The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1848.

cation.
Having omitted the material word "garbled" in
one passage, the Tinies inserts the word " many " in
another pretended extract from the archbishop's
pamphlet. What Dr. WHAT ELY says is not that
" many," but " some " of Dr. HAMPDEN'S assailants
" have been guilty of lavishing praises on the
Bamptoa Lectures' to Dr. HAMPDEN'S face, and
referred to him for solution of doubts and difficulties
on religious points." This is not, as the Tunes in-
sinuates, a "supposition; it is a simple fact, and if
the writer in the Times desires it, we are ready to
furnish him with names, dates, and particulars. The
real question at issue is truly, whether the writings
of Dr. HAMPDEN are consistent with the teaching of
the church of England; but this is riot, as the Times
insinuates, identical with the question, whether a
pamphlet of garbled extracts from the Bampton
Lectures '—extracts designedly mutilated to serve a
purpose—is consistent with the doctrines of the
church of England, or with any other standard
cognisable by honest and rational men. Dr. HAMPDEN,
as all men know, earnestly sought a trial, in order
tkat what the Times itself recognises as the " real"
question might be brought to an issue. The Times
maligns two reasons for this not being done, both of
which are untrue ; it says that the friends of Dr.
HAMPDEN interfered to prevent a trial—an assertion
which is simply the direct reverse of fact—and that
his opponents could not bring on a trial without the
consent of the VICE CHANCELLOR and the Heads of
Houses. But as they were able to obtain that consent
to a vote of condemnation without trial, it is scarcely
creditable that such assent should be withheld from a
fair aid free investigation, if any such had been
desired.
The criticism of the Times has not led us to
abate one jot in the warm approbation we be-
stowed on Archbishop WHATELY'S pamphlet ;
on the contrary, the feebleness of the attempt to
weaken its influence tends only to confirm its
authority. A strange effort to diminish its im-
portance has been made by a small section of
the Irish clergy. The pamphlet was a reply to an
address, sent by Archdeacon STRONG and other der-
rymen, in their ewn names as individuals, soliciting
information on a controversy which excited so much
attention in the English branch of the united church
from a prelate, the circumstances of whose position
enabled him to give them authentic information on
the subject. In his reply the archbishop distinctly
recognises the private and unofficial character of the
document ; but yet some Irish clergymen have thought
fit to protest against the proceeding, have called for
the publication of the names of those who though
it right to consult the diocesan on a question
of difficulty, but have forgotten to tell us whether
their very unseemly interference arose from their be-
lief that the HAMPDEN controversy ought to be
viewed with indifference by the Irish church, or that
a proscription list should be made of the names of
those who are guilty of seeking advice and informa-
tion from Archbishop WHATELT. This truly Irish
appendix to the English collection of protests ought
not to be omitted by future historians of the HAMPDEN
controversy, and we sincerely hope that Mr. CHRIST-
MAS will give it a place in his second edition. It will
appropriately find a place under that class of docu-
ments characterised by the motto—
Willing to vistai. kat pot alkali to strike.

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TUE melancholy accident in battue shooting which
Unjust resulted in the death of the Earl of Powis, will
naturally draw attention to that amusement. Battue
shooting is thus managed; beaters are employed to drive
all the game in a particular direction where the shooters
—usually consisting of from six to eight persons,
each with a double-barrelled 'gun, attended by a
servant carrying a second gun—are stationed; and,
as the swarm of game hurries by them, they fire right
and left, without ceasing, until satiated with slaughter,
or the drove of game has passed onward. While each
sportsman is firing one gun, his servant reloads the
second, and thus, for a short time, an Moment firing
is kept up. And all this takes place in high wood,
where the shooters cannot see each other, and their
tardy consists in keeping exactly in line with each
other.

It is *below that it requires far mare self-poseassion
than is tbs lot of most men, to avoid the most Serious
danger to others during the hurry and excitement ef
such a scene of wholesale. butchery. And it
is to provide for these battnes that larr'
head ef game, so destructive to *gelatin',
maintained by our modern game Footrests..
It wee mentions: by of the "salters at theist*.
anti-game law ia Edinburgh that Mr. Banner
ins merger, a bill ter the total repeal of the gams.
Were VIM be intende to propel to the House of
Oemmlss V,II the sassing session. It is time
tied sow odes sissuld take pica *this
rends& so completely condemOstery st
eei system et law as that which stands recorded
lettate:l=laws,,in !LaPro y! pandiezier the
ato=
in modest dom. That moth a code should baseborn
permitted to exist so long is matter of anonlisnele.
