The Express. — London, England, 1852-08-11 00:00:00

s ag.. White Kei, on the 6th August, from whence I e y ksd them forthwith in person into the country of the dosteino an; Chief Krell to despoil him of his cattle, as ins trot means of effectually bringing him to submission, mi d t h,,tiy terousiatiair the present tiresome ire? het hieehy make known to the colonistsof all elurea who oho.l Lilentarity join to this great commando that all rage that may be ciptured by them shall be divided s mart the cAptort, for thou own use and bencM, saved igity, 1,11.1...1111h1C division as may be determined ow by tOgie own t ,ininaodants. tiod save the Queen ' Given tinder the public real of the settlement at the Cape of Hoed Hope this Id day of July, b y ~,a is and of hie Eacellency the Governor, ,r..qued) Ittettaito Sorvina, • Actiog Secretary to Government. A voluntary confession made by one of the Mot bigot bandits who attempted to murder Mr. Whit • a t .\Jul e, and who plundered the waggons in his e b ar g,, rtes still further to strengthen the suspi cion. the Kaffir* obtain their supplies of mumu maim front Englishmen. The name of this Hottentot is Paul Dry, he was corporal in the Cape Mounted Rith-. and deserted from the regiment at King 'loan subsequently to the outbr.ak, and • prior to the general desertion from the eorin, he was bteught to King ‘Villiatun Town prisoner by two & Tim is, who had apprehended hint at Blue Krantz, About twenty' miles distant from Citenhage, on the Sth instant. Ile was seen with another Illottentot, awned Win.tiolliad , in the neighbourhood of Cornelis Muilies :arm, to which they came in the afternoon, wishing it to be understood that they were loyal men. .% fouler. name Hendrik 1k Blauke, came up to Muller's house, at the door of which he obsetved them two rebels. lie noticed that l'aul 1/ry had a quantity of blue and drab duttle tied on his back, soil instantly wiring him by the neck forced him into the house, a In re. a ith the assistance of Muller, la• ea, secund. Williant Gulliad effected his escape. lle subesqueutly volunteered the following confes sion: Itanddiee of a voluntary statement made by Paul Dry, 1.1! e • Corporal in the tape Cope, who deserted to the gam, •Ta, party of Motto mots that came to the Zuarberg, ander the command of Item Brander, was sent by Uithaal der, the chief commandant ut the Hottentots, to examine the Zuul berg. and sae what sort of • country it is. Having sad. ti.. t11.110111.1t1011. he was to return and report to tithaaliter, who would then quit the Aneatulas, and with bistro of Hottentot., amounting tea:,/Omen at the least, l a . so. TO oCeltry the Zuurberg, which was deemed an ad piste, and cell adapted for fighting. This was s „ b, provided no peace had been made before the report as. Tickle..., acid Brander intended to report fa vourably of the Zuurherg. I'ithaa/ifer teas awaiting a !Up pa,l•lsll4,,i..W•it r that vas to her brought him by two Eng. imlnen. n, rhos, /se had sent fur it. Ile does nut know the isinicof the Englishmen they rams from Kat hirer Ai Maio proy4. Those mum wear long light brown bawds; vas sous haf man, the other a middle sized. They how Iran to the habit brinying powder to the Kaffir:, ear" sea Mina prierekd with Jour park horses fur , 0 ,pe . ...n0 it. They rook rows with them to pay fur at. It was understood that they got the powder from Idoehesh. rowel, r was scarce with the Hottentot' and Kaffir' when the party left the Amstolu, but there was plenty of lead. Whdi the party entered the colony they came between Committee'. and Douhle Drift. Brander'. party amounted to::. min. llernatus l'aarl had command of the Shit° MAU s:ote, to is number. Both parties mowed Graham's Tem River near to Fort Enaland, travelling at night. They were tine days reaching the Karns. Two days after *egged to that country a party of farmer land upon them, wounding Bee of their men. Adam Mathys a de train from the Cape Mounted Rifles, was one o f those wenaded The party retreated, having lost 18 stand of warms! the ammunition belonging thereto. Brander's • trim Ultklllaldtf were, not to fire, or fight, or make I My slam if they . could avoid it ; but they might take any dial lag they could And in any waggons on the rood, as they lathing. The main °him was to enarwino and sport upon the country of the Luurberg. This party sand Itu.hinan's River at Jager's Drift, marched thrash O:iphant's Hoek, and from thence to the Addo. They captured five e'en on the other aide of Graham's Town. and one in the Hock, for their commissariat. When they nine to the Addo, they saw two engem. bud. t ordered them to fire over the = l ti the people, J 19 se to cause them to disperse, but not to take elf nor waggon oxen. Such were the orders. The we liewlemi of a quantity of dales. The past , re theses Ctdto the Zuurberse-Mail Mize sum mealag, sent four of his ems_ Phes_peeie) he the Loa Imitation to try toped amennoll They Mersa neat traraiag, bringing with them a pa* of ten made sad tea damn of powder, which they sad they got hem the Naas mrle. They meld anthem Ohm it by force, m they were bat her is w a s After the Mash at the Lamm they had lasses than .couple of reassiselameatsaities each maze. bake ehlaiad this supply X samsemielim *be party went Mtlrßlagthmstea where remalaed shoat flys days, dug kg which thre 'Broader sad other parties went out to illianottro the eessery. Deponent was sent with nine son to the plisse of Cad Xatthys, to take ten head of cat tle, which they eillsaMi without Bring a shot—their orden having news web Ike salem fired upon by the bows. Two day. eubselesstly, the whale party left for Kaffirland, in eider to repeat what they hag sego of the Zaarbmg. De mand left them that eight isgether with William Golliad, a Can Corps man, whip bed deeselei Mese live ea o, he bed no la the bosh. Dash thi; farm r. home where dimmest eas_ggeeleaded, sed tram Minn William Eland efselei his mew. le paring dame: Oliphant's Hoek, one of Draader's party est Ire M the place called Rougte Fonteis, for which Brander threatened to shoot him, as be had done so without orders, sad h, ;Brander) did not wish any fires or smoke to Mani It was another party under Jantje Jager*, a Cape Corps dedrter, who killed the people at Clayton's. Depo ant saw the 600 men paraded who are to come into the &nine , ft under L'ithaalder ; they are chiefly Kat River posh Deponent, previous to his desertion, heard Fre derica Winders'', of the Cape Mounted Mee, read at two illrent times to the men of that coupe a letter written by to. per.ons in authority at the Kat River settlement, en ersvosrine to ascertain their feelings, sad whether they wend submit tench a thing m a vagrant law, or stay in the 'tomcat should one he pared. Deposita( himself herd Sandilli impress his surprise that those two permss ohs had sent this comaaninatios to the nglOeut were raw se the a-virtuoso( side, as they were a ief promoters of the n..e.:ion. During the time deponent wm la the Aim- Was two men wasted to surrender to General Somerset, re on t." ithsaleler hearing of this he ordered them two mom ale trail, and they wen shot by his orden. The steal bar were twits taken, sad the cadent' were read by La. mist, Girt Erasmus, and Boma Bushman. All thaw ma nal English well. Vantage, Jane 7, 1852. COMMERCIAL INTELLIORNOR. Mortar Mx akar, Isciemostme, *C.—Yrour appall:au:es is the chicount market abseil the end of May, it was mei °plot that then. would be • relaxation et die Ober periosuly existing. Mb ealleipatisa bee set beta tal• Ltd, but, anytime, the ambit bee Wean= ettlagiat. Tbett i., however re wee of web be the okay. mad watt Amt. is phi bee beta mini ea peamatest Mow by the p ly, The imseate et abet Meet /mettle their I amerigew mid admen as limes beve comiderable balms= At Ineeftaat. The lightness et the various banks, tbassibee, tairt V seam ateeseee be eseast, d fur by the inereneed enliteMl et aeleamedatica tolanti to meet the=beelame &dog is town for the he tract or fear Exchange continues et par. The minaiialeriat &amine he the present mail me ex;ected M he Leavy. There have bees several hawse d W on mth— =ite of liabilities is shiest 10,0001. et diem base not been s c =innengeoloh as It veers rattail, known that a mem t essenim► is tow eible paper, coaasetles tiZ; e lkat ae permits, wadi wark,t madame a wield goebably be the nosh Cmfidenee, tbseellene, set itaealeal, and medic is ism etricsosse seem. Mar.. are in peel leered at the gaseatieee below. Cemid.rahle shipments bade( bees mit eseettele, is evettt.oo which are dbetalis tileoaptellees, the amentat Pr 911.1111. taken have 101111111114. awl melee Awes are imetwaft in value. The min ad holed propsv hal the math have Dem tee lbw le has u ~ea o m f wee.. hut MON euty available Maki peapeaty will he bought to the tal...iiiniectleat MPS the ansolvencin atme alltvlerl to. Imports dunes ths mind have net bees so large as ihriae M. previous avielb, either flow European or frees elan.l porta ; "aids, have Wee been so large either of plasm or imasbeasges. The market continuer to be well legplivil with provisims,el rates continue low. Colonial rue, romewhat lower. Cattle and sheep are at former • bib le", with no immediate prospect of change. ifre , rho. mill rule low. No vessels ere losdisi for Lon. ! art .hipmente eastward have been small. Commie, limb cargo has been shipped, with no advance in freights. or CriLONIAL AND INTERNATIONAL tnerans.