The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-02 00:00:00

[U =ldol Leber found in the duke's bureau.]

TN ism Mimi is miaow ways that you have net esteem nor
fee siii, thieves Mire my children to partake your seed-
km you to enjoy in pesos the life you
ham sliested. helm perform veer:atom. I suffer
ten math Yrs, laughed sif ma in the place I love, end in the midst of
those I duel* sod whom ea hierepesesfe tears from me. I do not
undeistead why sty sorrowful Ilhe could serve u seasoning to your
pleasure. Do what you will, but flee pity do not force nee to be •
witntsa. II Oa bathe are ordered bar Aline, trust me to take her
there. Ab, if you will allow me to consecrate my life to those of my
children who give you the least delight, to whom nature has been
lesat kind, It will be enough fur me.
(Mao undated.]
You will ant be eurprised, sir, that after each an insult I can never
consent that the person to whose ill conduct I owe it should remain
under the same roof with me. You are completely bladed Awards
me, and town& yourself. You are doubtless free to do what suits
you; but you are not free to have my daughters briught
up by a person whom I deepise as her shameful conduct de-
serves. For a long time I have sought an co:Mandan with
you ; I have doe* what I could to obtain it, but you refuse
It. I demand, then, that you authorise me to travel to avoid
greater mandate. During that time you will reelect on the course it
will be eultable for you to adopt. The day will come, T
you will return to yourself, and will perceive how unjhular.6 when
crol
you have been to the mother of your children, in order to please a
crackbrain who rem:ens nothing.

Letter from the Duehms to Mall,. De Lazy when at Turin
with her eldest daughter :
Prodin, 25th August, 1•48.—I wish not to delay a moment, my
dear mademoiselle, in thanking you AI your kind letter, which
gave me a lively pleasure. and which ao far from thiuking long.
I could have wished it to be double. I got it this evening, and
I will deny that It was me that letters bad reached, for my
head and my heart were much excited by the long silence. I
am happy, as you may guesa, to hear all you tell ms of
Isabella 's happiness, but I am much utonislied that you fled no
change in her manners. There is a very marked coe in her letters.
I thank you a thousand tlmes for the details you have given me.
You say that Louise and Berths apeat of me
often with Isabella. It la perhaps to give me pleasure that
you write this ; in any mos you have completely succeeded, for I
wept with joy. Once more, my dear mademoiselle, I thank you a
thousand times from the bloom of my heart for yourdetter, which I
truly hope will not be the laat. rixasnast-Paasixe.

To tie same, written apparently on Jan. I.t, 1847, found
in the residence of Mlle De Luzy-Deoputer
It is forbidden us to retire to rest w:thout being reconciled with
our neighbour, much more, it appears to me, ourtht the new year to
put an end to all diawnaions and obliterate all disputes. It to then
he rtily that I offer you my hand, mademoiselle, and ask you to for-
get, in order that we may lire well together henceforth, all the mo.
meats of pain that I have caused you, and I promise you, also, to pas
the sponge over all the circumstances which, in mortifying me, bare
excited me to occasion them. livery one has his faults in
this world, and I am induced to believe that it LA too happy.
Thin ought to render on mutually more indulgent, and to facilitate re-
conciliation. lam truly oonviooed of your sincere and tender at-
tachment to my children, and believe me that no one is more disposed
than I em to show gratitude and affection to thou who have been
devoted to them if I am not wounded to the heart by the thought that
they are estranging them from roe. You know m well as Ido that it
is custom which came. attachment, especially with children. Not
seeing their mother, she loses her place in their hearts, so to their
life they end by doubting her love, happy if at • late period their
esteem and their confidence are not shaken. Certainly this was not
your object; for yon must have known that It would be as pernicious
to the children as eorrowful to the mother to destroy bonds on
sacred. Frio one trifle to another one cornea to do things
which at fleet one woo far from conceiving. If, instead of
irritating oneself about faults which are mutually confessed,
we reciprocally overlooked them, I believe that every one in
this world would make a good birgain. It requires only to be a good
driver and r, round the stone-heaps Instead of over them ; for my
part, I memo that I often come into collision. I had long intended
to write to you to renew all our acquaintance with the year; it is,
therefore, with double pleunre that I have received your charming
work this evening, honoree it proves that y- care also willing to put
an end to a state of things which I am continued cannot fail to be
hurtful to the children, to place yourself often in a disagremble and
false position, and 'daft, me in one very cruel to me, who live iso-
lated for so long a time from throe dear affections in the midst of
which I was on happy! I anticipate with great ardour the time when
my daughters will be grown up, and I confess I suffer much in wring
them what they are towards me. But I am taking a long time to
say that we ought to try to abandon a wrong course to take another,
and to beg you to receive and take up this gage of a new alliance, to
which I hope you will consent.
The following is from an undated letter found in the
duke's bureau : .