There are signs that it will not be permitted to Wit
much longer. Every here and there we find the more
liberal and intelligent landed proprietors are giving
up the hares and rabbits to the tenants of the farms
on which those noxious creatures are found. This is
as marking the change of opinion which is
eking place amongst the landowners; but it is
altogether insufficient to meet the exigencies of
the case. Permission now given, as matter
of grace and favour, to tenants to ltill the four-footed
game, by which their crops bare been ag
may be withdrawn to-morrow ; or a treys
may revert to the old and rigid system of gam pre.
servation. The preservation of game on land in a
cultivated country, not in the owner's own occupation,
must be absolutely given up, as a practice quite
intolerable.
The inhabitants of the towns as well as the
farmers are moving against the gammlawa. Not
only have the leading farmers of the Lothians and
the game-ridden husbandman of Buckinghamshire
petitioned against the law: but the town council of
Sheffield is to be moved to present " a memorial to
the Duke of NORFOLK, praying him to give order'
that the game on his estates at and in the neighbour-
hood of Sheffield may be no longer preserved." The
erneeated men of Sheffield feel that in the Duke of
Noainnes.game preserves there is a fertile source of
dessoralleataou and crime. And this is an aspect in
which, apart from all others, we apprehend the go-
vernment and the legislature cannot much longer
Lorithe game-laws with indifference. 'The
s severe and unjust, and proposes to supply
by stringent prohibitions and rigorous punishments
that protection for an :nterest in wild animals, which
the imperfect nature of that interest renderssodifficult.
But all the stringency and all the rigour of the game
laws have not protected game preserves, except at
the expense of an amount of crime and outrage in
preserved districts which are fearful to contemplate.
That 4,000 convictions should annually take place in
England and Wales for the law-made offence of
taking a wild animal, which no man can call his own,
or identify ! The enlightened lawyer and the rude
ferns-servant concur in deeming it an " unreasonable
notion" to maintain aright of property in these crea-
tures. Here is the list of committals for poaching
during one week in a part of Hampshire, as recorded
in the provincial papers :
During the last week there were committed to Winches-
ter Dridewell, for poaching, three labourers for three months
each, two for two months each, and four for six weeks each.
At the Romsey petty sessions, held on Thursday, the 13th
inst., three men were fined 51. each, or two months' imprison.
ment ; two were fined 10s. and costs, or fourteen days' im•
pritonment ; three were fined 11. and costs, or seven days' im-
prisonment. At Eareham petty sessions, the 11th inst., one
man was fined 51. and costs, or three months' imprisonment.
And by whom are these commitments muds? Who
assess the fines imposed on these labouring men for
poaching? Why, the country justices, themselves
either game preservers, regarding poaching as a
deadly crime against themselves, or the personal
friends and associates of game preservers. If justice
be administered impartially ender such circumstances
its administration can scarcely be free from suspicion.
And in truth, "justices' justice" towards poachers is
commonly regarded as something the very opposite
of justice. When Sir JAMES GRAIIAM was home
secretary, attention having been directed to the ad-
ministration of the game laws by country justices, it
was found that a great many of their commitments
were actually illegal, and that in all such cases the
error consisted in an excess of severity; a rigour
beyond the law. And yet the severity of that
law is a national opprobrium. The present home
secretary has not thought it safe to leave the
the administration of the game laws altogether in the
hands of the county magistracy. At a late meeting
of the Middlesex magistrates, Capt. COTTERELL in-
quired whether " the clerk of the peace had received
any official intimation from the Secretary of State
with regard to persons who were committed for
night poaching ?" and he went on to say that
himself and a brother magistrate in Hereford-
shire having committed a person to the quarter
sessions, for trial for night poaching, they re-
ceived a notice from the clerk that the prisoner
rota not he tried at the quarter mations, must be
tried at the assises,and that Sir GEORGE GREY had
issued an official circular to that effect. Capt. CoT-
TERELL said, "no doubt such an arrangement would
secure persons so charged a fairer trial, because
they would be tried by a judge instead of a
bench of country gentlemen, who might feel par-
ticular interest in such matters, but it involved a
serious question of expense to the county," from the
maintenance of the prisoner for a longer period in
prison. It seems that no such official instructions had
been given to the Middlesex magistrates, but there is
little doubt that it is well understood by the justices
that they cannot be allowed themselves to try their
own poachers. We say their own, because, though
the justice on whose land the particular offence under
trial was committed may absent himself from the
bench, he knows perfectly well that the anti-poacher
spirit animates the breast of every magistrate in the
court, and that the offender is in safe hands. As one
of the witnesses examined before the Game-law Com- '
mittee said, "Squire A tries B's poachers, sod Squire
B tries A's poachers." The correspondent of a
morning contemporary, referring to Captain COT-
TERELL's remarks, which we have quoted, asks why
day poachers are not withdrawn from the jurisdic-
tion of the county magistrates, and says truly
that there is as much danger of an undue bias against
the poacher in the one case as in the other. And the
same writer says that though many of the country
justices are cot themselves game preservers, yet as
they are the intimate friends and associates of game-
preserving justices, they become infected with the
Mae hostility to poachers which affects game pre-
servers. That is perfectly true. Imagine the life a
rural justice would lead were he suspected of any
hesitation to apply the wholesome severity of the
squires' game laws to the repression of poaching on
the manors of his brother magistrates !
