The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. o'clock the following were announced as the successful candidates :—J. S. Beresford, J. Haward, J. L. Kirk, W. J. Parker, and 0. T. Woollard. The meeting was exceedingly well attended, and there were several ladies present, who seemed to take a great interest in the proceedings. The most sanguine friend of the Society could not have hoped for a more grati fying, or a more promising commencement. Among those present we observed :—the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., J. Wilkes. Esq., David Salamons, Esq., Joseph Litton, Esq., J. Prior, Esq., D. W. Wire, Esq., R. Gamman, Esq., and W. Thornborrow, Esq. FROH THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GL0l3E.—There are two things which we consider Goverivent bound to secure to the inhabitants of our towns. - These two things are air and water. There are alminclAnce of other things which we consider them . in no manner bound to secure. It is natural that those other "things (including swarms of functionaries, with concomitant swarms of fees, besides 1,0001. a year salaries) •should be the things provided by the Metropolitan Einildings Bill now passing through Par liament ; and that air and water aforesaid should be the two little things not provided. These, we presume are amongst the hopes which the Duke of Buccleuch holds out for next session. Air and water are beggarly elements ; salaries and fees are much more substantial objects to a practical government—they are the manna in the wilderness which the "hungry Jews" of their ma jority have yet to traverse; and if, as Coningsby tells us, no business is done on a grand scale but Jews have' a finger in it—the more Jews are in requisition„ the more manna must be so too. We cannot, however, help thinking that the art of carving fees and salaries out of all human con cerns is - one which requires a tact more delicate than this Government seems to exercise. It is needful, no doubt, that fees and salaries should be multiplied—to conserve Conservative majorities. The old way of doing this was to create salaries without functions, and con fer pensions without (published) claims. But sinecures bave lost the odour of sanctity ; and pensions have become restricted, and raisounies. What was to be done ? What remained but to evoke the foreign genius of functionarism? Sydney Smith enumerated the acts of life (and death) subjecting Britons to be taxed. If we do not look better out, we shall soon have every act liable to be regulated. Now it is a matter of taste ; but we, for our part, had infinitely rather be taxed simply than taxed and, teased too. Such, however, is the tendency of things, in this day of cant and twaddling. Our laissez-faire principle--our premiere amours, and to which we are faithful still—is unanimously doomed by the senate of beasts of prey, as the jackass that drew the judgment down. That is, at all events, to be an instant victim—and sacrificing priests are to be instituted, at 1,000/. a•year salaries, with lots of other pickings, in the shape of fees. Air and water !—give us air and water, because public regulation alone can do it—air, meaning thereby pure air, and not sulphuretted hydrogen —water, cleaning thereby pure water, and not the rinsings of the' gas-works and the choked church-yards. These thing.; authority can do, and alone can do—and there fore is bound . to dd. A variety of other things it can not make people do—because they involve dispropor tionate cost to the object:. We, for our part, should like to see the work-people housed in Palladian palaces. It would improve their taste, and elevate their views of art. When the Jacobins took Lyons, they set the work people to live in some of the fine houses, and pull down the rest. They were more at home in their work, though a work of stupid destruction, than in tteir residences. Taut most assuredly we grudge the worling classes no lea k nrovement of their houses that can be effected. Adore all things, we demand, for their sake and the pub lic, the t air and water shall be secured to their dwellings by act pf authority. The former may be done by pre scribing conditions of space between rows of town-build ings. This is tinquestionabir within the competence of the public adminis-ation. The latter may be done by public machinery likewise, where necessary. Such pre • pL"ations as we see making for two ornamental fouitains may be made as easily fer the per pose of supplying whole districts with, a necessary of life ; and it would only be necessary, per h' for authe "icy to set up a standard by example in one or two places, to spur private companies into efficiency end ch,,apness. Mr. klawkesley's evidence, quoted by bird Not i - eanby last Friday, affords an instance of how much may ix' sometimes dune by a joint-stuck - company, in the case of the 1.,17Ast waterworks, for the supply of the town of Nottinirliam. The line we should dr,tw for public agency and regulatten in such matters is the distinct one of universal seri evbleet public objects. It is a public object, paramount !o al! private proprietary interests, that buildings should not be huddled tegother in large towns in such a manner as to realer voetilation and drainage 'enpossible. Attention to these ihoubl be imposed in all • buildings. But it is not a putelic object to secure an „bi,....ary degree of solidity to private dwellings, n:'r to prescrt•'ae the dimensions of their. apartments. Thee matters it appears to we ba left to be regulated by the meat 'a of the parties, or their expectations of turn fur their "Putla.Y. If the erectinn of houses of b ss than rescriber.. solidity or dimensions is prohibited, and if the num b er houses erected is thereby limited, what is gained, exes lit the crowding of the labourieg people more densely in those existing ? In there natters there is grea t ,virtue in active txamplei, and accomplished results. If building speculators take :tort -sighted views of their owsT: interests, and source at' profits—if they build ' in sue:: a manner as to sacrifice the security of their owe tenements and rants, and to diminish the prospects of the solvency of their tenants by impairing their health and charactt r — there is an easy way of teaching them " philosophy by e gaivple." In this point of view, we agree with Lord l'i i ;rnumby with regard to the benefits which may be looked for from the sort of normal school of bu s; d r ys, which is commencing its operations. " There Was society," observed the Noble .I1Iarquis, "going on, sanctioned by the Government, and to which ,he was a subscriber, formed for the purpose of furnish • at least specimens of better buildings for the poor. tie trusted that when this society had erected houses for ilt,e use of the working class, with the requisite sanatory conditions, the demonstration would be afforded that , residence in such wretched dwellings as are now occu pied by the poor was no necessary and inevitable con diton of poverty." STANDARD.—We cannot envy the feeling of the litical Dissenters, when they come to reflect seriously nix, a the influence of their proceedings upon the general l u t es vets of religion. Let us, however, here make a neces sary c ifs,tinction ; in the class of Dissenters—whether po litical t ir peaceable— we do not include Romanists or Soci niani, a`hese sects are Dissenters, no doubt, but they are something' nsore ; they are enemies, not merely to the constitution and the forms of the Established Church, but to the Christian. doctrine itself as we receive it, the first having a quasi polytheist religion of their own , the latter denying the fundamental truth of Christianity. These sects must therefore contemplate, not with indifference, but with high gratification, what ever of evil is inflicted by angry schism upon that religious faith which we and the ortho dox Dissenters hold in common. We must, :ihowever, repeat it, that the feelings with which a sincere Christian must observe the influence upon the vneral interests of religion of the course taken by many orthodox Dissenters, aided by Romanists and Socininas (and surely such aid ought to have been a warn ing), cannot be enviable. Nothing, indeed, except the words of the apostle, can place in a more striking light the guilt of schism than what we have lately witnessed. The poor are deprived in youth of the blessings of religions education—why? - Because the Dissenters will be contented with no national :scheme of instruction, by which the Church shall not .compromise its character and its usefulness. Why are tao many of the poor confined in union workhouses deprived of the consolations of religion? Because, not withstanding the earnest admonitions of the Govern fent, the Dissenters of the guardian boards in the withhold to which tese workhouse belong, sernl withhold the consola these workhouses belong, sternly withhold the consolations of which surely none standy more itt need than the destitute and miserable poor. This is .the effect of schism, the young are left in ignor ance an d sin, the old are condemned to close their days in sorrow and in darkness, because Dissenters hate an Established Church. We are sorry to be obliged to use so harsh a word as hate, but we cannot help seeing that the feeling of the political Dissenters goes far beyond mere alienation. Compare the sluggish, lukewarm opposition offered by Dissenters to the late Bill for wresting from them even their own chapels and charitable foundations, to be applied to unchristian uses—compare this slow and feeble resistance with the zeal, that we may not 041 it fury, with which they oppose every effort to 'extend the blessings of religion through the agency of the Church ; and it is impossible to doubt that to those inspired by such zeal or fary the Church is an object of implacable and rancorous hatred. There are some, we know, who rejoice at this mani festation of sectarian bitterness and folly, and point ovith exultation to its effect in rapidly thinning the rvnks of Dissent ; but we cannot sympathise wish their joy. We wish as much as any can to see all classes return within the fold of the Church; but we ,cannot be gratified by the improvement of one class which is made at the expense and by the deterioration of another. We do not wish that some Dissenters should esthibit unchristian bitterness 'and irrational extrava geneee in order that other Dissenters may become Churehrnetn Quite the reverse; let Dissenters be like Bastes and Calamy, Watts and Dodd d i e, and they can :bard , '" Veto* numerous, for there i s . still unhappily a large tfund in the indifferent from which they may largely - augment their number without any encroachment urn she Church. The misfortune, however, is that in our day Dissenters do not see k to raise the irreligious and indifferent and heretical t o the le vel of orthodox Chris tianity, in order to recruit their n umber they descend into the mire of these miserableto court alli ances and to swell their forces agai nst classes,the Church =twist, Socinian, Socialist, Atheist, any one is welcomed it°- ,stith the right hand of fellowship, if onlyh e e will declare Est the Christian establishment. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. SEVENTY LIVES LOST. The following melancholy account is extracted from the Rio de Janeiro papers:— " At five o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th instant (May), about 200 persons had taken their passage in the Especuladora steam-boat, which plies between this city and Nitheropy (a pleasant village on the opposite side of the. harbour.) The next day being Whit Sunday, and this the last boat for that evening, was crowded by respectable persons and parties intent on and anticipat ing a day's pleasure on the sorrow, consequently were full of mirth, and good humour. " The clock had just struck five, and the captain given the order to ' cast off ;' but the moment the paddle wheels began to move round, a terrible hissing noise was heard, the precursor of several explosions, which succeeded each other like flashes of lightning and claps of thunder—the boiler had burst : at first no thing could be seen for a dense cloud of steam that covered the vessel, from whence issued the most dread, ful groans and piercing cries. On the steam clearing off, a most horror-striking sight presented itself to view ; the middle part of the deck had been blown away, and a great number of human beings were discovered— men, women, children, old and young, blacks and whites, struggling in the hold, amidst the boiling water from the exploded boiler. " Some died instantaneously, and these were, perhaps, the most fortunate ; others, in their endeavours to extricate themselves from the horrid cauldron, caught hold of the hot bars and fragment ; but, obliged to let go their hold, fell backwards into it again. No words can describe accurately the horrifying scene of desolation. Blacks became white, and white people red. Amidst the uproar, one was calling out for a father, another for a brother, a third for a husband or wife, and a fourth for a son or daughter ; the sea was covered with the, dead and dying, or those endeavouring to escape from the devouring elements ; a few were so fortunate as to reach the shore, and many were picked up by the boats, which promptly rendered every assistance ; but notwithstanding all exertions to save them, several were drowned. Ah ! who can describe the agonies or imagine the pangs of so many unfortunate fellow creatures, boiled, as it were, alive ; with pieces of flesh hanging from their bodies, literally scalded from head to foot—surviving a few hours in this state, and suffering the most ex cruciating torments ! " Soon after the explosion the chimney and main mast fell on the awning, and buried beneath it a num ber •of the passengers, who were thus placed in the greatest jeopardy, as the boiling liquid was fast ap proaching them ; but they were rescued by great ex ertions made—knives, razors, swords, were instantly used to extricate them. No praise can be considered too great for the assistance so promptly rendered. The Ministers of Justice and of the War Department, with the tiead of the police, and a great many medical men, immediately repaired to the hospital, where forty-one sufferers had been taken, and were indefatigable in rendering them assistance and alleviation." The number of victims could not be ascertained, but from more recent information the deaths exceeded seventy, and several of the thirty wounded were still in a very dangerous state. The cause of the explosion had not been exactly as certained. From the report, however, of the engineers who examined the machinery after the accident, it clearly appears that great neglect must have occurred with re: pact to the safety valve, the wire of which was so corro ied that the pressure must have been 1001bs. to the scpmre inch when the explosion took place—it ought not to Lave exceeded 5Ibs. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. ROYAL COMMISION. The Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House of Commons to their Lordships' bar to hear the o . ) al com mission read for giving the royal assent to several Bills. The Lords Commissioners %titre, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. 'I he following Bills received- the royal assent :—The Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, Detached Parts of' Counties Bill, District Prisons and Courts Bill, Marriages (Ireland) Bill, Soap Allowances Bill, Sudbury Disfran chisement Bill, Actions for Gaming Discontinuance Bill, Parish Clerks Bill, Parish Constables Bill, Butter and Cheese Bill, Western 'Australian Bill, Loan Societies Bill, Colonial Postage Bill, Linen Manufactures (Ireland) Bill, Gaspe Fisheries Bill, Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Bill, Croydon and Epsom Railway Bill, Wells Harbour Bill,' Wells Improvement Bill, Lindon Gas Bill, Mariners Life Assurance Company's Bill, Mackenzie's Estate Bill, and Archbutt's Divorce Bill. Their Lordships resumed. The Land Tax Commissioners Names Bill passed through Committee. Lord HAWARDEN presented a petition from the Hull and Selby Railway Company against certain clauses in the Railways Act. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL. _ . . Lord GLENG ALL moved the sceondreading of this Bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said he would not oppose the Bill. But most certainly if the Bill had been brought on at an earlier part of the session, he would have moved the insertion of some new clauses and the omission of others. The Bill consisted of 157 clauses, and their Lordships would see the necessity of its being printed before they came to be considered in Committee. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be printed. DEBTORS AND CREDITORS BILL. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM this Bill was read a third time anti passed. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATION BILL. Lord DALHOUSIE moved the second reading of this Bill, observing that he could not ask their Lordships to proceed further with it in that stage at present, as it had only just been printed. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE—COMMITTEES. Lord REDESDALE said that it would not be neces sary for him to press the motion of which he had given notice for the suspension of the standing orders fur the purpose of enabling Committees to proceed with the presence of only three peers. The notice which had been taken of the inconvenience, had drawn the attention of Noble Lords to the subject, and the full number of peers had undertaken to attend to the Committees to the end of the session. One Noble Lord had written to him (Lord Redesdale), to say that he would, if his attendance would be useful, come up from a distant part of the country to give his services on Committees.—(Name, name.) It was Lord Byron.—(Hear, hear.) After a few words from the Earl of Wicklow, Lord Brougham, and other Peers, the notice was withdrawn. The Transfer of Property Bill was read a thircl time and passed. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Con troverted Elections Bill, and various other Bills, which were severally read a first time. THE UNLAWFUL OATHS BILL (IRELAND). Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the third reading of this Bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that he and some noble friends of his were much dissatisfied with the present aspect of affairs in Ireland, and they were un willing that the session should close without their having an opportunity of expressing their views on that subject. He thought that no measure could better afford that op portunity than the present Bill. It was not desirable that the Bill should pass before it was known what the Government intended to do in respect to the late trials, upon which it appeared that policemen acted as spies, upon the old system.