You have • rare and precious talent at Weaning everything. While
your conduct influenced only the happinem of my life it was my duty
to be silent, end I wee Do. If you imagioe, with your muttered worms
and your threats, to make people understand that I no more ap.
prove in public than In private the conduct of a person whom I de.
eolee, and who don not merit your madder* nor mine, you are
ntaht; for I think its scandalous shame to allow the presence near
young people of a woman who haa proclaimed lamellas Mehra; done.
I know well enotteh that you have other lidinae, end that it is not
with her that your life G occupied, but tee manta the attitude. It
is this which I have the right to blame. Ido not pretend to bury my-
well with your private conduct wad affections. but nether menses, nor
ill-treatment will prevent my repeating, as I have • right to do, that
you deceive yourself In putting your children into the hands of
woman who ham no care for her reputation, and has ceased to respect
herself. The syetem of governewie hem always beat unsuccers-
ful with us. It In time, for the mitt, of our children, nd
the dignity of our rank, to change it. As long es my daughters
are not married, I ill reside constantly with them. I will aid in
their occupations, and I will accompany them everywhere. All my
plans are laid down; stud when you reflect on the mat ter, you will
certainly end am many realoo.l for confidence in leaving the education
of our girls under the care of a mothers, ander that of a goverment.
My father, I Mum. has made an offer to Mdlle. D— of an honorary
annuity. On her going to England, with this assistance, her talent.
sad tearooms will secure her • suitable portion more eaaily than In
Paris. . . . .. .

The next is a memorandum by the duchess, headed
"Impressions:"
Fridar, June 17, 1817.-1 moot repeat hourly to myself that I have
socomphalsed s eared duty tcarardn myd&iters in consenting to
join my efforts to those of my father to away thin woman. It
caused me a great deal of pain. I hate mint. but erery one told me,
as well as my own conscience, that it was mg duty. My God' What
will be the future i How he Is Manual Ose would think he was
rot the guilty one. Ile says he loves dstiblidgss, and he distrusts
their mother. and make* his mistresses Male uswerome. What a
hfe he is leading; he is losing all his energy. Play Ood guide my
children!

The;' efforts" of her father we upbraid by a letter to
the Duke de Prealin from General delmsrami :
Monsieur le Due—Yoe Mw weed me meet pain. You have
attributed to want of big In, digit My Men to you and your
Children. You are obliged W mar me *den. I did all that we
in my power to maid Ms minas Midi patl se mech. I toot
upon myself the odium Mk of EmlesEng Is bailment' of what all
Paris and thejoaraida MONA 101 l her Ihipmaraasemdoct vou ad-
drssnrLakttereflhemutelintW mbelevol reproaehes. I
sever motkined the =met EMemeiseekedeLsmi ba say ow. lam
=isaissey amitking Iheit my flame bar berms; hot be
sod de set set wire Immdbis. I not me my
deembra kr *sr propmaig yen seelra lesr. Yes sere the
Ike tedeprlve me el the pitmen Ewing my remedellea. I ds
be genres such treatment. Toe "Yedgeemet tielsbinsisef Mrs
=Mg.. ititindenltrlefutadyoul=ti. yemeeKriela"sehaur rmigr ani
Mathew a good heart ; baton to Ma mpm arid you will realer me
When you are as old as I am you will reproach yourself with baring
acted harshly towards me.
The duchess's " Impressions" are continued under date
July IS, 1847 •
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the di genhies which arise daily—but thou wilt be there, iny God,
and In that is my trust that thou wilt Rapport the poor mother to
whom thou Wt given strewth to strive for her ehddren. Lora
help ma"

