The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, '',OV.EMBER H, 1839.

I MONEY MARKET nn d CITY NEII.-,i

(SATURDAY EVENING.)
CIIRONICLE.—The statement of the affairs of
the Bank of the United States, which we published this
morning, has produced considerable discussion in the
City ; and although doubts, as we anticipated, are ex-
pressed as to the value of 83,000,000 dohs. of bills, and
17,000,000 doll. stock accounts, taken as assets, yet
the balance sheet on the whole has given general satis-
faction, and removed much of the misapprehension which
existed as to the true position of that establishment.
The amount of the mr;agetneets is seen to be limited
in comparison with its resources, and it has occasioned
some surprise that an institution possessed of such
ample means should have found it expedient to suspend
specie payments. We formerly observed that this step
was adopted as soon as the Directors were made aware
that their drafts on Paris had been dishonoured, and that
it had become a mere matter of choice whether they
should then go on paying in specie, and compel their
American customers to redeem their obligations at a
sacrifice which must have produced a general bank-
ruptcy, or adopt the expedient which they have done,
so as to enable them to give relief again to the Money
Market, and allow the merchants time to meet their
engagements. We have already said that this appeared
to us the wisest course they could have followed under
such circumstances, and we believe that such is now the
prevailing opinion in the best informed circles. By ex-•
pressing that opinion, however, it will not be supposed
that we approve of the extensive system of credit which
rendered such a course advisable. On the contrary
we have stated a strong feeling against that system,
tracing its origin to the imprudent use of the surplus re-
venue which was made by Congress in 1836, and
the premature resumption of cash payments in 1838.
Mr. Biddle distinctly foresaw what would be the result,
and used every exertion to resist the measure, but was
overpowered by the strength of the Van Buren party.
The question had unfortunately assumed a political as-
spect between them, and the supporters of the two
rival chiefs, as usual in such cases, lost sight of prudence
and the real merits of the conflicting systems, in their
mutual exertions to secure the triumph of their respec-
tive leaders. This induced the United States' Bank,
under its charter from the State of Pennsylvania, to en-
gage in imprudent speculations, and to assist the various
States in their vast schemes of internal improvement.
They have become holders of bills of different kind:,
and of State stocks, to the amount of 53,563,965
dollars ; and it is thus inferred that a large proportion
of these securities must be bad, and that they will
suffer a heavy depreciation in being realised. It is
certainly likely from what we have said that all
,
tnese securities may not turn out quite equal to the
figures at which they stand ; and if an attempt were
made to bring them to market at present, a serious de-
falcation, in all probability, would ensue, but the sus-
pension of specie payments will enable the bank to retain
those securities so as to turn them to the best account ;
and as we stated formerly, " making every allowance
for bad banking," the statement of their affairs sub-
mitted to the public distinctly proves that the Bank of
the United States is perfectly able to discharge all its
liabilities, and we have reason to think that its affairs
will stand the strictest scrutiny.

We have full confidence in the perfect good faith
and resources of the American people. They are a
great trading nation, keenly alive to their awn interests,
and well aware that it is necessary for the preservation
of those interests that they should promptly fclfil their
obligations to their foreign creditors. Their first step,
therefore, we trust will be to remit specie and produce
sufficient to discharge their European engagenients ;
next, to show thitt they have profited by the lesson
taught them by what has happened ; and, while they
narrow their credit system, evince less impatience in
their wishes to avail themselves of the advantages pre-
sented by their rich and inexhaustible soil.

TlMES.—Docuownts of this kind (Mr. Jaudon's
statement) are always to ho received with distrust when
put forth at a period of stoppage or embarrassment, and
in this instance especially so. On the fafte of it there
would appear to be sufficient to pay all claims, the
shareholders included, but the questionable securities
muss be in this case of an enormous amount, when it is
considered that the validity of a great proportion of
them must have been mainly dependent on the conti-
nuance of that support from the United States Bank
which the situation of its affairs will no longer permit.
The very fact of the stoppage proves that any very ex-
tensive realization of these assets was impossible ; and
it is known that it had long before come to a stand is
America, and that the supplies from England alone kept
the machine in motion. It is idle to quarrel, as some
people do, with the term "bankruptcy" as applied to
Mr. Biddle's bank ; there may be more or less of a di-
vidend left, according to the honesty of this account
and the success of the realization ; but Mr. Jaudon
himself is not sanguine enough to predict that all can
be paid in full, and the designation of " bankrupt" is
not less correct whether the dividend is 19 shillings or
19 farthings in the pound. But the realization in such
a state of things and in such a country must occupy a
very long time, and be in its results, of all things in
the world, the most uncertain.

