The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-31 00:00:00

riti UTZ MR. TZOMAS CUJITT.

rand. Experts are checked by inhibitions, double
duties, and low exchanges. All kinds of public
works &readies on the national recourses area oar
Diets delusion,- and, if any one should point te
am• prices of the public funds as a
glee psi et \
matiosil prosperity, he would be *in
enoe, foe the fands stand high oily lissom 1
Neapolitans have so other resource for their mime.
As to enterprise in the country, it does not and
mist exist there are no cempinies forming—no
IMIdM ; sarraanded Ismishhig pepulatioas
ma high es, the agrieultese el this kingdom
is
fa a most depressed Mate, and, by a complioatica of
iablietsses, the prices which would leviers% it
"said starve the ceases I Now whatever
the ethere
An alises
isialsio• to produce those effeots, nul
here mist be admitted to its full
ohrrem4ji7Tit V) one will see it, or else, deceived by
the floc. of Or baud, it is imagined that tholnflus

produeid by
the kingdom have been affieted, hat mese eiperiany
Calabria Ulterior Seam& sad Tern d'Otzento. In
the liaise/the Apennine and their varies bombes
II
are waste wateriness% popularly called isms&
During the noun they, of course, are dry; bat in
the *Mt/ they serve as channels to carry off the
heavy Was which fall on the maintains, and An
have the effect of rendering travelling vell, danger-
ems. The quantity of water that has Was hew-
ever, this year, has been asenothieg frightful, and,
ruing down lees isirroni and spreading over the
enstry, has carried everything before it—biesah
bridges, mills, vineyards, and envoi/rounds have thus
been swept off is many direetion, and a groaned' of
Iffe has of coarse issued. Greet numbers if persons
emit refuge in the tops of trees, en the roofs of their
threses—and, in en cue, at leant, the peopiketto were
performing their devotions is church ware coal-
polled to mews into the belfry, thence they
were tabus off in bats, and way were
awed on rafts improvised by some sailers who hap-
pened to be on the spot. The loss of property is ha-
mese% foe where the vied awl vats: in& sot carried
off myth's; by main three,the ground has bee n MI
Milked end mired with debris am to be almost beyond
the power of celtivatioa, la one oseannee only the
lamas estimated at 100$the neat% 'Bator the whin
country it is impossible to eitimate. It is nimbi,
however, to fink that thenessids mast have been n-
ausea to beggary and starvation. His Majesty (seri the
Gloms's) has already takes measures fee alleviating
the suffeinge of the most indigent, "kir doing in
fine what a good father and monarch can do in behalf
of his children' who had been streek by the inscrut-
able anger of the Omeiset." Happy,thrice happy,
Nespohtans! In ane mother of the 'Wasiak
the writer says that, " the providesaref God and of
the Sovereign whose great mind is so open to charity
saddened by disinters which amict so many popla-
I them will not fail to mud comfort to the len& so
fiercely nailed by misfortune."

(Fres the Boiiisr)
We noted with sinosnot IMIY7II the Inn o 1 s
g i:l4las4. ildes and • geed tan—Me. Mosses COM of , late
Dart sod of Belgravia. Mr. Cubitt wee tat
Boatels seer Norwich, ea the Roth of February 1788, aad
Ned et Its hones, Danes, Dorking, os the Nig instant, se
that he had an completed his siztraightis year. At en
early age limn throws spas his own resources, sad early
learnt to hem trust in thin. Nis grad messes through lin
may be limed be the possession of • clear and, Wide,
NA dell ad ids foram whoa he was ia lde nisolorath
year, he woe wooking as a prorneynns et the lisle a a
osmoses. The szeortenty stissiiag await a amides mode
sad lento( Inmates es Ns sink ma sliarskied
lino wassmincenortim. la eider to obe mere Wipes.
dent polities. Ns shady alasswerds, win • view to im
prove his ansumeassess, seek sae voyage to India end book
as synsinbisimr. Oa his return to Leedom then 'best
to
pesos of age, with the wisp he hod pot 17.
he oommerned • snail business in the soloepolis se • sae-
' shoat giF If F!, _lll44llnrs I re°
treat Art _

