The Express. — London, England, 1848-07-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRE S S, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1848. the most inalienable front the industrious pro ducers of the mother country. They know that the demand for our products has increased, and is increasing, nowhere so rapidly as in our ei-decant colonies, which now constitute the United States; and that even the embittered war of independence has not been able to overturn old tastes, old habit, old connexions, so far as to de prive us of the it custom. They know that in the infancy of colonies the protecting aegis of the mo ther country must be extended over them ; and that in the family feeling—the sense of a common citizenship engendered by mutual profitable transac tions' and by r e sistance lent in the day of weakness— an enduring athetion may be generated that will prolong the existence of the bond of colonial depend ence long after it is absolutely necessary. Nor are they insensible t o the importance of such a prolonga tion. When this country is assailed by foes, it is better that the English races descended from our brave and enterprising colonsts should be united with as in the bonds of a common citizenship, as is the ease with the Cenadas and Australia, than that they should constitute a rival power, uncertain in its friend-hip, like the United States. Ana in times of peace they see in the subjection of the mother country and the colonies to one common government a better guarantee that the private rights of each individual citizen shall be maintained than can be efforded in the case of two independent governments, where the tribunals of each may naturally be disposed to favour their own fellow-subjects. But the free traders look to other means of per petuating the esti:Mal nexus than commercial protec tions and restrictions. They know that these specious devices work not for the benefit of the general com munity, either at home or in the colonies, but of a few gorged monopolists in both ; and experience has taught them that out of the petty att mpts at mutual over-reaching wh;eh grow up out of a protective system have mainly arisen those discontents and antipathies which rent bath front Spain and England their continental demintons in America. The tree traders rely upon just and affectionate deal ings with the colonies as the means of perpt tu Ling their connexion with Great Britain. They would ea ten to the colonists the same immunities as to the residents in the old country. They woule. emancipate them from the vexatious and ignorant meddling of the Colonial-office in their local affairs. They wouid emancipate them from the incte-us of incapable and supercilious tole of ministers and members of paella nett sent out to fill t verb lucrative offiee in the colo nies bscause they have been serviceeble to state job bers here. They would Ica, e the industry and enter 'vise of the colonists free. And treating them thus as equals and beloved fellow-countrymen they would rely upon natural affection and a liberal enlightened sell-interest to ensure their loyal adherence to the empire. In these remarks we have kept the extra-tropical colonies princiaally in view, as immeasurably more important to us than the tropical. Tete extra-tropical colonies oder happy homes to every class of our countrymen; the tropical to the capitalist class alone. But what has been said of the former is equally true of the latter. The present distress in the West Indies —in so far as it is the result of the extension of the range of countries from which we are to draw our sugar supplies—is temporary. The same was expe rienced by our old West India colonies, when the British government, by its last of conquest, admitted tt.e produce of Guiana, Tri idad, St. Lucia, and St. Domingo, to the markets of this country under the exclusive system. The British colonies have recovered the temporary depression occasioned by the greatly increased snooty of sugar consequent upon these acquisitions, and they will survive the temporary depression consequent upon admitting foreign sugars to our markets. It is not by falling back upon the false policy of protecting a few overgrown capitalists in our principal pelts and the colonies that we arc to retain or regain the affections of the resident West Indians. It is by relieving them from the restrictions as well as the protection of the old system—by ex tending to them the protection of equal laws—by impartine to them the boon of self-government in all local affairs—by ceasing to make them the insulted paymasters of the venal instruments of corrupt poli ticians at home. These observations suffice to show tied the decla mation in which the Times indulged yesterday, pro ceeds upon a false assumption. 'flat it has nothing to do with the question really at issue, cal. be shown quite as easily. The effect of protective duties is to create high prices. The effect of high prices is to diminish consumption. The effect of diminished consumption is to check production. The interest of the West Indian community is that their production should be extended ; this can only be done by in creasing consumption; and this again by removing those duties which artificially increase prices. The continuance of the protective duties would be advan tageous (if to any person) not to the West Indian community, but to the few capitalists in this country who under the protective system have monopolised their trade and its profits. The West India colonies will survive thcueh all of the se gentlemen should be ruined. The resident practical planters, who are purchasing .. estates at low figures, will contrive to make the investment profitable by adapting their management to the new state of affairs. The old proprietors might do the same by conforming in like manner, but they prefer waging a vain struggle to recall a state of affairs which is past for ever. The West India protectionists are the exact counterparts of our corn protectionists; they demand differential duties, not to benefit the general community of this country or the colonies, but to enrich themselves at its expense. The West Indian residents are becomiag aware of this, and will not revolt from Great Britain because a few wealthy men in the mother country wish to im pose a tax upon every . old woman who uses sugar in her tea to pay for their mansions in the fashion able squares and streets of London. The Times is indignant at the mercenary poli ticians who look only at the money side of the colonial question, and boasts that it takes " the side of honour against expediency." Why the whole dis pute is with its clients a mere question of money : it is simply how mach they are to get for their sugars. The mercenary politicians at whom it rails are those who say that no more money shall be taken from the poor of this ccuntry by act of parliament and put into the pockets of a few West India mer chants and proprietors. he honour of which the Times speaks is, on the part of the English workman and shopkeeper, the honour of paying money com pulsorily and without return to these gentlemen, and on their part the honour of taking the money on those terms. Nor does even this plain statement reveal the' whole falsehood and hollowness of the clamour about the sugar duties. The sugar protectionists say they were as much injured by Sir ROBERT PEEL'S sugar duties as by Lord Joliet RUSSELL'S. It was the English corn-law landowners who enabled Sir Rot;ettT to impose his sugar duties. They did so to Ppropitiate him, and induce him to spare the corn aws. It is only since the corn-laws have been doomed that they have made common cause with the protected sugar interest. And their object is by dis turbing the settlement of the sugar duties to pave the way fur re-enacting the corn law. In the elation of their hearts after the division on Saturday morn ing several of our parliamentary squires, in