The Express. — London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

received no. Selling us for a kw frauce.coni (this alludes , I to the bribes which ere known to have been given to their ! ga,treti-ful betrayers and false winterises), one for the sa k e a shop (ratio, another for 60 pieces of money, our accusers ere the descendants of Judas ! Poor souls ! I ! pray t h at G o d may pee them the tears of Peter, and not the punishment of Judas ; and that one day they may enjoy vernal glory. And if (loping.) that poor woman I who hi• been bought came and asked alms of me, as at other t m. s, I would still give it her ; for which God help me.—Amen. My dear, let us be ready to do the will of the r, as it was done by big Son—our Master ! Let us g ot *melded. Petit was troubled welling on the water, hiring the waves, and forgot that, since the Saviour walked towards him on the same wave., he shoutl not fear. 8. feared them, and cried out, • Lord save me !' The hand I of love succoured him, saying, ' Have a little faith, where fore dada thou doubt ?' Yes, the waves of this world too often make us fear, and the shame is ours. Let us remem ber the holy words—. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for I have not with me Thy end My dear, rest upon the Lord, whe they 14 prosperity or suffering, in bad as well as in good beal . h All pawn. Eternity is the essential ! Be cheerful sad seek to restore your health. While then is that dear ▪ no not give yourself the trouble to write to me, since Ile will give me news of you. God bless you and cover you under the shadow of his wings for the sake of the gram el our Lord Jesus Christ.—Amen." la what an enviable state of mind, after all, was this poor creature, suffering for righteousness' mks ! He mast leave farther details on this interesting subject to Captain Trotter. Ile would, however, remind the meeting that they had set before them the true principles of Popery. She talkie' and blustered hens a good deal about religious freedom; but the freedom she wanted was freedom to oppress—(sheen)—and he repeated that they should ears not to give her any facilities for that end. Before sitting down he wished to state, that an inatitution had lately been established in Geneva for the reception of Italian converts, sad, as it was conducted ably, and on a sound basis, he lisped it would receive countsneesee and support in this wintry. It s es a solemn fact, that there were in England ethers besides Romaniste who were doing the work of Romeniem. Ile heard, only on the previous day, from a lady whom he had the pleasure of meeting, that her sister, after sitting fur some time under the teaching of a clergy. man in the diocese of Eseter, had recently bean gently banded over by him to the Church of Rome. (Hear, hear.) She was now in a convent at Taunts's. Let them, then. while they had the Bible, make um of the Bible; and, if Rosninists spoke not according to that, it was because thus was "no light in them." (Cheers.) The revolution was then passed unanimously. The Hon and Rev. B. Nun moved the following rens anon .—" That this meeting desires gratefully to ceknow lodge the efforts which have been made by the Earls of Roden and Cavan, and Captain Trotter, and by the foreign members of the late deputation to Tuscany, to obtain a remission of the sentence passed on Francesco and Rosa Media; and having now seen the fruitlessness of any ap peal to the humanity or the justice of the Tuscan govern ment, it authorises a memorial to be signed by the chairman, end presented to her must gracious Majesty, praying that, Stilt government should continue to disregard the inter ✓enom of the protestant states of Europe, her Majesty will be pleased to take into her cousideration the propriety of dire.ontinsing all diplomatic relations with a court which .odd thus show itself indifferent alike to the dictates of hoirrnity and to the claims of international friendship and sourtasy. ' He said he was glad to take pert in a meeting so much in favour of humanity and religion. The Media' were not deed; they bad sot yet bean brought to a premature death by cruel persecution; and th e i,urtem of that meeting was to exercise le James by which their sufferings might be, it not trroonited, at least much abbreviated ; husband and wife hiving been sentenced respectively to 56 and 46 months' imprisonment. While catholic journals dwell much on the political aspect of this question, let them keep instantly in mind that it was not a political offence for which tho prisoners were condemned, but what was termed the aim^ of impiety. Nor had the nature of the alleged impiety been left to our vague surmises; in the @intense paled, it was stated to be the proselytism of the evangelical confession, or pure gospel. Their offence was, that they end the eeriptures. If these persons were criminals, every ia that meeting . was • erimiaal—(hsar, hear)—for devised math, men against the governenen: than coy one in that useably. Moreover, this persecution had happened in the dominions of a man of naturally mild temper, whose government had been remarkable among the governments of Italy for benevolence sad gentleness. Why, then, had the Grand Duke exhibited this steady, dogged determination ? It was because he was a true nth lie—(hear, bear)—it was because he was sonscientiously determined to uphold what was sacred In his faith. (Hear, hear.) They had heard it stated that Roman catholicism scald change. It was not the Boman catholic who told them that ; he knew it to be false. (Cheers.) Romasisrn mad not change • its dogmas were written in indelible skaracters by th at wooed of eceletisatics which, calling itself the church, had determined that persecution should be the law of the church in all countries. The vim of Christ; the man who woo said to exercise Melo functions on earth, bad given this direction : " In Meese et sacred obedisr co, and ander the penalties ethaltaisill by the sacred canons, and °then heavier, aeon to demisetise i to be indicted at our discretion, we command Wisps sled Mother prelates that they diligently oheerve Ibmiesiini =mins and statutes is their churches, states, Sid Iffill Mlle them to be inviolably observed each by his lmhsime, matmdaing all who sestradict and are con lumisni, by maims% eseeme e mod ecclesiastical punish- Me untamed laths*, suss dimmer, without appeal, and ealleg in, if necessary, the aid of the secular ann. Not MO was there this order of the Pope—the " Atter Dr im terris," as he was ofte. galled by Roman but the Candi of Treat anied as follows:—" It re. melee sew that the sacred semi admenish all princes se to "lord their help that they de eat permit the things de filed by it to be depraved ee Moiled by heretics, bat that they be devoutly 10111111111, emi obesrved by thorn and by all was. We olssobb the sesperor himself and all Christian kistp mil prime that they support the prelates whenever it is esemsee= help and (avow ; and that they do not permit me to the maid and salutary doctrine of the amen tor i n t ee d ived by the people of their dominion, but dist they altogether interdict them." Now what had the Cheri Dubs of Tammy deem but oboe sad execute these seemoode of the pare sod onaosiff (Hear, hear.) H. bad imterdiseed thew ef the bible be cause the Pops and the Conseil of Treat bet leterdieted it. What was the difference between his ponds sad that of the Duke of Alva, who was govermir of the Low Countries at the doss of the 16th century, or of Mules IX., who was at the some period King et Fraise i stn. r, hear.) (leaded oe by the Pope of that day, IX. tweed all his pretests t baldest* te ext shot at them, while dyke& with his owe bead; kicked the dead counteaseus of the most gallant and glorious mama in his Sonles s Misled Celivy, sad when his emoting cost planed et the ef mei of the body, regaled the words, " The anal a deedsweet." ( bear) An this the so ld beano Hear this March of items lei taught_ lisle de IL Pius V. was *stated he the pen obi& be teak la lbws la by whoa maid add Pepe Plus IX. lad* directly opine te selelthip them hy ftesde (heed Duke of Timmy le kaatelele es the sitar of as many ps format es be weld Illefenfe (BsoriltiZS He Wined li thus mess raw my Mesas embolism ha this eseintry who did ••• WM* ef TeleSea_ pansostien ; bat they oast s eat OS the Tilde, whisk leek Ike bad la talent atom the &sea eethilejeurnale, bed dboonsiteue &boded the undue of the Owed = Duke, whOs lbe Dodo* Illoodsolf. It aeon la ease dope from the TOW, took pine to inform dos that the diatoms wee bat met The opiates of the edits, of the Co amiliard was 111181111111 he then teems For arasps, ranting, es= defamer, denouncer poineestor of 13ritish is sik their assietaaes 10 . 