The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

at of parliament in the person of Mr. ROLT. Alderman flaaomoes, who lost Marylebeme oily 'll an accident, might be returned with great advan tage t o the cause of civil and religious Ilinty. Whilst Mr WILLIAXWILLTANS,Who was ejected from Coventry in 1847, would be a valuable representative for many constituencies, sad an useful member of the h o use in the financial discussions of next session. Other candidate . mi. ht be felted with equal, perhaps is some cases with superior, claims. But we have taken those who immediately occur to us as the best men of all parties out of parliament. How came it that none of these gentlemen were ever mentioned in connexion with the Reading con test? How is such an anomaly to be accounted for ergot by the suggestion that the Reading people did not :rant the beet men, bat only the most wealthy ? To the liberals of Readieg this election ought to be a less n of very gnat utility. They ought to learn from it, that it is essential to success to have a good candidate and a comm m public rause. To suc ceed in any case, liberals must fight their battles on a principle. In this instance they threw aside prin ciple, and fought about a man. It has been a prac tice in Reading always to select the members from those who are interested in the locality. Except in theca.. of Mr. SPENCE, who was thrown out upon petitioo, there has not been, until yesterday, an uistenee of a member sitting foe this town who was met connected with the district. Dr. LeilitiNoToN, who f ou,cht the liberal battle in Reading in 1830, was rti -tied for non-residence. So was Mr. °uvu la is 1833. The newly-elected member, Mr. STAN FORD, was so aware of the disadvantages resulting from his non-connexion with the place, that he pledged himself to settle there if the eoistituency Wetted him. The object of all this attachment to locality dues not seem very obvious, but it is capable of explanation. There are county interests in Reading. There are breweries there of no trifling magnitude, sod the magistracy have the licensing system under their control. There are ap, ointment., too, in connexion with the gaol, deo., of which magistrate. have the sole disposal. The lib rale, it seems, are quite as much affected by these iadocements as the tones. They brought out a local we, who mann to have possessed few other qualifia tins than that coenexi fsr which he was selected. The advanced reformers all refused to vote for him. Bet they is their turn seem to have committed an error. Instead of bringieg some one whose paramount claims wield have driven even Mr. Bowraa from the field, they wasted their time in complaining. and attacks, and at le..gth fixed upon a candidate who could not poeibly have had a chance. The result of these divisions is the return of Mr. STANFORD, who re ceived the support of the conservatives, and who seems to have been alike liberal throughout the cm test with his mosey and his promises. Who Mr. STANFORD is we are unable to explain, and we believe the Reading public are no better in formed than oarselves. lie dates from " place." His views when he went down to loading were certainly not definite, but he subsequent l y declared himself a positive protectionist. The wait object, however, of the gentleman's pro- tection is, it seems, to be—a wife. He has pled himself to many from among the fair ones of that town. He does not fix upon the object of his choice esti' he takes hie seat, but then he is to hold a draw ing room in Reading, and select a mate from amongst the ladles of the borough. As a modern Paris, he is to decide on the claims of Reading goddesses, aid to assign himself as the prize to the " most fair." The very nature of the offer precludes so from offering anticipatory congratulations to the lady of his choice. We fear she will not get a genius. But if Mr. STANFORD marry at Reading prior to the next election, we may at any rate congratulate in anticipation, whoever may oppose him. Of the hundreds of the now unmarried in the town, we fancy his oppo- nent will have an admirable chance of then receiving the support of all—save ote. The next election will bs the fall of Troy repeated—the Amos and MI NERrAs multiplied enormously. THERE are some spirits whose presence, like that of the gsblin page in the " Lay of the Last Mins'rel," cannot be concealed. Wherever they creep, an un easy sense of the approach of something unearthly chila the company: first one and then another feels himself the victim of some impish trick; and at last an explosion of wild laughter, ruing above quarrel some imputations and counter-charges, reveals the source of the annoyance, and adds to the dismay. LOLA MONTLS would appear to be the incarnation of one of these spirits. From Paris to Warsaw, and from Warsaw to Munich, her course has been indi cated by duels, horsewhipping of guardsmen, and similar gentillesses. At Munich she was the genius that "rode in the whirlwind and directed the storm" of a ministerial crisis closely bordering on a revolu tion. And no sooner is she landed in England, than she explodes in a domestic circle, shattering its ar rangements as thoroughly as she did the government of Steens. Tne stir/ of LOLA 3.IONTES reads like a wayward romance, in which the author has introduced some ereattireof old °mean, or Asiatic, or middle-aged ro mance—some Lamia or fairy of the Rhine, or at lead some RnonoPx or ROXALANA—among the dull com mon-place routine and domestic decencies of the nineteenth century. She is a legitimate sister (if the team can be imaioned applicable to such a si-terhood) of the GABRIELLES std CLRVELANDS of other ages. A monarch abdicates his throne for her, student. of princely rank enrol themstives as her body-guard, sew/piper editors (if not poets) own hi r fascinations, warriors quake at her horsewhip, and priests grow pale at her approach. Tne spirit of chivalry may he extinct, but the spirit of romance (and folly) assuredly is not. Yet fertile though the theme be in burlesque and painful associations, we should have passed it un noticed like any other cause eglAre of our police courts, bat for the illustrations it affords of defects in o u r I.gul institutions. With all our deference for the fascinating lioane we lay very little straws on her assertion, that Lord Baounnax has got an act of parliament to divorce her from her first husband. The noble and learned' lord's inesistible propensity to dabble in divorce cues, does, indeed, lend an appearance of possibility, if cot of probability, to the statement ; bat had It been corner, his lordship . could have resisted the temptation of such an opp inanity for public di-playas w mid have been afforded by his appear ance as witness, and legal adviser of his fair client in • pities court. The invention, however, as, in the almoner of cwroborative testimony, we must for the present hold it to be, was very feiciti ms ; the selection of Lord BROUGHAV as the author of a divorce bill, shews a delicate instinctive tact for the graiseinhtssle in a romance. But s-tting aside this story it is obvious that nothing is more likely than that a foreigner divorced a Inensq et Own), (as the slang of Doctors' Commons bath it) might sincerely believe that she was divorced to a I intents and purposes. In every other civilised country where divorces can be obt tined. they are awn& dby a court of justice. The absuri and com plicated procedure of England, is unknown else where. Foreigners know that people are not ull - divorced in England. But bow are forever' to know that the marriage tie can ot:ly ba finally and utterly dissolved by a th eefold process pursued in three distinct trihnuals? that the divorcing power in Eng land ie • triple-headed Cerberus, each rf whose heads must be propitiated by its own peculiar honey cake? In England the injured party must retain and Pay three sets of lawyers, and pay the fees of three courts, before ho can obtain a divorce. One court Will declare the frail partner guilty and unworthy to associate with the other. A second court will award to the injured piety dtmages against the intruder on his domestic happ4iess. A third court