The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

ad nee MI any pia, and after getting be.. I found a ~all bele in my Meek, • little larger than the heed of a pin. After murales to the right of the column, I gave the word . fin !" Thi. order was repeated by the colonel of the regi ment, and the ma Md. As moon as we fired the mob o . aw i worn than ever; the roam flew as thick se ball. Ilse mob attempted td ran upon as. The recorder was on sy r ight TM coder we* given to us to are again. I pve the order to are low so if blood was to be spaded life meld aot be Men. 'TM hallooing, end isereamine. sad b e stieg, wages peat that it was inapomilde for these 30 feet tom mesa bear the order. Several of the 'military bad to be tikes tom the paned is enessequesee of their braise,. Tke mob kept ealliag oat to we that we bad leather lints cad bleak cartridges, and to " Cme on, boys." After the woad an, we immediately crossed Aretor.plsee, and faced the Befell. The order for the mood firing was given Mee time before it was caseated. If the military bad not AM, I do not believe that one of them would be left stand. ?" iv* miastee. In Mine the Bowery, we were still with stems, and I think the recorder said we should or to fire @pia. I requited some person, either the sheeilr er the ebbe of police, to go to the crowd and per mute them to leave. TM oreeeder cad me or two others went. The remoter told us not to fire mill he returned I mid we should not ; there would be no danger until he , Minted. In •kw moments they »turned, as tbey Mil , been mailed with Maw. The recorder ordered 1101 mord te leave. The crowd did not leave. Ibis et 1 ear art had been injsund. Toe order wee aim to tea ; the order was executed. The mob in b of me amused la •kw moments. The military had peseembea el** frost. A mob was left at the corner of Ledayettmpleme. ia. Latayetemplees. Another crowd wan at the corner of the theatre. The recorder stated that we should be ander the necessity of Mug *gill'. After addressing the right wing to level their oboes obliquely toward Lafayette-place, the left wing to level their Mots obliquely to they.b toward Eighth street, the order was pros to fire. It was executed. After the mob was dbipmeed, on 1 okiog up our lines we found that we had missed about 60 men, who had been wounded. There were liar die inet Brier. The secoad battalion did not fire again. Tim rioters eonsitted mostly of boys 16 or 18 yeses of age. The presence of r. many citizens me were trim helped as doubt to eacourage them to acts of violenoe. I was not aware acid after *boat an hour that any person had been killed. No orders were given to lire suites give* by a Magiserata A Jarer—l should like to know if the law justifies the olden of the recorder and sheriff to fire ? Conner—Yes; they are magistrate'. Gen. Hall—We bad ao authority to protect ourselves but with orders from • magistrate, and if we bad not each we would have been under the necessity of withdrawiag the tag: resmed on Monday at 10 o'clock , w he n semealtrr wan witseeees were *items I Their t.stimisoy was fa mistime the same as that already published. The jury retired at half-past six o'clock. and after being eat a abort time, »earned and delivered the following ver dict -.—" We believe that Geo. A. Curtis, John lii'Donsid, Thos. Aylwood, George Lineal's, Timothy , Torßurns ry Otten, George W. Brows, Wm. Butler, Geo. W. lor, Owen 8e.., Thos. Bahasa, Neil Gray Mellia, Asa F. Col. Ens, Wm. Harmer, Thoe. Heiman, Matthew Cahill, Geo. l N. GM's'', cam to their deaths by gun-shot wounds from belle fired by the military during the riot before the Opera- house ea Thursday evening , 10th May inst., by order of the civil authorities of the city of New York ; and that the air. meastances existing at the time justified the authorities in giving the order to fire upon the mob. We further believe that if • larger camber of the OW had been Deleted out, the necessity of • nowt to thew ef the military might bare been avoided." THE COURT. 011501/4Z, MAT 29.—The Q 04196 and Prince end the younger branches of the Royal finally walked and rode in the park end grounds of o.borne at an early hour this seralag. Time was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes- Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Mosses th- Derbies of Gloucester yesterday at Olousester Reese. His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge dined with the membera of the Nal Bermuda. Club yesterday evening at the Clarendon Hotel. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended MLady , Aupets Bruce, Sir George Couper, and Lord dames Murray, honoured the performance of the Royal Italian Opera with her presence yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness the Dacha so of Gloucest , r visit ed their Royal Highnesses the Dashes. of Cambridge and the Heredit.ry Grind Duchess of Mecklenburg Swede peter , day at Cambridge House, Ills Serene Highness Prince Ingot of Hem Philippetalsi visited their Royal Highnesses Mr Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. Divine service was p4formed ye-terday in the Chapel Rey el. SR The Dee. Dr. Wesley administered the eamamist. The Hoe. Dr. Houk sill preach tte sermon is the Chapel Royal on Snaday nest. Tram loot alolt's Gamete.] WHITEHALL, MAT 28.—Th• USeell baa bleu ploased to direct letter pates% so be rend env the Great Seel. greeting the Aloe sad plass of Advocate-Osumi, et Judge-Martial of her lisieetre Force. to Sir David Deltas, Kat. CONSECRATIoS OP THE ?nor BISHOPS OY VIE- T° am AND PILINCI Retires LAND. Rio Once the Archbishop of Canterberp having appoiated this day fee the 'Passage& of the bebop demiseate of Victoria and Prince Raper 's Land, a large number of prelates and other dignitaries of the church meembled in the cathedralrowde shortly after 10 o'clock, whilst the cathedral claw was crowded with visitors melees to be present at the 'piano and inter ages ceremony. The mein meson which accounts for the eenereep of emseeratioe taking pima at Canterbury Cathe dral to day, le Me went establment of St. Angestine's Miefeemp College is *sick,. It was thought appropriate der, the twe mew bishops beteg strictly speaking, mission wiy bishops. the setting apart of than to their high office, Mash' be performed mar is the college founded for the ex mem purpose( main up a body of efficient missionary clergy. ins es Wield statement with regard to the rise, progress, ma gate of die Infusions in that nut territory, it appears that the sew deems of Priem Rapert's Land, oat which Bebop Asarroort will preside, will probahly empties the whole etu territory which was granted to the liedsoe'sllsy Compeer, by a charter from Charli s IL, in the year 1760. Dr. itit and Dr. Anderson purpose starting for their distant dioceses in the dumpf • few weeks Both the right rev. prelates wOl be apied by clergymen, school marten, and catechist& TUE REMOVAL OT TUE FAME NOISAMCL-1 has now biotin. evident that when the legislature puma— which it is said to have dens with some misgivings—the measure for prevent.nst smoke nuisances, it only did an act of justice to the peat belly of the inhabitants of large towns. Thera were those lobe laughed at the Ms mg as an impari bility, sad declared the measure would be (mad to be im practicable in its erothisig. A few years' experience have shown not only the possibility of rent' greatly diminishing the emission of smoke from the lofty chimneys of the cotton mills, but strangers now visiting Maachester, who had occasionally seen it its the days of yore—in its smoky days es we may say—are perfectly astonished at the improvement which has been effected. A statement before the trates of that tows, made yesterday morning, a number of manufacturers were summoned for allowing too much smoke to proceed frees their own chimneys, strikingly illustrates this fact. Ur. Heron, the town-clerk, brought forward the charms, and called wit nesses to prove that one of the manufacturers sammamed (Mr. Shaw) had a chimney which had been watched km a whelk week, for nine bouts per day, and the average mike emitted each day was, dense smoke for an hour and • bat, ' and a moderate quanti ri ty of 'mike for a like period, ea ef the D nine hours dung which the chimney was availed. Some other eases (gutsily bad were proved. rhe town clerk then addumd evidence to show what menufeetturers could do to abate the nuisance, and it was proved that from the ch'mary of Mr. Lamb, cotton-spinner, there was only a moderate amount of smoke for two minutes out of three boon; during the rest of the time the smoke emitted was senseely perceptible. Snake was only observed for five minutes me of the whole nine hours. The Orford-road Twist Commemes Water had been watched, and gave oat in one how aid a half on en average dense smoke for rue minute end a mo !erste amount of smoke tot one minute only. Motifs selected for the observation was from half-part 11 o'clock dB sae ; and on another day, when the observation was made from two is the afternoon till half-past three, the quantity of smoke was moderate for one minute only ; the rest a the period there was no perceptible smoke.