The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

Wbe Court.

Sir James Clark left Osborne for town yesterday.
the Duke of Cambridge returned to town )t s-
terrlAy site -noon Iron honouring the Duke or Rutland with
lielvoir

Earl Spence; had an intervivw with Sir G. G-ey
yo.terdny et the Earl of Mandl had 41110
an interview yuteruay with the riot hun. baronet.

THE MURDER IN COLDHATII-FIELDi
PRISON. - INQUEST.
Yesterday forenoon a jury of mxteen inhabitants of
St. Joan,'., C.rkenwell, .*ere empanelled be ore Mr. I'.
Wakley, M.P., in elle hoard room of the lions° of Correction,
Coldnath-lields,
to investigate the death of Wm. Woodhouse,
aged 34, the warder of the 'above prison, who wail mord, red
by a prisoner named George John Ilewsun eu Saturday
morning mt.
'l. oleic field, the surgeon of the prison, &pored that the
knife hal proeed through the skin and p sterol meat. s
without 'onetime/ the hone. There was an opening in the
,nricatelitim sufficiently large to admit the latent of a filler,
and which is...tit through the anti rior of tuc teen of th
right ventricle of the h, art in the middle. It was in tact a
wound of the lit art passing completely into ito cavity.—fly
the coroner I have no hesitation is saying that the wound
in the heart caused death.
Allied Waddilove deposed, that he was plainer No. S in
N.l.word of be prison, saw Mr. WOIXIIIUU)C, the warder,
go to No :lc, 11, anti /pen the cell door ab tot 9 o'clae
Saturday woolen— Saw, as soon an the door was opened,
the ,11.1111 in the cell, with his p nineteen in lite left hated, and
an instrument of some sort in his right. The moment the
wen appeared at the d or he Ins& a plunge at )Ir. Wood-
Immo. , who called out, " Oh, my God, I am stabbed to the
hearti" he rat. to his assistunce,snd then saw that man (point
log to the accusal) throw the knife down on the floor of the
mit (the knife was produced and id, ratified by wi
By tee Coroiter Beeman said he should m ise no resistance
and was wain locked up. Had sen Mr. Won 'house care-
fully search Howson on his r turn from going b fore the go-
vernor, which is usual before locking a pritioner up.
Thu accused here said there WAS a discrepancy, as the wit- '
nes, once said he bad the mannikin is his right ant then in
his left hand.
1 tie Corcuer said to hid token it that the panniken was
in the left need the knife in the right hand.
11 nry Young, prisoner No. 1, of No. 6 Yard, depnted that
. eat h elf-paot via on Saturday morning be h. and the ae•
ruse 1 sok Mr. Woodhouse t• if he meant to repot that ? "
and na the warder reply inv, tt Yes, certainly," that he then
heard the accused say, " If you do, it will be the worse far
you."
'The prisoner here denied that he wide the o' emotion as
applicable to Mr. Woodhouse. lie said hu bad himself done
Levant, to he reportc,l. lie hul tasked Wirallionee V. report
another prisoner for what he had said to him on th • pre
it,ILIS owning. Woodhouse having nothing to rep re hien
( Ilewson) tor, why should he hold out any threat to Wood.

le else T
Mr. G L. Chesterton, the governor, said the prisoner was
brought before him silent a quarter before eight on S cur ,
day morning by Mr. Woodhouse, warder of No. 5 Y .r.l.
Woodhowie deposed that the prisoner,:heolconte to Move
complain that prieune r No. 14 had spoken to him on going
routed the yard, and asked hem how loom he bad gut to stay,
end if he was not the wan who was there for keling his
own chililien. Woodhouse said he di I not he hem one word
nl liewsonta statement. Ile e, Mr. Chest, rtou) expreseed a
einular opiate' and hold the prisoner that he ewe such a
worthless and dangerous character that he should confine
him he hirneelf. 'Thought No. 14 was present at the time,
hut he was not puuisht d. —By the Curote r • Ilemene's coin-
that tal wee for two y. ars, of which he has served nine eamiths.
I would be fur the visiting justices to de:ermine whether he
should he kept in solitary contiumnent or nut.
Toe prisoner, with great useuratioe, denied the accuracy of
Mr. Clers er'ase's statemt tit. Hs change was evilest pris
• n r No. 02, mod he wished Ii to be called to c.rroborate
what he said.
Mr. Chesterton said if he had made an error in the num-
Ii r the prasenewe the facts were the same. The amused
tomtit inu illy eadeevour .d to set the whole yard in aloha-ion.
The praeoner (violently): The governor has treate I me
most harshly. lie not only three-eine to leek me up, but to
put me in irons. His usage to me It is been so rascally that I
lied better have been put to death at once than endure
whet I have here.
Mr. Chesterton, in reply to this statement, said he would
he' willioor to ref r the coroner and jury to the whole ..f the
prisoners in N 0.5 yard in contraeictim. With retard to
deceased, he was a most keiod and ineffehaive olii.er, and
there was a deep (eerie; of regret at the occurrence relined
by all the prisoners who were under his care. The knife
produced was one used in the oakum wards fee ewting coir
end roue. It was an old slioem eker's keine ground Wien. The
priein r might have hail to use that Knife. There were
many similar ones, and it was no' missed. Had waders:Dud
the roe contessed to Cap'. Wi limn*, one of the inspect, s of
;iris :nee that he had himself sharpened it. lie ha I mole a
etatemt nt to Mr. Owen, one of the warden, who had taken
it down in %tieing.
George 0 sme depeeed that Fe was a sub-warder of the
prison, and had had charge of Hewson on Saturday night
and Sunday eight. The accused had male two statemews,
which he (Owen) had put in writing in his presence. list
oid not caution the prisoner. He held the paper he had
w. men in his hand. The firer, made on Situreay night, was
a• follows: " Ge-orge John newton states that he placed the
unite in his stocking; tnat he etherwarde went to the closet
and plier..ti it inside the ft mot his trousers: that of his trial lie
must mention crimes whew% he is afraid Will imp ie t e hie
daughter with the di-p net of two children. (I thiek he said
two children.) lie intend, to apply to two pieties etre ten-
se-1. thinks they cannot refuse, as if he woes to split it
woml.l be the ruin of them. lie speaks a, if therm penis
we re men of property." His seemod statement, made on
Send ey night, is: " That he did not intend to murder
Wieglitouse, but on account of Woodhouse going to the cell
and telling him that he seemed likely to t.e very trouble-
emote, and having in n iod what the governor had said to
him .ob tut put ing him ios i-ono, ho then retolved that he
should be the eicem. Latham was the warder that lie
intended to have murdered, but an opportunity die not
slow itself. Ile says that on Wednesday mornine rte was
eat nt to the work-rown, as it was naming, He then got the
knife and pieced it in one of the closets. On Thursdey
merning he Moe it to his yard and sharpened it on a piece of
stone, which was taken from him. He then pieced it in his
st erking, and there kept it l'hurtday and Friday. He in-
tended to keep it by him till an oepertuotity offsred i self to
rah Latham."
Hewn, on bring a ked if he wished to nut a question,
sxchimed, "He has not put down hall. He has net said
what I stator' prisoner No. 62 said to ate. —Coroner : Has
he mole any intsstatetnent?—lieweon: He has not stated
.11.—The Corea r I teat ho It a stat .d a great deal too
mocha for you.—Hewson: That is all very goal; lam coke
slalom of that, but I w eh to have a risomers 52, 56, aces 14
called.—That Cornier mid he was willing to heir any Mate-
meat, hut considering the parties the acetord wished to call
would tend rather to damage the accused than otherwis • he
should ex. reise the discretion in hie p error, and refuse to
call them.—Prisoner (iesolently): I thank you ought t o hear
rem irks Menefirial as well as prejudicial .A) me.
The- Cern. er, having die. cud the removal of the aremed,
oboe rept that the reason he had refused to eall the p 'rites
referred to was that he feat there was a prithabil• cy of suede,
a oreetteught being pros sI by them,and that the accused would
th. ite fore add to the danger of hi. position. The feets w. re
to plain to require comment. The qu scion was, had pre-
melitated malice afierethuucht barn proved, or bad the ac '
ewed committed the act under a sudden im outse of wafter or
excitement ? He (the coroner) thought that hu his own ad-
mistime premeditated malice was ea eetwol shed that in.. jury
could have we hesitation in re turning a verdict of wi lui
march r. With reference to the eh ore., of ill tts atm ,et
thrown nut by the accused, he (the caroieer)thouetot it ought
to gas forth to the world that in the inquests held by hi te it
was undeniably proved by the pris niers them-eh*. that
their teeatmetet was of the mast humane and madden:he
character.
The jury returned a maid of " Wilful metrics. " ag einet
genie John NeWPOII, and they were b mod over to appear
en Wednesday next to sign it, Red wiineas the sweaters
committal fur trial on the co toner's warrant.

