The Express. — London, England, 1849-06-30 00:00:00

will not hazerd his reputation for toxicity by identi- I f. lug Innis If with them; he will not march through, a. r t, C .vetitry with them. And for tide, alrocat as much es for any of hie pre "' 00, good services, the country is grateful to S.r It' at it I Pe EL It thanks h.m for cstholic em sncipa ti ;it thanks him for the repeal of the corn-laws; Du :,t, .we all, it thanks him for the honest refusal to rat 'amend for employment men of questionable tiorseity. r reweave to our remarks on the ease of the 11..'iare , rie 11 Lstionx, the Queen mother of the de•.rtset DifuLtr.r Simon, we have been favoured skin en extract from a letter, written by a native f it lem,o of high character and attain-oents, resident F. ti• t ,• friend in this country, which .xintans a • Utu. , ..0.t s t mo• strous and so inconsistent with all iriish notions of the treatment of state prisoners, Innen mare of lsdif s of rank, that we print it, chiefly the lip.• its main sex rion will nceave an antho el e n•red:cti^n. The letter is dated 21st of April the passage refirred to runs thus : lhe % Inverse; t.t have r• moved the Rases of Lahore from It • c (Henan") to Cnandul Garb (Chews.). There is a • j • ..1 i ro n, is which Trimbrikji Devgrs was formerly oui Nn. d. The Renee was put into this age ; from it die be • ti..wev.r, mowed. Such is the rumour cement here. T. • f , ,vunor-Osseral's r i vet and his people have searched, a•••: ..re sr.er.Mng every place to find her. The cage had H., •• sat sentries place I over it. I have myself gone and th-n it. A rasa said not have does what a woman he, Her el ditte, fernitere, &e , are left. The Ranee, w • was imprisoned is the eve, as well as two Sikhs, who • outsid.. o• it, bay, disappeared in a manna (mite un- Kroft" ant.. Too Rana. wrote and left • paper, the eon• n. oat which were, " Yoe have broken your faith ; very w but I *arm you will send my t Mete within two Iwo •• a otherwise it will go hard with you." It is not my Is •mesa t.. dwed upon this event; but that the government ▪ • i tontine a princess in a stage, and that she should . ...t•i•hstan4ing the sentries placed over her, is real:, ea there is an iron cage in the fortress of Chunar, so a .t.d by toe writer, is a fact of which we have t. r r...s m y. It wee erected to contain the note ✓ TILIMPHIK.II DEVORL who assassinated, or WY ▪ t 4 to have ammeainated, to the horror of all India, e Chi. f or Patriarch of the Brahmins ; and in it t .t en I.in .1 was kept under British surveisl-nce for 11. teen. But that this cage has ever since been se spied by our state prisoners—that the Ranee of 1. %storm was for a moment even confined therein—is I i• sesertion which we trust will prove to be utterly Li Needed. Foe, if tree, it would inflict indelible l'ware on the British government of Indio. Such a finings would be intolerable if inflicted on the at et savage Thug in that country ; but to consign the i 'ow of a wevereign prince w h ose fidelity to us is poem Is the very prcelamation that appropriates to en/settee the empire he won for himself, who as not been convicted of any crime, and who has sought in vain even for a statement 4 f the charges on which her person has been seized • d venial f,orn place to pl ice as our apprehensions di t sied, and os which her property was confiscated, ould be en infamy cticulated to bring down not only the na inns! exserati .n but condign punishment throe who ordered it. But as the statement was correet in the city adjoining the fortress, as the nativea, after the Ranee's flight hurried out to the t oto as to see the iron cage whence, it was alleged, eh.. Mid etcaced ; and as tt c rumour, by this time, has wend t' rout : India, it is ircumbent on the East India Company to take immediate nutico of the assertion. Without at present entering further into the tin. unistancea, most imperfectly state-I as yet, under welch the person of the Ranee was seised at Lahore, we caenot help saying that the treatment which this Princess subsequently received at ti e hands of the Ind a government, has n once wearily harsh and severe, and is unworthy ..1 that gee, rnment. And when it is known that lie value of her private property confiscated by the ledt. it authorities, is not leas than 200,0001.. mo tives of a v. rydiacreditable character may be assigned for stk. h treatment. Admitting that at Lahore she might have been dangerous from the influence she :misled over the Sirdars, surely she was powerless to do ary s. Hi us mi chief at Snackerpoor, when in oar power. Y. tat a moment's notice she was carried If thence to !Senores; and no sootier was all danger over to the Punjaub, and that country antexed to British India, than the Rance was removed from Be mires to the fortress of Chunar. Now, Chunar is not only It Ftltl• prison of the Indian government, but it is a confined, hot, unhealthy place; and is associated in native minds with stories of horror and death. Front it the Ranee had the courage to ewer. And for her tseape from what she deemed would be a life-long imprisonment no one can blame her. We have, it seems, demand, d. and are about to re gain possession of her from the King of Nepaul. Let us hope then that she is not again to be sent to Chu nar, but will be restored to some degree of personal freedeon ; and that, if her private property be not returned to her, satisfactory reasons will at least be assigned for its retention and confiscation—not vague e ,arses intrigue or imputations on her moral character. We mast repeat too. the remarks,we made on Thurs day, as to Dnuesr &ann. The hands to which his nurture and education are at present entrusted are rot such as ought to direct and form the character of a prince. The gentleman in question is, in his own sphere, a most re spectable and honourable person, is well qualified to write or to compound medical prescriptions; but he he. none or'Zl:orie qualifications, intellectual or edu cational, for the task which has been ccnflded to him. It is, moreover, unjust, unfair, and ungenerous to leave the royal boy in his present pecuniary wsition ; he lies been mode to cede the sovereignty of the Pun jaub to us without having received any guarantee of any fixed sum f r his future maintenance and sup port—pa uniarily, he and his family, and any issue he may have, are at the mercy of the Indian govern ment. In star, ho has lost a kingdom without gain ing in exchange a private fortune. This is not the rsition which the descendant of Ronan Siecn ought to occupy. It is degrading to him, and it is not creditable to the British governmeat. IN the wide doctrine of tolerance there are few points that require to be more strenuously and mite lewdly junketed than the right men have to be as alp.url as they please. There is nothing criminal in being a fool so lour as a man's folly does no harm. A very wseul, practical lesson in this way has just been read by the decision of the court and jury in the ease of Nottidge e liipley. The only objection that can %ell be urged ag nost that decision is the low figure of the damage*. It could have been wished, too, that the medical men, and above all the commis sioners of lunacy, who were mixed up in the affair, could have been swinged as heartily as the private parties; but it is obvious that the form In which the ection was brought placed the two former out of &ogee. It may be as well to premise that we ae knowlege in the breaded and most unqualified tense of the term, that Miss NorriDGE and her atom:ate. of the Agapemon• are fools. Attempts were made, in the cuurse of the trial, to prove t l ey were something worse. But the attempt to establish the charge of gross profligacy completely broke down. We are not asserting their innocence • we know too well the insensible gradations by whici fanaticism passes into lieentiouseess. There ere but ter, many cases on record to establish the tendency, on the part of those who in religious matters have cast off tts constraints of common serve, to fling three f c-mnren decency after them. All that we lay is, Ilia in the present as we see no better proof of the ex;rence of anything of the