The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-20 00:00:00

st t d e spatches to Cope he Danhagen, insisting on op t utuaili iiet tlement of tnish question wori ii„ g iv their wishes, and threatening the ud ,ssee th tells! troops in ease of contumacy. rum ., tselio artenherg gave a bull in honour of 1,,51 : iit's dismissal from ottiee. Neither the bWI the American representative was in _ The Cust.sas C o ngress continues its sittings, in the two Nlecklenburgs, Sc., altogether nom taking any pr No practical result, o f any importaite a t. e eitht•r has been or is t o 1. arrived at--linty, from financial causes; ft,,, n political ones; and, thirdly, from the eartnination of Prussia to struggle to the last for .ilnuenial intim:nee us head of the Zo government have I. *Jim d t.. :ale& to Louis Napuloon's request to be 5p, ,,„.„1 remove the rcimuns the Duke de k.t.ch o Paris. 0 4 ,11, t Minister of the Interior, has received t i nll .,l Cross of the Order of St. Leopold 7 no th.• rchlicatiou of the new statutes. 1)r. Iltir,l Itaeh . I;tr such is the title now eon- La enti•rd the cabinet pledged to • the c onstitution. and is almost the only man Grp T , r u, r alto owed his elevation f a rt i ,s ee ,. r o„ ,t„ r e . 'lntim 0 , 414.9). Count (iv alai is stated 3 1.0. i: to resign his command in Maly. Vomit G .. to be replayed as Stailtholaer of Oa of the archdukes. The count goes as Petersburg. i s„ .11. , most ably tondurted papers here. the • . has been altogether suppressed. for 1 .,.! !awl some months ago. an article in .. a i....ated that there might he some poli e t..r the journey of the Archduke Albreeht Wes! Duke of 'fikicany. Ilattaa I.•!lachielt has been appointed prcsi k: -; :ise chief legal tribunal in Croatia. as well as t es,..r% said civil govurnor of that province. I' , ..• • .11 , .r. of the municipal councils are no longer k ..• has been made to conciliate public . Hungary by leaving them the shadow of itution. Later taking away the substance. ue . official documents, &c.. the old names of af••. •Is ry , .I.IN (lord lieutenant). and - • are to be used. Arrests, however, 2 , •• - • frequent. and the old plan of shut- , itliout letting him know his offence, h1:11 to trial, is continued. Nothing, twat 1111`1% . WINII/4 Call do is being left un all isuperial nacript just published, .: sic:, to he used in future in mentioning wen , - .4' the Emperor is changed tom K. K. In r IL I al to the title Imperial Royal Apostolic 11,0isty• lu. title of .%no,tolic Majesty was con land th. Pope oa St. 'Stephen of Hungary. IBE[MIN, JAN. IC.. i,-da% the Second Chamber was engaged in a t 07..n.n! , • nal cic bate. the repirt on the petition of t 3...1611 sauniui, of Siteem, stood on the order of thi „ay. This petition concludes with the fol losin,: priyer: , - - That the Chamber may undertake, in cone. rt with tlw First l'hamber. the revision of ter 1,- . . ration of Jan. .11. IKi I , and expunge every r . 4r.0. not in tvtiformity with the situation, the tra itins..ind reminiscences of the Prosaian state— thit lore which cannot maintain itself on the bril ham Is ight which it has conquered by the firm pna,.t•be monarchical principle, and by the strong lit government of its Kings, except by the sere Alta oome discuysion the order of the day, pure ss'..at.ph.. was carried by 117 against 123 votes. Ths.th, first assault on the constitution has been npulsil by the united forces of the left and centre. BAVARIA. In it. sittimr of the I lilt. the Second Chamber nd,pl,l. bra %cry L:e majority, a bill for placing at lbr turd of t .o-li di , triet n governor, assisted by a &trio ontnyil. tormcd of representatives of COM mono and town-. of the land-owners, and of the taireni:ie• and elt•rzy. EG Y PT. ALEX %Mont. JAN. 4.—Tho Dake de Leuchten barel arrived in • Neapolitan steamer of war, and had under a salute. and was accompanied by the Gmerner of Alexandria and all the military auiltori tits 1.. Ow canal, where he embarked for Cairo, for fir health. indria is very full of shipping, especially —.aid to he an hundred sail of them—wait lag for freights, without a prospect of getting any. G ItEECE. W, e Athens journals of the 7th inst. The r Itsputies had voted the supplemental end:: t a I‘il. The journals still contain accounts of w t. of loriztndage ; and, on the other hand, of torturi+ applied to capturtsl brigands by the authori tit% t i u.p I them to confession. UNITED STATES. Oar New York correspondent writes as follows : NEW YORK, law. 6. The news from Europe overshadows all other, and wt• Wok with astonishment at the facility with which a government may he upset in a single night. As far as I viti judge, the utmost indifference prevails hem a• to the result. France is nothing but a poli tical myth. It is a romance, a play, a elsanson : and we at, p.rfeet:y indifferent about its internal trans action,. It i. more and more apparent every day that Kos oath's hopes of intervention on the part of the Imminent are fading away. He is met by a most decided opportithm from all the great legislators of the country. The feeling of the people is with him, but not their sober judgment. It is reported that he is to make a final appeal to the people, but it is to be Ivied be will not attempt it. Citizen Genet, the Preath minister, once appealed to the American popc apinst the decision of the President, and he eas lttiny ruined by it. Kuesuth must be ar tpulatiil with the fact, and cannot fall into a saiiiar emir if he preserves his usual self-possession. Miantime. as an individual, he is receiving attention lath 4.4 no ',titer man ever received in this country except Lifayttte ; and when he considers that per lown:y we un under no obligations to him, and that all our homage is really paid to ab newt principles and to personal worth, he should feel that !hough he may fail in his mission, he has gained triumph for his principles. The news from Washing ton is, that he will really receive the very greatest attit.tion, but no pledges from Congress. Indeed, it would he • t. ftoleciam of the growsest nature" for this severnment to promise anything to an individual irbo rim -cots nothing but the hopes of a people. On New Vest's Day Kossuth, accompanied by his surf, wairrdon the l'resident, to whom they were introdoced by the Secretary of State. The reception .I,..ilied to he a very formal or official one, het M. read to the President a short ad tin hith the President replied in the following tent, I von'', Governor Kossuth, to welcome you to this WO • •,...lont; and it gives me pleasure to congratulate 1' art relcaae from • lona confinement in Turkey, 061 • ,Is arrival here. As an individual, I syrups lay with you in your bravo struggle for the has pto • awl freedom of your native land. The American Pe..; n never he indifferent to such a contest, but cur . nation in this respett has been uniform, from th. - , of our zovernment ; and my own views, es tt I esecutive magistrate of this nation, are fully ant a . %pressed in my retest menage to congress * to have lean pleased to allude. They are the flUa• • r speaking to congress here, or to the nations I 'ihould your country he restored to inliPprel• dont, I should then wish you, as the greatest f.l. calor, a restoration to your native land; Mt. . that never happen, I can only repeat my wet- WISP to %•. , 1 mid your companions here, and pray that i" 4 • hie —one may rest upon you wherever your lot may UAL iad here the interview terminated. or M EReIIANT.