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London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

true, the probability is that that person, in coal:toting
a iscond marriage, sincerely believed herself to be free
from the tea of the first. The presumption is so
droop that she is entitled to the full benefit of it. It
would be a disgrace to the law courts ef England
were a strarger punished as for a felony for entering
into what the unaccountable character of the law of
England might easily lead her to suppore a perfectly
legal contract. In forming a judgment on such a
case we have nothing to do with the pest or present
character of the Tarty interested. Every reran is
entitled to fair play ; and what is the fate of a dashing
adventuress one day, may be the fate of an innocent
and (needless women the next, until the law is
amended.
Another defect of our law placed in glaring relief
by the proceedings against Lots MONTE!, is the want
of a public prosecu or. Legal offences are either
against private individuals or naiad the general
public. The former clam ought to be prosecuted by
the injured individual alone. If be chooses to put uo
with them, no other hes any int rest in their being
punished, or any right to insist upon it. The
latter clogs ought to be prosecuted by a
public officer in the name and on behalf
of the public. The =sequences of confound-
ing these two classes of offences, and ma
king no provision far the prosecution of offences
against the public, in the name and on behalf of the
public, is made startlingly apparent in the proceedings
which have suggested these comments. The party
injured, if any party be injured, is a man came to the
age of majority, acting for himself in all things,
emancipated from legal tutelege. So far from wish-
iog to pr.:mute the alleged offender he appears in
court to countenance and sustain her. But the
absence of any distinction between the modes of pre-
cedars in public end private penal actions, and the
want of a public prosecutor, enables another party to
commence en sction. It is instituted not for the pur-
pose of separating the parties, for it is obvious that
they will cling to each cther legally or
illegally. It is instituted not for the vin-
dication of public justice, far the public has no interest
or concern in the matter : indeed but for the notoriety
of police proceedings the public might never have
known anything about the matter. It is instituted
simply aid solely for the purpose of curying on a
family feud. The English law courts will be com-
pelled to play in this case the part which in romances
and tnelo-draman dtvolves upon feudal retainers or
hired bravos. They will be made the execu-
tioners of outraged family pride ; and their time
will be wasted, and their dienity compromised by
their beine made the channel of conveying to the
curious public detailed rtvelaticns respecting the fond
and foolish bridegroom, his dashing and eccentric
bride, and his proud, sensitive, and relentless maiden
aunt. The court of law in which the action proceeds
will be converted for the time into a minor theatre,
attracting an audience by a demote drama of
" thrilling interest."

PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM.

_ .
?MEETING AT GREENWICH.

