The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-20 00:00:00

*mod with the feelinp and the b o a, s WINN , WPM setSalida 01 the colonies. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. —Baran Weldon has again issued a re gulation calling upon the inhabitants to deliver gent beacon,is oonathand is retained the more in the coons of the afternoon of the 11th, *lee shots were fired upon the military from the so-called red house; which being searched a Di e.ket of sharp patrons, were discovered. It appears from the repast of the governor of the bask to the bank oonunithee, that the earns advanced to the state by the bank sines the month of May, 1848, amount to 72,000,000 guilders, and that the elm total, hada-bac previous grants, amounts to nearly 180,000,000. By open coedit the state may stall em ploy 14,300,000 inthebank, and when this is exhausted the eon total of all the sums advanced to the state will amount to nearly 192 millions. The discount besieges of the Bank amounted last year to 4291 'Billion guilders, or above 63,000 stock. The loans amounted to above 1641 millions on mortgages, and the advane. sin prolongation of the same to 72 millions. Is the deposit department there was at the end of December, 1848, a balance of above 87 millions. The current business had a circulation of 121 mil hens, and the total transactions of the Bank tor the year 1844 amounted to above 2,335 million guilders. The w.girtrates have prevailed upon the Bank to convert tae 4 per cent. loans into 2 per cent., and to cover the deficit of 1849 by a loan at 2 per cent. ROME, JAN : 9, On Sunday morning it was whispered about town as a great secret, and thereby got more rapidly circa- Isted than if it were broadly placarded, that some thing in the shape of an excommunication bad arrived from Gis to directed against all who had taken part or brought about the disenthroning of the Pontiff. Instead of there being an immense and immediate demand for sackcloth and ashes, the population began to prepare for the grand festival in honour of a banner presented by the " heroic city of Venice" to Room If you are not satiated by this time with description of Roman triumphs and marches through the Corso, I am, and so make short work of this tremendous display of horse, foot artillery, tapestried windows, digs, and jubila. ions, opening with a brass band adding Matra mental accompaniment to the vocal performance of D rostra dace 2 Pio, 11. rid. 2 Berta. Prince Corsini received the banner, in the name of Rome, at the Capitol, and made an appropriate address. Towarils evening, I regret to add that a number of the young men of Rome, of the middle dames, to the number of several hundreds, went about in search of every hatter's shop in the metropolis, and as these tradesmen generally sport a red beaver as a sign of their aspiration to court patronage, every emblem of that character was carried otf, and the number of these trophies being very coneilerable, it became a question what to do with the collection. To make a bonfire therof struck them as difficult, inasmuch as they were mostly made of block tin. They were ultimately flung into the Tiber, which, like the Simla, Lao often wafted similar spoil. Seats straw, genaque at forDitearpora volvit. The excommunication, it appears, ie so worded as to bear on those persons only who have b:ought about the loss of the Pope's temporal authority. The gene ral apple:aloft of it made by the Romans is to Count Harcourt, Spear, Antonelli, Martinez de la Ross, the coachmen who drove, and the horses who carried off the 1' pe from Rome. These latter quadrupeds will not be allowed, on the Fah instant, to be blessed with the other calls at the porch of St. Antonio. The use of excommunication for obtaining temporal objects is a topic unlit for newspaper paragraphs : each readers as are curious on the subject, can study the case tithe Republic of Venice when placed under interdict for similar reasons. The theologian of that republic, Frs. Paulo, had something to say for his countrymen. FRANCE.-Thz Rzynum-The Dawes has the g remake cm the revenue returns, which have already appeared is the Express ;-" It is Low an old m r, era e wry one knows, that for the last year the tali'e of the indirect taxes, contrary to what we hare linl 'it .rate during several years before, shows a wad &ruble &Mit. The total of the receipts has not euesubeil is round limbers 677 milaces ; it had been 820 in leas brine a diminution of 113 milli ins, of which 41 mffliges see foe the 'e.t quarter. In October it wee 11.314,000 f.. hi Ifs. vemb 12.741,000 f., and in December 17,416,0001. ninth" Lallise-off was restese in Dee. and yet thereto this reassuring symptom, that the receipts have inerered in each o; the lest thew q darter". 'Thellestowe 178,000,000, the had 164,000,000 the art, 165,000,000, end the 4th, 180,000,000. The receipts of the I.a: quartet have exceeded those of the fins 2,500.0 Of , those of the 2nd, 26,000, 0 0 0 1 , and of the 16,000,000 t This less of 111,000,0001. was extended to the branches of renemeis with ese exception of two-one es. port duties, sad the When, kres in s7 o ei h rackets. The ear Agestatioo fur ea former, gamed prinei y hy the factitious excitement of dumbed's, was 565, ~ sad of the latter 132,0001. us the other articles the less is thus divided: Itegiteadon dote, 84,500,0001.; same, 10,600,0001.; if port dude, 47.000.0001., of which 19 weeder Wools' sere; 7,ageotkr on sale ;12,750,100 . on potable 84,000 coot. is plan of 101,000,000 ; 1,500 ea telemilem, and matly 500,0001. en the walk-poste. ; eager per the soma ea le 1417, and the pow-office nearly so, the kN having given 49,593,0001. is place of 49,616,0001. This Lego 1111.31101 and that produced by salt, width gave 63 Rib Boss will, so doubt, be exceedingly winced for 1519. In addition to these data, the Moniker adds another relative to the Indirect Lutes, which is not lem curious ; but hen we Red no means of comparison with 1847. The amount or the souse to he got fa wa fixed for 1848 at 623,500,0001., sat 192.000,0001. far the extraordinary tax of 45 gen- IWO. On the Ismer there was received, up to the 31st De amber, 3651 millions, and on the second 1621 millions, including somewhat more than 10 millions allowed for yeti ow reasons, which reduces the amount to 152 mil lions. There therefore remains to be received for the whole of 1848, 66 millions 6w the ordinary taus, sad 291 millions for the tai a wimes, or, is all, Rit millions. This is a very loge anew ; terse of 1847, recovered in 1848, was only 2,726,0001. It concerned, it is true, a smaller amount of taxation, bet the difference still is 'samosa. Durint the first nine wanks of 11548, the 46 matinee produced 126 mil lions, or nearly two-thir d s of the whole. October then gave 141 ; November, 12 1.3; and December, 9.2-3 only. The pal meat of this tax appears to have been made each month with greater difficulty,-may it be the only difficult inkelitance left by 1848 to 1849!" CARRIAGES IN PARIS.-A late investigation by the Pref. cure of Police of the number of carriages and vehicles of all kinds circulating in Paris, shows the following amounts :-Pahlie carriages within the city, 3 , 444; private cabriolets, 6,1100; other private equipage', 15,080 ; and other vehicles, 30,324. Total, 60,8 IS. The avenge receipt per day of the 3,111 public carriages running in the city is 62,5251 r. The 'cadets caused by bursts and carriages in Paris show an annual average of 309, of which 24 are fatal. The 'mai bus, favourites, hirondelles, and other public carriages run along 36 lints; they &Menet tO 397, and are not included is the above total. FltaaCtl DRAMATIC Wouts.-The theatres of Pane during the last year produced no less than 267 new works, the number of authon being 180, and of composers 1.5. The pi• ees were thus divided :-2 tragedies, 6 come dies, 13 op Ea., 1 TM SNIT*. 1 etude, 35 dramas, 11 ballets and pantomime*, and 178 vaudevilles. They were given at the Limiting theatres :-Ciread Opera, 6; Italian Opera, 1 (An demo • P erigi. scarcely to be called a novelty); Theatre Fusels, lo; OcereComique, 7; Odeon, ; Hatorique, 9; Opera National (already defunct), 3; Vaudeville, 21 ; Varie•es, 26 Gymslips, 25 ; Montanan., 23; Porte 81 Mutts, 10; d ale , 17; Ambient, li t Fake Dramadques, 16 ; D lameaseats, 17 ; Beaumarchais, 25 ; Choiseul, VI HOLLAND.-The communal authorities at the Hague have just publi-lad the budget for 1849 as 'suctioned by the proviocial states. It appears from this document that the extraordinary receipts are estimated at 110,55511. 58, sad the ordinary receipts at 651,17311. 191; total, 761,728/1. 771. The ordinary expenses are estimated at 666.511111. 9i, at d the extraordinary at 91,2978. 49i ; tots, 760,838 d. 111, being an excels of receipts 8908. 