—A good dea; of in form( ham hien rn ated at Brion/II in consequence uf the 116 " uf Mr William Wood, provision merchant, who ,_ 'nd. °4 l en 3 %. ry catenate hominess in Nicholes-otreet, is that e.iy. IN ro.rt metes that the liabilitico are to the extent of lit,torat.. and that immediately before his de parture, Mr. 1V434 reirod large sums of different parties under 'fir). ryutrocal circumstances. It is expected that he , innr , oon ie to embark with him family for America or Auxtrelui, and nthcen are prone to the outporta in search of him. A reward of 1001. has been offered for hire appro bation. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1852. Whether men who can or will coalesce with minie ters are to be found among the other parties into which parliament is divided can only be made npin2- rent from subjecting these parties to the same ana lytical scrutiny which ha" here been devoted to the ministeriabsts. But the present letter has run to too great a length to admit of this being attempted within its limits. AN EX-M.P. London, Jan. 17, I$S2. TO VIZ IDITOIL OP Till DAILY KIWI. THE NAVAL DEFENCES OF THE COUNTRY. 8114.--Of the large number of her Majesty's ships in commission there is barely one that is prepared or designed to resist any of those sudden aggressions I on our coast, which are now so commonly believed to possible. At this, the principal naval po rt of the !, empire, there arc the Britannia, 120, the Rodney,92, and the Retribution, 2s, steam-frigate; but these, when complete in their equipment, which will be , sometime first, all proceed on ((Reign service; the two that to the Mediterranean (the Britannia, as flagship, to the commander-in-chief there), and the latter to Lisbon or Gibraltar. The Victory, flag ship, and the Excellent, gunnery-ship, are too old to venture out of the harbour; and the Neptune 120, the now ordinary depot-skip, will be some months before she is equipped, and that will only be for harbour service. The vessel that is best calculated and more particularly intended for the defence of the port is the Blenheim, screw line of-battle ship, of 110 guns, but she is having repairs to her steam-1 ipso, which will take some weeks to complete. The only other ships in commission at Portsmouth comprise the royal pleasure-yachts and a few steam-tender and tugs. Thus there is not a single vessel of any useful character in commission at Portsmouth that would be available for immediate weeks', toe au emergency, to defend the coasts of Hants, Sussex, Dorset, and Kent, without mention. ing the Channel Islands. At Plymouth the caste is about the same, the ships in commission there being the Inipregnable, flag ship ; St. George, ordinary depot ship ; Hotspur, gunnery ship (which, of course, are not designed, or anj thing like fit for sea ;) Ilecute, steam shop of six guns. and a few small tenders and tugs. The Tweed, Is guns. was paid off at this port OH Friday; and the tr gun brig Rapid is only waiting for a fair wind to pnotocti to the East bialys—she has no doubt sailed by this time. The eastern ports are equally devoid of ships in a condition fit for an emergency. The flanges, 84, and the Southampton, 30, have just returned home front foreign service ; but these are under orders to be paid off. At the different ports there is a comber of steamers and other ships which are described as "advanced;" but, probably, before any half dozen of these could be removes( into the class of " ready for lieu." the necessity, or danger, if there really be any, will have passed away. Huwever, on account of the alarm that has been raised in nierence to the defence-less state of our shores, it is confidently stated that a large addition is to be made to our naval forma at the opening of parliament. But whether it is an ami mentation or a better di-tribution of her Majesty naval forces, is the point that calls for consideration. For whilst the southern and eastern comets have hanlly a ship to defend them in ease of sudden attack, powerful British fleets and squadrons arc stationed in almost every other part of the globe. In the distant l'acific we have 15 vessels, (three of which are steam-sloops), rangingfrom 30 gunseaeh to 4, and having a total of 292 guns; in the East ladies there are 14 vessels, 4 of which are steamers, ranging front 72 guns each downwards, having a total of 283 guns; on the south-east coast of America there are 8 vessels, 3 of which are steamers, having a total of 88 guns; on the North American and West Indian station there are 14 vessels, 5 of which are steamers, ranging from 79 guns, having a total of 253 guns; at the Cape of Good Hope there are 9 vessels, three of which are steamers, having a total of 95 guns ; on the coast of Africa there are 23 vessels, 11 of which are steam frigates and steam sloops, having a total of 181 guns; in the Mediter ranean there are 20 vessels, 9 of which arc steamers, with 6 line-of-battle ships of from 120 to 78 guns each and two 30-gun frigates, having a total of 780 guns; and in the Lisbon squadron there arc S vessels, consisting of one 90-gun ship, two 50-gun frigates, one GO, one 311, and one 21-gun screw steamers, and two smalier steamers, mounting in the whole 318 gulls. By the above statement it will be seen there is no want of an efficient and powerful naval force : all that is needed is a better distribution of it. An in crease of the navy will entail a vast burden on the country, and cannot be effective for some months, even * if a vote for it is obtained; whilst the Lisbon squadron might he brought home at once without any injury to British interests by the change. The last &deices from Lisbon acquainted us with the fact that a great demon stration hail been made by the Commodore's landing the marines and the marine artillery, the object being to makea " salutary" impression on the popu la ce in favour of the government. If there be any cause for apprehension as regards our own coast, it would surely be wiser to have such demonstrations nearer home rather than leave ourselves without a ship to protect us in order that foreign nations may be coerced into obedience to governments and dynas ties they despise.—l remain, sir, Yours obediently, Portsmouth, Jan. 19. AN ENGLISHMAN. Itv.i.tcrous PeRSECUTtON IN TINCANT.—The fol lowing facts reach us by a private letter from Florence: " The Grand Duke of Tuscany continues to persecute pro tritest Christians. One of these being very ill, was lately attended by two of his friends. The physician Gallori, a man of no account in his profession hut a true follower of the priests and of the police, instead of apprising the family of the state of the rick man, as was his simple dot,, in order that his various social and religious duties might be at tended to, and seeing that the poor invalid did not ask for the confessor, because he said that he hail peace in the faith and in the promises of his Saviour, he him self ailed the priest, who immediately hastened to do his part ; and forthwith asked the sick man if he believed in the Pope. " No; but I believe in Jesus Christ." An animated discussion followed this beginning, and the sick man, who quoted many texts of Scripture in opposition to the nonsense and temptations of the evil minded man, be came so tired, end his illness so aggravated, that his friend who was attending on him, and who up to that moment had been silent in a corner of the room, conceived that he was bound in charity to rise, and ha said, "My friend, te*m have spoken well, but now it is enough." pou this, the priest, looking angrily at the speaker, took his hat, and ran to the Frefettura in order to vent his rage. Thirty gendarmes went to arrest the two attendants upon their friend and the sick man himself is watched by see of the gendirmet at his side ' who allows no one to eater the room but the wife and the brother. The priests went sumemively with estr preparations for administering the communion ;Zre= care to keep away at that moment even the above-men tioned penman of