private conversation, allowed it to escape them that its result encouraged them to hope that the progress of the declining scale of duties on corn might yet be arrested in the same way as the progress of the declining scale of duties on sugar. The contest now waging in the House of Commons is in behalf of corn, not cf sugar. • In the article of yesterday's Tirmer which immediately follows its Emile against allowing importance to pecuniary considerations in the colonial qucation, we are told that —" Every step towards insolvency is a first step towards revolution." The second leader answers tho arid. NOTWITHSTANDING the quolibett of protectionist and Peelite, Mr. COBDEN was right when he de clared that this was an age and an epoch of peace, and that war was so decidedly against the current of pub lic opinion in Europe, that we might hope to see it no more. Never, perhaps, were so many openings and incentives to war thrown out as by the events of this year. Not only have the internal piinciplcs of European government been broken up, but the landmarks of all European kingdoms re moved. Patriotic zeal and private ambition have been let loose. Actual war has been kindled by the ambition of princes in two places, yet even these wars languish and die out. The public spirit of no country feeds the martial flame. Generalship languishes, the very soldiers slumber, and after a skirmish or two the combatants are more anxious to shake hands than continue the work of slaughter. Luring four menthe the meet warlite nada, and the most warlike prince, have had all the pretexts and all the temptations possible for war. !Jut neither of them can resolve to declare it. The materials for that war are literally boiling over in the reservoirs of both. France is in a torment with a combative population, eager for spilling blood. The Emperor of Russia's coffers teem with gold, and his army with re cruits, yet the CZAR " roars you as gently as a sucking dove." lie declines provocation, limits him self to self-defence, and has assumed a really paternal I and tranquil attitude. The ministry itself has admitted the truth of this, and sent the militia estimates after the national defence di'to. The more indeed it coma down, the better, were it but to refute the reproach of Mr. .I)ISR.VELT, that we are spending as much in 1848 as we did in 1828. We do thank the member for Buckingl amshiro for the comparison. In 1828 there existed the same feeling which some folks strove to get up towards tho end of 1847, a fear of the Continent combining against us, and, if not invading us, at least shaking off our political influence altogether. The Eastern powers were then leagued with France in a kind of holy alliance ; and England, as the stronghold of liberty, was said to be so threatened with Russian and with French hostility that it was considerel re quisite to arm to the teeth, and present a formidable front of military estimates to the enemy. England might have spared her exchequer thee, heavy expenses of 1828, since in 1830 the power and the policy of the ltot,nt;oxs were scattered to the winds; that of Russia was scattered with it ; and the constitution-flag fluttered over a great portion of Europe, thanks not to our warlike preparations, but our pacific and constitutional example. In 1817 the most respectable politicians were for getting up thesame panic as in 1820, and on the same grounds. France was, it was said, threatening again. Fit eta wcre to be rigged and batteries thrown up, and the estimates were of course swelled to t xtraordinury dimensions. Scarcely was the budget framed, than France falls into a similar convulsion to that of 1830,a similar annihi lation of court policy, and a prostration of strength ; proving the estimates folly, and the prevision OR which they were founded, mere midsummer mad ness. Mr. DISRAELI, however, t ikes advantage of them to twit reformers with having wished to spend in 1848, aa much as the non-reformers of 1823. The reproval, we need not say, falls, not on the back of reform, but on that aristocratic principle and influence, which more than half nullified its results. Itudead of terrifying foreign countries by its arma ments, England is, we are glad to say, aiding reluc tant belligerents to coma to terms of agree ment and amity. There cannot he a stronger instance of the peaceful tendency of the time, than the vain efforts of Dance and I'russiaas to get up a war. Some weeks back the Danes marched into Schleswig with Homeric threat.. The Germans, at the bidding of the King of PRUSSIA, rushed, li kei so many Hetsiies, to dispute the posses sion of a few villages and marshes. England inter ce ,ed with both, and entreated them to be quiet. But the Danes would not listen to terms till they had fleshed their swords, and then the Prussians could not in honour submit till they had gained some military advantages. And so from point of honour to point of honour Prussians and Danes went on, without any real subject of difkrence be tween them, to cut each other's throats. The Em peror of Russia then interferes to say, that although anxious to assist Prussia, he would not permit the conquest of a Danish province. Hereat the Prus sians withdraw, having achieved by their cam paign the very thing they mareied to prevent — viz., the establishment of Russian protection at Copenhagen. Both parties arc now perfectly ashamed and convinced of the war folly, and both, we understand, are listening to the proposals of England, as mediatrix, for a final settlement, of the territorial differences at least, if not of the succession. A similar story might be told It Austria and Italia. Vienna and Milan are both inclined to peace, and the enly person who stands in the way of it is old Raprrsel, who wants personal vengeance, and who, like the Prussians and the Dance, cannot make peace till he has retrieved the military reputation which he lost in the streets of Milan, and near the bridge of Goito. The obstinacy of the old marshal will, we trust, find its worst punishment in defeat. We desire this, for it will be the signal of pacitleatlan between Germany and Italy. Amongst the general symptoms of a love of peace so remarkable at present we cannot pass over the election of Archduke Joss, perhaps the best represen tative of such a principle that Europe could afford. The Frankfort Congress showed some war like inklings against Denmark and against Milan ; how weak and short-lived these were, the election of the most industrial power in Europe to be its chief most plainly and satisfactorily demonstrates. LET Us look at Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S "Land Company" in the prospectus which professes to count the cost. We will suppose perfect honesty in its foundation, consummate skill in its management, and absolute truth in its preliminary estimates. And even thus we say, that there is no chance whatever of its working out its own end in any sense except one. The plan may be described as follows : Let many unite their small sums, buy and stock land, pat some of their number on the land at a rent, sell the pro perty thus improved at a profit, buy and stock more land with the purchase-money, put on more of their number as tenants, sell again, and so on until all are located. We are told by the projectors that with 5,0001. they can, in four years, establish 1,923 allot tees, and leave off with an estate in their own hands worth 37,3211. 'That is to say, they pretend to have discovered a way of improving money at sirly : fice per cent, per annum, compound interest, besides turn ing 1,923 paupers into solid yeomen, at a cost of fifty shillings a piece. According to the preliminary estimates, which we propose to grant, but only for argument's sake, 120 acres of land are to be bou.,ht at 181.155. an acre, for 2,250/. Of this arc to be made sixty lots of two acres each. A cottage to be built on i ach is to cost 30/. ; and each allotteo is to receive 15/. 