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PARLLSMENTAX,Y DIVISION,

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 21.
THE BALLOT.

Motionn that our electoral system
Put, " That, as a general election
isimpending, and
question a
nd
notorious it
is
is defective and corrupt in practice, and as we have no
law which can put down the intimidation of voters, nor
prevent bribery, it is therefore expedient that a fair trial
should be given to the vote by ballot." The house divided
—Ayes, 123 ; Noes, 212.
AYES-123.
Adair, H. E. Greene, J. Pease, H.
Alcock, T. Gregson, S. Peto, Sir M.
Athlumney, Lord Grenfell, H. R. Pilkin,.,•-ton, J.
Ayrton, A. S. Greville, Col. F. Pollard Urquhart W
Baines, E. Hadfield, G.
. Ponsonby, A.
Baxter, W. N. Henderson, J. Potter, E.
Bazley, T. Henley, Lord Powell, J. J.
Bellew, R. DI. Hennessy, J. P. Pryse, E. L.
Berkeley, CP. F. Hibbert, J. T. Robartes, T. J. A.
Biddulph, Col. Hodgkinson, G. Rothschild,Baron 31
Black, A. Hodgson, K. Russell, A.
Blake, J. King, P. J. L. Russell, Sir W.
Bonham-Carter, J. Kinglake, A. W. Seely, C.
Butler, CS. Kinglake, Sed. J. Seymour, Digby
Buxton, C. Kinnaird, A. F. Shafto, R. D.
Caird J. Layard, A. H. Shelley, Sir J. V. J
Clay, J. Lanigan, 3. Sheridan, H. B.
Clifford, C. C. Lawson, W. Sidney, T.
Clifton, Sir R. Leathern, E. A. Smith, Augustus
Cobbett 3. M. Lefevre, G. J. S. Smith, J. A.
Cobden, R. Lee, W. Smith, J. B.
Collier, Sir R. P. Lewis, El. Stacpoole, W.
Corbel W.
M. E. Lindsay, W. S. Stuart, CoL
Cox, W. MacEvoy, E. Talbot, C. R. M.
Craufurd, E. H. J. Maguire. J. P. Taylor, P. A.
Crawford, R. W. Martin, P. W. Tite, W.
Crossley, Sir F. Merry, J. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Dalglish, R. Mitchell T. A. Villiers, C. P.
Davie, Sir H. R. F. Moffatt, G. Vivian, H. H.
Davie, Col. F. Monsen, W. Waldron, L.
Dent, J. D. Morris, D. Warner, E.
Dillwyn, L. L. Morrison, W. Watkins, Col. L.
Doulton, F. Neate, C. Weg,uelin, T. M.
Duff, M. E. O'Brien, Sir P. Westhead, J. P. B.
Fenwick, H. O'Conor Don, The Whalley, G. H.
Fermoy, Lord O'Hagat, T. Whitbread, S.
Forster, C. o'Loghlen, Sir C. White, J.
Gavin, l:,lajor Onslow, G. Williams, W.
Gibson, T. M. O'Reilly, M. W. Wyld, J.
Gilpin, C. Owen, Sir H. TELLERS.
Goschen, G. J. Padmore, IL Berkeley, H. F.
Gower, F. L. Paget, C. Locke, J.

