The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE SURREY GARDENS. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A visit made yesterday to the Surrey Gardena and inquiries instituted on the spot enable us to throw some additional light upon the deplorable calamity which on the preceding evening resulted ,-in the death of seven unfortunate persons, and in injuries of different degrees of severity to a greater number of others, as already related in this journal. It would seem now beyond the range of probability to ascertain by whom the false alarm of danger was raised, with what object, or from what cause. The subject at present is one entirely of speculation, and it is likely to remain so. The prevalent opinion, especially on the part of the police autho rities and the office-bearers in Mr. Spurgeon's con gregation, is that it was a preconcerted movement. One circumstance goes to support this hypothesis. It is stated by Mr. Superintendent Lund, who was present from the commencement of the service, and occupied a seat 011 the basement of the build ing immediately in front of the preacher, that he saw three men who sat together on the same floor rise up simultaneously and cry "Fire !" and that this was the signal for the furious rush that was instantaneously made towards the places of outlet from the ball. He has since identified the exact spot from which they rose, and it happe in t o b e tl right in the very cen t re o f the group-floor, there being a back to the seat which distinguishes it from alLtbe rest, and marks it:a exactly central po- Sition. The inference front this statement is that the threetpersons in ques.iion were acting in con cert, and that they had gone early, and deliberately chosen that particular place in the hall as the mast eligible for carrying their diabolical machination into effect. Bue for what purpose was the alarm given, unless by thieves? It was said yesterday, on apparently competent authority, that the highly skilled metropolitan pickpockets would never think of originating a rush of the kind which ensued, to Afford an opportunity for the exercise of their craft, inasmuch as they would know it would preclude their acting in concert, which they hold is essential to success. This statement is given here for what it is worth, but one would think that this was just the state of things in which they might expect to operate with effect. It is worthy of remark, that • though Superint en d ent L und had a number of de tectives scattered among the aeidience them Was a bl e t o recognise P... singleknot one of pocket, but the polic e authorities pickpocket, cases of robb er y rave since heard of some com m itted during the confusion. Besides the detectkives, who were there in plain clothes, there were eight policemen in uniform in 'different pared of the building, and about 60 office 'bearers attached to Me. Spurgeon's congregation were stationed at varlous points to assist people in getting seats and t, maintain order. There was a rumour abroad yesterday that just before the 'alarm of fire was; given a person in the congrega tion stepper'.. out of his place to call the notice of an attendant-,;-to an attempt made in the upper gallery `'to i"., - elite some gunp ow d er ; b ut at present this 8 .ory rests on testimony not altogether satisfactory. *As to an alarm from fire, it so happens that there is net a single fireplace or flue in the whole build ing, nor within 100 yards of it. But the hall is lighted with gas, and therefore the occurrence of fire would not be beyond the range of possibility. The whole of the calamitous consequences that ensued from the rush are supposed to have taken place in the first; 5 or 10 minutes after the alarm was sounded, 7.nd during the deplorable panic with which it was immediately followed. Three persons, one of whom, a woman, was dead, were taken off the roof of a - refreshment-room which runs along the northern side of the edifice, and on which it is probable they h a d l eape d f rom the windows of the gallery above, a distance of between 20 and 30 feet. In the lower part of a window at the east end of the second gallery the glass was entirely broken, and there at least two persons were found with their heads protruding through the panes into the open air. The window is a great distance from the ground, and the sug;gestion is that, having broken the glass with the view of jumping out, they found the leap so fraught with danger that they gave up the thought, but could not altogether retreat to their original position owing to the pressure of the crowd behind. The little boy who was killed, and whose name has not - since been ascertained, he having been carried away by his father to his own resi dence, was seen to leap over the balustrade of the circular stair-ease at the north-eastern tower, lead ing from the galleries, a distance of upwards of 20 feet, and fell with great violence on the stone floor beneath. 'Several of the women who were killed were found in positions which indicated that, un able to bear the enormous pressure of the etowd, they herl sunk down, or fainted away, and then been trodden to death. Though the greater part of 'the balustrade of the 'stairs in the north-west tower gave way in the fearful struggle to escape which was waged there, it is asserted that not more than two persons fell through the breach, and that no loss of life occurred from that cause. Two per sons, however, were said to be trodden down on the stairs. It is still a mystery how Samuel Heard was killed, the only man in the crowd who appears to have lost his life. He was an extraordinarily powerful man, 24 years of age, and about six feet high. From his body being found on the roof of the refreshment-room, and from a severe wound on the back of his head, the inference is that he bad leaped out of a window of one of the galleries above, and been killed in the fall. A man was seen to jump right through the thick plate glass panel of the door at the south-east entrance to the building. By some it is thought remarkable that he should have performed this perilous feat, seeing that the door through which he leaped was unlocked all the night ; but it seems the door opened in .wards, instead of outwards, and the probability is that the pressure of the crowd from the interior prevented its being opened, which may account for the circumstance. The fact would seem now to be es tablished by the testimony of many persons present that not only did Mr. Spurgeon attempt to continue the service after this deplorable accident, but that several of his office-bearers went round among such of the congregation as remained, or had not es caped, to make the ordinary money collection. I t would be perhaps but charitable to suppose that at that time they were unaware of the fatal results of the calamity. The whole of the persons killed have been now identified. The damage done to the Music-hall at the Surrey Gardens by the accident is not very considerable. It consists principally of broken windows, and 501. will cover it all. The building was minutely in spected yesterday morning by Mr Tyler', the manager of the gardens ; Mr. T. K. Holmes, one of the directors ; Mr. Horace Jones, the architect, and Mr. Ellis, the secretary, all of whom expressed themselves convinced that, beyond the broken window s and balustrades, the structure had sus tained no injury, and that there was no cause for the alarm which unhappily led to the lamentable results that have brought sulden bereavement to several families, and deeply wounded the public mind. All the sufferers at Guy's Hospital are likely to recover. STATEMENT 0 --- - B 1 MR. MOORS, ACONS. - ONE OF At a meeting, ul! held atp E last night at eight eel the Chapel in Park-street geon usually presides _oek3 over which M S T. par the following statement , Mr. Moore, atement • a deacon, made ac cident : with reference to the ac " Had it not been for an orw duty I never could have come here sense o f am more fit to be in bed. I neverhereto.nigh . I a more miserable and distressing day passed through been. With regard to the o • rigin g than VA . has' of the alarm le night there is no doubt that it originated': last wicked, designing mer. If ever Satan was from to take human