The Sun. — London, England, 1860-09-10 00:00:00

TEE PRINCE'S VISIT TO CANADA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) MONTREAL, AUG. 27. The landing of the Prince of Wales at this, the finest and handsomest of the Canadian cities, took place with all due state and grandeur on the morning of the 25th. According to the programme, he should have landed on the afternoon of the 24th, and this change, with his arrival two days sooner than was anticipated at Newfoundland, are the only depar tures that have yet been permitted from the ar rangements for the Royal tour. In just ice to his Royal Highness's punctuality , however, it must be stated that the alteration of the date of landing here was not due to him. He was ready and even anxious to land at 'the appointed time, but kindly refrained from doing so, in compliance with an uni versal wish to that effect from the civic authorities of the town. The fact is that the municipal pre parations and decorations were a little behindhand, and this, with the really dreadful state of the weather, which made a procession quite impossible, decided the authorities upon asking his Royal High ness to defer his landing till the following day. On the whole, the delay was a prudent one, for the weather did clear up partially, the landing took place auspiciously, the procession was good, and there was plenty of it, so that everybody was pleased, which they most unquestionably could not have been had it come off during the deluge of the previous day. Advantage also was taken of the delay to perfect the illuminations and decorations to the utmost, and I am bound to say that in this respect Montreal quite realised all that had been expected of the reception here. At the same time, credit must be given where the credit is due, and I must state that as yet the Prince has seen no thing which has excelled, or even equalled, the Street decorations of Halifax. There the streets were almost looped in by arches, and every house was transformed into a perfect bower. At Montreal the decorations more resembled those usually seen on the same occasions in England than any I have yet met. The sweet spruce fir arches were not to be found here, at least in any number, but in their place were those decorated wooden arches, the great object in the design of which is generally to make them as granite looking as possible, and deprive them, in fact, of all appearances which could show what they really were—decorations specially erected in honour of the occasion. Some of these, however, meant only for inspection by day, were very good, though the rain had by no means improved them ; others, meant for illumina tion and filled in transparencies, showed very poorly in the bright sun, and had a rough, half-finished, scene-painted look, which was not agreeable. But by night these same arches carried off all the honour, for when lit from the inside, as they were from base to summit, they had a wonderfully beau tiful effect, as they spanned the streets in long undulating lines of coloured lights. For the rest, all the streets were draped with flags, English fashion, and as not a house in any of the chief thoroughfares was without some large transparency or illumination more or less appropriate, the city of Montreal, even by the sombre light of a clouded sky, was wonderfully gay and brilliant. A detach ment of the Boston Fusiliers, consisting of several fine companies of well-dressed and well-drilled volunteers, had come up from Boston especially to do honour to the Prince's arrival. This was a marked compliment, and I am told the Prince felt much pleased and flattered by the attention. In addition to these, the Montreal Volunteer Cavalry turned out, and better troops it would be difficult to see, either for discipline or soldierlike bearing. There were also some Volunteer Artillery, wearing the old Grenadier cap of the time of Marlborough. His Royal Highness disembarked from the Kings ton steamer at 9 o'clock, the Valorous, Styx, and Flying Fish firing Royal salutes, during which three most unfortunate accidents occurred on board the Va lorous and Flying Fish. On the first-named frigate one of the guns went off while being loaded,and blew the man who was ramming home away piecemeal. On the Flying Fish two such accidents occurred at the same time while loading the long 68 pounders, one gunner being blown away from the muzzle of one, and, almost instantly afterwards, two men from the muzzle of another gun of the same calibre. The sailors who were serving the vents of these three pieces had their thumbs blown off, and others were badly hurt, a sufficient proof that they were doing their duty properly when the accidents occurred. They could only have arisen, therefore, from careless and improper sponging, the fault of the poor fellows themselves, who met their deaths by their negligence. Of course these accidents were not known till afterwards, so the ceremony of the reception proceeded with undiminished grandeur and rejoicing. His Royal Highness, attended by his suite now considerably augmented by the Go vernor-General of Canada, Sir Edmund Head ; the Commander-in-Chief, Sir F. Williams ; and Admiral Milne, all with their suites of aides-de-camp and secretaries), landed at the pier of Bonsecours, where a beautiful pavilion had been erected for his recep tion. Here the chief members of the Canadian Go vernment, Mr. Cartier, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Rose, &c., were in waiting in full uniform to welcome his Royal Highness to Montreal. Here also was the Mayor, Mr. Rodier, in robes of state, with the members of the common council, the consuls in uniform, the magistrates, bishops, chaplains, mode. rators, judg es , an d h ea d s o f soc i e ti es , a ll more or less emblazoned and adorned. The Prince accepted the address presented to him with a kind smile, and replied as follows : " Gentlemen,--The address you have just pre sented to me, in which you proclaim your loy alt y to the Queen and attachment t o th e British Crown, demands my warmest acknowledgments "The impression made upon me by th e kind and cordial reception which has been accorded to me on this first visit to Canada can never fade from my mind ; and deeply will the Queen be gratified by the proof which it affords that the interest which she takes in the welfare of this portion of her em pire, and which she has been anxious to m ar k b y my presence among you, is met on their part by feelings of affectionate devotion to herself and her family. For myself, I rejoice at the opportunity-which has been afforded m e o f v i s i t i ng t hi s city—a great emporium of the trade of Canada—and whose growing prosperity offers so striking an example of what may be effected by energy and enterprise under the influence of free institutions. " That this prosperity may be still further en larged is my earnest hope, and there can be little doubt that by the completion of that stupendous monument of engineering skill and labour which I have come in the name of the Queen to inaugurate, new sources of wealth will be opened to your citi• zens and to the country, new elements of power de veloped, and new links forged to bind together in peaceful co-operation the exertions of a wide-spread and rapidly increasing population." A few formal presentations were then made to his Highness, and then everybody fell into the state of gentle hurry and confusion peculiar to " making way" for the procession. Heading it, though not in cluded in the programme, was a small party of the Cawknawaga Indians, who live near Lachine, on the rapids whence their rather inharmonious title is immediately derived. They are really one of the few remaining branches of the Iroquois—one of the five great nations which once held all North Ame rica as their hunting ground. No travestie on modern civilisation was attempted here, nor did they wear trockcoats decked with a backwoods millinery of beads and feathers. The Cawknawagas were all attired in