The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 11:0,ECM3EI! 11QQ6.

session of parliament that party had no remedy for this
state of things, but that ancient and ready, and savage
remedy, the remedy of military foto,. (Shame, shame !)
But with all this in Ireland, as I hope and believe greatly
exaspreaed by IMO public writers, but still with enough
to cause pain and anxiety, was it • judicious course for
the party now in power to create • great excitement in
Great Britain f I say that lead Derby, as the repre-
sentative of his party in parliament, is himself the
fomenter of discord, and that his party, and not
our party, is at this moment the turbulent
element in English political society. (Immense cheer-
ing.) And let me tell his party—l tell them nothing
from this platform that I have not told them upon the
floor of the House of Commons—let me tell them
that this question will not sleep. Some Month. ago
there assembled in Switzerland a convention of men of
eminence and character, and by that convention a memo-
rial or address was prepared and for warded to the
government of the United States,•oongratulating them
upon the close of their gigantic struggle, and upon the
establishment of universal freedom throughout the wide
bounds of the republic ; and in that memorial there was a
passage of tree philosophy and of true statesmanship. It
was this :—" Unfinished questions have no pity for the
repose of nations." It referred to the great questionof negro
slavery ; but it its just as true when it is applied to the
question before us, where from five to six millions of grown
men in this United Kingdom, under • constitutional
government, and with • representative system, are shut
out directly and purposely from that constitution and that
representation. This great question which we are de-
bating to-night is an " unfinished question," and
it will have no pity on the repose of this nation
until it be • finished question. (Loud cheers.)
I observe to-day, in an article supposed by some to be of
great authority, that the working men are now supposed,
by what are called their betters—(a laugh)—for that paper
only writes for our betters—to have done enough, and
they are exhorted (by the very hand probably which
during the whole of the last session of parliament was
doing all it could against them) to stand still, and wait in
confidence for the action of parliament. But it is the
same parliament. (Cheers.) It is the same House of
Commons which I left with sadness and apprehension in
July last. There may be—l suppose there are—in it the
men who, on our side of the house, betrayed the cause
which they were supposed to represent ; and the only
change which we know of is that the men who threw out,
with all terms of ignominy, the bill which we wished to
pass last session are now, or will be in February next, if
they do not break in pieces before, on the Treasury
bench, and will take that leading and authoritative
position in the house which belongs to the ministers
of the crown. Now, I differ from this writer altogether.
I would not put any confidence in the course of that House
of Commons if I were a man unenfranchised and asking
for a vote. I should like them to tell me that they had
wholly repented the cheers with which they received all
those vile and violent imputations upon your character.
My opinion is this, that your duty, your obvious duty, a
duty from which you cannot escape, is to go on as you
have begun. (Loud cheers.) It is to perfect in every part
of the country your organisation in favour of your own
enfranchisement ; it is to bring every society with which
you are connected to give itself for a time—it will only be
a short time—to the working out of your political redemp-
tion. I should advise you, whether you are supporters
of the Reform League in London, or are connected in any
way with the Reform Union in Manchester, or with any
association, to establish a system of small but
weekly or monthly contributions. Do not al-
low my friend Mr. Reales (enthusiastic chem ing)—
or my old friend and politicalbrother, Mr. George Wilson
—(renewed cheering)—to want the means to carry on and
to direct the great societies of which they are the chiefs.
And let me beg, more than all, that you have no jealousies
amongst each other. Give to your chairman his due—
(loud cheers) ; give to Mr. Beale* his due, and to his
council their due ; give to every man who sincerely sup-
ports this great question his due, and help in every way
you can every honest endeavour to bring this west
national question to such a final issue as shall prevent it
any longer disturbing the peace of this nation. (Cheers.)
