The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-24 00:00:00

ITiri-EE OF WELLINGTON. ('OCR? OF COMMON COUNCIL y m teraay a court woe hell, which was numer ▪ s .tteed.d. The dry was appointed, according to the "51' the dOpatch of the general basinees of the corm. for r Aid, bet tLe following notice of motion (reported the E n nis, of yesterday), was a few days ego placed at s e e bona of the paper of bus iness:—" By John Wood, Set To constder what mark of respect should be paid by ce rtive of London to the memory of his Grace the :c o 1) of Wellin,:tot. elr. JOHN WOOD rose amidst !and crics of " hear," f the parrot of submitting to the court a motion .4' oo t • • •t which had oreupied the public mind most intensely too moment of the melancholy communication to I Ile woo convinced that he should have with te, country. prat t e e cl oopethy of every member of the court while he ott,dand to the Mental notici , of his fellow-citieens the shedflue n re: Meetly ches.. a; wbich the peus and and eloqu ently as° many able engaged. Ile f, utter inability to attempt to do pasties to the " Meat the isiooriouit man they deplored, but he knew :It these who surrounded him wool,' make all the ones toe l i o o tuotion, and live him credit for the „ J o• airy of ho %mention, however they might regret the ▪ ct a hiti:y hut too ap parent in the performance of this a ., 7 . Mar, bear.) I c had been advised by sonic teem erei o f emporation to withdraw the motion, and by " t ".., - , to postpone It, in accordance with the proceeding in &w oe, peat corporation. To the idea of a withdrawal Le t the ant deems' , negative. (('heers.) If the court So n. of oe i ro en that it would be advisable to adopt the too . O 'Min of a postpometnent, they could easily intimete the wish, sail be voted be guided by their voice. (Loud enn ef Go ea;' and cheers.) It gratified him to find that provod id the cease ho keel followed. Indeed. if e e ~ od o r:lined a doubt open the propriety of intre• Omer: tb. subject e t the p resent moment, that doubt sr, us. i teas. Non eueroly reneeo.il ty the minister', letter, sto.O he had e o n on yesterday ' s paper, and part of which k toot le seal tt The overt spare which the name of the o„., eat W...Ongten too toOol in the history of the lost 30 pan, his brilliont achi. , venicnt s in the field, his high meo pi, owe and faithful services to the • ha unfaine lion to the interests of bis country, coot.oite claims upon the gratitude of the nation, which a M (aura% though It caunot oitiefy, at least may serve • mootto mo tllear, hear.) The letter further stated that t h e t oo l" o f Os, duke wi I remain under proper guar olootol,ip until the .teen shall hare received the formal :mood of earnut ef :Le c tune to he submitted to both teases upon re.aseiroblin:. and then proceeds . " As sou o roaible after Vett ,pen oral shall have been obtained, a M jr Majesty's wide. should no unforeseen impedimeet yye. that the mortal r. mains of the late illustrious and ye. • Ceennamier-in•Chief should, at the public expense, "ad loth all the solimLity due to the greatness of the be depoeited in the eathedral church of St. Tail's, tea: to net ey the side of the greatest naval chief who ner ntoted lustre upon the snails of England." That is ...„„d him from ail obligation to observe a leo atm% delay. 'the :Owen. of London must feel the high est erstaiestioa at finding that in the place in which the tee 'red retains of the Doke of Wellington were to be do veto!. the crested military commander 'hole.' lie side by n ote with the greatest navel cemmor.der that ever lived. Sgt nation would no doulo be impressell with a similar Igloo: and applau.l unanimously the sentiment which ay .pe, teat prompt and manful el-vision of the Sovereign. "Jo, ro ) Oey embarmarteent which be might have felt wr c , !like..., removed by toe communicative then made br tor Majeoty. The great 'Tents of the life of the Duke w s .:. air tos were frioh in the recollection of those be elor ..ed from the admirable chronological ....e a w hi c h tot =et them everywhere, and not • few of the members tee r renabered the wonderful rapidity with which to - vioney in uninterrupted oucceseion, and too ...Toted materials for inimortotity. From Assays tt.terloo what prodigious instances of genius and cleat and die:rim:nation marked the canoe of • weeberfol. man who fought for the restoration of the hholes of other nations as well as for the preservation of M. to :Jon of hi' native land. Ile would not refer to the se sorehie achievements which the glorious records of the pont time described and perpetuated. But he would tot/ We'd, those around him upon the honour and &dean no they g Mail by having had such a fellow citisen. (v,a etor. ) The Duke of Wellington hail spoken of tur.o:f a. hong a citizen of London in a manner which asst OSA gratification to all who shared the privilege. It se. eill known that his grace had taken great interest in do c zero:hen of London-bridge sod its approaches, and a w . be remitted that one member of the court who nil bear peculiar testimony to the value of his grace's Mat: , >tient was prevented by Masse from attending to do get or to the present occasion. (Ilea:, bear.) But ▪ what terms could he be described whose every act • sa set to ward off the horrors of oppression —who, whet he was dent with the field, had entered the cabinet, al there eshibited powers which claimed for him the :h.t.oter of adviser in all cases of political emergency. It e.• wah considerable satisfaction he quoted from the cewspaper the observation made by Sir Robert Peel, c a loner given at the Mansion-house to his Majesty's Leken, relative to the Duke of Wellington. Atter the triti, el " Sir Robert Peel and his Olejeoy's Ministers " cal lees given, on the 23rd of December, 1534, the Premier s It., mune of hie speech in acknowledement of the com 'Om, at said, " I ask you what hroagbt this country to that . lc of military (glory on which it stood during the last woe hat preserved us from the proverbial vicissitude of enase t It was not the numbers of our army, it was not te eats establiabed here, or the fortifications erected there, : was not mere military skill and conduct that made toteiry the certain consequence of battle, but it was in ci;uetion with the native valour of British troops, ea eoefidene• reposed in one magic and immortal name. It use that feeling influencing the lowest soldier which • .red into his breast a new energy and nerved t.• - mm with a new vigour. And when the peon:intent • country was suddenly changed, what was it that mei. the whole community acquiesce with silent approba ten im the decision of one man to obey the appeal of his terinige, cad to fill for a time with his single person the a, a charm in the public service of the state. It was not a rer e '.: reference to this or that particular act which be tont perform, bat it was an irresistible and spontaneous nee in his undaunted resolution, and in that pure and Lectonsled singleness of purpose which led the same man el. , Lail shown bowl( ready, in a crisis of eztraordinary iiemay, to assume power at the command of his Sovereign etch led him, acting solely upon his own suggestion and nom, to relinquish it." The Duke of Wellington's health so afterwards drank, and his grace, in returning thanks, The Lord Mayor has been pleased to remind you of tic military services which I have performed. You are ma surrounded by those who enabled me to perform those moos, and I feel that I debt of gratitude which I owe to the officers who ems lauded, and to the soldiers under our command. The 1..)el Mayor has likewise been pleased to call your sties :.or. to them services which I was enabled to reader the Coy when I held office, in reaped of veriest. useful Ornat anti to the City, anted on more especially during the eon streak= of loadon.bridge. On that occasion I did no more .duty to the public, and I felt most happy to be cooperate in any way with the members of the tor reel= who undertook that gnat work. The Lord Yes r was likewise pleased to advert to certain transactions is which I was engird previously to the formation of the pro , at government. i must say that in the whole course of rey life I never can show myself sufficiently grateful for th , :eons of confidence which I received from the banking, etomireial, mercantile, and other branches of this great to) Outing that period. It wee my duty to undertake the solo service under circumstances which my right hon. heel (Sir Robert Peel) ham so eloquently described ; and I car. eery thy that I hope and trust the country received no itoiry on that occasion. I repeat, I hope and trust that the , xerreste of the country received no injury during the retool they were committed to my charge ; and if I yea v.:, to entertain that hope and trust, it is becalm I enjoyed at that time the confidence of the neat interests, of the City." (Loud cheering.) Be aide the quotations he had just read because it an tree4 the feeling of the public, and, at the same time, ez- Um, d the quiet and unobtrusive dignity with which the teat cable hero and statesman Invariably conducted him o:i. (Hear, hear) In the confident reliar ce of nasal. era. support from the court, he would propose, whether there existed a precedent for his proposition or not, °Vat it Ne referred to a committee, now to be appointed, to eon. sl o e , whit mirk of respect should be paid by the Corpora tor. of London to the memory of his Grace. the Duke of • ',ltigton, and