The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1846. as they had done that day, he was rare their cause would triumph. (Cheers, and cries of "We will.") The Hall was then adjourned till this morning at nine o'clock. The polling will last for seven days. COURT OP ALORRMEN.—Yesterday, when the Lord Mayor and Aldermen returned from the hustings, after the commencement of the proceedings of the Common Hall, on the election for the Mayoralty, a Court of Aldermen was held ; on which occasion the Sheriffs appeared at the bar to anne.unce.to the court that the livery had returned to that court Alderman Thomas Wood, and Alderman Sir George Carroll, as fit and proper persons to fill the office of Lord Mayor of the City of London, and that a poll had been demanded upon the part of Alderman Hooper.—Some conversation took plaLe between the members of the court, which was very numerously attended, upon the necessity of demanding a poll upon the parts of Alderman Wood and Sir George Carroll.—Mr. Alderman Hooper repeated that he had no wish to go to the poll. The liveryman who had pro posed him had a right to nominate any eligible alderman, and he had chosen to exercise that right. Alderman Ilooper, however, did not wish to anticipate the time when the honour of filling the civic chair would come to him in rotation, by a single hour.—Alderman Wood assured the court that it was very far from his wish to go to the poll. He would not have demanded a poll, whatever might have been the result of the show of hands. The observations which had passed in that court on the preced ing day as to the propriety of postponing his candidateship for the office until next year had had considerable weight with him, inasmuch as they manifested the intention of the court, however favourably the livery might think proper to decide, respecting his claims. He again declarNl that he by no means wished to go to the po:I, and he regretted very much that any step had been tukcu to render that course necessary. Some of the members hoped that means could be still adopted to prevent the inconvenient and expensive alternative ; but it was stated officially that the poll having been regularly demanded, it mast proceed. A motion for liquidating the expenses incurred by the Lord Mayor and Conservators in their survey of the western district of the Thames, was opposed by Alderman Humphrey, who stated it to be his opinion now that the corporation ought not to be taxed for the expenses incurred beyond the limits of the civic jurisdiction. It was only fair that each gentleman should pay his own share of the charges incurred beyond the boundary at Staines, and he should move to that effect. Sir Peter Laurie seconded the amendment, which was lost, by a majority of 4 to I. REMOVAL OF TIIE WELLINGTON STATUE We yesterday published a short notice of the removal of the Wellington Statue., The following is a detailed account :—The removal of the statue from the place of its creation to the place of its destination took place yesterday with an the e clat which fine weather, military pageantry, and crowds of spectators could impart. On our way to the artist's atelier in the Harrow-road, we observed all the symptoms of a general holiday. Along the Edgware. road shops were closed, and business seemed entirely sus pended. Temporary balconies had been erected in front of several of the houses, and these, together with the win dows and roofs, were crowded with spectators. Along the centre of the road the sea of human heads kept moving towards the great point of attraction, so that on arriving at Mr. Wyatt's establishment we found great difficulty in making our way to the excellent position for seeing with which we were politely accommodated. Galleries had been con structed, and seats placed on the roof, which were crowded with as many of the nobility as are to be found in town at this season of the year. Among those present we recognised the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Mecklenburgh Stre litz, the Duke of Rutland, Earl of Cardigan, Countess of Westmoreland, Lady Fitzroy, Lord H. Bentinek, George Wombwell, Esq., P. Borthwick, Esq., M.P., Sir F. Trench, M.P., besides many other persons of distinction. Some idea may be formed of the immense proportions of this colossal work from the few following facts :—a mounted Life Guardsman, armed cap-a-pie, might pass under the belly of the horn: without touching it. Standing on the platform on a level with the stirrup of the mounted figure, a tall person could scarcely reach to the knees, and the arms, from the elbows to the hands, are nearly as large as an ordi nary-sized man, both in lengt h and bulk. The great height of the statue, when raised on the platform on which it was to be drawn, as well as the scaffolding necessary for moving it, had rendered it previously necessary to demolish a large portion of the roof of the building in which it was contained. this process exposed to view a consisentble portion of the statue, and the public curiosity was accordingly gratified with a tolerable good sight of nearly half of the entire work. A massive and lofty timber platform of great strength, and supported on four immense metal wheels, was erected to convey the gigantic work on its journey. Upon this the statue was placed—the chest end quarters of the horse resting on the body of the platform, while the four legs descended below the ;laical of the wheels, and were there supported by iron ban, so placed trans versely as to meet the hoofs of the animal. By means of chain windlasses, ropes, pulleys, levers, inclined planes, plank tramways, and other appliances, the carriage and statue, weighing together nearly sixty ton+, were moved near to the gate of the studio, which opens en the read, and were quite ready to be drawn forth. Yesterday mottling, at about eleven, the removal of the enormous mass was commenced. One hundred men of the Fusilier Guards in fatigue dress pulled the immense carriage on which the statue was placed into the road preparatory to attaching the powerful team of horses by which it was to be drawn to its destination. As soon as the statue was placed fairly in the middle of the road, its enormous proportions became evident, and a general shout of wonder and welcome was the result. The whole scene at this moment was one of the most striking parts of the procession, and the grouping somewhat pic turesque. The studio of the artist adjoins the road thrown over a part of the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, and on this road about half way down, the truck or carriage with the monster statue was placed before the horses were put to. When the start was made—a few minutes after twelve—the sun was shining very powerfully - , and the figure of the duke looked like a giant led from a field of cloth of gold by a multitude of Lilliputi in heroes. Behind the statue was seen a moving maw of helmets and swords, the Gothic spire of Mr. Cundy's new church at Paddington, and a clear blue sky. As soon as the word was given that all was ready the military band struck up an apprapriate air, the quick light tramp of cavalry was heard, and the heavy steps of the brewers' horses dragging the hero to his eras at Ilyde-park•corner. The surprise at the rapidity of its move ment was very general—the horses, tired of standing still, took kindly to their novel employment, and the carriage, with its weight of horse and man, came at a rapid pace down the declivity on which it stood. It was necessary, however. to make a halt before the statue had gone three hundred yards; one or two of the brewers horses, unused to draw in so large a crowd, grew restive at the scene; but the mob pushing onward, a clear course was oktained, and the statue moved at a quick walking pace till it was Early out of sight. We may add that the artist of the colossal monument stood on the carriage which conveyed his work—that, seen on a level with the feet of tfie duke, the toprnoW part of his head was only up to the duke's knee, and that the letter+ of his name form the embroidery of the saddle-cloth, in the same way that Sir Joshua Reynolds printed his name, much to the satisfaction of Mrs. Siddans, on the skirt of the dress of his celebrated "Tragic Muse." The procession was marshalled in the following order : Videttes—Band of 2nd Life Guards—Trumpeter—One hun dred Foot Guards—Two companies of Life Guards—The Committee—Pioneers—Another company of Life Guards— The STATUE—One hundred Fusiliers—Band of the Grena dier Guards—Two hundred of the Grenadier Guards—The remainder of the Life Guards. In addition to these, one hundred Fusiliers in fatigue dresses acted as "riggers." To the under sides of the car two long and strong ropes were attached, which were pulled by the gallant Fusiliers when ever sloping ground was passed over, to prevent the huge moss from rolling forward too