16 , .. Bd., half to buy tools and stork, half to support him till his land yields. This costs 5,0001. in all. The tenants, who are to have leases in perpetuity, are each to pay a yearly rent of j.d. for cottage and land, giving a gross rental of 300/. This, it is assumed, can be sold for 20 years' purchase, or for 6,0001., with which the process is to be repeated on one-fifth more land: and so on. Now, granting all the first estimates, and among other things that the allottees will contrive to keep themselves and families on Os. a week during the un productive half) ear—and that the first crop is a good one—we say that the plan of immediately selling the property, burdened with perpetual leases, for 6,0001., is perfect nonsense. Why should a man give 6,000/. for what he can do himself for 4,050/. and a little trouble ? 'fake it on every supposition. The plan thrives, and the tenants pay; still any one can set up sixty allotments for 4,0501., and get tenants who bring in their on n capital. But suppose, which is much more likely in itself, and quite certain to be taken into prospect by the intending purchaser, that they do not pay ; in which case, spite of the perpetual leases (we say nothing about the legal difficulties of these in the first instance), the tenants must be ejected. What then ? Impoverished land and unrepaired houses, which, when rich and sound, were together worth 4,0501., will be all that the purchaser will have to show for his 6,0001. —except, indeed, an arrear of rent on paper and a lawyer's bill. All trade, of course, proceeds on buying, improving, and selling at a profit ; but a scheme which presup. poses a rapid power of making a profit of 25 per cent. as many times as the speculator pleases, and as rapidly as he pleases, is utterly futile. Such things are not the realities, even of fable—they are the chimeras of chimeras. Alnaschar, in the " Arabian Nights," ran his riches up in his head, until he spurned the vizier's daughter, as he thought, and so kicked down his basket. Perrette, in LAFONTAINE'S fable, multi plied her milk-pail until the toss, she felt it right to give at the ices of her old sweetheart, threw it off her head. FEARGUS O'CONNOR, an actual member of the British parliament,must, if he really means what he says, make a third; and his attempt of April 10 is the kick which, intended for the existing order of things, has knocked down his own stock in trade. The com mittee of the House of Commons, appointed May 23, has now issued two batches of printed evidence. The witnesses are people connected with the Land Com pany, and, as far as the inquiry has yet gone, it seems to be the attempt of Mr. O'CONNOR to prove that he ought to have the sole management of the funds, awl that his subscribes have great confidence in him, It I matterslittle as tothe ultimate effect whetherthemoney be finally parted from its owners by embizzlement or by such swamping as we have described. Public at tention is now turned to the scheme; and we venture to say that its doom is sealed. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY, IL3O It is now generally understood and admitted that whoever may have been the immediate agents, insti gators, or leaders of the late insurrection, that and the other calamities brought on France since February aro mainly . attributable to the compromises made by the provisional government which assumed the reins of power at the Hotel-de-Ville with the socialist party. To these complaisances of M. de Lamartine we owe that enormous curse of France, the ateliers nationaux, the prompt dissolution of which was ef fected yesterday by the soldierly vigour of General Cavaignac. To the same complaisance was due the establishment of the parliament of workmen, held at the Luxembourg, under MM. Louis Blanc and Albert, which, however, soon sunk under the weight of nonsense which was uttered in it. The pre sent government seems to have assumed the mission of correcting those errors and faults of its predecessors, and of showing that it has neither indulgence nor consideration for the Utopianism of M. Louis Blanc and his friends. The ateliers nation aux have ceased to exist ; but iu order to mitigate the distress arising from the temporary want of employ ment in the transition to a system of free industry, out-door relief will be supplied in limited amount to such honest and deserving labourers as cannot obtain ' employment. Meanwhile a sum of 200,000!. sterling is advanced by way of loan to the contractors for building in Paris, that being the branch of industry which affords the most extensive and various means of employing labour, and by encouraging which good effects will be collateratly produced in other enterpiisee. In my late despatch of yesterday I gave you a report of the important measures p educed by government yesterday in the chamber. It was the information of these which becoming known at the Bourse in the early part of the morning, before their announcement in the cham ber, produced the extraordinary the which took place in the funds, and which I reported yesterday. The savings banks are to make their payments in a form equivalent to cash, and the Treasury bons cre ated before the 24th February are to be paid in Five per Cent. stock at 70, the current price of that stock at the Bourse yesterday being nearly 73. The measure for the practical confiscation of the railway companies, and that for the seizure of the insurance offices pro posed by the late governmert had been abandoned. A grand religious ceremony in honour of the vic tims fallen in resisting the late insurrection will take place in the Place de la Madeline on Thursday. The bureaux of the chamber continued yesterday the discussion of the project of the constititution, and more especially of its preamble containing the decla ration of the rights of man. In three of the bureaux this declaration was altogether rejected, in some others it was postponed until after the discussion of the articles. The declaration of the right of every citizen to em ployment excited the strongest objections in all the bureaux, grounded chiefly upon the manifest impos sibility of the state answering such a claim. Ile right to relief, however, in the cases of inability to labour was generally admitted. The committee on labour has resolved to propose the revocation of the decree of the Provisional Government which limited the hours of work. . . . A letter which appeared some days since in the journals written from the Piedmontese head-quarters, affirming that two officers of the staff of the army of the Alps had arrived there with offers to Charles Albert that that army should cross the Alps, and march to his aid if required, has excited some atten tion, and it is expected that questions will be asked on the subject of the government in the Assembly. I observe in the news transmitted from here to same of the leading journals of London in relation to the military force disposeable in Paris, errors of the most unaccountable kind—thus it is said in a leading journal that there were 110,000 regular troops in Paris, besides 200,000 national guards, on the 27th and 28th. This is a most preposterous exaggeration ; I have already informed you I that the very highest estimate of the regal .r troops engaged during the insurrection was 22,000. On the 28th there were a few regiments more, but the whole did not amount to 2d,000. 