The Express. — London, England, 1848-10-21 00:00:00

TM T.—l $. T. Umplerem le be itest., widest per, Sce peedoke. i •IL r.iblegenn. ham ,le Wilk V., to • , Mb. •t-., ei Hopl.ra. Mb V. Ye be DM, eitheet pee, Me [mire. by, Me it. R ~em. peat„ to be ene„ by pm., Kirk. l o p ; 3,0, pot. bele me, MOM per, .4. !Admires, ins le 14.-It. J. D. Drebeass. le be espl„ Mho* rid s , vise iliev.4deM " with MIL dist saws U. 0. .° Imam.; L L Nwilasse, mat, to be .s., n▪ or. 00 . Itegt.—lise. WEIL J. O. Devill, to be Ent hest, by wry ir kil n . where's; D.T.Disimem, gest ,to be ess trues ot KA. . 1. 3. Moms by M Ike*, pm., t or I N • .41 nee. ; ememl, Mee the iOth F., Is be rem, r .. Wares. CeArrA. i• —Weise T. Cruelds, Item the nyi F., to be hest.- ediot i mir ve l=lfhii modem AL otse.— T. D. Weedy, !ED , from the te eseiS.msg. to / T hem des G. Muter. wbo rets. epos be/AMT. owns* Or arnssim off. Is. sord arsoest d Arany.—lisout U. C. T. Delta to be pm •reMdmeg,Melemilt Iheted Cepl. U. A. Termer to be p m eke Ito I. F. Ibithouts, vet IL+ ; LIM. IL le be ,we..l apt, See Tuner: Mad Lket. J. M. Memos to mei ,se Mrs; illest Lem. T. h. !Mess is be second .fr11..-rwt, DM sr h.+; newest Lim. D. hem to be lilt Mynas. THE CHOLERA. no Mrrnorous.—Pave eases were reported y tn t:.. General Baud of Health, three of which .ed t 4*.epttam, ewe is • ileltioglioat off Billingsgate, ssu 6 e in the hlillbaak Prison. Mr. Whir .11ey, the ri.ll hanaloth, received intimation of smother death. d a e r ceseed was a man of respectability residing in Uevon ihinessteet, Is.tnairgtosterese, lie wee previ.tittly in go , ol bud*, end sorvimel the attar k cult' a few hours. The Medina Winne certified that it was a decided ease of Asiatic eilleeere, WOOLecit ti.—The authorities of the Home-offioe have ate soh hest i real themselves, and yesterday 11011.ing at en early hour •he Charms, Adder, sad Monkey, st.-v., were Maples ad in ,t moving the whole t.f the pris.mers from tholes- ,' this to 'l,O. ..eolotarily fired up 0 the dockyard. The Vs* sad u, 'ft, hospital ship, were towed away hum their unhealthy situations and moored off the dockyard. The Junkie is to he Itroken up, Another primmer named Beau mont tied ..n Thursday melt, and three or four others are still illy bus wr are happy to rate that the dr aths ht ar n t proportion At them on the continent, as only 12 deaths have occurrent out .tt about 40 came. Tue l'apytNt . sa.—Cases were reported to the General Boat of Health, yesterday, from York, Plymouth, East Stoat nu..., Ware, aad the yesterday of Portland. A ea respondent at Si ndertand write' to us that 'On Thursday there were ill., • cum of Asiatic cholera, one or which was fatal. The ... if were sesasen, who had arrived from the Baltic, and o. re takea ill on board their respective reads. There lave 1.. a no came among the residents it: the town, aid ao alarm whatever exists. There is less epidemic asses of any kind prevailing in Suttderlend at this time then has been lumens at the corresponding season to several yams pest. Ihe weather has been intensely t old a:1 the week, and metiical men here see of opinion that the cold weather beeo.etied the spread of cholera." EDI:CRUX. al.—The returns which arrived from this city yesterday at the General Board if Health represent tae cholera as op in ling seriously. Up to Thursday, when the return wee dttratand, the ..scout awed thus: masons — as Ntattaves Le th iii. 20 7, 13i Our own 0111. OpSankt, writing on Thursday, interact wa that " the 'minorities Owe win resolved to keep every thiog u quiet re pnabiblit about the cholera. The publica tion of the otnrcili y tables hat been suspended. and, except the surgeon i• 11 poltct , no one his any register of general re turns. Their act lately an official dispute about the ems mitaimti.in a ie. ir contents to the Bocrd of Health. 1 believe a duly return is used* to the London b iard. liestet. day tignt cues were is the infirmary; all that go there are either wow .tewriotioa. The cues aecurring in private practice carr. , ! be got at. No perms of any mark or aster- Wined tem..: . end peopristy in hie has yet been seized ; amongst tbeu. Mittel cholera is prevalent, but is not atttoded with fatal ri 'Ate." MEETINta OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. COLOIIa PLISON.—After the e llosal of the business. es reported in our paper of y y, Mr. Botch, one ,if the visiting justices of the House Oi Correc tion at Couli.e.h-fields, moved that " the court do take into consideration a presentment made by two of the justices ac cording to the set of parliament, that the Home of Correc tion at Clarke nwell was not suited to the purposes of a prima, and that the wort do say that such presentment wee founded." Col. Chesterton, the governor of the prison, was then sworn, nail in answer to Mr. notch said that in its pre sent state the blouse of Correction was not, in his opinion, sufficient for the purposes of a prison. At the present time the establisement contained 711 sleeping cells, and, as nearly as be could it, it contained that day 1,215 primers, se that 600 of them had to sleep in dormitories. On the female aide there was a -.efficient number of ale ping cells ; it was the male prisoi.ers who bad to sleep in dormitories. There wee not • Anent store room, and that bad given rise to irregularities which had been investi gated by the e Siting justices. The accommodation was very compressed. One oldie larger workshops, and also one of the morales, iit wards, bad to be used as dormitories. Upon admi-sion le^. the prison the prisoners were taken icto a common rec. j.tion room (there being only one), and were stripped me examined before each other.—ln answer to questic no put by several /endue= on the bench, Col. Chi a tenon stated treat, even if the treadmills were abolished, and the space now occupied by them devoted to sepante sleeping cells, tiers u • uld not be sufficient accommodation. He had men a plan 4 which, without in any way damaging the 2.01 , 0 cells could be provided.—Mr. Botch ad dressed the court in support of the motion. Such wen the seems that were carried on in these rooms, where numbers of ptisosers were nightly huddled, that 12 odic. rs bad been dism seed for neglecting the duty of watching, three had resigned from sheer disgust, and 93 had been fined or reprimanded, whilst upwards of 1,600 prisoners het been punished fur immoral and other miscon duct in them plasm. The hon. magistrate, shot stating that the prisoners ma the House of Correction, excluding burglars and piekp, eke% wen of nearly the same character as the lower elm et the inhabitairs of Clerkenwell, said that the present pri. ^ri seas so utterly inadequate to the purposes which uorlt r a proper einem of discipline were required of a prison, teat he hoped the court would say that the present ment wee w. lI founded in the words of the motion.—Mr. Hem second. d the motion.—Mr. Armstrong opp and the motion, on the ground that there was sufficient space within the prima walls to provide a vainest number of cells. If that were done, it would be quite sufficiaat foe the present at least, and cashiering that nears 140,00 W. had already been expended en that b uilding, ha trusted that his hon. friend, Mr. ketch, would not jpenevere in his motion.—Mr. Laurie opp... d the motion. It was all very well fur gentle. men to come .orweed to advocate and ask for new prisons, bat Wu • s another Moss at pupae besides prisoners to be considered—toe rate. yen At the piesent time the debt Of the count) of Yiddlmrx was 306,0001,, in addition to which It had annuiees to the extent of 2,5001. a year charged upon It was htertmading to see the numbers of highly respect. able tradesmen who had to appear et the present time before the macisuata to answer for the nonpayment o 1 rates. — After lime nether dimension it wee eventually agreed, at the suggestion of Mr. Wilke, to refer the matter to the visit ing justices. to report thereon to the wart. The motion was then es itbd raw n. The court, hula; deepest of tome other unimportant business, adJounwl. MIDDLE/16X RWISTItATION.—Yesterday, the lists hr the meshes (armee of 100 is slumber) which form the City of Undo], polling district, were revised by Mr. Shad well, at the Sussex Hotel, Bonnets-street. In the new claim list of St. 13ohalples, Mehemet*, Mr. James ap pliedto the court to strike oat Me name of the Rev. R. luddoek, on the ground of insughtient qualifieatioe. The claim was made on account of '• the endowment of All Saints' New Church, St. llotolph's, Ilishopmeste, being a messy payment derived from composition for tithes by act ef ot." To 'wide the claimant to be on the ougr it nhould appear that this interest wan meld in fee, bat as done .hol it amounted to • mere personalty.—Mr. Payne won • sled that as no notice of objection had been served, Ve none could not be expunged.