the family in order that they might not have witnesses. But the continued abiding of one of the gendarmes, sufficiently shows that the sick man has not been wanting in faith. The two new prisoners are tranquil in spirit, because they know that " Blessed are those who are persecuted fur righteousness sake." This happened on the 2nd January, 18S2. Vi'e-sTMlsts2rait REMMLN fIOCIrrT. Yesterday evening, a meeting of the members of this society took place at the Exeter lintel, Strand, for the purpose of re• ceiving the report of the committee, and of electing the committee and officers for the ensuing year. The chair was taken by Mr. Oecsin. After the confirmation of the minutes end the election of new members, Mr. Lewis read a report of the proceedings for the last three years, during whish period the society had, it was stated, been in com parative suspense. It stated that the liberal interest in Westminster had not been for years past in a more otitis (factory position, and that it would be able to return both members at the next election. Reference was made to the Hungarian struggle and its result, and warm sympathy ex pressed for the Hung , • arian cause. The committee regarded the retirement of Lord Palmerston from the ministry as an event of deep significance, and anxiously awaited explanations in parliament, after which it might bevene necessary to elms' an opinion on the subject. It was remarked that the country was quite ripe for the new Reform Bill, and that it would be the duty of the society to watch the course of the government in reference to that question. With regard to the final's*. it wee stated that although the members had not been called upon for their usual annual payment for the last two yens% the society was only in debt to the amount of 101. 7s.,whisli liability had been incurred by the secretary for expenses onfi of pocket. Mr. Lewis concluded by move m the adoption Si the report, whieb was seconded. Mr. T. Sounders cones pleined of the recent inactivity of the county, and urged 11111 the meeting the duty of seeking to obtain a corporation fag the City of Westminster. Altogether there had of late beet great supineness on the part of Westminster reformers, sad he hoped that in future this would not be tbe mew The chairman decreed that fifty-five names he/ recently heen placed on the registry for West Surrey.. a sufficient number almost to turn the election, and could not, therefon., be said that the Westminster ream= bad done nothing. Alter some further discumble s ate report was adopted and ordered to be printed, under the direction of the committee, fur circulation among the memo bens. 'the committee were then elected for the year. Mr. Charlwoot and Mr. Thigeett were respectively elected treasurer and secretary. It was also resolved that the prin ciples, niles, and regulations of the society should be referred for consideration and amendment to the committee, who were to report thereon as soon as possible. This terminated the proceedings. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN AND MIDLAND RA a I.WA v.—The long-pending negotiations between these two companies are under.tood to have terminated In an agreement that neither of them without consultation shall entertain terra' with other railways competing with them. THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES. LETTER 1.-THE WHIGS. TO THI IDITOD OF TUI DAILY NEWS. 8111,—A very general wish in expressed to see the ministerial party placed on a broader basis. But in order to know how thin can be accomplished, or whether it is possible, it will be necessary to form more accurate conceptions of tlw nature and relative strength of the various parties or connections into which parliament is divided. The ministerial party proper is called the whig party ; but the word " whig" has at different times had many different shades of meaning. The whigs proper of the present day are, perhaps, pretty fairly represented by Lord John Ru sse ll, LordLausdowne, and Earl Grey. There are, however, material points of difference between the last named and the other two lords; and in the ranks of their party are to be found many whose connection with the whigs dates no further back than the disruption of the tore party at the time of Mr. Cunning's accession to office. The Reform Bill ministry, as it is called, embraced these elements :—l. Earl Grey and his personal re tainers who had stood aloof front the alliance with Mr. Canning,. This section represented the purely English wings who remained true to their principles when Burke, the Portland family, and others, went over to Pitt about the beginning of the first French revolution. 2. The Lansdowne, Russell, and Brougham whigs, who coalesced with Canning, were of the Edinburyh ATieso school of politicians ; the Scotch education of the leaders here named had im bued them with political views and sentiments some what ditkrent from those entertained by the Greys ; more systematic, less practical. 3. The Canningites, who were again subdivided into two sections, the whig families who had deserted to Pitt, but had gradually been reverting to their old allies; and Writs who, like Mr. Canning himself and Lord Palmerston, had been led by the course of events to adopt views more consistent with the actual relations of society. 4. A few new men, like Mr. Poulett Thomson and Sir J. C. llobhouse, who did not exactly belong to any of the above ca tegories. At the outset the largest share of :official expe rience was possessed by Lord Palmerston and the other Canningites. The Russell and Lansdowne sec tion had picked up a little of this kind of knowledge, but the Grey section was very deficient in it. In general, however, the leaders were well versed in the tactics of parliamentary debate, for which some of them—Lord John Russell, for example, and Lord Stanley—possessed great natural and acquired apti tude. _ ! The first election under the reform act gave this party an enormous majority in parliament ; but the composition of this majority was rather heterogene ous. The skilful selection of boroughs to be retained under the new system, and the equally skilful settle ment of the boundaries of these boroughs, enabled ministers to bring into parliament a pretty numerous phalanx of personal retainers. But along with these were the ()Connellites from Ireland, and the imle pendent liberals from England and Scotland. The Irish phalanx, servilely submissive to O'Connell, had views and aims entirely their own. The indepen dent liberals were composed in the main of a small connexion of highly educated men who had adopted more or less the principles of the Westminster Review, and of a more numerous body of represen tatives from the manufacturing districts, sturdy and vigorous, but with infinitely more zeal than Know ledge. Ministers and their personal retainers had little sympathy with any of these new-comers. The whigs had always been aristocratic and exclusive; and the Canningites retained many of their tory predilections. Irish politics were the first apple of dissension. Ministers and their personal retainers resolved to abide by the old tory mode of treating Ireland. Against this the iris& party naturally revolted. Of the English independent liberals, some threw them selves without reserve into the Irish scale ; others attempted to mediate, and bring back ministers to more liberal dews. The result was the secession of lord Stanley and Sir James Graham, with a few fol lowers, almost all whip. It was some time before the residuarics coalesced; even when they did renew their alliance, it was with distrust and discord. Lord Brougham had, by the vivacity of his nature, been carried further than any of his colleagues into the advocacy of a semi-tory