33. The population of the city of the Hague is estimated at 69,492 souls. The official report of the Minister of Marine shows that the rill, navy of the Netherlands consists of 2 ships of 84 ;tuna, 5 tit 71, 2 of 60,1 of 51, 11 of 44, 2 of 38, 6 0128, 7 of 26,1 of t 2, 1 of 20, 10 of 18, 9 of 14, 4 (412, 1 of 8, 5 of 6, 4 of 4, 3 of 3; 13 war steamer of 7 mad 8 guns, 4 iron itemises of 1 mortar and 3 Runs, 35 large gansbosts, and 30 meet gas-boats. In 1848, 1.972 vessels entered the har bour of Amsterdam, being 782 less than in 1817. That di... Mutton is attributed to the interruption of the Bade trade by the Danish war. BRAZILS.-By the arrival of the Swordfish, at Liverpool, dates have been received from Rio Janeiro to the 28th Nov. ; Bahia, Dee. 18; and Pentambaco, Dec. 23. From the two former ports there is nothing of moment ; bat at the Letter place Intelligence bad been received that the lassneett a bad hewn completely 'rushed, through the &et vitrit General Callao. nAiliEli.,-PllllllB/13116NT °PDF-nil IN THE EAST. -A letter from Constantinople says: " We have just had here a el.lt J.. v. cation, whit* eats to mind in certain re sisted that of the unfortunate Oraghim, which called for an lateen:Pion mi the part of Europe, and led to tho declaration of the Pore Hative to renegades. The following are the (nets: a Mu. iulnwn, in a petrel with one of his neigh bl.-nrs. not tar !rum : he mosque of Bultan-Ahmed, allowed himself to one r n-vele of abase and blasphemy against the prept.tt Matouse.. Bev. n 1 perions Wapping to the mosque Wog p. n• • 4 • amplest was lodged against the diender. Theism is formal on the subject, death being the punish mot ef blavile.n...ra The Cbeihh•st-Islam found it his duty to apply the law. The warraat for the execution was seat to the Halite, who Imitated several days to Lige it. However, hi dared sot violate the law where religion was Gowned, tad the laza was matted. It was a most ditli celt matter to dud at ezeastioser.se ran are capital swear twas hate. Th. 'ministry I held is reprobatios for sot la- UN ITID STATIS PO6T-OMCZ Famernan's Tura—Witr. Cid, In brier from Washington, publiehed in his Adoortiarr, mys i—" I wee shown, by the ehief clerk in the interior department of the Post-ofilee, the first ledger tiptoed by the Vetted Stat.., daring the adminis tration of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, the flout Postmaster general in the service. It is a blank book of some three or four quires, very little superior to an evary-day blotter of the present age, but enfileed to hold all the Past-oaks ara counts three or tear yeses from the establishment of the caw, in June 19, 1775. I observe Dr. Franklin eltnrges himself with one year's salary from that date,-1,000 dollars. It serves to give a fasreible impression of the progress of this department shoe that. All the entries are made in his own hand-writing, while at this time there are over one hundred and twenty persons employed in vulvas capaMties la this detartment."—Siiney's llosigranrs Journal. POPULATION Or UPPER CALIFORNIA.—The per- ' leanest population of that portion of Upper California situ ated between the Sierra Nevada and the Pacific, I estimate at 25,000. Of this number, 8,000 are HispanceAmericans. 5,000 foreigners, chiefly from the United States, and 12,000 Christienised Indians. There are considerable numbers of will or Gentile Indians isbatiting the valley of the San Joaquin, and the gorges of the Sierra, not Included in this estimate. They us probably as numeross as the Christian Indians. The Indian population inhabiting the region of tlie Great Salt Lake, Mary's River, the oases of the Great Desert Basin, and the country bordering the Rio Colorado and its tributaries, being woad over a vast extant of ter ritory, are seemly seen, although the ageregata number is considerable. The Californians do not Elan materially from the Mexicans, front whom they are descended, in other provinces of that country. Physiddly and intellectually, the men, probably, are superior to the same race farther south, and inhabiting the countries contiguous to the dty of Mexico. Waal /my ite Coliforpia. gbt Court. ——- - WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Prins Albert hunted this (mesons, attended by Capt. the lion. A. Gordon. Prince George left the Castle to-day. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl Spencer, and Col. Wylde, also took their departure today. Tee royal dinner party this evening will include the Duchtse of Sutherland, Lady Constant* Lemma Gower, the Mar yu4 and Marchioness of Aberoons, the Rev. Dr. Cookson (Vit►Chancellor of Cambridge), and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E Anson. The American Minister had an interview with the Right Hon. R. Labouchere, yesterday, at the office of the 11 ,ard of Trade. The Chairman of the East India Company and the deputy-chairman had an interview with the enlaceliar a the Rzohicptu yesterday, athisofacial residence in Downing street. Sir R. Price had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Hone-office. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Chan cellor of the lumpier, and the First Lord of the Admiralty had an isterliew with the President and the V‘ce-Presideut of the Lard of Trade yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of New South Wales. I) spatches were sent off last evening from the Colonia-office for the Governor,' of lleng-Kong and Ceylon. THS PLATS AT WINDSOR CASTLII.—On Thursday evering the fourth performance took place before her Maj , scy and the court, in the Ruben.' Room. The eel r tainmenta were " The Stranger," and the farce of " Twice Killed." In the play, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean per formed the principal characten; those in tha afterpiece were acted by Kr. and Keeley. At the fall of the curtain the Queen sent a message of approbation to the performers. (Prole last night'. Gazdte.) ST. JAMES% PALACE, JAN., 1849.—Tiat Queen has been p1ea.414 to appoint Eihnund /Leas Wilson Bellaire, Eq. (late lieutenant of the 7th fto) al Fatalists), Eton of her :%lajesty's Body (herd oldie Yeomen of the Guard, vice Sit William &Helm resigned. WAR OFFICE, J tN. 11„ 11th Reg. of P.—Lleut J. 8. PAYNE, from 7.ith P., to be Beat., Mee Drew, who emit:male& Slot Y.—Ene. A. r ', to be lieut., by par., vice Herrin, who rot; F. J. W. BATMAN, to be lieut., by mu., Mee titcpbermon, who rat; W. J. REJLIAt, gest, to be era, by par., vice !Oberman ; IL D. Leimitaii, gent.. to be ens., by pur., vice Bateman Serj. & A. Cicero, to be eon, without par., vice Buchanan, app. to 72nd F. SIM IP.—Copt. C. W. TYM st.v, from h.-p. anat., to be rapt , vice C. V. HlPM2 o lito auk.; LatUL J. U. Num./. to be apt, by pur., vice Tied*, rot; Eno. 11. P. Finnan, to be lieut.. by pur., cis: Pitae ; P. C. Woo, gent, to be me, by par., vice Feilden. ly.—Lkat. A. O. Lola, t be .se!.. without War, vim Kiwi dee.; Kee. W. A. IL N. K.LIATT, to be time., vice Lord; Est la. IL Larriyax, hem 314 P., to be era, vise Kellett 731 b L Draw, from UM P., to be heat, vice Payne, eTheezeb. cad P.—Lest 0. Wen, to be amt., by par., vice Monte, who vet; Eno. U. ]bevy to be Wet, by par., vice Wen; It. HAYWOOD, gest., se be MS by per., Mee Wert& 93rd Ic.—Lieek R. W. Derr to be pomace., vice Macdonald, den. 97th F.—Amse-sani. H. Downo,lLD., from the rag to be rug , Me. Auld., Fames Me Mei. Bonne..—Capt. C. W.Triceaut M ssth F., to be 'raj. in the army. II ovena. Rena.—bm.-liee. er Hempitakwith Meal rank, K. M. Kamm le be of heopitale ; Dep. Insp.-Gen. of Igoe. Wale J. iman a t y D.,te. leep..ges. be Mai:ads °My, vies U. IL , who rem. nom 11.4.; Btaff.eurp. of the lint Ram C. liacuus, M.D., to be deputy tallp.4lllll. of linepitelr. vies Preach, peat; tore. W. Atria, Iran the P 7 F., to be mad earn. of the ire Aar. Mee ll•cleen. prom MILNAMA4I.II e.