The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1848,

Michael Lynch, Elisabeth, lane, andJameallMallan; and John
M.Do inel • John ; !madMary William Melons
John M•LOughlin ;• JamsMOlshem; fft and Ana Metres;
Peter Martin; llbsignMin Mims
Manahan; Jams Mills'lla~Sass Ws;
Murray kW=
Maim; Mani Els ; POO&
James range; ; haw ; 6•11; mod Wows; Yell-
liam Onage; Lona Orrell ; boo 011eks Mak; An.
drew Outten; Sarah Pollard; Half repo lanai
adcliff; Catherine, Mary, sad PONS P00N',.......AN1S
James. Catherine, and William Bayails;lM~d
Ronan ; -Michas l Rourke ; Ellen md Butte; Spa
and two children • Omelet Ryder ; Vann Bander.• Mini&
Savage; William Simian; William lelniona; Edward Rheemaj
Edward Shore ; Peter Smith ; smith ; Sarah Somerville ems
aid Elisabeth Swallow • Nary As Taylor • Charles and Elizalink
Thompson ; Johanna and Honors Ttann; George Tomlinson: Jame.
Walker; Richard Walsh; Elizabeth and John Warburtoa; Elizabeth
Ward; Wells; Healy Whi-e ; Francis Woods, and Peter
Wrintesworth.
Among the tabi passenger.% it to stated that Mr. and Mrs. Gotham
with their daughters, from the neighbourhood of Manchester, who
prooreded on board the night before sailing, are MB missing. The
remainder have been saved.
PAMMUSIS Usscrocarran roa.
John Atkinson Thomas and Mary Anne Anderson ; Johanna
Baring ; George Barker; William Ranson; John, Emma, and bliza
Bell ; Joseph Islyden ; Patrick Brady; Jerry Reiman; Thomas Wil-
liam Brown, wife and child; Mary Burns; Joseph Butterworth; Mary
Bohan; Dennis and Susan Callaghan, son and daughter; (five
children) Cashman; Catherine, Mary, and Labelle Clark; Catherine
Coyle; Eugene Condon; Ann Constantine; John Combs; Richard,
P. ter, and Mary Anne lox; Mary Crook; Ades Cady; Ellen Curley;
Patrick De anham; James, Bridget Devine, and child • Alice Dea
")
John Dolan; Darby Donohue; John and Martin Donberty ;
ton Driston ; Mary Drum • Julia and Jame. Drury; Catherine Da-
gen ; Mary Ellis; Sarah Pieter; Mary Ann, Mary, and Bridget ninon;
Magaret blond; Nora Galvin; Mary Cisffary ; Ann, Mary, and Pailip
Gleason, sad child ; Margaret Gormly ; Royanm Green; M
Halloran; Mutiny Stanley; JamesHely; James Henry; kteneccallflll
Mary and John Hughes; William Jackson, wife, and child ; William
Jackson. wife, and two children ; John Johnson; George Jones and
Mite' Thomas, Jane, and Mary Jones ; Thome' Kaye and wife;
Michael Kean: Winifred Keegan ; Been Kelleher and child; Nora
Keating; Edward Kelly; Catharine Kilby ; Neville Lowes; Robert
Maxwell; Jane and Mare M`Evoy; Daniel ACCorthy ; Margaret
MST, ; John Moynch ; Ellen Davi:. and John Malan ; Ann Murphy;
William Marty; Bevy Mulling; Arthur Muldoon; Jane Murtagb
and child; Jane Neesum; Mary Ana Ncebitt; James and Margaret
Nolan; Daniel O'Connor and wife; Biddy and Catherine O'Hara;
Samuel Pollenssale; George l'arker ; Mary Quinn and two sone
Jane Roberts; James Radcliff; James, Margaret.
Catherine.
and Margaret itonayn ; James and Mary Sale; Joseph, Mary, Ann.
Sirah Shaw; Margaret Sbcnan ; Jo-eph Shread ; Margaret, Ellen,
Thomas, and Mary Smith, and child; William and Francis Spencer;
Darnby, Geeffry, Johanna. Ellen, Catherine. and Nancy Sullivan;
Sarah and George Taylor • William 'tows; Ellen and Bridget Tier-
ney; Henry, Sarah. Elisabeth, and Alice 'lhornpaon ; Sarah Ann and
Edward Ward; James and Catherin • Wilson and child; JAIUM Win.
Manley ; William Willis and wife; and Mary Wynne.
Loo or THE PRINCE or Wanks.—The following is the
report of the log of Capt. Dani, commander of the Prince of
Wal fs steamer, bound to Bangor Aug. 24, 1843 :
" When outside the light-ship, I discovered a ship on fire,
bearing about N.W. 12 miles. I immediately hauled up for
her, and ordered one of the boats to be got ready. In go:ng
along I discovered a boat with four hands in it. I took her
in tow, and in a short time after I saw a man floating on part
of the wreck. 1 sent the boat to pick him up, and got him
on board. At this time there was a great deal of the wreck
floating ab .ut. I lowered the boat, and seat Mr. Batty, the
mate, and three lain s, to see if they could pick up any one
alive. As Mr. Batty was getfing into the boat he discover ,1
the body of a child not quite dead, but too far gone to
recover. I then proceeded to the ship on fire, and got
three more passengers that were floating. When I came up
to the ship she was in one flame fore and alt. I did not
think it prudent to go alongside of her, but I came to anchor
close ate, ad of her : at this time the wind was increasing,
and a heavy sea running, and so much of the wreck was
hanging about the vessel, that the boats could not approach
ht r with safety. I then got the passengers to assist in
weighing my anchor, and returned to pick up my own boat.
I then returned to the ship, and saw from twenty ta thirty
people under the bowsprit of the ship. I came to anchor
close on her starboard bow, got lines attached to the boats,
and saved every one that was on the wreck. At this trying
mottrant Mr. Batty was of the greatest service to me, as were
also all tea other hands, who cheerfully and willingly assisted
in saving all they could.-0. DAN!, commander tat the Prince I
of Wales steamer."
CAPT. Munnucit.—ln a letter to the LiverpoolJourna I
the wrier says: In the last pang-aph but one of your
jOurnal of this morning allusion is made to the reports re-
specting Captain Murdoch. Allow me to state, in a lew
words, what I know to be true regarding this gentleman.
The report. to his prejudice hove been wicked and malicious
iu the extra me. I was one of the last on the quarter deck
with Capt. Murdoch. Throughout this fearful affair hem dia.
played the greatest courage, coolness, and presence of ind.
lie was deserted by the greater part of his seamen, and was
only agitated by two or three of his passengers in the execu-
tion of his orders. I was as I stated, amongst the last, if not
the last, near the cap•ain. The throes were raging fear-
fully in the vicinity of the mainmast. Cummunicaticn was
in a few seconds cut off from the fore part of the ship ; and
it was only when hemmed in and exposed to the most fearful
of deaths- that of fire—that Captain Murdoch took to the
water. 1 shuuld say he was the last man to leave that part
of the chip ; and when h,, did leave it he could tot have
reached the toreearle bad he wished it. I preceded him but
a few seconds, and leaped into the ace from the bowsprit rig
ging, having myself been obliged to climb alongside the les.
sera bulwarks. These facts I can attest and swear to.—
Yo ofec., \I/NESTS:4 passenger in the Ocean
urs,
Monarch.—The abate is • true statement ; JOHN ORANOII,

In the evening a meeting, numerously attended, was held
at the same place, of the National Land Company.to consider
the propositions of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, td P., recently
made to the select committee in the House of Commons cep
pointed to inquire into the affairs of the company. From
this the press was entirely excluded, and the business con-
ducted with closed doors.