NATIONAL BRAZILIAN MINING AItsOCIATION.—An
advertisement, shined by Mr. W. R. Caett, chairman of
this society, stating that a meeting of the snarehtedere
would be held at the company's others yesterday, aas met
by a cuter notice, signed by Mehr4. Ox and Ha-
milton, informing the shareholders that so wen m'
would he *uttered to be held at the offices, aa the pr. miles*
are in poweicion of Mr. Oxentord. The nu tting was aeon d-
ingly adjourned.—Mr. W. R Collett, the chairman of the
company, arcompanii d by Mr. Fordyce (of Reid Irving's),
and a nuinemus body of the shareholders, proceened to the
London Tavern, where, a room being procureo, the cna.r
men, io the presence of the aeeemb.y, proceeded to real a
statemi nt which he hid prepared tort he occasion. Mr. C. lie t
remind, d the shareholders that he had been elect', a
director is March, 1847, and that he had been puberty' ntl
etopian as ehsirrnan of the company. At that time the cash
a• their hankers wan below 301., and they were 30PM/, in
di bt. la the space of ins year their debt hid been ~,, i•
nished by one h.dr, and the balance at their bankers was
increased. H trim done this much at home, he next th'ne
he directed his attention to was the state of their affair.
abroad ; and in i Her to make himself matter i i theta he
pr raided at once o, •he 11 order to imp et the
mines. lie had applied to his lirdher directors for his el-
proses for making this voyrge, hut they were ri fun, d to
hhn, and a correspondence en.nid of an unint, rest:nit aware
The object which ha had in view was to se whither

