The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. AUSTRIA. ABDICATION OF THE EMPEROR. On the 2d of December the Emperor Ferdinand abdi cated the imperial throne of the Austrian empire, in fa vour of his nephew, the Archduke Francis Joseph, eldest son of the Archduke Francis Charles. On the night of the Emperor's abdication, Jellachich and Windischgratz were summoned to 011mutz. A spe cial message was also sent to the Diet at Krenzier. The news reached Vienna on the morning of the 3rd, and spread rapidly. Vienna is tranquil. The late Emperor left 011mutz for Prague. He has issued a proclamation, giving as a reason for his abdication, that more youthful powers were needed to complete the grand work of reformation. The present Emperor has also issued a proclamation, which embodies the principal points of the late ministerial programme. He is in his 18th year. His father is a younger brother of the ex-Emperor, and the legitimate successor to the throne, but resigned in his son's favour. The ex-Empe ror intends to reside at Prague. The news caused great excitement in the Diet at Vienna. PRUSSIA. DISSOLUTION OF THE CHAMBER Accounts from Berlin, of the sth instant, announce the official dissolution of the constituent assembly on that day, it being the firm conviction of the King and his mi nisters that the government of the country could not be beneficially carried on by the then existing representatives with any regard to the dignity of the crown. Another decree grants a constitution to the Prussian States. Count Brandenburg continues at the head of the cabinet, which, however, has undergone some change. The advices of the previous day represent Ihe city as having resumed a state of order and tranquillity. The disarming of the Burgher Guard had been most effectu ally carried out, without a single act of violence on the part of General Wrangel. The troops had ceased to patrol the streets, the families which fled upon the breaking out of the insurrection were dally returning, and business had begun to revive. The Chronicle says the Constitution confirms all the liberties demanded by the people, and is many points more democratic than that of Belgium. The members of the left met on the night of the sth, to protest. ITALY. THE FLIGHT OF THE POPE The Pope has escaped from Rome and is now at Gaeta, the guest of the King of Naples. According to the latest accounts from Rome, the Pole did not leave his apart ments in the Quirinal Palace after the murder of Count Rossi, and was actually treated by the government as a state prisoner. All his own guards were removed, and he was surrounded by nersons supposed to be favourable to the new administration. His chief associates were the foreign ambassadors; and one of these, Count Spohr, the Bavarian Envoy, planned and effected the escape of the Venerable Pontiff. The Pope left the Quirinal on the evening of the 24th, disguised as a servant of Count Spohr, and wearing the livery of the Bavarian legation. Dressed in the character of a footman, he mounted the box of the ambassador's carriage, seated himself by the coachman, and thus absconded from the Quirinal Palace, and was carried off to Gaeta. The Count had previously obtained passports for Naples, whither the Pope accom panied him. not in his first disguise, but in that of the Envoy's chaplain. No one in Rome recognised him, and the illustrious fugitive arrived in Gaeta on the night of the 25th, without experiencing the least danger. On his arrival there he informed the King of Naples of his flight, and apprised his Majesty that steamers had been placed at his disposal by the governments of England and France, so that he was ready to depart if his presence caused the King the least inquietude. The answer was given by the King in person, who, with his family and court, proceed ed to welcome the fugitive. Nine of the fugitive Cardinals arrived in Naples at the same time, so that the Pope was likely to be surrounded by most of his old friends. When the flight of the Pope was known in Rome, the people seemed to care little about it. The Pope positively refusbd to go on board the French steamer, or to proceed to France. FRANCE The expedition for Civiti Vecchia left Marseilles on Sunday week. At one time it was supposed that there would have been a serious delay, owing to the steam-fri gate Magellon getting aground on going out of harbour. After much exertion she was got off, and the fleet, com posed of the Magellon, Labrador, and Montezuma steam frigates—set sail for Italy. The expedition is composed of 3200 men, in infantry, artillery, and engineers. At Ceylon, a coffee estate, which four years since cost £4,000 was recently sold for £4OO. _ _ The Frankfort joiirnals state that a plot for a republican and socialist rising, and for the assassination of several members of the German Parliament, has been discovered in that city. Prince Louis Napoleon has addressed a letter to the Constitutionnel, expressing his disapprobation of the ex pedition to Civita Vecchia, because, in his belief, it is cal culated to endanger the peace of Europe. Four fires took place in New York on the 12th ultimo. Twenty-two houses, with one hundred and fifty-four horses and twenty-five omnibuses, were destroyed. The damage is estimated at 200,000 dollars. Amongst the buildings destroyed is St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church. The King of Naples has prorogued the Chambers ; after so much hot work, time for cool reflection is needed. The Hon. William Temple has not yet reached Naples, where he is wanted - but he has turned up at Rome, where he was not wanted. _ _ EXPULSION OF THE POPISH BISHOP MURPHY AND CLERGY FROM INDIA.—The Bombay Times gives, as the result of the enquiry before the Lieutenant-General, are commendation from the court to his excellency the Commander-in-Chief for the immediate expulsion of the Popish bishop and clergy from the Nizam's dominions. A duel with swords took place on Wednesday in the Bois Vincennes, between the Mayor of Montmartre and M. de J—, The latter was very seriously wounded in the breast. A political dispute, it appears, was the cause of the meeting. M. Prudhon has also been wounded in a duel, which both police and some workmen did their best to prevent, but their vigilance was eluded by the combatants. TROTTING.—AN EXTRAORDINARY MATCH IN AME RICA.—TWENTY MILES PERFORMED IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR.—The twenty mile match, for In ,500, Trustee v. Time, came off on Friday, September 20, over the Union Course, L. 1., and was won by the horse in gal lant style, having never been touched with a whip from beginning to end. He accomplished the extraordinary task, in harness, in fifty-nine minutes and thirty-five se conds and a half. MR. WILSON IN AMERICA.—This gentleman's trip across the Atlantic has commenced most auspiciously. Having given six of his popular entertainments in New York, where his reception was most gratifying, he pro ceeded to Boston, where he was greeted in the same enthusiastic manner. He was to open the New Assembly Rooms, in New York, on the 27th ultimo, and to give a regular series of his entertainments. From thence he will proceed to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, &c., and so on to New Orleans, returning to New York early in May. Of the female immigrants who recently arrived in Mel bourne by the William Stewart eight were married within twentv•four hours a'ter their landing. An offer made to the ninth (a cautious Scotch lassie) was deferred by the fair one, who, with some slight adumbrations as to higher aspirations, professed her intention to " wait a wee while." The Portland Guardian, in noticing the nuptial arrangements, only regretted that the ladies had notibeen landed in that delightful bay, where double the number would have met eligible matches in half the number of hours. " Eight weddings in twenty-four hours (quoth our contemporary)—Pooh ! in Portland there would have been sixteen in twelve I"—Australian Journal, June, 1848. THE DRAMA IN AMERICA.