The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

- YB. DIE.RaII AT .A.lTLimu.
beillfilty the *Odyssey Sesame
was beat ghe
" Asseektiss bell Ike
fin !of matith Melt plass
r. orris, at 'aft
rem of the lawn. The awardtbdrelasviiiies4lVX46'd the
"Skis Wks of the ninety elepensd st, the asenthen
SISK fesollime. About 10 pelisses sat down. Ma. W.
isMeer s/ the Bury, near Cheiliss, lob legiesisilf of
Mt y, lettglied the *kir, mad wee
11Mt. /I._DisreeU, M.P. • Mr. Prg=alll.4ll7
=see hikleells Reese; Psi. B. N. Yoe%
lisietedaytals Blersey, Ciente Rom, Mr. E. Reeve* Mk.
ifl sad Mr. R. Sess.
atAlie Se seal loyal mad Potties Omits had bus AISNE
DISRAELI said—Mr. Chateaus ase jaMS
Ens list I has had the pleasure of Mks le tide .sae k
ken to, signified to me that I am spaced to pew
Wesfa SS which I did net asps wield Mee
ie risy let I seep the duty, hoses e
Illelessea itimmis it suable* me to perform • ea, AM
44irreest irpssissoinar
thick is cwt isSaires
It is peeps seems it
, the ihnesika of ISIS we
de met le sieleate—the Royal Beek Asiskse Ass
Katie& I ssatemiert that this seeks was einmel
is the Let pies fie theproteaties hefts
thee iltilletheValtere mem head :=l6l:eilLismese pe
uses • ladoyeadese mid emesedess ems
iihmeisme An a peaseimal omen:edam son
piss to faintish eke heme Sok evessilimai
eine ee mishlearioss in
up their
=lll the prises we Kr=
aiwtheate mast
he is ameist, es emispered wllk
the slmest Knee erM re
ik they moth to ward, mod
*seeks Sty me epee it the ridicule of the ma-
w, sees el So maw, sad the °Seriatim' el ell
who are !racist of the reeds of rural life, still I can eay
fres my own expedites that ia this testy the have mud
met liesSeially--lave glen a stimulus to good conduct es
the put et ear sgrieultual popuktio•--(beer, bear)—are
looked knesed toloy thokbieringemmesanity with interest,
and us MOWS with kelfazgarprak. (Otters.) T.
proton theists ef the Unrest wee the (nisi-
ael WWI= of this seelety, and the rewards we new give,
hoses hstmeirkse and valuable. in coasequeace of- the
kisses they egiestes upon the labeesiss somatanlty, an
tics
Only seem
into • el= Ito lnt duty which called this anocisc
Meer, hem) I have remarked a
feellas to prevail in this county that ear society is formed
kw party objects. I ascribe this unfounded, but too peeve-
lent idea, te this reason—that the restitution of the also-
elation is sot so compreheosive and booed as it might
have been. I weld have v. ished that it had exercised
a &idled influents on the skilful cultivation of the sAI, and
meld be shown to bee society, whims, by the stimulus it
held out to improved agriculture had • *km is buses •
great example to England, as it has be hi misty Milier!
respects. (Hear, hear.) It is impossible it kept
this moment the agr.ieultural imams* Is lee state meet
sufferiss—(cries of That's true ")—and that if we One
here merely to drink the toast whisk I as about to props
tad songder every poles eoasested with aviculture eases
the parses of the Innen, we should be depreelaties mod
deviling the objects of this association, sad our uppess
would be without object or en end. (Cheers.) Weed, k
would be Maud, lakes° to the eauthig which is to inks
plain here to-morrow to promote improvement in the pm-
deadest ef dallies. (Cheers sad laughter.) That Is e
emetlas whio4 I should be meet happy to saes& and which
I as ric is to odour, bet it would reek higher in
plat el than. this ninth's, it with all our expressed
estlissiasea aviculture, Mere was eel one prewat who
had the sense to meet fairly die premed paid= of the
agricultural interest of the country. (laird cheers.) I have
told yes that I do not mean to eater into the eau. or ces
sides the east of that posits, but I oust allow tge opps
unity to pass without stating a Ism whisk wee as question
—that the poetics of that lateral is we of unprecedented
peril sail Milltalty. All that I mak it, that, sea Pam'
principle, you should be prepared to steed by the land of
England. (Lead sheers.) Omsk omen, I reasimber that I
stated in another pie's—sad tt wee never dispnted—that we
were wildest to NgLer tamdea than ether watutries; and I
raked, therefore, why we alieeild be paired in a worse polities
that they were, and called open to meet a sudden sad &a-
prons sorapetitioa ? We were them asked, " Why its you
afraid el competition ? When is the competition to come
hots ?" Gentlemen, we all know sow where the competition
is to come free—sperienes has answered that question.
