The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-08 00:00:00

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BORN TO GOOD LUCK Mr. IT Murray. Rua 11115 STRES.C4 ill , LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester, and R. Mellon : Mrs 11. 11.11114):), Mums Barnett and Gwynn.. LYCEUM, Trill Erarma, NUC,EY CUICk. WKIED. —And Till KINGS BUr: FLY. Mew,. Fechter, Ryder, Widdicomb, Charlee, What re, Raymond, Clltford, Collett; kisses C. Leclereq, M. D. tirade, E. Lavenn, and B. Larch:. narrAN N Lt. TIU! EYENDIO, TILE SIOTIIEIYS DYING CTIILD. Mrs. S. Lane.—Slnglng by M. Albert Steele and Hdlle. Donti.—And cArrAt N JOHN LUClL—Ccmmence at Cl. 1111311 WATER AT LON'DON.RRIDGE. T 879 DAT Mnrnulg, FA. Aiternoon, Fh. 51m. I v-110lit2OW Morning. fib. 31m....Aliernoon, 10h. Sm. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. TUE United Kingdom Alliance may indulge the confidence that when it again comes before Par liament it will be treated with common civility. Its next bill will not be spat upon by a rampant demagogue, uor snuffed out by a supercilious minister. From the language of our more reflective weekly contemporaries we gather that the reso lution recently announced by its leaders is causing that amount of alarm among our governing classes without which, as we are so often told, it is un reasonable to expect any great legislative change. The members of the Alliance are going to ask all candidates at the next election whether they will support the Permissive Bill, and to vote or not vote accordingly. it is not imagined that the country generally will be carried away with enthusiasm for their measure, or that the body is strong enough to return representatives by the votes of its own members. But there are many constituencies in which a compact and resolute minority, comprising, let us say, an eighth or a tenth of the electors, has the decision of • contest in its hands. It is foreseen that in such cases the determination of the members of the Alliance to consider nothing in the bestoa al of their votes but their favourite dogma may lead either to their entire abstention from the poll, the result of which their votes would ba sufficient to decide, or to the acceptance of the Permissive Bill by one or both of the can didates. The Liberal candidates are those who are espe cially lia!,'i• to be affected by the determination proclaimed by the Alliance; the good old party of Port and prejudice being in no danger of depart ing from the ancient ways. Nothing can be more ludicrous than the consternation of our lavender gloved contemporaries who cultivate an tosthetic and epicurean liberalism at the eight of a prospect so dismal. Here is a question which was neither hatched in a Government office, nor excogitated in the haunts of fastidious doctrinaires, but has actually risen, ghost-like, de profinklis, from the misery of the people. No mere debating society topic this, no theme to be handed over with a smile to accomplished Saturday essayists. Ho who can Thom us how to banish drunkenness from this land udl do more for Old England than if he bad sunk the fleet of our proudest rival or paid off the national debt. Political Dundrearyism, surprised and an noyed, exclaims, "This will never do." Its first thought—or rather its first impulse, which it in dulges whit, it gains time to think—is to declare' that the iimrstion is not " political," and therefore not a proper one to be introduced to the notice of the electors. _1 notable objection, truly, to come from a piirty which has done its very beat to emasculate politic; and make it the hollow, un principled, rotten thing it nowia—a miserablegame, from which men are feeling that they must retire out of sheer self-respect. This question, at least, has soul in it ; a distressful soul no doubt, not at all respectable as it lifts its hands and shows .cud bleeding wounds ; a bewilderedsoul, to be licarci with pity as it moans and cries, rather than to be taken into counsel for its wisdom, but for all that a true human soul. What have politics, as Whig, Tory, and Radical have shaped them in tl.is latter half of the nineteenth century, to do with so indecorous and obtrusive an appari tion Truly nothing but to demand the certi ficate of its baptism and the testimony of two re spect:6.le householders, failing which to declare it " and hid it go its ways. But tin: resolution of the Alliance him been considered .inder another aspect. It is found— and mind: • inaile of the discovery—that its deter in.plies the "coercion "of the candidate. We ar, .:.r accestomed to trifle with our readers, and we 4n: them that it has been seriously argued by jonroa..it-, who would be indignant if their libe ralkin were called in question, that the resolution of electer. to vote only for men who hold their principles has been stir natised as coercion. The theory appears to be that the candidate is to ar rive on the scene with what opinions and profes• alone he pleases, and that the benighted herd, who by some legislative slip have become possessed of electoral rights which they do not know how to exercise, are to recognise in him a superior spirit whom they should be ashamed to trouble with their questions. Electors who have any adequate sense of their responsibility usually give their votes to those whose political THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1864. action they believe will be most beneficial to the community ; and although to bureaucrats and placemen this will seem a gross perversion of poli tical power, we maintain that votes were given to electors for that very purpose. The exercise of the franchise, we are told, is a public trust, and as such every elector is bound to exercise it. But no one is obliged to come forward as a candidate. if he does so, it is for him to persuade the electors that he can beet represent them ; and no combi nation of voters can coerce an honest man to pro fess doctrines which