The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

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I wiles wr— Menia l • Ear soot s Afres•••.l3 saw pass L LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 21. ARCEIBISUOP WwAraLr's letter to some of his clergy, elucidating the HAMPDEN controversy, has been made the subject of angry, but feeble, censure in the Times. No attempt is made to grapple with the prelate's facts and reasoning, but his opponent hazards some gratuitous assertions, erroneous in themselves, and, whether true or false, utterly beside the issue. lie asserts that "Dr. WHATELY labours under a posi tive incapacity for making a fair statement." Now all critics, whether hostile or favourable, who have re viewed Dr. W lIATELV'S works, have unanimously borne testimony to the perfect fairness and candour with which be sets forth a controverted question. The Times says: " secondly, he never succeeds in impressing conviction on an intelligent hearer." But as men of intelligence are not over fond of proclaiming their convictions, and conversions, the writer of this " secondly" could not possibly know whether the assertion he was making was true or false ; for we hardly suspect him of claiming a monopoly of intelligence for his own circle of acquaintance or tis own limited party. Finally, the Times adds, " Whenever it is possible he is confuted by the result." The saving clause of pos sibility may be used by a sophist to exclude any dance that could be adduced but let us take that brought forward by the Times itself. The first iueffi dent Irish poor-law, so far from having been the work of Archbishop WRATELY and Mr. SENIOR, as the Times asserts, was most vigorously opposed by both these economists ; and consequently the result, instead of being a refutation, is a perfect confirmation of Dr. WIIITELT 'B predictions. Still more remark able is his singular anticipation of ruseyism. In his " Treatise on the Errors of Romanism," published so long ago as 1828, he predicted the advent of the Tractite movement, and, with the fidelity which cha racterises anhistorian rather than:a'prophet,delineated its probable origin, course,:and tendencies. Unfortu natel he has not been contradicted by the result, though we believe that the dangers, which this move ment has brought on the established church, have given him more pain thah can be compensated by the confirmation of his accuracy as a prophet. The Times answers the fatal objection to the perse cutors of Dr. HAMPDEN—that they delayed their charge for three years after the publication of the Bampton Lectures, daring which time Dr. HAMPDEN held three university offices, each requiring . him to superintend theological instruction—by saying that, during this interval, "an able and energetic appeal" was published against Dr. HAMPDEN'S doctrines, in the shape of a pamphlet addressed to the English primate. But assuredly, this only strengthens the case as put by Archbishop WHATELY. During the three years, not only . was the university silent itself, but it virtually rejected "the able and energetic appeal" which demanded censure on Dr. HaurnEs. That those who have assailed Dr. IlsstrcEN have taken their estimate of his opinions not from his works but from garbled extracts prepared by an un scrupulous enemy, has been confessed by many of them. and notoriou-ly by the Bishop of OXFORD. The Times justifies the use of "extracts," but it con veniently knees out the material part of the charge, that thi,e extracts were "garbled;' that they con sisted of fragments of sentences so artistically dis joined from their context us totally to distort their original purport and meaning ; an that no haste to get out a pamphlet in time can by an honourable mind be received as an excuse for deliberate falsifi- of the luggage train, were in custody at the Lamosesue.--_ polies emit, and under remand. At his (the earemee'e) semsioitse the presseedings were than adisressed, be Gmbh halite sake appliestios tolitr.Elliotr a ties polies to give the saisseely seder ter the prodastima el w it parties at the insist, eigiesiderieg, es be slid. that it wee a matter of the preateet impertenes that *ow awn &odd be present. It wee a menstures thing that any jury should have the power of returning =adverse verdict against any person, when that puma was net_ palaitosil to attend to tow the evidence adduced against him, end rebut, if he could do so, or to offer such explanations ae might perhaps place a diffe rent feature on the case. With this feeling, be had made a personal application to Mr. Elliott to allow the men to attend: the reply was that be had no power to make an order for that purpose, but Mr. Elliott added that he be , Moved the governor of the gaol had the power, and would no &Slat exercise it if applied to. He (th e (the coroner) then ap plied to Mr. Beene , the governor of onesunger.lane Gaol, who stated that he had no power to order the removal of say prisoner. Yesterday he again waited on Mr. Elliott, who disclaimed an 7 desire to throw obstructions in the way, end he would consider the matter after the rising of the court, and communicate with him. He had not, however, done so, and the men, it apprized, were not present. The only course which reiimined was to make an application to the Secretary of State for au order for the accused parties to be brought down, which, if the jury wished, he would do. The Foreman considered it most unjust to the men them. selves to carry on the inquiry in their absence.—P juror in quired if the Secretary of State had the power to give an order for the attendance of the melt The Coroner: Undoubtedly he has, though I am not sure there may not be son.. difficulty in the matter. Similar applications, made be Mr. Wekley, the coroner for Middle sex, have, I. understand, been refused. I will not no w ad journ theinviairy foe the attendance of the accused parties ; but at the conclusion of the proceedings to-day, we will take the matter into consideration, and if necessary adjourn until the result of an application to the Secretary of State can be known. For myself, I have a strong opinion of the injustice which will be inflicted on those men if we carry on the in quiry without them. The poor man Fertescue, whose at tendance may also be neensary. I understand, from inqui ries I made yesterday at St. Thomases Hospital, is very seriously injured, about the head especially, and is mil: in • dangerous state. Mr. Charles Smith Ward was the first witness examined. lie deposed as follows : I am a clerk in the employ of the South Western Railway Company. Wes a passenger by the SIX p.m. train from Southampton, on Friday night last. I proceeded as fax as the Frimley or Perbright embankment before anything particular occurred, which te about six faille from the Farnborough station ' and two from that of Woking. The train then came gradually to a stand still. This was as near eight o'clock as possible. The train was due at eight o'clock at Woking. Mr. Young and Mr. Bee. ban were in the same carriage with me. Mr. young got oat of the carriage. Having gone to the engine, he stated, on Ibis return, that the detention would not be long—the eccen tric strap had broken, but would soon be put right. Here turned to his seat, but the train still continuing at a stand. still, he again got out as did witness. This was some tea or fifteen minutes after the train had stopped. Oa going to the engine, observed the deceased and the fireman engaged in repairing the engine. I walked back, and then heard the goods train approaching. Mr. Young directed me to run down the line. I era en some 200 or 300 yards in the direction of the appear:bhp train, which was then some distance off. Felt no alarm as I was told somebody had been sent back to stop the goods train. When I ran back I distinctly saw the white light of the coming train at a distance from me of, I should say, about two miles. As tke train approached, perceiving that the steam was not shut off, I took off my hat and waved it. On the