The Express. — London, England, 1853-09-28 00:00:00

0 ,4 constitutional rights, that 'a to say, of direct siaeJ in the management of public interests—could c , readily submit to have almost no share at all in the d . gct i e ea et the foreign policy of the country. In home aflame mistakes of legislates' may be cured by modifying or revetsitig them, and still the people would nut endure • a. slightest measure to Le introduced without its consent. Set in foreign polit.cs, where a single mistake may engen der irreperable mischief, the people are satisfitd to hear that it a incompetible with public interest to let the people now how its deareet interests are disposed of. If OM age, sir, claims the credit of civilisation arid pro p as, it should not submit to imposition of worn-out prejtc diet 4, the toleration of which can be only excused by the undeveloped condition of the popular intellect. Amongst a e ss preludices there is none fraught with more mischiev ous results to all humanity than secrecy of diplomacy. Con sptraors, air, may want secrecy, and weak nations may be exeuseil fur creeping by stealth into positions which openly tho could not claim. But, be sure of it, sir, that, with a tverful nation, which should Jest sod right, and which has the power to enforce its e i at ens, the keeping secret the management of its national inter , et. it the surest indication (tithe's being "something roe, Li in the state of Denmark ;" and that there must be thee la, in operation which are likely, if not to betray, at Best v. compromise public weal. The practice of secret management engenders careless ge-s towards the most important political problems, in the so:atian of which a mighty natiun has to claim a share, and that carelessness is always followed by popular ignorance of all the matters counected with foreign policy. It is upon suds foundation that etatesmeu of higo standing con dare to lapse upon public credulity, by assertions which history contradicts. Thus, it is possible that the English people have to hear Francis Joseph of Austria praised as the hope of the nations whom he oppresses ; thus, it is possible that another statesman Hest re the English people with the high sounding statement that thie country has stood forward many times "to maintain the independence of weaker nations ' mud to preserve to the general family of nations that frevtdem, that power of governing themselves, of which others sought to deprive them ; " whereas, so far as history is the record of fact,, scarcely a single instence is known of England's government having need its interference for the triumph of popular rights. Certainly not in our age, and, least of all, in the case of Hungary, though that neglect was fraught with all the mischief which, if Gud and the people of Turkey will not prevent it, is just about to over whelm the world. Thus it is posaitde that while, one day, one 'oister of the crown pledgee his word that the immediate and complete evacuation of the Danubian Principalities is • tontine.. thou quit cord of any settlement ; another day another minister of the crown reduces this condition, line qua non, to the expectation that the "magnanimous Czar" will feel inclined to du so spontaneously. Thus it is possib'e, that while England's moral dignity is engaged in the support of Turkey—because it is England which advised Turkey not t yield to the arrogant dictates of Prince Idenchikoff—it is England which presses upon Turkey to sign conditions which. though more mildly styled in kern, are the same in essence. And thus we come to the point that we may be doomed to see the boasted friendship of England for the l'erte coming to the issue, that England may interfere in Turk' y just as Iluseia did interfere in Hungary, and fight the Turkish people for daring to resent th; encroachments of Russia upon the honour of the Salton, and the lodes peodenee of his empire. Sir, nobody can charge me with having ever attempted, whilst 1 enjoy the protection of English laws, to meddle with auy internal matter of your country. But the ques tion now pending in the East, is not • question belongit g to England alone; it is a question of mankind, of liberty, of civilisation, and particularly of the future of my country ; aid, hi such matters, I may well claim the right of having an opinion, and of expressing it. I, therefore, conclude by saying, that it is with seep sorrow and intents; anxiety that I see the Ii hoe of policy which the course of events has already con demned, and which impartial history will undoubtedly protiouue• to have been unbecoming the position of Eng- End, adverse to the interests of Great Britain and of hums ally ; inefleacioue to achieve its declared design, imm esh nt in Its hearing, compromising those it intended to help, and helpiog those it professed to oppose. I am, sir, with particular regards, Yaws respectfully, William replete, Esq., Stafford. L. KOSSUTH. THE LONDON NECROPOLIS COMPANY. Yesterday the shareholders of this company held • spccial meeting, at their offices, No. 2, Lancaster-place, Strand, Joseph Ninny, Esq., in the chair. It. C. Hornaar, EN., moved the adoption of the report of the committee, and, la doing so, said that he was happy to inform them that the shareholders had paid up their shares. The motion having been seconded, the report was received and adopted. The following recommendations contained in the report were proposed and agreed to seriatim : —" To cancel the re solution of the board of directors of the 18th day of August, 1c52, awarding 100 paid-up shares to Mr. Vaults, and to empower your directors to take such steps as they may deem expedient, for cancelling or recoverinor the scrip for these shares, which is now in the possession of Mr. Voided To cancel the resolution of the board of the 28th day of February last, awarding 2,0001. to Mr. Voules. To receive the resignations, er if necessary to remove from the office of trustees, Messrs. Voules, Thompson, and Anderson, and a day was appointed for that purple's. To appoint a day for the election of two new trustees, who, with the two remain ing trustees, Sir James Duke, M.P., and Archibald Bailie, Esq., 111.1'., will complete the full number authorised by the act. To increase, in accordance with the provisions of the 11th clause of the company's deed of settlement, the number of the directors to twelve. To appoint a day for the election of new directors to supply the vacancies which will then exist in your board. To empower the directors to borrow 30,000/. on the unpaid capital of the company. To authorise them to effect an immediate settlement of the commoners' claims, either by arrangement or by the verdict of a jury. To ►uthorise the re-payment of 1,5001., the balance of the promissory note for 5,000!., advanced on the joint and several security of General Briggs, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Davies." It wu resolved that the powen of the committee should be continued, and that they should make arrangements with such persons as were willing to become directors. Mr. HARRIS stated that he was very much pleased with the laboun of the committee, and he had no doubt that the company would become more prosperous than it had been at the outset. Several shareholder expressed themselves to the same effect. Captain Moonsom called attention to a paragraph in the report, which wee as followe:—"We have accord- iagty communicated with their board (the South Western Railway Board), through one of its moat inflows tial members, and we have much pleasure in informing the shareholders that the majority of that board aro not only favourable to our project, and see in it the prospects of large advantages to their company, but are ready and will ing to enter into terms with us immediately that