The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

o wlet registasee. Hope bad gives way Se despair. They w ood their Wholes much, and soon afterwards wen as s w i g by • band of Moon who stripped them of every thir g "This Atsb baud drew • circle nomad Wail, sad so :a, a midst shoats sad the mast ea te a" — ap oibig • asighbsetriag settlement. Harlot sa gs. We spec he a des state, the aalcrtaaate MOTISISIS w end 11/ MOIL They did so. sad the iafaut Moon, I ; i lia try their mothers, east whole toadfish of seed tote do gra by way ef allayiag the exist iag irritation. A yan g & mo w ant lime, sad • muff of savigge g " s — s imevesed te decide the late of the captive.. The " g o were mon ferocious than the mea, sad bighted m • leatemo ef death, which was brutally presomated by me esemil. Towards might, it was deeids4, e ty= moo, is whom the victims should be g aisg isise, Iseennr, the leader tea retired ; and the maim p a w baring gemmed the asked mariaers eis the very as ege .1 death, mode signs to them ter metope by facht. The Mop!. dined up a megaestary payer to Almighty God, ; - a g egm, gleff l bated, nesmsi MA, looney, without kiw is* whither/ togs After • telissame jemmy der* M . w eak eight. VW tegltine bead themselves, at nimbi, • the ma ahem ; esbetested by hunger. Wipes, aad deka ea, Hie eight iisMINMMI Ml meow the goad mad west to sleep. o s welder, _the empesim. Lavialle, sad three el the era. pa &Oben themeelme Mom their mempeakus es • Wispy of eephoseimea to /keno: a tem dangerous nate. iar gewsetneuess of this imearagoras neelee were ▪ ages. kg the leer MSS nom mope wed. Two homes slur melt degerture the bee netataloir mown saw *At thy/ were r avel by the Knee ; they onetaled themselves bat is wig Tarr y were dragged from their lean, Oise, ais E msii ssit i woolly maltreated, the fair sex, as before, die. woolly the greatest heftily. The only hanilieseets d to them—their shine—wee, taken from them, they were stripped stark asked, mereUesaly bastinadood, sad sbeadonsd to their late. «As Dirt tfall • tearful tempest mended the asset if al ge ; the levy vied wee ealbessiam, end ere the sailors , whilst kis emempealego Tomei the sight literally rr it i is ed the egad. At daybreak the survivors resolved to esters oe the site el the wreck, ia the hype et lodise some amitemetet ea board the weed. a Abet tear amie =Nil they basil the ankles of dress ggigh_dgey hof semeterml al the Lust., sz se ithe nod on rseletked the weary dey whoa jthosyysad bfeied baba. Mosher of the egamea died in the route, bee ea the ink day the aramieder meshed the his of the shipwnek. The two servivieg seamea west ow board, not, am 1 the asthma had satkipmed them, lid plea fend the brie of entry article. They had sow strugpled against imams sad Wigs. he 10 dem end resolved to await death—that bloomed beweemeter of aaluirteaste mum. Is the Minim, however, • white met was descried is the &Lane it peeved to be • noel he fell WI. A simnel was hoisted by the two sermea, and at leagth, afar meek delay, the eap- Ws (keel* that it was • mere mintage= of the Meer. is bogy bin isto their heads) mat a shallop ashore, sad ISSISSII the eyieg imbibe& The nevi proved So he the gpmaish ship Adam, monsamiled by Copula Prestige° Damp. sad employed to the ill*/ trade us the coast. The pyswt Devots„ lewd the mina of the tumid est.', soft sooty siert ta his power to discover toe um who lied beta laid ashore, het is nits. Os the fourth gmy the M. , . OM usher of she Century Isles, and towards the Middle m September the safer ammo Frenchmen were dmpeteised to Cadiz is • Spoil& govirremeat steamer. whereto they took peemete to Mareer.lts. They snivel at the latter port so Ns 12th of artober, sad embrseed their with teen of milk Wages sod*. It is hoped that the brown governmenses••• Otis Sehmowledgment to the 'alba' Captain Devega he hi titbit oesdnet." tit Court• PRIVY COUNCIL-PROROGATION OF The Queen bed a Privy Council at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoos at Winds Cattle. It was attended by hie Boys! Highness Prince Albert, the Archbishop of Canterbawy, tie Martel* of Lseuidowne (Lewd Praia's* Lard John Hera (First Lied of the Treasury), Theme Palmerston (Seeietary of State for Fweigis Br Francis Baring (First Lsrd of the Admiralty). Lord Campbell (Chasesllor of the Derby of Lease-ter), the Usmpaisol Cleaning& (Postmaster-General), Hail Forwent* Lord Steward), and the Duke of Norlont (Metter of the • ). At the oonneil, the 15 h November was appointed es • day of general thanksgiving. Parliament wee ordered to be timber proroguesi from Tuesd.y, November 20, until Jatuuy 15, 15.50. Mr. Charlie Groville wee the Clerk of the Caused in Waitiog. Aketneer was served et the Castle to the minister* and aka. of state present et the Council. At four o'cli,ck the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lantiowne, the Marquis or Cleuricarde, the Berl Vt.? twee, Lord Campbell, Sir Francis Baring, and Mr. C °wale left the cattle, and returned to town by a special train on the Greet Western Railway. Lord John Russell left the castle for Pembroke Lodge, Rkhmond Park. The Doke of Norfolk also took his departure from the castle. Viscount Palau/won remained ea a visit. WINDSOR, Nov 8. Thu Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The royal family took walking sad pony exercise in the Slopes and Windsor Park. Err R wal Rights.' the Dueness of Cseahriilse, their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary °mail Duke snd Docker of Mecklenburg 8 relit', and her Royal High. sees the Princess Mary of Daub idge, attended by a lady and gentlirsaass in welting, are expected to arrive at cne mile this day, on a visit to her lifsjesty and Prince A b-rt. M. D ouyn do Mays, Ambassador from the Frenon He Ppublic, and Madame Dronyn de Lbsys, and the Berl and untess of Westmoreland, are also expected at the cutlet this day. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. " The Priory, Nov. 6, 1819. "The Queen Dowager has had some boars sleep durioa the night, bat Yee Ksjeety's symptom rennin muck r yesterday. " DAVID DAVIIIS, M.D. " RICKARD Below, M.D." The Eal of Denbiah, Muter of tie HOMO to the Queen Dowager, arrived at Bentley Priory yesterday evening. Ili r Itnyal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester his MR town 1 , 4 Brighton. Her Riyal - Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by her lady is waiting sad Major Stephani e Wit her reaideam is Kew yens - May for Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial- Mee from the Governor of the North American Cacti. a. Mr. RicuD. Solf num son of Geo. Lord Fitzroy Somerset, late sommary to the WO Om. Sir Cone Campbell, governor of Capita, Ise, it I. said, accepted the pod of private SOCTIIIIII7 ) his libjesty the Him of Hanover, and is on %kir eve of leaving foe Gersoity. DEATH or But J. BETTOS.-WO have to announce ths demise of the above visor/tido patina's, who di. d oa Booday. The dowered, who wu dowitadod from the Bottoms, of Oroat Borwick, Shropshire, served the office of of Shrewsbury is 1816, whea he rescind the honour eir lie was is his 85th year. (Tram kit MON Gesefte.) BY THE QUEEN.—PROCLAMATION FOR A GENERAL THANKSGIVING. WUlm; Nov. 6.—Victoria, R.—We, taking into as as. scrims mosidorstisa the indispensable duty which cm ore to Almighty God he the maniteld sad inestimable NM* wash we tad our people have received at hie hole; sad drink's, by prestrausg ourselves before his Dino Majesty, sad elerkeg is teen oldie sad o hms manner oar praises sod tnasytriys, to mesilleat to ear isitlital sad Melo subjoina, sad to the world, ear deep sad dorm souse of ilis We omens is hong abated tbe CrusMoses with whisk nosy plasm in this hisedom hes. lately risked, which morels. have established sal essiksed la as the street trot mad coldesos Is Hie possedea sod goad provitlssee, have thought fit, by the advice el war Privy Cassell, to boo this oar royal presiameatios, hereby eppeistiss sad sammeadies that a rthanksgiving to Almighty God Or them His weirs e it :term& throughost Ragland and Ireland, os Thomas), the lath day of N member Mecum ; and we do earnestly ex hort that the said pablis day of thanksgiving be reverently lad devoutly observed by all ear loving subjects is Bagleyd sl Ireland as they under Ike favour of Almighty O,d. And for Use better sad one orderly rolemainag the Ism, we have giro direction Is the Most Bet d the Arebbiehmis and the Right Reverend the Bishops of the 1.1 bind Chock of mad Ireland to com a form of prayer and suitable to the esess pose ien, to be coed is all *mew eleven, and oth.r = i t: i f public worship: and etc law ewe for the time ly of the Name throughout desk respective Sto llen. -- WINDSOR, Nov. (I.