'l'ne effective force of the garde mobile at the com mencement of the insurrection did not much exceed 12,009. Although considerable reinforcements have been arriving daily ever since the insurrection, it is not calculated even now that the forces in Paris and the Biotite°, including the garde mobile, exceed 60,000. Vigorous measures are in progress for the effectual protection of the capital against any future outbreak. The 3rd division of infantry of the army of the Alps, under the command of Gen. Magnan, is on its march to Paris, and its first brigade, under Gen. Reynault, is hourly expected. This division, consisting of eleven battalions, will be permanently encamped at St. Maur, situated beyond the Eastern Faubourgs of Paris, and in a position to act upon the rear of an insurrection if any should occur. The garrison within Paris will be divided into seven brigades under the command of as many generals. There will be also two generals of division, invested with the command of either bank of the Seine. All these forces, with the cavalry and artillery connected with them, will make up an effective force of about 40,000 men ; they will be denominated the army of Paris, and will be placed under the immediate command of the Mi nister of War, so that the orders of the government, in case of any emergency, may be carried into execu tion with the utmost promptitude. It is understood that the state of siege will be continued to the end of the week. A military journal, the Sentinel de r Armee, gives the following curious suggestion for the prevention of barricades in future. It proposes to unpave Paris and macadamise it, thus removing all materials for future barricades; that the unemployed ouvriers shall be engaged to break the present large paving stones, and in doing so, that they shall be placed under military discipline. The medical men who have the duty of inspecting the prisons and vaults in which the immense number of insurgent prisoners are crammed together with only straw to lie on, and scarcely sufficient space to extend themselves without compressing each other, express grave apprehensions of the production among them of seine of those epidemics incidental to such situations. It is announced that M. Emmanuel Arago, Minister of France in Prussia, is about to return to Paris, en eenge% but it appears certain that he will not return to Berlin. ITALY.—The Pied niontese Graelte, of the 30th June, states that three Austrian columns of 2,000 strong, with two cannons, attacked the heights, 1)ello Stel% to, and were repulsed, after a combat of eight hours. 11 flisorsige»witto, of the 30th, says the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, in its sitting of the 28th, voted by a majority of 127 to 7 for the totality of the law on the annexation of Lombardy to Piedmont. The vote was by bahot. The Madrid mails of the 29th have arrived. Queen Christine was about to visit Seville, on the plea of being present at the accouchement of the Duchess of Montpensier. The court was expected to go immedieely to La Granja. There was no Ilolsa. We learn by intelligence from Bayonne, of the 31st, that the Carlist General Elio had, entered Spain 1 with Arroyos and Sopelana, for the purpose of effect ing a rising in Navarre. Elio is a man of so much circumspection and good character that every act of , his is of importance, and an enterprise with him at its head is evidently one of great moment. Munoz and his children were carded at San Sebastian, and Christina was going to Seville. The Herald° complains that Senor Tacon, having informed Lord Palmerston that the explanations of the Spanish government on the expulsion of Sir H. Bulwer had arrived, accompanied by 29 justificatory documents, his lordship replied that he had told Senor Isturitz all he had to say on this subject. The Qaeen having refused to admit the resignation of General Serrano, as Captain-Gen'eral of Grenada, that military governor remains at xis post. Directions had been receivr A i a t th e em bassy from Sir R. Bulwer to sell off hi furniture I From this it would appear that our government entertains little . ' hope of settling the Spanish question speedily ; for evidently the only satisfactory termination which that question admits of is the return of the expelled mi nister. FRANCE.—M. B. LAROCHE. —We are requested to state that it is not true that M. Benjamin Laroche, the translator of Scat and Byron, was killed at Paris. His being the editor of a journal (La Tribune) may have contri buted to his being contounded with some person bearing a similar name. HUNGARY. —Nam, JUNE 23.—Tbe Turkish envoy arrived here last night, and has to day ha a confer. ence with our prime miniater, Batthyany, which lasted seven] hours, the object of which probably was the new relatint.s between Hungary and the principality of the Danube. A bloody engagement has taken place at Weiss kirchen between the Germans and the Illyrians. Letters from Bucharest of the 15th announce that all political affairs are suspended on account of the cholera, which his raged there with virulence for the last five days; since the 7th of the month about 160 persons had been attacked d.ily, of whom 50 had been carried off. COLONIAL. WEST INDIES. JAMAICA.—Tae damage by heavy rains appears to have been i.k a gnat measure confined to the vicinities of Kingston and Spanish Town and the eastern districts. The Jamaica Times says : The mitt side of the island has been more fortunate than this and the eastern quarters; though our northern neighbours have been blesr.,l with copious showers, they have not ,utter.,l from a mdun dancy of ruin. 'the only inconvenience the Journals relate are, that the Souttedde mails of last week did nut arrive at Falmouth until Salted .y night, anal at Montego Buy until Sundiy morning; that on else ro id leading front Falmouth to Martha Brae, pedestrians expe rienced notch inconvenience, a plank nearly three feet high over a slough being covered with water, and in the Maroon Town district we learn that the "Congo so" rivulet, running between that pace and Spring Vale, carried sway a man on hot seback, who with much difficulty was rescued front a whirlpool in an adj•rining pasture on Friday last. The water-wheel at Falmouth has been rendered inoper ative, and families In that town are experiencing u great deal of in c.nvenienee in eon. queues of being obliged to send their servalita upwards of a male to procure Water. In the districts, however, where the rain was heaviest it must have been tremendous. From the same journal we learn that in St. Thomas-in-the-East: - Scarcely an estate has escap,l serious damage, some by the OTer flowing of the rivers, others by mounmin torrents, which came rush ing down upon them, in some caws sweeping away the sod, and in others leaving thy livid. with beds of gravel, moulds of tree+, and all sorts of ru :Minh ; nor have these damagui. been confined to the sugar estates, several lire's have been lost, and a great number of stock have perished. The labouring population are also severe sufferers by the damage done to their prori,ion ground. cut up, and washed uoay to an enormous extenL 110. awlul the visitation has been may be easily oucceived from the fact shown by the billowing tide, that in four clays (Tuesday to Friday) the depth of water that MU ores the surface of the earth amounted to 33 8-10 inches : Fall of rain in St. Thomas-in-the. Fast, by a rain gauge, kept at Dslvey.