we have a board of directors, in whom they can have confidence, and with whom, in fact, they can treat. We are assured that the only obstacle to an arrangement having been long since effected with them was the inefficiency of our own board, and the impracticable and undecided character of their proposals and communications." He said that so soon as the Necropolis Company was in a position to carry forward their plans, the South Western would be able to make such arrangements with reference to trains, as to snit the views and convenience of the company. Mr. Ru was very glad to hear Captain Moor som's statement, which must be highly satisfactory to the meeting. A vote of thaaks was then passed to Mr. Taylor for the manner in which he had promoted the interests of the oompani.. Mr TAT t 011. returned thanks. The thanks of the meeting were then given to the mem bers of the committee of inquiry. Other matters of routine having been transacted, the meeting adjourned. EXPLOSION OF GAS IN LONDON WALL. Yesterday afternoon, about twenty minutes before 5 o'clock, the inhabitants of London Wall and Finsbury circus were greatly alarmed by a tremendous report re sembling that of a heavy piece of ordnance, which was soon ascertained to have proceeded from an explosion of several hundred feet of gas at the corner of Circus-place and London Wall. The Equitable Gee Company are having new main pipes laid down on the north side of Lan din Wall, for which purpose a deep trench has been excavated close to t►e kerbstones. Yesterday, • length of pipe, exteadiog from Finabury.pavement to Circus place, was completed, and a tight plug, consisting of spun yarn, &e., inserted in the mouth of the last pipe, at the gorier of Circus-place, in order that the main might be filled with gas for the usual supply of the inhabitants and the street lamps. After the pipe had been filled from the works in the Curtain-road, three men, via., Redmond Welch, Patrick Kilfye, and another whose name is not as certained, were sent into the trench to prove whether there was any escape from the plug,by waving a piece of lighted tow round the month of the pipe. Unfortunately, in this In stance, there had been a considerable escape; for no sooner was the light applied than a terrific explosion took place, knocking down and scorching in • dreadful manner those Who were in the trench. Simultaneously the ping was blown from the pipe to • considerable distance. The vio lence of the concussion broke the windows of Maus. Pritchard Brothers, tobacco manufacturers, London Wall. On the smoke clearing off, it was found that Welch and Kilfye were so severely injured, that they, as well as their mate, were instantly removed to St. Bartholomew's 11asei. tal, where they were promptly attended to by the surgical Fair, one being placed in Kenton's and two in Darker's Ward. On inquiry last night, it was stated that the inju ries were very estensire, and that two of the men were in • precarious state. TIIL SCOTCH BENCII.—It is rumoured at present that previous to the commencement of the winter session of the Court la November next, one of the Inner House Jalges, who if in rather • delicate state of health, is to tender his resignetion, and that in consequence the Lord Advocate will be elevated tattle Beach.—Edinburgh Witness. LORD PALSIERSTON AT PERTII. The freedom of the burgh of Perth was conferred by the Town Council of that city upon Viscount Palmer lion, on Monday last, in the City Ball there, in presence of about 2,000 persons. The Lord PILOTObr, in presenting the burgess ticket, dwelt on some of the more prominent p iints in the career of the noble lord, and concluded by saying —I will only add, that it would have been very delightful, indeed, for this country had you at this day, and in this trying crisis for Europe, been in the office you so long and ably held. (Loud cheers.) I do not insinuate any reflection on your successor in office ; but I know that the whole world would have had great confidence in your experience, your wisdom, your decision, and in your liberal spirit. But my lord, there is one cum fort that, though you are not its the broreign•ottice, you are in the cabinet, and I trust that the saute rule that was once propounded by your lordship, that no business should be transacted with foreign powers without, in the first place, submitting the matter to the whole cabinet, shall now be enforced, and that we will thus have the benefit of your experience and your wisdom. (Cheers.) Lord PALMBRATON, in acknowledgment of the honour, said—l can assure you, thy Lord Provost and gentlemen of the corporation, that I feel most deeply sensible of the great honour which you have jut conferred upon me. It is a matter of great pride end satisfaction to me to find myself thus in some degree connected with this great and distin guished body—the city of Perth. I have viewed, with the greatest admiration, the magnificent country which sur rounds what I may venture to call your capital —a country which, when I compare it with the state in which I saw it, I will not say how many years ago, when, as a young tourist, I passed through it, excites my unbounded admi ration for the intelligence, the industry, and the skill of the people who inhabit it. I may, indeed, say that your country is a kind of emblem of your national character; for while, en the one hand, it presents those bold eleva tions which are the gift of nature, on the other hand it exhibits the highest cultivation which human skill can confer. (Cheers.) My birth and my interests lie, in deed, in other parts of the United Kingdom ; but I may claim, at lent, one kind of tie with Scotland. For what signifies it if a man should be bora at any place, or of what practical value are his interests, if he has not had the benefit of that cultivation which education bestows? And wherever any important part of a mares education has been given him, to that place must his affections recur during the whole portion of his subsequent life. Now, gentlemen, it was my good thane to pus three years in Edinburgh, under the roof and under the instruction of that great and good man, Dugald Stewart—(cheers)--a man no less distin guished for the great capacity of his mind, for his powers to rise to the highest summit of science, and to penetrate the deepest mysteries of metaphysics, than for thou sterling qualities of heart and of disposition which make talent practically useful, and which add to the dignity of gehius. (Cheers.) Gentleman The Lord ProaVet boa bean kind enough to advert to some passages in my pub lic life. lie but rightly interpreted the sentiments whin guided me, when he said that I embraced heartily and cordially those principles of parlia mentary and municipal reform which, however much they excited doubts in the minds of many men at the time when they were broached, have, I think, now gained universal concurrence by the practical experience of good which they have conferred on all classes of this great empire—(chcen) —for whatever opinions any man may have formed at the time when that great battle was fought, there is not, I be lieve, an individual in the country who would now for an instant contemplate any retrogression in regard to those great measures. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, it was, as the Lord Provost has been pleased to my, my anxious desire while the charge of our foreign relations was corn. emitted to my bands, in the first place, to maintain unim paired the interests, and untarnished the honour and dig nity of the country. Bat, beyond these interest' and that honour there were certainly two objects which I held constantly in view, and which, to a great degree, the government of which I was • member succeeded in accom plishing. The one was to encourage the diffusion of the prin ciples of constitutional government throughout the coun tries of Europe. The Lord Provost has justly said that our anti succeeded in establishing constitutional government in Belgium, and that constitutional principle, of govern ment were established in Portugal and Spain. And we may look now with eatiefsction to the map of Europe, and we may see that there are—putting thou small unfortunate totes of Middle and Southern Italy out of the question— among the great states of Europe, there are but Austria and Russia in which, in some form or other, representative or constitutional government does not exist. (Cheers.) I know well, I may be told that in many of these countries it has for the moment been reduced to a mere form ; but, depend upon it, forms are invaluable. As long as good forms of government are maintained, no man need despair that the time may not come when, without violence and without revolution, these forms may become real substance. (Loud cheering.) The next object was—l won't ley the next, because it was the first object—the abolition of the detestable crime of the slave trade. (Hear, hear.) It was • difficult task ; there were many resisting influences. These influences have been, I trust, almost entirely overcome. We took a line which compelled that great delinquent, Brazil, practically to abandon its crime ; and although Spain still coatinuts, unfortunately, to • great degree—as far as her limited means are concerned— to perpetrate this crime, yet I trust that Cuba will soon follow the example of Brasil, and that the much injured race of Africa will be restored to the legitimate pur suits of agriculture and commerce, and that the native will no longer tremble at the sight of a white man, feeling that be sees in him the representative of all the miseries that can afflict human nature. (Applause.) Gentlemen, it is, it ought to be, satisfactory to every Englishman to know that the conduct of our foreign relations is now in able bands—that my Lord Clarendon—my noble friend, Lord Clarendon—who is now at the head of that department, has penetration to.seewhere the interests, and the honour, and the safety of the country are to be sought, that he has sagacity to discover the proper means for saving and main taining those interests, and that he has thinner, and energy, and pennant's:so, to pursue the right course to arrive at a successful and perfect result. (Cheers) If my noble friend, Lord Clarendon, receives—as I am sure he win— d's cordial, the generous support of the country, you may depend upon it that he will not t isappoint the just expeo teflon' of his countrymen. (Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, my duties now are of a different nature. The office which I have the honour to held places me in more intimate and close relation with my fellow-countrymen at home. I trust that in the performance of these duties I shall re ' coin their cordial and general support. A minister of state, gentlemen, bas no better eyes, and can as. no fur ' thee, than his neighbours. The probability is, that after a very short time of reading bad hands and pals ink his physical eyes will be rather worn than those of others. His ears are not like those of Dionysius, the Sicilian, and they can hear very little of what comes from a distance ; but his countrymen have eyes to see, and they have ears to hear, and they have tongues to speak, and they have pens to write ; and if those who see and hew things that are going wrong will have the goodness to communicate to that officer who's duty it is, and who may have the power of setting these things right, I can assure you, gentlemen—l can assure my fel low-countrymen—that whoever does that, will be confer ring a great favour on the man ist office, and will be doing a great benefit to the country at large. (Applause.) I know that, among a great number of communications, there may be many which are founded in error, in mistake of facts, in misconception of powers to remedy them. There may be a great deal of chaff in that which is sent, bat if in • bushel of chaff he shall find a pint of good con, that bushel of chaff will be worth the winnowing, and he caa turn the pint of corn to good purpose. (Applause' s ) Therefore, though many persons may thiak that communi cations from individuals give trouble to those who are in office, never mind that—l care not for it—the more trouble that is given, if it is for a good purpose, the better, for it is only by the assistance of the public at large that men in office can aiequately and satisfactorily perform their duties. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I can assure you, that the course which the Lord Provost aid Magistrates of your city have this day pursued is that which of all others is best calculated to promote the public interest. (Hear, hear.) In my case I feel that the approbation exceeds the merit which has called it forth ; but wh public bodies, like the great and respectable body of this city, see in the conduct of public men that which they are pleased to approve, it is by a public demonstration of that approval—it is by the en couragement which those civic honours offer to exertions in the public service—it is by these means that cities can best contribute to stimulate public melt to anxious and zealous performance of their duty, and to ewourege those who are entering into public life to devote themselves zealously to the acquiring that knowledge and to the practising those exertions by means of which the public service of this country will always be supplied with men capable of fulfill ing their duties, and equal to any times and emergencies in which they may be called upon to art. (Cheers.) THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, The Hon. A. F. Kixtratati, seconded by the Provost of Dundee, proposed • vote of thanks to the town council for inviting Lord Palmerston, which was sat heartily re sponded to. The noble lord was afterwards presented with the free dom of the incorporation of the Gelidity of the " fair city." On the ceremony being completed, Lord Pa LUZUSTON said I beg to return you my molt sin cere thanks for thus having completed my creation. (Ap plause and laughter.) Imperfection is the lot of human nature, but to be an imperfect citizen of Perth would, in deed, be • great mortification to me, or anybody who . esteems as highly as I do the people that inhabit this most distinguished town. (Hear, hear.) I only hope that I shan't be too hard pressed to execute and fulfil the decla ration which I have just made, and that the duties which I may be called upon to perform may in some degree be measured out to me with due consideration of the distance at which I have to execute them. (Laughter.) With regard to the topic which the dean has just adverted to, I certainly think all parties who have concurred in these improvements of our commercial system may be proud of having done a good work, the results of which will long, I trust, be felt for the benefit of the whole country ; and there is this re markable circumstance, that I believe no question which ever so mach divided the opinions of mankind, hiving been carried one way, so quickly made converts of these who during the discussion had held an opposite and contrary opinion, for we are now all free-traders. There is no party in the country that now holds the principles of free trade to bo a mistake, and an injury to the country. (Hear, hear.) I had, not very long ago, the good fortune to meet an old friend of mine who had been for five or six years absent from the country in a far distant situation, and who sail he could hardly believe that he was come back to the same country from which he went, he found such an entire difference in the general