—Victoria, R.—We, bikini into estmen enioeseoneldwalien th=emahle they whim we owe to Almighty Gel he the end isinehmalb We s which we sad our pie* hem seethed at His Made; and derider, by restrain me..... helm HY Disise }Nosy, and offering up ia the men S te. end miss= meaner oar praise, sad leM le ear faithful and loriml sebieds, "" &ls ie L wadi. MR deep and devout seats of His late mammies in has* dated the Om om dimes, with whisk masy plasm in this klegdam have be lately visited, whisk ma nies ham estabilehsel end ma armed la ea the safest trim and malidease la Hie peota tka sad pod penternee, ham thought It, by the ad foe of oar Privy Cease, to hese this ear Royal Preelematice, hereby appointing and eteamesibag a general thsabriviag to Almighty Grid he them Hie waits enbiebeerved out that part of me Widen called nestle* en 1 11 1:1 6 ; the 16th day of November Inst. ; and we do earnestly abort that the said general thanksgiving be roverently mid de voutly obsemed by all our losing subjects is Scotland, as they tender the favour of Almighty God. Our will is, therefore, end we charge that this our prociamatioa seen, ye forthwith proceed to the markets is in Edinburgh, and all other places n sad there, is ear name and nth*. nay, mak publication that acme pretend iguanas* ; mdful inest, and our wail and plasma that our solicitor do came printed copies hereof to be sent to the sheriffs of the several shirty, stewerte of nunneries, and With of re elides, and their clerk', whom we ordain to is. the ease published; and we do appoint them to send copies thereof to the several pariah chards, w:thia their bounds, that, upon the Lord's day immediately preceding the day above mentioned, the tame may be published and read from the pulpits, immedi ately after divine service. THE Wnineos, Nov. 6.—lt is Ws day sidered by bee Maloatyla osaatil that the patllaanat.whiah steads romped to Tasiday the twisty-woad day of November hastaat, lw tardier pasnataod to Wedamiq rho siatosath day at Jimmy sew. _ _ Wirrzneu. OCT. 31. The Queen has been *end se direst lai d er s itent is be paned amidst the Greet Seel, reWwthe el a MareeM ef Ibe Veiled Lag leo el Opos7riaaba Inked setellbe Lea City Mr Isom Deb, MAIM, lard Mayst et Me City of lemon. sad tds hits sails this telly lawfully beiettea. COMMISSION BRINED IT VIZ LOIO-LIZOSINANT of Helmsman —Rleberd Hoary Fitzroy &mem% pat. to ►e Lieutiaaat is the North Haab Militia. THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE CITY. Yesterday the City Coossiesioases of dowers en=bieit at Gel Mall, Mr. Depsty Pasoocs is the •hair. The Court were occupied kw • emisiderable time in die aeries the swim of Mr. Geese-Sheriff Millard, that the salary of the chief desk be 'Abed from 600 guises' to 6001. • year. Some oppniion arose upon the ground of the large claims upon the ratemers, but the audios was seeded by • large majority. fit se who were adverse to it Laving burs* testimony themselves to the high merits of the chief clerk. Mr. throw, the medical officer of health, then rose and read a document et great length relative to the sanitary rate of the city of London. Ilia remarks come under the following Artie, via.— " I Defective house drainage. 11. Incomplete and insufficient water supply. 111. Offensive or iojertuus trades and occupation,. IV. Intramural berials. " V. Mend insusceptible of unstiletion, and absolutely unit for habitation. VI. The permed habits of the lowest elesees,and the in fluence of destitution in iricreadas their modality. Is the consideration of these several topics Mr. (limos pee a number of important facts, seised duties hie • epee rinse as officer of health of the city. Is speaking of &eng age he said : A most important eistideratmes is esasezkos with the sewerage of the city is that, it porible, some more per feet sys° an of trapping should be devised. sr that, is some way or other, the sewed should be ventilated effectively sad inoffensively. At pewee there we frequent completed et ofiessive eab air ion from 'retiree is *ammo ways of **shy, and it will be obvious Joyous. bon. wart that all which I have urged on the subject of enapool ezhalatioas sort apply liquidly to those whisk are emitted from sewers. The loped'. meats °effective trapping are slur* trop, table ; bet, Ibe ve that when the water supply of the city savory largely in creased, washing the drains amply sad incessantly, the evil eomplained of will undergo a sensible diminution. So leg as I ran judge, the only complete sad total ears would llelb• Use is toe adoption of some system, including the following pvia's as its eassatials—via., that house-drainage shall be separate from stmerdrainage, the former having to itself a I arise of smaller aponduits ; that thee* shall be closed from their oriels to their mitten, presenting no stellyholes what- ever; and that their gaseous contents shall be withdrew' Item them by stestios, or impelled by pressure, and be made to undergo emsbuitios eg other dimities' change, ren- I devise them fanoceous. I would venture eves now to sug gest that say edeatifie scheme peirmertiag to amomplish the object last indi_sted would in a very high degree ripostes the ecouideraties and eseeeregemeat of your honourable mere . Os the subject of water-supply Mr. Biro n says: " The following are the chief conditions in respect of water supply, which peremptorily n quire to be fr filled : 1. that every house should be separately supplied with water, and that when the house is a lodging-house, or where the several floors are let as Separate tenements, the sup: ly of water should intend to each inhabited tsar. " 2 That every privy should have a supply of water ap plicable as often as it may be required, Lad sufficient in ! volume mediae at each application a thorough flushing sod penile aim of the discharge pipe of the privy. tt 3. That is every c mitt, at the point remotest from the sewer iodine, there should be a stand cock for the cleansing of the court ; and 4. That at all these points there should always and un interruptedly be a suffici,ncy of water to fulfil all reasonable requirements of the population. Now, if my statements are accurate with regard to the imp , rfeet manner in which thousands participate in the dieuriew ion of water, even for their personal neecesaities k if my statements are again accurate with respect to house drain age, and to the immense increase of water distribution which must accompany any improvement in this reerreet—and I am quite prepared, if seersary, to adduce ample evidence on these y,thiners; if, eosin, it be considered that the appreciation of water by the multitude, who have so long suffered from lark of it, lead to a vast augmentation of its domestic we then, I apprehend, it cannot be doubted that the subject of water supply to the City is one that requires to be looked at elmort as though it were now broached for the first time. These imp dant conditions, which I have jdat enume. rated as urgently requiring fulfilment, may certainly be acoomplieheid so tar as mechanical construction is concerned in • Wier of two ways. It would be possible, no doubt, in further compliance with the principle of intermittent supply, to furnish every teeniest in the City with a cistern of pro per dimensions, and wch its usual appurtenances of nail. cock, waste-pipe, fie. ; but this, I seed hardly say, would he a moods involviag • vast expenditure of stoney, and hardly to be recommend. d on the mere ground of eon. formity eith'what has hitherto been done in the matter. It would be possible, on 'he other hand, to convert the whole watt r supply of the city into a system of uninterrupted no el., and to coutruct all new worts in conformity with this system. 