The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

els, the c ...send diet every French• Ch" .. .▪ „ " h,„ may pain by on the river, or visit oar great navel •- 7▪ ...1. would see that we had paid to our larnente I friend • ,gi re highest compliment in our power, awl th it our was • pledge to be for ever before us, and that we ▪ o prliptillibie that mutual good-will which so • 'atheist.. between the two nations. Lastly, the con hog to repressthat no one will abstain from ;sen t ' bine under the idea that more money will be c - - yea thin can be epproprietely disposed of; since any sur ge widl jean iously distributed among the family of the o fferieg to the bereaved relatives a whinn ies an addition to the pension ee l cokes of Eng li s h rioted, l ime French Ewe, ror. g,rj. leiteileu, on non - : to move the first resolution, follows—Sir Itede rick Murchison, ladies and gen o_."-e-es. I gladly obey the id the chair. and I rise for t 7;" t perpose of moving the first resolution. You have i d ea is touching, though in a foreign, language, the s-n -tween es of the French minister regard to the distim ": o eeel officer to whom we are about to offer a teetttueutel. L.& our native lantenaee of simplicity and perry, shall to lay before you what are, I am convinced, the •1 2..:i e , me of that gallant profession with which for a short hoe I am - ."- o fficially connected; and, it I mistake not, the me lonia I am about to move, embodies the teelin.e, not M ; r io this see able, w il ll ot the nation of whie% it is puflioS.ll.4 be neces.ery for me, after elie• o:tere-ting and eleborote deeds which the chairman hy pe„ ner d t l to the meeting, to go into any long description oo • ,e o e t rcientihe exploits of the dietineuished hse told you, and has told you truly.that this is o reeemn. I agree with Lord Ellesmere in the so a• ria sti oa oriels be has tepee...tie that our meeting t - -.ley is anned in the spirit of notional benevolence and peace, 0 ,1 bare therefore peculiar pleasure in appearing before a . (Cheers.) It was a remarkable circumstance in the l i fe of Lo utenant Balm that his services in the early part of tie Weer in the navy of his own country were constantly se o - .gel with the gallant Cervices of the British wavy. pee hear.) You have heard Low he conducted himself is Ilto de la Pieta; you have heard how in that greet and sob:. service, t h e e .,gpr e ssion of the Piave trade on the m ina t oot of AlfiCA, in the Straits of Madagascar, he distinguished himself. But there was also a period to which my freed in the chair shortly adverted, and whe.h memorable in the life or Lieutenant Ballot. lie served i• tie at a moment when • passing cloud of notional difference eomewhat overhung the relations between lulu ,' en d } r anee, and it is remarkable that at that very oment. when perhaps something of jealousy or a ngry tooling might have pervaded the sailors of those two great maritime powers, Lieutenant Bellot was distill potted is the British navy, and by the officers with shoos ee was then amociat ed, b y the distinctive appellation of L Mei des Anglais." (Choirs.) Now, hapi ilv, all such daintier. are at an end; that cloud has passed away; it lima es-lowness to a French officer to be called " the kind of the Enelieh," for Franco hermit' is the ftiead of Taalsed. (Loud Orem) I miy be permitted to tell you that tor the last four monthe during which, in the interests ge peen. and with an 'amen desire to preserve the tran quillity oh the world, the fleets of France and England have bees lyisa side by side, from the admiral on the de tic to the lowest cabin boy below, not one single instance line arisen o f s ay (panel plonking of a national character. (Cheers.) Fronelehip and cordiality have marked both ser vices. and I regard this as • happy omen of that peace which we sincerely dente, of that peace which hem perennial source of the prosperity of nations and the rest mainspring of the progressive improvement and hap pens of mankind. (Cheers.) Now. gentlemen, the next SW la the lift of Lieutenant Ballot has heen alluded to by ter chairman—hie distinguished and disinterested services is aid of the noble efforts of Laity Franklin, made in the cameo hope that by her own personal endeavours, front her awn Minh!, means, some trace might, of the extstence, the prolooged ex.stence, of her late lamented hueban.l. It war the glory of Lieutenant Bello.' to assist Lieutenant Kennedy gratuitously in those serene@ of which his own daring and skill were the mainsprings; and I am well informed that at the clue.: of the expedition, when those with whom he hail &wonted parted host him, among the gallant English sailors—who hail s d with him—there was a U•Itli1111,W1 feeling that if Lieut. Bellot should be appointed the commander of sae sigh expedition, they would most cheerfully volunteer to serve under him. Now, I hove alluded to the transiest eseumstance of my Oficial position, which makes it, per kips, not inopportune that I should appear here to-dey. lit I ant about to narrate to yen a circumstance which made it peculiarly • duty on my part to come and bear tes timony to the meritorious conduct of Lieut. Bellot. Whoa last year it was determined to moot small expedition under the command of that distinguished officer—no longer Com mander, but Captain Inglefield—(cheers)—to the Anti* sem. the steamer selected was not a large one. The vole ken who crowded to serve under Lieutenant bo /Wield were numerous—both officers and men, the complement was at once filled up, and there wee o difficulty with respect to any spare accommo dation. Lieutenant Bellot pressed to be admitted se a volunteer. On that oecasion his application was made to me. in the first instance by himself. I resisted it. I was afraid that considering the crowded state of the ship and boa rank in the French navy, accommodation such as the Admiralty would wish to att . ird, could not be given, aid that inconvenience and discontent would probably be gene rated in the ship. Lieutenant Bellot pressed his applies, lion notwithstanding my refund in the first instance. He even sought to bring to bear upon me official influence Others seek favours in the shape of official appointments. bet the favour that he sought was only that he might be *Sowed lain to enter • British ship, and join his British comrades in encountering dangers. With no reward is veer, nothing but honest fame being his object, he me Sally persuaded the French ambassador to request almost as a serious,' favour that he might be permitted to go. (Chien.) I could not resist such an application. (Cheers.) I laid the ease before Captain Inglefield; and that officer " By all means, let him come as a comrade ; we shall mjelee in his society." Lieut. Bellot said, " Give me but a plink to likupon, • corner wherein to pat my clothes ; I Mk so more.' The officers said, " Let us have him as an sowisee." And I believe I may my that Capt. Inglefield abridged somewhat his accommodation, and that the other acres all abridged theirs, and that, except Captain Ingle fied himself, Lieut. Bellot had the best accommodation in the ship. (Cheers.) Well, now, what was his conduct under such circumstances ? What are the real character lifts of a distinguished naval officer? I should sum them tip in assiduity in the discharge of his duties, gallantry in the hour of danger, and obedience to command. Now, what does Captain Inglefield riport ander each of these heads ? With respect to assi duity, Lieutenant Bellot was au example to all on board the Plton. Late and early he was employed in scientific pursuits. The dip of the needle occupied his attention by day, and in that almost rayless region, where what is night with ue would almost be accounted day, solar observations were pursued by him unremittingly. With respect to gal- Isetry, there n was an occasion on which danger was to be braved or difficulty to be confronted when he was not a To - Antler, His life was lost in a service of danger for which be was not a volunteer—(hear, hau)—and before I sit dews I shall have strictly to narrate to you the CiT(11111- 'trees which closed his honourable career. Well, now, I Ina give you • specimen of his obedience to command. He won under no direct control, because be was a vo trainee and a visitor, but