The question I as sow ping to seaside in the few obsti-
nacies which I shall place Ware you is this—what ander
present eireamstames are we ealled sto do ? What
should be the policy of the andlandlords the oecupiets to
maintainaague dependent upon agrioultural pursuits their
position in the social scale ? (Hear.) Gentlemen, I cen-
tered in the early pert of last sloe, to your representative,
to mall the attention of urinates to the agricultural inter-
sets. I matured to Wreak ground span this topic, dismissing
as far .;possible fiats attention the peat change which
had occurred. That change had bees cernid by • majority
of the legislature—had been sanctioned by a teat to which we
all bow, sad therefor. I only asked this for the agricultural
iatereat—that, twigs been deprived of protection, they
should at lent be snowed to enjoy the right of sot having
to subtelt to taxation from which other climes of the comas-
ally are eziesept. (Cheers.) I pointed out ia my place in
the House of Comatose a remarkable eireematiusee widen
approved not before to have been observed, became it had
sot been placed in a massive and te form—that while
the agrieultmal population of Ea and contributed their
fair quota to the 50,000,0001. end general taxation
they atm paid a seciond revenue, equal to 12.000,0004, front
which other ahem were imam. This reweave is collected
for purposes seellypeablie as the 50,000,0001, and in en age
when we are to:d that sun 11111•11 should have peculiar privi-
leges, I ventured to ask that the nther sissies should take
their fair share of this second reverme, at present entirely
saddled on the agricultural holy. Gentlemen, it appears to
me mot entoureeing that on float bringing my plan forward
it win supported by 200
_Menhirs of the Bosse of Commons,
though it was not backMl by any feeling out of doors. Gen-
, deism, I say at the present day it is moat imperative that
the agricultural body should seek for en equality of taxation
with other members of the consmitai,y. That is a prism.),
point to be accomplished. It is of no use complaining ; it
is of no use indulging in general observations ; it is of coo sse
making plaintive aviation. to the past in holding out
raging prospects for the future.:l as certain that thee" oin*
its be en equal adjustment of lossl taxation, or reties what le
tailed local, though it is ia reality sational tomtits; and if
that were, ebtaisodow in all juges it ought to be, sossider.
able relief word at ones be given to the agricultural Unrest.
0361411M0111, there is nothing more impernat in life, especially
la pablie his, than to have a principle to guide you. It will
siaglify morythieg, sad, when acted epos, decide the most
simplex sad meet perplexing gaieties. It you have • prin-
ciple to guide you, so matter how exureordinary the Gordis
knot, it will be almost blatantly mt. Apply this sentiment
to the patios of the avkailtural Wyse the present occasion.
I believe that all will agree that isimigos to your interests,
taxatica shield be equal. That hersrprinciple. ()oedema,
I will now all your attention to asses tax which has been
meek dwelt epos, and the vanjuttsramsemeat of that tax.
YoedlkaowtkatfarmersMykshkthe mentos paid by the
other rhea, and FLYS epidis Yin t given • seat
that that should mot bealkwed, dot isles keg a eittlemont
of that question may be mead whisk will do justice to
the 'gnu:tura body. (Be r) I am now, however,
anxious to all your muses to a tax whieh, in its arrange-
ment, is most Indust. No dm* every gentleman present
has heard of, mad ass of vie pay. the lead-tax. This tax
is to levied, that the county of Baelinghem pays Is. bd. in
the posed on the natal of the lend, while other counties
infinitely more_tpopulons and infinitely more rich pay 2d. in
the pound. You are, therefore, called upon to palia
nodes amount of the land-tax. Iliad, I am not we
of that portion of the land-tax which has beta red
bemire that is always brought forward by our °permeate te;
perplex the question, because, in nothing that I propose do
I with to disturb any public compact which has bees
entered into. Os-third of the land-tax has been redeemed,
and therefore so Mager presses cpon the soil, but two-thirds
remain to be paid, and produce mon than 1,000,0001
anasally. (Hear, hear.) Now, it produces le. bd. in the
pound in Buckinghamshire, and only 2d. in the posedis
the meaty of Laseastar, and one farthing in the pound in
Livemeal. I ask pa, thee, where is the equality of that
tastiest The inequality, however, is not peculiar to Beek-
bighantshire, for I was speak*, to • Reesman from
Hertfordshire on the subject belay I entered this room, and
I find that, in Ida county they pay Is. 64. in the posed. I
have alluded to Hertfordshire, bast I do not wish to see-
fine the cousideration of the *abject merely to Backlashes
shire. I will also take a herder musty, the county of Bed-
ford, where I end the tax is Is. 6d. in the pound, while is
Northampton, *moth's' border county, it is isms than le,
while in Berkshire, a sister county, it is Is. Pd. Theo, again,
in the remaining twenty agricaltival ereatin, iselekes
Som. rsetshire, Kest, Deveitskire, sad sea Russ—tom
which a ;petition' Sped by twenty-flee doesiad panels in
favour of equal taxation, was seat to parthemet, that pe-
tition being give" to me to present by their own county
member, because I had originally beertight the qoestion
ibeward—in those twenty agricultural counties the average
of the land tax is bat little under 1.. in the pond.
Having given you these tees, which I have drawn from
official documeate, I will put before you the conclusions to
which 1 have come. If tie land tax was levied throughout
the country at the same rate as in Buckingbeephire, and
that is not se high se in Hertfonlabire or Bedfordshire, "e-
-1 Weed of realigns 1.000,0001., it moult realise 6,000,0001.
