The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

was transmitted to the assembly. It is to the follow ing effect : We, Frederick William, &c., with a view to preserve the public peace, by advice of our ministers, and with the went of the constituent arseuibly, decree as follows .-1. Popular meetings in the open air can only be held 24 hours after in timation of the intention to hold them bee been given to the police authorities of the place, with the name and residence of the parties calling them, and indication of the localities where they are to be held.-2. For public meetings and pro. cessions in streets and squares the previous permission of the police is necessary.-3. Tiie police is empowered to for bid any such meetin ra and proeessioris, if likely to dis turb the public peace.-4. Whoever takes part in meetings or processions, not held in conformity with these legal requisites, is liable to he punished with imprison. meet for not leas than one nor mere than six months. Non compliance with the oidi.r of the .ompetent authorities to leave an illegal asiienstily is to be punished with imprison ment for not fewer than ono nor more than eight days.-6. Any person calling upon the people to meet in arms is to be imprisoned for nut h so than six monks nor more than one year. —6 Any pers on netlearing such armed assemblies mute order of the police is to be imprisoned for not fewer than o e nor more than eight days. 7. Any person attending them with arms to be imprisoned for not leas than three ner more than six months. —S. If an armed assembly refuses to disperse seises' 1.4 its dispersal by drums or trumpets is to be given sod repeated twice after bri f intervals. 9. If the signet is not obeyed after the third repetition, arms may be used to disperse the mob. 10. The existing law is to remain in force wish respect to all public meetings and processions w hich are not specially enumeraied in this edict. To gild this rather bitter pill for the extreme demo crats, a semi official announcement has been made that in the course of the present week an amnesty will be declared for all parties who have been itnprisoned since the revoluti3n for delicts of the press. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Dates from Kiel of the 24th state that eleven of the principal places in the Duchies are fully gar risoned by the confederate troops, of which 41,000 to 50,000 occupy Schleswig alone, while the Schlt swig- Holstein troops, 10,000 to 12,000 strong, occupy the M. Dietz arrived at Rendeburg on the 23rd from the Natioral Assembly at Frankfurt, and proceeded at once to the German head-quarters. It is supposed that he is authorised to conclude the negotiation respect ing the armistice. :Mt Court. OanORNE, SUNDAV.—The royal dinner party on Friday included the Duchess of Kent, her Lady in Waiting, and the Bareness de Speth. Yesterday being the birthday of Prince Albert, • took place in the grounds at 0 borne. Tippnn Saib's "tent and several large marquees were erected upon the lawn, opposite to the principal entrance ; and moat of the residents in the neighbourhood, as well as some of the principal visitors at Cowes and Hyde, were invited. The day was very un favourable ; a thick mist, accompanied by constant showers, confining the company to the interior of the tents, and alto- gether preluding visits to the gardens or grounds, or ony out-of-doer amu tssemen. At tree o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert accomp h anied by her family and guests , entered t he ' marquee for dancing The Duke and Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Prince of Hesse met the royal piety in the tent, and dancing shortly atter commenced. Her Majesty, in the course of the afternoon, dinced with the Prince of Hesse and the Earl of Wilton. The three bands performed during the doe, and glees were oc aisionally song by a party of sailors from the royal yacht. A magnificent thjeuner was laid out in Tippoo . Saib'e tent. At about six o'clock a country dance was formed, in which her Majesty danced with Prince Albert, the royal children and most of those of the nobility and gentry present joini' g in the dance ;_ and ehurtly after its termination h.r Majes '. y and the royal party retired, at a We before seven o'clock. The following bad the honour of receiving invited ; the Duke and Dueheee of Cambridge and Princess Mary, the Prince of Hesse, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Marquis of Ang'esea and Lady A. Paget. the Marquis and Marchioness of Aileetinay ear l Lord C . B ruce , t h e Marquis of Conyngliam and Lady J. Conyngham ' the Marquis and Marchioness of Blandford, Marquis of Granby, Earl and Countess of Wilton and children (4), Earl and Countess of Glengall, Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Uxbridge, Lard and Lady A. Churchill, Lord and Lady G. Lennox and aliases lanalax, Lady E. Pennefather, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Lord ant Lady Somer ville, Viscount and Viscountess Seaham, Lard Churchill, Lord and Lady F. Fitzclarence and Miss Fazclarenee, teed A. Fitzelarence, Lord and Lady Downes and Miss Fleming, Lord and Lady Crofton and children (5), Lady H. Paget and Mimes Paget, Major Paaet, Capt. Paget, Lord and Lady Colville, the Earl of Lin coln, the Earl and Counties of Hardwicke and children, (s),Talbot, on., Viscountess Dillon, the Hon. G. ano Mrs. Anson, the H Mrs Phipps and children (2). Ad mind Sir C. Ogle, Admiral mail 1414. Prescott and Misses Prescott, Capt. the Hon. R. Manilas, Col. and Mrs. B. Drummond, Capt. Crispin, G. Ward, Esq., Rev. T. and Mrs. Protheroe, Col. and Lady C. V. Harcourt, the Hon. D. and Mrs Pelham, Sir R. Simeon Mr. and Mrs A. C. Holmes, Mr. and Misses Sheddon, M r.i and Mrs. Stoneatreet, Sir A. and Lady Clifford and Miss Clifford, Mr. White, Lieut. Sinclair (42nd Highlanders), Major and Mrs. Harvey, Mr. and Lady F. Lambert, Lord and Lady F. G. Hallyburton. Lady Templemore and Miss Cbicbester, Sir H. and Lady Pakenham and the Misses Pakenham, the Han. Miss Lyttelton. The royal dinner party on Saturday included the Duchess of Kent, the ift ince Victor of Hohenlohe, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and the 83/011088 de Speth. The Earl of Leitrim hal en interview with Lord ' J. Russell on Saturday. Viscount Hardiuge had also an interview on Saturday with the noble lord at his official re sidence in Downing-street Despatches from the Governors of the Mauritius, Ceylon, and Hong Kong, were received on Saturday at the Culonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood left town on Saturday on a visit to Mr. Harcourt and Frances Countess of Waldegrave, at Nuneham Park. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left town on Saturday for has seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. A deputation from the National Association for Excise Reform had an interview oa Frid sy with Sir G. Grey, at the Home-office, en the subject of the Tippling Act and the licensiog system in Sccelano. Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands minister, left Blackwell on Saturday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Ocean, for Rotterdam. THE UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE FOR THE BOMB DZIPARTIKENT, Mr.G.Cornewall Lewis, .P., and Mr. Waddington, will both remain in town during the necessary absence of Sir G. Grey in attendance upon her Majesty. The Attorney-General will also be in readiness, in case his ser vices as chief legal adviser should be at any time necemary. MR. WARD, chief secretary, has appointed Mr. T. Janier, one of the third clean in the naval department of the Admiralty, to act As his private secretor). THE MINISTERIAL WHITEBAIT DINNER, in anti cipation of the termination of the parliamentary senion, took place on Saturday, at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich. The company included Lord John Russell, Viscount Pal merston, Earl of Auckland, Earl Fortiacue, Earl of Steal forth, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Marcus Hill, Viscount Ebrington, Lord John Hay, Lord Foley, Mr. Beilew, Colonel Boyle, Captain Berkeley, Mr. W. Cowper, Mr Gib son Craig, Admiral Dendas, Mr. Hayter, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. W. Luce les, Sir John Romilly, Co r n Shell, l Sir W. Somerville, Tuinell, Mr. Wyse, Mr. ewal L Mr. James Wilson, Sir. R. W. Grey. PROROGATION OP PARLIAMENT.—It is VOW &ppm her.dt d that it will be impossible to name an earlier day than Tu.aday, the stk of September, for the prorogation. The financial Pilitement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer +•• ill be debated on bloi.day this day). On Tutsday, the Diplo mat le Rela•ions witk It ime Bill will be read a third time, and it is feared not without a further debate and divi►ion. There are also some Spirit Duties and other financial questi ins to be considered, antr which the Reuse of Commons must wait for the assent of the Louis to the bills neevoary for the wind ing-up of the session. The real business, however, is not ex t. t• d to ea•en4 in •1:e Douse of Commons b yen I Thurs day at xx.