The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-18 00:00:00

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' 40.1. io..hat : Tai Fizz AT WINNSTATRICOIIIIIT OF TIM 3SWELa.—AI lbe delve al TM Vase sad the Marquis of 211111, Mr. lisseiweed, the disealler el the Tin. lined", brillopiebel ISO el hie aaperkeeeill segiteent (Bridges) to Ib min I by the late &veal caelogretisa et Wy noway, 11 4 0=6, Tab* el vatitnawfas the .1...e1s sad end the Gomm Vane, whit h WWI Mous bei l lbsebr a lleseeth the cases of mouldering 11.704 at Wynsetay. hr. with weed axle bees bees daily engaged "mftlag" sad "yeiblee r sakes lbeemb various 1.. wired aims, tad up le liseley alibi bed hen ver esseeeetal la ileemetag elop i C s ef do lot peirte, he. liveladiag mate vellehee. pram ei plate sad valuable App. Is sies, the Elemebe Mc. Ilestained genre iojwry lisma tbe odes dee Ow The emelt i• sot yet otaapities4 eihd oiler he do peel arm ell ref:AAA to b. eftei, ibe swiss meg weary a . tuctlevaltle tin.. The melt that al" 11101:11 1 1: Ird es 0. Uzi , oat to be too ems; ail a Tb lore to the tioble mat be very pest West CITY Ol LONDON NOLIPITAL 701 DISEASES 0? 27E1 OEBIT. Yeaterday evening the tenth anniversary of the aboleidiwiti was celebrated with unusual Ida& under the attepteeef H.R.11. the Duke Of CASHIIIDO E. Upwards of 900 gestimass sat down to a banquet served in the beet style ot the London Tavern; and the greatest seal and sympathy eon evinced byeveryone present In the cause of the charity. 11 the gnsele were Sir F. Williams, T. W. Brainlike, 14 . 1 MAlkard, Esq.,Gurney, Esq., E. Jaconab, Nelat ur Aidermen Allen and Finals, Sc., Sc. the real loyal toasts, Hie ROYAL HIGHNESS, in " The Army and Navy," said be always felt sow NMculty in proposing that toast, bemuse it obliged him to speak of hie own cloth, especially at a time when be had the - honour of being at the heed of one of those melees. Not having lately had the beam of addrimang a public maker he took that oppor tunity of alleilleg to same gnat mats which had recently Mat plate be aened then einamilene operations in the But, in wadi lde easet atheade lad pileat Merl Sir Cohn Camp bell had peed blonde wwihy of the illustrious name wake ba peon* anusg. No (e ) happy to have thee apperteally of reorka th bee chairmaa gallant fri wee that be bed sem well the aelontst=ant awl senearn atetenemits to the isi that be (the ohairmea) was not seedy and willbj et le una =t any operations whicA his gallant Merl . (Gent obrulag.) If then was a man la the Midi army for wheat he enter tiled a more wane seam resat and greater rope* than for another, it was the onset Er Colin Campbeil. (Cheers.) AN he weld say wan that saw • pest came boa India to this may, nor pima esestry M II" which did not astir realproael amiemene Rand aortae. and , beams bin and eat pileseelber. Tha Wee gliCil es ipalea the way in abase dim who had deserved well of hie omen ahead/ be heated_ by the etwareeader -in tend. It was the way la mbleh he hod always treated Sir Celia Campbell, and in whirls he weld always treat gamy oilkor who deterred the reepeet of the versant rad the eantry. (Hear, beim) H. bow there could ever bow been a sapid= that there could anything inlet between Sir C. Campbell and Unseal bet the greaten ore dialley end friendship. Al* Wee siservatkaa it wan brit ei neriery for him to say that he bad the need implicit = in the gallantry, energy, and skill of that dfitia eider, qualities by the aid of which he lad no M em pea senagle in the Emit would speedily he ter minals& (HMV, bear.) His Royal Highness proceeded to aisle to the meet discussions on the sanitary Mate at the ray. Who could, he asked, be more envious for the im- perremat of the army than he was, selected as he bad been te_prolds over the administration of that army ? Ho had been told that whatever discomforts that army might have to oemplan of were all to be attributed to the neglect of the Hone Osards. No statement could be more unfonndstand he could seas the company that his attention from day to day, teem bear to hour, almost from minute to minute, had been devoted to the comfort of the British soldier ; and whenever the ewe of the public business allowed him to leave Loudon be visited the various bevatha in the country,for the purpose of owortainino where reform was necessary. He saw every where that there ware retorma which would be meet benefi cial and most aecesaarf, but the troth was there was no messy to abet them. (Hear, hear.) He could not coin sassy, bet if the country was in earnest about the ta so generally advocated let them pro vrthema:ority, and the Hone Guards would be only too delighted to carry out the reforms. (Hear, hear.) The great complaint was against the amount of barrack aocom modation, and there was no doubt but that th a t aocommo d a - Use had been recently very much curtailed. But how ? by the estabhaltreent of libraries and reading-rooms, which had bees est up without the previous precaution of extending the benne! accommodation. There wee, he admitted, many im provements called for in the army ; but let the public only contribute the money, and the call would speedily be an swered. (Hear, hear.) He thought it most surprieng that he, of all men, should be accord of being . indifferent on • subjeclugs t in i d ike th is; for, i hies, trierespective was onl of y is i g literg e ample of his revered father, in taking a lively interest In every question involving the health and coarse of theeteil . e. It was painful therefore to him to think that he co uld vs been accused of neglect In so important a point of his duty. He was delighted to see the amount of feeling evoked on the anlillect, and he trusted the time was not far distant when the liberality of the public would place the army on the beat poseible footing of comfort and health ful arrangement. (Hear, hoar.) He begged to couple with this tenet the named Sir F. Williams. - BC F. WILLIAMS returned thanks, and repeated his ad vice so frequently given, to keep the country always in • P state of mil May dsheoe. 