I am not proposieg any new tax opposed to the spirit
if tite age, bat only the goalies. ion of • tax Visite already
exists, and is this I have a right to anticipate the support of
those who have declared themselves in favour of equal
taxies sad lament reform. New, gentles n, I believe I
have applied upon to 'bowleg you our recont polities. It
is sot denied that our prises' position is mow demised. but
what do our oppocents tell us ? They tell us we mud im-
prove our present optics of culture—that we mutt exerciss
more skill—and that we must employ m ore capital. That
it is posiible to improve our present a stem of cal.
tivatica I am not sun to deny. I believe that every-
thing may be made the mane of imp -ow spent, and
that the more you improve, the more room there is for
hither imprevemeat. I ask you, what is improvement but
naked istellisenee ? And the instant you increase that
kimlligemie ygaona therm the masa of ex. raise I*. No
desk, ekerefere, the sericulture of B.eland is cat-able of
improvises; bet this! will my, whatever the faults—what-
ever room there is for improvement, the air;eultuv of Beg-
land is the most skilful that has ever existed, and that I will
prove by the simple fact, that in no other country in
Earops has go much been raised from the soil as in Bag-
laud, aid that the quantity raised in this country is oar
third more than in any port of the United Bores. N ow, if
the land-tax be fairly levied them:ghost the counties of Sme-
lted, we shall have, instead of 1,000,000/. of emit I, 5,010,0001.

HMIFOIRD, WIDTIESDAT.
Wit costing* oar report of yesterday's proceedings.
Thum wee so *eve el attrestive tourist la the moraines
mule. The Detdcaea r• Dem was sot given in the silo
pry ebb that per&mien which we we» led to expect.
This woe aresdeet, us, In the asertata, " The glorious am-
pony." Three was a pentepaite impromeasut in the J.
baits sed Me niaawat perk peers was especially re-
••••:ibte. Ths bawd is not a Urge one, but was excellently
belensed i the theses pm.rd • MEW easiest body. The
embus wee Dr. Boyee's Masud is Miss M. Wil.
am end 3k. Hobbs pis sed mush in Madam. " The Lord
kW palm kiss ;" sad Mr. lecke, sad Mr. Phillip
ehs rim mesh satistaatiaa is the other dart, " Here
sbeg salt Merit, rrpoir." Wins IL Williams Wee meekest
the seta, " I has el es to the Wad," with great sweets'w
ends lest

at the moinena of owing prayen the Bishop of Has-
hed dolleeni a sermon on behalf of the eharity for the re-
fieJ
d the widows mid orphans of she clergy of the dines..
Ito moan 's service awed with Mead.leauha's whom
*llet into es," •c. position which doe. not rank smog
the highest et the torerwer's productions. The collection
to the deers on behalf of the charity anneeted to 2371.
At the toting concert there we. about an 'map atria&
ono the room Wing about three parts filled. The scheme
wee es attrestire one. kindolmotta's overture," Melons,"
mod the cement, we believe for the Ant time, at INNS lesti-
rah. Beettiovro*s cantata In praise of ensile followed. We
lishine ibis *SO first let to • pens **titled " Der Glorrieehe
Aegesblick" (the alwin. gamest). tor ate of the moterten-
INN& gins to the allied ',vertigo at Viso' to 1814,
whoa it was performed wide greateemmes. inhoesently the
alai well adapted to • poem called " Prete der Toshaust."
Pith bead sad wealiste did judos to the mas:a.
Oa Madame Coelho' maids, her appearance In the
embestra in the recitative sad air, " Whence art
thee, power a mote P' oho was warmly received.
Mr. Wale. violin obliaale was beautifully given. The
Mires Weans, Mr. Laney, and Mr. Phillips she dints-
'Melted thesnehree. Haydn a tonameette, " New the din
eimg rashest,. play," wee wry eheetely snag by Ylr Poole,
ud tastefully accompanied ea the Manefoste by Me DA.,
organist rut Worwster mist dral. TM felolllll2ll/10 of the con-
sort was =sae up of selections boa operas. and other pops
lar works. 01 thew the grist listen was Medione Cos.
Milan's "Cams Dore," la which the prima derma would
have ben encored had not her audience eonaider.d the
arduous nature of the teak which soh a repetiqn would
have hooted. Mies Pools was lISCOMO in Glover's song,
" 'Twee • beautiful night," tad the soften was brought to
a ekes &beat toidalgat, Oar which there wee a ball, whin
was kept up for an h..ur or two loger.

81.•211.8.—Then are dates in Liverpool t oat Pe:.-
turabsco, to the 4th August- Bakis, let Aug., end Rio Ja•
Nero to the 26th July. The news, however, is scanty.
livehasg• at Rio ruled Eros 26 4. to 261 S.
NOVEL MILTTART SPELTACLZ.—A ceremony pos-
sessing to lithe interest to the inhabitants of ipiwish, was
nerved in that town on Saturday last. The •' Old 12th "
' regiment of feat whirls was raised in this town about 300
years ago, have of late been presented with a new set of eis.
loan, and according to eustnin, the old ones were sent down
to Ipeeich from the headquarters of the 12th, now lying
at Wenn, low the purpose of being deposited in one of
the principal churches hers. The colon,. were for worded
to Major Oohs, of 'he 18. h Lumen, now quartered in
this teen, and at irne o'clock on Saturday morning two
troops of that regiment, the staff of the East Suffolk =Bide.
and a /termite, party of the 12th regiment of font, met on
parade at the barrack ground for the porpoise of segoespa-
nyiog the nine ger presentation to the Insumbest of St.