feeling of every body with whom he communicated. When he went away people were complaining of this, and find ing fault with that, and discontented with something else ; but now he found all classes admitting that they were suf ficiently flourishing, and there was a general feeling of con tentment and satisfaction pervading all classes with whom he communicated. (Applause.) It is true that national examples are slow of imitation. There are in other coun tries that which existed here, namely, private and particular interests which conflict with the general good—honestly and sincerely often, as well as sometimes foun led in selfish motives. But in the countries abroad, there is, lam sorry to say, still great prejudice against those principles of com mercial freedom which have been established so much to the advantage of this country. But depend upon it that the example of England will, sooner or later, tell. (Hear, bear.) They may at first be frightened at the consequences of the perfect freedom of commerce which we have esta blished ; but though at first they may be slow to fellow our example, depend upon it that that exempla will, sooner or later, produce its good. (Applause.) But even if it did not—supposing other countries were still to per• shit in maintaining a restrictive system—why, all we have done is benefit to ourselves—(hear, hear)—because it lignite plain that while you pursued a restrictive system with other countries also, you were suffering a double injury; you got dear that which you bought from other countries, and you sold at a disadvantage that which you sold to them ; while we have gained half the benefit by buying cheap that which we want from abroad—and, there fore, it is no argument against the sound principle of fne trade that it has not been followed by other countries; for if other countries still persist in injurious restrictions, depend upon it that they do themselves much more in jury than they do to us. We have done to ourselves so much good as it is in our power to do by untying the shackles which fetter national industry. Therefore whether other countries follow our example or not, our course is a wise one, and will never be retraced, for the longer we continue to panne this course, and to ex tend, so far as circumstances may ena►le us, or justify us in doing so, that principle of free commercial intercourse, depend upon it that in that proportion will the prosperity of this country increase ; and in spite °Piths prejudices of other countries—and we derive benefit from them even with a restrictive system—we shall sooner or later unite in levelling at once all those barriers which the prejudice and ignorance of mankind have in former times established to mist free iwercoune between nation and nation—an in tercourse which tends not only to the national prosperity, but to the progress of civilisation and to the happiness of mankind. (Loud cheers.) HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. According to the weekly report of the Registrar- General, 969 deaths from all causes were registered in Lon don during the week ending the 24th September. In the corresponding week of 10 previous years, 1843-62, the average corrected for increase of population is 1,163. The deaths ranged from 808 in 1846, to 1,611 in 1849, at which latter period the mortality was much increased by cholera, then on the decline. The deaths in the present return are therefore less than the average by 194. Cholera was fatal Ito 29 persons, 15 males and 14 females, as increase of 13 deaths from this disease compared with the previous week. I Twelve deaths from cholera occurred on the north (the same number as were recorded in the previous week) and 17 on the south side of the Thames ; where the number registered in the former week was only 4. Of the 29 fatal cases of cholera, 18 are described as " Asiatic," an increase of 12 cases so designated compared with the week preceding. Six children fell victims to this disease under the age of 15 years, and 23 adults at 16 years of age and upwards. The deaths registered from cholera in the last six weeks have been 10, 18, 16, 7, 16, and 29. Diarrhoea was fatal to 89 persons, an increase of 11 On the previous return ; during the last six weeks the deaths from this disease have been 128, 127, 152, 131, 78, and 89. The present return of deaths from diarrhoea is 12 above the corrected average of the corresponding weeks of the last ten yeah. _ _ The births registered in the week were 1,619, or 650 more than the deaths. Last week the births of 824 boys and 795 girls, in all 1,619 children, were registered in London. In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1815-52 the average num ber was 1386. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.826 in. The mean temperature of the week wee 54.6 deg., which is slightly below the average of the mine week in 38 years. The greatest difference between the dew point temperature and air temperature was 120 deg. on Monday and Thursday ; the least 90 deg. on Sunday and Wednesday. The wind blew from the west and south-west on an average of 89 miles a day. The electric condition of the atmosphere was positive on each day of the week. THE PRICE OF COAL-UNITED DEMONSTRA- TIO.V OF SEAMEN AND PITMEN. SHIELDS, SEPT. 26. A demonstration of seamen and pitmen belonging to the Tyne and Wear has been held in South Shields to day, and during the forenoon a procession of about three thousand persons, with en infinite variety of banners, and five beads of music, perambulated the town. A meeting was held on the sea-shore this afternoon. It appears that the gathering was to promote a anion between the seamen and miners, and to give effect to certain rmolir lions come to at a conference of sailors' delegates held at Sunderland on the previous week. The resolutions have already appeared in this paper. After the Ist of October sailors' wages to London are to be IX a voyage, and certain regulations are to be put into effect by the Sailors' Friendly Societies, the object of which is to regulate wages. The pitmen of Cramlington, West Cramliogton, Nicky nock, Garesfield, and Ludworth are on strike. The men want an advance of Id. per ton at Cramlington. At West Cramliogton they have got an advance, but alleging that the masters have set on more men than they can furnish with reasonable employment, and that they have discharged some of the leading union men, the miners have turned out. The seamen's delegates, hie the unfortunate protection ists, seemed hard up for a grievance, and the speeches at sthe meeting were very tame ; the well-dressed appearance of the multitude furnishing the strongest proof of their prosperity and well rewarded industry. After the meeting the procession returned back to the town, and the seamen and miners proceeded to their homes in pease and quietness. At any other time the attitude of the shipowner and sailor might have been the cause of alarm, ai the owners are about to open an office for the employment of seamen who do not belong to the union, and the sailors refuse to go in any vessel which has not union men on board of her, or out of which a muter has been tuned for being a union man. AN ANTI-PERCUSSION SKULL—This week, while a little boy was amusing himself at the window of his parents' house, he accidentally overbalanced himself and fell to the ground, from a height of three storeys. Singular to say, although the back of his head struck the paying stones in the court, yet he sustained comparatively but little injury, and has now quite recovered .