The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-17 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. LATEST NEWS FROM THE EAST (From the Malta Times of Nov. 5.) ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 1. Admiral Stopford still remains at Beyrout, with two men-ot-war and two frigates. The Turkish troops alone form the garrison of that town, composed of 3,000 men. The other troops, as well as the British and Austrian seam en, would have all died of dysentery had they re ma' ied on shore. St. Jean d'Acre had not yet been reg - alarly besieged. The ships of war which had passed there had thrown some shells into the town without St tapping. I had already announced to you that the Euphrates Thad conveyed some French officers to St. Jean d'Acre, "'together with the dragoman belonging to the Pacha, E.':iosrew Effendi. We have learned that on their Arrival they were furnished with an escort to conduct them to Ibrahim Pacha ' s head-quarters, which was the place of their destination, but they had scarcely passed thQ advanced post before they fell in with a party of mountaineers, by whom they were at first plundered .and then ill-treated ; one of the French officers, for -rn,irly a sergeant-major in the French army in Algiers, had his cars cut off, and was so beaten with sticks that he remains in a deplorable state. They placed a rope round the dragoman's neck and would have hanged hint, but that some Egyptian troops came up, who rescued him. The Pacha, on the contrary, treats all Europeans in the kindest manlier, and, in place of making prisoners of the British and Austrian merchants in Egypt, he has given them every protection as to hfe and property. Dissension has spread among the inhabitants of the mountains. The Maronites are particularly dissatisfied, because the Einir liechir has been sent to Malta. The Skeik Abdallah, the new Prince of part et the mountain, is at the head of the disaffected. Ibraham Pacha is still confident that he will again reduco all Syria to obedi vice and submission, as heretofore. BLOCKADE OF ALEXANDRIA. By an official notification the blockade is again post. potted until the °lst of November, and it is to be hoped that. it will never really commence. We have since learnt, however, that Captain Fisher has sent a second letter, stating that the merchants had misunderstood his first letter, and that only vessels in ballast will be allowed to enter the port for the purpose of shipping off their property. A letter from Alexandria states, that this extension of time has come too late for the British merchants to derive benefit from it, as they had shipped off the bulk of their property at enormous freights, and now others :rill probably buy and ship produce at moderate rates ; hut it reasonably concludes by saying, " It is very diffi cult to please everybody." The blockading squadron off Alexandria on the 28th ult. consisted of the Asia, Ganges, Implacable, Dido, and Daphne. The Asia ‘w:s to leave shortly for Malta, and Commodore Napier in the Powerful was to take the command of this blockade, with the addition of the Thunderer, Edinburgh, and perhaps the Benbow. CON6TANTINOPLE, OCT. S. Troops continue to he prepared for Syria, among the rest iks a regiment of Cuirassiers, Three splendid diamond decorations arc being got re.idy with all h iste for the English comnianders in Syria. So much fuss having been made by the French Press about the alleged proceedings of Mr. Wood in Syria, it may b.; as well to state, for the information of the pub lic, that at this moment Syria swarms with French agents, whose miss'on appears to be to do all the harm they possibly can to the cause of the Sultan. Among the most active are M. Peretee and M. Baudin, both Consular agents. Tiley have been with all the influential Maronitcs, particularly the clergy, telling them that the English, who are Protestants, are aiming at the over throw of the Catholic religion on Mount Lebanon, and in proot of their assertions urge all manner of absurdi ties. On the other hand, they assure whoever is foolish enough to listen to them, that France is sending 100,000 ,%S0 steamers, and 40 ships of the line to assist Me hemet Ali. On the 2-2'l the Ambassadors of the Four Powers transacted business with Redschid Pacha. On the :24th Lord Ponsonby had his audience of the Sultan to deliver Ibrahim Pacha's flag. Colonel Hodges ac companied his Lordship and received a grand decora tion in brilliants in recompense for the zeal and descri mination he has constantly displayed in favour of the Porte. The Sultan was extremely gracious on the oc casion. Several Councils have been held within the last four days, and we are assured that the menacing attitude of France has been the subject of constant dis- The Porte has decided on the number of the Muhas silf. or collectors of revenue, the new system having now been so well organized that the services of super numeraries can be dispensed with, without inconve nience to the financial department. The standard of Ibrahim Paella is a handsome flag of white silk, on which are embroidered the words " La illah illa alio., Mohammed Itessul allah"—" Thera is no God but God, Mohammed is the Prophet of God." It is stated that the detiles of the Taurus, Adana, and Kulek Boghoz, have been abandoned by the Egyp. thins, and that the Turkish troops had taken possession of them. The deputation of Hi:brews, presided over by Sir Alo3es Montetiore, was presented to the Sultan on the 28t1i ult. The l'orte has been pleased to promote Admiral Walker to the rank of a General of Division (Ferik) for his gallant services. THE RETURN OF THE FRENCH FLEET FROM THE LEVANT. MALTA, NOV. 5. A Greek vessel, which arrived here the day before yesterday, parted company the same day with the French fleet of 11 sail-of-the-line off Cape Pessaro, on its return to Toulon. This intelligence corresponds with the latest advices from France, that Admiral Du perre had accepted the command of the fleet, which was to he concentrated between Toulon, Marseilles, and the coast of Africa. SYRIA. We have had no direct arrival from this quarter since our last publication ; but the fall of Acre, re ferred to in our supplement of the 2d instant as hav ing been reported by a French steamer (we imagine the Euphrates, wh ch had conveyed Khosrew Effendi to Acre on a mission from Mehemet Ali), seems to be con firmed by the Confiance, which arrived here on the 2d iastant, and brings the same report. If this be really confirmed, a speedy termination of the Eastern question. may be expected, as Mehemet Ali, abandoned by France, will find it necessary to succumb to save Egypt, which the Allies may consent to allow him to retain the hereditary possession of. Indeed, M. Couhelet, after the arrival at Alexandria of a French sreamer from Toulon, on the •_>4th ult., intimated to Mehemet Ali that France and England would soon be "aaccord." LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM SYRIA. We are indebted to a gentleman on board th e Aus trian steamer Ludovico, arrived this morning fr.r, m B ey . rout, which she left on the 23d, for the follo•Wing : Beyrout was at this period resuming some mea sure her commercial activity. A Turkic, custom-house haul been established, and many fami r xes who had fled from it to Cyprus had retarned. The English and Austrian the Commodore, and Rear-Admiral Walker, cr,r,tinued there with their ships. Tripoli has fallen. T.ne Austrian frigate (;lemenza, remains to protect and, effect the l a ndi ng o f a sma ll b o d y :.)f troops. 'Unto ,vernents were daily expected. It is very difficult for. the garrison to operate a junction with the main Pinay, being entirely surrounded by the moun taineers. St. Jean d'Acre had not been attacked as yet, but it was expected that a force would be immediately sent there for that purpose. Ibrahim Pacha was, it is said, at Marsaka, near Mount Lebanon, and Soliman Pacha at Bilbeck, with a handful of troops. Desertions con tiane daily, and these Paellas are severely molested by she mountaineers. The Emir Bechir an his family were on the 23,1 inst., to Malta, from Saida, in her Britannic Ma jeaty's .reamer Cyclops. About 4,000 prisoners remain to be sent up to Con stantinople ; from 500 to 600 are on board the Ludo vieo, prisorr.trs and deserters, under an officer formerly in the service of the Egyptians. It was currently re ported '.hat the British ileet would winter at Nlarrnorice. (From the Maßzary Shark Oct. 29.) SMYRNA, OCT. 29. The Porte is, we are assured, highly pieased with the services of our gallant countryman Rear-Admiral Walker, and, as a proof of her admiratio n of his courage - and capacity, she is about to confer on him the rank of Vice-Admiral. This brave officer has greatly distin guished himself in every affair in which he has been engaged, and where dangers and difficultie s are the greatest, there is he constantly to be found. A Turkish officer has also behaved most gallantl y Captain Nl us t a ph a (whom we hat , ealready mention e d a : in the Briti s h having re ce i ve d hi s m il tart' education navy), and i n recom p en ce for , ' his zeal he has been, or is ab ou t t o b e , promote d to tae rank of Captain of a %hip of th e li ne . Thi s sp i r i te d o ffi cer is ever foremost in fi g ht, an d i s as coo l i n enter i ng a breach or scaling a wall amidst a shower of bullets as in pacing his own quarter-deck. Of the English officers we need \ say e • tatlattig, th e y w ill h ave t h e i r own paneg y r i s ts. v Clnnet, however, help adding a word with respect to Commodore Napier, who