We hope and believe that, ere long, the game laws
will be expunged from our statute-book; but so long
as any vestige of those laws remains, the trial of game
offences should be entrusted to the judges of the
-sty oourts.

Our Paris despatches of yesterday noon have
arrived. The address of the Peers was presented
with the usual forms on Wednesday. The following
reply was given by the King :
I receive with &lively emotion in this address the
expression of the condolence and of the feelings of
affection which the Chamber of Peers have testified
towards me, since the great affliction which has be-
fallen me in my family. I offer yen my most heart-
felt gratitude.
" I am always happy to repeat to the Chamber
of Peers how greatly I congratulate myself on
the assistance, as loyal, as enlightened, which they
• continue to lend my government. It is by. perse-
vering, as we have done, for now nearly eighteen
years, in more closely connecting the bonds which so
happily unite the great powers of the state, that we
shall ultimately succeed in consolidating and pre-
serving from all danger the institutions which France
has bestowed upon herself, and which guarantee the
progressive development of her prosperity, and the
strengthening of order at home and of peace abroad.
" I again most cordially thank you for the feelings
you have just expressed towards me."
After the formality of this reply, the King, descend-
ing from the throne, mingled among the peers who
attended in considerable numbers, and conversed with
several of them. The deputation was then intro-
duoed to the Queen and princesses. The King ap
peered to enjoy his usual good health. Above 200
peers were present.
The ministerial journals of yesterday labour to
dissipate the anxiety which has hung, and still
hangs, on the public mind, and the effects of
which are conspicuous in the daily records
of the Bourse. The sources of this public

solicitude are involved in obscurity, and, tiers
Is a secret and inexplicable prempticacat at we. 1
Theistaice of all remotion d the clsiesse. whe-
ther •or prise*, end the pereseal retirement et
the ng, which ni haWal#, and indeed inevitably,
7c..:t the recent affliction of the Orleans
severthetme, innumerable ramoare of the
• indisposition, which, though ofilsially metre-
dieted each evening, were sure to be reproduced in
the morning.
It is said again that the Baron de LengOorf M
go as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Maree. and
M. de Portieres goes to Naples to replace the late
Count Brecon.

The Italian mails have brought the journals and
oorrespondence from Rome, Florence, and other chief
places. The Pope had received from the Russian
ambassador the ratification of the convention nerd-
ing the catholic* of the empire, and expressed his re-
gret at not having received it in time to have pre-
vented the allusion made to Russia in his late address.
The King of Naples has, in fact, refused to join the
Italian customs league, although his answer to the
other states on the subject appear' only evasive.
The state of popular fermentation at Rome, oeca-
sioned by the distrait felt of the influence of the
retrograde party in the councils of the Vatican, con-
tinues. The great object of public solicitude for the
present is the institution of a ministry of war, which
shall be placed under a chief who is a layman, and
the mobilisation of the civic guard. A meeting took
place at Rome on the Bth, composed of the most in-
fluential members of the noblesse and the bourgeoise,
including Ciceroacchio and fourteen other popu-
lar leaders having these objects. An address was
agreed upon to be presented to the council of state, to
urge it to demand of the pontiff the creation of a
secular ministry of war, with the appointment of
chiefs of known military talent enjoying the con-
fidence of the people. The two Dursndoe, of Pied-
mont, and Colonel Ferrari, a Neapolitan, are, it is
said, mentioned.
