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On the bench, beside Mr. Seeker, the magistrate, we observed Mr. Quentin Dick, M.P., Mr. Combe, Magistrate of Clerkenwell, the Secretary to the Austrian Embassy, the Rev. Mr. Gibson, Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, the Rev. Mr. 1 3inney, and Mr. A. Montgomery. There were also several ladies present. Mr. Bodkin, Counsel, and Mr. Hayward, of the Treasury, attended to watch the prosecution on the part of the Crown. Mrs. Manning was defended by Solomons, and Mr. Manning by Mr. Binns. They both took their seats in the dock immediately behind the place appropriated for the prisoners. We understand that Mr. Keene, the governor of Rorsemonger-lane Gaol, in order, it is presumed, to Prevent any unpleasant scene taking place in the Court, offered to allow Mrs. Manning to have an in terview with her husband, but that she refused to take advantage of the offer, observing, " I don't want to have any communication with him." At twelve o'clock the male prisoner was brought in and placed at one end of the dock, and immediately afterwards the female prisoner, who took a seat at the other extremity. They remained in this position for nearly a quarter of an hour, during which time the greatest uproar prevailed in the court, owing to a person having fainted, and to the difficulty which arose in getting him out. After the court Was partly cleared of so me of its occupants, and the doors were closed against any further intrusion, the noise abated, and the case was allowed to proceed. Manning was then requested to stand up on a chair, but being a great, big, hulking fellow, he sat Upon the side of the dock in a careless attitude, his feet resting upon the chair, and his hands on his knees, upon which laid his hat. lie looked much better than on the last occasion when he was brought up. He had on a kind of thick blue paletut) buttoned closely up to the chin, and a pink silk 'kerchief round his neck, which was tied in a flash fashion. It may, 'perhaps, be mentioned that his countenance has altogether a repulsive appearance, and that his neck is very short, and so thick that, looking at it from behind, it seems to project out almost as far as any part of the head. Mrs. Manning was requested also to stand up on a chair, but declined, observing that it was too high, and she was allowed to stand on the ground. She looked Exceedingly well, and entered into an animated con versation, previous to the examination commencing, With Mr. Keene and Mr. Solomons, in the course of which a con ti nue d sm il e pl aye d u p on her countenance, /'hen she was requested to lift up her veil, ~a n d show her countenance, she immediately complied. 44 colour then seemed to leave her countenance, and it aftewards looked pale. Mr. Bcdkin having briefly adverted to the horrid /23 ture of the crime with which the prisoners were "barged, s t a t e d th a t, i n a dditi on t o th e evidence taken before the coroner's inquisition, he was in a condition to bring forward some of a very important nature, which had not already transpired. He had placed the legal advisers of the prisoners in possession of all the new facts which would be deposed to, and he had 4180 afforded them every information which was necessary to conduct the defence. Henry Barnes was the first witness examined by All% Bodkin. He said he was a police-officer in the division, 256. On the 15th of August he went With another officer to 3, Minver-place. Found the house empty. Obtained an entrance, and went to the back kitchen. Noticed a peculiarity—a damp mark— between two of the stones. He removed them and, the earth. The first thing he found was the toe of a re an, about eight inches from the surface ; the body eighteen inches, lying on•the face. The legs were tied behind the thighs. The body was buried in slack lime. Mr. Lockwood, the doctor, who was called in, took a set of false teeth from the body. Soon after he was joined by Mr. Oddling, surgeon of the police.cffice. Mr. Flynn saw the body before it was removed into the front kitchen. An inquest had been held on the body, and a verdict of wilful murder found against the prisoners. On the day the body was found went to the lodgings of the deceased, in I - lemming's-place, Mile end. James Burton, police-constable, corroborated his former evidence with respect to the inquiries after /I r. O'Connor, and the finding of the body in con i,tinetien with the last witness. Some trunks, carpet age, and linen were in the kitchen, and the stone under which the body was found was partially covered by them. BY Mr. Binns—Had made a memorandum of his eviden ce b e f ore h e gave it. H e did so the day fol lowing the finding of the body. He could not say 'Where he did so, or who was present. Had a good 1741 :Dory, n ever th e l e ss he could not recollect where be be !tilde the memorandum. It was, he believed, among his papers at home. Mr. Binns said the'evitness should go and fetch it. The MAGISTRATE Said, if bis opinion was ;.bkEd, it Was unnecessary. 1 , 13 Y Mr. Solomons—Did not find a broken shovel. .4a(l not had any communication whatever with t he other witnesses. Mr. Lockwood, the surgeon referred to, spoke to t u l, e ing called i n to 3, Minver-place, on the finding o f body, and to the appearance which it exhibited, as already detailed in his former evidence. The head veal fractured extensively, and the scalp divided in t sev eral places. The wounds must have been inflicted ° Y a blunt instrument. He and Mr. Oddling made a post-mortem examination of the body. Either the ound with the bullet (which he produced) or the fractures were sufficient to cause death. Mr. Sloe e, the coroner's summoning officer, pro. duced the teeth taken from the mouth of the deceased. Mr. Oddling was here called for, but not appear ing, a delay of a few minutes took place, during which Mr. Edwin told the female prisoner, who was suffused With perspiration, to sit down. She at first expressed that she did not wish to do so, but immediately after she sat down, and during the delay conversed with her professional adviser. Not arriving in a quarter of an hour (during which time Manning remained perched on the edge of the dock, and exhibited wonderful self-possession), Mr. Walsh was called, and deposed to calling at the house in Minver-place several times to inquire after the deceased, who had been missing some days, lie knew him well. Last saw him at about 12 o'clock on the night of the Bth of August. He went generally through his evidence formerly adduced. The deceased was very friendly With the Mannings. 13 Y Mr. Solomons—On the evening the witness ac companied O'Connor to the house he was sober. de fainted in the course of the evening, which a PPEared to arise from smoking, and from the drink , had taken during the day. He did not think th ere were any money transactions between the de "sed and the Atannings. On the evening in ques tion Mrs. Manning spoke about the receipt of some ta "ey by O'Connor, and asked him if he intended to Proceed against some person for the three weeks owing. Mr. Oddli ng , surgeon t o th e B ermon d se y police for ce, deposed to having seen the body of the deceased on the lith at 3, Minvereplace, C ° rtlY after it had been excavated, and to lug' examined it. He then detailed the evidence stati ng that he discovered no lesss than eighteen N "ands on the head, and saw the ball i azt racted from the forehead, but could not trace the h ole thr oug h w hi c h it h a d en t ere d. The blows he s • had been committed with great violence, and • W ere sufficient to cause instantaneous death. There W as a place at the back of the head which had the appearance of discharged gunpowder. This witness was not cross-examined. 