—Thu Barrister, lower, h 41 that the description was insufficient, end dis allowed the elaim. The name had bean previously expunged ham the r., oter having been objected to by the overseers L the 8 S.lndeltro'a 114 two claims were put in which bee' by some accident been omitted from the overseers' liv, the one on behalf of W. V. W. Shep herd, for undivided moiety of certain houses in West err t and St. John's court adjoining, yroducing 471. 10s. a ). err, and the other on the part of his father, W. Shepherd, • 'to for some scars post has been the objector for the mese n..•ive piety in the county, for a rent-change of 401. • year granted out of the same property.—Mr. James, the +gent nee the liberals, opposed both these claims, on the ground the the qualification wee fictitious, and fabricated ter the poi iiee of enabling the parties to enter objections agaiL-t loos file voters on the liberal side.-Ilr. Payne, the cone' re tare agent, ?squired proof of Mr. Jmues's right to oppose, w hits wee given in the register, Inhere Mr. Jamie's name appeared as a ester far the county.— The nervier. of the notice of chime on behalf of W. V. W. Shepherd, was proved by the otter claimant, who stated that he sewed the notice personally en Mr. Stokes, the OVilltif, on the 19th of July Met la proof of the qusatica tion it was shown by the evidence of the father and son, whose answers were, however, generally to 10 , 50 as to call forth the nearkid reprobation of the barrister, that the pro r e i ir ty to h i i , .(Lc4w i Li r nto an Vie th p s . t ee k e e ssi t cl of the to ele:Le claimant —u W3S stated in answer to out question, 801., and to another, 311, subject to a mortgage, which mortgage the son said was arranged with the mortgagee, who had elegrcyed the mortgage deed on the purchase being completed ; 1001. having been advanced to make the purchase by • Mr. Phillips, who the witnesses , apposed held the deed of eon ee aa ce as security. This deed was subsequently produced by Mr. Payne, but it contained no mention of the mortgage trannactioo, or of the mode sal paying oil the incanibrance. la stayer to a question put by Mr. Shadwell, it was stated by the second claimant, explanatory of his neiling a free• hold ititsrest of 71. 10*. • year for 311., that he eon salted I.e had only a I.fe interest in the property m it Duel. to so to his son efts r him, as it bad descended to him on the 41. -eh of his father. After a long ClAtiliFoltioll the Meth., r said that though he could not but look on tl e case with eonnolerabla empicion, be felt compelled to allow the einem*. Mr. James, who complained of having been taken soerrise, inconsequence of ice omission of the claims from the *veneers' notioe, Intimated his loteation of objecting next year The overseers Meioses: no expenses is this perish. Today the Weesininst, r lista will be take. at the Vice- Chaissellors' Comet, Westminster SANITARY REFORId.—A meeting wan held yester day swain, at the Weetssineter Literary Institution, for the purism et dieneelag the best passible means of supporting end promoting the roomer now being talon by orna ment in farthersive of the above object, and foe the prevention of cholera. The following reesitatilime tale mead L Ant isamemmteef tee esistsme et shims is Ike seelnigelis mgr herssimensfesier *in. dims% le bombing di pewee in adishmeh IMMINAMMIF Ihnenres whit boa lem Rola* Ihe entwine dhow whisk imettahly Oast Ode angen.—e. net *deg the Irstry vlitation of dein, the diem resell Mehl mew eh* pelisse( tic egarpeerendel. hie% Wegmeisuse i dot It le the opinion of thls sweiseaties, rat the elle• sere ef promultenemmessums of •sanitary obasesit we eon ems of be swerit M glue leesilties. and teat it ens Owellime noon with geed mulelluglea the esertfuns lately orb by the entiete titles of the tolled eeeYee to presses sealtary token; W ft home it to tereemsnd M the vestrtes, Wt be eidelleake the valuable and alesetive arras already Mined (be told the thente of the eructation re seresisity dee) they eherld at ale pressed to carry out to its Meet stew Moats mono in the bet osmium et raellesent for the remetemi of relemse end pnrathnd lbeaseu R ban es established he that the es teems of neismie arra la se promote dime Ind ralleary. The this semeleghts WY with much entedleden the bin Ike the health of WIPES reseed by the legislature se a priebet7 Illirare, sad sthat the governmeist wham delay essendlee Messrs Omit mstrcpolbe. 4 TON nail of **l meeneliwas he isnonee by the herevry meretary ef she eatectotkai I. the twines of the united eseishou with espreaviass el aseNier =t hr abets , pit merieti - IMuun , , zed the hope:: bot their neellelme by Me adoption ef the geseseree le the amid res Thews unelutiot is having been introduced by appropriate speeches, the meeting adjourned. NATIONAL PIIILANTIIEOPIG INSTITUTION. A meeting of the matiagir g committee of this society, foe the reformation of criminal and v great children, was held at the institution on Toureday, to consider the yroposi don for the puuhase of a portion of the solety's grounds on building leases. The Right lion. W. E. Obulstme, M.P., the treasurer, in the chair It eppein• thus street from the London-road to the St. Ororge's-rood, which would Tea a direct communication between the former and Ken. ningtou, has long been in contemplation by diffireut parties in the neighbourhood, so that there were several ogee for lb* ground in question; and the most advantageous one having been decided on, thanks were voted to Mr. R. L Jones for his advice se to the rn, at judictooe dinpossl of the property. A plan of the model farm school, the ground far which hem been recently pure:bawd at Barnet, and to which the institution will be shortly removed, was circulat d at the meeting, end from en accompanying statement it appeared that the system add uted at Neural. and other parts of the contin. rot 'where kindred institutions existed, could he introduced dime, the inmates being divided into families of about forty or tiny each, and instructed by a master and his wile, who would be in constant assoation with them. Oro, of them [milks is to Lorin a soft of j robe linear; class, in which the boys *ill be place.[ on their admit. *ion into the institution, and where they w iil be under the constant superintehdence of the chaplain, who will from • one to time rep , rt those boys wham be may consider fitted for removal to another (unity. Ernioration to the British colonies being the chief means proposed by the society for the ultimate provisian of the boys, the instruction will be cos fined to reed:nth writing, arithmetic, sad these arts which will best totality them for their intenden destination. A com mittee, consisting of the Marquis of Westminster, the Betio( Ilarrowby, and other gentlemen distinguiebed (or their phi lanthropy, hen been specially appo'nurel to superintend the execution of this plan. THE EDUCATION QUESTION AND THE CLERGY OF BATE AND M . ILLS.—The anneal meeting of the diocesan board took place yestc rday afternoon at Wells, and was nu merously attended both by clergymen and laymen, the deepest interest being manifested rebuts° to the present as pect of the education question. 'I he Lard Bishop of Bath awl Wells presided, and having opened the proceedings by some pretatory remarks, a detailed report of the Society'. • octane's' was read and duly eonfirita d. On the motioned the Rev. O. A. Denison (examining chaplain to the bishop), seconded by the Rev. J. B. Clarke, the following resolutions win agreed to. only two hands being held up in opposition ; I. That It is Jolt and mammy that the too fogoviing conditions e( state assistance be har d by the state upon the founders awl mo. eaters of Wool& hat the , ite of the school huiklings to secured and the trusts fricslly constituted ; Arciduify, that the school be !men to government in/action as agreed in 1040.- 2. That It is not jest sad not necesuay that any other conditions of state assistance Mahe, the two &bine specified be imposed by the etude upon the founders and pro Mott re of ecitools.-3. That the et bra= tipme any , .111 heavy and cond l i t t y lons up. has ow ooLrated, rs an a t d inisst coa masts el whoa, and m a meat and mowing hindrance In the way of theederetho of the people. Severe clergymen and gent:emen a.ldreseed the meeting in support of BM reisolutions,and urged upon the bishop the desirableness of a great meeting of the clergy and church men generally to consider the present state of the education question.—After a vote of thanks to the bishop the meeting separated. RATES OF POSTAGE TO THE COLONILS.—in last night's Umette appears a Treasury warrant ordering—lst. That on all letters not exceeding ball an ounce in w. transmitted by the post between the town of Castries and &Whiter, in the island of St. Lucia, in the West ladies, there shall be charged (in lion of any rates of celocial postage now chargeable on such letters) a rate of celestial postage of ne penny sterling.