The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1851. .., ~ those seeking political power to win it try gist imminee e ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. I BLAENAVON IRON AND COAL COMPANY. __ since it is not to be obtained by purchase * 1 The liallot will give self-respect to the elector, teed welt At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Societ y, Mr. Henry Berkeler, the liberal member for Brie - 'to the franchise. Men of Bristol! I stood pledged, to Yesterday the annual meeting of this company tot, and leader of the I;allet party in the house of Corn. question in 1837 ;pledged by you. I may on Monday, Colonel RAwLINtioN read a paper "On t e e. too. place at th eir o ffi ces, Pancras -l ane, JOHN Maateu. MAN, Esq., in the chair. have eined in . Identification of the Biblical Cities of Assyria, and on the mons, having been invited by • number of his constituents power-1 have not flagged in will. I appeal to you now, Geogra phy of the Lower Tigris." He explained, on the From the report of the management of the company for to give a lecture on the 'subject of the ballot, a meeting was base I dare my duty F. (Cheers.) i authority of the Cuneiform Inscriptions, that the city of the year 1850 it appeared that the make of pig-iron in that held for the purpose on Thursday evening, at which the A vote of thank,' was passed to the hon. member for the Nineveh hail occupied a large tract of country on the Tigris, veer had been 20,818 tons ;of metal, 2,868 tons; and of hon. gentleman was well received. Joaerlt Coetss, Esq., exertions he had used iu the cause, and the proceedings ter- ' opposite to Mosul; the tumuli and ruins at Koyuejilt, bars and rails, 9,462 tons. The sales during the year were having been called to the chair,' minte d . I Nebbi Junius, Karamles, and Khunishad, marking the sites 1 -pig iron, 7,793 tons; metal, 700 tons ; bars and rails, The hon. member, who was received with loud and tai - 1 - of suburbs and palaces be ing to that capital. Nimrud, 9,857 tons; coal, 18,058 tons ; and lime, 3,119 tons. The multuous applause, commenced by °tuning that during named in the in s criptions Iteldta, ha identi fi ed with Re - , groas profit arising from these sales were, on pig iron, the last winter he was invited by a number of his eonstitu- heboth, and showed it to have been a suburb of the neigh- : 6,0981. 75. 10d. ; on metal, 7111. 10s. 6d. ; on bars and rails, ants to give a lecture on the ballot. lie felt the importance bouriug large city of Resell or Mauer (called by Xenophon 1,2181. 18e. 10d. ; and on coal and limestone, 1,909/. 6s. 6d. ; of the subject, and the disadvantages in which he would be Larissa), as Koyunjih and Khurrabeal had been suburbs of making a total of 10,0581. Is. Bd.; deducting from placed, by appearing in the character of a lecturer; but Nineveh. Calah he was inclined, upon Syriac and Talmu- which discount and bankers' charges, 4,'2931. Bs. 3d., when it was announced that his humble efforts might aid die authority, to place at Hatra, a city on the Tigris, at the , there remained a balance of gross profits at the one of the noble charities in which the city abounded, his extreme southern limit of Assyrue Kileh Shirgat , the works of .5,8341. 15s. 5d., from which were to scruples at once vaniehed. "Charity," it was said, "covered only other Assyrian ruin upea the river, had been a mere be deducted interest on mortgage 9121. 9s. 5d.; a multitude of sins," and he holed that his deficiencies castle or palace, and could not, therefore, have been in- ditto on debentures 3,6621. 2s. 91. ; current expenses, would find shelter benea th its ample cloak. (Cheere) The eluded in the Biblical Metropolitan list. He then gave a 6171. 10 s . Ild.; making 5,1921. Is Id.; leaving a net profli. , first part of his lecture would include a brief history short description of the Nahrwan Canal, a magnificent of 642/. 12s. 4d. ; to which being added the balance to flip i of the ballot from the earliest ogee down to the pre- work, executed by Nushirwan, which had irrigated sons credit of profit and loss of December, 1849, the sum of sent time. In the second part he hoped to he able thousands of square mile*, and had supplied food to 1,6601. 3s. 3d., there remained a balance to the credit of to point out that the leaflet afforded the only positive re- use millions of persons. It was now entirely dry. profit and loss of 2,302/. Lis. 7d. The report went on to reedy for the es ils of our electoraloystem, and he hoped to Paring on to the Chal-i-Nintrild, usually supp osed mar ktu state that for 30 weeks in the past year only three furnaces be enabled to prove this by some illustrations, and he should the site of the Median Wall of Xenophon, e explained had been kept in blast, owing to the slackness of trade, and also endeavour to grapple with some of the fallacies used by that this was nothing more than an artificial dyke, con- hence there was a diminution of 2,000 tons in make on the I the opponents of the measure. The ballot was intended to sheeted for the purpose of collecting the waters of the pear as compared with the year preceding. The directors correct an evil which no one pretended to contrailiet, which desert into a reservoir, from whence they were let out by had let a portion of their coal field, not required by them, evil was the power to intimidate and corrupt the holders of sluices, according as the neighbouring lands required to be to another iron company, at a fixed rent of 6.50/. per year, the electoral franchise, producing drunkenness, debauchery, irrigated. He thought it was a work of Nebuchadnezzar s, for the remaining term of their lease ; and had expended and demoralisation in the lower orders, depravity in the and believed that it had been alluded to by Eratosthenes, 4,765/. 16s. 4d. in the past year in completing important middle clusee, and destroying that intellectual freedom under the name of the Aurreigitrim of Semiramis. The improvements in the works. which, as it was the birthright of every Englishman, might Median Wall described by Xenophon was probable part The CHAlltelA_N, in moving the adoption and circula also be their blessing, but which, under the present eyetem, of the enceinte of Babylon. Sittare, where the Weeks tion of the report, observed that, at the end of another frequently became their bane. (Cheers.) Secret voting had passed the Tigris, he placed as low down as Der; and the laborious year, they were in the position of having prevailed almost from the earliest ages. The Athenians, famous city of Opts, on the Thyscus, he thought was to be carried on these extensive works for the benefit the Carthaginians, and the Romans : Cicero, in his cele. looked for at the mouth of the Dialeh. After describing of the workmen engaged in them, without enjoying, bested treatise "De Leganie." mead an encomium on the the ruins of Nekherieh, which on various grounds he iden- as shareholders, any return for their enterprise. However rubella, or ballot-bus, as the vindicator of silent liberty. tilled with the Apanilea of Meseno of the Greeks, he went that was not owing to anything intrinsically worthless in He (Mr. Berkeley) hail, in a speech in parliament, pointed on to notice the bifurcation of the Tigris. This curious the value of the property, or wrong in its management, but out to the senators thatthe first Christian electionon record, natural feature had been very accurately described both by was entirely owing to the very depressed state of the trade. when en the fteleiinmelation of Judas Iscariot, the apostles Pliny sod Stephen, and the Arab writers enabled us to (Hear, hear.) However, they had held their ground; and elected St. Matthew by ballot. They should all demand connect those ancient notices with the modern geography their balance on the year, though small, was on the right the harlot as a protection to the consciences. At their first of the country. The Cauchian plains of Pliny were shown a ide. (hear, hear.) It was a gratifying feature in their I institution of parliament the honour of a scat in the to be the Ceche of the Syrians, and Jukha of the Arabs, report, that they had let off a portion of their coal field at House of Commons was not thought by the aristocracy while the Delos of Stephen was still preserved in the name an excellent rent ; and the completion of the line of railway worth having, and there was no inducement to corrupt and in- of Di.leA (quite distinct from Deitch), which the Bedouins between Hereford and Abergavenny, the works upon which tirnidatc the electors. In the 13th and 14th centuries borough of the invent day apply to the dry bed of the Tigris bad lately been resumed, would materially improve their members and county members were paid. ((;reat Much- running by the ruins of Wasik The Tigris had changed p ro p er tyby giving them access for the conveyance of their ter) The value of the compeneatiun