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LITERATURE. THE Q UAR Z ERL Y RE VI EW. No. CLXI: Not the leading article in point of position, but certainly the leading article in point of ability, among the oior.: papers contained in the hundred and sixty first number of the Quarterly Review, is the one en title,sl " Pantagruelism." Much erudition is scattered thtough the contribution, but its excellence is frit tered away by the entire absence of arrangement, and the rather doubtful purpose of the arguments. To an ordinary reviewer it would be a rather eruharassing thing to have to compile an article complete and one in itself upon the triple theme of the political caricatures by H. 8., the " Sartor Resartus" of Thomas Carlyle, and the ' Doctor" of Robert Southey. Yet upon this literary and pictorial tripod, as it were, has the Quarterly Reviewer raised a very able, and, in many respects, eleoorate disquisition. The incongruity, or more strictly speaking, the want of unity in his subject, has however, deteriorated so far from the intrinsic Merit of his compilation, as to render it at times diffuse and disconnected. The writer sets out by stating that his object, if he can be said to have one at all of a definite character, is to afford illustrations of a style of composition which he distinguishes by the generic title of Pantagrueli stic. Every one who is a lover of the vis comica has read, of course, Rabelais, or it he has not, he deserves to be—like one ef the monks d ep i cted b y that prince of jesters _ kicked to death in a desert. Every lover of the vis comica, therefore, is at once familiar with the mean ing of the term Pantagruelistic, a word compounded of rayrsc, which in the Greek signifieth all, and gruel, which in the Arabic signifieth thirsty. For Panta gruel, according to the authority of the incomparable autho r of " Gargantua," was horn on a certain Fri day, when the pclople were all at their orisons, and groat drop s of - water exuded from th e groun d lik e sweat, which, when th e o b servers h a d collected and of the dru n k t h ey found t o b e sa lt an d b rack i sh as the brine wherefore the father of Pantagruel so chri s t r , ned him as a commemoration of t e time of his birth when all were thirsty. Rabelais further ex- P l ains the s i gn ifi cat i on of Pantap.ruclism, declari ng it to be " a sort of high spirits worked up in despite of accidents ready to drink too if you will," or as the re viewer, yet more distinctly expresses it " that sort '' 3 f gaiety which a moderate allowance of good wine Is c alculated to produce ;in plain English—a ten dency to skylarking !" Plain English enough We opine, language which Mr. Roebuck would call the vernacular. From the assertion that although Rabelais created the expression 7ravl-a- gruelism, he was far from be he reviewer dashe s off into an episodical eulogium pane Aristophanes. iann g e y ric i s a And i n t h e course o f t hi s t 1 passage t o w hi ch we would in a particular r direct the attention of the Royal Academician, DANIEL. MACLISE containing, as it does, a sugges tion of ~ with opportunities for the manitesta ho his very great artistic genius. nOt " As we can- Pe to see Arist o ph anes restored to the stage, a fashion l ays the re viewer, " th oug h S op h oc l es h as , a ft er truly ~ resumed his buskins, we should be glad to see the next best thing—a of illustr a ti ons of his comedies—say the "Knights" is or n th e " Peace"—by an artist of real skill and real ;,, -Ill our; he must be a better draughtsman than "'A czsch and less formal than Flaxman ; he must have th e f un 4 lik ti- a caracaturist, and the feelings of a poet ; f . eR. , he must be able to preserve an identity of a ," in the leading characters, but he must be able, o at_ the same time, to sport with an unlimited variety among ire and groupings." " There is an artist often continues 11,," continues the reviewer, " who toc d o a ll nitst akes his own calling, but who could Aristophanes this—Maclise ; and if it were done, Bich he could ould be restored to the only stage , in the wor f ° " II PY in the nineteenth century." Fell on't;' i z . s e e n h s a e 1 I o o fne.r, let . Mr. Maclise " think the fol' ' prompts us to give justice . • - ' ° wing very ofocr ophnes, in Arist forcible and specious vindication sSaynateS. regard to his conduct towards Still we must premise the quotation, by bi _ s i g that the writer is guilty of almost as much la P h enly in his remarks about Socrates, as he im ofPates wit h , Socrates,uen flippancy to Rousseau. The name quy._...B however, defies all aspersion and oblo cr4tes theocrates the wisest of the sagesof antiquity—So :_ Christian greatest of all pagan philosophers—Socrates e in principle, in the midst of licentious 't I t P A Ytheisni ! ,i to .. is s impossible" proceeds the Quarterly Review, strict understand the death of Socrates, without a he li v :t r enne to the history of the times in which Chang e believe the case to have stood thus. A great p e Was introduced into the Athenian character of 1 4t 1. 0 1( e'est who was a disciple of the philosophical specu h r Ansxagoras. We shall best characterise this , 1 4ri ge by sayin g that it consisted in the rise of the , i lt :e of > tz;' , %?..a. , /o:9ol—th a t is (accordin g to the Athe ia:,tbeaning of the phrase) of those wh o were f or lodg blil e' l ver with au aristocracy, not of birth and wealth, wase..l talent. In this state of things great influence tiainea's'ercised by the Sophists, par excellence the men cf al most „ res ting' on intellectual accomplishment ; and °Ppe se , l ' v erY educated man subsequent to Pericles was aei6 sh - to the old established democrac) either from Predi e , motives or on theoretical grounds. We . m d ay , Al e ib i "te this distinctly of Critias, Antiphon, Thucydi es, Crate s e s, and Soph - ocles. As for Euripides and So raove, ' the y were considered as fellow-workers idn asa turp '' erl t for the exaltation of the middle class, , an ima,cophist,s (See Art•stoph. Ran 771, and .'iLch. c. atexepti P. -4 ). Aristophanes was the great solitary Ath ° 2 l to this tendency on the part of literary men Be sratc s ; hence his antagonism to Euripides f a r n et t i l th e 8 ' wh°, houghaltho they would never have favoured tier establishment ure oligarchy, hi„t•he,s,P,oo than fort h p 400 or and were rath* , r the 30, had given ear k,?,lollZ-ations than any others of their wish to place the Pat s i opi /c 6 Ol above the Demus. In one of his most rnou t Ce tragedie s E uripides had ventured to put into the 1 of Theseu s r . f, tijv is the words— AIM nn t hC4 PY Y) ' '/1.1.47W ',7,4EL TrOAESc.—Supp/. 244 . . tioia sheraraenes who, if he had been a consistent poll pEliLlytitht have brought these views to a practical ex _.Vve rnt, was certainly a favourer of middle measures. 10,0er:ve no doubt then that Aristophanes looked upon kiddlse.s a 4 a mischievo us advocate of the cant of the a nd serFlass r eformers, to wh om h e attributed hypocrisy of the class r eformers, th e usual qualities of the talking patrons t t,_. aoretical ch anges; and if we are right in supposing t iZ eio sort of Stoicism not that which was positively by all Ped by Zeno, but that which is practically adopted wt trayen of geniu s and sincerity in a vicious age—if to „ . _ t. suppos e that a sort of Stoicism is the necessary . Aristophanes."o nita nt of true P antagruelisni, then the feeling of e. may not have been very different from that Rome,W'u h was subsequently 0, who used to say that expressed by the model Stoic of and erbeari `Socrates was a loquacious ng Person, and endeavoured, as tar as it was possible fo r by abolishi tai, to get the mastery over his country. tag over li-ng established customs, and drawing or bring laws., (Plutarch =nest citizens to opinions contrary to the BIWA remember th Ca t° Illai°r' SoCrat's d e • served the punishment c. xxiii.) After all, we at the question for us is not whether the rough which he incurred. or received h andling which he had some years previously Ze. from Aristophanes, but whether our Pants eurelistic poet sincerely believed, and on grounds which sufficient hirn, as a conscientious and clear-headed man, ae , 0 i_ent and satisfactory, that this father of many g k n °ls of philosophy was a mischievous character, whose itittoviiv Was as much a piece of cant and quackery as A lying spirit of divination possessed by L uc i an ' s Al e der or any other 4/EL;3othawri; and S weden bergian of anc i ent or modern times. If A r i stophanes had Ac oar which we must admit to have been sufficient for 211 l Cont emporary, wh o cou ld not est i mate all the important asequences which might one day flow from the doe nes of Socrat es , an d w h o was bred up in the belief that toleration is a cowardly vice ; if he had reasons for believing that this was the case, and was besides cor.n pelted to identify S ocrates with the proceedings of a party which paved the w a y f or the subversion of the old ceinstitution of Athens,we cannot but extol him for acting 'with unshrinking courage on the strength of his own convictions, and we willinglysae strong band w hi c h cut recognise in ' The Cl ou d s ' the same goo d h eart and the m 4 1 5 Cleon 'into shoe-soles for the knights.'" (Ach. 300.) ~,, Alter a few galant slashes at the now popul ar -tory bugbear of Popery, mentioning it as a " mysti nd as a system assuming Station of Christianity," I I right to " enslave . the individual conscience, and l intellect," the writer mergestncram.p the individual ; into a milder and less polemic strain by re k_erring to the Divina Commedia of Dante, which, zwever, from its strictly allegorical character and , . , S " 0 „~ ~."' ra ntaglism. Speaking of the contributions made to the raw materials of the English language -3' Skelton—atrue Pantagruelist—the reviewer ob -44-v"---" A certain shrewd Professor of the Un i ‘'etrsitY of Cambridge was once asked, in our hearing, 'whether Shakspere or Milton had the greater ~°l:ninand of the English language : he replied, briefly ;tl°ligh, Shakspere could have slanged Milton into a ditch ~.