POST.—The best barometer to which reference can
be made just now, as a means of ascertaining the opinion
entertained in the City respecting the affairs of the
United States Bank of Pennsylvania, is perhaps, the
market for the stock. The agent, Mr..Tandorr, 'has
sent to the Morning Chronicle a statement of the liabi:
lities and assets of the bank, made up to the Ist of last
month, The document is, however, in its present shape,
an exceedingly vague and insuflicient,.not to say unsa-
tisfactory one ; and when we come to look a little into
the different items we can feel no surprise that the shares
should have undergone a further depreciation ; for the
value of those interests has declined since its publication
from 161. 17s. 6d. to 161. 10s., or. about 21 per cent. on
yesterday. It had been very currently reported and
believed that the Bank had stopped cash payments
with a large amount of specie in its coffers, say about
four millions of dollars, but it turns out that it had in
reality, on the Ist of October last, no more than about
one million of dollars, or 200,0001. sterling—a sup-
ply that must be allowed to be quite contemptible
when the immense extent of the liabilities of the esta-
blishment is considered.

The improved state of the Continental exchanges,
and a knowledge that specie continues to come steadily
forward, are almost the only external circumstances, we
believe, that can have had any influence on prices. A
good deal has been said of the departure of one of the
partners in the house of Baring, Brothers, and Co. for
the French capital. Many have imagined that nego-
tions were in progress for the granting of a further
credit to the Bank of England by the Bank of France.
We are informed, however, that Mr. Bates goes to
Paris for no other purpose than that of making sonic
arrangements with Messrs. Hottinguer and Co,, in re-
lation to the protested drafts of the United States
Bank. The shipments of flour from the American
ports, which will, it is understood, be carried to some
extent, must necessarily lessen the demand for grain
from the Continent and other quarters, the effect of
which will be most beneficial, as it may be considered
as, for the most part, already paid for. There will at
any rate be no more gold going to the United States
for some time to come.

HERALD.--The publication of a statement of the
affairs of the United States Bank, in the morning organ
of its agency, has created much attention here to-day.
It sthugis assets to the amount of 72,178,244 dollars, its
liabilities to the public are 33,306,520 dollars, exhibiting
g surplus of 38,671,724 dollars. The amount of specie
held L. the bank at the time of its suspension was only
44.-glars. We cordially wish that we could
coincide witth 0e oAsurance of the iforning chronicle,
that this balacp s ,eel 0 ought to remove aid doubts, as
to its perfect ability iq },eel all its engagements." We
detest the principle of destruyiug credit at home or
abrOciii, merely for-argument's .4.; but when we see
that the stock. of bullion was so small, mid that amongst
the assets there are ,a4Fpitted to be 35,000,000 of dollars
,000,00 Q dollars in stocks, which covers
ainlsobilslosm, aend 7
questionaulel secprities, we candidly admit, in
common with many others, that we have our gusgivings
as to the final result. At present it would, perhaps, he
prudent to say no more on the subject, which, neverthe-
less, is one of the most serious character.