—Mr. Shaw said he had done much to sure his chimney, and could net abate the nuanoe.—The saagletrate replied that this uses steely what was stated two years aro by the pr prietors of the Oxford-road Twist Mills, and many other oott n factories, the chimneys of which were now adduced es models of what could be don't* effet t freedom from smoke. • IP salty of 61. in each case was lospowd ; but the Town Clerk said he was not anxious to all for payment. He would rather the parties would try to abate the nuisance, and if that was dose the object of the authorities would be moon- magistrates when - TGE Fru Damn Bongs.—The firemen baying eventually anceseded in estbscuishing the fire, which broke out on Monday night, upon the premiers belonging to Mr. George Freeman (late Alderson and Co.), in Blenheim-street, Orford-street, a most appalling discovery was made. On the men meeting a kind et hunter room, parallel with the Inv floor leads, their at tention was directed to the remains of two or three persons who had been burned to death. The heals of each ratty were off, and it is en:ported that the bodies bad been used kr anatomical purposes, from the fact of mu, of the keel baring bean sawed through. Although every in tr/LaLbeen male for the purpose of learning how I occurred, nothing satisfactory could be gleaned. The rester portion of the property was insured is the Photo': Finsollice.—THE FIRS AT Butitonnent.--The fire which broke out shortly before two o'clock yesterday morning, and which was briefly noticed in this journal of the mane day, wee not entirely eztieguished until nearly sin o'clock. The loss of by this event is considerably greater than woe at brat espeeted. The official report re toms the greater portion of Kr. Clapham's property as bete, destroyed, end the foremast's Deese adjoining considerably damaged by fire. The premiers sad contents were insured in the Sun. The bark bowels, mill. and leather houses of Mr. Haman are al-o retuned as being " all but deetreyed," and the Fellow:sagas Arms Tavern. on the opposite side of the read, the property of Mr. C. Had, se dammed by fire. Mt. Hayman was insured la the Sun elk*. FINANCIAL AND lAMENTARY REFORM. Last night a meeting of the elect° • and non electors for the coney of Middlesex and the borough of the Tower Hamlets resident in the pariahs' of Poplar and Lime house, was held at the Poplar Literary Institutioe, for the purpose of forming and organising a branch association in comae:We with the parent society. Mr. OCKENDEN took the chair, and observed that •-- though at one time the inhabitants of these districts were wedded to the msaopoly formerly enjoyed by the Beat India Company, a °bangs had come over their minds, and they now felt Outset wily wee a damsels' reform called for, but es a preliminary to that reform, an amendment in the re presentation of the people in the Comatose haws of paths, mene r -is *thee weeds. they required men to be sent to par anoia% net to esgenient themselves their friends, sad IMPOMIPIi3IIIII t hat to advance, promot e, and represent the haus' sad herainterests of the people at large. He (the sheineme) esell speak of events for the last half century, sad be seellesmmabend every new wham at promi.irt to de well he th e peeple. duels was the case when Burdett, Meinwering, Mellish, gad Byes contested the tounty;of labialesex, end it was then mid that by the return of Bur dett, reform is parliament, reduction in the public ripen diture—ia that, everything that meld be desired by the people, would he secured ; bat, I. the end it appeared that Burdett turned oat to be as swam a tory as any man that ever eta in the legislative as sembly of the country. There were, however. some honest rasa amoegst them, and with thew ha glared Joseph Hume , Maud Cobden, Mr. Williams, the late member for Co: 'TWIT. all of "them had ever h eld up sad advocated with tree assedWeery the _greet principles of eonstitutioaal repre sentries and Ommdal reform. The object el the association now about to be fanned was to severe results, and he called apes the meeting to unite with the parent institution in ardor to carry the great caws to a 61100.111fil WM. (Neer, beer.) If they united they could not be batten, but would achieve a similar triumph to that which had been moss phased by the Anti•Corn.law League. Mr. LINWOOD, one of a deputation from the paned as. ciety, addressed the meeting at considered' length, and wee warmly sheered. A series of reeohitiens were agreed to, in amordsees with the objects of the Metropolitan Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association; and of the recognition by the meeting of the principle of the vote by ballot, electoral divisions sad triennial parliaments ; end a vote of thanks was peed to the chairman. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1849. Dover, by accident, sent an unfledged statesman to represent its interest's in the British legislature. In 1830, Mr. Wilbral am having antecedently been elevated to the peerage, the party who had supported him brought forward Sir John Rae Reid, the West India meretant and Bank director—a gewleman who possessed to the full extent the wealth which Dover tones have always considered an eon teal qualification in their member. Mr. Hal combs stood in opposition to this gentleman and to Mr. Thompson, but was defeated on the poll, and, what was far mere serious, on a petition which fol lowed it. The ground of that petition was informa lity in taking the poll, and the committee having con sidered the bets, declared the maiden to the return to be " frivolous and vexatious —a decision which threw the whole burden of the cuts upon the unfor-1 tenet. petitioner. But Serjeant Halcombe was destined to obtain, with out exertion on his own put, amp'e satisfaction for this inglorious defeat. Within a twelvemonth afterl the decision of the committee parliament was die solved by the Grey administration. Sir John Rae Reid went down again to Dover. He had voted against "the bill," and Dover, which had been in a state of dissatisfaction about patronage for some time before, was just one of those towns in which " the bill" was particularly popular. Sir John Reid in consequence was received extremely ill. The reform party had determined to proeoie a second man. Their candidate was Cap'ain Robert Stanhope, cf then navy, a member of the Harrington family,l and a gentleman of peculiarly ;popular manner 1 and address. As a naval officer Captain Stanhope was able to neutralise some tory influence at Dover ; as a supporter of the new administration, and a possible " naval lord," he was able to secure much more. But hie great success was with the populace. They were with him to a man ; and, in a few days, such was the enthusiasm in his favour, that the twice be came frightened, not for their man, but for their personal safety, and Sir John