The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

Vie gain.

KOSSUTH.

BALMORAL, WIDNISDAY, 111 OCT.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert returned to Balmoral
yesterday, from the Shiel of Alt na Ouilhsach. The Mar-
chioness of Douro was in attendance on Her Majesty. Vis-
countess Canning arrived at Balmoral yesterday, to relieve
the Marchioness of Douro as lady in waiting to Her

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a court was held. After some of the ordi-
nary business had been disposed of,
Mr. GILPIN rose for the purpose of bringing forward
the following motion : " That this court do present an ad-
dress of congratulation to Louis Kossuth on his liberation
Arm captivity and arrival in this country ; and that the
aim be presented in open court."
Mr. ANDERTON said he wished it to be understood by
W friend that be intended to move the previous question.
Mr. GILPIN said he had not the least objection to Mr.
1 Anderton's making his motion.
Mr. BOWER—Does Mr. Gilpin know himself, or can he
positively assure us that the honoured individual is in the
kingdom or not.
Mr. GILPIN—I cannot positively state that Louis Kos-
suth is in this country, but I have seen • letter from him-
self dated Marseilles, and the probability is that he is at this
moment at Southampton. However it is only a question of
a few hours as to whether he will come round by Gibraltar
or across from Marseilles, and by way of Paris. Mr. Gilpin
then said, My Lord Mayor, I am sure it will not be neces-
sary for me in introducing this motion to the notice of
the court to dwell at any great length upon the ground
which I went over upon a previous occasion, when
I bad the honour of bringing the illustrious name
of Kossuth before the court. It will be recollected by those
whom I had the honour and pleasure of addressing upon
that occasion, that I attempted to prove, and I believe I did
' prove to the satisfaction of many, if not of most (and I
would beg to retuiud the court that I was favoured by their
unanimous vote) that Louis Kossuth was no rebel—(hear,
hear)—a necessary matter to prove after the libels which
had been circulated in this country, by a certain portion of
the press who have not been particular as to whom or what
they have libelled of late—(hear, hear)—l attempted to
prove that the Emperor of Austria and his officers were
the violators of the constitution of Hungary, and that Louisl
Kossuth was the defender of that constitution which had
been sworn to by the emperor. (Hear, hear.) I attempted
to prove that the Austrian officers were those who broke the
law, and that Louis Kossuth and his co-patriots were those
who kept the law. I brought forward facto and documents to I
prove the attachment of Louis Kossuth to municipal iusti-
tutions. (Cheers.) I spoke of him as possessing for his
highest character that of en independent and a free citizen.
(lieu, hear.) I alluded to his sympathies with the toiling
'millions of his fellow-subjects. I spoke of the reverence with
which his memory is treasured in the hearts of the
millions of his countrymen. I reminded the court of
the enthusiasm with which his name was and is received in
cycle, assembly of our own free fellow.eubjects—en enthu-
siasm which a few hours will prove has suffered ne cllmiuu-
Lion whatever, for preparations are already made on an
extensive scale at Southampton for the reception of the
illustrious exile, and to bid him welcome to England's
shone. (Cheers.) The motion which I submit upon the
present occasion is simply and solely the natural carrying
out of the resolution wind.' this countermand), unanimously
agreed to. Then we petitioned for the liberation of the
captive, and now I ask you to congratulate him that he is
here. (Cheers.) We have heard much of late of attacks
upon this corporation—attacks which resolve themselves
in fact into one accusation, namely, that we do not repre-
sent adequately and efficiently the out-of-door feeling—the
common feeling of those '4, whom we are surrounded—
(hear, hear) ; and it has been almost amusing to me to see
the extent to which some gentlemen have felt the castiga-
tion intended to be administered to us. But surely we may
remember that attacks of this sort can only affect us in pro-
ponion to the truth contained in them. (Hear, hear.) It
is not the cavil of an angry editor, disappointed under par-
ticular circumstances, and because he is not treated with
that respect which he fancies his dignity is entitled to, that
can hurt us. (Hear, hear.) And let it not annoy us.
I did not intend this digression, bat I can say here, as I
em bound to say, that after having come into this court
with strong prejudices and strong feelings in reference to
this particular subject, I du acknowledge fully and unre-
servedly that it is my conscientious conviction that this
court represents, far more than ever was expected and be-
lieved, the feeling out of doors of the citizens of London.
(Hear.) A certain newspaper has, throughout the sttug-
gles of the European people for liberty against their op-
pressors, always sided with the oppressor against the
oppressed—has invariably attacked and abused everything
that is free, and has invariably defended everything that is
tyrannical. (near, hear.) But, having gone so fur, let us
distinguish even amongst the oriel's of a particular paper.
The one newspaper which has of late been so frequently
alluded to in this court has most able writers counected
with it whom its editors dare not trust to write either upon
European politics or upon subjects connected with this
corporation, because their sympathies are with yours and
with mine. After this brief allusion to a public journal, I
now ask the court to take a step in what I believe to be
the right direction. There can be no question of the fact
that the name of Kossuth is reverenced by the millions of
this country—(hear, hear)—with reverence only leas than
that which attaches to his name in his own country. (Hear,
bear.) There can be no question that the sympathies of
the ienglish people arc with the noble exile. (Cheers.)
A welcome awa.ts him in this country front men of all
classes and from men of all polities—il welcome which shall
let the despots of Europe and the world know that Eng-
liahmeu have still the love of freedom as firmly implanted
in them as it uses in the breasts of their free sires, and that LIVERPOOL, THUM/AY.
the espresentative of freedom shall receive an open-band To-day (Thursday) a meeting of highly respectable
rad en open, hearty welcome here, whether he comes us gentlemen was held, for the purpose of uranng the cum-
the recognised ambassador of a free constitutional state, or mencement of a subscription to pay the fines indicted on
whether as the hunted fugitive escaping from the fangs of err. Whiny and his son, by the Judge of the County Court,