—The ChTlEliAo name, of Lirat Wade. Cat P., are "Julius I'h-their." not ...lulu. George Menem," aa PreMouair mete& ne ehrivlian names of rota:Ater Mackenzie, 70th F., are "Hugh not" Hugh Dailey," m previously stated. DINNER TO WILLIAM CHADWICK, ESQ. A dinner took place at the London Tavern, yester day, to celebrate the presentation of a service of plate to William Chadwick, E.q., late chairman of the Richmond Railway, as a testimonial of respect and esteem from the shareholders in that andertakiag. The service , which was laid oat ea a table in the centre of the room, consisted of a handsome candelabrum, dishes, soap and mace tureens, coffee and teapots, the., all of handsome deign and massive in their material, and was valued at about 3301. On the candelabrum was an inscription to the effect that the testimonial was prevented as a token of the esteem and reap et in which he MU held by the shareholders in the Richmond Railway, and for the unwearied diligence and talent he had always displayed in promoting the auceeis of that undertaking. H. C. Lacey. Esq., M P., took the chair, and about 100 shareholders In the Biel'. mind Railway, or friends of Mr. Chadwick. sat down to an entertainment in the best style of the Landon Tavern. After the usual loyal and constitutional towns, The CHAIRMAN said that he regretted his inability to do justice to the toast he was about to propose the less becalms he had evidence in the distinguished assemblage by which he was surrounded, and in the costly service of plata he saw before him, that the services of tho object of that toast were properly and fully estimated. (Hear, hear.) There was no one present who could not testify to Mr. Chadwick's inte grity, his zeal, and his talents, or his persevering industry. (Loud cheers) As Mr. Chadwick was present he could not do hill justice to'his merits. lie (Mr. Lacey) did not know why he had been placed in that chair, except it arose from the accident of his being chairman in a railway to which Mr. Chadwick was deputy chairman; and he must say, that (or a right-hand man, there was no one in this world he would prefer to that gentleman. (Chews.) He was sorry he could not fill it better, but he must hope that hi, friend wouid find compensation in the magnificent service of plate with which he was about to be presented, and which would descend to his children's children as an heirloom and testimony of their ancestor's seal, ability, and the estimation in which be was held by his Mania and coadjutors in busi ness. lie begged to propose Mr. Chadwick's health. The toast having been drank with three times three and loud chewy, Mr. Cnaowicx said he felt almost overcome by the kind manner in which his health had ken received. lie should perhaps beat repay their kindness by touching on the few facts which had led to this ent-rtainment. The directors of the Richmond line hat originally thought it might be worked most profitably . as an independent line, but he had been of a different opinion, and had notiated its disposal to the South-Eastern Company. W i th that transaction the shareholders were so well eatialied that the present enter tainment was the result. Mr. Chadwick concluded by again thanking the company heartily for the mode in which his health had been received. The next tout was " The Lord Mayor and Corporation." Mr. Sheriff Musgrove returned thanks, and concluded by proposing the health of the chairman, which was received with loud cheers. Mr. LACEY thankel'the company sincerely for the honour they had done him, but would further show his gratitude by refraining from intlictinz on them any lengthened oration. Mr. finaw, of Hudderafield, proposed '• The chairman and committee of the testimonial," to which toast Mr. Nott returned thanks. The other toasts on the chairman's list were then disposed of, and the company separated. of I THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES. ADJOURNED INQUEST. Yesterday the adjourned ir quest on the four chil dren who died in the Free Hospital, after removal from Mr. Drowses establishment sie Tooting, was resumed before Mr. Wakley, at die Globe tavern, Derby-street, Gray's inn-toed. Mr. Ballantine was in attendance on behalf of Mr. Dronet.—The foreman of the jury intimated to the co roner that 13 of the jury had visited Dlr. Droust's establish ment on the previous day, and not only examined every part I of it, but received from Mr. Menet every information re specting it and the inmates that they demanded to know, and received at his hands every necessary attention. But as be was unwilling to state publicly all they rw, atd the Ica pensions made by what they saw, he suggested that they should retire to a private foetal and there cnnimunicate them to the coroner.—Mr. Widtley: If there is no oboe tin on the part of the jury, I should much prefer hearing their statement publicly.—Some of the jurymen theaght with the coroner that they had better have nothing done in private, but let all be above hoard ; an/ another *rain having suggested that they could gather quite says cheat fr om the evidence to be given to guide them in the matters relating to whi-lt they wiled to eosin with the coroner. it wee decided that no statement should be made, as they were of opinio^ it ought not to be made publicly.— Mr. James presented a I.rge book under the official seal of the Poor-law Comraissionm, containing the visitors' reports. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1849. —Mr. Wald :We csanot Naive all that that book orm tains.—Mr. B.llaatiae said he was anxious to am it, on the Part of Mr. Drones ; upoa which the seal was broken, and the book headed to Mr. liallentine.—Mr. Warty said he would adjourn at hell-past four of that day to Tuesda and then it until he oescluded the inquiry ; so that, if Mr. Draw had any witnesses he desired to examine, he should prodan them either to-day or Tuesday. William Mortimer was then called and examined : lies at the Royal Fres Hospital, and am engaged in louking after the children ea nurse. 1 read two ehi.dren at Mr. Drown's, a boy aged three years and eizzno;lisT;;dli girl aged flee years and nine months. I last saw them there on the 26th of December, in the lodge, and in the presence of two or three women belonging to the asylum. They did not come out, they were never allayed out, although I frequently asked permission. I salted the porter, and he end he would ask Mr. Droset; whether he did or not I do not know, but his answer was always in the negative. The girl was not then complaining, but the boy was very bad. They are now both deed. I heard of their deaths last Friday for the ant time. The Coroner asked Mr. James, the clerk of the Holborn Union, whether he could say that these children were dead? —Mr. James said that they died on the 6th and 7th. Witness was reported to me that my children were ill on the 6th instant. I was then in the workhouse. I was not poluitte Ito go to sett them. I applied to the board through the master, who told me nay application was related ; but that I should hear more about it .7 Mr. James said that the goardians felt it would then be wrong to allow persons to go to the aaylum, es it might in terfere with the children and breed disease.—Witness : I tendered my discharge in the workhouse, but it was not rs ceired.—Mr. James, in reply to the coroner, said that if the witness had given th ree hours' notice he would have been entitled to Ws discharge.—Witnest : I did not know that Mr. Wakley : These regulations ought to be printed and hang up in every workhouse.—Witness : My children had been in the ambits sines March and April km. Although they died en the 6th and 7th I did not hear of it until the . _ David Kelly (an Irishman) examined ; I live at Rich ell-court Lamb's Conduit-etreeL I bad two grendebildren at Kr. Drouirt's eetabliebment. names were Jere- wish and James Doyle. Their father and mother ware in the workhouse when they went there ; bat we know nothing of the father new ; I believe he is gone to America. One of the children is dead—the other in the Free Hospital, with bad sores on his ears, his navel, and his shins. I went to see the children at Tooting for the first Sweat Sunday, Dee. 31: again on Monday and Thursday ; and on Friday the chit leen were removed to the Free Hos- When I went it was half-part 8 in the marring ; and = permitted to in in, I found little Jemmy in bed along with another child n a small ward. I stayed about an beer. On leaving I saw young Mr. Mouse in the yard. 1 asked him if he had any report to send by we to the workhouse ? He said, " I believe 1 have; for our children are dying very fast these three or four days." He gave me a note, and 1 took it to the Gray's ion workhouse, and asked the porter to let me in, for I war anxious to deliver the note myself, for I thought I'd make a better report nor him. (Laughter) He refused to let me in, and I gave him the note. lam a gentle man's porter for going of errands and cleaning windows, and a ladies' porter, too. (Laughter.) I went to Tooting again on Monday, and found jemmy in the same ward, and in bed with soother child. I walked each time, for I could not afford to ride. I met the doctor.—How aid you know it was the dater ? He was a big tall gentleman in black, end I war msreover told he was the doctor; and he said to me that my child was better and doing well. On Wednesday the ward war much mote crowded, and there were three in the bed. I taxed the nurse with neglecting their., and she said she was away during the night, because her eixer bad died. I saw the fleeter, and said to biro, "Doctor, you told me the child was getting better, but it's worse he ts, and I now see he is done for."—Coroner Is the doctor here ? Mr. Popham (surgeon): Am I the pefsen ? Witness : No. He was a big fat man with a red face, and better fed than the children. 'Wiese,* look. d round the room, and said (pointing to Mr. Drouet), I think that is 'he person, but I am not c,rtain, and I won't speak anything I am not certain of. I should know the man I gave the note to at the workhouse if 1 ea w him.