—An association having for its object the promo 's.' Oa cheap and u n iform system of colonial and interne- Oral posture, was formed during the Exhibition of the Wets of lndwdry of all Nation', including among its mendors many of the foreign commissioners. A meeting of o.e association was held at the house of the Society of Arts. on Tuesday, August the 10th, and the following re sists as were unanimously adopted —That it appears to en a...titian*, that all the arguments used by Mr. How land Il Ilia favour of the Justice of an uniform rate of pest see 10ply entasnly to colonial, end probably to foreign datvenswelence.—That the cost of conveyance, aa was oy Mr Rowland Hill, depends upon the number of n.. nod not upon the distance, end that therefore the I Pam of an uniform rate is evident.—That the association 11 01 , 2,1 the recognition of this principle in the recent litlexen of uniform rates for printed papers to some of our olise‘e.. —1 hat the simplicity and convenience of pre-pay meet CIO appear to apply to colonial and foreign wirer P UW. k , .. , — The Right Hun. the Earl Grenville has eon- • sant,-,1 to become president of the association. ?Mt ItUtelit'RED DEATII or mu EARL 07 TAR IM'', t R.—A correspondent says "Au uisossieensent of _ ; the derape of this venerable peer having appeared in the "galSoof ( *server of Saturday lint, Inquiries were made SI ho lordship's residence in Hertford-street, May-fair, Whoa it um ascertained that the statement was premature, isleedehl being in the enjoyment of perfect health. The ad nes boss r 17713, esessopiently is in his 76th yew. gix Court. OSBORNE, TUNIDAY. Ike Majesty, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, em barked at half past 6 o'clock last night on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. The Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Ad miralty, embarked also, in attendance on her Majesty. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Qaiasbo• rough, the lion. Beatrice Ilyng, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Sir James Clark. Mr. Gibbs is in attendance on the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred. Lord Colville and Colonel 800 eerie, Equerries in Waiting, emlwrkeil on hoard the Blank Esgle. The royal yacht and squadron remained at anchor during Use night off Osborne, and proceeded about 7 o'clock this /warning to the eastward. Baron Ilrunnow had an interview with the Berl of Derby yesterday, at his °Metal residence in Ihwning•street. Dr James Brooke, Sir Brook William 'triages, Mr. Cunard, and Mr. Compton had also interviews with the noble earl yesterday. (Prom tat night's Grseete.) ADMIRALTY. At'Dna 6.—The Lords Commis sioners ut the Admiralty have this day been pleand to sign a commission appointing Commodore lleorge Hubert Lambert to be a commodore of the tint claw WHITEHALL, AUGUST 7.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be paseed under the seal appointed by the treaty of union to be made use of in the place of the great seal of Scotland, nominating and ap pointing the Bight Hon. Dunbar James, Earl of Selkirk, to be keeper of the said seal, in the room of the night lion. John, Earl of Stair, resigned. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or OILIVILD3HIIIII.—Load Alan Spencer Churchill, the lion. Thomas Edward Stator, the Hon. Percy Barrington, Colon. I William Thomas Knollys, Major Ge..rge Hall, Joseph Phillimore, Esq., D.C.L. Hugh Hamersley, Esq., George Henry Barnett, Esq., Henry Barnett, Esq., Richard Aubrey Cartwright, Eq., James Patrick Muirhesd, Esq., William Barrington Heade, Esq., William Henry Stour, Eq., Frederick Whitaker, Esq., Henry Norris, Eq., Joseph John Henley, Esq., Clement Cottrell Dormer, Esq., Henry Hall, Eq , Arthur Henry Clerks brown, Esq., William EliseTaunton, Esq., William Earle Tyndale, F.sq., Archer Hobert Tawney, Esq., and William Wemyss Methven Dewar, Esq., to be deputy-lieutenants. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT Or Suanar.— Henry Oosse, Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or 01:411101(611111.1.—Ceptain Ebeneser Jones, Major Sir William Lloyd, Kat., Thomas Downward, sq., James Maurice, Esq., and Thomas Peoson, Esq., to be deputy. lieutenants. COMMISSIONS SIONED BY TUE LORD LIEUTENANT or Yoncanina.—Chriatopher Cradock, Esq., to be deputy lieuteonnt. Major George llealey to be lieutenant-colonel, Chriatopher Cradock, Esq., tu be captain, and John Law son, Gent., to be lieutenant in the North York Regiu cot of Militia. COMMISSION SIGNED DT TUE LORD LIEUTENANT or 1) inn —Lieutenant Henry Sacheverell Wilmot to be captain in the Derby awl Chadileaden troop of Derby shin Yeomanry Cavalry. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY TO BELGIUM. rOkTeIgOVTH, ACOVST 10. The departure of her Majesty to Belgium being fined fur this morning, the royal squadron got under weigh yesterday afternoon and dropped down to Osborne, and at seven o'clock last night, accompanied by IL H.H. Prince Albert and the ladies and gentlemen of the court, her Ma jesty le ft Osborne House and embarked on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord Adolphus Fits clarsoce, 0.C.11., the steam squadron manning yards, dressing ship, and each ship Meg • royal salute of 21 guns. Her IlaiYtf dined and tiepin burd the yacht, in order to he In Inees he en Grip Mart this morning. le con seqweese oldie delay in her Majesty's departure, arising from the imnilmted provniento d Pugh weather, the pro gramme of die oscursien bed to le considerably modified, the trip to the Channel tidy is the first plaa, being arwith. ar early hour this awoke die ships of the squadron got their steam up, and at 6.60 ha. the signal wee made to get wader weigh. The Vivid stoma packet, Muter Com mander L. amithett, tea the lisokMi ng followed by the VIM& smil Albert, Imolai tho Royal Standard floating he bee ads. After wilds sem*, Fairy, screw tender to the royal yacht, Master (wander Welsh, and the Ma Eagle, Admiralty steam pat, Master Commander Petty, the latter having the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Duke of Northumberland, on board. Attlee these came the escort of the deep sea steamers, comprising the Hetet button, 28 steam frigate, Captain the Hon. J. It. Drum mond; Odin, 16, steam frigate, Captain Henderson, C.B. ; Magieienne, 16, steam (note, Captain Ramsay; Sa m pson. 6, steam frigate, Captain L. T. Jones; and &truants, 6, steam sloop, Captain the lion. 8. T. C A tree/ westerly wind wee bierwing.= L the We bad a set to the eastward, and all the dips of dm slandlosil heist ing sail, they made rapid progress tbrestdmi mash On searing Spithead a royal salute was lied the Biershelus 60, screw guard ship, and Tiger, 16, steam . 2 Olpiail; diffard, which also dressed lido Ed manned On the royal standard opening to the dem of the the fired a royal salute from the *Om betesey, NM I !: the Victory, flag-ship of the Counnurier-in-Chis4 Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G. The ran through "pithead was an inspiriting eight, the squadron having full T r a u x mse and rut, whilst the men-of war there were in colours and the merchantmen at anchor having legs at their mad heads. _ _ The Nab li g ht, • distance of about tea aim bola the starting-point of the squadron, was rue in absat 40 minutes the - Vistoria and Albeit. the Vivid, the Fairy, and Black Raghi, tke larger ships being left somewhat behind. The Vivid ereU sustained the lead - ms avant courier of the squad ron, whilst the Fairy and Black Eagle kept well up with the Vittoria and Albert, which had a fors topsail set, and was priming is at the top of her speed. A slight hose pre vailing, the squadron bsgaa to get undistinguishable at about hallos* 8 o'clock, when the Vivid was still ahead, and the Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Black Eagle, it the positions already stated; whilst of the heavy ships, the Barraconta appeared about a mils and • quarter astern of the royal yacht, the Sempeou, Odin, and Magi canine about two miles asters, and the Retribution nearly fear. 