NOES —212.
Adderley, C. B. Gore, W. It. 0. Naas, Lord
Agnew, Sir A. Gower, G. W. L. Nicol, W.
Anstruther, Sir R. Greenall, G. Pakenham, Col.
Aytoun. R. S. Greenwood, J. Pakington, Sir J.
Bai'lie, H. J. Gregory, W, 11. Palmer, R. W.
Baring, H. B. Grey, Sir G. Palmer, Sir R.
Baring, Sir F. Grey deWilton,Lord Palmerston, Visct.
Baring, T. G. Grosvenor, Earl Papillon, P. 0.
Barrow, W. H. Grosvencr,Lordßd. Paull, H.
Bar ttelot, Cot Gurdon, it Peacocke, G. M. W.
Bathurst, A. A. Hamilton, Major Peel, Sir R.
Bathurst, Col. H. Hamilton, Viscount Peel, F.
Beaumont, W. B. Hardy, G. Portman, W. H. B.
Beaumont, S. Hartopp, E. B. Powell, F. S.
Beecroft, G. S. Herve 3, Lcrd A. Powys-Lybbe, P. L.
Bentinck, G. C. Hay, Sir J Price, R. G.
Benyon, It. Heathcote, Sir W. Pritchard, J.
Bernard, Col. Heathcote, G. H. Proby, Lord
Booth, Sir R. G. Henniker, Lord Ridley, Sir M. W.
Bouverie, P. P. Herbert, H. A. Rogers, J. J.
Bovill, W. Hesketh, Sir T. St. Aubyn, J.
Bramley-Moore, J. Heygate.Sir F. Salt, T.
Bramston, T. W. Heygate, W. U Scott, Lord H.
Bremridge, R. Holtord, R. S. Scott, Sir W.
Bridges, Sir B. W. Hood, Sir A. Scourfielo, J. H.
Brooks, R. Hot stall, T. B. Selwyn, C. J.
Bruce, Lord E. A. Howard, C. W. G. Smith, Sir F.
Bruce, Sir H. Howes. E Smith, M.
Buller, J. W. Hubbard, J. G. Smollett, I'. B.
Burghley, Lord Humoerstone, P. S. Somerset, Col. E.
ButlerJohnstone,7l, Ilume, W. W. F. Somes, J.
Cairns, Sir H. Hunt, G. W. Stanley, Lord
Cecil, Lord R. Jervis, Captain Steel, J.
Chapman, J. Jervoise, Sir J. Stronge, Cot
Coke, Col. Johnstone, Sir J. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W.
Cole, H. Jones, D. Stun, H. G.
Cole, J. L. Kekewich, S. T. Sturt, Lt-Col. N.
Collins, T. King, j. K. Surtees, H. E.
Cowper, W. F. Knatchbull, W. Taylor, Col.
Cubitt, G. Knight, I. Thornhill, W. P.
Curzon, Viscount Knox, Major W. S. Thymic, Lord E.
Dalkeith, Earl of Lacon, Sir E. Thynne, Lord 11.
Damer, S. D. Laird, J. Tottenham,Lt.-Col.
Disraeli, B. Leader, N. P.
LLeennnnooxx: LLoorrdd
H.
GG.. Tracy, C. R. D.
Du Cane, C. Leeke, Sir H. Treherne, M.
Duff, R. W. Lefroy, A. Trollope, Sir J.
Duncombe, A. Legh, Major C. Turner, C.
Duncombe, W. E. Legh, W. J. Vance, J.
Dunne, Cot
Edwards, Cot VVaann ds
jetlteaurre, Civot.
Egerton, Sir P. Leslie, w. Verney, Sir H.
Elphinstone, Sir J. Liddell, H. G. Verner, E. W.
Evans, T. W. Lopes, Sir m
_Pane, Col. Lovaine, Lord Vyner, R A.
Farquhar, Sir M. Lowe, It. Walcott, Admiral
Fellowes, E. Lowther, Col. Walker, J. R.
Fergusson, Sir J. Lyan, G. Walpole, S. H.
Macaulay, K.
Filmer, Sir E. Walsh, Sir J. B.
Finlay, A. S.
Morgan,4Moanntnairi4rs
LLoorrdd
RG . Wood, Sir C.
14`Cornuck, w, Waterhouse, S.
Fleming, T. W. Mackie, J.Watlington, J.
Forester, Gen. Manus, R. Welby, W. E.
Foster, W. 0. Whitmore, H.
orritt, W.
Manners, Lord J.
Fraser, Sir W. A.
Major
Gallwey, Sir W. P.
Gard, R. S. Maxwell, Cot Wynn, C. W. W.
Gaskell, J. M.
istAawrtbinr.
J.
R. G. . Wrightson, W. B.
Milos, Sir W. wyvill, M.
George, J. Miller, T. J. Yorke, E. r.
Getty, S. G. Moncreiff; J. Yorke, J. R.
Gilpin, Colonel
Gladstone, W. E.
Goddard, A. L. x.
Gore, J. R. 0.

TELLERS.
Fade, Col.
Trevor, Lord A.