Mary Tower Churn, is which edifies they an to be
placed. The military pronision left the barrack ground
in the following order: the bead of the 16th Lassen
playlet; a march, followed by a troop of the see nati-
mat. Neat Nose Lieutenant Bent and Lientssaat
Barton bearing the colons supported by ton senior see,
gnat.; after them followed 'another troop of the same
meat end end a running party, coediting of a sergeant and
two taints of the 12th Regnant el Foot, with the itaff of
the East Suffolk solidi& bringing up the rear, under the cons-
umed ef Captain Beckham Arriving uponi the Corn bill,
the bead played the " British Grenadiers," after which they
esed on the entrance gate of St. Mary Tower Church, the
bmi there playing • slow marsh. At this point the troops
were formed into line, alter which Major Gavin, anomps-
and by Liesta. Scott and Burton, learn' the cold re, fol-
lowed by four soldiery, proceeded to the interior of the
Marsh, the organ (which was presided over by Mr. R. W.
Teeter) at the time peeing forth is its fall power, " God
to the Gloms." The au. W. N. LIN, tU incumbent
a Bt. Mary Tower, having takes his place at the ONUS-
siva table, the colours were then presnted to him, accord-
lag to military etiquette; after whist the troops returned
to the banana la tee mass erase as they had arrived. The
Wenn, from their lame series, neesend a very tattered
P
—Berg end Sol Bernal =IIIL TO MelllT UPonICONTIMIED PERSOWSr
For some time past the nest of Leigh mad the loomenent of
Bedford have n heed to merry IN to 'Mali Its hams el
zanier of assostaremil persons. A gemeamsat pews-
tina has hems [meditated wine the latter clergyman', he
/dung to wry two parties whine kenos had bees
lined is the sand moaner beim the beard of
sad who peened to Wm the registrar's certificate. The
trial is *speed to take piers at the neat Vveepetel
Arden, sad the aeon is described as pee of tolls.
Winnow. A few weeks ego, a young tunes named
James Williamson, of the Wilk of Lomas, pi.l a
woman maw d Mary Ann isereloythf 111
desired the vicar el Usk to Watien the Weft el MM.
the, bet he refused, es the pond *to al Mob
had no. been essieVlNl. AS sperol Ain tbsoolluto
made to the Bishop d Manchester, *Ms Mimid the
vicar to pohlt.h the banes. They have esseMeseg keen
pablished dating the kat tens illumbge. MIR thewlS
ova. Imo totioninsi bb Moder of
shalost the resale, her Adler, am l imheather e
=tag to mew hi giddies te he 2 end lbe
tot no= to sow kr OM papa.. Tits Tillft
on Ibnetioy last, peseamilly aimed the following
sabre we the ies :" I, JOESISIroWo, view of Leigh,
to the wow et Inweester, and Maw of Illawirotor
Way ese yen, Jesse =,zoweaver, midis/ In
w
a
rir wino in a roost gelled Cleael-strese„
mar the east end of Twles-kme,
sti= of Fe..
sieges within the midi sed=sr Ass.m
lour as
Peat. sad peer lifff ln
Ile perish WIWI on Issior nom, INC Me
sesseedia Beede and be Uwe knlnuolloriZ
nuals-11 I. the Church lo
oft dr ailed loom
at crudes prayer, unit rink Moroi they bole leareed all
that is therein appointed for the, M hiss.—Died Ibis (kb
dirt st Sept. moor, is tb. year of one Lei, 19111L—(81o•ta)
J. lanes, View of L igh.—Devid Ogees, wise ."—The
kilning crest hem the even oldie elm& aseempealed
the ahoy. And likewise, Van of the mid fathers,
rffailerrs, meters, or moinees, thiMo., servants, or 43
Prontsere, nail a-glen their dudes, es the one .oat In not
:nag them to come, sad the ether Ia Washy/ to learn,
aforread, let teen be enspluded by their ordinaries,
if they he en children; and if they mo=te ti the
see sin reseela, thee let theta be moon va
fis."—Meacheeter Grortiirs.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1849.

the abelilleß *at esdr ,r,,
!this sail he • smut 1161 P le ilea sesses,
sod& Inevideally sanely give yen ing relied I. that
the rases by which te rate Wm imperilled grind.
taro et Retiedly set. What I sepses es a
rowdy is this—that the 5,000,0001. shield bra • of
lead, set • berrewed, but • nal. @bides dui, whisk, 50417
in head, mould, `lmo Sea Mom main rain ousels abets
Sius sabielendbmis beimew smassAtisipply is
t 3 pee seat, instead et psis& es ass de.
oi*swper ems Then the former- Saki se se beaker
ed and *heals foes hire, at • reoessabis rate, the
pmelelisearazisied he the kapposseS et the ail. It ay
vas missed the pulls see& weld be
salatelasil—it would she te the tamer asdssse sad
Tessa fres then preens state .1 L, 4M the
lamilleids of the esatry, who, welt As obtabt
all the espied they reused for the impresses
et their meats at • Hsi' rate at isms This is
only the sea* of September, and the seas, is perhaps
the drat agrisultaral swedes that Ilea been held dunes the
priest mass if you will sly therefore, sad de.
need mss ei tazatien sad cheep yea will rely do-
Mends Set the
partisid
peer et
sic
an
by oad alnshadbe seppsnal by
die lade et Segiesd. auar
yea dB go about sad slim tbeWai:d the Isad.tax.
lad WS that it be oessesei t the sestry le the
as wile as la the suety of be seared, it
you sell die these Map with a sleet eels, yes will set be
but that the judos et your alai wM be id.
