The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1846.

said "be was unable to produce documentary evidence " in
support of the charges against the Ameers, because, as he
wetted, messengers had been ietrusted with verbal commu-
nications. It would but require • very. small degree of
proof indeed to satisfy Sir Charles Napier, who, when he
went to Sciade iteted that he wanted but a pretext to coerce
the Ameere. Lid he ask the Princ:s o. Scinde to disprove
the treasonable letters ? Did he show them those letters ?
No. When they were asked for, they were informed that
they were in Calcutta; they went to Calcutta, and were
there informed that the letters were in England. Was there
any shadow of justice in this ? Vet the historian of tho vic-
tims in Scinde had the audacity to declare that his brother
(Sir ,"eherles Napier) had sitted these charges to the bottom.
He would read the extraordinary passage which avouched
this glaring misrepresentation. The hon. proprietor did so,
and then proceeded to read passages from the es ark of Major-
General Napier, commenting upcn them as he went on,
and showing, from the testimony of Major Outram himself,
that many of Sir C. Napier's movement; were insane in
a military lelint of view, anti moat unworthy and ungenerous
in a moral sense. When the court some years bets'e had
voted their thanks to Sir C. Napier for hie terraces in India,
he (Mr. Sullivan) was the only proprietor who dissented,
for an intimate acquaintance with the Sinde papers had
forced upon him the conviction that Sir Charles Napier,
. having once entered upon hostilities, was dec. mined to
proceed until he had crushed them. It was then endea-
voured bp those who justified the vote of the Court to show
that Sir Charles Napier was only an infelor servant, acting
under the orders of a higher Court. He had endeavoured to
show that he had acted diametrically opposite to the orders
received from the governor-general, hat prize money to the
amount of fielefil., a governorship of 10,40,11. a year, the
coloncicy of a reg'enent, the insignia of the Bath, and a peer-
age, were fearful incentives to the pe Qetrution of a mon-
strous iniquity. And how was the whole of this tragedy
wound up ? By the imprisonment of several of the Ameers,
after they had received the assurance of Sir C. Napier that
if they remained quiet no harm would come to them. It
wound up by the imputations of the most shameful character
being thrown upon them. And who were the men who
were this treated ? Were they the enemies of England
No; they were her benefactors. They were the very men
who assisted General Nott and General Pollock in their
Caubul expedition. He would cite the highest authority in
the empire to prove this fact. The hon. proprietor quoted
from the work of Mountstuart Elphinstone in corroboration.)
He had felt it his duty to attach blame to Sir Charles Napier,
but he believed in hii soul that the originator of all these
lisaeters end all this outrage was Major Outram. (No, no.)
But it seas not yet too late CO do an act of justice. it was
rot vs t too late to restore Sciade to tee Amecrs. The con-
quest of that country was an act of impoliey only exceeded
if possible by the attempt to retain it. if any perien would
take the trouble to examine the map of India, he would see
to demonstration that it was not a further extension of em-
pire they required, hut the assistance of a friendly power,
who would be in future times united with them fn the bonds
of smite. Tnat friendly power they had once in Sends ;
that friendly power he affirmed they might have again. Tho
hon. proprietor concluded by moving;
t' iUs, in the titlnion of this court, the re.thratiou of Sande to the
Maters is a us, CJI.CIi for by con,sierations of justice, of sourA
policy, art ethriosoy, sad that the Court of Direetors be in -weird to
tahe s..ch steps as :hey uar.y Liza expedient for the furtherance of
this oldies."
Colonel Theme:sox seconded, and Captain EaSTWOOD
supported the motion.
Captain SHErltAltti defended Colonel Ontranat and defied
any one to show a tingle iastt-nee in which the'
canker bad not desired to avoid the shedding of blood.

The CHAIRMAN sail that he tested the object of the
hon. propiletor bad bona gained by the statement which had
been made before the court, but it might be espeeted that
he, at the organ of the Court of Directors, should shortly
state what steps the court had taken in the matter of Sable.
The Court of Directs', Ilad written to the tiovernor-General
in India, requesting I.!in to investitrate the subject, and to
favour the court with his opinions up'n the policy which
had been adopted towarla the Amens of that couatry. When
that reply w received, the directors would nut lose a mo-
ment in Lying the communication before the proprietor!.
l`crliapt the honourable proprietor would, under such cir-
cumstances, ace the necessity of not pressing his motion to a

Mr. SULLIVAN, oa the es.mranee that the subject would
have the eArliest eonvideration from the Court of Dirsmois,
would withdraw hi', motion.

THE RAJAH or SATT.IIt.I.—Mr. TIIOIPSON then brought
forward his motion, t.) the effect—
... . . .

" That, on n del:bet:ate review of th, manner in whleli th.• Court of
Direst.ow Ii ve dealt at escey successive stage with the e.r.se of the
x.-Rajah of Sattara, it Is the opinion of the Court of Prop -it !ors that
tie Court of Dirolors have evinced towartds the ex-rajah .t contempt
of every principle of justice; while it hoe nianiiested uraartl every
person who was rm4triumnititi to the dethronement of his highness u
partiality the west !Juanita, end extritole4 to them protection the
most culpable; that this conduct is calculated to eic.lie the e-sul.
deuce of the ir.tire princes or India in the honour rnl pond faith of
the lirltish Government wh,:o it bus reitwted the deem,: disgruee
upon the Itritigh none ir. Millie nations of the clvilistd world, anion,:
whom thetyse of the es-liajah has become known."
Mr. Thompson went on to say that the Court of Directors
had thrown their shield over a guilty man—Col. Ovan4. All
that was required wee, that the Rajah should be heard in
his own behalf. The dethronem:st of the Itajah was work-
ing an influence in Frar.cr, in America, and elsewhere. Ile
had most anxiously sifted all the trarraetion. cennected with
this subject, and believed him innocent. And why had he
been outvoted hertte•sore ? It was owing to patronage.
Many proprietors would have come forward and voted for
the restoration or the 113!ah, but they were looking out for a
cadetship, or sonic other kind of patronage, and, therefore,
they kept away. The hon. nroprietor concluded by remark-
ing, that all his charges were, from a full conviction of their
truth, and also from documents in that house.
Mr. l'crett (-bawd): seconded the rasolution, end referred
to the conduct of the directors of the company on the sub-
ject, and contended, that while the lions° List existed, the
injury done to the Rajah would not be remedied. The
French government were following the steps of the Court of
Directors. The transactions of the Court of Proprietors
were now translated into the Mahratta, as well as the French
and other language., and other countries would follow the
example of thegovernment of India, though, perhaps on a
small scale. In all quarters there was a burning indigna-
tion arising at the dethronement of the Rajah. This might,
in time, hurt the value of India Stock. Would the tFrectors
like Lord Ellenhorough, or Mr. Macaulay, and some others
as colleagues ? There may he anew govvritiog body favour-
able to the reinstatement of the Rajah. llow, then, would
the court of directors stand before the world by their deci-
sion being reversed ? He (Mr. Gordon) felt happy at being
there to second the motion.