kind, than the gossip of lid, ego publics, always indignant when they me rove set differently from themselves, and but too prone to give vent to their righteous wrath, by re tailing all their black conjectures and surueoss as pee ti e fate. But we admit that the inmates of the Awesome ere tools positive. Lawyers, apothecseariee, par sons, retired firmer., old maids, and all the rest of them, they are auperoatura'ed with folly. Men and women who have attained to mature years— we will not my to the years of discretion—sad can take the Reverend Mr. PRINCE for an incarnation of Deity ; ob 7 him implicitly when he enjoins one line of conduc t one hour and anoth er th e next ; an d g l or if y God I.y playing a game at hockey, may, without any lack nf charity, be set down as fools. But their lelly harts no one but &we Ives. They ?o not insist upon other people being fool I also. They do not eren obtrude their practices on public notice ; they rather reek seclusion, and ask only to be left in Face. '1 hey rei,e their walla higher to chat out the imper tinent gane of the boors who come to gape and wonder at their hockey worship. It is true that they some times drive in their fine carriages through the neigh bouring villages of a Sunday, and that dainty meats and fishes are seen carried into the Agapcmone. And we shrewdly suspect th►t their possession of money, and that herring . portion of common sense wtich teaches them to enjoy the comforts it can procure, is their principal crime in the eyes of their charitable neighbours. Even on the assumption that they are vicious se well as foolish, they have sense and decency enough left to draw a curtain before it: they do not corrupt others by their example. Tueir filly harms none bat theurselvts. Taking our eland upon this ground, we beg to re cord as esaphatical protest against any enc.oachment on the liberties of such harmless fools ; against the irregular incarceration of any one of them on the un tenable plea of m-.dnesti. There does not appear to have been the shadow of a I symptom of lunacy about Mira NOTTIDGE. The transcendental mystical notions which seem to form the staple of the Princite creed have been held and acted upon by minds of the highest order. They consist in a belief that words and attitudes constitute no memory part of prayer; that the essential of prayer is a devotional state of mind which ought to be uninterinittingly kept up; that where this state of mind ex;ies every action is a prayer, and ought to be regarded as seen. Combined with these notions is a belief that all who are united by holding these opinions ought to possess their worldly goods in common. 'this latter article of faith has b.en held by more than one sect, against whom no charge of licentiousness or insanity has been substantiated. As to the mystical views of devotion, PASCAL and the Port Royal came pretty me-r them. SPINOSA on One hand, and HARRINGTON, Fox, and others, went quite as far ; yet who can qaestion the ability of the men we have named to take care of themselves. sad avoid infringing the civil and moral laws of tte @D eistic' in which they lived? True, Miss NOTTIDOZ and her friends are said to believe that there is some thing divine in their bereeiarch Prince; but does this imply madness any mote then a belt f in the miracu lous power of images and p'etures entertained by a large proportion of the Christian community ? The power of priests and inquisitors to incarcerate sad seclude for heresy . would be indignantly de claimed against and resisted in this country. TLe power of doctors to shut up all whose religious tenets appear to them absurd, is equally monstrous, equally susceptible of being perverted to the matt selfish and dishonest oppression. Miss Norrinca was dint up in a private mad home, without that previous public inquiry, which is the only . safeguard of the private citizen. The pretext for incarcerating was the grave dictum of confidential medical men (one of them a relative of the keeper of the asylum), that none but a mad woman could entertain such religicris notions as she entertained. Her pales beat regulatly, the spoke and acted in worldly affairs like other people, she was under no delusions as to the nature of external objects, her conversa tion and her conduct were coherent. But her religion was not a religio medici, and, therefore, the doctors pronounced her mad. If every one whose creed does not square exactly with the notions enter tainedby the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and at Apothecaries' Hall is to be shut up in a mad-house, we shall have a rare time of it. But the conduct of the Commissioners of Lunacy, who had a public duty to perform, was still more un accountable and indefensible. The case of Miss Nov- TIDGII was six times brought under their consideration. They found the keeper of the asylum, wbo affects to have entertained fears that she might commit suicide, allowing her to pay visits in the neighbourhood, uuaceompanied by any attendant. They saw and conversed with her, and were convinced that, apart from religious questions, she was perfectly sane and capable of taking care of herself end of ber money. But her religions notions appeared to them so absurd, that to account for her entertaining them they jumped at the conclusion that there was some hidden monomania lurking in the recesses of her mind. This was a gratuitous and unwarrantable assumption. When men enter upon the dim and shadowy realm of the infinite and its relations, who can take upon him to say that conceptions are too absurd to be entertained by any one bat a maniac merely because they differ from hut own preconceived notion' ? PESTUS called PAUL mad. The Commissioners of Lunacy acted most unwarrantably in allowing a lady to remain under coercion a single day, simply because her religious notions appeared to them extravagant. It was stated in the coarse of the trial that the lady has, since her liberation, transferred her money in the funds to the name of Mr.PRINCE; and this was triumphantly . referred to by one of the commis sioners as Justifying his dinbts of her sanity. Assuredly, we will not take upon us to say that the act was either wise cr prudent; but under the circumstances of the case, it can scarcely be regarded as insane. It appears that during her confinement the relations who Rot her shut up took upon them to receive her dividends, and they refused to give up 301. thus received until ordered by the court to do so. Possibly Miss Normal may think her money as safe in the keeping of the hus bands of three of her sisters and their spiritual head, as in that of her brother and the husband of another sister. Nay, the uncharitable may go so far as to doubt whether, had Miss NOT - LIDOS not been possessed of 6,4004 in the funds, her affec tionate relations would have been so anxious for her spiritual welfare as to transfer her by an irregular procedure from the Agapemone to a madhouse. tit Court. PRIVY COUNCIL The Queen held a privy council and court at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The privy council was attended by his_ Royal Highness the Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury. the Setretsries of (Pate for the: Home, For. ign. and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of lisneaster, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Muter of the Hone. Si, David Dundas (Judge Advocate General) was by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Mon Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the board. The Hon. Billies Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. At the court Mehmed Pacts, Ottoman Ashes's. dor, had as audience of her Maj sty to deliver a letter from the Sultan. His excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerton, G.C.8., her Majesty's prinepal Seat- May of State for For. iga Affairs, and eonducted by Colonel the Hen. Sir Edward Oast, H.C.H. her Majesty's master of the ceremonies ; Commander William Winniett (Royal Navy), Lieutenant-Governor of the Gold Croat, was pre sided to So Queen at as audience by Earl Grey, Seem eery of State for the Colonies ; the Right lion. Sir