The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA POLICE.

Th• investigation of the commission appointed at
Calcutta to inquire into the state of the police in that
city has closed. The oommissioneis have reported,
but what steps government may see tit to adopt re-
mains to be seen. With one exception ail the Euro-
pean magistrates appear es debtors of a wealthy
native, the Baboo Mutty Loll Beal, and to have bee
his supple and servile instruments. Of course the
native subordinates emulated, and in some casts
excelled, their superiors. As samples of the revels-
tioos elicitedby the inquiry we subjoin an article from
an Indian joarnaL

TRI OLD OAIL CREST.
tFrom the Boseboy Tines of Aug. IL]

The revelations now making before the Calcutta Polies
Commiseion positively begin to read like • romance : they
are, as Boca said of rho lite of Napoleon, more incredible
than any fiction, yet every.word of them tine. We propose
to print the entire report in a pamphlet, and present it to
our readers, the moment the inquiry is ended. This, with
the reports of the Union and B:nares Bank., and others
which may be looked for by and bye, might afford chapters
for the Arabian Nights far more entertaining than any one
of the thousand we pawn. The wildest incidents in the
tale referred to are credible in comparison to the plain
matter-of fact statements recorded in the reports. When
Mr. Grant spoke of the plundering of the Commercial
Bank—the alternate thieving, robbery, and swindling from
which other parties suffered—as en indication of a very lax
system of management, he was supposed to employ • very
mild phrase to • not very excus.ble variety of offence.
The following incident, brought under the notice of the
police commissioners, indicates quite as lax • system as
that of the union bankers. There is, it seems, in the
police office • large chest, in which property of all s eta is
deposited—cash, treasure, jewellery, and every kind of
unclaimed property. The executive police had the charge
of it- the magistrate knew of its existence, and was aware
that valuables were placed in it but knew not what they
were. There was only one key for the Meat, And it was
lined to be in the custody of the depcty or assistant
superintendent of polke—aching very mnain was known
about it. It seemed a bundle of nines or bag of rupees
was occasionally thrown into it and allowed to remain for
two or throe years or so without being inquired after by the
authorities. These were kept, we presume, "as loose cash
balances:" we are left to conjecture how this rather open I
mode of promediag was found to work, as we have no details
as to the sums found in the box or what was taken out. In
184.5, when the new and improved police system was intro-
duced—heaven knows what it must have been before !—the
sites of such of the old thanahs as were net required by the
new polies were de ired to be sold ; they were advertised in
acme came In the Somali newspapers, in others by the
primitive method of tom-tom, where property of the value
of thousands drupe's was to los disposed of. Offers were
received partly by the chief magistrate, in part by the
saparintenient of police, some of those forwarded to the
former functionary remain still unopened I—four years
after the property has been said! In June, 1848, one of
these ekes was sold to !gutty Loll Seal, to whom the whole
of the heads of the police—judicial and executive—Mr.
Hume excepted, seem to have been deeply indebted. The
price paid was Be. 1,350; a 9. 2,600 had been menially
tendered for it, and It was said to be cheap at this—higher
sums may be found in the vet unopened tenders. The
money was received In silver, e, my the po ice - it was put
into a bag and labelled, the bag being placed in the old
oak cheat ; and up to the present date no inquiry after it
has ever been made. It is, of course, now not forthcoming.
But thentijh Mr. Patton declares that he was officially
informed it was received in silver, Mutty Loll Seal swears
he paid it In Bengal bank notes and gives us from his
broke en extract of the number and value of each, for
which we presume he holds a receipt. Surely this is a laxity
of system the I.Tuina or Desires Bank cannot surpass. The
European subordinates seem to have been universally
corrupt beyond description • bow timid they be otherwise
under such supervision *One deem cones forward and
declares that he was dismissed became be was suspected of
beirg about to disclose a system of making " dead men
chew tobacco '—that is, of the prevalence of the practice of
drawing toe large 'Upends of effective men while inefficient
men on small salaries were employed, the difference of
course being pocketed. We do not see, at the same time,
bow the government could well blame a system virtually
the same as that Indulged in daily by every pomace of
wetronage. It in no way differs from the bestowal of
important and highly-paid appuintstaents, on the unworthy
or the incompetent, save in this—that in the one ease the
inspectors pocketed the balance in hard cub ; in the other,
patrons present the belts es to the Mends obliged ; in bo'h
eases g.vernment pay for a kind of servant not employed,
and a species of service not received. We have meotiuned
the Oak Chest sue as a sufficiently notorious oar ; but we
dare sr Mr. Patton was as careless of his own affairs as of
*hoes of goverr sent, Berry one remembers the Oriental
Bank Charter, which all subsenbed but no one read, nor
atomised, till long after, aught of the nature of the paper.
We have seen the like once and again in private busbies:.
Four years sine,, or thereby, • party holding • high govern-
ment appointtvent was inquired at in reference to certain
arrangements then going on in the department under him;
he declared he had never so much as heard of them! It
turned out that he had set his name to a whole series of
the most deceptive pavers that could be, not one of which
he had twined. We do not know he was ever found
fault with, or could be persuaded he had dine anything
wrong.

gbe Court.
HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY.

The eccAnts received at Bocktogham Palace yes-
terday niormieg Irma Windsor Castle, stns that her if sjesty
was well. bat that her medical attendants do not emmider it
advisable for the Queen se leave the Cues for a few days.
His Royal Mohacs' the Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales and the Princess lily's!, will leave the
Castle this asorsbac at nine a a., to be present at the tote-
m my of opening the Coal Eschany.

