The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

- ~'" ~_-,'` their 0 10 ' the uttees l i arnoug s ! society . igth of ' - us COa l° 'eatured? ing new in he had, el I be taken y them ellf their beet, ;lad to de' hing more ity, " S ue ge ety. , I also, the I' i t ...,otdd ton filter ° tho pro s ' gent cOir Grace th. kindly Pr had been one, c 1 that los If the re his cause CIS ,t he (tb e f system. 0, other Mr ifore, th e : b e Noble d to w,h s , S !d by 0' Ler toast, S' cw- I No. 16,598 the I s hits proved harde r th a n he had anticipated, and he might "e hurt. e _The colon e l was a Hi g hl an d er, s t oo d upwar d s o f six feet, .2ng almost a s an H ercu l es , an d a s hardy as a lion : pus fing bravery and courage, so ardently manifested by ""Tte bmen in gener a l, h e laughed - to scorn the idea of Mr. Du hand that the gloves could hurt him. " Hoot awa' mon, Burt nit? It is nonsense to think about it." The gloves : were,,,, put on by ea c h o f th e m, when in a very short time the v_ioriel rec e i ve d suc h a severe bl ow on t h e f ace , th a t he stag red 4 few paces and dropped on a chair quite confused, 74', insensible, and looked round him in amazement. He e O „,, 11 °thing, but silence gave consent, and as soon as he re the ered from his surprise, he observed, I did na ken that 1 0ves were such rough customers." w it: : Jackson, in his early days, was a first-rate pedestrian, di4 Jew men could compete with him in a race or a short b "ce• He was also distinguished for a standing jump, 111114-wards and forwards he defeated the very best leapers t ra t n h ,e.kingdom. His possession . of strength was truly ex teh-rumarv. In Woolwich-warren he lifted from the ground hundred weight and a quarter; and he likewise wrote his ire with a blacklead pencil, in the late patriotic Lord to:Yor's drawinroom, Harvey Coombe, Esq., with eighty % r pounds - O n his - little finger, lifting it from the carpet to e hei g h t of his face with the utmost ease. bite Fre nc h H ercu l es, M ons ieur Decour, who had exhi liknedd such extraordinary feats of strength in France, Eng c'ea leaving every other strong man at a considerable % I nce; but when in competition with Mr. Jackson he was ki / ilely outdone, to his great astonishment. Jackson could throw a heavy bowl further than any l te 7,VLnd being in a gentleman's garden, the latter was ex clY anxious to witness the strength he possessed. At e of the garden there was a green-house covered with of glass. Mr. J. politely refused, observing he might ode the hot-house, the proprietor of which burst into a t tk ,laugh. Injure my house," said he , " why you can't it by thirty feet. However, I'll forgive you all the ti,;: a ge you c a n - do it—so go your hardest !" Upon this gua- Jackson took the howl in his hand, and with the Oult ease smas hed nearly all the glass belonging to it. ji,l7B . uch a th row as that, the astonished, and not well -7 proprietor cried out—" I think you could hit the f you tried!" Oorg e the Fourth, who was always, attached to the exhi g4 :of tr ue co urage in the P.P., was one of Jackson's t*qst patrons. The latter was a page at his coronation, l th l/ manly figure, said to be one of the finest in the king tr,Vot only attracted the visitors, but he received a nod lal t his 'Majesty as he passed in and out of Westminster- JacksonOki was not unmindful of his athletic frame, ; kojenerally wore light-coloured small clothes and a neat to bewhich showed one of the finest legs belonging human frame. The well-known picture of John Sa b e, in Rolla, holding up the child, Mr. Jackson stood litolii t he late Si; Thomas Lawrence ; and in the admired tk4g of Hercules and Omphale, he alFo stood for the re i2f Hercules. William the Fourth was also a great 4 10C;., t of Jackson, and on the most intimate terms with 4 iding through Pimlico one morning he saw Jack -1 fig, when he observed to the Earl of Muns t er , " Tell ttlled f,_ " 4l me," said he," that I perceive he has been com - Pitli,`" cut the shorts, and substitute trousers ; but Time 4,,,Kleks with the strgest-of us !" lee; 80 a was of the m on ost convivial disposition; he sang ti o li B Porting g was fll of dote, his conver • nal son Nt h . Powers were of the anec most interesting and character. At ktrriod of his life his invitations to dinner were so name that he cou ld not comply with the request of any of bds without a previous notice of three weeks, he had. ! 4 , 4 Y names on his book. He was a first-rate tune-ist ; al all his discharge my duties in a manner satisfactory to you and the gentlemen whom I have the honour to represent.—(Cheers ) Mr. HuDsoN again rose, and gave "The healths of the electors of Sunderland ;" which was drank with cheers. A great many complimentary toasts followed, and the company broke up at midnight. BUENOS AYR ES AND MONTE VIDEO. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECETARY OF STATE FOR FO- REIGN AFFAIRS. We. the undersigned merchants, farmers, artisans, and other British subjects, residing in the city and province of Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Confederation, respect fully beg to approach your Lordship to state — That a notice having been posted in this city, and verbal message sent to the country districts, offering to those who did not consider themselves and families se cure under the protection of this Government the means of embarkation, as, in consequence of the refusal of the Argentine Government to withdtaw its forces from the Rana Oriental, an interruption of diplomatic intercourse was expected to take place between this country and Great Britain on or before the 31st of-July next, after which period the civil protection hitherto dispensed to us by her Majesty's Government would cease, as the Bri tish Minister Plenipotentiary would embark on that day, We have deemed it just and expedient to bring before your Lordship our peculiar case, in the hope that the prayer of our petition will be attended to, and, as British subjects, our residence in this country may be peaceful, and that each may be enabled to attend with security to his lawful affairs. It is scarcely necessary for us to state to your Lord ship that the circumstances above-mentioned have pro duced the greatest alarm amongst all classes, and that it is utterly impossible for us to lave the country we are in, where many of us are engaged in trade with Great Britain, hold large stocks of British goods consigned to us for sale, have heavy outstandings in a paper currency daily depreciating from the political events around us, others hay:3 their entire fortunes in this city and the country districts, and if we adopt any extreme course distress and ruin must befall us all. . By the 11th article of the treaty between Great Bri tain and the Argentine Republic, it is clearly stipulated that if any interruption of the friendly intercourse existing between the two countries should occur, we are to be allowed the privilege of remaining and trading therein as hitherto, and we are therefore the more sur prised that in a state of profound peace we should be expected suddenly to leave this country, in which the present prospects and well- being of ourselves and families are entirely centred. Some of us have resided for a great number of years, and to all of us during the period of our residence in this country the most ample, generous, and efficient protection has been afforded, and especially so during the adminis tration of his Excellency Brigadier General Don Juan Emanuel de Rosas, Governor and Captain-General of the province, charged with the foreign relations of the Argentine Confederation, against which we have no cause of complaint. The privileges we have in commerce, pastoral or agri cultural pursuits, inland navigation, or any other branch of industry we may please to adopt, place us on a better footing than the natives themselves, since we enjoy all their best rights without any of their serious burdens ; and we therefore consider it our bounden duty solemnly and formally to remonstrate against any measure calcu lated to impair the position we at present enjoy. We have settled here on the faith of a treaty with this republic, which, so far as we are concerned, has fulfilled to us all the stipulations it contains, and we cannot therefore but regret that any measure should be adopted, by order of her Majesty's Government, which may in any degree affect or prejudice our interests. Your petitioners cannot but deplore the armed inter vention of her Majesty's Government in the disputes or political differences of these states, particularly so, as such step has apparently been taken without due con sideration of the large interests belonging to the British subjects in this country, and the utter impossibility of their being realised for an indefinite period, from the depreciation of the currency and consequent suspension of trade, both which arise from the adoption of the measures we have already cited. We therefore humbly and respectfully request that all forcible intervention in the affairs of these countries may be put an end to, and that the local political differences of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video be permitted to be settled by the inhabitants themselves, and that the rights of all be duly and lawfully respected. We disclaim in the most positive manlier the impulse of any motive for political meddling -in the local affairs of Buenos Ayres or Monte Video, and we trust that your Lordship will cause such measures to be adopted as in your wisdom may seem just and proper for the protec tion of the interests of your petitioners, who, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Perhaps not amusician, he was correct in ad Kth e -ients. he used frequently to observe that he was one 1 1 . 11 t i v g_reatest beggars in the kingdom, as he was continually k ft ,Tg . for . the distressed and unfortunate pugilists, their t ea children. He never denied a favour that it was in s t vfer to grant ; and no boxer ever received so much tkO_S exertions as his defeated opponent Dan Mendoza. Ek t -- ;_t had such an influence with the great patrons of the 41 1 41 . 1. ° 11 1 the manly, yet feeling, manner he had of putting ...