The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-07 00:00:00

THE BRITISH and FOREIGN LNSTITUTE i enten on Its FIFTH YEAR in 1847, and mambas joining it at 1 meat time will ham the advantage of the fiat "tato 8( ate MOM, LIMNS. Conversakiani, and Disenasionsorkieh will matte on FRIDAY, January 22, and be contiumil on the Friday of rack week from JlMlary to June. The CI.CE attached to tere astitute is now ready for the reception of New litefilberli said kortleulan of each real he had at No. Id. Geoei&atteet, Hanover iguana Idhiadi d. BUCICINTIA - ai, Resident Director. QACREI) HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER formed HALHA L.— ND EL TO-MO 'S O RROW RATORIO E . MVENING ESSIAH. , Jaw 3, 1847, will be per- Prineipal Vocal Pi, celer• Madame Caradori Allan, Miss M. B. Hawes, Mr. Manyero, and Mr. H. The Band and Chorus will wade( of .are 500 Performers. Mete% 3a. rub: Ramrod Sea* 5e., may be obtained of the wind* Music-sellers; of Mr. Rowley, 53, Mari-ercer ; of Mr. Les, 107. Strand, oppodte Exeter-ball or of Mr. Mitchell, 39, Cbaring-crom. 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CROSBY -HALL. The ETHIOPIAN SERE vij NADERS, Pell, Harringtim, White, fttanwood, and German Mom the Bt. James's Theatre), will repeat their INIMITABLE ENTERTAINMENT, at the above Hall, TO-MORROW EVENING (Friday); elm on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, in &e marling week., being poratierly their lent appearance at Crosby hell. Doors open at balLpeat 7, and the performance commences at 8 o'clock prvisely.—Tic•mte mg , be bad at the Library of the Institution ; and at the doom on the evening of performance. CROSBY -HALL.--ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. —LAST NIGHT MIT THREE.—TO-MOR ROW (Fritklan. A). From the crowded state of the Hail on Wed nesday. E , all tiekets wasted for that night will be admitted on Friday. Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Oentoo thi = the St- Jamrs'a Theatre) will repeat their InimitaMe EN TERTAINMEN IS At the above HMI TO-MORROW EVE.NLNO (Friday), and on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, end FRIDAY Evenings nest week. Tickets may he had at the Library of the Insti tut:leo, and at the doom, on the nights of performance. IdAURENTS CASINO, ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND.—Tho Merry Song and the Mazy Dance etropolitan Tertnirhorrags v. Phantom lancers—Rand M5O per. Ramer, condoettd by Laarent, jun. Grand Vocal Concert. Refresh ing hevernmi supplied at the most redseed tariff Admiagon, One . Doors open at Seven, eneararnee at Half-past, and terminate THEATRE ROYAL, IIAYMARKET.- Triumphant mecums of the new grand fairy extravaganza of THE INVISIBLE PRINCE, er The Island of Tranquil Delights, the greatest hit ever made (ride the public prem).—ln order to give m much variety as paisilde, MONEY will be performed T 3-NIGHT ; THE ROUND OF WRONG TO-MORROW, and there times a week; sad LONDt)II ASSURANCE on SATL'RDAY—THE INVISIBLE EVERY PRINCE EVENING. J. T. ARCHER, Box-bookkeeper.. gin erprego• MAILS. bad symptoms, but also that private charity would best be brought in succour of those cases most deserv ing of commiseration. EARLY in November, when we were engaged in pressing upon our readers the necessity of govern ment taking the benefit societies into its own hands, some benevolent individuals were devising another correction of existing evils ; and a public meeting was held of the supporters of the proposed " National Provident and Benevolent Institution." The scheme of this association appeared to be the formation of a large central benefit society, helped by public sub scnption, watched over by , the intelligence and knOW ledge of business which is concentrated in the me tropolis, and, if we rightly understood, to a certain extent combining the office of distributing charitable aid with that of providing for the safe management land equitable distribution of the trust funds. Now, we are disposed to view the formation of this society with pleasure, on three different grounds. First, it shows that there is a growing attention to the subject which we have so much at heart. Secondly, if the government really will not take up the matter, a large central society is in many respects better than a great number of petty and isolated clubs. Thirdly, in the opposite event, it will be more easy to arrange the mode of admitting the large society into the government plan than to do the same with the multitude of smaller ones. We would not, therefore, on any account, discourage one of our readers from lending his aid to the really yrorident and benerolcnt institution above described: but we would endeavour to persuade him to keep an un prejudiced mind open to our arguments in favour of a general government plan, and to remember that he may, with every chance of spending his time and money well, both aid the private plan, and lend his influence to forward the public one. Our best friend, the Times, commented on the public meeting above alluded to, in one of those articles in which, not unlike a cat, it paws its mouse as if it had yet to settle whether it would eat it or not. Our contemporary, after such friskings as ask ing what, if it were not for projectors, Mr. CARLYLE would have to call sea-green or sky-blue (as if he could be at any loss, as long as our contemporary's jealous providence and milk-and-water benevolence are matters of daily record), makes the following remark :—" The United Kingdom is our national provident and benevolent union." This was just at the time when we were advocating the literal sense of the opinion here expressed. And from this con clusion we do not swerve in the least. We are per fectly satisfied that nothing but the government can, to use the words which form part of one of the reso lutions carried at the meeting, " give them [the poorer classes] the best security for their deposits." A private society cannot, under any support which can be imagined probable, secure to its operations the necessary extent or unity. We wish it could : we mean we wish that it were likely to excite that uni versal attention and sympathy, which gives right to the name of national independently of government. In such a case, the executive would at once, without any bidding, meet public opinion with a plan of its own ; and our moat earnest wish on the subject would be fulfilled. Referring to our readers' recol lection of the general arguments by which we en forced our own opinion, we have only now to say that, though we shall be most happy to advance the success of such a plan as the private association, if better may not be, yet we shall not fail to continue urging upon the public the expediency of pressing the ministry and the legislature to interfere. The case is one, in which no security short of national faith will be appreciated, no machinery worked by less than government power will be effective. The overland cloned mailo,ri;34rseillee, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, (long Kong, &e., will be made up on the evening of thr 7th January , : this day). The mails for Vigo, Oporto Lisbon, Madeira, ,Cadis, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 18th January. The Went India mai* excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, and the Ilarannah, will be made up on the morning of the 18th January. The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the lonian Islam* linpt, Aden, Ceylon, Cadge, Hong-Kong, and China, ons Southampton, MEM made up on the evening of the morning of 10th January. The molls for New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 3lst January. The made for Britinli North America, Bermuda. and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the 3ni February. The made for the Bratils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernsuo Moo, Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th February. TO CORRESPONDENTS. N.