71 7 1.11. the CHAIMMAX neat premeds& to give the boost d the evening—. Prosperity to the City of London Hos pital" and eloquently maid attention to the amount of good which bad been effected and was being effected by this valu able charity. There had been relieved in 1857 8,228 out patients, and sines the first establishment of th e institution, 40,300. Since the wade had been opened in 1855 the num ber of in-patients received was 660, and there was accommo dation for many more if the public came forward with suffi cient liberality. The receipts during the last year had been 6.2781. 16e.; with legacies, 1,1131. 10a. 2d.; and annual subscriptions, 1,0581. The expenditure bad been met by this amount, but there was a buildiog debt of 6,000/., with other h•tbilitiee, to which he (the chairman) earnestly called the charitable ettention of the company. The chairman, after one or two further °beer% ations, concluded by again pro• peeing the toast. The SYCKETAIIII then reed the Hat of subscriptions, amounting in the whole to 3,000/., in addition to which a letter was read from en anonymous friend off!ring to build a church adj..ining the boapital for the patients, at an expenie of 2,oooguineen. to be so constructed as to obviate the neces sity of exposing the weak to the open air. Mr. Francis lied the control of the musical arrangements, and the office of toastmaster was filled by Mr. Harker. FIELD-LANE 14G0ED SCHOOL,. An interesting event in the history and progress of the ragged prh , ol movement took place last evening, at Um Field-lane Ragged Schools, where prizes were distributed Wilmer& of 100 boys and girls.who had been reward by the aid of this institution from a life of degradation and crime, and placed in the ranks of the honest labouring clam—either as servants or workers in various trades. The LOID MAYOR, who wee accompanied by some of the female branches of hie fermi pr..idod, and ammest those p who took art to the ings were the Res. I'. Hood sad Maas. WOregor, Byte, SALE OF PICTEREB.—A Mk of the pictures of the late R. Sanderson, Esq., of Engrave-square, will take place on Saturday next, at Meters. Christie and Manson's. Besides several exquisite works of small cabinet proportions by Rem brandt, Mierie, Gerard Dow, Paul Potter, a larger picture by A. Ostade, and works by other Dutch masters, there are a Portrait of Lorenzo de Medici' by Sebastian del Piombo, remarkable for its modelling; and a large picture by Goer cino, " Semiramis receiving intelligence of the Revolt of Babylon." Bat the moot important picture is an expreadve and Anely-coloured " Assumption of the Virgin," by Ma rino. It la a replica , excepting in extent of canvas sad sneaker of sconsoril groups of cherubs, of the greet Amenreies is the Loners. The picture was keiesely fa the filehestiani collection, was brought from Bpela by M. La Brea, sad subsequently in the collection of C. Gray, Esq. There are other works by Murillo and two landscape. by Gsiaaborough. Among some pictures, Esglish, Italian, and Spanish, coming from a different route, we were struck (apart from any consideration of its relative. value in the market) with the rare artistic merit of a portrait of Pacheco by Pablo di Corwin (31). The Spanish painter has equalled the pees of Vendycke, end also the greater fulness of effect which characterises the Graces. pictures of the Flemish orsete, the result of his painting under Italian influence. PIOFESSOIt WILJALDA FRIKELL.—The great 1111 - -01110 •ocordcd to the new entertainment "Two Roan of Un does" has induced Professor Frikell to give • second season •t the St. James's Theatre. The gret season con noted of •early 200 representations, and has been one of the most popular of the many entertainments given in London for many years pest. THS NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM BANK.— We are authorised to say that the investigaiion of the accounts of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank ing Company is tut approaching coin ion, under the suSindence of Mr. Coleman and Messrs. Alines' and Di ccountanta. It is expected that Mr. Coleman will come to Newcastle some time during next week, when no this. will be Met in completing a scheme of liquidation. As near Mb is done, promissory notes will be insert in astiefeetka of tbe claims of creditors, which, being negotiable. will ways them to raise money. At the mine time it Bill be decided wheeler any and what amount of dividend can be pdd immedieteiy.—Neweastra Express. neve wee a meeting yesterday of the Westmin ster Improvement Bondholders ' at the London Tams, Mr. Beaumont in the chair. A report of the committee was =ed, detailing their promedings, and !advising the bond to eamblee end mid the committee in opposing the two bills sow Wen revilement, their object, as stated by the woveniteeeham jom he bsierijoso p lace edeet to t , he rig . hte of mr t b e w b g a g t e end Mr. Ogle advised, on the part of the ammiesienses eai mortgegma, that the two bills, end the nweintiene of the committee of bondholder, amid he eithered te esneed le mode a sew bill that should Is just m allparthes, wed Wad irk vim by moving that the wle~gmmt~af ibeersemittse be way received. This being an amifinead was INA, and She Neer' of the committee wee m eshed oaf aimed by a begs mgerity. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1858. A CONVICT SHIP. LETTER FROM THB BISHOP OF PERTH (AUSTRALIA). Convict ship Nile, Bahia, Nov. 3, 1857. MY DEAR FEII ND,—When you parted from me alongside the Nile on the 23rd of September, you entertained serious apprehensions that we should not accomplish our voyage without disturbances. You bad heard from different quarters the desperate character of some of the prisoners who had embarked, and there appeared to be but too much ground for your apprehensions. I send you below some account dour ' proceedings ; but I cannot help first making some observa tions on the conduct of prison officials in England, in sending such characters as some of these wo have on board to people a new colony. I firmly believe that the higher authorities composing the home government are sincerely desirous of deeding with Western Australia in a fair and honest manner; but it is not enough for employers and heads of establish ments to intend honestly, they are bound to see to It that their agents and subordinates act faithfully, and carry out their intentions properly and correctly. Now the compact with Western Australia with respect to the class