The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

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petition. Those looking for the salvation of Ireland
should, instead of following the iris fates= of Mr.
GODLEY, follow rather the steady light of Sir Ronisur
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8.
Tea rumour of another failure of the potato-crop
recalls those feelings of political anxiety for Ireland,
which had, in part, been set aside, and which were
not to be roused by the most specious schemes for
emigration of men, or reclamation of land, that inge-
nuity could devise. We had not vet come to believe
in the necessity of feeding the *lrish population on
wages in lien of a bit of land, and on corn in lien of
Makes. The immense difficulty, the almost impos-
sibility of the thing, deterred the contemplation of it
as a necessity. And we looked to the new poor-law
as likely to produce a more prudent location of
labourers, and a better distribution of cos-acre, instead
of its elevating the Celt to the bread and cheese of
the Saxon. _ .

Another failure of the potato crop would, however,
put the problem before us with en urgency past
shirking, and necessitate the adoption of some tempo-
rary measures to obviate the famine, as well as per-
manent ones of a more wide and serious nature than
any which parliament has consented to entertain. The
existence of the disease once ascertained, there should
be constituted some ruling committee, whether that of
boards of guardians or unions, or of one more
exclusively of landed proprietors, to be invested at
once with a dictatorial power over the agriculture of
the district, so as to be able to provide at once for the
replacing the potato by grain or esculents which
might defy the disease.
The absorption or employ of the population would
then come as the grand consideration, and as such it
would be forced upon the empire. In such a
moment Mr. GODLEY'S scheme, or some modifica-
tion of it, would also force itself on the consi-
deration of the public, and even of statesmen.
There is much in Mr. GODLEY'S plans to render
them repugnant to the English public. The forma-
tion of sectarian communities, bound and sealed up
in exclusion and prejudice, and bringing with them
their great Pandora's box of Irish peculiarity and
Irish hatred to a chosen corner of the new world,
would alone disgust the liberal and the intelligent.
The reason, too, assigned for such a preposterous ar-
rangement, viz., the enticing of the Irish to such
colony, is a very idle one. If open land and remunera-
tion for labour will not entice Irish settlers to Canada,
let as abandon the idea of locating them there.
If the United States have so many real advantages,
if their laws be so superior to ours, and their facilities
of colonization beyond our giving, we must only
abandon the idea of putting i&mada in competition
with a more free and happy land by the side of it ;
or, if we are to carry on the competition, let not the
bait of favouring especial religious prejudices be the
means employed.
The peculiarity of tie plan is, however, that it
offers a possibility to an emigration in large meanes—
t!)e only way in which emigration could act benefi-
cially on the labour market at home, but a way, at the
slime time, which excites the greatest fears for the
safety of the emigrating masses. Armies of half a
million, even those who have swords in their hand to
take what they find, generally end in famine and
destruction. An army of emigrants would be more
difficult to manage and to settle. To advance
money too, in order to employ those thousands on
public works in the colonies, whilst we deny such
employ at home, seems, moreover, invidious and pre-
pastorali& Mr. GODLEY would not easily peas a bill
for the accomplishing of his scheme through par-
liament.
For our part, we fear much that Ireland must, in
some mode or another, employ and feed its own eight
millions. It will do this, very probably, in some
mode which will shock political and farming econo-
mists. But this thing must be done. It is very easy to
show that large farms are more productive ; that they
grate a better class of farmers, and a better clam of
labourers, than small holdings, and that they return
more rent. Of what use preaching these truths after
a session of parliament in which all this was admitted;
but in which no one thing wan devised for lightening
the labour-market that was not instantly scouted ?
We doubt much that any great or efficient remedy ,
can be supplied by parliament. Hitherto parliament
has looked solely to agricultural employ,. with
the exception perhaps of fisheries, trifling in im-
portance and amount. The true and best absorption
of the Irish surplus population would be in work
unconnected with agriculture or with the land, which
would vary the classes in that country, diversify
the • interests, and raise up something in the country
besides lord and serf; something at least other than
an intermediate and " uneasy" class, which has
DO other prospect or interest than to agitate and
harangue, and to seek remedies for social evils in
political quackery.
Bat parliament cannot be expected to encourage
anything like Irish manufactures. It would be con-
tiury to the idets of free trade. The measures foe
of infringe every day upon the great principle
of free trade, as far ea land is concerned. And Lord
RADNOR takes care to tell us so. It would be useless
to recommend parliament or government to turn the
stream of their geuerosity to anything else than
land. For, although indulging and delighting in
the abuse of Irish landlords, it is evident that parlia-
ment and government look exclusively to them for
the regeneration of the country. But we would re-
commend it to the Irish themselves, to the Irish
council, to Irish boards of guardians, to see if they
could not devise means of giving employ in towns to
the supine portion of the population, by establishing

TUE number of accidents which crowd the columns
of the daily press is fearful. A colliery explosion,
and the crushing of several railway carriages, with
the loss of seven or eight lives in each instance, are
the events of one day. No foresight or inspection
c mid have prevented the catastrophe of Wolverton,
which was owing to the folly of the guardian in charge
of the break.