* Adretitsemento intended for TAe &press, Loodonevening paper, vanet be at the Office by Two o'eloek on the day of pabbeetion. MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tars DAT.—Moreing, TO min. pat 5; Aftemrom, 43 min. pint 3. To-Nonnow—Morning, 2 min. mg 6; Afternoon, TO nun. past 6. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 7. Is abetting the humane and charitable project of relieving instantly, by subscription, the unexampled sufferings and destitution which afflict and threaten to depopulate the remote and barren districts of Ireland, we by no means contemplated any relaxa tion of those at once generous and stringent measures for Ireland, which, whilst they extend to the occupiers and owners of land all the means and faeilitie for improving their properties and employing their poor, establish the principle, not only that the property of the country must finally support the burden of this outlay, but that i must effectually provide for the agricultural population. There are two questions now in consideration with respect to Ireland, its permanent suffering, its tem porary distress. By far the greater portion of even its temporary distress must be treated and remedied conjointly with its permanent ills; but there are regions in Ireland occupied by human beings, who in the best of seasons gleaned but a scanty subsistence from a barren soil, who paid scarcely any thing in the shape of rent, and who in their distress have no landlord to look to; for the owner of the barren shore, poor himself, and deriving no profit from it, has not the fortune nor the means, nor the possibility of pro viding for the population. Such is the case in Done , gal, in Clare, and even in parts of the county Cork. 'There people must be relieved by alms, by down right charity, be it provided or administered as it TELE present is a season of the year which pecu liarly appeals to Christian and kindly feelings. The inclemency of the world without is brought into sharp relief against the cheer and warmth and fireside en joyments within. The contrast may well quicken in the rich the sense of their own numerous, and often unearned, comforts, and should and does awaken a desire to extend some share of them to the poor and suffering. Charities are most urgent in their demands at the beginning of the new year. Debts must be settled, and fresh funds raised for the work of the next twelvemonth. Benevolence seeks the advertising sheet, parades her objects and publishes the names of her supporters. There are busy . hands at work, stopping all the cracks and crevices in the framework of our social edifice. Not a flaw but finds its benevolent botcher. Exeter Hall is up and away, in the alleys and courts, with its tracts and sixpences, and flannel. The district visitor is at work, under the guidance of the parochial clergyman, scattering spiritual and temporal seed together; softening the pinch of distress, and doing what he can to remove ignorance and brutality, filth and intemperance. Coal clubs, and blanket clubs, and provident clubs, strive by good advice and large per oentages, to infuse fore thought into the poor, and show them how a penny a week may come to a pair of blankets or a sack of coals, with a dinner, at Christmas. We have the Stranger's Friend Society putting forth its excellent intentions in very stilted advertisements. The asylums for the houeeless are open, like their subscription books. And this year, on the top of all the usual claims of Christmas alms-giving, comes the terrible starvation of Ireland and the Scottish highlands. Despite the grumbling of certain economists, who " would be cruel only to be kind," the call is responded to. England cannot keep her hand out of her pocket with such scenes as those of Skibbereen filling the columns of the news papers. Everybody knows that almsgiving can afford only a temporary aid. It needs no great skill in political economy to tell us that. But this is me cisely a case in which temporary aid is wanted in Ireland, and will be given by England. Can the same thing be mid of alms to English destitution, in its many forms ? Is it our duty to give ? or is every penny given in alms so mach withdrawn from better and more useful employments of capital ? We could easily conceive a state of things in which alms-giving would cease to be a duty, but, certainly, we see no evidence of such a state of things round about us. On the contrary, when there are so many channels open, through which alms are distributed with a eye tessatio purpose and regulated flow, it seems a hoturien Christian duty, under the economical cir cumstances of this country to contribute, through their agency, from our superfluity to those who need. Our poor-law makes no adequate distinction be tween the poor man and the pauper. The former would work, but cannot; the latter is the lazzaroni of England, and prefers idleness with workhouse fare, filth, and contumely, to work and wages. While we treat these two classes alike, our legal machinery of relief can never reach the actual necessities of the country. The administration of an indiscriminate poor-law must become hardened to all poverty, because they are not taught, through the law they ad minister, that they are dealing with classes deserving —the one, all respect and sympathy, the other, all discouragement and severity. While this continues, there will always be poor people who will prefer star vation to the workhouse. Short of this extreme al ternative, there will be thousands who will submit to great privation rather than have recourse to the grumbling ministrations of the relieving officer. Un less our charitable societies did much to seek out and help this class of persons, their condition, wretched as it is now, would be insupportable. But besides administering to temporal miseries, there are few of these societies which do not, in 'tome degree, attempt to diminish the dreariness of moral and spiritual destitution. They distribute tracts; beat up for young scholars; sometimes indulge in a little well-meant inquisitorial examination as to habits and beliefs; compare religious experiences; dissemi nate plain sanitory hints; occasionally, perhaps, in the case of the more worldly-minded, even communi cate a receipt for a cheap and palatable dish. All this, ridiculous as much of it may be in particular eases, on the whole has its good effect. It shows the poor that there are some of their richer and luckier fellows concerned about them, otherwise than in the police courts. Many a miserable death-bed is soothed by the consolations of a district visitor, not the wisest it may be, or the most clear-headed oiChristians, but full of zeal, and charity, and love. We have read with much interest, as illustrating this subject, the third annual report of the Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association. This body works under the superintendence and direction of the paro chial clew. It may be remembered that charges were urged against its managers of having misappro priated, or at least not accounted for, a large sum raised in I&i3. These charges could hardly have may. The Times asserts that government is the best distributor of alms. We beg to make the very con trary assertion,—viz., that the government is the very worst distributor of alms, and especially in Ireland. If funds from private subscription be poured upon a famishing district to relieve and save it in the hour of need, gratitude ensues, and no more. It is plainly seen that the Christian feelings of Englishmen have prompted them, as individuals, to step in