The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

Leda in in Waiting on the Queen Dowager, the Countess Baroness de Speth, the Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl of Denbigh, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount Clifden, Lord Ed ward Howard, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Count Puckler, Count Witzleben, Colonel Wylde, the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtonay, Sir George Coupe:, the Rev. liavid Mark. ham, and Colonel the Hon. H. CavendiM. The Banquet will be given in the Waterloo Chamber. The band of the Scots Fuscleer Guards attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend is the Castle. PRINCE ALBERT'S liNGILkVINGS.—The splendid end valuable collection of drawings and engravings possessed by Prince Albert, many of which are of extreme rarity, are now in the courec of being newly arranged, under the super intendence of his Royal Highness. The spacious apartment at Windsor Castle, overlooking the North Terrace, and known as the Print-room, is being fitted up, around its sides, with extensive cases, composed of wainscot, with slid ing shelves, nearly three feet in width, the upper portions having folding glass doors, and the lower having doors of beautifully polished wainscot, agreeably to the plans drawn out by the Prince. By the new arrangements, greater facilities for reference and inspection will be afforded. The Earl of Munster and Lord Adolphus Fitz elarencc received intelligence on Monday last of the death of Lady August' Sonde, at Stockholm, on the Bth last. Her ladv . ship's aceouchensent h %ripened on the lad, and hcr death re:lilted from her continement. The deceased was second daughter of the late Earl and Countess of Munster, and grandaughter of his late Majesty William IV. Her lady ship was born bin July, 1822, and was married last year to Bonds at Paris. Summonses hare been issued by Lord John Russell for a Cabinet Council at the Foreign-olice, Downing-street, to-morrow. Lord Morpeth had an interview with Sir George Grey, yestm day, at the Home office. Despatches from the Governor of West Australia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. THE REGISTRATIONS. LONDON.—Mr. Arnold proceeded yesterday with the lists of the perishes in the wards of Aldgate and Bd. lingsgate. The vas '5 generally were of the most ordinary description.—James Barber, of St. Mary Axe, occupied and was on the list for a counting-house, but was rated for a house. —Jonathan Higgins occupied a workshop, but was rated end was en the far a house.—John Nunn occupied two rooms and a wor'eshop in the Start . .^ building, but was rated and was oa the list for a workshop only.—Mr. Arnold held the variances in the two first casts immaterial ; ob serving, that the late decisions in the Common Pleas had removed much of the uncertainty that had prevailed in pas 11 of this kind. In Nunn's case he expressed considerable doubt, the workshop alone bciug of insufficient value ; but ultimately decided to allow the vote, and amend the descrip tion of qualification. These decisions led to the withdrawal of a large number of objections on each side.—"fist Rey. John Antrobue, who occupied part of the rectory-house of St. Andrew Undershaft, along with his father, the rector, was expunged, in the absence of any proof that he occupied either as own ror tenant." Mr. Antrobus afterwards appeared in court, but Mr. Brown, the Tory advocate, after conferring with him, declined to place him uuder exe. min ation. David saacs, of King. street, had been objected to by:the Tories; because Lis name was interlined in one of the rates. Mr. Bletchford, the yestry-elerk, satisfsctorile explained the interliueaston,which had been made before the rate was publesel.-31r. Arnold said if the objector had male the slightest inquiry beforehand, he would have uscer ta int.(' that the objection was groundless. Ile should, there fore, give costs in this ease. If an objector would be so patriotic es to make these whnksale objections, he must take the consequence.—ln several similar cases the objections were withdrawn, Mr. Brown compromising the amount of costs with the parties. Result at the rising of the court, as far as regards too householders' lists :—Of Liberal objections, 18 were sustained, and 51 failed or withdrawn ; of foxy ob jections, .52 were sustained, and S 3 Cited or were withdrawn ; of double ohjectioss, 17 were sustained, and 10 failed or were withdrawn ; Liberal chains ' 27 allowed, 39 disallowed. 3IARTLEBONE.-Mr. Moylan sat yesterday at the Court-house in Marylebonelane. At the sitting of the court a protest was handed in by a Mr. W. B. Parry, objecting to the reed ion of the list of voters for the perish of Padding ton being proceeded with on the ground that no notice aof the time and plane appointed for the revision of that pariah bad been fixes' to the church-doors.—The lievisim,s Barrister said he would receive the protest, but he could take no notice of it, nor would it iufinence his movements. He added that the returning officer, Mr. Salomons, who was in Paris, had neglected to appoint a deputy to receive the lists when the revision was closed, and he had no one to whom he could hand them over. lie could not deliver them to a stranger, without the direction of the returning-officer. The rice of parliament directed that after he had signed the lists he should hind them over to the returning officer, and unless there was some one appointed to act for that officer, he (the revising barrister) could not part with them. It was said that Mr. Hood, the vestry-clerk, or rather his nephew, had been directed by Mr. Salomon% to do Lis duty in his absence ; but of that he had no evidence, and it would be a peculiarly in appropriate proceeding to hand them back to the persons froml whom he received them, the parish officers. The adjournment on Tuesday having taken place on an objection made by Mr. Ivimey, that the service of the notices of objection had not been proved, the person who served them now proved the service. Tho list for the parish of Paddington was then proceeded with. The result was that 71 objections were su4tained, and 10 disallowed ; seven claims were allowed and three disallowed. The list for the parish of St. Pancras was then concluded. The numhcr of objections sustained was 490, disallowed, 16; claims Sus tained, 77, disallowed, 24. The total result of the revision is—objcetions sustained, 1,132 ; disallowed, 95; claims sus tained, 107 ; disallowed, 54. The Court was then adjourned till Monday, sth October, so that a communication might be received from Mr. Salomon', the returning officer, prepa ratory to handing over the lists to him or his deputy. PROVINCIA.L.-ANDOVER.—On Tuesday George Granville Kirkurch, the barrister, attended to revise the list of voters for this borough. One John Carey claimed to be on the list of voters. A friend supported his claim, and swore to Carey paying 101. per annum rent clear of deduc tion. At first this was believed by the barrister, who allowed his name to stand during the day; but one of the gentlemen of the borough 'sting acquainted with the landlady of Carey, took upon himself to ask her what was the real rent paid to her per year by this man, when she unhesitatingly admitted part of that 101. rent was returned to Carey, and that she was solicited to let her house for more rent than she ever thought of asking for it by the persuasion of others, to enable the tenant to have a vote. Thomas Lamb, Eeq , solicitor, Andover, attended for the Conservatives, and Wm. ' Busieny, Esq., solicitor, Andover, for the Reformers. In Knights Enham, one of the hamlets belonging to the borough. Thomas Bine and Edward Cole were objected to by Mr. Busigny fur the Whigs, but eventually then names were allowed to stand. In the hamlet of I. oxeote, there have been no deaths, removals, or fresh claims since the last revision. Andover parish: James Bailey, John Baker, Samuel Talmage, W in. Phillips, Wm. Hawkins Heath, Norton Williams, Thomas Lamb, Win. Green, Thomas Henry Parker, Henry Colebrook, Henry Ilunt, John Moody, Wm. Moody, Elias Kerley, John Mann, John Nurse, Wm. Weight, John Wolfe, Henry Wolfe, Benjamin Weeds, George Norris, all supposed Consereativcs, were opposed by Mr. Busigny and defended by Mr. Lamb, when 9 were expunged and 12 allowed. The Reformers : 13 were opposed by Mr. Lamb, for the Conservatives, and defenled by Mr. Busigny, for the Reformers , of which number 7 were allowed and G rejected. Of fresh claimants there were 11, 4 Conservatives and 7 Whigs. Out of these 3 Conser vatives and 6 Whigs were allowed, and 1 Whig and 1 Tory rejected—thus leaving the revision to stand as follows: Conservatives allowed, 17 ; rejected, 10: Reformer; allowed, 13; rejected, 7—thus giving a gain of 7 to the Conservatives since the last revision in this borough. Increase of Re. formers over the list of last year 6, thus giving one only to the Conservatives. The number of voters for this borough is now about 250. Soutu LANCASIIIRE.—On Tuesday the revising barrister for this district held his court in the Town Hall, Ashton. As neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives made any objections, the business did not occupy more than half an hour. The total number struck off the list was 42, viz., 25 objected to by the overseer, in consequences of the parties having removed, and 17 deaths. There were 72 new claims. The number struck off the old list is 42, which leaves 30 additional voters. Not the least public interest was mani fested, the only persons in attendance being the barrister, overseer, deputy-constable, and the reporter. SOUTH .ESSEX.