The Express. — London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

TILE DUKE'S FUNERAL. OFFICIAL PROGRAMM OE. OF THE PRO CESS The full,ming 6 the Official Programme, as is ha; boo o ,,Jigeti, for the prih:ordiog to St. Paul's Cathedral : Sin battalions of Infantry of 600 man each. Eotht Squadroas of Cavalry. A D.....acitnitut LA Foot Artilh ry with 17 gnu. .t Det.teltatent lion* Artillery. A watt:taunt of Ilona Artillery with Niue-pound( r Datterios. Mushalsoien on Foot. DI. tr ngt r the College of Ann% on Foot. Cooduetora with Staves ea Foot. Chelsi• FeruiJners is numb( r viglity.thret. Trumpets aad Kittle Drums. Two Faimuiants of Arms in a Mourning Coach. The Standard of Poston, earticd by a Lieut.-Colonel, eapported by two Captains In . . t►e stripy on Horseback. &resists of the Deseas"l. Tnunprts. Leutel....nt mid I). putt lieutenant of the Tower. Deputation. from Publie Bodies: Merehnot Tailors' Company. India Company. Corpormion of the Trinity Howie. Baron and Odieers of the Cinque Porto. With dm Lieutenant and Depot) .Lieutenant or Dover Cutle. Captains of Deal. W.llmer, Sandgate, and Bandown Castles. - . BO&Til of Ordnance, and Ordnance Department. Doleg ition from tho Unit natty of Osford. Deputation from the Common Council of the City of London [After the l'rocussion hen p.is.e.l through Tropic,. bar. will ' ' fall in herr] inonixts. Two rursuivants of Arras in a Mourning Coach. The Guidon, c05.,1 by a L ,ut •Calomat, supported by two Captains in the Amy ou llorssbar.k. ~.eians to the deceased, t of the• Tower, la a Mournin Ceaeb. Chai lain U. nor,' of the Forces, Attendant* on the Itidy at the Lying in State. II sa Sheriff of tee County of Southamptsa. swan of Loadon. lumen an 3 Recorder of London; a Deputation eau- .:s:gog of Three Carriages. the Order of the Bath, re2resented by three. En.ghtsC. , uonanders of the Order of the Bath, represented by three. Ea.,:hts Grar.,l Creole of the Order of the Bath, represented " -• by three. Trumpets. Herald. Thinner of Wellesley, Carried by a Lient.-Coloml, supported by two Captaima in the Army on Horseback. t):liecrs of the late Hiles Household with Staves. The Lords Justices of Appeal. Master of the Rolls. Chief Baron of the Exchequer. thief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Chaaeellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Rght lion. the Secretary-at-War. The 'light Hon. the Judge Advocate-General. Setoromies of State under the degree of a Baron. [Speaker of the House of Commons, if with the Mouse.] Barons. Bishops. Viscounts. Euls. Marquesses. Dukes. First Lorl Commissioner of her Majesty's Treasury. E.al Marshal of England. Lord Great Chamberlain. Lord Privy Seal. Lord President of the Conseil. Lord Archbishop of York. Lord High Chancellor. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. lit Temple-bar the Lord Mayor, armies the City Sword, will join in the prommisa.] Me Royal Highs's' Pi ALasar, attended by . Assistant Quarter- Aastatant MasterDrusrut. Adjataist-Oeuerid. 8 s Aide-de Camp to Aido-sia-Camp to r, as Deceased. A* Deceased. Deputy Quarter-Mautar- Deputy Adjutant ffi Lienend. General. Quartet•Master-Grearal- Adjutaati-Oessrel. Four Trumpets: Sorgesat Trompeter. Benld. The Great Basset, Carried by a Colonel, 9upported bytwel on Horsebeek. [ltem on reachieg the Cathedral the Disaitatiee of the Church, meeting the Body at the Weft Beer, fell The Span bores by Took Nadi Ile Helmet sad Cent borne by Itkiberead Real& The Sword wad Target bane by Lasesatee The &meat bone by Chester Ewald. Kerrey Lbeg-of-Arne. Foreign Betas& Airdrie. Hesever. Netherleadv. Prank. PorteseL Baetis. - At Baton of tae Deteral, w is Field Karobal, berm as • Black Vibe( Cambia. is • Ilessidai Ce•ob, by the Marquis of Angs•••y. flo Croat; of tie Dioraord G+atlesaa boom co a Wank Velvet Coals. Goatlinsaa Caber. in a Maassiag Cork by Cis- Leber. mans, Kiss of Ansa 1. 91 el The Pell Natifi, Bight Gesnel °Mem, in 'Laurette' Caliche'. GenUniem Vohs:. p: o 1 0 . Fir darter Prise pal King of Os:ileum Anna, is a Moaning Coach. Usher. THE CHIEF MOURNER, Eopptcrter. In a long Mutinies Cloak, Supperter, His Train borne by Amietants to the Chief Mourner. Bunton. Editions and Friends of the Deemed. The late Duke's Hone kd by a Groom. Mere and Iles front every Regiminit in the Berries; with Bands, representing every suck Regiment. Carriages of the Queen and of lb. Royal Family. Troops to ekes the Profusion. THE FUNERAL CAR. The main festers of the procession will of MINI be Am ear on which the body is serried. On the occasion of Ndese's !usual the vehicle used for this purpose was a nem un sightly affair, but we live in times whoa the laws of twee can no longer be outraged with . The lard Cham berlain, probably us the Ys Boyd arm Prime Albert, applie Mi n t point to the depuftent of pwsYwT Art at Marl borough.house. Accordingly, a dodos fee a faunal au hat been furnished, u we have beim Mated, anise the joint direction of Mr. Cole sad Ma 11101 grays of which the country need not feel adiamed. The priLti which it has been formed will hardly be any one, the object having bees to irombute* grandeur of effect with a milleary eherader, ==lllo 111! tempt making the car myth*/ sweeps what law piled out. It will be strictly a teased ow, mid weS4ll _dies es biases the • Sississe — Twilitliq OA Or sm se . ratite, and ealleleally hap to have awned awl kiwi/ effect. MOW being toe aawiddy fir lassefigs ilurYwthig haw wwithEl be nib* biese, Xf bet kag; and 10 feet Mead. .1* who* ea& Se sidle ekiswili ontaratted. Affignaees have bees received beth tees Diradeghwa awl libeS(l4 that the week sea be augolstell is time, bat the short spat remaining he megkg am a Set! the kind is a Suifilallar IMMlllikable the trial activity of the easily. Ahon the brume treatawark, which, apart hes erbdb, essiwwhat in outline a railway trunk, due a poilsest, the Ake of which are to be rie_tdy gilded sad iswedorith flask iwwhia the emu of the Dales thief akimbo se le le imeibei The silks and awls of this leaned will be sonesestoil with four militia, Marbles, two of Wen tenaluating is tbe ducal somas% and all twanged so ei to prodase a may striking sleet Above tbs Wham* will reel Ashler, severed will • maldlissat pall, 'Ma is to bate a dives Map Mn belie Imp, sad to be powdered with ersamesta la W• same metai r , 011ailafillg of the dulte's ergot, alternated with e.eed bataa 4 saelosed in a circle. On the bier wiU be *led the covered with crimson velvet, sad baldly the want tap sit the deemed above it. The while will be eurlasantod Ly a light but megailleent esoopy of shah of silver sad sold, roe ht on the patties of obi Piths splendid InamiXinkholos mat to the Great Eakihi lion, and supported M the War MMUS by halberts. The cu will be draws W 12 bones, three abreast, and eldest. dilly caparisoned. Sass idea may be formed of its size, ' when we state that It will just team room to pass through Temple-bar, and will be 11 feet in height. '1 brie are the leading features of the design as it as present stands, but the detail, have not yet been thistly settled, nod it is pro bable that they may undergo considerable alterations and itnprlvetctuts. As already Matta, the procession will be formed when the body arrives at A,isley.lioute, and for this purpose the proximity of the park w4l be turned to account, that the marshalling may be stfuted in due order aml with oat any confusion. ST. PAUL'S. Within the Cathedral fur theitst few days W. Cubitt and Co., of Gray's tan lane, the contractors for the Board of Works, have bees carry.tig out the most intensive pre parations for the funeral. hind down the nave from the grain western cutr.ince has been kept entirely clear for the pagans of the ctief,.99, but, on either