policy. On the other band, I.ord Durham, from his dissenting education, had more sympathy than most whigs with the Eng lish independent liberals. The dissensions which hence arose were increased by personal incompatibi lities between Lord Brougham and tho Greys, with whom Lord Durham was so intimately allied. The Russell and Lansdowne section leaned to Lord ' Brougham, but his imperious temper compelled them ' to abandon him, and he was, like a Jonah, thrown overboard. The Lichfield House compact was the result. Be tween ministers and the ()Tonneßites it led to little more than an armed neutrality, with occasional co operation. The alliance with the independent libe rals was drawn more close. Some of them were ad mitted into subordinate offices. These had no power, however, of deciding the course which ministers were to pursue ; their compliances soon made them lose caste with the independent liberals ; and like all men in such a position they became the most ma nageable of muusterialists. The discord between Lord Durham and the Premier kept alive the ill concealed hostility of tho Grey section towards the Russell and Lansdowne party and the Canningites ; the tamed independent liberals associated them selves with this latter—the more conservative por tion of the ministerial party. The internal dissensions of the Melbournites, the Grey retainers, and the O'Conncllites weakened and paralysed the ministerial majority. Meanwhile Sir Robert Peel was indefatigably reconstructing a party which he called conservative. The members of his party were largely augmented by timid and vacillating politicians, who had been earned away by the contagious enthusiasm of the Reform Bill era, but now relapsed into conservatism. This reduced the numbers of the majority, previously weakened by intestine dissensions. . . The anti-corn-law agitation brought a new ele ment of dissension into the ranks of the majority. The " educated radicals" and most of the members from the manufacturing districts favoured the anti corn-law movement; Grey and Russell, whigs and Canningites, for the most part opposed it. The dis trust entertained of the party by the independent liberals of Scotland and England, their apathy to wards it, was thus increased. The ministerial party became daily weaker, and at last Sir Robert Peel was enabled to take office. The commercial policy ho adopted, though it broke up his own party, increased and continued the dis sensions in the liberal ranks. Many of the independent liberals contracted a habit of regarding the whigs and Peelites as differing in no essential points from each other. The ministerial party pro per shrunk into the combination of Grey and Rus sell whir and Canningites, diminished in number by the first secession under Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham; the second of those vacillating politicians who fell off and joined Sir Robert Peel when form ing the conservative party ; and the third under Lord George Ilentinek. At the close of last session, the ministerial party, though the most numerous in the House of Com mons, was a minority of the whole house. Since that time its ranks have been further reduced iu consequence of the elimination of Lord Palmerston, the last surviving Canningite of any note or emi nence. Nor is its weakness in respect of numbers the greatest difficulty against which the ministerial party has to contend. Its leader, with many estimable qualities, and still retaining much of the prestige which once attached to his name, is, unfortunately, one of those who " bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne;" he would fain engage new sup porters, but shrinks from the idea of - equal allies, still more of a possible superior. The most respected names of his own section of the whigs are far ad vanced in lite. Of the Grey section one is weakened in public estimation, notwithstanding his great natural abilities and understood popular sym pathies, by his peevish ; another by his infirm health nail conservative leanings; a third by his financial incapacity. Again, men like Mr. Labouchere and Sir F. Baring, though valuable colleagues, are deficient in energy; and Lord limughton is a positive incumbrance. It is obvious, therefore, that new leaders as well as new followers and auxiliaries arc required to strengthen the ministerial party in parliament. Ine Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 19. The Queen and tho Ducheas du Nemours walked in the Home I'ark and the Slopee this morning. The I'rince of Wales, the l'rinceee Itoyal, and younger memhere of the royal family took walking and pony exercise. Prince Albert went out hunting this forenoon, worn pani, d by the Due de Nemouro, and attended by Colonel F. 11. Seymour. -- The Duchess of I tit has been for some time past pre vented from joining the Queen's parties at Windsor Castle by a blight attack of rheumatic pain. Lord Harris had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Coluuisi-otbce. Mr. ht. Taylor had also an interview with the noble earl yesterday. Lord and Lady John Itusselft left town yesterday after noon for Windsor Castle, on a visit t o h er Majesty. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) arrived in town yesterday evening, from his seat, liowood Park, Wiltshire. Mr. Montgomery Martin had en interview yesterday with Earl Grey. Despatches were received at the Colonial-nffico yesterday from the Governors of the North American Provinces and the Governor of Van Dieincies Land. Despatches were at all to the Governors of Ceylon and Doug Kong, and also to the Governor of the Mauritius. THE STRIKE. NIANCIIESTP.It. The employers have taken no step in Manchester sine, Saturday, except that they have printed, placarded, and distributed extensively Lord Cranworth's letter which appeared in the Times. The secretaries to the masters' union (Mews. Richardson and Whitworth) state that not only have all the employers who joined the union honour ably fulfilled their promises, hut that several others have co-operated with them, and closed their works without soli citation. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the non-society men and unskilled labourers was held at the People's Institute, Ileyrod-street, Manchester, to consider the propriety of an appeal to the public on their own behalf. It was stated by the chairman, Ralph Taylor, that they had thus 'resembled together, to connect themselves as a body, that the public might understand their position. He wished that no in sinuations might be made against any party, but tho non society men and unskilled labourers were not answerable ' for this strike, though they were sufferers; it ruse from a dispute between the employer,' and the Amalgamated So cull. lie had no wish they should enter into controversy either with the Amalgamated Society or the masters. They stood aloof from both; and his opinion was, from past experience, that the non-society men would do best to hold themselves aloof from any party. The reason this meeting was called was, that a placard had been issued by the Amalgamated Society appealing to the public on be , half of the non.society men, and they (the non-society men) thought they would do better to go to the public for them selves. Jinx lIAILDIIAN, another non-society man, said be did not with to go into the merits of this question ; it was enough that they were forced into their present position, and earning eery low wage., in many eases not more than 1-1.. or 15s. per week • they hail not been prepared for such a contingency. lie did not suppose that any man was yet in want of bread—at least he hoped not; but they occupied I an unprecedented position. the masters not stopping their workshops against them, hut against