such was the nicety of his feelings that Captain loglefield assures me there was no officer mere mady to ansicipate his wishes than Lieut. Bellot. ' (Hear, hear.) Perhaps what I ea. about to mention may appears trifling circumstance, but trifles illustrate cha meter. (Hear, hear.) You are aware that in that northern region the dog of the Esquimau: Is the companion of the iaativeia his danger. It is an animal of peculiar sagacity, mad remarkable for the assistance it affords in those dam genus pmts. Naturally those on board with their eyes I frequently turned towards home, wish to bring bock some living trophy of those regions, and there is generally a rest desire felt to bring home animals of this description. Different officers had obtained deg., I believe to the flam bee of eight for that purpose, and Captain Inglefield was forced to prohibit any more being brought on board. It trampired that Lieutenant Bellot, recollecting also his native land, and wishing to take home some little trophy of his services, was desirous of having a dog of this descrip tion. When Captain loglefield heard that such was his desire, he called Lieutenant Bellot into his cabin and told kiss that any prohibition with respect to the increase of the member would not apply to him, mid begged him to consi der himself exempt from its operation. Such, however, was Lieutenant Depot's nicety of feeling that, though his well bad been strong in the matter, he obeyed t§e order to the letter, and no animal was brought on board by that odor. (Cheers.) Well, now, it is my duty. I think, Meetly to describe to you the concluding write of Ms life. Comma Inglefield had left the ship himself de• Unused to brave the greatest danger,endeavouring to open a communication with Sir E. B;lcher by • journey over the ice in fact. He bad left the ship to Captain Pullen. Csptain Pullen, in his absence, was anxious to make • communication to Captain luglsfield. It was a dangerous *mediums ; Captain Inglelield's bright example was not easy to follow in that trackless region. Lieutenant Bellot rilunteered for that service. His offer was accepted; and 16 left the ship with four British sailors, • sledge, and • eight India-rubber canoe. Very shortly after his leaving tbe ship wee that fatal storm of the 18th of August which destroyed the Breadalbante, which was in company with the Nieman. The ice closing is upon her in a gale of wind, such as bad hardly ever been known in those arctic regime, the Breadalbane was crushed in a mo ment. The Phmnix was in the greatest danger. The strong deck of that ship bulged under; her main- Mahon were strained to an extent which endangered bar very existence. In that fatal storm in which one ship was lost and another all but lost, Lieut. Bellot and hie lin followers had to encounter the frightful gale. The first effect of that gale wee to sever the ice from the hem*. Lieut. Bellot immediately when he saw that the floe os which he then was was drifting from the shore, has coed to send two of the four men who were with him in the small Canes to the main !and. They succeeded in effect- 1 ing a landieg; but to return became impossible. The floe drifted rapidly away, and the danger of there two men sad of the gallant French officer became imminent and ap parent. Observe, he was not the first himself to go in the canoe to dry land (Hear, hear.) Ile saw the full cense of thedasger. When the storm which was raging hid I almost destroyed himself with the two remainim Englishmen, he expressed the joy which be felt that the two other men were saved, and that be win with the two sailers who were still exposed to doggie. Snow was 'kenneling in large quantities. Ho taught them how to Abetter themselves on rte floe, by se esuriaitine the snow into something in the shape of a hut. They remained hutted. Ile twice went forth to see is which direction the floe was being drifted. A third time he went forth, and he returned no more. I should tell you, %dies and gentlemen, that his exhortations to these two met have been narrated to British officers and British THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1853. . mimeo. lie reatialled them of their dety, that duty com mon to Frrnebmini sad to Englishmen, is the eztremity of .4117 ►. exhorted distress, not es hiedihiesetenetir; and, slowest,. he _ them to look to that quarter from which alone in the list extremity aseistaani can be expected. (Hear hear.) He begged them to remember that overruling fro- dente which had saved them In the midst of au many and such great dangers. It was the will of that Providence that he should net survive; it was the mercy of that Providence that the two men who were his companions should, in the course of eight-and4orty boors, be drifted beck almost to the very place where they had left their companions ' and they have survived to tell the story. Now, ladies and gen tlemen. an appeal indeed has been made to your generosity en this occasion. But it is not the first appeal. Captain Ins/Wield, when he paid of the Phoinix the other Jay, mentioned to Li. gallant companions that some such oppor tunity as this would be given, and said he thought some thing was due from the companions of Lieut. Bellot. What was the conduct of these men—these common I sailors—who, after a voyage of six months, had some ' trifling balance due to them alter remittances to their wives and children, ae.d when it had been eitenebtful whether they would live to come home again I Why, they rushed forward, and it became the duty of Captain Inglefield to restrain their eagerness to contribute oat of their humble earnings mote than he thought proper. (Cheers.) Silver—gold—was tendered. Ile said " No, it `but a small tribute of respect that I ask of you. I will not take much." It is out of your abundances, ladies and gentlemen, that I ask you to contribute. (Cheers.) Well, I said that I would not long detain you ; hut will you per mit me to espreu to you one feeling more ? I am ad dressing a Christian assembly ; and I have told you what was Lieutenant Bellot'* feeling, what his exhortation, at ! the moment of extreme danger. His noble spirit in its as pin'ions lifted bins up at once from earth to heaven. It is a question now whether we rhould erect some trail memorial to :cis memory. You may write it is inailde, you may in scribe it in brass, but it will pass away. But there is that which melees monuments--honourable time, duty faith fully performed, the glorious remembrance of gallant deeds. (Cheers.) It is a saying of ainhiguity, and has been truly said, that the whole earth is the tomb of illustrious men. It matter, not whether their bones whiten the shores of the Equator, or whether they are entombed under the eternal mu of the Arctic regions. But I would say to thin Christie* audience, let us also, while there is time, follow the advice of Lieut. Belled. (Hear, hear.) Let us elevate our hearts; let us raise our thoughts above this grovelling sphere of sor row sad disappointment; let us look to dote regions when we hope Lieut. Bellot is now at rest, and where, as one of our old divines has mid, with impressive truth, " Eter nity is the meuure, felicity is the state, angels are the com pany, and God the portion of II e blest." The resolution which I have to move is as follows: "That this meeting, composed of various classes of Englishinee, being anxious to mark their deep sense 4,1 the icicle col duet of Lieutenant Bellot, of the French Imperial Navy, who was, uuhappily, Lit in the last Arctic expedition in search of Sir J. Freak• lin, resolve, that their couniryine ii be invited to unite with them in promoting a general subscription for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of that gallant °dicer, to be placed at an appropriate spot at or near the Royal Hospital of Greeuoich." In moving this resolution I beg leave to state that I entirely approve of the general terms in which it is left to the discretion of the committee to decide upon the precise locality in which this monument shall be placed • bat I think at or near to Greenwich would be the fittest ;lace, because it was there that when Lieut. Bellot embarked on board the Phoiniz, his friends, both French and English, bade him their last adieu. The right hon. baronet resumed his seat amid