'At 9 o'clock the leading vessels of the squadron were out of sight, running towards the Downs at a rapid rate, having accomplished is the Ant hour after their start from Osborne a dletence of about 14 miles. _ . Hos Majorty is 'sported to return to Osborn" os Satur day zest. The Elfin dispatch boat has not proosedlad with the squadron, being left bobbed to attend upon the royal children at Osborne. BRIGHTON, Tonener Moms°. 'rhea are nine steamers in eight in the oiling, bound up channel, evidently the Queen as her way to Antwerp. Weather lovely. DOVER, TIMIDAT ATTRIVIOON. This afternoon. at half-pit kW deka, the royal signidas have haat& to the woldreuml ei Dover, and their &Preewee inasiblely gneiss's/ by royal sluts. l sweendes hem the Drop Redoubt, at the Heights, sod the gen et the Castle keep. Her Majesty's veil paint the et Dose sates, took the lea, the seal !shads sad Meet pat being mese* Maga by her ender. the Mary ; and wastbar of the egegiren, the lads liegie steamer, Waging up the rear. The wader was delightfully tea (although Rauh rain had base thaft as dap) 2 , ,with corn arattra sale y sa see and favesendio royal fleet steamed peened at a rapid fees ad Oa daring this port, east two Win, MAIM is /a the Deese. • amber at WMs (the leas webs* mason ans) sass Anna has the here sew doe of the real /oda Gent de. agesiestises a 'okapi yews mode by the seal ad sill• May eigairitise, the royal steederds being behea, ad ognsigge einesei of a the town decorated with Sege. tho of the eguedies • wen's lees" sewi *maid 1 . 0 be 10 4 9, Web, se., to that. • slew of the royal .sees, wales rewind In sight of ear tows for nearly half so boor. Tho royal swollen left the D., al 4 o'clock this (Wodoasdat) istanan, oa its ovum losiatwinp. Weather Sae. The laspendence Beige of Monday has [the fol lowing: Her Majesty Queen Victoria will arrive here to-morrow, but it is impossible to say whether the royal squadron may be expected in the morning or in the resin, r we are ignorant both of the time when her ptagnr will com mence, and of the point of departure. The Queen will mast probably remain until Thursday or Friday, and will be entertained at the palace of Lockett. His Majesty King Leopold will receive his illustrious relative to-morrow, if she arrives in the afternoon ; and on Wednesday, she not come until the evening. la the latter ere the Queen will not land, but remain on board the Vial/Tin and Albert for the night. The royal yacht is escorted by six frigates sad several stearem. ROTAL OOLLIOB Or Suaagoing.—The following mistimes were Moaned members of the College, on the 9th inetaat, holsorthe Meat /Meeting of the court for this sea- Oon :—Meerre. William Archibald Harrington, Parties; William Weimer, Hauler, Idward Tenison Ryan, New York ; Hallam Moore Dime, Cape of Hood Hope; Alex ander Robert Heine. Fermswegh, Reniskilkn ; Walter Bornard„Cerk ; James Hem Lee Kinsale, county of Cork ; Homy William Spry Trod-ploire, Islington ; sad George Lawson, Forest-bill, Amy.. Al the same meeting of Me court Mr. Heaton Wade posed his examina tion for navel sorgoon ; this gentleman had previously been admitted a member of the eellege, his diploma hearing olive May 26, 1849. At a meeting of the council yesterday after noon, the following members of the college were admitted to the fellowship, having previously nadorgoise the neree miry examinations for the distinction, vii.:—Here. Corne lius Black, Chesterfield, diploma of nessaberehip dated May 3, 1844; William Scovell Savory, Charterhouse-square, D e c e mber 3, 1847 ; Peter lunches Bird, Spring-gardens, May 19, 1848 ; Harvey Ludlow, Paternoster-row, June 22, 1849; and Archibald Freatice Childs, Boom, August 10, 1849. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1852. MASSACRE OF BRITISH SUBJECTS AND PIRACY AT NUNCOWRY. Statrawnt of Malink Sahib, eon of Khoteepah Sahib, Malim of Nagore, by occupation a merchant, and master of the brig Saireens, now lying In the port of Moul mein, taken before me, Henry Hopkinson, p ri ncipal assist ant to the commissioner in the Tensasserim Proviuces, this 30th day of February, 1852, who saith :—I sailed from Nsgore in the month of August last, to Bimlapatam, thence to Penang, and from Penang I came on to Noncowry Leland arriving in all November. I got as many cocoanuts as I could at Noncowry Island, and filled up with mor e a t C ar Nicobar', where I remained up to about the 20th December. From Car Nicobar, I was driven by strews of weather with the loss of all my sails to Junk Ceylon. I had to stop and refit there, and take in provisions, and did not leave till the 20th January last, when I came on here. One morning about 2 o'clock, while lying off Noneowry, and about 13 days atter my arrival, then came alongside the ship a man on a log of wood. I lowered a boat and picked him up. He appeared much exhausted, and could only 011 me at first that hie name was Hoobooroyloo, and that he was a Coriogee. Ile was, however, in perfect possession of his senses, and he soon recovered strength sufficient to mete his story. He said he was one of a crew of 45 men, belonging : to a Coringee craft which had come from Singapore to Non- I cowr y, to load w ith cocoanuts ; but before her cargo could be completed, she was one day surrounded by a number of armed boats, whose crews boarded and carried ker, and put all her people to death, with the exception of nine, of whom the narrator was one, and who escaped by hiding themselves in a water tank. When night fell, they endeavoured to swim chore. Four were drowned, but the other five managed to reach the lend. They soon got separated, however, in the jungle. Soobooroyloo wandered about for some time, but at laat was captured by the islanders, who kept him prisoner. Ile managed at last to bite through his cord*, and so got free from them, and gained my ship on a log, as I have men tioned. Soobooroyloo told me his vessel's name, but it was a long Coringee word, and I have forgotten it. She was lying off the southern side of the island of Camarata, about the middle of the island, and perhaps half a mile from the shore, when she was attacked. The savages sank her, and Suoboorojloo pointed out to me her mast still remaining above the water. Soeboorloo was assuredly quite sans when he came on board of us, and for 30 or 35 days subsequently. I do not know what then turned his brain, but he has been mad since. Boobooroyloo told me that his was not the only ship that bad been attacked by the natives of Noneowry, for after he had been a month ashore, an English bark came into the harbour formed by the island§ of Noneowry, Camarata, and Trio curie, and anchored there. For four or five days a number of boats, more and more every day, went off to her. At last one day Soobooroyloo saw her settle down and sink. lier long-boat came ashore full of Nencowry men. They brought with them a European lady and her child, a little thing not two years old. For four days the poor lady was the victim of their brutal abuse, when death put an end to her sufferings, and she was no sooner dead than they hacked the child to pieces with their knives. Before he left the island Soobooroyloo fell in with three men. Ho found they were his countrymen, Coringees ; and they proved to be the remnant of the crew of the English barque. They told him that their vessel had been carried and scuttled by the savages, who had murdered the cap lain and his mate and two other Eoglishmen (paarengers, it is presumed) ; and after plundering the vessel, had brought the captain's wife and his infant daughter away in the long boat. They could not tell the name of the bark, but she was from Calcutta with a lemur crew. They had shipped there themselves. The vessel had coma to the Ni cobar' for a cargo of cocoa-nun. She had on board of her eight bullocks, b 2 goats, a small quantity of piece goods, some casks of brandy, and several bags of money In rupees. I managed to escape the fate of those ships, as I knew be fore hand the character of the m en I h a d to deal with. I kept well out in the offing, in 16 fathoms water, and was very careful not to allow more than one boat at time to be alongside of me ; and as soon as I had discharged one boat of cocoa-nuts I made her go well away before I suffered another boat to approach. Soobooroyloo was upwards of two months and a half On shore, and this affair of the English barque took place about a month and a half before my coming.