-2nd. That on all letters, not emend tog halt an ounce in weight, transmitted by packet beat between any plane within the United Kingdom and the Cape de Verde Islands, in the Atlantic, there shall be charged a rate of pocket postage of Cu, shilling and eightpenee and also a rate of io.land postage of twopence fee the dialanee any such letter may be conveyed by the poet beyond the port of arrival or despatch within the United Kingdom, 3rd. in cam any letters addres:ed to places out of the United Kingdom, shall have thereon or affixed *weft an stamp or stamps being lea in amount get Woe t h en the rates of postage to which such MOM would be liable by law, and if the postage • each letters be not required by the Poetanaster-General to be paid whoa peeled, then, in lieu of the same being for warded, eheirsedwith suc h postage as if no stamp had been diereea eg dhoti thereto, the same shall and may be tor varied charged with meh amount of postage as shall he eignel to the differentia between the value of the stamps doom and Ike mar M shack the same would be liable if we sloop bed bias ainteeL 4th. On all letter, not exceed ing ban ea amass in weight, transmitted by packet boat be tween any port er pbes O the British Went Indies, mad the Island of liseaska, posing through the United lie_gdoes, there shall be charged and taken one Insilco= rate a British postage . of la—kb. On ever/ letter, transmitted ash mentioned In this warrant, exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged and paid proves. she and additional rates of portage according to the usual scale of weight and rates. • a 7th. No printed votes or proceedings of parliament shall be conveyed by the post under the regulattons of this present warrant, unites the came shall be sent without a corer, or in a cover open at the sides, and not written on.- Bth. Letters transmitted by any packet-boat or vessel belong ing to or employed by or under the government of the colony of the Bahama Ida di, between any two ports in the said colony, shall be no longer chargeable with the sea pottage fetes. —The warrant es to tome into operation on the let dory of next January. - - SUPPLY OP NEWSPAPERS AT RAILWAYS.—!Mears. Smith, the extensive sews agents, of the Strand, have con cloded a contract with the Midland and Cheesier, and Holy head Beltway Companies, for the privilege of ailing news men books, dn., at the various stations. As they already 4pM a elmilar contract with the North Western Company, them gentlemen have now secured the right to supply periodical literature to *gen over one thousand miles of nil. In ears of i 'ties of any description, or of de- Sciescias in the present arrangements of this important ser vice, the public will know to whom in future to apply for remedy, and we are assured that their complaints, it well beaded, will be promptly attended to SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE SCINDE PRIZE ' Mosar.—ln a letter which Sir C Napier has addressed to ea evening paper, be says " When en India I read that Mr. Hawk, en Ran India director, had said, while speaking in a debate which passed in the House of Commons about Sande,' Sir Charles Napier had been sufficiently re warded for his services, for he has received seventy thousand rtprize money,' or words to that effect. I wrote to aillis to ask hem how be could make such a statement, her which there were not the slightnt grounds, as I never had received a single farthing of prize mon. y, and that he, as a director, sad therefore a trustee, must know this better than any one. Mr. Bailin answered me that he was act • director, but had made the statement on the authority of a director. Oa arriving in Europe I heard that Sir James Weir Hogg was the man, and I asked Mr. Baillie, who answered, that it was Sir James Hogg; that he, Mr. Baillie was spooking on the debate, and Sir James Hogg, who eat nest to him, said, " Ted them he has received 70,0001. prize money." Now, sir, this Sir James Hogg was not only a director, but I believe he was even chairman of the Court of Director', and the directors were trustees for the Scinde prize money. Therefore the case stands thus : let. This Hag knows perfectly well, es officio, both as a director and as a trustee, that I had not received one tee thing of prise money ; yet he deliberately told Mr. Baillie to met in the House of Commons that I had received I 10,0001. 2nd. He (Hogg) knew that not only had I not received • &ribber; dawn* imoney, but that he and his col league wen at that moment try log to prevent my receiviog that Ave of prize money which their own ',initials awarded to the commander of the forces, and from which act of injustice on the part of there trustees I was protected by the Duke of Wellington, by Lords Ellenhorough and Har dingo, and by tie Lords of the Treasury." CESSPOOL NUISANCE AT POPLAR.- Sir, —At a time when we who live in this neighbourhood, hich suf. fend so awful') , you may remember, from the ravages of the Asiatic cholera on its last visitation to this country (as the north side of our chureby.rJ, with its cholera graves, can us abundantly terrify) are trembling with apprchosesion, the local a,. hornier are doing absolutely nothing toe adds abating our nuisances, or • ffecting a better condition of drainage. Our houses have no drains whatever in this' neighbourhood. One surface hale in our back-yards is main to serve for a privy, and another similar hole for our house drainage ; wh:ch stinking puddles re f main where they are, as there is no provision for teeing their accumulating Nth away. The stench , which infects cur nenhboarbood, under then circumstance., I may be insgined. This, moreover, is not the came t..erely • with poor tenements—kir the case with rich and pow' all • alike. In the instance, lately, of a seaman who died on t beard shin in the Pool, it ante out on the inquest Vat I.e had been on shore for the day, previous to his hong seised with the choh to, with friends near the Bow creek. Cum t hireable intelligence for as ! Why this is jest when we of i the East India-rued, of Brook" . New-town and of Poplar, an' situated. Truly this neighbourhood oeßow-ereek, Pop ler, and Bromley needs leaking after by some authorities THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1848. neon enerptie than those of the different parisises. There it a factory upon Bow•wmson which is so tifebsive that it actually gots. atd has gone for years. by the name of the "etisk-bouse," and no attempt is made to indict it, although it is a most pestilential nuisance. We hardly know which is wont, the mull from the chimneys of this notary or from our own back lards.—A. R., Ent India-road. DEATH or M. LOUIS BLANC'd FATUEL—The Carlene anwunen, on good authority, that the father of M Id. Louis mid Charles Blanc, lately at the head of the office of the Pine Arts in the Ministry of the Interior, died at the Hotel Dieu about a week ago, In a state of utter des titution. thinkisig man can refuse to admit that the oollectioa of the rates—the oily reliance of the dest!tute--should be enforce° in eve,. CUE. Upwards of 400 men were disemployed on public works in Galway on Saturday last—some 300 had been employed abet the new barracks, and the re mainder on the Losgh Corrib drainage. On Mor.day two carts laden wih oatmeal and earn were plun• dered at the markt in that town—rather an an k ward commencement of the winter quarter. A rather unusual accident occurred on Saturday night to the mail coach to Galway. On reaching Athlone it was disoovered that the axletree was on fire. The mail bags were sent forsard by caravan. A poor-rate col lector was fined lag week at Itoscommon for charg ing excessive distreining fees—the penalty was three times the amount of the overcharge. The\l•aterford paper, whose proprietor is imprisoned in Clonmel, has fond an additional grievance —it is the presence of the marines in the Urlka intacta, and their marching daily through the streets. The writer cannot possibly comprehend what they want there. The same journal, In noticing the statement of the Cork Exondoer Ott the galleries of the court-house at Clonmel were empty during the trial of ISPNlanus, accounts for it by stating that those who would take an interest in the proceeding from sympathy " dare not show their noses during the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act" ----• BALE OF A FURTHER PORTION op THE DOHS OF BUCKINGHAM'S P . On Thursday last, • farther portion of the Duke of Buckinglrm's property wee offered tier public sale by Mr. lore Brother , at the George Hotel, Arleebary. Bet little spirit was evinced during the sale, and most of the lc is were bought in. Lord Nugent and Baron N. Rotbachikl were present in the auction room, whisk was much crowded. Lot 1, onissieting of the manor of Clinton, a freehold estate of abort 420 acres, on which the present occupier, Mr. Chapati., has built a sporting rest. denim, was bought isi for 25,00 W. It was purchased by the Duke of Beckiughans, without the house, for 28,0001. The Wedeln property, consisting of glop, was neat put up. The first lot was the L.l see, the eat of Lord Nugget, con si•ting of about 63 acres, and tome timber valued at 4711. His lordship, who has a life interest in the property, became the purchaser at 2,1701. The remaining eight lots were knocked down at 28,9651. Some property near the town of A)leehury was neat put up. It wan divided into seven He. The collective sum at which teeny were knocked down 11110Ilutt Ito 26,4001. Lot 6of the property, consisting of a freehold, tithe tree, and land-tax redeemed fans of 46 acres of land at Di erten, with a newly-erected farmhouse end outbuildings, seems alone to have been dieposed of. The purchaser was Mr. J. Hingham, of Whitechurch, at 2,2601. The whole sues relit el em mnted to 73,6361. AN EXTENIOVE ILLICIT DISTILLSRT.