some return could not be obtained for the ihvgt
meat of 250,0001. which the shareholders had Mule
in the Brasil, and for which during 14 years they had re-
ceived no interest. He had called together a meeting of the
ehareholders in ureter to submit to them a statement of their
&Girt% and to propose a plan fur their adoption by which
they would, irolved of working the mines ate I,s, derive a
very good interest for the capital invi sted. lie would new
proceed to read a report of the result of his itioutrie. at the
unite. in the Becalm (of which we wive an ebetraer). It had
already, he most state, met with the approval of the go,„
parties officers on the spot.
The property of ibe company appears to consist of two Woe. am
an made (lintulo), which produces' an lord other thing. eh,. ad
oil. After an inspection of the first mine (Cuialri), Mr. Gillett vete
into a ealculmion of the receipts and expeuditute during them,
In If, and 11147, and found that a has of 2,7051. heal teen the emit,
thin tactic pralweing no more than en Wrl raw. of MM../
metal lea ton of aurifenius atone. Mr. ollett, talefore, term,
fiends that the cork.' of this mine he suspend,. I. On the workioe
of the second mine (Coeur.), the Irma In the two years tote
Old 111,7 was 4.932 On Mating It. emaidlltimi, ha Nand, hog.
eser, that despite oils dispiriting result, Mt *remise 'induced the
mine had teen one and a half MU'S per ten of aurihsroits tame. ex,
thremfold that of Culatik. Ile pr.minses to witharaw the rithat,,,
force from Cuislfi toco-operate with the miners of this mine.
and to procure additional stamping maehliw ry. Tim reporter a„":
" By the applmetion of 67 wt• of biters ail the preteritsail be
lararty extended; whilst easterly the level toward.
and w. tartly the hide toward. the Terre I ahida AeirlC;aro reise
well be similarly prosecuted. The protium (at the avenge titherto
maim almsl since the ripening of the mine.) wild st fly• rate of 2,420
tons monthly, prising (Maud, the stamps amount to 14,1502 grow,
or 15,1100/ net annually. Twelve new et ono-head. would meter.,
the net produce one-half, or bring it to 22 SOW., real a Nether :Atha
teem of 12 stunpsheads (making in all only 40 at wirrk) would yield
to,oool. neL This cakulation has been male wit :unit any reference
whatever to the sunferous veins or hunches ca goal, which may he
found in the course of our extentkd workings,. At prearmt only
two ran ill veins have been illar. .re. eel: cis., in the
sink and eastern end; but it Is contitientty cepa, tea to and
others in the Ilindeira Slopes awl In Irving'. ones-eat- The
tendency (air far Se cut be judged at present) to fK all these veins to
unite and f,rm one rich deposit eta leer fat henna brim the level of
'tenure shaft. Thi, will, however, be proof' our rag the present
ymeziiiss7pilattheneengwoly;‘Tvdeegt,,iti.noripmr.ellice.finrounatet,helotitene.,
thr:dexirpemale i.
tore required for the efficient working n7Coctla eta... The remit Ii
that 10,0001. per annum must be appionriated to that purpose, bait
this sum will include the comm.*, in I..inelon. I amp eaared to fur.
ash the cornmosi mere with every item in detail. The tidal black
force will amount to 477 souls, the Enilish to 21. to el Si".i The net
pro loam I previously waled would be halo if., or with additional
stamping power 29,6001. net. The fornier would pay a very fair
dividend, the latter a very large one, to the shareholdt es after deduct-
ing 10,00411. for expenses.

If, continued Mr. Collett, the shareholders would adopt
his views and give him a trial for three sears, he would
undertake to produce the resul s he hal witted in his report
The mess of auriferous rock which exists', At the Coates
mine was upwards of league its length and shout. IS feet in

cubic dintenesions. He would al-o state to the meting that
although Mr. Oxenford had expressed himwll in such hos-
tile terms. he (Mr. Collett) entertained no snotty towards
that gentleman, but would willingly co-operiVe an far as hi
could with hint in managing the Aft ra of the com-
pany, only however upon the eonirtion that the views
enterained by him as to the beat .o,d of work-
ing t‘e mines be adnred and serried out. After
Mr. C llett had conclut ed bin statement, and gives
aatisfaetory answers to several guewtions put to Aim, Mr.
Caamher, a shareholder, prop ..ed tla• 1.00 a in, resolution:

The. Mr Wil:$4111 Itiet.foril Coileit's etwem nt and i• mat the
approbation of the ahareleilders or the h d soul thatilian
Mining Siewaietion ; and it is hereby ',waved lad on same be
received, adopted, and circulated aniong4 the getierst batty.
Mr. D. atrium seconded tna resolution, which WAS carried
unanimou.ly. The meeting then a parat. d.
CIVIC " STATE" VISIT TO TO it CHIN Dir. JUNK.—
On Friday list the Chinese Junk " K your " n s visited by
the Lord Mayor, several of the aldermen, and other func-
tionaries. The Lord Mayor wu attete!..l by the City Mar.
shot, beeriest the m..ce of office, an. the -h rir, in their state
"dirrisitea. The whole tarty were attic:- ^ in court dresses.
The Mtndarin and Chinese art's., on being irvr .dueed to
the civic dienitarim, at flint mistook the state footmen is
their splendid sold lace liv rise for the L ird Mayor
and sheriffs, and performed the h0w1.... • r salaam at-
cordinely. The matter was speedily ex Joined to them.
Toe civic party expressed themselve, ~,uch pleased with
'heir visit, and returned to the City id their rat,. huge,
I which was in waiting for them a' the Ilininswiek-pier,