— North BraisA Daily Mast. CITY COURT OF SEWERS. Yesterday, there was a full attendance d the nom wiwiosen. Deputy Exacova is the °hair. The CRIFF CLEitx. informed the court that he had sum moned the contractor for not having duly removed the dust &e., from houses in Peahen-court, on the complaint of the Hector of St. Ethelburga, who had, since the tune of the authority, expressed his wish not to prosecute the same; and read a letter from the rev. gentleman to that effect. Mr. Bamford, of the Temple, a part owner of certain house. in Meeting-house-yard, Gravel lane, attended on the subject of works required to be done thereat, which, after having heard him upon certain legal difficulties in the way of enforcing them, the orinsusaionen referred to a commit tee, to inquire into end report upon. The Clerk reported that notices had been served on the owners of 20 slaughterhouse* in Aldgato High-street, with orders to amend the places complained against forthwith. MOM AND HORNS OP C/ATTLI NUISANCI. Mesas. Streatfield, Lawrence, and Mortimer, of No. 3, St. Mary-axe, were summoned upon the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health, stating that ss there is upon these premises a large store of hides and horns of cattle in an offensive state, and that the same is likely to be prejudicial to the health of persons whose habitations are in the neigh bourhood of the same." iheff;feicl;ntitTlirough one of the firm, said that they bad carried on the business for twenty years, without caus ing the slightest drum, or injury of - any kind ; that the hides they received were conveyed (as our reporter under stood the gentleman who represented the house) to their premises free from any tendency to decomposition, which would, in feet, render them valueless for commercial pur poses ; that at their premises the hides were salted, a pro cess which effectually prevented decomposition, and which would altogether be unavailing in cases in which deoompo sition was taking place, and that they met the charge, de termined to abandon any technical objection which might present itself, as an authority for resisting the application. The Medical Officer said that he had abundant testimony presented to him upon his visit to the premises in the enormous muses of maggots and the stifling vapours of ammonia which almost p ed him from drawing his breath. The representative of the firm said the maggots could not have proceeded from the hides, u nuggets mutt not teat upon contact with salt. They mast have issued from the horns. The Medical Officer said he did not mean to state that the bides were so decomposed as not to hold together, but he certainly meant to assert that they occasioned a dread ful nuisance, of the injurious nature of which to the neigh bourhood he entertained not the remotest doubt. ... One of the defendant% said he bad been on the spot many years in constant attendance in 'the business, and he I had not during the whole period a moment's illness. He believed that so far from being prejudicial the ammonia which had been represented as so offensive, had operated as a preventive of the cholera in the vicinity of the place in which the hides were deposited, and had, amongst other liras, saved the lives of the clerks of the establishment, 30 of whom had been employed when that disease had been last prevalent in London. The maggots, he bad no doubt, came from Leadenhall Market In the limo., and to proceed to condemnation upon such grounds would be tantamount to en act of shutting up that place of business altogether. He begged to assure the court that when hides came from North America find other distant countries he had never heard of any illness amongst the crews, and those who wirii acquainted with the trade were aware that hides which in some seasons would keep a week would in other seasons spoil in 24 hours. He came forward himself to bear testimony in his own per- son to the innozious quality of the trade to which he had long punctually attended without ever having suffered a moment's indisposition from a constant exposure to every thing described as noxious or disagreeable in it. Deputy LAMB, who resides in Aldgate, said he must dos Blare that he never heard any complaint of the premises, and wished I. bear testimony to the respectability of the firm. Deputy Harmer:it; never for a moment doubted the re spectability of the gentlemen complained of. He considered the high character they maintained as a security for the im mediate removal of a nuisance of the character so posi tively denounced by die medical officer of health, upon whose judgment the court had the most perfect reliance. (Hear, hear.) Defendant—l can prove, by the longevity of numerous families who hay* always resided in the neighbourhood in which hides were accumulated, that there is nothing in them calculated to engender disease. Deputy Hour submitted to the court that it would ohm a total disregard of the exertions of the government to pre vent the spread of cholera and other fatal diseases by the appointment of able officers, and the publication of rules and orders to combat with such formidable enemies to human life, if the commissioners did not resolutely carry into effect the masterly c. unsel of the able officer who kid given such unquestionable testimoay as to the nuisaace they were called upon to remove. (Hear, hear.) The healthy appearance of the gentleman who came forward upon the occasion was certainly an armament to show that the proprietors had no apprehension of the consequences of frequent exposure to the stench which had been described, but the nuisance was no doubt very oasaaive. He hoped the court would adopt a middle course at any rate. Deputy BTZTENO said, in allusion to the fast hold which epidemic, endemic, and contagious disown were said to take of narrow and neglected places of abode, that et the time of the great plague Petticoat-lane and its immediate vicinity had the good fortune to escape. A Couguistoxia said he really believed that it was the wish of Nome people to make a private parlour of the City of Loudon. (Laughter, and cries of " Oh!") He had lived many years and his father before him had lived in the midst of the matters complained of, and a healthier family existed than that which they had successively brought up in the City. He wished that the gentlemen who were so very nice, were obliged to go without meat for twelve months. (L aughter.) i Deputy ARRISON said the court had no other count to pursue than to act immediately upon the medical officer's certificate, according to the 9th clause of the act of parlia ment. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion the defence set up by the firm confirmed in all its essential points the decided opinion of the medical officer. The order was then issued for the immediate abatement of the nuisance. Summonses were issued to the owners of common lodging houses foe sot having duly abided by the regulations of the comnsissionen. The Medical Officer of Health reported an immense number of filthy habitations and many cases of bad water supply, and the commissionen directed that the most prompt and energetic moans should be pursued to remedy the defects so critically pointed out. Several contractors were fined in the sum (collectively of 131., for their neglect of duty, in relation to non•remoral of dust. Deputy HARRISON said It gave him great satisfaction to be informed by Mr. Daw that the New River Company would supply water to the whole of the courts and alleys in the City on Sundays as well as on all other days. The commissioners and all the oaken connected with the commission showed the greatest alacrity in giving atAd re ceiving directions and regulations. The Medical °Moir of Health concluded the active busi ness of the day by informing the court that the amount of mortality of the City was considerably below that of either of the last two quarters. (Rear, hear.) METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesterday a special Court of &wen