report their opinion thereon to this court." (IPurt elv.ere.) oir I'll ER LAURIE seconded the motion. He had Weiinitnendeict a postponement upon the principle which es teemed the chairman of the East India Company, who coo .id, n d it to he aecceiary to cull a special court for so moti ve ant but he no longer considered that form err seny. g rdet a , heir) It was hiwinfintion to move , at the lent Curt of Aldermen, upon the same subject that the twoosarte might unanimously co-operate. ( Che ers.) It 11,1 been intlauted by some that the dinner of the 9th f '. l tartuber ought not to take place during the pre pare- I r the Aerie!. lie did not see why any impediment •O I „rite from that cause, for the 9th of November ' etre Oiath of our naval hero, was celebrated, althou gh he 'llnet buried till J memory, and the Lord Chancellor wee Ce mat ) at the entertainment. (Loud cries of " Hem, %e• W. J. MALE 'eel the City could not do too much • honour to such • name ' and the Queen having 'wheeled their labour in their own cathedral, it became am their 4 tr i ent flie s u' ole h m e n duty to carry out her Majesty's con lie LOA • • he. said the taste of the people had undergone no it change tine, the death of Nelson, and he hoped tbett ft - isolable irides& of that chang e woul , l be shown hi kr Willi the dinner. (Cheer.) the !enema was then • coined unanimously, amulet ANIL roil a Snit sauna Orrin rte Me.. h It le LT, in the absence of Mr. Thomas Rowley, the ''''`rmau of the Bridge house Estates Committee. 11 " . ! "that be t report recommending the rebuilding ted m o e e t rn.lindge should be adnpted. He said that the "tositlee were decidedly of opinion that it would not he I 'le• to expend their means in repairing the bridge, bM the y were unanimously of opinion that a new one should his ▪ iLliesr, hear) In the repairs connected militant; thousands of pounds had b een o a p en ded e car . much of reparstions insuch matt, ft, titonlinat !It it better to submit to the consideration of 2r7,,..tnist a ln' lar ge, whether it would not le , looter at one" .40 , 1 n new bridal. (Hear, hear.) He therefore thit the court sine with the committee in thole, 'Volt 110 LT submitted that as the chairman of the Bridge-house Estate. Committee sees not in his place, it would be wise to postpone the =Bea. Mr. BINNOCH observed that be bad bad ihr some tines • setae era as paw of barters with rearenes to the dmisohlity of a new bridge over the Thames, hi a dined lima with OM Slab and essath. He was noble go on with that tha in Nobodies with the one roam before the court es is the recommoodetion fir con structing • new Blackfrian-bridge," sad be believed that if he woo permitted to de so, he should be abbe maarially to abridge the dissuasions ea both of the peeposidoss. The court than wrtsd that Mr. Hainoch's proposal should be magridaefelorthameasely with the report. Mr. BENNOCH then said although he had given notice l ot the motion kw a uew ,bridge so long ago as December, 1831, he was nevertheless glad of the delay, as the report fai g jileea by tar.. Bridge House Committee added weight to his prebend pee • st, The new bridge which be bad the privilege to propose wuulJ rural k !ink connecting lines of traffic running nearly direct north and south, and when the approaches were completed they would have a COIItiOU.O4 stint from the Angel at Islington to the Elephant and Castle, or indeed all the way to Claps ham. (lieu.) There would be no needle's deviation to the left to crowd London-bridge, nor to the right to choke cep Blaekfrian. As a large number of the Clapham residents had buaineu in the centre of the (key, they might then come directly to St. Paul's, greatly relieve both the present free bridge', and avoid the slippery inelie.e of Blackfriare, as well as the steep hills of Ludgate or Snow, while Smithfield when the nierk,:t was removed, might become a e real control omnibus depot, a public convene: we very much re quired. (Hear.) Ills proposed imp osement began at the end of the new Cannorostrect. To widen Old Change, and open • proper approach to the bridge, the west side of Old Change must be taken demo. From Fish-street to Thames-street the east side of Lambeth-hill must come down, and from Thames-street to the river, the eastern side of Trig-lane must be taken down. They would ob serve that all the way only one Mile of a street had to be taken down, and only half compensation could be claimed, while Doctors' Commons would remain undisturbed. The street projected from Cannon-street to Earl-street, Black friars, did not equal in simplicity and beauty the route .hoses. kat them look at the rates of inclination of the approaches to tome of the bridges across the Thames. London Bridge, on the Surrey side, from the gate of St. Thomas's Hospital, had in 100 feet 4 feet rise ; Southwark, 3 feet 3 inches; Southwark (City side). 4 feet 6 inches; Illackfrian (Surrey side), 3 feet 10 inches Waterloo (ditto), 3 feet; Westminster (ditto), 3 feet II inches; Middleeez side, 3 feet 9 inches ; and the proposed bridge, Surrey side, 2 feet 6 inches; and on the City side, it would be on the level. (Hear, hear.) Then, let them look at the cost of the several bridges. The new London-bridge cost 660,2323. ; removing the old bridge. 3.3,0001.; the approaches, 1,840,4331. ; Southwark, including the approaches, 800,0001. ; Blackfriars (ditto), 210,0001. ; Waterloo (ditto), 1,000,0001. ; Westminster, 358,7001.; Vauxhall, 1303/001.; Hungerford, 110,000/. ; while he had it from the best authority that the proposed bridge, which he would name .• St. Paul's," to be 60 feet in width, with a boundary of 27 feet 6 inches, might be erected for 144,000/. The estimate of 144,000/. did not include the purchase of any land or compensation to hr given, bat even thew, from the character of the locality, might be fairly considered len than is usual in such cases; the sum, though moderate, is ample, and the designer would guarantee its execution within the estimate. This arises (rem various causes. Such works, through the incitement of railway enterprise, are better uuder.tood. The nature of iron, and its many ad vantages in works of this magnitude. are thoroughly com prehended ; and, above an, co ff er-dams and the old. fashioned system of pile-driving are entirely dispensed with by • recent very ingenious application of the principles of the diving beU. A tube is dropped into the water, and rests upon the bed of the raver, if the river is deeper than the tube is long other tubes are rivetted to it until the uppermost stands above high water an apparatus with double valves is axed on the top and made sir tight ; an air-pump is then applied, and the pres sure within the pipe raised until it expels the water, which cannot ooze in again, the pressure within being greater than the density of the water without, and keeps the inte rior of the tube perfectly dry. Workmen then descend, dig luny the ground from under the edge of the tube,which sinks by its own weight, and as it sinks, other cylinders are fixed on the top, and the whole let down until they have reached a solid foundation. In this manner the tubes of one of the piers for the new bridge at Rochester were lowered 40 feet below the bed of the river, and planted on the solid rock, and they would have taken it four hundred feet if necessary. The material eat out is lifted up through the valves before named, and when the proper depth is gained, they introdaus bricks and portiandeement, and fill the cavity of the tube with them, which immedi ately becomes as strong es stone. These tubes (bcirg six or seven feet in diameter) an placed within two or three feet of each other, and in double rows, and can be extended to any length that the width of the bridge requires, they are then all braced together with beems of iron, and on the top is placed a plate of iron with transverse beams, and the cavities between about 12 inches deep are filled with cement, dec. Then round all the tubes is fixed a shield pointed up and down the river, so that all danger is warded off, and injury from COIUSIMI avoided. The plate described may then become the foundation for the stone work, from which the arches spring, or the plate itself may become the foundation should any question arise as to the durability of the iron or its likelihood to cor rode and fall off. He (Mr. Bent ooh) had been enured by Sir Charles Fox, than whom there is no better authority,, that iron in such a position and cue inch thick, would last 500 years, but if it did fall off you have still left the solid masonry which time could hardly destroy. He had, he touted, proved satisfactorily the three propositions he act oat with—the necessity ens obvious—no site could be better chosen, and the cost would be only half the coat of Black friars, and only one-fourth the espouse of London-bridge. The streets in the neighbourhood seem to have been ar ranged as if some such improvement had then been contemplated. After crossing the river on a dead owl from Fish-street, by a very gentle descent, et ft. 6 in. in 100, it comes to the level at rnion-street, arming only two streets of any importance, Thames-street la the City, and Guildford-street in the Borough. Con doning southward, it joins the new Southwark-bridge-read Wend the Queen's Bench, and gives • direct line from the Batt of Middlesex to the heart of Surrey. One objection unary be urged which has generally made weight, but in this ,losiance opposition would be fruitless, ea he believed