The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-19 00:00:00

R OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Under the management of Miss LOUISA DYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, will Open for the Season on MONDAY, Oct. 3d. Acting Manager—Mr. E. Murray. Stage Manager Mr. E. Stirling. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bucketone. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with AS YOU LIKE IT : Jaques, Mr. Howe ; Orlando, Mr. W. Farren ; Touchstone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Miss Amy Sedgwick ; Celia, Miss M. Ternan. After which, BOX AND COX. Box, Mr. Buckstone ; Cox, Mr. Compton. And IiiALLOWE'EN. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADEL PHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster. This splendid New Theatre , replete with ev er y comfort, WILL OPEN for the Season on MONDAY, Sept. 26, 1559. ADELPHI DRAMA, COMEDY, FARCE, and BUR LESQUE, and ADELPHI EFFECTS ! ! !—On which ocea- Mon Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. David Fisher (his first appearance at this theatre), Mr. Paul B S edford, Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Henrietta imms, will app arc., arc., ear. The per f or mances will consist of a DRA3II6. (2d time), of the highly succe ssful piece of ONE TOUCH OF NATURE ; a new Farce, by J. M. Morton, Esq., called LOVE AND HUNGER ; and the popular Burlesque pf THE BABES IN THE WOOD. The Box-office will be opened on Thursday, Sept. 22, and every day after, from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of t his eetablialamenr are strictly prohibited. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and ress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GO LDEN EGGS. And TO PA LIEN fS AND GUARDIANS. After which, THE OMNIBUS. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. Commence at 7 o'olock. nANTERBUR V HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. —The Vale of Verdi's Opera of MACBETH (now first made public-in England at these Con- Sees), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele t.rated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual Vocal Concert. Comic Vocalists - Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come ilian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several teresting PiCt H Ures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. T in he suite ofHalls have been r edecorated and b e acitiffed, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer beer's new opera of DINNORA. TRS -ivir.BATHEß.—Surr. OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 19. IlisszsolcrrEn, IN THE SHADE. 68--highest since noon yesterday. 64 lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day at noon. aomETEn-29.93. WIND, North -Westerly; strong, with fine weather now. It rained heavily in the night, and this morning, and was quite storm HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIg DAY. —Morning, s h. 41m .—Afternoon, sh. 3m. To-MORRow - Morn in g , 6h. 28m. —Afternoon, 6h. 58ra. Foreign news seem to be at a sort of " stand' still. All is rumour and expectancy—each particu lar section drawing its own veritable (rather ques tionable) conclusions. There appears, however, to be something brewing for better or worse, for King LEOPOLD'S journey to the Emperor NAPOLEON at Biarritz will surely lead to something ; whether it be lasting, or merely passive, will soon be seen. That there is something in the wind is past all doubt, for not only is Lord CowLEY going there to-day, as the Representative of England, but Count WALEWSKI follows, on the part of France, to learn the wishes of his Imperial Master, and to act on them, or so far mystify the other parties as may best suit the end in view. The object of the visit, or Cabinet Council, is evidently to get for Austria the reinstatement of the Dukes, or some thing else, in consideration of her behaving herself better in future. For years Education has been the hobby of a small class of politicians ; and Parliament, and the clergy of all denominations have been doing their best to , promote it. Their efforts, however, have all been directed to the lower classes—to those who were supposed to need charitable aid. Till very lately, indeed, it never occurred to them that the classes which did not need charity, which even be sto wed it on those below them, themselves needed stimulus. The middle classes, it was thought would, from the highest professions down to the humbler trades, take care that their own children were educated. And in a certain sense they have done so. But, the very excellence of the instruction provided for the working classes in British and National schools soon revealed the fact, that great numbers of those who paid fairly for the education of their children, did not gain for them such good education as was obtained by those who were taught in great part g];atuitously. Many 0. tradesman was subscribing to a British School or a National School to get the children of the poor better drilled, at least, in the elements of education, than his own. What was to be done. Some said the poor were being edu cated above their wants, but the tide had set in, and it would not ebb. The only thing to be done was to raise the standard for the middle classes. They could keep their children longer at school than the poor, and if their schools could be improved, they might still maintain their educational ascendancy. It became plain that, in any case, something must be done ; or the well taught boys, from the schools supported by Govern ment grants and voluntary contributions, would completely distance their compeers of the classes above theo, whose education harcost ten or twenty times as much. From this necessity arose the happy conception of Middle Cass Examinations, furnished by the two Un;;versities. They were to be conducted on the rigidly impartial plan of the University examinations themselves, modified of course by the youth a the candidates. The object was to be, to test the efficiency of middle-class schools ; to try how far they succeeded in impart ing correctly and adequ.e.tely such knowledge and discipline as they professed to give. Hitherto there had been no means whatever for parents ge nerally to form any idea of the quality of the education received by their children. It was the interests of schoolmasters to praise their own boys, and even to eve prizes ; but not one parent in ten could tell by examining his children what was the value of the testimonial received. The University examiners were to furnish the much needed test, and they have fur nished it. When they first broke in last year upon the raw mass of lads educated in the common middle•class schools, all of them being the elite of those schools, the country, and th e Dominies still more, seems to have been taken by surp rise. Considerably mere than preliminary examin a ti on one half could not pass a in reading, writing, arithmetic, and spelling. Many who could construe well a Latin sentence, or perform a tolerably difficult operation in algebra, were incompetent to spell correctly, or to work [Lily sums in the first four rules of arithmetic. The elementary part of education had been su perficially hurried over to make a show with s , emethidg higher. These cases, however, were th, e exceptiiln. The fact was, that more than hah t the boys, for all of whom their parents had paid handsomely or fairly, and who were sent up by'. their masters as fit for an examination, could not push • one in things which all parents would con fess to b e the most necessary school subjects. The in coat marl wising revelation was that of the ignorance ......