—Obsereer. The Queen is to proroeue the parlia ment in person ; immediately after which she will sail for Aberdeen, en route for P' mu Albert's new , hooting lodge at Balmoral. HORSHAM ELECTION COMMITTEE. SATURDAY. — Rebutting evidence, on behalf of Mr. Fitzgerald, occupied the sitting. THE CHARTISTS AND EP EA LERS Y est* id ay (Sunday) several meetings of chartist and confederate clubs were held. Precaution) were taken by the police commis sioners to prevent disturbance at any of the gatherin T . This was thought the more necessary from the fact ofThomas Powell, the person who gave evidence against the chartists, having been searched after and threatened with assare !ion. A few days back a person called upon Mrs. Lindley, of 23, (il-uses er-row, Iloxton, and inquired whether Powell lived there. The female answered in the negative (the house Powell lived in being No. 13), when the mon replied that " be was sorry for her," and added, " It would not be lon g before ner house would be attacked by several men, and un less she got protection the house would be humid down, and she and every °nein it would not be alive the following morn ing." The woman having men tioned what she had hea n ard to neighbour, she was recommende d to give informatio to the police, which she accordingly did, and men in plain clothes have been placed on duty en the neighbourhood ever since to protect the building in the event of the threat being at tempted to be carried into execution. The authorities, knowing the feeling that would be excited against Powell, had him and his family removed from Oloucester-row to another part of the town, where he is placed under the protection of the police. Mrs. Lindley dem:vibe' the person who called as being shabbily dressed , and about 40 years ef age. Yesterday a meeting specially took place in Webber•street, Blackfriars road, for the purpose of adopting further measures in aid of the chartist " victims" lately arrested. a The following resolution was unanimously adopted committee, consisting of five members of the National Charter Auociation, be immediately ap p o inted for the pu rse of receiving money on behalf of the chartist victims." e . d. ed lid ry • ih to id e. ai aw ua Zed aka nia Lint Di le 21 flaiti ,lluVri a a It ich im tranq betty' :tzki lib that 11 pgue S. at on' .al Al ith all ' Pe aqu the den .anoua• I all gae l that D 0 repel ' de oa er AD . to ged . the clone , wh i c h it neredi F rtpir* nal lot odd 2.3r4 24 her!, be 2z°"'. e the he ha d , twig nts. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1848, Michael Lynch, Elisabeth, lane, andJameallMallan; and John M.Do inel • John ; !mad Mary William Melons John M•LOughlin ;• Jams MOlshem; fft and A na Metres; Peter Martin; llbsignMin Mims Manahan; Jams Mills'lla~ Sass Ws; Murray kW= Maim; Mani Els ; POO& James ra nge; ; haw ; 6•11; mod Wows; Yell liam Onage; Lona Orrell ; boo 011eks Mak; An. drew Outten; Sarah Pollard; Half repo lanai adcliff; Catherine, Mary, sad PONS P00N',.......AN1S James. Catherine, and William Bayails; lM~d Ronan ; - Michas l Rourke ; Ellen md Butte; Spa and two children • Omelet Ryder ; Vann Bander. • Mini& Savage; William Simian; William lelniona; Edward Rheemaj Edward Shore ; Peter Smith ; smith ; Sarah Somerville ems aid Elisabeth Swallow • Nary As Taylor • Charles and Elizalink Thompson ; Johanna and Honors Ttann; George Tomlinson: Jame. Walker; Richard Walsh; Elizabeth and John Warburtoa; Elizabeth Ward; Wells; Healy Whi - e ; Francis Woods, and Peter Wrintesworth. Among the tabi passenger.% it to stated that Mr. and Mrs. Gotham with their daughters, from the neighbourhood of Manchester, who prooreded on board the night before sailing, are MB missing. The remainder have been saved. PAMMUSIS Usscrocarran roa. John Atkinson Thomas and Mary Anne Anderson ; Johann a Baring ; George Barker; William Ranson; John, Emma, and bliza Bell ; Joseph Islyden ; Patrick Brady; Jerry Reiman; Thomas Wil liam Brown, wife and child; Mary Burns; Joseph Butterworth; Mary Bohan; Dennis and Susan Callaghan, son and daughter; (five children) Cashman; Catherine, Mary, and Labelle Clark; Catherine Coyle; Eugene Condon; Ann Constantine; John Combs; Richard, P. ter, and Mary Anne lox; Mary Crook; Ades Cady; Ellen Curley; Patrick De anham; James, Bridget Devine, and child • Alice D ea ") John Dolan ; Darby Donohue; John and Martin Donberty ; ton Driston ; Mary Drum • Julia and Jame. Drury; Catherine Da gen ; Mary Ellis; Sarah Pieter; Mary Ann, Mary, and Bridget ninon; Magaret blond; Nora Galvin; Mary Cisffary ; Ann, Mary, and Pailip Gleason, sad child ; Margaret Gormly ; Royanm Green; M Halloran; Mutiny Stanley; JamesHely; James Henry; kteneccallflll Mary and John Hughes; William Jackson, wife, and child ; William Jackson. wife, and two children ; John Johnson; George Jones and Mite' Thomas, Jane, and Mary Jones ; Thome' Kaye and wife; Michael Kean: Winifred Keegan ; Been Kelleher and child; Nora Keating; Edward Kelly; Catharine Kilby ; Neville Lowes; Robert Maxwell; Jane and Mare M`Evoy; Daniel ACCorthy ; Margaret MST, ; John M o ynch ; Ellen Davi:. and John Malan ; Ann Murphy; William Marty; Bevy Mulling; Arthur Muldoon; Jane Murtagb and child; Jane Neesum; Mary Ana Ncebitt; James and Margaret Nolan; Daniel O'Connor and wife; Biddy and Catherine O'Hara; Samuel Pollenssale; George l'arker ; Mary Quinn and two sone Jane Roberts; James Radcliff; James, Margaret. Catherine. and Margaret itonayn ; James and Mary Sale; Joseph, Mary, Ann. Sirah Shaw; Margaret Sbcnan ; Jo-eph Shread ; Margaret, Ellen, Thomas, and Mary Smith, and child; William and Francis Spencer; Darnby, Geeffry, Johanna. Ellen, Catherine. and Nancy Sullivan; Sarah and George Taylor • William 'tows; Ellen and Bridget Tier ney; Henry, Sarah. Elisabeth, and Alice 'lhornpaon ; Sarah Ann and Edward Ward; James and Catherin • Wilson and child; JAIUM Win. Manley ; William Willis and wife; and Mary Wynne. Loo or THE PRINCE or Wanks.—The following is the report of the log of Capt. Dani, commander of the Prince of Wal fs steamer, bound to Bangor Aug. 24, 1843 : " When outside the light-ship, I discovered a ship on fire, bearing about N.W. 12 miles. I immediately hauled up for her, and ordered one of the boats to be got ready. In go:ng along I discovered a boat with four hands in it. I took her in tow, and in a short time after I saw a man floating on part of the wreck. 1 sent the boat to pick him up, and got him on board. At this time there was a great deal of the wreck floating ab .ut. I lowered the boat, and seat Mr. Batty, the mate, and three lain s, to see if they could pick up any one alive. As Mr. Batty was getfing into the boat he discover ,1 the body of a child not quite dead, but too far gone to recover. I then proceeded to the ship on fire, and got three more passengers that were floating. When I came up to the ship she was in one flame fore and alt. I did not think it prudent to go alongside of her, but I came to anchor close ate, ad of her : at this time the wind was increasing, and a heavy sea running, and so much of the wreck was hanging about the vessel, that the boats could not approach ht r with safety. I then got the passengers to assist in weighing my anchor, and returned to pick up my own boat. I then returned to the ship, and saw from twenty ta thirty people under the bowsprit of the ship. I came to anchor close on her starboard bow, got lines attached to the boats, and saved every one that was on the wreck. At this trying mottrant Mr. Batty was of the greatest service to me, as were also all tea other hands, who cheerfully and willingly assisted in saving all they could.-0. DAN!, commander tat the Prince I of Wales steamer." CAPT. Munnucit.—ln a letter to the LiverpoolJourna I the wrier says: In the last pang-aph but one of your jOurnal of this morning allusion is made to the reports re specting Captain Murdoch. Allow me to state, in a lew words, what I know to b e true regarding this gentleman. The report. to his prejudice hove been wicked and malicious iu the extra me. I was one of the last on the quarter deck with Capt. Murdoch. Throughout this fearful affair he m dia. played the greatest courage , coolness, and presence of ind. lie was deserted by the greater part of his seamen, and was only agitated by two or three of his passengers in the execu tion of his orders. I was as I stated, amongst the last, if not the last, near the cap•ain. The throes were raging fear fully in the vicinity of the mainmast. Cummunicaticn was in a few seconds cut off from the fore part of the ship ; and it was only when hemmed in and exposed to the most fearful of deaths- that of fire—that Captain Murdoch took to the water. 1 shuuld say he was the last man to leave that part of the chip ; and when h,, did leave it he could tot have reached the toreearle bad he wished it. I preceded him but a few seconds, and leaped into the ace from the bowsprit rig ging, having myself been obliged to climb alongside the les. sera bulwarks. These facts I can attest and swear to.— Yo ofec., \I/NESTS:4 passenger in the Ocean urs, Monarch.