must be judged by its course several times. At the period of the Christian coals to Liverpool and the northern districts of the country. I the currency of that day. It was enough to pay the ex- era it was divided into two streams. Ender the Samanians In conclusion, he begged to move the adoption of the re pewee, but not sufficient to tempt the aristocracy to offer the left band, or eastern branch, was alone navigable. In port, as also that it be printed and circulated amongst the themselves as candidates. In 1710 a bill was introduced the seventh year of the Ilijrch, the right hand, or western shareholders. (Hear, hear.) to incorporate the ballet in mar electoral system. This bill branch, was reopened, while, in the fifteenth century of Mr. JONES 'begged to explain that one great drawback passed through the House of COIIIIOOIIII, but was rejected by ' our era, the riser took the form which it retains to the to the profits arising from the works consisted in the num the Lords, through the influence of Godolphin, wbl present day. The tract of country between the two arms, her of hones employed; and there being much of showed the desire to influence unconstitutionally in the owing to he natural depression, had been always more or underground hauling, a great deal of horseflesh representation of the people. In 1710 the eels. I less subject to inundations, and boats had passed from was consequently required. In December, 1849, bested author, Daniel Defoe- (( cheers )- who, indepres ' Weed to the Euphrates , along tracts artificially formed for the company's and contracting horses numbered drntly of his great work of fancy, was a psi,. I them in the marshes. The character of the country was 306, whilst in December, 1830, they were only 237-the mini and political writer of great power , published a I the mime at the present day , and the Tigris, from the tomb cost o f eac h h orse i n 1849 being 371. 12s. per annum, and in " Tecate* on Trade and Public Spirit," in which, al* lof Abdallah lba Ali to Kunio, now ran in a channel which 1850 a b out 341. 10 s . p er annum. The great object was to pointing out the evils of the electoral eystem, and of said I was formerly named the Abut Mead canal, and which had reduce the number of horses and substitute steam, by which vestries, which Lord Chief Justice Holt described is 11111144 I been cleared out under the Caliph Mansur for the purposes a great saving would be effected. In 1847 the cost of ' bodies of musics, he referred to the ballot as the easy lof navigation. making pig iron was 41. Bs. per ton, and of bars and rails remedy. Ile came new to the year 18.3.3. when the die. Below the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates, Colonel 81. 2a. In 1849 pig iron cost 21. 15s. 9d., and bars and graceful scenes at elections hail arrived at such a head, and Rawlinson showed that four cities had been successively rails 6!. g o. I n ;ge n pig iron cost 2!. 14s. $4., and bars and had swelled our electoral system to such a bloated 111"12/41111 built, as the sea had retired before the deposit of alluvium, rails 51 . s a. re . In The cost of metal in 1849 was 31. lie. Bd. that the country rose, and, with true voice, demanded ma. [ ,to serve as commercial emporia. These cities were the per ton, and in 1850 31. ss. Old. With regard to the new liamentary reform. It was granted, and it was undengead 1 Havileh of Genesis, Beth Yakina, of the Assyrian inscrip - pit that had been opened, it would yield 410 tons of coals that in the cabinet the ballot was proposed as a part of the Sone Ten Tendon of Nebuchadnezzar, and Obillah of the per d a y, and the saving, :it was calculated, would amount plan of reform, and was only bet by a mein. Semi:nines. The increment of land about the Delta could to sonic 2,4001. per annum. The lease under which they rity of one. George Grote was the first to Ibe chronologically traced, and was found, since the corn- held from Lord Abergavenny had now only 181 years to End out that the government had made a great , mencement of the Christian era, to have taken place at the run, but they were in treaty with that noble lord for a re mistake, and he introduced the question of the ballot to extraordinary rate of a mile in 30 years. Some account was newel, on different terms from those contained in the pre parliament. After his retirement it was taken up by Mr. than Eivea of a famous city, named Taha Dunigas, in the sent lease, and he doubted not his lordship would accede to Ward, who requested him (Mr. Berkeley) to second his hiscriptione, which was thought to be Sum itself, their proposition. The extent of coal-field let by them for motion, and who upon sulniquently accepting office in the *a paper clued with a notice of the two cities on the 6501, per annum was about 30 acres, there remaining on government kindly udvieed him to take the conduit of the Zak mad, which had often been confounded, but which their own hands some 4,000 acres. (Hear, hear.) question. lie presumed that Mr. Ward was induced to de , ewe is reality distinct places. One bad been formerly Mr. WILLIAMS said that being resident a Blacnavon, this, rather on account of the power and influence of his amed Perth, or Perat di Minn, and more recently Bah- he could speak of the great mineral value of the property, constituents, than of any psi.. is of his own. (No, no) In ME Ardeshir, now corrupted to Bahmithir. The other the rich resources of which only required capital to develops 1848 he (Mr. Berkeley) suiceeded in passing a resolution us Spusina! Chitral, which had been first fintilied by them to a most profitable extent. They possessed some through the Howe of I aninone, by a small majority, to the Alias der, had been the capital of an independent state sixteen square miles of the most valuable mineral effect that it was expedient in the election !of members in miler the Parthian monarchy, and which, having been country in South Wales, to wok which with effect he parliament that the votes of (letters should he taken by way awned Kerkhi Miaan (Charlie of Mesene), and Astembad thought they should enlarge their capital. He, therefore, of ballot. He was not unaware that he obtairsed this majority : by the Sassanians, and Mahersi by the Arabs, was now re- suggested that they borrow 100,0001. on ten years' mortgage by accident. It was not difficult to ai count for it. It was the Bth ; presented by the port of Maluunrah, so long a subject of of the property, and in the event of the mortgagee not of August, and the great council of the nation were sheet -1 contest between the Persian and Turkish governments. being satisfied with the property as security, the share• ' ing at grouse. (Laughter.) The ministers were obliged to Sir Hueneme Mt:n(11180N having been called upon by holders should each become liable to the extent of 12/. 10s. be at home, end be had his fair proportion of ministers, for the president to give an opinion concerning the geological p er share. lie had no doubt that, at the end of the ten Lord John Russell, although he at present-he used the I allusions in the memoir of Colonel Itawlinson, said that the years they would be able to pay off the principal and iete word emphatically-although he at present was opposed to , elevation of land along parts of the course of the T i gre ru t m em h em. ) the ballot, he allowed his followers to do a. they pleased. ! might very probably, as suggested, have deflected that The the y agreed with Mr. Williams; but, un- Since that motion was earned he bad twice tame-eel to bring ' liver partially, and have also augmented the rapid increase fortunately, the shareholders generally could not be made in a bill to confirm that resolution, but the opponents of the of the delta of the Euphrates. The continual accession to take that view of the subject. However, they were in i measure were vigilant-they spoke over little but they' hem the remotest historical periods to that delta, treaty for a loan of 50,0001., which was the seine as tw eeted over much. (Cheers.) Ile had mu strong an opinion ' as proved by comparing the sacred writings, the ranged, and when they should obtain a renewal of their of the goodness of the people of England that he wa. , Greek, Latin, and Mohamedan historians, and the l ease , as he trusted, then, in his opinion, would be the time not dismayed by defeat, and, with God's help, he would ' British surveys of the last and present century, to make a grand move. (Hear, hear.) persevere. The question was not only a husband's and a ton's I was, he thought, of very great importance to geological After some desultoryconversat ion, question, but it was a wife's and a meter's question, and ifhe science, inasmuch as the rate of increase of a mile The CHAIRMAN put the question on the adoption and could only enlist the sympathies of the ladies of England the I in 30 years, as deduced by the author, was probably about circulation