—SEITURF.— Earle yesterday mention as officer of Excise proceeded to No. 1, Weymoutb•ttrect, New North road, Holton, where ..e found extensive plant and apparatus fitted up for the pur poses of illicit c istdlation. There wan a still set in brick work, capal.le of holding 160 gallons, which, it ap• peered, bed been worked for upwards of sin menthe, the revenue suffering thereby to the amount, at least of 601. per weak- In addition to several other utensils there were forty hogatieads, barrels, end tubs, lead piping, tic. A large quantity of spirits of wine was also discovered, rt sdy for send ing eat, and bit' tar the visit of the officer, would shortly have been thrown Ulll.lll the market. The officer took pos session of the whole stook, and it was conveyed to the Excise warehouse. The mnonir in which tide contraband trade was discovered ts somewhat singular. The occupier of the perches bong considerably in emcee for rent, the landlord of the bons. went to it for the purpoee of putting in a distress upon the gools. Great, however, was his awe. nisbnient, onkel of finding household furniture, to discover the i legal stock in trade above eleseribed. A common ircion with, the Reeks authorities then became necessary, and the offender will he proceeded against for heavy panellise. INtltiEna, YEsTERDAT.—SUICIDE AT A COFFEE- Hotnia.—By Mr. 14,ker, on the body of a girl named Jan. Bragger, aged 21, who committed self-destruction under the following circumstance. It appeared in evidence, that the .leased he loi.ged to a respectable family, and eefir Miens e n her own depravity *wired to act greatly ou her mind. About half-past two on Wednesday morning she wet Into the Leopard C.ffeehoust, in ilighoratet, Whitethapel, and called for a cup of cocoa, into which abs threw some oxalic• acid from a paper packet, and immediately weallowell off the draught. The transaction was seers by persons in the shop at the time, end she wee removed by the police to the hospital, wherein she died from the effects of the poison on the following day. A verdict of "Temporary insanity" was recorded--FALL. FIVIM A MALT.—Dy Mr. W. Carter, at the Duke of York, Adani-etteet, Rotherhithe, on the body of Christopher Ludwig Elias Retik, aged 18 years, a Prue. sian sailor. The evidence adduced we in to prove that the deemed wig empleyed on board the brig Robert Peel, and on Suuday last, when the 'meet was at anchor off the mouth of the Thames, near Harwich, the deemed wee directed to go aloft and furl the maintopsail. He had ascended about 60 fret, when the captain heard the de emed cry out, " Oh, my God," and the next moment was seen to fall with great violence ou the centre of the deck. Death seemed to be instantaneous. His left arm and ehouluer were brazil, fed a pertien of the skull was forced in upon the brain. The captain went whore at Rather kithe, and gave the necessary information to Mr. Gaertner, W beadle. The impreesion was that the deceased missed hie footing whilst furling the roil. Verdict : " Accidental Death." At the dee of the inquiry the captain applied for a copy of the depositions, as he would be liable to 1001. pmalty on his return to Prussia, if he dice not give a satis factory account of the deceased's death. The coroner imme diately supplied the document required, atter which the inquest terminated. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION. TRIAL OF MR. T. F. MEAGHER. CLONMEL, Ocr. 19. John Tobin, the car b o y, wa s e iam b : wed, and spoke to facto 'healer to due hr hat sworn to at the previous trials. Anne Sparrow, remained by the Attorney-Oeneral—Was with my mother at Lenora Rock Barrack in July last. the police had left it a fear days been,. Recollect some gentle men coming Once on a Friday Lt that monde 1 here n ere about twelve of thins in all. (I.:entitled the prisoner as one of the persons she tad seen at the barrack.) One of the party, whom she believed was the prisoner, wore a chip bat. Saw a pistol with one of them. One of them told witness not to be afraid of them, and that she and her mother would be as safe as if 111.4 own men were at home. There were about 40 or 50 persons mud& the door. Mr. Meagher gave witness Is. when be was going away. When they left they end the crowd went towards the Commons. The mime IS Lamphier was then colic I. Hs repeated the testimony he gave at the other trials relative to the speeches made before Sullivan's public-house, and the visit of Mr. O'Brien to the yard of the mining concerns. Saw Mr. Meagher at Sullivan's public-house with thitother gentle men. He addressed the people from the 'dep. of one of the can Ile said," If they protected Mr. O'Brien they would have Ireland free in a fortnight, and that he and other gen tlemen were ping to raise the flame in other parts." After the speeches were made, Mr. Donohoe, Mr. Meagher, and Mr. Dillon got on toe cars and left the town. Never saw Dar. Meagher there afterwards. Will not swear that the words Mr. Meagher used were " I arn going to raise the flame in ether parte," but these words convey the substance of what he maid ; some of the people told Mr. O'Brien that Liana= Rock would be a hitter place to protect him from arrest. Will not swear that I did not on some of the other trials attribute the words I have now attributed to Mr. Meagher to Mr. O'Brien. lum confused in my memory by being brought here no often. At Mr. O'llrien's trial I did not remember that these words were used by Mr. Member. Made two ihformations In my first information there is nothing of what occurred on the Friday evening. Think Mr. Fitemaurice, the maitistrete, asked me about the trans actions of that evening, but am not sure. Will not swear that I did rod tell Mr. Dunne that Mr. O'Brien used the words I have imputed to Mr. Meagher. If I did I did not tell what was the fact. Bur Ido not thick I could have said such a thing. The Clerk of the Crown then read the second informa tion of th. , witness, in which he swore that it was Mr. O'Brien who spoke of going elsewhere to raise the flame. Mr. Whiteside then caged upon the court and the Jury to take a note of the uontradiction given by the oral evidesee of the witness to this particular statement in his second in formation. Mr. Butt (to witnees)—Now, Mr. Lamphier, will you now 'weer you did not in your informations attribute these words to Mr. O'Brien ? Witness: No, I will not, but it must have been a mistake of the person who took my iLformation.— Did you not hear it real? I did.—Did y ou not look over Mr. Ray while he wrote it? Yes.—Nt'sre you net milked whether the contests were true or not? I was.—Did you not read over your information be you swore it ? I did.—And heard it read besides? Yes. Croon-examination resumed.—Never took a note of those speeches. Went to &ileum 9 from an unfortunate curiosity to me Mr. Meagher, of whom I had heard a great deaL An old womaa named Mary Keenan was then called. When she made her appearance on the table she said—My lord, with the greatest subediting, I beg leave to speak a word. I have been briUd for the prosecution. I have got this cloak and this cap. I have been bribed. Clerk of the Crown.—Take the book. Witness took the Look end kissed ft. She was then exa mined by the Attorrey-General.—l live on the Commons. I recollect the evening of the day of the tight at the Widow Coneick's. Attorney-Oeneral.—Do ou y know Mr. Meagher?—Mary Kernan • Oh, I got a bribe, I will say nothing.—You ars upon your oath ; you are bound es give evidence. Look at that gentleman (the prisoner).—Witness buried her face in her hands.—Do you know that gentleman ? I don't, sir. There was some commotion in court at this part of the proceedings, and many persons in the gallery laughed et the cringe app2arar.ce of the old woman and her demeanour on the table. Chief Justice 13lackburne.