he does not hold, or promise to support measures which he believes will be in jurious. If it is suggested that candidates are liable to be guilty of such meanness, and sell their conscience for a temporary advantage, that is another reason why electors should not mien themselves helplessly into their hands. It is re markable that the " liberal" journalists who see coercion in the resolve of electors to sup port only men of their own principles, are blind and mute when real invasions of social liberty are pe.petrated before their eyes. IN hen they read that a man of no name or note has had his house entered in the name of the law, and his tables and chairs seized and sold to sup port a religious society of which he is not a mem ber, and which perhaps he honestly believes to be disseminating deadly error, it is ten to one that they turn not upon the oppressor but upon the helpless victim, and vituperate him es a fanatic. These people are ;tolerant of everything but convictions. You may hold very strong opinions loosely, but no opinion strongly. If they really are enemies to coercion there is just now a case at Woodstock which is worthy of all their indignation. In that borough a whole community finds itself virtually disfran chised by the determination of a neighbouring peer to displace the sitting member and to substitute his own nominee. But these philosophic gentle men, who are so ingenious as to discover a meta physical coercion in the customary exercise of the ancient rights of Englishmen, have no violent ot jection to the thiig in its concrete We, too, are unable to support the Permissive Bill : but not bemuse we doubt that it proposes a legitimate end ; not because it is an attempt to make men moral by Act of Parliament against their will ; for if it weze possible to make me,, peaceable, just, chaste, and truthful by that means, we would plead for the re-enactment of the whole Second Table by QUEEN, Lords, and Commons. But we object to the bill because it 's not directed primarily against a vice, but against a general practice which becomes a vice only in its excesses. Th's reason appears so conclusive that it makes all other objections superfluous. The mem bers of the Alliance are as well entitled to give effect to their views at the hustings as the mem bers of the Anti-CormLaw League were to act upon theirs ; bat they owe it to themselves and to the public to re-examine their prin ciples. At present, their proscription of the liquor traffic confounds legitimate gratifications and necessary comforts with the means of excess. We oppose tneir measure, not in the name of JOHN SMITH'S indefeasible right to make a fool of himself, and spend in gin the money that should buy warm winter clothing for his wife and chodren, but in the name of the right of his sober neighbour to buy commodities which experience shows have a fair and proper use, and of which therefore, it would be tyranny to deprive him. Sultans, Stirling Castle, •Startled Fawn, Sea Hone, Sin gapore, 'Speedy, Saimaa, Sophia Joskim, *Southampton, Simla, St. Philbert, Solway, Sir John Lammas% *Sir Jam setjee Family, Turkey, Thunder (a), Talavera, Thaliatta, •Tartar, Tchmeays, Tinto, *MIN, Thorndern, Tomato. •Timoor Shaw, Tamgon, Thames, Undine, Vespairian, *Verne, Ville de St. Pierre, Victori► Bridge, Vile de St. Denis, West, William Fairbairn, Western Star, White Jacket, War Eagle, •Wide Awake, Winchester, Waterloo, Western Empire, •Zeaobia. • Larding tar Bombay. Our Malta correspondent, ss.iting on the 3rd inst., says :—" The following telegram has been in circulation for two days at Malta :—‘ There has been a frightful hurricane in Calcutta. One hun dred and ten ships were lest, 12,000 people drowned, and an immense amount of property."' The Hurknru, in the account written apparently while the storm was raging, said :—" The state of confusion in which the shipping appears to be lying prepares us for talcs of danger and loss on the river. We cannot help think ing, with some uneasiness, of those of our fellow citizens who have gone holi day making on the Hooghly, and whose ill managed craft must be exposed to all the filly of this hurricane. The loss of property in the native part of the tow.' must be consider able, for we know that these people, as a rule, postpone the repairs of their houses to the latest , possible minute, when not unfrequently a more than usually heavy shower of rain brings the entire edifice to the ground in hideous lain Many wit] succumb, we fear, to the gale which is now roaring arou , Al us, perhaps busying their inmates beneath them." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, Oct. 14. The arrival of the English mail on Wednesday night, with telegrams to 27th September, reporting a heavy fall in cotton at Liverpool, caused at first a petty panic among speculators. The publication of the full political intelligence in the morning papers yesterday restored confi dence, the general feeling now be , ng that the news is favourable, as the chances of peace in America have become extremely slight, and the fall in cotton at home is only in consequence of a passing tightness in the money market. The price of cotton for November delivery, which had fallen to Rs. 510, has risen again to Rs. 545 per candy. Yesterday there was much inquiry for all bank shares, and we note a general advance of 3 or 4 per cent. Freights—We have had another dull fortnight in our freight market, and the news from England has been of so con ilicticg and unsatisfactory a esters that merchants have been at a loss how to act, and business in consequence has been almost entirely suspended. On the Bth instant intelligence was received of a great hurricane having taken place at Calcutta, in which it is re. ported upwards of 200 vessels have been either wrecked, disabled, or gone chore, since receipt of which news ship masters have refused to entertain any offers made, and already several ships have left