—On Tuesday the Court sat at the Cock, Epping, tor the revision of the parishes of Ongar, Waltham, Harlow, Epping, Loughton, Chigwell, &c., when the following was the result of the day's revisiou Liberal objections, 20; sustained, 15; failed, 14. Conserva tive objections, 4 ; sustained, 3 ; failed, 1. Yesterday the Court resumed its sittings at Bamford, when of 17 Conser vative objections 15 were sustained, and of 30 ob,ections by Liberals 21 were sustained, 5 failed, and 4 were withdrawn. EAST SOMER.SET.—In the Bath revision court on Tuesday, for the eastern division of Somerset, a question esme on before J. Tyrrell, Esq., as to the validity of the new League qualifications ; the right of fifty gentlemen, who kind purchased a freehold rent-charge of 100/. a year neon the Tiverton Mills, to be retained upon the list of v , acrs basing been the subject of discussion. The Tiverton Mills had formerly been in the possession of Mr. Wilkins, cloth manufacturer, and in the list of voters he was described as owner, the mills being known as Wilkins's Mille. In October, 1841, the property passed to the National Provin cial Bank. In January Mr. Jackson bought it at the price of 2,5201. fir himself and 10 other parties, each of whom Paid into the West of England Bank .52/. 10s. as his share of the purchase. On the 24th April 48/. 10s. 10d. was received as a half-year's rent-charge (less income-taz), which loam divided among the fifty persons. Mr. Ilaydon objected, on behalf of the Conservatives, to the retention of the names on the list for several reasons. Ist. Because the names of the real owners of the property out of which the rent- Charge arose were not inserted in the list in accordance with the form in the schedule of the act of Parliament, and the name of Mr. Wilkins appearing was therefore a misdescrip tiwl. B <conilly, because the amount of interest paid was I ?°t sufficient to confer the right to vote, the deduction for Thirdly, having reduced it below the required amount. 'l"rdlY, because the voters had not been in possession of the rotrut-charge for six months prior to the 31st of July, their legal title to it accruing in April, when the half-year's interest was paid. Mr. Haydon having cited numerous tans support of his argument, Mr. Abbott, for the Re , contended that by the sth section of the statute it was requited that the name of the tenant and not of the °wiser should he inserted, and the mere heading of the ehedule which was only i t explanatory of the act, was not to be h control the specific directions contained in the act itself. Supposing, however, that the name of the I owner should be inserted, the revising barrister was em powered by the 10th section of the Act, to amend the list by the insertion of such name. As to the sufficiency of the amount of interest, the sum received was quite enough to confer the qualification, for the 21st section declared that no payment in respect of any public or parliamentary tax should disqualify. As to the last objection, the fact of the parties receiving half a year's interest due on the 25th of March in April, proved that the voters had held the property for the required time, namely, for six months prior to the 31st of July. Mr. Alibott fortified hi; argument by various judg ments in cases reported in Barron and Arnold.—The learned barrister postraniid his judgment till Monday next. CO'CliT OF COMMON COUNCIL THE LORD MAYOR AND CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.- The TOWN CLERK stated that he attended at Christ's Hospi tal on St. Matthew's Day, and found that the list of Governors had not been made out in the due form; but he would direct that a proper list should be made out anti presented at the next Court—Sorne members of the Court having expressed a wish to be informed whether any misunderstanding ex isted between the Governor and the Corporation, the LOUD M.vyoa said that in the list which had been exhibited, the name of the Lord Mayor appeared under those of the President and the Treasureu, and that, as lie considered that such a position was an insult to the Chief Magistrre and the Corporation of London, he had refused to sit do an to the dinner provided at the HOSMII:II.—MT. ANDERTON remarked that if all Lord Mayors acted in so spirited a manner, there would be no insult Uttered to the office. SCRICTCRE REIMERS' ASSOCIATION.-511. WIRE pre sented a petition front the Scripture Readers' Association, praying for a donation in aid of their thuds, which, after a somewhat warm el:scusoion, was agreed to, by a majority of 11 in a court consisting of 69. INTERMENT OF THE LEAH WITHIN TILE AN MERTON moved that the Court do petition both houses of parliament to pass au act to prohibit the interment of the dead in churches and churchyards within the City of London and other large cities and towns, and prevent the violation of graves. Eight months had passed away since he had put the notice of the motion to which he called the attention of the catirt upon the paper. Since that time the subject had un dergone discussion so extensively in the new paper press, and through other sources of public intelligence, that it became unnecessary for him to enter with any degree of minuteness or particularity into its merits he expected an uuanimous concurrence in his motion. If he required any late additional testimony in favour of it, that testimony was to be found in the magisterial examination which had just takers plaoe. Here Mr. Anderton called the attention of the court to the revolting scene in the Fr:day-street burial ground. He asked whether those who surrounded him Could quietly listen to the unexaggerated descriptions of the horrors which aecumul ited at their very doors. (Hear.) could they look patiently et the visitation of fever, at the exposure of the partially decomposed bodies of their hallow creatures on the danghill ? Could they read the statements made by the Sanatory Commiasionces, who showed that by buryini; the dead amongst us we were scattering amongst the living the seeds of pestilence and death? Could they read those statements and remain inactive, as the corporation of the great city in which such scenes were daily enacted ? (blear, hear.) He felt assured that he calculated rightly in calculating up as their unanimity. In 1725 the practice of burying the dead within the City was petitioned against by a cargyman, who represented it as the remains of one of the grossest superstitions that evsr visited mattkiml, and cul tic:ailed it with as much inslignatioa as if it had attained it, present enormous maturity. In 18-15 the superstition existed, to be destroyed he hoped by the example of London operating upon all other places of dense population. Mr. NORRIA seconded the motion. Mr. Lint did not object to the principle, but ho wished for some qualification. There were certain feelings to be respected, particularly the feeling which operated upon the members of families as to lying in the same graves. lie believed that a goad deal 01 the opposition to churchyard burials arose from the innaopoly of ecn.eteries. (Laughter, and cries of " Hear.") lle would only ask the court to look at what was going on as to the monopoly of railways. Mr. W. S. HALE said that, wherever there was a crowded churchyard, ill health might be expected. He witnessed the effect of these burials in the eery neighbourhood in which they were that moment speaking. In Coleman-street Churchyard, which was paved, the effluvia from the dead bodies escaped through holes made in the tomb-stones, and made the air pestilential. HOW such an abomination could be allowed to exist so long, was a thing he could not at all comprehend. Doctor LYNCH supported the motion with pleasure. They were indebted to Mr. Anderton for his able and lucid, though brief, exposition of the evils referred to. Upwards of 3,oo3 . years ago Abraham ordered the dead to he taken out of his sight. Upwards of 2,000 years ago the human Commonwealth did what they were about to do e —passed laws againorborying in cities. "In urbe ne sepelito,"was an ordinance rigidly enforced. (Hear, hear.) The horrible ethers of allowing the dead to be deposited in the midst of the living, had been fully established by the labours aad writ ings ofalr. Walker. Mr. Chadwick, too, in his invalunbls work, had accumulated and epitomised a mass of evidence of such a revolting nature, thattlac wonder was that so frightful a practice could have been so long tolerated. (Hear, hear.) It was well known that 12-13ths of the dead human body dissipated in the air we breathe, and that disease was daily malting front exposure to the foul and pestilential exhala tion of the grave-yards. The festering, putrid matter was allowed unrestricted vent end diffusion every time a grave was opened. It impregnated the atmosphere all round. In some cases forty.five laud been opened ia a day in one churchyard. The bodies were piled carcass upon career's, until they had smelled a depth of ten, twenty, and thirty feet, the topmost body being only a few inches from the surface. (Ilear, hear.) St. Andrew's church was twenty five feet above the level. The putrescent accumulation raised every churchyard in London, on an average, ten feet high. They were all four-fold overcharged. The number of persons dying annually in London was upwards of 00,000. home 4,000 or 6,000 were buried in the cemeteries, and the remainder in intramural ground:. The aggregate area of these latter was under 220 acres, and the average annual number of burials per acre was 203, or about twice the number permitted in