The Sun. — London, England, 1858-08-26 00:00:00

• ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. List Week but Ole of the Present Season, and Last Nights of _ _ " The Merchant of Tenice'." THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of THE MERCHANT Or VENICE : Shylock, by Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, by Mrs. C. Sean. Preceded by the Farce of LIVING TOO FAST. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, Thursday, August 26th, will be produced a New and Original Comedy, entitled EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day; in which Mr. Emery, Mr. James Rogers, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E. Falconer, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, and Miss sate Saxon, will appear. After which, the Farce of THE DANCINGhaIf-past 6, RBER ; Plhauggle, Mr. James Rogers. Doors open at BA to . com mence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. Last Three Nights of the Present Season.—Benefit of Mr. Belford. THIS EVENING , ASMODEDS: by Mr. Belford and Miss Marie Wilton. After which. A LOVER BY 'PROXY : by Messrs. Belford, J. Clarke, Miss M. Wilton, andiltou and Mrs. M e lville. To conclude with DH AS A POST : Miss M. VV Mrs. Melville. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OM' ETES? EVE G.—The following company of To eausta are engaged for the performance of Seleetions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz..—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Herr P. Jonghmaaas, liellShaW, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling euor Antonio, Z. L. lime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens: Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Bt. Albyn. Mr. John G. Porde" and E. W. Itecklaey. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium , Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at seven 'clock precisely. Suppers, Sc., until twelve o'clock. THE WEATHER—SIN OFFICE, AUGUST 26. THERMOMETER, IN THR SHADE. 61—highest since Boon yesterday. 51—lowest this morning and daring the night. 62—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.11. WIND, North-Westerly ; light, with fine weather. It is high time that masters, or, as they are termed, "captains," in the mercantile marine service, should profit by the many painful lessons they have received of late years, and learn that, though neces sarily entrusted with great power, they cannot abuse that power with impunity, or vent their wrath on innocent persons, whether they be passengers, or even seamen under their command. For a long time they had it all their own way—could indulge in any amount of brutality, without any dread of being called to account ; or, if brought be fore a " court for some great atrocity, the indiscretion was charitably ascribed to excessive zeal, and they escaped on payment of a mere nominal fine, a matter that never in the slightest degree influenced their future conduct. The conviction and execution of Captain ROGERS at Liverpool, and the transporta tion of his two:mates, produced a very salutary effect, showing that if death followed, if an unfortunate victim perished from continued ill-treatment, whe ther produced from personal animosity or rough practical joking, the perpetrators would be had responsible to the law, and that the obsolete cant respecting the necessity of preserving discipline would no longer be tolerated in a court of justice. Since the execution of Captain ROGERS, another captain in the merchant service has been sentenced to penal servitude, and several have been called to account for driving their victims to suicide. This, however, is a comparatively safe game, for though morally murderers, being responsible in the sight of GOD for the deaths of the miserable sufferers, they could only be punished for common assaults, and even in such case the full machinery of the law was seldom, if ever, put in motion. It is not often, however, that these " Vikings" attempt to attack or insult gentlemen of rank and position who may chance to be passengers in the vessels of which they may be masters. They know that such cases cannot easily be hushed up—that they will eventually be called to a strict account for their " sayings and doings and that, although it may be very pleasant to exhibit spite towards pt_r sow immeasurably their superiors in social position, education, and everything that constitutes a gentle man, it is rather a dangerous game to play, and may prove to be a very expensive luxury. Be sides it may give the ship an ill name. C:T tains too prone to put passengers into irons, or in any way abridge their liberties, will not find many, able and willing to pay a fair price In their accommodation, anxious to sail under suzh sinister auspices. For their own sakes, then, they would avoid such manifestations of ill-humour, but sometimes bad temper outruns discretion, and they vent their malevolence reckless of future come- quences. Such a case has been recently tried at Bristol, in which a gentleman named Km:pa was plaintiff, and Mr. HALE FRANKLIN, master of the ship Undaunted, was defendant. Mr. Kaosi was an advocate of the Scottish bar, son to an eminent member of the House of Assembly at the Cape of Good - Hope, from which place, unfortunately for himself, he came as passenger to England on board the Undaunted. It happened that Captain FRANKLIN had serious differences with some of his military passengers before arriving at the Cape, and that in consequence many of them had kept him at a " civil distance," giving only formal replies whenever addressed by him. He seems to have resorted to petty annoyances in order to avenge himself for what he was pleased to think their contumacy; and, accordingly, one evening at eight o'clock he ordered the lights to be extinguished' when a party of officers were engaged in a friendly rubber of whist. The usual time for so doing on board the. Undaunted was eleven o'clock, but Captain FRANKLIN chose to anticipate the time by three hours. Mr. KROG was not in any way engaged in the game, but on hearing the extraordinary order, and ',feeling that he was better acquainted with the law than any of his fellow-passen gers, he declared that the steward had no right to remove the lights ; whereupon the captain, in his elegant phraseology, asked :‘ Who the devil areTyou." On replying that his name was Km)°, the captain repeated it in derisive and insulti'.9g tone;, adding that he was captain of the ship, and Tvould have the lights put out. Mr. KROG said, " You sre captain of the ship and the crew, but the passengers are different as regards them; the ship is a sort of floating hotel, of which you are the landlord." This could not be borne—the indignant captain threatened to carry him. to England in irons, and, what is more, carried out the threat, for Mr. KROG was kept in irons ten days in a close cabin, seven feet by six, until the doctor of the ship declared that he could not answer for his life were he longer kept in con finement. In this extraordinary case the jury gave the plaintiff £375 damages, not as a punishment for the brutality of the captain, but as compensation for the unmerited sufferings he had endured. The defendant himself, by his evidence, completely negatived the defence set rip by the pleadings, that it was "to prevent a mutiny" that he had strained his authority to such an extent. He also admitted that he bad threatened to pull Lieut. ARMSTRONG'S nose, was in a passion because his wif e " because he was in hysterics. He threatened Captain HUNT, and told Captain GREEN that he was ready to meet him at 12 paces ; but then cg he was annoyed!" He had an cer seriously j a lt erca tion with Dr. VILtLE, an wounded at Lucknow , and off eered him on account of his wound. And this is the man empowered by the certificate of the Board of Trade to wield the authority which be has already, through mere petulanCe, so grossly abused ! We have no personal feeling against Capta in FRANKLIN. We know nothing either of him or of any of the parties concerned, beyond the face disclosed by the evidence, and the views taken by the learned judge and the jury in reference thereto. It is unquestionably a case that should be strictly investigated by the Board of Trade, so that it may be ascertained whether Captain FRANKLIN is a fit and proper person to be entrusted with despotic authority for the time being. Nor is it merely Captain FRANKLIN'S case that should be acted on. There are many others, indeed they are of daily occurrence, in which certified masters greatly forget themselves, '-•#' • t . :'s. . ' ',,:i*, • : tit 1 . S• A ' 'fr %0 • 4.: g -t _l3.- . ... 1 , , " 3 "Or --JO I t . ,1* 0 ~, ..- 1...r.