent assizes at Hodgkin of drowning a child entrusted to her by its mother, under pretence of having *maims in leave it for a short time to make some purchases, but with the in tention, as subsequent events proved, of deserting it. The circumstances attending the combat= of the offence were very peculiar, and the advisers of the strewn felt justified in giving effect to the recommendation of the jury in the pri- senor'. favour. Ann Marshall, who with two other penons wu convicted at the last High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh of throw lag a sea out of the window of a brothel, whereby he was I killed on the spot, has also been reprieved by her Majeaty, but the law has been left to take its course upon her mon plias, Hans Smith Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood. LATIN IN ENGLAND. TO TIM EDITOR OF TEI 8114-11 the silly habit of writing inscriptions in Latin rather than in our good English tongue is still to be maintained, at any rate let care be taken that the Latin be Latin. The authorities connected with the Benevolent C el lege, in the inscription read at the recent laying of the first atone, should not hays put forward Censors Regime, as " the Queen's consort." The word canneries de- notes in plain prose coheirs who hold an inheritance in common ; and as these are for the most part brothers and sisten, the word came into use among the poets as an equivalent for brothels et sisters. It was also used with mine looseness for the possessors of anything in common. Thus " eonsortes tori," or " thalami," possessors of a com mon couch or chamber, in poetical phraseology, may be an expression for those united in wedlock. Ov. Met. 1., 919, X., 246. When the same writer, VI., 94, says "cum mogul consorts Jovis," the allusion is to Juno as the sister, not the wife of Jupiter. Thus Comore Regina*, at best, can only be a poetical expression; end even this would have the offensive signification that her Majesty has two hus bands, or else would imply t►at the Prince is her brother. The inscription, in tact, from first to last; is highly dis creditable to the scholarship of the writer, and it was very clear th►t the gentleman who supplied the quasi-translation which followed it found himself wholly unable to cope with the difficulties before him, for at least one-half of what he favoured us with has nothing to represent it in the Latin original. Perhaps, however, after all, we may congratulate our selves, as dog. Latin may be only a transitional state be tween classical inscriptions and inscriptions in plain English.—Yours, &a, CLAUDIUS. [The above is written by one of the best Latin whole's of the day. It is, doubtless, absurdity of Englishmen to neglect their own language, and resort to Latin for the purpose of inscriptions. It is only 'nether phase of the wretched taste which causes us to clothe our heroes in Roman togas, or take all clothing away from them, when we represent them in statuary. Meantime it may be remarked that although cowers may not be Cicereniaa Latin for husband or wife, it is constantly used in that sense by writers in the middle ages. In Du Conga 's ° Glossarial,' Median et Jn- Asia Latinilatis"—which has been cleverly rendered a glossary of middling and infamous Litiaity—we have Cen sors. Conies* Crory KEYIIAM YARD.—Ordere have been remeived to supply furniture from the Moro in the Dock-yard for the onion and that establishment. The works will be formally opened on the lit October next. 'I HE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST P, 1853. FO./](LNG NEW BREEDS OF SHEEP. !Ervin the Et an notes, ) • The attempt to create new breeds of sheep by eroEs inir i. not new in 11. is country. Some years ago s able Warts were mad, to cot tarn • sheep wsth the Merit fleece arid a goo I Ergiisli enc...., but wit:. instep. 11:11:1,1': so. .1:., late Ear.l We Vern had some errs s.treel she en between the Le icester and Merino, which he believed to have stained a permanent and uniform character, yet they have never extended beyond the late owner's park. Now the object seems to be to form a gray-faced sheep with what Mr. Posey tulle middic-wad ;' such as Mr. Druce's cross !trod s'erep we r. Lirred to last week. Since that notice was written we have bad the orportunity— at the Gloucester ni^oting of cassn!nlag not only Mr. Deuce's sheep, but those of several o'her breeders won are working in the same direction. That ex amination has strougly confirmed our previous im pression that little success is lU.rly to ark nd any of the at tempts to establish permanent cross breeds. Indeed tl.c attempt implies som^ defect in the accurate obsetvation e.f facts which must he open to all breeders. Mr. Brace exhi bited several rams and two pens ot ewes of his mixed breed, which would no twain be thought in a fairer market good and useful tense-b:.d she, ; though they p:-ssess a cer tain uniformity of chem.-ter, it did not appear to us to be sw.di as would be much sought after by sheep headers. Except that their appearance betokened good management, they differed little from many of the mongrel grey-laced sheep we see in house cmnties, which make very gated mi.tton, but which no one would dream of adopting as oried ing stark. In the lands of skilful men elan sort of uni formity of character and form nany b 3 kept up for a time in such • cross bred flock, but all experience is against the ex pectation of thereby obtaining any real fishy of type. .M the Gloucester 'how, there we re en the climes of " Shropshire." two rams—a yearling and a two-year-old— exhadted by Mr. John Gillett, of Brae N :Mon, Oxford shire, which were the produce of crosses between the Cots wold and Southelown. These animals Ind the appearance of the first-cruse, which usually produces a very useful and s &able sheep. But th. , owner inft.nned us that they were bred from cross-bred animals, and that he had persevere for sixteen years in br -ling from crosses without any new is:h.:ion of original blo el. One of these sheep was wit!, great justice " highly commended," but still we should very touch doubt whether many sheep of such ferns and character could be obtaiewd fr,ra a cress-bred flock. They had all tie appearance of being a first cross, possessing en a c in siderable degree the marked characteristics of both races— form and size from the Cotswold with ties grey legs and face of the Down. . _ There were some Cotswold 'limp shown ut Gloucester which scent far more liktiy to gratify the testa for grey. faced sheep without producing , races of mongrel,, and the deterioration of the lure hres.. s which must evitably arise franc c ffu.'s to create permanent crosses. These were pure Cotswolds with grey legs :Ind faces, bred by Mr. Smith, of Bibery, near k'airfurd, Gloucester. 