Mr. SrI.T.IYAN said the only object in view was to let the
Rajah have au opportunity of answering the cuargcs laid
against him.
The motion, after some conversation, was put and nega-
tived by a very considerable majority.
The CIIAIRMAN said he had recsived a letter from Mr.
David Salomon., giving notice of a motion to be submitted
at the next court.
The notice i. follows

Tom!! the attention of the Court of Pmprietors to the advantages
oonhired on India by the exertion,. aid pc ereranee of Lieutenant
Waghorn, with a view of ree.,:umeniting his services to some fitting
remuher.stion or acknow.edgment."

The court then brokelp.

PROTECTIONIST POLICY.—The 3loroiny Post says
—We publish the following declaration as it has been sent
to us, without, of course, at all declaring any coincidence
of opinion with it; as we have always said, there is hut
one course for the Protectionist party to pursue, and that is,
to seek by every means fir the re-establishment of that
which they have lost :
..Dorneaariox OF CON,MRTATIVE POLICY FOR rut E,T4111.1.11.
scarf or FAIR Islam Ass ERVIT eau: TAX TION. —The abolition of
all Excise dutie.s on doinestic productions and manuLictures, and the
mist-quer' consolidation of the Cuctouls and Excise, together vie.'
the reduction of the Coast Guard.—The admission of colonial whew,
pulse, anal dour, at a statistical duty of 6d. per quarter, and 6d. per
barrel.--The reduction of duty on tea to Is. per Po—The reduction of
duty Oil tobacco to Is. per lb.—The reduction of duty on colonial
sugar to Is. per cwt.—Ditto on foreign ditto to 10s. per cwt.
• WREN t C MPEN, MlN.—Fixed data so foreign wheat of Ss. per
qr. Fixed duty on other foreign graih and pulse, is. 6d. per qr.
Earn duty on foreign flew, fa. 6d. per barrel. Ittotoration of the
duty on foreign cotton wool to Is. per cwt., as an equivalent for the
excise on soap. The charge for postage to commence at one penny
fora quarter of an ounce, instead of half an ounce, to make up for
the lava of canoe on paper, which has always been a tax on education
and literature.
REARONS FOR RI:MORAL Or Excise DITITA ON 110IIE PRODFCTION4,
AND Atotisnecer or REVDNVE Derits.—As long as an income and
property tax is Imposed, which, together with the burthen of the poor
lawn, fans principally on the landed proprietors and agricultutsb,
foreign imports, competing s ifa our domestic productions, cannot
be admitted without paying a revenue duty. The reduction of duty
011;e11, tobacco, and sugar, would not ceentualle yield less revenue,
owing to the increased cor.ounption, whilst the' comforts of the
poor would he greatly enhanced, and our commerce extended, rape-
dally with China, and the inducement to smuggle put an end to.
Thetas of revenue on the Excise duties would be compensated for by
the duty en foreign wheat, pulse, dour, and cotton wool, together
with an increase in the Tost.ottice rennue, which would be equivalent
to the loss of the Excise duty on paper, to which would be added the
enormous saving in the cayenne of the collection of the Excise duties,
as well as in the reduction of the Coast buitnl eat abti-akment. Since
1842 nearly five millions sterling of duties on foreign imports have
been reduced for the chief benefit of the manuLeturerm, whilst the
Excise duties have been retained, and the income and property tax
imposed. Five millions Lasing been taken off end five millione laid
on without any benefit to the poor man. The proposed revenue duty
on wheat wank be about ter. per cent. ; on colonial sugar. about fif-
teen per cent.; and on foreign, thirty per cent.; making an average
of twenty-two-and-a-hall per cent., whilst the present duties are
reseetiv'ely about forty-five per cent., and seventy per cent.
THE 31ETROPOLIT.lN PRESS.—The following pa-
ragraph is appearing in various local papers :
Tem Meinneoterax sari.—TheEt London correspondent of the
Liverpool .116iom says:—"Talking of newspapers, it may not be
uninteresting to observe, that a great revolution is in the act of being
effected in the metropolitan press. The success of the Daily News,
which, at the reduced price of 2id., sells close upon 2.1,000 copies of
every inapress:on, has compelied thelproprietors of the other diurnal
journals to resort to measures of felfZefence. Among these, reduction
of price is not thought of, but a reduction of expenditure is; and to
that end it is cantemplated to amalgamate the whole staff of Parlia-
mentary reporters, and to interchange copy, as in the case of law re-
ports and 0; reports of railway committees at present, between two or
three of the papers. This would reduce the gallery corps of each paper
some six hands, equivalent to a saving of prohaby not very far short of
2,000/. a year to each paper ; and, by coalescing in running the over-
land India expresses (a part of a plan), at least as much more would
be saved."
We have reason to believe that the substance of this para-
graph is true—at least to this exteat, that the leading
morning papers of the metropolis have been obliged, in sell,
defence, to negotiate with one another a treaty of economical
combination, though we are uncertain whether or not the
ratifications have been exchanged ln the establish.
ment of a London morning newspaper, it is requisite that
every step be paved with gold. No speculator need attempt
it who is not prepared to sink 100,0001.—that is to say, if
he is desirous of establishing a first class metropolitan jour-
nal. When the Daily News was originally announced, its
scale of expenditure was higher than that of any exotic:
London morning paper, not excepting the Times. This pro-
fuse expenditure created a vague idea of enormous resources;
and it alarmed the proprietors of the other daily papers. On all
of them it was deemed necessary to meet the fresh competi-
tion by larger outlay and more energetic action. The resu:t

