The Express. — London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

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Ode.g , Th..l Aet 44 !MMUS Ur I I% uuilluALL—Aust TUE ' , AMC nut All —l:Amaince al LAY yrt I. lIIO■ WA'S= AT Tammy Sarno►. T DAT —*waft IL 44a... • . Alunteak ck tee. • TO ISA— Al mp" la aka. LONDON, TUILIDAY, AUOMT 27. TO OUR READERS. !WOWING VITELLIG EWE. A !Ate e d ition of the Lepriee is publiAhed every eveui..g during the mai eireou, cuntaining the 'auk,: tit the day's ram. Ter. Railway accident season has act in with a terrible suddenness and severity, on nee of the best managed, meat frequented, and prosperous lines in the country. It seems to be one of the incidents of an imperfect state of what is caned " progress," that as the sports and gaieties have their times and seasons of periodical recurrence, so, too, have these wholesale disasters which make travellers feel that all men are less mortal than themselves. In the good old days which are now almost forgotten even by sentimentaliats, there were fre. l uent accidents, but tow travellers, and when the coach was upset or run away with, two or three broken collarbones, or half-a-doxen fractured ribs, seldom got beyond a paragraph in the nearest local paper, unless the sufferers were county people. The casualties in coach travelling, whether in number or in kind, bear no relation to the catastrophes with which every autumn makes the present generation more and more familiar. Resides, thirty years ago news travelled no faster than the passengers. Now-a-days, the shock of an accident in one part of the country is instantly felt by the whole community, and multiplied and magnified by a thousand echoes. Statisticians, no doubt, can tell us to a nicety how many railway travellers will be crushed, or torn, or burnt to death in an average of years: they might have done as much for travellers by coach a quarter of a century since. But no statistical averages will satisfy the public that a collision of two trains in a tunnel is a periodical occurrence which, however painful t i the victims, is in perfect accordance with natural laws. The truth is that, with very few ex ceptions, railway accidents are traceable to one cause, or rather to one set of causes. The season of excursions is the season of accidents, and en " extra" train is almost always a principal actor or sufferer in the mischief. There are accidents, no doubt, attributable to other and more perma nent sources of danger, but where the line is under proper inspection these are rare. The worst acci dents are also the most avoidable, the most directly chargeable to the characteristic recklessness and impatience of • public always in &hurry, to which railway directors, also in a hurry, minister with equal recklessness. The Brightou line has borne a high and just repute for careful and efficient ad ministration ; and no administration, perhaps, has been more severely tested by demands on its vigi lance, activity, and prudence. It would have been strange, indeed, if the Brighton Railway had erred on the aide of excessive caution, carrying, as it does, daily to and fro the " tartest " nieu in England, and being, in fact, as common a thorough fare for the London public as Holborn or the Strand. But no railway promote a better speci• men of those English qualities which are seen in' their exaggeration and excess among our cousins beyond the Atlantic. No line has been more ex posed to the besetting sins of English and Ameri can locomotion. At this time of year the demand for extra and excursion trains can hardly be sate fled, especially on Sunday and Monday. Trains are timed to a hair's breadth, and thousands of people are swept along within an inch of their lives, at the mere} , of a signalman or a pointsman. This may, indeed, be said to be more or lass the case on all lines ; but when three trains are starting in the same direr). tion within a few minutes of each other, it is evi dent that if either of them start& " won after " the time appointed, the slight difference in the minute-hand may be ea serious as a mistaken order on a field of battle. This catastrophe in the Clayton Tunnel is appalling in its simplicity. First, there is an "excursion" Portsmouth train; then the "regular" Brighton train; then another Brighton " excursion" train—all leaving Brighton for Loudon in the space of little more than half an hour, the first being all but punctual in starting, but all three reaching the Clayton Tunnel within a very few minutes of such other. The first of these trains enters the tunnel " all clear ;" when the second cornes up, the signalman, finding " to " his horror " that the signal of the passage through the tunnel by the first had not worked, shows a red danger flag, not in time to prevent the train from entering the tunnel, brat in time to make its driver beck out' again. The signal from the London end of the tunnel, that the first train has passed through, is mistaken by the signalman at the Brighton end, who lets the third excursion train pans at full speed into the tunnel se the second is backing out. The result is a disaster probably unsurpassed in the ca lendar of railway accidents. The engine of the second train runs over and falls upon the last carriages of the first train, and crushes the scalded pas sengers to death. In the awful darkness of that tunnel twenty-two people were put to death in the most hideous tortures. The first question every one uks in such a cam is, who is to blamer The signal-man appears to be fixed upon in the present instance, since it was undoubtedly through his failure and mistake that the third train was allowed to peas into the tunneL It does not appear that this man had lost his presence of mind when he found his signals out of order, for he exhibited a danger flag instead ; yet when the third train came up he mistook the signal from the other end. It is an alarni.ng consideration that the lives of thou sands of passengers should hang on a signalman's presence of mind, or on the working order of his gear. But there are too many alarming considerations in railway travelling which would put an end to railways altogether if