of convicts to be transported is, that they shall be men selected for their good behaviour, 011111 whose antecedents allow a namable hope that they will become refinsed persons in their new country, end peeve is be mend mann of the eteamnalty. That this is the unikesteaffing as tee eitseplii is day; eti the eentrery, this IND and tally admitted by witness who wen examined lent year before the Committee of the House of Lords. But, nevertheless, the prison officials in Ragland whose duty it is to select prisoners for transportation per- I severe, in:dance of all obligation, in sending out many meviets who ars utterly unfit fur the purposes of the °okay. If this had happened only once or twice one might charitably hop that it had occurred through Inadvertence ; but this prised°e of seeding out desperate characters—men who have just escaped hanging—has been persevered in now for up wards of two years, in spite of the strongest protests and re monstrances from a variety of different persons connected with the colony, in addition to the official representation from the present governor. The late governor, Captain Fitsgareld, and the present comptroller-generel, Captain Henderson, both protested in the strongest terms against this system in the examinations above referred to. The gentleman last named, in answer to a question put to him, stated it to be his conviction that if that system of sending out desperate chs teeters was not discontinued it must soon put an end to transportation altogether. And assuredly this must be the result. Can it be supposed for a moment that the inhabitants of any colony, however dccile and tractable they may be,will suffer themselves to be made for ever the victims of so gross and fatal an injustice, and to have their country overrun with a class of men who are certain, if set at large, to fill the land with robbery and murder? Indeed there is no knowing to what extent of crime and violence animals such as these, when they have opportunities of acting upon large bodies of men who are not under the restraint of right principle, may pro ceed. At the end of 1855 there were more able-bodied men of the convict clams in the colony than able-bodied men of the free class ; and no doubt the former class have at the present time a still larger majority than they bad in 1855. Any drunken row or accidental riot occurring in any part of the colony might in a few hours be turned by a knot of deeps. redoes into a general rising of the convict population. . . There is nothing in the condition or colony to prevent such a catastrophe ; there is nothing to prevent the frightful crimes lately perpetrated in India from being again repeated in Western Australia. The handful of soldiers and enrolled pensioners now in the colony, who may be sufficient to uphold order and discipline in quiet times, would be utterly unable to offer any sumenfol resistance to au excited mob, which would reckon its numbers by thatmenda. In fact the colonists live, as it were, continually with • charged mine beneath their feet, and the system pursued by the mother country, of sending out from time to time a re gular reapply of men ripe for any outrage, is a system exactly suited to the purpose of springing that mine, and of bringing ruin and desolation upon the whole country. of the • If the colonists possess even the most moderate share of pradance, and any regard fir the peace and safety of thei r families and their country (to say nothing of the moral con dition of the community), they will, without loss of time, unite as one may and will, with profound respect but with the utmost firmness, humbly petition her Majesty the Queen either to cause persons who will faithfully fulfil her radon/ Intentions towards the colonists to be appointed to select the prisoners for transportation, or eke to release them altogether fro% the engagement which they have entered into to melee sonvicts from the mother country. To subunit to • con tinuance of the present practice is to acquiesce in • course of treatment which must lead to results most disastrous to the colony and to all who are connected with it. With respect to the conveyance of prisoners in convict ships, perhaps it may be of some use if I mention some cir cumstances which have in our own case tended greatly to promote the disorder and miarule which have unhappily pre vailed in this ship. In my narrative below I shall refer to the want of an officer previously acquainted with the persons of the prisoners. Where there he the slightest tendency to insubordination it is absolutely necessary that the governing powers should poses', or be able to obtain, • particular and personal knowledge of individuals amongst the dangerous closes. Either by means of their own eyes or the eyes of others they might be able to keep • watch upon every pro bable disturber of the peace, to mark his every movement, that so they might stop the very first commencement of disturbance. It does not matter whether it is an empire or a gathering of twenty half clothed children, this knowledge of individuals must be the secret by means of which order must be maintained wherever there is any tendency to dis order. In this case there were 270 men, many of them of deep.- rate character, and bent on mischief, turned loose together into a low half-lighted prison between decks, without an officer in the ship who had any previous aoluaietanee with the worst characters. It was not until the warden had obtained by dearly bought experience a knowledge of individuals that they could possibly deal with this unruly multitude. In the darkness of the prison it was perfectly easy for the leading rioters to conceal themselves in the crowd, and to avoid detection. The chief warder Is apparently a very able man, and tho roughly acquainted with the duties of hie situation ; and if opportunities had been afforded to him of forming acquaint mos with the whole body of convicts before they left their respective prisons, I tlrmly believe that insubordination might have been checked at ite very tint commencement. The want of a place of separate confinement in refractory prisons will also be hereafter refereed to ; and the evil conse quences arising from this want will be forcibly illustrated by the circumstances which