The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOI OF THE DAILY NEWS.

Buy—This mail will carry i 4; England the
sinister intelligence of the sinking of the Florida.
There is too much reason to fear that American
honour has suffered a great stain.
I must, however, state to you my strong impres-
sion that this is not the deliberate act of the go-
vernment or of the nation. I have talked to many
Americans, including some public men, en this
subject since the capture of the Florida, and my
conviction is that, in spite of some loose language
and some lawless thoughts, there has been a general
disposition to do what public law required.
The naval commander at Fortress Monroe, where
the Florida was lying and where she was sunk, is
Admiral Porter, a gallant and distinguished officer,
but one who bears, in his temperament and habits
of mind, a very closexesemblance to the ill-starred
Commodore Wilkes. His father was a prisoner in
our hands, having been captured in the Essex
when she was cut out by us from a neutral port ;
and if I am not misinformed, this unlucky remi-
niscence is constantly present to his mind.

We will not jump to conclusions ; more espe-
cially as the Florida was pronounced immediately
after her capture to be scarcely seaworthy, and as
her position off Fortress Monroe, where I saw her
the other day, was one iu which au accidental
collision might easily occur. But it is as well to
observe that a personal escapade is not, unless
ratified by the nation, a national offence.

•
This is scarcely an auspicious moment to plead
for American rights. But 1 trust it is not true
that another vessel has been allowed to sail from
an English port to prey upon the commerce of our
allies. The Americans are very good-natured ;
they are so much accustomed to vicissitudes of
fortune in trade that they easily forget pecuniary
losses ; and the tone of their feeling towards
us has been manifestly softening during
the last three months, even in those circles
where the ravages of the Alabama and
her consorts have been most severely felt. But
they are made of flesh and blood, and they will not
endure the continuance of so outrageous a wrong.
They will take advantage of the first war we are
involved in to mete to us the measure which we,
as professed neutrals, have meted to them. It is
the interest of our shipowners to destroy American
shipping that they maggot the whole of the carry-
ing trade into their own hands. Butthe interest of
the shipowners does not coincide with the interest
of England, much less with the dictates of English
honour. The nation has been pronounced unhappy
which has women and children for its rulers. But
more unhappy is the nation whose rulers have no
God in their breast, and who will not face the anger
of a few hungry and unscrupulous merchants to
guard the public safety, and keep untarnished the
character of the country.
I saw yesterday at Baltimore some Union soldiers
who had recently returned from the Southern
prisons. Those I saw were convalescents, the worse
cases having remained at Annapolis. Yet even
these men were greatly emaciated. My fingers wet
, with ease round the upper part of the arm of one
lof them. Such a tale of horror as I heard from
their lips, and had heard from the lips of
one of their fellow-prisoners before, seldom, I
should hope, fell ou human ears. It was a colossal
"Tower of Famine"—a year long Black Hole
of Calcutta. Two days before I bad visited a Union
hospital for rebel prisoners ; and though my un-
professional eye might be deceived as to details, I
think I could not be deceived as to the general de_
sire to treat sick and wounded enemies with chival-
rous kindness, and to accord to them every indul-
gence which their condition required. Boiling with
just indignation as the North at this moment is, I
feel confident that the people would not tolerate
any act of inhumanity towards the Confederate
prisoners in their hands. This is a struggle (as
every day convinces me) not only between Aristo-
cracy and Democracy, between Slavery and social
Justice, but between ferocious Barbarism and high
Civilaatiou.—l am, dc.,

GOLDWIN SMITH.
PhiladelpLia, Nov. 2D, 1864.