for that port seek;ng. We hear as high as 4/. se. has been refused for a general cargo from thatport to London, shipmasters anxiously awaiting the arrival of the incoming mail, hoping that if the advice' from home are satisfactory good rates wi'l yet be obtain. able here ; but in this we fee- they ere liable to d;slp pointment. The amount of tonnage overdue is very large, much in excr-s of oor requirements, and the uncertainty which overhangs the cotton market and fear of deer money causes cotton shipper, to act very cautiously, and as soon as relief is afforded the market by fresh " arrivrls" of tonnage we are inclined to think rates offered to-day will not be ob tainable then. As regards the probability of scarcity Of tonnage at Calcutta we shell probably be able to supply their requirement., without raising rake s:th us. (aErjma's TELEGIIL3IB.) FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 8. M. Boudet, M;•iister of the Interior, has been nominated Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Colutitutionm/ of this moraiug publishes an article, signed by M. L'ruayrac, comparing the dr sp..itches of M. Drouyn de Lhuys and Cavalier di Fii;ra. The writer shows that a complete wider standing has been established between the French and Italian govel.imenta relative to the sense and bearing of the Convention. AMERICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 8. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Borussia, having been redttvd with a new fan, resumed her voyage for New York thi• mousing. The Bavaria having finished repairs, sails for Hamburg to-morrow. No news has been receive d of the overdue steamer Sa•:on&a, from New York on the 15th ult. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen sails to-morrow for New York direct, with upwards of 400 passengers. The memorial statue of Prince Albert was un veiled in Peel-park, Salford, yesterday, in view of • number of spectators. The Bishop of Manchester, Mr. Massey, the member for the borough, and the mayor and corporation of Salford officiated at the ceremony. The statue, by Mr. Noble, is • remarkably fine work of art. It represents the Prince Consort in the robes of the Chan cellor of the University. The figure is at once graceful and natural, and as a work of art Salford may justly be proud of it. The statue was erected by public subscription. The following is the latest bulletin issued re specting the Princess Louis of Hesse (Princess Alice) : " Her Royal Highness the Princess Louis is now com pletely convalescent, and, as well ss the young pi:oness, is in good health. No more daily bulletins will now be issued Dr. Priestley, Dr. Weber. Darmstadt, Nov. 4, 1:44. 4 Her royal highness had received visits from the Prince and Prioress of Wales, on their way through Germany; acid from Prince Alfred, who had travelled to Darmstadt from Boon, where he is at present residing for the purpose cf completing his studies. EARL IItS.SELL'S VISIT TO A BERDEEN. —As prca viously announced, Earl Russell will be inst►lled u Lord Rector of the Aberdeen University on Friday, the 11th inst., the inauguration ceremony taking lilacs in the Hall of Marimba! College Buildings, at 12 o'clock, while the Man. gond address will be delivered in the Music-hall at 1. His lordship is expected to arrive in Aberdeen on Thurs day, the 10th, and leave on Saturday, the 12th. He will be the guest of John Webster, Esq., advocate, dying his stay. —..l l, vdren Herald. 'Menotti Garibaldi was in Turin last week. He brings a very satisfactory report of his father's health. The General's wounded leg is all but restored to a soiled condition ; and he scarcely requires the aid of a stick in his long walks and constant exams.. M. Isaac Pereire and Baron de Heeckeren," says a Paris letter in the indipcsdance, " who are in reality in Madrid, notwithstanding assertions to the contrary, are at the present moment negotiating an increase of capital for the North of Spain Railway. This augmentation ap• peen to be necessary to the undertaking." It now appears that the liabilities of the failed firm of Messrs. J. M. Porno and Co., of Amsterdam, which were originally thought to be 80,0001., are 170,000/., and according to report the assets are not expected to yield more than 10 per cent. to the creditors. The C,,m.spondenria of Madrid gives the fol lowing account of a fight between a Ceylon elephant and two hulls, which took place last week at Saragossa :—"The elephant was walking quietly about the arena when the first bull was released, and rushed at it with all his might. The elephant received his antagonist with great coolness, and threw him down with the utmost ease. The hull raw strain and made two more attacks, which the elephant assented by killing him with a thrust of his tusks. The conqueror did not seem is the least eirc;ted, but quietly drank some water offered by his keeper sod ate several ears of Indian eorn. A second bull was then released, and in a few 'missies Pat tered the isms fate as the tint .^ TEMPORARY OPENING OF SOUTHWARK BRIDGE.