—haturday, May 20, 2 9-1 u inches; Monday, ditto 22, 2.litto; 1 cicadae, ditto Ut, II ditto; Weilnersl sy, ditto 24, 9 3-10 ditto; Thursday, ditto 25, 5 0.10 ditto; Friday, ditto 2i, 12 4-10 ditto; in all 43 6-10 ditto, or 0;0,1100 gollune per acre. Bel Wee., Kingston and Spanish-Town a number of lives were lost. The Ferry-road was rendered impassable, and the communication by railway interrupted. (ireat damage was done to the wharves and bridges. On Monday, toe 22nd of May, the publication of the Kingston newspaper was suspended, the compositors bring tumble to get to their work. file permanent dausagc appears, however, to have been less than was at first apprehended. The Times states that the Ferry-road " was much better after the heavy rains than anticipated ;" and in its number of the sth of June, that paper announced that the renewal of the communication between Kingston and SpanislxTown, per railway, was to take place that day. There has, howev.,r, been a terrible destruction of stock, and owing to the ditbculty of carrying provisions to Kingston, occasioned by the ddapi dation of roads and bridges, their prima had risen to an I extravagant height. The Times of June 1 thus moralises on the visitation: _ . • e have had to record Fad ravages, and even loco of life, occasioned by the late heavy rains; the ilanages sustained will require large sonic of money, and will occupy scone iliac to repair. Yet we earriot bat be grateful for the benefits that will accrue thereby. For to my years have we missed what are termed by planters the May rea , unn, upon which the :MO:CM Or their efforts so much delimits. Though we may have hail occasional mina, oat in some parishes very pientitul, they have merely served to keep vegetation alive, and prevent the total ,uspensioa of agriculture. In the Jamaica papers we find the following items of intelligence : The C'enfral.4meriroo Times of the 11th ult. states that the body of Patrick Walker, Esq., had been found, but that It woo aro disfigured :11211 mangled by sharks that it was with difficulty identified. Advice. from Weal. represent every thing there'd tranquil. The troops sent there from usher had returned. It appears that after they had proceeded some way down the river, they were overtaken n craft bringing a letter to the colonel, the eneitents of which are believed to be that the victorious Indiana are quite pacifically inclined towards the Engish. They state that they never meditated any hosti. lily towards the kingli.h, unit that the runaway Spauiarda at tiacaLir may return and again pursue their usual avocations in peace if they choose. There is one exception, however—they arc determined to have Senor Domingo Martines, against whom they were much excited. GUIANA.—The intelligence from this colony is favourable. In its " Review for home readers," the Itoya. Gazette says: ?Since the last mall left we have bad in front Madras, the Macedon, 93 day., with 292 caches, and the Decherd of Northumberland, lel slay. from Calcutta, with 243, snaking the total of coolies arrived since the beginning of the year, 2,673. In agricultural and com mercial matters, though we Can report no remarkable and sudden Progrens, still viewing agriculture and commerce as they arc now and as they were towanla the beginning of the year, we cannot but he sensible that a material and decided change for the better has taken place. The stagnation in business, the distrust In mer cantile circles, the donuts no to the position of the banks, the general want of confidence are slowly, but eteadily, giving way to greater activity in operations and firmness of feeling. Nothing checks this Savourible tendency but the uncertainty in which the public are left as to the intention,. of the combined court. The weather has been very heavy, an immense quantity of run hav ing fallen during the last fourteen days. The labourer., however, are working for the moat part steadily at the reduced wages. The crop of the year, from two or three months having been lost at the commencement, in consequence of the strike, will probably fall short, but there in some ...lig:tenon in hoping that it will be made at less met than the preceding one. Heavy so the rains hare been, the wea ther In seasonable, and the cultivation generally looks fresh and flou rishing. A company fur trying thorough drainage on a farm of WO :terra b. been (mined in timelier, :red re expected room to commence operation?, The object is to ascertain how cheaply thorough drainage may hr rifechd in thin colony. Of Its practicability there is now no doubt, after the experiments of the agricultural chemist, Dc. Shier, on plantation LA Penitence. 'Ube Court. The Queen rode out on horseback yesterday morn ing, accompanied by Prince Albert. Prince Albert rode out on horseback in the after noon, and visited the lodging-house for the working classes, erected by the Metropolitan Association, iu the Old Pancras road. COURT MOURN 'No.—Orders are issued it. last night's Gazette, for a court mourning for the :ate tinted Duke of Besse. The mourning to commence to•morrow and to end on the 13th imtant. (From last night's Gazelle.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 30.—The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint W. A. 'Flakier, EA., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at• Aims, Tice Marker, retired. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, levy 3. Royal Regt. of Artillery.—Gentlemen Cadets to be Record Lients.: E. Teddy, vice Boultbre, prom.; 11. C. Singer, vice Mitchell, prom.; 11. J. T. Tonikinson rice Henry, prom. ; J.ll. Parkin, vice Warlow, prom.; C. Joluaton, vice Boding!letd, prom.; T. S. P. Field, vice Childers, prom.; L A. Bradshaw, vice Mytton prom.; J. ADCandie Campbell, vice Hemlock, res. ; W. French, rice Jones, prom. .; Sir W. G. Johnson, Bart., vice Campbell, prom.; E. A. Seymour, vicc Fsr mer, prom. Corps of El. Engineers.— Gentlemen Cadets is be Sec.-tient& : W. 0. Li nnox, vice Wilkinson, prom.; A. Leahy, rice Nicholson, prom.; E. L . Biand ; rice Walker; C. E. S. Baynes, vice Burke; C. Le GJI - vice Cox, prom.; A. W. Durnford, rice Farrell, prom.; D. A. Frarer, rice Liddell; 11.0. Tervelole, rice Barry; T. M. Oran; vise Sedley; W. C. Anderson, vice Lambert, promoted. CONSECRATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF ST. GEORGE. This event, which was looked forward to with in tense interest by the Roman catholic population of the dis trict and of London generally, took place yesterday. The church being one of the largest and most magnificent erected in England since the Reformation, for catholic worship, every effort was made t give idol to its opening. Great numbers of the Roman catholic dignitaries on the continent were invited to the ceremonial ; but the troubled state of the times in their own countries prevented most of them from attending. There were present, however, the Archbishop of Treace, the Bishops of Liege, Tourney, Chs:ons and Cher sonesees, with their canons and chaplains. Of the British Roman catholic prelates there were present, besides Dr. Wiseman, who officiated, Drs. Brown (Liverpool), Brown (Wales), Brown (Elphin), Sharpies (Liverpool), Gel.is (Edinburgh), Davis (Maitland, Australia), Waring (eastern district), Beigga (York), Morris (Troy). There were 260 crests, together with members of the orders of Passionists, Dominicans, Cistercians, Benedictines, Franciscans, Ora torians, and Brothers of Charity. The entire body of the church was filled with Roman catholic laity, amongst whom were the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, M.P., Lord Camoys, Lord Stafford, &c., &c. Several distinguished members of the protestant church were also present. At eleven o'clock, the bishops were received at the western door, and the pro cession formed, consisting of the Thurifer (the Hon. E. Petrel; the Incense bearer (Sir T. Acton); Acolytes (Hon. E. Stonor and Mr. Burke). The secular clergy in &outen and surplice, two and two; the regulars in the dresses pecu liar to the different orders • and lastly, the bishops in their mitres and robes. Youth; bearing lights and lilies preceded and followed the procession. The whole presented a moat imposing coup.d'ail, not the least interesting part of which to the stranger must have been the quaint costume of the regular orders. Dr. Wiseman celebrated high mass, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Doyle, the pastor of the chapel. It was partly Hummers and partly Drebisch's mass that was chanted The offertory was sung by Tamburiei. The sermon was preached by Dr. i Wiseman, n the course of which he read a letter from the late Archbishop of Paris, regretting that he could net be present at the ceremony_ of consecra tion in consequence of the state of Paris, "where grave circumstances required his presence." " Whilst," said Dr. Wiseman " every other prelate to whom I sent an in vitation said that, though