continental states. That average afforded no indication of the real nature of the evil. Were the burial, caually distributed over the space allotted them, the consequences would be comparatively little felt, but the reverse took place. The burial grounds were mostly situated in the poorest and most crowded puts of the town. Where there were most of the living there were most of the dead—where the burial grounds were fruitful and perpetual sources of disease, there the liability to disease was greatest, while the ability to guard against it or to provide a remedy was the least. (Hear, hear.) There was to he seen the narrow plot of ground reeking with pestilence, heaped with the remains of centuries of decay, its soil supereatunal with sulphurettcd hydrogen and carbonic acid gas, its surface strewed with bones, and moist with matter and exhalations, alike disgusting to the senses and destructive to health. (Hear, hear.) That plague spot was hemmed in with hovels, in which saace was econo mised to the verge of suffocation, and the narrow streets and cesspools aided the morbid exudation to percolate the subsoil and under the dwellings of the poor, by which means fever, dysentery, ssrofula, and consumption were 'sever absent. (Hear, hear.) In summer the dead smell from the vaults was easily perceptible in many of the I:est churches. People often returned home from them afflicted with headaches, vomiting, and fainting fits. The house of God was thus filled with noisome emanations, It was in fact a char nel-house, and the grandeur of the sanctuary was made by the present abominable system to have an interest in its pollution. (Ilear, hear.) There was not accommodation or cubical space for one-fifth of the dead without resorting to the most disgusting stratagems to get rid of the excess. Within the memory of the present generation, upwards of a million of dead must have been interred in London. In some small churchyards there were upwards of twelve hundred to the acre. Here Dr. Lynch referred to some of the statements of Mr. Walker and Mr. Kelsey, and to the notorious practice of consuming the corpses with tire to get rid of the excess ; and concluded by calling upon the Court to do itself honour by leaving no effort untried to get rid of an evil so tremendous. _ . . Mr. IRE hoped the Court would not be influenced by the gross exaggerations which they had just heard. He wished to know, alter all, where the poor were to be buried. It was well to cry out about the burial-places of the opulent, but where was the body of the indigent man to be taken but to the churchyard of his own parish? The Court ought to consider the rights, and interests, and privileges of the poor. If the Corporation were determined to aid the poor, let them purchase ground and give it gratuitously for the burial of those who could not afford to go to a cemetery. Mr. LAWRENCE said Mr. Wire must surely know that the parishes must find burial-places for the poor. Mr. BLAKE was strongly in favour of the motion, and pointed to the example of the cities of the days of old, within the walls of which the dead were never permitted to be de tained. The =Rion to petition parliament was then carried by acclamation. Mr. ANuERTON then proposed and carried a motion for a petition to parliament to pass an act to prevent nuisances arising from the smoke of steam-engines and furnaces in buildings in and near London and Westminster. EAST INDIA HOUSE.—YESTERDAY. The quarterly general court of directors met to take into consideration the motion of which Mr. George 'I homp son had given notice—namely, "To call the attention of the proprietors to the conduct of the court of directors, and prefer certain charges against that body in connexion with the case of the deposed Raja of Sattara.'' Sir James Hogg, Bart., took the chair. Mr. Gonnox moved that the minutes of the proceedings of the last court be printed for the use of the proprietors. It was surely not the intention of the directors that their pro ceedings should be held secret; and, if not made public, how were the people of India to ascertain what were the pro ceedings of that court, and how they were affected by them ? The hon. member concluded by proposing his motion, which, not being seconded, fell to the ground. Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON being called on, said he under- I stood that a notice of motion had been given by the hon. proprietor behind him, and, with the sanction of the court, he should wish that hon. proprietor to precede him. THE CONQUEST or Stmt:.—Mr. 'SULLIVAN proceeded to advert to the circumstances of the seizure, for he could not dignify it by the name of conquest, of Scinde. He did not wi•di to inflict upon that court the whole history of the trans action, but it was incumbent upon him to refer to the latter occurrences in that country. The court would recollect the Baying of the Governor-General, " that nothing but the clearest evidence of the treason of the Ameers could justify him in proceeding to extremity against them." These men had been proceeded against, and convicted, because they had, as it was termed, been discovered writing treasonable letters to the Raja of Lahore : but the alleged treasonable letters were fictitious. Lieut. Mill, in writing to Major Outram, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1846. said "be was unable to produce documentary evidence " in support of the charges against the Ameers, because, as he wetted, messengers had been ietrusted with verbal commu nications. It would but require • very . small degree of proof indeed to satisfy Sir Charles Napier, who, when he went to Sciade iteted that he wanted but a pretext to coerce the Ameere. Lid he ask the Princ:s o. Scinde to disprove the treasonable letters ? Did he show them those letters ? No. When they were asked for, they were informed that they were in Calcutta; they went to Calcutta, and were there informed that the letters were in England. Was there any shadow of justice in this ? Vet the historian of tho vic tims in Scinde had the audacity to declare that his brother (Sir , "eherles Napier) had sitted these charges to the bottom. He would read the extraordinary passage which avouched this glaring misrepresentation. The hon. proprietor did so, and then proceeded to read passages from the es ark of Major- General Napier, commenting upcn them as he went on, and showing, from the testimony of Major Outram himself, that many of Sir C. Napier's movement; were insane in a military lelint of view, anti moat unworthy and ungenerous in a moral sense. When the court some years bets'e had voted their thanks to Sir C. Napier for hie terraces in India, he (Mr. Sullivan) was the only proprietor who dissented, for an intimate acquaintance with the Sinde papers had forced upon him the conviction that Sir Charles Napier, . having once entered upon hostilities, was dec. mined to proceed until he had crushed them. It was then endea voured bp those who justified the vote of the Court to show that Sir Charles Napier was only an infelor servant, acting under the orders of a higher Court. He had endeavoured to show that he had acted diametrically opposite to the orders received from the governor-general, hat prize money to the amount of fielefil., a governorship of 10,40,11. a year, the coloncicy of a reg'enent, the insignia of the Bath, and a peer age, were fearful incentives to the pe Qetrution of a mon strous iniquity. And how was the whole of this tragedy wound up ? By the imprisonment of several of the Ameers, after they had received the assurance of Sir C. Napier that if they remained quiet no harm would come to them. It wound up by the imputations of the most shameful character being thrown upon them. And who were the men who were this treated ? Were they the enemies of England No; they were her benefactors. They were the very men who assisted General Nott and General Pollock in their Caubul expedition. He would cite the highest authority in the empire to prove this fact. The hon. proprietor quoted from the work of Mountstuart Elphinstone in corroboration.) He had felt it his duty to attach blame to Sir Charles Napier, but he believed in hii soul that the originator of all these lisaeters end all this outrage was Major Outram. (No, no.) But it seas not yet too late CO do an act of justice. it was rot vs t too late to restore Sciade to tee Amecrs. The con quest of that country was an act of impoliey only exceeded if possible by the attempt to retain it. if any perien would take the trouble to examine the map of India, he would see to demonstration that it was not a further extension of em pire they required, hut the assistance of a friendly power, who would be in future times united with them fn the bonds of smite. Tnat friendly power they had once in Sends ; that friendly power he affirmed they might have again. Tho hon. proprietor concluded by moving; t' iUs, in the titlnion of this court, the re.thratiou of Sande to the Maters is a us, CJI.CIi for by con,sierations of justice, of sourA policy, art ethriosoy, sad that the Court of Direetors be in -weird to tahe s..ch steps as :hey uar.y Liza expedient for the furtherance of this oldies." Colonel Theme:sox seconded, and Captain EaSTWOOD supported the motion. Captain SHErltAltti defended Colonel Ontrana t and defied any one to show a tingle iastt-nee in which the' canker bad not desired to avoid the shedding of blood. The CHAIRMAN sail that he tested the object of the hon. propiletor bad bona gained by the statement which had been made before the court, but it might be espeeted that he, at the organ of the Court of Directors, should shortly state what steps the court had taken in the matter of Sable. The Court of Directs' , Ilad written to the tiovernor-General in India, requesting I.!in to investitrate the subject, and to favour the court with his opinions up'n the policy which had been adopted towarla the Amens of that couatry. When that reply w received, the directors would nut lose a mo ment in Lying the communication before the proprietor!. l`crliapt the honourable proprietor would, under such cir cumstances, ace the necessity of not pressing his motion to a Mr. SULLIVAN, oa the es.mranee that the subject would have the eArliest eonvideration from the Court of Dirsmois, would withdraw hi', motion. THE RAJAH or SATT.IIt.I.