appearance and walk atilPermitted' was on last night. Oh, that dreadful scee earth, it I must now let you know what particula n r e s'l have ascertained concerning the extent of the calamity, v as preaching to-night is quite impossible. At an early hour this morning I was at the Gardens, and r found that seven persons had been killed, five o f whom are lying at the workhouse, and about 25 or 27 others more or less mutilated. Some of these we fear will not recover, but we must hope for the best, t'-you are anxious to hear about our poor pastor—tre 'is very bad. Very bad I say, not from ,!'3" i'llftlira or bruises he has received, but from the extreme tension on his ner ves, and his great anxiety. So had is he that we were fearf ul for his mind this • morning. tinder these circumstances, only one thingcould into the country away from the scene. As we . knew that a Burin; the at number of persons would call at his house day, we gent him ear l y th's morning; so that none of his engagements can be entered into this week. From information I h zee just received, I am night he is a little batter, hut still very prostrate. Mr. Olney (another d "Let us be more merciful°n) is ill in bed. to our enemies of last night than they were to n . —that man whom we are justified wicked wretch creant—who first gave the drela e_d in calling a so much life was lost. Llle a re tul signal by which - many of his audience, burst into t r. Moore, with even pray for him. Who knows butr''.l Let us one day stand in this room andown that he may , his great crime, and seek for repentance I ' The chapel was not nearly so full a s it usually is en these -occasions ; and the dejected counte nances, the sorrowful . looksT a n d t he tears ° of the audience, would have been alone sufiLient THE SUN, LONDON, TUEStfi Y EVENING, OC ; OBER 21, 18,“1. hearers as any body has had before. Let Mr. Spurgeon be at least content with as many as the Surrey Music-hall was intended to hold, sitting in comfort and with sufficient means of exit. It ap pears that he has the means of controlling the ad mission, since his own special flock is secured places before the proselytes and strangers are let in. He can charge a shilling a seat, and, if that is not enough, half•a-crown ; in which case he will have some hearers who would not venture to push their way through a mob let in free. We do not say this from any desire to stint Mr. Spurgeon of his audience. We have no wish to criticise his style of oratory, which severe critics affirm to be of the familiar, bold, and irreverent sort. On the con trary, we are delighted to hear that there is one man in the metropolis who can get people to hear his sermons from any other motive than the fulfilment of a religious obligation. The men who have awakened slumbering generations, who have began mighty movements, shaken idols, or Popes, or huge vices from their throne, have no, been uniformly characterised for severity of language, sobriety of illustration, and chasteness of style. Luther, Latimer, and many others, were remarkable for the contrary. Mere faults of style are no concern of ours, and apparently are tolerated by the British pub] c when the substance finds an echo in their understandings or their hearts. But there is a certain moderation, as we have said, to be observed in all things—even in the size of con gregations, little as we are accustomed to think of restricting them. Woald Mr. Spurgeon be so good as to attend to the subject at once ? Next Sunday, instead of 20,000, the Surrey Gardens will be blockaded from 4 o'clock by at least 50,000. They will expect to hear, not only Mr. Spurgeon, but also a sermon from him on the sudden fate of the victims last Sunday. The prospect is rather a serious one, and if this gentleman and his friends Lave the means of providing against a crush, or eeffect of a panic, they will be held responsible for omitting to do so. (From the Daily News of this day.) Perhaps the most deep-thoughted of Chaucer's Tales is one in which he illustrates the unexpected manner in which Death steals upon us. Three roysterers in a tavern hearing of the death of a boon companion, ask who killed him, and are told it was nobody but Death. In their drunken bravado they set out iu search of this Death, to revenge them selves for the loss of their comrade by killing him. On their way they meet an old, old man, who, in reply to their inquiries, tells them that Death is on before. By the way they find some money, which they agree to conceal and share among them selves. A sequestered nook is sought out where there they may divide the treastire unseen by any body. One of them is despatched to the town to bring food and wine. Avarice tempts him to put poison in the viands that he may obtain the whole. Meanwhile his fellows have entered into a simi lar conspiracy against him, and on his return embrace an opportunity to stab him. They then partake of the poisoned food and die. The old man they met was Death, who-is often nearest to us when there is least show of his presence. Of the immense multitude which flocked to the Surrey Gardens on the evening of Sunday last, there was probably not one who had the slightest presentiment that he was about to witness a scene as appalling and scarcely less fatal than a battle. Some went in search of instruction ; others in search of excitement; others, again, in the faint hope of ridding themselves of ennui. But none dreamed of danger. Even among those who are prone to make the uncertainty of life their theme of conversation, there was not one in all likelihood who applied to himself the words of Scripture— This night thy soul shall be required of thee." All are hushed throughout the immense hall, save the preacker, upon whose accents they hang in breathless silence, when a slight tinkling is heard —the vibration, we are assured by one who was present, of a glass shade over a more than usually powerful jet of gas. Two or three of the audience cry out " Fire 1" At this ill omened sound the bulk of the congregation loss all self-possession. Each feels his own alarm heightened by contagion from his neighbours. Some cry out, " The roof is falling." The human mass heaves and surges like a tempest-tossed sea ; mad rushes are made to doors, windows, and staircases ; the weak are borne down by the pressure, and in the intensely selfish agony of fear the rest trample over them ; others crowd into narrow passages or frantically precipitate themselves from high windows; the wailing of the wo.unded, the clamorous shrieking of those who are separated from their friends, heighten the madness of the moment ; and, after an aimless struggle of less than an hour, eight mutilated corpses are discovered by the dim light, while many maimed for life halt away, or are borne off by the survivors. Ind all this fatal panic was utterly causeless. There never was any appearance of fire; the roof and walls of the building are still 'compact and strong as when the builders ceased from their labours. Thus Death steals upon us when least in our thoughts, and effects his purposes with weapons incognisable to mortal sense. But men are not satisfied with such a view of the matter. They mint have some one to be angry with • some one to blame for causing the mischief. Accordingly we find Mr. Spurgeon and his friends attributing the alarm to a plot of the swell mob, seeking to create confusion in order that they might have an opportunity to plunder. The tinkling of the over-heated glass shade appears to have sug gested this idea. They magnified it into the sound of a bell, and the sound of one bell they speedily magnified—as in the story of the three black crows —into the sound of many bells. Mr. Superinten dent Lund has disposed of this fallacious notion. He, who knows from long experience the habits of thieves, remarks that the alarm was given by per sons in the very centre of the assembly, and that swell mobsmen would have selected a position near the door, as favourable to the exercise of their peculiar industry. But Mr. Lund is in his turn equally infelicitous in his attempt to explain the origin of the panic. Without condescending to assign any reason for his belief, he attributes the alarm to some enemies of Mr. Spurgeon, desirous to