full dress after the fashion of their nation—that is t o say, with loose bead-em broidered woollen t unics, mocassins, headdresses of beadwork and feathers, and their features disfigured or adorned, as the spectator might choose to think, of many- co l oure d pa i n t s . under a profuse layer Thus equipped, they were certainly not prepossess ing objects, and, though they looked characteristic enough, I must own I prefer the Indian "pure and simpl e " as I saw them at Lorette to those with such Pigmentary eccentricities of colour on their features as these Cawknawagians displayed. For the rest, they Were persons of every size and age, though when you saw any one you saw all—there was not the least appearance of individuality or character about any w hich would enable you, even after care ful scrutiny, to distinguish one from the rest. They had all the same feat, broad Tartar features—thick lipped and wide mouthed, with sallow, tawny faces, long, coarse, wi:73 , hai r; h , w ite, sharp, irregular teeth; and small, quick, black eyes. The latter were keenly suggestive of either a genius for petty traffic or the acquisition of small ware generally by any means. After these distinguished specimens of a .decaying race the procession, which was very well arranged, proceeded in the following order : FIRST DIVISION. Police Advanced Guard. The Chief of Police and Officers. The Prince's Standard. Grand Marshals. J, C. Lacroix, Esq. I M. Doherty, Esq. Guard of Honour and Bands. Volunteer Cavalry Escort. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES AND SUITE. His Excellency the Governor-General and Suite. The Commander of the Forces and Staff, mounted. The Members of the Executive Council. His Lordship the Anglican Bishop and Chaplains. His Lordship the Roman Catholic Bishop, with Superior of Seminary and Chaplains. The Moderator of the Church of Scotland. The Chief Justice and Judges. The Mayor of Montreal. The Members of the Corporation. The Civic Officials and the Executive Committee of Citizens. The Members of the Legislative Council. The Consuls-General of France and the United States. The 'onsuls. Distingui hed Guests. Band of Music. SECOND DIVISION. The Royal Standard. Grand Marshals. John Penner, Esq. I J. E. Malhiot, Esq. The Clergy. The Bar. The Notaries. The Medical Faculties. The St, Jean Baptiste Society. with banners. The Si. Patrick's Society, with banners. The St. G'orge's Society, with banners. The St. Andrew's Society, including the Caledonian and Thistle Socie:ies, with banners. The German Societ`Y, with banners. The New England Sociei:7, with banners. The Irish Protestant Benevolent Society, including the Young Men's Society, with ba:_uners. The Mechanics' Institute, with banners. L'lnstitut Canadian, with banners. L'lnstitut Canadien Francais, with banners. La Societe des Arts et Metiers. THIRD DIVISION. The British Ensign. Band of Music. Grand Marshals. A. W. A. Delisle, Esq. j W. S. Macfarlane, Esq. The Agricultural Society. The Horticultural Society. The Chief Engineer and the Fire Brigades. Montreal Temperance Society, including the Sons of Temperance. Rechabites and Bands of Hops, with banners. The St. Patrick's Temperance Societies, with banners. La Societe de Temperance, Section St. Jacques, with banners. La Societe de Temperance, Section St. Joseph, with banners. FOURTH DIVISION. The Union Jack. Band of Music. Grand Marshals. Dunbar Browne, Esq. I H. Duchesneau, Esq. La Societe St. Michel, with banners. L'Union St. Joseph, with banners. La Societe des Menuisiers et Charpentiers, with banners. La Societe St Francois Xavier, with banners. La Societe St. Antoine, with banners. L' Union St. Pierre, with banners. Miscellaneous societies and organisations, not hereinbefore mentioned, and Citizens. Sub-Chief of Police and Rear Guards. The members of the Legislature were to have marched between the members of the Executive Council and the Consuls; but here, as at Quebec, they declined to assist in the procession at all. Their absence was not "conspicuous." They were certainly not missed from the procession, and the incident is only worth mentioning as indicating an undercur rent of sullen feeling which just now occasionally manifests itself awkwardly. The state of parties in Canada is by no means of the couleur de rose tint which superficial observers might imagine from the arches and illuminations which bedeck the land. There were no signs of any feeling but loyalty, however, when the Prince landed. The people shouted with real enthusiasm, and all the steeples in the town rang out tremendous peals, which filled the air with a rich volume of sound that added to the excitement and whirl of the whole display. In such State his Royal Highness was escorted to his residence—the mansion of Mr. Rose, Chief Com missioner of Public Works in Canada, which had been placed at his disposal during his stay. Only a very short halt was made here, for a great deal of ceremonial and high state had to be got through this day, with but little time for breathing between each event. So, after a short pause, just sufficient to enable the crowds that had witnessed the proces sion to flock to the Exhibition, his Royal Highness again commenced a progress through the streets to formally open and inaugurate the Industrial Exhi bition of Montreal and Province of Canada. The building which has been erected for this purpose stands in a commanding situation on the northern side of the city, just where the slopes of Mont Royal, from which the town takes its name, begin a slow rise. The building itself, in outer form and general internal arrangement, is very like one of the end transepts of the Crystal Palace, only, of course, on a much smaller scale, and built with brick walls, roofed in with an arched wooden ceiling. For the rest, the columns, girders, and tie-rods of the interior are much the same in principle as in the English building. The outside, however, is handsomely adorned with light orna mental woodwork and painting, which give it a clean and pleasing effect. The time for opening this Exhibition should, as was originally intended, have been at least 10 days or a fortnight later than the `.4sth of August. Advantage was, however, taken of the presence of his Highness to inaugu rate the Exhibition with the utmost state and eclat. This of course compelled the committee to open the building before much more than half its contents had arrived, and when even of that half not more than one-third of the articles were unpacked from their cases. Thus the galleries set apart for the various products of Canadian growth or manufac ture were almost all empty, a fact on which Mr. Chamberlain, the indefatigable secretary, almost congratulated himself when he found how pressed he was for space to accommodate spectators. The Prince arrived at the Exhibition at 11 o'clock, and, passing through a marquee set aside for the exhi bition of a fine collection of hothouse plants, waited a short time in a handsome reception room till a sufficient number of naval, military, and civic dig nitaries had arrived to constitute something between a brilliant staff and a small procession. This Highness a t once en t e red the fornie building,d,hains d it p o a ya ss i ed to the dais, amid the warmest acclamations of enthusiasm and flutterings of hand • kerchiefs that ever any heir apparent was greeted with. " God save the Queen" was sung splendidly by the chorus, after which the Governor-General of course read another address, to which as usual the Prince responded, and these formalities being over (which to the Prince, even with all his goodnature, must begin to feel rather tiresome now) a complete tour was made of the building. As I have already said, there was not a great deal of it to delay this part of the ceremony. There were some rich spe cimens of iron and copper ores, in both of which minerals all Canada abounds, though as yet these sources of national wealth have been most imper fectly developed. The copper ore is badly and ex in spit e o f a ll w aste, the pensively worked, though , mines yield an enormous profit, and would yield ten times more if better managed. Iron ore of the richest kind is abundant everywhere, especially in Western Canada, where, at a place called Croxly, it yields from 60 to 70 per cent. of pure metal. Some very fine specimens of this ore were shown to the Prince. A conspicuous object in the centre of the building is a column of coal cut from one seam and 37 feet high. In Canada there is no coal formation whatever—a serious check on the profitable work. ing of the iron ores. But at Pictou and Cape Breton Island there are immense coalfields, the seams at the latter place being from 37 to 38 feet thick. From one of them the column of coal in the Montreal Exhibition was cut, - and though not properly belonging to objects of Canadian industry, it was, nevertheless, assigned a conspicuous place in the b u ildi ng, as anot h er p roo f o f th e m i nera l wealth of the colonies generally. The Prince in spected these and some fine specimens of native marbles. Among other objects in this depart- menu was a stuy. i .