DIMPATCII OF THE BOMBAY MAIDA—SOCTLIANIF-
TON, Din'. 12.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamship Nyanza, Captain Weeks, sailed at 2 o'clock this
afternoon with the Mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterrioenn,
Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal. She took out
33 first sal 21 wood class peseengers un freight 1,674
boxes of specie, value of which amount -14,500/. is
sovereigns for Alexandria, and the remainder for Bombay,
consisting of bar gokl, 40,000/. ; gold coin, s,;Cm.'. ; silver
coin, 16,430 f. ; gold thread, jewellery, ; sod bar
silver, 271,73(4

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ART', —The ninety-eiglizh
anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy ens
held on Saturday, the 10th inst., when the medals au,'
prizes were awarded to the successful studente. Tie
Yelling studentship of 1011. for a year was gained by Hr.
Pheor Spins. This gentleman was so fortunate as to obtain
twelve mouths ago the silver meld and books for his mos-
sured drawings of St. Stephen's, Ws:brook, anti the gold
medal. books, and • scholarship for an ink:nal design for the
vestibule and staircase of a royal palace. The present sub-
ject was s museum of natural history atd science, and tie
whole work had to be done within the walls of the academy
in • period of thirty days, and to comprise an elevation,
plan of the two principal floors. and • perspective v.c
to his address to the rtudeuts the President of the Royal
Academy spoke in very high terms of the yrizemari% work,
and referred to his great success of last year.
NATAL AR.• H ITE4 .rt: E. —The collection of model.
of naval architecture, which has hitherto been deposited io
the vaults of SomerseGhouse, has been removed to the South
Kensington Museum temporarily, until suitable premises
are built. It will be opened to the public for the first time,
without restriction, on the 19th December. The series
begins with the Great Harry, of Henry Vll.'s tims, and
is continued to the iron ships now building, both in her
Majesty's dockyards &ad private yards.

CLirros Scsrvrsiux ilittpur..—People flocked
to the new suspension bridge &Whitton on Sunday in crowd..
Throughout the whole of the afternoon the toll people
had positively more work than they could well in thagr,
and the greatest difficulty was experienced in getting tickets.
The bridge was severely tested. There was considerable
crushing at the gates in the effort to get out, but the
difficulties encountered by the otliciola were lessened or
the assistance of Mr. Alderman Ford, one of the bridge
director. It is computed that the ISUMIPPI who erfPlett
the bridge during the day wu nearly 30,000. stcro
Dully Pros.
ORTNIAL PAL•OI. ONE SHILLINO DAY.—
MONDAY, DEC. 14.—Admissions on isiyment, 625 ; ditto by
6181100 tickets, 62:0 total. 1,254.
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They cleanse the blood from cry taint, the body from ex cry
voodoos matter, and exert such a gowni good effect upon the
system, that indigestion, biliousness, braJache, dhow:ca.( sight,
loss of appetite. debility. and nerronsoess disappear under their
Inecience. These pills may i.e edied upon by both sex.* wok,
all etiolates and circumstances. As a fancily me licine they ore
invaluable, because they may be fearlessly administered the mo-
ment pain or icidispcsiti.a is perceive!, ant thus avert a long
Mama and its many annoyaocan

Although yesterday uminiug exhibited milli:Ai.
cally that sort of atmospheric complexion which so
fully justifies Lord Brougham in leaving "merry
England" in November and spending his winter ou
the shores of the Mediterranean, a very large crowd
indeed assembled in South Kensington to witness
the scientific demolition of the last of the great sec-
tions of the exhibition building. There were a
great many carriages and thousands of people on
foot, both in the Cromwell and Exhibition roads,
whilst the windows of all the aristocratic residences
in the neighbourhood were filled with spectators
evidently firmly relying on the skill of the Sappers
and Miners to carry the critical work of explosion
to a perfectly sale conclusion.
It is now a little over two years since the closing
ceremony of the Exhibition took place, and when
the last audience might be seen streaming out of
the various entrances which are now only so many
heaps of ruins. The treasures of art, of science,
and of industry have since then been scattered to
the four winds of heaven ; in the interval there
have been almost as much skill, labour, and per-
severance concentrated on the work of demolition
as had previously been devoted to that of erection ;
and now, on the spot where a vast palace et indus-
try so lately reared its head in triumph—where
hundreds of thousands of people had been a whole
season daily congregated to be instructed and
amused—where great organs had pealed and per-
fumed fouutains had sparkled—where representa-
tives of all the peoples of the world might have
been seem hustling each other in friendly eagerness
to participate iu the spectacle—there is nothing now
left but a heap of the most melancholy of ruins,
namely, those of a new building. The plough has
passed over Jerusalem ; or, to use a more trite but
still more apposite simile, "the cloud-capped
towers, the gorgeous palaces," have all vanished,
and almost literally left "not a rack behind."

