The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1849.

Under the preeset law the duties of auditors are
narrow and contracted in the extreme. They have
only to examine what the directors choose to lay be-
fore them ; legal power to go thoroughly into the
company's affairs they have none. By sections 108,
107, and 108 of 8 Via., n. 18, the directors are bound
to deliver the half-yearly amounts and balance-sheet
to the auditors fourteen days before the general half-
yearly iseetings, and the auditor p are thereby directed
to receive these documents (whatever they may be)
" and to examine the same," employing in such ens-
mined= an accountant if they plisse. The defects of
such a system are obvious; the half-yearly accounts to
be delivered to the auditors may or may not, at
the discretion of the board, contain the company's
books; or they may be limited to the barest abstract
of the contents of those books. The mere casting up of
the totals of the accounts delivered would satisfy the
examination directed by the statutes ; and should the
aaditorsdiffer with the directors as to the extent of their
powers, neither they nor the shareholders have, midst
this act, authority to make their views of audits pre-
vail. The time, too, within which these accounts
have to be delivered to the auditors is wholly inade-
quate for the purpose of an efficient examination.
The notion of properly auditing the half-yearly affairs
of such a company as the North Western in a week
or ten days is simply preposterous. No dependence
can be placed on accounts of magnitude on so cursory
an examination as this statute necessarily involve,.
The new plan proposed will give to the auditors
the power to examine and check, not merely the
directors' balance-sheet, but all the books, accounts,
receipts, and vouchers of railway companies; to ems
them in progress throughout the half year, to watch
the mode in which the books are kept and made up,
to discuss both their form and their substance with
the companies' officers, and to bring at ones any irre-
gularity under the consideration of the board. They
will, moreover, be supported in these important
duties by • competent cceountant, who will be re-
sponsible to them, and not to the directors; and should
differences of opinion wire between them and their
accountant, the opinion of that competent functionary
has not to be swamped by their superior authority,
but both are, as we understand the plan, to report to
the shareholders. These are, it is impossible to deny,
' most important, as they are likely to prove most
beneficial, changes ; and the probability is, that once
fairly introduced, they will lead to still further im-
provements in the system of railway management.
Mr. GLYN is not, however, content even with this
security ; he would increase it by giving power to a
minority of shareholders of one-third in value to re-1
open even such an audit. Recognising the excellence
of Mr. GLeN's motive in this suggested ad.lition and
feeling fatly the force of Mr. FOLSTER'S observa-
tion, " that if this provision were not inserted
in the bill parliament would, in all proba-
bility propose something stronger," we cannot
see the propriety or justice of conferriug
so large a privilege on so small a minority ; and we
fear that the proposed power will, if given, lead to
endless conflicts in railway companies. At all eventsl
it requires very mature consideration before it receives
the sanction of railway proprietaries generally.
In all these particulars the proposed scheme is, it
will be thus seen, a great and manifest improvement !
of the existing law of railway audit ; and if, in addi-
tion, its intelligent authors would lay down sonic
fixed principles of audit, it can hardly be doubted
that their machinery would work well.
It ought, however, never to be forgotten that the
best of all audits and the most economical of all ma-
nagements, is for railway companies to pave in their
service officers of superior intelligence and of social
standing. Much of the mismanagement and roguery
which has come to light in the HUDSON lines is ob-
viously ascribable to that person having bad in the
responsible offices of his companies people of ccgnate
habits and feelings. In one employe, who has since
been ignominiously dismissed, he had got, he boasted,
a man who would answer his purpose; and in
another he found a person who could condescend to
describe a fraud on the company as " making things
pleasant." " Birds of a feather flock together."

the population of London, those who make the fine
sailor= and the necessaries for army contracts are
the worst off. Fivepeeee • pair fo`inkieg trawlers,
leadhe throe shillings aod aims penes week.
T soldiers give ile. a gab he Whet we gst 641. he
asking. The di' esmes Best sere than half-meows. I
by
it tee that, ea& tiff =Meet ft sessiderably less
by loge gessdlies. The tilmalelli, Min lag Deo
toes peeks% weed& eras sheet et, sad the
imps &I. me% fishy ha all des 9d., the profit es Mt
is de. id. The piserresinstee gees 9d. a pair. The remising
4s. ld. Is the met if the warehesessess, sad of the roger
parties eamestsi "la the trade.
Who the other ties are is evident enough. They
are the 106 soiaasL of its, who draw from the
state 192,0001. a-year to pay for their clothing, and
who take as their share ono-third of it, ,0001.
