The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

TIIE .R1G.117 HON. B. _DISBAELI AT AYLESBURY. AYLESBURY, THURSDAY. The dinner of the Royal and Central Bucks Agricultural Association took place in this town yesterday. The Right Hon. B. DISRAELI, M.P., in reply to the toast of his health, after some prefatory re marks in reference to the association and the show of cattle, &c., observed—lt was said, when prizes were offered to a labourer for excellence and skill in his calling, this society had no right to come forward in so ostentatious a manner to reward his merit, but that was a matter which ought to be left to his master and employer. Now that has always appeared to me to be a most weak and fallacious argument. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The other day, at Buckingham, a peer of the realm gained a prize for the horned stock he exhibited. 1 do not suppose that he felt ashamed or degraded because he obtained five guineas or a silver cup on that occasion. (Loud cheers.) On the contrary, I have no doubt that Lord Southampton felt excessively pleased, and that he received the intelligence of his success with that justifiable self-complacency which any man who had suc ceeded in any object he had at heart would natu rally feel. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) I myself, last year, sitting next to my hon. friend Mr. Low ndes, offered a prize, through his instrumentality, for the best crop of roots in the Vale of Amersham and the locality. I am informed that some of the most eminent farmers in the county have competed for that prize, and in a few days we shall have the name of the successful competitor announced. (Cheers.) I cannot see why, on the same principle, when holding out emulation to the higher classes of society in order to stimulate them to increased excellence, we should shut out all other classes from the exercise of that principle which is the author of all that is good in man. (Cheers.) The same prin ciple of emulation which makes the peer and large l an d e d proprietor produce his stock, or the farmer compete for superior crops, that same principle of emulation ought to be brought to bear upon the shepherd and the ploughman, upon the hedger and the thatcher. (Loud cheers.) They ought to feel, if they are eminent in their craft or calling, that they have obtained public appreciation and gained public approbation. (Hear, hear.) These are two of the great objections which some twenty years or more were urged against these societies. Of late the great objectors have fallen upon one single and particular reward, which is offered to the agricul tural labourer by those associations which at the same time had aimed at the greater objects in agri culture—an extended knowledge of the art of agri culture, the improvement of stock, the invention of machinery, and all those great subjects which engage us in the science of husbandry. They now object to one single point upon which they think these socie ties may be attacked, and that is the reward which is offered to those who claim our respect and recog nition by their long service. (Hear.) Although that is a controverted point, it appears to me that it is one which it is not difficult to decide upon. What was the origin of these rewards when they were first instituted ? We had to act upon a peasantry who, through the maladmi nistration of the poor laws, were not in that posi tion in which we wished to find the labourers of the land. We had to create in them a feeling of self respect, and to develop a feeling of emulation. These rewards were devised with a thorough know ledge of that class, and were well weighed and considered. The purpose was excellent. I would ask you what has been the result ? (Loud cheers.) Has it not been most favourable ? There is no doubt that at the present moment these rewards are eagerly sought after and appreciated by the labourer of the land. I speak now to practical men, and I am sure they know this, and will corroborate my statement. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, there is, I should say, one class of prizes in which I think this society is somewhat deficient, and which has been introduced in the South with very great effect, I mean those prizes which should induce the agricul tural labourer to pay greater attention to the condi tion of his residence, and of everything that sur rounds it. I am myself disposed to offer a prize with that object next year, because I have seen it produce most beneficial results in several districts in the South where a similar prize is awarded. (Cheers.) The habitation of the labourer of late years has very much changed. The attention of the landlords and proprietors has been much directed to this ques. tion, and there has been an immense improvement in that respect, so far as the Chilterns are concerned. But the residences of the poor are not improved merely by the investment, on the part of the land lord, of capital in the construction of better dwel lings. If you wish to improve the residences of the poor, or rather of the labouring class, you must create in them that, spirit which appreciates the propriety of a house, and in order to effect that re sult you must have recourse to those means by which you create emulation in Peers of the realm and Members of Parliament, and large acred squires and prosperous farmers ; you must appeal to that spirit of emulation which is the author of all excel lence in society. Entertaining these views, with the permission of the society, I shall be most happy to give a prize for that purpose next year, (Cheers.) Gentlemen, there are one or two observations which 1 should wish to make to you upon subjects con nected with the condition of your class. In the first place, I rejoice that I can congratulate you upon a good harvest. So far as I can form an opinion, the harvest of this county especially is a good harvest It is a county which, although not very large, nor in its geograpaical character very long, in reality possesses a greater variety of soils, and I might say a greater variety of climates, than counties which upon the map appear to be of much greater magnitude. So far as I can observe, and I have been about the country lately a good deal, I should say that the harvest of England, in which we are all interested, is by no means the bad harvest which was anticipated in the summer, and the county of Buckingham may rank in the first class. (Cheers.) At this moment, touching on the sub ject of the comparative prosperity of our fortunes as the landed interest, I cannot refrain from advert ing to one topic to which on another occasion I felt it my duty to allude, and one which on all occa sions at the present time I can scarcely believe any Englishman can keep silence upon. I refer to the contrast between the comfort and prosperity we en joy, and the condition in which a very large class of the labourers of England in the northern part of the kingdom is placed. (Hear, hear.) I would not for one moment indulge in any very flattering and fulsome panegyric on the labouring classes of Lan cashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire. The people have their parasites as well as aristocracies and monar chies, and I am not one of them ; but it is impossi ble for anyone to be insensibl e to the intelligence and good sense with which the Working classes of the North of England have deported them during this terrible visitation, which has not been brought upon them by their own folly—which has not been brought upon them by the inscrutable decrees of Providence, but by the passions of men. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Hitherto they have borne their sufferings with a manly spirit, and with a good sense which has not astonished me, as I am not altogether unacquainted with that class of our countrymen ; but I cannot conceal from myself that the gloomy period of the year is now arriving when that which is now dark in fortune must become of a still deeper hue, and the possibility, and more than possibility, is that a more extensive appeal must be made to their fellow,coun • trymen to support them than has hitherto been made to those classes who from their local connexions and spontaneous charity have already largely son . tributed towards the relief of their suffering. neigh that appeal be ma d e the landed bours. lam sur e it interests throughout this country will most cordially re3pond to it, and I am anxious that he county o f Bu c king ham, which has al ways taken the lead in public afftirs, shou ld, when that occasion arrives, not be backward in its contributions. (Hear and cheers.) I think the opportunity is one that should not be lost, and at this moment, when we aro hold ing a successful meeting of the most a ncient agri cultural assoc i at i on , I b e li eve , in this country when the whole of England is witnessing similar I) assem - lies. W hi c h prove the futility of the attacks tllat , were first levelled against us and the complete suc cess and soundness of the principles on which these sooieties were founded, I think it would well be come the landed interests of England to show to the manufacturing labourers of the country that they may count upon our sympathy ar d our sup port. The right hon. gentleman sat down amid loud cheers. MR. LAING'S VIEWS ON THE INDIAN 2ARRIF ON COTTOIV GOODS AND YARIVS. Mr. Samuel Giles presents has compliments to the Editor and will feel obliged by his inserting the subjoined correspondence. Manchester, Oct. 1. TO THE RIGHT HON. SAMUEL LAING, LATE FINANCIAL MINISTER FOR INDIA. Sir,—At the close of the interview I had the honour to have with you on Friday last, respecting the remaining 5 per cent. on cotton goods, and 31 per cent. on cotton yarns, now levied under the lately modified Indian tariff, you were so good as to say I might make such private or public use of that conversation, and of the very valuable sugges tions you then threw out, as I might thins proper. Will you be so good as to excuse my saying, that if it is not too far taxing your kindness, I should prefer your recording your views in a letter, as you promised to do, as I am desirous to send them to the newspapers in your own exact words rather than trust to the accuracy of my memory to report a con versation of more than an hour's duration.—l have the honour to remain, sir, Your most obedient servant, SAMUEL GILES, Honorary Secretary to the Manchester Com mittee formed for the Abolition of the Indian Tariff on Cotton Goods and Yarns. Manchester, Sept. 22. Edinburgh, Sept. 20. Dear Sir,—l readily comply with your request to repeat in writing the substance of what I stated to you at our interview at Manchester. The object of the association which you represent is to obtain a total repeal of the remaining import duty of 5 and 31-per cent. on piece goods and yarns imported into India. I do not doubt that this is a considerable object for England. The cotton industry is the largest branch of Eng lish manfactures, and India is the largest market in the world for cotton goods. India also has a large native manufacture, which, although con ducted for the most part by primitive methods, still enters into effective competition with the imported article over a large area. India, moreover, is com mencing cotton manufactures with all the improve ments of modern science and machinery, under cir- cumstances which hold out good hope of future progress. A cotton factory at Bombay has the advantage of saving two freights—on the raw material home wards and the manufactured article outwards; and her labour, even now after the great recent rise of wages in India, is at about the same rate per month as is paid per week in Lancashire. Coal is dearer, but this is a comparatively small item in the total cost of the production of a factory, and the main disadvantage is the want of concentration of capital and skill which is found in a district which has been for years the metropolis of the cotton manufacturing interest of the world. But this is a disadvantage which diminishes with the erection of every new factory, and, as regards the Indian market at least, the comparative cheapness of labour and raw material makes the rising factories of India rivals not to be despised. I admit, therefore, fully the importance, from an English point of view, of a further reduction of the 5 per cent. import duty. But if India is to be re tained in peaceful and loyal allegiance to the British Crown these matters must be looked upon in an Indian as well as an English point of view, and the interests, the wishes, and the feelings of its 150,000,000 of inhabitants must be the primary consideration in deciding how to raise the necessary revenue. Now, in the first place, it the import duty on yarns and piece goods were repealed, it is by no means clear that the loss would be confined to the £500,000 a year derived from this source. Unless some special reason could be shown for exempting cotton goods and yarns, how could other customs duties, as for instance, on iron, hardware, haber dashery, &c., be maintained; and still more, how could export duties be maintained on Indian pro duce ? It would be manifestly unjust to Indian cultivators to continue an export duty of 3 per cent. on rice, &c., in order to repeal an import duty of 5 per cent. on English cotton goods. It is by no means clear, therefore, that the ques tion at stake is not one not of £500,000 a year only, but of our whole customs revenue, or of upwards of £2,000,000. Even, however, if it could be limited to £500,000 it is perfectly evident that £500,000 cannot be levied in any other way with anything like the same satis faction to the people of India. Direct taxation is the alternative, and the amount levied by this im• port duty of 5 per cent. is almost exactly the same as would have been raised by the linen tax, or as was raised by the 2 per cent. income tax, on in comes below £5O a-year. But the import duty is scarcely felt at all, while the direct taxes involved an inevitable amount of oppression, extortion, evasion, alarm, and discon tent, which made them intensely unpopular. The remaining income tax, though two-thirds of the payers have been relieved from it by the repeal of the 2 per cent duty, is still very unpopular among all classes, both Europeans and natives, and it is borne patiently mainly because it is believed that it will not be continued beyond the period of five years, for which it was originally passed. I think the faith of the Government is morally pledged not to continue the income-tax beyond this period, un less absolutely necessary ; and I am satisfied that it would be a most fatal political blunder to do any thing which put the G overnment in a worse posi tion for repealing this tax at or before the end of three years from the present time, when it expires. To the extent, therefore, of £1,500,000, which is the annual revenue given by the income tax, I con sider that the resources of the Indian Government, whet h er derived from improved revenue or from further in expenditur e , are, so to speak, 1 and I am convinced th a t i t would be mortgaged, deeply resented as a fraud and as an i njury by the economy whole population of India, if any porti on of these resources were applied to an exclusively E ng li sh object while the income-tax remains unrep ea l ed. As a practical quest io n, therefore, I do not think it is of the slightest use pre ssing for a rep ea l of the 5 per cent. import duty, un less it can be m a d e a special case, and a fair equivalent given for it t o India. Without this, I tell yo u frankly, I sho u ld oppose it myself. I believe the Indian Government and the whole Indian community would oppose it, • and I cannot for a moment imagine that any Secre tary of State would think of sending an order to India for a purely English object, ove rruling in such a manner the unanimous wish of India • If he did, he would deserve to be impeached, for it is per fectly evident that he would be a far more formid able enemy to the British Cro w n in India than Feroze Shah or Nana Sahib. fur Y th ou er say u that etie h u e f th s e oo E , O u o r 0 0 p m e h i g a h r t m b y s e n a l v n e by a I believe it i s perfectly