The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

o d ot ee on the imbibe stied. and on parliament. By w i n es lb. proetweinge of the legislature. sad of ether ..bl e e holier, wimps sad prevent say infriegentent of ovo key se religious pretexts. By 'miaow the duty of w oos bad esertwee electoral power, for the retina to rarissiertt imm ot Auvegrity. hoambio to the society's s dpl , sag *Wog to selvucate it. ' lee remairsder of the document mien to details of goasonien and Ohara. gskiiiiierettly the veliaeS clauses were pet tertiaries. up t h e be.t claw. " That the same of the society la 10 ,0, be tie Smiety fur the &panties of Chatelt sad Mr T. 4 Oa. al see who had become attached to the Anit-State Church Amocietioe, °Netted to may O. Or name, . meiderieg that the result of say ( t▪ aper 0f,,40n. would lead to the impressiou that the old . 4 „•y, •ht 1.44 l been established tar opposing a state t:Altik in ant farm, had failed, and bad consequently t w or.,.: 4► 011644 tbiught the society under its old title t s a wirked well, and that it did work well, the premed seine wee a proof. He concluded by moving, se as obita.leatat, that the ola Gain. reta.neel. VIDDOCe.. of Ilenbuty, actaided the amend- IICRDER AT BURNHAM ABBEY FARM, NEAR WINDSOR. BURNHAM, BUCKS, TRIIIIIDATI A barbarous murder hie been a committed at the hew of Mr. Ralph W. Goodwin of the Burnham Abbey Farm. the victim being his hous ekeeper, • young woman named Mary Ana Sturgeon. Lam night, 'Mr. Chantey epeed se 'squeal upon her remains, sad the following Lan INN elicited IS that Mr. Goodwin is unmarried, and that his bswielietmai.ted of the deceased, sad a groom named Masse Attow. In the farmyard there is a cottage, occu ttyy John Bona, the ground-keeper, who lodges in his several labouren employed on the farm. On the *nosing of Tuesday, Mr. Goodwin left his home PM after Oa o'clock, on • visit to • neighbour, and returned about halt past eleven. Purism Mr. Goodwin 's absence, deceased called at the cottage of Ranee, and remained there until about nine o'eli ck, when sue returned to the house fur the purpose, m she said, of preparing the rapper for the groom. The groom states that he was served with his supper by the tsesseed, and that be soon afterwards went to bed in a room over the kitchen, which is separated front the rest of the house by a dour which he says the deceased herself locked. Wheat be had bi en in bed some time, he was aroused by a noise as of sums one falling down, and he thereupon got up, and proceeded to the cottage of Bocce, who was partly dressed, with the intention of looking road the yard, as he fancied something was the matter with one lathe colts. This proved to be the case, and after the animal had been attended to, Bunco and Attow went round the esol, but could observe nothing wrong. At halt past 11 Mr. Goodwin came hum*, and the grows took his horse as usual. Letting him-ell in the house by a latch key, Mr. Goodwin was surprised not to find his candle burning, as was customary ; and on walking &twig the passage upstairs, after he bad provided him- self with a light, he discovered on the floor • human tooth and • hair.pin. Me also perceived a dense tams ul smoke, ante • strung smell of burning, beth of which appeared to proceed from the bedroom of the deceased, at the further end of the passage. Calling Renee and Alum to his assistance, he west to the house keeper's room, sod there a horrifying sight presented itself. The body of the unfortunate woman was found lying with bar bend next the mantel-piece, her legs on the hearth-rug, in the direction of the bedstead ; and on her lege and the lower pan of her body was • mass of fire still burning furiously, • andoonsuming the flesh of the deceased. A d 'ng table and a quantity of hues had been used as yawl. The fire I had burst through the door of the chamber, and was I already consuming the joists. Oa examining the body of deceased, it was found that both legs bad been burnt efl nearly close to the trunk, from which they were completely separated. The head and upper part of the body were not injured by the fire, but exhibited marks of great violence. One of the teeth was mining—the tooth found by Mr. Goodwin in the the head was injured as if by same blast instrumellt. Near the head of deceased was a large pool of blood, and on the door of her apartment, and on the hand rail of the stair case, there were marks of blood. That the deceased was foully murdered down-stairs, and her body then taken, and set fire to in her bed-room, is the general belief, but no distinct clue has yet been obtained to the guilty parties. Suspicion at tint rested on the groom, but the result of the inquiry, so far as it has proceeded at present, tends to establish his innocence. At tint, it was believed that nothing had been stolen from the house and the absence of plunder rendered the barbarous dee d still more mysterious, but to-day Mr. Good win has discovered that some valuable rings, a gold pencil case, and other articles, wore taken from his bed-room. The inquiry was adjourned. w o .t. M.P., as a member of the executive eons rsphissoil th• ground upon which the change in the sa me an 1.1.0 • general change in the form and constitu pea of the satiety, had been proposed by them. Hr. Keenan HAIN) (of Lice) thought the same ~Asti State Church Seciity" had originally been adopted is 'platten,. taste, and that it did lead tote opinion that saa °Notts of the society were antagonistic to the established s aesch, not m a state church but as a church. At the same lime be considered the items now proposed not sufficiently explicit, sod that it did nut altogether explain its object— 'al./cation of religion from matt interference. Bc ihoe4ht the seconder supplemental title, by which the two •e ...A now knows would be more elect, more eonipre -134 iw.ge, and is all revives prefers's., vie., " Association for the hhcrativa of Religion from all State Interference," eaccpt flet he would .abititute the word " consignes" fw , iiii , f t e ppgag." He moved, as an amendment, that the same of the acciety should henceforth be "The Asso nation for the Lib ration of Religion from all State Con onion." Mr. Comas of Leeds, seconded this amendment. A long discu.sige ensued, le the course of which each of the three propmitions foiled numerous advocates, but which at Is:dr-pet three o'clock was interrupted by loud calls for an adjournment; th. hoar fixed for adjourning, fur the pur pose. of refreshment, had been three o'clock. After some ou the part of the chairman, Mr. wall, and mural members of the committee, the adjournment was agreed le. At are o'clock the sitting wee resumed under the mei dewy of the Rev. John Elamite, of Camberwell. The dig mane of the to. iition as to the proposed alteration of the saw of the society was reopened, and after a short time a vote mistaken uu the first amendment, that there be no alteration in toe name, which was lost by a very large ma jority. Mr. EDWARD BAINES then proposed his amendment, but in the fell swing term., that the name of the society .be the Society for tie Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control." This amendment having been seconded, Mr. Slum., MP.. on the part of the esecutive com mittee, said they would not object to the name now pro posed, provided it met with the general support of the con ference. After a brief conversation, in the course of which it was suggested by the chairman that the name by which the sowety would be generally discribed,would be the " Society for the Liberation of Religion," the question was put to the vote, when Mr. Baines's amendment was carried by a considerable majority. The s cond clause, declaring the principles of the society, was moved by Mr. Price, and having been seconded, Dr. learnt urged that the declaration of principle should be expunged, on the ground that when they bad an object and a name impressing that object, they had all that was rt quirt d. The