The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-05 00:00:00

SHIPPING.

Mara Annirnn.—Dublin, 2 ; Waterford, 1 Donagha.
dee, 1; Guernsey, &e., 1 ' • French, 1; Flanden, I.
LotenoN, August b. Wind this day at noon, S., mo-
derate breeze, and dull cloudy weather.
DEAL, August 4.—A.M., W. N.W.; P M., W.S.W.—
Arrived: Rochester, South Seas, with 2,300 barrels;
hl adorn Havana. , _ _

Deem', August 4.-3. W.—Sailed Eleanore, Port-an-
Prince. O 6: Di.mond, Cape Coast Castle.
PoILTSSMUTH, August 4.—W. N. W. to W.—Bailed :
Mediator, New York. _ _ _

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Cowes, August 4.—W.S.W.—Arrived Emelia,Curagu,
for Flensburg.
thieves; August 3.—The Isabella, from the Clyde to
Newport, got on shore on liallyferris Point, near Doing-
hides yesterday, hut came off on the flood rad proceeded.
DeaL, August 4.—Arrivcd from the river: Camilla, St.
John's; Louisa, spiney, N.S.W. ; Iris, Cardiff. &c Ar-
rived trout the river and sailed : Tudor, Cape of Good Hope.
Rater, Bob, rt Town ; Susan, New Zeal.ind •
Junior, Singapore; Japan, Mauritius • Packet. Cape of Good
Hope; Mary, ditto; Druid, Barbi:does; Regulus, Hon-
duras; Pollua, Miramichi ; Great Britain, Montreal. Re.
main, wind bound • Hence, for Swan River ; Java packet,
Datavin, Golden Fleece, Pernambuco; Nereble. Jamaica;
East Loudon, Honduras; liglinton, River St. Lawrence;
Camden', ditto; Almuider Edmonds, Quebec; Promise,
ditto.
SOUTHAMPTON, August 4.-Arrived. Dee (at.), West
Indies.

PIINZANCI, August 2.—N.W.—Arrived : Olympus, Que-
bec.

I'ADATOW, August 3 —Arrived : Belle, Quebec.
Kin:ammo August 4 —Sailed: Eleanor, Coquimbo.
Balaton, August 4.—Arrived: Pomona, Trinidad. Sailed:
Fi,.ualton, and Nicaragua, Qui-I:ire.
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OABLIC:STOWN, Aug u:t-2 Arrived: Lady Gordon,
Quelpec.

BELFAST, August2.—W.—Arrivcd : Chieftain, Miramichi.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.—The steamer Sultan
arrived this morning from Constantinople, Malta, &c.,
bringing 230,0001. in specie.
I lust' CONFEDERATE.S. -- The meeting of the Irish
confederates, which was announced to take plane tomorrow
on Kennington-common, is postponed.
THE CHARTISTS AND IRISH CONFEDERATES.—
Last night a large public meeting of chartists and Irish con-
federates tok place at the South London Chartist-hal, Web.
her-street,Blackfriars-roati Mr. Nutt, the chairman, opened
the proceedings by stating that, in consequence of the arrest
of their frit nas, Bryson and Shell, he regretted to say there
would not be so many speakers to address them as he would
have wished. He then read some verses advocating the
People's Charter, which, aecordisg to the lines read, was—
To melte the Lein that we obey,
To vote the lases we must pay.
The chairman announced that a subscripton would be raised
for the benefit of Mrs. Bryson, the mother of the party who
had been arrested, and also for the wife ol Shell. A person
here advanced towards the table on the platform, when the
chairman exclaimed that it was their determination to find
no accommodation for government reporters; the pnolic press
was represented, "and that was quite sufficient. Upon the
recognition of a policeman in plain clothes a scene of great
uproar and confusion ensued, and amidst cries of " Turn him
out " and " Scout him," it was suggested bye person from
the body of the hall that in the event of any spies bring de-
tected the best plan to adopt was to make them come torwerd
on the platform, that they should be marked, and known at
any future time.—Mr. Chester said that it was very unne-
cessary to announce the names of speakers, inasmuch as the
grand object was to get the name of any p...rty who might
use seditious laneuage, and he would be sure to be marked
so as easily to be identified at any time when required. He
would, therefore, mese that the parties now assembled adopt
the cyst. m in future of announcing no names of speakers who
may address the meetiair. The motion was put, and carried
amidst loud applause.—The Chairman then announced the
name of Mr. Baldwinson. and amidst loud laughter he apo-
I wised for having so soon departed from the terms of the re-
solution.—Mr. Baldwineon said that the " Bobbies " and,
in fact, all spies, were " governm vet thieves." He urged
upon them the necessity of showing the government that al-
though twenty of their leaders might be taken, they had still
got some advocates left to guide them in their couree.—Seve-
ral other persons add:eased the meeting but keeping to the
terms of the resolutidn their names did not transpire. A
vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.
THETFORD ELECTION.—THETFORD, AuGuer 4.
The election of a representative for this borough, in the
room of the Hon. F. B. Baring, now Lord Ashburton, took
' place yesterday, at Thetford. 'There wasonly one candidate,
Mr. F. Baring, brother of the late member, who, having
been proposed by Mr. K. Gill, and seconded by Mr. 11. R.
Tyrrell, as a firm protectionist, was declared duly elected.
The hon. gent', mile re turned thanks, and declared his utter
hostility to "free trade" principles, as being injurious to all
classes in this country. The proceedings terminated with a
vote of tht ales to the mayor.

