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AUSTRALIAN FREFJTOLD GOLD MINE . The Committee of Management beg to inform the Sharehold ers in the Company, that they have this day received advices from their Agents, Messrs. Young and Co., of Sydney, date] Bth Novern ber, 1852, announcing the arrival of their Engineer r, ,, d Chief super intendent, and Staff of ten men, with their Plant &c., per Surrey, and also the arrival of the ship Lady Fitzherbert, in which the Com- Znittee afterwards sent out twenty other Miners and Mechanics. The greatest unanimity prevailed amongst the men, and operations Were about; to be commenced immediately, with every prospect of Sitcom Dated 17th January, 1853. By Order, WM. PULSFORD, Secretary. UPPER INDIA RAILWAY COMPANY.- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Scrip Certificates for the New Shares In the additional Capital of the Company will be given In exchange for Bankers' Receipts, on and after Tuesday next, the 18th day of January, at the offices of the Company, between the hours of Twelve and Three. W. P ANDRE .17 - , Managing Director. Upper India Railway Company. 2, Moorgate-Etreet, 15th - Janury, - 1853, THE CHARTERED AUSTRALIAN LAND, M(NING, IMPORT. ING, AND REFINING COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the holders of BANKERS' RECEIPTS may exchange the same, on and after WEDNESDAY NEXT, for Scrip Certificat es, O napplication at the Offices of this Company (from 1 1 to 4 o'clock), and on signing the preliminary agreement. By Order of the Board, G. FLETCHER, Sec. 6, Broad-street-buildings, City, 14th Jauuary, 1853. THE ALBION GOLD MINING COMPANY. NOTICE' IS NOW GIVEN, That the Shares in this Company a•itl be allotted immediately after TUESDAY NEXT, the 18th inst., and that no application can be reeeivel alto* that day. 'By order of the Board. GEORGE JACKSON, Secretary. 3. Copthall-buildings, Bank. London, 11th January, 1853. PURSUANT to an ORDER of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause JAMES THOMAS DELAHAv against SAMUEL LOVEJOY, the Creditors of BEN. JAM IN WE R:sTER , late of the Turk's Head P u bli c -h ouse, Charlotte street, Portland -place, in the parish of Saint Marylebona, in the county of Middlesex, Licensed Victualler, deceased (who died on or about the sth day of April, 1836), are by their solicitors, on or before the 15th day of February 1853, to come in and prove their debts or claims at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kinderslcy, No. 15, 01d-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Order. Tuesday, the 22d day of February, 1853, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 17th day of January, 1853. JAS. JOHNSTON, 100, Chancery-lane, London, Plaintiff's Solicitor. NEW ELEMENTARY WORK BY MR. R. HILEY. Just published, in 18am.. price 3s. cloth, PRACTICAL ENGLISH COMPOSITION, Part 11., arranged in Eve Books at id divided into appropriate Lessons : Forming an introduction to Argumentative Composition. By RICHARD HILEY, Principal of the Leeds Collegiate and Commercial School ; Author of various Elementary Works on English and Latin Grammar, Com position, Arithmetic, and Geography— a list of which will be found in Messrs. Longman and Co.'s ANNUAL SCHOOL CATALOGUE, Just reprinted for 1853, and to be had gratis of all booksellers, or free by post on application to Messrs. Longman and Co. 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PHRSIJANT to an ORDER of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in the matter of the Estate of ELIZABETH LINDLEY BOWEN, Widow deceased, and in a cause STE WART against CATE, the Creditors of ELIZABETH LINDLEY BOWEN, late of Park-street, Grosvenor-square, in the county of Middlesex, the Widow of John Bowen, a Captain in the Royal Navy (who died many years ago, and which Elizabeth Lied ey Bowen died in or about the month of October, 1852), are by their So licitors on or before the 16th day of February, 1853, to come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice-ChanceLor Sir Richard Torin Rindersley, No. 15, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order. Wednesday, the 23d day of February, 1853, at Twelve o'clock at Boon. at the said Chambers, is appointed fur hearing and adjudicating UPon the claims. Dated this 12th day of January, 1853. _ . JOHN PIKE, 26, Old Burlington-street, Plaintiff's Solicitors. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand. At the Ballot this day, January the 15th, at the Offices, amongst all the uncompleted Shareholders, who Joined on or before the 14th of January. the following Fifty rights of choice of allotments on the s ociety's Estates were erawn : ~,811ask NUMBERS :-1,092. 129, 1,512, 992, 1,703,1 135, 1,136, 1,131, 13 . 1.632, 1,546, 793, 1,446, 1,369, 1,843, 1,F38, 1,376, 544, 1,085, 1,847, 355, 657, 10,24. 1,395, 922, 1,066, 984, 1,438, 97, 98, 99, 1,294, 929, 930, 931, 560, 1,343, 324, 762, 698, 956, 831, 218, 606, 472, 1,472, 1.473, 1,474, 1,349, 1,429. u plle Notice will be gives of the next Ballot. Shares, 501. each ; --411 .n1Y Payments, Bs. Three per Cent. Interest allowed en com lete Shares. or on Payments in advance of a Year's Subscription and above. 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BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D . 37, REDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON; Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the 'University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London. &c The essential object of this treatise i s to degradation point which u' out the fearful excesses, C o nseq uences resulting from irregul ar i t i es . have produced more misery in Youth, hood, and premature decay at all stages of life,than,in Man hood, perhaps, any Other class of disease known to modern pathologists The treatment celebrated adopted is founded on experience gained • in the most schools of medicine both in this country and In continent E urope. The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here conde nse d the personal supervision of Dr. LeMert, himself o ne of the few divided qualified physicians who have devoted their whole Insd alvlded studies to this important branch of medical science. sho4, "arY peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental to the generative system, and the means of immediate relief and Ultimate cure are described in detail. The professional reputation Of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient tinarantee that those who may place themselves under his care Will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and Inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these ease s . Published by the Author, and may be had of J. 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We trust this may not be the last, if be shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his Power to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851 . "We promised in a former number that we should recur to this Work, In order to exhibit Its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by pr eying on the credulity of the public The tribe of ' Q u i e t Symathisers, ' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposedthis book could find its way into the hands of those who saffsr frun th com plaint of which It treats, we are satisfied that ninny hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrivea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and B3Y B . + 010::Ic41 basis. 