The Express. — London, England, 1850-10-30 00:00:00

m.ILTA AND TilE LEVANT. We pare receive d our letters from Malts and the Le ac Our correspotdent at Malts, in hie letter of the 22 ,,d, Oates that . the . Turkish frigate Sheik Bahri lad left for Corsiantinvio. Thee was at Malta a report that Mr. More O'Fer sal would be succeeded by Lord Beaumont. L e tters Pus Greece, says oar ndent, men; lion that the eke:ions are going on, not so fa 'arab!, for the government as it wishes. M. Mu se,sdsto has been elealed for Missatonglii. Thehonse If Mews. Yourdi, in Byrn, has failed to the amount drive hundred thousand drachmas (19,0001.) A die gate has arisen between the merchants at Patru and ale Cheek authorities, in regard to the price to be toed upon the currant crop, which has given ties to rommunicalions between Mr. Wyse and the minister for foreign affairs. Currants have risen, and will swam to rise, for the best quality is very deficient i s yrintity to meet the usual demand. King Otho st.ll at Munich, and will return to Athens about tpe end of November. M. Demand*, the principal editor of the Courtier d'dtlasnes, has been appointed secic tary to the Greek legation at Paris. M. Cone- Il iac, the present Turkish secretary of legation st Athens, has been appointed Governor of Samos, with the title Kaimakta. He will be relieved at Athens by M. Adansantides. Turkey is perfectly . tranquil. So is Syria, and Beyrout is daily becoming more and more the central Coe for coalmen 's' operations. The government kas ordered that a quay of solid stone-work shall be built. A letter from Beyroat mentions that Adis Bey, ex-minister of foreign affairs to the Puha of Egypt, who clandestinely left Egypt, arrived there on the 9th inst. in the Austrian Lloyd's steamer Stamboul, and left the following day for Constanti nople. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Another arrival from the Cape bring' us Graham's Town ownals to Aug. 24, and those from Cape Town to Aur. 17. The olhetta returns of the working of the existing frostier system for the last month (says the Graham's nem Journal) confirm previous opinion as to the admirable suitability of the existing system to the circuratances of the border, at the same time being highly suggestive of the idea, that our Kaffirland po hey is more efficiect in the reprersion of crime and tninttnance of order than that within the colony. The returns exemplify .this. They give five cams d theft on this side of the border, and but three is laffirland, only one of which occurred daring the lest month; the other two bearing date the month rvicus. Still both returns are highly satisfaotm.y, etd enpLei.i!ly when we take into account that the prod to qt. Ition is (Jar mid-winter, and that the onntry bar beta aufferit g from were drought, when milt m scarce, and the mesas of subsistence among the waives ttnasuolly diffinelt to to obtained. More owr. the return relating to the colony, out of the Ere ratio three of V 0.411 were not even reported, al though the stolen stimuli have been recovered , and the thieve in every can apprehended, and sent into the colony for triaL The following cfficliel notice is given in the Ger - senorita (;o:tiFe Hie swilerry the rewraor has bon pissed to authorise the UrtfitiMit•ij Os weld makrts or fairs is the Ceres, Is this sari no.its and %Mrs M slag be considered meet ionweieat, awl re all pereose, without exception, soy by ef aay dweriptios of nob 1.1 produr,, hone., esti*, asd amp. sad acres dealers may also raw" far the disreal ta.lr apc iaedww, provision., &a., ite , from width, honor, must be excluded any wince or spirituals Islanre. 'lto lint wait we kir will take plus on Thursday, the 26th S p.ecier nee', at 9 o'clock is the forenoon, on the hem caged tkialtiontein," situate at the Windhativel, at the hotel It +on well Mountain, in this diviskin. Th., owner , of 'serif, she. p mty rest assured of meeting a reedy Mira wool and oilier produce, without donee of dimppiuts. ht. POLT ELIZITIETTI.--ii.M.B. Pants loos. Is Sistos's Itaj : H.M.S. Castor. Zty Court. OSLIORNII, Oct. 29. Toe (been and Prince rode this morning in the meads nod plea at OAcene. Tic Prince nt Walls, the l'nne.s. ard younger us, =bon et the 11.yal Feta ily, took dais etfeetcesed walks and }ldea. The Oxford' University Commission held a meeting iit 104.rmisst street yesterday. Present, t►e bishop of Nor mak the D. as st Carlisle, the Hester of Parebruke, the Rev. H. H. Li -1.411, the Rtv. G H. 8. Johnson, and the Rev. A. E. AWE:. y (-moire). The ass. sof the Dean of tb. Mao. r Pembroke should have been inserted to the tt;• rt ui tsrs pr. yi me =astir/S. r. Dick had an interview with Earl Grey yester day at the Calomel-. nice. Ma Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoresse r z grasd Lai, art enttrtainet t htt tvesitur is tar fla k Hall, Clen4el by betwesa 600 and 700 • /Waked voGon. COMMISVION bIGMED ET THE. I.OEDIJEHTHHANT 07 01.01:CFATFItt•IIIRL.—Tloase Batley, gent to be the Ki ("alga in ieth "tetanal/ Gloseester Light Infantry Regiment of hlnitin—Garefte. DL Wltirw►,i, the newly-crewed eirdind Arch bishop of Werstio.ter, is a SpAniard. Re was hors at Be Till., when hi. pieties (natives of Water ord) had resided fee many 'ear. Toe father of the present Cardinal woe an extensive wine merchant se the Anitaturn noir'. Titoroll THE 'IPS. MI EARL OF 017TLIFORD hall sot pi realised the groat bring of Bt. Mary's, Bootha'ap• tam, the put•:ic will he glad to Isom that the revered lord br N .igaed those united bendier, which, to popular les per= , loin the scarcely ler marble living of Alresfoed. Thor three bearers an all is the gift of the Bishop of Wia:!.eiter, cad have for the last rotary been held by the seas sncs.is•law (Atka leeembesta of that see. It is now, bowie. T. supposed that they will be gins to separate clergy /me, EA op counted. THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER AND THE NEW HOMAN CATHOLIC APPOINTMENTS. The Bishop of Rochester, at a meetirg at Coking ter, os ywly, is 11<na1l of the Society for the Propagation of the (instal, allud.,l in terms of indignation to the Pope's " Apostolis War," estat.lthing Roman catholic bishoprics thremkout Idesiaad and Wales. " At a aonteat the geld) when go mach rid i..howo by the ROHM Whelk &Rah, I may tall upon you, ante particularly on aa accrues like Ude, to mat your iefluc , ,co in every possible way to Weed' lag the truths of the "pal, according to the doctrine of the thatch of England. I Dandy& the seal of OAS emelt, becesee, within the la t to days, most asaweallag feats hail been weds known to Ike public, set, SO beretektaa, of Hach to Mimes abroad, but 11.1 tb • Pope has had, I nest sall it the audacity, to lease a bull In this toestry creating am arb..h,p end twelve bishops to supstintend dleaeeee eased shat our principal town* I thlak this Is • feet that Rust rouse the prowesaate al this eesatry, espeeisity if it be true, as the Pope Islameif states, that be neslyed encouragement to MI, !he seep be baa death sal I Iran that Petitions Whoa it cal be reseal is hem own part el the kingdom." Elle ltd hip's remerits were weeked with toad cheers. CITY COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. Yeftesday, tbe sommbekeers assembled In Guild -44. Mr. privity Paaeoet la the sleek. - . 7111 'TAM OP NW.