-IF-3!o4111101, . '',;:--' w Ailloi -- ' :-- ‘ -, .;.--7,, it -,.. e ,:: "..caLERBor-' , .."" ' 7 4 " 12 ' w . • 'II" ' " 1 . ,;:..* .• ,_, - -- j ,. ." THE SUN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1858. and transgress the very broad limits afforded to them. At all events the precedent will be useful, and it will be found that putting gentlemen in irons or damaging their noses, may be luxuri too ex pensive to be indulged in whenever the master is annoyed, or his wife is hi hysterics. "An INDEMNITY is to be paid to England and France." So runs one of the sentences which we re ceived from Prince GORTSCHAEOFF and the Moniteur on Saturday last. That sentence was no doubt read with pleasure by thousands. From the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the possessor of the smallest salary which pays income-tax, it was gratifiying to learn that we should be reimbursed the costs of corn- pelling Commissioner YBH and his superiors to respect the rights of nations, and not to shuffle with treaties. We many of us feel it, indeed, to be a little hard on the poor ENIPEROB, worried to death between Taeping rebels and the gunboats of the two mightiest kingdoms on the earth, to be obliged to promise to pay so much of his good Sycee silver, when perhaps he scarcely knows where to get it; yet we are hardly chivalrous enough to take on ourselves the burdens which, but for his misgovernment, or his indulgence of those who misgovern in his name, we need not have incurred. We confess, however, we did blush for ourselves, and for France too, as we read the names of Russia and GoRTsCUAIOPP in connection with the news. Row the CZAR and his servant must have chuckled with pleasure as they transmitted to us the word " Indemnity." Pleasantly did GORTSCHA KOFP smile on WALIWSET, and perhaps the Pole on the Russian, as the word " indemnity" was read in the despatch from St. Petersburg. Pleasant was it to think that Russia had paid no indemnity by the peace of Paris; pleasant to remember how Russia had previously exacted indemnity from the weakness of Turkey, yet that it had not been re membered against her ; and very pleasant for Prince GORTSCHAKOFF to lay his finger on the word, and to say to WALEWSKI as he communicated the news— " You too, then, exact indemnity when you can get it from the helpless—good policy that, Monsieur — so let us stronger powers ever fleece the sick men, till we starve them into our hands, at their own ex pense." _ _ _ One thing is undeniable—we have fined heavily the half-innocent ; we have let off with impunity the atrocious criminal. We, of course, cannot excuse the EMPEROR of China, except so far as he was ill-in formed of what was done at Canton ; or, on account of the insurrection between Pekin and Canton, was almost powerless in the latter place. Commissioner YEn's doings we condemned at the time, and should do so again. Still it is but fair to remember that a very large party in both houses of Parliament, able orators, and acute lawyers, many of them now able Ministers of the Crown, did pronounce YEn and the EMPEROR in the right, and Sir JOHN BOWRING and Lord PALMERSTON in the wrong. Be it, that opposition tactics and peace-society crotchets were largely answerable for this, it is but common candour to admit that, if able and respectable men here could take the Chinese side in the quarrel about the lorcha, on the common principles of human nature, the Chinese must be partly excused for seeing their own conduct in the light in which even a large number of our own senators saw it. The Emperor of Cnixa must be allowed the full benefit of this fact when we are estimating the amount of his govern , mental delinquency. What, then, is his delinquency compared with that of the Czars of Russia in the business of the last war with Turkey ! No party could be found bold enough to defend the most villainous, wanton, unprovoked, territorial burglary in the history of modern Europe. All the Courts of Europe, even the sycophant and selfish Court of Prussia, con demned it. Turkey had violated no treaty, had done Russia no wrong, had injured none of her subjects, \had not given the shadow of a shade of provocation , yet, that proud ambitious villain NICHOLAS, far worthier of condign punishment than half the vulgar burglars, robbers, and murderers of his time did not hesitate to pour his blood -stained legions into the peaceful provinces of Turkey ; and to on , sheath the sword when Europe was at peace, mercy and purely for his own aggrandisement. On his head,. and on the heads of his people who obeyed him when they ought to have treated him as other Rnssan despots have been treated, rests the curse of all the blood shed from Kalafat to Sebastopol and Circassia. No one ever ventured to defend this man of bloody ambition, this arch-offender aninst Europe, humanity, and ill.: common laws of nations. No jury but a Russian one, and not every Russian one, could be found to offer an excuse for him. Yet this is the man whom, thanks to German in fluence with our Court, thanks to the leanings of despots to brother despots, and our governors' leanings to the relatives of our Crown—this is the man who escaped all direct penalty ! England paid some eighty millions, France probably as much more, to resist his villanies, yet he repaid none of it. We take indemnity of a million or two, it may be, from the comparatively innocent but helpless Emperor of China. We leave to the burglars of Europe the sinews of war—leave them their picklock keys and crowbars for the next attempt. By amercing the needy Court of Pekin we gain nothing but the saving to our pockets of a few pence. Had we fined the CZARS in merely the pecuniary costs to which they put the Four Powers, we should not only have repaid the people the heavy sacrifices imposed upon them, but have taken security of the most aggressive of European powers to keep the peace for long to come. Who can deny that it looks almost like meanness to take a small indem nity from a weak Power, declared by half our own legislators to be guilty of no crime, while we allowed the criminal, whom all alike condemned, to walk off, boasting that he had punished the exchequers of four countries as much as his own ? We observe that in his speech at Sligo, Lord PALMERSTON lauded the terms of peace—they were such as no one would have thought of when the war began. That may be. But when we had spent eighty millions of money, and were in a position to enforce any just demand, it behoved his Lordship to show that we had obtained what we were entitled to ask. I .First and foremost amongst just demands was the one we have made on China ; and we repeat there was' tenfold reason, both in equity and utility, for enforcing the same demand on Russia. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council on Thurs day nett at Osborne. The summonses were issued yesterday. The Princess Anatoli Dariatinsky and family have left the Clarendon fur Shauklin, Isle of Wight. - The Earl and Countess Constance GrosYenor and family have arrived at Brighton, where they have taken a house an the Marine-parade. Mr. and Mrs. C. Congouilke have arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Paris. Mr. and Mrs. George Brown have arrived at the same establishment from Lancashire. Mr. and Mrs. Mason have arrived at the Queen's l ie Hotel, Upper Norwoo d. We regret to announce the demise of Mr. Charles we D rumm ond, one of the active p artners of t he banking firm. Mr. Drumm ond died on Monda y at Brighton. The deceased was brother of tt trnoon Major-Gen.leilret. Edwardte Sir R. Berkeley Drummond,D many of , a r a s p p d r o i v f a t t l e i e s eunfortunatet the Peel. He was horn 4th September, 1790, and married 1511 i July, 1819, the Hon. Mary Dulcibella Eden, sixth daughter of William first Lord Auckland, by whom he leaves a nurncr e ousiamily. prospectus of the Indian and Australian Telegrapi: Company Th capital (limited), first section, was issued beingto day, £500,000, in 25,000 shares preliminary deposit of 2s. per share. the pr.oposed of 1;20 each, with a guarantee respectability, and their The directors are of the te and ee that operations will be d manner. It undertaking is the ex commercial position is a England and conducted in a legitimate is announced that the o u bje m et m o u f ra t ettioa the land roue h ea l ! As the Indian Go r v o e m rnment cow ern patty will ' itenndsiiao ex tension f the te I R e g e d rag plate a cmitinuance of the Red Sea line b y to Ceylon, the first section by this corn from S.lngerre, and eventually further sections ° w e ' mad b e I carried l'4. Hong Kong and Australia. The success at i t i e l nd e ing the )frying of the Atlantic cable, and the subsidy awarded to the promoters of the Red Sea and India Telegraph Com pany, h ave induced the origimators of this projeet to antici pate Government assistance, and representations will forth with be , made to the authorities to secure an adequate gua rantee. No doubt can be entertained but that a thorough connection between the whole of our sta Eahe d, stern and Austra lian d e pendencies will now be eblis and that the works svfil he speedily commenced aLd carried out.