EXAMINATION or THE Doc Di PRASLITC—The Due de
Choiseul-Prealin (Charles Linn lingoes Theobald), peer of
France, aged 43, born at Paris, and rending there in the
Faubo4rg St. Honore, No. 66, examined on tbe 2lst August,
1147, before the Chancellor of France, the President of the
Court of Peers, in presence of the memben of the corn.
mission.

You are aware of the frightful crime that is imputed to
you. You know all the circumstances which have come
under your own eyes, end which do not allow of a shadow of
doubt. I recommend you to shorten the fatigue which seems
to oppress you by making a cenferinon, for it is impossible for
you to deny ; you cannot dare to deny.--The question is very
definite, but I have not sufficient strength to answer. It
would require long explanations.
You say it would require long explanations; but, on the
contrary, a "yes" 6r a " no " is sufficient.—lt requires
great strength of mind to reply that " yes " or " ao." It
requires immense strength, which I do not pusses.
There is no necessity for entering into long explanations
to reply to the question which I have just put to you.—l re.
peat that it requires great strength of mind, which I do not
possess.
At what hour did you part with your children, on the
evening the crime wu committed 2—lt might be haltpast
10 or a quarter to 11.
Whet did you do when you left them ?-1 went down to
my chamber, and went to bed immediately.
Did you sleep 2—Yes (sighing).
To what hour ?-1 don't recollect.

Wu your resolution formed when you went to bed ?—No;
but I don't know if it can be called a resolution.

What was your first thought upon awaking ?—I think I
was awoke by cries in the house. I immediately hastened
to the chamber of Madame de Prulin.

(The accused here added, sighing, " I beg of you to spare
my life, and to stop this interrogation.")
When you entered the chamber of Madame de Preslin,
you could not be ignorant that all the entrances about you
were closed, and that you alone could enter.—l was ignorant
of that.

You have frequently, in the course of this morning, gone
into the chamber of Madame de Praslin. Wu she in bed
the first time you entered ?—No ; she was unfortunately
stretched upon the floor.
. . _

Wu she not stretched upon the spot where you had struck
her for the last time ?--Why do you put such a question to
me?

Because you have not answered me all. Whence came
these scratches which I ace upon your hands ?—They hap-
pened yesterday evening, when about to leave Peach.,
when making up some parcels with Madame do Trash's.
And that bite upm your thumb—how did that happen ?
It is not a Mite. . _ _

The doctors who visited you declare that it M.—Spare me,
I am exceedingly weak.
You must have experienced a most distressing moment,
when you saw, upon entering your chamber, that you were
covered with the blood which you had just shed, and which
you were obliged to wash off?—These marks of blood have
been altogether misinterpreted. I did not wish to appear be-
fore my children with the blood of their mother upon me.
You are very wretched to have committed this crime ?
' (The accused makes no answer, but appears absorbed )
Have you not received bad advice, which impelled you to
this crime ?—I have received no advice. People don t give
advice on such a subject.
Are you not des -Aired with remorse, and would it not be
• sort of solace to you to have told the truth ?—Strength
completely fails me to-day.
You are constantly talking of your weakness. I have just
now asked you to answer me simply " yes " or "no."—lf
any body would feel my pulse, he might judge of my
weakness.