side of this, immense platforms of Tillftl watt stretch away to the sides of th , sacred edifice, and over the entrance and at the ends of thu transept, wineries are in.course of con struction, which will hold a prodigious number of spec tators. „tens of black cloth will be required to cover the amount of woodwork, which has been run up with a degree of strength and despatch very creditable to the contractors. Upwards of 300 hands are em- played day and sight in carrying out the annarmenta, which pewit^ to be of the must complete and satisfactory deacriptson. Beneath the lofty dome a space oval iu form ►ts been reserved for the sous' duties of the in terment, and it is intend( d that the et,tho should be lower"! down it.to the vault benisth by inacbinery, just ea at Nelson's tui.eral. Last *riming the fleet general ezperimeat was made in St. Paul's, before Lord ;John Manners and a party of official genturnen ef the Board of Woods and Work, of the effect of the gas arrangements within the edifice. The gas is thrown downward from near the roof throughout the en tire length of the cathedral, springing in one continuous chain from the cornices on both sides of the centre aisle, around the basement of the whispering gallery and along the choir. The appearance is that of • beautifid beading, giving that dim religious light to the nave and aisles so aprropriate to the cathedral and the solemnity of a grand funeral. The experiments were under the direction of Mr. UoWing, of Messrs. W. Cubitt . a establishment. It is satisfactory to Lauer that the execution of the ar rangements coast end with this important event have been entrustel to two such long, stablished sod eminent firms as I th',e of Ranting, in St. Jaines'a.street, and of l)owbi,.gin and Holland, in Mount street. The former hate bad the management of state funerals entrusted to them for an immemorial period, sod they had, therefore, nearly a prescript:re right to furnish forth the processioa and pre pare the cathedral. The latter were the Duke's uphol sterer's, and have properly had the lying in state placed in their hands to conduct. flier° will be at keit 40 mounting-coulee, all coveted with black velvet, end powdered with silver ornaments. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1852. MR. BRIGHT ON THE IRISH CHURCH REVENUES. PROVINCIAL CEMETERIES.- INTENTIONS OF THE GOVAHNMENT. The following correspondence has taken place be tweet' H. J. Davis, Bag, 31a) or of Newport, and the General Board of Health : thaw i. Doily Rosa) Ma. BRIOHT's Letter un the Irish Church is likely to occasion much excitement amongst both the de fenders and the opponents of that stupendous ini quity. So complete is the recognition that the thing as it stands now is an iniquity, that the letter writer does not feel it necessary to bring forward , any arguments to prove thin, and his opponents do not dream of denying it. The Irish Church is in the position of the Rois Faineans of the MEROVINCHAN race in France, who were universally recognised as an evil, but who maintained their position simply because, before an experiment was made, no one could c alculate the consequences of getting rid of them. This is the prime difficulty which stands in the way of any reformation of the Irish Church. Its Inefficiency tor religious purposes has never been denied, even by its most enthusiastic supporters. The demoralising effects upon its own clergy are matters of universal notoriety. If any additional proof of this was needed, it has becu furnished by the "Letters from Ireland" lately published in this paper, from t he pen of a popular and philosophical writer. In too many instnueeq, the English cler gyman preferred to an Irish thing, although ani mated at first by tho holiest zeal for the spiritual welfare of his parishioners, finds that he and they have no common ground on which they can meet ; that he must live in perpetual isolation from those about him; and that the bare proceeds of his living are all that he bag to fall back upon, as a consolat'on, amidst the "curses not loud but deep." which are muttered against him as a spiritual usurper. He is ashamed of his position; he feels its falsity; he is crushed with the persuasion of his utter useless ness; he knows that ho is a "shnin," and ho sinks but too often into a state, in which his only refuge from despair is sensual indulgence. These of our readcrs who rrused the " Letters from Ireland," already alluded to, will remember the fearful corro boration of this tact given by our correspondent. That the Irish Church, therefore, in its present unreformed and overgrown condition ' is an " iniquity " cannot be denied, and Mr. llama does not trouble himself to accumulate any proof on tho subject. He does, however, what is much better, he brings forward the testimony of two aristocratic Whigs, Lord JOHN Itrosem. and Lord Gary,—who will nut be accused, even by the most outrageous Tory, of a desire to revolutionise the Church—to show that the Irish Establishment is so great an anomaly that no ono unbiassed by prejudice can hope to preserve it us it is. Lord Joitr4, in 1843, expressed an opinion that the " Roman Catholic Church in Ireland should be placed on a footing of equality with the Established Church;" and Lord GREY ' in 1843, said, 0 I carry my views so far as to wish to sec the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church cake their places in this house on the episcopal bench." Considering the case us proved, Mr. lintoor then enunciates the details of the remedy. lie repudiates the ides of religious equality advocated by Lords GREY and RUSSELL. lie ems a practical and glaring inconsistency in the prospect of Protestant and Catholic bishops elbowing each other on the "right reverend bench, guarding the temporal and spiritual interests of two churches which denounce each other as heretical—and believes that a scheme of this sort will find no support in the opinion of the English public, except from that section with whom religiun goes for nothing, and churches and priests are tolerated as machinery in the pay and service of the government. Mr. Billow than proposes his own scheme of religious equality, the principle of which is that no Church shall in Ireland be in con nexion with the State. The question then would round . % what is to bo done with the funds; and here Mr. BBIGIIIT, as a practical reformer, is ready with his answer. lie proposes that a Church Property Commission should be estab lished for Ireland, and that this Commission shall hold in trust all the tithes and other property now held by the Established Church. This property produces about 600,0001. per annum, which at 20 years' purchase is worth ten millions sterling. The Commission is to be empowered and directed to ap propriate certain portions of this fund u a free gift to each of the three Churches in Ireland—to the Pro testant Episcopalian, to the Presbyterian, and to the Roman Catholic Church. From calculations given yesterday in our columns, Mr. BRIO= infers that a million of money bestowed on each of these three Churches would represent with tolerable accuracy the emelt that each could fairly claim es its share Is the proposed distribution. The re. =loin nun millions he would reserve for pur poses &idly Irish, and directed to the educational and maul Inireetion of the people, without reference to ekes at greet The fund should extend and per iled the sdasealseal institutions of the country ; it would —t ablidt and endow free libraries in all the chief towns of Ireland, and would dispense blessings in an _channels for the free and equal enjoyment of the elide population. Very 11111111 say be said in favour of a scheme of this kind. &von millions of money, now paid away for