be could not come he would offer prayers for our welfare, the Archbishop of Paris alone omitted to do se, as if he felt some presentiment of his mar tyrdom. But sure I am that he is looking down upon us from heaven, the last glorious martyr whom the church has given to her people, and that he is offering prayers for us at this moment Of the church' itself it is almost superfluous to say that it is the work or Mr. Pngin, and in the middle op style of architecture. It is 240 feet in length, 70 in width, and 67 in height. It is divided lengthwise into three computer cuts— the nave and two aisles. At the head of the nave stands the chancel, which is decorated in the richest manner. At its furthest end the principal alter is Placed, which is profusely gilt and ornamented ; and over the altar is placed a beauti ful window of stained glass. Opposite the altar is the large cross, also richly gilt, bearing the image of the Saviour. This is a work of Belgian art, and one of the most noticeable objects on entering the church. The floor of the chancel is richly carpetted, and the covering of the bishop's throne is of purple velvet. The effect during the celebration of the mass with numerous wax candles burning in gilded lustres and I candelabra, was exceedingly beautiful. At the end of each aisle stand two smaller altars, of scarcely inferior richness.; one called the " Altar of the Blessed Sacrament," and the other the "Altar of the Virgin." One of the main points insisted on by Dr. Wiseman in his sermon was, that all the profusion of decoration and display was in harmony with that principle in the nature of man which prompts him to dedicate whatever is most costly and splendid to the object of his affection and veneration. In the evening there was also a procession, benediction, and vespers, and a sermon preached by Dr. Gillis, who re turned thanks in the French language to the foreign pre lates for their presence at the ceremony. DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.-IMPORTANT IN VESTIOATION. An inquest which occupied several hours took place before Mr. T. Wokley, M.P., and a jury on Saturday last, at the Apollo Tavern, Francis-street, Tottenham-court road, concerning the death of Walter S. Badger, Esq., aged 23, who died whilst under the influence of chloroform ad ministered to him by Mr. Robinson, surgeon-dentist, (lower street. The inquiry excited intense interest among the medical profession, a large number of whom were presest during the proceedings. The body having been viewed by the jury, Mr. Badger, the father of the deceased, identified the body an that of his son. He said he was the coroner for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and resided at Nasborough Hall, near Rotherham. He last saw deceased alive on Tuesday the 27th ult., when he left him at the Rotherham railway station, on his way to Landon, where he was coming for the purpose of having six of his teeth taken out. He then appeared in his u-ual health, which was apparently very good, although he frequently complained of violent beating of his heart He had frequently expressed his desire to inhale chloroform whilst undergoing the operation of having his teeth taken out, but he was dissuaded from it by a medical friend, and also by members of his family. Harriet Wilson said she was servant to Mr. Robinson, sur geon dentist, of No. 7, Gower-strert, Bedford-square. The deceased gentleman called at Mr. Robinson's on Tours-lay, but as Mr. Robinson was engaged he left, and said that he would call on the following day (Friday), at two o'clock. Deceased came on the Friday at his appointed time, and she was call.d into the roost, as she understood deceased was to have chloroform administered whilst his teeth were extracted. It was customary for witness to be called in on such occa sions Mr. Robinson having prepared his apparatus, admi nistered the chloroform, an, when deceased had inhaled it about a minute he said " be slid not think it was strong enonth." Mr. Robinson turied away for the purpose of obtaining some more chloroform from the bottle to place in the apparatus, in which, perhaps, three quarters of a minute was expended. Dur ing this interval the deceased's hand dropped, letting . fall the apparatus which be himself held, and his h , ad dropped on his sheet, and he appeared quite dead. Mr. Robin son telt his pulse, and sent instantly to Mr. Drew, a surgeon over the way, ant for Dr. NS uteri, and prepared the deceased's arm ready fur bleeding. The doctor came directly, and on deceased's being bled, only about h if a table spoon full of very dark blood was obtained, and he was pronounced dead. In answer to questions, the witness stated that she had seen her master administer chloroform in 100 cases, as she was in the habit of being called in caw of her assistance being required, the larger majority of patients !wing ladies When Mr. Robinson first looked at deceased's teeth, she heard him say to deceased, " You had better let me take them out without chloroform;" deceased replied, "No, I will haste it ; I am not afraid." Mr. Robinson repeated in his evidence the statement made by Harriet Williams The apparatus, as also the bottle containing the chloroform, was here pr..duced, and minutely examined by the coroner, jury, and medical gentlemen present. Dr. John Waters was next examined.—He said he resided at No. 2, South-crescent, Bedford-square, and was a physi cian and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edin burgh. He was called to see deceased shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, the 30th June. He was apparently dead, but he attempted to bleed him, and resorted to artificial inspiration, friction, and other remedies fur half an hour, but to no purpose. He made a post mortem exami nation of the body seventeen hours after death, in the pre sence of Mr Erasmus Wilson and Dr. Emery. On opening the head, he found sli,sht congestion of the membranes. On opening the chest found the lungs pushed upwards by the liver, between the 3rd and 4th ribs. On opening the pericardum the heart was found to be of an unusually pale c.dour. The tissue ef the heart was thinner than natural and interspersed with fat, particularly at the apex of the left ventricle, where the muscular tissue was replaced by fat. 'there was only about one line of muscu lar tissue, when in a state of health there would have been five or six lines. The valves of the heart were nut in a healthy condition. The surface of the edges were unequal, and there was the commencement of the formation of card lage. The liver was found to be enormously large. It was double the usual sir..., and instead of four pounds, the natural weight, it was found to weigh eight pounds. The pressure of the liver upwards had evidently impeded the action of the lungs and heart, and therefore any excitement of any character was exceedingly dangerous to the deceased. With a liver and heart in such a state, the mere extraction of a tooth even withdit the administration of chloroform might have pro duced death.—By the Coroner: My opinion is that the de- criased's heart had not sufficient room to play on account of the pressure of the liver and other organs. I am also of opinion that the d.ceased died from arrest of the heart's action, owing to the administration of chloroform. Mr. Erasmus Wilson, at considerable length, corroborated the evidence of Dr. Waters, and expressed his opinion that the administration of chloroform to patients having any in. termed disease wail exceedingly dangerous : The coroner and jury completely exonerated Mr. Robin son from blame, and returned a verdict, " That the deceased died under the influence of chloroform, acting on a diseased heart and enlarged liver.' LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AST LUNL—Last after noon the half yearly meeting of the supporters of this insti. tuti. n was held in the Bridge-house Hotel, Mr. Rowan in the chair, to receive the report of the committee of manage. meet on the society's affairs. The secretary read the report, I from which it appeared that 1,8001. had been collected at the last dinner • that the funded property figured 6,6001., exclusive of 2,0 001. lodged with two brewers at five per cent. It further appeared that there were three vacancies in the asylum which would be immediately filled up, and theta fancy fair would be soon held in aid of the asylum. The report was adopted, thanks were voted to the officers of the past year, and the vacancies in the committee for the en ening year were filled up. After which, and a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting broke up. LAUNCH OF TILE TRAFALGAR, INDIAMAN.