NEW FOREST TIMBER STEALING.—At the Queen's
Mouse, Lyndhurst. on Saturday, William Broad, the Bridge
Carpenter of the New Forest, was brought before Messrs.
Compton and Smith, magistrates, charged with stealing
eleven pieces of timber from Broomy Walk. It appeared
that the prisoner had been employed two months since in
repairing a bridge called the Splash-bridge, and that he had
set aside the old timber as " and sold the tot for 2s. tkL
tdv. Wm. Reed, the issistent deputy surveyor, deposed that
such materials were not the prisoner's perquisite. Broad said
in his delstice that he had workt.l 43 years iu the for.st, and
that Mr. Turner, a former deputy warden, hail yeare ago
given hi a leave to appropriate all the old piles and
chips to his awn purples. The solicitor for the crown,
after consulting with Major Freeman, the govern-
ment inspector, said he was nut disposed to press
the charge ; but Mr. Compton said he thought sufficient had
been made out to render it necessary for the yudices to
commit the prisoner for trial. They would, however, accept
as bail his own recognisance of 101. G. F. Bowles, a forest
keeper, residing at Boldrelodge, was then placed et the bar,
charged, together with .1. Coles, on au information for steal.
ins two pieces of timber, value 41., from Beaulieu Wood
Walk. It appeared that J. Coles was ant in custody. The
prisoner said the timber had been given him by Mr. Jamrs
Reed, toe assistant deputy surveyor, and he should wish that
gentleman to attend. 'lhe magistrates said they would issue
a summons for him, and as Cole' was not in custody, would
postpone the hearing until Monday (this day.)
SUICIDE. AT LYNDHURST.-Isaac Helmer, • New
Forest woodcutter, residieg at Emery Down. near Lynd.
burst, cut his throat on Saturday. Ile had been sometime
hack questioned by the police relative to the forest depreda
tiring. and the circuni4ance is said to have preyed upon hie
mind. On Saturday morning he got up early. and was sten
walking quickly from his how.° towards an adjacent wood.
Some ipeies were et camped there, and one of them was
awakened by a noise outside the tent. On going ogt he
found Rohner with his throat cut, leaning against it. lie
assisted his out ..f the wood, and conveyed him home. A
rigor was found near the spot. Hummer had a wife and three

charged against him by • contemporary. In his opinion the
captain and mate did all that it was possible for men to do
under the circumstances. The captain, in the first place,
took all the necessary steps to check the conflagration, and
afterwards behaved with the greatest promptitude; but all
his exertions were rendered fruitless by th - confusion pro-
duced by the terror which spread among the puseneers.
The captain stuck to the ship until the fragments of the
blazing monmast were falling about him : he did
not leave until it was an impossibility any longer to
stand the heat between the two fires raging fore
and aft. He had great difficulty, in fact, in saving
his own life at the last, and he certainly saved the
lives of others in his instructions to those who hesitated to '
throw themselves into the water, and there truet to the
spare Mr. Ellis was picked up by a pilot-boat out of one of
the Ocean Monarch's boss (the mate's), almost swamping I
at the time with the twisty seas, and was afterwards plac,el
on board • Wexford smack, the Queen. Mr. Ellis mentions
an incident nQt at all creditable to the crew of the pilot-boat
fsupposeed to be Welsh). One of the mssengers, a Mr.
Powell, had stripped himself on account of wet, and could
only obtain the covering of • blanket from the people on
board the pilot-boat by surrendering, in exchange, • silver
watch. Mr. Ellis believes that one passenger still
remains on this boat; he remained because be was per-
fectly naked, and could get no clothes given to him.
Mr. Ellis, like the majority of the other passengers, has
lost evcrytoing by the fire. As • professional man, his
sterilises are even more to be regretted than those of
others: he has lost hi' diploma (granted by the Royal Col-
lege of Sergi one), all hi. instruments, books, dm. Mr Ellis
states that the tire first appeared in the cabin, and he there.
lore questions the statement that it was occasioned by the
carelessneu of an emigrant in the steerage. Mr. RIO, was
sitting in the cabin, reading, at 12 o'clock in the day, when
the eeccuid steward rushed in and said that the ship was on
fire. A lady, named Andrews, was in the cabin, alao read-
ing, at the same time ; she was greatly alarmed. lie be-
lieves that this unfortunate lady, with her daughter, • child
nine years old, have been hat Isle. Andrews' the husband of
this lady, has been saved. At the time the fire broke out •
great number of the emigrants were lying, sea nick, in their
berths, and he atiribute a the subsequent confusion to the
I alarm produced by these running naked on deck. In this
way many of the children were los.. The tug-boat, which
took them out of the river, bad not left them half an hour,
when the first ainuke .as seen; had she stayed a little
while longer with them every human being would bars
been saved.
NAILEATIVES OP THE PASRENOERL—AItIIIVAL OP
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
There was one hope for the des:late, and that was that
the Prince of Wales steamer, hourly expected on Saturday
ahernoou, was known to have saved many, and amongst
the number coming might he their own relatives and
friends. The hope was sonic alleviation, and the pierhead
was thronged ; many were there from curiosity,
and ROM were present with weeping and anxious
eyes. The survivors, wherever they appeared, were
aurroundi d with groups of listening and interested
sympathisers, and it was sad to hear the additional particu
len of personal peril and individual loss which each in the
general calamity bad sustained. One had lost a son, another
a sister or child, whilst a third bewailed with agony the loss
of a parent. We spoke, amongst others, to Samuel Moody,
one of the crew. Ile states that in 15 minutes after the fire
WITS reported i• was burning right through the deck and ca-
bins, and the Hoene' so rapidly spread that Wm. Walker, the
in .n at the wheel, was compelled precisitately to abandon
his post. The contusion and noise were terrific, and
Moody himself, in toe general terror. leaped overboard, and
swam to the boat which the yacht had just put out. lie
atterwards returned on board el the ill-tated vi 'eel, sled
assisted till he was of no further use. He adds his belief
that if the passengers had complied with the captain's wise,
and remained calm and quiet, scarcely a single life would
have been sacrificed. Several with whom wo cmversed
have had miraculous escapes. One poor fellow stated that
he fell overboard in the general confusion, and could not
swim. He was lucky enough, however, to seize • rope in
his descent. He sunk a gee at depth, but still retained his
grasp of the rope ; he palled it, and, as it kept uncoiling,
he considered himsell lost. It tightened at last, however,
and pulling himself to the surface, lie contrived to hold on
till the arrival of a boat. Many of the poor passengers, shel-
tered in all positions beneath the vessel, were seriously in-
jured by the falling of the burniag pitch, v hich oozed out of
the vessel's planks.