acruel despot. (Cheers.) Kossuth, as a einem, possesses Semere Hoene, Esq., in the chair. It was unanimously
peculiar claims upon our consideration—eitizen.represente resolved "to raise a subseriptiou forthwith to pay the fines
Live of citizens. He comes not to this country as a war- inflicted by the Judge of the County Court on dr. Whitty
rior, returning successful or unsuccessful from tields of and his son, and to indemnity them in reference to the
bloodshed and of slaughter, but as the refugee statesman, ad proceedings already taken against them, and as to the ulto-
whose name has become symbolical of colighteued norredo—
proceedings which may be necessary to obtain compen-
(bear, hear)—whew verY virtues have ostracised him— ration for the personal wrongs done to them, and in order
whose love for his country has made hint a stranger to her through them to the maintenance of the liberty of the sub-
plains, and an exile front them, but whose name is yet a jest and the press." The subscriptions were limited to one
tower of strength to every part in Hungary which has not guinea each ; and in a few minutes upwards of fifty gentle-
settled down upon the lees of dark despair—(hear, hear)—a men subscribed to the fund. whereupon the amount of the
spell of power to brighten and to gladden the young hearts fines inflicted was paid to the clerk of the court, and an
of blood, and to infuse a glow in the bosom even of decrepid order for Mr. Whitty 's release was immediately forwarded
age. (Cheers.) Oh, the heel of the despot has not yet sue- to Lancaster. Mr. Whiny will arrive about ten o'clock to-
ceeded, and never will succeed, in crushing out the image night.
of Kossuth from the hearts of the prop le who idolise him ; In the town council an application was made by Mr.
and his name shall yet be recorded upon the imperishable Rumba, for a body of police to protect the judge and keep
tablets of history as one of the purest and the noblest
order in his court, whereupon
of his generation. (Cheers.) I had proposed to bring
Mr. S. MAME rose, amid begged to make a few remarks
forward a motion to the effect that the freedom of the City on the proceedings which had given rise to that letter, if,
should be presented to Louis Kossuth. (Hear, hear.) indeed, he was at liberty to do so without being hauled to
found upon conversation with the law officers of the Lancaster Castle. (Laughter.). I must confess (said he)
court that such a motion would be without precedent, and that my prejudices have been in favour of Mr. itainehay,
that in fact there were legal difficulties which could not be and I feared that the proceedings which have recently
overcome ; and therefore I resolved to propose, in the sin. taken place might have been prompted by some feelings of
pleat possible way, that this court, without committing itself personal dislike, but I made it my business, the other day,
to an expression as to principles upon which wc might poen- to go into the County Court during those extraordinary
bly differ—without involving mixed up politics—should scow- proceedings, and I will bike the liberty of detailing to she
ply carry out the resolution which it formerly adopted, council a little of what I saw. I will not, sir, enter into
and in this open court present to Louis Kossuth our con- the merits of the particular eases of Mr. Whitey, but only
gratulations that he was free. (Hear, hear.) I conceive it take the broad principle, that if the law gives him power
would be out of taste that I should go at any great length
Into questions which might enlist the sympathies of those to act as he has done in his ease it will give him the
same power with reference to you, to myself, and to
who hear me. I conceive it wholly unnecessary with a
court so well informed as those around me, that I should every inhabitant of Liverpool. But, having a respect far
the law, and for those royal arrneunder which that gentle
enter into the various minuet's, which, doubtless, are as well
known to gentlemen as to myself, and I conclude by bring- man sits, and under whose authority he acts—thoee arms,
which are the symbol not only of authority, but of justice,
beg forward the motion in the simplest possible character,
involving no expense or trouble whatever to the corporation, evenly meted out to every one of her Majesty's subjects,—
confess, sir, and lam not ashamed to stand here andconfess
but involving a high honour, and one that I know will be
it, that it w
appreciated by the illustrious exile. (Cheers.) We have as with feelings of mixed indignation and of sor-
row that I witnessed an exhibition more melancholy than it
presented swords, at great expense to the corporation, to
Prince Schwartzenberg, Blucher, Barclay de Telly, the is possible for me to describe. I saw a gentlemanesir, sit- I
Ling as• • judge in his own case. I saw hint dictating
Heiman Count Plato% and other generals and admirals.
in the present
(Hear, hear.) I ask you to incur no expense answers to his own witness. I found him interrupting Sir'
George Stephen, the counsel, almost every few miuutes,
instance. I say little when I say that the man for whom I
plead stands on • pedestal in the temple of fame, and and arguing every point put forth by that gentleman in
language which, I em sure, every one must have regretted
a ill stand higher than the position which has been attained to hear—language that was not suited to a court of ,
in
"us.
by those whom you have honoured hitherto. I trust lice. I heard him use language the most bitter, an
that the court will accord me on this occasion something
the worst possible style; and the expression of his coun-
like the unanimous vote which it arrived at when I tenancy when he was committing Mr. Whitty to gaol—
first brought the name of Kossuth before it. I have studi- (hear)—was such as certainly could only have been ex.
ously kept out of this motion any question upon which I
thought theme might be a possible difference. I em am him,
by one afflicted with incipient disease. I heard
him, sir, summoning bailiffs and other parties—and it ,
rounded by gentlemen, greatly esteemed friends of mine,
who perhaps do not Wee (as we understood Mr. Gilpin is notorious that some of the officers of this corporation
weresummoned—inyaeing, as I consider, the right of speech,
with me upon the subject of the liuugarion struggle end and sending men to gaol for imaginary insults. Though I
the Austrian government; lem anxious to have them with may not be exactly is order in naming this matter in coun-
me, and what is more, I know that I shall have them with
ail, yet,
me in proposing the simple motion, that we present en
—(hear, as a representative of the inhabitants of Liverpool
(hear, hear)—l think lam only doing my duty in pub