of the report, which was unanimously carried. battle would be more than half won. (Cheers.) Setting aside double the . growth of any other delta, including that of the Thanks were then voted to Mr. Wheeley, solicitor to the the jargon of party, the bullut should in a Meet sense be Miesissippt This phenomenon he attributed iu part to the company, as also to the inspectors, Messrs. Hill and Jones, called a conservative measure, for its object was to secure to 1 circumstance of the mud and sand carried down by the and the manager, Mr. Johnson. The outgoing directors, V.nglishmen those rights which had been guaranteed to Euphrates and its associated streams, being derived in ire- Hears. Hill, Kennard, and Warden were re-elected, and them by the conatitutua. Judge Holt had said that it was , mense volume from the slightly coherent tertiary forma- the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to a great privilege to choose ouch persona as were to guide a Picas through which these rivers flow for such enormous the chainnm man's life and property by the laws they made, a privilege I distanees ; and specially to this detrital matter being des not to be deputed to another. This privilege then ! in land-locked a body of water as the Persian was guarded by two c onditions, that it should i gliesielpheed so , in which, aided by the inset of the tide, the sedi not be sold to another or placed at the deposal . of a , meat is poured back instead of being swept out by a bole peer of the realm. Thus the peers had no right to inter- , terous open sea. At the rate of increase calculated, the fere with the representation of the people was a principle . I Persian Gulf must be entirely filled up within a period of the constitution. The parliament should consist of re- I which might be roughly estimated. In reference to any presentatiees cheecu from the people by the people to make i oscillation of land within the historic era, whereby the laws fur the people. (Cheers.) To emetic the independence , 'Tigris and Euphrates may have partially changed their of the electors the ballot was necessary. The present der ' courses, Sir Roderick considered that a very small amount toral sy stem . in practice was a Hat contradiction to the ' of unequal elevation would occasion deflections like system in theory. The disease , was not denied, but how them alluded to, just as a email rise of land at the were their arguments met ? Why, by the silly retort, that south-eastern end of the Caspian Sea had deflected the things work well-just as at the tone of the Reform Bill it Oxus, and turned that great river into the Aral Sea. was said that Sutton and Old Sarum were the sup- But though these operations seem mighty in the eye of porters of the constitution. The dictum of Lord Ilolt, man, they are as nothing in intensity of cause when cow that it was " a great pri s ilege to choose such persons pared with the great downcast of land by which that chum as are to bind a man's lifc and property by the laws they was produced, in which the Dead Sea hes at 1,500 feet be make," was suggestive of grave considerations. Did the laws neath the adjacent Mediterranean Sea-a feature which he bear equally on rich and poor, or was net the sword of attributed not to any gradual depression but to a sudden, justice so fashioned and tempered, that while those who violent , and extensive collapse of that po rtion of the earth's wielded it did so duly, it scarcely drew blood from the crust. rich while it cut the poor to pieces? Whose fault was this? In thanking Col. Rawlinson for so valuable a communi- Why, the law-makers'. Who made the law-makers ? The cation on which he added that men of learning rather than electors! That he meals ely denied. (Cheers.) Then if geolog ists should speak, Sir ltodcrick reminded the meet not the electors, who did? fhe aristocracy and a ing how the author formerly indicated that the Itavilah of oligarchy, who compelled the electors to eute inn er4 Genesis (Delilah of the present day), which is now 60 miles pleased. He elbowed the House of Commons, in 1848, that from the sea, was the seaport to which the gold was brought there were 62 boroughs in England and Wales returning in the early days of sacred history, probably from the 98 members by the influence of the !aristocracy-that 49 Malayan Chersonesus. peers and 18 wealthy conemenen dictated to 43,199 elec tors whom they should elect. Was it say wonder that mem bers unturned made laws fur those who returned them ? Let us see how great was the duty of voting conacientioady. Ile knew how difficult It was fur a borough to break fle bonds, he knew that to do so was the exception and not the rule. And it was his knowledge of the intimidation, the bribery, the treating that was resorted to, which. inilliced his desire to protect the voter by the ballot. It was said that the ballot would not conceal the vote-that the elector would tell it in his cups, or disclose it to his wife. He had demolished these objections till he was sick of meeting them. The ballot, too, was said to he un-English. Then why vote by ballot in the clubs of the aristocracy, at the ludia-house, the Bank of Eleghusel, the Trinity-house (Cheers.) After relating an anecdote of some young men who resisted the coquetting of rival candidates, and re fused to vote until the ballot was conceded, Mr. Berkeley proceeded to ad ert L and Mr. Chamber lain's new apparatus for ballo • tting, and explained that the inventer's attention had been directed to the subject by his own inability to vote at an election without preju dicing the interests of his father. He next alluded to the fact that tens of thousands throughout England refused to be on the register. Mr. Muntz had stated that in filming! bare a thousand voters refund to vote because it would injure their prospects and the same ratio prevailed throughout England. He (Mr. Berkeley) would now tell them what he believed to be the value of the ballot box. The vote being given in secret the voter would be protected from intimidation. All those screws put on at elections, all that prying inquiry into men's circumstances to find out their weak points, would be avoided. The opponents of the measure admitted this, but they said candidates would bribe. Common sense contradicted this. In all commenial transactions the security of the market was the first consideration. A can didate would not give a man 5/. for his vote, while his an tagonist might give him another 51., and then he side* vote for neither. It was said that the ballot would deetesny the influence of property. What did that mean bat Hat the landlord hail a right to command the vote of his tentag, the customer of the tradesman, the tradesman of the emir tire. and so throughout society, that the strong had a Wed to bully the weak. Just and good men would lose no Th. once by the ballot, while the bad man would, however high his position, find his level. The • hoe gentleman cue eluded-the good landlord has no reason to dread the ballot. Let me cite the instance of the lord of some great hereditary Witte. There is a sort of elanship attached to such estate's* give to the owner value in the eyes of his tenauts which his own bad conduct alone Can set aside. Let him but din= his duty to his neighbour - let him but act sip to the of " live and let live "-let him be just in his dealings-let him not trust too much to the reports of his steward, bat personally communicate . ' with his tenantry, hear their ear plaints, redress their grievances ; let him prefer the ask of the fine old oaks in his own park to thine of her eibiestre elms in Hyde-park ; let him abide by good old suelsmis while be introduces modern improvements ; let hilt Mg the great wood fire roaring up his paternal chimney; per dues the old baron of beef, and broach the mighty 10 at Christmas time, calling his tenantry around him to chase his hospitality ; let him not forget the poor, nor be tumid& yal that- A emblems ameba oft an their The pour cue's heart through half the year. I tell you that such a landlord never need fear the %a l lot ; it is a libel on human nature to say so. ..Find me • ' as et the " fine . old English gentlemen. modelled as Adam and Steele s his Roger de Coverley, and I tell yea that the Whet shall plata him at the head of the ph id 11•••••ay desdou, is spite of the opposition of half • rentals and tenants-at-will. The ha=lla my with beetl e belief, will secure to the d p i ezi: tae Ulalerb:hragrtrittdanto bear .. roplit , Tire willoweee will berm swat ;it has, hiddeleelees phrileell. The WM will be sa immative to MR. BERKELEY ON THE BALLOT. Ni w Cosec Or S. PArL, 1/ETONPOirr.