the banding of a church where church accommodation was seeded, would overcome the scruples of the Bishop of Leaden, and permission to pull down Saint Mary's, Fish- Octet, would wily be obtained. Ile (Mr. Bennoch) had awed statistics of attendance at the churches in that il be taken, and was astonished to Sad tra ItZa to sawn churches within two hundred yards of sea pasposed to be removed only 250 persons were gauu e. la one at the corner of Old 'Change and Watling etreelibere was • amgregation of 150, leaving only 100 for the egher six churches, as average of not mute 17 each; so the geogrtal of one woad not greatly overcrowd the others. OW Mild more mil I Ilak done. How were the funds to be realised ? That wee legitimately within the scope of the bigotry of the esmodetes, but be believed the scheme car ried with it so MI6 ANNINIMMB gesso and argument, that government wadi lomasidately auction any feasible plan to raise the nesesertymemat. It is • question for Middlesex and Surrey gabs es mesh as for the corporation, and all might he basal to esatribute their shares. So far MI lite City is emmermal, he verily believed that not only mold the geed be oleared, compensation given, but the =lll built far less taistsy than it would cost to coins*, ' Earl-strast, ail there is no saspariion bemoan = when toe tame is duly considated, it we, i • set than the mama ef lossdag dabookst. • • adlumalbig tbs ethane Ite Ind pre isalsk bis bad allislissig sivaidad say nratsrlia upon th. la kes basrase he felt that these MI OEM aglipOlNd, went far to reader wow oily Vial, Else 11111111 MB seasidering, ad if the mart weld rake II Is sagmllbte to be investigated, be woad page biligsdf M sdiailatlate by irrefragßaik avidness ovary Matson{ babel rude. He would, therein% move es an amoimime. oda& no further proemial, shall be taken la Se gesperd rebuilding of Yrs bridge ▪ BllsedibU s apially • temporary 1 = eatil Ile M ies Omalliss law • and sigailell w Ile maker of a_tilieg • am bridge moss the roams lama • Bal- Irak Bridges, and thogmbabia cost of the seem mad the preaches ihoroto, sal that the report la rirlamd tau to the Bridge Howe Committee assolliglp." Mr. ANDERTON seconded the anicadmome. Alderman LAWRENCE supported the ameadmiteli upon a show of hands it was curried without a &sir tient. WORM OP AZT ?O& THE MANSION acres. A report war brought up by Mr. J. B. Towel, chairman of the Committee for General Purposes, relative to pro curing works of art to ornament the Mansion House. Agreed to. THE FLEET VALLEY IMPROYEMENT. Deputy BEDFORD , seeing the chairman of the Fleet Valley Improvement (Deputy Harrison) in his place, wished to ask—as his constituents were exceedingly anxious about the matter—whether anything was likely to be done on sn early day in the matter of the Fleet Valley Improve ment ? Deputy HARRISON was not able to answer Deputy BEl4oltlis inquiry. The committee wen waiting to be moved by parties out of the Court, with whom, up to that time, they had not had any communication. The matter, therefore, so rested that they had simply nothing to report. (lieu.)—Adjourned. TOL FUNERAL OF TUE DOLE OF WELLINGTON.— The outer coffin, the last which is intended to enclose the remains of the departed duke, was completed at the establish ascot of Memrs.Dowhiggin, Holland, and Co., on Wednesday evenin4, and forwarded with a party of assistants to Walser Castle by a late train. It is formed of solid mahogany, of great thickness, and is covered upon the outside with crim son velvet secured with gilt nails. The ornaments and handles also are of silver gilt, and are of elaborate device. The c wpm was placed in the coffin yesterday morning, and the 11 , 1 having been secured a pall of great size, manufac tured expressly for the occasion, was then thrown ever it. , The inner coMa of all la made of strong deal covered with black cloth, and It was constructed at Walmer Castle im mediately after the Duke's decease. Outside this is a leaden coffin hermetically closed. Enclosing these two is a coffin of solid oak. and above all is the mahogany coffin which hal just been described. TSB LAST ROVES OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. The Modica, Noses gives a professional report on this subject, bat It scarcely differs from the screams which hays already been published. It is as follows: " TWRIIDAT, September 14.—About half-past eight this morning my father received a note from Walser Castle,' stating that the Duke of Wellington wished to see him. He immediately went to the Castle. His Grace oomplained of uneasiness about the chest and stomach ; was then per fectly conscious, and answered questions put to him with correctness. Some medicine was ordered, and during its preparation his Grace took some tea and toad. Shortly after leaving the Castle, my father received another tom ' munication, stating that his Grace was mush worse ; he had had fits similar to these he was subject to. My father and I went directly, and found hie Grew in bed, unconscious; capee, turned a little upwards, filed; pupils of medium size ; warm and moist; respiration very laborious, from so cumulation of taueu, ID !sir tubes. Before our snivel his valet had applied a mustard petillhei to his chest, as en former occasion this hal given relief. " Dr. bl'Arthur soon arrived, and Des. Hume and For gtissen were telegraphed for. " Dr. M'Arthsr advised a mustard emetic to be given, having prescribed one with advantage for the duke several years ago under similar cireumatances. This and other measures were now of no avail. His Ones became very restless, tried to tura on his left side ; occasionally there were slight twitching' of the lett arm. When raised in bed, his breathing was much more tree, and this induced us to plate him in an easy chair, when his respiration became much les embarrassed ; his rube sank, and his Grace was now placed more horizontally ; the pulse rallied for a little time, and then gradually declined; the breathing became more feeble; and, at twenty live minutes past three o'clock p.m., his Grace breathed his last. So easy and gi elle was the transition, that for the moment it was doubted. A mirror was held before his Grace's month ; its brightness was undimmed, and he was so am. "loan Wistrowsn }lrian." BIRTH-PLACE OF THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. TliE DU OF WEL COURT OF COMMON CC y ee teelay s court Man hell, col emly rttecd.d. The dry was appointed calota, fur the il:spetch of the Fear] intbai r a ; but tLe following notice e t e Eirvi X, of yesterday) was a few r Me Mal of the paper of business To consider what mark of respect cerporetiou of Londun . to the !tremor htc rue of Wellin,:toe. ge e jaHM WOOD roe amidst !end the purpose of submitting to the eon • • .t which had miupied the public m r. nee. nr-t moment of the melancholy to reentry. Ile was convinced that h Isis tee sympethy of every member of t oar... Lam! to the formal notice of his •h• idu;••11• earnestly which the pens and and eloqutong theen s e getsf.osed hos utter inability to attempt tc me:idol the isiertrioue man they deploys that these who surrounded him wield no I •P " Wane.. ter leis s ituation, and /jig • ; net h.. Intention, however they I'M.: et abseil but too a pparent in the r bey. (hoor. bear.) Ile had been advi bro of the emporstion to withdraw the altos to poor one It, in accordance with mutes peat eirporation. To the idea c p t h e mat lecoove negative. (Cher w. 7 te of ,•; •';' that it wild he advion 1111:Zevtivil of • postpoernient, they coil see wort, end be worn be guided by th clip lit co; • and chess.) It grata be .e l ontsprovirl ot the c e orse o bra tub Leo rtained a doubt urn the ;see : th, subject at the present ma se us. i hour. twin ent.rely renicoeil ty tl rhea he had errs Sr. 'est.:tray 's paper. be woad read "The greet spare who Pee. et Wr;ongtsn tai te.:ed in the he as• his breliont aehieveni cn ts to the j y( Lug and faith( lee , tion to the inlet iree• t.tiote claims upen the gretitude ,s, a pa . lie knees% though It caunot ertiefy he lei r e h eemnie." !Dear. he ar-) T that the body of th• duke • 1 I remain ibraiip until the ileeca rhea have re gloved of ;miler:rut ef the Airs to Owes upon re.arteratein:. sit then pi r .ahle after that men end shall hi a ~ I'that aj h es e m ty' o s woh. m ehould ma; era,;td el r. ains of the tato Cansealer-in.Chief should, at s ad oeth ea the solimxity due to the g he depoSted in the cathedral ch ttie . to art ty the ail.. of the grata nor ndected lustre upon the snoods e: s e irord himiron ail obligati, timer delay. The citizens of London ert crst;ticatioe et nailing that in the De 5 , 0 J remains of the M i ke of web m reetr.l. the ereatem military vmenandet me with the greatest nasal c,,minrea Ile nation wooed no doubt ire impre be:. and appleal unanimously th, pr .1.3, teat prompt and graceful dcisia .Ity embarrassment which woe r• !Irlitily removed by toe coming her Jiaj,ity. The MIL events of th el le,i'msrton were fresh in the nee' altered from the admirable ebronolos tricot tle as everywhere, and not • I ~.I.* ravvabin-.1 tlic wonderful r r..