41 •4 • Per of hirel esegelbers from • Tans at i lson the molest pis of sesarsoce oe record." %sue thee esesolltepese that tbe Roman ast bet to peeps sags, " thaw iodise 1" hios.) Ism Cathelias send see ediessee hem the aeons that leglisbnien should be ispeleseed end d that i o strayed her tab religion • they dare met soy that ia this IDastir t um — fisils tar s=ti fie sem in this capita] say to ink die a singings of the wrongs cubits Pmf Poteellted seek bepedeme Is ask oath °. who might he believed to bow memoreas hangs to aid tbe week ninasimed, swat leen unworthy of ablitthelee. Rat lirt then lash at the feelings mai boa This vie the lest sablldlion :—" Lord Frankfort is clothed Y the awn garb won by lb, seamen prisoner in Coldbatb-leids Hess of Camas and it' rdsbi • as o p exempted bin beeskiag stomas may ups mast of • ("el ' • 7 . 111 I. his Piste distery—junk beef, ewes break, aed ennui grueL Yet no one thinks of meson trjrwii:ft the s subjection of a nobleman who bait vio- Beton h i s to this degradation. But all with the chummy rand by a pack of fans enq Ole M whom is a persecutor I. heart, and would be Is sstesmhistor if he or she had th e power—because two hal' o slesehdo an made luassabli to theis" of their trY;" Th at was thought an excellent sentence, no count; but to kun it indicated di° /Swell of use w hich he detested sw7 moms or Chet been sted. iChrirs.) If nobles neAfsemcd then a deputation might have been sla t Over. al Mild bare beat worthy of attention ; but at (Hear, hear.) Why, it was the glory t . i Ity th then a railed the menial—(ebeers)—that b : s s d ttirtil J is neither barbarisn nor Scythian, t ywh .t",f!'w_ . (Loud !biers.) The Medial were their 101 '" lneui liss or . . u r es or m i l l r rtali 7 a nd whither they ue diff e re nce. It was the 'tory of this country that the a wr y p w ro ii teet hed ed equally and in the streets with the Pes n ' ob li al f it n y the came do was, to secure for Florence ih we,er a equali ty o of rights with regard to religion. catholic h editor might pour contempt on the d ,..._ tpute_tioi . s e I S gue men could rail when th . y could Pity for the s poor%a they h a t appeal from him to one who made P l "hif. Gladly , the e , e_ . oppressed the very teat of disci the eh, di d . he tender a vote of thanks to 4, 4 7Www . of the deputation. It might be said that the "mon, by its impertineut interference, had done anthdut but rivet the chains it sought to unloose. If go, it had marked dmixable hi m"' clearly than it was marked before the in mitred of the Homan catholic church to pro 7.7wra d to protestant piety. But the effect would p there That meeting was the precursor of many rm„ t " o ' f 'ZLsel a k i f i ) If . they could not appeal to the shit el: • catholic . gentlemen, or to their sense of would he believed that with numbers such se ap „ Pell would not be in nia—(bear, hear)—et least they • 4 ,!': l girPeal to the policy of the coldest priest , they cou ld Zr . :g °O.) the policy of church winch had never beenac• L7l_ l hemit unskilful in that reneet. (Hear. hear) .""e latetut allfw on, let them extend throughout the land, and then • deputation larger, more sea.ous„ more , trembling, than that which was sent from this sountry, would be found first at the Va;icsn, and then at the palace in Tuscany, to say to those who held the keys of the Ma diaie prison, " Let them loose, or we ere undone ; you are doing us an amount of mischief in England which a'.l your continental moni y cannot annihilate ; you ere euovincing the people of England that our church remains just as bitter, just as implacable, just se intolerant, as she wee in the days when the pro testant' of France, and of the Low Countries, and of Piedmont, and of every part of the known world,were sent to the reek, and to the stake, and to the torture, for holding she very principles which Englishmen maintain." (Loud and long-cond.:lied applause ) They were tilled I epatic' for exhibiting so much sympathy for the Madiai. Such • charge sounded strange from Ro man catholic'. What did the meeting think of the following !advertisement in a Roman catholic newspaper? ' Our Ladye of Grace of Acton.—Our Ladye of Grace of Acton has well nigh 100 poor children, but she has no funds fur either school or teacher. Our Lady* of Grace of Anton has a priest with a cure of 1,600 souls, chiefly poor labour ing men and women dispersed through the villages of Acton, Ealing. Turnham-gresin, Chiswick, Sutton, and part of Hrentford; but she has neither church for her people nor rectory for her p Acton sits in her poor damp cellar weeping. Such the sole shelter she has for herself, her children, her people, her priest—aye, even for the glorious presence of her son. Oh! ens *manes qui %manias per viam"—c-an you do nothing for our Ladye of Grace of Acton, noble and rich ladies and gentlemen, with p:easant houses, and bright, fair, happy children—converts who owe your happiness to this same sweet ladye—good Christian people all, who profess your selves servants of Marys ? Money will console her—money will teach her poor neglected children—money will build a chur h for her people and • tabernacle for her son—and nothing but money will de these things. Ah ! send, then, some aid, even tnough the most trifling—even • postage stamp. Never was need more dire than this." (Laughter.) Though he thought this country might just as properly abandon its diplomatic relations with Tuscany as with ti.e most atrocious savage on earth, yet as diplomacy was not • mere matter of compliment, the resolution wee, it would be observed, very cautiously framed. What was desired was, that they should as a nation manifest their hatred of this atrocious conduct by eaters of the relations main tained, and that the Grand Duke must not expect any friendliness from this country it he continued to persecute those who showed their convictions. (Cheers.) Sir H. V . ,in seconding the mol- ion, said there was reason to believe that the royal soot .ty in this coun try had been exerted in favour of the ..nfortunste Medial; and if it were, as was stated, the fan that Prince Albert had exerted his influence with the Cou. +f Tuscany, he had thereby added to his nosy claims to the gratitude of this country for his 'fruits on behalf of liberty and proteetan. tism. The time was come when there must be a protestant alliance, not in England oaly, but fa Germany, in Selavo pia, and in America, and when protestant, of all countries must unite to resist the oppressions of Rome. (Hear.) The resolution was posised unanimously. Capt. Tuorrzu then addressed the meeting as a member of the deputation to Florence. The Rev. Dr. ANDWUN moved the following resolu tion :—"That regarding the late proceedings in Tuscany u indicative of the real character of popery in its dominant condition,and Ili furnishing the fullest disproof of all those representations that its character has been ameliorated by which the British people have been deluded for many years past—this meeting renews its protest against all national encouragement of • system so adverse to the commands of God, and so injurious to the best interests of MSS. Espe cially it adopts petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying for the discontinuance of the endows:mat of May nooth college; and fur the enactment of some provision which shall secure the due inspection and proper regulation of all nunneries and convents in the United Kingdom." Mr. JOSIAH CONDZR seconded the resolution, which was adopted by the meeting. Admiral HARCOVILT moved • vote of thanks to the chairman. _ The Lord Mayor retired toward, the close of the pro ceedings, in consequence of having another engagement, and was succeeded in the chair by the Earl of Cavan. The Rev. Dr. Srwaxe, in seconding the resolution, took occasion to communicate to the meeting what be termed the latest information received from Tuscany. His informant told him that an application had been made to the Grand Duke for an exercise of his clemency in reference to the Ma dial from • quarter far more influential than the deputation sent from this country, and far more influential than the special embesay sent by the King of Prussia ' • and that the Grand Duke had given to that application a decided pegs ties. There was, therefore (added the speaker) no other determination in the ailed of the Duke, as it appeared to his friend at Florence, than that the Medial should expiate with their lives the crime which they had committed in readiag God's word. (Hear, bear.) The motion was carried by acclamation. The meeting then sang the doxology, and afterwards dispersed. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1853 MURDER AT MANCHESTER. A shocking cue of stabbing occurred at Manches ter on Friday evening lest, and the unfortunate man, James Quinn, who received the wound, haying died, a eoronees)ary have unanimously found a verdict of "Wilful murder.' The inquest wee held on bfor.day evening at the Royal Infirmary, before Mr. Herford, coroner o f borough. The deceased was a steam-loom we , aged 23 years, and the name of the murderer is William Tyrrell ile following is the evidence given at the inquest: John Clements, of 20, Poplar-street, Boardman-square, Mills Platting, said—About half-put seven on Friday night, I was going up Oldham-road on the right hand side, and met with deceased, whom I knew front having worked with him, along with Thompson and Wm. Tyrrell, the prisoner. The latter was rather inclined to fight, end daoewd said he would fight his if he would show him his beads. Tyrrell held up the left hand, but would not show the r• ht, which he kept I. his pocket. Tyrrell asked loaned to come along with him and have it out, and they all three went up Addington-street. I followed, keeping on the lags. All Re s == iis tlnn they got to the lest lamp, leading into and Tyrrell said to deceased, "Hit sae bet." Dammed said, " I won't fight unless you show a both your heads." Tyrrell said tas same several times, and deemed stood still with hie arms ercesed, saying he would not fight till he saw WO lands. Tyrrell drew out his right hand, and I saw the Otter of a blade in his hand, aai he ran at deceased sad stabbed him in the belly. De ceased did not speak on the instant, and Tyrrell 'gala said " Hit me list ,' and stabbed him in the shoulder. Thal deemed said, " I am slabbed, take me essaintlisse," several the.. The mentent it wee does two team came np. and Tyrrell bad dna ran alms the street, sad wee waking his Massie Seeklakewead. Hemmed was takes as the in 5...,. The Wade seemed to have beat as long se mg lager. I saw very plainly by the light of the Imp bath Wm. where he stabbed damned. I did net see the heft. All the three ars seemed sober. The ism aloha I neat with the polies M semi for the pri saw, sad we hand him at Lime. powwows. At the c=alatien oest l e tTel him WA slabbing me demised, aad . I did net bow of their having gneeedleil beim. They lossmed to me es If they bad bees maim dews Oldhase-rood. They had had some liquor. Thou ghit me media( opposite the Cheshire Cheese, and it wee Tyrrell ea , We will have it out" that made me step. • stabbed so suddenly, that I had not time to say anything, and that instant be run away, and the came same up. There was no time for Shamus or ese to j Ma'am Jetta Carrington, pork butebee, of Oldham-road, said—l was stria( down Oldham-road, and I saw deceased and the prisoner quarrelling near the Cheshire Cheese wiser, and I stepped and watched them. Tyrrell offered to fight deceased, and the latter said be did not want to fight IT - id I saw at the time that Tyrrell had a knife in hie head. I them 'W m in Mien, awl in a nt bou and vn e w mi hi inowir nutes after I w ee sft ai Addiegentret, wlr ma. "de help nee Med, fight you ; I will ;" and dimmed " I dent went to fight you, I shall mill yea Is two minutes." Tyrrell still said he would fight de. amemi e GM the latter said, " Show me both your beads ;" geld than r bad siething is them. In about • minute they began to spat and square at one another, and the prisoner ran at diseased. I did not see his heads, but I saw him strike deceased in the belly. I suppose Tyrrell stabbed him, bemuse he was stabbed, and there wee no mu else to do it. I saw Clements In Addiageon-street when I got there. I did not me the knit* at all there. The moment deceased wee stabbed, \estimated " I am stabbed." The prisoner ran away. Shannon was not tubs any pert in the quarrel. I did not try to part them. They all seemed pretty sober. I was about three yards off them. I told the police that the prisoner had subbed dammed. Edward Wall, police constable, said he was on special duty in Chadderton-street between seven and half past seven on Friday night, when he heard some screams in Addington-street. Yolioe-constable Wilkinson wee with him, and they went to the corner of the two streets, where they found deceased severely wounded and bleeding. Clements and Carrington told them about the fight, and both the °Moen went with Clements in the direction they pointed Cut u that which the prisoner bad taken, but could not find him. Witness afterwards ap prehended the prisoner at Lang's. He said, " I know what it is you want. It was not my fault for doing it." When they arrived at the station witness charged him with stabbing Quinn, and he did not deny it, but said be would bring witasesee forward. Wits= could And no knife nor blood up= him. John Holden said—l keep • beer-house in Cornwall street, which is the nut street to the Cheshire Cheese. The three men came in together. Deceased, whom I knew, brought the others in about • quarter before sin, and they remained till twenty minutes past seven. They had fought before, and I began chafing. Tyrrell pulled out a knife, and said, " This knife has killed many • one, sad has only another to kill." They seemed friendly w hen they left. I think the only dispute between them was their old quarrel. Frederick Ashton Heath, acting u house surgeon at the infirmary, in the absence of Mr. Baker, said deceased died that morning (Monday), at half-put Ave, from iofiamme boa caused by a severe wound is the abdomen. Deceased made no statement after he became worse. The knife bad penetrated about an inch. The jury found a verdict of " Wilful murder" "taut William Tyrrell, against whom a warrant of committal to the a. at assists at Liverpool was made out. Having been brought before the magistrates aid remanded, however, he was not present at the inquiry. SNOW WAS ?ALLEN during the last few days in the north of Hampshire and on the west of Dorset. COIUREBPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. BERES- FORD AND LORD DRUMLANRIO. The following correspondence has just beta published : (Copy.) Jan. 15, 1833. My Lord,—l have this morning read your lordship's tomb, delivered at Dumfries on Wednesday last. Yuu have chosen on that occasion, is a most unprovuked man• ner, to p out of your way, to snake a personal and an un founded attack upon me, in language most unceurteuus, and at a moment most inappropriate. You were bound, as a gentleman, t..) have duly ascertained whether either now or fur some time past I hare had any hand in conducting the election business of the party to which I belong, before you insinuated, if you did not positively assert, ►uch an unfounded calumny as you then uttered. Except for three days, during the absence of Mr. Forbes Makeosie and' Colonel Forester from London, in July last, 1 have not interfered in such election matters since I accepted the dace of Secretary at War, in February last. Such fact WM proved in evidence before the Derby