And, finally, I beg of you to raise yourselves to the just
contemplation of what the great question is for which
you are contending. It is to make you citizens, full
citizens, of one of the noblest nations on the face of the
earth, of the nation which has a graad history of the
past, and which, I trust, will have a still grander history
in the future. Let nie beg in my last, final word to-night,
that in all you do, you still be animated with a great and
uoble spirit, for you have set your hands and hearts on •
great and noble work. (The hon. gentleman resumed his
seat amid immense cheering, which was again and again

The great in-door meeting in connexion with
ike trod s' demonstratka of Monday, was held last even-
ing in St. James's-hall. The balcony was decorated with
festoons of artificial flowers, and hung with several of the
banners which figured in the procession of the previous
day. In addition to these was one which bore upon it
the inscription, "The working men of London return
their thanks to Lord Randier ;" and another with the
legend, " Honour Bright, our Guiding Star," the celestial
luminary being represented not in letters but by pictorial
illustration. The prices of admission to the hall were tie.,
35., and Is., and at these rates so many tickets had been
taken that the great room was densely crowded long be-
fore the prooeedings commenced. Amongst the earliest to
take her place upon the platform was Dr. Mary Walker,
who wore, as usual, a long black surtout and pantelettes,
sad who, upon her recognition, was received with copal-
&cable applause. Mr. Bright entered the ball about half-
past seven o'clock, in company with Mr. T. B. Potter,
M.P., Mr. G. Potter, Mr. Mason Jones, and other gentle-
sea; and his appearane in the orchestra was the signal for
a loud outburst of cheering.
On the platform were SirJ. Gray. M.P., Colonel Dickson,
Messrs. E. Keevil and Alderman M'Sweeney, of Dublin,
Professor Beesley, Dr. Englander, and about 300 dele-
ptes. Mr. G. Parren took the chair.
Mr. HISHRINTTE, tailor, moved the first resolution :
"That this meeting hereby declares that no reform bill
falling short of the principles of registered residential
'manhood suffrage and the ballot will be satisfactory to the
people, or accepted as the final settlement of the reform
question ; and enters its solemn protest against, and its
denial of, the charges of venality, ignorance, drunkenness,
and indifference to reform, brought against the working
climes during the last session of parliament."
Mr. GEO. LZICIUITICR, glass maker, in seconding the re-
solution, said that when he saw the speech of Mr. Lowe
accusing the working-classes of "venality, drunkenness,
and corruption," he thought that if there was any truth in
the doctrine of transmigration—according to which when
a man died his soul passed into a child—Mr. Lowe must
bare been born when nobody died. (Laughter.) The men
who spoke thus of the working men were not fit to judge
them. They had maligned them, lampooned them, and
" jituical-fooled " them long enough, and they should do
so no more. (Cheers.)
The resolution was then put to the meeting and unani-
mously agreed to, nearly all the audience holding up their
hands in its favour.
Mr. BRIGHT then rose, and was received with loud and
protracted cheering.) The hon. member commenced by
referring to the advice which'he had given eight years ago,
that if the working men wished for political power, they
had only to use their existing organisation to change the
whole aspect of reform, and by asking whether that opinion
had not been borne out. The members of trades unions
were the best judges as to whether it was not as well for
them to combine for political purposes as it was for the
agricultural societies and farmers' clubs to combine on I
behalf of protection. If the agitation had become form-
idable it was made so by those who had cha'lengud them to
show their demands. Surely this grand and noble mode
of manifesting a deep sentiment was better than that
which we saw across the Channel of secret societies, and
oaths, and drilling. No representation whatsoever was so
entirely deformed from its its just and natural proportions
as is the representative system of this country, which ad-
mits only about 16 out of every 100 men to the electoral
roll. A sham representation was particularly bad, and a
parliament like ours, which has just enough of the sem-
blance to make it safe to do almost anything it likes against
the true interests of the nation, was powerful in the com-
mission of what is evil. This had been shown in the
passing of the Reform Act and in reform. Look (continued
the hon. tueniber) at the „moderation of the bill brought
is by the late government. If anything was to be done at
all, if the slightest step was to be taken to improve the
representation of tho people and to extend the franchise
to the now unenfrenchised, was it possible for the greatest
moderation to have proposed a more moderate flies-
sure than that of the late government? (No, no.)