Singular Attempt to Shoot a Young Woman
near Ga insborough

On Saturday last Xartha Howell, of Springthorpe, near
Gainsborough, was brought up in custody, before Sir Henry
Hickman Bacon, Bait., at the police-station, Gainsborough,
charged with having, on the
17th instant, at Corringham,
attempted to shoot another young
person named Emma
Johnson. Emma Johnson having been sworn said,—l live
at Gainsborough. On the evening of the 17th inst., about a
i sf
ple
nwdo usludngdoa
yt owSaphr i
hn
egrt.h osr
She
ee
rtehme
afollowing
aboutS atusredvaeyn,
quarter to six, the prisoner carne to our house and asked
maned
o'clock, At that time four young ladies and myself set off
to go part of the way home with the prisoner. On the
road the prisoner frequently asked me to go and stay with
her; I said I could not. When we arrived at the wood
side, at Somerby, where there is a footpath alongside
of it leading across a field, T
- gave way for tho prisoner
to go through the handgate
first; she turned when
115
about a yard or se from 3, and pulling a pistol
from her pocket, said, " I'll shoot you ;" I said "No
don't." She pointed the pistol close to my right ear and
fired it; I felt the fire upon my face,
and something
seemed to go through my ear. I fell down, and after
about half a minute I got up, and the prisoner had
moved
eto the opposite side of me. She had the pistol in her
hand, and was feeling in her pocket, I ran away and the
prisoner shouted to the other girls to hold me. She ran
after me a short distance. I went to Mr Ranby's farm-
house, about 3' back to Gainsborough.
They
(t r s
sent for a Policeman. I have not seen
the prisoner since until this morning. About a year and
a half ago the prisoner tried to bring we into a family
quar-
rel of her's. We load some words at the time, and since
that time we have never been so friendly as we were before.
t
Several times since then I have been to her house to stay
all night. When I have been teaching the girls at the
prisoner's
music,si:always slept
With her, and she
ah
a s mpistolan timestya school
mehs
t gorteuptu in he middle of the night and pointed
to shoot tee.
I did not know
else in the house besides our two selves. She had often
complained
t wthasatloladded
idnoortngoot.s
so
Tmhueerhe was generally none
to stay with her, but
I went to her friends with whom she
had quarrelled. I
always considered her a very passionate woman.
Elizabeth Milburn said—l live at Springthorpe. On the
evening of the 17th inst. I went into the prisoner's house,
she having sent for me, as she was very poorly. She said,
" Give me a little porter, I'm very ill." I said, " What is
the matter ?" and she replied, 'Do take my cloth off.".
She looked very much excited. She said, " I may vs well
confess to you. I've shot Miss Johnson." I said, "Surely,
to the Lord, not." She said, " I have." I said, "D 3 you
think you have shot her?" She replied, " Yes, and I'm
only sorry I've not shot her dead." I said, " What have
you shot her with ?" She replied, "A. pistol—it is in my
pocket.' I looked in her pocket and found the pistol pro-
duced, two balls and some shot wrapped in brown paper, a
little powder, and two caps, The pistol was very bloody.
I was very much frightened and kept the pistol. Her right
hand was hurt. _ _ _

On being cross-examined by the prisoner, the witness
replied she (prisoner) said, " I intended to shoot Miss John-
son, and then to shoot myself and die at her feet."
After the superintendent of police had deposed to appre-
hending the prisoner and to her admitting that she had shot
Miss Johnson,
the magistrate committed her for trial at the
next Lincoln assizes.—Leeds Mercury.

MR. BALFE'S NEW COMIC OPERA is entitled
" The Sleeping Queen," the property of Cramer, Wood,
and Co. It is founded on a Spanish romance, and is written
is Mr, Bailee airiest and happiest vein.

The Naval Fight off Cherbourg.