'hire. fie has obtained the grey colour by steadily selecting from the pure Cotswold flocks of Gloucestershire, the sheep so distinguished, and which indeed most other breeders have dratted from their stock. The result has heist a lot of trey-fuced Cotswolds of rod form and wool, though some• what less in sire than the best flocks of that breed. Such ure the rtstu.il results of our own attempts at cross breeding. We do not refer to what are frequently culled crosses, is Couwohts Led Leicesters, kicesters and Lin colas, or Cotswolds and Lincoln', because, thou All each 01 these Israeli hare in irked differences, they are in the mail. •o nearly identie..l thet the produce of soy such intermix ture' can scarcely be deemed crosses. MODERN CORINTH AND ITS PEOPLE. The modern town of Corinth is more completely miserable than even a gond stout serviceable imagination, always ready when called upon, can conceive. It is lite rally imbedded in filth and mud of all sorts. The people, squalid and half starving, are half naked ; the houses art all one story high, and all tumbiing down. Hungry doge howl and light for offal over the ruined baths of Hadrian. The hotel appeared a mere refuge for destitute vermin,.for it is alive with them. They swarmed over the seats of the chairs, and played at leap-frog with your feet upon the crowded floor. The were upon the walls, the window sills, the curtains, the tablecloth even, and appeared quite wild with delight at the arrival of a fresh and tender stranger; a Greek skin being impervious to their attacks, or of indif ferent flavour should they succeed in penetrating it. The bread, however, looked clean when the crust was cut off; and fortunately our lively little friends could not get into the eggs, so that we managed to appease our hunger, which was extremely sharpened by the mountain air and brisk motion after the confinement of a steamer. We found it quite as well to keep our eyes off the landlady when she came in, is order to enjoy our bread and eggs; for a more revolting old person it would be hard to find. When she brought in a thick glutinous mess, which was stated by Polychronopulos to be wife., we were too glad to take his word for the fact, and to drink at a little fountain water from the palms of our hands instead. The modern Greeks are still a fine race of men, straight, upright, and well grown; and in the classes removed a little from absolute beggary, the national costume—gay and flowing—adds con siderably to their personal attractions. But the women I saw were, without exception, fat and uncomely. They were broad where they ought to be slim, and narrow where they ought to be full in figure. Their eqmpleaions are oily, and their hair coarse and illiarranged ; their eyes small, and their hands and feet large and clumsy. Not even the grace of their national dress can conceal a certain waddling awkwardness of gait. They seem to be horn to show how ugly it is possible to be with faultless features ; for they have nearly all the Greek profile, the straight nose,' the delicate lip. They appear to marry while quite chil dren. Some of the men had, I thick, the worst and most dangerous expression I ever saw in a human face: at once dark and powerful—the cunnitosoneeive crime, end the unswervin: firmness to go through with it.—Diekens's "Household Words." PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES " MADE PLEASANT." Hes the reader any notion of the way in which our parliamentary proceedings are being stereotyped for posterity ? The late Prime Minister objected to Earl Aberdeen's quoting from " Hansard," a part of a speech by Mr. Disraeli, and more than insinuated that such extract' could not be relied upon as expressing the ems sentiments of the speaker. The very fact that this is contrary to the truth, is the very ground for a just complaint. The mode in which " Hansard" is " cooked" and " made pleasant," is briefly as follows :—ln the cue of any given debate, the editors procure all the daily papers, compare the various reports, and from the whole prepare what appears to them most likely to have been the exact expressions of the speaker. This speech is given to the printers, and a proof or sped ' men printed oo a sheet of paper large enough to allow of a very wide margin, is sent to the speaker with a request that he will return it corrected by a certain day. What is the consequence of this generosity ? Why that a very large proportion of honourable members return a sompositian whkh is no more the speech uttered by them in the House of Commons, than it is a Welsh ballad. Observe, that whatever they return, is adopted. If any speaker likes, he can in the first instance send his speech in IfiS. to Messrs. Hansard, who will be only too glad to escape the chances of a " proof " resembling a map gone crazy. It is true that some practised speakers make very few alterations,—l have heard that there were not twenty in Mr. Disraeli's famous budget oration, and scarcely so many in that of Mr. Glad stone ; but the removal or the addition of a word may alter the whole tenor of a speech, and in my opinion such after thoughts should be kept but on principle. To what awkward results may not this practice lead t A member is struck with a remark by some man (duet*, makes a memorandum of the exact woMs, and two or three, or twenty years after wards, hurries to it to establish a glaring cue of inconsis tency. He rises in the house, and on the credit of his notes, gives utterance to some rather strong observations upon the versatility of public men. The house chess, and the speaker congratulates himself as he resumes his seat upon having done a very neat thing. Short-lived is his triumph. In a moment the object of his censure rises, places his hands upon