Well, but what happened! Why. the parliament of the
land wereleither wholly ignorant of or wholly despised that
great national opinion which has been exhibited during
the last three or four months, and they resisted that mea-
sure with a pertinacity never exceeded, and with an ,
amount of intrigue and of unfairness to the government
which they dare not for one single night have attempted
if they bad felt any real responsibility to the people—
(cheers)—and they resist up to this moment, and I fear
will resist when they meet at the beginning of February
next, and they ma) possibly resist until the discontent
now so general becomes universal, and that which is now
only a great exhibition of opinion may become necessarily
and inevitably a great and menacing exhibition of
force. (Cheers.) These opponents of ours, many
of them in parliament openly, and many of them
secretly in the press, charge us with being promoters of a
dangerous excitement, and they say that we are a source
of the dans -r which threatens, and they absolutely have
the effrontery to charge me with being a friend to public
disorder. I am one of the people— (loud cheers)—and
surely if there be one thing in a free country more clear
than another, it is that any one of the people may speak
openly to the people. If I speak to the people of their
rights, and indicate to them the way to secure them—if I
speak to the monopolists of power of their danger, tun I
not a wise coitus:lloz both to the people end their rulers !
(Cheers.) Suppose I stood at the foot of Vesuvius or of
Etna, audlsaw a hamlet or a homestead es,tendingupon its
slope, and I said to the dwellers of that hamlet or that home..
atead,"You See that vapour which ascends from the summit of
the mountain ; that vapour maybecome a densehlacknnoke
that will obscure the sky—you see that trickling of lava
from the crevice or fissure in the shin of the mountain ;
that trickling of lava may become a river of fire—you hear
that muttering in the bowels of the mountain ; that mut-
tering may become a bellowing thunder, the voice of a con-
vulsion that may shake half the continent. You know
that at your feet is the grave of great cities buried, for
which there is no resurrection, as histories tell US that
dynasties, and aristocracies have passed away, to be
known no more for ever." (Cheers.) If I say this to
these dwellers upon the slopes of this mountain, and if
there cum: hereafter a catastrophe which makes
the world to shudder, am I responsible for that
catastrophe! (" No, no," and cheers.) I did not
build the mountain, or fill it with explosive
materials, I only warned the men that were there of their
danger. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) So now it is not
I who am stimulating men to a violent pursuit of their
original constitutional rights. We ore about our lawful
business as citizens of a free country, but citizens to
whom is denied the first riiht of the constitution under
which they live. If the troth must be told, the tory
party is the tur'oulent party in this country. (Cheers.)
If the bill of last session, instead of basing wet with
every kind of unfair and ungenerous opposition, had be-
come law, all working men would have felt the barrier so
much lowered, that the exclusion was much less general
and leis offensive. and every element of strength in
the country would have been strengthened, and we
should have felt henceforth we were one people ;
and Lord Derl.y, and those who opposed it,
are responsible for all that has been done since.
Lord Derby now stands nearest to the throne ; I venture
to say not "strength, but a weakness to the throne ; fur by
kis conduct—the conduct of his party which he adopts—by
his conduct last session he thwarted at once the benevo-
lent intentions of the crown and the just expectations of
the people. (Loud cheers.) I confess that I am rather sur-
prised at the conduct of the tory party in this matter.
When the bill was introduced into the House of Commons
it appeared to me to be the very least that any ministers,
with a spark of sense or honesty, could offer on this ques-
tion, and I did not believe that on the other side of the
house there was, I will say if you like, bitter partisanship
enough or stupidity enough—(cheers)—to fight a com-
bined battle with all who would join them for the purpose
of rejecting that bill. And one would suppose that the
resent government had troubles enough on hand in what
1/4 called the sister country, without urging the people to
excitement here. In Ireland—lreland which I have de-
scribed before Irishmen as the favoured field on which all
the policy of the tory party has been exhibited, displayed,
and tried—in Ireland the Habeas Corpus Act is suspended,
individual liberby, except by the consent of the executive,
is abolished, troops are pouring into the country, iron-
clad', it is reported, are ordered to the coast to meet
some, I hope and believe,imaginary foe; country gentlemen
and their families are, it is said, flying from their ancestral
homer, and finding refuge in garrison towns. All this is
the result of the policy of the party of which Lord Derby
is the bead. (Loud cheery.) And even up to the very last

renewed.)
Mr. UP,IIALL then moved :—" That this meeting
desire,' to acknowledge the services of the Right Hon.
W. E. Gholstone, Mr. John Bright, Mr. John Stuart Mill.
and all those who have supported the people's claim, and
vindicated their character in parliament ; and further ex-
presses its confidence in Mr. John Bright as the champion
of the national cause in the House of Commons." He
complained bitterly or the absence of the metropolitan
members, who, he said, should have been there to sup-
port the working men.