We an well aware how dangerous an 63d
unprofita-
ble it is to interfere with the great principle of open
emapetitik et; sod how inevitable that, in trades whore
moose eau work shwa as efficiently as men, a very
low rats et wages most be arrived at. It is so rare
that women are exelosively dependent on their own
labour, that the imperative rule of earning a sufficiency
does not apply to them. Above all places the metro-
polis is that, when such a rule would least apply ; and
therefore any trade requiring little skill, at which
women can work, will have its rate of wages reduced
to the most wretched minimum in London.
The calling, in which men and women most com-
pete with each other, is the low grades of tailoring
and needle-work. The higher grades, which require
taste and skill, are amongst' the best remunerated.
The lower grades are necessarily those working for
the great contract houses which supply the army and
other public establishments. The lowering of wages
and uncertainty of work mused by these affect the
whole class of industry. And, therefore, it is in the
power of government, by paying some attention to the
mode in which large sums are epent, to
see whether they do not raise up in the
worst possible place the moat miserable and destitute
population. It is a subject well worthy the attention
of the Distressed Needlewomen's Society to inquire
bow mach of the destitution, that comes under their
efforts to alleviate, proceeds from • blind disposal of
public money.
At all events such outlay ought to be entrusted to
intelligent persons, understanding trade, acquainted
with the poor, their habits and necessities. Were the
200,0001. now flung from the Treasury into the laps of
the "clothing colonels" (to be filohed by them in a great
measure), given to a merchant tailor's committee for
example, and given on the understanding that it was
not for the purpose of individual profit. but for com-
bining the supply of the public service with the inte-
rest of that large community who live by the needle,
we should at least avoid the anomaly of superior
officers fattening upon an industry which employed
hundreds at that low state of existence implied in
three shillings and ninepence a week's earnings.
It is impossible to enter upon the subject of the suf-
ferings of the lower classes without coming to the
great desideratum of the continuity of labour. It is
the uncertainty that destroys hope, bath, and
economy, and turns virtue to despair. It is this
absence of any surety or continuity that causes the
misery and disaffection of the Irishmen, and which
has begotten the past insurrections and present cam-
monism of the Frenchman. It is, however, impossible
to compel either the agricultural or the manu-
facturing capitalist to give annual engagements
to all that he employs. The labour market, like other
markets, most' remain free. But, however indivi-
duals mast be left free to employ or to dismiss, public
opinion ought to suffice to stigmatise large and pub-
lic establishments conducted on the avowed princi-
ple of treating the labourer as a mere machine.
There can be no greater blot upon a civilised country,
no more indelible disgrace, than that mode
of employing labour practised at the decks,
and which has been so faithfully and
usefully deecribed is the Morning Chronicle.
Here are men who are called to be employed by the
hour, or by so many hours, without any inquiry as to
character, any care as to conduct, any note taken of
their diligence, their attachment, their honesty.
Nothing is prized bat mere brute capability of labour.
Gorged one day, starved for many days after, with no
eye to approve or to pity, or to look upon them as
men, these unfortunate creatures are treated precisely
like beasts of burden and of prey, below the scale not
only of human beings, bat of animals. The ox is
for better oared for than they.
We must say, and we say it with regret, that a
menhir established system of slavery would be in
miry way preferable to that system of employing
mom which prevails at our London docks. No
Blaney in Cuba or Brasil is worse than this. And it
b nob monstrous inconsistency to spend millions in
Ipodoeting the blacks of Africa from a degradation to
WIN than which we carelessly condemn, at our own
doers, and within our own sight, our own working
purektion.

WHATEVER its defects or omissions may be, un-
doubtedly the new railway audit plan propounded by
the conference of railway directors is a very sub-
stantial improvement on the existing law of sada.
This the slightest comparison will incontestably

show.
The present law of audit is comprised in the " Com-
panies' Clauses Act," 8 Viet., chap. 16, sec. 101-168.
It directs the appointment of two auditors, one of
whom is to retire annually by rotation, bat may be
re-elected at the first ordinary meeting of the com-
pany in each year. It limits the choice of such
auditors to shareholders; but, with a sort of conscious-
ness, as it were, of the impolicy of such limitation, it
ems the qualification of auditors at a single share.
lL working out these provisions practically, experi-
ence has shown that in reality the directors not only
teat, but substantially appoint, the auditors;
*akin tee many cues, auditors hold a bare qualifica-
tion the the mks of the appointment; and that in other
essay whin they have a substantial holding in the
emernal, the Am et udders is understood to lead
Is • maramka, es a mosey, to the direction. For
1 this sale of things shareholders are nominally to
dem thuselves; but us questions of this sent are
regarded in pablio niestinp of companies as tasts ell
esediince in boards, as they are generally
of at the fag end of tiresome discussions, and :".=
holders as a body have seldom the means or offer-
tunity of acting in concert or on pre-arranged plans,l
to blame them for such indifference to or negligence
lin their own affairs, is somewhat hypercritical. The
real blame rests on railway boards. Directors ought
est erigisally to have taken any part in the nomina-
dea et auditors; guineas ought they to have nomi-
nated shareholders who bad no substantial interest in
the affairs of the company, or to have held out salmis.