Rae Reid, after being pelted and hooted in a manner to which he was little accustomed, ordered four horses, and amid the execra tions of the people, bolted from the town without venturing upon a poll ! By the tones cut of Dover, who had not been wit nesses of the feeling excited in it, Sir John Rae Reid's desertion of the town was consideted particularly pusil-, lanimouv. It happened meet unfortunately for the party that the return for Dover was the very first pro claimed and gszetted in the London papers. The pecan sung over the victory by the journals in the reform interest was as load and long as the occasion seemed to warrant. But this was not the only mortifi:ation. An impression existed at this time that Dover was peculiarly under the influ ence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Porte, and that the Duke of Wellington, who had recently sue" ceeded to that office, had been the patron of Sir John Rae Reid. Now, as often happens with regard to these points, this impression had infinitely lees warranty than was generally supposed. Within memory the Lord Warden of the Cinque Porte never commanded in Dover above 30 or 40 votes, and it is very much to be doubted whether the Dike of Wellington ever knew Sir John Rae Reid even by repute before that gentleman was elected for the town. But, the liberal papers know ing the general impretsion, made the most of it. The victory was declared to have been won " underl the very guns of Dover Castle, and in spite of alt the active influence of the Duke of Wellington him.l self." The matter, viewed through the medium ofl party, became magnified, until at last it might have', been supposed that the Dover voters had literally stormed the Castle as the very citadel of corruption, and carried it against the hero of a hundred fights as the acting commander of the forces. It is said that the Duke of Wellington, hearing daily repeated the tale of the Dover victory, became excessively irate at being personally mixed up with the affair, and made no concealment of his annoyance and vexation. Sir John Rae Reid, of course, came in for the greater share of Warne. In the eyes of the great military commander he had deserted his post in the hour of danger ; and a man open to such an accusation was not, as may be well supposed, one whom " the Duke" would be inclined very soon to went) to his confi dence or favour. It was probably his full sense of the awkward posi tion in which he stood, that induced Sir John Rae Reid to come forward again at the election immedi ately succeeding the passing of the Reform Bill, and to I display to the town of Dover evident semptoms of determination to win at any price Tae other candidates at this election (1832) were Mr. Fouls-et Thompson, on the old independent interest, Captain Stanhope as what may be called the radical candidate, and the not-to-be-got-rid-of Mr. Serjeant Ilalcombe,l whose personal popularity with the lower class of voters made him a candidate not to be despised. The constituency of Dover in 154:12 was lees by 900 than the constituency prior to the Reform Act. The cause of this was the diiiqua lification of the out-voteraresident beyond seven miles. These had been by far the most expensive portion of the constituency to deal with, and it was expected that their ejection from the list of voters would have greatly lightened the cost of the contest. This proved to be the case ; and the Reform Ac', in in far, worked well. The 1832 election for Dover was by no meting an unfair one. It resulted in the return of Mr. Poulett Thompson, then a member of the cabinet, and of Sir John Rae Iteid ; the numbers being—for Tnomnson 714, Reid 644, Ilalcombe 521, Stanhope 500. The last named gentleman would have stood an infinitely better chance had Serjeant lialcombe been out of the field. That gentleman, however, took a number of the liberal split votes, and very much ' divided the independent interest. Almost before Mr. Poulett Thompson had, on this ocusion, issued his address of thanks to his coneti- Inents, information was received from Manchester I that the right hon. gentleman had been returned a' I the head of the poll as one of the representatives for that important town. Mr. Thompeon had now to de vils,* for which place he would make his election, and it was with very little hesitation that be decided to hold hie seat for Manchester. As far as regarded this gentleman, the election for Dover way consequently voided. From the moment it concluded, Serpent Holcombe and Captain Stanhope were both hard at work to secure the vacant post. The contest which maned was a particularly close one, but it terminated in Mr. Serjeant Halcombe's election by a majority of a few votes. Against this learned gentleman's return • petition was presented by the friends of captain Stanhope on the ground of want of qualification. Mr. &Tett Holcombe had sworn to his qua' ification as in Warwick ; evidence was adduced to the committee to prove that Mr. Hatcombe had no sufficient qualification in the , locality specified. The committee were applied to to T to he a y ri I t pe he rm q i u t ai M iti r ca . Htionalcowmu thenbe a : e o ll u ted t of re nt charges raendt c harges upon property at Dover. The committee amend. declared rent charges in declared Mr. Holcombe to be dul y elected. Little doubt is now entertained t hat the l question were conveniently created for the sitting member, and perhaps a str)eger case in proof of the labsurdity of the qualification of members at all is scarcely to be found than this cue of Mr. Holcombe's. Mr. Serjeant Halcombe held the seat un'il 1835, when he left Dover and appeared as a candidate for Warwick. There were various reasons why this gen tleman would not again contest the Cinque Psirt. Litigation was, at this time, going on with respect to various election bills of 1832, and processes issued by electors were out against him, one of which was served upon him by a Dover solicitor on the Warwick hustings. But besides the unfortunate circumstances of his personal position, there were in 1833 other candidates in the field against whom Mr. Ha'combe would have had no chance. These candidates were two Dover bankers, Mr. Rice, the present whig mem ber, and Mr. John Minet Fector, who came forward as a tory. Of the latter gentleman it may be de sirable to deviate from the direct course of this nar rative in order to give a little history. (To be Continued.) CHURCH REFORMATION. The prison door will this day gr te tunefully cn the ear as it re 1. saes the Rev. James Shore. Tne com mittee in London have sent down to Exeter sufficient funds to cancel Shyl ek's bond, by payment in full of the costs of the disgrace fel suit urged by the dioccian against a humble preacher of the Go:pel. We un der stand there is another case of almost equ A attozity, which has been sonar ed against the Rev. Josiah Bart lett by the Archbishop of York, during his holding the bishopric of Ili ret.rd, upon which a remonstrance hoe just been publisted, detailing the a xtteme chica nery and injustice of Vie oppression. What with the above two oases of prelatic malversatioa in office, the c .nduct of the Bishop of Lotdon, in withholding his clergy from preaching for the London Missionary Society, and refusing leave to his clergy to evince brotherho3d for the IVesleyans, and in denouncing ragged schi ols, if conducted by the London City Mis sion, and that of the Bishop of Brivol ir, quarrelling with the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, it would ap pear that a time is fully come for some check to be put upon episcopal license. A s:ciety is forming to ad vccate an entire and thorough church ie'ormation. We give the following state mentor its pi intiples from one of the circulars issued by the secretaries, Vie Rev. T. Spencer, cf Bath, and the !ter. G. 14. Stoddart, of Chelsea : The objects of the Church Reformtticot Societe will be, to cell public attention to the present state of the Church of Eneland ; to prove to the people that