Yet you have had just no v sufficient strength to answer a
great many questions in detail. You have not wanted
strength for that. (The accused makes no reply.)
Your silence answers for you that you are guilty.—You
have come here with a connetion that I am guilty, and I
cannot change it.
You can change it if you give us any reason to believe the
contrary ; if you will give any explanation of appearances
that are inexplicable upon any other supposition than that
of your guilt.—l no not believe I can change that conviction
on your mind.
Why do you believe that you cannot change that COllVie-
awl I—(The accused, after a short silence, said that he had
not strength to continue.)
When you committed this frightful crime did you think
of your children ?—Aa to the crime, I have not committed
it • as to my children, they are the subject of my constant
thoughts.
Do you venture to affirm that you have not committed this
crime ?

The secused, putting his head between his hands, remained
silent for some moments, and then said, " I cannot answer
such a question."
The Chancellor then intimated to the prisoner that he
most consider himself under arrest, and the examination
terminated.

We are compelled to defer the examination of Mdlle. de
Luzzi till to-morrow.

DEPARTURE OF THE SARAH SANDS.—The screw-
propeller steam-ship, Sarah Sands, sailed from Liverpool
yesterday for New York with a rich cargo, and a convider-
able number of passengers.

Cbt Court.

ARDVERTKIE, MONDAY, AUG. 30.—The Earl of
Aberdeen left Ardrerikie to-day for Gordon Castle. Her
Majesty and the Prince walked oat in the grounds. Prince
Albert went out deerstalking in the forest. The Prince of
Leiningen went out grouse shooting. The Prinoe of Wales
and the Prineeis Royal, ►ttended by Kiss Hillyard, took as
airing on their ponies on the bills.

General Caste'cicala, the Neapolitan Minister, had
yesterday an interview with Viscount Palmerston at the
koreign-office. General Cavendish had an interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in

Deepate.hee were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Sierra Leone. Despatches were
sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-odlce for the
Governors of the West India colonies.

Count Spengen and attendants, and Count Rosen
and attendant, left London early yestarday morning by the
General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship
Wilberforce, for Hamburg.

INCREASED POOR-RATE. CHARGE AGAINST THE
OFFICIALS or ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE. Yesterday a
numerously attended meeting of the vestry of Bt. Pancras
took place at the vestry-rooms, Gordon-square, for the pur-
pose of confirming the increased poor-rate of 15d. in the
pound for the half year, and to consider the present state of
the workhouse. Mr. Churchwarden Howarth having tees
called to the chair, a deputation from a very large meeting
of rate.payers, held on Monday evening, presented a memo-
rial, numerously signed, expressive of the opinion of the
meeting that the increase of 3d. in the pound in the last
poor-rate was wholly uncalled for, and designating the pro-
posed enlargement of the workhouse as calculated to carry
eat tea palter extent the very worst feature of the new
Pooelaw Bill, namely, the refusal of out-door relief. The
confirmation of the minute adopting the rate of 15d. in the
pound having been moved and seconded, Mr. Brettinghem
expressed his conviction that a 13d. rate would be sufficient.
They had managed to get over all the difficulties of a year
of complete famine with a rate of one shilling, and now that
provisions were cheaper, they proposed an increase. lie
firmly believed that in less than two months wheat
would be lower in price in this country than it had
I ever been for the last 150 years, and other food
in proportion. Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff said it could
not be expected when there had been such • pressure of
paupers hr the country that London should escape. Liver-
pool had been obliged to levy a rate of 7e. 6d., and Man-
chester a rats of Is. Ed. in the pound, and that pregame had
now found its way to London. The question was not one of
argument, but one of figures, and although some had said
the utimatas he this rate had been made too high, he could
prove that la may instances it had been made too low. The
cant for taimporery relief had increased from 1,0711. to
I,4llol.Sfrui 1M flaunty rate had been increased from 3,5361.
he 411 sod there must be 3,7001 immediately paid for
pass . Douglas supported the rate, and said that whilst
dISSIONINIISSIL of the parish had been decreased by the
nifty te 665,7941., the magistrates had determined to assess
the. n the old assessment of 665,6121 If the parish were
rseawd to the poor upon the latter, a shilling rate would
give 7801. more than the 15d, rate now asked for.—On the
question being put, the rate of Is. 3d. was confirmed by a
majority of 23 to 11, several vestrymen however not
voting.—The chairman then presented the recommen-
dation from the board of directors for the appoint-
Milt of • committee to consider the state of the
moicin the workhouse, and with a view to better classi-
and soosomodetion.—Mr. Douglas, in moving the
appointment el the emmaittee, said, however much the prin.
ciple of giving usielow relief oleo be increased, an increase
in the workhouse wadi be . The present work-
house was built is 1809, when St. Paneres contained bat
6,826 houses, and a population of only 46,320; whereas, by
the anus of 1841, it appeared there were 14,776 houses, and
:=lscion of 125,698 persons. The population was vow
140,000; and was it likely that a workhouse built
when there was only a population of 46,000 would be ade-
quate for the preset population ? It was only calculated
for 800 people. At this period last year there were only
1,316 inmates; new then were in the house 1,689 persons,
and this with an Menem of out-door relief to the
extant of one-half. He had no objection M ea-door relief
but the rata-payers must leatininible tithe ratewenLeaeeeed
thereby to ls. 8d in the peed.—Mr. Healey monde& the
motion, and described the present state of the workhouse
and the *voodoos* of the peer {heroin as a foul diagram NS
the dtedems oloi every ass ammosed. E yea commas M-
oney mail mot be chasm& sail as many as 20 penoss woo
amnia& to go into the seers bask no matter what dimmer •
they might be thearing wider. There wee one place when
28 wawa had to deep is • nom not seas test
Haling, in amigo bo tie monitory coedit's" of the gen-
tile's, said a net *moon of fever and diem, bed bees all-
geadered, and would inaasr tenfold, maws a owe* re-
medy wars typified. The lives of the coma me were a eats
sod he wield rust that the new restorommon bat et the
wesithosom eloodilitemediately be applied it the pansies
also fahnory, kr wink they ware admirably adapted.—
The meths,alifr awe Ilsztlice dismilea, was adopted, and
the themmthee itheelthth—Oa the amiss that the- wile ef
the pant meat be seepthisil seathea, Mr. Hmk
moltbe led naked esaosnisatiesa, ion written moil waimstese,
hal, badly emplaislog of swain es the pat elt tb