—(Hear, hear.) One clause of the Act rendered any person liable to transportation if any unlawful "pass-word" were found upon him, and 'it ap peared 'on the trials, that persons connected with the police concealed such papers in the houses of innocent people, and afterwards prosecuted them. He hoped, therefore, that this Bill would be de layed until next week for the attendance of Irish noble men, who would necessarily be absent for the remainder of this week. Lord BROUGHAM said that he thought he had as good a right to press the Bill on now for his con venience, as they had to keep him in town next week and the week after, upon an Irish question. After a few words from the Marquis of CLAN RICARDE, Lord WHARNCLIFFE postponed the third reading till Friday next. The Party Processions Bill (Ireland) was read a third time and passed. Earl FORTESCUE gave notice that on Thursday he would present a petition from the trustees of the Tiver ton turnpike, complaining of certain Post-office regula tions respecting the mails. The Duchy of Cornwall Lands Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. The Turnpike Trusts Bill (South Wales) was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday. Lord BEAUMONT postponed till to-morrow, the motion of which he had given notice respecting the re- W ASYLUM for INFAN T port on the Catholic Penal Acts Repeal Bill. CMPHANS—('r HIS DAY), METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL. ..,election of children to the new Asylum for The Duke of BUCCLEUCII moved the second re!td- This first's pp took place this morning at the I g 'n of the Metropolitan Buildings Regulation Bill. '1 he Infant Orpl reet. The proceedingscorn- principle of the Bill had been already assented to by Commerce, ,i'lreadneedle-st Wilkes, Esq., was i the house in a former session. It was rendered neces calledmenced at el , evett o'clock, when John by the imperfection of the Act of 1776, which upon to tstice the chair, in the absence of the I sary w to as now in force, but which was quito inadequate Lord Mayor. Mr. Wilkes, in a neat and appropriate its Carprori:i .out its own enactments. In some cases address d • og the course of which he was much and in were too harshly and oppressively en cheered, expl. tined tize objects of this most excellent I forced, i The present Bill in others they w ere too much relaxed. institution. 'I 'he Right Hon. the Lord Mayor arrived of str eets, alleys, a p o r v idtd courts, for for tie the pireoiu3erer wi shortly afterwt trds, when Mr. Wilkes vacated the chair, r log of houses, fur the constru n of drains .d ' fur every build which was asst. tmed by his Lordship, who expressed his house, for ventilation, the hei h ct t i o o f rooms , , ,. the spaces gratification in .having been called on to preside over the I between the rear of houses. g lt provii.ed also measures A mieting that dia . and his high approbation of the ob- for preventing the erection of houses in the uetropulis jee'ts of the char ity. A communication was read from i unfit for human habitation. All surveyors under 1 01 0 Dudley Cosutts Stuart, expressing his approval of this Act would be requ ired to p ass an qx the in''stitution, and his intention of b7coming aminatioo as to their qualifications. This w as a cost r ;Outor to its funds. It was also announced ton': Mr. p, a to, the eminent builder, had sent a donation of , wry desirable provisibn, for, under th e 'existing twenty, guineas to the institution by the hands of Mr. i s ystem persons ere appointed, who, Thornb• 'rr"' and that Mr. Richards, of Lloyd 's, had I - however respecta ble in other respects, were wholly ignorant of the busi seat a d c,snation of ten guineas. ness of a surveyor. referees, was proposed to appoint with The / calling commenced shortly after eleven o'clock ffi 1 wl•hld ( determine an certain o cla iic sheu determine and close vl at two o'clock ; and shortly I - oc , r^ :ice all disputes under the Act. There would also be a registrar, to whom the surveyors would be required to re port their proceedings once a month. In the present system -it frequently occurred that a surveyor surveyed his own buildings.. The surveyor was frequently a builder, and it was obvious that persons having houses to build within his district had a strong inducement to employ him as their builder. This Bill required that when a surveyor was employed to build houses in his own district, the official referee should appoint another surveyor to surrey such buildings. The Act now in force was very unequal in the extent of its application. For instance, part of Chelsea was included, and the whole of Kensington was ex cluded from it. He thought that the present Bill would best be discussed in Committee, and all he would now say was, that it would introduce great uniformity into the law, and would be simple and intelligible, and in many respects less stringent than the present law. He only asked their Lordships to read it now for the second time. Lord CAMPBELL objected to the passing of this Bill at so late a period of the session. It had only come up from the other House on the 22d of July, yet it was as long as the code Napoleon. —(Hear, and laughter.) It contained one hundred and eighteen clauses—(Hear, hear)—and was it to be ex peeted that their Lordships should sit down to examine these clauses at this season, to tho entire ne glect of every thing else. In fact, the Bill could not go through Committee in less than a month or five weeks, unless the committal were a mere farce. Yet, it was important that the Bill should be thoroughly examined as it would affect property and existing interests in the metropolis to a vast extent. As far as he had examined the Bill, be found it imperfect, in several respects, objectionable. Of course, he approved of the principle, but he entirely disapproved of the machinery. It was proposed to appoint a registrar, and three official referees, with salaries of 1,0001. a year, to be paid out of the county-rates. Again, whilst he admitted that it was right to interfere with property when the public health or safety re quired it, but not otherwise. But the official referees would have a power which had been taken out of the hands of the Crown, to withhold the operation of a prohibitory law, and to say Non obstat. The re ferees would have the power of withholding at their dis cretion the operation of the 118 clauses of which this Bill consisted. It was quite clear that there would not bf. time to- discuss the Bill adequately, and he should, therefore, move, as an amendment, that the Bill be read a third time this day three months. 'OAF? SITTING HOUSE OF COMMONS. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The remaining clauses of the Bill were then agreed to, the House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, crtTLYI 29 5 1844. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House to attend the Lords to hear the royal assent given by Commission to various Bills (for which see Lords' report), the names of which were communicated to the House by the Speaker on his return. CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MIDDLESEX) BILL. On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Criminal Justice (Mid dlesex) Bill was read. Mr. MACKINNON postponed some objections he had to the Bill till the next stage, and the Bill was read a third time. Sir J. GRAHAM proposed an additional clause, th, object of which was to give the magistrate the power of trying appeals eight times a year. Mr:BODKIN:approved of the clause, the object which was merely to rcstc,re to the magistrates the powei of trying appeals, which they possessed till a recent deci sion of the Court of Queen's Bench, which decided that the exercise of that power was illegal. After a short diseitssion the elaUSe was agreed.to, and the Bill passed. FARMS BUILDINGS BILL. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were read and agreed TRAFALGAR-SQUARE BILL. The Lords' amendments toTthe Trafalgar square Bi were read and agreed to. . Mr. FELLONVES presented a petition from certait savings' banks praying for alteratio ns i n t h e S av i ngs ' Banks Bill. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL presented petiti.ns from Clare and Armagh against the Charitable Donations am' Bequests (Ireland) Bill. On the motion . of Mr. HUME, the following return was ordered :—Return of the several establishments maintained for the prev , ..ution of smuggling in the United Kingdom in each of the years 1842 and 1843 ; stating under separate heads the expense in wages, salaries, vessels, house, , &c. ; the expense of prosecutions by the departm e nt s o f Customs and Excise ; the amount o! produce of seizures of smuggled and illegal goods, the share paid to the officers seizing them, and the amours: remaining to the Crown ; also, all other incidental charges, so as tD exhibit the entire charge, according to the order of the House of the 7th day of July, 1825. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS BILL. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for tht Home Department whether what Has reported was true, viz., that it was not the intention of the Lord Chancellor to go on with the Charitable Bequests Bill. It was a Bill by no means popular. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he had not seen his Noble and Learned Friend on the subject. It appeared from the votes of the House of Lords that the Bill was read a second time, and if it was withdrawn he supposed it was in consequence of the opposition which it met with from persons out of doors. COgTROVERTED ELECTIONS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. BIJOKS AND ENGRAVINGS BILL. The Report on this Bill was brought up and received ART UNIONS BILL. Mr. WYSE moved the second reading of the Art Unions Bill. He said it was not his intention at that stage of the Bill to raise any discussion, but he would state that it was his intention to make considerable alterations in the preamble, and also to object to the 2d clause of the Bill. Mr. GLADSTONE said he hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman would postpone the Bill until the Chancellor of the Exchequer was present. Mr. WYSE said that he did not mean that the House should stand to the principle of the Bill by consenting to the second reading. Mr. GLADSTONE said on that understanding he would not oppose the second reading. The Bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed to-morrow. This Bill passed through Committee and was ordered to be reported to-morrow. WOODS AND FORESTS ACCOUNT BILL. On the motion of the Earl of LINCOLN this Bill passed through Committee. The House then went through Committee on this Bill. The Customs (New South Wales Bill) also went through Committee.