—Thin ship, which for the last few weeks has been the object of much curiosity, has been in course of construction for ten months, and has cost the eminent proprietors, Mesas. Green, a sum of 30,0001. The dimensions are as follows;--length from fora part of main stem to after part of taffrail, 198 feet 2 inches; breadth, 37 feet 6 inches; height, between deck, six feet; burthen, 1,238 tons; length of poop, 76 feet; of foresail, 38 feet. In general respects the vessel presents the characteristics of a frigate of war, to which purposes she could be suited at a very short notice. Indeed this remark may be applied gene rally at the present time to the construction of mercantile marine vessels of large dimensions, so that should a war arise there will be an enormous special fleet placed at the disposal of the government. The poop has been constructed se as to admit of the occupation of F a swivel of 451b5., which in the event of any attack would be found a most awkard opponent. Lang before the hour appointed for the launch, the ship, the yard, and indeed every available point was crowded to excess. A large booth adjoining the ship was appropriated to a distinguished circle of ladies and gentle men, and the friends of Mr. Green, while on the pavitlion, from which the ceremony of christening was performed, were stationed the Duke of Beaufort, K.G., Field-Marshal the Marquis of Anatomy, K.G., Viscount and Viscountess Maid stone, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Adelaide Paget , Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., Lady Cowley, Mr. and Lady Eleanor Graham, the Earl of I:xbridge, the Hon. Colonel Cadogan, Captain Dickenson, RN., Colonel Clark, Generals Macleod and Cartwright, Ace. Within a abort distance of the company was the band of the Royal Marines, who played several appropriate airs daring the afternoon. Indeed, nothing could have been more pleasing than the scene around, there being from the boat,on the river, and indeed from every available position, a profuse display of union jacks, national emblems, &c. The ceremony of christening was performed, at about ten minutes to four o'clock, by Lady I Jackson, widow of the late Sir Alexander Keith Jackson, Bart., and, on a signal, that lady dashed a bottle of wine against the bow, and named the vessel the " Trafalgar." The next moment she glided most gracefully into the I Thames, amidst the hearty cheers of the spectators. The band played " Rule Britannia," and one of the yachts on the river fired a salute. It was stated that the Trafalgar would sail for Madras and Calcutta oa the 15th proximo. The elite of the company were afterwards regaled at a sumptuous deiewser by Mr. Green ; upwards of 1,000 per sons sat down. The usual loyal toasts having been proposed, that of success to the Trafalgar was heartily responded to, as was also that of long life to Mr. Green. Dancing soon afterwards commenced, and continued up to a late hour. INQUEST, YERIERDAY.—SEICIDE OF A PRISONER. , —By Mr. U. J. Mills, in the board-room of the House of Detention, Clerkenwell, on David Thomas Gibson, alias David Collett, aged 55, one of the parties arrested last Satur day for the robbery of a bag of silver at the bank of Messrs. Cocks and Biddulpb, Charing-cross, who hanged himself in his cell under circumstances detailed in this paper yesterday. Edward Ginger, a fashionably dressed young man, and de. ceased's accomplice, sworn : He knew nothing of the de ceased. He never saw him before yesterday.—Coroner : You need say nothing to criminate yourself. Wit ness: He would speak the truth. While he and de ceased were in the cell in Bow street, deceased said : " I am nlout being sent from all that is dear to me. I would sooner destroy myself than bear that privation. If I had at.ything I would destroy myself. I have been - ones trans ported, and loom Una eadara main the harms of Ml* portst i o ,; I would destroy myself . Take my advice, do not do wrong; for if you do, be assured it w ill some to this." He then Complained of his 1 inn , and exclaimed: " I have a child as 021. se you ; don't commit crime. I'll plead guilty on Weduesslay. 0 God, what pains I endure! This morning I met a fellow transport in Pic.odilly, whom I was about knocking down; had I done so I would have escaped this. lam out on bail for 501."—Witness then ob served to deceased that it was useless fur him to steal St. ; to which he replied, " When I went into the Book I thought that the bag contained sovere gm, otherwise I aboull not have stolen it. I would rather antler death than again endure the honors of transportation." Ile told hie address, but witness forgot it.—Coroner: " It would he well if the horrors of transportation were better known, for then Inman, would not se wily espom themailves to them"— Dsweased's widow sod daughter, who were most re.pectably irtired, and were overwhelmed with grief, and bore most exedlent characters, presented theinselva in the inquiet room, but the jury unanimously agreed to spare them the pain of an examination.—lnspector .9niekl.• and Sergeant Watcher, of the detective force, priced that the deceased and Ginger were well known members of the swell mob.— Ye, diet, " Deceased destroyed himself whiis labouring under temporary insanity." IRELAND DI BLIN, JrLY 3.. The terrible consequences of the dub . system in Paris have caused much alarm, le cause of the organisation of a similar confederacy in this country. The connexion of the clubs with the proposed league of Young and Old Irelanders has been cart ful'T kept out of view in the terms of amalgamation circulated amongst the Roman Catholic bishops and clergy who are members of the Repeal Association ; and, with comparatively few exceptions, those prelates and clergy have given their adhesion to the league. But the leading Confederates blast that the dubs are to be the mainstay in working out their revolutionary system, and, under such circumstances, it is not sur prising that many of the clergy now hesitate about committing themselves with so perilous a mot ement. In fact it would appear that the new project of agita tion is looked upon with disfavour by some of the Roman Catholic prelates who had been considered favourable to the Repeal whilst advocated on the "moral force principle." And hence the following are the resolutions adopted at the late meeting in May nooth, the substance of which was ccnveyea in yes terday's letter : I. 