Several of the French papers contain descriptions
of the engagement off Cherbourg on Sunday last,
but they add little to the facts already known in
England. La France, however, publishes a special
account, from which the following particulars are
extracted—" The Alabama had been several days
in port repairing, when the firet-class corvette
Kearsage, of the Federal navy, anchored in the
roads to watch her adversary. The next day some
provocation ensued, and Capt. Semmes, the com-
mander of the Confederate ship, decided that
although weaker the Alabama should accept battle,
which took place on the forenoon of Sunday, the
19th. On that day the Alabama was punctual. At
8 o'clock in the morning the captain assembled his
crew, and in a fervid oration announced that the
time had arrived for them to conquer or die. His
speech was received with cries a thousand times
repeated, of ' Hurrah for the South,' Cheers for
Lee and for his army,' Cheers for France, the only
nation who generously and impartially carries out
her neutrality Capt. Semmes then referred to his
recent letter on naval belligerent rights, and con-
cluded his speech by saying that that document
had been drawn up in order that the truth might be
known in case he should perish.' At half-past nine,
after clearing for action, the Alabama, which was
under steam all the morning, banked up her fires,
and left her anchorage to take the open. The whole
population of Cherbourg was on the port, on the
breakwater, on the heights—in fact, on every
point where a view of the battle could
be obtained. When the Alabama, as she
got under weigh, ran up the Confederate flag at
her mainmast and saluted it with a salvo of guns,
innumerable cheers arose. The sympathy of the
population was evidently with the South. The Ala-
bama having left the port, at about half-past ten
was nearly nine miles out, and commenced the battle
by a daring movement, running towards the Kear-
sage to board her. The Federal corvette understood
the movement, and succeeded in turning and avoid-
ing her adversary. The Kearsage had been ar•
moured during the night with her chain cables, and
to this particular advantage she united that of a
heavier armament, and a more numerous crew;
notwithstanding which the Confederate ship
appeared to have the advantage, and again
manoeuvred to board the Federal corvette, when she
received a rifle projectile, which passed right through
her boiler and paralysed her movements." The
subsequent sinking of the Alabama and the saving
of the captain and crew is then described—" A short
time afterwards the Kearsage came into the port
bringing her prisoners. She anchored close to the
steamship Napoleon. She soon received many
visitors. The Kearsage has suffered much ; she has
twelve shots in her hull. Her crew was superior
to that of her adversary, who only mustered 134
men ; but the crew of the Alabama, used to boarding,
would infallibly have captured the Kearsage if she
could have been laid alongside. Captain Semmes
was adored by his crew and by his staff. The
wounded sailors from the Alabama, who were taken
to the Marine Hospital, where they have been well
cared for, said with joy, to everybody by the way,
'The captain is saved, the captain is saved t We
shall soon begin again The animosity between
the sailors of the South and those of the North is
such, that yesterday they endeavoured to fight with
knives. The authorities found it necessary to put
on foot all the naval gendarmerie, in order to
prevent the spilling of blood.''

JURIDICAL SOCIETY,

A meeting of this Society was held on Monday
n the Society's chambers, St. Martin's-place, Tra-

falgar-square, Mr. Clarke in the chair.
The paper for the evening was road by Mr. F.
WoRSLEY, entitled " Certain propositions for the
Relief of the Home Secretary from his present re-
sponsibility on the conviction of a person for murder,
and to substitute an improved procedure." The
paper stated that in most criminal offences the
judges had a discretionary power in awarding the
punishment to be inflicted on the prisoner, except
in cases of murder. Even in that crime there were
degrees of moral culpability. The power of altering
the sentence rested on the supreme power, by
whom convictions for murder used formerly to be
referred to the Cabinet Council, who found they
were totally incompetent to review the facts
elicited on the trial of a person for murder.
Instead of endeavouring to devise some better
tribunal they shifted the responsibility on to the
shoulders of one of their own members, the Home
Secretary, which was in point of fact going from
bid to worse. What choice had they ? Nothing
between the judicial and the executive. The execu•
tiro had failed, and the judicial was the better
tribunal for formally retaining the prerogative of
mercy. But it might ba said, if you would not cast
it upon an executive officer's shoulders, would you
endeavour to cast it on the shoulders of one judicial
functionary ? His first proposition was, that on a
trial for murder at the assizes, or at the Central
Criminal Court, two judges of the superior courts
should preside. Second,—On conviction of the pri-
soner judgment of death should not be immediately
pronounced, unless both the judges agreed that
the verdict was proper, and that such judgment
should follow. But if the said judges did not so
agree, or agreed that a sentence of penal servitude
for life be pronounced, it should be competent for
them to pass such sentence. The third point was,
that the judges should have power to adjourn the
sentence to the last day of the assizes, but that both
judges should preside at the passing of the sentence
of death. Fourth,—On the prisoner being called
upon to receive sentence of death, that he should be
allowed either personally or by counsel to state the
grounds of fact for mercy to the court ; and it should
be incumbent on the judges to take into consideration
such grounds of fact, or any petition laid before them,
and it should be competent to them to adjourn the
passing of the sentence of death for the considera-
tion of the said facts or petition. Fifth,—The
sheriffs should not execute the sentence of death
until ordered by the Home Secretary. Sixth,—lf the
said judges, or either of them, report to the Home
Secretary that an inquiry should be made into the
sanity of condemned prisoners, the Home Secretary
should cause such inquiry to be made by competent
persons, and upon their certificate of the insanity
of the condemned prisoner the Home Secretary
should grant an order for his removal to a lunatic
asylum.
Mr. LAWEANCE was strongly opposed to death
punishments, and fully concurred with the sugges-
tions made by Mr. Worsley, which, he believed,
were too limited• The prerogative of mercy did
not now exist in the Crown, but in a Government