the members of the Amalgamated Society, and they, the labourers, being thrown out of work between the two ; and under these cir cumstances they wished to appeal to the public. One rea son why they wished to appeal to the public separately was, that if the Amalgamated Society did it they woulddistri bute the funds according to the wages each man hail earned at work. . JAMES Btursvonn said in addressing this meeting he did it with the greatest regret, that they should thus be called upon to appeal to the public for that bread which they were willing to earn. If they did not do something their wives and children must starve. The question was whether they should let the society, who had money for themselves, appeal on their behalf to the public or do it themstlvee. Ile thought they should do it themselves. If they were not skilled in the higher branches of the trade let them show they were skilled as far as looking after the money was concerned. (Applause.) It might be said that this showed want of confidence. It did. He was one of the men who had worked at the planing machines, and the Amalgamated Society might tiy to wipe off the stigma that they did not intend to throw them out of work if they could, but he would tell this meeting, as he did Mr. Ileum, that he must beg leave to dialer with them. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Hewn had himself acknowledged that he arbi trated for the society men at Oldham in their agreement with Hibbert anti Platt to throw out the machine labourers, and it was they who were responsible for throwing 20,000 men out of work now, unprovided for, knowing that on: 3,000 society men would he touched by it. And he sail that this was not right. (Hear, hear.) The masters told them the Amalgamated Society did it; the secretary of the Amalgamated Society told them the masters did it : bat who caused the masters to do it ? (Ap plause.) The Amalgamated Society never consulted them about the question of piecework or overtime, yet now they wanted to appeal to get the public's money to distribute among the unskilled labourers according to their wages : he (the speaker) would have these gentlemen know there was no difference in the size of a man's belly, whether skilled or unskilled. (Apilause.) He would repeat, and the public would agree with Lim, that the amalgamated men had a west responsibility upon them for this turn-out. They had many a hungry belly to answer for. (Hear, hear.) He called upon his brother workmen to keep out of the public houses, and keep the peace; and then, whether skilled or unskilled, they were worthy of being considered good mem bers of society. (Applause). Taoism; dorms. • member of the Amalgamated Society, explained that, though the Oldham men wished to discharge some of the labourers at Messrs. Hibbert and Platte', yet this had never been the policy of the Amalga mated Society, who had on their books a resolution by which they agreed nit to support the Oldham men if they had gone out sa this ground. They in fact put their veto on that &malarial the Oldham men. The meeting thadprereeded to nominate • committee to collect funds sad ditribute them among tho non-society men. DEATH FROM SCURVY AT SEA.—Yestertlas after noon an inquiry was held by Mr. Baker, at the Windmill, Rosemary-lane, relative to the death of William Thomas, aged 28, a seaman 03 board the Hamill, Mitchell, mer chant vessel of Glasgow (Captain William Holmes), which took place off Keith bet WedneMay morning, on the ship's return from China to the port of London. The inquiry was instituted in consequence of a report that 12 of the crew died on the homewarl passage from an attack of scurvy, and which arose on account of that number of men having been removed from the vessel on her arrival in St. Katherine's Dock suffering from that disease. The jury having viewed the body, which lay at the shop of Mr. Wilms, an under taker, adjoining, tht first and second mates, the cook, a man of colour, the steward's boy (the steward being one of the sufferers) and the head man before the mast, were examined, when it appeared that the vessel which was 540 tons burthen, started from Glasgow on the 30th January, 1851, for Hong Kong, where she arrived on the 23rd of May. She proceeded from that town to Shang• has, and left there on the 23rd of August. She touched at no place between Bbsnghae and St. Katherine's Docks, which was reached on the 14th hut , the day on which the deceased died. Some days previous to reaching the British Channel there were only the captain, the two mates, the cook, the carpenter, the steward's boy, and a seaman, to navigate the vessel, the crew at starting having consisted of 21. One man died at sea, and the deceased was attacked with scurvy shortly after the departure of the vessel from China. On the 29th of November he was confined to his bed. Successively the other seamen were attacked with the same ilium an , ' they were eventually confined to their beds. The coroner having ascertained that during the outward end homeward voyage the crew had a sufficient quantity of milt provisions, consisting of Hamburg beef and Irish pork, but that no fresh meat was supplied, except while the ves sel was in port, inquired if under the 7& 8 Vic. c. 112, lime juice, with vinegar aad sugar, which are to be admi nistered when scurvy prevails, were given. Tho captain replied that the lime-juice was distributed, but that fre duently the men objected to take It. No vinegar was given uring the last seven weeks, as a large quantity was lost in the Chinese sees. The coroner mid that the mercantile marine act required a space of nine feet between each seaman's berth, and asked if that was the distance. Tho Icaptain replied that he was not sure, and that ho attributed the presence of the scurvy to meu,who would scarcely ever Iro3llolCol3Ci‘o3,oloi to their confinement in the forecastle. The coroner observed that the last act he referred to was mimed in the yur 1810, and it was of importance that it should be known by all owners and captains of vessels; as, if there was not a clear space of nine feet between each berth, and free hem any portion of the cargo, they were liable to a penalty. The forecastles, also, were to be well ventilated. It was slat, d that six of the crew were removed on board the Dreadnought, and that the remain ing six were conveyed to their friends . a brother of one of the latter stated that he was dying. Verdict—" Visitation of God." . . LONDON TIV.I.I.MANCE SOO F.Tl.—Tho monthly meeting of this society took place at Exeter Hall last evening, upon which occasion a lecture was delivered by the Hee. N. it dl, of Hull, the subject of which arm, the hindrances to the progress of true religion, and the claims of the tempe rance movement upon professing Christians. Thu reverend lecturer gave a thrilling narrative of the injurious effects resulting from the sanction given by the ministers of every Christian denomination for the consumption of intoxicating liquors, and stated that the intnaluction of the Christian religion into eastern countries has been considenthly im peded in consequence of the abhorrence entertained by the inhabitants of the drinking cu....toms ol the Huropeana. The lecture was hittlily interesting, and woe much applauded TIIE AMAZON. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDRNT.) SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY. So tone were again preached on Sunday at some of the bouthauiptun churches and chapels iu aid of the Amason fund, and to return thanks for the merciful resto ration of mare of her crew and Dansvitgers The Indepen dent chapels were d.onsely crowded ; even the pulpit stairs were cr amme d w ith th rsons who could not find sitting or standin g r o om ei s ewi te rs,.. Many of these who were saved in tIN lut boatload that ieaa lauded at Plymouth, and who reached Southampton on Saturday afternoon, at tended divine 'elee Sunday to return thanks for mtheir preservation. _ _ At the Above Bar Chapel, upwaills of 101. was col. lector! in aid of the Amazon fund ; end at Albion Chapel; which is situated in a poor neighbourhood, upwards of 141. was subscribed. 