fast. The procession moved on amidst the cheers of the popu lace, who lined the streets, and appeared at the windows. In the Edgeware-road a stoppage took place, much to the disappointment of the mass of expectants round the corner in Oxford-street and lark-lane; for the band of the Guards marched up playing "Sec the Conquering Hero comes," for some ten minutes before the announcement their music implied was fulfilled. At length, however, the conquering hero did come; and a hearty burst of cheers greeted the bronze monster when it appeared. The difficulty of turning twenty-nine horses round so sharp a earner as that formed by Park•lane in Oxford-street, caused a second and longer delay; but, thanks to the strength of Mr. Ooding'a horses, and the skill of his draymen in front, and to the long pulls and strong pulls of the military riagers behind, that feat was per formed. The railings which separate the Park from the lane were double lined with spectators whilst the " ring " was bordered with carriages filled with " beauty." though we cann it conscientiously add, with " fashion." When the statue disappeared behind Gloucester-house, we made the best of our way to the arch, which is to be its pedestal " for three weeks only." Having obtained permission, we ascended the scaffolding, by which the Si tons of sculp ture is to be raised. The scene beheld from this eminence was animated, picturesque, and we are justified in adding, grand. Piccadilly seemed to be paved with hats. The green of Hyde Park was also streaked with moving black lines running and converging to the Piccadilly gates. Next to the crowd, Apsley-house was the most attractive object. The balcony of the Duke's mansion was filled with visitors; the vine as those we have mentioned as having been at the st one, with the addition of the Queen Dowager and suite, L o 's Londonderry and Strangford. Aftera long dela' the colossal statue was manoeuvred round th c corner of 1 ark-lane into Piccadilly, and a deafen ing shout t rat the air from under the ocean of hats which were wave d ,'cneath as. The bands blew forth their brazen melo d y w i t h i n. Teased spirit. When the procession arrived opposite to t h e n crision of the hero, it halted. This was the crowning moment. Every sett of expression of enthusiasm was manifested. D en cheers once more rent the air; and those of the crowd who possessed the fortuuate power of wave ,' handkerchiefs—and not only they, raising their arms, but many of the royal aristocratic occupants of the balcony, did the same. win the statue under the The process—a long one—of di:g scaffolding which is to raise it to its :)edegal, concluded the av i onv :Ittachnients of mtli ceremony of yesterday : the v hea d e d ,r , their respective tary filed off among the crowd, lands: the balcony was left gradually tn. o riented , and— except by a no means small crowd of linger...l'4—We great mass of spectators took their departure. Whatever difference of opinion there may be as i.") publicfltncr of site, or other matters which have recently occupied attention in connexion with this work, there can be non." a B .. . to the completeness of the arrangements by which its remov e was effected. The carriage on which it was placed was of enormous size and strength, the wheels being about twelve feet in diameter. Upon this the statue, thirty feet high, and weighing thirty-five tans, stood securely embedded, up to the horse's girth, is solid timber, so that when in motion over the pavement but a very slight oscillation was per ceptible. Mr. tioding's horses seemed to make quite light of their load. drawing it along at a rate which kept the pedestrians at a quick walk, and overcoming the cis inertia. after every stoppage without the slightest apparent dif ficulty. This will appear the more surprising when we consider that the carriage and its freight could not weigh much lews than sixty tons, independent of a dozen persons who stood or sat grouped about the horse's feet. Some idea of the size of the whole may be formed by those who have not witnessed yesterday's ceremony, when we state, that the horses head is about six feet long, and his care longer than the head of an ordinary sized horse, while hi, body is twenty six feet in girth. We were informed, that while in course of construction, fourteen persons sat at one time within the body and drank to the health of the noble duke whose effigy it was intended to bear. The group occupied about six years in construction, and the cost will, we understand, be about thirty thousand pounds.—We were sorry to hear that the additional stoppage in the Edgeware-toad was occasioned by a fatal accident. A man fell off the carriage, aed pitching on his head WAS killed on the spot. Another accident oc i curved in the Harrow-road, previous to the starting. A flowerpot fell from a house in consequence of seine person leaning out of the window, and struck a woman named Elizabeth Ladd upon the temple, injuring her very seriously. The preparations made for elevating the statue are elabo rate, and the uprights and pulleys, it is confidently stated by the master artificer, are more than sufficient to bear twice the strain that the weight of this cumbrous object will put upon them. There are four blocks with tackle reeved through them six times ; the ropes are entirely new ; the " crabs " (or working these pulleys are placed on a platform at the summit of the scaffolding, and all the men engaged in the actual operation of hoisting the statue will consequently be stationed above. When the statue shall have reached the proper degree of elevation the whole platform with the men and machinery, together with the statue will be worked forward until the feet of the horse are immediately over the sockets into which they are to rest, when it will be gradually lowered, and secured by bolts fastened to massive plates of bronze, which form part of the castings of each of the feet. The slinging of the statue, and getting it into its proper position,—which will piece the Duke's face in the direction of Piccadilly,—will, it is calcu lated, occupy several hours ; it is not at present anticipated that the process of hoisting can commence before 12 or 1 o'clock to-day.—Last night, after the return of tie men in the employment of the Messrs. Ooding, they were bounte ously entertained with a supper of roast •becf, geese, &c., at the Waterman's Arens, or tioding's Tap, Pedlar's-acre, with several other men of the establishment, altogether amounting to 38, the entertainment being provided by the Messrs. Godiog. This evening the remainder of the men, amounting to 40, will ha similarly regaled. PRAYERS OS TILE PROSPECT OF SCARCITY. — The Gazette of last night contains two orders in council; one directing thet a form of pra3er be prepared by the Arch bishop of Canterbury, and used in all churches and chapels in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Smithy, the 11th of October, and two following Sundays ; the other directing that ministers of the Established Church of Scotland, and of the Episcopal Communion, protected and allowed in Scotland, do put up prayers to the same effect on BU the same days. CKINGHAM PALACE.—Workmen, yesterday, be gan the boarding fur inclosing the Palace preparatory to commencing those extensive alterations and improvements which it has been resolved to make in it. SEWERS, GtILDIIALL. RESIGNATION OF THE SURVEYOR.—Yesterday, at a full attendance of the members of the Court of Sewers, the res;gnation of Mr. Kelsey, the surveyor, was accepted, and a committee appointed to in quire into the duties and emoluments of the office. The salary of Mr. Kelsey was 11001. a year, and a per centage of IS per cent on all works, besides fees for hoards, &c. CONSECRATION OF A NEW RONIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT ISLE or DOGS, POPLAR.—The new Roman Ca tholic chapel of St. Edward, situate at Mill-waft, Isle of Dogs, Poplar, was yesterday consecrated, with all the solemn pomp prescribed by the lteman Ritual. The Right Rev. Bishop Griffiths, vicar apostolic for the London district, officiated. He was assisted by the Right Rev. Dr. Morris, coadjutor bishop of the district, and both were attired in vestments of surpassing richness. At eleven o'clock the hell rang out, and a procession of priests and dignitaries all robed in vest ments of gold, silver, lace, satin, velvet, and embroidered silk, moved from the sacristy, chanting "rymeas dik-ta taberna (sla tun," and. passing through the assembled multitudes formed round the altar, and the service commenced. High mass was chanted. Bishop Morris afterwards preached an impressive ectr.on, in the course of which he took occasion to allude to the progress which the Roman Catholic religion has been making of late rears. The chapel, which was erected under the superintendence of Mr. 1% illiam Wardell, architect, is capable of accommodating 400 persons. EXANIINATION OF THE PAUPER CHILDREN IN Sr. Pe acues.