= OP TEN CUT. Yr. SIMON, the City of Loodra medial caw, in ea ten t.) a questios from lir. IL L. Taylor, said he weld net sax• a satisfactory return weekly of the ovate of health in he attempted so make • 'weekly report epos tka drcuaruts at kis crosword, oar week would preset as usual 'mortality, and soother aa nossual freedom boa dwatt, sod the consquenoe would be the most diEreasing alterostwas of hops and fear. He impeded is a Thy kw wn it to be able to lay before the smut a stateliest of the hurt, of ths City for the jell. la the MOM Was he had the pleasure to ware the 'earl that the hobo of the health of the City wu at present and satidedery. Uk tr. hest.) He bad visited the Elthy locality celled green &op alley, and the neighboaring duds, sad it t.d come.aaireted with the impeders apes the wb l . $ , sal tba oanaecisatsce wail, the &Jidda of at i Z tt ohleh, with the assianee of the seavesupse sad • l nspAy of water by hese, the tigress ehander Ike ess.oes there wee abated. (Her hear.) He edvleed that le that leetlity and Sothis Silky phone 1b wads- Rye sod the bole ghoul) be emeseatly *motored to Nitre .'otants, who might be said to risotto talk, to a ut'. • clatalineei and dimity. (lima. "lg.) Yr U. L. TAYLOR Reproved mash et the advise of lb. n ot t.i the plan of rospillieg the kalitibitistsef dirty ta./ ~ .orhoods to he clean through the 11111100•110( the ' W O ;Aura sad tbe applie dial of the his., sad as order was wed anconiiritly at regards the pleas porthole:4 al isded :c,—Aeifar;td• VALI! Op NLTIf RAILWAT.—Th• whole of tk• °wk. fik this lira, from Nrath to Aberdare, an npidly 11 . 1 :LiT". 1 4. Orem numbers of Mourns an at moth oa "71 Pallor , asel as ail talrara are 'lshii puked %mud 141 ...)k UM krat p ora ible delay, it is nprated that lb* Ihi• will 'tidy foe opeslag from Aberdams to Meath to Yank Nit, tr in 31 4 at the latest. The bridge fratt the Nes* ' 4 " E" belltzmmeoc.l. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1850. CLOSE OF THE CORONER'S INQUIRY.—TER DIUT OF WILFUL HIJEDEIL The ioqoiry into the cireutostemos Minding the death of the Ism Rev. 0. le Holiest commeased ma Me 314 ail , was yesterday resemed sod stodadei et the White Hart lon, Frlmis ucti ILL C. J. W wow fee Senn, striesd n l as t P l = shortly Maw , ,at whisk Ilms tM jeep sn*al wireless sot pnvieftly susialued baste the ' ammo woe oiled. All of theme rSao y erilimes they bed the Were the smgistratee at wjekil baying Mm akeedy d 4:shed it is wholly he ripest. yge the teisiry, tie aim* ited jug reseeded te Omer the purpose elm- esembleglllso VW, ogf be io doomed, to the Millet of the pony Mint hood i the ime liom eke es le berm. seseides of LIM nowtod pr 's r bine, mither sod of Whisk pubs were bodied era ta this lady's preview soliebotou Or hos the meow. Mfe. liettest's biasses m sob WU of Ike most tothkomy ciasseetsr, sad era the Mare of the Ilk:the isquestoeset, Coroner Maned up. The learned gentleman add all its whaesen who wow able to give 'Admen es to the late bielfel and barbs/sr murder of Mr. Hebei bad now Mee examined, mad it only ressedmed be the levy to deledinde the impoetist duty that &whet epee them br mania an sabered old isepsetial media. He W se doubt the media they mold some to would be enselsenat with the widows whisk had boa laid Woe this, and ensiessed he by_ the public, who were looking forward to the smelt MO the most intense and elisions excitement. He hit some waist him .* is addressing them on seek a mare, and in Mile attention to the evidence hawing ageism ass or mere 411 MO prisoner sow is .seedy—md is *Mee theme rib which were not efteheible es peed wield the to the eiromelosses odor whisk the Warta rihoasesse As d met his death then meld boas debtdebt lt hod mdevertibly proved thaisomopeneme bid entered kis tame be be dead of sight, sad that wilful muds, bad bees w e The and t, therefore, to mentaie.wes by when Os 1 wee fired. At proem the:ewes no *video's te die to my Gas ef the prisoners, bet that mil ha to the verdict, beams all the parties were alba to. dad, entesmehMalvely pima at the sity ,, ; and, theme dos al were eem f N the ethos of wonder. The lammed groth ass b osomms apse the testioloy m ate" pilaw oat thews pear *bib bete dstsbity crier essomlL Ilariu mp ose OW. thfohtle Ike widows, his Ilse or ststmell mob by am of tie Smith. As earsiel Seal* hinted', thr ..heirs was perfectly ematobe, sod the lag had no alternative but to return en adverse webs& easiest him. The material he had made, howeveromiliest be used against either the ether three prisoners. If hereafter Smith should be adobe' as approver on the part of the crown, his saahosion beteg ear rebooted wholly or in cart then the otalowseat he led made might be wed egged the other prise me. It wee net, however, tor the jury to inquire whether the esselessism. would be corroborstad—that was a matter be house ow sideretion elsewhere, and the jury must hike it lee what it was worth. It would be setlitestmy far them te rant OM whatever Mar verdict might be it would sot be teal to embehearbst the prisoners, but wouldonly ham theolisee. of PlediZttelle upon their trial ezactly se than eimmistel by a m te would have doss. With them MniilMdlore he let the case in the beads of the jury, soidled bathe, would return a verdict arevrairig to the widow% sad, satisfy, at the mime time, their owe conesiesset mil the distends of public justice. The room was then cleared of envision, and the jury remained in watsaltatioa tor a few minutes. Oa the doors Ming re-opened, TM Coroner announced that the jury had agreed to as Mesiesotts verdict of " Wilfd murder agaisst Hiram Smith, Joel Harwood, and Imre Jones." And in returning this 1111•01, the jury desired to express their *tibia that the evidence laid beta.. them wee sot sufficient to justify a vise I diet of " Wilful murder" against Samuel Hare. The limy also declared that there had been a* *Moms Mimed before them to show by which of the throe oiler Omens the fatal shot had been fired. The Coroner then drew up the formal inanition, whish having been signed by the jury, the proceedings tor& Wilmote of committal were placed In the beads of super istendent Biddlecembe by the termer, with instnuttions to lodge them with the governor of the Guildford House of Corradon, where the prisooon are confleed. DEATH FROM A BOILER BURSTING. VERDICT OF MANDLLCOHTER. Ocronon 29. An loving was held hors beforo Edward Horford, Esq., yesterday, on tits body of a man sagged Charles Cuban, who had died at the Loyal lifirmary on Saturday, from scalds caused by the bursting of a dean nem boiler. Carlisle had worked at the moonfactory of Mr. Clerks Peony, Bradford-road, Manchester. as engine-driver, and a great dial of nearest bar bran manifested in the can from a report that he bad ,frequently oomplinuti to Wm. Smith, overlooker of the works, that the boiler was unsafe, and it soutiosed in work would burst mid kill aeon one. Smith was ponst at the inqaget, la melody. Jams@ Tonge, the Ent witness, end the stoursnine used at Mr. Pansy's I. a condeadog maim. A fortnight age niaThotelay. about Inapagt 9 o'cleck In the morning. I sae .halms la the are We. and heard a capon from the far Man the build. I ran away to thecae (canal) aide. There loss steam and water bursting from the boiler vary glum ngly. I r.turntd in a fur minutes. The flat person I paw was William Smith, the engineer, who was coming trots the mechanics' shop. He asked me which boiler it was bad burst, nod I and, "No . 