true that India, it WCI I governed and contented, might be held securely by a smaller European force than 70,000 men, which is about its present strength. But for some time after the mutiny it will be a wise and merci ful policy to keep, not only a sufficient, but a superabundant force, so as not only to suppress dis turbances if they arise, hut to make them impossible. £1,000,000 a year, which is about the difference in cost between 60,000 and 70,000 Europeans, is not too much under present circumstances to pay for a few years by way of extra insurance, to remove all temptation from unruly spirits in populous cities and in remote districts, and to give India what she most brokerequires, a period o f perfect tranquillity, un- Mn oreov byer e even ven a rumour of p o li t i ca l dangers. , if the mon ey could be raised, it the income tax and is, as 1 have said, mortk aged f or the redemption of my prop osal to perpetuate th a t , tax in order to relieve Lancashire of the 5 per cent, import duty would be the surest way to bring about a state of things which must render military reduc tion impossible. Practically, therefore, the question is narrowed to this: Can England give India any equivalent which would make it worth the while of India, as a fair businesslike arrangement, to make a special excep tion in favour of English interests by repealing or reducing this import duty. An obvious equivalent might be found in Eng land assuming some portion of the cost of the home depots of regiments serving in India. This would be strictly just, as it is undeniable that those soldiers are to some extent a reserve for England as well as for India, and that in case of any pressing emergency, such as an invasion,they would not be sent to India, however great might be her wants, until the danger nearer home was over. It is certain also that the amalgamation of the Indian local European with the Queen's army,which was adopted mainly with reference to Imperial con siderations, makes the home military charges for maintaining a given efficient European strength in India greater than it was formerly. But although a more favourable partition for India of the home military charges might be equit• able, I doubt if you can look to this source for prac tical relief. The answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to assume a fresh burden of £400,000 or £500,000 would be that of the Pope, " Non pos sumus." The finances of England are in a state of extreme tension ; for some years we have only made both ends meet by war taxes in time of peace, and by using up temporary resources like the malt credits; and the least falling of off revenue from a deficient harvest or bad trade must apparently oblige us to increase the income tax, or other wise to encroach still. more largely on those re serves which ought to be carefully husbanded during peace for a time of war. Ido not think, therefore, there is much chance of any proposal being enter tained which involves additional charges on the English Treasury. There remains, therefore, one source only to which it is possible to look for an equivalent, viz., a gua rantee by England of the credit of the Indian Go vernment, so as to enable it to raise money at a lower interest. This has often been discussed with reference to the national debt of India, and there are strong arguments why, when England and India are prac tically one concern (for the loss of our Indian empire cannot be contemplated without a convulsion which would shake the credit of England as well as of India), it is extravagant to pay 5 per cent. for money which might be readily had at 3,-1, per cent. Still I do not think that, practically, the time is ripe for a proposal to the House of Commons to in crease the liability of England by upwards of £100,000,000, even although that liability were ever so remote. Nor am I sure that it would be for the interest of India that England should assume a lia bility so great as to involve a temptation to the English Government and House of Commons to in terfere largely with the financial affairs of India. But there is a special capital, which stands on a different footing from the national debt of India, to which these considerations might possibly not apply—viz., the guaranteed railway capital. 1. The amount is known and limited. 2_ It is held exclusively in England. 3. It is applied exclusively to an object in which English commerce has a vital interest. 4. The liability is slight, for it only extends to guaranteeing a certain return in case the traffic should be insufficient to pay it. The capital spent on Indian railways may be taken in round numbers at £40,000,000, and it will probably take £25,000,000 or £30,000,000 more to complete these railways thoroughly, with portions of double line, rolling stock, and stations fit for a large traffic, and with a few of the most indispen sable branch lines. It is, I believe, probable that these railways, when finished, will earn, on an average, 4 pc r cent. or upwards on their cost, and morally certain that they will earn not less than 21 or 3 per cent. If, therefore, the £70,000,000 were raised under a gua rantee of 4 per cent. the liability under that gua rantee could not well exceed 1,000,000 f. a year, and in all probability would be much less. Now the risk to England of endorsing the guarantee of the Indian Government to this extent would be practically nothing. The finances of India are on the soundest possible footing. With a gross revenue of £43,000,000, which is rapidly increasing, the interest of debt is not one seventh of the income, while that of England is two-fifths. England has no reserve, and barely meets the necessary expenses by the taxes of the year. India invests annually out of surplus re venue at least £2,000,000 in reproductive public works. England has no cash balance beyond what is required to carry on current business ; India has a reserve of at least £8,000,000 in hard cash in her treasury; The risks, therefore, to England of en dorsing a guarantee by the Indian Government to make up in case of deficient traffic a sum of, at the outside, not above £1,000,000 a year to the sub scribers of railway capital, who, be it recollected, are all English, is practically no risk at all. Would it be worth the while of England to give such an endorsement for the sake of securing free access to the Indian market for her staple industry ? This is a question for England to consider. All I say is that, looking at it from an Indian point of view, I think it would be not any great advantage to India, but on the whole a fair reason for meeting the wishes of England and admitting cotton fabrics free, if she got such an equivalent. I think India might either reduce the import duty on cotton fab rics from 5 to 21 per cent., if England would enable her to get the remaining £30,000,000 to complete her railways at 4 instead of 5 per cent., or might repeal the duty altogether, if England would carry through some arrangement for the whole capital of £70,000,000, by which the existing shareholders were induced to accept a guarantee of 4 per cent. with an Imperial endorsement, instead of 5 per cent. from India alone. Of course you must be prepared for objections to this. Other branches of industry will say, why should cotton be relieved from a 5 per cent. duty while we continue to pay in many cases 10 per cent.? The only answer I know to this is that, practically, cotton is the only great branch of industry in which an effective competition exists between the native and the imported article, and therefore when an import duty, however small, operates as a protection against the British manufacturer it ought to be abolished. Whether this answer would be sufficient I do not know, nor do I pretend to express any po sitive opinion upon the suggestion from an English point of view. All I say is that it is the only sug gestion which, after much consideration, strikes me as being at least possible. It is an arrangement which I thi n k I ndia might fairly be asked to accept, while the m in odo n without di sastrous political results, be coerced into givin g up this tag x t think eo she ntinues could with fairness, and . duty without an equivalent while I think also it is at least worthy of consideration whether, regard being had to the exceptional state of the cott on districts a return to l ow prices o f t h e raw material, and con - e t n o t t r h e e s t doubtful of this hs prospectg great e a o t f sequent risk of perm au ; branch of indust r y ; and manner in which their and, above have beenll'tothe d of the cotton operatives and the truly admirable con borne jt i o ti —it might not be worth the while of E ng l an d to stretch a point and take a step which, althoug h o a novel rin l - posed to ordinary routine, and m a ki ng c i p l e , would, in practice, be attended noppre sent expense and no appreciable risk, w hi le it would u ndoubtedly be a consider able and perm anent boon to perhaps half a million of o p e ratives who are more or less dependent on the Indian market for onr entton manufactures, -1 remain, dear si r, yours faithfully, S. LAING. S. Giles, Esq,, Manchester. 