The process of demolition has been throughout
entrusted to the skilled and steady hands of the
Royal Engineers, and the agent used has been
that terrible gunpowder which is so difficult to
work with safety. The Sappers, however, have
found out the secret, for the explosion which took
place yesterday morning was about the thirtieth
which bad been found necessary for the destruction
of so vast an edifice, awl like all its predecessors it
was perfectly successful, and so skilfully managed
that the frail hoarding which surrounds the ruins
was not shaken in the slightest degree, nor did a
single brick or fragment of a brick fly over into the
adjoining street. say, so admirably calculated
had been the strength and direction of the ex-
plosion that it would have been quite possible
for • man to have stood at the southern
entrance whilst the charge was being tired,
and to have come away completely unharmed
when the whole building had become a mass of
ruins. The mining party consisted of a sergeant
and thirteen men, under the command of Lieute-
nant Knocker, lt.E., and a corporal who had
charge of the electrical apparatus. The machine
which has been used in all these explosions is a
recent invention of some German electrician, and
is calculated to play an important part in future
warlike operations. Bad we had it iu the Crimean
war, hundreds of valuable lives might have been
saved, aud General Todlebeu'e famous earthworks
might have turned out not quite so impregnable.
It is a small case, not larger than an American
clock, and although able, as was seen yesterday,
to blow up one of the largest edifices in Loudon,
might be couveuiently carried about in a man's
hand. The name by which it is known in the fier-
vice—aaniely, "The Frictional Machine"—suggesta
the novel mode in which the electric shock is
generated. When the top is taken MY two discs are
seen rotating on an axle, which communicates with
a handle outside the box, and these are composed
of ebonite, a composite material, which is believed
to be the best non-conductor which has yet been
invented. When these discs are made to rotate by
the turning of the handle outside, friction is set up
with a pad placed beneath them in the box, which pad
is composed of an amalgam of zinc and mereury,
and the result of the friction is the generation of
the electric spark. Between the discs a steel point
stands up, and as the disc turns, the point acts as
a conductor, and carries the fluid along to the wire
outside, not however until a signal has been given,
aud by the pulling of a trigger all interruption to
the current is removed. This beautiful machine
was most skilfully handled by the corporal in charge,
awl did its work with all the precision of clockwork
and all the harmlessness of the most simple mecha-
nical operation.
The building which was destroyed yesterday
morning will be well remembered by the public
as the southern entrance facing the Crom-
well-road. The facade was large and massive,
and the great object was to prevent its falling out-
wards into the road. By a very skilful piece of
engineering, Lieutenant Knocker fulfilled this in-
tention with entire success, and caused the four
walls to "mire in" with the perfect safety to all
surrounding space and objects to which we have
before alluded. The process was something in this
fashion. The front wall, or facade, was "counter-
sunk" at a couple of feet from the ground, that is
to say, a row of holes were bored at an angle of
45 deg., and a very low charge of powder placed in
These were first ignited, and the result was
so to weaken the wall, as that the latter, although
.till standing, could be easily brought down by a
very slight additional force. The plan was in fact
exactly similar to that by which the American axe-
man brings down the monarchs of the forest, viz.,
euttirg two-thirds through the trunk, and then
dragging down the tree iu the direction re-
quired. In this case the facade having been
thus weakeued, full charges were applied all round
the remaining three sides of the building, and
these when tumbling down dragged the façade in-
wards and along with them, thus preventing the
casting of a single brick or fragment of a brick
into the Cromwell-road. The whole operation of
destructiou which, if carried out Blackfriars-bridge
fashion, by human labour with pickaxe and crow-
bar, would have occupied at least three mouths,
was iu this case brought to a successful termination
in about as many minutes. The first explosion,
ii !Rudy, that which " conutersauk " the facade, was
scarcely noticeable, 1.1,d the second, which brought
down the whole budding in crumbling masses of
ruins, wag little louder than a pistol-shot. A
cloud of dust rose into the air, a rumbling noise
was heard, and the next minute there
ivas nothing standing over the whole site
of the great Exhibition building except Mr.
Morrish's once famous refreshment rooms, and
which we uuderstand have been handed over to
the authorities of the horticultural Gardens. The
ruins took the shape of large masses of brick-work,
the tenacity of which testified creditably to the good
faith in which the building contract had been ful-
fille I ; heaps of single bricks from portious of the
wall which having been closest to the powder had
received the strongest shock ; and still smoking
masses of mortar and other rubbish, where but a
few moments before had stood a stately edifice,
under whose porch hundreds of thousands of persons
hail passed in and out during the Exhibition season.
There is nothing now left to be done with the great
triumph of Captain Fowke's architectural genius
hut to cart it away. The removal of the great
domes was a tedious and difficult task, but we
utelerstand was effected with much less sacrifice of
litunau life than had attended their erection. The
various arches and other portions of the exterior
brickwork were then demolished by a series of small
explosions, and finally the three great entrances had
successively to succumb to the engineers' " petard."
The last was the southern entrance, the victim of
yesterday nioruing's electricity, and it now lies a
mere heap of rubbish, to attest the skill of the Royal
Engineers, the potency of little over a hundred I