services that are never performed, would be set free, and be ready for appropriation to pur poses of education. A vet mass of 7ofana sice,—ooossioned by the perpetual mockery of ' things holy,—would be abolished, an act of great national justice would be done, and the politiml at = mosphero would be purified. All these results might be anticipated, were it possible that such a measure could come into operation. But an Mr. 13/I.lolyr expect that it ever will come into operation? Has' the cleverness, and wo will say the justice, of his plan so dazzled his vision that he is unable to see its sm : practicability P Has he no visions of Protestant, Episoopalian, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic combining to denounce a plan which each tany con ' eider unholy P—the Established Church crying out against spoliation and desecration ; the Presbyterian echoing the latter cry at least; the Roman Catholic disdaining to receive from heretics a mere fraction of that—the whole of which—he amidst% his own by human and divine right ? " To eke General Board of Health. "Newport, Monmouthshire, Oct. 11, 1852. " Oentleman,—l take the liberty of calling your attention to the following. In this town there is but one burial ground connected with the Church of Hogland, which is full to overflowing, so much so that the remains of the dead are often disturbed before they are wholly decomposed. In Mr. Clarke's report to your Honourable Board, dated 24th October, 1819, pages 35, 38, te., your attention wee called to this matter as also to the crowded state of several burial pounds a attached to dissenting places of worship ; the Local of Health soon after sought a convenient spot for • cemetery, arranged with the owner for the purchase, and applied to you for advice as to the management and re gulation thereof, when you informed them that the law officen of the crown had advised that the Health of Towns Act did not give local boards sufficient rowers to purchase and make cemeteries, but you hoped that a bill would be brought into parliament for the purpose. Lest session paned away, and no act to meet the difficulty wee puled, the consequence is that the local beard has not com pleted the purchase of the ground. The churchyard, which in 1849 was so overcrowded that Mr. Clarke reported, 'the sooner it is closed the better,' is still the only consecrated ground for bnriol, whilst the population is increasing most rapidly. In 1831 it was 7,000 ; in 1811, 13,000 ; and iu 1851, nearly 20,000. The locomotive department of the South Wales Railway is to boo at Newport, which alone will probably add 1,000 souls to us neat year. And yet, with all th.s, end the rapid approach of the cholera, we know not what to do for a burial-Once. The Local Board of Health Is not only ready, but anxious, to provide one. Fourteen acres of lend, in a moat eligible place, are offered for the purpose. The price is agreed upon ; but the board's hands are tied. " Is this emergency I apply to you, on behalf of myself and fellow-townsmen, and beg and entreat of you to bring in a bOl in the coining section which shall enable beards of health to purcha.e land from cemeteries partly consecrated and partly unconsecrated, deal with vested end other rights, close all burial grounds which are full, and arrange the terms, fees, dm, connected therewith. " Trusting that my appeal will meet with a ready re sponse from you, I am. &c., " 11. J. Darts, Mayor of Newport." "To H. J. Davis, Esq., Mayor Of Newport. " Sir,—l am directed by the General Bowl of Health to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst., pressing upon the board the importance of providing in the ensuing session a legislative remedy for the evils arising tram the inability of local boards of health to close noxious burial place*, and to establish new public cemeteries; and in reply I am to inform you that the hoard are authorised to state, that her Msjesty's government entertain a hope of being able to introduce into parliament during the ap proachir.g session a mouure to facilitate tho creation of pro vincial cemeteries.—l am, &c., C. MACAULAY. SeCtetafT. . . . . The General Board of Health, Whitehall, October 20, 186 L" PERILS OF A SllROEON.—Yeaterday Mr. Wilkie' , held an inquest at the Duke of Clareuce, Great North- Street, Edgewaroroad, on Marian Jones, aged 46, who it was clearly proved committed suicide by swallowing oxalic avid. The surgeon who attended the deceased and made the port moment exminination by order of the coroner, mid that while he was performing his duty with his assistant is the presence of deceased's sister, the door, which was locked, was forced open by deceased's husband, who rushed frantically and swearing into the room. Defoe° they could be aware of his object the husband pushed witness and his assistant from the body, when he snatched up a part of the breast he was dissecting, the collar bone., and a portion of deceased's entrails, with which he darted down Stairs, and hsidiag Ikon in his hand commenced haranguing a sob et or hundred persons collected outside the beeies, ikelered that his wife was being butchered, and mad wet them to enter the house with him and avenge eutengs. After which he flung into the street and Beat the house portions of the body, which be believed ▪ reeesined uncollected. lie then rushed into the room where witness and his assistant were, when he attacked them in a most outrageous manner, tearing the clothes from their backs. Then seising cue of the dissecting knives, he drove witness against the wall, and drawing the knife weft his throat, exclaimed "Now, I'll murder you and year aseistest, and then I'll cut my own throat." lie was in the set of putting his threat into execution, when the people noshed from the street and dragged witness and his assistant ant of the house, but not before all their clothes were torn into shreds. Witness then got the assistance of the police, who secured the husband, who kept blaspheming, and exclaiming, "I'll murder him yet.": Witness then attempted to proceed with the autopsy, but found that hie instruments had been de stroyed, and thrown into the water closet. While the husband was ill-treating Weigand his assistant, the daughter, aged 16, was on her knees, imprecating the most awful curses upon them. Witness's hands were frightfully mangled while he was protecting his throat from being cut by the husband, and as the knife was covered with do oes*Nro blond and flesh, sometime would elapse before witness could be pronounced out of danger. The jury re turned a verdict in accordmiee with the evidence, and the violent widower was bound over to keep the peace towards the surgeon, undertaking also to snake good the lose of pro perty he had occasioned. SKELETONS NEAR KNAREABOROrGR. —Theignerrymsn employed in the limekiln, behind the house of Mr. - Pnllin, on Thistle-bill, near Knaresborough, were recently at work upon a stratum of limestone, about 27 feet below the mimes et dm MA when they were mach cur- prised at semia isr epos a emeiderable accumulation of large Irerethille• AM% valued with fine clay. On re these, the iismosee of the workmen was ia. sunned when they disarmed the skeletons of at lead sit et ems hems beige. that had been covered by the stems, sad whisk errs dee embedded in fine alluvial clay. The *Mb are of mime dimensimi, and the teeth it some of that fom am is whet pseasnistion. shady kJ& catiag that rmer swami podia is the mho* of life. Ore pair of Jaws is of a rather hminediee size; the teeth, which are small, white, and rages. 