—.Uoulniain news, Feb. 20. Messrs. Allsopp and Bons are informed that some of their respected competitors conceive that they have made too exclusive use of Baron Liebig's letter to Mr. Allsopp and they, therefore, feel themselves called upon to republish the letter, in order that the public may form a correct judgment of the intention of that eminent authority, which was, unquestionably, to induce general confidence in the genuine nature of the productions of all the leading Brewing Esta blishments of this country, as well as to convey • personally favourable opinion of the Ale brewed by Messrs. Allsopp and Sons. BARON LIBBIO TO HUBBY ALLBOPP, LW, BURTON•O3I. TRINT. The unguarded remark of a French chemist, that the strychnine imported is England is employed in pert on a substitute for hops in the manufacture of beer, has lately spread alarm among the lovers of pale ale. Having been appealed to by you to express my opinion on this subject, which appears to as to be, in a dietetic point of view, one of considerable public interest, I now offer the following brief statement : About • quarter of a century ago, • brewer in West- phalia fell into the practice of adulterating his beer with nu: vomica, from which it is well known that strychnine is obtained. The peculiar morbid symptoms, however, which resulted from the consumption of thi s adulterated beer, speedily led to the detection of the fraud. The effects pro duced by num vomica and strychnine are so characteristic that every medical man will readily detest their origin. The French novelist, Alexander Dumas, has described them, though with more imagination than truth, in his romance of " Monte Christo." It is pos i bis that the Westphalian case, which from being made the subject of • criminal trial obtained great notoriety, has given rise to the assumption that in England the strychnine im ported is used for the purpose of mixing with beer. But nobody, at all acquainted with the great breweries of that country, could seriously entertain the onspieken of an adul teration of beer with strychnine, or say ether delotarlem substance. It is practically impossible that any apsedies of a doubtful character could be carried out in these estsselve establishment', on account of the large number of workmen employed in them. Any attempt en the part of the brewer to lmpaimpart qualities to has bear is in alit aseasev whisk are net to Is added hues malt or hegia,_ weld dew may hed be his rah, as he would he Maga assennei.. este his asset NI waxy mesas, sad to employ eso many The bored, themselves, as gene*. son ans ere4t, would pad at eigalest any of a =telsasoister. The mw has OM essumell as ower aot vectoring to melee me eta mothed iog gaoled to him far the a sharing his beer more elhassally, basun them i.ie of a new material to the wart adds have Wheel a emaies in the naiads ethos weans& that it wee on illicit proceeding, and this would have sedengered the good reputation his beer en joyed. He stated tome, at the memo thee, that no improve ment could be introduced had a brewery, the object of which was not perfectly evident to evaiyhady. During a sojourn of Meld dip N Ihrstia-on-Trent, I had an mdesaity of bowsawy asiosisted with the stadia in the ensulbstroof pas ale. I eon- Asia m nh.e the twain of Oh emeaset waft upset swim ma is the edestise l lTZ best kirk et malt and hem mad wee the ingenuity exhi bited in seriestiog the parosseme of =Wag and ferment ing. Our oustiasstal brew= have mud blears la those points to sem uplo the Ilsowies I have no Mei tad= ia saying that pmeseess the meted of In melting. - Iluseee art the Ohio brewer, of Munich, who muse the beet bele le Ger seamy, have game through as Mdelimildo fa Burma. This may accosst for the met "iedsmeinsg ves tt e general as well as b mallealmey Imam of beer; for %holmium of see ealediese aPPen to be es good guides I. the date the emeribute to health awl eedepeoht In the PmillooM P6a."Ph,' Peoteseese Geelleat and Bohm% is the essebent report already shimmed to you upon the alleged adulteration of the pile ale by strychnine, have indleased a very simple ate e n d l the met oboes temay of strychnine si la beer. I have added myself of the great con maims mad mousey of their method, sed have farther amered myself, by as sear& of several epesiame of pale de edam& iron Leaden Uwe. yapped by pier esta blishment, a the dew greseassessee of the Impeded that this hue vas pada with dryades. I en peel tire, sad ma ed in my views by the osesordant ana lyses et • who have occupied themelme with the szanakieltlim of beer, that the poisoning of pale ale with strysimine has never occurred. I believe I may safely add that it newer will take place; for although an ignorant brewer might be induced, from interested motives, to add nu: Tomes to his beer, the word strychnine so forcibly sug gests_ one of the most virulent poisons, that whoever has heard anything about strychnine at all is sure to be aware of this. By adulterating his beer with strychnine the brewer would be knowingly committing • crime which, in the present state of science, must be followed by immediate detection and punishment. Mr. E. Merck, of Darmstadt, one of the most extensive strychnine manufacturen in Europe, informs me that this substance is peculiarly adapted to destroy vermin of all kinds. In many parts of Germany it is the popular poison for rats and mice. This fact fully accounts for the large amount of the drug that has lately been introduced into commerce. The specimens of your pole ale sent to me have afforded me another opportunity of confirming its valuable qualities. lam myself an admirer of this beverage, and my own ex perienec enables me to recommend it, In accordance with the opinion of the most eminent English physicians, as a very agreeable and efficient tonic, and as • general beverage both for the invalid and the robust. Diemen, May 6, 1862. J VITUS LIIIAIO. ANOTHER FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night, shortly after the up express train on the Bristol and Birmingham line left the station at Droitwich, a man said to be employed as a plate-layer, was knocked down by the engine, and, before' he driver could pull up, the fire-boa had completely cut away a piece larger than the hand from the right side of the skull, which it caught just above the eye, leaving the brain entirely exposed. The poor fellow lived only a short tine. DARING BURGLARY AT DIUSBURY. One of those daring gangs of banditti which we described last winter as infesting Cheshire. and especially the neighbourhood of Macele-field, attackod a farmhouse on Monday evening near Didsbury, ou the Lancashire border of Cheshire. Didsbury is a large and growing village about 6or 7 miles from Manchester, and on Sunday the annual feast or wakes commenced, so that it is nut surprising loose and diseolute characters should be seen there ; but the people living in the neighbourhood little expected an attack of this nature. About three-quarters of a mile up a road called Barley moor-lane—a well-paved public carriage road, with here and there rows of cottages, and with more respectable houses dotting the fields on e ith er s id e —i s th e res idence of Mr. Samuel Gerrard, a substantial farmer, deriving his chief support from milk supplied to the M. nchester market. It is a respectable-looking double-fronted house in a garden close to the road, with a porch to the f. ont door, vied consisting of two stories and an attic at the back. The back dour opens into the farmyard. It was at the early hour of nine o'clock, or a little before that, when Mr. Gerrard and his family were about retiring to bed, and when they were thinking of drunken men returning frolicksome from the wakes rather than of any fear of robbery, that a hand of rough men " bounced up to the back door" to use Mrs. (hera l d' s ex • pression. Though Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard never dreamt of a robbery at that early hour—when it was not yet fairly dark—they did think it rather impudent that men should thus rudely invade their premises. The only ether inmates of the house were a mail, a servant-girl, and two of their children. There was a servant lad slept in a detached