—A theatrical warfare has been going on in Philadelphia, between the partisans of 3fr. Macready and those of the American tragedian, Mr. Forrest. The Yankees are not over particular when they desire to vent their spleen on English actors ; and remem bering the feud aroused some time back by Forrest having publicly " goosed" the " eminent" in Scotland, they greeted Macready in " Macbeth" with sundry missiles, including eggs, halfpence, &c. Of course the artist did not secure either of these substitutes for bouquets ; the former not being very odorous, and the latter insignifi cantly beneath the value of the metals this actor has been accustomed to pick up. It appears, however, that he got the majority of the cheers at the end of the performance. Forrest played " Macbeth" the same night at another theatre in Philadelphia, to a crowded and quiet audience. A piece of lawless punishment is related in a letter pub lished in the Morning Chronicle, dated Monte Video, Sep. 15 : " A Roman Catholic priest was in the habit of visiting a family named O'Gorman, father and two daughters. With one of the latter, it appears, he was much smitten, and at last persuaded her to elope with him. He succeeded in getting out of Buenos Ayres to Entre Rios, where they lived together, with the intention of crossing the country to Rio de Janeiro as soon as possible. The priest of the place they were in (an Irishman), sus pecting them from the retired way in which they lived, betrayed them to one of the innumerable parties who were in search of them ; they were brought to Buenos Ayres and then shot in the Campamento, without trial, and in cold blood. The lady was eight and a-half months in the family-way ; the child was alive after the mother was shot, and, at her request before death, was christened. Of the firing party (twelve or sixteen men) drawn up to shoot them (some of Roses' bloody gang) five or six could not pull the trigger, and are to be shot for not doing their duty." SCIENTIFIC PROPHECY. — About nineteen years ago, a Mr. Hait, of Wilton, Connecticut, then a remarkably good student in his collegiate course, was suddenly de prived of his reason and memory. Under those circum stances his father, the Rev. Mr. !Tait, sent him to Hert ford ; but finding no relief he sent him to Dr. Chaplain, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The doctor said there was no present relief for him, but that at the age of 36 or 37 there would be a change ; that the brain was too much expanded for the cranium, and there would, at that age, be a contraction, which would enable it to act healthfully. His anxious father and family saw their hopes peremp torily deferred for nineteen years. That time has re cently expired, and, to their great joy, the prophecy is fulfilled. The man began to inquire for his books as if he had just laid them down, and resumed his mathema tical studies where he left them. There was no trace on his mind of this long blank in his life, or of anything which had occurred in it, and he did not know that he was almost forty years of age. The circumstance of greatest interest is, that whereas he went into this state of derangement in deep religious anxiety, he came out of it with a bright Christian hope.—New York Journal of Commerce. A TENDER WIFE. —At a recent sitting of the Court of Assizes of the department du Pas-de-Calais, Catherine Dehay, aged 59, was condemned to death for murdering her husband at Bavincourt, arrondissement of St. Paul. On the 28th of February last the husband suddenly disap peared, and the prisoner pretended that he had gone to Arras and Paris to fight in the revolution. Some time after she attempted to get possession of 'his property, to which she was entitled as survivor by virtue of their mar riage contract ; but the notary told her that she could not receive it until the death of her husband should be clearly proved. On the 20th of August a - human head was found lying in the middle of the road, and a little while after part of a human leg, enclosed in a boot was also disco vered. The head was ascertained to be that of the priso ner's husband, and on a search being set on foot the body was found interred in her garden. From the marks on the head, it was evident that death had been caused by beating the skull with a hammer. A number of disco veries were made in the house, and circumstances were related by witnesses which left no doubt that the prisoner had done the deed. It further appeared that she must have kept the body some time in the house before burying it in the garden, and that when it became necessary to prove her husband's death she dug up the body, cut off the head and limb, and placed them in positions in which they were certain to be found, her expectations being that it would be believed that they had been dragged there by some animal. When the head and body were presented to her, the wretched woman manifested not the slightest emotion. She and her husband had long lived on bad terms, and she was anxious to get rid of him to enjoy his property.— Galignani's Messenger. THE RAJAH OF SAUAWAX.—The friends of Sir James Brooke have been much gratified by the satisfactory ac counts received by the last Overland Mail of that distin guished adventurer. After 15 months' absence he arrived at Sarawak in the beginning of September, in her Ma jesty's frigate Meander, with his gallant friend Captain Keppel, in the night, and was welcomed by his native subjects with lively demonstrations of joy and respect, and by a general illumination of the town, which had a very striking effect. These people (the Dyaks) an interesting race of periaecuted heathens, were anxious to show their gratitude and attachment to a ruler who had rescued them froin a barbarous yoke, and the continual inroads of pi rates ; and they seemed thoroughly to appreciate their good fortune in the return of their Rajah, who, ever since his lot was cast amongst them, has been striving with all the resources of a powerful and humane mind, to con fer upon them the blessings of a paternal government and the arts of civilized life, now combined with the glad tid ings of the Gospel under the auspices of the Borneo Mis sion. The Rajah found that, during his abscnca, in trigues and plots had been got up by the Brune Rajah with some of the piratical inhabitants of Sakarron, to under mine his authority and shake the confidence of the natives. But the presence of the Rajab confirmed them in their al legiance, and it was thought that all the attempts of dis affected and piratical chiefs would be frustrated, and that the principal offenders would soon be brought to justice. Sir James Brooke proposed visiting Brune, and forming a treaty, if possible, with Salu. He would then make some stay at Labuan, the seat of his government, to form that new establishment ; and, in the spring, he will probably at tack the piratical rovers of Serebas and Sakarron. and so cripple and disable the pirates as very much to impair their future means of annoyance, while he forms leagues with some of the neighbouring states, for mutual support. IRELAND. • - An attempt was made, a few days since, to burn the New Ross workhouse, by some of the female paupers, by firing the " straw house." It was providentially got under before the main building was ignited. On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a large Spanish vessel, with a cargo value over £lO,OOO, was driven ashore near Wexford, and was totally lost. Crew saved. Ship went to pieces immediately. Cargo completely destroyed. The schooner Gem, of Belfast, laden with oats, and bound to Liverpool, was totally lost on sunken rocks, about twelve miles N.W. of the Arran Isles, on the 29th of November. The captain, his son, and a Frenchman, were drowned ; the mate and a boy saved, the former much injured. The cargo was insured. The Orangemen of the BeWait district have resolved to abandon their meetings in public-houses, and have rented premises for the future transaction of their business. On Friday evening, as a means of making this arrangement known, a soiree of the brotherhood was held in the Music hall. It is said that upwards of eight hundred persons sat down to tea. On Saturday last, Mr. Locke, vice-guardian of the union of Kanturk, county Cork, was set upon by a num ber of the paupers, who were manifestly intent on de spatching him. Mr. Locke drew a dagger and wounded one or two of them, but they would probably have suc ceeded had not the Roman catholic chaplain fortunately come to his assistance, when his assailants retired. The paupers accused Mr. Locke of over-severity. • Loss OF AN AMEILICAN BARQUE.—On Friday week the Henrietta, Jones, master, left Cork in ballast for Swansea. The weather was unfortunatelyvery boisterous, and on her getting outside the harbour, she missed stays and went on the rocks, between the Cow and Calf. She remained until Saturday morning beating fearfully, when being no longer able to hold together, she went to pieces, and shortly after not a vestige of the vessel was to be seen. The Henrietta was a new vessel, not more than nine months built. The captain and crew were with conside rable difficulty saved - .)y the Coast Guards. THE SEVENTH OF DECIIMIBER.—Thursday being the anniversary of the Shutting Of the Gates of Derry against James. the event was celebrated by the Apprentice Boys dining together as usual. The meeting was numerous, the loyal enthusiasm undiminished—rather contrary, if i peseihte the cuetomary toaste were drank, 0eve...1...,..1 lent and appropriate songs sung, and the festivity pro longed till the small hours, when the ' , arty separated after a most joyous evening. The dinner took place at the Bilton, when, it is needless to say, the fare, wines, &c., were of the most recherche' character. MURDER.