The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(From the Times)
Railway amalgation has now been trought, in its
true character and purport, pleinly and distinctly
before the public. We yesterday reported the speeches
on th;s question of two eminent chairmen, who quoted
the opinions of three others, and, as their suggestions
were accepted by the assembled proprietaries, we may
assume that the mind of the railway interest is sub•
stantially made up. Taken from the evidence of
these very authorities, the case for hearing is 113 fol-
lows :—There are too many railways in the country.
These undertakings have been projected and executed
without any due consideration of what public con-
venience required, and the result is an overgrown and
ill-distributed system of communications. The error
thus originally created is made worse by the particu-
lar species of rivalry in which the several companies
have indulged—a rivalry which (we borrow the di-
rectors' own words) entails upon themselves a need-
less and wasteful expenditure without any correspond-
ing advantage to the public. This is the case. The
remedy proposed is that Parliament, which already
leaves facilities for virtual combination, should sanc-
tion an actual amalgation of competing interests so
final and permanent as to settle the whole question for
all future time, and reduce the railway communications
of the country to one great incorporated monopoly.
With more or less candour the speakers generally ad-
mitted that certain restraints, restrictions, or regu-
lations would be called for in the interests of the
public, to protect the population from those into
whose hands they would be thus delivered.
Before we can accept the question exactly as the
directors propound it, there are several points involv-
ing some doubt to be taken for granted. It must be
assurned that the railway communications of the
country are superfluously convenient, whereas Mr.
Russell himself, the chairmen of the Great Western,
Confessed in his letter upon this subject that the
Legislature was not unlikely to take an opposite view
of the point. It must be assumed that competition
cannot exist between railways, although one of the
chief arguments of the Midland Chairman on Wed-
nesday fer the project of amalgamation was ,g the
great competition among railways, which was going
forward all round." It must he assumed, finally, that
this competion, thus going forward, has been so
ingeniously devised and conducted, that the public
really does not get any advantage from it whatever,
but that, contrary to all precedent and reason, com-
panies have contrived to fall out without permitting
a single customer to get his due.
Omitting, however, these exceptions, let us suppose
that, in railway language, the "preamble" has been
proved. Two companies, therefore, appear before the
Legislature, desiring to be turned into one, on the
principal ground that more than one never ought to
have existed. One of them, therefore, by its own
present confession, must have betrayed Parliament
into the sanction of an undertaking so unnecessary,
wasteful, and injurious, that what was then done
requires now to be undone by the same authority.
Nothing, on such showing, can possibly be plainer
than that those parties alone should be damnified by
the result through whose misrepresentations it oc-
curred. We observe, indeed, that it was attempted
to charge all the responsibility of these transactions
on the Legislature itself, as if the assent given by
Parliament to the sworn depositions of railway pro-
moters exonerated those promoters from all obliga-
tions as to the truth or genuineness of
.their appeals.
The sooner this argument is put out of sight the
better will it be for those who, with such an assertion
in their mouths, are now going before Parliament
again. It will be a somewhat extraordinary proceed-
ing to apply for a second hearing on the ground that
the applicants had proved themselves unworthy of
credit in the first. Every one knows how these bills
were passed, and by what means the consent of the
Legislature was obtained. It was obtained only by
desperate importunity, and upon the most elaborate
affidavits. These very parties, who now charge Par-
liament with a false decision, procured this decision
by the production and array of all kinds of testimo-
nies and witnesses, and by declaiming, demonstrating
and swearing that the line or lines now sought to be
swamped or neutralized were absolutely indispensable
to the traffic and accommodation of the district, all
presumptions and arguments to the contrary notwith-
standing. They must now be judged by their own
words. Their attempted exculpation is preposterous.
On the same grounds any debtor might evade pay-
ment of a debt by representing that he was a tho-
roughly good-for-nothing fellow, who never ought to
be trusted.