engine passing me I saw two men, whom I have sines understood to be the engine-man and fireman, upon it. One of them was standing up at a greater elevation than usual on that part of the engine where the fire is. The other was standing on the usual place upon the engine. I shouted to them, and they shouted in return. I saw by the rate they were going that they must run into the passenger train, and I turned my bead the other way to avoid seeing the collision. I saw the red light then advancing at a considerable distance behind me. I could not distinguish the person of the guard who was carrying it, bin I distinctly saw the light from his lamp. I suppose that was the guard who (had been sent back to stop the advancing train. I heard the collision, and on turning round, I saw a labouring man, who bad followed me down. I then saw the ' guard of the luggage train (Budd), and asked him if he i knew what they had done, he said, " No." I told him that they had run into the passenger train, and, on going for ward, I saw the body of hlarklend lying between the rails of the up-line. When I spoke to Budd he was standing on the line. The whole of the luggage train and two or three carriages of the passenger train were behind the body of de ceased, It did not appear to me that the body had been forced onwards or moved after it had been kueeked down. There is no doubt that the man was killed by the engine of the passenger train—not by the goods train. I know that Mr. Young had sent on to Woking fur a pilot engine. I saw the guard who had been sent down with the dan g er si g nal again after the train had passed. I cannot say from what I saw whether the driver of the luggage train had reversed the power of the engine, nor do I know which way the wheels were turning. A Juror—From what yen saw did it strike you the engine driver and stoker of the luggage train were doing their duty ?—Witness: I cannot say what they were doing until they came up. They then appeared to be aware of their danger. By Mr. Dalrymple—l afterwards sew Jones about an hour after the accident, who spoke to me, and said it was a bad job. I replied it was. • By the Coroner : I asked him if he had seen the signal ; he said he had net. I then asked him if he had heard any one shout ; he replied that he hid, and admitted shouting in return. Be pointed to the passenger train, showing,me that there was only one red lamp attached to it. I thought the other two had been knocked off by the concussion, but his impression appeared to be that there was only one originally. I also saw Flemming shout an hour after I had seen Jones. Flemming expressed himself very sorry for the accident, and he feared that it would be • six months job for him. I be lieve both the men were perfectly sober. I saw them within half an hour after the accident. By Mr. Dalrymple : Mr. Young exerted himself in every way he could to avert the accident. By the Coroner : It was not a moonlight night, but a night when signal lights would have been seen better than if it bad b ee n moonlight. There was no fog. When 1 saw Brown smith with the light returning, he was beween 300 and 400 yards from me. He was certainly further from me than I was from the passenger train. Mr. C. Stevie examined by the Coroner : I am the general manager of traffic on the South Vrestern Railway. The tuba and regulations handed in are those by which the traffic is guided. Coroner : The 47th rule says, "In ease of any accident occurring so as tolimpede the progress of a train, the under guard shall be despatched to the nearest station astern of the train to give notice thereof. On his progress thereto shall fix, at a distance of 600 yards from the point of obstruction, &sig nal to stop, and fog-signals (as specified in clause 13, page 9), so as to indicate danger to a coming train. Measures should also be taken by sending the fireman or any other available person to adv.se the agent at the nearest station ahead of the occurrence." And the 13th rule says: " In the event of any . accident occurring or becoming known to any person, he is instantly to show his red light or fag, and to hasten back in the proper direction t o stop any trash which may be following on the same line, or at all events un til he has proceeded at least 600 yards from the place of acci dent, where he must remain with the danger signal shown, in order to stop the coming trains, until he knows the line to be again perfectly clear and unobstructed. Whenever it is necessary to do this he shall place on the rail of the coming train detonating fog-signals, at a distance not greater than 100 yards apart from the point specified; and an foggy weather he shall also turn on, on the approach of the train, the fog-signal." Now, as you understand thew two rules, and especially le reference to No. 13, is it considered necessary, in case of any accident, for the guard to place the detonating signals on the line, as well as to exhibit the danger-light, or hu be any discretion as to the fog-signals ? Witness: That is as I understand the rule. The Coroner : I see by . another rule that it is the duty of the station clerks to instruct the inferior officers in their duties—in that done ? Witness: It is.—The Coroner : Then I may think it necessary to call for evidence es to whether Brownsmith was instructed, and by whom, as to his duties in cases of ac cident. Wittier I think he would not have been so in structed, because that rule rather applies to the porters and inferior officer', and not to the guards, who are chosen from a grade of persons who are supposed to be capable of reading the regulations, a copy of which they are always furnished with, and of understanding . them. (The witness then exhi bited the detonating fog signal, with which the guards are supplied, and explained their character, stating that the re port made by ono of them would equal that from the dis charge of a 9-pounder gun ; he also exhibited the red signal lamp. The Coroner thought if the detonating signal was not to I be used in cases of fog only , it w o uld be well if the word ' " fog " was not, is he perceived it wan, printed upon them. ' The witness explained that the detonating signal was indented, and the labels were placed on them by the patentee. The guards were never Intrusted with the manage ment of a train until they had served an apprenticeship under proved guards on the line, and ware known to be fully capable. Mr. Dalrymple explained that this apprenticeship was the mode of instruction adopted by the company in the case of the guards.—The Coroner: Had this man Brownsmith undergone such an apprenticeship ? Mr. Stovin : Lie had. By the Coroner: The guards are so placed that they can see both forward and backward, and it is their duty to keep a good look-out l and observe signals. No plan for keep ing up a communication between the guards and the drivers has yet been devised that would work. Such a communica tion would be very desirable. There is now a bell used, which is found to be the best means of communicating with the driver. There is a 6.5) which requires the dnver to keep a sharp look out f or w ar d , and be must attend to e any signal that may be made, whether he understand it or not ; and the fireman is also bound to keep a sharp look-out both before and behind. The guards' boars in the luggage train are not so constructed as to enable them to look out without putting their heads out of the box, which they are expected to do from time to time. The boxes on the passenger train are elevated, and so made that the guards can look out in all directions. A Juror observed that this was • great defect in the ar. l rangements of the line, as was proved by this very sadism - The line was generally well conducted, and had be. we markably free from accidents. Examination resumed by the Coroner.—lt Y die Only el the superintendent of the locomotive department at mat ter minus to examine every engine before it leaves on a journey, to see that it is in proper order. It was the duty of the superintendent at Southampton to examine the engine of the peeneogra train in question. The guard would keep the de- tonating signals, not on his person, but • I hiss van, are not locked up. n By a Juryman.