—Yesterday, at the meeting of the board of directors and guardians of St. Pancras, Mr. Churchwarden Howarth reported that the examination of the children in the schools of the workhouse took place on the previous day, pursuant to the direction of the board, in the presence of the ltev. Thomas Dale, M.A., the Vicar, several directors, and vestrymen, besides a numerous assemblage of visitors. ,The vicar presided, and conducted the examination in a very satisfactory manner. The vicar stated that he had been de puted by the Bishop of London to examine a large number of the metropolitan parochial schools, and that he had not found in any of them the children afford a more satisfactory proof of the accurate knowledge they possessed of the sub jects upon which they were enlightened than at that work house. The report was ordered to be entered on the minute,. The thanks of the board of directors was given to the Rev. Thomas Dale, the vicar of the parish, for the very able and efficient manner in which he had conducted the examination of tile children. MORE MEETINGS Is ST. PANcn.ts.—A numerous meeting of the rate-payers of St. Pancras was held at the Exmouth Arms, Exmouth-street, Hampstead-raad, on Mon day evening, fir the purpose of taking int consideration the ' report of the board of directors and guardians relative to the case of Mary A. Jones. Mr. Morris was in the chair. The report of the board of directors was read at length. Mr. Mann propos:el that a further inquiry should be instituted into the conduct of the workhouse authorities, but this mo- tion ;ascot followed out. Mr.Chureltwardenllowarth pro- posed that the report of the directors be approved of by the meeting, and in the course of a long speech, defended the workhouse authorities and the workhouse diet, severely cen sured Mr. Cooper, the parish surgeon, end comidained of the Press as " making the most" of workhouse irregularities. On Mr. Howarth resuming his seat, it was mused by Mr. Windford, and seconded by Mr. Hartley : " That in the opinion of this meeting, a committee of vestrymen should be appointed to investigate the conduct of all the off ors in St. Pancras Workhouae." . . . - . . . After a considerable discussion, in the course of which Mr. E. F. Smith descriiied the directors as negligent, and raid the master of the workhouse had not visited the oakum-room for nine months. He read the following communication : "oakum-room, St. Pancras Workhouse, sem. 2.t, Isle. " Sir,—l beg you will excuse the liberty I have taken in addressine i You. Having been informed that vou are at present a vestryman of I this parish, I humbly soli it your kind attention to the following dies cuntstonces, on behalf of the poor unfortunate individuals whose un happy lot it is to be confined in this oakum-room prison, suffering ' greatly from close confinement and almost starvation. There arc at present confined here in the calium-room twenty-four individuals, out of which number eight of them are cripples, and four al., of them boys under sixteen yearn Maze, which almost renders them incapable . eurniug their livelihood sit able-bodied. lu the winter s aeon we vary in number from thirty to form, or mare; and our place of am finement is considerably too small (or such a number. The yard which we have for airing, or exercioe, as it is termed, measure+ only 25 feet • in length and eight in width, which, when 40 persons are ramtined her: • and go to the same yard for exercise, they have qtly each of • them five feet for exercise, which is only just one stride PCTIPP4 the yard, or in whichever way one person thinks fit to turn himself. As o to wollatig that is quite out of the question; for there is no room for walking in so 'mall a yard. The coutinement is mire close here and unhealthy than in the blouse of Correction—a place of punishment. • The Sabbath here is spent the same as a wick day; we never see • Sunday here; we are never allowed even to frequ nt the house cha pel, or any other place of worship. I myself, together with other in , mate+, have been kept closely confined here for upwards of two years and never even permitted to attend a chapel, or hear the Wont of Got in any shape or way whatever; nor even now are any of us suffered ' to go beyond the walls of our dungeon fur that ur any other pur pope. I must now beg your polite attention to the filthy and hor rifying state that the place is in, and has been for some lung period of time. It is now abounding with lice and other vermin. It has frequently been reported to Mr. Lee, the master, as such, whahus only laughed and jeered at it, and told UM to catch them, and kill them with the mallets (with which we mallet oakum for picking!, a+ we were lase, idle thieves, and had nothing else to do. This was all we got from Mr. Lee, the master, for reporting the uneleanlineso of the place. The linen is also served out to us in a Oath and unclean state, not fit to put on. It is also the custom of Mr. Lee to tell us to "go and make a hole in the water, like Phillip Rita did," referring to one who has been a pauper here, and drowned himself. I have often heard hint say—poor fellow'—that he never would again retu'n to this prison. I must also observe, that the man Whitt, who gave evilence concerning the provisions which was not altogether to the satisfaction of Mr. Lee, he (the master) has not since allowed Whitt to work to earn a few pence. Them Mr. Lee punishes the paupers for speaking the truth. I have no doubt, had Whitt have told a [aloe hood in favour of Mr. lee, that he would have been rewarded instead of punished. Thu+ the management and control of the house is en tirely left to Mr. Lee by the directors, to do as he thinks proper. Mr. Lee apparently acts as surgeon ; for when Dr. Cooper has ordered porter to the sick or Si alteration in diet, he (Mr. Lee) has strictly forbidden and stopp. d it. Whatever Mr. Lee says appears to be taw in the eyes of the directors. I must now confine myself to a cruel and disgraceful occurrence which took place about five weeks ago. Six of us were confined in a miserable dungeon tatted the • Refrac tory-room,' or ' Black-hole,' to undergo a sentence of •IS home' close confinement, and close enough it was, for this bloekthole had no window or tire-place. The door was cased or lined with iron, and locked and bolted withoutside. The weather then being PO excel sively hot and close, we also being so many, we complained of the close con finement and heal As a punishment for complainicm, a large board was nailed up orer the small air-hole that previously existed, and thus the draft and air was entirely stopped. There was no ventila tion whatever, and we were almost suffocated. There were also sews rat hole+ knocked and made in the opposite wall of the cell to admit the foul air and the stench from the burying-ground which adjoins tho cell, the wall of the burying-ground forming a portion of the cell. The abominable stench that came in upon us turned us all quite sickly, there not being an escape for it. I myself was also kept confined therein thirt.y.sth hours, and all the fond that sus given me was four ounces of bread only during that time. The only reason that we were con. tined there was for applying for relief, there being no other reason whatever. There is no bed, nor even straw, in the place to lie upon ; only the hard boards, which are infested with Maw Upwards of thirty of us hare been there together confined, and half of us have been compelled to lie on the floor. Mrs. Junes, the mother of the late unfortunate Mary Ann Jones who committed suicide, was confined there for some doss and nights together without her clothes, they being taken from her by the authorities, and also beaten nut the body with great violence, there being black marks and bruises about her arms, which she showed to me and others who were with me. This cruelty is almost enough to drive any person to resort to acts of suicide, or even anything. There is now confined in the oakum room a person of the name of John Buckingham, who reports that the directors have swindled him out of his money, which ennotantly is preying on hi+ mind, together with the close confinement and•r which he 15 now ouffeting, which causes him repeatedly to talk of destroy ing hitneelf. Sir, I am ready and willing at any time to tame forward and bring with me a number of WitllC.lo6 if required to prove everything which I hare here inserted, and I have to all that if I was to mentton all the cruelties and charges thot the St. Pancris authorities are guilty of and accountable for, I should fill a whole , ire of paper. Sir, there is no reason for us be confined here only {or„ -,plying for relief. A vote of thanks is due to Dr. Cooper for the . w a d u•eatment and respect he has towards the poor in the house. I an d mtv brother have been ill and under the Care of Dr. Cooper fur sine t i me , and were always treated with great dare awl kitidneltt. Thjs is the gocral reply of most of the inmates who have been under his care. Mr, 1 have not roam for more at present, and remain, your obedient servant, linnor J•KLS. "1 . .8. I mint IleMbs my something concerning the forst, whi Olio of a most inferior quality. The meat is to hard and tough that it is wins diffi culty we chew it. The gruel and broth we seldom or ever use; as there are three broth days in the week, and we can't make use of the broth, we have three days to dine upon four ounces of dry bread alone. 