111 r. Resting, C us t om -h o use officer, in the , airliner' s office, was next examined, and t 'th P o ke to ha v i ng seen t h e d ecease d la s t on the of August, on London- bridge, at about quarter to five o'clock, when witness r ay I accompanied by Mr. Graham, another Custom t°llse ea offi ce r. He then repeated his evidence with pect to O'Connor showing him a letter signed THE SUN, Maria," and to his saying that he was going to dine with her. O'Connor was at the time walking to the Surrey side of the bridge. i - ne:.s had fre quently seen the female prisoner in the company of O'Connor. Oa calling at 3, Minver place on the Sunday following the disappe-arance of the deceased, he saw Mrs. Manning, and she admitted that she had been to O'Connor's lodgings on the Friday, but said that she had gone there for the purpose of seeing what had become of him, as she had invited him to eome to dinner on Thursday, and that her husband thought it very ungentlemanly of him that he did not make his appearance. She said her husband had gone to church, and that he would not be home at six, as they were going out to tea. He noticed that she appeared slightly nervous at the time. Cross• examined by Mr. Binns—l have, to the best of my belief, seen a letter besides the one shown to me on London-bridge, signed " Maria," inviting Mr. O'Connor to dinner. The landlady of the deceased showed me one ; 1 won't swear that I saw the signature, but it was in the same hand writing. The landlady said it had been received on the Wednesday. I have seen many of Mrs. Man. ning's letters. By Mr. Solomons—l have seen Mrs. Manning in the company of O'Connor many times. I have altogether seen them together over five years, sometimes walking together, and sometimes at the deceased's lodgings. I have seen her half-a dozen times at his lodgings without her husband, and about three times there in company with her husband. They appeared friendly together. I do not know of any transactions between them. Mr. Wm. Flynn, also an officer in the Customs, said the deceased was a relative of his, and that he had known him for nine years. He was a second cousin. He was shown a body at 3, Minver-place, on the 17th of August, upon which an in quisition was holding at the time, and it was that of Patrick O'Connor. He had not the slightest doubt about it being the body of that person The witness stated, when he called at Minver-place to ask for O'Connor, Mrs. Manning looked pale and rather flurried. [The witness was under examination when our report left.] SPAFIELDS BURIAL GROUND. CHOLERA. Yesterday Mr. 11. M. Wakley held an inquest at the Crown, Clerkenwell-green, on Louisa Mary Price, aged 16. In consequence of a generally be lieved report that deceased's death bad been occa sioned by the malaria from Spafields burial-ground, the inquest-room was crowded by parish officials and ratepayers. The inquiry excited the deepest interest. Mary Price deposed that the deceased, who was her daughter, had lived in the service of Mr. Watt, jeweller, Exmouth-street. Between five and six o'clock last Sunday morning her daughter was seized with cholera, of which she died at three o'clock the same day. She had previously enjoyed the best pos sible health; and when seized with the fatal disease was instantly attended by Messrs. Berry and Griffin, medical gentlemen. By the CORONER—In the kitchen where her daugh ter worked there was a bad smell, which greatly affected her. 'Witness lived in Somers-town, and, therefore, knew nothing about the air of Exmouth street. VIENNA., Ana. 31.—His Majesty, accompanied by the :AIL iiter Brunk, vvili sl;ortiv vi , it ;I.d probably also the Italian States. His Mijesty will return by way of Agrarn. 'The nomination of Lieutenant Field-Marshal Gyulac as Governor of llungary has not yet been definitively settled, as the Government is desi rous of having the opinion of Baron Jcllacliicb, who is expected to arrive here to-morrow. The negotiations with the commandant of Co:norn, according to the Presse, have up to this time had no definite result. The principal insurgents, it is said, are taking advantage of the fortnight's armistice. 14,000 men of the garrison, which is 20,000 strong, have already embarked for Gran, where they have laid down their arms. 6,000 men, for the moat part volunteers, still remain in the fortress, resolved to defend it to the last extremity. According to a letter in the Presburg Gazette frcrn Comorn, Klapka and the Magyar officers are unani mously agreed to surrender the fortress; tut the Austrian officers who have joined their ranks are apprehensive of the sentence of death, and therefore persist in defending it to the last extremity, and have drawn over a part of the troops to their resolution. Count Esterhazy denies, in the Wiener Zeitung, the letter said to have been sent to him by Kossuth. Mr. Robert Watt, jeweller, 14, Exmouth-street, was then sworn. Deceased had been his servant about three years. Between five and six o'clock on Sunday morning she was taken ill. Hear ing her vomit, he went to her room. She complained of pains in her side and cramps. Dr. Harris and Mr. Berry were sent for, and instantly attended ; but although everything that could save her life was done for her, she died at three o'clock on Sunday. By the CORONER—The grave-yard known by the name of Spafields was exceedingly obnoxious, es pecially lately, and since the old ground was re opened, in which pits were dug for the, reception of the dead. In the ground, which measured n feet by 72, there had been lately buried at several depths, not far removed from the surface, at least 3,000 bodies. Each grave contained seven or eight bodies. How space was made for new comers he could not say, unless by the destruction of the bodies and coffins. He was aware that the coffins had been made away with. In consequence of the obnoxious effluvia from the graveyard he was compelled to send his children to boarding schools, and remove the other members of his family to Holloway. After the graves were dug two feet there were springs of water, which had to be pumped out over the grave yard. Last Sunday fourteen bodies were interred there. The old ground was again opened, although or dered by the Court of Queen's Bench to be closed four years ago. It was well known that the same grave had been fifty times opened for bodies. They were placed one over another, and by the sys tematic destruction of bodies and coffins that took place, room was easily made for new corners. The lowest of the low, persons from St. Giles's and Saffron-hill, were buried there. The fees for burial were nine shillings, and the undertaker got a shilling for every body he brought. He and his neighbours felt deeply and fatally the effects of the nuisance. He had lately expended 701. in endeavour. ing to put down the nuisance. CoRoNER—I cannot conceive how you manage to live there. Mr. Watt—The Court of Queen's Bench referred the subject to arbitration, and the result was an order for the closing of the old ground. Juror—ls the effluvium as bad as it was five years ogo ? Mr. Watt—Much worse. By the CoßortEn—lle directed the attention of the police to the subject, who were on the look out, and would, no doubt, speedily be enabled to prosecute the propagators of it. Mr. Dore, whose house abutted on the grave-yard, fully corroborated everything stated by the pre vious witness. The stench from the grave-yard was intolerable on Sunday. Fifty thousand bodies had been buried there, and the ground had been raised to the level of the wall, six feet high. So shallow were the graves, that the coffins could be touched with a walking-stick. Forty and fifty were buried in a week. The coffins were stacked like bricks, over each other. Mr. Watt--New room was made by breaking up the coffins. A short time since the naked body of an Irishman was found under the lid of a coffin. Mr. Aliwinkle, registrar of deaths, whose house is close to the grave-yard, gave similar evidence, and said that two members of his family had suffered from diarrhoea, engendered by the effluvia with the graves emitted. Messrs. Bailey (draper), Stephens (cheesemonger), and Barker (provision•dealers) substantiated all the previous evidence. Mr. Berry, surgeon, attended deceased, who was attacked with cholera, and was in a state of collapse. He applied chloroform, but deceased never rallied. She died of Asiatic cholera. He used chloroform with the greatest success. In t wo cases o f co ll a p se his patients recovered. Ile admi n i s t ere d b e t ween thirty and forty drops, sometimes accompanied with doses of calomel. By the CORONER—If the putrid exhalations spoken of escaped from Spafields grave-Surd, they were cal culated to impart disease, and to engender cholera. The CORONER inquired if Mr. Bird, the proprietor of the graveyard, had been summoned to attend the inquest ? Mr. Shoney, the summoning officer, replied that he had given notice of the inquest to Mr. Bird, and was rather astonished that he had not attended. CORONER.