—The abate is • true statement ; JOHN ORANOII, In the evening a meeting, numerously attended, was held at the same place, of the National Land Company.to consider the propositions of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, td P., recently made to the select committee in the House of Commons cep pointed to inquire into the affairs of the company. From this the press was entirely excluded, and the business con ducted with closed doors. NEW FOREST TIMBER STEALING.—At the Queen's Mouse, Lyndhurst. on Saturday, William Broad, the Bridge Carpenter of the New Forest, was brought before Messrs. Compton and Smith, magistrates, charged with stealing eleven pieces of timber from Broomy Walk. It appeared that the prisoner had been employed two months since in repairing a bridge called the Splash-bridge, and that he had set aside the old timber as " and sold the tot for 2s. tkL tdv. Wm. Reed, the issistent deputy surveyor, deposed that such materials were not the prisoner's perquisite. Broad said in his delstice that he had workt.l 43 years iu the for.st, and that Mr. Turner, a former deputy warden, hail yeare ago given hi a leave to appropriate all the old piles and chips to his awn purples. The solicitor for the crown, after consulting with Major Freeman, the govern ment inspector, said he was nut disposed to press the charge ; but Mr. Compton said he thought sufficient had been made out to render it necessary for the yudices to commit the prisoner for trial. They would, however, accept as bail his own recognisance of 101. G. F. Bowles, a forest keeper, residing at Boldrelodge, was then placed et the bar, charged, together with .1. Coles, on au information for steal. ins two pieces of timber, value 41., from Beaulieu Wood Walk. It appeared that J. Coles was ant in custody. The prisoner said the timber had been given him by Mr. Jamrs Reed, toe assistant deputy surveyor, and he should wish that gentleman to attend. 'lhe magistrates said they would issue a summons for him, and as Cole' was not in custody, would postpone the hearing until Monday (this day.) SUICIDE. AT LYNDHURST.-Isaac Helmer, • New Forest woodcutter, residieg at Emery Down. near Lynd. burst, cut his throat on Saturday. Ile had been sometime hack questioned by the police relative to the forest depreda tiring. and the circuni4ance is said to have preyed upon hie mind. On Saturday morning he got up early. and was sten walking quickly from his how.° towards an adjacent wood. Some ipeies were et camped there, and one of them was awakened by a noise outside the tent. On going ogt he found Rohner with his throat cut, leaning against it. lie assisted his out ..f the wood, and conveyed him home. A rigor was found near the spot. Hummer had a wife and three charged against him by • contemporary. In his opinion the captain and mate did all that it was possible for men to do under the circumstances. The captain, in the first place, took all the necessary steps to check the conflagration, and afterwards behaved with the greatest promptitude; but all his exertions were rendered fruitless by th - confusion pro duced by the terror which spread among the puseneers. The captain stuck to the ship until the fragments of the blazing monmast were falling about him : he did not leave until it was an impossibility any longer to stand the heat between the two fires raging fore and aft. He had great difficulty, in fact, in saving his own life at the last, and he certainly saved the lives of others in his instructions to those who hesitated to ' throw themselves into the water, and there truet to the spare Mr. Ellis was picked up by a pilot-boat out of one of the Ocean Monarch's boss (the mate's), a l most swamping I at the time with the twisty seas, and was afterwards plac,el on board • Wexford smack, the Queen. Mr. Ellis mentions an incident nQt at all creditable to the crew of the pilot-boat fsupposeed to be Welsh). One of the mssengers, a Mr. Powell, had stripped himself on account of wet, and could only obtain the covering of • blanket from the people on board the pilot-boat by surrendering, in exchange, • silver watch. Mr. Ellis believes that one passenger still remains on this boat; he remained because be was per fectly naked, and could get no clothes given to him. Mr. Ellis, like the majority of the other passengers, has lost evcrytoing by the fire. As • professional man, his sterilises are even more to be regretted than those of others: he has lost hi' diploma (granted by the Royal Col lege of Sergi one), all hi. instruments, books, dm. Mr Ellis states that the tire first appeared in the cabin, and he there. lore questions the statement that it was occasioned by the carelessneu of an emigrant in the steerage. Mr. RIO , was sitting in the cabin, reading, at 12 o'clock in the day, when the eeccuid steward rushed in and said that the ship was on fire. A lady, named Andrews, was in the cabin, alao read ing, at the same time ; she was greatly alarmed. lie be lieves that this unfortunate lady, with her daughter, • child nine years old, have been hat Isle. Andrews ' the husband of this lady, has been saved. At the time the fire broke out • great number of the emigrants were lying, sea nick, in their berths, and he atiribute a the subsequent confusion to the I alarm produced by these running naked on deck. In this way many of the children were los . . The tug-boat, which took them out of the river, bad not left them half an hour, when the first ainuke .as seen; had she stayed a little while longer with them every human being would bars been saved. NAILEATIVES OP THE PASRENOERL—AItIIIVAL OP THE PRINCE OF WALES. There was one hope for the des:late, and that was that the Prince of Wales steamer, hourly expected on Saturday ahernoou, was known to have saved many, and amongst the number coming might he their own relatives and friends. The hope was sonic alleviation, and the pierhead was thronged ; many were there from curiosity, and ROM were present with weeping and anxious eyes. The survivors, wherever they appeared, were aurroundi d with groups of listening and interested sympathisers, and it was sad to hear the additional particu len of personal peril and individual loss which each in the general calamity bad sustained. One had lost a son, another a sister or child, whilst a third bewailed with agony the loss of a parent. We spoke, amongst others, to Samuel Moody, one of the crew. Ile states that in 15 minutes after the fire WITS reported i• was burning right through the deck and ca bins, and the Hoene' so rapidly spread that Wm. Walker, the in .n at the wheel, was compelled precisitately to abandon his post. The contusion and noise were terrific, and Moody himself, in toe general terror. leaped overboard, and swam to the boat which the yacht had just put out. lie at t er wards returned on board el the ill-tated vi 'eel, sled assisted till he was of no further use. He adds his belief that if the passengers had complied with the captain's wise, and remained calm and quiet, scarcely a single life would have been sacrificed. Several with whom wo cmversed have had miraculous escapes. One poor fellow stated that he fell overboard in the general confusion, and could not swim. He was lucky enough, however, to seize • rope in his descent. He sunk a gee at depth, but still retained his grasp of the rope ; he palled it, and, as it kept uncoiling, he considered himsell lost. It tightened at last, however, and pulling himself to the surface, lie contrived to hold on till the arrival of a boat. Many of the poor passengers, shel tered in all positions beneath the vessel, were seriously in jured by the falling of the burniag pitch, v hich oozed out of the vessel's planks. The Prince of Wales, steamer, arrived at Liverp iol shortly after five o'clockon Saturday atternoon. on the vessel's ap proach there was a rush mad- by the crowd to learn what passengers had been saved. The gallant captain, who stood on the paddle-box, was hailed with is round of hearty and s t ri e n: . a , n r e t e i t o u n s . c o ls; eying, hi i i: g r atifying .hr‘. 