-4.fiee minutes." Swift, in like manner, is mentioned, ;"dvvith reason, as one gifted with this pantagrzzelisCc Olubility. Jean Paul Frederick Richter is received Oro, l the same number, while Sterne, and Hogarth, titild Churchill, and Voltaire are rejected. We cordi ti,,‘ 3 : agree with the writer in his depreciatory epithets .e Iv ''° the sin cer i ty o f Southey ' s facetiousness in that °c llaerful monstrosity of moder n lit era t ure , Th e the 67% We have devou re d the five first volum es , - .lse Silt h we have not y e t seen , b ut f rom those Inu r ,, v ollimes, it is as impossible to deny the an t i;' readin g and the profound learning of the th ah ' 3l. as it would be to regard his grins as other Ills ea ter produced as by galvanism, or look upon affees s Pvagant gaiety as other than an extravagant howe7len and a gigantic humbug. No affectation, tar ,: r, have we ever been able to see in the charac artst,L;.t.coMpositions of Thomas Carlyle, and as an tollo,lo vindication of the latter we transcribe the `4 s i n s paragr ap h ~._ v ltneh 'n regard to Mr. Carl qe's style—we have heard fee tm °l it s aff • ) iiL. ss, aff ectat i on If it be true that he is . an af ttra 4 a ti n'nr, no one can have any business to claim for VQt lf 4 ek ti ee t a rLong the Pantagruelista; for affectation is Oiril 4, nr,_,,sßilt we believe that the case is not so. tankti:4 power of thinking transcends his power fie, 4 colouring of quaintness and perbtutry will often el.titch to his writings ; and if he has convinced hi - eaself that the common literary style of his country men is used as a vehicle for the concealment or inade• quate expression of thought, he will be not unlikely to substitute for it the plain-speaking of colloquial inter course, though this should occasionally verge towards vulgarity. Hence mannerism ;—but we can by no means see that mannerism must necessarily be affectation Some of our readers will perhaps be startled by the as sertion we are about to make—that Mr. Carlyle's style is identical in its leading peculiarities with that of Bishop Andrewes. Perhaps there were never two men who were more different in the habitual direction of their thoughts, or in their early training, or in the raw mate rials of which their writings are made up. And we feel certain that the author of Sartor Resartus ' never read a page of the bishop's writings, otherwise he must have referred to them in his Cromwell.' We must conclude, then, that these two peculiar writers of the seventeeth and nineteenth centuries wrote as they did from some internal necessity of a similar nature—namely, that as Andrewes wished to speak plainly from the pulpit on subjects which were involved in the wrappings of theo logical learning, his pedantry, quaintness, and slant*, were the results of his struggle with the fetters imposed ' upon him ; and that the same defects in the style of the modern author were produced by a similar wish to shake off the trammels which he felt to be imposed upon him by the sometimes unmeaning decencies of the fashion able mode of writing." _ Several curious examples are given of this strange resemblance between the s'yles of Carlyle and Andrewes, as for instance in the derivation or real meaning of proper names ; in the manufacturing of words ; in the use of the vulgarest colloquialisms; in a pedantic play upon words ; in an etymological sort of punning; in abrupt exclamatory sentences; in quaint inversions ; and in emphatic and demon strative epexegesis. Perhaps the most remarkable of these resemblances is the last—namely, the epexegesis. " From Oxford to Rome" is a dissertation Protestant to the back-bone. It is conceived in a spirit of true earnestness. Those who love the witcheries of voyaging in the Antic and Antarctic regions will read with intense interest the review of the works written respecting the memorable expedi tion of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., one of the ablest navigators that ever lived. The in terest of the article is enhanced by the mystery sur rounding the fate of the expedition to the North Pole under Franklin and Crozier—for the safety of which expedition all true hearts pray. Of the " Financial Pressure" we have spoken so repeatedly, and there is a certainty of so many better opportunities than the present arising to tempt us to a reiteration of our animadversions upon the Bank Charter Bill of 1844, that we shall content ourselves with simply men tioning the publication of a paper upon this important subject in this number of the Quarterly. " Peel Policy" is a diatribe very little to our taste. The great statesman, whose conduct is rendered the theme for so many malicious invectives and scurrilous vituperations, will not go down to posterity through the pages of the Quarterly Review. His memory will live, as he desires it to live, in the cottages of those who labour, and from the great boons he has showered upon his contemporaries, that remembrance we do believe will be as beautiful as it is illustrious. Quarrel we must, and we do, with Sir Robert, for his innovations upon the national system of currency—as a gran d an d ru i nous mistake ; but we should be ungrateful not to call to mind, at the same time, the noble and patriotic mea sures he has been principally instrumental in passing through the Houses of Legislation. " The Heirs of the Stuarts" and " Grand Jours d'Avergne" are papers replete with historical knowledge, happily compiled. " Lord Lindsay on the History of Christian Art" and the "Journal of a Residence in Portugal" complete the very able contents of this number of the great organ of the shadow of Conservatism. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. FRIDAY, JULY 16. BISHOPRIC OF MANCHESTRR, &c., BILL. Order read, for resuming adjourned debate upon Question (154 h July), " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :" —Question again proposed :—Debate resumed :—Question put. The House divided. MAJORITY—AYES, 63. Acland, T. D. Frewen, C. H. Parker, John Antrobas, Edmund Gaskell, J. M. Plumptre, J. P. Bannerman, A. Goulburn, Henry riumridge, Captain Baring, W. IL Graha m , Sir James Polhill, F. Bentinck, Lord G. Greene Thomas Repton, G. W. J. Borthwick, P. Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, G. A. Richards, Richard Brown, W. .. - 7 1, llatton, Captain Russell, Lord J. Buller, Charles Hawes, Benj. Ryder, Granville D. Chohnondeley, H. llobliouse, Sir John Sailcloth Lord Christie, W. D. Hope, G. W.' Somerville, Sir W. Clive, Viscount Hornby, John Stuart, J. Colebrooke, Sir T. Jervis, Sir John Theslger, Sir F. Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Tollemache, John Denison, J. E. Law, Hon. E. C. Turnell. 11. Dickinson, F..H. Legh, G. C. Turner, Edmund Disraeli, B. Macaulay, T. Vivian, J. E. Duckworth, Sir J. 31aule, Fox Wortley, J. S. Dundas, Admiral Mundy, E..3f. Wynn, C. W. Dundas„Sir David Newdegate, C. N. TELLERS. Entvrisle, William Nicholl, John Hill, Lord hf arcus Ferguson, Sir R. O'Brien, A. Stafford Ebrlngton, Viscount MINORITY-NOES, 18. Aglionby, H. A. Escott, Bickharn Thornely, T. Aldam, William thistle, A. Trelawny, J. S. Brotherton, J. Horsinan, Edward Wakley, Thomas Clements, Viscount M'Taggart, Sir J. Williams, W. Collett, J ohn Moleaworth, Sir W. TELLERS. Currie, R. Philips, Mark Hume, Joseph Duke, Sir J. Roebuck, J. A. Osborne, Captain Preamble, p. 1, line 21 ; Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " that a measure should be submitted to Par liament for continuing the Bishoprics of St. Asaph and Bangor as separate bishoprics :"—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Preamble." The Committee divided:— TriA SUN, LONDON‘ SATURDAY _EVENING, JULY 17, 1847. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE. JULY 14, 1847. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles H. Broadwood, Ezq., Exon of her Majesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice Henry Chard, Esq., resigned. . PRTCE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending July 13, 1847, is 275. 11< 2 d. per cwt. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE HOUSE, JULY 15. The Du ko of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Stephen Jordan Rigaud, M.A., F.R.A.S., Senior Assistant Master at Westminster School, to be one of his Royal Highness's Chaplains. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 15. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. William Carrol, as Consul at St. Helena for his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway. WHITEHALL, JULY 14. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend John Scarth to the church at Sandwick, in the united parishes of Sandwick, Dunrossness, and Cunningsburgb, in the presbytery of Lerwick and stewartry of Orkney and Shetland, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Alexander Shand, late minister thereof, to the parish of Nesting. (From the London New Price Current of July 16.) SUGAR.— I'o-day the home trade purchased Raw Sugars with increased freedom, whilst exporters were more inclined to do business, and better prices were obtained for all sorts. The purchases made in West India Muscovadoe were extensive, and for bright gro cery kinds the rates obtained were 6d above those of last Friday ; for grey and brown more money was obtained, so that for these sorts prices close the same as on Friday last. At public sale 110 hhds Trinidad were sold at 38s to 38s 6d for low and mid yellow. REFINED.—To - day Refined goods were extensively dealt in by the home trade, and prices further advanced, brown grocery Lumps selling at 57s 6d to 58s, and Standard Lumps at 58s 6d to 595. Bonded Crushed Sugar is little required, and 31s 6(1 to 32s is the present value of the best. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon, at public sale, 942 bags and 49 casks Mauritius were offered, and taken in at rather above the value—good and fine yellow at 43s to 465, middling 40s 6d to 41s, low 3is to 39s 6d, fine brown 37s to 37s 6d. 52 puns Trinidad Molasses at 20s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon white Bengal Sugar met with attention, and 1,579 bags at public sale were all sold at rather higher rates—fine white Benares at 48s, good middling and good 45, 6d to 46s 6d, damp and washed 424 to 475. Madras is not much required, and 419 bags were taken in at 34s for damp yellow and brown. FOREIGN.—There has not been much desire evinced on the part of exporters to do business, whilst the home trade purchased only small parcels by private treaty, al though there were sellers upon former lower terms. The refiners working under bond are not much in want of Sugar at present. At public sale 3,788 bags and 145 chests Pernambuco were offered. MOLASSES.—In West India the business transacted priv.stely has been trifling in all sorts. In East India little business has been done, and prices still tend down wards, whilst there is a fair supply. COFFEE.—This afternoon Native Ceylon was wanted, and the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to 1,435 bags were nearly all sold at full rates. 12 casks and 539 bags Plantation Ceylon were chiefly disposed of at steady rates. Of Jamaica 17 tres 82 barrels 6 bags were sold at full rates. 25 bags St. Domingo sold at 32s 6d for pale. Of Mocha the quantity offered at public sale was large, and amounted to 519 bales 365 half- bales ; nearly the whole was taken in above the value. Cocos.—Although West India can be obtained at a reduction on former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt, still little desire has been evinced to operate, and 102 barrels 118 bsgs at auction were nearly all taken in and with drawn. Foreign Cocoa is heavy of disposal. Of all kinds of Cocoa the arrivals still exceed those of last year. TEA.—There has been a falling off in the demand for black this week, still holders evince firmness, and insist upon fully former rates for all kinds, whilst there is but a moderate quantity on offer. In Congou only a small amount of business has been done, but common cannot be obtained under 9d, and good common 9id per lb. For green former rates are asked, but the business concluded has not been of much moment in any sort. RICE.—To-day at public sale 1,768 bags Singapore Rice were sold at a decline on former rates of 6d to Is; middling white went at 14s to 15s, good 15s 6d to 16s, sea damaged 88 6d to 14s. Privately little was done i n any sort of rice. SPICES.—To-day at public sale 1,016 bags picked Zanzibar Cloves were only in part sold at Bid to Sid for fine, and at 7d for ordinary. 32 bags Bourbon fetched 7d per lb. SFlRlTs.—There is a plentiful supply of Rum, and the quantity on offer far exceeding the demand, a further tall in the value must be quoted. The deliveries con tinue to be unsatisfactory, especially for exportation ; Jamaica is offered Id to 2d per gallon under former rates, still the purchases made have been trifling in all kinds by exporters and the home trade. The total sales since this day week are only 200 puns. High flavoured sorts 5s 2d to 5s 3d. East India is little required, and proof with certificate can be procured at 2s 6d. Leeward Island have been operated in with caution, and prices are yet on the decline. Demerara is dull of sale. For Brandy prices remain much the same as on this day week, but there has been little desire to do business by exporters or the home trade. Geneva is in good request for exportation at 2s 8d to 2s 9d, and for fine for home use at 3s to 3s 3d. For British Corn Spirits the demand is dull. INnroo.—The quarterly sale of East India which commenced on Tuesday has gone off better than was ex pected, considering the late dulness that prevailed in trade generally. Importers of Bengal showing a desire to realise occasioned the home and export demand to be good for all sorts, whilst the principal portion passed the hammer has been sold ; good and fine qualities brought last sale's rates. Kurpah has been only in moderate request at from last sale's quotation to 2i per lb in advance. There was little disposition evinced to do business in Madras, but buyers are compelled to pay the rates of the May sale to 2d per lb advance. There has been only a moderate attendance of exporters or the home trade. ro-day during the progress of the sale 91 chests were withdrawn, and 906 chests have passed. There is no alteration to notice in the prices of Bengal, which remain very irregular. SALTPETRE.— All qualities of Rough are much re quired by exporters and the home trade, and in conse quence of the scanty supply, buyers are compelled to pay stiff rates. In British Refined a good deal has been done at 33s to 33s 6d, at which prices are firm. Nitrate of Soda is in little request. Ous —Although the supply of Linseed is not large, still there are sellers upon further reduced tea ms. On the spot the home trade operated with caution, hnd only small parcels were taken by exporters, whilst 27s per cwt was accepted. There aro sellers for forward delivery at 26s 6d, but few contracts have been concluded. The consumption, however, does not decrease. There is no further advance to notice in the value of Rapeseed Oil, but large purchases have been made. Olive Oil cannot be quoted higher, but the demand is good both from exporters and the home trade. Of Palm the stock has been further increased, still the market is firm, and many purchases have been made. Cocoa Nut is less required, whilst the supply is on the increase, and prices are on the decline. The value of Lard Oil is 43s to 475, end of African ground Nut Oil 41s to 42s per cwt; but little business has been done. Of Fish Oils there are large arrivals, still holders are firm, and there is no decrease in the demand. Southern of all sorts has been in excellent request; at public sale 100 tuns were all sold. In pale Seal a good deal has been done, other kinds have been sold to a fair extent. For Cod a fair demand exists, and there is but a moderate quantity on offer. Sperm does not improve in value, as there is a plentiful supply, but by private treaty several purchases have been made. TALLow.—Russsian on the spot is offered upon fur ther reduced terms; still the town and country trade have purchased with caution. There has been little business transacted for forward delivery. Other sorts of Tallow are little wanted, and can be obtained upon rather lower terms. The value of rough Fat is 2s 9id per stone of Blbs. The supply from St. Peters burgh this season is estimated at from 135,000 t 0140,000 casks. BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE. A meeting of the electors of this borough, very numerous and highly respectable, was held last even ing in the large room at the York and:Albany Hotel, near Regent's Park, for the purpose of hearing Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart's explanation of his political conduct and opinions. !dr. Churclivvarden HOWARTH, in taking the chair, explained the position of affairs at the present mo ment, and the circumstances under which the pro posed ballot had been suggested by Lord D. C. Stuart, and agreed to by his competitors, observing that the object was to preclude the possibility of a Tory " slipping in, not to represent but to misre present the borough."—(Great applause.) The wor thy Chairman, after a few words in praise of Lord D. C. Stuart, and in recommendation of him as a fit representative for the borough sat down amidst great and enthusiastic cheering. Mr. WATKINS, apologising for coming forward at an unseasonable moment, said that when Lord Dudley Stuart was M.P. for Arundel, he (Mr. Watkins) was one of his constituents, and having heard of Lord Dudley Stuart's intention to set up for Marylebone, he considered it his duty to come forward and say that the whole constituency were well satisfied with his Lordship's conduct, and that he considered him the best Member they could possibly select. Lord DUDLEY STUART then addressed the meeting. He was very uncomfortable at being obliged to listen to so much praise of himself.—(A laugh.) At the same time, Parliamentary candidates must not be shamefaced, they must have no false delicacy. — (Much laughter.) He was prepared to receive whatever praise was due to him, and to meet and repel whatever attacks might be made upon him.— (Great applause.) His Lordship then proceeded to give an outline of his conduct when in Parliament, and to enumerate some of the liberal measures which he had given his support to and had voted for Amongst these were—The Reform Bill, the glorious Reform Bill—(Great applause)—the abolition of slavery—(Cheers)—of impressment—of the Jewish disabilities —of property qualification —of the rate-paying clause—and of long Parliaments. — (Immense cheering.) Not only these measures, but also the amendment of the poor-laws, the granting of out-door relief, and the abolition of the odious practice of separating man and wife, parent and child, in the workhouses.—(Great applause.) He had voted for the admission of Dissenters to the Universities.— (Cheers.) He was in favour of local government. He hated central boards— all commissioners—poor-law commissioners, health of towns commissioners, and police commissioners.— (Great laughter, and applause.) It was for this reason that he opposed the Health of Towns Bill. Some such Bill was necessary ; some Bill was re quired to prevent people from being poisoned by the filth of their towns, but it could b e d one by o th er means. It could be done without centralisation— without commissioners. It could be done as well— better—more constitutionally— by local boards, and hu was determined to give all the opposition in his power to any proposal for taking such matters out cf the hands of the local board, and placing them in the hands of central boards. The rate-payers who paid the money ought to have the spending of it.