—This really is a frightful state of things, well calculated to engender and propagate disease, which ought and must be put down. You, gentlemen of the jury, and every ratepayer, should incessantly write to the parochial authorities, the Board of Health, and the Government, upon the appalling subject, un• til so frightful and so fatal a source of disease is done away with. If you, Mr. Watt, will have the kind ness to furnish me with a written statement of the facts you narrated this day, I will forward them to the proper quarter, with a recommendation to have the graveyard closed. Mr. Watt promised to supply the coroner with the required information. The jury returned a verdict that "The deceased died of Asiatic cholera ;" to which they appended the following remark :—" We, the jury, cannot separate without expressing our opinion that the Spafields burial ground is most injurious to public health, and ought to be immediately closed." PLAS NEWYDD, ANGLESEY.—Their Royal High nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompa nied by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Princess Mary, and a nume rous suite, arri ve d on W e d nes d a y last at this favourite resort of royalty. Baron Knesebeck had preceded their Royal Highnesses, in order to secure the requisite arrangements. It is scarcely necessary to say that his duties are considerably lightened by the kindness of the neighbouring nobility and gentry, every delicacy which the season can afford being forwarded to Pitts Newydd in profusion. The illustrious strangers passed the rest of the week in this delightful mansion, and then left, in order to visit the romantic rcenery around Carnarvon. On the evening of Friday last a heavy thunder storm passed over Gosforth, during which the electric fluid struck a chimney of the house of Mr. Daniel Ty sou of Seut , cale Mill, which was shivered to pieces. The roof of the building was also injured to some extent; but beyond that 329 other injury was done,--Cumberland racquet. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. FLENSBURG, AUG. 30.—Yublic tranquillity has happily not been again disturbed, although personal security is by no means guaranteed. All the Danish colours at the harbour bridge are to be taken down by order of the Government. WALLACHIA. BUCHAREST, AUG. 17.—We have received official information that a Magyar corps under Perczel, ar rived in Orsova on the 10th, to seek the protection of the Pacha, for himself, his people, and their families. It is affirmed that Kossuth was seen with Perczel. The Pacha granted his request on condition that they should unreservedly lay down their arms.—Prussian Staats Anzeiger. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—A general quietness has pervaded the yarn market today. The buyers on foreign account do not yet venture to operate, at the current rates, beyond the extent of their immediate wants. In this department, therefore, the day's busi ness has been of very limited amount ; and, although spinners have incstly held by the quotations of last week with much firmness, a slight concession bas been made, in some instances, and for some descriptions of yarns. In this way, rather more has been done in that depressed article, No. 20's water. Doubled yarns are decidedly firm. In mule, for home manu facture, a general steadiness prevails. In goods, we find that the demand for printing cloths is still con. siderable, at the prices of last week. Madapollams are firm, and continue in moderate request. In 40- inch shirtings there is but little doing ; and prices, especially in low qualities, cannot be said to be main• tained with firmness. Narrower shirtings, also, are less inquired after. 45. inch shirtings are going off fairly, at about previous rates. In jacconets there is less doing, but without any yield in value. Domestics, long cloths, and T cloths, show no change. We are glad to find that the promise of an abundant harvest throughout the country has of late been operating beneficially upon the demand from the country. The home houses are experiencing a con siderable increase of business, and forming favourable anticipations as to the fall trade. This is now a matter of peculiar interest and importance ; and, with the question of the supply of cotton, is in no small degree occupying the attention of all parties con nected with the manufactures of this district. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The demand for flannels has been uncommonly brisk to day—indeed the ma nufacturers cannot make them fast enough. Kerseys have not been much inquired after, and the sales have been limited. The wool market is still heavy, with prices the same as those of the preceding Monday. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We regret to say that the manufacturing business continues in a stag nant state; the principal dye-houses also participate in the present dulness. In the face of all this, the brokers report large deliveries of silk for the last month. It is suspected that they include in the deli veries the silk that is purchased for export; the amount of which, we understand, is considerable. The cotton reports of Liverpool and Manchester offer a suitable model for those of the London silk brokers. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Every article at all adapted for the season, met with immediate sale early in the morning; and the general complaint is of the scarcity of goods. The stocks were, perhaps, never known to be lower in middle class and superior cloths. The foreign houses are busily engaged, and many orders remain to be completed. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—There has been little change in the woollen trade since last week. The manufac turers are still making to order, and whilst there is little doing at the cloth hall& a brisk business is doing on the whole. INDIAN MASSACRE IN CALI- FORNIA. Columma Mills,California, April 22, 1849. Since I last wrote there has been a tragedy enacted here which has made my blood run cold. I men tioned, I believe, in my last that a war party of Oregon men had been formed to hunt the Indians. They mus tered about 30, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives. The party left here on the 16th, and on the 18th re turned with 37 male prisoners and three squaws. After searching the country for some time, they discovered the track which led them to the Rancheria of the tribe which was known to have committed the murders of the five Oregon men, over in the Roi dalle Fork. Soon as they found the Rancheria they made an attack, and were met with a volley of arms from the Indians, but most of them being good marksmen their shots took effect, and the Indians soon fled, leaving 2/ dead and 40 prisoners. One of the war party as he rode by me called my atten tion to the false hair hanging down each side of his horse's head which was too readily mistaken by its black, straight, and shining appearance, to be the scalps of the Indians. Another drew his knife, and exhibiting the blade covered with the blood, said that this had done its work ; I shall lay it by. The wretched prisoners were marched from one end of the village to the other, and made to sit or squat down in rows under the trees where they were questioned, through an interpreter ; two of them were found guilty. Suspicions were entertained against five others, who, with the two already doomed, were retained, and the others set free. _ A meeting was called, and a messenger sent for Captain Sutter to come up and try them ; hut he having been threatened with death from the whites, as well as the Indians, gave that as his reason for not coming. When the messenger returned, the council, consisting principally of the war party, met and con cluded to try them that afternoon, and at six o'clock one of them that could converse with the Indians, told them they were to be marched out to take their seats upon a log and have their trial. He also stated that there had been enough evidence given to convict two of them, and that the others would pro• bably be cleared. The poor wretches then followed the chiefs out to a