—Report to-morrow. The report on the Slaughtering of Horses Bill was brought up and received. The report on the Protection of Purchasers (Ireland) Bill was brought up. The report was agreed to, after a short discussion. COURTS OF COMMON LAW PROCESS (IRE LAND) BILL. The report was received on this Bill, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS (IRELAND) BILL. Sir J. GRAHAM in proposing the second reading of this Bill stated that he would shortly advert to the cir cumstances under which the measure had been brought forward. It was impossible to conceive any subject of greater national importance than this. There were three principal defects in the existing Act. The first was the constitution of the board, and the next was that of chang ing the uses pointed out by testators on the ground of expediency ; and the third defect was the absence of the power to endow with land in perpetuity. It was to re medy these defects that the present Bill was introduced. A BREWER SUFFOCATED IN A PORTER VAT.—On Saturday last, an inquest was taken before Thomas Badger, Esq., coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at the Crown and Anchor Inn, in Bright- street, on view of the body of Robert Howe, an assistant brewer, in the employ of Messrs. Gilbert and Arnold, of . the Milton Brewery, Sheffield. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Gilbert, that the deceased (who was a very steady and sober man) had that morning incautiously de scended into a large empty porter vat in the brewery, for the purpose of removing the bung and clearing it out, when he was immediately suffocated by the car bonic acid gas in the nit. On discovering the accident, Mr. Gilbert tried the vat with a candle, which was ex tinguished when let down a foot only into it. The tap and bung were removed, and prompt steps adopted to dispel the foul air in the vat, and with some difficulty the body was got out, but quite dead. The deceased had been frequently cautioned of the danger of descending the vat, and desired never to do so, without first ascertain ing that no gas was present. He had risen very early that morning to get his work done, in order to go to 1 , Hathersage to see his friends, and to arrange about his marriage, which was to have taken place next week. The jury, after strongly impressing upon the men about the brewery the necessity of adopting great caution be fore descending into the vats or working tubs, recorded a verdict of " Accidentally suffocated."—From a Cor. reseyndent. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—OUT Monmouth correspondent has received. a letter from a friend in Hobart Town, dated March 8, 1844, in which the writer states—" I often see frost, 'Williams, and Jones; the former lives a few doers from me, at a grocer's ; he is in the counting-house ; Williams is a constable ; and Jones is a guard to the mail." The above may be relied on as correct.—Gloucester Journal DEMISE OF THE "CONSTITUTIONAL."—OUT Contem porary, the Constitutional, has ceased to exist. It drew its last breath yesterday morning. Begotten between ultra-Toryism and High-Church fanaticism, it was but a riklety bantling, from the first, and never enjoyed anything like robti,t health. What with changing its doctors and changing its regimen, it has, in its latter days, worn out a miserable enough existence. We regret its loss ; but we believe the parties more nearly interested regard its decease as a blessing rather than an affliction. It died without making any sign, and consequently we are left alto gether in the dark as to the immediate cause of dissolu tion. ." Certain circumstances" and Captain Warner's experiment were the last things it complained of. Our poor contemporary, however, was not ungrateful. To its friends it paid the following just tribute of thanks :— For such support as this journal has received during the seven years it has been in existence, we beg to return thanks."—Aberdeen Herald. WHAT SORT OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE POOR ? After struggling for above a century, the opponents of general education have been reduced to silence, and are compelled to give in their adhesion to some kind of general education. The question now is one of degree. The old oppo nents of education are still for giving as little as pos sible, and that of the worst sort. A little reading, less writing, and no arithmetic, is what their liberality would extend to • but still the tw o latt e r canno t he absolutely refused, and though reading can be con fined at schools to hymns, psalms, catechisms, and tracts, the schoolmaster, who is sure to be imbibed with a better spirit than his haughty superiors, is led to give instructions in writing and arithmetic of the best kind to some of the better scholars, who neces sarily become favourites, and almost his adopted children. Never was there a greater mistake than to narrow the education given to the bulk of the people. It ought to be as extensive and liberal as possible, for nature is very capricious in her gifts, and, instead of following the ordinances of man, and giving the best minds to the great and noble, she is frequently de mocratic enough to confer them on the meanest and poorest of the people, who sometimes, if they can but obtain a scrap of education, will work out wonders, and have often astonished the world with their prodi gious discoveries, far surpassing all that was ever made by the proudest disciples of the schools. If some of the cheap and popular publishers of the day would give well-condensed biographies of all the great men who have sprung from the common people and acquired immortal fame through the strength of their own, often unaided, and frequently persecuted genius, they would confer a greater benefit upon society than by almost any other work of the kind which has hitherto been published. Let us briefly glance at a few. The intricate Ptolemaic systens, supported by Aristotelean dogmas, had maintained undisputed possession of the schools for hundreds of years; to have questioned it would have brought the Inquisition and the thunders of the Church down upon the head of the impious innovator ; for, in those days, to reason was considered synonymous with Atheism. Copernicus, a poor obscure Polish Roman Catholic priest, appeared, and contended that, instead of the sun going round this little lump of earth of ours, the earth went round the sun. The learned world stood astonished at the assurance of the contemptible priest ; but truth, whenever she shows herself, is invincible ; Copernicus at once divided the learned world, and half of it became reluctant con verts. Still, as both systems were little better than theories, no further advance could be made without more numerous and accurate observations, to obtain what no unsound theory can withstand—facts. The father of Galileo was so poor that he could not maintain his son at Pisa.; he applied for a bursary ; was disappointed, and Galileo seemed doomed to hope less poverty, when he obtained a patron in Guido Ri baldi, who got him a lectureship at 151. a-year, and this poor scholar, who left college because un able to defray the expense of a doctor's degree, upset all the learned schools in Europe ; at tacked with fearlessness Aristotle's doctrines of mechanics, and overthrew, as with the spear of Ithuriel, his fine-spun theories of the, perfec tion, smoothness, and absolute incorruptible essence of the heavenly bodies; for Galileo had a telescope, in vented and made by himself in his hand, and dis covered the rugged irregular surface of the moon, and what was far more important, the satellites that revolve around the planet Jupiter. So palpable and striking an analogy to the primary planets revolving about the sun, furnished an argument in favour of the Copernican theory, to which the most bigoted followers of Aristotle could scarcely with hold assent. And how did the enemies of education meet these truths ? They declared the doctrine of the earth's motion to be false, and imprisoned Galileo. " It is in vain," exclaimed Pascal with honest zeal, " that you have procured against Galileo a decree from Rome condemning the opinion of the earth's motion. Assuredly that will never prove it to be at rest; and if we have unerring observations proving that it turns round, not all mankind together can keep it from turning, nor themselves from turning." Those observations were made by Tycho Brahe, who, not being a poor man, nor a commoner, does not come within our range ; but the immortal Kep ler, every way Tycho Brake's superior, does. At twelve years of age we find him a poor sickly pot boy in a miserable public-house kept by his father. He afterwards went to the University at Tabingen. The word university has an aristocratic sound in an English ear; for though in former days Oxford could boast of 30,000 poor students, all commoners, both our English Universities have long since been devoted exclusively . to the education of the rich, and the poor, with here and there an excep tion, as in Bishop Prideaux's instance, have long since been prohibited from entrance to places origi nally built expressly for their use. But the terms " university" and " student" have a widely different meaning in Germany, a clear though not very full account of which may be found in the Life of Thomas Platter in the 79th volume of the " Family Library," containing the " Lives of Individuals who raised themselves from poverty to eminence or fortune." Another strong instance of the importance to so ciety itself of giving to the very lowest classes an op portunity of obtaining education is furnished in the life of Valentine Jomerai Duval, librarian to the Duke Leopold, of Lorraine. He was the son of a labouring man, who left a wife and large family in a season of unusual scarcity. Duval kept turkies for a master by whom he was almost starved. He afterwards became cowherd to the four hermits of St. Anne, who assisted him in gaining some useful knowledge, and taught him to write, and the use of figures in arithmetic. His own genius led him to study astronomy, and, obtaining the world and of the constellations, enabled to make a kind of a r m a i n ry g some he o sphere—in d maps of was whi which h the earth was a ball of clay, and the lines bent hazel twigs. Thus, almost without any human assistance, and with the aid of a few old books, he mastered, to a considerable extent, mathematics, and, as all self-taught persons are irre gular in their studies, heraldry. It was in the midst of a forest, clad in the homeliest habiliments, and pursuing his studies, that he was found by Leo pold Duke of Lorraine, who took him in his rule garb, and sent him to the college at Lunneville, where he subsequently became professor of history, antiquities, and of ancient and modern geography. This is one of the numerous instances in which genius has forced itself to eminence in spite of all ob stacles; but if we wish to have a serious, happy, in dustrious population, means of extending education to all, on the most liberal scale practicable, must be supplied.