his breast, and with the air of an injured man, and in a tone which only en East India director, or a cabman mulcted in a heavy fine, can hope to imitate, assures the house that " such improper observations have never, at any period of his life, crossed his lips. (Ladd cries of "" Hear, hear; " from his subordinates) He would be unworthy of the high position which it was his proudest boast that day to fill—unworthy, indeed, to address the bran in any pm'. tion at all—if, having uttered such sentiments, he could look upon them with a 'baseless brown." (Enthusiastic cheering for some minutes.) Perhaps his accuser is of rather a peppery disposition ; accordingly, strong in proof, he re asserts his charge. Universal cry is raised for Hansard, and the scene closes with a humble apology from the per plexed and crestfallen originator of the dispute. In all seriousness, some means should be taken to secure to pos terity a knowledge of the actual facts. As it is, we are duping the unborn generations. With open eyes we are sowing the seeds of dissension between historians of another age, who, comparing the printed evidence of Hansard with the testimony of tradition, will learn not whether Mr. Lucas was a lamb, or a toothless tiger—The hon. member for Lincoln a professional or a sententioos Cromwell, in high to ref tights.—Comb Independent Preis. REPRESENTATION OF SOUPY' STAFFORDSITTRE.-- The Hon. E. R. Littleton, eldest son of Lord Hathertoo, Ku oltbred himself u the successor of General Amon, for the representation of this county, and his election is likely to be unopposed—not, however, because hie mild *big principles are popular with the South Staffordshire liberals, who are in the majority on the register, but because they are not ready for a contest just now, and because Mr. Littleton is the son of a man who was poplar in his day. and rendered some service to the county. The liberals are already casting about for another candidate to run with Mr. Littleton against Lord Lewisham at a general election, and two gentlemen have been already named—the Hon. Arthur Wrotteoley, son of Lord Wrottesley ; and Mr. C. II Dian mach, who is one of th.l greatest ironmuters in Wiles as well as Staffordshire. This gentleman is *thorough liberal ; but from the artiety of the members of the iron trade of the district to have one of their body in the Muse of Commons, it is probable that Mr. H:mmack would to calve their united support t ithr t a.y rferecco whroicr to mere party consideration. &Hilt. Almost an my friend* CMe armed, and at the levee held by me that day in Melbourne, tberu were no sham swords inch 111 the paltry Lek:pi:the e: Melaka Castle carry wLtn selling theinselots and their country to the vice gerents of English tyraixo. r, the noble fellows who thronged around to sustain aka pro:cit me at this trying moment, CArritd :rusty weapon', with Meer arms and wiliing hearts to me the to ; and. I do believe, th.• police of Ms:bourne that day wa; not sa'icieat to keep them in cus tody. Their eommerc:al reopectahility can be cc:lauded by the fact that they r..pr:sented capital to the extent of he.( a million sterling, and it money could insure my escape, tut.s gals of pouutht would be fot theoming fur the purpose, On Sunday evening Mr. O'S. ctuvsyed me to the lk use of Mr. K., where 1 rlept a rl rpt at next day, Monday, the 3rd January. the that day, Mr. McC., a commission .gent, iodine.' .Zr. O'S. to accoutpaey him to the captain of toe E trl of Lincoln, and further disco., a plan of eicapr. Ac• cor:ingiy they werie„en brard, a isv the captain, and arranged a ith him that I should go on board the text morning, at ' daybreak, in the character of an " aide seaman." I con , seated to this new arram2ement. Mews. O'S. Kil—r, J. L , and Alderman C. sat up all night along with me, and the kind and accomplished Mrs. K—r laid aside all her do mestic calls to atutal moi mini-ter !o our cunt its. ESCAPE OF .PATI:ICK O'DONOGIIVE FROM • VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. • • The .Peru York Tribute contains an account of the escape of O'Denoghue, one of tee Irish poetiesl rre sonars, who was lately at large on his merd of honour in Van 1.P.r11201 . 1 Land. On my return to Leur.ceoton from Port Arthur, on the i ' 6'h November 18 3 2, leweet at once to my tru s ty friend O. D. He had just returned from an unsuccessful adsen- tare at Mount Alexander gold field, by which he was a I great loser, having sob eidere 1 a thriving and lucrative j trade to speculate at the d'_ tug's I testi° ed to him my : ne reeiewee. art!: I elm the tt vsrel breaches o lutt fee n na “m eaCt committed by the colonial it ivernment, in respect to my ticket of leave, and the degreetntien aed penury to which I was reduced by the :resulted system of cruelty enforced Realest me, even in vinlatien of the penal statutes is force in Ven Dircietes Lend. We coneluerd that I stood before God and man sob (steed fr.em the moral are honourah'e nspensliility originally implied and uederstand by the "parole" entered into by myselt and the other state prisoners, and without farther huetation my eccare was hoed upon. After a few dee., alecuee in elelbeurne, G. D. woo e to me, :eating that everything was arrange I with the captelu of :he Errl of Lincoln, which vessel was hound fur Callan, iu the State of Lim t, a Soenisli settlement in South AMC TICA ; and requesting that I would start frem L tuneeetoa furthwith, SO as to arrive in Melbourne by the met steamer. It was ',tastily agreed that I should meet him tact even. ing at the lieu(' cf Mr. G., an! there change my dna., and accompany him on bertsd et 8 o'clock that melit. I hastened to my lodgings at the house of my worthy friend, Mr. K. of Laud-hill, and packed up my wardrobe, which war very eeatrily supplied ; :eel scents though it was, I was obliged to leave Itet7 volumes of boost behind me. O'N. and I mi. at Mr. G. s house at eight o'cloce. I put on ii sailor'sjeckst, and we walkett at a quick pace to the Y. Y. steamer, ho took me on beard and placed me in his own berth, from which he removed me at daybreak next morn ing, to tl e platform of the engine reetn. At 7 o'clock lie ton-teed me thence te the furnace room, and seined me is a stove, which he locked upon me. I just tined