— (Cheers.) He was also of opinion that the window tax was a most unjust and impolitic enactment, and ought, nay must, be repealed.—(Hear, hear.) H e thought the suffrage ought to be extended not only to all housekeepers but to many others, as there were many lodgers who were men of sufficient intel ligence and stake in the country to entitle and qualify them to vote.—(Great applause.) It had been said that he was not a true reformer. He thought if any proof was wanting of his sincerity in respect to reform, he had given one quite sufficient to convince the electors of Marylebone, within the last week or ten days, h days, by s uggest i ng the b allot between h i mse lf a tw ar r v i ey val .L , ( M Ha r e .S r :rgeant She e an d M r . D an iel Whitt i l s e hear.) His Lordship then entered at some length into an explanation of the ar rangements on that subject. He was in favour of the ballot.—(Cheers.) He would rather people could vote ren o d s ei y . It was repu l s i ve to his feelings to see charging a duty in secret.—(Hear.) But was it not better men should hl discharge a duty i n pr i va t e It was impossible to pu sec l u e re pu(Arityye, o a f y e e l e i t a i n o d h . c w h i e t h e r o s u . ) t than betra it y in it, and the objection must be aba n d one d . There was no doubt that milli meny acted honestly in spite of those wh o , h av i ng them i nfl uence their power, tyrannically endeavoured t o their votes. There were many such in Marylebone; but we had n o r i g ht t o call upon a man t o make such a sacrifice.—(Great cheering.) He ou g ht to be protected.—(Hear.) His Lordship proceed e d th en to go been a number of t n o made a against charges of inconsistency which had him by his opponents or their friendsee he gave clear and satisfactory answers. Aflteorf which dwell ing at some length on the Polish question, the Lord sat down amidst the most enthusiasti c cheers ble Several questions having been put to his Lordship, and answered by him, a resolution, pledging the meet ing to support his Lordship at the ballot on Monday, was unanimously passed. After giving three cheers for Lord D. Stuart, and moving a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. A letter from Berne, of the title, in the Constitu. t;onnei, says :—" The sit'i,;ng of the Diet to day was, like that of yesterday, t:::fcen up with the discussion of mi litary affairs. What is more interesting than the deli berations of the Diet, is a report, believed itl some circles, that th e A m b assa d or o f F rance yester d a y paid a visit to the President of the Directory, to read him a recent dispatch of M. Guizot, giving not only his en tire approbation to the written speech of M. Bois le Comte on Juno 2, but dwelling still more on the strange doctrines contained in it. It was said that M. llochsenbein expressed the greatest surprise at the lan guage of M. Guizot, being so sensibly different from that employed by that Minister in his recent explanations in the Chamber of Deputies. The President of the di rectory, it is also said, spoke still more firmly than in the first interview of the French Envoy, against certain doctrines which that diplomatist endeavoured to uphold. Without guaranteeing the fact which I thus inform you of, I have every reason to believe i s exact." GLASGOW PIG-IRON MA.F; KET , JULY 13.—The iroz-market is very firm thin week, and prices have ad vanced to 70s. 6d. and 71:4. cash f or 3.sthe Fo. 1, and 2-stia Z. a...4144J ors, MAJORITY -AYES, 132. Acland, Sir T. Eutwisle, W. Miles, Philip W. S. Antrobus, Edmund Ferguson, Sir R. Morpeth, Viscount Archdall, Captaia Forester, G. C.ll Morris, David Baring, klenry Frewen, C. H. Mundy, E. M. Baring, Thomas Fuller, A. E. Neville, Ralph Barrington, Viscount Gardner, J. D. Newdegate, N. Beckett, William Gaskell, J. M. Nicholl, J. Bennet, P. Gore, Montague Norreys, Lord Bentinck, Lord G. Gore, Robert Norreys, Sir D. Blackburne, J. I. Goring, Charles O'Brien, A. S. iodkin, William H. Goulburn, Henry Packe, C. W. Boldero, 11. G. Graham, Sir James Palmerston, Viscount Bortliv.-ick, Peter Grey, Sir George Parker, John Bowles, Admiral Grosvenor, Lord R. Patten, J. W. Broadley, 11. Hallyburton, Lord Pennant,.Colosiel Buller, Charles Halsey, T. P. Philipps, Sir R. Buller, Edward Hamilton, G. A. Plumridge, Captain Butler, Sir Y. Hatton, Captain Price, Sir R. Byng, G. S. Hawes, B. Reid. Colonel Carew, W. 11. Pole Henley, J. W. Repton, G. W. J. Cavendish,tC. C. Herbert, Sidney Rich, Henry Chohnondeley, M. Hildyard, T. B. T. Richards, Richard Christopher, R. Hobhouse, Sir John Russell, Lord J. Clayton, It. R. Hope, A. Russell, J. D. Clive, Vise.? Hornby, John Rutherford, A. Collett, W. It. Hotham, Lord Seymer, Henry Ker Corry, henry Ingestre, Viscount Seymour, Sir H. B. Courtenay, Lord Inglis, Sir R. Shell, R. L. Clovper, W. F. Jervis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W. Craig, W. G. Jocelyn, Viscount Stuart, J. Denison, J. E. Jones, Captain Thesiger, Sir F. Denison, W. J. Kirk, Peter Tollernache, J. Dickinson, F. 11. Labouchere, Henry Turner, E. Disraeli, 8.,1 ' Langston, J. 11. Vesey, Hon. T. Dodd, G. Lascelles, W. S. Vivian, J. E. Douglas, J. S. Law, C. E. Vyse, H. 11. H. H. Duckworth, Sir J. Lefroy, A. Ward, H. G. Duncembe, 0. Legh, G. C. Wellesley, Lord C, Dundas, 'Admiral Lemon, Sir C. Williams, W. Dundas, Sir D. Lindsay, Colonel Wilshere, T. W. East, Sir J. Lowther, Hon. Col. Wood, Sir Charles Easthope,:Sir J. Macaulay, T. B. Wortley, J. S. Ebrington, Lord Manners, Lord C. TELLEIS.3. Egtrton, W. T. Maule, Fox TMbell, IL Egerton, Sir P. Meynell, Captain Hill, Lord Marcus MINORITY-NOES, 33. Aglionby, 11. Duncan, George Philips, Mark Aldam, W. Duncombe, Thomas Pinney, William Berkeley, Craven Ellis, Wynn Roebuck, J. A. Bouverie, E. P. Escott, Blckham Seymour, Lord Brotherton, J. Evans, Sir De Lacy Smith, R. V. _ Brown, W. Forster, M. Thornely, Thomas Clay, Sir W. Hall, Sir Benjamin Wakley, Thomas Clements, Viscount Hindley, C. Walker, Richard Colebrooke, Sir T. Horsman, E. Wall, C. B. Currie, liaikcs M`Taggart, Sir J. TELLERS. D'Eyncourt, T. Molesworth, Sir W. Hume, Joseph Duke, Sir James Osborne, Ralph Collett, John Page 2, line 1 ; Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " and for establishing forthwith a Bishops is of Man chaster:"—Whereupon Motion made, and Question pro posed," That the Chairman do now report progress, and ask leave to sit again." The Committee divided:— MINORITY—AYES, 18. Aglionby, H. A. Escott, Bickham Philips, Mark ISrotherton, Joseph Hall, Sir B. Thornely, T. Currie, ltaikes Hindley, Charles Wakley, T. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Horsman, Edward Williams, W. Duke, Sir James Hume, Joseph Duncan, George Mole6worti, Sir W. Roebuck J. A. Duncombe, T. Osborne, Ralph Collett, John MAJORITY-NOES, 129. Acland, Sir T. Acland, T. D. Ebrington, Viscount Masterman, John Egerton, W. T. Maule, Fox Antrobus, E. Egerton, Sir P. Meynell, Captain Archdall, Captain Entwisle, W. Miles, P. W. S. Austen, Colonel Ferguson, Sir R. Milaes, R. M. Bannerman, A. Forester, G. C. Morpeth, Viscount Baring, 11. B. Frewen, C. H. Morris, David Baring, Thomas Fuller, A. E. Mundy, E. Miller Baring, W. 11. Gardner, J. D. Neville, Ralph Beckett, W. Gasksll, J. M. liewdegatc, C. N. Bennet, Philip Gore, Montague 'Nichol', John Bentinck, Lord G. Gore, Robert Norreys, Sir D. Berkeley, Craven Goring, Charles O'Brien, A. S. Blackburne, J. 1. Goulburn, Henry Packe, C. W. godkin, W. 11. Boldero, llQnry Grey, Sir G. Palmeroton,ll3. Grosvenor, Lord R. Parker, John . _ Borthwick, Peter Hallyburton, Lord Patten, J. W. Bowles, Admiral Halsey, T. P. Pennant, Colonel Broadley, H. Hamilton, G. A. Philipps, Sir R. Brown, W. Hatton, Captain Pinney, W. Buller, Charles Hawes, Benjamin Price, Sir Robert Buller, Edward Henley, J. W. Reid, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. Herbert, Sydney Repton, G. W. ityng, G. S. Hildyard, T. 11. Rich, Henry Carew, W. P. Hobhouse, Sir J. Richards. Richard Cavendish, C. C. Hodgson, F. Russell. Lord John Cholmondeley, H. Hope, Alexander Russell, J. D. Christopher, R. A. Hornby John Rutherfurd, A. Clayton, R. R. Hotham, Lord Seynaer, IL K. Clive, Viscount Ingestre, Visct. Sheil, It. L. Collett, W. R. Inglis, Sir R. IL Somerville. Sir W. Corry, H. Jervis, Sir John Stuart, John Courtenay, Lord Jones, Captain Thesiger, Sir F. Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Tollemache, John Craig, W. G. Langston, J. H Vesey, T. Dickinson, F. F. Lascelles, W. S. Vyse, H. Dodd, George Law, C. E. Walker, Richard Douglas, J. D. S. Lefroy, Anthony Ward, 11. G. Duckworth, Sir J. Legh, G.C. . Wilshere W. _.... Duncombe, O. Lemon, Sir Charles Wood, Sli Charles nuncios, Admiral Lindsay, Colonel Wortley, J. S. Dundas, Sir David Lowther? Colonel TELLERS. East, Sir J. B. Macaulay, T. B. Tuihell, Henry Easthope, Sir John Manners, Lord C. Hill, Lord M. COURT CIRCULAR. The royal dinner party at Osborne on Thursday even ing included the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caro line Leveson Gower. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk in the pleasure-grounds ano plantations of Osborne. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, rode out on ponies and took their usual airings. The Hon. Miss Murray, one of the Maids of Honour in Waiting on her Majesty, left Osborne yesterday. The Mayor of Manchester, Mr. Alderman Kay, and Mr. Alderman Hopkins, a deputation from Manchester to oppose the establishment of any Ecclesiastical Court in connexion with the Bishopric of Manchester, accom panied by the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mr. J. Brotherton, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Hon. F. Scott and Colonel M'Arthur had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial- Office. The Speaker of the House of Commons had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester day, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. Palmer, M.P., had an interview with the Right lion. E. Strutt yesterday, at the Office of the Commis sioners of Railways in Great George-street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies. BANK OF EN GLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 10th day ofJuly, 1847. 