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Almost immediately after the pri fl°tirtne,r received the money, he absconded , and nothing et her was seen of him until Mr. I' ur by met him the street about a week ago, and ga ve him into may. to e pris ne or, who reserved h's defe nce, was then tetaitted for trial. --ABRo'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) A TTEmrTED EXTOILTION.—Henry Stone, a re rtable-looking l a d w as placed at the bar before • Hardwick, charged with writing a letter for the 1 10 , 1q e of extorting money from John Attwood, Esq., t r „`•) 2 5 Park-lane. the Prosecutor stated that on Monday eveni n g to the recei ve d a l e tt e r by post requiring him to send f address enclosed the sum of Si., and in c a se of piitllng to do so, something of a serious nature teh "'llappen to him. He produced the letter o f the subjoined ii a copy. write these . few . lines to warn you of the o b li get that you are in without knowing it. I am lettheir to keep company with a set of fellows who „"eir living by dishonest ways, and from whom l iap lant to get away ; they intend very shortly to wi l " l 2 , You, but you could prevent it if you knew di • i t is. I will tell you what it is on one eon -°n--that you will give me 51. for telling you. 15,.u1d gladly tell you everything for nothing, 1444t.directly I tell you I must take the first oppor raj i tY to get awa out of London by railway, or it (rit cost me my life; they already suspect me, and it Wri ti t lY„ b 3 7 going into a coffee-house that I find time to one not I should have left them long ago but I nOt the money. If you agree to the conditions, t a n .3 4 , l fle a letter with a 51. note directly you read this, 1 4 I will return you an answer of what the plot is b e 7 how to prevent it, and who the person is that teot it; if you do not agree you must take the con don`-2ces, as I dare not tell you unless I leave Lon letie`ureetly after I have told you. I shall receive a r if you put this direction. " JAMES ELLIS, "To be left at the Post-office, ~ P s 26, Leadenhall-street, City. t o ' . -- -That is not my name, but I shall know what go a t sk for. Y ou nee d not think to see me when I f et the letter, for I shall get some boy to ask " va t 1 , The letter did not bear the name of witness, but rl t s rn , erely addressed 24, Park-lane, Hyde-park. p o j: teti y be had read the letter , he p roceeded to the ~.I c e station, and placed it in the hands of th e in trtor on duty, who directed a constable to go to th e l l ost.office, in Leadenhall-street, and take into pl - o t(4 3' the person who called for the letter. Pre as to the constable going there, witness inclosed a ink Piece of paper in an envelope, and sent it by Police the a dd ress name d i n th e letter. constable 8 D sa id t h a t f rom i n f or mation t e le had recei ve d f rom th e p ros e c utor he proceeded to } it _ Post-office, 25, Leadenhall-street, and placed I ,:ul rt self in a position that commanded a view of every ti mels who entered. After watchine. a considerable t hin he saw the prisoner go into the slop and shortly t o I , r .n with a letter in his hand. Witness then went up l ett l ea and took the letter produced from him. The had r Was identified by the prosecutor as the one he let se nt. se nt. Witness asked the prisoner whether the c k r was f or hi m ? He said, "It was not, and that ilst a n had sent him for it." He then took him into hew 3', and conve yed him to the station-house, where th, as search e d, and several slips of paper, bearing lacidresses of different gentlemen, found upon him. ansvver to the charge, the prisoner denied liri d ln g the letter. He was going over London when a man met him and asked him to go me e post-office in Leadenhall-street for a letter, to k ?„ ss eti to James Ellis. He consented, and on etu t — od g out of the post-office he was taken into , It an tilat he to Mr. IlAnnwicK, the prisoner stated "e had not been in London long, having been re ine With his uncle, who is a farmer near Ashford, la g j e llt, for the last six months. He was now lodg- Vine-court, Tooley-street. Fn; RARDwica directed him to write his name, lag;p the words "Leadenhall-street" and " James Th e . Prisoner then wrote several words both in ink 11;4 1 Pencil, which on being compared with the "riting in the letter bore such a resemblance as te x tl t 'llee Mr. 11.Aabwicx. to remand him till Friday EXPLOSION. 1.) THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) th arr ,."_ie/ Leary, a powerful looking fellow, was sere'' , in conjunction with another man not at pre: in custody, with forcibly violating the person of ,xld,eßet Bennett. , Prosecutrix, who cried bitterly during the re %lt? stated, that yesterday evening, as she was I ng down Whitechapel, she saw the prisoner Le lived next door to her in Blue Anchor-yard, rick C ar e rnary-lane) and another man, come out of the at e L public-house. The prisoner said he would a r h er home, and asked her to have something to th llk ;,_ She took a small glass of gin with him and bo man. As they were passing the prisoner's he suddenly pushed open the door, placed her b"' Over h er mou th to deaden her cries, and car ea her to a room up stairs. He threw her on the fer c Ab and ) despite her struggles and screa ms, held her th e , l , i Y down while the other man vi )lated her. He hl o , 'et the o th er ma n out, struck her several violent ti tcr ," l, which a l mos t rendered her senseless, and himself n o s, hi s purpose. Her loud outcries at opegth attracted attention, and two policemen broke Dthe door and apprehended the prisoner. 24, deposed, that last night a woman Iva e tn him and said she was afraid some fou l p la y g o ing on in Blue Anchor-yard, for there was a et a te screaming horribly. Accompanied by another Ic k , t , e t i r, he went to the spot, and, as the prisoner pro . " l not admit them, he burst open the door. The t il l e -e lltrix was sobbing bitterly, and told the same (1 0 „,.` n P as she did now. Prior to breaking open the ssi,' l ne heard her exclaim " For God in Heaven's eth e ' r i t ine out." From the description given of the Preh - ,„ 111 ,,an he had no doubt he should be able to ap- M,„"" him in a day or two. ter / C . YARDLEY' said, for that purpose he would h ad a h l ici the case till Friday. A most brutal outrage Ne ee n Perpetrated, and he directed the officer on th e a Y to bring the woman who had called him to plet t : d r° secutrix, in order that the case might be coin- } lt CITY REGISTRATION. (THIS DAY.) b r , (Before T. Y. M 4 CIIRISTIE, Esq.) totier revision of the lists of the Livery having been li tb de d Yesterday, the Court proceeded this morning householders' lists, commencing with that of T l gate Wards Within and Without. 14. e effect of the decision come to by Mr. fri v li'ristie with respect to giving costs, in cases of riu tn ° } , l3 us objections, has considerably reduced the It er of objections raised by both parties, and there th ro " ug ol . l h bt that the work of revision will now be g ot rapidly. - I . srr INDIA HOUSE.—(THIS DAN . 7..) t i r , — „' a General Court held this morning, on a divi to-", against the legal right of the money payment iViv,ggernaut it was objected by 38 to 4, the chair• was " aVi ng exPlained that the Government of Benga as legally bound to pay it. (4 ) o ii r sT ?ms.—The melancholy death of Mr. Weston, ai nee the Surveyors-General of Customs, a few days th e .' O 4l consequence of the injuries received on one of 4t the lines of railway, as detailed in our columns re _'o et time, has caused the deepest and most sincere thethroughout the department. As may be supposed, th e removal of a gentleman holding so high a position in 0 ,, I:l.partTent causes several promotions to occur, some e,o_7bich will be in the regular course, and others ac ,. "ung to the merit and capacity of the individuals in rotation. Without at all anticipatin g the arrangements or int en ti ons o f the Board, we may st a t e as probable that the ne w Surveyor-General will be selected f rom one of th e Inspectors-General, which will cause a vacancy for promotion from landing-surveyor, and also the appoint ment of one of the senior and most efficient landing waiters to the post of landing.surveyor. This latter will promote the several classes of landing-waiters, and finally place a landing-waitership at the disposal of the Government. SINGULAR FIRE.--Yesterday morning, between 00 43 and two o'clock, a fire broke out upon some premises s ituated at 39, Ray-street, Clerkenwell, belonging to kr. Isaac Tracy. It appears that during the past few Weeks w or k men had been employed in rebuilding t he h ouse, and a heap of lime had been placed on the ground 'leer the scaffolding. The rain that fell during the night rt. % la L eked the lime which act the scaffold poles in a blaze. 