into it like a monster pie in ten oven, an I eon:telly resemhl a a laree blade I.:evened, h-lauhcd en reel, about •o underge the process of baking. I had been in this domicile for the epee° of an lt .or Whin O'N. unlock id the door of it, and, with consternatioa pictured in his tree, he stated that Mr. S., the other of the ship, h :d v . :resulted with him, and :hey arrived at the conclusion I would I e suffocated if I remained in the store ; and that as the p: lice were :lbw to commence their customary search, I must go ashore. This was a most appalling announcement. It was the 9th Dec.; my friend D. had his arrangements nude in Mahatma for my reception and seijenent frog thence; lily own hoes s N 4 re buoyed up to the highest pitch of excitement—and all Phu+ unexpectedly frustrated ! There was no time, hew , vise to be etat, e+ the police were prowling about. I bid poor O'N. good meruing, and &teepee on the wharf. Pondering at what had just occurred, and viewing my gro tesque appearance in a sailor's unit tree, scented with tar and grease, as I made my way through the back slums, I burst into loud laughter ! But what gloom, despondency and Burrow pressed upon mo a little afterward, as I beheld the eessel with her steam up, gliding down the Tamer ! It was resolved that I should again go en board the steamer at eight o'eleck on Suieley night, as nine n'elocle oar Mcnlay morning, the 20th December, was filed upon fur the vetoel sailing for Melbourne; and live or die, 1 should proceed in her. Ott Soot :y, the 19th, I had three interviews with G. D., and at 8 o'clock he accompanied me to the steamer, when U'S. placed Me is hit berth, where I lay until four o'clock, and was then removed to the engine.room, and at half-past 7 o'clock O'N. led me throng!, tho furnace-room to the receptacle used for holding the coals consumed by the furnaces. It was adjoining the fur nacre, but partitioned cif with sheet iron. In the centre of this was an aperture, or trapdoor, *tech opened into a cavity underneath. Thin cavity, surrounded en.tywhers with burning flames, was selected as the apartment that 1 was to occupy in making my exit from the perfidious De nison. The chances were gloomy in the extreme. O'N. havicg forced the trap-door, he launched me into the cavern beneath it. Ile then closed the trap-door, and directly filled the entire space with coals. I was thus ensconsed in a compartment about seven feet in length, three in width, and two in height; and by its formation I was obliged to lie in a recumbent pos ture. It being lined on all aides with sheet iron, when the furnaces came to blaze in full strength, the heat and want of air made the den very insupportable. I dreaded instant death by suffocation or apoplexy. The ordeal, too, was ter nbly tedious. After about an hour, O'N. dreading fatal consequence:, caused water to be pumped into my dungeon, by means of an opening in the ship's keel. I was then placed between the two great element., fire and water, saturated from head to foot with water, while fire raged all around me. The police search occupied two hours, after which O'N. opened the trap door and helped me into the coal recess, from whence he brought one to the engine room. I was greatly exhausted, but soon rallied. Thus ended the police search at Launceston ; but, on reaching George's Town Heads, being 40 miles down the river, O'N. informed me that I should again conceal my self in the tome place teat I had just been in, as the search in George's Town for prisoners was even more rigorous than at Launceston. The anticipation of the second life or , death ordeal made me very uucamfortable, and I looked forward to it with much anxiety. Having arrived at George's Town, I was again removed to the fiery dungeon, where I was kept three hours, while search was made ; and my escape was indeed very narrow, far the place set apart for Soils over my head was searched closely by the police ecestables. I was now again placed in O'N.'s berth, where I remained from Monday evemeg until Wednesday at noon, when we reached Melbourne Wharf. On arriving at Williamstown Harbour the previous night there was a strict police search ; but I lay undiscovered in my berth. Immediately on cast ing anchor at Melbourne, on Wednesday, the 22nd Decem ber, Messrs. J. L., 8., and D.—tbree men who were aware of my contemplated escape—came aboard ; and it was de termined I should walk ashore just as I was, cheesed in an old blue troweers and check shirt, black, and greasy, and haggard as any fireman could look. The quay was crowded with people, and among them a large sprinkling of police and detectives, horse and foot. My friends stepped ashore and carelessly walked on. I followed in their steps, and in a few minutes they entered a friend's house, where I also entered. After having had a little refreshment, my friends procured a vehicle drawn by a fine spirited horse ; and myself and D., B. and L. drove off at a gallant rate to the massien of Mr. Michael L., the brother. in-law of Mr. M., Am Soar miles beyond Melbourne. I remained at Mr. L.'s during Wednesday night; and on Friday morning, the 24th of December, Mr. P. C. and Mr. Fitz, of Melbourne, having visited and consulted with me ea the previous evening, it was deemed advisable, for my batter security, to remove a long distance from Melbourne, to a secluded and remote part of the forest bordering on the sea shoe ;' and that I should remain ~there until a vessel was procured to convey me to America. A part of Port The morning of Tuesday, the Bth February, was fixed for Philip headland, on one of the solitary beaches of Hebson'e the Oberon to sail out of Sydney harbour. On the pre- Bay, was therefore selected as my rendezvous for the pre. viola evening Messrs. Ho-:k--s, Cl—r—y, and K*-I—y, sent. called to apprise me of the management, and to tell me Mr. O'Donoghste then describes his residence in a place that Messrs. Mac Jr. and Mr. Co—y would be with me at of retirement for a few days, and then the receipt of a 3 o'clock next mooning, to convey me by a circuitous route =Nage informing him that a passage is taken for him in to one of the coves near the mouth of the harbour. This the earl of Lincoln, bound for South America. He rode was glad tidings ; the lingering