-Icant:-- • • • t eitations, that he scarcely ever met with a refUsal. ` le ~service of plate presented to him by the Duke of Cla - K n alirquis ot Anglesea, the Duke of Beaufort, General 14%9 &c., made by Mr. Clarke, in Cheapside, cost 300!. s Lord Byron speaks of him in " Don Juan," canto N o nza 19 :—" If there be any gemman so ignorant as to h em " a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and cop- Paster and master, John Jackson, Esq., professor of ptt this, Who I trust still retains the strength and symmetry eti kodel of a form, together with his good huniour and Nto ns e as well as mental accompliehtnents.” His Lordship L l atil a t i de Jackson a present of a gold watch, of the value 115, 11 littrti guineas, and had engraved on the case of it, L .l ttt 'ag token of his opinion 1---" Manners, lick Straigth Zit ki erous anecdotes and noble acts of generosity and kind ‘tvela ht be related of the late John Jackson; but, in my wi t h England, Ireland, Scotland, and ales, I never ttliort: aW man, in every point of view,in my Intercourse with th a _ of classes of society, who was so fairly entitle d to leA 4 2eter of a man and a gentleman ! His health was of c 4 te a. t desc r ipti on possible till within three months of his i r and it is rather singular to state, but true, and v ro "ke advantages of temperance, he had not varied in 'gilt for the last fifteen or twenty years of his life two motive feet eleven inches in height, weighing fourteen 0411' 0 person was more attentive to religious duties lt k i t • Jkson neglected and for the last fifty years of his life not to attend divine worship every Sunday. th. Was attacked with paralysis ; but he had always been ttkit; raost careful disposition in his habits: and though ttry 114 1 11 Y in company where the festive board afforded '?er,, - , 42( ary that wealth and grandeur could display, lie Ntry k. "raYed from, or forgot the good old proverb, " .. tO be tC4b e n ,1 wise." tried to renovate, but the air of Bath, salubrious breezes of Margate refused their aid— klbe returned to London to die, waiting patiently for ei t lmination of his career in a truly Chtistian - like k tVI4 • e_ll self-esteem, or other's adulation null cunningly persuade us we were something 11 1 7, 4 the common level of their kind, ttietavE gainsays the smooth complexion'd flattery, O t t nil blunt truth acquaints us what we are." "'Aire. The be severely felt in those circles where he "'Airesporting world has lost a firm but impartial ; the . . sec me pugilists, an energetic friend in their behalf; b ,: 4ld se m le tY an honest man. I have only to add my regret et at his departure, after thirty-five years of the I ° l lr hi,`ltaate friendship.—l have the honour to remain, Sir, Oct; al lble servant, PIERCE EGAN. 24, 1845. 4 i ttA THE LATE STl — i - RM. LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. Th (From the John o' Groat Jou, nal.) 4 4: east coast of Scotland has lately been visit▪ ed r b e y_' k _ l kStatf t t he severest and most protracted l storm i s o e d v o er f the ted to have occurred at this early period p k ll vh : The gale was pre?eded .v. er fall of rain, • l eh all the rivers, with heistnbut Y ary streams, 4 1Ipi t ,, t ' ° Inpletely flooded. Soon after the rain had, to all „ I titi l lance, spent its strength, the wind began to bh w 4 tr • i l e ltendous violence, raising a surge beneath . why' h NO much reason to fear many a precious life and Naltitt, e v lllutible property have been buried. The wind on n(t)' week blew from an easterly direction, and • n in our bay a swell greater than any of our. oldost Il it z' a;: 3 ever remember. To look from any direction the pre a scene of wildness and terrific fury which k I L 7, 4 can adequately portray. The mountain billows , ser t ZY dashed aainst the shore, drove everything Sta% t hem, and covered the ground to an incredible 414 8 e e With spray, so much so that a number of corn ‘lo3 a re entirely destroyed ; and at several stat i o n s R u es t he coast, boats, which were supposed to have 1414,n'n up far beyond the reach of the sea, are ale in jured. During the continuance of this▪ fearful sa lu , e great number of vessels passed our shores, ttle4l Of the m bearing signals of distress, an i • feared th a t many a sad and heart-rend ng ~, 1 7% -ne will have to be told as the result of the ''L`t So far as we have learned, no great injury has ik4lislt:done in or to the harbours or cree ks alon g our !siti„ - ' At Pulteneytown Harbour, it was oriFe feared theta disaster might occur amongst the shipping lying hor n ' Its th e sea was making a clean breach over the li dsreag u aY, and even the inner harbour, hitherto con with secure, was in a state of considerble commotion '„etie' qe swell. Providentially, however, no injury was L s ,ave the breaking of a few ropes, every precau tsutie.,enT4 taken by all concerned to prevent the occur that any catastrophe. We regret, however, to say t on, r'''n Thursday forenoon the schooner Tom, of Pres to t),inondered off Duncan's Bay Head, and melancholy ti euC te the whole crew perished. The following par e,, -- ` 8 of this me l anc holy event have been furnished by tj' its tr espondent ;—" About eleven A.M. on Thursday, 'Pet ti ," Instant, during a gale of easterly wind, with . a sea in the Pentland Firth, a schooner aas este ‘", p , r ounder amongst the breakers off the Ness of Dun ell (1% i3 % and soon thereafter she drifted on her beam lisail'ite some outlying shoals, where she remained for t t eea ts ' 5 nainutes, and then went to pieces. Some rag t k - ,,, ef ,the wreck have been washed ashore, and amongs in 1; r '" 0 , 411 piece of the stern, on which is painted (lately) , ist't P e Yellow letters, " Tom of Preston," and Port th -e nster," round the rudder case. One of the bodies to e unfortunate crew was washed ashore on the fol , m i lY,and re s p ec tably interred in the churchyard of lelieari -ra Y on Saturday, by the directions and under the Thi nt endence of Mr. S. Davidson, ship-agent, Huna. sa a s om illf ated vessel is supposed to have been coal-laden, , 'ew coals have since been washed ashore. . Pat i nt i ng gale a Russian brig, name unknown, since * l, 4 h: Le nghope had the mate and one of the seamen . t utul te - overboard: The cook had three of his Jetedn' and others of the crew were more or less in tim At the same time stanchions and rails were car- aw ay, and th e ca bi n s kyli g ht broken. A vessel h 5 ' Nor th America w a s also driven ashore at Long -1t1:' b ut is expected to be got off wl:thout much damage. t tt h erit - Zh to be dreaded, that when the whole news o f shall have b een added together, it will pre tpc,__t a catalogue of loss, both by sca and land, of the tou ' ll deplorable c h aracter. I n tine interior of the goy Y. the storm raged with unabate d v i o l ence , a nd /vks h e deal of i n j ury has been done to t h e crops . S uc h tr emendous surf a l ong the coast that between Were • er iY' t own.and Sarclet, several dead ling and skate ra,ea o , n ind I Ving in the fields, at a considerable distance ,"% h igh-vvater mark. On Sabbath the gale mode alin We wer e f avoure d w i t h a l ove ly, b u t most de with Y ; for on Monday the storm broke out again f ury. great violence, and the sea raged with extreme quid, , Tuesday the weath er b eca me once more trail visiter n ,we should f a i n h ope t h at we w ill now be It f ew ' Al in more genial and agreeable times, for at least ha ve b :eeks. until the precious fruits of the earth shall of shi„ld trllFdeittih'iatti e i ; l Wholly taken in safety. There is much loss is latl,, PP o ' n g i n the Orkney Islands, particularly in the h a d f Sanday and Stronsay, but the full particulars " reached Kirkwall at the time the steamer left. Accounts had b ee abla : g r e cc v e e n s •e se d i, of two wrecks at Stronsay inf o , In S andyy—nanies not given. We are also supposed . to be from the o „ zet m lan e d r, l w sl a a s od al s s . o lost, with all on board, off tne }ler Ivr • --!---- —. £1. 0 . 1 ., —B .lesty has granted a naturalthe civil list, to Mr. James David Forbes, professor of Pension of 2001. a year, tharacteret::B ~ Phil°Bo Phy in the . University of Edinburgh. es of defalcation, one of rather a serious uave been discovered la th , ? iiril t° l Aierc - - Ury. Bristol "ost,oiliee. find them. The money was afterwards picked up by his master. In the fields several dead crows were found without feathers. The vapour observed during the phenomena was densely black. At the moment the meteor appeared a tailor named BeHanger was at work in his kitchen. He was struck by what seemed to him a cloud with a strong light in the middle. It increasel in size and brightness, and the rain began to fall. He left his house, and at the same instant the thunderbolt fell. A cry was raised for help. The thunder, it was said, had struck the factory of M. Neven. He ran to assist the unfortunate workpeople, and removed some of the fallen rubbish. The bricks were so hot that they burnt his hands. He could not convey an idea of the stench occa sioned by the burning matter. The dark heavy cloud which came before the fire was seen in the direction of the cemetery of Malaunay. After some further details, and especially the rescue of a little girl from the factory by a Madame Blanchard, the sitting ended. M. Gaignoeux then applied to the Court to interdict the publication of the evidence. The President—The Tribunal has no authority over the press; bat the shorthand writers will, no doubt, feel the necessity of acting with discretion. (A voice below the bar.) —It is impossible. The re porters' correspondence with Paris has been sent off by the railway some hours. Another voice—The proceedings of this morning are now composed for the journals of Rouen. The Court then adjourned. PUBLIC' DINNER to MR. HUDSON, M P., AT SUNDERLAND. Suseionrirststo, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22.—Yestesslay evening a public dinner, in honour of Mr. Hudson's return for this borough, took place in the Polytechnic-hall, Fawcett-street, which had been fitted up and decorated for the purpose. The walls were covered with banners used at the election, and opposite the chair was placed a likeness of the Hon. Member, taken by an artist in Newcastle. Upwards of 350 gentlemen sat down to dinner, the room thereby being in conveniently crowded. J. J. Wright, Esq., was in the chair. On his right were G. Hudson, Esq., M.P. ; Lord Adolphus Vane, the Hon. IL T. Liddell, M.P., Alderman Richardson, of Yolk : the Sheriff of York ; R. Pemberton, Esq., ~f the Barnes ; and C. Bramwell, Esq. On his left, Lord Seahain ; Sir J. 11. Lowther, M.P. ; Colonel Wood, M.P. ; Hodgson Hinde, Esq., M.P. ; Matthew Bell, Esq., M.P.; the Rev. Dr. Townsend, Prebendary of Durham ; Rev. R. Skipsey, R. Webster, Esq., &c. &c. The principal vice-chair was filled by R. Sporr, Esq. The dinner was a very sumptuous entertainment, with a plentiful supply of champagne and other wines. On the withdrawal of the cloth, The CHAIRMAN gave, in succession, "the Queen," " the Queen Dowager," " Prince Albert," "the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," and "the Navy and Army." In proposing the latter toast (which was acknow ledged by Colonel Wood) the Chairman adverted to the fact that on that day, forty years ago, the hero Nelson foug't his last battle in defence of England—the battle of Trafalgar— and uttered his memorable saying, "England expects that every man will do his duty." The CHAIRMAN next gave "the Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese," and in doing so, remarked that the venerable Bishop, although he conscientiously differed from them in political sentiment, yet, it must be admitted, by the exem plary discharge of the duties of his exalted office, by his mu nificent contributions to public charities, and by the manifes tation of much kind feeling, had secured for himselt the un feigned respect of the inhabitants of the county, and especially the inhabitants of Sunderland.