The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-16 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

lntendent of the quarantine establishment at Grams
or 1817. It contains an intelligent and distinct ac-
count of the measures adopted to meet the awful mortality
among the emigrants of that year. These were most honour-
able, not only to the offi:ers of the quarantine, but to the
clergy, both Roman catholic and protestant, of the district.
What, however, seems of the most practical importance to
bring (Beane ly under the public notice is th - deiberate
opinien and explicit declaration of Dr. Douglas that the
mortality of 1847 " cannot he attributed either to a deli-,
ciency of food or overcrowding ;" and that " all the remedial
measures that may be adopted will not prevent the occur
ranee of neatness and death to a fearful extent, so long as fever
end destitution prevail in Ireland, as it does now." We
subjoin the passages in Dr. Douglas's report, in which WS
opinion is expressed and illustrated:
In the conclusion of my annual report of last season Ire-
marked that ' (rem the experience of many years of the
MASS which produce disease among emigrants, I am per
that next season the number of sick will exceed that
of any previous year. The partial f ilure of the potato crop
hut season (18151 caused much sickness ; its almost total
failure in that country and the north of Scotland this season
(1816) will have the a ffect of pouring upon our shores thou-
sands of debilitated and sickly emigrant..' The result of the
pact season's emigration btu more than fulfilled my
prediction. Two causes, which could not have been
foreseen, have conspired to augment bsyond all
calculmion the number of destitute and &erased emigrants.
The first of these was the enactment of a law by the general
government of the United States, which, by limiting the
number which each passenger vessel cetufd carry, made the
cost ot a passage no high as virtually to exclude all but those
having a cerium amount ot means of their own. A law prm
viously in t xistence in the state ot New York, which obliged
the master or owner of a vessel bringing passengers to give
honda that no emigrant I nought out by them became charge-
able to the commonwealth for a period of two years atter
their arrival, was mire strictly enforced. The effect of them
laws was to turn the stream of pauper emigration to the
British provinces. I estimate the accession to our emigra-
tion this year through the operation of this cause at from
tn,ooo to 40,000. Another cause of the increase this season
has been the application to Ireland of a poor law. To avoid
the enormous expense which will attend its execution in
some. parts of the country where destitution abounds, many
landlords have given free passages to those baying claims of
the land. In sal' cling these they have, naturally tenoned,
abstained from choosing the !young, strong, able-bodied lir
bourer, but have sought to rid their estates of helpless, widow*
with large families, cripples unable to work, aged persons,l
the confirmed idle and lazy, and those whose constitutions
had been enfeebled by previous sickness and destitution.
Such was the character and description of many of the set-
tlers sent out from the ports of Liverpool, Dublin, Cork, and
Limerick, as more particularly described in my official re- '
ports at dilteri nt times during the out aeason. • • •
To the final closing of the establishment, on the 3rd of
Nov., every vessel coming with passengers from Liverp'ol,
Cork, Dublin, Sligo, or other ports in the a uth sad west
of Ireland, heed more or less sick. The greatest number
was invariably found, as in former years, in vessels from
Liverpool. The overwhelming number of sick Irish who
crowded every part of this town has earned for it this
year the appellation of the hospital and cemetery of Ireland.
Cork and Dublin rivalled Liverpool in sending out sickly
emigrants. I have had occasion to observe in former re-
parts that emigrants who come from distant country places
to large seaports, there to await the sailing of a vessel,
living in the meantime in crowded cellars and lodging-
houses, invariably suffer more from illness during the voy
age, and arrive in a more unhealthy condition than those
who have hut a short distance to come, and little delay at
the port of their embarkation. I have heard fewer com-
plaints from passengers this year of the quality of the ship's
stores. I think, upon the whole, these were better than past
reasons. • • • •
The great mortality and sickness this season cannot he attri-
bute.. either to a deficiency of food or overcrowding. In
support of this opinion I would beg to instance the'fact that,
out of 7,500 German settlers who arrived this season, there
was not during the voyage, or on arrival at Grose Isle,
as many sick RS are ulna ly found in a like number of the