4." We went to the canal side and sow dingend fixed in the boiler house win dow, having one leg outside and the other in side. The skin was falling off his bands with being scalded, and his hoe was the scalded. He was brought to the So aringly. The boiler wee not gels I was not afraid of it. It has been said it would go some time, but we Kidd not tell when. I have said it would go myself to iteveral parsons. I have said to Smith that it was not so este as the rest, but I thought he knew better than me. This would be about three weeks dace. On tits Isnelay bean the explodes the boiler began to leek' nth, tar end: Smith Rad I examined the bolkut tegother that nerning. It was nuked about 3or 4 Who in length. The Oren was at the edge of use sale, where the Irwas tamed ap, and it wag there where itelted. I will swear the clack inn not liven Idllsoi:lor.g. Smith said we mast stop the leak for a low weeks, whilst we got another boiler ready. He said be nand have it fastened op with a screw paten and some Ga nnett. It had n A then been shown to Mr. Swain, the boiler muter. We had made complaints before that Sandal, W eanse two of the boilers bed gone in the same way before. IBA 'nerd times told Smith that the Sege of the bailer noill sot extol) tare, and when the implode' took plan otena Ism hal nos put into three of the boilers, instead of Koran ones. This boiler bed bons out of as. from the Mon 4ar at brukfast time till ThursffiL to morning at half put 6. Small asked me to go it os W esday, and look at it, no what I thought of It, and thought it looked strong enspagli. Thera wan four palings by the side of each other whore the ere& had begs. No doubt one tarp patch would has ban totter. On the Wednesday night bans the sir - dist Saadi paid the stein moat not be kept up abets 23 Wins Mai progetin to the square lash). The steam - vo bellow 22 and 23 lashed when thi hider hunt es Distal Swain. ewer maker, swors—Os the 7th Met. , welt to look at No. 4 bailer at the request efSmitti. There wee a D has to lt, fist oath* top cud circular andersealh (t 7). 'The floe wee parks% seslia so way washed or oat of shape. liken was a crick about Vitostme loop at the limp, which !What. .to jois w i nded teseeter. plas m , quite Musk he two inches. Ito Wi Ulm Ise is in dekagerous state; it is set sate." He esid—" This if you say that I won't stare it any more till the new Sass are put in." 1 left him with ebe diadem- usdentanding that the ' bake should not be est to work again. I had previously sees tkfth aid a young ms preparbag buckets, with midi they said they intended to serew-patelt the 4 beithr, sad it wee after he bad shows vas bow be pro mised he Minfellts beau that this umverestlas teak place. Mese I menthe mp I had bas *speed to yet our Sue kilo whole 7 Mine, sad at the dole el the endemism of No. 4 Miler, we were making the less Orr ix When I bud it the espiesion, I went to Posdersiteee. sad saw Smith, to whom I said, " I *might p si wine set pMg to 'tut again till the new dues were in.' He repUed" it is a bed job." I entaised the fins on the Moods, week after die explodes, sad found the top of the Sae kail leak dews to the bottom (sollapeed) where the crash wet, seed the boiler was ripped open for a length of three fest by au foot wide It would not require any named premium of steam to:eases Urdu to give way is the Mats it wet. It was at sate with a prams of 22 to 23 potted. per bash I 'mold not have pat a mew unsh ea it to be oafs. By the primmer—l have never seen the safety-valve blow off at a 18-lash pressers. I have sees it at 24, and sot blowing off. lb. Bostwick, &Ist swponstesigslt of the Memelessror damese pollee, endued the espy 414k0 demieseilts doped- Sou roads es lie deathbed at the kiemsey, wad* were here pat is and reed as sidesies. Is ti te unfers na man mid be bedews* of throe tai six bailers, whh re it we all Kwork, at Mr. Pool" s mess mill at she time of the explAioa. Tlie flue of No. 4 ham we. en ell ono. Hs oompkined to Smi‘thrf o u s e7 Ikea Welke , was in a chapeau Mau i _ said 11111111plidell pliant it mee stopped, sad Bashi lag I was sent fee, to repair iu Swaim lifts enl Mid wanted takisg out, and was see Mile M week After this, as the day before the expliellou Hsi* two men to put *mew patches on, sad I tell two if bowers It would ht bursting and seas of as. tee urinates past six that asigbt 8.151 mew these and Smith said the stem would be maim to keep up mit del. Tugs replied that the steam mut not , be hqsl as high as it had been, or the flees would basil e s ' would be killed. Smith replied, that the steam mat be kept up to a premiere of 211 M. be albs par huh, sad then there would be no fear. Neat another workman Mlle iota the boiler-hoses, end I i s of the esplosion at Oldham, where 24 people Ind Mill killed. TIM boiler beset to altar . elk 1M Om used water same ups . Tb Olideft• of the stri at the W4;l effect that the deceased bad died.koill he bad so hope of his lib hose the The Jeri almost immediately hal demean spinet Willies siath, ad' liieemadtment to the likupoil • I POOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.- OSED FOREIGN NAIL STATION AT STAMP DUTIES. - . LITRIPOoL, TOnIIDAT. The qaddlikrAlNlfille di the ensenbere of the Liverpool Cheater of Omateree wee held =stay, Timm= BRIM HOMMISAI., at., the preddeot, in the shah , . The mire Si the oonnell sustained several important semmonee in refurese• MIS stamp duties, wed also reel.. nr * r. mesdisi lime A -he forwarded to government, set dog Ise& edvantsges of Liverpool as a port fooshaemised , , of this fordo amila, and recant ' schditsg IS ea slob. The ler mortal rated that Id emeiteled • combination of advantages grader than =ISMS pert in Great Britain le the despatch mod arrive/ of the stamen cosveying the mail* to and rem this bushy to all parts of the world, with the =ile eshiption Si the north of Europe. The wiel d the tied. between Liverpool and the Tilted States, the Brasile, and the seat and west =este of Booth Amities, nosed= that of any other port el the Unit= Biogdogn and would alone entitle Liver pool to a reference as • mall =aim for the receipt and of the carreepoudence with them parts of the world. But there were other **addenda's of still greater importance which gale Liererpool a very decided superiority over Southampton, or any other port in the British channel let the object in quietist. As respected distance, Limps, was =nal if not superior to Southampton with regard to New York, Bermuda, and Madeira, whilst is dock ace ok =Marton wu unapproachable. The immortal referred to the regularity of the steamers now tarrying the mails be tween Liverpool and the United States, furnishing, as they did, the earliest ieformatioo, not only from those pars of the world, bat from the west coast of Booth America and Mexico, and In moat instances from some of the West India islands. The central position of Liverpool and its proximity to the lugs manufacturing districts of the country, to which it is the natural =del i also to the north, and to Ireland, sou argued as an additional twos for transferring the mails to Liverpool. The memorial concluded by praying that the claims of the port of Liverpool to a protereme as a packet statien for the Atlantic mails generally might remise the favourable consideration of government. The memorial (embodied in the report), relating tether stamp duties, stated that commercial maritime stamps were most objection able, being a burden imposed on a clam who received no bomb in return. The ad valorem priaelple should be established in all stamps refitting to commerce. Receipt stomps are strongly reprobated, and the Chamber ought to urge that they be totally abandoned. Tao lase to the oo would be only 2)0,0401. per annum net. An uniform penny =sip stamp, recently agitated, would be troublesome and grievous. If reeelpt stamps