building, and a large dog chained up in the yard, who barked fiercely. A servant-man was at htaucheider, but expected home every moment. On hearing the men rush noisily up the back yard and try the door, Mr. Gerrard put his head out of the man servant's back window, and' , Mrs. Gerrard looked out from the servant girl's window. It was then they had the first suspicion of the nature of the visit. Two men drew forth pistols, and one was directed at each, and they were ordered to come down and open the door. They then rushed to the front bedroom windows, and Mr. Gerrard gave a loud shout, hoping to get assistance from a neighbouring farm about 130 yards distance in front of his house. Here two men immediately stepped from the porch of the house, and presenting guns threatened to shoot both Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard if they gave any alarm. Mrs. Gerrard asked what they wanted, and one of the men told het they wanted money, and anything else there might be in the house, and ordered that the doors might be opened without disturbance. Two men also ap peared at this moment at one end of the house. Seeing themselves thus apparently surrounded (for four or five men had shown themselves in the back yard), Mrs. Gerrard besought her husband, who had in his hands a double barrelled gun, not to fire, and hearing at this moment the back door give way to repeated assaults, he was constrained to make a hasty retreat to the man.servant's room, where he placed his gun behind the Billows. The man-servant had secreted himself under the bed. A few moments after the back doer was buret open, one of the in• tenor passage doors was forced, and the rubbers were upon them. Tho robbers all wore dark masks, and from this moment, as well as before it, no band of the moat accomplished and daring brigands could have behaved with greater coolness and audacity. They placed the family and female servants in a back bedroom, and pro ceeded deliberately to break open chests, boxes, and drawers, and ransack them, taking away altogether about 101. in money, and a considerable quantity of clothing. When they came to the man-servant a room they found Mr. Gerrard's gun, and without heaitation fired it off through the window. They next found the servant man, and though he offered no resistance he was struck on the head with a small iron crowbar, leaving wounds which bled profusely. He was then taken into th e bedroom to the remainder of the family and placed under guard. The other servant man, Mr. and Mrs. G • d, had hoped would bring relief, but ho came home unstis• pectingly, and two of the robbers, waitim with coolness until be had entered the back door, pounceu upon him and secured him. He also was made prisoner. The work of plunder being over, the thieves bethought themselves of refreshment. They found bread and beef, and cheese and butter in the larder, and spread a table for themselves in one of the parlours. One of them drew a half gallon jug of ale from a barrel in the cellar, and with true ruffian spirit left the:tap running to flood the cellar. But at this point it was thought more convenient to have their prisoners in the cellar ' • and they were accordingly taken there in their night dresses, and with bare feet, on the flooded and cold floor, whilst the brigands enjoyed themselves leisurely above. Such was the self-possession of the robbers, that ono of them having found a bottle of rum, and coining down in th e cellar for a jug of cream, he had time, bearing Mrs. Gerrard complain of the floor being wet, to fetch a chaff bed down stairs, and thrust it into the cellar. The fellows were in the house upwards of an hour, and ulti mately left, after locking the inmates in the cellar, and took the highway towards Didsbury. No trace of them had been obtained up to last evening. NARROW ESCAPE OF THREE ENGlNEERS.—Yea terday afternoon three engineers attached to the factory at Woolwich Dockyard went on board the Widgeon steam vessel, lying alongside the wharf wall, adjoining the store house, to do some work about the boilers, and for that pur pose opened the man-hole, and all three descended into the interior without having taken the precaution of ascertain ing that the one they entered was free of foul air. It wee soon evident that one after the other of the three engineers had been overpowered by the foul air, and fallen helplessly on the bottom of the boiler, and that if not immediately taken out it would be impossible to save their lives. Highly to ths credit of Benjamin Thomson, one of the gang of convicts at work at the time on board the vessel, he volunteered to ge down into the boiler, and take up the engineers, which be did, assisted by his brother con victs, who all lent a willing hand, and after repeated efforts, having to come %Titian:lf several times to get fresh air, he succeeded is bringing up the three bodice through the narrow opening of the man-bole, a most difficult task under the circumstances of the case, one of the engineers being so far gone that the function of respiration was sus pended for upwards of a quarter of an hour after he was tatter out of this boiler. Fortunately, however, the men recovered, and have been able to attend to their work. The heroic conduct of Benjamin Thomson is deserving of the consideration of her Majesty. He has already *avid two years and four months of the period of seven years' transportation, to which be was sentenced by • court mar tial for running away from • picquet of the Royal Artillery, in which corps he was serving at Bermuda, and, when re taken, drawing his bayonet on his sergeant. Lab) intelitgence. PREROGATIVE COURT.—YEeTERDAY. llamas tha 3. Lenox. Eaantora v. Eit6THOPL. This was a busiaeu of proving the original draft, the will itself not being forthcoming. of Jobn Easthope, Esq., promoted by Mies Elizabeth Easthope, the sister of the de ceased, and residuary legatee named therein, against Sir John Euthope, the father and party entitled to the de ceased's personal estate and effects in the event of an intes tacy. The will wail dated the 10th February, 1814, and the deceased died on the 'Jth January, 1819. An allegation had been given in on behalf of Miss Easthope, consiving of eleven articles. It pleaded the d ea th of her brother, a bachelor, leaving besides his father three sisters, Mrs. A nn Gillivray, Mrs. - Louisa Doyle, and Elie abeth Easthope, and personal property amounting to about 15,01eff., but no nal estate. That, by a letter dated the sth January, 1844, the deoeased gave instructions to Mr. Parks, his solicitor, for a will, and that a draft was drawa up parsuaut to such is etructions, in which was contained a bequest of his personal estate to his sister Elizabeth, and that the draft-will so drawn up was sent to the deceased and returned by him approved on the following day. filet immediately on the return of the draft-will, it was engrossed for execution, and on the 10th February was duly executed by the testator, he being of sound and disposing mind at the time. Tnat cer tain blanks in the will were filled up before execution, and that the deceased carried it away and kept it in his pos session until the 3rd September, 1846, on which day he called apon Mr. Parks with the instrument, and desired that gentleman to snake an alteration therein, revoking tho appointment of Sir John Easthope as one of the executors. That the testator was of unsound mind, however, at the time, and the said Mr. l'arks thereupon declined being a party to making the alteration in ques tion. That the insanity of the testator had by the 7th of the same mouth assumed such a decided character that on the following day it was found necissary to place him under restraint as n lunatic, and on the 14th of Septemb i t h e was removed under his father's order to a private asylum, where ho remained until the time of his death. 