The Prince of Wales, steamer, arrived at Liverp iol shortly
after five o'clockon Saturday atternoon. on the vessel's ap-
proach there was a rush mad- by the crowd to learn what
passengers had been saved. The gallant captain, who stood
on the paddle-box, was hailed with is round of hearty and
strien:.a,nreteitouns. cols; eying,hi ii: gratifying.hr‘. 'milt
wbe:sorti:iunhedtr:auttetitio.
great majority whom the vessel had been the means of
saving had bet n handed on board the Brazilian frigate. The
,umber on booed the Prince of Wales was 19, namely, J.
Radcliff, front Sleafotd; E. Slimmer', of Glossop; W.
aLtin, Mschell's Town, county of Cork ; 11. Armand, of
Liverpool (one of the Oceou Monarch's crew) • C. Dwyer,
Mitchell's Town ; J. Rewen, of Manchester, M. Diemen, of
Killaraey ; S. Fielder+, of Glossop ; A Donelly, county of
Armagh ; J. Kellv, Killarney ; two little girls, Sarah Alin
and Sophia Hill, from Rochdale ; • little girl three years old,
who could only speak Irish, and gave her name as Kate ;
and a girl named Roper, from Bailee, daughter of a woman
in the Northern Hospital. The poor creatures were hud-
dl, d together for warmth in the engine•room. They spoke
in high terms of the kindness with which they had been
treated on board the Prince of Wales. One of the party had
been picked up floating on • spar, nearly three mil u from the
• i scene of the disaster. S. Fielding, of Glossop, another of her
THE BURN iNG OF THE OCEAN passengers, was the very last picked (menthe burning wreck.
He is girlr cd man, and seeing no hope f safety he took
MONARCH. up the Roper in his arms, and, lodged near the bow of
the vessel, awaited his fate. After dreadful suspense, the
FURTHER PARTICULARS. brave Jerome, whom so many tongues have blessed, came to
The following was posted up in the Underwriters' !Ilia daelihvoirateloo, and bileirieerehdi !aim, with the child in his arms,
room, Liverpool, on Saturday :—The following statements ofof
the
hands were seriously
.burnt.to Aatt nen ewar.ly stage
the number of persons on board the Ocean Monarch are from of the females took fire, and the poor creatures ran madly
three different sours. s, anyone of which would be relied on amongst their unhappicomrades, huddled together near the
in the absence of t-e others, but no two agreeing, we know bow.
not which is authentic:
CAPTAIN XTROOCII'A STATIDITNT.On Friday evening we (the Liverpool Journal) visited
steersr pareengers
let and 2ud cabin ......... ...... SI 1 Saved
Ca' iptain arul crew . . ~.. .... 42 I Maine
NUNN% asawwwn (110. CW atimeiss) susionier. mauve of human beisgs as these survivors present. Most
Steerage passengers
Ist and tad cabin. 52 Saved
Captain a d crew 47 Minim lse and shoulders, produced by tha blazing masts and
emus', sTATIOUOT um GOVIIIINITINT imasasnon omen, cceroan m and others with bl eck eyes end contused
aOCIII. wounds upon various parts of their persons, caused by fre-
Steerage pusenatell
Cabin ditto.
Captain and crew 3O Miming
unmarried woman, from the county Leitrim, who
souls fly Alfonso steamer, 156; Queen of the Ocean yacht, 22 ; ) -
Prince of Wales steamer. 17 ; a smack, 16; total, 221. was almost dead when brought on board the Alfonso, and
certainly her account of her miraculous rescue is moat WIT-
The fo lowing communication is from a g ntleman who
was on board the Prince of Wales. The narrative will be Plising. She stated to us that long after the fire had broken
read with interest : out somebody on deck-she thinks a female—tumbled her
" We left the Mersey this morning at eleven, f.
us and overboard, probably thinking that death by drowning
had not proceeded far before we descried ahead of us what would be a far preferable death for her than death
by burning; but more probable still, the action was
we cone teed to be a steamboat from the smoke we Raw, but
as we came nearer a sheet of red fire way clearly perceived, prompted by those maddening, and almost inexplicable,
and the Brazilian steam frigate Alfonso, lying at anchor not feelings by whch persons in sight of dr, &dna and im-
far from hers by-and-bye corpses were seen floatirg past us pending ruin are agitated, The young woman, hew-
in considerable numbers. The boats were then inimediately ever, alter plueging into the water, was borne upon the tops
of the wares. She seems to have floated. Sometimes she
lowered awl manned. As soon as the men were in the first
boat a poor fellow, quite naked, was seen floating, supported was weeding, and at others descending. At length she
by • life .buoy. They made for him sad got him on board ; caught hold of a hand. It was the hand of a dying woman.
as they were coming alongside the vessel, a child, two or They seized each other with a sort of death-grasp, and for
a kind of struggle with them as to who
arsine bins it was
I three yens old, was also picked up, but life was
. meanly extinct, and it expired a few minutes after should be the conqueror or last survivor of the two. The
,it was taken on Dowd. We were, 1 dare say, dying woman, however, who had been shattered about the
about one hundred yenta from her how, where head, from having been no doubt frequently driven against
ell the posit unfortunate creatures wire, some holding the hull .4 the burning 'cut, breathed her last. Her head
by ropes, others stoned away beneath the bowsprit ,• many sank, but her body floated on the water. Our female in-
were young children, fourteen of whom were saved--and, torment held en by that dead body, and ores absolutely saved
in fact, they were the whole that were on the wreck—by aby it. It bore her up for a coasiderable length of timeNntil
noble and brave fellow named Frederick Jemmesso English- at length she wax taken on hoard the Alfoneo, where she was
man, of the New World, who fearlessly ventured his life by put into a warm bed, and had brandy and other restoratives
plunging himself into the sea with a rope made fast round administered to her.
the upper part of bir body, and • ‘entually succee d. din res- The survivors of the wreck baring lost everything but
ening the poor creatures, who had not the power or resolu- their lives, humanity is already active in providing the
lion to throw then selves off?
so that they might be picked means of alleviating their distress. A subscription list was
up by the boats. He calmly slung one after another safely opened on Saturday in the Exchange-rooms, and it will In se n
down—a perilous task indeed, and by different modes they that a meeting will be held this day in the Town-hall C r the
were rescued from their awful situation. Words are Made- outvote of giving a proper direction to public benevolence.