's fills,—lndigosti or ,_ wed, and what po n d erous How A n m v u n ch t i h S o E u m g E h N t T h . l a — s e I e o n l 1 o b N e T t y o ' volumes written upon this plague of every household, which is with certainty and safety dispelled by a course of this purifying, soothing; and tonic medicine without fear of relapse. It acts directly on the stomach, liver, and bowels; more indirectly, though not less effectively, on the brain, nerves, vessels, and glands, and so commands order throughout the entire system that h ar mony dwells between each organ and its functions. Dyspepsia can now no longer be the bugbear of the p u bli c since Holloway' s excellent pills arc fully competent to subdue the most chronic and distressing cases of impaired digestion, and to restore the miserable sufferer to health, strength, and cheerfulneoH, THE &IN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1862. MURDER 01 A SHIPMASTER. SHIELDS, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Mr. Reed, the coroner for South Northumber land, held an adjourned inquest, in North Shields, this afternoon, upon the body of Mr. Richard Sprague, shipmaster, belonging to Brigham, who died on the 18th September last, from a fracture of the skull, inflicted upon him by some person who had attempted to rob him, on the night of the 13th, in the Borough-road. Two brothers, named John and Robert Arm strong, gave very singular and confused statements of what they knew of the transa3tion. J. Armstrong stated that he was c ming down the Borough-road, about a quarter past 11 p.m. when he heard cries of " police," and observed a man fall and another run away. He followed the man that ran away, but lost him amongst some new buildings. He said that he then returned to the mau that he saw falling, and asked him—mean ing the injuries to his head--“ what had done it." He replied nothing, and he (Armstrong) left him, as he would not make himself bloody by touching him. But he had given another version, namely, that when he ran to that part of the road from whence the cries of " police" emanated, he found the deceased attacked by two men and a woman, and that the woman put her hand into his (Arm strong's) mouth, and tore it. The other brother stated that he was coming down the Borough-road between 10 and 11 o'clock on the night of the 13th, when he saw a man running away, with five men chasing him. He ran after the man, but lost him, and he got away. He denied that he ever saw his brother that night in the Borough -road ; and both these men, strange to say, had flatly denied to the superintendent of police that they knew aught of the attack on Mr. Sprague at all. Mr. Bates, surgeon, proved that Mr. Sprague died from a severe fracture of the skull, the result of a blow from a stone, and Mr. Bates stated that before deceased became unconscious, and being told of the dangerous condition he was in, he told him, the doctor, that the wound on his head had been inflicted by some one striking him on the head with a stone or stick, and he admitted that he was in company that he ought not to have been in when he received the injury. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against some person or persons unknown.—Leeds Mercury. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTH ERN RAILIVAY. Early on Tuesday morning a terrible accident occurred at the station of the little village of Offord, on this line of rail way. It appears that an up coal train, consisting of 30 coal-trucks and a break-van, was on its way towards Offord, and just about reached the station when the engine came in colli sion with some hard substance on the line, which threw the engine off the line. It moved on some little distance, and came into collision with the wooden platform, about 200 yards of which it de stroyed, breaking it up completely. The tender got on the down line, and the engine rolled over down the embankment, where it lay reversed on its side, or wheels upwards. Several of the trucks were fhivered, and tons of coals thrown on the line. The engine -driver and stoker were killed, the former instantly—his body was fearfully mangled—and the latter only lived about an hour afterwards. The debris blocked the up line until about 11 o'clock, at which time the engine had not been removed. The cause of the accident was the flywheel of a thrash ing-machine, which machine had been conveyed on a down train, and from some cause the wheel had, unknown to the driver and guard of the down train, come off and fallen on the up line. The accident is rather an unusual one, and has created great sen sation in the neighbourhood. There does not ap pear at present any blame attached to the Great Northern officials. Mr. Mellor held an inquest on the poor unfor tunate driver and stoker, which was adjourned for further evidence respecting the fly-wheel. The driver was a married man, and has left two chil dren. The following evidence was given at the inquest. John Brown, on being sworn, said—l live at Millfield, near Peterborough. lam a guard in the employ of the Great Northern Railway Company, and usually accompany a coal train. I knew the deceased John Johnson, who was about 27 years of age, and the driver of the engine of a coal-train, I also knew the deceased, Henry Lee, who was about 27 years of age. He was the fireman. Last night we left Peterborough, about 11 40, with a coal train, consisting of engine, tender, 30 trucks laden with coals, and the guard's break. We stopped at the Huntingdon station to take in water, and then proceeded on our way towards London. It rained very hard when we were at Huntingdon. I had my great-coat on. When we were getting near to Offord station I took off my coat, and was hanging it to a nail when I felt a shock. It did not throw me down, but it threw me against the side of the break. I went outside immediately, and rut the break on. After I had got the break on there was another shock. The train had then came to a stand still. I got from the break on to the line, and went towards the fore part of the train. I could not see the engine—only the tender. I went on the off side of the train. The tender was upset, and on the down line. I called to the signalman on duty to put np all signals. I then proceeded back to put fog signals on the metals. I then came back to the train. Two of the trucks were broken to pieces. A great part of the platform was destroyed, and the engine was lying broadside on the bank on the other side of the up line, the back part being in front. I and the signalman then went in search of Johnson and Lee. We found Johnson under a truck ; he was quite dead. We found Lee also under a truck, I believe the same truck. He was crying out. He wished us not to move him. He was moved into the porter's room at the station, and he died in about an hour. When 1 was going back to put the fog signals on the line I observed a large iron wheel, which was broken. A part of it was lying close to the metals on the up line, and the other part on the six-foot. I believe the wheel I have spoken of was the cause of our