Wuumaa, Ocr. 29.—The royal family took their
usual walking and pony exercise this morning. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning,
attended by Lord Waterpork, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood.
Colonel F. H. Seymour, and General Bowles. There will
be no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. Sir
James Clark is expected to return to the Castle this evening

TUE QUEEN DOWAGER we. OR the whole more
eemlortable throughout Sunday, and her Majesty bad a
tolerable night.

The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Ci'y Remem-
braneer and Mr. J. Wood, had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his racial residence in Downing.
street. Mr. Alderman Humphery had also an interview
with the noble lord yesterday.
Sir George Grey arrived in town yesterday even-
ing:. from hie seat. Fellodon. Northumberland.
Despatcht s were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Canada and the other North
American colonies.

Tin SEE OF LLANDAPP.—Dr. 011ivant is to b.
nominated by the Crown to this bishopric. The doctor is
Preboodary of Brecon, Carrot; of Bt. David's, H gins Pro-
fessor of Theinisy, Cambridge, and Hooter of Bomersham,
Huntirgdoneh!re. He was formerly eke-president of Llsin.
peter College' in which many of the Welsh clergy have
been educated. Though not a native of Wale', Dr. 011.-
vent must be, from his former position and from his long in
tere..nrse with the principality, thoroughly conversant with
the Welsh langusee.

ARRIVAL IN LONDON OP HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.—
Yesterday morning, et woe o'clock, the John Bull, one of
the General Steam Navigation Cempanv's steam-psckets,
arrived at St. Katherine's Dlcks, from Hamburg, btinging
with her the following distinguished Hungarians : Geoer.l
Klepka and servant, M. Forest, Stroup, Bemoan,
lame, Bandezn, and Attedayanaky.
THE ELDER BRETHREN OF THE TRINITY HOUSE,
London, have contributes 1001. in aid of the hinds of tht
committee for promoting the establishment of baths and
washhonsea for the labouring classes, towards the completion
of the model establishment, Goulston-Anare, Whitechantl.
GUNNERY IN PACKET STEAMERS.—Tbe whole el
the crews of the steamers belonging to the Peninsular and
West IndA Steam Packet Companies are about to be in.
eructed in the art of gunnery. Arrangements are now
match% in Southampton Docks for that purpose. The ord-
nance necessary is expected at Southampton from Woolwich
in a day or two. They will be instructed by Captain Smith,
R.N., tke Admiralty superintendent at Southampton, and
the naval offi,ers under him at that port. The crews of the
two companies number between 2,000 and 3.000 men, and
may he considered some of the finest seamen in the world.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF STRATIMORE.—We
have to ',incomes the demise of the above venerable countess,
who expired at Holyrood Palace on Tuesday last, in her
77th year.

PRINCE ALBERT'S DEPUTATION TO YORK-

SHIRE.

LEEDS, OCTOBER 29.—The first of 4 series of
meetings to be held in Yulkshire, in promotion of the great
industrial exhibition projected by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, toil' place in Leeds this afternoon, at the Court
house. The prime* who attended as a deputation on be-
half of his Royal Righter to explain the project were C.
Wentworth D Ike, Req., mad Captain Bescawen Ibbecom.
The meeting wee convened by circular by the mayor (Jno
Hope Snow, E q.), who presided. The attendance was not
numerous, but highly influential.
Mr. Lilian, in explanation of the project, addressed the
meeting at consiclereble length, and was followed by Captain
Istemlow. The proposal of the Prior met with the most
cordial approval of all present, and resolutiose expressive or
that appribation, and appointing a very influential local
committee, were moved and second. d Isy H. C. N. Ingram,
Erg., of Timple Newsom, T. W. Tottie, E.g.. George
Goodman, Esq., George Hyde, Erg (hanker), J. It Atkin-
son, Erg (lax 'pint( r), W. Williams Brows, Esq. (banker),
andi the Rev, lb m. Sinelsir. All these resolutions were
passed unanimously, as well r thanks to the mayor and the
deputation.
Meetings will be held at York to-morrow, at Bradford on
Wednesday, Huddersfield on Thursday, and at Halifax on
Friday.