occurred. The neglect of • strict and vigilant search of the men's persons will also be noticed, and its evil consequences shown. Having said thus much about the neglect of means which might hors have been used to repress disorder, I will now say • few word. about the means which might have beta used to promote order, and to bring about a state of right feeling amongst the men ; viz, • routine of useful and pro fitable employment, affording opportunities for imparting moral and religious Midsection. A scheme la Lad down by tho authorities at home, which looks remarkably well upon paper, marking out three hears and • half day for school. But this nice looking scheme is completely destroyed by the actual posture of affairs. Is the Bret place men are so closely packed in the prison that to distribute them all Into darer, in such a way as to enable them to perform their school duties Is quite out of the goes tion. In the next place, on account of the mutinous spirit which has been manifested and the threats which have been many times repeated of taking the "hip, it is not considered safe to open the prison and allow the duties of the day to be commenced before daylight, as Imp poied by the scheme already mentioned. The prisoners ere kept below until there is light enough for the men to be watched, and until the usual guard for the day is mounted. This upsets the " time-table" at once. In the next place, it must, under any circumstances, re quire • great amount of good humour amongst the rims, sad their ready and active co-operation, to carry through the bu siness of the day in accordance with the "scheme." Where this alacrity is wanting It will easily be conceived that the performance of each duty will be prolonged beyond the time assigned to it, and that some portions of the time will be found quite unavailable for their intended purposes. In this way, amongst other more forcible pretenses the three beers and a half of school become 'queened away altogether. In the next place, the mpply of books for school purposes ' i s sa i siss hiy detrain, Beene of the men canoe reed at 511, and other' can (sly just put together short and eery words. For the seen in this stags three e v es no books at all. There are other impedimenta to school-i:orPinff, which have arisen out of the disturbed state of the prisoners. It is not con sidered prudent to allow more than one-third of the men to be on deck at the same time; so that they are obliged to come up for their airing in three different divisions. This tends greatly to destroy regularity of routine, and operates against a steady settling down to books. Again, elates cannot be used amongst the men. The first lime the chaplain took the slates into the prison ten were stolen; they were, no doubt, taken by the riotous party; and there is every reason to be lieve that they were taken to be used u offensive weapons. The surgeon, therefore, boa prohibited the use of slates. Them circumstances may serve to illustrate what an in calculable amount of injury and injustice is done to a large body of men by mixing amongst them in a convict ship a certain number of rioters and desperate characters. With respect to the performance of our own ministerial olden ; the prisoners have always two full services on Sunday, and prayers in the prison every evening. The chaplain is constantly amangat the men, talking to and adoseedaking them, either singly or three or tow together. He Ire been most persevering in his endea- MOB to moan the school, bat the utmost that he has been Ws to socomplhh has bon to induce the men, whilst they ssojejlsolt far Asir Wag, to assemble in domes for a short time ma Ike fortmastle. Bach class is presided over by a mo- Ma& sod the chaplain remains amongst them to exercise a general enuelntendenoe. _ . For my own part, I take a dem from the men remaining below. lam going regularly through the whole number, in order that I may become personally acquainted with every prisoner in the ship. When the class ceases reading I con clude with a short lecture, or an exposition of some passage which has been read, adding some words of personal advice sr mama to the men. Our Sundays have generally not been fine ; on the two oc— casions when the weather has been favourable in the morning WI hands have been assembled in the after-part of the ship as guard under arms and the ship's crew on the poop ; and the prisoner, on the quarter-deck. Mr. Wright read t►e service sad I preached on both these occasions. The other Sundays, when the weather wee not tine, Mr. Wright and I divided oar services, orte officiating in the middy, and the other in the prison. The prisoners' service, in the aftemoon, is always held below. I also addressed the prisoners on the occasion of their giv ing up the leading rioters when these latter were secured in the forecastle, as will be hereafter described. The surgeon superintendent and the chaplain accompanied me to the prison, and I endeavoured to point out the folly as wall as the wickedness of those who had occasioned the late riots. I commended warmly those who had stood forward In the cause of order and had given up the disturbers of peace. I spoke of the oolony, from my own personal knowledge, as a place affording them excellent opportunities of redeeming their characters and retrieving their lost position; and, finally, entreated them to make their peace with God through Jesua Christ, and to strive to prepare for a future life. I meat now proceed to give you some account of what has actually oocurred in the ship. I have already alluded to the very unfavourable reports which we heard upon our first arrival at Plymouth; and on going on board I certainly did not find things better than I expected. It was quite cer tain that there were amongst the prisoners a certain number of very desperate characters, and that thou put on board at Portsmouth were especially, taking them all together, a very had set. The warder who came to the ship with these men said that they were about as bad • body of menu their prison could produce. It was here also that a singular want of care and vigilance was manifested with rerpect to articles which the prisoners were allowed to bring on board with them. One of the soldiers of the guard in the ship discovered a life