same cl gas living in their native villages. The same remark
Applies to the English settlers from the ports of Hull, Ply-
mouth, Padstow, and Penzance; and to the Scotch settlers
from Aberdeen, Dundee, send Leith, among whom few or
no sick were found ; though in the case of these emigrants
(the Germans especially) they were more crowded, from
having a much greater quantity of baggage. And as another
prised that a sufficiency ot food, good medical attendant - , and
comforts, do not suffice to protect Irish passengers from
use and death on the voyage, I would cite the case ot the
pensioners and their families who came out in the transports
Blenheim and Maria Some., from Cork. The pea-
ionizers of these vessels ware under military din
cipline, had the medical attendance of a staff surgeon,
they received daily rations of the bent of provisions, issued
under the direction of the transport agent; yet fever
and dysentery prevailed throughout the voyage among the
pamengere and among the crew after arriving at Quebec.
fhe Blenheim lost 12 passengers, and had 17 sick; and io
the Maria Scenes 17 died, awd from 40 to 60 were admitted
to hospital. The diseme which proved no fatal was, in most
cases, brought onboard, and many masters of vessels would,
on g .ing into the hold, point out to me the particular berth,
place, or places, where the dirges* originated, and the dine.
Lion in which it spread ; in all such cases it was ascertained
that the family occupying this berth had come on board dis-
eased or co..valrecent from lever with foul and unwashed
clothes. The total noisier of pameneer vessels inspected at
the station this year has been 400, being about double the
number of any previous year, the number of resume:in being
ado double that of any former season. Of these vessels the
large number of 129 here had fever and dysentery among '
their passengers; 20 have had small-pox, and nine have
had both fever and small-pox. 5.293 passengers have died on
ship board, being at the rate of 6.39 per cent. upon the whole
number of passengers; of these, 11 were women in child-
birth. • • • • • • ahe
Meknes,' and mortality of the masters, mates, and sea-
men of emigrant vessels has been proportionably great. Few
of those who had fever s mong their passengers escaped an
attack of the disease, and many died. The great demand for
pumps to America induced many owners of vessels to fit
them gut whose masters were ignorant of the trade, and of
the means to be adopted to preserve the health of their pas-
sengers. 15 hen fever once broke out they h.came alarmed
for their own safety, and would not so down into the hold,
which from nestle ct of cleanliness I{ooll became one vast I
reeking pest-souse ; the vitiat d and contaminated air of
which SOUR enfeebled those also were of neeessits obliged to
breathe it, even when not struck down with fever, and ren-
dered them inditlgrent to all exertion, even to the preserve.
ion of life itself. that first law of nature. In some vessels
where great mortality prevailed this apr.thy was so gnat,
that difficulty was experienced be the masters in inducing
the passengers to remove the dead. In one vessel, the
Sitars, from Liverpool, Captain Christian had to bring up
the bodies of the dead from the hold on his shoulders;
neither namengers nor seamen could be induced to MAIL
This humane and excellent man. whose attention to his I
sickly passengers was beyond all praise, fell a victim to fever
a few days after the arrival of his vessel in Quebec. In
another vessel, the Erin's Queen, the master could only get
the dead brought up by paying his seamen a sovereign
for each body. • • • •
•
All the remedial means that may be adopted, however,
will not prevent the u current.* ot sickness and elf ath to a
fearful extent on slop-board so long as fever and destitution
prevail in Ireland as it now does. Some one of the many
pamengers is sure to coif:self. either just recovering from
fever, with foul clothes and bedding, or with the seed. of the
disease latent in his system, which the change of lite and the
eliecomforts ot a sea voyage rapidly develop ire so favourable
a locale as the hold of a vessel. Medical men are generally
agreed, that the three grand measures to be taken to prevent
the spree,. of fever, are separation, ventilation, and cleareld
nese From the nature of things the two first of these are ren-
dered imeracticabls in a crowded passenger-ship, and the
last, of difficult attainment. Sea sickness and the mental
depression which usually atteeds it render it a matter of
extreme difficulty to induce people to practise a virtue which
they have never been accustomed to. Hence there is much
reason to apprehend that next season will bring with it a
recurrence of the siekness and mortality of this year.
limited only it. extent by the numbers who may emigrate."