Committee, and, therefore, yen were bound to have known it. I, therefore, call upon your lordship to state upon what grounds and upon what authority you wantonly coupled my name with any meditated or intended opposition to your re-election for I remain your obedient servant, WILLIAM P Olen Y.) Stewart, Jan. 16, 1863. Sir,—l have this morning received your letter of the 16th. I hardly know to what expressions of mine you refer, I have spoken so much and so often within the last few days. Several reports of my speeches have appeared in different local papers, and soma of them have beer. copied into London journals, but many of them reports were very incorrect ; and till I have before me the actual report which you allude to it is clearly impossible for me to answer or to explain the expression you complain of, but which you do not repeat. I on refer to a speech of mine delivered in Dumfries on Wednesday, the 6th, and which speech was correctly reported in the Courier newspaper of that town (a copy I now send you), I can have no hesitation in *ey ing that, after the explanation mate in your letter, feel at once bound to apologise for having said "'lb Carlton Club was a place wham tory elections were managed under Major Bereslord." I ought to have said—The Carlton Club was a place where tory elections 111111 D to be managed by Major Bereaford. I had over looked the fact, that, except for three days in July last, when Mr. Mackensie and Colonel Forester were absent from London, you had not interfered in election matters since you accepted office in February last. I offer wary apology for this inadvertence. Should these remarks, however, not be those to which you have referred, I shall feel obliged by your forwarding me whatever report you may have read, and I shall then be quite prepared to explain or to answer for whatever I may have spoken in Dumfries or elsewhere. In the meantime allow me Is my, that hula( been purposely most Cautious, I never insinuated that either you or any other part calla indivi dual was concerned with any meditated opposition to my re-election in Dumfriesshire. I confined myself to two simple statements—to two remarkable Ina mysterious facts. The first was, that I beard of this opposition to my re election in the Carlton Club three days before any one had heard of it in this county. The second statement was, that I knew a member of the club had made several communi cations into Dumfriesshire for a good and safe Derbyite to oppose me. These facts I stated openly and frequeutly, and I entreated my constituents to ponder them over, and so ref Let whether it were not just possible that their in dependence might not be in danger of being compromised in a very different manner from what others were anxious to make them, which was the case. I never mentioned or thought of your name in connexion with my immediate re election for Dumfriesshire, but in explaining to the un initiated what the meaning of interference by the Carlton Club meant in its general sense, I certainly did o• more occasions than one make use of your name ; and by your own admission it appears I was only incorrect in my dates. I again tender every apology for this inadvertence • but, after all, in speaking of matters of history, one gene rally is understood to speak of the past ; still I am bound to say I ought to have said " used to be managed." I distinctly deny that I ever coupled your name with any mediated opposition to me in Dumfriesshire. I had no right what ever to do so, and I did not do it. I ern your obedient servant, DItOMLAWILIO. Hampton Court, Jan. 18. My Lord,—lt you will take the trouble to read carefully my letter of the 15th, you will Ind that I distinctly men tioned the place where and the time when your lordship delivered the speech of which I expressed my opinion in that letter, and of a part of which I particularly asked an explanation from your lordship. I have this day received your answer, end I beg to say that I am bound to accept the apology which you there offer for your inadvertence in having acid Ilta4 the elections were managed at the Carlton Club by me. At the eani: time, I must beg to point out to your lordship, that if I have no hand in managing such election matters, it is a most unintelligible line of argument, when you are speak ing of as opposition to year re-election, to drag in my name apropos dr War; and, unless I am in some way concerned in that opposition, I consider it also an impertinent act I remain your obedientlamble servant, W. M. BMIIIIIOIID. To the Lord Drumlanrix, 8f '.) ea Stewart, Jan. 20, Ha. Sir,—Neither your letter of to-day, dated the 18th, nor your letter of the 15th, explains to me what are the expres sions you complain of in my speech at Dumfries. I do not maks myself answerable for whatever may have be re ported in the paper you have seen. I had no wish to speak offensively of or to you; and should you draw my attention to any expression you think you have • right to complain of, I would have no objection either to explain or to retract those expressions. In the meanwhile, I cannot allow you to (occlude this correspondence, and to use the words "im pertinent act," without saying that I am quite prepared either to explain, or to answer for any act which you may con sider impertinent. I am your obedient servant, Daumwszio. (fioalal) pion Court, lan. 210, 1863. Lord,—l have this evening received your letter of the 20th. In say letter of the 16th I called for ea ozp_lana ton from your lordship for having in your speech at Dum fries (*hen you were eamplaining elf on Weed= opposi tion to your return) coupled my ,toms with the management of the deeds= at tie CachetOlttb. In your reply you apelesked puma =deg so made nee of my name, and you stead Men pet bed ems it in error. At the same time you =times' UM poi meld have lean right in the use ef my sae= Ifftese th an. modem= Oft " I need to manage the deel" there. In reply, I bengal to point out that sap tateesseary introduction of my same in a matter will= yes =know 'edged that I was in no way concerned in, wee naintelli 'ibis, in argument, sad that I should eonsider it an imper tinent act. lam glad to see by your letter just received, that you repeat your willingness to retract or explain say expeowns that I have a right to complain of, and that you will be prepared to answer for say act which I may consider impertinent. I am gotta wng to give your lordship credit for the sincerity of your first deelarstion, and I hope that you will not deem me intentionally wanting in sootrossy if I say, that it seems that from some peculiarity you are not always aware when you are Wag allensive tams awards in di viduals who are totally neenteebed with the mater on whisk you are speaking. I rejoice es be mem= of the straightforward readiness which you avow in your seemed declaration of offering wis hed= In cam you should be betrayed by dunes into the use of sive uproarious. I steady offen hope that this eorrespeadetes moy sow closed, sad that I may not he allied upon to renew it . be by a fresh aggression such as I have distinctly, I trust, pointed oat. I remain yew *bodies* Mumble sansat, Wm. Bmazona. 8111C1D11 T/13.01J0H FIAIL—Mr. G. B. Brent, the deputy coroner for ltiddleeez, held an inquest on Saturday evening last at the workhouse, Chelsea, touching the death of Samuel Dean, aged 67, a cabman, sanding at Little Col lege-street, Chelsea, who committed suicide under the fol lowing 1 circumstances :—Some time ago he had a eol linen with another vehicle, which sonaiderably demised his cab, and had not been out since, having absented him self from his work, through feu of meeting his employ. r, on account of the mishap. Oa the Wednesday previous he remained in bed until late in the day, and the occupier of the house, thinking him unwell, sent his daughter up with some tea at 11 o'clock, when he opened the door and took the mug from her, tolling her to call him in about an hour. This was afterwards done, and the door being fastened it was forced open, when the deceased was found apparent' dead, and a strong smell of oil of bitter abaaads pervading the room. Medical assistance was immediately called in, when life was declared to be extinct. A small half-crones phial was afterwards found on a chair under his stockings, and it was subsequently ascertained that he had endeavoured to purchase prussic acid and oil of bitter almonds at one or two chemists', representing that he wanted it to poison a dog, but was unsuccessful at the places intimated. Where he ultimately procured it from could sot be discovered. The jary, after some consultation, returned a verdict, " That the deceased had cossained suicide, but there was not sufficient evidence as to the state of his mind at the time." AN EXECUTION AT SNYRNA.