20s. of this sum consisted of coppers, and another 20s. of threepenny and fourponny pieces subscribed by the poorest people in the town—such a the profound and universal sympathy the lose of the AllllllO/I has OCC4- Plumed. Several poor women have rejoicingly thrown aside their mourning garments in consequence of their hus bands having proved to ho among those landed at Plymouth on Thursday. The deepest regret is felt in Southampton at the reckless opinion entertained by those who were first landed at Plymouth, that all others but themselves perished, unit that it was emoiequently useless to send out a steamer In search. Many of those who arrived at Southampton on Saturday are firmly of opinion that another bout, with a considerable number of IWI6OIII in her, has been picked up be some outward-bound vessel. There is now nut much doubt that the poor Admiralty agent of the Amazon, Lieutenant Brady, was overtaken in his cabin by the condagretion. mid that he must leave endured excruciating torments before he was saved or before he perished. It is fer vently hoped in Southampton that the Lords of the Ad miralty will grant sorno assistance to the helpless relatives who were solely dependent on him. Ile was a most worthy and accomplished man, and was highly es teemed by the late Admiralty superintendents at Southamp ton, Captain Ellice and Admiral Sir J. U. Sinclair, Bart., and by the present one, Captain Cony. The clergy and dis senting ministers in Southampton are indefatigable in visiting the numerous sufferers by the loss of the Amazon, and affording religious consolation to them in their deep affliction. PLYMOUTH, Most osv. On Saturday morning about 2 o'clock, Captain War burton, brother of Mr. Idiot Warburton, who was a pas senger on board the Amazon, and whose fate appears yet enveloped in uncertainty, arrived here. from London by a special train, bringing despatches from the Lords of the Admiralty to the commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir John Acworth Ommaney, upon the receipt of which the admiral issue d orders fur two steam-vessels, the Sprightly, Master-Commander Allen, and the Avon, Second Master. Commander Veitch, to proceed with all possible despatch to join the Hecate, in searching fur any of the sur vivors of the Amazon; and to continue the search for a reasonable length of time. This step on the part of the Admiralty was made on the &indication of Capt. Warburton, who had yet a hope that his distinguished brother wax still alive somewhere., with others of the crew and passengers—a hots, grounded on the statements of Mr. (Bennie and many of the survivors, that them was sutficient materials on deck to make rafts, and also from their having expreased a confi dent belief that another life-boat, in addition to those which have been met with, left the. ill-fated ship with a number of persons on board et the time of the late melancholy event. The steamers would proceed at once to the Bay of Biscay, and would scour some portion of the coast of Spain, calling at every port, and, in fact, might visit every place into which the commanders might consider it probabl. , that any of the survivors had been driven. Captain Warburton him self went out in one of the steamers. We feel confident the prayers of the country are that they may be successful, and although some effort should have been made even before' Wednesday last, when tho Hecate went out for a similar purpose, we are glad the Admiralty have at last felt it their duty to act on the samo principle of humanity that actuated the authorities at Brest, who immediately on the arrival there of the boat which reached that port, sent out a steamer to the scene of the catastrophe, in the hope of being enabled to succour some they supposed might have survived. TO THE. EDITOR or THE EXEILIISS.: Stu r •-Will you allow me to make, through your columns, a suggestion, the adoption of which would, 1 believe, hare saved several lives in the case of the unfortu nate A mazon; ? The universal experience of ships lest at sea, shows that generally a large destruction of life tak i l place either in the lowering of the boats into the water, or in the attempt to get into them after they are launched into the sea. Crowds rush to the boat ; the tacklis are lowered away unequally; the boat is dropped perpendicularly into the sea ; and all in it are shovelled out into a watery grave. Or else in a rolling sea, the boat approaches the ships side for an instant only; a spring into it, however well-judged, fails of reaching it at the lucky moment, and the jumper sinks to rise no more. . Much of this danger would be prevented by the simple expedient of having at short intervals a row of ropes fastened to the ship, and long enough to rash the water when thrown over the vessel's side. They would furnish the means to hull by whilst the boat was lowering, ur ap• pmaching the veswl; and the knowledge of such a resource would tend to prevent that wild rush to the boat. Miss Smith seems to have saved her life by means of a rope so fastened, and the stewardess to have lost hers for the want of it. Such ropes would occupy no room, and be in no respect in the way of the ship a company. Mope ladders might do still better; at any rate, two or four of these might be ready for hinting down from the stern, and would furnish the easiest means for letting passengers into the boats when the vessel was still moving onwards. I remain, etc., 3. A SKIP oN nat.—Early on Sunday morning the inhabitants of Great Yarmouth were amused by the unusual circumstance of a vessel on fire in the roadstead. It appears that about quarter to five o'clock a very active and efficient preventive guardsman named Baker, whilst on duty at the end of the jetty, discovered flames issuing from the deck of a vessel (which proved afterwards to be the Jane and Margaret, a collier brig of Newcastle) which was riding about one mile distant from the shore, and op posite to the residence of Lady King, to the north of the Jetty. This officer immediately raised an alarm, and Capt. F. A. Ellis, R.N. of the Coast Guard, and Lieut, Eyton were speedily on the spot, and under their directions the Emperor steam-tug steamed out of the harbour and pro ceeded to the assistance of the burning vessel, which by that time was completely enveloped in flames from the mainmast aft, including the mainsail, after-rigging, &c., and all chance of getting the fire under being lost, it was deemed the wisest course, haying due regard both to life and property, to run the brig on shore, which was accordingly done. There were a large number of beacbmen and other par ties rambled, and by the aid of the buckets, &c., it was not long before the fire was extinguished. The stern, bulwarks, sides, and after-decks, were, however, entirely consumed, 'as was also the lower part of the mainmast. Ihe brig was in ballast, and only left London on Thursday last. Much praise is due to Captain Ellis, KN., and his efficient body of coast-guardsmen, through whose exertions and instru mentality is mainly to be attributed the rescue of the crew from a similar melancholy fate to that which so recently be fed the ill-starred Amazon. . . . WHERE. ARE THE POLICE ?