Mit (gotta.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince and Prinuss nt Hohenlohe Langenbmg and the
Priacese Eliza of Hohenlohe Laneenhure, and attended by
the Viscounteas Confine, Col. the lion. B. Phipps and Col.
Wylde, left o.borne at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, em-
barked on the Fairy, crossed to Gosport, and travelled to
Railway. a special tr lin on the London awl South-Western
The Queen held a court a ter her arrival at Buck.
ingham Palace.
Nlonsieur de Beaumont, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotent ary of the French Republic, had an
audience of her Majesty, to deliver his credentials. His
ExcePency was introduced by \ i•count Palmerston, and
conducted by Col. the Hon. Sir E. Oust, her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by
the Earl of Morton, Lord-in-Waiting, and Mr. R. Ormuby
Gore, Groom-in-Waiting.
Lord J. Itunsell had afterwarda an audience of the
Queen.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langenhurg, and the
Princess Eliza, honoured the performance at her Majesty's
Theatre with their presence in the evening.

Prince Caste'cicala, the Neapolitan Minister, bad
yesterday an interview with Viset. Palmerston.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. T. W. Cookson, of
Liverpool, and Messrs. W. Hamilton, J. R. Laurie, and J.
Hamilton of London, had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day at the Colonial-office, on matters connected with trading
establishment, on the Western Coast of Africa.
Count de Revel, the Sardinian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Capt. Denham, R.N., F.R.S., had interviews at the
Board of Trade and Admiralty yesterday, with his Reports
and Diagrams respecting the recent steam vessel accidents in
the Irish Sea and Gulf of Finland.

(From last night's Gazette.)
w ItUYVICE, Av 0.15.
2nd Drag. Culy.—Cor. T. B. 'Tomlin, to by lieut., by pun, Nice
Blahs', who ret.; J. Clement, rent., to be cor., by pur„ vice Tomlin.
3rd Lt. Drag'.—F. T. O. llopron, gent, to be cot., by pur., rice
Dimedale, app. to 10th Lt. Unige.
7th Lt. Drom.—Lieut. E. FL Cooper to be mot. by pur., vice 14e1,
who eft ; Cor. F. A. Farrell, to be lieut., by put„ vim Cooper ;F.
M. West, rent., to be cot, by mar., rice Famed; Assist-Burg. W. B.
fnem 50th F., to be asabil..aurg., vice Wardrop, app. to the
Grenadier Beg. of F. Ode.
loth Lt Drage.—Cor. H. F. Dimadale, from 3rd Lt. Drage., to bo
cornet, rim Lary, who retires.
yth Beet. of F.—Lieut. w. Bayly, to be capt., without pur., vt
Helder, dee.; EnS. IL Xlmenes, to be lieu', rice Bayly; Ene. A. R.
Bell), from liSth F.. to be em., riee Ximenes Lieut. 11. 8. B.lyne-,
to bt adj., v!co Ba,ty, prom.

ENIIGRANTS 'C
ICA. O BRITISH NORTH
AMER
Among the papers recently presented to parliament
relating to emigration to our enlonie, in N•.rth America, the
most important is the ahnual report of Dr. D0u417.4, medical

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1848.

10th P.—Ens. T. P. Deana, Axes 33th toil. aliTirks GocdfaL
low, appointed to 22nd Foot.
13th F.--Coiour
beßerl. MY Mei Se let or Grenadier
Refit at F.to qumotet, vlas 1 HannaiMa, who has been
superseded, being abaft without lease.
17th F.—Capt. W. Edwards, from the 88th F., to be apt, vice
%Velma; who ex
19th F. —Lieut.lnMriritson to be apt, by pur., vice Sir M.
A. 11. Tutte, Ban., who rots.; Eno. and Ad J. R. Barrett to have the
rank of lieut. ; Ea. W. Harris, to be lieut., by pot. vice Mergitaoa ;
T. O. Year/seta, gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Mer;la.
22nd F.—Ene. J. C. Goodfellow, from 10th If., to be see., vke Feed,
who resigns.
32nd V.—Copt. H. W. Hough. from 50th F., to be cairn, vice
Ware, who excluts. ; Liam 0. S. Moore, to be rapt., without put.,
' vice Gardiner, dec.; Ens. A. Basuto, to be lieut., vice Moore; W.
J. Anacreon, gent., to be era., aloe Braman.
33rd F.—Brea—MM. C. A. Young, from h..p. unatt., to becapt., vice
J. Wllliamoon, who curb. ; Lieut. C. Milk, to be gun, by pur., vice
Young. who rat ; Ens. N. Kemp, to be lieut., by pur., vice Mills;
W. G. Nugent, gent., to be ens., by pur„ vice Kemp; brut. W.
Pretyourn, to be ads., vice Mills, promoted.
3 itb -,urrt. F. It. from the staff, to be ossiet-
core., eke Johnstone, who exchanges.
35th V.—Capt. N. S. Buchanan, from 93rd F, to be apt.. vice
Ewan, who each. ; !lout S. L. A. If. Maarten from halt-pay 20th F.,
to ne lieut., vice Cliatterton, promoted.
43rd F.—Quart-mast Sergi. J. Demon, to bo quart-mast., vice 8
Rand, who retires upon ball-pay.
45th F.—Capt. IL In Griffith, from 77th F., to be apt, vice Fel-
lows, who exch.
kith F.—Capt. IL E. Wake, from 32nd F., to be wipL, vice Hough,
who each.