—l am certain the guard P rovided with these signals. By Mr. Dalrymple.—The detonating' use about twelve months. The ordinate waving of the lamps. There is another used only io fogs. By the Coroner.—The book of rules now in December last. It embodies the roles prevailed, but which used to be issued as twos. Mr. Young, eke assistant It was not memplight at the time of the such a night that lights would be tint), moonlight. There was no fog. The place happened was nearly opposite the Vith London. There is an embankment at thatr ble height, and more than three miles long • straight line. A person standing at t' accident happened, arid looking back to , could see more than three miler withou, incline there is 1 in 333. The steepest on on, lin 250. On the Guildford branch there i s lin 100. By Mr. Dalrymple There were taut the passenger train, which must have been Frimley cutting had there been any lookout. of the company bad been oliservi d by all , gone full a quarter of au hour when the f ille g h o th in a M : nh e t.f i l i n t t he time e r at: iebeente a d u h o t . hed c a r tac passed b. superintendent .e n y t,Bnd goods u w n i w e u o i t t O mi e t l i a tt about a mile in three minutes. The lugg r h re field. It would have afterwards stopped at The goods train would be the next train due e goods ' in was due at Woking at 20 minutes were some parts of the line over which the travelled at less speed than 20 miles an to (immesh,' circumstances on a clear night I ha, light at • distance of six miles. The white seen at a greater distance than the rel. - all ordinary circumstances, r. sufficient train to stop, even an express train,and on lin 333. The gradient at the Frimley e pery from a ie ßl :b y r bei pea um i r T e n g o b r u v o u tt : nt r Y d t T i h i es h e l l ehn oc eccentri c r ide n 3 3. T e cb c t ha k s wf d a t r a oq i sthplelyi-haab-ti liable weathers anem o p u tl I k;. was w b ti accident.i examined theah beenPTbonahneer Y n . the Theeß week previous enginetpl e t vi Corone r . e r y ad train had been out about twelve months. Wt them, both engines were in a perfect state rat accident was the breaking of a cotter. Both oy r ago t testimonials hber ii h : m netwghf m o u: n rsw e it irnghaeaoliiiir;°fsersowowtwnmi trains eme b trr: e e t . : t I n o Wea nt le ysh I n t te h dw . n e uo r :Ffuo c t j hla i t n a ies p s geanl in fa vour a u tm: , n. o f t. to on the line from nine to ten months. lie toes p ens employed as a fireman. William Bott, of South Lambeth: Am a fitter is le ployment of the company. My duty fie to inspect err when reported upon. I inspected the Mazeppa, tti of the passenger train, on the teem seuseting of the 'd -- • it lett London for Southampton. It wee then is order. The engine of the luggage train was is via n, r jured by the accident. The breaking of a corer rats suit in any engine, but it is by no means a commas tea, ' The cotter of the eccentric. which centimes the tow with the pump-roe, was lost. There were other lot done to the engine. Mr. Gooch, in answer to a question from the fees said the company used Bowling iron of the breve, They never worked up iron a second time. Mr. Joseph Locke; I am the chief em.ineetof the lig and South Western Railway. Am perfectly acquiitte. the rules laid down by the company, I should he impute blame to any person, not having heard ' the evidence but I have no doubt that it e to stop a train of the weight, going at the I train was stein', within the distance of 600 the Purbright embankment. It varies from height, and extending to a distance of betwen miles,:and including a email portion where II and the line is on the level; it is more than tl gradients on that part of the lice vary from 1333. That is a very good working gradient, might be easily and fairly managed. Fi have made I can any thee on such a it. train of the weight of that of brie stopped within three hundred yards, trot ordinary speed of twenty miles an hour. use of the tender brake alone. That power of reversing the engine, which like to resort to, except in a Case of ex. used to b. , considered as a space within wt be stopped, and that I believe was the dish ginally on the South Western, and also o r tion. The change to 600 yards was in t increased speed en those lines. There along the cutting in question which would being seen. There is • slight bend in t nothing to impede the view. Signal lights from fog might be seen for a mile or more. i under favourable circumstances, seen the lie, trains or signals two and three miles off. Such as has occurred could not have happened application of the rules laid down by tht guidance of their servants. I consider by it is imperative on the guards to apply the on being sent back to stop a train, but it is knowing the signal as a fog signal, that beinf which it is generally known, he might coaled only called on to use them in cases of fog, account for the neglect in this case ; but the of the rule laid down would require them cases. 1 should notmyself attribute any great using a discretion, which all men will do o on finding the nig ht was clear, and that train was at ample distance fro m: him, I am that he exercised a discretion. It might be I no discretion, but to compel strict obedience cases; but 1 am not disposed to blame men discretion when it was soundly exercised. this case might reasonably have supposed that I able to stop the train by the exhibition of th The exercise of sound discretion even against& some instances (as in the case of the - on Junction the other day, who saved a ' struction by net turning the points) b happiest results. I have myself, when committed what might be considered .. have been avoided, and I am not therefore be inclined to press heavily on the men ace- An accident might possibly happen - blame attaching to the driver ; as, for i looking backwards when he should be at that momentary absence of attention, whie. impossible by any rules to avoid, might awns ...- dent. The South Western line has been hitherto pri free from accident; and, Peeing the general attention should not propose to inflict any heavy penalties • ti for • solitary instance of neglect, the consequence:San which would in all probability make him saw eldi the future than others who had never met Metairie of the laud. The rules have been often revised, mat think, fully sufficient for the safe working of the he. ' only change I should suggest would be the guilds words " fog signal" as applied to the "d signal." It was the retention of these wort had occasioned the error in this instance. L• not induce me to withdraw my confidence from Itio who omitted to use them, provided he was a gooli other respects. Every engine is examined before 1w and such is the state of perfection to which the msda locomotive engines is now brought that I have Grand Junction of engines running 31,000 mile , any repair. Wm. it. Whiting, the guard of the p assenger m: the next witness, deposed Oa Friday last I sai it of the 6 o'clock p.m. train from South«mmoa. joined at Bishopstoke by the trains from Sanibel' , port. There was no addition to the train after thit. , an the van next the engine. Samuel Brownsuo e th under-gusrd. The train after leaving Bish ops of 7 passenger carriages and 3 vans. On ar rin q Purbright embankment, within about two miles elt Markland made the signal to put on the brake. . 