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meastet
jowly intsd muter ot whoworkhouse It appeared that
-gesso- respectable inmates, were allowed to go out on
&loam and who had the good fortune to possess a decent
' of cloth had been refused from so goin
On° mt
did the rkh am. (shamel
sok galas they wa
in wo dose .
E. set Bay that he viewed this conduct as an act of great
an unnecessary stab at a man's respectability,
Vre ,rneeiridal upon the happiness and comfort of the
poso Mr Ilethenngtoti stated several coats of oppression,
sad one of refusing a blind and paralysed man the privilege
dvisiting on aged mother. —Mr. Greenwood corroborated
lb" statement, and added that the poor, even women who
bed slily been out of their confinement a fortnight, had to
go sad fetch their own bread from the store-room at six
esioek every morning.—Mr. Turner stated that a few days
since *went with a friend over the workhouse, and in
weighing several rations of bread put down in the diet table
se 12 or . he fund that they only weighed 10 oz.—The
chairman and several other directors expressed their surprise
at some of these charges. With regard to the women coming
down for their bread, they declared it untrue, and said the
want of weight, if proved, would be a ground for the dis-
missal of the storekeeper. They said, however, the whole
matter should be investigated, and the vestry shortly after
o.separated
BT. ANDREW, HOLBORN-ABOVE-THE-BARE, AND
Sr. GECOZOR Till MAIITTB.--The governors and directors
of the poor for these parishes held their weekly meeting
yesterday. At the request of fifty of the most respectable
rate-payers, including some members of the board, a reporter
from this estab!ishicient was in attendance, but was refused
**loam,. The object was to give publicity to the decision
of the gi, tiaras and directors on the motion made by Mr.
Z. T. Pin toy, " To rescind the resolution of the hoard of
the llth August, 1847, declining to furnish Mr. J. R. Tiylor
with a ropy of, or allow him to take a copy of, the poll taken
en the 10th and 11th August, 1847." as to the adoption of
the act of parliament for the establishment of heaths and
wash-bou-es for the labouring poor in these parishes. Our
reporter was refund admission ; but we learn that the &el-
.= on the motion showed—Against rescinding the resolu-
tioo, 15; for, 7. Thus Mr. Taylor has been dented a copy of
the poll by a mejority of 8. This decision appears to have
been adopted in mercy to certain Was ering gentlemen who
visaed the petition in favour of the act of parliament for
establishing baths and wash-houses for the poor, and voted
against its introduction into their own parishes.
A NEW CHAPTER FOR "THE SEVEN CHAMPIONB
Or CHlllr.rENDOW."—Forthwith St. George and St. Andrew,
haying their five brethren, journeyed till they came to a fair
place, carol Holborn, where they sat them down. And
while they so abided, there came running unto them a rout
of talk, n rs raged and sore befouled and begrimed. And
when they sew the knights, they cried aloud to them, " Sive
as, noble lo.ights, from the great dragon, Cleanliness ! He
timid hend hy. in a bath, whereto he bath of late resorted,
from a terrible hill called Sanitary Law, whence come many
other monsters that waste us, the people of Bumble-land.
But this orogen Is worst of all, for he baleth us into the
water, and anon maketh onslaught upon our dung-heaps,
sad drieth up our cempools, and hideth him in our drains
and our se s et., so that we may not wallow therein as we
were wont fur, ever in *tieing and foulness we were well
pleased, send of such enjoyment may we none more
hays for this dragon. And our King Bumble is
armed orainst him, and bath called forth all his
champions. Go ye with them !" Then St. George
ud St. Andrew said, " Truly we will go forth against
this dragon." And St. George put on his helmet and armed
and took his sword of selfishness; and St. Andrew
went before, armed at point, playing on his fiddle, with his
stout lance. which he galled " Vested Right," borne in front
of him ; mei anon they came to where King Bumble was