NEW QUARTER SESSIONS ACT.—On Thuredey
next, the Ist November, the new Act to amend the procedure
in Courts of Gen. rat and Quarter Session; of the Peace in
England and Wales, and for the better advancement of jus
Lice in cas.s within the jurisdiction of those courto, will corne
into force. Its object is to make the law in cases of appeal to
quarter sessions more uniform, This Act will avoid techni-
calities, and establish one practice throughout England and
Wales. It will also establish uniformity of time (at least
14 days) in flatlets of appeals allowed by the Act. The
grounds of appeal most be stated in writing, which state-
ments can afterwards be amended. Sessions have now a
general power to give casts in all eases of appeals; cad
to prevent frivolous appeals, oafs may also be awarded
after no ice, although an appeal he net prosecuted.
By this statute, power is given, alter notice of appeal by
comment of the parties, and by order of a judge (without
going to the sessions), to state the facts of a case in the form
of a special cue, for the opinion of a superior court, and the
judgment of the same to be entered at the sessions. With
the view of enforcing orders of sessions, it is provided by
this act, that proceedings may be removed into the Queen's
B nch, and be enforced as a rule of that sow t, and all the
reasonable costs attendant ',upon such application shall be
recovered, as if the same were part of the order. This act
does not extend to all appeals, and further improvements on
the lame subject are expected in the next maim. The bill
was framed by Mr. Baines, the president of the poor-law
board ; it is now a statute of the United Kingdom,
THE LATE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF—At the close of
the solemn ceremony consequent upon the funeral of this
right rev. presets at Lisette& on Tuesday last, it was sag
Rested by come of the laity present that a meeting should be
immediately held in the Chapter-house, in the churchyard,
for the purpose of forming a committee, and setting a sub-
scrip ion on toot, with a view to erecting a monument of
some kind to perpeteme the memory of the much-loved and
lamented bishop. The venerable Archdeacon of Llandeff
raving been unanimously called to the chair, and having
made a few remarks, eulogising, in his usual eloquent strain,
the virtues of him whose remains they had just laid in
their resting place, and deeply lamenting the loss which the
diocese had sustained, and haying explained the object of
the meeting—Vt., to raise a fund fore some in sp )-
prisms memorial of so eminent, excellent, as benevolent •
man—several propoeitions were made to the meeting. Fir. 4,
by Sir Thomas Phillips—" That the sum to be raised should
be applied to the education of the poor, in the principles of
the establishment, by the founding of two exhibitions et
scholarships at the South Wales Training Institution, at
Carmarthen." An amendment was moved by Mr. Serjeant
Bosenquet—" That the money to be raised should be ap-
plied to the reparation of some part of Llsndaff Cathedral."
Upon the general question being put to the meeting,
" whether the fund subscribed should be applied to educa-
tional purposes, or to the repair of the esthedral," the letter
proposition was negatived by a large majority; and a third
proposition having been made, partly by Mr. Booker, and
partly by Mr. E. P. itie.hards—. That the heat mode of com-
memorating the late bishop's love of general literature, and
his benevolence to the clergy of his diocese, woolf be by
founding a scholarship at Oriel College, to be called the
Co Intent Scholarship, for the benefit of the sons of the
poorer clergy of the diocese of Llandaff," this proposition
was carried by acclamation. The chairman, in closing the
proceedings, named the following gentlemen to act as a
committee for carrying out the obiect of the aseetinFtt the
Archdeacon of Llandeff, the Archdeacon of Monmouth, Sir
Dighv Mackworth, Bart., W. A. Williams, Em. (Llatertibby
Castle). Sir Themes Phillips, Knight, and Bruce Pryee,
B. P. Richards, C. C. Williams, Iltyd Michell, and T. W.
Booker, &qrs.

MRS. HEALD AND HER HIISBAND.—The AesPnalle
Nationale sive@ soother /otter irons its oorreepondent at
Bare lone respecting Lola Moats.. It is dated the 20th,
and is Si II Hews:

" My previsions are realised. The husband of Lola Month,
48 hours alter his departure wrote to her from Mauro, im-
ploring pardon. He besought her to allow him to return to
her feet. Ile terminated his epistle thus--' If you have
ever to complain of me, show me this letter, sod it will be
your la:Wain.' Mrs. Bald set out next day by the rail-
way, and some hours after brought bark Mr. Heald. Ac-
cording to what he states, he declares that others persuaded
him to depart, but scarcely had he been separated from his
wile when he derired to return. Three times he attempted
t t escape on the road. but too good a watch w s kept over
him. At last, wlh ahe arrived at Mauro, he Tensaw to go
any further, and then wrote her the letter alluded to airiest.
When retorted to his wife, he cwnplained to her of all those
who had persuaded him to brook his chain. Mrs. Heald is
in the greatest anger ; her eyes dart fire ; and Weyer its
meets with th. se who w ated to separate her husband frem
her, I all not know what may not happen. It is said that
she is about t publish a statement of her Late adventures."
The Foment°, or Barcelona, of the 40th, ate

" Lola has been able to catch her faithien husband, anti
Las br u4ht hint back to the wait:nal roof. She was enabled
t • follow t is a spa through the inf.rmation given to her by a
Frenchdten."

A WIDTPER-IN DROWNED WHILE HUNTING —On
Mooday, the Ysnd inst., when the hounds of Sir W. W.
Wynn, Bart., were hunting, the fox took to river, an I the
W tipper•in (Mr Jam -s Shaw), who, with his horse, pin q. d
nel the Hie, r Dee, near Nant y-bellan Tower, at N w
B• i'g for ,he purpose of cressing, the hounds being in full
cry, we. drowned. The horse, it appeared, jumped upon a
I !ante stone, and tell over into a very deep part of the river,
throe ing the rider. The body was soon after recovered;
and on that day an inquest was held before B. H. Theleall,
krq. Av. rdict in accordance with the evidence was re-
turned. Deceased was math respected by the srPntlern n
who hunted with Sir Watkin's hounds.—Macclesfreld
Courier.

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SECOND GREAT TEMPERANCE MEETING
AT EXETER HALL.