—At Loughadreen, about four miles from Cork, off the Skibbereen-road on Monday night week a man was brutally murdered. The unfortunate victim James Walsh, who was a fine hearty young man, servant to an extensive farmer named Jennings, and was on the night in question called from bed to look after the potato gar den, which was constantly watched. On going in com pany with a young lad, he discovered three or four busily engaged, and sent for assistance and in the mean time ran towards one of the party, when he was immediately over powered, and in an instant his brain strewed the field. His head presented a most shocking spectacle. The only clue to the murderers is a small portion of a spade handle found on the spot. STRANGE SCENE.—A few evenings since as Professor Anderson was about to commence the performance of his celebrated wedding-ring trick, when he inquired if any lady in the room would favour him with her wedding-ring for a few minutes. An old lady said he might have her's, if he would assure her he would return it safe. The Wizard pledged his word to return the ring uninjured. As soon as he had got it fairly in his possession, he took a hammer and commenced breaking the pledge of love into pieces, when the old lady got up, and exclaimed with a scream—" Is that my ring you are breaking in pieces ? Is that the ring my poor husband put on my finger ?" Not thinking the old lady intended anything serious, the Wizard replied in the affirmative, when the old lady, scrambling through the crowded pit, got upon the stage, and the following extraordinary scene took place, which was listened to with a fixed attention by the audience, (as if Miss Faucit and Mr. Calcraft had been there, acting one of their most impassioned scenes) :—She seized the pieces, which the Wizard had broken, and looking on the fragments of her ring, exclaimed, " You are a fiend ! a monster ! ! the devil himself !! ! The curses of an old woman be upon you! May the spirit of him who placed that ring on my finger for ever haunt you !—I see him now, pointing at me—mocking me !—telling me that the tie of Heaven is broken, which bound us together on earth, and that we shall not meet hereafter !" The dis tracted woman, in a state of frenzy, seized the Wizard by the hand, and said—" If you have any pity for a heart broken widow—as you love the happiness of your own mother, restore my ring, or I shall go mad " The Wi zard, alarmed at the old lady's excitement and powerful language, replied—" My good woman, I will not harm your ring, for, look, it is on your finger!" The old lady, in a fit of joy, fainted, and was carried from the room.— Dublin paper. LAW INTELLIGENCE. -*- COURT OF CHANCERY.-TUESDAY. THE SCOTCH CHURCH, MANCHESTER. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. MUNRO.—This was an appeal from a judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. The question raised was simply whether the de fendant, (Mr. Munro,) who is the preacher in a chapel at Manchester, connected with the ERtablished Church of Scotland, should be prevented from preaching in the chapel, because he had seceded from the Church and joined the Free Kirk. His lordship, in delivering judgment, said that the chapel had been erected on the special con dition that the religious services to be performed should be in conformity with the rules and ordinances of the Church of Scotland, and that the clergyman should be a member of, and in communion with, that Church. Mr. Munro having ceased to belong to the Church of Scot land, could not, therefore, any longer claim the right to preach in the chapel in question. He did not, like the large and respectable body that had, from conscientious motives, seceded in Scotland from the Church, give up the living which he possessed, but wished to retain the living while he seceded from the Church. Under these circumstances, his lordship affirmed the decree of the court below, with costs. IN RE NICHOLLS AND litwan.—An adjourned exami nation of these bankrupts, who were formerly joint pro prietors of the Eastham Hotel and Ferry, took place on Wednesday last, before Mr. Commissioner Perry. Mr. Yates, who appeared for certain creditors, examined the first-named bankrupt at some length, and elicited from him that, when he entered upon the Eastham-ferry Hotel, in July, 1845, after leaving the Star and Garter, in Liver pool, he purchased 'furniture to the amount of £1,091, which was paid for with money obtained from his brother in-law. He had no capital when he entered upon the Eastham-ferry Hotel, the rent of which was £3OO, and the ferry £2OO per annum. Two steam-boats (the Royal Tar and the Clarence) were purchased for the use of the ferry, the one costing £1,600 and the other £1,200. He was joined by the two Messrs. Hilliar and others in the purchase, and for the first three or four months, in 1844, the business of the ferry was profitable, but had not been so since. The bankrupt further admitted that he was trading with the money of his credtiors, whose demands amounted to £3,057, but explained that if the weather had continued fine for any length of time, and the ferry profitable, he would have been enabled to pay his credi tors, had time been allowed The joint liabilities of the bankrupts were £2,400, and there was no property to (I,3vide amongst the uninsured ,creditors, except the shier Royal Tar could be sold forxaore then the leoura. brances on her, which were £1,400. The - Commissioner was of opinion that an amendment of the balance-sheet was necessary, and the case was furtheradjourned forthat purpose. It is said that government intends to remove all the equity business of Ireland to the Westminster Courts. The action brought by Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P., against the publishers of the Manchester Examiner, for libel, has terminated in a verdict being taken, by consent, for the plaintiff—damages, £5 ss. The Recordership of Norwich, an office which was re cently vacated in so sudden and horrible a manner by the murder of Mr. Jenny, has been given to Mr. Prendergast, of the Norfolk Circuit. We believe that the Recorder ship of Bedford, lately held by Mr. Prendergast, will be given to Mr. Burcham, of the Norfolk Circuit. LIBEL.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a Mr. Leatham, of Dominica, obtained a verdict for £5OO against the proprietors of Simmonds's Colonial Magazine, for libels published therein in 1844, imputing to plaintiff charges of brutality and cruelty, amounting to acts of felony, during the disturbances in that island in 1844. In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday, in the case of " Harman v. Hope and Others," after a trial of two days, the jury decided that " the Hope jewels" belonged to the plaintiff. A great deal of evidence was produced on both sides, but the question was simply which of the nephews of the late H. P. Hope were entitled under his will to the possession of these jewels, valued at about £84.000. IMPORTANT DECISIONS IN WILL CASES.—The follow ing cases were heard before Slr H. Jenner Fust, recently, and cannot be too generally' known, particularly by per sons who are so simple as to prefer making their own wills :—Mary Howell, deceased—probate refused on the ground that the will was written on one side of a piece of pa per only, while the signatures were inscribed on the other. Jonathan Birch, deceased—probate refused in conse quence of blanks having been left for legacies being filled up with red ink. Jane Corner, deceased—probate refused on the ground stated in the case of Mary Howell... Wil liam Sanger, deceased—probate refused on the ground of the character of certain allegations made in the will. Es ther Powell, deceased—application for probate opposed, because the same will was signed by the testatrix by two names, those of " Powell ' and " Watkin.” Pro bate granted on the testimony of a clergyman, who knew the signature to be that of one and the same person. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, a car penter, named Avis, residing at 27, High-street, St. Giles's, sued Mr. Nugee, a retired tailor in Harley-street, for damages under Lord Campbell's act, arising out of the following circumstances The defendant owned some neighbouring houses to the residence of the plain tiff, in the course of some improvements to which it be came necessary to pull down a stack of chimneys. De fendant told the workmen that he did not care a d— how they were pulled down, and, consequently, instead of erecting a scaffolding, they put a coil of rope round them and pulled them down by force. As was to be ex pected, on the bottom part being pulled forcibly one way, the top of the chimney fell the other, and, tumbling upon the roof and skylight of the parlour, fell across the back of the plaintiff's wife, who was coo king liar dinner at the time, severely bruised her, and struck her down across the fire. Her four children, of the respective ages of 13, 10, 8, and 6i years, were playing about her at the time, but providentially escaped. A medical man (Mr. Fitz gerald) was called in, and found her severely injured in the back, in the region of the kidneys. She was unable to walk upright, and was confined for a month in bed, and then began apparently to recover. She, however, afterwards relapsed, azd died in the December following. An inquest was held upon her body, and, from the evi dence of the surgeons who examined her, Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Bloxam, her death was attributed to disease of the kidneys, the origin of which was the accident from which she had suffered. The present action was brought in consequence, and a special jury, after a short consulta tion, the case having occupied the whole day, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £lOO, and £5O for each of the children, to be vested in trustees for their use. - TIE LIVEIIPOOL STANDAR% COURT AND FASHION. The Queen and Prince Albert remain in the enjoyment of quiet at Osborne-house. Lord and Lady John Russell have been the most distinguished visitors of the week. . On Thursday week Lord Hardinge dined with the 50th regiment, (Queen's Own.) at the mess-room, Dover Castle, when his lordship presented a massive gold cup to the officers, the gift of Prince Waldemar, of Prussia. At the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, last week, in Class 1., the highest prize, of 30 sovereigns, was awarded to a Hereford ox, fed by Prince Albert, and a silver me dal to Mr. Peter Davis, its breeder. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. a During the last fortnight there went from the Bangor station of the Chester and Holyhead railway a pig cargo, from Ireland, in upwards of 80 trucks, each truck with 25 pigs, or about 2,000 in the whole. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ended the 2nd instant :—Coaching traffic, £744 Os. 4d. ; parcels, £44 10s. 2d. ; goods and cattle, £286 15s. 7d. • steam-boats, £9l 12s. ;—total, £11 6 6 18s. Id. On Monday, two labourers on the EasAnd West India Dock and Birmingham Junction Railw were killed by the falling in of three recently-construc t arches, which, it seems, had been considerably injured by the recentrains. RAILWAY AcTloN.—ln the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a child named Dearden, not seven years old, son of Mr. Dearden solicitor, residing somewb.v”. ; n.ent, obtained inU J damages ror injuries sustained by the sudden opening of a door of the carriage on which he was leaning, as the train arrived at Euston-square. The injuries caused the amputation of the left leg and one of the toes on the right foot. The jury thought the accident occurred through the neglect of the Company's servants. From our official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 4,205 miles of railway, was £174,861, thus accounted f0r:—£75,769 for the convey ance of passengers only, £53,605 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £45,487 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £20,811 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was 3,317. The average earnings per mile were £42, whilst in 1847 they were £46. DEPRECIATION OF RAILWAY SHARES.—The average fall in the market prices of twelve of the principal com panies, has been upwards of 60 per cent. in 3 1 years. Taking the month of August for a comparison, we find that in '1845, London and North-Western shares were £252, and in 1848, £ll4 ; Great Western, £246 and £92 ; South-Western, £B2 and £4l ; South-Eastern, £lBO and £94 ; Brighton, £BO and £2B ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £B7 and £37 ; and others in like proportion. The Belfast and Ballymena directors, in the face of their disappointment in the passenger receipts, declare a divi dend of 10s. for the past half-year, payable on the 14th. The general expenses have been carefully attended to, and the reduction in the fares of the second and third class passengers it is hoped will result satisfactorily to the com pany. The report was adopted, and Mr. Macartney, in an address full of minute details, completely rebutted the charges made by Mr. Maunder against the board. Mr. Maunder has since published an apology for his attacks. LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY..— The works on this line are still very backward, owing to the numerous slips which have taken place at Rufford three or four times each week, for the last two months . It is stated that one place has sunk nearly thirty yardF, perpendicularly ; and the workmen, though conveying an immense quantity of ballast, daily, from Aughton Moss, near Ormskirk, are, apparently, nearly as far behind as they were five or six weeks ago. The engine propelled a train of twenty-two waggons, laden with ballast, across the pile-bridge, to Croston Moss, for the first time, on Wednesday last. The bridge, which is upwards of a quarter of a mile long, stood remarkably well, there being very little vibration as the train passed over. It is confi dently predicted, however, by persons who have known Croston Moss for the last forty years, that, when the heavy ballast comes to be placed upon the embankment, it will sink. A few days, however, will set this question at rest. RAILWAYS AND SANITARY REFORM. — In connection with the prominent, and certainly the most important topic of the day, as regards social comfort—we mean sani tary reform—it appears from an article in the Companion to the British Almanac for the ensuing year, that rail ways are showing themselves most useful. It seems that at Newcastle-on-Tyne the town's refuse has been for some years carted out on a spot in or near to the common moor, whence it was taken away in other carts, belonging to the farmers of Morpeth and other places, who paid 4s. 6d. per cart-load for it. The York and Berwick Railway has become the medium of a much improved arrangement. The corporation now takes the collection of these mat ters upon itself ; the refuse is conveyed in carts to the railway, along which it is transported, in vehicles and at hours likely to be as little inconvenient as possible ; and it is now delivered in the agricultural districts at 2s. 6d. per ton. The farmers of Northumberland now use the whole of the refuse of Newcastle, and the demand is far beyond the supply. PROGRESS OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM.—If we look at the capital invested within a given number of years, in the shape of shares, and which in almost every case repre sents spare or accumulatad capital, we arrive at some astonishing results. We may leave untouched the mining speculations of 1825, and the joint-stock bubbles of 1836 ; for those were remarkable rather for the extra vagant prices given for the scrip or deposits on shares, than for the money actually sunk in permanent works. In respect to the 2,700 miles of canal now at work in the United Kingdom, they belong rather to the past genera tion than to the present; nearly 2,000 miles having been projected and laid out before the commencement of the present century : the forty years from 1770 to 1810 were the busy years for canals. In respect to turnpike-roads, too, the advance was more notable in the last generation than it has been within the last twenty years, owing to the spread of railways. The turnpike-roads and paved streets of England and Wales amount to about 20,000 miles, and the cross-roads to nearly 100,000 miles ; these together, though increasing yearly, do not increase in a large ratio. But when we come to railways, we find am ple reason for the comparative stagnation of roads and canals. The first passenger railway (the Liverpool and Manchester) was opened for traffic in 1830 ; it was so successful, that more than one hundred acts were ob tained for new lines between that year and 1840, and more than five hundred in the next six years, 1841-1846. About 1100 miles were finished and in operation in 1841 ; about 2,650 miles in 1846 ; and there will probably be about 4,400 miles open at the end of 1848. The capital expended on these works, which was laid out cautiously twenty years ago, increased at an astonishing rate. The completed railways had zost £70,000,000 by November, 1845; and by the commencement of 1848, the expendi ture had increased t0k170,000,000, ofwhich £130,000,000, had been raised by shares, and f. 40,000,000 by loans.— tbogpanion to the Almmaaek.. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NE•T. The Rev. George Yarnoi'd Osborne, MA., curate of Coleshill t Warwickshire, has been presented to the per petual curacy of Whiston, near Prescot, Lancashire. Cannes MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—Last night the an nual meeting of the Chester auxiliary was held at Chester, when the Bishop presided. At the morning meeting the Marquis of Cholmondeley presided. The Rev. Chancellor Raikes will take the chair at a juvenile meeting to be held to-day - - Mr. Macaulay has accepted the Rectorship of Glasgow University, and has informed the electors that he will visit the Western metropolis about the New Year, for the pur pose of being installed. Lord John Russell never had time to go through the ceremony, and it is surmised that his supposed indifference was the cause of his not being re-elected. LIBERALITY OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The Queen Dowager has most graciously given the munificent dona tion of £2O towards the expenses incurred in the erection of a new church at Flint. The building was opened for Divine service on Tuesday. In the morning a most im pressive sermon was delivered by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. Among the gentry present on the interestinc , occasion were Sir R. S. Glynn, Bart., the Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn ' &c. The Daily News remarks upon the appointment of another "son of a Whig nobleman" to a living in the gift of the Bishop of Durham, that the reverend prelate " reserves all his choicest livings for his patron's friends." " A few weeks ago he gave Houghton-le-Spring, with its £l6OO a year to one of the sons of the late Earl Grey ; a few weeks since he preferred a son of Lord Denman to a benefice with £7OO a year; and now he has been attend ing to the temporal interest of a relative of the First Lord of the Admiralty." CHURCH EDUCATION.—A movement has been com menced in the Norwich diocese in furtherance of church education. It is proposed to establish a training college for school-mistresses, and another for masters also, if funds can be raised. The bishop heads the movement, and promises a donation of £250,, on condition that the necessary £6,000 be raised in the diocese in the course of the next six months. Lord Bayning has put down his name for £lOO donation, and increases his annual sub scription from £5 to £2O. The Mayor of Norwich and others have also furnished munificent contributions. The Protestant meeting held in the Guild-hall last Tuesday evening, and the truly eloquent address of Mr. Stowell, will be long remembered by the inhabitants cf Doncaster. We never remember witnessing a more stir ring meeting or listening to a more brilliant specimen of popular address than the speech of the Rev. H. Stowell. The meeting itself was well-timed, men's minds were interested in the subject and open to conviction, and the honest and hearty bursts of applause which accompanied the glowing appeals of the speaker, manifested a feeling of respect and love for the Church of England, and a set tled determination to oppose to the utmost all further concessions to Rome, which it was impossible to witness without gratitude and encouragement.—Doncaster Chro nicle. THE COLONIAL BISHOPS.—Mr. John Bright, who is so fond of making rrndom statements with a view to damage the Church Establishment, stated, at a political meeting the other day at Wakefield, that " upwards of £46,000 a-year were paid out of the taxes to support colonial bishops." This has called forth a letter from the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Hon. Sec. of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, in which he proves, by a detailed state ment, that " of our 21 colonial bishoprics, eight only— viz., Nova Scotia, Montreal, Newfoundland, Jamaica, Barbadoes, Antigua, Guiana, and New Zealand—receive any portion of their income from the Imperial Treasury ; and the sum of their gross united incomes is not £46,000, as stated by Mr. Bright, but £14,790." The other bishops' salaries are paid either out of the colonial funds, the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, or private liberality, as in the cases of the Bishops of Cape Town and Adelaide, who were endowed wholly and exclusively by the pious munificence of Miss Burdett Coutts. Mr. Hawkins adds, that there is a happy probability of two or three more colonial bishops being endowed ere long, without any assistance from the Imperial Treasury. The Bishop of New Zealand receives one-half of his salary (aoo a-year) from the Imperial Treasury, in consequence of a recom mendation from Lord John Russell. THE HORRIBLE MURDERS IN NORFOLK. The examination of the prisoner Rush before the ma gistrates at Norwich Castle was continued until a late hour on Tuesday night, when a most important disclosure was made. A most careful search was made by the police on Monday, when a black mask was discovered among a bundle of newspapers, so carefully folded up and concealed, that nothing but a careful examination of each newspaper could have led to the discovery. This mask covers the face as far as the mouth, to which a piece of black lace is attached, effectually concealing the lower part of the face. The prisoner appeared for a moment confounded by the production of this important link in the chain of evidence, but speedily recovered the same tone of levity and indif ference which he has exhibited ever since his apprehension. He cross-examined many of the witnesses, but many of his questions are so foolish and irrelevant that the magis trates have been compelled to tell him he is doing himself no good by asking such questions. When taken to the bedside of the lady's maid, Rush observed that he was sorry to see her suffering so much. She remarked tha:, she had no doubt it was he who fired at her. He said, " Had I a cap on ?" but the girl, who was then suffering great pain, only replied, " Don't ask me such questions, The funeral of the deceased gentlemen took place on Tuesday, at twelve o'clock. The funeral was strictly pri vate, the cortege consisting of two hearses, three mourning coaches, containing the relatives of the deceased, and Mr. Colman and several of the family tenantry on horseback. The chief mourners were Mr. Thomas Preston, of Lowes toft, only surviving brother of the late Mr. Isaac Jermy, and Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., of Hargham, the elder de ceased's father-in-law. The coffins were of plain oak, severally bearing the following inscriptions on brass plates : —" Isaac Jermy, Esq., died 28th November, 1848, aged 59," and " Isaac Jermy Jermy, died 28th November, 1848, aged 27." Great precautions were taken, in consideration of the dangerous state of Mrs. Jermy, to conduct the fu neral as quietly as possible, and a quantity of straw was laid down on all the footpaths and carriage-ways leading to the hall, in order that the sound of the carriage wheels might not be heard by the unhappy lady so awfully be reaved of her husband and son. The shops in the village of Wymondham were all shut, and the entire population appeared to have assembled in the village and churchyard to witness the sad ceremony. The following is an authentic outline of the statement made by Mrs. James, Rush's housekeeper, before the coroner and jury on Tuesday : Emily James is rather a pretty young woman of about 26 years of age, who lived with the prisoner Rush at the Potash-farm, and who is now enceinte by him. She was called by the name of Mrs. James, but there is no reason to suppose either that she has ever been married or that James is her real name. She is said to have received a superior education, and to have lived in the prisoner's family as governess to his children, under the name of Miss Sandford, until the illicit nature of the attachment which existed between Rush and herself could no longer be concealed. Mrs. James and the boy Savory were the only persons who slept at the Potash-farm with the prisoner on the night of the murder. Her evidence is to this effect :—" On the night of the murder Rush had agreed to take Mrs. James to a concert at Norwich, given by Madame Dulckan. It was arranged that they should have tea a little earlier than usual, and at five o'clock Rush came home and found her dressed for the concert. Rush then said to her ' L don't think I shall go Norwich now, for I don't feel very well. Do you mind not going ?" She immediately replied, that she did not care about going. Rush said, If you parti cularly wish it, we will go.' She repeated that she did not care about it, and it was agreed that they should remain at home. They sat down to tea about six, and lingered over the meal until about eight o'clock, when Rush said, I want to go out for a short time.' She replied, You had better not, as you will increase your cold.' He took no notice, and proceeded to the back kitchen (probably for the purpose of being seen by the boy Savory), and thence upstairs into his bedroom. After remaining there for some minutes he came down stairs, and went out at the front door, without looking into the room where the witness