—The ehurch of St. Paul, built in and for one of the four dietricts formed in the town of Desonport under Sir Robert Peel's Act, was consecrated by the Bishop of Exeter on Tuesday. The service on the occasion was very plain, including neither intoning or chanting of the Psalms. The church, whisk is situated in n thickly peopled district, is 83 feet 111 hedliss lung, and 62 feet wide; consists of a nave with! skim, sad contains in open benches sitting accommodation ! war 7:10 permit's. It was completely filled upon this ono- skm. The officiating clergy were: the Rev. J. Adams, the! Imenmhtut of the district ; Rev. O. Know ling, curate of Hui! ; the Rev. T. Farricouer, St. German's; the Rev. P. Du Bosslay, the bishop's son-in-law and chaplain; the . Rev. John iougr, of Newton Ferrer,; and the bishop. The bishop read the Communion service, and the Rev. John Toner preached, the text being the 2nd and 3rd Cersas Of the 2nd chapter of Daniel. At the offer- tory nearly 371. was received towards a fund for nn organ. The Plymouth Journal says It was intended to have made this consecration a grand affair, in which the officials of the town were to take an active part; indeed, our con servative contemporary announced that the mayor and con in poration were to walk procession from the 1 own-ball the Town-square. When we saw this statement last week, it struck us as being • somewhat singular circumstance that, at • time like the present, just when the Bishop of Exeter has done what no other prelate has dared to do of late years—bearded the Queen, the archbishops, and the bishops, and denounced over and over again the condoct of the judges because they gave • decision that was contrary to his dogmatic opinions—the corporation ehonlit have thought of taking part in a ceremony which, of coarse, all the dissenter, belonging thereto have ever regarded as a remnant of priestcroft. Whoever originated the plan of getting up a show on the part of the corporation did not succeed in their object, for although the mayor and a few of the members of the municipd body marched in order from the Town-hall, the expected grand affair turned out, after all, a miserable failure. We rejoice that such was the result, because we think, aa the public throughout the diocese think, that the Bishop of Exeter is not exactly the man who should obtain Irma the laity any voluntary mark of n•gard which is not felt by any of them. The bishop's office is one of dignity, and if it were menuned with that charity astlo feeling which ought to 'acterise a man fillings, a position, that rempsdtwessld be voluntarily pstkla which the people ot . cowntry arc in the MO of Ms cording to those placed in similar situation, and whia heN maintained thatsitustion witheredit to themselves =dna advantage to the nether' Fxr.st. PolsolviNg CAMS IN NEWCASTLE.—WS have already given Brodie particulars of this ease; the la . lowing are additional eirennutancss :—The deceased's name is Elisabeth Andermin, a widow, about 34 years of age, wise resided with a Mrs. Wilde, in West Illandhinl-strect, New. castle. She generally pas sed: as Mrs. Jenkins, the wife of Henry Jenkins a wholesale and retail confectioner, in Damp street, a man of substance, who had cohabited with her since her hushand's death. On Wednesday morning he was at her lodgings, but what then transired between them is not known. Ile left about 12 o'cloc k, and about 2 in the afternoon Mr. C. Wilde called on a neighbour, who, on going up stairs, found that Elizabeth Anderson was lying in the bed quite dead, with her clothes upon her. There was nothing in the bedroom out of which the deceased could have drank, but a glass of water, and in the sitting room adjoining there was also a glen which appeared to have contained porter. Mr. Boyd, a surgeon, and Mr. Jenkins were immc diately sent for , sa d shortly afterwards arrived. On Mr. , lloyd making inquiries of Mr.. Wilde, she stated that the' deceased had only taken something to cat, and a little porter, and had then, according to her usual custom, gone to die down, from which time nothing more was seen of her till she was found dead. Mr. lioyd tasted the water , and the porter, but detected no poison in either. A ft er be I had got home, Mr. Jenkins went to him, and asked what steps should be taken to get the deceased buried, when he told him that a certificate as to the cause of death was ne- I cessary, but that, under the circumstances, he declined to give it, at the same time recommending him to go to the registrar, explain the circumstances, and say that he (Mr. I Boyd) thought that she died of disease of the heart. Mrs. sulrequently waited on him, and afterwards Jen kins again, and at last he gave him a certificate that she had died of disease of the heart, has ing attended her about twelve months previous for symptoms of that disease. In !, the evening . Mrs. Wilde called at the Westgate police sta tion with the certificate, and requested Inspector Little to give her a line as to tier character, that she might present it to the registrar ; but that officli, on hearing the parti cular,, informed her that he should report the matter to the coroner, and take his opinion upon it. Accordingly, on Friday, an inquest was held at the Marquis of Mand y ford Inn, before J. G. Stoker, Esq. and in the afternoon a post-mortem examination of the body was made by Mr. Carr and Mr. Boyd, both of whom declared that the de ceased had been poisoned by having taken, or having had administered to her, a large quantity of essential oil of al ! moods; and they considered that, from the quantity taken, death must have ensued almost immediate y, and that it would base been barely possible for her to have walked from the sitting-room to the bedroom after taking it. They also stated that it was quite impo sihle that she could have destroyed or secreted a vessel which omtained the poison after she had taken it—that essential oid of almonds was , nut used ur sold meslieinally, but an principally used by ' confectioners and cordial-makers, to give a flavour to the goods which they sell. The inquest was eventually I adjourned to Wednesday. Every effort has been made by I the police to throw light on the suspicious affair, and the stopper of a glass bottle has been found in the ash-pit adj ' g Wilde's house, which, on being examined, I proved to he strongly impregnated with the nen- Nal oil of almonds. Other facts and circumstances having come to the knowledge of the police, they apprehended Jenkins, whilst enjoying his evening glass, at the Sliakspore inn, on Thursday night, and Mrs. ilde, on Friday forenoon ; and they were brought be fore the magistrates, at their usual sitting to-day. Mr. Inspector Little asked for a remand till after the insuest, winch was granted. Both prisoners protested their inno cence, and were committed to the gaol, the bench refusing an application to allow Mr. Foster, Jenkins's solicitor, to have un interview with his client.—The adjourned inquest was held on Wednesday, in St. John's National School room, Bath-lane, at two o'clock. Jenkins and Mrs. Wilde having been taken into custody on suspicion, great interest was excited, and the school-room was crowded. Several additional witnesses were examined, but their evidence dues nut suffice to clear up the mystery which still hangs over the affair. At eight o clock in the evening the inquest was again adjourned until the following dap, there being still neural witnesses to examine.—. eurastlitaper. THE haitINGWN 3lutpEtt.—The execution of Patrick Lyons for the murder of Margaret Fahey, at War rington, takes place at Kirkdale on this day. The prisoner and his wife (who was last week respited) haso had several inters news during the past week, hut nothing "particular has transpired, the woman generally giving way to her feelings, and crying piteously , so that, in mercy to her husband, who always endeavoured to console her, elle had to be removed. Lyons has stood this ordeal unmoved, and throughout has exhibited an extraordinary calmness and courage. In the course of one of the interviews he begged that his wile would forgive him, and pray for him. Ile still perseveres in his statement that she is innocent, and exhibits the strongest affection fur her; and to this feeling is attributed the strange and e xtraordinary course pursued by Lyons in implicating her, and expressing his willingness to die, so that she died wide him. 'I . his affection stems reciprocal, for the idea of his approaching death terrifies the wife. Lyons seems un affectedly to deplore the crime for which he is to suffer; his contrition is said to be marked and sincere, and his con duct exemplary. Ile is a luau totall y . devoid of education, but pussesses keen perceptions, and is remarkably intelli gent. lie alleges that the abject misery in which he was induced bins to commit the crime, though when he had murdered his victim he could not take the paltry sum for the attainment of which her life hail been sacrificed.— Lireepool Mercury.. n BURGLARY AT IPSWICH. AND CAPTURE OP rAft- 1 TIT. 6 ,itKI.ECTF.D.