they were THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1861. present to the minds of travellers every time they mitered a tunnel, or paned over a viaduct, or crossed a junction. It would be not so much an alarming consideration as an unpardonable fault if it should appear that there is actually not a spare set of signals at each signal station, and that the signal gear is not constantly inspected. Surely there should be a double set of signals, and at least two signalmen in case of accidents, and in the selection of signalmen coolness, alacrity, and intelligence should be rigorously demanded. The truth is that the English public puts so heavy a strain on the management of railways, from the traffic manager at the central station to the humblest signalman along the line ; the departures and arrival' are so incessant, the pace so severe, that even if railway directors were a body of officials paid by the State, and entirely disinterested in dividends, it would be difficult to provide a working staff in all its branches r.dequately and amply efficient. Under actual conslitmns this difficulty is as much as pos sible put out of sight. The English public are horrified at the annual autumn crop of accidents. And yet they would never be content with more' safety and less speed, or even with • moderate succession of regular train's, at intervals of three or four hours, as in France. Unfortunately, railway directors are not Ruth cientlj aware of the whole meaningof the fact that they are responsible for the preservation of the lives of passengers, whether the passengers like it or not. Compensation damages occasionally open their eyes and ears. But, under ordinary circtuu static..., they think their duty done in running so many trains iu a day, with small profits and quick returns. MR. ROELI't It has failed in persuading his countrymen that thu alliance of Austria is indis pensalde to England, or that the Hungarians are fools to prefer their rights to the word of an ENICER6)I:. lint ho has succeeded in drawing from the Mon;6l/1 a "formal denial" of his asser tions. Mr. ROEBUCK was not content to men tion the cession of the Island of Sardinia to France as a rumour ; he told his Sheffield audience that ho borer as a fact the existence of a conven tion between the Emperor of the FRENI Ir and King VICTOR Ex-MARCEL to that effect. Surely Mr. ROLIICcK will not be content to swallow the roar waif: of the Mosiker. At least, ho owes to his constituents, if not to his country and to himself, to inform them how he came by the " fact " which the .ifointenr declares to be a fiction. Perhaps Mr. ROFACCR will do well to communicate his "facts" confidentially, like a good patriot and Englishman par trectleace as he is, to the Foreign-office, before exposing them and his own veracity to the "moral " slaps" of the Muniknr. quiet in Japan. It doss not appear, however, that either on the native or foreign side exists a determination to keep the peace. To those acquainted with past events in that country, it will not appear a trifling matter that a gentle man living io Yokohama was recently attacked in his office by seven two-swonled officials accompanied by 150 coolies. The corrapoodent who narrates the causes which led to this, says that it arose out of the foreign merchants attempting to circumvent • refractory Japanese debtor, by obtaining payment in kind through the medium of a third party who bought silk from the native debtor, referring him for payment to his foreign creditor, into whose godown the silk was conveyed. In a few hours the native's friends and coolies attacked the foreigner, pinioned him, and took hack the silk. Another merchant's godown was entered in open day, and some copper, about which there was a dispute as to price, was forcibly taken away. It is believed that the government sanctions those pro ceedings, u they could not be repeated so openly without something like the connivance of the authorities. It is also reported that the Governor of 'Canapes had informed Mr. Alcock that inch was the of the people towards him, that he could nm.t give him assurance of being unmolested in his contemplated overland journey from Nagasaki to Yedn. If this be true, the Japanese have resorted to their old policy of intimidation. Mr. Alcock should disregard all such hints, or give up his office and leave the country ; such positions as Lis must be accepted with all the risk that belongs to them. To be minister at Japan requires qualities different from what are considered sufficient in Vienna or Madrid. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (IMON 0011 OWN 00111113PONDI9T.) PARIS, MONDAY Evatpo. I expressed yesterday some little doubt as to the absolutely unqualified truth of M. Haviu'a state ment about the Papal manifesto. I am to-day assured upon the best possible authority that the document in question positively exists, and, more over, that it will, in all probability, be shortly given to the public. The Independence believes the Slide and the Opinion Nationale are about to be let loose upon the Roman question with a louder cry than ever. I hear, too, that the clerical party in Franc* really believe in the evacuation of Rome at no distant date. lam not myself sanguine on that point. It is not impossible, however, that the Emperor, following up a line of tactics to which he has often already had recourse, means to give the anti-papal party a turn, and desires to let his hand be forced a little by what is called the logic of events. One can immediately place one's finger, for instance, upon two " events" to which recourse will be had as arguments iu favour of early solu tion. One is the new Papal manifesto, the other the presence of the British fleet in Italian waters. Will Mr. Roebuca persist in his assertions as to the cession of Sardinia in the face of the very formal denial inserted in this day's Monitenr f He has certainly said either too much or too little. It seems the Neapolitan villages are cleaned out, so the ruffian hirelings of Francis 11. and the Pope, having rigged themselves out in the old clothes shops of the Jews' quarter of Rome, are going to hurry to the frontiers of pleasant