annoy that gentleman by dispersing his hearers. It is really too much to call upon us to make such an uncharitable assumption without offering one iota of evidence. Nor is it at all necessary. History is full of precedents of fatal and unreasoning panics produced withtut any adequate cause. The obvious aim of the authors of the two explanations to which we have adverted is to place Mr. Spurgeon and his friends in the attitude of martyrs to the cupi dity or of others. On the other hand, voices aro already raised imputing the whole cala mity to these gentlemen. It is asked why they collected such a miscellaneous crowd together in circumstances so favourable to the excitement of a disastrous panic ; and comments the reverse of flattering are made on the composition of the as sembly, andon their motives fordrawingit together, and the means they resorted to with a view to the accomplishment of that object. We aro quite as little disposed to join in this cry as in that raised by Mr. SpurgeOn or by Mr. Lund. A similar accident might have happened at a play, or a concert, or a crowded political or philanthropic meeting. Are we to be told that men ought never to b 3 allowed to gather together in great numbers because of some rare accident ? It is true we do not regard the crowds attracted by Mr. Spurgeon, or his mode of attracting t hem, as tending to edification ; but our liking or disliking has nothing to do with the ques tion. He and his friends, we have no doubt, sin cerely believed that they were working for goad, and there are some who conscientiously look on plays and political meetings as %bominationi. But while we exonerate Mr. Spurgeon and his friends from the blame of causing the catastrophe, we are by no means disposed to blink the question of their conduct after it had happened. Unless they are grossly misrepresented, it was irrational and callous in the extreme. Mr. Superintendent Lund—who is obviously the reverse of unfriendly. to Mr. Spurgeon—has stated that he had the great est difficulty in inducing him to desist from preach ing. Now, what was one of the topics said to have been insisted upon by the rev. gentleman amid the appalling scene that was being enacted around him ? That it showed the necessity of having a chapel of their own ! Would the disaster have been less in a chapel calculated to contain 12,000 people ? But the crowd tad been assembled to collect a subscrip• tion towards the erection of such a mammoth chapel, and Mr. Spurgeon and his friends were un willing that the opportunity should be lost. There fore this untimeous reminder ; therefore Mr. Spur goon's exclamation to the panic stricken fugitives, that they were more afraid of temporal than eternal death ; therefore the indecent rattling of money boxes in their ears. We might go furthrr, and remark on the callous manner in whi c h M r . gpur geon and his friends left the meeting, without one attempt to aid or soothe the sufferers ; but we are willing to make allowance for the bewilderment which such a spectacle was calculated to produce. Two morals we are disposed to draw from this calamitous event. The first is, that every one be fore mingling in such a dense and excited crowd S 3 that of Sunday evening should cautiously estimate his powers of self-preservation in the event of a p tuic. The man who without being able to swim should. plunge into a deep and billowy tide or rapid torrent would warrantably be accounted mad. But tides and torrents are not more deaf or resist less than a closely lacked crowd wildly struggling under the excitement of panic. The second is, that all who take upon themselves the charge of education ought incessantly to impress on the m du in ty ds o o f f p t r h e o se se rv e ig n n trusted to their charge the moral calmness and self-possession in crises of real or apparent danger, and to seize every opportunity of training them to such habits. The most pacific pursuits are not exempt from sudden danger, and men should be prepared beforehand to encounter it at any moment. In conclusion, we may add that though crowded assemblies cannot always be dispensed with, they ought never to be congregated without some adequate c au se a nd due preliminary precaution. Let Mr. Spurgeon and his friends ask themselves whether the congregat ing of immense nocturnal crowds is really calculated to promote true religion. And let the proprietors of places of public resort take care that their halls have' sufficient means of egress. We make this last remark with no reference to the Hall of the Surrey Gardens, which appears to be unusually well provided in this respect ; but only think of such a panic occurring in Exeter-hall or almost any of our theatres, with their narrow and tortuous passages ! iIttLASD. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. THE CRIMEAN BANQUET. There was a full meeting of the committee on Saturday at the Mansion House. Isaac Butt, Esq., M.P., presided. Among the members present were Gen. Lord Gough, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lord Dunally, Sir T. M.P., Mr. Justice Esq., O'Brien,P., Lieut.-Colonel Browne,Koogh,. P. O'Brien, e. Mr. Butt, M.P., brought up the report of the sub-committee, •the paragraphs of which were read seriatim, and fully discussed with closed doors. A deputation was then appointed to wait on the Lord Lieutenant for the purpose of laying the pro gramme before his Excellency, according to the usual etiquette in such matters, for his approval, after which it will be published. Everything promises that the banquet will pass off with decided eclat. A vigilant and clever com mittee, with abundance of money at command, can de a great deal in such cases. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. Yesterday a speclal meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held in the Council Chamber, Guildhall ; (11r THWAILES i❑ the chair. The minutes of the last board were read and caifirmed. The board then proceeded to consider, in the first in stance, a statement submitted, showing the financialcon. dition of the several parishes and districts, with tiwpAr ticulars of outstanding loans and mortgages, andan esti mate of the sums to he raised by the board for the year ending 31st Dec., 1856 ; to assess such sums, or such other sums as the board shall deem necessary, on the various parts of the metropolis, and to direct the issuing of receipts for obtaining payment of the sums assessed. The names of the parishes were here given in detail, with the sums that would be required from each, which have already been published, making a total of 136,2281. Bs. 10d. _ A deputation from Kensington attended with a memo rial from that parish, praying the board to relieve the memorialists and the parishes of Chelsea, Fulham, and lip.mcnersmith, from having to bear the whole cost of constructing the Counters Creek drainage works, in ad dition to their proportion with other metropolitan pa ri,hes of the costs incurred in carrying out the general scheme. Memoria!s were also presented from Chelsea, Fulham, atd Hammersmith. Mr. HAWKES moved that the prayers of the memorial from the inhabitants of Kensington and others be com plied with, if the board had the power to do so, or could obtain power for the purpose. M. D'IFFANGER seconded the motion. Mr. TURNER moved an amendment to the effect "That the memorial be received, and the prayer thereof be taken into consideration, when the board shall be called upon ti deterrnive in what proportion the various districts or parishes or the metropolis shall contribute to the main drainage." Mr. SNOW seconded the amendment. Mr. HAWSES having replied, The CHAIRMAN pat the question, when there appeared For the amendment 2O Against it... 3-17 Upon a division being called for ; there appeared— For the amendment . . 23 Against it 3-20 Mr. STEVENS then moved another amendment, to the effect that the prayer of the memorial be referred to the Committee of Works and Improvements, to report the result to the board. Mr. WRIGHT seconded the amendment. Mr. Deputy HARRISON supported the amendment. Messrs. Hows, Doulton, and Leslie objected to the referring this subject to a committee. The amendment was put and negatived. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR then moved another amendment : " That the memorials be referred to a committee of the whole board." Mr. SAVAGE seconded the amendment. Mr. TURNER objected to the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put the question, when there appeared —. For it Against . 11-2 Mr. LESLIE then moved an amendment, " That the memorials be printed and circulated among the members of the board." Mr. TURNER seconded the amendment, which was put and agreed to. Mr. ROBERT TAYLOR presented a memorial from the parish of Lambeth, praying the board to suspend the issuing of a precept, until an inquiry has been made as to the sum said to be due from that parish. He com plained that the late commissioners of sewers had con structed a long sewer through the whole of Garratt-lane, Tooting, in which, through its entire length, there was but one house, while the populous neighbourhood of Clapham-road had no sewer up to the present time, although the inhabitants of that part of Lambeth had over and over again paid the amount that would be re quired. He concluded by moving that the prayer of the memorial be printed. Mr. BRISTOW would put it to the chairman, as a mat ter of order, whether the motion could now be put, as Mr. R. Taylor had given no notice of that motion, but merely that he would present a memorial? The CHAIRMAN conceived that the motion could not be put, as notice had not been given. Mr. R. TAYLOR said after the ruling of the chairman he would not of course press his motion, but should move that the memorial be now received, which .was put and agreed to. Mr. TURNER said, to save the time of the board, by entering into a long discussion on the various parts of the financial statement, he should move, " that, in the first instance, the opinion of the board be taken upon the column having reference to the rateable value." Mr. DALTON seconded the motion. Mr. BRISTOW moved, as an amendment, " that the whole of the financial statement be referred to a com mittee of the whole board." Mr. Doimos seconded the amendment, and said that until this ponderous statement of figures was presented, the parish of Lambeth had looked for sard to bim and his brother representative for Lambeth for a cheque for a sum of 15,000/ , which they believed to be owing to them by the late Commissioners of Sewers, but instead of that happy state of things they were now called upon for a contribution of 10,1421. Mt-. H. L. TAYLOR opposed the amendment. Mr. DIFFANGER was strongly opposed to referring the subject, or any other, to a committee of the whole board. It ought to be discussed in public, so that those who would have to pay the rates should know from the transactions of the board why they were called upon to ply them. Mr. Deputy HARRISON objected to the delay that would be created if they adopted the amendment, and they were not to suppose that expenses would stand still by such a course. He thought the act of Parliament wax explicit as to the rateable value of the property, and they were:required to rate the property on the basis there pointed out. He altogether objected to deferring this question, considering that the board was at the present time going on upon borrowed capital. The amendment was then put and negatived, and afterwards the original question was put and carried, there being for it, 16 ; against it, 7. Mr. TURNER then moved that the first column be re• ferrad back to the finance or some other committee, with instructions that they do not examine the property-tax returns for the City of London. Mr. LESLIE seconded the motion. This subject led to a long and uninteresting conversa tion, and on a division, the motion was negatived by a majority of 13 to 8. Another division took place on the question of ad journment of the board, which was carried by a majo rity of 14 to 8: Tne board then adjourned at a quarter-past 4jo'clock. DARING ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND ROBBERY. --- Last night c9nsidorable sensation was created in Par liament -street at•d its neighbourhood by. a murderous attack on the assistant of Mr. Barry, the jeweller, of 53, in Parliament-street. It appears that Mr. Berry does not attend personally to his business in Parliament-street, he having another establishment at Pimlico, which he conducts. The for mer shop is left to the care of an assistant, a most re spectable man, residing in Hendon-street, Pimlico. His name a t the is house Cope, and in Parliament-Street it w r li a Ine a n s t -Street customary u for hn to r until about t half-past en ;dn nine o'clock at night, when, to guard against robbery, he took away to Mr. Berry the more valuable conteuts of the shop. between him mystery. and ,he unfortunate first L el a e s s t ing nigahtnlanbnouetntaerged uatrhtee s ro h f e a v n i h n ot p ir ar b l e is fo nl r e e n t t h -s e tr t e in e i t e of , assistant what remainstranspired that was obierved was the in j ured man bein g murder . ously assailed by the man refer r ed t o, with a heavy weapon. Two or three casual passers by saw the assault, and one of them, a milliner's porter, of the name of for the present in George Lerings, rushed to the door and gave the alarm. He states that the man was violently striking Cope on the head. The latter crouched down behind the counter, overcome by the repeated attacks of his assailant. The man then rushed from the shop, stooping to pick up, as is thought, a small parcel. He pushed by Lerings, ran up Cannon-row, across Bridge street, by the opposite court into Palace-yard, where he was seized by a police man on duty, having on his way knocked down the page boy of Fendall's hotel, who attempted to obstruct him in his escape. He was at once taken to the police sta tion in King-street. _ _ The unfortunate man Cope was in the meantime found to be desperately injured about the head, the blood from the wouuds having literally deluged the shop. He was insensible, and in that melancholy state was conveyed to the Westminstsr Hospital, where it was discovered by Mr. Legge, the house-surgeon, that his skull was dan gerously fractured, and that he was in a most precarious state. _ in an impudent ton e , th at his name He is a well-dres se d, s li ghtly -built The prisoner, to the question of the Inspect or on d uty min, apparently about 34 , and from his uiscou rse seems to be an Irishman. A body of police were instantly despat c h e d to endea vour to find the murderous weapon be had cast away i n a w t a t s h j e ohn station, Jenkins. said, his flight, but up to 11 o'clock their search bad proved futile. . . On inquiry at the hospital at 11 o'clock last night Mr. Legge declined to allow any of the relatives of the unfor tunate man Cope to see him. That gentleman also stated it was very doubtful if ho (Cope) could survive the severe injuries he had sustained on the head. Cope was then totally senseless, and beyond attention to the wounds all medical skill was of no avail until a partial return of ct n ciousness. The drivers upon the New York and Erie Railroad struck in a body on the 4th, in consequence of the re ideal of the directors t o modify the rule making them raAponsible for running off at a switch where their train was to stop. Their places were filled promptly and the trains were runninv as usual. [A DVERTISEILENT.] - Holloway's Ointment and Pills never-tailing remedies for Bad Legs.—Extract of a let t,d. from Mr. William Mabson, druggist, of Great Yar ns filth. "To Professor Hoiloway. Sir,—Samuel \Veils, mariner, had a very bail leg for nearly three years ; he obtained the advice of several medical men, and tried various medicines, but instead of deriving bene fit therefrom his leg continued to get worse, which pre vented him from following his employment ; he was then induced to try Holloway's ointment and pills, which have been the means of effecting a perfect cure."