to the relief of a temporary famine. But let the poor creatures know that it is government who furnishes this relief, that it is national care, and national funds, which are applied to their destitution, then the feeling is quite other. Then the poor creatures look upon relief as a right, as an homage to their wrongs. That imaginative people form an ideal of a govern ment, which, like Providence, comes to set right the inequalities of fortune, and as they may imagine, te re pair the centuries of England's injustice. Government charity in Ireland, we know from experience, excites no gratitude, and prevents all industry. Such are the peculiar feelings and ratiocination of the people. Whatever the Castle may feed or relieve one year, the Castle will be looked to to feed and relieve another. The first and last object, in charity towards the Irish, would be to keep government out of the question. The Times, therefore, when it initiation government charity towards the Irish, and upon no other, does so upon a total want of knowledge of the Irish, their habits of reasoning and feelings. This is one of the many difficulties of an Irish poor law —a system utterly impossible indeed, unless accom panied with other measures, such as those contemplated by government, for restoring to some proportion the demand and supply of labour. There is no creature more alive to the natural motives of industry than the Irish peasant, if you show a gleam of hope, a prospect of thriving, any surety for the future. But the enforcement of a poor-law upon the present unthinned and unemployed peasantry bankrupt landlords, and mortgaged estates, would be utterly impracticable. It would resolve itself into one of two alternatives, a prison with prison discipline for half the able-bodied, or out-door provision for them, which would be alms, and alms from the worst source, viz., from govern ment and the law; for this implies the permanence of such alms. This, however, is the question of how to relieve per manent distress, upon which we shall soon have to enter thlly. At present the consideration is merely the brat mode of allaying acute eases of individual ruffenng. It will be seen from the interesting report of the Skibbereen deputation, published in our yes terday's paper, what apparently insurmountable ob jections first met them on their coming to England, and applying for relief. These objections met them alike in the offices of the government, and in those of eminent City merchants. All were prejudiced: all had their hearts and conviction closed by such arguments as ere to be found in the columns of the Times. All these, however, vanished before the simple, explanatory, truth-telling accounts, of the Skibbereen deputation. From this report we see that the government were won over ; that Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself pat down his n o nce for 3001.; that Mr. GURNEY subscribed 1,000/. Mr. ROTTINCHILD, Mr. B MING, and several other great houses, have subscribed as much, persuaded, in like manner, not only of the inno cence of the population of the more destitute dis tricts, from either the arms buying, and other alleged THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1847. been brought by any one who had read the reports tithe society. Of course, it is to be regarded as essentially a Church of England charity. - But its benevolence is not confined to those of that communion. And the paro chial machinery is an excellent one to facilitate such operations as the association aims at. We do not mean to say that this association is peculiarly deserving, among the many which resem ble it in thefr aims and objects. We use it rather in illustration of the working of such bodies, as complementary to our poor-law system, doing, imperfectly, and through many different agencies, work which a good poor law, well administered, would go far to perform single-handed. There is much good sense in this statement of the objects of the society The object whirh Oils association has in view is, not merely I , to adrainister i:aimeliate relief in cases of extreme destitu tion, or of pressing want, but to improve the social, mad, and religious condition of the poor, by means which brie been tried, on a limited scale, in certain distrlies, and whisk have been successful in proportion to the completeness of the system which has been put into operation, and the care with which it has been worked. It is obvious, that to dispense pecuniary relief indiscriminately, and with reference solely to the apparent, or actual necessity of the case, without inquiry as to the past or pro vision for the future, is, to say the least of it, but a half measure of charity, and has a tendency to generate, or in crease the very evils which it reeks to cure. An inquiry into the ewes of distress, and into the best means of pre venting its recurrence, by infusing into those who labour under it sound principles of action, and forming them to habits of economy, industry, and foresight, is obviously necessary, to ensure to the exertions of benevolence their proper results. Mere liberality in almsgiving, unaccom panied by an endeavour to remove the muses of that destitu tion which calla it forth, will not answer the requirements of Christian charity. The description now given of tho ob jects contemplated by this association clearly marks out the propriety, or rather the necessity of attempting their attain ment through the agency of the parochial clergy. They are, in virtue of their office, almoners, as well as instruc tors of the people nor can it be doubted, that the evils under which the poorest clam.; labour, in our crowded cities and towns, have been greatly aggravated by the inallequacy of our parochial system, with its existing machinery, to meet the wants of an overwhelming population. Two things are necessary, in order to replace the so cial system in a healthy Mate; a more direct and friendly intercourse between the different dames of society, and the general inculcation of Christian prin. ciples. In both cases the agency of the clergy is indis pensable, and will be, under the divine blessing, effectual to these ends, if means are supplied for carrying on the work, which is now so immeasurably beyond their strength ofd resources, An association, which semi at the attainment et this object, may surely assert its claim upon the charity of those whom Providence has entrusted with the means of doing good, and who are bound to use them for the glory of Ood, in promoting the temporal and eternal welfare of their fellow-creatures. How it helps to fill up the great deficiencies in one parochial system will appear from the following extract : [From the Rev. W. W. Champueys, Rector of White chapel: Since the formation of the Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association, we have been able to supply every sick person in my district of 24,000 souls with some of those little comforts, and their familiesjwith some of those necessarier, which the affliction of the one and the consequent failure of resources to the other, required; and this all the year round. And as my whole district is broken up into small districts, the whole mapped out and arranged, visitors regularly going their rounds, and a certain number of visitors' districts constituting a reader's or lay assistant's district, who is inleonstant daily communication with myself; I have, through this society, the comfort of feeling that no case of sickness or pressing want can remain longer than a day or two at furthest uadiecoveml, uncommunicated, and unrelieved. And I believe that if those benevolent and wealthy Christians, who have so liberally and trustingly pouredinto the great reservoir of your society their bounty, could follow that bounty to its outlay end application, as it flows through the channel of my district visitors to the sick beds and destitute homes of my poor brethren and parish ioners, they would see that this association has fully realised the great object and purpose for which it was intended, and either put together or supplied the pipes by which the abundance of the rich has been carried to the dwellings of Ike l. ; Mere, that since the formation of your society it has been my own fault if a single ease of destitution in my parish has been unprovided for. It is one peculiar merit of such societies as the pre sent that they can afford relief in peculiar eases, in which parish aid would certainly not be granted, and which yet are cases of peculiar cruelty to the sufferers. We subjoin some such, extracted from the report : FROM VISITORS IN A PARISH IN WESTMINSTER.