plans his attacks with the Sangfroid of a sage, and executes them with the re sisttass impetuosity of a hero. The friends of Mehemet Ali have called him a pirate, because he seized the Pacha's warlike stores. Would to heaven we had a few more such pirates. The barbarities of the cruel Ibrahim Pacha, we regret to hear, are continued, notwithstandin g the rene-wed proofs he has of the impoliey of his system of terror. We shall endeavour to collect a note of to pe of hi. most striking atrocities to present 1 hereafter to our readers, with a view of showing the real character of the man. In the meantime, we will men tion what happened recently at the village of Beitzibab, in the province of Data. The men having absconded, not to be forced to take up arms in defence of the tyrant, he ordered the women and children to be muti lated or shot, and forty-two, after having seen their houses burnt and property destroyed, were actually murdered in cold blood. Besides these many women were mutilated, and some of them received into the Turkish hospital for medical treatment. On the 30th of September provisions were sent by the Turks to 600 old men, women, and children, whose village had been burnt by Ibrahim. On the 3d October rations were also furnished to 530 old men and 2,290 women and children belonging to two other villages, likewise re duced to a mass of ruins by Ibrahim. At another time he assailed a convent in which were 200 nuns, who, after having been violated, were stripped and turned out naked to seek shelter where they might. Such are the acts of the " enlightened" ex-ruler of Syria! INUNDATIONS on the CONTINENT. The Courrier de rAin of the 3th inst. gives us an ac count of further disastrous consequences of the flood : " Two-thirds of the houses at Beauregard les Fareins have fallen, being previously deserted by their inhabi tants. All that remains of the town are two houses on the quay and a narrow street of very humble dwel lings running up the hill. The houseless people of Basuregard have been received, lodged, and fed by the inhabitants of Fareins, although they themselves have sustained great losses. Of eight houses at Port de Frans, seven have come down. Not a dwelling of the hamlet of Messiney on the banks of the Soane is left standieg. At Montmerle 1.20 houses have been car ried away. The hamlet of Riviere is entirely destroyed. The inhabitants were to be seen on the roofs of their houses imploring succour. This morning only the top of one house is to be seen. Two-thirds of the houses at Coromanche are gone, but happily no life has been lost. Near Amberiex, the Albarino has been higher than at any time in the memory of man, and has cut a canal upwards of 150 feet wide across the Chemin des Cascades, overflowed the plain, and mixing its waters with those of the Gordon and the Ain, forms one wide lake. Great masses of earth have been un dermined, sunk, and removed, and the whole slope of the bill between Vareilles and St. Germain appears to have made a slip. The subjoined further intelligence respecting the in uAations at Lyons is from the Courier of that city of the 9th inst. : " A new disaster occurred yesterday. The front of a stone-built house, immediately above the bridge of Ainay, and the basement of which had been breached by the water, fell into the Saone. A portion of land fell in the night before last, at the Balmes, which border the Quai St. Clair, on the Rhone, near the Hotel Henry IV., and so alarmed the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses, that they fled without waiting to dress themselves. No one perished. To-day (Bth) a considerable improvement has taken place. The Rhone it is true has risen three feet higher, in consequence of the rain which fell the day befo're yesterday, and currents have made their way from the Tete d'Or, which is no longer protected by the embankment, as far as La Goillotiere, where it traverses the Coors Bourbon ; but the Saone continues to subside, though gradually, and the inhabitants, who had been driven by it from their dwellings, are returning. The only two streams which are now running from the Saone to the Rhone are those through the Rue Morico and the Rue Port Charlet, which disgorge themselves by the Quai Bon Rescontre, on the Port des Cordeliers. The de struction which the floods have occasioned is incalcul able. The greater part of the factories on the quays, and the craft moored to them, have been carried away and lost, wi:h all they contained. At Scrin immense stores of wine have been lost, one merchant alone having had upwards of 200 casks carried away. The building yards at Vaise, near the Gere, have sustained enormous losses in timber and other materials. From the 2d to the 6th barges were constantly driven against our bridges, and disappearing under the arches, to re turn to the surface shattered into thousands of pieces, covering the torrent with beams and planks, articles of furniture, casks, and other fragments. A looking glass warehouse on the Quai St. Antoine being broken open by the force of the water, had numerous valuable glasses, ready framed, carried away and dashed to pieces." The following extract of a letter from Madame Dor val, the tragic actress, who entered Lyons from St. Etienne on the night of the 6th instant, gives a vivid illustration of the state of that city during the inunda tions : " On entering the streets the water flowed into the carriage, and I thought it prudent to take a boat to carry me to the Hotel de l'Europe, near the Place Bellecour, but I found it surrounded by water eight feet deep. It was midnight, and, having demanded admit tance, was answered from the second floor. On making myself known a ladder was let down to me, and by this I ascended to a window on the first floor. I found therein nothing but famine—spoiled meat and mouldy bread. The proprietors were gone, taking with them most of their valuables, leaving only two servants to save the furniture if they could. The weather was frightful. The wind blew a hurricane—the rain poured down in torrents—the Rhone and Saone raged on every side— cries of distress were heard in all directions, and occa sionally musket shots were fired from the heights, whera the unhappy creatures, dying with hunger, had taken refuge. It was, in truth, a sad spectacle, the streets being traversed in boats lighted by torches, filled with wretched people, escaping from the deluge, while every moment were heard the cries of the still more unforw nate who wore drowning. But I can give no just idea of the desolation and horror." A Lyons letter recalls to mind the circumstances that in May last, when the Saone was lower than it had almost ever been known, there was a stonq found in the bed with the inscription on it— " Qui m'a vu a pleure ; - Qui me verra pleure ra e_ a prediction now unfortunately "coo well fulfillei It is added, that in 1830 Prince Hohenlohe foretold that in 1840 Lyons would be r'...estroyed by water. " In the cantons of I4ri, St. Gall, and the Grisons," says the Courrier Sv,isse, " frightful ravages have been caused by the torrents and river floods. At Atting hausen and Erstenfeld the roads have bee - 4 rendered im passable, and all the rich meadows at Schatidorf have have been submerged and destroyed. The Splugon road I'.as been much damag'Jd. The force with which the Plessure rushed over ',ts banks has uprooted one of the finest forests of Grisons. The loss in timber alone is estimated 100,000 f. The Rufa has com pletely filled the - ,alley through which it runs, and car ried away tree - ,„ houses, barns, and everything it met with—even villages seated on tolerably high ground have be , n injured. The convent of Disentis has nar rowly escaped. At Theinecke, Hochat, Vild, and Mels, the. Rhine has overwhelmed mills, houses, and farm . 'Attldings. The floods are everywhere carrying along trees, planks, fragments of houses, and dead cattle." The Courricr de Lyons, of the 10th inst., says— " The Saone gradually but sensibly subsided yesterday and last night, so that this morning the transversal streams which ran from it to the Rhone have ceased ; the Place Bellecour is become nearly free from water, and the streets traversable. Still the water continues cover the quays to a great height, and a greater portion of the streets which abut upon them. The Pont du Change has suffered great damage ; the squared stones which covered the upper part of the spurs have been washed down, and the bricks have evidently sunk near the middle piles. The thieves continue their depreda tions, but the police is vigilant and active, and it is to be hoped that those iniquities will be totally suppressed. The Minister of the Interior, upon the representation of M. Sauz[d, one of the Deputies for the Rhone, has granted 100,000 f. for the relict of the sufferers by these disasters. " Many bills due at the end of October," says a Lyons !utter, " could not be paid by several merchants on account of their houses of business being invaded by the floods, and a great many protests with fines have been made on bills issued without stamps, which could not be obta;ned from the Stamp-office for the same cause. The Chamber of Commerce having been as sembled expressly to deliberate over these circum stances, has addressed an application to the Govern ment for a remission of all these charges, as the result of an irresistible necessity." The Council of the Bank of France have given 5,000 f. to the relief of the sufferers from the inunda tions at Lyons, and 10,000 f. to those in the adjacent departments. SPORTING MATCll.