—Sold by all medicine vendors throughout the world ; at Pro fessor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden -lane, New York; by A. Stampa, Con stantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyr na ; and E. Muir, Malta. to indicate to hadtaLlen pfat, a e. Ozanger that some dreadful event A. few-minutes before the coneluBion of the meet. Mr. Moo re s t a t e d th a t intelligence had just reached him of the death of another sufferer. The name did not transpire. He also assured the andionc - e that he (Mr. Moore) was the first who pro posed to Mr. Spurgeon to preach in the Surrey Music Hall—against that gentleman's wishes from the first. The money c3llected last night, amount ing to about 81., was intended to be devoted to the families of the sufferers, and a further collection was made after the service last evening. It was announced that Mr. Spurgeon, as soon as he was sufficiently recovered, would preach a sermon with the same charitable object, and every means are to be taken to alleviate, so far as it is now possible, the distress of the surviving relatives of sufferers. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A gentleman who was present in the hall on Sunday evening, thus describes the scene :—I oc cupied one of the front seats in the second gallery, when, during the second prayer, the first symptoms of confusion were manifested. This appeare I to me to be occasioned by an intentional rush of some person or persons who were at the side of the plat form, causing in au instant a great deal of confu sion, and inducing the congregation to rise from their seats in all parts of the building. A moment after, and the cry of " Fire !" was raised by a voice in the body of the hall ; added to which a cry of " The .bells ! the bells !" and in an instant, and in the greatest confusion, there was a simul taneous rush of the immense body of people for the doors and windows. Seeing the minister appa ruly but little moved and using his utmost eitorts to induce the people to remain in their seats, both by voice and gesture, I jumped on my seat and called out " A false alarm," " Keep your seats ;" but terror had so seized upon the major part of the congregation that an individual voice had but little chance of gaining a hearing. It was endeavoured to attract the attention and to calm the fears of the multitude by singing a verse of the hymn that had already been sung, but, unfortu nately, only a few of those who were on the plat form were able to join. I then made for the stair case, partly to see the cause of the confusion which had originated below, and partly, also, that it might be safer in case anything should prove to be wrong. Upon descending the staircase a horrible sight presented itself—the balustrade had already been thrown down and lay broken in fragments at the bottom ; a great number of people, men, wo men, and children, lay huddled in a heap on the second landing, completely blocking up the stair case, and causing numbers who were still crowd ing down either to fall upon them, or in their fright to jump down the opening caused by the Luken balustrade. The police were unable for some minutes to ascend the staircase to render as sistance, and were obliged to content themselves by calling to the people not to jump down ; while a number of the congregation above were appa rently undecided what to attempt. After dragging back by main force several who appeared deter mined to jump down, calling out at the same time to those who were still crowding to keep back, we succeeded in opening a window close by ; desiring two or three to jump out, and two or three others to assist inside, we passed them into the open air —three quite dead to all appearance, and many others so severely injured that in some cases, no doubt, death was the result. After collecting the scattered articles of clothing I passed out, thank ing God for my own safety. There appeared to be no police in the upper part of the building. Had there been, the accident on the staircase might surely have been prevented. (From the Times.) On Sunday night 20,000 persons went to an, immense Music-hall in what were lately the Surrey Zoological-gardens, to hear a great preacher. The hall was neow, and the preacher was young,—they say only twenty-five. His hearers have outgrown his own chapel, and outgrown Exeter-hall, till the Strand was all in a commotion every Sunday evening, with crowds looking wistfully at a notice which told them in large letters that the place would hold no more. So they are building him a place somewhere to hold about 15,000, and meanwhile they took the Surrey Music-hall for four Sundays. It is a building with two or three tiers of galleries—galleries inside, and balconies outside, and all sorts of devices for hearers, whether sitting or standing. It was built for 10,000, but on this occasion it is said that 12,000, or even 14,000, crammed into it, while a large crowd besieged the doors, and a still larger one the entrance of the gardens. Would not any reasonable being have some misgiving as to the consequences? Indeed, it appears as if everybody had, and the misgiving itself produced the consequences. There was au alarm ; no one can say certainly how or from whom. It might be a cry of "Fire," or " The roof," or the tinkling of a bell ; but in a moment the vast assemblage was in motion to the doors, rushing, screaming, tramp ling down one another, clogging the staircases, breaking the balustrades, tumbling over to the bottom, falling upon one another. By a merciful Providence net six hundred, but only six, were killed, and rather more seriously hurt. The preacher kept his place, preaching, praying, -and giving out psalms ; the surviving congregation re s turned to their seats ; the boxes for the new chapel were rattled about, and the service concluded almost as if nothing had happened ; and all the consolation to the friends of half-a-dozen well dressed women, as they are described, is that at least they perished in a religious act, while listen ing eagerly to what they believed the voice of Heaven for the good of their souls. Such incidents are not uncommon, though it is not quite true to say that they cannot be helped, and every fresh instance suggests fresh cautions. A good many years ago, when St. Luke's, Chelsea, was newly built, and thought a paragon of Gothic architecture, there were floating rumours as to the stability of its stone vaulting. It was a n%w experiment ; the old secret was lost ; the paste board walls and light flying buttresses were mistrusted. So one evening, after a charity sermon, while the hymn was singing and the plate was going round, the officials aloft thought the congregation had gone out and let down the chandeliers ; the people in the free seats made wav for the falling galaxies in haste ; the benches were overturned ; there was a cry " The roof, the roof; in an instant all was confusion, noise, and dust, and ono could only see that the whole congregation was flying over the pews to the doors like leaves in the autumn wind. Happily, the panic was more on the ground than in the galleries, and by the time the congregation had packed the passage so closely that they could not getout they came to their reason and returned to their places—not, however, before the clergyman who had been reading the prayers, after a vain attempt to open the door of the reading-desk, vaulted clean over it. St. Luke's has acquired a character for stability loy this time, and so, it is to be hoped, the Surrey Music-hall will in the end. But let not the warning pass wholly away. All the wonder is that, the alarm once given ,, the results were not worse on Sunday night. There might have been a real downfall, visible though in significant, a flake of falling flame, an explosion of gas; itnd then what would the 12,000 people have done How many would have gone over the bal conies, or been jammed fifty deep in the staircases? A. public building ought to be constructed with special regard to these fearful contingencies, and under the Metropolitan Building Act of course the Surrey Music-ball must be supposed to have ful filled the requisite conditions. The means of exit, however, it now appears, were not sufficient for the case of a panio, and the balustrades could not r3S)I; the pressure or the force applied to them. If the conditions of the act were fulfilled, they are not themselves stringent enough, and ought to be amended, or, at least, some authority given to the surveyors to profit by the warning. It is a very common remark, and one which we have made in this place before, that the entrances, staircases, and passages of our places of