1 myself have often bean kept fourteen days he Mr. Lee, the master, without meat, which caused me to live for fourteen dam cessively en nothing but dry bread. Our shed was this day sashed by some of the directors, among wheal: was a Mr. Wills, a stonemason. • in the New-mad. That rtenileman reeouunends that we should ask the committhe for threepence to buy brooms, to go and sweep crossings; but we are never allowed to go and ace the committee at all, sir." The reading of this letter created a powerful sensation.— Mr. Howarth said the letter was a tissue of falsehood, and he did not believe a single word init.—ln the end the amendment was negatived by a majority of five, and Mr. iiowarth's motion adopted. TILE TRUE PLAN OF REFORMING JUVENILE OF PEN nEns.—Mr. Serjeant Adams, in his charge at the opening of the Middlesex Sessions, alluded to a most interesting re port respecting the treatment of juvenile offen.lers in War wick. It was printed fur the usa of the Middlesex Magis trates, in order to confirm them in their belief, that a prison was not a place calculated to reform juvenile otrenders. "About 30 years bock the Magistrates of Warwick had their atten tion called to the fart that children were frequently made the instru incubi of designing thieve to enable them to commit robberies with impunity, and that that course of robbery was increasing to a very great extent. This system of robberies increased for some time, until the magistrates found that when a boy was punished for stealing and sent to a felon's gaol, he was, at the expiration of the tern of Imprison ment, a confirmed thief. To prevent this, a plan was adapted by them, which was carried out and suceeesicd irmakerfully. It was this: a farm house sin, purchased at the sole expense of the ina•istrates, voluntary contributions were afterwards received and band bought. A system was then adopted by all the maxistnites of that county, when • boy was broug ht before them and convicted, instead of sentencing them to a term of imprisonment in the county plot, they were b - ound to the magistrates for lift7-one weeks, and sent to wart as farm labourers at the magistrates farm, which was Conducted In the itl4lllller of a well-regulated family. It was true that the hove had every opportunity of escape, but they knew that they would be pursued and taken, and knowing tint to be the ease, an coupe was very seldom st tempted, indeed, ooseldom, that it was not worthy of mention; idled to which they were treated as children, and though made to work, and kept strictly in order, yet they had their hours of recreation, and were comp iratively too happy to think of escaping, when they a o old be set at liberty at the end of their term of apprentireship, and would then either be apprenticod to some other business, or put in a way of getting an honest livelihood, If eso inclined. The magistrates had the sone power over theta as masters have over apprentices and servants, and appointed a master to conduct the term, the effect of which was that in nine raw, thirty-nine prisoners were reformed which the magistrates were around of, as they heard constantly of them, in some UM" , until they were either married, in respectable situations, or were dead—in the latter ease having tilled respectable situations while alive, but in all cases being effectually reformed. On the other bawl there were thirty-eight boys who were afterwards punished, and being naturally inclined to stealing were afterwards true-ported. There were 71 boys, and it was shown that more titan half viers reformed during the last ten years Mr. Joseph Johnson had held the situation of tarn-minter, and during that penal 142 had been under him, out of which numbers Jn had been reformed umier la years of age, and 32 above that age. This ”steni showed the inutility of aratencing children to military coiitioement, and punishing them as grown-up persons, instead of try...ding them as children who required correction. A similar mode of reforming juvenile delinquents has been adopted is France, and was set on foot by a benevolent private gentleman, named Lecomte, who has devoted his large estate, near Rouen, called Chartreux, to the purpose. The neigh bouring prefects send the condemned children to his agricul. tural penitentiary, instead of to gaol. M. Lecomte superin tends the reformation of boys, and his wife that of girls. Their establishment has been completely successful. Ex r Loslos OF Ft REWORKS.—Vesterday forenoon a fearful explo.ion occurred upon the premises of Mr. Ed ward Deal, No. 2, in Sidney-street, Poplar. Mr. Deal was preparing a quantity of combustible matter used in the ma nufacture of fireworks, when the whole of the composition exploded, setting the shop on fire and demolishing between 40 and 50 squares of glass. Mr. Ikel was knocked down, his clothes set on fire, and the fie-h in some parts torn from his arms. The engines of the paridi and School-house-lane, Shadwell, promptly attended, and the fire was speedily ex tinguished. The cause of the explosion could not be learned. IititGLARY.—FEMALE HEROISM.—The house of Mr. Preston, No. 7, Pulborough terrace, Harleyford-road, Kennington, was lett in charge of a female relative of that gentleman, he being on the Continent, and besides herself there were two children and a female servant in the house. About one o'clock on Tuesday morning, the servant was awoke by a noise down stairs. She instantly got up, dressed, and gallantly marched down stairs with a candle in one hand, and an old sword belonging to her master in the other. On reaching her master's bedroom, she saw a man coming out of it. She immediately struck him wigs the sword; the fellow stumbled, his hat fell off, and, without waiting to pick it up, he rushed down stairs, and managed to make his escape. An alarm was given, and the police admitted into the house, and it was then found that a quantity of massive piste, wearing apparel, and other valuable property, were tied up, and ready to be carried away by the burglar. In the hat was fauna no less than four watches, three of them gold, and of considerable value, a great variety of jewellery, and purses containing ancient coin, &c., which the burglar had collected from the different depositories in the bedroom, and which he had placed in his bat. ESTS.—DEATII IItoNIENCF.SSIVE DRINKING.-- Yesterday, by Mr. W. Baker, at the l'riocess Alice, Murray-street, New N firth-road, on the body of Ann Jewell, late of 32, Allerton-street.—Sarah Bordeaux stated that she waa servant to the deceased for the last week, during which time she had been chiefly confined to her bed, and had drunk on an average ten quarterns of brandy daily, awl on Saturday she had fourteen quarterns, and half a pint was pnrchased for Sunday. which she drank on that day in the afternoon. The little girl, on going to see her, found her dead. The surgeon attributed death to diarrira, accelerated by excessive drinking. Verdict recorded accordingly.— - Si Kama—By Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the Duke of Sus sex, Haggerstone, on the body of Rebecca Levine, aged 17 years. John Pope deposed, that on Sunday evening last, about half-past seven o'clock, he was passing along the tow ing path of the Regent's Canal, near the Queen's-bridge, Ilaggerstone, when he found a bonnet aid shawl, aad with them a piece of paper addressed to Mn'. Lepine, No. 2, Pear Tree-court, Shoreditch. He raised an alarm, and after two hours' searching, the body of the deceased was recovered. There was a black silk handkerchief twisted round her eyes. James Lepine, a younger brother of the deceased, stated that on Sunday morning last, hi. sister quarreled with her parents, in consequence of their refusing to purchase a pair of boats fur her. She left the Louie crjing, and about one o'clock in the afternoon he again met her at the top of the court. She appearcal very much distressed, and gave witness a shilling and a small smelling bottle. She .aid he was to take them home to her mother, and tell her that she was to keep them as a remembrance. She was never seen alive afterwards. The jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned." RELIEF TO THE Intsll.