• ts felseed vi •nl7 in 'mint/erupt e. repom4 materials for immoredi t Weteeloo what prodirrious instani I.:.ar end dixriMnation marked etas wsailerfol man who fought for th liar of other nations as well as for tro :lora of ho native land. Ile err as sombre ethievecients which the glo pro seas time desentxd and perpetual toraoleate dune around him upon the tali they guard by having had sue (1 1 1 ttitiv ) The Duke of Welling Lama a. hung a citizen of London east afoul gratification to all who Mar, was sal known that his grace had tee the e asmodien of London-bridge and • ti) be retreaded that one menus mail bear peculiar testimony to the ournitions was prevented by illow fr trivia to the present occasion. a west terms could he be describe cow en ad to ward off the hereon ✓hea be was dent with the field, had ad there ezhibited rowers which el eerettr of adviser in all cases of polit • with considetable satisfaction he newspaper the observation made r. a dinner given at the Mansion-bon lesinses, relative to the Duke of Wc trite of " Sir Robert Peel and his tat lees pities, on the 23rd of Decemb ..xPep mune of his speech in acknowl .;runt said, " I ask you what Trough' of military eatery on which it • het preserved us from the pros ertine ? It was nut the numbed of 4 established here, or the foetid : was not mere military skill and vrtoy the certain consequence of :;motion with the native valour tr confidence reposed in one magic It ea that feeling influencing the I e..eed into his breast a new 4 :.• - .,711 with a new vigour. And col ..: • country was suddenly change err. the whole community acquiesce ten in the decision of one man to ob twereigs, and to fill for a time with I pit charm in the public service of thi rep:: reference to thii or that part _:in prefers:, bat it was an amide cc , . Lute in his undaunted resolution aze-ailed singleness of purpose whi el., tad shown himself ready, in a cr Welty, to assume power at the come Mich led him, acting solely upon ha Mere, to relinquish it The Duke o, me afterwards drank, and has grace. al—. The Lord Mayor has been plea ter military senicee which I have Low surrounded by those who enabled serteci, and I feel that I n can dthe of gratitude which I owe to I needed, and to the soldiers under LA Mayor has likewise been pleased tee to them services which I was el C:ty what I held office, in respect of wet. to the City, carried on more tope itrertion of radon bridge. On that a .luty to the public, and Ifs co-operate in any way with the VTAIn. Who undertook that grate Yes r was likewise pleased to advert re Stich I wu engird previously to pro. at government. I must say that dry life I never can show myself so th...r.aks of confidence which I creel es.teureial, mercantile, and other bi re.; during that period. It was my d pa 1.1.7 service under circumstances heel (Sir Robert Peel) bee so eloqut car eeiy gay that I hope and trust th ie ay on that occasion. I repeat, I verksta of the country received pined they were committed to my et v i er to entertain that hope and I enjoyed at that time the nest interest+ of the City." (I !!:.de the quotations he had just treat the feeling of the pubic, and, W... 1 the past and unobtrusive di ton rabic hero and statesman too 'ell. (Hear, hear) In the confiden Ivy. support from the court, he there existed a precedent for his pro; , !'or referred to a committee, now to t;.ke whet muk of respect should be ter. of London to the memory of ,lingten, and report their opinion Pad char.) Ell LAURIE seconded i recommended a postponement upon I liumeed the chairman of the East In. Orb n d it to be seeeesary to call • s; e'er let a . but he no lunge err eary. P rde c :r e , peer) It was It the next Coed of Aldermen, upon that the two ends might unanimous It Tot been intlauted by some that Nmeniber ought not to take pli r the Aerie!. 1k did not see • I „h . ,•• from that catoe, for the • etath of our naval hero, was wis ed buried WI leeway, and th Z erat at the entertainment. (I. Sit. W. J. MALE said the City c "°''ice honour to such • man *Waned their labour in their our their wirot lelelllll deity to earry ,fl ea, bow) Mr. bLAKE said the taste of the ago 3 change since the death of Ne repeemble evidence of that chat moo aline the dinner. (Cheers.) The mntinn was then carried untie 11 0 , 1 - •• , 11. roll a SIM BRlnVin lac ) 47 ,. 1 4, L . 111iLY r . in the absence of o the 'fridge-boa l at the repeal meonsmeni Laterranrbridge should be ad t! nP es'wit'm were deeidedly of opinion ti n le expend their means in eel '1 were easnimously of opinion th s lime. (Ilear, hear.) In the repo thousands of pounds h; . much of reparations it .7 , le ught it b etter to su b m i t laage, whether it wont to r _ , a new bridge (Hear that the court agree with t MOLT submitted that THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1852. TO THI !IMO& OP TES lIPUU. Sts,—Although many articles have appeared in the public journals on the subject, yet, from their conflict ing statements, considerable doubt seems to be entertained regarding the actual birth-place of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington. The following paragraph, however, which I copy from an Irish journal of the year 1769, may probably be considered conclusive on the subject: " Merlon equate, the Right Heald'. the Countess of Mornington, of a acia."—The 1.1,4b4U• Mercury, May 2nd, 1769. Yes also the Dublin Freeman's Jourrua, May, 1769. Yost will, perhaps, sir, deem the above worthy of a place in your valuable journal, inasmuch as the circumstance re verted to is inci&ntally connected with the history of that man, who may be justly recorded as " the British Nestor." I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES LOAN. Chester-street, Belgrave•square. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY AND WELLINGTON'S FUNERAL. TO THII RDITOR Or THE EXPREAS. Sta,—lt is to be hoped that at the funeral of "The Duke," the services of a society which added so much to the of of the opening ceremonial of the Great Exhibition, will be also accepted on this occasion. Surely the Choral Burial Service, when performed by such a society as the Sacred Harmonic Society, would be Incom parably solemn and affecting. Handel's oratorios, "Saul " and "Samson," supply marches for such ceremonies. They also contain choruses suitable for such solemnities. M. S. H. L. A GOLD FIVE-SHILLING PIECE. TO Till EDITOR OP TIEN urns!. Sia,—Silver coin is very scarce, and gold bullion is very plentiful. Would it not be a good plan to isque soma gold Bye ohilling pieces ? and as a name would be wanting, let me suggest that of a t' Wellington," as an ap propriate and lasting memorial of tin groat man, now no more.—Tour obedient servant, P. THE DISTWRUANCES IN STOCKHOLM. A letter from Stockholm gives the following de tails respecting the recent disturbances in that city :—" In the afternoon of the 3rd • young man, short of stature, of delicate frame, and deemed with entree= care, stopped all at once in one of the prinuipal squares of this city, and saluted to the earth • tall, fat, simply dressed man whom he met. The fat gentleman, by way of reply, rushed on the little man, wrested Tie cane from his hand, and, seis ing him by the collar, thrashed him soundly. Ile continued the castigation until same policemen came up and carried both of them to the watehbouse. They were taken before the director of the police, and the affair was explained. The little gentleman so named Sjoeberg; he was formerly • journeyman tailor, bat is now editor and publisher 'of a little satirical journal called Folikerti Roert (the Voice of the People), which was started in ISIS, when the democratic and communist delirium was at its height. The aggressor is named daconion ; he is a Jew and a dealer in soap and perfumery. Sjoeberg in his journal had reproached Jennison with selling things of bad quality and injurious to health. Jacob's= commenced an action against Sjoeberg to obtain damages for libel, and the case was pending. dimension considered the salutation of Sjoeberg a mockery, and accordingly thrashed him. The director of polies declared to Jaeobeson that he should he presented for the assault, but as he was well known he did not detain him is custody. This scene so simple, between two men without education, and which anywhere else would have pared unperceived, has caused very grave dis turbances which have kept Stockholm in agitation during a whole week. Sjoeberg the day after inserted in the Fol. Ants Roast some extremely violent articles against the Jews in general, and exciting the people to attack them. SP:o ber/ wee arrested, and lodged in the fort of Leiashohn ; but in the evening several thousand person enemabled, and proceeded in a body towards the fort. They shouted hurrah !' as they went along, and their obese was to en courage Sjoeberg. When they arrived at • bridge which leads to the fort they fogad it occupied la team who pm. vented them from going any further. Indented et their project bulked, the mob proceeded aloof streets, and smashed with *tones the windows of alt the Jews' houses and of the synagogue. The troo , having followed, dispersed them; and seventeen at the tisedsre were arrested. The mob, having re- assembiled s meet le the domain of lielanaberg, at • sheet distance hem the gates of Stockholm, which belongs to M. Lamm, a Jew distinguished by his charity, and who enjoys general esteem. There they committed great excesses ; and 31. Lamm soul his family would probably have fallen violins to their brutality if his workmen and servants, all Chris tians, had not, at the risk of their own lives, made an energetic resistance. In the evening_ of the follow ing day, the distsrhasees were renewed. The mob uttered She Jews Straw patrele et military Vereree m i s = tells felled out to elm Osamu% and squares The ..,.an of the city *dished a melees ties inviting the inhaldleste to abstain hem isassiblke is the saute, and to keep their workmen sad ornate at home; hat it produced so effect. The day Am the Cane deal , end another square near, became searapied by a tamuiusse aowd. But • a number of constables armed with stabs arrived, and struck right and lett. They thus caused the people to disperse. in the eve*t hundreds of boyeammtbied in the same squares, and mieldentad against the :ewe; but they were =on driven away. Thus the old hatred of the Jews has reeeivel an slimmest which will pro bably not fall to keep it alive for a long time." - - OBJECTION TO OATHS.