'ue side walls being away, and the floors open, it was at °no period apprehended that a fearful conflagration would have followed. The engines promptly attended, an d there being an abundance of water the fire was speedily extinguished, but not until the scaffolding was considerably burned. Fortunately the building received 45 . 1 ry. - L'EEFILES HUSTINGS.—The contractor who was dow n for so inefficiently doing his work that it fell " c 'wn has been pronounced not guilty. The erection as composed of spruce fir, and wanted a centre beam " post, b u t it was d u ly inspected at the time, and the witnessesdi were contradictory, and hence it i s su pp osed e above result. 0 n Friday night the aurora borealis was p erceived It P ane, from half-past nine to a quarter past twelve. th Frond a feeble light similar to that which precedes a risi ng of the full moon when t h e s ky is obscured by thPc.murs. Its principal light extended from N. t owards - "Lig.W., b u t it was excess i v ely diffused. G „ NEW GOVERNOR- GENERAL OF THE CAPE OF $ HoPE.—The Vernon, East Indiaman, arrived at btthead this afternoon (Tuesday). The stock and even ing of the passengers will be got on board this G ene th_g and to-morrow, and in the afternoon Lieut.- bark:al Sir Harry Smith, his lady, and staff will em v,Thogoing to Spithead in the Myrtle steamer. The n is to sail for the Cape and Madras at daylight 4 1491144 Y mOtning. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(rms DAY.) The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate persons who lost their lives by the recent explosion of one of the boilers of the Cricket, was renewed to day at ten o'clock in the board-room of St. Martin's workhouse, before Mr. Bedford, the coroner. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. James, and Mr. IVlSlntyre attended for the respective parties as at the last meeting. The first witness examined was Mr. Edward Portwine, of 27, Catherine-street, Phnlico, a writer on engineering. I am not a working man. lam not a practical man. I visited the whole of the boats while they were working at a penny. I judged that they were dangerous boats from the high pressure on the boiler. The gauge was from thirty-six to thirty seven, and I thought that pressure to o g reat to be safe for marine boilers of three feet diameter. I con sulted several eminent men on the subject, and they agreed with me. I told the engineer that that pressure was too great to be safe. I did not notice the valves. By Mr. Le Breton—The boat was moored at Lon don-bridge, taking in passengers when I examined the boilers and found the mercury gauge at 36. To the jury—l never knew engines worked at such a pressure-27 is the highest-23 is enough. I am neither a working man nor a practical, but Dr. Lardner is not a practical man. I have had great experience. By Mr. James —Locomotive engines work from 35 to 80. The book you hold in your hand looks like mine-2G lbs pressure is not much for high pressure boilers. I have said in my book that the Cricket was worked with low pressure condensing engines. I say so now—that the boat has been worked at high pressure with low pressure engines. I did not examine the engines or the boilers. I obtained my information from the engineers of the boats. The CORONER interfered. He said he thought that the examination of the witness need not be pro ceeded with. Mr. James said it was material that he should proceed with his cross-examination. Mr. Jones, the foreman, though the evidence good for nothing. Mr. Portwine merely gave the result of inquiries he had made, not the result of his per sonal investigation. The CORONER considered such an observation pre mature. The examination of the witness was not, however, after some discussion, proceeded with. Mr. Thomas Lloyd, of the Admiralty, Somerset house, chief engineer and inspector of the machinery of the navy, was next examined—He said, I have examined the machinery arid boilers of the Cricket by the direction of the Government. I examined the boat the first time the second Monday after the ex plosion, the 6th of September. ( The witness here handed ' in drawings of the vessel as she appeared when he first saw her ; also a plan of the boiler and of the safety valve, with the weight and size, which were received in evidence; also a drawing of the spring balance upon the boiler, which did not burst (Salter's balance) ; also a drawing which he had received from Mr. Joyce, showing the boilers in their orignal state (Mr. Hughes brought specimens of the iron of the boiler, and pieces of good plate). With regard to the engines, Ido not think it necessary to say much about them. The engines were high pressure, on the principle well known as Wooltrs. There are two cylinders to each engine ; one cylinder in which the steam is used at a high pressure, and instead of passing into the open air, as in ordinary high pressure engines, it passes into the second and larger cylinder, from which it passes into the condenser ; it is there condensed in the ordinary way. The object of this arrangement is the saving of steam, and therefore of fuel. So far as I saw, the material and workmanship of the engines were good. As compared with high pressure engines of the ordinary construction, there is nothing objec tionable in them in point of danger. lam about to say that there were attached to the engines two pumps for feeding the boiler ; there was another pump worked by an auxiliary engine, which is commonly called " the donkey," and a fourth pump to be worked by hand, all for feeding the boiler. I see nothing objectionable in them. They appear to perform all that is necessary. With regard to the boilers I may say that there were two, consisting of an external cylinder, five feet in diameter, having spherical end at the back, and the front being composed of a flat plate, to which are affixed a cylinder, composing the furnace, and also small tubes, through which the products of combus tion pass. The internal part of the boiler, consisting of the furnace, fire-box, and the small tubes, were secured to the shell by rivetting round the circum ference of the front plate. The stay was fixed to the end of the boiler, and the other obliquely to the top of the front of the upper part of the shell. There was a steam-door also rivetted to the top of cii.ch boiler, on each of which there were two safety valves, pressed down by levers, one lever having a wssight at its end, and the other a a spring balance—Salter's balance. The thickness of the tube-plates was about three quarters of an inch ; the front plates, at the top and bottom of the boiler % threo eighths of an inch, the shell three-eighths of an inch, the steam door 5-16ths of an inch, the angle iron of the boiler is three inches by a half, all the other angle iron is two and a half by three-eighths. The rivets are three-eighths of an inch thick. The rivets in the boiler were three quarters of an inch. Assuming each boiler to be of the power of 16 horses, the total surface of the boiler is 14 3-lOths per square foot. The area of the fire grate is 55-100ths per foot horse power. There is nothing objectionable in these pro portions of the boiler. The quantity of water in the boiler up to the middle gauge cock is about 3-10ths of a cubic foot, and the steam-room about 1i foot per horse power. I have calculated the pressure upon the safety valves to be, supposing the weight to be at the extremity of the lever, per square inch amounts to 661bs per square inch very nearly. Taking the spring balances as it was when I saw it, the pressure per square inch, when the valve was just about to open, would be, I think, 401bs. per square inch ; but if the valve was wide open this spring balance would pro duce a pressure of about 1701bs. per square inch, supposing the valves to be as wide open as they could be. The wider the valve ope ns the beater is the pressure upon the spring balance. A pressure of 11b. on the valve produces a pressure on the spring ba lance of 21bs. I will now describe the condition of the boiler that was burst. The valves act separately, and I apprehend if all the valves had been in proper operation the steam could not have generated to a dangerous extent.—(Sensation, and slight approba tion.) The power of the lever is as 101bs to 1 nearly. This is not the usual way in which spring balances are used, at least so far as I know. It would not be liable to be easily disorderded. It is wrong in principle ' to place a spring balance at the end of a long lever, because the pressure of the valve is increased very materially. I object altogether to the valves being under the care of an engineer, but it is right to say that the practice is too common. CORONER — This is a valuable opinion, because it may lead to a remedy of the evil. Mr. Lloyd—l think, Sir, it can scarcely be a matter of opinion. If it was intended to work the boiler at 661b5., such a weight as the one I have de scribed ought not to have been put on the lever. I am speaking of the lever with the weight. The spring valves can be regulated to any pressure. The weight being on the lever, would lead the engineer to the inference that he might use it as he thought fit. With regard to the construction of the boiler, I may say that it was dangerous to be used as a high pressure boiler. The whole of the pressure of the steam within the boiler is brought, either directly or indirectly, upon this flat plate in the front. I find, when the pressure is 66, the direct pressure upon this plate is 83 tons.