address of congratulation to Louis Kossuth on his restore-
.. . . non from captivity and arrival in this country. (Hear, tidy mentioning these things, though the opinion of the
public has been pretty clearly expressed out of doors. Are
TIRE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONe.—We learn that, in hear.) I ask the assent of the court to this motion to do
accomance with the opinions of the recent meeting of Arctic honour to a man who richly deserves all the honour that such things to be permitted in this kingdom, ms, in the name
of that mild and gracious sovereign, whose authority is our
officers at the Admiralty, it has been resolved to send a screw can be done to him. I ask you as a proof of your
beset' I think not. If the law be with Mr. Rainshay,
steamer to the Wellingeen Channel, to prosecute the aban- sympathies with an illustrious exile ; I ask you as an
then, sir, justice and morality, I think, are against him ;
dotted search for the missing ships, Erebus and Terror, but evidence of your regard for the principle of tenni- and, although he may be right as a judge, I cannot think
that it will not be fitted out till the
ht of sendin bailiffs to haul
sp
roring, the advanced tutional liberty ; I ask you, too, as a dignified and he is rig
man the ht as a man ; and I say this, sir, that if the law
season of the year rendei ing it improbable that any progress stern rebuke to the ruthless despotism which Ives to
could be made up Lancaster Sound before winter. It is runs riot on the plains of Hungary and in the cities of mother to any
gaol under the rig
express provisions of an act of
g
highly probable, we are glad to state, that our gallant Austria, and, u you know, holden up by the gentlemen of an
liament, then, I sa
townsman, Captain Penny, will be put in command of this despotic politics, which fills the dungeons of Rome and pary, unless the law which geres such
expedition, and that the Lady Franklin and Sophia will Naples with the best enigmas of the state—to murder them (Hear, hear.) Th
with the slow sword—" with the iron that entereth into the power be altered there
law, in such hands, will become a
there is an end of Englieh liberty.
again accompany him.—Aberdeen Journal.
TOTAL LOU OF THE SHIP HINDOSTAN, AND Loss
or Line—Advices have been rived
co unicating the soul, and the pestilence that walketh in darkness"—l ask
you, citizens of London, to honour yourselves g nullity ; and I believe, if administenel us I saw it ailmiuis-
tered the other day, would only be treated with con•
distrusing shipwreck of this fine vessel, &St tons burthzn, I
the first citizen of Europe and I ask that inopen court
tbeym(phta.
press,palb,lifaor e
belonging to Whitby, while on her passage across the Y
Louis Kossuth may receive at your hands the testimony of but eI
would agn
orat uhcahvehiant
adhlaerad &s
of
asanayirnmeina
of power and independence; and I think as the liberty
Atlantic, fur Reviero•de-Loup, St. Lawrence, front Ports- your congratulation and your sympathy. (Loud cheep.) of England is identical with the liberty of the public prove
mouth, aecompauied, we regret to say, with shocking loss The LORD MAYOR—It is my duty to remind the each proceedings as I witnessed, evidently intended to fetter
of life. She encountered • heavy gale on the 25th of court (and I ant sure I shall be understood), before they the press in its just comment. upon public men, are such as
August, which continued with great force for several days. establish a precedent, that there is no instance of en address ought to be met with the indignant reprobation of every
On the 27th the crew discovered she had sprung an extol- right,and ought,
of congratulation being presented in open court. I men- man in England. Sir, public men have a
. .
t. .
sire leak, which soon rendered her completely unmanag- lion this at the present moment, in order that I may not to be criticised; and when men. accept public etas an ,
able—this was in lat. 45.47, long sl.36—the water inures- hereafter be charged with knowing the fact, and not putting it is only the duty of the press, as it is its right, to '
ing fast, and the ship settling down by the heap ; the launch the court in possession of it. houses of parli.unent arc
criticise. The members of our ,
was got out, and the master, Captain Roallans, ordered the Mr. GlLPlN—Before coming here, I had the opportu- criticised. Even the throne is not exempt tram
d gentlemanly criticism; and it has come
, crew to get into it ; but though every persuasion was used, sity of co with one of the officers of the court—the and legal, an
when the judge of a County Court,
only six men with the mate could be prevailed upon to do , eagle putlausia who informed me that I should not be in to a pretty p
c"aacting upon a stringent eel of par-
• • • upon his own word, .
'ye such
. so, des sue, who seemed panic struck, remained I erden in =that the freedom of the City be presented
.„
eau of st,htce n„er „a, intended to [(I. ,
la bompL The mead set by try the ship but pulled to Limb That officer informed me that there is tun:non
bout f their residences and commit them I
wer,Well Mal
otter her is lambast peed, eldpithey heavy seas continually, one hoboes of the presentation of an address in opsea.:acourt
tae
o • common gaol. The magistrates, I understand, have
and frequently full to the thawrts. While following in to one of the repmentatives from America—l bet' Mr.
met, but have not come to any resulutiun on thed gees-
her wake the mainmast suddenly fell, and in the next Bancroft, • tion. I trust they will not he Ik
not
wrm ; for,
depcn upon
of that fact.
moment the ship gave a lurch and went to the bottom. No- ' The LORD MAYOR--I was unaware
such,eer ma be
it the people of Liverpool will ; and wha
with a
thing could be afterwards seen of the unfortunate fellows The TOWN CLERK—I am not aware of. any pre- _,
in- atr. Itarnahay's opinioa when he finds fault simple
who went down in the need, they all perished. The sur- outline but will send immediately end leer the ne""", .. "Mr. ltamshay's opinion of the people of
pressen,
savors in the launch were picked up in the course of the formation. I," lam sure the people's opinion of Me. Itanishav
the information is obtained, I put Liverpoo _ .
voice which is not to he mistaken. his-
I following day by the crew of the schooner, Martha Me- BLAKE—Before etn re to view the querns will be uttered in a
Grease, which eddy- landed them at Shelburne. The it to the court whether it is not
I
Hindostan was, we believe, fully insured ; her dos and lion in a much broader and dearer gli ht, and whether, if is not the
this is not • fit and proper occasion but the individual ,
individual ease of Mr. Whitey, or any other man
case of the whole coinumuity. (Hear,
cargo amount to several thousand pounds. there
Is not a precedent,