—On Wednesday last three very re- ! spectably dressed men drove into Colchester with a horse and cart, where they exchanged the horse they had been j driving for a hired one, and proceeded on their journey, as they said, into Suffolk, grooming to return in the evening. Nothing was, however, heard of them up to midnight, when mine host, becoming alarmed at the long absence of, his steed. informed Superintendent Kent, who promised to keep a sharp lookout. In about half-an-hour after, when the officer had just retired to bed, he was aroused by a tele graphic message from Superintendent Mason, of Ipswich, informing hint of a burglary at a mill there, with a descrip tion of the horses cart, and thieves. Upon inquiring at the I inu where the horse had been hired, it was found to have been returned, and the three persons who had hired it in the morning were gone on the road towards London. The in spector of police availed himself of the mail train, which by this time was nearly due, and proceeded to Chelmsford, whence, baying obtained the assistance of police-constable Chilvcrs and another police-constable,hc returned by road,in the direction of Colchester, and when near the White Hart, Springfield, met the suspected parties on their way towards the metropolis. They were immediately taken into custody and conveyed to the head-station at Springfield, where they refused to give their names or addresses, and there bengal} name upon the cart no clue to them could then be obtained. It was ultimately ascertained that thew came from London, and their names are supposed to be Wm. Davis, hone dealer, Borough; John Hodgson, John-street, Paddington; and Henry Griffiths, Gray-street, Rathbone-pyre. Little doubt is entertained as to the object of their visit to the country, as we hear that they answer the description of parties suspected of having broken open the mill at Ipswich where a large quantity of valuable property had been mseked u . p ready fur removal, but the thieves upon being disturbed by a man employed at the mill going to work, Mode off.—Clielmsford CY/wank*. LoNGErin IN THE NORTH.—We mentioned (says the Elgia Courier) the names of three old women in Bower, whose united ages reached 3Cr2 years. We have since Inamod that there resides in Lob, in the same parish, a man emmed Alexander Murrey, who is returned in the mans as Ifni 116 years, and another old woman aged 100. ST. STEPRENS, WALSROOII.—At the meeting of the vestry of this pariah, Wednesday, Mr. Rock drew the atten tion of the vestry , to the propriety of throwing open their splendid church for the inspection of visitors to London during the Exhibition. In Rome and Italy the church of St. Stephen—the master-piece of Sir Christopher Wren, was much talked of, being considered the most stately structure in Europo—therefore, visitors from those parts would take great finteteet in its inspection. He therefore begged to propose that the church be opened to the public free from charge or fens, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during the time of the Exhibition.—Mr. Cowin seconded the proposition, which was carried unanimousl_y. A vote of thanks baring been passed to the rector, (Dr. Croly) the meeting separated. FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE BRISTOL AND BIRIIINO HAM RAILWAT.—(FIom our Corrcspondent.)—WOßClM TZlt, FRIDAT.—Au inquest has been held here before W. 8. P. Hughes, Esq., coroner for the county of Worcester, on the body of a guard on the Bristol and Birmingham ' Railway, who came by a violent death on Tuesday evening lupon the line under the following circumstances :—Since the opening of the branch line to Worcester from Abbot's wood, near Spetchley,the Spetchley station has been used chiefly as a goods station, and on Tuesday night a goods , train arrived there in due course. The guard of the goods train was a young man, named Edwin Butler, whose general duties had been those of a station porter, and be is said to have been inexperienced in his new duties. He was in the act of adjusting sonic luggage vans in the train, when he got between the buffers of two carriages, mud the carriages being pushed together, and having no springs, he was crushed between the buffers and killed on the spot. The deceased was a steady young man, and resided with his parents, who keep a sma ll public house in Gloucester road, Cheltenham. He was unmarried. After hearing the ; evidence of the witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of I " Accidental death." -- FATAL AccIDENT.—An inquest was held at Stan hope, on the 21st inst., on the body of N. Brown, aged 38. The deceased was clerk and traveller to Mr. Hind;narch, of the Wohingham Brewery, on Saturday night last, between nine and ten o'clock, a man named Wilson, was riding along Whitelee Fell, between Edmondbyers and Stanhope, with two horses, and when he came to the brow of a hill, one of the horses shied off the road. It being dark. Wilson did not perceive any object, but thinking there might be something he went on about 200 yards, when be saw a man lying across the road. He spoke to him, but receiving no answer, he became alarmed, and rode off to the gate-house about half a mile distant, where he met the horse of de unwed by the roadside. He there got assistance, and on returning they found the body as before observed, lying on the face. He was found to be quite dead, having a dread fel wouad on the back part of the head, and several scratches on the face, which was covered with blood. There woe also a large pool of blood The body was immediately removed to the gate-borne, and Sergeant 8001, from Stan hope, soon arrived, and recognised the body. On search lag the person he found about 10/. in cub, - his watch and papers all safe. The body was thence removed to Stan hope, and Mr. Arnison, surgeon, examined it That gen tleman believed that the wound on the bead had been occa sioned by . a fall on sharp atones, and that from concussion , of the brain and loss et blood, death would speedily ensue. It appeared that the deceased had left Ednairadbyers about half-past seven on the night in question, rather intoxicated. 1 It was suppo.td that on getting to the brow of the hill' down which the body was found, the horse had started, and i the deceased had fallen forwards over kis bead, and having. caught hold of the bridle, had thus been dragged about three or four feet on the road on his face. There was not the least indication or suspicion that any attack had been made on deceased. Verdict—" Died from concussion of the brain, caused by a fall from his horse, and accelerated by the lose of blood from the wound on t he head." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. BANBURY AND MORETON RAILWAY. A meeting of influential persons interested in the districts between Banbury, Shipston, and Moreton was held at Banbury on Monday, Lord Duncan in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said it was hoped that a cordial tin dentanding would be brought about between the promoters of the railway and the owners and occupiers of land through oddolt ale proposed line was intended to pass. The interests of beet punts were identical, and unless the landowners owl orieupiers in the district supported the scheme, the pro posed line would not be carried out. The length o f' the line would be about 19 miles, and the object was to connect the Buckinghamshire Railway at Banbury with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line at Moreton. It would give facilities to the farmers in the Valley of the Stour to ono to the Banbury market. He felt the inconvenience of Ihig at Bhipston, from which place all railway communica- Men essend to be cutoff. Ile believed that the London mails readied idinburgh sooner or quite as 10011 as they reached =T; ho hoped, therefore, the promoters of the line ose the cordial co-operation of all persons in the dbarke. ((Hea r , hear.) The price of coals in the neighbour hood of S • was very high, 1111 d there was no doubt the Ole es be much reduced by means of railway ceameakedea. Ile might mention that since the Bnidiansbeneldre Railway was opened to Oxford the prico el ode *we bad been reduced from 245. to 16s. per ton garbs sa nasal saving of 21,0001. a year to that city ; eel the odabbeerhood of Banbury the price of coal had hoes Mesa from 20s. to 14s. Gd. per ton, causing a saving to the inhabitants of more than 8,0001. per annum. After some observations from the Rev. F. Litchfield, and explanations from Mr. E. Watkin and the Hon. P. S. Pierrepont, resolutions were passed to the effect that as the interests of the landowners would be especially promoted by the proposed railway, every facility ought to he given to its promoters by the wile of land at very moderate prices, and appointing a committee to wait upon th.s landowners with a view to obtain their support and assistance. The proceedings concluded by a vote of thanks to the chairman. NORTHAMPTON AND BANBURY RAILWAY. It appears that landowners and others interested in the construction