I Wad the nark awl breadth of the load. This
shoes health I an shout azaveose ' has
ea aew set sample te people at I have
aemla is She le poet 1. Shads isalseemth,_ =I be
palliklei le Mae teat—rtglie weees—is lat, -2, when •
rmeat politisal she wee made la the sepremseative etas
idtstie tesuatry, the news of Besidashisehies mood up Is
of their privileges. Let the pumas of laglond tee
kegve that, ia this of lleaneial raises, the counties of
to bare "equal amities sad cheep
=all aresialk depend ups it when the priaciplas
as whisk year thin is basal, mad lb. naaannrabie taste
by whisk it Is gsgested. becomel3 hosts—whoa it is sew
that • semi Issas* et ,000,0001. is ised by the
fusee of Nadia& sad that Se seriadtarsl raised by the
farsisie .1 -1 eM that the sgyicultur4 district. pay
• asdla IL is the pound is their natal, while any
lamas peg eathingi at all—and that not by • men tan, bat
10146:=1.41ustenat sat obi tax, • slaking lead say
, IDS& wouldapes In_ prigs of maw NI
iseillbuilag to agdmilture oak. Mil Mien te Se eppjf
ilea el the unrest peasigies at jeaties—these grestyria•
elpies will satin their way la the Rinds of Stell!
dameateed and whoa they come to be sup by
lb. Sneers of England they will soca be panetionsd_ by tie
Swan of Commons. If you oily determine tie Stela as
egaslisation of testi is, if you will impress apse your Wil-
liams in adjoin's; omens this sane feelisg, and if we vit
seed up petitions to tbis ellen to both bosses of sae
will stake to
politiesl resdatioa that ia • law saseibe
more or his there is not a man la this now who will sot
pay half the Weal taxation whin he dose at panne. sad
who will mot be able to obtain all the capital be Aquino as
a moderate rate et interest (Rear, hear.) These an toy
views for the presoak and this is may answer to tki se who say
we don't keen what we ask for. (Cheers.) 111 ea% obtain
times objects sot medon, I shall probably ask for non—but
at may rate I shall pprroo res Bonen to the Royal Backs Ag-
ricultural * with grouter spirit the I ass give
it to you. TM has member messed his seat amid loud
applause.
The prises baying been distributed,
Mr. J. L. BROWNE (,f the Norfolk Circuit), Is an op-
propriate speech, proposed " The health of the nasty wasp
hers," complies with the toast the sass of Mr. Disraeli.
Mr. DISRAELI having retuned thanks,
Several appropriate toasts were drunk, and the compsay
separated at a late boar.

COLLIERY ACCIDENT.-FOUR LIVES LOST.

An accident, arising trona choke damp, occurred
at a orselpit in Prior Field Colliery, Costley, on Widnes.
day morning last. Four lives were lee', and others en-
dangered.
On the moraine named, at about six o'clock, Joln Mil-
lard, flume! Weston, Timothy Flavell, and Ilbassel Grain-
ger, got into the skip for the peewee of demanding the
i pit, to go to their work. They took with then' • lighted
candle, to light them when they got to the bottom. When
the skip had got about twelve yank down they felt the damp,
which pot out their candle. They all hooted up the pit the
usual signal, " Hold," that the whimsey might be stopped,
and the skip drawn up again. No one heard it, mid the
poor fellows were lowered into the deadly vapour, until the
skip reached the bottom. They eamtlasied " heating," and
were at last heard by those above. Then some one called
from the top of the pit, and asked if they were on again
(meaning on the skip). As they wen all is it, they hooted
"Go on," and the whimsey immediately started to draw them
up. Millard became insensible, but fortunately did not fall
from the skip, and in a state of insensibility was brought to
the pit bank. Westoo, Fiscal!, and Ishmael GrCager, how
ever, ovsreome by the bid air. had fallen from the skip
before it had bean drawn up more than three yards, and
remained at the bettor. of the pit, which was about fit y
yards deep. William Jeavons, the batty, and Ge ego
Grainger, who were on the bank of the pit, immediately de-
cided upon descending, in order, if possibte, to recite Wig-
ton, Fifteen, and Grainger. They were repeatedly asked
to allow themselves, Cr their own safety, to be lathed to the
skip, but refused. When they got to Ole bottom they
hooted " Hold," and the engine was stopped. They then
hooted " Go on," and the engine started to draw them sp.
Before the skip, however, had seconded half-way op the
shaft, something was heard to tall heavily to the bottom,
and the slipp brought up Ishmael Grainger in a helpless
and lessasible state. Jeavons, George Grainger, Weston,
and Flaysll remained at the bottom of the pit. Thomas
Wild, Joseph Griffith., and Edward Hill, miners, imme-
diately and boldly, and at the imminent rick of th. it Het.,
went down, and found Jeavons, Grainger, Weston, and Fla-
vell, all lying open their faces at the bottom, and apparently
dead : they brought up Grainger in a dyieg state, and in the
course of a few mi.,otes he expired from the cats and
bruises he had received by idiom from the skip. Wild aud
his is imperious were too much affected by the damp sir to
descend again. William Ford, William Clark, and Vanes
Davies, were than lashed to the skip, and, like Wild and
Griffith., risked their lives to save, if poestbie, those of thew
fellow-labourers. They brought up Jemmy, who, however,
wee dead; thistles of the air in the pit was so bad that they
were obliged to relinquish an attempt to bring up Weston.
