The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

TtSTIMONIAL TO MR. GPORGE to the whole country.—(ilenr.) I give the Govern ment no credit then for the Bill—the credit is due to those who have agitated the public mind with re gard to it, and the Government have done nothing but yield to the public clamour at last ; but even that they have done ungraciously, and they have besides clogged the Bill with those objectionable and uncoil .s!itutional clauses of which we have heard so much just complaint. Therefore, I can give them no credit at all, though I rejoice that the measure which we pressed upon them so far as regards the suppression of intramural interments has been carried.—(Hear.) But, gentlemen, whatever be the merits or defects of the Bill, whatever be the faults or errors of the Government, I think there can be but one opinion with regard to the merit of that distinguished and patriotic citizen, Mr. Walker.— (Loud cheers) He brought forward this question when there was no man to back him, when he had everybody to oppose him, and he kept it constantly before the public, notwithstanding the frowns and sneers of those in power; supported and sus tained during the struggle by that honest enthusiasm which belongs to him, he has persevered, till at last he has found the whole public rally round him, and thus chow how impossible it was for those who were inclined to oppose the movement to do so any longer. I admire the enthusiasm of the man. It may be said that Mr. Walker is an enthusiast.—(Hear, hear.) I know he is an enthusiast, but without enthusiasm no good or great achievement can be performed. Ile may be an enthusiast, but his enthusiasm is tempered by judgment and directed by practical gocd sense.— (Hear, hear.) I only wish that some of those who opposed him, and who pretended to adopt his views, had been tinctured with some of those noble feelings which belong to him, and with less of regard tor their own interests or that of the party who supports them in power.—(Hear, hear.) I rejoice to think that the merits of Mr. Walker are se well known, as are also his perseverance, his talents, bis disinterest edness, and the sums of money which he has spent in this cause—(Hear, hear)—be cause I am sorry to know, and yet I am glad to know, that he has made great sacrifices in this cause. I am sorry he should be put to any loss, but I may congratulate him that he is, in some measure, compensated for that loss by having earned the admiration of his fellow-citizens.—(Cheers.) Far better that men should suffer pecuniary loss than that they should lose the respect and admiration of their fellow-citizens, which are of far more value to right-thinking men than any sum that can be named. I think you will agree with me, that it is right, fit ting, and proper, that if the Government have not been so impressed as they ought to have been with the merits of Mr. lirallier, if they have been disposed to overlook and have him on one side, arid to reward those who did not deserve it half so well as himself, we, at least, should do what we can to testify the feelings with which we regard him. The best reward of any man who acts with a view to the public good is the public expression of the re spect and attachment of his fellow-citizens. I trust you will concur in some arrangement by which we may testify to Mr. 'Walker our respect and admira tion for him.—(Cheers) I won't presume to enter into details, or point out how that is best to be done ; but probably some means may be adopted which may place on record our feelings and opinions with regard to that eminent and distinguished individual, and I imagine that nothing would be more acceptable to him than something which would be lasting—(Hear, hear)—and which he would be able to transmit to his family, and which they and his descendants would always look upon with a just and honest pride. Mr. THOMPSON, M.P., then read the following letters which had been addressed to him by Mr. James Thompson, the editor of the Leicester Chro nicle, and Mr. James Wyatt, of the Bedford Times:— " Chronicle Office, Leicester, July 9, 1850. " Sir,—l regret that I shall be unable to attend the meeting to be held to-morrow, far the purpose of origi ALFRED WALKER. , Yesterday aftemoon a publie w i r u t e s e t.a ti , n i g ls helds e v l r . , , s ,irnonia n 11 1-. t te con touerns Hetel, Palace-s nrd, suer the propriety of presenting a suitable . t t e .,, s e t of the Q:orge Alfred Walker, Esq., in recogni is 3ervicel rendered by that gentleman in thecause cf !acitary reform, in connexion with the abolition of assembled l''tratnur alinterinent e . Among those who to ' sh °'iv their admiration of the energetican d sue t-F.4BQ labours of Mr. Walker we observed, Lord ..., uudley St uar t , Ai p ., , i ch.. B . B. Cabbeil, I ‘ l •En Al n ' C harle s M.P., Lushngt . M.P , Mr. John Williams, w *A6.-I:::.,Geeo_rge I Thon n sp ' son ! 'M.P., Dr. Reid. Mr. . C, Aid,, . Dr. Johnson, Sir R. Brown, Mr. Wilson, Sir ,' is, Mr. H. R. Abraham, Dr. Evans, Dr. Ben- Tti ett pr ' Drury, D Parker, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. j e ,_ ., ... r. Godwin, E,OA., Rms.., Mr. J. A . s 'e !a". Felice, G. , ' 411 tn Mr. Shand, Dr. James Copland, F.R.S. tak e l4 erd Dudley Stuart was unanimously elected to the chair. Alr, G - iced permission of his o rdship L . coaGL TuotersoN asked to state the circumstances under which the meeting had been convened. Many gentlemen re s sidi ng in London, being sensible of the services re.n -'4 to the cause of sanitary reform, in connexic i n . /vi lh the s i., abolition of the practice of intramural s . epu as tare, " t Y Mr. George Alfred Walker, and watching as t t r il „ j ,c ave done with interest the progress of the h s f;n, th-Pelitsn Interments Bill in Parliament, and . having j o n'e conviction that but for his long and continued "Its th rough consecutive years the public attention i l l a ' o 4 eld kver have been aroused in a sufficient degree b. n, ;. r aw at last the notice of the Legislature to the e s o u _ " t e n felt that Mr. Walker was entitled to some h o lt l°4 of those exertions, and that his friends, who re kne g w '4! disietere t d an d u nostentatious his labours were , 01011, .s . C should'' (° originate some suitable testimonial wh i c h On comparing o . be offered to his acceptance. Pi4i4a Ai%number f gentlemen we resolved to meet few chin talk the matter over. and the genYleargeenin my chambers in Waterloo-place, who were there assembled agreed to tresefili°wig resolution, which was moved by Sir R. 6 ; in, 13 at., and seconded by D. Drury . :— ai tt That it is the opinion of the now pre gentlemdminnsurs of G s ,; ‘ ,.that the laborious and disinterest i e gaosec Alf,ed Walker, Esq , during last fifteen tf v ! ° i mpres s the public mind with, the hr abolition of intramural it.tryn i o l n a b o o f u r a s 11. 11 i h ha v,° recently re,ulted in the introduct 1 --'o I . 1. obj ect ' ar.tsment fur the Of t b - call for som e general and emphatic recognition ti clr call - dSuccess, and that steps thereibre . b r e . tiltl la afforda.° 44 of ..o th e friends . et :ilitokP a Ylog him a suitable tribute of respect and toio ' 2 ' T hat with the view of giving effect to the fore it'to 48°11 "ion, the gentlemen present form thems , lles 4 , c„i,e'aclittee to carry out the object propose d . to 4 4 411 '4 Mr. Thompson be requested act as ,ra,t'Y ecretary. con s ' ',hat a meetin r c f the friends of Mr. Walk ,d er , be ti s e Q 'i,cli at Ilerbert'. Betel, Palace %) a'd, on 11 s_ . ee c s- . Sti,.',l„t,4 1 0th, at two o'clock, and that Lord D 4 18 lbe respectfully recnketed to preside." Was 4 1 ° 1 rchhip consented to that re quest, saying he dered - n q e :nversant with the valuable services ren- W ks ebb, I\.lr. Walker to the puhlic, and therefore I Preid:_'' instantly to announce his Lordship as the eeeivu:lB' °Meer at this meeting.— (Cheers.) I have the e n. e ,`, 4, , my Lord, a number of letters in reply to `c di l n - n? l av, which was addressed by the comm d a t t h e e e kyle.'" gentlemen, both in the metroolis an c ' t t%V -e" ' li nd I will take the liberty of reading one tl et4 of them as indicative of the feeling which g.f The rBt'.° entertain of the merits of Mr. Walker. , W I . lite i t s fr °°l a gentleman residing at Horton, A r. gnes ne ' Sir , .. 0 s ays _ in,' n -- I regret execelingly that I am unavoidably 413 te, t e" l from attending the meeting. I regret th_is o thz 114 in°ecause I have sincerely and efficiently co man t4,riteitLtly w Yettr i ; t his great reformation, and have durin [ltched the movement, and anxiously m aot Pin to ; each succeeding step of its slow but triumph so ae bly - : 8 , Ain naost earnest wishes are, eaintt,'ati gratuitously rendered by Mr. Walker that servic o es his 41 54 13 ' 1 ", shall be suitably acknowledged, .in t words bob st '' if not • deeds. Mr. Walker's services have ~ -. of ~ L . .