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OVERCOATS, WRAPPERS and WATERPROOF CLOTHING, specially appropriate for the Wet season, in gentlemanly and com fortable styles in materials and fashions, which arrest the attention of prices surprise every purchaser. the season, and all lasses, but the low The c HOSIERY and FUR Department ex hibi ts every novelty of presents inducements in quality and price to be found only at the Establishment of E. MOSES and SON. TO EMIGRANTS. In your intense anxiety for th e golden treasure of Australia, do not forget your OUTFIT I If time is a cons i deration, you need Only call at the OUTFITTING ESTABLISII3IENT of E. MOSES and SON. All the Goods and Clothing you require are arranged in a separate Department. and Ladles and Gentlemen, Mechanics, "Gold Diggers" or Farmers, are furnished with th e b est OUTFITS at the lowest prices. Ship-sailing information, and full Lists of Outfits, may be had on application or post-free to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. 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WANTED, a TRAVELLER, to represent an old-established House in the Varnish and Colour Trade.— Address (stating particulars) A. 8.. 1 4, King-street, Greenwich. T HE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, No. 72, Lombard-street, and 24, Connaught-terraeo. TRUSTEES. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Richard Malin., Esq., Q.C., M.P IJ. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. James Fuller Maddox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. The POLICIES are INDESPUTALLE, in terms of the Deed of Settlement of the Comptuy. duly reglstt•red, and are thus rend,red CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, and NEGOTIABLE DOCU MENTS of SECURITY. This Company has introduced, as more peculiarly applicable to the Middle and Industrious Classes, a plan of SELF-PROTEtITING INSURANCE, whereby in one Policy for one rite of Prem urn are combined an insurance of a Sum payable either at death or on attaining a specified age, and a pension or annuity after that age ; and giving the lull benefit of all Premiums that have been paid, altidni;li the payments should at any time be discontinued. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. THE HOOD MEMORIAL. CLOSE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB SCRIBERS to the Fund for Erecting a Monument above the Grave of THOMAS HOOD in Keusal-green Cemetery, held Dec. 2d. at. the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscription List be CLOSED on the Ist of February, 1853, and Miss ELIZA COOK, Ma. MURDO YOUNG, and Ma. JOHN WATKINS, were appointed Trustees to the Fund. The amounts subscribed are deposited at interest in the London and Commercial Bank. 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Culverwell, M.D., 10, Argyll-place, Regent -street, who may be consulted daily from Ten till Five, and Seven till Nine. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. — Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock as an engine, which had conveyed the mail train to Peterbo rough on the previous night, was returning to the north, its course was suddenly arrested near Essendine station, about twelve miles north of Peterborough, by the bed of the rails sinking to a considerable depth, carrying along with it, and almost burying the engine. The engine driver and stoker were both projected a considerable dis tance from the latter, but it is said neither of them was seriously hurt. The morning goods train from London arrived at the spot shortly after the accident, and as both lines of rails were rendered quite impassable, it was also brought to a standstill. The parliamentary train from London came up next ; but, information having in the meantime been given to the various sta tions on the line, an engine and set of carriages were in readiness, on the north side of the place where the rails had given way, to convey the passengers forward. ID transferring thou, however, by means of an omnibus from one train to the other, the vehicle stuck fast in the middle of some water, with which, in consequence of the late heavy rains, the road was flooded. It was with the utmost difficulty the omnibus was extricated, and this was not effected before the [inside passengers were drenched to their knees, and greatly terrified by their unpleasant position. Up to last night the line was not clear, and all the trains between London and York yes terday had to be worked by the loop. They were all late, and the luggage train from London already men tioned did not arrive at its destination at all. The ac cident is attributed to the late continuous fall of rain, which has loosened the embankment. The railway au thorities regard it as a most fortunate circumstance that the slip did not occur during the progress of a passenger train, as the consequences must have been most serious. MELANCHOLY DISASTER.—SIX MEN DROWNED.—We are sorry to record a melancholy calamity which hap pened last Friday forenoon at sea, about ten miles oppo site the fishing village of Burnmouth, in Ayton parish. Several boaL put out about five in the morning for fishing off the coast, when a tremendous gale began to blow from the south-east about ten a.m., accompanied with a heavy se a . Ab ou t t we l v e o'clock one of the . boats, called the Lively, suddenly shipped a sea, and went wolatth w d thealongaoswgiairheoautet 6o at d with yards h er distantc ew of , but silcm coulden r render nearest er no h assistanc e on account o f the f i erceness o f t h e h urr i cane and the never seen' great swell. The unfortunate crew, in fact, and ffien t l h ty e o a th n e d r w bo it a i t t s t r h e e ach lo e s d s the theirshore lines. Thi s distressing event has made six widows, and ' no fewer than thirty orphans under fourteen years of age. I — GH B T e LVe ck OIf IV E , ar L d l el o a rr . l nv Go.