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felt interested
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barc‘hudaiersp,
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and deserving the serious consideratica of t each!
fellow men. (Hem.) There was no elass
of dbid
engaged in any benevolent enterprise who had 1:e
upon to endure such an amount of obloquy and a
as the temperance reformers. He die not 11
li:1 with the wwieheoandwginvood tued-
41'
t ta tram
wtthhheito
..eihreveseciivaity
such persons opposition was to be ant:eipatid;
lin'etleadtheenevinilshorfaelin,"teminen whr)
d lat
Peeence, vh"tiuti
pofrefacamhiliageo
groundet
f
the
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Wales
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that
the
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la,
impracticable,soudr
triumphs
millions
fellowp h o
who were anxious to remove the evils. (Ceeers.)P goon
i
tad
manifest, learned individuals, doctors of divinity, th
consequent with their high characters to step out "let it
course and assail the tenets of teetotalism, not keeteittir
ld
hat
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in the face of the millioa of teetotalers in Eng! na
s
in the United States comprising men of ali ;
milli
mo
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that it wee unccriptural, and that consequentiy
n the
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fe,,,gvrer ort yhu ne
claim upon ct eighth" to smite for the pews of p De:
Ling it. (Hear, hear.) Learned and € loquert div*-;1
tea6'
that platform while lecturing y
it. (Hear, hear.) When then they saw sea aie • -ra‘ege,,---
don existing.in the minds of the religions countunintil •t '
eursei duirable that one eve nieg of the soekii-,e
should be devoted to the purpose of ehowii g the ceiii.",""
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religion. and ab,,ve all to show that it wan orietly
abstinence was tinscriptural, that it was not ina
~fe
net was the cause of every ereitmonelbh,leinacalgodlintit?")..extotalieoecistima.
of)
Al
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thatie tehauend ever—select
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tehivreee it,er
every succeeding 'aneandudaccideneeffotoidiaiefnioccedunutgru:
out::: kt
mqn efe3;o wouldw.'('
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tow7xledreisseke,thdiedirnrettaeothneinregli
their benevolence, kr the purpoae of doing gone ohr
the opportunity preoented itself (Bear,
establish r;
were not, it was true, expressly commanded to to.
total societies; but, nevertheless, the religion 01 the Lblu
called upon them to resist everything that tended to snort
the progress of the kingdom of God, or to injure the taotek
hliah
li
n Sundaye tti thui onc
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ne;
rit "at les ;41,71
at the p. ople. (Hear, hear.) There was ~n expos% ed.
schools
mend
were
hoeer, Bibleenyt
establishedo
s
promoters that it was their du•y, by noy
means in their power, to advance the ;dory of God atd it
promote the temporal and spiritual well-being if reeekied,
(Loud cheers ) They then felt the same. They knew oat
some of the best and noblest men that hod ev:r filtered
Ike world's history had been abstainers from intoxicate/
drinks, and that they Lad the approbation ef Jetenval air
such conduct. If even they went to the Slide itself thy
would find that teetotalism, as it was technic* ly ealtd,tri"
no new thing. In 6th Numbers the Lord exkored th, deL
dren of Israel to take the vow of the Naziri•e and aheteia
from wine and strong drink. In the 10th L,viticua Schuler
exhortation would be found, in order " that she cies, mesh
vin known trom the unch an, the holy from Ire unholy:*
Again, Sampson. the strongest man the world err we
wu a teetotaller, and his mother woe commanded
to abstain while she bore him. Let them lot k ale, at tie
c sea of D.niel, and of Shadrach, Blesbach and Ab here
Nebuchadnezzar appointed that they should be fed wide
'peat and wino from his own table E,r three leare,but Dad
would not defile himself with the meet or the wine, wet
he refuted it the chief of the eunuchs Y... wall rot
danger my life if you lock leaner than the others." Bit
'Luca asked fur tet. days; at the end of the. time he vu
fatter and healthier than those who took the meat cad ty
wine. (Hear, hear ) Again, look at the peotle called Ea
ambit.", mentioned in tea 35th cairn of J. remise, eke
reused to drink wine. God approved of their eiandert, sad
they were abstainers to the present ley. fat en.)
John the Baptist wee also a tcetraller ; fait be
might go on ae great length instancing came to eirst
that the principle wan no new theory, but Ike the men
eminent individual. that hail ever firer II in the weed's
history had been abstainers from intoxicating drink..
th• y met individuals well vented in Behr.. and Choi,
who talked learnedly about the wince of toe en ere.. eerie
very little for the Buffeting' of bleeding butnasitr. Tema
men his nn.wer was, that he could not argue die gunk
with them, because he did not understand Hebrew w
Greek. He hp ked at the case as a
• philanthropist; and at the evils caueed by the an
of intoxicating drinks among the people at the present
Lay, (Hear, hear.) And if such individuals preeeded to
contend with him that such drinks were Riven to
man as a blessing, he would answer that. sap.
posing they were originally give.. to roan as • Kerne,
their use had been so perverted in later days,
as to make tuem actually a curse. (Her, Mu.) pad
commanded Moses to erect • brazen serpent as a protegee
'gothic the fiery salon' s of the desert; bat in aWlbir en,
his successor did not hesitate to have it destroyed, boom
the people, by bowing down and worshipping it, Led sot.
vert^d what was intended for a blessing into a core (Beer,
hear.) They (the teetotailers) said the SODS to the pool