SUPPOSED LOSS OP A LARGE SHIP WITH ALL
HANDS IN THE CHANNEL.

A fearful loss, there is every reason to believe,
has occurred in the St. George's Channel, by the foundering
of the ship Floating Light, bound from Bombay to Liver.
pool, with a cargo valued at upwards of 200,000/. The
Floating Light was a Large Quebec built ship of 1,400 tons,
and belonged to Berri. Kennedy, of Liverpool. She riled
from Bombay on the 20th of Augustorith a crew of between
30 and 40 men. Her cargo comprised 5,300 bake of cotton,
(averaging in value about 30/. a bale), 073 bales of jute,
28 tor of cocoa nut fibre (rope), and 90 tons of linseed. She
was due, but no apprehensions for her safety were enter.
tained until Thursday last, when a seaman's chest was
washed ashore on the Pembroke comet, together with several
bales of cotton and other wreckage. The box was found to
contain papers evidently showing that it belonged to •
seaman named Davies, as a seaman's discharge ticket
bearing that name, and other papers, were disco.
vexed among the content'. The fact of cotton being
cast up also, created some anxiety that a cotton laden
ship had been lost on the coast. On searching the list of
homeward herd meals bra Bombay to Liverpool, and
referring to the nature of their cargoes and the time of sail-
ing, the owners of the Floating Light were communicated
with, and it was ascertained that there was a sailor named
Davies on board that ship, and that the marks or brands on
the bales of cotton washed ashore corresponded with those
mentioned in the ship's manifest, which had been sent to
England, as having been shipped an the Floating Light at
Bombay. The remelt of this was that the premium
immediately went up on the ship, but afterwards
she was refused altogether, from the fact that •
circular carved piece of wood, which had been
bolted to • ship's quarter or under her stern, about 8
feet long and 7 inches broad, with sunken carved gilded
letters on it " Floating Ligh," the "t" only missing, had
been picked up off the same district of coast. This at once
led to the belief that the ill-fated ship bad either foundered
or been wrecked in the Channel during the recent heavy
weather, the supposition being further confirmed by the
finding of more cotton. Nothing has been heard of the
crew, and the worst fears are entertained as to their fate.
As may be imagined, the loots, owing to its heavy character,
bas created considerable excitement among the varier mer-
cantile establishments interested. Captain Truacott has left
Liverpool in a steamer to search along the whole carat, in
the hope of finding something more of the ship and cargo.
She was insured in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow.