• -6 . ANZLICILaJtiso ..,..,....+ w.. , ... r _ ___ ____ his Royal Highness, on -which in gilt letters was inscribed the rather premature inscription, ." To our hopeful King." On the upper galleries of the building was a splendid display of furs and skins in every stage of preparation, and a gallery of Canadian pictures, in which, among others of a much lower order of merit, were several very fine works. Some of the waterfalls and forest scenery were portrayed with a freedom and depth of colour which would have done credit to any collection in England, During the whole time the Prince was making his tour the applause of ladies and cheering of gentle men never stopped, and only slackened down at in tervals to break out with redoubled ardour. His [ Royal Highness then returned to the dais, and Sir Edmund Head, in compliance with the Prince's wish declared the Industrial Exhibition of Montreal to be formally opened, and his Royal Highness retired. Then came a general and rapid rush for carriages and vehicles of every kind, for the opening of the Victoria Bridge was to take place in about an hour afterwards, and the two points of interest were just sufficiently wide apart to make it doubtful whether these who left the Exhibition last would be able to reach the bridge in time. Perhaps, as a sufferer, I am prejudiced against the carriage drivers of Montreal, and might therefore express my convictions of their character and general rapacity too strongly, so I will only trust myself to say that they improved the occasion to the utmost, and managed to extort such sums as must have even surprised themselves if they were capable of feeling any emotion beyond their inordinate love of dollars. About £2 12s. sterling was the lowest item they would hear of for taking a fare from the Exhibition to the bridge, a distance of some two and a half miles. There were numbers, however, not only willing but anxious to pay this sum, so I suppose it must be taken as the market value on that occasion. All the route from the building to the bridge was a mere quagmire, so that as the carriages were open and every one drove fast, the whole cortege—riders, drivers, and carriages —presented one general average of muddy splashes that was almost amusing, in spite of its annoyance. Had it been a bad day, or had any contretemps oc curred in the proceedings of the morning, of course the wrath of the wearers of bemired uniforms would have been boundless; but, as it was, all officials, although one or two looked overworked, were in the best of temper, for the fetes of the morning had been pre-eminently successful, and the weather, which had been long threatening, was now clearing, though slowly and apparently, with great reluc ance. _ _ _ The Victoria Bridge at Montreal, the opening of which was now to be formally celebrated, is, be yond all doubt, the greatest engineering work in the whole world. The Menai Bridge is a noble structure, yet only the germ of the great idea here developed to its fullest. Brunel's great bridge at Saltash is remarkable for the won derful skill with which it overcomes obstacles which were, in fact, almost created that the engineer might have tithnechpulnega,saursen p a e nd ns n m n e -b r i r t of i d ge, vanquishingnvnr the Rapids n f Niagara—the most ingenious, and, perhaps even the most beautiful bridge of its kind in the world, is only designed for a special and peculiar gorge, and, apart from this, no fair comparison can be drawn between the Niagara and the Victoria, when the former is only 800 feet long and the latter more than 9,000. To appreciate the Victoria Bridge, to do justice to its grand conception, and what seems the almost superhuman energy and skill necessary to carry out the idea in all its present grand perfec tion, one must see it. One must not only see it, for a merely indefinite length gives no real idea of the immensity of the undertaking. The visitor should look at the St. Lawrence in winter when millions of tons of floating ice come crushing down it, and in summer when even at its lowest ebb the current flows like a sluice, at the rate of eight miles an hour. He should remember that the whole of its bed is a mere quicksand, strewed over the bottom with gigan tic boulders, weighing 25 and 30 tons, that the depth of water is nowhere less than 25 feet, and that the stream at this point is two miles wide. When any one takes the trouble to think quietly over the nature of these obstacles, and then look up at the lofty rib of iron, which stretches high in air from shore to shore, he must be more or less than human if he does not regard it as the grandest and most successful engineering work which the Nvorld has yet seen. It is by no means an imposing or even tolerably well-looking structure. Its heigth from the water and its immense length gave it more the appear ance of a gigantic girder than a bridge. Viewed at sunset, when its dnll tints are brightened into red, and with Montreal as a background, with all its tin roofs and steeples glistening like silver in the sun, it looks well enough, though never much mere than an iron footpath to the picturesque city beyond ; and few can believe at the first glance that it is really more than five times longer and bigger than the longest bridge ever yet constructed. Its total length is very nearly two miles (9,500 feet) ; its height from the water little over 100 feet. It is composed of 25 tubes joined in lengths of two tubes, each about 270 feet, with a centre one of 330 at the highest part above the river. In weight of iron it is very little over a ton per foot in length (the lightest bridge of its kind ever made with the same strength), and the contraction and expansion of the whole make a difference in its length between summer and winter of more than 10 feet, which is, of course, properly allowed for in its construction. The piers, which are 24 in number, and contain some 3,000,000 cubic feet of masonry, were formed by forcing down coffer dams of wood in the exact places where the foundations were :to be laid, then driving rows of piles round these, and filling in be tween the two with wads of clay, forced down till they were watertight. The water inside the coffer dam was then pumped out by steam pumps, and the work of clearing out the gravel and mud, and laying the masonry down on the very rock, commenced, Quicksands let in the water to such an extent that no pumps could keep the cofferdams empty, and tiers upon tiers of piles had to be driven all round them till the subterranean communication wa§ cut off at last. At other times huge boulders were in the way, and divers had to be employed for months in the bed of the river securing chains to these rough masses before they could be hooked up and taken away. When all was clear and progressing well the mere force of the current would sometimes destroy the dams, and