wu held at the Court-house in Greek-street. The eornmiraioners pre sent were Colonel 'ebb, Sir J. Burgoyne, sad Mr. G. S. South. The SICRITAIT read the stakeout of amounts, from which it appeared that the bakaoe ia the heads of the treasurer on tha nth inst. was 77,71181. The cheques drawn bat awl goespated ansoanted to 7691., leaving en available Wham @MOM The cheque to be drawn at i the preseatooadamakledeo.l4,9sBl. Several applications were made to the court with newt to the axiom's of Abusive mammas, in reference to which orders were made for immediate remoni. Col. JIBS, the chairman, said that the commiagesers felt that in the present crisis all the powers of the act of parliament should be strictly enforced. Sines the court last met the cholera brake out in Newcastle with the meet fearful virulence, and it seamed that the capital was not exempt from it. Under these circumstances, the commis sioacrs were determined to act with all the promptitude and energy allowed by the act of parliament. At the same time the public mast not expect that the com missioners, with their limited means, could work muscles ; and they expected that the public would co-operate with them in their exertion.. The public 'sheared under a mistake as to the power and resources of the commissioners. It never was intended by the law that the commissioners should complete the dnin . ego of every street, and it was of importanie that the pub lic should not run away with that impreadon. The amount of rate was not sufficient, and was n intended to be sufficient to lay down sewers for every street. The law required the owners to pay the expenses of all sewers which were for their own exclusive benefit, and also to Mar a high proportion of the expense of the sewers whisk RAI in front of the houses. The commissioners had enough to do in providing outlets, large sewers to the main drains, and in repairing and constructing drains. Another matter which it was of importance that the public should be mad* aware of was, that anonymous complaints were constantly sent to the office. The commissioners felt obliged to all persons who came forward to aid them in putting in force the powers of the act, but he had observed, of late espe cially, that a great many anonymous representations had been made to the office, complaining of the condition of particular houses, and it was expected by those who made these anonymous representations that the commissioners would act upon them. It was true they could act in these cases, but where the complaint was not backed by the name and residence of the party mak ing it, the commissioners were obliged to adopt a different and more difficult mode of procedure than that which they would adopt if they had the name and resi dua of the complainant. It would therefore be a great oienenienoe to the camminginen, if in all cues of corn plaints of nuisance the parties gave their names and resi dences, so u to enable the commissioners to apply the pro per remedy with the greater facility. Mr. A. linwLirr, a gentleman, the state of whose pre mises had been the subject of investigation, said that unless power were given to the police, or some other authority, to compel the poorer classes to be more cleanly, nothing effectual could be done. 28, 1853. The CHM/MAN said that might be very well, bat it was not within the province of the comminionere. A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Wentworth Boyer, rector or Clapham, Dr. Impress, Mr. T. Howell, Mr. J. Sadler, Mr. 11. Smith, and Mr. J. Norman, waited on the commissioners, to make representations on the condition of the open ditch at Clapham, to which the great mortality in Albion-terrace ' during the prevalence of chilera in 1 11 49, was attributed. The Rev. Mr. BOYER said that the deputation had come before the commissioners to mention that a nuisance, of the most offensive character, existed in the Wandsworth-road, parish of Clapham, which contained 17,000 inhabitants, arising from an open ditch. It was a well known ditch, for no one who came near it could ever forget it. It was the cause of the frightful mortality in Albion-terrace in 1849, and was prominently referred to in the report of the regis trar-general at that period. The CHAIRMAN remarked that the difficulty was to find an outlet for the matter in that district, which was below high water mark. The deputation were probably aware that the commissioners were anxious to borrow 400,000!., besides what they now owed, when the act for the tempo rary leggy's' of their powers was under consideration. One of the works which they contemplated snaking with that money was a main sewer, which would run a l ong t h e Wandsworth-road, and have its outlet at Deptford-creek. But great opposition was made in parliament to this, and, the oonsequence was that their borrowing powers were cur tailed from 400,000!. to 200,0001. This compelled them proportionally to reduce their projected works, and they were not now in a position to undertake the work in ques tion. Efforts had been made to cleanse the ditch referred to, but some obstruction had been raised by an individual in the locality. He understood, however, that the work of cleansing was now resumed, gad being prosecuted. A Member of the deputation said that nothing whatever had been done from Albion-terrace to Falcon-lane, which was a distance of a mile and a half. No one could stand I the smell. He had to send his family away during the summer, and in one day he flushed through it 300 gallons of chloride of lime. The Rev. Mr. Bovgnsaid there were a great many cases of diarrhoea in the distiict, and they were afraid if some thing was not done that the same scenes which occurred in 1849 would take place again. The CHAIRMAN said that they could not afford the funds to do that which was the true remedy, viz., to con struct the sewer to Deptford Creek. They urged the ne cessity of getting funds to do the work, but remonstrances had been made against its construction. It was said that it would be a waste of the funds. He did not mean to say that he agreed in that opinion. The Rey. Mr. BUYER said that no one in the district would say so, because they felt the nuisance very acutely, more particularly himself, who had, as rector, the spiritual charge of the parish. A Member of the Deputation said that as the com missioners had not funds to eozstruct the sewer, all that they could expect at present was that it should be cleansed and flushed, and kept as clean as possible. Dr. IMPRESS said that just now it might only make matters wone if the soil were thrown up. Something might be done in the way of deodorising agents. The CHAIRMAN said the last point was an important one, and would be taken into consideration. The deputation then withdrew, after presenting a peti tion from 200 inhabitants of the district, and thanking the commissioners for the courtesy with which they were re ceived. After the transaction of some formal bueineu the court adjourned TOURNAY TO JURBISE AND LANDEN TO HASSELT RAILWAY COMPANY. A special general meeting of the shareholders wee to be held yesterdey. The directors in their report, which has been published by anticipation, announce the prosperous conclusion of their negotiations with the Belgian govern ment and the Aix-la-Chapelle and Mantricht Company for the construction of a line between Bassett and Mam trieht, the object of each extension being to make the Lan don and Remelt Railway a link in the general line of com munication. The result of the contracts, the approval of the shareholders to which was asked, was substantially as follows • . _ " The Aix-la-Chapelle and Maastricht Company engages to construct at its exclusive cost, and also to work the sec tion from Remelt to Maastricht. It ii too evident that this