• is rit 'lon, th 4 'gad to challenge the most grateful recog re. !alai ) , e °_,P, such services could not be purchased or Q e 'hat should The Interments Bill is not the measure 1, 444 thon("4,lcl save resulted from Mr. Walker's labours, ',.coandia grea nu her of his coadjutors, to my at evn'ge, object most in stiongle to rainy of its details, tail 81,"rY person who views the matter rightly, may, .1181,"°41d, whilst honouring the man, who has, at:pa t % "11411,04 M tintch personal sacrifice, demonstrated. from lhe tn a', moral and physical mischiefs resulting cril d e a Z' e ° against which he, Mr. Walker, single-hande d l te lk st le , has done successful Lattle—every person, Vcror,p'fsaculd disconnect the man who has proved the ]fir en' from those who have furnished the remedy. ' fr om ..uoto 1) .rho P s ola then read other letters cf apology Ini r. 1 , ilts .to iles Evans, of Rumsey House, near Caine, ' 4 - ,1' h r ' Ileiary Bennett, of Cambridge square ; of th Chapel Crisp, of Norwood ; the Rev. Dr. Knapp, en, e ‘4hai se t Is , tole,ne'oe c eoyal ; the proprietors of the Leicester I s 4 e ,! B ed t l lej a r tid other gentlemen, all of whom ex -I,yresettti anxiety to co-operate . with the meeting Li kl, ng MI% Walker with a suitable testimonial. lllot this (continued the Hon. Gentleman) to state i is 4 g, if • Illecting is called for the purpose of confir.m skte it shall 0 , Da seern toyou fit, the resolutions which t s ' at ch - r sl ' el bY the gentlemen assembled at my o'4l such "d if they shoul.l be confirmed, then to In c4 ver 4 t - Committee out of this meeting, with t the o h, to add th their number, as shall carry out one al°re remark w hich we have in view. I have only tetn n‘ e mark to make, and that is, that I hope no ,Yalitc,,,a° here, or elsewhere, will ' attribute to Mr. a',Nin o ' a ny of the defects in the present Bill for the ny p e a °f intramural interments.—(Hear, hear.) ri.4 l l , e,r's°„4 who has taken the trouble to read Mr. se. the s Est pile), entitled " Practical Suggestions thatch Le 'n l llp teei n;v:tbliment of National . Cemeteries, IN those which are considered, and I ttok,• getersit • i 'ons ...y witn great justice, the most oh °f Parts of the Bill, ti f the si.eewrinaended by Mr. formed no portion of the . Walker for the adoption torst‘eizlature.-- (Cheers.) ay:l llitt to . ed. ti:111'1•x! STuAitx—Ar. Thompson having ex 444ndYou the object for which this meeting has tto, ii i it Will he unnecessary for me to !CI sn,,'"ng on that subject. At the same time I 14 sati;f l " 3 to address to you a few observations, 11 .3'41 h aetis)n of my own feelings, in order to assure no t. i,'‘v. desirous I am that the object which m . y late ,nr'end has shadowed out should be carried het s'ecation.(Hear, hear.) I have had the ad- In i a ge and h 4 er b , nonour , of acting in concert with Mr. e ls Peet s ' °t " ill public and private, for some time. My Jeitqd"" alniiration fn. him does not date from g r eat anY. I have seen, with great satisfaction, with 7lNed, au'light, the course which he has pur -00 carried I must say, now that a Bill has ractice-ITied through Parliament to prohibit the ` r opeli s °I burying dead bodies in this me thte4al --ascing as I do, that circumstance e Y th the tv '. Eh Perge e isinterested and untiring exertions '`llit gentle verance of Mr. Walker. I consider that )341man deserves to be looked upon as a public 41leed eeter•--(Cheere.) We have had a 1311 intro itit Ito th es -is . e House of Commons and carried in3ner,tl rarliament with the provisions of which I that i by n ' am th e ~ ° Means sati sfied — (Hear)—a n d I believe tote% "issatisfaction which I have experienced, and ,_ t hat , Ill es have endeavoured to express in regard to alenincasure, is shared by a great number of the (bllangerera of the House of Commons, and by a much : ear Portion of the inhabitants of this metropolis.-- have I,bear.) We think that the Government hi l e d nen' advantage of that feeling which pre 'enh,,,n this metropolis and throughout this land clitsfr Wise and wholesome feeling—which was 4110,9 originated, or organized, if I may be ts pr ned to use the expression, by the repeated st age Mr. of Mr. Walker—ihey have taken ad- 140 tt t :Re of that feeling to introduce, not such a mea they ought to have done, but one givin g , interfering with Pie s of the utmost value to a eonimunity—those tr ni al seln government, and those of freedom of 11 [4:' 4 ,"cl also interfering in some degre e withvshit,nl iiberty.—(Bear.) I lament that the Go ',l°oo-4anet should have acted in the way they have ;Li ra ' :t felt it my duty, however, to ye) e for what ectildre buttonsf the Bill, after having done t. I at it n't,,, ccessfully, to strike out those b por u i s o o n ls 1/4, b r eed I considered moat objectionable, l It sNitie 'vvit h the broad principle involved in i because the ° I thi — 4 of internaents in the very heart and y centre Win 1 riletropolis.—(tlear, hear.) hie a ,,l r ," With me that it was Mr. Walker whoActfor I believe all men 400lisil'Y staggested and brought about the of lir:Pg the odious, the revolting, and immoral n'idstnlng Peopl e in crowded churchyards in practice g alve ‘e ' a Populous city.—(Hear, hear.) That Act,. (1814 to „as I have already mentioned, is not what it 4 41E4 "ave been. I should have liked to have seen f eaatralizre,tbat vvas not founded on the ° l'e entatlel", Which I consider most obnoxious, and principles o itt:llglisbneUlated to subvert the constitutional rights of t a t i j e ter.... e .. o se t h,a" anything else with which I am ac -41... o n i tt 8., Dieer.s) tb. e , is owti ri u I should have had great satis 'porting a Bill which left to the people tt4'4opens Vls, and allowed the different parishes of the N t i t , inr a l hnurnarry out the object of preventing in t , she s a b oard ' '. lais and which placed over the different li tl eth b ,, , eotap osea) of .supervision, which board should s e.th R with as It now is, of men who have done rl sa :c set tbeirreig. aced to this movement, but who have sto,Ureci t o o , l o ces f . r a long time against it, and till for; 'Mea ts ah l - c : i s ) - it by the use of ridicule and ()tiler Win?,, 11 2 arid, 1 ~,w h ° Co WI at the eleventh hour, come lie st l La du e t. ,,, iielgret to say, are to reap the reward lilted of have day °ze ,who have borne the labour and sapet;.°,"ave see n . 4 (ilicar) hear.) I should have it Clan in? n, at th, I ill e f this kind, with a board ef If ti lik e m r. G esicl of which slesuld heve Leet, Ilan at had George e would len to th e whol e metropolis and • Sir Cries. ALDIS, M.D., seconded the resolution. He was happy, he said, to have the opportunity of saying a few words in praise of Mr. Walker. Ile had known him many years, and had met him professionally under many circumstances. He krew that he had been always arduous and indefatigable in his efforts to prevent those evils, which to prevent were far better and easier then to cure. In many cases he had laboured, as he (Sir C. Aldis) knew, to the detriment of his own Luealth. He had met him in many of the • most noxious and unhealthy localities of the town, always labouring in the great cause of sanitary reform in those localities which it was a shame and disgrace to the metropolis not to have removed long before this. But a stir was now making in the matter, which he considered never would have been. done but for the resolution and enthusiasm of Mr. Walker—that. enthusiasm of which the Noble Chairman had so justly said that without it no great object could be got which was worth the keeping. Scarcely anything had been known to be done befor9 Mr. Walker set forward in the great undertaking. rie (Sir C. Aldis) trusted that something would now his done which would prevent Mr. Walker, who, to his knowledge, had spent his money and injured his health in the prosecution of his labours in this eause—he cordially hoped that something would be done to reward him, that some memorial would be presented to him ex pressive of the feelings .af all friends of sanitary re form. Of what kind that should ba would pro bably be settled hereafte.4. He could only express his warm feelings of cordiat co-operation in this object, and knowing the real extent of the labours of Mr. Walker in this matter, he was perfectly ready to do anything to forward the design of the present meeting. The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution,..said that he was glad to tee in the :room so large a number of gentlemen of eminence 13 elonging to that profession to which Mr. Welker belonged—the medical pro fession. He trusted thri.it before the meeting was over they would be favoured with the opinions of the gentlemen of that profession in the room, as what ever fell from them upon that subject would have great weight, and must ha•ve a great effect wherever they were heard.—(Hear,. bear.) The resolution was th en put and carried unani mously. Mr. GEORGE Trromrs•ay, M.P., said that before the second resolution was ;put he might observe that it had naturally occurred Ito the gentlemen who had originated the present me sting to consider the nature of the testimonial that sh; neld be offered to the accept ance of Mr. Walker. In the first instance a public dinner suggested itself, 'but upon consideration and after-thought it appeared hazardous to make that the form in which the respeece and admiration of his friends should be exhibited, to Mr. Walker. If such a meeting should be held it. would be necessary to fix a certain time for it, and sic me early day, in order to secure the attendance of ge ntlemen who would other wise he out of town. To !; , et. up such a meeting, too, would inopcse a considered amount of arduous la bour upon the gentlemen connected with it, and also considerable expense, whi le it was thought that many gentlemen who would coi ne to the dinner would pre f,r their money being rile eat in a different manner. In addition, he believed t bat he knew enough of Mr. Walker to be able to s r . ,7, that that would not be the most acceptable tribu to of respect that could be paid to him. He rather shunned than courted public observation ; and lag had said often that the most difficult task which lei 3 had had to perform had been to acknowledge the (33:pressiun of thanks offered him for any services whiuh: he had rendered to the cause of sanitary reform.. He was assured that if their testimonial should take that shape they would be doing a violence to the known feelings of a number of gentlemen who, thou gh they might give one guinea fur their dinner-tie :ket, might not feel them selves warranted in piering a second guinea for any further object.. if they should agree to open a subscripti.ms list to receive sub scriptions from the friertes and `admirers of Mr. Walker, they would not be: limited to any particular time or day on which to eelose their efforts. They would also afford an op:pi atunity to his friends in the provinces to testify the kr respect, which a public dinner would not give the re, and he might observe here that Mr. Walker was far better known and ap preciated in many of the p to vincial towns than in this great Leviathan city—(Esiev.r, hear)—where a man might labour for many yeemi unknown and unnoticed. They would also secure the services of those who were able to enlighten r.ttd sway public opinion 'in the provinces. He was strse they might reckon on very great support in the provincial towns—(Hear, hear)—and no plan he thought would be advisable which precluded their ass; istance.