—( Applause.) The Rev. Dr. TOWNSEND, in responding to the toast, ad verted to the beneficial effects of railways, and expatiated on the public and private character of their guest, which he stated was in every respect highly commendable. The CHAIRMAN then said—We now come to the leading toast of the evening—the health of the esteemed and distin guished gentleman in whose honour we are assembled at this festive board—(Applause)—in order to proclaim the high estimation in which we hold his talents, the unqualified re spect we entertain for his character, the satisfaction with i which we have the honour to see h im our re p resentative in Parliament, and our confidence that he will discharge the duties of that sacred trust with honour to himself, credit to this borough, and advantage to the country.—(Applause.) 1 So much has been said in eulogium of Mr. Hudson's abilities and high reputation, both on previous occasions in this borough and by the newspaper press throughout the country, that I cannot but feel it is impossible for me to advance anything new or interesting upon the present occa sion. There are three lights in which I ,should desire to place Mr. Hudson before you, in every one of which he shines with a brightness of character of which he may justly be proud, which does him infinite credit, and reflects honour upon his name—l mean as a man of business, as a politician, and as a private gentleman.—(Applause). The reputation of Mr. Hudson as a man of business and enter prise stands unrivalled in the present day. As the great ac complisher of railway undertakings, the public spirit and the indomitable perseverance which have marked all his opera tions, the astonishing rapidity with which all his great works have been executed, and the signal success which has at tended all his efforts, have become matters of national record, and the theme of wonder throughout Europe. So strongly, gentlemen, Is his fame felt, that you cannot take up any newspaper, whether Tory, Whig, or Radical—whether local or metropolitan—nay, whether English or continental, without finding some article to his praise or observations to his honour —(Applause.) He has identified his name with the national character by the works he has already accomplished; and such is the opinion formed of his power, and such the reliance placed in his judgment and integrity, that he wields at command and presides over an amount of pecuniary capital exceeding that of any other man in this empire. He may be said to be a sort of Chancellor of the Exchequer in railway matters, whose duties, however, are more to give than to receive ; for he has founded a national stock which has not only provided for the security , of the investments, but returned to the possessors their capi tal doubled, trebled, or quadrupled in premiums and divi dends, arid opened a new fountain of prosperity which has flowed in copious and refreshing streams through the coun try.—(Applause.) There Is another peculiarity attending Mr. Hudson's enterprise—whilst it has benefited the rich, it has disseminated advantages through every class of society in this great commercial community. He has provided en gagements for the artisan, employment for the labourer, a field of operation for the skill of engineers, trade for the shopkeeper, a market for the manufacturer , channels for in dustry, and oceans of business unequalled in the history of this empire.—(Great applause.) Having conferred bene fi t upon every class of the community, he has raised a pyramid to his fame which statesmen may envy, and which has called forth a spontaneous testimonial of gratitude which does honour to the national character, and confers splendour upon the age.—(Applause.) As a politician, Mr. Hudson is known to cherish, and, on all fitting occasions, he is ready to uphold those great Conservative principles of devotion to the Church, love to the altar, attachment to that unrivalled Constitution which constitutes the the British nation. Especially do If' eel glory and security of 3 ,w .. i . ified in in st; i t e in !, g o to this meeting, from all the addresses Dir. Huass7 l TRIBUNAL OF COMMERCE AT this constituency, that he will be a lwa y s read y to mai. - - t a ul ROUEN, OCT. 18. the necessity and enforce the justice of fair protection to (From the Journal des Debug.) the agricultural, manufacturing, and shipping interests of the Court commenced an inquiry into the this great country, in opposition to those mischievous pan- This ti . ...',, v occurred on the 19th of August, in the ciples of unlimited ' free trade, which would break down the calamity whit.. and Malaunay. It will be in the barriers raised to protect native industry and give up all na- valleys of Monviii.: s, that in August last a tempest tional advantages, without any just return or equivalent con- recollection of our ready. sideration.—(Applause.) The electors of this borough owe Mr. Hudson a debt of gratitude for the noble stand he made and whirlwind, in the vicinity of Rauen, blew down a factory, and occasioned much injary to property and in support of protective principles on the recent arduous persons. The parties insured in the carious fire corn struggle in this borough, and for having defeated the ma chinations of the Anti-Corn-law League, that modern moo- panics have made . . claims, which are res Lated on the star of political violence, and vanquished one of the most round that the injuries were occasioned by a mcteor or talented and experienced, and one of their original advocates, luminous body, which appeared with other phenomee'a and scattered all their hired lecturers in confusion.—(Great The question is whether insurance companies in France applause.) That contest and victory was expressly a Con- arc liable for fires, the result of electricity and servative contest and victory. The issue joined between meteorology. the parties, which I expressly put to the electors on the No less than 110 witnesses are to be examined, and hustings, and which was confirmed by my honour- four consecutive sittings are appointed for the investiga able friend the candidate. was this—a Conservative tion of all the circumstances of this extraordinary case. Government on the one hand, Whig policy on the The Journal des Debuts, which enters into all the other ; just protection to the interests of the country on one hand, and unlimited free trade on the o ther ; details of the proceedi n g , sa y s, "We observed in the and the constituency decided these questions by the vic- place reserved for the editors of the journals of Rouen tory that we won.—(Applause.) I say it was the triumph and Paris. a stenographist from the capital, who is in of Conservative principles, and so it has been received and strutted by one of the parties to take, verbatim, the de understood throughout the country—it was the voice of positions of the witnesses, th and all the incid by the meteor, ents. Conservative feeling, expressed in accents not to b e misun- A geometrical plan of e crse taken derstood, and which has rung the death-knell of the Anti- together with the names of the proprietors and the Corn-law League in all their future attempts to domineer nature of the devastations, drawn by M. Lecerf, geome over the constituency.—(Applause.) Mr. Wright then trician, and lithographed, was distrifaited in Court. eulogised Mr. Hudson as a private gentleman, and concluded, I will not detain you , for I see the feel in g is risin g in your The assured , wh o are p laintiffs against the Royal In surance Company, the General Insurance Company, and bossms ready to burst in peals of enthusiastic applause.— eight others, insurancesocieties agains b t u fi n r d e l , e b s r , o t u h g e h t t r unk Mr. into (The toast was drunk with repeated cheers.) , on rising, was again loudly cheered. He C ou rt branches of trees ni2.de up in ung tree, and other vestige' of property destroyed , said, in ri Honsox sing on this occassion to offer to you my best of a Y ° thanks for the compliment which has just been paid me by to prove the violence of the hurricane. These remains drinking my health, I feel under difficulty to find words to were exposed before the Court, also a tree :ix inches iti give expression to the grateful feelings of a warm and affec- diameter. The latter had been sawed off just be.'ew. the tionate heart. I sin deeply sensible of the obligations part where it was struck by lightning, in order to sin:'"' which I owe to the electors of Sunderland for the man- the longitudinal fibres and sap deprived of their bark by nor in which they returned me to Parliament ; but I felt the electric fluid. that in appearing before them I was not fighting my own The President (M. Dreuzy) ordered the witnesses to battle, but the battle of the Constitution, and seeking to be called, and read a list of facts to be proved, according promote the welfare of this great country.—(Applause.) to the order of the Court on the 3d of October. The gentlemen who waited upon me to solicit me to come forward will do me the j u s tice to sa y that at first I shrunk M. Payen appeared as Co unsel for M. Bailleul, one from the offer with some alarm, but on explanation I felt, as of the assured ; M. Gaignoeux, for the Royal Fire In every Englishman I hope will always feel, that a fair and surance Company. It was arranged that the witnesses proper call being made upon me by my fellow-countrymen, should be divided into four series, and 25 be examined I had no right to consider my own feelings and convenience. each day. —(Applause.) I also told them, that if at the eleventh hour The President then said the Court, after sitting this any gentleman with whom they were acquainted came for- day, would continue the inquiry on Monday and Wed ward, who could fight the battle, which they considered great nesday next. and important, with an equal probability of success, they Among the witnesses we found the parents and widows were at liberty to reject me and take him.—( Applause.) of the unfortunate victims in mourning. Having accepted your invitation to stand as a candidate for M. De Monville, the proprietor of large estates upon Sunderland, I did my best, and I am gratified in knowing the scene of the disaster, but who, by singular good for that best succeeded in defeating a body of gentlemen who tune, had no injury done t o his factor y , is on the list of have been so admirably chara cterised b y y our Chairman this evening.