Majesty.
Earl Grey arrived at Balmoral yesterday:
The Prince.. Royal and Princess Alice visited Her Royal
Highness the Dachas of Kent yesterday, at Abergelilie.

The Oxford Calamity Commission had a meeting yestee
day' at the official residence of the first Lord of the Tremor'',
in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. O.
Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell,
the Rev. G. H. B. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley,

Mr. BENNOCH—I certainly very much regret that any
amendment should have been moved to the motion intro-
duced by Mr. Gilpin. By carrying this motion the court
is only giving effect and consistency to the resolution
slresdy agreed to. (Hear.) We sympathised with the
noble Kossuth whilst he was in a dungeon ; surely we can-
not, as a corporation, greatly exceed our power if we, when
he is at liberty, welcome him to our shores, and give him
the right hand of fellowship. (Hear.)
Mr. HENRY BLAKE—I respectfully entreat my friend
opposite (Mr. Anderton) to withdraw his amendment.
(Loud cries of " hear.") Upon a former occasion this
subject was considered sufficiently important to induce
this court to make an appeal to the noble Secretary of State
for Foreign Alban to use his kindly offices with the Ot-
toman Porte, in order to rescue this illustrious stranger
from captivity. If it was thought an object worthy of our
exertions upon that occasion, surely it must be equally in-
cumbent upon us to congratulate the captive now that he is
released. Let us be consistent in our own proceedings. I
should be very sorry to weaken the admirable argument
addressed to this court by the eloquent mover, and I should
be sorry to see any diminution of the honour which au
unanimous vote will reflect upuu our character. (Cheers.)
Mr. ANDEIITON—I should be very glad if 1 could
accede to the eppeal made to me, but I cannot accede to it
upon principle.
The amendment was then put and negatived, no more
than three hands having been held up for it. The original
motion was then put and carried amidst acclamation.
A committee, consisting of the mover and seconder,
and Mr. Blake, Mr. Bennoch, and Mr. Stevens was
appointed to prepare an address forthwith.—Adjourned.