preserver in the possession of one of the convicts as he came over the ship's aide. Subsequently knives and flee were found in possession of the prisoners ; and it ia not easy to account for their having these articles unless they brought them late the ship. Some implements of this description they retained amongst them undiscovered; and by these means some of the men who afterwards were put in Irons were able to get the irons off, and thus to defy au thority at a most important criele. There can be no doubt that this successful resistance to the arm of the law contri buted in no slight degree to aggravate the disturbances which eventually took place. I think it very important to call attention to the circum etencethat acertain portion of the convicts showed grill of in mbordinationfrom the timeof their first entrance into the ship. They seemed bent upon mischief; and not only were insolent and troublesome, but declared boldly that the ship should never reach Australia. The minds both of the sailors and warden appear to have been unsettled by the state of things pre vailing. Nine sailors refused to work, on the plea that when they signed articles they were not aware that the ship was to carry convicts. These men woe landed and taken before the magistrates at Plymouth, sal were sen tenced to one month's imprisonment. Two warders like wise refused duty, and they also were put ashore at Ply mouth. After we got to sea it was evident that the prisoners were in a very unsettled and unsatisfactory state of mind. There was a constant tendency to insolence, and several depreda tions were committed by them whilst they were upon dock for their airing. Upon one occasion the harness cart in which the meat for the caddy table was kept, was plundered. Upon another occasion the chief mate discovered a prisoner in the act of carrying off a goose from the longboat; he pursued him and recovered the goose. This gave rise to jeers and taunts from other prisoners upon deck ; some shouted to him that he had better count the sheep and see whether they were all right. This offender was punished by being put into the "black box," which is a box something larger than a coffin, and when a man is pat into it it is either left standing in a perpendicular position or laid down upon the deck, close by the station of a sentry. Another Min was detected in the set of pawing down an iron crowbar from the deck into the prison; he also was punished by a period of incarceration in the black box. The evening of Thursday, October 1, Mr. Wright went below to the prison to conduct the terries as usual. The prisoners sang some verses of a hymn, and then commenced a row of a most disgraceful character, souls of the men screaming, whistling through their fingers, using abusive language, shouting out, "Well do for you," and uttering other threats of a similar character. The surgeon-superin tendent was standing under the hatchway, • little behind Mr. Wright ; and after a time they both retired, finding it impassible to proceed with the service. Mr. Wright in formed me that a similar disgraceful scene had been enacted, upon • previous occasion, before I joined the ship at Ply mouth. The night of the 4th of October one of the warden on duty in the prison wee assaulted and injured, and another warder also received a blow. Fur this end other disorderly conduct six men were seized on deck the neat afternoon, Monday, October 5, just as it was getting dark. These men received corporal punishment, and one, who eppeared to Do ringleader, wait detained in the "black box." The other Ave were ironed and sent below with the rest of the prisoners. In a vary short time, however, they all five freed themselves from the hone, no doubt by means of the files which had re mained undiscovered in their possession. Whilst we were sitting at tea in the cuddy, a little before seven o'clock, an alarm wss raised of a disturbance in the prison; everything was immediately in confusion, and the cuddy-table deserted. It was impossible to entertain at the time what really was the matter; the women and families of the sadists and I warden ware afraid to rennin in their own place, and came in great alarm into the caddy and on the poop. In about fifteen or twenty minutes the chief warder was led forward from the hatchway bleeding, and apparently amiderably injured. _ _ _ It appeared that the surgeon superintendent whilst below in the:prison heard a missile whiz forcibly put him, and on looking round saw the chief warder bad received a violent Wow on the jaw. The missile was immediately picked up, which proved to be a piece of sand-stow attached to an old handkerchief in such a way u enabled the thrower to hurl it hke a sling. The chief warder was obliged to re main off duty for some days. The surgeon has now reason to believe that the blow was intended for him, and he ha. been told that a deliberate plan had been at one time in course of formation to take his life. The following night, Tuesday, Oct. 6, the rioting was mowed, owl lhlo time curled to *WI greater lengths. As (Stamped ld. Additional.) (TWOPENCE. the night iedvanced the prisoners beams exceedingly dis orderly, at 8, st singing in a loud and boisterous manner, p rocee di ng th en to hurrahs and cheers, and getting on by degrees t o a cou t pte riot. Many of the men who would have b een gl a d to save remained quiet were compelled to leave their berths by 6;0 violence of the more turbulent. Hitherto the practice had been kept up of placing one of the warden in the prison during the night. The warder wh o was upon thin duty upon this occasion re mined during these proceedings In fear end trembling until he was at length withdrawn. He reported that the number of the violent rioters ma about 30 or ,0, who rushed up and down the prison from end to end, becomkg thereby more and more excited. At one time they made an attack upon the bars under the hatchway, at another time they directed their efforts to the after bulkhead (the partition which di vides off the prison from the rest of the ship). For my own part, knowing the effect which may be produced by the mere brute foroe of so large a body of powerful men in a state of violent excitement, I entertained very considerable appre hension that the bulkhead would give way. I