(plate to convey. to you the thrilling sensation the vessel's The committee consists r 4 the Mayor, Admiral Grenfell, B.
appearance occazinned in all of UR, cute one anxious to do Rushton, Esq., J. Price, Eiq ,T. Littledale,E-q., J. Aspin-
something, if he could, to render assistance ; but nall Tobin, Esq., It. W. Oseood, Esq., J. Myers, Big., Lieut.
alas, the pitching of one vessel in a fierce and Hodder, and C. Cotesworth, Esq. ; D. Neilson, Egg. tree-
heavy sea, with part of her bowsprit sails hang surer. The following is a copy of the list, with
a suiescrip-
ing v'r te bow, cused sch imminent danger to lion., at the Exchange News-room : " For the relief of the
thoseo ine theh boats, that, insteadu of using the lives of those unfortunate sufferers of calamities on board the Ocean
on hoard the burning vessel, they ran a very great risk of Monarch. Donations are 'wicked for the purchase of pro-
toiling their own. Much had been done, thank God i hot visions, clothing, and for travelling exnenses, the survivors
more, I think, could hire been if that noble spirit and judg- having escaped only with their lines. The agents of the ship
meet had been sooner exerted which generally actuate a will provide a free passage for those steerage passengers who
Britieh lumen tor a•lopting a mode wtich was at 1-at iv. 11PRif•To proceol to America. end returnthe Baring,,
sue money to
sort. 1 to, and which prove AO 1.11CC,11(111 tnat not one lite those Who wish to return to tO, ir frit nom
" Baring, Brothers,
we. lost.Lvia.,whati hove but faintly described an the conduct and Co , 501. ; Hunden and C e.. 501 ; Brown, Shipley, and
of the Nieman Jerome. isinterested human kindness was Co., 201.; Fielden Co
201.; James Brown and Co..
shown by an old man from (Stamp, about 60 years of age. 101.; Maclean. Ward, and Co , 101. 10s.; J. H. Rayner and
lie sat on the edge of one of the sides of the head beneath Co., 51. ; B. Derbyshire and Co., 22. 25.; S. Dutton and
the bowsprit, holding in his arms a beautiful child, from two Nephew, 21. 2s.
to three years old. The old man says it clung to him after Much indignation was excite ender a report that the captain
its mother had sunk, end he took it in his arms till he of the Cambria declined to assistance within his
and it were saved. One young female from Rochdale is power. The captain, ignorant of the extent of the disaster, ,
saved who had five friends on board. Each of her five eels- did not think it necessary to do more than to draw attention
tions took hold of a rope to slide down, to be within reach, to the signal of distrese He was on his way fron Bangor to
as they thought, of the boats around, but they all, one after Liverpool, and first saw the Ocean Monarch when three NEW FOREST TIMBER FOR THE NAVY.
another, were drowned before her eyes. Though seeing miles distant. He passed her, and when two miles on this
what happened to her friends, she nevertheless was in the side of her had his attention called to her signals of distress. ,
The evidence of Sir William Symonds, when ex-
amined by the committee on woods and forests, shows how
act of following their example, when a female snatched the There was then nearer to her the yacht, the New orld,
effectually the mismanagement of the New Forest has pre-
rope from her, and met the same fate as those who had used another ship, sal going. awards her the Alfonso a the
vented it from becoming an available source for the supply
it before. She in consequence was deprived, as she thought, Prince of Wales. Having pamengers on board. Wring
f timber d k cards .
0 to our oc !Il •
of baring a chimes of saving her life, and remained, she short duals and deeming abundant assistance available, he
You were formerly surveyor for the navy ? I was.—Did
page. The cap
said, perfectly resigned to her fate ; but Providence had in• continued hi:To tai• of the Orion steamer, it
ferreted. and given her a way to escape that she did not ex- t would appear, came to the same conclusion, for he too pro- you visit the New Forest for the pv rpose of surveyins it for
naval purposes in 1842 ? I visited it as an amateur.
pact.Bold-
hen the Price of Wales came up with. the seeded on to this port.
Ocean Monarch, she had both anchors down, with a sag the soultion of surveyor of the navy, I thought it was
The following is • list of pamengers saved and mac -
very extraordins.ri tkat from such a vast tract of land as the
strong wind and a heavy sea ninning, which accounts for so counted sot : crown land, the King's forests or Queen's forests, we should
many being on the fore part ; indeed, it was the only part HAIM OT PATITZPORNA Saran.have got a chip, I may say, of timber out of them. In
they could retain, for when we first saw her a j
no other part Hugh mamma limas Basauter ; etizebeth and William Bell ; not . _ _
Breeikass ; Jane and 1832, at the time I became surveyor of the navy, we were very
was tenable:, A female, in the early part of the diuster,b _ limy, am Edwin Booker • Hugh
short of a particular kind of timber, which the New Forest
produces in great abandasoe • 1 mean small timber • this
let herself drewn with a reps, and had got, I believe, on or P.A.:16_,.... lawhilltall_:,—andßTl4°Wri„,deect; Mr4;78.....dri; tDmiston ; Jereadaband
inusErnmas.;;
very near a tine of wreck alongsid, but no sooner had she r.".:120. ill'it:t‘by Wuhan ; Dennisises/Sag; Johanna and Mar- mill timber, I fancy, it purchased by merchants, end is to
descended than the heaving of the troubled sea and pieces of rmosoluey; wry CA ik. ; 0,...; ~... 03.;
her twofold as t were ;
wreck that were around her twisted , I ceasteastaa; 'award ~,ig guen 0..6,y; Jewry name .• be seen in merchants' yards. I have seen a great quantisw
ropes that MEMO Corns ; Jama.Darwen and child; Mary Denny; Edward at • place called Redbridge, and collected round the forest I
Arthiv, Patrick. Betsy,
_and Catherine have seen large hauls, as they are called, of timber, whisk
her warps lawfuelepessdts:lny wan last
and
atitzestryto soma rigging
rise and Widths billows PhiltS9,_Mlgi__ ; would have answered our pas exceedingly well if it lull
could ri
not risk our own lives to flandner:atiarrW, get and Ca oe Flood ; John
there was this woful spectacle presented to our eyes. The Wog:
new; cethed.gize Donovan;
tia,,Lotta,r.._singdilseardwyDoran._..r....." ;
living we had to secure, and .th jog:7mbeen brought to the dockyar& ; but there is some want of '
• syetem which prevents the timber going from one depart- ,
save her remains. We also observed a female wi a pumuum; Bridget Gaffney ;Juliet Galvin.; Mtn Gibney • wheels*,
child cla,ped firmly in her arms flatting away, but life per-
orDsiduat IlltnAhlinitakrim.
Jokui R. 1..; Crimson. William OreembMie; Patrick meat of governmer.t to another.—When were you surveyor
Edward Bentley; James of the navy ? From 1832, till I reaiped.—For what period
fectly extinct." Ganrok; Thomas Menlo; Sephiaand Sarah AnnE1111; James, HafTt were you surveyor of the navy ? For a period of 15 or
THE enhollo7ll'll STATEIRENT.
AT sod Menu Booker; Some& Howard; sgonsli EliajoLau 16 years.—Are you aware of the correspondence which
We have been favoured with a further. narrative by nun
end
aesnanuejoh
hi Beethesg,;; Edward Jorly;
;Mierrth.mosmro •
e and took place between Sir James Graham and the
office of Woods and Forests, in 1842 ? remember
asrdtoththe sOcemisandMuconat ol teThiscapgetaisontlemHr mud; rusaieS—Admarfin,-;- Catherine and Loge ; Thomas,
Ellis, suhartirgeolhronlbosyl that Sir i
acquits altogether '--
' him of the culpability which has been fasum, and Mary Ann Inner ; William and Margaret Lloyd ; it; gat .. met Graham thought that owing

children.
AUTOGRAPR MSS. Or LORD BYRON. —A few in-
teresting autographs of Lord Byron occurred in a sale which
took place on saturday at the rooms of Messrs. Puttick and
Simpson, the auctioneers, of Piccadilly. We extract from
the catalogue the following lots i-893, s' The Curse of
nerve," 13 13 pages 4t0., entirely autograph, sold fur 101. 864.