'that a commission de lunatico inquietude having been held on the 17th of July, 1847, he was found of unsound mind from the 14th of September, 18111, and his father was appointed committee. It also pleaded that upon the testator becom ing lunatic all his papers came into the hands of Sir John Euthope, who had searched amongst them for the will, but without success, and that if the instrument were destroyed at all, it was destroyed by the tes tator when of unsound mia I, and, therefote, the draft must be taken and considered as the will of the deceased. Five witnesses had been examined on this alle gation, and, publication having passed, an allegatio n was asserted on the part of Sir Juhn Euthope to the effect that tho deceased died a bachelor aged 3S years, and for several years had carried on the business as a stock-broker with his father in London, but at the sole risk of the father. That he drew from the business whatever money be re quired, and until the year 1843 lived in his father's house and was confidentially acquainted with and managed all Sir John's business, and was appointed executor under that gentleman's will, in which instrument 5,0001. was be queathed to Elizabeth Easthopt ; as 50001. had been given on the marriage of the other esters. That in the year 1813 Sir John Easthope determined to contract • second mar riage, and on the 18th Nov. in that year " n memorandum was prepared and signed by him whereby he provided that his son should have the whole profits of the business, and live with his unmarried sister, and, in the event of the son marrying, Sir John should make a proper provision fur the said Elizabeth Easthope, but that she felt dissatisfied with such arrangement and was anxious to have a settlement of 6,0001. on herself. It pleaded, however, that the deceased took a house near his father, and his sister went to reside with him. It also alleged that long previously to 1843 the deceased wished to contract a marriage with a Miss Foster, but that the young lady , father would not consent to the match, and the deceased became greatly desponding in con ' sequence. That Elizabeth Easthope had frequently ad mitted the execution of a will by the deceased in October, 1847, different from the one propounded in the case, and also that she was only interested under her brother's will to the amount of 6001., and had several times averred the deceased left a will made in July, 1848; that in the years 1815 and 1816 the deceased renewed his addresses to Miss Foster, and eventually be came engaged to her; and that, in contemplation of their marriage, arrangements were made with a view of his taking a house in Westbourne-terrace; and it being repre sented to him by his sisters that a dissolution of partner• ship with his father would greatly facilitate the marriage, such dissolution took place in June, 1846, the parties, how ever, still remaining on most atUctionate terms ; that upon the let, '2nd, 9rd, 4th, and sth days of September, 1846, the deceased trsasacted various matters of business in the City and elsewhere and demeaned himself in a perfectly rational and reasonable manner until the 7th of September; that on the previous day Mr. Parks had an int erv i ew wit h Sir John Easthope, during wheel they discussed various matters of business relating to the deceased and the dis,ulution of partnership; but that Mr. Parks did eat in any way allude to the alleged insanity of the deceased on the 3rd of September, as pleaded. That on the 7th Mr. Easthope showed decided symptoms of insanity, and was subsequently confined in a private asylum, and that upon the macaws of the disease, Sir John resumed the business, and made a general search in his son's boxes, in order to place the various papers in sufficient custody, and made all due in quiries upon the subject of a will, but that no draft or can celled or other will, was ever found by him. That during the year 1846 the said Elizabeth Easthope accused her father of having destroyed his son's will, and also in 1847, and made strong complaint of her being driven to depend on him. It alleged that on the 24th of October, 1817, Elizabeth Euthope, called at her fathe r ' s office, and conversed with him about her brother's liabilities, and for the first time mentioned the existence of a will, and that it had been deposited with Mr. Parks, and she would feel obliged if he would make search fur it, which he promised to do. That on the 6th of November following, she sent him a letter upon the subject of a search, and on the Bth, having written a reply, Mr. Andrew Doyle hap pelted to call before it was sent, and Sir John then upon directed that gentleman to tell her not to worry herself, as he should regard his son's will as his rule, if satisfactory proof could be adduced of its existence, or of its having been lost or mislaid; and that if any such could be found be would set up the same by deed. That upon a further search being made with the greatest care, no teem mentary paper was ever discovered, and that on the 20th September, 1848, the said Elizabeth Easthope filed a bill against her father, in order to compel him to execute a deed settling the property on her. In conclusion, it pleaded that the will was destroyed by the testator at the time when he was of sound mind, memory, and under standing. Additional articles had since been given in, setting forth various letters written by the different par ties. Twenty-five witnesses having been examined and publication passed, a responsive allegation was given in, pleading that the teatator at all times entertained the fondest regard for his unmarried sister, and from and after the second marriage of his father expressed the utmost anxiety that Su John should make a vo luntary settlement in his lifetime on her, but that he continually evaded the fulfilment of a promise be had made to that effect. That from the date of such second marriage the testator's confidence in, if not affection for, his father diminished, and continued diminishing by degrees up to his death, and this want of confidence was partly owing to his father's refusal to fulfil the said promise of making an adequate provision for the said Elizabeth Easthope. It denied that the deceased's proposal of mar riage was ever renewed at sus r time , and pleaded, on the contrary, that the house in Weetbourrie•terrace was not taken in contemplation of his marriage with Miss Foster. That the deceased mentioned the existence of the bald will to Mr. George Hanna' in August,lB46, and also his deter mination to remove his father from the executorship, and that about three months before the lunacy the deceased mentioned the will to his confidential servant, William Hall, and added, on the occasion, that his other sisters were provided for. It further alleged the said William Hall was with the testator on the evening of the 4th of September, 1816, at which time the latter was in a deranged state of mind without any interruption. That in July or August, 1846, he spoke concerning the will to his father's housekeeper in London, Raying it was made in favour of Belay, meaning his sister Elizabeth, and that Sir John Euthope never pretended or alleged the deceased bad ever made a will subsequent to the one propounded until a bill in Chancery was filed against him. In conclu sion it plaided that the father had admitted to Mr. George Hartnett* that the fact of his son having made the will in question, and that it was only a missing will, and expressed his willingness to set it up by deed it his sou died in his lifetime. Upon this allegation seven witnesses had been ezamined. The case now came on for argument. Dr. Addams, with whom was Dr. Curtin., appeared on behalf of Miss Easthope, and contended the allegation propounding the will was proved to the letter. That the ease set up in opposition was false from beginning to end, and that if every syllable of it were true it would out have the slightest bearing on the ewe. Ile submitted that as the party setting up such a case must have been fully aware of all this, the court, in pronouncing for the will, ought to. condemn him in the whole costa. 21111.AORDINART Argant.