loud cheers. Admiral Fir E. PARRY seconded the resolution. Capt. Acxs:E6ay neat interrupted the proceedings for a moment by some wild and incoherent question ; but, with the aid of a policemae, he was quickly ejected ; the Chair man observing, after he had retired, to prevent misunder standing among the foreigners present, that that was not the first -on the twentieth time that the unanimity of public meeting* had been thin iuterrispred. The resolution was passed unanimously. Cul SABINE meted the following resolution : " That the surplus of the subscription, atter defraying the cost of the monument, be invested for the benefit of the members of the family of Lieutenant Bellot." He said he felt great satisfaction in being permitted to take part in the proceed ings and to express his cordial sympathy in the object. Lieut. Belle, qualities were such as secured for him the esteem and affection of all with whom he came in con teat; and he hoped that one effect of the tribute now paid to kiln would be to induce the French government tee engage energetically in the work of geographicsl research. The resolution was seconded by Capt. Fitzroy, and agreed to. airs BAEILOW moved, "That it be an instruction to the sub-committee to communicate with the municipal autho rities of other parts of the United Kingdom, and with the naval Commanders-in-Chief, in order to make thu sub.crip. tion general, and particularly among the seafaring popu- Istios." . Captain IMILIYIELD, who WAS received with much cheering, said he felt great pleasure in seconding the reso lution. Ile would not attempt to improve the finished pie. tun of Lieutenant Belled which was drawn by the First Lord of the Admiralty. All he would attempt was to odd we or two little traits by way of illustration. The meet ing had heard how attentive 31. Bellot was to his duty and with what seal ho performed it. There was a particular department which he (Captaiu In glefield) appointed him to superintend, namely, the meta ecological journal, and obeervatiens on magnetic intensity. Many a time he had to ask him to wait till the ship was secured before he pursued his observations lest he should slip overboard. (lieu, hear.) He was most careful in his attention to discipline. One Sunday afternoon, fearing that the ship would not remain in her then position, long enough to enable him to complete what he bad in hind, he came to him (Captain Inglefield) to ask him whether he might continue his observations on that day. e replied, that it was hie desire that the sabbath should be kept sacred, but that he (M. lIcllot) was in a position to judge for him self, and he should not object to his carrying on his observations if be pleased. The result was, that in deference to his (Captain Inglefleld's) implied desire, he abstained from taking his observations on Sunday.(Cheers.) On visiting, alter the catastrophe, the tent at Cape Riley, where Lieutenant Bellot had been almost up to the mo- meat when be lost his life, he found the tent thrown down by the violence of the gale. Pis instrument was carefully packed up, and beside it was his handkerchief containing a few biscuits and a slice of pork, which he had put there in order that he might eat his meal in the tent, and thus save time, instead of returning to the ship, which was only a few hundred yards off. He bad a very gay manner, which en deared him not only to all his comrades, but even to the poor Esquimau:. It was customary for the Esquimau: to amuse themselves occasionally during their short summer by dancing. Lieutenant Bellot invariably attended the dances; and having purchased an Esqulmaux woman's dress he robed himself in it and appeared amongst them as en Esquimau: lady. His name would be remembered among the poor Esquimau: when that of the Phenix and all the other ships engaged in the Arctic expeditions bad long been forgotten. He would mention one other Was tration of the beauty of his character. Amiable in every thing, he possessed those high religious and moral qualifk cations which constituted • christian sailor. Though • Roman Catholic, he invariably attended their Divine sees vies. He always sat near him (Capt. Inglefield) when he was performing the duties; and he remarked his attention, his following all their forms, and observing what there was no necessity for his doing; and he felt sure that with that thoroughly Christian feeling which must be in every breast that thinks aright, whilst they were adoring their God he felt that he was adoring his God, and that it mattered comparatively little what precise form the service assumed. (Hear, hear.) Ile bad had an opportunity of learning from those who were with him in his last momenta, that when he went from them he was probably prepared for the change, and he trusted, therefore, that while they were raising on earth a tribute to his memory, he was enjoying rest in heaven. The resolution was then adopted. On the motion of Captain HAMILTON, secoaded by Capt OUrimearici, it was resolved: "That the following gentle men be a sub-committee to carry out the objects of this meting : Roderick J. Murchison (chairman), Earl of Aberdeen, Sir J. Graham, Admiral Beaufort, Colonel Sabine, Captains Fitzroy, Ommanney, and Inglefield, MN., with the Rev. G. C. Nicola,' and Dr. Norton Shaw, secretaries." Captain AUSTIN moved the following : " That the thanks of this meeting be presented to the press for their volun tary support of the Bellot testimonial, and for their free and liberal insertion of advertisements." Colonel CAMPHELL seconded this resolution. I The CHAU/WAS, in putting it, said he must remind the Meeting and the public that the liberality of the press on Chet occasion amounted to quite as much as the subscrip- MOM. (Cheers.) The resolution was carried. Sir J. °KARAM moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. Sir It. lamas seconded the motion, which was adopted by the meeting. The CICUIVILN, after returning thanks', said he had omitted to mention before that he received the coacurreswer of the present Lord Mayor and the Lord Mayor elect, and of the Earl of Rome and Sir T. Brisbane. lie had alao re ceived letters to the same effect from Sir John Pakington and the Earl of Malmesbury. He was sure the object would have the warmest support of the predecereor in office of Sir J. Graham (the Duke of Northumberland), under whore authority Capt. Inglefield went forth on his recent expe dition. The Earl of Aherncon, whom as the most important, he had reserved for the last, wrote to him as follows : "Most willingly, and with the gr. des: pleasure, alien I associate myself with those who form the committee for this object, in which, from the first, I have felt a very deep iatemt." (Cheers.) All who knew the truthfulness of Lord Aberdeen's character, and the value which he set upon words, would know how to appreciate that decla ration. (Hear, hear.) The meeting then repented. Tim OVERLAND MAIL for India, China, and Au stralia, which left the 0 1 Post ntfice yesterday, for Southampton, consisted of above 400 holes and hags, nearly 300 of which were for Australia. The mail was con veyed from the Waterloo station to Southampton by 1,114 , 6'1 train, and weighed about 15 tons. More than half of the I Australian boxes were for Melbourne, which more thus I doubled the number for New South Wake. In some instances, when the India, China, and Australian mail has arrived in Egypt, there have not been provided sufficient camels to convey it across the desert. Ma. ItustaN, author of the * Stones of Venice," is delivering, in Edinburgh, a series of lectures on architec ture. His first essay was on the " General Construction of Domestic Buildings. CITY CORPORATION COMMISSION. - 41. - an alderman of London. With 'dame to the Old Bahr, I think it wrong that the raegi.trete Who commits should also be the person to try the prisoner, as is the eae in the Old Bailey. ,Tnis will account to some (*tent for the boast which is made on behalf of the Old Bailey that the number of convictions in proportion to committals is greater there than in other neons. . THE CHOLERA. notice is to be published to the inhabitants intimat ing the arrangements made, and requiring them to clean oat ashpits at frequent intervals, and to abstain from unwholesome fruit. The Commissioners resumed their inquiry yester day, Mr. Labouchere in the their, when the examination men the General 'ward of Health, Nom 4.) of Mr. Acland was continued. METROPOLIS. Returns made m by ad t e he to su th p e e Lko rin m te m nd iss en io t n e e o n f of th e M p et , ro i rki: Mr. Acland said- m l nes ha ti v n e g rece rne iv t ed o w a rree le t tte as r from error 3 . 