He was brought up shortly afterwards, but dead, by John
Ford, brother of William Ford navel' was the last
brought up, end he also was quite deed. The names of the
persons who brought up Weston and Fara, fame that of
John Ford, are not known to as, but their title to com-
mendation is the same. In about half an boor the lifeless
bodies of all the sufferers, Weston and Flavell, who first
distended, and of leavens and Grainger, who so unhap-
pily loot their lives is endeavouring to mate their fellow
workmen, were on the pit bank. Millard, it may be noticed,
when he fill in the skip from suffecatioo, fell nith his hands
between toe pieces of lion attached to the baby, which pre-
vented him from falling out, and he was than almost mira-
culously saved.
The (sets of this remarkable and deplorable occident were
tally stated at the inquests held on the bodies of the sufferers
balms the at the Hone and Jockey Inn, Conley, on
Thursday and Friday last. Toe jury in each instance re-
tamed a verdict of " Acoideatal death." The pit, it la
stated, was well ventilated, and many miners stated it to be
their opinion that the heavy state of the atmosphere occa-
sioned the damp air to remain in the pit. Jeavons was
about it years of are, and Grainger about 25; Weston and
Flank were boys, the former about 13 and the latter about
16 years of sp.—Wolverhampton Gimmick.

MOONS, FORESTS, AND FlSHlNOrt—Sportsmen have
eithyod another week of uniatortapted good weather, heat
belai POW the &beet of complaint, and, se entibpated, the
sports have improved with th• weather. We are Wound
with the fillowlag auto from the game books :—At Conic
may, is the 29th ale, Mr. B. Wee and Mr. Tredmofteheit
33 bribe. At Corrybroughmore, Mr. D. Fallartos,_up to
the 25th ultimo, had shot 120 braes of groan. At Nthie
genie, one day last week, Capt. June Wardlaw bagged 33i
them of gnus, sad Capt. Robert Wardlaw bagged 26 brace.
Mr.Wynee Williams, of Obnitulchan Lodge, near Gramma,
' has averaged 40 brim of Brous per day since the 18th Avg.,
and on the 80th al inn he had 621 braes. Mr. Williams
has also been fairly seaward in his salmon addax.
At Poolewe, Mr. R. Harvey Ism bagged 70 brass of
grease and captured 84 mimeo Moe the ern* at
the mama. The Kilmorook shooing., bathes; to Lord Lora, have been taken by Mr. J. D. Ganther, M.P. We
are thrry to learn from Batherlandshlre that groass are
Karoo there; bat every precaution has been taken to im-
prove the atoning* for met swim, measures which will.
w• trust, he se soreassfel as Moos adopted last year frem
the riven. Ptarmigan shooting is a eater description of
sport We Irani that on Friday the 31st August, Lords
Edward and Alennder Rowell, accompanied by Mr.
Charles Hominy, proceeded from Donne of Rottieunrobas
to the Olenleshie hills, where they were met eanossefal
la their sports, having killed, in the Gonne of firs bean,
thirty brace of ptarmigan, besides other gams. This
feet is, we believe, mequalled to spacing annals,
and to those who know the sly habits of this
wild inhabitant of oar loftiest monntaks, will zit=
almost incredible. finesse. has atteaded the deer
their exciting sport. Captain Darby; shot a splendid Wig
at !Urethrae. on the 26th ult. It had a Ina head, and
when clean weighed twenty atom. The Hon. Mr. Trebel
has brought down a stag from Glenda.. Ms- Webb, at Kin
leehewe, shot a doe stag shoat the 261 h. We gown that
Lord lota Smell has been doing some notable deeds in
Mar Forest. He went oat ea Wedriesday, amompiand by
Beestio Rom, Btq , and after • lengthened stalk, the Pri-
nk, brought down • fine stag, having shot it dead at 120
yards and wounded a second, which, however, thoonded in
maping. We have Lot much w say this week respecting
the Ness. Toe dry weather has reduced it somewhat
in sin, sad marred the sport ; foe although the pools
were fall of Mb, the salmon did not take well, and pat the
patinae of the anglers to rather severe teeth Cape dm A.
P O.Cemmiog, yr. of APyrs (mime wamilerfal feat of
killing twenty•two s,lmen and grills In tea Imam we re-
seeded on the 23ra al.), has Wanted from the Botharlaad-
shire riven, having taken illt mimes to his short warier,
mot wending beyond • fortnight. A most sztraordihary
eatek of trout was made a few days ago, by net, in Loth
Torrid'—a salt watt r loch on the west mast The net
was draws two or three times, within a few minute', in the
preemies of Sr Bean Meckeasir, Bart., of Hilary, Captain
Mins, Captain Lyon, and Captain Wendt, NW the spoils
were found to be ooe thousand sal ninety-Bra large white
treat and t ere Pelson. This capture of trout we believe to
be usprceedented.—lnvermsr Courier.

ilimaintif gessetuton, the defame osseleded with a
el cement el Chnineendee Titssaa's services, sad with a mars
et Medmeedah mmethrlatsey of those serints, and of his
general themolor se es eater and a 'madmen.
Dr. Then Blegoes wen As list witness called. The theme
having bias mad to the mates% ha was mita& by Cum. Pit-
man : How king VMS pas as herd H.M.S. Childers while
souteuusded by me A. !roes the 18th of limb, 1846, to
the Bth of /larch, 11149.—Q. Did Ise, during that time, ever
knew ms
the aver ? A. guilty
No of crush, se oppression towards ony one el
.
By Johniteass—Dis you reeelleet • seethe cl the
name of Ospt.Haigh ?A. Yos.—Q. What beams of him ?A.
He was istiA as Hobert Town.—Q. Were yea eat of the
surveying dims? A. No, I ems prosiest at the wareey.—Q.