GREENWICFI WIIITSUNSIDE FAIR. - Never dating
the memory of the "oldest inhabitant" of Greene melt has
• here hem such deluging rain as fell upon toms to en daring
the afternoon of yesterday. The str. is were r. n•lered =-
passable, end thousands who were eej -yi. g shrir holiday in
the ark teok shelter unite -u ath the cape erie. elms which
line the avenue. to the renowned " holid hill." Vivid
fl edits of lightning a d a moat unint. reueteel peals of
thunder, attended and !succeeded by the trow e'renehing
rain, however, drove even the gayest frau, their rat:dreier,
and almost every house where eidertamiuelos w, re obe had
warfib•dwithcustomers.Thevariousr,tnu.rmeel. with which
the fair abounded were closed, and the booths tieing saturated
with water offered no inducement for even the most lalt.
gain. lovers of the dance to ye tare. The stalls were de.
'rare!, and the eveeine closed gl ,oray and unprofitable.
large number of persons 'led emits:A the lain but they were
compelled to retire from the scene in evident dksppointmenr.,
and at po inconsiderable loss to tie se who u el rtake to
cater fur the general arnusem. nt. At the railway every
iseility was given for the outeoing and ins ming of pas-
sengers, a large number of a bud mai pens, s 'taring been
selected to afford mounting aceounneletten t , all parties.
SHAKsPEARE Av ALten.—Alexandre Dumas has
obligingly consented to leave his bowie- d feud/eons, his
" Monte Chriwo," hie " Utley 6," hie " Mot ." ids polities
made romantic, his duels, his belle France, his everything,
to come to London and teach us French orensits We an
to be instructed in French history in the course of two
weeks. Dramas, too, are to last for leo nige s. You enter
at the reign of Clovis, and virile ant at the taking of the
Bastille. You travel throng'. hi-tore nt the r of a hun-
dred years an act, and do not feel in the least gid ly, only a
little confused, when you arrive at the end of your eistorical
journey. To make the arrangements as couveni-nt as pos-
sible, the stalls will he fitted up se French beds, end persons
have been engaged to go round .nd collect the huts' so that
they may be cleaned by the foliose ing meriting. Tea English
actors, it is said, have been engeged for this particular line ;
and some of them, the tragedians especially, get up a very
reep. cable polish, considering the shert " weed, they ha»
nee( inertly had. The poor fellow, are lila 4 t.4turia their hands
to anything. Several of the " alkiog geta.l-,mee" have
entered themselves as box-keepers, and h ,s• la.l in a stock
of nightcaps, though the bill. it is iteelered by prams who
have been at the Thliitre H storique at Paris, will knower
the same purpose if carefully wrapeta roan'l the head. Pre-
caution* have been taken that no one shall disturb the publie
rest, and any one found snoring will be lin oediet. ly turned
out, and not a penny of his ton-ley returned. A big night.
shade will burn all night aspen the stave, an-. Compton, as
Doaberry, will walk round the gallery and 'dips, and an-
nounce the hours. Shaving will be allowed at • ieht o'clock,
and the French actors have kindly agreed, on this occasion
oily, to shave the English ones. •Breaktinceital li, with real
French rolls, not from M. Dimas' Kpe,toire, hut made as
light as possible, will be emoted in the lobei- a. The nears-
sp.rs will be supplied as soon as published, and every eon-
reidence given to persons who wish during the day to follow
I their business. Everything promises a happy two nights'
amusement; and one arreneement we are sure will give
universal eatistaction—" Forty wink- wailer el owed between
the fortieth and forty-first acts " One great d-fhlculty has
been experienced in finding cheek-takers who *wild Five
sureties not to go to sleep dining th forty-eigh hours; but
this has been serutounted at last, an persimus have been
found who, it can be proved, are perfectly wide awake at
all times. Oae is au old dirk of the House of Co:an:one,
another a manager, of the Mosaic p, remotion, another the
waterman of the Haymat ket canal-in& anothe-r the porter at
Evans's, whilst the remelted, r have been made up of old
lawyers and bill-discounters, who go In " just for the fun oj
the thing." A prosperous sleepy 'eaten ua expected, and
thirty beds have already been taken for the firs: two nights'
performances. There was au teenier sehearsal yesterday
of box-keepers and orange-women, and the latter are now
perfect in calling out" Apples, oranges, ginger beer, a pillow,
or a cotton niahteap."—Pune4.
SUPPOSED RELIC OF TILE GREAT PLAGUE OP
Lost:um—On Saturday last, during the progress of an ex-
cavatioit in Union-etrcet Sou•ftwark, between High-street
and Itedcrosiestreet, fur the formation of a main sewer, about
three feet below the surface of the r adwey the workmen
come upon a compact mans of human rkeletous, all lying
with perfect regularity- and entirely free from any admixture
of t- e eurrountlieg earth, or temente of cetliee ; and these
skeletons acre piled one on the other to toe depth of ten
feet, covering an area of 2GO square fret. The workmen
cut toe., way with pickaxe and shovel through this stratum
of the lint vestiges of humanity, and upwards of three Or
leer cart-loads of bones were thrown into tile public
thoroughfares. This deirecratien of the deal caused observa-
tion, and the assistance of the police had to be obtained to
protec the remains, some pentane from the Mint having en-
deavoured to sell the bones at the mating st.re sh ups. At a
late it. ur on Saturday the par whial (AR nos of Sr. Saviour's,
S 0-Athwart, caused the reinaMs that had heen dug up to be
n moved to the parish churchyard for int. emelt , and on
Sueeley the excavation was covered r, to screen it from
rub ie view. Considerable elettentrat prevails Irom fear of
contagion, it having been aecertained that this spot was
uwel to bury the dead during the great plegue of L indon.
On Sunday night several curt-loafs w, re piled up in Union-
street. and still more rim tin tr. be dug u,i. It is calculated
that at the very least there are tne remains of !tom 600 to
600 Persons.
'nig STAMP DLITT ON NEWSPAPERS. A corra-
-1 sponiteut of the Stockputt Mercury, writing on this subject,
sale: " The vast increase in the coculetion of newspapers
,iece the reduction of the duty has no doubt been noticed
by tile most careless ohserver. The feet that the increase is
' letw ening on, if eossible, more rapidly than ever, is also
ithei• u, and there is no reason for doutrine that if papers
were cheaper the time world bo near at band when the pe-
riodical would be the inmate of every house—the instructor
and elevator of every indnectuel. I am amongst that
large class of the community who attribute much of
the nation's progress to the press, end I believe the
tie eis now arrived when another important step may
he tak. n with safety to Mere:lee its woefulness. One
strong reason for an al.eration is the inequality of the
pre, at imeost of a penny on each paper, whatever may
he i's form or sitar; and ie these days. when the cry far jus-
tie • is h. coming too strong to he meth longer unneeded, I
thi k the grievance to which I call attention ought at least
to he considered. The bent of civilisatten is to moke good
thing* cheap,' and whatever law bar-mine to meke them
dear is a law founded oa injustice, and ought to be removed
quickly as possible. Perhaps semis refiners will be sure
prieed at nay characterising tee tenep up- r stamp as unjust,
hut a tingle illustration will le aunt: rent to siphon my posi-
tion. The poor man who tan &third only thuseje nce for a
Mercury p ono penny, or a third, to government in the
ahuge of tax, while the richa men, eche can afford to
purchase a ninep. nny Spectator, pays only one-ninth
gross and pa`pahle injustice. 1 world substitute
for the existing lac a ttsated male commenenk;