—Brighton Herald. I was awakened, last night, by a violent storm of dreamingthunder and as lightning, and wind and rain. Hard had sense enough left to feel something moving in the bed, and by the light from thmy unspeakable horror I saw, mattress, a cobra de capello. He n a r fl aw as l h in o g f l o ig ve h r tn t i h n e g, reared his head when he came to my body, and slowly crawled on to my legs; and, as there was nothing over me but a thin cotton sheet, I could distinctly feel the cold, clammrbody of the venemous reptile through the sheet. the heat of my body seemed agreeable to the monster, as he coiled himself up there. I lay dead still; I knew my life depended upon my remaining motionless ; for, had I moved a leg or an arm, he - would instantly have bitten me, after which I could not have lived many minutes. A cold sweat ran in a stream down my back; I was in an agony of terror. Home and friends, and all that was dear to me, rushed to the memory ; my whole life passed in re view before m e . I saw no wa y o f escape, and I con sidered my d oom sea l e d ; eve ry flash of lightning showed m e my new b e df e ll ow , in all his loathsome ness. W e ll; th ere th e rep til e lay, but how l o ng heaven knows ; to me the time appeared inter minable. When I had lain in one position about three hours, my legs became sore and stiff, from h av i ng b een k ept so long motionless ; and at this time, I gave an involuntary shudder, which at tracted the notice of the reptile. He raised his head about a foot high, thrust out his forked tongue, and looked around him, as if for some living object to prey upon. I now thought it was all over with me. I prayed mentally (for I dared not move my lips for fear of at tracting notice) for the forgiveness of my sins, when_ Heaven be praised !—the reptile unfolded his coils, and crawled slowly away from off my limos, on to the bed, down by the bed-post tolthe floor, and then left me. It has been said, that poverty makes a man acquainted w ith s t range bedfellows; it might b added, s o d oes wan d er i ng i n f o reign climes.—Fr om Journal of a Wanderer. ---- --- -- --- - THE IfAuvEsT.—Owing to the great number of agriculturists from all parts of the two western coun ties, who have, during the last few days, embarked at this place for Southampton to attend the meeting of the Royal Ag,riCultural Society, we have been able to make very extensive inquiries relative to the harvest. " One and all" are exhilarated by the Fine prospects which are presented. The white crops 1,‘ ill all be good, hut wheat especially ; which will be far beyond the average in straw as well as grain while eve n t h e green cro p : , which it was thought were damaged, a n d i n some i ns t a nces destroyed, by the lung draught, h ave b een surpr i s i ng ly rains. This invigorated by the late is goo d n ews AS. the poor and the country at large.— West of Englund Ca4sei ea tire. BRISTO L S UGAR M ARKET , jULY 2G.—The during th e w ee k , an d de mand cominues , ti ady, but . not active ; n e arl y 700 tierces ly e: st . I n di a , are re p o rted to have bet!' 8 , 1d prices are unaltered. Bengals and Mauriti us are flat, and but little business has been done in these descriptions during the week. Rum con, tinues in very good demand, and the offices4tIve been cleared of *amplee at extreme prices,—Brietcafercuw, CAPT. WARNER'S EXPERIMENT. In answer to a question as to the recent experi ment, Lord Ingestre said— " It was notorious that an experiment had been tried, on Saturday last, upon a large ship, which had been shattered and sunk by the force of certain projectiles, the invention of Captain Warner. He was not at liberty to disclose either the materials by which this destruction was effected, nor the manner in which it was done— (Hear, hear)—but perhaps it would afford some pleasure and satisfaction to the public if he real e &cement tr , the House which had been drawn up entirely with re ference to the subject.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord then read the following certificate :— " July 21. " We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the ope rations against the John o'Gaunt, of 300 tons, conducted by Captain Warner, off Brighton, on Saturday the 20th inst., were under our management and oontrol. We further certify that the explosion did not take place from any combustible matter either on board or alongside the ship, but was caused by Captain Warner, who was on bard the William Wallace steamer, having the ship in tow at a distance of about 300 yards, and that the ex plosion took place in consequence of a signal made by us from the shore, the time of whieh was not previously known to Captain Warner. " We further declare our belief that Captain Warner has never been on board the ship since she left Gravesend. " INGESTRE, Captain, R.N., C.B. " T. DICKENSON, Captain, R.N. " W. H. HENDERSON, Captain, RN., C.B.'" A person who vouches so confidently as Lord Ingestre does, should be rather more accurate in his statements. It is not, as he says, notorious that the bark was " shattered and sunk by the force of cer tain projectiles." Whether she was destroyed by projectiles, or by some other means, such as a tor pedo attached to her bottoni, or drifted against her, is as yet purely a matter of conjecture. Nay, the ex periment has been so conducted, that there is no cer tainty that the explosion was not from combustibles concealed in her. We do not think it all probable that there has been any such trick in the matter, but in an experiment of this sort, it is not enough to look to probabilities and tair presumptions—possibilities of foul play should be guarded against. The ship supplied by a friend for the experiment should have been overhauled and thoroughly searched, and kept under the charge of persons in no way con nected with the experimentalist, or interested in his success. Lord Ingestre certifies that the explosion was not from any combustible matter on board or alongside, but he does not acquaint the House what measures he took to satisfy himself on these two points ; and his voucher that the vessel was not destroyed in that way perhaps rests on no better grounds of proof than the assertion that she was sunk by projectiles. Captain Warner's invention may be all that•he re presents it, but the experiment to prove it so has not been fairly tried. To have conducted it satisfactorily there should have been no communication between Captain Warner and the vesiel to be destroyed. She should have been placed out of the hands of the persons interested in the success of the experiment. She should have been brought to her station, and the experimentalist, without any opportunity of commu nication, should ha‘e proceeded to prove the power of his invention. Instead of this, what was done ? The barque which came from the eastw and was towed to the westward of Brighton, to Shoreham roads. Why was she not brought up in Brighton roads, or, if it was preferred to bring her up off a port (why, in fine summer weather, we cannot comprelielei), the most natural course was to have brought up off miiver), and with the ebb (which was against her, as matters were arranged) she would have come off Brighton in a couple of hours. We advert to these points because things were so Managed as to make it necessary to take the barque in tow, Captain Warner being on board the towing steamer, and having the vessel he was to °prate against snugly at his disposal under his stern. It is not thus that enemies are blown up. When Captain Warner has an enemy in tow, he will take good care not to blow her up. It may be excellent to catch birds by putting salt on their tails, but when you have caught your bird you spare your salt. With a vessel in tow it is obviously easy to drift anything against her side, or to have other means of communication beside that of the tow-line. Why, then, was there the towing so liable to sus picion? As we have before remarked, the barque might as well have been anchored off Brighton as taken past to Shoreham to be towed back again. Or even when off Shoreham, she might have been got under weigh on the flood tide, so as to have come to her station in due time at Brighton. liut no, they waited for the contrary tide (keeping the public waiting too, long after the appointed time), as if expressly to make the necessity for the towing. We do not wonder at the impatience of Lord Brougham, at these dilatory manoeuvres. It is flippantly re marked that he could not make allowance for the adverse tide, but why did they take care to• wait till the tide was contrary ? Enough has been done, however, to warrant, nay, to demand, an experiment at any necessary cost, con ducted in a different way, so as to be clear of all the suspicions which attach to the recent trial. Let the Admiralty devote one of their many worth less old ships to this useful purpose, and in the mere destruction of some of them there would be a benefit to the service ; let well-selected officers, not partial advocates of the alleged invention, have the custody of the vessel up to the time that she is brought to her station, and let Captain Warner, without any towing, show what he can do against a ship favouring his ex periment more than enough in being helplessly adrift, and not manoeuvring as an enemy would be, to avoid or baffle his operations. As for the ex: losion, it seems to have been very complete, and as a mere coup de theatre nothing could be more successful. But the main point is not the, explosion, but the means of effecting it. There is not a doubt, that with access to St. Paul's for the skilful employment of combustibles, it might be blown into the air in the twinkling of an eye; but the question would be, whether this could be done by an engineer who did not approach within half-a-mile of the building. Besides the mode of settling the question of Captain Warner's invention by another and fairer experiment, there is only one other course, namely that of getting the secret from Alexis in a state of clairvoyance.