1 beg to suggest that the choice between these alternatives is one of immense an I very urgent import &nee to the sanitary welter* of the city; and I would earnestly et-teased it to the best consideration of your honourable court. The system of a continued supply is now no longer a novelty. In Philadelphia, in New York, in Nottingham, in Preston, in Glaegow, in Newcastle, in Britt I, and in various other pleas tni- system has been adopted; its practicability and ire irlyantagie have bees amply demonstrated. Five years i t when evidence on the subject was gives be fore the House of Commons, it appeared that in the city and suburbs nt Philadelehia 25,816 houses were suppiied at an avenue ere of five dollars per house; that in Preston more then 6,000 houses wire supi lied continually at high pres sure, end that the cempaoy was increasing its tenants at the Tete or 400 annually • that in Nottingham about 8 000 noises, containing a population of 36,000 permits, were supplied in the same manner ; and in respect of many other towns, public experience has been equally extensive and sat Weep ory. Above a month ago the sanitary committee of the last mentioned tows published what I may call a report of congratulation on their treedem from cholera, which had visited the town with great sev-riiy in 1832. They detailed the measures by which Nottingham has been rendered a healthy town, and the first item in that enusieratioe stands these ' An unlimited supply of wholesome filtered water, f mud by day and night, at high pressure, through all the streets to the tope of almost all the houses, at a wet. for the dwelt see of the poor, of shout five farthings per week.' On the relative merits or demerits or the two competing Systeme of supply, I have only to speak so far as their adap *sties to sanitary purposes is concerned. In this respect I have no hunted= is saying that the system of coalesce hie-maitre •tipply is immeasurably superior to its rival ; so sup Vier, that saw competent engineering authorities should decide on id poetical inapplicability to the city of LoodA, I would glumly recommend its adoption as the Only else, in my judge's', by which the growing neesmities of the population ass be fully and effectively satisfied. (lb he Continued.) DEETRECTION or RECORDS Ol THZ _ FAMILY —We are sieved to loam that at the late salami tow fire at Creibury-hours (Lord Churchill's), a bog, cost ring valuable records relating to the illastrions hero, the ancestor of the noble lord, perished is the conflagration, though streesioUt eft ,its were exerted for its prearystion. atliS LAW..—At the Swindon Petty Sessions on Thersir Ire, Abraham Ockwell, alias Besky, and Thomas Smith, were each , an the complaint of Davi d Wld, game keeper too H.W. Heneage, 11 , M.P., fined 21. 9.., includ Jag costa, aid is default of mum; two months' hard labour, foe kil ing Fame at Lyman'. A mat who we with the keeper was grossly assaulted by Smith, and confined to his bed, from the 'nitwit.s he received, and, Wyld was sternly Meath by Ockwell, with a gas barrel. The following ems- Rem epirle, bearing the Bath past mark, was received by Wyld this morning, and prodased to the magistretes, who adviod him to take care of it.—A coffin drawn, with " Old Wyld d:ed Nov. 5, 1849," written thereon, and above it "Proper? to meet thy ascl," below, " per God's stke kespl in doors' —" I say old buy how did you like the gnu burl ?" and on the reversed side, was I low's" figured the skidoos, and underneath 1 , written, "Old Wyld in 1860." MUMS° MONET TRACFD.—In the month of May, 1848,a picot of mosey was made up by Mr. Rob it Her des, .pest for the Bridiewater Touter' carrying &verb matt at Worley, sod takes to apartments whit* he this ocempied Is a louse nee that plea. He placard the meg is a lea•ber bag, to be seat by the passage best ti the Truro's' principal office in Maathester, the next monks. Mr. Brydess locked the beg, and gave it late the bomb el Mrs Anderson, wife of George Andersen (dm math tithe lived in the house), to give it to the captain of the beat; but as the p troel of money never reached iN destinatiog she was taken in'o custody on raspision of having st deg it. Nothing amid be proved spinet her at the time, bat it was enasidered to be ow ekes that she had tak a the that her husband (who was 'employed r a welsh. ma il l e ra the Trustees' service) was diseharged from his is. Ovum% They left the iseighbetwhool, giving it owl be some of their neighboun taut they were going to Yak. shire, and to others that they intended to go IS America. The money contained in the parcel was= in gold and other coin., sad partly in Bonk of E notes, four in number. Of coulee sothieg is knows of the disp 4il of the farmer, but, happily, the notes haft found their way int) the Bank of ingland Os* of lee fear bears the words, "K. Actress, Tropic. Guests 7,11, '48." It has been aserrtaised that a reel GAM Tropic riled from Leaden' Is, Sydney la real ef Wee the November, 1818, and that in the list of 'nommen who sailed by her were— " George Anderson, aged 44, las boater; Hsanals Andirons, rid Vi." Mrs. ahltdmoa .4 Mae 12 understood to be Msrriet. The remainiag these WAN be.. the memo and progressive numbers of the Sydney branch of th • Bank of Australasia. Whither Mrs. Anderson's sass is M. Maude or Harriett it matters lit tle. The paper ',hat repremuta the money bean strong marks of its genuineness, and wkera it has been.—Beliefs Chronicle. EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN OF TUE ILIAZIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS. The following return camping do births and drat* whith wan registered in all the dhlriels of linglead by UN regleftry ia the mum , quarter salmi September lids. Will and W marriages in above MON eh yds and •3,186 regiment plains et warship eassawassil whit the solablishei Walk and 628 aseedWendent web- Iran' oases, la thegasetir wag /sae fikik The Mara al aleesieges M hismyWle; hot the awahers wanting we imewilheable. awl haw am wad hew the provisos yew. liabss•• of the births eel Ardis law bees resolved heat swim registrar; awl thaw Is wawa to believe that nadir the Wen* that has UMW the kin dew, me deaths base seemed regbaratiss, sr been= hp the embed sitsailents to say bat whoa they the true 'SWIM The wham self* ether esteem is this sad other sereateise, laslaies every parishes& plow, whether healthy or sailleiag her as opsdentis. sal deaths few every cause • se that the tables sad the reghlrere limas exhibit the ;webs et • rapid but general whim marvel at the country. We have no epees for the tables shwa, but the result .unveil y is, that the manieges are a little above the average, the births slightly below the avenge, the deaths in greater number than have ever Deices Dies revie wed. The demise is three swaths were 136,364, or 47,602 rare thaa were registered in the summer gainer of 1848. They weeded the births (135,200) by 104; sad as the fre es Linde*, Liver pool. sad Ply mouth Wow sweated, sewrWg to the Emigratisa Cwanissiosers, as 46,668, the popWadea:ot Baglend has suffered, died, and degreased during the quarter to a degree of which there is so ezaseple in the pressed military. The marriages (34,702), ii;;;;;arter ending Jane 30M, 1848, wen fewer thin the swinges in the eerrespoading querters of 1848 7 ; in the Jane quarter of 1849 the am bers incresesd In Lone" Bedfordshire, Gloom stershin, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Nottinshiwashin, Cheshire. Lea whin, end the West Marna of Yorkshire. In the other mantis; the segregate wane differ hale from those of 1848. The marriages were about 33,908 in the three months. --- BIRTHS. 136,200 births were registered in the quarter eading Sep tember*, UM; the births were 163,716 In the privies, quarter, end 140,361 in the mmentending quarter et 1848. the rate et birth was higher than in the Septombei quarter of 1847; mellower, with this exemption, than in any ihp.. umber gamin sines 1840. In Landon the births were 17,224, which is RUN HIS average number ; in the ether divisioas the births were he than in the September quay. in of 1848 ; when they were, however, considerably above the average. BIRTHS AHD DRATILS—DuRRAss OF POPULATION. The deaths exceed the firths registered by 164 ; but all On births are not registered, sad a certain number of Scotch and Irish people eater England every quarter, so that were it sot for emigration It is probable that notwitestanding the mortality, the population would have slightly increased. Emigration has, however, gone on rapidly, and England has now Ins inhabitants by several thousands than were within its shores at Midways , r. BTATI OF TEI PUBLIC HEALTH. In the Live summer quieten ending September 3oth, 1846-9, the deaths were 74,872, 101,663, 93,435, 87,762, sad 135,364. The deaths is the last summer quarter ex ceeded the deaths is the mummer of 1815 by 60,492; the annual rata of mortality in the two summers wen 1'767 and 3,030 respeetively ; so that the latter exceeded the former by 71 per ant. The average rats per annum of mor tality is generally lower in the summer than in either 41 the whir three quarters: during the 11 summers 1838 48 It was 1 983. The annual mortality of the summer quarter 1849 eat:waded the quarterly average by 63 per cent. The excess has been caused almost entirely by the cholera. The !mor tality will be found to `are been very unequally distributed WIT the country ; and to have generally been greatest is the dime town populations. This is evident on comparing the deaths in the 117 districts of the old quarterly return—com