Pallet these fresh accidents are occurring, an
inquest is elucidating the catastrophe of the
Chester bridge, and enable' us to examine the
canoe of all. Whilst the public blame the di-
rectors and proprietors of the railway and the
railway bridge, the coroner's jury blame the late
officer of public safety, the officer appointed by the
coroner's jury blames the contractor who put up
the masonry, and, of coarse, the superintendent-
inspector of the work,' ; while the engineers
examined before the coroner blame the Admiralty
and other public boards, for compelling them, in
building bridges across rivers, to attempt all sorts of
dangers, and even impracticabilities, and so exhibiting
a total disregard of the security of the travelling
public. Thus, everybody is to blame, and nobody.
It is plain that this is not a state of things that can
be allowed to continue. Somebody must be the
eseponsible party to the public for the safety of tra-
vellers. We must cease to have divided responsibility.
The public have been led to believe that the directors
of the railways were not fit to be entrusted with the
liies of the travelling community, to whom they
were represented to be the natural enemies. A Rail-
way Board of Inspection has been appointed ; they
run over a line, glance at the works, try to under-
stand the plans, and if they are satisfied, they autho-
rise the opening of the line. Of course, if an
accident happen after this official approbation, the
undivided responsibility which used to rest on the
proprietors, engineers, and directors of the line is now
at an end, and, as in this case, nobody is to blame.
This division of responsibility is therefore a source
of public danger.
General PASLET, when examined, replies, " I am
not infallible, I gave my opinion that the bridge was
safe ; this was my duty, and my whole duty, and I
did it—true, I have long changed my opinion,
and the bridge has fallen as it ought. Official
inspection thus amounts, as far as public safety
is concerned, to a mockery in the matter of safety ;
and, in the matter of serious damage, places
between the suffering public and the wealthy
proprietors of the railway, a man of straw,
from whom no compensation can be obtained,
'and whose mere opinion is a full acquittal to the
solvent sponsors, the directors of railways, from all
responsibility for the security of those daring struc-
tures which suspend thousands of human beings daily
by a few inches of iron, stone, or brick, over some
frightful abyss.
The time has come when we must know who
are responsible for railways to the public. The
Railway Commissioners sanctioned the works on the
Edinburgh and Berwick line, and the public, in
simple reliance on official ingestion, allowed them-
selves to be whirled along precipices a hundred
feet above the level of the sea, when whole viaducts
and embankments were, in a single night, hurled
down from the mountain sides. The works on the
Enniskillen Railway bad just been approved by
another inspector, when we had to record the fall of
an entire arch over a public thoroughfare, as a regi-
ment of soldiers were about to march under it.
Finally, this Dee bridge falls; and we are now informed
that not only this bridge, bat one hundred others of
the same description, have all been passed by the
public inspector. If they fall, there is again nobody
is blame. The public inspector has absolved the
railway directors from responsibility.
The one thing indispensable in these matters is un-
divided responsibility. This is frustrated by the exist-
ing system of inspection. The only persons who can
kaaw my thing about the value and stability of such
works must be those officers and engineers of the cora-
wise silo see every stone laid, who see every bit of
iron toted, who daily watch the condition of the
works, and whose years, months, and days, are spent
in acquiring a knowledge which no flying survey of a
railway board or its officers, on a summer's day, can
possibly attain. These employes of the railway com-
panies alone thoroughly know the nature and use of
these works, and the proprietors and directors are the
proper parties to be exclusively, avowedly, and
directly responsible to the public for refety, and to
sufferers for damage.
Seeing that con4denee in official inspection for
public safety, and in a railway board for immu-
nity from accident, is a popular fallacy merely,
which costs the country much money, which costs
the public valuable lives, which adds nothing but
false confidence to the railway traveller, and gives
the party who ought to be responsible a position of
divided responsibility—let us reverse our policy.
Let us leave the railways to those whose sole
business it is to manage them, and place the
undivided responsibility of accidents on those who
alone have the knowledge, the means, and unques-
tionably the deepest and most personal interest in
promoting them, and whose knowledge does not
change with a political party, nor become transferred
by military promotion, nor exercise itself on an ooca-
anal visit of professional routine. If our laws of
recovery against directors are not sufficiently prompt
and powerful, let as make them eo ; and let blame,
responsibility, and punishment, fall where alone there
is knowledge, duty, and interest, to avert the danger ia
a degree as great as it is possible to bring to the ear
duct of human affairs.
As to the accident itself which suggests these
remarks, the evidence of Mr. STEPHENSON, Mr.
LOCKE, and Mr. Goocw, as engineers, combined with
that of eye-witnesses, leaves no doubt as to the way
in which it took place. The tender got off the line,
the carriages followed the tender with great mo-
mentum, and pushing on behind struck the side
supporting girder and knocked a piece out of the
upper side of it, cutting away the iron brace that sup-
ported R. Had it been a trussed timber bridge instead
of iron, the same result would have followed. Had
it been a brick or stone bridge, it is probable the
train would have followed the tender into the water.
As it is, we have merely proof that an accident not
intrinsic to this species of bridge occurred to the
train, and that the train passing off the bridge
drove the girder along with it. An
getting off the line is a casualty against which there
is no possible precaution, except care, science, and
habitual caution, such as are daily brought to bear
with more and more efficiency on the railway system.
When a brick bridge tumbles, it would be absurd to
declaim against all brick bridges• when a timber
bridge takes fire it would be ridiculous to abolish all
timber bridges ; and now, because an accident to •
train has happened on a bridge of iron, it would be
equally
.absurd to apprehend similar accidents on all
iron bridges—folly which some people now seem
prone to commit. A hundred such bridges have been
years in use without accident ; and it is now a hun-
dred to one that for years to come no similar accident
'v recur to disturb the confidence of the travelling

THE Court of Queen's Bench has become the ordi-
nary channel of advertisements for all persons who,
in their pursuit of notoriety, can contrive to be abused
or criticised by any opponent who is willing to play
into their bands. Any censure against a public or
would-be public character, is immediately met by a
motion for a criminal information. Even if the rule
is refused, the counsel who moves for it has an oppor-
tunity of eulogising his client, and of contradicting all
possible statements or rumours to the contrary;
while, if it is granted, a second day is, after an inter-
val, devoted to the elucidation of the same interesting
subject matter. The accusation, it is true, generally
obtains, in the course of the proceedings, an infinitely
wider circulation than any which could have been
contemplated by its original utterer ; but it is not an
uncommon case to prefer being attacked or libelled to
neglect and silence. "If they were to leave off
abusing me," said JOHNSON, " I should starve."
The public journals have really a right to complain
of the formidable competition against their advertising
columns thus carried on with their own resources.
We are obliged to furnish, with great care and ex-
pense, reports of the proceedings in the courts of law
without any profit, except that which arises from the
general circulation of the paper. It seems hard that those
who require publicity should be noticed gratis in our
law report, while the advertising columns are open to
them at the usual charge. A motion fora criminal

is no doubt

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1847.

than an ad-

vertisement, bat one paynast in this way mares
insertion in all the public men, and sumo a degree
of public attention which no single advathessent
is likely to obtain among the crowd of
rival paragraphs. The least that the Queen's'
Bench ought in fairness to do for the
is to discourage applications to its extraordinary
jurisdiction in cases where the complainant has not
even been attacked by any one. If he desires protec-
tion against imaginary euemies, let him apply to the
advertising agent and the bill-sticker.
Our readers may have observed in our law report
of Friday bust a most extraordinary instance of
gotoemoucherie, arising, perhaps, from the temporary
inattention of the learned judges of the supreme
criminal court of this kingdom. All London has,
within the last six weeks, become unavoidably fami-
liar with the name of a lady who, it seems, is the
poetess of a Sunday newspaper. Not wishing to be
the subjects of a criminal information, we abstain from
mentioning the name, referring the carious to the
gigantic placards which still ornament the hoardings
and unoccupied houses of the metropolis, and
very possibly of all our provincial towns. It seems
that another lady, of the same christian and surname,
was formerly convicted of the murder of her child,
and, we believe, executed accordingly. No one, pro-
bably, ever supposed that there was any sort of con-
nexion between the criminal and the genius; but a
newspaper in want of a paragraph took occasion to
pay rather an awkward compliment to the placarded
authoress, and at the same time to satirise, with lum-
bering jocularity, the indifference of the public to
her works. " Considerable anxiety "—thus the pars-
graph runs—" has been excited among the public who
do not read the poetical contributions of the —, to
know what can have induced its proprietors to
present their subscribers with a portrait of a woman
who has murdered her own child. Such is fame,
among the masses; a murderess is a heroine, and a!
poetess unknown." In other words, the public is se
t as not to have heard of X. Y. the poetess,
ignorant as not tohave heard of X.Y.the poets.,
although it is familiar .with the memory of her name-
sake X. Y. the popular murderess. Perhaps the taste
of bringing together two persons of such different
character was questionable; but the innocent and
even complimentary intention was sufficiently obvious.
But compliments are, as all experienced persons
know, the least efficient form of puffing. Turned
inside out and converted into the ground of a criminal
information the paragraph was worth a square mile
of placards. As, therefore, might have been expected,
an affidavit was gravely sworn that X. Y., spinster
(the poetess), had not only never murdered her child,
but had never had a child to murder; and
on this affidavit a rule nisi for a criminal
information against the proprietor of the delinquent
journal was moved for, and, as could not have been
expected, it was actually granted. It never seems to
have occurred to the court that the charge supposed
to have been made was so monstrous, so unreasonable,
and so unusual, that it must be capable of some ex-
planation—that it might be ironical, or hypothetical,
or otherwise different from a direct and scandalous
libel. If the court had read the sentence with common
attention, it would have been impossible not to see
that it had been altogether misrepresented or mis-
understood. But, nevertheless, the rule nisi was
granted.
Probably the court may have been influenced by
the statement of the complainant's counsel, that it
would not be necessary to make the rule absolute, as
communications between the parties were in progress.
If so, advantage has been taken of the accommo-
dating. disposition of the court, for we observe that it
has since been announced that the matter is too I
serious for compromise, and that it will be proceeded
with in due course of law ; giving, as we have said,
more publicity than a wilderness of placards to the
extremely offensive association in which the name of
the sensitive X. Y. has been placed. But the subse-
quent conduct of the parties is entirely beside the
question in considering the decision of the judge*.
The practice of granting rules for criminal informa-
tions, for the mere purpose of enabling applicants
to contradict injurious allegations, constitutes
the • unfair competition with the ordinary
traders in advertisements of which we complain; the
remedy by criminal information has always been
spoken of as an extraordinary and supplementary ap-
plication of the law, to be adopted only where the '
remedy by action or by indictment is insufficient to
meet the Justice of the case. It is entirely in the dis-
cretion of the judges to allow or refuse the rule; and
it has been customary, where private individuals have
made the application, rather to discourage than for-
ward their attempt to avail themselves of a mode of
relief which lies beyond the ordinary practice of the