—Sir,-1 daily ace in your paper accounts of the great distress of the poor in Ireland, and yet no immediate relief is given to the starving people. Surely, if you or some influential person would commence a subscription in their behalf, many thousands of pounds sterling would be suhs:rilwd, not by the wealthy only, hut by the middling and lower class of people, wits would, I am sure, not begrudge a few shillings, or even one, to assist them in their present emergency. Should that not be feasible, her Majesty's ministers might advise our sovereign to issue a proclamation, commanding charity sermons to I.e preached in every church and chapel throughout Great Britain, and *he amount given at the. termination of those sermons (which, I doubt not, would be very great), might be placed in the hands of government for the immediate relief of those most in need of fund.---1 am. Sir, your obe dient servant, T. A. S.—Dawlish, Sept. 23, 1810. ACCIDENT ON TIIE. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— Sir,—When accidents have occurred on the railways, I have observed universally that great endeavours hare been made to fasten the blame on some one of the company's employes, usually the engine-driver. You have now favoured the public with a long article imputing " that the late dreadful accident at Farringdon-road was caused through the negli• genre of the engine•driver, in stopping the speed of his engine without giving notice to the guard to apply the breaks to the carriages, whereby the train ran into the tender." Now, observe' The facts are these in evidence: The steam was cut off some time before the accident eccurrecl, and the train was approaching the station at a very slow rate. The engine brake away from the tender. The van was off the rails, and the following carriage forced against it so as to throw it upwards. The question is, "Did the train run upon the engine in consequence of the engine having been suddenly checked without a corresponding cheelehaving been given to the train: or did the engine break away from the train in consequence of the van being thrown off' the line and stopping the train ?" The first question cannot be answered in the affirmative. If the train ran on the engine, the train must have been proceeding with some speed ; but it was going very slowly, and the engine had not been stopped. Secondly, It would have occurred when the speed of the engine was first checked, and the train was moving fast; not when it was proceeding very slowly. Thirdly, If the train, moving slowly, had impinged on the engine, it would not, by the laws of motion, have been driven off, as occurred in this case—the engine, being a very heavy body. would not be driven off like a football from a train coming slowly upon it. The train would have been tumbled upon the engine, for it appears that the crush was not occasioned by a quick impingement of the carriage on the van, but by the force of heavy pressure, the van being nearly fixed. 4th. The breaking away of the engine from the tender would quite account for the driver being thrown backward, and for the fire-flashing observed by the superintendent. Wherefore you are wrong in attri buting the accident to the enginsAriver having too suddenly , stopped his engine ; it was not and could not have been caused by the train, when. moving slowly, running into the tender; but a light four-wheeled van, being between two heavy strains, was jerked off the line, and became partly fixed, then the engine broke away from the heavy drag behind it : and the van and light second-class carriage were crushed in resisting the momentum of the train. The safety of the public is much compromised when t h ese accidents arc attributed to a wrong cause, wherefore I must protest against your making the poor engine -driver the scapegoat upon this occasion.—l remain, your obedient servant, JOBS THOMAS AUBTEN.—Aldworthp Reading, Sept. 28. (Neither on this nor on other occasions have we endea voured to screen a railway company by throwing blame on the employ Os. Indeed, in this very case we expressly stated that great part of the blame rested with the managers. Our correspondent, in his argument to exonerate the engine. driver, omits to notice that the leather on the buffers of the tender were cut across had the engine broke away from the train, that could not have been the case. Mr. Bush said, at the inquest, "the fore pelt of the van bore plain proofs that it had run into the tender."—En. D. N.] DELAYS ON TIIE GREAT WESYER.N.—Sir : I was a traveller, with a part of my family, by the Great Western Railway yesterday, on a visit t) Maidenhead. We took day tickets, and arranged to return by the last train, at half past nine o'clock, which should reach Paddington at half past ten, so that we expected to have been home here about eleven o'clock. The train, however, did not reach Pad dington until atter midnight, sad wo did not get home until one o'clock in the morning, where we found the rest of the family iu • state •.fgreat alarm and anxiety for our safety. We inquired at Paddington of the ticket-collector the cause of the delay; he said he did not know. We could get no satisfactory account of the causes of delay from:any of the officers of the railway. The goods train was due at Slough some time ere we reached there. I expected every moment while we were slowly moving along. that it would run into us and produce a frightful concussion. It did reach Pad dington station only a few minutes after us. If it had been to its time, who can tell how many lives might have been sacrificed ? Now, air, the railway companies have their remedy, and severe enough it is, and often enough do the 7 use it, against any traveller who may infringe any of their code of laws. Ought there not also to be some remedy for the traveller when they break their contract with him ? I am, sir, your most obedient servant, o.ll.—Notting-hill, Sept. 29. WRECK OP THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We have been favoured with the following very interesting extract of a letter from a young lady, passenger in the Great Britain, to her friend in London. The accounts of this casualty that had hitherto appeared, hardly prepared us for such a descrip tion of the scene " Liverpool, Sept. s_6.—We here indeed been in fearful peril. The newapapens by no means represent the extent of the danger. The Map struck the rocks at In o'clock ' • I had just gone to my state_ room, au.l the instant I felt the sh uck I knew something was the muter. In a niomeuttbere was a aeored shock. and all was confusion. Men and warren rushed out; the latter from their berths, sad some threw themselves into the arena of strangers. We could with ddli culty stand. Mr. —'s first words to me were, • I think there w ill be no kiss of life, but the ship is gone.' • I think there will be no boa of life!' what fearful won'ss in a tiara night, the rain falling, with wind' There was possibility, chance of It, then. Oh, I sinnot tell you of the anguish of that night : The sea broke over the ship ; the Ir4Ve• struck her like tbunchne:aps; the gravel grated below. There was the throwing overboard of the cords ; there were the cries of children, the grains of women, the blue lights, t e signal guns, even the tears of men ; and amidst all rose the voice of prayer—and this far long dark hours: Oh, what a fearful night! Thy mercy, ()God, alone waved us from destruction. The day dawned, and we lay be tween two long lodges of rock, while another stretched across our front. Five hundred cards to the rixht or left, two hundred yards in advance, and the ship had been dashnl to pieces. Three hundred persons had perhaps ken ram in that dense darkness amid the breakers' cannot tht's of that night without tears; but I feel, and I gratefully acknowlesi.v, that the hand of an MI-merciful Providence was stretched out to mutest. and ease us. Owl grant fl sat I May never for4et either the night or the merry You cannot imagine such a scene. We cannot account for the accident, but the conslnet of Captain Hoskins through the night was admirable. The newspapers say that the ladies went to bed ; some of them, at t!ce captain's urgent Inquest, lay down in their dresses. Towards morning I did, in my clo di, upon the fluor, and covered with a blanket brought me by n passenger. At dawn we were lowered over the ship's aide, and carried on shore in carts of ass-weed manure. We walked throuab an Irish hog; and Mrs and I lay down upon the ;wooden; door of an Irish cabin, where we found • plenty of bread, some bacon, and divided an egg among three. With much fatigue we Clime on to Belfast and LiverpooL Mr. ____ wr, at one time 24 hours without eating or sleeping. There was an efficient coast-guard; but at or time the Irish assembled in sal, numbers, thit we feared o. riat. To my astonishment and gratitude, all the luggage was saved. We arrived at Liverpool warn out; now we are better." THE POTATO BLIGHT.