The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-24 00:00:00

THE LATE 11l WHEW PEEL.

The TOWN CLERK read --- follewiss communication
to the court.

" Whitehall-gardens. 17th July, 1850.
"My Lord,—l = directed by Lady P.:el to convey to
you her sine= *ants for the kind meaner in which you
bare communisated to her a resolution which hes been car-
ried unanimously by the mayor, aldermen, and commons
of the city of London in Common Council assembled, a:-
preemie' their admiration of the character and SeiTiCti of
Sir Robert P.el, and the deep emotions of sorrow with which
they remised the painful intelligence of his Oath. Lady Peel
=hes gratilolly to acknowledge this tribute of rtspect to
the memory of Sir Robert Peel from the Common Council
of ta• City of London, sad has derived • melancholy
satis-
faction from the assurance of thiir sympathy with her in
the allied= which has befallen her and the members of her
family.—l hays the honour to be your losenip'e obedient
servant, " PRIM."

UThn Right Roc the lewd Mayor, &a., & i."
pon the 'notion of Mr. R. L. Joss., seconded by Mr. R.
TATLOZ, it wee ordered that the letter should be entered
%pea the journals of the (pert.

ItOBMIZII U Tall My.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR, said that in einisequence of several
aets of burglary having been committed in the City darting
the last few weeks, one of which occurred a short time since,
and another that very morning upon hit own premises in
Queen-street, Cheapside„ he wished to know whether the
City police wu really so effective as it ought to be. They
paid about 50,0001. per annum for the maintenance of a
police establishment, and ha therefore did think that with
instaoces occurring around them and amongst them of the
most serious depredations, that the time had come for them
to make some inquiry as to the manner in which the thief
°Moen and the interior men performed their several duties.
(Bear.) If it was found that they did not do to, the sooner
an alteration took place the better. He thought that it
would be desirable to move that the matter should bo referred
to the Polies Committee.

Alter some farther convenation the subject dropped, Mr.
Alderman Lawrence, (the Chairman of the Police Com-
mittee,) having stated that if any such complaints were
brought by any parties before the members of the said com-
mittee that every pouible attention would be paid to them.
TRH TERMINATION OP THE SMITHFIELD MARKET DEBATE.
Mr. T. H. HALL, to rising to open the adjourned debate
upon the removal if Stnittfield market, observed that he
could not help %Woking, from the manner in which the sub-
ject had been received in that court, and by the press and
toe public generally, that the matter throughout the City of
London and the country at large, was considered one of the
tactical importance. He hoped the court would approve
of the motion of hie Wend Mr. H. L. Taylor. He (Mr.
Hall) wu aware of the fact that the members of that court
wore subjected to many disadvantages in consequence et the
mie-statemeate made in that court, and the wrong impres-
sions which bad followed from ouch mis-statements out of
doors. _ _

Atter a lengthened discussion,
A division, called fir by Mr. NORRIS, then took place,
when there appeared for the amendment, 13 ; arum it, 89 ;
minority, 78.
The tobowing are the names of the mino-ity Alderman
Lawrence, Commoners Brooke, Clarke, Evens, Deputy,
Lawrie, Maynard, Peed, Role, Ward, White, Wylie, Norris,
and Bennoeh.
Alderman LAWRANCE then rose to move as an amend-
ment to the inkiest motion, which was about to be put,
" That it be an instruction to the committee, that before an
answer be sent to Mr. C. Lewis's letter, the com-
mittee do open a communication with the govern-
ment on the subject thereof." (Loud mursouri.)
His object was to ascertain what the government meant by
the communication made in Mr. Lewis', letter. We knew
perfectly well, that if a bill for removing the market were
ready to-morrow, it would be carried in spite of the corpo-
ration, and he wished tone whether a conference might not
lead te something like en understanding upon the subject,
from which some advantage might arise. (Cries of " No, no;
no conference.") His motion would not prevent the corpo-
ration from falling back into their present position, should
the conference prove unsatisfactory, but he put it to the
goad sense of the court to keep open the door of

Mr. WHITE seconded Aldermae Lawrence's amendment,
and said that a conference might have the eff.ct of setting
all right with the government.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON said he certainly woof opinion
that the course suggested by Alderman Lawrence wu the
prudent course, and wished to hear what Mr. H. L. Taylor
thought of it.
Mr. H. L TAYLOR most decidedly thought that the
court ought not to entertain the suggestion for one moment.
(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.) He regretted that Alirroun
Lswrance—the first part of whose speech indicated a perfect
seguiercenoe in the report of the committee—had fallen into
the snare laid for him by those who were opposed to the
interests of their fellow-citizens. He tailed up.n the
court to adhere :to the present market as the great market
fur cattle, alive or dead. He called upon them to retain it.
for the benefit of their fellow-citizens, and the advantage of
the community. (Hear, hear ))
The amendment was then negatived, and the motion that
the report be agreed to wu carried amide: loud cheers.
Adjourned.