-(THIS DAY.) To-day at high noon, but in the total absence of the noonday sun, whose season of hybernation—at least, in so far as the City of London is concerned —has long since set in with more than its usual severity, the Lord Mayor of London for mally although, alas ! only temporarily— threw down the barriers which had so long divided large masses of her Majesty's subjects, and transformed the large district stretching southwards from Bridge-end to the " Elephant and Castle " into a desert without an oasis. The crowding, cramming, and crushing of the traffic both vehicular and pedicu lar, which Is continually to be witnessed on the City side of Southwark-bridge ' are familiar to every eastern wayfarer, and not less remarkable has hitherto been the sudden transition from life and bustle and animation to a solitude only broken by the presence of one or two desolate-looking stragglers, who seemed merely to have gone there to ascertain the fact of its existence. But all that is at an end now, for nobody be lieves that Southwark-bridge, having been left open for six months to the whole tide of metro politan traffic can ever again relapse into its now abandoned exclusiveness. Moralists who had nothing else to do, and were in search of a topic, might write whole chapters on the extraordinary influence which the mere presence of a halfpenny toll exercised on the fortunes, the population, and even the physiognomies of a district. The curious observer, who crosses Waterloo-bridge, even since the presence of the South Western Railway Station hanging " midway down," like Shakespeare's samphire gatherer, Lae given a vitality to the district, is at once conscious of a marked difference in the aspect of houses, shops, vehicles, promenaders, in fact everything le sees around him. But in the drear expanse which has hitherto been baited by inexor able Southwark-bridge from free communion with civic civilisation, the difference has been far more conspicuous. There the comparative solitude of Waterloo had become the desert absolute. The half penny toll, like a upas tree in copper, bad blighted everything. The Waterloo population could, it appears, make some struggle against a halfpenny ; but iu Southwark-bridge-road the blight was fatal, and the few iurpove,:shed inhabitants lay prostrate under the enormity of the fiscal burthen. The ancient and ever liberal corporation of the City of London being cor* ' nisant of these facts, and being benevolently bent on finding, if possible, some means for the reinvigoration of a race, held council with the Southwark-bridge com missioners, and the result was that the en franchisement of Southwark-bridge for a pe riod of six months was agreed upon. This morn ing the formal opening took place, but it was nearly as informal as so itupirtant a ceremonial could be, and would hardly, but for the Mansion luncheon • with which it terminated,be a thing which was "plea sant to be remembered hereafter." A few modest flags decorated the now closed and empty bridge on each side. The tollkeepers kept guard at each end, with the grave and saddened aspects of men who were so soon to be relieved of all public function, and the Lord Mayor's never-failing garde mobile of ragged little boys was densely massed at each end ready to take their turn in cheering for and in supporting the civic authority. His lordship strived as the clock struck twelve with his usual punctuality, thereby anticipating the city police who it appears had not anticipated such sharp practice. His lordship was in his state carriage accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, his chaplain, and sword-bearer, and was most cordially recogoised by all the bystanders, the garde mobile in clusive. A few private carriages belonging to the members of the corporation followed, and the pro cession was completed by the arrival of the Bridge Commissioners, who fell in at the foot of the bridge. A Lilliputian band had come over the bridge from the Surrey side, and to theirimusic the cortige pro ceeded formally to open the river highway. Barriers which had been put up merely to be thrown down were thrown down accordingly, the bridge was passed at a walking pace, and at a walking pace it returned, the only interruption to its monotonous course being the reading of the following notice, which took place at each end of the bridge: ebt Coun. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 7. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by the Princess Beatrice. The Princess Louise went out, attended by Mdlle. Bauer. The Princes' Helena rode in the Riding-school. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald, arrived at the Castle last evening, and accom panied the Duchess of Cambridge to London this morning. The Duchess of Cambridge attended divine service at St. George's Chapel yesterday afternoon. Her royal highness, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Lieut.• Colonel Clifton, left the Castle this morning for London. Earl Granville also left the Castle. The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Woolwich from Antwerp at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, and im mediately proceeded to Marlborough-house. The suite in attendance consisted of the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Lieutenant-General Knollys, Lientenant- Colonel Koppel, and Dr. Minter. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough house shortly after their snivel. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived yesterday at Carltoo•house-terrace from Hawarden-castle, Chester. Despatches were received at the Coloeial•ofce yesterday from the Governor of Heligoland. RETURN OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. Their Royal Rigbnesse; the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-general Knollya, Colonel Keppel, and suite, left Antwerp on Sunday afternoon in the royal yacht Osborne, Captain Bowers, R. \., which, after a rather rough passage, anchored a short distance below the Nore at an early hour yesterday morning. About 9 eau. the Osborne regained her voyage to Woolwich, arriving at the Arsenal T pier at about 20 minutes past 2 yesterday afternoon. The military and naval authorities of the arsenal and dockyard were stationed on the jetty, which was covered with canvas, while a canopy decorated with flap was erected for the occasion at the extreme end of th e pier, which, with its approaches, was thronged with apse. tators. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur rode does to the landiog•place to receive the l'rince and Priocna of Wales, while Commodore Dunlop, R. \., General Ward, the com mandant of the garrison, Brigade-Major Hay., 11,L, Colonel Clark, and other officials were in attendance. Their royal highoeues on lauding very graciously re turned the salut►tions of the officials and spectators, and at once walked to their .orriages, and drove from the pier amid the cheers of the crowd. It was noticed that the Prince looked in excellent health, but the Princess showed the effects of the sea passage, being rather pale. Passing through the Arsenal, the two carriages drove rapidly through the gates into the town of Woolwich, and along the Lower Road, en route for Marlborough•house, the thoroughfares of Woolwich being lined with spectators. The journey from Woolwich occupied about an hour. The Prioce and Princess are expected to visit the Queen at Windsor Castle to-day. Hie Royal Highneas the Duke of Cambridge will be the guest of the Earl and Countess of I)erbv at Knowsley-perk during the Liverpool Autumn Race meeting. A distinguished p►rty has been invited to meet his itoyal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House yesterday shortly after their arrival. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who came to town on S tturday from Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, left yesterday for Knowsley Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. The Ducheea of SomPrlet and Lady Gw•endolioe St. Maur bare left the Admiralty for Bulatrode Park, Bucks. A matrimonial alliance is about to take place between Miss Camplsell Macaulay Greig, niece of the Rev. G. Greig, M.A., and grand niece of the late Mr. Zachary 'Macaulay, cod Count Berostorff, elder brother of the Prussian ambassador at the Court of St. Jamea's, Lord Brougham enttrtained M. de Berryer, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and a select party at dinner last evening, at his residence in Gralton4treet. LATEST INTELLIGENCE► THE OVERLAND MAIL. THE HURRICANE AT CALCUTTA AND FEARFUL LOSS OF SHIPPING AND LIFE. We have this morning received advices from Bombay to Oct. 14, and from Calcutta to Oct. 6. A cyclone passed over Calcutta on the sth of October, causing immense destruction of life and property. Of more than 200 ships in the Hooghly it is said that only ten were left at their moorings after the storm, the rest having been stranded or sunk. Of these many were loaded with grain for Bombay. The des truction of property on land was also great. The great extent of the damage done was no doubt caused by the "bore " of the river, which during a storm rises to an enormous height, and sweeps down upon the shipping confined within the river banks with a force from which there is no escape. The Calcutta Hurkarti of the Gth says :—" Wo have just returned from the river side, where the view which meets the eye is absolutely appalling. The tide is rushing up with fearful violence and velocity ; the ghauts covered with the wrecks of the dingbees and other native craft usually to be found at them ; a steamer with her funnel broken, her masts gone, and ei dently beyond all management, was drifting violently upward, right in amongst a tier of ships which lay a little beyond ; another with her funnel over her side, and all her ropes hanging in terrible disorder, is heeling over to the blast, every attempt to right her evidently hopeless ; there is not a ship that has not lost her spars; whole tiers of vessels have their yards and masts interlaced in apparently inextricable confusion, and the river is strewn with' the fragments of damaged craft of all sizes." The Peninsular and Oriental Company at Bom bay received the following telegram : " Calcutta, Oct. 6. " A terrific hurricane passed over Calcutta yes terday. The Nemesis lost her topmasts and bow sprit, and is on shore, but expected to come off to day. Extent of injury uncertain. She takes next mail, but will be delayed some days. The Nubia is dismasted ; the Bengal ou shore uninjured. No lives lost." Other telegrams from Calcutta report that the British India Steam Navigation Company's steam ships Punjaub, Madras, Moulmein, and another steamer, name unknown, received very severe damage during the gale of the nth. The Nada (s), belonging to the Bombay and Bengal Steam Ship Company, escaped uninjured. The Carubel and Nagasaki, both loading for Bombay, are also reported quite safe. There is a rumour that the ship Sir Jamsetjee Family has sustained severe damage ; but this requires confirmation. The following telegrams contain additional de tails of the disaster : Calcutta, Oct. 5. Frightful pie raging. Immense destruction to shipping and cargo. M^oy ships sunk, and hardly ten left moorings. Calcutta, Oct. 6. Yestudity dneeday) there was a furious storm. Many ships and steamers in the river grounded, Bunk, or gone ashore. Calcutta, Oct. 8. The French mail steamer Alpbee, bound to Gabe, put back yesterday, having experienced the typhoon of the sth ; she is badly damaged. Her cargo, si'k and opium, will be forwarded by another steamer, the Nada. Steamer Than. der ashore and broken. Southampton and Lr ly Franklin, both bound to Bombay, totally lost. Vespasian, 1,640 tons, losbng for London, lost with 10 lives. Te.tar ashore and leaky. Many steamers remain ashore nearly wrecks. Singa pore, Ville de St. Denis, and Ally, all bound to Maurine. with coolies, sunk and lost ; Nimrod wrecked ; Clytemnestra badly damaged. 