—(Witns., by direction of the coroner, then wen: to the workhouse to identify the porter. Mr. Janos, in reply to the coroner, paid that when he heard of illness being in Mr. Drouet's rot 1 1 ,1ishment, he wrote to Mr. Drouet for an official account on the subject That letter was Rested on Monday, the lit Jon. He got an answer to it on W ulnesday, and, in consequence of that an swer he communicated to the board, and the board directed Mr. Whitfield to I isit the establishment. Mr. W. J. Kite examined. —I em a member of the College and licentiate of Aprthtcaries Hall, and hold the office of resident surgeon in Mr. Deouet's establishment. I hare h. Id that office since the first week in November. There war no resident surgeon previously. I had the entite medical charge of the eetehlishment. I held no similar office previously, nor any o ffi ce in any establishment devoted to the treatment of children. There hen lose nan outbreak of cholera in Mr. Drouet's asylum, I date it from Friday the 29th D. camber. I keep a medical notebook, but I have not got it with me, for so early a date as that. I entered into that batik the name of the patient, the nature of the disease, the treatment and final result. Their were then nearly 1,400 inmates, be sides fiftyiseven other persons. The numbers were increased from the time the St. Pancras children were admitted, which, I think, was about the hcginning of December. On the 29th December, when the cholera broke out, there were, speaking vaguely, ab:ut 200 persona more than when I went there in November. I can produce the medical book referred to on Tuesday next. I would hue brought it to-day, had I thought it would have been required. I was not consulted es to the admission of t.se in creased number of children. They were not admitted with m approbation , nor against it. I war not consulted on the subject ; and made :. o protest or remark against it. I did not °amidst it my duty. I have no written engagement with Mr. Drouet. I engaged, at a fixed salary, as medical attendant, but I had notuiug whatever to ill with the diet or clothing of the children, nor with the regulations of the establishment, nor did I pay any attention to these things, nor to the rise of the rooms, nor the draina3e. There was no premium upon health nor penalty uoon sickness ia say agreement. I did not on entering the establishment, make an examination of all the children, but I did of some : and I have in my both an entry of the state of those children. I did not find any epidemic raging at the time. I found children under ophthalmia of all sons ; I also found ecrofela and itch prevalent, and four or five with dysentery. A few were lame, but their lameness woe either congenital or of long standing. One variety of the ophthalmia was conta gious. The children so affected were immediately separated from the rest —Coroner: How many had the itch ?—Wit nem: I cannot say exactly ; but a great many had skii. dotes,. There was no separate ward for them. I made great efforts. to cure the itch, but I found it impossible. Itch is eas;ly cured, but it is easily caught again.—Coroner : Did you represent to Mr. Drouet that it was absolutely mummy to separate the children so eff.eted ? nese : I did, and they were 113 for the most part. But they mixed with the other children in the day time agoio. There was no obstruction thrown in my way for treating the children properly. Many of the children, when admitted to that establishment, were affected with itch, and I can answer for it that they were better leaving it than when they entered. I examined the children on being admitted, to see if they were healthy or if diseased, particularly if they had a skin disease. I found several with itch.—And you admitted them ?—I had no power to send them away.—Did Mr. Drown know tkey were so afflicted ?—Of noun he did. 1 have told him so. I had no power to decline receiving such children. I had nt.thing to do with their reception. It was a well-understood and usual thing to receive such children.—Coroner : Why it ap pears to have been a nursery for the itch, for you have said it was impossible to cure it, it beioq so easily caught again . Had any of the children from St. Pancras the itch on enter ing?—Witness: Yee, two or three out of 120. The first child who died of cholera was, I think, a glib named Frost, and it occurred on the night of the 30th of December. She wu aged 9, and had not dysentery when I emend the asylum. That was the only death on the 30th. Mr. Chap man saw her as well as I did. She had no premonitory symptoms. Raymond, I think, was the name of the nurse. My medical book would not show if it was Raymond. I cannot say how many beds were in the ward when that first death took place. I thick it was in the infants' ward. The very first case I saw I concluded to be cholera; that was not Frost's case. I went round every morning at 9 o'clock, and found the dormitori's pretty well ventilated, but never went round at an earlier hour shortly after the children left, to examine the state of the atmosphere. I went into them at various times during the day, but never at night. From the time 1 entered, to the outbreak of chclera, 1 did not remark say change in the diet of the children. The cholera broke out on the 29th of December, and on the 30th we had 1 death ; on the 31st, 3 ; on the Ist January, 3 ; on the 2d, 7 • on the 3d, 5 ; on the 4th, 12 ; on the sth, 19 ' • on the 6th, 14 ; on the 7th, 11; on the Bth, 20 ; on the 9th, 14; on the 10th, 10; on the 11th, 5; on the 12th, 9 ; on the 13th, 8 ; since the 13th, 9—making a total of 160. Some of thus were complicated with other diseases. They could not be said to have all died of cholera. Coroner: It appears the children were dying of cholera five days before any of them were removed. Can you ssy what parish was the tint to remove their children? it% it ens : I cannot say. I believe Kensington, but you must not rely upon me for information respecting the re monde. The only parishes that have not removed their children are St. Oeorge's-in-the-East and Chelitia; I do not know if the bodies of children who die from these parishes are sent home. There has been no inquest held at Toot ing on the bodies of any of the children. lat first sent Mr. Carter, the coroner, word upon the subject with a certificate of death, and he said there was no necessity for an inquest, as the children had been under medical treatment, and the cause of their death was known. Before the other medical men visited Tooting I recommended a better diet, and a better diet was immediately adopted. The other medical men also recommended a better diet. —Mr. Chapman was called in on the 30th, and on the Monday a better diet was adopted ; an additional meat day was added, and rice was substituted for arrow. root. I cannot say what was the quan tity of arrow - root or of flour mentioned in the diet-table as given to the children, but I know when made into a gram it was thick, quite lilu a jelly. After the alteration in the diet, I saw no change in the dings' that I c:.uld refer to diet. Many of the young children died very rtpidly, some within twelve hours after being attacked. Every symptom mentioned by writers on cholera war observable in the chil dren. I have no doubt whatever myself that it was cholera. I opened seven bodies, but could not account roe death by the post modems examination. I found the urinary bladder distended, and the call in the gallbladder thick—in one can' like treacle. The intestines contained a inlay. colourless &Wows, similar to that which had been discharged before death.--Coroner : Having been In the establishment for two months previously, I may ask you t i what cause you attribute the existence of cholera ? I can find no immediate or exeitiag rause to it —Have you heard or known of any death from cholera in the village of Tooting, or out of the establiduseat in that neighbourhood ?—Mr. Chapman, the surgeons, told rim ysetarday of five suvpitions MIN in Tooting but I have heard of no death . -Do you robe the outbreak of shalom in the asylum to any atmo spheric influence ? I cannot say what was the proximate mass. It may have been the atmosphere meting oa magi tenons predisposed for illness ; and if I were to attribute a proximate cause, I should certainly say the overcrowding was it—Do you reGr any part of the cause to the diet ? I do not, and for this ream—that the diet has been the tame for a long time ; at least I can answer foe the two months I was there before the cholera broke out.—What other per sons than the children lived on vensely the same diet? I cannot say; for although the nurses were allowed the same, I cannot lay If they linited themselves to it. Have any others than the children been attacked by cholera? Tee. and three died. One was &thereby, a nurse, aged nearly 60, who died on the 11th ; Sarah Goat, aged 24, a housemaid, who died on the 10th ; and a third, who was an attenlant en the sick, who died before the Bth.