peaceful Tus cany. The Pays has received a letter from Pesth, stating that the sole object of the Archduke Maximilian, in visiting England, was to do a stroke of basinees for the Austrian exchequer. He went, according to this authority, to back the application of Counsellor Brentano, for a loan of seven millions sterling, at 7 per cent., and all the talk about constitutionaliam was merely meant to bolster up the credit of Austria for the nonce. M. Gueroult says, in theOp;nioaNationa/e—after quoting the extract from the Independence, before alluded to:—" We have neither asked for nor received any authorisation or incitation of this character. The Oph.iou .tiatinate continues to attack the temporal power, which it considers equally fatal in a political as in a religions point of view. It has never done otherwise since it ex isted." This is neither more nor lees than the exact truth. Whatever confusion may exist in M. Gueroult's mind between imperialism and libe ralism, his views as to the Roman question admit of no doubt. The Memo Europa, a Florentine journal, states that it has knowledge of an expedi tion having already quitted Rome, consisting of some thousands of brigands, dressed IL la Garibaldi, in the chemise rouge, for the purpose of raising disturbances and committing depredations in Umbria. M. Benedetti starts for his post to-night. Is there not a strange inconsistency in the policy which at once sends this believer in Italian unity to Turin, and M. de Gramont to Rome / The l'atric says, with respect to a report that French troops had co-operated with those of Italy against the brigands, " We are able to state that the news entirely wants exactness, and that the French troops under General Goyon have not ceased, in this, as in all cases, to observe in the most absolute manner the principles of non-intervention." The same paper replies briefly to the attacks made by the liberal press upon the now famous article on the occupation of Rome. It sings rather smaller, though in nearly the same strain, and sneers at the indepeidonce - and the Opinion No tiostak, who, it says, both seem to prefer an Eng lish to a French intervention in Italian affairs. At the Bourse little business. The article in the Mee was much discussed, and favourably viewed as denoting a possible "volution." Prices were rather better. Rente rose 10c., leaving off at 68fr. 70c. for both cash and account. Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. for cash, and 7fr. 50c. for account, leaving off at 745 fr. and 748 fr. 75c. respectively. WATFORD AND RICKMANSWORTH RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) This day the half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held at No. 3, Hasover-square ; Lord EBORT in the chair. Mr. F. F. JITIDI, the solicitor of the company, read the report, which stated that the directors regretted that the high compensation de manded by several of the landowners, togetLer with other circumstances, bad led to an interruption of the progress of the works; but as these impediments were being fast removed, they looked forward to the comple tion of the line in the course of the current year. The directors had pleasure in informing the shareholders that the London and North Western Railway Company had subscribed for 1,000 shares of this company, and had taken power to pay all the calls due in respect thereof when re quired. A satisfactory arrangement, subject to approval, with that powerful company for the working of the line, would shortly be submitted to a special meeting. The bill referred to in the last report for the construction of a line from Uxbridge to Rickmanswortb, and which would join the Watford line, passed into a law, and that under taking would be prosecuted as rapidly as circumstances would admit ; thus connecting the two great systems, the Great Western and the London and North Wedeln Railways, and over which a large amount of through traffic might reasonably be anticipated. The Great Western Railway had obtained authority to Con tribute 20,0001. towards the formation of the Uxbridge line, with power under the act, should they think proper, to contribute an / 0 additional 10,00. . . The CHAIRMAN, in moving the report. Raid lie regretted that they would not be able to open the line at the time stated. It was expected that the line would be opened at Michaelmas next, but difficulties bad when which would prevent that result. This was principally owing to the high pious which bad been demanded by some of the landed proprietor'. With regard to the future. the London and North Western Company had contributed 10,0001. towards the undertaking, which would so far relieve the shareholder', and in addition to that a good many new shares bad been taken. The Great Western had also contributed to the line, and as far as they were concerned both those powerful companies bad acted in the most perfect harmony. The line would coo nect those two great companies, and therefore it could not be regarded as a branch line in the ordinary sense of the term. Mr. CART seconded the motion, which wee adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro needing& A letter from Dresden states that the Congress of German lawyers, the number of whom was last yesr 640, and is now 1,166, is about to assemble in that city. Among the new members are the Ministers of Justice of Saxony, Prussia, Austria, Wurtemberg, and Baden, and sive/el presidents of supreme courts, and other minor tribunals. Saxony has contributed 168. Foaams-orrics, Ammer 20.—The Queen has been pleased to approve ol Yr. Patrick J. Devine, se Consul at Cork for the Vnited States of America.—Garetie. Tut New Doe= HABBOCR Com wimarowrafi. We (Rental Gazette) understand the following gentlemen will be member. of the New Harbour Hood :—Visooant Palmerston, Lord Warden of the Cloque rorta ; Captain J. W. Noble, R.N., Superintendent of the Trinity Cinque Ports Pilots; S M. Latham, Esq., Belgian Consul, &c. W. Gordon Thompson , Fol., • director of the South Ban. tern Railway Company; Steriker Fine's, Req., J.P. ; J o h n Birmingham, Fay., Mayor of Dover ; and James Cuthbert Ottawa}}, Req., Deputy Mayor. It is rumoured that the Lord Wrden's Deputy will have a seat at the board. Dams BY Screrruoict. —A drummer, named Bailey, of the Royal Marines, at Chatham, war bathing in ! the military bathing-place, on Tuesday afternoon, when he wee suddenly taken ill. He was conveyed to Melville sod after a few hours died. The medical officers his death to sunstroke. He wee fourteen years of ldwritorournir PBZB Hourrraz., Dirvoirenam 11QUAlli, CITT.