law. _
It has often, in former times, been urged as a rea-
son for granting the rule for an information, that
this was the only criminal proceeding in which the
libelled could assert his own innocence as well as
obtain redress from the author of the calumny. In a
civil action for libel the defendant could always plead,
and, if the case admitted of it, prove the truth of the
libel, and by establishing it offer a complete defence.
The criminal proceeding, on the other band, by indict.
ment, being founded on the theory that libels are per-
nicious whether false or true, as tending to the disturb-
ance of the peace, admitted of no allegation or proof
of the justice of the statement complained of. A
prosecutor might, and often did, obtain a verdict
without clearing his own character or impugning
the veracity of the defendant. The jury had only
to decide whether the writing before them was
libellous, and if so, whether the defendant
had published it. The character of the victim
of libel was often rather damaged than otherwise by
his success; for the unfairness of a prosecution where
the defendant was not at liberty to justify his state-
ment, naturally became a common and effective argu-
ment to juries, who knew that, in a civil action, the
truth of the case might have been fully tried.
The injury which was thus sustained by the victims
of unfounded charges naturally led to frequent appli-
cations for criminal informations, with the main ob-
ject of stating on affidavit the complainant's innocence
of the charges brought against him. As the defendant
has the opportunity, in showing cause against the
rule, of filing counter-affidavits, the merits of the case
are, in this mode of proceeding, to a certain extent,
tried by the court. The common law, however,
has also discouraged the system of trying questions of
fact by written statements or on the allegations of the
parties. Except where public officers were attacked
in the discharge of their duties, or where some
other characteristic circumstance removed the case
from the ordinary ran of libels, the general inclina-
tion of the court was to leave complaining parties to
their civil or criminal remedy before a jury.
Since the passing of Lord CAMPBELL'S libel law, it
is less necessary than ever to facilitate a departure
from the ordinary course of litigation. To an indict-
ment for libel it is now open to the defendant to
plead, first, that the alleged libel was true ;
secondly, that the publication of it was for the
public advantage. If the jury decide both these issues
in his favour, he is protected from prosecution.
The mere proof of the troth of the libel is justly held
to be an insufficient defence. In a great number of
cases it would evidently be absurd to set up the
public interest as a defence to an indictment for
libel ; but the knowledge that where such a defence
really exists it may be used by a defendant, ought to
make the Queen's Bench more chary than ever of
granting extraordinary assistance. We hope we
have not rendered ourselves liable to a motion for an
information on the part of X. Y. Whether she is a
poetess we are not enabled to state, but that she is
quite a different person from X. Y., the murderess, is
a point on which we have the firmest conviction. We
wonder how the alleged libeller was supposed to ac-
count for the circumstance that his X. Y. was at large
to write poetry, and to stick bills over all the walls of
London.

The Chamber of Deputies appointed a committee
on Saturday to report on the question whether M.
Emile de Girardin should be allowed to present him-
self before the Chamber of Peers. Of mne members
of the committee, two only are members of the oppo-
sition, and as the government is in favour of sending
M. de Girardin before the upper chamber, it is pro-
bable that each will be the result. _ _

The project of law for a credit of three millions for
the establishment of agricultural camps proposed by
the government has been rejected by the committee of
the chamber.

Queen Maria Christina was expected at Rome on
the Ist June, where she was to have remained a few
days. She was expected at Toulon about the 7th.
L'Union Monarchique gays :
We are informed that domiciliary visits have been made
at avers] of the hotels in the faubourg St. Germain, and at
the dwellings of persons who have manifested sympathy

for the 8 refugees. The authorities hare resorted to
measures, and these searches hare been
attended and executed by numerous agents of the police.
Warrant' hare been Waned against the Count de Monte-
molin. In one house, more than forty policemen bare been
occupied in searching the rooms, the cellars, cabinet", ;
but in vain. All these proceedings have been, and most
necessarily be, fruitless. These searches have been continued
for more than three hours. A precis-verbal, declaring that,
in spite doll the searches which have been made, the Count
de Montemolin has not been discovered, has been sent to
Neuilly and laid before the council of ministers.
The Muniteur Algerien, of the 30th nit., announces
officially the resignation of Marshal Bageand.

Advicee have arrived from Madrid to the lit inst.
No change in the personal relations of the Queen
and her consort had taken place. The Pope's legate,
M. Brugnelli, was received by her majesty on the 31st,
and gave daily receptions at the hotel of the legation.
Same food riots had broken out in Grenada, but not
of a very serious character.

ROME, May 28.
The leading event of the week here is the death of I
the great tribune of the Roman people, Cardinal
Micara, who expired on the 24th. In him were I
centred the hopes of the transtererini, should any evil
befal our enlightened monarch : for though dean of
the sacred college, and born in 1775, he was a vigor-
ous septuagenarian. Fanny
Kemble, who, like old
Boetius, has written a book, "De Consolation Phi-
, losophica," in brisk demand here, records a conver-
sation between Micara and Lambrnschini, on their
way to the conclave in one carriage: "If the powers
of darkness preside over the election, you'll be pope,"
said the defunct : " if the people had a voice, I'm the
man ; but if heaven has a finger in the business, 'twill
be Ferretti." Micara was the terror of the retro-
grade faction : he was known to advocate most
sweeping reforms, including an agrarian law for break-
ing up entails, and reconstructing the tenure of land
in the Roman territory. Hence the great leviathans of
the desolate Campagna tried to ridicule and depreciate
him : being a capuchin: he wore a flowing bifurcated
grey beard, and was nicknamed bythem the " Pacha
of two tails." The utter simplicity of his establish-
ment rebuked the pomp and expenditure of his brother
dignitaries; but he racked not what they said, and
was himself a frank ontspeaker. I had a long oonver-
sation with him last month, of which Father Mathew,
his brother-capuchin, was the subject. " Why doesn't
he come to Rome ?" " Your eminence is not, perhaps,
aware that the lives of some thousand poor people de-
pend on his untiring personal exertions in Ireland!"
Bens, capiaco, braro padre! But, said he, about his
, advocacy of temperance," we wanted him here a little
! under the late pontificate!" Whether this was an
epigram or not Ido not presume to judge. I merely
give his words.
The consequences of the great banquet in the baths
of Titus, and the (confiscated) report of the speeches,
are still perceptible. The King of Naples has sent
his compliments to Marquis Dragonetti (a Neapo-
litan), who spoke the opening oration, requesting his
presence at court; the orator declined; whereupon
Ferdinand 11. called on the Pope to expel him to the
frontier, where relays of gens d'armene were ready
to escort him from Terracina to the Castel novo : Pins
flatly refused to commit such a breach of hospitality.
I Here the matter rests.