prising London, some agricultural districts, and the principal towns and cities —with the rest of England. It Ina be ob served that the average annual rate of mortality in the town gaol-inn is 26, in the country districts 18 in a thousand; during the lest quarter then numbers became 41 and 23 re spectively. While the mortality has been caressive in nine divisions, it has been below or little above the average in two divisions—the North Midland and the South Midland— or in the counties of Buckingham, Oxford, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Camltridge, Hereford, Worcester, Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby ; else in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Cumberland, Westmorland, and Moth Wales. The difference will be more apparent upon examining the several districts ; in some the people have died by hundreds or by thousands ; in others, not far distant, few have died, the inhabitants have been unusually healthy, the " medical men (says a registrar) say they have had nothing to do." IetIONSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY A paha moan for the purpose of explaining the prlceiplee sal oliteas of *is society, wee held last algid et the Gas Tme Vaasa Mr. JAMES WTLD, M.P., cm teldm the chair, sell that giberd of tee sedes, was twofold. Med, to give to every a [Nadi segfelease, *said, mionarsolag habits of loolla tniPlllsl lr iad lo ellea mbsi ne:= l" Enadt hballith."4 “ m elasael to give ; to "a thi amigos toga a alga la ti• smirk right et Waft fairly npromated is perilasagOL The sovietism et this de seriptica lestitated threaghent t e Oraatip, ago rmitim•sil $ 20 ' with about 10,000 weaken welled ea their leek leek s. They had originated in gad had been gaveled me with es mash mosses fa dirt tows, that so lege than 226 seembees had bees pat I. peessmiga of freeholds, the effect el veld* &mos la tho woad no doubt be mode wiliest at the ne abhor South Staffordshire med Keith Warwickshire. (Hear, hoar.) The amenity for tankor *lmp_ is the nature of oar sepreseatative systsse, was IBM ~ow upoa a glum tie relative 'umbers of the moieties sai electors of the United Kingdom. Taking the aniatt representation of Upload, the 40 counties which Maned 144 members, with a populatioa of 8,336,263, had but ealy 476,036 eleston. la Weise, 12 counties, with ftPoleulotiO• of 609,871, returning 16 members, had only 37.340 .listen. la Scotland, MI centaties, rourniag 30 members, sad with a population of 1,800,000, had only 48,968 siestas. So that, including Ireland's St entities, h• foetid that 114 counties in England, Ireland, sad Scotland, reamed 263 members through only 581,329 elector., out of 11 1 11 , 41495161 of 14,773,750. There were 309 boroughs, renaming 406 members, through 383,144 elector,, out of a populating of 9,516,952. From this it appeared that the whets agasber et members was 658, and the whole number of alataga ally 944,473, cut of a population of 26,000,000, or one dogleg eat of every 26 of the populatisa. (Hear, hear.) To east a &sage in these relative numbers, which show hew Imaiscrately the people were repressated in the House of Oemnamia, was the object of this society, sad that object Noll be accomplished at the small cost of one shilling and siz a week in the muse of Ave ears;y for as 40L treehold could be pocheired for about 191. His sin een ardent advice to the working dames was, to en deavour to obtain an lancelet in the soil of the country. (Hear, hear.) It was a remarkable fact that of ad the con. stitutional stakes of Earop• or Amok* Great Briggs was that omit?, in which the people held the smallest stake In the god. Prance, with a population of 32,660,934, had 10,896,682 loaded proprietor, or one in three. The United States, with a population of 20 000,000, had 5,000,000 pro pri-tors, or one In four. Belgium, with a population of 5,022,677, bad 9`.0,723 Proprietor*, or .as ta are. Holland, a commercial and shipping country, with a population of 3,690,000, had 400,000 proprietors, or no in nue. Sweden with a population of 3,874.203, had 300,000 proprietors, or one in 12. While Great Britain and Ireland, the richest reentry in the world, with a population of 27,641,060, only 633,421, or one in 40 of the population, including freeholders and copybolders had a direct interest in the soil. (Hear, hear.) It had b eeni stated that the dominant repres•ntation was that of lead. They were ready to admit it, and therefore did they intend by the purchase of land to obtain that poli tics which their status and intelligence demanded. The sys tem of this society had been tried at Birmingham, and had been found most sneensful, not oin a political but social point of view. He hoped that Westminster, hitherto fore most in every great and good movement, would not be back ward in this. (Hear, hear.) They were represented at pre sent by a neatness* who bad upon all 00Caais1111 advocated the best Interests of the people—Mr. Bernal Osborne. (Cheers.) And if the principles of the society were carried out actively sad energetically, they would be able to return to the (House of COllllllOllll other am equally devoted to their interests. While revolutionary evils were destroying other states, such societies as this would act ea safety valves for the feelings of the people, which, he was sure, their in nate love denier would induce them to support and join, so that their voice might be brought eventually toinfluence the House of Commons, by their having • due interest in the soil. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BLANCHARD moved the following resolution: " That it is the upinion of this meeting that the establish ment of freehold land societies oft, re a profitable investment for the savings of the industrious classes, is an efficient agent for elevating their moral and social condition, and calculated to engender habits of forethought and a spirit of self reliance. Mr. OF.RI3IN, seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. Mr. GEORGE moved, and Mr. WADDY seconded the following resolution : " That this meeting recognises in the general establishment of then societies a most efficient mode of extending the suf . (rage, by increasing the number of voters for county mem ber., and thus legally and gradually clearing the way to an effectual reform of parliament ; and this meeting is of opi nion that it behoves every man who is anxious to extend the representation of the people to contribute by all means in his power to their encouragement and support." , The resolution having been supported in :ible addresses by , Mr. Davis and Mr. KiNssLa, was cordially adopted ; and , Unlike having been voted to the chairman, the meeting Lo DON._ The deaths in London were 27,109, and exceeded the births (17,224) by 9.885. fhe deaths by disesees of the symotie claw were 17,763; by other diseases, 9,287. The cansee of 59 deaths were unspeilified ; only 78 derhe from small pox and 274 from measles were registered, 428 from pooping-cough, 386 from scarlatina. Tbe epidemic of scarlatina, of which 1,560 pets me died in the summer quarter of 1848, thus suddenly subsided. Of typhus 710 persons died. The deaths from influessa were 9. Although inflation sad cholera often succeed each other alternately, tatir co-existence as epidemics appears have been witnessed. A disease in which the patient is restless, entsleas, convulsed, and death-stricken the moment he &Maks from the sight of water, was formerly of common emarreace in London. No death from that cause has beam reaorded is the last fine summers. Yet hydrophobia is inevitably fatal, and medicine is of no more avail when its symptoms are revealed that it is in cholera ; but the wile courts of removing its cau , es has been tried, and bide fair to create a permanent blank in the London nosology. The cause of typhus, of influenza, of cholera, and of the like diseases, will not long, we may hope, remain in undisturbed possession of the earth and air of this city. Hydrophobia disappears when the dogs which are liable to become mad or to be bitten every summer are removed by police regulations, so will the other symotic diseases rive way when that putrid, &may ing, noisome atmosphere exhaled by church yards, slaughter houses, the tanks of dirty water companies, cesspool., sewers, crowded dwellings, is purified and dissi pated. Tao sewers and cesspools now under our houses will inflict more pains and destroy more living than ten thousand mad dogs 1. t loam lathe streets. They may as cer tainly be removed ; std yet it is to be feared that many years will Mapes before anything e ff ectual is done, or any such satisfactory result can be recorded es the