expression in the declaration as to the teach ing of Christianity would exclude Mrs Hebrew brethren, who laboured under disabilities far greater than any that the denuders suffered. lie moved an amendment that the claim be omitted. Mr. *lsl.!. suggested that the omission of that part of the clause which referred to the teaching of Christianity, would meet Dr. Foster's object. Dr. ItuTKR acquiesced, bat the seconder of the amend meat, the Rev. Mr. Bubier, refusing his concurrence to the modification, the vote was taken upon the omission of the whole of the clause, end • majority of nearly four-fifths of the meeting decided against the retention of the proposed declaration of principle. The other clauses of the revised constitution were then put and adopted, with some amendments. A proposition made by the Rev. Mr. Sublet, by way of addition to the modes of action, as follows— " and by seeking to put an end to the ecclesiastical character of our universities, and by the abolition of subscription to the Thirty-niuu Articles on obtainiog deposes, and by the removal of those rntrie bons on fellowship. which require the holder to take de pees in the church of England "—being pat and rm sabred. Alter some further proceeding., the meeting adjourned, shortly after 9 o'clock in the evening, until 10 o'clock this SOUTH EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY. Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholden wag held at the Bridge-house Hotel, Lon don bridge, for the purpose of confirming or otherwise, the resolutions for the disso:otion of the company, agreed to at a meeting on the 20th ult. The chair was taken by Mr. J. MACOIZOUL M.l'. The report of the director' stated that the accounts of the company showed an available balance of amen at their dis• pont of 133,0911. fir. lid., including the sum of 99,4061., which would be paid by the South Eastern Railway Com pany fur the eight *team ships belonging to the steam packet company on their transfer, and a balance in cash at the bankers of 38,3611/. 113 s. 3d. The company still bad out standing claims to settle emanating to 1,81,1. S.. 4d., and them .as a sea of 9881. I► due to proprietors for dividends which bad been declared end which were in course el' pay ment. The number of shares which had been paid up by the proprietors was 11,099 ; the number on which tells were still doe 23; the amount of galls due was 1241. The directors world be prepared In pay on the follow ing (this) day to each proprietor, on his MMUS iag the deed of release, 121. per share, after which a balance of 1,6271. Se. 11d. would remain In the heads of the directors, and any balance in their hands on the final winding up of the company's satins would be sec:Able fur dtstnbution. It was added that the directors soull i.ot take leave of the proprietors without thanking them for the honourable confidence they had been pleased to lan in them sines the establishment of the company. The enAligag then moved a resolution declaring • dis @elution of the ampaity to be expedient. As regarded the I,En meatiened la the report, be observed that the out standing diem ee the seepany nude it necessary that that sem abseM be eeteinsi. That snout wee equivaleat to shwa Se per diess. and anything whisk moaned after the teal eningsment of the company's affairs would, as iati mind is Wm re m% be distributed mug the shareholders. Mr. IsissisAw, desurpeliairmaa, reseeded the motion, Uhl& MIS passed unanimously. The report, profit and lose acermat, and belases-sheet erreeTo to vel, ea was also the draftee dd of release. Ice y a question, Th. 11/ORMAN stated that duplicates of the deed of ve lem, would be sent to Liverpool and Manchester ; and that the docassent also ',mild be seat to parties scattered about the eountry who could aot euveaiently come to Lon don to alga it. Tusks were voted to the chairman aad the director*. WESTININSTIN FREEHOLD LAND SOCIR/T.—The committee of the Westminster Freehold Land Society have just Mated their fourth annual report. They iaform the pubic that they wen the first freehold land society formed in Linden, and that they have steadily adhered to the ori ginal principle of rotation, dividing the estates se they pre clude them, equally between the paid-up and the sishearlb teg members ; they say that they see strongly of opinion that reeryares to the nsethod of drawing lots, which has he ease so panel, is calculated to exercise an extremely per aicieus Meets. upon the morals of the people ; that it counteracts to a great degree the good effects of the free hold sod movements, in replacing sturdy self-reliance by a blind trust in chance. That it introduces, in Ana, a spirit of ambling sad feverish excitement into a movement, re well adapted for teaching habits of business, fore thought, vigilance. forbearance, and patient suffering. They say teat the production of accounts between minden sod allettres, a practice originated by the committee, and, as they believe, exclusively followed by them, is one which, in their opinion, should be required by the members of all freehold laud societies, as affording the only real and an cient mesas whereby they and the public can judge of the relative or comparative advantages offered by similar insti biases. They then give a debtor and creditor account of the estate last allotted, by which it appears that the mem bers had obtained their plots at the actual cost of the pur chase, with the additioa of 14 per cent. for conveyance, making roads, and all other expenses. They say that their present number of shares is 1,575, and making, with those taken up on the distributed estates, 1,774. The entire sub scriptions have melted the sum of 22,1811. 12e., of which 8,7711. 76. Ari. has been received during the present year. The number of votes obtained by the members previous to the last registration was, for East Surrey, 35; and West Survey, 77. Tile recent revision bag, however, added con siderably to the number in both divisions of the county. EDUCATION OF RAILWAY SERVANTS.—The Lon don and North Wintery' Railway Company, desiring to promote the mental improvement of their men, have or ganised examinations and offered prises for progress in knowledge among the young men at Crewe. The int annual examination will be held in the month of October, !Bit when the candidates for the prises will be examined by her Majesty's inspector of Se.nools for the district in the undermentioned course of studies. The day of examination will be an nounced one month previous thereto, when every candidate will be required to send in to the Rev. Mr. Butler his age, the prize far which he intends to compete, and a certificate of good conduct for the previous l 2 months. Every young man in the works under 19 years of age is eligible to become a candidate. The highest prise will be 61., the second 41., the third 31., and 71. will be divided smong those who shell prove themselves to have been diligent and studious in the course marked out. The candidate* for the two first prises will be examined in Mechanics, the Elements of Mechanical Drawing, in Grammar, in the Elements of the British Con stitution, in Physical Geegraphy, and in the History of the Church. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, NM QUARTERLY RETURN OF THE MARRIAGES. BIRTHS. AND DEATHS, REGISTERED IN ENGLAND. -4.--- This return comprises the births and deaths registered by 2,191 registrars in all the districts of Englaud daring the summer varier ending September 30th, 1853 and the marriage* in 12,039 churches or chapels, about 3,424 registered places of worship unconnected with the established church, and 624 superintendent registrars' *filets, in the quarter tnatended June 30th, 1853. The return of marriages is not complete ; but the detects are ieconsiderable, and approximative numbers have been supplied from the records of previous years. The marriages exceeded the average in the quarter end ing is June. For the quarter that ended in September 30th the births have also been above the average number, while the deaths have bee. fewer than is usual in propor tion to the population. The mortality of the town popula tion has experienced a marked diminution dusting the ' summer ; but one town has suffered severely, and others are threatened by Asiatic cholera. MAR 111•018. 