—The court hes for some days observed great levity immediately outside the duck ; and if these marks of approbation or disapprobation be continued, we will order the court to cleared of those persons who are thus disturbing it. Attorney-Oeneral (to witness).—You must turn about, madam. Mr. Butt.—She has already said she does not know Mr. Meagher. Attorhey-Oeneral : Oh, she must answer. Look, my good Inman, at the dock. Do you know that gentleman T —Wife eu : I told you I got a bribe for speaking. I got a eat', a handkerchief, a cloak and stockings, for meanest. A constable got a pound and bought them for me.—Attor ney-Oeneral : We will talk about the bribe by-and-by. Do you know that gentlemen? You must answer nen: I don't know him.—Did you ever see him baize ? —I might. Were you ever in Waterford ?—1 was.-- Did you know him there ?—No answer.—ls that the gen tleman you saw at Waterford 1-1 don't know, ate—What auinsintante had you with his I —No acqesintance.— Were you at all acquainted with him ? When tea years old I was. I had no acquaint tau with Lim only to see him.—Do you recollect seeing soy gentlemen about Sullivan's house near the Commons before Friday evenine ? There were a great many gentlemen.—Were you renewing any acquaint ance with him there ? I don't know whether I wee or net I don't remember.—Did you see that gentlemen upon that evening at the Commor s ? I don't know. I ass several gentlemen. Attorney-Oeseral.—Come, woman, you must answer.— Witness : lam not able to answer you.—Did yon see that gentleman, and were you syeaking to him? No; I have rot a bit of memory, sir.—You have not a bit of memory ? No, air. lam a poor lose widow, making my way through the world. Chief Justice—Mr. Attorney-Oenend, will you pre, her any more ?—Attorney-Genial: No, my lord. Yon may go down, madam.—Mary Keenan rolled her cloak about her , and adjusted her cap, and then went rapidly off the covering her feu in her cloak, es if unwilling even to look et Mr. Meagher. Sub-inspector Trent gave the same testimony as on the three former occuions.—Crces-examined by Mr. Butt : He could not say whether the fides took place first above stabs or blow; it was geirral, and lasted about an hour. The police-constables who were examined on the other trials In reference to the affair at the widow Corinick's house, the Lumbar of the armed insurgents, the firine, the termination of the rintret, be., were then produced, and gave testimony similar to that which they had already given. Mr. Kemmis then proved the copy of the order in the Privy Council for the prosecution of Mr Meagher. The Atone -General next handed the other documents in the case to Mr. Pedder, the clerk of the crown, by whom they were reed. These documents consisted of the letters written by Mr. Meagher to Mr. O'Brien and Mr. P. J. An., bath of which have been already published.— Before the letter to Mr. W. S. O'Brien was read, Ocr. 20. Mr. Whiteside objected to its being received in evidence, inasmuch se it was an irelvidual and not a generel act. — It is believed that Lord Clarendon will leave for The court ruled that the letter was en act and admissible in London in the course of this day. The case of the e vidence. convicted will doubtless then be settled. Mr. Whiteside then roseto eddies.' the jury on the part of Eviction in Clare goes rapidly onward. Thirty the prisoner. Had his client been the first prisoner tried, houses have been levelled within the past week ou or bad he been tried in some happier portion 01 t de , relater he (Me. Whit e- ids) avowed that his sequeed weuld the lands of Cul. Vandeleur and Mr. M'llonnell of have been certain. Hut the Attorney-Oeeeral, with eon. New Hall. Both these gentlemen's lands are situated summate art, had reserved that ease for the last The pre in the vicinity of Kaneda. Mr. M'Donnell has scarcely moos delii had paved the way for the oonvic ion of the pri resided in Ireland for twenty years. sorer thee. on his trial ; and his learned friend, flushed with The Galway Vindicator is quite pleasant upon the his past MCP:MN has reserved the terdiet he anticipated in that case for the cloghg triumph of the spacial commie subject of an effectual resistance to the collection of don. The jury ad heard l ea opening statement of the rates at or near (sort, in that count. The wise C°ll Attorney-Oenetal. It was clear, but i.. one or two respects doctor of that journal, who wou ld be quite irate very remarkable. He (the Attorney-General) Lad told' if any one suggested that he was not ri them that Mr. Meagher was indicted for levying war against surpassingly considerate friend to the poor, the Queen, and he (Me. Whiteside) had written down the following sentence while he was speaking it—a de- team Indite. a pleasant version of the defeat of which must no doubt have struck their minds as be what be terms " the collector's ruzia." The lag of a rather startling 11111:1110—.T12 " that it was not opposers of the rate—namely, the landholders and nerewary for him (the Attorney- General) to prove that Mr. their confederates—first thought to break the cars Meagher was present at the levying of war which he charged which the collector took with him from Gott to him with having levied, for that he would be equine guilty of the offence if be had been seated in his o -n parlour in home the intended seizure, and with this intent , Dublin, while an the traneaction. alleged in this CASS to have having detached the horses, they flung them down a been umeeeble were going ou the country. " N )w, if hill. They were, however, again yoked and driven the Attorney-Oeneral was in the right, and ehou'd succeed to a village adjacent ; but here a barricade bad been in convincing the court that his own view of the law was the constructed by " thirty athletic fellows," and the col- correct one, end should the court thus influeea el convince the jury he addressed on the same point, of ceurat his client lee tor and hie care retired discomfited. We are to ld would be convicted ; but tf his case was heard d tried that the collector and his men were accompanied by a with reference to everything h had dune and truly said, with reference to his e own conduct and his own large party of police and some dragoons, std that the Riot Act was re ad two or three times. If this be ss, tramections only, then his acquittal:mu certaba. Now, the there was very reprehensible feebleness eziAbited , fur d.flkult y in his (Mr. Whiteside's) way was to have his client these men should have been taught that they must teed according to the principles of common seise and com ,mhooiu. i j d ae be tim aff . e lt ed wr i a th f e en d el ec s i me ara n t t i s o l . rul . e th i. e f u. o r r as th en e not res i st the law with ef f ect. Whatever may be cep eehes, conduct of any sth . r man, unless that other man was al thought of the men who adminis t er that low, or 01 its sufficiency for the necessities of the crisis, it.) ll- most himself—that was to say, identified with hit in one A BRIDGE WASHED AWAY, AND A TRAIN OVEUTURNED. CHILLI/ad, RENT, FlUDAY.—During the last forty-eight hours the rain has fallen in such torrents in this and the surrounding districts, that the River Stour, about two miles and a half from Canterbury, overflowed, and the waters have covered the rails of the South Eastern line in one or two places, and were this morning the cause of a very s i n g u lar accident, which has been attended with • Milt amount of damage, but fortunately without hies of life. The up luggage and fi,la train, which left Margate at a late Lour on Thuralay night, arrived at this place shortly after one o'ckek. In order to reach Wye, the trains have to now the river Stour by means of a wooden bridge, which is, or rather was, thrown over the river. The driver of the train, upon getting within a few feet of the bridge, discovered that it was covered with water. Not knowing the cause, he shut cif the steam for the pur pose of proceeding very slowly along the remaining portion of the lice between the bridge. The impetus given to the train previously prevented the driver from entirely stopping it, and the moment the engine got upon the bridge the driver and stoker saw sufficient to satiety themselves that the arch was falling. Without an instant's delay both the driver and stoker jumped off the engine, which they had barely accom plished, when the bridge sank with the weight of the engine, the latter falling over on its side, and rolling down the em bankment into • field. The luggage trucks were pulled over .by the weight of the engine, and ser.nl of then fell beneath—some into the river, end others into the field. Thou which remained abovii were forced into terrible confusion across the line, and