1891711 DEPAIITZLENT. X. Notes i55ued........ 23,304,805 Government debt • . 11,015,100 Other securities . • 2,983,900 Gold coin and bullion 7,905,96:5 Silver bullioa . • 1,398,842 £23,304,805 23,304,805 . DIARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 15th day of July, la BANKING D, X. Proprietors' capital 14,553,000 Rest •••• • • • • 3,551,551 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts)• 5,245,017 Other deposits Seven day and other bills • . ... • • 841,386 .LITMENT. X. Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity). - 11,636,340 Other securities •• • • 16,747,037 Notes .. . ...... ••. • • 4,3.31,330 Gold and silver coin.. 781,570 433,06,277 433,496,277 r. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 15th day of July, 1847 l'itoPOSEb STATUE IN LINCOLN'S INN F/ELDS TO TUE MEmonl - OP Loan payeth was held in th e g of ßuStsttt...--4esterday morning for the purpose of a preliminary til tetiti gentlemen and influential rate . - o o a f o t m akin g into eousideration the pfopriety on the spot where h parish . of St. Andrew's, Holborn, ent to the tnetnory of Lord Russell of erecting on the gist n wits beheaded in Lincoln's Inn- Fields, July,. 1683. Mr. J. it. Taylor took the chair, and explained the object for which the the sub qehtleinen having expressed meeting was held. proposed and an a. subscription of one their opinions up o t i intention expressed of e . :s takenat opportuhity. gtlinta Bach Was calling a public meeting at' the viewl an important The tinperor Nicholas has decision in a strategic point of view. portant ur the i3 three . the project of a vast line of railways . e uniti ng t e i rs e b has adopted capitals—Warsaw, Moscow, and St. P line, of which the tete de port will be the fortress g Of Wars saw, will complete and strengthen the system of the :l i d kingdom of Poland, such as the Enaperor,Y wholes esta blished it at the last insurrection in 1830. The country to be traversed by the line is generally fiat, w hi c h w i ll allow of the works being rapidly completed at an ex pense of about 10 0 , 000 f. the English mile. NEWFOUNDLAND PRODUCE.—The vessel Dart arrived in the river from Newfoundland, h as b rought, in addition to a cargo of oil and other merch an di se , t h e large number of 18,19 4 seal skins ; and another vessel, the Cynthia, arrived from the same place, besides a cargo of oil, 17,000 of the same kind of skins. Th ese extensive importations of the seal skin from the British North American provinces mentioned, atuply illustrate! the aboadauce of the creature is that &strict JERSEY LA W. The following is an account of justice as administered in the island of Jersey, and is wondrous strange if true: —" I knew a scoundrel in Jersey, who wed a person residing in Southampton 801. The creditor had heard the debtor had come to Jersey; he pursued him to Jersey to obtain the money. The debtor happened to be at the pier head, when his eye saw there his friend, the cre ditor, land from the packet, come doubtless to hunt him up. He dogged the gentleman to an hotel, fetched the officer, and served upon him a bill for eighty pounds, at the suit of a Mr. A. The sheriff found Mr. B. at breakfitst, and asked him if his name was Mr. 13., and having replied in the affirmative, he handed him the demand. The astonished Mr. B. looked at him, and recovering a little from his surprise, cried out, • Why, odzounds ! the man owes me the money, not I him! I am come over to-day by the packet, on purpose to get it. Ha! ha! this is a capital joke !' You will not find it one, Sir. Are you prepared, Sir,' demanded the Sheriff, •to pay that money?' Un doubtedly not.' roared Mr. B.; • I tell you the scoundrel owes me! Pretty thing, indeed! Ha! ha! That's rich!' • Will you find bail that the amount is paid?' pursued the Sheriff. • I tell you, Sir, the boot's on the wrong leg; the knave owes me the money, and I have left my business, and put myself to great expense and inconve nience, to come over here and recover it; and as soon as I have swallowed down this muffin I shall be off and find him. I must return by the next packet. Ha! ha! that's fat! Ile owe it? Ha! ha!" I will wait, Sir,' replied the Sheriff, ' till you have finished you meal; and then, Sir, as you will neither pay the money nor find bail, I must fulfil my instructions, painful as they may be. You must con sider yourself try prisoner.' Imagine the surprise, the disgust, the indignation that seized upon the infuriated creditor as he found himself actually in durance. And there, in spite of all his ravings about his innocence and the infernal mistake, he remained three long weeks, till he was brought up to the Hall, and no one appearing against him, he was discharged •, for his ras cally debtor had, as you perceive, eatteed him to be un justly arrested and confined, in order to allow himself a clear exit to France, which he effected. And there was no redress for the poor creditor, so he quietly went to his , home at Southampton, after suffering his three wee ks imprisonment in Jersey, minus his eighty pounds, and ?, rejoicing that he was at length out of that infernal pi ace. —The Emigrant, by W. H. Leigh. PIRACY—FOUR MEN KILLED. The Mayo Constitution publishes the following from a correspondent at Westport: — On Saturday, 4th instant, the schooners Olive Branch and Sarah were plundered off Eagle Island, on the Erris coast, of five tons of Indian meal each; and on the sth instant the schooner Ranger, on her way to this port, was attacked in Blacksod, and 170 barrels of meal taken off. The pirates, in t heir hurry quitting the vessel, left one of their party a fter them, who has been handed over to the police here. On the 7th instant the Emily Maria of Skerries, a smack laden with Indian c orn, was attacked near Inni s k ea, b u t the Captain having appli,d to the Commander of the Emerald cutter, now stationed in Broadhaven, for the marines which were on board, the people made so despe rate an attack that the marines resolutel y defended the property under their care, and shot four of the plun derers dead, and wounded several others. It is to be hoped that this melancholy occurrence will put a stop to tlunder on the Erris coast. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ELY AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY. ELY, FRIDAY EVENING.—This morning the inquiry respecting the death of Thomas Staples, tte driver of the engine of the express train which recently ran off the Ely and Peterborough Railway, was resumed at the Lamb Inn in this city, before Mr. Marshall and the jury previously empannelled. Captain Simmons, one of the Government inspector:: of railways, was present, as also Mr. Samuels, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Scott, of the Eastern Counties Company, who work the railway. The CORONER adverted to what had been done at the previous meeting of the jury. He had had that part of the line where the accident happened surveyed by a competent disinterested engineer, who had prepared a plan of the spot for the information of the jury. Mr. Pratt Collier, the engineer alluded to, produced the plan. The decline from the Hundred Foot-bridge to to the place of accident was 1 in 173, the distance was three chains and five lengths. There was a difference of seven inches in the levels of the up and down rails, the up rails being the lowest. The accident happened on the up rail. The gradient on the down rail was lin 264 feet. John Mayo, a fireman in the service of the company, said he was stoker to the engin e attac h e d to the train ' and the deceased was the driver. The train consisted of the engine and tender, a break van, and two passenger carriages. CORONER.—Did you feel any difference of motion at or near the place where the accident occurred ? Wit ness—No, I did not. We were going at a steady rate. CORONER—Were you going faster than usual? Wit ness—We were not. We never go fast down an incline. My mate was a caret ul steady man. I was with him five weeks, and I never saw him drink anything. We were going at about 25 to 30 miles an hour. CORONER—Have you experienced any peculiar jerk in passing over the fen country? Witness—Not at this place, but I have at Downham at a crossing. CORONER—Have you noticed any jerk or difference of motion in passing off a viaduct on to an embankment? Witness—l have not. I did not feel any giving way of the tender just before the accident. John Gardiner, who acted as guard of the train, said the engine left the rails about 50 or 60 feet beyond a wooden viaduct over an occupation road, and felt no mo tion until the train reached that place. Observed no jerking an crossing that viaduct. The engine gave no warning of running of the rails. CORONER— Have you any idea as to the rate of the train at the time of the accident? Witness—Between thirty and forty miles an hour. After the accident I went back, and saw a left hand rail on the up line torn out of its place; this is where I suppose the engine first left the line. The ballast was cut up and the sleepers cut through. _ _ William Stanfeild, a plate layer, employed on the line, said he examined the line where the engine left the metal. There were seven rails broken and dis turbed. There was one broken and three bent on the left side and three bent on the other side. CORONER—How often is the line inspected? Wit ness—Every other day. This part of the road does not much settle. There