— Examiner. ANTWERP, JULY, 25.—The concourse of English has fo rme been rse g as r o ea n t s, re ow thaning probably we families towards this city, on their way to the Upper Rhi ne , during ever to the increased facilities for speedy travelling whi c h, th e new line of railway to Cologne affords. The following ar e i amongst the most distinguished of the Nobility a n d recollectt the et last to have fevr beenwee weeks,ko Gentry :—Lords Walsingham and Stuart de Decies, the Countess De Salis and family, the Duc de Melfort ; Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., and family ; H. Floyd, Esq ; R. Frankland Russell; Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., and family. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT EASTHAM.—The body of the late Mr. William Brown, who was drowped at the late Eastham Regatta, was found on ince Bar.k, near Runcorn, on Tuesday morning last. An inquest was held on the body on the same day, before H. Chur ton, Esq., and one of the crew of the boat, Mr. John Mould, gave a clear and succinct account of the unfor tunate occurrence. It appeared that when the boat (the Amphitrite) was struck by the first wave, Mr. Mould directed the deceased to steer the boat to shore. Immediately afterwards a second wave struck the boat, and half filled her with water. "The deceased called out, " Oh, God ! bring the Princess, we are sinkin g ;" and immediately th e b oa t filled with water and swamped. We give the remainder in Mr. Mould's own words :—" I directed the crew to hold hard to the boat ; for a moment I was underneath the boat, and afterwards gained the surface of the water ; I saw the deceased struggling in the water. The boat turned with her keel upwards, and I suc ceeded in dragging the deceased on the boat. I remained astride on the boat for some time ; a wave again struck the boat, and rolled her over. I recovered myself, and again succeeded in getting on the boat. At this time I missed the deceased, and several minutes elapsed before I again saw him ; I afterwards saw him floating near the boat, and I pulled him partly on the boat. Deceased clung to me till one of the steamers came to our assistance. The steamer came in contact with the Amphitrite, and the concussion again threw me off the boat. From this time I saw nothing more of the deceased, and I eventually was pulled into a boat belonging to the steamer. I should think about a quarter of an hour elapsed from the time of the accident to the time I was picked up. The nearest boat which could in any way render assistance was the steamer which came up, but which was stationed about three quarters of a mile off when the Amphitrite swamped." The Coroner recapitulated the evidence to the jury, and expressed a hope that boats of so light a construction—only fit for such rivers as the Dee—would not again venture in con tests on the Mersey, for which they were totally unfit ; and he also expressed his regret that the steamer had not been stationed -so far from the shore, and that there were no boats placed in the course the prize boats had to row, in order to give assistance in case of any acci dent. The jury found the following verdict :—" That the deceased was accidentally drowned by the upsetting. of the boat Amphitrite ; met they wished, also, to re cord their thanks to Mr. Mould, for his praiseworthy efforts in endeavouring is save the life of the deceased at n L tisto o nh:o v iope E t it htibota .— oedhtseo4, A ittnemi:c g :mi e a n b(th, eyn t id l s e a,, m ciishi a stisii n sttzeh , er: n i, ita a ceon m incid(il e ee,la d riigipo : bei r ermds a ilota n it - 11, at the peril of his own." The remains were interred on and cost.; for the expense of a marriage Thursday morning at St. Bride's Church, Chester. allow e t tl; o : 01 A ri n : , :dam o B at nbipil. e nuptial n ute T ed e ps i , d rtai 'rained Lawler, who, on the eve of marriage, refused to g of th e f ormer persuas i on. The big-ted swain lost hi s bri'te and his i r one y, f ur O R , lady refused to " half measures." LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAF.—O B Wect , esdav morn ing a fine young ,annip, weighing between 8lb. and 91h., was gambolling lit the ;Severn, a little above the English bridge, in this b.wn, and happerdrig to indulge in an extra flourish Without first ascertaining *here he *as, he WI pluoiri into a boat which was moored near Mr. tilecliley's timber-yard And, After several violent efforts to regain his native elenietit he hecArne a passive captive in the hando of a labourer.— Arovs4ry- roxkle, LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.—The trade of last week has been regular, but without animation. The proposed alterations in the sugar duties have been suffi cient to unsettle the business, to the loss of the importer, without any sufficient benefit to the consumer to compen sate for the change. The notice that further changes are contemplated next session of Parliament, leaves every thing in a state of uncertainty, injurious to all parties ; first to thee-8 who, not already in the sugar business, di net move until they know on what they may cal cub) te, and consequently to the consumers in the de lay of those arrangements, from which a larger supply might be expected; producing the extraordinary state of things that, in England, with an increasing popu lation, and, as it is urged, increasing wealth, the consump tion is, to say the least, not increasing, while the contrary is the fact in other countries. Also, consequent on this state of things, is the appearance of the Brazilian tariff, making so large an increase of the duties on manufactures as greatly to reduce our exports, unless we will admit their exports on more equitable duties. In other articles of colonial produce, the transactions are on a limited scale, which throws the whole weight of holding on the importer, and prevents any buoyancy in prices. An active business is doing generally in the manufacturing districts, and has increased since the rain has given hopes of a large crop of wheat and otherwise improved the appearance of the spring crops. The farmers will probably find this season as last, that the sliding scale will cause the payment of high duties on grain set at liberty when they would least wish this to be the case, and forcing sales from the disproportioned amount of capital required to pay the duties, as compared with the import cost of the article. If the harvest is well secured, we may reasonably look for a steady home trade. Our exports to foreign markets may continue on a respectable scale to some quarters, but to others the prospects are not encouraging. Money continues abundant, yet the general uncertainty prevents that commercial activity which such a state of things might be expected to produce. It is remarkable how general the feeling seems to be amongst the consu mers not to stock themselves largely with the raw ma terial. A general impression seems to prevail that the tendency of the new Bank Bill will be to restrict the currency obstinately ; and that any circumstance which tamed a draw upon the Bank for bullion, would, to a certainty, be productive of severe pressure on the coun try. This dead-weight feeling is only to be removed by those measures which would divert the drain upon the Bank to a drain upon the unrestricted industry and energies of the country.—Liverpool Journal. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, JULY 26.—We have no material change to report in the foreign wool trade this week. The demand continues brisk, and the amount of sales effected has been considerable. Prices, too, are buo) ant, with a tendency upwards. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, JULY 26.—Sales of combing and clothing wools progress steadily, and to a moderate extent. Prices are very firm and tending upwards ; but still are not such as to allow a profit on the rates asked by the growers for the new clip. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, JULY 26.—To meet the advance in all growing districts, higher prices are sought by the staplers, which consumers are not yet dis posed to pay, consequently there has been little done; at old prices, a large business would have been done. The de mand kolas good for all short wools, and stocks are light in the market. YORK WOOL MARKET, JULY 25.—There was not much business doing this day, the show of wool being very small, and the buyers few in number. Prices were as follows:—Good lots of hog and ewe, 14s., 14s. 6d. to 15s.; locks and cots, 9s. 6d. to 11s. per stone. For moor wool there appeared a dull sale at 7s. to 7s. 6d. The buye:.s and sellers have determined to attend once a fort!iight for the remainder of the present season. LEEDS.