The organisation of the national guard exhibits the
policy of Pius as resting for support not on the mob,
but on the middle classes emphatically. All artists,
shopkeepers, members of liberal or learned profes-
sions, with householders and proprietors, are to be
enrolled under arms. The nobility have began to see
their mistake, and, convinced that opposition is useless,
they are now about to show by a signal demonstra-
tion that they are more determined admirers of the
Pope than the people themselves. The 17th of June
will be the first anpiversary of the grand decree of
amnesty, and on that day they are preparing, at
their exclusive expense, not allowing any other class
to contribute a farthing, a most splendid testimonial
of their adhesion. On the spot in the square del
Popok, where last year the people erected a trium-
phal arch of lath and plaster, they are about to erect
the model in
,gesso of a colossal group in sculpture,
with gigantic accessories, from the design of a
Milanese sculptor. Yesterday they mustered in force
on horseback as early as four o'clock in the morning
to escort Pius on his journey to Subiaco.
The " pilgrims of the heart," to use their own
phraseology, arrived on Monday, and proceeded at
once to the Irish seminary with the contents
of the silver urn, which I saw to-day de-
posited In the vestry-room of the church ad-
jacent, called St. Agatha dei Goti (of the Goths).
'The associations and reminiscences connected with
this spot are by no means Irish, it having been, since
the time of the gothic Arians, a den of heterodoxy ;
indeed, Gregory the Great calls it " %whines prari-
tails hareator," (lib. iii., epist. 19). The seminary
itself is far from realizing the character of a national
institution ; it was got up a few years back by a Dr.
Blake, whose impracticable temper it had to contend
with till his removal and the appointment of the pre-
sent mild sad considerate president Dr. Cullen,
but it is by no means an improvement on Maynooth.
Far from fostering a race of young clergymen, able
to overawe and cope with the intelligent laity, of new
growth in Ireland, it can at best only produce a set of
half-witted ascetics. There is here an Irish convent
and church better entitled to this national relic : I
mean St. Isidoro, founded several hundred years, and
always tenanted by distinguished Irishmen, the ear-
liest being Luke NI adding, the great historian of the
Franciscans. There was some whisper of a vault in
St. Peter's, but up to this moment, those who gave
that hint have been told that none but crowned heads
were admissible, such as the Stuart race, the Sobieskis,
the ex-queen Christina of Sweden, and (should she
die here just now) the ex-queen Christina of Spain,
her great rival in combining gallantry with devotion.
If I were consulted on the matter, I would at once
carry the silver urn away from the obscure and ill-
famed locality of the Suburra (vide Persil Satyr. v.
32), ascend the Janiculum-hill, and in the church of
Montorio, seek out the spot where moulder the bones of
O'Neil of Tyrone, and O'Donnell of Tyrconnell (1608).
I'd not lame thee thou late one
To pine ea the stem
Where the Panuors are sleeping—
Go ! sleep thou with THIN
The Italians find some difficulty in understanding
why and wherefore this Irish champion was not dis-
posod to allow his heart a resting-place in his own
beloved land. The notion altogether is suspected
here to be of posthumous origin, yet numbers resort
to this small church to pay their respects to the
&evertor of his country's freedom, and feel flattered at
the thought of possessing the relic within their walls
by whatever agency brought here. The deceased
had certainly no reason to cry out with Scipio
Africanus, " Ingrate patria ne ogee quidem habebis."
As to ingratitude on the part of his co-religionists
and other admirers the thing is prepoeterous. He was
most munificently remunerated, and never were the
words of the Greek orator, in reference to his great
antagonist more applicable: Are/savor 0 hear ; our !
&Ma poyairslorpodopy. IT is on record that the com-
mon disturber of Europe, Pope Hildebrand, dying
somewhere near Naples, exclaimed, no doubt in per-
fect sincerity, "Diteri justitiam et odici iniguitatem
ergo morior in crab o; but as for Mr. O'Connell,
his exile itself was voluntary, not like the banish-
ment of an illustrious writer of antiquity, whose dying
momenta are sang by Lamartine:
(A)l,tsri.:air,d: mono anal descendant
mains,
Aux Situates barbares—rsyclaaseetdre,
moire Lax Remain'
Then sit], both hands uplifted the bard ere he breathed
His last deb far away from his Modred sad home,
To the Scythia= his ashai bath left—butAilisueathed
glory to Rome!
The mention of uplifted hands may well introduce
an anecdote of Dan's dying chamber. It seems that the
pressure on the brain had caused naturally enough
partial paralysis of the limbs. Oa the 14th of May
he was observed by his chaplain to draw his right
arm from the bedclothes, and making a feeble rt
to raise it, " Doctor," he faintly murmured, " this arm
la EMANCIPATED." It soon fell.
We " Boman' " are exceedingly fastidious in the
matter of Latin inscriptions, and, perhaps from habit
and frequency, are familiar with the elegancies which
enter into what ie here called the "lapidary" style.
Hence sundry comments have been made on the caco-
phony of what we read on the urn—"Natua Kerry,
obiit Genore." It is mentioned in the authorised, but
somewhat ponderous and bigotted biography compiled
by John, that Dan's first schoolmaster (who besides
the hornbook initiated his pupil into the mysteries of
a horn comb) was one of the Mahonys. That worthy
Wagon°, if alive, would have suggested to Dr.
Miley something less dull and leas rinclassical than
the above. Perhaps he would have furnished a couplet,
justifiable by Virgilian precedent; ex, gr.:
Nem. me =suit: Lewes moire; Meet Me
Rows cm at roma cation run once&

Posy awr.—l have justretarned from another riot
to the vestry-room, where the heart is kept. I now
have found some reason for justifying the selection of
St. Agutha's Church as the final receptacle of Dan's
heart, for hare at least there is one other distinguished
man entombed. On examining the edifice I find at
the right hand, between two columns, the following
inscription on a Greek worthy, who, it appears, is in-
terred beneath, John Lascaris, one of the refugees from
Constantinople (when taken by the Turk.) and an
efficient promoter of the revival of letters in western
Europe:—

Ammack aUsirry4 y. , msawo. Toast
krer brow msµpeparor
Ewe/. muiszorr MA' azkra. wrst Av.!
On to zow %woo +farm away.
which I have not time to versify, but the plain prose
of it is this

-- •
" Lsacaris lies here in a foreign grave; but 0 stranger, he
does not feel uncomfortable on that account—he rather
rejoices ; yet is not without a pang, as a Grecian, that his
fatherland cannot afford him an emancipated sod of earth."

GERNIANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, JUNE 4.
The Allgenseine Preussische Zeii44l49 of this day publishes
the continuation of the grand political debate which com-
mutated in the Chamber of the Three Estates on the 30th
it., with a remarkable speech by the Minister of Justice
(Harr Von &vigil"), who contended that the demand for an
Naval or biome' convocation of the diet could not be
bred upon the promises made in laws previous to the
pagnt royal of Feb. 3, and that there was no contradiction
Intermit those statutes and that charter. The political
debate on the following day, the 31st ult., was a very
animated one. It was opened by the Graf von Renard,
who, in the course of his address, examined the two ques-
tions, whether the periodical convocation of the diet was
really necessary, and whether the request for such convoce
tion was an opportune one. With regard to the former, he
maintained that the yearly assembling of the diet might be
set down as desirable and necessary; and, with reference to
the latter, that although his Majesty, in his royal message
of the 22nd of April last, had promised to convene the
diet again within the period of four years, it would not e
presumptuous or indiscreet to ask for a periodical convoca-
tion. inasmuch as that royal message merely fixed the as.
sembling of the dist for one particular time, and the petition
asks for a concession altogether different from that already
made. The speaker moved, as an ameridnent, that all those
motions for petitions having in view the modification of the
patent of Feb. 3, be drawn up in terms whereby his
Majesty should be humbly requested to lay propositions,
connected with those petitions, before the diet, to be
convened (according to the royal message of the 22nd o.
Aril) within the period of four years. The Marshal, after
• taptthe sense oldie assembly, declared that the Graf s
amendment had found the legally required number of sup-
porters to allow of its discussion. Herr Von Sperling next
addressed the house. He accounted for the general apathy
or silence with which the patent royal of Feb. 3 was re-
ceived, on the grounds that the people did not consider it in
unison with that justice which is the greatest ornament of
the throne • and that the important rights of the estates
were violated in it. Me said he belonged to the 137 mem-
bers who had signed the well-known declaration respecting
the differences existing between the ordonnances of Feb. 3,
and anterior ones Lit declaration we may state here which
skims certain privileges as rights, and not as favours), but
he should not, on that account, oppose the petitions for
further concessions. He maintained anew, that the diet had
a right to be periodically assembled, but craned, also, that
such • convocation was both useful and necessary. The
mode of petitioning was, he observed, a new and unknown
one for the members of the house, and they did not know
how far those petitions would be granted. Should a peti-
tion for • periodical convocation of the diet be based merely
upon the necessity and usefulness of having fixed times
for meeting, and should such a petition be rejected
la the House of Lords, matters would be in a worse state
Lima they are at present. The speaker concluded by referring
le several laws, which, according to his view, held out the
wont of an annual convocation of the diet. Ater
emelt ether deputies had addressed the house in favour of
Ow alma convocation, the Royal Commissary stated that
he kit called upon to set forth the views of the crown with
reference to the limits of the debate then carried on. His
honoured colleague, the minister of justice, had already
explained, that in the royal message of the 22nd of April,
his Majesty expressly declared that he recognised in the
diet no other rights than those uerrbed to Up the laws of
as Feb. 3, or such he might hereafter, in ale way, make
over to it. That message had certainly hel out the possi-
bility of the extension of those rights, and had admitted the
right of the diet to address petitions to the king in favour of
such extension. It was, however, another affair for the diet
to resolve that it possessed rights, based upon former acts.
Against such a resolution he must make a stand, and he did
so even by royal command. His Majesty declased, in his
royal message, that the patent of Feb. 3 had fulfilled all
former promises, and be (the royal commissary) must oppose
every motion declaring that the diet had other rights than
those set forth in the patent of Feb. 3.
The debate was brought to a close on the 2nd inst., by a
unanimous vote in favour of forwarding a petition to his ma-
Psty, beseeching him to convoke the diet every two years.
Previously to the general vote, which was in accordance
with the report of the committee of the house appointed to
examine the question, one was taken on the amendment pro-
posed by Baron Von Vincke, to the effect that the penodical
convocation of the diet was entirely based on right and pro.
mites of a date anterior to Feb. 3. This amendment was
carried by • majority of 13. This is, in fact, the more im-
portant vote of the two, inasmuch as it shows the opinion of
the majority. of the house with reference to former °riot:-
races, and inasmuch also as there are other questions de-
pending upon the interpretation given to those ordonnances.
It is fully expected that his majesty will accede to the prayer
of the petition.
POSTAGE REFORM IN GEltMANT.—Letters from
Frankfort say that a radical reform in the system of postage
will be speedily effected in the German states. The govern-
ments of all the states are in accordance on this subject. The
following are the bases of the new system :-1. The free pas-
sage of the mails from state to state, without obstruction or
delay.-2, A daily mail everywhere.-3. Mails to follow the
shortest route as tar as possible.-4. A uniform rate of pos-
e, and as low as possible.
TURKEY.--CONBTANTINOPLE, MAY 19.—Teeter-
day, the Ottoman government was informed by one of the
foreign ambassadors that the Greek government had ac-
cepted the mediation of Austria. The Ottoman government
is offended at this step, and considers that its object is only
to gain time. It will, accordingly, proceed with the mea-
sures which had been previously decided on. It will with-
draw the exequatur from the Greek mongols, and will ex-
clude the Greek commercial marine from the coasting trade
and all commerce with the coasts of Turkey. If these mea-
sures be ineffectual, Greek vessel' will be excluded from the
Dardanellee, and Greek subjects residing in the Ottoman
territory will be excluded from the practice of certain trades.
The Porte only waits for the return from Athens of the
Russian packet-boat, which has brought despatches to M.
Perdard.—Augsburg Gaunt, June 2.
ALGIERS.—INVASION OF KARELIA. —The No-
tional publishes the following letter from Algeria, of the
27th ult., giving details of the recent proceedings in Kabylia,
which are, if true, sadly at variance with the accounts re-
cently forwarded to the government by Manta u Bugeaud :
" Tne battle fought by the marshals column lasted front
five in the afternoon till the following ineradag; bat daring
the night the out-posts only of the Freak asap kept up
the firing. At day-break the affair became w serina.
Our troops were, es they always are, tell at ardor mad
intrepidity. Several considerable villages were talus,
some of which had • population of 6,000, and were defended
by crenelated towers. The marshal, as the Akbar has
stated, himself gave the orders for this devastation, it having
been previously agreed that the firing of three cannons
should be the signal for putting a stop to the pillage.
The troops, excited by the heat of the combat, rushed
headlong into the villages, and completely sacked them.
Jewels, rich stuffs, carpets, provisions of all kinds,
• quantity of arms, and a profusion of gold and
silver, fell into the hands of our *oldie's. The
booty was immense. Numerous jars filled with olive
oil were broken, and their contents allowed to flow
about the streets, and the fire from the hunting houses
gaining this liquid, a horrible eyeshade yeemonted itself.
All the inhabitants who came end& lark of our soldiers
were put to the sword. La the midst of this frightful
sleeks a Kabyle chief of athlede lbws was sea limiag his
way to the marshal, and bevies one ip, eatesaled Lm, in
terms of humble supplies*" tothe Aorta-
don, and he and lispesplevealdmake tehesis-
sion. In the semi of his waste spressise of
his countenance, there was so auk siessety as well as grief,
that the marshal ordered the throe swam to be fired, and
the destruction and plunders& ere meet This was to the
great regret of the menial, The avid het esemiewshea ea
the terrace, that he wilted he hot bees mete eftlsatiy at-
tacked, in order that the deilesslies mkt have been more
complete, and the Lem men hasps. Tals is no calumny ;
it is the truth, sad again/ mess then the teeth."