Mr. Thomas seconded the motion, which was carried by
acclamation.
Mr. 'Ai.V4ON J. .SE' supported the resolution. He said
it was imperative that the trades societies should take
action as they had done on the reform question. It was
the only mode by which they could make known their
opinions upon it, and the only course of action by which
they could give visible proof to the denizens in the West-
end that the working classes were not indifferent to reform.
Any one seeing how the club windows were crowded during
the procession on Monday must be convinced that the
demonstration would do more good for the reform cause
than the reasoning of Mr. Gladstone, the philosophy of
Mr. Stuart Mill, and the eloquence of Mr. Bright. lie had
a conversation in the smoking-room of the House of Com-
mons last Angust with, perhaps, one of the greatest men
of that a►sembly, a man whose name and intellect were
I known all over the world. That gentleman
sai 1, " Remember this, the present House of
Commons will never pass a reform bill unless from vio-
lence, or the fear of it." All the agitation that had re-
cently taken place was owing to the Adullamites and the
Tories. When the Hyde-park railings fell, the old sys-
stem of things fell with them never to return. (Cheers.)
He (Mr. Jones) was not afraid to say that he was glad the
Hyde-park railings did fall. (Loud cheers.) It was the
first real victory the reformers had won for years. This
agitation had brought the reform question to a new era,
and those who had watched the current of public events
must have noticed how the tide had been rising higher
and higher, with every succeeding day, and have felt that
before long the inevitable force of public opinion, like a
torrent, would sweep away all the unjust monopolies
that now existed. (Cheers.)
The CH %TEM YR then read a letter from Mr. E. Beales. ex-
pressing his regret that an engagement to address a reform
meeting at Wednesbury prevented his being present that
evening: and also a telegraphic despatch which had been
received from the Scottish National Reform League, send-
ing their congratulations to the workingmen and reformers
of London, and assuring them that such a measure of reform
must be passed into law as should secure the government
of the people by the people and for the people.
The resolution was then put and unanimously agreed to.
Sir J. GRAY, having been loudly called on, said that he
had not come there to speak, but to hear, to see, and to
be instructed. He thought the demonstration of the pre-
vious day was the most glorious he had ever seen, and he
trusted the deportment of the people would convince their
calumniators that they were not the drunken rabble they
had been represented. He hoped the woi king men would
persevere for the ballot and extended franchise, and he
thanked them for the sympathy they had displayed for hi'
country,
Mr. POTTER, M.P. for Rochdale, congratulated the
meeting on the success of their demonstration. He knew
enough of the working men of England to believe that
when once they had taken up a cause they would not very
quickly lay it down. He believed they would show par-
liament that the franchise wan a question which could no
longer be trifled with.
Mr. Arirrox, who now entered the ball, proceeded amid
considerable interruption to address the meeting. He de-
fended the absent metropolitan members, and said he had
himself been engaged presiding over a meeting for promot-
ing a better water supply. The demonstration of yester-
day was what it professed to be, a demonstration in favour
of parliamentary reform, and he had come to express his
I extreme satisfaction with it. It had achieved a great and
useful end, in showing to those who, from want of luso-
dation with the working classes, were perhaps not well

fitted to form a right judgment of them, that
they were perfectly amenable to law, order, and
the institutions of the country. Re could not but regret
that when that remarkable assembly was in front of one of
her Majesty's palaces she was not well enough advised to
enjoy the gratifying spectsele—(cheen)—for it was as
much the duty of royalty to have an active sympathy
with people who were alive as to cherish an affec-
tionate remembrance of the dead. The working men as
they passed by the Hyde-park railings respected them as
—(" no, no ")—es the assertion of legal rights. (" No,
no.") Whoever undertook to say " no" so emphatically
probably knew less of the subject than he did himself.