with his -i'.ay, seated in hie high hall of the vestry, and he
coorteowiy saluted the knights. And there came in a very
foal stinkor i, crying, " The dragon is uoon us ! He hath
yesternight drawn into his bath the people of a neighbour-
ing kinationo" Then St. George and St. Andrew said to
King Bumble, " Stay here, and we will encounter him."
And they went forth, and found the great dragon, who had
that moron eaten up five dunghills and thrown down
seven Osenthter-houses, as he came through the perilous pass
tithe Smith's field, where were many such places on which
he was wont to make attack. Acid the dragon reared
sp, and :trove to drag St. George and St. Andrew
into the bath; but they would net—and Bt. George
smote him with a sore buffet from his sword, and
St. Andrew pierced him through a soft place in his
belly with his lance, and the dragon fell down, an-I his body
covered op the bath, wherein he was wont to weeds himself,
and to drew the folk thereinto, so that none might come to
it ever aft r. And when the people saw the dragon) was
slain, they came forth and scattered dirt before the valiant
knights, is incense; and King Bumble honoured the stout
champions greatly, for that the fell dragon, Cleanliness,
ahoolo o' more come among them. And the people abode
ix their ti to, as they loved to do; and their dung-heaps waxed
larger than before. And they gave crowns of mud to St.
George col St. Andrew; and on the crowns was written—
SC Geom. and St. Andrew, who the dragon tierce did slay,
That woold haveeat oar dirt up, and our dung-hills swept away.
And from that time forth none in that land bath ever washed
him in fair water fur fear of the brood of that dragon. And
their dirt is a token thereof unto this day.—Punch.
FAILURES IN Livearoot.—There have been three
failures in Liverpool during the last two days; two in the
corn and one in the East India trade. They are not for
lanes amounts, although all highly respectable. The house
of Messrs Fitzpatrick and Co. MI for about 60,0001., and that
of Messrs Gregg 30,0001. The East India house is for
60,0001., and will it is said pay 20s. in the pound.
Tnz Qu eves COLLEGE, LONDON.—A college, under
the above designation (so named by royal permission) in
conjunction with the Governesses' Benevolent Institution,
has been' armed. Its objects are to place female educ ition
oa the same basis as that of endowed schools and universities
he the male sex. Its chief purposes consist in the examina-
tion and grunting diplomas and certificates of qualifications
to govern—ses, to enable them to produce satisfactory evi-
dence of their merits, and is affording the lens competent
an adequate and orderly preparation for their work.
INTEntor USE WITH THE CONTINENT.—Daring
the week ended 29th ult. there were 3,091 passengers be-
tween linologne and England, against 2,640 in the corr.-
vonehne week of last year ; and 562 between Calais and
England against 640. The Boulogne passengers consisted
of:—From England, 1,585; yin., 888 from Folkestone, 219
from Dover, 466 from London, 12 from Ramagate ; to Lon-
don, 1,500; vise. to Folkestone, 786; to Dover, 359; to
/hados, 357; to hams/ate, 8.
FIRE IN UPPER %ST SMITHFIELD.—Last night,
abet half-past sine o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive
outhouses belonging to Mr. I. B. White, provision mer-
chant and chipper, of 10, Upper East Smithfield. The ex.
Osordinary glare caused by this outbreak, and the vast quan-
tity of inflammable =Menai', such as dried !neon, hams,
ot7s, and other commodities of an easily ignitable kind, con-
taming to increase its intensity, caused a gent ral turn-out
of the engines. and in a few minutes after the fire was first
observed is the warehouses, five or six engines were upon
the spot, An abundant supply of water being obtained with-
out acy unnecessary delay a large body of assistants
were employed to work the engines, and happily
with each effect that the well stored and exceedingly
valuable property belonging to Mr. Outhwaite, builder,
adjoining, was saved, as were also the contiguous premises,
both in )root of the main roadway, and in Sun-court, and