of this line are endeavouring to induce the company to make the railway, which at present remains in abeyance. At the last meeting of the company it was pro posed to wind up its affairs as soon as possible, and divide the funds in hand among the shareholders. GLOUCESTER AND DEAN FOREST RAILWAY. The works of this line, which form an integral portion of the South Wales line from Chepstow to Gloucester, are in a forward state, and are being pushed on with vigour, in order to have the line ready for opening by the ISth of June next, which is at present announced as the day on which the South Wales lines from Chepstow to Gloucester is to be opened, tho chief work remaining to be done being one of the bridges over the Severii nt Gloucester, and which must be crossed in order to form a junction with the Great Western and Mid land lines at the joint station at Gloucester. Should there be any delay in the completion of the works by the 18th of June, it will arise from the difficulty of finishing the bridge over the Wye, at Chepstow, and one of the two bridges over the Severn at Gloucester. It is necessary to explain here that the river Severn, as it approaches the city of Gloucester divides into two channels, called respectively the :tiaisemore and the Gloucester CNinnels, the principal part of the titer traffic passing along the latter channel . There are of course two bridges, called the Glo:?cester end the Over bridges, and the railway crosses the MaLZ•tnore channel below the Over bridge and above the Gloucestei bridge. The bridge over Moisemore channel has been com- ' pleted for many months. The line, after crossing the Severn, passes over several streets of the city to the station of the Great Western and Midland (Bristol and Birmingham) Companies, and only a small portion of the terminus re mains at present untouched. The works from Gloucester up to the Junction of the South Wales line at Grange-court are is nub a state of forwardness (with the exception of the bridge over the Severn) that they could be opened in • month from this time. THE ALEXANDRIA AND SUEZ RAILWAY. The Piedesotatese Casette of the 21st announces that it has re ceived by express the intelligence that the Viceroy of Thas definitively sanctioned the construction of the endrils, Cairo, and Suez Railway. Mr. WALTER, M.P. FOR NOTTINGHAM, some time ago gave a general invitation to his constituents to visit his town residence, 68, Russell-square, any day during the period the Great Exhibition continues open. This kindly intimation of extended hospitality is not limited to electors merely, but is intended to include every well-conducted resident in the borough.—NottinghanuAire Guardian. HEALTH OF SIR EDWARD CODRINOTON.—It was rumoured that this gallant and distinguished admiral had died last night, but, upon making inquiries at his house in Raton-square this morning, we were informed that Sir Edward still lives, but in an extremely feeble and hopeless state. The medical attendants of the gallant admiral gave up all hopes of his recovery two or three days ago, and his death is hourly expected.-Globs. A MONTGOLFIER BALLOON ON FIRE.- DISTURBANCE AT BRADFORD. The Bradford Cricket Ground was the centre of extraordinary attraction on Monday last. In consequencel of the day being a general holiday, and dill further on account of the weather being remarkably fine, the crowds of sight-seers and lovers of the marvellous and perilous were swollen to en extent altogether unprecedented. By advertisement, and placard, and still more by oral commu nication, it had been made known to the entire population of the town and neighbourhood that Mr. C. H. Brown, a young man from the establishment of Messrs. Thornton, Firth, Itamsden. and Co., intended to hazard the danger of the most fickle of all elements, and to travel whitherso ever the winds might carry him, in a Moritgolfier balloon. It was announced that the ascent would take place at four o'clock ; but long before that time anxious crowds of per sons might be seen wending their way from every quarter to the appointed place. It has been said that 30,000 persons Were assembled on the occasion. The balloon, was com posed of strong unbleached cloth, or light canvas, lined throughout with a tough and light paper, intended to pre vent the escape of the rarefied air through the outer mate rial. Two poles had been fixed in the earth at opposite points of a circle made of ropes extended on posts; and from the tops of the two poles a cord went across, from the centre of which the balloon was suspended. About five o'clock Mr. Brown and another person or two crept under the balloon, the side of which touched the ground, entirely secluding the car, the stove, and biding from public view the entire operations going ou inside. It was a long time before the machine began to swell, and, meanwhile, disappointed hopes found plaintive utterance, mingled with boastful self-gratulations on the part of those who had previously predicted failure. In a few minutes, clouds of dense black smoke issued from the rolling mon ster. These cleared away, and hearts again beat light! Alas ! more smoke, thicker, blacker, longer continued ; then a blaze; and, instead of a tire ialloon in the clouds, with one man in it, there was a balloon on fire, driven by the winds across the field, amidst loud peals of laughter, and some thousands of men after it When the balloon was fairly in a blaze, the crowds of persons outside the cricket-ground, excited beyond restraint, could no longer be kept in order. En masse they forced the doors, scaled the walls ' and in a very few minutes not a blade of green grass could be seen for the swarming mass of men and women, but chiefly men, who crowded the scene of destruction. The balloon was drifted by the winds, blazing magnificently; and in the course of its destruction was divided into Bev eral pieces, around which eager throngs might be seen striving to extinguish the flames, that they might bear away relics of the prize. A very rough, though harmless struggle, took place for these half consumed fragments. But the debris of the balloon very far from contented the relic-mongers ; and in a few moments the posts, ropes, hoop (the cur was burnt), scaffold poles, and whatsoever else pertained to the matter, were in the hands of the mob. The excitement grew more intense ; parties of men and boys seizing and extending a rope or a pole, swept the crowded field before them, many of its occupants being now more anxious to get out than they were before to get in. The means of exit were alto gether inadequate, whilst the number of persons endea venting to escape and to enter at the same time resulted in a general melee. The police then interfered, and took a I considerable number of persons into custody who were engaged in the disturbance. These persons were brought before the Mayor and other magistrates on Tuesday, and were tined in various sums, according to their participation in the riot. Mr. Brown (who was present at the request of Mr. Lest , - ratt), then stated, in reply to the interrogatories of the Mayor, that he had never tried any experiment of this kind before on a smaller scale • but observed that the experiment had been made in the usual manner ; the tint balloon voyage ever made was in a balloon of this description, and hundreds of such balloons had ascended in France with perfect safety; that the balloon was made of linen and paper; that he had a serious intention of ascending if he could have gut off; that the brother of a young man who had intended to accompany him had ascended iu such bal loons nine times ; that he had heard many parties bad made wagers that the balloon would not go off, and he was told that some person, perhaps interested in the betting, had cut a large hole in the balloon, which was a principal cause of the failure. lie further said that the receipts at the door were 311. 12s. 7d., that the cyst of the balloon itself was 201., and that he was 3/. or 41. out of pocket. The Mayor would not say it was a decided hoax, but there did not seem anything like a serious intentiou of going through the air. He would recommend Mr. Brown to try experiments on a limited scale before he tried them on a larger scale, because the failure in this instance had led to a great disturliance, lie hoped, also, that those who occupied the Cricket-ground would not let it for such purposes here after, inasmuch as it was stated to be a nuisance to the whole neighbourhood on such occasions. THE VACANT flows.—ln accord. once with a practice which prevails in the City, the senior member of the Court of Aldermen will succeed to Bridge Without, rendered vacant by the death of Sir Claudius Hunter, the office being a sinecure. The oldest living alderman is William Thompson Esq., M.P ' . who will con sequently resign the ward of C h eap, which he now repre sents. In the vacancy thus created several candidates are spoken of. It was currently stated yesterday afternoon that a requisition would be presented to Mr. 