The w,ll-kno en " Maid of Athens," the original MS., two
pages 4t0., entirely autograph, sold for 41. 4s. 86.5, The
poem " Waterloo, front the French, 4 pages 4t0., entirely
autograph, sold for 41. 15s. 866, Lines written on a cup
formed of a skull, 2 pages 4t0., sold for 71. 867, Lines on
the Elgin marbles, 2 pages folio, sold for 31. 809. Three
leaves, being the opening lines of " English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers," sold for 51. Amongst the other MSS.
in the sale were some illuminated missals. Of these the
most worthy of notice were : 85.5, An illuminated missal
exhibiting a combination of French and Flemish art, which
sold for 80 guineas ; and 851. A small book of llours, illu-
minated by a Flemish artist, sold or 251. There were some
other illuminated books of lower pretension, which sold
equally well.
COLLECTING THE SEWER WATER.—On Saturday
a barge of peculiar construction, fitted with enormous tanki
and a powerful steam engine pumping apparatas, was
moored by the London Sewage Manure Company, on the
north bank of the Thames near the foot of Huogerfordo
bridge, and immed.ately contiguous to the great Fewer that
here discharges it. into the river. At low water the peo
ple on board commenced pumping the sewer water into the
tanks, capable of holding about fifty tons, which was filled
with this hitherto considered refuse before the tide flowed.
Thislwatar:po!sesses greater irrigating power than more solid
manure, and is said to be worth to the agriculturist from 81.
t t 121. the ton.
SUICIDE IS A CAIL—On Saturday, at an early hour,
suicide was committed by a gentleman in a h'u-knay cab.
It appears that the driver of N.'. 2,397, Henry Tethers, was
hired near Westminster-bridge, by the deceased, who told
hint to drive to Gower-street, and then pulled up the win-
dows. On reaching Store-street, Pethers fancied he heard •
sound as of glass breaking, but on stopping, glancing round,
seeing that his vehicle was not damaged, he proceeded
on. On an icing at the end of Gower-street he alighted
from his box and opened the door for deceased to
, when he beheld him reclining in one
corner of the seat, his head. from which blood was flowing,
frightfully shattered, and a pistol grasped in his right hand,
The cabman directly raised an alarm, and dcc, wed wan forth-
with conveyed to Unleash', College Hospital where, on
examination, life was found to be quite extinct, a bullet
having entered the roof of the mouth, and lodged in the
brain. The deceas d appeared to be between twenty five
and thirty years of age, of dark complexion, dark brown hair,
and grey eyes; dressed in a brown shootii.g j.icket, a blue
strined shirt, marked F. R. 1., 1845, low shoes, grey stock
inge, and black silk hat. No money was found on his
person, bat what was found consisted of a small bag of
bullets, a quantity of percussion cape, a snuff-box, comb,
seal, two watch-keys, whistle, box of lueifer matches, four
old copper coins, several latch-keys, and a card, on which
was written "Thomas Debenham, 1, Queen's-row, Pimlico."
The body lies at the hospital to be owned, and awaits a
—.sees inquest

passenger.
Captain Hunter, of the Welsh. steamer Cambria. has
forwarded us the following letter, in justification of his
conduct in 'his affair :
sir,—Many rumours having been circulated tom; prejudice in con.
sequence of my not baring returned to the mai.t.
Li veroce of thel
have
'44
OM= Monarch, on my passer from Beaamaris to pool,
to request your Lindnee• in inserting the following facts hearing on
the cave :—Befre leaving the Menai Bridge 1 had given all my dia.
posable male to the steamer Medina, reserving only sufficient to take
the Cambria to Liverpool, as can he proved by the engineers of the
two vessels. On Thursday morning I left Beaumare about half-past
9 o'clock.. At hall-past 11 we paned the Ocean 'Monarch, then stand-
ing in shore. Soon after this she tacked and stood to the northward.
At half.past 12 my attention was called to smoke arising from the
ship, as If she was on fire, when I instantlyappliol to the engineer
to know if be bad coals to take no to the ship and bath ; when he
replied that he had not. At this time we were at leant 10 or 12
notes front the ship. We saw the Alfonso much nearer to her.
awl proceedidg towards her, as wan also the Prince of Wales, and
to these Tenon I hoisted a signal that the ship was in distress.
There was also a ship and a yacht within a short detain* of the ship,
making towards her, and the 01 hat was abreast of on at the time.
Not knowing that she won an emigrant ship. I was led to conclude
that there was sufficient eminence at hand. Besides, it is right I
, shou'd elate that I had 200 passenger. os toard, arid my decks com-
pletely crowded with live Moth, which would hare rendered it diffi-
cult at any time to render efscient Resistance, but on thin occasion
much more so, nom the sea that wee on. Had I proceeded to the •
verse!, I must necessarily have remained at anchor until a supply of
cads could have been procured to enable me to return ; and
doubt ein this ,
position, shd it have come on to blow,l
there can be
that the Caiit would have been placed in great danger. AU these
circumstances considered, I still feel that I should not have been poti-
, ffed in running the rib of wanking Motives of those pansengers who
had entrusted themeelves to my care. It *auk' be tram no disinclin-
ation on my part to render assistance when pracsicable. In support
ea which, I may mention that when the engine of a rival steamer on
the line broke down off Ora ahead, in bud weather, 1 returned to her
announce, and eared her passengers and crew ; and 1 should truly
rejoice could I have given assistance in this meet melancholy use.
beg m subecribe mental', sir, your moat otffilient servant, Jona
Ilutersit—Liverpool, August 26.
The United States' consul at Liverpool has addr, get d the
following letter of thanks to the undermentioned parties :
TO TNT PbaNCT DT JOINVILLZ, MITT D'ATNALT, NAIIQII,I DE 1-1850 A,
ADMIRAL OTINFTLL, AND NA. THONAA uffitheat.s.
Gentlemen,—On behalf of Captain Murdoch, the officers, and crew
of the late ship Oman Monarch, I take the earliest opportunity of re-
cording my sense of your noble and humane conduct on th
Th
e late i
lamennble megaton of On burning of the Ocean Momuch. e
eternal gratitude of the fellow beings saved from impending death try
your brave and united exertions, is the greatest encomium that can
be posed upon your conduct, but I cannot allow the occasion to
past without
!,ddr:, officially on behalf of my couatry, my meet' of
DrAiST.—I A gentlemen, Toni' obedient servant, ROOTTT
—Liverpool, August 26.
Several bodies have been picked up at Uoyl.ke. The
following letter has been received from that place
Str,—We have had brought hi here, from the unfortunate
ship the Ocean Monarch, thirteen bodies, Picked up in the
Welsh Deep by our fishing-boats, viz., there are two cbs.dren from
one to two years old; a man about 60; a lad, IS, lame in the left
ankle; a girl about six or seven, had on a black select frock and
trousers, the lower part Uuffitu plaid ; and eight grown up women, say
from 20 to 60 years; two of the last mentioned were named Julia
Dooming and blare Jones. I have placed the bodies at the Punch.
bowl, thaw's old 11;ffise; they have been washed, and I have laid slits
to put them on, and covered them over with my old
the circu coloura. I
mst shce,all
thank you to inform Mesars. liaraden, agents, of an
in order that the Imfortanate sufferers may he owned. I further beg
to say the coroner will alt over the bodies on Monday. I am, dear
air, yours respectfully, B. Stikawools—N.B. We have • gig-boat and
three pieces of spars brought in here under my charge from th
the a
bove;
have the goodnese witwitMasee.Chapman and Bowman know e rticulars. should anything else turn up, I will let you know. I have
6, belonging to one of the women, found on her body while we
were stripping the outside apparel °ff.—Evening, three o'cloca.