Who were the Aims if this survey ? A. Three medisal
ca-
sed, two assistant sargeens, and see who weneirdatag far
the Impestor.Genersl.—Q. Do sou eseaesaber the purport of
the report of the suresylan damn la referees, le Haigh ?
A. He was invalided as • searine.—Q. Had that man been
flogged as bard the Childers ? A. Yea—Q. Did he appear
to safer severely ham the panishmest ? A. Not more
thra I have nesall&skentsest.—Q. Was he placed under your
care after the: t ? A. No.—Q. Were aware
that that man boss kept oat deck foe days sad
sights? A. He wee kept os deck daring this day whoa
that punishment was hinted, as was caosalary ; but se to
the night I am sot aware.—Q. Were yeas...re that he slept
under the foreesetle ? A. lam not.—Q. As a medial man,
is it your opinion that the peal/buten% he had undergone
produced &sanity ? A. Not the least.
By Capt. Msodougsil—Wbat was his general health pre-
vious to W. n. flogged ? A. Very good.
By SirThcs. Maitland—Q. Was it customary to keep alma
is deck for mews Mae age day after haying been severely
punished ? A. I merely rein to what I have seen In that
sblp.—Q. Have you ever sent a sea kept set desk attic he
bad been washed SW a leafier period than till the evening
of the da en whisk be was punished ? A. To the bast of
my , I dent think I bays seen a msa kept an
deck at night shoe be has bees punished.
By Capt. Jobsetose—Do you recollect the boy Clame-
d= ? A. Yes.—Q Do you recollect whether that boy was
aver under your cars he MA's be had ressived ? if so'
state the coomaion. A. Never, to the best of my stool.
Lotion. _ _

Tb. leuned gentleman proceeded to state that—" The
court having heard the evidence in suppwt of the chairs%
as well ea what the prisoner bee offered in hie behalf,. ea 4
very staterely end deliberately weighed sad eeuir the
same. te et opinion that the sharp of general
sad ap
_has been is part proved aorta theE
sorer ,ieliu J. C. Pitman ; sad the err is
at minima that she shame of fain expeaditat• of erns, sad
the et Nee statements In the bg-book of hey Ka- ,
jot" Ohildare, have beta proved against the primers; '
I. 17. Pitaaa ; sad the gout &tit in coaseguester
=do add Conaruader I. C. Pliers to be Minima ie
Kletttre s Mee." •
Tbe mart the* broke up, . a

By Capt. Welkeley—De yea madder it your duty, as a
medical man. to see whether the sundry puaishmests
in-
dieted are icjarioas or otherwise to health, and. in seek me
to represent it to the miner ? A. Yes.—Q. Did yea
ever make such represeatation during the time you served
on board that ship ? A. No.
The proeseutor, Mr. Elliott, heels' Ms celled upon to
examine the willies%
TM Judge Advocate to the pressentee—You are net to
pat
ez %maw but what has reference to the examination
.3.Treelsisi Intim submitted the necessity of kis being
r pat whaeraor questions he might think mou
sse, to lieto
us%
The mutt was dewed ; on re-opening, the previous obser-
vations of the Judge Advocate were confirmed.
By the Prosecutor—You have stated you sever knew Com.
Pitmen gailty of any cruelty while on hoard the Childers ;
do yen remember the deaths of two mem named Oilman and
Kitts, if so, state of abet they died ? A. I remember the
two men, they died of dysentery.—Q. Do you keep Oatmeal
of your cases, ad have yen it with you ; if so, read the re-
marks on the cams ? A. Ikm a journal, but I have not
got it with me.—Do you not know that Oilmen end
mitts wen undergoing punishment while I. the list, and if
so, state what was their punishment ? A. I was aware they
had beta under punishment, and to the beet of my 1•11114110.
tion it was standing with their hammocks on their shoulders.
Q. Was that punishment indicted at a time when the ship's
company was suffering trout dysentery? A. I believe it
was about that time.—Q. State to the co s% as a medical
man, whether dysentery was not likely to praised from env-
isage* in a warm climate, and it being a sickly seem. A.
It might, under peculiar cinumstames, be an melting emus.
—Q. According to tour preceding answer, state my peculiar
cause of dysentery ? A. I have no reason to think it was
dysentery excepting for the effects of the climate, that being
the prominent feature in the statement made to me.—Q.
Yon have stated the climate was sickly, and eveufatigue
might be the cause of initiatory ; do lon think the punish-
, meet of Oilman and Kitts was the pradiesing cause of
that disease ? A. It may or may net.—Q. IM you think it
was or was not ? A. As a medical man I moot say ; it
might or it might not ?—Q You have stated you knew of no
case of cruelty on board the Childers ny Com. Pitman ; state
woether Oilman or Hilts was punined to your knowledge
by the commander's trim, or to his knowledge. A.
I cannot say.—Q. Are you a_personal friend. and under any
or what obhgatien to Cm. Pitemen ? A. I am under no
obligatien to Com. Pitman except what resulted from his
kindness in the service.—Q. How many men died at the
' time Oilman and Elite fell victims to dysentery ? A. 1
' cannot remember at present. Oa the question being put,
The Judge-Advocate remarked that the prommator was
now going into matters irrelevant to what was adduced in
the examination in chief.
The court was then cleared.
On its re-opening, Mr. Elliott resumed the crossexanaina-
tion of Dr. Roger..