is required to dirsive the bond which unites the innocent to the guilty. The law legislative courts of England d ivide the labours of judicial office among them much in the same minty send vexationsf +shim) that Indian domestics divide the menial duties of a household among them. We have n o thi ng to do at present with the ab•urd i ty•nd inju s ti ce o f all this. Oar object just now is to insist upon the impossibility of foreigners beteg aware of the existence of such complicated and irravonal arrangements. Nothing is more natural than that foreigners for or against whom Doctors' Commons his pronounced one of its sham sentences of divorce should believe themselves at liberty to marry again. Our triple process of divorce is neither more nor Ices than a trap set to catch unwary foreigners in the act of bigamy. Assuming, for the sake of ergs meat, all that has been said on the pert of the prose eator against the Counties of LANDOYELDT to be true, the probability is that that person, in coal:toting a iscond marriage, sincerely believed herself to be free from the tea of the first. The presumption is so droop that she is entitled to the full benefit of it. It would be a disgrace to the law courts ef England were a strarger punished as for a felony for entering into what the unaccountable character of the law of England might easily lead her to suppore a perfectly legal contract. In forming a judgment on such a case we have nothing to do with the pest or present character of the Tarty interested. Every reran is entitled to fair play ; and what is the fate of a dashing adventuress one day, may be the fate of an innocent and (needless women the next, until the law is amended. Another defect of our law placed in glaring relief by the proceedings against Lots MONTE!, is the want of a public prosecu or. Legal offences are either against private individuals or naiad the general public. The former clam ought to be prosecuted by the injured individual alone. If be chooses to put uo with them, no other hes any int rest in their being punished, or any right to insist upon it. The latter clogs ought to be prosecuted by a public officer in the name and on behalf of the public. The =sequences of confound ing these two classes of offences, and ma king no provision far the prosecution of offences against the public, in the name and on behalf of the public, is made startlingly apparent in the proceedings which have suggested these comments. The party injured, if any party be injured, is a man came to the age of majority, acting for himself in all things, emancipated from legal tutelege. So far from wish iog to pr.:mute the alleged offender he appears in court to countenance and sustain her. But the absence of any distinction between the modes of pre cedars in public end private penal actions, and the want of a public prosecutor, enables another party to commence en sction. It is instituted not for the pur pose of separating the parties, for it is obvious that they will cling to each cther legally or illegally. It is instituted not for the vin dication of public justice, far the public has no interest or concern in the matter : indeed but for the notoriety of police proceedings the public might never have known anything about the matter. It is instituted simply aid solely for the purpose of curying on a family feud. The English law courts will be com pelled to play in this case the part which in romances and tnelo-draman dtvolves upon feudal retainers or hired bravos. They will be made the execu tioners of outraged family pride ; and their time will be wasted, and their dienity compromised by their beine made the channel of conveying to the curious public detailed rtvelaticns respecting the fond and foolish bridegroom, his dashing and eccentric bride, and his proud, sensitive, and relentless maiden aunt. The court of law in which the action proceeds will be converted for the time into a minor theatre, attracting an audience by a demote drama of " thrilling interest." PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. _ . ?MEETING AT GREENWICH. A Ineetilg of the CittserMioA Parliamentary and Fiametial Reform Atsociation was heldlesterder eveninz in Providence Chapel, Powie-street, Woolwich, G. W. Mall ruts, Req., la the chair, in the place of John Wade, Etc', who was absent in consequence of the sudden death of one of his family. The CHAIRMAN, after Ismenting the unavoidable ale sense of Mr. Wade, alluded to the very unequal taxation of the rich and poor, and drew attention in str.ng terms to the pension list. After some remark+ about neatetty of equali eiug the parliamentary districts, he called upon the audiences to au their utmost exertions to support tbe ovulation. Mr. HARDIIAN then proposed the first resolution:— " That the absence of a really representative House of Cautions, the preponderance of le,ehdation, the unequal primate* of taxetior, the general estravaganee of the public expenditure, and the consequences of these evils engenderlog disco ntent and threatening disorders fatal to the political and to the social of this empire, render the com bination of the midd le ril and working classes, for the attain ment of parlantentery reform, a matter of momentous im portance to the state." Mr. BLIGH, in seconding this resolution, said that he wee a working man, end that he wished to contradict the assertions of those who made it appeer 'hat working men were opposed to such asiesiatious as this. He was most anxious to further its objects. Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON then said The policy of the t revernion body bad hitherto been to govern through the oivi•don of the people, and, unhappily, hitherto with too much soc ears. Every step taken by the Metropolitan Re form Association wee pregnant with hopefulnese that the time had at lust arritrd when reparation was no longer pos sible, and when not nr• re by the vices of an imperfect system of repreeentation than an intuitive sense of danger to all that was wormy of preservation in the institwbos of the country, the two greet classes would unite in irresistible union for a safe, extensive, and searching measure of reform. (Loud eheere.) The chattg-, however, to be tee, must be moral la its nature. (Cheers.) Englishmen were provetbial for that invaluable common sense which prefers the known to the unknown. The Frenchman invent., the Englishman Improves, and every reform which was worthy of the name bare the impress of progressicn rather than that of sudden revulsion. ( Cheers.) Still the reform proposed was of a large character, for it went to enfranchise five millions eat of six millions and a half. (Cheers.) He told the working man that if the contest was to be successfully carried one, the sympathies of the middle class must he enlisted in order that the means of carrying en successful agitation might be found. If the in fluence of wealth in this country could make a railway king, before whom in his smith the proudest aristocracy in the world could bend the knee, and with equal perversity break up the idol when evil thus clouded the sunshine ol his prosperity : hew Emcees try we it that this powerful in strument should be used for the advaneemsnt of the principles of civil and religious liber.y. (Cheers.) The, truth was now diffusing itself, that government was an In stitution made fir the welfare of the people, and not the people for the advantage of the governors. (Cheers.) And wire the knowledge of that truth be came unisons', tliera would be at once and for ever, an end to claw le;islatinn. (Ilear, hear) Everything showed that the country wee ripe for a new reform bill. Northamp • toot was in the and to-morrow he, Mr. Atkinson, and the eloquent and gifted member for the Tower Hamlets, Mr. George Thompson, would address a public meeting eonvi nod for the purpose of raising a national tallying cry. (Laud cheers.) From Scotland and Ireland aid was combs', and that power reaultiog from union which was then enabling that glorious people who were hurling back the Muscovite serfs upon heir barren deserts, would in this ountry win a bloodless and permanent victory over the cor rupt influences which stood in