are repealed, bills at sight should also be exempt from duty. Bills of Whig, boads, award deeds, sad lemmas policies, should also be free of duty, for the_porpos• of promoting and inerstelog trading traumatises. With reference to 'Deanne* policies, the me mortal says i ... Toe do y on insurance policies is not only ob jectiosabie as a burden up= conmeree, bat injurious be came It trawlers to foreign countries a considerable =mut M Insurance business, the gains of which are stseemarily lost to Br doh underwriters." : I , The adoption of the report having been moved and ee- Mr. HAROLD LITTLEDALH said it was all very well for them to petition government to have the foreign meals , despatched frsm Liverpool, bat until they took an interest in then 'tensen by risking something is sham or con trams, they could not expect to have them. Arrangements wen riot yet made as to where the mails to the Cape 01 Good Hope were to sail from, and he believed that if the Liverpool merchant+ would take an interest la this contract, Liverpool might be made the point of departure. ' The CHAIRMAN said it was a practical suggestive ;if they considered it so important that the foreign mails amid sail from Liverpool, they, ought to be prepared to slake acme little sacrifice. Kr. LITTLBDALE, for one, was ready to take shares for the pupae of getting these steamers to Liverpool. The mend report hiving been adopted, Mr. C. HOLLAND came forward to propose the follow ing resolution:—" That the memenal on the advantages of Liverpool as • mail packet station sow read, be adopted by the Chamber, and that the council be requested to forward it to the proper quarter, and that the members for the county and burger' be requested to present it." Mr. Holland said he tit strongly the force of Mr. Littledale's remarks. It really did seem somewhat inconsistent for the Liverpool mercantile community to remain ee apathetic in this matter. Government tendon went into the hands of London parties. and thus it wee that thew mails were kept from Liver pool. They could not too often brio, it before government that they were prepared to incur some risk and rectifice with then contracts, in order to have the MAUI sent from Liver pool. He wee sure that they could show government that they were reedy to run some risk ; they might have Liver pool made the Marion for the foreign mils. The motion having been seconded, was carried 'meal unruly. On the motion of Mr. WYLIII, seconded by Mr. M'Fan, the following resolution use neat adopted: "That the report on the „sloth ditties, now read, be 110611111 and adopted by the Chamber, and that the council be instructed to take such step as they thick proper for bringing the views therein embodied under the notice of the commercial public, end of her Majesty's government." Mr. HOLLAND called attention to a step meetly token by the newly-teemed Chamber of Commerce in London. He saw that the London climbs: contemplated obtaining the legislative sanelion to a portion of their proceedings to valuing the legalisation of commercial tribunals for the settlement of commential dispute.. Should the legislature sanction suck abilL he thought they would all agree that It would he most satisfactory to the mercantile interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) It would be a most satisfactory era in commercial history, for its effsct would be to take them out of the bands of the present judicial courts, with all their difficulties and disadvantages, and to make them. as they ought to be, subject to a purely commercial tribe. nil. (Roar, hear.) The meeting then broke up. FEIGHTIFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE AT O anerne's (vas LORD MATOR'S)IVY KRAL—Yalta May OM , noon a very melancholy occurrent* took plum at Gri wharf, la Tooleystreet, the property_ and place of bad ness of the preeent renamed Imrd Mayor, by whisk es* man lost his ht., sad mother Is so seriously injured that it cannot be said he le eat of dans,. The secideet occurred in the following moaner, the parts Ulan of which were obtained of the patina= tasmated with the wharf: It is usual at this sad other Mari to hare a large drum wheel let the purism chiding or lewerisi heavy weights from the wharf to the barges below it; sad this is worked by man is the inside of it, especially considering the weight that is to be raised, and be their treading the weight ean either be heisted up or lowered down. Yererday some casks of cocoa nut oil were Wog lifted how • barge to the wharf, which at the state of the tide was a height of about 16 feet. The casks, or " limn," as they an tenhaisally called, weighed upwards of a too tads, sad six met*, of the names of Hurley, Callaghan, Hayes, Loamy, Crawley, sad Heave , who wore mosiosal labourers at the wharf, ware engaged ea the work, which they had bees et SOAR little time, who OR hoisting oars of he biers to within a foot of the top of the wharf, me of the men, and it menet be nseensimed whieb, allied oat, I. Ugh enough," which was a Gioia far then to step. Hayes, Leary, Crawley, end Neste , Ikea Inatuall tut, ad the can aquae, (wee frightful. The weight of the other two. Harley sad ,Callaghan, of coarse, not Wag able to sup port the, lige?, it demanded bark to the barge with great velenty, while the two poor men withia the wheel were thrown , abost in every direction fa the " drum," lath it Harley, ead t Z two unfortunate peruse were tau oat. ea alaveyed to Gay's Hospital, was fund to be quite deed 1/011, iDII4OI to the head sad ribs; sad Col lagen has may severs scalp wearies, betides tetanal inja• rim, the Tenho( whisk sasy be had. It is a misplay tact that Hurley was diet engaged to load min sacks of term but sot liking the work, he had exeliaepd with a man at the wheel; and it may be mentioned that such an saddest has taken plum at the wharf before. THE RECENT STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT ON THE Rosa.—lfesterday afteeaoes, Mr. W. Curter opened as Mosby at the Awl, Botherbiths, respecting the death of Charles Cook, egad 26 a lalamer employed at the Wyk= Fast Mocha Cinenwiel, who with three atheism@ drowned is the river, by ■ beat whisk they were la being upset by the iatenedeat amigstios, as it wee Olivet, of the Duke of Cambria.* (Diana) elect, Kr. Pene, jun, the soli- Mar, atteatted to grata the preandiar for the relatives of the deseasedl. It may be briefly stated, that set the mora ls' of Thursday the 17th instant, Interim 9 sad 10 o'clock, a beat essialeing the diseased parser' and a lad named Reid was ban rowed up the river about vanisher's.] . nearly opposite the City Goal, what the Prawn Hugh (Cork) steamer paved, and the boat was rolling in the swell left by that vessel, ken the Hake of Celebrity was sees main down, end the party on the paddle-bat beckoned to then to pi oat of the way. They endeavosred to do so, as the arrives alleges, but the steamer eradiated her coons ' ad d did sot stop until within en or urea yards of the boat. The remit was, that the latter was tarried over in the surf, sad the led escaped by to thehetwes, sad eventu ally to the paddle-wheal Oda al when ha WY taken as bawd sad pat the body 01 the de =the ant reeovered woe dragged up ea Friday _off 'a Pont, sot fax Erica the some of the ambient The ' censer Mein allotted to the haperteme of the laqutry, adjoarned the proceeding, la hdlg 11111 the pilot who had sharp of the steamer, the captain gal ethers, night anted. FATAL ACCIDENT IN HAATIWI *llllotra.