40.335 marriages were celebrated in the quarter that ended a June, 1853 ; a number exceeding by 328 the mar sieges in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The merriagea in the spring quarter have thus gradually risen from 30,048 in 1842, to 40,335 in 1863. The increase of marriages within the last five years is particularly con spicuous in Loudon Cornwall, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Munmouthshire, and South Weise. 147,591 births were registered in the quarter ending Sep tember 39th. This is above the ge number ; but it is less by 3,612 than the numbers (151,193) which were regis tered in the correspon..ing quarter of 18.52. The decrease is, singularly enough, observable in every county except Middlesex, Surrey, Cornwall, Staffordshire, ItutlancLhire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, and Monmouthshire. - - . INCRILASIL OP POPVLATIUN. As 147,581 births and only 92,332 deaths were registered. a balance of 55,249 remaiue in ths population. The births and deaths are not registered in Scstland and Ireland, as they are in nearly all other civilised countries, so that the increase of the population of the United Kingdom cannot be sicertnined ; but if the erects of births in those divisions of the United Kingdom bears the same proportion to the population as it dues in England and Wales, the inertness by natural causes must be about 83,000. But 87.467 emi• grants sailed from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are government emigration agents in the quarter ending September 30th, 1853 • ao th at allowing on one band for births ,unregistered, end on the other for emigrants unretorned, it is probable that the population of the United Kingdom has declined ratter than increased daring the summer. 13,523 of the emigrants sailed from London, Plymouth, and Southampton; 63,600 from Liverpool ; 2,807 from Glasgow and Greenock ; 7,437 from Irish ports. As a large proportion of the emigrants (rent Liverpool, as well as from the Irish ports, are natives of Ireland, it follows that the population of Ireland is de creasing, and that the population of England is slowly increasing, while the contributions of both countries within the last three years to the colonial plantations are without example. PVC'S OP PROVISIONS. It will be seen in the annexed table that the prices of the chief articles of food are much higher than they . were in the corresponding quarter of the last year ; the roe in the price of wheat is 26, mutton 23, beef 24, potatoes 31 per cent. The rate of wages has been raised in several trades; and at the same time the labourers and artisans hare been more tally emplo)esl. The go Prim of Consols, of Wheat, Meat, and Potatoes ; also the average Quantity of Wheat sold and Imported weekly, In each of the Nine Quarters coding Sept. 30, 1863. thbest and Average t Wheat sold In Wheat Lour Average Price the ISO Cities catered Mr Price of Wheat and Towns Home QIIIIMMIn of VeT in holland and Cooeureption Miles Consols Quarter Wales at Chief l'orto Oar in making of Great Money). Zeeland Returns. Britain. a Wake. ,__---...---.--, Average No.of Gra. Weakly. 1851. £ s. d. (Jr.. Qrs. Sept. 30.. 96} 40 7 74,714 91,040 Dee. 31 .. 971 36 7 109,506 47,986 1852. Mar. 31 971 40 10 95,832 27,540 June 30 911 6 8 40 10 87,949 54,675 Sept. 30.. 100 41 2 78,712 67,912 Dec. 31 1004 40 5 111,224 72,870 1853. Mar. 31 994 45 7 95,115 63,530 June 30 100 4-8 44 8 84,559 82,623 Sept. 30 97 51 10 86,087 120,020 Average Priam of Average Prices of Meat per lb. Potatoes (York Quarters at Leaciesh,ll and Newlata Regents) yet . too ending Market. (by the wens). at Market, Waterride Meet Mutton. Southwark. 1851. Sept. 30 3d.-sd. 314.—55 U. 901.-110 1 . Mean 4d. Mean 4 . Mean 100 e. Dec. 31 311.--sd. 31d.-5 . 651.-755. 1852. Mean 4d. Mean Ofd. Mean 701. March 31 31c1.-5.1. 34d.-5 d. 60-.-80.. Mean 44d. Mean 4d. Mean 70s. June 30 345.-44 d. 3.14.-5 d. 85 1 .-110 s. Mean 4d. Mean 4 d. Mean 970.6 d. Sept. 30 31d —54. 4d.-6_ , 801.-1001. Mean 4ed. Mean sd. Mean 90s. Dec. 31 3d.-64. 40.-6 d. 905.-1201. 1853. Mean 44, Mean 5 d. Mean 105 s. March 31 4 dd.l 4f11.-6 . 1101.-1451. Mean Mean d. Mean 1271.61 Jane 30 451.--s„d. 511.-6 d. 1101.-145 e. Mean 41d. Mean 6 . Mean 1278.6 d. Sept. 30 411.-64. 64.-71 d. 1102.-12.55. Mean 50. Mean 64d. Mean 1175.6 d. t Notts.—The total number of quarters of wheat sold in England and Wets for the 13 weeks ending Sept. 30th, 1851. was 971,276; for the 13 weeks ending Dec. 31st, 1,4223,582; for the 13 weeks ending March 31st, 1852, 1,241,921 ; for the 13 weeks ending June 30th, 1,143,339 t for the 13 weeks ending Sept. 30th, 1,023,251 ; for the 13 weeks ending Dee. 31st, 1.446,903; for the 13 weeks ending Mitch 31st, 1853, 1,236,493; for tate 13 weeks ending June 30th, 1853. 1,099,261; for the 13 weeks ending Sept. 30th, 1853, 1,119,128. The total number of quarters entered for home consumption was respectively 1,183,523, 671,803, 358.023, 710,780, 882 , 850 , 947,310, 8 26,886, 1,074,095, and 1,560,255 ; the second total, however, embraces the returns of 14 weeks. STATE 07 THE PTJBLIC HEALTH. 92,42 deaths ham hem registered during the quarter ; a number lees by 8,185 then the number of emu= (100,497) whose deaths were reemmled in the summer quarter of 1832. The depression of the 'mortality estimated our nearly every county except Durhera and Northumberland; and indeed over all except a stew districts of these counties. A similar depression of the mortality was observed in the Memeter quarter of 1848, immediately before the outbreak Si the epidemic cholera. The mortality during the quarter of the districts Com prising the chief townie and a population of 7,795,882 was at the rats of 2.4 per cent. per annum nearly ; the mortality of the districts °lsmail towns and country parishes was at the rate of 1.7 per cent. The average rates are higher ; or 2.6 and 1.9 per cent. The number of deaths in London wu 12,918, which is below the average. The deaths by systolic disease were 3,4-16, includiog 1,232 by diarrhoea, and 137 by cholera. The deaths by diarrhoea were 200 less than in either of the summer quarters of the preceding years; and the deaths from cholera did not exceed the average of the three pre ceding summer quarters. 595 deaths were referred to typhus; and over the country scarlatina prevailed with great severity in several districts. The local epidemics are indicated in the registrar's reports. The appearance of the Asiatic cholera in London, and the terrific mortality which it has occasioned within a few weeks in the north of England, are of such importance as to demand the whole of our attention. As a means of guidance and a basis of reasoning, it may be useful to present here a brief summary of the facts which regulated the coaxes of the epidemic that broke out dye years ago. TIM CHOLERA. Evident cases of the epidemic of 1848-49 were registered in London and in &mainland during the first week of Oc tober. The deaths from cholera in all England were 1,103 during the last three months of the year. The epidemic declined, and in April, 1849, the deaths were only 107 ; is May, 327. The great epidemic eruption began, and in June 2,016 personsdied of it; July, 7,670; August, 15,872 ; September, 20,379; October, 4,654 ; November, 8 44 ; De umber, 163. The 36th sad 37th weeks of the year 1849 were the moat fatal ; the deaths from cholera in those two ' weeks wen 12,592. On the most fatal day, Sept. 6, the deaths by the discus were 1,121. The total deaths from cholera in 1849 were 53,293: 12,162 1111 the number wore of pennies under 10 Jean of age. The mortality soy the disease was at the