'mil t w be: s or t i:i u n h e d tr: a u t te ti t i o . great majority whom the vessel had been the means of saving had bet n handed on board the Brazilian frigate. The ,umber on booed the Prince of Wales was 19, namely, J. Radcliff, front Sleafotd; E. Slimmer', of Glossop; W. aLtin, Mschell's Town, county of Cork ; 11. Armand, of Liverpool (one of the Oceou Monarch's crew) • C. Dwyer, Mitchell's Town ; J. Rewen, of Manchester, M. Diemen, of Killaraey ; S. Fielder+, of Glossop ; A Donelly, county of Armagh ; J. Kellv, Killarney ; two little girls, Sarah Alin and Sophia Hill, from Rochdale ; • little girl three years old, who could only speak Irish, and gave her name as Kate ; and a girl named Roper, from Bailee, daughter of a woman in the Northern Hospital. The poor creatures were hud dl, d together for warmth in the engine•room. They spoke in high terms of the kindness with which they had been treated on board the Prince of Wales. One of the party had been picked up floating on • spar, nearly three mil u from the • i scene of the disaster. S. Fielding, of Glossop, another of her THE BURN iNG OF THE OCEAN passengers, was the very last picked (menthe burning wreck . He is g irl r cd man, and seeing no hope f safety he took MONARCH. up the Roper in his arms, and, lodged near the bow of the vessel, awaited his fate. After dreadful suspense, the FURTHER PARTICULARS. brave Jerome, whom so many tongues have blessed, came to The following was posted up in the Underwriters' !Il i a d a eli h v o irate l o o , and bile i r i e e re h d i !aim, with the child in his arms, room, Liverpool, on Saturday :—The following statements of of the hands were seriously . burnt. to A at t n e n e w ar . ly stage the number of persons on board the Ocean Monarch are from of the females took fire, and the poor creatures ran madly three different sours. s , anyon e of which would be relied on among st their unhappicomrades, huddled together near the in the absence of t-e others, but no two agreeing, we know bow. not which is authentic: CAPTAIN XTROOCII'A STATIDITNT.On Friday evening we (the Liverpool Journal) visited steersr pareengers let and 2ud cabin ......... ...... SI 1 Saved Ca' iptain arul crew . . ~.. .... 42 I Maine NUNN% asawwwn (110. CW atimeiss) susionier. mauve of human beisgs as these survivors present. Most Steerage passengers Ist and tad cabin. 52 Saved Captain a d crew 47 Minim lse and shoulders, produced by tha blazing masts and emus', sTATIOUOT um GOVIIIINITINT imasasnon omen, cceroan m and others with bl eck eyes end contused aOCIII. wounds upon various parts of their persons, caused by fre- Steerage pusenatell Cabin ditto. Captain and crew 3O Miming unmarried woman, from the county Leitrim, who souls fly Alfonso steamer, 156; Queen of the Ocean yacht, 22 ; ) - Prince of Wales steamer. 17 ; a smack, 16; total, 221. was almost dead when brought on board the Alfonso, and certainly her account of her miraculous rescue is moat WIT- The fo lowing communication is from a g ntleman who was on board the Prince of Wales. The narrative will be Plising. She stated to us that long after the fire had broken read with interest : out somebody on deck-she thinks a female—tumbled her " We left the Mersey this morning at eleven, f. us and overboard, probably thinking that death by drowning had not proceeded far before we descried ahead of us what would be a far preferable death for her than death by burning; but more probable still, the action was we cone teed to be a steamboat from the smoke we Raw, but as we came nearer a sheet of red fire way clearly perceived, prompted by those maddening, and almost inexplicable, and the Brazilian steam frigate Alfonso, lying at anchor not feelings by whch persons in sight of dr , &dna and im far from hers by-and-bye corpses were seen floatirg past us pending ruin are agitated, The young woman, hew in considerable numbers. The boats were then inimediately ever, alter plueging into the water, was borne upon the tops of the wares . She seems to have floated. Sometimes she lowered awl manned. As soon as the men were in the first boat a poor fellow, quite naked, was seen floating, supported was weeding, and at others descending. At length she by • life .buoy. T hey made for him sad got him on board ; caught hold of a hand. It was the hand of a dying woman. as they were coming alongside the vessel, a child, two or They seized each other with a sort of death-grasp, and for a kind of struggle with them as to who arsine bins it was I three yens old , was also p icked up, but life was . meanly extinct, and it expired a few minutes after should be the conqueror or last survivor of the two. The ,it was taken on Dowd. We were, 1 dare say, dying woman, however, who had been shattered about the about one hundred yenta from her how, where head, from having been no doubt frequently driven against ell the posit unfortunate creatures w ir e, some holdin g the hull .4 the burning 'cut, breathed her last. Her head by ropes, others stoned away beneath the bowsprit ,• many sank, but her body floated on the water. Our female in were young children, fourteen of whom were saved--and, torment held en by that dead body, and ores absolutely saved in fact, they were the whole that were on the wreck—by aby it. It bore her up for a coasiderable length of timeNntil noble and brave fellow named Frederick Jemmesso English- at length she wax taken on hoard the Alfoneo, where she was man, of the New World, who fearlessly ventured his life by put into a warm bed, and had brandy and other restoratives plunging himself into the sea with a rope made fast round administered to her. the upper part of bir body, and • ‘entually succee d. din res- The survivors of the wreck baring lost everything but ening the poor creatures, who had not the power or resolu- their lives, humanity is already active in providing the lion to throw then selves off ? so that they might be picked means of alleviating their distress. A subscription list was up by the boats. He calmly slung one after another safely opened on Saturday in the Exchange-rooms, and it will In se n down—a perilous task indeed, and by different modes they that a meeting will be held this day in the Town - hall C r the were rescued from their awful situation. Words are Made- outvote of giving a proper direction to public benevolence. (plate to convey . to you the thrilling sensation the vessel's The committee consists r 4 the Mayor, Admiral Grenfell, B. appearance occazinned in all of UR, cute one anxious to do Rushton, Esq., J. Price, Eiq ,T. Littledale,E-q., J. Aspin something, if he could, to render assistance ; but nall Tobin, Esq., It. W. Oseood, Esq., J. Myers, Big., Lieut. alas, the pitching of one vessel in a fierce and Hodder, and C. Cotesworth, Esq. ; D. Neilson, Egg. tree heavy sea, with part of her bowsprit sails hang surer. The following is a copy of the list, with a suiescrip ing v'r te bow, cused sch imminent danger to lion., at the Exchange News-room : " For the relief of the those o in e the h boats, that, instead u of using the lives of those unfort un ate sufferers of calamities on board the Ocean on hoard the burning vessel, they ran a very great risk of Monarch. Donations are 'wicked for the purchase of pro toiling their own. Much had been done, thank God i hot visions, clothing, and for travelling exnenses, the survivors more, I think, could hire been if that noble spirit and judg- having escaped only with their lines . The agents of the ship meet had been sooner exerted which generally actuate a will provide a free passage for those steerage passengers who Britieh lumen tor a•lopting a mode wtich was at 1-at iv. 11PRif•To proceol to America. end returnthe B aring ,, sue money to sort. 1 to, and which prove AO 1.11CC , 11(11 1 tnat not one lite those Who wish to return to tO, ir frit nom " Baring, Brothers, we. lost.Lvia.,whati hove but faintly described an the conduct and Co , 501. ; Hunden and C e.. 50 1 ; Brown, Shipley, and of the Nieman Jerome. isinterested human kindness was Co., 201.; Fielden C o 201.; James Brown and Co.. shown by an old man from (Stamp, about 60 years of age. 101.; Maclean. Ward, and Co , 101. 10s.; J. H. Rayner and lie sat on the edge of one of the sides of the head beneath Co., 51. ; B. Derbyshire and Co., 22. 25.; S. Dutton and the bowsprit, holding in his arms a beautiful child, from two Nephew, 21. 2s. to three years old. The old man says it clung to him after Much indignation was excite e n d er a report that the captain its mother had sunk, end he took it in his arms till he of the Cambria declined to assistance within his and it were saved. One young female from Rochdale is power. The captain, ignorant of the extent of the disaster, , saved who had five friends on board. Each of her five eels- did not think it necessary to do more than to draw attention tions took hold of a rope to slide down, to be within reach, to the signal of distrese He was on his way fron Bangor to as they thought, of the boats around, but they all, one after Liverpool, and first saw the Ocean Monarch when three NEW FOREST TIMBER FOR THE NAVY. another, were drowned before her eyes. Though seeing miles distant. He passed her, and when two miles on this what happened to her friends, she nevertheless was in the side of her had his attention called to her signals of distress. , The evidence of Sir William Symonds, when ex amined by the committee on woods and forests, shows how act of following their example, when a female s natched the There was then nearer to her the yacht, the New orld, effectually the mismanagement of the New Forest has pre rope from her, and met the same fate as those who had use d anot h er ship, sal going . awar d s her the Alfonso a the vented it from becoming an available source for the supply it before. She in consequence was deprived, as she thought , Prince of Wales. Having pamengers on board . Wring f timber d k cards . 0 to our oc !Il • of baring a chimes of saving her life, and remained, she short duals and deeming abundant assistance available, he You were formerly surveyor for the navy ? I was.