was similar to that which occurs in all eases of excessive com-
petition, whether it be with stage coaches, steam-boats, or
newspapers—rlarainished receipts and increased expenditure.
After a time a change took place; and with it a new
and bold movement. The daring experiment was
made of sap ply ing a London morning paper for Twopence
Halfpenny. It would be rash to say that the experiment
has succeeded, fur an immense circulation is requisite to de-
fray the enormous expenditure : but the Daily :Vitra has
reached a very large sale, and deservedly. Tile Daily
.Vetes is not merely a cheap, bat it is a good daily news-
paper. Its articles are well written, its sources of intelli-
gence numerous; and in all its details, though there is ne-
cessarily con lensation, there is care, method, and minute
attention. ladced the Daily News is a daily refutation of
tho opinion that a cheap newspaper must necessarily be a low
one. It takes some time, however, to create a taste; and it
is requisite for the permanent establishment of the Daily
News, that a treat increase should take place in the number
of those to whom the renting of a daily palate it an
habitual enjoyment. Meantime it will he a struggle
for existence amongst all the morning papers; and wo are
not surprised to hear of such a combination as the one
alluded to in the paragraph we have quoted. But the
Londou morning papers might combine for a purpose still
more useful—at least to the public. They might bring their
combined influence to bear on the government, for the re-
moval of the ponny stamp, which is a most serious obstacle
us the way of cheap newspaper literature. This is a direct
tax upon the manufactured article, the evils of which are
not compensated by facility of postage. Nor need any esta-
blished newspaper dread more active competition were it
removed. Its removal wee 11 not affect the existing profit
of any well-conducted journal ; while it would afford oppor-
tunitt for a beneficial increase. The difficulty about postage
%vela very easily be got over; and if the Timcs, and other
leading papers, were enabled to sell as cheap as arty other,
while they maintained their character for originality and
early intelligence, it Is clear that they need ;head no rio:al
whatever.—ShefiSild Times.
PAVING TRUST PETTY TTBANNT.—Sir,-I'he
petty tyranny of parish authorities has long igen a pro-
vera. I beg to publish in your columns, a new instance
of it, by which I am a sufferer, because 1 hi lieve that the
best first step to remedy an evil, whether it be event or
small, is by calling public attention to it through the press.
Soon after enter' my present residence, the Strathamptun
paving trust rated me at GO/. a year, and made a demand
for a cultrttr's rates:upon that swan advance. A. I pay only
.sfi guineas, I wished to appeal, but found by the local act
that I was obliged to pay the demand before I could do so,
and trust to the exe,ss being refunded. I complied, and
thought that the best' support I could give to say appeal
would be the productioa of the agreement with my
landlord. This was retuned to me, with a letter,
st,tia,; that the board" were not satistiorl, and that,
bet Ore they could be sa, they would gee my lan lord, and
view the house. Lately a fresh demand was made at the
rate of Mt. a year. I wrote to the clerk of the board for
an explanation, and received the following answer, which,
for ecolness, is, I think, unsurpassable. It is the epistle of
people who know that they derive their functions tram rut
Act of Parliament which enables them to do precisely as they
pleage . .

Sic,—ln reply to ram note, the Surresur intarms me that the com-
mittee to view, waited on Mr.— XieLmalm.l), wko was out, but after
•a• s,i ire your boase ohtsale, were of opinion that, in fainwasto stir r
houses in that loeslitY, that you dill ought to remain at 61/.. althousa
Mr. might be satislled with you at 50 ghincas. 1; our local acts
we at aatborimal to rate at met rent or !MUNI? roPer, caul theprmatar-
tea t,at your house is worth upwards of 0; ,t. I should mermaieml
r Ito get Mr. —to interrere f‘T you, as he is a commissioner, :us!
t. said bring the matter la•fore the board at any of its oweiaga.—l em,
yoar mast obedient servant,, Ti: te.ratary."
Thus the "committee to view" pretend. to such unheard of
powers of valtu.tion that, without inquiring of thci latuilortl—
without doing me the honour of a visit, to see the size of the
rooms, or their number—in the face of the agreement,
' which conclusively shows the value of the prembcs, they fix
my rent at GOl. a year, although my landiwil is kind enough
to talio only fifry guineas ; and landlords are not very apt to
under-rate their property, as landlords. But 1 am
told that all the commissioners of the Southampton
Trust aro house-owners,—heuee, in that character, they
over-rate their own property to any extent, and there
it nothing to prevent theta from saying, when their tenants
wish to renew their agreements, " I can't let you the house
at the old rent. Why, air, you are rated at some 15 percent.
more than you have been p tying."—lt maybe said," Toucan
appeal." I reply, in common with ntlny others, that I can-
not; having neither time nor inclination to involve myself in
a quarter session law-suit. The same thing may be b-id to a
poorer man who, not having mont y to comply with the act by
paying the excess first, is destrained and sold off. A
villanoun mockery it would be to recommend him to appeal.
—AN OVERRATED iiOI:PIEIIOLDEkt.