A popular club was roposed to be instituted, the
rules and regulations opf which were already dis-
cussed.
Arrests of those implicated in the late tumults at
Leghorn eontinued to be made. That city remained
tranquil. Addresses of confidence and devotion con-
tinued to be sent from the chief places to the grand
duke.
The Post Gazette of Frankfort, of the 16th, says
that numerous arrests had been made among the
Modenese troops, in consequence of the manifestation
of discontent at the entry of the Austrians into that
duchy, and still more of the expression of liberal opi-
nions and tendescies. The soldiers had been put in
irons at Este, Carrara, and Massa. At Reggio, the
theatre was closed in consequence of the manifesta-
tions of popular discontent.
Letters from Turin of the 15th say that the Pied-
montese people have responded with enthusiasm to
the demand of the government for the extension of
the armed force of the country. Orders had been
issued to the foundries of cannon and to all the
arsenals, for the preparation and supply of munitions
of war. A letter says, that the despatch of artillery
and supplies to Alexandria and Navara was incessant.
A camp was to be formed between Navara and Vi-
gerano. It was also intended to call under arms the
contingents which had not 3 et been summoned,and to
puttee entire army on a war footing.
The students of the University of Turin had put on
mourning for a fortnight for those who had fallen in
the conflict with the Austrians at Pavia.

CU court.
WINDSOR, Tarn-stair. —The Earl and Countess
Cowper are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on
a visit to her Majesty.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess
Cowper, Mr. 0. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Rev.
Dr. and Mrs. Whewell. The band of the Royal Hone
Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private
band will afterwards attend in the Castle.

The Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence,
Clarence-house, St. James's, at half-past ll o'clock yester-
day morning from Feel:more-house, Windsor. Her Royal
Highness, attended by Bir O. Conner, left town at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, on her return to Frogrnore-houtc.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. The Attorney-
General had also an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. Baronet, at his official residence in Downing-street.
A deputation from the Sunday School Union, con-
sisting of Messrs. Watson, Cuthbertaon, Jackson, Latter,
and Groser, waited on the Lord President at the Privy
Council-office yesterday, on matters relating to education.
Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview on Wednesday with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday at their office, in Whitehall-
place.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood had a dinner party on Wednesday at their residence,
in Downing-street.

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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL
Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of
public business. The committee for the year ensuing were
appointed.
ABOLITION OP GRAND JURIBB.—MT. HDYPitRBTs TOM
to move " that it be referred to a committee to consider and
report as to the expediency of presenting a petition to parlia-
ment
for an act to give power to the Central Criminal Court
to try persons charged with offences within its jurisdiction
without the intervention of a grand jury ; and, further, to
consider and report whether such trials could not be most
beneficially had by informatioe, or by some and what mode
other than by indictment." He said his object was to get
rid of what was neither more nor less than a nuisance to the
community, and to propose something calculated to supply
its place with service to that community. It was well known
that grand juries were instituted at a time when the admi-
nistration of justice made the introduction of such a stem
necessary. The arguments in their favour no longs r existed.
Formerly there were no police magistrates before whom a
charge could be brought. The presentment of the grand jnry
was sufficient authority for putting a man upon his trial. The
evil was that after the remedy had been applied to the correction
of the system, the system was itself in full existence. Under
our present criminal legislation everything connected with
the accusation of an individual took place before a magis-
trate. The man was charged,• taken to a station.house,
cooed publicly before the magistrate, and all that could be
said against him was publicly brought forward and aup•
ported by evidence, which determined the magistrate either
Ito discharge or commit him, What followed 1 An inquiry
took place before the grand jury, in secret, upon the evi-
deuce merely in support of the prosecution. It was brought 1
forward behind the back of the accused, who was denied
the advantage of the presence of a single friend, professional
I or otherwise, to aid him in the difficulty of a secret attack
made before an irresponsible tribunal sworn not to divulge
the facts sworn to before them. Now, if sufficient evidence
I were given before a magistrate to send a party for
I trial, what safeguard to the accused, or what ad-
vantage to the public, could a grand jury, whose
inquiry was regulated upon the dangerous principle
of concealment, afford? The time was come when the pro.