POUNDERS DAY AT THE CHARTER HOUSE

Last evening the old Carthusians, according to
immemorial custom, celebrated their "Founder's Dar"
with the annual service in the college chapel, the annual
oration in praise of their pious and worthy founder, Thomas
Sutton, and the annual dinner in the old hall, to which
About ninety of the former scholars, either on the founda-
tion or boarders, eat down.
_ _

Divine service commenced at 4 p.m., and the prayers
having been read by the reader, the Hiv. Mr. Macomb,
the sermon was preached by his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury, who took his test from Proverbs xis. 2.
" That the soul be without learning, it in nut good."
on which be based an admirable sermon on the great value
of early religious training, in the course of which he alluded
in most touching and graceful terms to Leech and Thackeray,
as men who illustrated most forcibly the vanity of all
human interests, and acted therein as pioneers at least of
real religion.
. . . . . _

The company having repaired to the library and the
governor.' room, the oration was delivered by the senior
' gown-boy " or colleger on the foundation, Mr. Gerald
Stanly Davies, who is about to proceed, we believe, to
Christ s College, Cambridge, with an open scholarship, in
addition to the usual exhibitioa. He delivered his speech
in graceful and flow* CiellrOni&O Latin, with a very good
delivery and in the best of taste. The oration, like another
"Carmen So•culare," glanced in rapid succession over the
chief events of interest in the school, such as the ac-
cession of a new head-master, the election of Dr.
Elwyn to the school at York, and the various successes
obtained during the past year by Carthusian' at Oxford and
Cambridg,, and dwelt in most touching terms on the death
if three eminent Carthusian' during the last twelve month.,
all of whom were ',resent at the last " Founders' Day,"
Dr. Stone. a physician of eminence at the West-end, and
himself the son of a former physician to the college ; and—
need we add the other two names!—William Makepesce
Thackeray and John Leech. It concluded by an allusion to
the contrast presented by England, at peace and contented,
with America, intestine Cello enemata et direpta.
At 6 o'clock dinner was served in the great ball, and
mos having been said by the orator, the company sat
down to a sumptuous repast. Among those present we
observed his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right
Hoe. the Esrl of Dalhousie, G.C.8., the Vim. Archdeacon
Hale (in the chair), Mr. J. R. Kenyon, Q.C., Mr. Hunter
Rodwell, Q.C., Mr. Harry Chester, Colonel Wilkinsioc, the
Rev. J. Evans, tha Rev. Dr. Currey, Thomas Collins,
Esq., M.P., the Rev. I. Dawson Darner, &c. The usual
loyal toasts having been disposed of, Lord Dalhousie pro-
posed the ancient and customary toast of " Florist Ater.
num ,Carthuasoa Domus," which was drunk with three
times three. The other toasts, which followed in rapid
succession, were "The Prince and Princess of Wales"
(whose nominee was the "Orator" of the evening), " The
Army, Navy, and Volunteers," "The Governors," "The
Masters of the Hospital," " The Masters of the School," &c.,
and the company separated at a late .hour. The collection
for the "Orator," towards his university expense",
amounted, we understand, to nearly 120'.