Q. In what climate were you when the boy was punished
with carrying a fennel on his head, and what was the state
of the weather ? A. We were in one of the northern pans
of China at the time ,• the weather was not settled.—Q. How
beg before the boy Lasts died was he ailing ? A. I should
think about or 14 days, or may be less.—Q. Was he or
was he not ailing when he was subject to the punishment
carrying the hammock and wearing the funnel? A. Net
that I am aware of.—Q. Do you or do you not believe that
his illness was attributed to one or the ether ? A. I have as
rearm, as a medical man, to believe either one or the vim.—
Q. What reason, then, do you attribute his death to ? A. To
Mentes, and the dimmed state of the oreanisatiou, which
found on a post mortars examination.—Q. What was the
organic disease to which you refer ? A. I ennui
remember, as I have not my journal with me.—Q. Dm the
result of your post wrens examination on Lame appear la
your journal? A. Yes.—Q. State to the beet of your mast.
lootion the purport of what you entered ia your journal?
A. It is impossible for me to state. —Q. Explain te the oreset
otherwise, then, by medical terms, the natant gal men of
the organs disease ? A. 1 cannot, to be andersteal.—Q. I '
wish to know what organ was dimmed? A. I cannot
answer so as to be understood. Mr. Elliott then read his
question. —Q. Are the premoutor and the court sailleiently
well informed to sadermad what organ was dimmed? A.
I b saltily submit I mild not answer.—Q. Were his heart,
liver, or lungs diteased ? A. I cannot enswer.—Q. State
in Latin, or medical terms, the Eaten of the orgaoie
/imam A. The heart was smaller than usual, and then
were several spots indicating congestion upon the mucous
membrane of the bowels.—Q. Did the boy Lewes at the
post mortals examination present any, and if so, what
disease of the heed ? A. He head was not examined.—Q.
Why was not the head examined t A. Ist, I had no reason
to suppose the head was affected; 2nd, Memo the appear-
ance of the abdomen presented sufficient evidence oe the
cause of death.—Q. filets to the court why you ksld any
post mortem examination at all ? A. For my own satiates-
Lion, and fu the &Mange of medical seines la general.
—Q Did you hold post moefem examinations on all perms
that died ? A. Not ea all persons.—Q. Did yea ever see
Lawn flogged, sad if so, how lag was it be
he died ?
A. I never saw him logged.—Q. Are you aware that he was
flogged? A. Yes.—Q. How often, and to the best of your
knowledge, how lore g befogs he died ? A. To the beet of my
belief twice ; several months before he died.
The Judge Advocate said that Mr. Elliott was taking up
the time of the Court unnecessarily, as these quietens AM
been already put during the prosecution.
Mr. Elliot said, I was myself subjected to a Mfieb4Zaii.
nation for two days and a half, and submit that I should
have the privilege of cross-examining the whams far the
purpose of showing what lets cams wader ide knew-
ledge, which bear on the charge of cruelty. As, however,
this honourable court thinks that I ant unasesmartly *soapy-
ing their time, having showed what occurred with 11111111111100
to the boy Lawn, I will forbear from asking further ques-
tions of a witness who has been called to state he knew elm
cruelty.
By Captain Johnstem—Do you recollect at any time
Gillman stating to you that he attributed his sickness ad
probable death to the punishment that had Ma inflicted on
him ? A. No.
The Court was ordered to be closed, when the primer said
he would decline calling any further witnesses, and would
leave it to the court to all whom they thought proper.
Ott the court being re-opened,
The President (addressing the prisoner) said—Are the
Court to understand that you have no more witnesses to call
and have nothing mom to offer in your behalf ?
Prisoner—There are more wittiness here, but I do not
mean to call any more.
President—Then the court is adjourned until nine o'clock
to-morrow morning.
Mr. Graham immediately attempted to read a meet° the
court.
The President said he could not hear it.
Mr. Graham still wished so proceed.
The President—The Court's adjourned. I cannot
hear it.
Mr. Graham said it was not with reference to the mart ;
but Commander Pitman had not called all the witnesses
which he said he intended to call, and he wished to know
he might make a reply to Capt. Pitman's defence?
The President—No ; you said you were saddled with the
witnesses you had called.
Mr. Elliott said—l simply wish to know if Imy be per-
mitted to read a reply to the 'tawniesta of Commaader
Pitman.
The wart having risen by this time the President left the
table, and no answer was given to this application, but the
court adjourned forth/ night.

WEDNESDAY.—THE SENTENCE.
The court again assembled this morning at nine o'clock,
and altar brine formally opened, was cleared by older of Sir
John Lou* Bart., for delioeration. It remained closed till
tweaty-flve minutes to tune, p.m., when it win it* opened,
and aQ the witnesses were called in, after which the public
were admitted.
The ledge Advocate than read the decides of the 000 rt.
Haying stated the constitution of the court, it set forth the
chirp's, which were es follows:
" 0.-neral cruelty, from or about the 4th September, 1846,
until the 20th of May, 1849 ; sad for film statements is
the log of her Majesty's ship Childers on or about She 91 day
of October, 1848.
"General comely and oppression during the period ern-
mercies on or about the 4th of September, 1848, and ending
on Or 20th to May, 1849.
" False expenditure of stores, viz., a hammock cloth repre-
sented to have been washed away on or about the 14.11 of
October, 1848; and a maintops ail to have been lost on or
about the 9th of October, 1848
"False statements In the log book of her Majesty's chip
Childers, from September, 1846, to 20th of May, 1849."