-0a Mislay new wakens wan la Maki as weber Gem a beat to the deck of a dugitesidiri WAIN W heat, at Barwick, whoa the swim et eaelegiol will the beat as to upset Is, pleaglis Ake wee We the mew, ewe of wham was nomad la "Wade ears his life; bat Woe awieleme end be aradertml. Om Ohm two, eased Weill eeillfeeedek hod seek to rise se none. Disk bodies bookie yell base woweseedo ao r= t hr 3111111141111 T AT UCLlera.Kr. Leila of the Newtheoter pellet, Mike fehlearr allilliS i g:day Agee" el a soder at wit loft set Ma lsw l° rZt dfr= what he ear Aoki Shay • tradt,"lenkr Ins sorry rib favored, upwards of 100 miles ken the plan where the robbery was eanaltted, in eat more &satin et Ibleel..l Hiellullen visited Yes hems Of a hies.MesinZl im a 1 1 1 lo gin street, Oldham-reed, eldrebalbelad ea abbot stock gold wellery ewasimleg iseembee, team yew, Mk ylas, and oilfel pseelkewasaplil wage, layer liefet gold &alas, seals, keys, de& lbey were la - the away maned Javier Csogla, whit at wee ...d=r MAI coeualttad the robbery.. Ifs, together with • wham seated Beckley, apes was poeporty et a similar thetelp ties was brand, weal* be ong to Mellibis ailoateg• • • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAT. BOW4TRERT. THE BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY IN Till STRAND. This day Wag appointed for the re-examiaation of the eight prisaaen, who wen remanded from Friday and Satur day lar (the partisolars of seek atualsation appeseed la the Ewen) as the theme of being sonesrued in the wad robbery of jewellery apes the premier of Meet ti rlt %mu and Clapham, jewellers, of the Strand, the Wert we [fiterdel to ulnas. = 1 after 1 o'clock, the prisoners, D. j Shaw J. a , J. Gardener, Mary Arm Clansman, J. Busecher, kie wile Mary Ann Mimicker, and C. Clinton, es errand boy. wee placed in the dock. Oa this occasion, Charles Kelly, the peter, was also peeled is the dock with the other prisoners. It will be remembered that Kety, who had been fa the service of Mauna Williams and Claphein, as porter, for the lad six years, was first apprehended and examined *a Friday, and the evidence adduced agates% him was quite of a circumstantial character. Clinton gave evidence, and so prevereated, that after Kelly we remanded Isspeotw Lead was induced to interrogate Met very closely respecting the robbery. He then sinfemed that Kelly we innocent, and that he bad arranged with the other prisoaers in the conuaisien of the burglary and rob bery. That he Ist two an into his master's premises before Kelly came home, and that Gardener was one of them. The either prisoners were then apprehended by Inspector 'Lund, Sergeant Thompson, and other, of the detective fore. After the prisoners were remanded an Saturday, Mist Shaw, the prisoner Shaw's wife, was also charged with being unearned in the robbery; bat, as there was ne aviators &Oast her, she was discharged. Astording to the admires' made by Clinton, it would appear that there was another man implicated in the affair. He let two men is, one been Gardener, and the other was a sea about five fee; nine inches high. Search has been made far this mu, who is a well-known cracks:Ban, and it i; a f t tl i ll meted he will be in custody before many days have Mr. Clapham said the prissier Clifton left about sis weeks before the robbery. Us remained for some time, and he was induced to take him by the iiiieroenion of Kelly and Clinton's father. The door leading to Kelly's bedgoom im mediately abuts upon the shop. Kelly's duty, before leaving the shop of • nigh; wen to asoutain if all the locks were se cure. His duty was also to see the bolt epos the glass-dor of No. 13 locked, and if any person was then do he could not be liberated unless he was let eat by some Mr. Henry—lf any perm we soisiale d heel e r= toontioghease dear, could they be sign by nay pergola the shop? Mr. Clapham thought not. Then bra s eirlain upon the glass window of the door of No. 13, Where the rings were kept, and he thought • par on might • hie, be.. sesosaled there without being ern. It was Ciliates 's duty is omit in the shop of a night until Xelly returned. pile= knew it was Kelly's dut to look rued alter the shop was closed. Mr. Henry — ll Kelly had done his duty do you think two men could have been canceled in the chop without his knowledge Mr. Clapham—There wen place Li the shop when two men might have bun concealed without being sea by Kelly, Kelly said he looked over both shape on the sight in question, bat he did not gei Into the counting-house. Mr. Gillkun—How loopy has Kelly been with you ? Mr. Clapham — Upwards of se yen. Hi wife is at pre sent in the house. Charlotte Lloyd, mother-in•law of the prisoner Kelly, said she celled accidentally upou Kelly on the Monday night. Mr. Henry—l wen. to know who supped there. The witnese—Only Kelly's brother and myself. On Tam day night than were other persons there. Mr. and Mrs. Pitt were them, and also Chown. Witams bed some imaremades sheet the Mobs'''. Witness said that it wee eery menage about the kep ; they mast ham been anode by some person there. She she said, how elimage we talked about thieve. theiprevioes night. Kelly wee very lew•splrited, sad said be was afraid Cliatos was getting late bed employ. Witness said: .If you Walt so, why not Mil the master 1" Mr. Henry said to the witness you made some observation Moat the keys being made *she. What did the prisoners saT I" le Witness—Clinton said don't talk so, you make me feel queer. Clinton dulled making the observation. Tbs witness said Kelly only observed that levee robed.' Kelly's: wife mid, . John," meaning ef.en, "MOW rounthiss about it." Clinton replied, "No, als, &ICI we so, von make me feel queer." By Mr. Oillham—Herd beard that Clinton had WM ' egenesd of robbing his master. I an. afraid all 'Meg MO Metes was the thief, and mot my son. Hs. Henry—How was it that you were fearful Mal Crates mba thief ? I The witness—l thought he =ie.% have made taperidasa of the locks. I only feared that Clinton was concerned with thieves. 11. Liddle, of No. 1, Boundary row, Blackfrises, glen cut ter, worked in the ease louse so Shaw lives in. Bede nk was in the habit of coming to Shaw. Heard a conversation he. mien Shaw, his wife, sad Bedew*. Was outside their room door, Mid beard Betio& say, that he bad seta " Char ley," sad that he bad told hias that he bad got an haptemlin of the keys, and that he had given it to the men. Charley also said that the robbery was sondes off, and that he was to meet Na on Saturday, mid that he was to give bias some. thieg." 1 did not know what robbery they were talking about. They WPM thee removed, and Kelly with them. Bail was mimed. Two gentlemen, one Kelly's late master, 'Viewed the magistrate in hie behalf, and gave hien ea excellent character for honesty and sobriety. Mr. Henry said hie opinion y spitting Kelly's pill was certainly shaken from the evidence that had been ad duced that day. He therefore should accept bail for his IT. appearance, acid he should r'quire two bails 0(1001 each sad hilliest( in' Mi. He should refuse bail for the others. Boil wee pui in and Kelly was liberated. Butouxm. Dnisorion or • Tasty.—lT. Bryant, • esemsa, wee Merged with being drank, and also with steal• lag a Wise watch, two mere, and two sovereigns, the pro perty of Mr. Bantle' Nowell, Ms chief mate of the ship Jim, of Jersey. Impeetor Black, of the lif division, stated that last night the was found drunk and *capable of taking care of himself is New-street, Covent-garden. He we, brought to the statica-home, in Bow street, and a silver watch, two purees, and 13s. bd, were fogad upon him. He wee lotted up, and about **Tea o'clock information was forwarded to tie station hens the polies is the London•dock, that a rob. buy bad been committed on board one of the ships, and that the **flied absconded with the property. The description of the pram:* stolen end of the thief so exactly WM pooh* with the prisoner then in custody, that the iespetan seat immediately to the decks, and the prosecutor this mem ing attended and identifi , d the prisoner end the . 