Taking matters, however, as they stand, without
inquiry into faults or causes, and accepting the vo-
luntary declaration of the directors, that they are ut-
terly incurable, what are the securities desirable to
prevent these gentlemen from treating the public as
ill as, by their own showing, they have treated each
other ? If they cannot refrain from cutting each
others' throats, though no kind of profi tresults from
the pastime, is it likely that they will refrain from like
practices on the public when the amusement will be
attended with prospects of pecuniary gain ? The
amalgamating directors represent that railway trans-
action are now all gratuitously conducted in dupli-
cate, that there are two companies, two lines, and
two sets of trains, where one set, one line, and one
company would have answered the purpose as well,
or better. They propose, therefore, in each of these
particulars to substitute single action for double. But
But there is another point. Over and above
double railways there are double capitals, but we
do not observe any proposal for cutting these down
in the like manner. On behalf of the public,
however, ,we have here to remark, that we have
quite as much objection to double capitals as
directors have to double companies, and that we
have at least as much warrant for protesting. One of
the two capitals in a question like this must necessa-
rily represent a line which never ought to have been
constructed at all, but which was constructed in de-
ference to the importunities of those who now decry
it. In the most favourable view of the case it was
either a mistaken speculation at first, or has become
so through incurable mismanagement. But neither
mismanagement nor mistake can possibly warrant a
transfer of the consequences to the public. If capital
has been invested in a losing or a superfluous concern,
those who placed it there must abide by the result.
The first condition, therefore, of the concession now
demanded should be the general immunity of the
public from those obligations which pertain to others.
The common stock on which interest is to be exacted
should be regulated, in this respect, with equitable
adjustments. Nobody would desire that the stock
of one proprietary should be rigorously sacri-
ficed, but neither, on the other hand, can any
claim be put in for its absolute recognition. The
next condition should apply to the lines themselves.
Directors must not be left in the unrestricted privi-
lege of saying what line should be closed, and what
left open ; or what train should run, and what be sup-
pressed. At present the competition which railway
managers are so eager to disparage does certainly
secure us some amount of accommodation, and if
this s.,ocopetition is withdrawn we must have what
Mr. Disraeli would term a " countervailing" check.
In short, as the proposed amalgamation, if fully car-
ried out, would reduce our railway system to the
continental form, we must get the advantages of
this form, along with its drawbacks, as far as we
can. Directors cannot expect to unite for their
special benefit the opposite conveniences of private
enterprise and chartered monopoly. Government
indulgence must, to a great extent, carry with it Go-
vernment supervision ; and, if railway managers can-
not conduct themselves in the ordinary way of
business, they must be made amenable to extra-
ordinary control.

A
THTH E RCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON
E CONFESSIONAL AT PLYMOUTH.

The following letter, from the Archbishop of Canter,
bury to Mr. J. W. Suultau, has been published :
" Lambeth, Oct. 29, 1852.

" Sitt,—l have the honour of acknowledging a memo
rial which you have addressed to me, as agreed upon at
a public meeting of the clergy and lay members of the
Church of England, assembled at Stonehouse on the
12th inst.
The memorial alludes to the introduction of doctrines
and practices into the Church during the last few years
which cannot be reconciled with the principles of the
Reformation. This is a subject upon which, unhappily,
I have been so often obliged to declare my opinion, that
I need not repeat it now. The memorial, however, pro-
ceeds to complain of a practice originating in these erro-
neous doctrines, which can scarcely be distinguished from
the auricular confession of the Church of Rome.
I agree with the memorialists in believing this prac-
tico to be equally unscriptural in principle and 'mis-
chievous in effect. But I trust that public opinion is so
uniform in condemning and repudiating it, that the con-
tinuance of such a system, either at Plymouth or else-
where, will be more effectually prevented than it
wboulioth
be by the voice of authority or by legal enactmenttosc:
ea 7
which, we know by experience, it is commonly
to evade. humble servant,
cAtavAR.
" a. W. Soultau, Esq."

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
ELECTION OF SPEAKER.
After the return of the House from the Lords,
Mr. R. PALMER rose, and addressing Sir D. Le
Merchant, the Chief Clerk of the House, said it now de-
volved on the House of Commons, in obedience to her
Majesty's commands, to proceed to the performance cf
its first, and one of its most important duties, viz.., se-
lecting from among their own body some Hon. Member
who should fill during the present Parliament the Chair
of the House. He did not undertake the task of ad-
dressing the House on such a subject without consider-
able hesitation, for he was well aware of the great per-
sonal responsibility which attached to any person
who ventured to propose an Honourable Mem-
ber for so high and important a post, knowing
that upon his ability, and the efficiency with which he
discharged his duties, all the regularity of their proceed-
ings must depenn ; out on the present occasion he was
fortunately relieved from any difficulty in this respect,
for he rejoiced to see among them again his Right Hon.