3111allt to be the meths of • young adult woman. No Mew of armour ef may desseiptha were found near the akeisemn The pe at depth at whisk the bones were lying does away with eh Mee tint the spot where they were found was used as a pissed fimml burial. Perhaps a guess may be risked as to the eisseminsees under which they Mee into so ea tralediesey a dinstion. Thistle-hill and many a mile =we' homely included in the w ild lams& elKeines the resist and refuge of outlaws and ether demo rate am whe liammives dwelt is deal and eaves el the send mud eavedeedly drove the victims et they violas, eel mien to seek a similar shelter. A careely imagism of the place where the beam under emelimatlen were lying shoes that it we. mice • natural MUMS ill Ihs limestone rock, Moat sever het wide, aye feet high. r of considerable length; sad oho that this came senamaleatad with the mime above by to irregular perpendieelar theare, jest about wide enough to allow • fell-grewa min to pees. A small spit, ef water Weddle dews*, side of this amain& mad lases Nadi la the parer Ilmeekne below. Thom, swpreing mist Its ems was • Mese ef memealseent, the milamses mould pusses the thee imparleat mealier; of sesiesisa, air sad water ; and Ms hyena that it yes re ma tersegthened_ by the fest Met senses the beers have be ibuad the skull of • deg sad the Malmo Mem en. The deg may ham been used he the pawn elver Meg and tits sham; sad as the opiates abovomensed is musk he mean to have allowed a large greadraped to have bliss into the see by accident, it is reasemble to kdte that he ammo et the ex had been takes amen plemmeal Ike teed. Hew the imitates perished use matter of amlealsre, bee, hem the elrematances ands which heir maim were head it may be supposed that, Irvin diammeed their Wing place, their retitled. dallaishast anima* isseasi qte. 'Arra. hadiratitereri N ese bell ether all Meatus; hesinii them ern their lehessiees viselets, an mighbeeri d Mee completed the dark tragedy by Wag the Swum with earth. This media tore derives asentsasnee hems the fact that most of the skulls were fend ine.shely peeped close together, as if the helpless wserhes lid erellhilli to the lent air -hole, sad so peehlisil Is enmity. Further, it is worthy of notice that the right upper jaw d one of the skulls has been broken, evideatly by no resent blow, b e t i n a ll p ro b a bility aft! by Mim deeth er es caned either immedialsiy before or shortly .—Estvda ASTLITK Pnl Inn:tn.—The tintungsl election of the Asylum =ldiots, Park HA" and Rem Hall, Colcheetes, took place yeeistely at tie London Tavern, the poll=it s twelve and de in at three. The preliminary were melded ever by Sir G. Cafteou. The wombat spewed esadelates was 192, the amber of eppilmeN soissleil 16; nutlet • total of 156 patients after the shealien. In the report It sr the past year, it was eberevel that three yeas had elapsed since the operate= of Ike =Wet= were cainseneed i and every win& bad witneesed dwilded progress. It was stated ea the hot elthiliis s thell ion Hail, Colchester, had bees =led tsar htheeable etwastauors; it bad new • of Npoem. slid was worldni with wised disissey. The NM hood that is two or these years It would Uwe bees aserished into matured anistates, and amt Indspeadestly es an asylum he the her sextant 0311/16111. SONIIIII eddidosal Milks whit* had loth seemed were thea lose rated; the pied* et Mel were—suffer, pod bah% and bade% with blighter as • oseed NNW game. It was thea oiamok that if the bawd me to a id at all es thole weed piths. they mil be imp elled with bathe sessmodaties. Disithet assessments were aspired tie the mem see end ems% sew ar sad me he eieselies sad Mes seememeste maws*. to be mold est Ilisr the Lamm the meely, tbe tha mishap, and the esereades The gnat west sf the day was a aselenal asylum, whirs the idiot sight lad a borne sad a Med. It wm reverted on the lot eseuida that a brain had bed been opened is hem of ilia shiers. Amite the subserip. dew le It ware me beaked ohms from the EzZCompany, 910 ilium from the 01919 ration of and 250 'plane ban the ,purr, • NIA ruble property, about half as bases tide hen tows, had been recently purohssel I bet the yamben bed a= an austed the fund, and the session meld set be till 10,0001. had hem smyesd. A• swami appal eau added foe desetims Made the bulldog AM. Le:owlish INSTITVTION.—A 'pedal iseseal meet. tag of the of this institution was held helms. fag at the 5 s of the imitation Is 1==oz•:•• and the 'Mime, ememmes of the eat =a le be debated. wee esseedisely measeesc of the seemds. wee to essibe the tepest of the Need of s, as several Wars& le then I s tr ag thxz Maw wel midis in oiss of • the Masi* of these Mot OM Obi the meal Emil be solmeml, MI WM • melds pestles of th iski e ld g; (whist' sow , es:lethe da re Mime) Mehl be soder :=L ia Tiss aim debseehiy In* the wed essisdes by remmeadlat the prophet= PIM= so ding, dtherethsee esomeh. On the meths thee Oh must be rived and Ns amendment was mooed le the oases that • of til2 m t r ie eleddaltd ts hweedgele tease dieee d v a t i et a as*. Milifissi, end maseurteses NAMPA OPS, hems, this mesiment was whew& ; in.les the report was Mosil. The Renal ; id the yeiselyel spashers were W. W. Tito, Sih hos. essettem Mr. Game Smith, Mr. OaarMß I[e. TM, Mc Mese% Ms. Mingo, aid Mr. SUPERANNUATION or Gcremitirr ENPLoYEN.— Ms Lords OatenWitham of bee thalosty's Treasury having recently hod under SOMAlaidon the case of • tidewater is the Custom dapsthaust with • view to his superannuation, who had than 41116arged upon four occasions for having absented Windt been duty with out leave, but who, with these was reported to hays served with dllkrevos , their lord ' ships, order to mark their opinion of the conduct of thie sad to warn other aims that the strictest smi regularity is impacted at them in the ere mitism of wiry part of their duty, hove awarded to him a mai smaller superaanuation allow's°, then would have Ism granted under ordinary circumstances. And their lithlthip in the subsequent case of a boatman, who had oho boa beg than charged during a period of only thirteen years' North% and whose impaired health was attributed to Wsmissnp habits, have acquainted the sesswksioasrs then whl reference to the short period daring whisk this =lei Nerved, and to the frequent ectio• thus full in awarding him any retired &How dahs.. The latter ethos: has to consequence been super smith LnsinacK AND ENNIS RAILWAT.—WO are glad to been that toe at the best projects in the WWI ((whist has lain denont ytt the het six years) is likely Wis foamed end oingislod under the minas tit car tal l = and universally tespeeted fellow We Mathew Bar rington; we am the line from lo Ennis. On Saturday last a peptides' wee node Wise directors by the meting poetess d a meet ishusatil den gnawed with railways* 10 esostruat the line eel week it, ask ing the diaMas for only a neon jearliss id the capital, arl gmeedecint them a dividend hem the day the line is opened d . We trust that when pestles are wakes to 0111•10 forwar and niake much advantageous Mho that MN et the shareholders will withdraw from • amen eneli as we want in this country, hitherto so unfortunate and only now beginning to raise its head. The shareholders will nest on the 3rd pros. in this city, to entertain the project—Lime rick Ohmic,* . DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF A BE- HEADED MAN. (Pros • oorros, , o-Jeot of Notes oo Queries .J A few weeks ago in clearing out the ruins of an old chapel at Nunehatn Regis in Warwickshire, which had been pulled down (all but the belfry tower) about forty years since, we thought it necessary to trench the whole space, that we might more certainly mark out the boun daries of the building, as wo wished to restore it in some measure to its former state ; it had been used as a stack yard, and a depository of rubbish by the tenants of the farm on which it was, ever since its dilapidation. We