11. Nowell said the prisoner wet shipped on bou P d7ll 4 :llle," lying is the eastern dock of the London Dock., as cook me steward. Tonsil* alteration ' about two o'clock, wittier saw the poisoner upon deck, an d ordered hint to clear away the Marne things. Witness then west down in the hold 1 give some orders, and whoa he retaraed upon deck, tea minutes afterwards, be oilseed the prisoner. Waimea want into hie own berth, sad aimed kis welsh, which wee Imagism up a few Mantes previously, two sovereigns from his great e et, and the two purees. to liallWelt to question by the court the witness said the ship had been hauled out this morning, and was gcliag to sail this afternoon for the West ladies. He meld not Its his voyage to prosecute. M. Hairy said he had power to deal sammartly with the gebeesse, bat he was very rimy the prosecutor meld not atop ill peasems. He tent-sad the prisocer to be imprisoned is the Hawes of Correction ter two months, with heed labour, aid oset dd the propel tot be notated to the owner. 11•RLBOROUGH-STEIBET. iffeweretwa Bo nr AN 1111 LAND toy.—k7' rlbahyseaged Id, was iireirmalsed, charged with eteellig meant silver sad geld watches beirtaglag be his muter, NM Ws. Pe watelakcit, 18g, Maw Besdotrest.—The pm seestier, tepeleddhe Maass glum le Friday's He-' nallmMwelelh hselffergemee Itisetesik I* mimed Mese miliablegeM welshes brdweiffes to patlemen *he bed iges Mom ebbs tapir* emli as Wholes dm* Mom the i g e mee had Melee Mo, be pm isheeteM le ee the . ' at Ytmotreit etademheem Men*, an Men of tie C divides. she, flnearilbritbgra he reesived he weal, on the iseemieg of abbe IN. to Me. 5, Little Bretesatems, whom the gabosit bawd. After waiting Mare bet some the. the made hi..ppeanmea, when witness took him bee Oa telling Lea the m i ter, of the Marge *phit e r ii said, 'fit was a bad job, sal he was army be IL" On searchisit his box witness hand throe duplicable Valhi to wattage, which the primmer admitted he bad *iu tem the penercutor sad pledged, sad that be had MOM the proceeil to feasting lad anneemsnee. Witness thel took Mat to the station. Siam than whams had found two de• 1 plumes wormed in a drawer at the prisoner's lodgings An aesistaat is the maploy of Mies Fleming, pewahrehm,l Beewerstrml, produed three watches, pledged for 21. lea., IL 10s., and ll 60. He could net swear that the prism' pledged them. Mr. Debits, pawalwokar, Biewerstreet, problem' two watches, one pledged lee 31., gad*. other for 21.105. They wets pledged by • yeses maa, but not the prissier at the bar Several other pawnbrokers prodseed watches pledged by the prisoner, foe semen/lift from 11 lbs. to 16e. The whole of the erelehm were ideedied by the promentor ell hare*, been ebehth kern his shift imA wen meth about 601. The primmer wee Nil essealMei fir trial. HOLTHEAD.—THI BANSHIS STEANZIL—Th• Baas- Ow, mall packet, so o.lobratstl for her rapid sad assossatal ' voyages Ninon Holyk..d sad Hiagstown, la tim rearm nos of the Ink mail asnisa, has bees taken W uIMo s. It it undlentood that aka taill bora assidairmad ango • toorough repair sad prsasattsal! plasad en the mail duty in tlta bl Edi ths ternana. re, heautifdly fitted wasel is • whet yacht is 'haps ea& wow" sad is of 660 to bonbon, with 800 'ram = ll,l . BIN wths Bret vessel placed oa Esiggsal a. Is gaper • sods those old sad won out mown UM Zephyr. Oftet. sad sada the onus of km masts, pas. Smltl stt, At has 'maned **Wirt nais s f apieL Thu Cos dqs, sails& so be mai sg is the wag yawl that Ina cow. =silk bac ba inAftain plassas bails sa slas Madisissaassa ths Vim ma mmal la thri 'osmium of tha Math will Tory mask Isonsaad. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. MATERIALS FOR THE " CRYSTAL PALACE." BIRMINGHAM, Gar. 1850. Mien is, probably, no subject whatever occupying BO large a share of the public attention, nor one in which the mat:kW honour and character are more deeply interested, than the success of the great exhi bition of next year, to which the nations of the whole world are invited to contribute, and which in all probability will be witnessed by people from almost every clime. Nor is it, perhaps, saying too much to an an opinion that few greater curiosities or no • des will be exhibited—if, indeed, there be any— that will attract more attention than the magnificent etracture which is already rearing itself in Hyde park, almost, as it were by the " stroke of the en &antis's wand." The history of its idea Mr. Paxton has already made known. It will assuredly be matter d additional interest it the public are somewhat elmniliarised with the manufactories, and the means 'employed to produce within a few months the euor ' moos quantity of glass and iron which are to be com bined in the building now in course of erection. With this view, and carrying out your instructions,l have visited the great establishments where the re quisite elements are now in course of preparation, and as far as I am able I shell endeavour to describe them and the operations going on, fur the information of your readers. Curiously enough, the three esta blishments where the materials are being manatee :need are in many respects the most remarkable, as they are by far the most extensive, to be found in the United Kingdom, perhaps in the world. The im mense and varied appliances they have ordinarily at command, the enormous value of their annual pro ducts, and the mighty resources they have developed in an instant, for executing the great work on which they are now engaged, assuredly entitle them to this pre-eminence. At the Woodside Works, near Dudley, will be pro duced the largest portion of the iron framework ; Mesas. Chance and Co., of Spon-lane, stand in the same position with respect to the glass. Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., of the London Works, Smeth wick, whose undertakings are known to be as exten sive as they are varied in their character, are the actual contractors for the ironwork ; but in COW*. quenoe cf the great facilities existing at the works named above for producing so large a quantity of castings as are now required in a period so limited, a considerable quantity of the heavy work has been transferred to Woodside, the proprietors of which establishment stand in the position of sub-contractors to Mean. Fox, Henderson, and Co., the latter taking charge of the erection of the building, with the execu tion of the numerous fittings that are required, as well as a portion of the columns and girders. As iron forms what may, perhaps be not inaptly termed the shell of thebuildiog, I jail first take the reader through the iron works. Taking Dudley as a starting-point, and traversing the high road, (if such it can be called) through the ooal field in the direction of Brierly Hill and Stour bridge,thenoe divergingfrom it about a mile below the tows, if you bend your steps towards the valley . on your lett hand, about another half-mile, having nothing to greet the eye besides ricketty looking buildings which have long since lost their perpendi cular, and an abundance of smoke and gnme of eh descriptions, yea find