coming off the road. I am certain of it. 1 have examined the off-wheel of the engine. I observe that a piece of the flange of the wheel is nearly broken out. We had been 15 minutes in travelling from Huntingdon to Offord. Before we reached Huntingdon, and when in the Woodwalton cutting, we passed a train consisting of some trucks laden with, I think, machinery in front part and empty coal waggons behind. This was about 20 minutes to one, as near as I can guess. It was a very dark night. Amos Coomber, on being sworn, said,—l am porter in the employ of the Great Northern Rail way Company, at Offord Station. I went on duty last night at 7 o'clock. About half-past 12 o'clock a train went down the line towards Peterborough. I noticed there were about three trucks laden as with machinery, which were next the engine. The rest of the train consisted of empty coal-trucks. About nine minutes after one o'clock an up coal train was approaching the station. I put up the distance signal, and was going down to put up the station signal when she passed, and 1 heard a rum bling noise. As the engine got near to the station, the steam came out, and she struck the platform of the station, and then turned up, throwing the fire and steam out. I immediately put up all the danger signals, and then went to see what was the matter. I found the tender lying on its side on the down line. I went further on and there saw the guard. I sent him back to put down fog signals so us to stop the other trains. 1 saw Henry Lee, the fireman, he was lying on the ground under a truck, coals were upon him, and one of the wheels of the truck was upon one of his legs. We got assistance, and had him removed to the station. We then went in search of Johnson. We found him a little distance off, lying on his face with either part of a broken ecurred. truck or part of the broken platform upon him. He was dead. The engine was turned over and lying broadside on the bank. We found both the de ceased about 10 or 12 yards from the engine. The John O fireman did not give any account of how the accident call to me to put up the 4 . I but they were up before he came. The guard of the train, John Brown, did NeWnham Woolley, surgeon, of Buckda, said—About 5 minutes to 2 o'clock this morning, 1 in consequence of certain information I received, I went to the Offord station of the Great Northern Railway. I saw the deceased Henry Lee lying at the station—he had been dead a few minutes. I have examined his body and I found a punctured wound in the thigh, leading to the femoral artery, which was wounded. The whole of the perinceum was forced in and the pelvis broken. I found he had received fatal injuries, quite sufficient to cause death. I have also seen the body of John Johnson. The flesh was torn from the whole of the lower part of the body. The hips on both sides were forcibly torn out of the sockets, the knee•joints ex posed, and the muscles of both thighs:and legs were forcibly torn. His death must have been instan taneous. The inquest was adjourned to Fr:day, in order to have the attendance of the man who packed the engine. THE FATAL FIRE- WORK EXPLOSION. Yesterday Mr. J. Humphreys, one of the coroners for Middlesex, held an inquiry in the London Hos pital touching the death of Win. Stockman, aged 26, a firework maker, who lately resided at No. 8, Satchwell-street, Bethnal-green. Mr. Edwards, of 3, Satchwell-street, Bethnal green, said that he was a carman, and knew the de ceased for a fortnight before Saturday last, when, a little after 5 o'clock, his wife aroused him, and said there must have been an explosion at No. 8. He then heard the rattles of policemen, and he got up and saw the place all on fire. He went to the house and assisted to get the fire extinguished. He then heard some one speak, and he found the deceased hehind the back door. He pushed in the window, and succeeded in bringing out the deceased, and by so doing got burned. He knew nothing of the origin of the fire, but the deceased told him he was going to sit up all night to make some " star-lights," and asked witness if he would allow him to have some hot water, and he promised that he would, and he came for some about one o'clock in the morning. John Powncebey, of Satchwell-street, said that he believed the deceased was a single man, and he did not know of any one living in the house beside himself. He knew nothing of the origin of the fire, as he was asleep in bed at the time. He saw the man brought out on fire, and he wanted to return to get 10s. 6d. out, but he prevented him, and placed him in a chair. The Coroner—He thought more of the 10s. 6d. than his own life, I presume. Witness—l believe so. Several neighbours wished to take him into their houses, but witness persuaded him to enter a cab and go to the hospital. James Punn ' police-constable 58 H, said that he attended upon hearing the alarm of fire raised and the explosion. He did not break open the door, but hearing that the deceased was in the back part of the ground floor, he went round and saw him at the window. He assisted to get him out, when he said that he wanted his money, but said nothing as to the origin of the explosion. Mr. Brown, the owner of the house, said that he let the premises to the deceased a week before the explosion, when he said that he wanted it for a private residence only, and he also said that he was a firework maker, but worked only for his master at Lea Bridge. Mr. James Jackson, house surgeon, said that the deceased was brought in early in the morning suf fering from burns on the head, hands, and upper part of the body. He died the next day from the shock calmed by the burns. The learned Coroner summed up and the jury re turned a verdict of—" Accidental death from an explosion of fireworks, and burns received in the fire that followed." SUICIDE OF A MARRIED WOMAN• A very painful inquiry was held by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew , the deputy-coroner for East Middlesex, on Wednesday night, at the Gossett Arms Tavern, Gossett-street, Hackney-road, re • specting the death of Mrs. Amelia Castle, a mar ried woman, who committed suicide under pecu liarly distressing circumstances. Thomas Castle, 30, Wellington-road, clerk to a stationer, said that thedeceased was his mother, and he and his father being engaged at business during the day, she was much alone. As witness was leaving the house on Friday morning last he heard his mother exclaiming aloud, " Oh ! the wretch ! The villain !" Being in a hurry he did not stop to inquire whom she meant, but he since learned that she had a quarrel with a Mr. Holdane, a person residing in the neighbourhood. When witness returned to the house at nine in the evening he could not obtain admittance, and was obliged to force an entry. Upon going upstairs he was horror-struck to see his mother hanging in her bed-room. He staggered down to the front door, where he fainted, and he knew nothing more. Mrs. Jane Parsons said that on the night in ques tion she saw from her house, which was next door to that of deceased, the last witness lying insensible on the steps. She sent for a doctor, and when the house was entered the deceased was quite dead. She had apparently been dead several hours. It had come to witness's knowledge that Mr. Holdane had induced Mrs. Castle to form an improper connection, although they were both married. Holdane, how ever, was separated from his wife. They were in the habit of meeting at Mr. Holdanb's house, during the absence of deceased's husband, who was a butcher in Leadenhall-market. Witness remonstrated with her upon the subject, and it appeared that Mr. Hol dane latterly slighting her she gave way to great despondency. On Thursday night she went to Hol dane's to get some property which he had of hers, and a violent quarrel ensued. Deceased came to witness and told her the circumstances. She ap peared dreadfully agitated. Witness believed she destroyed her life in consequence of finding herself flung off by Holdane, and her character in danger of being compromised. Thomas Castle, sen, said he had heard rumours of something being