delays and numerous dis els Willialelltaws, three miles from Melbourne, where his appointments I had already experienced—the loss of repose and watchful anxiety I had undergone—were all calculated *41..11s Imill mob every preparation for his outfit. He then glieeeleiet—"We reached the ship at four o'clock in the to affect my health, and I found my physical energies oudistthe captain was absent, no one could tell where. much impaired, and my mind reduced to a state of painful Mr. D. an d Charl e s G. returned to Melbourne. Mr. Jehn irritability. The apprehension of arrest, and the degrade , - lion and shame of being dragged beck in chains to Van L. and another gentleman remained for hours with me-- Diemen's Land, there to abide the merciless sentenes el they then went ashore tit @earth of the captain. I was then close in a state of great anxiety and continued illness. The the cruel and unjust Denison, pressed so heavily up -a , bat sad 'mad mates and the doctor seemed dis- my imagination, that day and night Port Arthur, chain- agreeable fellows, and the entire crew were in con- gangs and gibbets—the governor and hie ruthless Comp fusion and disorder. At six o'clock in the evening troller, Hampton—haunted use like spectres ; while shrieks 1 the ca pt a i n e l ms on board—be was quite drunk, He of innocent victims seemed to reach heaven as they boy- , immediately asked me if I had my 'police clear- end around their blood-stained track. To be released IMO ?' I answered in the negative, and inquired of from such a terrible state of suspense was the realisation Um it the ship's agents had not received forty pounds for of a desire quite indescribable. With what proud mg sa to Callao, and if he had not received himself one emotions, therefore, did my heart thrill when my dif y pounds for procuring my "clearance," friends announced to me the near approach of my ' or stowing me away ? He replied in the affirmative ,• but deliverance ! Messrs. 11—k—s and Cl—y remained with stated his inability to obtain a clearance. I was now placed me that night, and at three o'clock next morning Messrs. in a sad position, for the rumour had spread that I had es- Cb—y and Mac— arrived. Bidding my kind landlord good aped from Van Diemen's Land, and the police were on the bye, our little party started. We walked about two miles alert an pursuit of me, snd if betrayed, they might have through the bush, and we came te a secluded point of the readily arrested me on board. It war the last day of the road to Sydney, where we were met by a carriage, into year 1852, and the captain and his officers Defile/ which Messrs. Mac, Co—y, Cle—y, Ho—k—s and myself all Welchmen, they fi nished the old year an entered, and drove away at a spanking gait till we reached ushered in the new, with drunkenness, elegies, our destination on the beach, where we arrived at five o'clock. Here we left the carriage, and the driver was dis swearing, and blaekguarding. I slept none, and in missed. We.bad been there about half an hour when a the morning being New Year's day, 18.53, I requested the captain to go to Melbourne and carry a letter to my boat have in sight, plied by a famous waterman, who pulled two oars. Messrs. Mac and Co—y had instructed the see the commission, and proceeded in his own gig boat. While terman on the previous evening to meet us, and he was he was away, G. D. came on board to bid me good bye, punctual to time and place. He was now alongside, and thinking all was then arranged for my soiling. lie pre- we all entered the boat, and, after sailing three or four seated me with a purse of one hundred sovereigns, which miles toward the mouth of the harbour, we descried the cut he told me he was authorised to hand me by my Mel. ter beating down the river, and after a short delay the was bourne friends. On telling him of my unfortunate _pre- beside us. We went immediately on board, and, after a dicament, he went ashore in pursuit of the captain. Two cup of coffee, my friends took their farewell and retained wor n . to Sydney in the boat, leaving ate to the care of Captain hours afterward the captain returned in his boat, ponied by D. in another boat. The captain war again half Tr—e—t and Mr. Co—r —n, who remained on board to pilot drunk, and had never delivered my letter, nor made any the cutter outside the headlands of Port Jackson. further progress in the matter. Mr. D. considered it It was in the afternoon of Sunday, the 3d of April, that prudent for me to remain longer on bard; whereupon we cast anchor at Tahiti, immediately after which I went I demanded of the captain to deliver up the one ashore, and waited on Captain Kelly, the American Consu hundred and fifty pounds paid to him, which, after late, at his private residence. I stated to him the particular , slight hesitation, he gave up, but declared the circumstances in which I was placed—satisfied him of my other forty pounds forfeited ; and D. entered his identity as one of the Irish rebels of 1818—and requested boat. Bat an awkward occurrence arose—the boat- that he would afford me the protection of the American , man wanted to call to a Melbourne steamer which lay along- flag. He • received roe with great urbanity, and without side the Great Britain steamer, discharging into the latter hesitation placed me under the protection of his flag, and passengees and baggage. All remonstrances and entreaty of the American Government, so far as he was em were useless; they pulled across the harbour, and we got powered to do so by virtue of his office. He informed use lon board the Melbourne steamer. It was crowded with po- that there was a British Consul, Mr. Miller, residing in Ta licemen, searching every crevice. I wore a blue monkey hiti, and, to avoid collision, he advised that I should remain jacket and sou'wester, and passed unnoticed. We were incognito during' my stay at Tahiti. I hail, since leaving detained two hours in this situation, when the Melbourne Van Diemen's Land, assumed the soubriquet ofJohn Thomp steamer got under way, and we returned to the city. son, and Capt. Kelly now deemed it prudent that I should We arrived at the city wharf at 5 o'clock, and pro- continue to use my assumed name. There were thirteen 1 needed through the public streets on foot