—(Renewed applause.) I came here upon prin• the persons to be examined. ciple, relying for success solely upon those great Conservative Hercule Riche, farrier, aged 50, was the first witness. principles which I have held ever since I took a part in Having been sworn, he deposed that he saw the storm public affairs. It is true I came here a stranger, only rising in the direction of Marolles Saint Jean. It burst known to two or three gentlemen, but before I had been upon Gaudry, with whirlwinds and waves of fire, which twenty-four hours in your boroughs, I found that I was spread over the valley. He was sensible of a bad odour. among a body of Englishmen who had hearts to feel for the , The streak or waves of fire which he saw were red, well- being of their country. This soon won my affections, yellow, and all colours. The form of these streaks and it would be the severest trial which has ever tried me to lose your regard. Gentlemen , we trium p hed over a body of changed. Whirlwinds of fire see med to turn round. ere men who thought they could carry enslaved at their shrine Th was a deal of rain with the storm. The the constituency constituency of Sunderland. We have shown that when derbolt fell near the fountain at Marolles. He felt the fairly and openly met they are easy to defeat—that their ground shake under him. principles are not sound, that their views are selfish, and Augustin Theobule Levillain, a servant at St. Jean, that they endeavour to carry away the minds of the people deposed that the storm agitated the trees in a way he by specious arguments.—(Applause.) Having now, how- had never witnessed before. The apples and leaves were ever, obtained a victory, let us endeavour to appropriate it to blown away. It was so dark he could not see the heavens the promotion of local and national advantage. I do not or the earth. The servant girl in the house with him hold lightly those great principles which ought to govern was alarmed when they saw the fire in the clouds. The this free country—l think they ought to be paramount on . let us girl believed it was lightning. He said "No ; it is a all occasions, but having maintained them fearlessly, unite with all parties in promoting the local and social ad- sort of fire spout." The odour was strong—he did not vantage of the town and port of Sunderland.—(Great ap plause). know whether it was the odour of fire or gunpowder. He Peaceful times are those in which only we can had seen the leaves in the garden of Madame Lemit. take a calm and judicious view as to what will promote the The trees and leaves were burnt by the fire which had welfare of a town. Political agitators, who are constantly passed that way. exciting the people, in season and out of season, are not the Questioned by M. Gaignoeux—Did you feel any sensa wellwishers of the country. Let us, Gentlemen, as Conser- tion of fear ? vatives, show a bright example to those agitators, and to Answer—l am accustomed to the weather and tra the political demagogues who exist in every town, by using yelling. Thank God, lam not timid. • I have no dread advantageously the victory we have obtained by promoting -* of thunder ; however, if in danger from it, I should fear the local interests of the port—let us endeavour to cultivate for I -NTRLLIGENCE.—KENT.--The weather of this good feeling towards those who are politically opposed to us, for my life as much as another. week has somewhat improved upon last, which has afforded and prevent political feeling from interfering with our en- Q —The trees were torn up by the roots ? relief from the despondency of those who had not picked all en deavours to promote the l oca l advantage of the town. lam A.—They were. The leaves dropped off, and became their hops. A better condition is also slightly observable in satisfied if you act thus, you will win over to us those who black. the bops, and the duty has consequently risen. A person will strengthen us, the p ar ty w ill gro w s tronger and stronger, Madame Desmarais saw the clouds congregate. They who takes interest in this subject has made the following and the time will soon come when Mr. Liddell and myself will not be the only two Conservative Meinbers for this great formed an astonishing mass, terminating in a streak like computation offer, the duty that will be realised from each dis county—(Applause). I again thank you: all I can say is, I ribbon, red with fire like a thunderbolt. trio: . :—Rochester, 50,000/. ; Sussex, 60,000/ ; Faversham, am deeply sensible of the kind manner in which the Chairman 5 000/. • Canterbury, 30,0001. ;Worcester, 11,0004 ; King a M. Slornberger did not see the ball of fire. He heard d ' om, 2,0001.; total, 158,0001. General accounts state that a nd my Rev. Friend have spoken of me, and I trust their the thunder, and went out of his office and saw part of the picking is now drawing to a close, but that in some eulogiums will induce me never to forget the duties of the the factory roof carried away. Many trees had been places it will not be finished for a fortnight, and in others position to which I have attained, and act as incentives to my blown down and uprooted. They were twisted, burnt, that the hops will not be picked at all, for, owing to the endeavours to serve my country, Your Chairman has ad- and driven away in several directions. One workman scarcity of hands, they will not be worth anything after a vetted to matters which were the subject of discussion during was in the fields at the moment of the catastrophe. Ac- further delay. We find that the lowest set of the duty is my election. lam sure you will do me the justice tu sav, cording to his account part of the building was not 150,000/., and the highest 165,000/. —Canterbury Journal. thrown down. that on that occasion I studiously abstained from any re- DARING OUTRAGE.—GALLANT CONDUCT OF TILE faience to them. On this point I can appeal with confe- It appeared from the examination of other witnesses, PEOPLE.—On Wednesday last, in the middle of the: day, two Bence even to my political opponents; but I was not un- that in the factory they had some iron and zinc in a daring ruffianly Terry Alts attacked a farmer's house, named mindful of the position which this important port holds ire , did not undergo any alteration. The roof of one of the buildings was of slate, which also re closet, which Michael Cooney, in the parish of Killuran, county Clare, the country, and although I then thought it unfair to give! manned unaltered. Hail fell in abundance. , The larger while the family were out at work, not one being in the house was damaged on the south-east side, but any pledges, or even refer to it in my speeches, my views: at the time but Mrs. Cooney, and succeeded in carrying off a were then formed, and I was quite ready to have developed • .) ... the smaller building on the north-west, covered with gun. Mrs. Cooney immediately gave the alarm to the men as unroofed. The Insurance Company in which at work in the garden, who, aided by all the neighbours, them, had had it been prudent to do so, in the same manner that . I did the other day, and which lam happy to say met with t undinlgv, the approbation not only of gentlemen who supported me, I slate, sued these scoundrels, and succeeded in making them relin quish the gun, which (though they several times threatened but of some who felt it their duty to oppose me.—(Applause, ) l the es t a blishment (factory) was insured, refused to to fire on the people) they threw away, being closely pressed. , , because it was The people afterwards gave the alarm to four police-stations This district is, perhaps, one of the most important in tho pay the amount of damaee sustained kingdom, and if its resources were fully Bevel pail Sunder- produced by fire from the heavens. After the thunder in the . neighbourbood, when the police assisted in pursuing ceased, the fire spread to the woods of Madame Thorel the villains in the direction of Ogunnelle, but, unhappily, land and Newcastle might rival Liverpool and Manchester. — • (Loud applause.) But to accomplish this we must not suffer an d those of Madame Noyer. The sheepfolds on the though the had them in view for a long time, w ithout sue _ political feeling to interfere; we must not allow politics to • cess._ .I.,ip-ickßeporter, . intermix in the rnansgement of these affairs, and by avoid- • plain were dispersed by the violence of the hurricane. of B Ay. John Carne, chemist, rompton-row, was ing this conduct we shall win overmany to the principles wet lon Thursday fined 10s. and costs, for having chastised his birds fell down dead. The shepherd (Demart) was in The lint of the shepherd entirely disappeared. Many errand-boy with undue severity, under circumstances of great profess, and show a bright contrast to those trading politi to look after his sheep. He received clans who mind everybody's business but their own.—(Ap- 1 the hut when it fell. When the whole had been blown planse.) I shall go to Parliament with an ambition to follow , away I he got upprovocation. The boy had been beaten with a thick piece of deal about an inch and a half wide and one thick, until his back and shoulders were much bruised. The magistrate the steps of the gentleman on my right (Mr. Liddell), and, wounds in the eye, on his thighs, and his side. He re- of other gentlemen connected with the district, whose prin- turned to the space where his he had lost, but could not case t ut had stood to look for thoug b, chaetisemeut had been too severe. ht a master might chastise his errand-boy, but in this ciples and conduct I alm;re ; and I trust, by doing s o, I shall ~ two five•franc pietas, Which h . SAINT MARGARET'S CHURCH- YARD. The following letter has B -..,- een addressed to the Editor of the Lancet: — Sir, —Nothing of late has occupied public attention, or roused the common feelings of our nature, so much as the horrors of intramural, or metropolitan sepultures ; the danger of sueli proceedings has been universally admitted by all those disinterested, scientific, and prac tical men, who have deeply investigated the subject ; and the outrageous desecrations of the sanctity of the graves of the dead, recently brought to light in Spa fields, have, I really believe, excited public indignation to the highest pitch. Your readers will remember, that the Lancet of February last chronicled facts, and in the same article you gave some original observations, re garding that shameful place. Tne Westminster Review has well remarked, " that:so long as these matters do not seize violently, and continuously by the nose the people of quality, no public commotion is raised, no Parlia ment petitioned, no sound is heard about the neglected Imaiths of the community!" It is too evident, Sir, that powerful influence is at work to smother or overlay this question. lam