— Last week a private Worcester, was robbedy s o , p 4 l l a7ived at or Newport from soldier of the Ist Royals, " The Friars' Fields." i e n d a ti lot not ' e o a us lo loca l litT, He carried his pocket ; they formed part of 501. bequeathed to loosely in by his deceased father. THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ADJOURNED INQUEST. OXFORD, Jan. 17. The coroner and jury again re-assembled to-day, by adjournment from Wednesday last, and proceeded to conclude their protracted inquiry. Mr. Hester, solici tor, appeared on behalf of the London and North-Wes tern Company ; Mr. Thompson represented Joseph Kinch, the guard of the 5.30 passenger train from Ox ford, to which the catastrophe occurred ; Mr. Mallam attended for Mr. Blott, the Oxford station master ; and Captain Wynne, the Government inspector, also watched the proceedings. Mr. Brunner, the coroner, having called over the names of the jury, the following witnesses were then examined : W. Henry Johnson—l am station master of the North- Western Railway at Bletchley. I was there during Monday, the 3d day of January. The coal train arrived at Bletchley from Rugby at 2.30 p.m. > It was due at 2'5. The delay was accounted for by slow travelling. It started from Bletchley to Oxford at 3.10. It ought to have started at 2.45. It started twenty-five minutes after time. The cause of the delay was that the Liverpool passenger train was late. It started with 3 engines ; and it had 52 coal waggons, a goods waggon, and a break. I am aware of the 18th regulation for station masters, which says that as a general rule no coal train shall have more than 40 waggons. The reason why we had more waggons than 40 on the day in qufirtion;_yras because the night coal train had been discontinued in consequence of the accident at the Wolvercott tunnel, and it was ne• cessary to have more waggons on, or we should have been blocked up at our station. It would have been very unsafe to have divided the load on a single line—it would have created an extra train, and delayed the train starting from Oxford. I had no order to depart from the 18th rule, but we have a discretionary power. The tail lamp should have been lighted at Bletchley, but I cannot tell whether it was lighted. The Midland express train stopped to take up passengers ; but that was no- thing irregular. It is usual for the enginemen to put up their lamps when they are at the station, or as they are leaving it. I had some conversation with Kinch on the day after the accident. I asked him if he had had the doctor. He said that he had not, and I then sent for the doctor. He did not appear to be unconscious of what he was saying. Kinch said he did not know how the driver came to start the train, but supposed that the engineman must have mistaken the ballast train for the coal train. Kinch also said, " I made the same mistake, and was not aware of it until the train had started, and 1 saw the ballast engine." He did not say that he (Kinch) had started the train, but I think he said that the engineman started the train without his orders. By a Juror—The guard starts the train by sounding his whistle. Kinch never gave me to understand that he had started the train. The only persons authorised to start trains at Bletchley are the station master and the foreman porter. Mr. Blott re-called—l consider the precautions taken by means of Cae telegraph quite sufficient to prevent the starting of the 5.30 train before the line was clear. It is not a regular thing for the signal man at the bridge to know that the coal train has left Islip. By a Juror—Have you been on the platform a suffici ent number of times to know whether the practice has been for the train to start while the red signal is up at the bridge ; or is it the custom that the green signal is put up before the train starts ? Mr. Blott—l believe the custom is for the red signal at the bridge to be up, and the moment the driver blows his whistle to show that he is in the act of starting the red signal is lowered if the line is clear as far as the man in charge of the bridge can see. Owing to the position of the engine, it would have been impossible for me to have stopped the train that night, even if I had been on the platform. The only thing I could have done, if I had known that the driver meant to start, would have been to have taken him by the collar and pulled him off the train. Banks Ferrand—l belong to the Society of Friends. I am employed at the book-stall of the North-Western Railway—the Oxford station. I was there on the after noon of the 3d inst. I saw the 5.30 train preparing for starting. I did not hear any directions given by any one to the guard as to starting. I was not near enough. I was at my stall when the 5.30 train started. It was a short train, and the engine chimney was just outside the station. The guard's van must have been about 100 feet or more from where I was. The usual order to start the train is the guard's whistle : but I did not hear that sound before the train started, Immediately before the train started, I heard the whistle of the engine, but it was unusually weak. Several officers of the company were present when the train started. After the train started, Sergeant Gwynne rushed into Mr. Blott's office, and said to that gentleman, "Did you start the train, sir I" I then noticed general anxiety on the part of the officers of the company. I went up with them to the scene of the accident. I found the break screwed down, for I had to undo it before the carriage could be moved nearer the wounded. This being the whole of the evidence tendered, the Coroner, at the request of the jury, despatched the offi cer of the court to the North-Western Railway station, with orders to summon the first engine:driver he could find, as a witness at the inquest. In the interval, John Smith, the foreman of the engine drivers, said he wished to state that the driver is justified in starting before the red light is removed—he is only forbidden to pass the bridge before the signal is changed. Alderman Browning (a director of the Buckingham shire Railway Company) begged to take this public opportunity of acknowledging the great obligations which his company were under to the London and North- Western Company, who had afforded them every pos sible assistance through the means of their servants, and by the electric telegraph ; and he felt the more anxious to state this on account of the mistaken evidence—as he had no doubt it would turn out—which had been given by one of their officers. Mr. Thompson inquired of the Coroner whether he might be allowed to make any observations to the jury on behalf of Kinch, the guard ? The Coroner—No, I cannot allow that. No one is placed upon his trial here. This is merely a court of inquiry. The coroner's messenger then returned to the court, and announced that all the engine drivers belonging to the Oxford station were absent with trains, and could not attend to give evidence. The jury then adjourned for an hour and a quarter. On their re-assembling. William Bestell, engine driver, was examined : I have been in the habit of driving out from the Oxford station. I invariably start from the Oxford station before the red signal at the bridge is lowered ; then I whistle, and if the red signal is not lowered, I do not whistle again, but stop. I have been in the North-Western Company's service for thirteen years. The Coroner at length summed up.