—Yesterday afternoon Kr. Carter held an inquest at the Hero of Waterloo, Waterloo-road, on the body of George Cherrott, a coach man recently in the employ of Mr. Dima c k, th e b an k er , guiding at Forest Hill. Mr. Charles Ansel', the keeper el the Bridge coffee house, 62, Lower Marsh, said on Sunday last, between five and six o'clock in the morning, the de. ceased and his wife were brought in a cab to my house am the Tower-street police station, and I was induced to ae oceamodate them with a bed. They were shown to the book first floor room, and the woman who was very tipsy was assisted to bed. After that the deceased and the man who had brought them to my house left together ; but de owed soon alter returned. He appeared very much dis fawned at the conduct of his wife, who had • pair of black oyes. In the mires of conversation he said her misconduct had been the cause of his leaving his situation at Forest Ill e ards raoh olaight previous i and he repeatedly spoke about she was bringing upon herself and him too. toy both remained there the whole day ; he had dinner end other refreshment', but she had not. I saw them Meth repeatedly daring the day. The woman was covered with bruises, and on my asking how she got them she told SO it twat in consequence of her falling about. The de *Mod some lotion which ho applied to her eyes ; he chats d to her • black draught. Altogether he intend the utmost solicitude about her, and towards the Craning after having some tea she appeared to be getting ▪ little better. Between eight and nine o'clock, whilst I IMO in the kitchen at the beck of the shop, I heard • noise la the room above, as if from some one falling heavily on the floor ; and on going to ascertain the Muse I found the door fastened on the inside. I then knocked ; but not being able to set a satisfactory answer, mug fancying tae-woman might have hurt herself, I got on the leads elan beak kitchen, and, opening the window of the room, NUMMI it by that mean'. I then opened the doer, a n d hag oat to my servant to bring a light ;he however mis look what 1 said, and brought a knife. I took the knife lam him, and laid it on the washstand, and he immediately • lasoguht me • candle. I then, with his assistance, ▪ imaa into bed ; directly after which, on looking geghi e I lasi tie man suspended by a cord which he had Sim JIM hen he brought with him, to a hatpeg on a sepbessi door war the side of the bed. I immediately cut bbl dire., sad sent for Dr. Sewell, who promptly arrived, sod him to be dead. I also sent for the=oe, Mto I moseyed the woman the Lambeth Wor mad the Nis was taken to the deadhouse.—By the ems SSC It Most have been his own act ; the woman could not bireesit—The coroner Had she any knowledge of his bait' is the position you found him in ? No.—ln answer to further questions, the witness stated that when deceased was talking about the conduct of his wife, he appeared very lozzirited, sad even cried. The last time witness saw de• e alive was about six o'clock • and when he went up eel the rem Os Marin the fall, he diought ho se,. there ; bat not being =moved by him, insaAined be Led gone out foil • walk. When witness but New &maid alive he ape peered calmer than before. Msaer sew Lin previous to I Sunday. Roberts, the beedle of the w.rkhouse, then I handed in • medical cteitl..ate to the effect that Mrs.' Charrott was too ill to attend the inquest, and he stated that she was quite delirious. Int inquest was therefor* adjourned. TERRIBLE THUNDER SToltM.• —Yesterday morning a terrible thunder storm broke so et Manchester between ' ten and eleven o'clock, soul no regret to state diet a very serious casualty resulted from ,t. Seven men were at work in some nearly finist..it cottages near the Philips Park, Bradford road, when tlte buildings were struck by light ning, and four of the nom were killed insteuitly. Thomas Dowd, aged 17, a mason, was taken up quite dead Minus . diately afterwards, and the other sufferers were Cleave, aged 2X, carter; John Travis, aged 60, plaster or ._ labourer ; and Thomas Crossley. aged IS, stone 501/06. One of them had his shoos burnt off, sect another hail Oar ', si t of his shirt burnt and • mark upon his chest ;_ 0 °then bad no marks to shoo the cause of death. Te, ece oh m e o e° the Iriti°n Form on Ya o l 0 '" i public house, cheek. The men were struck by the lightning, but only or, e was hurt b fo y u i r t d ; eaes:adiethdis.mere e'u'ricd l man leas en l to await the coroner', inquest. The event, as may be was • had occasior.ed extraordinary exciteme n t and alum. Two of the deotegaed were killed in one cottage ? th e e tbese were killed in Upstate cottages. The Queen's Advocate, on the part of Sir John Essthope, contended that the will in question having been executed on the 10th February, 1844, and the deceased not becoming insane until September, 1846, there was a strong presump tion that he destroyed it ammo cancellandi. That pre sumption ho contended was not rebutted by any evidence in the ease. He submitted there were several facts as to the es Wore of Mr. Parks, which would lessen the value of that party's testimony. That there was a proposed settle ment of tne propeity by deed, Sir John Euthope always admittee., offering to give up all the money, if a plain ac count • care furnished of the will, but no such account had ever been rendered. The Chancery suit, he con tend, .d, was instituted against the father, by the ads' ,ve of Mr. Parks, to compel him to execute • deed, and that the will alluded to in the bill tr u different in point of date and in point of contents trim he one now propounded. That the bill was amended once the commencement of this suit, and that Mr. l'arks with held all mention of the will to the parties most interested in it. If the court, however, should decide against Sir John Easthope that the draft of the will was established, then he (the learned advocate) should ask for colts out of the estate, on the ground that the property proceeded en tirely from Sir John, and that the litigation necessarily re sulted from the act of the deceased. He also contended for costs from the fact that the father hail made reiterated offers to bring about a settlement of the property if any ac count could ha furnished of the will. lie insisted ou the inconsistency between the bill in Chancery and this suit, and complained of the imputations made against Sir John Easthope's character, and also the withholding the evidence of Hartnees and other recogattioos down to a late period in the cause. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. The official report says :—London is suffering from the same diseases as were noticed last week, and 1,124 deaths have been registered in the first seven dap of August. The mortality is near the average of the first week of the month, on which 801 persons died is 1843 and 1,909 in 1849, when the epidemic of Asiatic cholera was so fatal. Sul hundred and filly-six children under 16 years of age, 299 men and women, and 166 persons of the age of 60 and upwards, died in the week ; 697 were males and 627 females. It thus appears, that though the had sewers and water tad sir and impurity in London 'are moat fatal at a high tempe rature in early life, persons of the middic age do not (*APP. Diarrhea was the cause of 213, cholera of 21 deaths ; , 16 children and 6 persons above the age of 13 died of cholera ; 191 children and 21 adults of diarrhea ; 16 of the eases of cholera occurred on the north, 6on the south side of the Thames. In its leading symptoms the cholera which prevails at present differs little from Asiatic cholera, but it is in Lon don Ices rapid in its course than Atiatie cholera, it is less influenced by elevation of sod, it always prevails more or less in summer, and comparatively (ow persons are attacked, hence it is a variety which, for the sake of distinction, may be called Bummer cholera. Dr. Mseloughlin, an inspector duricg the epidemic of 1819, requests the 11egistrar-Oeneral to call the attention of medical informant, to the importance of stating in all cases how long premonitory symptoms of the approach of choler* preceded the attack in its fatal form. No cares of diarrhrea should be neglected in the present season. They should be immediately treated. Lost week the birt of 751 boys and 713 girls, in all 1,481 children, were lilkistered in London. The average number is seven corresponding weeks of the years 151541 was 1,313. At the Hoyal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer last week was 29.3;9 in. The mean tem perature of the week was 63.3 deg., which is 1.8 de:. higher than the average of the same week in ten years. The mean differer.ce between the dew point temperature and air tempera.ure was 11.8 deg. ; although the air was dry, about 1 inch of rain fell in the same period ; and the direction of the wind during the week was from the south and south went, with an average horizontal movement of rather more than 116 miles each day. ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY. The thirteenth anniversary meeting of the above society was held yesterday, at the house of the society, in the Botanic Gardens, Regent's-park, for the purpose of electing tie council and officers for the ensuing year, and to receive the reports of the council and auditor'. J. H. Cancellor, Esq., having been elected to the chair, Mr. J. Be Carle Soeerby, the secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting, which, having been confirmed, the report of the council wee read. The report stated that the number of fellows elected since the last anniversary meeting was 122, and the amount received for subscriptions, com positions, and May tickets was 3,607!. 