1 0 r.. i l Old Bailey,anfi - tlie - c a o f Geo. 11. Childs, , j Sir J. an on - The n •re two courts, the court of the t an ite p t M, N, S. T, and V divisions of police, state that be- Quarter Session, in the litter tween the 24th ult. and the 2nd inst. there have °e volved in the statement I made on the last day the coin- • of which one of the hedges rat the land, or the Recorder, mission met, which represented that the surgeon to the the Common Serjeant, prolate,. Are you !wowed to say police force was the brother of the partner of an alderman. j that the aldermen take any part in the proceedings there ? curred in those districts 13 cases of cholera, 12 of Witness-I I beg therefore to withdraw that statement. With the 1 Sir J. p .t . do. judges of is re n s o i t de my experience-at instances which terminated fatally. Death ensued in several permission of the committee I will also refer to the charge least when the 131, 22, and 2 in 24 hours after stances after very short illness; for ex imple-in 81, that the corporation allocated a given own of money for Witness-Perhaps it is not so P erlien the judge. of the describe the localities in which deaths have occurred attack. The returns the purpose of inducing a better representation ache press land preside, but it is so when the Recorder or Common t Se e rjeant presides. Then the Old Bailey is objectionable as of their proceedings. I believe, as I read the evidence, I Then so me ti mes isagallery c i a a se ara is w v a e a r re in la t d er ia e s st a in ra " a guinea been treet, Bermondsey (in which been fur years in a spirit of opposition , not to say entagon. I is frequently paid, and when it is less y interesting g a shilling a death ensued 81 hours after attack) that " the inha ism, to the government, a report was made by the Cowell- is not refused. The door keeper receives the money. 11e bitants complain of offensive smells from the privy dated Committee of the Court of Common Council, of which may be a footman of the sheriff., and he gives a sum of and drain in the yard." In another instance (22 money for the chances of the fees taken at the Courthouse the following is a copy : hours) it is observed that " the street in front of this door. I believe part of the money goes to the Lord Mayor house is very dirty with mud and stagnant water," and " Common Council, Thursday, March 8 , 1849. and part to the sheriff. I think it very disgreceful that • front of the house are two " Report of the Consolidated Committee, to the night lord mayor or sheriff should put money in his pocket from in a third that "in Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commis• such a source. Alderman Wood, when he was sheriff, put amine, the smell from which is very offensive." sioners of the City of London in Curemon Council as- an end to it during his time, and I know that one of the Another death from cholera in Nlillbank prison is ambled. present sheriffs is opposed to it. The members of the Coro- reported as having taken place on the 2nd instant. " We, whew names are hereto subscribed, of your con- men Council must always be selected for special jurymen, This makes the seventh death front cholera in the solidated committee, to whom, on the 22nd day of May, f or which the y we re pai d, and many o f t he m m ade sev eral Penitentiary since the 20th August out of 12 cases 1 , 46, it was referred ' to confer with her Majesty's Gov e rn. guinea in the year in this way, as a matter of business. meat and others, upon such of the matt , nspecially re. Sir J . Pettis:el-That was also the case in the special which have occurred h ;rind. in that theta pe (erred to the several committees as we may deem expedient; juries in Ouildh ill-and most excellent jurymen they made. SOUTHWARK. and to report thereon from time to time, do certify, that Mr. Aclaod-Some of them, doubtless. With respect to The following extracts from a presentment made pending the progress of the negotiations, had on the refer- the Court of Conservancy, I am not in a position to give eons to Us with varus departments ot the government, many details, but I know that they spen4 a great at a court legit held for " the King's manor in South end also :twine the pinceedinge in porliament during the deal in feasting and rio forth. The witness then stove week," at the Court-house, on Tuesday, the 11th day last two *elisions, it has appeared to your committee that evidence on the matter of privileged operative companies, of October, before William Payne, Esq., steward ot the motives and object:: of the corporation have frequently within the City of London. No one was admitted to the the said manor, exhibit the present condition of a been much misunderstood to the great hindrance of your fellowship of one of these companies who was not tree of large portion of the King's manor in Southwark. committee, and the embarrassment of the concerns en- the companiand also of the City, for which he had to pay The jurors present, that at the bottom of Maid trusted to them, impeding materially the arrangements 61. ss. 4d. This had a very evil tendency, because it TO they were proposing with the government and the crown, atricted the freedom of labour. With regard to wards, they a tone and Kentish Buildings, in High-street, within and that these inconveniences have, in a great degree, were not co-extensive with parishes, which caused great the said manor, there is an open ditch extending arisen from the imperfect publication of the teuorts of the 1 confusion. There were charities attached to these wards, shout 50 yards in length and about 7 feet wide, into proceedings of the commission, by which means weut o f I and fir the purpose of these trusts it would he necessary to which the sewage of all the surrounding neighbour confident., was engendered, and misconception oleo's- retain the boundary of wards, but for all other purposes I hood is conveyed, and that the said ditch is in a most raged. That the proceedings of most other corporate think the distinction of wards is en evil. I think the police f ur l and pestn •• erous condition. bodies, of public meetings, and public trainee - of the Cit y of London is well mana g ed. That, I think, is Lions were more fully repotted and • published than generally admitted. At the same tone I think the police Also they present, that in Maypole-alley, within those of this corpor ition. Your coiumittee, therefore, fuel of the metropolis should be homogeneous, and under one the said manor, there is an open privy fur the com• it iacumbent upon them to report to this court those prac• central authority-that authority being the government. mon use of the inhabitants and wayfarers in a most time' evils which their esp. rience, as committee-m.ls and 're Mr. Lewis-The City police is surrounded by the foul and disgraceful condition ; also a spare piece of chairmen of the several committees, has enabled them to Metropolitan police district, and even in some instances point out and to suggest, as the most efficient remedy for intersected by it, as in St. Bartholomew parish and Glass- d ecay ing ground in which there is a collection of offal and such evils , that provision should be made for more certain house-yard. It would be economical to have the two ainal- fish and vegetable matter to the depth of reports of the proceedings of the aration and its courts, gamated. two or three feet, and covering a space of 30 feet by and a more system :tic und periodic tl publication of them. Chairman-Proceed now to the port of London. 