—Ica many cases (those of the widows especially), by assist ance being afforded them occasionally, they are enabled to obtain a livelihood ; and I am happy to add that I have not had one application for relief from persons whose distress on inquiring into the case) was either caused by idleness or dis sipation. Old age, sickness, want of employment, have been the invariable causes of the destitution I have been called on to visit. E. G. The husband and his son fell together from the roof of a house, where they were working as bricklayers. During their lung and dangerous illness the family were destitute of an means of support. FROM THE REPORT OF A SOCIETY IN CLERRENWELL. —J. K. is a poor man, just come from the Fever Hospital, but unable, from consequent debility, to work at present; he has three children, and lost his wife about three months ago ; he is in great distress, his bed and clothing having been burnt, for fear of infection, when he was taken to the hos pital. He was recommended by a very respectable pa rishioner, who has known him for some years, and who says that he believes him to be a man of industrious habits, and willing to work as soon as he is able. In other cases again the good has been done, not by money, but by intercession of the visitor. Such are the following : On the visitor entering one poor family's abode she found the man, an ivory turner, just returned from travelling about all day, trying to sell some little fancy articles, without being able to sell one. They did not know where to look for • loaf of bread for their young family. Two parcels were lying en the table containing the articles he had been offer ing for sale ; visitor requested to look at them, and asked if taking • dozen would be of any use; they said they should indeed be greeful ; and visitor succeeded indisposing of them at an advanced prioe,and returned the following daywiththe profits, and to take some more ; she found them just at tea, the first meal that day, in order to procure which they had been obliged to pawn the remainder of the articles, and some of the poor man's tools visitor knew this is be the case, as she advanced the money, and waited while the poor woman went to fetch them. S. B. is a young widow, whose husband died a few weeks since in the hospital, under very distressing circumstances. She was left with one little boy about three years old, and very near her confinement ; she went to see her husband at the time appointed for the friends of the patients to visit them, and finding him much worse than before, requested permission to see him the next morning, which was granted her: she entered the ward where he lay, unobserved, and approaching the bed on which she had seen him over night, found it vacated, and the body removed. Bbe inquired after her husband, and was told that be was removed to the dead house. The poor woman told me that she should have musk down on the floor if one of the nurses had not prevented her. She has since been confined, and lost her infant about a week after it was born ; it was found dead by her side. This poor woman does not belong to the parish, and this District Society has been the means of relieving her in her extremely desti tute and distreming situation end circumstances. She is still in a very delicate state of health. FROM THE REPORT OF A SOCIETY AT THE WESTERN EXTREMITY OF LONDON.—The following instances have been reported as occurring in a single district:—Mrs. A. came to me in great distress in consequence of her goods being about to be seized for rent. She owed about • pound ; she begged of me to save them. She stated that in about a fortnight she should go out as a monthly nurse, and then she should be able to pay. She had told her landlord this, but he was inexorable. In consequence of my opinion of her character, I called on the landlord and reasoned with him, and begged a little time for the poor woman ; which he granted me. Me has since discharged the debt. .. I found Mrs. C. lying in extreme debility from in flammation of the chest, and in great distress of mind from fears other destitute condition. She said it ap almost like an interposition of Providence that I come to see her..... She told me that she and her husband had partly gained a living by selling vegetables to a lady, and by occasionally being employed by her ; hut for some cause they had been discharged from their employment, and ordered not to come near the house. She wished me to get her an interview with the lady as soon as she could get out. I ven tured to write to her, stating all the particulars. She promptly, the next morning, sent to tell the woman to come as soon as she was able. An interview taking place, the secret came out that the lady's cook wanted to obtain that a tradesman in town, whom she knew, should supply her mks- 1 tress ; and, accordingly, had represented the poor woman to her as imposing and ungrateful. On vindicating her own character the lady restored her to her former position. I have since been enabled to give them a character from per sonal observation that has enabled them to get the charge of a gentleman's house, who is so satisfied with them that he has personally thanked me. The poor couple's gratitude has been great to the society for thus rescuing them from poverty and placing them in comparative comfort. Tin Queen of Seri's speech en the opening of the Cortes is fortunately iniasnificant,—fortunately, we say, for the ministry which dictated it is without constitutional vitality. It possesses no majority in the Cortes, although it has been kept alive so long by the Court, and by French influence, in order to carry out French ends. For such a ministry to draw up a significant or a strong speech, would be a proof that it still intended to live and to govern, which could only be done by a coup d'etat or unconstitutional means. And consequently, con sidering the facilities that exist in Spain for such things, and the little wisdom which statesmen seem to possess for avoiding such temptations, we were I happy to peruse that kind of feeble, inane speech at Eletim from the throne, which betokened an expiring ministry. People, not aware of this legitimate cause, must be disappointed at the string of royal or ministerial nothings. How could Mr. CORDEN't, Spanish speeches have done so little towards provoking either free-trade, or a denunciation of it? How can Mr. HENDEnsoN's mission, and the pilgrimage of Anglo-Spanish bond-holders to the Tuileries, have produced so little attention? The fact is, that to all remonstrances or demands of the kind, Senhor MOs at Madrid replies by an untranslatable shrug, and adds, that he has no •;;Arrer—that he is out at office, or liff:lng uMee merely, till the Cortes and the Couri may decide ou a ministry which shall please of M th ad e rd o ' re: wherel es. th The PACUECO party, both. .