the way of the advancement of humanity. (Loud cheers I After some further ob servations, the learned gentleman concluded an enisna•ed en eloquent address, by trusting that the ati-tocracy would have the wisdom to concede at once the measure of reform now ask , d for, lest like the syhilline books, the price to be pile' would 1* increased as the danger teems more immi nent. (Loud cheers.) A vote of thanks was then passed by acclamation to the chairman, and the meeting separated. THE CHOLERA. - THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S REPORT. Return of CAMP of cholera rrported to the General Baard of Health 'este/day, August 7; Attacks. Deaths. Is London and vicinity, viz.:— Lanaketh li , renondoey Southwark 24 20 Camberwell Other !realities in London l4l 66 In England and Wain Liverpool Marini r Tydfil Dow lais Plymouth Yoram ..th Other towns la England 174 98 In Seltland : Dun lee Arbroath 1419 68 12 9 13 18 3 17 24 16 1 1 Total In consequence of the severity of the visitation of the cholt ra in the metropolis, and in several parts of the country, the General Board of Health has been rceupitel in nuking additional provition of medical service. The cholera has been particularly severe at Heath. The mayor, a medical practitioner, had fallen a victim to it. Throughout Wales the visitation ocean to he very severe. I' was reported eat of a body of forty men employed by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers in cleansing in Bermondsey, twenty had been attacked with cholera and two had died. The following inquest was held yesterday : THE MEDICINES RECOMMENDED RV THE BOARD OP HEALTH. Before Mr. Carter, at the Queen Elizabeth Tavern, Walworth Common, on the body of John Seeley, aged 82 years, a milkman, lately residing in Lower Doctor 'crept, Walworth. Edward Seeley, son of the deceased, said his father was taken ill on the morning of Sunday week last, with severe pains and cramps its the limbs. Witness was present at life death. which t ok place on Sunday morn 'mg. He had no idea of what was the cause of death, but he believed it to have been hastened by a mixture which had been obtained from the workhouse dispensary. Mr. Bodily, surgeon of the Walworth road, bad been called in to see the deceased some time before his death, and he greatly disapproved of the mixture witness referred to.— Mr. Buddy was called, and he stated that he attributed the death to the administration of the chalk mixture.—The Coroner: But Is not this very medicine recommended in similar cases ?—Mr. Soddy • It has been recommeadsd by the Board of Health, but T consider it highly improper, and believe that mmy deaths have lren canoed by its use. No one would have prescribed chalk mixture who knew the cause of ditrybccs in the present instance. Any other me dicine judiciously given might have saved the deceased's life It was true this remedy woe recommended by the Beard of Health, but he (wimps.) believed that booed to be medically incompetent —The Coroner said that as the case certainly 'mimed a serious aspect , he thought it would be much better to adjourn for a few dye, in order to obtain, if pos sible, the evidence of the deceased's widow, who, it ap paired, had obtained the mixture from the workhouse, and a Iministered it to the deceased The jury concurred, and the inquiry wan adjourned. The Reeistrar General reports of the Ist ek which ended in &turd ty last, that "it fa unsatisfactory to observe that the constant inertias of mortality which commtnced in the woad week of July was maintained in the week ending S durday last. The deaths from all diseases in last week were 1,967—a mortality nearly double the weekly aaaaa le of the season, which is 1,008. The progress of the total mortality ia shown by the following numbers returned in the last four -weeks :-1,369, 1,741,1,931 and 1,967. The deaths from cholera, which, in six previous week., were 49, 124, 162, 339, 678, 783, in creased in the last to 928. A feature worthy of notice in the present return is the fact that, while the mortality canoed by cholera has increased, there has been simultaneously a decrease in the deaths attributed to diartbtra ; for whereas the deaths from this tikelll•P (including dya eatery) were, in four previous weeks, 54, 100,146, 235. in the last week they declined to 198—an amount which is nearly the same at in the eorreeponding week of the summer of 1848, and little more than that of the same week of 1848. It is shown, therefore, that the total mortality from diarrbmt, dysentery, and cholera 'motto's in this return to 1,124, while the ave rage io only 92. Coo'equently the excess from the three epi demics exceeds in some lettere the inerease attove the average of the mortality from al cause., which Is owing pertly to the ciecumstanat that the deaths from fractures, burns, and other injory, reeistered in the week, were unusually few. 0 bet epidemits besides those menti teed are under the average, with the exception of ho tping-cnugh, which a little exceeds it. The mortality from choltra still predominates on the south side of the river; the deaths there, which in the pre ceding week were 514, rase in the last to 821. Oa the north side of the Theme, the deaths in the western districts were 68, showier an increase ; in the northern 27, or neatly the same as in the former week; in the eastern 127, • slieht increase; and in the central, which includes St. Giles and S. George, Strand, Holborn. Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East Lon don. West London. and City, there is a small decrease, the comber bie a 93, though In the previous return there were 97 eh ethic The rrea'eat number in any district on the north side of the river is in West London. namely, 32. Of the southern districts, there were 67 in Bermondsey, 86 in New i-gton, 112 in Pt. G 'ors.. Southwark, and 143 in Lambeth. The deaths in Rotherbithe are now comparatively few. The i death Ma man of 49 years in Brompton was caused by err& peles of both legs, of putrid character (after 5 days' illness), nought from sleeping wth a child who suffered from the dil -1 ease. The daily mean of the barometer was highest on Thnneloy, when it was 29 96.5 The mean of the week was 29.793 The temperature wee under the average of the oar respond:net days of seven yeses, on every day except Thors day. The highest in the shade was on Thursday, namely, 74 deg. 5 min. The mean temperature of the week was 69 deg. 5 rain. The number of births during the week was 1,393." PRLYCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO EXETER IN 1850. We understand tbat his Royal Matinee Prison Albert has aeorptid the invitation from the Right Boa. Lady Rolie to sojourn at Bicton pork. on the occasion of the visit of the Royal Aoriesltural Society to Baster in 18641, when his royal hiahnen bassi fled his intention of being Event. — Devonshire C • . THE. EXPRESS, WRIPIAD4.X . EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1849. INDEPENDENCE OF HUNGARY:- MEETING AT SHEFFIELD. A plastics mettiag, over erbiek Ur. Councillor Iron oite presided, was held in Paredimenutere, Sheffield, on Monday enable." To congratulate Hie Hungarians on their recent glorious victories, and to s ysyatbl with them k their struggle for liberty and indepi.