Friend, the Member for North Hampshire,—(Cheers)—
who had filled the chair of this House during the last 13
years with so much advantage to the country, and so
much honour to himself—(Cheers)—and who had ren-
dered it a less difficult task to select the best qualified
among them for that high and distinguished situation.
(Hear.) Under these circumstances be did not think it
necessary to trespass on the attention of the House by
any detailed information on the various duties that at-
tached to the Speaker cf the House of Commons. (Hear.)
They were sufficiently well known to most hon. members
who had before sat in the House. Suffice it to say, there-
fore, that in the choice of a Speaker they must look for
some individual whose intimate acquaintance with the
law and practice of Parliament would render him at all
times a ready exponent of all those rules and orders by
which their proceedings were regulated, so as to enable
them on all occasions to confidently rely on his deci-
sions. They must also look for a person who would up-
hold and defend the ancient rights and privileges of the
House of Comer one, if they should at any time become
the object of an attack from any quarter—privileges
which were not granted to the House of Commons
for individual benefit, but for the benefit of
the community whom they were sent there to
represent. (He !t. ) They must also look for a gentle_
man who in the midst of party contest, and sometimes of
debate, was enabled to lay aside all party feeling, and.to
maintain, while presiding over their proceedings, strict
and undeviating impartiality. (Hear.) For all there
qualifications, every ono who had witnessed the conduct
of the Right Hon. Gentleman in the chair would agree
with him, that he had proved himself to be most emi-
nently respected. (Cheers.) Ho thought he might add
that, in upholding the dignity of the office, and in pre-
serving an equal and unruffled equanimity of temptr
under all circumstances, his Right Lien. Friend had not
been surpassed by any of his predecessors. (Loud
cheers.) He thought be had said sufficient to induce all
Hon. Members who had before sat in the House to agree
with him in the motion which ho was about to make ;
but if he were permitted to say one word to that
large number of Honourable Members who had for tbo
first time been sent there to take part in the deliberations
of that House, he could assure them that they would
always find his Right Hon. Friend ready to assist them
by his advice and experience if any difficulty should arise
in the transactioa of the private and other business
i©h
which they might be entrusted. (Hear, hear.) He re-
joiced to think that on the present occasion it had not
been considered necessary to make the question cf
choice of Speaker the test of party feeling. Such had
occurred before ; but it was to him a matter of extreme
gratification to find that no party:considerations called
upon him on this occasion to surrender those feelings of
private friendship and personal regard which he enter-
tained for the Right Hon. Gentleman. He was sure that
all those who had witnessed his conduct in the
chair would agree that his uniform conduct in his
high position had snore than proved the wisdom
of the choice made by the House in the year
1839, confirmed as it had been on two subsequent occa-
sions by the unanimous approval of the House. He
trusted that the House would now agree with an equal
degree of equanimity, and place his Right Hon. Friend
for the fourth time in the chair without a dissentient
voice. (Cheers.) Ile thought that by so doing they
would offer to his Right Hon. Friend the only reward
they had in their power to offer, for the eminent services
which he bad already rendered to the House and which,
he was convinced, ho would continue to render with
equal zeal and ability, only, perhaps with more effici-
ency in consequence of his increased and mature ex
perience. Without any further preface, he then moved
that the Right lion. Shaw Lcfevre be elected Speaker of
the House. (Loud cheers.)
Lord R. GROSVENOR seconded the motion. As
the Right Hon. Gentleman had formerly belonged to the
party which sat upon this side of the House, it, no doubt,
would be more agreeable to him, and more pleasing,
that that unanimity which was so desirable should seem
to prevail in his election to the highest office in that
House, and that ono at least of his nominators should
be a member of her Majesty's Opposition. (Cheers.)