Abe GUttn.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and
Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, and re-
mained to luncheon with her Majesty and his royal high-
ness. Lord J. Russell had an audience other Majesty.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in-
cluded H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, H.S.H. the Prince of
Leiningen, Lady A. Bruce, Baroness de Spetb,_Lsdy
_A.
Paget, Viscount Jocelyn, Mr. 0. R. and the Hon. Mrs.
Anson, and Sir G. Couper. The band of the Soots Fusilier
Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's
private band afterwards attended.
H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen paid tints to her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough
House ; to H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House; and to their RR.HH. the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, at Cambridge House.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty
the Queen Dowager yesterday, and also H.R.H. the Duchess
of Gloucester.—The Royal Duchess paid a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge on Sunday at Cambridge-house.
Prince William of Hesse Philippethal arrived at
Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, at twelve o'clock yesterday,
from the Continent, on • visit to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager.
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantin
of Rues& attended by his suite, honoured the Marquis
Merchioness of Londonderry with his company at dinner,
yesterday, at Holderneme-house.—The Marroneu of
donderry bad afterwards an evening part L.
Their RR. HR the Duke and of Cam-
' Midge, attended by Lady Augusta Casein and Baran

Knesebeck, honoured the Austrian Ambassador anti the
Countess Dietrichstein with their company, at dinutr yes-
terday evening.
Their ItR. HH. the Hereditary Orand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Sale Weimar, visited the Duke and
Dueler. of Cambridge on Sunday, at Cambridge.houes, and
the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-bouse. The Here-
ditary Grand Duke inspected St. Paul's Cathedral 3 esterday.
In the afternoon. H.R.H. accompanied by Prince William of
Philippsthal, and attended by Earl Howe and Count de
Beust, went to the Home of Lords, and also inspected the
new Palace at Westminster.
Prince Oscar, of Sweden, yesterday, visited the
Dockyard and Arsenal, Woolwich
THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE yesterday in-
I the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards at the parade
ground in the barrack square, Albany-street.
_ _

Couut Sehhamelpenninek, the Netherlands Minis-
ter, visaed Yiscouat Pahnerston yesterday at the office of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Thornton trans-
acted hardness at the Foreign-office on Friday. Earl Cath-
cart had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colo-
nial-offi,e. Mr. Welman had an interview with Sir George
Grey 3 esterday at the Home-office,

ROYAL COLLEGE Or CtiMenfiT.-The fiat annual
general meeting of ae.h 11111 held yesterday at the
college in Hanover-square. Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., pre-
sided. Mr. Jackson, the searotary, read the report of the
council, and also that of Dr. Hoffinac, with regazd to the
progress of instruction in the college. The former opened
with the announcement of the completion of the labora-
tories, the first stone of which was laid by Prince Albert in
June last. The council congratulated the members upon
the appreciation which the institution had met with from
the public. The number of students at present in the college
was 38, making no less than 147 from its establishment A
member of the college had expreseed his intention, as soon as
the oollege was free from debt, to invest the sum
of 1,0001. as a premium for discoveries in chemistry
effected therein. Two offers had also been made of
donation to the amount of 1001. respectively, for the purpose
of raising in each case a thousand pounds as soon as other
persons would come forward to complete the sums. Dr.
Hoffman's report announced the entire soccer, of all the
arrangements in the new building, and the progress of the
students in various new chemical discoveries, which be con-
ceived might lead to very beneficial matte. The total
receipts of the institution last year, including the previous
balance, amounted to 6,8461. 7s. ; out of which a present
balance remained of 6221. 18e. 7d. The reports, together
with the statement of accounts, were adopted unani-
mously ; which was followed by the re-election of
the council-with some additions-in the place of
several gentlemen who were removed from the board
to be included in the list of vice-presidents; and, also, of the
officers of the company, to all of whom complimentary vote,
were awarded. The business being concluded, some conver-
sation ensued on the subject of the 1,0001. which it was pro-
posed to invest as a prise for chemical discoveries, during
which Mr. Blakemore' M.P. (who was understood to be the
donor), explained that the premium was to be offered in par-
ticular for the discovery of any means which should render
iron, when applied to all ordinary purposes, as little liable to
rust or corrode as copper.-The meeting then separated.
The BASINGSTOKE CANAL COMPANY'S half-yearly
meeting was held yesterday at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house,
Holborn. The report, which was unanimously adopted,
stated that the traft on the canal for the year ending on the
31st March, 1847, was 22,402 tone. producing 2,0661. 75., to
the 31st March, 1846, it was 24,018 tone, producing
2,1E91. 16s, 7d , bring a difference of 1,608 tons, and
1231. Bs. 7d. This decrease in the tonnage is attributed
chiefly to the length and severity of the last winter, during
which the navigation on the canal was much impeded, not-
withstanding the exertions made to keep it up by means of
the ice-boat. The high price of coals, and the great emcee-
titioa of the South-Western Railway Company, elm operated
very unfavourably on the traffic of the canal. In consequence
of the diminution of the coal trade of Odiham, arising from
the unabated competition of the above-mentioned railway, it
had been deemed necessary to reduce the toll upon
coals from Is. Gd. to 2s. per ton. The total expenditure
of the half year had been 2,5401. 2s. 9d., and the receipts
2,6951. Is. 6d., leaving a balance of 1541.18 e. 7d. The following
was the state of the company's affairs on the 31st March,
1847. Assets balance as above, 1541. 18s. 7d. ; Exchequer-
bills 2,000/. ; amount owing to the company for interest
on Exchequer-bile, tolls, &c., 3791. 18s. I Id. ; total,
2,5341. 17s. 6d. Debts: unclaimed bond interest,
2,2371. 14s. 9ii. ; amount owing by the company for mate-
rials, &e., 1901. 17a. 6d. ; total, 2,4281. 12s. 3d. Leaving a
balance of 1061. ss. 3d. in favour of the company. This
balance was stated to be considerably less than that of last
year, in consequence of the expenses incurred in the erection
of new buildings and works, which, however, had increased
the value of the property. Surrounded as they wore by
difficulties inseparable from the nature of canal trade when
contrasted with the rapidity and precision of railway traffic,
the committee did not disguise from themselves the necessity
for great sacrifices in the revenue of the company. They
foresaw, however, that by cultivation of the goodwill of
traders, and by a rigid perseverance in economy, the pro-
prietors may be ensured the possession of every possible ad-
vantage which the Basingstoke canal is capable of yielding.
The election of a committee for the ensuing year, and a vote
of thanks to the chairman, closed the proceedings.
SERVANTS' LNSTITCTION-Thc thirteenth general
annual meeting of the friends and members of this maim-
L tution was held yesterday at the Committee Rooms, 42,
. Great Marylebone.street, Portland-place, John Maidment,
, Esq., in the chair. The report of the part year stated that
the number of male subscriptions was forty-two' and the
• female ninety-eight. A considerable sum had been ex-
pended in medicine for sick members and general relief had
also been granted to a large number of applicants, besides
which a pension fund had been opened for the further relief
of distressed members. The financial statement represented
things in a highly satisfactory condition. The total receipts
of the year amounted to 3361. 14s. 111 d., whilst the expendi-
ture was 244/. 16s. 4d. ; 811. 17n. having been derived out
of the former by donations and subscriptions, leaving a
balance in the hands of the banker, after defraying all ex-
penses, of 911. 18s. 51d. The meta of the institution
amounted to 5861. 10s. 91d. After the re-election of officers,
and other routine business, the meeting separated.
THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN
FRANYLIN.-The party of Royal Sappers and Miners who
are to form the " searching " peen to be despatched on a
boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and his
wty, in case no intelligence of them should reach England
before next spring, embarked yesterday on board the Prince
Rupert and the Westminster. The detachment consists of
1 corporal, 2 lance corporals, and 12 privates, all of whom
have been examined by Sir John Richardson, and selected
from Woolwich, Chatham, and Sandhurst, out of a large
number who volunteered for the expedition. The in-
structions to the party are, to land at Fort
Jack, and proceed to the company's station on the
M'Kenzie river, whets they are to winter, and in the event
of an unfortunate doubt still hanging over the fate of the
intrepid Arctic voyagers, they will be joined by Sir John
Richardson, in the spring of 1848. The men are all to be
teetotalers, that is, no grog or spirits will be served out tit
them, but they will receive double pay and rations. and will
have an abundant supply of pemmican, or the dried flesh of
the buffalo. Winter dresses, prepared from the skin of the
moose deer, are also provided for them, and every pro-
vision has been made to enable them to meet the rigours of
the terrible climate they will have to endure. The men are
all accustomed to the use of boats, which they will have
to resort to on the M'Kenzie, and have been selected from
the trades of carpenters, smiths, &e.
ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-OARDEN.-Shortly before 12 o'clock on Saturday
George Hill, was engaged in removing one of the side
wings, when he lost his equilibrium, and fell on the
stage from a height of ups anis of 22 feat, sustaining
the most serious injuries. It was at first feared that the
poor fellow was killed on the spot, aa on being picked up he
did not appear to breathe, nor move. He was takes to
King's College Hospital, where he remains in a very die-
Messing condition. Amongst the visitors of distinction to
the opera may be mentioned 11.R.H. the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, who kindly sent several times during Sunday and
yesterday to the hospital to make enquiries as to the state of
the unfortunate man, of whom last evening favourable
accounts were given by the surgeon.
INQUESTS.-DEATH OF A BOW-STREET OFFICER.
-Before Mr. Carter, at the George, Kingston-hill, oc
Saturday evening, upon the body of Francs Howell,
formerly a well-known Bow street officer, who has been
residing at Kingston upon a pension granted him for
his services for a great many yeah, and who cut his
throat on the 24th of May. The deceased livedwith his POO,
Aaron Howell, and one of his grandchildren, in a cottage at
Coombe Warren, near Kingston, and on the day in question
he sent his grand-daughter out, and in her absence milieu d
a severe wound on his throat, and also cat the joint of his
left arm.-Dr. Cox, a surgeon, residing in the vicinity, upon
examination, found that the wound was three inches 100 g
but not very deep, and the windpipe was slightly injured.
Owing to some injuries deceased bad received in his bead in
the performance of his duty he was at times very violent,
and Dr. Cox never considered him to be perfectly sane, al-
though there was nothing in his conduct to justify his bring
placed under restraint. The medical gentleman further
stated that although the injury inflicted by the deceased upon
himself, might have hastened his death, he did not consider it
was the actual cause of death.-The jury returned a verdict
that the deceased died a natural death, which was accelerated
by the infliction of a severe wound upon his neca by
himself while in a state of temporary insanite.-
ACCIDENT ON THE BOVIN-WZOTEBN RAILWAY.-By Mr.
Payne, at St. Thomas's Hospital, yesterday, on the body of A.
Brooks, age,'.pater en the South-Western line of rail-
way. Mr. Kenacte, station agent at iiirit;;;:iesii, said
that on Friday, at haltpast twelve, witness hear,' the
whistle of the down train, and, on looking round, saw the
deceased walking between the down line end the platform.
The train instantly came up, but not at full speed, and de-
ceased was thrown off his legs, but not on the rail. In
making an effort to get up, he put one band over the rail,
and he was again 'truck on the head. Seven carriages passed
over him before the engine could be stopped. He had no
business on the line, but should have got on the platform to
ring the bell. He ^s brought t " ' • -
died from