STEAM-PACKET EXPLOSION AT BRISTOL,
AND FEARFUL SACRIFICE OF LIFE.

We give particulars of the accident briefly referred
toesterday :
Until recently the whole of the traffic between the
City and the Hotwells, whence the Irish, Welsh, and
other steam-packets start, was carried on by meens
of cars and onsnibusea, and by hand-rowed
wherries plying up and down the floating narbour ;
bat some months since a small steamboat was put or, and
was speedily followed by others of larger dimensions.
Among the first packets of this Kind used was one called the
Bed Rover ; she was an iron boat, brought by her owner
from Waterford, where it is slated she had previously had •
great deal of use. She was capable of accommodating
somewhere about sixty passengers, and since being put cn
the float, and up to the time of the melancholy and fatal
accident by which she was destroyed, plied regularly. At
half-put 8 o'clock on Monday night she was lying off
Rewlir.a's wharf, Cumberland Basin, and taking nu baud
her passengers for the trip to the stone bridge at Bristol :
some forty or fifty persons had got on board, and other. were
in the act of doing so, when, without anything having pre-
viously occurred to excite the smallest apprehension, her
boiler suddenly exploded with such violence as to rend the
vessel into pieces, hurling the fragments and some of her
passengers into the air, and casting others into the water.
A scans of the meet terrible and heart-rending kind fol-
lowed ; the mutilated bodies of same of the untorturate
voyagers were cast with violence to the shore ; utners were
seen in the act of drowning, struggling with the waters
tor while from the persons on the shire, many of
whom had friends or connexions on board, the
most piteous cries proceeded. A number of wher-
ries were lying off the point, and ten or twelve
of them put off with all possible speed, and succeeded in
terming many perms who mast otherwae certainly have
swelled the list of the killed, which, as it is, must be a heavy
one. Some idea of the violence of the explosion may be
gathered from the fact, that • large piece ot tke vessel,
weighing more than a hundred weight, wes thrown on to
the root of a boat-shed some hundreds of fest distant from
the spot where the vessel blow up, while smaller portions
were scattered to much greater distances. As soon as the
paasengers were got out of the water, such of
them as ware not dead were conveyed either to their
homes or to the Bristol Infirmary, where they received
every care and attention; sack as had ceased to exit were
laid on the wharf, awaiting to be recogniard by their friend..
Amoco the killed is the engineer of the brat, a man named
Wm. Nicholls; the captain, Wm. faddy, had his legs
fractured, and the fireman, David Lew s, was severely
scalded. The owner and his wire were on board, but were
not wounded, although the Arch was so great to the nervous
system of the wife that she is slated to have been ever since
in • state of insensibility. M. n are now employed in drag-
ging the river for the recovery of missing bodies; Du; the
tollowing is the list of killed and wounded as far as it has as
yet been ascertained.
KlLLlM.—Boneuel Jefferies, a workman at tl:e Bristol
pottery ; West, musician, St. James's street ; Charles
Heating, ditto, Berkeley place ; William Nichols, engineer,
Alfred,street ; Harriett Venn, a child ; two children of
Jambes Clifton; three men unknown.
SzvanntV INJUREU.—Wm. Bailee, Dingy, fractured
legs; Wm. Pudcy, the captain, ditto; Wm. Brewer. to-
biceonist, Hill-street, ditto; Francis Lucas, Thressell-strem,
ciao; Mary Ann Darsten, Frogmen street, diet-'; Ellen
Hodge, 5:. George'e, fractured hip; Thomas White, im-
merser, Montpelier, tractor. d legs; David I.rwie, fireman,
Anchor lane, ly scalded; A. Leander, mere Num sof
the head and fractured leg; Laktdon, ditto; Marts
~l Haynes,:Bp
musician,.ls fer as
scalded
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scalded; Elise Felt iet, jag., ditto; 1 hom es N- ens, Mary-
port street,
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WINDING Ur JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—ROVAL
DANE uv AVIITILALIA.—De Monday the hlaster-in-Chaceery
Richards decided that there directors of this consinsuy who
to a certain number of shares, for which they Kaye promis-
sate notes, but which Aare' were afterwards paw lied by
the director', must be ',laced on the list as liable in en pect
of the particular shares.—ROVlll. DEAL, ANlb CI N.41'1: PORTS
RAILWAY. —The Master.lo.Chaneery Brougham has ap-
pointed the 49th instant Ire the %sidemen: Pt the list of
shareholders Gable In connexion with this erm,anv, and eta
sit for that purpose in Vire-Chancellor W.granOs court.—
K INO/LANU AND DAL4T.,M I.IIEItARY INbTITL rlit'S.—A
coil of lat. per shun is to be made on the snarshuldets is
this sooety, to pay off its habilitate.