official.
Mr. J. 0. GRIFFITS was also favourable to the
abolition of the punishment of death, and he con.
curred that no trial for murder should take place
unless in the presence of two judges, and that two
judges should be present when sentence was passed;
and if one was of opinion the sentence of penal ser-
vitude should be carried out, that the sentence of
death passed by the other judge should not have its
effect. He suggested that in case of murder a plea
of not guilty should be always entered.
Mr. E. WEBSTER strongly opposed the proposi-
tions of Mr. Worsley, urging that the multiplica-
tion of judges would render conviction difficult and
uncertain, and assuming that death punishments
were necessary for the prevention of crime, he would
leave the whole responsibility on the jury. He was
strongly favourable to the right of appeal in cri.
urinal cases.

Mr. C. H. HOPWOOD objected to the introduction
of a second judge.
After some further conversation, thanks were
voted to Mr. Worsley for his paper, and the pro-
ceedings were brought to a close.

STAMPED'....Sd.

LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of the department of jurispru•
dance and amendment of the laws of the National
Association for the Promotion of Social Science was
held on Monday at the offices, 3, Waterloo-place,
Pall mall. Lord Brougham occupied the chair.
Mr. Randall, the assistant secretary, read the re-
port of the standing committee, which stated that
the union of the Law Amendment Society with the
Association for the Promotion of Social Science
would materially assist the general development of
the association. Since the union 11 meetings had
been held and six papers read. Sir Walter Crofton
read a paper on the present aspect of the convict
question, showing that the views consistently main-
tained by the society and the association had been
adopted by the penal servitude commissioners of the
House of Lords. A paper by Mr. Palmer dealt with
the present mode of reviewing the sentence of our
criminal courts in capital cases. A paper on the
abolition of capital punishment was read by Mr.
Webster. The County Courts Act Amendment
Bill had been fully considered by a committee of
the society. Mr. Hastings, in a paper read on the
18th of April last, proposed to abolish the unsatis-
factory jurisdiction still left to the Ecclesiastical
Courts, and advocated the establishment of a court
having probate, matrimonial, divorce, legislation,
admiralty, and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The
concentration of the law courts had also been
' brought under the notice of the department. With
respect to the Attorneys and Solicitors' Remune-
ration Bill, the committee thought that a measure
involving changes of that kind should receive the
early attention of the department. The question of
Law Reporting, the Transfer of Land, Partnership,
Law Amendment, Copyright, Justice Procedure
Bill, Corruption at Elections, the Bankruptcy Laws,
Chancery Funds Commission, and other important
questions had been brought under the notice of the
department, into the details of which the report
went at very great length.

On the motion of Mr. Pollard Urquhart, M,P.,
seconded by Sir E. Wilmot,
The report was adopted.

A vote of thanks to the venerable chairman
closed the proceedings.

The Railway ' Collision at Egham.