lion at some future period to ths board, as the re-
ward for " *Wag things lealant " at
audits. Had their constituencies sought the aid, as ,
auditors, of men not concerned is the company, bat 1
who were willing to as sash duties, and to qua-
lify themselves by holding a single share, the oldest
efthe elates in fixing on so low a qualification weak
lbws ben answered. Bat when auditors thus 'Abi-
ded are merely directors' nominees, it not unfre-
=Lhappen@ that the salaries annually allowed
eeds the powdery status they have in the
on, and in sub instances and in such hands
aislib are simply tames. In neither the use of single
, share auditors, ace a/ auditors holding large status is
, railway compasiss, did they, under the existing law, ,
substantially represent the shareholders, until
indeed the late:explesiees showed proprietors the folly
mod hisdisissey at the present system ; they were
peevionsly the endues and tools of the directors.
Now, under the plan proposed on Wednesday, this
power of electing auditors will be completely vested
in the shareholders. Under its operation it is pro-
I posed that directors shall have nothinpg tontment do even in
their nomination, still less in their apoi
dist the field of choke shall be indefinitely enlarged. ,
This Usage (which substantially will be more one
k pollee than in law), will necessarily, it may rea-
mealy be hoped, beget more intercourse between the
dmitheiders of railway companies, lead to greater
salty of purpose and action amongst them, and very
=y sapient their influence in the companies'
and the responsibility to them of the
direelers. For our own patio, we have never been
Ghia to see why there should not be a share-
\ eiders' department in every great ailway company :
a department where bodies or committees of share-
Wen could meet, and consult on their common
Adze; where all the information =awry to their
iskilowatioeu should be acessable to them; and where
they essid see and express their °pintoes to the ma-
segemmt. At present railways are managed auto-
statically or aristocratically, and one of their principal
Wants is to infuse greater popularity into the
INN% to develops more thozihly the emir=
, regusentative principle., in so far uppctrairo-
posed plan lira this teadeaey, tie to be so

feel disposed to do ; but still I never saw it carried to
the length to be matter worthy of remark. I have
_nowhere met with aught but the utmost civility, and
the strongest desire to oblige was evinced by every
one. I speak just now of mere travelling compa-
nion', in steamers and railways.
When I get back to the west, and have seen some-
thing more of the people there, I shall tell you what
I think of them. My present impressions are favour-
able; but these may be changed by a residence among
the people. New York is so well known, however, that I
need say nuthing further to you about it. In many
respects it resembles London very much—the same
bustle and rattle of omnibuses; had my lot been cast
here I think I would have liked it very much, but my
destination is at present the west.
I have no feeling of home sickness about me ; I
have not the slightest lingering desire to re:race my
steps ; but it is curious how the love of county is in-
creased by absence. I have felt the tear start to my
eye at bearing a Scotch air unexpectedly played, and
at little incidents of a nature equally trifling.
The people here are quite delighted by the attitude
assumed by England and France on the Ituoeian and
Turkish question. England will have the cordial
sympathy and beat wishes of America for success
should a war prove inevitable.

Meats, particularly if they have their meals served in
dam, as in an English hotel, pay much more.
ASbeggh the charges, for those who live in public,
ems low, the landlord, I am told, is realising of clear
prat 'something like 12,0001. sterling per annum.
Hs pays of rent about 6,000!. sterling yearly ; and has
invested in forniture, plate, &c., 20,0001. sterling. So
mach for hotel statistics, and new for my journey to
the west.
I New York on the 18th August, sailing up
the Hudson to Albany. It is a beautiful river, the
scenery at many cf the points being exceedingly fine.
From Albany to Buffalo I proceeded by railway—or
by car, u the phrase is here. They don't talk of the
trains starting, but of the cars starting. The ears,
although very comfortable, are not equal to oar first
class. The rails are, for the most part, single lines ;
the rate of travelling by fist train about 20 miles an
hour, but then the expense is little more than one
half of what it is in Britain. From Buffalo I pro-
ceeded to Niagara, distant about 20 miles by rail-
way. I will only say of this wondrous scene,
where I lingered in wonder nearly three days, that
I never expected to be so overpowered by any
sight in nature. It is not the place for a gossiping
party, but should be visited by every one alone—at
lesat by every one capable of appreciating the subli-
-1 mities of nature. Return:og to Buffalo I embarked eo--
in one of the floating palaces upon Lake Erie, for
Detroit. From Detroit I crossed by the Great Central CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CliEtT. Yesterday • meeting was held in the Board-
Railway of Michigan to New Buffalo upon Lake
1 Michigan. Here another steamer is waiting, and room silOssritht the transactionl of
report it charity
that Gurney,
o committee expected sheerly to
le
touches at the city cf Michigan in Indiana, at Coicsgo
land Little Fort in Illinois, end at Southport, Racine, ce mpl,te the arrangements for taking a space of ground for
and Milwankie in Wisconsin. Of towns so the erection of the proposed new hospital. Siuce the cpen
log of the ;present institution in June, 1848, nearly 4,700
well known as Buffalo and Detroit I will
in have
numberie of treatedpe
in tfor h di casepeo s o[ the %le:re:lo7dd
only say that they stem rapidly advancing in tires-
an average of 35 Lew cases at present being received each.