'Ambrose Moore, of Milk-street, offering thesupport of the electors to him in the event of his coming forward for the vacancy. Amongst others spoken of are Mr. Donald Nicoll, of Cornhill, the late sheriff, and Mr. J. Pitcher. APOTHECARIES' llALL.—Namea of gentlemen who passed their examination in the silence and practice of me dicine, and received certificates to practise, nn Thursday, April 24 —Edmund Thomas lliggins, Gloucester; John 'Sunbelt Peren, South Petherton ; Sydney Alder, Wake field, Yorkshire; John Williams, Cardiff; John Page Burke, Royal Navy; George Forster Bunter, Clifton, Gloucestersh;re ; Cornelius Clark Rutherford, Doncaster; David Thomas Morris, Carmarthen; James Spark, New castle-under-Lyne. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY.— A special general meetiordof the proprietor, of this company took place yesterday at the White Lion Hotel, Bath, fur the purpose of submitting for the consideration and approval of the shareholders, a bill for enabling arrangements with reference to the purchase, lease, or other use, by the Great Western Railway Company, of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth; the Gloucester and Forest of Dean railway; and the South Wales railway, respectively to be effected, and for other purposes, Sir J. W. Awdry in the chair. The secretary having read the advertistment convening the meeting, and the preamble and sections of the bill having also been read and explained by the solicitor, the chairman said he had little to add to the information afforded them by the reading of the bill, but he wished them to know that the directors had been advised by their legal advisee that the bill secured every advantage to this eausgalay to which they were entitled. Ile hoped, therefore, wader these circumstances, they would give it their sanction. It was not probable that any amendment would be introduced ; but, in such case, ho trusted the proprietors would authorise the board to sanction any amendment which might be made in furthering the progresa of such bill. In answer to a question from a shareholder, the chairman said the present direction of this company would cease, and instead of being an independent company they would become preference shareholders of the Great Western Railway Company, and they would come in as creditors, that company not being to divide ono farthing unt il they had paid them ;in fact, they would cease to exist as a company. He would beg to move that the bill now pending in parliament, the draft of which had been read to them, and for the purposes above mentioned, be approved of, and that the directors be authorised to concur in any amendment or alterations which might be made in furthering the progress of such bill.—This resolution having been carried unanimously, a vote of thanks was paned to the chairman, and the meeting separated. ATTEMPTED BIGAMY AND SUICIDE.—Last evening Mr. Langham held a lengthened inquest in St. George's Hospital, Hyde-park, on William Porter, a journey man baker, aged twenty-six. Jane Howard, is pretty interesting girl, eighteen years of age, said that she lived servant at Bayswater with Mr. M'Grath, solicitor. Deceased, who served the family with bread, paid his ad dresses to her, which she received, as she considered him a single man, until his cousin asked him in her presence how his wife and family were ? When witness questioned him upon the subject he denied he was married, as did also his sister-in-law. Her master made inquiries about him mad found that he was married, and she ascertained that he had a wife and four children in Baker-street, Lambeth. After which she refused having anything to say to him. On Saturday night be came to her master's gate and asked her to shake hands with him, declared that he was not married, and begged she would go out arid walk with him, which she refused doing. On Monday afternoon she received the following letter, which bore the Lambeth post mark: "My dear Jane.— 'ris is to tell you that when you read this I shall be no more. Irf you inquire at Gravesend or Greenwich you will find the lit . e:: 4 S hardy of, your affectionate, William Porter. I wish you well :!trough life," In the evening of that day he called at her m eter's gate when be looked pale and faint. He asked her if sN had received a letter. She said yes. He shook hands with her, bid her good bye, and put ting a bottle to his lips, drank off its contents, and then walked off, after she had in vain attempted to seize the bob tle, which he flung from him. He thou staggered away, and she opened the gate and followed him, when she found him about eleven yards off, supported by some persons who put him in a cab, and conveyed him to the hospital.—Ver diet, " Temporary insanity." ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Yeaterday mom ing a seaman named Samuel Harper was brought befog the magistrates at Manchester, charged with attempting to pour vitriol into the mouth of a woman in Shudehill-mar. l ket. The name of the woman is Agnes Gordon, and As i had formerly lived with the prisoner, but they wen : never married. About three months since a clothes dealer in the market had offered her marriage, and she bad de serted the prisoner to become his wife. The prisoner had since threatened to take her life. He met her on Thursday 1 morning near the cathedral church and repeated this threat, and a few hours later he went to her at her husband's stall, 1 i e n t. ili t u ei d e e l bil . l i r e ar ee ket, with a . can in one hand containing oil her with one hand by the hack of the ineck, whilst he placed the can to her lips with the other head; but she struggled, and the vitriol went upon her face, and much disfigured it. He was committed to Kirk dale Gaol for trial at the next Liverpool Raises. GOSSIP. Mom the Atheneress.) During the Jubilee of Art and Industry which is about to be solemnly inaugurated, we are glad to see indi cations in many quarters of a desire to enlarge in behalf of our distinguished visitors the sphere of private hospitality and recognition by a series of public and professional recep tions. The French showed us the way of this in 1848; and our pride and interest should alike urge us not to fall short of expectation in this regard. Those of our readers who happened to be in Paris in the autumn of 1848 and saw the reception given at the Hotel de Ville to the hotly of our countrymen who returned the visit of the Garde Nationale to London, will not readily forget the effect produced on all parties by the good-will displayed and the magnificent hospitalities offered to the English nation in the persons of of these its representatives. Now that all the world is coming to our own capital in the same friendly *mint, to give the homage of their presence to the principle of peace and the genius of industry, it is due to ourselves, 'as well as to our guests, that we endea vour to make our island as pleasant and profitable to them during their stay in it as we can, and we know no way in which this can be done so effectually as by the pub lie receptions and recognitions to which their habits and education lead them to attach so great an importance. Im pressed with the conviction that this form of courtesy is one that will be gratifying to our guests, we announce with pleasure that the English bar is preparing to receive the bar of France in a style worthy of their own resources and of the rank and merits of our visitors. The magnificent Hall of Lincoln's-inn is fixed on, we believe, as the scene of a great dinner to be given early in May, in full costume, to the French judges and barrister, who may be in London at that time. A public reception, a breaktbst, and a grand bull form part of the Templar , ' programme. The Hall of the Middle Temple, in which Queen Elizabeth received this hospitalities of the benches, is to be thrown open; and our legal visitors will he conducted over the beautiful church of the Temple. The City municipal body intend, we le tiers., to give a series of receptions and star's.