David Dundee, Judge• Advocate General, had an audience of the Queen, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some emerta.martial. The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord John Russell. The court was stranded by the Marquise( Londonderry, gold sti k in waiting ; the Treasurer of the Household; the Nlce•Chant• b. dais; the Comptroller of the Househeld ; Lord Water• park, lord in waiting; and Lieut. Colonel the Hon. Robed Boyle, groom in waiting. His Royal Highness Prism Albert took the chair at the annual meeting of the trustees and manglers of the Bt. Kartin's Provident Irritation, of which his Royal High new is president, upn Thursday afternoon at three o'clock. His Royal Wegner returned to Buckingham Palace at about Am o'clock. --- Merficlialfighness the Duchess of Kent has been pre vented by a were old from attending the evening party of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, and likwiee from dining with the Marquis and Maretsionses of Westminster on the 27th iost. A deputation, consisting of the following : the Earl et Glesigall, the Earl of Bensbormeb, the Earl at Kingston, Lord Craniums, Sir H Winston Buron. Bart., M.P., Sir Jab& Osest, Bert., M.P., Mr. William Mansell, M.P., Mr. ft. Lane Shell, M.P., Mr. J. Sadleir , M.P., Mr. T. Meagher, M P., Mr. 8. Dian's, M.P., Mr. P. L. Bailer, M.P., and Ms,* Berm, Mason °storey, Birgent and fumy, directors of the Waterford and Limerick Railway, with Mr. San. den, the secretary, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. The noble lead was accompanied by the Chan cella of the Exchequer. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor has issued suds stinvitation for a grand baaquct on tita , urday nut, to be gime is the president and council of the Roya l Society, the preddent and members of the Royal Academy, and to way of the literary and scientific men of the day. (Fran the Dublin Gasetto of Jan 26.) CROWI4 AND HANAPER OFFICE, DUBLIN.— 11l tummies of an act, paned in the fortieth year of the reign of Wa Majesty King Oeorp the Third, intituled "An Act to regulate the mode by which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Cos mos to serve in the parliament of the United Kingdom, on the part of Ireland, shall be summoned and re turned to the said parliament," L do hereby give notice, that John Cavendith Baron Kihnalne has been chosen by a majority of votes to be the peer to sit in the House of Lotds of the United Kingdom, is the room of A.rehibald Earl of dastard, deceased.—Dated the 22nd day of. Jose, 11349. C. YrraStwow, Clerk of the Crows sad hamper. THE EXPRISS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1849. (Fro= last nithes Gazette.) • ST. JAMES'S PALACE, June 22.—The Queen has been pleased, on the nonstnatson of L,td Foley, to apPnint the under-mentioned gintlenten to her Majesty's lion Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms:—John Lan•, Esq , vice Birkett, retired ; Edward Goodwin, El., view Maud, r. tired. WHITEHALL, JettE Queen has beta pleased to appoint the Rev. John Christie to the church and parish of Kildruninty, in the pretAltery of Alford, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the death of the Rtv. Alexander Reid, late minister thereof. ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. We announced yesterday her 1118j:sty's intention or stating Ireland during the forthcoming recess. It is well known that this intention is of lung standing, and that in save rsl previous years the Queen had hoped to honour her leßt subjects with her presence. Tne distress unlurertatrly still so prevalent in Ireland precludes her 'Tom visiting Dublin in gate, as any large expenditure on mere ceremiiny would be ifiximed and iac inesnient to her subj.cts She proposes therefore to embark in the royal yacht, to touch first at the Cove of Cork, and to proceed thence along the Irish Channel to Dublin, where she will remain for a few days the guest of his Excellency Lord Cliusadon. Upon leasing Dub/in the royal squadron will proceed northwards along the Irish cost to Brills . , and thetce cross to fileotiand. Although the precise period of her Majesty's visit cannot yet be fixed, it will probably take plies as estly in Asheust as the termination of the session of pa:liniment will permit Timm. THE ROYAL FETE AT GLOUCESTER HOUSE. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gioneetrer gave a grand fete to the Que,n yesterday evening, at (ilea cester-bonne. The distinguished circle honoured with invi tations to meet her Majesty were invited at nine o'clock, and had nearly all arrived previous to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal suite. At twenty minutes before ten o'clock her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived, attended by the Counties of Mount Etscumbe, lady in w. Hug, the Hun. Eleanor Stanley, end the Hon. Elisabeth Frederica Lennox maids of honour in waiting ; L od Weterpark, lord in wait ing; Lieut.. Col. the Hon R ibert Boyle, groom in waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel the lion. C. B l'hipps, a corny in waiting ; end Col. Bauverie, equerry in waiting to his Royal Hug; Inds U. H. H. the Duke of Cambridge received the Queen on alighting from her carriage, the Master of the Horse and the Lard Cnamberlain also attending at the entrance. Her Majesty took the arm of her royal uncle, and in the entrance hall was received by Lady Georgina Bathurst, lady in wait log to the Duchess of Gloucester, and by Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Augustus Liddell, comptnlier of the household of her royal highness, who conducted the Queen and the Prince to the state drawing room, where her Royal Highness the Duchene of Gloucester received her Majesty. Their Roal Highnerres the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenbaurg &rebut, and the Princess Mary, were attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan• lady in waiting, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, equerry in waiting, and were also conducted to the stets drawing room. The Duke of Wellington arrived early. Lord end Lady John Russell and Sir Robert and Miss Peel were also among toe viaitore. The Mato drawing room in which the reception took place was covered with a very magnificent cardet worked in needlewoek, and presented to the royal Duchess by eighiy four ladle', every lady having worked a compartment. This room and the other saloons wars brilliantly lit with Maisano chandeliers and branches, and were most tastefully decorated with rare and beautiful shrubs and plants in flower. Soon after the Queen's arrival, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, woo:spewed by her Majesty and rrinee Albert, the Duke and Dueness Albert, of Cambridge, the Here ditary_Grand Duchem Mteklenburg• Strelitz, sad the Prin cess Mary, descended the grand staircase and entered the Dalt- MEL Simnel qaadrille band wee in attenttance is • tem pray tent at one end of the apartment, the lower part of the tent having a screen formed of fi twering plants. The band, on the snivel of her Mejefty, played " God save the Queen," and on the entrance of the august party repeated the na tinned anthem. A quadrille was formed, and the ball was opened shortly before ten o'clock, her Illajeaty honouring the Marquis of Granby with her band ; the opposite couple being his Itlyal Highness the Prince Albert and her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgli Strtli , z. Other quadrilles and waltzes followed. Rtfnehments were served in en ante•room during the evening. At twelve o'eleek supper was served in the m• . nocAorche style of depose and splendour in the banquet room. KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON.-DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES. Yesterday the annual ceremony of distributing prize to the meet successful students at this collage, was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in presence of the Duke of Cambridge, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lichfield, Lord ltsdsteck, Lord WaMegrim, Mr. Ban croft, the American Minister, M. Otaizot, and a large mem- Wigs of ladies and gentlentes. The Archbishop of C•NT11113IIIPX, having been con ducted to the chair by Dr. Jeff, the principal of the college, stved that they were assembled on this occasion for the agreeable purpose of rewarding merit, of giving praise where praise was due. The acquisition of learning was • neces sary task, and the ditties of the student were sometimes of se arduous a nature that It was advisable to afford him some stimulus and encouragement. A nougat the at-tires for exertion which actuated the scholar in the pursuit of learn leg there wad none more important than the love of praise and a desire of distinction. Dr. JELF then announced the names of the students to whom divinity prizes had beets awarded. In making this he statement said he should be ungrateful if he did not take the earliest opportunity of acknowledging the high honour which had been conferred upon them by the presence of so many distinguished persons. The professors of the va:rians departments of literature and science then announced the names et the different pr zemen in each class, and the prises were delivered by the Arch bishop of Canterbury in the following order: DEPARTMENT O► 0271A1. LITZIATtIIi AND OCTILWCZ. Drvorn.-3rd )(sr : E. A. VIC.4IIt, J. eeller; 2nd year W. Elgood, A. S. Reece; lit year: E. Headland, W. Stebbing. CLABBIC%-11. Ware, C. 11. Pearson, W. Slabbing, G. B. Abbott, r. Lander. Murray. Lam Essay.—H. T. S. Dicey. Distant Vissa.—P. A. Staple', C. TI. Pearson. Marninunes.—W. 1). Oardioer, H. A. Morgan, P. 3. Candy, G. Murray, P.. N. Hoban. W. Elgood. EXOLISH LITEZATCIII.—W. Stebbing. MODUN lltsroaa.—C. IL Pearson. CAMPOCTION.--U. T. S. Dion) '. STUMM ENDOWNENT.—F. W. Marra. HIPTO/LICAL DRAT Patze.—E, J. S. Dicer. llasatnr.-14. 1.. &Daley, S. Ocean, B. 1) ewhie F 1410414-13. W. Smith. Cimus.-0. Davin, J. Grabbans. DZIPARTIVENT OT Tint APPLISD SaILVCRII. • Drnurre.-0. W. Lee, Srd year ; J. W. Newton, 2nd year ; A. Graham. let year. WarnlolllML—W. Grain, E. Shirr*, U. G. r. Fripp, °Matra AM Elralaini, Ahead lleadhL NATURAL rfilLallOPST.—T. Bolton, Srd yea; E. Mauves, 2nd year; W. Grata, 2nd year; IL 0. L Frippß, let year. Arra or CONalreliOn. --4 . T. Lepard, G. W. Lee. WAXIAWAVYLIU AZT AND giCHIAI.IIII4—W. tl. Boulton, G. Pukka. lad Stararrro.-3. T. Lepard, 9rd year; T. C. 71umpeou, 2nd year; P. E. Nadia, au, 14 year. GIONINT/11CAL Daawure.-0. P. Charlatan, W. S. Boulton, W. Grin Ciummar.—E. W. Masten, C. 11. Grant. WANIrI:LATION. - 0. W. Lee. GIOLOYT.—T. Bickel% 2 prises. I. W. Watson, C.ll. Grant. WOlUtalao7.—W. S. BOOttoo, W. N. Wynn. CIUMFPCAM or Areeocra..—R. W. Buckley, T. Rtdout, 3. 11. Kidd, elm !mat ; G. P. Coarleton. eight terns ; W. S. Poulton, W. Grain, C. H. Grant, E. Sturges, T. C. Thatopeoe, L I. W. Watson, Az kerma OCUOIARS. Gurus Laranartras Ditraantaar.—iirnior Clamteal, M. Ware; Senior Mathematical, W. D. Gardiner ; Junior Musical, P. W. Ferrer ; Junior Mathematical, H. w. Smith. Arouse Banos Deraarsimm.—Junior Scholar, E. Sturges. AuocuTas Gamut Lrmaarvaz DIPARTMKPrf. —B. A. Somalia, A. Godrieb, H. Godrieb, S. Green, I. Cladding, 3. B. Pima, B. Tyrwhitt, W. H. Walker, H. Ware, It. C. Webb. Armin e42231C1S Daraanrearr.—R. J. Arthur, T. Bolton, E. W. (Maley, S. U. Kidd, G. W. Lee, J. T. Lewd, T. Bailout, J. J. W. Watson. Profane limas then stated the names of the Nadeau to whom certificates of honour had been granted, and considerable praise was awarded to the son of Mom. Guixot, who had, it appeared, exhibited very great skill in the pursuit of his studies, notwithstanding the difficulties he had to °esteem. as • foreigner. The Duke of CAMBILIDGI proposed a vote of thanks to the Archbi'kop of Canterbury for his kindness in presiding on the occasion, and took the opportunity of expressing the high gratification he felt at hearing such a satisfactory ac count of the young gentlemen who belonged to the col lege. The Bishop of LONDON, as President of the Council of King's Collette, seconded the motion, and at the same time tendered his thanks to his Royal Highness for his c nide. mending goodness on this as on all other occasions when an opportunity was offered to him of promoting the cause of philanthropy. The right) reverend Cnataseas briefly returned thanks, and the company separated. AN ENGLISH OFFICER IN HUNGARY. TO Tll.l EDITOR OP "TUB 1MPHP.0.9." Sir,—Yon are wrong about Guyon—he is not Irish, but Bautista. His father was a captain io the British royal navy; his brother is still serving as a lieutenant, and was lately first lieutenant of H.M.S. Sidon. Yours truly, H. H. CITY ELECTION.—Up to the time of our going to press, the protectionists have been unable to get a candidate to eater the lista in oppmition to Baron Rothschild. A numerous deputation waited yesterday on Mr. George F. Young, and endeavoured to persuade that gentleman to come forward, but even that ardent and sanguine protectionist de clined the honour of leading so forlorn a hope as a contest for the represeannion of the City under the circumstances of this election. The deputation sub eqnently waited on Mr. Bevan, and that gestlemsn also refused to become a candi date. The prevailing opinion in the City, even among the proetoctioniets themselves, now is that a candidate cannot be got, and If got, would halm no chino, whatever el sawed- Ing.—Beeriang paper. PROTECTIONIST MEETING IN SOMERSET- &HIRE. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the county of &merest, convened by th e high sheriff, George William Blethwayte, Esq., woe held at Bridewater, on Thursday, for the purpose of taking " into consideration the depressed condition of the agriculturel interest, and to deliberate on the best Maine to be adapted for its relief." The meeting was originally announced for the Towa-hall, but, in conse quence of the anticipated largeness of the attendants, hust ings were subsequently erected in trent of the market place. About had an hour before the chair was taken a strange incident occurred. An individual dressed in a blouse and strew hat, and " bearded like the pard," ascended the plat form and addressed the audience thus :—I will undertake prove to this meeting that I am the true son of God. (Oh.) I can remove the cause of all the suffering and dis ease in this world. I will remove the oppressive taxation of • tyrant government. I will undertake to remove the governments of alt counting. (" Bravo !" " That's a brick !") I will elegege to supply you all with spiritual and divine power, and no other man can do so. ("Hear," and a voice, "You're • nice boy, you are !") I will engage to secure to this and all other countries prosperity and happi ness. (Bravo! You're the bey to protect 'em!") I will accept the office of president of this country—(taughter)— and it l toil l it lose my head— Here a policeman interpoied, and reminded the gentleman that his widen' was foreign to the object of the meeting ; upon which he pulled off his coat and waltooat, drew forth areeral paper , and was about to read them; but at length seeing that the assembly was indisposed to hear him, he de sisted. From some cause, probably the slow rate at which the farmers and the farmers' friends came in, the proceedings did note issinense till nearly en hour after the time named for taking the chair. At that period there were not more than a thousand persons assembled. The numbers submv quently increased, but at no time did the meeting comprise more thou two thousand persons. The HIGH SHERIFF having taken the chair, briefly in 'reduced the business of the meeting, and expre sse d a hope that a fair bearing would be given to the various speakers. Ids. HANCOCK. (stated to be • tenant farmer), came fur. ward to propose: That in consequence of the low price of wheat and other grain end airrieultural produce, d i stress prevails amongst the egricultural classes of th is cou ntry; and such distress exceeds to the artisans and mechanics, by reason of the inability of the sgricultwists to c nsume their goods or afford them em ployment. That the existing distress is attributable mainly, if not wholly, to recent acts of the legislature, which, by re. ducirg the du'iee on foteign grain and other comma