need not say that during all this time great alarm pre vailed among the women and families of the soldiers and warders, they all left their bertha and the pieces which they usually occupied, and, as they bad done the night before, came crowding in a terrified manner late the caddy and up on the poop. Front nearly the commencement of tie dishirbenee the guard had been under arms, and the men mustered and furnished with cutlasses, ready for any emergency. When the bulkhead and bars were attacked, which was per haps about 12 o'clock, a party of the guard was marched to the bars, down the hatchway, in order to intimidate the rioters, with a show of firing in upon them. The prisoners then assailed the officers and surgeon-superintendent with the most violent abuse, telling them the mode in which they would be murdered respectively when they got them into their hands ; two were specified who were to " walk the plank," another was to be cut up piecemeal—they even threatened the manner in which the women would be treated. The appearance of the soldiers at the prison hare seemed, however, to have the effect of restraining their actual violence; and, after a time, the tumult gradually subsided. By about one o'clock quiet was again restored. After this the prison still contiaued in a very unsatisfactory and unquiet state, sundry acts of violence and petty thefts having been committed amongst the convicts. On the night of Monday, Oct. 12, about eleven o'clock the officer on guard came to the surgeon-superintendent to report that an aggra vated assault had been committed upon one of the convicts. After some consultation it was determined that a party should enter the prison immediately and wire the offenders. The surgeon-superintendent, accompanied by the mate of the ship and two or three of the soldiers, proceeded to act upon this determination, and it appeared that a party of the most despe rate of the prisoners (no doubt the same men who bad occasioned the previous riots) had been plundering several of their fellow-prisoners, especially taking biscuits; many of the prisoners were thereby exasperated against them, bpd readily rendered assistance in bringing forth end bending out several men who were known to be the principal rioters , . The gene ral desire to get rid of the whole party was manifested by their pulling out and passing up one man before he was even demanded. Ten men were in this way taken from the pri son, put in irons, and kept to main corporal punish ment in the morning. This flogging they received soon after daylight, but there being no place for separate confine meat, they were released in the course of the morning and were allowed to mix again with the rest of the prisoners. The evil effects of the ship not being provided with a place of separate confinement for refractory prisoners now became more than ever apparent. What could be worse, or tend more immediately towards renewed riot, than that these men, lashed into fury by their punishment, and thinking to be revenged upon the other prisoner. who had given them up, should immediately have the opportunity given to them of exciting the passions of their comrades, and of instigating them to further violence f For my own part I entertained so strong a belief with respect to the generally unpromising state of affairs, that in the entree of the fore noon I requested the surgeon-superintendent, the captain of the ship, end the commanding officer to allow me to expels my views to them. These officers kindly assembled in the surgeon's cabin, and I then formally stated my belief that things were getting worse and worse, and that I fully ex pected that unless some effectual steps were taken to put down the rioting, serious disturbances, attended with blood shed, and probably loss of life, must inevitably accrue. I ventured to propose as a remedy that we should put into some English station, either Ascension Island or Bt. Helena, in the expectation of meeting with a ship of war bound for England, with a view to transmitting again to the mother country some five or six of the most desperate of the prisoners. This plan, however, appeared to be impracticable. The surgeon and the commending officer expressed an opinion that they would not be justified in giving up the prisoaers ; and the captain stated that, from the present position of the ship, great delay and difficulty would be mentioned by making either of the islands which I mentioned, Tho correctness of my opinion, however, as to the posture of affairs was fully borne out before the close of the day. In the course of the evening one of the mrders reported that the men, whilst upon deck, had appeared to be in a disturbed and excited state, that they had been endea vouring to procure offensive weapons, had contrived to secrets some sticks, and that the boatswain missed five belaying pins which he had seen in their places in the morning. In fact, it was evident that a serious riot was intended during the night. Upon the receipt of this intelligence the surgeon determined to retake the men who had been flogged in the morning, and to keep them in irons and separate from the rest of the prisoners during the night. Six of the men were brought out and made fast accordingly. Seeing no prospect of getting the ship freed from these leading rioters, I an opportunity of having a further conversation with the cap tain of the ship in the evening. I repeated again to him what I had said in the morning—that I was firmly per suaded, unless something were done to prevent it, the prison rioting would get worse and worse, and would be eventually attended with very serious consequences, and I urged upon him the imperative necesaity of finding a place intim ship which could be fitted up as arefractoryprison. I suggested the hold, but he said it would be quits impossible to fit up any place there. At last he thought of the forecastle. It Is the practice in convict ships to have the sailors in the after part of the vessel, and therefore the forecastle (usually °cou pled by the sailors) is in convist ships available for other uses. The captain came to the conclusion that this place could be fitted up as a refractory prima, and the plan, when announced to the surgeon and the commanding officer, was warmly approved