---(Great sensation.) This pressure is withstood by the thickness of the plate, with the addition of the two stays I have mentioned. Ido not believe that 661bs. to the square inch would have hurt the boiler at the time it burst, but when it got older it would have burst. In the first place, you cannot calculate what the res s pressurere upon n ug t h h t e itiolsidbee tends o n tthe produce flat t plate. hree upone 'ec t a i n the right-angles fi T dbir h tio F p u eurgehnt t t ftt plac_rom the surface. If e there is a straih. the plate was perfectly thererigi f u effect than this, but if not, apnei e I enormous r c m o o l u d s be n pressure is plane. b rou ght upon it on its own i o nay illustrate o this by comparing the strain to that n a string, when it is pulled lengthways. Thero musicalis a third action upon it produced by the bending of the plate—the outer circumference remaining plain, the inner part being considerably bulged. I have come to the conclusion, from the best examination that 1 can give to it, that this front plate, with the two very imperfect stays put into the boiler, was not sufficient to bear for a length of time—that is, during the time boilers usually last—a pressure of 601bs. upon the square inch ; it could bear it no doubt at the present time. Supposing the lever valves were tied, and a man could easily stop the others with a small wedge of wood, I have made rough calculations of the effect of keeping all the valves tied fur five minutes—l do not pretend tc accuracy, because you must use assumptions. If the pressure was GO when the valves were tied, at the end of five minutes it would be 90; and in ten minutes 130 to 140; in a quarter of an hour, 180. I cannot conceive four valves sticking at the same time—one would not relieve the boiler sufficiently, looking at the construction of the steam-pipe—that is if three were fast. Two ought to remove the boiler, one cf Salter's and one of the other. The area of the steam-valve is 5 or 8 inches, but the area of the waste steam-pipe is 28 7-10ths only. If the two levers were tied, and the spring valves open, I think a dangerous pressure would be brought on the boiler. After examining the boiler, I tested the goodness of been on board before I visited the boat. She had been the materials by taking pieces which were rent when often dry. When I saw the lever there was no cord it burst. They are 3-Bths of an inch thick. I cut upon it. I think on the day of the explosion there slips of two inches in thickness from them, both must have been a sudden pressure of 1301bs. to 1401b5., with and against the grain, and tore them asunder by and this undue pressure disabled the other boiler. a machine for that purpose at Woolwich. (The wit- This periodical pressure must also have weakened the ness produced the slips.) I had four pieces of similar boilers. thickness cut from a new plate of the same thickness By Mr. M'lntyre—lf one of the lever valves had at Woolwich. The average strength per square inch been free I do not think the explosion could have of the plates was 17 tons, and the strength of the new occurred. I should prefer a convex to a flat front, plates of the same thickness was 21 and 2-3ds of a but I do not object to a flat front if properly se - ton. I tried also some common Lowmoor plates of the cured with stays, but with deficient stays I think same thickness, but of a far superior quality. The them dangerous. Placing the valves in the power of Cricket's plates are lamuniated very much. This an engineer holds out to him a temptation which few occurs in the best boilers. The iron where the boiler men are able to resist, to increase the steam by tying burst is bad ; in fact, the iron is of a kind that ought the valves. not to have been applied to high pressure boilers. By Mr. Le Breton—Supposing the engineer had I also tried some common Staffordshire plate, been in the habit of tying down the valves since as thick as the Cricket's, and it bore 16 tons and two- April, the pressure must, at times, have been greater thirds. The boilers are not properly constructed; than 66—sometimes less. The valves sometimes get the rivets generally did not fill the holes, and they clogged,especially the river boats, from the thick, muddy were generally not sufficiently long to make a good work, but it must have been an extraordinary clogging rivet. The boiler does not seem deteriorated by to stop up all the valves. The valves used in the wear, except at the lower part, a portion of which Cricket were not uncommon. I see no grounds for exploded. Ido not attribute the explosion to the coming to the conclusion that the boiler burst at a wear of the boiler. The whole front of the boiler lower pressure than 130. It is possible that that was blown out. Of course the boiler was weaker boiler may have been more weakened than the other. than when new, but not much. No experiments It is probable that the tying of the valves might not will tell us what pressure the front plate would bear. have been attended with any serious consequences. The iron was not of good quality, considering the To the Jury—The difference of cost between use to which it was applied. Such iron is used in making the two thin plates, which were subject to the navy for parts of boilers not much liable to wear. the greatest pressure, in Lowmoor, and the iron of The pressure when the explosion took place could not which they were made would have been inconsider have been less than 136 to the square inch. It is able—not more than 2/. or 3/. The sudden utterly impossible to calculate it exactly. I have no escape of steam from the condenser would reason to suppose that there was a deficiency of not show that the valves were tied —simply that water. The boiler was a tubular one. The bursting the condensers were too hot, and on such occasions of the tubes from which it derives its supply of water the engine would suddenly stop. The tying of the could not cause anything serious. Tubular boilers valves would tend to cause an escape of the steam by are generally considered safe if they are properly the condensers, but it does not follow that the steam used. Two or three were burst in the explosion. will escape. The great objection I have to the boiler is its construe- (The inquest was not concluded when our report tion without proper staying, and in a far less degree the left.) materials of which it is male. The cause of the explosion was an improper increase of the pressure of the steam. If the steam increased from 60 to 150 in ten minutes, the explosion is easily accounted for. I should say that the boiler had never been subjected to so great a pressure as at the time it burst, because the exploded boiler leaked materially, no doubt from the pressure' it received on the day of the explosion. The boilers were connected at the lower part with the water, and at the top with the steam. The pres sure on the two boilers was the same, and if but one valve was in operation it would act upon both. I may mention with respect to the unexploded boiler, that the front plate was permanently bulged an inch and three-quarters, and when subjected to the water pressure of 136, it was bulged two inches and a six teenth, and began to break at the pressure I have in timated as being on the other boiler, and exactly like it. If all the four valves had been at liberty, it ap pears to me quite impossible that an explosion could take place. 1 think the valves must have been closed either by accident or design, or merely open to a very small extent.