(Laughter, and " oh.") He repeated—tbe assertion of legal
rights—because he considered it his duty as one inte-
rested in the metropolis, and as one having alight respon-
sibilities, to tell the meeting the difference between legal
rights and discretion in their exercise. ("Oh, oh.") There
was no question of the legal right of her Majesty's govern-
ment to take care of the public property, and there was no
question that no set of men had a right to take the public
property into their own possession, and deal with it as
they pleased. (Loud hisses, a cry of "We never did,"
" Time," " Sit down," and an attempt at cheering.) It
was well to understand the difference between the dis-
cretion the government exercised and the rights it pos-
sessed. No doubt if government exercised a wrong dis-
cretion, there was a constitutional way of brining
ministers to account. (" No, there is not," and interrup-
tion.) AU he wished to add was, that if at any time the
p- ople wished to meet in any of the public parks, he
hoped they would understand—(laughter, and " Sit
down ")—that if the government exercised an improper
1 discretion in refusing their request, the proper mode of
bringing them to account was by appeal to the House of
Commons. (A considerable interruption here took
place. The honourable member was loudly ordered
Ito sit down, was hissed, laughed at, and was
told he was nothing but an Adullamite. While
the tumult was at its height Colonel Dickson,
amidst loud cheers came to the front of the platform,
and, if one might judge from his excited gesticulation, was
making a speech. The chairman kept his feet the whole
of the time, and vainly endeavoured to turn the storm
into calm. Something approaching to silence having been
obtained,
Mr. ATaTON resumed—Now they had appeased the
storm by the pacification of the gallant colonel—Oilmen
and cries of " Sit down"—he begged to say their chair
man and the committee deserved not censure, but great
prrise, for their arrangements. Let him say one word
more. (" We have had enough," and hisses.) The work-
men who were absent from the procession showed their
love for their families and homes. (Renewed interrup-
tion, lasting for some time, terminating by the retirement
of the hon. member, amid general expressions of satisfac-
tion.)
Colonel DICKSON said be would not have risen had Mr.
Beata been present to answer Mr, Ayrton. Mr. Beale'
was just as good a lawyer as Mr. Ayrton. When he said
that there were not a dozen members in the house that
cared a straw for reform, Mr. Mill said he did not believe
there were. He believed that Mr. Ayrton had made a mis.
take, that he had intended to have walked into the Cave
of Adullam, but had instead walked into that ball. (Loud
cheers, and a few cries of " No.")
Mr. BRY,ver, in proposing a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, observed that it would have been a great deal better
for Mr. Ayrton if he had not put in his appearance, for
with all his explanation he could not persuade them other.
wise than that he was a member of the Cave. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. CONCH-Ll' seconded the motion.
Before the resolution was put to the meeting,
Mr. BRIGHT rose, and said—There was. one remark made
by Mr. Ayrton with which, if I apprehend it correctly,
lam unable to concur. lie referred to the neighbourhood
of St. James's-park (in which you assembled yesterday) to
the Palace, and made some observations with regard to the
Queen, to which, in my opinion, no meeting of the people
of this country, and certainly no meeting of reformers,
could listen without pain. Let it be remembered that
there has been no occasion on which any ministers have
proposed to improve the representation of the people when
the Queen has not given her cordial, and, I believe, her
ready assent to the proposal. (Cheers.) Let it be remem-
bered that at this moment, if there be at her side a mi-
nister who is opposed to the irnl,rovement of the represen-
tation, it is because, in obedience to the well-known
rules of constitutional practice, the decision of
the House of Commons on the bill of last session rendered
it necessary for her to take the course which she then
adopted. But he referred, further, to the supposed ab-
sorbence or absorption of the sympathies of the Queen with
COURT or ALDERMEN. —A Court of Aldermen
her lost husband, to the exclusion of sympathy for, or ,
was held yesterday at Guildhall, at which the Lord Mayor
with, the people. (" Scout the fellow.") Now, lam not !
(Alderman Gabriel) presided. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
accustomed to stand up in defence of those who are the ,Yatcrlow brought up a report of the state of the City
possessors of crowns, but I could not sit here and hear gaols, by which it appeared that there are at present con-
that observation without a sensation of wonder and of tined in Newgate, 83 ; in tho Debtors' Prison,an
at Holloway 345 risoners The town clerk read are
pain. (Cheers.) I think there has been by many persons
turn by the' Commissioner of of Police for the City, [fur-
great injustice done to the Queen in reference to her deco- fluent to an order of the court, of the number of assaults
late and widowed position—(hear, hear)—and I venture to ' and robberies coming under the cognisance of the City
say this, that the woman—be she the queen of a great police on Lord Mayor's day, by which it appeared
realm, or be she the wife of one of your labouring men— there were four cases of assault and forty-one
cases of robbery. A return was also presented
who can keep alive in her heart a great sorrow for the lost
of the number of assaults and robberies committed apon
object of her life and her affections is not likely, is not the occasions of the evening services at St, Paul's. The re-
the most likely, is not at all likely, to be wanting in a turn was iii!, which created a good deal of laughter in
great and generous sympathy for you. i the court. Alderman Sidney inquired of Alderman Sir R.