“ The CHAIRMAN, in opening tee isroseedingg, soli .le gave him very great pleasure to meet kis fellowdmemnsee at length on that imps rtant question. He held le is lee a disgrace to Sheffield that she had been so bog kWh, teeth =fens= to that great struggle. He was alms= ashamed of Min; a Sheffielder, when he thought of tho supineness manifested on that question. Sheffield had been long known as a democratic town, and yet they had looked on in ibises while the most unparalleled barbarity had Isms perpetrated by Ross* by Austria, and by Frame. I Nay, we leave even in the town one paper whirls his put torch =me wet atrocious egatiments =spec:tag those streets. And , while he was calmest ashamed of being a Sheffinder, he was altogether ashamed of being an English. man for the past that England had taken en that question. The policy of Englund was noniintervention, and he assented to it with all his heart. He held that the pin cep= of non intervention, if properly carried out, would have prevented all the disgraceful atrocities which have been lately perpetrated. Newintervention, as he under stood it, meant that England refrained from interfering in the =negation= of any other nation ; aced that principle serried out, also ingest that England should take good care that no one else interfered. Utile= it meant that also it was all humbug to talk of not-intervention. Too long the " British Lion" has been asleep, 'nosing " non interven tion." (Laughter.) The Russian bear, counting upon tbs., has been guider= the most treacherous and unparalleled barbarity. Ought not the principle of son-intervention to came England's ban to stand fins, and say " lam not going to interfere, and therefor. I'll take good care you don't." Instead of that, England had stood by and permitted, with out protest, the prmest iniquity—even the bombarding of Rome by the French. Mr. R. OTLEY next addressed the meeting. He began by lamenting the absence of those who usually stand forward prominently in the diecustion of poLtical queotions in the town, and who, he remarked, he should have liked to see taking the lead on the present important occasion. The great struegle now going cn in Hungary was one from which the aristocratic and barbarian tyrants of Russia and Austria were hoping and imagining that they could team pkantly succeed in putting down the liberties of Europe. But they forgot that they lived in a new end improved age, —an age in which the realisation of their designs would be impossible. They cannot by possibility hold down a miles that is determined to be free. After noticing the her barrios omelets of the Hungarians by their oppressing, Mr. ()ley regretted that the English people, by rams of their pecuniary difficmtiee, were unable to assist the Hungarians with their purses to the extent that they desired ; but yet he felt assured that meetings like that, held in every part of Great Britain, would exert an =- film= that would extend to free and prosperous Americs, and would secure for the oppressed Hungarians that =coos, 1 which England could but ill afford to bestow. Mr. Otley caecladed by moving—" That the brave Hungarians, in their struggle for independence and the establishment of demote& tic institutions, are eminently entitled to the support of the people of this and every other country ; and this meeting. viewing with abhorrence the atrocities committed by the Austrian forces, and regarding the intervention of Russia es a violation of the laws of nations, hereby call upon the British government at ones to recognise the independence of Hun gary, and interfere in behalf of the Hungarian people, is order that the horrors of war may bs put an end to." Mr. SE WARD seconded the motion. He cordially cos. curred in the spirit of the eta:Anion, and took occasion to record his opposition to both k:ngcraft and priestcraft. The CHAIRMAN, before putting the resolution, alluded to the fact that the Peace Society had never so much as passed a resolution with regard to the conduct of Franco and Russia, because in the instances in question war did not interfere with trade. He wanted the question to be taken up on higher principles. Ile then put the resolution to the vote, and it was carried by acclamation. Mr. ROBINSON, from London, proposed a memorial to her majesty, preying that the ietluence of the British govern meet might be men for the purpose of putting an end to the Hurganan war. Mr. BUTLER, after making an elaborate apology for having been born in Ireland, seconded the proposition. A resolution was then adopted, to the effect that toe memorial be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, and forwarded to the Home Secretary for presentation to her Majesty. Mr. S. JACKSON, nail maker, moved that a subscription he forthwith entered into for the purpose of assisting the Hucgarian ; that Mr. Otley and Mr. Imelda receive the subscriptions. Ile motion having been seconded snd carried, Mr. OTLEY made some =maths upon the subject of universal peace. The CHAIRMAN then called upon the meeting to hear him a few moments before they dispersed. Mr. &buck, our member of parliament (said he) had recently made some very great mistakes. Ho had bees at a meeting in London, at which he said that when the radicals of Sheffield heard that " Radical Rtbuck " was coming down to address them, nothing could earned the wildness of their expectations, and nothing could exceed their look of blank despair when he told them that he had no panacea for their evils. Now when Mr. Roebuck said that he made a great mistake. As for there being any wildness on the part of the de. mocrats when lir. Roebuck came down it was entirely the other way. The radicals of Sheffield wished to act upon the principle of forbearance. They believed Mr. Roebuck to be en honest, consistent man; and though, in their opinion, he did not come up to the mark by any means, yet they thought that by submitting to accept hiss, • junction would he effected with the liberals, so sailed, 01 Sheffield, and an opposition would be avoided. Now be (the Chair man) begged to tender to Mr. Roebuck, on behalf of the people of Sheffield, Lis hearty thanks for the meaner in whine be had represented the people of Sheffield is the matter of the Roman bombardment and the Russian and Assents atrocity. Mr. Roebuck had on two occasions spasm out boldly and decidedly on that subject., and he ntresented the unanimous voice not only of Sheffield, but of England in what he said. (Cheers.) The chairman then called for a series of demonstrations—three hearty cheers for the French people, three hearty groans for the French government, three good cheers for It. .me, three hearty good cheers for th e Hungarian generals, and three more for the Hungarian people, end thee, hearty groans for the autocrats of Russia and Austria and the despots all over the world. The several eels were loudly responded to. A collection for the object stated above was then made, and the proosediags =rain - ted with thanks to the chairman. THE HUNGARIAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE. —The mayor of Birminghem has called a town's mewing on this subject for Monday next. This requisition to his worship was • ivied by several mashitrates, 11 aldermen, 22 council lure., and a large number of the most respectable inhabitants oft borough. A meeting is also to take place in Derby. THE HON. MR. MOSTYN'S LANDED ESTATEIL—A week or two back, we took occasion to place on record the great success which had attended the sales held by Memo. Cburton, at Parkgete. when very few of the lots remained unsild out of the whole estate, and since that time we find those have been picked up. We have now the pleasing taik of noticing the brilliant success which attended the it sale at Rhyl, nn Tuesiay lest, a larger number of buyers attending than was ever known. It was compered that no less than 300 persons were present, In consequence of which they wire c,mpelled to adjourn from the Royal Hotel to the newly erected public room. The utmost excitement pre veiled, and the biddings were most spirited. The building lands Tonged from 2s. to 7e. 3d. per square yard, and, though the quantity which was allotted for that purpose was small, realised nearly 6,0001. The small farm., too, were eagerly insight after, and some fetched upwards of forty years' par dive on the present rentals. 'this speak, well for our two neighbouring rivals, Parkgats and Rhyl. We ought like wise to mention that the sale of the Udod and other *dates in Wales, which took place in Coaster on Monday last, was equally successful, nearly every lot being sold at satisfactory prices.—Chester Chronicle. THE. MANCHESTER CUSTOM HOUSE.