extinction of another disease in this great city. A mortality from cholera slightly above the average was observed in July and August, 1848 ; but the deaths from this came were less numerous than in 1846, and in September did not exceed 7 weekly. In the weeks of October and November the deaths ran up, and 13, 30, 45, 34, 65, 62 deaths were registered. The new epidemic chancier was manifest ; but the mortality declined to 30 and 20, fluctuated from 94 to 37 through an. and Feb., and finally fell to 4 in the lea week of March, to 1 &no 2 weekly, in April and May. The deaths from cholera in the Let weeks of May and June were 1, 6, 9, 22, 42, 49, 124. The water of the Thames roam to the temperature of 60 deg. at the end of May; and the weekly des , ha in July and August were 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, 823, 1,230,1,272, 1,663 ; in the first week of September, 2,026 deaths from cholera were registered ; and the epidemic then rapidly subsiding the deaths fell to 1,682, 839, 434 in the last three weeks of the month. The temperature of the Thames fell below 60 deg. in September 16-22. The deaths from all causes were 3,183, or about three times the average number, in the first week of September ; and 27,109, or double the average in the 13 weeks of the quarter. T A mortality from cholera varied in different distracts of the metropolis from 8 to 239 in 10,000; and was greatest in the low, the worst drained, the poorest districts; the districts supplied with water from the Thames between Waterloo-lwidp end Batteries New Town. We shall give the returns from the different local districts on another macula& HEALTH OP LONDON DIMINO THIS WEIL—The mortality of London (says the Registrar• General la his re- I port) which fell below the weekly average of five autumns I in the second week of October, has steadily continued to I decline during the three subsequent weeks. The present return shows that only 837 deaths were registered in the • week ending last Saturday, while the average is 1,182 (al lowaace being made for increase of population en preview years); the decrees is, therefore, 326. A commies. et returns made for the suns week in the last 10 yearn, &ewe that in any of the nine weeks the mortality has act bola so slow as at the present time. In the corresponding week et 1841 the deaths were 840; in that of 1848 they were 1,115, after cholera had given warning of its Only 11 deaths from cholera were registered in week. In the three preceding weeks they wee eneemaively 110, 41. and 25, deerning hy nearly a powasszisal pepssioa. Of the 11, one occurred in L)wsr N Chelsea; two in the workhouse of St. Martin•in-the-Plehis ems having been that of a girl brought from a house in Ilealerdbary, ass audition of which is minutely described by the registrar); one in Claremont-place, Gray's-inn-has ; one in George-yard, Saffron-hill; two at No. 12, Seven Step alley, Gravel lane; one in the Lunatic Asylum, Holton-house; one in Maidstone-place, "a very low and ill-drained spt in Hag garottes Eon"; one at 4 Paternoster-row, Spitalbids, where the mother of' the deceased died five days afterwards M " diarrbon." sad one is Wycombe plane , Keitirend. La the last wish 40 deaths were regatered from diarrhea cad dysentery (the average is 27); in the these previous w eeks **Twos 105, 63, and 51. Tao of these, In the present rotate, weaned in Jennings•-buildings, Kensington a locality which has frequently obtained anfavourable notice in the records of the late epidemic. Typhus was fatal to 37 per sons ; the average is 58. Other epidemics are still under the average. The mortality from smallpox and meats con tinues unusually low. A woman of 67 years died of " in flammation from a plum:tons lodging, 33 days before death, in the colon, and producing thickening, and complete ob streaky." In two cases intemperance is stated to have been the cause of death. The mean reading of the barometer at Greenwich was upwards of 30 in. on the first three days of the week. The mean of the week was 29 807. The mean temperature of the week was 60.3 deg. which is 4 deg. above the averege of the same week in 7 l FIRS ; Pr_ ON BOARD TRII VICTORIA EMIGRANT SNIP. —This vend, whist' it will be recollected was chased by . her Mesmer Fire Q teen some di tones along the , en impulsion being entertained by the police that I the 1011141111 IMMO peresagers on board, met with a serious oesidaat In her pun* to New York. Oa the 17th of October , she was discovered us fire, and but for the prompt exertions . of the crew sad pamengen she mast have speedily been in r flames. The cease of the accident is not mentioned in the repwts d. The vessel was a London packet ship, and with sup was fatly Wand. THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS IN HORSE- MONGER LANE GAOL. Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, a messenger from the Rome.ofece arrived at Uoreemonger-lane gaol, bearing a respite during her Majesty's pleasure for the convict Alfred Stephen Jordan alias Dowland, capitally convicted of at. tempting to murder a female with whom he cohabited, in Dulwich Wood. The act of clemency was communicated in a letter from Sir George Grey, addressed to the High Sheriff of Surrey, who lout no time in forwarding the intelligence to the Rev. William Sloman Rowe, chaplain of the gaol, who immediately visited the convict and informed him of the fact. The wretched youth received the intelliesnes with stoical indifference, betraying no emotion of gratitude, and appearing perfectly careless as ta what became of him. The convict Manning was yesterday permitted to have another interview with his brother Edmund Manning, who arrived at the gaol about 1 o'clock, accompanied by a married sister. The Rev. Mr. Rowe and Mr. Beane, the governor of the gaol, were present at the interview, which, as a matter of course, was of an extremely painful nature. It is said that the wretched mass, in answer to questions - put to him by his brother, has confessed that be pledged a pair of pistols—with one of which the deceased was shot—on the evening cf the day his wife left town, being at the time almost penalises. Ile has also confessed when the watches belonging to the late Patrick O'Connor and the crowbar with wtich the murder was completed may be found. The bro ther, Edmund Manning, on taking leave yesterday, promised to see the convict again on Saturday,but the sister took a last farewell. Manning is more resigned to his fate than he was for two or three de's after conviction. At first he would neither eat nor drink for some hoar, together, but he now takes his meals regularly, and expresses himself prepared for the awful change be has to undergo. He is not less anxious than heretofore to have an interview with his Wife, but she positively refuses to ca p him. Edmund Manning, when at the prison yesterday, ght to obtain an interview with her, but she declined to see either him or his sister. There has been no aoplicatio , to see the female convict, on the part of barr, own hinds, since heroonviction. DISTURBANCES IN WARSTIELD.—Os Monday night • serious distarbenes took place in Wakefield, arising out of the detaindnation of the authorities to put a stop to the sth el November demonstrations. It appears that the custom hes bees, for a century past, to adebrate the anniversary of the gunpowder plot by bonfires, in the Buil.ring. a tries. gular space in front of the Strafford Arms Hotel but this year it was resolved to put them down. Aecor dingly, sa seven o'clock, the whole of the police form were marched hate the Ball-ring, and kept it clear. The nob, however, sesemblsd is Claimant*, where they kindled as hwlaWille bonfire. Here they ignited a tar-barrel, and rolled it through into the Bull-rirg amongst the polio, and the barrel was followed by a great crowd of pawns. Two of the foremost of these were seized by the police, and a cry of rosette was instantly raised. Immediately the police were bad on all sides, and the men rescued attar NOW sharp fighting. Some of the reamers, however, were is turn seized; th e whole of the p dice mu , mondial; t? te rearched off in the direction of the police. Miles. 