The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the five
persons killed by the collision at Egham, on the
Ascot Day, was resumed yesterday, for the fourth
time, before Mr Woods, the coroner, The London
and South Western Railway Company, and the
friends and relatives of the deceased, were repre-
sented by the same solicitors as on the previous
occasions. The first witness called was John Ren-
shaw, the guard of the train which came into colli-
sion with the one leaving the station, The witness
was cautioned by the coroner that any evidence
which he gave might in future be used against him.
The evidence given by him on the previous sitting
of the jury was also read over to him. The exami-
nation by the coroner was then proceeded with.
Witness having stated that he had received in-
structions for the train to stop at Staines, proceeded
to say—l was aware that an up-train had left the
station before I did, but I don't know the exact
time. I only know that trains were being started
at about six minntes'interval. I was not aware that
the train which left immediately bef.)re nine was to
stop at Egham. I was not informed of it, to my
recollection. I was in the van next to the engine.
The tender was in front of the engine. The usual
communication between the guard and the engine
was not then in play. It is part of my duty to
keep a good look-out, both backwards and forwards,
and on both sides of my van.
The Coroner—The rule of the company says that
the guard is responsible for the communicator being
attached. Why was it not so then ?

Witness—Because the tender was first. We can-
not attach it then. When I see a danger signal,
or anything likely to be attended with danger to
the train, it is my duty to apply the brake directly.
It the communicator were not in working order I
should apply the brake as hard as possible. On
approaching Strood level crcsaing, I noticed
the caution signal of a signalman on, and likewise
at Virginia Water. There is no signal at Strood,
but a man with a green flag was standing there. In
my opinion at these places we were travelling quite
40 miles an hour. After passing Strood the engine
driver did not slacken his speed. There was also a
caution signal at Rusham-gate. I don't know what
distance this is from Strood crossing. I was on the
look out when we passed Rusham-gate. When I
first saw the signal at this gate I was about a quarter
of a mile distant. It was on at danges first. The
driver had not then slackened his speed before I
noticed the signal being on. When I saw the signal
on 1 applied my brake immediately. The brake
checks all four wheels of the van. The brake was
in good working order, and acted when I applied it.
The engine did not then slacken in speed, but I kept
my brake tight on all the time. I did not, accord-
iug to the rule, take my brake off and reapply it,
because it would have increased the danger.
Mr. Crombie—He exercised great discretion in
not taking the brake off under the circumstances.
Examination continued—l thought it best to keep
the brake tight on. It only acts upon the van.
Notwithstanding this the train did not slacken till
we got nearly to the auxiliary signal below Egham.
I don't know that I should have made use of the
communicator had it been in play. I cannat say
where the engine driver applied his brake, nor can
I say that I observed if the steam was shut off at
any point between Rusham and the auxiliary. I did
not see that the engine was reversed ; but I have
every reason for thinking it was, from the engine's
slackening speed. I cannot say if the brake in the
rear van was applied. The speed was reduced be..
i le ani
tween the auxiliary and Egham to about 25 Miles
an hour, and when we passed the Egham
s l gates
hour.
should say we were going at about 16 m
I first noticed the train at Egham station when I
got through the foot bridge. I was then moving
slowly out of the station. I started the train at
Ascot under the directions of Mr. Scott. I saw both
the engine driver and fireman on the engine when
the train eta rted. I did not observe any third per-
son with them. After the train had started we did
not stop anywhere, so that no one could have got
up. 1 received no instructions that day as to the
rate of speed at which I was to travel. No part of
the special instructions referred to the rate of speed
except when the engine drivers are requested to
drive with more than usual caution. It is rather
uphill from Ascot, and we did not keep the same
rate of speed all the way. I travelled during that
day once down and once up.
By Colonel Yolland—We were not travelling past
Strood and Rusham-gate at an unusual speed. Be-
tween Strood and Rusham-gate crossing the driver
did not whistle for the signal to be taken off. I can-
not say it was taken off. The driver first whistled
just before the auxiliary signal. He gave one whistle
first and then two sharp whistles. He was then
running at between 35 and 40 miles an hour. When
I saw the signal I did not notice anything on the
road. The signal that stood at "danger"
.meant
that the previous train had not gone five m mutes.
It is the practice to slacken speed till the signal is
taken off, but it is not the practice to stop dead. If
the signal at Rusham-gate had been taken off the
driver would understand that the previous train
had gone by five minutes. I cannot say that it was
not taken off. When I saw the auxiliary signal on
I noticed also the red flag. I then thought there
was danger, and if the communicator had been
attached I think I should have called the driver's
r attention to it. There were two signals against us
—the auxiliary and the standard. I first put my
brake on about a quarter of a mile below Rusham-
g-
ase The wheels of the brake were not skidded all
the way. I am sure the speed was reduced to 15
miles an hour when the collision took place. I could