—The iste number of patients relieved d ur i ng the week " August 24 was r Medical, 1,944 ; surgical, 553 r 1,797, of which 67: , were sew sum THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. The painful excitement created by the catastrophe of Sunday morning continued unabated throughout yenta. day. During the whole morning the Brighton Terminus was thronged with persons whose relative.. or friends had gone up to town or other places northward by the train which met with the accident, and bad not yet notified their safe arrival, anxiously inquiring as to whether those near and dear to them might not be amongst su,b of the dead as had not been owned, and such of the living sufferers as had been conveyed to the Sussex County Hospital. There was little or no impediment to the traf f ic—two or three hours, with the ample staff of labourers that was set to work immediately after the collisiou, havin g been sufficient to clear the line of the ifeeria the two carriages which were destroyed. Apparently there was no displacement of the rails, nor was the eng,itie of the third train, which caused the fatality injured to may extent. The regular traffiz of the line proceeded yesterday therefore in its ordinary course. The excursion trains ran as usual and carried down from 1•011a00 at least the customary complement of passengers. From other districts in connexion with the line the influx of visitors was equally great, allured no doubt for the most part by those rade actioes since the running of the cheap trains, bring thousacds from all accessible parts to Brighton on Sundays and Mondays, but in some degree as certainly by that questionable feeling of curiosity which finds gratification in the most appalling events and the moat extreme suffering. Of the locality of the accident, it may be sufficient to observe that the Clay. ton Tunnel is the last but one before reaching Brighton from London. It commence. whore the line approaches the Sussex Downs, through which it palms. It is a mile and a quarter in length, and about aix miles this side of the Brighton terminus. The time occupied by ordinary trains in passing through this tunnels about 2! to 3 minutes. There are still many conflicting views as to who or what is to blame for the fatal event which has happened, and the evidence upon this point before the coroner is not likely to be by any means conclusive, whatever may be the cam in the subsequent investigations which must nem'. slily take place. The :sat explanation, and apparently the most feasible explanation, which can be obtained from the officials as to the cause of the collision, is as follows : It will be remembered that there were three trains in or near the tunnel at the same moment. The first of these, which was an excursion train to London, on entering the tunnel was signalled by the signal man at the southern end to the signal 1111111 at the northern, or Loudon, end, who in due coarse should have answered, as soon as the train bad emerged, that the tunnel was clear. But before the reply came, a sensed (the regular parliamentary) train from Brighton arrived at the tunnel's mouth. The self-acting distance signal, which should have been put on by the first train in passing out of the tunnel, it would seem, failed toad, and the signal man, supposing the first train bad not passed out , exhibited a red fag denoting danger. The driver of the second train, however, nut having observed is distance dan ger signal, had too much impetus upon his engine to stop until be had entered the tunnel, and having done so, and supposing from the red flag that be was close upon the other train which had preceded him, backed. At that moment the signal man at the south end of the tunnel re ceived the signal from the north-end that the train had passed through, and changed his red Rag for the white, or "all clear" signal. The signal man imagined that his white flag had been seen by the driver of the second train, and that he bad gone on. But not nosivieg the intimation from the man at the northern end that the second train had passed out he telegraphed in words, "Is she out ?" and re ceived the reply, "Yes," this reply having evidently been in reference to the first train, but was mistaken by the signal man at the south end as having reference to the second, which bad passed out of his sight but still remained in the tunnel. The third train then came on, was signalled " all right," entered the tunnel, and within 300 yards of the entrance came upon the second train, which was backing upon it, and hence the collision. The driver of the third train admits that he saw the tail lights of the second almost as soon as he entered the tunnel, but his speed, which was increased by the down gradient at this part of the line, was too great to allow of his bringing up in time to avert the accident, although the breaks were put on to the full. This may or may nut be the explication, but if it be, it shows the utter insufficiency of the existing system of signalling. As stated in oar report yesterday, twelve out of the twenty-two bodies were claimed by their friends down to Sunday night; by noon yesterday morning eight others were identified, and just before the inquest opened another, making 21 in all who are known. The reeuoning body, that of a young woman, remain to be owned. The follow ing is a complete list of the twenty-one bodies ideutified : Mrs. E. Lower, of No. 1, Liverpool-street, Brighten ; Mr. Ingledew, of 78, St. James's-street, Brighton G. Weaken, • boy, of 44, Lewis-street, Brighton ; G. Cherie wood, alien Simpson, of 101, Loudon rued, Brighton; Christiana Mauthorp, of the Lennox Anus, Richmond ',treat, Brighton ; John Greenfield, a young man about 19 yean old, of 15, Montpellier-place, Brighton ; William Hubbard, of London, a labourer, about GO years old, and H. Heywood llubbaril, Lis grandson, a child about 3 years old ; Agnes Parker, 16 years old, and Mary Ann Parker, 11 years old, sisters, of Oriental-place, Brighton ; J. Elizabeth Biden, aged 21, of 16, Sussex-read, Cliftonville, Brighton; Mrs. Catherine Barnard, of 22, Charles-street, Brighton ; John Wheeler, Elizabeth Wheeler, husband and wile, and David Wheeler, their child (about 2 years old) of London-street, Brighton ; G. Gardner, visitor at Brighton, lately staying at ti, Surrey-street ; Miss Barclay. aged 29, also • visitor at Brighton ; Mrs. Mary Parker, of Upper St. James's-street, Brighton : Hiss Maria Edwing, visitor at Brighton ; Mrs. Mary Gillett, of the Weavers' Alin.houses, Wanstsad, Essex ; laud Mr. J ohn Lockstoae (the last identified), of London The total number of persons known to be injured, but not fatally, is 51, but fresh cases of bruises and coutusions are consteutly coning in. Of the state of those who are In the Sussex Hospital the following is the °filed account as furnished by Mr. T. S. Ellis, the actiug house-surgeon, whose report es to the state o f the patients thus suddenly confided to his care is more favourable than might have been expected, considering the serious nature of the in juries some of them have received . It is :—" Anthony Hein, severe laceration of left leg, the foot having been almost torn off. Immediate amputation was per formed by Mr. Furner with great skill on the admission of this =0 to the boodle!, and though he was apparently in • dying condition yester day afternoon, he has rallied somewhat this morning. Thomas Noble, a severely contused wound ou the temple and much shaken. William Arnold, • compound com minuted fracture of the right leg and also a fracture of the left leg. Mr. Furrier was compelled to amputate the right leg jolt below the knee. George Noble, brother to the above-named Thomas, suffering from a severe blow on the forehead, with probable fracture. Timothy Tester, a severe iujury to foot and general bruises, con tused a great deal. Thomas Parker, wooed on the forehead, not very severe, but the poor fellow having lost his wife, the koowledge militates much ag iiiist his re covery. A female child, named Elizabeth Edwin, suffering from a fracture of both legs, and scalds and bruises ; very severely injured. This poor child is very Sad. The father came down and identified it this morning. His wife and child had to return to town. The child is found, an stated in the hospital, but the mother has not been heard of. Elizabeth Westoote. suffering from frac ture of right leg and scalds. Elizabeth Westcote, the daughter, scalds and bruises -- not severe. This child was found almost buried in the ruins of the carriages, but was taken out comparatively unhurt, although everyone weald have thought that it must be smashed." It may be to remark that Mr. Cook, of Ga y' s Hos pital, the way company's surgeon, has been iodefatigable in hie attention to the sufferers. The total 'mintier of per sons booked from Brighton by the train to which the accident happened was 328, but the serious inj uries were almost entirely con fi ned to those who were in the two lest carriages, the others escaping for the most part with bruises and comparatively slight hurts. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862. The following is thedeeision of the commissioners in referenes to prises or rewords of merit, in the form of medals, to be giro in sections 1,2, and 3 : Those medals will be of one class, for merit, without any distinction of de ' -res. No exhibitor will receive more than one medal in any claws or sub-class. An i terns timid jury will be formed f.,r each claw and sub-claw of the exhibition, by whom the medals will be ad foreign commissien will Le at liberty to nominate ors member of the j ute fro each clam and sub•cliaa in which staple industries of their country and its dependencies are kJ. I The ames of the foreign jurors roust be sent to Her Commissioners b l i , :ore the 21t ithjiofw fol lowi ng February, 18182 : will1!s &iti lr jurors sir : —Every exhibitor will name three persons to art on the jury for each class or sub-claas in which he exhibits, sad, from the persons so named, Her Majesty's Commissioners will select,thrimi werobers of the jury for each such class or sub-elaia. Her kfajesfv's Commissioners reserve to themselves the power of modifying these arrangements, in any particular use where it may appear to them that the strict application of the principles althea, &Mesons would be attemed with injustice. The names of the jurors will be published in March, 1862. The juries will be required to submit their awards, with a brief statement of the mounds of each, to her Majesty's Commissioners, before the last day of May, 1862. Should the mamas assigned for cur award appear insuffi cient, or ahoeld DO reason be given, her Majesty's Com missioners reserve so themselves the right of °metals( or re ;reties it. The awards will Vie pahlkhed in the F.:Whitings building, at a public ceremony, early in the month of Juno, 1992. They will immediately afterwards bs coospicumely Wheal to the counters of the successful exhibitors, end the grounds of each award will be very briefly Mated. If an exhibitor sceepts the office of Juror. no mods, eee be awarded iu the der, or eub-elins, to which be is ap- printed, either to himself individually or to the firm in which lie may be a partner. The medal. will be delivered to the exhibitors on the last day of the Exhibition. The tradesmen of the Prince Consort celebrated his Royal Highness's birthday yesterday, by dining together at the Ship at Greenwich. Ho Royal Highness sent, an usual, a handsome present of venison. The chair wan tilled by Mr. Hooper, coachnisker ; the vice•chair by Mr. Melton, hatter. The tradesmen illuminated their houses in the evening. Visoount and Viscountess Palmerston left London yesterday tar Waheer Castle. Earl Forteacue, who has been detained in town by interned idiwrnsitine, is so much better th►t it is ex pected his lordsnip awl family will be able to proceed to Devonshire in a short time. L►dy Willoughby