J. R. Winytml, Fey. (?Ire of Honour to the Queen
Dowager), to en+. without pur., vier Drone. app. to the 10th 1.
bgth F.—F. A. Trevor, gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Coghill, who
retiree.

.; ...-
Gist F.-Lieut. J. P. Redmond to be capt., without pur.; vice
Stewart. dee.; Ens. W. 11. Wall to be tout., vice Redmond.
77th F.- Capt. J. B. lellowes, from 45th F., to be cult., vice Grif-
fith, who each.
Rlb F.-tlipt. H. W. P. Welman, from 17th F., to be capt, vice
EilaJtds, who each.
li7th F.-Llrot. J. Bailie to be adjt., cite Cobb,, prom.
83rd F.-Capt. J. A. liwart, from 35th F., to be capt., vice Bucha-
nan, who escheat..
Ussrrecitan.-Lieut. 0. N. Clatterton, from 35th F., to be copt.,
without put.
Rosen:a STAFP.—Staff Amiet..Surg. F. C. Amtrak'', to be staff
surg. of the see. chow, vice A. Smith, M.D., dec.; Ansist.-Sorg. R.
C. Aederson, from 02nd F.,. to be areivt.toirt. to the forces, vice
Anneeley, prom.; Assest....Surg. W. S. Johnstone, M.D.,froni 34th F.,
to be armaL-surg. to the forma, vice Phillipson, who exch.
Mevmusot n.-The commission of Lieut. F.. P. Campbell, as adjt.
cd the Seth F., bus bevn antodeted Co May 12, ISIS.

LI RUT. MUNRO was yesterday liberated from
Newgate. Before his release an application was mane to
Mr. Baron Alderson at chambers for a summons to be di-
rected to the governor of Newgate, showing why he refused
to give up the prisoner to certain sheriff.' officers who held
an execution against him; but the learned judge refused the
application, and the debt was sub+equently settled.
. . .