Ho could have wished that some one more qualified
than himself had been selected to give weight to the
opinion entertained of the Right lion. Gentleman on
that side of the House, of the qualities of the Right
Hon. Gentleman. He, however, had been selected as
an unofficial organ of that party, because as it was
perhaps, well known, it was not usual for a Member
holding high office, or who had held high office, to pro-
pose a candidate for the chair. It gave him, however,
great satisfaction to have this public opportunity afforded
him of bearing witness to the manner in which Mr.
Shaw L..fevre had performed the arduous duties of
that station, and he was quite sure that he was
giving utterance. not only to his own opinion, but to the
sentiments of every gentleman on that side of the
House, when he said that not only were they proud of his
Right ien. Friend as having sprung from that party of
which they were members, but also entirely setting aside
all party feeling—that they were more proud of him as
a member of that legislature to which they all belonged.
(Cheers ) The merits of the Right Hon. Gentleman
were so well known, not only to the members of that
House, but also to the public at large, that it would be
a work of supererogation to dilate upon them at any
length ; and certainly, upon this occasion, it would be
extremely unnecessary, after the good taste and good
feeling evinced by the lion. Member for Berkshire, in
proposing the Right Hon. Gentleman. Before sitting
down, however, he would take leave to make one
remark, which he hoped would be found not quite
foreign to the subject. It was said to bo one of the in-
firmities of human nature to give undue prominence to
events passing around us at the present moment,
and if we cast our eyes around, it would bo
acknowledged that, if there ever was a time when it
was necessary that the Imperial Legislature now sum-
moned should be presided over by a person of undoubted
ability and talent, it was the present. At a time when
the liberties of Europe, when the right of full and open
discussion, and the right of public opinion hung by a
thread—at a moment of this sort he was sure that it
would be acknowledged that the character of that House
was deeply involved by the manner in :which its pro-
ceedings would be carried on. It became us then to
ect with unusual calmness, to take the utmost care that
that liberty of free thought and free assertion which we
so happily enjoyed should not be abased for any per-
sonal party or factious purposes, but that we should
guard that right committed to us, he might say with-
out any exaggeration for the benefit of mankind at
large. It this were the position of affairs, as he
thought he could gather, it was from the assent with
which his remarks had been received by a portion of
the House, assuredly it was a matter of the greatest
urgency that they should have over them a gentleman
whose nice discernment, discriminating judgtnent,
large and varied experience, and whose inde
fatigable attention so eminently qualify him for
that position. At a period like the present, in whiclito,
even throwing aside any other disturbances but those
which he had alluded, the nicely-balanced state of par
gr
ea
ties would render that office ono of very c.
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have at its
it was most necessary that the House should
aid not tree-
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pass:longer upon the attention of thebTier
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conclude by seconding the motion,
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to be that the Right Hon. G ul
would
Hampshire was the most prorentrgei
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inndividual to MI that
chair, being a man who, ,
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maintaining to the utmost
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and of every party of th
After a pause of a few moments there being no sign of
opposition to t_
that he rose aot so much to
lijaieihNisbGeßLigohS ataifici'on. Friend, but for more to
conSgirralltu.
congratulate the House upon having a person of so large
an
Chair. It would be
experience proposed to fill the
needless to add a single word as to the personal fitness of
the Bight Hon. Gentleman,—but it was not unfit, nor
unnecessary perhaps to recall to the recolleetion of some
and to take the liberty of stating to others, what a very
different amount of time and labour were here
required from the Speaker compared to former
periods, and that time, and that labour had
been bestowed most cheerfully, most
beneficially for the public service' o
' by
ytsht actively,
the
Right
most
able Gentleman. (Cheers.) A ilonour-
hundred years ago, not
perhaps one tenth the
labour which now devolved upon
him was required from the occupant of that chair. A
hundred years ago they had but three debates, and
fifteen
divisions, but in the last year there had been 224
divisions, and the Speaker in the execution of his duties

tion with feelings of unfeigned gratitude. (Cheers.) An
experience of more than thirteen years had confirmed
the opinion which he held soon after ho had the
honour of a seat in Parliament, of the value and
importance of those privileges which were enjoyed by
tie House, and which his Hon. Friend the Member for
Berkshire had justly observed were vested in the House
for the benefit of the community at large. (gear, hear.)