Secretary.
The Chancellor of the Eschegner has left Garrowbg
House, Stamford Bridge, for Mickleton Hall, near Doncaster.

TEE ROYAL VISIT TO

-The attempt

to fill the Manchester Exchange at • guinea per head has
proved a failure. There were 1,360 applications for tickets,
and room for 3,000, and the council, under these circum-
stances, have determined to admit all the applicants free,
end to fill the remaining seats by invitation. About 200
people are preparing to illuminate. It is thought that riot
less than two million people will line the route which her
Majesty will take that day. The town council are by no
means unanimous about wearing the robes ordered, and
several appear determined net to be ruled by the majority.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

There is nothing so like a wet day as another wet
day, and accordingly the history of the Crystal Palace for
yesterday must be, as nearly as possible, a repetition of the
occurrences of the day before. The morning's rain had its
effect in thinning the metropolitan attendance, but the
country folks who had come up by excursion trains took no
heed of the weather, but thronged as eagerly, and looked sa
fresh and rosy as if the day was one of the finest in summer.
Towards the afternoon there was a glimpse of sunshine,
and the carriage visitors began to pour in; but, as a gene-
ral rule, anything that checks the influx between
ten and one o'clock decides the numbers for the en-
tire day. The only visitors that attracted any special notice
were the pupils of a ragged school, so ragged, so dirty, and
apparently so ill.ted, that the general impression was that
the display had been got up with a view to theatrical effect.
That they were ragged was not wondered at, but they
. . .

(PROM AN OCCASIONAL CORHESPONDENT AT
SOUTHAMPTON.)
_

There is every reason to believe that the French
government refused to let Kossuth pass through Frame,
either from fear of the excitement which his pr. tence would
cause in Paris, or from deference to Austria and Russia.
From the tenor of the letter dictated by him at Marseilles
to the Mayor of Southampton, it would appear that
it was his intention to go to Gibraltar, and
there take a passage to England in an English
steamer. If such should be the case, the most likely
steamer will be the Jupiter, which left Malta on the
26th. The Jupiter is expected ut Southampton about the
ith or Bth of this month. The opinion at the American
consulate at Southaruptou, however, is that the Mississippi,
will bring Kossuth to Southampton, and that she
will probably arrive here in a day or two. A crowd of
persons who had not given up the hope that Kossuth would
be allowed to pass through France were at the Southamp-
ton Docks yesterday morning to witness the arrival of the
Havre steamer. Amongst the crowd were several distin-
guished Ilan garians. As soon as the mayor retched the letter
dictated by Kossuth to him, he had it printed and circulated
though the town. The next day a meeting of the Town
Council was called. At this meeting the tollowing resolu-
tion was proposed by Mr. Alderman Laishley, a magistrate
of the town, and who baa tilled the office of mayor with
distinguished honour. The seconder was Mr. Alderman
Lankester.

were also unwashed and uncombed, and there were not
half a dozen pairs of shoes among a score of them. Pre-
vious to entering the building they ranged themselves
against the iron railing opposite, and sang " God save the
Queen" with much energy and determination. Their ap-

„.,
pearance as they wandered through the splendid interior
formed • strange contrast to the accumulation of wealth
there displayed, and suggested the thought that some of
our straiuings after ” progress" should be directed towards
ameliorating the condition of these poor savages of civilisa-
tion, whose very existence in such a city as London is a
fact more curious than any that the Great Exhibition has
brought or will bring to light.
The peiicc returns yesterday were G 4,298, and the receipts
3,080/. l.s. Gd.
-

" That the communication of the worshipful the Mayor,
as to the expected arrival of the illustrious Hungarian pat, iot
Kossuth, at the port of Southampton, is hailed by the
council with the deepest emotions of gratitude for his inm.t.
providential preservation from the machinations of tlnhse
powerful and unscrupulous foes, who, in seeking the life .if
that tlistingui.lted man, have endeavoured to crush the
living spirit of liberty, and to uproot and destroy every
principle of self-government in their own and other coun-
tries. This council hails with the highest gratification the
honour of being the first municipal body in the British
nation who will have the opportunity of testifying its ad-
miration of the public conduct and private worth of a man
so deservedly endeared to all the lovers of freedom, not
only in this country, but iu all the nations of the earth."
A sub.committee was appointed to draw up an address to
Kossuth on his lauding, and which is to have the corporate
seal attached to it. It was determined alto at the council
meeting that when Louis Kossuth arrived at the port the
members of the corporation were to proceed iu state on
board the strainer u lath brought him, wearing their robes
of office and having the official regalia carried behav them.
It seems their determination to show to the world in slip it

The following shows the temperature during yesterday,as
recorded by Mr. Bennett's thermometers, being the mein re-
sult of 100 readings :-10 o'clock, 54 ; 12 o'clock, 59 ; 2
o'clock, 61 ; 4 o'clock, 62 ; G o'clock, GO. Mean tempera-
ture, 59.2.