much mistaken if the persons who at tempt to do so will not ultimately regret that they had not acted up to the old adage—" Honesty is the best policy." Meanwhile I desire to put on record, in your journal, the following brief narrative of facts. On August 23d, 1845, I was requested to attend the funeral of my late patient, Miss ---, at St. Margaret's Church yard, Westminster. During the performance of the bu rial service, the situation of the parties was as follows: — the clergyman stood to the windward, or at the head of the grave; the mourners were placed laterally; whilst a mute occupied the foot, and to the leeward side, of the grave. The mute, as the service advanced, staggered, was unable to keep himself erect, and became deadly pale; he was removed to the vestry-room, suffering from pain in the bowels, which ended in diarrhcea; his health was deranged during the two subsequent days; on the night of the funeral, the undertaker was seized with diarrhoea and faintness, and continued in a debilitated state for some days after; one of the mourners on his return home was affected with the same symptoms, and rendered unable to follow his employment for an entire week ; and it may be as well to observe here, as a re markable coincidence, that the wife of one of the mourners, was, late on the night of the funeral, or early next morning attacked with apoplexy, and expired in two or three days. In conclusion, I beg to say that I felt during the funeral, and for some time afterwards, very unpleasant sensations, although my health was not deranged by the inhalation of the animal gases or poison. All these circumstances tend to strengthen the preconceived impression, that illness of a serious nature may be produced. and even death in many instanees ensue, by attendance at the burial-grounds of this me tropolis, which are known to be more than commonly charged with human putrefactions. Although the above mentioned cases did not terminate fatally, yet, I con sider the subject of extraordinary interest to those who are seeking to discover tangible sources of disease. and to employ preventable means of suppressing its operations. The facts alreidy spoken of, may be compared with many others on record, but especially with the cases given in the Lancet in June 1840. regarding the burial-ground in question. The grave-digger, in that instance, whilst engaged in opening a grave, was struck down by the effluvium, and after suffering for a few days from the worst type of malignant fever, expired. The medical attendant, a young friend of mine hoping to attain at some future day to honourable distinction in his profes sion, who was called in, was seized with similar symp toms, and died in a few days ; his faithful servant, by her assiduous attention to her master, imbibed the like disease. and soon fell a sacrifice. The Commissioners for the improvements in Westminster, reported to Parlia ment tiziTty years since, that hardly could a single grave I be obtained in St. Ma r garet' s Church- y ard. Without further comment I leave this subject. I am, Sir, your obedient s er vant , J. C. ATKINSON. Romi2ey-terrace, Westminster, Sept. 29th, 1845. ALABASTER MINES OF CAST ELLIN& By far the most intefesting and important of the dif ferent varieties of gvpsuni is the fine white alabaster found in the neighbourhood of Caste!tins, where it is regularly stratified, and is worked in properly constructed mining galleries. The little town of Castellina, distant about 20 or 24 miles from Volterra, is reached by a rocky road over wild rugged mountains. It is situated on the W.N.W. slope of the hills of Monte Vaso, over looking in that direction an extensive and slightly undu lating plain of tertiary marls, which there can be no doubt extend round the north point of the Monte Vaso chain, and are connected with those of the Val d'Era and the Volterra district. We entered the mine by an inclined path, and, passing underground, soon reached an open well or large in verted cone, round which the inclined path is carried, and where the section of marls and gypsum is well exposed. As the descending road passes through the third and fot zth gypsum beds, galleries are seen striking into the rock it, alt directions. The first and second gypsum beds are of an Otto.: _form character and grey colou r, a n d do not contain an pally in the third and - ster blocks. These are found princi y f?urth beds, and occur as irregular indicates to the isolated spherical masses i ca Lly speaking, distinctly ,Lhedded in the gypsum, from stratum, which they are, mineralog separated by a thin black crust, whi . j. workmen the existence of the finer module;. These mo dules are most frequent in the lower parts of thbs and occur in regular layers, never touching, alth,:ugh varying much in their distances from each other. They vary much in size, weighing from 20 or 301bs. to upwards of 2,0001b5. When the workman discovers the black crust, he is at once aware that he is near a block of ala baster, and by following the direction of the crust, he re moves the gypsum all round until he has nearly detached the whole module, which is at last carefully separated from the parent rock. Gunpowder is occasionally used to blast the rock when no black crust indicates the ex istenco of the alabaster. This crust, in connexion with the pure alabaster, is perhaps one of the most curious features of the mine. On close examination it appears to be laminar and concentric, and to consist of layers of blue clay and gypsum. Now the whole formation of gypsum contains a small portion of clay, which gives it the greyish colour, and it is probable that when that peculiar principle, whether crystalization, attraction, or electricity, which caused the aggregation of the particles of gypsum in greater purity, and in a more crystalline state, was in operation, one of its chief effects was to expel to the circumference all the particles of argillace ous matter previously mixed up with the gypsum ; a process which would continue until either the crust itself opposed a resistance to the further action of this prin ciple, or until two opposing spheres nearly came in contact with each other. Very fine crystals of selenite, and some times of a large size, are not unfrequently found in the fissures of the gypsum. They are used for the purpose of making the fine Scaeliola cement, and are conse• quently sold at a much higher price than the more ordinary gypsum. The price of the fine alabaster is 5 Tuscan lire the 1001 b. Tuscan Journ al uarry, or 8 if de livered in Leghorn.—Quarterly of the Geologica4 Society. ~~ ~~ la . P age, 11 I s. Lio• " I • --- 4 1, '4. - —mum • 1-.1. - maw '4ll . 17' LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1845. THE AFFRAY IN NEW ZEALAND. The following description, from the pen of an Ame rican officer, Captain 111`Keever, of the disastrous affray at Russell, will be read with interest. It is dated from on board the frigate Brandywine : "On the 3d of March we anchored at the Bay of Islands. Here I found affairs in a very disturbed and critical state, open hostilities having just commenced be tween the natives under their celebrated chief Heki and the English authorities at Kororarika, a town of 500 inhabitants. Her Britannic Majesty's sloop of war Hazard was lying off the town to protect it, and a flag staff was erected on a neighbouring hill, whisk had been cut down several times by Heki. I anchored th e St. Louis above the town, and opposite a place called the \%rahapo, where is situated a large American mercantile establishment, and whose buildings at this time con tained some 60,000 dolls. worth of property owned in the United States. " In these difficulties between the English on the one hand, and the native-born men of the soil on the other, I determined to pursue a course of impartial neutrality, and at the same time to evince, practically, my anxiety to prevent the usual barbarity of savage warfare. To this end, I succeeded in obtaining an interview with the chief Heki, and making him to understand the course I intended to pursue. I obtained from him a pledge that he would inflict no injury upon women or children, upon the missionary establishments at the Bay, nor upon the American property at the Wahapo—a pledge which he faithfully kept. "It was reported to me that Heki was making im proper use of an American flag, which by some means he had obtained possession of ; and, having seen it fly ing shortly after tri one of his war canoes as he passed the ship, I proceeded on shore, and obtaining another in terview with him, inquired his object in displaying the flag of the United States ; he informed me that he had done se purely in compliment to the ship, and in token of friendship to all Americans. After explaining to him the nature of a national flag, and that my country being at peace with England he must not hoist it, as none but Americans were entitled to its protection, he desisted from using it. "On the 11th of March, at daylight, the natives, feigning a general attack upon the town, carried the blockhouse erected for its protection, took the signal station, and cut down the flagstaff. At meridian, to add to the misfortunes of the day, the depot of powder be longing to the inhabitants by accident blew up, killing and wounding many. The town was now hastily aban doned, and in the course of that and the following day sacked and destroyed, with the exception of the churches and mission-houses. Our boats during the morning of the action were actively engaged in bringing off the wounded and the women and children to vessels in the harbour. The commander of the Hazard was mortally wounded, and I believe in all fifteen or sixteen Europeans were killed in the conflict, and about the same number wounded. The loss on the part of the natives is sup posed to be greater. " A request having come from the Hazard for the medical officers of the ship to assist in dressing the wounded, they promptly repaired on board, and to carry out my neutral views, upon a similar request from the camp of Heki, they were directed to proceed on shore the following day, and offer the same services, which were as kindly received. "Feeling called upon to afford all the aid in my power to the houseless inhabitants, I at once offered a passage to Auckland (the seat of government of New Zealand) to as many as might wish to go. Accordingly, on the 13th, about 150 persons—men, women, and children — were received on board, and in company with the sloop of war Hazard and an English whale-ship, having on board the remainder of the inhabitants, we proceeded to Auckland, and landed them there on the 16th. It was my intention to have sailed thence direct ,to Otaheite ; but, on the eve of our departure from the bay, such strong and urgent representations were made to me by the agents of the American property, of the great dan ger to