were all more or lent damaged ; eome of them which fell into the field were shattered, and the goods partially if not entirely destroys el. The driver, stoker, and guards, upon recovering in some measure from their bight, beheld a fear ful scene of desolation—upon the ground was lying the engine with its steam escaping, Ind the fire lying at its side as it was falling from the furnace ; the broken luggage-vans were heaped together, and by the giving way ot the bridge all communication by the rails was cut off The find object, therefore, sought to be attained was to send intelligence of the disaster to the chief stations both up and down the line, to prevent any place train from meeting with a similar sod dent. A weave having been conveyed to Wye station, it was soon telegraphed to London, and also to Dover. The moment the news arrived a number of workmen, with the railway officials, proceeded with a special train to the scene of the accident. The water was then found to be MS siderelly higher than thy level of the bridge, and the sole cause oldie misfortune was the excessive riles having made the river rise to such a height as to wash away the , supports of the arch, and the moment the weight of the Mein came upon it it was forced dowr. Seeing that VW ugh could not be repaired until the water should subside, a raw her of omnibuses and other conveyances were plain' et the spot, and the passengers as they arrive by the Iris an landed sad conveyed to the nest station, when tag anL enter the k kept there in waiting for them. Should the water NI sallkiently during to-morrow, the bridge, it Is riposted, will be replaced in the course of a day or so. It is ettremely fortunate that the train was only a lug gage one : had it been a passenger train, in all probability the lose of life would have been very great, for the engine would have been going at a much swifter rate, and it is doubtful whether the driver would then have had an oppor tunity of perceiving the state of the bridge until every car- Map had been carried below. The stoker and driver would not have been enabled, se in the present instance, to have jumped, comparatively unhurt, from the engine. A report was outlast that several persona had been seri ously injured, and two killed; it is but tight to sey that there was not • single passenger in the train and that the only injuries the eompany's servants received were a tee braises. IRELAND. purpoise or object, and that purport' Amid he the very pur pose mat e d in the indictment. If the jury did not i.ct upon that rule 0 1 . 1...• they would Rive a virtual denial to the first principtee 0 0, Attlee, and violate the law they had sworn to administer. an d what; would ask them, W4l the prisoner at the bar di ere ,a4 with ? With levying war against the Queen. The te ar 7; e a ...resident= then gave his views of the law of high treason, and Rui n the lame acts of parliament which bad been so freguent es ieed during the commission. How (he continued) did the AtOrney-General seek to establish that Mr. Meagher, whom be au ..slatted he could not prove to have been in company with Mr. o.2 l rien from Monday even ing until the following Friday, was giaa:V of the offence of levying war against the Queen? Why, by charging him with baying at one time marched with a nOnher of armed persons to Ballingarry—with having at another time ereeted a barricade at Killenaule—with having on a third day as saulted the police at Mullinahose ; and, upon a f oarth day, with having attacked a body of police at lArrinrory—net one of ell which things his client hidden*. From the begins*/ to the end Mr. bleacher was never charged with eunspirscy ; but with this only, that Le levied war against the Quern at the several places pecified in the indictment. It was not alleged that other persona did it, and that he misted them, but that he himself did it at all the Olive Le had mentioned. Now, levying war was the crime charged, and the mode by which it must be proved was this : by being arrayed in arms and =reeling *Kunst the Queen. War, in short, must to levied—it must be levied a,tainst the Queen, and it must he levied within her realms. The means by a hieh the crime was to he effected were set out in the indicuni an, and termed overt acts—that was, the acts committed by Mr. Meagher in person in the furtherance of his treasonable intent. The At. torney•General stated that a certain conspiracy bad been formed in Dublin at a given time, and that a general dinar. sive end vague unterstanding was come to at a !nadag of the alleged conspirators, which he termed a .• council of war," between the prisoner and other victuals, and that, having shown the connexion of Mr. Me ether with tines piths, he (Mr. M. Wiry) 'mould be held accountable fur every act done by hi. former coin pardons at any time, and in every locality in Irela..d. The Attoraey-General's CUM was this. He did not allege that hie client levied war in person ; but still he insisted that he must he eonvicted of having levied war, ler the very absurd reason that be did no' I. vy war. All the prisoners already convicted at that commitmon had been found guilty because toey had levied war ; but this prisoner, strange to say, we' vibe convicted because he had not levied it. Su that whether or not he did appear at Mullinehene,orKillenaule, or Farris vary, he was, according to the Attorney-tiameral, equally guilty of having levied war—in Mot, take the matter up in any point of view, and he must still be gentry. The Attorney-Geueral assumed that the c'.arge would be bronitht home to the pri soner as clear u light; but the act el parliament he had re ferred to stated that the crime mast Le moveably established nt,ainst the accused ; and when he talked of a general plan in the minds ot cement parties, it was in ord• r to inidsad the jury, for it was necessary to prove the prisoner guilty . ot the very crime laid in the indictment, money, the levying of war. The crown was unable to do this, and the prisoner was not bound, in his own defence, to explain, or answer, or justify anything whatever he bed said or done. Now, atter all that had been sail to these, and given in evidence by the crown, ho would be much nurpiand it the jury had not been led to think that if the pis - liter had epeken now and yen somewhat impropeily, they mast find him guilty of high treason; whereas, on the authority of Lord Ilan:, which he quoted, no words whatever, however strong, could bo held Ito amount to treason. Nut on one oceasson was the prisoner shown to have touched arms—in ing l t e ec it h;s a f a M i r n . 'M pis to l,s a e p r m a i r gtt state its cnib that not ed one the indictment to his charge had been proved agaiust him. The learned gentleman then gave a history of his client's career, which the Attorney-Oeueral desired by this prosecution t, close for ever. It was four years since he left the coll. ge in which lie had been educated, in which several of the mod distinguish d men at the bar had been edumted. He came over Irons Ennead at the time that Mr. O'Connell was agi tating the country by means of monster meetings, and was admired by Mr. O'Connell for his talents. He hid one vice, namely, a determination always to avow his principles : and in 1845 he got into a difficult position by his openness and tirmnees of purpose, by advocating the education of the youth of the country trrough the meant, of colleges to le established in Ireland. He was charged with infidelity, and the great man to whom he alluded was the person who got up the storm sgeinrt him. Counsel here reed the speech made by Mr. Meagher on that occasion in which he advo cated mix d educatien ' and observed that difference of political opinion ought not to separate men in private life. He also desired that by native city might be pros perous, and social happiness and civil freedom prevail in it. In February, 1846, he became an active member of the Am elation ; and upon no occasion did he shrink from avowing natlandity in strains of enthusiastic eloquence. Counsel also read another speech, in which Mr. hieagner uttered very liberal sentiments, and advocated the general rights of his fellowecitiaens. His theory, right or wrong, was this—aced be had done a lastng but& to ' the coentry . by it—namely, that without the union of all classes nattoeality could nut be achieved. The next epoch was the intere sing period when the whips came into , other. A discussion arose in the association ; the question was whether repealers should hold office, and his opinion was government patronage was desirable and of the two parties he objected most to the whip, who could be induced to confer place upon repeaters by a little safe agitation. The next occurrence WWI the ropo.ition by him to oppose the return of Mr. Shell for Uungarven; he was overruled, and pronounced to he en