• It is pretty evident, from the preparatory mer ... „ .nrs Insjortly and the ot true d e e m i t u a c e s a ce rn that section;;; the Moderados which opposed the French marriage, and tried to widen the basis of con stitutional liberty, has mustered upwards of 100 strong. There is little doubt, that it can command the support of a considerable number of the Prog . ressistas. fhe confidence of the Infante's family is reposed on this party, to which the Queen's secretary and her husband evidently lean. And now the efforts of Queen CEIRISTINA and Count BRESSON will be no doubt directed to make the best terms with this party. Count BRESSON supports Mon, and would do a great deal to procure a reconciliation between him and the men whom he deserted and betrayed so lately. This, however, seems difficult, even with Count BRES BON'S ability. Indeed, French influence, however powerful at Madrid, is for the moment humble. The brief and modest allusion to the Infanta's marriage is a proof, arising out of a very natural anxiety to avoid such a subject of discussion. We trust that the Spanish Court may continue to preserve its present attitude, looking . more towards constitutional liberty than it has done since the fall of ESPARTERO. The victory of of S %LIMNER, it is to be feared, is calculated to kindle fresh hopes in the old court party, which of course dreams of coup (Mato and military conquest to recover its authority. But in disgracing NARVAEZ, it flung away its staff, and in accomplishing the Infanta's marriage, it consum mated all that France wanted, leaving for itself no further means of wining tke support of the Tuileries. Queen CIUUNTINA may hereafter be a welcome guest at the family Pea of the Tuileries, but in Madrid she is useless. The dynasty of RIANZARES is at an end, or nearly so—one blessing at least for unhappy Span. MOSUL, Nov. 16. I gave you, in my hasty letter by the last Tatar, the outline of Bederhan Bey's recent expedition ; but I omitted a circumstance, characteristic of the man, which occurred two days before his departure from Jesira. Some of the Yezids, a race settled in the Sinjar, who inherit the old Ma!gian worship, reside on the territory of Bederhan Bey.. These people are by far the most industrious agricultural popula tion south of the Taurus. But their religion is still more obnoxious to Mahometan bigotry than even Christianity ; nor are they like the Christmns protected in the exercise of their worship, which they are obliged to perform with the greatest secresy. It is a maxim of Islam that no mercy is to be shown to the professors of a religion which has no kitab (book), in which case stand the poor Yezids, who have no rubric bat the unwritten tradition of their immemorial usages. Therefore, while it is lawful, although by no means indispensable, to rant a certain toleration to Christians and Jews, in virtue of their kitab, the New or Old Testament, it is not only lawful, but even meritorious, to destroy the illiterate worshippers of fire. At the Bairam Bederhan Bey sent a message to a small colony of Yezids settled on his territory, be tween Jesira and Mosul. telling them that it was cus tomary for some of the infidels under Mahometan rule, upon that festival, to become converted to the worship of Islam. Upon their refusing to a man to change their religion, he seized seven of them, and made a solemn sacrifice of them at the fend. I was at desire. during the last days of October, and saw Bederhan Bey immediately after his expedi tion against the Nestonans, of which I had as yet heard nothing. My companion brought the Bey a letter from Kimal Effendi, the only Turk for whom he is said to entertain any regard. This procured us an excellent welcome. The manner and place of our reception by the Bey was singular. The serai of his ancestors, which rises from the beech of the river, is completely ruined. A lofty shattered wall, built of alternate layers of dark and white stone, breached by the cannon of Mehemet Reshid Pasha in '37, faces the land side. We passed under a deep archway, and turning to the left I saw the Bey and his attendants on the top of a high ruined round tower without any parapet. Their rich dresses blazed in the morning sun. We got up to them by a stair on the other side. The Bey, without inclining himself to our salutation, laid his right hand upon hie breast, and threw him self upon a cushion set for him upon the ground. We did the same. He was a tall, robust man, order forty. His grey and rather small eyes had their lids stained with kohl. He wore mustaches, but no beard or whiskers. The expression rather than the form of his features was coarse; but no trace appeared in them of the ferocity discernible in his actions. On the contrary, we then thought him good-humoured; and now and then he indulged in a hearty laugh. He wondered how Me hemet Ali could have the confidence to trust himself at Stambul. And when he was answered that the old Turkish fashion of entrapping rebellious pashas, and cutting their heads off, was exploded, he replied, " Aye, but they imprison;" and then laughed. He then asked, " if we thought he could venture to Con stantinople with safety ." We recommended him to remain for the present at desire. He laughed again. He complained of the excessive taxes which the Porte enjoined him to put upon the people, and espe cially upon the Christians. They said, " Where you now take 15 piastres, take for the future 30." But his conscience would not permit him to afflict the people in this manner. He was anxious that the villagers under his government shouldlive comfortably, and freely enjoy the fruits of their industry ; and, thank GOD, most of them were in a prosperous state. He spoke in Kurdish, and an interpreter translated what was said to him on our part into the same language. But his igno 'lance of Turkish was pretended : for, in an un guarded moment of excitement, without waiting for the interpreter, he answered directly in Turkish. He wore an enormous turban, wreathed with the common and universally-worn Kurd handkerchief of blue with red spots. Shawls were twined over this, and the ' flat blunt end of the lofty Kurd cap of white felt pro jected from the top. He was wrapt in a sleeved cloak of crimson cloth, lined with fur, and covered from the collar to the elbows with an embroidined tippet of light blue silk. Six pages, evidently se lected for their beauty, with long hair, and effemi nately dressed in costumes of great richness, lounged rather than waited behind him. The arms they wore —yataghans, pistols, cartridge and shoulder-belts, all, save blade and barrel, of embossed silver—looked rather like toys than weapons, on the persons of these delicate youths. A group of wild-looking Kurds, in their abbu, and a negro slave or two, occupied the mond rank. The view from the tower terrace was eraenideent. The Tigris rolled broadly below, an the snow - tippyeedd mountains of Kurdistan looked down upon us. The Bey rose at our departure, and sent us forward with an escort to a Christian village, I that was commanded to slay a sheep for our en tertainment. The dominions of Bederhan Bey stretch a day's' march into the plain, and two days' march into the Imountains towards the Persian frontier. This little I territory, the diameter of which is about 80 miles deep from west to cast, and about 60 miles broad from north to south, has for its nominal capital Jesira. But desire. is a mere heap of ruins, where the chieftain seldom makes his appearance, except to meet some Turkish functionary, or to transact some business con nected with the villages of the plain. His common residence is Derghileh, a strong fortress in the moun tains. From this fastness he is in the habit of moving continually upon excursions to the different points of his little kingdom. His villagers confirmed