were eighteen sleepers cut through. Ido not know how many chains. There has been a difference in the levels of both rails ever since I have been on it. The rails were not lifted up to the level, but merely where depression existed. Jacob Dyke, another plate-layer, said, I assisted in re pairing tho road. I have observed that the road was not in so perfect repair as I could wish. I don't recollect ever saying that I thought an accident would take place. I have remarked that the settlement on that part of the road near the Hundred Foot-bridge was so great as to require more men to be employed on it. I spoke to Mr. Jackson, the foreman of Mr. Peto, the contractor, to allow more men to attend to the settlement, and in a day or two extra hands were put on. There had been a set tlement of six inches since the last time the gauge was taken. I should certainly have lifted the rails more often if more hands had been on. There was a greater sinking where the accident took place than in any other part of the line. When I saw the engine coming along she seemed to be travelling at about forty miles an hour. The engine " wriggled " about a good deal. I have seen many trains pass that part of the line, but none of them went so fast as that which met with the accident. Mr. John Hunter, locomotive superintendent of the company, deposed—l have seen the broken rail and the axletree of the tonder, and consider them as being of good metal. The aaletree might have been broken by a violent jerk. The engine has recently been thoroughly repaired. It has inside cylinders. She is a very steady engine, of Braithwaite's manufacture, forty-horse power, and capable of travelling with a train at fifty miles an hour. There was nothing in her machinery that could account for the accident. In my opinion one of the frac tures of the rail was caused by a lateral and not a down ward pressure. After several other witnesses had been examined, many speaking positively to the speed of the train having been excessively great, Captain Simmons re-inspected the line, and, on his return, stated he found the sleepers where the accident happened from the a Hundred Foot bridge," to within ninety or a hundred feet on the Ely side, to be more or less damaged. He could not give an opinion as to the precise cause of the accident. The line was in good order. At one o'clock the jury returned the following ver dict:—" We find that Thomas Staples, the deceased, came by his death by being crushed between the tie rod of the aile guard of the break van, which was attached to the tram on the Ely and Peterborough Railway; and we further find that the accident which led to his death was occasioned by some part of the train running off the line by reason of its being propelled at too high a speed, the embankment at the place of the accident being out of order, a settlement of the permanent road having been allowed to take place, and the rails below their proper gauge; and we cannot separate without expressing our decided opinion that whenever an accident occurs it would be much better for public satisfaction that rail way companies should leave the line undisturbed until inspected by the Government authorities, in order that a more conclusive and decisive opinion might be ar rived at." WHITEHALL, JULY 7. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry William Whitehead, of Rochdale, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JULY 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Armitage, of Huddersfield, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Edward Swift, it ntnnngor, Walsall, Staffordshire. BANKRUPTS. to surrender July 30, and Aug. 27, John Brittan, market gardener, Redlynch , Wilts h i re, the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, h ffi , official assignee, one, at Basinghall-street; Knight, B a singhall-street. John Wyatt Sugg, architect, 'Torquay, July 29, at one, and Aug. 24, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Laidman, Exeter; Clowes, Wedlake, and Clowes, King's Bench walk, Temple. James Dolphin, grocer, Bilston, Staffordshire, July 24 and August 21, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Bod dington, Dudley. Luke Langley, baker, Brading, Isle of Wight, July 29, at eleven, and Aug. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Westmacott, John-street, Bedford row; Hearn, Newport. Thomas Green Crofts, draper, Leicester, July 30 and Aug. 27, at eleven, at the Nottingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. Stephen Hocken, builder. Cornwall-villas, Dalston, July 28, at two, and August 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official-assignee, Abchurch lane, Lombard-street; Cutler, Bell-yard, Doctors' Com mons. John Snook, builder, Ledbury-road, Paddington, July 27, at half-past one, and Aug. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Bin:thin-lane, Cornhill; Fisher, Queen-square. Bloomsbury. Henry Clark, oil m-rchant, Redcross-street, City, singhaiitraAug. 6, at elevPri, and Aug. 28, at one, at th e C ourt o f BK Bankrup tcy. -s F e o t; Murray, lletlt'officialassiglige, S am b roo k -court, London-street, Fenchurch street. John Fearne Gee, manufacturing chemist, Wakefield, July 29 and Sept. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Clarke, Chan cery-lane, London ; Barran, Wakefield; Carriss, Leeds. Ge-,rge Roberts, miller, Rodborough, Gloucestershire, July 30 mid Aug. 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol ; Kearsey, Stroud. Company, cotton Liverpool spinners William Alsop Massey, licensed; viiietnuaratylltiLriilvLveeirv,peoroplo.ol, July 27 and Aug. 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Casenove, official Kennedy, Chancery-lane, London Pendleton, r g hton Lancashire,H ol den, and Au g. 4 and 30 at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Atkinson, Saunders, and Atkinson, Manchester ; Abbott, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, London. Joseph Leadbeater Butterell, grocer, Doncaster, July 30 and Sept. 3, at ten, at the Sheffield District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Rushworth, Staple Inn, London ; Sanderson, Leeds. William Bromley Cooke, tape-manufacturer, Winshill, Derbyshire, July 23, at ten, and Aug. 27, at eleven, a t the Birmingham District Cou r t. Bittleston, offi c i a l assignee, Nottingham ; J. and J. Richardson, Burton upon-Trent. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. T. Gammage and J. Mott, cheesemongers, Broad street, Bloomsbury—first div. of 2s 4d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Alder manbury. J. Wray, furrier, Newington-causeway—first div. of 4s. 10d. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. J. Hignett, seek manufacturer, Manchester—a div. of 3s. 7d. in the pound, on Tuesday, July 27, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man chester. S. Hill, boiler maker, Bolton-le-Moors—a div. of 20s. in the pound, on Tuesday, July 27, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. S. Hill and U. Owen, boiler makers, Bolton-le-Moors —a div. of 7s. 6d. in the pound, on Tuesday, July 27, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Ogden, cotton spinner, Reddish, Lancashire—a div. of 3s. 6d. in the pound, on Tuesday, July 27, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man chester. _ _ --- J. - Beal, confectioner, Manchester—a div. of 3s. 7d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. W. Tickle and W. Roberts, cotton spinners, Burnley, Lancashire—second div. of Id. in the pound, and a first and second div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound on new proofs, at the office of Mr. Fraser. M anc h es t e r. W. Loekmore, stuff m anu f ac t urer , Hi g htown—first div. of 4Ad. in the pound, on an y day after July 22, at the office of Mr. Youn g , L ee d s . J. Seaton, farmer, Wi c kl ey cum Cl o yton—first div. of 4s. in the pound, on any d ay a f ter J u ly 22, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. T. Hdliwell, auctioneer, Halifax—first di v ' of is. 6d. in the pound, on any day after July 22, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. 'l'. Taylor, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—third and final div. of sd. in th e pound (in addition to 10s. in the pound previously declared), at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyn e . J. Allison, bookseller, Penrith—first div. of 6F. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. A. Perry, traveller, Birmingham—first div. of 7d. in the pound, o n any T hursday, at t h e office of Mr. Christie, Birmingh im . G. Longfi( Id, wo o ll en d raper, West b rom wich—first div. of Is. 4d. in the pound, on any T hurs d a y, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmin g h am. T. Anderton, farm er , Y ar dl ey, W orc estershire — first div. of 3s. in the pound, on any Th urs d a y, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. J. At c mtheooCreo,utrtoookfsßankruptcy, DIVIDENDS. twelve—S. Hitchin, draper, Oxford street, Aug. 9. at half-past twelve—W. Q • • i ker Old nincey, tin-plate wor , street, St. Lukes, Aug 7, at half-past two—T. Carter, jeweller, Reading, Aug,,BaAsiunggh9a,ll-asttrati. past 87, at three—G. O. Shields, Lambeth-square, Lambeth, Aug. 6, at twelve —J' Revell, grocer, Elizabeth-street, Pimlico, Aug. 6, at tvrelve. In the Country. W. and J. Fox, oilman, Manchester, Aug. 6, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court—J- .A.stley, fustian manufacturer, Manchester, Aug. 6, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court—J. Mack, pawnbroker, Liverpool, Aug. 6, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—H. Johnson, merchant, Sheffield, Aug. 13, at ten, at the Sheffield District Court —J• Gibson, Liver pool, Aug. 6, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein me ntioned. . J. M. Blaahfield, builder, Albion wharf, Blackfriars, Aug. 6—P. F. A. V. Vyver, merchant, Crutched•friars, City, Aug. 7 -11. C. Timpson, surgeon, Woolwich, Aug. 7—J. Simpson, comm‘m carrier, Croswell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, Aug. 6—R. V. Furlong, wine mer chant, Cheltenham, Aug. io—S. L. Trotman, merchant, Liverpool, Aug. 6-11. W. Shipley, lace manu f acturer , Nottingham, Aug. 6—W. and S. Edge, earthenware manufacturers, Fenton, Staffordshire. Aug. 7—J. Clarke, Aug . 