By Mr Crombie—When I started it wag 7A6,
and we arrived at 7.29. I timed myself before I got
out of my train. When I got out I sent a man back
some distance down the line.

By Mr. Chubb—l was furnished with instruc-
tions. I did not say to any one that there were in..
structions I could not carry out.
By Mr. .Rawlings—l have been in the service' of
the company since August, 1846. I took the Host
of guard in 1854. I was guard for six weeks wl ten
the branch first opened. I don't remember seeing
a man with a red fisg between the wooden bridge
and Egham Station. I saw a man with a red fizg•
at the station. There was a'so ore at the auxiliary.
I can swear that I saw him myself as the train.
passed. I left London that evening. I did not 2.top.
at Egham going down. An nrdinar3 train goes
out with three guards' brakes. A regular train
would be made up differently to a special. I first
saw the train in the station just ac I passed the
wooden bridge, but it was not in cons: quence of this
that I applied my brake. I had five passengers in
my van. It was by nobody's authority ; the people
jump in themselves; there is no keeping them out
at those times. I will swear that my duties were
not interfered with by their presence. It is con-
trary to rule to allow them to ride, but I can do
nothing in race times—they will get in. I believe
all the carriages of the train were filled. I said,
" Yeu can't get in here,gentlemen;" bat they said,
"We must; we want to get to town." They jump
in just as the train is starting. They always ride
in the brake vans at race times. I was not in con-
versation with the people in my van.
After some farther evidence, the inquiry was ad-
journed.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
Covent-garden.
There will both in this week and in next wee be five oera
nights, viz., Monday, Tuesda.v, Thursday,k Friday,p and
batarday

Extra Night.
Mdlle. Feed, Madame Didiee ; M. Faure, Signor Ciampi,
Signor Ronconi, Herr Schmid, and Signor Tamberlik. '
TO- MO 11 tiOW EVEN ENG (Thursday', June 23, will be
performed, for the last time but one this season, Mozart's
opera, in two acts, DON GIOVANNI, with the lollowng
powerful clot :—Donna Anna, Mdlle. Fricci ; Zerlina, Mdme.
Didiee ; Ely:l.a, Madame Rudersdorff; Dun Giovanni, M.
Faure ; Leporello, Signor Ciampi ; Masetto, Signor Itonconi;
Ii Commeudatore, Herr Schmid; and Don Ottavio, signor
amberli k.
The minuet will be danced by Mdlle. Salvioni and M.
esplaces,

Conductor, Mr. Costa.
Commence at half past Eight.
Pit tickets, 75. ; amphitheatre rta Is, 103. ed., 75., and ss. ;
amphitheatre:2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had
at the box-offic under the portico of the tnewre, whiel is
apen from tea to five, and at, the principal musicsell,rs' and
librarians'.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Last Two :Weeks of the Subcription.
GRAND EXTRA. NIGHT.
Third Appearance of Madame Harriers-Tvippern,
ROBERT LE DIABLE.
THIS EVENIN.3- (Wednesday:, June 22, will be performed
Itleyerbeer's chef-d*ceuvre,
ROBERT LE DIABLE.
Signori Gardoni, Bettini, Fricca first appearance this sea-
son), Gassier, tiossi ; Mesdames Liebhart, Morlacchi, and
Harriers-Wippern (third appearance in r ngland).
Conductor, Signor ARDIrI.
Commence at Half-past Eight.

To-morrow Evening, (Thursd June 23d.—Positive Pro-
duction of Fir) EL 10.
Friday Morning next, June 24th.— Grand Combined Per-
formance in &Id of the Funds of the Royal Academy of
Music
Saturday, June 25th.—Second Night of FIDELIO.
otiv. —Goenod's celebrated Opera, FAUST, will Shortly
be re,,eated.