—(The witness here handed in a plan of the state of the boiler before and at the time of the explosion, and explained the mode in which it took place.) By Mr. IM. Chambers—The object of the spring valve is not to save steam ; it is intended to act as a weight. I don't disapprove of spring valves. I dis approve of the way in which they were placed in this case. When the valves were not in the care of the engineers, and they got out of order, they could be raised, but not lowered. This is the plan adopted in the navy since steam-vessels were used; it is not so in locomotives. A man cannot, therefore, produce a greater pressure. The :pressure on the unexploded boiler was, I think, 401bs. There was nothing to indicate that the valve was tied. The Salter's balance was broken and carried away. If the Salter's balance in both boilers had been in order at the time, I cannot say whether they would have prevented the explosion. I doubt much whether they would. I have come to this conclusion from the strength of the springs and from the smallness of the pipe ; also from the steam having to pass in two, or three different directions, which impeded, its progress to the funnel. Any one standing near the funnel could hear the steam blowing off at a low pressure. I think there should be two valves on each boiler, as in this case. I certainly should have preferred two weighted valves to the spring valves. The gauge is intended to show the engineer the pressure of steam. I should think it is liable to get out of order ; if either water or air get in it will not act properly. Besides the valves and the gauge, there is nothing to show the engineer the pressure of steam. The experiment I made on the front plate was gradual—the lower plate began to break at 120 lbs. If that pressure had come suddenly in with a jerk or a bump, the force would be materially in creased. There is "impact," the force of which no one can calculate. I do not see how the pressure could be brought • on suddenly to entitle it to the term " impact." There were two stays to the unex ploded boiler which were broken, and either sudden or gradual pressure would break them. The sudden breaking of one of the stays would perhaps cause a bulging in the front, but I cannot calculate the amount of pressure. I will not say that it would be so small as not to create any effect. The stays were not broke, the fastenings gave way. One of the holes in the back stays was torn out by the force of the explosion. I should be very sorry to make any experiment to learn the increase of pressure on a boiler the valves of which were closed at 60, and for ten minutes. I draw my conclusions from the quantity of water, the dimensions of the boiler, the heat, and from the experiments made by other persons, and cal culating the elasticity of the steam, I have arrived at the opinion I have expressed. I have considered that everything except the valves was in order; but Ido not pretend it to be considered as an accurate opinion. I really did not notice that any of the tubes had been plugged. The tubes, if they leaked, would only let out water, and , no escape of steam would take place by them. The boiler is a tolerably good one—that is the main consideration; the state of the tubes is not so material as that. If the pres sure had got to 80 or 90 the spring valves.woald,have been acted upon. They would operate at that pres sure. If they had been open, the escape of the steam would have made a great noise ; but if they did not let the steam off as fast as it was generated the sub sequent explosion would only be prolonged. A stoker, it he were present, would in such a case " draw his fire." He knew no one who thoroughly understood the steam engines. Engineers in the navy were subjected to examinations. A good man was a man who understood his work. You must get the best man you can, and if you cannot get him at low wages, you must give higher. A man who could take an engine to pieces, and who understood its na ture, would of course make a good driver, but if he had not a perfect knowledge he might cause more injury than an imperfectly educated driver. By Mr. James—lf all the valves had been open Ido not think that an explosion would have taken place. My opinion is fortified from what I have heard that something must have been done to the valves. The evidence that no steam was blowing off, also leads me to the opinion that the action of the valves had been interfered with before the explosion. If the fact be established that the valves were tied on the boat leaving the pier, and that it rose to such a height that the gauge became disordered, I should say it would be conclusive as to the cause of the explosion. If all the valves were in operation, 661bs. was the maximum pressure on the boiler, which could be regulated by moving the weight or the lever. In the royal navy there are no levers—the weights being underneath. I have no objection to an en gineer adjusting the pressure, unless he does so with out the cognisance of the parties interested.--(Salter's balance was placed in the hands of witness.) He said this is a better one than the one in the Cricket; it, showed 85, this showed but 45. The engine is better known as Woolff's. It is not used in the navy. I have no objection to high-pressure steam-engines. They always have been used. Salter's balance is used on locomotives. We have no high-pressure engine yet at Woolwich. I prefer low-pressure, but it is necessary to u se hi g h- p ressure. This boiler, for a high-pressure one, did not undergo a severe test. I tried it without the stay. I allowed something for corrosion. The maker should allow something at the commencement. The angle iron of the unexploded boiler was burst. I do not attach the slightest importance to the stays in testing the boiler. I was informed that the boilers had been proved. Mr. Joyce and the proprietors of the boat afforded me every facility in examining the boat. Pressure no greater than one-tenth of the ultimate strength of the boiler should be used. Proving a boiler might injure . it by trying it beyond its strength. I have not tested the boilers of the locomotives on the Great Western. I believe the boilers of the express trains undergo a pressure of 100. The iron of the Cricket bore seventeen tons to the square inch. The Locomotive bore an average of pressure of 21 and two. thirds— the utmost was 22 and two-thirds. If I were com pelled to use square plates I should have them of a thickness to bear the entire pressure of the whole boiler. The tying of the valves would gra dually weaken the boiler, and therefore some allowance must be made in favour of the maker. I made no experiments on the dome. The vulnerable part of the boiler 'gave way. If I were a commercial boiler maker I would not under take to construct a boiler to work with closed safety-valves, neither would I work one. I am going to make a report to the Board of Trade. One stay is at each end of the boiler, and both are inside. If the engineer periodically tied down the valves, the boilers must have stood a pressure which it is impos sible to calculate. The gauge would not, in such a case, tictually show the pressure. Many Parties had SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RICHMOND RACES.—MONDAY. The Dundas Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. One mile and a quarter. (6 Subs.) Major Yarburgh's Sally Maggs, 3 yrs (Oates) 1 Mr. B. Green's Princess Alice, 4 yrs,— ... 2 Mr. S. L. Fox's Psalmsinger, 5 yrs ... ••• • 3 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Shelforth, 4 yrs ... ... 4 6to 4 agst Princess Alice, 2 to I agst Sally Maggs, and 3 to 1 agst Psalmsinger. Won easily by half a length, The Easby Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, &c., with 20 added; the second to save his stake. From the Grey Stone in. (6 Subs., 2of whom paid 5 sovs. each.) Lord Zetland's Queen of the May, 2 yrs (G. Abdale) 1 Mr. B. Green's bc by The Saddler, 2 yrs .„ ~, 2 6t04 on the Saddler colt. Won in a canter. The Lord Lieutenant's Plate of 501., added to a Handi cap of 10 sovs. each. Once round and a distance. (14 Subs.) Mr. T. Dawson's Ulysses, 7st 71b Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 7st 71b Mr. Johnstone's Enchanter, 7st 71b „ Mr. Harland's Glenwhelt, Est 101 b „, Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin, Est 101 b „, 5 6to 4 agst Executor, and 2to 1 agst Ulysses. Won by a length. The Richmond Handicap of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 70 added; the second to save his stake. Two miles. (19 Subs., 9 of whom declared.) Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged, Bst 81b (Templeman) 1 Mr. E. Wright's Sheraton, 4 yrs, ist 21b 2 Mr. Brunton nd Ennui, 4 yrs, 7st „, 3 Lord letland's Coheiress , 6 yr s, 6st 121 b ... 4 6 to 4 on Inheritress, 5 to 2 agst Ennui, and 3 to 1 agst Sheraton. Won easily by two lengths. The Grand Stand Stakes of 25 sous. each, h ft ; f o r t w o yrs old colts. Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 31b. Grey Stone in. (6 Subs.) Mr. Hodgson nd Landrost, alld. 51b (Cartwright) 0 1 Mr. James Cookson's Camphine, allowed 31b ... 0 dr Lord Normandy's Romi, allowed 31b 3 5 to 4 on Camphine. After a splendid race, which ended in a dead heat, Landrost walked over. The Town Plate of 401., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each; the second to save his stake. Heats. Two miles. (5 Subs.) Mr. S. L. Fox's bc by Jereed ... (G. Abdale) 1 1 Mr. Jaques's Nell Cook, 4 yrs ... ..• 2 2 (Cartwright) ... 2 ... 