— illorreng Jicrald. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1858 SPANISH RAILWAYS.—The Madrid journals state ' that the tunnels on the Madrid and Valiadolid Railway, between Madrid and Escurial, are finished, and that the other works are being actively proceeded with. Upwards of 800 men are employed on the first 30 miles of the line. A great number are also engaged in cutting the tunnels of Paradilla and Navalgrande, situated between Madrid and Avila. In the section between Burgos and Avila 2,795 men are actively at work. THE CHOLMELEY ESTATES.—The above estates, says the Berkshire Chronicle, comprising seven farms, at Erleigh and Shinfield, containing 1,050 acres, were sub mitted to public competition before a large an d linfluential body of gentlemen, on Tuesday last, at the Upper Ship Inn, Reading, by Mr. W. H. Fuller. The highest bidding offered was £38,600, and the estates were finally bought in by the Court of Chancery. An advanced bidding was afterwards made of several thousand pounds, but was not accepted. THE SUPPOSED MURDER AT CAMBERWELL.—Last evening Mr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, resumed the inquiry at the King's Arms, George-street, Camberwell, on the body of Hannah Read, 12 years of age, who was found the previous Friday in the Grand Surrey Canal, near St. George's-bridge. It having been reported that this child bad evidently been violated and afterwards drowned, much excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood. The evidence of the district surgeon, Mr. Chabot, who examined the body after it was taken out of the water, entirely negatived the supposition of violation, and also stated there were no marks of personal violence of any kind on the body. The dark and livid appearance of certain parts of the body that induced the females who washed it to imagine the child had been unfairly treated were the natural post-mortem ap pearances from suffocation. Evidence was given that about 12 months since the deceased was induced by a girl to rob her parents, who obtain their livelihood by selling milk, of 9s. 6d., and which circumstance was the subject of magis terial investigation at the time. On Thursday the child left home about seven o'clock in the morning to go to Mrs. Horsley's, Addington-square, Walworth-road, whose baby she nursed by day, and was never seen alive after. In the course of that morning the parents discovered from the in quiries of an elder sister that the deceased received on Wednesday morning a shilling from her mistress for milk which she had not given to her mother. It was supposed that dread of the discovery by her parents caused her to drown herself, and the jury returned a verdict of found dead. ----- MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—The Bridge of' Earn was on Saturday last the scene of a dreadful tragedy, which has caused the utmost excitement, not only among the inhabi tants of the place, but also among the numerous strangers who are at present sojourning there. The circumstances are there :—.A young man, a sailor, named Alexander Murray, aged 23 years, came—as usual when not employed at sea— to live with his grandmother, Mrs. Campbell, the widow of the late postmaster of this place. It appears that he reached the Bridge of Earn on Thursday night last from Greenock, where his vessel had arrived from Trinidad on the Sunday evening previous, and remained with his friends until about one o'clock of the afternoon of Saturday last, when he expressed a wish to go out. This was mildly objected to on the part of his grandmother, when he in stantly, and without the slightest warning, snatched up a breakfast knife from the table and plunged it with much force into her neck, severing the jugular vein and causing almost instantaneous death. Mrs. Campbell had just suffi cient strength before she fell to make her way two or three steps out of the room into the lobby, where she was found by her daughter, who had just the moment before left the room where they had been sitting. Oa attempting to lift her unfortunate mother the daughter was set upon by the young man, who, it is supposed, had he not dropped the fatal weapon in the room, would also have taken away her life. On assistance arriving he quietly left the house, and walked along the front street of the village, without shoes, coat, or hat, and with his hands and shirt all covered with blood, towards the bridge cr oss in g the Earn, with the intention, as stated by him to the person who intercepted him, of casting himself into the river. He was without any difficulty lodged in the police-station till the arrival of the authorities from Perth in the evening, by whom he was conveyed to the Perth goal. The unfortunate young man was at an early age deprived of his parents, and had been brought up by his grandmother, t• wham up to the fatal moment he had ever ev i nced deep gratitude and affection. He evidently committed the fear ful deed when in a state of temporary insanity brought on by excessive drinking. It is said that h e was some time ago confined for a few weeks in an asylum in London, shortly after his arrival there from one of his voyages, from the same cause. Such a melancholy event has cast a deep gloom over the district, where the parties were well-known and highly respected.—Daily Scotsman. THE MOORS.—As we anticipated, the moors pro mise to stand out well this season. The birds had attained that strength on wing by the 12th whieh prevented a flush of success at first, in the semi-murderous slaughter of a lot of cheepeis, yet grouse are not unplent i ful, end, when the weather is favourable , the probability is that, for a considerable time to came—until the birds get thoroughly wild towards the end of the seeson—a good day's sport will reward the l a b ours of the active and skil ful sportsman. On the 14th Lord March and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar were out shooting together in and had 52 brace grouse ; Colonel Jebb Redivlr. B M l r e . c c kw ox at Monday was a still mote successful day. Lord Mach and Mr. Cox shot about 70 brace, aad h er a'a 36 brace. Mon Prince Edward and Colonel Jebb 42 brace. On Tuesday, Lot d March and Colonel Jebb bagged 34 brace, the Prince and Mr. Cox 38 brace grouse and 3 bares; while on the 18th, Lord March and Mr. Cex had 272 brace, the Prince and Colonel Jebb 33 brace. Prince Edward and Colonel Jebb, on Thursday, had 34 brace, Lord Match and Mr. Cox 42. Lord March and Colonel Jebb had 20 brace on Friday, while Prince Edward's and Mr. Ccx's success on teat they was 57 brace. The grouse in Black water are getting very wild, and iisclining to pack. At Glenfiddich, Lord Coventry and Colonel Napier shot 42 brace grouse on Monday, and 25 brace on TueFalay; while on Wednesday Lord Coventry, with Colonel Black, had 32 brace ; Col , nel Napier and the latter g Aatleman baggina, on Thursday, 15 brace, and on Friday 25. The Duke ef Rich mond, on Friday, on his way from Glentiddich to Lthte.h water aria back, on horseback, and keeping the road the na, , st of the way, shot 27 brace of grouse and 3 hares. Two guns on the Liallimialloch incurs had 801 brace grouse, I duck, a plover, ned 2 hares after two o'clock on Wednesday, and (If Saturday, after 1 o'cbick, 401 brace grouse, :21 brace black game, and 1 bare. Tin ear ty at Lagga WM Id condone to h ,a - c excellent sport. Mr. Wa.ker bagged on tiie 13;l1 45 brace gr, , u , e, ai.d the 11ev..1. King in a few hours had 81 brace. On the 14th Mr. Walker killed 57!, brace grouse, end Mr. Hall 241 brace. On II e 16 . 