20, giving out putrid exhalations to an extent almost Your committee recommend that it should be referred to Witness-The corporation of London under their old unbearable. them to make temporary arrengements fur these tar sea, charters got the power of imposing several tells which were That in this court there are 40 houses , t• ' con ming and to report to this hon. court the provisions, if any, which highly injurious to the trade of Londoo. It would there- 340 h li and they may think fit to suggest for permanent adoption. All fore be highly desirable thit these charters should be ab- ,in a Rants, only one .12 , pipe for the supply which we submit •o the jadgment of this honourable court. rotated. I stated nn a firmer occasion that the corn Of water to the whole of the inhabitants, the supply Dated this 23rd day of February, 1819." [Here followed m e t s g e toll amounted to 9,.:1961., but this did nut represent from which is limited to about two hours per day. the signatures of 21 members of the Consolidated Cam- anythiug like the real evil, for it did not include the sum- That at the Fox in White-street, within the said miner.] paid t to the innumerable host of vampires who collected the manor, the privy overflows and runs into the yards A motion was matte that the matter be referred back to fru ru it and cotstet' K t: t i a r a let* iT h etg and corpo t ration . pubished c enHot of No. 6, Wilmoter-buildings, and other houses ad here as no ffi i the C..nsolideted Committee, as they suggested, which was R audit :il" With of them . • regar d to the system of brokers the joining. adopted. My statement went so far as to say that they effect of licensing them was to g ive them a fictitious value That in New -court, White-street, within the said sanctioned the allocation of 4,0001. since 1849 for the pur- which they did not always deserve. A person could not manor, underground drainage is wanted. pose referred to in the report. I have to correct that state- e appear on the Stock Exchange without the sanction of the That in Revel's men: thus far, that no such vo ' e appears on tem minutes of row, Queen's Bench, the drains are ornany . of stockhrskers and al -o of the corporation. The proceedings of the Court of Common Council, and that no stopped, and the privies overflowing. hould be allowed to udge for themselves what such formal vote was come to, but I osier' deliberately, and brokers t he would j ' employ, and they should not 'I hat in York-place, Revel's-row, containin 16 am prepared to prove that it was well sictieretuod by the - edy -e bo conlicie to these Ire. need by the corporation. houses and 80 inhabitants, there is only one small Consolidated Committee, that the court sanctioned them to The markets of the City of London returned • legitimate supply of water, which runs for about ono hour expend a sum nut exceeding 1,0001. a year for that purpose. revenue to the corporation ; but with regard to Billings- d a l . The Chairman-What (le you mean by saying that itillegally. By the act of 8& 9 os i • was well understood the c met sanctioned this expenditure, grate victoria, h w e ere ett act in g hst market was mede flee and op lat L mon-place, Revel's-row, is in exactly the unless some formal vote was come to empowering them a n d the iAs t P o . be 'taken were defined in th ethriluiespoj same state as 1 ork-place. so to do. the act to be tolls upon the ships and carts bringing tne That in Green-street, Friar-street, and the adjoin- Mr. Acland-I any that the corporation is trickery, and fish tomarket; but the corporation in addition to this 'mg streets, the offensive smells arising from the filthy that there is an understanding with regard to the appro- char g ed fishmongers carried b • the sixty who on oiliness priation of funds for politic-some may call them-bat I trades carried on is so bad as to cause a continued there 201 . a p i ece , which amounted to 1,/001. say fir sinister purposes, which could not be recognised innausea in the inhabitants, particularly the children. The C hairman- W a s Was this ever dis p uted - in a court of a public court where the press is present, but which the j ustice ? That when the wind is north-east the health of the corporation may still deem advisable to spend. Witness-It would be ruin to any individual to fight inmates of the Queen's Prison is seriously affected by The Chairman-Your statement was that 1.0001. was to against the corporation. the horrible effluvia from the knackers', catgut be annually distributed to the various papers of the town. Mr. Lewis-Are you aware of any trade privilege in the linkers', and bone-boilers' yards. That the whole of Mr. Achill:l-I have endeavoured to correct the state- City of L.melon which it would he desirable to retain ? meet as to 1,0301. having been spent, but that the Consoli Witn I know of none that can be publicly bone- this part of the manor, for a quarter of a mile dated Committee were warranted in going to that expendi- ficial. round, is more or less affected by this intolerable tare I assert. And lam justified in assuming that it has Chairman-Is there anything now which you desire to nuisance, and what readers this pest place still been spent, for they never published any account stating add to your former evidence ? worse is the fact that there is no sewer in Green- N+ much they did expend, and yet they published ac- Witness-With respect to the elections of common street, only surface drainage, and the refuse from counts purporting to be an account of receipts and expendi- hall,: I stated that at the election of 46 there was a these foul trades runs into • ce sspools and 1• 11 carted ten, severe contest in the City of London, between Aldermen The Chairman-Is there any sum mentioned by the Thomas Wood and Carroll, on which Occasion there away- WWI? was a great deal of bribery, principally on the side of Al- That in Mason's-court, King's Bench Walk, the Mr. Aclaad-The matter was referred bock to the Con derman Wood. I have the names of the men who received second floor of a block of building has been con solidated Committee by the court to make such temporary bribes on that cite on that occasion to the amount ot vcrted into a bone warehouse, and the inhabitants i arrangements as they might think fit, and if they were to several hundred liverymen. There are several of these of the first floor complain that the maggots drop make a permanent arrangement it was to be reported to the men still on the register. I have also evidence with regard court. The Consolidated Committee have a sub committee to the election of Mr. Brown to the chionberlainship in through the ceiling on their beds and tables. In one of three, who dealt with this sum in all respects as if it was 1814. I have the receipts of 11 of the principal parties who of these houees the first ease of cholera in 1853 a vo•e of 1,0001., and they treated it in figures, collectively, ac t e d o n that occasion. They were paid 10s. • day under occurred, and the medical o ffi cer states the smell in as if it was • sum at their disposal for the purpose I have the plea of attendance. Of these tiler . ore seven still on the room in which the patient lay was moro than he mentioned. the list. could bear. The Chairman-How do you knew that? With respect to the finances of the Corporation of the Mr. Acland I hesitating)-1 do know it. City of London, the witness said that he had their pub- That the jurors found a large collection of offal, The Chairman-How ? fished accounts with him, but it would take some time to filth, and rubbish, in Gun-street, Flint-street, Francis- Mr. Achod-If I hesitate on the question it is for the look over them is order to make them in any degree Intel- place, Beau-street, Butchers'-buildings, and Friarle purpose of considering how far I may speak without breach ligible. place. of confidence. Bat 1 say that they purchased newspapers The Commission then adjourned till Tuesday. That the whole of Elizabeth-place Waterloo-road, by ordering 300 copies at a time, and that on their own admission. They have an entry at 1,000/. in their financial is in a moat foul and abominable condition, that the , report under this head, " T. , Sir. Temple, hall-keeper "- cesspools are all overflowing, and is every house ' Mr. Temple being avowedly the memo who carried on the ANTI-STATE CHURCH CONFERENCE. fevers or bowel complaints prevail. That the supply trassection. There is a conglomerated item of 1, 0001 . of water is for 150 inhabitants two ...; taps on one hour tee newspapers, Gazettes, candle., fire-wood, and sundries. Yesterdaythe Conference resumed its sitting and a half each day. All them are put down in