—At a very early hour on Friday morning last, &robbery took place in St.Andrew's road, Newington-causeway, most extraordinary in its extent and success. It appears that on the night in question some thieves effected an entrance into two empty houses, Nos. 13 and 21, and from thence walked each way amongst those which were inhabited, until they had succeeded in tearing from their settings and carrying away the coppers from no less than ten adjoining houses. The thieves also abstracted several live ducks from the yards, a quantity of bacon, as well as dressed and undressed food from the larders, and other articles ; with the whole of which they got clear off. To effect those robberies must have occupied at least two hours (and it may be observed that several other attempts had been made), while the weight of the coppers alone was not less than three or four hundredweights, which it must have required a horse and cart to remove, and this must have been kept waiting close on the spot for a considerable time, at a most unseasonable hour of the night, without being noticed by any of the police. It is understood that a searching inqusry relative to the above is about to take place iu Scotland-yard, particularly as from the houses of several of the inhabitants, frequent robberies have lately taken place. In one cue all the portable articles were stolen from the kitchen; in another, the taps, lead, piping, gloats, tee., from the cisterns—all of which losses are held to indicate a great want of vigilance on the part of the police. DECREAsE OY PAUPERISM.—The present number of paupers in the Holborn union is 648 • the number for the corresponding period last year was 683. During the last week, 1,176 poor received out-dour relief, being 52.5 less than for the corresponding . week of 18.11. Notwith• standing this great diminution in the number of recipients. the AUDI expended has augmented ; this is mainly attribu table to the numerous cases of fever and lunacy ; the former prevailing among the Irish. while the latter are exclusively confined to the English inmates. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION AND BENEVOLF.NT FUND.—Yesterday the annual meeting of this Association took place at the Louden Tavern, Ilishopagateatrect. Mr. R. H. Jones in the chair. A report was read which stated that. during the year 3ss policies, amounting to 72.157.51., had been effected, and five annuities had been granted amounting to 1291. 15s. 4d. The sum received in annual premiums, divi dends, Ite., was 15,3201., whilst the claims amoun ted to 2,5601. The total sum invested in the Three-and-a• Quarter per Cents. was 32,5001., and 4,00/. was invested in other securities. It appeared from the balance-sheet that the receipts for the year had amounted to 15,50111., cud the elevenses to .5,8291., leaving a balance of 9,6771. The meet; were set down at 38,153.1/., and the liabilities at 1,0171. After some remarks respecting the strict economy pmetisisl by the association, the report was adopted. The business of the "benevolent fund was then proceeded with, Mr. J. Abel Smith occupying the chair. 'Elie report stated that 17 gratuities, amounting to 1101., and 97 loans, amounting to 1.521., had been granted during the year. An annuity of 25/. had been granted to one clerk, and LW. each to two widows. The balance sheet showed that the receipts were 1,3771. Ils, and the expendi ture 923/ , leaving a balance of 4541. The report was adopted, and after some routine business the meeting sepa rated. MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL ASSOCIA TION. The annual meeting of this association was held was steuridac of possessing y, Tt . tiNe t s ho pr g e r s e i:i t . t d ,„:t illl in d tm a , was read hem the directors, embracing a review report of the , labours of the past year. The cultivati on of cotton in Indi a st, suit the Great Exhibition another. The report said : The progrem made during the year, in developing the reseurcex of India with reference to the cultivation of cotton, has been on the whole satisfactory ; and your directors have not ceased to regard the subject with the same degree of interest as heretofore. The operations so successfully and zealously set on foot by Mr. David Lacs, in Southern India, to which allusion was made in the last re port, have during the lent twelve mouths been prosecuted with unabated vigour by his relation. and succemor, Mr. A. Lees, and your director/. have been gratified to l ean : from the former gentleman, who is at present in England, that the quantity of land uuder American seed cotton was about L3OO acres at the date of his heat advice& ; and. although Mr. Lees ham had difficulties to contend with, they have for the must part been only such as are inseparable from every new undertaking at the outset, and have rapidly yielded us his judgment has been corrected by experience; mid he is still perfectly aatisfied of the imundnees of his present position, and more than sanguine as to his future prospects. The same may be said of the Messrs. Lonirshaw, whose departure for India with a view to becoming cotton planters, has also been alluded to. A serious obstacle, how ever, at one time threatened to impeile the progress of the adventurers; but wan promptly removed by the Honourable East India Company, upon its being reprexvted to them by the association. It was us billows A certain vegetable, known as the chay-root, indigenous to India, it niipears largo ly used by the natiees as a dye stuff; end it has always been the practice, for a trifling payment, to concede the privilege of digging the plant wherever it can be found, without reference as to whether the hinds in which it ii sought may be in cultivation or a state of nature. Application was accordingly made by the ebay-root diggers to Mr. Lean, jot when his crop was coining up, for permission to dig through his plantation, which he, as a matter of course, refused ; upon which they claimed com pensation in money to the amount of about 600 rupees, to which Mr. Lf-ell also obji eteil, hut on reference to the col lector of the district, he was inf irtned that the claim was Ind; ctly in accordance with the law and custom of the country. Mr. Lees, however, very properly, before acced ing to the demand, sent home a statement of the foregoing facts; and your president, accompaniod by Mews. James and David Lees, lest no time in proceeding to the India House, and having laid the circumstances before the au thorities there, both verbally and by letter, they without hesitation undertook to provide a remedy, and the obstacle complained of no longer exists. Your directors consider it due to the East India Company to mention another instance in which they bate exhibited their usual readiness to set upon the recommendations of this association. Mr. Lees having found that there existed a scarcity of American seed iu Tinnivay, sic, and seemg that a large Puuply would be required, wrote home for a quantity to be ehipped for his own ac count, and suggested that the Last India Company should be requested to send out several tons additional. The Ito-- pourable Company were immediately communicated with on the subject, and pending their reply—in order to save time in the execution of the order, and that the aced might if possible arrive in India belbre the sowing seaeon had elapsed—one of your directors, Mr. John Peel, sent ont orders to the United Stutes for thirty tone of seed, with a view to placing it at the disposal of the Hon. East India Company, at prime cost, on lie arrival. A letter was sub sequently received from the India House, stating that although, aecereing to the information which had come to hand from official sources, the court was not led to infer that there was any scarcity of cotton seed in Madras, never theless, relying upon the correctness of the intelligence received by the association, they proposed to avail them selves of Mr. _Peel's offer ; and the seed which cost up- wards of 7001., has since boon handed over to the East India Company, and Chipped to Madras. So much for the pro spects of cotton culture in Southern India. It is also satis factory to find that, according to the moot recent reports, the progress is still more rapid and extensive in the north western provinces, the quantity of land sown with New Orleans cotton, in the pant year, being upwards of la,tloo acres. 