1 train stopped I went to the engine, together me the fireman, and DI arkland and Calvert got under d to see what was the matter. Browasruith asked should go back to signal . the up who. yes, and if the goods train appears step rr lighted Dfarkland and Calvert while they were lepi engine. Brownamith went back directly. Be lidt in his hand at the time. That lamp contanntr lights—white, red, and green. I know Brown! detonating signals; they are kept in a basket know know that he had any of the detonating siglo; when he went back. Ihe train had been at a about four minutes when Brownimith weal:eta the white light of another train approaching; that twenty minutes after our train had sto. d d.. shortly after that told me all was right, ud w a Mit traija t h et 0 bard' coming m y h c a rriagesd pass e n gersdu;hear d a n i d bkne e zt • rheuririaeUptl,idiobijdlesouffgealiall ing aLlo; a w own train it had arrived, aid it was as mach as. to maps from it. Alter the concussion, by oho,e_ NSW trait was divided, the engine and th e Soso carriages, which were in front, being . forced rcl' yards beyond the others , t he whole tra in being tin e, ' distance, I saw Mukland , who was lying bete of the up line, the engine and the fore pa!'l01 ~! having passed ' over him, but without touchele,t' was lying at about the sane spot as I hulled r he duty to see that the signal lights are ' IP, There were three red lights attached to the tea Brownscaith the reason the goods train bad treT, He told me that he had gone three-quarters el a the line, waving his red light, but that the . h"!, atop ; and when it passed him he called out, MI driver nor stoker. I think, had I been seat* I should, in obedience to the 13th rule, hewer. laud placed the detonating signals on the lino I Mr. BtOwin remarked that hethan to could attenme• wee in the detonating aig signal call light. ains Eri a ar guuta t i.d.f io o n ur res min um u e tea d. — a n h e d n signal' PyMr. Towne. —Bad a detonating si shonkl say the goods train would ha il w was hear t from the goods train until jUSt moon, but in his van in the guard Brownie, etonating signet have h . he ordinary aignat is another signal li s t e, c of rules now in use'— „ ice the roles which be issued u Sepin te • superintendent, re. ime of the aecide at. b e old be isible m ore th . r. The place where oche the 2ith mile a u„ tkment at thetspx tree miles long. / .,tt e tending at th e ~ log back towards p ar * Ate without intermettp The steepest on the ma branch there is a e : There were four red must have be te , .„,e teen any luok o t . sent d by all pari„„ te '. flrownsmitti mug b.. ur when the collision took.' .tendent of the lament, he goods train ought to k ui ident was 20 milea tea. The luggage train -"" iy the p imager t ea k, , wards stopped at Yore he next train due at Wok,„• was due there at 8 o'clo e i: king at 20 minutes part g • ne over which the goods tan 20 miles an ho w , . a a dear night I haveseea e.. miles. The white li g h t . ban the rel. i,)O yu c k sufficient distance to es+ train, and on such a t the Frimley embeakner, That is note steep &Tith e , in foggy weather or in slight lit which occurred to then ric strap--is one thetdoeser, ich is liable to occur at ter or company's workshop s a . . bad been in nee ebout 15 mined both the engine, lent. The engine of thr io ...el,' months. When let in a perfect state of rex o gof a cotter. Both rogue, a usually employ more ?week ri for pluisenger trains. nea t rorthy pawns. Jones I hulks Fleming about twenty mc r, 1 should he ing heart the ;11.; tat it would be t the speed the ;- of Goo yards es from 20 x3O r between twos& where there i; a than three ski': ry from I in X; adient, on which . From ex ' eh a gradient a of Friday mi.- eras, travelling hour, and ths, at is indepeeden, h engine-deism • of extremity. 4 bin which a • he distance Moo also on the G ; in consequence 'hare is no • would prevent d end in the sal lights on Sr more. 1 ban en the lights of a off. Suds sei sened under the by the compel' flee by the 13e0 r ply the detonate! , but it is posy' 1, that being the n fight consider Out es of fog, and that ; but the strict s w theist to be tad s any ro ut 141 ' ll'll will , oesL Id that the &ppm tim, I am not ar, po might be pe t obedience to rola: blame men for nee exercised. The ra apposed that be so shibition of the even against ankle of the man on tkIE d a train from cma Lts) been praxes! when riding oo n a idered faults wind )t therefore one ,ee e men accused in lb: ,ppen without eels for instance, be is id be looking forms ttentioa, which it sa d, might waive ce THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1848. cation. Having omitted the material word "garbled" in one passage, the Tinies inserts the word " many " in another pretended extract from the archbishop's pamphlet. What Dr. WHAT ELY says is not that " many," but " some " of Dr. HAMPDEN'S assailants " have been guilty of lavishing praises on the Bamptoa Lectures' to Dr. HAMPDEN'S face, and referred to him for solution of doubts and difficulties on religious points." This is not, as the Tunes in sinuates, a "supposition; it is a simple fact, and if the writer in the Times desires it, we are ready to furnish him with names, dates, and particulars. The real question at issue is truly, whether the writings of Dr. HAMPDEN are consistent with the teaching of the church of England; but this is riot, as the Times insinuates, identical with the question, whether a pamphlet of garbled extracts from the Bampton Lectures '—extracts designedly mutilated to serve a purpose—is consistent with the doctrines of the church of England, or with any other standard cognisable by honest and rational men. Dr. HAMPDEN, as all men know, earnestly sought a trial, in order tkat what the Times itself recognises as the " real" question might be brought to an issue. The Times maligns two reasons for this not being done, both of which are untrue ; it says that the friends of Dr. HAMPDEN interfered to prevent a trial—an assertion which is simply the direct reverse of fact—and that his opponents could not bring on a trial without the consent of the VICE CHANCELLOR and the Heads of Houses. But as they were able to obtain that consent to a vote of condemnation without trial, it is scarcely creditable that such assent should be withheld from a fair aid free investigation, if any such had been desired. The criticism of the Times has not led us to abate one jot in the warm approbation we be stowed on Archbishop WHATELY'S pamphlet ; on the contrary, the feebleness of the attempt to weaken its influence tends only to confirm its authority. A strange effort to diminish its im portance has been made by a small section of the Irish clergy. The pamphlet was a reply to an address, sent by Archdeacon STRONG and other der rymen, in their ewn names as individuals, soliciting information on a controversy which excited so much attention in the English branch of the united church from a prelate, the circumstances of whose position enabled him to give them authentic information on the subject. In his reply the archbishop distinctly recognises the private and unofficial character of the document ; but yet some Irish clergymen have thought fit to protest against the proceeding, have called for the publication of the names of those who though it right to consult the diocesan on a question of difficulty, but have forgotten to tell us whether their very unseemly interference arose from their be lief that the HAMPDEN controversy ough t to be viewed with indifference by the Irish chur ch, or that a proscription list should be made of the names of those who are guilty of seeking advice and informa tion from Archbishop WHATELT. This truly Irish appendix to the English collection of protests ought not to be omitted by future historians of the HAMPDEN controversy, and we sincerely hope that Mr. CHRIST MAS will give it a place in his second edition. It will appropriately find a place under that class of docu ments characterised by the motto — Willing to vistai. kat pot alkali to strike. - - - TUE melancholy accident in battue shooting which Unjust resulted in the death of the Earl of Powis, will naturally draw attention to that amusement. Battue shooting is thus managed; beaters are employed to drive all the game in a particular direction where the shooters —usually consisting of from six to eight persons, each with a double-barrelled 'gun, attended by a servant carrying a second gun—are stationed; and, as