—H e said he thought that he might now congratulate them that as far as the taking of evidence was concerned, their labours upon this inquest were closed ; and it now became his duty, if they required it, to read the evidence over to them. But he thought that the jury had, one and all, paid so much attention to the examination of the wit nesses, as to render it unnecessary for him to undertake so voluminous a task. If, however, there was any par ticular part which they wished to have read, he would do it with great pleasure ; but he thought they might at once proceed to dismiss various extraneous sub jects from their minds, as being the best mode of clearing the way to a calm and dispassionate consideration of other questions which called for more serious inves tigation. The jury had been summoned to inquire into the deaths of seven individuals, arid he be lieved they would have no doubt as to the cause of each death having been the collision which took place on the afternoon of Monday, the 3d inst., or that those deaths were all immediate, excepting in the instance of Wilcox, who was carried to the infirmary, where he died in con sequence of the injuries he had received on the evening previous. The question as to the identity of the bodies had also been satisfactorily disposed of, as far as six of the unfortunate deceased were concerned. The identity of the seventh still remained in doubt, and perhaps might remain so for ever. No claim whatever had been made with regard to him, and no intelligence had been received by the company, or by the jury themselves, as to whose body it was. Another point which might also be cleared up at once was, that there could be no doubt of the collision having taken place, nor that it took place be tween a coal train from Islip and a passenger train from Ox ford ; and if he was not wrong in his judgment, he believed they would concur with him that no blame whatever was imputable to anybody connected with the coal-train, which arrived safe at Islip, was telegraphed thence to [PRICE SD. Oxford, and acknowledged there ; then passed on from Islip to to the Oxford-road station, where it was again telegraphed to O x ford, and Oxfo r d h av i ng answere d (From the New York Daily limes.) A great experiment in navigation is now on the eve o f "All right," it then proceeded on until the disaster trial. The caloric ship is undergoing the fina l took place which was the subject of inquiry. Thattrial. P prepara tions for her experimental trip, and will soon be before morning's investigation, by the examination of the sta- the public for praise or censure. Our own port is des tion master at Bletchley, had further shown that there tined to reap the honour or suffer the repoach of its ulti was no unnecessary delay at Bletchley ; and if they re- mate success or failure. In a former article we alluded, h ferred to the time-book which was given to the guard, sintrfice t n i e o r n al JetriTiss, vessel, o s9 t e lr i tri t n t ci e pinvolved h le p s ublic int in erest has been . le e e n ri . and which was now in evidence, they would find that so largely drawn towards the enterprise, that a more the coal-train was to leave Bletchley after the 2.40 complete description of the plan which it is now proposed train from Bletchley. Perhaps, before dismissing that to prove, seems to be not only desirable but necessary. point, ho ought to call their attention to the Wise men have long pondered the idea which Captain fact of three engines having been dispatched with needErics s o o f n n i s e w w i o n r o k t i o n r g s i o i u a t s i i ) s e a u t o i i e n n e t Iy morean d m a hopefully, nfest . tv th The the a coal train much longer than usual, and suggest for advance of time and commercial prosperity. Steam has their consideration whether so stringent a rule as rule 18 gone into disrepute, and proves itself untrustworthy, un ought to have been infringed without written instructions, safe, and expensive. Electricity has been tried, and has not and whether the explanation of Mr. JOhnson, the station- succeeded. Caloric was something never known in its best t master, that it is better for the advantage and safety of s o e f i d is irectin a attention to an old agent of which Capt. Ericsson new aPP lica the general traffic, .while it is all carried over a single Lions may produce the most remarkabl e resu lt s . The , line, that extra engines should be attached, and a greater experiment now making is no ephemeral fancy, but is the number of waggons sent on by one train, than . for the work of a quarter of a century of mature reflection and train to be divided into two, is a satisfactory explana- diligent inquiry. The ingenious projecter, under whose tion, and whether that is a better course than the aolizitcoes theit is ca k rri a e n d d fo i r t wa w rd th hnasotdfeayirtielbuisghbewstlnetneorf separation of an inordinately long train into two. That 7 forecast, judgment, or ability. The public will assuredly was probably a matter which they would discuss when accord to him their most hearty sympathy. they were deliberating on their verdict. The great ques- The Ericsson, taking the name of her inventor, is a tion for them to consider, however, was as to the starting first class vessel of the ordinary steam-ship pattern, of the 5.30 train from Oxford ; and there he thought . though combining th in e is her co e n d st b ruction many valuable improvements. they should begin by inquiring seriously with whom that c li an r t e sTt e l l a l is s. city, among () whom is Mr. 111 ' re.eljloPhann company B. e K i l n t c h r - - starting rested. They had heard from A series of i wit- ing. The builders of her hull were Messrs. Perrine, nesses that the guard was the person to start all the - trains, Patterson, and -Stack;---of Williamsburg. Her engines and that he should do it by his whistle. The book are the workmanship of Messrs. Hogg, and Delamater, of instructions had been put in to show that ; and Capt. loefn:tibisicsitiio feet, registe register of the ship with 26 feet 6 inc is 1,903 tons ; he r es depth in hold, Wynne had very properly drawn attention to the fact and 40 feet breadth of beam : her paddle wheels which that the regulation ,only applied to road-side stations. are similar to those of the Collins steamers, differing only Now, certainly, Oxford could not be called a road-side in being somewhat smaller, are 32 feet in diameter, with. station. But it had been shown all through the inquiry buckets of 10 feet 6 in. le decks are abundantly pro that the custom had been for the guard to start the train vided with life-boats, among which is one of Francis's by his whistle; and although some of the witnesses — celebrated " life-cars,' , ready to be cast off from the da vits at a moment's notice. Thus far, dry details. We Hayes and Gwynne in particular—said that they had now come to the first causes of difference which are to be known a train to start by the words "All right," or a noticed as marking the contrast between this and the ordi waive of the hand, yet it must be recollected that the nary steamship. The peculiar conformation of the boilers evidence of Capt. Bruyeres and 'Cinch himself was that has served to produce very essential modificatio ns i n th e exterior as well as the interior of the vessel which the whistle only was used. He (the coroner) had ens we shall endeavour to describe as briefly as possible. To deavoured to collect from the evidence that portion commence, then, with the upper deck. In place of the which related to the company's servants, because his doe- solitary smoke-funnel commonly employed in the steam trine as a coroner had always been, that where machines ships to convey away the smoke and gases of the furnace, the caloric ship presents four small tubes , gaily painted were under human agency some human agent ought in white and gold, rising but five feet above the paddle to be resposible for any casualties that might occur. wheels, and only 30 inches each in diameter. Two of They would no doubt agree