putty, the former numbering 30,000 inhabitants.
tft• go is finely situated for trade at the western week, while the aggregate attendance varies from 4.50 to
termination of the great obain of lake and canal corn- 500 Bassett, Esq., M.D., and E. L. Birkett, Esq.,
M.D , were elected physicians to the hospital; the fi mit r in
munication, by which Lake Michigan is connected
with the Atlantic at New York. By canal it is also rehegeirilleee oafddtolnat DteileAllincendrillsiatnn., wit the
jtettelliiirte.a
having been elemed surgeon, in the room of Mr. Erichson
connected with the river Illinois, which flows into the
Mississippi, and has thus direct water communication (who was comuelled reluctantly to resign), the munificent
with ~, :
Aleir Orleans. My objection to Chicago is, that donation of 1001. was announced from the Earl of Onslow,
after which the meetieg adjourned, with a vote of thseks
' lying as flat as a Dutch town, arid with the whole
byOF THE NEW FORLST.—The
country behind it equally fiat, it cannot be so healthy t o
THEt h e worthy sal chairman.os.
tL
8
as is desirable. Ssethpoit and Racine, in Wisconsin, commissioners tau
are thriving little towns of about 4,000 inhabitants :hat is best to be lite the N:wrvi: m et,r
havetci ascertaine ltne n
each. Beh red them lies a fine agricultural district, visiting that locality. Tte movements of the commis-
their prosperity depending upon the large quantities sinners have been quite secret, and the forest writ°.
of g rides are very nervous on their appearen e. They
rain they receive yearly. Milwaukie, the lergest
town in Wisconsin, having about 18,000 inhabitants, real d
Rufuseot b;etmhoereen 'ereigehntTeudndiefr 'hee g:eheZwtoooltrWt
is situated upon both aides of the river of the same Tue great difficulty in deciding what shall be done tree."
h
name. It rises gradually from the banks of Lake the forest property arises from the numerous rights which
Michigan to a coneidcruble elevation. The river are claimed over it by a multitude of persons. Even the
the dirant parishes of Millbreek and
Lei ng are claimants ofthoserigh
answers the double purpose of afforeing a safe her- renters of farms in
beer to the shipping, and of giving water power for theof the
that., ilisioereetiro,ceem.tane,nwteheo
numerous grain mills which have been erected on its tains an recently
opinion that managementti. forest privilege's have been
[banks. The town is pretty regularly laid off, with usurped. Titer, is, however, much doeunientary evidence
' good wide streets, and attention is bell g paid to the relative to them in existence; and it is expected that their
paving and lighting. The old pine houses are rapidly adjustment will give rise to each. es litigation. Already the
lee il lawyers. art on the q.etre. One advintage would
giving place to others built of a light coloured brick,
arise from litigation, and that is, it weuld elicit much inte-
which have a very neat appearance, and immense resting information relative to the ancient and disputed his-
numbers of new dwelling houses and stores are in wry to the New Fermi.
progress of erection. On every side you see what DISCOVERY OF A SKELETON.—An ingnest was
appear to be undoubted signs of rapidly advancing held on Thursday, Nov. 8, at the R ob'n Hood Inn, Ick!sos•
prosperity. Fourteen years ego it was the haunt ham, East Susie:, to i .vesligate the circumstances eeniiectei
of the red min ; ten years ago it numbered with the discovery of the body of a child, which bad every
Iptnerince ofl having been for some three or four years ciente-
three hundred inhabitants : it is now about
is
ta
elomost iabljoLai7ieg wheretpe it was f
bedroomd—a lionf tt inie tillioeu Lou. f over,te
what I have named, and every year
rapidly . adding to the number. Whi e the wale discovery has excited considerable attention in the surround-
Ration is open there is communication daily with ing district, which is in the inunedi.:te neichliourhood of
New York, by the route which I came, in 70 hours— Guestling, the scene of the poisoning for which the unhappy
woman Gearing was executed a fee weeks since at Lewes
distance about eleven hundred miles, and expense
twenty dollars. If the circuit of the lakes is made, Thetwe twenty it,of thelen body,;g aswhielimilenarenutovedth about
twenty
the distance is increased to upwards of fifteen hundred a nmummy, but partially deeomposs:d. The skull was
miles. There is also a daily steamer by this latter hard, and the boxes apparently perfectly formed. The
route. Numerous screw-steamers, or propeller., as following is a summary of the evidence given by the several
they are called here, and a vast number of sailing venues during the inquiry which extended over a period
itineeedl3thenultedler.