one farthing on the first threeshalfpenee, and rising a
farthing on each additional thres.halfisence, or a tar
amounting to ono hitch of the selling price, which I should
prefer to a t oat aboli ion. on account of the cone. nienee of
eireulatirg throu
stgh the Post odic°. The scale 1 propose
would therelore and thus,
Eric: of piper. Stamp.
tot.
:id. ........ id.
4,d.
ed.
And so on, advancing a farthing for each three-half core;
intermaie price paying the duty to which the ni xt
higher would he liable. I enn convinced • rise like this
would add cionhederatty to the revenue."
Tft.sOittrlDC I.IGIITOOOSE.—A plan, with sag-
ryt,,,,t, for • telegraellic lighthouse, has lately been pre
tented tog...vermin at by Mr. 0.-urge Wells, of the Atli:Muddy.
Mr. Wells points out the num, roan accidents that search
hhve thount. red, owing to the mistakes at mariner% as to the
distance and position tot the ',trend lighthouses on our coat ,
end eta:es that the great to ylctions to those which now exist
art, first, their untie cites:try eh section ; secondly, the mitres
priett eta coli•und wield% cannot be disuogutshe
in fo;gy w. tither ; nu.l thirdly. the general in ullicieney
of the lid' t. mid its similarity in appearance. To oh.
elate these di.a.vattt.igee, Mr. Wells proposes thst :0 the
existing ltphthou•,a Dour or more cite ular apertures should
he cot lost be low the 1 t•ite ro, nod the olwmn.s fitted with
glazed rotten of mineral elute glas., wi:h the iniciei 1. tier tit
the partieuLtr. lighthouse painted in an opaque colour
thereon, the light being so r li. mid as to render the un•
glass tracery:lei-tit, and thus exhibiting the lett. r
itself ia bbl r, lief. It is also suggested that, in constructing
new liOnhousere, it wicsl t be better that they should not
be carried to the pre.ent altitude, as the nearer the light is
to the let e! of the eve the 1. se probability would exist as to
any misteke in the die thee of it.
INQU EST YESTERDAY.—SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN
or PicorwitTY —ltetore Mr. 0 Mills, at the Dull awl Lest
Taver lie ntish Town, on view of the body of W. T
Smith, Es 1., aged 51, of Grove Rouse, Kentish Town
Mr. It Stitieh, • t eldt •w of the deceased, mid that
his untie held a skewed,' in the office of affidavits to
the C art et Chancery. but owing to an attack of para.
lysis 1. el not performed his duties for many mouths p
lost a was attacked • *emend onto, and let
the use of the +hole of one ride, his speech awl lot nee-
b2ine into, re 1 by it. For this he was attended be Mr J.
Smith, anotteer nephew, mid Dr. Borrows, and although it
was deelo d necrw.ary that ha should be weds:heel nd re-
straint wha ever wat place d upon him. Prior to the att .ck
he wan v than' t m it cats eel id temperament. Twelve months
hack, i ciinsequirtme of stunt tont robberies in the
neighb arho al of Kvitielt Town, the deceased di.
need Ins servant, a men named Knowle, to re-laid
some fire-ante, which ho constantly kept in his Teem
Amour them wise b.u.oierhus., which was loaded, by
dieectial of the thicelsed, with slugs. 0.1 Thur.by morn
ing saw hint -al, iu boil about nine ifel. k, and
shortly alter heard the r•-port of lire-armh pr ,cetti from Mt
uncle's timen. lie, with th *seventh, went .o the spot, but
found the dior t istened. A Lodi r was procured, acid, on
ttrchig it. titranee icy' the aindtiw, the demi:4,d w bound
lying upon the fi .r M.. ding frOill a wound in the low. r
part of th- stomach, and the blunderbuss by his it le, lie
was ally. and sensible, teid said to his nep'.ew that he mug
have hren ii.sane when he did it. Monett aid we., initue-
diately resorted to, bat sa of no avail, the deceased ex-
piring soon after. 1i ,w the deceased could have Maillard
to are age the blunderbow, the whole of one sid•• rat him being
perfectly uselesh, could net b • explained.—The jury returned
a verdict, '• Tnst dens.-. 1 died from the effects of a WOW d
inflicted by his onus hand, he beiug at the time en an use-
*pupa state of mind."

GOVERNNIEN r DEMONSTRATION AGAINST

CilAlt mu.