„.. . . • A'. , , . .4; , ::cLut" , ..): -.. ' .„, ~ -, ~. ....., .- ~-..• . ' s ' ' ":. 4 '; , i - k;; : ? lr fil ‘ A - t k " ' ..-... „ . . •.: . '7,1 ~..... , ''.- ' ' - ..i'' --..'" 4 ' '' " N ' , ',..1. 4 :.„,4iv. .ii,,- : D ito .. IIIN,:,:i, . lED . 0 N:i1,4•.: 0. ,kji VZ' - ,- ' n" ' .7. •'' ---t '' ~, •.: ' ' ' .. r,,,,.. THE SUN. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1859. of the masters. It became evident they held such imperfect knowledge to be quite sufficient, or they would not thus have placed the pupils in the hands of the examiners. The examinations of last year have at least had the good effect of reversing the proportions of the rejected. This time less than half were rejected at the preliminary examinations. Too many still; yet a great improvement on last year. Sincerely do we hope the improvement will con tinue. We entirely agree with Sir JOHN COLE RIDGE in the remarks made by him in his speech at Exeter, at the distribution of the certifi cates awarded by the Examiners, for instance, and which appeared in Saturday's Sun, on the vast importance of thorough elementary instruction — "sticking to the elements," an d permitting " nothing to supersede accuracy in the lower and rudimental parts of education." He gave some curious illustra tions of his meaning. An examiner found lads puzzled to set down from dictation sums for addition. " Suppose, for instance, he said, set down, a thousand and forty-nine, not one in the class was able to put down that sum correctly; they could not make count for the ciphers" ! So he inverted sentences, such as "my right there is none to dispute," they could not tell what governed " right." How common we fear has such incapacity been among thousands for whom confiding parents had paid, for their means, very handsomely. It may be hoped that the new examinations will soon render such hurried and superficial teaching a thing of the past. But the principle adverted to by Sir JOHN COLE RIDGE is one which cannot be too conscientiously applied in the teaching of children. The great benefit of school education should be, not the mere amount of knowledge communicated, but the habit of acquiring knowledge thoroughly. Sir JOHN'S description of the way in which his teacher initiated him into the first book of Homer is the description of what should be done with every boy, in everything he learns at school. " The boy is father to the man," and had boys generally been disciplined never to rest content without such an understanding as boys could have of whatever they took in hand, the men into whom such boys grew up, would both have the desire to master, thoroughly, every subject of inte rest or utility to them, and the sense not to form precipitate judgments before adequate investigation. They might never be able to open their " Horace," their "Homer," or their "Euclid" after they left school, but the habits ac quired by their studies, if required to be thorough would never be lost. Like military gait, or the sailor's walk, it would accompany them ever after for life. The middle classes will owe very much to the University Examiners if they compel the school masters to think more of the quality than area of instrnction. A youth fond of study or reading may add what he pleases in after years, according to his leisure and means ; but if he have not in his first lessons formed the essential conception of what right study is, he will rarely acquire it for himself. Boys should be taught tho roughly, as far as they are taught. If they cannot be taken, for instance, beyond a small portion of Cesar and Virgil, yet if up to that point they have been throughly drilled in the language, been made to see its relation to our own, or to French, if they read that also, and been made masters of the principles, not the mere rules, of etymology an d grammatical construction, they Steam Navigation. As it is also upon record how " to oppose her, or to run away if they could with the merit of being first, to cross the Atlantic, an inefficient steamer was started from Cork eight days before her, but the absurdity was soon made apparent by the two vessels arriving on the same day"—not withstanding the Cork one had those days prece dence ! But further, is it not, there, also upon record how " the supply of fuel on board the Cork steamer was exhausted, while the Great Western, notwithstanding the predictions of Dr. LARDNER, had coals enough left to steam four days longer at her full rate of consumption." Finally, there is this crowning triumph of his life, this grandest achievement of his:engineering genius—The Great Eastern Steamship—the most gigantic vessel ever set afloat upon the great deep since the waters of the Deluge subsided! No wonder, with a recollection of those marvellous works vividly brought to mind by late the lamented and premature demise of Mr. BRUNEL, no wonder that one of the earliest to grieve over the tidings of that regretted death should speak of " the stupendous talents" of the con structor of the Great Western Railway and of the Great Eastern Steamship ! In the phrase, there is no exaggeration—for the talents of this remark able were, in very deed and in simplest truth, no thing less than stupendous. After times, in view ing his Grand Works both upon sea and upon land, and those too of his great and worthy contemporary, ROBERT STEPHENSON, may say with reason and without hyperbole, as has been said of earlier gene rations in the history of the world, " There were Giants in those days !" The works actually com pleted by the genius of this one man —now, alas ! no more—are like the works of the Cyclops. The fabled thunderbolts forged upon the anvil of Vul can were hardly grander to dream of, than the limbs of those gigantic engines heaving and throbbing in the iron caverns of the Great Eastern. As one of the formest, as in some respects about the very fore most among the great material benefactors of his time and of his country, the genius of BRUNEL is indeed entitled to our earnest and lasting admira tion, his memory is indeed worthy of being per manently held in England's grateful remembrance. Scarcely anyone to whom that Great Name was in any way familiar, but will have learnt with pro found emotion that—in what seemed the very hey day of his mid-career —Mr. BRUNEL breathed his last on Thursday night, the 15th of this present month of September. It is an immense eulogium —yet, at the same time, it is but the simplest truth —to say of him that he was one of the greatest of all the great engineers in this great age of engi neering. He was so confessedly—he was recognised as such during his lifetime by universal consent. His many wonderful achievements are the attesta tions of the reasonableness of this eminent reputa tion. He has left the impress of his genius indelibly marked upon his Age and upon his Country. Immediately upon his birth, now scarcely fifty four years ago, ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL may be said, and that hardly alone figuratively, to have been cradled in the lap of Science. His distin guished father, Sir MARK BRUNEL, was at that time engaged in the fabrication in the dockyard at Portsmouth, of what still remains to