wrong with respect to his wife, but he disregarded them, and he knew nothing of his own knowledge, in consequence of being out all day at the market. The Coroner said that the case was a very serious one with respect to the party whose misdeeds had, it was stated, led to the death of the deceased. He should adjourn the court to give time to the officer to summon Mr. Holdane before him. Mr. Smith, the summoning officer, said he had reason to believe that Mr. Holdane would not obey the summons. The Coroner said if that were the case he should issue a warrant for his apprehension. The court then adjourned. SHOCKING DEATH THROUGH SUCKING ARTIFICIAL GRAPES. Yesterday Mr. John Humphreys held an inquest at the Sash and Cocoanut Tree public-house, White cross-place Wilson-street, Finsbury , re s p ectin g the death of Elizabeth Ann Abdella, aged 14 years, the daughter of a man of colour, who died from the ef fects of a poison imbibed by sucking the composition off some imitation grapes. The Mother stated that on Saturday last, while she was engaged in her household duties, deceased had charge of the baby. Deceased was playing with a quantity of artificial grapes, and she saw her suck ing several of them, when she told her it was im proper, for they contained poison. They were of an emerald green colour, and they had been given to deceased by a girl named Elizabeth Hull, who was in the service of Mrs. Chapman, a haberdasher, carrying on business in Clifton-street. The deceased was subsequently taken very ill, and on Sunday morning a surgeon was sent for, but the deceased shortly afterwards expired. Elizabeth Hull, the girl referred to, was exa mined, and:said that they had been given her by her mistress, and she (witness) took them to the house of deceased on her way home. Deceased took one of the grapes and sucked, and a few were dropped 'upon the iron floor. Witness only saw the de ceased suck one grape, and those that fell upon the floor were broken by the fall. The father of the deceased was present and scolded her. Witness did not know that they were poisonous until her own father toldher of the fact. By the Coroner—The grapes had been in her pos session about a fortnight, and 'no person had touched them. The grape, when sucked, left a blue glass bead. The deceased sp a t th e composition into the fender and was sick. Mr. Thomas Chandler, M.R.C.S., said that he was called to see th e d ecease d on the morning in question, and found her in an insensible state. Tie said that deceased had been taking poison. The mother said d ecease d h a d b een suc king some com position grapes of a light emerald green colour. He administered antidotes, but she shortly after wards expired. He had made a post mortem exa mination, and found a perforation in the stomach, through which food had passed. The mucous mem. brane of th e s t omac h ex hibited patc hes of inflam mation of the size of half-a-crown, the effect of a powerful irritant. There was a moderate quantity of food i n th e s t om ach, and the patches fou n d would he produced by a rsenical poisoning. By the Coroner. _He did not find any Vo m iti ng , which he attributed to the quantity of solid f oo d i n the s tomac h. The state of the lining membrane of the stomach was clearly the result of a powerful irritant. H e had since received some green and blue artificial grapes, and the green contained ace tate of copper, and the blue contained cobalt. The former was a deadly poison. The Coroner at this stage of the proceedings said before closing the inquiry he should ascertain whether one grape would cause death, and he should therefore adjourn the inquiry. MYSIE.RIOUS DEATH OF A FOREIGN GEN7LEMAN. Last evening Dr. Lankester, the Central Middle sex coroner, held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden-town, touching the death of au unknown foreign gentleman, under very mysterious circumstances. John Searle, an eating -house keeps: ; at 228, Blackfriars-road, was the first witness callen, and stated that the deceased came to his house last Tues day fortnight in the evening with a carpet bag. He went to bed, got up between 9 and 10 in the morn ing, had breakfast, and went out. At 8 p.m. he came back, dined, and soon after went to bed. He stayed with witness in that way until Friday, be• tween 3 and 4 p.m., when he came home in a cab and said he had just received a letter and must go away directly in haste. He could not wait for some linen sent to be washed, and told him he could keep it. He appeared to be a German, could speak but little English, paid liberally for all he had, and seemed to have plenty of money. Witness knew nothing of his name and antecedents, but recollected that while he was there he (deceased) communicated with the police about being robbed of £4 in gold Napoleons, and a pass ticket, value £3, by a girl with whom he had been in the City. Gustavus Foster deposed that he was landlord of the Iron Duke Hotel, 14 and 15, Weston-place, King's.cross. About four p.m. on Friday the de ceased gentleman entered the hotel and took a bed for the night. He had a carpet bag and bundle with him, was evidently a German, and spoke French and German fluently. He described him , self as a gentleman who had been to the Exhibi tion, and was travelling for information. He was a fine man, and appeared in perfect health. He had a first-class dinner, and ate very hearty. At ten he went to bed, after requesting to be called in the morning at six. He was certainly sober. The next morning he was awoke by a great noise occasioned by a female servant knocking at deceased's bedroom door and not being able to make him answer. She at last went away, and finding deceased had not got up at 12 o'clock his suspicions were aroused, and he sent his porter to the window of the room by way of the window of an adjoining room, which the porter found open. He got into the room and un locked the door from the inside. Witness found the deceased gentleman undressed in bed, insensible, and breathing very heavily, the bedstead broken almost to pieces, and the bed-clothes all ruffled as if from struggling. A clasp knife with a small blade and open, and a pint bottle containing a small quantity of liquid, which he thought was poison, but which tasted of rum, with the cork out of the bottle, were lying in bed by his side, and a loaded cane near the head of the bed. He took possession of the carpet-bag, watch, &c. A letter was found, addressed " Mr. Shroot," from the City Central Police-court, Fleet-street, in reference to the rob bery alluded to. The only writing he had to identify him was the initials "F. S." on his linen. He sent for medical assistance, and he died about four hours afterwards. Other evidence elicited from a male and female servant threw no light upon the mystery which enshrouded the case. Police-constable 121 S said he was called in and saw the bed on which deceased lay; the bedstead was broken, and the bed-clothes ruffled. He took an account of deceased's property, amongst which were an Exhibition Guide, five gold Napoleons, a silver jewelled watch, £3 10s. in other money, and two suits of clothes. Every inquiry had been made by the police commissioners, in England and Paris, but no information of his identity could be obtained. Witness said the five Napoleons were found in a leathern bag round his neck. Mr. Collins Curtis, house surgeon of the Great Northern Hospital, attended deceased. He made a post mortem examination, and the only opinion he could form as to the cause of death was from tuber culous disease of the lungs, and some [disease of the heart and liver, accelerated from drinking a large quantity of alcoholic liquor, of which he smelt very strongly. Murray, the summoning officer, was unable to get further evidence. The Coroner remarked at length on the myste rious nature of the death, and the jury deliberated and returned an open verdict, " That deceased, an unknown foreigner, died with disease of lungs, &c. ; but that the exact cause of death was not proved." CARTES DE VISITE OF CELEBRI7IES. (From the Saturday Review.) There are fear periods of a peaceable man's