11 Mr. Walker had another retoark:.ble day's sport-911 brace grouse and :3 h ar e', a nd lied o nly 5 dogs; the Rev. Mr. King on the same day had 80 brace, 1 li, , re, and a will ditch. Mr. Hall kided on Tue,J.l3 , 20 brace grott , e ; on Wednesday 251 brace and 4 hates; on Friday 371 brace grouse, and on Saturday =2B brace grouse and 3 bares. Mr. Walke: . on Wednesday baggt d 49 brace; on Thur,day, in less t , :ati au hour, he lint 7 brace, and en Friday made another achievement of 911 brace, Idling on Saturday 271 brace. The Rev. Mr. King on Friday had 5 - 51 brace, and 18 brace grouse and 2 hares on Saturday. Lord Scar: dale, at Carrbridge, had 25 brace on the 16th, 11 brace, 2 hares, and 1 snipe on the 17th, and 9 brace grouse, 1 teal, a snipe, and 2 hares on the lJth; Captain Holden and Mr. Bradshaw, on the same moors, killed 18 brace grouse and 4 hares on the 16th, 101 brace grouse on the 17th, and 201 biaee grouse and 2 hares on the 19th. The sportsmen areund laingussie have had rather different success as 3 et—from 3 to 15 brace—except Mr. Allsopp, who, on Glentrium, hail 42 brace grouse on the 19th. Mr. W. it. Coltman, on Deskryside, bagged on the 12th, after mid-day, 30 brace grouse to his own gun, and his party had pretty good sport also. Captain Arbuthnott, on the Strathfindsav hill, killed 23 brace on the 12th. Messrs. Dickson, up to the 15th, with four guns killed 64 brace grouse on the Tipperty and Birnie hills. Mr. Nicolson and party on the 12th killed on the Glenaervie hills 50 brace of grouse. On moors near the coast . grouse have been seen in packs already as many as 40 and 50 in each. In the Glenalvon forest Lord Ben tinck shot a stag on the lath; on the 14th three, Henry - two of them right and left shots, and on the 20th other two stags. Banffshire Journal. THE HARVEST IN STAFFORDSRIRE.—IMITeSt work in this neighbourhood, owing to the prevalence sf rainy weather, has 'seen suspended, and as the rain seems to have been general, a similar cessation of labour has taken place throughout the kingdom. The unfavourable state of the weather commenced on Tuesday last, and Wednesday and Thursday were decidedly wet days, rain falling almost continually though most heavily. On Friday and Satur day there was an improvement, and occasionally a fresh breeze prevailed. Yet out-door work, so far as the harvest was concerned, could not be proceeded with, owing to the continued humidity of the grain. On Sunday the rising of the barometer and other meteorological indications gave a promise of fine weather, which Monday and Tuesday fulfilled, and an active resumption of harvest operations will in all probability quickly take place. A considerable pro portion of the corn and barley crops is still standing, and in sheaf, in the field?, but has not, so far as we can learn, suf fered from the rain, which after the long term of dry weather that prevailed was especially serviceable to root crops and grass. At many marbles, on, Saturday last, samples of new wheat were sold, and 'Caneraltet it is spoken of as being in good condition, and selling at an advance of about is. per quarter. Some of the reports represent the wheat in the districts spoken of as all housed and in " fine condition," the more detailed description being that " the grain is plump and well-fed, and heavy in bulk." In no instance do we observe any complaint made of the quality of the grain, except that in a few northern markets it is repre sented to be damp, and to be sold at a low price. With regard to the general character of the crop in quality some diversity of opinion continues to p reva il. Whilst some affirm that notwithstanding the fine season, so satisfactory as was expected, others state the yield is not that the yield is proving abundant. There is no doubt that the crop is a variable one, but on the whole the res u lt i s most sat i s f actory. i The barley crop s represented as turning out better than was expected ; though some ef the late sown i n O x f or d sh i re and other counties will hardly pay the expense of harvest ing. T he crop, taken as a w hole, . may be pronounced good, yet it is expected that superior samples of malting descrip tions' . 11 be cempleted will be fewer than usual. Oats, and beans and peas crops will have have improved in . consequence of the late rains, but the two latter will still be deficient. As we have said, an extensive breadth of corn remains still to be cut ; yet, within a fortnight, should the harvest alI the 1 b sh e o en uld housed, the nearly a fortnight earlier than . in the inajyrity of years. The position of our own immediat e . dist r i c t . is described in weather and e even t our preceding statements. From Lichfield we learn that a very large proportion of corn has been on many farms secured in excellent condition, and many samples have be en brought to market. The re cent rains have benefited the turnips, marigolds, and grass in an extraordinary degree. Very little is heard of the potato disease, and the crops are of an average yield. At Tamworth no injury from the late rains appears to have resulted t o tho corn, whilst real good has been done to the g rass and turnips. In the neighbour hood of Burton-upon'-Trent the rain has replenished the river, though, owing to its fall, chiefly in thunderstorms, no great progress was made in harvesting operations. A good many potatoes have been got up, several samples of the " flukes " turning out rather interior, and some touched with disease. Mangold wurtzels are locking well, and pro mise a tolerably good crop. Barley continues to turn out tolerably well in weight, and the colour very good. At Uttoxeter the gathering of the wheat crop bad been sus pended, but it was not considered to be injured. An ac count from Cheadle represents the .reps of wheat and oats upon the whole as very good ; while to the pastures, clover, turnips, and other green crops the rain has been eeceedingly beneficial. In some few instances the disease has shown itself among tae potatoes, though as yet to a very trifling extent. At Newport and its neighbourhood the change in the weather is stated to have been not unwelcome, as pas tures, turnips, &c., were receiving considerable damage from want of moisture; and farmers had been disposing of their stock for want of grass, the aftermath this year being not one-third so good as it was last. There is a large quantity 1 grain cut in the district, and the is supposed very seldom to have land farms a deal of co gathered, but as a whole uneethered. At the ti e rn i e of a continuance of fine weather, perhaps earlier, the sickle and the of been surpassed. quantity yet standing Upon up landis all kinds appears to have been presumed three-fourths . is still write er there is every prospect , sc an th in wa ill again or two, or employed in forwarding the ingatleginge w ot i zain t be busily . portion of the harvest.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. oustanding LATEST INTELLIGENCE TURKEY. MINISTERIAL CHANGES FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENTS. MARSEILLES, AUG. 25. Intelligence from Constantinople of the 18th inst. annnouces a Ministerial modification. Othman Ruchdi Pacha, Minister at War during the operations in the Crimea, is to be in the Cabinet without a Portfolio. Riza Pacha is to unite to his functions as Minister at War the direction of the Artillery. The replacement of the Grand Vizier is in agitation. The Ministers have fully submitted to the Sultan the state of the finances, and his Imperial Majesty has blamed them for not having sooner informed him on the subject. The Ambassador of France has obtained a miti gation of the 10 per cent. tax, which occasioned great abuses. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, TnuRSD*Y. The Phoebe steamship arrived here this morning from the Cape of Good Hope, with the mails. She left Table Bay, July 21; St. Helena, July 30th ; Ascension, Aug. 2. Sir George Grey was about to leave for the fron tier on his mission of mediation between the Boers and Basutos. Table Bay improvements were to be commenced towards the end of the year. Convicts are to be employed on the work. Umhala, a Kaffir chief, has been delivered up to the British authorities by his own people. The Bishop of Graham's Town was about to visit the mission towns in Kaffraria. The Hermes had returned from the Zambesi, bringing intelligence that the Livingstone expedition had effected an ascent of the river, and were all well. The expedition had parted company with the Pearl, and were about to proceed to Sete in the small steam launch. The Pearl could with difficulty enter the main stream. The convict barracks at Graham's Town had been destroyed by fire, the act of an incendiary. A large number of emigrants had arrived from Holland. The Boseawen, Lynx, and Hermes, were in Simon's Bay. FRANCE. AUG. 25, G P.M. The French Government, anticipating the possi bility of more outrages on the Christians of the East, originating in the bombardment of Jeddah, is about to augment the French naval forces in the Mediterranean. Captain Fleuriot de Langle is to take the command of this naval division. The Trieste Gazette says the events of Candia and Jeddah have caused considerable fermentation at Aleppo, where the Christians would probably have been massacred, if Kiamil Pacha had not adopted the most energetic measures to