—Yesterday a match came off on Blackheath, between Bill Gazelee, and a yokel of the name of Tom Cooke, for 151. a lido, to pick up a hun dred stones, at a yard apart, the former giving the latter the extreme stone from the basket, being a diffetence of two hundred yards in favour of Cooke, out of a distance of five miles and three-quarters, short twenty yards. There were at least three thousand persons on the ground, and the odds, at starting, were five to four in favour of Gaze lee, and at three o'clock the men stripped, and appeared in fine condition. Upon the word " go," both stepped off in quick and confident style, but before half the match was over it was evident that Gazelee had his work to do, and bettin g fell to even, notwithstanding his friends wished it tl be understood that he had not then come up to his b •st running. The yokel (Cooke) kept up a steady r ace, at d although a small man in appearance, he possesses grt at muscular powers, gradually gained upon his competitor, when the odds became five to four on Cooke, who ulti mately won the match in thirty-seven minutes and ten se conds, Gazelee having at least twelve stones, at a consider able distance from the basket, to bring home. FATAL ACCIDENT. ---Yesterday, while Mr. rtohoef olafdaderhouosne WinhieCnalm;irl: Duffey, a master bricklayer, and one of his labourers, were repairing the and knocked down the man was killed on the spot, and the un- D e buildings, if aeg yedwasi n O f e rc ll h Orchard-street, i d t - h s t him,re ct labourer as carried to Middlesex llospital, fortunate also. Mr. Duffey expired. where he shortly af te r wards of The Duke and Duc hess Richmond intend j receiving company at the month, when they Gordon Castle until th e c l ose of I leave, accompanied by th e i r f am il y, i for Goodwood Park, Sussex. ISLAND OF CHUSAN. As any account of the place fixed upon for the land ing of the English expedition against China riailiat bc cu rious at this time, the following extracts from letters, forming part of the Ayscough MSS. in the British Museum, arc given. It appears that an English fac tory formerly existed there : PART OF TWO LETTERS FROM MR. JAMES CUNNINGHAM, F. R.S. AND PHYSICIAN TO THE FACTORY AT CHUSAN, IN CHINA. "(Sine Die.) " SIR,—My last to you was from the island of Borneo, is which I gave you an account of our arrival there the 17th of July, where we stayd but two days, the season of' the year being so farr past, and thence made the best of our way through the Straits of Banca with favourable winds and weather till we came on the coast of China, the 13th of August ; then we had variable winds, which caryd us abrest of Emuy the 19th following. At which time the north-east winds setting in fresh, putt us in great fears of loosing our passage, whereupon we were forc'd to turn it up against wind and current all the way, the weather so favouring us that we were never but by our topsails, else we should have lost more ground in one day than we could have gain'd in eight. The last of August we came to ene anchor under the Crocodile Islands, both to shelter us from the bad weather (which is generalte expected on this coast at new and full moon, and has been fatal to a great many ships), and also to look for fresh water, which was now grown scarce with us, not having recruited since we came from the Cape of Good Hope, There are three small islands lying in the latitude of 26 degrees, about six leagues from the river of Hooksion, on two whereof we found very good fresh water, with a con venient watering-place on the south-west side of the inner most of the three ; and by the assistance of a few Chinese fishermen we procur'd some fresh provisions from the main. land, because we did not reckon it safa to adventure our selves thither, lest we should have been brought into trou- I ble by the Government there. While we lay here on the bth of September we had a sudden short shift of the mon soon to S.W., the fury whereof Captain Munk has felt by loosing of his mainmast in coming upon the coast of China at the same time, which made him bear away for Ma e _ caw, as we have been inform e d since by an express from him. The Bth of September we putt to sea again, turn ing to windward night and day without all the islands, which are very numerous along this coast, to which we were altogether strangers beyond Emuy, and the hydro_ graphic thereof is hitherto so imperfect that there was no trusting to our drafts, which made our navigation some what more dangerous : however, on the Ist of October we got into the latitude of 30 degrees, where we came to ane anchor near the land, until we found the way by boat to Chusan, about twelve leagues within the islands, from whence we had a pilot who carried us safely thither on the 11th of October. Upon this island the Chineses have granted us a settlement and libertie of trade, but not atNing-po, which is six or eight hours' sail to the westward, all the way amongst the islands ; this being the largest is eight or nine leagues in length from east to west, and four or five leagues in breadth, about three leagues from that point of the main land called Cape Liampo by the Portuguese, but Khi-tu by the Chi nese. At the west end of this island is the harbour, very safe and convenient, where the ships ride within call of the factorie, which is built close to the shore on a low plain valley, with near 200 houses about it for the be nefit of trade, inhabited by men whose jealousic has not as yet permitted them to let their wives dwell here, for the town where they arc is three-quarters of a mile further from the shore, environ'd with a fine stone wall about three miles in circumference, mounted with 22 square bastions placed at irregular distances, besides four great gates, on which arc planted a few old iron guns seldom or never used. The houses within are very meanly built. Here the Chumpeen, or Governour of the island, lives, and between 3,000 and 4,000 beggarlie inhabitants, most part souldiers and fisher men ; for the trade of this place being newlie granted has not as yet brought any considerable merchants hither. The island in general abounds with all sorts of provi sions, such as cows, buffeloes, goats, deere, hogs wild and tame, geese, ducks and hens, rice, wheet, calavanchcs, cole worts, turnept, potatoes, carrots, beetes, and spinach. But for merchandise, there's none but what comes from ?sling" po, Hang-cheu, Nankin, and the inland towns, some of which I hope to see when I have acquired a little of the Chinese language. Here also the tea grows in great plenty on the tops of the hills, 'out it is not in that esteem with what grows on more mountainous islands. Although this island is pretty well stored with people, yet it's far from what it was in F. Martinis his time when he describes Cheuxan ; and this putts me in mind that the superstitious pilgrimages thereto menti ,ned by him, must be mcan'd of the island Po -to, which lys nine leagues from hence, and three miles to the eastward of this island, whither they say, the Emperor designs in the month of May next (being his birthday and the 40th year of his age) to come for to worship in one ancient pagode there famous for sanctitie, having sent one of his bonzes already thither to get all things in order, which, if we live to see, may be the sub• ject of another epistle." • . " Chus-an, Nov. 22, 1701. . : I formerly told you that the Emperor designed to have come to the island of Pou-to (a place of great devotion) to worship, in the month of May last, being the 40th year of his age-_I should have said of his reign ; but, all things being prepar'd there for his reception, he was dissuaded from his purpose by some of his rnandarines, who made him believe that the terrible thunder there was very dangerous. " This Pou-to is ft smftll ahn.it Eve Lzagues ...no, .... .v tts,a kstand, famous for the super stitious pilgrimages made thither for the space of 1,100 years : it's inhabited only by bonzes to the number of 3,000, all the sect call'd Sloshang, or unmarried bonzes, who live a Phythag ore a n lif e ; an d t h ere they have built about 400 pagodes, two w h ereo f are considerable for their greatness and fi ner y, being lately c ovcr 'd with green and y e ll ow til es b roug h t f rom the Er o ppror's Palace at Nankin, and inwar dl y a d orne d with statelyidols, finely carved and guilded, the chief wher eo f is the idol Quon-eur. To these two great P a g cvi ,es belong two chief priests, who govern all the rest. r fhey have several ways and avenues cut through th-; e island, somo whereof are paved with flagstones;. an ''.. overshaded with trees planted on each side : their dw P .,tings are the best I have yet seen in these parts, all "...nich arc maintained by charitable devo tions, and ..tie junks which goe from Ning-po and this place to Japan touch there bothe going and coming to "'le their offrings for their good success. There's an other island called Kim-tong, five leagues hence in the way to Ning-po, whither, they say, doe retire a great many manderines to live a quiet life after they have given over their employments ; on that island are said to be silver mines, but prohibited to be opened. The rest of the circumjacent islands are either desert or meanly inhabited by a few fishing people, but all of them stored with abundance of deer. For it is not long since this island of Cbusan began to be peopled : it is true, in Martini's days, about fifty years agoe, it was very populous for the space of three or four years, at which time the fury of the Tartarian conquest was so great that they