fession of the law and the people themselves thought there
should be a change. The press exercised its powerful influ-
ence in the complaint that nothing was done. An inquiry
I had taken place before a committee of the House of Com-
I moos into the subject of the institution, and two out of
three of the numerous witnesses examined had given evfe
I deuce in favour of the complete abolition, while several had
expressed themselves the advocates of en accommodation or
modified plan. He wished to have the question before a I
committee, because in a committee the whole merits could I
be considered, and a deliberate recommendation could be
given to the court upon the result of the most minute inves-
tigation. The injury. inflicted by the operation of grand
juries was very extensive and very material. There were, as
was well known to professional men especially, numbers of
persons in this populous metropolis who were constantly
employed in deriving pecuniary advantage from false charges,
which they proposed themselves to support by false evidence.
With that sort of evidence these wretches were ready to go
before the grand jury at Clerkenwell, and accuse innocent
persons of keeping gambling houses, or of other offences to
which great opprobrium was attached; and bills wero
sud-
dealy found, without the ceremony of notice. In such
owes, the first intimations received were from the warrants
upon which the individuals accused were apprehended and
taken before the judge or the magistrate, who bad no alter-
native but to commit. In various instances that horrible
species of intimidation led to pecuniary arrangements. An
I individual got a hint to inquire whether an Information was
not laid against him, and finding that such was the feet,
although there was not the slightest ground for the *come-
en, be was ;dad to get rid of the charge by wife'
4ing the sordid demands of his unknown enemy.
Rwo only last year that a respectable female was charged
with keepine a house of an infamous description. The grand
jury found the bill, but the friends of the accused would not
I listen to any terms of compromise ; and what was the come-
lquenmi ? She came to take her trial, but no prose-
' Odor appeared—there was no charge whatever against.
her. how, if that resolute course hsd not been
adopted, the proceedings would have been stopped
complian with an extortionate demand.
If•
ce man had to complain of a grievance amounting to a
misdemeanor he could go to the Queen's Bench without
the intervention of a grand jury, and proceed by criminal
information. What could be the difficulty in adopting a
similar course in all matters connected with the Central CA.
minal Court ? The clerk could prepere the information with
the necessary formality, end all that would be nondairy to
be done than was to step from the magistrate to the court,
and with the strongest probability of justice. Re could not
here help alluding to a case which occurred about IS months

Ir. to which 8 6,0801., end
wag bawled forged
a easeque for end 'Ubangi% th" nallybdcate and
every one else wit* beard the evp:abeileved
i oethe
eared w gnat'', the bill was' and by the
gread -far7. Ilpon the subject ;. be did
sot think that where justice wee inidaard that
ht to be any object; but he
It drool! be an
c'adlitional argumenla but of his if it Maki be
shown that a great madame could be valid of, and that 10
in the wand Could he the prat to the country
gollpilolinsftss removal. Insteed of waiting about the Central
Criminal Court from day to day, as wm dm inevitable lot of
prosecutor, and their witnesses anise the quieting system,
they would be directed by a lid wr IN regulated by the
Mark of the court, under the antheldWig these judges, as to
the particular periods fired ; sad Ode time would not bi
wasted, sor their ran offended, net lib* heelth injured, by
the obligation to wait amongst comb alibi lowest of man-
kind, in a place little better than a ma damp underground
cellar.
Mr. WIRI seconded the modes.
Mr. Low remarked that gland juries never ignored bills
without the strictest exandoseas of the evidence and the
strongest grounds, and he traded that a power so beneficial
in its operation would not be discontinued. Ito had no
objection to the inquiry, for in the committee the true state
of the cam would be developed and all the fasciae imposed.
Mr. ANDRWION said the inquiry wee the more necemary
as the City Solicitor had given notion in parliament of kis M-
OOR to propose a change in the system. lie instanced cams
in which evidence which bad been given before magistrates
was reversed before grand juries, whom he considered to be
a tribunal sitting in judgment upon the committing megis-
trate.
Ultimately the motion was carried, and after the trans-
action of soma basin's& of no public c,nsequenos, the court
adjourned.

DELA! IN CARRYING OUT THE SEITALTIELDS
IY-
raocanxsTe.—Last evening a very numerous meeting of
the residents of Spitalfields was held at the Ten Bells Ta-
vern, oppeeite the church, for the purpose of memorialising
bee Majesty's government to expgdite the improvements in
this neighbourhood. as confirmed by the legislature in the
acts of Vie. 3 and 4, cap. 87, and 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 31,
thereby relieving the great distress which has been caused in
the district by the long delayed completion of the works.