—(Cheers.) The opinions of the first origins' cars of this meeting pointed them rather to some substr ential piece of plate, which Mr. Walker might leave behind him to his descen dants, as a testimony of the admiration and respect in which he was held by th e warmest friends of sani tary reform in the pres , sat day.—(Cheers.) lie hoped that if this plan were , adopted some future op portunity might be afforded. of gathering together all the friends of Mr. Walker u pon the occasion of pre senting the testimonial to b.im. He had been per mitted to enjoy the friendship of that gentleman for some considerable time, and he bad always placed him first amongst those gentlemen who had devoted themselves to the production, and the work ing out of some great and beneficent object. The Noble Chairman had justly referred to the great sacri fices made by that gentleman in the cause to which he had devoted himself, but it was necessary to understand properly the ch•cumetances in which he had been placed to estirn see fully those sacrifices. They all knew that he had sacrificed fifteen years of labour to this object; and lhe (Mr. G. Thompson) could safely say, that he lead never once visited him in his whole life when he .had not found him en nating—some suitable testimonial to Mr. G. A. Walker, for his labours in the cause of sanitary reform. " Nothing would have given me grew.er pleasure tban to have been present on the occasion, as I cordially con cur in the propriety of the (Aka you are promoting. believing that the present stets of enlightened opinion in this country on the subject of town burials has been mainly crewed by Mr. Walker's long, disinterested, and succestfol labours in the cause of sanitary reform.' " If Mr. Rowland Hill deserved a nation's grzt;tude for his efforts to carry out a system of penny postage — if Mr. Cobdon merited a general testimonial for his ex ertions to promote the entranchiseme3t of commerce from the shackles imposed upon it by vicious legislation —it seems to me Mr. Walker is not less entitled than they to a mark of public favour as signal and as me morable, His exertions have, indeed, been carried on through a longer series of y ears, with an equal, or pro- portionate, sacrifice of time and money, in the face of prejudices the most bitter, sinister, and deep-rooted, and _ . liav":; terminated in results most beneficial to the physi cal and moral welfare of the people. I vcuture to think that - the friends of Mr. Walker will feel themselves bound to assert hip claims to public reward at this juncture more zealously and resolutely than they might have done under ordinary circumstances, since the principal sanitary authorities of the country appear disposed to ignore, or to pass over with an ac knowledgment so slighting, as to be more disparaging than total silence, his demands upon the national Go vernment for a nit et and adequate recognition of his ser• vices. If Mr. Walker's friends and admirers among Members of the Legislature and the representatives of the press, suffer this denial of justice quietly [ls pass over . ✓. . unexpo:_erl, they will he dead to the appeals of their own feelings as gentlemen and Englishmen, and stand abased before their - own consciences. " I have only to add, Sir, that I shall contribute to lie proposed testimonial fund, and be happy to be the recipient of subscriptirns in this town and neighbour hood.—l remain, Sir, yours obediently, " JAMES THOMPSON." " Bedford, July 9, 1850. "Dear Sir,—l have only just received your circular, convening the meeting, at Herbert's Hotel ; and this short notice prevf nts my making any arrangements which would enable me to be with you, and aid you in orighnting a suitable testimonial to Mr. G. A. Walker. I shall be happy, however, to join in any plan you may suggest, having for its purpose the acknowledgment of the indefatigable exertions, the disinterested services tD the public, which Mr. Walker has rendered for many years past. " I will endeavour to attend your next meeting, at.d regret very much that I cannot be with you to-morrow. " I am, deur Sir, very faithfully yours, " JAMES WYATT. " George Thompson, E,:q." Mr. CHARLES LUSHINGTON, M.P., in proposing the first resolution, said his Hon. Friend, the honorary secretary of ti at meeting, had requested him to per form the gratifying duty of proposing the first reso lution to their adoption ; and he (Mr. Lushington) assured them he did so with the greatest gratification and satisfaction, although in the eyes of the public he might not have appeared a very prominent pro rooter of extramural interments. When he said in the eyes of the public, he meant that he had not been enabled to attend many of the numerous public meet ings which had been held on the subject in this metropolis ; an unfortunate concurrence of circum stances had, time after time, and day after day, pre vented him from attending ; but he assured the meeting that his heart and judgment were with this movement, and from the first time he ever had any knowledge of the intentions and designs of Mr. Walker, he cordially concurred, and deeply approved f them.—(Hear, hear.) Indeed, though he (Mr. Lushington) had not appeared at those public meetings above once or twice, ' yet, certainly in his place in Parliament he had sup ported all the unexceptionable parts of the Metropo litan Interments Bill, and he had done his best to ex clude some of the exceptionable parts, some of those which disgraced the - persons who brought them in, and which were intended to mortify a certain portion of the community by raising, perpetuating, and exalt ing the emoluments of another portion.—(Cheers.) But on many essential occasions he (Mr. Lushington) had supported extramural interments. Shortly after Mr. Walker brought forward his proposition for re moving interments from the metropolis, some gentle men assembled together for the purpose of establish ing a suburban cemetery. He (Mr. Lushington) was among those who concurred in the plan ; he was also one of the first who supported it, and from the beginning he had been a director. The site chosen for that cemetery was Kensal-green,. and h at the time when they took it they did so, nnortatwhietr any view to emolument, though it had bee upon the public a remunerative. concern, but entirely propriety of removing of expediency, and of the towns. When theving. the nuisance of burials from was two mirk fi xe d on the site there, Kensal greenand was quite detachsedanfd a half from Oxford-street, whatever ; but in the e om any buildings or dwell ingsyears, to great had been the e our d se of fourteen or fifteen near a burial-ground—(Lau h rire of people to live er)—that a town had sprung around Kensal-gr ee g n church and a school there, an , d, a W nd h they had got a Cemetery Company had been solicited, over more, the again, to subscribe in support over and , over ofthe church and the schools. The very object of the had, therefore, to a certain extent, b _ een company frus trated, and it only showed what peopl e would do for the sake of gain. People had long complained in the metropolis of intramural inter ments, and yet, for the sake of selling a few t om b_ stones, some would forego all their professed princi ples, and join at last in resisting the eery evil which others had leboured for 14 or 15 years to extinguish. —(Hear, hear.) Perhaps the meeting would think those observations were rather beyond the object before them ; and he ought to recall their attention to the recognition of the great end prominent services of Mr. Waikt,r—(Hear, hear) —and be (Mr. Lushing ton) regretted exceedingly that neither those who brought forward th.it Bid, nor the Sanitary Associa titni 11.0 i done ti.at ju•tice t Mr. Wa:ker to which ills meritorious exertions entitled him. It was the business of the meeting to do something to supply that omission, and he trusted, when he read the reso gaged in the prosecution of this great work, and he had often been struck with the liberality with which be had appropriated his oi vu means to the advance- Inuit of the noble end he ;had in view. But these were the least of his sacrifi cec. The time which he had given to this great obj ect would, with his pro fessional talents and abilities, have