this day among the numb er of the world's wonders—the marvellously complicated . block machinery ! That astonishing maze of a el ioateyetpowerful mechanism, in their mysterious passage through which, mere shapeless fragments of wood and lumps of metal a ppear to be all but instantaneously tramformed in to smooth and perfected blocks for the rigging of our men-of --war ! Between his birth in 1806, at Ports mouth, and hi s death in 1859, a t 18 , Duke-street, Westminster, BRUNEL the younger has in many proved Werth y ways rjobly himself to be w ert of his eminent progenit 4,, , r• • It appears inde e d t o b e a 1 , - THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1859, THE WAR WITH CHINA. WOOLWICH, Sept. 18. - -In consequence of the recent intelligence from China the utmost activity prevails in the laboratory department of the Royal Arsenal, under the superintendence of Captain Boxer, R.A. The men have been working over time during the past week, an order having been received from the War Department to prepare and pack no less than 3,000,000 rounds of rifle ammuni tion by Tuesday next, to be forwarded by the over land route. This ammunition is usually packed in barrels, but in the present instance it has been placed in small square boxes, each of which will be encased in a bag, for the convenience of transit from Alexandria across the Desert. Orders are expected at ads garrison to forward 250 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, being one fourth of the total Marine force ordered for embar kation to China. It is also stated that an entire brigade of Royal Artillery will proceed to the same destination. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. GLOUCESTER, SATURDAY. One of the most successful—we believe the most successful—" festival of the three choirs"' ever held here, was brought to a happy close at about day break this morning, at which time the fair and gallant guests at the " grand full-dress ball"at the Shire-hall took their departure. The accounts made up at the ticket-office show the attendances to have been as follows : Tuesday, at the cathedral.. 1,700 .... At the concert X 415 Wednesday, ditto 1,414 .... ditto 350 Thursday, ditto 1,546 .... ditto 635 Friday, ditto 2,800 .... No concert. Total 7,460 £1,400 Thus showing the superior attraction of the orato rio over the secular concert. For the latter, spe cial artists were retained : Madlle. Titiens, Signor Giuglini, Signor Vialetti, Signor Ba diali, and Signer Belletti. 'The collections at the doors of the Cathedral, in comparison with the collections at the last Gloucester Festival in 1850, showed as follows : I peculiar Privilege among some of the more illus trious chiefs of Science —a privilege almost in variably denied to Poets and Artists—that abilities of the Wighest order may be transmitted without diminution, sometimes even with increase, from father to soli, and that in this exceptional depart ment the - rarest genius becomes in a manner hereditary. SHAKSPERE, BYRON, SCOTT—and so many others renowned in Song and Romance — left no son to emulate their fame in literature. It has been happily otherwise in three conspicuous instances in our own times, among men illustrious by their scientific reputation. The discoverer of Georgium Sides has left his fame to be renewed, un dimmed, by his eminent son and successor Sir JOHN HERSCHELL. The Founder and Father of the whole Railway System, old GEORDIE STEPHENSON of the Colliery Districts, has even had his renown enhanced, and diffused far and wide over the globe, by his celebrated son and successor, ROBERT STEPHENSON, civil engineer and member of Par liament. The constructor of the block machinery at Portsmouth and of the double tunnel under the river Thames, Sir MARK ISAMBARD BRUNEL be queathed to his son and successor a reputation which that son and successor has in many respects we cannot but think very considerably surpassed. Cradled, as aforesaid, near the dockyard at Ports mouth in the midst of the drone and clatter of the block machinery in 1806—BRUNEL the younger was twenty years later, namely of course in 1826, so to speak, schooled in practical engineering at the Thames Tunnel, of which extraordinary work he was even at that early age, appointed resident engineer. It has been said of him in CHARLES KNIGHT'S "English Cyclopedia of Biography" that here—in the Thames_ ...T2tuDel—" Being the last to quit his post, he was more than once in danger from the frequent breaking-in of water during the progress of the excavations, and only saved himself by swimming. The final irruption of 1828, when one man was drowned," it is there also added, " surprised him 600 feet from the end of the tunnel ; he was borne along by the stream, and rose to the surface near the top of the shaft." From which incidents it will be seen that the eminent man of science, son to the eminent man of science, served to science no unadventurous apprenticeship. Recompensed though BRUNEL the younger has been by many initial tributes giving the timbre of official recognition to his scientific distinctions— Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and D.C.L., and Fellow respectively of the Royal Society, of the Society of Arts, of the Astronomical Society, of the Geological Society, and of the Geographical Society—his distinguishing and pre-eminent rank to the last was that indicated by the two letters C.E., the symbols of his wonder-working profession. And as a civil engineer few, if any, have—but one, if any has—been at once more daring and more industrious. Comparisons, always invidious, are peculiarly so when instituted between two friends, one of whom stands beside the premature grave of his recently deceased contemporary. From no comparison, however, need the younger BRUNEL have shrunk—even though it had been a comparison with that— " Brother in Science, and Rival in Renown " ROBERT STEPHENSON. The nobly characteristic absence of all jealousy between those two kindred men of genius was reciprocally evidenced, by each in turn, upon two very memorable occasions. First, when STEPHENSON'S Conway and Britannia tubular bridges were floated and raised—labours in which Mr. BRUNEL conpicuously participated, and of which CHARLES KNIGHT'S " Biographical Cyclopdia," speaks as " operations not less remarkable for their novelty and magnitude than for the friendly co operation of the engineers by whom they were suc cessfully accomplished." Secondly, this generous reci procity of interests and ambition was marked more recently when the constructor of those grand tubular bridges, aided by his advice in facilitating the completion of the interrupted launch of BRU NEL'S last and greatest work of all, the leviathan of the deep now floating: riumphantly off Portland. The engineering labours of Mr. BRUNEL scarcely admit of very easy enumeration. They are alto gether too many, and too diversified to be readily catalogued. Conspicuous among them, in their abiding usefulness, were his dock labours in many of our principal out-ports, as at Bristol, at Cardiff, and at Sunderland. His railways, his bridges, his tunnels, his steamships, however, are his chief and most resplendent master-pieces. In constructing these he has repeatedly striven—and striven successfully—to attain, not simply a high, but the highest point of excellence. His beautiful foot-bridge across the Thames, at London, for in stance—the Hungerford Suspension-bridge—is the longest