—Did page. The cap said, perfectly resigned to her fate ; but Providence had in• continued hi:To tai• of the Orion steamer, it ferreted. and given her a way to escape that she did not ex- t would appear, came to the same conclusion, for he too pro- you visit the New Forest for the pv rpose of surveyins it for naval purposes in 1842 ? I visited it as an amateur. pact.Bold hen the Price of Wales came up wit h . the seeded on to this port. Ocean Monarch, she had both anchors down, with a sa g the soultion of surveyor of the navy, I thought it was The following is • list of pamengers saved and mac - very extraordins.ri tkat from such a vast tract of land as the strong wind and a heavy sea ninning, which accounts for so coun t e d s ot : crown land, the King's forests or Queen's forests, we should many being on the fore part ; indeed, it was the only part HAIM OT PATITZPORNA Saran.have got a chip, I may say, of timber out of them. In they could retain, for when we first saw her a j no other part Hugh mamma limas Basauter ; etizebeth and William Bell ; not . _ _ Breeikass ; Jane and 1832, at the time I became surveyor of the navy, we were very was tenable: , A female, in the early part of the diuster,b _ limy, am Edwin Booker • Hugh short of a particular kind of timber, which the New Forest produces in great abandasoe • 1 mean small timber • this let herself drewn with a reps, and had got, I believe, on or P .A. : 16 _,.... lawhilltall_:,—andßTl4°Wri„,deect; Mr4;7 8..... dri ; t Dmis ton ; Jereadab and inus Ernma s. ; ; very near a tine of wreck alongsid, but no sooner had she r.".: 120 . ill'it:t‘by Wuhan ; Dennis ises/Sag; Johanna and Mar- mill timber, I fancy, it pu rchased by merchants, end is to descended than the heaving of the troubled sea and pieces of rmosoluey; wry CA ik . ; 0,.. .; ~... 03 . ; her twofold as t were ; wreck that were around her twisted , I ceasteastaa; 'a w ard ~,i g gu e n 0..6,y; J e wry name .• be seen in merchants' yards. I have seen a great quantisw ropes that MEMO Corns ; Jama.Darwen and child; Mary Denny; Edward at • place called Redbridge, and collected round the forest I Arthiv, Patric k. Betsy, _and Catherine have seen large hauls, as they are called, of timber, whisk her w arps lawfuelepessdts:lny wan last and a ti t z e st ry to soma rigging rise and Widths billows PhiltS9,_Mlgi__ ; would have answered our pas exceedingly well if it lull could ri not risk our own lives to flandne r:at i a r r W, get and Ca oe Flood ; John there was this woful spectacle presented to our eyes. The Wo g: new ; cethed.gize Donovan ; tia,,Lotta,r.._singdilseardwyDoran._..r....." ; living we had to secure, and .th jog:7mbeen brought to the dockyar& ; but there is some want of ' • syetem which prevents the timber going from one depart- , save her r emains. We also observed a female wi a pumuum; Bridget Gaffney ;Juliet Galvin . ; Mtn Gibney • wheels*, c hild cla,ped firmly in her arms flatting away, but life per- or Dsid ua t IlltnAhlinitakrim. Jokui R. 1..; C r imson. William OreembMie; Patrick meat of governmer.t to another.—When were you surveyor Edward Bentley; James of the navy ? From 1832, till I reaiped.—For what period fectly extinct." Ganrok; Thomas Menlo; Sephiaand Sarah AnnE1111; James, HafT t were you surveyor of the navy ? For a period of 15 or THE enhollo7ll'll STATEIRENT. AT sod Menu Booker; Some& Howard; sgonsli Eliaj o L au 16 years.—Are you aware of the correspondence which We have been favoured with a further . narrative by n un end a esnanue joh h i Beethes g, ; ; Edward Jor ly ; ;Mierrth.mosmro • e and took place between Sir James Graham and the office of Woods and Forests, in 1842 ? remember asrdtoththe s Oce mi s a n d M uc ona t ol te This cap ge taiso ntlem H r mud; rusaieS — Admarfin,-;- Cat h e rine and Loge ; Thomas, Ellis, su harti rgeol hr on l bos y l that Sir i a cquits altogether '-- ' him of the culpability which has been fasum, and Mary Ann Inner ; William and Margaret Lloyd ; it ; gat .. met Graham thought that owing children. AUTOGRAPR MSS. Or LORD BYRON. —A few in teresting autographs of Lord Byron occurred in a sale which took place on saturday at the rooms of Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, the auctioneers, of Piccadilly. We extract from the catalogue the following lots i-893, s' The Curse of nerve," 13 13 pages 4t0., entirely autograph, sold fur 101. 864. The w,ll-kno en " Maid of Athens," the original MS., two pages 4t0., entirely autograph, sold for 41. 4s . 86.5, The poem " Waterloo , front the French, 4 pages 4t0., entirely autograph, sold for 41. 15s. 866, Lines written on a cup formed of a skull, 2 pages 4t0., sold for 71. 867, Lines on the Elgin marbles, 2 pages folio, sold for 31. 809. Three leaves, being the opening lines of " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," sold for 51. Amongst the other MSS. in the sale were some illuminated missals. Of these the most worthy of notice were : 85.5, An illuminated missal exhibiting a combination of French and Flemish art, which sold for 80 guineas ; and 851. A small book of llours, illu minated by a Flemish artist, sold or 251. There were some other illuminated books of lower pretension, which sold equally well. COLLECTING THE SEWER WATER.—On Saturday a barge of peculiar construction, fitted with enormous tanki and a powerful steam e n g ine pumping apparatas, was moored by the London Sewage Manure Company, on the north bank of the Thames near the foot of Huogerfordo bridge, and immed.ately contiguous to the great Fewer that here discharges it. into the river. At low water the peo ple on board commenced pumping the sewer water into the tanks, capable of holding about fifty tons, which was filled with this hitherto considered refuse before the tide flowed. Thislwatar:po!sesses greater irrigating power than more solid manure, and is said to be worth to the agriculturist from 81. t t 121. the ton. SUICIDE IS A CAIL—On Saturday, at an early hour, suicide was committed by a gentleman in a h'u - knay cab. It appears that the driver of N.'. 2,397, Henry Tethers, was hired near Westminster -bridge, by the deceased, who told hint to drive to Gower-street, and then pulled up the win dows. On reaching Store-street, Pethers fancied he heard • sound as of glass breaking, but on stopping, glancing round, seeing that his vehicle was not damaged, he proceeded on. On an icing at the end of Gower-street he alighted from his box and opened the door for deceased to , when he beheld him reclining in one corner of the seat, his head. from which blood was flowing, frightfully shattered, and a pistol grasped in his right hand, The cabman directly raised an alarm, and dcc , wed wan forth with conveyed to Unleash' , College Hospital where, on examination, life was found to be quite extinct, a bullet having entered the roof of the mouth, and lodged in the brain. The deceas d appeared to be between twenty five and thirty years of age, of dark complexion, dark brown hair, and grey eyes; dressed in a brown shootii.g j.icket, a blue strined shirt, marked F. R. 1., 1845, low shoes, grey stock inge, and black silk hat. No money was found on his person, bat what was found consisted of a small bag of bullets, a quantity of percussion cape, a snuff-box, comb, seal, two watch-keys, whistle, box of lueifer matches, four old copper coins, several latch-keys, and a card, on which was written "Thomas Debenham, 1, Queen's-row, Pimlico." The body lies at the hospital to be owned, and awaits a —.sees inquest passenger. Captain Hunter, of the Welsh. steamer Cambria. has forwarded us the following letter, in justification of his conduct in 'his affair : sir,—Many rumours having been circulated tom; prejudice in con. sequence of my not baring returned to the mai.t. Li veroce of thel have '44 OM= Monarch, on my passer from Beaamaris to pool, to request your Lindnee• in inserting the following facts hearing on the cave :—Befre leaving the Menai Bridge 1 had given all my dia. posable male to the steamer Medina, reserving only sufficient to take the Cambria to Liverpool, as can he proved by the engineers of the two vessels. On Thursday morning I left Beaumare about half-past 9 o'clock.. At hall-past 11 we paned the Ocean 'Monarch, then stand ing in shore. Soon after this she tacked and stood to the northward. At half.past 12 my attention was called to smoke arising from the ship, as If she wa s on fire, when I instantly appliol to the engineer to know if be bad coals to take no to the ship and bath ; when he replied that he had not. At this time we were at leant 10 or 12 notes front the ship. We saw the Alfonso much nearer to her. awl proceedidg towards her, as wan also the Prince of Wales, and to these Tenon I hoisted a signal that the ship was in distress. There was also a ship and a yacht within a short detain* of the ship, making towards her, and the 01 hat was abreast of on at the time. Not knowing that she won an emigrant ship. I was led to conclude that there was sufficient eminence at hand. Besides, it is right I , shou'd elate that I had 200 passenger. os toard, arid my decks com