eeelvissical abuses either cause or increase all otter social evi:s ; and that the removal of them would facilitate all otter de.irable reforms ; to hold meetings and deliver lectures in all the warms of the empire ; to cultivate the feelings of Christian broth. rhosd toward* all other protestant churches acd denomitiLtions, and to invite their coopers ion ; to circulate tracts ; to fercieh information to the public press; and as soon as suffi elint funds shell have been provided, to establish a weekly periodical, under the title of the Church Reforms Garotte ; to collect, through various channels, information respecting the account of ecelssiestical property, with its use end abuse in each locality ; to report all cases of bigotry and supers'ition, and of intolerant and uncharitable proceedings towards dissenters; to trace the evils of the church to its wealth and power, and to its intimate union with tee state ; to point out the worldly spirit, the selfishness, the covetous. ness and ambition which Its lordly titles and princely emo luments have introdueed amongst the clergy; to ascertain the number of intelligent persons in Great Britain and Ire land who are favourable to a bold and efficient measure of church reform ; to furnish an opportunity for the correspon dence and co-operation of all friends art true religion by forming local associations in connexion with the parent so ciety ; and finally to address memorials to 0111 clergy and people of England, and to forward petiti ins to her Majesty and to both houses of parliament iu behalf of tho gl. rims work of the second reformation. SEIZURE OF ARMS AT SOUTHAMPTON.—The Penin sular Company's steamer bladrid, In her last trip to Itsly, took out a large quantity of Are-arms as part of her c try , . Foe some reason or otter they were refused by the partirr to whom they were consigned. They were seised by the South ampton custom-house euthwities as foreign arms whin the Madrid returned, because the law forbids the importa tion of foreign fire-arms. The person who autboriit d their shipment guild easily obtain them, if he thought proper, for he could prove that they are of 'British manures:see, and that they did not leave the ship; but he reinter to take them back, and states that he is perfectly site as to the pay nett for them. The firs-arms, therefore, remain at the South mptoa custom house. ROYAL MATERNITY CHARITY. Lest evening, the anniverstry festival of the friends and subscribers to this charity, the object of which is the delivering of poor tarried women at the it own habitations, took place at the Loudon Tavern, Bishopagete-street. The dinner was served up in a style corresponding with the well-known tests and exullenee of that establishment. The right bon. Loa Robert Greevessr, M P., presided ; and about 60 gentlemen eat down. The usual loyal toasts of the Quern, the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family, the Army and Navy, and his grace the Duke of Wellingtoo, were re ceived with all the honours. Tee CHAIRMAN, in proper* the toast of the amiss, the Royal Maternity Charity, was dopy to think that this charity required exeeedingly little it the i of recommendation. It was one which was teltbit heart of every man in the community. Yne amide necessity of ends an institution was &mina, para. elderly in a Iry city like London ; and when it was known how nab of suffering wee endured by the fairest a istr autrywomesa, even the Queen hersel', in childbirth, smil hew mash they had to undergo when every &pla sma that edema could envireet was at hand, taw =Mk penal must be the pangs of those wire had the distresses attendant upon poverty ud deaths tlsa sepradded ? He wu sure it must be gratifying to the eamgamy, es it was honourable to the metropolis, to reflect the this was met an institution of yesterday's foundation. It hid sew boa eitablished nearly 100 years. (Cheers.) Its aellsehe woad be Lund in a very able report, already pub ben eat* it would appear that sines its foundation in 17/1, muse& of 403,270 poor women had been attended at their own habitations. The average annual amistaace rendered amensted to 4,0001. in other words, one patios% wee delivered every two burs throughout s las While year, day and night. (Hear.) The incases thi year, simpered with the like period of 1848, was 231 eases. (Saar, beer.) One gratifying feature of the charity was, the registration and education it afforded to a very large number of midwives, and the caution it evinced in sending none of this class of persons who were not duly qualified to fulfil the duties of their office. The toast was reeeivid upstanding, and with loud applause. Wm. COTTON, Esq., Governor of the Bank of Eng. lead, a proposing the health uf the noble chairman, preactueed a glowing eulogises upon the public and private lillwaster of his lordship. He recommended those who lived edam west of the town to visit the abodes*, misery is Si i mash* Shoreditch, and Bethael-green, and to alleviate the of the wretched beings who inhabited these dis trsurTle referred to one or two instances in which the riots W manifested a generous sympathy for their poorer fellow. eustures, and he expels& d an earnest hope that such ex. would be more generally followed. di he s CHAIRMAN returned dunks for the tout, and proposed " Mr. Barry and the committee." Mr. BARRY, in responding, slated that out of 3,000 pa tients last year, only in &vim had occurred. The Rev. Mr. BROWN proposed " Dr. Ramsbottom and the Physicians." Dr. RAMSBOTTOiI returned thanks, and it doing so gave it se his opioioa that of all the charities with which this great metropotis abouuded, there was name 90 much calculated to avert so great an amount of threatened ill, or to promote so vast an amount of good with its means as the Royal Maternity Institution. It extended for 18 miles emeapt the densest population in the world. The other toasts were :—" Mr. Samuel Griffin and the Surgeons;" " Dr. Rayner, the Secretary ;" " The Stewards ;" and " The Ladies." e, In the course of the evening donations to the amount of a 1701. were received. Amongst others the followieg sums :I. were anneenced :—The Marquis of Westminster, 261 ; as, the Bishopof Loadon,lol.Cotton 101.10 s. am Truman, Hataury. end Co.,_ 101.10 5 . ; Davis, lisq deb 101. 10s. ; Viscount Buckley, 31. 3e. the HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TUE WEEK.—Yes tiorday the Registrar-General's report was .ssued for the week ending May 26. The public health, as shown by this pot sat return, exhihits improvement. diet led The 897 deaths are fewer t han in the corresponding week of ar.y former year niece 1646. The mortality, which had suddenly increased by 70 deaths above the average in the preceding week hes now fallen as such below it. As compared with that k ite the decrease is most apparent in the deaths seising from eon sumptios and inflammation of the lunge. Frio the former disease there died in the last week 103 persons (the average being 145), while in the previous week the Dumber was 133. From the tatter disease (or pneumonia) 61 died, being Quietly the averse; of these 34 were children who had not com pleted their second year, while In the previous week the dembe which occurred at the same age were 67. In this reuses the I mortality from bronchitis still exceeds the average by 18 deaths, The only epidemic which now prevai's to • molted extent it hooping cough, from which the deaths were 60, or 24 mass than the average; but die:Ales appears to be on the is- Breese. Chaos, was fatal in 6 casts • but in two (tithes* which occurred to infants the disease is r eturned as "diarrheas eholerks." Mr. Butterfield, the registrar of Islington East, reports that the deaths of two young children at Albany place, 'Jemmy-road, caused by rubeola and rubella in one cast, and fever in the other, were accelerated by the defers titre sewerage and damp state of the house. The deaths of a man of 43 yeses, and a woman of 30, were hastened by ios temperance. According to the return of a coroner's jury, a girl of 16 months died from 't swallowing 44 percussion gun cape containing poison." Her illness hoed two days; sad an examination was made post merlon. The mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.818 in. On Thursday it was 30 014. The temperature of the weak was highest on Thursday and Friday, and on the latter day the highest reading in the shade was 70 chg. 6 min. The man of the week was 56 deg. 9 min., showing an increase of 11 11. g on that cf the week ending May 12. The blithe numbered 1,311. 