to the ll vessels lying at anchor, two or three bound for American li—. The hazard of arrest which I had undergone pars by way of Cape Horn, but none of them likely to during the last thirty-six hours was great indeed, and all sail for some months, and Capt. Kelly informed me that it present prospect of escape seemed frustrated. In a was necessary I should obtain a passport from the French short time Mr. O'S. called upon me. Means. J. L., M. L., Commissariat of Police, authorising me to 'remain ashore. O'N., G—g, (21—n, H—n, D—y, D ---g, two He accordingly wrote a letter to the proper authorities on Mr. B—'e, K —r, Alderman C. D—n, H—y, Me my behalf, and making himself responsible for me, upon Cormack, and others, also visited me. Various plans of • the presentation of which I was furalshed with thu nem , campe were sogrested and discussed, but none determined 1 airy passport. Captain Kelly apologised for not being upon. It was however resolved that I should remain able to accontmadete Inc at his estahlisemeut during . my closeted at Mr. Fitz---'s that night and next day. On 1 stay at Tahiti, but every room was occupied by American ftunday, the 2nd Julien% my friends again all colleeted riptains of vesicle in harbour ; however, he sent for the around :no, and the day passed off in agreeable chat and proprietor of the Washington Hotel, and gave me in I pleasantry. My friend Mr. O's. is in himself a hest, and is charge to him, with strict injunctions to make me COM the embodiment of a great find of wit, humour, and inform- tortilla. This courteous and kind reception by the repro. At daylight we proceeded to the beech, opposite Wil- liainrtown, where we met Mr. Mee., who had a boat in requi,ition. I shook Laad• will my friends and got ictn the beat with McC. We were soon alongside the sh'p, and an going on deck we found the pilot an, eaptein. the Isttir teen positively said he soul,: nut t ‘lse me as a cuainau, nor without a " police clearance." This was the most start ling news I had vet heard, as the pilot on board, being a p. , lice searching °nicer, bad power to arrist me. While in a sort of stupelaetLa I ha-tilled over the ship'. side, gained the boat, :nu with MX. rowed whore. It was now six o'clock, and I had again to walk the public streets of 31elb ',urea through police and people. I did so, and arrived at the Melbourne Motel. These were a series of hairbreadth escapes that disheartened me very much. My friends again rallied abut me, and it was resolved to remove me to the residence of Mr. P., residing about twelve miles from !sh lhourne, for safety. On the evening of 'furs 'ny, the 4th January, Mr. X. drove me in his gig t M c. P.'s horse. Fr tha t h until Saturday, the 8:h 'smeary, I stayed at Mr. P.'a residence. _ _ At the end of four days Mr. O'S. announced that he hod tailed in hls t fforts to pri mire a eneaage for me to Aineric.:, but that he Lad arranged for 'my proceeding to Sydney, where favourable opportunities migh: present themselves for my escape to {DIU^ free country. I consented to this arrangement, and on Saturday. the Bth January, Mr. K. I drove me to the suburbs of Melbourne in his gig. At nine o'clock in the evening I bid may friends fartw - ell steompanied by Mr. O'S— anal Mr. Da— I Da--y orecteded to the wh.,:t. where we met Capt T—, and Mr. , and bidding good-bye to my two devoted comp- , nims, I sae-sped on board the packet. Here I was des- tined to undergo avather mortifying delay. Such was tilt. hustle GI Lc/sines' and the demand tor steamboats at Mel bourne, that our captain ceuld net obtain a Menace to tow us down the river, and the dull, shygish waters of the rivf r, coupled with n dead calm, left ua :sing in the river from Sunday night till the following Saturday before we could preceed as tar as the harbour of Williamstown. During this period I was cmcealed in the hold of the ship day and Mahe., without light or air, and having got to Williamstown on Saturday, the moths r vigilant pa- I:ce search was made ; but I was screened and covered up mnong the ship's cargo, and elle Tel notice. Hay ing at length got under way, we had fine weather and a ph:talent passage along the co tat of New Ile/eland, and entered the magnificent har- , hour of Port Jackson at 9 o'clock on Friday night, the 21st. Nothing could exceed the gentlemanlike conduct and ath ntien of Capt. T—d ; he is indeed a gallant young skipper. On coating anchor, the captain ordered his boat and put ashore, accompanied by Mr. rum Campbell, of Sydney, and myself. ' It was near 11 o'clock when the captain landed me. All the hotels and houses of entertainment were closed; we made several ineffectual attempt: to obtain lodgings for the night ; the captain sent his sextant to endeavour to procure private lodging., but in v.tin. At length we called at a tavern kept by Mr. Pre—t, in Georges-street, and he con sented to let me have a bed. I soon perceived that mine host was a warm-hearted Irishman, and I disclosed to him who I was ; he thereupon brought to my beiside a brace of pistols, and sat up all night, keeping watch, and offered to drive me in hie gig next day thirty red:es off, out of the reach of the police. This IWU obliged to decline, hav ing appointed with Captain T— to meet him next morn ing. At 10 o'clock on the morning of Saturday, 22nd of January, Capt. T— called upon me and brought me to the offices of his owner, and my great friend and bene factor, Mr. Macti,—, ship-owner and merchant, where I met Mr. Mac—, who introduced me to Mr. Co—v—y, ono of the most affluent merchants, and certainly one of Lie most unassuming and devoted irishmen I ever had the honour to be acquainted with. Hero also I met my trusty and unvarying friend, Mr. Thomas Ho—k —a, together with Mr. Mac--'s fine young son, Mr. Cl—y, and others. These gentlemen had already anticipated my wishes, and had pro vided that I should take up my temporary residence at a secluded spot, he abode of a gardener, Mr. W--h, from Hathkeale, county Limerick, situate nbout four miles hem Sydney, near the beach, outside Port Jackson, and within sight of the ;far-famed Homny Bay. After a short con versation, a carriage was sent for, and accompanied by Mr. Walsh, I drove off to his house. Here I remained until the Bth of February, a