DRAMA.

LYCEUM.

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The bill of faro which has been running at this
theatre almost front the opening of the Great Exhibition
was varied last night by the introduction of a novelty, en-
titled " Speculation." The plot, which is of the most
trilling character, though the piece is presented in the shape
of a three-act comedy, is appropriately expressed by its title.
It is based on the speculative mania which was so rife a few
years ago, and which can hardly be said yet to have sub-
sisted to any great extent, except with those who have no
longer the means of indulging in it. A _hr. Affable
Llawb, a member of the Stuck Exchange, who has
been ruined partly by his own speculations, hut
more so by the defalcations of an equally specula-
tive partner, a Mr. Sparrow._ who has absconded,
endeavours to gull the unwary, and to keep up appearances
by a variety of worthless schemes. He succeeds for a
time—the spirit of speculation and the greed of gain in
others being made by his knowledge of this weak point of
humanity subservient to his ends. The day of mckoning- ,
however, comes—creditors are'

welcome of hossutii that they solemnly sanctum the lawful-
ness of his efforts to achieve the independence of his own
country, and in calling up a nation's resistance to tiro faith-
lessness of an usurping and despotic monarch. The corpra-
tion have resolved also to invite to a sum;ituous
banquet at their ancient Town-hall, at which a large num-
ber of the municipal chiefs from (Laurent parts of the
country arc to be present.

bubb(Ci

burst, and he is on the verge of ruin. Still fertile in in-
vention, he seeks to retrieve his position by marrying his
only daughter to a supposed wealthy baronet, cajoling hie
reluctant creditors by the hope of payment after the mar-
riage, to advance the funds necessary to provide the wed-
ding jewels, and to uphold his position as a millionnaire.
The baronet, &weever, turns out to be an Irish adventurer
equally bitten with the speculative mania with himself,
and whose present scheme is that favourite one with the
nominal possessors of over-mortgaged bogs, to pay off his
debts and become rich by marrying a heiress. Certain bill
transactions in which a creditor of both parties is concerned
expose the double plot, and ill his extremity and to gain
time Ilawk persuades the ei-deeeiraf baronet to personate the
absent partner, ro turned with the means and the desire to
make good his defuleations and retrieve the fortunes of
the house. At the moment the real Sp•srrow returns,
and meeting the creditors, pays all the liabilities of the firm,
together with the private debts of his partner, who, be-
lieving that hells all the time bamboozling them, is more
surprised than any one else when he finds that he is no
longer in debt. The chief weight of the piece rests on the
shoulders of Mr. Matthews, who is, in fact, scarcely off the
stage an instant during the whole progress of the three acts,
and to his admirable impersonation of the character of
Hawk probably as much as to the smartness of the dialogue,
is to be attributed the unqualified success which it achieved.
The other characters were efficiently sustained by Messrs.
Robert Roxby, Frank Matthews, Baker, Suter, Ozberry,
liorncastle, Butler, and Clifford, and Mrs. Horn, Miss
Oliver, Miss Grove, and Miss Ellis. It is all but super-
fluous to add that the stage arrangements were in the bat
taste.

THE JUDGE OF THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY
COURT, AND TIIE EDITOR OF TILE JOURNAL.

to establish one. If my
.friend Mr. Gilpin be right in the I hear.) Whatever is most valuable in this world we guard
case of Mr. Bancroft, it is quite clear that before that event I with the greatest care and jealousy ; and we ought to
there could have been no precedent. I hope there is none, i guard, not only as a public body, but as individuals, the
in order that the court, upon the present occasion, may ; liberty of speech, the liberty of the press, and the liberty
have the honour of establishing one. (Cheers.) lof the person ; because if we do not, sir, I say we are
Mr. Alderman WlRE—There is ale another precedent, I unworthy of these privileges. We ought to resist Co. first
in the cast of General Espartero, when the whole court ' inroads ; and I have no hesitation in stating that such is
was summoned to the presentation of the address, which ,! the general opinion out of doors. We ought to watch those
took place at the Mansion-house. (Hear, hear.) I privileges most carefully
the ; and if there be nn
Mr. ANDERTON—That was not in this court. I individual who sits, with authority of the Queen, to
Mr. Alderman WIRE seconded the motion. I put in operation an act of parliament with such power
Mr. ANDERTON felt it his duty to move the previous u I have described, it is high time the act of p.irlia-
question. I went should be altered ; and I say mere, it is the duty of
Mr. Deputy CORNET seconded the amendment. the public of Liverpool, of every individual in this town
Mr. Deputy STEVENS supported the original motion in . who values the privileges which we enjoy, to join in a peti-
• few weeds. 1 tins for the removal of a gentleman—(hear, !ICAO—who so
. .
- himself in his e•-et that he is under the neeevity
...