biblical scholars who came forward to con tit, them with
their Greek and H brew. They said, " We have muting
to do with what the ancients drank. We have to deal with
modern times and our own country, and we Moine' ea to
say, that the greatest curse ever inflicted on a nation n the
use of intoxicating liquors." (Cheers) Lark at whet it ou
producing on the right band and on the left. Win they
considered the quantity that was consumed in this king ion,
it was utterly appalling, (Hear, hear ) The pteechen of
• the gospel had been advocating temperance. and set think-
' ing had increased. (Hear, hear.) be.. Livesay, of Ponca,
' had estimated that toe quantity of spirits consumed is Grad
• Britain in a year. would make a river three f, et deep, they
feet wide, acd 168 milts in length. (L•tud cries of "Heir,
hear.") And yet they wondered at the spend of ?identity,
prostitution, and crime. (Hear, bear.) When he tbosgkt
..1 the way in which intoxicating drinks were spreading denr
lation on every hand, making wives widows, and ehifirm
• fatherless, in tact ruining the working closes, be unlit sat
but shudder at the result. Why, the judges on the bead
stated that, in 14 out of every 15 e4+lll brought h feu
, them, intoxicating drinks had been the Mat inede
• tive to crime. (Hear, hear.) A•d the evil vet
not confined to our own country, f.r we wire
the means of spreading it far and wide ov.r the writ
r (near, hear.) Our ships carried it to distant i.landa, gal
I with it poisonee the inhabitant,. They wire pimple meet
, —what had they done that we should intrthluce the fraiM
MIMI of so much sin amongst them ? (Heat, hear.) Bra
feasedly our mission/ were for the extension of 'Milani;
f but we introduced intoxicating drinks among people eke
• had theretofore been innocent and ignorant of their sea
By our means youth was cut off in its vigour and asamei
in its strength, and deserts were crea id in luny ergo
v:ously smiling land. (Cheers.) What said the H.vMr.
f Williams That strong drinks had proved a care Moe;
f ever they were introduced. They were brought into TM
I during his absence, and on his return he found the unedeeert
station devastated, and scarcely 100 pencils in the ini2e:!
• who were not coutaminated by the new vete. Mr. silo
showed that intoxicating drinks formed the er ekes obstade,
to the progress of the gospel among the heathen. Whe soa;
• a native chief to Daniel Wheeler, a memh, r of the Bent, of
friends. He said "I have a menage to send to Great lin.
lain : tell your countrymen to have mercy on us, sad rion.,°
send us poienn to destroy our neiglibotre friend., sod red..
• Mom. Then go to the Americans and tel', teem not o tee:
us their New England rum." (Hear, t art) So much!
' the sending of intoxicating drinks abroad. He was It
t formed that the prairies of America were covered with the
1 bleached bones of the poor Indians who had been dedoeye.:
I by " the fire water." (li• ar.) He askd them,. hh",:tl.
t men and Christian women, when the y saw their eustfe
its 600 000 drunkards, and were told that 60,rf!
• 'Jaime to drunkennew y year, whether I' ey eh? n
pen
r resist .tale curse, and say, " Stay, hold thy hand, 14,f0al
enough ?" (Hear, hem.) Should they not do everythleg
in their power to root out from the land this gigoetie open
tree, until every drunkard had been cured of hia son.(Lni
cheore.) Their principle had already effected much ; 1..4g
not only reclaimed the drunkard teem his vice, hut tte, he
many cases, turned hie attention to the eoreilepoome le
eternal things. gill they found no email d.ffieutty in etale
' 'hieing the people of the evils of intempt ranee red
of the efficacy of teetotalism. They a id. " W knot
this is a moostrous evil, but we differ wi•h yolo
as to the remedy. What we want its this c. only in
more places of worship. Let us erect m ire elaurehes gad
chapels and schools ; let us have the gospel more latthlully
preached ; and if that will not effect the reformat!, n ef tee
drunkard, we are sure that your "extern will foil." N.. it
was hie decided opinion that the religi,,us people did cot use
derstand the nature of the evils of drui kanni se, as ot,terwiee
they never would introduce such an argument. Whet was
intemperance cr the passion for Wong deka ? It was not
en'y a moral, but a physical evil; but it WAS not one which
required passion, and was added to allourotlvr evils. (Ileac)
was a necessary consequence of our fallen nature. It eve.. sa
They were told by physiologist, that the breie was the organ
of the mind, and how important, then, was it that they theta
not introduce into the system anything calculated to derange
its Inactions. Alcohol was dangerous not only to the Lines
lunge, and Ecinach, but it mounted to the omen, the pod
rout of the soul, arid there made its dr.* mad ranee'.
(Hear, hear.) The necessary communication between
and matt, r WWI suspended and the man tell into • o.
•t• 01
absolute insanity. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Canonry sails that
mind
strong drink was one of the most prolific sour .• LI of HASUACIS
in this country. (Neer, bear.) He would ask thine who
looked to she mere building of churches and chapels as
.a
paeaces in what state would men be to ate std th curs hle
....
on a Sunday I/ ho had sat up driukizg 11"
previous Saturday night. He would of course lien
the hereon upon him, and WAS that
fit state in which to hear the truths of the gospel? (Hari
hear) It was no use preaching. the gospel toe drunkard
any more than it would he to an Insane man. (Hear, belt.)
Tree gospel was never intended as a remedy for ohY4F`
evils, and it was a physical evil which they beught totems*
The founder of that go feel bad been compared to a bat
bondman, and the gospel -was his seed. But if they wee
the seed to be sown successfully, there must be an edger
tion between the land and the seed. Su; pea: the goo a