INQUEST ON ONE OF THE SUFFERERS.
An inquest on the body of the female child, name un-
known, landed from the Prince of Wales steamer, was held
oa Friday morning, at the Pa:ket house, Mensi-bridge, be•
fore th., Coroner for Anglfaey, who v the .lepttti,intmt 01
four or five of the pas.ergers rescued from the iii late.: vessel,
the Gomm Monarch. All spoke to the breaking out of the
fire, its rapid prier, ra, and derructive .ffects, but none could
speak so to how it orieinated. The deceased child was
picked up alive by Batty, chief mate of the Prince of Wales,
who exerted himself greatly in one of the boats. It died,
however, on board the steamer. Who its parents are, or
whether they were saved or not, could not be elicited.—Ver-
dict—" Accidentally drowned."

to the utters of the timber being handed over from one de
partment to the other, it was net expedient to go on parches-
mg timber from the torten, because we paid a much
higher price for it than for timber we bought from con--
tractors. The timber that comes from the Apennines,
from Tuscany and from the Roman states, we got so
much cheaper, that it appeared to be inexpedient to
buy timber from the formic —The cost of the umber sup-
plied to you by the Board of Woods appears from the corre-
spondence to be 81.1 ls.7d. a ton,wh fie the cost of that supplied
by contract to the Admiralty was 61. 61., leaving a difference
of 21. 6s. 7d. as against the crown timber ? I recollect per-
fectly that It was so.—Wu the quality of the timber inferior?
There is; some of the New Forest timber exceedingly good,
and there is some indifferent —Did you visit the plantations
in the New Ferret? I went through them; I had a pony
for two days, and went through every one of the inclosurew
with a guide, Mr. Reed, who showed me everything. and
made hie remarks upon what we saw.—What was the
average price which you gave for timber for the purposes of
the dockyturds daring the time you were surveyor of the
navy? I could not state offhand what the pries
was exactly.—You are not able to say even roughly
how much per foot it was ? I am not; it de-
pends partly upon whether the timber is received In
its rough state or whether it is sided ; sided limo.:
costs a good deal more than that in a rough conditien.—Are
you enabled to account for the anomaly of the crown selling
this timber to the merchants at a higher price than those
merchants were enabled to sell it at to the naval dockyards?
I cannot understand how a merchant could be so blind as
to give more money for the forest timber than for any other:
there is • prejudice against the forest timber in the dock-
yards, which arises from the timber hitherto in the forest
being kept tno long in the forest, till it was stag-headed, and
then it is considered timber fit for navy purposes,hut instead
of that it is by no melee calculated for any use, for it is worn out.
—Though you are not able to account for it, you are aware
that the Commissioner. of Woods and Forests have, in an
aversee of yearn, sold the timber from the forest at a higher
price than the navy has purchased it at from those individual
merchants? I can only speak from hearsay with regard to
what had been done before I become surveyor of the navy,
for none was purchased during the time I was surveyor of
the navy.—Was not that the principal reason why none was
purchased while you were surveyor of the navy ? That was
the reason why Sir James Graham prevented any more
being purchased, because the price paid lay the dockyards far
toren timber was so much higher than the price paid to pri-
vate parties, contractors.
Is it within your cognisance that about four years IRO the
Board of Admiralty again made app'ication to the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests as to the price at which they
were in the habit of selling their timber in the New Forest
and Dean Forest, and that the Admiralty, after having taken
it into consideration, found the price at which the timber
was sold in those forests was too dear for their purchases ?
I remember it, and I remember that at the time when Sir
James Graeam made the inquiry the great difference *row
from what wee called hauling and equating the timber costing
so very much ; that is, hauling the timber out of the forest end
eiaing it —lt was the cost of tbe carriage whichmatle the great
difference ? Yes, and the payingthe purveyors ; there were I
three purveyors, if I recollect rightly, which was quite un-
necessary ; I look upon it that one purveyor might superin-
tend all the foresta—Were there • number of expenses
which, in your opinion, were unnecessary, a onneeted with
briogine the timber to the naval dockyards? Y s, there
were unnecessary expenses which appeared to arise from a
want of system.-0a referring to the correspondence whit h
Lord Lincoln mentioned just now, I see that an offer
was made to supply the dockyards with timber at 51. a load,
and Mr. Barrow, in mime', wrote the following letter :
Admiralty, March 30, 1843.—Gentlemen, Having laid before
my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of
the 25th instant, stating 51. pet load as the price at
which the naval department can he supplied with oak from
the Forest of Dean, I am warranted by their lordships to
ie
cline your offer, as that sum, with the additional cost of
transport, dec., would make the average price or the ti -oer
to this department amount to 81.5 a per load, while English
oak timber is delivered this year by the contractor at 61. 10s.
per load. I remember hearing that that was the case.—
That being the fact as regards the price paid by the navy,
do you imagine it probable that the prices paid I
by the timber-merchants to the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests could be remunerative to them?
It depends upon the difficulties that might exist of getting
possession of the timber, and getting it removed to their
yards.—ls not the transport of the timber one of the prin-
cipal items of expense connect.d with the timber. Yee, at
present there is no establishment for the purpose of remov-
ing it —Why sh:euld it not be as great an txpense to the
private merchant as to the Admiralty ? Mr. Morrice,
living at Redbridge, or any merchant having an es-
tablishment in the vicinity of the forest, would have
facilities for getting hold of the timber and bringing it to
market, whereas the dockyards are distant, and they have
no means of removing it.—Would you still assign that as the
reaecn, it you were informed that whereas the New Forest is
within a very few miles of the dockyard at Portsmouth the
timber which was purchased in the New Forest by private
timher-merchants, was sent to private yards in Sunderland
and in Scotland ? The dockyards have no means of moving
the timber out of the forest, or of shipping it from any of the
ports that there are upon the hanks of the Southampton',
Water or the Solent ; they have no establishment, and it
must Le done by oontract ; and contracting for the removal
of a small quantity of timber would cost a good deed more in
proportion than if it were a great quantity that had to be re-
moved.—You do not think it is likely thaton the spot where
the timber was cutprivate timber merchants would pay more
than • fair price for the timber ? I should think not ; I
should think the price would depend upon circumstances.
Did you visit the plantations in the N. w Forest in 1842 ?