which it would be exposed in the absence of the ship, that I consented to return immediately ; and sub sequent events have proved the propriety of that course. On the 18th we left Auckland, where we met with great kindness from Governor Fitzroy and the authorities, and on the following day anchored again in the bay. All the American property was shipped aboard the American whalers, of which several were there, and whom I induced to receive and proceed with it to the United States. By these opportunities I communicated with the Navy Department, copies of which letters are enclosed. " The opportune arrival, on the 31st of March, of her Majesty's frigate North Star, Captain Sir Everard Home, relieved me from a delicate position, and left me at liberty to proceed on my cruise. The documents from him, in relation to an intended blockade of the bay, together with the copy of a letter from Governor Fitzroy, of New Zealand, are herewith enclosed. * " The Bay of Islands has heretofore been the chief resort in these seas for our whalers ; but the present difficulties between the English and natives must effec tually close it against them for some time. It is com puted that there are generally not less than 150 American whale ships cruising off the coasts of New Zealand. " At this season of the year the sperm whalers proceed to the north-west coasts of America and the seas con tiguous to Japan. I have met several who were destined there. " At the Bay of Islands we have had no properly commissioned Consul for some years. This, I found, had been a source of regret to all parties concerned. " In the general desertion of the place, I directed the records, seals, flags, &c., of the Consulate to be dispatched to the care of the United States Consul at Sydney. " I may here remark, that, in our intercourse with the various authorities of the ports we have visited, and with the American Consuls, the courtesies of the former, with the attention, kindness, and high stand ing of the latter, have afforded me much gratification and pride. " I have received on board, at Hobart Town, Sydney, and the Bay of Islands, several sick and destitute Ame rican seamen, some of whom are now able to do duty, and serve partially to make up the deficiency in the ship's complement." In connexion with the preceding letter of Captain M'Keever, we lay before our readers the following letter from the British Minister to the Secretary of State, furnished to the Navy Department, by which we have been favoured with a copy Washington, Sept. 6, 1845. " Sir,—The enclosed extract of a dispatch. lately re ceived by her Majesty's Government from the Governor of New Zealand, will inform you of the friendly and ge nerous assistance afforded by an officer of the United States navy, Captain M'Keever, of the St. Louis, to the local authorities and the European inhabitants of that settlement, in a case of great emergency. " In making this communication to you, I am com manded to express to the Government of the United States the high sense which her Majesty entertains of the services rendered by Captain M'Keever on the occa sion referred to. " I have the honour to be, with high consideration, " Sir, your obedient servant, " R. PAKENHAM. " The Hon. James Buchanan, &c." EXTRACT OF A DISPATCH FROM GOVERNOR FITZROY TO LORD STANLEY. Captain of the United States frigate St. Louis , " Auckland, March 26, 1845. " The Captain D. .I.4l'Keever, did everything that a humane and brave officer 0 : a foreign but friendly power could do under such circums:Yl es. " He could not interte: e hostilel y ; but he sent his under frequent fire, to c . un armed boats, and went him: succour the women and children, and convey them safely to his frigate. "He afterwards brought 125 so uls tO Ackland ; and he is now at anchor in the Bay of Islan ds, rexly to afford a refuge to our missionaries and thei r familia, should they require such friendly assistance." THE LATE MRS. FRY. The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry were interred on Mon day in the Friends' burying-ground at Barking, in this county. The funeral was conducted in a strictly unosten tatious style, in conformity with the recognised custom of the Society of Friends. The body did not arrive at the late residence of the deceased lady, at Upton, from Ramsgate, till seven o'clock on the morning of the interment. About a quarter before eleven o'clock the funeral cortege proceeded en route to Barking, under the superintendence of Mr. Smee, of Finsbury-pavement, in the following order :—The hearse, containing the body, drawn by two horses, and preceded by four men walking, who officiated as undertakers, followed by the carriages belonging to the respective members of the de ceased's family, their personal friends and acquaintances, be sides others belonging to several distinguished individuals, resident in that and the immediate neighbourhood, number ing in the whole thirty-nine. The cortege, which extended more than half a mile in length, moved at a very slow pace, and, added to the thousands who had assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to departed worth, gave a solemnity to the proceedings which can be better conceived than de scribed. Among the mourners we observed, in addition to the sons and daughters of Mrs. Fry, Messrs. Samuel Gur ney, sen. and jun., Mr. J. Masterrnan, M.P., Sir E. Buxton, Sir J. H. Pelly, Mr. John Joseph Gurney, a great number of the members of the Society of Friends, and other persons of distinction. Between fifty and sixty carriages from various parts were observed at Barking, waiting the arrival of the body, which reached there about one o'clock. After the ne cessary preliminaries had been arranged, the body was re moved from the hearse and consigned to its last resting place, and the death-like silence that prevailed for several minutes was broken by appropriate addresses from two female Friends, and one from Mr. John Joseph Gurney. The de livery of the addresses occupied more than two hours, and they were listened to with the most intense interest, but from the concourse of persons assembled many were pre vented from hearing. We may observe, no funeral ever created so great a sensation in that neighbourhood. From an early hour in the morning carriages of various descrip tions might be seen proceeding to Upton, in addition to hun dreds of pedestrians of all classes and both sexes, anxious to witness the funeral obsequies of one whose life was marked by every virtue which could tend to render her name illus trious, not only to the present, but succeeding generations. We cannot close without offering our humble tribute of re spect to the memory of one so eminent for her philanthropy and benevolence as Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. By her death so ciety has lost one of its greatest ornaments—the poor and destitute one who could sympathise with their condition and alleviate their wants. She sought out the abodes of vice and poverty, in order that she might instil principles of virtue on the . one hand, and supply the cravings of hunger and desti tution on the other. In her the sons and daughters of mis fortune, crime, and suffering, found a friend whom they could procure without money and without price. Surely a long life wholly devoted to humane and benevolent actions, and promoting the happiness of her fellow-creatures, will en title Mrs. Fry to be ranked as one of the greatest philan thropists (of her own sex) which this country ever pro. duced.-.- Chelmsford Chronicle, -I ~~~~ _ ~ _ ry~~ ~~ on. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OLIN CORRESPONDENT.) OCT. 24.—We have a continuation of the most splen did weather, no rain baying fallen for the last fortnight. The barometer at 30.33 ; the thermometer at 56 in the shade. Amongt our fashionable departures are—Sir Bt-llingham and Lady Graham and family, from Norfolk house, for 131, Park-street, Grosvenor-square ; Major- Gcneral Richardson, Mrs. Richardson, and Miss Richard son, from Mill-hill-house, for Sydney-place, Bath ; Mr. Sergeant Shee. from Gothic-villa ; Lady Pigott, from No. 1, Bath-buildings ; Mr. Burton, from No. 2, Bath buildings. The yachting season is fast drawing to a close, but we have still some few yachts in the roads. Captain Ponsonby's new schooner yacht proceeded to tire westward yesterday to try her trim. The Flirt also stood to the westward. The Vice-Commodore is at llarriet-lodge ; Sir L. and Lady Shadwell at Egypt house ; P. Erle, Esq., at Beach-villa ; Sir Edward and Lady Paget, at the Castle ; Lord Yarborough is at Appuldurcombe ; Sir William and Lady Montagu are are expected at Grantham•houso, and Lady Conway at Norfolk-house. We continue to have numerous arrivals, but the greater part of them proceed on to Ventnor for the winter. That part of the island is more full of company than it has been for years. GAS.—The shops and public lamps of this town were lighted with gas this evening, for the first time. Many of the old'uns are very anxious about the fire-engines, and hope they will be kept ready. A number of old ladies will have a sleepless night—to introduce such a dangerous thing in the town, and on a Friday, too ! O PENING OF THENEWPUSEYITE CHURCH IN LEEDS. The Puseyites are next week to commence a new and forward movement in this town. It is known that through some munificent donations of persons at a distance, a church has been built in Leeds, of a very costly and splendid architecture, and bearing many of the features of the churches prior to the Reformation ; and that it is designed as a model of the churches approved by the highest Puseyites, and as an exhibition of the modes of worship and of the doctrines approved by that sect of Oxford churchmen. The name given to this church by its un known founder was very significant of the al liance between Puseyite and Romish doctrine, being that of the church of the Holy Cross. But the Bishop of Ripon, notwithstanding his timid caution, positively objected to consecrate a church bearing that name ; and it has therefore been changed for the name of St. Saviour's church—which title to us un learned Dissenters, has always appeared very absurd, and as designed either to reduce the Saviour to the rank of the Saints, or more probably elevate the Saints to the dignity of the Saviour. St. Saviour's Church, however, is, according to the official announcement, to be consecrated by " the Lord Bishop of Ripon," " on the ensuing Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude ;" which be it known to those who are not learned in Saints' days, falls upon the 28th of October. And though the Lord Bishop is to preach in the morning a sermon which will doubtless be quite inoffensive, there is to come on in the evening of the day the Apostle of Anglo Catholicism or Semi-Popery, the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D., of Oxford. All