vessels, navigate the various ports on the lake to and l'afndlee;:dn of We it—obinn 'd
thjeaie" teGri'olr":7itte
frcm Buffalo. There is electric telegraphic communi- saved roof by • trap hatch from the small room already re-
cation between Milwaukie and New York, costing two ferret to. His motive in doing so war m rely curiosity,
dollars and a half for a message not exceeding twenty not having examined till place since he had been in pones.
Words. sion of the house. When there he found a hearth brush,
eeanalirnoectleaed bastlteet;ol7hleOataofatllie inspection
r was found to 1
Having examined all I considered necessary, fora
time at least, in the west, I found that I required to in a piece of carpet,y
which, from thep taieeecoatm`plaitllnlerf"apgra-
return to New York. Suppose me then at Buffalo, tion of the body, was eompletelyrotted It is somewhat sing ular '
having come back so far by the same route. At this that the pattern of the carpet is precisely the same as that of
a piece now in use in the room COUlarilllC
point I took the railway, via Niagara, forty miles, to sting with the loft,
and which has been in its recent place for some time pre-
The following letter, having been penned without Lewiston, on the Niagara river, the highest point to ous to the present landlord entering into the occupancy of
the remotest expectation of its ever appearing in print, which the Lake Ontario steamers come up the river. vi
is the more valuable on that account. It expressesApiece of newepapr was
There I embarked in one of the fine steamers of the.. tiiinsoe linstee ltol:let,aacylareltheinr;tih without dete,.a paragraph
the impressions made upon a shrewd cool ticotehman American line for Montreal. The course of the it would appear to fix its time of publication in 1314. The
by his first excursion in the American continent : medical evidence went to show that it was the body of • fall
steamer is down the Niagara River to Lake Ontario
grown male child; tbere were a few holes in the cranium,
New Yoex, OCT. 23, 1849. and on leaving the Lake, through the Thousand Islands
denna was qui.stionable how far they were or were not pro-
I landed here on the 11th of August, and lance and rapids of the St. Lawrence to Leehine, from
that time I have seen a good deal of the western whence there is a railway, eight miles in length, to who keptb Tteeneeionse
Suspicion attached annualised
of
ninete family
country, and a part of Caned' East, had g travelled Montreal, I booked direct through from Buffalo to previous to its present tenant, and the greater
altogether something above 3,000 miles from the time I Montreal, 473 miles, and meals in steamer and part of the members were subjec•ed to • close
' left till my return to this city. A slight sketch of state-room inclusive, the charge:was seven dole. In sail examination, but nothing tangible could be elicited
from their answers, which were given in most cases with a
the ground I have gone over will Rive you some idea ing along Lake Ontario, or any of the great western rut dejor:as
toofarteese.rnve and camuttieTthoThe Ootronetr, in his
of what I have seen. But first of New York itself, lakes, unless when nearing some tows, it its much the
the real nit tropolis of the United States. Any account tame as being at sea. The expellee of water, verdict under the cinfitelri'ces, as thepyTieAtyn°otarmoPon-
of a city so often described by travellers would to you cially on Erie and Michigan, is so great that you are bably become matter for magisterial investigation. A ver-
dict
be very much out of place. I may tilled-, however, frequently oat of sight of land. Leaving Lake On-
SERIOUS CHARGE OF MURDER AT MITCHELDEAN,
to one or two points which must strike a stranger tario, we come upon the portion of the St. Lawrence
GLOUCESTERSMIRE.—An inquest was
very forcibly. The first is the great apparent coin- called the Thousand Island,. Fancy the island pot- held at Longhope,
near Gloucester, yesterday, by the county coroner, on view
Sart enjoyed by the vast Male of the work ng classes ; tion of Loch Lomond extended over sixty or seventy ofo the body
woman
and the next, the unceasing energy and perseverance miles, with many of the islands larger, and many ofads kneetantxtuhne
iille:.egititiretedoeffstng
of a.