TILE STATUE AT LARGE.—If the proverb that
" coming events cast their shadows before" should be ree.lised
in the case of the Duke's Statue, the day of its arrival will
be as had as an eclipse of the sun in the mettopolis.—ruiPA
FUNERAL Or Tin; LATE JUSTICE WlLLll)lB.—Yes-
terdaT forcaoon the mortal remains of this Lunt nted judge
were interred in the vault of the Temple Church. The coffin
bore the following inscription : "Sir John Williams, Knt.,
died September 14, 1846. Aged CO years." The beautifully
impressive service of our Church for the burial of the dead
we, read by the Rev. Mr. Rowlatt, the off
DR
iciasing clergy-
man, in the absence of the Itev. r. obinsou, master of the
Temple. In addition to the chief mourners we oliserved
present—Lord Chief Justice Denman, the Lord Chief Baron,
Sir John l'atteson, Sir J. T. Coleridge, Sir William Wight-
man, Sir T. Coltraan, Sir C. Creswell, and Messrs. Cole,
Williams, Egan, Humphrey, Bayley, and other members of
the equity and common law bar. The coffin of the learned
knight was deposited in one of the lower compartments of
the vault, unde:neith the c3ffin of Lord Chancellor Thurlow.
The We of the church was nearly tided, the public having
been fretly admitted; but some surprise appeared to have
been created by the non-performance of the usual solemn
musical service.
BIRTHS AND DEATII.4.—There were registered in
the metropolitan districts, during the wc:k which terminated
last Saturday, 86i deaths, and 1,23 i births. Mortality
caused by epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases, is
gradually decreasing.
TDB SILL AGAINST C:PTAIN itICIIARDSON IG-
NORED HY THE 0114\D Jl DV.-At a late hour yesterday
evening, after the judges had left the Central Criminal Court,
it was iutimated that the grand jury had ignored t%e bill,
clu.rging Captain Richardsan, on two counts, with fraud
and forgery. The grand jury examini d a great number of
witnesses, and it was understood that they stated as their
reason fur ignoring the bill, that after looking at the whole
of the rtidenee which had been laid before them, the
majority of them wert of opinion that the words "ten
pounds " had never been written in the cheque, and,
therefore, no forgery had been effected. They were at the
same time, satisfied that Captain Richardson had, by some
means, obtained the signatures of his two co-trustees to a
blank cheque, and, as he was authorised by a resolution of
the company to draw cheques, nufraud had been committed,
entee:aining, as the majority of the body did this view,
they had no other course to adopt than to ignorc the bill.

THE "CLERGYMAN" OF A PRIVATE BURIAL-
na OUND.—A correspondent of the Times furnished yester-
day an additional proof of the necessity of abolishing these
nuisance.. " A short time since," he writes, " 1 attended
the funeral of a friend at a burial-ground in the Borouch.
I was not aware at the time that it was a private one. When
the orders for the funeral were given, the man at the ground
asked if we would provide a clergyman, or should the one
who usually officiated attend. Supposing, of course, that
he was a minister of the Established Chnrch, the latter pro-
Position was acceded to; but what was our surprise, on
arriving with the corpse, to find the same man (who appeared
to be only the sexton) dressed up in a dirty surplice, ready
to receive us; and, there being then no remedy, he went
through the service in his own way."
AN ILLICIT DIsTILLERY.—The Excise officers pro-
ceeded yesterday to No. 4, Charles-street, BLackfriars-road,
premises formerly occupied as a hat manufactory, where,
after some slight. hesitation on the part of a person at the
gate, they obtained admission, and on proceeding to the rear
of the premises, which are very extensive, several apartments
being thrown into one, they discovered two larze copper stills
in full work, and running spirits of sixty over proof. The
persons attending their operation appeared to be so busily
employed, that they had scarcely noticed the presence of the
officers, and upon the latter announcing their presence, a
scene of indescribable dismay and alarm ensued. Retreat
was hopeless, and a denial of the facts is :a quite out of the
question ; therefore one cf the:parties at once admitted that
he was the proprietor of the distillery; and cabs being ro-
I cured the whole of the parties were conveyed to the 'cc-
station-house for safe custody. The efficers found the two
stills had been for some time in operation from the stock.
They also found near 1,000 gallons of wash, which was de-
stroyed. The business thus carried on, taking the same by
the average of the workings of the stills, would have caused
a loss to the revenue of at least 3001. per week. It appears
the parties are well known to the Excise, and on the officers
obtaining an entrance, one of them, Mr. Pargeter, recognised
the proprietor as an old offender. The premises were taken
of a Mr. Rogers, by a person who gave the name of Louis
Pomfret, but who yesterday gave the name of James
Knowles, assisted by a man named Joseph Simpson. The
owner had in his possession the 9th and 10th Viet., cap. 90,
entitled " An Act to Prevent the Use of Stills by Unlicensed
persons." Three vans having been procured, the whole of
this valuable capture was conyeyed to the Excise warehouses
in Eroad-street. _

EXPLOSION OF G.ts.—Yesterday morning, about
eleven o'clock, an explosion of gas occurred on the premises
of Mr. Wm. Page, the Commercial Rice Mills, Commercial-
road East, opposite the Regent's-canal dock. The foreman
of the establishment was matte strisible of a strong smell of
gas on the premises, and it seemed to proceed from the
counting-house, where the gas is laid on. He immediately
suspected the gas wz.s escaping from the pipe, and without
taking the precaution of opening the windows and doors to
allow the gas to escape, he proceeded with a lighted candle
to the counting-house, and the moment he ope Led the dcor
the gas exploded. The counting-house was shattered, the
floor was blown up, the glass broken, and a large iron wheel
used for the grinding of barley was removed from its place
and broken. The unfortunate maa was severely burnt
about tke head, face, and body.

FlRES.—Yesterday morning, between four and Eve,
a fire occurred at II Wharf, City-road-basin, in the occupa-
tion of Mr. John Meredith, a stable-keeper. It was caused
by the overheat of one of the coke ovens in the adjoining
wharf, which was built against the wall. The flame was
soon extinguished, but not before the top floor was destroyed,
the roof burnt off, and the lower floor damaged by water,
&c. Mr. Meredith was insured in the Plumnix Fire-office.
—Between ten and eleven, yesterday forenoon, a fire broke
out upon the premises belonging to Mr. J. Greenhow, dis-
tiller and rectifier, carrying on business at 16, St. John-
street, Clerkenwell. It was caused by a leak in the still,
which allowed the spirit to run into the fire. Owing to the
inflammable nature of the stock, very few minutes elapsed
before upwards of one hundred gallons of spirits became