conducts court t.
of culling for the police ; though I was in court, and thole
was no necessity for that application, in my opinion, for I
never saw a better conducted set of people in a court.
There was some slight manifestation of applause ; bit: I
say, if a gentleman is to. fireside there who is to put ;he
town of Liverpool to the cost of sending the police carers
to preserve order in his court, there must be something
radically wrong. I make these remarks with great pain,
because I never witnessed before, and trust never shuli wit-
ness again, such an exhibition; and I will now take the
liberty of moving that this letter be reterrsd to the watch
committee. (Loud cheers.)
There has been an unusual amount of sympathy expressed
in the neighbourhood of the County Court on behalf of the
poor tailor Brown, and a subseript!on was commenced to
pay his fine and release him. lu a short time the money
was raised, and both parties will be at liberty this evening.
I The Earl of Carlisle is expected in Liverpool by to•iiight's
; mail train.

(By Eectrie Telegraph.)

LIVERPOOL, 11 l' .M

Messrs. Whitty have just returned from lianea.ter
Castle. They were met by seven thousand people :nal a
baud of music. Mr. Whitty, senior, addrcs:eil the crowd,
stating that Mr. ltanishay and he would soon be on an equa-
lity, and that he could not again be committed. They then
proceeded homo. The crowd, accompanied by the band,
then marched past the County Court, playing " What can
the matter be r" and groaning the judge lustily. 'f here was
no further ebullition of popular feeling, and the people dis-
persed quietly at half-past ten.

THE CAMBERWELL MURDERS AND

SUICIDE.