rate of 30 in 10,000 of the inhabitants. Diarrhoea of a severe form was fatal in the same year to 18,887 persons, chiefly children ; or to 11. in 10,000 of the inhabitants. The danger of dying by the epidemic was greatest at ad vanced ages ; the rate of mortality was 13 in 10,000 at the age of 12 ; 64 in 10,000 at the age of 70 ; the danger ad vancing progressively with age. The duration of the fatal attacks of cholera is recorded in 39,468 cases ; and it was found to be 50 hours on an ave rage. More than half of the cues (20,684) terminated within 24 hours. In 85 of the 623 districts of England no death from cho lera was recorded. Only one death was referred to cholera in Herefordshire, and one in Westmoreland. The centres of the attacks of the great epidemic were London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Bristol, Merthyr Tydfil, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, Bull, and Tynemouth. In the following districts the rate of mortality by cholera exceeded 100 to 10,000 inhabitants:—lt was in Hull 241, Merthyr Tydfil 231, Stoke Damerel 193, Salisbury 185, Neatb 169, Liverpool 167, Plymouth 167, &situates 152, East Stonehouse 148, Leeds 145. St. Germans 143, Wolter hamptna 137, Tynemouth 129, Gravesend 119, Newcastle under•Lyine 117, Huaslet (near Leeds) 102. The districts which in London were most fatal were Rotherhithe 205, St. Ole,. 181, St. Oeoree Southwark 154, Bermondsey 161, St. Saviour 153, Newington 144, Lambeth 120. It was in Wandsworth 100. The mortality was at the rate of 60 in 10,080 on the casts; 17 in 10,000 over the inland districts. It was at the rate of 125 in 10,000 in the districts including the large ports; 47 in the districts of the secondary ports; 15 in the other coast districts. Of the inhabitants of low river and seaside districts, 85 in 10,000 died by cholera ; in London the loss was 62 ; in in- THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT BLACKBLHN. Since the despatch on Wednesday afternoon of the report of this occurrence, which appeared ia the Es- ' press of yesterday, it has been ascertained that only five persons (instead of siz, as was then stated) have been killed, bat 'lateen others have received injuries more or less severe. The following Is a list of the persons killed : James Clegg, aged 40, w , Grinishaw-park, who was found against the wall in the weaving shop, with the back of his akull knocked in, and quite dead ; Thee. Brutherton, 40, w , John-street; Thos. Sharpies, 17, son of the engin, er ; Wm. Been, painter, of Swindon ; and e child a few months old belonging to a person named Robinson, who occupied the cottage that was knocked entirely down, and with whom Berm, the painter, was lodging. The persons injured were James Cowell, shuttle-maker's apprentice ; Ed. Sharpies, the engineer, who had one arm and one leg breken, and the other arm much scalded, besides being otherwise burnt and bruised; James Howarth, alias Walauley, the firemen, scalded and braised ; Ed. Ingham, painter, who was struck by • stone as he was passing up the street, and bad his leg broken ; Ann Waugh, aged 10, weaver ; Alice Duckworth, weaver, Rubton-bridge, bruised and scalded ; Ann Duck worth, 22, and Abel Duckworth, her husband, slightly hurt ; Ann Shorrocks, w eaver, slightly hart ; Jase Coupe, 21, w who fell from the upper weaving-room into the place where the boiler had been, and bad to scramble out over the hot ashes, sustieioing several bruises and burns; Wm. Coupe, brother of the last, who wee bruised about the legs by the falling materials; Betty Shorroeks, w , braised about the head; Ephraim Shorrocks, the overlooker, living in Blakewater-street, cot over the head by the falling ma . is ; Alice Ainsworth, weaver, Moore-street, a good deal hurt ; Elizabeth Chew, Moore-street, and Jane Bibby, both weavers. These two women were found under the looms, their arms round each otners necks, and their hands clasped together. Howarth, the fireman, who was struck on the head by some of the tailing brick', was carried home ' raging mad, and it required several men to hold him in bed. Hs recovery, and that of Sharples, the engineer, ars very doubtful. The time for opening the inquest on the bodies has not yet bees filed. MORE COFFINISII. -4-- Yesterdey Mr. Baker resumed a protracted inves tigation respecting the death of George Burt, aged 26 years, a City ostler, who it was alleged had died from the adminis tration of • medicine prescribed for him by • "herbalist" asamed John Stephens, of No. 138, Rateliffhighway, St. Osorge's-in-the-East, an agent of Dr. Coflin. Mary Ann Stevenson, of 13, Dunk-street, Mile-end New Town, who lived with the deceased, stated that be wee is good health until last Friday evening, between 7 and $ is'elock, when be came home and said he had drank off a pint of beer, and was suffering from a violent pain is the stomach. He had been drinking to excess two days previously. Witness gave deceased two pennyworth of ginger brandy. after which he went to sleep. He was much troubled with diarrhoea. At one o'clock witness proceeded to the house of Mr. Stephens, the herbalist, is Ratcliff highway, who attended gad prescribed for the de ceased. The Coroner—l recollect him; I have had two verdicts of manslaughter against him in my court, but he escaped at the Central Criminal Court twice. Witness continued—Mr. Stephens gave deceased some powders and a mixture, and then left, telling witness would call again. He came on the Saturday morning be tween 11 and 12 o'clock. He looked at the deceased, and tuning away, told vii.ness he could do no more for him. He went down stairs, when witness spoke to him, and he said ke would send something. He came again, and the dissesed was dead, when Stephens took the bottle contain• Demixture and threw it away. . Henry Istheby, professor of chemistry and toxicology ma *a London Hospital, had examined the stomach of the 1618•Sesd. He found the stomach red and congested in amino parts, and it exhibited marks of inflammation or With& Adhering to the coats of the stomach there were 1111.1111111 portiows of brown powder, which witness had Mask and found to consist of cayenne pepper and ginger MI a mall parties of the seeds of Isbell.* inflate, which bud se iambi ocessioned the inflammation described. The AMID id Millie inflate were those of a violeat irritant, sad If administered internally in a weak state of the else= would be likely to produce a second effect—namely, prostratioa of the bowels. TM present con was no doubt ems of stolen, and the remedy used by Mr. Stephens was • very improper one. Toe effects of Whelks inflate are well knows to the profession, and to witnem's knowledge there bad been 22 deaths from lobelia inflate in this country. lobelia iodate in a ease of cholera is the worst thing that could be given. The jury unanimously agreed to the folio/lag special verdict: That the deceased died from natural but his death may have been accelerated by imaMdisime ad ministered by an agent of Dr. Coffin, and Os Nom muse separate without requesting the mint is kg amiss of the depositions taken by him in this ass bean bar Ma jesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department and I the General Baird of Health, in order that the most effi cient =emote may be taken to prevent the illegal prac tice of herbalists and others, not duly qualified in adminis tering medicine." The Coroner said it was a very proper verdict, and he would lose no time in forwarding copied of the depositions as they requested. TnE ADELAIDL—Among the Australian paean gen by the Euzine, which arrived at Southampton on Wtdn•sday night, with the heavy portion of the Indian, China, and Austnlian mail, were the captain and Admiralty scent of the Royal Australian Mail Packet Company's steamer Adelaide. _ _ _ SUICIDE IN HORN SET Woon.