3 Mr. H. - Johnstone's Shelforth, 4 yrs ~. Won easily by two lengths. CHESTER AUTUMN MEETING, 1847. Acceptances for the Chester Handicap. Sharston, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Arthur, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b Master Downes, 5 yrs, 6st 61b—Alliance, 4 yrs, Est 31b —Sagacity, 3 yrs, Est 31b—St. Leon, 3 yrs, 6st 31b— Cawroush, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Romance, 4 yrs, fist—Kismot, 4 yrs, 6st—Fair Star, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Christopher, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Alsatia, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Deloraine, 3 yrs, sst 61b—b fby Don John, out of Prizeflower's dam, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b. EWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING, 1847. TUESDAY. The match between Van Tromp and The Liberator is off by consent, ... dis SATURDAY. Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First, Bst 21b, agst the Duke of Bedford's Bridle, 7st 21b. A.F. 200, h ft. The disputed race for the Nottinghamshire Handicap was decided by the Stewards last week at Doncaster in favour of the second horse. Punch was scratched for the Cesarewitch on Monday afternoon at five o'clock. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. The accustomed annual orations by the senior scholars of this noble establishment were delivered yesterday, St. Matthew's-day, before the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, and other corporation authorities, and a crowded auditory. The first discourse, a Latin oration, on the benefits of the royal hospitals of Ed ward VI., was pronounced by Edward Hayman, second Grecian, about to proceed to Clare-hall, Cambridge. The speech, excellently constructed, as a classical composition, gave a succinct account of Edward's various benevolent institutions, and depicted the immense benefits they have conferred upon so ciety, in relation alike to health of body and to health of mind. The second oration, in English, pronounced by John Daniel Williams, first Grecian and classical medallist, proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, pursued the same theme ; and the talented speaker, in more especial reference to Christ's Hospital, grace fully indicated the various persons who, acquiring eminence in the world, have owed their training to this learned establishment : Camden, Bishop Mid dleton, Coleridge, &c., and adverted to the circum stance, so gratifying t o h osp itallers, that at the p re sent moment two pr o f ess i ona l c hairs at Cambridge are occupied by sons of the school. The Greek oration on the same subject was delivered by Charles Edward Searle, third Grecian, and mathema tical medallist, who is proceeding to Pembroke Col lege as the Times' scholar. Mr. Searle obtained well merited applause for his discourse. The fourth Grecian, William Allan Russell, who is proceeding to Oxford, pronounced a French oration on the same theme, ally composed, and admirably delivered. The other productions were—Latin Alcaics, on Marcus Curtius, by Hermann Charles Heilbronn, ninth Grecian; Greek lambics—Milton's " Invocation to Light," by James Lempriere Hammond, fifth Grecian, and mathematical medallist, 1847 ; English Ode, on the recent Double Discovery of the Planet Neptune, by Adams and Leverrier, by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, seventh Grecian, and classical medallist, 1847 ; Latin Hexameters—" The Country' Clergy man," from Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," by Charles Dacre Craven, sixth Grecian ; Greek eighthS 1 i G c s r — e G i a r n a y ; ' a ‘ i O n d E e t e o g Spring,"ia cs by n Robe rt ü ß r y l a i c n k g , her Brother Polynices," by Thomas llolbrow, eleventh Grecian; and an English Poem o n the Creation, b y George Hector Croad, twelfth Grecian. The tenth Grecian, Lawrence Craven, was absent through illness. The exhibition of great and various ability manifested by these productions must have been most gratifying to the respective friends of the speakers, and to the authorities of the institution. A liberal collection was made for the library purposes of the new collegians, and the proceedings terminated with the formal business of renewing the minor officers for the ensuing year. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FES3IVAL.—TUESDAY This attractive re-union commenced its series of sittings to-day under very favourable auspices. The programme consisted of selections. Overture, Esther, Handel; anthem, " Blessed is He," Boyce; grand Dettingen Te Deum, Handel; anthem, "Here shall soft charity repair;" and grand Coronation Anthem, "I was glad," Attwood. A sermon was also preached by the Rev. Dr. Ellerton, one of the clerical stewards of the festival. The weather, we regret to say, was very unpropitious ; nevertheless, the attendance was quite as numerous as upon any pre vious occasion; and, if we may judge from present ap pearances, the anticipations of the promoters of the festival will be fully realised. The performance of ENah to-morrow will ensure a full and fashionable company, for we hear all the seats reserved for the occasion are already secured, and applications for a further supply are still pouring in from all parts of the country. Every one appears anxious to hear this celebrated production; and the Gloucester Festival will have the credit of pro ducing thus early one of ' the greatest efforts of genius of this or any other age. A concert and ball will take place this evening at the Shire Hall. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR SUEDLAW.— On Friday last, as a number of men were employed in undermining",a large quantity of earth, to effect what is termed a fall, on a very declivitous portion of the ground, Mr. Lewis, one of the sub-contractors, notwithstanding the apparently imminent danger, ventured forward with ' the intention to lend assistance after the rest of the men had withdrawn, when in a moment the enormous mass of earth fell, and literally buried him. Sortly after the unfortunate sufferer was extricated, he was con veyed with all expedition to Nottylees, where he re sided. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but proved of no avail, death terminating his sufferings on Saturday morning. Deceased has left a wife and five Mercury. children to lament his mel ancholy end.—Caledonian JENNY LIND.—The demand for tickets to the Edinburgh forenoon concert of Monday was greater than even for the previous evening's entertainment. Three prices were in many cases paid, and the concert itself went off with excellent effect. THE N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1847. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 18.—The reports that have been received of the arrest of M. Evenepoel are without foundation, and the magistrates are exerting them selves to discover the author of these reports. The innocence of the brother of the victim—even a sus picion of his being an accomplice—are so clearly established, that nothing but the basest malevolence could give rise to such a calumnious report. The police continue their investigation and inquiries among ironmongers, &c., to discover, if possible, whether any instrument resembling those with which the crime was committed were sold by them. Yesterday evening the superintendent of the police, two sub-commissioners, and four agents, examined the sewers, drains, &c., of the house of M. Evenepoel. These examinations have, however, thrown no light on the subject. M. Evenepoel was himself present at the examination. Prince Napoleon Buonaparte, son of Prince de Montfort, and last surviving brother of the Emperor, has been visiting, during the last few days, the diffe rent public establishments, especially the Mendicity establishment of La Cambra and the prisons of the Petits Carmes and the Vilvarde. We learn that the typhus fever is raging at Land eghun, near Ghent. The Burgomaster and his son and Dr. Van Peteghein, have fallen victims to this fearful disease. ST. PETERSBURGII, SEPT. 9.—llis Majesty the Emperor has addressed a mandate to General Wlass hoff, Commander of the Donnau, expressive of his satisfaction of the conduct of the soldiers in aiding the settlements of the Cossacks on the banks of the Suns cha and Laba, and promoting the erection of the works, as well as of the attachment they have evinced to the throne, and to their country. His Majesty says, " Not only have the settlements been effected at the appointed time, and in the most perfect order and regularity, but that of the 306 families who migrated there last year, 282, and, in the present year, of 409, no less than 355 families went cheer fully, and at their own accord, to settle in the Cau casus. _ DANTZIC, SEPT. G.—After continued exertion for eight days the ship Immanuel was refitted at Kaut. The hold of the ship, which is full of heavy ballast and provision, is to be cleared, and then the trying of the ship will be commenced. ELSINORE, SEPT. 11.