span in the United Kingdom ! His railway bridge across the Thames at Maidenhead is the longest and flattest of brick arches yet constructed ! His other railway bridge over the Tamar, in Corn wall, is "as near as may be from coincidence of natural causes, of the same span and height as the Britannia-bridge, and has a central pier, rising from a depth of 80 feet of water; the deepest yet encountered in railway engineering !" His railway tunnel near Bath—the famous Box Tun nel—is,we be lieve, about the longest railway tunnel yet inexistence! His gauge along the line of the Great Western is, as we all very well know, the broadest of the gauges, though this, we will admit, is, to say the least of it, a somewhat questionable distinction ! His first large steam vessel, named like his grand trunk rail way through the western counties, "The Great Western," was the first steamship built to cross the Atlantic ! How it did cross the Atlantic, in spite of Dr. LARDNER'S predictions as to the impossibility of its doing so, is upon record in the history of have gained something far more valuable than the ability to read just so much Latin. Their minds have been put into that course of thorough investi gation, and of all-sided examination of whatever they study in future years, which they will not easily forsake. In education at least any school master should be a STRAFFORD — his motto should be " Thorough." Lord Clyde retires from the command of the In dian army at the close of this year. lie will be succeeded by General Sir Hugh H. Rose, who recently acquired dis tinction in suppressing the rebellion in Central India. The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official re sidence at the Admiralty on Saturday morning from Devon - port, expressly to attend the Cabinet Council. The Duke of Newcastle returned to town on Saturday from his seat, Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire. The Earl of Elgin arrived in London on Satur day from Scotland. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on Friday night from Hawarden Castle. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have, during the last week, entertained a succession of visitors at Buck hurst Park, Sussex. Viscountess Jocelyn and family have joined Vis countess Palmerston, at Broadlands, Hants, after passing a few days in town on her way from the Earl of Roden's seat in Ireland. Lord Ebury left town on Saturday on a visit to, his Excellency the British Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert arrived in Lon• don on Friday evening. Sir G. C. Lewis arrived in London on Saturday morning from Harpton Court, Herefordshire. ARTIFICIAL STATUARY MARBLE —Mr. Jobard, of Brussels, has invented an artificial statuary marble, which is to be prepared for sculptors in a liquid state, and can be moulded with the plaster figure. It is said to be pure and spotless as Carrara—transparent, polished, and hard as the real el . ll;)stance taken from the quarry. 1859. 1856. Tuesday £263 14 "81 Wednesday Thursday 2ll 14 1 ...... 183 0 0 Friday T0ta1.... £1,034 5 81 £866 14 1 Thus showing an increase of .£167 1 ls. 71d. this year over the collection at the Festival of 1856. Besides this sum, additional contributions are ex pected. This is the largest collection at Gloucester, at least for twenty years. In closing these notices of the Gloucester musical festival of 1859, we should mention that there has been no interruption to the daily cathedral service, which has been held every morning at eight o'clock, and every evening at five. At the former the three choirs have assisted ; at the latter, the choral portion of the service has been performed by the Gloucester choir alone. The attendance, however, has been small, and the additions to the fund from that source inconsiderable. HA YMARKET THEATRE. The Haymarket Theatre presented on Saturday evening an appearance which, at this dull period of the year in London, must have been gratifying in a very high degree to one of the most popular—and deservedly popular—actors of the day. It was the benefit of Mr. Charles Mathews, and his last appearance during his present engagement at this theatre. The pieces selected for the occasion were Holcroft's ad mirable comedy, "The Road to Ruin," and Paul Pry." In the first piece Mr. Mathews took the part of Goldfinch, and hit off with infinite truth and gusto the character of the " fast man," whose only ambition in life seems to be to drive the smartest four-in-hand in town, and keep the best horses, and finds his highest pleasure rather in the company of the stable and betting-ring than the circles of the draw ing-room. The other characters in the piece were also very effec• tively represented. Mr. Buckstono took the part of Mr. Silky, for the first time, and by his peculiar vis comica worked it up into a strking picture of the avaricious and heartless old usurer. In the second piece, "Paul Pry." Mr. Mathews seemed to be more at home, if possible, even than in the previous •ne. It was his first appearance in that character, and it is not too much to say that the actor and the character are admirably suited to each other. There was something irresistibly comic in the manner in which Mr. Mathews de picted the easy impudence and insatiable inquisitiveness of the ever wide-awake Mr. Pry ; and the hearty laughter and frequent applause of the audience amply testified that Mr. Mathews made a most successful " hit" in this his first representation of the part. The applause throughout the whole performance was frequent and hearty; and at the fall of the curtain it was renewed with additional enthusiasm, until Mr. and Mrs. Mathews came forward and repeatedly bowed their ac knowledgments. Miss ANiv SEDGIVICK.—The admirers of that elegant and accomplished actress, Miss Amy Sodgwick, will be de lighted to hear that this evening (Monday) she will make her re-appearance at the Haymarket Theatre. The play selected for the occasion is Shakespeare's ever fresh and charming comedy of " As you Like it," in which she will sustain the part of Rosalind, a character wo imagine pecu liarly suited to her refined taste and natural style of acting. ALARMING FIRE IN THE WANDSWORTH-ROAD.— This (Monday) morning, between the hours of three and four o'clock, a fire, well nigh attended with fatal results to several persons, happened in the premises belonging to Mr. Bacon, an oil, colour, and Italian warehouseman, car rying on business at 17, Brandley-terrace, Wandsworth road. The discovery was made by one of the police .officers of tho V division, who lost no time in arousing the inmates, but from the fact of Mr. Bacon being also a tallow-chandler it was at one time feared that the pesidents would have been burnt to death before they would have sufficient time to get out of the burning building. Two engines of the London Brigade were soon in attendance, and the police and stran gers, having been aided with a good supply of the South wark Company's water, they managed by great perseverance to confine the flames principally to the lower part of the premises. The damage done, however, is somewhat consi derable, as the whole of the stock is seriously damaged by fire and water. Tho loss will fall upon the Norwich Union Fire-office. RED SEA TELEGRAPH. —MOM'S. Nowall and Co.'s steamers Imperador and Imperatriz will be ready to leave Liverpool at the end of the present month, with the remainder of the cable to connect Kurrachee with