which seems to characterise the entire population. them as small, but without the back-ground of Farmer living there. The cyircuntstancis' of this aalfai: are of
In the majority of their theatres and places of public mountain scenery, and you have the best ides • very mysterious nature, and • good deal of gossip has
taken place in the village upon it. It appears that the yowl
amusement it is delightful to observe the order i can give of the Thousand Islands of the
Caro-
that is preserved—no noisy gallery disturbing the SL Lawrence. The Rapids also are through ;ran
but not so numerous as higher up October. liar t'hest ai:iloruseamat
nLounghcipe, J.hasetintodn the Ist
had been living with another woman, named Caro-
oomfort of the audience. At Niblo's Garden, a sort islands,
el Vauxhall without fireworks, no gentleman need the river. The steamer touches at the principal towns it appears, without any Peery
or delivered
cther aid. The getiill
Isar to go accompanied by his wife or sister. In this, on both the American and Canadian sides of Lake was represented
having been born dead, but
was kept in the house for upwards of three weeks.
as
and every other respectable theatre —the Bowe[
j Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Kingston has an im-
.the . expiration of that time Parry wrapped
iLruifiaittoryatece of Hellen, and took it in a pail to a field on
being the only exception I have noticed, and even in posing effect in the distance, as you approach it from AC
it it is scarcely noticeable—no disreputable persons the Lake, but there is no life on its wharves—no
me allowed to enter, and you sit with the same coin- trade—it is like the silence of the churchyard. I had ceive it; sea then.:" ere herba .berzth4rn had dug a hole to ye-
fort thstyou would do in the drawing-room of your often read of the contrast presented between the to the ears of the latuwthasoritines ilia beleir wasama texhumed,aam •Inagd
hotel. The Astor-place Opera-house--the Ira fan to a close yesterday, when the jury returned a verdict of
on American and Canadian shores, but I could not have the inquest was, after an artournment, formally brought
sem=rewho stand c4i,me
opera of New York during the season corn- comprehended it in all its Wilms unless I had wit-
mencing in November, and the scene of the Macready telt
nessed it with my own eyes. On the one side all is Tni tedn,hrtgiailgaltitsPrY aG'ldotli3c
riot—is, perhaps, the most beautiful theatre, for it. life, activity, and prosperity ;on the other it is like medical gentlemen from Gloucester mode salmis' rtewns
sire, I have ever seen. It is not nearly so large as the stillness of death. it is a very fine city, examination of the body of the child, and were decide .ly
of opinion that it hadTHE LIVERPOOL DOCKS.—Tbe Liverpool 31_
_Tr,
the Queen's Theatre or Covent Garden, but to my more like a European town than anything of seen born alive, and had lived a ststsmthenattwatastrheeleitt: of
ite committee Iraharsoini;;
mind it surpasses them far in the elegant, and at the They, however, considered that death had amen employed at the north dock works had hem etude
have yet seen on the American continent, but here, short tims•
been caused by suffocation, occasioned probably by apply-
ame time menfortable style in which it is fitted up. too, the universal complaint is that their trade is ing the hand to the mouth and nostrils of the infant
The stMONIMI have been to me a source of never- gone. Unless I had heard it with my own can, I shortly after birth. There was a discoloration over part and ill used by Irishmen, on the it .rah read, when MI
were going to and returning from their wore. On Set
d 9
wonder ever minoe I landed in this country. could scarcely have credited the widely-spread feeling of the face, which •*might have been produced by such
They are floating hotels, in which all the comforts that exists for annexation to the United States. The Peesecee. party o the dock workmen ; the latter were meet bisell
OlOrniOf laSt a body of the Irishmen alluded to Infra
enjoyed in hotels are to be obtained; and this not mercantile classes seemed to me to be unanimous in HEARTLESS ROBBERY.—The Coventry Herald re- tareesearodoi wtemofatdhee
to mendrown wasthrt; eintowtethe
only vat
only in the steamers on the Hudson, bat on the more its favour, and one cannot wonder at it, when you Porte another of these incidents perpetrated upon a young greatest difficulty he succeeded In making his estnetgi
woman, named Ann Hammertoe, the
distant lakes of Erie, Huron. and Michigan, as well daughter of IL Dead- then by swimming to the oppoeide side. Another noses
find a merely nominal line separating them from the
as on Lake Ontario, the River St. Lawrence, and prosperity of their immediate neighbours. I was not ford, watchmaker, of Kenilworth, end wife of J. Hammer- serious scalp wound, and several were otherwise 'DAM! II
ton, of Coventry, from whom she was obliged to separate, on reply to a question, the surveyor said the affair was esteW
Lake Champlain. surprised, therefore, at the declaration emanating amount of his ill-usage. It appears that the father of Ham- is known as a faction fight, neither could he assign so..