what he had told as respecting the moderation of the taxes which he imposed, which amounted only to a 1 1 few piastres—say 10, upon an average, for each house. The inhabitants of his territory, naturally industrious, are therefore in a flourishing condition, and abund antly stocked with grain and cattle, while their neighbours, under the dominion of the Porte, are re duced to the last state of misery and distress by the heavy exactions to which they arc subjected. The result is natural. The burdened lopulations abandon their villages, and seek refuge among their thriving kindred in the territory of Bederhan Bey. The Bey receives them hospitably, and settles them in the vacant spaces of the thinly-cultivated region. This tide of emigration, which has been going on for many years, renders it difficult to ascertain the exact popu lation under Bederhan Bey. It b came more general during the hated sway of Kritli-ogl in. That atro cious tyrant, during the seven months of his govern. ment at Mosul, which terminated a year ago, ruined eighty-five villages. The destitute families whom his insatiable avarice had despoiled and driven from their habitations, sought a new home r-• I Tigris, and became the suh is t 3 —.Liss the Thus has the repaiii.:ln . of chief*./...41;.8ec1er gradually grown ; han Bey. n his subjects }lave ..,.ilaplied, and 100 - k up to him as a ...men His name is continually in their mouths, and they appeal to him as the redresser of their wrongs, and the arbiter of their differences. His word is law: the disputes which he has decided are irrevocably settled ; and, at the beating of his drum, the whole population will start up in arms. Such is the bright side of Bederhan Bcy's character. Unhappily it is overmatched by the dark. His fanaticism has insti gated him to crimes that find no parallel in our day, and equal in atrocity the worst achievements of the blindest bigotry in ages past. His last violent deed has, without doubt, sealed the fate of this chieftain. Notwithstanding the attachment of his own imme diate subjects, and his popularity among the Kurds generally, it is doubtful whether either would stand the brunt of war with the Porte for his sake; so much these mountaineers dread drawing down upon them the terrible devastations of a Turkish army. But the jealousies of the different tribes in Kurdistan render the ruin of any particular chief not a very difficult matter, even if he should be supported by the at most fidelity (an extremely rare case among the Kurds), of his own dependents. The chiefs of Pinianski and Tebal offered, in a message to Tayar Pasha, before Bederhan Bey set out upon his expedition, to march upon him and seize him in his passage from Jesira ; and in consequence of this becoming known to the Bey, the villages under their authority were visited with the same relentless treatment which he inflicted upon the Nestorians. I have only to add a word concerning the Boy's past history. During the war which the Grand Seraskier, Mehemet Reshid Pasha waged against the Kurds in 1836, he was besieged in Jesira, taken pri soner, and sent to Constantinople. From thence he was raised by Ilafiz Pasha, who succeeded Mehemet Reshid as Seraskier, just before the Battle of Nezib, to the rank of mirali or colonel in the Turkish army. Shortly after he was restored by the Porte to the dominion of his ancestors over the district of Jesira. Since that time to the present, his reputation and power have been continually increasing, until he must be considered a scarcely less formidable chief than Mahmoud Khan. His fall has no doubt been resolved upon by the Porte. But if they temporise, which is not improbable, it then becomes the duty of the Euro pean governments to enforce the expulsion from power of this scourge of the Christians. FRANCE.—The following is the address of Chan. miler Pasquier to the King of the French, on the occasion of the anniversary of new year's day " Sire,—Time speeds on, and events follow in quick sue cession ; but circumstances change : and that which is eminently wise and just, noble and great, still re mains firmly established in the place assigned to it by public esteem and admiration. Such already is the judgment of the cotemporaries and witnesses of your reign, a judgment which history will ratify. Commenced in the midst of a storm which threatened to shake even that which it did not overthrow, passing through days and dirllculties of every kind, where even perils were not wanting, it has saved all, strengthened all, and consolidated all. Its duration has, thanks to Providence, been greater than that of the longest reigns, which have succeeded each other during that half century in which your name appears, after so many trials; there it will remain as a symbol of the indissoluble alliance of two things, monarchy and liberty, the ardent love of which has never been extinguished in the bosoms of the French people by any effort or any revolution. Lofty and powerful reason, which alone could obtain so glorious a success, could lay the foundation of that c.dm, hut firm and generous policy, which your government has followed for lfi yeah, and will never abandon. Such a licy leaves but one anxiety in the mind, that which arises from the desire that nothing may disturb your work, and that our posterity may inherit, after us, the advantages which we possess. Heaven has been pleased to grant all that could hest answer our wishes. Your dynasty already appears in the future rich and proud of the numerous offshoot/ which under your cherished and tutelary protection, are growing and advancing with the new generations whose destinies will one day be confided to them. The year which has but just gone by has seen the accom plishment of that union which was to complete the whole of so many great existences, and none can say, when casting looks as well as thoughts on the young princess whose illus trious origin is embellished by the native graces and qualities which they promise, that the last choice is not the worthy complement of all those which have so happily preceded it : I may add, none could have been more agreeable to France. Receive, Sire, the congratulations with which this event inspires us; we give them not only as peers of France, bat as members of the great family from whom your eyes are never turned away, and whose interests are always your greatest study.. Happy is the country in which at can be said that to wish the king increase of years is to wish to the country he governs long years of happiness, and to the civilised world that welfare which is always the con comitant of peace."—The King replied "As you have said, the great problem to be resolved was the alliance of mo narchy with liberty; to make the people understand that liberty needs the assistance of monarchy, and to prove to kings sad princes that monarchy must be accompanied by liberty. It is owing to ignorance of this principle, or to the prejudice that monarchy and liberty were incompatible, that France has been hurried into the storms of revolution. May God pre serve us and other nations from them. May our be sufficient to convince both kings and their subjects monarchy and liberty can live and flourish together, although not without a mutual confidence. If the national vote has elevated me to the throne, it was because the whole tenor of my life gave reason to expect that all my efforts would tend to carry out this principle, and because there was no tear of change upon my side. You have seconded me so well in this effort that, on this seventeenth anniversary, we can congratulate ourselves on hasing happily accomplished our task. I trust, with your loyal assistance, that, as long as it shall _please OW to extend my life, we shall continue to confirm our institutions and the pros perity of France. I thank you for your congratulationson the marriage of my eon I have noticed with pleasure the manner in which this event, so happy for my family and for myself, has been appreciated by the C banshee of Peers." This reply of his Majesty was followed by repeated shouts of "Vise k Roi." THE BEY OF TUNIS AND THE SLAVE-TRADE.