—At the Bristol Bank ruptcy Court, on friday, in one of the =me called on, Mr. J. P. Laurence, of that city, attended in obedience to summons from the court is be 1116131111111 tee** the estate and effects of the bankrupt. Os the usual oath ban ten dered to the witness, he declined to take 11, stades that he was an Independent, and had conedentlawe elesetiems the oath propond.—His Honour : Yea as. WWI apes to be sworn as the law require!, and ywu mast wake* te do or take the consequent:m-le. UMW, : by an authority euperior to earthly law to" sweat not at all." I have no desire to set myself above the law, but I can only give you " yea " and " nay," niaik Ike so doing I must take the consequences.—Uis Homer : Do you pro fess to be one of the people called Quakers t—Mr. Laurence: Honour : Have you never taken an oath ?—Mr. Laurence: Yes, once.—His Honour: How long ago ? I do not know ; the books will show. It was when I was sworn in as a special constable for West Milton, by the parish officers of Westbary-opon-Trym.— Was it a month ago that you were so sworn ?..-Oh, no ; it was full a year ago, if not more.—His Honour : I em afraid it will be my duty to commit you to prison, if you persist in this course, though I should be sorry to do ito.—Mr. Laureoee : I cannot alter; I must go.—His Honour Very well ; se your conscience obliges you to refuse to take the oath required by low, so my duty compels me to enforce the provisions of the law which I have to administer.—Mr. Bevan: Can you tell us where the bankrupt is?—Me. Laurence : I have given you my decision. lam yes and nay ; and if you cannot take me at that lam notbing.—H* Honour : Stand down, then, and I will make out the was , rant for your committal. Do you think if you had a 11111 e time given you there is any chance of your alteriag paelt determination ?—Mr. Laurence: None whatever; I wild be mint to prison.—Mr. Laurence woe then taken out of I court, and during his absence Mr. Bevan intimated that if he 000ld be got to answer at all, he (Mr. Bevan) would not press for his committal. Mr. Laurence was accordingly re- called into court, and having given such information as was desired, his Honour stated that he bad not thought himself called on to interfere with the discretion exercised by Mr. Bevan, but if that gentleman had pressed the matter, it would certainly have been his duty to send Mr. Laurence to prlson.—Sherbourne Journal. SEElorg INCONVENIENCY. wen experienced in Man chester, yesterday, in consequence of the miscarriage, by the London and North Western Railway, of nearly I, capita of the Daily Neve, Tl/14f1, and other morning papers, addressed to /losers. Wheeler and eon, the news agents who supply the Exchange and other public buildings. Many merc hants and manufacturers left town without get lug a eight of the news of the day-only a few odd copies picked up at the railway station being obtainable to supply the Eachabge with. Tie papers bad been duly booked at Easton-square, bat bad bees lost on the way. SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY. T he half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this railway and canal was held at the Lion Hotel at Shrews'. bun' yesterday, Earl Powse in the chair. The following are the most Important passages In the re. pore of the directors, se read by Mr. Skey, the eeretary : The proprietors are entitled to, and will receive, a divi dend for the past half-year, at the rate of U. 151. per cent. per swum, being half the dividend declared by the London and North Western Company for that period, and the war tante for the same will be heued before the close of the present month. The bills for regulating the capital of the compaay, for authorising a communication between the canal basins at Chester and the railways there, and for en larging the basins, &c., and for a branch canal to connect theeanale of this company with the Trent and Mersey navi gation ai Mtddlewieli, and other purposes, which were be fore parliament at the time of the last half-yearly meeting, have been subsequently withdrawn, at the request of the Leaden sod Ninth Western Company. A company having been formed for the purpose of constructing a line of rail way from Shrewsbury to Aberyatwith, and of joining the Shrewsbury and Chester line at Oswestry, which has met with the hearty approval of the London and NeethWestern Compeer (who are also surveying a line from Shrewsbury to Crews ti t muns , lien therewith), your directors have donned it advisable to facilitate the operations of the Aberystwith Company, and are in friendly communication with its promoters." Under the head Capital Account it was shown that the gross receipts have been 2,223,3711. 14s. ; the gross expen diture on the railway and canal has been 2,181.7651.125. 74.; and after deducting the various liabilities of the company under this heed, there is a balance to the credit of the com pany amounting to 66,6031. Is. sd. The canal earnings for the half-year have been 49,5391. 13s. 3d., and the expense of working, 34,8851.95. 10d. ; leaving a balance to he carried to "interest and dividend" account, amounting to 14,6)41. 3s. 64. The earnings on the 30 miles of railway for the half year ending Juno have been 14,989!. 3s. 6d. ; and the expense of working, 12,69 3! . Os. 7,1. ; leaving • Wanes of 2,2961 . 2s. lid . The haliyear's interest in de bentures on bends amounts to 16,3341. Ils. Id.; and the amount required to pay the dividend declared at thia meet ing is 19,7211. Os. 6d. ; showing a loss to the London and North Western Company on the half-year amounting to no less than 18,1661.65. 2d. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the company's bills had becu withdrawn from par liament during the last session at the request of the London and North Western Company, such proceeding being ne mem la consequence of the arrangements and negotiations ping en at the time. With respect to the proposed line of railway to Aberystwith from Shrewsbury, the directors had thought it proper to give a certain countenance to the pro ject, as the shareholders would see by the newspapers, the scheme having the support of the London and North Western Company. Since the last half-yearly meeting the proprietors would have seen that Mr. Glyn, who had so long and so ably filled the chair of the greatest railway corporation, had intimated to the board his pur pose to retire from his arduous duty. In these circumstance, he (Lord rowis) thought it due to Mr. Glyn that be should state that during the whole period in which by reason of his position be had been connected with this rii"lway, be had always manifested the most fair and liberal spirit in all its dealings; and although Mr. Glyn's private engagements rendered necessary his retirement from the chair of the North Western Company, he would still retain a seat at the board, and he (Lord Pelvis) accepted that as an augury that he would still continue to act as • member of the gestated bard of the two companies, and that their mutual relations would be conducted in the same harmonious mea ner as they had hitherto been. He had nothing Auther to ay except to repress his regret that the last act of Mr. Glyn, in which he made such fair overtures to the Great Western Company and the broad gauge had not been more favourably received, looking to the tone and temper in which the proposition was made. By the terms proposed all those unpleasant contest', and difficulties, and wranglinge which had so long prevailed, to the great injury of railway property, would have been put an end to ; and he could only again express his regret that the Great Western Com pony had not dealt with the subject in that fair and liberal manner which it deserved. (Hear.) He felt that, too, the more strongly, from the equitable manner in which it was proposed that Shropshire interests should be dealt with in any final settlement of the differences in this most difficult matter. The noble evil concluded by formally moving the adoption of the report. Mr. 1111111 T TOUTAL, of Manchester, the deputy-chair man, seconded the motion, which was put and carried unanimously. By a subsequent resolution, a dividend was declared, at the rata of half the amount paid by the London and North Western Company. Mr. Alderman E. Ilareocx, of Shrewebury, complained of the inconvenience to which Shropshire passengers Jour neyiag from London were subjected by reason of the change of carriages at Stafford, and he suggested that the authorities at Euston-square should cause carriages to be put on to run through. Earl Powis said that the matter had been discussed be fore, but he now learnt from Mr. Skey, the secretary, that • carriage wee regularly put on to run through by tea o'clock day mail, one of the most important trains out of London ; and the North Western Company would at any time put on • special carriage where there wee a party going through. Mr. W. B. BATLEY, of the Orford Circuit, in moving a a vote of thanks to the noble chairman and board of di rectors, expressed his complete confidence that his lord ship would see their affairs placed on a proper footing, with the fullest regard for the interests of the propristom. Both in the hands of his lordship and his late father, Shropshire Union interests had been completely protected. with the fu'lest regard for the importance of the Imp stake confided to their charge. Mr. Bt AILEMORM seconded the motion, which was ser ried by acclamation. Earl Fowls, in acknowledging the vote of thanks, add that the battle of the gauges involved many difficulties, but their board was so constituted as to steer clear of many unpleasantneases, and.to mem any emergenies which might arise. UteTEß.