left it desolate, not sparing so much- as the mulberrie trees (for then they made a great deal of raw silk here), and in this condition it continued till about 1 years ago ; that the walls of the fort or town which now is were built by the Governour of Zing-hai for a gar rison to expell some pirate who had taken shelter here. About 14 years ague the island beginning to be peopled, there was a Chumpeen or General sent to govern it for three years, to whom succeeded the late Chumpeen (who procured the opening of this port to strangers), whose go vernment continued till April last, being translated to the Chumpeen of Tie'n-cing- Wee, near to Pekin ; and was succeeded by the present Chumpeen, who is sone to the Chunkoon of Emuy. " They have no art or manufactories here, but making of lackrd ware, a particular account whereof I cannot as yet send you. They begin to breed up wormes for the production of raw silk ; and they make some tea, but chiefly for their own use. " The chief employments here are fishing and agri. culture. ‘' In fishing they use several sorts of netts and lines as we do; but because they have large banks of mudd in some places, the fisherman, to go more casilic thereon, has contrived a small frame about three or tour foot long, not much larger than a hen trough, elevated a little at each end, in which he rests on one knee, leaning his arms on a cross•stick raised so high as his breast, and putting out the other foot often upon the mud, he pushes forward his frame thereon, and so carys himself along in it. " As to their agriculture, all their fields (where any_ thing is planted), whether high or low, are made into such plots as may retain the water on them when they please. They plough up their ground with one buffelo or one cow. Whero they are to sow rice, they prepare the field very well, i 37 clearing it of all manner of weeds, moistening to a pulp and smoothing it with a frame drawn across, on which they sow the rice very thick, and cover it only with water for two or three inches high, and when it has grown six or eight inches long, they pull it up by the roots, and transplant it by tufts in a straight line to fields overflown with water ; and where a field subject to weeds, when the water drys up, they pre vent their growth by overturning the mudd with their hands in the interstices where the rice is planted. When they sow wheat, barley, pulse, and other grains, they grub up some superficial earth, grass, and roots, and with some straw they burn altogether ; this earth being sifted fine, they mix with the seed, which they sow in holes made in a straight line, and so grows up in tufts, as the rice does—the field being divided into beds, and so har rowed over, both before and after the seed is sown. This makes them somewhat resemble gardens. Altho the me liorate their fields where they sow rice only by letting water on them ; yet for other grains, where the ground requires it, they make much use of dung, human excrement, ashes, &e. In watering their fields here they us e th e same in strument mention'd by Martini in the preface to his atlas, being all of wood, and the contrivance the same with that of a chain pump. " Their method in making salt is this—All the shores here being mud instead of sand, in the summer season they pare off the superficial earth which has been overflown with the salt water, and lay it up in heap s f or use ; w h en t h ey i are to usa it they dry it n the sun, ru';:hing it small ; then digging a pitt, they cover the b o tt om t h ereo f w i t h straw, at which, through the side of the pitt, they pass a hollow cane that leads into a jarr which stands below the level of the pits's bottom ; they fill the Pitt almost full with the foresaid earth, and pour salt water th ereon t ill i t b e co vered two or three inches with water, whi c h d ra i ns t h roug h is into the foresaid jarr, and afterwards boyl'd into salt. The marriage between Couut Demidoff and the Princess de Montfort was celebrated at Florence on the Ist instant, as we learn by a letter from th at city, first ac cording to the rites of the Romish and then of the Oita Church. The corbeille de note presented by the Count to his bride is estimated at 2,000,0001 r. (80,0001.) ; and he is said to have presented to the Pope on this occasion a breviary of great price, and to the Archbishop of Florence a magnificent crucifix. Str Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Peel, left Whitehall-gardens on Saturday last for Drayton Manor, where they iett , -.nd btayipg until January. • ~, • TUE SUN, LONDON, '1 UESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1810. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. INQUEST ON THE BODIES AT HARROW An inquest on the bodies of the parties killed by the recent collision on the London and Birmingham Railway was held at the Queen's Arms, at Harrow, be fore Mr. Wakley, the Coroner, and a respectable jury. One of the deceased was named Simpson, and the other was William Dawson. The Coroner and jury retired to view the bodies. Both the deceased appeared about 33 years of age. They were not much mangled, nor was there much blood about their persons. The Coroner had the Jury re-sworn over the bodies. Mr. Benjamin Rotch, the Magistrate of Middlesex, was appointed Foreman to the Jury. Mr. Creed, the Secretary of the London and Bir mingham Railway Company, Mr. Bedford, the Super intendent of the Police on the line, and other gentle men connected with the railway were in attendance at the ion. Mr. WAKLEY in addressing the Jury said, the in quiry they were about to make was most important. The casualty into which they had to inquire, had ex cited a more than ordinary degree of attention, and the excitement of the public respecting the inquiry was very great. But he was sure the Jury would dismiss from their minds all they had heard about the accident ; they wAid remember they had to act under the sanc tion of an oath, and give an impartial decision on the evidence which had been laid before them. For him self he had not read anything about the accident, and knew nothing of it. He would proceed to state the law relative to accidents. The law which had been laid down respecting accidents during the inquest which was held at the Londo n and Southampton Rail way was most dangerous, and he was anxious to disabuse the public mind on the matter. It had been said at that inquest that persons were not under the control of a Coroner's Jury, from accident which might have been occasioned through their neglect of, or inattention to their duty. If this wera the law it ought to be immediately altered ; but it was not the law, for when fatal results ensued through the non-per formance of duties., that party neglecting the duties was strictly responsible to the law. If this were not the case, what would be the position of the R tilway Directors Every person connected with a railway was responsible to the law, whether he was Chairman of the Directors or merely a labourer on the line. He had no doubt, and no hesitation whatever in saying that where a party had been guilty of gross neglect of duty, so as to occasion the death of another, that party in the eye of the law would be guilty of murder. If this were not the case, any person receiving notice of dismissal might out of revenge to the Directors cause an accident, and so injure the railway. Mr. Wakley went on to refer to a charge delivered by the Lord Chief Justice of the Pleas, in 1837, in which he laid down that any person driving a car riage improperly or negligently, or furiously, and there by occasioning the death of another, would in the eye of the law be guilty of murder. He was most anxious that it should be known that the law was wide enough and strong enough to reach any man guilty of gross neglect of duty. He was rather surprised to find that according to the law of deodand, no deodand could be inflicted on a man causing the death of another by mis adventure ; but, if the death, for instance, was caused by a carriage belonging to another party, a deodand could be placed on tbat. This was a strange state of the law. He was sure the Jury would investigate the matter which had been brought before them with the attention that it so imperatively demanded. James Bradburn was called. He said, lam an en gine -driver on the London and Birmingham Railway. I drive the engine No. 15 ; it has no name. 1 live in Camden -town. I was at the Harrow station on Thurs day evening. I was giving a message to the clerk in doors : this was about ten minutes past. I heard the engines coming along, I was rather late in getting to wy engine. I saw the engine No. 82 flung out of the road. The Foreman suggested that as the man was away from the engine he should be cautioned as to what he said. Mr. WAKLEY said it was the custom to caution peo ple, but it was wrong ; it was like advising the man nut to say what might implicate himself'. This was humane to the individual, but unjust to the public. He did not feel himself strong enough to depart from the custom, say T a h7. thing that ss p r t o v e o e u e l d d e r d e f t l o e c t vi o y n t h h i m a t s el thet. and ther e f ore h e would tell the witness that he need not goods' train was attached to the engine No. 82. CORONER—Whom do you think is to blame for this accident ?