with him, that some these tubes, or chimneys, are intended for use, and two fault was attributable to Smith, the foreman of the are for ornament and to preserve uniformity. The two engines, for leaving the station at four o'clock on the 3d corner chimneys are attached t o th e c yli n d ers o f th e instant, without leaving some one in his place in charge engine, and the remaining two p ro t ec t th e h o ld f rom th e impure and heated air which would otherwise render a of the trains, and to examine the persons wko had to residence therein quite uncomfortable. By this arrange conduct them before they started from the station. The ment, also, and in consequence of the peculiar construe evidence on this point was confirmed by Mr. Blott, who Lion of the engines, the upper deck of the vessel is en said that he was not aware that there was any one to tirely clear. No impeding machinery serves to hinder free discharge Smith's duty in his absence, and, indeed, that passage fore and aft. The fou r c hi mne y s , eac h rest i ng he did not know that Smith was away at all. Smith also f f ! o pon e a d n t e w at o ly o c f arz e d et a i n r d on pa a in n tr tw o o ct o a f go w n o a o l d pedesta e l, are stated that there was only one line for the traffic between the only noticeable alterations in the exterior of the are e Islip and Oxford, and that fact would leave no doubt on ship, save the unusual clearness and roominess of the on their minds that there was greater risk at that parts. deck, where the passenger may promenade pleasantly cular point than on any other part of the line between when the weather shall permit him. But the chimneys Bletchley and Oxford ; and also that there was a still a ea re eh not a. a r lo o n f e t l l n es thei . r ventilating .ll properties. Besides greater risk between Banbury-road and Oxford, in cense- bottom pair the shi e p, pi rh e r s ou l g s h a whichw aexteeunrrdeing of Bold e t o ll( c i quence of the other line being set apart for the ballast- air is carried down to the fire-room, rendering that engines in the use of the contractors, who were effecting precarious place as cool and comfortable as the upper repairs at the Wolvercott tunnel. Whether the precaution deck, and effectually preventing all danger of con now adopted, of using a pilot-engine, ought not to have fi ,, agr e a l t s iT from over heating. The mouths of these been adopted before, was a matter for their consideration ; the w carefullyroomaroeccupe: s covered hardl e w n i a tl l i .and and whether a further amount of communication with Through the open space thus y afforded, an hatchway. additional the station, by signals or otherwise, ought not to have advantage is given for the working of the force pumps, ' been resorted to while there was this additional risk, or the pipes of which are carried up through its entire whether the company or its servants had used additional length, convenient for the seamen to projecting upon the upper work them to free the ship deck in a mann erver y means of caution or not during that time, were also mat- from water. The deck accordingly supplies three desi ters in the consideration of which the jury must be piled deists, viz. :-1, ventilation of the hold ; 2, safety from in a great measure, by the following facts which appeared fire ; 3, a means of preventing danger from leakage, by in evidence—namely, that from the station to the bridge, readiness of access to the pumps. a distance of 300 yards, there was only one policeman ; The d e es i cent from the upper deck is accomplished, b shed, not that at the bridge the pointsman who was also the sig astsalinrcstaseas,nsbfoirPsw, b hi y ch imPr ampleac i c apacea bl e la i s e a r ff s 0 , r b d u e a l y )y neat the nalman, liad the herculean task of attending to fourteen position of the engine -room. The peculiarities of con sets of points besides the bridge and auxiliary signals. struction of the vessel begin to appear in this region. And although Captain Bruyeres had stated that they The compact form of the engine leaves a free space on were only bridge signals for that part of the line only, it each side of the ship, from f ore t o a ft, b o th a b ove an d was evident, from what had occurred, that th e y were below, thereby affording opportuniti es f or easy transi tion between all parts of the vessel. The shaft which necessary for the security of trains and their passengers turns the paddle-wheels is concealed between decks, and when starting. from Oxford. Then, ag a i n , w h a t otheroffers no such obstruction to th e m id s hi p sec ti on of the communication had they between the engine-house, the vessel as is generally to be found, even in the first-class auxiliary signal, and Wolvercott tunnel ? None. A steara n ers a . d T t ll i e e saloons are located aft of ti t le engine, line of two miles was left without any si gna l, with- theo being obtained by M eans o f substantial wea s a y nd a s e p e a es cLus out any policeman ; and except the platelayers, who stairways. The appointments of the saloons, state rooms, left work at dark, there was not the least protection to and other parts of the vessel intended for the accommo the public. It was for th e m to consider, not only dation of passengers, are very perfect, and expense has whether they would allow that inquest to pass over not been spared t o ren d er th e E r i csson w i t h out a supe with a mere expression of opinion, but wh e th er th ey rior 4hine lead theserespects. eelia rities of the caloric ship, it is well should not sugg es t that the legislature ought t o i n t er - known, consist in the application of heated' air to the fere, by the enactment of pains and penalties, in propulsion of vessels. The radical alteration which is order to prevent the recurrence of such disasters, accomplished by this plan in the construction of the en arising from the want of precaution, and to secure better gine renders a description of the machinery unaccompa niedby diagrams a matter of some difficulty. The engine protection to the public in future. The coroner then went on to consider the important question by whom the consists tion bu but not two la i t r al f eb si cylinders,de Each connectedpr is sn theircomposed e s a e c d - 5.30 passenger train was started, and read over the evi- of two cylinders, of which the the lower one is muc the dente of the various witnesses who deposed as to that larger. The upper is termed "the supply cylinder," the point. He then proceeded to observe that if the jury lower " the working cylinder." The diameter of the should be of opinion that the driver was the person to working or lower cylinder is 168 in c h es ; o f th e upper, blame, the culpability, although h e was d ea d, wou ld still sur ipriilseinheel eitc r h. e. The e ir, o b t o i re n , it :will be d re r marked, is attach to him in law. The explanation whi c h h a d b een i n the ce g nt y re a of g the vess ia sl. " The et magnitude of the lower given them of the cause of the accident by the witnesses cylinder of each pair, it will be noticed, is enormous, whose position best qualified them to judge was this : though, from the compact form of the remaining por- The coal train