—The report of the directors, to be sub mitted to the proprietors on the 29th Mat., stated that 4934. was expended on capital mount during the half-yew. The imaging rims Me Newry and SSnniskillen, and the Dundalk an Enniskillen Railway Companies, to enforce the *Mints of this company are still pending The directors continue, as the bosh o f ' the company falidne, to replace the mosey so paid sr at the We of 4 per cent., whereby a loonaiderable saving is effected. Riese the last meeting the whole of the Dublin and Belfast Jemmies Railway between Pereseewa eel Dents& has hem epithet for traffic. The ▪ ebstiseliss, thmetsms, new seerimimg htween Belfast eat Rails Is the ereselei of the Dem, end it is cond. =esthelpeeed thee the heidst war that river will be mod mell i ts the enewles eillelitef. The tram ma im, et the t batiosit soma% to 25,1471., and the were*: expenses be 7.7441., and, after de death, the lamest on the Isemewed capital, there will »- melt a helium of 13,3721., mss el which the direetors re amememi a dividend of 23a. per then, leaving a balance of 1,43 U. es be added to the ?mew thee, whisk will thee 'mouth M RPM The dismiss,. attar them* maid de liteestith, haw decided on eddei the shereheidaes comfiest wed esterwriae e M the propriety at applies. M pedlemeth in the snack, weds. for an act to ambit the esmperry be mast their Use of railway from I, Oaths, t Meet le Mew. The propo line = ik preeeed by G er lassiewils, Measighan, Clones, spa n s d ed Bel- turbot to Came, where it would Join a line, for the making of which an set has been already obtained, from Cann to Maims, on the Midland Great Western Railway. It would pees through one of the most populous and thriving rural &trims in Ireland, and would form a great trunk line through the been of Ulster. The line hem to Cavan by the proposed route will be about 41 =le length, and the required capital 150,0001. The Menem F,ume that the landowners will be iavourable to the pro and be 'Min to part with their land at a fair price. hey also aspect that the traffic of the district will pay the working expenses and interest on the capital for the new line, and that it will tend to increase the traffic over the whole length of the present Ulster Railway. . - . STOUBBBIDOE EITENSION.—A very influential and numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Stourbridge was held on Tuesday to consider the inadequate railway mem modathis afforded by the Oxford, Worcester, and %Vigra.- heapton Railway Company, and to petition the London and North-Western Company to take measures for carrying out the the branch of tho Stour Valley Railway through Cradley to Stourbridge. Lord Lyttelton was called to the chair, and, in complying with the request of the meeting, stated that it wu impoWble not to see that there was a want of that perfect railway accommodation betissen Stour bridge and Birmingham which he considered wee essential and necessary to the prosperity of the town. After some observations from Mr. Foster Captain Hickman, Mr. R. Scott, Mr. Swindell, Mr. Woo d , and Mr. Aekroyd, resolu tions favourable to the objects of the amemblage were passed, and the meeting separated. THE BANDITTI OF TILE NORTHERN Counins.—lt will be a source of great satisfaction to the public to learn that the formidable band of robbers who committed some of the most daring robberies lately known in this country about three or four weeks ego is likely to be completely broken up, if the whole of the desperadoes are not brought to justice. The robberies to which we allude are those at Didshury, Mirfield, and Bolton, near Bradford, committed be seven or eight men armed with pistols and guns, and wearing dark masks. We leers from Yorkshire that one of these men, named John Dunn, has been apprehended by the chief constable of Bradford, and confesses to having taken part in both the blirfield and Bolton robberies. In fact, from his statement, part of the silver plate stolen from Mr. Clough, the solicitor at Bolton, near Bradford, his been found in the Bradford Canal, including a silver teapot and a silver coffeepot. The Liverpool police have in custody a man named Fez, but he is con fi ned by fever at the infirmary, and it will be use weeks before he can be ermined. It is stated also that Mr. Beswick, of Manchester, his in custody a third bobber of the same gang, named Redman. Each of these men has confessed to his own share is these robberies, and it is likely that the police, having succeeded so far, will yet obtain the manses of the other robbers, or some clue which will lead to their apprehension. Dann was a blacksmith at Bradford, but he and the other robbers had been " 11111,10," and this war just the class of men who might be supposed to have taken part in such outrages, because the men, from their experience during the last few years, have formed a notion of the unprotected state of country houses, whether occupied by farmers or gentlemen, where many men servants WON not kept. THE REGISTRATIONS. LONDON. The revision of the list of householders entitled to the parliamentary franchise fur the City of London was again continued yesterday. Mr. Brown objected to the n.: In the St. Peter's, Cornhill, het me of Mr. James Wathen Read, described as of 61, Cornhilt. A new claim ha d been made by Mr. Read, in which the pre, ligti put of . which the situated in quoin:cation arose were described at : acin g Bishopsgate-street. It appeared, from the evidence of the claim. h ..nd th e , ward beadle, that the only entrance to the pre,.." . te shell-fish shop and cellar, for which a rent of 1301. a j • lo was paid) was in Bishopsgate•street, wherein they were numbered 126, but that they rally formed part of Alder- I man Carter's house in Cornball, twine under the same roof, and the entry in the rate•book was " 61, Cornhill, Alderman Carter's house, sad James Walker Read, shop at back." There was no entrance through 61, Curnhill, to the shop in The name was ultimately retained, the description being arm sided as suggested by Mr. Smith. In the St. Alban's, Wood-street, list a claim made on be half of Samuel Elliott Frewer, of 93, Wood-street, was opposed by the tory agent on the ground that the °erupt don was merely permissive, and not in the nature of a tebaucy. The claimant, whose care was supported by Messrs. Smith and Ledger, stated that the house at 1i0.93,W00d-street,wis the place of business of Messrs. Ward, Start, and Company, wholesale hosiers, whose servant he was. Ile °ems? icd two rooms in it, as consideration for additional services, in lieu of extra 'salary, under an arrangement made some years ago, one condition of which arrangement was, that he should not ho dispossessed without six months notice. T ite upper part of the house was occupied as sleeping rooms and eating looms by the young mcu to the employ of the firm. lie had been on the register, and had voted at the general election in 1847, but his name had been since struck out on an objection of Mr. llrowu'sin his (the claimant's) absence. The Barrister intimated that ho had some doubt in the ease, but added that it was not for him to argue against the franchise, and allowed the claim. The lists fur the wards of Farringdon Without, Lang bourne, Lime-street, and Town and other liberties of the Inner and Middle Temple, will be revised today. MIDDLEdEX. Yciterday Mr. E;uneeroigiadwell sat at the New Globe, Mile-cod.road, to revise the list of voters deriving their qualification frcm property M the parishes and places within the polling district of Mile-end. Mr. W. H. James attended for the liberal., and the eonseitstires wereauppo;ted Dy Mr. ilVylones and Mr. IL Maelure. The first case was that of Henry Tindal Atkinson, who was objected to by Mr. Jones. The Banister was about to ernne the name, when Mr. James objected, on the ground thnt notice had not been served. He would defy Mr. Jones to produce the notice. Mr. Jones said the fact was that he had the notices in his hand two minutes back, end they had been handed across the table, and some one hod stolen them. The Barrister—The disappenrance of the notices is very strange, and excessively troublesome. Mr. James would be glsd to discover who had been thus robbing the conservatives. The Barrister ultimately decided that the name should be retained. MARYLEBONE. _ _ Yesterday Mr. 7. F. Maqucen, the revising barris ter for the borough of Marylebone, held his court at the St. Pancras Vestry Hall, fur the revising of the lists of voters for that perish. In the St. Pancras lists there were but 20 clahn•, only 8 of which were disallowed, and 30 objections, all of which were disallowed, and the names retained, on account of the non-appearance of the objector. The