ignited, By the exertion; of the firemen the fire was got
out. The roof was partly burned, sad other damage done.
Mr. Greenhow was insured in the Sun Fire-office.
INQUEST. DEATH FROM DROWNING.—By Mr.
W. Baker, coroner, at the White Hart, Tottenham, ow the
body of a man unknown, who was on Monday afternoon
drowned in the river Lea. Deceased was dressed in a suit
of black, blucher boats, gad the initials '• T. W." marked on
his fiance] skirt. Ile is about 5 feet 7 inches, black hair,
grey eyes, and is apparently about 30 years of age. The
supposition was that the deceased had committed suicide ;
but there being no proof, the jury returned a verdict of
" Found Drowned in the river Lea, but under what dr-
cumetanecs there was no evidence."
WHAT DID THE IRISH EAT BEFORE THE INTRO-
DUCTION or POTATOES ?—ln reference to this question,
mooted by our correspondent, Dr. Orpcn, and answered by
the supposition that parsneps were the staple food of the
Irish, " A Constant Heads,. " writes that chemists prove by
analysis that the quantity of nutritious power is the parsncp
greatly exceeds that of the panto. " Lately," he continues,
I have been Wang a tour through the islands of Guernsey,
Jersey, Sark (Cerg), and Berm ; and in all these Wands
you will find the parsuep grown to a great eatent, its good
and nutritious qoalities being fully admitted by the class of
people who cultivate it. I think I may in justies, say that
its cultivation is twice as great as that of the potato. The
parsuep and conger-eel soup form the principal fool of
the inhabitants of these most beautiful and hale known
islands."