placed him in very different circumstances, had he chosen to labour for himself rather than for others. There was also one other characteristic of his,. One of the greatest pre requisites for a reformer was, discretion; and, though speaking for himself, he could say that there were re formers who were not gifted in an eniment degree with that quality, yet he co ald say that Mr. Walker had throughout his whole c areer displayed that qua • lity. Though he had had mmy difficulties to contend viith, though his statements. bad been contradicted and submitted to the most searching ordeal, yet his whole conduct in every circui astanee had been found to be marked with the utmost tei nperance and moderation. Lie knew no man who more freely exercised bis ta lents: without money and crithout price to all who came within the reach of his benevolent sympathies. When they took into conside.ration his private virtues, and the many claims which 'be had established by his public labours on their gratitude and respect, he felt assured that every gentleman present, would enter most warmly into the object; they had in view. As far as he himself was concerned, he should feel very happy, as a hewer of wood and drawer of water, to manifest his admiration and profound respect for such a reformer as Mr. Walker had been. That gentle man had had to encounter a, stubborn o pp os i t i on ; his motives were questioned, his facts were disputed, he had strong and po wer f u l com binations against him, but, neverth e l ess , f rom morning till night, sustained and supported by a knowledge of the purity of his motives a n d th e importance of the object he had in view, h e con ti nue d to devote his best energies to :the accomplishment of that object - . The gratitude of Government was ex emplified in the case of Mr. Walker; but though those who had borne the burden and heat of the thy might be disregarded in highpla . ces, let them s h ow that the public were not unmindful of those to whom honour was due. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by expressing a hope that they would give Mr. Walker something more durable and lasting than the evanescent applause of an after-dinner assembly. Dr. REID then proposed the second resolution, which was that a subscription be opened for the pur pose of presenting a suitable and substantial testi monial to George Alfred Walker, Esq., recording and perpetuating the sense entertained by the sub scribers of his private virtues and his exertions as a public benefactor. He never :attended a meeting with a. more heartfelt conviction of the justice of the cause which had called them together, as he considered it an act of public duty that he should testify to Mr. 'Walker the manner in which they appreciated his ' e rviccs, which, in his opinion, had been of the most meritorious 2DI disinterested kind.— (Hear.) Mr. B. B. CABBELL, M.P., seconded the resolution. This was rot the time to consider or to decide whether Mr. Walker had or had not been neglected by the Government and the Board of Health. All he could say on that subject was, that the general rule at pre snit seemed to be, that every man who did his duty in .1 struightforwarded manner was neglected by the powers that be.— (Hear, hear.) But, although Mr. Walker had been so, he was sure the country would at once recognise his claim, and award him the merit lution, it would be unanimously adopted, and that they should b enabled to proclaim to the people, by the enthusiasm with which it was passed, that the testimonial, whatever it might be, had been justly deserved.—(Cries of " Hear, hear," and loud cheerF.) The Hon. Gentleman then concluded by moving the first resolution, which was— " That this meeting, recognising the long-continued, meritorious, and disiuterested exertions ef George Alfred Walker, Esq., to effect the abolition of the per nicious and demoralising system of intramural burial, consider him eminently entitled to the gratitude and thanks of the friends of sanitary reform and moral im provtment, and would express their readiness and desire to cc-operate in a general effort to render that gentle man some suitable memorial of his useful and successful lahuirs." hi: exertions deserved.— (Hear, hear.) He thought he had performed a really gigantic work in succeed ing in putting a stop to the practice of intramural interments, which was so revolting that it was a matter of astonishment to every individual that the system had been allowed to continue so lung. Mr. J. WiwAsis, M.P., moved that a committee be appointed to take such steps as might be necessary to give effect to the foregoing resolutions. After the elcquent and business-like addresses which bad been delivered he would not trespiss on their time by entering into the merits of Mr. Walker. He was so well known that the less he said in moving the next resolution the better. Nothing should be wanting on his part to convince Mr. Walker that he entirely participated in his laudable exertions, and was ready and vvilliog to serve him in every possible manner. Mr. Gersisr, in seconding the resolution, said he thought they should be able to raise a much better memorial to Mr. Walker than any that could be raised by the G- overnment —(H ear, b ear ) — an d in stead of talking about a purse of gold, he (Mr. Geesin) for himself s h ou ld lik e to see Mr. Walker p l ace d in a freehold house with all the necessary appendages. Toe resolution was thin put and carried unani mously. Mr. Th. B. CABi3ELL, M.P., moved that Mr. George Thompor, M.P., be requested to act as honorary secretary until the committee appointed a paid secre tary, and that they should be empowered to do so. With respect to the subscriptions, he would recom mend that they should be all paid into the hands of a banker.—(llear, hear.) He would therefore move— " That ati account be opened at Coutts's bank under the head of the Walker Testimonial, and that no moneys be withdrawn without the sanction of the managing com mittee and the signature of the treasurer." Mr. GEESIN seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. B. B. CABBELL, M.P., moved that the Chair• map, Lord Dudley Stuart, be requested to accept the office of treasurer. ilr. J. A. SMITH seconded the resolution, which was carried unnniatously. The CHAIRMAN said, out of deference to the wishes of the nneting, he would agree to accept the office of treasurer. Mr. C. LUSIIINGTON then, in a complimentary speech, proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr. B. B. GibbA. Lord DUDLEY STUART acknowledged the compli ment, and expressed himself unaffectedly gratified at having been called upon to preside at a meeting to promote such an excellent and praiseworthy object. The meeting then separated The following subscriptions were announced at the close of the meeting : Lord 1). Stuart B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.P. ... W. A. Mackinnon, E.q., M.P. C. Lushington, Efq., MY. ... Dr. E. Johnson ... Dr. Parker ... Dr. A. L. Fisher ... ••• ... £lO 10 0 • ... 10 10 0 ••• ... 10 10 0 .•• ... 5 5 0 • ... 5 5 0 ••• ... 5 5 0 ••• ... 5 5 0 ••• ••• 3 3 0 ••. 3 3 0 ••• ..• ... 2 2 0 Dr. Churchill Watson Georg° Thompson, M.P. IT. B. Abraham, Esq. Mr. Parker stitution, seconded the motion, which; vas unanimously agreed to. Lord MONTEAGLE then moved the second resolution, to the effect that the experience derived from the work ing of the institution during the period which it had been opened hal confirmed the meeting in the bt-licf that the institution possessed strong claims upon the public for continued and increased support. The Rev. C. BARING seconded the resolution, which was also unanimously egr(ed to. On the motion of Earl NELSON, seconded by the Hon. T. TALBOT, the thanks of the meeting wore unanimously accorded to the Rev. C. Baring, the chaplain, and the various medical officers who had given their assistance and support to the institution. The Bishop of MANCHESTER moved, end W. BOOTH, seconded, a vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman for his able and courteous conduct, and the meeting i broke up. THE NEW MAIL SERVICE TO THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 6.—On the 6th of May we announced that the Lards of the Admiralty had con cluded an arrangement for the re-organization of the contract mail service between England and the West Indies and Central America. We have on previous occasions fully explained and developed the necessities for a speedy alteration i❑ the routes of the royal mail steamers—a change impera tive both in the interests of British commerce and for enabling the English steamers to meet their American rivals in the steam carrying trade of the Great West on more equal terms. Having been favoured with an official table cf the routes now to be pursued, we subjoin for the infor mation of a numerous class of our readers interested in this question, an exact statement cf the arrange ments which have been ordered to be at once put in force by the Lords of the Admiralty. It is definitively fixed that the new arrangements (so far as concerns the routes) shall come into opera tion on the 2d cf August. The steamer leaving Southampton on that day will, therefore, proceed di rect to St. Thomas and the Isthmus of Panama, in stead of taking the course to Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico, as heretofore. We must, however, premise that the arrangements for traversing these revised routes must merely he considered as preliminary to the more rapid system of steam communication which will be consummated when the new and powerful steam-chips about to be constructed have been placed upon the main line be tween Southampton and Chagres. The immediate change of routes thus comtemplated, and which are to be performed by the existing steamers, it will be seen, will have the effect of greatly improving the communications to and from the many important parts of the world comprised in this scheme ; but it will not be till steamers of much greater power and speed have been completed, and have actually performed the through voyages, that the great and ultimate acceleration of communication can be experienced. Some little modifications in the originally pro posed scheme and of minor points of detail, with re ference to stepping places, have been sanctioned by their Lordships. In affording accommodation, we believe, the utmost attention has ben paid to the in terests of the various colonies and ports, according to their position and relative political and mercantile importance. From the 2:1 of August next there will be a semi- Duckworth Nelson, Eq. Dr. J. C. Atkinson ..: ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 ... 