the lump to the hall-keeper, morhieg, at the London Tavern, at ten o'clock.. And they further present that the courts in the The Chairman-It is reported in the public papers that Mr. CHARLES Gthrire was appointed the chairman of the Mr. Wood made a statement on the subject, in which he manors still remain in the same state as regards day, and having taken his seat, said he had felt great esti'. says that the sum expended in buying copies of those news • the pitching or total absence of any paving, with papers which most folly reported and published the pro- faction at the number and character of the delegates ofwho the ex opt ion of two or three of them which have moldings of the corporation did not exceed 1501. Have you had assembled on the previous day from all parts the . • • country, and the ground of hope that attendance and the been lea with flag paving, and a very marked im sarreason to doubt that statement? whole of the proceedings of the day afforded for future provement is perceptible in the appearance of the Mr. Acland-None. But I have reason to doubt its (Hear, hear.) lie had observed an unmistake- inhabitants, more especially the children. swum, in this respect, that it does net deny that other sums tute e ' s * able determination that whatever the name of the ' society, have been given to purchase the press.PRESTWICH. The Chairman-Are you prepared to say that sums ofhad but its principles would remain the same-that they_ • one object, the liberation of religion from all S late control, The sanitary committee of the union of Prestwich, money besides the 150/ , which it is admitted has been ap and the declaration in a clearer and summer manner than on an inspection of the township of Newton in the plied in the purchase of newspapers, have been applied to it had yet been made, if possible, that religion was a matter above union, state that in the course of their inspec purchase the press. between man an d his God, and wit h . which no monarch or Mr. Aeland-Not in that large way ; but I say that they lion they found a state of things absolutely disgust were at liberty to spend 1,0001. a year for this purpose, and potentate on the_ _ d earth had a right to interfere. (Hear.) . in and sickening to witness, and which it is =- that the sub committee bad it in contemplation to establish Mr. Mute, M.P., nes a paper on the pres e n t aspect of . the question of separation of churc h and state in relation to Imam e S' bl trul to desciibe. In one house in Board- a newspaper of their own for the publication of their re parliament, in which he showed that if the church was to man-street they . found on a table a lot of scraps of por. The Chairman-Confining ourselves to what was done, be put in an altered position in reference to the state, it fat, fast putrifying ; and hanging up was a leg . of could be only done by parliament; and urged that, weed are you prepared to state that more was done with regard beef, to be consumed, as was alleged, by pigs. to the press than the spending of 1501. on the purchase of catty, their object shouid • bee of return a . Ho urs of Commons Under the stairs were two leg bones of a cow, the favourable to the principle f the association. those newspapers which contained the fullest reports of the Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY moved the reception of the paper. meat having been recently cut off in small pieces, proceedings of the Common Council. Mr. Tnener (of Norwich) seconded the resolution with and not in joints. Entrails of beasts were Mr. Acland-It is difficult to know what was done, but when it was admitted ths,t 1501. was expended in this way, much pleasure. strewed about the yard, and the contents end that there was no account of the particulars of the ex-avour of the ro- Mr. A. P EL LATT , M.P., hisalso spoke is f p of the privy were overflowing and running out reediting of the remainder, they laid themselves open to position , sad . expressed dt . general concurrence wit h the of the yard under the door into a little gutter views set forth in Mr. i s paper. the charge of spending it in some way. Mr. theme supported the motion, but objected to pre- which emptied itself, or rather communicated, with a The Chairman-That is a different statement from the tura action. sheet of water which had accumulated in the lowest ow you made yesterday. Is there anything to show that - m , The resolution was then put and carried, part of the street; at the back the house was gene' 100/. has been voted as a subsidy to the press ? Mr. Acland-No, nor 1501., which yet was admittedly so declaring it necess ary Mr. E ewaa Ds moved a resolution, . . rally in a very dirty condition. The wife of the in order to the carrying nut of the operations of the society Went. as proposed by Mr. Miall, that the income of the society . occupier of this house was very dirty, and appeared Is there anything to show that 1,0001., or any other sum health. All the houses adjoining this should be increased to 5.0001. a year by guaranteed subserip. to be out of was voted for this purpose ? tions, and that it be referred to the executive committee to were in a similar state, excepting that the mem- Mr. Attend-No, not as a speci 'fie sum ; but it w re- . • ou t take measures for securing that result for the next three mittec discovered no traces of beasts having been (erred back to the Consolidated Committee to as carry their views with respect to their securing favourable reports Yet". slaughtered. The committee made an inspection of The resolution was seconded by Kr ELLINOTON, and from the press. the greater part of the houses in twelve other streets , carried. The Chairman-Now with regard to the corpora t i o n ,of Manchester, move a react Mien, The Rev Mr. Everts d 1 • and they represent Boardman-street and the house isoura have you any observations to make ? approving of Mr. Kinply's efforts in the northern districts, described therein to be types of the other streets and Mr. Aeland-The Court of Hairlines is an obsolete court, and recommending a more exende d and general • organise- houses. In one little backsquare, enclosed on three sides which does no business, and is no longer necessary. The tioo upon t h e same system, the efficiency of which he bore Lord Mayor's Court is a court against which many com• by cottages, there is a piggery capable of accommod at plants are made. It is a court for the purpose of deciding testimony r to from peeeonal experience. the resolution , ins at least 100 pigs hT e yards of the slaughter-houses VENCII, or M anc h ester, secon d e d ace between citizens and "foreigners ,' as they are called-that which. bcovered with blood, entrails, and offal, all emit passed. 1 emit co persons who are not citizens. The latter make great The council. executive committee, and the various officers ting the most sickening smells. Adjoining one of complaints of the court. With regard to the Sheriff's of the institution for the next three )ears were then sp• these there is a cesspool in a back street closed at Court, it was no longer in point of fact a Sheriff's Court, pointed, and the several recommendations for the arrange one a county court. The corporation at first opposed and en , the exclusively d • cesspool is used for a depot lnt and conduct of the business of the association for the for offal : at the time of the inspection it was nearly successfully opposed the extension of the County Courts period were proposed and adopted . After which the Act to the City of London, but when the hone- al o m n;erence adjourned . full of such matter in a putrid or putrefying state. tidal e ff ect of that act throughout the county as w- c ln the evening the delegates with a large number of the The streets are dirty, the houses are dirty, the in- 1 seen, they applied to have the act extended to the City also. friends of the association, including several ladies, met at a habitants are dirty, and even the habits of the little The consequence was a great augmentation in the business soiree at the Whittington Club, where several addresses h c ildren in the streets are most indecent. of the court. The fees in the first instanse were more than were delivered in reference to the progress of the move e 1 /AItLINGTON.