sat so as to give her any oppor tunity of seeing or speaking with him. The prisoner could not make the front door latch after him, and he called to her to come and shut it. She went instantly, but took no light, nor, she says, did she open the door to see him leave the house, so that she cannot speak to his dress and appearance, when he left the house. Rush held the door from the outside until she had secured it after him, and then went away. She re turned to the sitting-room where they had partaken of tea, and having removed the tea things, she read until about nine o'clock, as nearly as she could say, which would make him absent about an hour. She then heard him tap on the door with his knuckles, and went to let him in, but did not take a light, She drew the bolt of the door, said " It is undone," and then returned to her room. Rush waited a minute or two at the door after he heard her draw the bolt, and she had regained her room before he entered at the front door. He went along the passage, and as he passed the door he called out You had better go to bed." He then went up stairs without asking for a candle; but this did not excite her surprise. as she knew he had wax tapers in his bed-room by which he could procure a light. Thus she had no opportunity, if she speaks truly, of seeing him either when he left the house or when he returned. The prisoner remained in his bedroom a few minutes, and then came down without his shoes, and so softly that she did not hear him until he opened tie door of the room in which she was sitting. He held the door a little way open, with his hand upon the handle, and looked into the room. She then observed that he was in his shirt sleeves. He said, " What a large fire you have got. Put it out and go to bed." There was something in his mariner that caused her to look at him more attentively, and she then observed that his face was deadly pale (he is naturally a man of very florid complex ion), and that he appeared much agitated. She said, "Is there anything the matter with you ?" He turned from her and said " No." After a short pause he added, " It any one asks you about me, say I was not out more than ten minutes." (This is what the girl stated next day before the magistrates.) He then went up stairs to his bedroom again, and locked the door. She took some of the heated coals from the fire, and having a can of water in the room, she threw some of it upon the fire, and quenched it. She then retired to her bedroom. In the course of a few minutes she heard the door of Rush's room opened so as to make as little noise as possible, and heard the prisoner groping his way stealthily down stairs without his shoes. In the space of about two or three minutes she heard him return up stairs with the same pre. cautions, and re-enter his bedroom. She then went to sleep, Laid &I not wake until the morning, when she was aroused by the information that the police were in the house. The coroner having expressed a wish to hear something about the disputes which had taken place between the deceased and the prisoner,—a labourer named Stubbs was examined, who had been in the late Mr. Jermy's employment during the last seven years. He stated that on the day after the auction on Standfield-hall farm (when a distress had been put in by the deceased against the effects of the prisoner), he heard the elder Mr. Jermy say to the latter, " Come, Mr. Rush, let us go in and settle our business without lawyers. I don't like lawyers at all." Rush said, " I will bring the fellow Clarke (Mr. Jermy's solicitor) to his recollection," meaning " to his senses." Mr Jermy added, " 1 hate lawyers, they are just like we barristers in London. They quarrel all day, and at night they have dinner and wine together, and shake hands." This witness further deposed that a trial took place between Mr. Jermy and Mr. Rush last spring about a breach of covenant, when a verdict was returned against Rush, with £420 damages. He had heard Mr. Jermy say that he and Mr. Rush could not agree as to the Potash farm. This witness appears to have partici pated in the general apprehension which has been enter tained for some years past in the neighbourhood, that Rush was a man who would not shrink from committing some desperate deed to attain his ends or satisfy his re venge ; and he states that he warned Mr. Jermy to beware of Rush shortly before the murder. Stubbs deposed that about a fortnight since, he said to Mr. Jermy, sen., "If I were you, I would not allow Mr. Rush on my premises after dark." The witness continued—" 1 would not speak to him after dark if I were you, for I think one day or another lie will do you some serious injury." Stubbs was, of course, asked by the coroner how he came to en tertain so singular a presentiment, or what reason he had for giving the deceased gentleman so singular a caution. He replied, "T don't know how I came to use such an expres sion, but the thing was impressed strangely on my mind. I thought at different times that Mr. Rush would do him a serious injury. I knew Rush was very angry about the distress, and that a good deal of feeling existed in his mind towards Mr, Jermy in consequence of the distress." It does not appear that the deceased Mr. Jermy attached any importance to the prediction of his servant. Stubbs also mentioned, as a proof of Mr. Rush's violent temper, that when the distress was put on the farm he acted as bailiff there. Rush wanted to take a stove out of the house, but the witness prevented him. Rush seized the stove, and put it on the cart, say ing, " The first man who touches that I will blow his brains out." The witness, who was not to be frightened by his threat, exclaimed, " I might as well be without brains as without the stove," and removed it from the cart. He was advised to take steps against Rush for his threats, and have him bound over to keep the peace, but he did not do so. We are happy to state that Mrs. Jermy is still pro gressing favourably towards recovery. Her lady's maid, who sustained a compound fracture of the thigh from a discharge of the slugs, and who has suffered great agony from the wound, still lies in a precarious state. The me dical men have succeeded in reducing the fracture, and she is doing as well as can be expected after so critical an operation. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE ON BOARD OF THE " LONDONDERRY" STEAMER. We last week gave, in a second edition, copies of two communications posted at the Exchange News-room, to the effect that from a revolt amongst emigrants, for the purpose of plunder, a number of lives had been sacrificed. The accounts, as we then stated, were vague, and irre concileable ; one stating the fatality to have occurred on board of an emigrant ship, which had shortly before left Ireland, and the other leading .to the supposition that the crew of the " Londonderry" steamer, Captain Johnstone, which had arrived at Londonderry, from Sligo, with a number of dead bodies, had transhipped the same from some emigrant ship which they had met off the coast. The loss of life was stated in one account to be forty, and the other fifty-three. It is now fully disclosed that the fearful fatality occurred solely on board of the " London derry," on her voyage from Sligo towards Liverpool—that it was not occasioned by a rising of passengers to rob their fellows, though attended with circumstances in volving great criminality amongst some of the persons on board. The whole catastrophe arose from the forcible crushing down and closing up of the passengers, in a small steerage apartment, in which want of air produced madness, suffocation, and death. The loss of life was even greater than that stated in our first accounts, no fewer than seventy-two individuals having perished 1 The arrival of the " Londonderry" at Londonderry, with the bodies on board, on Sunday morning, naturally caused much excitement in the public mind, and gave rise in the first instance to unfounded rumours, which found their way to the Dublin, Liverpool, and even London journals. • It appears that the Londonderry left Sligo about four o'clock on Friday evening, with about 150 deck passen gers, (besides a few others in, the cabins,) most of them intending to emigrate to America, from Liverpool. The night became stormy, and the deck passengers were ordered below, into a room 20 feet long, 14 wide, and 61 feet in height. The authorities of Londonderry. immediately on the arrival of the vessel, instituted an enquiry, through the coroner, into the circumstances of the fatality, and in the cone= of the evidence the most horrifying details were adduced. It is supposed that some of the men became mad, and, it is supposed, killed their companions. Some robberies it is also said were committed—the place being for a long time in total darkness—and, it is further said. -that vlolatiuu of fcuatalca woe