—It appear& that the Lords other Majesty's Treasury are determined not to yield the point at issue between themselves and the Cor poration of Manchester, unless the legislature, with an nr mistakeable voice, step in between the prinks. Manchester prayed fur a bonding warehouse es a convenience to her large trade. Government, after long refusing the boon, granted it on the understanding that, if Mar cbes'er paid the expenses for a time, and the project for inland bonding sue ended, it might hope to bet relieved from the expense, and to he placed on the fame footing as other ports. In other words the expense of bouding was ultimately to be paid rut of the customs. Manchester has applied to government to be relieved of the emit, but has been refused, and in I secorlance with a resolution of the Town Council they will refuse to pay the coot any longer, and leave government to take bock its costly boon. Since the Town Council passed this resolution the Commercial Association has memorialised the Lord,' Commissioners to relieve the town of the expense of the local customs' establishment, and they signified their willingness to moist them in getting rid of the ' establishment. The following is the only of a letter received by the Manchester Commercial Association :-- ‘, Treasury Chambers, 3,1 August, 1249.—Sir,—The Lords Commi•sioners eof her Mi jesty's Treasury have had under their consideration &memorial from the Commercial Asso ciation of Manchester, preying relief in regard to thi expense of maintaining the local custom establishment at that town. 1 am commanded to acquaint you, that so long as the act 7 and 8 Vict., c. 31, remains unrepesled, my lords have no alternative as to carrying its provisions into execution : but if the parties for whose benefit it was intended, and at whose instance it was procured, deem it undesirable and burden some, my lords are not disinclined to assist in its repeal.—l as, sir, your obedient servant, W. D. HAITSII.—The Presi dent of the Commercial Association, Manchester." THE HARVEST.—The active operations of the har vest very generally commenced in this county on )10 11 daYt fields here end there having been cut in the course of the past week, and before Saturday night, should the weather continue fine, a large breadth will have fallen before the scythe and the sickle. The reports which reach vs are that the crops are generally heavy, and though par tialy beaten down by the ore aional storms of the lent fort night, we do net hear a murmur of any serious damage, be nd that done by the hail, in one district, which we have bebfore noticed. The potatoes, too, look healthy and un touched by the disease ; as far as: the digging has yet gone they come ep perfectly sound, so that altogether we may calculate on a pod average, in feet an abasdant harvest. Rues Herald. OE court. PASSAGE, NEAR. WATERFORD, August 4.—Shortly after the royal yacht Victoria and AIN rt had anchored, It. Royal Highness Prince Albert, amonspsnied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Allred, and at tended by the EsH ai Forteacue, tient -CJI. the Ho.. A. Gor don, Liens:Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Mr. Bircl, embarked in the Fairy, and promo did to Waterford. Hi. Royal Highnew was rowed in a bugs throueh the bridge, and returned to the Victoria and Albert, off Passage, at about seven o'clock. Despatctes were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governors of the North American colonies. Drsoatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial•otltes, for the Governors of Hong Kong anti Ceylon. The Duke and Duchess of 13neclench left town yesterday, for their Seat in Dumfrienhire. :Prom last night's Georgie.] CAMBRIDGE-HOUBS, Auo. 4.—The Duke of Cam tni ine has been pleased to appoint Edward Henry Sieve King, Esq.. Member of the Royal Collin* of Phy sicians, to be one of Hie Royal Highness's Physicians. FOREIGN-OMCE, AUG. 7.—The Queen has bt n graciously pleased to appoint James Grignon, now British Vies-Consul at Venice, to be Her Majesty's Consul at Portland, in the United States of North Auseeic., DOWNING-STREET, Aco. 7.—The Queen has been tvto apni iat William George Knox, Esq., to be chief , and Herbert Tesernshisnd Bowen, Esq., to be puiane . juisre, for the island of Trinidad. CROWS-OFFICE, Act:. 6.—Member returned to serve is this present parliament for the borough of Boston : Builleyhadevirmrsloam,Eiot the room of Sir Jos Duke, Kat., who has accepted the office of steward of her Majesty's Ciiil4lllll 'Landreth. READING ELECTION. THE POLLING-RETURN OF A CONSER- VATIVE. TUESDAY EVENING, ArousT 7. The pilling began at eight o'clock this morning. There were only three gentlemen competing for the honrur of representing this constituency, a large placard being in eirdastion a few hours prior to the commencement of riling announcing that Sir John Hare had retired from the con. test in favour of the " people's choice," Mr. Thomas Norton. Great excitement again pnvalled, and it continued moil the fins! close of the poll. At four o'clock the conservative commi•tss published the awa state of the rill, .1.1.4 t gave to Mr. Stanford a majority of 142, as will be seen by the following : Mr. Stanford Mr. Bowyer 3 6 .5 Mr. Norton - - • • • • ••• - • This afternoon the ultra-liberals caused hand-biTs to be distributed, of which we give a cope Electors,—Protests have been s , eyed on the returning officer of the borough, by Mr. Norton at d certain electors, against the proceedings of the pill clerks, who have made the election invalid and illegal by their acts, and by the improper rejection of votes." The mayor will make his official declaration of the poll to morrow rooming. LORD DENMAN'S HEALTII.—W• are girl to be able to say that this distinguished nobleman's h ealth, cab gut which so many false and alarming rumours have teen circu lated, is rapidly improving, and that he is progressing as quickly towards entire convalescence as his numerous friends scald wish.—Globs. HLOPEMENT.—A fashionable elopement was the subject of examination before the magistrates at E'on. A gentleman of the name of Keeling, raiding in Borland place, Landon, applied for a warrant to recover a Young lady, alm named Keeling, his daughter-in-law, from the posses 'ion of a young gentleman named Boynton, the son of an eminent Yorkshire baronet, end an officer in Prince Albert's regiment, the 11 Hussars. The complAuant stated that hie daughter-in-law had eloped from his house with her military inanorata, and were married at St George's, Hanover•rquare, by licenso from Doctors'. eremmons. The Haase, of which he obtained a copy at St. George's Church, to which he traced the fugitives, and which ho now produced, was landsmentally false, stating that both the contracting parties WON of age, whereas neither of them were ; and his daughter-in-law was only 17. She was an I heir. as, and w..uld hays a large fortune on coming of ego. I The magistrates said it was not within the competency of their jurisdiction to interfere as the applicant wished, an a ease which might be the first step in a chancery suit, and recommended him to consult a solicitor as soon as possible. As to the marriage, the act haying taken place, it could not be annulled. Was them any objection to the bridegroom ? and might not some °oscillatory arrangement be effected ? The applicant mid that the objection of the family to the marriage was the minority of both parties, and the large fortune in trust for the bride on ariyit g at her 1111jOritf. He wouU not say that ultimately arrangements might not be laid', satisfactory to all parties ; but, in the mean while, his daughter-in law ought to be platted under the pro tection of her randier (the wife of the applicant). In reply to a gasolene of the beach, the applicant said that the run away couple yam then at the Royal Hotel. Slough, to which kis aster, and the mother sad married sister of the yang lily. had traced them. He had left the three ladies with his daughter in-taw while he came on to Eton to make the pr: seat application ; but Mr. Boynton, the bridegroom, re fused to glee up his wife, or to let her quit the apartments he had engaged. He must admit that the young lady was a consenting party. The magistrates repeated that they had no power to comply with the applicant's re quest. He might go hack to Slough, and reclaim his daughter-fa-law on bebsif of her mother, hie wit.. That he might have done of his own accord, and in case of any violence or sena% he might resort to the assistance of the police. Ultimately Mr. Superintendent George King sad supernumerary constable Burton were directed to accompany the applicant to the Royal Hotel, Slough ; aced they departed with him in his carriage, in ,cer to be at hand should any violence or collision recur; but eu veillatinn and caution were recommended ad en. bah parties. Oa the return of the officers they joined to reported that the father-in-law of the bride and thebride teem b e d a long and earnest conference in a private T em ; t h a t, ge &toluently, , the mother of the young lady wee asst fee le join the conference, and that shortly after wards the emeseables wsre informed that their service' were ne esin i ce d, i t Wog understood that the conference eaded iae ra friendly edjourna,nt to London being reoalmd apes--Aylesbury New. MIDLAND RAILWAY: The chairman of the com mittee of jays on proposes the appointment of three p a id an d e di rec tor' for the future management of this line. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. The agitation which terminated in the reduction of the newspaper stamp duty was eommenced and con tinued fees considerable time by the unpaid exertions of a number of artisans, and a very few from the eager classes. Several of the artisans who exerted themselves on the earlier occasion have th's year sato cia•ed themselves with others for the purpose of obtain iog the repeslof the remaining duty of one penny. Their committee was formed on the 7.h of last March. The veteran Francis Place has consented to act as their treasury r, sad they have opened an office. Their object is, by communicating with different parts of I the country, to prepare the way for a movement in favour of the total abolition of the taxes on knowled;e. The tines on knowledge consist of : The duty on &refits books, which, in the year 1848, produced £ 7,647 13 7 The duty on paper 745 79 . 1 9 4 The duty on advertisements The penny stamp on newspapers £1,266,73316 6 From the:last item must be deducted the expense of trans mitting by post 66,000,000 newspapers, as well as the cost of the manufacture of the stamps. Taking the net przaveds at 160,0001., the whole amount of the tams on knowledge is 1,116,7331. 164. 6d. In addition to these burdens, the proprietor of a newspaper is bound to give security to pay any damages that may be awarded against him in case of libel—• &yam which seems to infer that to publish a newspaper is of itself saddest:o of an intention to break the law. . . The following extract from an address, ieled by the committee on the 20:h of June, will, we are sure, be perused with interest: The arguments used in favour of the neerspsper tax may be reduced to three : let. That it is muted for the sake of revenue. 2nd. That a cheep press mast be a licentious one. 3:d. That the peony stamp is merely a tax on London be the purple of spreading kaowledge through the couny. From a return made to the House of Commons, M rt arch 23, 1849, on the motion of Mr. Brothcrton, we find that the gross revenue derived from this source amounted, in the year 1848, to 360,2731. 13.. 7d. Mr. Rowland Hill, is 1847, before a select committee of the House of Lords, calculated the number of newspapers sent prat-fr. e in one year at 68,000,000, and the expense of their transmission at 374,3761. —bEiog a little more than five farthings for each Flier. Of course a great part of this expense is incurred for the sake of the letters; but when from the sum of 360,2731. 13s. 7d. we deduct the expense specially incurred for the transmission of 68,000,000 newspapers, added to that of the Stamp-081os, it will appear that the net amount can not be of gnat importance. If, indeed, the public were to make a fall use of their postal privilege it teems probable that the government would suffer a len, and that for the sake of the revenue they might abolish the tax. It may, per haps, become necessary to concede that the transmission of newspspen by peat should be made self-supporting, and that a charge should be made varying according to weight. The expense of sending large peeks% of newspapers by rail is very different on different lines. They are thus sent to Liver pool at the rate of orie•third of a farthing each, a fact whieh ,eems to show that the chief postel expense is that f sorting Ind distributing, and that, In the case of large towns, the post-cffice is not the best medium for the transmission of newspapers. To the second objection—viz , " that a cheap press must be o licentious 0116 " —we reply that there is no evidence that &sap literature is more licentious than dear literature. We could easily point out penny pub.ications of the highest cha racter and dear ones of the lowest. But the plea is insincere. No amount of licentiousness is interfered with by the govern ment, unless it be politic el. To publish obscene tales is a safe occupation ; to publish a record of political events with comments is illegal. The poor, who have nothing to do wi.h the laws but to obey them, are not to be taught what the laws are which they have to obey. Brtiety loudly . declares that it cannot guarantee them a right to live by their labour ; hut it refuses to allow them to obtain that krrwledge which, in the complicated state of civilised society, can alone guide • them to a life of successful independence. If, in their ignorance and helplessness, they resist the law, a prism is their doom ; and if any benevolent man devere his capital hie intelligence, end his energies to their enlightenment, the law awards him to the same late. . . With regard to the third a , garment, we have no partiou'r objection to taxing tondos in order to spread knowledge through the country; but we object to any tax whieh acts as a prohibition. We have already shown that the evil of this taxation begins exactly where the tax ceases to be paid. If newspapers must be transmitted through the post at a loos, let that lom be made good out of the surplus revenue of the Post-office, out of the co..eolidated fund, rut of corporation dues or local taxes ; but do not prohibit newspapers to those who cannot pay the tax, and call this spreading knowledge tLrouah the country. Nor can we admit that the perm.s who receive newspapers through the poet, and who gene rally belong to the comforable classes, stand so much i.. need of newspapers as thole who, unable to attend any but elementary schools—too poor to purchase, and too busy to read, many b mks—are entirely dependent for information on the gleanings made for them by the daily or weekl I press. We require the repeal of the stamp duty on newspapers, let. Because as a differential duty in favour of the rich against the poor, it is contrary to the principle of tree trade— a principle admitted ,by near ly all reformers to be • soucd one. _ _ _ 2. Because, by railing the price of newspapers, it not oily prevents the poor from expressing their °pinkies, but make it impossible for men of intelligence to devote their capital to the enlightenment of the working classes, who are thus compelled to put up with a very inferior article, or to abstain from newspapers altogether. 3. Because, by making large capital indispensable to the metes of all newspapers, it limits their number so as to de prive them of wholesome (»nevi ion, and puts the public at the mercy of a few individu ils, who are but too often in competent, mercenary, and unprincipled. 