began to trench at the west end, and caste on a great many bones and skeletons, from which the titans had crumbled away, till, finding the earth had been moved, we went deeper and discovered a leaden Gain quite per fect, but without date or inscriptiuu of any kind ; there had been an outer wooden coillin which was decayed, but quan• titles of the black rotted wood were all round it. We cut the lead and folded back the top so as not to destroy it; be neath was a wooden coffin in good preservation, and also without any inscription. As soon as the leaden top was rolled back, a aeon overpowering aromatic smell diffused itself all over the place ; we then unfastened the inner coffin, and found the body of a man embalmed with great care, and heaps of rosemary and aromatic leaves piled over him. On examioing the body more closely, we found it had been beheaded, the head was separately wrapped up in linen, and the linen shirt that covered the body was drawn quite over the neck where the head had been cut off; the head was laid straight with the body, and where the joining of the neck and head alma have been, it was tied round with a broad blast Mom. Hi howls were crossed on his breast, the wrists tam did with bleak ribbon and the thumbs were tied Weather with bark dishes. lie had a peaked beard, WI a quantity of bag brows hair curled and clotted with bind rood kis seek: the idly mark on anything about him was as the linen on his chest, just above where his bonds was stored; on it wen no letters T B worked in Man silk. On tremobleg towards the nand we cases on kw loads nee laid side by oda, wNk Ineariptians on mob: ams mutated the body of Frani% End of Chichester awl Lad Damanio, 1653 ; the neat the body of Audrey, Canaan of Oblobsser, 1662; tanker the _body of Lady Aware, Leigbobrirdsiagimor, 1110; sad de And ,nobody of Hi Join daimon sea of Lady Chisimmese W has ant lanai& We spend the sofa of Lady Ashley WO, awl brand bar perfectly embalmed sad in satin tin, hi. GNI quite plump as if she were alive, = R ho% vary bisalifal, he hands inandftly small lei last wand; de man droned ia tan ban , Mod all nor with old pike lasi, awl two rows of lase wen laid last new her foralisel. NM looked exactly as if she was Inas asleep, sad swan not more than eisteet or evens= noes ad ; bra boasty was very great ; eves ler eyelashes end epeallieWll vows gain perfect, and her ens wen den ; no part if bee On or 6gun was at WI ban in. Ws also opand Lek Chichester's sofa, bat with be, the ilabsiales had apparently failed; no was a ske leton, asap\ 1101 was hat AM of aromatic ham: low Ink latiwww, was as Inn s• • if ins lied it was bag, disk clad is sett and glossy as Ant of • dad, and of • naiad sabers eaten. I. - trambing as an ads of whin the altar had been, we howl owebes knobs coda with an inscription. It aniaind tlle bsdly if a Dame Mario Brower, daughter 4 we Id As Veil of Lady Maxis, daughter to Load Minsollsor This body was eke nito_parbie, and andasheed pay with • nay well sonisniod end, with mbisb the soils was astely Mimi, ad it etas had as pettortal a perfume that it Illsd Ile whole yin. The liwa res si= do. were quits stem sod Ind la all den and vsnalan as after swam to the lax = pion eel of seekcoda, and hod it its Wag at all donned. Tsang Lady Annoy had ear rings isles gen, black entail its. The poems the of bids and gums and la am the. was so sinning OW me more all ■ der it, and newt of de ass issyliond is fdlikag up As wan M is., Mg et.s4 is manes tbbanseet is, if }rails, to dines. lobs lbs bobs - was is. The chapel is an UM ONION of Lied Jabs Sint, who isharitad it from lie eelpaninallaw a de Dashes of Beentask, dapler of ohs Dube of Mats" lan wbse Grady Neadmis aegis la smd oboe psamises Warwickshire IMO by tho saw risgo of his annilmbar with wdaughter ail lard Dan aws, did al Cdobastor. BLIIDISItLAND AID UM= N 011211130 AMMON Rau.wAr.—lt is staled, b oullwanob OW 'shame, that the assalgsasedwa of tie Leas Nathan with the Yoe and Berwick end Penh IMAM railways is lashed apes with great distnet in the hip towns in dm seat of and, ifbrought b. sspedhaeeettlotaWestion. that it will meet with stssoses 4p as inwentsh in such amalgamation will prevent aligessgsst of a Use of railway from these towns to talon aisloopelliZurs nufartaring districts. At the pressen mum plestweses by the Leeds Northern (which *atm& Mu by the Clarence Railway. to 1 in South Durham) an 1 7 -tohill. • smell sellhay travel the somefeelee of the journey to Bundelaa Newasella. UMW% Destees. and the towns north of those pima% by sums of tbe York and Berwick Railway. net he a Modes at Ferrphill, and every °beta& lam Ht s bus Wow. I. the way of the Leeds Nevem fiewatilag (lair Ma. north. Tits opening oat ef Ibis arepstkellee to the ma nufact districts is ecaeldstal a melte ef grave con sideration Is the shippers in tie Tyne eel Weer • sad with that view the above line hem Mandorknd _to ties a jeer ties with the Leeds Northers, boo bees sieviesd. lad plea mad seed= papered to go to yediemeet is the easaing mdse. The peepseed sew use, to Meet Oen Osabee, the tombs, etas Leeds Morthesa, prams below Clearriagtos hiU to Caosop-matt, these* to illborbsna4mnso Colliery, Pittiggto% Boughtonle-8 a Bainbri Heim, fte., terminating in P =etr $ a l' leilliay dge, nisi Ss whole distance through ea =Math, 0041 IMIL Mr. George Hudson, M.P., is eadiresterod to be used tbe principal promoters of the Ilse ; Mr. T of Leah engineer; and Messrs. Wright, of 8 utsers. The railway eau be further extended b Ifieworde Ind Shields by a high level bridge anus Ma Woe. lone the northern coal trade ha. been snidest to sempethlea is Se London market by coal brou 4 ht tone labod edllsolles • very great anxiety has been felt to the amtbees IMPIMMIS to facilitate the shipment of seal he Oil mink A branch line, oonnectinUnodosiamil Isla the Yeah of the York and Berwick way at Pwahlr, Y atm* esai• plated. THE ENSUING TER6I.-06 Tuesday nest Michael mas Term will commence. The !latest arras of the three emu= law courts only exhibit 47 rides, with the excep tion of three matters in the wows paper. la the Court of Queen's Hes& there are 24 rein ; is the Comma items sole 6, amd is the Exempts 17. Then are II ameba mow awl desaurien is tie guess's Dem* 4 mew trial% esd 4 appals bus musty awls Is the Camels Pleas 1 dessurree, I Waved Mama est i mew hi* what is the Eaehespar there as i subs le the special pepee, alt the Is the aew trial paper, be dies 1 finding es COLONIAL AND FOREIGN POSTAGE. We have been favoured, says the Athenreum, with some interesting communications relative to the bearing of i the postage question en the acquisition and exchange of old, 'twee, and valuable books, and on the book trade in general. l'enny postage, poet office orders, and the reductions which have been made in the postal charges on pamphlets and on other printed matter have been of immense benefit to the book trade: and, in some cases, have enabled new undertakings to be successfully carried out which could not base been established before the facilities to which we have alluded were in existence. We are told that tree bookseller, haring a large bosiness in philological, hiaturieal, antique. rian, artistic, and other valuable and learned works, and who has wisely availed himself of all the assistance which the Poet-Ace now affords, hat, within five years, printed more than fifty catalogues of old books on sale— ging generally about 2,000 copies of each, or 100,000 in the whole. Nearly all these catalogues have been sent out by poet:—from which a sum not far short of 5001. has accrued to the revenue of the Post-office. The rerjority of these catalogues were circulated within the United Kingdom ; but • portion of them were sent to the United