Pit Tickets, 7s. ; Reserved Box Seats, 10s, 6d.; Amphi-
theatr3 Stalls, ss. and 75. ; Gallery, 2s. 6d. ; Private Bexes, in
the. Upper Lirele, 215.
Box Office of the Theatre open daily, from 10 till 6, where
places may be secured ; also at Mitchell's, Bubb's, Lacon and
Oilier's, Bond-street ; Leader's, Opera Colonnade ; Sam's, St.
James's-street ; Cramer, Wood, and Co.'s, and Hammond's,
Vegent-street ; Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s, Cheapside ; and at
appell and Co.'s, 50, New Bond-street.

I-I-ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
FRIDAY MORNING NEXT, June 2ith,
GRAND PERFORMANCE
(S:nder the Most Illustrious Patronage),

combining all the Eminent Artis es, Orchestra, and Chorus
of Her Majesty's Theatre, in AID of the FUNDS of the
ROYAL ACADI.7MY of MUSIC.

Doors open at half-past One. Commence at Two o'clock
precisely.
Prices : —Grand Tier Boxes, £4 4s. ; One Pair, £3 3s. ; Pit
Boxes, £3 s. ; Two Pair, £2 12s. 61. ; Halt-Circle Boxes,
£1 15. ; Orchestra Stalls, each, £1 ls. ; Reserved Box Seats,
les. 6d. ; Amphitheatre Stalls, Ps. and ss. ; I'it, ss. ; Gallery,
2s. 6d.
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Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may bo had at the Box-office of
the Theatre, open aily from ten ti.l

THEATRE ROYAL H AYM ARKET.-
dole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel.
After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern,
Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, &c. ;
Mesdames Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam.
Followed by (for: the oth time) LORD DUNDREARY
MARRIED AND DONE FOR.
To conclude with TURNLNG THE TABLES. Mr.
Compton, Mr. Howe, &c.
Commence at 7.

OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
Last 4 sights of Hamlet and the present Season.

Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE I' THIS EVENING
(Wednesday). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John
Brougham ; Ghost, Mr. G. Jordan ; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden-
heft ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H.
Widdieomb ; Osric, Mr. Charles ; Messrs. W 31`Intyre,
F. Morton, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall-
bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Miss 31
Benrade ; and Gertruie, Miss Elsworthy.

The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin.
Notice.—The doors open at half -past 7, and Hamlet com-
Mences at 8.

Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING will be performed a new and original
Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW.
Mr. D. Mtrray, D. Fisher, .1. W. Itay, J. Nelson, &c.; Miss
Stafford and Jiil33 Caroline Carson.
Atter which, THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Louis
and Fabien dei Franchi, Mr. Vining ; Chateau Renathl, Mr.
NValter Lacy.

ryr EW THEATRE-RU YAL, ADELPHI.-
VI sale Proprl4tor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE. Mr. J. L.
Toole, Mr. H. Phillips.

Followed by THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry
(his original character), Mr. Benjamin Webster, ,uppo ted by
Messrs. A. Stitling, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, Caul Bedford,
B.llington; Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly,

After which, TfIE AREA BELLE, with a Norrible Tale:
Messrs. J. L. Too:e, P. Bedford, it. Itomer3llaa Woolgar, and
Mrs. 11. Lewis.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, nader the
Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new
Ccmtdy, by Dion Boucicauit,N sq., every Evening.

Re engagenientof those ce ebraced and popular artistes, Mr

an I—iirs. Charles Mathew.

Amongst the artists engaged win. be found the popular
nßraes of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr.
Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr..,. Clarke, Mr. Paul
lledCord, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews,
Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. ',Simms, Miss
A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss
Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirring.
EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE
WEDDING. Miss Herbert.

At a quarter before S, an entirely new and orielnal Comely,
in 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE.
Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews,
Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cbamoer-
laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss
Henrietta:Simms.
At 10, by particular desire, COOL AS A CUCUMBER.
Mr. Charles Mathews.
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To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss
Fanny Josephs. _

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. IV. H. Swanborough.
THI3 EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne.
Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada
wanborouh.
After whish, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James,
Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c.
To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr.
•T. Thorn•.