—To Lola) JOHN Ws:sail. —My Lord,—The object of this letter is not political, but to give you an opportunity of making known, to an extent that I have no power of doing, the method by which I have saved all those potatoes that I found good, amounting to about half the crop. Believing this blight to have been caused, like the disease that has been su general among our owu species in producing such au unaccountable prostration of the nervous system, by some modification of the electric fluid, which it is of no consequence at present to speculate about, I determined upon the first digging of my potatoes, more than a fortnight ago, to protect the good ones in the same manner that protect (at the risk even of being called a Protectionist) the beer in my cellar, namely, by insulating them. This I did by putting them into sack. and hampers, and these upon stillious, the legs of a hick had been charred, so as to he a non-conductor, and thereby cut oft the elec tricity of the earth. This 'Whoa was then placed in a dark cellar, the temperature of which was under GO deg. At the end of ten days the potatoes were examined in the pnachce of some respectable Hertfordshire fanners and gardeners, and compared with those dug up at the same time from the same bid, and kept in the usual way: not ouc of those that had been insulated was bad, whereas hardly one of those that had not been insulated was good. As I am breathing the air that Bacon breathed, it would have been inexcusable not to have tried other experiments. Ac cordingly, I buried some of the good potatoes in charcoal powder in an op en shed, without any regard to temperature or anything else : not_ one of these has become bad, while every cne of those dug at the same time from the same bed has become bad. Then with regard to those in the ground, as it was impossible to insulate them, I had all the green and withered tops cut off close to the earth, the ground about the potatoes stirred with a fork, and then the tops of the ridges covered with charcoal powder. This 1 did upon another principle; and all I can say about it is that not more bad ones, if so many, were found as were found ten days before in the same bed, which were now "lying dead," but not " scentless ;" and it was the opinion of the pradcal men that if the charcoal powder had bten applied at the first appeirancc of the blight, it might have saved much of the crop. Inasmuch as it would be an excellent manure for on future crop, the farmers all determined to treat them as 1 had treated mine, and where charcoal is not at hand, and the quantity . of potatoes compels them to use pt.', to have those surrounued as much as possible with charred turf. My name can add ns weight to this communication; but I subscribe myself as having had the honour to be the intimate friend and counsel of that admirable man, great genius, and meritorious inventor, your lordship's old tutor, the Hey. Edmund Cartwright, and now 1 am your humble servant, A Itaaluen Since the above experiments were made, indeed since this letter was written, I has e read an admirable letter of Dr. Murray, of Dublin, to the editor of the Nation, attri buting this blight to electricity. It is curious, that about seven or eight years ago, I sent a hamper s.f potatoes, grown upon my land, within a few miles of Osborne-house, to my son, then in St. Helena, by whom I was informed that they were in the greatest request for planting in that island. Now here, we are inturmeal, this blight first appeared. This confirms my theory : out because the potatoes came from the Isle of Wight, but because the disease came with the magnetic current from the cast. I published the same notion with respect to the cholera in 1832. Dr. Buckland's suggestion of burning the tops of the potatoes on the ground comes very nearly to my sugges tion; but whether for the same reasm or not I do not know.—Heath Lodge, St. Alban's, Sept. 24,1848. " COLLIERY STRIKES."—SIR : In your paper of the 2ith instant, I observed a communication on this subject from a correspondent in Weardale, the purport of which, so far as I can make out, is to exculpate the Primitive Method ists from the sufficiently notorious charge of having taken part in the late strike against the coal owners, siding with the lawless and violent, and invoking the bit wing of Heaven on the issue of the strike. He says, Your unjust insinua tions respecting the r, gious pitmen "—i. e. ranters—" has ' tempted me to reply . " The " unjust insinuations," it is conceived, were contained in a statement which appeared in your journal of the 12th inst., to the effect " that the pitmen thronged the Primitive Methodists chapels, there to invoke the blessing of heaven on the strike." Now, how does he refute the charge ? In the bold and uncompromising tone of an injured, maligned innocent ? Listen : Mr. Editor, This statement is not quite in accordance with fact." And he goes on to gay, " When this strike occurred I was labour ing in the Auckland district, which is the centre of a large coal-field ; where we have • great number of chapel., and I can assure you that not one of them was ever thronged for the purpose you state." Inti mately acquainted with the services held in each of them, having laboured 12 months or upwards in the district, the number is so great, he cannot tell. And has he nothing more to say in refutation of the charge ? Nothing. Then the evidence in the Gosernment commissioners' report—the general impartiality of which is remarkable—derived from Wesleyans agents, and other reputable men at Hartley, Seaton Delays', and many other places, remains untouched, unimpeached, and fully establishes the truth of your state ment. To return to the Auckland distiiet. I will admit, for the sake of argument, that which your correspondent status to be true, quite true ; then, so far as this district is concerned. it follows that your statement is false, quite false. Does Mr. Eckersall say so ? No; he says "it is nut gttite in accordance with fact." Wherefore this not quite. , ' . Be cause it is well known to those who arc at all con versant with the system of the ranters, that the " prayer meetings" are most frequently held during the week, in the houses of different members. Notice is given on the Sunday from the pulpit, that prayer meetings will be held during the week, to commence at eight each cis:Mag. On Monday at Brother Eckereall's, on Tues day at Brother So-and-So 's—generally there is one fur every evening in the week. Now, your cot respondent knew this, and probably knew how these meetings were conducted during the late strike; therefore lie moss "not quite." One remark more, and I shall conclude. - The writer of the letter says, " It is well known that these movements in the strike originated generally with the petty coal-pits, far removed from the market, where the owners have not capital or facili ties to compete with their neighbours." Now the strike of 1841 originated with the pitmen of Thornley colliery, who had been on strike some months previous to the general strike, during which time they were supported by subscriptions raised among the other collieries, with which they also first employed that fellow from Bath as their attorney. Notwithstanding which, many of them were csmmitted to prison by the magistrates fur a hreac:i of the " bond" entered into between the owners and themselves. This attorney also helped several men at various other col lieries into a like scrape, exciting the men to dissatisfaction with their work, and enmity to their employers. The conse quence of all this was the general strike. how the Thornley colliery is a very extensive and a very valuable colliery. It is carried on by a company of very wealthy gentlemen, at whose head is Sir William Chaytor, Bart., of Clervaux Castle, under the firm of the Thoraley Coal Company. The resident manager is Thomas Wood, Esq. ; they have a large coal wharf on the Thames ; they also employ a factor in Lon don, Richard Geddes, Esq., whose attention is solely con fined to the sale of the " Thornley Coals."—N. Q.