pletely crowded with live Moth, which would hare rendered it diffi cult at any time to render efscient Resistance, but on thin occasion much more so, nom the sea that wee on. Had I proceeded to the • verse!, I must necessarily have remained at anchor until a supply of cads could have been procured to enable me to return ; and doubt ein this , position, shd it have come on to blow, l there can be that the Caiit would have been placed in great danger. AU these circumstances considered, I still feel that I should not have been poti , ffed in running the rib of wanking Motives of those pansengers who had entrusted themeelves to my care. It *auk' be tram no disinclin ation on my part to render assistance when pracsicable. In support ea which, I may mention that when the engine of a rival steamer on the line broke down off Ora ahead, in bud weather, 1 returned to her announce, and eared her passengers and crew ; and 1 should truly rejoice could I have given assistance in this meet melancholy use. beg m subecribe mental', sir, your moat otffilient servant, Jona Ilutersit—Liverpool, August 26. The United States' consul at Liverpool has addr , get d the following letter of thanks to the undermentioned parties : TO TNT PbaNCT DT JOINVILLZ, MITT D'ATNALT, NAIIQII , I DE 1-1850 A, ADMIRAL OTINFTLL, AND NA. THONAA uffitheat.s. Gentlemen,—On behalf of Captain Murdoch, the officers, and crew of the late ship Oman Monarch, I take the earliest opportunity of re cording my sense of your noble and humane conduct on th Th e late i lamennble megaton of On burning of the Ocean Momuch. e eternal gratitude of the fellow beings saved from impending death try your brave and united exertions, is the greatest encomium that can be posed upon your conduct, but I cannot allow the occasion to past without !, ddr:, officially on behalf of my couatry, my meet' of DrAiST.—I A gentlemen, Toni' obedient servant, ROOTTT —Liverpool, August 26. Several bodies have been picked up at Uoyl.ke. The following letter has been received from that place Str,—We have had brought hi here, from the unfortunate ship the Ocean Monarch, thirteen bodies, Picked up in the Welsh Deep by our fishing-boats, viz., there are two cbs.dren from one to two years old; a man about 60; a lad, IS, lame in the left ankle; a girl about six or seven, had on a black select frock and trousers, the lower part Uuffitu plaid ; and eight grown up women, say from 20 to 60 years; two of the last mentioned were named Julia Dooming and blare Jones. I have placed the bodies at the Punch. bowl, thaw's old 11;ffise; they have been washed, and I have laid slits to put them on, and covered them over with my old the circu coloura. I mst shce,all thank you to inform Mesars. lia raden, agents, of an in order that the Imfortanate sufferers may he owned. I further beg to say the coroner will alt over the bodies on Monday. I am, dear air, yours respectfully, B. Stikawools—N.B. We have • gig-boat and three pieces of spars brought in here under my charge from th th e a bo ve ; have the goodnese witwit Masee.Chapman and Bowman know e rti culars. should anything else turn up, I will let you know. I have 6, belonging to one of the women, found on her body while we were stripping the outside apparel °ff.—Evening, three o'cloca. INQUEST ON ONE OF THE SUFFERERS. An inquest on the body of the female child, name un known, landed from the Prince of Wales steamer, was held oa Friday morning, at the Pa:ket house, Mensi-bridge, be• fore th. , Coroner for Anglfaey, who v the .lepttti , intmt 0 1 four or five of the pas.ergers rescued from the iii late.: vessel, the Gomm Monarch. All spoke to the breaking out of the fire, its rapid prier , ra, and derructive .ffects, but none could speak so to how it orieinated. The deceased child was picked up alive by Batty, chief mate of the Prince of Wales, who exerted himself greatly in one of the boats. It died, however, on board the steamer. Who its parents are, or whether they were saved or not, could not be elicited.—Ver dict—" Accidentally drowned." to the utters of the timber being handed over from one de partment to the other, it was net expedient to go on parches mg timber from the torten, because we paid a much higher price for it than for timber we bought from con-- tractors. The timber that comes from the Apennines, from Tuscany and from the Roman states, we got so much cheaper, that it appeared to be inexpedient to buy timber from the formic —The cost of the umber sup plied to you by the Board of Woods appears from the corre spondence to be 81.1 ls.7d. a ton,wh fie the cost of that supplied by contract to the Admiralty was 61. 61., leaving a difference of 21. 6s. 7d. as against the crown timber ? I recollect per fectly that It was so.—Wu the quality of the timber inferior? There is; some of the New Forest timber exceedingly good, and there is some indifferent —Did you visit the plantations in the New Ferret? I went through them; I had a pony for two days, and went through every one of the inclosurew with a guide, Mr. Reed, who showed me everything. and made hie remarks upon what we saw.—What was the average price which you gave for timber for the purposes of the dockyturds daring the time you were surveyor of the navy? I could not state offhand what the pries was exactly.—You are not able to say even roughly how much per foot it was ? I am not; it de pends partly upon whether the timber is received In its rough state or whether it is sided ; sided limo.: costs a good deal more than that in a rough conditien.—Are you enabled to account for the anomaly of the crown selling this timber to the merchants at a higher price than those merchants were enabled to sell it at to the naval dockyards? I cannot understand how a merchant could be so blind as to give more money for the forest timber than for any other: there is • prejudice against the forest timber in the dock yards, which arises from the timber hitherto in the forest being kept tno long in the forest, till it was stag-headed, and then it is considered timber fit for navy purposes,hut instead of that it is by no melee calculated for any use, for it is worn out. —Though you are not able to account for it, you are aware that the Commissioner. of Woods and Forests have, in an aversee of yearn, sold the timber from the forest at a higher price than the navy has purchased it at from those individual merchants? I can only speak from hearsay with regard to what had been done before I become surveyor of the navy, for none was purchased during the time I was surveyor of the navy.—Was not that the principal reason why none was purchased while you were surveyor of the navy ? That was the reason why Sir James Graham prevented any more being purchased, because the price paid lay the dockyards far toren timber was so much higher than the price paid to pri vate parties, contractors. Is it within your cognisance that about four years IRO the Board of Admiralty again made app'ication to the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests as to the price at which they were in the habit of selling their timber in the New Forest and Dean Forest, and that the Admiralty, after having taken it into consideration, found the price at which the timber was sold in those forests was too dear for their purchases ? I remember it, and I remember that at the time when Sir James Graeam made the inquiry the great difference *row from what wee called hauling and equating the timber costing so very much ; that is, hauling the timber out of the forest end eiaing it —lt was the cost of tbe carriage whichmatle the great difference ? Yes, and the payingthe purveyors ; there were I three purveyors, if I recollect rightly, which was quite un necessary ; I look upon it that one purveyor might superin tend all the foresta—Were there • number of expense s which, in your opinion, were unnecessary, a onneeted with briogine the timber to the naval dockyards? Y s, there were unnecessary expenses which appeared to arise from a want of system.-0a referring to the correspondence whit h Lord Lincoln mentioned just now, I see that an offer was made to supply the dockyards with timber at 51. a load, and Mr. Barrow, in mime', wrote the following letter : Admiralty, March 30, 1843.—Gentlemen, Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the 25th instant, stating 51. pet load as the price at which the naval department can he supplied with oak from the Forest of Dean, I am warranted by their lordships to ie cline your offer, as that sum, with the additional cost of transport, dec., would make the average price or the ti - oer to this department amount to 81.5 a per load, while English oak timber is delivered this year by the contractor at 61. 10s. per load. I remember hearing that that was the case.— That being the fact as regards the price paid by the navy, do you imagine it probable that the prices paid I by the timber-merchants to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests could be remunerative to them? It depends upon the difficulties that might exist of getting possession of the timber, and getting it removed to their yards.