• • _
TILE DANISH BLOCKADE.—Last night's Gazette i
*equine a notification that Viscount Palmerston has received
from Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister at her Majesty's
court, a note, dated the 10th inst., of which the following is
a translation: In conformity with the orders which he has
received from his government, the undersigned, Envoy Ex.
traordinary and Hit liter Plenipoteutiary from his Majesty
the King of Denmark, his the honour to notify to his Ex-
cellency the Viscount Palmerston, Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs of her Majesty the Queen of Great
Britain, that the government of the King has deeded to
blockade, from the 15th of this month, the rivers Elbe,
Weser, and Jande, as well as the eastern entrance of the port
of Stra'suad, and of Greifswalde, and to solicit him to have
the goodness to cause the usual notification thereof to be
mace. The undersigned has been instructed to observe to
bis Excellency Viscount Palmerston, that neutral packet
boat., will be able freely to keep up the regular postal corn-
11111fliCati011e heretofore established, upon condition that they
do not carry contraband of war."—(Signed) REVENTLOW.
( HARING-CROSS HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday a meeting
of the uoventors of management of the affairs of the above
hospital was held at the institution. During the past quarter
there had been admitted 293 in, and 3,36,5 out, patients ; of
the accident cases there had been 519, of which 100 had been
received as in-patients The report proceeded to state that
during the part year 12,092 indigent sick poor were admitted
on the books for relief, at a cost tif 2,2921. 44. Ild. ; of theme
1,155 were in-patients. and 10,937 were out-patients.
TIIE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY AND THEIR
EN relhuviam —Last evening an adjourned meeting of
engine-drivers and firemen who have seceded from the
employ of the North Western Itaiiwsy Company took place
at the Hallway Tay. rn, Hampstead road, for the purpose of
receis tog the report of the deputation appointed to wait on
membersof parliament. Mr. J. Brown, engine-driver was
again appointed to the chair. The deputation reported that
they had waited on the hun. members fur Idarylebone, at the
St. Pancras Vestry Rooms, and that they had subsequently
seen Mr. B. Osborne, 2.1 P., Mr. Hume, MP. and ,rd
Dudley Stuart, at the House of Commons. Lord Lard
Dudley
Stuart told them that he had seen Mr. Cart, the chairman
of the company. and on informing that gentleman that he
had, with Sir B Hall, been waited upon by a deputation
from the engine-drivers, who represented the line to be in a
m :et dangerous condition to parties travelling, and that he
intruded therefore to put come quo Attune to him on the sub-
ject, that Mr. Glyn requested he would not do so without
giving him notice of the questions he intended to put. They
were therefore preparing statements of accidents and delays
which had occurred in consequence of the inefficient
hands employed on the line as engine-drivers. Mr. 1
B. Osborne urged that the men should do no
act which should compromise their characters for
respectability either with regard to the new hands or
with the company, and Mr. Hume was particular in inqui-
ring who drove the express and mail trait.s, as he wished to
travel by the line, but was somewhat afraid under existing
circumstaoces. All the honourable members expressed their
determination to give the matter their most serious coml.
de ration.—The Chairman then gave a general denial to
what Mr. Glyn had stated from his teat in parliament on
the previous evening ; and Mr. Marshall and others having
read statements of delay on the line said to have resulted
from the change of hands, a resolution was come to directing
the rues of the clubs to be forwarded to Mr. Glyn and
, those memb, rs of parliament who hal been waited upon by
the deputation, in order to disabuse their minds of the rate
went that the men had resigned in consequence of such in-
fluence.—Toe proceedings then tar .Mated at a late hour.