—I blame Simpson, the dead engineer, who belonged to No. 82, for he did not shut off his steam as he ought to have done, and as the driver of No. 1 had done. I know Simpson did not shut off his steam, for I heard his engine beat as I came up. It Simpson had seen no signal to shut off, I admit he was not to blame. The driver of the first engine should have seen a red light a little way down oil the line tram a and next at the station. I saw the red lights at the sta tion before I left my engine, and 1 thought all was safe. CORONER—.What means has the driver of the first engine to warn the driver of the second that there is danger? Witness—His whistle. 1 heard no whistle that evening. lam sure none was blown ; but the driver of the second engine could easily have seen the red light. It is five years since I was first employed on the Birmingham line. I was first a ballast engine driver. I was perfectly sober the whole of Thursday. If we were caught intoxicated on or off the line, we should be at once dismissed. We are all sure of this if drunk on duty, but I am not quite sure about what they would do it they caught us off duty. Foreman—Perhaps the Directors do not see you when you are off duty ? Witness—Perhaps so. An engineer is liable to be fined when he leaves his engine on the line. The fine will be 10s, or 55., according to what he is after. CORONER—It is clear that this man was entirely in a new position on Thursday. Mr. Thomas Hewlett, surgeon, of Harrow, was next examined, and deposed to being called to see the bodies of the sufferers on Thursday evening. He described the injuries as follows :—Simpson has received a com pound comminated fracture of both bones of the left leg, comminuted simple fractures of both thighs. The scrotum crushed, and several wounds about the head. Dawson—compound fracture of both bones of the right leg and ancle joint. The bones of the pelvis broken, and the head much crushed. Death was caused by these injuries, which, no doubt, was instantaneous. William Finch, a fireman attached to the engines No. 69 and 90—He was employed on No. 15 on Thursday, because No. 90 had broken down. When Bradburn went to the Queen's Arms to order bread and beer and cheese for 46 men at work on Woodcock-hill, he left me on the engine opposite the station, with orders to move away if 1 saw a train coming up. hadHe dl e i ft n t o h t e s a e y ng ihnoew an l o d n g go l n te e s i h n o to uld th b e e st T t v i O y n . -hou ll s e e several times that day before. The clerk of the station-house was with us the last time we came down. I had not been there more than two minutes when May, the porter, said there was a train coming on. I moved on towards the bridge a little. May cried out again, If you don't move on the train will be into you." I turned my head round, and seeing no chance of escaping if I remained on, I shut off the steam and jumped off. That was a dozen yards at this side of the bridge. Be fore the train came up there were red lights hoisted at the station, and the policeman had raised a red light. There was no light but that of the fire at the train. The collision then took place, and No. 82 was turned over wiih several of the waggons. Martin Brown examined—l am an engine driver on the London and Birmingham Railway, and re side at Wolverton. I had charge of engine No. 1, on the day of the accident, and came in front of the luggage train, in the charge of the deceased 'Simpson, from the Wolverton station—that is about 46 miles from Harrow. He started from Wolverton about a quarter before four o'clock. On our way up, one down train passed us. It was a passenger train. There was no light on that train to warn us of any dan ger on the road. I think about six o'clock we came within from a quarter to half a mile of Harrow station. I then saw that the red lights were up. I did not see them before, although I kept a good look out. I cannot ac count for why I did not see them before in any other way than that there ssas a fog between us and the station. I saw no other signal but the red lights. I knew by that there was some obstruction, and I immediately gave a signal to the deceased Simpson, who had charge of No. 82 engine. The signal I gave him was by opening the valve of my engine. I repeated it once or twice, but I don't know whether Simpson saw it. He ought to have done so. I never sounded the whistle. The signal 1 gave was one of danger, and when I gave it d Simpson ought to have shut off his steam, and reversed his engine, and used every other means to . stop. I did so off his steam at so myself ; but Simpson did not s all. if l ie h a d d one s o th e re would have been plen ty of time after I gave the signal for us to ha v e heard v v estopped bef o r e arr i v i ng a t t h e H arro w station. broken nothing whate ver o f a l ug gage train Nav i n; l down on our arr i va l a t W at f or d. Having shu t off my steam and rever s i ng th e eng i ne , I had the bre ak also jk p s lut I ut down by th e s t o k er an d k ept a l o ok out mys elf . approached H a r row s t a ti on I s aw an engine on be fore me, but 1 could not tell if it was moving or not. As we approached nearer a co lli s ion appeared to meinevi table,ad and I slung m y se lf on the step of the engine jumped off. I 'nave seen both, bodies of the de ce ased persons, and I can identify th e m as the bodies of Daw son and Simpson. By the CORONER.—Simpson had charge of the train. I consider it no obstruction whatever to his sig ht that an engine and tender was before him. I speak from experience. In my opinion I could se e the s ignals just as well in one engine as another. At this stage of the proc ee dings, it being fiv e o'cloc k, the inquiry was adjourned till Thursday morning next, at nine o'clock. T . — 1; Id 11 he Dowager Countess of Clarendon wi :e. main some time longer on a visit, 'to Lord and Lady M 4ry , borough, at Deal Castle, Kcnt, LATEST NEWS FROM CHINA. LIN—A PROCLAMATION. CarstON,=—Behold=---i, Lin, Qwan-too, and Gover nor of the province aforesaid, to the Keeper of the Prison of the said province, ar.d also to Lin Weike, my p&o-cbing, greeting. By virtue of an edict from the Face of Heaven, to me directed, reciting that Soo-Kwang, mandarin, learned in the celestial laws, official principal in the Dark Court of Poo -too, lawfully constituted, had signified to the Face of Heaven that one Foo-Yuen, of the Market•place, in the town of Tay-chew, tail and knob-maker, resident and inhabitant of the little district of King-Shan, in the said town of Tay-chew, in the province of Kwang-Tung, was manifestly con tumacious, and contemned the jurisdiction and authority of the law and jurisdiction celestial, in no t obeying the lawful comman d s t o pay , or cause to b e paid to Chung-Chow, the collector of Kwang-ta-jin and Nau-gan-foo, wardens of the said district King- Shan, the sum of five tads of Sycee silver, lawful money of the Central Nation, rated and fixed upon him, and the sum of fifty taels of Sycee silver, lawful money of the Central Nation, being the amount of costs on their behalf, duly taxed and moderated, pursuant to a monition duly issued under the seal of the said Dark Court, and duly and perso nally served on him, the said Poo-Yuen, ior that pur pose, and duly returned into the said Dark Court, with a certificate and affidavit of the execution thereof of the said Soo-Kwang, .kandarin, learned in the celestial laws, principal in the Dark Court of P00...00 aforesaid, lawfully authorised, by not paying or causing to be paid to the said Chung-Chow, the collector of Kwang-ta-jin, or Nan-gan-foo, the said sums of five taels, and fifty taels of Sycce silver, of the Central Nation, pursuant to the said monition, on a day and hour now long past, in a certain cause or business of subtraction of a button or knob* depending before the said Soo-Kwang, mandarin, officialprineip a l o f t h e sa id D ark Court, in judgment by notice of letters of request from the worshipful Moo kili-tirg-zih, master of the Five Books, Commissary of the right revered son of Confucius, Cheng,by celestial permission Fuu-tehe-yuen (censor of morals) of Lin choo in and . for the Li-pan (Board of Rites) of Tay chew, lawfully constituted between the said Kwang-ta chin, and Nang-gan-foo, wardens of the said little dis trict of King-than, in the town of Tay-chew, in the province and commissaryship of Tay-chew, in the ly-pau, and province of Poo-too, the parties pro moting the said cause or business on the one part, and the said Foo-Yuen of the market-place in the town of Tay-chew aforesaid, tail and knob maker, resi dent and inhabitant of the said little district of King shan, the party against whom this said cause or business was promoted on the other part, and that the proceed ings thereon were carried on in pain of the contumacy of the said Joo-Yuen, duly cited to see proceedings thereon with the usual intimation, but in no wise appear ing, nor would he submit to the Celestial jurisdiction. I command you and every one of you jointly and seve• rally that ye attach, or one of you attach, the said Foo- Yuen, by his body or one of his tails, until he shall have made satisfaction for the said contempt, and how ye shall have executed this my warrant make known to me, so that I may notify the same to his Imperial Ma jesty, the Light of Reason, on the 11th day of the first moon next, wheresoever his said Majesty shall then be in the Central Nation, and in nowise omit this. Thereof fail not at your peril. Given under the seal of my office, on the 13th of the eleventh month of Ke-hae. This proclamation of Lin is very ridiculous, but cer tainly not more so than the writ issued by our Mandarin the Sheriff of Leicester against William Baines, hatter and hosier, and, in order that our readers may judge, we have kept the English proclamation in type