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.—INQUEST.
The it! /nest on the bodies of two passengers kakll
by this ateident was held at the Prince of Wales Tavern,
adjoining the Farringdon-road station. Then, were present
—Mr. Seymour Clarke (the superintendent of the Great
Western line), Mr. Gibson (the superintendent of the car-
riage department), Mr. Hill (the superintendent of the
Swindon station), and several other officials of the company.
The jury viewed the bodies of the deceased.
William Timms, mason, said—l know one of the &termed
persons. It is James Neuter. I engaged him to work for
Mr. Cooper, of Swindoa, and left Oxford with him on Mon-
day by the 4 o'clock train. lie and I and three other workmen
were in a second chew carriaee, which was twxt the luggage
you. The compartment in which land the deceased were riding
was the one next to the Itiggaee van. The accident occurred
just as we were running into the Farringdon-road station.
The steam was shut same distance before we gut to the
station. We approached at a very slow rate. I cannot tell
what was done after the accident took place. I felt a shock,
which was a momentary one. I was thrown on the bottom
of eke carriage. Several p none wire thrown on the top of
me, and tac deceased, Bonner, who was sitting next to me,
was killed. 'the luggage T6ll ran into us—it ran upon us.
At the time the shuck took pace I was leaning a little fur-
ward. The deceased was standing up at the time. I be-
lieve that the petition in what I was saved me, and that if
I had been .landing up I should have been killed. I was
struck, and, as you see, was hurt. (The witness hid the
marks of bruises on his face, anil appeared to have been hurt
about his leas, as he walked with considerable difficulty, and
apparently in great pain.
Coroner: If I understand you correctly, the carriage that
ran, or was forced, into the compartment in which you were
sitting, struck the deceased and killed hint '2
—Witness : Ex-
actly so. 't he lueeage van broke completely into the coin-
pnrtment in whi .11 we were. It broke though, and came
right down on the top of us. I cannot tell how the accident
took place.
Mr. William Turner, farmer, of Shellingford, examined.
—I knew the de: coved, Paul Broetne Sergeant, dairyman, of
Wauborough Nithe Farm, near Swit.don. I came down
from Reading with him in the same train. lie was is the
compartment next to the luggaee van. I was sitting in the
third compartmott of the same carriage. When the con-
cussion whisk ha; been spoken of by the precious witness,
took place. the deceased was knocked into the compartment
next to the one in which I was sitting, where he was found
dead.—Coroner : Did anythlng happen after you got into
the train at Reading ?—We heart an unusual noise where I
was sitting. In consequence I placed my feet on the oppo-
site seat. I kept them there, and I 'oppose that prevented
my teing thrown forward when the concussion took place.
Nothing particular happened until we came to the bridge or
near the bridge ease to the station. I knew we were near
the bridge by the decrease in the veld of the train. We
were running into the station at a very moderate—at a very
proper pace. The accident occurred between the bridge and
the platform. 1 heard a loud crush, as it' something was coming
over npua us. Th• re was a loud craeking, that con-
tinued until the engine stopped altogmher. The shock watt
very great at first, but 1 tad not feel anything unusual
after it had taken phtee. The crash was jest by the bridge.
Coroner: And then the train continued to proceed until the
engine stopped at the platform ?—ltather beyond the plat-
form. The engine appeared to stop at ite'usual place. I
think the deaths took piece in coneequ.nce of something
giving way under the luggage can; at the bridge, I think.
The first I saw of Bonner was immediately after I got tsit
and ran round to the pluteerm. Some time hail delved
before 1 reached that spot. The deceased was then quite
dead. The other dressed (Mr. See-welt) was not taken
out of the carriage until an hour and a half after the acci-
dent. The head was campe tely eeperated from the body.
A medical man was sent tor immediately after the accident
occurred.—Coroner: Did you examine the carriages after
the accident ?—Yes • the passenger carriage mixt to the
luggage van appeared to have beta partially forced under it.
1 saw a good deal of broken iron-work belonging to the van.
—Coroner: After the steam had been shut off, can you say
whether it was put on again, rend the engine then suddenly
checked ?—I cannot env wh titer it was or not. All I ob-
served was that the train approached the station at the usual
moderate rate of speed. I felt a sudden surge of the train
at the bridge., but I did not feel any difference in the gent ral
motion of the train. I t was her: explained that two vela el,
only of the luggage van hat got tiff the rails. .
Mr. henryrempton—l reside at Mt/eon's I. arm, close
to the Fierringdon-road station. I was a passenger front
Reading in this train to which the accident occurred. I was
in the carriage next to the luggage van, and in the third
compartment from it. Coroner : Did you hear anything of
the grating neiee which Mr. Turner has spoken of ?—1 did
not. I was sitting on one side attic window, end Mr. Tur-
ner at the other ; but I heard the observation made by those
on Mr. Turner's side that there was an unusual noise.—A
Juror : Was that the side on which the carriage broke down ?
Mr. Clarke said it was the van, and not the carriage, that
had broken down.—Witness : Just before getting to the eta-
lion a concussion took place. It was a violent, a sudden,
jerk, as if the van had gone against the bridge. I was sure
it had, for I not only heard it, but felt it. The train was
very heavily laden. We had as heavy a load from Reading
as I think f have ever seen. Directly we had passed the
bridge there was a tremendous crash, and the top of the
front part of our carriage flew over our heeds, as it were—
that is, on the top of where we were sitting. It appeared tome
that the top part of our carriage was struck by the luggage-
van that was preceding it, and that the top of our carriage
was then by forced backward,. It seemed to me that a spring
or something had broken over the luggage van, and that it
had been forced up on the top of our carriage by the im-
petus of the train ; fur the front end of our carriage was
under the hinder part of the luggage van. My surmise 66/0,
that the spring hell been broken in consequence of the van
striking the bridge. The deceased persons were killed,
suppose, by the compartment in which they were sitting
being stove in by the end of the ',weir° van : because,
when the train stopped, we found that the c irriage had been
driven under the van, which, in fact, was riding on the top
of it, and these men were underneath it. Directly we found
that to be the ease, Mr. Stevens, the superintendent of the
station, ordered the engine-driver to back, and made him en-
deavour to mace the van off the carriage. ply this means we
were enabled to move the van sufficiently far to get the
deceased, Bonner, from underneath it. When I saw the
carriage, I observed both of the deccaeed under the end
of the luggage van, and there was a little boy also
there who was got out through the roof of the carriage.
I cannot form any opinion as to the cause of the accident, as
we were shut up in the carriage at the moment the crash
took place. and that was between the bridge and the plat-
form.—A Juror: But there was a shock before that —Yea,
when the luggage-van hit the bridge ; the crash took
place afterwards.
Robert Patterson : I am an engine-driver in the service of
the Great Western Company. I have been in their service
five years and nine months, and have driven passenger-train
engines for nearly ten years. I drove the Elk engine that
was attached to the train when the accident took place.
There were seven passenger-carriages and two parcel-vans.
It was rather a heavy load.—Coroner : Did you notice any-
thing of an unusual character between Reading and this
station ?—Witnes,. Nothing whatever. I shut off the steam at
the usual place. We were coming into the station at the usual
speed, and my engine was running through the bridge, when
I felt a shock which threw me backwards suddenly. I then
jumped forwards to my engine, supposing it had broken
away. I looked back after the train and saw that it had
left me; I immediately put on the steam in order to leave
the line clear for the train. By the force of the concussion
the engine broke away. from the train, and I put on the
steam, so that there might not be another jump into me.
Coroner: At this time was the train proceeding at a rate
that would have carried it up to the platform an the usual
way ) Yes, it was—Coroner : A sufficient impetus hail been
given to it? I thought it was coming on too slow.—Co-
roner: Did you put the steam on after having shut off?
Never from the first, until after the engine had broken away
front the train.—Coroner: Did you keep clear of the train
after yes broke away? Yee, I ran quite away—twenty
yards from the train.—Coroner: You are positive that the
van did not run into the tender ? I ant —One of the jury
here observed that Mr. Frampton had been told by the
engine-driver that the luggage van had run into the tender.
—Witness : Yes ; but when we came to look at the train this
morning, we found it was not so. There was a large
number of persons there last night, and they cop-
posed that it was eo ; but I never said that it was.
There was a part of the coupling on the tender and
part of it on the luggage van, and 1 supposed it might have
broken away ; but when I came to consider the case, I think
the train was with us till it came to the bridge, and the con-
cussion took place there. Mr. Frampton—Was there not
another concussion ? Certainly not. When I got clear of the
train I saw the luggage ran come after me. Coroner—What
position was the luggage van in then ? Witness—i Mounted
up on the second-class carriage. I cannot tell if the whole of
the van was off the line, but I know some portion of it was.
Coroner—Would the train follow you up if it was off the
line ? If it was off it followed us up. I believe there were
some of the wheels of the van, as well as of the carriage, off
the line, but I cannot tell how many.
The Coroner asked if the buffers were cut ?
It was stated that they were cut across horizontally by the
iron flange of the luggage van striking against them.
Coroner—That was by the force of the carriages behind ?
I cannot tell more than I have stated.
Mr. Clarke—Your break was on, and you were reducing
your speed ?—Yes. Coroner—Did you feel the luggage-van

knock against you I—Whin the engir.:.• had gut half through
the bridge the crash t,ok place. It knocked against the
buffers. There was a second concussion.
Simon Je‘eph Cos; rare, head-guard of the train? examined.
—We left Paddington two minutes late, wad arrived at the
Farringdon-road-station seven minutes late. The train wen
running into the station ut the usual rate when tha accident
took place. I did not receive any signal to put on the hr slat.
I wit; sitting in the first compartment of the sword caring*
from the engine at the time. I fit a very con...W....nage con
etwion. I got out of the train, gave all the asiistance I
could, and took measures to stop the up and down trains, so
that no other accident might occur, no p: nuns were running
over h .th lines at the tint;. I ea:oast say i.osithely how the
accident oecurrsd.

Coroner—Did the train run into the tender ?—lt might
hare come in co:Balms with the tender, but I think not
v:olently.
A Juror—Then what broke the carri.ce to pieces ?—The
collision with the luggage-ran. I felt only one shuck ; t:mt
was when the train emte under the bri,:ge. The luggage-
van was thrown otf the line.