9—J machine maker, Stockport , • Laybourne, printer, Manchester, Aug. 6-4. Ingram, grocer, Bir mingham, Aug. 6—11.. rickstone, grocer, Manchester, Aug. 6—W. Fugler, warehouseman, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside, Aug. 6—J.' Ward, g rocer, Runcorn, Cheshire, Aug. 6—R. Gibson, cattle dealer,__ Castle Bromwich, ‘Varwickshire, Aug. 9—J. Donaldson, coach builder, Aug.' 6 —J. m yt h, grocer, Chelmsford, Aug. 6—R. ,Saddlew Buckley, woollen cloth orth, Yorkshire Aug. 6—G. Tel, merchant, Old Jewry .iiambers;Aug. 6—H. W. K in g, cabinet maker, Oldham, Aug. 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED, M. Powell and J. Phillips, ironmonger, Bishop's Castle, Shropshire—D. Hurd and J. Wurr, waterproof cover manufacturers,Brick-larte, Spitalfields—J. Stott, J. Wintarburn, and J. Inman, merchants, Liverpool (so Winter b u rn)—F. Butterfield and M. far as regards J. Pickup, attorneys, Bradford, Yorkshire—G. Haines and W. linrieYo boo t manufacturers, Northampton—D. lary, T. Hillary, G. Hillary, Wr. Hill, and N. Atki nson , s tone merchants, Bingley, Y o rkshire —E. Dewhurst, R. c alico printers, Sharpies, Walker, and W. M ackenzie, Lancashire (so far as regards W. Mackenzie—. Kemp and H. Hulbert, cor n factors, High-street ) , BoHrough— & Walker, P. Walker, and N. Brodie , alkali manufac turers, B ag il t , Flintshire—B. Shirley and M. Tipper, china manutaeturers, Longton, Staffordshire —J. T. Radcliffe and J. Butterworth, grocers, Shoreditch—H, Trigg a nd W. Hodgson, share br okers Hull— R. and W. Rawlins, millers, Lani b e rhurst, Sussex—R. Wootten, gen., H. M. Tobb, R. Woollen, jun., G. Tubb, T. W. Tubb, H. M. Tubb, and G. Tubb, bankers, gi cester _p . Tilt and W. Hawtrey, coach masters, Fulham—S. and W. Clothier, stone masons, Quickset-row, New-road— J. Penny and J. Wheeler, wine merchants, Queen-street so far as sn s gards J. Unsworth)— place, City—G. Basham and B. V. Hutchinson, attorneys, Staple a ln u n u —J fac,u . Urenrssw(ortb, W. Luf.d, and J. L. Copeland, ' Pon, calico H. H. Walker, T. Dawx,l2b.re.r,H.an'df. WT.hom Printers, Manchester — H. Ford, auc tioneers, Penton row, Walworth—R. Roy and J. Blunt, attorneys, Lothbury —J- Smith and M. Se y mour, coal owners, Trimdon-grange, Durham—J. Wibberley and J. Broom, painters, Liverpool—W. S. Q; vaMpson' Walker, and C. Benn ett, railway contractors, Wisbeeh. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. H. Colville, wise merchants Glasgow, July 21 and Aug. Zl, at twelve, at the offtc& oxltiessn, M ap f„,i and INrixtk, Glogolvo • FEARFUL ACCIDENT. A sad tragedy occurred in the neighbourhood of In verness last Thursday. Mr. Rose, one of the most respectable and wealthy inhabitants of the town, his son (a lad about fifteen), his two daughters, and another gentleman, Mr. Lytham, left town on that morning with a carriage and pair to visit the Fall of Foyers and the surrounding scenery. At the rocky pass of Inverfarkeirg, about thirteen miles from Inverness, the road becomes very rugged and uneven, and the approach to the bridge, thrown across the torrent which tumbles through the glen, is so steep and dangerous, that most travellers alight from their vehicles and perform that part of the journey on foot. On their way to the Fall th , t , party adopted this precaution ; but on their return, when it was debated whether they should again walk that part of the road or not, they, fatigued probably by rambling about the Falls, resolved to remain in the carriage. At the steep approach leading to the bridge, the weight of the carriage pressing upon the horses, they grew restive. and one of the reins breaking, they became unmanage able. At or on the bridge a sudden jerk threw the youngest lady, who was seated on the top, off into the bed of the torrent, a height of between thirty and forty feet. The same jerk threw her father and the driver off; but luckily they tell on the bridge. One of the horses fell over, and hung struggling in the harness; the other retained its footing, and strove desperately to keep it. Ultimately, however, it was dragged over , and, falling undermost, was killed upon the spot. The carriage and its occupants shared the fate of the horses ; it turned round in the air, and falling, wheels uppermost, on the poor girl who was first thrown off, was dashed to pieces. Some labourers working near the place used every exertion to extricate the sufferers, and medical assistance was immediately sent for to Inverness. The injuries of the youngest lady were so severe that she lingered insensible till the next morning, and then expired. Her sister is very severely injured, and her brother's skull is fractured. Both lie in a precarious state. Mr. Lytham is much cut and bruised, and has sustained a serious injury in the knee. Mr. Rose and the driver escaped unhurt.—Scotsnian. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST inA N the AF eam ll e lC A ft N epr C rhe A epavv P rea l ds 'AlN. Captain Witt, of the Swiftsure, belonging to Thomas Tobin, Esq., was brought up before ..Ir. Rushton, charged with having caused the death of a seaman, named Alfred Biland, by knocking him down and kick ing him, on the Bth of January last, whilst lying in Bonny River, Africa, from which ill-treatment he lingered until the 16th of that month, when he expired. James Anwell, a seaman, stated that he shipped in Liverpool on board the wiftsure, bound for Bonny River. On their arrival out, on the Bth of January, Alfred Roland, a Swede, and himself, were ordered to " shackle the chains," and Boland taking the wro ß r h .g a r a d . the captain struck him and knocked him d own, fully , k i b c u k t i n w g as hi i m ia3m wh d e i n at d , down. cap tain. His body was covered with b ei lu ve ez rec h wa s very much dis ge h e h n e . d ordered The o n deceased deck b a j t - h f the r e o n mw theen t effects of the ill-usage also struck him in tae eye, marks he captain o b n u th t . an T ot t e y r c h o a l d ou a re s d u . rge ll on e died on on the 16th „f river—who b ft thsantren:. attended 8 0 . g b-ard of the was sent fur—Mr• Tuck , ivit h the es surgeonarrived in this the this Princess Royal, never l l a to2 d 'a u l, n t t h il en his ly d in and the b r oc ea a snm so w t h h y o h o e ap h t a a d i o not argssitvoseutnrtuin formation y ear have the evidence of it any de Deceased lasti ier -waswasfa 11nTdc town. e h l / 4 ei at t p k r p e i d r s e o o s n e n e o r t t b s i s . se a b t i Bh d ut h h e h j e w a naus wished aqruy;t the log-book, from the entries in which it would be found that the statement made by the witness would not agree in reference to the medical officer who attended the de ceased ; and he likewise wished the magistrate to allow him time to obtain counsel, and to consult with the mer chants to whom the Swiftsure belongs. Mr. Rushton admitted the prisoner to bail in two sureties of 501. each, to appear to answer the charge.- 1 1 Liverpool Courier. DEATH or SIR WALTER BLUNT, BART.—This youthful baronet expired unexpeetediy on Tuesday last, at his seat, licatlitield, Sussex, aged but 21. It appears that about twelve months since the seeds of severe com plaint manifested themselves, but no immediate danger was apprehend e d. O n M on d ay l as t, w h,le drivingitr!his park, one of th e h orses p l unge d, and the shock , which under ordinary ci rcums t ances might have_a bse;raedi n compara tivelyimmediately harmles s , h a d a f a t a l effect- il d conveyed to the mansion, where death e nsued next morning. ESQ.—This DEATH OF ANDREW HENRY LYNCH, Member for the town of gentleman, for many years of Master in Cbauevry at . the Galway, and who, up to a recent n period, ish fbtea rr, filled ed iieedr t i h g e ttl o e ffi nt h ce 13th inst., at Tournay, in France. illnesee ALLEGED DEATH from VIOLENCE.; Yesterday an extraordinar ) special meeting of " The Committee of Visitors" of the Surrey County Lunati c Asylum was held in the board room of the asylum. to inquire into the cause of the death of James Burden, a, lunatic, whose decease was alleged to have been caused by violence received whilst an inmate of that institution. The chairman, Mr. Kemble, M.P., stated that no one was charged with any specific offence. Mr. Bridgeland, tne steward, said that on Monday, June the 14th, Mr. Holland, the medical officer, reported to him that the deceased had had a pain in his side for five days past. He visited the patient, who said that he was very unwell during the night, and about ten or eleven o'clock he knocked hard at his door to be let out, and on the door being opened he received a severe blow in his side from some man with a long pole. The force of the blow drove him back against the wall with great violence. Since that time, which was three days before; he had suffered much pain, and had great difficulty in breathing. During this interview deceased appeared quite rational. Mr. Joseph Holland, resident surgeon of the institu tion, stated that on Sunday, the 10th, he found deceased. suffering from diarrhoea, and iu a state of great exhaus tion. He treated him accordingly, but at eight o'clock in the evening he found him breathing with great die ' culty ; his pulse was quick, and skin hot. Witness was about to ask the deceased some questions, when the attendant, John St ee l, remar k e d th a t h e h a d made a strange complaint to Sir Alexander Morrison, to the effect that be had been ill-used by him, Steel. He examined the deceased, and discovered that he had a broken rib on the right side; there were