REPREsENTATION OT WINDSOR.—Last night, at
half-past seven o'clock, a meeting was held at the Public
Rooms. High-street. Windsor, for the purpose of introducing
Meson. Hower and Labouchere (who as. about to contest
the borough at the neat election with the Kasai conserva-
tive members, Colonel IL H. Wyse and Mr. Vanaittart), to that
portion of the constituency sympathising with their views.
The large room was crowded with the principal liberals of
the town, who were admitted by tickets. Mr. Henry
Driver, alderman. and chairman of the literal committee
presided. Mr. Flower. of Stratfonl-oo.Avoe one of the
liberal candidates, was present, but Mr. Labouchere is now,
it is understood, in Italy. Mr. J. Cleave read a letter which
be had received from Sir William Hayter, of South Hill
Park, near Bracknell, the father of Captain Hayter, who
contested the borough with Colonel 5' se at the fait
election, stating that Captain Hayter had no intention of
agaio coming forward for Windsor: Mr. Flower addressed
the electors, after which Mr. Darwin spoke on behalf of
Mr. Labonebere, the absent candidate. Mr. Bedbororigh
then made a proposition to the effect that Messrs Flower
and Labouchere were worthy of the confidence of the
electors of the borough of !Cew Windsor, which was
seconded by Mr. Chamberlain. It is stated that the reason
for introducing the two liberal candidates to the elartom
at this early season is because the conservative members
have already made a move in the borough.
CIOSE Or GROL::sE SliuOTlNU.—.The season for
grouse shooting closed on Saturday. Daring a whole month
after the 12th August, the weather was all that could be
desired by sportsmen, and the quantity of grouse killed far
exceeded any previous season for many years. Is the
Breudelbene and Athole districts, sportsmen generally shot
on an average from 30 to 40 trace of grouse per day. tin
the various moors in the neighbourhood of Crieff. upwards
of 5.000 head of grouse were bagged, besides blackeock,
woodcock, plover, snipe, —ell the descriptions of game'
being in fine condition. The cover shootiog has been pro-
secuted for some time past with unusual sucoesa in all the
districts of the shire, and owing to the absence of snow on
the hills, sportsmen are still busy in many placesiit white
hare shooting. In the forests of Perthshire deedatalkers
enjoyed a splendid lesson. —Scotrovia.
SALES Or LITE Sit/ca.—At a late auction sale of
M. C. Cayce and Ca, in this city, the amnia prices war*
obtained for negroes boy, 17 years old, 3,730 dole. ;
one woman, 40 yeas. old, 2,000 dol.. ; one woman, 2S years
old, 3.625 dots. ; one woman, 12 years old, :1,000 dole ; one
woman and four children—one child 12 years old, two twit,
children 10 years old, and one child two years old, 12,500
dole. ; oise boy, rough shoemaker, 21 years old, 4.000 dole. •
one boy, 23 years al, rough shoemaker, one leg, 2.000 dole.
At a late auction sale of C. V. Walker and Co., in this
city, the annexed prices for negroes were obtained :—A
boy, 20 years old, unsouod, 3,000 dols. ; a woman, 45 years
old, unsousd, 3,600 dole. ; a boy, 29 years old, 4,000 dole. ;
a woman, 45 yeses okl, 2,100 dole. ; a boy, 21 years old.
umound. 3,774 dolt.: • boy. 24 years old, 4,230 dole. ; •
girl, 11 years old, 4,300 dolt. —Aogssra Chronicle. Nov. 11
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A 'omelet told an extroorolivary tale in the
Gloucester Assize Court. Oil FeaLy. A prisoner uamed
Roseiter, who was also known by tee mine of seaman, was
charged before Bann Bi Allmon with breaking into Wes Loan
chapels, in a remote district, and atealim communion della
and bibles. He pleaded guilty. He was only 21 years of
age, and his appearance was not that of ordinary omelets.
He asked permission to read a statement before sentence
was passed. Leave was given, and be read as follows :
My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury,—Were there not
circumstances connected with the case to dispose you to
Imlay, and a desire on my own part to become • free and
useful member of society (for I and every other convict
have failed to become a recognised one), I should desire
perpetual incarceration, or resignation of this life. About
eight years ago I received from this court the very
severe sentence of atom years' transportation. 1 was a
youth then, and the impression made was deep and terrible.