life more de serving the proverbial name of " un mauvais quart d'heure" than the space of time he is beguiled into spending in a photographer's studio. Of itself, the attempt to select your own best expression of countenance is a perplexing effort; and the consciousness that the face you put on, whatever it may be, will be the one by which, in all future time, all who look into your friends' albums will know you, does not diminish the embarrassment. You have a vague impression that to look smiling is ridiculous, and to look solemn' is still more so. You desire to look intelligent, but you are hampered by a fear of looking sly. You would wish to look as if you were not sitting for your picture; but the effort to do so only fills your minds mere completely with the me lancholy consciousness that you are. All these conflicting 'feelings, pressing upon your mind at the critical moment, are very painful ; but they are terribly aggravated by the 1 well-meant interposition of the photographer. To prevent a tremulous motion of your head, which the bewildered state of your feelings renders only too probable, he wedges it into a horrible instrument called a head -rest, which gives you exactly the appearance as if somebody was holding on to your hair behind. In such a situation you may be par doned if a somewhat blank look comes over your usually intelligent features. The photographer, of course, sees this defect, and does his best to remedy it by a little cheerful exhortation; but naturally with no other result than that of making matters much worse. " Just a little expres sion in your countenance, if you please, sir—perhaps if you could smile," is a most distressing admonition to re ceive at such a moment, just when you know that the photographer has his hand upon the cap. If you are weak enough to listen to him, and extemporise "a little expres sion," you come out upon the plate with a horrible leer looking like the Artful Dodger in the act of relating his ex ploits. If, as is more probable, you are too much absorbed in the uncomfortableness of your own position to regard his exhortations, you aro immortalised with an expression of agonised sternness upon your features, unpleasantly sug gestive of a painful internal disorder. There is always too much of the studio in these carte de visite portraits. We do not merely refer to the extraordinary backgrounds which some of these operators employ. Why a respectable old lady is to be represented as sitting without her bonnet in a chair placed upon a Brussels carpet in the middle of a terraced garden, is always very perplexing; and it is equally difficult to understand what the foundations can be for the theory, which seems to have possessed the minds of several of the photographers, that the middle-aged men of England generally spend their lives leaning against a Co rinthian pillar, with a heavy curtain flapping about their legs, turning their backs to a magnificent view, and obviously standing in a frightful thorough draught. But the studio shows itself, not only in the accessories, but in the very face of the sitter. The whole scene is reflected there. The irritation of the head-rest, the despairing desire to fulfil the operator's injunctions, the ill-humour at having been placed in an uncomfortable or unbecoming attitude, and the consciousness that that attitude is being photographed —all speak in the face of the sitter, and communicate a very unflattering likeness of him to the world. Many shades of distress cross the face of a man who is sitting to be painted; but the painter is not forced to copy them. The camera is too slow to be able to be so truthful with impunity. Portrait photography will be very far from per fection until the apparatus is rapid enough to take the sitter unawares. This want of the artis Ware artem, which is the great fault in the camera's peformances in portraiture, unfortu nately shows itself very strongly in the pictures of the celebrities which line the shops in our great thoroughfares. It is the only drawback to a series of likenesses which aro otherwise admirable. Statesmen are decidedly favour able subjects for photograhy, because the character of their faces depends on form, and not on colour. Their in tellectual power has usually given them strongly-marked features, and their Parliamentary labours have given them complexions upon which the tones of the photograph are an unquestionable improvement. But on the other hand, their faces are too expressive to permit them to conceal the fact that they are sitting for their pictures, and, consequently, there is an unnatural appearance about almost all of them. If the pictures are preserved to after times posterity will be much puzzled to recognise the expressions of some of them with the recorded history of their lives. A gentle, benignant smile upon Lord Derby's face, a look of decided merryuess on Lord Russell's, and au aspect of stern and settled gravity upon Lord Palmerston's, will be a sad perplexity to the physiognomists of the future. Mr. Gladsl one's likeness is more in character. Being pos sessed of a vivid imagination, he has evidently contrived to persuade himself for the momentgrt spirit tt ttohtehephpoitcotugrrae-. photogra pher is a Protectionist, and is mentally engaged in denounc ing him with a fury that gives great Lord Shaftesbury is as languid as Mr. Gladstone is fierce. Five minutes spent in fruitless efforts to put himself into an attitude that shall satisfy the photographer have evi dently left their impress on his face in a look of unutterable weariness. Lord Clyde's aspect is one of gentle but resolute suffering. Head-rest is written in every line of his fea tures. But, as a soldier, he cannot be expected to have had much practice in the concealment of his feelings. The , diplowatists are naturally more gucceuful. Lord glen boldly puts a good face on the matter, and plunges his hand into his pocket. Lord Cowley is not quite so confident of his control over his features, and judiciously hides his face in his hands, pretending to have the tooth ache. Some of our public men aro cruelly- treated by the photographers in the matter of accessories. Lord Brougham is represented in the act of making an oration irk a passage, which is not a probable situation for a distin guished man to find himself in, unless, indeed, he. is in the habit of trying his speeches upon the hall porter, Lord Stanley was unfortunate enough to light upon a photo grapher who possessed a favourite chair. To common eyes it is not a very remarkable chair—a common eaoy chair, lined with Utrecht velvet. But the photographer evidently thought it much more worthy of immortality than his sit ter. The picture as sold in the shops is the picture of the chair. One of the accessories is a fragmentary portion of a rising statesman looking over the back of it, not apparently at ease in his very subordinate position. The clergy, on the wh62e, make much more satisfactory sitters. They are far mord accustomed in the practice of their voca- tion to wear a driii,?d expression of countenance. States men, when they appear in public, are generally in the act of speaking, and are too much engrossed with what they are saying to fil2d time to compose their features. Clergymen, on the other hand, when they appear in public, are mostly engaged in the more mechanicol act of reading, so that they have ample leisure for thinking what the crowd, who are looking, think of them. A sell conscious cast of countenance, therefore, sits naturally on, them, and does not so forcibly suggest the idea that they are: sitting for their pictures. There is a very large assemblage of them to be seen. In fact they are the only class which furnish to the shop windows a great many portraits of MIX perfectly unknown. It is to be presumed that each of them has an admiring crowd of purchasers, and that the affectiola which used to express itself in the manufacture of stoles . and slippers finds a cheaper outlet now in the purchase of cartes de visite. They undoubtedly form an admirable sub ject for the art; for the usual complaint against photo graphy is