The orders and regulations which governed the proceed-
ings of the House had been framed with much wisdom,
cod they were well adapted to the principles for which
they were intended, namely, the dispatch of public busi-
ness ; but salutary as, those orders and rules were, his
experience had also taught him the enormous amount
of responsibility that attached to an individual in whom
was vested the guardianship of those privileges, and the
power of enforcing those rules and orders of the House.
(Hear, hear.) His Lion. Friend the Member for the
University who, from his long standing in the House,
was well qualified to speak upon the point, and whose
opinion ought therefore to be highly respected, had
ventured to give the House some idea of the onerous and
laborious nature of the duties that devolved upon the
office of Speaker ; now, even -withstlaalexperience which
he had referred to, ho should almost have hesitated in
again undertaking those duties, but he felt that he was
under a debt of gratitude to the House for its unvarying
kindness during the period that he had served in the
chair, and that he had no alternative but to accept the
office again. (Cheers.) He entertained a strong con-
viction that an honest determination on his part faith-
fully and impartially to discharge the duties imposed
upcn him, would not only meet with the indulgence, but
also the cordial support and co-operation of the Howse.
(Cheers.) With these few observations, he begged once
more to express his gratitude to the House for the man-
ner in which they had received his name, and to
assure them, that whatever might be their decision upon
the motion before them, he should most cheerfully bow
to it. (Cheers.)
The motion was then put by the Chief Clerk, and
carried by acclamation—after which the Right Hon.
Gentleman was conducted to the chair by the mover and
seconder of the motion, amidst loud and long-continued
cheering.
The SPEAKER having ascended the steps of the
chair, said : Before taking his seat he must be allowed
once more to thank the House for the compliment they
had paid him, and to assure them that the renewed mark
of their confidence wonld, if possible, cause him to re-
dcuble his anxiety to discharge faithfully and impar-
tially the duties which belonged to the office of Speaker.
(Cheers.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
must now he allowed to congratulate the Speaker upon
having received to-day the highest honour which Eng-
lish gentlemen could confer upon any one who possessed
their confidence and esteem. (Cheers.) Those who
had preceded him had specified the great and eminent
qualities necessary to be possessed by him who fills the
seat which the Speaker now occupies, and he was there-
fore not called upon to dwell upon that branch
of his subject. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") But he
remembered that during four Parliaments of the Queen
the Speaker had occupied the same post that he now
filled ; and during that time, those who wore old Mem-
bers of the House had frequent opportunities of witnes-
sing the courage with which the Right Hon. Gentleman
vindicated the privileges of the House, and the firmness
with which he maintained order in their debates, and
supported that impartiality which should always regulate
their conduct. (Cheers.) He might perhaps without
presumption, having bad the honour of a seat
in the House when the Right Honourable Gentleman
was first elected to the chair, and having been a member
of the House during the interval, be allowed to notice
one trait in the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman
which he had often observed, and which he thought would
have alone entitled the Right lion. Gentleman to their
increased confidence. (hear, hear.) It was this—ho
had often observed that in those conflicts which occa-
sionally occur where mere routine could not guide the
individual filling the chair—when be was, as it were,
taxed upon a moment, the Right Hon. Gentleman's re-
sources have never failed him. Ile had always been, in
such a crisis, sustained by his own knowledge and zeal,
as well as by the high respect which the house enter-
tained for bim.t (Cheers.) There was one other reason
why he thought it was a subject of great congratulation
that the House had elected the Right Hon. Gentleman.