Catherine-square. The major part of the stock is damaged
either by fire or water, but much of the property in the
adjacent buildings was preserved by the exertions of the fire-
men. Several poor creatures in the neighbouring courts
named severely by the removal of their furniture, and the
breakages its sudden removal inevitably :awed. By ten
o'clock the danger of any further extension of the fire had
ended, and by half-past an effectual stop was put to its
ravages. How the fire originated it is impossible to state,
ate ean the exact extent of the damage be yet estimated.
INOEVITS, YESTERDAY.—ACCIDENT AT BLACK-
'WALL—CHARGE AOAINST • POLICISMAN.—Before Mr.
Baker, adjourned for the fourth time, at the Royal Mason
public-house, Sherbert-street, Poplar, respecting the death
of C. Simmonis, aged 25 years, late waiter at the Terrace-
*, Hotel, Gravesend. The facto having repeatedly ap-
loseed, the last time being is our paper of Tuesday, it need
only be stared that the deceased was drowned, as alleged, in
oopeequence of a policeman, named W. Feltham, haying
Pelted him back ss he was jumping from Blackwell pier on
h a steamer alongstde.—The jury after a long consultation,
Warned a verdict of " AccidentZdeath," and added, " that
Me life of the deceased might possibly have been saved, by
his getting on board the ousel, if the policeman had not
taken hold of the skirts of his coat to prevent him;
led they recommend that, in future, persons given
la charge of the police be removed immediately on
Mere, and not allowed to remain on the pier.'
FATAL ACCIDIINT BY Fiala-Aarilio —Before Mr. Baker, at
the London Hospital, on the body of Mr. H. Powell, aged
22, veterinary surgeon, who was accidentally shot.—lt. I
Poster, 1, York-place, St. George's-in-the-East, said, that en
the niernint of Sunday week, witness, his father, deceased,
ead a Mr. Dray, intended to go from Barking-creek in a boat,
hi the purpose of shooting sea swallows and sea gulls. They
had four fowling-pieces in the boat. Deceased and a water-
less' Were about to launch the boat ; when on doing the boat
ms shaken, and the prune slipped down. One of the guns
went off, and part of the sontents was lodged in the right
arm of the deceased and part in the left arm of Mr. Dray,
who is seriously injured. The contents consisted of small
40- Deceased was, in about two hours, attended by a
surgeon of Barking, and between eight and nine o'clock
be was admitted into the London Hospital, where he died
m Saturday last. The witness, at the conclusion of his
evidence, stated that the deceased was not attended to at the
hospital for some time after his adatiosion.—The brother et
the deceased seise said that hr and his mother were at the
°metal, and that the bandage which was round his arm
or not opened nor touched till four o'clock.—The coroner
ma jury remarked that they never heard of any cue
tx.neglect before.—The coroner then adjourned the inquiry
the prilitrlCO th• medical officer.--Sviclos 01 A
Ake
AT adjourned
Mr. T. Higgs at the
° of York Tavern, Lark-hall-lane, Clapham;on the
belly of Mr. John Jobling, aged 50, late a clerk in the Tithe
Ceamiotation office, Somerset-house. On Saturday night
Mt, about 11 o'clock, Police-constable L Tacker, 45 V, was
m ditty in South Lambeth ; when deceased passed him he
07. *red to be slightly intoxicated, but capable of managing
'motif. A few minutes afterwards he saw the deceased
roam, arid he seemed
tithe more tipsy. Mr. Jones, the landlord
Canton Massed Arms, South Lambeth, was leading him. As
appeared to get worse the constable followed them,
ukinma overuh.eard My. Jones ask the deceased if he had been
, medicine, and he said he had taken sixpenny-
of laudanum, which he procured at a chemist's shop
aufoy's, the distiller. Deceased repeated the same
7 toot tehe policeman, and added that he drank it in the
:: t that he took it between 9 and 10 in the morning.
said that he had taken another sixpenny-
ilt ketoeon one and two o'clock that afternoon,
4141 U Vmmhall Gardena. When asked why he took such a
Zit?, he said be took it to make him sleep--they did not
what troubles he had got. They took deceased to his