—A letter from Smyrna, of the 7th, states that two or three days previ ously twenty peremptory orders of execution had been re eeived against nudebetus, who had been for a long time la prison, but whim /basal Packs , either from weakness or same other nodes, wield ant eider to be executed. One has been already ezdestod, and the others will be in a few days. The one wke died pestioday bad meassinated, about twelve months Nal% • Armenian tailor, father in-law of 11. Ouillois, Dragoman to the French Consul. He was concluded to the plate where the crime was committed, and when there, M. Ouilluis was, accord ing to the Turkish law, thrice asked whether he would forgive the prisoner. On a negative reply being given, hi wu handed over to the executioner. The man made a desperate resistance, which rendered his sufferings still greater, for two men held him by the hair of his heed while I the executioner cut at bin neck, and fearing to injure thou who held him, he could not strike very heavy blows. The brad y was then thrown into the gutter,with the head behind it,where it lay until the next day,when it wee taken up, and carried to the Greek hospitaL NEW GRANADA COMPANY. Yesterday a special meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the offices, Adams -court, Broad street, fur the purpose, as stated in the advertisement, "of confirming the provisional contracts entered inn, by the agents of the company in New Granada for the purchase of the Frontino, Juan Criollo, and Bolivia Mines, and other property referred to in such contracts, and authorial's& the directors to adopt such comae with reference thereto as they may deem expedient." Mr. Jonzirrox (chairman) said be wished, in the first place, to state that the New Granada Company was not the saw, with the Maraquita and New Granada Company, • confusion which many persons were led into o doubt from the similarity of the names. He did not make this remark he the purpose of casting any slight on the other company, 'hot be thought it would be for the advantage of both that 'this het of their being distinct companies should be known. The accounts which this company had received from its =abroad were of the most satisfactory kind. Dr. ex, who was at their head, had been finance minister if the government of Granada, and had also been its minister in France. He was most anxious, on patriotic grounds, that the company should succeed. He examined the ac counts of the Froatino mines, and found that for several years the produce had varied from 151bs. to 251bs. of gold per month. That of itself would give a considerable divi dend on the shares of the company, but the district abounded likewise in platinum and quicksilver which offered a field for extensive operations. Mr. Whiteford, one of their agents, who was both a geologist and a chemist, stated that with proper assistance and outlay, the yield would be doubled. In addition to these advantages, which were in triasic to the mine itself, the climate was most salubrious ; the people ware industrious, so that there would be no ennessity for sending out any unskilled labour, and the gmeraassnt were disposed to give, s.nd had given, them essay hank/ and aid which it war in their power W ewe. He did not want, by what he said, ft suits great expectations in the mind of any sms, but be thought there was • good prospect of maltsiag considerable advantage to themselves, and at the somm time of benefiting the people of Granada. (Hear, Mae.) Extracts from the letters of the agents in Granada wee then read, which gays an encouraging account of the 'alms of the company. Two specimens of ore on the table from the Bolivia mines had been assayed by the Messrs. Johnston, which gave the following results: os. dwt. gr. No. 1. Gold fine staff Ditto, stotallio portion 902 13 4 Total 463 16 22 Silver separated from at: gold, 160 os. 14 dwts.. o on. dwt. gr. No. 2. Gold fine stuff Ditto, metallic Total tß 11 3 Silver serrated ( 11 it& $ 4wts. A nugget weighing 66 sovereigns, which had been fouti! in the district, was also exhibited, and handed round to the shareholders. The report of Mr. Whileford stated that the profits of the Frontino Mines had been, for the last twelve months, 27,000 dollen; and as the whole had been sold to the company for 105,000 dollars. they had obtained it for lees than four years' purchase. The mineral of Frontino was, without exception, the richest he had met with in the province of Antioquia. Only one lode had been worked, which was rich in gold and h•on pyrites, and sulphurets of antimony and silver, but others were no doubt to be found. An arrangement had been made with the present people ton of the mines to sell the produce of the mine to the com pany until the completion of the purchase, which would afford the shareholders an opportunity of estimating the value of the property. The Cllataxam then moved a resolution for confirming the purchase of the property specified in the advertisement, which was unanimously adopted. In reply to a 8 / 1 •11ZHOLD111, The CII•IILIIAN stated that the whole purchase would be covered by 20,0001., which was much within the capital of the company, so that no further call would be required. • vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed ing& CORRESPONDENCE BY POST IN ENGLAND Estimate of the Number of Chargeable Letters delivered in the United Kingdom in each year from 1839 to 1832 • Ansual Lwow*. er Omega Tear. Somber of Lettere. .Nusberof Lettere. re P dwood uo the amber ler is». 1839 764. millions 1840 169 „ 93 millions 123 per tent. 1841 E6l „ 2 24 .. 36 .. 1842 ~ 12 „ 18 „ 1843 II 12 „ 16 „ 1844 1 742 „ 211 „ 28 ~ 1845 274 ~ 21 1,. 39 ~ 1847 !7 PP 1846 299 e „ 28 0. . 17 E.•2,24 ~ 80 „ 1849 8374 1848 329 • „ I ii 9 ~ „ ~ 11 .. 18 16.50 347 9 i .. 124 J. .51 3804 :: 1 1852 3794 l ,, 18 „ „ l9 ~ 25 ... 1 ol : • 2 5 4 : 7 ii ir !Il i II iiói 1 ft ---- I 379 i .. 19 " .. • The estimate for 1839 is founded on the ascertains number of letters for one week in the month of November, and, strictly speaking, it is for the year ending December sth, at which time 4d. was made the maximum rats. The estimate for each subsequent year is founded on the ascer tained number of letters for one week in each calendar month. (Vide Return to the Souse of Commons, No. 502. 1852). t This is Wigan of about 61 millions of franks, FATAL COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL We yesterday received the detnils of a most fearful sellieles la the shuns', which terminated In the total loss of sea alp soiled the Herald, lades with a valuable freight fees Madras, sad, melancholy to add, the whole of her grow (with the exception of one mu) and two pease gars, invalided soldiers of the Honourable East India Com pany. It occurred during a ham gals of wind on Friday night, menswhars between the bard sad the Eddystone lighthouse. The Herald, which was board to London, and was the property of Messrs. Lldgstt, ship-broken, of No. 9, Edina -stmt, was about 400 tons register, and was cam mandad by Mr. Tartu', as a:perinea mariner, end seamed by a crew of seventeen hands. The noel with which the Herald canto in collision, was a sokaastor, which, at the lima, was supposed to have re solved the greater aneemat of Injury. Bad weather, how ever, clams on soon altar the vessels got clear, and, in a row holds afterwards, it was discovered that the Herald was in a sinking state. is attempts to launch the boats several lost their lives, and, at daybreak, oily two of the crow mar vivid, who wore tinging to spars which wore separated frost the ship when ohs sank. Of thew but one, named James Gardner was saved, who was picked up is the course of the dai, in a very exhausted sondition, by the Danish barque' *thesis's. It is thought that part of cots of the sehommeee spare must have entered her side, sad Meseta/ af Ilia up the cavity, and the weather setting is moss seven, the timber which occupied the hole woo washed seek and so allowed the sea to maks a clean sweep ion bar. The statement of thaw as board the schemes is different to that of the survivor of the Harald. eats that the barque run into them, and that, in they wore, they could have saved the whole of her mow, bet that she bore away. They were knookias shout far somas time in a vo ito lli s samsad conditioa, whoa they were observed by the John. Trinity Hone pilot-boat, which contrived to take them into Fowsy, not a band beim/110st. The Herald bad a valuable cargo, but she as understood to have been well insured. TEN Nzw PRISON AT HOLLOWAY.