—ls not the transport of the timber one of the prin cipal items of expense connect.d with the timber. Yee, at present there is no establishment for the purpose of remov ing it —Why sh:euld it not be as great an txpense to the private merchant as to the Admiralty ? Mr. Morrice, living at Redbridge, or any merchant having an es tablishment in the vicinity of the forest, would have facilities for getting hold of the timber and bringing it to market, whereas the dockyards are distant, and they have no means of removing it.—Would you still assign that as the reaecn, it you were informed that whereas the New Forest is within a very few miles of the dockyard at Portsmouth the timber which was purchased in the New Forest by private timher-merchants, was sent to private yards in Sunderland and in Scotland ? The dockyards have no means of moving the timber out of the forest, or of shipping it from any of the ports that there are upon the hanks of the Southampton', Water or the Solent ; they have no establishment, and it must Le done by oontract ; and contracting for the removal of a small quantity of timber would cost a good deed more in proportion than if it were a great quantity that had to be re moved.—You do not think it is likely thaton the spot where the timber was cutprivate timber merchants would pay more than • fair price for the timber ? I should think not ; I should think the price would depend upon circumstances. Did you visit the plantations in the N. w Forest in 1842 ? I visited all the plantations; I was told that I law the whole of them.—Did you find that the plantations were scattered over various parts of the forest? Yes; 1 was told that there were fifteen walks or inclosures which were planted.—ls it the case that small timber has been much wanted of late years fin the frames of steam-vessels, and of all descriptions of small Teasels ? Yes, • good deal of that timber which goes to the merchants from the forests, I am convinced, would be particularly good for the dockyards, if it could be removed ; the only difficulty is the expense of remer'ng it —ls arra great prejudice in the dockyards against the crown timber ? There is a great prejudice against the crown timber, sad I attribute it entirely to the timber having been kept too long in the forest before delivered to the yards ; it is may of late years that we have contracted for small timber, and a great quantity of timber has been cut to waste in the dock yards in order to be used for purposes for which smaller timber would be applicable.—Were you informed when you were in the forest that the average price paid for timber was Is. 10d, per foot ? Yes, I was so in formed by the person who guided me; I saw a good many trees lying about in different direction., and I alert him why they remained there; be said it was from the difficulty of getting them out —Can you say whether Is. 10d. a foot was a high or a low Deice for the timber that you saw ? It is • very low price, but he said that he could not get mere for it ; that was merely in conversation ; I have no evidence of that beyond the information of the galtle who was with me, and he might not have been fully acquainted with the subject.—Would you consider that • price at white it would have answered he dockyards to purchase it? Certainly not; the dockyards cannot buy timber upon the spot in that kind of way, not having facilities for removing it afterwards.—The expenses of removing the timber are far greater to the dockyard than they are to pri vate timber merchants? Trey . would be greater. There appeared to be no way of removing it from the forest —The badness of the roads, in fact, prevented the removal of the timber ? Yea ; i rodent and so. Did you hear anything of the contending interests in the forest possessed by the crown, the warden . ' department sal the freeholders' department, which confined the en. tension of the plaetstions beyond a cer.ain limit I understood thatprivata individuals were so Tuch interested in the turning of cattle out, that there was • jealousy of all isclnsures; and I was told that that, and the circumstance of something like 5,000 deer being in the forest, were the two reasons which prevented the eaten -11012 of those inclosurea.--Did you see many deer in the forest ? Yes, I saw quantities of deer.—Should you think ft desirable to km p up so many deer in the neighbourhood of the plantations? I should say that no deer ought to be kept in the forest, if it to the intention of government to rear timber there. Yon mean, with a view to the preservation of the timber? Exactly; I think, that if the deer were removed, the immense quan tity of timber which there is in the royal forest: might be turned to a very beneficial sccount ; it would take a good many years before it produced anything considerable, but of course the wooer a remedy at that sort la applied the Conner it wilt become productive—Was the cost et the terming wry much increased by its having to be made strong enough to keep out the deer ? I understood it was very difficult to keep out the deer; and the deer, when they are hungry, will very soon break through any fenci • there are fur too many deer there.—Did you see I uch 'beech in tne forest ? The heeds-wood verm.nates itl may say so, the oak. The beech grow:: everywhere ; it is the weed of the forest ; it grows among the r ots of the oak. Wherever you see • large oak you see two or three beeches round it, so contiguous that they prevent the air coming to the at, and of course they take away the suste nonce which ought to go to the oak.—ou are alluding to the old uninclosed part of the forest I Yes ; there were some fine trees, of very straight growth ; those tress are more fit for converting into plank than for the frames of ships; they have no curvature; they are all drawn up lose straight, and are so together that, in my opinion, they require thinning very much . I so remarked to the per son who was wlth me, and he said that he thought so too, but that the expense of thinning them was very great, and the allowances were not equal to it —Were many of the old trees that you saw stag-headed, and had their branches been cut off? A good many of the trees were trees that had pissed away completely from age. Do you know why the brane,hethadbhen cut off ? I was told that in some cases they had been sold to individuals to pay for their forest rights, but that was merely in conversation. What did you think Of the system generally adopted in the forest wit W h regard to the young plantations ?-1 thought the young plantation , M smothered by those trees that were placed to shelter or nurse them; I mean the fir tees; there were inter mediate rows of oaks and firs. Row long is it since you visited this forest I—ln 1842 I was them. well-judging friends of progress hope much from the visit. It is said his intention is to see with hie own eyes, to hear with his own ears. If he makes bat a few days' sojourn in the precincts of Cork-hill, why then he night as well remain is Downing-street. But if he sees the country and becomes acquainted with its condition by mixing in society or listening to the representations of those whose opinions do not shape themselves accord ing to official moulds, great hopes are felt that his strong sense, aided by the knowledge and experience of Lord Clarendon, will shape measures for the rectifi cation of the condition of Ireland which it is hoped he I will have the firmness to carry into effect. If he pur sues such a course he will become a great benefactor to Ireland and win for hilustif a good name as a statesman. It is confidently stated to-day that Mr. T. F. Meagher is ill of fever. There is no doubt, though the fact has been denied, that Mr. Duffy sutlers from depression and ill health. Col. Conolly, M.l'., is about retiring from the re presentation of Donegal. His sou will offer and be els cted in his room. It is stated in well-informed quarters that the trials for treason will take place about the lith September. The government, I believe, do not feel it necessary to await the capture of any of those parties yet at large. Mr. Dillon they are now persuaded is in France, a tnough at first the announcement was supposed to be a ruse. Mr. O'Gorman and Mr. Iloheny are also supposed to have escaped. Mr. Magee is said to have passed to the continent through Scotland, and Mr. Levin Reilly to have got assay from Balbriggan, a little town on the coast, 16 miles north of Dublin, in a fishing-boat, whence he got on board the steamer from Drogheda to Liverpool. Another account states that he embatked openly from Dublin fur Liverpool, dressed as a groom, and having a led horse with him. The price of whisky has risen fully sixpence per gallon this week, and much specula ion has taken place in the trade owing to the prospects of the harvest. Whisky of 'last year's make, in bond, has sold for 3s. 6d. Pe r gallon. The magistrates of Tipperary assembled to-day in Thurles to protest against the accusation of inefficiency the Times has made against them. Meantime, Mr. Carden, of Ilarnane, has launched another letter at that journal for recently classing the magistracy of Tipperary in the same category as Mr. N. V. Maher, M.P. The permanent garrison of Cork is about to be strengthened by the addition of a regiment of infantry and some troops of cavalry. PROF INCI AL. LEICESTERSHIRE. LEICESTER ELECTION.