that its only colours are black, white, and grey ; and the clothes and complexion of a model clergymanought to consist mainly of these three tints. They belong indiffe rently to all sects an& churches, and give a good opportu nity for studying the aesthetic effects of various creeds, both upon dress and personal appearance. The picturesque reli gion of the past, and the comfortable religion of the present, are admirably symbolised by Dr. Manning and Mr. Spur geon. The typical character of the two creeds is so faithfully preserved that one can hardly believe the figures to be the work of the truthful camera. A caricaturist could not im prove upon the contrast between the wasted, ascetic look of the one, and the very contrary appearance of the other. Mr. Spurgeon is fond of his own portrait, and has bestowed himself upon the public in several different aspects. But he is quite right to be careful that the local habitation of so great a soul should not be forgotten. There will be consi derable historical value in the record which these photo graphs are preserving of the type of manly beauty which the English middle classes of the 19th century specially admired. The Royal portraits, of course, form the leading feature of the display. A nervous partizan of monarchy might fear that so intimate an acquaintance with Royal physiognomies might be apt to produce the proverbial result of familiarity. In the ease of our own Royal family the constantly increas ing sale of the cartes de visite seems to show, on the con trary, that photographic acquaintance has been a consider able stimulus to English loyalty. The Princess Alexandra is still the cause of a formidable obstruction upon the footway in Regent-street. It is to be hoped that when she comes to her future kingdom she will allow her beauty to be reproduced by a more skilful race of artists. In one of the pictures she appears to have fallen into the hands of a military photographer, who looks upon " eyes right" as the most effective of all pictures. But, with the exception of our own royal family, the cause of monarchy is not likely to be much aided by photography. Tho career of the Em peror of the French has a romance about it which is wholly dissipated by a glance at his picture ; and the photogra phere have been pleased to mar the effect of the Empress's beauty by taking her with down-looking-eyes. This atti tude was, no doubt, adopted to avoid the blank expression, as of a blind person, which light eyes are apt to present in a photograph, but it gives the imperial couple the appear ance of having been photographed at the close of a con jugal quarrel in which she had decidedly got the worst of it. The other sovereigns make a still less presentable ap pearance. The picture of Victor Emmanuel is not redolent with the " divinity which doth hedge about a king." A physiognomist would be tempted to believe that the title with which his subjects have decorated him was, as the Germans would say, an overflow of their own subjectivity. The Emperor of Austria and Francis of Naples look just like the men who would lose 20 empires if they had them. The expression of the latter's face in one picture is very curious. There is an expression of peevish scorn at the miserable plebeian to whom ho was condescend ing to sit, as if he thought that the honour of developing a king's sacred outlines was one to the like of which the base mechanic was not often preferred. Any one who, dur ing the past summer, was inclined to regret on political grounds that the Viceroy of Egypt was not made more of at the English Court, is recommended to neutralise these feelings by purchasing his photograph. W o will venture to answer for it that the antidote will be complete. What' a pity we have not the photographs of the heroes of ancient times ! Most of them, if we may believe what history tells of their lives and conversations, would probably have looked like Sayd Pasha. COUNTRY MARA:626. b. , MANCHESTER-OCT. 2. This morning the English wheat offering was again in poor condition, and experienced a slow sale, at nominal values. Foreign, on the contrary, held firmly at late rates. Flour, except the best sorts, receded 6d to is per sack and barrel. Old oats and oatmeal unaltered—new declining is per load. Egyptian beans the turn dearer, but English rather lower. Indian corn in favour of sellers. BIRMINGHAM—OcT. 2. At this day's market there was an average supply of English wheat. The oat trade was quiet. Prices mostly the same as last week. CORK-OCT. 1. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 20s Od to 23s 6cl; white, 18s Od to 27s 9d; barley 13s Od to 14s Od ; oats, lOs Od to lls Od.; new bere, 15s Od to —s Od. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Ocp. 1. A small supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which brought the prices of this day week. Trade slow. Wheat on the top 2s Od down .average is 3d down. Barley on the top 4s 6d up average 2s 7d down. Oats on tho top Os 6d down average Os 3d up. Beans on the top is Od up. average Os 2d up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ... 404 qrs Sold 240 qrs 8ar1ey........ 955 qrs Sold 681 qrs Oats Beans 45 qrs Sold 14 qrs Flour sells as follows :--Whites, 46s Od ; extras, 44s Od ; households, 38s 6d ; shop, 36s 6d. DERBY SMITHFIELD-SEPT. 30. A moderate show of fat beasts to-day ; the best quality was scarce, and sold well. A large supply of sheep and and lambs, and several pens remained unsold. Fat calves scarce. Pigs an average show. Beet 6-1d to 61d Veal . 6id to 7d Mutton ... 6id to 7/d Pork , 5Ad to 51d Lamb .. 8d to Bid Rough fat, 4s 3d per stone. Hides, 3d to 4/d; calf skins, 5d to 6d. A ROYAL ESCAPE.—The fears entertained as to what might be the fate of the King of Araucania turn out, according to the Courrier de Etats Unis, to be groundless. That journal states that Orelie Antoine I. has succeeded in making his escape from his prison by breaking away one of the iron bars of his window. river was immediately below, but being a good swimmer he did not hesitate to attempt getting across, gradually getting off part of his clothes, which, as they floated down the stream, were fired at by the Chilians, taking them for the King himself. Having suc ceeded in reaching the opposite side he met some females, who gave him a large hat to protect his head from the sun. Since that time nothing has been heard of him, but the opinion was that he had succeeded in taking refuge in his kingdom. BIRTHS. BOORD.—On the 2d inst., at 14, Upper Hyde-park-gar dens, the wife of Joseph Boord, Esq., of a son. CHAMBERS.—On the Ist inst., at 71, Park-street, Grosve nor-square, the wife of R. Harcourt Chambers, Esq., of a son. FOSTER.—On the 2d inst., at 7, Lower Berkeley-street, Mrs. W. F. Foster, of a son. MARRIAGES. BASSlL—Homvsmr.—On the 2d inst., at Saint Mary's, Islington, Frederick Bassil, Esq., shipowner, London, to . Susannah, eldest daughter of Mr. R. R. Hornsby, of London. PLOWDEN — BASS.—On the 30th ult., at Tatenhill, Staf fordshire, William C. Plowden, B.C.S , eldest son of W. 11. C. Plowden, Esq., of Ewhurst, Hants, to Emily r. Anne, eldest da ug h ter o f M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P., of Rangemore, Staffordshire. DEATHS. CARROLL—On the 30th ult , at her residence, Loughtont Essex, Lady C arro ll, w idow of the late Sir Geo. Carroll/ Knight, aged 74. CROSS.—On the 2d inst., at Brentford, the wife of Charles J. Cross, aged 34. FITZROY.—On the 3)th ult., at Grafton Regis, Laura Fanny, youngest daughter of George and Louisa Fitzroy , aged 24. GORDON.—On the 25th ult., at Chesterton Rectory, h e Right Hon. the Rev. Lord George Gordon, rector 0 Chesterton and Haddon, aged 68. HONEY.—On the Ist inst., at his residence, Eton city, 2 9 aged h nit., t i 6 ., 8. H avers t oc k-hill, Mr. John Honey, formerly of 'Om" - s monger-lane, AwyEß.—cithe Sawyer, aged 70 . at East Grinstead, Charles LoisnoN: Printed and Published by JOHN CHAP•b;; of N 0. 11 2, Strand, Printer, a t T EE Su N Office 1•1° ',„; - 0 ' Strand, in the Preci nc t o f t h e Savoy, i n the Coll" Aliddiogezi—FridakOctober 3, 1862. l