triangular space, bounded on one side by the hills, on another by the village, and on the other by the rapid current of the swollen river. When within five paces of the pine tree, which that night had been laid low by on e o f thel peaceful and industrious inhabitants to build him a shelter for the coming winter--they brcke, they ran, some towards the hills, and others towards the river; the word was given to fire, and two immediately fell—one upon the log on which he was to have been tried, the other six or seven paces beyond; and the others who had fled to the hills were overtaken and stabbed with bowie•knives. Of the two who plunged into the almost freezing water of the American Fork, one was shot, but still swam till half way across the river, when scine white men were seen running down to the opposite bank to head him off. He im mediately turned and swam back to the shore from which he had first plunged, and when he reached the brush which grew along the bank, one of the Oregon men drew one of Colt's revolvers, and put a ball through his brain ; he never moved afterwards, and when I passed again a few minutes after he was still entangled in the bushes, but nothing but the back of his head could be seen. The other swam to the opposite shore, but was prevented from landing by two mounted men, who threw stones at him, until one of the numerous stones from this side struck his head, and he sunk to rise no more. When the chase was over, and the party returned to where the first shots were fired, the two Indians were still alive ; one was lying on his face, with his bed blanket spread over him. One of the captors perceiving that he still breathed, drew a knife and plunged it into his side, while another beat his brains out with a large stone. The other miserable victim, who fell over the log, and whom I saw making an effort to rise as I passed immediately after he was shot, at this time was laid parallel with the trunk of the tree; another ball had extinguished the little life that the first fire had left, and his only gar ment, a spotted calico shirt, was burning, having been set on fire by the fire from the pistol, so near was the muzzle when he was shot. Further to the left, on the side of the hill, I saw another of the party bending over his victim, busily engaged in removing the scalp. Captain Greenwcod proposed burying the Indians near where they fell. "No, no," was the cry, "they burned the bodies of our men, and we will burn them ;" but Greenwood's influence prevailed, and the bodies were covered with earth. All that I have related as having taken place here I saw. Having heard that the trial was to take place, I went over to the room where the primers were confined to see them. LONDON, THUNSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 0, 1849. AUSTRI A. They appeared dejected. The faces of moat of them were covered with their blankets, as they sat in two roes with their letn is resting upon their knets. From ti.e room 1 ,:nt wiLh them to the place which ie was said to have been their judgment-seat, but which proved to be their place of execution. I have little doubt that the innocent suffered in this case as well as the guilty. But I will make no comments; every one has a right to his opinion. The war party, early the next day, with few ex ceptions, left and took up their quarters on the other side of the river, intending to move off over the Rocky Mountains. At the time this tragedy was being performed, Mrs. Wiinmer represents the Indians who have been encamped in the village as being in a dreadful state of alarm. She states that they ran to her, and begged her to save them, us they feared that they were all to meet with the same fate. That evening they were gathered around their fires, crying like so many children ; but before the sun shone upon this valley they had departed, and now not one of them is to be seen here, neither has there been since this sad catastrophe. • • • Since the above was written, a man has just come in, who gave information of a person, by the name of Jack Doyle, having been murdered, about six miles from here, on Weaver's Creek. He was one of a party of fifteen that was engaged in the dry diggings near the Creek, who strolled out from the camp, without arms, after breakfast, and when dinner-time came, he not making his appearance, some of bis com rades went out in search of him, and found his body in the creek, his skull stove in, and his person much mutilated. There was a stone lying on the shore, not far off, covered with blood and hair, with which the murder had been committed, and around which, from the appearance of the sand, there had been a severe scuffle. Captain Shan non, who keeps his store at this place, took his horse and went out to examine the body, and re ports that it was done by the Indians, whose tracks betrayed them. This night a large party of about 40 or 50 men have gone out in search of Indians, and it matters not whether they murdered Doyle or not, death will be the doom of every one who comes within reach of their rifles or their knives. The war of extermination has commenced, and thousands of these miserable wretches, who are very little above the monkey tribe, will not satisfy the whites for the loss of one of their number. I have studied the physiognomy of the natives of these mountains, and say with truth and sincerity that I never saw worse countenances than they possess. Even those who, have most befriended them have always acknowledged that they were all thieves. The race about here have been denominated Dig gers, as some say from their digging in the earth fer grub-worms, which they eat with much gusto. Others say, it is from their custom in case of sickness, of digging pits in the earth, close to the edges of some river, in which they put hot stones ; then, after throwing water on the stones, cause themselves to be shut up until they are in a violent perspiration, when they plunge into the river. People here are of opinion that it is the cause of so many being afflicted with a cough. Certain it is that a great many suffer from bronchitis, or pulmonary complaints.—New York Tribune. THE CHOLERA. RETURN OF CASES. SEPT. 5. THE METROPOLIS. SUPEZINTENDINC. REGISTRA RS DIST MGT. Deaths. Attacks. Cholera. Diarrh. Ilolbcmn Union ••• ••• 2 0 St. Gilee and St. Georg() ••• 2 1 St. George, Southwark ••• 16 0 West London 3 1 Greenwich ... ... ... 10 4 lisqhnal• green ••• ••• 11 - 1 Bermondsey ... ... ... 4 0 St. Olave ••• ••• ••• 8 0 Lambeth ••• • • ••• .... 41 4 Whitechapel ..• ••• •.• 9 2 Stepney •.• ••• ••• 1 1 St. George-in-the• East •.. 2 0 Newington ... ... ••• 33 1 Muryle bone ... ... ••• 2 2 St. Pancras ... ... ..• 4 1 Poplar ... ... ... ... 6 2 Strand ... ... .., ... 5 1 St. George, Hanover-square ... 3 3 St. James, Westminster ... 1 0 Clerkenwell ... ... ... 0 1 St. Luke 3 1 Camberwell ... ... ... 4 0 St. Saviour, Southwark ..• 5 0 Hackney ••• ••• •.• 1 0 Islington 6 2 Kensington ... ••• ••• 6 1 Wandsworth ... ... ... 9 2 Lewisham ..„ ... ... 1 1 East London ... ... ... 5 1 Shoreditch ... ... . 10 2 Rotherhithe ... .., ..... — 6 2 Chelsea... ... ... ..., 2 0 City of London 2 0 Westminster ... ... ... 9 1 Total ... 232 38 NEW WATERING-PLACE ON THE CLYDE. THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL. BALLATER, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert attain attended worship yr- cterday in the parish church tat Crathie, mitwithstanding heavy showers of rain which fell during the whole day. The unfavour able weather had the effect of lessening the crowd of strangers who have repaired to this place of worship since the arrival of the royal party ; but still the congregation was a numerous one. The Rev. Mr. Anderson, minister of the parish, occupied the pulpit, and delivered a very excellent discourse, with more fluency and energy than on the previous occasions on which the Queen and her Royal Consort were auditors. The regularity with which her Majesty attends public worship in all sorts of weather is a subject of frequent remark among the country people, and has added largely to the admiration which her numerous virtues have excited in the breasts of her Scottish subjects. ft has been arranged that the Braemar gathering shall take place on Thursday first. The turn-out of clansmen is expected to be much larger than last year ; and as they will be equipped in a superior style, and headed by several of the chiefs who are at present in the district, a rather brilliant display may be anticipated. At all events, the occasion is looked forward to with great eagerness. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. Sia,—When men totally unfitted for high stations are placed in offices of responsibility and authority they often act so strangely that even a child becomes astonished at their conduct. A most extraordinary instance of this nature has recently occurred in the Gambia, and has given rise to many reports that tend to throw unmitigated contempt on the highest per sonage of the colony. The Governor of the Gambia Settlement; Mr. Richard Graves Mac Donnell, in February last, very imprudently paid a visit to the native King of Koon dung, about sixty miles from Bathurst. During the interview the former is reported to have so far in sulted the King and people of Koondung that some of the persons present actually struck and severely beat the Governor, before the King was able to afford him the slightest protection. It is likely the Governor would have been torn to pieces had not the King's Chief Minister, with his attendants, hurried him off, and shut him up in a hut for safety. Que diable faire dans cette galeze. The Governor was decidedly wrong in going him self to seek satisfaction and reparation for an alleged injury, which he accused the King of bein g privy to and conniving at, bat which the King declared he knew nothing of, viz., " a robbery committed by some person or persons unknown on a store situated with in the Koondung jurisdiction, which contained British goods, left therein for sale, under charge of a native trader." The Governor was also wrong in threaten ing to make war on Koondung if the goods were not speedily given up by the King; and this threat, with various other breaches of courtesy and etiquette, on the part of the Governor, so incensed the natives at the time that his Excellency got a severe beating, and narrowly escaped with his life. About three months after the occurrence referred to, viz., sth May, 1849, Governor Mac Donnell caused a military expedition to invade Koondung, for the purpose of destroying the King's town, and severely punishing the natives. A short time ago the Duke of Argyle resolved to feu off the sea-side portion of the Roseneath grounds, westward from Kilcreggan Ferry, and up Lochlong, for several miles. Though the first of these feus were only staked off in the end of April last, we under stand that the demand for ground upon this favourite spot has been such, that upwards of two miles has already been disposed of. We know of no instance in this part of the country where ground at the coast has been taken up in such an unprecedentedly rapid manner. The situation has long been admired by the Glasgow and other visitors to the coast, but it is only recently that the ground was offered to the public, and we have shown above with what avidity a large portion of it has been secured for build ing. One great fault with many of our watering-places is the over-crowding of houses, which gave some of them too much of a town look, besides other inconveniences. Tbis is to be avoided in this case. The feus having very properly been so respected that every villa or cottage must have at least half an acre of ground attached— as much more as parties may have a fancy, but nothing less. This will not only add greatly to the beauty of the place, but much to the comfor of the residents. In a short time a new quay is to be erected for steamers, and the road all along the coast is to be widened and improved ; and, as the whole is under the direction of Mr. Lorn Campbell and Mr. Andrew M'Farlane, of Glasgow, land surveyor, who laid off ,the grounds, we have no doubt that these gentlemen will see these improvements early com pleted next session, when another and one of the prettiest of the watering-places which the inhabitants of Glasgow at present enjoy, will be added to the number. Already about a dozen villas and cottages are in course of erection, and the probability is that, after all the waterside ground is feued, the high ground above will be offered to the public. The view from this portion of the grounds, a little to the west of the ferry-house, is acknowledged to be one of the finest in the Frith of Clyde. On the east is the en trance of the Gareloch, and the highly-cultivated grounds of Mr. Lorn Campbell, at Roseneath Point, with a direct view up Clyde beyond Dumbarton Castle, including Greenock, Port Glasgow, and the shipping opposite these ports. Opposite is Gourock, to the Cloch. To the west is Loch Long, up which the ground to be fued extends to opposite the entrance of Lcchgoil. Besides Strone Point and the Holy Loch, the view takes in the range of Dunoon, down the Frith of Clyde to the Bute and Arran hills. We may add that when the quay is erected, the time required to reach this new watering place from Glasgow by railway and steamer, will be within one hour and a half.—Glasgow Paper. THE YELLOW CREEK TRAGEDY.—".A. MOTHER DROWNING HERSELF ARD THREE CHILDREN.—A correspoudent has furnished us with the particulars of the above melancholy tragedy, which occurred in Ross township, in this county, on the 13th of June. The af fair was adverted to in the News, and talked of in pri vate circles, but for the want of more authentic informa tion, and for fear of doing injustice to some one, we have forborne a public exposé of the strange and unnatural fact until the present. The name of the lady is Mrs. Rebecca Mitcham, wife of one Harrison Mitcham. She left home on the sth of June, and after loitering about the neighbourhood for a few days, took her children, the eldest about six, the second four, and the third one year old, to the banks of Big Yellow Creek, and in the deep est place in the stream consigned herself and the three children to a watery grave. When the bodies were discovered the youngest child was tied fast to its mother, with an apron and pocket handkerchief. The second was tied above the knees to prevent his rescuing himself by any chance struggle. The head of the eldest showed some signs of violence, whether done in being thrown into the stream or previously is not known. The causes which led this woman to the commission of so horrible an act are said to be inattention, abuse, cruelty, and jealousy on the part of the husband. The provocation must have been great, the anguish intolerable, to have prompted a mother, with a babe in her arms, followed by two interesting children, to search for herself and them a premature death and an early eternity.—Steubenville (Ohio) Herald. The following letter was recently received in answer to an advertisement for a schoolmistress to the union-house of one of the most populous parts of Essex. The application, of course, was u nsuccessful:—" Sir, a s having seen The Paper I'm wishing to Engage mySelf as Schoolmistress in Union School as haveing been out of Sittuation Twelve months last may as haveing Been housekeeper to verry infirm gentleman 16 y ears I was allowed to keep free school for the Rev. John --, for my own pocket as not haveing great wages I also kept day school Before that for Children from 10 to 12 years of age my Father and Mother have been deod Twenty years I have been liveing with my Friends and Takeing in sowing and other needle work not intending to go out again However I'm now About to take the first Sit tuation I can as bracing no choice as where I Engage my Self I have often wished to go to or near london I shall feel much obliged to you to handswer my note if not engaged in a few days as I may not s t o p h ere mo re then week at most I should like to try thy place for three months you may depend upon my b e i n g quite Abl to fill that place in hall its Branches I must con clude myself your Obd, Servant Nirs. Fanny My age is more than thirt y liv ely in Temper and Active."—Esser Herald. THE RELIEVING OITICER O F THE WEST L O NDON UNIoN.