—Yeetcrdny Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coroner for Middlesex, held an ingest at the Homey Wood House, on the body of a man unknown, who was found banning to a tree in Hornsey Wood last Sunday afternoon. William Barker, a labourer, stated that about half-past three on Sunday afternoon he went into the wood, to lock after a dog which had run there, when he found the deceased hanging from the bough of a small oak by his waist strap and neck tie. Witness saw that be appeared quite dead and called for assistance. The body was taken down, but it was quits stiff and cold. His toes were touching the ground and the strap was twisted two or three times round the bough. He looked as if he was smiling and leaning against the tree. The place where the body was found was near a public footpath. No letters or papers leading to identification were found upon the person of deceased. He appeared to be about 35 years of ag. , , 5 feet 8 inch(a high, very stout, and well dressed. There was an old scar upon the right cheek. The jury returned a verdict of " Found hanging from a tree, but under what circumstances tLere is not sufficient evidence to show.- land towns 83; in mall towns and the coma tey around the river warm only 12 in 10,000 perished. Of the inland towns, Wolvethampten, Merthyr Tydfil, Mencheeter, and Leeds ezperieneed the greater part of the mortality ; in the 33 other large inland towns the mortality was at the low Ms of 11 in 10,000. In London the water supply bed considerable influents on the mortality. The density of population and the poverty of the inhabitants were not without effect, but the effect of elevation of the soil transcended all other influences. On an meteor the mortality by cholera was in the several London districts at elevations of leas than 20 feet above ' Trinity high-water mark, 102 in 10,000; in the districts at an elevation of 20-40 feet, 63 in 10,000; of 40—GO feet, 34 ; of 60-80 feet, 27 ; of 80-103 feet, 22 ; of 100 feet, 17 ; of 350 feet, 8 in 10,000 inhabitants. The present epidemic has appeared first, like all that have preceded it, is the seaports. The first well-defined eases in London were registered in August, and the epidemic may be dated from August 20th; up to October Ist tile registered deaths, including some by English cholera, have amounted to 133. The origin of the last epidemic may be dated from October Ist, 1848; and that of 1831-32 also began in the month of October, 1831. The present epidemic has attacked 11l earlier in the year, but it has not yet in the aggregate been more fatal in Loudon than it was during the same number of weeks in 1848. In Newcastle-upa-Tyne, with a population of 89,156 in 1851, the mortality from cholera has raised the deaths hy all causes from 638 to 2,085; in Gateshead, from 374 to nt in three months. The epidemic poison was no sooner intro duced into the region than it, as it were, exploded, and destroyed nearly 2,000 lives. In neither of the previous epidemics was say such sudden destruction of life observed. Is the present epidemic—o 3 quickly following the epidemic of 1849 9—of a different and more fatal character ? or are there local circumstances, in dependently of the nature of the epidemic, that account for the desolation that now surrounds Newcastle-upon-Tyne ? These important questions can, it is evident, cnly be defini tively answered by careful inquiry into all the circum stances ; but enough has been elicited to justify us in re fusing to admit at present that the epidemic is in its nature more destructive than its predecessors; while it yields an awful sanction to the hygienic law, which prohibits the use of impure water. The Superintendent Registrars of Newcastle and Gates head, in reply to inquiries which the Registrar General has made, state, and have forwarded documents showing, that from the sth of July last the town, which Ind been sup plied before with salubrious water, was supplied largely ' from the impure source of the Tyne, in the vicinity of the sewerage of the town." [The Newcastle water taken from the River Tyne has been analysed by Dr. Robert Dundee Thomson. He found it to contain a quantity of organised matter mechanically diffused through it (loaded with living vibrios) to the amount of 4.502 grs. per gallon. Of this 0.545 grs. was destructible matter ; the remaining 3 947 gn. consisted of siliceous forms resembling the shields of in tutorial animals or diatomaceous plants. Dissolved or firiels diffused in the water, he further found 2.68 grss per gallon of orgasic matter. The water likewise contained 1.18 gr. per gallon of chalk and 7.3 grs. of muriate and sulphate of soda and sulphate of magnesia. The total solid contents were 15.662 gra. per gallon. This water was, it is said, filtered, but the process is not described by the water company.] The fact cannot be queitioned that the water with which Newcastle-upon-Tyne was supplied in 1848-9 was compara tively pure; and that in 1843, when the calamitous loss of life was recorded on the registers, the city was supplied with water containing a strong solution of the contents of the sewers. The same effect was the result of the same cause in Hull, in 1849. And other examples may be cited in which the converse happened, as at Exeter, where the inhabitants, after having suffered severely from cholera in 1832, obtained pure water, and escaped its ravages in 1848 9. In the East and in Europe observation has shown that cholera poison, be it what it may, is conveyed by water as well as air; hence the following precaution was cited in the Cholera Report ; ' The precautions to tike against cholera in regard to water, are well stated by Dr. Snow, and they are of so simple a nature that, considering all the facto, no Derma can prudently neglect them. Water into which sewers low, or which ts navigated by persons living in boats, or which is in soy other way contaminated by the contents of drains or cesspools, should be entirely disused." No person, to test the value of such a rule, would ever have proposed that a large town which was supplied with good water, and escaped with no considerable loss in a pre vious epidemic, should on the eve of another epidemic do all that is here forbidden. What no 7oceptical philosopher would have dared to propose as an experiment, what no haughty conqueror ever condemned the inhabitants of a subjugated city to endure—this fins English town on the Tyne—the centre of the coal trade—of In elligence of every kind—and of engineering knowledge—has done and suf. fend. All the excreta, which are thrown into the streets or water-closets, are washed down the acclivities of the streets into the river; the fermenting mass is driven up and down by the tides, and has thence since July been pumped by the engine at Elswick all over the town through the water-pipes for domestic uses. It has been used for abla tion, it has been washed over the floors, it has been drunk as a beverage by many of the children and the wives, as well as large numbers of the higher and middle as well se the working men of the town. This sad fact in the history of Newcastle will be remembered when the loss of 1,600 liven, by which it was followed, is forgotten. No water was drawn from the Tyne after September 15th ; the cholera then raged with less intensity, and the epionnic speedily subsided. Tree intensity of tho epidemic at Newcastle-upon-Tyne:is, under the circumstances, no decisive proof that in its essen tial form cholera is now more fatal thaw it was before • but it is unquestionably a warning to those towns which derive their water from polluted tidal rivers to abandon such sources, and to accelerate their works for supplying the population with pure water helms June next, otherwise the death registers may, it is to be feared , as, be filled with Ithe names *lnnumerable victims of a practice, which is degrading as it is destructive to the English nation. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT ASTLEI'S. On Wednesday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, an accident which will very likely terminate with loss of life, occurred to one of the supernumeraries at As tley's, named George Palmer, residing at Charlotte street, Blackfriars-road. The man was entrusted with a loaded , gun to fire of in some part of the performance, and whilst behind the scent s he had on former occasions amused the other supernumeraries by applying the muzzle of the gun to his month, placing the nipple near the gaslight, and extin guishing the gas by suddenly blowing the finer parts of the louse charge through the touch-hole. This was considered quite a feat in its way ; and on the night in question he proceeded to do it again. He was cautioned as to the dan gerous nature of the trick, but he would not desist. On applying the touch-hole to the gaslight he unfortunately inhaled his breath, which drew the flame down to the priming, and the charge instantly exploded. He was hurled backwards several yards, and he fell bleeding and insensible. Assistance being at haad, he was immediately conveyed to the Westminster Hospital and attended by Mr. Flagon, the house surgeon, who found upon exami nation that the roof of the mouth had been completely blown away, and the whole face horribly lacerated. He was alive late last evening, and had returned to conscious ness, but there is not the slightest hope of his recovery. The affair created considerable alarm among the corps drama ague at the theatre, as it happened during the perform ances. ACCIDENTS ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Yesterday morning two accidents took place on the Midland Railway—the one causing considerable appre hension and inconvenience from the detention of the mail containing the letters from the south, and the other at tended with considerable destruction of property. The first accident occurred to the goods train, which left Derby for Eckington at 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday night. When it had arrived about midway between Chesterfield and Stanley the axletree of one of the waggon. broke, and several of the others were thrown off du lice. The rails were torn up, and considerable damage was done to the permanent way. The down mail train, which left Euston square at nine p.m. on the previous evening, did not ar rive at Masbrough till seven o'clock:. being exactly four hours beyond the time at which it was due. The second accident wu a collision between a mineral and a goods train at Kilnhunt, near Masbrong h, between 8 and 9 o'clock on the same morning. The express goods train leaving Derby at a quarter to 6 o'clock in the morning had been delayed be oudC hester6eld for aornetitr.e,and as it approached theKiln burst station, a mineral train from some colliery works in the immediate neighbourhood for Sheffield tad to cross from a siding on the up line in order to get upon the down line. As it was doing so, the driver of the Derby goods train, who had failed to observed the danger distance signal, ran with fearful violence into the coal train just as it was crossing the line, and smashed several of the coal waggons. The engine of the goods train was thrown off the line, and the rails were torn up for a considerable distance by the force of the concussion. MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS GRANDMOTHER. — On Weduesday Ann Martin, of Loecoe, Derbyshire, was committed on the coroner's warrant to take her trial on a charge of having murdered the illegitimate child of her daughter by throwing it into a well. GALE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.—Several of the recently arrived vessels from the western continent report very severe gales from the westward on the 21st and 22nd October. The Chili, from St. John's, New Brunswick, and ;the England, from St. Andrews, arrived at Liverpool, en countered the gale of the 21st, the former in lat. 46 ton. 44, and had her boats, bulwarks, &c., carried away, and the latter in lst. 50 lon. 26, and passed a quantity of wreck on the 22nd. The Continent, Drummond, from New York, at Liverpool, wns thrown on her beam ends in the gale of the 22nd, in lat. 48, lon. 36. She became leaky, and had to throw part of her cargo (chiefly grain) overboard. She removed her passengers to the Philanthropist (as r•ported yesterda)). She lost hoots, &c., and tier mate in the storm was washed overboard, but alter great esertion was rescued. The Ohio, also from New York, at Liverpool, caught the gale of the 23rd, inlet. 49, lon. 41, and was twice struck by lightning, which injured several of the passengers and cargo, splitting the maintopmast and injuring the mainmast head. She leaked considerably, and while endeavouring to reduce the depth of water, the pumps choked, and part of her cargo was pumped up. THE POPULATION OF PRUSSIA in December, 1832, was 16,93.5,420 souls, giving an increase, during three years, from 1849, of 537,972 soul', or 3.28 per cent. THE CHOLERA, (Fran the Gamma Board of Elsalib, Stn. t.) METROPOLIS. From returns made be the superintendents of police of the D, E, 0, li, L, M and P Divisions it appears that between the 28th October and the Ist instant there had occurred in those districts 18 cases of cholera, eight of which terminated fatally. One person was found dead in his room in Gee 'e-court, and en inquest being held, a verdict was returned of " died of spasmodic cholera." The return also con tains among the nine fatal cases many after very short illness. There was also a case of death from cholera in Little Marlborough-street on 2nd inst. A case of cholera which occurred on Monday last at 15, Ashby-street, St. Pancras, is the second (inde pendently of several of diarrhoea) within four days in the same house. Mr. Sutherin, the medical officer of I tho district, reported this house, as well as several others in the same street, a fortnight ago as in a most filthy, unwholesome state. Mr. Sutherin re gards it as one of the black spots in his district. At the present time there is scarcely a house on the same side of the street as No. 15 in which cases of small-pox, scarlotir,a, or fever are not existing. One of the inmates of the room where the cholera ease has occurred had small-pox about six weeks ago; while two other cases of the same frightful malady took place in the room above. To permit such a place to be occupied in its present state is little short of homicide. The parochial authorities of Westminster have, ever since 1849, been carrying out with great activity the sanitary improvement of their parish. During the present year, 579 cesspools have been emptied, 158 fuul drains cleansed, 6, houses limewashed, 103 piggeries and 33 rubbish heaps removed. The cleansing of the streets has likewise been diligently attended to, ands supply of water has been provided to numerous housee, previously without any. The parish has already experienced the pecuniary benefit of these judicious measures in the abatement of sickness, and the consequent diminution of pauper relief. There is, perhaps, no part of the metropolis in which, of recent years, so large an amount of the worst description of low house property has been got rid of as in Westminster. The construction of Victoria-street has effected the demolition of some of the vilest tenements in London ; but while it is pleasing to know that such plague spots are removed, the serious question suggests itself, what has become of all the poor population who have been thrust out of their miserable abodes? The parochial authorities have now a favourable op portunity of effecting a most important social im iprovement, by availing themselves of the powers which, in common with other parishes throughoot the kingdom, they possess under Lord Shaftesbury's Act of 1851, to erect suitable dwellings f.r the la bouring and poorer classes. The measure, if judi ciously carried out, has been shown to be remunera tive, and would eventually prove a source of profit is a variety of ways to the parish. Dr. Milroy had an interview on the 2nd instant, with the board of guardians of Hemp- Mewl. The board unanimously