public assemblage, our theatres, music -halls, and even our churches, are not on a scale commensurate with the internal ac commodation ; and that they are not equal to those of s imilar buildings abroad, or, as far as we have ec mipants of the means o f k now i ng, of anc i ent amphitheatres. example, For it takes a quarter o f an hou r f or th e the reserved seats in Exeter-hall to get out of the labyrinth i n t o th e open a i r . In case of actual, fire, how many of them could torro. of orcalcined b ever re-appear, except in th e peet. In the event ones Not many, we ofsus a mere alarm the ex it would soon be stopped . would necessity, and stand t heir ve to make a virtu e o f with fifty dead b o di es , and tl.e rest w ou ld g ry ng round unhurt. B u t it is not creditable t o this c run such terrible risks. Gambling with life i s country that we sho u ld r worse than gambling with mons - W hen Covent trarden was burnt tare were On the falling beams ;au hour y 200 people under or two before there we re several thousand. Mty not Mr. Spurgeon also condescend to tak e a hint from this untoward event ? Th ere are limits to all things, even to hearers. Est modus in rebus • aunt certi denique fines. The human voice is limited. Stentor himself could not be heard by the whole human race. O n certain occa s i on - 8 20,000 people are assembled in St. Paul's, but they do not hear, or expect to hear; on the contrary, as soon as the preacher appears in the pulpit they take out sandwiches, buns, brandy-flasks, and newspapers. No church in the metropolis holds 3,001, though some have a name for more. There is something, then, very ambitious, to say the least, in the attempt to have five times as many IRISH RAILWAYS.---IMPORTANT MEETINGS. The success of nearly all the railways in this country, the fair remuneration they return the shareholders, with the vast advantages they supply to the general public, have created a strong desire amongst the people not favoured with this mode of intercommunication to have it, and they profess a readiness to bear a reasonable portion of the risk or cost, in the form of additional taxation. The nobi lity, gentry, and farmers of Cent aught see the bene fits conferred on the districts traversed by railways, and they are taking practical measures to have lines constructed through their province. That por tion of the Midland Great Western which runs from Athlone to Galway was constructed with money borrowed from the Government at moderate interest, which was secured on the rates of the districts immediately traversed by this line. At first it was supposed that the ratepayers were agree ing to something like a permanent tax upon them selves ; but a few years have elapsed, and the rail way is nearly able to meet all its expenses and pay the interest on the loan without further call upon the ratepayers. This agreeable result has operated most beneficially, and other districts, as we have remarked, are ready to accept railways on similar conditions, hoping for equaly favourable results. Enclosed is a report of a public meeting held at Galway on Saturday. The Marquis of Clanricarde presided. A large proportion of the nobility, gentry, and landholders of the county were pre sent. The principle of the guarantee was unani mously adopted. There are other reports showing the desire of railway extension in other parts of the country, which will be found under the usual head ing of " Irish railways." AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. Accounts from Limerick bring the following account of a melancholy incident which abruptly terminated a railway meeting held in that city on Friday last : " Yesterday a meeting assembled in Newcastle for the purpose of promoting railway communication between that town and Rathkeale. The attendance was large. Tho Right Hon. Lord Monteagle was called upon to pre side. His Lordship then clearly and forcibly stated the objects of tho misting. Just as the meeting was about to go on with the business for which it was convened Mr. Thomas E. Davenport, who was to have taken a prominent part in the proceedings, and who was in the court-house, was observed to become ex tremely weak and unable to articulate. He was at once conveyed to a house in the neighbourhood of the court house, and those who were present nearly all left at the same time. Restoratives and all the appliances of me dical skill were used, but in 20 minutes Mr. Davenport breathed his last, to the evident dismay of many who had assembled and of those who regretted his awfully sudden demise. He was agent to the extensive estates of the-Earl of Clare, of Mr. Pigott, of the Queen's County, and of Mr. Caulaeld's. The meeting was not held in conseqUence of this very lamentable event." Dr Ambrose, coroner, held an inquest on the body of Mr. Davenport. The only witness examined was Dr. Persse, whose testimony was to the effect that after Mr. Davenport had been removed from the court-house to the grand jury room, he spoke to him, and said he bad a pain in his heart; he asked for a drink, and was supplied with wine and water. He then said the pain was gone, and expired in a few minutes. He only survived 20 minutes from the time he was attacked. The coroner thought be died of an aff -etion of the heart. The jury found that Thomas E. Davenport, Esq., late of Ballynacourty House, coaoty Limerick, died by the visitation of God. Thy body was then placed in a shell, and removed to Ballynacourty House, the residence of deceased. *ANAL AND RAILWAY AMALGAMATION. In the reports of the directors and the proceedings at the last half-yearly meetings of the Great Southern and Western and Midland Great Western Railway Com panies it was announced that an agreement had been entered into by those companies for the purchase of the Grand Canal, in order to its being divided between them in proportions having reference to its contiguity to the stations on their respective lines of railway, and that an application was then befisre the Board of Trade to ascer tain whether or not the flovernment would consent to the prop,sed measure and sanction the bringing in of a bill during the ensuing session to carry it into effect, To that application it is now known that an answer was last week returned distinctly refusing the consent of the GJverninent to a pale of the canal. INCU`SBERED ESTATES COURT SALE IN TRALEE. The estate in the matter of William Robert La Touche, Es.q., and Sir G. Coltburst, Bart., consisting chiefly of bead-rents, near Tralee, was sold by auction at the Railway Hotel, Killarney, on Wednesday. Mr. McDonnell, after some prefatory remarks, opened the sale. The bidding was very spirited. The amount produced by the sale was very high, being about 25 years' purchase. Mr. N. D. Murphy, solicitor, Cork, was the principal buyer, in trust for an English capitalist, The property was dispose lofin 17 lots, and produced 24,9001. After the sale, lot 6, which brought 2,6501., was re , old at a profit of 240/, COM3IEECIA INTELLIGENCE. The FlCellial ' S Journal, speaking of last week's trade, says :—" Produce has ben largely dealt in at satisfac tory prices. The corn market is on the advance, though . nor, Nerifro,ly. Stock and shares are very flat, and dealt in with caution. There is no pressure for di.count ; on the contrary, the au:ounr, owing to the high rate, is touch below the average, the mercantile public looking forward to an early return to more moderate rates." The customs duties for the past week were :—Tea, 8,1831. 18s. 3d. ; refined suer, 511/. 14s. 2d. ; musco• vado sugar, 3,996/. Bs. 7d. ; coffee, 821. 9s. 4d. ' • wine, 2,2891 19s. ; spirits, 798/. s s . 10d. ; t o b a c c o, 3,5541. 04. ld. ; timber, 1961. 17s. Bd. ; 'miscellaneous, 8291. 158. 3d.