From that moment a coutinuous resolution set in to raise
myself to such a position that tecuptatton to theft would
be an intini!c descent therefrom and impossible. I laboured
through my term of imprisonment, received remission and
license for exemplary conduct, and opened a scholastic in.
stitution in the town of Fremantle, near the mouth of the
Swan river. By perseverance and merit I obtained Pre-
cedence over the other academies there (as my circular
' will show); I realised sudicient to support me in • re-
spectable position. My pupils were of both sexes, and the
children of all the respectable inhabitants and government
officials of the place. Your lordship would imagine that
I had recovered even more than the position I had lest.
Not so ; I recovered nothing at all. To state the matter
clearly, it is • Medial% Lw with West Australian society
not to admit nor recognise any person who has met been •
convict. I stood uninvited at their doors to trans-
act any business; cards of compliment assumed the
form of turgid epistles, barely initialled. 1 paned ante-
cognised in the streets, even by my lady-pupils and the
older boys. A od, to mention a trivial but aggravating inci-
dent, the lady of a resident shipowner explained to • Ms-
aionary (rote Adelaide that they were obliged to allow their
daughters to be taught dancing by a convict, adding, "
know that his arm most be a viper's grasp around them."
Ah ! the shrine of society requires more atonements then
law! I could not stand it, !and therefore petitioned his
excellency for my pardon, and obtained it. My position
was not a jot better. The brand remained. I attempted
by marriage to force a footing; but—worst endeavour
in my life—l drew forth the slumbering venom of
colonial magistrates, commissary, and the whole free
community at large, as " Satan among the children of
Job." There are alien worse off than myself. Poor Rib.
son, Redceth, and Beresford are treated with every indig.
city and repulse. The former and latter were among my
assistant teachers. The uneducated convicts and poor
ticket-of-leave labourers who have not the means of push.
ing themselves into circumstances, are reduced to the go-
vernment working depots ; they are crammed full of
them. The straggle for life is over with them ; the free
class have triumphed and set up their throne of tyranny
there. A chance ship for New Zealand or India is stopped
with the ragged outcasts seeking shelter elsewhere. I have
not time to tell of all the barbarities practised there. This
drove me to break up my establishment and go to Singe.
pore ; but here, tliou.:b I had arranged with the captain
how to get on shore, I was ruthlessly refused landing. I
hung my shirt on the yardoron but the navy boats refused
to accept of me, and I was obliged to retain to Fre-
mantle, tit. the wone for my journey. I next travelled to
King George's Sound, procured a box, bill of lading, and
booked it for Sydney. The Peninsular sad Orieatal Com-
pany's mail failing to arrive within three days of the usual
time, I grew uncomfortable in the cramped position in
which I had been placed, and the box was brought ou deck
and opened. I was taken out of it and seat before the magis-
trates, mulct in It. and costs, and forfeited my box and
freight. No persuasion either could induce the compauy's
agent alter the affair to grant me • passage in their hosts
to Point de Galls, and he distinctly told me that if I was
caught on any of their boats he would get me thrown
overboard. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Singapore.
and Cape Colony, the only accessible ports, are closed
mated us, and I'. and 0. Company will not convey con.
ditional pardon men. I have laid this case before the
judge advocate, Sir Alexander Campbell, of the Lownds
district, who furnished me with • certificate of free-
dom, and I procured • passage in the Yankee coal
ship to the Chincha lalamds, on condition of working
my passage. I worked unloading the coals for upwards of
a month. At sea I was beaten and kicked about unmer-
cifully for not knowing bow to do things. The mate stole
my old ticket-o[44*v*, and nailed it to the main mast for all
the men to look at, and gave me the 'lag" on board. The
Spanish bad just takeu the island, and I could not get on
shore before the captain had seen the consul, who, instead
of attending to my complaint, wanted to hand use over to