Mr. Frampton dirt rs fiom you as to the spot where the
train was when the ace dint happened.
Mr. Clarke explained that the carriages are twenty-seven
feet long, and that while Mr. Fr.ungten, ulna was in the
ttrst carriage, might have been on the station side of the
bridge, the guard might have been under it.
A dttror—Do you think the jconemsion took place in c'r.-
sequence of the van rwming into the tinder ?—Witne,s—tar
own opinion is that it did not. I think the cause of it was
the luggage van breaking down in front.
A Juror-1 hen wiat was it that cut the buffer of the
tender ?—I cannot form an opinion.
The Coroner (it belts row scum o'clock) Old it would be
impossible to terminate the inqu!cy dining the evening. At
prssent they did not know cuything of the muse of the acci-
dent. Eviaence ought to bo had on this point. On on sari-
ous
an ceecodon he considered the gublie were ent.thil to
know that no blame attached to the compolty ; and he
thought an adjoura:nent should take place for the purpose of
obtaining the attn.:ante of some able and disinterested per-
son who ,houhl give ev:dence respecting any practical points
on which the jury desired to have information.
The J: ry aho thought it m tester). to have such evidence,
and the inquiry was accordingly adjourned LH Thursday
(tki:, day).

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Scrr. 22.
THE LABOUR RATE ACT.

KINC. S C 01.7..% FY.--PIIILIr,TONt'S.-1 he special pre-
sent meut sesiions for this barony woe held at lihilipstown.
on Friday last : Heger Korth, Eq., of Kilduff-house, in the
chair. A jury of six respectable cess-payers was hallotted
for—a rchNtule of pAsentinents, amounting to near two
thousand pounds, for the making of several new lines of
roads, the lowering of loss, and tilling up of hollow,, was
put in by the county surveyor. After a considerable time.
spent in calculating the cost and utility of the works, the fol
lowing sums wen a!!owel, being a considerable reduction
from the orb...bud estimates of the surveyor :-1,2961. for the
new lines pod road iu the Croghan district, and the lowering
of a bill; -115!. toweling hills, filling gripes and hollows,
and extending an old road in Priilipstown distric
F. L. Dames, b.sl., of rifled maintained that smaa
' remedial treasures would be in.ittlicient to meet the eme, -
gooey, and prop,sed a soni., of resolutions to be laid before
the Lord-Lieutenant, impressing upon the government tto
forwarding of one or other of the great lines of railway fro a
Dublin to Connaught—a work n nit!, would give ample ClA-
p!oyment for a length of time, seal would reproduce fully tie
v.:pentliture. The resolutioas were adopted unanimously.—
Dr. Cowell, of Philips town, put forward a written statement
adtire•-yd to the chairman, on the subject of drainage, whi,h
k much rtvpiin:4l in the locality, as a great tart of the vicin'ty
consist,: of utelaimable bog, awl a quantity of arable land is
unfit for tillage from being cover, d by water during a greu:er
part of the season. lie a 1..) mentioned other improvements
much required in the town, that would give a go Al deal of
emplityrotnt. Considerable dissatisfaction is said to brie
beta felt at the result of this nicetiog : the anus prowl :cd
being considered inadequate.

MR. MoXOELt. VPON Iftlst( 1/Is4TT:ESP.—Mr. 310n.-41,
whose receat letter to Lord heron ha: attracted considerable
atteritiou, has aililiraseil a better to the Irish Secretary, Mr.
Labouchere. Tho production is very diliuw, and discusses
the whole subject of Nish distress, enunciating Mr. lon-
peculiar views with grc.it eli:ltomtenesi. What they
are may he deduced from the fallowing extracts:
"It is hot very lonely that oar real position has been known. When
the pro, it-..01bt o? the Uth and 10th c. 107, were ion., iged the
government, they tiitl not fortnee that, before the lot of sept. tuber,
the rot among the petunias mod,' be making fearful ravages in every
electoral chtision its lei:Wool; that in a number Loral d:visiona
there a odd not Ise a potato lit to eat upon the Ist of atuber ;
and that tin re probably would not n main any p .steno
acad.:l4e he Woman food in any part of In land upon lls• Ist of
Nusembosv. The 4-sanity of towel under potatosn in this e .untry
has been estimated at st4o,troo acres. Mow.. that 2410,4•10 acres
weer intensk ato teed anim..ls, or to be 11,41 by ;huse when ;hey do
not form the chiel fowl, awl that the motionr of each cure is ...thiellt
to feed a LoW:y, the ekstructioa of the remaining Istio,toott acts, Styria
funiliss to be ono silad kw ; and, ta'aing lilt° account the
laboorarrns and citizens 41 resident proprietors on the one hand, and
the Roadier of fatailieso aS.A, from their mitt., will reypoire none than
the slows o; one labourer to support them, on the other, 1 think aid
it is no exaggorrauti state-moot to assert, that far more thin ten
iliontlos• euployment nowt to found for frociawo moo, and tuAt this
(Inert be .lone at an expenolitto, lens than nee millions of :acme; ;
awl as the proportion of the dintitute no Me sloth and in .t far
exceeds OM ill the other parts of In unit, a very large prop rtion of
this loco must he raisCal from the pro, of Mon 's r ions'
kimonos:Lot. Before 1 pnreewl to madder the ni Tier in
which it is proposed that this enookninent shall be given, 1 ::isb
tis-
tiwetl'; to stale that, be the existing law good or bad -win unwise
-as it is at pt -rat, the only way by which the pour can is relieved,
It is our niamont duty to make lea' of
The following are the heads of the plan Mr. 7.lonsell
suggests as an amendment upon that of the gorernn hit :
"As it is dr =feeble that the sures of none; to be spent on qoe relief
of the 'Karr knotold be applad to productive talata, It is upset-led
that Mier the tinkling ot the presentment session.. in any into; or
district, owl soner the prohoble ruin 01 looney required to t -.gokor the
poor in sowls barmy or thou in fur months be 11. .1-11:1111114,
soselo sinus forthwith sopplatted on the owners and occupiers,
of land in rich district, anionling to the pooralaw *afoot on. That
each omplotinent he placed sot the to at police linens within
the district, for three days, for the infonnation of all erwspayers who
way a ids to see it; and ts.At radii,e of ita briag no placed be posted on
the mord glare for pott me red in. in the dishitt. That it shall be
lawful tor say person or is rams representing ut lout dom.( ourths
oh the la all ion of any tow-Wand, or manlier .4 contiguous towniands
associating ths-niselven together, to require the sum to be levied Off
sulk Pow:land, or Wald:UV:a to be spent in productive works,
sock as dr.oinarna ur hiscing; wool that sva Ii productive ',orbs upon
being itopronsl of by the Ilreval of Mork., be executed by their
edger .and that the wag nor 6hourerp employedanthem IN pad alto,
ley-clerk 4:t the district under the same reindaii,lot Syt are laid down
for public works,. That the Miter attic lloord of Works, at his disere-
lion, employ on such works the demons ressomoserwhcl to him In: the
district relief coounsittao, rut 1/011.. 14 hrrN ; awl that such wOl L.•
fur as possible laid out in taskayoik. That the hoard of Worths lie
authorised, twins styli 4rritrigelilentS trine made, to postpone such
portion of the public works recomnicalksl by the presentment seasiona
as they Quill see lit; said to raised the portion of Use money poe-
m stein on any towiJand, M carrying out the rwitik4ition from both
tow-Wm:al."