masses of floating ice in one short winter's day laid waste the labour of a whole sum mer. It may give your readers some idea of the varied and overwhelming nature of the obstacles contended against when I state that some piers were destroyed by ice and quicksands as often as six or seven times year after year, and that on the average of the whole 24 piers the work of each one were actually destroyed thrice. Only the genius of Stephenson and Ross, and only the unconquerable nerve and readiness of Mr. Hodges, to whom the entire work of the building was in trusted, could have overcome such obstacles, and persevered in the face of such apparently hopeless reverses. At last the piers got above water, and were faced towards the set of the cur ent with.a long massive wedge of granite masonry, g of a n t d h e s h s a t r . p L e n a w o u r g e n h n t e o . divide a e l even a t n h d e nincley fis stron g working in the summer, they were built to the required height, and then the labour of construct ing the tubes commenced. The dangerous rapi dity of the stream made it impossible that the tubes could be built on shore, floated out on rafts, and then raised to their p os iti ons i n one p i ece , as was the case with the bridge at Menai. So the whole tube was first actually built in England, and sent out piecemeal, with every plate bar and angle iron numbered with such minute exactness that, as far as putting together was concerned, there was no more difficulty than with a child's toy. Thus, with the assistance of a temporary scaffolding stretched between the piers, tube after tube was slowly built across to the centre, where the great span of 350 feet comes. As may be imagined, the work of building this across with no supports from below presented a series of engineering difficulties such as have never yet been encountered in any piece of ironwork that was ever put together.. Mr. Hodges, , uere, as ne had done elsewhere, and at length at the close of last year, fire years after the commencement of the work, the first stone and iron bridge over the St. Lawrence was completed. It was tested with a strain more than ten times greater than any which the ordinary exigencies of traffic can ever bring upon it. The deflection of the centre tube under this was very little more than an inch, which recovered itself the instant the load was removed. In a strategical point of view it seems rather a mistake to cross the St. Lawrence at this spot, and thence continue the railway to Quebec along what may be called the American side of the St. Lawrence. In case of any " difficulty" with our western cousins a corporal's guard would suffice to capture the whole 180 miles of line which stretch from Montreal to Quebec. Had it been taken along the northern bank the broad rushing stream of the St. Lawrence would have been almost a complete safeguard--I will not say from injury, but certainly from capture. A railway bridge over the St. Lawrence was, of course, necessary for communication with the States, but taking such an important length ofline as that I have mentioned along the American side of the stream seems not only unnecessary, but imprudent in a military point of view. The Canadians, of course, think very highly of connected with the Grand Trunk Railway, and well they may,for howeverlittle the line has done for its shareholders, it has unques tionably done everything for Canada. Before the line was finished it used to take in winter from a week to 10 or 14 days to journey from this city to Quebec), and hundreds are yet living who can remember when it took from three to four months to send goods in boats poling up the stream from Quebec to Toronto. The journey from Quebec to this city is now done in six hours, and from Quebec to Toronto in 16. People here are confident that the railway must pay ulti mately, and that at ne distant time. The wish is father to the thought, I should imagine, but it cannot be denied that each day seems to improve the prospects of the line. The mere ceremony of opening a bridge is very much the same at all places. All the visitors to this rather meagre ceremonial were con veyed in special trains to Point St. Charles, at the entrance to the bridge on the Montreal side. Here, over the stone aperture which forms the entrance to the bridge, was a large muster of all the belles and notabilities of Canada. There was the usual platform covered with scarlet cloth, and a little scaffolding, from which hung a ponderous slab of granite, the last stone required to complete the masonry of this marvellous undertaking. The men at the windlass above—the real layers of the stone, like humble but necessary sceneshifters, were care fully concealed from view. The Prince with all his suite, and attended by the chief members of the Canadian Government, came at 2 o'clock in a beau tifully constructed open railway car specially built for the occasion. Of course, he was received with deafening outbursts of enthusiasm, the fair stan dard-bearers who held the little silver flags in which his coronet was worked waving them with astonishing energy. Laying the last stone was soon accomplished. The Prince patted and touched the bed of mortar, and the mass of granite was slowly lowered into its place. It was a solemn affair, and seemed like laying a tombstone over the grave of £17,000,000. The Prince then entered his car again, and proceeded through the bridge, the hot air from the iron tube giving, on the whole, rather an unpleasant sensa tion. The whole bridge bellowed and rumbled like thunder as the train progressed, and the open ing by which it had entered grew smaller and smaller till it only shone faintly in the distance like a pale blue star. At last a dim twilight ap• peared ahead, and the engine gradually stopped. It was in the centre of the bridge where the Prince was to drive the last rivets, so there was a general scramble out, and all the party stood lis tening with a feeling almost of awe as the hoarse sustained rumble of the engine moving away went echoing up and down the dark tube, which seemed to sway and vibrate as the noise went rolling on backwards and forwards, striving for escape from its hollow iron prison. His Royal Highness went outside to one of the openings in the masonry of the centre tower, and looked down on the St. Lawrence rushing past in one grand stream far below, sweeping under the bridge in eddies and whirlpools, or burst ing into little spirts of angry foam as they touched the sharp edges of the granite masonry. None could look down on this great river, and then look along the sides of the iron tube which tapered away at each end in the distance till it seemed a mere reed if metal, without feeling astounded not only how such a design was ever carried out, but how it could ever have been conceived as practi cable. The formality of completing the bridge was now gone through. Four rivets had been left unfinished, and these were closed with iron bolts by two work men. The last, a silver rivet, was clinched by the Prince himself. The ceremony was nothing to describe, though it would have made a fine picture. The two workmen wielding their tremendous ham mers with a din that was awful, the rich uniforms of the Prince and suite, half hidden in the gloom, and softened down by the wreaths of thick wood smoke which curled from the funnel of the engine in the background the little glimpse through the opening into the bright sun light, the St. Lawrence, far beneath—the flaunt ing decorations and shining roofs of Montreal be yond the river—all made a striking subject for a picture, The Prince turned a look of humorous inquiry on the Duke of Newcastle as he saw the process of riveting going forward, which said, as plainly as looks could speak, " I shall never be able to use those hammers that way." His turn soon came. The last iron rivets were fixed, and the last of all, a sifter one, was inserted. The Prince took the hammer, and, heavy as it was, prepared to wield it stoutly—of