Gordon and Mies Gordon have returned to town front Gny's Cliff.. Warwidr. Mr. and LKly Angin;ta Milbank base been enter taining, at Bluebells Park, Yorkshire, the Marquis and *Ambiences of edinearthen and a @elect family circle. Mr. Charles Gilpin, M.P., and family are apendiag a few weeks in Germany. &nor Gutierrez, Minizter Plenipotentiary from Renduras, bad an interview yesterday with Earl Rumen at the Foreign-other. The Duke de Nemoore, accompanied by his children, the Primrose Marguerite and Blanche d'Orleaus. sad a numerous suite, arrived at Cologne on the 21st, and left en the following morning, an his way to Claremont. ft ham been recommended that Prince Leopold shall par the wesuiag whiter In a mild climate, and his royal Wilma* will aseardiagly proceed to Italy in October. We wailerelawl that the young prince will travel iooognito, sad that hie suite will consist only of his governor, physician, arid tutor. It is stated that the Secretary of State for India has ample funds in head to seat all possible w►nts up to the mid of the year, even if the railway companies should lid it siessinry to apply for aid. At the mime time an M aiming expectation prevails that these companies will be able to raise enough for their requirements without appeal. fag to the government. A return recently made from the metropolitan police-cam states that within • indium of six miles Pram Cherinirerom there are 2,637 miles of streets. Sines 1849 the number of houses baa increased by upwards of 110,000, and the length of streets by amity 900 miles. On and after to-day (the 17th instant) the bovine= of the Foreign-office will be carried on at No. 7, The Oriental Bank and the Bank of New South Wales are about to establish brandies In the province of Canterbury, New Zeeland. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. We have received advice* from Calcutta to July 22, awl from ➢ladra* to July 28. The License-tax has been imposed, the currency Bill has been passed, and income-taxpaytrs have been allowed the option of paying at the game rate in the coining as in the expiring financial year, without further returns. A large number of Engliah and native honorary magistrates have been appointed in Calcutta. The part of the Indian Councils Act which re fers to the Governor• General's legislative council ham been received with disfavour. The 31alisond Wu?corms have submitted. The first symptoms of any mitigation in the severity of the famine have appeared in Meerut. The relief committee, reporting on the operations during the past month, " believe that the destitu tion in the district is greatly ameliorated. They are led to the conclusion by the personal appear ance of the applicants for admission in the poor-house, who, although their numbers steadily increase, do not display that emaciated appear ance which was so painfully evident be fore." There has been a great decrease in the mortality. Almuet all the agriculturists found occupation in the fields after the first fall of rain. Those still in the poor-house are chiefly artisans and their families. The people who deserted their villages had begun to return in great numbers. " The large sum so generously contributed by England," observes the Friend of India, " will now be found probably too small to relieve the hopeless poverty in which the people who have been rescued from starvation find themselves. At least a million of families, or four millions of people, chiefly agriculturists, have to bu enabled to begin life again, to find seed, ploughs, cattle, even a roof under which to shelter themselves." The Indian government continues to publish re ports from the officials all over the country on the cotton-producing capabilities of each province and district. The general result is that, but for the want of roads and a steady demand at a fair price, India would produce any amount of cotton wool. In the great district of Nagpore, for in stance, which is open ou the south to the Godavery, and which the Bombay Railway will pierce iu three years, the quantity produced annually is estimated at 20,000,0001ba. The extent of laud under cotton cultivation is 281,214 acres, or 439 square miles. The produce of each acre is 301 be., and the entire yield of cotton tr•ol is 8,436,4201b5., equal to 1-30th of the export from all India to Great Britain in 1859-60. The average price of the Hinginghat, Arwee, and Oomra wuttee cotton in Bombay in 41d. per lb. Mr. H. Btanbrough submitted to government in March, 1859, • memorandum on the cotton cultivation of Nagpore, with which he waspractically acquainted. He upholds the view that the cotton should be carried down the Godavery to the sea. He was establishing a regular transit for goods by this route by means of large boats, when the distur bances of 1857-58 broke out. The natives clean cotton for 11 annas per 231 be. One person cannot clean more than this quantity in a day. In the meantime roads are wanted to facilitate the carriage of cotton. The mileage of feeders required is 300 milts', on which it is proposed to spend 250 rupees per mile. A considerable sum of money is avail able from the accumulations of the road fund, and this will be supplemented by government. All Calcutta had been inWielded iu the trial of the Bev. J. Long, of the Church Mission, for at the instance of the editor of the Englishman ' newspaper. The cue eaten on in the criminal court before Sir M. Wells on the 19th July, and 1 1 continued for two days before a special jury. Mr. Lang was charged with publishing a pamphlet called the Nil Darpan, the preface of which declares that two of the daily papers which have advocated the interests of the indigo-planters have sold themselves, like Jude' Iscariot, for • thousand rupees, and seve ns' passages of which libel the whole class of indigo planters. The prosecution, though at the instance of the editor, was really conducted by the Landholders' and Commercial Association, which represents the planters. The printer, the editors of the Elqiidnan, and Ilurkant, and the official iu the Bengal office who circulated the pamphlet under the frank of government, and by order, were examined the first day for the prosecution. No