As we annouum d yesterday, great preparations
were m ode by the Neurone-tit to prevent meeting. which
were , eihena to be held in ',teeny, parte of the ne tropolie.
Military, armed police, and pensioners were pewee in each
toe-alit) in formidable erre, ; but the apereeended charm(
demonetretion did nnt take peter. No symptom of cha-
mber...• stowed itself in ant. port of tne town, although i•
was Whit Menden. Suinjoineet are tee accounts of our re-
porters ot the stale of ,a h of the localities to wnich appre-
hension sea. most directeel.
BISIIOI. BONNER:6 FIELDP.—Fmna an early hour the
den•x as nnt t is neteeb nerieuned evinced their anxiety in re-
ference tee tine steppe* d inueem••nt by el wing their tesprtive
houses of buses.... By an aluve.t app. rent C Ulra.WC
sent even the .publte lioeses in the vicinity were cloned, and
upon tin ue of them aneouncemenes ware m ede in rude clar
ractere, in cribed in clie.k, use tee proprietors did not men
to open. in tut, the utmost consternati preveined in the
neighbourhood, end Inept and deep were the execrations
pour. d tortb by the small shopkeepers and eradeamen .n
couneelennee of thine futile and unwarranted interferenc •
Kitt their ordinary trad and mac. Soon ere!. 10 o'clock
a nuterner of id.: bile, some few whets, act, es
ueuel, A sprinkling of women, app &rod on the arena,
but this tone:owe. , never exceeding in number 300 to
400, retired on the riVearinell of a seuldron ot the Lee
Geode, who suberpteutly t olt rap their temporary roarters
in Gardener. Bare. in the Orove-end.road, re oily t.) eel
shined coy em. enrolee calling fer their reappear ince arise.
They we e speedily follusreni by a force of 80 o the mounted
col c who adopted as 'heir centre the entrance to the hew
church niediceted to St. James the Lem, which we believe
lorninee toe object en` nitwit on a termer suesemelage. This
force e• nnou iuded the southern tide of the greund, while
other par a of the field were held by the eubjeined distribu-
tion of the civil I tee armed with cutlasses,—Of the K divi-
a en on the RAVt p lean p lice there were mustered, tied. r
Sup. rietendent q•eard, We men; ot the N division, 40u
men, under Sale nnteudent Johnson: of the M &venue,
203 wee, tinder Mr. Sep. rev Indent Evans, and of the II
division 1.50 noon, n .eier Mr. Superintnndent Mettle tt. Tae
whole civil loom dAy wile under the command of Cape
Bee, the a-sistant pulic • commissioner; and we noticed on
the grimed the fellowitie niece inaeistrates Mr. Se, ker, of
the S ,uthwark Felice Court; Mr. Arnold, ot Wershipotre t,
and the Hon. 0, C. Norton, of the Lambeth I'. lice Court.
Senn nate r 11 u' le k em elt 400 of the armed Batt don niche
Chelsea pensioners matched on to the ground lei It their
haver-aek•, a d in fuel marching order, and wry occupied as
a temporary narrecks—the Betnnaligreen union workhouse.
All remainied tranquil, and the Bishop's fields only
afforded space fir a few idle stragglers, attracted to
the spot more by the police and the military
(Ripley then from any political feeling. Shortly
before two o'clock we un•terstand th it tome or the leaden
in the chartist movement clime on to the gr mad, and, as
may he aLlptptsed,were astounded by the formidable di-play of
The eic torce reedy tor thetr reception. '1 reversnag the fields,
en we were, it is impunsinle to answer for the occurrence in
each corner, but we hove been tee' that a colloquy ensued
be 'wren Dr. eleDuuell, wh wish other chartist Leaden, ap-
peared en the emend, tt this elf ct : Dr. WI/email, guldens-
mg one of the in-peewee of the K division, inquited it the
'need- g would be allowed to be held. Tho orticer r plied
that it week! not. Dr. el•Deuall then sail he must see a
magistrate ur one of the prinicipals of the force. On his way
be met Mr. Supeantendeut Johnson, ur the It division,
and that ntleuian assured ben that every me ens would be
taken to di perse the meeting.—Dr. el•Douall thanked him
for the intimation, and teed "Then we must oe about, it."
lie uteri sent a messaee to Mr. Arnold, the pulic • tuagistra•e,
arid re en iced the same pest lee answer, Dr. M•l4 and
hi, blends then departs with a mob of begs and idlers alter
them, end it was undermeount that they tad abandoned the
idea In balkg the dennonsti anion. '1 liree o'clock, the hour
amounted for the mei ling, had already elapsed, and no ap-
pearance of the promised demonstration exhibited it,elf.
Fo tusentely, however, ales at lour o'clock a thuneerstorm
with Inc vy rain, served to do more by a clearance of the
green than even the strong police and military force coull
have effected. We tell the •` Bi-hop Bonnier'. Fields" at six
cee..s k, and tall was quiescent save the , lemente.
Sexes GY•OREE r. aching this place we found it al-
most deserted. On inquiry em angst the residents, we were
iafermed that no metunnt war expected in that locality. The
preparations for arc Whiteun fair were going nnn as usual.
When those were completed, there was an lathe* of holiday
makers, about as great en is usually seen on a wet Whit-
Ronda*.
Insets oron•GHEEN.—The only persons on the green, from
hal -oust 11 no half pest three, were three mimeo, the
wenerman to the alt-stand, and our reporter.
CLERKENWELL-ORKEN —ln consequence of a nanny,
whist we, curren'ly circulated hod week, that the
cheriente had selected Ci, rkenwell-green as one of their
place.. of meeting to-day, evens ye preearations were made
by the auherities for the preservation of order in that
local' y. A large hely of the metropolitan and mounted
polic. force (upwards of 800 in number), and three • rev' of
the L,te Ouerdr, were stationed in the immediate neigh.
bourhirel, at p into whence their services could he made
tweeted', at a minute's notie3. No meeting, however, was
held there, nor did any occurrence requiring the interven-
tion • f even a single policeruna take place during the day.
Smarts atter 11 o'eloce a troop of the Lite Gni tide m r :hi d
on to the green, where they re Mainell mr about an I.bur. As
it was tenuous that their presence was then unnreese ity,
and Ita4 the effect of ad ecting a group of starers, composed
princip lly of women and chibiren, they returned to their
quieten, end did not make their appearance again during
the eq.
CURREALAND MARKET —This tierce wee appointed by
the chartists as one of one -pots on which a d in nnstra• ion in
favour of the People's Charter woe to heve taken place, and
the re ecleary precautions were accordingly adopted by the
wither ti. ne. At halt-past 2 o'clock, the appointed hour fee
the girding to be hale, there were not hilt a dozen people on
the seen, nor any attempt se. aes.mblage or a meeting of any
kin.. tin rente limit the day.
HtoHcate —lt was re ported in the eternoen that a large
eniarusta had taken up a commanding position in
this pe Ariel hamlet, and, cun-equently, that the 1 Call &Who-
re, had -eft off lee xpr, se ter the aid of the military f,r
tle it dolidgment. On pen nnal inquiry, however, we cannot
this intelligence, an at 4 o'clock everything presented
its true' miet character, the only obstruction hi long the rain,
which n, II in such newton in to carry everything before it
doer. the "hill." Islington, lligbbury, Holloway, and
von Wiiivington's atone, however, appeared unmoved and
where the demonstration occurs, d of any such took pier))
wee not a-ctelainalde. It es perfectly true that Were w, ra
are. el men nes.rvable en the road at intervals, rustics with
phyla .eke, but who ac. minted for the potoessi et of thane for-
midehle anon by atat•ng that they were haymakers.
BLACKHEATH.—Up to three onlock it was expected that
ageiliering of the chiertista would take place at Blackheath.
la the ruler part inf the day, however, no appearance of
try poe• ice' asee.aleage took piece, nor hefore three did any
this g like such a me. ti, g appear upon the spacious sward.
Sundt, fib. passed the Orem Men Inn shortly before the
beer et' three iu the • ieettion of Le sesha n, but just about
that •inse the rain heron ti fall, and if any demonstration
was inteeded it ie q..ite certain that up to nightfall no
nuctiene took place. Odors connected with the Boyar