— The Bey of Tunis, during his visit to Paris, evinced more in telligence than is generally found in the Oriental rulers who have been in Europe. His great merit is having abolished the aline-trade in his territory, which he has ac complished with some sacrifice of property. GERMANY.—HAMBURG.—The hamburger Neue Zeitung has ceased to exist, after having outlived a period of seventy years. It was a strenuous defender of the rights of the duchies of Schleewig and Holstein, in which it was lately prohibited by the Danish government BERLIN, JANUARY 2.—The Allg. Preuseische Zeitung of the foregoing date contains a correspond ence from the Saxon province of Prussia, in which it is stated that the produce of last harvest does not justify in any way the apprehensions which were generally enter tained respecting a scarcity. It amens that although the rye crops were not so abundant here and there as they usually are, tke quality of them was excellent; and adds, that there has been an average crop of wheat andbarley. The potato crops, too, were good. There are satisfactory accounts also from the Rhenish province*. Wheat, and particularly rye, continue, however, to be very dear. STUTTGAIM—According to a recently published official document, the population of the kingdom of Wurtem berg at the beginning of the year 1845 was 1,743,827, being an increase of one per cent. compared with the preceding year. ITALY.—A letter from Rome, of the 28th ult., in the Conanisitionnel, says " The changes in the government offices are being continued. Monseigneur Gramellini, who was installed at Rome, on the 26th, as governor of the capital and minister of the general police of the city, in_ the room of Monseigneur Marini, raised to the cardinalate (as we have before stated), is replaced at Ancona, where he was legate, by Monseigneur Roeconi. The delegates of Perugea, Ascoli, lticti, and other places have been changed. Thus it will be seen the secularisra -6011 of the government officers is still postponed. Pre lates are replaced by prelates, and the only thing done is the li substitution of prelates who are friends to progress, and not hostile to the new system, for the Gregorian*. How many obstacles are opposed to the intentions of Pius IX. and Car dinal Grizzi. Pius IX. would have been glad to deviate from the custom of giving the purple to ecelesiaaties who hare charges called Cordo-di:ie. His holiness wished to commence this reform with Monseigneur Marini, by sending him as legate extraordinary to Spam or Portugal, or by making ham auditor of the chamber. The opposition, however, of the sacred college has been such, that the pope was obliged to yield and make him a cardinal, On the fol lowing day, placards were posted en the walls of Rome blaming the act. This first step will probably induce the pope to leave the treasury in the hands of Monseigneur An tonelli ; and for the same reason, perhaps, it is that Mon seigneur Row:oM, who was to have been appointed treasurer, will be sent as governor to the province of Anoona. Letters from Bologna state that a commit...sip , has been discovered in that city. It was formed by the ...arabinien (armed police), inferior officers of the police, and persons inimical to the Civic Guard. This plot; if it had not been detected, would have caused serious disturbences." DENMARK.—RENDSUCAGIL—A grand banquet was given on the 29th ult. to the presidents of the Schleswig and the Holstein legislatures. About one hundred and seventy persons were present. One of the speakers, Herr Wille, of Hamburg. expressed the opinion that the separation of Lubeck and Hamburg from Holstein had worked prejudicially for all three. The health of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Augustenburg was drunk amidst enthusiastic applause. RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.—Yester day, the funeral obsequies of the late Princess Maria Mi cheelowna were performed in the cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, by the metropolitan and the chief clergy, in presence of the Emperor, the Crown Prince, the Grand Dukes r' stentine, Nicholas, and Michael, and Prin.- ust berg. The deceased was br , ' ...a refer of Olden- Cathedral.—Alk. P- in one of the vaults of the TA Ty" — _ .oussiselae Zeiltutg, Jan. 2. I.—We have accounts from Honolulu, the capital of the Sandwich Islands. The dates are to Aug. 22, 1846 ; but the columns of our Honolulu contemporary are occupied almost exclusively by reports made to his Majesty Kamehameha 111., by his ministers of foreign affairs and public instruction, his attorney-general, &c. The following is a paragraph of nyws: " A Snake.—Sonkes have been considered as much strangers here as in Ireland, but a friend of ours saw one in Nuuanu Valley on Thurs day morning. It was about a foot lone, of a green ish colour, and crossed the path, taking refuge in a stone wall—a straggler probably front some ship." HONOLULU, AuG. Is.—We have received an official document from the consul of France announcing the raising of the blockade of Itaiatta, signed by Governor Bruat. We have frequent arrivals from this place, but the diffi culty attending the procuration of authentic intelligence concerning the lute hostilities is inconceivable to any one who has not tried it. From our own correspondence we can only glean that, during May and June, Governor Brunt, with 1,000 men and a steamer, attacked the several camps of the Tahitians at Papeenoo, Hautana, and Bunaauia, and in the conflict lost several men in killed and wounded, including come superior officers. The natives remained masters of the interior. but were driven to great straits by the destruction of their cultivated grounds and the desola tion of their valleys. Numbers have since come into the French lines and given up their arms. Three of the English missionaries offered to mediate before the late battle, but Governor Brunt would grant no terms short of actual sub mission. Papciti, at the latest dates, was quiet, but the isLind generally is in a sad condition. Since writing the above, we have hal the pleasure to receive from Captain Bonnet, of the French transport Lioa, the following let ter, containing a succinct account of the late events at Tahiti, which will not fail to inter, at our readers :—( Trans lation.) "To the Editor of the Polyneslan.—Honolulu, August 11,1846.