revision for this borough, with the ezeeption of 101710 two or three reserved cases in the Marylelvane list, termi nated. The result of the Marylebone parish revision is as follows Objections made lO2 Sustained OO Failed LANCASHIRE. _ . . The objections sencciinsi;Cciwholesale way, as described in yesterday's Express, will *newel' the pur pose by knocking off a good many voters who will not or cannot uffard the time to attend. Yesterday, the coiner nem advocates became a little alarmed, and nbsr.doned a considerable number out of fear that the expenses would be allowed, the Barrister having exhibited a di,position to deal heavily in such cases. To the Rev. Dr. Beard, who had been very frivolously objected to, the Barrister awarded If. expenses, and to other parties Os. and 10e. per day for as , many days as they had attended. Several mistakes had been made also of a fatal character by the conservatives. In one ease, they had directed the notices to the overseers of Bradford, ant the pout-office had sent them to Bradford in Yorkshire. When they reached the township of Bradford, on the ounkittsof Manchester, they were a day too late, and the Barrister decided them all to be bad in the lump. On the whole, the liberals may be thankful that their oppo meats have not the knowledge to make them so dangerous as they desire to be. The want of legal knowledge on the part of voters, however, often enables the advocates to escape costs; they get an admission of what appears to be some slight inaccuracy of description, and the banister then decides that the objection was nut " frivolous," and costs are not awarded. Thus a voter is registered far " freehold land," and the freehold land is sufficient qualification, teat the advocate gets an admission that there are houses, had submits that the description should be amended to " freehold houses and land ;' the court being thus made to a great extent an arena for trick sters rather than a court for the protection of the voter. lIERTF9RDSHIRE: The revision of the lists of voters for this county commenced at Watford on Tuesday before 3. C. Fish, Esq. the revising barrister. Mr. Bontews appeared for the liberals and Mears. Pasainghom and Fellows for the tortes. The following is the result of the day's revision :—Liberal gain on claims, 49 ; ditto on objections, 16 ; total 66. Tory pin on claims, 31; ditto on objections, 31 ; total 63. THE NEW MAIL STEAMERS. One of the most interesting scientific problems of the present day is, at what rate must the magnitude of • paddlethoz steam-ship and its engine power increase m the distance the ship traverses without coaling increases, the speed of the said ship being a constant or an increasing quantity? We have paddle steamers that will run 3,000 miles in 10 days. But all attempts to go further than that, at the same ratio of speed, have been found most difficult, the Wight of the wheels requisite to propel the increasing = et the ship, and the weight of the additional 1111 0=1,11 by the increasing engine power, have ewe dm counterbalanced the additional power that has been given to the monster steamers that have lees recently built. In fact, it was found =l:almost to build ships that would carry coals suf a longer voyage than 3,000 miles, and the fee theft Bost wheels which accelerate the speed in moderate skid steamers, are not avalable for larger ones, because the legawork necessary for their construction is so weighty that Imeanteracts all their advantages. It has been a desideratum with the West India Mail Oampany to have steamers that will run between South ontpton and St. Thomas at the same ratio of speed as Cu ssed's ships run between Liverpool and New York. To do this the St. Thomas palmy should be done in 12 days, for the diatoms is nearly 3,700 miles. The Orinoco, Magdalena, and Parana, have beat built for this wpm; Ina although this. ships are maggideent epeci ewe of anal soshilsoliss. sad Alai sod lazurious ac ammmedatkia le poningsis, tar, Med So sew up to the appalred speed, and their consumption of coal—nearly 100 Ws • day—was enormous. At length the above-named =steeled the La Plata, • neametsr ship differently hes ths Mhos% sail Wound se her every thing whisk soiente soh wealth swell sewed. The com ' pany staked everything as this ship. The whole commu nity interested in slum shipping matkipated her per formers atilt the greatest anxiety, sad if she had failed bums ingenuity would have been baffled Than. is sew not the .lightest doubt but what a steamer is lOW that will rot 4,000 miles ia a fortnight, without stepping, and that do slows Is the La Plata. This is • shot Intosestiast fate, tithe so than the discovery which cos Milt posse ops, Ant • steamer would cross the Adan a, bosom sees oho on now be obtained as to the means hp which great ocean stages can be traversed at • high geed, of 12 or 13 miles an hour, continuously. At 3.30 p.m., on the 17th of August last, the La Plata mat off from the busy opposite Netley Abbey, in Southamp ton' Water, with nearly 1,400 tons of coals on board, besides cargo, passengers, and mails. She had an ebb tide, and in twenty minutes afterwards she was abreast of Calshot Castle. At 5.30 p.m. she pored the Needles rocks. As the night set in a fog came on, which detained her two hours. The first clear day's run after leaving Southampton she ac complished 245 miles, and continued to increase in speed as she consumed her coals. On the 21st, at 3.35 p.m., while she was going at full speed with all sail set, there was a cry of • man overboard. The massive engines were stopped, the sails backed, two boats lowered, and in less than seven minutes the mu was taken off a life buoy, which had been thrown to him, and in 20 minutes from the time of U', cry the boats were up, the sails set, and the engines at full speed again. On the 22nd, at sunset, the La Plata passed the Azores, and at noon on the 24th half the voyage was accomplished. Her speed was now increased to 300 miles a day, which speed was kept up with very little variation to the end of the voyage. The wind and weather were propitious, but there were the usual drawbacks experienced on the first voyage of a new ship—the engines became heated, the paeltiug of the cylinders became loose, and steam escaped, and the floats became unscrewed or detached. These drawbatke and other accidents caused a detention of about 14 hours during the voyage. The La Plata entered St. Thomas at 6.45, p.m., on the 30th ult., and considering the difference 'of time at Southampton and St. Thomas, and the accidental delay of the voyage, the whole distance traversed was a little more than 12 days. Captain Allan, the commander of the La Plata, fully expects to reach Southampton on the evening of the 28th or morning of the 29th of this month with the West India and Mezican mails, and to perform the distance from St. Thomas to Southampton in less than 12 days. The La Plata consumed 1,194 tons of coals on her outward voyage, and had therefore about 200 tons left when she reached St. Thomas. The prevailing winds she experienced on that voyage were easterly, and of course favourable, but the sails of the La Plata were scarcely ever of any avail, es she outstripped the wind or steamed at en equal rate with it. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES TO THE MAN CHESTER CONTRIBUTORS AT THE onEAT EXHIBITION. The medals, certificates, and jurors' reports awarded to the exhibitors of Blanchester, were publicly dis tributed yesterday, in the Town Hall. Sir Josue Punkt took the chair in the absence of the Mayor of Manchester, whom indisposition prevented from attending. The L or d Bishop of Manchester, the Esrl of Wilton, the Mayor of Salford, and Mr. Thomas Barley, President of the Man chester Chamber of Commerce, were also present, and took part iu the proceedings. The Cuairestme said it had been the wish of the exhibi tors g Ma: heater that the Med als au ei;tl be distributed l In this hall, ante in consequence of that wish !?ad !Av.: summoned. lie believed he had nothing more to dd than call over the names of the recipients of prix Y, and such of them as were present might have the medals which had been awarded to them. He had no doubt every one would be pleased at the satisfactory termination of the labours of the committee in Blanchester, and every gentle man woull be gratified to have a sul.,tantial remembrance of the great event which made the year ISt memorable in the annals of English history. The Meyer of &strum) moved the first resolution, which win as follows : "That, in accordance with the wishes esprt ued by the executive committee of the ltoyal Commis ion, this meeting requests the clisirtuan of the local committee of the Great Exhibition to proceed to distribute the medals which had been ree, ived iu acknowledgment of the contributions of this district." He said the previous proceedings in relation to this com mission had occupied more than two years, and he b•lieved all that could have been sa.d about it had teen said already; the present, although the isst and sleepiest port of its duties, was as gratifying, at least, as any that had gone before. (lieu, hear.) It was un acknowledgment to this town that it had not been behind any other part of the world in doing what it could to promote the objects of the Great Exhibition and the advanceme: tof science in general. lie congratulated his fellow-townsmen that in the Exhibition their town had a very prominent part, end, he believed, a very satilactory one. (Loud