tillety at Woolwich iteoured the ground, but happily their
services were not required. All the men in the Arsenal and
at the dockyard were under arms, fully prepared to meet
the exiirency of any outbreak.
12 o'clock, p m.—At the present time the commissioners
o' the metropolitan police, u well as Mr D. W. Harvey, the
commissioner oI the City police, are engaged at their °Met s,
and • continuous communication is kept up between the two
bodies, and also with Sir Oeuree Orey, the Secretary of State.
Mesaengers have just arrival from the K, N, (l, L, end 1),
division-, announcing that the whole of districts are in
• state of perfect quietude. The whole of the mounted
police have been withdrawn from the quarters whets dua
turbances were expected, but they are in reserve, under
the commend of Supiriutendent Williamson, ready
to start elf • moment's no ice, should their services
be required. The mi.itary are still under arru., and ,'qua-
drone of the Here Guards are in reserve at Clerkenwell,
Md- End, Westminster, and sevelol other places. The Hon.
Aral!' rc Co t. puny is liketviee with r arms at the Armoury
in the City-road. and several hundred of the Font (Nerds
are on duty in the bride well, Somerect itiee, 11 ink of Eng-
land, and the Houses of P aliment. Nearly 200 police-
men of the M division remain iu the church at
Hutson Banner's Melds, and are under the control of
Superintendent Evans and Inspectors Hornsby, Freud,
and Cowls n. Judging, boy/tete, from the present appi ar-
tine° of the district, it is nut at all likely that their services
will be requir d unless assy riot should bo attempted
when the de rent in-door meetings break up About ighty
of the Horse Guards still remain . t Old Ford, and
the pensioner,' in reserve have had 40 rounds or cartridges
..erved out t, them in rose of emergency. The police belong-
ing to the P, H, K, and N, divisions ere under the iliretrion
of S iperiiitentleute M..rquand, Meihi •ost, and Johnson. The
whole force is ready to march off at a moment'. tattle°, and
the various districts where no meetings have been announced
to come off are well protected, not merely by the police,
hut also by the usilitsry. 'lnc cev ral engine-smarms belong-
ing to the Lo .don eetablishoten: have a number of extra
hands out iltry, end the various depots are well bsrricalled,
in case any attack should he made on the engines Messen-
ger. bust stri. eil from Crayd.in, ill ielthr Joh, Battersea,
Epsom, Hampstead, N sting-hill, and Chelsea; the answer
•tr the coutamoioners in all cases being, that nil was quiet.
From the etrin,ent measures adopted by the government
yes erilay, it iv very iltregionat•le whether rtyy further
unmet*. will lie mule by the charted body o 1 disturbing the
public genet., fur iu eeveral places son ut erd by the " exe-
cutive" for Item m.trttions to be held rsterday, not the
slightest att. mpt was made to get them up.