—The Prisons' Committee of the Common Council, together with several members of the Gaol Committee oftheC4art et Aldermen, visited the New City Prison at Holloway, oa Saturday last, and accompanied by Mr. Wright, the governor probes., in spected the several apartments. Both eionimittees were highly gratified with the order and discipline, and more es• pe6ally with the curioss employments in which the pri soners of both serse are usefully employed. The following is the first report made by Mr. Wright :—" The governor bops respectfully to report, that since the opening of the prison on the 6th of October, 1862, 371 male and 93 female prisoners have been received, and 132 male and 60 female prisoners discharged, giving a daily average of above 200, and that up to the present time, with a few exceptions among the females, their general conduct has been very sa tisfactory. With respect to employment-6carpenters have fitted up several work rooms, made and completed the fur niture of 30 cells, beside a variety of useful work in other departments of the prison; 7 tailors have made up 66 suits of new clothing, and repaired upwards of 100 suits of worn clothing; 1 bookbinder has repaired • great many old books for the chapel and library, be side much other useful work for the several offices; 3 scamen prisoners have been aimed in scrubbing and re pairing 110 hammocks, making 62 mattresses, and 62 pil lows; 3 priannen are employed in the kitchen to assist the cook ; 6 in the engineer's department attending to fires in the boiler room, assisting in the smith's shop and forge, and the general ventilation ; 3 painters on various parts of the prison • 3 shoemakers hays made up 42 pairs of new shoes, and repaired 90 pairs of old shoes. The majority of the prisoners, with the exception of the sick and those excused by age and infirmity, have been constantly kept at the pimp, and the general cleaning throughout the prison. The average pump labour has been 7 hours per day. The juveniles are usually employed in the requisite cleaning during the morning; after chapel, at school and exercise ; lesson and roller exercise in the afternoon. In the female department the following articles have been made up, viz.: shuts, 115 ; caps, 24 ; petticoats, 33 ; aprons, 106 ; sheets, 66; towels, 260. This, with the making and repairing of the whole f the prison clothing, the general cleaning of the prison, and attendance on the sick, has fully occupied the time of these prisoners. Every prisoner has daily exercise in the grounds whenever the weather will admit. The ave rage number of prisoners in the infirmary has been about 9, these have been generally old chronic diseases sad weakly women. One death occurred shortly after the opening of the prison in the case of Thomas Taylor, who died of diseased heart." THE HTDASPES is expected to leave Southampton about the middle of this day, sad she yid most probably leave Plymouth with the Cape mails to•merrow morning, after the arrival of the Landon BORNEO AND RAJAH BROOKE. TO Tlll IDITOiI OT TIM NITRICOO. St=,—There is so much new matter on this sub ject since the last Blue Book on this subject was issued, that an entire case has been made out, and I send you a copy of my letter to the late Foreign Secretary on that subject. In that letter I have considered it my duty to enter into the proceedings of Sir James Brooke from hie arrival at Borneo, that the English readers may have an opportunity of knowing the truth, and then of judging for themselves how far that officer has de served the high honours that have been bestowed on him by her Majesty, by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, by the City of London, and other public bodies. A system of misrepresentation of the acts of Sir James Brooke by his supporters has conveyed to the British public very extravagant ideas of his magnanimity and generous philanthropy in incurring great labour and much expense, solely with the view to spread the knowledge of Christia nity amongst the ignorant and benighted natives of Borneo. The public have been by these means so strongly in his favour, that they have considered the massacre of 500 human creatures (unresisting men) at one time, on the night of the 31st of July, 1849, as a ve nial offence, and unworthy of notice ; and although the island of Borneo has been at different times laid waste by fire and sword, to carry out the schemes he has had in view, yet the generous feelings of the British people have passed over these outrages against the laws of God and man, under the spell of the word " pirates." These unfortunate abori gines of the island of Borneo—some of them living 80 and 100 miles from the sea coast—having had their villages burned, their trees cut down, their fields laid waste, their poultry and cattle stolen by the British forces, assisted by the natives of Sara wak, under Sir James Brooke, have not met with one sigh of sympathy from the charitable and humane people of this country. Although 20,7001. sterling was paid out of the taxes of this country in 1851-2 for the massacre of 500 men, and for the destruction of 2,000 more in the night, I was unable scarcely to obtain even a hearing from the British House of Cominons on the 10th of July, 18.51. I only demanded inquiry into the sacrifice of so many fellow creatures to ascertain if they had me rited the punishment of death. But so blessed were the Howie of cz -rimons under theen oneousand extra ordinary speeches of her Majesty's ministers, that only . 19 voted with me for inquiry, and 230 against inquiry. I venture to say that such a vote is not to be found in the annals of parliament as that decision against my motion. I received many letters, stating that they were sorry to see me so wrong in that cue, and that my persisting to demand inquiry was persecution to so great and so good a man as Su. James Brooke. My simple answer to all these. communications has been, that when upwards of 100,00 W. of the public taxes have been paid as head money, or blood money as some call it, in the years 1850 and 1851 for the destruction of Dyaks and others alleged to have been pirates, and when Sir James Brooke's own depositions, and the reports of public officers com manding the naval forces of her Majesty and of the East India Company, now before parliament, make the number of natives of Borneo who have been de stroyed at different times since 1843 to amount to nearly 5,000 souls, I really had hoped that, in a Chris tian country, an inquiry might have been granted. I have patiently submitted to the reproaches so freely cast upon me, and to the abuse which Sir Jas. Brooke and his partisans have directed against me since 1851, and have been assiduously employed in obtaining documents as proofs to establish either Sir James Brooke's innocence or his guilt in all these transactions. Her Majesty's government under Lord John Russell refused the public des pitches of the naval officers engaged in these bloody transactions that I demanded; and Sir James Brooke shrunk from inquiry under the