ditere, enable foreigners to undersell Englishmen in their own markets, without taking the produce of British labour in return. That the advantages now enjoyed by foreigners are utterly inconsideut with the rights of Eogliee men and good government, and that petitions be forthwith presented to her Man sty and both houses of parliament praying that they will take the preening into their immediate and most s. rictus consideration, and adopt such measures as will not only relieve the present distress, but enure to the agriculturists, artisans, and mechanics f this hitherto itou nshieg kingdom that preference in their own markets to which they are justly entitled. Mr. J ACOBS having seconded the resolution, Mr. H. G AN DRE WS, of Rimpton, came forward to propose the following rider to the resolution : That the resolutions which have been proposed and se conded point to the reversal of the free trade policy to which the great and incr. asing difficulties of the country are attri buted. Tb it the pet a nt governmen, and a msjority of the House of Commons, have abewn their de termination to per severe in a course of legislation which is proving destructive to the capital invested In agriculture, and other imp 'runt sources of employment to native industry, sad have shown no dispositim to afford any kind of relief to the classes whose property is disappearing wider the operation of their leeniation. That the constitutional means of re• vereing the tree trade policy rests with the constituencies, and that it is incumbent on the electoral bodies favourable to protection to support their views by exercising the paella. mentery "'tenth of the protectionist party. That the pro tectlentst . lectors of both divisions, and the protectionist electors of the reverel boroughs within this county, do therefore immediately form a commiree of five, or more, from each constituency, for the purpose of arranging a public meting in each, to memorialise such of their member. as are supporters of free trade, and to form sopa me associations for the purpose of securing the recent of protectionist represen'atives whenever opportunities' occur. That the gentlemen and electors present, who are wiling to assist in this movement, immediately on the dissolution of this meeting by the high sheriff, do assemble at the Clarence Hotel, there to nominate and organise a county committee, appoiut • chairman and secretary, and fix ea a day of meeting for such committee, allowieg time for one month's notice of the day so fixed to be given to each of the persons nominated. That tee secretary of the county committee forward • circular to influentii protectionist electors in aid of the several ciestituencies within the county, informing them teat the county committee, at its first meeting, will be ready to receive deputations from each oecstitnency to con sult on the beet mode of proceeding." Mr. ANDREWS said—lie confessed he was one of those who thought the protectionists should now proceed to some thing wore than the mere war of words—(oh)--the time for arcumeot and discussion had gone by. (" Cheers," " Oh, oh," and contusion.) They must now be prepared to act — to act on their own convictions founded on experience, sad confirmed b j a trial which, as tar as it had pone, clearly showed that free trade had produced nothing but private distress and public emberrosament. (Hisses and confusion.) Had they not ha i enough of free trade ? (" No, not half enough.") Had they not had enough of Mr. Cobden ?—(cries of " No, " Yes," cheers and counter cheers)—of the duplicity of Bir Robert Peel ? Had they not hal enough of wbig inconsisteaey and whig incompetency ? It they had they would need no argument from him ; if they had not, nothing he could say would change opinions perversely maintained in the faze of the admitted ,fact th at free trade hal produced distress to almost every producing Man in this great empire. (Cheers.) Capt. ARVIN, in seconding the resolution, said he agreed with Mr. Andrews, that now was the day for action. (A voice, " Then lower the rents," and cheers.) They must have deeds, and not words. (" Lower the rents.") They must send to parliament men who would represent and de. fend their interests—who would strengthen the protection party—(groans)—a..d reverse the present policy of free trade. (Groans and uproar.) That system not only prejudiced agriculture, but cramped the commerce of that once rising town. Somebody had asked, "Why not lessen the taxation, of the country? (General cheers.) He wished from his heart that they were less taxed, but there was the national debt, they must maintain the public credit, and this was the difficulty of lowering the taxation of the country. Mr. LOVEBOND came f irward to propose as an amend ment, that a petition be sent to parliament, and was met with cheers and opposition, which was repeated at intervals, and led, in the coure of . hie a d dress, to several conflicts in the crowd, in consequence of Width the high sheriff more than once threatened to dissolve the meeting. Mr. Lovebond proceeded at considerable length and with much earnestness, tocousider the general question, and contended they were all interested in cheap govern ment. (Cheers) Lit them get rid of every job, and let them ask teat all the recipients of the public money may come down 26 per cent. There was no injustice in this : prices were so much lower that they would be in the same ' place they were in years ago. (Cheers.) The tenant farmer never was much interested in preserving the tax on corn' which went into the landlords' pockets. He hoped that the result of the meeting would show that new lights had broken in upon the tenant farmers, and that they would be humbugged by prateeti do no more. (Cheery.) Mr. Lovebond concluded by propelling the following petition to parliament : "That your petitioners view with alarm and regret the great distress which prevails among' the agricultural class of this country ; that your petitioners are of opinion that such die trees can be greatly alleviated by a reduction and more equal distribution of the general taxation of the country ; that the maintenance of the poor and ether low burdens have of late years increased in such en alarming degree that, if not stayed, the rent of the land will be absorbed; that la carrying out the principles of free trade all realised property of a per manent nsture, 'Jelling a fixed income, should contribute to many of the burdens, particularly the maintenance of the poor, now borne exclusively by the land ; and that, in the opinion of your petitioners, a more extended system of too. nosily and retrenchment in every department of the state should be immediately effected." Mr. J. BROWNE having seconded it, Mr. W. MILES, M.P., next spoke. He said the benefit of the lab iurer undoubtedly lay in having a large loaf at a low price —that was if it was produced by home labour (beisr)—but if produced by foreign labour he had no interest in it, because he could net ears the money to buy it. Then it was said—" Why did not the farmers pay more wages ? " The eeaeon was they could not do so, and at the present de pressed prices they would not be able to pay even the present low see,. Sir A. HOOD, Bart , M.P., spoke in denunciation cf free trade, which he said had revolutionised property, and con fiscatid it at home and abroad. Mr. PINNEY, M.P., satirised the proceedings of the protectionists in taking the rival theatre to Covent garden, and went iota statements to show that the present depression wu not wholly awed by free trade. Mr. STRANGEWAYS complained of the pressure of taxa tion en the land, and said it was unfair to burthen it with all the poor rates, highway rates, county rata, eke. The time was come when the people of England should speak out and declare that taxation and the national expenditure must be reduced. (Cheers.) There must be a sweeping reform in that respect, without which the nation could not prosper. After some farther remarks in explanation by Mr. PINNEY and others, The HWY SHERIFF put the amendment. The show of hands was by many considered to be it its favour, but the High Sheriff, who from his more elevated pos;tion could probably see belt, decided otherwise, and the resolution of Mr. Hanwell, with its rider, was declared as having passed. A vote of thanks was then carried to the High Sheriff, and the meeting separated. THE "LADY ADA ALICE WYATTVILLE." —This notorious character, who is but a few days liberated Atom the county prison, has favoured Cheltenham once more with s visit. She re commenced her system of giving liberal orders to tradespeople, but, as we have heard, with very :i tie success. She hu amnestied, however, in again rendering herself amenable to the law. The police are on her trail, and we expect to witness her speedy appearance at the b►r of justice. Obtaining goods under false pretences is the charge against her ladyship on this cnension.