wit noises were produced for the defence. Mr. Long was found guilty on both counts and sentence was reserved. CHINA. The Hong-Kong journals of July 12 state that Ban-ko-lin-sin has captured Teng-Lenin, and that Tao-tai of Chi-tung bad been degraded for cowardice, having retreated from the rebels without striking a blow. The Chinese correspondent of the North China Herald says : There is a report current that thirteen successive vic tories have been achieved by Tseug-hwo-fan over the rebels, great numbers of whom were slain—it is said 20,0014 which has caused much rejoiciug amongst the people of Kiangoan. At Shaughae, much trouble had been caused by the plunder of valuable silk cargoes by people supposed to belong to the insurgent party. Gun ' boats had been sent to obtain restitution and to enforce respect for all merchandise for the fu ture ; they succeeded in the first after a good deal of trouble, unattended, however, with violence, and good grounds exist for supposing that success will follow their efforts in seeking to secure safety for the time to come. At Canton, news had come in that a serious clan fight between the Hakkaa and Pantie was going on in the adjacent country. Thedeserters from the With Regiment who surrendered themselves some time ago, were about to be indicted criminally for various of fences which they committed after desertion. The chi affection in the Canton garrison, which was begun by the infliction of three drills a day for no alleged fault, does not seem to have abated. The various lectures and readings given in behalf of the soldiers' institute there, are not, it is said, attended' ' by a single private soldier. A recent re ding was given by one of the officers to an audience of seven. " Business in general," says the Friend of China, "continues dull. Imperial and rebel successes alternate. The valley of the Yang -tare is flooded. A new insurrection has broken out near Pekin, and altogether the prospect for business is not cheering. Hankow, which was to have been the panacea of all our ills, does not answer the ex pectations formed of it. The market for imports does not show any signs of life since the rebels threatened it in March last, and is fur teas, they have been somewhat retarded, owing to the pre sence of rebels in the tea districts. About 96 chops had been seen, only mix or eight of which bad been offered for sale." The American government has appointed Mr. Mgelow, late of the New York Swelling Poet, to the Paris Camlate. Mr. Bigelow was one of the most accomplished and vermeils members of the profession in America—s journahot who, although identified with polities as a de cided gegtiesa, enjoyed the respect of all for his iategrity, Ids ideals, sad his varied knowledge sod accomplishments. The expense of the Federal government of America are estimated at 250,000 f. per day. A splendid lump of copper ore, weighing Bcwt., I JAPAN. will be seat from Beath Austrulia to the Great Exhibition We read in the Orerialut Friend of China of el 111•2. la the lump am grey, Mack and green area, (rem sd Iles caTbonstm. metalled sad aneryetallised, mid July , smell Sees of red oxide sisal with iron ore sad pipeclay. I In our loot overland mwoolo7 ws reported fingthiwi HUNGARY. The Presse of Vienna has the following, dated from Pextb, August 2G :—" The forced collection of the taxes commenced here yesterday, and this morning the office was so crowded with taxpayers that the officers were unable to get through the btaimes. The day before yesterday a capasin of infantry, accompanied by an imperial commissary, went to the Town-hall of Ofen, in order to take possession of the tax registers, which the burgo master bad refused to give up voluntarily. No resistance was offered ; and, if attempted, it would have been useless, as an armed force was at band to support the requisition of the officer." (11ZOTER'S TILECILANIL) PEf47ll, Auatier 24, EvianNG. The Assembly of the Comitat of Peeth has de clared its determination to cease to collect the taxes, considering that they are illegally impobecl by the .rovernment. The tunctionaries of the Comitat have cousentod to a reduction of their salaries. The expenses of the Comiist will be covered by voluntary wntributions, and by the issuing of bonds. PESTR, Au Gyn. 28. A great popular demonstration took place in this city yesterday. The people shouted "Desk for ever !" " H ungary for ever !" Order was not, however, disturbed. ITALY. ROME, Arcturr The French troops have arrested 160 reactioniata at Pedece, iu the Rowan States. - • • - The brOther of the ox-Grand Duke of Tuscany is expected on Tuesday next, iu order to marry the second sister of Franck. IL TURIN, AUOUST 27. The Opinions of to-day publishes • delpatch from Arezzo, announcing that 600 Papal Zouaves had assembled on the frontier, apparently with the intention of penetrating into the Italian territory. Measures had been taken to drive them back. TURIN, AC4UST 26. The Gat:etta di Torino of to-day says :—" It is rumoured that General Cis!dint has demanded fresh troops, in order that he may be enabled to make a simultaneous attack on the insurgents." NAPLES, AUGUST 26. Yesterday the reactionary band in the Mountain of Somnia was dispersed. The brigands at Matese, having been surrounded by 24 battalions, were all killed or taken prisoners. Four hundred, who endeavoured to cross the fron tiers, were taken by the French troops. SERVIA. BELGRADE, Aucusr 26. The organisation of a national army, as proposed by the Prince of Servia, has been agreed to by the National Assembly and the Senate. It will be proceeded with immediately after the promulgation of the financial reforms which have been agreed to. The Prince will visit the frontiers after the dissolu tion of the Assembly. AMERICA. NEW YORK. AUGUR'S' 16. (Per Norwegian vi& Teintionderry.) Nothing important has occurred since the battle at Springfield. . . . Symptoms of insubordination are manifested among a portion of the troops at Washington. It is reported that the blockade question is under the consideration of the Cabinet. A despatch from Washington states, that it is understood that Mr. Seward intends informing Lord Lyons immediately, that British subjects are engaged in furnishing aid to the Confederates, in violation of the Queen's proclamation. The Bavaria has arrived out. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. NEW YORK, AUGUST 17. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation suspending all intercourse with the seceded States. According to Federal accounts the Confederate troops, with the exception of pickets, have retired to Fairfax Court-house. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK. Aucrat 17. Stocks dull. Erie. 24 ; Illinois Central, 631 ; New York Central, 731. Cotton firm, but quiet. Middling Upland, ISc. to 1 All finalities of breadstuffs have advanced considerably RlllOO the departure of the Africa. Provisions dull We are informed, by our Liverpool correspon dent, that shortly before the Royal Mail steame r Africa left New York she was boarded by some police officials, who, exhibiting a warrant from Mr. Seward. Secretary of State, arrested and car ried off Mr. Robert Muir, formerly a highly respect able merchant at Charleston. Mr. Muir wee, it is said, the bearer of important despatches to Earl Russell from Mr. Bunch, British consul at New Orleans, who bad furnished him with a passport. Tlie departure of King Victor Emmanuel for Florence is fixed for the 12th of next month, and it is about that date that the exhibition of manufactured pro ductions is to be opened in that city. The Vino of Trieste states that on the night of the 18th two police officers saw some smoke issue from the hollow base of the great candelabrum which stands on the Piazza San Marco, opposite the Military Café. The piazza was elegantly illuminated at the time. Upon examination the smoke was found to proceed from a lighted match, which the police-officers immediately extingaishixl ; and, continuing their search, they found an iron box on the same spot, containing about 21b. of fulminating powder. His Imperial and Royal Highness the Archduke Joseph was standing at a very short distance from the candelabrum at the time, in the midst of a numerous circle of offioers. _ All kinds of stories of the Prince Imperial are retailed in the comp of Charms. To quote one : The Em peror invited during his stay every evening the superior officers of another division to dinner. Those of the Third Infantry Division were there the day Marshal Canrobert arrived. After dinner the gallant marshal asked the Prince Imperial whether he had already gone through the manual exercise. The boy brought his musket and the manhal pm the words of command. When it came to the leading the marshal, either on purpose or because he remembere d old things vaguely, commanded " °atom le kaiser" (priming), when the boy quietly answered, " You have forgotten your re)plenvott, there are now percuerion caps.* A Jews' hotel has just been opened at Vienna, the first of the kind in the capital of Austria. All the parsons employed in it are of the Hebrew permission. Coal bas been discovered near Launceston, in Tissasaie. THE INQUEST. Mr. David Black, the coroner for the boroucli of Brig ton, opened the inquest on the bodies of the inn at the North Star Inn, which is in close proximity to that part oC the station where the deceased are lying. . _ The following fifteen jurymen answered to their tunes — Mean. Joseph Watts Hemming (foreman), D. M. Greening W. Tozer, Hairy Potter. W. Johnson, John Holder, J. C . Cochran, C. Court, F. Willetta, T. Francis, Alfred Wood, W. Stanford, W. Maley, Edward Gear, H. Cadet Gould; and having been sworn, immediately proceeded to view the bodies. These were ranged on tables and beadles in the library of the Literary and Mechanics' Institute connected with the railway company. They were twenty-two in num ber, and presented a horrid spectacle. Almost all were wisely black in the face, and the features were so fright , fully swollen and distorted that recognition must in most came have been dependent upon the clothes of the deceased. The heed of the old man Hubbard wag mu% °rushed and covered with blood, and one of the females had a terrible fracture on one of the temples, which was literally beaten In, "if bY aifire bar, or some other heavy blunt metro. smut. In this case death must have been instantaneous. In one instance, that of a young woman, whose legs were almost severed from the body, there was no disonlonration of fan. The young children appeared to have died from suffocation. They were like their fellow-aufferem. black in the face, but did not exhibit the sum distortion of features, but wore rather • placid expression. The room is which the jury had assembled having been found iereaveuiently small for the accommodation of the large amber of wit/mess, railway officials, and other jer- The Corona would be tak Cecilia Gib the both of 1 Brighton. I year. Joseph Bet boot-maker, Barnard. SI in the train, John Stop identified the the wane litre 34. She was Frederick to the identit who had beet and had been visit to Mr. F tiled two of eicieil;;;Wan Victoria Lioc Was his grand ?Ara. Mary Parker, and old, Mary An and tho daug land•road, Lo Joseph Wh his father, I Daniel Wheel a wine-merch were both 4.; James Gen tilled George 36 years of square, Eon!' Edward E warehousemn Edwing, Lu % poled by a c: spital, ww told is Oftileacei7ll . i at Brighton. Mr. Win. identified M . o. name. I>eeel connected WI lodged at my ltd. Thos. painter, teetil She was the street, who is the injurie3 h Her husband Mr. identified the tax, of Ade!pi 150 yearn old. No other w The Coront T6o Furevu to examine tl . the company Mr. Reid el have the oppi might judge inzAciency, to driver of oithe Mr. Y.Lithfu facility to the the accident tc One of the look at the gig The Coronei whether the jt working of the they might do to the inquiry Several of t would he bele and as to how them, and Mr. liawkit special train t following (thio that the jur► I buses, and the Shortly afte leapectiou provided at th await the 'oat VP to the tim have been tel Charlwood, an still remains v hoetructione of a late hour la Person up to tl Abe. Wright, hieu-road, Dili having implru adopted by tt that upwards suer of the tr say one day Some minuet Jury thought i