'mast ell cargo boats destroyed. No produce offering for shipment at all. Great Tasmmia pro bably a total lose. Iron Duka, Macduif, Solway, and War Eagle ashore, badly damaged. Knight Commander and Tornado quite safe. _ _ _ Calcutta, Oct. 8. The llhollera (one of the Iron Ship Company's vessels) is all right. The li..ahos and Carobel requ•re repairing. ealcutta.. OcZ 10. The Saoloo and Harry Warren are slightly damaged. The Thalatta probably a total lace. The City of Lahore is ashore and will have to discharge cargo. A later telegram states that the Harry Warren is afloat, and tight, with loss of copper. The Sooloo has been char. teed for Bombay at Ra. 25. Mears. W. Nirol and Co., Bombay agents of the British India Steam Na%*.gation Company, have sent the following memorandum : " We inclose for your information copy of a Lela gram received from Calcutta, cud beg to inform you that, io consequence, we have decided upon sending round two steamers from here to Calcutta to enable the company to ful6l its engagement' on the eastern coast of India. The Coring% sailed at noon to-day (11th inst.) and the Arabi► will be despatched on Saturday, the Comorio performing her coasting voyage from this to Calcutta advertised for the 18th inst." Calcutta, Oct. C. Cyclone here yea' 3rday—whole of shipping drifted from their moonngs, and gone on shore. Destruction to slip ping, lives, and property on shore, and loss immense. Sydney, l'onjtub, Moulmein, and Ma Iras are on shore and much injured. _ Calcutta, Oct. 10. The Eaton Renfrew and Thames are reported as both ashore but likely to come off. These vessels are both bound to Bombay. The ship Tulja is seriously damaged. The British Isdia Steam Navigation Company's steamer Persia is a total loss at the &masa& Only two of the crew saved. As Calcutta was seldom or so full of shipping Pi at the time of the gale, we subjoin a lit of the vaiesh in the Hooghly on the Ist the latest list we (Bombay Times) have received :—"Armenian (a.), Asteroid, Anne Hoyden, Ann, Azzorpadi, Azemia, Atuuushah, Ally, A. J. Kerr, Alphonse et Nellie, 'Admiral, 'Aral:star, Aeroa Brown, Alabama, Ally Akbar Shah, Annott Lyle, Athletes, Maria, Amiral Cuy, 'Aladdin, As tronomer, Alumbagb, Agra, Anne de Bretagne, Alpht;is (s), Arracan (a), Aphrodite, Bengollyan, 'Baron of Renfrew, Beaumaris Castle, Botanist, 'Broughton Hall, BurmaL, •Rushee• (a), Bolton Abbey, Bengal (s), Continental, Cimandef, Ceylon, Colombo, Childwall Abbey, Cly temnestra, City of Lahore, Clive, Carribbean, Culling wood, Cheshire, Celinie, Chevy Chase, 'Calumet, C. N., Cams Family, Cuobel, 'Countess of Elgin, City of l'aris, Clenience Leonie, Comet.), Camper down, Dirigo, Daphne, Diamond, Dhollereb, Esmeralda, Earl of Clue, •Ellen Stewart, Earl of Dalhousie, Eastern Belle Fazarabany, French Empire, Forganhall, Futty Allure, 'F. S. Allow, Govindpore, tiovernur.General, Great Tasmania, Georgina, Glenroy, Gust►ve and Louis, 'Goldfinder, Genii, Glen Isla, flauover, flin dostso. 'Henry Ferule, Hampden, Hannibal, Hippolyta, Harry Warren, liippogriffe, Helen Nicholson, 'lnkeruiao, 'lndian, Iron Duke, Jove. Luis, Jehangeer, John Chisni, John Ladgett, Knight Commetder, "Krishoe, King Arthur, Keuyoo, Lady Canning (a), Lady Franklin, 'Lincolnshire, Lew Chew, Lady l'almerstoo, Latona, Lady ltawlinson, Leonid.), 'Manill►. 'Morrie England, Macduff, Moors. Fort, Mabaretta, Mirzapur), 'Monmouthshire, 'Morayshire, Mauritius (s), Metis, Moulmein (a), Marie Anna, Madras (a), Medusa, 'Nagasaki. 'Nubia (s), Nemesia(-), Nowadc, New castle, Nouvelle Ascension, Nimrod, *Nussur Mujeed, Oriel*, 'Omar Baba, Osaka, Pricce Arthur (s), • Pride of Canada, Prinoe Royal, • Punjaub quail of the Age, Richard Boileau', Renown, Rattlesnake, Raby Coatis, Royal O►k, Reiver (1), Robert Lees, Royal Alexandra, Romania, Red Rose, River Clyde, Sydney (a), Sir Wry. Eve, Southern Cross, Sooloo, Southern Bells, Sir John Lantana, Sarah and Emma, NOTICE.. Sootbwsrk•bridge is frOriiiis day open to the public free of toll for a period of six months and until further orders. Opened by the Cheirman end Directors of the Southwark•bridge Company, in the presence of the Right Hon. William Lawrence, Lord Mayor, and the Chairman and Members of the Bridge Estates Committee. When the procession had left the bridge on the City aide, the c. Jwd which had gathered round the toll-gates made a frantic attempt to run down the money-takers, and achieve a free passage over, but the officials on the other hand anxious to retain their powers to the last possi ble moment, made au equally frantic resist ance, shouting, "Two o'clock, not until two o'clock," at the very top of their voices. But public opinion was too strong for them, the crowd rushed on to the bridge and achieved a wild stam pede into Surrey, whist the money-takers retired into their cella and tranquilly prepared for the ter mination of their political existence. Southwark-bridge, which we trust we may now and henceforth look upon as one of the free high ways over the Thames is, as compared with Black friars which is now in the hands of the destroyer, an edifice of modern construction. It was begun Sept. 23, 1814, and completed March 26, 1819, having thus taken fire years in construction, a long period when compared with the time occupied over similar erections in the present day. It was looked upon as a triumph of its class of architec ture, and even now its bold and wide-spanned arches are often admired. It coat 800,1)01., and never paid a dividend, so that allowing only simple interest at five per cent. on that sum, its construc tion has iu the forty-five years during which the bridge has been open to the public entailed a loss to the proprietors of 1,800,006/., whilst if the sum were calculated at compound interest the amount would be almost incredible. We un derstand that the terms upon which the temporary emancipation of the bridge ha., been effected have so far given satisfaction on both sides, so that there is every reason to hope that this salutary and pub lic spirited "time bargain" will result in an arrangement for its permanent opening. The advantages to be expected from such a measure will not be long in showing themselves, as there is no doubt but that the new route will at once relieve both London-bridge and Blackfriars of an enormous amount of their traffic. Cannou-street will become one of the busiest thoroughfares in London, and various localities which are now comparatively neglected will be transformed into busy centres of trade and population. SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE. Southwark-bridge wan originally projected by Mr. Wyatt, and erected at a cost of 800,000!. by a company of proprietors, who obtained the act of parliament in 1811, the opinion expressed by Mr. Rennie, the engineer, and suggested at the third reading of the bill, that after "one hard frost London-bridge might not last one year," serving as an excellent reason for expe diting the erection of a new one in the vicinity. The work was commenced September 23, 1814. The first atone of the tooth tier was laid by Lord Keith, on the May 23, 1815, and on the ith of June,llBl7, the Right Hon. Matthew Wood (Lard Mayor) laid the first stone of the northern abutment. The opening of the bridge took place at midnight on the 24th of March. 