course, with the wrong or big end foremost, which any one but a professional smith would think was the right one to use. He laughed, and rectified the mistake when pointed out; Mr. Hodges adjusted the silver knob, and with some stout, sounding blows, the Prince finished the last rivet in the Victoria-bridge. There was no cheering over it—the company was too select for that ; and the wood-smoke from the engine had long ceased to be a pictorial accessory, and had be come a stifling nuisance. So every one stumbled back in the dark to the car, which went on through the tunnel to the other side of the river, where a magnificent view of Montreal could be gained. Here the party remained for a few minutes, and Mr. Blackwell, in the name of the Grand Trunk 'Railway Company, presented the Prince with a beautiful gold medal, executed by Wyon, commemo rative of the occasion. The suite were presented with similar ones, but in silver. The Royal car then returned through the bridge to one of the large workshops of the company, where a splendid lunch had been prepared, and, which, as the guests were not only hungry but numerous, was soon disposed of. At its conclusion the healths of the Queen, Prince Consort, and Prince of Wales were given and acknowledged with almost uproarious demonstrations of loyal welcome. His Royal Highness then quitted the table to receive an address from the workpeople on the railway, by whom again a tremendous reception was given. In fact, cheers seemed to tire the ear, for through the whole day they never once stopped. The Prince then passed through the workshops, where all the machines were going at full speed, with their lathe-bands decorated with rosettes, and every part of the machinery covered with little plumes and bunches of flowers, which kept whirling round like silent fireworks. Only a short stay was made here, for the day had been a long one, and the Prince, though not looking tired, must have felt so. The party, therefore, returned at once to Mr. Rose's house, and in the evening Montreal illuminated. It was one of the best and most general illuminations with which the Prince has yet been received. Every one of the streets was a perfect blaze of light, and fireworks were going off in all directions. The Prince intended to come in and walk about the town incog., and only attended by two or three of his suite. A dark, quiet spot was arranged for hiscarriage to draw up at the corner of Craig-street,where Mr. Rose was wait ing to escort the party round the main streets of the city. This Haroun-al-Raschid plan, which, though likel ly to be devoid of incident; was certain to be productive of in uch amusement, and which the Prince looked forward to with a keen anticipation of fun, unfortunately fell to the ground. General Williams was with his Royal Highness in the carriage, and, in order to preserve his incog. to the fullest, he wore a Staff cap with gold band, and of course was known at once. When he was seen the Prince was soon discovered, in spite of his slouched hat drawn close over his face. The crowd set up tremendous cheers ; there was no stopping at Craig-street, and his Royal Highness had to drive through the town as fast as he could, followed by shouting hundreds. Yesterday being Sunday, of course nothing was done. To day there were Indian games, which were not only worthless, but ridiculous. After these at tempted games, which no one cared about, and which every one was glad to see suddenly ended by the rain, there was a crowded levee. To the satis faction of many in Montreal, the Mayor was not knighted. Every one is now preparing for the ball this evening, which sou told is to be on an almo.'st regal scale of splendour. To-morrow, the 28th, the Prince goes down the rapids of the St. Lawrence, attends a grand musical festival, and honours a ball in the evening at Mr. Blackwell's with his pre sence. He leaves here for Ottp .",va on Friday, the 31st. His tour through th e U nited States is slowly but surely extending itself, and wh ere it will even tually cease it is hard to say. It has now been de cided that, vuten he does leave, his port of depar ture will be Portland, which he will visit for a day after leaving Boston. P °MCI; INTELT , TGENOE—Sept. 8. WESTMINSTER.—THE PEER AND THE MA GISTRATE.—Amongst the night charges from the A division appeared the Earl of Kingston, accused of being drunk, refusing to pay a cabman his fare, and assaulting Police-constable Kelliek, 511 A. The policeman said he was sent for to Morley's Hotel at two in the morning, to remove his lord ship, who was then drunk there, and insisted upon remaining. The porter turned his lordship out, and he, accompanied by witness, went in a cab which was standing at the door to Scotland-yard, to lodge a complaint against Mrs. Morley for making him leave as described. The cabman, who said he had been driving his lordship about and could not get his money, then took his lordship to King-street station and charged him with refusing to pay, but the acting-inspector refused to take the charge, and witness then consented to accompany his lordship to a friend's house in Smith-street on foot, but on arriving his lordship changed his mind and said he would go to another friend in Queen-square, and they were proceeding in that direction when sud denly his lordship struck witness in the face, and kicked him twice on the shin. Witness then took him back to King -street station, and charged him with the assault. In reply to questions from the magistrate, The constable said it was at his lordship's request that he undertook to see him to a friend's house, and gave him his arm. Under ordinary circum stances he would have been locked up as drunk and incapable, owing to his helpless condition. His lordship observed that in every respect the constable had perjured himself, but he would not say any more till his counsel came. The constable had insulted and collared him, which was an offence to the house of Peers, of which he was an honour able member. As for the charge of being drunk, he never got drunk. Sergeant Starr, acting inspector, said he refused to take the cabman's charge, as described. His lordship was very drunk, and having stated that he would not go to his lodgings in Duke street, left the station arm-in-arm with the constable, to be seen to the house of a friend. His lordship, who had interrupted the proceed ings, again impugned the credit of the witnesses against him. George Crambrook, the cabman, made a claim against his lordship of 95., for driving and waiting. His lordship now wanted to see Mr. Paynter's private minute-book, to cross-examine the wit nesses from, and then desired to come upon the bench to look at it, both of which were refused, upon which his lordship said he was not being treated with the respect due to a peer of the realm. Mr. Paynter observed that he had treated him with all the respect due to his rank, and wished that his lordship would treat himself with that self-respect becoming his high position. Mr. Paynter then asked him what he had to say to the charge of being drunk and neglecting to pay the cabman. His lordship again and again went into a lot of irrelevant matter without replying to the complaint, and when told to confine himself to the matter be fore the Court complained of injustice. Mr. Paynter said he could not permit him more than any other man to waste the valuable time of the Court. His lordship declared that the magistrate not only insulted him, but the House of Peers, by saying he wasted the time of the Court. Mr. Paynter ordered him to pay the cabman 9s and costs. Other evidence was also offered in support of the charge of assault and his lordship's condition at the time, but Mr. Paynter said it was unnecessary, and asked his lordship what reply he had to the charge of assault. His lordship admitted the assault, but pleaded justification, on the ground that the constable had laid hold of him by the collar, which was not a proper way to serve a peer of the realm. The