mat had snored I. him (Mr. Camel) mime beg lead In Inf-
ield ma the oddities id his Waved°, it, end that he
agesesed at ears semis, twisieetet widmat say pease
El:Mlwoad set his labour ha sin (Hear, Isar.)
:sat firs dials his bag, sad tbea so doe ht
• or brims forth fruits is abseilimas. as it was with
tbs mild et the dreamed. It they attempted to sew
esti la his sareforani miaut then wield be so sdspMßes
bet hit them g• to tweet with the meatimeo *sr hale
▪ eated. Let theme dig so to speak them the the
dykes sf tetal abethease, rude ra& his beefs"f the alsehol,
meal this he would be prepared to reeds his iatelleseall sad
*data feed. wed" aid theses.) Thee they
esw the maims el the !spa ; )
west boatel=
NM end woad bass lartli fruit I. almadimem They had
*seethes. of misiateme ia various perm of the blemdemeeter
hay, that sisse the prias4les sf teetotalism beilbseallethebed.
use, had w! seed massy insteases of ~_hoods the emly
send el their visa bat tuned to spiritual ways. Beam Male
deem whin the anthers divides et the evassedeml abaft
reposed se a matter for lavatigaties the aosassies
twos& toestalim sod infidelity, a pest deal of treatment
wee created throughout the entire kingdom. He (the
Askew) himself felt .atonally Indignant at such a prop°.
skim, aid hut writtea letters to verbs parts of the fals-
ities es wkish he received about 100 replies. Ho wee sot
Ow to read then all, bat a few extreme would show that
teetotal is did not stop In staking a was sober, but would
sees maks him religioes—teat was provided the ministers of
the gospel sympathised heartily with the ears.
The Rev. W. Morgan, 8.D., Isonsbeat of Christchurch,
Bredkrd, Y./finlike, said :
" I bare belga privileged to labels, as a der for 36
sirs ; bat I have attended sestinas sad presahwt swum
he the society is Loots, York, Hull. Barrow-upon-Hamber,
Porklington, Market Weiaston. Tadeaster, Ripe., Her-
reorgete, Huddersfield, R stasis, Manchester, and
may other tow. s sad villages. And in all them plasm, I
head that teetotaling directly or indirectly promoted the
wee of real piety. Many fads, in the eonversion of enure
bg God, whisk are well known. in every plan, attest the
peat utility of teetotalist, I by no seas west that
every teetotaler it a real Chris tan, so more than that every
prafeesed Christian is a real Christian ; but I do maintain
that way very wicked, absadosed character% masa, whom
wire may lade., bays, by the gross of God blessing mo-
totalbr, become en ornament to the Chastise shwas. Is
my wide fled, of observation this is any dulled tee:gamy. I
say age's I know many wicked people and tellable con-
verted to Odel by lases of teetotal's."
The Rev. U. E. Graham, A.M., Hector of Ladino,
Musaioa, Cornwall, said :
" About tea years beck my pariah was sunk bass meet
degraded mate; dreokensess see the nee, sobriety the
szseptice. Mr. Teen come amongst ea, and I wee inclined
to try what amiss cut the prineiple would do. I muted
ell my therein in the cause, sod the result was 600 tee-
totalers. Teo ehareb (a soasiderabla gaud one) had been
deserted during the reign of infidelity, for so 1 consider
drunkenness to be; I was the compelled to "Warp it
with 460 saw "hasp, all of whisk were well filled, and the
perish is occh a stater I would feel a pleasure is base
its siniitor."
Rev. Newnan Hall, A.M., Hull, said :
•• Several minolsere of my church wore plugged is the
west kind of iatidifity—the ioadelity of habitual profligacy
sail papa. d with by tote! abstinence. Having thus
bosoms sober. they aresew ales, through the grace of Clod,
Bans righteous and godly life."
Rev. J.nee Liberman, Sumy Chapel, London, said:
" I have tie pleasure every commission &abbe* to is.
several et the Lord's table, woo were oats the cars of their
lasedies, the plague of their neighbourhoods, mid the grief of
their owe souls, now intelligent end devoted mseaben of
Christ's church, whom teetotaling hut led to God's hews,
when the o..tiptl formed them into • new creatures in Christ
Jens.'"
Bev. Eiward I:Schmitt's, A.M.;rector of Walton, Harts,
mid •
" I as hippy to say that I have ezr rimmed the moral
beagicsal the temperance saute in my own parish. In two
er tkres ens drunkards have been reformed, to the great
hippie's' of their families, through the ex. nine of some el
ay dock who have taken • lively iutereet in the sow
moat."
lie trusted that these testimonies were lllMMElloe se to the
service obi, k tutu ahem must render to the Medea of the
Gospel. He sees: rot at too great kneth mostopoi he their
attention. He treated he had sad sfildent to show them
the importune of total abstinence as e weans of benefiting
the people morally, socially, physically.sad religiously-
He asked them, as Christian men and Christi's women,
to With of the 600,000 drunkards in this enntry, and rot
to let them go down to the b moraine pit crying out, •• No
mai Gareth for my soul." (Hear, hear) They (the lid.
rely) were determined to poses n. They would hawk at
the door of the Conference, net sever stand still until they
made all Census people awake to the evil. He treated
that minium and lefty, Christian men and Christian women,
would come forward and eh iw to the world, by their ex-
ample in 'lenience, that they c insidered the lives and soak
of their fellowerestion of more impotence than ay anti.
&anis they said experience hem the use of "Jong
drink. (rho r. )
The Rey. W. MORTON, lee of Calcutta. then addressed
the lasting. He said that alter needing 30 years as a sir
does/ in • for. lira country, he islet a deep and growing in-
tense in the &nemeses eau&
Mr. D. G. PAYNE, of Deptfaed, was the next 'esker.
He 'randy appealed to pre forms of religion, who were not
yet total abetainere, to meditate calmly on the spirit and
tenon, of ecrinture, declaring his Whet that the malt of their
doing so would he the Livia:ion by them of the principle
of total stwinenee.
The Rev. S DUNN, of Nottingham (late number of the
Week) en Con.eret.ce), on risies to address the meeting, was
received with lout add reiterated cheers. He said he be-
lieved then, notwir.standing all the attacks which had been
made on the CAWe of abstinent*, it was rising in public
estimation. It was • satisfeenio• to himself to be able to
declare that be had never drank a glass of brandy, rum, or
gin, had never smoked a pips or a cigar, end bad never
taken a pineh of snuff elan he was born. (Laughter and
cheers.) He bed now posed lis fiftieth year. In the
coarse of hi. hits he had, perhaps, travelled as many mules,
preached as maxi eernsees, delivered as many lectures,
seen es mach pa service in verions dials, under various
eircomdanee, by night and by day, as the see and oa the
lend, a. most ordianry ; end though he had never
tasted ardent quite, he had never yet had on day's bedny
sickness or pain. (Cheers.) He then pros. ded to relate
his mitsionsry experience, for the purpose of illuatratieg the
practicability of total abetinteee ander the most trying cir-
cumstances of Wed• sere life.
Tee Rev. J. KIRK, of Edinburgh, delivered the
concluding address, choosier as his special topic
the influence of the drinking customs of society
on the epiritnal interests of those who were en.
peed in the trade of strong drink. He secluded by calling
opal all who were not then total abstainets to become ea at
emu. (Cheer...)
A vote of thanks was given to the chairman.
A add etion towards defraying the spews iaddental to
the series of meetings was casts la the sane of the evening.