—Sept. 28. THE LATE THOMAS CLARKSON. [For the materials of the following sketch we are principally indebted to an able memoir in the Ipswich Express.) This illustrious philanthropist died at 4 o'c!ock on Sunday morning last, at his residence, Playford.hall, near this town. He had attained the age of 8G; but his spirit burned bright to the last, and he ceased not to direct his thoughts to the great question of the emancipation of the human race. He was born at Wisbeach, in Cambridgeshire, onMarch 28th, 17G0. In the year 1772, k negro named Somerset was arrested in London by a man who claimed him as a runaway slave. Mr. Granville Sharp brought the case before the Lord Mayor ; and by the Lord Mayor's orders Somerset was diicharged from the Poultry Compter, where he had been imprisoned. The master, however, in defiance of the Lord Mayor, seized the slave, and tore him away from Mr. Sharp. An action was brought against the master for assault, and the case being tried, it was finally referred to the twelve judges, who, aft; r solemn argument, decided that as soon as a slave sets foot ou English territory, he becomes free. This e:roum stance powerfully excited the youthful mind of Clarksou_ In 1769, and again in 1776, Mr. Sharp had published works against &Avery: the controversy had been raised in Eag'.and as early as 1729. In the year 1785, Dr. I'eckbard, the Vice chancellor of Cambridge, proposed the following question to the senior bachelors of arts, as the subject of a Latin prize dissertation—" Is it right to make slaves of others againq their will I" At thu time, Clarkzan WAS a senior bachelor in the University ; and having gained a prize the previous year, he resolved to cater the lists again as a competitor. While studying the gener.l ques tion of slavery for the purpose of the prize essay, the whole iniquity of the negro slave trade burst upon his view. "It is impossible," he remarked, in his History of Slavery, " to imagine the severe anguish which the composition of this essay cost me. All the pleasure I had promised myself from the literary contest was exchanged fur pain, by the astounding facto that were now continually before me. It was one gloomy subject from morning tilt night. In the day I was agitated and uneasy; in the night 1 1::l little or no rest. I was so overwhelmed with gri .f, that I some times never closed my eyes during the whole night, .and I no longer regarded my essay as a mere trial for I,:crAry di,diectien. My great desire was now to produce a work that should call forth a vigorous public effort to redress the wrongs of injured Africa." He came to London to make inquiries, and to collect materials. Ho shortly produced his celebrated essay " On the slavery and Cotumeresi of the Human Species." Ho obtained the prize ; but the inferior motives of the collegian were annihilated by the nobler pur poses of philanthropy. He made a vow of eternal enmity to the slave trade, and to slavery in every form. " Heti.," rr marks a writer in revi , .. , wing this period of our national his tory, "here was a spectacle which men, according to their feelings, would have caned sublime or absurd—a young stu dent of twenty-four, of narrow fortune, and almost unknown, devoting himself to a work from which kings and senators would have turned with dismay." Wilberforce, one of the principal leaders in this great work, who devoted all the energies of his puwemful mind to the subject, did not enter the field until two >ears after 'flto:utui Clarkson had taken a livAy interest in u , silition: Wilber force, however, when a boy of 14, had addressed is letter on the subject to the editor of a Yurk paper, which was pub lished. . _ . On the 22nd of May, 1787, a committee was forme4, con sisting of twelve gentlemen, of which the deceased was a member. Their desire was, that the subject of slavery should be brought before Parliament ; and, in order to do that, the fullest information of the evils con nected with slavery was sought to be obtained, in addition to the mass of evidence already it. their possession. To obtain this, Mr. Clarkson proceeded to the ports of Lristol and Liverpool, and successively visited Bridgewater, Mon mouth, Gloucester, Liverpool, Worcest, r, and Chester.. The planters and African traders en!umniated his character, impugned his motives, and threatened to dismiss from their service any one who dared to furnish him with information. When the object of his visit had become known at Liver pool, attempts were made upon his valuable life, which was, on more than one occasion, exposed to imminent dan ger, for he very narrowly escaped being pushed from the pier -head by some persons who seemed determined to effect his destruction. On the 9th of May, 1788, the abolition of the slave trade was first made the scttitet of parliamentary discussion. The discussion re.ulted in a motion that that subject should be iavestii.,sateil in the ensuing session. In 1789, Clarkson was called upon to go to France to pro mote the cause of abolition. After a residence of six mouths there he returned to England, and travelled many thousand miles in quest of persons who could give evidence before a committee. In 17a3, Mr. Clarkson's physical and mental powers pee war ; the excitement had been intense; for seven years he maintained a correspondence with four hundred persons, and wrote u work annually for the cause. lle travelled upwards of thirty-five thousand miles ill search of evidence ' perform ing a great part of these journeys in the night. Not until 1807, utter twenty y ears' incessant toil, was the abolition of the slave trade earned. Mr. Clarkson now turned his attention to literature, and his first work, the History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 2 vols. Bvo., was published in a few months. He afterwards published, " Thoughtson the neeessity of Alndish ing Slavery." " A l'ortraiture of Quakerism," 3 vols. Bvo. Life of William l'enn," 2 vols. Bvo., &r., &c. These pursuits never diverted his attention from the great cause to which lie had devoted his life. In 18114, he invited to this subject the attention of the Emperor of ltussia, and other d;s tinguished individuals met in Paris. Very late in lite he publishe !u little work for the improvement of seamen. Although the accumulated weight of upwards of four score years pressed heavily upon the shattered energies of Clarkson, so lung as life and being lasted his great aaxicty was ti do good. It was indeed a noble s ght to cuter his apartmeht, and see this venerable man with vision im paired, and his once fine frame bow. .d down by the exertions of added years, still engaged, under much physical buttering , in ellbrts to lessen the sorrows of the human race. ill is last momenta are worthily pourtrayed in a letter from the Rev. W. W. Dickinson to Mr. Lord, which appeared in the GUN: of last nigh'.: " Probably you will have heard before lhi. tentimmiirat;on tan reach you, that Mr. rlailison is no more. lie foul become ,ritooly worse durum the last tree weeks, and tinnily took to his bed on riattinlay wet*. Ills strength was much enf,bled prevluudy, but till he wan driven to his bid he gave his mind to matters of public gook Atkr he was laid on his lied I do not recilket that he enterwl upon external mutters, but gave his I nisch to Inter, and was unwilling to be Oaten opted in the prayerful mimeo( his thearlds upon the future tin Thursday evening Mr. Clatiown 5u1,01.11 into sleep or unconsciousneas, during ths continuance of which he did not stir or speak. Os Friday evening he roused up with his physieal lament moth valued, so that, us he mentioned some 4 his attentlains by mune, he could not articulate his wishes for little fatter', to be done for hog ea., and wiinfort. Ile new spoke with imploring look and with agitated and el.:lied hands; he was, however, incapable of rereivirg ct enjoyiug nay attentions; and thaw, after,:l fear, MIMIC ' , uttering, he ref:lifted into a calm alma tea betore his tit ath, and gently breathed his lag about a quarter past duce to Saturday more Ong, in the tiresome of his faintly, save his plaid/ion Thomas and n o sh." The gentleman who communicated this letterto the (iloot, adds It is sinitLir that the bet letter directed to him before his victor. lure te or immedialy after, I forget which), was one from the Prime Minister, acknowledging his paniphlet resomting the .0:011,11 Thu seems to realise the comuion extorts...ion, ii)ing in harness. Along letter accompanied the pamphlet, coneeetinl in much a Vidalehd— it was his last letter.; SEVENTH HUSSARS-COURT-MARTIAL ON T, MATHEWSON. Yesterday morning a district court-martial was held at the barracks, Hounslow, on private Thomas Mathew son, of the 7th Hussars, who, it will he rernembercil, was one of the witnesses on the inquest of White, the victim of military flogging, on charms of insubordination, and noisy, threatening, disgraceful, awl disgusting lation. , ge to Lunce-Strjeant O'Donnell, his superior officer, while on sentry. The Court was composed of Lieut. Col. Smith, Royal Horse Guards, (president); Captain U. C. W. Forester, Royal Ilorte Guards ; Captain Mounsell ; Captain Morant ; Lieut. lt. 11. Smith Barry ; Lieut. Sutton, and Lieut. 11. Sutton; all of the 12th Lancers, the regiineut now stationed at the barracks. The proceedings having been opened with the usual forms Lance-Serjeant Hobert O'Donnell, of the ith Hussar., was sworn, and deposed as follows :—I was serjeant of the guard at Hampton Court barracks, on the 20th inst., at a quarter past six in the evening, when private Thos. Mathew son, who was on sentry at the Trophy gate, threatened, with disgusting oaths, to " break both your heads." I asked him who he meant, and he answered, " You, and that other (meaning Serjeant Jones). break both your heads ter you."