* at the Man , sion-house, to the more distinguished of our goods connected with art, industry, and commerce. Some of the West-end clubs have resolved to admit strangers, friends of their present members, into their aristocratic interiors on certain specified but liberal conditions, (luring the summer. Among all organised bodies we bear the sound of prepare ' dons ter doing honour to the nation's guests. Dinners to distinguished continental and Ant rictus men of letters, artists, generals, and statesmen, are in course of arrange ment ; and many of the leanied societies will probably open their sittings to men of science and letters from all countries. The Festival of Industry promises to be the festivel of every species of merit. Amid the pomp and circumstance of this great feast,—an earnest appeal is made to the reader's humane feeling in behalf of a class whose well-being is thought to be enilais gered from those very causes. The hundred thousand shopmcn and shopwomen in London fear that the flow of life and flush of trade during the coining summer may dis astrously affect the arrangements already made with em ployers by the Early Closing Association. These fears are perhaps unfounded:—as the hours of closing in continental cities are generally more favourable to the persons employed in them than in England. In the hurry of party-giving I there will doubtless be sonic eases of hardship,—milliners condemned to sleepless nights, and tailors forced to Sunday work: but much of this evil may be provided against by a little forethought on the part of the public. During the Festival of Industry its humblest ministers may reasonably hope to have their toils rememliered in a kindly spirit. A few nights ago Sir George Grey announced in the House of Commons that St. Paul's showman would vacate his office on the Ist of May ,—from that date the national cathedral will he open to the public without the old tax of twopence each visitor. This change, however, will open only the great area of the cathedral. The publie will still, we fear, have to pay the heavy lines so long levied fur sue — lo g the dome, whispering-gallery, library, cluck, and vitiate. We observe the death, on the lath inst., of Mr. J. C. Tarver, who for a quarter of a century had filled the situa tion of French master at Eton College. Our readers are aware that ut that celebrated school Prince Albert has founded prizes fur proficiency in modern languages. Mr. Tarver, from his ability and acquirements, was eminently qualified to early out such improvements in the system of education at Eton as this wise liberality on the part of the Prince pointed to as a necessity. Mr. larver is well known as the author of several standard elementary works. ilia " French and English Phraseological Dictionary " has given him a high reputation. Mr. Terser, we hear, is suc ceeded by his son, who was his assistant. The Adelaide Observer records the death of Mr. John Stephens, editor and proprietor of that paper and of the SoutA Australian Register. It is a good sign of our times that biographies of the thinkers, the philanthropists, and the pioneers, thee now coming into request, not merely as sectarian books, but as contributions to general literature. Those from whom " the many " stood aloof as amiable enthusiasts, the world is now beginning to study as objects of close interest. Among other works of the kind which are forthcoming, not the least interesting is likely to be "'The Life of George Fox,"—on which Mr. William Hewitt is understood to have been engaged for many years past. The life of the great Quaker will, in fact, involve the history of Quakerism itself. A letter twin Capt. Meadows Taylor, dated Shorapoor (Deccan), 24th of February last, announces the interesting fact of his having discovered some very curious Druidical remains in that province,—which we have reason to hope lie will illustrate by drawings and further descriptions. REPRESENTATION OF TUE ISLE OF WIGIIT.—Mr. Simeon, in retiring from the representation of the Isle of Wight, reminds the electors that up to the present time he hu always professed himself a member of the church of England ' • but the events of the past year. which have its a variety of ways so strongly complicated the position of the establishment, have forced upon his unwilling consideration an inquiry into the grounds upon which she claims the allegiance of her members. 'the result of that inquiry, honestly conducted, has been the conviction that it is his duty "to seek admission into the body of the one catholic church from which England was severest at the Reforma tion. A change of views so entire and decided, he adds, "entails upon me, as an honourable necessity, the duty of returning a trust which 1 ant conscious that 1 should never have received bad I been a catholic at the time of my solicit ing your suffrages." Mr. Simeon has represented the Isle of Wight since 1847. EDMISTON'S POCKET SIPIIONIA.—This new water proof over-coat has man good qualities not possessed by previous dreadnoughts , " and well deserves the praises bestowed on it by a contemporary. Its weight is only about ten ounces; yet it is gtiarunteed b y the inventor to bo impervious iu the heaviest rain, an d to resist the hottest sun ; and it is so easy of carriage that it can he stowed in au ordinary pocket as readily as a handkerchief. It is evi dently invaluable against the surprise of a storm or shower, or as a defence tram dust. For the rail, steam-boat, coach, gig, or saddle, and for the pedestrian, too, it will be found a useful luxury. G EOGRA PIIICEL DISCOVERY. —Captain auesdon, commanding the French whaler the Salamandre, just 3c rived at Havre, gives an account of the discovery of a clus ter of islands which is not marked on any of the charts. They lie in 172 deg. 58 min. nest longitude of the meridan of Paris, and 9 deg. 38 min. south latitude. 'f hey are front 25 to 30 in number, three of them of some extent, and all covered with cocoa-nut trees. On the same day hc disco vered the Ile Clarence. INCENDIARISM.—WiIIiam Edwards was charged before David Bromilow, Esq., on Saturday, with setting tire too stack of hay belonging to John Newton, of Bold. It appeared that about half-past eight o'clock on Friday night last the prisoner went to Mr. Newton's farm-house, cud said that his building was on fire. Mr. Newton run out, and saw one of his hay-stacks burning. With the assistance of his neighbours and the prisoner he put the fire out, and they afterwards adjourned into the house to partake of sonic re freshment. During conversation Mrs. Newton said it would be hard to suspect any of their neighbours of having set lire to the stack of hay. The prisoner at once said, " You don't need to suspect any of them, it was me ; I did it because I was hard up, and thought I should get a little meat." Police constable Bowcock searched about the hay-stack, and found a quantity of luciter matches. The prisoner said he had set fire to the hay-stack with lucifer matches, and that he had bought them in Manchester, and would like to go to New Australia. Committed to the next a.saixes for trial.—Liver pool Alercury.—A barn, containing pea straw, the produce of twelve acres, on Garnett's farm, in the above parish, and in the occupation of Mr. E. Bennett, was wilfully fired shortly before 8 p.m., on Tuesday last, and consumed. The building stood not more than ten rods from the spot where a haulm stack was on the evening of Easter Monday last year set fire to and destroyed, and a cottage standing be tween the stack and the barn was in both instances in great danger. A person living in the cottage in question was in the garden at the time of the outbreak but saw no one, nor was there any trace of footsteps from the barn aerie's the fields; it is, therefore, supposed to have been caused by some one passing down a lane by the side of which the building stood. The barn is the property of Mr. Haggard, of West Bradenham-hall, Norfolk, and is insured.—Chelois ford Chronicle. METALS.—Mr. Moate's circular states that Welsh Bar Iron is not quite so firm: the last advises from New York brought much lower quotations, caused by large speculative parcels having been forced on the market; the demand, however, for rails, on American account, continues great, and this circumstance must tend to keep the price of bars from giving way very materially. Staffiirdshire Iron—. A large local trade is doing ; but little business for ship ment. The last accounts from the Indian presidencies were very discouraging to shippers. Scotch Pig Iron is firm, several parcels having changed hands on speculation. The shipments from Glasgow from the Ist January to the 14th April, 18.50, were 80,500 tons; and from the Ist January to the 14th April, 18.51, 138,000 tons; showing an increase in 18.11 over 1850 of 51,500 tons. Swedish Iron is in moderate demand. Swedish Steel is in small request fur the Medi terranean. Copper—A fair business doing. Yellow Metal i Sheathing is in good request. British Tin s dull of sale, especially common . The export is unusually small. Foreign Tan is quite neglected ; a parcel of Banes was offering the early part of the week at 811., without finding buyers. Spelter—Not any transactions have transpired . the week; there are b u yers at 141. I,s. lid., seller! at 101. The last accounts from India were more encouraging, and the native houses were turning their attention to the article ; the stock in France is unusually small ; and by the accounts from Hamburg and Stettin, quotations were firmer. Lead • is in good request; the United States and China arc taking large quantities. Tin Plates may be bought on eludes, , U/1161. .1 • rati.... .!t X V ' 47, 4 (f) tri X 1 . it (iu ,`k 414