Trig CIIOLERA.—The Russian government has just
fixed the quarantine slung the I'ruth boundary for travel-
lers to Bessarabia at 14 days. The pretext wee the entrance
of the Turkish troops into Mo'davia without complying
with the necessary regulations at Galacs. At St. Petersburg
on the 21st ult. there were 3,406 cholera patients under
treatment. In the course of the day 2.56 new eases occurred
—221 recovered, 169 died. On the 22nd, 3,272 were under
treatment. In the course of the day there were 210 new
cases-261 recovered, 131 died. On the 23rd there were
3,116 under treatment. On the 21st of July Msjor-Gen.
Woroneow and Major-Gen. Schlschitowskt died of the eho-
tera ; and en the 23rd, Senator and Privy Councillor Mor-
dovinot At Jassy, the cholera, after having carried off
9,000 victims, is on the decline.
IRSCoVEnv OP CAVERNS NEAR ULVERSTON.—Two
caverns have lately been discovered in a hill called Kepehead,
on the northeast side of Civet's:on sands, by tome workmen
who were ereaged in getting stone there for the formation
of a weir. The following is a description of them by a cor-
respondent of the Lancaster Guardian, who says he was the
first visitor to explore them:—" On leaving the angle road
to the weir, my attention was directed by Mr. Robinson, the
clerk of the works, to a cavernous excavation, some ten or
fifteen yards up the eii:e of the rock, as being the entrance to
the c,,verns. On arriving tiere 1 was •peeinly joined by one
of the nuarrymen, who was tint to discover the caverns, and
he proterred his services as my guide—an offer which I gladly
accepted for, all-powerful as my curiosity was, I had no de-
sire to creep into a dark cavern, and perhaps plunge head-
long to a bottom, unknowing and unknown. My guide,
providing himself with a candle and matches, proceeded to
work himself into the cavern. I lay down at the entrance,
and the evernal light was just sufficient to enable me to see
my guide, like a dark spectre or goblin. lie soon obtained a
and, Navin. directed me to place my hands before me
and lie list on as, breast, I uccerded in pulling myself into
the first cavern, n Lich is a chamber some 2.5 feet in length
and 16 feet in height :n the centre, the roof gradually sloping
each end. In this cavern I did not stay lona, for the guide
stated that the second more beautiful. The entrance to the
second is at the extremity of the first cavern, and it was much
narrower than the first en ranee. We were, however, soon in,
and, had the difficulty of entrance been a thousand times
more difficult, I was rewarded with a sight I shall never for-
get. Imagine a beautiful Gothic temple, whose roof and
walls seem composed of stalactites and petrifact;ons in all
shapes, forms, and figures, here and there sparkling like
diamonds or glittering like rubies, and every part most chaste
and beautiful, as bearing the impress of genus and design.
The floor of the cavern, which is s isne fifty feet in length, is
covered with toil and other earthy deposits, to the extent o
am veral feet. What its height may be when p•operly ex-
cavated I could not determine. On my second visit, in com-
pany with three inteLigent friend', whose admiration was
unbounded, I was enabled, with the assistance of the guide,
to solve a problem I had made on my first visit, viz., the ex-
istence of a third cavern. The guide and myself having
crept as far as we could on our faces, I despatched him for a
pick and spade, and while he was absent I succeeded in the
dark in excavating with my hands (the only inconvenience
resulting being a scar above the eye, by coming in contact
with a stalactite) the superincumbent soil above a roadway
made either by rabbits or foxes. This enabled the guide to
advance a couple of yards, and he then cleared away as much
of the soil as to advance within eight feet of the extremity of
the cavern. On my calling his attention to a particular part
of the extremity, where I expected the entrance would be,
he reported that there the passage rose sudden:y in height.
This proved, then, the third of a series of caverns; for that
there are more is, I think, exceedingly probable, from two
other considerations ; first, that the animals which have been
in the second cavern must have worked their passage from
beyond (and the passage I excavated so indicated),and, if the
roofs of the remainder of the caverns in the series are similar
in construction to those I have mentioned, I think they have
entered from the surface of the ground on the north-east by
east side of the hill; secondly, that when the guide was at
the furthest point he could reach towards the third cavern,
he felt a current of air from it."

Cinu.—From :a letter, dated Santiago, May 26,
we learn that a great fire had broken out in that city, b
which property to the amount of one hundred thousand
pounds had been destroyed. The principal place of com-
mercial resort, the Portal, in the Plan de Independence,
was burned down, as well as a large cabinet manufactory,
carried on by three Englishmen. No rain bad fallen during
the preceding eight months, and fears were entertained eta
moulikr abbot