The hotels are quite a feature in New York, and. from Montreal, which went home by last inerton's wife, anxious to provide her with some honourable son for the attack made by the Ir
ishmen; tiny west*:
indeed throughout the States generally. I stayed at steamer, but look upon it as one of the steps in a means of subsistence, paid for her carriage hy rail to New- pally men out of employment. secretary mato 13'
cAVeed thee attention of the head constable to the
the Astor-house, of which you must often have read, pest movement which must ultimately terminate in castle-yogeihweeoher• he has
e
relations;
a"slituhatodneutritei
on my first visit. lam now at the New York Hotel, the separation of these colonies from Britain.. Press she was to go to in three weeks. In the interim, however, the disturbances
ersaitiopteeft:eriitunwtilichit
jurisdiction
stro
of 00
which is a much quieter house, in the upper nut of and people are declaring for it, and come it must, she had some words with her relatives, and started off, on rough, it was referred to the committee, to make WO
the town. It is also in Broadway, bat at a distance although perhaps not quite so soon as some ardent foot, for Kenilworth, a distance of 235 es. After travel- and offer a reward for the apprehension of the offenden
'of about a mile and a half from the Park. It stands spirits seem to think likely. From Montreal I pro- ►ling 60 miles, a man overtook her.
reg nes' '4"thisusrbr'' in A FURTHER ACT OF INCENDIARISH. The vac
on folly as much ground as the Aster-house but a oeeded by the Lake Champlain route to Troy about Yorkshire, with whom she ente into conversation, and,
of Cathy, five miles northeast from Stamford, was eels
on telling the fellow her story, he pretended to pity her, but
large part of it bang laid off in mates of apartments wiz miles above Albany, on the Hudson, the hula
' - per- elided his commiseration by robbing her of all her clothes, day morning the scene of an extensive incendiary fin 5'
for titivate families, it wants the business bustle of the tion of the journey at each end of the lake being ac- and everything of valuate her possession. The poor woman tween one and two o'clock, an alarm was given that s 0
other. There is not the perpeteed change of guests, and complished by railway. I halted for a couple of days wanton, and having found Mr. Hugh Macgregor, the chief on the premises of Mr. Template was in tisinesesi.t
week after week you meet the same pubes at the dinner at Saratoga. The fashionable' had just departed, after of police of the district, ►he went in purenie and captured the very short time six others were ut the same situation
.!:
strata' at express was sent to Stamford for a fire-engine, and us.
table. The class of people, too, is superior ti. those crowning the season, as usual, by their presence at the !Tiber,
lertan who was to be_brought up_heefore the nit
the
i ediatel despatched, but on its arrival at Carlbre
care m", y
you meet with at the Astor-house. We have each grand fancy ball There were enoughleft,however, as of**, pace tfflutrat use g ine,717,-.l.of.woriz.n .. whole of the stacks were nearly consumed. The etas ii
political characters as Mr. Buchanan, p-incipal Sure- we had about 150 present on each of the two days I the firemen (who were accom_panied by only one none.
SAD REVERSE or FORTUNE. Yesterday at Man-res t the brigade, vie., Mr. Geo. Holmes) were directed e-,
Lary of State under the late administration ; Mr. dined at the United States Hotel. This is one of cheater, Mr. Denby, some ye ago. one of the meet ation of the buildings, and in this they were wet
Whitney, the projector of the; great line of railway those wonderful mammoth establishments to be met able men in the Manchester tride, was brought beforePatte 1.--
ul. The produce consumed consisted of three null r
from Lake Michigan to the Pacific ; John Van Buren, with in this country. They have sleeping apartments magistrates, charged with non-accountiu for money which wheat, one of barley and oats, one of seeds, one of re"
the son of the President—" Prince John," as he was for 800 guests, and in the height of the season they he Bad goateed belonging to Means. Rusome and Co.,
clover, and one of- straw. The whole was ieseredi'm
christened, after Queen Victoria invited him to dinner, had about 200 more, aorrammodated in lodging-houses cog-tamo, banjos amounting so %mare of 1701. Ma. Dono Yorkshire fire-office, for 4001. Mr. Templeman is spilt!