States of America, sad a few to France. It is the business of this gentleman to collect ouch works as are in demand by the learned world ; and it is obvious that the circulation of catalogues conteining the titles and prices ~f such books-- collected, as they must necessarily be, with much care and discretion—iv highly advantageous to the professors of uni versities and co:lrgee, to the managers of public libraries, to statesmen, clergymen—in short, to men of literary pur suits and attainnsense generally, more ceps eially to those whn live out of the dineof the busy world, and pursue • genet, intellectual career for the benefit of the public or for their own improvement. To such men the penny postage has bees an inestimable Noun. We ore told that these trade catalogues often barely remunerate the book seller for the cost of printing and postage ; and that were it not for the sale of books to those countries to which such lists may be sent for a trifling charge, there would be a Imo on the transaction, and consequently the pranks of printing such catalogues would be abandoned. Ity this re sult the literary world would lose one of its most useful and attractive vet indicate. When we look at the subject of pamphlet postage with regard to our own colonies, we find one of those vexatious anomalies which me et us at every turn in oar present postal elements. A Borden bookseller may send a pamphlet weighing less than two ounces to the University of Cam. bridee in the United States of America for one peony ; hut if he wishes to send it to one of the learned doctors 10 our own University of Cambridge he must pay sixpence for it if he sends it as a pamphlet. lie may send it, however, to a letter for fourpence. A pamphlet weighing less thou half an ounce would go, as a letter in a closed envelope, for a penny ; but if left open at the ends and paid for as a " pamphlet," the postage, as before stated, would be six pence. Again—as wo have said, a pamphlet under two ounces weight may be sent to the United States fur a penny ; but if a bookseller wishes to extend his trade with our own possessions abroad—if he posts his zatalogue to Canada, to the Cape, or even t., Malta—the Name yet-office which takes it to New York or New Orleans for a penny will demand sixpence for carrying it to either of the other places named. Should he wish to send it to Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta he must pay " letter postage," which, by way of S outhampton, would be four shillings under two ounces ; while the very samo packet will drop a similar pamphlet at Ceylon for sixpence. Singa pore is in the same predicament as Bombay. The Peninsular and Oriental" Company's mail steamer will carry a bulky packet of pamphlets to Singapore for five 'billies' ; but a single one, weighing less than two ounces, carried by the some steamer, would be charged four shil lings postage. If, as in the case of Ceylon already cited. the single packet were to be curried a thousand miles or so further, namely, to Hong Kong, it will coot only sixpence. For these latter eccentricities we are indebted to mime mys terious arrangements and principles emanating from the Society of Merchant Princes whose throne is in Leadenball street. It will surprise no one that, with such a tariff as the above in operation, • bookseller should say, " At this rate I can not send out catalogues on speculation ; the postage would ruin me." The same writer adds:—" At the Cape, India, ac. I have customers; but not being able to scud my catalogues at a low rate, I gradually lase them." The serious impediments which these contradictory and expensive regulations must place in the way of trade and of literature, science, art, and education may be easily con ceived, but cannot be fully stated within any moderate limits:—and surely it is the !silky of government to place its colonial subjects an as good • footing as is possible in such matters. The monotony so much complained of in colonial life might be thus materially relieved, and the ideas of the colonists thereby raised and expanded :—while the feeling that they are far worse elf than foreign nations with respect to their mother country in such matter", can not certainly assist in impressing their minds with the im mense benefits of their connexion with the land of their fathers. The extension of the trade in books between this and fo reign eonntries,—even those which, like the United States, rejoice in a low pamphlet postage,—i•exceedingly restricted by the cost of letters pining between those countries. At the present time nearly all the orders received from abroad come through the hands of agents; but, if the postage were reduced to a penny or twopence, such orders would be sent direct to the bookseller here. The effect on the trade would be as striking and important as that of the removal of tortuous windings and obstructions from the banks and bed of a river. As in the preceding case, these remarks apply with tenfold force to our colonies. The whole question of postage between this country end its numerous dependencies is in our own hands. No other nation can have a voice in the matter ; and there are no difficulties in the way of an immediate and complete re form, that an by any peculiarity of vision or by any mode of argument whatever, be exaggerated into impediments. The International Postage Association continues to pro ceed with vigour in its work—and the general response exhibits the public estimate of its importance. We have just received a printed paper containing the names of about sixty gentlemen in: all parts of the three kingdoms, who have been elected honorary corresponding members of the amooiation,--and who will no doubt be very effective in making known the objects of the essociation throughout the country. The majority of these gentlemen acted as secre taries to the local committets for ion. We have been informed that measures are taking to esta blish simile, easeciatkens in all the great sea ports, and in many magmbeturing disticts. The council of the amen is is anoustunication with the chambers of commerce and other commensal essonatsoas which exist throughout the kingdom; and it is probable that the meet ing of delegates which is to take place in London about the middle of next month, on the very important subject of the ' reform of our commercial law, will be taken advantage of by the Postage Association for a conference on the latter say=time since, es our readers already know, the asso- Nils addressed a letter to the ambusadors and other re• prommtatine of foreign countries, and from nearly all of them @amen have now been received expressive of the deepest interest in the movement. A large number of foie known for their intelligence in such matters, have been invited to become the agents of the association in the various places wherein they reside ; and their notices of acceptance of the appointment begin to be received. M. Legentil, the President of the Chamber of Commerce in Paris, than writes :—" I have communicated to the Chamber of Coarsens the letter which you were good enough to write to me. I em enabled to inform you that it takes the most lively interest in the noon' of your enterprise, and I am assured of its assistance whe it may be called upon. M. Horace Say, son of our celebrated economist, I'. B. Say, himself the author of several works on political economy, and secretary of our Chamber of Commerce, has expressed a desire to benzin a member of your honourable association. In making this announcement I believe I enter into the views of your society, and I do not think that it could make a better acquisition." SWINDLING BY • SHIP'S CAPTAIN. —The police -• staturdey the captain of an English merchant abip, the