The writer con&udt•s with the following exhortation :
ver since the connexion of Ireland with England has
en awful a power been placed in the hands of any state,
man as in •riers. The whole country in, as it were, fused
to your hands. On you depends the future shape se lab It
awotn•. If you use your opportunities well—if toe (It o.lop
it. et-Sinter r< -• 3011 inertia, iapital rsi improsr Its fig: ((na-
ture -if sou distribute its wraith as it ought L,he th,tritaited, its pro-
grese In the next two el three years will Le greater than tile pro;celx4
tour noole by any e,•^rtry In the some time. If you take the easy
coume -it you threw away the opportunity placed by hieritleime in
your hands-if yon :WOK the rust sums 01 whirl you hare to direct
the distribution, to be spent unproductively, ne shall retrograde as
Nut a, under tar other alternative we should have adomeed ; and
those who have been yeile atter year hopirig inetinnt hope, and labour-
ing against the tide, will fold their hunts in despair."

JOBS; OP TT:AM.—The Freeman corrospondent, it would
seem, wan unable, (rum the piewure of the crowd at the
Mayo meeting, to report the observations of Dr. Whale, at
the meeting in Castlehar, whose resolutions you published
in the Repress of Monday. The following the only
version given of the arehbilhop's address
"Ili. Or..'- the Archbishop of Toam said :—Mr. Sheriff and
gintkmen, I suppose it k tuarreessary for me to sit). that
this meeting is ugly likely to prove a very important one, when
we are met to disci:vim:An rs which must vitally affect the suetenance
and, perhaps, the lives of hundreds of thousands; and I most sincerely
trust that no strife or dimension shall sever us in the benevolent
intention which has brought us together thin day—th- young and
the old, the rich and the peer, the landlord and thetenant- should
all join in the great object which we all have in view- the
prevention of the dreadful calamity which may and must occur in the
starvation of the people unless thinly and effectual relit f be afforded.
I have been engaged for some time past in various farts of my din.
cesc in administering the holy sacrament of conflrmatlon,3ll,l It is
very likely that if the Viceroy, or even the Queen hataulf, came over
here, and that I was calicrl upon to attend, I would have refaced, as
did a great high-priest of old, who refused to leave the temple he wan
building to attend upon worldly matters; but I thought it right to
appear here this day, knit, and before all other motive's that I might
give my humble aid, in sour endeavours to procure food for the
people, and thereby prevent ail the horror,' of destitution and death
and, secondly, lest it might appear stump Mat I had absented
myself on such an awful and important occasion as the present
after having appeared amongst the people on other occasions when
maw thought it lows in accordance with our holy religion. We
have been blunted for attending me efts" such as I allude to, hat
have they not tended to the solace of the people and the peace of the
country . Some scars ago the people met in mighty and %lidos' ful
meeting,. Cornpare the present sh.:e of this country with the pad,
and Swine whether our endeavours have not hid a wholesome and
salutary edict. In DOI; the people of Ireland were, by famine, Mr:, ten
down to the dust, and they received no aid front Engtorl. In 1022
we received UnillatLe, but it woo given, not as a right, but 1.0 the
bounty of the rich man to the mendicant. We were often reproached
with attempting to rabic the demicracy and to Ware' the higher
eLsrses. No each thing, we only attempted to top the for
the purpose of tilling the hollows, and the government have put in
our hand., by the :oth Victoria, the power of relieving the people,
His grate continued to address the meeting at further length, but
from the pressure of the crowd we wire unable to report lus
otservatium.

RELIEF COMMITTEE OF CLONNEE.—Among the Baro-
n:al sessions commenced by the Lord Lieutenant is that of
Clonkee, in the county of Cavan. We augur wal of the
proceedings to take place there, from the tone of the relief
committee meeting which petitioned the viceroy to appoint
the extraordinary sestions. After the petition had pissed,
the Rev. Mr. Lynch asked how seen there would be employ-
ment under the 9th Vie., c. 2 ?—The Rev. C. Beresford
stated that they might begin as soon as they had procured
the necessary implements, crow-bars, pickaxes, &c., at latest
he thought this might be done by Tuesday week.—Mr.
Lynch observed that would be sooa enough. Had they not
better regulate the wages the men are to receive?—The
Rev. Mr. Bell said that has been done already, at 10d. a
day. This ikbusiness-like.
Itoscommox.—The Roscommon Journal says, the bakers
are not able to supply a sufficiency of bread for the demand.
Unfortunately, the people are pledging and disposing of
every article they pastas.
CLARE.—The Clare Journal unfortunately contains
indi-
cations of a cessation of that ,
have hitherto borne their

ceived to-day, it states thin
about a dozen, dres,cd in
faces, traversed Ballyear
ing. They called at Mr.
beat some of his men,

that quietude with which the people
eir sufferings. In its number re-
but a party of Terns, •• tiog of
n women's a c, „ih • . vir •ed
and Grans ,
fired a few • • 44/.
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