lodgings, No. 7, Sydney .place, Clapham-road. Here there
was a man in and lie refused to admit the de-
mised or awaken Mr. B.wl, the landlord, The constable
then took deceased to the , and he became so
bed that they were obliged to carry him on a stretcher.
On his arrival, Mr. Creed, the inspector, sant for me-
dial maistance. On searching him an empty half-ounce
bottle, labelled " Laudanum, poison," was found. During
the Interval that elapsed refers the arrival of a sur-
geon the inspector questioned the demised, ant; be TO-
posted what he had previously told the mutable. He added
that he was much embarrassed ; he said it was no use
to send to any friend ;he had no relation in the world. He
was a widower and childless. At five o'clock in the morn-
ing, despite all the medical aid that could be given, he died.
The post mortal examination made by Mr. Spencer proved
that death had been caused by laudanum, or some other
narcotic drug. Every attempt to discover where the de-
ceased boufht the laudanum failed. Subeequentinquiriee made
by the police teaded to show that since the execution bad been
put into Be wlay 's house, who had also been &clerk in Somerset-
house, the deceased had had no home, and had slept
about at different public-houses and beer-shops. It fur-
ther appeared that he had speat the last penny he bad
in the world, although, when be leR Somerset-house on the
18th ult., he had lit. From the statements made by Mr.
John Randall, Mr. Lucas Cotter, and other gentlemen who
were in the same oMce with the deceased, it appeared that
up to about three years since, a more regular man did not
exist. At that time his wife, of whom he was doatingly
fond, died, and he became a changed character, and such a
confirmed drunkard, that he always carried a bottle with gin
in it. Deceased had repeatedly declared to his fellow•elerks
that he should end his life by poison, but they considered the
threat a mere joke. The jury returned a verdict, " That
the said John -I obling died from having swallowed
laudanum, while he was in an unsound state of mind, brought
on by excessive drinking." Several of the deceased's
fellow clerks have humanely undertaken the burial of the
body.