I visited all the plantations; I was told that I law the whole
of them.—Did you find that the plantations were scattered
over various parts of the forest? Yes; 1 was told that there
were fifteen walks or inclosures which were planted.—ls it
the case that small timber has been much wanted of late
years fin the frames of steam-vessels, and of all descriptions
of small Teasels ? Yes, • good deal of that timber which
goes to the merchants from the forests, I am convinced,
would be particularly good for the dockyards, if it could
be removed ; the only difficulty is the expense of remer'ng
it
—ls arra great prejudice in the dockyards against the crown
timber ? There is a great prejudice against the crown timber,
sad I attribute it entirely to the timber having been kept
too long in the forest before delivered to the yards ; it is may
of late years that we have contracted for small timber, and a
great quantity of timber has been cut to waste in the dock-
yards in order to be used for purposes for which
smaller timber would be applicable.—Were you informed
when you were in the forest that the average price
paid for timber was Is. 10d, per foot ? Yes, I was so in-
formed by the person who guided me; I saw a good many
trees lying about in different direction., and I alert him
why they remained there; be said it was from the difficulty
of getting them out —Can you say whether Is. 10d. a foot
was a high or a low Deice for the timber that you saw ? It
is • very low price, but he said that he could not get mere
for it ; that was merely in conversation ; I have no evidence
of that beyond the information of the galtle who was with
me, and he might not have been fully acquainted with the
subject.—Would you consider that • price at white
it would have answered he dockyards to purchase
it? Certainly not; the dockyards cannot buy timber upon
the spot in that kind of way, not having facilities for
removing it afterwards.—The expenses of removing the
timber are far greater to the dockyard than they are to pri-
vate timber merchants? Trey. would be greater. There
appeared to be no way of removing it from the forest —The
badness of the roads, in fact, prevented the removal of the
timber ? Yea ; i rodent and so.
Did you hear anything of the contending interests in the
forest possessed by the crown, the warden.' department sal
the freeholders' department, which confined the en.
tension of the plaetstions beyond a cer.ain limit
I understood thatprivata individuals were so Tuch interested
in the turning of cattle out, that there was •
jealousy of all isclnsures; and I was told that that,
and the circumstance of something like 5,000 deer being in
the forest, were the two reasons which prevented the eaten-
-11012 of those inclosurea.--Did you see many deer in the
forest ? Yes, I saw quantities of deer.—Should you think
ft desirable to km p up so many deer in the neighbourhood
of the plantations? I should say that no deer ought to be
kept in the forest, if it to the intention of government
to rear timber there. Yon mean, with a view to
the preservation of the timber? Exactly; I think,
that if the deer were removed, the immense quan-
tity of timber which there is in the royal forest: might be
turned to a very beneficial sccount ; it would take a good
many years before it produced anything considerable, but of
course the wooer a remedy at that sort la applied the Conner
it wilt become productive—Was the cost et the terming wry
much increased by its having to be made strong enough to
keep out the deer ? I understood it was very difficult
to keep out the deer; and the deer, when they
are hungry, will very soon break through any
fenci • there are fur too many deer there.—Did you see I
uch 'beech in tne forest ? The heeds-wood verm.nates
itl may say so, the oak. The beech grow:: everywhere ; it
is the weed of the forest ; it grows among the r ots of the
oak. Wherever you see • large oak you see two or three
beeches round it, so contiguous that they prevent the air
coming to the at, and of course they take away the suste
nonce which ought to go to the oak.—ou are alluding to
the old uninclosed part of the forest I Yes ; there were
some fine trees, of very straight growth ; those tress
are more fit for converting into plank than for the frames of
ships; they have no curvature; they are all drawn up
lose straight, and are so together that, in my opinion,
they require thinning very much . I so remarked to the per-
son who was wlth me, and he said that he thought so too,
but that the expense of thinning them was very great, and
the allowances were not equal to it —Were many of the old
trees that you saw stag-headed, and had their branches been
cut off? A good many of the trees were trees that had pissed
away completely from age. Do you know why the
brane,hethadbhen cut off ? I was told that in some cases they
had been sold to individuals to pay for their forest rights, but
that was merely in conversation. What did you think Of
the system generally adopted in the forest wit W
h regard to the
young plantations ?-1 thought the young plantation, M
smothered by those trees that were placed to shelter or
nurse them; I mean the fir tees; there were inter-
mediate rows of oaks and firs. Row long is it
since you visited this forest I—ln 1842 I was them.

well-judging friends of progress hope much from the
visit. It is said his intention is to see with
hie own eyes, to hear with his own ears.
If he makes bat a few days' sojourn
in the precincts of Cork-hill, why then he night as
well remain is Downing-street. But if he sees the
country and becomes acquainted with its condition by
mixing in society or listening to the representations of
those whose opinions do not shape themselves accord-
ing to official moulds, great hopes are felt that his
strong sense, aided by the knowledge and experience
of Lord Clarendon, will shape measures for the rectifi-
cation of the condition of Ireland which it is hoped he
I will have the firmness to carry into effect. If he pur-
sues such a course he will become a great benefactor
to Ireland and win for hilustif a good name as a

statesman.
It is confidently stated to-day that Mr. T. F.
Meagher is ill of fever. There is no doubt, though
the fact has been denied, that Mr. Duffy sutlers from
depression and ill health.
Col. Conolly, M.l'., is about retiring from the re-
presentation of Donegal. His sou will offer and be
els cted in his room.
It is stated in well-informed quarters that the trials
for treason will take place about the lith September.
The government, I believe, do not feel it necessary to
await the capture of any of those parties yet at large.
Mr. Dillon they are now persuaded is in France, a-
tnough at first the announcement was supposed to be
a ruse. Mr. O'Gorman and Mr. Iloheny are also
supposed to have escaped. Mr. Magee is said to
have passed to the continent through Scotland, and
Mr. Levin Reilly to have got assay from Balbriggan,
a little town on the coast, 16 miles north of Dublin,
in a fishing-boat, whence he got on board the steamer
from Drogheda to Liverpool. Another account states
that he embatked openly from Dublin fur Liverpool,
dressed as a groom, and having a led horse with him.
The price of whisky has risen fully sixpence per
gallon this week, and much specula ion has taken
place in the trade owing to the prospects of the
harvest. Whisky of 'last year's make, in bond, has
sold for 3s. 6d. Pe r gallon.
The magistrates of Tipperary assembled to-day in
Thurles to protest against the accusation of inefficiency
the Times has made against them. Meantime, Mr.
Carden, of Ilarnane, has launched another letter at
that journal for recently classing the magistracy of
Tipperary in the same category as Mr. N. V. Maher,
M.P.
The permanent garrison of Cork is about to be
strengthened by the addition of a regiment of infantry
and some troops of cavalry.

PROF INCI AL.
LEICESTERSHIRE.
LEICESTER ELECTION.-0a the arrival, on Satur-
day, of the intelligence of the ism, of the writ fur the
election of two members for this bor circulars were
issued calling a meeting of th infttivntial liberal electors,
and about 100 of than assenitil d in t:.e evening at the
New-hall. It was agreed to all a public meeting of the
electors at mid-day on Monday, a deputatim was
appointed to invite as ea- ditistes Richard Barrio,
E-q., a manufacturer of the town ; and John Ellis,
Esq , of Beaumont Leys, near Leicester, deputy-chair-
man of the Midland Railway. These gentlem n were
named in this paper of the 15th lust. as lik,ly to offer them-
selves. As to the movements of the conservative party,
there are various rumours afloat, but nothie g definite has
been made public. Lord J. Manners Viscount Curzon, and
Mr. Parker, the latter of whom stood the contest at the
general election, have each been united as probable candi-
dates. Some express an opinion that the decision f the
Cheltenham election commirte , last week, will prevent Mr.