Severs& gentlemen addressed the meeting, and resolutions
were passed setting forth the great injury and distress pro-
dueed by the non-completion of the improvements, and the
necessity of not allowing the present *mien of parliament te
pass over without the most energetic measures being made
to obtain redress, either by petitioning the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests or both houses of parliament. It wee
resolved to present a memorial to the Right lion. Lord
Morpeth, chief commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and
Forests, soliciting his lordship's early attention to the geed
hardship they were then enduring.
FIRE. AT BERMONDSET.—Last night, shortly be-
tore 12 o'clock, a fire involving a serious destruction of pro-
perty, and nearly attended with loss of life, broke out upon
the premises in the occupation of Mr. Crage, a linen-draper
and silk-mercer, carrying on business in the Spa-road, Bee-
mondoey. The discovery was made by a policeman, who raised
an immediate alarm. After considerable trouble the residents,
consisting of two children and an aged female, were aroused.
The female attempted to escape with one of the children,
hut on getting upon the stairs she was completely prostrated
by the intense heat and the suffocating smoke from the
burning property. A young men rushed through the
flames, and succeeded, at no little personal risk, in bringing
her down in safety. Upon getting into the street she informed
the crowd that a boy, five years of age, was asleep in the
back room top floor. A ladder was immediately procured, and
one of the neighbours trot into the room, but the smoke was
so dense that he was obliged to make a precipitate retreat not
fewer than four times. Finding that its was nearly suffo-
cated, be inquired if any one would assist him in saving the
child, when a man, flawed Bewley, volunteered, and rush-
ing through the flame and smoke, he succeeded in snatch-
ing away the boy, whom he brought to the ground.
The child seemed completely suffocated, but by some
exertion the poor child was brought to. The engines
of the parish and London Brigade were quick in their
attendance, and worked until nearly one o'clock this morn-
ing, when the flames were extinguished, but not until the
whole of the stock in trade wee deetroyed.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—ACCIDENT AT THE BUB-
TON•MUUARE TERMINI:B.—Before Mr. T. Wakley, 14. P.,
at the University College Hospital, as to the death of Charles
fledge, aged 38, one of the sufferers by the falling of a por-
tion of the new building in course of erection at the terminus
of the London and North Western Railway, on the 6th inst.
—Mr. Haidwicke, architect to the company, said, that
being anxious to afford the most perfect evidence for
elucidating the matter, he had requested the attend-
ante of his professional brethren, Messrs. Cubist, Tile,
Blore, and Shaw. They had seen the building, and
were, he believed, ready to give their opinion upon the
subject.—At the suggestion of the Coroner the court WA
cleared, that the jury might consider the point; and, on the
readmission of the public, the Coroner said the jury were cf
opinion that it wou.d be desirable to make application to the
Commissioners co: Woods and Forests to appoint a duly qua-
lified gentleman to examine the works and deliver his
opinion to tie government on the subject ; and, that being
the c ire, he should feel it his duty to adjourn the inquiry.
He begged to observe, however, that the evidence of the
gentlemen whose names had been mentioned was not to be
shut out, as the jury were de drous of the fullest investiga-
tion.—Mr. Park, the house surgeon to the hospital, said
deceased died on the 15th. He had received a fracture of
the ribs on the left side, the ninth rib pressing inward and
wounding the left lung, causing great inflammation. His
other injuries were wounds and fractures of the bones of the
nose, and other wounds about the body. After two or three
days erysipelas set in, and continued until death. The im-
mediate cause of death was erysipelas supervening on the in-
fitnemation of the lung, the origin being the injuries sem-
sained.—Rnema Hedge, widow of deceased, deposed to cer-
tain conversations deceased had had with her in the hospital.
He said the occurrence was no more than he expected, as
there was not sufficient time for the work to set before car-
rying up the columns, and he thought something would
occur before it was finished. In the Christmas-week she
heard hint say to a fellow-workman, named Harris, " We
are up a good height uow, but we shall not be long there
before something happens." He had a great mind not to
go back t 3 the work after Christmas.—The Coroner said the
cause of death having been distinctly proved, he
would now adjourn the inquiry till Monday week,
and the inquest was adjourned accordingly.