The following is the conclusion of the proceedings
at the inquest, held yesterilay,Thy Mr. Carter, the coroner
for East Surrey, at the Windmill, Wyndhain-road, Cam-
berwell, on the bodies of the deceased Fawcett, and his two
children, who were the victims of his inurcleroue phrenzy.
Sarah Sadler was next examined. She said she was a
widow, residing at 7, Belated-place, Wyndham-road. Was
coming out of her doorway on Tuesday morning at eight
o'clock, when she aim a female at the door of No. 1,
Queen's-place, which was opposite to her own holm.
She was knocking at the door. No one answering, sho
knocked a second time. She then looked through the key-
hole, and said, "My dear, open the door." Did not hear
any noise in the house at the time of the knocking. The
moment the door was opened, which took !Lace about four
miuutes after the knocking commenced, the woman
screamed. When she did so, witness went up to her and
saw a child standing by, who was covered with blond. Tho
first words uttered by the child were, " Oh, mother, run
up stairs." Witness left the woman, and went up stairs
into a back bedroom on the first floor. Saw a child lying
on the out of the bed, coveted with blood. It Vitt) a
female child, and had a little bread.and-butter in its band.
Two men followed witness immediately, and t xelnimed that
the child was dead. Saw blood gushing from the riale side
of the neck, but did not observe the nature of the injury.
Lit the room instantly, and came down into the back par-
lour, where she perceived another child lying on the fluor.
Went up to it, and touched it, but Mond that it *us dead.
Perceived in its hand a bit of sugared bread-awl-
hurter. The child was dres ed in its night-
gown, and had on its socks and shoes. There
was blood on the floor, and flowing from its throat.
The night-dress was saturated with it. There was no
injury except on the left side of the throat. Saw no instru-
ment. Kan out of that room into the washhousc, uud there
saw a policeman and another man dragging the b sty of a
male person from under the sink. The person moped A
great deal, and stared wildly; he appeared to be living.
There was a knife in his right hand—a short common table-
knife--and blood was flowing from him. Ile had on dark
trowsers, stockings, shirt, and slippers, but neither coot nor
waistcoat. 'there was a very large wound in his throat,
and is greet deal of blood, partly under the sink and partly
on the floor. Both bands were covered with blood. hid
not know either of the parties; had never seen them be-
fore. The door at which the woman knocked Witt a
side one ; the shop, or front one, was fastened. The back-
door, leading to a garden, was opened as farm; the body
of the deceased man would permit. Saw no other per: one
in the house than those she had mentioned. had been into
the garden since, but saw no narks of blood indicating that
any other person had entered the house and subsequently
escaped. 'rho that child whim witness sew appeared aleuit
five years old, the oilier ahem a sear and a half. It was
nut probable or possible that the children had iiijoree them-
selves. Considered that they hail met their deaths cat the
hands of their father. Believed that he ;di.° killed liiius•lf.
lie survived front 15 to al minutes after witness entered.
Ile never spoke in witness's hearing, or to her knowlaage.
The wife did not see him then, nor had she dune so since.
Witness had subsequently laid the bodies out. The child
up-stairs appeared to have her neck cut through, and the
other child and the father had each received an iuci,ed
or cut wound. Believed these injuries to have been the
causl of death. Went into the chop. It appeared in a slovenly
condition. It was open, und the shutters acre down.
The Coroner said the surviving child having probably
witnessed what happened to the other children, her evi-
dence must be relied upon nit that point—but that part of
the inquiry must be adjourned.
Thomas Kerwen King examined—Was a surgeon, re-
sidine at 23, Addington-place, Centherwell-read. On
Tuesday morning last. in consequence of information hu
had received, he went to the house No. 1, Queen's-place.
There first saw a man in the yard or garden bile: on his
back, welteriug iu blood, with a frightful gaping incised
wound in the throat, about four inches in length and two
inches in depth, extending obliquely across tins left aide of
the neck. lie was alive, but was dying, and in a gasping
state. Examined the nature of the wound, and should say
it had been inflicted with a cutting instrument. Was not
shown any knife. The carotid artery, the jugular vein, the
larynx, and the gullet, were divided ; and the man expired
a few minutes atter witness's arrival. The wound was de-
cidedly of a mortal character. Discovered no other wound
or injury on the person. This extended from left to right.
Looking at the character of the wound, considered that it
had been inflicted with the right hand, and by the party
himself. The cause of death was loss of blood from that
wound. Witness's attention was next directed to a child,
about ten years old, who was still living. [The Coroner
said they need not enter into that portion of the inquiry
then.] This child had received some personal injury, but
was still alive. Shc was nut yet in a fit state to he
examined. bound a female child, named Emily,
he believed, lying in a bed in a back room up
stairs. She was quite dead, having received an incised
wound, as from a pointed knife, at the buck part of the
I neck. The wound appeared punctured, and was about two
',inches deep. 'the instrument had penetrated the spinal
column, divided the cervical ligaments, and severed the
head from the trunk. The head was only retained by the
soft parts. The wound had caused instantaneous death.
' The next child, Frederick Anthony, one year and eight
mouths old, witness did nut 84-11 till the eveuine. lie was
then lying in the parlour. Witness, on examining his per-
son, discovered an incised woun I, three inches in length,
and about one inch in depth, on the left bid: of the n. ek ;
it had divided the carotid artery and the jugular vein.
Looking at the situation of the injuries inflicted on the de-
ceased children, he thought they could not have been in-
flicted by the children themselves. lle had no doubt that
they died) by the hand of some other person. The in-
jury of the male adult was such as he might have inflicted
on himself. Witness's impression was, that the act was
really his own.
Edward Sharvill was then examined—Was a police-con-
stable, 115 P. On Tuesday morning was on duty, shout
8 o'clock, in the Wyndliern road, when his attention was
called by • female to the house No. I, Queen's-pease. Went
there, and saw marks of blood in the passage. Proceeded
thiough the kitchen into a washhouse, and there saw an
adult male persou lying on his right side, under the sink.
Tinned him over, and found his throat cut. Discovered a
knife in his hand. [.l white-Bundled table-knife was here
produced.] It was exactly in its present state—covered with
blood. M 'Mess immediately sent for Mr. King, the sur-
geon. The man was still alive when he (witness) first
guy !lie:, entl. he live(t ,lain twenty minutes atter...During
the interval before the surgeon's arrival the deceased mado
no observation. His hands were covered with blood. Be-
-1 lieved him to have killed himself with the knife. In a
j hack bed-room up stairs saw a dead female child, who had
° been wounded apparently with a similar instrument. Saw
a male child lying dead in the parlour. Discovered some
blood in the passage, and also some on the paper of the
wall of the staircase; the latter had been smeared with the
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Examined the premises on Tuesday morning, and diem ered
nothing to lead him to suppose that any ono but the de-
ceased adult had inflicted the wounds.
The witness then produced the money found by him on
the person of Anthony Fawcett—a five-pound note, half-a-
crown, and a penny piece.
Mr. King, the surgeon, was then examined as to the in-
struments, and stated that in his opinion they were likely
to have produced the several wounds.
In reply to a question from the Cutoner, Mr. Killer added
that he thought Mrs. Fawcett and her daughter would IJO
in a fit state for examination on Wednesday next.
The inquiry wan accordingly adjourned uutil that day.

THE TAoVS.—The Oriental Company's steam
packet Tagus, Captain Thomas S. Russell, arrived at Smith-
wanton yei erday. lice dates are : Constantinople, Sept.
15; Smyrna, Sept. 18; Malta, Sept. 22; Gibraltar, Sept.
26. She brought ship letter bags from all the above men-
tioned places. Among her passengers was Osman hff,
Her cargo is n v'ry valuable one. She brings twelve 0.54.,
specie (80,0001.)