1 STRAYERS' LIGHTS.—To PREVENT COLLISION.—' ADMIRALTY, KAY 28.—8 y the eionmimioners for executing' the office of Lord High named of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., &e. Whereas, under and by virtue of the act of parliament, passed in the tenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An act for the regulation of steam navigadon, and for riquirieg rea-going vessels to carry buts," we hereby require, In pursuance of the said act, that lights shall be exhibited by ell steam vessels, except in the river Thames, above Ysntlett Creek, between sunset and sunrise, of such description and in auch monomeras hereinafter mentioned ; that is to say : When under Weigh.-1 Bright white light at the for. mut.hesti, 2. Green light en the starboard side. 3. Red light on the port side. When at anchor a common bright light. The following conditions to be observed, vie.: 1. The mast-hod light to be visible at • distance of at lout five miles in a clear dark night, and the lantern to be so constructed as to show • uni arm and aubreken light over en arc of the horizon of twenty plots of theologies; via., from tight ahead to two points abaft the beam on each side of the ship-2. The coloured side lights to be visible at a distsnce of at least two miles in a clear darh night, and the lantern, to be so constructed u to show ' a uniform and unbroken light ever an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass: viz., from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.-3. The side lights to be moreover fitted with inboard screens, of at least FOUR Pna•Olee DROWNED WHILST BOATINO.—On three feet long, to prevent them from being seen across the ' ennany h a t six p ers ons were marine themselves in a but tee innr w, laser edge n th ' e tw ei b leFl l ig a rta — in 4. a T fo h r e e la a n n t d ern aft u l se in d e w w h i e ta n on the river running throush N ww ich. They wilt rep to the head of the river to the mill pool, and rowed the boat in at savior to be so constructed at to show a good light all , s p a rt into ea se o f the Seabee, then running very otT° l 4l. round the horizon. —Diagrams , illustrative of th e abo ve p lan, h- trie d tie' a second ond Vise, when one of the party (Tho.. GSA kliffsetions as to the proper mode of fitting the lights Line) was jerked overboard ; another of the men In the boat Na steam - vessels, I. will be furnished to Parties applying leaned over to endeavour to catch hold of his c om p s and the other parties likewiee leaned over the same aide HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY . — It will be seen w i t h the same istution, when the flush filled the boat, n that Lord Ivory has been appointed one of the Lords of she immediately sank. WOW of the parties seek end were Jostichuiy, Is room of Lord Medwys, who has resigned, drowned—their names, Thomas Lase, 16 ; Robert Browne, though still retaining his oda of Lard of flessicsa. Formerly ; Henry Lena, ; and Frances Breese, a Tort 800 TM the Lords of Justiciary received 6001. a year in addition to woman, sod 19. The two latter were to have bee. .cried their Way of 2,0001. as Lords of Session ; bat since the act on the following day. Inquests were held by W. W a tt, which theth"ea th e salaries of She j ud g es ' Stem who act as Bee , the coroner for the city, and verdicts of Lords of receive nothing in addition to the 3,0001. drowned" returned. The coroner observed that, had the as Judges of the riot &aim Under the altered eir- party really wished, and intended to have been drowned, cuentances, we humbly think that there ought to be no they could not have takes more certain aed effectual dash's Accide separate appointments as criminal jadges ; but that ail our it was a most dangerous place for such sport, the t supreme judges should be eligible to sit in both courts, like nning very rapidly, tied the water being from 14 tO 15 Re the fifteen judges in lailead.--Colociasian Mercury. deer. HOW TO OBTAIN PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Prom the lfrackeder Haunsiwer. The late Dr. Arnold, who had devoted much ear nest thought and inquiry the condition et England quea tion, attributed much of the enstraidering disaffection which broods amoog the groat mar of our working population, and the consequent uneasiness and painful sense of ingenue y which pervade society generally, to the unequal didzibution a property. " Something rust be done," he remarks, to restrain the enoemous annunnlation of property In stogie bands, to facilitate its acquisition, and enure its possession to the mass of the community." In his speculations regarding the future, Dr. Arnold seems to have been haunted with the most gloomy foreboding of some great political convulsion es this country, but had be lived to the present day he would have witnessed the beginning of • movement which, if thoroughly carried oat, is destined to work a =I change in the social and political relations of the clams of the community, and, by so doing, to avert all danger of that hostile collision which he so asfidently OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM preuroo. It will be men from the speech of Mr. George Won at the meeting ed the Registration and Financial Reform Aro elation en Thursday evening, that the men whose skill and energy carried the repeal of the cora law, have now, after doe delibention, resolved to take up the practical question of reforming the registration, as the surest and speediest nude of effecting all measures of reform in parks ' mod. la carrying oat this objese, the method upon whisk the chairman of the new essueiation, es will be seen, lays meet strew, is the organising of societies for enabling working men to purchase froeMld qualifications. In reading his remarks on this point, one caned help think- Mg that such a scheme es that which he dew bat for nimbi , ing a working rasa to Invest his savings in the memo of a piece of land, which will not only yields good percentage on the outlay, but give the parcheser a vote for thoomunty, would have been hailed by a monad, practical reformer hke Dr. Arnold, as a forward step is the right direction. As regards the origin of this plan of reforming the I gouty einstitneneies, South Lancashire has certainly the honour of having been the first to carry it into operation on a large scale ; bat although it was first la the field, it has lately been far outstripped by the oldie exertions of the men is Birmingham. la that town Mu Jelno-dock principle-10 powerful an engine whoa diselsel--bas been employed in the wholesale per ilous( hod. tee the purpose of cutting it up into small heleside god the numbers of the association to ablein a ogrady qualiSmition. During the last eighteen meallis no less than 900 pieces of land, each one with a isle for the county, have been 'purchased, chi. fly by the working men of Birmingham. In the other miibad counties the same process is going mt. In the populous t Awns of Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, and the neighbouring villages, containing nearly half a million of inhabitants, there was seareely a working man who, previous to the present movement, possessed a vote for the county. Now, owing to the Freehold Land So cieties, every town in that district contains a large number of freeholders, and the number is rapidly extending. In Dir. minohant the r umber of freeholders is increasing at the rate of sixty a month. Let any man calculate what