4. Because, by depriving the working classes of organs for the expression of their opinions, it tend, to create in them a feeling of hatred to those who, in addition to other advan. taw, enjoy a m mopoly of teat freedom of utterance which should he common to all. 6. Because the law, as it Mande, is not fully enforced, and because its penalties are so severe that their enforcement would cause general reprobation. According to the Act of Parliament (6 & 7 Wen. IV , cap 76), any paper sold for less than Bulimic., or occupying less t►a - t two large sheets, and published at inter vele,•hot case ing twenty-six days, end containing any public news, inteili genee,or we:tureen ere,or any remarks 'hereon, is deemed a news paper. It is needies to say that the number of paperswi.icb some render this head, and which are permitted by govern ment to exist without paying any tat except that on adver fitments, is already considerable, and is on the increase. That these papers, though not chit fly devo•ed to news, .neverthelese, contain news and ocespionol remarks on politics, must be attribut d to the fact that there is a demand foe such matter, but the supply is permitted only in so far as it is incomplete and inefficient . Every proprietor of such a paper holds his property at the pleasure of the minister, who has only to dec:are his paper a newspaper in order to destroy it. The 22nd clause of the same act 'saki s soy printer who merely poetesses a single unstempei newspaper liable to here all his presses wired and confiscated, The 23rd clause empowers constable* to break open doors fir the purpose of search ; the 18 h infi eta a penalty of 501. on any one who distribires unetamped newspapers ; while the 17th imposes a penalty of 201. on any one who possesses a single Dopy of any au-h publication. Imprisonment is awarded to those who fall in prompt payment of these penalties. Linder this law no eolli•ion with government has yet taken place. The penalty is too sevi re, and too stringent to be braved by any person who is not prepared for utter ruin. But the law ie not kept strictly, nor is it possible that it should he, unless the goven.reent were to acquire the habits of surveillance exploded in continental steel. The tax on newerithen origine'ed with the oligarchy. The middle classes are not respimeible fur it, bat they will become so if they do not use their growing power to remove it. In the movement now commenced by them, but which has not yet assumed its final shape, the working classes claim to take their pert, and to be heard in defence of their rights and of their opinions. If the middle cla•srs wish to improve the condition of those less fortunate than themselves, they have now a golden opportunity. The reduction of the duty (a mea sure of which they have reaped the chief benefit) was earned almost entirely without their aseistance. Let them, in their turn, carry that total repeal which will benefit all who have an interest in the spread of Imoe ledge or the progress of , truth. It is only by their assistance that this can be done in that perfectly legal manner which is the peculiar character istic of the middle class reformers of Great Britain, We believe that a free press would affird a quiet outlet to feelings and opinions which it is alike unjust and unsafe to repress, that it would enhance the peaceableness of any future agitation, and render society secure by inspir:ng the unhappy with hope and the indignant with patience. If we turn to foreign countries we find this view confirmed. The destruction of order has often been followed, but never preceded, by the freedom of the press. It is only when the cry of the oppressed is stifled, and the right of free utterance denied, that the dumb speak in the roll - of musketry under the protection of harriradea. We call, therefore, on you, the reformers of the Gaited Kingdom, while yet your movement is scarcely begun, to clear the way for a free diseumioa of the people's rights and ' the people's grievances, by demanding the exemption of the press from all taxation and its emancipation from all control except that exercised by a court of law. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. —A respectable grocer, living within one hundred miles of Pontypool, having heard that one of his debtors had that morning started to Lir. r. pool en route for America, immediately followed the party. When be arrived in Liverpool he lost no time in calling on an attorney, stating that the party owed him 161., and he was determined to have him arrested. He was advised that ,1 he could do nothing unless the mats owed him 201. This puzzled the grocer, who still vowed vengeance. A thought came into his head, however, that if he could find the delis- 1 quent he would ask him in a friendly way to take a glue of ale, and offer to lend him 41., which would snake his debt 201. He had no sooner thought of the rues than acted upon it. He soon found out his customer; the bait took ; he handed him the 41., sad went forthwith to his attorney and made affidavit of his debt, to whom he also paid 41. expenses of the writ, tic. Unartunately, however. before the writ mill be placed in the hands of the sheriff the debtor was on board the vessel, and far enough out of reach of the luckless creditor, who thus pail dearly for kis jaunt to Liverpool.— Limpet &Godard. CHOLERA AND MURDER IN LIVERPOOL. Oa Mat.day, at Liverpol, before P.l;. Carry, Foci, the borough comer, isqueots were hrld, cot jointly, 0., via*, of the bodice of J Ines Culkin and Catherine Cullin, both eLildren. . _ Jane Kane sworn, said—l am a widow, end live in Plea street. The deceased parties lived in Oriel street. The father's name was Patrick Jos ph Culki 1, and I knew him well. Tne house is in a court. He had three children— namely, James, aged about eight years, Sarah, about of van years, and the third, Catherine, aged &mut eleven months. No one but themselves lived in the house. One of the children (Sarah) riled of cholera ea Wednesday evening last. Next morning, at seven o'clock, his wife died. I was present when she died. I sew the husband then, and he appeared to be in • very melancholy way. I hired him say several times that be could not live af er her. I asked him to take a cup of tea. He said. Nu! he would never again taste food in this warld. The deceased children, James and Catherine, wens then in the house. I slept in the house on Tnureelay night. Next evening the hus3and still appeared to be in a low melancholy way. About twenty minutes before ten o'clock i went out, and left the father and the two decessud children in the hnun.. I gave the youngest (Catherine) into his arms. About halt-past two en the aft-ninon I went back. I mend the el.ior fast. I lifted the latch, but could Lot get in. I tarn went and lifted the window, and got in through it. I looked into the bed where the corpse of his wife lay, and behind the corps l saw Cu l kin bicit. no had one arm round the neck lof the errpv, and the other on her beers'. I then ots *greed that his the sat was cut. I did ant know then whether he was alive or deed. I u ducked the icor she key of which was inside, and called in assistance. De. Mluer was parsing at the time, :aid I celled him in S renal ceiehbours also came in. We then found the two &ceased children, James and Catherine, with their throats cut, and quite dead. They were both on the airs bed witn the mops,. James was lying at the but of the bed, and Cathe rine by his side. Cu kin, :he father, was taken to the Madmen Hospital. Previous to Wednesday last I never observed anything in his conduct and manner that led me to &s i ps. him to be at all deranged in his intellect. lie was very much attached to his wile and children. I never I saw a man more affectionate. After the death of his wits he spoke in such a Malin way that I did think he was net him self. He has been in sucn low clecunastences that he war latterly advised to seek 'parish relief. Mr John Dixon Kiluer said :—I am • surgeon. Oa Friday afternoon last, as I was p smug the end cal • pas sage in Oda street, • woman cm* nut and almost pulled me into a house is the court above. She was too much excited to tail me what had happened. In • room on the ground floor I saw a bed, its which I saw two caresses which bad eppaeently been laid out for burial, and behint the two, next to the wall, I saw Culkin lying in a state of insensibility, and blood about his neck. After that I found that his throat was cut. There was • great crowd of persons collected. I eeut out for the p dice, and then had Culkin removed to the Northern D• spite!. lie was then partly c macious. I afterwards found the two both...described by Mrs. Kole. They were both quite dead, and had evidently been a f for s due hours. Their throats were both cut rum one side to the other, which hail evi dently caused their dim h. This razor bade [produce.'] wan handed to me by the last witirem, or some female is the house. There were several spits of blood upon i.. There was • great quantity of blood on the bed, hut 