of. By the evening of the neat day, Wed nesday, the 14th, all the arrangements were complete; • chain was fixed in the forecastle on the starboard aide, and the six riotous prisoners, being already In irons, were made fast to the chain. They persevered in their Insolent bearing even up to this time, and said to the surgeon end those who were faatening them, in a threatening manner, "You will have to pay for this." Up to this time scarcely a night had passed without some disturbance or act of violence occurring in the prison. lam now writing sixteen days after the six ring leaders were separated from the other prisoners, and no dis turbance of any kind has occurred in the prison during that period. These men hare not only boasted of their achieve ments in breaking out of gaols and freeing themselves from irons, but they have given proof of their skill in the last named accomplishment; they are therefore watched with un tiring vigilance. Some of their colleagues h►ve attempted to confer with them, while taking their daily airing on deck. These men have been paraded before the guard, that their pergolas may be known ; and they have been informed that they will be punished in a summary manner if they are again detected in communication with the prisoners in the . . forecastle. One day • written communication from these men was intercepted. It was an earnest appeal to the other prisoners. written with considerable spirit, exhorting them to hold well together, to be tree to one another, to make common cause with the sufferers in chains, together with an admonition not to forget the traitor who had betrayed them. It is not known who is particularly alluded to in this last expression, probably one of the pia- MeV who waisted in giving them up to the surgeon. I must now mention another circumvtance, as tending to Blur trate the state of affairs in general. A gang of eight or ten prisoners had been employed dur ing the whole time as deck-washers for the fore-part el the ship. The heed of this gang was • fat, batty, good !miaowed looking prisoner, named J—, formerly • senor, who is known throughout the ship as "Boatswain All the men of the gang hare appeared W eendont theonstree he quiet orderly manner, and to do their work satisfactorily (A-- is one of them, and has hitherto behaved himself apparently with great propriety; being quiet and respectful in his de meanour and active in the discharge of his duties). They ere on deck nearly the whole day, and are permitted to move about the ship and tat., part in whet is going on in a way which ia not allowed to the other prisoners. On Friday, Oct. 23, one of the warders overheard some of these men in conversation, and he gathered that a plot for taking the ship was on foot amongst them. Although ate did not hear enough to gather any certain information, the eurireell-suPar• intendent considered it quite necessary to make a counter move to defeat any sch eme w hi c h might be going on. Ile had himself perc e i ve d ( or thought he had p ere d,..o a differ s:lce in A—'s manner, for the last few days; he L`terefore displaced hell the gang, viz. those whom he fudged most likely to be tools in the hands of boatswain 3—, and put in their places men who in other departments, lead conducted themselves well, and appeared to be worthy a trust. Helm reasons for thinking that it would not be poll' tic to displace J— and A— at the present thne ; the changes which have been effected here have been made without any words or explanation. He observes that I—, although not displeased himself, shows evident algae in hie looks and manner of being much put out and diseonced ad, and he is thereby greatly confirmed in his belief that NC le MUM was in contemplation, and that the warder was or 4 mistaken in his suspicions ef what wee going on. Wednesday, October 28.—This morning a displaced mem ber of ,7—'s gang was paraded before the guard, togetheer•. with another prisoner, as men suapected of holding inter.* course with the convicts in the forecastle. The surgeon had himself overheard something from them which induced him. to take this step. In the afternoon this same man and four other were reported by the sentry as having been in iro- • proper proximity to the forecastle, and every preparation was made for inflicting corporal punishment on the chief offender. There was no evidence, however, that they had actually cora municated with the prisoners in the forecastle, and, after making great proudest of more careful conduct for thy future, they were di/mimed by the surgeon with severe cau tions. Three of these were men lately displaced from the deck-washers' gang. _ _ Friday, Oct. 30.—Today another prisoner was brought out and paraded before the guard as one who was to be parti- • orderly noticed. This is • very young fellow, bearing in his countenance every indication of recklessness and daring.- He le maid to be the one who hurled the stone in the hand kerchief on the Sth inst. and wounded the chief warder, but I believe the evidence against him as regards this affair is not quite satisfactory. He was brought up to-day in coneequenote of its being reported that he had been overheard to say that he was ready to lead an attack ; that the bullets would go over his bead, and that he would break through the barricade. Monday, Nov. 2.—Yesterday the weather was rather showery, and we bad the prison service below. I took the whole service, and Mr. Wright officiated in the cabin. I performed the whole service, with a sermon, again in the caddy at 7 p.m. The cuddy was quite filled by the soldiers, warders, and their families. This morning, I sorry to say, corporal punishment wee again inflicted. One of the men punished was one of the six in.irona ; his offence was threatening the chief warder, and declaring that he would take hie life. The other two men were punished for smoking below. The surgeon has exhausted all other means in en deavouring to put a stop to this practice, which is, of course, one extremely dangerous to the whole ship. You may, perhaps, think that I regret having taken my passage in this ship, but Ido not regret it at all. The ship was sailing just at the very time that I wished to leave. England, and it therefore was the natured and obvious step for me to take to apply fora passage in her. I consider that my present position requires of me that I should make myself acquainted with the transportation system in all its phases ; and I need not tell you that I have now seen a phase of it which was before altogether unknown to rue. The horror which I have of bloodshed, and the apprehension which I at one time entertained that the prison would become a scene of murder, hes driven me to more earnest and importunate L7ryter.r.i, of Lt p his in effect ess e r d tr ie tz e tr e ettars h :aial pr 7 a g mind. Anything which brings us nearer to God must bee source of spiritual peace and joy.