stipulation, the effect of which will be to change our Lan den and iliseelt line into a trunk line, and to double its receipts, can but be fraught with advantages for us with out imposing any burden. By Article 4 the Maestricht Company takes upon itself all the obligations of the Belgian government toward. our company as regards the manage ment, maintenance, and exploitation,' and also the divi sion of the grow receipt' of the Linden and Huselt line. Not only have we stipulated that the working system shall be equal and uniform for the two sections ' but we have anticipated the ease of the projected line from Fleurus or Tamines to Leaden: (which was also conceded in the last session of the Chambers), being prolonged in the direction of Hunk, Ruremoad, and Crefeld; and we have stipu lated, in general terms, that the Maestricht Company should allow the trains of this new company to peas over our line. Should these enterprises be carried out, they will be im portant feeders to our traffic. Finally, Article :8, which is expressed. is Article 4of the contract with the government, gives us the guarantee, that in the event of the failure of the Mustncht Company from any cause whatsoever, the Belgian government will resume the ' ex ploitation' of our line on the same conditions u hitherto. This stipulation was necessary to protect our company from any eventual necessity of working the line itself." After agreeing to the necessary resolutions, the ordinary half-yearly meeting was to be held, and at this the follow ing report was to be submitted to the proprietors : ' The gross receipts of our two lines during the half-year amount to a sum of 417,882 fr. 6c. ; of which 50 per cent. accrues tc our company, or in other words • sum of 208,941 fr. 3c. These figures show an increase of about 7 per cent. when compared with the receipts of the corre sponding half-year of 1852. This increase is persistent, and has developed itself mainly during the last few months ; there seems a probability of its continuance, in even larger proportions, during the second six months of this year, in asmuch as the July receipts show an advance of about 25 per cent, on those of July, 1852. The service of the past half ear has been debited with a considerable sum, which will not again be charged, vii., a sum of 2,000 francs, for the salary of our ex-accountant, up to the 30th of June last, and 6,435.25 fr., the larger part of the arrears of income tax for 1852. There now only remain" • balance of income tax foi the year in question of 756.62 fr. which, together with the remaining moiety of the same ta x for the present year, will be placed to the debit of the next account. According to the accounts and balance-sheet now before you, the sum remaining to distribute amongst the shareholders amounts to 188,000 franca, that is to say, a dividend of 6s. per share. The dividend of the correspond ing half-year of 1852 was but 51. 6d. We propose, there fore, that you authorise the payment of the said dividend of 6a. on and after the 10th of October next." aloe on and after the let of October.] THE CHOLERA. (Frost t. Board at R.. 1 0 1.) _ NEWCASTLE. Cholera ..: Diarrhoea . ........ 53 The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in Newcastle daring the present outbreak has been 1,243. In the same period (viz., the first 28 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera there in 1831-2 the number of deaths was 197. GATESHEAD. Barr. 25. Cholera . The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in Gateshead to the resent date has been 306. During the like period viz., the first 19 days) in 1831-2 the deaths amount to 131. Nine more medical visitors have been requested by the medical superintending inspector of the General Board of Health. They have been instructed by the board to leave town forthwith for the districts affected. DURHAM.—TuzsDAT. Since Saturday several very severe cues of liarrhoxi have broken out in this city, and three cues of cholera. One of the cases of cholera has terminated fatally ; the victim was a quack medical practitioner who had been attending patients is Newcastle, and who on returning home found by unmistakeable symptoms that cholera was upon himself. With no beneficial effect he strenuously applied his own nostrums until an hour or two before his de►th, when, be coming alarmed, he precipitately sent for Mr. N. Oliver, the medical officer to the Board of Health, who imme- diately attended him, but the disease rapidly ran its course, and he died with all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera strongly developed in him. r. 26. Two persons, a young female and a child, died in South Shields yesterday of cholera, after a brief illness. A seaman was removed out of an Italian vessel in the river, and has died to-day in t►e workhouse. There is one bad case in North Shields, and at Howden, a neighbouring village, a filthy sort of place, three deaths took place yesterday. There are two cues at Hebura which are likely to prove fatal. The towns are otherwise pretty healthy. The weather is cold I.nd bracing. Up to the present moment we have had no case of Asiatic cholera, nor more than the usual number of cases of diarrhoea. According to the reports made to the board of guardians, the public health in this town is at present in • ♦ery satisfactory state. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.— Traffic for the week ending Sept. 24, 18.53, 5,1021. 3s. 2d. Corresponding week, 1852, 4,8911. Is. bd. Increase in 1863, 2101.191. 9d.—There Were no races at Eglinton-park , this year. IRELAND. DUSILIN, 27. The Lord Lieutenant a n d th e Countess of SEPT. St. Ger mans, attended by a brilliant suite, left Dublin at 12 o'clock yesterday, by special train, and urrived at Limerick shortly before four, having r on d o th e journey of 129 miles in thr ee hours and a half, ex clusive of a delay of 20 minutes at the Limerick Junction. Among those who travelled in the special train with their excellencies were the Lord Chancel lor, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Eliot, Sir John Young, Chief Secretary, and Lady Young, Major Larcom, Under Secretary, the Attorney• General, Mr. ' , ergs's, the lion. Mr. Ponsonby, Major Bagot, Sir Edward MDonnell, &c. A large concourse of people, with deputations from several public bodies, were assem bled at the Limerick terminus, awaiting the arrival of their excellencies. Their excellencies having left the train, the Mayor of Limerick was introduced by Sir M. Barrington, and the formal reception and welcome by the mayor, aldermen, and town council of the borough took place. The ceremony of pre 'seating the keys of the city to the Lord Lieutenant having been gone through, a procession was formed, and their excellencies proceeded to the Court-house, where the addresses from the corporation, the Cham ber of Commerce, and the commissioners of the great Munster fair, were presented. To the corpo ration address, which has already appeared in the Express, his excellency replied : Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—l have listened with great pleasure to this address. Ihe occasion upon which I ap pear for the first time in this ancient city as the representa tive of our gracious Queen, is, indeed, an auspicious one. I have come to celebrate with you the completion of two undertakings, both of which are calculated to call into healthy actsou the energies of the people—the one, by pro moting the commerce—the other, the agriculture of the country. I congratulate you on the local improvements which you describe. They afford, as you justly ob serve , gratifying evidence of the p u bli c spirit of the city of Limerick. The manufacture of lace at Limerick has already attained to a high degree of excellence. It