0 the Court - house, being panned by the mob, they tad, formed, and drew their staves. A made of a moat mime nature instaatly followed. Stones, bricks, and Udine! all deseriptioce were hurled upon the etlicere like • storm of hest Oise of them was knocked down insen sible, and several others struck !severely ; and in the end, so imminent was their danger, that it was deemed pea. dent 13 beat a precipitate retreat. The mob fol. l lowed until the police reached the station, and then nearly all of them returned to the fire. Bat it woo found that many of the rioters had bees severely injured, oneman having had /tisane broken, and many others had serious wounds upon their heads and faces. A person in the crowd, said to be a polies spy, waste brutally bea l ten, and ha d d he not found refuge in the Boy arrel nn, he wou in all probability have been murdered. About 'levee o'clock the Mayor (G. W. Harrison, E.q ) basked by the whole polies form of the borough—intelligence having been received that the mob had partially dispersed— marehed to the Bull-ring, to put out the fire ; but before they could succeed, the police had been again stetted, the mayor had had his hat knocked off, and been injured by steam, and the chief constable had been knocked down and trampled on. Order, however, was eventually restored by midnight THE BIRMINGHAM CATTLI SHOW.—The ground in Lower Itrevstrest, intended for the cattle show neat Month, to Dsiat y enclosed. under the superintendeam of Mr. The math building will be 320 het long, sad 100 Net with several subdivioes ; the chief one being • rtith the ea sees fellhash= ea the whole length of the shed, tended he of one hundred Most& Maas; head to heads& habilis. Li the partition. Them will likewise be portiom assigned teethe store bees , - fat pigs, and sheep, and a mama location for the , pigs 100 feet long mil 15 feet wide. The oompartm elated to the poultry is 150 feet long and 25 het wide it will be pertiMoad off from the cattle, and have a boarded floor. The area will be thrustsurmd with a roof In bumeildE with a cupola miming whole length of the six feet above the roof, for light and "oblation, there will also be thir ty eight large skylights in the reef. In addition to them Mum have both assigned he the .enmities and secretary, with etorsdroome for meal, straw, Ike. The bundles will be lighted through out with gas. Mr. Ottley, of Snow-hill, is preparing medals far then rim ; and it should be borne in mind by intending mlulitors that all entries must be made on or before the 17th inst.—Aries Binning/am Garage. 1849.. rHB ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK. ILI, POLICE-COURT. Hoary BMA , re MemMose, the yomag ass @barged with Using attempted to murder kis father by drug mstok at him, was dully szamthed retarder. While his father was giving his evidence the primate toread re r his from hM ,as if he was amine to avoid a but the father closely sendiaked the exterior of sea with • neelaasholy explode. of memiseeacm. The primer paid peat atteetios to the *Adage as it snot as, and cast °sea glottal gleams at the bast and seek tie whoa they were pro. dated by the toadied with= and hid ea the table before the migiatrate. The seams of the tie was isteeared with blood, ea& slightly singed is the pert where the ballet had passed thecae'. thr. Bird, the easily: of Hasmasesesith, attemded cm behalf of the wallsethestko toes. At Mree'eleek Kr. Dods. took his seat an the beach, Ind the evidenee wee gone Into as follows: Willi.. Andante, the delver of the cab No. 815, was the first witness examined—He Mated that he resided at No. 2, Sipe• yard, Whiteehapel. On Tharsday evening the 4th of October l ast, between seven and eight o'clock, he was on the I yank in the Miseries, when the prisoner came up and en gaged him to Chiswick for 14s. The primer did not appear quite sober. They went into a publWhones . t . oitter oppo site the stand, and the prisoner entered the witness had partaken of a glass of ram, wha the grinner had ordered for him, he went into the parker, when he law the prisoner with hie hand memo silver, width was lying on the table, which *duped him to observe as the landlady, " He seems to have a good deal of money almost him." They then proceeded on the journey, end an she way they looked in at several publiclesses on the reed. They called at the White Hone, in High street, Knights bridge, where the prisoner appeared to be kit° end where they had some more drink. The primes? said some thing to a female at the bar about giving her some rent, and having left his handkerchief with her as a pledge that he was in earnest about bringing the rent, they rammed their journey, still stopping at public-houses on the way, and drinking at each. When they came to the Bleck Lion, in Black Lion-lane, they stoned again. The prisoner spoke to the landlady who seemed to know him, and witness had something to drink, bat did not see the prisoner have any. I It was bandy they had. The prisoner then got up on the box of thecah and directed witness when to drive to. and when they came to Mr. Monkhowe's residence the prisoner requested witness to get down, ring the bell, and ask if Mr. Monkhouse wee at home. If he was, witness was to say there was a gentleman from Louden at the gate who wished to see him. Witness did se he was told and a female answered the door. He asked if Mr. Monkhouse was at home, and she said " Yes," when he told her them was a gentleman from town who wished to speak to him. The female el and the gate, and after being absent for a few minutes, she returned, when the prisoner came up and shed past her, disregarding her statement that he must send in his name, observing, " I will go in and see him my. self." The prisoner then went in and closed the gate afar him, and witness returned to his cab. Shortly afterwards he heard a report of firearm, and the prisoner then joined him in the cab, directing hies: to drive on. Witness asked him " What was that noise I heard," and he said, smilingly, 't Oh, that's nothing " or words to the effect of " that's not here." Witness then drove to a public-house in the main road, and there asked the prisoner to settle with him, when he said he wanted to go to Ea!ing. Wit ness replied that he could not gr, , as it was his time home. The prisoner said, " You must go sad I will give you a sovereign altogether." Witness ultimately speed le go, and took him to the Bell, at Ealing, where they had some mere brandy ; and then, at the prisoner's request, witness drove him to a house up the lane, where witness believed she prisoner's brother resided. The prisoner rung the bell several times, but, receiving no answer, they returned to the public-house, and he asked the landlord to give witness a sovereign. The landlord refused ; and, while they were talking about the fare, the constable came up and took him into custody. Elizabeth Barnes, housemaid in the service of Mr. John Farmer Monkhouse, the gentleman shot at, was the nett witness examined—She stated that she knew the prisoner, who was the second son of her master. On Thursday night, the 4th of October lest, about 10 o'cl ,ck, she heard a ring at her master's gate bell, when she went out and saw the last witness, who asked if Mr. Monkhouse was at home. She replied, " yes," and asked the cabman his name. He said, " Here's a gentleman front town wants to see him." She left the man at the gate, closed it, and as she approached the house, which was about five or sac yards from the gate, she saw her master standing on the threshold. She told him there was a gentleman from town wished to see Pint, and he told her to go and ask his name. She went back, opened the gate, and coked the cabman the gentle man's name. The cabman hesitated a moment or so, and ell at once the prisoner rushed forward from the side of the cabman, nearly knocking her down, and said—" I am a blockhouse, and I will speak to him." He rushed for ward to the house, and she immediately afterwards beard two rehrts as of firs-arms. She saw two flashes and inch. does to her master. At the first shot she observed her master fall, and at the second shot the prisoner returned, and teeing " There!" bounded peat her, and ran out of the premises. She ran into the ;house, where she saw her master crawling on his bands and knees towards the par lour with blood upon his throat. She and her mistress assisted him into the parlour. He was afterwards removed to a bedroom, and then Mr. Perfect, a surgeon, was sent' for. About a week before the prisoner was at her muter's house, and she heard him say to her master, stamping his foot upon the ground, " This is the last time I will ever cram the threshold of your door." John Farmer Monkhouse, of Chiswick-mall, Chiswick, gentleman, the father of the prisoner, deposed as follows : The prisoner is my eon. On Thursday night, the 4th of October, &bunt tan o'clock, I heard a ring at my gate bell. I went to the front door when the maid went to the gate, and I then beard a man say, " A gentleman from London wishes to see Mr. Monkhouse." Immediately after I heard my son (the prisoner) say, " I am a Mookhouse," and he rushed up to where I was standing and shot me. I fell and