two contusions t s i i i d e e 2 o 3 f d the bod T y h •. e p D o t s , c t e m as o e r d iem gra e d x u a a m lly i - n s a a t n io k u , o a n n d t h d e i e r d i g o h n t showed that the eighth rib was fractured, and that that injury was the cause of death. He found deceased, on one occasion, locked up in his room till between ten and eleven o'clock, and he was then in a most filthy state. John Logan Steel said deceased had complained of a pain in his side from the time he was admitted. De ceased had told him that he had quarrelled with Roberts, another patient, who had kicked him in the side, g e told Sir Alexander Morrison that he was kicked. R e bad also told witness be had been violently assaulted in Brixton gaol. James Burden, the son of the deceased, said that his father bad told him, his wite, and his mother, that his teeth had been knocked out, his eyes blackened, his head knocked against the wall, and he hod been violently thrown against the side of the bedstead, which had hurt his ribs. Deceased told his mother he had been struck with a piece of the beds:ead. The keeper Steel appeared to be attentive to deceased. Steel turned the conversa tion on two or three occasions when deceased was about to speak. The committee consulted for a few minutes, and ex pressed their opinion on the case in a resolution that •" the committee are not enabled to decide whether the injury from which the deceased died was occasioned by a blow received on or about the let of June, in a scuffle which took place between him and a lunatic of the name of Roberts; whether it was from the injury received in a fall which he got in attempting to get through the ventilator over the door of his ward; or from the Wow stated by him to have been inflicted by some of the at tendants. They regret the unsatistactory manner of this conclusion, but they feel that it would be unjust to the attendants to throw upon them, or any one of them, a stigma which is not borne out by the evidence." CHARGE OF MUTINY. Nine seamen, named Aneas Dunkin, Anthony Thomp son, John Bull, William Cornish, Hugh Mulholland, Samuel Armstrong, James Shields, James Linard, and John Weakling, were brought before Mr. Ballantine, at the Thames Police-office, charged under the 6th section of the Merchant Seamen's • Act, with refusing i to pro ceed to sea in the s hip K at h er i ne , on her intended voyage to the East Indies, after signing the articles of agreement. The seamen came up from Gravesend voluntarily, with Mr. Barnard Robert Matthews, the Master of the Katherine, for the purpose of obtaining the magistrate's opinion on their alleged grievances, but he refused to go into the case, unless it was regularly put before him. The men were then given into toe custody of Inspector Horn of the K division, and their names entered on the pollee charge sheet. Captain Matthews then stated that all the prisoners had signed the ship's articles and received an advance note for two months' wages, which each man got cashed. On Thursday afternoon the ship was below Gravesend, off Leigh, in Essex, and he gave orders for all hands to heave the anchor and get the vessel ready for sea. To his great surprise the prisoners refused to do any duty, and said they would not sail in the vessel. He was therefore compelled to bring the seamen to London and detain the ship. Theseamen, in reply to the charge, objected to proceed to sea on three grounds:—The first was, that the ship was a leaky one and not seaworthy; secondly, that the provisions were bad, and the bread like bricks and mortar baked together; and, lastly, that the full com • plement of hands had not been shipped. The Magistrate inquired the tonnage of the ship, and the seamen declared she - was 900 tons burden, and that fact was marked on the combings of the hatchway. Captain Matthews, however, declared she was only 753 tons by the new measurement. The seamen said the crew, including the captain, only consisted of twenty-eight hands, and she ought to have at least thirty _ Captain Matthews, in reply, said the ship was per. fectly sea-worthy, and had recently come out of Fletcher's dock, where she had been copper bottomed and repaired. Titr provisions were good, and he had brought some as a specimen. He contended that the ship was ►►ot short• handed. Mr. Ballantine thought she was, and that the master ought, for a vessel of the Katherine's toturage, according to 'the Act 3d and 4th William IV., cap. 54, at least to carry thirty men. The men insisted the ship was leaky, and that they had had a good many spells at the pumps already. Captain Matthews said the ship did not leak much, and that,trom her construction, all the water ran into the well, where there might be a few inches of water, while the rest of the hold was dry. He. wished the magistrate to examine the provisions. Mr. Ballantine declined doing so, and asked the cap tain if he was disposed to take the men back, and ship two additional hands. Captain Matthews said there were two men whose conduct had been so very bad that he could not avail himself of their services. If he did they would foment disturbances. He afterwards said he would rather not go to sea with any of the prisoners. Mr. Ballantine—What, after advancing them two months' wages? Captain Matthews—Yes, Sir. The advanced notes for which the men have obtained cash will not be paid, Mr. Ballantine said the master could request him, instead of committing the seamen, to cause them to be conveyed to the ship again ; but as he would not do so, he did not think it necessary in this case to send them to gaol, because it did appear the vessel was short handed. He would discharge the seamen, and the master could discharge them too, and take care to forward their re gister tickets to the proper officer of Customs. He also recommended the captain to make up the number of his crew to thirty at least, and thought he was bound to do so. _ _ - Captain Matthews said he would act on the magis trate's uggestion. The seamen asked the magistrate to order the restora tion of their clothes, chests, and hammocks, now on board the ship. .. Mr. ballantine—l shall make no order about that. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 Tuesday afternoon, about three o'clock, a melancholy occurrence, attended with loss of life, took place at Mersey-mills, Stockport, belonging to Messrs. Kershaw and Co. A young me chanic, named Bracegirdle, had been working in a well i e t ele' ascendedteoe eumtuinpi it about thirty feet deep, for the purpose of loosening a valve connected with the gasometer pit; he remained odthen down the first time about a quarter of an hour, and few came to the top to breathe more free ly. hould not be minutes he descended again, and as shouted t h x 7r a d m a i t t , h w er ork m , e a e n h d aa r i e e t , ur n iae ro -d e n d o Hanosrwtoear,wneßeH called to the come being .nedtno t wh d ai e s s w ai n sns and foreman of the mechanics, Leech, w ho, without hesnHitoaHrtlinnt.ooW found him senseless et the bo h ttom to . necame faint and found assist ance, act of pushing behind ho had get Bracegirdle on his shoulder, theilt e e 'o r two his senses going' d n a which becoming when i n;ompeed. entaegled alone and threw ladder which instantly did. In and bring the end g o a f i the an elai glrlhoi calling, e gr; ‘, a N hs i e t h lroa h wn i e m froe , rdb furtheru intot retcheei assist ance;vvini i andnalaioftetetaafterwards an n w onw explosion edrpps returning,hoa sefi Leecht c o ea n rl a t el o dew o a k :lue p stdh l taeoocuel Leech course rc T shhe h i t i m s oo f s o that no one durst descend. Dr. Rayner was sent for, and arrived in ten minutes; no one would venture to descend, so he fastened a rope round his body, and went down about twenty feet Finding that the air was not so impure but that it could be respired for a short time, he ascended, when a man named Wood volunteered, under the direction of Dr. Rayner, to go to the bottom. A rope was fastened round him, and he was ordered to shout " Right" every time he felt a check at the rope.. He succeeded in laying hold of one of the bodies, but. had not strength lo bring it up, so be came to the top, and, after breathing the fresh air for_ _ll.- few minutes, took courage, got to the b bottom lino , as speedily as possible, laid hold of Bracegirdlee x hibi clog. both were pulled to the surface. The latle t r n icto to no signs of life. Le was immediately h the chest and cold water dashed l in 1 i open air, his wet clothes removed, )• and by perseverance bevan to move and breathe gently, and unconscious for some time was restored, was sent down the pit as for some hours. manAnotherrohthe - w e t e a e t 7 h a r sh li c 6. )r d tl t ; out, but the air had bee( me soon as possible to more impure, apd g i A lamp was put down, which was pulled up sense] get ri theli courme of two minutes he wa ea being repeated a slight explosion ° e n ] red the air somewhat, when a d Sternly, volunteered to go down. He man, name , third succeeded in putting a rope round the toot of Leech, the second descent round the other, and thus be and at taken out ; but though every means were tried, he tookexti" extinguished, d T a h n i d ; did not exhibit any sien of lite ; his mouth was lull of sand and small stones, so that he had, doubtless, been first rendered senseless by the gas, and then drowned by the rush of water from the gasumet r pipe. Be has lett a wife and two child'en, the yeungest about a month old. He was a man very highly respected by Lis -em ployers and fellow workmen. It is probable that Leech leid died before Bracegirdle waegoeou; ; the latter was sitting uprig-ht, the former lying down. Bracegirdle was in about three.quarters of an hour, Leech about an hour and a quarter. Had Leech been first taken out, most heel) both lives would have been aller4, and " 6 " . IBracegirdle was slightly scorched about the f hands hy the first explcsion,