the world knows that this gentleman was suspended from preaching for two years, by the University of Oxford, for his sermon on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which made the doctrine of the Church of England, according to his interpretation, hardly distinguishable from the Romish doctrine of Transubstantiation. All the world knows, too, that Dr. Pusey was the colleague of the Rev. Mr. Newman and the Rev. Mr. Ward, writers in the Tracts for the Times, both of whom, with several others of the school, have since openly left the Church of England and joined the Church of Rome. To Evan gelical Dissenters of every class the doctrines held by Dr. Pusey, and propagated by him with ardent zeal, ap par to contain all the essential qualities of Popery, and to make a very near approach to an acknowledgment of the Roman Church as the true and infallible church. The real closeness of the connexion between Dr. Pusey's Anglo-Catholicism and absolute Roman Catholicism, is evident from the fact, that so many of the ablest cham pions of the former system have found themselves com , polled by their own principles to go all the way to Rome. Several of the Evangelical clergymen in this town are so scandalized by the bringing of Dr. Pusey, and by the outrage which they conceive to be committed on the Protestant feelings of the country, that they have de clined to attend the Bishop at the consecration of a new church. Of course Dr. Hook is not one of this number. We perceive from the official announcement of the services at the consecration, that a series of services is to be kept up for seven days, on every onel,of which (ex cept Sunday, Nov. 2) they are as follows :—" At 7 eat' , Prayers ;at half-past 10 A.M., Holy Communion and Sermon ; at 3 P.M., Prayers ; and at half-past 7 P.M., Prayers and Sermon." If the above church had been one avowedly Roman Catholic, we should not have noticed the fact, ex cept as a mere article of news, however much we might lament the spread of those doctrines. But believing, as we do, that Puseyism is Popery in disguise and treason to Protestantism, we feel not only solemn regret, but that indignation which disguise and treason naturally provoke. We regard this new Church in the light in which we believe all Evangelical persons in and out of the Establishment look upon it, namely, as an edifice from which substantial Popery is to be diffused by public and private efforts, in the strut • cure itself, and from house to house, through the town and the country.—Leeds Mercury. STRANGE OCCURRENCE. — The death of a man, named George Wedener, a pensioner, aged 60, whose bro thers are masters of fishing smack=, at Barking, in this county, appears, from a statement we have received, to have taken place at Hornchurch, under extraordinary circumstances, implying great neglect, if not a more serious charge against several parties connected with the transaction. It seems that on the 20th inst. about 5 P.M. deceased was found by Noaks, gardener to J. Bearblock, Esq., lying in a pool of water, in the middle of the high road, near the Harrow public-house, between Hornchurch and Romford. Finding that he was insensible, Noaks requested Brown, the ostler at the Harrow public-house, to suffer him to be put into one of the sheds at that house; Brown, however, it is stated, with an oath refused to permit him to be upon the premises. Lambert, a police-constable, who afterwards came up, con veyed the man to Romford in a cart, where Inspector Haydn procured for him the assistance of Mr. Collin, surgeon, who pronounced him to be labouring under the effects of extreme intoxication. Finding that the man was at the point of death, the inspector applied to Parker, a re lieving officer, to get him into the Union-house. Parker, however, refused to interfere, and at 9 o'clock in the even ing, the inspector, on going to the lock-up where Wedener lay, found him a corpse. It is stated that the deceased, after having been made drunk by some persons in the neigh bourhood, fell into a large - tub in which some sheep were being washed for Mr. James Perry, of Ilford, jobber, and was suffered to remain in the water two hours. That he was subsequently pushed into the high road, and buckets of water were poured upon him. An inquest has since been held before W. H. Clifton, Esq, and after an inquiry which lasted four hours, a verdict was returned, " Died from ex cessive drinking." The facts, however, have been laid be fore the local magistracy, who, we understand, are deter mined that they shall be further inquired into.—Charnsford Chronicle. READINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY.-THE BUTTER FLY.—" The life of a butterfly," says But Ton, " seems one continued succession of changes; and it throws off one skin only to assume another." The butterfly, then, is constantly peeling, and the Peel butterfly is the greatest type of the species. The little insect to which we allude commences existence as a monopolist caterpillar, which has little holes in its side, called stigmata ; and certainly for every hole that has been picked in the Peel caterpillar, a certain stigma attaches to him. From the crawling state of caterpillarism, the Peel insect became a grub, and contrived to grub on tolerably well for a considerable period. While in the caterpillar state, the Peel butterfly's motions were in accord ance with a sort of sliding-scale; but its transition into the condition of the grub brought somewhat of a tendency to a fixed duty. At length the Peel butterfly, bursting from all restrictions, is found upon the wing, and supports itself, somehow or other, for a long while, although, as Buffon says, " its flight is not very graceful." To make a quotation from the same 'eminent naturalist, when speaking of the common butterfly, it may be said of the Peel butterfly, that " when it designs to fly to a considerable distance, it ascends and descends alternately, going sometimes to the right, some times to the left, without any apparent reason." The Peel butterfly, like most other flying creatures, has instruments that are called feelers, and before making a move, these feelers are generally pu t forth by the cra fty creature. The colours of the Peel butterfly a re ver y variable; and it is a remarkable fact, that the insect will often prey upon the weaker of its own kind, which has been often the case with the particular insect we have been specially alluding to— Punch. A SECOND EDITION Or "Da. BERRINGTON."—A. man standing about 5 feet ten inches high, attired in a brown frock coat, black velvet waistcoat, and dark coloured trousers, giving the name of "R. Stubbs," took a house within the past few days, No. 8, Snenton-road, under the pretence of carrying on a wholesale woollen cloth establishment. lie called at the shop of Mr. Britton, ironmonger, Carlton-street, and requested him to send some one down to measurethe lire grates for ashpans and fenders; the measures being procured, he chose four fenders of a moderate quality, together with fire-irons, stair-rods, knives forks, and other articles , with bell-hangings, to the amount of nearly seven pounds in va lue. The goods being forwarded. and seeing joiner, gas fitter, paper-hanger, c harwoman, • and others, no sus picion was excited. ' Stubbs stated that he expected his wife, who would bring the remaining part of his household furniture, and on Monday and Tuesday would call and pay the tradesmen's demands. Monday came, aid to the astonishment of the simple shopkeepers, the windows were closed, and the said Stubbs was not to be seen. Application was made to the landlord, who stated that be had no suspicion whatever, in consequence of the circum stances relating to his wife. Tuesday came, and Wednesday, but neither cash nor appearance, which excited great suspi cion. The house was therefore searched, and, to the morti fication of the man's creditors, none of the goods purchased were to be found ; even the gas-fittings by Mr. Dunuicliffe had been torn from the walls in a ruthless manner. Stubbs's honest appearance—his ordering no article that was not neat in appearance, good in quality, and low in price—his getting the gas laid on, walls papered (which might be considered as totally useless), gave the whole affair an aspect of credibility, the rottenness of which is now fullyapparent. It is fearel that the joiner, whose name and address Stubbs gave, was only an accomplice, as his name is unknown in the neighborhood. His height was about 5 feet 74 inches, and th 'nun wore a fustian jacket and trousers, with coloured waistcoat. —Not tingham Review. DIRECT LONDON AND MANCHESTER RAILWAYS. —The two companies (Rastrick's and ReminAton's) have, it is well known, united. The two engineers, Messrs. Rastrick and Remington, attended a meeting of the board of the Direct London and Manchester, at 48, Moor gate-street, on Wednesday ; and we have good autho city for saying they gave the directors the strongest assurances that the whole line was surveyed, and ready for Parliament. 46., POLICE INTELLIGBNCE. GUILDHALL. Daniel Garrett, who stands charged with colnmitting nine robberies from railway stations, was brought before Mr. Al derman Hughes Hughes for final examination. ';he prisoner looked pale and less at ease than before. He hati been al ready committed on seven charges of felony. Mr. Clarkson said he had a little evidence to add in one case, that of stealing a black portmanteau with its con tents, value 201., the property of Mr. Daniel, of Bath, who was a passenger on the Great Western Railway, on the 29th of July. Collard, the officer employed to superintend the railway police, produced a pair of Wellington boots, which he took from the prisoner's feet at the last examination. Mr. Daniel identified them as part of the contents of his portmanteau. A further portion was found at the prisoner's lodging. The depositions were read and signed, and the prisoner was committed on this charge. The depositions, as originally taken, respecting the stealing of Mr. Prance's writing case, and upon which Garrett is to be indicted jointly with Maynard, the estate agent, were then read over to the witnesses, and Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES committed the prisoner on this charge. Mr. Nash, clerk to Messrs. Swain and Co., the solicitors for the prosecution, in reply to a question, stated that some pro perty supposed to have been stolen had not vet been claimed. Mr. Clarkson applied for a certificate, allowing the expenses already incurred. Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES said it was a case of the utmost possible importance to the public, and therefore he would grant the application. The book-keeper at the Blossoms Inn appeared to answ( r a complaint for not delivering five packages of fruit which arrived at his inn, addressed to Edwin Price, No. 8, Three Dagger-court, Cripplegate, within 24 hours after their arrival. It appeared that the goods were sent by a van in due time, but the driver had directions not to deliver them until he had the innkeeper's demand for carriage, &c., 225, first placed in his hand. The carman obeyed his order. Price claimed that the goods should be first delivered, but exhibited the 225., and offered to stake the money in the , hands of the nearest publican ; but the carman was im moveable, and drove off with the goods. The book-keeper claimed the right to hold goods for the carriage due in respect to them. Mr. Alderman WOOD said it was necessary that he should remove a misunderstanding upon the point. To prevent frauds, and for the protection of the public, the law required that the goods should be delivered within a certain time at all events, and whether the carriage and porterage were paid or refused. But the statute gave ample protection to the innkeeper, for it provided that if a person received the goods and refused to pay the proper charges, a warrant might be forthwith issued by a magistrate, to bring the party before him, and saddle him with costs for loss of time. He there fore fined the defendant 20s. for non-delivery. WORSHIP-STREET. CRUEL CASE OF DESERTION.—James Panther, a middle aged man of respectable appearance, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, charged, at the instance of the parish authorities of St. Luke, with having deserted his wife and five children, who had been for upwards of two years charge able to that parish. Messrs. Blake and Gregg, the overseers, attended in sup port of the complaint, and said that they were instructed to prosecute the prisoner to the utmost extentas a more heart less and aggravated case had never come under their cogni sance. The prisoner's wife, a woman of very lady-like address and deportment, stated that her husband had for a length of time held a commercial appointment in the city, at a salary of 2001. per annum, and that they had lived together in comfort and happiness until about two years and a half ago, when she discovered that he had formed a clandestine intimacy with a woman of abandoned character. About a week after the fact had come to her knowledge, the prisoner suddenly left home under the pretence of being called into the country upon ur gent business, and she had never since seen or heard of him until they met that day in Court. Having no friends to apply to for assistance, herself and children were reduced to the utmost distress; and they were at length reluctantly compelled to throw themselves upon the parish, by which they had been entirely supported for the last two years. Charles Garner, a parish beadle, stated that Since the prisoner had absconded every effort had been made to track his retreat, but without success, until about a week ago, when it was ascertained that he had established himself in business at Exeter, where he was living under the assumed name of Brown, in cohabitation with the woman with whom he had eloped. Witness accordingly proceeded to that place with a warrant for his apprehension, and on his ar rival was directed to a well-stocked mercer's shop, with the name "Brown" inscribed over the front; and after waiting some time the prisoner made his appearance with a quantity of goods he had just purchased. The witness immediately addressed him by his real name, and charged him with abandoning his wife and children in London ; but the pri soner, with affected indignation, declared that he was mis taken, as he had been in business in Exeter for many years, and threatened hies with the severest consequences if he ventured to act upon the false information he had received. Witness, however, was so positive as to his identity, that ho at once took the prisoner into custody, and brought him to town, when he was immediately recognised as the person who had absconded. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that when he left home it was his full intention to return to his wife and family as soon as possible, but having been seized in the country with a rheumatic fever, he was reduced to such a state of destitution, that he had not the means of carrying out his design. He was now both ready and willing to enter into an arrangment to relieve the parish of the burden of sup porting his family, and would defray all the expenses that had been incurred in their behalf. Mr. BROUGHTON said that a more heartless and profligate case of desertion had never come before him, and ho should be wanting in his duty to the public if he did not visit it with adequate punishment. He should, therefore, convict the prisoner of being an idle and disorderly person, and commit bins forthwith to the house of Correction for one month's hard labour, and at the expiration of that period, the parish authorities might still proceed against him for the amount of their claims. THAMES. A POLITICIAN.—Paddy Donnelly, a broad-shouldered, big-featured, son of the sod, who, though 35 years in this country, is quite as vivid in his political feelings, as when recitins imbutus, was charged wills assaulting police-con stable Mumford, 207 C, whilst in the execution of his duty. Mumford stated that about ten o'clock on the previous night, as he was going through Cannon-street, St. George's in the East, he heard cries of " Murder," " Police," which, on coming up, he found proceeded from the prisoner. He said, " I am a constable ; what do ,you want ?" But the prisoner continued his cry, and created such a disturbance that witness was compelled to take him to the station. house. On arriving there, the prisoner, without any provocation, gave him a blow in the mouth, which cut his lip, and made him look down his nose, as if he had stolen a hammer, say ing " Take that, you -- Orangeman." Mr. BALLANTINE—Why, Mumford, I think you're an Englishman ? Mumford—l am, your Worship Mr. BALLANTINE—Then it is not likely that you'd indulge in any of these sjlly disturbances. Donelly—Faith then did he, your Worship. Arrah, was'nt it himself that made me cry murder? There, this is the way of it. Him and me had some little talk about politics, when he took something amiss, and began to pummel me right and left. May be I had no right to cry out murder afther I was kilt. Mr. BALLA:Tr - INF.—If you are well advised, Mr. Donelly, you'll abstain from political discussions. The subject is rather - too exciting for the generality of your countrymen. Donelly—l had the best of the argument, and that's the raison he struck me. Shure any one that was kilt that way would cry out murder Mr. BALLANTINE—I cannot believe your statement. As I observed before, Mumford is not aware of the silly disturb ance to which you allude, and for the assault on the con stable I shall send S.'ou to the House of Correction for four teen days. Paddy was led from the dock with the conscious dignity of a political martyr who is proud to suffer from the avowal of his opinion. A CRIMPING COMMITTEE.— William Fieldgate, A lodging house keeper for sailors, and a dealer in their advance notes, was charged with stealing a suit of clothes, the property of a Jersey lad. The case, in all its phases, showed the impo sitions to which seamen are at present liable from the par ties with whom they have to deal during their short so journs ashore. It appeared from the evidence, that on Saturday three weeks the prosecutor left the Jersey Lass, and went to lodge h a i t s 4 k l i , t 1. ,‘ 0 , i ss t : i e l r him.G rov e- l s i t e r e s e t t ay S ed s. t t-le h ' e°rergtehirnee weeks and two' days, during which time he gave the pri '‘thict-hEtahsetptralsoilniee•rs toner the whole balance of his wages, amounting to 4/. 17s. 6d., and an advance note for 21. 55., which he received on joining another vessel called the Cumberland. When his bag was sent on board the Cumberland, he missed the suit of clothes for which the prisoner had paid 4s. 6d. out of the money ad vanced by the prosecutor. He asked the prisoner for them on Sunday, when the latter said he had pawned them for 145., alleging that the 4/. 17s. 6d. cash, and the advance note for 2!. 55., did not make them square as to the clothes, diet, and lodging. On Thursday evening again the prosecutor de manded his clothes, but the prisoner, who was standing at his door, which was elevated by two steps, gave him a kick in the mouth. He was then given to a constable on the pre sent charge. Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the defence, said the pro secutor had given his client permission to pledge the clothes for a balance due for board and lodging, as well as for cub advanced at different times. This, however, was denied by the prosecutor , who said he never gave bins leave to pawn the articles, nor had he received any cash. Mr. Pelham said if, as he would call evidence to prove, his client had taken the clothes, the case was the same as if a landlord distrained for rent. Mr. BACIANTINE—Not exactly, for in this case your client has broken bulk and pawned the articles. In any case which looks like a felony, where these lodging-house keepers are concerned, I shall certainly send it for trial. A law will soon come into operation which will act as some check upon them, by compelling them to take out licences. . The fact of pawning was fully proved against the prisoner, who was committed for trial ; Mr. Ballantine observing that there was one peculiarity connected with it, namely, that as the prosecuter, being a witness, could not join his ship, the advance note became valueless. The ship's husband applied to know whether lie could not have the prosecuter committed to hard labour for thirty days for not joining the Cumberland, but the idea was scouted. The tailor who sold the clothes (not worth 2/.) for 41. 6e. then presented himself, and asked to have evidence heard for the prisoner; but Mr. Bal lantine told bins a jury must deter mine the merits of the case. bail, himself in 80/. a nd two sureties of .101. each. The prisoner was then removed, with permission to put in ACCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND RAILWAY.-011 Wednesday afternoon, about two o'clock, a lad employed on the works of the Richmond railway, at Wandsworth, had one of his ancles crushed in a frightful manner by one of the wheels of a truck slipping off the rail. He was immediately laid upon some straw, at the bottom of a chaise-cart, and driven to Guy's Hospital. DUEL. AT GOTTINGEN.—A letter from Gottingen, of Oct. 14, states that, in consequence of some political dis cussion, a duel was lately fought with pistols between Baron de Foellick, a lieutenant in a foot regiment quartered there, \ and Dr.Bussenius, one of the ablest writers in Hanover• The latter gentleman was shot through the head, and died almost immediately. His adversary was arrested and cashiered, and is to be tried criminally for his conduct. /7" GR.A,TIS.