the power of such a movement will be when it becomes general throughout the country. Oa this bead Mr. Winon made one or two oh.. drutions which are well worthy of attention. Alter stiviog that there are twenty associations of this kind formed in the Midland Counties and in Yorkshire, he went on to say : " Supped, throughout the whole of England—which no great supposition—if instead of 200 or 300 seed:Wow you should have only 100 (and you have 20 at the present I time), and supposing none to be formed in Lancashire, and suppose that, tnstad of having 1,500 or 2,000 members, as the Birmingham a.sociation have, they had only 500 each, you are 500 members in kindred associations are 50,000 county vote,: and the whole of the moiety coorituencies of England is under half a maim. Fifty thousand votes put on those counties which see recoverable where the landed interest is not all-powerful, would expel every man who sits for three-fourths of the counties of England. There is nothing irrational in this. If Birmingham can form es mediation—and it is not the most favourably situated for doing so—and if other places can form associa tions to the extent of twenty altogether, and in all pro bability they will have as great a number of members as the Birmingham association hue—but if we only take u the basis of the calculati in a fourth of that number—if you take a hundred associations, with 500 members each, you get 50,000 county votes. Now, supposing you get this num ber, I tell you again, if you get 50,000 votes within the next two or three year., and place them on the register— if you do that, you change the whole of the county re po.. I seated's, except those fastnesses of the aristocracy which I nobody can invade." And how is this great movement—destined, as it un- I doubtedly is—to work out so many other great changes—to be effectually carried into operation ? So far settle labouring classes are concerned, it is simply by the exercise of a little thrift on the part of those who are fully employed at good wages ; and this. we are happy to learn, is the present con. I &idiot many thousuols of the working men of Lancashire at the present moment. If those who earn liberal wages will only practise a little economy in their weekly expendi ture they need not how complain of being excluded from the pals dale destitution. Take a young man, for example, who PIGS 24e. a week, and contrives to live upon the one half of that sum ; In ouch ease there is nothing to limbo him hem purchasing, with eight or nine m swinge. a fros hold which will, at the same time, yield him a baodst I profit on the investment. Should any one say that it is but a small properties of workior men who earn 245. a week, then we say that, moo with only two-thirds of that rum, a young man, who bas neither wife nor family to provide for, mar smelly pare GIS mash in two or three years as would enable him to purchase a vote for the county. Let those who may be inclined M ipasetion this only reflect for a moment on the large annual amount which many working men 'mond on those articles whisk eontributs most largely to the . Much Ms I been said lately about the importance of obsidian, a large re election of taxation, and we yield to no one in our anxiety tone I such fiscal reforms accomplished as speedily as possible. Bat let it net be forgotten, in connexion with the freehold movement, that any man who spends 2s. a week on beer or I ',hits can abolish the malt tax and spirit duties, se far as I lea is concerted, and that by so doing be can gave as much in two or three years as will enable him to purchase a piece of land large enough to him a county elector. As many of our readers may not be aware of the process ' by which these free hold land soeieti. s are made so profitable to the members, we quote the following passage on the sub ject from an excellent speech di hvered by Mr. Taylor, of Birmingham, at a meeting held at Brad:ord last Tuesday evening : " The idea of starting the Birmingham Fteehold Lund Society occurred to him some eighteen months before the event. He happened to make the discovery that land,which, la an estate of 4,0001 cost sd. • yard wholesale, was sold re tail, the worst at ss. a yard, and the beet at 8 4d. per yard. The wont lets on the same estate were now selling at 2.. ga a yard, and the beet at ss. The difference in the purchase of land arose from buying in large quantities, end retail ing it to the subscribers in lots. The same principle existed is every other branch of trade : if he bought only a yard of ribbon at a retail shop, it would wet him 100 p'r cent. more than it would cost if he sent to Coventry to buy a roll. or went into a butcher's shop to buy two-pennyworth of beer, be could not get it at the same low price, people timidity, es he could if he welt to Smithfield and bought a bullo-k. (Laughter.) As Punch said, 'lt was just like this, only It was nth.. different.' (Laughter.) The first estate bought at Birmingham previously belonged to the Rev. Timothy East He went to his son, who was a solicitor, to ask him what he would sell him a piece of lend for. He wanted a poets sufficient to build a house u p on , which would let in Birmingham at 161 or 201. a year. The prim Mr. East told him, would be 3.. 6d. a yard; and, after much to do, he offered to let him have it at 39. 44, a yarl. Yet this very estate, w`iich was offered is loft at 3s. 4d. a yard, was afterwards purchased by the society, and sold or retailed to its memb to, in lots, tech with 14 yards frontage, end 50 yards back, at about Is. 6d. a yard. (Cheers.) Some of their members, he could .me'. them, were now very proud of their position . thee walked up and down their estate like gentlemen. (" Hear," and laughter.) Some built upon the land themeelves, but there were others, too poor to huild, who let their allot molts. And some of their land was letting at 505. a yug, although the surer cost was not more than 191. (Hear.) Many had left foe a deal more. He (Mr. Taylor) had tour allotments. The cost him 701. or 17 1 . 101. each, with . the an law d some other expenses. For this land, with sight rude frontage and fifty yar ds back, he bad been slready °demi 91. 164. a year on building land, or 21. 9.. for each distrust. He refused the offer. He wanted 141. and he expected that, in a both time, it would be so iscressed he value, that it would be worth 201. a year on building lease. This was not an isolated cue. There were numbers who were receiving the mese rental from their allotments. A voor man named Robinson had s o threer teddies of land. They met him sixty pound d thereabouts. Be let them off for building land for ninety site years to a builder, sod be was reosiving 81. 13e. a year for land which cost him only about 601. There was mother porno, al l otmen t e, • working mon. who he. mace doomed of an which most him only 171. 