the swarm of game hurries by them, they fire right and left, without ceasing, until satiated with slaughter, or the drove of game has passed onward. While each sportsman is firing one gun, his servant reloads the second, and thus, for a short time, an Moment firing is kept up. And all this takes place in high wood, where the shooters cannot see each other, and their tardy consists in keeping exactly in line with each other. It is *below that it requires far mare self-poseassion than is tbs lot of most men, to avoid the most Serious danger to others during the hurry and excitement ef such a scene o f wholesale. butchery. And it is to provide for these battnes that larr' h e ad ef g ame, so destructive to *gelatin', maintained by our modern game Footrests.. It wee mentions: by of the "salters at theist*. anti-game law ia Edinburgh that Mr. Banner ins merger , a bill ter the total repeal of the ga ms. Wer e VIM be intende to propel to the House of Oemmlss V , II the sassing session. It is time tied sow odes sissuld take pica *this rends& so completely condemOstery st eei system et law as that which stands recorded lettate:l=laws,,in !La Pro y ! pandiezi e r the ato= in modest dom. That moth a code should baseborn permitted to exist so long is matter of anonlisnele. There are signs that it will not be permitted to Wit much longer. Every here and there we find the more liberal and intelligent landed proprietors are giving up the hares and rabbits to the tenants of the farms on which those noxious creatures are found. This is as marking the change of opinion which is eking place amongst the landowners; but it is altogether insufficient to meet the exigencies of the case. Permission now given, as matter of grace and favour, to t e nants to l till t h e four-footed game, by which their crops bare been ag may be withdrawn to-morrow ; or a treys may revert to the old and rigid system of gam pre. se rvation. The preservation of g ame on land in a cultivated country, not in the owner's own occupation, must be absolutely given up, as a practice quite intolerable. The inhabitants of the towns as well as the farmers are moving against the gammlawa. Not only have the leading farmers of the Lothians and the game-ridden husbandman of Buckinghamshire petitioned against the law: but the town council of Sheffield is to be moved to present " a memorial to the Duke of NORFOLK, praying him to give order' that the game on his estates at and in the neighbour hood of Sheffield may be no longer preserved." The erneeated men of Sheffield feel that in the Duke of Noainnes . game preserves th ere is a fertile source of dessoralleataou and crime. And this is an aspect in which, apart from all others, we apprehend the go vernment and the legislature cannot much longer Lorithe game-laws with indifference. 'The s severe and unjust, and proposes to supply by stringent prohibitions and rigorous punishments that protection for an :nterest in wild animals, which the imperfect nature of that interest renderssodifficult. But all the stringency and all the rigour of the game laws have not protected game preserves, except at the expense of an amount of crime and outrage in preserved districts which are fearful to contemplate. That 4,000 convictions should annually take place in England and Wales for the law-made offence of taking a wild animal, which no man can call his own, or identify ! The enlightened lawyer and the rude ferns-servant concur in deeming it an " unreasonable notion" to maintain aright of property in these crea tures. Here is the list of committals for poaching during one week in a part of Hampshire, as recorded in the provincial papers : During the last week there were committed to Winches ter Dridewell, for poaching, three labourers for three months each, two for two months each, and four for six weeks each. At the Romsey petty sessions, held on Thursday, the 13th inst., three men were fined 51. each, or two months' imprison. ment ; two were fined 10s. and costs, or fourteen days' im• pritonment ; three were fined 11. and costs, or seven days' im prisonment. At Eareham petty sessions, the 11th inst., one man was fined 51. and costs, or three months' imprisonment. And by whom are these commitments muds? Who assess the fines imposed on these labouring men for poaching? Why, the country justices, themselves either game preservers, regarding poaching as a deadly crime against themselves, or the personal friends and associates of game preservers. If justice be administered impartially ender such circumstances its administration can scarcely be free from suspicion. And in truth, "j ustices ' justice" towards poachers is commonly regarded as something the very opposite of justice. When Sir JAMES GRAIIAM was home secretary, attention having been directed to the ad ministration of the game laws by country justices, it was found that a great many of their commitments were actually illegal, and that in all such cases the error consisted in an excess of severity; a rigour beyond the law. And yet the severity of that law is a national opprobrium. The present home secretary has not thought it safe to leave the the administration of the game laws altogether in the hands of the county magistracy. At a late meeting of the Middlesex magistrates, Capt. COTTERELL in quired whether " the clerk of the peace had received any official intimation from the Secretary of State with regard to persons who were committed for night poaching ?" and he went on to say that himself and a brother magistrate in Hereford shire having committed a person to the quarter sessions, for trial for night poaching, they re ceived a notice from the clerk that the prisoner rota not he tried at the quarter mations, must be tried at the assises,and that Sir GEORGE GREY had issued an official circular to that effect. Capt. CoT TERELL said, "no doubt such an arrangement would secure persons so charged a fairer trial, because they would be tried by a judge instead of a bench of country gentlemen, who might feel par ticular interest in such matters, but it involved a serious question of expense to the county," from the maintenance of the prisoner for a longer period in prison. It seems that no such official instructions had been given to the Middlesex magistrates, but there is little doubt that it is well understood by the justices that they cannot be allowed themselves to try their own poachers. We say their own, because, though the justice on whose land the particular offence under trial was committed may absent himself from the bench, he knows perfectly well that the anti-poacher spirit animates the breast of every magistrate in the court, and that the offender is in safe hands. As one of the witnesses examined before the Game-law Com- ' mittee said, "Squire A tries B's poachers, sod Squire B tries A's poachers." The correspondent of a morning contemporary, referring to Captain COT TERELL's remarks, which we have quoted, asks why day poachers are not withdrawn from the jurisdic tion of the county magistrates, and says truly that there is as much danger of an undue bias against the poacher in the one case as in the other. And the same writer says that though many of the country justices are cot themselves game preservers, yet as they are the intimate friends and associates of game preserving justices, they become infected with the Mae hostility to poachers which affects game pre servers. That is perfectly true. Imagine the life a rural justice would lead were he suspected of any hesitation to apply the wholesome severity of the squires' game laws to the repression of poaching on the manors of his brother magistrates ! We hope and believe that, ere long, the game laws will be expunged from our statute-book; but so long as any vestige of those laws remains, the trial of game offences should be entrusted to the judges of the - sty oourts. Our Paris despatches of yesterday noon have arrived. The address of the Peers was presented with the usual forms on Wednesday. The following reply was given by the