A Ineetilg of the CittserMioA Parliamentary and
Fiametial Reform Atsociation was heldlesterder eveninz in
Providence Chapel, Powie-street, Woolwich, G. W. Mall-
ruts, Req., la the chair, in the place of John Wade, Etc',
who was absent in consequence of the sudden death of one
of his family.
The CHAIRMAN, after Ismenting the unavoidable ale-
sense of Mr. Wade, alluded to the very unequal taxation of
the rich and poor, and drew attention in str.ng terms to the
pension list. After some remark+ about neatetty of equali-
eiug the parliamentary districts, he called upon the audiences
to au their utmost exertions to support tbe ovulation.
Mr. HARDIIAN then proposed the first resolution:—
" That the absence of a really representative House of
Cautions, the preponderance of le,ehdation, the unequal
primate* of taxetior, the general estravaganee of the public
expenditure, and the consequences of these evils engenderlog
disco ntent and threatening disorders fatal to the political
and to the social of this empire, render the com-
bination of the middle ril
and working classes, for the attain-
ment of parlantentery reform, a matter of momentous im-
portance to the state."
Mr. BLIGH, in seconding this resolution, said that he
wee a working man, end that he wished to contradict
the assertions of those who made it appeer 'hat working men
were opposed to such asiesiatious as this. He was most
anxious to further its objects.
Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON then said The policy of the
trevernion body bad hitherto been to govern through the
oivi•don of the people, and, unhappily, hitherto with too
much soc ears. Every step taken by the Metropolitan Re-
form Association wee pregnant with hopefulnese that the
time had at lust arritrd when reparation was no longer pos-
sible, and when not nr• re by the vices of an imperfect system
of repreeentation than an intuitive sense of danger to all that
was wormy of preservation in the institwbos of the country,
the two greet classes would unite in irresistible union for a
safe, extensive, and searching measure of reform. (Loud
eheere.) The chattg-, however, to be tee, must be moral
la its nature. (Cheers.) Englishmen were provetbial for
that invaluable common sense which prefers the known to
the unknown. The Frenchman invent., the Englishman
Improves, and every reform which was worthy of the name
bare the impress of progressicn rather than that of sudden
revulsion. (Cheers.) Still the reform proposed was of a
large character, for it went to enfranchise five
millions eat of six millions and a half. (Cheers.)
He told the working man that if the contest
was to be successfully carried one, the sympathies of
the middle class must he enlisted in order that the means of
carrying en successful agitation might be found. If the in-
fluence of wealth in this country could make a railway king,
before whom in his smith the proudest aristocracy in the
world could bend the knee, and with equal perversity break
up the idol when evil thus clouded the sunshine ol
his prosperity : hew Emcees try we it that this powerful in-
strument should be used for the advaneemsnt of the principles
of civil and religious liber.y. (Cheers.) The, truth was
now diffusing itself, that government was an In-
stitution made fir the welfare of the people, and
not the people for the advantage of the governors.
(Cheers.) And wire the knowledge of that truth be-
came unisons', tliera would be at once and for ever, an end
to claw le;islatinn. (Ilear, hear) Everything showed
that the country wee ripe for a new reform bill. Northamp •
toot was in the and to-morrow he, Mr. Atkinson,
and the eloquent and gifted member for the Tower
Hamlets, Mr. George Thompson, would address a
public meeting eonvi nod for the purpose of raising a national
tallying cry. (Laud cheers.) From Scotland and Ireland
aid was combs', and that power reaultiog from union which
was then enabling that glorious people who were hurling back
the Muscovite serfs upon heir barren deserts, would in this
ountry win a bloodless and permanent victory over the cor-
rupt influences which stood in the way of the advancement
of humanity. (Loud cheers I After some further ob-
servations, the learned gentleman concluded an enisna•ed
en eloquent address, by trusting that the ati-tocracy would
have the wisdom to concede at once the measure of reform
now ask, d for, lest like the syhilline books, the price to be
pile' would 1* increased as the danger teems more immi-
nent. (Loud cheers.)
A vote of thanks was then passed by acclamation to the
chairman, and the meeting separated.

THE CHOLERA. - THE REGISTRAR-
GENERAL'S REPORT.

Return of CAMP of cholera rrported to the General Baard
of Health 'este/day, August 7;

Attacks. Deaths.

Is London and vicinity, viz.:—
Lanaketh
li,renondoey
Southwark 24 20
Camberwell
Other !realities in London l4l 66
In England and Wain
Liverpool
Marini r Tydfil
Dow lais
Plymouth
Yoram ..th
Other towns la England 174 98
In Seltland :
Dun lee
Arbroath