THE SALE AT STOWS.—The sale of the effects of
the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was commenced yes-
terday in the state dining-room of Stowe. The Duke of
Buckingham wished the effect' to be removed to London,
but the Marquis of Chandos yielded to the opinion of the
mortgagee in favour of selling at Stowe. What is to become
of Stowe is now the question asked on all hands. Every
one feels that once robbed of its magnificent contents there
can be small hope indeed of finding any member of our au-
tocracy prepared to purchase and refurnish it. The park
alone excei 1,500 acres in extent, and will recesurily
requore a very large income to support it. Two or three
nob' mien have fii n rormtioned as anxious to possess the
place, hut t eyond the desire expressed there is nothing cal-
culate Ito confirm the probability of its sale. One rumour 1
stat a that governm nt have it in contemplation to purchase
the domain for the Prince of Wales. The mansion, during
the week, has been crowded with company ; many of the
visitors haring travelled trots di-rant parts of the kingdom;
and a deputation of Irish members of pediment made a
pilgrimage to the place. The most plebeian portion of the
company have, as umal, limn the most troub esotne and ex-
acting. A piety, the other slay, were highly indignant at
the refusal of Mews. Christie and Mt noon (to whose experi-
enced heeds the sale has been intrusted) to all w them to
partake of their bread and cheese its nee of the careered
selootis of the mansion. Mr. Christie referred the spoaesman
ot the 'arty to tae Doke and Duchess of Bedford, who were
partaking of luncheon under the colonnade in front of the
mansion. It is needless to say the hint silenced the unfortu-
nate grumbler. On the day h Jere yesterday, in consequence
of some irregularities on the part of the agents for the sale of
the catalogues at Buckingham, who let out a large quantity
no hire for a small sum, considerable confusion was embed.
During the afternoon the doors were besieged by an immense
crowd of persons, many of them by the it dress and appear-
ance Evidently improper person. to alit tin admittance. The
persons in charge of the entrance hosing vainly endear• wed
to oppose th• it entrance were re length overcome, and a
large number of patinas entered the house without any
authority whatever. By the great exertion of the mare
resdectaide parties present, who lent their assistance to the
parks in ch tele, no serious damage or loss was iecurred ;
but se alarming did matters at one time appear that it was
deemrd necessary to send for the police from Buckingham.
The articles 'old yesterday consisted chiefly of china vases,
M.,jolies, or Itiffaelle ware, and various lesser table Arma-
ments. The number of lots in the catalogue forth a day
was 133, and when the unimportant charact. r of the articles
Fold is considered, the sum reale,' being upwards of 5001 , all
thelots obtained excellent prices. The following were the meat
important items its the day's sale: pair of rare old Che sea
yeses, painted with su/jects from Roman history, with fes-
toons and ornaments in relief. We f or 231.105.; &small square
lantern of ormolu, with flowers of Dresden, for 101. 10s. ;
the Incredulity of St. Thomas, a curious early piece in
Raffaelle ware, 10s. 10s. ; a set of three Dresden vases, the
surface covered with calices ot. flowers, and other flowers in
relief, with subjects from Watteau, 381. ; a pair of old Dresden
figures, with branches for three lights, 151.155. ; a beautiful
cup of old blue and white, mounted in silver gilt, realised
241. 10s. The sale was over before four o'clock.
COMPLIMENT TO ME SEDMONInTa.—Punch is
desired by several influential members of the aristocracy to
present their compliments to the physical-force chartists, sad
to thank them for so engrossing the public mind with the
fear ot revolution as to distract it from the pursuit of so
called moderate reform ; such as any extension of the tran-
chise, revision of taxation, interference with the game laws,
abolition of ainecures, amendment of the law, reduction of
expenditure, adjustment of church property, or any other
alteration in the established order of things. Punch has
anything but pleasure in expressing his opinion that the per-
sons in question are thoroughly deserving of the congratula-
tion which he is requested to offer them.—Punch.
SOW TURNIPSWHEREPOTATOESFAIL.—Sir,—.NIost of
the emallproducers,fearing the potato disease, are now engaged
in digging their potatoes before they are ripe and
in a state to keep. I would beg to suggest, therefore, that
means should he resorted to to supply the deficiency of food
which must result from (I will not say the loos) the diminution
of the potato crop. I would suggest, likewise, to all persons
whose potatoes have failed, or are affected, or who have dug
them up, that they immediately provide a substitute, by
sowing turnip reeds, or planting a supply of winter and spring
greens. I wriuld exhort the affluent to sow and plant, not
merely to [apply their own families and household, but with
a view to artist their
poorer neighbours, who have no land
to crease a store for themselves and families • and I would
exhort ;hem to furnish seeds and plants to those who have
land hut are without the means of procuring seeds or plants,
the produce of which will be of essential service to their fa-
tn'dicv during the ensuing winter and spring.—l em,
A NVELL-wisimu. TO TUE I'OUIL-liatf9Td, Aug. 14.

THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The express
train which was due at Euston 'quire at 10.30 p.m. last night,
aid not arrive till 12.15, being one hour and three quarters
behind time. The delay arose in consequence of the 10 cm.
mail train from London getting off the line at Warrington,
thus blocking up the line (or some time. We understand
that the pamangers escaped unhurt.

INCICESTP, YESTERDAY.—SUPPOSED DEATH PROM
MORPHIA.—At the Greyhound, Clapham, Mr. W. Carter
concluded an inquiry, commenced on Monday week, con-
cerning the death of an illegitimate child, named Fanny
Eng and, aged eleven weeks. The substance of the.evidencie
heard at the first meeting of the jury has appeared in the Doily
News. The inquest had been adjourned for an analysis of
the contents of the stomach. Mr. J. T. Cooper, analytical
chemist, yesterday said he had employed two tests, one of
which inaicated the pretence of morpnia ; but still he had
some slight doubts on the subject. The jury then return' tl a
verdiet of " Natural death."—SCPPOSED PolS(.011NO WITH
AINENIC.— Mr. Bedford resumed, at the Melpas Arms,
Char +a-street, Grosvenor-square, an inquiry commenced on
Monday week on the bodies of Mary Elizabeth l)ore, aged
seven weeks, and Adolphus William Spry, aged eleven
months. The deceased children were members of the same
family as the child on whose body an inquest was held three
weeks ago, and for whose death from arsenic a verdict of
wilful murder was returned against its mother and grand-
mother, residing at 4 and 5, Lower Grosvenor place. From
the evidence given yesterday it appeared that the bodies had
been xamined, and the liver, bowers, &c., analysed by Mr.
Blochans, surgeon, Professor Rodgers, lecturer on chemistry,
Mr. Nicholson, of dhe Royal College of Chemistry, and Mr.
Pollock, a medical gentleman appointed by the family, and
no appearance of arsenic or any other poison was discover. d.
The teen were an minute that if there had been the 500th
part of a grain it must have been found.—The jury Maslow
returned verdicts of " Natural death," the coroner said i.e
thought it right to state that the present case ought in no
way to prejudice the parties concerned in the former.