—Believe ma, pl dear Mend, ever yours affectionately, M AT HEW PIRTH. MR. BASS, M.P.—Mr. M. T. Bum met with a severe accident whilst hunting with Mr. Meynell Ingram', hounds, at Kedleston, on Tuesday. Very soon after the hounds had thrown off, Mr. Bar's horse, in taking a low fence, leaped upon some boggy ground, and in clearing him self threw his rider and galloped over him. Mr. Bar re ceived several bruises and was a good deal shaken ; be was also struck in the face by the horse. Lord Scarsdale imme diately despatched a messenger to Derby for Mr. Giaborne to meet Mr. BMW at the King's Head, whither he was conveyed in his lordship's carriage. Mr. Baas was able to go to his residence, Byrkley Lodge, in the afternoon.—Derbit Mercury. LADY HAVELOCK.—At the meeting of the Bir mingham Town Council, on Tuesday, the following letter from Lady Havelock was read Bonn, on the Rhine, March 11. Sir —I have this week had the honour to re ceive your Feta, accompanied by en address of condolence from yourself, the aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Birmingham. I was alr eady prepared for such a mark of attention by a letter from your town, intimating the lame, but the deep sympathy expressed for me in my bereavement, the kind sentiments felt in my behalf and that of my father lees children, by so large and respectable a body, and the elegant and very delicate manner in which this address has been conveyed to me, have quite overpowered me, and I cannot find words to express all I feel. The bier encomiums you have all been pleased to pass upon the heroic deeds of Sir Henry Havelock, as a soldier and a general, and the exalted terms in which you have spoken of my beloved hos bend as a man, are like sweet incense to my broken and afflicted heart, not merely because the praises of those we love are ever precious to no, but because I am so well aware that the portraiture of his almost perfect character is by no means overdrawn, and the experience of more than eight-and-twenty years of domestic happiness only serves to strengthen this opinion. 8., 1 thank my Heavenly Father that, even in this crushing and unexpected bereavement, I have many sources of comfort. Our gracious sove re ign has provided bountifully for my wants, my Dona are nobly fol lowing the bright example of their father, and my two daughters are my best earthly treasures. A shade of regret might intrude if I were to reflect on the altered prospects of my fatherless children, but I cannot fora moment indulge in vain regrets, for oar Heavenly Father ordains all things for the best, end I have too much confidence In my hus band's countrymen to suppose that they can ever cease to take en interest in the children of Henry Havelock. May I beg you will do me the honour to convey my heartfelt thanks to the corporation of Birmingham, and believe me, with 'rely feeling of respect, to be y o u rs ve r y gr eg u lly , HAlrlaali H. HAVELOCK. J. Ratcliff, Esq., Mayor of Birmingham." VACANT CLERICAL PREFERMENT.—Atnong the clerical vacancies which have occurred during t last few days e are the Rectory of St. Peter Port, 0 value . per annum—the Derry of Guernsey; the tory of Clonbullogs, Kildare value 500/. per annum ; the Rectory of Hollymount, 'Mayo ; the itectory of Loughres. Galway; a Canonry in Ripon Cathedral; the Vicarage of Great Budworth, Chester, value 6281. per annum ; the Vicarage of Dagenham, Essex value 8614 per annum ; the Vicarage of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, value 1261. per an ; the Archdeacottry of Early; the Perpetual Curtsey of Stratton Audley, Oxford, value 1281. per annum • the Perpetual Curacy of Milbttrae, Westmoreland. value' 864 per annum; the Perpetual Curacy of Hutton Roof, West moreland, value 801. per annum ; the Perpetual Curacy of Dewsbury Moor, Yorkshire, value 1501. per annum ; the Perpetual Curacy of East Dulwich Chapel, Surrey; the Mastership of Dulwich College ; Cavendish Grammar School (Suffolk), dm The Bishop of Ely will hold a visitation of his ' diocese In the course of the summer. THE 11tERIFF AT EDINDURGIL—Ii r e understand the new Home Secretary, Mr. Walpole, has signalised his retrace° on the duties of his office by calling our sheriff, Mr. Mallard, to account for one of his =ay extraordinary judg ments in the Police Court. It appears that he imprisoned • highly respectable servant girl for thirty days because she picked up a shinier from the floor of a shop on which it had bra dropped, as she supposed, by herself but according to other evidenoe by a different person. The highest testimony was barn to her character by her employers and other re ,,,ret.,,thi4dawirtstansi,,impeetnot.tenhet inexorable othrabi.lme mistake, se o u r te c u ri ced me, her by whichever name it may be called. We are extremely glad that our new Home Secretary has called the sheriff to account forLhte coadnot.—Edirodesrph Express. THE JUDGE ADVOCATE.—Mr. John Robert Mow bray, M.P., for Durham, is son of R . B. Cornish, Esc., and was born in Exeter in 1816. Mr. Mowbay is not indebted for his place to any vote against Lord Pahnersion, as be went into the lobby with the noble lord on the fatal night and voted against his Caucasian leader. Mr. Nowhere dropped the name of Cornish when he married—as his wife was the only child of George leer Mowbray, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, and Mortimer, Barbs. He in es, to be • liberal conservadvis nos proved to be a respectable to reerber ot Mtmty, and having the =re b e casetk ibi Mo ceinial vs . unmpos .--. °E Derry, his return, on androuldso;reethyncemattsiretbeethasomrshaike.whadaiebue:ttle,shaionwaluelsernmato d;ourninirdswesk.