constable denied it. His lordship was not in custody, and therefore he did not treat him as a prisoner. His lordship expressed his opinion that it was disgraceful to see a man administer justice as Mr. Paynter did. Mr. Paynter observed that the principal defence his lordship seemed to make was to charge his ac cusers with perjury, and that he appeared to feel himself justified in insulting the judge of the court, who sat there with as much authority as he would in the House of Peers. He (Mr. Paynter) was bound to pay a degree of respect to him to which his rank entitled him, but it was very painful, very shocking to see a man of his branch of the legislature brought to a police court on such e:aarges through intemperance, and conduct himself so badly. The only conso lation was, that such spectacles were extremely rare, and that no other member of the legisla ture exposed himself in the disgraceful manner his lordship had done, and for the sake of the Peerage he hoped that such might never again occur. The police constable had been doing him a friendly action in seeing him to the house of a friend to pre vent his getting into a scrape, when he turned round and struck and kicked him. Had the con stable been then literally in the discharge of his duty he (Mr. Pay nter) would have been much dis- posed to have sent his lordship to prison without a fine, as he would do any lower person who had committed the same offence, because his lordship ought to know better than a poor person the respect due to the laws. His lordship said—You disgrace the bench you sit upon. Mr. Paynter then convicted him in the penalty of 405., or one month, and directed the gaoler to re move him. Another eapman stepped forward and asked bow he was to get his money for driving his lordship about nine hours on Friday. Mr. Paynter observed that there were already three, if not four orders against his lordship for unpaid cab fares, and it seemed useless to make them, as the men did not get their money. The only way he could suggest to the cabmen was not to take his lordship. Shortly after his lordship had been removed by the gaoler a gentleman came and paid his penalties, also settling with the cabman for the nine hours. ROBBERY OF TYPE BY a PRINTER'S FOREMAN. —Win. Willoughby, who was said to be a foreman over the compositors in the establishment of Messrs. Woodfall and Kinder, of Angel-court, Skinner street, Snowhill, was placed ut the bar, charged with stealing 241hs. of type, value £2 108., the pro perty of his masters. The specific charge in this case had reference merely to the quantity of type found in posses s i on of the prisoner at the time of his apprehension, but it was feared a most extensive system of depreda tion had been going on for some time past, as the prisoner had been observed frequently visiting a marine-store shop in Clerken well, which circum stance coming to the knowledge of the prosecutors, aroused their suspicions and induced them to apply to this court for advice and assistance how to act in the matter. Inspector Hamilton, the chief of the detective department of the City police, happening to be present at the time, immediately made ar rangements, the result of which was that an officer named Stringer, 111, watched the prisoner from his master's premises, along a most circuitous route to a marine store dealer's shop, at 19, Meredith street, St. John's-street, Clerken well, where he saw him take from his coat pocket a small parcel and place it on the scale for the purpose of ascertain ing the weight and the price he was to receive for it. The officer immediately entered and secured the parcel, which, with four other parcels found on the prisoner, contained about . 41bs. of type. The prisoner gave no account of the property, being too confused at the time to speak intelligibly. Messrs. Woodfall and Kinder identified the type as their property, and The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully committed for trial. THE RAIL WA Y ACCIDENT A 7 HELMSHORE. The coroner, Mr. Hargreaves, of Blackburn, re sumed his inquiry into the cause of the late fatal railway occurrence at Helmshore, by which 10 per sons had been killed, on Saturday morning, at the Town-hall, Haslingden. Mr. Grundy appeared as solicitor for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company ; Mr. John. Mason, for the Birkenhead Company ; Mr. Leresche, barristed (instructed by Mr. Henwood, attorney), for the relatives and friends of Samuel Duckworth and others ; and Mr. Baldwin, solicitor, Burnley, for the relatives of Starkie, Harrison, and others. Mr. Grundy said the rails7fay company were de sirous to aid the investiga*Lion to the utmost, and he had consequently a num., ber of their servants preseht to give evidence if rf.iquired. He proposed to tender evidence as to hrjair the trains were started from Salford statio', Manchester, and then as to their entire prog:fess along the line till they arrived at the poi' where where the accident occurred. rr • Ihe Coroner thought it would be better to take the evidence of passengers first, and then that of the railway officials. Thomas Duckworth, sworn—l live in Hindle street, Haslingden. lam a cordwainer. On Mon day last I was a passenger from Haslingden by a cheap trip train to Manchester to see an exhibition at Bellevue-gardens. I left Manchester by the 25 minutes or half-past 11 excursion train to return. I was in the second of three trains, and in the front part of it, or that portion from which some of the carriages broke loose at Helmshore. We stopped at Bury and Ramsbottom. At Ramsbottom my party wished me to go out and get a gill of rum. I did so, and returned before the train started again. I obtained it at a public-house close by the station. We asked the guard to drink, and he came and smoked a pipe with us. Ido not know his name. When we asked him the train was in motion, and he came in afterwards. lam not sure that he was a guard. He had a porter's uniform on. He drank pan of the ruin with us and rode to the Helmshore station. I was in the third or fourth carriage in front of the train. There were two engines in front of our train, and we saw one taken off while we were standing by the train, and it went down the other line. We thought there was something wrong, and a man came past saying the passengers were lying about in all postures, with broken limbs, and that some were killed. I got out and went down the line 400 or 500 yards, and found several carriages broken, and two on the em bankment (bank of the cutting). Three carriages were lying on the line badly smashed. The car riages smashed, I suppose, had been attached to the latter part of our train. I saw many persons who were hurt, and several who were dead. I saw 11 1 1 who appeared fast among the fragments of broken carriages, some living and some dead. I and others attempted as fast as we could to extricate them. Two men and one woman of those were taken out dead. My brother, Samuel Duckworth, was one of the eleven, and he was taken out dead. I then left the train, and assisted to carry my brother's body to the Turners' Arms, Helmshore. I saw all the rest of the bodies at the Turners' Arms afterwards. There were 10 dead bodies—six men and four women. They were not all dead when taken there ; two of them died after being brought there. I knew only two of them, Mary Hayes and my brother. We arrived at Helmshore at half-past 12 or 20 minutes to one on Tuesday morning. Our train was a good long one, but I cannot say of how many carriages it consisted. I did not know up to the time the accident occurred that there was a train before us or one after ns. By Mr. Leresche—The railway guard got out of the carriage a little before we got to Helmshore, and I saw him shutting the doors of the carriages, as if preparatory to starting from thence. He was acting as a guard. I think it could not be more than three minutes after we stopped at Helmshore that I saw one of the engines driven back on the other