will, I am persuaded, attain to a greater, when the taste and skill of the manufacturer skill have received all the cultivation which the stools of ornamental art and design are capable of giving them. The recent visit of the Queen to this country was assuredly a mark of the interest which her Majesty takes in all that concerns the welfare and prosperity of its people. I 3C knowledge with satisfaction the assurances which you give me of the steadfast attachment felt by all classes in Lime , rick to her Majesty's crown and person, and I offer you my grateful thanks for the wishes that you express for my hap piness and that of Lady St. Germane. The ceremonial over, their Excellencies returned to their carriage,and;proceeded on their way to Elan park, the scat of Lord Clarina, where they remained asst night. This day they will visit the great Mun ster fair, and to-morrow the opening of the new floating docks takes place. There is to be a grand naval review at Cork to morrow, the fleet leaving the harbour fur the pur pose of going through a variety of manceuvres to exhibit their sailing powers and efficiency in a war like point of view before the Lords of the Admiralty. A rumour prevailed that the fleet would finally go to sea that day, but this statement is not believed to rest on any authority. Saunders of this morning has the following ac count of an accident to Lieut.-General Sir Edward Blakeney : We are deeply concerned to state that tho deservedly popular and generally esteemed Commander of the Forces in Ireland met with a severe accident in Pommel on Saturday night. His servant awkwardly left some port manteaus and boxes outside the general's door, and on going out of his room he fell over them, and rt.ceived a severe shock and fall. We could learn no further particu lars. The general is now on his annual tour of inspection in the north-eastern district. Them was a meeting of the Dargan Industrial In stitute yesterday, when some large accessions to the fund were announced. The total amount subscribed cannot yet be ascertained, no returns having been received from the country banks, but it is known to exceed considerably 3,500/. DUBLIN POLICE. The cam of MrsiDeaseleTlewiesi against Mrs. Kelly was on yesterday in two different forms before the magis trates at the Capel-street police office. The defendant was charged in the first instance with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in an affidavit sworn in the Court of Chancery. The case stood adjourned from last Monday week, in order to give counsel for the prosecution an op portunity of applying to the Lord Chancellor in the mean time for permission to take the original affidavit off the file, Dr. Kelly having refused to let the case proceed without Its prodectilnin court. Mr.. Kelly occupied a seat at the table u on the former occasions, and the court was crowded to excess with per sons anxious to hear the proceedings. Mr. Fitzgerald, for the complainant, stated that an appli cation was made to the Lord Chancellor in chamber, on Friday, for permission to produce the affidavit in that office, but his lordship having, in his discretion, dismissed the application, they were prepared to give the next best evi dence, which was an attested copy of the document, and prove that it had been sworn by Mrs. Kelly. Counsel coax ' mented at length on the Chancellor's judgment, and sub mitted that it contained nothing which should influence his worship's mind on the legal question. Mr. Armstrong objected to this evidence. Ile thought it rather strange that that should be made a court of ap peal from the decision of the Lord Chancellor, and that counsel who made the application for the a ffi davit to his lordship should comment upon his judgment. They stood in precisely the same position as they were when the case was first before his worship, when he, with both good sense and undoubted law, refused to take a description of evi dence there which would not be received in a higher court of criminal jurisdiction. He called upon the bench to dismiss the case. llr. Kelly , the magistrate, accordingly dismbacd the case, the evidence not being legally sufficient to justify him in sending it to another tribunal. The next charge was that of conspiring to destroy docu ments. ELIZABETH ERASE O. SARAH KELLY, CHRISTOPHER W. CAMPION, AND JOHN ROBERT MALONE. The defendants in this case were charged with having conspired to procure the destruction of certain letters in issue, in the celebrated will cause of " Thewles v. Kelly." Mrs. Kelly and Mr. C. W. Campion answered when the cue was called on, but Mr. Malone was net present. It was allowed to stand our for the examination of Mr. Campion, who had not been served in the first instance with a copy of the summons. Mr. Blake, on behalf of Mr. Campion, applied for a further adjournment. He said that, at the time the pro ceedings commenced, Mr. Campion was in London, and knew nothing of the matter until he read in the Times that it was attempted to implicate him in the transaction, and he at once came over; but being obliged to procure copies of the evidence given, he had not had sufficient time to instruct his counsel. Dr. Kelly thought the application of Mr. Blake extremely reasonable; and counsel for the defendants not baying made any objection to it, the case was adjourned to Monday neat at one o'clock. •-- -- ---.---- The part ies then left the office. THE BIRMINGHAM GAOL CRUELTIES. (BY imicraic BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY MIDNIGHT. A meeting has been held in the Town-hall to-night to protest against the justices appointing another governor and surgeon to this gaol. Such a hall has not been seen fir years. From seven until eleven every inch of space was occupied, and a crowd surrounded the building. Mr. George Edmonda, the clerk of the peace, presided. Mr. Alderman Laroden, several town councillors, and the leading clergy of the establishment were present. Great excitement prevailed, and some degree of exaspe ration was caused by reason of the refusal of the mayor to grant the use of the hall, which was subsequently obtained by other mean.. Amongst the resolutions passed unanimously, was one to the effect, that the meeting viewed with feelings of indigna tion the horrible system of cruelty and oppression which has been carried on at the gaol, with the implied unction of the visiting justices, and the meeting expressed its strong disapprobation of such inhuman treatment, also expressed a hope that the people of England would acquit the people of Birmingham of any participation of these harbaritiee. In a subsequent resolution, moved by Mr. Councillor Allday, the visiting justices were declared to have entirely forfeited the confidence of the people of Birmingham, and the meeting solemnly protested against these justices parti cipating in the appointment of another governor and other officers of the prison. A gentleman, partner of one of the justices, attempted to move a counter resolution. lie made some remarks, amidst a torrent of disapprobation, and finally gave way with the simple expression of his dissent, he being the only person who did dissent in the vast assembly. The Rev. 0. 8. Bura. moved a vote of thanks to Lord Palmerston, which was carried by acclamation, as was also the following resolution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate for the borough would greatly facilitate the proper, orderly, and impartial discharge of magisterial business, and would tend to inspire the inhabitants of this great and important town with a confidence its the administration of the cri- minal and especially judicial decisions and summary con victions, which the borough justices do not at present pa seu." The immense crowd departed quietly at 11 o'clock.