2, ltio Niles of experimental cotton have Is en van mign(d to your secretary for sale at Manchester, abate the laat report, a large portion of which from the Dharwar dis trict wee, your directors regret to state, of the most inferior quality; so touch so, indeed, as to warrant an impression that a fraud had been practised on the officers of the East India Company by the natives from whom the cotton was qiurchased ; the articles being very little, if anything, supe rior to what is known in the mills as ordinary waste. This has been duly reported in the proper quarters. On the other hand it is pleasing to state that some of the cotton re ceived recently from Comhatorc, was of the most excell,nt description, ranking with mid. boweds, anal has been sold at 40. per lb." The CHAIRMAN, is referring to the subject of improved Onton cultivation in India, read a communication which he had received from Mr. l)avid Lees, who was now in this country, but who was unable to he present, and which let ter corroborated the statements put forward in the report. He understood that arrangements were making in another part of southern India, by Mr. Fisher, who was now pre sent, and Mr. Campbell, a resident there, for taking from the government the plant and shipping which had been established. Those gentlemen were now making arrange ments for using that plant and shipping; and he believed they were perfectly ready to take orders from any gentle man who would favour them with such, for shipping a bet ter description of cotton, both of New Orleans and native growth, from the Madras presidency, than had hitherto been sent to this country. With respect to tho difficulties experienced by gentlemen who went out to India in procuring land, he must say. that although it appeared from the courtesy and attention which had been uniformly shown by the East India Company towards this association ; and although the directors en Leaden hall-street had always manifested their anxiety that the people of Manchester should be fully aware of what was doing iu India, by consigning to the secretary all the im proved cotton brought to this country, he could not speak with equal confidence of all their officials and servanta in India. Whether the introduction of Europeans into a dis trict caused more trouble, or whether they were not so easily managed as the simple Ilindoos, he could not say, but in various quarters the instructions of the East India Company had failed of producing the effect they would have had, if they bad been as efficiently carried out in that country as it was desired to carry them out by the directors. It was preposterous that in a yard country like India there should be any difficulty in procuring even thousands of acres for those who went tel that country to engage in cotton cultivation. The accounts of Messrs. Lees and Longshaw showed that, when a gentleman went out to enclose such land as he might find suited to the growth of cotton, then same old privilege or right of digging for what was called "chat'-root " was urged by the natives, who were to be allowed to dig all over the estate fur a root which could never exist there if the ground was properly cultivated. lie believed, however, that the East India Company had sent out peremptory instructions to stop these proceedings, and, according to the last accounts, the annoy ance complained of had ceasal. (Applause.) Mr. J. T. LEES, after thanking the association for the powerful support which they had always extended to his brother in his efforts to establish the culture of New Orleans cotton in the Tinnivelly district of India, expressed his firm belief that, with a continuance of that popgun, those efforts would soon be completely successful. Most of the oldest plants sown two years age, though sown too late, and at too little a depth, had yielded abundantly in the past year. There were several favourable circumstances also. The climate of Tin nivelly was well adapted for the growth of New Orleans cotton, since the plant had a natural mode of hearing two crops, the greater one in the six months from December to June, and the lesser one from June to De cember, and continuing to yield in the same manner for some years. (Hear, hear.) The climate, though tropical, was more than usually favourable for the residence of the English cotton planter; and the cultivation of cotton in that district could be prosecuted on a large scale with a small amount of capital, for in that part of India labour was very cheap, anal labourers anxious for employment everywhere abounded. (Hear, hear.) The report having been adopted, the officers fur the ensuing year were appointed, anal s vote of thanks given to the retiring directors for their attention to the interests of the association and of commerce during the past year. IN THE NEW REFORM BILL the government (the Gluon-4er Journal understand.' upon the very best authority) mean to combine Trowbridge, Bradford, and Westbury (in Wiltshire), in one electoral district, which shall unitedly return two members to parliament. A " DETECTIVE."—On Wednesday, the sth of November last, a man named John Aridecmii, foreman to Mr. Hutchinson, proprietor of the rhymical works at Widness, was murdered on the way from the works to his own house in Bob-lane. Immediately afterwards an appli cation was made at the Liverpool police-office for an Oliver to institute inquiries, with a view to the discovery of the murderer. With thi► object John Connolly, police-eousta. hie No. 140, was sent over to the works, and with the view of eliciting information he disguised himself as a workman, and made application for employment. lle remained there as a labourer tar six weeks, during which time he gained such information as led to the discovery of a person supposed to be guilty, and others implicated in the mur der. A communication was then made to Mr. Allen, the head constable of the district, and through Ins escrtiocs three men were captured. Their names are John Shay, Thomas Nolan, and Ilarby Nolan, his lather. The pri soners were brought before the magistrati • at l'rearot, and committed for trial at the newt nsarwr. The I,ieerpool po lice-officer was known by the disguised wino' of• " Jack Callaghan," and the friends of the were rather sue • prised when they saw him is court, and giving evidence against them. tine of the priswiers shouted out, " Oh, that Jack Callaghan, how nice lie has sucked us in; he as Liverpool policeofltcrr' •• Some of the friends of the pri soners billowed him into the street, and promised what they would do for him if they could lay hands upon him. John Nolan, another son of It: Nolan, supposed to have been implicated in the murder, threw himself into the canal when he heard of his lather being committed to Kirkdalo, and was drowned. It is said the conspiracy to murder the &reseed and another foreman of the works was got up at a beerhouse. The wife of the murdered man has since died, and her daughter has been removed to ltaiuhill Lunatic Asylum.—Liverpool E t STERN UNION AND GREAT NORTOURN JUNCTION Itsihway.—The official estimate for the new line frozne'rr.7 , - 0\ Norwich to East Dereham is 120,0001. ' , • ) tit ,• , • • 1 k•-. • j• I 141 - I . • k . 7 rd 7 „,• 1 1 0 r 'i "4 1