—Total, 20,443/. Bs. 2d. THE FLAX CROP. The falling off of the cultivation of the flax crop of the south this year, as compare i with the previous, is ac counted for in a report of the committee of the Royal Society for dig Promotion and Improvement of Flax in Ireland, by the practical instructor!, who attribute the decrease to several causes :—" The chief reasons given by them for this falling off were an insufficient supply of seed for so w i ng i n th e s p r ing of the present year , t h e failure of m any crops f rom . the use of bad kinds of se ed , in the pr ev i ous year, and the fact that a la r g er q uantit y „ had been g rown o f l a t e years than there were facil ities for steepi ng and scutching, from w hich cause the straw still rema i ne d in the growers' hands.,, of _ TRADE OF DUBLIN. The customs receipts for the week, to Thursday inclu sive, were 19,0971., against 19,8591. last week. The fol lowing is an abstract of duties received at the port of Dublin for the week ended Oct. 11, 1856 :—Tea, 7,2511. G. ; refined sugar. 3291 2s. ; mtPcovado sugar, 2,769/. 154. 51. ; coffee 1971. 16s. 4 d. ; win e, 2,5451 . 7s. 51. ; 'Tit'Lig. 5551. 11 , . 4d, ; tobacco, 3,9011. 14e. 101. ; tim ber, 6101. 19s. 9d. ; iniscellaneods, 326 f. ss. 51. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT MIDDLESBOROUGH —On Saturiay an inquest was opened before Mr. J. R. Sowerby, cor oner , on the four men killed by the explo sion of a locomotive engine at Messrs. Bolkow and Vaughan's ironworks, Middlesborough-on-Tees. From the evidenc e o f J o h n Hall, the forema n o f th e eng i ne ers in the employ of Messrs. Bolkow and Vaughan, and other witnesses, it appeared that the engine which burst had only been completed a fortnight ago, and had not been named. Mr. Williamson (killed) was the engineer ing drughtsman under whose directions the engine was built, and it•wa3 his duty to attend to the testing of the engine. One trial of its strength had been made on `Tuesday week, the amount of pressure, according to the erginen's statement, being about 130th. to one inch. The engine worked on Tuesday week, moving coal, iron stone, &c., about the yard, but it was f ound that it leaked at two seams iu two or three places. The heads were also off some of the boiler's rivets, and the engine was put into the shop again on Saturday, the 11th inst., to be set right. There was a seam along the top of the boiler, which, in the opinion of the witness Hall, rather wealcene:l it, the bolts with which the seam was closed not holding so firmly as the solid iron. The seam was described as Mr. Williamson's own invention. Hall pointed out to Mr. Williamson that the seam would weaken the boiler, but the latter replied that there waif no danger. On Friday the fires were lit for the purpose of again testing the engine, and shortly afterwards the explosion took place. In addition to the seam referred t ) by Hall, a witness said that he found the saddle of the boiler sprung 1.16 th of an inch, and that the rivets must have been forced off by high pressure in testing the strength of the boiler en Tuesday week. The inquiry was adjourned. BANK RETURNS. An Acconnt,nrtrauant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32; - 01" :the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several, Ba : nics ,, , ?f Issue in England and W a les, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 4th day of October, 1856 :--. ' verage PRIVATE BANKS. AMOUtts. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 14,431 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. arid T. Copemtn 4,196 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 33,026 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Rogge, and Co 30,675 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple--Marshall and Co 10,772 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and C o................... Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—H. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater —J. and J. L 22,303 33,349 10,981 14,657 23,980 9,615 7,000 75,241 14,838 Seatey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and. Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par- 8,342 36,953 17,933 rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowinarket Bank, Bury St. Idmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, 24,167 77,089 and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bath City Bank, Bath--G. Moger and Son ... Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and 37,086 28,472 220 34,840 Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—ll 28,301 A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkin,s and C 0.... Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, 12,241 62,933 and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington — Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank,- Cambridge—Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury- 7 Ha i mmond and Co 19,230 12,670 2,925 12,259 49,422 32,032 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter--Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and C 0.................................. . Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Baink, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co., Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank; Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Dias Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank'and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsotshfre Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter' and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford _Sparrow, Round, an d Co 23,374 3,245 18,886 36,469 48,329 8,430 19,420 74,119 8,546 9,373 43,946 28,252 8,930 9,924 79,549 88,599 9,883 48,866 92,912 51,867 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and•Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and 50,523 28,090 8,150 13,023 6,518 Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon.. Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— • Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. _ 4,978 14,911 29,987 27,628 18,176 21,594 Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich rank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitehin Bank, Hitchin Sharples, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Arehenfield. Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank. Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexander and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. 'Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson 58,820 5,096 and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C •• LeHedasrvßeaynkand Son Leeds Leeds — Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leed.3—W. Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pa,gets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0..., Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough--Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington— St. Barbe and 32,402 22,084 21,481 71,295 13,662 25,966 20,664 45,939 9,037 5,362 53,354 37,512 28,237 27,197 93,996 32,219 7,761 3,546 Co. Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co Macclesfield Bank, Alacclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough 01(1 Bank and nungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough —Tan nerand Co Merionethshire Bank, D olgelly—William s and 50n.................................................... Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co 16,360 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell 25,864 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and C 0.......... . . 52,187 Newbury Bank, Newbury —Bunny & Slocock 21,474 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket --Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, , Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... 0 , 916 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck 99,048 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham. Hart Fellows, and Co Nuneaton B an k , N unea t on —Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, O x ford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. ....................... .. . ........ tin( ge and T on - Old Bank, Tonbridge, ,echWingney—J. bridge Wells Oldnßdanske,veTnonnabkraidgßearkd, Ton bridge—T. bridge Wells ....... B S. an ß k e Oxif'orirddgsrirell.l2rit.naaenyd 42,281 13,554 16,025 3,119 9,647 19,326 27,556 21,071 10,295 2,614 20,929 10,079 33,763 8,855 Clinch and Co. .................................... peasc , s Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverlay Bank, Hull—Pease and C. ... Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter b• Yorke B Y a o n r k k , e a ll n a d v C erf o e . J. ... W. Walters .................................... Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds 'and C 0..... Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. 30.201 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co. 5,999 Rochdale Bank, Rochdabs---Clement, Royds, and Co. 4,576 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 7,817 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 14,811 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 10,288 Rye Bank, Rye—R, C. Pomfret, &Co 13,495 Ross Old Bank, fierecifordshire, Ross Allaway and Macdougal •• • Saffron Walden and North Essex Batik, Saf fron Walden--C4ssonx And Co 11,594 47,875 11,033 10,813 14,965 30,915 3,914 COUTItI7 - 741 a CHELMSFORD—OcT. 17. We have to report to-day .a reduction of Is on the best t wheats an d 2 s on i n ferior, a n d a v ery dull sale at hog; rates ; the samples being generally very damp did not find a ready s a l e . All d escr iptions of s p r ing corn firm lit 135 t week's rates. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. j s. fl , qr. 44 75 I Oats, per qr. ........... 25 3f new 47 75 I Peas, Partridge .......449 6 Tod, old 42 69 White ........... . 4 new 42 •63 Boiling ......... 43 tO • Barley 35 43 Dun ............... 33 a Chevalier 3y 51 Beans, Tick ..........•.35 0 Grinding 31 42 Harrow ticks 442 Malt 72 781 Mazag an ....... 739 Chevalier 74 78 Ditto , new... 35 39 COLCHESTER— OCT . 18. A large supply of wheat ; the best dry samples realised last week's prices, other sorts a slow sale at 2s per qr. 11! money.. Barley was plentiful and keeps up in price. . 0 " beans and peas no material change. Prices to-daywere as follow;--Wheat, white, 74s to Bti; rod, 66s to 725; barley, 44s to 52s ; oats, 25 s t o 32s ; bea sear r/. Mazagan, 40s to 429 ; middle and small, 42s to 465; P white, 41s to 48s ; grey, 42s to 489. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c•, recei ri in the port of London, from the foll ow ing poles , fri the Oct. 13 to Oct. 18, both inclusive. ta 4 —.l i ...1 cad 4'4 d a 74 4.) o pa , .....-- ..-- ? 380? - - -., 938 Colchester Harwich Leigh Maldon 60/ - 41256 76 44 ' 33 1 139 KIRKCALDY—OCT. 18. We had only moderate supplies of all kinds of Kra ai o n - ii some of the parcels of new in wretched condition• eue A wheat and oats sold readily at extreme rates; but th ne grain, where out of condition And sprouted , was ge Is to 2s per quarter cheaper. astl• Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Od First 84s Od 46s Od 4 38s Od I us o i Second 82s Od 43s Od — s Od f Os art Third 76s Od 34s Od —s ud I 00 COAL MN -00 T. 20. Moon of Coal per ton at the close of the market s. d. Davison's West Hartley 17 3 Byass's West Hartley l7 0 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 Walliend, to. Haswell ... ... .1 9 u 9 Russell's if otton .......... . 0 De r weatwater Hartley •..$ 6 Eden Main ......... . ... 3 South Hotton .............. ... 6 iletton .. .............. . 9 Parton .. „, •••• •• . . .1 ~. 6 Haigh Hall ............... .7; 6 Teert . . ...................... Etraddy . ll il e tton Lyons Main .. . ... 6 3tewart's . ................. s Hartlepool ............ • . Cassop ................... . ... . 9 0 Lambton ...... . ........ • ...j9 0 Kepier Grainge • ••• ...... 0 South KeHoe Northumberland .......... 0 Montague .............. ...... 0 Oaradoc ............ .. •. • .1 8 II Eden ..................... . :A 0 Thorp ................ 1 .• lg 9 Acorn Close ............ • . : 1 1 ; 0 Wharncliffe ........... • .... 6 Framvrellgate ........... : 8 9 ; Adelaide Tees ......... • . 15 I Sold . .......... 192 Tanfield Moor Tanfiold Moor Butes Huddle W. Hartley Longridge's Wst Hartley Walker Primrose ......... West Riding Hartley Victoria Hartley Wylam .., Cleveland Hartley Wallsend, &e. Leverson South Hartlepool Riddell Gosforth • Pensher Whitworth Brown's Moor High Main Plummer Kelloe. Seaham South Durham ~ . Bell ,16 0 .16 0 ,17 0 17 0 .15 3 .16 6 ,16 ol 18 0 16 ( ..17 0 ,18 9 ..17 6 ..17 6 _lB 0 ~17 0 .18 6 .18 6 .16 0 18 61 .18 91 ,18 6 Ships at market... 24 82ABORNB MAILS. (Pi signifies that the maibs are sent twin the GeOra l F° t y tho night—and M by the morning--,tespas teh.) ,), tap Luguir—+uuu. Jia. s,,y 1.119 Luvrultig—msape. ,, ........_t WV:, Ilay when m ado up Ft out will due • , _•: a. COUNTRIZi in Ganeral Post- _Port vis ia,o _.„, Office, London .* Diapieolle ..,----- -.---...... - --- .....----,- ..------ --- . 1 .,,,,,, , ee 11if America(byßrit.pach)N Every Friday .... Liverpool , 1 7 tmerica (by United Sts. weeldi packet) ..........N Every Tuesday .. SouthaniPlon • America (by U. States packet) ........ bl ..N ... Liv er p ool . 1 .instralia (via Liver pool) ............ 4th and 18th .... Liverpoo l • • s ld , . Ditto (via Marseilles),N . ........... Dover .... • • ° 4 Ditto (via Cape of Good • , Vass D o Hope) ..... •• .... ••N • • 6th ° I tis •. Africa (West Coast) ..N 23 d of the month ..Plymouth • . t,„ . , .19 Alexandria..........N 10th & 26th of no. Dover .... vi.",,,7214( Alexandria..........N 400 & 20th of mon. Southampto. VI Bahamas ...........M 17th of the month Southampton ~,,i .:t Belgium ,• . •• •• •• ••N Daily .• .• .. • ..... Dover ...• •• . 0 ; - Brazil ..............M 9th of the month.. Southampton ..t,J.,. Buenos Area ........M Rth of the tonne , .. Southampton /0r,,t4111 Cape of Good Hope ..N sth of the month' ri n "' -- Cape of Good Hope .ai Uncertain Various Ports ~. of 0 ° Cape de Verde .. ~.„N to sP :. 0 - 0 , - 000 0 Souttampwn 161• 1 ! . otli t Ceylon (see India) 10th and 26th 4 I :91 j. sw gol• Clon ..............N 4th and 20th r n tu.TS;g Channel Isles .. .......N atom., Weu.,4c.Frl4, SOlitliattlP' -- -d .- Chill. •--• • • • ........51 2,1 & 17th of month South - smarm lau ,9 China .... . o d " 1 9 Constantinople ......N 10th and 26th.... Dover •-• ••• 2 iO 4 5- A Constantinople Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily _ „.,,, Dover ...... rile' Egypt (see India) France ........ M & N Twice daily...:.. Dover ....... TwiCe d 2; Gibraltar ..... . 5l 4,7,17,20,27 ef tn. Southampto ,, GA 7 . Greece (see India) A 1 6 9reytown M 2nd & 17th of moniSouthampton Ist an flamburgh N Daily ... .. London ..... "I J o f ilavannah ..........M 2nd of the month S oat h am p ton Ist 0 1 licaand •• .••.••• • . M Daily ••.•••.• • • .• Dover ....• 6 1 2. 411/ „, aonduraS .......... hi 17th of the month. Southampton tow 9 10 India (ViaSOuthampt.)ll 4th St , 20th of mon. . i a nd , 15 l a 29 '- India (via Marseilles)M lOthBc26thof moth Dover .....44 lonian Isles (soo India) .••• •••• • Dover...." Ireland ........ IN: & N Twice daily Holyhead ...' (*Ashen •• •• •• •• •• •• . • Ili 2d or n 0 • Southampton . A , 16 Matl4ira .............M 9th of month Southampton 6 . 0- Madeira ............ 14 232 or month • • Matta (see India) • A . _ Ib• 91 Malta - - ~.......0 N 4, 10, 20, and 26 Dover .... - 3f aurit his (see India) O6 , m anr iti t o „,, ...„ ~.. N 20:A of the month 4..4 1 Mexico hi 2nd of the month.. Southampton l it Naples - - - .... • • ..N Daily—. „ ...... -- -r eii Dover .....• so. New Granada ...... Di 24 & I7tbof inonthisn u th am .th let - New Zea1and......... 4th and 19th mntli'va r i ous - p - or t v iirec ja Papal States ....... -N Daily.. .. Peninsula .......... Ai • • •• • • Dover .• •• •• Port Natal ..........S sth of month .. 11* rietisPOrt , _... e 1 0 1 6 : 11 South o Peru ..............N 5 1 9 k' 17th of mon, Sou thampton,a rn • t " lit 14 'Dover ....« e Sicily -, ............N Every Saturday:: Tuscany ..... ::::::::: g 2 C d , 8, 1137 1 . 7 . th . i ., .. „ D o ., 4th and 18 ° tI t i ti o ° ;m th Venezuela Van Diemen's Lon d (!er Australia) .... . . .bil Welt Indies " . ~ rll o °' 16 .ed ----------__ 01,,,, iSouthamptonll iiioutherarn..p.t.o.n. I: x 160, de he„ When any of those dates fall on a Banday, tho mails iv" d. - a spatched on tho foll ow i ng day, with the exception of the , t he , ontharnpton), and the Malta, both of which will be devote procoding day. _ A letter from St . Petersburg says :_ct I sma el 1 0 r o cotutuander of th e army of Anatolia, taken pris eee ro Kars, has r ece i ve d as a special mark of the DO,: th ° good will th e O r d er of the White Eagle. 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