—How do you account for it that so few besides the children died of the disease ? It may be tint children are more suscoptible.—Do you as a medical man hold that to be the case, that children of from 4 to 12 years old are more susceptible of cholera than adults? I only say It may bee* ; and ceetanlT from what I have seen at Tooting I would draw that eoneluston.—D you regard cholera to be con • tasious? Ido not —lnfectious ? That is altogether another question. Before I west to Tooting I was a non nmta• gionist and a non-iota ctionist. But woat I have seen at Tooting has much shaken my opinion abort um-infection. In the direct meaning of the word, I would say it is not contagious.—What did you fled to be the molt successful treatment? Restoriog warmth and stimulants. We gave ether, ammonia, brandy, and wine. After all the experience I have had I would adopt the some treatment again; but I cannot tome to the conclusion that it is in my power to cure a cue of cholera.—How did you treat the premonitory symptoms? When we discovered them we endeavoured to stop them by astringents, and we so treated all that we perceived, which were not nosey. —Coroner : Mr. Grainger made his visit on Friday, the ben, and I think he reported 38 cases of premo nitory symptoms.—Witoess : I never heard of 38 cease, nor of any considerable number previous to the visits of the other medical men. Mr. Grainger referred to his report, and said that the 33 cues were mentioned as existing on the fuUmwing Ssturday and Sunday, and he made that report on the ri presentations of the medical gentlemen who had been sent there. But he had not seen Mr. Kite at all. By the Coroner.—No other charge wu mad:: in the diet after the period I Dave spoken of. I could tell the names ul all that guttered from diarrhoee that passed into cholera. As to the diarrheas Mr. Bigley examiee l 73 of the St. Pancras children, and only one had diarrhea*. Mr. Fenny amongst SOO boys found four cues. Bete a short adjournment took place for refreshment, after which, Mr. Kite was re-examined : I have not noticed any ill effects from drinking the water. It is the same which I con sume, and is procured from an Artesian well. I hate noticed a peculiar smell. Ido not know what the analysis wu. Since the 29th December we have used exclusively the same water up to this period. I noticed the objection able smell three days ago. It was water that had been in my room all night. I drink water myself every day.—The Coronet: Net eultalively, I supjote ? (A laugh.)—l have never complained of the boys' bath-room, or have any reason to believe there is anything wrung in it. I find no objec tionable arne.l in it. Mr. Drouc.'s table and mine is in coin- mon, and the water consumed there is the same u is con sumed by the boys. Mr. W. Home Popham, examined by the Cocoon!: I em one of the parochial surgeons of St. Pancras, and at the re. quest of the guardians, went to Tooting to attend some of the children on Friday, the sth, at 10 o'clock at night. (The Coroner observed that the chil lren respecting whom the in quiry was made had returned before Mr. Popham went down, and what occurred subsequently to their removal could not be connected with the causes of their death) Ex amination continued : I have signed a dccumcnt In reference to Mr. Graiugir's report. It is u follows : Various reports baring been published In the daily journal's re. spatting the opinions we en . erteined, as the medical officers assisting In taking charge of the cholera patients in Mr. Drouet's eetabsi•bieent at Tooting, whereby we are represented as having stated facts in evidence which not only abound in incesistencies, but are not in reality true, we gladly avail cameleer , of the pages of your journal, in order that the public may be avenunted with the circumstances as they really esist. In the first instance, we distinctly wish to dis abuse the public mind of the Wee that the cholera patients in this establishniett were crowded rive in a bed. This statement we have found to be entirely 'mired ; In one instance it seemed to be so ; the close approximation of two beds having led to the error. Such a statement haviag appeared as evident in Mr. (Manager's report, we beg to state that it has been corrected by Mr. Popham in his evidence on the toque-t held at diet. sea by Mr. Wskley, As to the fact of the children hoeing been placed too thickly together, it aunt be borne in mind that this fearful visita tion broke oat as a thief In the night among children presieusly cocci. dent healthy; that from the *widener... of It. invasion, and the rapid manner in which it spread from ward to ward, it wall utterly impossible tossounnewn the work of separation at the moment, sad net as soon al additianal aA was pneured, all the ewes which al. milted of being removed were changed into separate beds. Respective the surgery, we beg to state that for all ordinary purposes it KM very efficient, both as regarded medicines and elairine,s, and that from the time of our im,aval here we have tad no difficulty in dispensing me 'trin% have we been is want of any means necessary to the treatment of the unfortunate patients. That the ratio of mortality has been leM Pillte our sr. seal, we regret to say has not been the case; and it will be a eatisfaction to the public mind to state our weeder& thin it wet , not ham any want of medical skill that en many wet Droved fatal; and It Is necessary for us to state our overlies that from the time we cams here the conduct of Mr. 'Motley and the vicious DlfllltrrB of his hounehohl, in affording en moistener in the manage ment of our ounce, has been such es to command our warmest admiratii n, and we now bear our willing testimony to the kindness., humanity, and liberality which has been unrelentingly shown. We offer no opinion now, as medical men, as to the existing cause of the outbreak of this dreadful malady. Thie we shall be per. pared to give in due coarse. Having duefullyexarnined the premises in referee's to the drainage, we have been unable to discover any &Sok say in that respect, although the sewerage of the district eve.. rally may be defective; tv.t this must be left to the consideration of , the tumuli isioncre of "'ewers in their province, and not to us ' sunlit,' men. In conclusion, we or, happy in heir" age to state that the &ease to now rapidly disappearing In this eetablislarnent, the number of caste to-day under treatment being et, and but one death within the last 24 how., without the =wenn of a leech cam— Wm. Ilona rialtos, J. Goatee. hamar, it. B. Pa..NI, J. Inneele4.— Tooting, Jan. 14. I hay • exusOned the dormitories in the establishment generally ; I have no 001111klit)11 whatever with Mr. Dronet's establishment. Fr em observations made on the spot I have not come to a satisfuteu opinion u to the cause of the out break of the cholera. I believe the over crowding pre disposed to it. I have not examined the drains to any great extent from the premises. I tasted the water several times, and it appeared to me to be soft water. I have examined the diet table, but there are no quantities specified in the diet table. I should not consider the children who were not affected with cholera as ins bad state of health, hut they were not robust. I did not consider them starved. I saw some very healthy children amongst them. I saw some of them stript in the wash house. Some hod the itch, which we find in those who live badly in ill•ventilated ' places. With regard to statements relative to diarrhica existing in the establishment, I found four emeaget the 96 I St. Pancras children. Only one passed into the state of cholera. TllOlll with the premonitory symptoms were treated immediately with opium, and it was effectual in the great majority of cases. In one case there were no premonitory symptoms at all, and the child wta strums down. It was four or five years of age. It lived only two hones after the attack.—(Question by Mr. Or lin ger Were not the particulars respecting the condition of the surgery and dispensary in my report, given to me by Mr. Popham, and are they not correct . —Mr. Popham admitted that they were. Ile had always seen the bottles of a medical establishment labelled, and should not like to take medicine slut of bottles that were not labelled.)