—Mr. Miller, the relieving officer of the West London union, appeared before Mr. Alderman Moon, at the Guildhall Police Court, on the 9th ult., to answer the complaint of a young woman, named Ellen Potts, whom, in his official capacity, he had refused to admit into the workhouse, the poor creature having at the time no other place of refuge.. The Alderman made some strong remarks upon the in h umanity of having refused the applicant admission to the house. On Monday the board of guardians met at the uni on h ouse, to consider the propriety of dismissing Mr. Miller from office. A motion to that effect having been m ove d b y Mr. Thomas Phipps Austin, of Peel 's . Coffeeh ouse, M r. Cabel, the coal merchant, of Bridewell Precinct, p ro p ose d an amendment recommending his continuance in o ffice. After a smart debate, Mr. Austin's motion was carried by a majority of two, in a board of sixteen members. DISCOVERY OF COAL IN EGYPT.—The Journal des Debuts publishes .a letter from Grand C a i ro, of t h e d ate of the Ist of August, which . announces the discovery, by a French civil engineer, of a stratum of coal in the vici nity of the Nile, towards Upper Egypt. This is a most valuable discovery, inasmuch as it will re li eve t h e Go vernment from the oneroustribute paid to England for the purchase of this indispensable article. Two engi neers, an Englishman and a Frenchman, wore employed to investigate the lands in the vicinity of the Nile, for the discovery of coal abcut three years ago; but these super • ficial inquirers reported that there r was non e , an d th a t, moreover, Ilona would be found. The French engineer first mentioned, more diligent and more skilful than his predecessors, has completely overthrown this bold asser tion. Tho samples have b. en referred to a commission, and the excavations will be continued on a large wale. THE COUNTRY. Deaths. Attacks. Cholera. Diarrh. Liverpool ••• •t • •• • '''''' 23 3 Merthyr Tydvil ..• ••• --- 2 1 Clifton ••• • • ••• -- 18 1 Cardiff ... ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Carmarthen ... ... ... 4 0 Swansea 8 0 Portsea... ... ... ... 7 2 Salisbury ... ... ... 1 1 Warrington ... _ ... ... 1 1 Neweasile-under-Lyne ... --- 5 0 Tynemouth ••• ••• • • -_l9 1 Lancaster ... ... ••• 1 1 Brighton 3 2 4 0 Bradford and North Bierley .• 12 3 Sculcoates ... ... ... 16 1 Bristol ... ... ... ... 7 1 Gravesend and Milton ••• - 4 0 Maidstone ... ... ... 0 1 St. German's ... ... ••• 12 0 Rochford ... ... . . --- 2 0 York ... ... ..- ••• 4 0 Anglesey 3 0 Leeds ... ... ... ••• 21 3 [funslet 23 0 Holywell ... ... ... --- 1 0 )1 Wolverhampton and Siesdon 38 4 Bridgwater ... ... ... 2 1 East Stonehouso ••• ••• 3 0 South Shields ... ••• ••• 1 2 Shepton Mallet ••• ••• 2 1 Bromsgrove ... ••• ••• 0 1 Hull, Sept. Ito 4, inclusive ... 78 9 6 4 Salford... ... Nottinghßm ... Penkridge ... Bolton .•, ~, Pontypool ... ~. Burnley Tavistock - 0 1 - 1 0 - 4 0 - 1 0 - 2 0 _ 11 0 Worcester 1 o Preston Madeley - 0 1 - 1 0 Sheppey - 2 0 ••• ••• ••• Wolstanton ... ... ... 1 0 Manchester ... ... ... 17 4 Gainsborough ... ... ... 6 0 Ashton-under-Lyne ... ... 2 0 Abicgdon ... ... ... 1 0 Abergavenny ... ..• ..• 3 0 Alcrincham ... .•• ... 1 0 St. Asaph .„ ... . . 2 0 Bedminster ... ••• ••• 4 0 Birmingham ... ... ... —.O 7 Blackburn ... ... .„ 1 0 Basingstoke ... ... ... 0 1 Bedford 0 1 Blady, Aug. 16 to Sept. 1 ... 0 3 Bosmere and Claydon ••• 0 1 Canterbury ... ... ... 1 0 Clitheroe .•• ••• ••• 3 0 Chester-le-Street ... ... 11 0 Chorlton, June 24 to Sept. 4... 0 32 Chichester ... ... ... 1 0 Church Stretton, Aug. 12 to 21 --3 0 Bromley ••• .•• ••• 0 1 Coventry ... ... ... 6 0 Crickhowell, up to Sept. 4 ... 3 1 Doncaster ... •• ••• 0 1 Dorchester and Cerne... ... 4 0 EaStrey... ... ... ... 0 1 Ecclestield ... ... ••• 3 0 Epping... ... ... ... 0 2 Farnham ••• ••• ••• 1 0 Fareham ••• ••• ••• -- 0 1 Totvil ... ... •.. - 429 SCOTLAND. Dundee ••• .. ••• ...". 11 0 Ferry Port-on-Craig ... 5 0 St. Andrew's ... ... ... 3 0 Beith .. ~, .., .., 3 0 Hawick ... ---- 1 0 Lift' and Benvie ... ... -- 5 0 Total •8 • 00 • •• • ..... 29 o General total:— Metropolis ... ... 232 38 Country ... ... --- 429 102 Scotland ... ... 29 0 General total ... Note.—The number of attacks reported by the union officers are—for the metropolis 788, and for the country 445; but their returns do not, in general, comprehend the cases that are treated by medical men in private practice. KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION. KIDDERMINSTER, WEDNESDAY.—The polling to-day has been close. The returns at half-past three o'clock, when the constituency was pretty nearly polled out, were— Gisborne ~. ... ... ... 199 Majority 12 Mr. Best's seat may be considered as secured. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.—At the close of the poll Mr. Best, the Conservative candidate, was re turned by a majority of 17. This is about the average of the majority obtained by the late Mr. Godson. The borough was perfectly quiet. THE MAIZE CROP IN THE PARK.—About two months back we mentioned that an experiment had been made in St. James's-park, by permission of the Com missioners of Woods and Forests, in order to ascertain whether the maize plant might be successfully culti vated in this country. We are now enabled to announce the result. It is right to premise that the experiment was made under disadvantages which must be manifest to every practical agriculturist. The spot in which the seed was put down abutted on a nursery of young trees and flowering shrubs which, as is well known, absorbs a large proportion of the nutritive sap of the soil, whilst the foliage deprives the neighbouring plants of the be nefit of heat, light, and air, all of which contribute to healthy vegetation. Notwithstanding these drawbacks the little maize crop has fully realised all that was anti cipated. It was sown the latter end of May, and now iz the beginning of September it is ripe for cutting. The appearance of the plant is peculiarly graceful, far more so, indeed, than that of any ordinary corn field. The stems, which run up perfectly straight, are generally from four to five feet high, and are much thicker than the large wheat straw. They throw out, from the root up wards a succession of flag-like leaves, the stem termi nating in a little tuft, from which spring the ears of corn, somewhat irregularly clustered; and, in this in stance, apparently not heavily laden. However, from the concurrent opinion of several practical agriculturists. many of whom have taken a lively interest in the expe riment, it seems not unlikely that the maize plant will be very generally sown henceforward. Its main recom mendations are—cheapness of seed, rapid growth, sim plicity of cultivation, and comparatively large produc tion. One important fact, however, must not be lost sight of by those who may feel disposed to speculate in maize sowing. It requires a sunny aspect and a warm soil. Amongst those who are about to experimentalize upon a large scale next year, are his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who proposes sowing a piece of land at Flemish Farm; his Grace the Dake of Richmond, at Goodwood; and the Duke of Norfolk, at Arundel. YEARS.—Neither rouge, artificial ringlets, nor all the resources of the toilet, can retard the relentless pro gress of that terrible foe to beauty, Time. But every one must have noticed how lightly his hand rests upon some, how heavily upon others. Whenever you see in an old person, a smooth unwrinkled forehead, a clear eye, and a pleasing cheerful expression, be sure her life has been passed in that comparative tranquillity of mind, which depends less upon outward vicissitudes than in ternal peace of mind. A good conscience is the greatest preservative of beauty. Whenever you see pinched-up features, full of lines, and thin curling lips, you may judge of petty passions, envy, and ambition, which have worn out their owner. High and noble thoughts leaveof behind them noble and beautiful traces; me anness thought and selfishness of feeling league with time to unite age and ugliness together. Fresh air, pure simple rd food, and exercise, mental and bodily , with an elevated ambition, will confer on the greatest ag beauty, in which youth is deficient..appearance and Theree a ar d c g m ni leva a fi n e e l d men and women, at sixty , younger in nger , feeling than others at forty. — Eliza cook s Journal. BELGIAN PRODUCE. — S ome rather extensive as a im portationspor- timefrom eafbrliovaed.pleAntsveasrseeltaakricga rived pl f c r e om at