'l' tat our chapels are not to be used in future for the purpose of holding therein any public meeting, except to eases corinested with charity or religion, and that we do hereby pledge eureelw ri to Carp this resolution into etfeet in Sur respective di g.eas. 2. That, whilst we do not intend to interfere wit h the civil rights et those entrusted to our rare, yet, as guardians of religion, justly appleheialins that its peneral interests, as well as the honour of the pi iethosl, would be compronased by a deviation from the line of emilitA • bit h we marked out for ourselves, and impressed upon the minds of our rangy, in our pastoral address of the year Is 30, we do lwreby itedge ourselves, on our return to our respective diovess, to I,llllla Our lt Igy of the issti unions we then oddremed to thorn, and to reconirm nil to them mist earnestly, to avoid in future any al. wien at their 1/11.4 puns tisd subject., and carefully to refiain from connecting themselves with political clubs —artiag s chairmen or secretaries at political meetings, or moving or seconding resolution• on such occasions; la order tout we exhibit ourselves in all things in the char.., of our mem] calling, as ministers of Chri,t, and dispensers of the nip:trim of Mr/MAT, Arebbithop. The meeting at which theso resolutions were adopted was attended by fourteen bishops, including the Most ltov. Dr. Crolly, It. C. Primate; Archbishop Murray; Dr. Browne, Bishop of Dromore ; Dr. Ryan, Limerick; Dr. Hely, Kildare and Leighlin ; Dr. Denvir, Down and Connor ; Dr. M'Oettigan, ltaphoe ; and Dr. J. P. Browne, Elphin. The remains of Mr. Steele were depcsited to-day in Glassnevin. His friends wished that the inter ment had been more early and more private. Four Tipperary men insis'ed on the privilege of placing in the vault the body of the "head pacificator." No meeting took place to-day at Conciliation-ball. It is rumoured that Mr. O'Connell will make another effort to stay the dissolution. ILLEGAL TRAINING AND DRILLING, —The Commission Court sat at eleven o'clock this morning, the Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas presiding. After the disposal of a few unimportant cases, the foreman of the city grand jury came into court, and stated that the jury bad found a true hill against Thomas Devin Reilly, on a charge of illegal training and drilling. The traverser's solicitor then applied to the court for a copy of the indictment, and the application was at once acceded to. At a lab r period of the doy the tra verser was called to the low and indicted by the clerk of the crown, Mr. Alley, for having, on the 21st of May last, at Belleview, in the city of Dublin, attested a meet ing of a nature dangerous to the peace azisi security of her Majesty's subjects and government; also for hoeing then and there practised military exercises, movements, and evolutions; and, lastly, for having then and there trained and drilled certain persons, unknown, then and there assem bled, in military exercises, &c., without lawful authority for so doing. The clerk of the crown then called on the traverser. to plead to the above indictment, when his solicitor requested of the court that Mr. Reilly should not be celled on to plead until the following day, on the ground that he had but just then obtained a copy of the indictment. The court granted the applicatien. Mn. BALL HAS ISSUED HIS ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OP SLIGO. lie bases his claims on his " thorough devotion to popular principles," and a determination to labour in pre. mating the rights and defending the interests of all, "never forgetting the poorer classes." Every m e asure ant pro. raises " a little good" he will support, but Ire will not be content without the " full measure." In order to reconcile the repeal party, be calculates on a sperdy attainment of "an annual meeting of parliament in Dublin "—a fair Registra. tine Bill—a proportionate expenditure of the public money in our national establishments—and a Tenant Right Bill. In conclusion he justly observes, " I see no reason why, if Irishmen be true to themselves, Ireland should not rise from her present dejection, and attain peace end pro.perity." Of Mr. Hartley, " thlmercliant prince," the Freeman of to-day says : " Mr. 11. is just the sort of man we should wish to see attached to the cause of progress, and, once attached to it, just the man we would like to see represent our interests in the senate." But Mr. Hartley, like Mr. Ball, is not a repealer. SCOTLAND. Erronw MOVEMENT IN GLASOOW. —On Wednesday evening a general meeting of delegates, for the purpose of promoting the objects of the Glasgow Electoral Association, VMS held in Anderston, at which about GO delegates were present, representing nearly 1,600 persons. Mr. Thomson occupied the chair. After some conversation an influential committee was elected for the purpose of agitating the ques tion of parliamentary reform in the western district. PROVINCIAL. STAFFORDSHIRE: COAL-PIT EXPLOSION AT WEDNESIWItY.—Osi correspondent at Birmingham writes us that another explosion took place yesterday mondny, in a coal mine occupied by McEra. Russell and Son, at Wcdnesbury, the consequence of which was that six men were very seriously injured. It seems that the men had been down the pit about two hours when the explosion took place. Previous, how ever, to their commencing work, some of them took the seety-lamp and tried the pit with the doggy, the latter re marking that there were only about two or three inches of fire-damp in the roof of an old working, and that " it would not hurt." The men accordingly proceeded to their employ ment, About eight o'clock a quantity of rock accidentally fell from the roof of the pit, carrying with it the combustible matter, this was ignited by the candle which a man named Meake was using, thereby causing the explosion. The doggy, Thomas Doliman, is very much injured. John Daman, T. Bellamy, J. Herrington, T. Walker, S. Good win, and J. Meake, are all very much burnt, some of them not being expected to recover. The works are blown to atoms, so that the proprietors must sustrin considerable damage. As usual in these cases, which are becoming of almost daily occurrence, no cause is assigned for the accident. OXFORDS - HIRE. COMMISSIONS IST rlle LORD-LIECTENANT.—Cornet 11. Montgomery. to be Lieutenant, and F. R. Fitzroy, to be Cornet, in the Gluten's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeo manry Cavalry. NORFOLK. REPRESENTATION Or GREAT YARMOUTII.—A cor ms, ondent says :—" The writ was received here on Mon day, when the Mayor fixed the nomination for Friday morn ing next, and the polling for Saturday. The liberals have two candidates, Mr. C. E. Rumbold (who sat for the borough from 1818 until the last election), and Mr. R. J. Bagshaw (eon of the member for Harwich), who are prosecuting a very active canvass. The freemen being disfranchised the liberals feel confident of success, as they have invariably had a large majority of householders. The tories have brought down only one candidate, Mr. I. Sandals, in the hope of being able to bring about a compromise with the friends of Mr. Rumbold. The liberals have, however, a strong feeling against compromising with their opponents, as their own victory appears sure, and the " no-compro mise" cry has been loudly raised." wY RoTAL ITALIAN OPERA. —" La Favorita " performed last night, when M. Mused made his &but at this theatre in the part of Xing" Alphonso, and met with the nie ces which was to be expected from his high reputation. He is tall and handsome, with expressive features, and personated the Spanish monarch with grace and dignity. His voice is a baritone of great power, a sweet and mellow quality, and perfect truth of intonation. His style is quite Italian, and we detected nothing, either in his mode of vocalising, his accent, pronunciation, or action, which re minded us of the French stage. In soft and tender passages, as in his first air, " Se amore it lie to puoi," he was pecu liarly hippy ; and his part of th , 2 fine trio in the third act, with Grin and Mario, was beautifully sustained. In other respects the piece was performed as before. Grisi sang magnifixatly ; and Mario, though his voice bad not get rid of its huskiness, gave tbe music of his part with much effect, and acted with more elan his usual energy and feeling. The manner in which this fine opera is got up in regard to the taste and splendour of the wain effects, deserves the highest praise. The intn.rior of the church, in which the lad act taker place, is a scene of unrivalled truth and beauty. Tbe Queen and Prince Albert Were present, and tha theatre was tmidst, I