Aff OBSTRUCIION TO THE POST•OPPICE.— On
Sunday same miechievous proems Owed a ladder, upwards
et eighteen feet long. woes she reed in the way of the
Poet-oaks ounibueei, it is blued for eons evil purpose. It
b brtunate, however, that it was broken by the passing onr
It of ea espy vehisle.
--•- •

• -
MILITARY RIOT.—At Newport, MORRSORthithire,
es the ev. sing of the 22nd instant, from thirty to forty psi
maim of the 14th regiment got intositatal to oss of the
btu grope in this town. Os their loosing the how, they
grossly insulted every person they met, iaflicting with their
wombats tremendour blows, sod completely cleared ire
anew. Thew attacks were altimatoly 'abetted by the
*Ws, but not before several respectable inbabitonts hrd
been very much injured. A Eliot inquiry I. imperiously
celled for in ibis eve.

FIRE AT THE MODEL SATIN AND WA9NEOI7B3III.
Last evening at a few minutes past six o'clock a ern In.
volvief a serious destruction of property broke out in the
extensive range of premise erected by the semolina' for
promoting the establishment of baths and mahatma for
the labouring classes, situate in Cinialstomequare, Whitt-
chapnl. The am., erommeseed in cos of the drying
houses, a temporary building erected by the 'Paining* with
timber tot the purpose of tasting its tame/ previous to
building a more sabstaatial compartment Contiguous to
this erection was the washing department, hatain(ng
$4 wash tube, and ea sae side stood the mangling houses,
and eit the esker the bomb, compartment. The whole am
traded Is me &ivied.' skeet 10) fest, sad in the other 75 feet.
At Use time stated above some of the wegfagmen of the
swlddisimeet were greatly obrated by pMstcel • dense
mess dumb, posing through the di rent passages load-
*to the melons compartments In the extensive range of
=tUpon gaining the drylag-boms the whole of the
ad Mr drying the clothe were, togrher with the
linen hanging thereon, kind to be enveloped in lames.
Over this building were several large tanks, containing in
the whole upwards of 3,000 gallows of water, and in order
to guard spinet the ravages of fire the committee had
proper engine hose attached to thee* tat lts, so that in the
event of an outbreak • ready supply of water might be
*ought to bear upon the lames. The list Wag attempted
by the pining belonging to the premises was to fly to the
hoes connected with the tanks and matter the wain over
the flames. Unfortunately, although the roof was termed of
Goa, the ceiling was oonsuneted of timber, and the dames
travelled along the top of the baUAlig almost with
the rapidity of lightning, sad so intense was the
heat from the lames that the glass windows is
eke selling qeickly became broken, when the fire
rushed through the openings in immense bodies, rising so
high as to threaten with destruction the whole of the stir
rounding horses. A somber of engines were apes day is
attendance, and the hose of several were conveyed through
the front baths, sad were brought to bear upon the great
seat of fin, wits] st • number of firemen were at the same
time sent up the sealing ladders to meant that pinion el
the roof not on fl-e ; but in spite of every exertion, It was
not %mil past 9 u'n!oca that the filmes weld be etmosered.
The dames* dote by this diesetrom event is very sonsider-
able. The drying house is entirely consamed, and all it
contained. Tn. mangling and iron compartments an also
d.stroyed bat betanaiely nearly the whole of the tabs la,
the .11111 base mesped with trig og injury.
The engiassees sirgertment has escaped uninjured. Tem
boilervoome have Nhawiie escaped any Minty except fr.*
water. The stommengine and the machinery base elm re
*Mewl se damage except by water. The pectin of
the private cash has likewise ne: ived we of any in
portance, bat, notwithstanding, the amp wOneidemible
sot what is woolen the Peer people forw6.o.lllolllmallasill
the baths were specially erected, will be nate wet Wow
mime*, tiey=iwa otter the troi situ remise
%key seemed, iser tint purpose.

SECOND EFFORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON ARMY
AND ORDNANCE EXPENDITURE.