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Duke rang the bell. He Was brought to the hospital, where he
D
louse.died on Saturday morning, from the effect of the inj,:cs.
~. Verdict, '' Accidental death."--manstAtiogin• .. .1.-4.
C_l,,"' fore Mr. William Baker, at the Black Hone, -Settobl-hoote-: .' •
s'''"'Y, lane, Ratcliff, on the body of Ann Ford, ag •MI yggs:who •
.
lasso died on Sunday morning last, from the ; calk' dja ;Films ' es.
received from a man named Henry Jones • moil,. ... Mr. /'
titian Allan Cleland, surgeon, said he found the , •. , Offering ~.
s sad under inflammation of the peritoneum. itiot fitgariga her • /- '
inner, for a week, and she improved under his t, t. At the , - '..c.
'.. Lon- end of that time she complained that the . ,;.i
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over the whole region of the abdomen. .:11"1, 7" I
Cam- weaker until she expired. On a pos.ntimingin.x-4.
Baron nation, he ascertained that the p
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dm* mass hem a rupture of the gall bladder, which
ha aMdbaball. from the fact of there being no
diamma,M ykdence. The peritoneal inflammation,
Is whisk he had alluded, was caused by that rupture,
mod the olleden also was caused by it, that being
matusal abet of the inflammation. He had no
duet alma death vat caused by violence, and not
OM NM wit Masi causes. A stamping of the foot might
mom raglmq without showing marks externally, from
lir Odin papertiee of the body. Inspector Billion said
batlfrogoisimer Heirloom to the bedside of the dying
meow is his presence she made a statement which be
tea lowa is writing. The inspector then put in the decla-
mation. le shied in effect that Harrison vine home drunk
am re algid mitts 15th of May, and beat and kicked her in
• wry tidal meaner. The declaration was signed by the
11411111 M Farther evidence having been adduced, the
111011/SW stmated up,, and the jury Warmed a verdict of
"Naadamileter " against Healy Jaw Earriall.