that they may compare the two. Here it follows : ENVANG TUNG— Leicestershire to wit-1, Sir George Joseph Palmer, Bart., sheriff of the county aforesaid, to the keeper of the gaol of the said county, and also to Joseph Dent, my bailiff, greeting. By virtue of a writ of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, to me directed, reciting that Herbert Jenner Knight, Doctor of Laws, official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury, lawfully constituted, had signified to her Majesty that one William Baines. of the Market place, in the borough of Leicester, hatter and hosier, a parishioner and inhabitant of the parish of St. Martin, in the said borough of Leicester, in the county of Leicester, was manifestly contumacious, and contemned the jurisdiction and authority of the law and jurisdiction ecclesiastical, in not obeying the lawful commands to pay, or cause to be paid, to Vim. Fox, the proctor of William Jolly and Wm. Berridge, the churchwardens of the said parish of St. Martin, the sum of 21. and 53. of lawful money of Great Britain rated and assessed upon him, and the sum of 1251 and 3s. of lawful money of Great Britain, being the amount of costs on their behalf, duly taxed and moderated, pursuant to a mo• nition duly issued under seal of the said Arches Court, and duly and personally served on him, the said William Baines, for that purpose, and duly returned into the said Arches Court, with a certificate and affidavit of the execu tion thereof of the said Herbert Jenner, Knight, Doctor of Laws, Official Principal of the Arches Court of Can terbury aforftsaid, la wfitlh- authovi.. l be paid, to the said William Fox, the Proctor of the said William Jolly and William Berridge, the said sums of 21. and 53., and 1251. and 33. of lawful money of Great Britain, pursuant to the said monition, on a day and hour now long past, in a certain cause or business of subtraction of Church-rate, depend ing before the said Herbert Jenner, Knt., Official Princi pal of the said Arches Court, in judgment, by notice of filers of request from the Worshipful Christopher Hodg son, Master of Arts, Commissary of the Right Rev. Father in God, John, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, in and for the Archdeaconry of Leicester, law fully constituted between the said William Jolly and Wil liam Berridge, Churchwardens of the said parish of St. Martin, in the borough of Leicester, in the county, archdeacenry, and commissaryship of Leicester, in the diocese of Lincoln, and province of Canterbury, the parties promoting the said cause or business of the one part, and the said William Baines, of the Mar. ke-place, in the borough of Leicester aforesaid, hat ter and hosier, parishioner and inhabitant of the said parish of St. Martin, the party against whom this said cause or, business was promoted on the other part, and that the proceedings therein were carried on in pain of the contu macy of the said William Baines, duly cited to appear in the said cause or business, and also duly cited to see pro ceedings thereon with the usual intimation, but in nowise appearing, nor would he submit to the Ecclesiastical ju risdiction. I command you and every of you, jointly and severally, that ye attach, or one of you attach, the said Wm. Baines by his body,until he shall have made satisfaction for the said contempt, and how you shall have executed this my warrant, make known to me, so that I may notify the same unto our Sovereign lady the Queen, on the 11th day of January next, wheresoever her said Majesty shall then be in England, and in nowise omit this. Thereof fail not at your peril. Given under the seal of my office, the 13th day of No vember, in the year of our Lord 1840. • A mark of distinction generally attached to the cap worn by persons of rank.— Vide Ellis on China. THE LUDLOW AFFAIR. TO THE COMMERCIAL COMMITTEE AT IPSWICH. Gentlemen—When I received the printed circular you sent me on the sth instant, I viewed it in no other light than as a well -meant, intended compliment to my self, and felt pleased with what appeared to me to be an expression of sympathy from the commercial class, and their desire to present me with a testimonial of their respect commemorative of my late miraculous escape from the murderous design of an assassin. Upon a review of your circular I see therein nothing which should cause me to change that opinion, and 1 fully appreciate the kind motives which led to your set ting on foot so universal a plan, and thereby incurring great trouble, and much expense, on your own responsi bilities as to its success or otherwise. It has been reported to me personally by several of my friends, as well as by letters I have received from others, that a prejudice exists against it in the minds of many of the commercial class to whom it is addressed ; and kindly intentioned as are the designs of the origina tors of this measure, it has become necessary for me to inform you, and through your means to acquaint the commercial class generally—First, that it was originated and brought into active operation, before I was ac quainted of it. Secondly, that I am not placed in such a situation of life as to require me either to seek or to receive any aid in a pecun:ary form. Thirdly, that the house I represent has liberally borne the whole of the expensls incurred by my late calamity, and intends to defray the charges attending the prosecution of the supposed assassin (not provided. by the county). Letters having appeared in the public papers callirg for some explanation, and as I have been and intend I 0 remain passive in this business, I must request you will take upon yourselves to make public the substance of the three paragraphs above. I would take the liberty to suggest, if it may not be desirable for your Committee to confer with the seniors and most influential members in the commercial prolvs sion, and to take thejr opinion upon a subject which it appears has created a difference in the minds of the per sons to whom you have appealed, and whose cordial ap probation you will doubtless consider necessary to satisfy your own minds. I am, Gentlemen, 'Jour obedient servant, W. M. MACKRETH. Bristol, Oct. 00 , 1840. .. - "ERID A CCIDENTS.— Us, A Yesterday evening, About six ° :lock, as an elderly female was crossing the wooden Cement opposite Norfolk-street, Strand , she fell down " was run over by a light cart, going at a moderate PT' When picked up it was found that she had a leg n arm broken, besides h..v ng vistained other severe "If" ries, and the unfortunate sufferer was immediately con yed by two policemen of the 'l' division to St. Bartho ' 4 3:new's Hospital.—About an hour afterwards, as a de eently-dressed female, who, it was ascertained, was laun dress to a solicitor in Lamb's Conduit-street, was crossing Fleet -street, just by Temple-bar, she was knocked down by a cart going at a rapid rate. She was taken into the shop of Mr. Lowden, chemist, when it was ascertained that she had received a large and severe contusion of the i head. This sufferer was conveyed hmo in an almost in. sensible state .; • LORD CARDIGAN AND THE ELEVENTH HUSSARS. The following appeared in the Times of yesterday : " Stn—The Morning Post having refused publication to the following letter, in reply to one of its own corre spondents, may I trespass upon you for its insertion in the Times, which will oblige your most obedient servant, " L. AIORSE,COOPER. " Junior United Service Club, Nov. 12." " TO THE EDITOR OF THE HORNING POST, " Sta—lle reason assigned by v your correspondent, Miles,' for my haring quitted the 11 th Light Dragoons is an erroneous one. Perhaps he, as an admirer of Lor Cardigan, would prefer the language introduced into the service by his Lordship, and that I should say—it is false. But to my antiquated habits such language is ungentle manly, and therefore I decline its use. " For the information of ' Miles' I will state the true reason and circumstances of my leaving a regiment wherein I had passed ' the morning of my life—all my best years,' twenty-one in number. I left it on account of the overbearing conduct and unendurable insolence of its commanding officer, which rendered th:s tenure of my commission insecure ; and from experience I hold the opinion that no captain or subaltern of ordinary spirit and gentlemanly feeling is safe under the command of Licot.- Colonel the Earl of Cardigan. " Although I was bona fide the first Captain for pur chase of the reizimental majority, I endeavoured to find a Captain of Cavalry to cxcbarge with me, but in vain— they were too wise ; and upon the strength of twenty-five years' service upon full-pay, I applied for, and obtained from Lord Hill's consideration permission to purchase an unattached majority. •" Miles' styles me the'redoubtable Major,' for which courtesy I thank Miles,' as no man is really redoubtable who has not truth, honour, and feeling, with courage to maintain their free exercise. " I therefore subscribe my name and address, and am, Sir, your humble servant, L. MORSE COOPER, Major-Unattachcd. " Junior United Service Club, Nov. 8." THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAIL WAY. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—Oa Friday the adjourned in quest on Scaife and Rutherford, the two unfortunate men who were killed on Tuesday last by the bursting of an en gine-boiler, at the Bromsgrove station, was held at the Golden Cross, Bromsgrove. Mr. J. Rawlins and Mr. \Vhateley, solicitors, attended, the former on the part of the proprietor of the engine, and the latter on the part of the Company. Mr. Creuze, engineer of locomotives on the Birming ham and Gloucester Railway, was re-examined on some points connected with the manufacture of engine-boilers. and the practicability of ascertaining their soundness arid strength after they had left the manufacturer. He was of opinion that it was impossible for an engineer to determine the thickness of plates of iron of which a boiler was made, although men engaged in the manufacture of boilers might possibly be able to do so. The evidence of this witness was corroborated by Mr. Bishop, an intelligent engineer in the service of the Com pany. Dr. Church, the manufacturer of the engine, described the peculiaries in which it differed from other locomo tives. These consisted principally in the construction of the fireplace and the position of the tubes, and tended, in his opinion, to give considerably increased security to the boiler. As far as his recollection served him, the plates of the boiler were ordered to be made three-eighths of an inch in thickness. The one that had given way was unquestion ably too thin, altbough it had sustained, on being sent to his manufactory, a pressure of MILL to the circular inch, it being his invariable practice to test all boilers at a pres sure three times as great as that to which they would be subjected in the ordinary course of working. He found it difficult under these circumstances to account for the acci dent, as he believed Mr. Horton to be a most respectable manufacturer, and be was convinced that he could have known nothing of the unequal and inadequate thickness of some of the plates which had been put into the boiler. The inquest was again adjourned until Monday, in order to give Mr. Horton an opportunity of explaining the facts stated during the inquiry. THE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN TIES RAILWAY. It will be recollected that after the collision which took place on Sunday, a lady was found lying on the lino with her leg broken, and several passengers were seriously in. jure(' by jumping out on to the line. The following notice of the occurrence has been issued from the offices of the Company to An accident occurred on the Eastern Counties Rail way on Sunday, the 15th inst., the particulars of which the Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway and Northern and Eastern Railway have this day met strictly to examine. " In the meantime we are authorised to make the follow ing statement : " The ten o'clock Eastern Counties down train left Shoreditch at five minutes past ten o'clock, and stopped, as usual, at Devonshire-street and Bow, at which latter station one passenger was put out. The train then pro ceeded onwards, but was slackened in its progress by some of the passengers calling to the engine-driver for the pur pose of letting taco person get into the train frarn - t he nurcluir. 6" In the meanwhile a Northern and Eastern engine, unaccompanied by any carriages (which had left Shore ditch ten minutes after the Eastern Counties t 4 ain) arrived, and came into collision with the Eastern Counties train, whereby we regret to state that a poor woman sustained a simple fracture of the leg just above the Etude, one gen tleman was severely bruised, and two others sustained some slight injuries. At the preacnt time the medical man reports that the sufferers are doing well."' BAPTISM AND BURIAL. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT. ) DOVER. CHARLTON CHURCII YARD. —A FUNERAL SCENE.—The other day a scene was exhibited at the above Church-yard, at the interment of a Methodist's child, that has, we be lieve, few parallels in the history of bigotry. The child, as has been stated in the public papers, was denied Chris tian burial, because it was baptised in a Methodist chapel, and had been kept above ground for nearly a month, while all remonstrance with the Charlton priests to have it de cently buried proved unavailing. Well, the heads of the Wesleyans, with some three or four of their preachers, were determined to have it buried any how, and accord_ ingly proceeded with the corpse towards the place of inter ment. Having got an inkling of their intentions however, the parish priest pasted himself in the vestry-room, and stationed the vestry-clerk and a scrivener to guard the church-yard gate. Anon the funeral train advanced ; and when they got within some fifty yards of the church-yard set down the coffin, and proceeded so far with the Church service. Meanwhile " the confident parish priest kept still in the vestry room," while the lawyer end vestry clerk brought him tidings of the movements of the Me thodists. At this critical movement the following dialogue took place:—Parson—" Are they coming ?" Lawyer— " Yes, Sir." Parson (addressing the vestry-clerk)—" Is the door locked ?" Vestry-clerk—" All is fast, Sir." Lawyer (feelingly)—" I think, Sir, you had better allow the body to be carried into the church-yard; the poor child's brother is buried there." Humph, said the parson. " Well," continued he, after some hesitation," clerk, open the gate." The Wesleyans were then permitted to come into the church-yard and put the child in its grave, but prohibited, on their peril, to read the service there. These conditions they gladly submitted to, and retired to a con siderable distance outside the wall, and there concluded the Church service. This ended the ceremony, a crown ing piece of degradation, we should think, to all high Church Methodists. What abject slaves to Toryism must not these men be ? CASE OF MR. ELLAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERFIgER. Slk,—l beg leave, through the medium of your paper, to acknowledge with gratitude the receipt of 21., subscribed by some friends frequenting Mr. Poole's Steam-packet Hotel, Fish-street-hill. I think it right to state that my present misfortunes do not arise from extravagance or intemperance. I had by my exertions secured a competency sufficient to have sup ported me in my old age ; but was induced, through the representations of a man whom I had known moving in a most respectable sphere at Bristol, to advance him a very large sum of money ; in fact, all I was possessed of. By him I was deceived, he took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors Act, and I was included in the list of creditors in his schedule. The man is since dead, therefore I refrain from mentioning his name; but I shall be most happy to satisfy you, Sir, of the correctness of the above statement. I am now old; "Time bath bent me with his iron hand." I have been for some time past afflicted with a complication of disorders, the most formidable of which has been an inveterate ague, which has prevented me from fol lowing my professional avocations. I shall fiel greatly obliged by your inserting this letter in your paper, and again beg leave to express my most sin cere thanks for the kind and opportune remembrance of the friends at the Steam-packet Hotel. I am, Sir, your respectful servant. THOS. ELLAR. Nov. 16, 1840. DEVONPORT, Nov. 14.—For the last two days we have experienced a terrific gale of wind from the south west, extraordinary rise of tide, and expect to hear of great damage generally, and loss of life. To-day it is quite abated—rather fine ; but in my opinion far from being settled. Roofs and chimnies have descended into our street, so the great annoyam." of passengers ; but as yet we have heard of ncthing serious. The gale was more than of an ordinary character. RATHER PREMATURE.—Yesterday morning at an early hour, the bells at Hackney set up a loud and joyful peal in honour of the birth of a young Prince of Wales. Every body was delighted at the happy news, more especially the school children, who readily obtained the privilege of a holiday. The same bells commenced tolling for the late King two or three days before his Majesty died. It is to be hoped the church at Hackney is under more discreet management than the steeple. THE LATE STORM.—SHIELDs.--A dismal catastrophe has just transpired, a mile south of the bar. A schooner running for the harbour encountered a heavy sea at about the distance named. Tho crowd on our banks and at the opposite side of the water saw her peril ; here, where the writer of this sto od at the period when the sea struck her, all was breathless Liixiety ; in five minutes she was seen on her broadside ; in less than five minutes more she was buried be neath the surf, with every human being on board. So me loose articles are al rea d y washing on shore, and probably the bodies of the men will soon reach the sands, and the name of the vessel bo ascertained. She is su pposed to be the Rover, of G oo l e . Another vessel has upset passing up the river t o a coal spout, but no lives were lost.—Fort ( - j Tyne Pilot. • - _- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ,us with Sin,—Believing that you are equally armo, myself about the purity of the Aldermanic character, I hasten to call your attention to a wicked report now in circulation to its prejudice, with a view to having it contradicted. It is, that an Alderman of great wealth, and sound Church and State principles, carries in old is g o pocket, and has done so for many years , a massive repeater (watch), which having been brought before him in his judicial capacity, as filched from the pocket of some one else, and, not being claimed, was tr r an r ferred into his own, as not being worth the costc" vertising for the owners. s be The story is no doubt a lie, but it wou ld pernaP- b as well if the Aldermen would prove it to be so, by es e . giving it a public contradiction, so far as be is dually concerned.