Aden. The cable to connect Alexandria with this country is now to be laid through the Islands of Rhodes and Scio to Constantinople, and not by way of Candia, as previously intended. It is expected to be laid in about a month by Messrs. Newall and Co. Captain Pullen, of the Cyclops, has fixed on Halland, one of the Kooria Mooria islands, as a station for the Red Sea telegraph. —China Telegraph. THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Ceylon arrived at Southampton yesterday with the heavy portion of the Indian and Australian mails. She left Alex andria on the sth of September, Malta on the 9th, and Gib raltar on the 13th. She brought home about 130 passengers. Amongst her cargo were 1,344 bales of silk. The Ceylon met with fine weather in the Mediterranean, and strong north-east winds along the coast of Spain and Portugal and up channel. Her Majesty's ships Marlborough, Centurion, Conqueror, Renown, Cressy, Princess Royal, Euryalus, Wanderer, Boxer, and Caradoc were at Malta ; also the Pe ninsular and Oriental steamer Alhambra. Her Majesty's ship - Vulture and four Spamshmen-ef-war were at Gibraltar The Ceylon passed her Majesty's ship Orion 10 miles east of Malta. On the 7th inst. she passed the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Orissa; on the 12th she passed the French line-of-battle ship Cores, steering east, and a frigate with three gunboats in tow. The Australian mail brought home in the Ceylon was the one from the Northam. It was very much damaged, especially the King George's Sound and Sydney portion. The Northam was damaged to the extent of having one of her compartments stove in. Among the passengers by the Ceylon were the captain and officers of the wrecked mail packet Alma. SIR JAMES BROOKE.—At the anniversary dinner of the Norwich Valpeian Club, of which Sir James was the founder, a letter was read from him, of which the following is an extract :—" I am established on my small property, and my house, when in order, will be very snug. I was re solutely bent in taking this step, feeling it was the only way to disconnect myself from Sarawak, and thus to save my life, and set up my staff beyond the petty cares which society i m p o ses. I have chosen a spot in the churchyard here whero I shall repose, or if death overtake me across the water bet ter still, I shall rest among my own people. My lot is a fortunate one, for retirement such as this, the society of friends, a competence and ease of mind ought to make me happy. I can, I believe, fairly say that no disappointed ambition will poison existence ; state honours (such as men esteem), distinction, rank, money, personal aggrandisement, I have eve held to be of small account. There are nobler and more substantial things to thrive for, but for these my day is past. I leave the people of Sarawak free and happy, and I shall return to tell them, without fear and without favour, how to preserve those blessings." ST. GEORGE'S, EAsT.—Yesterday an announce ment was': issued by the churchwardens, and distributed among those who attended the parish church, which seems to pronnse that the disturbances which have for many vears past prevailed in this parish will cease. The an nouncement, signed by Mr. Thompson and Mr. Dowsett, the churchwardens, stated that the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, had agreed with the vestry that the whole matter should be referred to the Bishop of London for mediation, iu any way during the p rogress o f the arbitration. The morning service, was p er f orme d by the Rev. A. H. Mac acnoidwic•chqiu:stthced curatethe pari s hi oners no t t o i n terrupt the services of the parish, who were the onlinary vestment:, and preached a sermon f ro m the words of 6 t. Luke's G )spel " Who is my neighbour ?" The a fternoon and evening services were noisy as usual, but no t to the swine extent as on previous Sundays, the judicious conduct of the churchwardens having prevented a repetition of former scandalous scenes. A STRANGE ACCIDENT.—A melancholy accident occurred a few days ago to M. Dufourmantelle, a litho graphic artist of some eminence. He was conversing with a friend when, in a moment of inattention, he placed a small bit of sealing-wax, which he had in his hand, into his mouth, and it got into his throat. The violent exertion which he used to get rid of the obstruction caused him to bnak a bloodvessel, which caused his death after some hours' suffering. L T NEWS. NDIAN AND CHINA MAILS. (BY THE RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH.) We have been favoured with tho following tele- gram : " H. GISBORNE TO CIIAS. L. PEEL, ESQ., LONDON. " ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 11. " The Candia, with Calcutta dates to 27th August, arrived at Aden today. " A bill had been introduced in the Legislative Council to tax all professions and trades in India. Cultivators of land to be exempted. " The Special Disarming Act passed during the mutiny is to become permanent. "The House of Delhi has been deprived of all titular distinctions and privileges for ever. " The French Admiral commanding in Cochin- China has concluded a treaty with the Anamese, and will probably start with his fleet to China. " The barque Neptune had been lost off Akyab. " Five-and-a-Half per Cent. Loan, 51 to 5 discount. " Exchange on London, six months, for first class paper, 2s. Obd•" We have received the following telegram from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company : "MARSEILLES, MONDAY MORNING. " The Nepaul, with the mails from Bombay, ar rived at Marseilles at 6 o'clock this morning. " The mails left for London at 10. " The Orissa, with the heavy portion of the mail, eft Malta, for Southampton, on the evening of the l4th inst." The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : The Nepaul, with the mails from I 3 ombay, arrived at Marseilles at six o'clock this morning. Mails left for London at 10. Letters will be delivered on Wednesday morning. The Orissa, with the heavy portion of the mail, left Malta, for Southampton, on the evening of the 14th inst. The Ottawa, with the Bombay Mail, arrived at Suez on the 10th inst. The Simla, from Suez, with outward Calcutta and China mails, left Aden on the 11th inst. The Candia, with the next homeward Calcutta and China mails, reached Aden on the 11th inst., and was to leave for Suez next day. The Valetta, wifh the outward Calcutta and China mails, left Malta for Alexandria on the 14th inst. at midnight. The Alhambra left Malta at the same time for Corfu. PARIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 19. The 3loniteur of this morning contains a circular of the Minister of the Interior, addressed to the Prefects, and dated Sept. 18, concerning the regina of the press : " The Minister holds it necessary to remind the Prefects of the principle upon which the late de cree concerning the effect of the warnings given to newspapers was founded. He says the decree of the 17th February, 1852, is not a law enacted on account of a particular crisis, and which would not be available during a time of peace and tranquillity. Like every political law, this one also is capable of improvement ; but the principles of the law are closely connected with the creation of unity of power, based on universal suffrage. The Govern ment does not fear the discussion of its acts in a loyal spirit, neither does it fear any attacks, but the general welfare of the people imposes upon