latalisyth
Ile. LeseM to ewer large porticos el tb ffive ntiOng
nth adjusat. W this engagement, Belgesve-
ears, Chesham.plau, and other nape
• brae; the the melte.
ale esbeequatly farther urged to NM the vast Wm
dish* lying between Baton-equate sail the Thema, now
knee's as South Belgzavia. He has she eigthed eat similes
enteasive operations in Clapham, Hentrlnin, Brighton,
Bag please. Shortly after the erimmeethhott of thew
great undera, • monetary pante emend whisk sassed
such
as hent his undthated matiege sad pewee-
masses mutetit:ones the dillealties whisk arose
hem it.
Ose of the flat glean kr • mend of Leaden
was published by Ms tithe shape ef adipatiXt foe private
tfteteirmiabertionthrl4.4.7r
mode, andesteadesiefaisolisiterweirdewasis, when the
thwiet new
river water. s ire; r c ode he the snarled=
el WV la vines of lAahm, se puke for tho
reereation hams the Ineresse of beading
shed& make the et Me greatealth. Is the Smoke
Bill she be teak • mode Were" awl boom the mew lave
passed, bad already sweemehl endeavours to usual
the essays of emeke at his own beam at Thames-bank.
At • late using Mr. Cubit* had the Wiser of being Nat
for by her lishesty (entirely without eilisitation), to advise
epos the meomeenetbra of Osborne, in the Isle of Wight;.
and the new paha vddah ha wawa up thus has beam
sweated and dirigath by his. as has also been empleysi
as builder ia ether works of great magnitude othiteeted
with the crows. And if it were not delicate ground, we
amid mention mare then one incident affording evidence of
the ethaideratisa in which the subject of this memoir was
held by her Midway and Prima Albert.
Mr. Cubist had the bosomy apppointment under
the Buildings Act, as the examiner of candidates
fee district surveyors. In the Exhibition of 1861
h. naturally felt meth tutored, bat, from the
great attention required by his own bushels, he declined
tithing en motive part in the management, though, when the
peseniary prospects of the undertaking became uncertain,
he was one of those who guaranteed a sum of money to
enable it to premed ; and when the commission far app.-
pristine the surplus remaining in its hands assumed • per-
manent shape, he undertook gratuitously, at • onsiderable
mulles of time, to assist in negotiating for the parches' of
the land from the different owners et Kenslegton-gore, fee
which he was particularly well qualified by his great en-
perieees. He eentinued to the last to feel a deep interest
in the samosa of the ethents.
The works and establishment where Mr. Cubist's business
was serried on at Thames. beak, Pimlico, displayed, as ow
muss know, may admirable arrangements, were
were
visited by many persons.
Through life he bee been the reel friend of the winkle;
man ; and among his own people he did much to promote
their social, intellectual, and moral progress. He establiehed
a workmen's library ; sehool.roons for workmen's children ;
sad by an urangement to supply generally to his workmen
soup tad cocoa et the smallest rate at which these could be
produced,—assisted in establishing • habit of temperance,
and superredirg, to a great extent, the dram.drinking
which previously existed among them. Although his kind-
ness wee appreciated by many, yet at times his motives have
been misconstrued, and unkind remarks have been made.
In alluding to these, he has often said to one who wee
about him and possessed his confidence, "If you welt
1 till people thank you for doing anything for
them, yen will never do anything ; it is right for me to do
I it, whether they are thankful for it or not." To thou
under him, and holding responsible situations, be wee most
liberal and kind. His position as master (we have it from
the parties themselves) seemed to be blended and lost in that
of • friend. His kind inquiries, and the interest which ho
manifested in everything connected with their comfort, with
his sissy Ws of kindness, trivial in themselves yet ulna-
ble for the meaner in which they were performed, will
endear his memory to them. He wee • liberal benefactor at
all time. to churches, schools, and charities, in those plates
with which he was connected, and always valued in a pecu-
liar degree the advantages resulting to the poor from the
London hospitals.
Mr. Cubist wee much respected by the builders of Lon-
don, and for a short time was president of the Builders'
Society. A large number of the builder., in the year 1846,
subscribed to have his portrait painted, which they masted
to his family, first distributing an engraving of it. He was
a man of thassuming '
demeanour and bore his great eras
with becoming modesty. One instance of his equa-
nimity occurred when his premises were unfortunately
burnt down last year. He was in the country at the time,
and was immediately telegraphed for to town. The shock
to most minds on seeing the great destruction which ce-
ntred, attended with unwise, lose to the amount of
30,000 L, would have been overpowering. Mr. Cubitt's first
words on entering the premises, however, were, " Tell the
men they shall beat work within a week, and I will sub-
scribe 6001. towards buying them new tools."
There are few men, perhaps, having so large an inter-
mune with the world who have made so few gauzier, and
who may be said to be so generelly respected. Mr. Cabin
loaves • widow sad a large family, and had the consolation
in his last trying illness of being surrounded by all his
ishildren and grandchildren, to whom he was deeply at-
tubed. He has two brothers surviving—Mr. Alderman
Cabitt, M.P. for Andover, and Mr. Lewis Cubitt, the
architect of the Great Northern Reilway Teuniatts. Sir
William Cabitt, the eminent engineer, though s native of
the same county, is not related.
It may b• worthy of remark, that the large engagements
as to Beigravouquare,begrin in 1826, have been completed in
the present veer, and Mr. Cubitt's own dwellh isied
ukhouse on
his estate at Denbies, in which he died, isAs onlyillustrati just finon of,
as the (stare residence of his family. an
the uncertainty of life, it may be usefully mentioned that
at one of the last meetings on the embankment of the
Thamer, there were present, Mr. Cnbitt, Sir Robert Inglis,
Sir William Idoleswortb, and Mr. Phillips, of the Ohoe of
Works; and in the brief space which has since elapsed
these four men have all been removed by death.
As we said at startieg, we have lest a great builder and a
good man. He will be lamented by all who knew him, end
most by those who knew him beet.