Parker from
h:n offering binr,(lt,declara that
notg to his prejudice could lk proved against him. The
day of election has not been fixed.
rruc

ALLEGED POISONING TO OBTAIN BURIAL FEES.—
On Tuesday last the investigation into the cause of the
death of Henry Lightfoot, who died on Saturday, the 15th
July was resumed before the coroner. Our readers may re-
collect that the evidence already published showed the de-
ceased's defeat to have beet occasioned by poison, Mr. Pal-
mer, chemist, of Birmingham, having discovered six grains
of white arsenic in the stomach, n quertity more than
sufficient to produce death. The first wi'ness examined
was--Thomas Hughes, labourer, brother of the thceastd's
wife, who livid in the house with them. He sated that the
deceased enjoeed good health, and migle. have gone to
work on the Wednesday previous to his death ; he saw him
at his house about nine o'clock that right. Decersed did n 4
complain to witness about being ill until about etas o'clock on
Thursday night, when he saw him in bed, apparently in
great pain, and he exclaimed, " Tem, 1 ah.ll die !" Witness
had some tea out of a brown Unpo,, and the deceased had
some taken to him by his wife out of the same teapot De-
ceased's wife prepared all the meals, and witness never knew
of any poison being in the house. The deceased was ill
about a fortnight before his death. On Wednesday the 12th
of July, the deceased, who was in the habit of taking eslue
which he always kept locked up in the sitting room, took
what witness believed to be salts from a drawer in the sitting
room, which he unlocked. It was about half-past eight
o'c'.ock at night, and his wife, at the deceased's request,
brought a saucepan and poured s me water into it from
a teakettle. The deceased mixed the salts up, and
drank them. There seemed to be from half an ounce to an
ounce of salts. On the Bth of hlay last, Dudley fair, the
deceased and his wife tell out shoot David A hton putting
him into the court. Never knew them quarrel except then.
—Henry Giles, recalled, stated that on the 22nd July Maria
Lightfoot told him the deceased was not satisfied with Mr.
Hudsen's medicine, and had on the Wedn, wlay previous
brought from Dudley some salts in a blue paper, and a bottle
with some red stuff in it. She also told • im that the deceased
took a dose of salts on the Wednedav before his death. On
the 19th ofJuly Merits Lightfoot said it was medicine from Mr.
Hudson that Cal poisoned the deceased, if he had been ooi-
eoned.—Ann Beech said that on Friday before Lightfoot died
she met his wife, who to'd her she had had Mr. Cartwright,
of Dudley, to her husband, and that he had charged her two
gnineas.—Caroline Newton stated that on the morning after
the Bth of May Maria Lightfoot told her the deceased had
abused and kicked her, and she showed witness the bruises.
She slept at witness's house that night, and told her that
they had quarrelled about Ashton putting her husband into the
county court, and that he was jealous of a nom named Solo-
mon Davis.—ltichard Buses said that on the Monday after
the deceased's death he went to whitewash the house. Mrs.
Lightfoot asked him to look at deceased, ant whilst he was
standing by the bedside asked if he looked like a poisoned
man. Witness had not then heard that he had been poisoned.
—Joseph Wilcox, Elijah Webb, and Ann Stevens, proved
the apparently good health of the demos don Wednesday,
the 12th of July, and the morning of Thursday.—Thomas
Jones, labourer, stated that on Weduesday night, the
12th of July, between eleven and halepeet eleven o'clock,
he met MariajLightfoot on the road from Bricrley-hill. She
was walking &lobe. and overtook witness and his wife. She
said she had be n to the doctor's to fetch so lie stuff for
Henry for the gravel. She hut a bottle in t r hand . and
said she had some powders. Sae did not name the doctor.—
William .Mellor, chemist, of Brierley• nip , stied that on the
day of Lightfoot's death, his wife repaid him a soveroign
which she had borrowed. She called with her brother, and
said her husband had died of the gray, 1. Witness was
treasurer to a fu .eral club, of which ,I.,cesxed was a member,
and directed the payment of 41. to his widow.—Mary Ann
Wilson gave evidence calculated to 1. ad to the inference that
an improper intimacy existed between the decoued'e wife
and one Solomon Davis.—The jury having had their atten-
tion drawn to the evidence by the coroner, returned a ver-
dict of " Wilful murder against Maria Ligettoot," and she
was committed for trial at the ass s,s.
ES:4I'A.
THE POISONING AT WlE.—The inquiry into the
crimes with which Mary May who was hanged last week,
was supposed tole connected, has not '`,ll permitted to die
wth her. On Wednesday the body of Thomas Ham, a na•
tine of Wis, who died about sere nteen months ago under
suspicious eircunastanc, a and was beried at Tendring. was
exhumed by order of the coroner, sob s proceeded to hold an
inquest for the purpose of ascertaining whether death wsa
caused by poison. The grounds for tsis proceeding, as
far as we can learn, are these. May was very intimate with
the dee:seed's wife; in f.ct their maiden names h..d been
the same. Mrs. Ham, it is stated, cohabited with a
man named Southgate, before her husband's bath.
The two women being thus intimate, and Ham, who
was known to have money, filing suddenly, and his
widow immediately marrying Soottwa , when the crime for
which May was executed came to light, suspicion was
awakened in the former case. This was caused from the
manner of Ham's death, which exhibited symptoms of his
having taken mineral poison, and from the close friendship that
Wit known to exist between the woman who has suffered for
her crime, and Mrs. Ham (now Mrs. Southgate). The body
of Ham, se we before stated. was exhumed on Wednesday,
and identified,an d the usual measures taken for testing by care-
ful &nitration the presence of p ison. The icquest was then
opened at Tendring, when the servant-maid and other wit-
nesses were examined, whose evidence tended to implicate
Mrs. Southgate. The inquest was adjourned for the purpose
of allowing time for an analysis of the stomach. This has
been made by Prof. Ta.lor, and sufficient poison has, it is
said, been found to account for Hem's death. It is stated
that the body of another man will be enkumed, May
being in that case also intimate with the wife, and the hus-
band having died under Wu
GLO STERSHlRE.eiesumetaaces of suspicion.
UCE
REPRESENTATION OF CHELTENHAM.—It ie currently
reported that Mr. Grenville Berkeley, who was brought for-
ward by Earl Fitzhardinge for the western division of the
couuty at the-laat election in opposition to the Hon, Grantley
Berkeley, will offer himself for this berough. It is rumoured
also that Sr Edward Belem' Lytton has been solicited by
other parties to contest the representation with the house of
Berkeley. lie would have the support of the moderate son.
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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Ave. 26.
The announcement that Lord John Russell was
about to visit Ireland has been the town talk to-day,
and the intelligence has not been ill received. Some
months rime, and the visit would have been &dangerous
one to pay; but the events which have passed so rapidly
einoe then have abated or subdued the antipathy felt
towards the Premier, and either prostrated his foes or
modified their feelings into apathy. The sensible and

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lest musical entertainment of the season—took plows in the
Opera Concert Room. Mane, Lind Whom, *4 believe, She
concert was Baggestet) and ail tbs principal prrtormers of
bar Majesty's theatre gave their* ta4cua eliiiitaZien, simi
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