—The markets at both our halls have been very brisk both on Saturday and Tuesday; after the market of the latter day the stocks on hand were lighter than Ise have seen them for a long time. Goods of Liw qualities are a shade higher, but fine qualities are without any alteration, although the stocks are exceed ingly low. There have been a larger number of buyers in the market this week than for a long time past, and their purchases have been heavy in iow priced goods. The s ipping houses also are busier than usual at this period, c , nsequenily more than an average business has been done in finished goods during the week. BRADFORD, THURSDAY.—The demand for merinos, moreens, and all other worsted goods, continues to im prove, and are firm in price. In other goods there is no marked alteration. Yarns are a mire ready sale, and the prices very firm at a shade advance. There has been rather more wool changing hands during the week, and as the spinners have been buying cautiously for some time past. it is more than probable the demand and prices may alike be permanent. The prices demanded in the country continue to rule beyond what can be af forded to bring to market. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had large business in cloth this week, and since Tuesday the demand appears to be on the increase. The consequence is a slight improvement in most descriptions, with a cer tainty of prices further advancing, if even the present demand only continues. The home trade, now that a fine harvest is almost certain, continues to improve; in deed the demand is unprecedented. Twist is the turn dearer ; no stocks of export numbers—and many spin ners are refusing to contract at present rates.—Leeds Mercury. QUARTERLY TABLE OF MOR TALIT Y. — - The Quarterly Returns are obtained from 115 dis tricts, sub-divided into 576 sub-districts. Thirty-four districts are placed under the metropolis, and the re maining eighty-one districts comprise, with some agri. cultural districts, the principal towns and cities of Eng land. The ppulation was 6,578,912 in 1841. The deaths registered in the last quarter (ending June 30) amounted to 38,925, which is less by 7,116 than the deaths in the previous quarter, and L283 less than the average of the corresponding spring quarter in the five years (1838-42). Allowing for the increase of the town population, the mortality was t en p er cent. below the average of the season. The reduction in the mortality has been unequally distributed over the kingdom ; but, as a general rule, it has been most remarkable. n; he large manufacturing districts. Average of five Deaths in the • previous spring Quarter ending Quarters, 1838-42. June 30, 1844. Manchester ..... 1,543 1,260 Salford 5-19 417 • Ashton and Oldham 1,377 993 Leeds 1,107 936 Sheffield 577 ..... 464 Stockport 630 418 Liverpord - 1 744 1.547 Birmingham remaini-il the same ; and in a few of the other manufacturing districts, to be shortly mentioned, the mortality will above their average. Small-pox and. Scarlatina have been epidemic in the metropolis ; and towards the end of the quarter, fifty one persons (chiefly children), died of the former, seventy eight of the latter disease in one week. The deaths in the quarter from small-pox were 425. 107 of the number were reported by the informants to have been vaccinated ; but the evidence of this would necessarily be,' in many cases, uncertain and imperfect. Influenza has declined ; and since the mean temperature has risen above 60 degrees, bowel complaints have become more prevalent. _ The epidemics most frequently mentioned in the country districts are scarlatina, measles, small-pox, hopping-cough, and typhus. The quarterly meteorigical table has been compiled from the weekly tables supplied by the Astronomer Royal. The mean temperature (55 deg.) was 1 deg 9 above the average of the season ; the highest temperature of the air (observed) was 83 deg. 3, the lowest 34 deg. ; the thermometer once rose in the sun to 111 deg. 7, and fell on the grass so low as 21 deg. 6. The mean dew point was 47 deg. 2. The quarter has been remarkable for the small quantity of rain which fell. The rain collected in thirteen weeks was only 2.31 inches; and of this 1.55 inches fell upon the last week of June. Districts in which the mortality was higher than the average mortality of the spring quarter in the same dis tricts--The south districts of the metropolis, Portsea Island, Northampt on , B e df or d, Clif ton, Stroud, Here ford, Kidderminster, West Derby, Wigan, Bradford, Merthyr-Tydvil. Districts in which the mortality was lower than the average mortality of the spring quarter in the same dis tricts—Brighton, Oxford, Norwich, Dorchester, Bristol, Worcester, Wolverhampton, Stockport, Macclesfield, Great Broughton (Chester), Liverpool, Preston, Bury, Bolton, Prescott, Manchester, Salford, Ashton, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leeds, York, Sunderland, Tynemouth, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Pontypool, Newtown, Anglesey. THE LATE LORD ELDON'S WIG. —During the " State Trials" in the House of Lords, lately, Sir Thomas Wilde apologised to the Lord Chancellor for not being in full costume, and requested to be and was permitted to address their Lordships without his wig. This reminds us of a story told by Mr. Horace Twiss, in his " Life of Lord Eldon," just published :—Lady Eldon, in all her anticipation of her Lord's judicial promotion, had been much fretted by the consideration that he would have to assume the ordinary head-dress of the common law judges—a powdered bush wig. She had therefore in duced him to sit for his portrait, while he was yet Attorney-General, so as to make sure of preserving a record of his features, undisguised by the obnoxious peruke ; and this portrait, which was painted by Sir Thomas (then Mr.) Lawrence, and which remained in Lord Eldon's possession till his death, is dressed in exact accordance with the toilette which be prac tised till his elevation to the bench. In compliance with Lady Eldon's feeling Lord Eldon applied often to King George the Third to allow him to dispense with his wig at times when he was not engaged in perform- ing official functions. lie pressed on the King the fact, that in f ormer d ays w i gs were not worn b y the j udges. ; "True," re pli e d t h e Ki ng , "I a d m i t t h e correctness of hyotuhelyikeeeirtt,atihnalyt had facetiously, " t h ey i s y l l o r o o u N t v r t l i d s :d:o e y n e a l s t e wore their beards," The King further add e d, "N o , no , , n ,t t h , aed a 3 n :i deddi did am m h; i ,t4; no,innovationin time." TEsr.t 0Y AGE.:—At the inquest which was held lot Monday, by Mr. Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pancras, on the body of a female unkticwn, that was taken Out of the Regent's Canal, in reply to a question f rom Mr. Wakley, Mr. Cooper, the house surgeon of St. Pancras workhouse, said that he could not positivt ly stale the age o f di•ecAtii,lt, ho; that from appearances he judged she was allout twenty years old. Mr. Wakley asked if he could not tail a person's age from the teeth? Mr. Cooper said that he could do so to the age of fifteen, but that after that period it would be difficult. Mr. Wakley was of a contrary opinion, as he thought that, with a little attention, the age I U! any person could be ascertained ti•ORI ON appearance of the teeth. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. TWO VESSELS PLUNDERED AND BURNT.-- MASS CRE OF THE CREWS. South Sea Islands. The discovery was made by tp_ a crew of the brig Magnet, Captain Lewis, while onthe tic T ul h a e rs re o e f e m nt or a e rr h i o va rr ls ibl f e r"l butc expedition among the islands for sandal wood, and data subjoined statement of the facts is from a letter, . e.. Sydney, May 6, signed by the chief mate, Henry Al 1 ander ;-- ! end of the Liffore, one of the South ' 4 ett Isant14, the Sydney eryby br t i h n e g n o a v t e i r ve t s he ef pe r la go : 14th (f January, was, as usual, bearded by a number of The Magnet, on coming to anchor off the I natives to barter with us, and their dealings were j u !.., Their conduct throughout was so satisfactory, as to 1 U, duce Captain Lewis to go ashore and spend seven" days with one of the chiefs. While the If; rain was absent, we were informed that a of had lately been taken, and the greater pa r o f the crew massacred by the natives at the island Maryee. The distance not 13,:ieg much, wo determall d uponimmediately.prebeeding tote island mention endeavour to rescue the remainder of the crew and W .. .. A , property might not-have been destroyed. We aac""; ingly weighed, and with a favourable wind succeede d 0 reaching the place the following day. At four P. f. north-weit. canoe came alongside, with a missionary and three ott,., men, who had just come from the south-east extreraraY, of the island, and they confirmed what we had P..1, viously heard, The intbrmatien they furnished us was, that all hands had been killed, and the vessel : 5 sunk ; but that the sails, r o p es , and part of her st ore were ashore in a hole in a roc k, abreast of which was , spot where the vessel went down. ' They also, to our ! II little alarm, stated th a t ano th er vessel ha d e i t h e r b L e% wrecked or taken, and th a t a ll t h e crew ha d me t with to that island, where they still remained ; and t,_t e l, . similar fate. except two seamen, who-managed to escap e added, that if we remained till the_following day, t n s ,/, , would bring them on board. We accordingly did . de , and about mid-day the same men came alongl, e having with them one of the survivors, the other the chief detained. The account he gave of ; he transaction was, that he sailed from - London in month of September last, in the brig .Janet of 9° barton, Capt. Gorman, o n a voyaee to t h e S out h Sea D, lands, to procure a cargo of sandal wood i,41,1 torto;v shell, but was wreck e d u p on t h e cora l reef off Caleclen is, on the 14th of December ; seven of the crow perished its the wreck, and the remainder, fourteen in number, wile