—On the evening of the sth we had a heavy storm from the N.N.E., accompanied with rain, during the night, the Christina Elizabeth, Captain Wendin, of London, destined for Sundwall, was stranded near Hornbeck. Accounts received this morning state that she is a total wreck. The fine ship Knoben was drawn from her an chorage at Anholt, and obliged to take shelter on the south-side of the island. The steamer Hertha left here yesterday morning to tow the Knoben to its station, which was upset on the 31st instant, in lat. 2 27, long. 64 14, and filled with water. Arrived here yesterday morning, the William Brasin from Memel ; four of the crew, unhappily perished, but Captain Dann, the helmsman, and three sailors effected their escape in a boat. SWINEMUNDE, SEPT. 19.—0 n account of the pre vailing contrary wind many vessels ran into harbour here for protection in the course of the day, and several that put out to sea have been obliged to re turn. _ _ SEPT. 11.—The ship Courier, which was stranded, has been in part unloaded, and 700 bushels of turnips have been saved dry, and in a good condition. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaussELS, SEPT. 18. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••.•••• • • • •• • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four percent • Ditto Three per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • • Ditto, ditto,lB4o •••• • • • • .......... 98% Ditto,ditte,lB42 .••••• • • . • • • .... •• • Ditto, 1844... • • • • • • • • .. • • 91% Ditto, 1838 .... • • •.• • • .... 68 Ditto of the City, 1832 •• • . •••• • • • . • 99 Ditto, 1843 ........ •• • •• • • 96% Bank of Belgium. ..•8e1gium........................- -Brussels Papers, Sept. 18. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—SIENNA, SErT. 12. 5 per Cent. Metalliques • • • • •• • • • • ...• • • • • 104% 4 per Cent. ditto •••••••••.••. • • • • • • • • • • • 96 3 per Cent. ditto ••••••• • • • • • • •••• • • • • 67 Loan, 1834 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 154 Ditto, 1839 •••••••••• Bank Shares ••••••....••••.••••••.••• i 91• RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand .• . • • • .• • • . 162% Gloggnita • . • • os . -* • • .•• • • • • • • • 120% Vienna—Milan • • • ............ ....... . 108% Sienna . . .• .. 74% Grosetto .... • • .. • ... •.. 97% Oldenburg Apenninen ............................ IRELAND. EJECTMENTS. - OPPOSITION TO RENTS AND RATES. The following document has been circulated by the Repeal Association " The Address of the Committee of the Loyal Na tional Repeal Association of Ireland. " Corn Exchange Rooms, Sept. 17. "Fellow-countrymen,—With the deepest sympathy for your cruel sufferings, the most earnest and active anxiety to do all in our power to mitigate them, we address you, craving your attention to what we believe to be the very worst of the dangers now beset- ting you. " Attempts are making to drive you into crime! Attempts open and reckless, by the wholesale and ruthless ejectments brought against you in various districts, and attempts more covert and more perilous by the instigation of incendiaries among yourselves, urging you to refuse the payment of your rents ; and of incendiaries among the landlords, instigating you to resist all calls upon you for the payments of rates ! " What is the object of these incendiaries ? Of the one class it is to sell your blood. Of the other class it is to clear their estates, by the massacre of the people under the weapons of the soldiery and police ; and, by the natural horror of such events, to wring from the Government some relaxation of the strict demand for the repayment of the Government ad vances ! ti Übitton " Will you be deceived and deluded to your ruin by your immitigable enemies ? What have those cruel landlords ever done for you, that you should lose your lives in fighting their battle ? • " Recollect—recollect, we beseech of you—that un der the poor-law now coming into operation, their estates shall be confiscated, if needed, for the support of those whom their tyranny has made, or is making, paupers. " These are not idle words. The new law compels out-door relief to all applicants the moment the work house is full. If your landlords so impoverish you that you cannot continue to pay your portion of the rates for this purpose, those very landlords must, to their last shilling, supply the deficiency. "Their only hope is, if you can be driven into a wild insurrection, and by the spilling of your blood, and the waste of your lives, either the number of applicants, will be greatly diminished, or a mitigation obtained of the Government demands upon the land! " Never violate the law,' was the maxim of him you so long trusted, and so affectionately loved—of Daniel O'Connell ! Fellow-countrymen, let us im plore of you to recollect his teachings, though he be no longer here to guide us. Put not yourselves in the power of the enemy by doing wrong ! " Even though our voices and those of your Par liamentary representatives, demanding protection, mercy, justice for you, should be unheeded, your fate cannot be bettered, but must be rendered infinitely worse by violence, outrage, or any breach of the law. Give not the pretext to the cruel landlord to bring the soldiery and police to slaughter you! Pay him his rents. Pay the rate collector his rates. If the landlords and the English Parliament persist in their grinding exactions from your poverty, recollect the land of Ireland is now pledged for your support I Those who deny your honest industry its due returns, and snatch from you the means of independent support, shall be compelled to maintain you as paupers. To peace we then exhort you under the worst of your present evils. You cannot right yourselves by violence and illegal combination, but must bring destruction on your wretched families and yourselves. 'Whereas, by peaceful submission to the law, you must, at any rate, be secured in subsistence—the land, being pledged to the last acre, and the last shilling of its rental for your support. "But have we no brighter hope to hold out if you be peaceful ? Oh, yes. In peacefulness you have won all yet obtained for Ireland. In peacefulness you shall accomplish, fully and immediately, the glorious work of repeal. England now sees that the union drainage of our money has rendered us a dead weight to drag herself down to destruction, and that nothing but the stoppage of those drains by the return of the absentees, revival of our manu factures, and spending of Our moneys at home under the protecting influence of our own Parliament, can save us from utter ruin, and the empire from convulsion..ersverance in " And, if assured of our glo d rious p her own interest have hitherto so steadily pursued, back our Parliament, and bloodless course we will impel her to give us t w h i e th pe i a t e th ef e u p b ro co spe ns r t i i t t y ut o io f n o a u l : ! Call upon " Join, then, your voice with ours come forward as one man and your representatives to Parliament, without demand back of England that a peoyle. which we are but a miserable mendicant province; but with which we shall be once again, and for ever more, a powerful, a pro s p erous, and a ha pp y nation. (Signed) " JOHN O'CONNELL , Chairman of the Committee." - - The great iron works of the park of Messkirch, in the grand duchy of Baden, belonging to the Prince de F urs t en burg, have just been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at several millions of francs, only a portion of which is insured. The destruction of the buildings alone is estimated at 150,000 florins (300,0001.) About nine hundred men were employed in the works, all of whom, with their families, are *ow without re. lIQUIC9E. THE LATE STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) In reply to Mr. Chambers Mr. Lloyd stated that he had merely cursorilly looked at the boilers of the Ant and Bee. If they were of the same character as the boiler of the Cricket they were dangerous. Mr. Galloway said they 'were ten times thicker, he had examined them and could depose to the fact. Mr. M. Chambers said he asked the question for the satisfaction of the public. Mr. James, on the part of Mr. Joy ce, stated that the boilers were not of that thi c k ness . The inquiry was proceeded with after a short ad journment. Mr. M. Chambers stated that Polletti, Clarke, and Haisman were ready to be examined. The company did not put those persons forward as their witnesses, but simply as witnesses: whom the Coroner or jury ought to examine, if they thought proper. Thomas Clarke then voluntarily tendered his evi dence. He said he was a smith and a machinist, and lived at 62, Commercial-road, Lambeth. He-said when I first took charge of the Cricket, on the 4th of April last, Edwards was the stoker. I took. the first opportunity of examining the boilers. I found one of the plates at the back of one of them blistered. I commnnicated the fact to Mr. Joyce, and