—By the Coroner After the outbreak of cholera I did not think it proper that more than one person afflicted with cholera should be in a bed at one Cure. I found four in a bed in several beds, be. tween 12 and 1 o'clock on Saturday, 6th January, and on that day they began to remove them in separate beds. There was no difficulty in getting medicines. There were two nurses, I think, sent dawn the night I was sent down. I do not believe the disease to be contagious, and I do not be lieve it to be infections. I think the children were more predisposed to take the illness from their youth. lam cer tainly of opinion the children were overcrowded. I infected the drains for about 100 yards. I refer the disease to the state of the atm .inhere. J. Gordon Bailey examined : I wide at 4, Penton-street, Pentonvilla I was one of the surgeons seat down by St. Pancras parish. I had before seen some cues of cholera in town. In consequence of what I have seen at Mr. Dronet's establishment, I believe the children were too closely crowded during an eliciting MM. in the atmosphere. I attribute nothing to the diet or clothing. The fact of those children having been there for year., and the disease not having been brought into operation, is my reason for believing that it was owing to the state of the atmosphere. I consider it un wholeseme for a large number of persons to be crowded together in apartments. I believe the atar.ospberic canoe was brought into operation by the overcrowding. Mr. R.S.Penny examined : I a am surgeon, and visitel the establishment oa Friday, Jan. 13, having been sent for from town by Mr. Dronet. I retsile at 16, Suthetiandiarinue, Waluorth. I arriv:d before Mr. Popham. I did not enter into any investigation as to the cause of the out break of the cholera. The opinion I form of it, from observation I made in Lelia, is that it proceeds from eiththepherie poison. I hove sewn cheer* in found the disease moot frequonly mist in Innis amonest E iropcons—amongst persons well fed, well loused, and clothed. I have heard from the nurses at Mr. Drouet'a that the disease only attacked pr rocas in one lice. I know iif none of the men who were engaged in empling the ditches being attacked ; but I know of an instance, in the cue of the ship Java, where 400 coolies were working on one ship, and thew oily on one side the ship were attacked. They were sent off to the hospital i.e fest as they could be rent. I don't consider the divoare to be contagious or infection.. No account of the Java, belonging to Mr. Sesames, was published; 34 of the coolica died. I must admit that the overcrowding might be a predisposing c :use of cholera. In answer to Mr. Grainger, the witness said he had examined 300 or 400 boys, end only foucd three nr four eases of diarrhea, and 150 girls, and only 11 cues of diarrhea'. Patrick Sheene, aged 10, of the Holborn Than, examined: Could not sac the whole of his catechism. Wes three times at Mr. Dronet's, at Tooting; the last time far tea we. ks. Has a mother living in the union. Knew 311cloael Harper, he slept with him at Mr. Drouet's, and two or three boys slept in a bed. Michael Harper slept with him four or live weeks before he came to the Free Hospital. Ho was well. There was one taken bad ; his name is Quin, h' is at this hospital now. I went to school half the day, aid the other half to the baths. Twelve slept in the 1141112 room, There were fear beds. Germaine waa the nurse. Boys wien to clean the rooms; one boy need to mule one ream, ar.l when they were smell rooms, two or three. His mother rams to see him every three weeks. Thee used to go nut 'or a walk, but as the authorities were afraid they woad nut away, sometimes they maid to have the girls clothes on. They were kept on three or four days, sometimes a week. The gentlemen from the Holborn Union need to mk them if they were well. If they spoke the truth, the people used to beat them in the house afterwards. John Walsh was beaten for telling the guardians that he did not have enough to eat. Mr. Brown, a school:nester forgot to beat me. I was told he was farmed away for killing a boy. I was there when the guardians asked these to hold up their hands who were fligged. John Walsh was beaten for holding for up his thumb. I got a pint of pnel and a 'lies of bread breakfast. I used to eat all I had for breakfast, dinner, and supper. Sometimes I'd have enough on Mondays. I could eat double as much as I got. I only got as much as I could ant on Mondays. Sometimes I used to run into the hall end get some water out of the cans. We had a slice of bread and half an ounce of cheese for sapper. It was said the big boys' bread was quite font ounces. We did not feel that we had enough after we had our meals. We used to feel as hungry as we went in. I should not like to 1 1 go back.—Coroner: If you were to go back, what would you like to have altered? AU the meals, air. (A laugh.) I k.vs enough to eat where I am now. The boys who were ill and what it we, they thought made them ill.— Coroner : The doctors hue a difficulty in telling what is the cause of the choln a. What do you think is the cause ?—Not having enough to eat. My clothes were warm enough. I had enough covering at night on the bed. I com plained of the bed. They would laugh at me if I was to complain. The meat was good sometimes. The potatoes were black, and sometime' watery. The boys who work get ltd. eeeek. William Duly, aged 8 : Could not read. Went to school at Mr. Drone'''. Would not like to go back to school. Knows James Andrews ; slept with him. Lam slept in the same bed. He did not have his breakfast, dinner, and supper in the same room. Had not enough to eat and drink at Mr. Drouet'a Did net tell the guardians because he could nut get to them. Never had enough to eat. Did not tell the nurse he had not enough to eat ; she would pay him for it. Has a mother at Holborn. Told his mother he had not enough to eat. Never had enough fur dinner. Some times the bread would be mouldy. The meat was good. Has enough to eat where he ir—Several other questions were put, to which the boy did not appear capable of giving an answer. `Emily Hungerford, aged 11 : Hu a father and mother living in the union. Was at Mr. Droaet's. at Tootins, 12 months. Would not go back there on Monday. Knew Jenny Johnson. Saw her last at the Royal Free Hospital. Did not complain of illness. Sometimes she used to com plain of the headache. lied bread and gruel fir breakfast. Complained to the mistress that she did act have enough bread Had not enough for dinner nor supper. All had half a plate of gruel. lied not enough of meat and potatoes. When the guardians came down did not say she bad not enoegb, as she was afraid of being beaten. The girl lliytes was beaten for saying she had not enough to eat. Was not ill at Mr. DGuot's. Henry Bertelsen, aged 14 : Hu neither father nor mother living, and no brothers and sis:en. Went from the Holborn Union Workhouse to Tooting. Was there one year and three months. Came back to the Royal Free Hospital on Friday. Has been well ever since. He was a shoemaker, and us, dto do five pair of uppers for a penny. Used to spend his money and buy sweet stuff. Tho nurses used to sell it. I could always eat my bread. I had not enough. I could eat two more allowances. Sometimes the meat was not good. The meat was quite hard. had bread and cheese for eu-'per. Never had enough. Was always hungry. Tho boys who scrubbed and cleaned the floors got twopence a week. Thirty boys slept in the room where I slept. I saw the gentlemen when they came dawn, and told them I had net enough to eat. Mr. W. Drouet said I was the ringleader of all the boys. Welsh was the heir who war beaten. Two were beaten after the guardians went away. I paid to the guardians, in the pre sence of Mr. Drouet, I had not enough to cat. Mr. Drouet said it was not a proper question to ask the children. Did not get more food in consequence of complaining. About thirty sleep in the room where 1 slept. I wanted more pud ding and more of everything. Should not like to go back. If a were going back I should wish for mere victuals. Have not been ill, nor had any attack in my stomach or loose mu in my bowel•. I never sold cakes; sometimes I bought cake+. Had toast and water for dinner. Mr. Kite recalled : Had not heard of any complaint of their wanting water.—Re-ex mined : Most boys complained of their nos having water. Emily Hunaerford recalled: Got water to drink from the taps. Sometimes they would take the pot away and box their ears for it. Sometimes she used to give bread away ter water. John Welsh, aged 14, was one year at Tooting. Com planed to the guardians of not having enough to eat. had held up bis hand when the guardians asked if they had enough to eat. Dranet was present. The schoolmaster 11 'gest me, and said, " It you tell the guardians I'll give Bou a little more to eat." Did not complain to Druuet that rown had ti ',pod him, because Mr. Drouet would have whacked him. Tho bop; used to get a cap full of potato- peelings and sell them for a halfpenny. Could not get as much water as he wanted. If the complainer' that they wanted drink he whacked them all t he same. The witness gave many other instances of ill-treatment. Sarah Skietletkorp, aged 11, said she knew all of the de. ceased. Was at Mr. Dr.met's seven minths. Never had quite sufficient to eat, but d'u not like to complain to the guardians. Had not enough to eat at any meal. Used to work at shirt-making. A dozen Aline were made a day. Shirtmsbers were paid 44. a week. My health was good, whilst I was there. I was not under the doctor's care. Mad not always as much water as I could tit ink. Sometimes they need to turn it off. Could have as much at dinner as they wonted :o drink. -....