The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

ARRANGEMENTS AT THE OPENING AND

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

The report of the committee presented to tho
House of Commons last night by Lord John Ituosell, is as
as follows The select committee appointed to settle the
order in which members shall accompany Mr. Speaker on
all occasions when her Mttlesty shall command the house to
attend her Majesty in the Rouse of Peers, have considered
the matters to them referred, and have come to the follow-
ing resolutions, which they have agreed to report to
the house. Resolved,—That it is the opinion of
this committee, that in order to ensure regularity
I in the order of proceeding from this house to the house of
Lords on occasions of opening or proroguing parliament:
That every member desirous of attending Mr. Speaker do
communicate his intention in writing to the clerk of the
house, in cane the house be not sitting, before the hour of
live in the afternoon on the day preceding ; and if the house
be sitting, between the hour of three in the afternoon and
the rising of the house on the day preceding. That on the
house being summoned to attend her Majesty, the cabinet
ministers present do immediately follow Mr. Speaker. That
on the day of ineeti iig,or prorogation ;bet'. we any other business
be entered upon, the names of the other members so sent to
the clerk, be put into a glass, and arranged according to the
order in which they shall be drawn forth therefrom ; when
the house is summoned to attend her Majesty, the members'
names, so arranged, shall be called over by the clerk, and
the members shall proceed in such order to the House of
Lords, in ranks of four. That after this house has been
summoned to attend her Majesty, no member of this house
do remain in, or cross, or pane through, any of the lobbies
or passages leading from the door of this house to the door
of the House of Lords; and that the sergeant-at-arms
attending this house do keep the said passages clear of
ratinbers.—August G, 1851."

part of the moon near the sun was strongly illuminated
with • coppery light, gradually shading oft, and strungest
at a short distance from the sun's border. Objects looked
very dull. I thought the outline or the moon could he
traced for some degrees by the difference of colour between
the coppery red of her surface and the neutral tint of the
field of view. At 3h. 40min. objects towards the north pre-
sented • very peculiar appearance, as though they were il-
luminated by a trivial dash of lightning, or the electrical
light. At 3b. 61mia. a chilly leading in the air, the horizon
looked closer in every direction, and the daylight now di-
minished very perceptibly. A thin cirrus cloud began to
form about the sun, but it was of so slight a character as not
to interfere in the slightest degree with the observations. The ARRIVAL OF TIIF. COURT AT BUCKINGITAM PALACE.
entre blue of the sky bad very much deepened, particularly —Her Majesty. accompusied by Prince Albert, and at
teeth of the zeuith, where it was of a deep violet. The tended by a numerous suite, left Osborne House, Isle of
,ealam's limb appeared very uneven, quite a gap on Wight, at an early hour this morning, and arrived at the
5 her south edge. At 3h. .smin. everything very gloomy— Vauxhall-station twenty minutes before one o'clock.
the air felt chilly and damp , the sky of an intense blue ALDER3IAN FARM:01111, THE LATE LORD MAYOR,
colour. From this moment my eye was applied to the it is said, will very Aunty have conferred upon him the
telescope until the sun had gone out entirely. J ust before dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
the commencement of the total eclipse a considerable
mountain on the moon's edge appeared to shoot forward krECLINE UP THE METHODIST HODY.—The returns
and join the suet's limb, thus cutting off a small portion of submitted to the late mecang of the Wesleyan Conference
his disc near the southern cusp. About 20 seconds before show a defection of nearly 60,000 members of the society.
the totality the sante appearance presented itself with res. TIM Loss OF THE JOSEI'II ANDERSON.—PLYS
pect to many other isreaularities upon the moon's edge, Merril, AVG. 4 —One of the surviving crew, recently m-
end instantaneously " Bauly's beads' were formed. The tensed home, gives the following account of the loss of this
only visible portion of the sun resembled a string of tine schooner. She belonged to the Devonport Coal Association,
luminous beads, separated by irregular intervals, and clearly registered fi33 tons, and was commanded by. It. Holten, a
caused in the present instance by the sun shining between respectable iimiewho had hadelung experiencem thecowiting
the mountain peaks and along the valleys on the apparent trade. Having taken in 147 tons of coal at Newport she left
edge of our satellite. The same exquisite definition of the for Plymouth, on Saturday, the 12th July, at 8 o'clock in
limbs of the sun and moon, to which I have before alluded, the evening. The wind was from W.N.V., all sail set ea-
continued during the partial eclipse, and the phenomena of rcpt the flying-gib and gaff-topsail; the master, unfortu-
" the beads " were seen in all their beauty, until the nately, went too far out of his course, and at one o'clock on
beginning of toed eclipse was marked by their instantaneous Sunday morning the vessel struck on a bank of salad ; this
disappeareace. was supposed to be One-fathom Bank, which is about a
Up to this moment I had employed a dark glass, throw- mile in diameter, and the flood being young, an effort wee
ing a neutral tint over the field of the telescope, and my made to run the vessel over it. She ploughed the and he
attention was no arrested by the unexpected distinctness of an hour and a half, continually striking, and the ohm
" heads" that I omitted to remove the shade for a wished to take to the boats, but the captam objected. laripliti
kw seconds after they had vanished, and thereby lost the they would soon run over the bank. However, able
view of the sudden formation of the corona, or " ring of ing fora lung time, one of the heeds wept forward and
glory," round the sun ; and when 1 looked without the covered the water up over the forecastle deck, the cabin was
dark glass, certainly not more than fire of me seconds after full also, awl the hatches, which were not nailed down.