THE TIMBER STEALERS IN THE NEW
FOREST.

The conversation in the House of Commons on Mon-
day night, between Lords Duncan and Morpeth, confirms the 4
statement we made last week, that Lord Duncan first ,
grated to the government the robberies that were committed
in the New Forest, and that Colonel Thornhill, the deputy ,
warden of the forest, had resigned. A local correspondent ,
says: The officers appointed as guardians of that extensive
estate of the crown consist of a lord warden (the Duke of ,
Cambridge), a deputy warden, a bowbearer, two rangers. a
oodward anti deputy woodward, four verderers, a high
'toward, twelve regarders, nine foresters, fifteen under
tar-
resters, a purveyor of the navy, and a surveyor•general and
three deputies. The extent of the forest is about 64,60:1
acres. Lodges are situated in various parts of the forest,
which command all the reads through it. About fluty years
ago the borderers of the forest, some of the most abject and
wretched people in the country, used to live by forest timber
stealing; and such was their dex.erity that several of
them combined together could, doing e. night, fell an
oak and carry it tiff undetected. The forest was thee,
as at the present time, surrounded by ostensible
timber merchants, some of whom were nothing better
than receivers of stolen umber. These retail rob-
beries were atopred, and succeeded by more whole-
sale and daring plunders. The latter fact is proved by the
lengthened investigations which have recently taken place
before the Hampshire magistrates. From these investigations,
it appears that there are Omit two auction sales of forest
timber annually; that besides the timber sold at these sales
there are about 400 loads of firewood disposed of during the
year; that amongst the firewood sound and valuable timbal.
M mixed; persons with horses and waggons roam through
the forest, cut down and carry off what umber they pleased,
and the keepers and sp• chit guardians of the place allowed
euch to he done, because it was effected in the open dry and
it was not imagined that any but authorised persons would
do it. Atter the auct on sales carters that could nut read or
write were sent to cart it away, and not being able to read
their, empl Iwo' names they were in the habit of taking
what t tither they pleased and hurrying out of the latest with
it as soon as Feasible. Su. h was tee lack of superintendence
that the official marks on timber intended for the royal navy
were erased and private marks substituted.
Two whole sale forest plunderers have been committed to
Winchester gaol, and although one of them has not pur-
chased any timber once August last he has sold 214 loads
since last October. In most cases the stolen timber used to
he taken boldly and openly, but at times portions of it were
dropped outside the private plantations of the estates of the
gentry which border the forest, so as to make it appear as if
it came from such pletntations, after which it was carted away
at the convenience of the plunderers. When any quesiimis
were asked, Lady Poore's estate of Cuffnalia, and other
estat. s, were impudently mentioned as places trom which
the timber had been purchased.
From the great quantity of timber that was stated to have
come from Cuffnalls, Lady Poore was considered to have
had the best *moiled estate in the world. Sir Walter
Scott used to recommend a gentleman when he had
nothing else to do to plant a tree. When a forest
timber dealer was at leisure be used to cut dawn
one Nothing can exceed the trepidation which Lord
Duncan has caused amongst the foresters, verderers, and
rangers. They are all trembling. The books of the deputy
surveyor have been seized, and the election of a vacant re-
, gardership has been suspended. Her Majesty kept servants
enough in Hampshire to prevent a forest pony from stealing
• a blade of grass, and yet teams of horses, with waggonloads
of timber, have escaped unmolested. Since the investiga-
tion the officials are so timid, that they conjure up, in the
grotesque appearances of the gnsrled oaks, the semblance
• of detectives. Pan, and the sylvan deities, have vanished
• from the for mts, and policemen are now roaming over their
beautiful retreats. For many years past down Southampton
i Water there has floated many a rood of stolen umber, but
; thanks to timely exposure and investigation, the depreda.
I tions will for the future be less frequent, if they are not
; altogether prevented.