-0a the arrival, on Satur day, of the intelligence of the ism, of the writ fur the election of two members for this bor circulars were issued calling a meeting of th infttivntial liberal electors, and about 100 of than assenitil d in t:.e evening at the New-hall. It was agreed to all a public meeting of the electors at mid-day on Monday, a deputatim was appointed to invite as ea- ditistes Richard Barrio, E-q., a manufacturer of the town ; and John Ellis, Esq , of Beaumont Leys, near Leicester, deputy-chair man of the Midland Railway. These gentlem n were named in this paper of the 15th lust. as lik,ly to offer them selves. As to the movements of the conservative party, there are various rumours afloat, but nothie g definite has been made public. Lord J. Manners Viscoun t Curzon, and Mr. Parker, the latter of whom st ood the contest at the general election, have each been united as probable candi dates. Some express an opinion that the decision f the Cheltenham election commirte , last week, will prevent Mr. Parker from h:n offering binr,(lt, declara that notg to his prejudice could lk proved against him. The day of election has not been fixed. rruc ALLEGED POISONING TO OBTAIN BURIAL FEES. — On Tuesday last the investigation into the cause of the death of Henry Lightfoot, who died on Saturday, the 15th July was resumed before the coroner. Our readers may re collect that the evidence already published showed the de ceased's defeat to have beet occasioned by poison, Mr. Pal mer, chemist, of Birmingham, having discovered six grains of white arsenic in the stomach, n quertity more than sufficient to produce death. The first wi'ness examined was--Thomas Hughes, labourer, brother of the thceastd's wife, who livid in the house with th e m. He sated that the deceased enjoeed good health, and migle. have gone to work on the Wednesday previous to his death ; he saw him at his house about nine o'clock that right. Decersed did n 4 complain to witness about being ill until about etas o'clock on Thursday night, when he saw him in bed, apparently in great pain, and he exclaimed, " Tem, 1 ah.ll die !" Witness had some tea out of a brown Unpo , , and the deceased had some taken to him by his wife out of the same teapot De ceased's wife prepared all the meals, and witness never knew of any poison being in the house. The deceased was ill about a fortnight before his death. On Wednesday the 12th of July, the deceased, who was in the habit of taking eslue which he always kept locked up in the sitting room, took what witness believed to be salts from a drawer in the sitting room, which he unlocked. It was about half-past eight o'c'.ock at night, and his wife, at the deceased's request, brought a saucepan and poured s me water into it from a teakettle. The deceased mixed the salts up, and drank them. There seemed to be from half an ounce to an ounce of salts. On the Bth of hlay last, Dudley fair, the deceased and his wife tell out shoot David A hton putting him into the court. Never knew them quarrel except then. —Henry Giles, recalled, stated that on the 22nd July Maria Lightfoot told him the deceased was not satisfied with Mr. Hudsen's medicine, and had on the Wedn , wlay previous brought from Dudley some salts in a blue paper, and a bottle with some red stuff in it. She also told • im that the deceased took a dose of salts on the Wednedav before his death. On the 19th ofJuly Merits Lightfoot said it was medicine from Mr. Hudson that Cal poisoned the deceased, if he had been ooi eoned.—Ann Beech said that on Friday before Lightfoot died she met his wife, who to'd her she had had Mr. Cartwright, of Dudley, to her husband, and that he had charged her two gnineas.—Caroline Newton stated that on the morning after the Bth of May Maria Lightfoot told her the deceased had abused and kicked her, and she showed witness the bruises. She slept at witness's house that night, and told her that they had quarrelled about Ashton putting her husband into the county court, and that he was jealous of a nom named Solo mon Davis.—ltichard Buses said that on the Monday after the deceased's death he went to whitewash the house. Mrs. Lightfoot asked him to look at deceased, ant whilst he was standing by the bedside asked if he looked like a poisoned man. Witness had not then heard that he had been poisoned. —Joseph Wilcox, Elijah Webb, and Ann Stevens, proved the apparently go od health of the demos don Wednesday, the 12th of July, and the morning of Thursday.—Thomas Jones, labourer, stated that on Weduesday night, the 12th of July, between eleven and halepeet eleven o'clock, he met MariajLightfoot on the road from Bricrley-hill. She was walking &lobe. and overtook witness and his wife. She said she had be n to the doctor's to fetch so lie stuff for Henry for the gravel. She hut a bottle in t r hand . and said she had some powders. Sae did not name the doctor.— William .Mellor, chemist, of Brierley• nip , stied that on the day of Lightfoot's death, his wife repaid him a soveroign which she had borrowed. She called with her brother, and said her husband had died of the gray, 1. Witness was treasurer to a fu .eral club, of which ,I.,cesxed was a member, and directed the payment of 41. to his widow.—Mary Ann Wilson gave evidence calculated to 1. ad to the inference that an improper intimacy existed between the decoued'e wife and one Solomon Davis.—The jury having had their atten tion drawn to the evidence by the coroner, returned a ver dict of " Wilful murder against Maria Ligettoot," and she was committed for trial at the ass s,s. ES:4I'A. THE POISONING AT WlE.—The inquiry into the crimes with which Mary May who was hanged last week, was supposed tole connected, has not '`,ll permitted to die wth her. On Wednesday the body of Thomas Ham, a na• tine of Wis, who died about sere nteen months ago under suspicious eircunastanc , a and was beried at Tendring. was exhumed by order of the coroner, sob s proceeded to hold an inquest for the purpose of ascertaining whether death wsa caused by poison. The grounds for tsis proceeding, as far as we can learn, are these. May was very intimate with the dee:seed's wife; in f.ct their maiden names h..d been the same. Mrs. Ham, it is stated, cohabited with a man named Southgate, before her husband's bath. The two women being thus intimate, a n d Ham, who was known to have money, filing suddenly, and his widow immediately marrying Soottwa , when the crime for which May was executed came to light, suspicion was awakened in the former case. This was caused from the manner of Ham's death, which exhibited symptoms of his having taken mineral poison, and from the close friendship that Wit known to exist between the woman who has suffered for her crime, and Mrs. Ham (now Mrs. Southgate). The body of Ham, se we before stated. was exhumed on Wednesday, and identified,an d the usual measures taken for testing by care ful &nitration the presence of p ison. The icquest was then opened at Tendring, when the servant-maid and other wit nesses were examined, whose evidence tended to implicate Mrs. Southgate. The inquest was adjourned for the purpose of allowing time for an analysis of the stomach. This has been made by Prof. Ta.lor, and sufficient poison has, it is said, been found to account for Hem's death. It is stated that the body of another man will be enkumed, May being in that case also intimate with the wife, and the hus band having died under Wu GLO STERSHlRE.eiesumetaaces of suspicion. UCE REPRESENTATION OF CHELTENHAM.—It ie currently reported that Mr. Grenville Berkeley, who was brought for ward by Earl Fitzhardinge for the western division of the couuty at the-laat election in opposition to the Hon, Grantley Berkeley, will offer himself for this berough. It is rumoured also that Sr Edward Belem' Lytton has been solicited by other parties to contest the representation with the house of Berkeley. lie would have the support of the moderate son. aervatfea IRELAND. DUBLIN, Ave. 26. The announcement that Lord John Russell was about to visit Ireland has been the town talk to-day, and the intelligence has not been ill received. Some months rime, and the visit would have been &dangerous one to pay; but the events which have passed so rapidly einoe then have abated or subdued the antipathy felt towards the Premier, and either prostrated his foes or modified their feelings into apathy. The sensible and Musk. CONCIERT TOR THR.BENEFIT OF THE CHORUS Op Elsa 11..userr's Taivraz.-00 Saturday this concert—the lest musical entertainment of the season—took plows in the Opera Concert Room. Mane, Lind Whom, *4 believe, She concert was Baggestet) and ail tbs principal prrtormers of bar Majesty's theatre gave their* ta4cua eliiiitaZien, simi Thalberg likvitiao yoluatterad In repz t ...0 1 . ""-. pi '• ' '".; 11 4 --- s, 0