cheen.) The Bishop of MANCH KIITEIL, in seconding the resolution with appropriate remarks, observed that there was ono subject on which they would probably expect sonic word dropped that day—one word, however imperfect, dropped to the memory of him whose talent and high senle of duty could never be forgotten, of held in too high appreciation by his countrymen. (Hear, hear.) That great, high minded, and good luau who had passed away was the proudest ornament of the Crystal Palace as he paced along its corridors, viewing with calm and satisfied, yet intereott el eye, the ere atnen and happier/3 of a nation of which he had, under Providence, been one of the chief authors. Ilia mind had been in many respects unappre ciated and misunderstood. It hail been said that he re garded duty rather than glory, and that he was the Iron Duke ; but it was the inadequacy and imperfection of these terms that failed to convey the real impress of his character. Duty was with him the appreciation of the circumstauces in which he was placed. At one grasp his mind would take into consideration equally the greatest and least result/. He might have been iron in one respect, as the metal was enabled to adapt itself to the form required by the skilful artist, but iron in another respect he was not; for while at all times ready with unflinching eye to see, with unflinching breast to bear, and with unflinching head to carry out what was hest fur his country and these around him, a man of more kindly feeling and greater indulgence he believed never heed. If we looked to those despatches which con stituted, like the writings of the great Roman commander, a wondrous specimen of his skill to conceive and express his great designs, as those designs, when car ried out, showed ins skill to execute them, we found his consideration for the comfort of the commonest soldier displayed equally with his keen appreciation of every circumstance and minute point of de tad subservient to the great objects he had in hand. Iron he might have been, but he (the right rev. prelate) appealed to one who knew him well, and who now sat near him, if he had not gazed with interest many a time at the kindling of his eye when Wellington Lie Anglesey and the other old companions of his glory. Iron he might have been, but it was iron moulded to the finest and noblest uses; and long might the recollection go down, that the glories of Waterloo, united in the hero, were loot in the man ; and he who rode, eareleu of his own life, being entreated to spare himself, had said, " Let them fire away—the battle is won," was loot in the consoler of the fathers and brothers of those slain around him. He (the right rev. prelate) was unwilling that it should go forth that this meeting had b-en held without any faint expression of gratitude to him who gave us the peace which produced the Crystal Palace. Aud let them earnestly yield a tribute of sympathy to those under whose rule we lived, who had matured and brought about this happy conception with such wouderlul and un mixed success. (Cheep.) To the Prince Consort their thanks were due for this, as for every object of his public life. To the Sovereign their thanks were due for the wagon interest she had taken in whatever might conduce to the happiness and prosperity of even the meanest of her sub jects. To *be Royal Commission also they owed their acknowledgrnews tor their exertions, and he was sure they would be most cheerfully accorded. He had great pleasure in seconding the resolution. (Loud cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. The pekes were then distributed to these of the success -Ihl exhibitors who were present. The number of names on the list to whom the various distinctions had been awarded was 156. Un the motion of the Earl of WILTON, Seconded by Mr. T. HAZLET, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and this terminated the proceedings. lIELINCIIOLY ACCIDENT AT SHA. The Pert al Spain Gazette rays : " The steamer Victoria proceeded on Wednesday last (June 14) on het-cus tomary daily trip to and from San Fernando, and arrived off that town, at her usual hour, without anything occur ring indicative of the calamity which was so speedily to follow ; and having discharged her passengers, and taken in those who proposed proceeding by her to Po rti of Spain, again got under weigh (at 3 p.m.), and had reached about halfway between Point-a-Pierre and the Lodge Estate, when (at half-past three) a noise as of an explosion was heard by those on board, and great quanti ties of steam rushed up from below through the hatchway. The crew and fore-deck passengers, many of them severely scalded by the steam which had forced its way upon deck, made far the after pall of tho vessel, where the boat' of the ' steamer were hanging by the davits, and in so doing had to ' cross through the escaping steam, and suffered yet more severely. The after or cabin passengers had in the mean time rushed to the stern of the Teasel, and fortunately escaped the action of the steam. A scene of indescribable °anilines then ensued—es-cry one rushing to the boats, and insisting on their being lowered. It was, indeed, de sirablo thee one at least of the boats should be lowered, to I be sent to the assistance of four persons who had jumped overboard and were then strigglin,; with the waves ; but this was not in the contemplation of those who were clamouring for their being lowered, they only sought to escape in them from the further danger which they still apprehended they were exposed ta. At last, after almost a quarter of an hour had been lost in pacifying fears that had no longer any solid foundation, all further danger having ceased with the escape of the steam and water from the boiler, a boat was lowered and sent after the poor people, who had been in the meantime strug gling to keep themselves afloat ; two of the four were taken into them and saved—a third was seen to go down before the boat could reach him—the fourth had already sunk, and was no more visible. The boat returned with the two men thus saved, one of whom, however, was found to have been a severe sufferer from the scalding steam. " In the meantime the steamer had been brought to an 'anchor, and the vapour from below had sufficiently die ed to allow the melancholy sight of the two stokers li re ce lying dead, and, although Africans, their corpses presented t o appedran, from the scalding off of the epidermis, of two white men, the hair and features only denoting tho negro. Two boys (black) who had been down in the bold at the time also presented a lamentable spectacle, their skin having St yeeled o ff wherever tbo fl esh was exposed ; bat they were yet alive. The accident °courted in sight of San Fernando, and assistance was promptly sent oil from that town ; but the first boat that neared the steamer was from the Felice, lying off Point-a-Pierre. Some of the passengers returned by this end other boats to San Fernando, where tbo wounded were also sent, and a drogher ran alongside and took off such passengers as were still desirous of proceed ing to port of Spain, where they arrived at a.m. on Thursday morning, bringing the first intelligence of this mournful catastrophe. "The deaths and casualties, as far as is yet known, aro as follows:—Two men drowned. Two stokers killed on the spot. Two boys, who have died in San Fernando hospital. Cyrus (steward), since dead. Two women aro ' very dangerously scalded, not expected to recover; two or three others arc seriously injured. " An inquest is being held by the harbour-master, who, having siewed the dead bodies of two of the sufferers brought to town on Thursday, has proceeded with L. W. Samuel. Esq., superintendent of public works, and Messrs. Fleming and W. Clapperton, engineers, to visit the steamer where the now lies at author, close to the spot where tho accident took place, and on their return to port of Spain, the public will be in full possession, we presume, of the ' cause of this lamentable accident. In the meantime, wo may state that the boiler was one of peculiar construction, there being certain dues running longitudinally through the boiler, so that the tiro is, in a great measure, in the ' centre of the boiler, instead of being below ; and it is said that it was in the ieterier of one of these flues, that the boiler gave away, and the steam escaping first into the [flue, and from thence into the hold of the steamer itself, dealt drath and destruction around. ' "ThevariouTdisappointmentsthathaveoccurredsincethe first introduction of the Victoria te•our waters have created a strong feeling against Yankee steamers; and the general wish seems to be that London or Ulugow should now be looked to as the best port from which • suitable vessel to replaoc the Victoria can be obtained." UNITEALTIIINENS or TIIE WESTERN TROPICS.--• The whole of the West Indies, Central America, and the Spanish Main, appear to be unusually unhealthy. A large number of officers and men belonging to the West India packets are invalided, and come home by the homeward boom , ships. Several came home by the Parana. There is scarcely a white man on board the Treat and Great Wes tern, nearly ell on hoard of them are coloured. The Wight which his affected the potato crops and the vine, appears to have made equal havoc in Central America. The cochi neal and indigo crops have failed. The cochineal brought by the Parana is a large quantity, but it is understood that there will be very little more to arrive is this cowitry.