the Ghent t es h en as t e 3 r l c b A a r s s k o e , t the and p ü b c o e N o e ( s B o e f u e m p . l a ra 6s, b ti r o o n e g o fhht Governor Mac Donnell accompanied the expedition as a subordinate officer, receiving the pay and allow ances of a captain, and taking the nominal command of the Gambia militia. In this capacity he was pre sent at the attack on Koondung. He was posted with the militia at some distance from the town, and out of the range of native musketry, under shelter of a cluster of very large trees. While here he was ob served to divest himself of his epaulettes, and was heard to tell the men under his command to take care of themselves and keep out of danger! A wag here observed that the epaulettes must have been of a very peculiar description, when the broad shoulders and gigantic frame of Captain Mac Donnell were not sufficiently powerful to support their weight. He observed that all the other officers were exposed to the fire of the enemy without being sheltered by trees, and he concluded, that although they were of smaller stature, they must really be much stronger men than Captain and Governor Mac Donnell, from the simple fact that they were all able to carry their epaulettes on their shoulders; but, on the other hand, he was soon convinced of their hardness of heart by their not ordering their men either to " keep out of danger," or "to take care of themselves." Ah ! the unfeeling fellows. I must not omit to tell you that Lieut. Degrigny, a militia officer of known bravery, seeing his com manding officer doff the epaulettes, and feeling it would be no distinction or honour to be mistaken for Captain and Governor Mac Donnell, very wisely followed the example set him by his superior, and put his epaulettes aside also! By these means it would have been difficult to distinguish the Captain and Governor from one of the privates of the Royal Gambia Militia. During the retreat from Koondung, for as such it must be designated, as our forces did not take that place, the natives followed the expedition for several miles, firing upon it from time to time without doing any injury from the too great distance at which they were. It was during the retreat that Captain Mac Donnell was observed to dismount and walk with the militiamen. This apparently strange pro- , ceeding excited considerable attention at the time, and afforded room for our facetious friend to remark, that, although at Koondung the epaulettes were too heavy for the Gallant Captain, the Gallant Captain found himself when returning homewards too heavy for the horse, and, therefore, suddenly became a pedestrian. "A. fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind." In corroboration of the statements regarding the epaulettes and the horse, I beg to refer you to all the officers and men of the 2d and 3d West India Regiments, to the militia officers and their men, to the old pensioners, and all other persons present at Koondung on the occasion of the recent attack on that place. If all British officers who go into action found their epaulettes " too heavy," and their horses " too weak," what would become of our gallant soldiers and brave defenders throughout the world ? Fortu nately, there are very few Captains Mac Donnell among them.—l am, Sir, &c., Bathurst, Gambia, June 10, 1849, JUSTICE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—You should make the river a leading article, by having a Title in Capitals—" Contamination of the Thames"—beneath which all communications may be put. Yesterday evening, in the neighbourhood of London bridge, the stench was worse than I ever perceived it (and I have had some experience); under cover of flushing sewers, doubtless, the refuse of gas and other matter are let into the river—and that any supply of water should be drawn from such a contaminated source is at this time monstrous. _ _ _ Yesterday two men were taken off a boat with a severe attack of cholera.—Your constant reader, Sept. 6, 1849. C. , ACCIDENT AT MESsits. Cußle es TT 'sS t A nalte r ns lur r Ho spital Lrl. An inquest was held last night , at the before Mr. Langham, the Deputy C . oronor, on the body late of Thomas Mead, aged 52, an engineer, in the em ploy of Messrs. Cubitt, who was killed under the follow ing frightful circumstances :—On Monday morning the deceased was engaged at the saw-mills, Thames-bank, and, whilst putting a strap round the driving-shaft of a steam-engine which was in motion, he accidently slipped on one side, and in a moment his arm, which caught in the machinery, was completely torn from the socket. Besides this, the unfortunate man fell backwards, and sustained a compound fracture of the left leg. He was taken to the hospital almost immediately, and an ampu tation of the shoulder joint was performed ; but, although he remained perfectly sensible, he never rallied, and died the same day. Verdict, " Accidental Death." ROBBERY OF LETTERS AT MERTHYR TYDFIL POST OFFICE.—The magistrates of this borough have recently been engaged in investigating a wholesale sys tem of robbery which appears to have been going on for some time past at the post-office, connected with the dis trict. An indiscriminate plunder of money and other letters seems to have .been practised, and some idea may be formed of the extent the atrocious system was carried when it is stated that nearly 1,000 letters, a great num ber of which had been opened and their contents— money and other valuable property—abstracted, were found in the possession of the party supposed to be im plicated in the robberies. The non-delivery of a letter which contained some 51. Brecon bank-notes led to an inquiry being instituted by the authorities at the Ge neral Post-office, London. Mr. Ramsey, one of the inspectors, was sent down, and the result of the inge" l.. gation was that a lad named Thomas Thomas , who was employed to carry the letter-bag from MIS fully post-office at Do,lais, a neighbouring town, tbisto to the committed for trial on several char: n the j e s s a - of m robb ery. oRB A CENTENARIAN AND S a o v. s.t ou r i % , Southwalk, in the union workhouse of St. 1 heart of one of the most unhealthy districts in the me tropolis, where vast numbers are daily c a rrie d off by the cholera, there is now living an oldwidow,named Foster, w ho attained her 107th y ear on the Ist of January last, having been born in the parish of Godalming on New Year's-day, 1742. The ancient dame was thrice mar ried, and gave birth to eleven children. Her husbands and children have all been called to their last account, and she is the sole survivor of the family. Notwith standing her great age, her hearing is but slightly im paired, and she regularly attends divine worship at St. Mary:B Church, in the Waterloo -road, every Sunday morning. For the information of the curious, and iu confirmation of this stattment, we may add that an attested copy of Mrs. Fostet's certificate of birth is in the possession of Mr. Valentine Roberts, one of the beadles of Lambeth. UNE VE':UVIENNE.—An Irishman, after expatiating very warmly upon the temper and beauty of Lola Mantes, was oskcd if; she didn't smoke ? "Yes, sir, she does," he exclaimed, " and so does every volcano—per baps you'll show me the kvely craw that does'nt smoke ?"—Punch. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. ...963 10 44 Subscriptions already received ... Per the Editor of Examiner :— Friends at Kelvedon 1 0 0 The Compositors at Messrs. Reynell & Weight's 1 10 6 Mr. Wm. A. Long, jun., Wotton-under-Edge 1 0 0 Second Subscription of Working Jewellers' Work men Few Chartists, per Samuel Boonham ... 0 3 0 Per K. L. J., Limerick, second remittance ... 018 11. B. P., per Mr. Dunford, Notting hill ... 0 2 Penny Subscriptions by the Frequenters of the Sun Coffee-house, 118, Long-acre ... 9 A Liberal Englishwoman, Warwickshire ... 0 5 Subscriptions in behalf of the Hungarians, col lected by L. I.:—. C. M. and T. ... B. and C. •• • ••• H. and H. ... K. and L. •• J. A. and S. C. and Co. ... G. S. and B. ... A Liberal ••• ..