secure tranquillity We shall no doubt hear of similar excitement in other quarters of the Turkish empire. An official despatch has reached Paris from Con stantinople, which says a modification is to take place in the Cabinet of the Sublime Porte, with a view of creiting financial reforms. If such be the case, and the Sultan calls around him honest men, bent on administering the revenue honestly, Turkey need not come to London or Paris for loans. I have received letters from Naples dated Aug. 20. The King had given orders that no change should take place in the treatment of political prisoners. On the contrary, additional precautions were to be used, and increased severities observed towards all suspected persons. Difficulty a obtaining passports to leave the country was increasing. Trade is dull, as few strangers are now in Naples. A deTatch from Lisbon announces the proroga tion of the Cortes until Oct. 11. Count de Persigny has arrived at St. Etienne to take part in the labours of the counc : 4l-general, of which he is the president. The importance of the role France is playing in opening China to the commerce of the world is not lost sight of, either by the diplomacy or the press of this country. Before the reign of the Emperor Na poleon 111., the task of introducing civilisation and spreading Christianity in oriental lands was almost confined to England. During the reign of the late constitutional King, France had little influence at Con stantinople, and less in China. Her commerce with the last was rather the traffic of toy merchants than the trading of serious mercantile men. The diplomacy of the Tuileries in those days exhausted itself in petty intrigues, such as the Spraiish marriage, and fretful jealousy towards England, which, on one or two occasions, almost produced war. The Ambassadors of England and France at foreign Courts were ever working in different directions, so that their influence seldom brought about any good results either for the political or commercial advancement of foreign coun tries. The present ruler saw the evils of such a policy from English ground, and one of the strongest convictions in the Emperor's mind was, as now, the necessity of France and England uniting their influ ence to improve their own diplomatic and commer cial relations with the rest of Europe. But in order to carry out this theory, his Majesty has had to con tend with the prejudices of a majority of the French diplomatic corps, educated in quite an Dpposite school of politics. Events have singularly confirmed the Emperor in his views regarding the utility of the Anglo-French alliance. Both in Turkey and Greece France has gained immense influence since the signing of the Paris treaty of peace. Thus a French Ambassador at Constantinople can now influence the Sultan in politics as well as commer cial affairs, and promote French interests, which ought to be ever identified with those of England. France has just gained another great victory by acting with England in China. There her moral weight, her intelligence, her interests, stand side by side with those of England. The two great nations of the west make no treaties either egotistical in conception or selfish in practice. The whole world participates in the free navigation of the Danube ; and the shipping of the world also will enter the ports of China on equal terms. If the genius and wealth of France turn such elements of prosperity more to external commerce than of old, the Sovereign and Govern ment of France have at least opened the gates for traffic on terms which give security to the merchant. That such results would have followed the old jealous policy of the two nations is scarcely to be an ticipated. Every nation of the Continent has an in terest in the Anglo-French alliance, since it ensures peace and produces material progress. The Siecle has the following reflections on the in terference of the allies in China :—" Many persons have disputed the right of Europe to raise thus violently the veil which kept China concealed from the world's view. We do not participate in that opinion. We believe in the solidarity of the human race ; we think that the same intercourse should take place between nations as between brothers. No nation has a right to shut herself up egotistically, and to repd those whom God has sent as her companions. If a state of isolation is unnatural in an individual, it is much more so in a nation. What treasures are lost when a nation surrounds herself by a wall like China. How many efforts she would have spared to other nations, if she had five or six centuries ago communicated to them what she then knew. She now pays the penalty of her selfishness, and we do not pity her." _ _ A Telegraphic Congress, in which France, Bel gium, Holland, Sardinia, Portugal, Baden, Wurtem berg, and Switzerland are represented, has just been opened at Berne, under the presidency of M. Naeff, Federal Councillor. PARIS BOURSE.—The market had rather a down ward tendency at the opening, owing to numerous realisations, but a rally afterwards took place, and the tone of the market improved. Threes, after having been done at 69fr. 85c., rallied to 70fr.; Mo bilier, from 745 fr. to 757 fr. 50c. ; Austrian, 640 fr. to 642 fr. 50c.; Orleans, 1,342 fr. 50c. to 1,352 fr. 50c.; Lyons, 821 fr. 25c. to 825 fr. ; Southern, 547 fr. 50c. to 550 fr. ; and Northern, 950 fr. to 955 fr. The following were the last quotations : Fr. Ct. Fr. Ct. 97 30 I Credit Fonder 625 Belgian 41 lOO Piedmontese 5 N 25 Roman . . 91 Austrian . Spanish Threes . —1 Home Debt...... 41 per Cents... Do. end of month 3 per Cent. 7O 20 Do. end of month 70 15 Bank Shares .... 3,125 Cr&lit Mobilier.. 770 Do. account..... 93 - RAILWAYS. Cash—Fr. Ct. Account—Fr. Ct. 1,352 50 955 -- 810 -- 827 50 Orleans 1,335 Northern New ditto BlO Lyons & Mediterranean B3O New ditto .. Geneva Midi Western . Eastern Grand Central Sardinian Austrian 610 - .. 552 50 .. 622 50 . . 690 - .. 427 50 640 - 610 - 552 50 625 - 695 - 436 25 646 25 THE QUEEN IN GERMANY. AUGUST 23. Yesterday, her Majesty the Queen and Prince Consort, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Prince and Princess Frede rick William, and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, attended Divine service at Babelsberg. The suites of her Majesty and of their royal highnesses were likewise present, as well as the whole of the English servants in attendance upon her Majesty. This morning, her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Prince and Princess of Prussia, and Prince Frederick William, went by special train to Berlin, and drove through the prin cipal streets of that city. Her Majesty was every where received with loud cheers and the most marked demonstrations of respect. Upon Saturday evening, late, their Royal High nesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden arrived at Babelsberg. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH• The following following message was received yesterday morning : " FURTHER INTELLIGENCE. " NEWFOUNDLAND, AUG. 25, 12.53 a.m., Greenwich Time. " Verse (?) takes Europa's passengers and mails. Great rejoicings everywhere were solemnised in the United States on the success of the cable. Bonfires, fireworks, feux de joie, speeches, balls, &c. Mrs. Eddy, the first and best telegrapher in t h e States, died to-day. Pray give us some news for Newfound land ; they are mad for news." HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL. AUG. 25 Crowds of gaping yokels, stiff and shiny police men got up with excessive care, and looking as i some tremendous secret which they would reveal to no human mortal were buttoned up in their official coat—coaches and carriages, four-horsed and two-horsed—musical artists in such excessive hats, and impossible caps as every freeborn Londoner thinks himself privileged to wear on his travels, but which seldom fail to elicit plea santry of a certain kind from those who are less imaginative or independent about their head-gear —a great bustle, noise, and confusion—everybody getting into everybody's way—shiny policemen more bothered than any one, but vigorously shaking an observant yokel whenever they got a sharp word from the inspector for not taking sufficient care of the public peace—rattle, and dash, and finery, and a great tuning of instruments large and small, string and wind—pray, what does all this mean? Why, no thing but that the first grand miscellaneous concert of the festival is about to commence in the Shire Hall ; that the great and never-to-be-sufficiently-admired lions and lionesses of musical London are going to display their wondrous powers for the especha delec tation and delight of the goad people of