period of 17 days, and was treated with the utmost confidence by himself and kis very attentive good wife. From the moment of my arrival in Sydney, these gentlemen were incessant in their endeavours to procure for use a passage to America. At length a small cutter, the Oberon, of 35 tons, was about to sail on a trading voyage to the islands in the South Seas, in quest of tortoise alleles. Mr. Co—r—n was joint owner with two others, namely, Mr. Tr—u—t, the captain of her, and a Mr. Da —n, both Englishmen. A negotiation was opened with the two latter, and through the influence of Mr. Ce—r—n, Messrs. MacN—, Co—v—y, and ' Ho—k—e, and who had agreed to pay a sum of 4001. to Tr —u—t and ll—n (Mr. Ca—r —n, the third partner, having most generously sacrificed his proportion of it.) They consented to convey me in the Oberon cutter to Tahiti, it being an island under the protectorate of the French. This was a monstrous demand, as it did not delay the gutter in her trading excursion more than thirty days. However, it was a bribo extorted by two sordid Englishmen, and my friends, with generous munificence, paid the exorbitant demand. During my concealment at Walsh's house the newspapers of the colony teemed with rumours about my escape, and the police and their spies were everywhere on the alert, which made my situation very perilous; especially as I had been under arms ever since my escape from Laun ceston, for which Sir Wm. Denison would have had me hanged, according to the custom in such cues made and provided for all prisoners of the Crown in Van Diemen's Land. eentative r rthe. A.ueti.:.:n peer:tow:it ins! ire 1 we with net► confidence. It was now one hundred and five days s:ac , I escaped fr .111 L. 11111.: . S:UU. (NT iT :eh 110ri..1 1 surf. :‘,l great privations, and tic feu-use heat of toe .itus ..e of Tahiti soon pew:awed a sassaile charge for in,, , 7,111‘ ili flle gene ra health; languor. extreme debEity, awl '..ts of appetite, rendered ma Tate prostrate. Lt.sidin, my ataiety was not altogether allayed, because is the event et Op, British Consul getting information repecting my ideality, it was probable he would call upon the French gee, ewe of the Island to place me under arrest, and, in such case, it was dal" •ult to foresee what would be the c ti- , ,pa•nre. It is true I had my gallant friend Captain Kt ily to c.iald me„ still the question would, in all probability have • rempi.d a good deal of negotiation between England and France, and meanwhile 1 migat have been detained in custody. These considerations weighed heathy upon me, and I wistfully gazed on ev,vy sail that entered in the harbour iu tne hope of speedy release. At length the barque Otranto, an Americin tliio, Capt. Kendrick, cast her anchor. She was on a tridina voyage from San Francisco to the Society Islanis, and had mos: of her cargo of °earl..., pies, goats, and e" c t../.* Ay on tr,r,l. She was not lice minutes in h . :el-1r C t:*.vn Kelly seat a confidential gentleman (Mr. Adams ••ft board e e t t o sa w i r o " l d pi o i :i f r o l e ; r r pa ss ag e aCi i o g h n t2 a e l d: s t W' t i t il i ta o rt com plete h mo iu b d s ot liheSec (Emit; la vessel he t! i l 7 a rho 14 ihiconuAhd'rrhriaccilakt.. it If rk , .Inly i miles , "istaur ' and he prom% I t., rf :usu fot Aeeorlinky, em Wednesday, the 27th Ar-i', he re , turned, and I kit Tahiti and crossed over with the captnih is a whale-boat. After a dreary voyage I reached the free sail of t!e ...ea ten' republic ou Wednesday, the 22n1 Jahn, 1853, with a light heart, and in pm feet health, after having L,en alto srther 184 ling in etll.2ting my err :e, ciunputirg Crone the day I left Van Diemen's Land until I strived at SEA Francisco. NAVAL. DEVortronT, AmusT 7.--The Queen, Captain F. T. Michel, was paid wages ma Thursdy, and inspected by Admiral J. A. Onsmaurry, and sailed an Friday tor Spit head. The Avn, steam-tender, Moshe Commander Vietch, havicg couveycel the furniture of .I.linir4l sis to Portsmouth, returned to her ar,orings Lieu en Friday. The Terrible (steamer), milt:don Weein,!Alcy, for Falmouth to take on board Wine men waiting f 4• her tnere, and thence proceeded to Spithead. The Spright:y (.:earn tender), arrived on Thurmay, with gun-, f:ori Portnnou'h. The Rechester •,o Wtd neday, with stores from Pembroke, end on lour•.::ty ;he Comet arrived with stores from Pembrt k,•. fhe :,*. Jean trAcie and Sybello were hauled elf the u r, in and on liturs day, and placed at mooring*. It is hoped to get :Le St. tre4t. &Acre ready to joiu the flat at Sp::::ead in a t...y or two. CLERICAL. lltk VERMENTS. Rey. W. F. Kaye, M.A Rector of Alseholnr., to ba Chaplain to the 13. shop of itos. J. W. Le.tor, to the Incumbency of Ashton If.iyo, near Chester. Rev. B. A. Marshall, 8.A., to the Incumbency of St. Cuthbert's. Carlisle; patrons, the Dian :opt Chapter. Itev..l. Moore-. M.A . to the Rectory ui lietverstune, war Thetford, Norfolk. 11ev. J. H. Noyes, M.A , to the C..:acy cf Al: Saints Church, Stamford. Rev. H. A. Plow, M.A., to the Incumhen7 of Weilil. to be held with the Rectory of Bradley, liantrshire. Hes. H. M. Sorley, M.A., to the Claipl.iincy of her Ma jesty's store ship Tortoise, at the island of MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER. A coroner's inquest was held on Friday, at Liverpool. upon the body of an infant, the ninth child of a an 'Tried woman, named Roukiuson. The nature of the case is fully displayed in the following evidence : John Ikelkinson deposed-1 am a brewer (monocrat for Mr. Copeland), and reside at No. 21, Rigby street. The deceit-eel, whose name was William Rod kinson, was my son. lie was teem weeks old. The prisoner is my wife. We have had eight chid ircn, three of whom are dead. About five minutes rut siz o'clock yesterday morning I got up, and left the prisoner is bed, anti the deceased with her. Another little child, three years old, was in the same room, in another bed. Flu night before the occurrence the prisoner ate a very hearty supper, and appeared all right then, and we went to bed. During the night she (his wife) awoke me and tail she MU dying, and desired me to veil up the children. I did to, and sent for a doctor. lie ordered some brandy, which was given, and she came round. I returced to bed, had a