passed a resolution appointing Mr. Lord, the parochial medical officer, es the responsible sanitary inspector and health officer of the parish, so that a thorough and systematic examination may be made of every locality where any sort of nuisance exists. Numerous complaints of private and local nuisances are being daily addressed to the General Board of Health. In all such cases the first step that should be taken is to bring the case without delay to the knowledge of the parochial medical officer of the district. Should there be any unnecessary default or delay in dealing with it, a detailed statement of particulars might then be sent to the General Board. DUNDEE. On the 31st ult., Dr. Gavin met the chairman and oth te members of the local board, together with the medical officers. The returns, which are by no' means complete, show that from Oct. 15 to 31 there had been 211 cases of diarrhoea, 49 cases of cholera,' and 22 deaths. The cases are stated to have not yet occurred so much amongst the indigent poor as amongst the class above them. One abominable nuisance appears to exist here to a greater extent even than in other towns. "There is," says Dr. Gavin. "a very great want of the common conveni eases. They may be said not to exist at all, but in pines of them there are public privies —horrible, dis gusting, brutalising in the extreme. Any person frequenting them in a choleraic epidemic trifles with his life." The places in which the disease has hitherto de veloped itself are net so palpably and specially insa lubrious as is common in other towns, although it is I stated that Dundee abounds in so many impurities I that it is difficult to determine which may be the special locaiising cause. A number of resolutions embodying the whole of Dr. Gavin's recommenda tion, have been unanimously adopted by the autho rities. The principal were as follows: -777 117aPloperly . quilitiiiriiiitors be appointed to visit the families in the different districts, with a view to detect diarrhea, and treat it in its earliest , dare " That handbills or notices shall be extensively cit.- Galata containing directions as to applying for me dicines, and obtaining medical advice on the first ap para. wee of the disease." That a communication be made to the Commis sioners of Police, directing attention to the danger arising from dunghills being allowed to remain in the neighbourhood of peopled localities, and also to the necessity of the public privies being either removed or provided with the means of beingp.operly cleaned owe a day and kept in a safe condit ion. " "That a communication be also made to the in spector of factories with a view to having a searching examination into the state of health of the opera tives and workers employed at the various mills and manufactories in theplace." "That a number of nurses be employed properly qualified to wait upon patients affected with diarrhoea mad cholera." " That the medical attendants be requested to fix upon a common form of prescription applicable to all the dispensaries." " That Dr. Gavin be requested to procure five gen tlemen, to be approved of by the committee, to act as house to house visitors. The remuneration to be, if qualified, one guinea per day, and if not qualified 15s. per day ; that their travelling expenses to and from Dundee be paid by the board, and that they shall receive one day's pay over and above the num ber they shall act as visitors." SonAM.—On an inspection of this town which contains a population of about 4,700 souls, Dr. Walter Lewis states that the crying evil—the prima cause of the virulent form of the epidemic now raging is the quantity of stagnant water met with at every step : The state of all the cottage privies is disgust lag in the extreme. The people are very poor, being mostly farm labourers, earning on an average only 10s. a week, which, with the present high prices of provisions, does not give them nearly the amount of support they require to keep them in health. There have been already 20 deaths from Cholera, and several' more persons at present in the collapsed stage, will have to be added to the list to-night or to-morrow morning. ARBROATH.—On the lit of November there were three fatal cases, of which two had previously been reported as being under treatment. The third was a new case, which had occurred since the last ac counts. The local authorities have procured eligible premises for the accommodation of the families of those attacked with the disease. TENTERDEN ' KENT.—Oct. 31. Cholera-1 death. Nov. 1. Cholera-1 death. The above were hus band and wife. APPLEDORE.—Nov. 2. Cholera-3 deaths. LUTON.—Nov. 2. Cholera-3 deaths. These make ten deaths from cholera in the Luton district between the 17th October and the 2nd itle. RICKMANWORTII (WALFORD UNION).-OCt. Cholera-1 death ; diarrhcea-1 death. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TTNE.—Oct. 30. Cholera-1 death. THE TIVNTING SLASON AT CIIELTENIIAM.—The fox hounds hare arrived at their Cheltenham kenctl, during the week, and on Monday the ringiog of the bells of the parish church announced the arrival a the nohle master of the pack at his mideuce, German Cottage. Yesterday, the first meet of the season, the hounds threw off at Dewdts• well, and after a serarahling rum they ultimately lest their fox. Lord Fitahardinge was present, and appearid, we are pleased to say, in his usual health. There was a large at tendance of horcznitn, including a goodly sprinkling of red coats.—Cht.llenhlat Examiner. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, Nov. 3.—lna convocation held this day, et ten o'clock, the prepoeition,.to cooler e gr m e ;A e ri o .: f hoef Doc t or Lianecoco i l n a: D o cation tht m a :: i t aß h . ishop D e s rs of i gn a te e ahegcpnath l I :a:A o i n innve o ct: r odr a r y eNf tjoreeoura.n d r; T o o f wonri;e: College, mrocukrslystg:nr.eiertitlituanta.hnea prudencr and Modern History ; and of M tt r a, .. w f da le ra t i r r y t.h r ej r an it m e tn h e: - ard, 8.D., of C m or a xi t u i,: s e,ld Ch i r m is m ti .d C i u m le i g y e af : s Bsrmby, M.A ,of Magdalen College, Moderat o r s i n t h e gentlemen f Slnahw lobi took 'c o ng r ega tion th e the oaths on admi•fica. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3.—IiESIGNA EION OF TIII: VICE CHANCELLOR.—At a statutable congrrga•iou, holden this day, the Vice-Chm.cellor (the Rev. the M.Aver rf Carpus Christi Colle t te) resigned his office, Lis neademmil period having expired. His successor (the W.. Dr. lieldart, Master of Trinity Hall) will be Av.: cd to morrow. The Inspector. of the Anatomical Museum rei.ort to the Senate :—That the Museum is in very good order, and tho specimens contained in the collections in an emit Pent state of preservation. Since the last ins;.ectien the foaowing additions have been made : To the Pat hulog.cal C llection— Five specimens of disease of bone, dry ; preseuted by Mr. Ilumphry. Twelve specimens of disease of bones and joint., of viscera, &e., also presented by Mr. Humphry, which have been placed in glass and spirits. To tho general Collection of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology— Head of male espra sinaitica with the i•ltegumenta, aid pair of antlers of cervus axis, both from the Est Indies; presented by Professor Stokes. Thirty nine specimens of beads, which were collected during the voyage of the Astrolabe and ZClee in the Southern Pacific raid Antarctic seas; amongst them are six heads of different species of phuca and uteri., three of Sowing, two et fault, &c., &c.; presented by the Professor of Anatomy. A n.ix model of an arm d.sseeted, to exhibit the ,nu. ties sari blood vessels, has been placed in the Muse um by Mr. 11..luiphry. IRELAND. ~~ Don.nt, Nov. 3. The banquet given by the exhibitors to Mr. Damn and the Executive Committee of the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853 took place last night in tho King's-room of the Mansion-hoesi-, on a scale of magnificence, and