Hereford. The exterior of the Shire llall has a certain nobility about it, the roof is too low, but we can say nothing in favour of the concert hail, excepting that it is good for musical sound. This orning Alendelssohn's " Elijah" was per formed in the cathedral, the principal vocalists being Madame Clara Novella, Madame Viardot, Miss Lascelles, and Madame Weiss; Mr. Montem Smith, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Sims Reeves. We can only describe in terms of praise the satisfactory execution of a sublime and difficult work like this with a provincial amateur chorus, and a provincial conductor, unused to command so large a body of performers, and having to deal with metropolitan instrumentalists unaccustomed to his peculiar style of beat. We have so often recorded the merits of Mr. Sims Reeves' versions of " If with all your hearts" and " Then shall the righteous," both perfect efforts in their way, which no other tenor of the present day could rival, that we have really nothing left to say about them, unless it be that they delighted us again on this occasion as much as ever, and that we shall never tire of hearing such grand and beautiful music so finely sung. The lovely voice of Madame Clara Novello gave all the usual effect to her renderings of the widow's scene, " Help me, man of God," and the noble air, "Hear ye, Israel." The best opportunity Madame Weiss had for dis tinguishing herself was in the recitative of the youth who is sent to " look towards the sea," and the highest praise we can give is that she took the fullest advantage of it. An encouraging word must likewise be spoken for Miss Lascelles, who displayed much promise as an oratorio singer in the air, " Woe unto them," and the various concerted pieces in which she took part. Although we did not mention Miss Louisa Vinning, Mr. Thomas, or Mrs. Clare Hepworth amongst the principal performers, simply because they had very little to do, and sang for the most part in concerted pieces, we must not omit to state that their valuable assistance contributed materially to the general excellence of the performance, or that Mrs. Clare Hepworth sang one short solo, "Behold, God hath sent" (erroneously set down in the pro gramme for Madame Viardot) in a highly com mendable manner. The following pieces were repeated by desire of the bishop :—" Cast thy burden on the Lord" (ex quisitely sung by Madame Weiss, Miss Lascelles, Mr. M. Smith, and Mr. Thomas); " 0 rest in the Lord" (sung by Madame Viardot); " Then shall the righteous " (by Mr. Sims Reeves); " Lift thing eyes" (Madame Clara Novello, Mrs. Clare Hepworth, and Madame Viardot) ; and "0, come every one" (Miss Louisa Vinning, Madame Viardot, Mr. M. Smith, and Mr. Thomas). The attendance at the concert of last night was 220, at this morning's, 583. The collection this morning, £lBl ; that of the first morning concert of the last Hereford festival, £207. Amongst the notabilities present to-day were Lady Foley, Lady Powis, Lady Curtis, Mrs. Hampden, Mrs. King, Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. Griffiths, Miss Leighton, Mrs. Acton, Mrs. Lowther, Miss Conewall, and Miss Bullock. FOUR GENTLEMEN DROWNED.—The retired and beautifully situated little town of Emsworth, Hants, has bad a sad gloom cast o ver it, occas i on ed by four of its in h a bitants being drowned by tbe capsising of the pleasure smack Caro line, James Cribb, master, of the above place . It a p pears that on Saturday afternooni she left that place with six gentlemen on board the wind being stro n g at the time. When about four miles down the harbour a heavy squall took the boat, and before the master could get hold of the tiller (oue of the gentlemen steering) the ill-fated boat cap sised, und, melancholy to relate, the Rev. H. Morse, Joshua Smith, Esq., solicitor, Mr. Brown M oorhead, and Mr. George Shean were drowned. The persons saved were Mr. Philip Tyne, the Rev. Henry Sheen, and James Cribb, matter. The Rev. H. Morse swam ashore, but in his anxiety to save life he put back again to the wr eck, b y which th e heroic clergyman lost his own life; it is supposed he was seized with cramp. The other three lost are, we believe, single men; but the Rev. H. Morse is married and has four children, and his wife is hourly expecting to be delivered of another. The four dead bodies have all been picked up and lauded at Emsworth.—Brighton Guardian. THE LATE FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT---THREE MORE DEATHS. THE INQUEST. BUIERLEY-HILL, WEDNESDAY. This day, at noon, Mr.T. M. Phillips, coroner for Wolve rhampton, opened an inquiry as to the deaths of the unfor tunate persons killed by the fearful railway collision which took place on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway on Monday evening, at the Whimsey Inn, Brierley- bill, near the scene of the lamentable catastrophe, and sub sequently proceeded with it at the Bell Inn, in the same place, on account of the larger amount of accommodation afforded at the latter. As may well be imagined, when the fearful loss of life and injury to so many as about 90 persons is considered, the excitement was intense, and the jury room was crowded by friends and relatives of deceased and injured parties. The railway company were represented by Mr. King, of the firm of Collis, Bernard, and King, solicitors, of Stour bridge ; Mr. Adcock, the secretary ; Mr. Wilson, engineer ; and Mr. Wood, from the office of Mr. Sheriff, the genera manager of the line. Mr. Burbury, of Brierley -hill, solicitor, appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of he relatives of the deceased Francis Wills and Henry Marshall ; and Mr. Round, solicitor, of Tipton, als ) attended for the family of the Skeldons. The jury were empannelled to investigate the deaths of twelve persons—viz., Joseph Pitt, aged 28, single, waggoner of Princes-end ; Francis Mills, 36, sheet-iron roller, Princes-end ; Joseph Baker, 28, engine fitter, Princes-end ; Edward Matthews, 25, puddler, of Wallbrook, near Coseley ; Mrs. Harley, 40, Stafford-street, Dudley; Benjamin Skeldon, 52, baker and grocer, of Princes-end ; Mrs. Sarah Skeldon, his wife, 40 ; Edward Skeldon, aged 17, his son ; Henry Marshall, 35, boatman, of Worcester ; Richard Moore, 30, puddler, Princes-end ; Mary Hildrick, 35, Park lane, Tipton ; and Henry Western, 33, horse-dealer, Princes end. The Rev. Joseplius Bailey, of.Brierley-hill, was chosen foreman. The various bodies having been identified, Isaac Baldwin was first examined—l am a waggoner. I was a passenger. The train :left Princes-end a little before 10. It should have left a little before 9. I was in the first carriage next to the engine. I was thrown forward, as I sat with my back to the engine. Between Princes-end and Worcester I was told the coupling chains broke on each occasion, and a young woman's nose bled in consequence of the first concussion. I wanted to get out, but the guard would not let me. The second shock was near the Brettell- lane station, and the third near the Church-hill station. I was told the train was started with the breaks down, which caused the coupling irons to snap. I left Worces ter by the train at about half-past six. At Worcester the train was divided, and an extra engine was put en. I started by the second train; each train had one engine in front. The second train started about 10 minutes after the first. The train on its return went steadily on until it came to the Brettell-lane station, when the carriage in which I was ran up against the engine. I called out to the engineman what is the matter. He replied—" ?lathing, take your seats, it's all right." The accident then occurred, and I found myself thrown out of the carriage. When I recovered I saw several carriages broken to pieces against the engine, and people lying about in all directions. The first train had got de tached from the engine, and the carriages ran down the line into our train. I assisted Mrs. Hildrick and young Mr. Skeldon. I pulled the former from under the carriages, and laid her on the grass. She appeared quite dead and was badly wounded about the head and legs. Her husband was also badly wounded. Coroner—What, in your apinion, was the cause of the accident? Witness—ln my opinion the accident was caused by the neglect of the guards. By Mr. Burbury—Alr. Skeldon told me the breaks were down when we were proceeding to Worcester. He was a passenger, but he rode with the breaksman in the break-van. I was much hurt by the collision, but did not see how it occurred. The Foreman—You said they would not let you get out. Were the doors of the carriage you were in locked? Witness—The doors were locked on the side where pas sengers usually get in, but