impracticaole per, in. Next followed the celebrated peace resolutions ; he refused to agree to the resolution that in no event was resbtatme juentieble, an absurdity proved by the very exist , nre of the Queen upon her throne ; be was accordingly expelled, and he afterwards wrote letters and essays miming his opinions. In one of these he warned the people against the destruction of the aristocracy, describing them as the patrons of the arts, end these who were beneath them. In January, 1847, the Irish Coufeieration was formed, and Mr. Meagher moved a resolution condemnatory of places and place hunters. (The counsel here read the opinions of Mr. Meagher.) Ho thence forward regularly attended the oonlederalon, mid avowed his sentiment', which were in favour of the rights of pro- perty, and the preservation of the different eiders of the state, maintaining, however, his opinions, that the ancient and rod constitution of his country ought to be restored. The next transaction in which he figured was at the Gal way election. At that time Mr. O'Flatierty was opposed to the Attorney• General, and he (Mr. Meagher) did take an active part against him. He next became a candidate for Waterford, and addressed the constituents in terms full of sentiments of civil and relaieus lib. rty, and re probation of bigotry. Upon that occasion he was not choun a member of parliament. If the in dictment against his client were for a conspiracy, a peron could undeistatd why such speeches as those which the counsel relied upon should be admitted in evidence, bat the charge against him was the actual levying of war. Cancel then cited the speech of Mr. Meagher upon the 15th of March, a few days after the election at Galway. It was a neonatrou s proceeding to take • speech which was -sly seditious when spoken, but had now grown into treason, to establish the highest crime, though when spoken it could not sustain a smaller one. With deference to gentlemen who talked about revolutions mid the "meteor flog," and at tempted to fasten treason on his 'client by detached sentences, there were revolutions that were justi fiable, where injustice in tribunals, at the judgment mat in the court, and the right of expressing opinion was denied to the people. led to revolutions which could not he sesosaplished otherwise. The bent men he had ever known In his early career had talked the same thing about the me teor flag, Lamartine, and each subjects; and he would not give • rush for the young man who did not, at some time or other, hope to restore the departed gloried' of Greece and Rome. And was it not monstrous that a young man, in spired by clank enthusiasm, and inflamed by a high imm ideation, was to be arraigned snd put on trial for his life for the utterance of such sentiments as them ? lithe jury did find him guilty, they should write themselves slaves with the same pen that they signed the verdict. A jury would not convict him on a seditious speech, the utterance ot which, bad he been convicted of it, would have been followed only . by imprisonment ,• and now the speech was to be used against him on a trial for his life! But the Attorney-Getieral said that the prisoner had an idea in his mind, • visionary intent, which he afterwards intended to carry into effect. He had books cf reports of the trials alter the old revolution in England, in which such speeches, rugs, and sentiments were introduced mallet the prisoners, all which ware r, jetted by the jury. He would not read the speuh in which the deadly vine of the entire of the sp. aches was concentrated —ramely, that in which the prisoner used the expression, " that if the delegates were refused the demand of an interview with the Queen they should peek up their ccurt decrees, and the next time the y appeared at the court of St. James's, it would be es the acere• dited agents of the Irish republic, &a." What did they think of the liberality oldie Attorney-General, who, having failed in a prosecution for sedition :or that very spe ch, now indicted the prisoner f r Masan ? He ;night have tried him a second time, but because one jury dioagreed he did not again bring the case before mother jury, but now he brought the charge of treason before a Tipperary jury. Counsel then referred to the speech delivered by the pri soner up o the 15th April, 1848, and to the set of parliament which came into force upon the 22nd of April, 1848. The speech was delivered in the month foleowis g, so that the act was in full torn. The mo ment that apiece was delivered the Attorney-General might have prosecuted Mr. Meagher. He had a certainty of flicrng u:ou him a reasonable pia:sham:cent—not that of death—but he lay by, and ecru sought to enforce the law. lie had enforced it sersiest five, hot did not enforce it againet the prisoner. He drew the attention of the jury to the nature of the act of Tertian's', which required • written information within six days after the words were spoken, a warrant within ten dare, •ud two witnesses ; amid be contended that nothing could have been • greater el- lotion of the polie s and spirit and intent of t. e act than to heard lip speeches for months, and then construct treason out ot them. The act of parliament was passed to purists a person who compassed war. He had the speech betere tens, and why had he not prosecuted under it ? Because hr knew well it wan not evVence of a compacting of war. Counsel then detailed the circumstances w hieh led to the convicti.n of Mr. MiteheL The premier felt the mode of that trial to he • grievance. He did not object to the jury who were train himself, but he was indignant, upon public principles, that • trial should have been so coeducted. He might bre.) been wrong in leis opinions, but tem , a Gould not punish him foe his conscientious opinions. The speech delivered by Mr. Meagher, on the emaion of his eppraing the plan of Mr. Mitchel, and repudiating the notion ot an insurrection as impracticable enamor to he frustrated, was next referred to. They had heard proved by Mr. Hodges its, document celled a report of w h.JI, let to the ClOiritti , ll of Mr. Mitchel. This Mr. Megle r felt to he a grieve -lee, or no insult, which wee • erre, aid he obj. Med to tee con stitution of the jury who tried hi-friend. He (Mr. White. side) protested siminst the Of 4114hee of Mr. Meagher beiteg • brought Into a case where the crime charged was a matter ot fact—an absolute levying of war. The attempt to rescue Mitchel, a proposition to do it showau a single and individual attempt, and not one of a general character. The prisoner literally envied the project of a rescue, and yet they ware told he had been guilty of treason. lie did not explain anything, but lett it to him to ex plain ; and his explanati. a was, that his client had 144 before the emba, as the document bad Mated, the reasons for not atteicptirg a rescue. John Mitchel was convicted and sentenced to transportation. There had been no outbreak, no insurrection, no violence, yet his client wei to be regarded as a traitor for his speech. He supposed that Mr. Measlier had alluded in his speech to the Canadian revolt. The Canadians did return in triumph, and the gentleman for whose head SOU had been offered was toned to accept the office of Attorney-Gei eral in the colonies—all the rebels were fur nished with the best situations they coull get—and when Mr. Meagher anticipated the retain of Mr. Mitchel from transportation, he hed a perfect right to do so ; and from beginning to end, however wrong it would be to revue any man, it was not high treason ; mid even if they had rescued bim on the quay, and dragged him out of the van, he could not have been prosecuted fur treason. The learned counsel then read the letter written by Mr. Meagher in seference to his visit to Cork and his intention to go to America. In that letter there was a passage pregnant with treason— namely, that " he forgot what the day of the week was !" His clies.t, no doubt, was a lean man, plotting, like Cassius, she ruin of the republic ; and his treason consisted in hie forgetting the day of the week. Then the writer aa'd that he had made a flaming speech. The Attorney-General hated such speeches, but had they not lived on them in Ireland, and wire they not their food and drink kr for 20 years? Then he announced hia Intenti ns of going to New York; and here was the grand levying of weir on the field—a contem plated trip to America. 