—Mr. TIIOIPSON then brought forward his motion, t.) the effect— ... . . . " That, on n del:bet:ate review of th, manner in whleli th.• Court of Direst.ow Ii ve dealt at escey successive st a ge with the e. r .se of the x.-Rajah of Sattara, it Is the opinion of the Court of Prop - it !ors that tie Court of Dirolors have evinced towartds the ex-rajah .t contempt of every principle of justice; while it hoe nianiiested uraartl every person who was rm4triumnititi to the dethronement of his highness u partiality the west !Juanita, end extritole4 to them protection the most culpable; that this conduct is calculated to eic.lie the e-sul. deuce of the ir.tire princes or India in the honour rnl pond faith of the lirltish Government wh,:o it bus reitwted the deem , : disgruee upon the Itritigh none ir. Millie nations of the clvilistd world, anion,: whom thetyse of the es-liajah has become known." Mr. Thompson went on to say that the Court of Directors had thrown their shield over a guilty man—Col. Ovan4. All that was required wee, that the Rajah should be heard in his own behalf. The dethronem:st of the Itajah was work ing an influence in Frar.cr, in America, and elsewhere. Ile had most anxiously sifted all the trarraetion. cennected with this subject, and believed him innocent. And why had he been outvoted hertte•sore ? It was owing to patronage. Many proprietors would have come forward and voted for the restoration or the 113!ah, but they were looking out for a cadetship, or sonic other kind of patronage, and, therefore, they kept away. The hon. nroprietor concluded by remark ing, that all his charges were, from a full conviction of their truth, and also from documents in that house. Mr. l'crett (-bawd): seconded the rasolution, end referred to the conduct of the directors of the company on the sub ject, and contended, that while the lions° List existed, the injury done to the Rajah would not be remedied. The French government were following the steps of the Court of Directors. The transactions of the Court of Proprietors were now translated into the Mahratta, as well as the French and other language., and other countries would follow the example of thegovernment of India, though, perhaps on a small scale. In all quarters there was a burning indigna tion arising at the dethronement of the Rajah. This might, in time, hurt the value of India Stock. Would the tFrectors like Lord Ellenhorough, or Mr. Macaulay, and some others as colleagues ? There may he anew govvritiog body favour able to the reinstatement of the Rajah. llow, then, would the court of directors stand before the world by their deci sion being reversed ? He (Mr. Gordon) felt happy at being there to second the motion. Mr. SrI.T.IYAN said the only object in view was to let the Rajah have au opportunity of answering the cuargcs laid against him. The motion, after some conversation, was put and nega tived by a very considerable majority. The CIIAIRMAN said he had recsived a letter from Mr. David Salomon., giving notice of a motion to be submitted at the next court. The notice i. follows Tom!! the attention of the Court of Pmprietors to the advantages oonhired on India by the exertion,. aid pc ereranee of Lieutenant Waghorn, with a view of ree.,:umeniting his services to some fitting remuher.stion or acknow.edgment." The court then brokelp. PROTECTIONIST POLICY.—The 3loroiny Post says —We publish the following declaration as it has been sent to us, without, of course, at all declaring any coincidence of opinion with it; as we have always said, there is hut one course for the Protectionist party to pursue, and that is, to seek by every means fir the re-establishment of that which they have lost : ..Dorneaariox OF CON,MRTATIVE POLICY FOR rut E , T4111.1.11. scarf or FAIR Islam Ass ERVIT eau: TAX TION. —The abolition of all Excise dutie.s on doinestic productions and manuLictures, and the mist-quer' consolidation of the Cuctouls and Excise, together vie.' the reduction of the Coast Guard.—The admission of colonial whew, pulse, anal dour, at a statistical duty of 6d. per quarter, and 6d. per barrel.--The reduction of duty on tea to Is. per Po—The reduction of duty Oil tobacco to Is. per lb.—The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to Is. per cwt.—Ditto on foreign ditto to 10s. per cwt. • WREN t C MPEN, MlN.—Fixed data so foreign wheat of Ss. per qr. Fixed duty on other foreign graih and pulse, is. 6d. per qr. Earn duty on foreign flew, fa. 6d. per barrel. Ittotoration of the duty on foreign cotton wool to Is. per cwt., as an equivalent for the excise on soap. The charge for postage to commence at one penny fora quarter of an ounce, instead of half an ounce, to make up for the lava of canoe on paper, which has always been a tax on education and literature. REARONS FOR RI:MORAL Or Excise DITITA ON 110IIE PRODFCTION 4 , AND Atotisnecer or REVDNVE Derits.—As long as an income and property tax is Imposed, which, together with the burthen of the poor lawn, fans principally on the landed proprietors and agricultutsb, foreign imports, competing s ifa our domestic productions, cannot be admitted without paying a revenue duty. The reduction of duty 011;e11, tobacco, and sugar, would not ceentualle yield less revenue, owing to the increased cor.ounption, whilst the' comforts of the poor would he greatly enhanced, and our commerce extended, rape dally with China, and the inducement to smuggle put an end to. Thetas of revenue on the Excise duties would be compensated for by the duty en foreign wheat, pulse, dour, and cotton wool, together with an increase in the Tost.ottice rennue, which would be equivalent to the loss of the Excise duty on paper, to which would be added the enormous saving in the cayenne of the collection of the Excise duties, as well as in the reduction of the Coast buitnl eat abti-akment. Since 1842 nearly five millions sterling of duties on foreign imports have been reduced for the chief benefit of the manuLeturerm, whilst the Excise duties have been retained, and the income and property tax imposed. Five millions Lasing been taken off end five millione laid on without any benefit to the poor man. The proposed revenue duty on wheat wank be about ter. per cent. ; on colonial sugar. about fif teen per cent.; and on foreign, thirty per cent.; making an average of twenty-two-and-a-hall per cent., whilst the present duties are reseetiv'ely about forty-five per cent., and seventy per cent. THE 31ETROPOLIT.lN PRESS.—The following pa ragraph is appearing in various local papers : Tem Meinneoterax sari.—TheEt London correspondent of the Liverpool .116iom says:—"Talking of newspapers, it may not be uninteresting to observe, that a great revolution is in the act of being effected in the metropolitan press. The success of the Daily News, which, at the reduced price of 2id., sells close upon 2.1,000 copies of every inapress:on, has compelied thelproprietors of the other diurnal journals to resort to measures of felfZefence. Among these, reduction of price is not thought of, but a reduction of expenditure is; and to that end it is cantemplated to amalgamate the whole staff of Parlia mentary reporters, and to interchange copy, as in the case of law re ports and 0; reports of railway committees at present, between two or three of the papers. This would reduce the gallery corps of each paper some six hands, equivalent to a saving of prohaby not very far short of 2,000/. a year to each paper ; and, by coalescing in running the over land India expresses (a part of a plan), at least as much more would be saved." We have reason to believe that the substance of this para graph is true—at least to this exteat, that the leading morning papers of the metropolis have been obliged, in sell , defence, to negotiate with one another a treaty of economical combination, though we are uncertain whether or not the ratifications have been exchanged ln the establish. ment of a London morning newspaper, it is requisite that every step be paved with gold. No speculator need attempt it who is not prepared to sink 100,0001.