they were not locked on the other side, as I got out when the train stopped at Droit wich. The guards and porters would not let us get out at other stations. William Skeldon sworn—l am a plate-roller. I was in the train. The guard was in his break, and the carriages being so crowded I went into the break with him. Shortly after we started the guard asked if any one had any matches or tobacco. He got my brother, who was 17 years of age, and ❑ow dead, to work the break for him, he being also in the break-van. I gave the guard some tobacco and he lighted his pipe. He appeared to be quite sober. It was when we wet e between Dudley and Stourbridge that my brother worked the break under the direction of the guard, who was smoking. Near Brettell-lane I felt a very severe shock, and the guard said a coupling; chain had broke. The shock was then so severe it threw me off my seat. When we got to Brettell lane the guard took out a fresh coupling chain. A litile further on there was another shock, and the guard said it was a second coupling chain had broken. lie took another chain, and went to the top of the train, but brought it back again, saying, " I can do without it." We reached Wor cester at 12.25. There were 45 carriages and two engines pact of the way. 2,000 persons were in the train before it was divided. I don't know why it was divided. The first of the divided train left Worcester at 6.20, and the second train in which I was left about a quarter cf an hour after. Our train went on steadily up to between Brettell-lane and the Round Oak station. There was then a severe and sudden shock, and I was thrown violevAly forward against the opposite side of the carriage, and was much injured. I got out of the carriage, and first saw the funnel and the bilffers of the engine knocked off and lying on the line. The steam was off the engine, and I asked the engineer what was the matter; and he replied, " What the d-1 do you want here? Go back to your carriage ; there is nothing serious the matter. We gild) be off in a few moments." I then went on further with a man named Benj, Lawes, and saw the smashed carriages of the first train, and the first person I saw was the same guard in whose break van I had ridden in the morning. I did not speak to him, but I knew in a moment that it was the same train in which my father, mother, and brother were in. I was unable to find either of them fir two or three hours, and heard then that my father was lying at Mr. Noden's, the Moor-lane House. My father, when I went there, was alive. His legs were broken, and both feet were cut off. Ills legs were amputated, and he died in about 20 minutes after. My mother and brother were amongst the dead. By the Jury—At the time of the accident there was no light in the carriage I was in, nor do I think there were lights in any of them. By Mr. Burbury—My brother, who worked the breaks, knew nothing about railway matters. He was never so far on a railway before in his life. My brother was in no way intimate with the guard I have spoken of. When we arrived at the Worcester station in the morning I and my brother and the others who were in the guard's van got out. The officials could have seen us leave the guard's van. I heard no complaint made at the Worcester station that parties had ridden in the guard's van. I saw the first part of the train leave the Worcester station. The guard invited me and Benjamin Lawes to ride in the break back again, and I declined. Ten or 12 persons got into the break. The guard asked us openly at the Worcester station to get into the break. The second train left about 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour after the first. There are about eight stations between Worcester and Brett..ll - lane. Our train stopped at about three or four stations. Our train stopped at the Stourbridge and Brettell-lava stations. We stepped at the Brettell-lane station about five minutes. By the Coroner—There were a great number of young people and scholars who went by the t rai n, but there were no other people denied from going by it. Monday even- jut in g Francis g H oi e n t g lie h r o id m g e •e— fro l m a w m e li y er io Br On le from the Round Oak as I got to Moor-lane, near the Vine Inn, carriages coming down the i ncline I saw a tr . ain o a r c d sta tion. There was no eng ine that I observed with them. I ran on to the railway bridge, and the carriages passed under it. There were no lights in the carriages. As the carriages passed I saw another train coming on the same line from the di rec ti o n of Stourbridge. I immediately after heard a loud crash and shrieking. When I first saw the two trains there was a distance between them of between 300 or 400 yar • ds When the smash took place I ran down and saw seve n or eight dead bodies lying under the two or three first carriages, which I had seen coming down the ncline from the Round Oak station. I helped to get the bodies out. The carriages were smashed to pieces. Adonizebeck Gordon said—l am a watchman at a colliery close to the scene of the accident. On Monday evening I was on the bank by the side of the railway near the bridge, by Biettell•lane. I heard the whistle of an engine, and saw a train coming in the direction from Worcester. In about a quarter of an hour I saw the same train coming back again without an engine. Almost immediately I heard the whistle of another engine coming with a second train from the direction of Worcester, and I saw both trains meet with a frightful crash. I saw several carriages smashed, and the people lying about dead and wounded. By Mr. King—l saw the carriages from Round Oak be fore I saw the train coming from Stourbridge. The Rev. Edwin Cressweil examined —I am a clereyman, and reside at Cuffon Field, Sedgley. I was a passenger by the excursion train. I had with me a party of nearly 200 children, teachers, and their friends. I should think the train con sisted of nearly 50 carriages, principally second and third class. There were two engines to the train when at Bilston, and they conveyed the train to Worcester. I believe I saw two guards to the train. I heard no complaint of there being a want of engine power, or too many passengers. On reaching Brettell-lane station a circumstance occurred which created some alarm. There was a sudden jerk, and one-third of the train was separated. I could not understand the extra shake, and put my head out of the window and saw that there had been a separation of the trains. This was during the morning journey: From that time we received several shocks. On the second shock, which was before we arrived at the Kidderminster station, there was another separation, and myself and wife were in the carriage next to the carriage where the coupling chain had separated. When the train sepa- rated, I jumped out of the carriage and ran by (he side for at least 50 yards, until the last portion of the train stopped, and the guard then came and placed a new coupling chain on. While running by the side of the carriage, I observed that some chains were broken, but I cannot say whether they were under the centre of the carriages. The middle chain was not broken, and the guard immediately coupled the carriages again, by fastening the centre chain, which appeared to me not to have been fastened before. From this fact, I assume that a similar occurrence took place at the Brettell-lane station. After this occurrence I had a conversation with the guard, and I said to him " I hope those engineers are not playing us any tricks. I don't know whether they are drunk or not, but I hope not, although, from the many jerks we have bad, I should feel inclined to believe so." The guard said they were playing no tricks, that they were both perfectly sober, and that one was a teetotaller. We then went on pretty steadily to Worcester. On the re turn we started from 'Worcester about half-past six o'clock. I was in the first portion of the train when it was separated, and that part consisted of 29 carriages. In the two trains there were 1,540 people, or from 50 to CO people in each of the carriages. A second engine joined the train either at Church-hill or Kidderminster, and the train went on very steadily to the Round Oak station. The latter part of the train then became detached from the former. I was in the former part, and when the separation took place the latter part of the train of 15 carriages ran down the incline towards Stourbridge. After standing at the Round Oak station for about 10 minutes our part of the train was pushed gently back by the engine for the distance of half a mile, perhaps, where it stopped, and soon after it further moved to within 100 or 150 yards of the scene of the accident, which was