ELECTION DITELLICIENCF-
anzuroamt —Mr. Beholedeld has iasued his address.
The Mora( an extracts from it:
Lenoir. immissed al the Weida the poem regulation te-
en ass et their Wartlsalipasy Is give else to
sal leg will et Se=ala a steneses adman et
sepalat the solkuse melt sen-
ies 41,glibreinient gin ea the neat Oneetry de the
ulna Jost d
pi lames upon lelskino, tam
=sellar. sotado an fancier On et • pepsin
it Ms hiberolen thforred. amens la poloitthe
war ser to seem re empire arreadtrity at the repoinathe,
lon ineerates dim la the WIN sad to short gerlismers, as
menat arm* et the per tenel* et free tads, I will. whether la
roan entry Its mines, so brag se •
eloga smelssesta nine the
on ttsopeensa.
sppoh to wait upon lt. Masts (ma
✓ase Y peradsy's Rama) bars had *sir interview,
sad dr emaid. more than
if
avers how !sadly the hon.
geodes= isms to a tory, if act to toryism. /re declared
teak amphilloffly that he would not unite with Mr. &hole-
ma, that ha had already given a pledge (by which he
met adds) M stand aka.. He further intimated that he
dr she Mr as samatiteas er electioneering apparatus, but
that he shed& bar aa addrus, sad attend at the nomination
AMU within dim limits. " This (says oar
) L are reassidae. Mr. Muntx is candid-
Wen seeseic ell Mr. edsakersn split votes. These, with
aOf oder WO. Bposar's, will, he imagines, place him
at the head ribs poll. He will parr find, when too late,
that he Me beg deceived in his
ihaThilllo/3.—Lest evening, • itiasting of the electors of
Marylibios ark pQlace at Enron', Ceasert Rooms, Marti-
-square. for the Pere of Searing
polities! sea seta of David Salomon, sq., as • candidate
for the mressatation of the borough. John Stewart, Esq.
was main to the chair. —Mr. David Salomon' on add
rye noreffetp unwed himself the staunch supporter of
sad religfor Mary to the most extensive limit. He was
the Ideal et education to the greatest extent, and whilst he
thought that education should-be supported by the state, he
should ham yard, bad he been in parliament, against the
Minutia of Onocil, on the ground that the government had
no right to tun niligiou,butthat they should base extended
it to all. He esosidered that freedom of trade and commerce
was the sly erg that earl maintain England as a great
and eelfgremsil arra, sad that a poor-Law for Ireland was
the meg Minn of tly alleviating the distress
orsanty. • was opposed to the principle of
centralloalio, and in favour of the principle of local
seltgerramssit A rumour had gone abroad that he
(Mr. /dares), if he was elected, was unable to
take bit eat In the House of Commons. He begged to
NMI de arstitemey of Msrylebone that this was a min
tin Thopiodi he wed not take the oaths why he had
shoe* ritea paid/ the same oaths as Sheriff of Middle-
s.; WisileM of Kant, and as • justice of the peace.
Illetiollse• rid laid it down that every British born subject,
not dinned by special statute, was eligible to • seat in par.
barest. In last year a bill was pared called the Religion
Opinion Bill; and that bill repealed all the obsolete
stature which would have disqualified him. There were
to ado to take. The hon. gentleman further contended
that ha adystood in the same position as any other dissenter,
and as lefesno, as he believed, qualified in every way to re-
thot bonengh, he earnestly appealed to the electors=
umpire. (Cheers.) In answer to questions the hon.
maa ispreofed himself a supporter of household suf.
aipposat of church rates, and also of the continu-
ous@ oldie established Protestant Church of Ireland.—On
the modes dB. B. Williams, Eq., seconded by Mr. Hugh
ruididon, approving of Mr. Salomon both in a
peYIIW el isounterrial point of view, as • fit and proper
assarasa he represent the borough in parliament, was
adopted shiest unanimously, amidst loud cheering ; and
thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meeting
separated.
Nom ND, NORTH.—The liberal canvass is stated
to have been a complete triumph. The Gatedtead Observer
rye :—" The canvassers are surprised at their own success.
In the Newcastle district Lords Ossulston and Louvain' will
not poll a tithe of the electors. But there will be no poll.
One of the noble lords will see the wisdom of retiring Prom
the contest. It could only end, if carried out, in placing Sir
George Grey at the head of the poll."
Sowsent.v.—The Shropshire Cameros:tire announces
" on authority " that Sir Fitzroy Kelly will offer himself as
a candidate for this borough.
SCOTLAND.
HLDDINOTON.—Sir D. Baird has complied with the rip.
qidaitie• swat him and announces himself • candidate. He
says he is trearable to the modification of the game laws.
Betweea llr. Wilford and Sir David the turning point will
be repeal If modification of the game nuisance.
Mateo Evaous.—Extract from a private letter. " The
clailito here to • most complicated matter, and so far as re-
nib ass miserned the toss of a penny would give es correct
IS 11111111.1011 as the most elaborate weighing and Wending
of
pothalaties. If pressed for my opinion, I should ray
eat ff Lied Debneny were to stand he might have the best
dross ior all that has happened."

THE ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
INQUEST.—WOLVERTON MONDAY NIGHT.—This
afternoon, at 1 o'clock, a j ;lesembled before Mr, John W.
Cowley, the caner for Bn~inghamehire, to investigate the
deaths el the amen unfortunate persons tilled by the mai-
ns' whist browsed to the Liverpool mail train oo the line
of the lambs. red Nosh-Western Railway, near the Wol-
mess sadies, ea the night of Saturday last. The inquiry
was Mid is the News-room, a few hundred yards front the
Wesel= station. Capt. Bruyeres, the general euperin-
tosirst; Mr. M'Connell, chief of the locomotive depart-
ment; sad Mr. Barnewell, of the firm of Parker, Hayes,
Begemesh. and Twieselton, solicitors of the London and
NeetbArottern Railway, attended to watch the proceedings
ea Wither the mayo se:4
T then accompanied
hekin by the coroner,
mai the ekih the company, to view the bodies, which
thy wow the floor clan ante-room The faces dame were
as bilk as coal, evidently showing that death haft malted
hem Injury to the brain, whilst in all there was ea ethane
or
eggrant h, either by breaking of bone* or ines ear
trim the appearance of the bodies was thateztA
NOB vole hod died from suffocation, there being a
from the menth, and a alight discharge of bloW. The are
of the dessined persons appeared to average from 25 to 46
em stage. After performing this part of their duty, the
view the spot where the accident happiest,
>N. d to
and Mr. M'Connell explaining to them the
/11/Oar which it occurred; the camages , five in number,
the ono in which the seven uo rtunate individual;
WOW tre placed in the siding ; a vacant was wee
lelt bathos the heath end fifth carriage*, to indimft Si tar
• peed* the spot occupied by the one in which the Wiley
hymned. Mr. M'Connell explained to the jury bow
the alealleata took place; the momentum of the
corehges heist checked, caused a readies, and the '
beam et the fourth carriage not ening Imely, ,
amused that to tom on its end. The filth
mile it. mil (to me Mr. M'Connell's Re
Pl=
mid to GUM Efte a nut." From yield'', the apt, the
jet, pothedol to the bridge, where lorry, the Noseable,
wee glued, to seemed to the points, and great sespies was
hit amozellhem that the train mod,d before
at st where the sosidea the dishiness
braeregiga by awessrarat, when tie teeth was set
cuegletrenter speed than tea WWI an bear. Thenju
the fragments et the carriage destroyed, whirl
Ell two Winks, • third befog filled with the glistered coal- 1
waggon, when which the engine struck. The sendese was
semis& and it was most surpridag hot any one
literall4.
er that dime dead should not have ban frightfully
Dy the side of the trucks were the mossive iron
of do Ordage, the axles of which with 'reunite&
both. The tear plank of the engine, early a foot In
thititmes, was broken at its union with the buffos. The
*eke Bent, numbered 153, and one ef Stephenson's most
peened all-wheel engines, with the exceptioo of damage
te the Wader, was not otherwise injured. After upwards of
OM hems had been spent in viewing the various things con-
noted with this melancholy case, the jury returned to the
bIiCITOM
S.curie inquired if any one was present to identify
soya Or parties, and, on being answered in the negative,
seggeshell that they should at once adjourn, as it would be
siesssary to have the bodies examined. The foreman and
Ma
and
`OMs jury were of opinion that some evidence might
ha
The mow mid the friends of the deceased had not yet
been ernehthed, and it would be cruel to commence the
gesimefileme without enabling some of them to be present ;
Sigel to which the time was very short since the 000111111•00
test pima. There was another reason why they should ad-
journ: the govenment had taken a great deal of interest in
Mss mote= inesly_, cad it would not be right to enter into
the or the ease without giving an opportnnty
ke 41117:=IRIOTS to attend. The company also wished
to peedanyines e that pardon of the railway in order to
enable the in MISS to a proper conclusion. The inquest
wee then adleuresed until Friday.
The haserirgoru the names of, and particulars respecting
the pweenseee Mad, so fu at lest, as they have been dis-
onered :—Mr. John Simpson Sheer", of Lichfield, formerly
secretariat: the
i.Lichfield anad Birmivanthe:ist
trailway Com-
raxieST—Yr.T.l. Clifton, silk mercer, who wassotirroitil.dat
Leamington.—Mr. J. B. Rattray, of the firm of Keay and
Rehm, of the Lily Bank Foundry, Dundee.—Mr. Miller,
honorary wientary to the Ragged School, held at 107, Broad-
wall, Londom—Mr. Cope, a young gentleman, appnrently
about twenty plus of age, who was on he way to Waiver-
hamptow.—And a Mr. Henry Smith, a remarkably fine man,
who, from the ticket found in his pocket, is supposed to have
booked Liana( ler Birmingham.

IRELAND._

DUBLIN, Jvxm 6.
A armase)ll, signed taaalsos ot
tag siikort shoo* by
twenty-oo• has been addressed to do NW
minima etodocation, praying an inseam at Wray.