sin gular delusion that the refusal of my motion by the House of Commons for inquiry on the 10th of July, iiitsl, wee an acquittal Under the administration of the Earl of Dcrby I was able to obtain many public papers refused to me by the former government, and I have taken the trouble to ~ r ing into short compass the chief points of the long and mot extraordinary career of Sir James Brooke i n th e reports, and addressed on the 10th of Decem ber, 1852, to the Earl of Malmesbury, the Minister for Foreign Aff a i rs . I have confined my statement almost entirely to the evidence of Sir James Brooke and his friends, Captains Mundy, i.feppel, and others. I hope to secure a dispassionate consus.mmtioo of my statement, and of the extraordinary and most anoma lous position of Sir James Brooke at this moment. I only ask your honest and conscientious opinion whether I have made out a case for inquiry—that is all,—in the first instance. I remain, yours sincerely, JOSEPH HUM& Burnley Hall, Jan. 18, 1853. RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS. Yesterday Mr. Smith and Mr. May, the barristers appointed by the Home of Commons to inquire into emi r planes with the standing( orders, in the case of railway and other bills in session 1863, met for the first time at eleven o'clock, in Committee Rooms No. 15 and 16. The various parliamentary agents, engineers, solicitors, and ether parties interested, were in attandessoe, and the standing orders were declared to be complied with in the following cases : WOODFORD RAILWAY.—For power to incorporate a ;many to make a line from the Nast and West India and Birmingham lunation Railway, at Hackney, to Woodford. RAJ? AND WRIT INDIA focus AND BINMINOIAIt ;UNCTION BAILWAT.—For consolidation, dimolution, and re-Incorporation of sampan, under • new name, power to construct new works and raise additional capital, and to convert debentures into a perpetual preference stock. BANGOR AND CA/WANTON RAILWAY.—For power to sell or lease to the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and erect hotel at Bangor. LONDONDIANT, COLN/LAIN/ AND BILTAITIIINCTIOW.— Constrootion aline from Coleraine to Castle Dawson, with branch to Rmsdalstown._ Beamuur COMMIS RAILWAT.—LiIIe from Longhton to Woodford. CRYSTAL Pramm Comsaxr.—For inoorporation and Hil TI MM ASSOCIATION.—For incor wtioa of compass, mud purchase of the lease of Her Majesty's Theatre. Gam, ExsaLmoaa. CIMITILLY AaaocLtrorr. MAILS TO INDIA, CHINA, &c. The following notice has been issued from the General Post-oMoi : Her Majesty's government having concluded a new contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the conveyance of mails, by et Southampton, to Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, I, and China, twice in every month, instead of once, as heretofore, mails for the above mentioned places, aa well as for Gibraltar and the balms Islands, will in future be despatched from London, by tte route of Southampton, on the morning of the 4th es well as on the morning of the 20th of each month. Mails for India, &c. (including China) will also be made up, for transmission, trio Mar seilles, on the evenings of the Bth and 24th of every mouth. When the 4th or 20th of the month falls on Sunday the mail* via Southampton will be mole up in London on the previous evening ; and when the Bth or the 24th of the mouth falls oa Sunday the mails eia Marseilles will be made up in London on the evening of the following day. The following table will show the rates of postage charge able upon letters for the several places, and also the rego. lotions, as to route, under which they are forwarded : Bars of Poeta(' on • Se& I Letter. MIMS of I. !W ( Oam► I via south Ws. a d. rfft r = looks Lim 1 $ 1 e 1 10 1 10 1 10 s. d. 1 0 1 0 1 6 1 0 1 0 1 6 1 II 1 • Letter 'resew by first packet, the days or dispatch being Iles 4th, 7th, 17th, ZOth, 117th of each month Letters ars met by AM snail, whether British packet, via Marseilles or via Southampton, or Free& packet, via Marseilles. Letters for these plates are sent via Mar seilles, unless other w.se specially .d -dressed. Letters are sent via Bel gium and Prussia daily, unless specially addressed via Mar seilles or vim South moon. THE LADY JOCELYN, which has just arrived at Plymouth, brought, in addition to a Cape of Good Hops and India mail, a mail from Western Australi►, the date of which is Oct. 18. HEALTH Oil LONDON. - - By the Registrar-General's return we are informed that the number of deaths registered in the metropolitan districts in the weak that ended last Saturday is nearly the same as in the week preceding, being 994. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number was 1,084, which, if corrected for increas e o f popu lation during these years, gives a mortality of 1,192 fur the present time. Last week's return, therefore, exhibits a re . duetion of 198 on the estimated amount. Cases of fever, both typhus and scarlatina, have been numerous and fatal in particular parts, hut it is satisfactory . to bud that, taking the whole of Loudon, the mortality of the epidemic class of diseases shows some diminution when compared with that of the previous week, and that tt is also lam than the average of corresponding weeks in former years. In the last four weeks scarlatina destroyed succes sively 67, 66, 63, and 38 livea; typhus, which hes been more uniform In , its results, was fatal in 51, 43, 52, and 4S cases. Judging from the mortality, diarrhms shows no disposition to prevail, and no deaths have been recorded from English or other cholera during the last three weeks. But hooping cough rose from 39 deaths in the previous week to 49 in the last; bronchitis from 67 to 82; plithisis was fatal in the last three weeks in 104, 12,5, and 134 cases. In connexion with this increase in affections of the respiratory organs it may be noticed that the mean weekly temperature, which at the beginning of the year was so high as 47'5 deg., and was atterwards 4.5 deg., fell last week to 41.9 deg. In the sub-district of Woolwich Dockyard, at 7, Artillery place, the son of a tailor, aged 4 years, and the sou of a gunner and driver, aged 2 years, died, the former of " con fluent small-pox (14 days)," the latter of " varlet& (.5 days)," and at 8, Artillery-place, the son of a gunner and driver, aged 3 years, died of " variela (8 days)." Two of these children had not been vaccinated. In the south sub-district of St. Giles, at 17, Little Wild street, the son of a printer, aged 2 years, died of scarlatina, and in the workhouse a girl, aged 2 years, died of the same disease. Mr. Faulkner, the registrar, states that "searU tioa is still very prevalent in his cub-district; the informant of the death in Little Wild street had five other children suffering from this complaint." In the Church sub-district of Bethnal-green, at s,Gartlen place, on 20th January, the son of a hawker, aged 2 years, died of fever; an inquest was held, and the following ver dict returned:—" Natural death from typhus lever, caused by a nuisance from a cesspool on the premises, and the coro ner is requested to write to her Majesty'. Commissioners of Sewers to direct their immediate attention to the erection of a sewer to relieve the place from future danger." Mr. Briggs, the registrar, adds The want of sewerage is severely felt in this part of my district. Another thud lies ill of the Isms complaint at the above-mentioned house, and is not expected to live." In the Amwell sub-district of Clerkenwell, at 8, Red Lion-yard, Great Warner-street, on 14th January, the son of a farrier (deceased), aged 14 years, died of " typhus (3 weeks)." Mr. Squire, the registrar, was informed by the mother of deceased that " she has four other children who have lately suffered from the Same disease ; that the room • h . us WtUA uve . u ilt over si.rtle id which several pigs are kept; also that the effluvia from the drains nit most offensive, and in her opinion the CAW. of till Wilts, of her family." la the sub-district of Kentish Town, at 6, Sussex-place, Prince of Wales'-road, on the 111th January, the sou of a plasterer, aged 3 