FATAL FPI/HT.—Before Mr. Wm. Baker, by adjournment,
at the London Hospital, respecting the death of Robert
Wse, aged 55, a shipwright. On Thursday, the 23rd ult.,
a bight took place between the son of the deceased and several
of the sailors on board the ship Herefordshire on her way to
Gravesend. They had been drinking all the morning, and
all the men were in a state of insubordination. The deceased
went to the assistance of his son, who was also intoxicated,
and succeeded in forcing one of the sailors from him. While
the et n was lyiag on the deck, deceased was knocked down
the hold of the ship, a distance of 16 feet. The deceased
was picked up in a state of insensibility. When the ship
arrived off Gravesend, Morrison, one of the crew, confessed
to having knocked the deceased down, and he was taken
into custody. On the last meeting of the jury Webb, the
constable, stated that all the witnesses who were present
during the affray had gone to sea in the ship Herefordshire,
which was bound for Gibraltar.—lnspector Penman, of the
Gravesend police, stated that one of the sailors, named John
Morrison, said that " he was the man who had knocked de-
ceased down the hold of the ship, but not with the intent of
killing him." He made the statement voluntarily. Hewes
taken before the magistrates at Gravesend, and remanded,
in consequence of the dangerous state of the deceased. The
magistrate ultimately committed him to Maidstone prison.
The chief mate stated to witness that he saw some man
strike the deceased in the breast and knock hint down the
hold, but was unable to point the man out.—The Coroner
said he thought it very probable that the magistrates at
I Gravesend would not take cognisance of the matter if the
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, and Morrison
would be sent to London and tried before another tribunal.
He thought it very singular that the man should criminate
I
himself, and could scarcely believe it credible. lie should
advise the jury to return an open verdict, which would not
interfere with any subsequent proceedings.—The jury re-
' turned a verdict—" That the deceased died from a fracture of
the spine, caused by a fall down the ship's hold,
but how remised no satisfactory evidence path appeared "
I, LOVE AND STICIDE.—BefOre Mr. Bedford, at the Jolly
Gardeners Tavern, Rochester-street, Westminster, on the
body of Harriet Leet, aged 21.—Sarah Farrel deposed that
she knew deceased, who resided with her mother, at No.
28, Rochester-street. Deceased had been keeping company
with a man named M'ltay, of whose unkind conduct she
had complained in bitter terms, and to which witness attri-
buted the cause of her committing suicide. De'Ray had
made proposals of merriest@ to deceased, but in September
beg, in consequence of his illtreatment to her, she wanted to
break off the engagement.—By the Coroner: In consequence
of her attachment to him the correspondence was contoured,
hut he afterwards Blued her most shamefully, and often
struck ber. She became exceedingly depressed in spirits,
and on Tuesday morning last swallowed a large dose of
oxalic acid, and expired a few moments afterwania.—Several
ether witnesses deposed to the unkindness of M'Ray.—The
following letter was found in deceased's handwriting:—" To
Alexander M'Ray.—Jan. 18, 1848.—1 t is for you that I die.
I do confess that you have pressed one, who has been true to
you the world knows, to do this, not without a boundless
desire for joy and happiness posaessed.—Hanaurr LSET."
—lt appeared that the man M'Ray was a married man, end
his wife was said to be still living. A discusaion arose
as to the propriety of having the man WRay present,
and ultimately eke inquest was adjourned for further
inquiry. Death was proved by the surgeon to have been
`,e result of the poison.

TILE ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—ADJOURNED INQUEST.
The inquiry by the coroner's jnry into the circum-
stances attending the death of the railway driver (David
Markland) was resumed yesterday morning, at the Railway
Rotel, near the Woking Bunion. Mr. Dalrymple, the soli-
citor ; Mr. Taunton, the assistant secretary, in the absence
of Mr. Campbell, the secretary, who is unwell; and the
other officers who were present on the former ocouion, were
again in attendance en behalf of the railway company. Mr.
Towne appeared to watch the proceedings on the part of the
widow of Mukland.
Mr. Wool.* (the coroner), after the names of the jury had
been called over, said, that before resuming the proceedings
it was proper that he should advert to the position of the in-
quiry as it stood at the close of the previous sitting, and also
to the circumstances which had since transpired. They
would recollect that on Monday evening after taking
the evidence of Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Beckon,
they were proceeding with that of Mr. Young, an
officer of the railway, when it cams out that two per-
sons, Jones and Flemming, the engine-driver, and the fireman