1819. when '• 30 lanterns lighted by gas gave a most brilliant effect." There was no particular ceremony observed on the occasion, but, ea St. Paul's clock struck 12 the toll of one penny commenced. INSTALLATION OF THE LORD MAYOR. —(THIS DAY.)—This morning Alderman W. Sconces Hale, who has hero chrsen Lord Mayor of Loodoo in succession to Alder man William Leyrrence whose term of office /spires to- day, was iostalled into office with the customary usages on curb 00111111i01111, in the Guildhall. The proceedings of the day commenced with s. breakfast at the Mauston-house, to which were invited the mi •ten and principal of6oers of the companies to which the Lord Mayo: and Lord Mayor elect respectively belong ; Alderman and Sheriff Ditto. Alder man and Sheriff Bralor, Mr. Russell Gurney, Q.C., the Recorder, Mr. T. Chambers. Q C., the onmmoo-serjeant. &hounder-sheriffs (Mew& Davidson and Do Jersey), sad other civic officials. THE LATE EXPLOSION AT EItITII. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) The inquest upon the bodies of th,: people who were recently killed by the l►te explosion ]facers. Hall's gunpowder magazines on Erith Hershel, was resumed this day before Mr. Carttar, one of the coroner: for Rent. The intelligence published in the papers ct thir morning of the explosion of a corning house at the mills belonging to the same gentlemen, at Faversham, threw an additional gloom over the proceedings, and much sympathy was expressed for the Mows. Hall, as well WI for the tw,, poor men who have lost their lives. The same legal gentlemen attended to watch the pro. ceediogs in the interest of the various partic3 ,ffo,:te.l, and Mr. rdby, the agent of the Low wood Co:opany, : • present. The Coroner stated that on the last oczasion be hay' given pei.rOnion to Mr. Poland to produce some wittei,e, to contradict the evidence which had been given by scup : of the witnesses, but one of the witnesses having volunteered a statement that the government powder magazine, infinitely worse managed than private ones; ho ha•l r r. calved a letter from the Marquis of liartington, the Ledo,. Secretary of State for War t requesting him to can witnesses from l'urfleet to explain the manner in slid the government establishments were conducted. The following witnesses were then examined : Mr. Charles Ker Cleeve sworn—l reside at PurtL.t, have an appointment there. lam store officer have been so for two years. The Coroner —lJo you dispose of your unserrick..d.".• powder in bairels ?—Yes, we do. Whenever there is r: a'. cumulation it is sold to contractors by tender. Are any defective barrels sold without the powder':— they are. Within the lut six months have you sold any ddect:, powder barrels ? 1 es, both powder in barrels a, 1 serviceable barrels which were worn out. They were nally powder barrels, but latterly they may have beta esti for puttiog charcoal or saltpetre iu. Have you sold any new defective barrels?—No, Have you, within three or four months, sold as n....cy as 1,000 barreh?— Yes, more than 1,00) empty btrreli. Were they sold by auction?—They were, but acy r not purchased by powder mauulacturers. Are they sold as worn out powder barrels?—Yes ; as u. serviceable barrels. Now, with respect to the unserviceable powder it.(. 11, is what condition were the barrels "l —la a perfectly st.,:, I 0, I serviceable condition. Is the statement of the witness Linginan true and correct —1 consider it a tissue of the most acuidalous there is not a single word in his statement in which thud the slightest truth. He stated that the barrels were pitched out 13 or 2 / fec t into the vessel. Is that true?—Not a word of it. barrel filled with upset viceable powder is handed out and carefully examined to see that the barrels are luite sound, and they pass through the hands of four persons, and nuaily are deposited in the bold of the vessel on a soft cushion. What plan do you adopt with respect to fire on Ix aid it.: barges ? —No fire is allowed on board the barites. Ti.:) are all put out at the buoy, 400 or 500 yards from the wharf. I can speak from 2.1 years' experience. I never knee the rale broken, nor any smoking. We have a cook house on shore, at a safe distance from the magazine. Did you ever know the heels of the barrels fly oat never. '—No, Nor powder flyiog out from beneath the hoops ?—No, oertaioly not. With respect to the berm!' themselves, do you manatee. tare them:'—No, they are supplied by contractors. Are soy of them supplied by Messrs. Hall *:—Yes, a great many. Acid in what condition generally are they the rue,: satisfactory condition. They are most excellent barrel'; both the empty barrels and those in which there was powder. You desire no iiimendment in them whatever!—?o, and we take as many of them as we can get. Yon do not think that it would be proper to hare a large re-coopering establishment at Parileet?—No, our establishment for re-coopering is at a considerable 'e. When we sell powder to contractors the empties are re• turned, but every such barrel passes through the cooperage, and none are need except they have been re-coopered and examined.