on inves tigation it was discovered to be of no importance. I had some words, I think, on the 25th of April, with Skinner, and as Edwards passed by he said, " Give it to the —." He also swore at me. I discharged Edwards on the Monday. It was on that morning that I first heard that the valves had been tied. I heard it first from Poletti, the superintendent, and Mr. Smith, who spoke to me about it. He told me that Edwards had informed him so, and he cautioned me not to do so. The valves never were tied down whilst I was in the boat. I remained in the boat about five weeks after. Other men were employed iu it. I have been away from it three weeks at a time. I drove the boat the last time about three weeks before the explosion. Haisman was in charge of the boat from the Bth to the 15th of August. I never saw anybody tie the valves. The boat worked very well, but, like other boats, she required over hauling occasionally, and I repaired her with assistants. After I had been in the boat a fortnight the steam escaped accidentally. The engine sometimes got hot, but it was easily cooled. I can only account for the occurrence by saying that the " listing" of the boat on one side almost lying at the pier, that the steam was generated too fast for the valves to emit it. Sometimes, when the boat was lying on her side, the boiler fullest of water would not blow off her steam. The safety valve worked well—everything of that kind worked well. I have known the safety-valves to stick—l have known them to stick twice, and on one occa sion I called the attention of the engineer to it. I lifted the lever with a piece of iron at these times. There is no pulley to lift the lever up. I used to shake the stalk of the valve with a piece of iron until I got it free. The last time I had to try to move it several times. I know Knight. I never saw Knight do anything to the levers except shake them, and then only by my direction. He used to shake the string, and tie one end to a nail ; but I never gave him any directions to tie the other end of it. By Mr. M. Chambers—l worked for Mr. Joyce for nearly four years before I went into the service of the company. I was a kind of foreman. I put up two engines in Mr. Smith's premises, by direction of Mr. Joyce. This was about six months before I went into the service of the company. This required engineering knowledge, but a great deal of the work was done at Mr. Joyce's. After I left Mr. Joyce, and before I entered into the service of the company, I worked as a turner, for six months, for the General Steam Navigation Company. I worked a good deal at repairing engines during the last fourteen years. I was apprenticed to Mr. Davis of the Blackfriars road, and remained with him six months after its ex piration ; also of Mr. Evans, of Moorgate-street, and two or three other persons. A person named Kent drove the Cricket before I went. Buttress was there a few days before me also. I found strings attached to the lever. I did not notice them particularly, as I thought I had a good stoker. I was not spoken to about tying the valves the Sunday Edwards com plained of me. Mr. Smith and Poletti came down on the Monday. The valves were not tied down. They did not come down together. Poletti came down early in the morning. Poletti told me about the charge. I asked him if he thought I was mad ? We had some more words, and he said he should tell Mr. Smith. The strings on that day had been put round the nail to get them out of the way. They were not so tight as to prevent the valves working, if there was steam enough. When Mr. Smith came down,, he said he hoped I did not tie the valves, and put peo ple's lives in danger. lie told the not to run any risk. I told him I did not tie the valves. Mr. Smith travelled both before and after that by the boat. Ile could have come down at any time. He came down, I think, about twice after. Sometimes he stopped the whole length of the journey. Once he said he did not like to call me away trom the engine, so that if there had been any danger, he would have been one of the first to suffer from it. When I went first the fronts of the boilers was a little convex—five-eighths or three-quarters of an inch. I believed that they had been made in that shape. I had no idea of any danger. The boat was sent down to Mr. Joyce on the 3d of August to have her boilers repaired. She returned on the Bth. That was the first time since I have been in the service of the company, that the boat went to Mr. Joyce's. Mr. Joyce did not come to examine the engines or boilers. Mr. Meecham came some times, but he did not overhaul the boilers. I used to ease the braces, take the pistons out, and repair tear and wear. That is the business of a repairer. They were not impor tant repairs otherwise. The boat would have been sent to Mr. Joyce's I stopped up a tube since the boat was at Greenwich, that was all I did. It did not increase the steam. On the morning of the explosion I was in the wheel with Haisman. We moved by the steam to the place we required. This was from half-past seven or a quarter to eight. She took her first trip at eight. There were two broken arms, and a float was off. It takes about an hour and a quarter to get the steam up. After performing a journey, during which we lost about ilbs. per inch of steam, it required about five minutes to get the steam up again. I think that I left the boat at about a quarter past eight. I went to the Ant to repair her. I was not near when the accident happened. I used to work the engine at a pressure of from twenty-four to twenty-five pounds. I used to work more with the weighted valves than with the gauge. I used to work the lever with the weight at the end of the lever. I did not know that the placing of the weight gave a pressure of 66. I judged by the other boats. When the steam blew off the gauge used to be at 24, or a little higher. The gauge was, I believe, out of order. By Mr. James—l used to look at the gauge two or three times a day. When I leftthe boat I used to shift the weight to a pressure of 19 lbs., and to unscrew the spring valves. I have not been exa mined by the company's solicitor. Mr. Smith as k e d me questions. I have given a statement to Mr. Duke, the solicitor to the company. I have told Mr. Nash that this was a bad job. I put a new cord on the lever perhaps once in three weeks ;it was spun yarn. It used to be worn out with constant pulling.—(Laughter.) It used to be burned near the weight. It was three yards and five yards spun yarn. I have fastened it to the nail. [Knight was called to face t the witness.] I dare say I have given Snigh ar th t aitnslrudcid dons to fasten the string. not tell him frequeontlyrsto do l so will l s s i v v i e ll swear that I did not give him deb to fasten it when " Stand the captain. I was not by " was called out always present when b y e tied them. I have pulled the string three or four times while we have been lying at the pier. I used to lift the valve two or three times a voyage. I did not think that the blacks could stop the valves.—(Laughter.) I applied to Mr. Meecham for a new gauge, and he gave me a card where I could get one. I did not apply to the company. Mr. Joyce, I understood, was to supply the guages. His name was on it. I don't think an engineer could fail to know that the string was tight, if it was tied; but it was not in my time. The strings were just loose enough not to be tight. I recollect giving the boat to Buttress. I will swear that the lever was not tied tight with the string, At night the string was generally taken off. The string was fas tened to the beam, and two or three times round a nail. After shuting the valve, the string was usualy tied. The steam has often blown off when the string has been fastened. The valves could open an inch at these times. Two inches would be enough. I never looked to see the cause of the valves sticking. I have frequently gone on the deck, and lifted the levers. The inquiry had not terminated when we went to press ; it would not terminate to-night. Males Females Males Females SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT ANCIIESTEII. TUESDAY. MANCHESTER AUTUMN lIANDICAP.- 6 to 4 agst Caw rouch (t), 6 to 1 agst The Squire of Dialton (t), 6 to I agst The Dart (t), 7 to 1 apt Romance (t), 7 to 1 agst Deloraine. CESAREWITCH STARES.-13 to 2 agst War Eagle (t), 12 to 1 apt Wood Pigeon (t), 18 to 1 agst Ulysses, 20 to 1 apt Lady Wildair, 20 to 1 agst Tartar (t), 20 to 1 agst-Nottingham (t). .ETROPOLI Old Age, or Natural Decay ... 52 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ... 49 Causes not specified ... 2 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 1,169 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1842-6. in the 1841. Five Summers. 'week. West Districts... 301,326 • . 137 ... 149 North Districts.. 376,396 ... 175 ... 208 Central Districts 374,759 .• . 173 .•• 211 East Districts ... 