King : I receive with &lively emotion in this address the expression of the condolence and of the feelings of affection which the Chamber of Peers have testified towards me, since the great affliction which has be fallen me in my family. I offer yen my most heart felt gratitude. " I am always happy to repeat to the Chamber of Peers how greatly I congratulate myself on the assistance, as loyal, as enlightened, which they • continue to lend my government. It is by . perse vering, as we have done, for now nearly eighteen years, in more closely connecting the bonds which so happily unite the great powers of the state, that we shall ultimately succeed in consolidating and pre serving from all danger the institutions which France has bestowed upon herself, and which guarantee the progressive development of her prosperity, and the strengthening of order at home and of peace abroad. " I again most cordially thank you for the feelings you have just expressed towards me." After the formality of this reply, the King, descend ing from the throne, mingled among the peers who attended in considerable numbers, and conversed with several of them. The deputation was then intro duoed to the Queen and princesses. The King ap peered to enjoy his usual good health. Above 200 peers were present. The ministerial journals of yesterday labour to dissipate the anxiety which has hung, and still hangs, on the public mind, and the effects of which are conspicuous in the daily records of the Bourse. The sources of this public solicitude are involved in obscurity, and, tiers Is a secret and inexplicable prempticacat at we. 1 Theistaice of all remotion d the clsiesse. whe ther •or prise*, end the pereseal retirement et the ng, which ni haWal#, and indeed inevitably, 7c .. :t the recent affliction of the Orleans severthetme, innumerable ramoare of the • i ndisposition, which, though ofilsially metre dieted each evening, were sure to be reproduced in the morning. It is said again that the Baron de LengOorf M go as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Maree. and M. de Portieres goes to Naples to replace the late Count Brecon. The Italian mails have brought the journals and oorrespondence from Rome, Florence, and other chief places. The Pope had received from the Russian ambassador the ratification of the convention nerd ing the catholic* of the empire, and expressed his re gret at not having received it in time to have pre vented the allusion made to Russia in his late address. The King of Naples has, in fact, refused to join the Italian customs league, although his answer to the other states on the subject appear' only evasive. The state of popular fermentation at Rome, oeca- sioned by the distrait felt of the influence of the retrograde party in the councils of the Vatican, con tinues. The great object of public solicitude for the present is the institution of a ministry of war, which shall be placed under a chief who is a layman, and the mobilisation of the civic guard. A meeting took place at Rome on the Bth, composed of the most in fluential members of the noblesse and the bourgeoise, including Ciceroacchio and fourteen other popu lar leaders having these objects. An address was agreed upon to be presented to the council of state, to urge it to demand of the pontiff the creation of a secular ministry of war, with the appointment of chiefs of known military talent enjoying the con fidence of the people. The two Dursndoe, of Pied mont, and Colonel Ferrari, a Neapolitan, are, it is said, mentioned. A popular club was roposed to be instituted, the rules and regulations o p f which were already dis cussed. Arrests of those implicated in the late tumults at Leghorn eontinued to be made. That city remained tranquil. Addresses of confidence and devotion con tinued to be sent from the chief places to the grand duke. The Post Gazette of Frankfort, of the 16th, says that numerous arrests had been made among the Modenese troops, in consequence of the manifestation of discontent at the entry of the Austrians into that duchy, and still more of the expression of liberal opi nions and tendescies. The soldiers had been put in irons at Este, Carrara, and Massa. At Reggio, the theatre was closed in consequence of the manifesta tions of popular discontent. Letters from Turin of the 15th say that the Pied montese people have responded with enthusiasm to the demand of the government for the extension of the armed force of the country. Orders had been issued to the foundries of cannon and to all the arsenals, for the preparation and supply of munitions of war. A letter says, that the despatch of artillery and supplies to Alexandria and Navara was incessant. A camp was to be formed between Navara and Vi gerano. It was also intended to call under arms the contingents which had not 3 et been summoned,and to puttee entire army on a war footing. The students of the University of Turin had put on mourning for a fortnight for those who had fallen in the conflict with the Austrians at Pavia. CU court. WINDSOR, Tarn-stair. —The Earl and Countess Cowper are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess Cowper, Mr. 0. E. and the Hon. Mr s . Anson, and the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Whewell. The band of the Royal Hone Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. The Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, at half-past ll o'clock yester day morning from Feel:more-house, Windsor. Her Royal Highness, attended by Bir O. Conner, left town at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on her return to Frogrnore-houtc. The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. The Attorney- General had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation from the Sunday School Union, con sisting of Messrs. Watson, Cuthbertaon, Jackson, Latter, and Groser, waited on the Lord President at the Privy Council-office yesterday, on matters relating to education. Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview on Wednesday with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday at their office, in Whitehall place. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood had a dinner party on Wednesday at their residence, in Downing-street. - COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public business. The committee for the year ensuing were appointed. ABOLITION OP GRAND JURIBB.—MT. HDYPitRBTs TOM to move " that it be referred to a committee to consider and report as to the expediency of presenting a petition to parlia ment for an act to give power to the Central Criminal Court to try persons charged with offences within its jurisdiction without the intervention of a grand jury ; and, further, to consider and report whether such trials could not be most beneficially had by informatioe, or by some and what mode other than by indictment." He said his object was to get rid of what was neither more nor less than a nuisance to the community, and to propose something calculated to supply its place with service to that community. It was well known that grand juries were instituted at a time when the admi nistration of justice made the introduction of such a stem necessary. The arguments in their favour no longs r existed. Formerly there were no police magistrates before whom a charge could be brought. The presentment of the grand jnry was sufficient authority for putting a man upon his trial. The evil was that after the remedy had been applied to the correction of the system, the system was itself in full existence. Under our present criminal legislation everything connected with the accusation of an individual took place before a magis trate. The man was charged, • taken to a station.house, cooed publicly before the magistrate, and all that could be said against him was publicly brought forward and aup• ported by evidence, which determined the magistrate either Ito discharge or commit him, What followed 1 An inquiry took place before the grand jury, in secret, upon the evi deuce merely in support