2 2 0 -1 1 0 ••• 1 1 0 ••• 1 1 0 ••• 1 1 0 ••• 1 1 0 ... 1 1 0 John Windu, Esq. Sir C. Aldis J. A. Smith, Eq., surgeon R. Johnson, Esq. Dillon, Ecq. Samuel Ward, Esq., F.R.C.S. W. Geesin, Esq. ESTABLISHME'NT FOR GENTLE WOMEN DURING ILLNESS. A most respectable meeting of the subscribers to this very interesting association was yesterday held at the Queen's College, Harley-street, for the purpose of hav ing submitted to it a report of the progress hitherto made by the managers of the association. The Earl of Carlisle presided on the occasion. The nor. W. SPEING RICE, the hon. secretary, read the report of the managers, from which it appeared that the liberal asshtance which Lad been afforded to the un- dertaking had hem such as to induce the committee to Like premises suitable, upon a small scale, for the purpose of the institution, for a period of three and a half years, et No. 8, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square. The total amount of subscriptions already received exceeded 2,0001, the balance in the hands of the bankers amounting to 4031. The number of patients admitted since the opening of the institution had been thirteen, of whom six were at present inmates of the establishment, Tho services of a most efficient medical staff had been obtained, the physi- cians being Dr. Watson, Dr. Ferguson, Dr. H. B. Jones, and Dr. Weber; surgeons B. Travers, Esq, C. Hawkins, Esq., and W. Bowman, Del.; Mr. Hawksley, of Mar garet-street, having been appointed the general practi tioner. The Rev. C. Baring, of All Sahli, had also consented to act as honorary chaplain to the institution. The success cf the institution had been fully equal to the most sanguine expectations of its fiunders, and the committee stated.that their further inquiries had confirmed them in the belief that the institution would be the means of affording relief hitherto unattainable in many most distressing cases, the helplessness and increasing number of which was attributable not to the fault or improvi dente, but rather to the circumstances and sex of the sufferers; and they most earnestly entreated the gene rous sympathy and additional cooperation ne less from the powerful and affluent than from the middle classes throughout the count-y. The report having been read, The Noble CHAIRMAN rose and said—l believe I take the chair upon this occasion by right, inasmuch as I have the high honour of being the president of this so ciety; and I can assure you, with perfect truth, that I lo de upon the post which you hare been pleased to as sign me as one of great honour—and for this reason, he - ause I am willing to believe that the committee which made that selection have been pleased to attri bute to me sentiments congenial with their own.—(Hear, hear.) There ere no topics which appear more obvious, I had almost said more common-place, than those con nected with the precarious and transitory nature of human existence, and it seems to me that, in the circum stances which are immediately around us, there are events which enforce those lessons and warnings in connexion with those topics with peculiar force and solemnity. Fur upon whom have we not seen the sudden stroke descend? Within the short space of a fortnight from this hour we have seen it successively fall upon: that form of manli ness and comeliness—upon one in the brilliant enjoy ment of all that high station can impart to its possessor— upon ono full of high capabilities and patriotic aspira tions, so long conspicuous in the public arena, the object of a nation's homage and a nation's sorrow; and even now it has fallen upon that open-hearted and gentle Prince who has so often appealed on behalf of charities like this.—(fleae.) These reiterated blows suggest to us the thought, and even the very words, of that truth breathine and immortal star ze— " The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth 'ere gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of g l or y l ead b ut to the grave. " u t a s rh t yo o do t moment df h e o tr s h e ai recently the cev h eeo a n p v dt e l uc; 1, ne t hen o ac u s :o u c h puttahtondadd f l otu to shudder st t amongu h p e o ena you e fs who eh t ao o t topics. within olt your own homes — who may t till b e a bl e to s h are i n great metropolis—who are still in the health, v i gour, and glow of your bodily fame—or,what is bett er st ill , i n the enjoyment of the affections and gladness which cluster roand the domestic hearth ; and I put it to you, and what I want you to put to your own minds, is, whether you can more decently or more appropriately show your sense of the benefits and blessings which you still enjoy, and your recognition of the hand from which they flow, than by cora , rting and relieving your more ex posed and unfriended sisters in the dark and untrod paths of our common life.--(Hear, hear.) Now, what is the institution with which we are now curacerned? It is termed an " Establishment for Gentlewomen during ill ness." I can easily imagine that, at the first hearing of that title, it may be thought that there is something in it which sounds a little like fastidiousness and finicking. I do cot, however, think that your benevolent Efforts are open to any rush assertion as that. I think you have estimated most correctly that a previous ac tpiaintance with brighter hopes and softer hours, with sympathies and friends who have vanished and gone, only tends to make privation more bitter, pain more irritating, isolation more depressing, and despondency more benumbing, than they would have been without such antecedents. I remember that it is very truly and touchingly said, by perhaps the most pathetic of our tragic writers, when he wishes to add the last aggrava tion to the despair of the character which he has pro duced upon the scene— " There's not a wretch that lives on common charity, But's happier far than I." And he gives you the reason:— "For I have known the luscious sweets of plenty, Every night have slept with soft content about my head, And never woke but to a joyous morning." That report, however, which has been read, with the simple statement of the eases of distress that have been alleviated, is, however, far more persuasive and concen trating than even the tuneful moral of Gray or the tender force of Otway. I doubt not but that many which I now see before me have of the gentle forms been in the habit of carrying hope and comfort across the threshhold of the humblest cottage near their country homes, or have even shed their light and radiance in many of the dim alleys of this hugh metropolis. Charity, to use a common illustration of the time, does not by it is not monopolized an y one class of concentrated upon any run upop the narrow but upon the broad gauge; recipients ; neither is it . wounds of the low liestfrom pouring balm into the . r those y, who are one mode of action. If charity does not shrink sons and daughters of have been lived in it ought not to neglect those who P your own, but who are now furthest removed from our own scale in society, so a position next t e or even in , fortune may Of those ar from reduce even yourselves.—(fleet. I composition r both of in a condition to which sudden reverse of forbe congratulating the society upon the stair—that in obtaining the services and experience medi cal. its committee rind cf its capital in th officers for which the richest cap e world is 'ells and of a clergyman who contending without your u -cultivated mind and re finedbrings the resources of a hio l S of his ministerial intellect to the dischargeyee and such assistance, I duti es.f,ei —(Hear.) With such officers * • a confident reliance that you will not suffer this society t that under your c sntinu e d an d to fail or to languish, but leer , asiog encourugemene will be it able to ext en d i ts) status and enlarge its borders.