TUE RVGELZT POISONING COL—Some anxiety is
felt on tee subject of the money which it is suppoeed
Mr. Cook moat have bad in his mansion en his return to
Rogeley from Shrewsbury. The probable amount is esti-
mated at 1,0001. and upwards. At present only 151. and a
few shillings has been accounted for-101. paid by Mr. Cook
to Mr. Saaden, the trainee, and 61. odd found in Mr. Cook's
pockets after his decease—and the question naturally arisen,
what bu became of the remainder? The police have discovered
that within a few days of Mr. Cook's death, Mr. Palmas
paid to respectable tradesmen in Rugeley two notes of 601.
sects, and two other notes of 601. each were changed at the
Bank at Bagels, by his groom. The numbers of three of
these notes are known (two of them, fa fact, having
than
impounded), and we append a deeteiption of these, as
meats probably of disoovering to whom they were pad
in the first instance. One of tau notes is of t Newmarket
Bank, No. A. 200, dated lit October, 1830 soother is a
Bask of England note (London), No. JR. 68,341, dated Bth
June, 11156, and it has on the back of it the names of
" White, Ludlow, and C 0.." and " Gregory and Son," with
the date 12.11. '65, and on the face of it the name of (apps-
ready, the writing not Wise very distinct) " Woolens and
C 0.," date 11. 11.'66. The 11th and 12th days of November
(the eleventh month) fell, it will he remembered, in the
week in which the Shrewsbury rues were bold. The third
note is also of the Bank of Enfold (London), No. JR.
48,108, and dated Bth Jane, 1855 ; on the task of it is the
mute of " Reeekel, S. J.," and on the face of it " ferries."
The rumour of Kr. Pslant's death led to the authorities of
an lemma Aloe, in which his life is insured for 5,0001..
writing to a person in this neighbourhood to been the
troth of it. The policy, in that butanes, srans-
, fared, we understood, to a solicitor at Birmingham—of-
fordehire Abortion.

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