Shakespeare, .....er toe hallowing cir cumstances: In Much but the Shakespeare left the port of Canton, having on board en American. This American was very badly off, and had no goods; but he and the cap tain coseected a schema for committing a fraud on a grind scale. On arriving at the Cape of Good Hope, the captain presented the American to • commercial firm with whom he was acquainted, and represented to them that he had on beard his ship about 6,0001. worth of goods, which he was conveying to England. He also produced vouchers, which seemed to confirm the statemeat. The firm, to oblige the American, who was in want of money, agreed to purchase about one-third of the cargo, and paid at once 9001. on account, giving a draft on their agent I. London for the remainder. The American then insured the rest of the cargo for about 6,0001. Shortly after this the Shakspeare set sail ; but the American remained at the Cape, on the pretest of haring to conclude some business. On arriving at Bt. Helena the captain said he would give up the command of the vessel to his mate, as the health of his wife, who was with him, rendered it necessary that she should proceed to England by steamer, being unable to bear the fatigue of the voyage in the Shakespeare. But he had previously come to an understanding with the mate that on leaving the port of St. Helena ho should sink or set fire to the ship, in order to destroy all proofs of the fraud which had been committed, and oleo to cheat the insurance company. A liberal recompense was promised to the mate for his complicity. The mate promised to fulfil his share of the contract, and sailed from St. Helena. A few days after the East India steamer touched at the island, and the captain and his wife went on board. There they met the American, as had previously been arranged. As soon as the steamer arrived in London the Ame rican and the Captain went to the agent of the merchants of the Cape , and received from him 1,5351., the balance due on the cargo. They then waited for news of the loss of the Shakespeare, in order to apply to the insurance office for the amount of the insurance. A short timo back, to their profound astonishment, they learned that the Shalu are had entered the mouth of .the Thames; the mate, being an Mama man, as it turned out, having brought her ' safe home, instead of making any attempt to destroy her. The two men thereupon deemed it prudent to fly. The American embarked en board a vessel which was about to proceed to the East Indies, whilst the Captain and his wife came to Paris, and took up their residence in the Champs Elyseee. The agent of the St. Helena merchants, having learned the fraud that had been committed, and having as eertained that the captain bad come to Paris, immediately came over here, and obtained, by the interference of the English embassy, the assistance of the police. In a very short time the residence of the captain was discovered, and he was enured. CRIME IN FRANCE. Tho Momiteur pUbllalltsis as report on the adminis tration of ericninal justice in France., addressed to the Prince President by the Minister of Justice, together with a mats of criminal statistics. But instead of being confined as heretofore to a recapitulation of the crime. and offences committed in a particular year then documents are so drawn up as to represent the results of en entire quarter of &century. The following are the moat striking features of this publication —T h e number ofprocis rerba us, and complaints of all kinds, addressed to the prusecuton averaged 111,181 annually in the period from 181'8 to 18.10; but it increased to 225,082 a year in the period from 1815 to 18 i 0; und in these totals offences against the forest, customs, and excise laws. and those of what are called the simple police are nut included. It is, however, to be remarked that no prosecu tions took place on one half at least of the complaints made to the public prosecutors; a great portion of them being unfounded, or the authors of them being unknuwu. The number of crimes against the person has iiiertaieLd—from 1826 to 1830, the Courts of Assizes were called on to try annually 1,314 such ease.; whereas from 1816 to 1850 they had to try 1,778. On the other hand the crimes against property have declined—from 1820 to 1830, they averaged 4,024 • year, whereas from 1846 to 1810 they only averaged 3,381 a year. Amongst the crimes against persons those which present the most striking increase are criminal as tnths on female adults and chit. , rem, especially on the latter. Thus, for example, such crimes on chil dren were only 136 annually from 1826 to 1830 ; ethereal they rose to 420 from 1816 to 11150. The diminution in the crimes against pro perty is not, it appears, owing to any hump rennin in me nden', but to the fact that they are accompanied with less violence and more cunning than formerly, which causes there them to he treated as " of instead of " crimes ;" and also to the fact that of late years the examining megts trates have made a rule of not admitting aggravating ca cum stances so readily as they used to do. Whilst then the "crimes" of robbery tried by the Courts of Asset, have fallen from 3,456 annually from 1816 to 1830, to 2,463 from 1846 to 1810, the "offences" of rubbery submitted to the Correctional Tribunals have risen from 9,871 in 1826, to 24,332 in WO. In other descriptions of crime, there has been en increaeu instrul of a diminution ; thUi is especially the case in forgery, minion, fraudulent bankruptcy, arson, and extortion of signatures. In addition to the increase of the eases of robberies submitted to the Correctional Tribunate, there has been an increase in the offences of embezzlement, sit Mollie& and others. As regards men dicity, the annual number of such offences was 732 arum 1826 to 1833, whereas it rose to 6,903 from 1816 to 1850. The number of offences cf yoga'aindage I.as risen in the same periods from 2,314 to 6,089; of reheil:un, outrages, &c., against public functioosries from 3,314 to 8.613 ; of sundry offences iesainet morality from 497 to 1,26; ; and in all other aorta of offences there is also an increase. '1 he following facts also appear from the return. :-01 the num ber of accused tried fur crime by the Comte of Assize only one-sixth are females; for offence. tried by the Tribunals one-fifth. Criminals a mel I , •as than 21, gene rally attack property; aged mere than 21, mid especially aged more than 50, they attack the person ; the proportion of unmarried men guilty of crime. against property is 38 in WO; in crimes against the person they form only 52 in 100 ; and of robberies taken separately 64 in 100. It further appears that the inhabitants of the country districts form about three-fifths of the total number of accused, and the inhabitants of towns two.fitths. But in crimes against the person, the country people form seven-tenths of such betide, whereas in crimes newest property they only count for six-tenths, As to the degree of instruction of the ac accused, it appears that the number of accused completely unlettered has declined 10 per cent.; and that in crimes against the person they figure in the proportioa of 553 in the 1, 1 000, and in crimes ow.in , t property, .562 in the 1,000. From 1822 to 1830, out of IT/ accused there were on au average 33 acquitted, and of the 61 convicted, 37 were con deemed to what are called pcines afflictive' et ink muter, and 21 to correctional penalties; from 1841 to 1645 the average number of acquittals was 34 per bemired, and of the 65 convicted 27 were sentenced to " prices uMetivex et infemantes, and 30 to correctional penalties; from 1846 to 1830, out of 100 accused 37 were twinkled, and rf the 63 convicted 26 were condemned to