Carden whether he intended to found any motion upon
At the conclusion of Mr. Bright 's remarks there was a
tnhererwroertmwthtaot ht"rwid justrem remarks
been presented toe twhetcooutirite,prinrod
burst of enthusiastic cheering, and, at the suggestion of
Mr. Keefe doNEs, the meeting sang a verse of the ceedings that took place on Lord Mayor's-day, and the in-
National Anthem. • convenience that was occasioned to the citizens and the
The resolution was then put and carried by acclamation, ' public generally by having such an exhibition as the
and was briefly acknowledged by Mr. Porren, Lord Mayor's show. Sir It. Carden said that he
. had never intended to make any motion upon
Mr. Micros, who was received with groans and hisses, the subject ; and with regard to the observations he
came to the front of the platform, and with considerable had made in reference to the inconvenience that
difficulty explained that he had never intended to make was occasioned by having such a procession in the
any personal reference to her Majesty, but only to the City of London, he would only observe that he believed
those observations were concurred in by the greater per-
influence of the Prune Minister, under whole guidance she
tion of the citizens of London. (Hear, hear.) Alderman
' acted. Sidney observed that in the report he had rend of what
A gentleman on the platform announced that another was stated by the honourable alderman, it was repre-
-1 meeting of the working men of London would be held on rented that he intended to follow up the matter b bring-
ther Monday before the meeting of parliament, and that the ing forward a motion on the subject. Sir R. Ca en said
place of meeting would be Hyde-park —a statement which that if ifinaursuct.yobreservatis.nslrere attributed
report was sliteenhi brought
was was received with loud applause ; and, after giving three upe from the Generar Purposes Committee, recommending
cheers for Mr. Bright, the vast assembly separated. that in future all applications for extra police constables
__ _ _ ' should be tilled up in accordance with the provisions of
_ . _
' the Police Act. The subject was discussed for some time
MIDDLE TEMPLE.—OH Monday Sir William with closed doors, after which the court adjourned.
Bovill, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Neu, took his INFANTICIDE.—On last Saturday evening a num-
leave of the heathers of this inn on the °certifier' of Lie
her ojelaltichildren were found by the police playing with
vacating the office of treasurer by taking the coif. The
Right Hon. Sir Laurence Peel was at the same time elected the
body of a child in King's Head court, Holborn.
The corpse was naked, the little street urchins having torn
treasurer for the ensuing year. ' off the sheet of paper and piece of old cloth in which it
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It appears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General had been wrapped. It was conveyed to the Smithfield
Police-station, and was there examined by Dr. Wilson, of
that in the week that ended on Saturday, Ilecem- Fleet-street. He found it to be a fall-timed male child
her Ist, the births registered in London ,and that had been born alive. Death had been produced by
twelve other huge towns of the United Kinfanni suffocation which was evidently the result of a cloth hay-
were 4,420; the deaths registered 3,199. The annum rate ing been held over the nose and mouth. An inquest was
of mortality was 27 per 1,000 persons living. In London held in the case last evening, at St. Bartholomew's Hoe-
the births of 1.085 boys and 1,043 girls, in all 2,128 chil- pital, by Mr. Payne, when, as there was a doubt whether
siren, were registered in the week. In the corresponding the suffocation might not have been caused by some seri-
weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected dental circumstance, the jury returned a verdict of "Found
for increase of population, was 2,019. The deaths regis- dead in the street."
tared in London during the week were 1,459. It was the THE NOTTINGHAM MURDER.—Yesterday the
forty-eighth week of the year ; and the average number of prisoners Watson and his wife, charged with the murder of
week
deaths for that is, with a correction for increase of 3/.
r. Raynor, were brought before the county mairate.