—Olean L of the , e adoption The Bishop of OXFORD move d the report. W. Bovuulr, Esq., surgeon in or dinary t o the in. monthly communication opened with the isthmus of Panama and Spanish Main, instead of monthly as heretofore, and the packets will leave on the 21 and 17th of every month for Chagres, taking their course to St. Thomas, Santa MArtha, Carthagens, Chagres, and Greytown (Mos quito). Homeward the route will be precisely the same, excepting that the call at Santa Martha will be omitted. The time to be occupied on the voyage to Chagres is fixed at 23 days and 23 hours, including all stoppages. Homeward a similar period will be occupied. The time allowed. at Chagres for preparing return mails, transferring and receiving cargo, inclusive of the time necessary for the packet's trip to Grey Town, will be 14 days 8 hours, making the course of post between Southampton and Chagres 621 days. The voyages to Chagres have hitherto ex tended over a space of 35 to 37 days, and the course of post has been about 80 days, so that at least 10 or 12 days will be the saving in time both on the out and home trip, and the course of post will in conse quence be diminished about 20 days. The tables of routes are calculated upon a sup position of an average speed of nine knots for the main line steamers, and a nearly equal rate of steaming for the branch and intercolonial packets. The stoppages are to be curtailed where practicable, in the event of a necessity arising by reason of decreased speed on the voyages, bad weather, or other causes. It remains to be seen whether all the vessels of the Royal Mail Company will be enabled to maintain the proposed average speed required to enable them to fulfil the work set down. The mails for the Gulf of Mexico are to be dis• patched on the 2d of every month from Southampton, and, after arrival at St. Thomas, will be conveyed, vici Jamaica, by a branch steamer, calling at San Juan (Porto Rico), Kingston (Jamaica), Vera Cruz, and Tampico. The same route returning. The time out to Vera Cruz will be 26 days 16 hours home, 26 days 18 hours ; time f o r preparing- replies, eight days 20 hours—making the course of post 624 days. In case of late arrivals outward., or detention at Tampico, the stoppage at Vera Cruz is to be cur tailed, so that the ship may leave precisely at the appointed time. A saving over the old plan of the Mexican mail service is here exhibited of at least ten days both out and home ; and the course of post is diminished about 18 or 20 days. On the 17th of each month the mails for Havannah will be dispatched, and are to be conveyed from St. Thomas' by a packet calling at Porto Rico, Jacmel (Hayti), Jamaica, Havannah, and Honduras. Homeward by the same route. The voyage out to Havannah will occupy 24 days 22 hours ; h ,me 25 days 16 hours ; and, with 11 days allowed for the return correspondence, during which the packet will proceed to and return from Hon duras, the course of post will be 621 days. In the Havannah route no great saving appears at present to be effected over the old plan. Mails made up on the 2d and 17th of each month for Jamaica will be delivered at that colony respec tively in 20 days. This is a considerable improve ment on the old scheme, which never used to supply Jamaica with its correspondence under 28 to 30 days. The mails fox' St. Thomas, Tortola, St. Kitt,'s, Montserrat, Nevi, Antigua, Guadalope, Dominique, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Demerara, Berbice, French and Dutch Guiana, St. Vincent, Grenada, Curagoa, Trinidad, and Tobago, will be made up and dispatched on the 2,1 and 17th of every month, and their conveyance from St. Thomas' will be accomplished by intercolonial packets especially appointed for that service. The time occupied in reaching Demerara (the extreme point of the route) will be 21 days 21 hours, homeward in 22/ days, a little over three days being allowed for replies, thus making the course of post 47/ days. Trinidad will be reached in 21 days 17 hours, while the homeward trip will occupy 221 days, three days being allowed for replies, thus making the course of post also 47/ days. The saving to the whole of these colonies will be about a weisk each way, as well as shortening the communication with Europe a whole packet. The intermediate colonies between St. Thomas and Guiana will, of course, receive and transmit their mails in proportionately quicker time according to their respective geographical positions, and will have a greater period allowed for their return correspondence, while the course of post will remain the same ; thus Barbadoes will be reached in 20 days, St. Kitt's in 17i, Antigua in 181, and so on. For Nassau (Bahamas) a mail is to be made up on the 17th of each month ; the time occupied via St. Thomas being 24 days, and the course of post 62/ days. _ _ It will be observed by the foregoing that to Vera Cruz, Tampico, Havannab, Honduras, Hayti, and Nassau there will be only one mail each month, while to the whole of the remaining ports, including ChPgrer, Grey Town, Carthagena, and Santa Martha, formerly touched but once a month, a semi-monthly mail will be maintained. The homeward steamers will be due at Southamp ton at midnight on the 4th and 19th of every month. The packets arriving on the 4th and 19th will bring mails from Chegres, Grey Town, Carthagena, Santa Martha, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Demerara, and all the Windward and Leeward Islands, while the mails from Vera Cruz and T a mpico will only be received by the packets of the 4th ; and the mails from Hayti, Honduras, Nassau, and Havannah, will reach Eng. land by the packets of the 19th only. It is provided that in the event of either of the sup.. plementary or intercolonial steamers bringing mails from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah, Demerara, &c., not reaching St. Thomas at the estimated time, the homeward Atlantic steamer is to await the arrival of the missing vessel seven clea r d ays, if necessary, after the hour appointed for her departure for Southampton. By the tables of routes it would appear that Mobile, Tht , rinwrit, S'. Jago de Cuba, La Guayra, Pivrto Cabello, Madeira and Fay al, seven ports hitherto touched by the royal mail steamers, have been excluded as places of call under the new ar rangements. There can be no doubt that the advantages thus contemplated o f a qu i ckened communication to and from the West India and Spanish American ports will prove of vast benefit to the mttrcan tile community, not only of this country, but of Europe generally. At the expiration of a year, however, a further improvement will be effected, by 11 - mus of which the voyages to St. Thomas, now to occupy 16 days 18 hours, will be performed in 12 days, and the Isthmus of Panama will be brought within 18 days of Southampton, in and of 24 under the contemplated, and 35 days LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIisiG, JULY 11, 1850. ' under the old arrangement!. Jamaica will then be reached in 16 or 17 days, Vera Cruz in 20 days, and all the ports embraced in the scheme will proportion ately be brought nearer to Europe. The Pacific mails for the ports of New Grenade, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, are, we believe, to be made up in London and dispatched by the steamer of the 17th of each month. The Valparaiso mails will be landed at that port in about fifty-eight days, instead of sixty-six days, as at present, and the nrails from the Pacific will be due at Southampton by the packet of the 19th of each month. From seven to eight days are at present al lowed for crossing the Isthmus, but eventually a much shorter time will suffice when the Panama Railway has been got into operation, and ultimately, when the larger Atlantic steamers are placed on the station, the voyage from Southampton t o V a l para i so w ill be re duced to under forty-eight days. We regret very much to observe, that to correspond with the bi monthly mail to be de'ivered at and brought from the Is' hmus of Panama, no arrangements have yet been made for en additional communication with the South Pacific ports, for which only a monthly mail is to be made up. Unless a more frequent communication be speedily opened by the British steamers between Valparaiso and Panama a line of American packets will be established, which will absorb a large amount of the traffic and mail service. As many representa • tions on this subject have been made by the mer chants connected with the trade of the west coast of South America, we trust that no very long time will elapse ere a fortnightly mail to and from the Chilian and Peruvian ports will be provided. A semi-monthly communicaticn with California will now be opened, and mails, passengers, and mer chandise can henceforth be transmitted by the West India steamers on the 21 and 17th of every month. For San Francisco letters can be sent in about 55 days via Panama, and a like period will be occupied on the return voyage. _ _ Passengers for California will have the option of proceeding by either the Panama or Nicaragua route, as the packets will regularly ply to Chagres as well as to Grey Town, the ci• devant San Juan Nicaragua. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 10.—The Vengeance, 84, Cap tain Sir Henry Vaekwood, was paid off alongside the dockyard to-day. The Niger steam-sloop (screw-propelled) is ordered to be commissioned at this port by Commander Heath. The Fairy royal yacht, Master-Commander Weleb, will go out of harbour to-morrow to try her engines prior to Leing reported ready for the reception of her Ma jesty. The Elfin went out to-day for a similar purpose. Wells' patent screamer fog signal and ventilator was tried in the " present use " storehouse in the dockyard to-day by Mr. Fincham, Master-Shipwright, and Mr. Murray, the Superintendent-Engineer, and found to answer all the purposes of an alarm in positions of danger tfloat. The contrivance is as simple as can well bo imagined, and seems to possess far greater power than the railway steam-whistle. OLe of them is ordered by the Lords cf the Admiralty to be fitted to the steam vessel Flamer, about to be commissioned at this port. The Maidstone Indiaman sailed to-day, calling at the Cape of Good Hope. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JULY 1 0.—Commander Leopold G. Heath (1847), to command the Niger, 8, steam-sloop of 400-horse power, commissioned this day at Portsmouth for service on the Coast of Africa. Lieutenant Frede r i c k J. P rot h eroo (1849), to the Niger. Master George H. Forster (1849), to the Niger. Paymaster and Purser Watson W. Parminter (1848), to the Niger. Clerk Alexander Jefferys (1845), to the Niger. Master's-Assistant T. G. Chown, to the Niger. Gunner J. Attwood, to the Niger. Boatswain John Patterson, to the Niger. Carpenter James Davidson, to the Niger. EXIMINATION FOR THE MERCHANT SERVICE. A. list of the Masters and Mates in the Merchant Ser vice who have voluntarily passed an examination and ob tained certificates of quilification for the class against etch assigned, under the regulation issued by the Board of Trade since the 31st of May last:— S UN, MALTA. MALTA, JULY 2.—There is no news worth com municating. The Antelope has gone to Constanti nople to relieve the Tartarus, or the Porcupine, and the Arde n t, w ith th e crew o f ? the Medusa, is to pro ceed during the week to Athens. We have just received a letter from Candia, giving an account of the visit of his Majesty the Sultan, Abdul-Medjid, to that place, where he arrived on the 3d instant, and on leaving proceeded to Rhodes, where his Highness Abbas Paella went to meet him, and made him a magnificent present,—no less than that of the Shark ie steam-frigate, which our readers may remember put into Malta en route from England (where she had been fitted with steam-engines) to Alexandria. The Sharkie was rendered as ac ceptable as sbe could be, by being fully manned, provisioned, and furnished. She was also loaded with cotton and coffee. B:sides the ship the Pacha made the Sultan a handsome present in money amounting to 50,0001. Report describes the vessel as being most elegantly fitted up—the chairs, for instance, in the chief cabin are of ebony, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, each one costing the maker two years' labour. Great preparations had been made for some days previous at Candia, in anticipation of the Sultan's arrival. The town was cleaned, the houses white washed, and the doors hung round with evergreens. A grand illumination took place at night, and a fine display of fireworks. Among other great wants at Candia there seems . . to have been no landing-place, at least none conveni ent for so distinguished a personage as the Sultan, and her Majesty's ship Volage being fortunately there, Captain Graves volunteered to make a pier, which was effected in three days and a half, under the super intendence of the first lieutenant, by the crew of the Vulage. Its length was 300 feet. The very rough weather caused the Sultan to pitch tents, and he amused himself by walking and racing with his son, a fine boy of nine years of age. His Majesty received the various consuls in audience, as well as Captain Graves, to whom he made a pre. sent of a magnificent snuff-box, set with his cipher in brilliants of considerable value. His Highness Abbas Pacha had returned to Alex andria, where he held a levee, and the Sultan with his fl?et was entering the Gulf of Smyrna, as the Penin sular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan was leaving that port for Malta. Captain Brooks saw five sail of-the-line, and burned every blue light he had in honour of the visit. Immense preparations had been made to give the Sultan a cordial welcome. All business was suspended in the preparations, and even the Custom-house was to be closed during the period of the imperial visit, which it was expected would extend to a week or 10 drys' duration. Letters subsequently received announce the disap pointment felt at Smyrna at the very hurried visit of the Sultan. He arrived on the 22d in that city, paid a visit to the paper manufactory, where he stayed half an hour. At noon he paid a visit to the pretty ♦illage of Boutnabat, and stayed 10 minutes, and then returned to the steamer, where he gave an audi ence to the foreign Consuls and Turkish officials. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 10. STOCK ExonANGE.—The market was firm to-day, but the only alterations in price we have to notice are—Bristol and Exeter, 64 Ditto, New, 12 dis.—Great Western, Quarters, 14 3 —Ditto, New 17/. Shares, 7 dis.—Midland Stock, 6 per cent. (Birmingham awl Gloucester), 123—Taff Vale Stock, per cent., I:Y 4 p. LIVERPOOL, JULY 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was better to-clay at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lan cashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 914 dis.—Ditto 32i. Shares, 9 , 4 dis.—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 13-16 p. —Midland, 31 1 / 2 Ditto, Halves, 24 7-16 dis.— South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Stock (No. 3), 14%. MANCHESTER, JULY 10. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market was dull to-day, the amount of business being small, and chiefly confined to local lines, but prices were firm. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business in this share market was very flat to-day. The only transactions reported were— North Staffordshire, 11 dis.—South Staffordshire, 4 1 ,4 dis. YORK, JULY 9. Swim EXCLIANGE.—The transacti ons t o -d ay were as follow :—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 6 per cent, 5 , 4 dis —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 4 3 / 4 — York and North Midland, 15/. 3s. 9d. THE COMET.—For some few evenings past the cornet discovered by Dr. Petersen, at Altona, on the Ist of May, has been visible to the naked eve in the constellation Bootes. With an ordinary night-glass the tail may be traced to a distance of about two degrees from the head, which is bright, and, without the telescope, resembles a star of the fifth magnitude. On the sth July it will be situate about five degrees west and a little north of the star Gamma Bootis. On the 6th it will be two degrees west of 16 Bootis; on the 7th a little above a line joining the star Rho in the Belt, with the well-known star Cor Caroli, and about one third of the distance between those stars from Rho. Next evening a line from Rho Bootis to 41 Coma Berenicis will pass close to the comet, which will be nearer to the former star. On the 9th it will be two degrees east and a little north of the star numbered 9 in Bootes, and in a line joining it with Rho, of the same constellation; on the 11th, about one degree north of 10 Bootis, below a line from Arcturus to Cor Caroli, five degrees from the former star. Next evening the comet will be on the parallel of Arcturus, near Eta Booth; and on the 13th will be situate between Eta and Upsilon, a little east of a line joining them ; on the 14th it will be nearest to the earth, and in a line with Upsilon Bootis and Tau in Virgo, a degree or more south of the former star. After this time moonlight may prevent the comet being seen with the naked eye, but with the telescope it may be traced a week or ten days longer. It will pass the Equator on the 19th, two degrees east of Zeta Virginia, and will arrive at its least distan c e f rom th e sun a b ou t midnight on July the 23e, in Right Ascension 13h. 27m., and 10 deg. south declination. The stars to which reference is made above are visible without the telescope, and are marked ' upon all globes and charts in general use. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA.—A meeting of several influential Members of both Houses of Parliament took place on Monday to devise the best course of proceeding, in order to induce her Majesty's Government to approximate the Australian colonies by means of steam to Great Britain. Amongst those present were Earl Nelson, Lord Monteagle, Lord Wodehouse, Lord Naas, Ml' Hcn. F. Scott, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, M.P., Sir William " Verner, M.P., Sir R. Go re Booth, M.P., Mr. Adderley, M. P , Mr. Divett, M.P., Mr. Simeon, M.P,- Mr. MacGregor, M.P.., Mr. Scholefield, M.P., M r . S. Dickson, M.P., Mr. C. Fortescue, M.P. Alt er a full discussion of the various fea tures of the question, its present position, and the obstacles opposed to the carrying out of the object, it was unanimously resolved that active steps should be immediately taken to bring the whole subject under the special attention of both Houses of Parliament with a view to its speedy and final settlement. As a preliminary course it arranged, amongst other measures, that an address to her Majesty should be proposed in the House of Commons by Lord Naas, M.P., praying for the immediate establishment of steam commu nication with the Australian colonies. It was also announced that petitions to the Legislature on behalf of the object were in course of signature. The meeting was attended by Mr. De Salis and Mr. Logan on the part of the Association for the Promotion of Steam Communication with Australia. ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.—The Master has expressed an opinion, after hearing the evidence and counsel on both sides, that transferers of shares in this company are not liable, on the ground that by a clause in the deed the last, about 10 o'clock, a girl of the name of Afaria tendin NARROW ESCAPES FROM DROWNING.—On Tosetsredaeyt, parties as between each other are absolved from liability after whose lather resides on the Baddow-road, was the date of the transfer. Some lads [ADYERTISEMENT.]