altogether with an s fleet worthy of the occasion. Nearly (101) persons, embracing a large portion of the most respec:able of our gentry and ei. izens, with several of the nobility, sat down to dinner; and the places set apart in the cast room for the accommodation of ladies were crowded with fashionably dressed persons. Mr. Fry, T.C., occu pied the chair; and among the company were Mr. William Dorgan, the Lord Mayor, Laid Ctancarty, Lord Massareene, Sir Robert Kane, Mr. John Len taigne, Sir John Benson, Mr. Walter Sweetinan, Mr. Nathaniel Hone, Mr. J. W. 31urland, Mr. James Stirling, Dr. Harrison, Mr. L. F. Foot, Sir Cusack Roney, Mr. John lfeane, Mr. R. E. Thompson. To the left of the chairman sat Mr. George Roe (chair man of the Executive Committee), the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Ward, Lord Talbot de Mulahisle. Lord Bective, Lord Gough, Lord ltossmore, Mr. Justice Jackson, the Hon. Mr. Vereker, Sir John Kingston 'James, Sir Edward M'Donnel, Dr. W. Barker, Mr. Thomas Ball, Mr. W. De la Touche, Mr. W. H. Porter, Mr. John Barton, Mr. T. 31. Gresham. The following letter of apology from the Lord Lieutenant was read: Viceregal Lodge, Oct. 22, lea. Oentlemen,—ln reply to your letter oi the 2let inst., the contents of which I communicated to the Lord L'eutenant, I am desired by his Excellency to express to yen h's regret that he will nut be able is attend the banquet which the ezhibitan intend to give Mr. Dargsn on Wednesday, the 2nd November.-1 have the honour to he, gentlemen, your obedient servant, IlEfinv F. PONSONRY. Letters of apology were also read from the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from Lord F.glinton, from the High Sheriff of Lon don, and several others. Among the speakers were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Ward, Mr. Dargao, Alderman Roe, Dr. Gray, &c. The trial of Miss Cantwell, charged with stealing a small bit of velvet ribbon in the counme: cial house of Messrs. Cannock and White, terminated yester day in the acquittal of that lady, after having oc cupied the court during the whole of tour days. The case put to the jury was to determine whether Miss Cantwell had taken the ribbon off the counter with a felonious intention, or in a mistake, believing that it was the one which she had purchased. The jury returned a verdict .of " Not guilty," without a mo ment's deliberation. The scene which followed the announcement of the verdict is thus described in the Freanam : The announcement of this verdict was received with loud and continued applause, wavioee of bets and handkerchiefs from all parts of the cont. The cheering was repeated again and again while the Chief Dunn remained on the bench, and was continued for a coasideratle time after he left it. A large number of ladies and other friends of Miss ' Cantwell gathered round her, and congratulated her on the result of the trial, and ■ numerous holy of the catholic clergy, including several dignitaries of Dublin, testified , their deep interest in the event. Dense crowds were as sembled outside the court-house, and as Miss Cantwell, ac companied by her sisters, Miss O'Neill, sad other friends entered their vehicle and drove oaf tewards home, the people manifested their feelings by repeated cheering. INUNDATIONS AND LOSS OF LIFE. The unprecedented fall of rain with which the country has been deluged for some weeks past has produced the effects which were apprehended for a few days past, in the shape of destructive floods which have visited various parts of the country, and in some cases with loss of human life and other disastrous consequences. THE VACANT SEE.—In addition to the names mentioned in our last publication, we have heard that that of the Rev. Dr. hit:tierce has been spoken •f. Ilia pesition in Trinity College, in which he fills the char of Divinity, from which Dr.O'Brien was promoted,ceti;dett with the fact of his having been always a consistent whi; er. , l tev.turer of the National Board, would seem to render hi; r;•p•,iatmeut not very improbable.—Ereniny Mail. NEW INVENTION IN LITLIGGRAPIII". Messrs. M'Clore and Co. haw eery recently in troduced a new machine for lithographic printing. which will probably produce a revolution not only in that hut in many kindred arts. It is the inventian of a Prussian mechanician (Sigel), and hoe for some time been in active operation in the government printing-offices r Vienna, Path, and Berlin, but was not 'mown in this country until introduced by Messrs. M'Clure and Co., wh 3 have secured the exclusive patent right for the United Kingdom. To understand its importance, its necessary to take into ac count that, by the present mode of printing by hand, not more than 250 copies of any draft can be obtained in a day by an expert workman, whereas by the new machine the patentees have already realised a production of rafeo in the hour. It will easily be seen then, how valuable pitch ..n invention would be in rapidly getting up an illustrated journal, as the e vent of the moment might he drawn, engrased. and shuck off almost in a moment, whereas at vesent, la con sequence of the inevitable tediousness of wood engraving, the mint stirring transactions are always at least a week old before they can be pictorially presented to the public. A still mere important use, to which the invention wilt pro bably ultimately be put, is the indefinite multiplication of newspapers. It is already known that the whole of a news paper form in type may be transferred to the stone in about half an hour, and thus duplicate or triplicate ferns might easily be obtained from one composition, and three or four printing machines kept going together. Sj far a greater speed than one thousand an hour is not attainable in the new machine, but it is easy to see that to raise it to the speed of the ordinary printing machine, is merely a qmestion of time and detail. The main principle of the invention is, that in place of manipu lation the stone traverses the machine, which is similar in form to the Napier press, running beneath a damping roller of ingenious construction, and subsequently coming in contact with the inking rollers. The pressure raising from this contact makes the impreseion complete, and the perfected work is delivered at the rate we base already mentioned. The machine has excited the greatest interest in the trade, many of the members of which visited the workshop yesterday, and satisfied themselves by ocular de monstration as to the number of impressions per hour that might be obtained. LINARES LEAD MINING COMPANY.—TESTIMO NIAL TU MR. Ileatut Tritumas.—Yesterday evening be tween thirty and forty shareholders iu tiles eomt any gave a dinner at the Loadon Tavern, to Mr. Thomas, thii manager of its mining affairs in Spain. After the dinner, the chair man, Mr. W. Tunes, presented to Mr. Thomas a testimo nial, consisting of a handsome silver tea and coif, e service, provided by the suiiseriptions of individual shay-:.olo.era in acknowledgment of his valuable services to the company ; and in doing so he paid a high tribute to that gent:cman for his zeal, fidelity, cud perseverance rind.; c .reumstances peculiarly requiring those qualities. Mr. Thomas, in reply ing, observed that tt.e mine which bad been entrusted to his care was of very ancient origin, having, in fact, been worked by the Romans and the Carthaginian?, and there was every prospect of its continuing to yield a most satis factory return. The proceedings, which were protracted to a late hour, were of a mast harmonious character. Tim Puss or TONALE.—The Austria of Vienna announces that the new road, commenced this year, which is to connect Lombardy with the Tyrol, through the defile of Tomsk, situ eta at 6,10 feet shave the 1-vel of the sea, is in active progress. It is to superseder the old road over the Stilts, which is upwaris of 8,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is often impassable far mouths Souther on ac count of the snows.