'ibis to be sure was to he held by the force of construction as an intention to levy war in Tip p. rary. The Atwell. ' , General insinuated, or stated, that the object of Mr. Mt cipher was to invoke the empathy America in :nvour of Ireland. Had not the American people given the Irish their sympathy who n they were hon.el down by tansine—had they not Nurse prov:eions upon their chorea—and was the Attorney-General justified in ' saying that he intended invoking the sympathy of the Americana to support an insurrectionary movement in Ire land? They hid a law book which slid that "etceteras,' were full of meaning. Lord Coke had said so, and he pre sumed that the profound wisdom of the Solicitor General would prove that the " etceteras " in the letter of Mr. Teem.' Fnuacia Meagher meant that he designed to kill the Queen, murder b rines Albert, end destroy the eldest child other Maiesty ; and if they believed him, the jury would of coune find his client guilty. The letter writ ten by Mr. Meagher to Mr. Smith was written in Ma, when he was PI at Belleville, and it had as much reference to the insurrection in Irebuid as to Dothan. Wes it then juetifieble in the Attorney-General to rake up that letter and bring it forward as a proof of treason ? The learned counsel then explained the words used by the prisoner in hie letter to Mr. Smith, " Don't forget Prance and the revolution," and represented them t', have been use. d in reference to the " History of the Girondists," by Lamartine, a copy of which he had given to Mr. Smith, and not to the revolution which took plan in the present year, and consequently the pas sage could not have applied to it. At half•paat six o'clock Mr. Whiteside, addressing the court, mid : My lord, having finished the written evidence, in .y I ask you to adjourn, as I teal myself to be much ea banned? The court was thin adjourned. ACCIDENT ON THE Garr SOILITHEUN AND WESTER.* RAILWAY.—An accident occurred this morning on this line. The particulate, as well as can be meertained at present, am as tellows :—There is but one line of rails laid down between the Limerick Junction and the town of Tipperary, and is • matter of course two Mains from the different stations cannot travel the line at the mite time. Whether the Tipperary train should have awaited the snivel of that from Lisieriek, or vice versa. we have not learned ; but it so happened rea m:day morning that both trains started almost simulta neously from their resp:ctive stations, and, as a natural con sequence, came one Against the other a'<out midway on the line. Th, collision was of a fearful nature, both trains having been travelling at the time at • very rapid rate, each trying to reach its terminus before the starting of the other. For tunate!) there were no persons in either, with the exception or the guards and engine men : two of the former were very seriously injured, and had to be removed 11,: mediately to Limeriik for menial treatment; the engine men were not PO severely hurt. The CATiIECI were completely hattered. A delay of nearly two hours in the snivel of the Cork mail resulted from this accident. —Cork Euaniner ot Wednesday. SCOTLAND. DEATII OF PROFESSOR TENNANT.—Mr. \Valiant Tennant, profaner of oriental languages in the College of St. Mary, Bt. A.n hew's, but more extensively and enduringly known os the author of " Aunty V.dr," and v..rious other works in general literature, died at his house, Devo.i-grove, Dollar, on Sunday last.—Scotsman ACCIDENT TO A MAIL TRAIN.—We (Perthshire Courier) hear that an accident happened to the mail train to Aberdeen, on the earning of Tnes.my last, on the line from Friockheim to Montrose, by which the engineer and stoker were hurt, and a considerable delay caused in the transmis sion of the mail. It is under tood to have originated in some part of the engine machinery getting Wore and falling down on the rails, threw the engine off, which, after tun. sing a short distance, was thrown over with the workmen on it. None of the carriages, we hear, were upset, the steam baring been turned off as soon as the engineman was aware that something was wrong. PROVINCIAL _ LANCASHIRE„ MIRACULOUS ESCAVE 4 O7AI{AILWAY.-011 Mon day law., Mrs. Edward Statham, who mid. aat the lodge of M tars Marshall's factors in this town, w.t , . c •ming up from List rpool by the half-past 12 o'clock trtin with her daughter, a little girl about live years old, sitting upon her knee. Soon after passing the St. lid. Ws station, the child stood cep un her m.ther's lap, and wea about to look out of the window, but the door, being unfastened, suddenly opened, and the child fell out while the train was going at full speed. The distressed mother would have jumped tut after the child, but was held down by her fellow pusengen. The screams of Mrs. Statham and the other persona in the car riage alarmed the guard, who gave the signal to the engine driver, and the train was stopprd about a mile from the place where the child was su:mosed to have fallen out. A search was immediately wide, a general impression prevail. log that the little girl must have been t-asked to picetea ; but, to the surprise of all, the child was found to have fallen in the softmud in the ditch, and to be unii.jured. The train, however, was put back, and the child to,in deposited rife and sound in her mother's arms. The little eirl is remarkably intelligent, and detailed to us the circumstances of the Call with great accuracy.—Stockport Mercury. A DELICATE CASE.—The adjonTEed case of affilia tion, in width Commander Lord F. Becurl.rk, R.N , brother of the, Duke of St. Alban, was defeLdait, wax re tnmed on Thursday before the Hull magistrates. Ellen Oaskill Chapman (the comp :ablaut) de,icec , l that she was a single woman, residing in Hull. In o,:tobcr, 1816, she met the defendant in Hull, and in con sequence of a short intimacy a chid was born on the 29th of April last. Derndant was the fatht r. On cross examination she said she knew a man mimed Hopkinson, and she had lived with him as his wife from October until the beginning of the year. When she found herself in the family way she wrote to Lord F. Brand. rk, and told him she was in dis crete. He amt her a 61. note.—J. Lazenby was called by the defendant'. solicitor, and stated he bad seen the com plainant a great many times with a man named Hopkinton. Had also frequently seen her with a person named (See. She lived with Ilopkimson as his wife. Ile had also seen her with a man named Barnaby in a field at 10 o'e:ork at night. —The complainant's solicitor told he had not any further evidence to bring forward, but he had brought letters, all of which proved that the Iltilkalfalt made by lesenhy was false. Alter bearing u itnesses for the defence, the magistrate. de cided that the defendant must pay 2s. 6d. per week to the oemplainent. Application was made for the ordinary costs and allowed. WARWICKBUIRE. THE RAILWAY CoLLISION NEAR Saw•TON-BIIDOL —frhe inquest on the body of Mr. Shuard was resumes at the Queen's Hotel, at Birmmghaso, yesterday mort.b.g. A I• tier was read from the secretary of the Scottish Central Railway Company, the purport of which was that they deemed it altogether superfluous t•i offer evidence in the ono of Mr. Shuar,l, altar the evich Ina already given by Capt. Siaunons, in which the officers of the Central Company en tirely cohcerred.—The comer, thereupon, addressed the jun . : The post martens en .mifiLtion, he said, amounted to an absaute nudity. Both =diesel wit:eaten exa.nined had stated that thty meld assign en came of death.—The jury alter some bouts' deliberation, returned a sp• eial serdict— the purport of which was, that a part of a wordage felt on the Such of the deceased, licnry Shastu, and ,r.car.d it, by reason whereot he languished snd iraimat• ly died of a sudden &halts, hat of the ciess of the SAW iti,mrrti.ce and hinting th.. to appeared no nun lent vid . .act. LINCOLNSHIRIL ACCIDENT ON THE GMAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —On Tuesday night the last dawn train, due at 10.30,„did not arrive at the Boston statioo till 12 30, wile.: it clashed through the eluted ga•e in bait lx et Q.nater. It appears that the man at the gate having, as he stela, no weirs to stop tiler the usual ime, left the train to open the gate for itself, which it did with a vengeance. Fortuna/ay no further aceideut wcurred. LEICF-STERSUIRI VOLUNTARY EDUCATION.—At • large meeting of,. the delegates and Manes of (hit Ccrnirvriotordal Union, he at Lei/ester, Ca Thereby Po, 6. leson.n, of YbilL, in the ebalz, rpr-ec bee were delivered by tee Rev. James Parsons, Mr. M. Bates, - 11 and Gilson", in fermi el the voluntary prir.eire newts ; and resolutions were agreed to IN aareost of tns Que-oional b: and of the Congregational 1.14.1erc6 LITERATURE. Holland and tAs D 117 . 1: c7i;;;,7By JOHN *GREGOR. Esq., Y P. There is no country whose history and piebent conditit• A ought to be more int, natio; to English readv.-a than time or liollar4 ; and, ..tr logo to say, the' e is none which has beta in unifot iruly neglected bv . , our modern writers, cr on which we possess so few .torts, either attractive in style, or accurate and in structive in their details. The pi, dominance et eeniimentality and view-hunting is r•to in tourists