1 observed none on the floor. lam satlfied that the 'Mist child coald not himself hays Selected the wound which I saw on his the rt. Mary Guy said—l am a widow, and live at 48, Jordan street. I kLew Patrick Joseph Culkin. Three week. Iwo ha hired a cellar mad r the house 1 live in for a school. On Friday week he heft, and said he would be beck on the followieg Mood y. lie came on that day, and said his little girl was very ill of the choler.. I saw nothing more of him till Thursday last, shortly alter dinner, when he came and said that his wife and child were deed. lie said he would sooner OM than live, after the hoes of his wife. He also said that his little boy was sick, and he doubt, d whether be would not he dead before he tit home. I saw nothing more of him afterwards. Mr. Thomas Lea said—l am relieving rtlicer sir the parish of Liverpool. I visited the house of Petrick Culkin on Friday last, teethe first time. I undereteod the femily had been relieved the day rrevinusly. I found the door fast, and got in through the window. I found a child, ap parently about 6 or 7 years old, lying dead on a table. I saw • woman lying dead on the hot. I saw Culkin and two m i ler zhildren nil lying on the bed with the deceased woman I adv'e.d hi' , to get up, as it was daemons to lie with the g iowe g, en d se id I wculd return in the afternoon, and ar greanygeehiamb-eoutmtehree l i i n e t t e . rm u e e nt w . I m e u e ,liitiweeonleeedhi children r t we h nh e Lenvhelonlienwi had e 11hint sinndu the second time. I then saw the men before in the bed. The eldest sea' fuming t h e house, and the youngest wee in the alma of a woman. I did not observe any thing in the wanner cf Culkin beyond (ta il ction for hisses, to lead me to think that he was out cf lie mind. The coroner here stated that this waa all the evidence he had to lay before the jury . The Coroner quoted the following SSW, as bearirg a strong analogy to that before them, fr im " Cex's Crimea's' Law Cease " :—" The mason. r was indietul (Joae, 1815, before Mr. Baron Parke, in Huntingdonshire), lir the wilful murder of Harriet Barton, his wife, by cutting her throat with a razor. It wee proved that the prisoner and the de. cessel were husband and wife, and that,up to the day named in the indictment, he had always tented ler and their children with kindness. They were Prrn telkiee 'Nether et their door at night, and at four o'clock on the following morning it wee discovered that he had cut the throats of his wire and child, end that he had attempted suicide. When questioned by the surgeon, be cx htbited no sorrow or remoter, but stated that " trouble end dread of poverty and dee itution had made him do it, fearing that his wile and child would starve when he was dead.' Ile made a further Larrative, which, coupled with a knowledge of the prisoner's private cfrcum..tercese induced the surgeon to form the opinion that the prisoner, at the time he committed the act, had not, in coesequence of an incontrollable impulse, to which all human beings were abject, any control over his conduct. The desire to SRA .*in and injury on thole previ ;way dear to the prisoner, was, in itself, a strong symptom of insanity, and the im possibility of resisting a sudden impulse to slay a fellow toeing was another indication that the mind was insme. Finally, the surgeon's decided epini• n was that the pri soner was in an insane state of mind at the time. Beron Perks told the jury the questinta was whether, at the time the prisoner committed the act, he was in a state et* mind that rendered him reapoesible for the murder ; end that would depend upon whether be at the time was aware of the nature and character of the deed he was committing, and knew he was doing wrong by wasting. In this case the pris seer was convicted, and sentence of death was passed, but he was afterwards pardoned" The Coroner concluded by saying that the safest verdict wcule b • one involving the felony, and the case would be dealt wifh in a higher court. The jury . immediately returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Patrick Joseph Culkin in ho:h cases." The accused i; still at the hospital, and very ill, but levee are entertained of his recovery. He had formerly, been in ge circucostancf s. CAUTION AGAINBT RETAINING MONEY ORDERS TOO LONG IN HAND.—The followinz notice has been issued by the Post-vttiee authorities: "By the 11th and 12th Vic. c. 88, it is enacted. shit all money orders intuit before the end of August, 1848, and not omen's d for payment heroes the end of August, 1849, shalt be null and void. And by a regulation male under the authority of the s.me act by the Postmuter•Generel, with the consent of the Lords Cos mix sioners of her blijesty's Treasury, Every money order issued subsequently to August 31, 1848. shall be void, unless pre sented for tayment before the end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which it was issued. Thus, a money order issued in September, 1848, sill lose all value, unless presented for payment before the end of September, 1849 " TREATMENT OF DEBTORi IN COUNTY GAOLS.— Twre is an important alteration in the C runty Courts Amendment Act with respect to the treatee:nt of debtors, which will take effect in a few dept. It is provided that from and after the 31st August so much of the C.iinty C nets Act as au horises any judge to order a party or defendant to be committed shall be repealed, and it shall be lawful for any judge who would have been authorised under the said set to order any party or defendant to be committed as afore said for env such period as directed, to or.'t r such ply yor defendant to be committed for the like period to the common poi wherein the debtors under judgment and in execution of the superior courts of justice may he confined for the county, city, or lrirough. Where the debtors prisons are situated at an iecoi,venient distance, or crowded, the Se cretary of State may Whorls: commitments to be made to o House of Correction, " and to soaks such orders for altering the regulations of such House of Correction or gaol as last aforesaid, so far as resp.cts the treatment of persons to be committed under this act. in order that such person may he treated as scary as may be in like manner, es if they had been committed to prisons. in which such debtors as af.:l,- slid may be confined, notwithstanding the regulations in force in such House of Correction or gaol to which such ' perique may be committed, every such order moy from time to time be revok d or varied by such Secretary of State, as occasion may require." INQUEST tESTERDAT.—DEATII OF A SOMNAM o atiLlAT.—Before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital on the I body of Joseph Boukett, aged 56 years, who was killed under the f illowing very shocking circumstances. It op peered that the deceased was a German emigrant, and had saved up same money in America. He bad left thatocuntry , a short time sines, and arrived in London for the purple of it retu-nine to his native pare. He took up hie lodgings at a German lodging hewer in Ship-alley, Welielose square, St. George in the Ee•t. and he Slept in a room with 10 other emigrants, in bucks or haulm. eke, which were fastened against the wall. On Thursday night he went to bed is the usual manner, and about one o'clock the fo lowing morning be was seen to leavii his bunk, and crawl along the ground towards the window. One of the Garenens said to him, " Where are you going ?" sod he replied in a strarge manner that it was not his business. The deceased appeared fast asleep, and before he could he prevented he opt ned the window, which was only four feet fr en the floor, then put his feet out, ►nd no fell to the ground, a distance of about 39 feet. He was im mediately picked up, end his heed was found to be fractured in a most shocking manner. H, was removed to the h ■. pita, were he dial shortly &rewards. The witness said an had se doubt that the decresed was asleep, but he did sot like to swear to it. The jury, in that ease, returned an rpm verdict, " That the deceased was killed by falling from window, but whether he was asleep or not there was no esi dams to show." ?I ;