attempted. righting couk place, apparently promiscuously, amongst the men, but this subsided as the number of the living gradually de creased. The reader of the details will be reminded of the horrors of the Black Hole of Calcutta, a description of which we give in another column. On Sunday, Minchin Lloyd, Esq., coroner, proceeded to hold an inquest on one of the bodies, that of Ann M`Loughlin, a little girl eight years of age, one of the sufferers. A sister of the deceased said, she, her mother, and seven children, six of them girls, had left Sligo in the vessel, to join her father and brother in England. They were from Mayo. The mother and four of the children died in the steerage. The place got very warm, from the number of people in it, men, women, and children. Her mother and others were clamorous for water, and she (wit ness) got some more than once, but it was always snatched from her. The deceased said there were robbers, and the witness saw sticks used, and men beating her mother and other women. She got to the deck at last, but could not tell how, she was so weak and exhausted. The inquest was then adjourned, and the magistrates issued a warrant for the commitment of the captain, mate, steward, and crew of the vessel, which was immediately executed. A witness, named Michael Branan, from Sligo, stated that on the night in question it became very stormy and the sea broke over the deck. He was the last passenger who remained on deck, and one of the crew called him an Irish and made him go down. He with difficulty made his way to his mother and sisters, the place was so thronged that, while those at the sides were forced to sit down, there was no sitting room for those in the centre, and they were moved to and fro with every motion of the vessel; some time after, some of the crew came to close down the hatchway, when the passengers became noisy, and insisted that the hatchway should not be shut, as they could not endure the heat as it was, but their remon strances, if heard, were not heeded ; in the row that en sued the light went out; sticks were going, and he re ceived one blow on the wrist, but thought it was not in tended for him ; another blow struck the beam above his head ; from the utter darkness it was impossible to see what was going on. He did not think robbery was going on. His eldest sister became delirious, and struck his other sister. She died at his side. The following con tinuation of this witness's evidence we give entire :—An old hale man, who sat beside him, and had a peculiarly powerful voice which might have been heard over the vessel, cried out " Captain, Captain, for God's sake come and save us, and have mercy on us," and he continued so to call until his voice fell away and he sank down exhaust ed ; witness's legs were so wedged in with the bodies of persons lying about him that he could not extricate them until by a roll of the vessel they were so shaken that he managed to get his legs out, and then in an inclined pos ture, with his nose to a dead light in the side of the ves sel, he felt a little air come in at the side of the light, which relieved him so much that he was able to make an effort to k g e e p t t to hi t a h m e i c e o d mp fi a x n e i d on fr , e u m po t n he th fi e rat, locality end of which he pre served some consciousness of it ; in his attempt to gain it he fell three times over the bodies of the dead and dying ; when he got to the ladder, he found it occupied by three men; when he got up he found that a tarpaulin had been put over the opening, and three coils of rope round it, so that it was with difficulty he got through the coils ; when he got through there was a dead bullock at the opening of the door; he then got to some bags of mussels that were on the deck, and from them mounted to the bridge, where he inquired of a sailor where the mate was ; the sailor first d—d him, and told him to go back again, but afterwards directed him to the mate on the quarter deck; he with difficulty got to the mate, and so terrible was the rolling of the vessel, that he had to put his arms And the chains in getting to the quarter deck ; he there told the mate the state they were in below, and the mate said he did not believe him ; witness then told him that, if he did not attend to those people he would have him tried for his life when he got to Liverpool ; the mate then pro cured a light, and accompanied witness to the steerage ; in going down the light went out, as witness believes, from the foul air; the mate lost no time in procuring another light, and got the tarpaulin and ropes removed from the hatchway ; the steam which same out of the steerage was like that from a boiling pot ; the mate then made his way down, and when he saw the scene before him he wept, and declared that he would rather have lost twenty pounds than not been twenty miles awff . ; witness succeeded in getting his mother an' two surviving sisters up ; and the mate and sailors did all that men could do to relieve and assist all the sufferers who were still in life ; they were taken to the cabin, and there treated with every kindness and attention that it was possible to bestow upon them. The inquest was resumed on Monday. A female, named Brady, said that the sea broke in several times into the steerage. After that the companion was closed, and her cousin, Mick M`Gowan, since dead, shouted out not to do so, lest they should be smothered. A witness, named Feely, said they were so crowded in the steerage that he could only compare them to a batch of bread, after it was some time in the oven. They were ordered to go below, which would have been prudent if there had been room enough, but there was not. He heard a per son on deck call out to them to pray for their souls, as they were going to the bottom. He attempted to get some water, but was rudely repulsed and sworn at by one of the crew. who was on ple in the Serg a a a n d t l i f a ere t d h i e th iro o re f aa th s e tl 3 e 9 , th he ß ar e d gi t m h e e nt p , eo steerage bawl out murder, and to have a light. The cries Dec. 12, 1848. were continued almost unceasingly until four or five in the morning. A sailor came down to the forecastle to change his clothes, and in reply to questions put by this witness, said that the people were only Irishmen fighting amongst themselves, and that there was no danger. In the morning, two of the crew were engaged in assisting the geople, and no men could have exerted themselves more than they did ; three women were handed into the forecastle, where witness was, and one of them was dead, and another died soon after. Richard Hughes, m ate of the Londonderry, said the vessel was in imminent danger from nine o'clock on Friday night till nine next night, owing to the storm. The steerage companion was secured, and a tarpaulin put over it, secured with a rope and two nails. The rope was twice coiled round the companion. Branan said to this witness that the passengers were robbing and murdering one another. He got a light and saw five of the passengers dead. He saw a man almost naked strike several women. The man was not mad at the time. He saw Branan, who. had a dead woman, who, he said, was his sister, between his knees, and threatened to have witness hanged. One of the passengers who wore brought up died on the deck, and two of them in the engine -room. When running before the wind they did not use the tarpaulin, but, when they hauled up to clear Arranmore, they had to replace it, and again secure the companion. Putting aside fight ing and blows, he would thus account for the deaths—. country people, even in moderate weather, are helpless from sickness, and cannot be moved, even about the decks; and, on this occasion, he can suppose that they were rolling over each other from the terrible pitching of the ship, and thus suffocation might have ensued. In reply to a question, he said none of the cattle were thrown overboard. The passengers were not prevented from coming on deck, but if they had come, there was a risk of their being washed overboard. The inquest was again adjourned, and was resumed on Tuesday. A cattle-dealer, named Timms, who was on board, said that he was in the cabin, but went on deck about midnight. The mate told him that the people were robbing and murdering one another, and there were men among them in women's clothes ; witness said he did not believe it ; the captain, during the night and next day, was never from the wheel. A. widow, named Ann Gannon, from Sligo, said that she was in the steerage, and the passengers cried out " There are robbers," and began to beat one another. A " boy" followed her from place to place, and at length took hold of her and robbed her of her purse, which she had endeavoured to conceal. It contained four half.. sovereigns and twenty shillings in half-crowns. The purse was afterwards found in a dead man's pocket