yourself by a sudden turn in the road in front of the "Woodside Iron Works," they stand in fact about a mile and a half south of Dudley, and being between Lord Ward's Pinsnett Canal, on the high level, and the Dudley Canal on the lower, are well off for water conveyance ; in short on one side the works, the canal runs close, so that all the products may be lowered without inoonveni ence almost from the casting shops into the boats on the water. The works themselves are of great extent : there are piles and piles of buildings weltering under huge foregoes and cupolas, each vomiting forth dense I volumes of flame and smoke at any and every hour out of the twenty-four, and so on week after week na ceasiogly. The works are carried on in the name of Messes. Cochrane and Co. ; thee* are, however, I belieks, several gentlemen composing the partnership whose names do not appear. One of the members of the firm courteously offered to take me through the works ; but before I conduct the reader there I must endeavour to convey to him an ides of the amount of power employed and the extent of the operations car ried on. There are produced at these works castings of every description ; one division of the foundry is specially set apart for the production of large pipes, and, as proof of the means employed, it is now turn ing out some 50 large 30-inch pipes a day, of 25 cwt. each. All the minerals are raised on the spot. There are a couple of immense blast furnaces for smelting the ore and converting it into pig iron, besides nine cupolas constantly blowing, re-melting the pig iron for casting purposes, and each smelting from ten to thirty tons daily. The furnaces to which I have referred will each produce on an average 240 tons per week of cold blast iron. There are produced daily, under ordinary cir cumstances, the enormous quantity of 100 tons of castings, an amount far beyond the capacity of any other foundry in the kingdom. Turning next to manual labour, on inquiry I found that there were generally abo ut 1,200 persons employed, exclusive of clerks. In the foundries alone there are about 800 persona, of whom about one-fifth ere boys; the re- Illiainder are engaged in the collieries and at the far mers. I With this general idea of the works themselves, we shall next turn to something doing on account of the subject under notice. Everybody who has seen the aunty-executed lithograph plans of Mr. Paxton's palace, as who has seen the partial erection in Hyde. park, er who may hereafter see the completed build ing, will not fail, after inspecting the slight and elegant columns which support the roof, to notice also the girders which constitute a very component feature in the iron-work. The manufacture of these is a singularly interesting process. I shall endeavour to describe it. almost as soon as you enter these works the first tieing that tints your eye is a gigantic shed con ducted of wood; this is from eighty to a hundred puds in length, some 60 feet wide, and 50 feet high. On inquiry I found that immedi ately on receiving the contract for the exhibition work this place was prepared, and within a few days the elements were all at hand and the men in full work. The stranger entering this shed would be amazed at finding that a work requiring so much minuteness could be carried on in a place where such a mass of smoke and heat and steam is generated. Yet look:oe those hundred blackened faces and brawny arms—their movements are as continual sad almost as systematic as is the machinery over their heads in the roof. To describe the process very summarily, one might say that the floosie strewn over with hogs oak boxes, each box weighing some seven tons—that the pattern having been formed by means of fine loam is properly bedded in—the top of the box is placed on it—having been first filled with sand, which is firmly rammed up round the pattern—a trough some five or six feet in length is placed over the middle—into It the metal is rapidly poured, and in some 26 seconds a slight flow of the metal issuing from a corner of the box indicates that the casting is complete, and that a girder is perfectly formed. The lid of the box is re moved as quickly as possible, to allow for the oontrao tion of the girder, and in about an hour and a half the girder itself is removed from the bed of sand. Bach are, shortly, the means employed, and such the malt. If, however, the process is looked on more minutely, it will be seen how varied are the appli ances, and bow large an amount of skill and ingenuity are called in aid to attain so much suoceas. Cast your eye into the roof of the building, you find that the entire fortress (so to speak) below is commanded by e Rl9l. of poured mom lifting 20 tons each, viwi traverse a milmei running from end to end of the building; thus seams are worked sash they brae disbud to this a owe* el =Walt wok ' mess orabolb auldesoji sheet rod pselstearbenest at arptiing ahotesste sod egdi set Ivp a at When% saly ths4oup g wet la wales 4 6004 sad terldrestris width amble's,' berg , brought. Sevreibg _bask to the soda( proses. eel &shag whit it a little mss Le doted. yea goOdort. Are having larked weirthe egrestisee OR a taw ' sisatss, that whoa at et the boos the mould is prepared fee it ersdn o -the parting sand is strewn toes, an d dot the Urge cover requires to be lifted yes it, delis doles do wane in a moment, raises it mast plaits It ea the allay with about as much ease audi al • lady nine the lid of her tiny workbox. The next moment you see the crane performing a somewhat similar operation at the other end of the building: for instance, a casting is complete, and the cover requires removing: the crane g ...n.tty miss a it, turns it over, the sand is knocked out by th e ' workmen, and the cover is ready for the next moult/ that is prepared. The duty which " the cra te are called on to perform is equally onerous. The iron used is melted in a couple of cupolas outside the shed, from which it is removed in immense ladles, which are i nlaced on a railway carriage end run into the shed at both ends; here it is picked up by the s ark scrag, and bring the metals in travelling cr. \nee, and as these run up and down, tenever there is a mould fitted larp " the c v r ease alsi . ,‘ is neither delay, nor confa for its reception. And in all this vast and complicated work th'Cs' sion, nor accident, buts verything proceeds with sin t gular regularity. This pi, •rative would be incom plete if I did not be-e menu°. .1 that in consrquence of the weight of the girders the a. void is partially de stroyed every time a casting takett . Place, and that the sand has to be re-fashioned and ma.iipulated with as much care as though for the most minute descrip tions of machinery. By this process from thirty to forty girders are produced daily. In the bolt hour I spent in this part of the foundry, I ws. 4 fortunate enough to see no leas than four completes. i s and al most throughout every stage of the process. Of the boxes I have described in which the moulds are D laced there are no less than 270 tone in use. Afte; they have been removed from the moulde the girder' are taken into the open air end trimmed, wheel' they are ready for being lowered into the boats on the canal, and despatched for the purpose for which they are designed. The columns are produced in another part of the establishment, from 40 to 60 are cut daily; the mode is very similar to that which I have been describing ; it is the same with the foundation-pieces, connecting pieces, and other necessary adjuncts. There