of the prosecution. It was brought 1 forward behind the back o f the accused, who was denied the advantage of the presence of a single friend, professional I or otherwise, to aid him in the difficulty of a secret attack made before an irresponsible tribunal sworn not to divulge the facts sworn to before them. Now, if sufficient evidence I were given before a magistrate to send a party for I trial, what safeguard to the accused, or what ad vantage to the public, could a grand jury, whose inquiry was regulated upon the dangerous principle of concealment, afford? The time was come when the pro. fession of the law and the people themselves thought there should be a change. The press exercised its powerful influ ence in the complaint that nothing was done. An inquiry I had taken place before a committee of the House of Com- I moos into the subject of the institution, and two out of three of the numerous witnesses examined had given evfe I deuce in favour of the complete abolition, while several had expressed themselves the advocates of en accommodation or modified plan. He wished to have the question before a I committee, because in a committee the whole merits could I be considered, and a deliberate recommendation could be given to the court upon the result of the most minute inves tigation. The injury . inflicted by the operation of grand juries was very extensive and very material. There were, as was well known to professional men especially, numbers of persons in this populous metropolis who were constantly employed in deriving pecuniary advantage from false charges, which they proposed themselves to support by false evidence. With that sort of evidence these wretches were ready to go before the grand jury at Clerkenwell, and accuse innocent persons of keeping gambling houses, or of other offences to which great opprobrium was attached; and bills wero sud dealy found, without the ceremony of notice. In such owes, the first intimations received were from the warrants upon which the individuals accused were apprehended and taken before the judge or the magistrate, who bad no alter native but to commit. In various instances that horrible species of intimidation led to pecuniary arrangements. An I individual got a hint to inquire whether an Information was not laid against him, and finding that such was the feet, although there was not the slightest ground for the *come en, be was ;dad to get rid of the charge by wife' 4ing the sordid demands of his unknown enemy. Rwo only last year that a respectable female was charged with keepine a house of an infamous description. The grand j u ry found the bill, but the friends of the accused would not I listen to any terms of compromise ; and what was the come lquenmi ? She came to take her trial, but no prose ' Odor appeared—there was no charge whatever against. her. how, if that resolute course hsd not been adopted, the proceedings would have been stopped complian with an extorti ona te demand. If• ce man had to complain of a grievance amounting to a misdemeanor he could go to the Queen's Bench without the intervention of a grand jury, and proceed by criminal information. What could be the difficulty in adopting a similar course in all matters connected with the Central CA. minal Court ? The clerk could prepere the information with the necessary formality, end all that would be nondairy to be done than was to step from the magistrate to the court, and with the strongest probability of justice. Re could not here help alluding to a case which occurred about IS months Ir. to which 8 6 , 0801., end wag bawled forged a easeque for end 'Ubangi% th" nallybdcate and every one else wit* beard the evp:abeileved i oe the ea red w gnat'', the bill was' and by the gread -far7. Ilpon the subject ;. be did sot think that where justice wee inidaard that ht to be any object; but he It drool! be an c'adlitional argumenla but of his if it Maki be shown that a great madame could be valid of, and that 10 in the wand Could he the prat to the country g o ll p il o li n s ft s s removal. Insteed of waiting about the Central Criminal Court from day to day, as wm dm inevitable lot of prosecutor, and their witnesses anise the quieting system, they would be directed by a lid wr IN regulated by the Mark of the court, under the antheldWig these judges, as to the particular periods fired ; sad Ode time would not bi wasted, sor their ran offended, net lib* heelth injured, by the obligation to wait amongst comb alibi lowest of man kind, in a place little better than a ma damp underground cellar. Mr. WIRI seconded the modes. Mr. Low remarked that gland juries never ignored bills without the strictest exandoseas of the evidence and the strongest grounds, and he traded that a power so beneficial in its operation would not be discontinued. Ito had no objection to the inquiry, for in the committee the true state of the cam would be developed and all the fasciae imposed. Mr. ANDRWION said the inquiry wee the more necemary as the City Solicitor had given notion in parliament of kis M OOR to propose a change in the system. lie instanced cams in which evidence which bad been given before magistrates was reversed before grand juries, whom he considered to be a tribunal sitting in judgment upon the committing megis trate. Ultimately the motion was carried, and after the trans action of soma basin's& of no public c,nsequenos, the court adjourned. DELA! IN CARRYING OUT THE SEITALTIELDS IY raocanxsTe.—Last evening a very numerous meeting of the residents of Spitalfields was held at the Ten Bells Ta vern, oppeeite the church, for the purpose of memorialising bee Majesty's government to expgdite the improvements in this neighbourhood. as confirmed by the legislature in the acts of Vie. 3 and 4, cap. 87, and 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 31, thereby relieving the great distress which has been caused in the district by the long delayed completion of the works. Severs& gentlemen addressed the meeting, and resolutions were passed setting forth the great injury and distress pro dueed by the non-completion of the improvements, and the necessity of not allowing the present *mien of parliament te pass over without the most energetic measures being made to obtain redress, either by petitioning the Commissioners of Woods and Forests or both houses of parliament. It wee resolved to present a memorial to the Right lion. Lord Morpeth, chief commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, soliciting his lordship's early attention to the geed hardship they were then enduring. FIRE. AT BERMONDSET.—Last nig ht , shortly be tore 12 o'clock, a fi re involving a serious destruction of pro perty, and nearly attended with loss of life, broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Crage, a linen-draper and silk-mercer, carrying on business in the Spa-road, Bee mondoey. The discovery was made by a policeman, who raised an immediate alarm. After considerable trouble the residents, consisting of two children and an aged female, were aroused. The female attempted to escape with one of the children, hut on getting upon the stairs she was completely prostrated by the intense heat and the suffocating smoke from the burning property. A young men rushed through the flames, and succeeded, at no little personal risk, in bringing her down in safety. Upon getting into the street she informed the crowd that a boy, five years of age, was asleep in the back room top floor. A ladder was immediately procured, and one of the neighbours trot into the room, but the smoke was so dense that he was obliged to make a precipitate retreat not fewer than four times. Finding that its was nearly suffo cated, be inquired if any one would assist him in saving the child, when a man, flawed Bewley, volunteered, and rush ing through the flame and smoke, he succeeded in snatch ing away the boy, whom he brought to the ground. The child seemed completely suffocated, but by some exertion the poor child was brought to. The engines of the parish and London Brigade were quick in their attendance, and worked until nearly one o'clock this morn ing, when the flames were extinguished, but not until the whole of the stock in trade wee deetroyed. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—ACCIDENT AT THE BUB TON•MUUARE TERMINI:B.—Before Mr. T. Wakley, 14. P., at the University College Hospital, as to the death of Charles fledge, aged 38, one of the sufferers by the falling of a por tion of the new building in course of erection at the terminus of the London and North Western Railway, on the 6th inst. —Mr. Haidwicke, architect to the company, said, that being anxious to afford the most perfect evidence for elucidating the matter, he had requested the attend ante of his professional brethren, Messrs. Cubist, Tile, Blore, and Shaw. They had seen the building, and were, he believed, ready to give their opinion upon the subject.—At the suggestion of the Coroner the court WA cleared, that the jury might consider the point; and, on the readmission of the public, the Coroner said the jury were cf opinion that it wou.d be desirable to make application to the Commissioners co: Woods and Forests to appoint a duly qua lified gentleman to examine the works and deliver his opinion to tie government on the subject ; and, that being the c ire, he should feel it his duty to adjourn the inquiry. He begged to observe, however, that the evidence of the gentlemen whose names had been mentioned was not to be shut out, as the jury were de drous of the fullest investiga tion.—Mr. Park, the house surgeon to the hospital, said deceased died on the 15th. He had received a fracture of the ribs on the left side, the ninth rib pressing inward and wounding the left lung, causing great inflammation. His other injuries were wounds and fractures of the bones of the nose, and other wounds about the body. After two or three days erysipelas set in, and continued until death. The im mediate cause of death was erysipelas supervening on the in fitnemation of the lung, the origin being the injuries sem sained.—Rnema Hedge, widow of deceased, deposed to cer tain conversations deceased had had with her in the hospital. He said the occurrence was no more than he expected, as there was not sufficient time for the work to set before car rying up the columns, and he thought something would occur before it was finished. In the Christmas-week she heard hint say to a fellow-workman, named Harris, " We are up a good height uow, but we shall not be long there before something happens." He had a great mind not to go back t 3 the work after Christmas.—The Coroner said the cause of death having been distinctly proved, he would now adjourn the inquiry till Monday week, and the inquest was adjourned accordingly. FATAL FPI/HT.—Before Mr. Wm. Baker, by adjournment, at the London Hospital, respecting the death of Robert Wse, aged 55, a shipwright. On Thursday, the 23 rd ult ., a b i ght took place between the son of the deceased and several of the sailors on board the ship Herefordshire on her way to Gravesend. They had been drinking all the morning, and all the men were in a state of insubordination. The deceased went to the assistance of his son, who was also intoxicated, and succeeded in forcing one of the sailors from him. While the et n was lyiag on the deck, deceased was knocked down the hold of the ship, a distance of 16 feet. The deceased was picked up in a state of insensibility. When the ship arrived off Gravesend, Morrison, one of the crew, confessed to having knocked the deceased down, and he was taken into custody. On the last meeting of the jury Webb, the constable, stated that all the witnesses who were present during the affray had gone to sea in the ship Herefordshire, which was bound for Gibraltar.—lnspector Penman, of the Gravesend police, stated that one of the sailors, named John Morrison, said that " he was the man who had knocked de ceased down the hold of the ship, but not with the intent of killing him." He made the statement voluntarily. Hewes taken before the magistrates at Gravesend, and remanded, in consequence of the dangerous state of the deceased. The magistrate ultimately committed him to Maidstone prison. The chief mate stated to witness that he saw some man strike the deceased in the breast and knock hint down the hold, but was unable to point the man out.—The Coroner said he thought it very probable that the magistrates at I Gravesend would not take cognisance of the matter if the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and Morrison would be sent to London and tried before another tribunal. He thought it very singular that the man should criminate I himself, and could scarcely b elieve it credible. lie should advise the jury to return an open verdict, which would not interfere with any subsequent proceedings.—The jury re ' turned a verdict—" That the deceased died from a fracture of the spine, caused by a fall down the ship's hold, but how remised no satisfactory evidence path appeared " I , LOVE AND STICIDE.—BefOre Mr. Bedford, at the Jolly Gardeners Tavern, Rochester-street, Westminster, on the body of Harriet Leet, aged 21.—Sarah Farrel deposed that she knew deceased, who resided with her mother, at No. 28, Rochester-street. Deceased had been keeping company with a man named M'ltay, of whose unkind conduct she had complained in bitter terms, and to which witness attri buted the cause of her committing suicide. De'Ray had made proposals of merriest@ to deceased, but in September beg, in consequence of his illtreatment to her, she wanted to break off the engagement.—By the Coroner: In consequence of her attachment to him the correspondence was contoured, hut he afterwards Blued her most shamefully, and often struck ber. She became exceedingly depressed in spirits, and on Tuesday morning last swallowed a large dose of oxalic acid, and expired a few moments afterwania.—Several ether witnesses deposed to the unkindness of M'Ray.—The following letter was found in deceased's handwriting:—" To Alexander M'Ray.—Jan. 18, 1848.—1 t is for you that I die. I do confess that you have pressed one, who has been true to you the world knows, to do this, not without a boundless desire for joy and happiness posaessed.—Hanaurr LSET." —lt appeared that the man M'Ray was a married man, end his wife was said to be still living. A discusaion arose as to the propriety of having the man WRay present, and ultimately eke inquest was adjourned for further inquiry. Death was proved by the surgeon to have been ` , e result of the poison. TILE ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—ADJOURNED INQUEST. The inquiry by the coroner's jnry into the circum stances attending the death of the railway driver (David Markland) was resumed yesterday morning, at the Railway Rotel, near the Woking Bunion. Mr. Dalrymple, the soli citor ; Mr. Taunton, the assistant secretary, in the absence of Mr. Campbell, the secretary, who is unwell; and the other officers who were present on the former ocouion, were again in attendance en behalf of the railway company. Mr. Towne appeared to watch the proceedings on the part of the widow of Mukland. Mr. Wool.* (the coroner), after the names of the jury had been called over, said, that before resuming the proceedings it was proper th at he should advert to the position of the in quiry as it stood at the close of the previous sitting, and also to the circumstances which had since transpired. They would recollect that on Monday evening after taking the evidence of Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Beckon, they were proceeding with that of Mr. Young, an officer of the railway, when it cams out that two per sons, Jones and Flemming, the engine -driver, and the fireman down tit whistle J on the I tendanee Saw the skull era mashed into the death. The rereated en older shio desr without recover wes:too it Jr igh to dojo Ihe 1 Februar for sta favour pied put been talent mind rival past, and d dispel disba ET at su the ti came for tt petm mast suffc thei tal mi th