—that is to say, if he is desirous of establishing a first class metropolitan jour nal. When the Daily News was originally announced, its scale of expenditure was higher than that of any exotic: London morning paper, not excepting the Times. This pro fuse expenditure created a vague idea of enormous resources; and it alarmed the proprietors of the other daily papers. On all of them it was deemed necessary to meet the fresh competi tion by larger outlay and more energetic action. The resu:t was similar to that which occurs in all eases of excessive com petition, whether it be with stage coaches, steam-boats, or newspapers—rlarainished receipts and increased expenditure. After a time a change took place; and with it a new and bold movement. The daring experiment was made of sap ply ing a London morning paper for Twopence Halfpenny. It would be rash to say that the experiment has succeeded, fur an immense circulation is requisite to de fray the enormous expenditure : but the Daily :Vitra has reached a very large sale, and deservedly. Tile Daily .Vetes is not merely a cheap, bat it is a good daily news paper. Its articles are well written, its sources of intelli gence numerous; and in all its details, though there is ne cessarily con lensation, there is care, method, and minute attention. ladced the Daily News is a daily refutation of tho opinion that a cheap newspaper must necessarily be a low one. It takes some time, however, to create a taste; and it is requisite for the permanent establishment of the Daily News, that a treat increase should take place in the number of those to whom the renting of a daily palate it an habitual enjoyment. Meantime it will he a struggle for existence amongst all the morning papers; and wo are not surprised to hear of such a combination as the one alluded to in the paragraph we have quoted. But the Londou morning papers might combine for a purpose still more useful—at least to the public. They might bring their combined influence to bear on the government, for the re moval of the ponny stamp, which is a most serious obstacle us the way of cheap newspaper literature. This is a direct tax upon the manufactured article, the evils of which are not compensated by facility of postage. Nor need any esta blished newspaper dread more active competition were it removed. Its removal wee 11 not affect the existing profit of any well-conducted journal ; while it would afford oppor tunitt for a beneficial increase. The difficulty about postage %vela very easily be got over; and if the Timcs, and other leading papers, were enabled to sell as cheap as arty other, while they maintained their character for originality and early intelligence, it Is clear that they need ;head no rio:al whatever.—ShefiSild Times. PAVING TRUST PETTY TTBANNT.—Sir,-I'he petty tyranny of parish authorities has long igen a pro vera. I beg to publish in you r columns, a new instance of it, by which I am a sufferer, because 1 hi lieve that the best first step to remedy an evil, whether it be event or small, is by calling public attention to it through the press. Soon after enter ' my present residence, the Strathamptun paving trust rated me at GO/. a year, and made a demand for a cultrttr's rates:upon that swan advance. A. I pay only .sfi guineas, I wished to appeal, but found by the local act that I was obliged to pay the demand before I could do so, and trust to the exe,ss being refunded. I complied, and thought that the best' support I could give to say appeal would be the productioa of the agreement with my landlord. This was retuned to me, with a letter, st,tia,; that the board" were not satistiorl, and that, bet Ore they could be sa, they would gee my lan lord, and view the house. Lately a fresh demand was made at the rate of Mt. a year. I wrote to the clerk of the board for an explanation, and received the following answer, which, for ecolness, is, I think, unsurpassable. It is the epistle of people who know that they derive their functions tram rut Act of Parliament which enables them to do precisely as they pleage . . Sic,—ln reply to ram note, the Surresur intarms me that the com mittee to view, waited on Mr.— XieLmalm.l), wko was out, but after •a• s,i ire your boase ohtsale, were of opinion that, in fainwasto stir r houses in that loeslitY, that you dill ought to remain at 61/.. althousa Mr. might be satislled with you at 50 ghincas. 1; our local acts we at aatborimal to rate at met rent or !MUNI? roPer, caul theprmatar tea t , at your house is worth upwards of 0; , t. I should mermaieml r Ito get Mr. —to interrere f‘T you, as he is a commissioner, :us! t. said bring the matter la•fore the board at any of its oweiaga.—l em, yoar mast obedient servant,, Ti: te.ratary." Thus the "committee to view" preten d . to such unheard of powers of valtu.tion that, without inquiring of thci latuilortl— without doing me the honour of a visit, to see the size of the rooms, or their number—in the face of the agreement, ' which conclusively shows the value of the prembcs, they fix my rent at GOl. a year, although my landiwil is kind enough to talio only fifry guineas ; and landlords are not very apt to under-rate their property, as landlords. But 1 am told that all the commissioners of the Southampton Trust aro house-owners,—heuee, in that character, they over-rate their own property to any extent, and there it nothing to prevent theta from saying, when their tenants wish to renew their agreements, " I can't let you the house at the old rent. Why, air, you are rated at some 15 percent. more than you have been p tying."—lt maybe said," Toucan appeal." I reply, in common with ntlny others, that I can not; having neither time nor inclination to involve myself in a quarter session law-suit. The same thing may be b-id to a poorer man who, not having mont y to comply with the act by paying the excess first, is destrained and sold off. A villanoun mockery it would be to recommend him to appeal. —AN OVERRATED iiOI:PIEIIOLDEkt. TILE STATUE AT LARGE.—If the proverb that " coming events cast their shadows before" should be ree.lised in the case of the Duke's Statue, the day of its arrival will be as had as an eclipse of the sun in the mettopolis.—ruiPA FUNERAL Or Tin; LATE JUSTICE WlLLll)lB.—Yes terdaT forcaoon the mortal remains of this Lunt nted judge were interred in the vault of the Temple Church. The coffin bore the following inscription : "Sir John Williams, Knt., died September 14, 1846. Aged CO years." The beautifully impressive service of our Church for the burial of the dead we, read by the Rev. Mr. Rowlatt, the off DR iciasing clergy man, in the absence of the Itev. r. obinsou, master of the Temple. In addition to the chief mourners we oliserved present—Lord Chief Justice Denman, the Lord Chief Baron, Sir John l'atteson, Sir J. T. Coleridge, Sir William Wight man, Sir T. Coltraan, Sir C. Creswell, and Messrs. Cole, Williams, Egan, Humphrey, Bayley, and other members of the equity and common law bar. The coffin of the learned knight was deposited in one of the lower compartments of the vault, unde:neith the c3ffin of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. The We of the church was nearly tided, the public having been fretly admitted; but some surprise appeared to have been created by the non-performance of the usual solemn musical service. BIRTHS AND DEATII.4.—There were registered in the metropolitan districts, during the wc:k which terminated last Saturday, 86i deaths, and 1,23 i births. Mortality caused by epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases, is gradually decreasing. TDB SILL AGAINST C:PTAIN itICIIARDSON IG NORED HY THE 0114\D Jl DV.-At a late hour yesterday evening, after the judges had left the Central Criminal Court, it was iutimated that the grand jury had ignored t%e bill, clu.rging Captain Richardsan, on two counts, with fraud and forgery. The grand jury examini d a great number of witnesses, and it was understood that they stated as their reason fur ignoring the bill, that after looking at the whole of the rtidenee which had been laid before them, the majority of them wert of opinion that the words "ten pounds " had never been written in the cheque, and, therefore, no forgery had been effected. They were at the same time, satisfied that Captain Richardson had, by some means, obtained the signatures of his two co-trustees to a blank cheque, and, as he was authorised by a resolution of the company to draw cheques, nufraud had been committed, entee:aining, as the majority of the body did this view, they had no other course to adopt than to ignorc the bill. THE "CLERGYMAN" OF A PRIVATE BURIAL na OUND.—A correspondent of the Times furnished yester day an additional proof of the necessity of abolishing these nuisance.. " A short time since," he writes, " 1 attended the funeral of a friend at a burial-ground in the Borouch. I was not aware at the time that it was a private one. When the orders for the funeral were given, the man at the ground asked if we would provide a clergyman, or should the one who usually officiated attend. Supposing, of course, that he was a minister of the Established Chnrch, the latter pro- Position was acceded to; but what was our surprise, on arriving with the corpse, to find the same man (who appeared to be only the sexton) dressed up in a dirty surplice, ready to receive us; and, there being then no remedy, he went through the service in his own way." AN ILLICIT DIsTILLERY.—The Excise officers pro ceeded yesterday to No. 4, Charles-street, BLackfriars-road, premises formerly occupied as a hat manufactory, where, after some slight. hesitation on the part of a person at the gate, they obtained admission, and on proceeding to the rear of the premises, which are very extensive, several apartments being thrown into one, they discovered two larze copper stills in full work, and running spirits of sixty over proof. The persons attending their operation appeared to be so busily employed, that they had scarcely noticed the presence of the officers, and upon the latter announcing their presence, a scene of indescribable dismay and alarm ensued. Retreat was hopeless, and a denial of the facts is :a quite out of the question ; therefore one cf the:parties at once admitted that he was the proprietor of the distillery; and cabs being ro- I cured the whole of the parties were conveyed to the 'cc station-house for safe custody. The efficers found the two stills had been for some time in operation from the stock. They also found near 1,000 gallons of wash, which was de stroyed. The business thus carried on, taking the same by the average of the workings of the stills, would have caused a loss to the revenue of at least 3001. per week. It appears the parties are well known to the Excise, and on the officers obtaining an entrance, one of them, Mr. Pargeter, recognised the proprietor as an old offender. The premises were taken of a Mr. Rogers, by a person who gave the name of Louis Pomfret, but who yesterday gave the name of James Knowles, assisted by a man named Joseph Simpson. The owner had in his possession the 9th and 10th Viet., cap. 90, entitled " An Act to Prevent the Use of Stills by Unlicensed persons." Three vans having been procured, the whole of this valuable capture was conyeyed to the Excise warehouses in Eroad-street. _ EXPLOSION OF G.ts.—Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, an explosion of gas occurred on the premises of Mr. Wm. Page, the Commercial Rice Mills, Commercial road East, opposite the Regent's-canal dock. The foreman of the establishment was matte strisible of a strong smell of gas on the premises, and it seemed to proceed from the counting-house, where the gas is laid on. He immediately suspected the gas wz.s escaping from the pipe, and without taking the precaution of opening the windows and doors to allow the gas to escape, he proceeded with a lighted candle to the counting-house, and the moment he ope Led the dcor the gas exploded. The counting-house was shattered, the floor was blown up, the glass broken, and a large iron wheel used for the grinding of barley was removed from its place and broken. The unfortunate maa was severely burnt about tke head, face, and body. FlRES.—Yesterday morning, between four and Eve, a fire occurred at II Wharf, City-road-basin, in the occupa tion of Mr. John Meredith, a stable-keeper. It was caused by the overheat of one of the coke ovens in the adjoining wharf, which was built against the wall. The flame was soon extinguished, but not before the top floor was destroyed, the roof burnt off, and the lower floor damaged by water, &c. Mr. Meredith was insured in the Plumnix Fire-office. —Between ten and eleven, yesterday forenoon, a fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. J. Greenhow, dis tiller and rectifier, carrying on business at 16, St. John street, Clerkenwell. It was caused by a leak in the still, which allowed the spirit to run into the fire. Owing to the inflammable nature of the stock, very few minutes elapsed before upwards of one hundred gallons of spirits became ignited, By the exertion; of the firemen the fire was got out. The roof was partly burned, sad other damage done. Mr. Greenhow was insured in the Sun Fire-office. INQUEST. DEATH FROM DROWNING.—By Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the White Hart, Tottenham, ow the body of a man unknown, who was on Monday afternoon drowned in the river Lea. Deceased was dressed in a suit of black, blucher boats, gad the initials '• T. W." marked on his fiance] skirt. Ile is about 5 feet 7 inches, black hair, grey eyes, and is apparently about 30 years of age. The supposition was that the deceased had committed suicide ; but there being no proof, the jury returned a verdict of " Found Drowned in the river Lea, but under what dr cumetanecs there was no evidence." WHAT DID THE IRISH EAT BEFORE THE INTRO DUCTION or POTATOES ?—ln reference to this question, mooted by our correspondent, Dr. Orpcn, and answered by the supposition that parsneps were the staple food of the Irish, " A Constant Heads,. " writes that chemists prove by analysis that the quantity of nutritious power is the parsncp greatly exceeds that of the panto. " Lately," he continues, I have been Wang a tour through the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark (Cerg), and Berm ; and in all these Wands you will find the parsuep grown to a great eatent, its good and nutritious qoalities being fully admitted by the class of people who cultivate it. I think I may in justies, say that its cultivation is twice as great as that of the potato. The parsuep and conger-eel soup form the p r i nc ip a l f oo l o f the inhabitants of these most beautiful and hale known islands." ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—INQUEST. The it! /nest on the bodies of two passengers kakll by this ateident was held at the Prince of Wales Tavern, adjoining the Farringdon-road station. Then , were present —Mr. Seymour Clarke (the superintendent of the Great Western line), Mr. Gibson (the superintendent of the car riage department), Mr. Hill (the superintendent of the Swindon station), and several other officials of the company. The jury viewed the bodies of the deceased. William Timms, mason, said—l know one of the &termed persons. It is James Neuter. I engaged him to work for Mr. Cooper, of Swindoa, and left Oxford with him on Mon day by the 4 o'clock train. lie and I and three other workmen were in a second chew carriaee, which was twxt the luggage you. The compartment in which land the deceased were riding was the one next to the Itiggaee van. The accident occurred just as we were running into the Farringdon-road station. The steam was shut same distance before we gut to the station. We approached at a very slow rate. I cannot tell what was done after the accident took place. I felt a shock, which was a momentary one. I was thrown on the bottom of eke carriage. Several p none wire thrown on the top of me, and tac deceased, Bonner, who was sitting next to me, was killed. 'the luggage T6ll ran into us—it ran upon us. At the time the shuck took pace I was leaning a little fur ward. The deceased was standing up at the time. I be lieve that the petition in what I was saved me, and that if I had been .landing up I should have been killed. I was struck, and, as you see, was hurt. (The witness hid the marks of bruises on his face, anil appeared to have been hurt about his leas, as he walked with considerable difficulty, and apparently in great pain. Coroner: If I understand you correctly, the carriage that ran, or was forced, into the compartment in which you were sitting, struck the deceased and killed hint '2 —Witness : Ex actly so. 't he lueeage van broke completely into the coin pnrtment in whi .11 we were. It broke though, and came right down on the top of us. I cannot tell how the accident took place. Mr. William Turner, farmer, of Shellingford, examined. —I knew the de: coved, Paul Broetne Sergeant, dairyman, of Wauborough Nithe Farm, near Swit.don. I came down from Reading with him in the same train. lie was is the compartment next to the luggaee van. I was sitting in the third compartmott of the same carriage. When the con cussion whisk ha; been spoken of by the precious witness, took place. the deceased was knocked into the compartment next to the one in w hich I was sitting, where he was found dead.—Coroner : Did anythlng happen after you got into the train at Reading ?—We heart an unusual noise where I was sitting. In consequence I placed my feet on the oppo site seat. I kept them there, and I 'oppose that prevented my teing thrown forward when the concussion took place. Nothing particular happened until we came to the bridge or near the bridge ease to the station. I knew we were near the bridge by the decrease in the veld of the train. We were running into the station at a very moderate—at a very proper pace. The accident occurred between the bridge and the platform. 1 heard a loud crush, as it' something was coming over npua us. Th• re was a loud craeking, that con tinued until the engine stopped altogmher. The shock watt very great at first, but 1 tad not feel anything unusual after it had taken phtee. The crash was jest by the bridge. Coroner: And then the train continued to proceed until the engine stopped at the platform ?—ltather beyond the plat form. The engine appeared to stop at ite'usual place. I think the deaths took piece in coneequ.nce of something giving way under the luggage can; at the bridg e , I think. The first I saw of Bonner was immediately after I got tsit and ran round to the pluteerm. Some time hail delved before 1 reached that spot. The deceased was then quite dead. The other dressed (Mr. See-welt) was not taken out of the carriage until an hour and a half after the acci dent. The head was campe tely eeperated from the body. A medical man was sent tor immediately after the accident occurred.—Coroner: Did you examine the carriages after the accident ?—Yes • the passenger carriage mixt to the luggage van appeared to have beta partially forced under it. 1 saw a good deal of broken iron-work belonging to the van. —Coroner: After the steam had been shut off, can you say whether it was put on again, rend the engine then suddenly checked ?—I cannot env wh titer it was or not. All I ob served was that the train approached the station at the usual moderate rate of speed. I felt a sudden surge of the train at the bridge., but I did not feel any difference in the gent ral motion of the train. I t was her: explained that two vela el, only of the luggage van hat got tiff the rails. . Mr. henryrempton—l reside at Mt/eon's I. arm, close to the Fierringdon-road station. I was a passenger front Reading in this train to which the accident occurred. I was in the carriage next to the luggage van, and in the third compartment from it. Coroner : Did you hear anything of the grating neiee which Mr. Turner has spoken of ?—1 did not. I was sitting on one side attic window, end Mr. Tur ner at the other ; but I heard the observation made by those on Mr. Turner's side that there was an unusual noise.