—[The a Ansa' handed in two letters, one from Messrs. J. Hall and Sons, and one from Mr. Wilke, which the coroner having looked at, said that he would deal with when be examined those gentlemen.] By the Jury—l have been connected with and in charge of powder for 20 years, bat have not been more than two years at Purtleet. The barrels are rolled on an open bar. row with copper wheels. They are let down on the cushion in the hold by a block and pulley tackle, and then they are banded by one of the men. The barrels do not drop at a:I , they are emply landed. Do you not consider there is great danger from passing steamers I don't think there is, but it appears to me that the steamers always make it a role to coal it'd as they get opposite to the magazines. Why they do so I can't imagine, possibly it may be a sort of half.way station between London on Gravesend. The fire is higher just when they are coaling, I suppose! —Yes, there are more smoke end sparks. Mr. David Price Maxsteed, chief foreman of the govern ment magazine at Purflest, sworn—The bonus that are sent out from the government stores with unserviceable powder are quite sound and free from latkage, and the empties are returned in fair condition ;they are sent to the cooperage at once and re.cooperecl. We have no quarter or eighth barrels. We have quarter barrels of ammunition. I know Mears. Halle barrels ;.they are very good indeed. By the jury—There cannot be better barrels for the pur pose for which they were used. We have nine men in the re.coopering department. Every barrel must pus through the". heeds, and are examined most carefully by them. I never saw barrels so bad as to admit of the powder flying out. I have been six years in the position 1611 at present, and before that I was at the head of the cooperage. I have been 20 years employed at Purflset. We have, per. haps 100 barrels in the examining-house at a time. We have about 33,000 hundred pound barrels of powder at a time. There never has been an explosion here. A Juror—Are you aware that the 7',nt , l stated Ott there were 50.000 barrels of powder at Purifeet ! Wittme—That was a mistake. Mr. Clews —I thick the re 1,141 stated that 30,000 barrels might be stored there, end that is correct. Croas-examined—Steamers do not come within half a mile of our magazines, neither do little fishing smacks come within the buoy. A sentry is placed there to prevent them. The store-houses are about W yards apart, and no doubt if one exploded all would go. By Mr. Terry—We have occasion sometimes to return casks which were faulty to contracton. I do not know what price is paid for each ask. A Juror—Whose caeka have you had to reject ?—I do not know, because we have so many. We have scarcely ever rejected Mr. Hall's casks. In fact I only know of one instance in which a single barrel was rejected. James William Sing, employed li years at Pudica, cot. roborated the evidence of the last witness. [The evident was being proceeded with whoa our report left. J THE BERRYER BANQUET.—The hour fixed for the banquet to M. Berryer, which take. place in the Middle Temple 1101 this evening, is half past ti o'clock. Among those who have been invited and hove ao.wpted the invitation are Lords Brousbam and Kincarlown, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Lord Justice Knight Bruce. the Right Hon. W. E. Gladotoue, M.P.. the Lord Cuief Baron of the Exchequer, Vice-Chancellor Sir John stuart, Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood, the Right Hon. S:r 1. Ryan, the Right Hon. T. E. Ileadlam,3l.P., the Rohr H.io. 8. Lashington, the Right Hoo, J. S. Wortley, Mr. : ionize Blackburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, Mr. Justice Lyles flacons Martin, Pigott, Bramwell, and Channel' ; the Afton:ley and Solicitor Generals, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, If. P., Sir Hugh Cairns, Sir George lionernao, the Hon. George !Maniac, Sir Joshua Rowe, Sir Barnes Peacock, sa- J. E. Willmott, John Rolt, N.Y., J. A. Roebuck, M.P., James Anderson, Q.C. ; Sarjeanta Hayes, Payne, Want) no, Wiailrych, Parry. Among those who have been iucitial and have re. fused are the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hon. Sir Laurence MR. COBDEN AND RIB CONATTITENT., —We believe it is now definitely arranged that Mr. Colvien will oldren his constituents at Rochdale, in Mr. Councillor Robilieon s new works, on Wednesday, the 23rd inst. Mr. M.P., has notified his intention of being present, and will take part in the proceedings of the evening. ACCIDENT TO THE DUKE OF LIAMILTON.-0 11 Tuesday lasts mad occident happened to his :race the Duke of Hamilton while hunting with the Cliristeburch barriers. The noble duke rode well to the front, charged at an mar. mous bullfinch. holding his whip hand before his facie foal protection, when the animal no which hi. mounted threw hark her heed. knocking with awful violent* the boodle of hie bunting-whip into his eye. For some time it was feared his grace must lose his eye, it eopearmg to be forced from its socket, but from the ticicly assistance of retainers, medical aid it is hoped may soon restore him to his large carols of admiring followers.—Same Adratiscr. the arm appearei rimed a de hie cattle. g comoogiti pay 15e, in gum provid other credi who give fendant for received th The war 3r. Berri panied by into court I ships end t with the wad Iccor of the Loi Justice Cro next to MI remained • the Proceed The couri Paper. C Sitting, in RIIT7R Mr. Nest plaintiff cla at the Nitta sent*, when absence of I eras, that b station to c to,, late, be meat was arrested ani hoed in Jet fors new ti ang the ram custody. Mr. Jaeti order the Mr. `lest such as ore Mr. Just) English ca. Mr. Yeat Perfectly i t Mr. Just tiPoe brine i counsel mil and when tl course to pi Mr. Teah tbst the nol The tour granted a rt Hulls gram Trilliam maker; We line, 'hoer F •tringdonA feseion si with cottepir felt helf-erot Lion, 44 ' c ounterfeit I .Me. Jackson 3 1 13 t r‘a ter . ! i7f1,. , A , th Ur. Darlin mruooen Molt the chine*, l ad laid then looked counterfeit, tl wek the el and be did a c I le kind 2id. 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