1419 68
12 9
13
18 3
17

24 16
1 1

Total
In consequence of the severity of the visitation of
the cholt ra in the metropolis, and in several parts
of the country, the General Board of Health has been
rceupitel in nuking additional provition of medical
service. The cholera has been particularly severe
at Heath. The mayor, a medical practitioner, had fallen a
victim to it. Throughout Wales the visitation ocean to
he very severe. I' was reported eat of a body of forty men
employed by the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers in
cleansing in Bermondsey, twenty had been attacked with
cholera and two had died.
The following inquest was held yesterday :
THE MEDICINES RECOMMENDED RV THE BOARD OP
HEALTH. Before Mr. Carter, at the Queen Elizabeth
Tavern, Walworth Common, on the body of John Seeley,
aged 82 years, a milkman, lately residing in Lower Doctor-
'crept, Walworth. Edward Seeley, son of the deceased,
said his father was taken ill on the morning of Sunday week
last, with severe pains and cramps its the limbs. Witness
was present at life death. which t ok place on Sunday morn-
'mg. He had no idea of what was the cause of death, but
he believed it to have been hastened by a mixture which had
been obtained from the workhouse dispensary. Mr. Bodily,
surgeon of the Walworth road, bad been called in to see the
deceased some time before his death, and he greatly
disapproved of the mixture witness referred to.—
Mr. Buddy was called, and he stated that he attributed the
death to the administration of the chalk mixture.—The
Coroner: But Is not this very medicine recommended in
similar cases ?—Mr. Soddy • It has been recommeadsd by
the Board of Health, but T consider it highly improper, and
believe that mmy deaths have lren canoed by its use. No
one would have prescribed chalk mixture who knew the
cause of ditrybccs in the present instance. Any other me-
dicine judiciously given might have saved the deceased's life
It was true this remedy woe recommended by the Beard of
Health, but he (wimps.) believed that booed to be medically
incompetent —The Coroner said that as the case certainly
'mimed a serious aspect, he thought it would be much
better to adjourn for a few dye, in order to obtain, if pos-
sible, the evidence of the deceased's widow, who, it ap-
paired, had obtained the mixture from the workhouse, and
a Iministered it to the deceased The jury concurred, and
the inquiry wan adjourned.
The Reeistrar General reports of the Ist ek which ended
in &turd ty last, that "it fa unsatisfactory to observe
that the constant inertias of mortality which commtnced
in the woad week of July was maintained in the
week ending S durday last. The deaths from all diseases
in last week were 1,967—a mortality nearly double
the weekly aaaaa le of the season, which is 1,008.
The progress of the total mortality ia shown by the
following numbers returned in the last four -weeks :-1,369,
1,741,1,931 and 1,967. The deaths from cholera, which,
in six previous week., were 49, 124, 162, 339, 678, 783, in-
creased in the last to 928. A feature worthy of notice in the
present return is the fact that, while the mortality canoed
by cholera has increased, there has been simultaneously a
decrease in the deaths attributed to diartbtra ; for whereas
the deaths from this tikelll•P (including dya eatery) were, in
four previous weeks, 54, 100,146, 235. in the last week they
declined to 198—an amount which is nearly the same at in
the eorreeponding week of the summer of 1848, and little
more than that of the same week of 1848. It is shown,
therefore, that the total mortality from diarrbmt, dysentery,
and cholera 'motto's in this return to 1,124, while the ave-
rage io only 92. Coo'equently the excess from the three epi-
demics exceeds in some lettere the inerease attove the average
of the mortality from al cause., which Is owing pertly to the
ciecumstanat that the deaths from fractures, burns, and other
injory, reeistered in the week, were unusually few. 0 bet
epidemits besides those menti teed are under the average,
with the exception of ho tping-cnugh, which a little exceeds
it. The mortality from choltra still predominates on the
south side of the river; the deaths there, which in the pre-
ceding week were 514, rase in the last to 821. Oa the
north side of the Theme, the deaths in the western districts
were 68, showier an increase ; in the northern 27, or neatly
the same as in the former week; in the eastern 127, • slieht
increase; and in the central, which includes St. Giles and S.
George, Strand, Holborn. Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East Lon-
don. West London. and City, there is a small decrease, the
comber bie a 93, though In the previous return there were
97 eh ethic The rrea'eat number in any district on the north
side of the river is in West London. namely, 32. Of the
southern districts, there were 67 in Bermondsey, 86 in New-
i-gton, 112 in Pt. G 'ors.. Southwark, and 143 in Lambeth.
The deaths in Rotherbithe are now comparatively few. The
i death Ma man of 49 years in Brompton was caused by err&
peles of both legs, of putrid character (after 5 days' illness),
nought from sleeping wth a child who suffered from the dil-
-1 ease. The daily mean of the barometer was highest on
Thnneloy, when it was 29 96.5 The mean of the week was
29.793 The temperature wee under the average of the oar
respond:net days of seven yeses, on every day except Thors-
day. The highest in the shade was on Thursday, namely,
74 deg. 5 min. The mean temperature of the week was
69 deg. 5 rain. The number of births during the week was
1,393."

PRLYCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO EXETER IN 1850.
We understand tbat his Royal Matinee Prison Albert has
aeorptid the invitation from the Right Boa. Lady Rolie to
sojourn at Bicton pork. on the occasion of the visit of the
Royal Aoriesltural Society to Baster in 18641, when his
royal hiahnen bassi fled his intention of being Event.—
Devonshire C • .

THE. EXPRESS, WRIPIAD4.X. EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1849.

INDEPENDENCE OF HUNGARY:-

MEETING AT SHEFFIELD.

A plastics mettiag, over erbiek Ur. Councillor Iron-
oite
presided, was held in Paredimenutere, Sheffield, on
Monday enable." To congratulate Hie Hungarians on their
recent glorious victories, and to sysyatbl with them k
their struggle for liberty and indepi.“
The CHAIRMAN, in opening tee isroseedingg, soli .le
gave him very great pleasure to meet kis fellowdmemnsee
at length on that imps rtant question. He held le is lee a
disgrace to Sheffield that she had been so bog kWh,
teeth =fens= to that great struggle. He was alms=
ashamed of Min; a Sheffielder, when he thought of tho
supineness manifested on that question. Sheffield had
been long known as a democratic town, and yet they had
looked on in ibises while the most unparalleled barbarity
had Isms perpetrated by Ross* by Austria, and by Frame. I
Nay, we leave even in the town one paper whirls his put
torch =me wet atrocious egatiments =spec:tag those
streets. And, while he was calmest ashamed of being a
Sheffinder, he was altogether ashamed of being an English.
man for the past that England had taken en that question.
The policy of Englund was noniintervention, and he
assented to it with all his heart. He held that the pin-
cep= of non intervention, if properly carried out, would
have prevented all the disgraceful atrocities which have
been lately perpetrated. Newintervention, as he under-
stood it, meant that England refrained from interfering in
the =negation= of any other nation ; aced that principle
serried out, also ingest that England should take good care
that no one else interfered. Utile= it meant that also it was
all humbug to talk of not-intervention. Too long the
" British Lion" has been asleep, 'nosing " non interven-
tion." (Laughter.) The Russian bear, counting upon tbs.,
has been guider= the most treacherous and unparalleled
barbarity. Ought not the principle of son-intervention to
came England's ban to stand fins, and say " lam not going
to interfere, and therefor. I'll take good care you don't."
Instead of that, England had stood by and permitted, with-
out protest, the prmest iniquity—even the bombarding of
Rome by the French.
Mr. R. OTLEY next addressed the meeting. He began
by lamenting the absence of those who usually stand forward
prominently in the diecustion of poLtical queotions in the
town, and who, he remarked, he should have liked to see
taking the lead on the present important occasion. The
great struegle now going cn in Hungary was one from
which the aristocratic and barbarian tyrants of Russia and
Austria were hoping and imagining that they could team-
pkantly succeed in putting down the liberties of Europe.
But they forgot that they lived in a new end improved age,
—an age in which the realisation of their designs would be
impossible. They cannot by possibility hold down a miles
that is determined to be free. After noticing the her-
barrios omelets of the Hungarians by their oppressing,
Mr. ()ley regretted that the English people, by rams
of their pecuniary difficmtiee, were unable to assist
the Hungarians with their purses to the extent
that they desired ; but yet he felt assured that meetings like
that, held in every part of Great Britain, would exert an =-
film= that would extend to free and prosperous Americs,
and would secure for the oppressed Hungarians that =coos, 1
which England could but ill afford to bestow. Mr. Otley