heard a second shot. It was so momentary that I did not observe anything particular. It was previous to my falling that I heard the two shots. Mr. Thomas William Camberlain Perfect, the medical gentleman who was called in to see Mr. Monkhouse after he was shot, stated that he found that gentleman ?oral log blood, and ordered him to be immediately put to bed. Upon examining the neck, he found that a ball had passed through his nett-tie, and perforated the flesh, passing by the thyroid cartilage of the neck, at the centre of the most projecting point of the windpipe. It did not penetrate the sir tube, but woun.ing the gullet, striking against the panics' cenobite, and da wending between the external and internal carotid arteriee, it came out at the back of the neck, and lodged in the shirt collar. Ha produced the bullet, together with the collar and stock which Mr. blockhouse wore at the time. Henry Reason, eve of the mounted police, T 247, deposed to having received information on the night in question of Mr. Mon - khans* having been shot at, and to tracing the cab to the Bell Inn at Baling. He there saw the prisoner, and asked him if his name was not Monkheuse. The pr isoner told him that it was not; but witness told him that he answered the description of the penal he was alter, and be mast go with him. Witness then took him to the Ealing police-station, where he searched him and found the harp I of a pistol in his right-hand coat pocket, and the stock in the left-baud pocket, together with eight bullets and about thirteen cape, ell of which he now produced. Thin was some loose powder in the inside pocket of his great coat. Re examined the pistol, and found that it had been recently diselearged ; and while doing eo, the prisoner observed, rs I" I bed a brace of loaded pistols, I would blow my own brains out." He then took hint to the Hammersmith police station. Oa the Sunday night following, from information he received, he went to Mr. Williams, at Baling, the land lord of the public house, and there received a powder flask containing gunpowder, and a second pistol, both of which he also produced. The pistol appeared to have been recently fired. Mr. William Williams, the landlord of the Bell Inn at Ealing, stated that he knew the prisoner by sight, and recol lected his coming to his house on Thursday night, the 4th October. He came into witness's kitchen between 8 and 9 o'clock, when witness was sitting, and took from his pociets two pistols 11 , 4 a small packet of powder, which he laid on a table. Witness took them up an placed them is a drawer. At that moment some person WWI from the bar. and witness went to answer the cell. When he returned to the kitchen the pris o ner had a pistol in his hand, and he said to him, "Da not take them things from the drawer again, as it is very improper to have nth things in a room." At that moment he was called to the bar again, and in going there he met the officer Beason ia the maw. The officer said, " Will you show me to go into the kitchen ?" and he replied, " Certainly, by ail means." The officer *ea went in and arrested she prisoner. On the Sunday following the officer called again, and he headed to him the second pistol and packet of powder, which had already been prodan& Mr. Edward Raiford, surrggeeoon, of Hammersmith, the me dical attendant of Mr. Mon 's family, stated that on the 4th of October, late in the evening, he was called is to see Mr. Monkhouse. He found him suffering from a wound in the neck, which seemed to have been produced by a pistol shot. He continued to attend him, and fireboat a fortnight Mr. blockhouse was in imminent danger. The wound was now healed, bat Mr. Monkhense was not yet perfectly re covered. Mr. Sudan asked if the bullet of the mond pistol had been found ? Mr. lespector Inks intimated that it had lodged in the coning of the passage, from which it had not been extracted. This was the PM against the prisoner. • Mr. Haulm then asked the prisoner if be anything to say, now that he bad beard all the evidence against bins, giving him the usual caution, that he was not bound to say anything unless he choose, ut that it he did it would be taken down in writing, and might be mod against him on the tried. The prisoner made no reply, but Mr. Bird intimated that he would reserve his defence till the trial. The prisoner Old erwa l th ey en se ful s. io ly n rmtnitted to take his trial et the The avert during the investigation was crowded with most stoole— of the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood. THE ROYAL PAVILION AT BILIGHTON.—It is Un derstood that the Pavillon at Brighton has been purchased for a sum nearly amounting to 60,0001. The valuables of the interior have been removed, and it 1 expected that the elate will be converted into purposes frr the improvement of the town. In the late sadon of parliament an act was passed (12 and 13 Via., cap. 102) to authorise the sale of the property, and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were empowered to pull it down, and sell the asterisk, or otherwise to dispose of the same. A public carriage-coed may be formed for the improvement of the town, and, after the payment incurred, or to be foamed, in repairing, im proving or enlarging Buckingham Palace. RAILWAY MEETING. SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD. Yesterday a general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the Royal Hotel, Chester, on the gene ral affairs of the company, and for the purpose of taking into consideration a plan proposed by the directors fcr proceeding with the line (the works of erh, owing to the depressed state of the times, have be in a state of abeyance) on a reduced soak of expenditure; and for the further pur pose of sauctinulag an application to parliament in the ensuing ses sion, for power to limit the capital to 400,0001., to reduce the shares from 201. to 101. each, and to increase the *usher of shores from 40,000 to 45,000. Mr. Ousteny Clone, 11. P., was the chairman on the occasion. Mr. KELSA.LL, the solicitor, reed the direction' report, which has already appeared in our columns, and which gave an exposition of the plans proposed for carrying out the undertaking. In reply to gelation, the solicitor stated that those propri etors who had not paid the last call would not be entitled to vote. Mx, G. Z. TAUNTON, representative of the Liverpool sharehladen, opposed at considerable length the adoption of the reJOport. Mr. HN BUDD, of Liverpool, also opposed at consfele• cable length the adoption of the report, and wished to know from the directors whether it was intended to allow dissen tient shareholder to withdraw on consisting to the re:Hiat us of their shares. lie and those be represented held very strong opinions as to the conduct displayed by the directors of railways generally, to which was to be attributed the ruin ous condition of that property. It had been the fashion to describe shareholders as a species of maniacs, exhibiting every thing that wee unprincipled and absurd in their de sire to conch themselves by shares. Tnis, howevir, was un true, for by the returns msde to parliament it appe ared that the pestles who asturibed for hundreds of thousands, quarters of =Mims and half millions sterling at a time s for shares in new railroads, were directors. By captivating statements of small outlay and large profits the directors had no difficulty in getting shareholders together, and if the enure number of shares was not issued, it was only because the directors ra served them for themselves. Experience had proved the promises in oonnexion with the Shrewsbury and Hereford to be fallacious. Public opinion was at length realising a kind of public conscience among railway directors, but as yet it was a king way off what it should be. The first step that was taken by the directors of the Shrewsbury sod Hero ford was to spend the company's fund. in buildinr a station at Shrewsbury for the use of other companies without any present adulates,. The number of voting shareholders had been restricted to the directors themselves. The funds of whole families of widows and orphans would be engulfed while the proprietors would have the pleasure of reeciag the directors* report, and of observing with what royal muni ficence they bestowed railway communication upon Shrop shire and Herefordshire. After some further observations, Mr. Budd cmcluded by calling upon the directon to allow all di sentient shareholden to retire. Mr. SCOTT, late M.P. for Walsall, expressed surprise at the apparent desire of the Liverpool proprietors to repudiate their connexion with a company to promote which they bad taken shares upon the