—Your obedient servant, Reform Club. Monday. HO NORATIJS. COVENT-GA RDEN i THEATRE' That the ceuvre of imaginative po etry, The — 1 summer Night's Dream, was revived at this t heatre last evening in a style of magnificence • werthY the • mighty bard who was its creator. In this bean' other tiful fairy drama, more, perhaps, than in a n). °f of his works, does the all -embracing genius Slakspeare assert its supremacy. In this exquisite crearon does he prove himself not only the Pri nce of all poets, but the only poet, in the strict aeeer f tation of the term, that, with the exception °,O Homer, the world has ever produced; an d " o f infinitely supee - ior are the elegant creatu m re a s ster d. his imagination to whom in this h is piece, he has given " a local habinci° of a name," to the snpernatural creations and Homer. Other poets have visited Faiy,Lod' ut have given us a general idea of its inhabita,nts',„io it is only a general idea. Take the grea t uer-- 0 fairy Poet Wieland, for instance. Hi, fairies are personifications of a, general idea, nothing tn ,, ° o - oe there is nothing very distinguishable .betv ree- ; his of his fairies and another. Not so ShaksPe ar h e fairies are as distinctly individualized 'as h' s personages; each has his own special charae t and Oberon, Ariel, and Puck could no mo re " : ee hsrd. founded together than Othello, Hamlet;andile cot fins faculty of intensely individualizing as the gr eet fins source of the mighty power of ShaksV.a re o f all this that makes him the poet of all a,.;e, ar t i f i high nations. It is this that. constitutes hit° tlie )ivioe• priest of Nature, that maces him all bu t ",;Ork- We have another instance of the caarvel lo l4 e reat ing, of this faculty, although in a very 'limbers grade of creations, in this very p i v y. Odle! "► but introduce clowns and fools into .heir Ple c ;;,the their fools are all alike. One fool ,has Sat :1,0 whole of them, and has had his portraits inhelndi• ad infinitum. But Shakspeare knew th3t g,-jeS Of victual characteristics of the different the clownishness were as distinctly market' . ie cies distinguishing characteristics of the differe r r i s t l e g js of sense ; he knew that folly has its sPernu well as wisdom, and accordingly we hou as Bottom, Flute, Snug, Snout, and Staryel'sbls distinctly individualized, and as distine r is e tArs. from each other, as any of his other eu s f e .xtlY The beautiful creations of the poet werewPeer ha ve and completely realised last evening• tit , / yeias' been constant playgoers for the last tvv e- ,i - have and never, during the whole of that P eric" " near we seen anything on any stage that for ins nificence, and effect, can be compared to g . .th e G at' summer Night's Dream, as produced at C o vent o f den last evening. The scenic effects were , s j c iive. them perfectly novel, and all of them was Inall a g e m The manner in which the change by means of a sort of moving Diorama' f r° ,, bis olc abode of Oberon, in the forest to the way The t o whereon the wild thyme grows. ws° last see the place of Titania was admirable. This a perfect representation of a summer nigh t o f the soft and delicious c i;rnate in which the seen e te j, by most e e d.oo play is laid. The stage seemed illurnit'aectioas thousands of fire-flies fliging about in all . a ir o v ies in the air ; the effect was most beautiful' , a nn the loudly applauded. The opening scene of Fourth Act was most effective. Th e 10 0 d up, and discovers a fores t and sfoes• at raws night—day gradually dawns, the sor!rjohle, the objects gradually become distineec , the the lake, like a refulgent mirror, refl". sunshine, and all nature seems to vtali. e ' the Daguerre must l oo k t o hie laurels; or o f urieties will eclipse him. The - drec,ts light and shade at the Diorama were ftt's equalled, if not surpassed, by the dioramic a effect produced in the course of last evening t Co l° Garden. The last scene, however, sitrpaabe' splendour and elegance anything hitherto tempted. The stage represents a vastj erj ' i t ; plc, such a one as the pencil of iv: a : f te l s might create. This temple is filled with ' 33. ,e. hearing torches, each of a different coloured flame, They dance, pass, repass, and flit up aq_ .. ", ° o the steps and galleries of the temple, produovb effect perfectly indescribable, but far and avratrbe most beautiful we have ever witnessed. os music composed and selected by T. Conite'oung characteristic and beautiful. Miss Grant,-#5 j t lady from the Liverpool Theatre, made2 l ;o cce appearance before a London audienc e on . !; 4 Oft sion, as one of the fairies, and sang the air' ~„. O ct hill, over dale," with great taste and execute fit 0 ° voice, which is well cultivated, is a met", s°,ll,ds'se of considerable power, it fills The house e ll ' o f s trjs is a decided acquisition to the operatic .cer s th€ theatre. Madame Vestris was the Ober°, T ; fi k oorr . ,;: musical gem of the night was the due ts, .Y" bank," sung by herself and Miss Rainforl', 00' 5 havettever heard the. manner in vv hich t ee this duet equalled—we are sure we sha hear it surpassed, for it was Pe rfec o t ll . w el l ° piece was most effectively cast, an,dr,l titf so excellent that it would b e clos e t ' st - 4 5 0 particularise. We cannot, howeve r ' „ to, notice without bearing our testioin n r c o f 1 111 ' .- beautifully natural and unaffected patbo. characi Cooper in Helena ; her personation of th's lady ter is beautiful—she is evidently a r )tiri fi g o dic ta tli Pat great taste and great talent, and must t ' period attain a high rank in her professi°U'.s at tit° There were loud calls for Madame Ire,st:he ca° fall of the curtain, in obedience to Whi c h " *n o cliell e , e ; forward and was rapturously greeted eye " e fs w e- The pit rose, and hats and hanrchiech pay waved from all parts of the theatre, W hj i e ce 1°( crammed to excess. She announced the l' ont ice. repetition four nights a-week until further thee which must mean until Easter at leas t, or is no taste extant." . CONCERTS La se sitionnight a grand " :':: p . r e eo i: t s .......______veipittyoopLiervr_,c ....--• the 9...fit eo , oreThheisstroavoerf overturn e is icastaabplilsehamaienrgit afnodr the by of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, puh t l h ic e . copOsitiou, evidently the production of a cultivated 7 , o p taste,wa and gives promise of future excellence. ttrse' warmly applauded, though not encored. Another:vole' , i ri in the programme was Rossini's grand duo l en'' . *al," from Guillaume Tell. It was brilliantil ffibone. especially so were those passages marked for the trid°oocel and ophieleide. Part first concluded with Matthe ° In Or music second in Macbeth, now more attractive than eve r ' in the: art Mr. Lazarus made his first a nce Ho 11 .. 1 ,0 a ppear concerts,and gave ' cor ~ .a fantasia on the clarionet. dratni.- mail) , received. The remainder of the Pr°, l ., if s rather skfoicia (!o, Huguenots, First Grand Fantasia from the °P - t • so l l ° ' first l i mited' ir Mayerbeer ; oboe solo, Mons. 1 3 a r ' re N' t 1 ; s aiv ; cornet-a-piston, Herr Koenig, arranged b) ' i i -d a refi r ' l'Angleterre, new quadrille, M ' S , LMtisard ; 1 6 '"' TV galop, Nlusard ; all which were 'splendidly gi ver° c . Of theatre was exceedingly crowded. . P lay , A ADELPHI THEATRE. —Gay's farllOU. stit the Beggar's Opera was performed—or rather traltecone and topl.turveyed—here last night in the mos t g rci at eibY manner possible, the female characters being Pe r ' °" .ted °:' males, and the males by females. Polly was a"' Joe/ Bedford, and Lucy Lockit to Hall; YAtes ‘ 4 .., a3 „b0n 1. Diver, Wilkinson, Mrs. Coaxer, and Mrs. r e ''' . 04 Wright. Macheath was played by Mrs. Keeley, i dea Peachum by Mrs. Fosbrook. The absurdity of ibc , n nte d —though even this is not original, having been Att - . d if so long ago as Foote's time—drew a full house, 40ni hearty laughter be the true test of success, never i ces experiment so successful. Mrs. Keeley %va s P arti tib le ' clever in her part, and as for Bedford he was West: VICTORIA THEATRE.—Last nig The opera was fortunately cut down to one long.aci;_use there was produced, fir the first time, what by the billso. d e signated a" local petite piece "entitled the loo n g •of by tne Butholove terme"'s Societ.Y , or the Randan Club , goOd . nof enh Orphan of the Wreck. 'I he idea is a very ~t he part of the author as regards the constructio:i; o th ,, e Piece. It is, to a certain extent a nautical traces La t the Invincibles. The Invincible; introduce a cloy female soldiers--the Young Waterinen's Society intr,;ber. 1 l i t s C le rew of fresh water sailors as the Randan Club. i n the 1 _ avi s ! s dramatic interest in the Society than there t i? _, an d Ilt 111.31115. %0 InS c hiCle ' the i rczb/es, but the crew is not the less interes re business of the little drama affords an effective ''' for an excellent ballet. The getting up of the ballet ho a fleets g re a t credit upon Arlademoiselle Gooderharn. 13 : d , so performed the Sylphide Dance. The Pie Ce very cordial reception. The Wizard of the W ave f e c e i ci lowed, an d other entertainments, in villicll were introda rs. the talented dogs of Messrs. Cony and Blanchard. Mel . W e bb an d B a ker's benefit was announced for Thurs,ladaYni Webb, as leader of the band, ought to have a good h : a n public favour; and Baker's performances as a 111 _r t ho cannot easily escape tho recollection of frequents" °I theatre. EVENING EDITION.