—Chekere. ham Examiner. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. MEETING AT MANCHESTER. A meeting of chartists, and other persons, in favour of parliamentory reform, was held on Thursday evening, in the Corn Exchange, Manchester. There were from 300 to 350 persons present when the bushing communed, but the number increased subsequently to nearer a thousand. On the motion of Mr. G. IL SMITE, Mr. Councillor Hz 111001) was called to the chair. Tie CHAIRMAN, after reading to the meeting a placard, stating that the Mayor bad refused to call the meeting, raid he did not suppose the meeting would be the worse for being held there instead of at the Town Hall. The people of Manchester had for a series of years been conversant with the objects this meeting was assembled upon. The subj. et had been brought before the people, not only of Manchester, but of the whole wintry in every variety and shape. Arguments of all sorts had been deduced. Petitions had been adopted and had been forwarded to parliament from all parts of the country; yet, notwithstanding the vast num ber of petitions which had been presented to parliament, no alteration, except a alight one, had been made in the Reform Bill since it was passed in 1832. This was not so surprising, because they must bear in mind that great poli tical subjects took considerable time and discussion before they acquired much hold of the public mind, and along time was consume d before those who took them up could being them prominently before the public in such a manner as should lead to their finding favour. If the intelligence of the people called for an extension of rights, then be must say that the advance which intelligence had made since that period, was far beyond anything which had been previously known. There was one fact which he could state upon his own knowledge connected with Manchester, which bore upon this subject. In 1932 the total number of weekly publications which came into Manchester trom London did not exceed 8,000 or 10,000 copies. In*. pre sent year no less than 80,000 per week were sotto Maschwiler. And those did not include any kind of religious magazines or publications whatever. If the intelligence of 1832 was any argument for reform, surely with this tenfold increase there was much greater reason now for a change. Mr. RUSHTON moved •• That in the opinion of this meeting the grievous burdens to which ti.e maws of the people of this country are sub. ject, are in a great measure the result of clan lo gi,lstion; and that there is no prospect of these burdens being removed, or cf wise measures being adopted until the commons house of parliament is made a retie: of the whole people." He said they were met together to advocate no new mea sure, but one which they felt convinced, if they only bided their time, trust yet be obtained. The day was het crewing nigh when, it the government did not hearken to the views of the people without, they would themselves bring sudden and instantaneous destruction upon themselves by the it own misgovernment. He denied that the reform of 1832 had menet the main evils of the system, or made the people happier; and he pointed to the starving state of Ireland, and the extreregant exeeuditure which was practised by the government. Mr. STOREY seconded the resolution. He advised the people not to petition parliament any longer ter an acknow ledgment of their rights ; that was vain and useless let them become sober and well-informed, and they would, if they used their knowledge aright, advance until every evil was redressed. (Hear.) Dr. J. WATTS supported the motion, and spoke more particularly on its latter clause, showing, on several grounds, that the House of Commons did not at present represent the whole country. Assuming that one-third of the power of government was surely not too much to put into the hands of the people, even this assumption could not be maintained pines a large portion of the c, unty constituencies, and a con siderable number of the boroughs, were in the hands of the nobility and other rich and titled families ; and thus a large mass of people could have ne power over their repro seatatives at all. The people had a considerable amount of power in their own hands. As they increased in intelli gence, they would increase in economy ; and their opportu nities of getting a livelihood would be improved by educa tion, and the 101. franchise would not long exclude an edu cated man from a chart in the government of his country. Education, therefore, was one means. The renunciation of the habit of drin king was another; for, estimating the money expended in liquor throughout the kingdom at fifty mllione annually, this sum would be pretty nearly equal to the whole amount of taxes levied. Alter noticing the Free hold Land Society es another important sit, Dr. Watts concluded by cordially supporting tin resolution. Mr. WILLIS amidst coasiderable interruption, moved an amendment, to the effect that, se the evils of society Win attributable to the non-performance of the various duties incumbent upon its members, it was vain to ask for a reform in the Howe of Commons, rue that house always wee, and would he, just what the people tn.de it.—The amend ment not being seconded fell to the ground.—The Chairman, having read a note of apology from Dr. Schofield, put Use motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. GEORGE H. SMITH thec moved the adoption of a lengthy petition to the Commons House of pathetical*, praying for parliamentary reform. The petition embodied the principles of the people's curter. Mr. JOHNSON seconded the adoption of the petition; it was supported by Mr. Cooper. Mr. J. P. ROBERTS next addressed the meeting. He thought that the mayor would not have demeaned his dig nity or honour, had he acceded to the request made to him by the chartist council. The Town Hall could not, in hie (Mr. Sobers's) opinion, be more legitimately or constitu tionally &persecuted than in accommodating such meet ings u the one then assembled, and it did seem an invidi ous exercise of power that a hall, built and paid for by the working clams of the Sewn should be denied tq them when asking to exercise a legitimate and constitutional privilege, while it was grained for any purpose, however insignificant, when it was asked by the classes said to be above them. The mayor was a man who stood, from his name, high in the estimation of Manchester. No name ranked higher than that of Sir Thomas Potter, as a friend to the working classes ; and he (the speaker) did trust that his son might live to learn that his father's dearest honour and highest pride was, that he was looked up to with reap et and veneration by the working people of the town to which he belonged. The petition was then put to the meeting, and carried by acclamation. A proposition, to the effect that the petition be signed by the chairman of tke meeting, and forwarded to J. Bright, , M.P. and T. IL Gibson, E.g. M.P., was also carried, ant: thank s bans voted to the chairman, the proceed lags closed. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A PREACHER. On Wednesday, the Rev. Jonathan Henry Price, a dissenting minister at WooJham Ferris, and Priscilla Ruffle, about 30 years of age, daughter of a widow occupying a farm at High Rootniug, were charged at Che:msford with attempting to murder a child found in a basket at Widford. Charlotte Saltwell examincd—On the 6th of June I was at my daughter's, at Writtle. I rrgr going along Grow iana, its I was rita gong I heard the cry of a child. Op posite to me was the basket, in the ditch. Being frightened, I looked round to see if I could see any one to assist me. I made my way as fast as I could to Widford Hall, when I met Mrs. Cooper. She went back with me to the spot. I had not then seen the child, or touched the basket. Mrs. Cooper pulled the basket out of the ditch, pulled up the lid, and I took the child out of the basket. We took it to Wid• ford Hall, and there fed it. It was arranged that Mn. Cooler should take it to the union. Hannah Cooper also proved the Boding of the child. The basket-lid was fastened dowi. The child seemed half starved. John Ouy.—l am the station muter at Irigatestone, and have been so two years; my duty is to be always there when l a train arrives. Oa the 6th June I recollect a female with l an infant stopped at the Ingatestone station by down train at 11.56. She asked where the multi wait. I directed her to the waiting-room. fily next attention was drawn to her from my servant telling me she had warmed some food. I had noticed the child was emaciated in appearence, and that it was very small. I asked her bow old it was, and she re plied three weeks. I asked her if it was hers, and she said yes. The female prisoner is the person I have been speaking of,- about a quarter of an hour after the train had left, the male prisoner came to the station walking as if he came from Ingatestone. He made the observation to the female, "You are come." He then asked me the time she could return. I answered, 325 or 8. They then walked up and down the eke two or three time,. He asked if she was ready, she said, yes. He took a basket similar to the one produced, and they both walked towards Ingatestone. About hall an hour after, the male prisoner returned to know if the lady could go from Chelmsford station instead of In gatestone. I said, yes, by paying the additional fart. He then went away, and I saw no more of him. The lady had come down by a day ticket, and the question as to Chelais lord had reference to that. Henry Knight—l am ostler at the New Inn, lagatestosie. On the 6 h of J tine a gentleman came with a pony and g i g. He left it there and went up the yard towards the station. In about a quarter of an hour he returned to the New Inn, and remailvd there about an hour. When he came from the station the first time a lady came with him. The male prisoner is the gentleman I allude to. He went to the sta tion a second time, and as he came back he told me to put the pony to. They then left, and I saw them go towards Chelms ford. I saw them past the Eagle. A lady left with him, but I cannot swear to her. Wnen the lady got into the gig ate had something In her armslike a child. Catherine Gaylor—On the 6;h of June I was going to the corner of Widford Hall-lane, and saw a pony and gig comi n g from Chelmsford. It turned up Widford Hall-lane before I got to it, towards Mr. Hammond's. It was a low chaise. In the chaise were a lady and a gentleman, and at their feet was standing a basket; the lady had a parasol up before her feu. On my return that evaurg I heard that a child had been found there. F. Cbilvers, polieeman.—On the 6th of June I was at the Chelmsford railway station a few minutes before three, when I saw a female come and apply for a ticket to go to Ingatestone ; she produced a day ticket from London to Ingatestone ; the clerk asked if she came by the road from Ingatestone, and she said she did. She had another ticket and paid Is. for it. She had no child or basket with her, that I saw; the prisoner is the female I saw. The prisoners were cautioned and call-don for their de fence, when Mr. Price said he should reverve his defence, and the women said she should leave it all to her professional adviser. They were both committed for trial for unlawfully assaulting . anG ill-treating a male child at Widford, with in tent feloniously to kill and murder it. Bail was taken for their appearance. RrefEw AT WOOLWICH.—It is stated on good authority that a grand review will take place at Woolwich on Tuesday next, when Field Marshal the Marquis of Ai:Riese& and several other distinguished persona will be pant. MURDER AT WESTBURY, WILTS. Another of those cases of poisoning which have of late been bef• re the public with such psinml tr. opener has just occurred atWestbuey,Wilts. Rebecca Smith, wif e of Philip Smith,labourer, standscharged on very grave evade nee with the murder of ter i.tfant, Richard Smith, who was born on the 16th May, and died on the 12th inst. The accused has been married 18 years, gad has given birth to 11 c , i dren, all of whom, except the eldest, have (lied in their hifancy. Some suspicions having been created on the death of the last child, the body was exhumed, under a coroner's warrant, on Salta day last, when a post morton examination was made by Mr. G Shorland, in the presence of Mr. Gibbs, another surgeon. On Monday a jury was sworn before Mr. 0 Sylvester, one of the coroners for Wiltshire, when evidence was given as to the identity of the body of the deceased Prudence Mead also deposed that on the 7th of June (five days before the child died), the mother came to hr r, and re quested witness to accompany her to the shop of Mr. Tsyl , r, druggist, of Westbury, to purchase some arsenic, which she said her sister, who lives at Breton ' near Westbury, wanted to destroy some rats which infested her house. The sister, who was subsequently ailed, denied the' she had ever re quested Rebecca Smith to purchase any poison for her for such a purpose, as she had not rats or mice in her house, nor had she ever heard her sister complain of having any. The purchase of the poison by the mother of the deceased was proved by Mr. Taylor's apprentice, who served her with it properly labelled, and, at the time, warning her of its deadly properties. Mr. G. Shorland, surgeon, and reetstrar of births and deaths ter Westbury, deposed that the child's death was registered on the 15th of Julie, the day following that on which it died. The prisoner said she hardly knew the cause of death ; the child had been ailing for a little time, and that Mr. Britten, the surgeon, had seen it once. Finding that no satisfactory cause could he assigned, the cause of death wee registered as " unknown." A post nicrtem examination of the body was made on Saturday by witness, in the presence of Mr. Gibbs, surgeon. There were no remarkalce external appea-ances. The brain was healthy, and the lun;ss and heart entirely free from disease. On opening the abdomen the covering of the stomach was found to be in all illfillned state. Some teats were applied by Mr. Shorland, which convinced ' him that arsenic caked in the contents of the stomach ; and finding no disease to account for death in the coulee of his examination, he gave it as his opinion that the cause of r death was the adintr.istration of arrenic. The viscera snd its contents were staled up and delivered to Mr. litrapath, who completed the snalysanan. Mr. W. Herapath, chemist, of Bristol, deposed to having received the contents of deceased's stomach from Mr. Shoe. land on the 24th inst. On subjecting the contents of the stomach to analysis, I found it to co• sist princ.pasly of milk and arscni, us mid in solution, and txecedingly slight trace of arsenic not tlksolyed. After some other evidence, the Coroner recapitulated the facts to the jury ; and the court having been cleared for a short time, they returned a verdict of " Wilful muruer against Rebecca Smith, who was committed to take her trial at the ensuing Wilts assizes. The prisoner, who is about 45 or 50 years of age, main tained the most indifferent behaviour throughout the whole proceedings, and was removed from the jury-roem in cus tody apparently less excited than any of the parties who had been engaged in the inquiry. CORONERS' INQUESTS.