—Admiral Hamelin arrived in the Papeiti Roads on the 28th of April. In the meanwhile, the relations of Pomarc were carrying on negotiations in her favour, which remaining without result, decided Governor Bruat upon setting out, in the beginning of May, at the head of 1,000 men, soldiers, seamen, and allies, in order to drive the insurgents from their positions in Tapai, Palmas, said Ahons, which was done without striking a blow. On the 10th of May, the four forts which they bad erected at Fapenoo made a lively resistance to our troops, who, never theless, took possession of them the same day, and pur sued the enemy into impassable places. The French troops bivouacked during about twelve days in this part of the island, in order to destroy all the resources of the enemy, and to hinder them from re-establishing them selves there. The inhabitants of the valley of Fatahua were likewise driven from a very strong position which they occu pied, and their resources were destroyed, to punish them for depredations which they had committed a short time before, near Papeiti. A block-house was established upon the im portant position of Tapai, which opens the communication with the eastern districts, in closing it to the insurgents of that side of the island. At the latter end of May the expedition marched upon Panavia, and took possession of the fortifica tions of the insurgents, who were driven into a narrow defile, where they had concentrated their forces in an impreg nable position, from whence, without being seen, and from the top of their rocky walls, they were enabled to fire upon our troops, who could not ace them, and to throw down enormous stones, which rolled upon our seldiers, in which manner several were severely wounded. It was necessary to give up the pursuit of the enemy and destroy their resources. This day coat us the brave commander of the Brea, mor tally wounded in the chest by a gunshot ; M. Perrot, a first-class student, killed in the entrenchment, and three soldiers. Among the wounded, who number 15, are Lieut. Malmanche, chief of the staff, who had to suffer amputation of the right leg; M. Claniere, captain of the 31st; and Sub.-Lieut. Lejeune, who had already received several wounds in the preceding actions, where we had 21 wounded. As to the affairs of the Island of Huahine, and to the false and slanderous account which has been given of them by the Friend (doubtless misinformed), inits numbers of thy month of April last, and which its editor had the delicate attention to convey to me on board of my ship, I think I cannot do better than to lay before you a letter, which one of my friends, who resided at Huahine during the events, and who was as capable of judging of them as any one, has been good enough to write to me giving me a detail thereof. I shall adjoin, for the edification of certain parties, that Captain Hammond, of the Salamander, into whose hands the Friend, of the 15th of April has fallen, hastened formally to give the lie to a letter contained therein, and attri buted to one of his officers, who has played a part in these unfortunate events.—(S4neel) Bosnrr."—The police laws at Tahiti are becoming increasingly strict. A sentinel is stationed on One Tree-hill to prevent any one passing with out a special permit (natives without any burden excepted). The names of all the native householders at Papeete have been registered, and forbidden to go to the camps on pain of losing their all; and not to receive additions to their families without a permit. The permits of Messrs. Barif and Thomp son to visit Papeuoo camp had been renewed for three months, the former being allowed (on account of inability to travel quick) to go on Saturday, and return on Monslay, the latter to go and return on the Sabbath."—Sandwich Islands Polynesian. Zbe court. - - WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual early walk this morning. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Royal Family, and attended by a small suite, will take their departure to-morrow afternoon, immediately after an early luncheon, for Claremont, where the Court will re main until within a few days of the meeting of parliament, on the 19th inst. Her Majesty will then returu to the Castle, and leave Windsor for Buckingham Palace on the day before the opening of the session. The Dean of Westminster had an interview with Lord John Ruud' yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Edward Codrington had an interview with the Right Hon T. Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor of Glbraltar. The Right lion. Edward Strutt has returned to town. REPRESENTATION OF IDDLESEX.—In consequence of the farewell address of Mr. Ilyng, these freeholders of the Liberal party who have for so long a series of years returned their present venerable member, are getting up a requisition to Lord Robert Grosvenor to come forward as a candidate for the county whenever a dissolution may take place. There can be no doubt that the high character for generosity and charity in private life, and for talent and zeal as a public man which Lord Robert bears, will gain him the warm sup• port of all Mr. Byng's old and tried friends. THE ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday an inquest was held before the coroner for the county of Hertford, at the Bell Inn, King's Langley, on the bodies of George Matthurs, stoker, and William Asaup, driver, sufferers from the late collision upon the North Western Railway. Mr. Bruyi*re, superintendent of the London and Birmingham division of the line; Mr. Hayes, of the firm of Parker and Hayes, solicitors; and Mr. Bedford of the police department, attended on the part of the company, to watch the proceedings. The first-named gentleman vo- lunteered to make any explanations which might be near nary for the elucidation of the questions which might arias during the progress of the case. The jury having viewed the bodies, the first witness called was James Owen, eosins driver. On Monday last. he piloted the half-past one o'clock goods train from London to Wolverton, and brought another train back at half-past eleven at night. There were thirty-six carriages or trucks to the train, which was drawn by two engines. Witness, who belonged to the leading engine, had a stoker named William Heaver. When they were within 200 yards of Langley station, he saw a red signal ; the night was very foggy they had no fog signals on, do could not use them. He o pened his whistle, and then reversed the engines. Saw three mere red lights, and one across the road. The signals were plain enough, and cautioned them to stop, but they were too close to do so in time. There is a curve not far from the station, and that morning they could not see above 200 yards off: if it had not been foggy, they would have had ample time to stop. Did not know whether Asaup bad let off his steam or not. He might have been working his engine by expansion, and in that case witness could not have beard him. His own im pression was, that Asaup bad not reversed his engine. Wit ness and the stoker jumped off upon seeing the danger signals, and immediately afterwards the train came into collision with something. Witness ran round to look for the guard, whose station was at the tail, but could not find him. He then went to Smith, the police man at the station, and asked if he had seen any one. He said the guard had gone back to stop the other train. There was only one policeman on duty that night ; he was going to let the train into the siding ; he gave witness the fog 'signals to take back and put on the metals, in order to warn any other train against approaching. Oa his way back for that purpose, witness overtook the guard, and told him to take them on to Boxmoor, in order to stop the next train. The coroner here questioned the witness as to whether any wiaistance was rendered to the deceased all this time The witness said not . an hour must have clapeed before any thing was done to relieve them. The coroner expressed great surprise that such should have been the case. The witness went on to state that the parties arrived in about twenty or twenty-five minutes after, and the train was drawn back. Witness's engine was then discovered lying on one side r: lit across the rails; the second had mounted the tender of the first engine, which it had injured considerably. The witness maw the stoker while making the examina tion ; he was jammed in between the reversing lever and the fire-box of the engine ; he did not see the driver, but was told that he was in a similar position on the other side. The handles of the engine seemed to indicate that it bad been going on at the time of the collision, and had not been reversed. The train was late on the night in question. At every station it was alway, known when trains were due, and he bad no doubt