-Nov. 3. Death-Diarrhoea, I. sufficient to pay the expentes of the court, and they were in the prov i nces, an dthe proceedings of the f went - then reduced to the great benefit of suitors. The ShersGATESHEAD.-Nov. 2. Death-Cholera, I. From by the Court is presided over by a gentleman appointed rence were brought to a c lue. the Ist September to 2nd November there have been I Court of Common Council. I think it unwise that such an - -- 503 deaths registered in this union from cholera, and appointment should be in the hands of tradesmen, who ALTA MINING ASSOCIATION.-The annual meeting 43 from diarrhoea , making a t o t a l of 546 . might be suitors in the court. I think the appointment of of shareholders in this company took place yesterday at the NORTH ' judges should be in the hands of the crown. company's office., 20, Old Broad-street, John Labouchere Sir J. Patteson-In these courts juries have to decide on Esq , in the chair. The chairman read the report, which Cholera, 1. This case occurred in the cottage next to the facet. Is not that so ? began by expressing the directors' opinion that their pros - that in which the two deaths previously reported from Wiinees-I believe that is optional with the parties. pacts had improved, which was confirmed by the fact that this Union took place. Sir J. Patteson-That is so now under tho recent act; the estimated produce for the six months ending 30th Sep. BERWICK-UPON-TWEED (CACTLEGATF.). - Nov. 2. but do you say that in these civil courts the judges ever tember,lBs2, 1,001 tone of ore, yielding 64 tons of copper. Deaths-Cholera, 2. I -- decided on the fact. In the first six months of the present year the produce had - . . -. . From 1 Witness-I think so. been 1,384 tons, and 73 tons of copper. Some difficulties OUNDEE.-Nov. 2. Deatin- Cholera , 4. - Captain Elliot Mr. Lewis-Well, now, as to the criminal courts ? t the the returns of the Ist instant, it appeared that there THE GOVERNOR OF BERSICDA. _ 9 had occurred in the transport of stores and coals, bu Witness-With respect to the aldermen, it might he said hadat lengthsent sufficient to carry on the were 23 cases of cholera under treatment ; 11 have RM, the Governor of Bermuda, has received orders from that they were quite unlearned in the law, and depended compa ny works until next year . The &Wig were, cash, goods, &c., since occurred ; making 34 in the whole. Deducting the C , to proceed forthwith to Bermuda, to ' il"ial.°ffice 'Stith R ' nt is now for their legal knowledge on their clerks or legal advisers. at Allen, 6.5721. 19s. 9d. ; ditto, ditto, and copper in Lon- resume his duties. Moor Bytes,egime , the 4 deaths above reported, 27 cases now remain . G h • been sworn in, in consequence of This was an indirect way of transacting business which don, 7,4741. 54. 10d. ; total, 14.0471. 5.. 7d. The profit and Acting. overnor, seine was not calculate to eate respect either for the bench or under medical treatment in the town. , the alarming illness of Major Oakeley, the Senior Military loss account showed expenditure, 9,0561 . 2s. ltd. ; returns the law. In one c ase d kao 'e that toe magistrate remitted 12,8271 , showing a profit of 3,7701. 17e. Id. ; from "relict; EnieltUltell.-Nov. 2. Death-Cholera, 1. Officer in that mainland.- British Army Despatch. a fine of 53. for drunkenness on the party submitting to deduct . last year's debit, 9/. 7s. CHI., leaving a balance for ARBROATIL-Nov. 2. Death-Cholera. 1 (24 THE NATIONAL GALLERY, 'Trafalgar - square, which have his hair cut by a barber. I think the magistrates an dividend of 3,7611. 9.. 7d. The report concluded with re• ems). .. has been closed beyond the usual recess, to enable the corn pointed in the City should be persons of some standing in commending a dividend of 5e per cent. on the paid up mitten to carry out the now alterations and repairs which the law, and appointed by the government. I think they capital. Attached to this report was a despatch from Mr. At the meeting of the Board of lkalth on the 31st have been going on for the last two months, will be re should be appointed by the crown, and paid out of the lamas, the mining manager, recommending an increase October, it was agreed to arrange with all the opened to the public on Monday nest, the 7th inst., gratis; municipal funds. The public have not suffered by the rap- of capital and the purchase of anothsr station, the con- druggists in the town to furnish medicines for coun- and on Mender, Tuesday., Wednesdays, and Thursdays, pointinent of the Recorder, which is in the hands of thea: ritual. On Fridays, only for the pupils. sideration of which was reserved for future consideration. looseness ofoftoall teracting bowels , free charge, corporation. The appointment of the orment Recorder is .The report was unanimously adopted, and the proceeding • leaving the , FATAL COLLISION ON TUE RIVER.-A boat, 0011. highly creditable to the Court of Aldermen. I would give.l : necessitous persons applying therefor, on , , terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. taming eight persons, was run down late on Tuesday night, the appointment to the crown. I think the City of London ~. , names and residences with the druggists. Ihe me- LIM iNCOSIE TAN AND TILE ECCLESIASTICALoff Deptford Dock-yard, by the screw steam ship Alarm, should not be made an exception in the general government • • • • dical o ffi cers to furnish the prescription, and notices ', from Dunkirk. It appears that seven mechanics, in the TITLES Aar. -A Galway correspondent of the kreensan's of the country.lordship to be issued with it, requiring parties to apply for employ of Messrs. Russell, had taken a boat in order to Mr. Lewis-Would you apply the provisions of the Journal says-" If lAM correctly informed, his , Dr. O'Donnell, of this diocese, has put his opinion also on medical aid, if immed iate the im rudence of relief not olstained. Nurses • cross over to their homes ; and that by p a Municipal Corporation Act to the City of London, so far se ' • 1 the may be applicable ? ' i the subject of the income tel on record, and refuses to ac- have also been provided a nd . arraneemente are wh e name is Ilamilton the came r* avoid in the in waterman, Os , y right Witness-I doubt very much if you would induce the I knowledge any obligation to submit to onerous taxation course of being made for obtaining house accomeno- 1 way .of the steamer. The pilot endeavoured to avoid the higher claw to take past in the government of the City, if ' under circumstances . . where the law ignores the only title • dation for the purpose or. separating the healthy ! accident, but as the tide was relining in the collision was ' unavoidable . The boat in two . F' of was cut it retained so much of its present form as the bare application under which he can enjoy an income of any sort." is from tlto sick. A medin.l student has also been managed to support themselves until they were mon* of the Municipal Corporations Act would suffer to remain. WRAT IS MAN P-Chemically speaking, a man , ~e tl to make a house-to-house visitation of the but the remaining three were drowned. Their bodin have I think you would not induce them to become aldermen. I 451bs. of cathon and nitrogen diffused through 51 paileals ' engais - do not object to as alderman of Manchnter, but I {object to of water.-Quarterty Review. I district in which the disease has appeared, and a sot been found. COLDINGUAII, BERWICKSIIIRE.