—A Juror : Was that the side on which the carriage broke down ? Mr. Clarke said it was the van, and not the carriage, that had broken down.—Witness : Just before getting to the eta lion a concussion took place. It was a violent, a sudden, jerk, as if the van had gone against the bridge. I was sure it had, for I not only heard it, but felt it. The train was very heavily laden. We had as heavy a load from Reading as I think f have ever seen. Directly we had passed the bridge there was a tremendous crash, and the top of the front part of our carriage flew over our heeds, as it were— that is, on the top of where we were sitting. It appeared tome that the top part of our carriage was struck by the luggage van that was preceding it, and that the top of our carriage was then by forced backward,. It seemed to me that a spring or something had broken over the luggage van, and that it had been forced up on the top of our carriage by the im petus of the train ; fur the front end of our carriage was under the hinder part of the luggage van. My surmise 66/0, that the spring hell been broken in consequence of the van striking the bridge. The deceased persons were killed, suppose, by the compartment in which they were sitting being stove in by the end of the ' , weir° van : because, when the train stopped, we found that the c irriage had been driven under the van, which, in fact, was riding on the top of it, and these men were underneath it. Directly we found that to be the ease, Mr. Stevens, the superintendent of the station, ordered the engine-driver to back, and made him en deavour to mace the van off the carriage. ply this means we were enabled to move the van sufficiently far to get the deceased, Bonner, from underneath it. When I saw the carriage, I observed both of the deccaeed under the end of the luggage van, and there was a little boy also there who was got out through the roof of the carriage. I cannot form any opinion as to the cause of the accident, as we were shut up in the carriage at the moment the crash took place. and that was between the bridge and the plat form.—A Juror: But there was a shock before that —Yea, when the luggage-van hit the bridge ; the crash took place afterwards. Robert Patterson : I am an engine-driver in the service of the Great Western Company. I have been in their service five years and nine months, and have driven passenger-train engines for nearly ten years. I drove the Elk engine that was attached to the train when the accident took place. There were seven passenger-carriages and two parcel-vans. It was rather a heavy load.—Coroner : Did you notice any thing of an unusual character between Reading and this station ?—Witnes , . Nothing whatever. I shut off the steam at the usual place. We were coming into the station at the usual speed, and my engine was running through the bridge, when I felt a shock which threw me backwards suddenly. I then jumped forwards to my engine, supposing it had broken away. I looked back after the train and saw that it had left me; I immediately put on the steam in order to leave the line clear for the train. By the force of the concussion the engine broke away . from the train, and I put on the steam, so that there might not be another jump into me. Coroner: At this time was the train proceeding at a rate that would have carried it up to the platform an the usual way ) Yes, it was—Coroner : A sufficient impetus hail been given to it? I thought it was coming on too slow.—Co- roner: Did you put the steam on after having shut off? Never from the first, until after the engine had broken away front the train.—Coroner: Did you keep clear of the train after yes broke away? Yee, I ran quite away—twenty yards from the train.—Coroner: You are positive that the van did not run into the tender ? I ant —One of the jury here observed that Mr. Frampton had been told by the engine -driver that the luggage van had run into the tender. —Witness : Yes ; but when we came to look at the train this morning, we found it was not so. There was a large number of persons there last night, and they cop posed that it was eo ; but I never said that it was. There was a part of the coupling on the tender and part of it on the luggage van, and 1 supposed it might have broken away ; but when I came to consider the case, I think the train was with us till it came to the bridge, and the con cussion took place there. Mr. Frampton—Was there not another concussion ? Certainly not. When I got clear of the train I saw the luggage ran come after me. Coroner—What position was the luggage van in then ? Witness—i Mounted up on the second-class carriage. I cannot tell if the whole of the van was off the line, but I know some portion of it was. Coroner—Would the train follow you up if it was off the line ? If it was off it followed us up. I believe there were some of the wheels of the van, as well as of the carriage, off the line, but I cannot tell how many. The Coroner asked if the buffers were cut ? It was stated that they were cut across horizontally by the iron flange of the luggage van striking against them. Coroner—That was by the force of the carriages behind ? I cannot tell more than I have stated. Mr. Clarke—Your break was on, and you were reducing your speed ?—Yes. Coroner—Did you feel the luggage-van knock against you I—Whin the engir.:.• had gut half through the bridge the crash t,ok pl ace . I t k noc k e d against the buffers. There was a second concussion. Simon Je‘eph Cos; rare, head-guard of the train ? examined. —We left Paddington two minutes late, wad arrived at the Farringdon-road-station seven minutes late. The train wen running into the station ut the usual rate when tha accident took place. I did not receive any signal to put on the hr slat. I wit; sitting in the first compartment of the sword caring* from the engine at the time. I fit a very con...W....nage con etwion. I got out of the train, gave all the asiistance I could, and took measures to stop the up and down trains, so that no other accident might occur, no p: nuns were running over h .th lines at the tint;. I ea:oast say i.osithely how the accident oecurrsd. Coroner—Did the train run into the tender ?—lt might hare come in co:Balms with the tender, but I think not v:olently. A Juror—Then what broke the carri.ce to pieces ?—The collision with the luggage-ran. I felt only one shuck ; t:mt was when the train emte under the bri,:ge. The luggage van was thrown otf the line. Mr. Frampton dirt rs fiom you as to the spot where the train was when the ace dint happened. Mr. Clarke explained that the carriages are twenty-seven feet long, and that while Mr. Fr.ungten, ulna was in the ttrst carriage, might have been on the station side of the bridge, the guard might have been under it. A dttror—Do you think the jconemsion took place in c'r.- sequence of the van rwming into the tinder ?—Witne,s—tar own opinion is that it did not. I think the cause of it was the luggage van breaking down in front. A Juror-1 hen wiat was it that cut the buffer of the tender ?—I cannot form an opinion. The Coroner (it belts row scum o'clock) Old it would be impossible to terminate the inqu!cy dining the evening. At prssent they did not know cuything of the muse of the acci dent. Eviaence ought to bo had on this point. On on sari ous an ceecodon he considered the gublie were ent.thil to know that no blame attached to the compolty ; and he thought an adjoura:nent should take place for the purpose of obtaining the attn.:ante of some able and disinterested per son who ,houhl give ev:dence respecting any practical points on which the jury desired to have information. The J: ry aho thought it m tester). to have such evidence, and the inquiry was accordingly adjourned LH Thursday (tki:, day). IRELAND. DUBLIN, Scrr. 22. THE LABOUR RATE ACT. KINC. S C 01.7..% FY.--PIIILIr,TONt'S.-1 he special pre sent meut sesiions for this barony woe held at lihilipstown. on Friday last : Heger Korth, Eq., of Kilduff-house, in the chair. A jury of six respectable cess-payers was hallotted for—a rchNtule of pAsentinents, amounting to near two thousand pounds, for the making of several new lines of roads, the lowering of loss, and tilling up of hollow,, was put in by the county surveyor. After a considerable time. spent in calculating the cost and utility of the works, the fol lowing sums wen a!!owel, being a considerable reduction from the orb...bud estimates of the surveyor :-1,2961. for the new lines pod road iu the Croghan district, and the lowering of a bill; -115!. toweling hills, filling gripes and hollows, and extending an old road in Priilipstown distric F. L. Dames, b.sl., of rifled maintained that smaa ' remedial treasures would be in.ittlicient to meet the eme, - gooey, and prop,sed a soni. , of resolutions to be laid before the Lord-Lieutenant, impressing upon the government tto forwarding of one or other of the great lines of railway fro a Dublin to Connaught—a work n nit!, would give ample ClA p!oyment for a length of time, seal would reproduce fully tie v.:pentliture. The resolutioas were adopted unanimously.— Dr. Cowell, of Philips town, put forward a written statement adtire•-yd to the chairman, on the subject of drainage, whi,h k much rtvpiin:4l in the locality, as a great tart of the vicin'ty consist,: of utelaimable bog, awl a quantity of arable land is unfit for tillage from being cover, d by water during a greu:er part of the season. lie a 1..) mentioned other improvements much required in the town, that would give a go Al deal of emplityrotnt. Considerable dissatisfaction is said to brie beta felt at the result of this nicetiog : the anus prowl :cd being considered inadequate. MR. MoXOELt. VPON Iftlst( 1/Is4TT:ESP.