the extinction of the sun, the corona and red lames were blew off. It was now evident that the vessel was or the
already conspicuous. With respect to the former I should Culver Sands, which are the or six miles long by • mei
describe it as a luminous ring, very much brighter towards broad, and the crew, about half-past two o'clock, breadth"
the sun, and gradually fading away to a distance of about yards bye, she swung on her heel which caught her
half the diameter of the moon, where its light become lost and taking a sheer she went off the Culver, the edgfrbelit
lin the ground colour of the heavens. Its colour resembled which is like a wall, and Immediately sunk is imp
that of tarnished silver ; but lam inclined to attribute this water, about twelve miles from the shore. Thu smite
to the intervention of • very thin cloud, and think it very and two of the hands were nesse seen again; the master sat
probable that in the absence of this cloud the corona would on a ben-coup, and the cabin-boy gut hold of a ship's fender,
have appeared perfectly white. There was a flickering or a spar end; the former continued for half-an-hour, when
unsteadiness in its light, but nothing resembling circular from exhaustion he let go, and was followed by the lad,
motion. Divergent rays of a somewhat paler colour than whose youth sustained him for nearly four hours. Matthew
the corona itself appeared to stream elf in every direction Crake, seaman, seized two topmast studding sail booms, and
from the border of the sun, and I thick their extremities Charles Sweet, apprentice, in his trowsers andshirt only, had
were frequently visible beyond the limits of the corona ; hold of MIMI: too* spars. With such feeble support these
those portions nearer the sun appeared to be shining unfortunate mariners managed to sustain themseaves for
through this luminous ring• hours, but they were not the only survivors; the ship's dog
The rare—coloured prominences described so minutely by swam around and dodged about from one to the other, °c-
observers of the total eclipse of 1842 formed by for the casionally perching on a fragment of the wreck, but at
most striking feature during the eclipse of the 28th ult. length approached. Crake and several times nearly drowned
The most remarkable one was situated about a degrees him by treading and turning the ends of his booms. Being
north of the parallel of declination un the western limb of driven away he made to Sweet,. who, having more spars,
the moon. It was curved like r sabre near its extremity, received him, and thus rendering mutual warmth, they
but perfectly straight throughout two-thirds of its length. continued together. The flood bearing with greater force
The edges were deeply tinged with ruse-red, which laded on Sweet's larger float, began to separate him from his
off towards the centre, but I saw no violet colour about companion iu distress, and they could only see each other
this prominence. On tint viewinz this remarkable object as the waves happened to throw both up at the same mo-
through the telescope, a few seconds after the commence- went. It was now gaping on towards the change of the
ment uC totality, I estimated its length at about 46 seconds tide, when they would- have been carried into the Atlantic,
of an are, and being moat desirous to obtain a confirmation and supposing nature strong enough to sustain them longer,
or otherwise of the observation at Honolulu, described in their chance of rescue would, in that case, have been
my letter of July 10, I watched attentively for any alters. almost hopeless. Providentially, at eight o'clock on Sun-
tion of sire that might be apparent, and in less than 30 I day morning, Crake was picked up two miles from the
seconds found that it had lengthened considerably; for' shore by the Ganymede yacht, and having reported the
though it had remained perfectly stationary, I now esti- I position of the apprentice, a mile and a half off, she bore
mated its length at sae minute anal • half, or twice I down and took him and the ,log on board also. Landed at
as great as at the first glimpse, the dark body of the I Weston-super-Mare, the kind treatment of those in the
moon having appeared to move away gradually, and I Ganymede was well followed by the hospitality and attaa-
leave more and more of the projection visible. About 10 1 Lion received at Purmell'e New Market Tartlet, from
degrees south of the principal prominence, and at • distance I whence, after recovery, they were brought back to this
of one minute of arc from the moon's dark limb, I saw a In- port.