line. I did not hear any cries up to that time nor any alarm. It might be three or four minutes after we stopped before we heard any alarm. There was a good deal of pushing to get into the train at Salford. The train st ar t e d with eight persons in our compartment of a third-class carriage, and it would hold ten. There were six when we got to Helmshore, including the guard. Ido not know how many guards we had. There were no lights in the carriage when part of the train broke loose. I think there were ten or more left at the station. When I went to see the broken carriages the engine of the third train was standing there. It was not on the bank, but was off the rails. It was three or four minutes after we stopped that I heard a cry that some carriages had broken loose, and the engine went back two or three minutes after that. By Mr. Grundy—lt might not be so much as 20 minutes after 11 when we left Salford. The, guard to whom rum was given appeared to be sober and capable of attending to his duty. He only drank of the rum once. The guards of the train were here stmt for into court, and the witness pointed out one of them, J. Chippendale, as the person who had some rum. He was not certain, but he thought he was th e man . By a Juror- 2 I do not recollect the train attempt ing to go on after getting to Helmshore, before the carriages broke loose. I only recollect stopping once. Nathaniel Grindrod, sworn—l live at Burnley and am a spin o le-maker. I went by one of the cheap trips to Manchester last Monday. I returned by the second train, leaving Manchester five minutes after 11 o'clock. I looked at my watch when we started. I was in a first-class carriage. It was a carriage with six seats, and there were eight passengers in the compartment. I objected to two of them com ing in ; but the guard said all the other carriages were full and they must be put in somewhere. Nothing happened till we had left Ramsbottom station, when a porter came to the door and put in his head and a lamp, and said it was time for a small collection for having brought us so far safe on the way. He did not get anything. One of the men told him he thought he had given him his share at Manchester; but the porter denied it. It was 25 minutes to one, when we got to Helmshore by the station clock. The carriage I was in I think had 18 others behind it. I cannot say how many were in front, but I think less than that number. Our carriage stopped at the platform, so that I could see the station clock. I heard the noise of a breakage scarcely a minute after we stopped and I fancied the train was starting again, but imme diately after the breakage the carriages commenced running back, including that in which I was sit ting. They commenced running slowly, but gra dually increased in speed. All the people in the carriage where I was leaped out, except myself and another passenger. I was certain what would occur. The collision occurred in less than two minutes after they leaped out, but 'I was too much excited to be sure as to the time. I heard the crash and the steam blowing off, and did not hear any shrieks, probably for that reason. We then got out and I went down to where the crash had taken place, as soon as there was a stoppage, to see what had happened. On arriving I found a num ber of broken carriages and a number of people dead and wounded lying there. I saw three or four broken carriages, some off the line and some partially thrown off, and people lying among the fragments. There were an engine and tender next to them. The reason of our train going back, I suppose, was that the coupling had broken. 1 heard the snap as of a coupling breaking, and it seemed to be that between our carriage and the carriage in front of us. I did not attempt afterwards to discover the reason. I had my wife to take care of, and a brother in the train to look after. By Mr. Leresche—There was no light in our carriage. As we were rolling back I looked out of the window, but could not see anything on the line, owing to a curve. A train coming after us from Ramsbottom hardly could have been seen till it turned the curve. There was an engine passed us on the other line when 1 got down to where the accident was. I felt a slight jerk before the train began to run back ; it was about the same time as I heard the snapping. The porter who came and asked for something I did not see after or before he put his head into the window. I saw the carriages we had left when I looked out of the window, but cannot say if they were in motion ; they appeared to be. I did not observe any break-van in the part of the train where the broken carriages were, but I cannot say there were none: By Mr. Grundy—We came to Helmshore, and the train came to a rest. I thought the train was starting again when I heard the snap. Ido not think the carriage I was in was one of the com pany's. There might be only 16, and not 18 car riages detached. The man who asked for some- thing was not a guard, but a Manchester porter. I think I should know him again. [Several porters and guards of the company were brought into court, and the witness pointed out one, James Tomlinson, a guard, as the man.] He believed him to be the man. By a Juror—Believed they were long enough at Helmshore for passengers to get out before the carriages broke loose. John Ashworth, mechanic, Haslingden, sworn— I went by one of the cheap tri:)s, and returned by the second. We started back about 20 minutes past 11. I was asleep till we had passed Ramsbotto m . was in a first-class carriage, with a third-class ticket, and the porter came upon the step and awoke us, and said, " Well, chaps, you look very snu g h ere• you have managed it sweetly, having only third class tickets ; can ye do aught. I think y ou should stand a glass." I gave him three-halfpence, and three others gave him money. I had b een put in at Salford by a porter. I was in the carriage the coup- ling of which broke at Helmshore. I was in the compartment text to the coupling. If we had stopped at Helmshore before the snap it was as much as could be said. The snap took place, as I thought, when the carriages rebounded in stopping. There are a coupling and two chains between each car riage, and I heard only one snap. I heard something striking the sleepers, like a chain, as we 'rolled back. As we went back lo ur o f those with me got out, but I did not, thinking the train was going so fast as to be dangerous to attempt it, and soon afterwards we came to a sudden stop. I heard no noise or whistle to that time, nor did I hear any trash. One man who was left in the carriage with me was thrown against the side of the window with the sudden stoppage, and got a blow, which gave him a black eye and cut the side of his head. When I got to the place where the carriages were broken I saw two broken ones on the bank, and one broken all to bits on the rail.. I saw several persons carried away, but did not know any of thew. • When the carriages broke loose, if there had been a guard at the break, it would have been stopped before it got five yards away._ By Mr. Grundy—llthink any one guard would have stopped the carriages going back if he had screwed down his break at once. I believe the carriage was a blue one, and the lining was a dark blue. The rebound which broke us loose shook me more than the collision did when we came against the train fol,owing us. I could not say whether it was a chain or a coupling that snapped. Supposing the guard at the back of the train, in approaching the station, had put on the break, and had then let the break fly back ready to start again, it would have led to 'the carriage rolling back and the shock which cau.sed the snap of the coupling. A little before 2 o'clock the jury adjourned to see the Birkenhead Company's carriages and the broken shackle which belonged to it, and to dine. When the jury re-assembled at 3 o'clock the wit nesses Ashworth and Grindrod stated that the first class carriage in which they travelled was not among those