years, died of "typhus (6 days)." Mr. Hacker was informed that " the drains of this house wars very offensive." Three deaths occurred from scarlatina, and one from remittent fever, at Plumetead. In Hoiton Old Town ' at 3, North-port-street, on 16th January, the wife of a banker's clerk, aged 66 years, died of "chronic bronchitis (3 or 4 years)." Mr. l'earce, the Registrar, Says:—"'Thu street, and a main street adjoiniug called Mintern-street, have been in a neglected and un healthy state fur a lung period. The mud and elush are in some parts twelve inches deep, occasioning stagnant water, which I believe to be an accelerating cause of bronchial affections, and other disease/ now in the neighbourhood. I hear:that the authorities of the parish are waitiug tar sewer gulleys." At 2, York-place, City-road, on 11th January, the widow of • dyer died of " influeusa (one week)" at the age (as reported) of 101 years. She was in possession of ail her faculties to the last, and was out of doors 14 days before her decease. The son of a labourer, aged 2 years, died of " sea sickness with continual vomiting (6 nays), convulsions (8 hours)." At St. George's Hospital, on 14th January, a man cook, aged 39 years, died of "carbuncular abscess of thigh (one month)." Last week the births of 790 boys and 787 girl', in all 1,577 children, were registered in Loudon. In the eight corre sponding weeks of the years 1846.62 the average number was 1,427. At . the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 99 . 468 in. The mean temperature was on every day above the average of 38 years, but it allowed much variation, having fallen on Tuesday tq 37'6 deg., or only 1.1 deg. above the average, and Ikon. after having risen ow Thursday to 49t v ihid i 12 .0 m deg. above the see: of MO . t:Ay On Saturday it b i ll again to SS 9 deg., and the mean of the week was 41.9 deg., which is 6.4 deg. above the average. On Monday, Tues d_a_yt end Saturday the wind bl ew f rom t h e north - west; on Wednesday from the south; at other times from he south west. The mean dew point temperature was 3.5 . 4 deg. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. fatal casualty c oa- Oecurr Abo ed ta i f n yt i O:Cl p O r e2; llses k On S o a f tur m d e a u y . ffi . o F rn orr in : g itt,b a engineers. e w it hle a h re : d w i ne gcrianevale.stotrelty, an h; ! , b , c O n b bsitet'oe- loan, Port-llundu, sequences, and the destruction of a large amount of pro , perty. The facts of the case, so far as we have been able to learn, may be briefly narrated as follows:—Soma time ' ago the proprietors resolved to make an extensive addition to their range of workshops, and among other improve.. meats in progress was the removal of the boiler of the steam engine, which drives the machinery, to a more eli gible site in the northwestern corner of the back court. Here it was fitted up, with an addition of nine feet to its former dimensions; and on Friday night the furnace was kindled, in order to test it prior to its being brought into daily operation. We understand that this preliminary experiment was attended with perfect success, and the boiler was left all night in chale of a private watchman er labourer, who received instructions to get up the steam by five o'clock the succeeding morning. At the above hour the inhabitants in the vicinity of the premises we re awakened from their slumbers by a terrific crash, as if several heavy pieces of ordnance had been discharged simultaneously; and ao sooner had the cause of the strange noise boss astertained than the entire neighb our h oo d was pleased date the most intense excitement and alarm. In formatics dike ostastrophe was immediately sent to the Com:adds= Felismoffies, when the officiating 'Mumma: despatched a megeant and three constables to the spot. The Ara spectacle which presented itself to that whom the alarm had summoned to the scene of the calamity wee the total dilapidation of the house in which the boiler had been erected, but =subsequent examination it was found. that the damage had not been exclusively confined to that locality. All anxiety was, however, centred ill the fate of the labourer, who was known to have been the only person in the premises at the time the diesster mune& By the united exertions of several labourers who were promptly set to work, the mutilated remains of the ill fated fireman (with the furnace shovel clenched is his hands) were in a short time dug from the ruins, con veyed to the lease of his brother-in-law in the im mediate vicinity, ami s idler being examined by a physician, were ultimately remmed le his own house ialCarriek-strmt. The melancholy ciesamelaseire connected with his untimely death are painfully aggravated by the fact, that the de awed (whose acme wee John 111'llinnon) has left a young widow and two children totally =provided for. Some idea of the tremendous force of the explosion may be imagined when we state that, besides the damage sus tained as above mentioned, a two-stery shed, situated in the middle of the beck mart, was blown into ruins, while all the projectioes—such as window sills, tunes, de., of a new four-storey building to the rear of the boiler-house-- were uprooted and displaced. The slam of the windows Of a workshop is proems of erection an a distant part of the court were else riddled as if by a shower of gape shot. The cause of the expiation is yet a mystery, although suspicions me entertained that the valve was un dulyn loaded the previous night ; but it were needless to spe culate on the real origin of the accident, as we understand that it has been remitted to two persons of skill to investi gate the whole circumstances of the case, and to report to the sheriff on au early day. It was very providential that the explosion did not take place half an hour later, when the whole wriyiloyils of the establishment would have been engaged in the premises, and the consequences mast have proved infinitely more disastrous than those we have re corded.—North fraisA Moil. RAILWAY ACCIDEff2.—On Saturday evening a se rious accident occurred on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which, though very happily unattended with fatal consequences, might have, through a slight deviation in the circumstances, turned out a fell catastrophe. As the 8.30 p.m. train from Edinburgh to Glasgow was approaching the Falkirk tunnel, the axle of one of the carriages had given way. The guards and those in charge instantly felt that there was a mishap, as the obstruction almost immedi ately forced the train off the line, with the exception of the engine and a luggage van. One guard leapt front kis place while the train was in motion, and was stunned and turaell over on reaching the ground, but the remaining guard wit h great presence of mind, held on and actively applied his bree.k until the carriages, the connecting link with the engine Ali,- lag of course snapped, were brought and very roughly 'AI a stand, one being overturned on the bank, and the passengers subsequently extricated through the window. This g Gard, wbo kept his place, knowing that the 8 30 p.n. train. from Glasgow to Edinburgh was due at that point, Lad no sooner gained the ground than he ran forward With the danger signal or red lamp, and it was fortunate bis did, se the engine-drivers and guards of the Glasgow train, ad vancing quickly, descried the signal, and were enabled to arrest that train just in time. Happilyon thiaoesasion, the Glasgow traia wet flee minutes behind its time, and that interval, by the Gaseous efforts of the above guard of the Edinburgh train, had averted any collision with the wreck 'of the latter. Those in charge of both trains thus brought to a stand still, exerted themselves to repair the accident and forward the passengers to their restoective destinations. This was done by dividing the carriages of the Glasgow and uninjured train, and sending the one•half to Glasgow and the other to Edinburgh, with the passengers going west and east, who reached Glasgow and Edinburgh about two hours after the regular period of the arrival of the 8.30 p.m. trains.—Calodonien Mercury.