—Prisoner: I wish to ask the witness did be nut first speak to me ? Answer : Nut when he (prisoner) was on sentry.—Prisoner : Did he not tell me that I could not have my sentry hours changed when oa sentry ?—Auswer I told him a quarter of an hour before he spoke to me that he could not have his sentry hours changed. —Prisoner: \Vas he nut drinking at the canteen previous to his coining on guard and afterwards ? The Court ruled that that question would form part of the defeace, and could not at present be put. Prisoner: Does the witueas know that there is a regimental order to tke effect that when • non-commissioned officer visits a sentry on guard he shall be accompanied by a pri vate ?—Answcr I was not visiting the sentry at the time. The President. You were not then on guard at the time? —Answer: I was on guard, but not visitir.g the sentry at the time. I was simply walking in the Trophy-gate. Corporal Matthew R,uth, examined.—l was corporal o. the guard on the 20th inst. at Hampton Court. I was stand ing near the Trophy-gate when the serjeant of the guard (O'Donnell) came in. The prisouer was on sentry at the gate. He turned round and spoke to the serjeant, but I was not near enough to them to hear what was said. By his manner he appeared to be speaking disre,pecdully to the serjmult. That is all I know of the matter. Question by prisoner : Did he not visit me while on sentry accompanied by a man of the guard, and tell me that I could not have my sentry hours changed ? —Answer : I received an order from the acting regimental serlcant-mt.jor to take a man and inform 'Mathewson that the commanding officer couN not grant his request, and neither would he see him.—Prisoner . Did the witness consider the serjeant sober at the time?— The President said that questiou also would form part of the defence. The evidence having been read over, the ease for the pro secution closed. The prisoner, in his defence, said : " Serjcant O'Donnell came to me while I was on sentry, and told me that I could neither have my sentry hours changed nor be relieved. I replied, ' I am very sorry, as my brother-in-law has jolt arrived from the East Indies, and I wanted to see him.' He then called Corporal Mouth, and said something to him which I did not hear, and then went away. The convene tion between me and the serjeant, which the corporal says he was not near enough to hear, is that to which I have referred. Nothing more occurred between me and Scrjeant O'Donnell. The charge Serjeant O'Donnell has brought against me is unfounded, and contains not one word of truth. I wish also to state that Serjeant O'Donnell was drinking in the canteen before he went on guard, and afterwards, and that he told pri vate Hutchins that he might post himself on my sentry, for he should not." The President observed that private Hutchins should have been brought forward as a witness. The prisoner said : Hutchins marched with the regiment, as have several others who were on guard at the time, and might have spoken for him. Serjeant O'Donnell was nut sober at the time, and when he came to the guard at night he lay down on the floor of the guard-room, and to all ap pearance was quite drunk. In answer to questions from the President, the prisoner said, I have no witnesses, all the men who were on guard at the time are gone away with the regiment. I did not apply to the commanding-officer to have the men who might have been witneases fur me detained, because I supposed the ser jeant would have told the truth when he came here. The court was then cleared ; but in a few minutes it was re-opened, and Corporal Mouth was recalled and asked by the President : In what state do on consider Lance-serjeant , g itcff- C . - A : jr • ;!z 7 1.1 Ef; „ if , v 4.4 11 Jrit, ~~rr~ ail were present during the nirt, Mkt eld Piecee.—Aninmart.—Cap of rockets. sad field - mummy of small arm men, in Ilathom, midshipman; Lieu- Blain launbert, midshipman, ;6hlpouut, 2d company ; Lieu ; 14r. It. IL Burton, inidahip 1, midshipman, 3cl company ; ; kir. St. Jahn Coventry, Mid. Sth company; Mr. John S. Mr. S. G. Buthbeee, 41, mittshiyamm, Sth company; supernumerary midshipman, 6th company, with half of aidshipinan, Gth company. , th company, with half of anit, Swedish navy, supernu , second in command of bri 'ant E. E. Morgan, 6th corn- Nth company. ing in command, attached to mate, attached to the 6th midshipman, attached to the Lieutenant J. A. Paynter, Mr. J. E. Ur.int, n.wel cadet ; and in command ; Mr. J. D. rirt, maotcr's zu.ixnuit. aouUM—Captain Samuel Maw- icr, Royal Marine Artillery. iam curt.—Mr. John Watt Acid, n Macleod, nasntant Ina-gear, ing surgeon, Agincourt's small Int-surgeon, soma arm men. rgeon, small arm men. beschmaster. tale's clerk. undy, in command. . E. Fairy, and second in mu ster ; Mr. C. T. C. Grant, naval mune, second varier; Mr. G. man Cutter, supernumerary Ihusbar; Mr. F. J. Hamilton, second master. L. Noraock ; Mr. John E. d. Cochrane, midahipman. i. Halsted. gunner. IIIXAS COCBRANI, rat and Commander-in-Chief. ttack on the Fort of Brune, ith of July, 1846. killed; Walter rower, seaman, tad) ; John tionierson, nesman, beet Doherty, seaman, slightly n, slightly wounded on thigh. water, severely on face; Kula is dead); B a boo. cook, slightly r, slightly wounded on thigh. 4rT10.111, Sur;TOTI, hip Agincourt, Superintending ditiunary Force. ,o Proper, July 20, 1840. ,formation u to the retreat ne hope of his capture, 1 .! under his command, in dines, and a detachment of party, and to proced in n pursuit of his Highness. etter I have received front meedings during a period )bject of our pursuit has rtunity fur the display of e on the part of the officers Cher novel to them ; and t their conduct would have warded by the presence of C., THOMAS COCH RA NE, - - • -• • • Majesty the Queen a the Princess of Prussia, es: Prince Edward of Sale en and Prince Albert this rough House. Hi. Excel ipanied the august party. unt Clifdcn, Lord and ide, left the Castle to-day, the Castle this evening the Duchess of Kent, the ighnew, the Baroness de tow, the Duke and Duchess rd, Viscount Morpeth, and hand of the Scots Fusilier [or Majesty's pris ate band le. (brother of her Royal ridge, arrived at Kew on lc Duke and Duchess of apanied their Royal High d the Queen Dowager, and heir arrival. The Queen ineess of Prussia, and the ifterwards went to Apsley- tatue. nor of the Cape of Good rd John Russell yesterday g-street. ,?sterday at the Colonial pe of Good Hope. own for Fallodon, Aln- MISTAKE.—On Sunday prirate gardens and the open to the public, Lord 's guests, walked from the iss the grass, in the Home nite to the Long-walk. • n which the public are ex eded some didance before castle policemen, who no vsed) on forbidden ground, sung out, with stentorian 'k, and get off the grass! hn immediately got off the s the York and Lancaster had got to within some the official found out his he offending party was a er Majesty's visitors, He v hail evidently been taken you are all right enough." tenders, then retraced his nes the park, towards the terloo gate. Gazette.] 29.—The Queen has lain in the ILoyal Navy, to r. _ _ —MEMBER RETURNED e lion. C. Lawless, in the ;on, who has ►ccepted the ty's Court of Exchequer in lATIONS. g-UNDER-LYNE. The putt for the revision of the c new Town-hall, on Mon person appeared on behalf r of objections made by the The Free-traders struck . There are 8,58 nanses iderable amusement was c of the overseers of Brad cr, appearing to present i and county, and stating, e duty it was to attend to iring, and left no instruc aware that tke lists should :ter when at Manchester been directed to present ^. The barrister informed to do with the li.t for the could sign only in the .lieagreed to meet them it hi If-Put four in the . . or ro „ . 4ton court has emits are most decidedly at number •of objections b y Lib era l s, and 523 by led to 111, am ! the Tory ions more than i ° 3 were cenee of the atm. l!a not c has been a split k the upport the voters in ag himself to the defen.."° 1 1>Parters of Mr. Miles. M MAYOR. Lree o'clock yesterday, o be— 1 .5 2 :31 d cheers from a crowded is fulfilling the anticips in placing himself unre led the position in which best tmt of his coin :1111e office to which he had as much right to Ind not yet been called d be oppressed, because alent, particularly after s which ought never to tad been a magistrnte of appealed to the livery discharged the duties had been the object of chief mngistrate e no reason had been rot from any inclination present contest. It had nth hour, and he now limp him in the proud t to return him to the qty. Alderman Hooper ugh to be elected out of the entire proceeding. toed to exert themselves