the Government the obligation of not putting aside the lawful arms, which are guarantees and not obstruc tions to the right of publication of ones opinions, which could not be taken away from an enlight ened people like the French. This right is not to be confounded with the exercise of the liberty of the press by means of newspapers. If the Govern ment reserves to itself the right to punish abuses, it does not interfere with the liberty of expressing one's thoughts, and will retain those restrictions only which are required out of respect for the con• stitution, the legitimacy of the Imperial dynasty, and the interests of order, morality, and religion. The Government is far from imposing a servile approbation of its measures, it will always tolerate opposition in a serious spirit, and will not confound the right of control with a systematic opposition and premeditated ill will. The Government will be only too glad to be enlightened itself,-by fair criticism and discussion, but will not permit society to be troubled by culpable excitations of hostile passions." CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 18. A conspiracy to assassinate the Sultan ham been discovered. Two hundred person• have been ar rested here ; among them Djafer Dern, Pasha of Albania, who was apparently the chief. Some of the troops are suspected of participation. The affair originated with a fanatical party. PARIS, SEPT. 18. The Moniteur of to-day contains the following : "Several newspapers have alluded to a decree, which it was supposed would appear to modify the laws of the press. This news is without any foun dation. In France the press is free to discuss all the acts of the Government, and by so doing to en lighten the public mind. Certain papers, in becom ing without their knowledge the organs of hostile parties, claim a larger amount of freedom, which would have no other object than facilitating their attack against the constitution and the fundamental laws of social order. " The Government of the Emperor will not de viate from the established system, which, in allow ing a field sufficiently large for discussion, contro. very, and analysis, prevents, on the other hand, the disastrous effects of falsehood, calumny, and error." SUNDAY, SEPT. 18. The Consfitutionnel of this evening publishes an article in large type,lreating of the position of Eng land, in reference to the Italian question, of which the following is a summary : " Before the war it was said that there was no Italian question ; now everything is changed, the reproach is made to us that we do not risk all in order that the question may be entirely solved. But the general state of affairs did not admit of such a solution." The article then alludes to the advantages the Peace of Villafranca has obtained for Italy, and makes much of the demonstrations which have taken place in Central Italy, but endeavours to prove that the Duchies cannot become mere provincial towns of Sardinia. " The people in the Duchies will re gret their Princes and their local independence." The article continues by saying " that the increase of the Piedmontese territory will excite the jealousy of Naples, and will prevent the realisation of an Italian confederation. These considerations had weight vith the Emperor at Villafranca, and ought to impress the true friends of Italy, of which Eng land is now one." The article exprssses the hope that the councils of England will be joined to those of France. "United on the banks of the Peiho to chastise a common injury, may the two great West ern Powers unite their diplomatic efforts to over come the last difficulties of the Italian crisis, and to make, if necessary, such modifications to the con ditions of peace, as may be compatible with the in terests and the honour of the parties therein en gaged. Thanks to this union, the Peninsula will be free from the Alps to the Adriatic." Prince Richard Metternich arrived here to-day, and has had a conference with Count Walewski. SEPT. 17. Lord Cowley will leave to-day for Biarritz, and Count Walewski will proceed there on Monday next. Count Cavour and the Duke of Malakoff are likewise expected at Biarritz. Nothing definitive has yet been decided on by Government as to the number of forces to be de spatched to China. TURIN, SEPT. 17. The King leaves to-morrow for Pavia, Crema, Lodi, and Cremona, and will go on Wednesday to Monza, where hunting parties will be held. The Bolognese deputation will be received at Monza on Saturday next. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 16. A supplement to the Invalide .Russe has just been published, and states that, according to a verbal report of Lieut.-Colonel Grabbe, a victorious assault had been made on Gunib, and five cannons had been taken by the Russians. Schamyl was taken prisoner, and his sons and family were captured or killed. The Russian loss did not exceed 100 men. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY. A letter from Biarritz states that the Emperor, the day after his arrival, paid a visit to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, and that the Russian prince went the same day to the Villa Eugenie to return the visit. The same letter says :—" The King of the Belgians will only remain here two days. The sole object of his visit to this place was, as I am informed on the best authority, the difficulties which have arisen in Italy since the peace of Villa franca. The Prince de Chimay, who without hav ing any official title, has been charged with impor tant confidential missions by the Belgian Govern ment, remains here still. You are not perhaps aware that the Prince's mother was a native of Bayonne. The Princess of Caraman-Chimay was daughter of Count Cabarrus, Minister of Spain and born in this place. Her beauty and large fortune gave her a brilliant renown under the Republic and the Empire The Prince de Chimay found here the family of his mother, which still reckons a number of members, all greatly respected in this country. Mme. de Galard, sister of Count de Cabarrus, is still living, and although she has attaiued the age of 100 year, retains all her faculties. The families Labrouche, Cabarrus, and Joleri have also bonds of close relationship with the Princess Carman-Chimay and with her son, which the Prince hasbeen happy to acknowledge." BOURSE, Sept. 17.—The market opened steady with an upward tendency, but it was checked by sales for realisation. Threes, which had been done at 69f., receded to 68f. 80c. Mobilier varied from 797 f. 50c. to 787 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 543 f. 75c. to 537 f. ; Lombard, 555f.t0 550 f. ; Orleans, 1,375 f. to 1,370 f. ; Lyons, 875 f. to 872 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations :- 41 per Cents. 95 Credit Foncier.... Do. end month 95 —' Belgian 4i . — 3 per Cents 6B 75 Piedmonteso (5) .. 86 25 Do. end month 6B 80 Roman B5 25 Bank Shares Credit Mobilier ~ 795 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 787 50 Home Debt 44a RAILWAYS. . . Cash. Account. Orleans Northern - .. 922 50 New ditto BlO .. 812 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 875 Geneva 530 .. Southern Western 577 50 .. 580 Eastern Sardiniaa 4lO .. Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f 121 c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 95c. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. This morning the Cunard Royal Mail steamship America, Captain Miller, arrived in the Mersey from Boston and Halifax, with advices from thence to the 7th and night of the Bth inst. respectively. Besides the mails, the America brings 58 passen gers and 50,000 dols. in specie. The steamship Jason, from Galway and St. John's, Newfoundland, arrived at New York on the sth inst. On the Btb inst. the America passed the Royal Mail steamship Europa, hence, between Halifax and Boston, bound for the latter port and on the 11th, in lat. 47. 59 N., long. 49.58 W a large screw steamer steering west. The Governor-General of Canada and Lady Head gave their farewell ball and supper on the 2d, at the Government House, Toronto. A boat containing ten persons was upset off the harbour of St. John's, N. 8., on the morning of the 3d inst . , and four women, a man, and three boys were drowned. An Englishman, named Edward IL Humphrey, who is alleged to be a defaulter to parties in Eng land to the amount of £40,000, and who has been searched for through Canada and the States during the last three months, was arrested in Boston on the evening of the 2d. The arrest was made on the charge of adultery, Humphrey having brought to this country a woman not his wife, with whom he has been living, but it is probable that the sub ject of his alleged defalcation will be investigated as soon as testimony can be obtained. A most exciting contest has been for some time going on in America between the aeronauts and the rope walkers, in order to test which are the most foolhardy, and which party can perform the most dare-devil feats, At the last trials Professor Steiner, a Canadian aeronaut, crossed Lake Ontario in a balloon in the night, and M. Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on his tight rope at the same unsea sonable time, lighting his passage with rockets and Roman candles. A despatch from Leavenworth, dated the sth, says :—" A collision took place between the Re publicans and Democrats on Saturday night, when both parties were having demonstrations prior to the municipal election to-day. The Republicans held their meeting at the intersection of two streets, and the Democratic torchlight procession attempted to pass through it. This was resieted, when a general melee ensued, several hundreds on both sides participating in it, using stones, blud geons, pistols and knives. One man was shot and five or six severely cut, but it is believed none were fatally injured. The Republicans maintained their ground and proceeded with their meeting. The affray is believed to have been purely accidental, and is universally regretted. There is some appre hensions that the disturbances will be renewed to day, but effective measures have been taken to pre serve peace and order." Havana advices to the 2d instant have been re ceived. Sugar was firm. Sterling exchange 14 to 151 per cent, premium, and on New York 3-1 to 5 per cent. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, SEPT. 6. The supply of money is more ample than at the close of August. We hear of occasional transactions at 6 per cent. on call, but they are special cases, very little being done under 6 per cent., and the large proportion to 7. The demand for foreign exchange is quite limited. Bankers ask 110 to 1101 for 60 day bill on London, Paris 5 15. Cotton, dull and heavy; mid. Uplands nominal at 111. Flour—State and Western less active, good grades, heavy and drooping, and common scarce and unchanged ; Southern, dull anedrooping. Corn quiet. Oats, declining Beef, dull. Pork, steady for mess. Lard firm. Butter firm. Rice, more active. CHICAGO, Sept. G.—Flour, active, at unchanged rates. Wheat, active, and spring advanced lc. Cord dull, and lc lower. Oats quiet. NEw ORLEANS, Sept. 6.—Cotton declined ; mid., 11 to 111. Exch ange on London, 91- to 9a. Freights to Li verpool, id.; to Havre, CAPTURE OF A SHARK OFF YARMOUTH.-A fine specimen of the Ocean Carnivora, or Basted Shark, got entangled in the nets of a beat belonging to Hastings, and commanded by William Staines, on Friday afternoon. It is supposed that the voracious fish was following the shoals of herrings off this coast, and having got into the net he plunged at a tremendous rate, and did much damage to five nets. He was ultimately rendered incapable of resistance, after a stubborn fight, by several smart blows over his snout with a hatchet. not, however, before he had seized one of the crew by the arm, and somewhat injured him. The shark, which: was captured about 18 miles from Yarmouth, was brought on shore on Saturday, and exhibited to the public. In length the fish measured 51 feet, and weighed about 801 b. LITERATURE. Shrfting Scenes in Theatrical Life. By Eliza IV an stanley, comedian. Routledge. The authoress of this tale, who has already ac riuired credit and popularity as a comedian, has been tempted to appea r u p on another stagee and face the difficulties of anothe r profession.. ha▪ e s wisely selected theatrical life as her subject, si there is a peculiar attractio n to the readers of li▪ ght literature in the records of a Dramatic career, and her own acquaintance with the members. of t he theatrical profession enables her to give a vivid and life-like representation of the dramatis persona; behind the curtain and in the green-room. In her preface she fells us that her story is founded on facts, although of course they are gathered from various quarters and did not occur in the same sequence as the events of the narrative. The e r is chit: ra t ters are also real, altho u g h disguised. The s omething very pleasing i n t he favourable vieW which an actress of experie nce and standing takes of her profession, in the high moral tone she has. p re served throughout, scarcely introducing any those intrigues and moral defalcations which are t o o commonly made the prin ci p al staple of anY tale relating to the stage. She has introduced ma** excellent characters who would do honour to any profession, and she has not restricted her illustra tions to the managers of first-rate theatres and th e " stars" of the dramatic hem is p here. Her heroine, a gentle womanly character, is the wife of a strol ling player, and thougi their daughters subse quently obtain distinction on the London boards, yet a great part of the tale runs through the poorer wanderers of the profession, who think it a high honour to obtain a temporary engage ment at a country theatre, and look to London as an unattainable El Dorado. In th is class Mrs. Win stanley introduces many eccentric individuals. We have Mr. and Mrs. Gyngell, the rough and hard taskmasters ; Joseph Jessamy, otherwise known M as Joyful Jessy, the liberal , gen erous manager; rs. Godfrey, in her old poke bonnet, always fearful that et people were going to impose on her, and begrudg ing every sixpence for necessa r y ex p enses, y withal possessing some good qualities. These The are the managers in the various cou ntr y p laces. , town ones, if we mistake not, are dra wn from life. The actors are more numerous, but all cleverly sketched, and possessing ind ividualit y . us Cave, the husband of Emma , the heroine, is a hard. hearted, selfish, cruel man, who embitters the exist. once of his devoted wife. Emma h erself is all that Is gentle and admirable in woman, never murmur ing at incessant toil and tyranny, and only anxious for the weltare of her children. The story con ti.nues the narrative of the struggle s of Julius and Ins family until Zarina and Clotilda attain woman hood and appear in London. We leave the reader to develope the remainder of the stor y in Mr?' Winstanley's pleasant pages, assuring him he will find no lack of exciting romance and animated ad v.enture. The tale shows talent, and possesses con siderable interest, being altogether very creditable to a debutante on the literary stage. The following passage from the preface shows the elevated vie.w' which the authoress takes of her profession and its members : The writer's aim, indeed, has been rather to uphold than to depreciate the character, ' or " say aught in malice" of ce" ~ profession to which she thinks it no discredit t o belong. 