by Sergeant M`Gee. The same " boy" tried to take the rings from her fingers. There were great cries for water. A witness, named Devham, stated that the steerage was suffocatingly hot. He there saw a Miss M`Gowan, who is alive, but her brother who was with her died there. He said there was no impediment to any one getting on deck while he was there. Patrick Kerrigan spoke of the suffocating nature of the steerage, the incessant calls for water, &c. He spoke of one having gone mad. Eliza M`Gowan was in the steerage with her brother,. who was dragged from her side and killed" (as she. thought). After the entrance was closed, the passengers complained of great heat and the want of water. Some threw off their clothes. Several children were then dead. Her brother had money on him which he lost. Her brother died, as the others did. She was hit on the breast with a wooden block by some one, and some had belts which they were striking with ; she was comfortably sitting beside her brother when the row commenced ; it was then she received the blow, and her brother was dragged from her; he cried out to her "Oh, you are. killed ;" heard her brother groaning. Sergeant M'Gee, of the constabulary, said he had boarded the vessel on her arrival at Londonderry, and went into the steerage. There he found only two spots where he could put his feet without treading on human bodies. All who were there were dead. This witness went to Captain Johnston to enquire the cause of what had occurred, but he seemed to know little about it; he said he had been informed that the people had mutinied on the passage, thrown sulphur, and stabbed and cut the throats of one another ; witness told him that he was asking officially, and he might not answer, and be asked whether he was present when the deaths happened ; he replied he was not, but the mate was, and he could tell him all about it; he then pointed out the mate to him, and, on enquiring of him, the mate said, there had been sulphur thrown among them, and they had begun to rob and cut each other's throats, and he thought they in tended to take charge of the vessel ; witness asked what the captain and crew were then about; in reply to which he said there was a very great storm, and it took them all to save the vessel ; witness then left him to see whether the dead persons had their throats cut, and having got a light, raised several heads, and found their throats whole, and no marks of violence ; two dead men he sup posed to be blacks, but was mistaken ; he returned to the mate, and asked how they could have b een kill e d w ith. sulphur ; thinks he said in reply that they designed to burn the vessel. He took the captain and crew into cus tody. There were 72 bodies, and it did nut appear that in any of them death had been caused by violence. Joseph Miller, Esq., M.D., examined the bodies. He attributed death in all the cases to suffocation, arising from want of room and air. There were 140 prisoners in Calcutta Blackhole, which was 20 feet every way, and in three hours a third were dead ; there was much less pro portionate space in the Londonderry steerage ; persons standing on the ladder must have obstructed the entrance of air ; the wounds he spoke of were punctured : one man had a puncture under the ear and on the breast ; and a woman bad one under the chin ; believes from their peculiar appearance, that they were inflicted after death and even if they had been received during life, they could not have so soon terminated fatally. H. Skipton, Esq.. M.D., gave similar testimony. The jury, on Wednesday morning, returned the follow ing verdict ; We find that death was caused by suffocation, in con sequence of the gross negligence, and total want of the necessary caution on the part of the captain, Alexander Johnston, Richard Hughes, first mate, and Ninian Craw ford, second mate ; and we, therefore, find them guilty of manslaughter; and we further consider it our duty to ex press, in the strongest terms, our abhorrence of the in human conduct of the remainder of the seamen on board on the melancholy occasion ; and this jury beg to call the attention of proprietors of steam-boats to the urgent ne cessity of introducing some more effectual mode of venti lation in the steerage, and also affording better accommo dation to the poorer classes of passengers." We now subjoin the NUMBER OF SOULS ON BOARD. Steerage Fassengers 174 Cabin ditto Captain and Crew 26 T ot Of these died board (all Steerage Passengers) Men ... Women . Children Remaining to be accounted for, Steerage Parsenger, surviving, Cabin ditto, ditto Captain and Crew 26-131 CATTLE ON BOARD. Black Cattle, 44—died 13 ; Sheep, 62—diet1 25 ; Pigs,26—died 1. We learn that the sum of £124 has been found by the constabulary on the persons of thelliving and dead, which, it is unnecessary to say, will be accounted for. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE-FOURTEEN LIVES LOST. (From the Hull Adverlisgr of Friday.) For many years no event has occurred in Hull, fatal to so large a number of human lives, and attended by cir cumstances so melancholy, as was announced to have happened early yesterday morning. At first the report could scarcely be credited, but inquiry unfortunately proved it to be only too true. A ferry-boat plying on the river Hull, between the Groves and Wincolmlee, over turned at a few minutes to six o'clock, and precipitated about thirty people into the water, of whom fourteen were drowned. The river as far as Stoneferry, a village upwards of two miles from the town, is more commonly called by the name of the Old Harbour. At the spot where the accident occurred it is between forty and fifty yards broad. A ferry has been established there many years, and since the erection of cotton mills on both sides of the stream, the number of persons crossing and re crossing from both sides daily is immense. It appears that yesterday morning, when the boat was on the Groves side, at about a quarter to six o'clock, she caught the ground, and a delay ensued, occasioned a lar ger number of persons to enter the boat than otherwise would have done. The boat was built especially for the ferry, and is said to have carried thirty persons safely on numerous occasions. Those on board, in this instance,. were of both sexes, and of various ages, all, however, be ing work-people at the Kingston Cotton Mills, and who, it is alleged are not from their manners the kind of persons who would act with the greatest discretion when over crowded in a comparatively small boat. The ferryman, who is a survivor, states that there would have been no danger had they remained perfectly still, and that the accident entirely resulted from their disposition to frolic, and their subsequent slighting of the caution with which he admonished them. The concurrent state ment of the survivors is that an alarm originated by some of those on board moving to one side, which caused the boat to slant over. Upon this, a move to the opposite was insti nc ti ve ly, th oug h foolishly made, and the boat at once capsized. One or two had previously jumped into the river, but all were now immersed in it, and the scene which followed baffles all description. The men and lads plunged and struggled to reach the shore; the females, void of self-possession, uttered shrieks which were heard long distances in every direction, but which soon ceased to be raised. Many embraced each other, and speedily sunk—and, after a few moments, nothing was heard but a few splashes, which only made the silence more awful ; hundreds of workmen, who were going to their respective occupations, thronged to the ship-yards and staiths on the river-side ; but, amidst the darkness and consternation which prevailed, no effectual help could be rendered ; the state of the tide prevented boats being launched with expedition, and, when they were floated, the only service they could render was to assist some of the survivors who had landed on inconvenient parts of the shore, and to grapple for those whose lifeless bodies were being floated away by the stream. Sixteen were saved, without sustaining much injury. Of these, all were males, with one exception, that of a young girl named Bridget Durr, who, whilst floating down, was seen by a person named Clarke, who had managed to get hold of a pile, and sustained himself until taken out. He thrust out his leg, and desired her to take hold of it, which she did, and he then drew her up to him. This poor girl had three sisters in the boat, all of whom were d rowne d. _ . The boat, which has since been recovered, is a now and strong one, about 13 feet long by 51 or 6 feet wide, with a very flat bottom, and the ferryman asserts is well capa ble of carrying over thirty persons with safety, providing they were careful. PI pick, low ii no ci he w cond sex s ficer an al learr Li TUB.' begg accel nexi for i six 1 Guth shou