—Ten case, of cholera and 28 of diarrhoea have occurred in this parish. Eight of the cholera cases have proved fatal, but the diarrhceal cases—four of which were choleraic —have all recovered. The medical officer of the dis trict represents the village to have been in a very filthy condition at the outbreak of the pestilence, from the foul state of the rivulet forming the north and south boundaries of the parish ; from the want of drainage, and the choking up of what imperfect drains there are; from pigstyes and dn:l g h eaps i n close proximity to dwellings, and from the dampness of the cottages, which are generally of one storey, with clay floors, all the household operations being carried on during the day in the same apartment in which the inhabitants sleep at night, and the rooms being most deficient in ventilation and greatly over crowded. Every case of attack in this instance is stated to have been distinctly traccab:c to filth, over crowding, or neglected premonitory diarrlicea. Few winters pass without the visitation of fever of a typhoid type, clearly referable to the same pre% cu tibia causes. THE MURDER NEAR WINDSOR. • 13tiltNIIAM, Ettio.tor The coroner's inquest on the remains of Mary Ann Sturgeon, was resumed at ten o'clock this morning. A broken poker was produced, and identified by a char woman named Staymaker,as haring been whole when it was taken from Mr. Goodman' s bedroom to the bedroom where the body of the deceased wan found, on the afternoon of Tuesaui. Mr. Ralph Willis Goodwin, the occupier of the farm, was recalled, and in answer to a questiob from the coroner, as to whether he observed anything unusual in the conduct of netts, the groom, on Tuesday night, witness said he did. Before witness had discovered the murder, amt before he had been upstairs, Hotta asked him whether lie had seen anything wrong ? Witness replied that he hail not. netts also came into the kitchen more than once, before be had time to dress his horse, and made a humming noise, con trary to his usual custom. [Mr. Superintendent Symington, of the Bucks constabu lary, here informed the Coroner that circumstances had been discovered that cast some suspicion upon Hatt., the groom, and that he was then in custody. The announce ment created a deep sensation.] Dr. Roberts, of Burnham, deposed that, on entering the room with the Coroner and jury, on Wednesday, he saw a female lying on her face, stretened upon the that, both her arms f ite tide d , and heist upwards at right arg les. Ile observed the back of the left hind considerably swollen, with lacerated marks across it, as if struck by some blunt instrument, the metacarpal hone of the ring finger being fractured, and the first phalange hone being also frictured, . . , . , and the integuments Ise(rated,. , as if by a brunt instrument, apparently as if the band had been put up to ward off a blow on the left side of the head. The fingers of b dlt hands . . were clenched. The hair of the head wassTnged, and on par tially removing it, a lacerated wound of about two inches long was found over the lower back part of the parietal bone. There was another shorter wound near to it, re from blows. The ear on the left side was severely lacerated in two places, as if done by a blunt instrument. The lows limbs of the body were burnt, both knees being c , inpletely consumed ; the thighs also burnt to a cinder, as were also the ports adjacent, leaving the shafts of the thigh bones exposed and charred for several inches. Between the thighs and the feet the fl sor underneath was a burnt away, as to consume the legs as far as the Bodes. The leg bones had dropped through the floor, leaving the feet on the top and unburnt. On turning the body on its back, the face seemed much disfigured and swollen, and soddened from lying Ina pool of blood. There were two small wounds on the bridge of the nose, the bone' of which were broken, as if by some blunt instrument, and evidently from a severe blow. On removing a portion of the hair there was a considerable quantity of extra vasated blood between the scalp and the skull. The blood was the effect of the blows. The face was lying in a quantity of blood, which was diluted with the water, thrown into the room to extinguish the tire. Witness had since opened the skull, but found previously another wound on the right side of the head, which would account for the accumulation of extravasated blood under neath the scalp. The wound did not pass through the ex ternal portion of the scalp, but had caused a laceration of the internal part, front whence the blood effused. Upon removing the skull, which was not fractured, and the to vs ring membranes of the brain, the blood vessels appeared to be in a state of congestion, both on the sur face of the brain, and at the base, but without any general effusion. As internal examination of the body, proved that deceased was not exciente. As to whether recent violence had been offered the deceased, it was im ' possible to nay, from the circumstance of the lox er portion ' of the body being so injured by the fire. Witness was of • opinion that death bad been occasioned by the injuries inflicted by blows on the head, which brought ou concus sion of the brain ; and that death ensued before the com mencement of the burning of the body. There was blood upon the door, and on the floor of the room near the door, as if the body had been drsgg d albeit. Along the pas , sage there were here and there drops of blood, and there was the mark of a bloody hand on the wall of the passage upstairs, nearly opposite the bedroom door rf the deceased. , Blood was similarly smeared on the upper half of the bed room' door, outside. There was also the same appearance I on the door, about two feet from the bottom. Jane Bunce, the wife of the farm bailiff, deposed that, on the night of Tuesday, deceased was in witness's cottage at about eight o'clock ; she brought a piece of sticking plaster to put on witness's bad finger. After deceased had dressed witness's finger, she said, " I must go into the house and get the boy's supper out." Deceased added that when she had done so she should go up stairs, and sit in her room, as the buy's (Hatto's) conversation was so " in different" that she could not sir with him, neither should she. That was all the conversation that took place between deceased and witness. Witness had heard Hatto say, since the murder, that he came out of the house with deceased, and that be went to the stable when she went to the cottage. Since the murder, Hatto said be heard a noise against the door which goes oat of the kitchen into the passage, and witness blamed him fur not coming to tell her husband. Hatto meant that he heard the noise on Tuesday eight; but he did not mention any particular hour. Deeea-cd told. witness, on the Tuesday night, that she and Hatto had had words together. Witness did not understand deceased to mean that words had passed between them that eight. In answer to questions from the coroner, Mr. Goodwin said that Hatto was a civil and obliging servant, and had borne, up to the present time, a good character. William Coker, a boy in the service of Mr. Goodwin, and living at the cottage, deposed that he slept with Hatto on the night after the murder. Hatto said he hoped he should have a pleasanter night than he had the night before; he jumped about in the bed very much, and appeared very uneasy. Hatto was here introduced, and asked to sign the evi dence given by him on Wednesday. The prisoner, who appeared perfectly unmoved, is of middle size, and about 30 years of age. Police. Superintendent Symington produced a pair of trowsers, which Ratio wore on Tuesday last ; there were marks of blood on them, and the blood b ud been pro nounced to be human blood. He deposed that be had ob served mark. of blood at the bottom of Hatto's bed ; the marks appeared to be partially obliterated, and the blood was of longer standing than this morning. Witness also produced a jacket on which were marks of blood ; but it was explained that Hatto had been employed to remove the body,and that the blood might have beet communicated to the garments by that means. Mr. Cleare (the foreman) said it was a suspicious circum stance that Hatto should have fallen into a pool of water in the yard, when looking round on Tuesday night, and so in duced the necessity for washing the clothes. They had been partly washed and were hanging to dry in Mr. Goodwin's kitchen, on the Wednesday morning. Hatto was then brought in, and having been duly cau tioned, he made the following statement: " I can say nothing at all about the murder, except that I myself am innocent of the crime. I have nothing further to say." The Coroner said there could be no doubt that one of the most diabolical and cruel murders on record had been corn ; milted. The conduct of Hatto was not altogether clear from suspicion, but he was bound to tell the jury that there was no legal evidence against him. No rubbery of any ",extent had been committed, and there seemed almost a total absence of sufficient motive for the murder. The jury consulted together for an hour, and the inquest was again adjourned until next week.