and that was, that he could not but remember that in
this new Parliament, the individual on whom would de-
volve, in the first instance, the disposition and control of
public business, bad hardly had sufficient experience to
make him fully conversant with the forms and regula-
tions of the House. (Hear, hear.) So far, however, as
he himself was concerned, he felt he should never
appeal in vain either to the Right Hon. Gentleman
himself, or to independent members on either side of the
House, and under these circumstances he felt that the
selection which the House had this day made would be
alike satisfactory to all parties. (Cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL felt that it was a matter of the
greatest importance, and ono of the greatest good fortune
that at this particular period, when there were so many
Members of the House without experience, they should
have to preside over them a gentleman who had
already shown the highest qualifications for the
eminent post of Speaker, and who, whenever it
was necessary to enforce the orders and rules
of the House did it with so much firmness and cour-
tesy, that he always secured the willing obedience even
of those who might seem disposed to question his deci-
sion. (Cheers.) With regard to the observation of the
Right lion. Gentleman opposite (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer), in which he alluded to his ehort experience
of the conduct of public business in the House,
ho must be permitted to say that ho felt persuaded
that any assistance which the House or the Chair
could render him in facilitating progress of
(Cheers.)publie
affairs would always be most cheerfully giv
r en
it was o f the
And it was right that it should be so,
'onfutinue to set that
utmost importance that they she
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years, of carryieg discussion example to Europe which. they had done for the last few
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Mr. HUME said, he had been( requested to make a
representation to the Speaker on behalf of several mem-
bers of the House. It was very desirable that the
Speaker should have better opportunities, than he had
enjoyed during the last three Parliaments, of becoming
acquainted with Hon. Members, and he was most anxious
that Members should have more frequent opportunities e
of paying their respects to the Speaker. (Cheers.) H
looked upon the Right Hon. Gentleman in the Chair lits
the first commoner in the land. Hon. Members hesiil,.h.d.
the opportunity of paying their respects to th
ectlitgen!
Hon. Gentleman's predecessor, but they were pr
ralcelot:
from doing so to the present Speaker. by a
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constitutional usage.
which was not consistent with
"nnstiaddress to the
When the House went up
Throne, he (Mr. Hume) could
eattweas not able to pay his
withndaHer Majesty in his
as be might do, in his
ordinary dress (a laugh),
hter.) Mr. Abercromby,
common dress. (Con
towu e application made to him on
respects to the Speaker atehdbiuleatlabegve es,
when Speaker, yielo.od
dining
Which
the Right Hon. Gentleman,
this subject. As to d
uuxious that the Speaker, out of 650
ter.) He wes
not have 40 or 50, or even 150 Mem-
bers was not thesq ienstiogn which troubled him. (Laugh-
bat part of those who
that the major
d to the House should be ready and able to pay
belonged
their respects Hon G
to the Right. . entleman. (Hear.)
Be was one of those who highly approved of the Right
mabte rhsi his should levees,
lion. Gentleman's conduct in the chair. No man was
more anxious to support the rules and orders of the
House, and he had, in his humble capacity, given every
assistance in his power to render them efficient., believ-
ing that upon those rules depended the regularity of the
proceedings and the high character of the House as a
deliberative assembly. It was not that he was desirous
to detract from the respect due to the Speaker's office.
but he was anxious to see the Right Hon. Gentleman"
levees attended by the numbers who would do honour
to him. The alteration he suggested would give great
satisfaction. It rested with the Speaker to make the
alteration, as it was a private matter, and he did hope
that Members would be admitted attired in the same
manner as when they accompanied an address to the
Crown. He asked nothing more than that the Right
lion. Gentleman should revert to the practice of his pre-
decessor. (A. laugh.)
Mr. F. MACKENZIE, then moved that the House
do now adjourn, which was put by
carried. the Speaker and
The House accordingly adjourned at 3 o'clock Wit
2 to-day.

DEATH OF THE WIFE OF ONE OF SIR JOHN FRAIRIL-
LIN'S CREW. —Wednesday afternoon. Mr NI .13aker,tha Coro-
ner held an inquest a the Marquis of Wellington public,
hon'se, tipper Cornwall-street, St. George s• on
of the d Ann Johnson, aged 46 years. The de-
viewceased was the wife of William Johnson, a mariner, and one
of the crew of the T.error, in Sir John Franklin's expedition.
The deceased occupied apartments at No. 53,Upper Cornwall-
street, and was in the receipt of 21. Bs. monthly from the Ad.
mireltv. On Wednesday, the 2d ult., deceased, who bad
been aweak health, came up to London from Hull on board
a steamer, since which time ehe had suffered severely from a
violent cold, which ultimately proved fatal. The ju7 re-
turned a verdict of " Natural death by the visitation Of Cod."