had not arrived—the passenger train was tions ofthemaj i hinery, the b u lk o f th e ent i re mass i s not waiting to depart. A ballast engin e , w ith a w hi te light, se great The operation asin n commonoe fth e engines s is remarkably n-shiP* which might have been mistaken at a di s t ance f or green, fire is kindled in the furnaces attached to simple.the A lower came in on the same line, and went up to the ticket plat- cylinders, the flames being removed to a distance of form, in the same manner to all appearance as the coal about five feet from the bottom of the cylinder, so train would have done. It went on to the bridge, and then that no actual contact can take place. The appli went back again, as the engine of the coal train might have o cr t o h n e o a f ir haelart ready t t? increase th e t emperature done if it had been unhooked. I n conc l us i on, the learned The air thus e i a e z te rn se a e i k n s ed a in ven th t e which ?r . cylinder. gentleman said that it was th e d u t y o f the jury to divest found in a series of valves p ro p er l y arrangedfolrs ther Peadurily. their minds of all that they h a d h ear d on this question, pose. Th e cy li nders being each provided with a piston excepting what had been sworn to in that room. They fitting closely within it, but so contrived that the pistons must not let even the sad appearance of their fellow- of both b cylinders operate simultaneously, the vacuum r n e c zte the h escape of the air from the working cy creatures, who had been hurried to so unfortunate and er causes t e descent of the lower piston, which, of so untimely an end, have any effect in swaying their de- necessity , draws down with it the piston of the supply cision. Their only duty on behalf of the Crown was to in cylinder,and the work of the engine is fairly commenced express that opinion which the evidence adduced wouldthis wise . :—A series of valves, each of which is two warrant as to the cause of this melancholy and fatal acci- feet • nd in diameter, is placed in the top of each supply cy dent, and if they considered that one or more of the ser- lier . , and these valves instantly open at the descent of vants of the company had been guilty of such negligence the d pistons ; a current of cold air rushes in, which passes as would make him or them liable to punishment , in a it is following the piston of the upper cylinder, until court of justice, they must declare that to be their de- • i a stopped by th e regenerator—a contrivance upon cision, without f avour or a ff ect i on, and without prejudice or malice. With regar d t o t h e starting of the train, if The which depends the success f u l operat i on o f t h e mach i nery. air, cold entered this regenerator, is converted any one of the officers in charge of it had started it with- from a into a warm current by the operation of the out orders, or if any one who ought to give the order simplest philosophical : laws. The construucton of the had done so before proper caution had been taken, his conduct would come within the legal definition of man- invention "regeneratorot this h i s isremataroalesfiemaptlereaonid the engine i The en slaughter. It would be for the jury to say whether they tirely due to the genius of Captain i Ericsson en ''He e fo s und considered any one or more of the confidential servants by a series of careful experiments on the . properties of of tne company had b een gu il ty o f that offence, and the caloric, that the affinity o f me t a l s f or h ea t was marked party or parties might be sent to another tribunal to take by peculiar circumstances • that the absorption and ra their trial. It would be for them to say whether diation of heat from metallic surfaces are nearly instan there had been a general negligence throughout the taneous, and that the expansive force of air when its whole whole of this sad tragedy—whether, in fact, what volume 'is doubled by the application of heat was at should have been one man's business had been re- least equalthe to power of steam. To effect the prac garded as everybody's business—and whether the tical application of this principle was the thing to be precautions provided by the company were inefficient for accomplished. Captain Ericsson found that his expe the safety of the public. It m i g ht, un d er al l the circum- riments warranted a belief in the practicability of a new stances, be their duty to inqui re w h e th er any suggestions improvement in the constructionof marine and loco might not be offered by which the company might adopt motive engines, and he set himself to establish the truth additional means of security for railway passengers ; be- or falsity of the idea which had been so happily su - cause the importance of their d ec i s i on cou ld not b e over- gested to his mind. Hence the construction yli g of t e so rated, inasmuch as it might be made—and he believed it called "Caloric Ship." would be made—the basis for future legislation. But it is time to follow the action of the regenerator, The jury then retired, and after an absence of several and its effect upon the en • gine and the currents of air, hours, returned the following verdict : The apparatus known as the regenerator is little " That the deceased per s on s came t o th e i r death from than a series of fine wire netti gof iron , placed more netting, a collision that occurred b e t ween a passenger-train and side, to the thickness of 12 t2O side by . inches. As th e a i r a coal-train, on the Bucks bra nc h o f th e L ondon and passes through this h g mass of metallic surfaces , penet • North-Western Railway. through the minute cells formed in the in • t . rating erstices of the "That the collision took place in consequence of the wires, it imbibes a greater volume of cal or i c, which in passenger-train being st ar t e d w ith ou t orders from the creas es i n temperature as th station-master ; and they fi n d a v er di c t o f manslaughter to the fire beneath. The the current a e pproache s nearer against Kinch, the guard of the said p assenger -t ra i n, on the air in 'this passage tmaximum of heat absoed by whom the responsibility of starti ng th e t ra i n d evo l ved ; degrees. The minimum hrough th e regenerators 450 and they think the engine -driver worthy of blame for below is 30 degrees,makingnecessary to be applied from proceeding at a much faster rate than is usual at first at which • point the volume of air •11 . degrees, leaving the station. 