nap,,awelre re Biz o'clock, when Igo: up. The prisoner then appeared quite rational, only comelained of a headache. I went down into the kitchen to wash my self, at.il, whilst doing eo, I heard my daughter screaming out " father !" and also • woman named Kenyee, who lodges in my Louse, screaming. I immediately ran up stairs; and, on going into our bedroom, I saw my :little child's throat cut. Ile appeared to bo dead, and wi.s lying on the floor. The prisoner was standing on the floor, in her night dress. She had a knife in her baud (the cum pro duced, an ordinary table knife, and not the leak.: stained with blood), which she threw under the bed. As I was going up stairs, I met nay daughter and Mrs. Kenyon coin ing down. I got hold of the prlienier, and held her, and asked her what she had been doing. She made nu reply, but asked me to let her go, and etruirgled with me. I told my daughter to run fur a doctor, and whilst I was holding the prisoner ho came. The prise nor re.id to the doctor that she had done it, and that Mrs. Kenyon had persuaded her to do it the day before, and had sharpened the knife for her, and that Richard (Mrs. Kenyon 's husband) would take it to the brewery, and get quit of it. A policeman was called in and the prisoner taken into custody. About fourteen or fifteen years ago the prisoner was very ill, after her conficercent. She was then quite out of her mind, and was so for about thirteen weeks. At this time she had two women to watch her. She got better, and I never saw her in the some way again after any other confinement. She got over the last confinement very well, and I did not perct iv, any thin; in her manner to lead me to think she was going to have an attack like the first. The prisoner was told by the coroner that she might ask the witness any questions she pleased, but she declined, saying, " No; it's all right." Jane Kenyon was the next witness examined. She said— I am the wife of Richard Kenyon. We lodged in the Wise of the last witness. Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, 1 was awakened by the daughter of the prisoner ealiing me to come to her. I got up and went to her in the bed-room of the prisoner. Her husband was holding her, and she said she was dying. and that the baby beside her had been dead for some time. I lifted the baby up, but he was fast asleep, and appeared quite well. I caid to the prisoner, " Don't get such foolish thoughts into your head—the baby is here.' I took the deceased downstairs, and gave him some food. I then returned to the rcoin of the prisoner, and found that the doctor was with her. She could not speak, and appeared to he in a fit. She got better, and about three o'clock I returned to bed. My husband went out about five o'clock. About a quarter to seven I heard the prisoner's daughter call out, " Mrs. Ken yon, my mother wants you." I went into the prisoner's room. She met me near the door, with the knife n,w pro duced in her hand. She said, " See what I have done :it will be no mere hungered." I saw the child on the door, in a pool of blood, and I saw that his throat was cut. I shrieked, and rushed down stairs. I have known the prisoner for about fourteen months, and during that time 1 'never saw anything in her manner or conduct to ad me to think that she was out of her mind ; but I thought the ap peared rather low at times. Hannah Hodkinson deposed—l am the daughter of John Hodkinson, and am fifteen years of age. The night before last I went to bed about nine o'clock. I slept in the same room with my father and mother. 1 slept in a bed with a younger sister. My father and mother came at the sante time. My mother then appeared very well. During the night I was awoke by hearing my mother saying that she was ill. I got up and lighted a candle, and then went back to bed and fell asleep. I got up about eight. My father had then gone down stairs. My mother was then awake, and was giving the desessed the breast. I told her I would go down and make some "pobbies" for the baby, and my mother said " Very well." I was only down stairs about ten minutes, andon my return to the bed-room I saw the baby on the fieor with his throat cut. My mother was standing on the floor. She had a knife in her hand. I asked her what she had done it for, but she did not say any thing. Dr. William Thorbum examined—l was sent for about seven o'clock. There was nothing stated, but I think I was called to see the mother. I found the prisoner in bed, and her husband holding her down, in a state of great ex citement. The child was on the floor, lying in a pool of blood, with the head nearly separated from the body. The mother (the prisoner) owned immediately that "she had done it," and she was labouring nadir the delusion that her family would come to want, and she would destroy them. The Coroner—Did she use the word delusion il;:iiiorl;Orniteaaiiihrtshereir,.tterdhat she had not destroyed all the other children ; that she would have done so if she could have caught them. She repeatedly owned that she felt no regret at what she had already done; that they would all come to wont, and, therefore, she would destroy them. The Coroner—When you saw her, did you think thnt she was out of her mird ? Dr. Therburn—No ; I think not at that time, neither is she now. In answer to a question from the coroner, Dr. Thorburu said that death must have been instantanems. The Coroner—Where did you find tke knife > Dr. Thorburn—lt was lying upon the floor, and was covered with blood. Afterwards I gave it to the police•otficer. (The knife was lying on the table, perfectly polished ] Coroner—Who cleaned the knife ? Dr. Thorburn —The girl. She asked if she might clean the floor, and I said she could, and, on turning round, I found that she bad cleaned the knife also. The Coroner (to the husband of the prisoner)-1111 ycu oectsion to use a knife in the heroom ? Witness—No, sir. Coroner—Theo you don't know how she got posses,icn of it? _ . Witness - Yoe there were fa, linirci out of hiP-a diren that we did not use. The C,roner milled upon the prisoner, f she could, to produce any witnemsa Inter behalf. She declined to do so, and then the Cur finer summed up the evidence. and the jut) icuoil a yeriii.it of " Wilful murder. The l'rrentr was Ilia committed. ~~