the ktry had examined at the station. Grindrod said the middle compartment of the car riage in which he travelled had no window or sash on the left side of the middle compartment. It was a first class, and not a composite, calculatedto carry six in each compartment. At the request of the jury, all witnesses intended to be called belonging to the railway company were desired to leave the court, except Mr. Shaw. Mr. Cooper, stationmaster at Salford, sworn—l remember the three excursion trains on Monday - last, in connexion with an exhibition at the Belle vue-gardens. The first of them in returning left at 10 minutes before 11, and had 14 carriages, one engine, and two guards. It was going to Colne. The second train had 31 carriages, two engines, two guards, and left at 10 minutes past 11, being an interval of 20 minutes. That was also going to Colne. We had an ordinary train next, going to Bury only, before the third excursion went, and that left at 21 minutes past 11 o'clock. The third excursion train to Colne consisted of 24 carriages and two engines. There were two guards. It left at 31 minutes past 11. We have a porter named Jai. Borke, and I asked him if all the couplings and chains were right, and he said they were. It is Borke's special duty to do it, and there is a porter at the Salford station besides. It is a printed rule of the company, also, that the guards shall see to the couplings and chains. I cautioned all the drivers before they went to proceed cautiously. There would be 2,500 or 2,600 passengers in the three trains. The driver of the first was Wm. Rough ; Thomas Seddon and Wm. Landless were the drivers of the second ; Samuel Ramsbottom and George Simpson were the drivers of the third. The second train NN as composed of a smaller class of carriages, and those used in the ordinary traffic. In the second train there were about seven of the Birkenhead Company's carriages of 10 borrowed on the Friday previously. In the first place these were sent to Bury empty, to the company's workshops, and were there examined. By Mr. Leresche—There is no particular rule as to the apportionment of guards to a train accoriing to the carriages. I have nothing to do with that. -Mr. Shaw, the outdoor superintendent, appo i nts the number of guards and officers for each train. Mr. Shaw had given me instructions on that day to send out two guards to each train, but the carriages in each train were the same as had brought the.pas sengers in the morning. It is true that the carriages were without lights. We do not find lights for excursion trains. The caution was not a special one because the train was a long one. We often send longer trains than that, but I always caution the drivers under such circumstances. The guards were regular guards of passenger trains or luggage trains, and were competent persons. We always send the most experienced guards on such occasions. One of the guards may, without my knowledge, have called a porter in to assist him unknown to me. It does not seem that it would have been safer to divide the second train in two. It would have caused there to be more trains than desirable. There were three breaks,—one in front, one about the middle, and the third in the last carriage but three. They were not break-vans, but passenger carriages with breaks, worked from the outside. There was one of the breaks not under the care of a guard. That is frequently so. By Mr. Baldwin—l have no book in my office containing the number of carriages in each train, but the guards make a note of it, which would be sent to Accrington. By the Coroner—There were about 500 people n the first train, and 1,000 in each of the others. By Mr. Grundy —The second and third trains would be of about equal weight, the third being of larger and heavier carriages. Mr. Shaw, the su perintendent, and Mr. Goodier, the inspector, at tended specially to see th ese th ree trains off. I never saw excursion trains with lights inside. They had all the proper side and tail lights. The curve would hide the second from the third when the ac cident occurred. 'Break-vans are not used for ex• cursion trains, because the passengers do not carry luggage; but carriages with breaks are as efficient as vans with breaks. From my experience I should say the train of 31 carriages was perfectly safe as to size and weight, and two guards would be suffi cient for such a train. It is an advantage When there are two guards only to have extra breaks, be cause a guard can work several breaks on an incline. It was now 6 o'clock, and Mr. Leresche said as the Court had been engaged from 9 o'clock in the morning he hoped the coroner would adjourn. The Coroner said the jury wished to sit later, in order to get through the inquiry before Tuesday's Manchester market. Mr. Leresche said if by sitting late there was a prospect of finishing the inquiry 011 Monday he would not object ; but there was no prospect of that, and there were many gentlement present from a distance to whom a late sitting on a Saturday would be a great inconvenience. The jury manifested great. impatience at the in terruption, and one of them (Mr. Whittaker) said none of the jury had to go to a distance, and there was no occasion to adjourn. Mr. Leresche said he had no wish to press his own personal convenience, but this was a grave inquiry, and he could not discharge his conscience, however the jury might be satisfied of their powers of endurance, if they went further. Re did not think everything should be sacrificed to their inte rest in the Manchester market. The Coroner then decided to adjourn the court till Monday, notwithstanding the reluctance of the jury, which had not been expressed in a very cour teous manner. There have been no deaths since the morning of the accident, and the doctors express a belief that the whole of the wounded will recover. BIRTHS. HUGRES.—On the 7th inst., at 9, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Mr. Hastings Hughes, of a son. M‘GRIGOR.—On the sth inst., at 2, Gloucester •place, Portman-square, the wife of Sir Charles R. M`Grigor, Bart., ci a son. THA CKWELL.—On the 7th inst., at Queen's-road, Regent'. park, the wife of Edward Josep h Thack we ll , .Esq., bar rister-at-law, late Captain 50th Foot, of a son. MARRIAGES, CUTLER—TIME.—On the 6th inst., at St. John's Church, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, H en y, youngest son of Edward Cutler Esq., of 22, W estbourne-street, Hyde park-gardens, to Mary, only daughter of Thomas Time, Esq., of 14, Camden-square, Regent's -park. WRIGHT—TYLDEN.—On the 6th inst, at at Milstead, Kent, Charles C. O. T. Wright, Youngest . son of the late Rev. E. C. Wright, rector o f Pitsford, Northamptonshire, to Elizabeth Jane, only c hi ld of Sir John Maxwell Tylden, of the Manor House, Milstead. DEATHS. BrtowNE.--On. the sth inst , at Harrogate, the Hon. James Lyon Browne, e ld est son 4 of Lord Kiln:mine, late Lieut.- - wilam .N.a ll g is e on d 3 , 6 R. R oyal Colonel 21st Fusiliers, aged 38. ELLisox.—At Calcutta, on the 21st of April, a few days after the arrival of the steam-ship "Celerity," which he vc(ivnini comman ded, ns deeply regretted. G rilnos:ft theEaling, Admiralty, dent, Somerset house, : doend,oldrhaerdlaJteenrieruLt.arnbart Ellison, only sur arew Gibson, Esq. F A - d Nl e Y a n c v t fT , T Charles O i 3. F th aw e e s e t t h t, in E s s t q .,. , of Bradston Brook, Surrey, and Sandgate Lodge, Sus sex, aged son th e 5 o t f h C j a n p s t t a . 1 , a George Fawcett, e sex, aged 47. ROWLEY.—On the 2d July, at Monte Video, Commander H. B. Rowley, youngest son of the late Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Bart., G.C.8., aged 43. SPRIGG.—On the 6th inst., at Christ c h urc h- roa d , Strea tham, the Rev. Henry Sprigg, aged 46. o N : Printed and Published by MURDO YOLTN.2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Jffice, No. 112, st ra nd, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county •f middleeetz, Monday, September 10, 1860.