themselves in a boat, and landed on the same day 01 ' t Isle of Pines. They remained there but a short ffr a cl : and sailed again, anticipating to fetch the other island inhabited by a more civilised race of people, but unfe'm attacked by the natives, their boa' destroyed. and ft. nately they touched Nlaryee, where they were install t i, teen of their companions wounded. He and an°r f sailor, named William Richards, were saved, and lu e ,f, afterwards succeeded in escaping to that part of the he land. We inquired o f th em w h ether they ha d; anything of the vess e l t h a t h a d b een taken b y t he tives. He replied in the negative, but said a great 113 !"; things had lately b e e n di str ib ute d amongst the nstlYt5, consisting of sails, cl o thi ng , mat h ematical i ns trutne°4 and various other articles. He said a boat. Inti ni •4 by natives left th e i s l an d a f ew days before, ba`)- on board a great many articles, among the ho watch and chronometer, but did not know .)Kr, they became possessed of them. (Here .0 Alexander observes, that the conduct of the man exel ieb their supicion, for he refus e d t o l eave t h e island, wiln) he could with ease have do ne , an d accompanied thew," As we could not lean anything f urt h er as to t he fat' ne the vessel, we d e t erm i ne d on furthee search, and lost d, time in making f or t h e sout h- west - end of Liffore Isn 4r, : 00 where it was und erstoo d t h e b oat full of goods had g;iis to, and if possibl e t o l earn t h e particulars from Bull"' ve. chief of the tribe, whom we had. some previous kn ci t o ledge of. At seven A.M. th e next day the lifslloe reached the place, and from the first boat that el i to alongside th e y ascerta i ne d the - ill-fated vessel to b.,e bf - brig Two Si s t ers , a S outh Sea whaler, comman46"-' Captain Brend. The account that was furnisfred of her loss was, that two or three days after tier goTiy off the coast, at the time there was a large ember(); o f natives of both sexes on board, and part of the were employed at th e i r respective duties, Si]u': o f they were all seized (it was stated ou aocons.V one of them t a ki ng lib ert i es with one of the nati wives), and horribly massacred. Not - a single an e h e caped—none, not even the poor cabin-boy—all oTr e , - ; 1 0$ chered, and their bodies thrown overboard. - The 1 , 1a 5 ) 1e, then plundered the vessel of everything that Was van ia 4 1, and afterwards the ship was set fire to.and conV:au ha s As some of the property had to our knowleilge taken to that part of the island, and strong17 sa - P ec fs l ir these people to have been accessory to tte-whole tray saction, we resolved to detain . the eVef's brother u t eel s w s w i i at a thatkept ehpe t nu b a e pm l. e , i n l t e Th d ew t 1o o 6st t hhi Sisters ef u r n sr f 0 o e cp r : t; e the rest went ashore and brought off what things off s l vess7.1. They consisted of a chronometer, gres ti Ltei m las a t d . „, j a h u n a r d d e d t i . h n e a t l h j o o e g l i , l r y i boatos whichse lavielrepasprseepdaorffedqufoiertlayn; a a t n t d ack ha h v ! b d g . f a r n e Y e i b tb e ; in yellow over the stern, a quadrant, some accoun %bet We e t chief's brother, we set sail from the iel a nd to SP„ li o og Mr. Alexander concludes by stating, that he has f or, suspicion as to the truth of the seaman, Jonea' 6 ...A. - btl; went. We suspect that the vessel was not wreCln t 0 that he, along with the other seaman, Richards, plan_" ,y the natives her destruCtion for plunder, d an sacred their brother messmates. The atrocities p erpetrated on these islands tifeto° South Sea h a v e b een very great. within the years no fewer than three vessels have been dest___A r° ' by the natives, an d upwards of fifty persons murder:4f D ESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE ROBP'. NAPIER. pre The Robert Napier left London on WednesditYkL,,,4 noon, for Liv erpoo l, w i th a very heavy cargo on "erli and about thirty passengers. Nothing partint l id worthy of noti ce seems to have taken place until a"-ffo half-past t en o ' c l oc k at night, when she arrived U9 o place called W oo d sontown, between Portrush n, 70 4 Castle; sh e was a cons i derable distance off the lan°0„1"00 being littl e or no w i nd, and the night excessively di the discov er y was made by one of the crew, viiiic-Hr h served smoke iss u i ng , i t i s stated, up the main 7,,11( way, but w h et h er i t emanated fro mthe carg° .1 111 boilers, it was impo ss ibl e to say, for no stoner hatchways removed, than the flames burst fort% 0 01 1 alarmit g v i o l ence, and the consternation that ing„s ensued amongst the passengers and all on board, a de.o:iption painful in the extreme. The pumP 5 got to work, lengths of leather hose screwed ° I;1 ' streams of water brought to bear on that part Qt 0 1 1 but very little effect was apparent, for very s a lif afterwards the d es t ruct i ve e l ement shot forth w" -per creased fury. C apta i n F orrester, the comma nder;gelt ceiving the imminent danger of his crew and ass'i e determined t o run t b e . vessel ashore. Aceordingv steamer's head was brought round for the des j, cts, while the boats (three in number) were gold ' t hei to be launched overboard at a moment's notices P r a etf, preservation, The distance from the shore being; se miles. it was nearly an hour before she . struck, ,t"," e being Bally Castle Bay, near Belfast. By that 14 ,..`"„ after part of the ship presented a, vivid sheet of r ";;si e , flames reaching far above the deck. Before tbe n. i o went ashore, the passengers were all got salelYi4 boats, and were conveyed to the beach without IV . , ing the slightest injury, but their luegaige was board, and was afterwards burnt. Thefi g et being s by the coa s t- guar d stationed along that part of ti le bf. some time before she reached the 'AY/ a the time she struck, a powerful body c iy,or,, were in attendance to render assistance. Th°,1,,ir; however. had too strong a hold the shi, and 12 7,4 0 , standing all the exertions ussti,'she continued to ih several hours, and, according to the letter receivel, undereriters at Lloyd's from their agent at . '",.,, 0 11 04 " was b urn t t o t h e water's edge." A not hor sf' - c olf: however, state s th a t " although the steamer 0, 1 70 plete wre c k, s h e b e i ng burnt from the quarter atlye her machin ery an d part of the ca rgo w ill be '- The steamer is reported to be partly insured. - - fl# 1 vpc10 0 .,ir SANDWICH.--A WATER SPOUT. -0 11 v, -. 05 . ar one of the most extraordinary events ever reco-rdetl . , s " e,;3 nessed at this place. About noon a whirl. v ind j-.;)n•u bleb Pl y tended by what is called a " water-spou'„" - ar sa, s re within half a mile of the town. It cams+, over a 13 1 fol c ol s belonging n t h o ad M In. sJteenonminingsenGeeidbbsst,atnLgitttlneebohuar;:tivroit,ort standing closely by was carried 'she distance oi 0 l a t o four rods, and some of the hay/ as far as t hre r sh tO towards Minster. Some boys who were in 0( 3 . 11 , 5 0 6 5° taken off their legs, and thro•Nrn to the gro und r" rs , ',1f, violence, and covered with . hay. The hayrna' e gte ot were sitting quietly at dinner, were, of cours e '. ori e p fk surprised and alarmed ; and still more so, W he- is ° ter their baskets was borne off like a pa rac h u te, to o *tr derable distance, and lodged in the river. The,, ja eilie spout," in its course, sucked up every pond, 50 % t 07 ing the river the water rushed up like a fount8lopegotii, phenomenon was exceedingly alarming, and we npateepso hear of the terror created at Minster, where it 1 %00 burst. Our informant, upon whom we may rell ..... the whole chapter of events.—Kentish Observer. _ _...------ BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., the wife of Charles Woodbri d g e, .,atf Uxbridge, of a son. p 1 3 AC " On the 24th inst., at Park-place, Peckham, L.- 1. of a son. St- ret On the 24th inst., at the Vicarage House , t , sot; Oil' Thanet, the lady of the Rev. George Hodgson, 0 .1, - rp ooh On the 24th inst., at Woolton-grove, near LlY" o %del. Samuel Woods, jun., of a son. x, r On the 25th inst., at Bryanston-square, MI 15 ' ePk Broadwood, of a daughter. Sir• On the 25th inst , at Lloyd-scrtkare, Mrs. g e f , of a son. f the On the 25th i ns t., a t Cl ap h am-Dark, the wife ° Wodehouse Rav en , o f a c h i ld , stUI-born. he ef On the 25th i ns t., at Hampstead, t tead, the wife o f t he B. Wells, of the Rectory, Wo',Idchurch, Kent- uttre' On the 26th i ns t., at B ernard-street, Russ ell.. „ lady of R. Pollock, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. ---, L ___,--- je jc. o r relict 1 0 : c hi t te ( t ) i fah' late late e h 2 e C5ai mi uRs:tiv.a:rsl‘allit,r Caine, c R h . aEne Matthew(anios.r o sr: "iesnbi ,, w il -ItelliRIEL). Fre der ic' On the 20th inst., at Stoke PriorWoreesters hiret o jaa John Hornsby, of 13runtsford-hill;Bromsgrove, to ' , roll r3urry;: eW te r_g a n '1 , iel Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. Sergeant 1/ ' e ' Tenn Castletield, Wilts.,.. ' . n1 Tei l liia , On the 25th inst., at St. J o h n ' s , the Rev. W"'' — , yeet Esq.,'of Leeds, to Anne, eldest daughter of Tlyosai Esq., f,f Mil hank -street, Westminster. port.- 0 fag Do ( 41 : b n uin t tl h iBe r a.2 2 1 -1 t. th irst., in G D 1! " , E ue D es . ter-place , 1 , : i ti t'n-9441111:413 Looi,a. the vottinest (laughter of the 1/11+,8 Sir .-- pi; of Oie ii inst.. Eliza, the eidekt dour''' .bter " Vi , . ., • h ault-garden:;‘, NVestininster road. Chi le s O'Sir On the 25th i.,,t., at Witnpole-street, Chlr -- Esq., aged 67, A b oo' ....- , on, ttso sit t2 in8t., at Long-acres, Mr. James A -5 . <'' .O r 0' London: Printed and Published by IVIU1.0) 'e :e 1 143 _...a' 01 No. 112, Straild, Printer, at The Sux OtiL4orr Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. ill the 1.41ddlesex, Monday, July 20, 1844. 11 48 - 00 LEv E th eir n an d iev 0 144: ibe r ,„ A Clu