minus triangular spot of the Lune colour as the great dame, I r.
yet perfectly detached from the limb ;it was evidently of sAIATtGE OF MAPISLIXGIITED AT SUNDERLAND.—
.On Monday morning last there was considerable the same nature as the large prominence, and must have
excite-
existed in the upper regions of the solar atmosphere. The rnent among the commercial classes of Sunderland, owing
edges were of • bright rose pink—the centre paler. With to the sudden death of Mr. Christopher John Spence, ship-
broker, who was reported to have died from the effects of a
the exception of a gradual receding of this spot from the blow received during an altercatioa with Mr. Joseph Bu-
rnooses limb as oho moved arrow the sun 1 could distinguish
chanan, ship-builder, of Sunderland. It appear* that
no change. Its form, appearance, and position, relative to
the large projection, continued exactly the same as long as both the gentlemen were on the best terms, and on Friday
I could discern either. On the dark limb of the moon,l week then both went into the bar of the Bridge Hotel,
on the side near the horizon, there appeared an
succession of rose-coloured inequalitie where, while drinking together, au altercation ensued, and
interrupted un-
Mr. Buchanan seized a large drinking glass and threw it at
s,
Mr. Spence's head, it hit hiin on the right temple, and the
which seemed to be in a state of fluctuation, though
wound bled freely. They irritated, and Mr. Spence went
not to such an extent as materially to change their •
number and positions. The tops were of a raja cps home and had his wound dressed, and felt himself better,
red, but their bases presented a bright violet tint, which and walked out next morning, and again met with Mr.
Buchanan, and they walked together on terms of friend.
appeared to spread along the limb of the moon. Near the ship.l?•rha
The next day Mr. Spence grew worse and took to
western extremity of this lone range of "rid dames" there
was an isolated one of about 40 seconds' altitude, and his bed, and, mortification having taken place, ha! expired
on Monday morning last. On the afternoon of that day a
another of eituilar maguitude, at an angle of 14a dogs. from warrant was issued for the apprehension of Mr. Buchanan,
the north towards the east. I was too closely occupied in
and the seine day he was taken into custody mil brought
watching the larger prominence to pay much attention to
before the Mayor of Sunderland, charged be Mr.W. Brown,
the mealier ones during the short time allowed me, and I
superintendent of police, with killing and stayiug Mr. Chris-
am consequently unable to state from observation whether
topher John Spence bro'ker. and said
solicitor, appeared
they-unaerwent the same gradual variations of apparent on behalf of the pri'sener, and said that his client felt the
magnitude. The moon's surface was decidedly reddish- deepest sorrow for the unfortunate circumstance, and that
purple soon after the beginning of the total eclipse; but lie bad walked with the deceased the day after the quarrel,
Ittlf a minute later it seemed to hose lost the reddish Mite and he had also visited him the day before his death; and,
and assumed a dull purple colour. The position of the under all the circumstances, he hoped that the mayor and
*PPr"dtiag r"PPearsaw of the gun w" indicated the magistrates magistrates would allow his client to find bail ; but the ma•
•4* • bright glow, lihe twilight, on that part of the gistrates declined, and the prieoner was remended until
limb of the moon were the continuous range of rude- a sr'
The have been held on the body of the
ouloured projections had'preeented itself, and a few seconds .
TdieesseeLhe
wideaseTheusasioquestto
.hwrwhetkald ont
noTue9tdasliyeto, at Sunderland.
as afterwards the beads were again noticed, not innumerous
as before, bat larger and more brilliant; live seconds more''
read a
il
the eif Mr. J. Buchanan towards the de-
ll" 11111 halWaWla aPPftruum efthi'dwa• she sun re-aPPew ceased, sail OM the glass had been throwa merely as •
is as se emulously narrow but rapidly widening crewcut. e lark!. Both the deceased and Mr. 3. Buchanan with
the ten spituttee enbsegoently clouds began to form mar I very iamb Anted in consequence of- a bargain in which
the sum, and beaten soon bidden frost this cause, so that • had hien apa had dr.k
no opportunlty IrWri worded of watching the declining animmt. Lit. ..g. surgeon, wid—ouL7 InArcsi
phases of the tape.
had sada, post modern examination of the
guth are Ike Pradial fAtietoot Phenalnen., which,__ Cylt 3, Spence, and gave it as their opinion that the
was fosusWas• *Mgt *waft*, 4 it' "`"" death had been occasioned by the wound indicted Ey Mr. J.
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Sho eve and in humans urogg jury retinal:mit minutes, and gave • unanimous waist
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