16e. The sale of exhibition tickets had produced 5,4041. 4s. 6d., and although this sum fell short of that collected last year, when the Great Exhibition attracted an unusual number of terangers, yet the number of tickets sold and the produce of the sale had exceeded the results of 1850. In estimating the progressive value of the exhibitions in a financial point of view, it was to be borne in mind that the profit of the present year had been materially diminished by the unpro ductivenew of thesecond general exhibition, in consequence of bad weather. The large sums annually received by the society would lead to the expectation that a greater amount may be expended upon worksin the garden. Upon this sub ject the council refer to the large amount of debenture debt still due, the annual interest on which exceeds 6001. at present, 1,000!. is devoted annually to the diminution of the debt. This sum, the report states, might be more ad. vantageoasly laid out, and impresses upon the members the necessity of a more general contribution to the Redemption Loan Fund. If only one-third of the Fellows contributed to the amount of 2051. loan, the interest bearing debt might at ogee be extinguished, and all the contributors to the Re demption Fund itself might be repaid in a very few years. The voluntary subscriptions to the fund for erecting the Mir-cum and new offices, the final cost of which is 1,979!. 4s. Sd., hate now reached the sum of 1,236!. Is. 6d., the difference having been defrayed out of the general in come of the society. The building having been com pleted, containing a suitable lecture room, the council have been enabled to provide for the delivery of lectures. From the auditors' report it appears that the receipts during the year, including a balance in hand in July last of 5,0521. es. 10d., amounted to 14,8591. Oe. 4d. The expenditure was 11,2711.75. 4d., leaving a balance July 15, 1852, of 3,5971. 13s. in the hands of the treasurer. The report, upon the 'notion of Captain Shea, seconded by Mr. Baylis, was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be printed and circulated among the fellows. The report of the secretary and curator was then read and adopted. The following gentlemen were subsequently elected fellows of the society : W. Slade, Esq. ; fihr J. Dean Paul, Bart ; and W. Belt, Esq. A short conversation arose as to the advisability of purchasing the crystal fountain foe the con eervatory ; the general opinion was that it would be too Keay as well as too colossal for the purpose proposed. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting se parated. Tan BIETTOL ABDUCTION CABIL-Wit find the islikenne Wee in the Bristol Mercury of Saturday, ad enoma te the editor by the tether et the young lady is eneetion:—. l lll4,—lt is not true that daughter Harriett wee inertly remend from the pwtMLa other husband. It is an Ono that her Maimed le a impala la the Bengal Ondry, or Ron he has ma mile shoes of this world's tmwm It is net tees that 11111 111111111111111 Set of the Beaman aes led M Mr. Money's lootediste mall, because be boo Manes noolled ; nor did be ges la lanniou to pro em r onamoloo of leave. It is net trim that nil daugh ter*. poreole mode objections to her aoionotering the perils Means* sad climate. It is not tarn that on Tuesday her mother sad myself drove up to Mr. —'s house in • car e,d, having entered it, heenght out a young lady =a lai up in shawls, whom we pissed la the carriage and drove efwith. I have now corrected sons oaths principal untruths contained in the paragraph is anestisa, sad haring done so, as I have no desire that say iseitioge should furnish food for thine who delight * Ihenselree in other folk's affairs, I shall not enter upon babel/ than ten, that they have during the past week bent tally Investigated before Sir William Erle, the judge at oirmere, nod that my daughter was, by bins, at her own up ntt nowt re stored to me, while Mr Motley, and his beadier , the barris ter, in London, were both bound over in the malty et 6001. each, with two sureties oath in the atm of 260 f. each, to keep the peace towards the unfortunate wife of the former. This result will safety every use when opinion is of any vales that what has beat done by me was not be cause Fathom lave Slaty Itasaft l / 2 ' bat is order to shield a daughter teem systemetis prestatlea heat sae who, bet a few weeks dam, veva at the Oar to hoe and to cherish her.-1 am, sir, year inednot earenat, T. B. JOHNSTON; Rector of Cleans." THE Hum. Osier= Mercer—Over readmit are aware that John Smith sad Jolla /aye remain r enwody for trial at the next Yorkshire MB peinelpals in the garotte warder of Ifs. Idapelthorp, alibis lowa, sad that ear ha swabs, reseeded miallad he Mel of a third ports, aimed Welter =area,&ergo' with having re maid, knowing it to be Marta, a al. net*, whiii was p a id to the deceased as the evening of the rearder. We bare new to eel that a lbw* piety, Kw Rearm, Ihe keeper albs ham is which Sew end Smith were *mad as the meiwing ohm the warier Mil robbery, has lies bees sow allied In trial at the York seise se aa weessory dm the het. The magistrates have net MIN to this doesessinstioa Mama awry fell sad podenaiarairy,ealiaiegmee s t d m and the ems foram eas wry impels. Yak We sad slowly developing iamb of evikage, width haw week of week ammo le boom sad_ soma wows sod wearer M s a mple lespeeilas the deed of risking ad death, whit yet Is awe Wag mains swireaded in eltommity. Hy a "Maws whe we la Ns spat et the remaisk when the shier Owen =Owed the blase of the wad new s ia t the het, the elelswent innerly male by *IL la their Amer his beat nersesed. Theit mato emint ef Mom Robineem Mc, that Hamm sad health same late her hews es the sight of the murder at 10 o'clock, sad was net to her knowledge oat of It afterwards during the awe night, weld it have been tally sustained, and teem sat by solleiseel seldom*, would haw proved an eilbi Ow Hasp snd Smith. Her stateamat le, however, re built* and the parties mowed of the murder are mow tread were doily then before I. their proseediap on the sight of the murder. It menu they cease home to their lodgings at half past 2 in the maralag.—Hail Amide. DMITfirCTIOB IT PUS or • MILL AT XBIOH LIT.—On Monday everdmg a k. hubs met at theism trill of Messrs. W. and J. Ifidesente, Mame es Minima MUM, which elided, after a few lines, is the =tire iimeruitlon of the building, in spite of every effort to stay the progress of the Runes. The Whites was an extensive ewe, four stories high, sad 11l feet km& gad situate mu the toll bar on the Hali fax-road. Oa the diesevery of the lir% the fire bell of the town was nag, teat the flimmten, three engines, and the inhabitants gemerelly kashined te the spot. The flames, however, bad made esselereallie pro gress. Three quarters of an hour had eloped able the Ire was discovered before the engines sad berm serteml, and two of the engines were found to Meat of repair and were put aside as useless. Only one =glee wee, therefore of the slightest avail. It served to save emu pet of the stock, but beyond this was of little use. There wan abundance of water at hand, and there wee no leek of wil ling and noble endeavour on the part of the inhabitants to arrest the progress of the flames, but all their attempts were utterly fruitless. In an hour and a half the building was wrapped in one land sheet of firs. The entire destruction I of the building quickly followed, and the bare and cracked walls alone remained standing. The law is heavy, amount ing to near 10,0001. The mill and out-buildings—come of the latter not being injured—are insured in the Halifax, Bradford, and Keighley Fire-office fur the sum of 3,7801. ; but the office is of course only liable upon that portion of the premises destroyed. The origin of the fire is attributed to carelessness on the part of some of the workmen, in baring during the previous day let a lamp fall, and not having effectually extinguished a flame which arose at the moment, although it was their impression that they had done so.—Halijar Guardian. OILEAT NORTTIERN ItAILWAY.—Tbia company beve l made anew/emote for conveying on cheap terms the inha bitants of all the towns along their route to London, so as to enable them to avail themselves of the opportunities offered by the railways communicating with the Continent to visit the grand fete at Paris es the 10th last. EXPRESS !`S *:.‘ ;Al.'