—The most popular Medicine Canal, when, in endeavouring l and fell from the curb-stone into the for the Cure of Indigestion, Stomach and Liver Complaints, a child near the first lock on ttahreeCanftelamnearlarenrdißn ltahcakwrievteerif, she overbt!la h nc a e t d t he a r t se f are Holloway's Pills.—Captain Smith, residing at Poplar, whoprevented had resided the greater part of his life at sea, and a consider- whowftter, which , hand, ti ecl li ii e l r d e from following her nurse. The poor girl had twice able portion of that time in warm climates, suffered dreadfully • from a liver complaint and indigestion, and often to such an on the wharf, to whom much credit is due for his extent that he thought it was impossible for him to recover. porter Promptitude of action, arrived, and with a boat-hook took her h !lave pl a t e li e r; is about alarm, a and, happily , deep risen to the surface, and again sunk, when Lewis Cox, a He followed the advice of medical men both at home and out. She was removed the house of a relative, where she was abroad, but without benefit ; he then commenced with H I loway's Pills, and soon experienced so much relief that he per- succe eded in restoring animation. Another ac c id ent, a tt e nded by Mr. King, surgeon , who, after some time, severed in taking them for a few weeks, when he found his of a similar nature, occurred on Friday morning, i n health perfectly restor,d. —Sold by all druggists, and at Pro- the river Cann, just above the iron bridgf... Mr. Wat fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. son's second child, Emma, four years old, whilst in ST. MO NANCE , J ULY 9. —Th e A n t s l oo p, o f KirkaldY, charge of an elder brother, slipped i n to th e water feom Paten wen, in proceeding to St. Andrew's this day, w h ere it i s ver y deep ; b ut fortunately an intrepid lad, to complete 11 ,, r loading, got in contact with the New named Raven, apprentice to Mr. Sullings, was near, and im. Haven steamer, of Aberdeen, received considerabl e mediately jumping in, succeeded in rescuing the child, thou g h damage, and is making much water; the cargo ( w h eat ) at the imminent risk of his life. The child had sunk one is damaged and must be landed. e, and on being brought a s h ore , was i nsens ibl e, but speedily MILFORD, JULY B.—The Jane, Roberts, from Water- recoverederarict. emulousness, and is now quite wsu.,..z nex ford to Llanelly, has lost anchor, oligns, &o, Prisoner—l'll consider about giving bail. He was then removed from the dock evidently mach disappointed at not being sent for trial. The court was very much crowded, and the result appeared to give general satisfaction to those present during the examination. MASTERS. FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES.—George Willis, Francis Meehan, John Guthrie, Philip Clendon, John Win chester, Charles Thomas Searle, James Keay, James Johnson Walmsley, George Cissock, James Stones Brass, John Kennedy Freyer, Janes Meikle, Nathaniel Stewart, William Clough, Richard Paige, Charles Steward, Henry Ho/black, jun., Alexander Ritchie, John S. Byrne, Andrew Nicoll, James Nash Marshall. SECOND CLASS.—John Arthur Brett, John Alfred Wade (q a'ified for steam only), Edward Christian, William Henry Moore, William Clough, William O'Neil. Henry John Woolcott, David Napier, George Stanes, Frederick John Wilson, Edward Black more, George F.ildo, Robert Cloustow, John Bohnn Martin, William Bacon Ransom, Alexander M'Neil Boyd, James Johnson, John Brown, Peter Crank, John Show, George Jones Bradshaw, William Taylor, William Fredric Rogers, P. ter Campbell, George Bil ton Lee, John Shand, Robert Briggs. THIRD CLAS 4 .—Edward Stamp, Josiah Panning Lom bard, Edmund Winstonley, George Saxon, Thomas Emmett. The certificate granted to Richard Corney on the 23d of April, by the Dverpool Board, has been withdrawn. MATES. FIRST CLASS CERTICATES.—AIexander Wallace Mon teath, James Hill. SECOND CLASS.—Thomas Hybert, Thomas Cobby Good, David Grant, Richard Thomas Edwards (qualified for steam only), Walter Bevan Cooper, Frederick Cook rilorndick, John Marshall Gillies, David Weir, Alfred Final, Samuel Bishop Sheard, William Kirton, Henry Welchman King, John R o b er t S now , William Lawson, Harry Cheesman. THIRD CLASS.—William Henry Kemp, James George Lee SR ere, William Howe. DENIE LE MARCHANT. Board of Trade, Whitehall, July 6, 1850. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) Henry Page, 36, bricklayer, was indicted for felo niously intermarrying with Emma Clarke, otherwise Smith, his wife being then and now alive. Mr. Charnock defended. Mrs. Martha Page, the prisoner's mother, proved his first marriage on the 6th of April, 1834. at St. John's ;he Evangelist, Waterloo-road, to one Ellen Ragan, by whom he bad two children. He lived with hor until about two years ago, when, in consequence of her dread fully dissolute habits, he was compelled to be sepa rated from her, t:nd made her an allowance of 6s. per week. Evidence was then given to prove that on the 10th o f February, 1818, some one of the name of Henry Dick bon was married at All Saints, Poplar, to one Emma Smith, but it could not be proved that the prisoner was the man or that Emma Clarke, who was then in the deck behind the prisoner awaiting her trial for having committed bigamy with him, was the woman referred to in the register. Th 3 woman Clarke was then brought out of the dock into the witness-box, and having been sworn, and cau tioned not to say anything to criminate herself unless sbe pleased, said that she knew the prisoner from his coming to her husband's house, and that her husband always ener uraged their acquaintance. The COMMON-SERGEANT—Did anything ever occur between you and the prisoner at church? You need not answer unless you like. Witness—No ; nothing ever did. The COMMON-SERGEANT said there was an end of the case; there was no evidence to prove the prisoner was the man married at Poplar Church. An acquittal was then taken. Emma Clarke, 30, married, was then indicted for bigamy with Henry Page, alias ackson, her husband being then alive. It eras then proved that she was married in February, 1842, to her husband Clarke, who is now alive, but the same d,ffieulty arose in proving her to be the party mar ried at All Saints, Poplar. The police-officer said he saw the prisoner at her hus band's house on the 17th of June. She was recovering from an illness. She told him that she was married in 1846, at All Saints, Poplar, to the prisoner Page, she in the name of Smith and he Dickson; that the only per sons present were the clerk and the pew-opener as wit nesses to the marriage. Mr. CHARNOCK having briefly addressed the jury, dwelt on the fact that the only evidence against her was the statement made by her when on a bed of sickness and which she now denied on oath. The COMMON-SERGEANT having summed up, The jury acquitted her. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.) James Cole, 24, polisher, was indicted for stealing watch, valued at 221,, from the person of William Perry. Mr. Parry defended. The prosecutor, who is well known to the sporticg world as the Tipton Slasher, the pugilist, said that about half-past four o'clock on Monday morning he was at the bar of the Red Lion, in the Strand, drinking, and several more besides the prisoner were near him. Some ono began to :par at him, when a female pressed herself against him, and almost immediately feeling his watch snatched from his pocket, as he thought by the prisoner, he seized him, and immediately - his watch and chain fell to the ground at his feet. Mr. — GURNEY said it was not sufficiently clear that the prisoner's was the hand that took it, and directed an acquittal. Henry Wright, 20, barman, and Caroline Davis, were indicted for stealing several sums of money from John Plowman, the master of Wright. Mr. Robinson prosecuted. It appeared that the prosecutor keeps the Three Compasses in the Wandsworth-road, and the male pri soner had been a short time in his employment as a barman, during which period great deficiencies had been found in his takings. Having set the police on the watch they found out that the woman, who either was his wife or lived with him, was in the habit of coming and putting down a small coin in payment for something, and received from the prisoner more change than she was entitled to; and in the present instance they took her at the bar of the house, having received 23. Ild. in change for ls. The jury, thinking the woman had acted under the guidance of the male prisoner, acquitted her, and he was found Guilty, and sentenced to twelve months' im prisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday the young man who described himself on a former examination as a determined Chartist, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Salmons, for further examination on the charge of sedition. Mr. Maule, the solicitor for the Home•ofl;ce, attended on the part of the Government for the prosecution, and stated that he appeared by the direction of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to request the Al derman to deal with the case summarily, by binding the prisoner over to keep the peace towards her Majesty and all her subjects. After a recapitulation of the facts already published, The ALDERMAN said, it is my intention to bind you over to keep the peace for twelve months, and to order you to find bail for your good behaviour during that time in two sureties of 1001. each, or one of 2001., and to enter int) your own recognisances of 200 L, more to the same effect.