16s. Be was detiros of erec*lng • howee upon it,. he y ma d e building society, and off .red his land as security for an a - wow The surveyor employed by the society was a tort, ' yet be reported to the society that the land was worth 431., eanandiathryey"miinghtot.sayfirelwy a t i h van ere oe w that ere don pe derived from j be mining this society." "t . a So van th ts at re ts t a o With these excellent practical remarks we conclud rnin e . for the present. but shall take an early opportmity of retug to the subject. DOVER. Dover, of all the towns in England, is undoubtedly that in which Englishmen have been most profuse in expl-Livia. The popular notion at' the Prince, that no true Briton ever opens his lips without the mur mur of a d —e, evidently had its origin with travel lers from the continent, who had made themselves acquainted with our manners end customs in a flying visit to this nearest port Sooth to say, Dover is net a place concerning which the majority of those who have been there have very pleasurable recollec tient. Niue out of every ten will describe it, as an English traveller of the time of James I. described Calais--" a beggarly, extorting town; mon.trous dear and sluttish." Yank aye it with &nauseating impression of abed passage, a harbour in which there never is water when there ought to be,boatmen who rob you of half la-crown a head and insult you into the bargain, inn haven, whose beds are none of the cleanliest, whilst Ursa charges are of the highest ; a custom-house, which ' pats you to lit' b y . any every trouble and inconveni mos, c h a nceun you happen to be mistaken for a commisaoner, and a railway that never goes when it is wanted to or that starts its trains before it is possible that your luggage can be cleared. Such are the popular notions of Dover. There are, however, people who have made it a place of residence, who give the town a better reputation. They will tell you that, passing from the dirty streets about the port, you will ultimat ly arrive at handsome crescents and terram s, not sat any marine watering-place in Eng l:nrr they will tell you that there is excellent society here, and in the season, more gaiety than in most places. The shops, too, you will discover to be unusua'ly good ; some of them, in taste and elegance of decoration, fairly rivalling our metropolitan establish ments. A large market, well supplied, and a general appearanci of prosperity, make, in the eyes of these people, a pleasant dwelling-place of Dover. The pia tureorenem of its situation none can doubt, and once its cliffs are climbed, there are charming spots of country round about it, haunts well worth vaiung by those who love true English scenery. . Viewing Dover electorally, we are bound to regard it as an important place. Smce 1830 the bcrough has increased in population from 10,900 to nearly 18,000. The registered electors at the present time are more than 2,000 ten pound householders, and the majority of these are persons well to do. The impression that one receives of the constituency is that it is much above the average in respecability and intelligence. There is no doubt, too, that it is becoming freer from corruption ; and, as the constituency is still likely to increase, there is reason tobelieve that, under a proper elf eters' system, Dover would snake as good and honourable a choice of representatives as any borough in Great Britain. Before the Reform Bill, Dover was regarded as a troublesome and most expensive seat. The right to vote was in the freemen, resident and non-resident. There were about 2,600 voters, of whom full half were non-residence in Dover. The population of a sea-port , ism:ally fluctuating ; and, referring back to the pe &Awe are speaking of, it is really curious to note the Owes from which Dover voters had to be brought up —numbers from France, some from Belgium and Holland, very many from Portsmouth, Plymouth, and I the government dockyards ; a proportion, of course, from the metropolis : but some from more distant parts, the north of England, Wales, Scotland, Den mark, and Norway, and countries even further off. A great proportion of the voters, both resident and non reee,;ent, were in some way or other in the govern ment service. In Dover the custom-house establish ment at this time was on a meat extensive scale. The whole body of officers were freemen. There were also riding officers, officers of the forts and batteries, officers connected with the harbour, officers connected with the castle and its garrison, and officers of the cinque port, who, tog. titer with all the boatmen, were to a certain extent under the in fluence of the Lord Warden. Some of these officers were of course removed, °manually, to other sta tions ; preferred, perhaps, on the recommendation of their friend, the borough membsr, to something better at Portsmouth or at Plymouth. But the plague of it was that these people. having been sent away for their own advantage, wanted to be brought back at an election for their own advantage also. Their wives and children took that occasion of coming up to see their relaeves and friends in Dover, and the voters themsCves came for what they could get in the shape of headmen, y and expo:tack The costs incurred in this and other ways were so large that it may be said there was no limit at those times to the expense of a Dover conk st. Mr. Huski-son stood a most expensive contest here. Sir John Jackson, a purser in the navy and secretary to Admiral Lord Keith, who contested the town an' 1812 and 1818, is believed to have spent more than 30,0001. in the borough,—all his prize money and pickings dur ng the long war. During there contests wine was the beverage in most general request. I Hogsheads were tapped in the streets. It is recorded of one tavern-keeper thatenexpostulation was ventured I upon with Sir John Jackson. " Well," said Sir John,l " and euppose they are drinking your wine as you describe: yon do know where to get more when your I cellars tae empty ?" " Certainly, Sir John ' " was the reply. " Then don't bother me , " responded the can didate, " until you find that yeu can't replenish them ! " At the general election of 1826 there was a vacancy in the representation of Dover. The present Lord Skelmersdale, then Mr. Ed. Bootle Wilbraham, who had represented the town in several previous paella m-nts, came forward again, but under circumstances of not a very favourable character. Mr. Wilbraham had been the member through whom the administra tion of that time bad diepeeed of their Dover patronage. A sort of committee had been formed in pat f the purpose of assisting the hon. gentleman in the proper dispoeition of it ; and, as Mr. Wilbraham proved to be almost inaccessible except through this committee, an outcry was raised in the town that he was " governed by a junta," and that he was sang his influence to a great extent for the advantage of a clique. The malcontent'', who were by no means few or uninfluentisl, went to London for a candidate and brought down Mr. Holcombe, a mem ber of the bar and a popular ape siker. At the same time there were among the liberals at Dover some Blight dissentious, also chiefly upon local matters. The party who were then regarded and styled "the low party," and who were led by a person combining the avocations of a tailor and an unitarian preacher, determined upon their part on getting a candidate, and came up to London for the purpose. The first 'party they consulted was Dr. Bowring, who recom- I mended to apply to Mr. Hume. Mr. Hume intro ducer' them to Mr. Poulett Thompson, then unknown SS a senator, and whose eubsequent distinction was, at that time, but faintly shadowed forth. The result of this election was most singular, and chews to what accidents men are sometimes indebt. d for great posi tions. In Dover the friends of the three candidates were tolerably equally divided : the decision rested with the out-voters. After the poll had been open a day or two Mr. WLb-aham's friends, not being satisfied with his position, decided that the out-voters most be brought in. In or& r, however, to save expense to their candidate, they determined on apply ing to one of the others to share the expenses with them. Mr. Halcombe was mere closely allied to them by political feeling. They consequently caused a letter to be addressed to that gentle manse lgal agent, reonecing to know if he would pay half the cost of bringing in the out-voters, and giving only a very short time for an answer to be returned to them. The interval elapsed without any answer whatever being vouch safed ; and consequently Mr. Wilbrabana's committee applied to that of the other candidate. Mr. Thompson, of course, jumped top rly at the offer ; the out-voters were brought in, and Wilbraham ani Thompson were returned. When those facts became known after the election, there was an immense hubbub about the letter sent to Mr. Halcombo's agent. What had b-come of it? Why had it never been submitted to Mr. Halcombe or his committee? At first the very . recipt of the letter was matter of doubt. But ultimately it was found • in the agent's great-oat pocket! There have been twi