the former, 31 to the latter penalties, The decline in the latter period is owing to decrees of the provisional government having changed the majority of the jury required to pronounce a eOlisietMll Taking the whole 25 years together, the proportion per 100 is 37 acquitted, 28 condemned to " penes sae s:lves et infamantes," and 33 to correctional penalties. Before the cerrectionul tribunals the number of acquittals on prosecutions instituted by the public prosecut are, has declined from 271 per 1,000, from 1816 to 1830, to 146 per 1,000, from 1846 to 18 XI. But, on the other hand, punish ments have been made less severe by the frequent admis sion of extenuating circumstance', and imprisonment has in many cases been replaced by flue. It appears, finally, front the returns and report, that persons accused t f crimes against property aro punished more severely than those accused of crimes against the person; that more indulgence is shown to women than to men, and to old men than to men in the prime of life; whilst criminals possessed of some education are treated more severely than those without any. Tez OBIAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY.—The ter minus, which will occupy the parade ground of the Native Infantry Regiment, lying nearest to the ditobies' lines, is nut yet commenced, but will be is the course of next month. The road from Mazsgon to Fort George will be chisel for vehicles and aloi fur passengers until a foot bridge is put actor.: all the traffic must in future go round by the road in course of construction between the gun Imam lines and those of the dhobics. From the Market to Sion the liar mey be said to be almost completed —it is so with the exception of a few minor details. At pre sent the distance of the rails is being boxed up conse quent on the effects of the monsoon, which tho whole of the line has stood remarkably well. The Byculla Bridge is still unfinished, owing to the girders not having arrived from England. The whole of the perma nent way and double road are laid, except in one or two places, between Bombay and Tanna . The Sion rotting, now in a very forward state, prevents the communication throughout the length : this cutting Is expected to be finished, and the whole of the contract No. 1 and part of INo. 2, which embrace the distance, placed in working trim by January next. In the mean time stations will he con structed at Feral, Mahim, Sion, and Tanna. The branch line to Mahim, • single road, is in course of completion. Beyond Tann' the engineering difficulties are very great, requiring the closest attention ; and only such a really practical professional, as the present engineer appointed to that part of the work (Mr. Clowser, C.E.), could surmount such obstacles as are presented. la a short distance of about three miles epeur two viaducn apd two tunnel,, both of which, in their respective parts, axe formidable under takings. The arches of the least of the viaducts are all turned, and the bottoms in, and some of the piers up to the springing of the larger one. The strong rah of water during the monsoon caused • considerable delay in these works. From Tacna to the tunnel (No. 1) at Penick Point the permanent way is laid. The tunnel is solid rock, and is being got on with very slowly; but more rapidly than with tunnel No. 2, which is rather behind. The first lengths are, however, being bricked in. The bricks used are made on the ground by the contractor, and are con sidered very good. Both tunnels will be broken through it is expected. From the No. 2 tunnel to Callisn forms contract No. 3, which is in the hands of natives, and es natives always do work, so are they working—swarms of biggaries and coolies, but no plan —literally scratching the cuttings out where they occur with their finger was. There are no works of any import ance along this part of the line—a distance of about six miles : it rune across a let, which at high tide is inundated. Now the monsoon is over, all will be astir again, and pro. bably the next event in Bombay of any moment will be the opening of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Surveys have been made along the principal routes to the interior ; the most practicable one for the course of the line appears to be that by the Than ghaut—works, however, in that direction have not yet been set out. By the ship Charles, which arrived a few weeks sines, three locomotives and several different class carr•age, have arrived with other moving stock, which are now beins landed and conveyed to the site of the tersuin t!: f i ...... :o „w p W„p g. hie drivers . also art . ! i ' ne same trim—Correspondent y Pcnnball Turn "' DESTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH LONDON ArAlti A" OTIINR BUILDINON Dr Bae.)—This morn. ing, at a few Drente' before three o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Janes, a coach builder, situate at No. IA, Webber.street, Blackfriars-read. The property in Mr. Janes's tenancy extended backwards something like 200 feet, and was bounded on each side by houses, whilst the South London Hall or Amembly.roome ran over the top of the coach factory. Two engines were soon on the spot, and were instantly set to work, bat the flames had obtained pos session of every part of the factory, and also of the hell. The firemen, finding that two engines would be of little use in extinguishing so great a body of fire, sent off to tho other 'Wiens for additional &assistance, and in • very brief period numerous other engines arrived, but although tons weight of water were thrown upon the Ma sing premises, several hours elapsed before they could make the least impression upon the tire, which continued to attack the houses in the main road, and finally several of the back windows were burned out. The hose from the engines were taken through the adjoining buildings, and by that means the firemen were enabled to cut off the fur ther extension of the flame, but the main body of flame could not be entirely extinguished until 8 o'clock this morning, and not before the coach-rectory and the hall were entirely destroyed, and three houses in the Blackfriars road extensively injured by fire and water. The whole et the carriages in the place have also been consumed. The Royal Society's Ire escape, which arrived remarkably soon at the spot, was the means of saving one, if not two lives from destruction. Mr. Chatter, the proprietor of the hall, was sleeping on the premises, and was nearly auflucated before ho became aware of the existence of the fire. MR. MACAULAT AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—MT. Macaulay is to invite the electors to meet him in the Music hall on 1 uesday next. The fixing of a day fee the m eting has, we believe, been a ma tt er o f some difficulty and brine'. lion with tho committee, in whose hands Mr. Macaulay left the arrangements. Owing, on the ono hand, to the proceed ings in connection with th e halt yearly sacrament, and. on the other, to the desirableness of Mr. IlLicaulay being in his place in parliament on Thursday, the 4th, the choice of days was practically restricted to Monday and Tuesday of next week,hnd of these two days the former is in part occupied by the thanksgiving services, and the latter is the day of the annual municipal elections. In these circumstances, and •Ithough, even in the prospect of the municipal elections not being of any absorbing interest, there is same awkwardnes in having a public political meeting during the hours of polling, we do not doubt that the committee, in selecting Tuesday, have best consulted the convenience and feelings of the citisens.—Scotsnion. flit Covered with a Black Velvet Pill adorned with Beentetheoma i• • reseed Cu thew% by Eight Home. St,