-YESTERDAT. THE CHOLERA QUACK MEDICINES AND BAD DRAINAOII —Before Mr. Wakley, jun., at the Hunter's Arms, Compton street, Russell-square, on the hotly of R. Thomas, aged 56, who died of Asiatic cholera in Arlington street, Compton-street. The daughter of the deceased stated that about half-past 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, whilst htr father was at supper, he was suddenly seized with sickness, He got rapidly worse, and died about the same hour the following morning. Mr. Wm. Home Popham, surgeon, said that he attt nded deceased at two o'clock on Wednesday morning, when he was in an extreme state of collapse, from malignant Asiatic chrism. He prescribed for deceased and saw him repeatedly till he died. Deceased had be en taking some quack medicines, which had caused a great irritation of the bowels, and which would tend to promote the disease. The coroner observed that, at the back of the premises where deceased lived, there was a very nauseous alluvium. Ajuror said that some nuisances in that locality whicn were complained of had been removed, by order of the guardians. The coroner stated that persons responsible for the removal of such nuisances, where it should be proved that death had arisen from that cause, were liable to a verdict of mar slaugh ter. Boards of guardians were also equally liable. Verdict, " Natural death, from Asiatic cholera." Foul MORE DEATHS FROM ASIATIC CHOLERA IN MILLBANK Bedford held four inquists at Millbank Penitentiary, on the bodies of four prisoners, named Thomas Wool'., aged 40 years ; Joseph Lane, aged 43 years; Charles Wills, aged 28 years ,• and George Flowndy, aged 38 years. Verdict, " Death from Militia cholera," in each case. CHOLERA IN A POLICE STATION-HOUSE CELL.— Before Mr. Caster, at the Marlborough Arms, Camberwell, on the body of Charles Taylor, lined 14 years, who died from Asiatic cholera, alleged to have been caused by a badly ventilated police cell at Peckham.—William Thomas, police. sergeant, deposed that the deceased was brought with ano ther boy, named John Dudley, to the station-house at Peckham, on Saturday evening last, about halhpast six o'clock, charged by a policeman with stealing apple , from a gentleman's garden. They wore ! seed in a cell, where they remained until Monday morn ing y: ng, surgeon MUM Camberwell 7Prkhouse, stated that the placu Nimes the deceased bad been confined was not sufficiently vend , lated.—Mr. Charles Reeves, surveyor of police, said that the cells at the Peckham station were constructed after the same plen as those at the Model Prison, and they were much approved of by the government authorities. If, however, , any improvement could be suggested, the Commissioners of , Police would be ready to make them.—Verdict, " That the deceased died from Asiatic cholera ; and, at the same time, the jury were of opinion that if anything could be done for the better ventilation of the cells, the same should at once be carried into effect." A deputation of the Education Committee of tho Free Church of Scotland had an interview with the Lord l'resident of the Council, at the Councloffice, yesterday. METROPOLITAN PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL Reeving ASROCIATION.—Tke next public meeting of this association is announced to take place for the borough of Marylebone, at the Princess'. Theatre, Oaford-strett, on Wednesday evening, July 4 , h next. Sir Joshua Watmsley is to preside, and Lord D. Stuart, Mr. J. Hume, Mr. M. Gibson, and Mr. Bright, and other members of parliament, are expected to attend and address the meeting. MEMCII , " SEAMEN'S INSTITUTION:—A public meeting was held yesterday coming at the Hall of Com merce, Threadneedlo-strest, for the purpose of forming a so ciety for the religious and social improvement of neatly 300,000 seamen engaged in the English commercial ravine; the Right lion. Earl Ducie, chairman. The objects; of the institution, as stated by the chairman, were—the circuletion of the Scriptures, without note or comment, amongst the seamen, and the teaching of the universal doctrines of Chris tianity, without advocating the particular principles of any religious sect or community. In addition to these instruc tions, classes for learning navigation and other branches of nautical sciecoe would be formed, and the institution would also comprise a library adapted to the use and instruction of names, In which le:voila on every branch of the nautical art would he delivered; a savings -bank, a registry for seamen in want of employment, a seamen's room for cap tains and other officers to transact business in, a retreat for aged seamen, and, lastly, the publication, in a cheap form, *f bosh. and traits adapted to the moral and social in struction and improvement of the merchant seamen. The Bishop of Norwich said, that although the objects of the institution to be formed went somewhat beyond thole of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, yet he did not see why, instead of forming a new astociation, they should not join with that society, and by adding to their funds add to their means and scope of improving the sailor socially and morally. He thought that a good secular education, which, to a certain extent, reformed the individual, was the best foundation for religious instruction. He proposed that a meeting should be held at Exeter hall to discuss this very important subject, and to make one great society. On the motion of the Rev. J. Stoddart, seconded by Dr. A. Fletcher, it was proposed to form the institution provi sionally, and at a future period to take into consideration the propriety of ansegsniating it with the British and Foreign Sailors' Society. This was met by an amendment, pre. poeicg an immediate amalgamation, and after a long and desultory discussion, it was agreed that the meeting should be adjourned, in order to give time for public opinion to manliest itself with regard to the two propositions which had bean made, and also to obtain a meeting at which the members of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society should not_preponderidie. The meeting then adjourned. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH Davos RAlL war.—On Wednesday the goods train left Plymouth at 7.30 the usual hour, in the evening. It consisted of *even trucks heavily laden, and a carriage, the whole driven by the Goliath, steam engine. On the engine was the stoker and driver, and in the carriage the conductor named Lovers, and Mr. Cross, clerk at the goods station. The train does not stop at Plymton station, and as directly after passing it has to encounter the heavy incline of Hereerdon, the custom generally is to put on all the steam, so that going at its utmost 'peed, it would get more quiskly up the incline. It passed when likettie ands ul ta c tion seundo li t ad a immediately followed—the engine and tender were thrown barely done was so beay h den,— a another repo rt off the rails and the ashes and water scattered on the platform—it jumped about 30 yards, when it turned quit* over and was brought upon its side. The stoker, named Evans, was thrown some distance and picked up quite dead —not a feature of his countenance could be recienuied. The driver, Tnomson, was lifted high in the air, and thrown Into a garden several yards from the line. Cross and Lavers, though they felt the concussion, end were knocked about from one end of the carriage to the other, escaped unhurt. All the trucks with the exception of the lest two and the carriage, were thrown off the line, and injured in several ;shims. The engine itself is completely destroyed. The boiler is burst in several 'deceit ; the axle of one of the wheels, 6 inches in circumference snapped in two like a piece of ash. So great mu the concussion that the engine was turned over, and now lies, the firebox in the place where the funnel ought to be. The rails were broken in several places, and the wheels of the trucks embedded in the earth for several inches. The cause of that accident is a mystery, but the supposition seems to be, that there not being enough water in the boiler, aid the driver having pre'aad down the safety valve to gain more power, the ex pimion ensued. As these is a double line of rail fur several miles above Plympton the passage of the express train was not interfered with.—PlymosseA Journal.