modes of explaining how it came there. It is said by some that the agent, in the hurry of business, put the letter in his pocket and rgot it altogether; by dthers it is averred that this was a convenient fergetful nem on the agent's part, and that being be hind the scenes, andknowing that Mr. Halcombe bad no money whatever to spend, he th.a,ght it better net to remember the letter until the election was decided. Whatever may have been the fact, the result was that IRELAND. People here are already naming the orniimissionere under Sir John Romilly's act. Whether they are to be English or Irish is a toplc of anxious specula tion ; the probability is that they will be mixed. Mr. Serjeant O'Brien is named as ore of the three, but probably he is mentioned on occount of his strong offic•al and parliamentary connexion, the learned gentleman being a near relative of Mr. Steil and of Mr. More O'Ferrall, and his brother being M.P. for Limerick city and a supprter of govt rnmc nt. The names of Lord Campbt H and of Sir Edward Sugden are brought forward in connexion with the chief cow missionership. A very curious correspondence his t tken place be tween the counsel for the state ccnvicts and the prime minister. It was statel by Sir Fitzroy Kelly and his learned colleagues that the opinion of the judges was given prematurely, as all the points were rot before •hem when they decided the case, inasmuch es the greund upon which the decision was pronounrs d was least relied upon by the plaintiff in error. Lord J. Rumen forwarded the letter of counsel to Lord Cotte n ham, who, in his reply, said that the case was fully end corpletely decided, and that it could ro; be doubted that the decision was right. The Beeping Mail supports the petition calling for a lenient sentence on Smith O'Brien and his con federates. The stole of writing still indulged in by certain popular organs is highly prtjudieisl to the case of the political convict,. It is universally sup posed that for the present they will be as rr, out of the owntry, viaatever may be done with them at a future time. Chief Justice Doherty has completely r covered from his recent illness. It is a topic of g•-neral com plaint amongst legal persons that the two chief justices almost invariably select the circuit where there is least business to be dor e. For eev,ral years bat k the Home Circuit has been travelled by the chiefs of the Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas, and it is the m' .re to be regretful on public grounds, as they are both extremely ab'e criminal judos, and have had great experience of the manner in which the public business should be conducted. Their pr. sence on the Leineter or Munster circuit occasionally would be extremely desiraVe. The lorgev tv of lawyers at the Irish bar is very singular. Mr. II Imes, the father of the bar, now in his 85th year, delivered an argument last week in ' the Court of Chancery, as able and dexterous as ever came from him, ev,n in his best days. Ile appears feeble while in Dublin, but on the north- aet e•rcuit revives, and surprises every one with his marvellous energy. The late Judge Burton was in his 8811 year when he died. Mr. Bennett, Q C., the able and I vigorous crown prosecutor on the Munster circuit, , has bee n 49 years going that circuit as a barriett r. • The Archbishop of Duh'in has completely extin guished the clerical firebrand Treaham Gregg, by re fusing to let him officiate in hie diocese. A movement was attempted to be got up in favour of Mr. Gregg, and a meeting took place last night at the Rotondo, L but it was miserably attended. DRATII OF A MORMON THROUGH REFUSING MEDICAL Aim —A man r amed John Pugh, belong ing to the sect of Lotter day Saints, was veletas)). burned at the late colliery explosion at Aberdare. We brother taints refused to permit any medical man *o come n- ar him. and be died in consequence. An inquest was held, at which two of " the saints" were examined. They gave the Allowing evi dence:—James Jones (Jim Pontyp.ao was called, who s aced that he was a saint, and according to their creed no one should send for a doctor, but rely on tie ordinances of their church for cures in ill cases, and had it not been far the weakness of John Pugh's faith, he would have been cured immediately. Having made several other absurd and moat coutradictory statements, several of the jurors said they could not believe him on his oath. With this the deptity•coroner quite agreed, and he was dismissed without being sworn. William Sims was next called, who ale , staud that he was a saint and an elder in the Church of Christ. On the day John Pugh met with the accident he was sent for. He went and scouted him with oil, and adminieered the ordinances of the Church of Christ. He was pert clip !UM bad John Pugh's faith been good he would have curd him that instant. He tried him again seven l times, but the di - ceaeed's faith was too weak each time. He knew that Dr. Evans had offered hie serviette to attend the drceasee!, bat that John Pugh wished to try the ordinance - a of the Church of Christ. and if that failed he You'd have a medial man. Ihnugh I failed to cure him, I did not advise the propriety of having a doctor. It is my duty, as an eldi r, to exhort our people to trust to the ordinances of the church for cures in all cases, and not to medical men. Sill we would not exclude any one from having a doctor. He knew that the deceased was delirious for several days before he died, still he took no steps to have a proper medical min to see him. I do most solemnly declare that if all the II eh was burnt off my hand this moment that my blessing would cure it in an instant. I have cured myself many times. I have cured my wife frequently, and I have performed instantanenies cure s on my children by my blessing only, and hal John Pugh's faith been good, I would have cured him like putting one hand into the other. The jury returned the following verdict We fl .d that the deceased,John Pugh, died from the effect.; of an accident caused by an explosion of fire-damp at Wessa Colli ay, May Bth, and the culpable n e gl ect of his attendants, who were members of a certain so.l.ety called the Latter-day S ein in refusing to permit a me lice gentleman to attend ro h:s case. The jurors beg, in the strongest laeguage, to censure the Poniard of these deluded meanie, and eau , theta sotto repeat their foolish metiers in future." The ver let was read In open court by the deputy-coroner, who advi-ed the mints, and said that the jury had besn exceedingly lenient, and that the verdict was a very merciful one. lie fully ex pected to have had to commit several of them for man daeghtenbut u it was they had had a most narrow escape this time, and he trusted that the seriou s cantina of the j ur y would have due weight with them. Had they not pat the fault upon the poor min now dead, nothing could have pre vented them from being sent to another tribunal. I )14PUTE 7 IN GUERNPET.—A corrests ndent rays : —" The chefs of t 5 e muisicipal bodies or dousaines in Guernsey are eased cont• Alts. It appears that the latter are romp lied to record the pro eedings of the corporation in the French language, although they are spoken in English. The present constables have been military offitnis, and can not:write Froach ; but the douzaines insist that thi y shall trite French. and thus the matter stand' at present. Hitherto the dovza:nes have considered that by then laws they had a discretionary power to tax strarg rs or not ju t 44 thee pleased. Strang ra in Guernsey have Wilson therefore, never beer hied, talus they have acquire eal property in the island. The !resent constabb s n suert d that all Waxes, after they . hsve been in the Wand a r ar and a day, _according to their interpretation of the law, mil ht to bo taxed, and have refused to sign the rate list, P.CIIIII , they are tot. Thu- the manic:pal eirisalrare best It B PPol consequence." tP t • A ' '. r ---4 „...:, .4 I A, , -1 ) A , , r . I , "4:1 .4. :49 Mt Damn', , 1