1 , 12 the delineation of Em the ma—the true heroine of the tale—sne has endeavoured to show how the vicissit udes, t r ials, life of privations, and sufferings attendant up on the strolling player may serve to develope s ome of the sense bolo qualities that do honour to human nature • that a high of moral duty, patience under disappointment and the pres sure of hopeless difficulties, together with the constant practice of the good Samaritan's spirit per fectly compatibletible with a calling whose busines' may be s it is " to hold the mirror up to nature." We congratulate Mrs. Winstanley on her success in her new part as authoress, and ha ve no doubt her friends, the public, to whom she is already wel l known, will greet her appearance on th is new stags with encouragement and approval. THE DISASTER IN CHINA• (From the Debats.) " The advanced state of the season r emoves all hope of being able to commence any serious opera-, tions in the North of China before the middle .oer next spring. Pekin is situated in the sam e latitude as Naples, but during the summer the h eat is as great as in Egypt, and in the winter the cold severe as in Sweden. Before carrying the war int., t such a climate it will be necessary to make rag% preparations which have not been yet thought 01.0 Referring then to the amount of forc es likely be required, our contemporary says : had " If the personal experience which we have of the Chinese gives us a right to have an opinic a we should say that a corps of 25,000 men wsut be amply sufficient to obtain the results which we propose as the object of the new expedition: That would be about 12,000 furnish ed by es"' power, that is to say, for the French , an ordinary division with its details of artillery, en gineers! &c. It would perhaps be ad visable to add to them one or two squadrons of dra ffoons or A can Chasseurs. There are plenty of h ors es in the. north of China, the Mongols last year broug ht cavalry into the field against the allies, and by Pay ing regularly for the animals whi ch might be brought for sale, enough would bo doubtless cured for the artillery, and for mou ntin g a seas corps of 200 or 300 men, who might render portant services. If it should be considered iti d- pensable to have immediately at command a certain number of horses, the most simple plan would be to purchase them beforehand at Manil la, and to have them conveyed by one of those transpo , which have been built expressly for th e purp?rse,tS and which can carry from 300 to 400. In taki fro ng advantage of the south monsoon, the voyage nt Manilla to the Peiho can be made in a week or ten days. The horses of the Philippines are small and not very strong, but they are tractable and full of spirit. As to the artillery, there would be no necessity to have a great number of guns, or any of large calibre. Rifled mountain guns, such as were used in Kabylia, would suffice for all the eventuality of the campaign, as the Chinese never take artillery with them. For the attack of fortified places, the old 12-pounders, rifled, which throw shells of 241 b. weight to a dis tance of more than 4,000 metres, would find it only child's play to destroy all the works of the Chinese. feet titcoonnopt:lfeeo conveyance The most delicate point will be to organise the means of transport for the materiel of the army. It must not be supposed that this organisation pre ferkoimn, theaf te r sea a , ll a , n il pre sents any very formidable difficulties, particularly when they can be fo ( r 7 e s see m n i . les P ) only about 30 leagues is united to it by the River Peiho, of which advan- T te i g eo e . t could s n tbhbhborei boats etn tsreoai necessary e e rsfr n so au . t urrhy l pe t aicadn n ateep o eer w itba n aolrf t lg h htet a awhs t sei b olol e rsn y teloo o yrni n e d s sd ee luthenflat bottomedot and the sick ; and in order to move those barges it would be well to be pros ided with a certain a mount of steam apparatus which could be fitted up on the spot, similar to the steam gunboats which were built for navigating on the lakes and rivers of Italy. EXTRAORDINARY INQUEST. On Saturday afternoon an exceedingly delicate investigation was begun before Mr. Humphreys, the coroner and a highly respectable jury at the New Globe Tavern, Mile-end-road, to discover the causes which led to the death of a male child, aged three weeks, whose body has been exhumed by order of the coroner, acting under instructions from the Secretary of State. It appears that early in August last the Bishop of London received two letters si g ned by " A Parishioner," which alleged that the Rev. J. Bonwell, rector of St. Philip's Church , S te p ney, had kept a young woman in an apartment in the school-house adjoining the church, which young lady was there delivered of a male child on th e 11th of August last. It was also stated that the t m other and child had suddenly left the houses , giving rise o suspicions of foul play as regarded the Infant. The Bishop of London, on receipt of these le tters, p laced the matter before the authorities in Scotland -yard, who immediately commissioned Inspector Whicher to investigate the truth or falsehood of the letters. From the inquiries which he made Inspector Which ascertained that the rector was a married man, and that when introdu ced to the young lady in questiqn he represented himself to be a widower. She subsequently left her home and lived with the rector at Southend ; they were afterwards traced to London, and had been seen t o enter the school: house at Stepney on the night of the 1 lth of August last. She was there d e livered of thud e ceased child by Dr. Godfrey, of Finsbury-a whose assistant procured a nurse for her. On the 15th ult. the mother and child removed to the Sus sex•hotel, Duke-street, Southwark, where the rector_ engaged apartments for her. On Saturday the 3 d of September, the child died, and the same day the q e, Rev. Mr. Bonwell called on Mr. Ayres, an under taker, presented him with a certificate of the child'e death, and bade him bury the child as quick'''. a ld g Possible, paying him 18s. for his trouble. The c was buried, not ix a separate coffin, but was surrep: titiously placed in the coffin of an adult, named, Elizabeth Haycock, whose funeral Mr. Ayers per formed on the 4th of September, at the Tower 11 9 : 21 _ A lets cemetery. On these facts being communicassr! to the coroner the body of Elizabeth Haycock_ wa g exhumed, and the body of the deceased child " found lying with it in. the same coffin. examination of the secretary of the cemeAtetreyratnilde onen or til next t‘v Wednesday witnesses week,t he inquest orderwas u analysis of the intestines and stosaac necessary witnessss and to await thehreosfultthoel dae. Leeeatsheedbyohfoilrd,thwahtivchurphoasvee. been forwarded to Dr. to caodltutr_nthende