caecladed by moving—" That the brave Hungarians, in their
struggle for independence and the establishment of demote&
tic institutions, are eminently entitled to the support of the
people of this and every other country ; and this meeting.
viewing with abhorrence the atrocities committed by the
Austrian forces, and regarding the intervention of Russia es
a violation of the laws of nations, hereby call upon the British
government at ones to recognise the independence of Hun-
gary, and interfere in behalf of the Hungarian people, is
order that the horrors of war may bs put an end to."
Mr. SE WARD seconded the motion. He cordially cos.
curred in the spirit of the eta:Anion, and took occasion to
record his opposition to both k:ngcraft and priestcraft.
The CHAIRMAN, before putting the resolution, alluded
to the fact that the Peace Society had never so much as passed
a resolution with regard to the conduct of Franco and Russia,
because in the instances in question war did not interfere
with trade. He wanted the question to be taken up on
higher principles. Ile then put the resolution to the vote,
and it was carried by acclamation.
Mr. ROBINSON, from London, proposed a memorial to
her majesty, preying that the ietluence of the British govern-
meet might be men for the purpose of putting an end to the
Hurganan war.
Mr. BUTLER, after making an elaborate apology for
having been born in Ireland, seconded the proposition. A
resolution was then adopted, to the effect that toe memorial
be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, and
forwarded to the Home Secretary for presentation to her
Majesty.
Mr. S. JACKSON, nail maker, moved that a subscription
he forthwith entered into for the purpose of assisting the
Hucgarian ; that Mr. Otley and Mr. Imelda receive the
subscriptions.
Ile motion having been seconded snd carried,
Mr. OTLEY made some =maths upon the subject of
universal peace.
The CHAIRMAN then called upon the meeting to hear
him a few moments before they dispersed. Mr. &buck, our
member of parliament (said he) had recently made some very
great mistakes. Ho had bees at a meeting in London, at
which he said that when the radicals of Sheffield heard that
" Radical Rtbuck " was coming down to address them,
nothing could earned the wildness of their expectations, and
nothing could exceed their look of blank despair when
he told them that he had no panacea for their evils.
Now when Mr. Roebuck said that he made a great mistake.
As for there being any wildness on the part of the de.
mocrats when lir. Roebuck came down it was
entirely the other way. The radicals of Sheffield wished to
act upon the principle of forbearance. They believed Mr.
Roebuck to be en honest, consistent man; and though, in
their opinion, he did not come up to the mark by any means,
yet they thought that by submitting to accept hiss, • junction
would he effected with the liberals, so sailed, 01 Sheffield,
and an opposition would be avoided. Now be (the Chair-
man) begged to tender to Mr. Roebuck, on behalf of the
people of Sheffield, Lis hearty thanks for the meaner in
whine be had represented the people of Sheffield is the
matter of the Roman bombardment and the Russian and
Assents atrocity. Mr. Roebuck had on two occasions
spasm out boldly and decidedly on that subject., and he
ntresented the unanimous voice not only of Sheffield, but
of England in what he said. (Cheers.) The chairman then
called for a series of demonstrations—three hearty cheers
for the French people, three hearty groans for the French
government, three good cheers for It. .me, three hearty good
cheers for the Hungarian generals, and three more for the
Hungarian people, end thee, hearty groans for the autocrats
of Russia and Austria and the despots all over the world.
The several eels were loudly responded to.
A collection for the object stated above was then made,
and the proosediags =rain- ted with thanks to the chairman.