-. It being now near six o'clock the Coroner adjourned the further inqairy till Tuesday next at ten o'clock. INCREASE OE THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRACY. —ln .tractions hese been issued by the Lord Chancellor for the immediate addition to the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex of 30; new magistrates. The names of the gentlemen nominated by the lord lieutenant have not yet publicly traispirod, but there is no doubt that some of, them are very familiar to the public. Yesterday preparatory measures to tneir qualifying were taken by the county autho rities, and it is understood that they will be formally Mail in as soon as practicable. CHOLERA.—Yesterday the following fresh ewes wen reported to the Beard of Health :—Whitechapel, 1 ; Kensington Workhouse, 1 fatal ; Wandsworth, 5; East and' West Reedham, Norfolk, 11, 1 fatal ; Wakefield, I; liowden ' Union Wotkhouse, ; Edinburgh, 4; Glasgow, 50, 19 fatal; Selkiik, 1 ; Old Mnnkland, 26, 11 fatal; Lioness, 2, 1 fatal ; total new cases, 111, 33 deaths. FIRES.—AT PADDINGTON.-lAnt night, between 7 and 8, a firs, involving a destruction of property valued at some thousand pounds, broke out at Iron-gate-wharf, Praed•street, Pa .dington. The premises in which the disastrous event occurred were in the occupation of Mr. Wm. Buddle, and were well known as the steam saw mills and marble works. The fl Imes were first perceivea by one of the neighbours I breaking out of the mill. This building was upwards of 100 feet in length and nearly 30 feet wile. It was fitted up with most costly machinery, and contained a great quantity of timber. In the space of a few minutes the entire mill from end to end was wrapp?d in one body of tire. Several en gines were quickly on the spot, but before they could he set td work, the flames had extended from the mill to a quantity of timber in the yard, and as soon as this became ignited, the flames travelled rapidly int, the moulding loft, and from thence into the polishing shops. Each of these buildings was filled with pro perty of great value, and of the moat inflammable character, which, the moment the flames came in contact with them, burst forth into a huec sheet of fire. The firemen laboured without intermission until nearly 11 o'clock, when the flames at length succumbed beneath the great inantity of water thrown upon them, but even at that hour they were far from being extinguished, although ne fears were enter tained of their further extension. The while of the work men had kit the premises some hours before any signs of fire were perceived.---Mr. Buidle informed the reporter that the machinery, which cost him. a short time since, upwards of 5,0001., was insured for only 1,0001., and the insurances effected upon the stock in trade were not one tithe of his loss. The following is the official report of the loss at the Iron gots Wharf Saw Mills. The saw mills and marble works, a building 90ft. by ftOft., steam sawing, planing mills, maul ding-loft, engineetiouse, marble-polishing shops destroyed Roof of marble show-room damaged by fire, and contents by removal. Water supplied from Grand Junction mans. Insured in the Sun and Westminster Fire (MICAS. The house of Mr. Carruthers, publican, damaged by water. IE-tistred loss from 8,0001. to 10,0001 —ls TUB RAMP OTF:AD ROAU.—While the fire was still raging ct Padding. ton, another cad came for the engines and firemen to a destructive firs which had bniten out at No. 17, Adam-row, Hampstead.road. The fire originated in the apartment' of a Mr. Livennore, on the second-ft/Ir, and tout extended to a quantity of stabling end to the adjoinieg premise, which for some time were threatened with Vital derrulion. By six o'clock the fire was got under. The following a the official return of the damage done: No. 17, des• troyed, in the occupation of Mr. Billiard and Livermore, the whole of whose furniture is entirely destroyed. To &unmet not known. The shops of Mr. Clark and Mr. Hen rings, imn-moeecrs, stock of each damaged by fire and weer. Insured in the Licensed Victuallers' and Sun Fire Offiees. No IR, Mr. Evans, potato dealer—furniture and building dulled by fire and water ; insured in the Pheenix Fire-office. so. 16, Mr. Cuevas, baker, stock—furniture, and building damaged by fire and water ; insured in the Hand-in-Hand Fire-office. THE FIRE IN NEW-SQUARE, LINCOLN'S-INN.—RE COVERY or PROPERTY.—During yesterday the firemen sue ceeded in turning up amon i e the ruins a parchment package, not in the hire degree injured, which proved to be the title deeds of an estate,lek in Mertes. Jones, Bennett, and Bete man's cue, amounting to 27,0001. A mortege deed of 10,000 e bag also been recovered, quite uninjured; and another of 12,0001., together with a vast numb'r of smaller amounts. The whole of the original wills left with the same firm have likewise been recovered from the rubbish, and securities involeerg some thousand pounds' worth of property have been taken from the basement and ground floors, velure they had fallen from the upper part of the house. A deal of plate end other articles of Y4lllO have been found by the parties whilst searching the ruins. Another inverigation took place yesterday beton the Benchers. when the whole of the porters belongin,g to the inn were examined, with a view of ascertaining whether they knew anything respecting the origin of the fl-e, and also to ascertain whether the report watt:meet:l that they had kept the doors closed, end prevented the fire-enein , s and escapes from entering moil the tire had gained head con siderably. Tee resuls of the Liqeiry went to exonerate the parties from the least dtrelictiou of duty. It appeared that when the pl4ise dis:overed the fire ale of the constables rae to the gate near the grand hall, and told the porter to open it as nor re he c as a fire had Woken out in the Build ings, The porter imagined that it s iu tiekla, closed tee door, and gat as la mas Whetsteurpork, when he met the policeman returning, after having called the Holborn engine; and it was not till then that he knew the exact locale of the Are. lie returned and found the fire coming from the basement windows of No. 2, New•square. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAW. 18. By the decision of the judges to-day, Mr. Daffy hes been allowed to plead over, and accordingly lus 6n31 trial is again put off, and will not take place until agar Feb. 6 at the next commisaion. I subjoin a report of the proceedings : COMMISSION COURT.—THUBWD&Y. THE QUEEN V. C. O. DUFFY.—The prisoner having been placed at the bar, and counsel for the crown and I.r the de fence being present, Jadge Perrin said the court hag already pronounced judg aunt on the demurrer, to the effect that the demurrer to the first and third counts should be overruled, and the demurrer to all the overt acts, except those of the first and third, should be allowed. In this cue, the crown prayed for final judgment on the demurrer; but the prisoner contended that he was entitled to plead. There hail been several cases cited in the asguments had on the demurrer, and be and his bro ther Richards having regard to those authorities of an old standing, as well as to one of the latest cares on the subject which occurred in 1845. which ha I been under the con sideration of the English Jud„; .e, and in which t h e demurrer havine been overruled the prisoner wan allow,d to plead, he and his brother Richards thought it necessary to follow that course, and, purauioo the precedent referred to by Mr. Butt, after pronouncing judzm •nt on the demurrer in the form already stated, they would allow the prisoner to plead over to tho felony. The learacd Judge then desired the Clerk of the Crown to ask the prisoner whether he were guilty or not guilty. The Clerk of the Crown put the question in the usual form, to which Mr. Duffy replied—Not guilty. Judge Perrin said they would adjourn the court until the 6th of February. They could net have a trial now for many reasons—one of which was that the jurors at the present commission had been summoned for the 12th of December, and were not in attendance, and it was out of their power to have a trial now. Sir Colman 0 Loghlen begged to remind the c3urt that counsel, on the part of the prsow r, bad put in an applica tion to be admitted to bail. lie submitted that if then lord ships would hear the motion is chamber, he and his learned friends fur the defence would be ready to mi.ke the applies tion tomorrow. _ _ Judge Perrin said that the learned baronet would recollect that, from the ccemnenoement of the second week of the comminion the court had been engaged with several matters which caused delay. It was the prtsonsr himself, and not the awns, that caused the delay which had arisen on the plea of abatement. Mr. O'Llattan said be had a strong me to be admitted to bail, if the court would allow him to bring it prop.rly before them. Judge Perrin said he would be happy to hear Mr. O'llagat's motion to that effect in the Court of Quem's Bench—the proper place to make it. Mr. Dully, addressing the court, said the delay had not been caused by him, but by the Crown. He was ready to go to trial but for the decisions it was necessary to arrive at on the several questions argued, and he ought not to be delayed by things which he a:a not cause. If permitted t i submit his applic►tion, h• would bp able to make out an irresiitible case to be admitted to bail. The literal tact was that he should sustain great injury—his property would be ruined if not permitted to get out on bail, end he would make that so plain that it could not be coatuted if the court would give him an opportunity of doe .g so. He asked them to adjourn the court tin to-morrow morning, for the purpose of s,iving him an opportunity of putting in affilavits to thatedfect— The Court made no reply. Proclamation was then made adjourning the commission until the 6th of February• next. PROVINCIAL. LiNC.C.IIIII!. TILE I.ssous BANQuar.