and M. Penman, the French ambassador, who ha; in the village, but who took their meals in the hotel. :11=i"r`rirs'unters itat'itgeper , a year agoioor tililereaboutset as well u a farmer ; he states that his house was Ott
lately kicked up such a row at Washington. These The grand ball room is a truly magnificent hall. I is had Punted for tilevmeoney, aoarmprofees°end to do so, evTry all the is f
ates had gone to bed by haiSpol lassod't
and many others meet at the public table at dinner— have seen nothing like it elsewhere as a mere adjunct week, and received his commission on the first of every s
that h"tiatl was b'for" which stacksheerhads alesudult: bai ar
say, from 160 to 170 ladies ard gentlemen—every to a hotel. There are two other very fine hotels— mouth. A short time ago he sent for one of the partners! house. A little while beforewthe shale oefire vie aig
day, and afterwards retire to the drawing or Congress Hall and Union Hall, the latter being Ike- rd toldo.hise ith.owesnde.ficient in his accounts, desiring that nearly all the doge in the village were heard beers-
other rooms in the house. It is curious to mark the quented by the sober-minded people of New England, matteaw agloandtle tterZenalc);.iniht whims' led allow
fhinitleglate tol Sianif°rd Mercury'
publicity with which matters of state are canvassed who want just to take a glance askance at fashionable three cases he had repeatedly denied having receivedmoneys TUE GOVERNMENT AND THE GRAND 003
in this country. In the drawing-room here I have frivolities. Clergymen, and the godly of all sorts, which had been paid, and upon these cases tho charge was LODOIL—On the 20th of the preaent month the as
heard M. Poussin discuss the points in dispute be- may safely enter Union Hall, but their souls would broughthefoth the magietrates. It appeared Mr. Denby had lag of the Grand Orange Ledge of Ireland will In hal
' twigs France and America, and he declares that he be l'ist for ever if they ventured within the precincts applied the moneyin paying wows to other parties with Dubin, and without pretending to possess any eschew;
was specially instructed by M. de Tocqueville to use of the United States' Hotel. The evil one, however, vireo he haleprevioudy contracted liabilities. lie was nom- formation respecting the topics then to be broult e!dditiog
the leaguers he did in his communications to Mr. spite of all the stints can do, carries all before him Bur-tted o sessions for non-acoionunting. A great many formation, we believe we are justified is coin= nel. de
respectable eisnifylinpa his case, attended the that the expediency of publishing a detailed '.
Inla r
Clayton. Our boars here are more suitable to my mg the season at Saratoga. Besides those named, there court to hear the result. negotiations that took pl last yforear betwe a
peen
the ,0
taste than in other American hotels I have visited. are numerous other smaller hotels ; and the entire ANOTHER SMUGGLER Cmsrurtin.—On Thursday vernment and the Orangemen willm minestue ,
IBreakfast can be had at any hour you choose between village in in fact traneformed into a huge boarding- night the Camelson, cruiser, Mr. H. MiGuire, was ato tam'
important subject of deliberation. We Ira pea
bo i le
7 and 12. Dinner at 6 o'clock, and such dinners,— house, and is filled with visitors from all parts of the cruising near the Nab Light, St. Helen's, when a suspicious- many of the most deservedly influenwa esta,,,,,s
ft would gladden the heart of our friend ••• • States. From Saratoga I proceeded by. railway to looking craft (in foot, an old Watillitling , craft—the Mary) Grand Lodge we decidedly of Ainiccditata ert rrillide
who yea will recollect was so great an Trw, and thence down tin Hudson in one of the ken in sight. Chase was immediately gtven, during which meet unreserved publicity shoul e given
__. paid
the Teasel was seen to throw a number of tabs overboard, then occurred, and we have no reason to suppew._,.,e
admirer of French ceoke7, to see the dishes that celeU.atecl steamers of the North River, arriving once and fa a few 'damn the smack objection will be raised to adopting that course, 0:170,
hove to, and, on examiaa:
form our daily fare. After the cloth has been removed, more in this city. Use, was found to have • number of stop-ropes and dings same time it is obviously irn nesible for us to say: le
and the dement placed on the table, coffee is handed I have found far fewer peculiarities among Ameri- (ropes and marine tubs) appended to her, and • crew duke. the Grand 144"w°' come to on the I,llUls'
round, and seen alter the entire company retire. cans than I was led to expect from the writings of of font Bestewee* left araaPing fit the tube while can namely doubt, however, that the Orittnic_sitee
Very little wine is drunk, probably one-half take none traveller—perhaps these do not exhibit themselves the smack and her arc (prisoners) were conducted towards Inteblian an authentic' account of the comm.nel ruste di
n and Orangemen, for, in
at all, the time occupied at table being about an hour so strongly in the districts I have visited as else- Portsmouth, to b' charged before the county magistrate.. the
ib'enishto Irseorawmoldabe a stupid and fatal erna,.o---,,
and a half. At half-past seven there is tea, and when. I have met with scarcely any exhibition of LOSS or AN AMERICAN SHIP IN THE BRISTOL lably 'to the Orange Institution, and et0r.2...
sapper any time between nine and twelve. The undue cariosity; I was generally the question- Cauraz.—Yesterday information was received in the City 'viewable to is fish government. On the side of
wee co.'
I setae charge for all this, including a comfortable bed ing party airou. I have seen so hurried ezeoriAtolis
itotal loss of the American ship Archelans, men trim positively asserted that their support, ~,,„se,
ute ,maater, which foundered at the entrance of and that they were supplied with arms fire'rici iit pot
ama and the charge fax servants, is two dollars bolting' of food at table; some, no doubt, tes'e l el. The Captain and crew were saved by while, on the side of the government, this
11111 day. Those having private suites of apart- ries sooner than others, sooner than I might apllotboat. tively denied--Dublin Peening Herald.