It may not have escaped the recollection of our
readers that this report, which relates to the ordnance
estimates, was Muted on the 14th of July last, with a
vlsw to pat =Mbar* of the Home of Commons in
==of the views of the eummittee previews to
et the Chancellor of the Exche9uer's
Ibeesiel etatmeat. The minutes of the committee's
preereainge were appended, bat the evidence and
llPTdin of documents were reserved for &tore
oatial. The report with them additions was
deliverreiyesterday. Itis a blue book of 1178 folio
pages : et which the report fills 84 ; the minutes of '
evidence, 834; and the documents, 468.
The witnesses examined by the committee were $7
in number. Of these 29 are officials on the ordoasee
establishment; four eng ricer or art.liery officers whip
have held temporary appointments under the
Ordnance; two manufacturers of arm@ who hold se
have held:mends with the Ordnance ; and one in-
dependent gunmaker. Their examinations occupied
29 days. extending over the months of February,
March, April, May and June. The same whammies
were repeatedly had up again for examination to ex-
pliin statements of their owe, or account for their
difference from those of other witnesses. Their names
acd offices are es follows, in the order of their retrct
tive first &prance,:
OFFICIAL W1T11211111.--Th• Hop. George LIMO, clerk
to the Ordains.; Major-General Sir H. D. Res, deputy-
adjusast-geasnl is the Royal Artillery; Major-G:onel Sir
J. F. Bargeyne Inspector general of fortifications •, Major-
General IL J. J. Lasy, director general of the field traits
&patient; Llemosant-Colonel R. Harding., director of
the royal lakmardasy; Captain A. T. Tallals, insp.:oor of
ganpowdsr; Oiled W. B. Duda., Inspector of artillery;
. Cif Sir L NOrdilat. R.N., principal store keeper
Lisatanaat-Oviesel J. N. Colqahoun, assistant impactor of
the royal amiego department; B. M. Beset:ea, Esq.,
storekeeper et the royal armed ; Mr. Joseph
Pella% OM dark in the storekeeper's department;
Mr. Rehm. Perrott, chief clerk in the storekeepses
oliset M. Gems, Liven, inspector of small arms ; Cohen&
I'. glib, Alenter of the estahllekeaaut at Chatham Mr the
ilemeesiee of the engineers' depart Tent ; Msjoraesond
Perber, awitmant governor of the Royal Military Amerneme I
Omer& L Wilmot, second captain and paymaster of dm;
lAmeMsses Colonel L A. Hall inporistendent of the sr&
mese surveys; Captain W. YeUaad, in Marge of the heel.
gasman' department at Southampton; the Right Hes.
Mari Grey; &shard Estee, Esq., storekeeper at Devon-
ppoosttt; A. Stewart, Esq., storekeeper at Portsmouth ; Major.
Gemmel C. R. Fox, sarveyow rascal to the ordnance ; Capt.
Lord Clarice, Pewit, secretary to the master-general of the
ONIMOSOI ; M. Elliot, Esq., thief sleek lathe master pastels'
elm; W. G. Anderson, , eminent paymuterlp nerd ;
I. A. litiffay, E.q., auditor of naval and military accounts;
James Tr/sow. Mq., in the store account examiner's office;
Reer•Admirst J. W. D. Dundee, a lord of the Admiralty;
R. Byhem. EN., secretary to the Board of Ordnance.
SAKI- OFFICIAL W ITX —Lieut.-Colonel Chesney,
K.A •' Colonel F. Campbell, R.A. • Lie ut.-Coloael W.
Reif ,R E. • and Colonel W. Breretito, all of whom have
need as " re:sportive oaten" under eke Ordnance; Mr. W.
L. Sargent, sad Mr. John Wheeler, who have held contracts
for small arms with the Ordnance.
Not OFFICIAL WIWI ISIL —Mr. William Greener, gun-
maim, Birmiagbaa.
The documents in the appendix are arranged in ten
dames. There ere 67 relating to the Oidnanee Vote
I ; 7 to vote 2 ; 24 to vote 3 ; 28 to vote 4; 7 to vote
5; 99 to vote ; 18 to vote 7;9 to vote b;2 to vote
9; acid 10 miscellaneous paper'.
In future publications we will present our readers
with extracts and abstracts of the most material parts
of the evidence and documents, as we did formerly
with the report itself, and the minutes of proceedings.

THE CHOLERA.

ENGLAND

ID WALES.

.ra.adiaracea, reported to
on Monday, Oct. 29, 1849,

. .
Bran• districts •
North Witchrord (Chatteris
district), e. 1
Portsta Wand (Kingstosiand
Landpwt), e. 1
Preston, e. 3, O. 2
Rotherham (Shohrsagb),
a 3
Belford (Retest road), d. 1
Seuleiaus (Drypool), d. 1
Silt Stela (Hsairiserorth), d. 1
S,.iith Shit Ids & Wistos, c. 2
Stourbridge (district of), c. 3
raeesster (L.thertda sus
Ab-rtord), e. 3
Thorne, e. 1
Terapiron (Titehisarshl, a.l
l'otnes (Brixhso). e. 2
r)nesiouth(Randen district)
d. 1
W ikefield (Stanley), c. 3
Walwh (lliirrisigh). c, 2
West Broinwttilt & Oldbury,
d. 3
Westbury e. 1
W, et Derby ( Walton-on-the-
Hill oistriet), d. 1
Whitehavou(St.bets district)
d. 1
Wigsn, e. 12, d.l
Walloon (Coerrottall), d. 2
Witney (Surloril and Fal-
brooa), e. 2
Wolstanton (Tonstall dis-
trict), d. 1
Wolverhampton (Willenhan)
A. 2

ID, Ocr. 27.
liihwick, c. 3
r. 29.