the commander of her Majesty's ear ship the Sheerwater,
alleging that I was knowu to be so escaped convict with
false documents. Here I should have had to remain at
least six months before ',tiniest. I threw his clerk down,
and escaped into the streets. I was taken to a
Shanghais house, but I got a flotera to take me to Pieco in
the night. I then travelled to Lima, and waited for the
Callao mail steamer to Panama. Thence I crossed the
Isthmus, and went on to New York ; and, to secure myself
from all further trouble, I took the oath of allegiance, and
went to settle down with my parents in Seneca. Unfortu-
nately, 1 found that they had left fur England previous to
my arrival, and I was ...gale left to my own resources.
obtained employment at the mills, and stayed there nearly
two months. The order foe draft was issued at this time,
and I beheld my name, among others, posted in the district
court. Now I neither bad 3W dolt. to procure exemption,
nor a substitute, and I was not ready or willing to meet the
inevitable fate that commonly awaits the Federal drafts.
men. I had seen tro many instances of squandered litia
and I therefore arranged an exit to meet the Cunard
steamers at Boston. It was immaterial at that moment
where 1 bout my steps, but I admit that I preferred the
chance of obtaining employment in England rather than the
Southern States or Canada. !landed io England with a good
wardrobe but little money. My first endeavour was to ob.
tain suitable employment, and what motley 1 had 1 spent
in advertisements, agencies, and cireulare, my worst mis-
fortune being the lack of reference. 1 pawned and other-
wise geld my wardrobe to rapport • respectable appearance,
and my applications for employment in Liverpool, London,
Bath, and Bristol were without number. Of course I WAS
soon reduced to the v.orkhouse, and entered the union at
Bath. I stayed there upwards of a week, till I was goes-
ticoed about my parish, at which I voluntarily took my
discharge, and thee set out ma tramp on the road. I travelled
from town to town to Cardiff, receiving vagrant tickets at
the police stations for a night's lodging. Filthy, ditty, and
hungry I came to a standstill here, and offered myself to a
recreate.; sergeant of the Glat Foot, who, on measuring me
and testing my sight, rejected and discharged me. It was then
that I determined upon this—to appeal to some benevolent
person, to write a false testimonial, or obtain a pound or 3Ja.,
and emigrate. I first appealed to Miss Carpenter, of the
Kingwood Reformatory, for any menial. employment. I
told her my circumstauces, and waited several dais. but re-
ceived no reply. I then forged • testimonial of character,
and called upon Mr. Saunders, relieving officer. of Bristol,
who undertook to assist me to get employment ; but be
kept my testimonial,' to prove them. This ncele me ilee his
pretence, and change my name to Seams a. I then struggled
to Rise BMs. ; fur if I could get to Sydney, Melbourne,
or Adelaide by emigration, I thought I could earn a few
pounds ou the passage out to start myself there. Also,
I coming front England, no doubts would be °uteri shied about
my freedom, and I should soon be able to realise money sod
move in good society. I indulged these hopes so much
that I yielded to the teuiptatiou to commit the crime. I
was at the time, in order to save motley, living ou one meal
a day, sod sleeping at threepenny !edging lumen. Hunger
and destitution preyed sore upon me, and 1 foolishly yielded.
The young man's voice weakened as be proceeded, and
he ended in a burst of teats. All in court looked on with
sympathetic interest. _ _

B.iron Bramwell looked at him, and told him that was
the read time be had leen his face is that court. On the
Ent common, eight years before, he was alnsoet a child,
and way brought up on a chargo of hi.;huay rubbery. The
jury mercifull► viewed bid conduct its the light of a boyi..ll
trick, and acluitted him. Aaiun he appeared, while still
a youth, on a charge of burgiary. and he w...s then acc-
laimed to fifteen year.' lead servitude. The judge then
feelingly pressed upon the prik,user that the roman cry of
society fur the coaviet was a pate of his burden, and he
must bear it. Ile et.ded by seutcorini him to Lateen years
penal servitude from that time. The case mated sulch
sympathy and interest

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