'A Reich has entered the engine is exactly doubled , an d ." It appears from the evidence that, in consequence sets in motion the by its expansive of repairs now going on at the Wolvercott tunnel, the d • during a revolution of 'the shaft by machinery, pro whole of the traffic between Oxford and Islip • is now car- wheels are revolved, ) which the ddl - pa e ried on upon a single line, and ,the jury beg to express The and the vessel* their opinion that in all such eases a pilot engine should transpiremanner in which these .is put in motion. be employed in order to lessen the probability of a colli- the re.. is quite remarkable. As various performances the air passing through sion.regenerator has performed • "They consider also that a policeman or signalman revolution of the crank— wb. its work in causing the should be stationed between the swing -bridge Wol-andthe working cylinde • which rests upon the piston of cott tunnel, as that part of the line appears to be at apparatus by the upward cylinder—it is made to re-enter the sent quite unprotected, and as it includes a level r pre- piston. As it as pressure of the now ascending "It appears also that part of the line e • * ossing reverse order, • t_ . ses through the regenerator, in exact on which the fore acquired I loses the volume of heat which it had be accident occurred is the Oxford and Rugby and lure • th. , • , a itbecomes cooler as it approaches the n is very difficult to distinguish on which train is travelling, until it is close at lan approaching that the regenerator surfaces—think that some distinctive mark o l l iand ; and they one, or the u rator presents two different directly the respective companies, so that s theiru! be adopted by opposed t e upper, is the cooler, because T o e st c linders engines should f o the current of cool air entering h y below, be immediately recognised, both by day rom above • the other warmed by the furnaces . the jury beg especially to call the . and night. And • , , contrary action attention of the railway preserving a warm exterior ; and by this or directors and the legislature to theparamount way 1 the current of air which is alternately drawn through.o,, i p rtane , " of some means of communication b• I " --- iex petted from 't d oes essential modifications t tween the guard and the engine-drivingein established be- ' temperature. ' A! very un erg smallper tentage of . the . whole sma d is permitted lo The Coroner immediatelyPornof t h ric air thus ei . np 1 me o a mosp e . . iple evolves no use into ordered Kinch to be mc ic pr custody. taken i gto waste. The calor 1 of fuel re uired 1 less expenditure of material. The sup y q ERICSSON'S CALORIC SHIP, 1---- ..- ------ e---7---c.. , •. _ o continue the optration of the engine is vastly. infbrioi that of the steamships. But a few pounds of coal— anthracite only being used in the caloric ship, both on account of itsf greater cleanliness and portability —are needed to commence the operations of the machinery. There are no laciilO•ii or largo furnaces, and the danger from fire can never be so great as to create apprehension, while, as an additional means of security against accident, the entire floor of the engine room is paved with a corru gated cast iron pavement, the plates of which are so care fully joined together that the chance coals can neither pene rate to the wood work nor the water enter.through the in terstices left in the bed-plates, as is frequently the casein steam ships. A number of advantages are thus com bined, not only in the engine preper, but in connection with its various appurtenances. The construction of the furnaces, and the small amount of fuel required to feed them, cause a great saving in the stowage room of the vessel, by which it gains largely in accommodation for merchandise freight. The freightage of the ship will be about 1,400 tons. The freight deck, strongly secured from accidents, is roomy and cleanly. It is perfectly clear from stem to stern, in consequence mainly of the small space occupiel by the machinery of the ship, and affords, beside the freighting space proper, a considerable supply of store rooms and recesses, always useful for the sbownge of precious articles. The coal bold is below the freight deck, and is abundantly spacious to contain the en tire mass of fuel required for the outward and re turn voyage of the ship. It is, in fact, contemplated that the vessel will be able to carry her coals far the longest trips out and back, even should the voyage be extended beyond the customary route of our packet steamers. The coal can not only be procured here with greater readiness, but the stow: age of the amount' required may be accomplished at one time, and a curtain contract may be entered into, by which the owners of the vessel may realise a profitable sort of economy. The advantages are secured, beside, of a saving of room, se curity from spontaneous combustion, and a greater de gree of cleanliness from the use of the anthracite than by the employment of the British bituminous coals. It is not to be lost sight of, in case the success of the caloric principle shall' bo definitively established, that the monopoly of the coal trade, for steamer supply, will eventually remain with the American dealers. The steam-ships can now carry a supply sufficient only for a single trip. To return to port they are compelled to lay• in supplies abroad, and hence one of the ostensible rea sons of the expedition to Japan—the necessity of free coaling stations being felt by the steamers navigating the waters of the China Seas. The suggestion is inci dental, but may possibly prove true in theory, in the event of the final success Of the new principle which is now about to be inaugurated. The experiments already made with the engines of the new ship promise a very auspicious commencement of her career. The operations of the machinery, so far as the different portions have been tried, are perfect'y smooth and accurate, and the revolutions of the wheels of the vessel have taken place with all the regularity and order which was to be expected of them. The prognos tics of success are very promising. The public will await the result with eager interest.. But one opinion can be expressed in regard to the probabilities of the plan. The necessity of a new motive power is every day more pressing. Advantages must be gained by the • application of the leading principles of nature to new uses, and the inventor who shall momplish this feat will entitle himself to the lasting grati tude of the commercial and travelling world. It is to be hoped, in view of the labour and ingenious re sources which have been expended upon a project that ~ seems so feasible as this, that the honour of the new motor may be finally awarded to the studies of Captain Ericsson. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.--As M. Cartier, managing di rector of the coal-pits of Chalonnes-eur-Loire, was step: ping over a rope lying on the ground at the bottom of the well, by which the men ascended to the surface, the basket was suddenly let down, and the rope which was attached to it of course rose, and catching M. Cartier before he had time to withdraw, drew him up in the air at least 40 feet. He was so much injured by the fall that he died the next day. THE CONVICT KIRWAN.—The Cork Reporter, of Sa turday, has the following strange statement from Spike Island, where Kirwan is now confined, awaiting the order for his transmission to a penal colony :—" We have heard that indulgences and privileges of a very extensive nature are extended to this unfortunate man in the con- vict depot at Spike. If report speaks correctly, the con vict's cell is truly a comfortable apartment, notwith standing its being a place of condign punishment. It has been stated to us Kirwan is allowed to enjoy all the com forts and luxuries he can procure with money, and that he passes the greater portion of the day in making sketches of the beautiful scenery by which his prison is surrounded, and is permitted thus to turn his profe sional abilities to account. The same journal states that two convicts, named Leary and King, effected their escape from Camden-fort on Saturday morning. PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS AT ASHFORD, KENT.