CIRRTIST MEETINGS IN THE PROVINCES.
Yostisiititit.—Yesterday the chartists of Lecds,
Bee ford, auo the ittljecent towns and villages had what
they were pl amed to c.ll a " greet West Riding dem metre.
ti It." in favour et " Ltherty. equality, and treternity," on
t•liteltaw-m mr, uleaut eight tidies from Leeds and four
miles fe •rn Bredford. Tile placards convening the meeting
eneounced tlia. the roarinh'uge would to addressed by
Kru. at theme, E•q., of L ondon, and others. The tlas, was
lune, ''lad the attettaance was proportionebly large, hut the
stumhers did not at any time exceed 12.000 Shortly after
the Brainerd pronasion had arrived on the ground, with
mosic and tricolored and green thee, Mr. Lomplugh
Wickham and Mr. John It •nti, two of this magiftr des,
rode upon the ground, and Mr. Wickham stamen, rd
that he heti been deputed to inform the promoters
of the m. wing that, if they would undertake not
to leave the ground in precession with flags and
music their pros:et dings would not he eli.t urbed or inter-
rupted ; but that it would be the duty of the mogistratt e to
er.sei vs the public peace if it was ioterropted by these
means. A person on the hustings promised that those condi-
tions should be ohs dyed, upon which the magistrates ex.
press 41 tnemselses setietied, and left the ground The ',m-
onru given by the couneitti•e woo IA far ohs ,rved th ot within
a very few minu es all the It cgs in front of the Mistletoe were
ferled and removed to the re _,r or eleewhere, hut the tour tri-
e cgs which ti .ated from the fair corners of the sueatane
tial ',knot= that had bees erected still remained. Immediately
alter the magistrate,. had left the ground two carrier pigeons
w re started, doubtless to convey the informer on to the
neighbouring town.. The oratorio at part of the proceedings
commenced by Mr J. M orri., of Leeds, being called to the
chair. and whin-sing the is ?sons present. Other apes tern
followed, and all concurred in the a 'miration of thee. aver,
and the it determination not to Ce4,eitgitatiun until it became
the law oh the land.
111.7I1DER$FIELD.—A very poor muster of chartists
left here this m reties for the Toftehati -moor meeting—
indeed [lucid. esti. Itl may he a-id to b.: a thins apart from
ettartism. We are remarkably quiet.
MANCIIESTER was all quiet up to the time our
express lett, loot re, ninet ; tile chartists having coun•en
mended their •,pen air me•••ing be placard, and appointed an
in io ,e mewing at the Hull • t Science in its place. Tait
military as well as police, however, was to be in 'audition at
the places sseigned to them by six o'clock in the evening.
StIeFFIRLD.—A public meeting of chartists " to
take into coestderation the cane of the patriot Mitchel," was
eumwoned to take place to-day (Monthly). Although no
maim ak wan entiapated, the sup rintendent of police mode
such arrangements an would mama of the entire (PICe being
brought together on the shortest notice, and the enrolled
rnisniorn,e.
I fe-iTetioilis.:liettilas,. sectis:luiledpuwf r.r.inisrenc..teiodn in.
:trtltt:
yeomanry cavalry were ado we're arm.. Happily, however,
the sub equent proceedings were not of such a nature as to
being any of torso preparations into requidtion. Mr.
C,•uncillor Ironside pe. sided, and was supper'. el by Coun-
cillors Witten and Briggs, the litter a member of the lute
Chartist Convention. The resolution adoptnl by oho meting
woe as follows:—" That this meeting is of npinion that the
late triad of the patriot, J. hit Mitchel, by a a jury, which
was aenwadly picked by the government, in a dinet violation
Of the lib .rty of the subject; and that a memorial be sent to
h Queen, praying fur his immediate liberation, and also for
the 1., peal of the union, as first steps to reontre Inland to a
moveable, pri'sperous, and happy rendition." Mr Bri*gli,
in the MUM of his speech on mow rug the foregoing revolution,
deprecated Lord J. Russell's emidu, t in treneportmg Mitchel.
He said. I Lava to charge the governme• t with incompe•
t. lacy to govern the country, and the sLupLI SAPS will not
Ilt any one else try. The anthoriti. a of Sit' Mehl are
fri.htened out of their wan at the chartists I cannot sae
the came laneuage now as I did in the convention a month
ago. I then add I did not think there was a single lake or
musket in Shstfield ; but I cannot sty the some now. I think
the convicti a is quite era'ai.heel that beere I ,na we must
have a revolution in this country, either morally or physi-
cally I dread a physic el revolution ; for if such an event
were to take place in this country, it would be the bloodiest
revolution that ever was. I have the trenchise myself ; but
if I were in your position, and believed that the people's
rights could not be obtained hut by physical fence, I would
swap my • ight day clock for a gun. —A sure callus speaker,
'tamed Willey, spoke of the necessity for procuring arms
thrthwith, and not delaying till it was time to use them.
The general tone of the rpeeches wee of a more 'mode-
rate ehtracter than would seem to be indica el by the pre-
c oling extrac'e ; and the chuirsuan expressed himself de-
cidedly opposed to physical force, at all mots for the
pre-ent.
EirtmtvGDAM. —The chartists had an open-air
meeting at Birmingham on Sunday afternoon. There were
not, however, more than GOO present. A man named
Scshitt pre-i•.-d. The assenahlage wax eddresattl by Mr.
Kyed, Irma GI tteenw, by G. Mantle, a" physical torte man,"
and others. The speeches of these two p, runny were violent
in the extreme. A governmen, reporter was present. Ihe
meeting disp' reed quietly shortly alter 5 o'clock. There
was a large civil and military force close at hand, ready, if
necessary, for actien at a moment's notice, There WAR to be
another La. eting last evening ; " but," says a correspondent,
" the muster was en insignifinint on Sun -av, that there exist
not the slightest wrounds for aeprehenston."
BRISTOL, MONDAY EVENING, 51 P.M.—A corre-
spondent says: '• We were threateee a with one of the
chartist' monster' meetings here to•dav, mid as it wan pro-
mised that it should bo ' the most decided declaration of the
will of the peple ' ever yet made, we have police autho-
rities and all—been upon the Inok-out for it. It was a
pledged' thing that it sle•uld telto place, end although no
plecards spot ared on the walls to announce it, we were told
that that circumstance amounted to nothing, as they had
seen t means of c Immunicati on and summons, such as
would ' defy the base epics of a cermet govern.
ment.' The night meetings in London were appealed
to, and the genteel opinion merited to be that it
would come oft*, and that large or stead there weul,l be a
gathering. I accordingly stationed inystof on Iltandon-hill,
the usual puce of meeting, where up -'n thy tint arrival I
Mond some hundred or no of children flying kit., and enjoy-
ing the holidey. At about 4 o'clock the bound of a band
was heard, and banners were seen amidst the trees ,hit skirt
the rue 1 1- ening to Clifton, and the b .ys and girls began to
hurrah and sh..ut Tne chartists ore coming.' It team d
out, hOwever, to be a (else alarm—it was the animal pews-
sioll of the Hibernian S iciety on its way to the St. John's
potter house, where they always dine. Up to this time I
have seen or heard nothing of the ' monster' meeting."
LoUGlitioiniUGlL PROHIBITION 'JP A COARTIsT
Paocle~st s.—lf aelbills anneuecing that Mir F O'Llotsno •
wool I visit Leughbormigh on Wednesday, stud that a prce
cession would he h ened to give him a nublic con ; s, m • ex-
citement has prevailed; but the authorities bovine received
information that the chartist a of the neighhourhood were
secretly provulirg arms, a meeting of county m ozistrwes
was
hel I lust evening, and it was resolved to probild• any auak
meeting or arr.-Aden taking place. The yeorna cry cavalry
and the police force of the county are mustered.
EDINBURGH, 12 P.M.—A chartist meeting was
held here to night, at which it woe f htitneed from 12,000 to
1 000 persons a ere present. The prom diegs were very
tame; but, as the people were dispereieg. a slitht disturb-
ance took piece, in which a b nine and a drum, which had
figured in the meeting, were dest.or d. A large body of
regular police and special conetablee were on duty the whole
evening, and their (*trot preserved order effectually.
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Loss OF TIRE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM-
Suir Aititt,.—.l he announcement of this ut.fironnte die-
aster tas by en received by the secretary of the Penineular
and Oriental Steam hiartgatinn Company. The Ariel was a
new iron vessel, 850 tons burden, with engines of iioOehorse
power, commended by Caldbrenk, mover. She was
ceoployed on the 111,diterranean, Penimuloir, and Italian
service, and left Genoa for Gibraltar and Souihomptini on
the 2,1•1 of beet month, with a number of paisimaern and a
full Largo. On the morning of the 2nd ins,ant she was
',raining at a speed of thirteen knots per hour, when sud-
denly it was di-covered that the re-sel was runninc oa to a
reef, known as the. Mal di Vero, situa.e twelve mile. and a
half trim Leghorn. Iler envier" were inrantly eloped:
before there was time to hock astern she o•ruck wilt tree
met data force, kn,cicin,, in, it is seated, pat of her bottom,
ter she shertly tilted. By the aid of the ate emcee bents the
I whole of the pa.seegers and e-e,a were s2y,(l. It in difficult
to say it the ship can bc got 011. Th.: steamer and cargo are
valued at fr),Oulli.