population, 1,596. The deaths in the present return are at the Shire-hall, Nottingham, for examination. The pro-
les.) by 137 than the estimated number. Three deaths from ceedinge were again strictly private, the public and the
cholera were registered during the week; and the epidemic euesa not being allowed to be present duri the examine-
is now virtually extinct. The 15 deaths from deirrhfea
allowed
The evidence against_ the prisoners_ that has been
are below the average numberof previous years. The total
deaths from cholera in the present epidemic have been
character, and in the absence of . further cnnunating evi-
to epire publicly is yet ot a
.very dubious
5,548, exclusive of 2,61e2 deaths from diarrhcea, due in part device the opinion appears to gem ground that both the
to the cholera element. In the year 1849, when thgewartepopur. mamma are innocent of the crime oemurder. The affair
lation of London was about two millions and •
cholera slew 14,137 people of all ages ;in ltna4 not leas than li still, wrapred;,, mystery. The police are making every
exerefnpossae ..., recover the watch and hat of the
10,738 out of two millions and a half ; and in the present
year, when the population exceeds three millions, the murdered
th man,
but aelye without success.
13th ' The
Inquiry
deaths have been 5,a48, of which 3,909 occurred in the before e coroner be resumed on the inst.
Fast London districts, and 1,439 in the rest of the metro- I THE ACCIDENT IN CONNEXION WITH THE QUEEN'S
polls. The deaths to every 10,000 of population were 62, , ERHAMITOIC—It was at first intended that
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on the occasion of the Queen's visit to Wolverhiunpton
43, and 18 in the three epidemics all over London. In the
present epidemic the West districts lost 4, the North die - some artillerymen and guns should be sent down from
trots 6, the South districts 8, the Central districts 9 ; and Aldershot to fire the royal salutes that it was determined
'it was only in the East districts where the ravages recalled should signalise the different stages of the proceedings con-
the violence of former epidemics that 3,909 people, that is nected with the inauguration of the Albert Memorial on
64 in every 10,000 of the unhappy inhabitants, perished, I that day in that borough ; but the honour ultimately de-
in London cholera has not only been less fatal than it was volved upon the Etruria (North Staffordshire) company of
in previous epidemics, but its fatality has been reduced volunteer artillerymen. During the firing one of the yo-
almost to insignificance in several of the districts by the lunteer artillerymen lost his hand, and his right arm was
mere force of hygienic science, before which the destroyer , amputated in the South Staffordshire Hospital. Yester-
has retreated step by step ; never, however, losing an op. dal Sir John Morrie received a communication from
portunity of asserting its full power wherever negligence I Windsor Castle, written by Sir Thomas Biddulph, in
or ignorance presented an opening, either in England or in I which it was stated that her Majesty had heard with la-
the cities of the continent of Europe. Cholera obeys oar- gret that a man lost his hand on Friday, in Wolverhanp.
tab laws, and the knowledge of those laws renders its sub- ' ton, in firing a salute ; and Sir Thomas Biddulph asked,
jugation in Europe practicable, provided all the people as " " for her Majesty's information," if the statement was
wen as the governments will co-operate in the work, This correct, and if so, how the poor man was going on? Sir
it may be hoped will be done, and it only remains for the Thomas Biddulph added that he should also be glad to
metropolis of this empire to hold its own and to keep the know what the man's circumstances are. Immediately
lead. The annual rate of mortality last week was 211 per upon the receipt of this communisation Sir John Morris
1,000 in London, 30 in Edinburgh, and 31 in Dublin ; 21 In " instituted the necessary inquiries, and forwared the result
Bristol, 25 in Birmingham, 31 in Liverpool, 28 in Munches- to Windsor Castle last evening, and it was added that the
ter, 31 in Salford, 27 in Sheffield, 33 in Leeds, 26 in Hull, corporation were in no way responsible for the arra
39 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow. The rate ments which resulted in the accident. A in is
in Vienna was 29 per 1,000 during the week ending the 17th has been set on foot for the man in Wolverhampton.
inst., when the temperature was 213 deg. Fahrenheit lower CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING DAT.
than in the Mine week is Landon, where the rate was 24 TOKADAT, Die. 4,—Admissions OR payment, 34.2; ditto by
Is. 1,000. , woos% *IAA,. 574 ; total visitors, 1,016.

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