—The list of guests up to this time, who have actepted invitations, includes upwards of twenty members of the legislature, be ides other public men. It is expected the Free-trade-hall, whkh Lto be decorated fur the occanion, and rill have an 0n.... ere, ted in it, will be fitted oak to :iecomrn .duty from 2 dOO to 3,000 persons; but the deuruid for tickets has been so great already, that it b COMCS evident many parties (rum a dis tance will be disappointid. YoßK•4lllitE. _ _ _ REGISTRATION Os REFORMERS.—It hal been re solved to form a Reform and Registration Bocieq fAr ths West Riding of supprt of the principles of free trade, the baLot, extension of the suffrage, financial reform, and the non-extension of religions endowments. otathisti ...... ..... MR. MUNDY, M.P. FOIL SOUTH DERBYSIIIRE; The Nottingham Joutitulet yesterla) stye : " We I. gret to say, from accounts r.c.ite.l by L.dy Wilmot funi Sty Henry, who 111111116C011111/1111:11 Mr. Mundy on a cruise (Jr his health, that the highly-re.preacd and honourable 'itemiser (or South Derbyshire is io a hopeless state of health. The Warr conveying the uuwalcoms tidings states that the yacht was oft liarhadon, but they had not been able to lipid Mr. Mundy ; that he had rupturad a blood-vessel, and lc,. stak ing very fast ; and that in all probability a very few days would terminate his exi.arucc. Mr. Mundy hid b_en un well for a longtime, laid :dad, ira was rec 'amended ua a heat resource, and he WWI 011 his woy thither at the time the melancholy event took place. Lady Wilmot, and, nide tl, all his relatives, are lull of grief at the sad new., • .4 az• anxicusly waitinr for the airiest of another etualuouicatina from Sir Henry Wilmot. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OxFoEJ JAN. 19.—The undereetchtet• members or the respective adages and Mills who intend keeping Lent 1% rdi, meet as iollown, viz.:- -St. Edmund Hall, Frid22 (this Coy) row (Manrday), Ti theeno Wadham, Walla , he, Christ Chianti, Maemfa, Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, and St. Allan Mall; on Saturday, the 27th, Wonnoter, St. John's, Oriel, Jesus, Corona Christi, New Merton, and Univernity Culler., and the badly of Miu y Magdalen and Nvir Inn ; on am May AJ Ouda; and un tho 2d Erb., Magdalen College. CONSECILATIONS.—On Wedneedsy hut the Biehep of Clue. ttr toneeerated tht neer &stria &Inch Of St. Mark, 1.. to. pariah or Stockport. The district of St. Mark has now beeouse a separate pariah. After a WTIIOII by the bishop. the stun of Shot. woe collected in rid of the Istiklios lurid.—ths Thursday last, Inch inst., the biahopconavarated the new chunk of St. Mark, Dukiarkkl, In the auto: parish. lit. Mark, Dukintlald, la alai now a separate parish. NAVAL. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Dever, at., sailed this aft .moott for Devi:import The four Mesmer., Dinka, Salamander, Rattler, and Growler, ordered from this port to Dewmport, to farm a ream: at. quadron, have not yet left the port. —Madagaidar, from Cahn to, at. rived oft Portsmouth thin day.—The ?replaced, 50, with Ailm.tieeres, was to leave the Cape on tun Dee. far Spinaead, and may he Wanly capect?.d.—ltupid will be paid off to-morrow. Pwittisomn, JAN. 17.—The dry dock at this aroma' has been prepared for the reception of the tit. Columba et., plying between hiblia and Holyhead, which vessel is hourly expected for the mimosa el bei.a docked. A number of boys have been exami n ed ato their scholastic acquhenetits to-thy, for admirion into We cpattiedovnt to apprentices to the different tanner:dm Taal It an cone .1 pro weding for the purlieu: of keeping up a proper supply of nu:caroms in the different dockyards. " There Is a rumour: lays a entree pontknt, " that the ehapLaincire of three annals are to be &balletic& the eapeme of these departments at an item of no lueoieSdefable amount. In achlitlea to the salaries of the prevent chap• aim, Were are titre or four superannuated 00-i. Thus, at Ude yard the one in office has VOL a dear and tile one •ie ran nuausl 2001. The charge, therefore, for the clergymen alone a don!. per annual. Hendee this there are the derive ar.d eeatons' „hew ances, clamping, lighting, and heeling the buildings, and the con tinual repaira and refitting. of the chaptAs. A reduction ix oleo spoken of in the p: lien free. Rep - sirs at the vacant gev trnnient houses bare not yet commenced for the teaspoon of the dilittor of police and timber ins actor, as a saving of the bowie rent all twed Wove officers, ordered by th: finance committee at their Tweet visit, but an eaimate of the amount required has been prepared and for warded to We board. liCa) Ewe Titans . THE SPRING ASSPZES. Tbe ladge" harem& the fallowing arrangement' for the earning Ilgring Rinses : WILOrRIU4 atm:T.—Lord Chief Justine Wilde and Mr. Imam Manie.—Nomot ORLl:lr.—rho Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Bros BoUe.—Hoar. Ciatyrr.—Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Jemtice %%gin. Mon —Nos-min rr . s Czocu.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Ju.tice • Onterldge.-01rORD Justice Conran., oral Mr. !term, Platt —Nonni WALax—Mr. Justice CrcsawelL—tkivrn WALION. !crake i.rle. 'VACATION irl•OL.—The lion. Mr. Justice Patteson wilt remain to town and sit daily during the vacation at his chambers In serjeacte. Inn, and dispose of all iaterlotranry matters urfUng In Vie three courts during the deem it the other judges on circuit, as aunties judge. EQUITY COURTS.-YESTERD/a. Before the Lord Chaneellor. _ ..-- --- THE ATTORNEY-OE:4EIUL v. WILSO3.—LADY *lsms Lzv's CHARITY.—The further hearing of this apps..l (the question being, as already mentionel in the Express, what class or classes of crthodox protestant tiii-en re in England are entit'el to be trusted; and recipivnt. L - dy Ilewley's extensive charities) was postponed, with an under g that the partss in the contest have cuts red upon a negotiation for a compromise or arnica:tale arrmigetsi BAIL COURT.—YesizawAy. bin Pans. DENMAN a. Trnwza (CLama).—A MONEMINT.—Mr. Wood was counsel for the plaintiff, and 8i .1. y c in ducted the cue for the defendant. —This wait an action brought by a sculptor residing in Regent street, s-et m ;to wait the successor to the business of the celebrated F, asman, against a clergymen of the Church of England, t; recover the tarn of al., being the ba:anco of a bin of W. On the 28th of June last the defendant ordered • In .I.unent to he sculptured by the fkintiff, ta be lerectal in du.a^ll Count to the memory of his tether and some other mem. ben of his family. The monument was duly plae iu llanwe:l Church, and, on applie.atimi being made to biro for payment, his wife wrote to the plain IQ; in the month of September, a letter, in which ohs stated that Means. IL Al, of New Boswell-court, would *gels his claim. That Pitt? WS4 signed in the corner by the deft/I-law. Th e pia .tiff then put himself in commu n ication with Messrs. Hall, the d e feodant'ssolintorswhoh , formtiii him that they had no ttitds in their passestion 13:Lang:rig to Mr Turin r. The de'en 'ant eventually pain 31. on account, since which time he had never offered to asPle the ba:taiLes, and theraiire the tent action was broogLt.—Mr. T. J. Delman, the plaintiff's ton, was then caoed, but be merely proved the facts *Half we have alrea , y stated.—Sir Juba klay'sy ~b j• wed, nu t.e half of the defendant, that the agreement of 'be de fondant to pay for the monument winces hit learned fritneLhad en deavoured to prove through the witness Viit'sbuitrls be proved in such a raa..n r, iwcause, tho I , l.4mt•ong ct,ods and theri,:me he :uUm nett talent ou"Fs to hays 'istea as mai:lg.—Mr. Jambs Axil •• At 'Yr tie -• • . 7 • , 1, rO., : T {'