THE HUNGARIAN STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE.
—The mayor of Birminghem has called a town's mewing on
this subject for Monday next. This requisition to his worship
was • ivied by several mashitrates, 11 aldermen, 22 council
lure., and a large number of the most respectable inhabitants
oft borough. A meeting is also to take place in Derby.
THE HON. MR. MOSTYN'S LANDED ESTATEIL—A
week or two back, we took occasion to place on record the
great success which had attended the sales held by Memo.
Cburton, at Parkgete. when very few of the lots remained
unsild out of the whole estate, and since that time we find
those have been picked up. We have now the pleasing taik
of noticing the brilliant success which attended the it sale at
Rhyl, nn Tuesiay lest, a larger number of buyers attending
than was ever known. It was compered that no less than
300 persons were present, In consequence of which they
wire c,mpelled to adjourn from the Royal Hotel to the
newly erected public room. The utmost excitement pre
veiled, and the biddings were most spirited. The building
lands Tonged from 2s. to 7e. 3d. per square yard, and, though
the quantity which was allotted for that purpose was small,
realised nearly 6,0001. The small farm., too, were eagerly
insight after, and some fetched upwards of forty years' par-
dive on the present rentals. 'this speak, well for our two
neighbouring rivals, Parkgats and Rhyl. We ought like-
wise to mention that the sale of the Udod and other *dates
in Wales, which took place in Coaster on Monday last, was
equally successful, nearly every lot being sold at satisfactory
prices.—Chester Chronicle.
THE. MANCHESTER CUSTOM HOUSE.—It appear&
that the Lords other Majesty's Treasury are determined not
to yield the point at issue between themselves and the Cor-
poration of Manchester, unless the legislature, with an nr-
mistakeable voice, step in between the prinks. Manchester
prayed fur a bonding warehouse es a convenience to her
large trade. Government, after long refusing the boon,
granted it on the understanding that, if Mar cbes'er paid the
expenses for a time, and the project for inland bonding sue
ended, it might hope to bet relieved from the expense, and
to he placed on the fame footing as other ports. In other
words the expense of bouding was ultimately to be paid rut
of the customs. Manchester has applied to government to
be relieved of the emit, but has been refused, and in I
secorlance with a resolution of the Town Council they will
refuse to pay the coot any longer, and leave government to
take bock its costly boon. Since the Town Council passed
this resolution the Commercial Association has memorialised
the Lord,' Commissioners to relieve the town of the expense
of the local customs' establishment, and they signified their
willingness to moist them in getting rid of the
' establishment. The following is the only of a letter
received by the Manchester Commercial Association :--
‘, Treasury Chambers, 3,1 August, 1249.—Sir,—The Lords
Commi•sioners eof her Mi jesty's Treasury have had under
their consideration &memorial from the Commercial Asso-
ciation of Manchester, preying relief in regard to thi expense
of maintaining the local custom establishment at that town.
1 am commanded to acquaint you, that so long as the act
7 and 8 Vict., c. 31, remains unrepesled, my lords have no
alternative as to carrying its provisions into execution : but
if the parties for whose benefit it was intended, and at whose
instance it was procured, deem it undesirable and burden-
some, my lords are not disinclined to assist in its repeal.—l
as, sir, your obedient servant, W. D. HAITSII.—The Presi-
dent of the Commercial Association, Manchester."

THE HARVEST.—The active operations of the har-
vest very generally commenced in this county on
)1011daYt fields here end there having been cut in the
course of the past week, and before Saturday night, should
the weather continue fine, a large breadth will have fallen
before the scythe and the sickle. The reports which reach
vs are that the crops are generally heavy, and though par
tialy beaten down by the ore aional storms of the lent fort-
night, we do net hear a murmur of any serious damage, be-
nd that done by the hail, in one district, which we have
bebfore noticed. The potatoes, too, look healthy and un-
touched by the disease ; as far as: the digging has yet gone
they come ep perfectly sound, so that altogether we may
calculate on a pod average, in feet an abasdant harvest.
Rues Herald.