faith of an act of parlisninit ; more particularly when, at one period, had it not been for the sums. of the Shrewsbury and Hereford in parliament, another company might have node the line. Sir CHARLES MALCOLM supported the !molt, and the proposals of the directors, which he thought judicious. Mr. ROBERTSON, the engineer, in reply to questions, said he telt cos& lent that the line could be constructed for 485,0001., at which he estimated it, and he was confirmed in this by persons greatly experienced in railway construction, and who were ready to do it at the prices. After considerable discussion, the amendment was lost, and the original motion adopting the report WIN carried. Mr. BUDD and Mr. TARNTON, who represeated 4,000 shares, offered to dispose of the number they held individu ally to the directors for a nominal sum. A vote of thanks, on the motion of Sir Charles Malcolm, was given to the chairman and directors, and the muting WEST FLANDERS RAILWAY. The report of the directors, to b submitted to the share holders at the half-yearly meeting to-morrow, states that the economy promised at the previous meetings hu been in creased since the last report. The expenditure for the bslf year amounts to 4,8541., iced the receipts to 6,9871. leaving a balance of 2,1331. to be carried to the account of profit and loss. The directors draw the attention of the propni ton to the small amount of expenditure incurred, as the en ire service of nearly 33 miles, including every expense, amcunts to 1471. per mile for the half year, whilst the directors hope a still further reduction is in progress. The receipts of the half year show au increase of 1,2731. over the preced ing one, and of 9681. over the corresponding halt jeer of 1848. As far as expertener, fouuded on the procure of the months of September and October, eimbles the directors to form an opinion, they state there is every prospect of a larger receipt th.n in the correip widieg half-year ending February, 1849. although it has been less than in the halt-year ending February, 1848 Tie balance of the operations of the last half-year exhibits a profit of 2,0731., out of which the directors recooamcnd a dividend of Is 31. per share on 26,757 shares, leaving a balance of 4001, which the directors propose to place to the reserve fund, malt ing, with27sl., the tamer balance, the sum of 6751, to meet any unfurl-53*n emergency. The procerdings lull teed by Mr. Pulsford still occasion considerable inconvenience to the company, as the books and other documents remain in the Court of Chancery. An amended bill hes been tiled, the answer to which is now being prepared under the ina•ruc hens of the directors. The report of Mr. Chantrell, the directors gerant, is appended without comment, and states that the increase in the traffic over the corresponding six months of 1848 amounts to 24,197 f. (9671.) or about 14 per cent , and that the improvement bears aeon every branch of the traffic. The facilities afforded to the public by the a. ree ment made with government on the 16th September, 1848, continue to bring cons 'treble traffic over the line. The joint traffic increases daily, and amounted to 67,477 f. (2,2951.) during the put half-) ear. The health line from the station at Bruges to the docks ts Belated, and will be opened for traffic is a few due, which it is expected will serve to augment the receipts. In the agreement nude lately between the Bel gian government and the Great Northern Railway of France, she principle laid down in that company's sweetmeat of the 16th of September, 1848, with the Belgian government (that all traffic should go over the line, when the distance by so doing was shortened between the stations of Bragee and Ostend, and any other of the governmei t statit ns) Ins been carried out, and tickets will shortly be del vered from pineal of the French stations to three of the West Flanders Rail way stations, u well as to Bruges and Ostend, and vies versa. The permanent way has been, and Is, maintained in a most efficient state ; and the working sta k is kept in ex cellent order. The servants of the company continue with ' out exception to do their duty in the most praisewoithv manner. The 'Labiate' on construction account are stated co be 21,182 f. (8471.) The capital account to the 31st of August shows that 369,6281. was called up, including 2,1261. paid in advance of calls ; and that 327,0011. had been re ceived on shares, leaving arrears of calls to the ameunt of 42,6271. Tin construction account states that 343,76t1. had been received, and 341.3971. expended, including 4331. ex pended during the half-year, leaving a balance at the , bankers' of 2 3631. The traffic account showed that the re ceipts for the minth of March last amounted to 9931. for , April, to 1,0561. ; May, to 1,3531. ; June, 1,0571 ; July, ' 1,2471. ; and in Au, est, to 1,2181. ; total for the six months, r 6,9871. The expenditure amounted to 4,8541., leaving a profit of 2,1331, out of which it is proposed to pay ls. 3d. • per share on 26,767 shares, amounting to 1,6721. THE LEICESTER MONUMENT.—This testimonial to the memory of T. W. Cuke, Earl of Leicester, is progress ing towards completion at Norwich. Within the last few days the inscription which occupies one of the four compart ments of the pedestal has been raised to its position ; it is cast in bronze, the letters highly relieved, the measurement being 171 t. 81n. in length by oft. gin. in height ; the veleta one ton and a quarter. The folloni , g is a copy of the inscription: " This column, in memory of Thomas Wane= Coke, Earl of Leicester, for more than half a century the faithful representative of this county in the House of Ctan mons : erected by subscription, origisating with the Yeo manry and supported by the n oblemen and gentlemen of all parties: records a life devoted to the welfare of his friends, neighbours, and tenants. Of such a man oontempormies needed no memorial. Hu deeds were before them; his praises in their hearts. But it importspseterity to know that he pre eminently combined public services with private worth ; affording an Usurious example of birth and station actuated by duty, and inspired by benevolence. Integrity and inde pendence marked his political career—love, honour, and regret attend the falser, friend, and landlord. The arts lament in him a liberal and fostering patron : and agricul ture, to which from early manhood to the close of life he dedicated time, energy, science, and wealth,—crowning his cenotaph with her emblems,—cberishes the precedent and commends the practice of her great promoter and benefac•or." The other three sides of the pedestal are occupied by sculpture. On one, parties are represented signing a lease; the late earl being the prominent figure. In another, there is a representation of one of the annual sheep sheariogs at Holkham. The third represents the late earl leaning on his favourite horse, hie favourite dog by his side, and with his son and several of his tenants surrounding him. The figures in this sculpture are all portraits.—Mr. Mines, the sculptor engaged on the Nelson statue to be erected in Norwich, is busily engaged in com pleting the sculpture for the Leicester monument. CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS IN SWEDEN, The Swedish government has just enacted certain laws eganst drunkenness, which show the degree to which that disgust via has attained. For the first offence a fine of 15 rix dollars is imposed' for the second, 30 vie dollars ; for the third or fourth, the elective franchise and the privilege of being elected a member of parliament are forfeited; and the offender is moreover exposed in the pillory on the following Sunday in front of the parish church. For the fifth offence the culprit is immured in a house of correction for one year. A person convicted of having induced another to drink to excess pays 15 rix-dorars, sad 30 If the victim be a miner. ACCIDENT TO A FEMALE EQUESTRIAN.—A deplora ble, if not fatal, accident has lust happened to fddlle. Tour :dr:l.riding since a t o b: Sweden , ewtar maintain took f righ t, w hos e f y ; g i e Ftale h e 22 h l n t :nu: and d bl ul pi a c e s iu;18 became c irq u e, e m ly. d a s u u sa u u d e n t" : n m. a T e a anninogfilua unmanageable ai a the .al b a nt : t h e o r w : f t rew s e a sawallwill shemc'ettthrown en or i n w i t i n : : with great force against the balustrade which separates the circus from the pit, Sue was found to have received two serious wounds on the head and a severe contusion on the right shoulder. All possible attention was bestowed on her, but, unfortunately, her life is still in danger. • • I~ X ; 'V I ,~~ W I