are enormous fitting-shops in which the work is going on with great rapidity; here the whole of the columns, bare, and connecting pieces are turned, bored, and faced to fixed gauges before leaving the works, and with so much minuteness is this carried on, that at the time I visited the place, when more than ball the work wan completed, not a single piece had been found so far defective as to require the aid of the chiml. In fact, every portion of the building will be turned out ot the foundry in such a state of completeness, that it will be put together with the utmost ease and facility. "fhe connecting pieces to which I have referred form part of the columns, so that at every gallery one of the former is inserted in the column, and to these are fixed the girders which support it ; little, therefore, has to be done on the ground but to lift the columns and connecting-pieced and girders into their places, and put in the bolts and wedge,. There are relays ot men working day and night; everything, in short, appears to be pushed on with marvellous rapidity. At the time I visited the works, the business of constructing the framework of this mighty fabric had been going on about six weeki ; in that time nearly the whole of the castings had been made and delivered, and it was expected that the whole would be sent in by the middle of next month, a striking proof of the wonderful resources possessed by the proprietors of the works. As I knew something of the loose habits of the men throughout the whole of this mineral district, I was anxious to ascertain how far the work had been de layed from that cause: accordingly I put a question to one of the partners (Mr. Cochrane). He said, "We reasoned with the men, and it succeeded." I was somewhat startled at this, certainly, never having heard of these men being open to much in the way of conviction produced by reasoning, se I asked Mr. Cochrane to be so good as to explain. He replied "We told the men that the work in which we were about to engage must be completed within a certain time ; that we had given a pledge, and that so far oar character and credit were at stake; that it was a matter in which the nation at large shared concern, and that it was to their interest as well as our own that we should fulfil the contract. And this suc ceeded, for the men have only ' made ' one day since they commenced." I have deemed it proper to mention this fact in justice to all employed at these works ; it affords a convincing proof how much may be done by kindness and geed usage. Some of the partners here I know to be liberal, noble-minded men—men whose dispo sitions lead them to the side of philanthropy, and who would be sure to treat kindly all whom they employed. Teat monster nuisance, the truck system, is practically unknown at these works ; the men are all paid in money on a Saturday ; rome of the best moulders earn as much as 365. per week; the average earnings of the workmen throughout is about 3e. 61. a day ; and of the boys, le. 3d. The working hours are from six in the morning until six in the evening, allowing an hour and a half for meal.; night-work corn= nces at six, and terminates at six in the morning, with the same allowance for refres:ment. The workmen's rules were shown to me, and they appeared very fair to all parties; • fortnight's notice must be given on either side ; a workman striking another is fined 26.6 d., to the sick box; and for swearing or using violent language he is fined a similar sum, which is devoted to thememe purpose. There is a " Sick Club"connected with the works, to which every person employed is compelled to contribute ; the partners. take share in the management, and are annual donors to the extent of 501. The weekly payments are divided into three classes, according to the earnings of the men; in the first ten weeks of sickness a member receives fie. per week ; in the succeeding six weeks 7s. ; for the following five weeks 65.; and for soother five weeks ss. The other classes are in proportion. On the death of a member in the first class hie widow receives 61. ; of the wife, the sum of 31. The parsons em . ploytd at works of this clascrip'.ion are generally im . pt evident, so that a club of this kind must have been productive of much usefulness. In the course of my ramble through these works, I remarked in one of the large sheds a very interest ing process of manufacture; it was that of water pipes of the largest kind, which are now being brought into general use in London, Manchester, and other large towns. In one pit alone, 11 feet wide by 24 feet in length, twenty-four 30-inch pipes are daily dried and east in 16 hours. By means of a new dry , tag process, invented at these works, the pipes made here are free from joints, and are consequently so much more secure. One of the partners (Mr. Slate) took much trouble to explain to me the whole of the interesting operation, but on refiecion I despaired of divesting it of sufficient technicality to interest the general reader. Some idea, however, of the magni tude of the works in this department may be gathered from the fact that, taking into account the various sizes, upwards of a mile length of iron piping is cast here daily. But this letter has already en'ended to a greater length than was intended, I must therefore reserve for my next a notice of the works of Messrs. Fox, Hen derson, and Co., who have the credit (and justly) of having developed the magnificent idea of Mr. Futon. PROPOSED Pam Essay. —To the Editor of the Ile press.-81r,—A clergyman of the Church of England, with the approbation of his Royal Righneu Prices Albert, proposes to give a prise or prises of 100 Onus in amount for the best essay or essays on the following subject. "In what manner the union of all nations at the grand exhibition in 1851 may be made the most conducive to the glory of Ood in promoting the morel welfare of mankind." As this proposer of tha.prine is very desirous that fall scope should be given for the diethadon of a subjoin whisk appears to him of the highest importance, end that the candidates and the public: should have security for the strictest Impartiality Is the award, he is anxious, memoir to the final arrangement, to avail himself of the opinions of the leaders of the public' mind, and would, therefore, be extremely obliged by say r smoothes from the editor of the Swims or his corn ' epostlente which might enable him to present the propceition to the public in a form must celcalated to accomplish the °West he has in view. His wish is to remain at present, C E I ANoxyagove. MI CABE OF CRUELTY TO LASCARB AT SOUTH ARFREPFL—The coroner of Southampton has received in elmeseitme from the Secretary of State for the Home Do t* furnish him with the evidesee adduced at the Mtlelirn the bodice r 4 the two Lasesr seamen who died on heard the ship, New Liverpool, in Southampton Docks, and for whose deaths a verdict of manslaughter *as returned last week against the captain of the ship. LOSS OF THE TUO STEAMER POIvERVIA.—Thin steamer, which hes been for • long period engaged In towing lighters, de., about Harwich Harbour, being required at Dom, wee ;teaming her way thither ander the (barge of • Dover pilot, when, tinder eiraimstancre sot yet elicited she struck upon the Long Band, and ultimately suck is deep want at abpnt 9 p.m. ow Saturday loon The crow its uP Sunday morning end ham into Ottore).one, ow < ' '..// • • r (e; vi Q./ ~~ ~i ', l ~~ i 1 i; of wi lee be • at H. 1 3 4/ 1 . [OO 11•76 • et 440- 'a - Mir = re ° .1 4 MI ael iiiiinia C $1 i ,,