• F G. and S. ••• K. M. and Co. ••• ••• ••• Contributions from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, per Mr. George Crawshay " For Freedom's Cause." A Subscription raised by Commercial Gentlemen and others, at the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, Aug. 23, 1849, for the Hungarians and Poles ;- 1 Mr. Atkinson, Huddersfield Mr. Tomlinson, Bradford Mr. B. Conway, London... ... Mr. Riddel, Manchester... ... Mr. Evans, Glasgow Mr. Robertson, Royal Hotel, Aberdeen Mr. Macdonald, Isle of Skye ... Mr. Adamson, Stannochy Mr. Feast, Beverley ... Mr. Hernulewicz, Edinburgh ... Mr. Anderson, Glasgow ... Mr. Banks, Camperdown Second Remittance from Edinburgh, per Lord Dudley Stuart ... ••• .. 2:5 1 10 Subscription on behalf of the Hungarian Re fugees, emanating from the Carlisle Temper ance Reading Room, per Lord Dudley Stuart... 15 8 6 A. Mosely, Park-street, Bristol ... 0 10 0 Balance of subscription from Cardiff, per Mr. ... 3 3 0 ... 5 0 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 2 ... 0 10 0 ... 0 10 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 10 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 5 0 ... 0 5 0 William Davies ••• A Few Friends assembled at the Crown Tavern, 84, Edgware-road •• ~, A Few Chartists, Cripplegate ... 1 5 6 ... 0 15 0 ... 0 3 1 Total ... £1,04615 8* 'MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Tuesday an inquiry was held before Mr. Lanham, at the Plough, Carey street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on view of Mr. George Tytler, aged 62, an artist of some repute, and the author of the Pictorial Alphabet, as used by the Royal Family. It ap peared from the evidence of Mr. D. G. Laing, of Villiers street, Strand, and others, that the deceased had tra velled a goad deal, and was well known to the literati in London and abroad. He had held the appointment of draughtsman to the late Duke of Gloucester. From his childhood he had exhibited much eccentricity of manner, and he always abhorred the idea of any person entering s tratagem that his r h o is om ap w ar a t s m e e v n e t r s, c a le n a d ns i e t d. wa s s o o m n e ly tim by e since he met with s h in is cehe had been in ,dicha small back a b i a d ek 4s r . oo p m er , appearance. Fur t d a o p l e e h e u t n a i a n r d y was misfortunes v ery slovenly o e cr : i e ps.n. r i eh ahtemlaos.tH3t2we:ocwylaseemaresint n l e:ts very l h a an indigent circumstance s , an d week. about twelve months ago an appeal was made to the profession and persons whom he had known in his prosperity, by which means an annuity of 201. per annum was rain d for his sup port d mr. Laingfur h e irne mins t alments i s w ee l i c h ne he iv r a e s cei l v a e st from alive on Thursday last, and he then appeared in his usual health. On Monday evening last a most dreadful stench was experienced i n th e h ouse by the l who found it to proceed from the decea sed's room . The door was subsequently broken op en , an d t h e e fil uv i um that escaped from the room was so great that the police constables and Mr. Lovet, the surgeon, were compelled to return down stairs, and were afterwards attacked with violent sickness. Mr. Levet obtained a quantity of chloride of lime and returned again to the room. After using the lime very freely he was enabled to enter the room, and found the deceased lying by the side of the bed, as if be had fallen from it by accident. The body was most shockingly decomposed, and the deceased ap.- peared to have been dead some days. The room, which had never been cleansed since he had lived there, pre sented a most disgusting and filthy sight. It resembled a dung-heap more than the habitation of a human being. Mr. Walker, surgeoo, attributed death to apoplexy, and the jury returned a verdict to that effect. SANDWICH ISLANDS. — In the Polynesian, of May 26, it is stated that a new volcanic eruption upon the summit of Mauna Loa was witnessed on the 15th of m ay: A. bright pillar shot up several hundred feet, glowing with light from the fires beneath. Old Killanea was also in vehement action, its rapid and terrific explo sions being heard at s< distance of test or fef;ten miles. %PIK THE CITY BOARD OF HEALTH. Yesterday the committee assembled in Guildhall. Mr. Barkley in ths chtiir. Lf_rd Mayor az.d 0 City Solicitor were present. The committee passed a resolution that Mr. Simon, the officer of health, should dbily pror?u•.e tibdiar statements of the cholera cases in the area Civ unions. Mr. Sriktom presented a report of the progress he had made in carrytng out the arrangements to which he had referred on Tuesday, with regard to the addi tional medical aid in cases of cholera and diarrhoea, and the place of reception for patients. A great deal of conversation took place upon the subject of the conduct of the City of London Union, in refusing to prepare an hospital for the reception of cholera patients, and upon the formidable diff erences of opinion which appeared to exist between the medical authorities in some districts. Mr. WIRE said, he regretted that unavoidable absence from town prevented his regular attendance at the meetings of the committee. lie had read the correspondence between the committee, the City Union, and the General Board of Health, and he felt that the committee would not discharge their duty to the Corporation if they permitted such a state of circum stances to continue. He proposed that they should at once seek an interview with the General Board of Health, and learn what it was their determination to do ; and, unless prompt and vigorous exertions were at once put in motion by that body to execute and enforce the observance of the provisions of the law, he hoped the committee would put in force the same admirable arrangements which in 1832 were attended with such beneficial results. While the Corporation relied upon its own powers and resources, and acted in unison with the ward and parochial authorities, everything went on well. Now that they were acting in submission to central authority their efforts appeared to be paralysed. The CITY SOLICITOR said the authority conferred upon the committee of the Common Council extended guardians, wh o , only to a ff or di ng supplementary a id to t h e b oar d s o f under the superintending authority and control of the General Board of Health, were bound to provide hospitals, places of refuge, and a medical staff, to meet every exigency, and he felt he could not recommend to the committee to share with these bodies the responsibility which the law had cast upon them without the special sanction of the Common Council. Mr. WIRE —Then I move, " That immediate ap plication be made to the Lord Mayor to convene a meeting of the Common Council to sanction the adoption of the same proceedings as those adopted in 1832, to be carried out with additional vigour in proportion to the increased emergency." He was far from being an alarmist, but he thought that instead of creating an unreasonable ;panic it would diminish the apprehensions of the public within the city if they knew that preparations for meeting the calamity were actively made. At this moment the LORD MAYOR entered the committee•room, and having heard of Mr. Wire's proposal signified his willingness to grant the Court on a very early day, if such were the wish of the committee. He was confident the Corporation would not allow any consideration of expense to stand in the way of the discharge •of the duty which Mr. Wire seemed to think rested upon them to enlarge the powers of the committee to make the more extensive arrangements which the officer of health had recom mended. The committee then adopted the suggestion of Mr. Wire, and his Lordship appointed Friday next as the day of meeting on the subject. They also agreed to a proposition to the efnct that Mr. Barkley (the chairman of the committee), Mr. Barnard, and Mr. Wire do wait as a deputation upon the Genezal Board of Health, and that the Lord Mayor and Mr. Simon, the medical officer of the City, and the City Solicitor be requested to accompany the deputation on the subject of the City arrangements to-morrow, (this day). The City architect informed the committee that he would be able to have a tent or marquee hospital ready on the site of the late Fleet Prison by Saturday next, for the reception of cholera patients. Adjourned. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- DENTr."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven tion. OED• Is Od 3 ... 16 ... 11 ''' 7 1 ... 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