reported to us by one of the porters, who had a lamp in his hand. There wee a terrible rush from our carriages when the news of the accident reached us, and we saw people being carried away dead and dying on planks and various articles. It was dark; so much so that I could not distinguish the features of the children who belonged to the schools, some of whom were in that part of the train which had run down the incline. By the Coroner—My impression is that when the chain separated on the occasion when I ran by the side of this carriages, that, had the centre coupliag been fastened, the separatien would not have taken place. By the Foreman—l saw no lights in any of the carriages• There were none in the carriage where I was. The train was engaged exclusively for our schools, and I was much astonished to find that it was converted into a general ex cursion train. I had refused to allow persons not connected with the schools to have our tickets for the train. Mr. John Phillips, stationmaster at Round Oak station, examined—l was on duty at the Round Oak station on Monday last, when this excursion train arrived in the morning. There were two engines to that train. I don't know the names of the engine -drivers of that train. There were two guards, but the guard of the front portion of the train was a stranger to me. The one behind svltS Thomas Cook. There were upwards of 40 carriages in that train. If there was any complaint, either by or in reference to a guard, it is to be made to the firs t stationmaster. If chains or couplings are broken, there are fresh ones kept at every station to supply the deficiency. No one applied to me for any such things on the morning of the accident. I was at the station during the greater part of the day. I have no stated hours. I was not at Round Oak station at the time of the accident. I was et Dudley, and had left the station in charge of my assistants named Boulton. We have telegraphs from Round Oaig to other stations. We gave no signals of the progress of this excursion train from station to station. We are not in the habit of doing other than use the signal stations. I first heard of this accident about nine o'clock on Monday night on Dudley platform. I hastened, with all the force I could muster, to the scene of accident to assist the sufferers. By the Coroner—l don't know whether the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton permit strangers to travel In the guards' break vans in excursion trains, It is prohibitei with ordinary trains. It is the duty of stationmasters to see that the three coupling chains are properly coupled when a train is at the station, although there are no parti cular instructions to that effect. (Soma coupling chains were here produced which had been broken, and which 31 the w itness identified as the property of the company , 4° the coupling hook of one of the carriages, which, as well A S the screw, was broken completely in half.) Witness continued—The chains produced were given hint by the porter, who found them at the spot where the acci dent happened. They were in the same state as when gives to him. The broken nut and screw he picked up himself on. the following morning at the spot. That nut and screw' would have been sufficient to have sustained the enormous' weight of a train consisting of 1,500 people. He could not account for its breaking, By Mr. King—The end of the pin which is fixed to the buffer plank was broken, and pulled through the nut. By Mr. Burbury—There are signals at some stations to show whether the line is blocked or not. There is no such signal between Brettell-lane and Round Oak. There is the telegraph. It was not used with respect to this train till after the accident. There would be a greater tension on the shackle irons on the incline between Round Oak and Bret-. tell-lane than on level parts of the line. At this stage of tile proceedings, the Coroner said in inquiry of so muck importance it was advisable that a n or portunity should be afforded for the relatives of the decease d persons, as well as the company, to produce any further evi' deuce which would be likely to throw alight on the eircuel' stances which had led to so lamentable a loss of life; SU CK being his views, lie now proposed to adjourn the investige" tion for a few days. The inquiry was then at six o'clock adjourned for a vree' STATE OF THE SURVIVORS. Upon instituting inquiries after the conclusion of th e inquest, it was ascertained that no less than 15 have died, 88 have been discovered to be more or less injured, 3E3 seriously, for the recovery of 13 of whom very great doubts are entertained. Many more, however, are believed to We been hurt, but not sufficiently to prevent them reaching their' own homes. These cases have not come under the cognisance of the officers of the company, to whom it is only justice 0 state that they have done everything possible to allevia te the sufferings of the injured parties and to assuage the grief of the relatives of the deceased persons. The spo t where the collision took place, between the Round Oak Bed Brettell-lane stations, is an incline of 1 in 76, which Wig account for the terrific velocity with which the detached carriages, without the check of an engine, dashed down i l l and into the other portion of the excursion train. THIS DAYS MARKETS. MARK-LANE. Imperial Weekly Averages—Wheat, 459 Id; barley, 3Ss 7d; 27s 9d; rye, 35s 10d; beans, 46s 10d; peas, 4ls 3d. The Six Weeks' Averages—Wheat, 45s sd; barley, 31s id ; oats, 27s 9cl; rye, 33s 4d ; beans, 45s 4d ; peas, 449 2d. English Grain Sold Last Week—Wheat, 73,9 13 ; barley, 1,206; oats, 5,949 ; rye, 529 ; beans, 1,209 ; peas, 427 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. ...a market r t a o 1 - dayw quality as was fairly sn inferior.l io d For w with h most beasts, breedsaato numw. we had 1 m es or p e er o lb n . ey. We Th h e ad su it p n p ac irr c_ it y . but O u t r li e m ir ar g k e steady demand, at Monday's improvement in value. The show o sheep was only moderate, and the mutton trade ruled arm, at Tell full prices. Lambs, the supply of which was less eXAIIIAve, get slowly, at a fo t r la c t a e lv r e a s t : e a s— t 2 v d iz t . o , f 4 l d 'om per ss B t th o rather limited. Pigs and mulch cows moved Oir steadily, at 1 ,1 " quotations. Per 81b9. to sink the offals. le talerior beasts 31 41 88 61. B'down blethers 48 81 4‘ - u s Second quality 33 iid 43 01 Lgo coarse calves Se iod 4 4 7,‘ Prime large oxen 48 Ed4a fid Prime staallditto 48 6d 5 J - 4 Frinao Soots ralfzrior shop.,. 3A 4; S e 61 Small porkers 4B 21 41 ~A Mc. qual i ty d 0... 3t , 8d 4s 01 Buckling calves...l7s ad 23a '„'",i Coarse wool d 0.., 4a 2d 4 s 61 Quarter-old pigs 188 Od 266 v i - Lamb, 5s Od to 6s Od. - TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasta.. Sheep and lambs .60) Calves /SO .... Pigs . Belga v 1,100 Sheep and lambs Calve) riga MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LF.A.DENIIALL.—Brset, from SS Od to 4s 4d ;, mut 36 Od to 45 6 , 1; veal, Ss 4d to 48 4d; pork, S 6 Od to 48 , fed 11 Gd to Is 4d per 81bs by the carcase. a; SoureALL.—Beef, from 35 6d to 45 8 d; mutton, Sc 6 d to SS -_, veal, Se 81 to 45 6d; pork, Ss 6d to 46 Od ; lamb, 58 01 to 56 10cf. P" ilbs to sink the offal. ROMFORD.—BO B f, from Is Cd to Is 8d; mutton, Ss 10d to 55 o ,v, veal, 4s 4d to Cs 10d; pork, Ss 6d to 48 Od; lamb, 158 Od to 5 6 % 6 o oer xlbs. Mich cows, 1 0 /. — a to 17 1 .—s ; suckling calves, la/ ' :55 each. HAY AND STRAW. Smithfield—Old meadow hay, IlOs to 85s ; new do., 60s to - -col; ;5,5 old elovcr, 5., ;o 105-; new do., 80s to 1008; and straw, 305 to per load. Supply moderate, and trade dull. 160 Cumberland—Old meadow hay, 15+ to )-8s; new do., 60s to. . 50 old glover, • 5s to :054; new do., fOs to 100 s ; and straw, 30s tie •,er load. Trade rather dull. Whiteel:,apel—Old meadow hay, 60A to ars ; new ditto, 60s to' $,, 6 ,, 11 : 1 old cover.s. to 105 ; new do., Os to 1008; -.ad straw. 30s to 4 ' .)er load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM E R MALTA.—The Peninsular and Oriental paddle steam l M a lta, which has been entirely remodelled, and convert s into a screw stean)er, by Mr. John Laird, of Birkenbe sof went on a trial trip yesterday, with highly successful rear AO' She haq been considerably enlarged, and is now one of 0 10 fleetest and handsomest vessels in the service. RARA Avis.—Admiral Elliot brought down b;ue grouse with his first shot, on Dufton Fel l 4, a few days once. The gentlemen with him had never before seen $ 'gird of that description. Its wings were 'of a light blue, resembling the common wood pigeon, whilst the back and tail in colour resembled the doterel.—cun,tber/andPacquet.