—Mr. 310n.-41, whose receat letter to Lord heron ha: attracted considerable atteritiou, has aililiraseil a better to the Irish Secretary, Mr. Labouchere. Tho production is very diliuw, and discusses the whole subject of Nish distress, enunciating Mr. lon peculiar views with grc.it eli:ltomtenesi. What they are may he deduced from the fallowing extracts: "It is hot very lonely that oar real position has been known. When the pro, it- . .01bt o? the Uth and 10th c. 107, were ion., iged the government, they tiitl not fortnee that, before the lot of sept. tuber, the rot among the petunias mod,' be making fearful ravages in every electoral chtision its lei:Wool; that in a number Loral d:visiona there a odd not Ise a potato lit to eat upon the Ist of atuber ; and that tin re probably would not n main any p .steno acad.:l4e he Woman food in any part of In land upon lls• Ist of Nusembosv. The 4 - sanity of towel under potatosn in this e .untry has been estimated at st4o,troo acres. Mow.. that 2410,4•10 acres weer intensk ato teed anim..ls, or to be 11,41 by ;huse when ;hey do not form the chiel fowl, awl that the motionr of each cure is ...thiellt to feed a LoW:y, the ekstructioa of the remaining Istio,toott acts , Styria funiliss to be ono silad kw ; and, ta'aing lilt° account the laboorarrns and citizens 41 resident proprietors on the one hand, and the Roadier of fatailieso aS.A, from their mitt., will reypoire none than the slows o; one labourer to support them, on the other, 1 think aid it is no exaggorrauti state-moot to assert, that far more thin ten iliontlos• euployment nowt to found for frociawo moo, and tu A t this (Inert be .lone at an expenolitto, lens than nee millions of :acme; ; awl as the proportion of the dintitute no Me sloth and in .t far exceeds OM ill the other parts of In unit, a very large prop rtion of this loco must he raisCal from the pro, of Mon 's r ions' kimonos:Lot. Before 1 pnreewl to madder the ni Tier in which it is proposed that this enookninent shall be given, 1 ::isb tis tiwetl'; to stale that, be the existing law good or bad -win unwise -as it is at pt -rat, the only way by which the pour can is relieved, It is our niamont duty to make lea' of The following are the heads of the plan Mr. 7.lonsell suggests as an amendment upon that of the gorernn hit : "As it is dr =feeble that the sures of none; to be spent on qoe relief of the 'Karr knotold be applad to productive talata, It is upset-led that Mier the tinkling ot the presentment session.. in any into; or district, owl soner the prohoble ruin 01 looney required to t -.gokor the poor in sowls barmy or thou in fur months be 11. .1 - 11:1111114, soselo sinus forthwith sopplatted on the owners and occupiers, of land in rich district, anionling to the pooralaw *afoot on. That each omplotinent he placed sot the to at police linens within the district, for three days, for the infonnation of all erwspayers who way a ids to see it; and ts.At radii,e of ita briag no placed be posted on the mord glare for pott me red in. in the dishitt. That it shall be lawful tor say person or is rams representing ut lout dom.( ourths oh the la all ion of any tow - Wand, or manlier .4 contiguous towniands associating ths-niselven together, to require the sum to be levied Off sulk Pow:land, or Wald:UV:a to be spent in productive works, sock as dr.oinarna ur hiscing; wool that sva Ii productive ',orbs upon being itopronsl of by the Ilreval of M o rk., be executed by their edger .and that the wag nor 6hourerp employ edanthem IN pad alto, ley-clerk 4:t the district under the same reindaii,lot Syt are laid down for public works,. That the Miter attic lloord of Works, at his disere lion, employ on such works the demons ressomoserwhcl to him In: the district relief coounsittao, rut 1/011.. 14 hrrN ; awl that such wOl L.• fur as possible laid out in taskayoik. That the hoard of Worths lie authorised, twins styli 4rritrigelilentS trine made, to postpone such portion of the public works recomnicalksl by the presentment seasiona as they Quill see lit; said to raised the portion of Use money poe m stein on any towiJand, M carrying out the rwitik4ition from both tow-Wm:al." The writer con&udt•s with the following exhortation : ver since the connexion of Ireland with England has en awful a power been placed in the hands of any state, man as in •riers. The whole country in, as it were, fused to your hands. On you depends the future shape se lab It awotn•. If you use your opportunities well—if toe (It o.lop it. et - Sinter r< -• 3011 inertia, iapital rsi improsr Its fig: ((na ture -if sou distribute its wraith as it ought L,he th,tritaited, its pro grese In the next two el three years will Le greater than tile pro;celx4 tour noole by any e,•^rtry In the some time. If you take the easy coume -it you threw away the opportunity placed by hieritleime in your hands-if yon :WOK the rust sums 01 whirl you hare to direct the distribution, to be spent unproductively, ne shall retrograde as Nut a , under tar other alternative we should have adomeed ; and those who have been yeile atter year hopirig inetinnt hope, and labour ing against the tide, will fold their hunts in despair." JOBS; OP TT:AM.—The Freeman corrospondent, it would seem, wan unable, (rum the piewure of the crowd at the Mayo meeting, to report the observations of Dr. Whale, at the meeting in Castlehar, whose resolutions you published in the Repress of Monday. The following the only version given of the arehbilhop's address "Ili. Or..'- the Archbishop of Toam said :—Mr. Sheriff and gintkmen, I suppose it k tuarreessary for me to sit). that this meeting is ugly likely to prove a very important one, when we are met to disci:vim:An rs which must vitally affect the suetenance and, perhaps, the lives of hundreds of thousands; and I most sincerely trust that no strife or dimension shall sever us in the benevolent intention which has brought us together thin day—th- young and the old, the rich and the peer, the landlord and thetenant- should all join in the great object which we all have in view- the prevention of the dreadful calamity which may and must occur in the starvation of the people unless thinly and effectual relit f be afforded. I have been engaged for some time past in various farts of my din. cesc in administering the holy sacrament of conflrmatlon,3ll,l It is very likely that if the Viceroy, or even the Queen hataulf, came over here, and that I was calicrl upon to attend, I would have refaced, as did a great high-priest of old, who refused to leave the temple he wan building to attend upon worldly matters; but I thought it right to appear here this day, knit, and before all other motive's that I might give my humble aid, in sour endeavours to procure food for the people, and thereby prevent ail the horror , ' of destitution and death and, secondly, lest it might appear stump Mat I had absented myself on such an awful and important occasion as the present after having appeared amongst the people on other occasions when maw thought it lows in accordance with our holy religion. We have been blunted for attending me efts" such as I allude to, hat have they not tended to the solace of the people and the peace of the country . Some scars ago the people met in mighty and %lidos' ful meeting,. Cornpare the present sh.:e of this country with the pad, and Swine whether our endeavours have not hid a wholesome and salutary edict. In DOI; the people of Ireland were, by famine, Mr: , ten down to the dust, and they received no aid front Engtorl. In 1022 we received UnillatLe, but it woo given, not as a right, but 1.0 the bounty of the rich man to the mendicant. We were often reproached with attempting to rabic the demicracy and to Ware' the higher eLsrses. No each thing, we only attempted to top the for the purpose of tilling the hollows, and the government have put in our hand., by the :oth Victoria, the power of relieving the people, His grate continued to address the meeting at further length, but from the pressure of the crowd we wire unable to report lus otservatium. RELIEF COMMITTEE OF CLONNEE.—Among the Baro n:al sessions commenced by the Lord Lieutenant is that of Clonkee, in the county of Cavan. We augur wal of the proceedings to take place there, from the tone of the relief committee meeting which petitioned the viceroy to appoint the extraordinary sestions. After the petition had pissed, the Rev. Mr. Lynch asked how seen there would be employ ment under the 9th Vie., c. 2 ?—The Rev. C. Beresford stated that they might begin as soon as they had procured the necessary implements, crow-bars, pickaxes, &c., at latest he thought this might be done by Tuesday week.—Mr. Lynch observed that would be sooa enough. Had they not better regulate the wages the men are to receive?—The Rev. Mr. Bell said that has been done already, at 10d. a day. This ikbusiness-like. Itoscommox.—The Roscommon Journal says, the bakers are not able to supply a sufficiency of bread for the demand. Unfortunately, the people are pledging and disposing of every article they pastas. CLARE.—The Clare Journal unfortunately contains indi cations of a cessation of that , have hitherto borne their ceived to-day, it states thin about a dozen, dres , cd in faces, traversed Ballyear ing. They called at Mr. beat some of his men, that quietude with which the people eir sufferings. In its number re- but a party of T erns, •• tiog of n women's a c, „ ih • . vi r •ed and Grans , fired a few • • 44/. • . r z •!. t. I