— At Ashford Junction, as many of our readers know, the South-Eastern Railway Company have their locomotive workshops and depot, and here, as at other locomotive . stations, the town will necessarily extend. There are already many evidences of movement ; houses are in demand, and are being built in several directions. In connection with this movement, we would direct atten tion to the Henwood estate, a compact tract of land about 46 acres in extent, belonging .to Sir E. Chol mondely Dering, Bart., one -of the members for the county, which commands singularly fine prospects, and has been laid out for building by Mr. Godwin, architect. The houses are all to be detached or semi-detached, with the exception of two blocks on the high road, with an opening between them to the church. Each hou3e will have about a quarter of an acre of ground, and is so placed as to command a prospect ; and there is provi sion made for a collegiate school, and for some smaller houses in a convenient position. The market at Ashfoi'd is the best in the county ; capital brick earth and a goou v stone for walls are to be found on the estate. It is pro posed, in the first instance, to take very small ground rents, and it seems to offer a singularly good opening for energy and enterprise.—The Buildep. AN INTERESTING CHARACTER.—A man of the name of James Farrell, alias William Johnson, alias Curley Jim, with sundry other aliases, useful to him at differ ent times, has managed to make himself exceedingly no torious in the north ; indeed, so attractive has he be come of late months, that several public servants were anxious to cultivate a closer acquaintance with him, and would gladly have offered him board and lodging at the public expense. A full-length portrait of the man has been given also in one of the popular prints of the day, viz., in the Police Gazette- The fellow was concerned in no less than from six to ten burglaries in the neighbour hood of Kendal, and the gang he was connected with have most, if not all of them, already crossed the seas. This fellow, however, overcome by the attentions he was receiving, modestly retired from the scenes of his ex ploits, and took up his abode in this town about five months ago. Here he has been engaged in very sus picious transactions, and this week notice reached the police station that such a man was " wanted" at Ken dal. In two hours he was lodged in gaol, and shortly after was on his way to the north.—Leeds Mercury. A POLITICAL VETERAN. A letter from Rennes affr nounces that Count Corbiere, former 'Minister of their' Majesties Louis XVIII. and Charles X., and an ancient deputy and Poer of France, died in that city on Tuesday last, in the 86th year of his age. He died in the full s e a n c j ra oy m m e e n n ts t ooffaltlhheischfuacruchltiwthesi,after sentiments edifying Christian piety. Count Corbiere retired from public life in the year 1830, and terminated his long and received the most the nt h in a- i v e i n n t g s honourable career, faithful to the last to his political opinions, respected by all parties. LORD PANMURE.—It would appear from the following statement made by Lord Panmure, in his speech at the he contemplates retiring, for some time at least, from meeting of the Edinburgh Bible Society last week, that public life :—" I will not further detain you," said his Lordship, "on the present occasion. A change has come over me, and I shall not for the rest of ray life, probably, be so much in the habit of meeting in public with my fellow countrymen as I have been ; but I can say this, that, whenever my voi c e i s requ i red to main tain the iberties of my countrymen—either their secular liberties, when threatened by those who would invade them, or their Protestant liberties, when threatened by it shal l be raisedg glorious in u s i defence o neto those who would touch one in c h or one i ota of our Pro testant bulwarks--my voice sh a ll b e at the command of those th os o ew er h , thowiis at leasthearshto of Protestantism and the P ro t estant Bible • and f I add n will it be th e most i which I can address myself." DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S GRANDSON.—Mr. Walter Scott Lockhart Scott, of Abbotsford, the only son of Mr. Lockhart, and grandson of -S . Waiter Scott, died, unmarried, on the 10th instant,-Sir of 27. When Sir Walter died he left two a s t o t ns e early y age n. grand son to perpetuate the lines e of his house a n a a nd it is difficult to conceive g that even a chance thought could have crossed his mind that all three should die childless and abroad in the short space of twenty years. The only grandchild of the great novelist now alive is Mr. Lockhart's only surviving child, Mrs. Hope. It was but a month ago that we were called on to chronicle the death, at 37, of the closest link in blood to Scott's great contemporary—Byron : and here are we now recording the death, at 27, of the closest link in blood to By ss ro great contemporary—Sir Walter Scott. It s eems -shall be it were ordained that the children: of the brau c i n the sole creations of great authors destined to a Athenceum. ; M on trose 18 111 n A CLEVER DOG.—An individual in possession which is ar possession of a member of the canine Ee tiful. oawbnnecri, parently far more sagacious than ting a friend, by habit of visi frequently it seems, has been in the t prettyso 16 miles distant in the coun isits have not been However, the 3, 0- evidently a railway recently. desired. Bei upon others frequent as his dogship scorning to depend the railway animal, and le . w ent off the other day to the for his own pleasure, the took his accustomed . seat station, deliberately till the train arrived at railway ag waited patiently in a carri his master's friend's house, and then the station nearer de for his country residence, where he leaped off and to in. the astonishment of his host ; but if got safe, muchd e from the pendulosity of his tail, greatly' one might ju North B _Daily Mail. s atisfaction. — to his own Efomor AND MISTLETOE.—Tho Belly and mistletoe, it i s well known are used to decdrate houses at Christmas, but very few people are aware of the origin of the cus tom. The holly was dedicated to Saturn ; and, as the fetes of that deity were celebrated in December, and the Romans were accustomed to decorate their houses with holly, the early Christians decorated their houses in the same manner, while they were celebrating their festival at Christmas, in order that they might escape observation. the Scandinavians, mistletoe was d e di cate d to F r i ga , th e Venus of Scandinavians, and, as she was the goddess of love, was formerly a custom to kiss under the mistletoe. GR AVESEND STAR PACKETS, )I*o ether Packets call at the Grays, (ireenhithe, and Purfieet Pie)s, The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting) ----- "ICON TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. one.