393,247 .•• 212 ... 290 South Districts .. 502,483 ... 244 ... 311 T0ta15........ 1,948,211 ... 940 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. 1,169 - 595 - 574 ... 594 ... 56S Totals .. -.1,162 BRUSSELS FREE - TRA-13 CIATION. -‘ SSO , - - • COLONEL THOMPSON'S SPEECHES c....., ;t'll - t E . DINNER GIVEN BY THE BRUSSEL • EE - TRADE ASSOCIATION TO THE " st• ' AN GERS WHO HAD ATTENDED TH aN GRESS, SEPT: 18th, 1847. After the dinner, Count Arrivabene, the Ch an, gave " The Freedom of Commerce." M. f or Faider, one of the secretaries to the Congress, ' ve " The foreign Members." The Duke d'H 'rt returned thanks. Colonel Thompson was called upon to give—" A toutes les associations," which may be translated in d G ba yu e n t; t a l s e om d inneraint, m a aiysCon gresst emore is w aayo rather f s tha n every formidableomn e a . n a H n ed e v erys ai d affair,— business allowable to take a greater liberty on the occasion. I have been directed to give a toast—" A toutes les asso ciations." The field is rather wide. In the first place, therefore, I will take for granted that this is intended to include the associations for free trade; but as this subject has been a good deal talked of lately, we will pass on to the rest. Next, then, there are the asso ciations for political objects.—(" Park:, panic: , " an swering to " Hear, hear.") The institutions of free countries enforce the right to such associations; and the exercise of this right is a source of strength to these nations in return. In England we have given over having any fear of asso ciations of the working classes or anybody else. The time is gone by when the different classes of society in our country were afraid of one another. We have given over having any apprehensions on this AC. , count ; and the consequence is, that as a nation we are stronger than we ever were before. I do not know that I can wish anything better, than that the same state of things may find its way into the habits of all the nations of Europe besides. There are more associations yet ; for instance there is that association of worthy men and handsome women which people cal l Belgium.—(Cheers.) May not I be allowed to include that in the toast. My fellow-traveller can tell you with what recollections I, a native of the Pays Bas o f England (Holderness), in coming from your seaport to your capital, looked at these features of your country which are so like those of my own. It is true our streams do not run as fast as in the Alps; but for all that, we love that country, and should be ready to defend it if required. But we mean to have no chance of that. Is it not the best way to join one another in these peaceful asso ciations, where we are destroying bit by bit the seeds of war.—(Bien ! Tres-Lien.) Let our hearts then be set upon perpetual peace. They talk about Utopia ; we will show them whe ther there is as much of Utopia in it as they think. It is in meetings like these that we intend to lay the grounds for a perpetual peace. But, gentlemen, are there not some other associations still ? There are associations which a man carries always in his heart, and which distance only serves to make more vivid. It shall be understood then, that we are to drink to all we love, when I give you my toast A toutes les associations. M. Wolowski gave " The Working Classes." M. Rittinghausen, one of the small number of anti free-traders who had presented themselves at the Congress, gave the health of the president, M. De Brouckere. M. Surginer, a Hollander, gave " The Little and the Great," and made an interesting speech upon his text. Dr. Bcwring gave "To the fusion and holy alliance of the people of all nations." Mr. Welcken, • " The liberty of nations." M. Bartels, a specimen of what may be called Young Belgium, made an ardently liberal speech, and concluded with the health of " Pope Pius the Ninth," amid thunders of applause. Colonel Thompson rose and said—As one that is sprung from the most Protestant of Protestants, I cannot lose the opportunity of telling you with what high hopes the English have viewed the noble deeds of the new potentate of Italy. When we see Pius the Ninth taking in hand all the interests of human kind, we are all Pope's men together.--(Cheers.) If our Government saw occasion, believe me, every body would march. We have a fine Scotch regiment that glories in the title of being the descendants of the Protestants who were persecuted in worse times. Just see whether they will march or not, if they are told. But it will never come to that. Everybody has sense to a certain extent, and the despotic powers in like the rest. I therefore unite w ith M. Brtels calling on evebody to join in a health to our ad- mirable Pio Nryono.—(Drunk with every possible de monstration of enthusiasm.) Mr. Ewart gave, " To Belgian hospitality," Mr. Horace Say, " The health of Richard Cobden and Frederick Bastiat," M. Jottrand, " The independenc e of Belgium." The fest ival ended by the presid e nt a giving " Sir Robert Peel," after which the party se parated. ___---------!-----------_ —_______ REGINIE REDITITS IN ANGLIAM. Ecce I regalis rediit magistra, Regis turba co mitum fidelam In viram clarum solium potentum Tuta, valcnsque. Jam gravel quisque ex animo dolores PeHat, et grate mcluletur ore carizina, et terra moveat choreas Leeta juventusl Scotia, mcesta lacrymis, relictit, Principe Alberto eximio reducta, Angl'm jam delicim decusque, Inclyta sponse. Cordibus fidis populi manebis, Civium veris precibus bests, 0 In 03terrium imperium reeepta Lucida vivo! 2, New Westen-street, Bermondsey. G. J. IN COLLIERY.— named Thomas Dobin sonOn Friday_ afternoon, descended the pump shaft of and Walter Murray, Main Colliery, near North Shields, tor the purpose FATAL ACCIDENT twoAT men, named MA Percy examining pumping gear, which it used for the of of wing the water from the bottom of the purpose This shaft forms part of the main shaft whence the coals are drawn from the pit, and is partitioned off, and only examined at stated periods when the gear and pumps require it. The men who undertake this job are lowered down by means of a gin rope wrought with horses, and to facilitate the intercourse with the surface, a string leads up the shaft to a bell, upon which the sig nals are given to pull up or lower as the case may re quire. On the evening mentioned these two men des cended the shaft to the bottom, and, having completed their work, gave the signal to pull up. The men were both in the loops formed in the chain, within which they placed each one leg and clung to the main rope. The horses went to their work and the rope ascended, when suddenly something seemed to check it ; the horses put forth their strength, and the rope came up without the men. It was broken, and a frightful calamity had hap pened. Immediately steps were taken to ascertain the fate of the unfortunate men, and they were afterwards discovered hanging at some distance from the bottom, still in the rope, which had got entangled with the scaf folding and the signal bell rope. They had fallen a considerable height, and were both dead, having received Isevere injuries from striking the scaffolding in their descent. It is supposed that the shaft -rope had fouled the bell-rope in the ascent, and this circumstance lid to the catastrophe. They were married men, and Murray has left eight children to mourn his loss. FATAL ACCIDENT AT SIR WILLIAM JOLLIEFEIS. —Yesterday Mr. William Payne held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of James Holmes, aged fourteen years. The deceased had been working at Sir William Jolliffe's, at Chepstead, and whilst he was feed ing a thrashing machine, his left foot was drawn in and the limb was extensively juju's d. Ile was removed to the hospital, when it was found necessary to amputate the limb, but on Sunday he suddenly expired.—Verdict accidental death. WIGAN.—ANOTUER PRIEST ILL OF FEVER.—We are sorry to state that the Rev. J. Walker, the second or junior priest at St. John's Catholic Chapel, Wigan, now lies in a dangerous state, ill of typhus fever, caught in visits to the filthy dwellings of the lower class of Irish resident in the borough. The Rev. J. Hearne and the Rev. J. Johnson, the two ministers whose lives have already been sacrificed in attending to their sacred duties, were successively the head priests at the same plum of worship.—Liverpovi I'ltrcury. MORTALIT NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGIS TERED IN ;THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1847. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 383 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 132 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 29 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. •.. 22/ ... 106 ... 12 ... 14 ... 12 Msy :ngth and ) the t two rasby N.NV. E,` ngth [lurch g, of abler' sring Gun' able's bear- is t ice 0