EXPLJJ.SIoN FROM ETON COLLEGE.--It has
always beer, customary on the evening of the sth of
November for the Lay; of the towns of Windsor and
Eton to conclude the day with " squibs, crackers, and
a bonfire" in a field called the ]ragas, which is on tae
Eton side of the river, and close to the Th 4.144, The
" Eton boys" have generally been " the foremost in thO
fun," and upon some former occasions they have suf.
ferred serious injuries from their incautious and careless
manner in letting off the fireworks with which they have
managed to supply themselves. This year, however,
the head master of the college issued strict injunctions,
forbidding the boys, at their peril, to be present in the
Brocas during the evening of Tuesday last ; and in or-
der to ascertain that his- commands were complied with,
two of the under-masters were despatched to the scene
of action, to detect the offenders, if any, and bring them
to punishment. It happened that several of the Etonians
were present ; but the intelligence that two of the mas-
ters were likewise on the spot having " spread like wild-
fire" amongst them, the whole managed to effect their
escape (as we arc informed) hefore they could be identi-
fied, with the exception of' two, who were caught with
" the munitions of fun" upon them, their poci,:etz going
well-stored with squibs, crackers, and Roman candies.
apvi
The next morning they were taken before the head-
master, the Rev. Dr. Bautrey, who, after severely ad-
monishing them upon the great impropriety of their con-
duct in disobeying the orders which had been st4ctly
given to the whole school, dismissed them from the col-
[ego,n4 gave instructions that steps should be taken to
1e
o.*ltseDinoc;tvc,yed home to their respective friends
L
AND iIit,4..Q.7.IvALL RAILWAY.—It
:pears that
eXpenses incurred 4y the Corporation
of London i
the above ConapAny?; Bill, in
,i the
opposing
amounted to 2,460/.—Railway Magazine.
line,
the last Session .00 arhament, for an extension of tbfa

spnuT of the PUBLIC JOURNALtz3•

(From the Morning (.hronicle.)
Tim Lord Mayor's dinners are now selected by the
Tories for an occasion of factious strife. On Lord
Melbourne rising on Saturday, with the three other Ca-
binet Ministers present, to acknowledge the compliment
rid to theirs by the highest City dignitary, an attempt
was made by sonic individuals to put down his Lordship
by groaning. It would not have surprised us if, at such
a dinner, the Tories were numerou3i. but we have con-
versed with persons well acquainted with the City, and
accustomed to Mansion-House festivities ; and they as-
sure us that the number of those who acted the disgrace-
ful part of converting an occasion of hospitality and free
and liberal intercourse, into one of bitterness and a bad
spirit was really not great. It is always in the power of a
comparatively small number of men to disturb a meet-
ing ; but this is a power, the exercise of which is at-
tended with little honour. The disgrace of introducing
this bad practice of snaking even the festive board a
scene of strife belongs exclusively to the Tories. In
former times, as well as now, men have been strongly
opposed to each other in politics ; but the social board
was kept sacred from the bitterness of party strife. The
Whigs and Radicals did not forget what was duo to
themselves, whatever opinions they might entertain of the
conduct of those at the helm of affairs. There are things
in the Tory tactics which reflect little credit on them. The
invidious distinction which they evince in their mode of
honouring the Queen and Queen Dowager is pitiful. No
one would wish to treat theQueenDowager with disrespect;
but they are her worst enemies who endeavour to insult
the Queen through an affected regard for the former.
So far is party insolence carried, that we 'are assured
by a correspondent, for whose communication we have
not room to-day, that he had just seen a report of a
Tory dinner at dinner at Bolton, at which the old Irish
Orange toast of " the glorious and immortal memory,"
&e., was introduced ; and instead of the late sumle,st
form of " Queen Dowager," they gave " The Duke of
Cumberland and the rest of the Royal Fsmay." This
is progressing, as the Americans would say.

FROM THE EVENIIIG PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)
It is true that the Trades' Unions have not been poll,
tical bodies in their objects or origin, and have, on some
occasions, expressly refused to join with the Chartists.
The Trades' Unions Lawn represented the several class
Interests, or supposed interests, of the, higher paid
descriptions of work-people, and have ratilee hear
exclusive, and designed to limit competition, than
political and democratical in their nature or tendency.
The only features of the Chartist conspiracy which
we mean to trace to the trade unions, is the system of
paid delegation, and intimidation added to delusion. It
is the bounden duty of the public authorities to
protect the working people from these, so far
as their exercise is detected in a gross and
unequivocal shape. To what purpose does Govern-
ment exist in a country, if individuals cannot count on
protection from personal violence in going about their
lawful avocations in the face of day ; and if missionai ies
of open revolt are permitted to pass themselves, where-
ever they are not known, as representatives of the
whole working body, and to turn the credulity of
portions of that body to their own ends ! It is our
opinion that it ought to be part of the functions
of public administration to inform the people,
through the press, of those public matters which it m)re
directly concerns them to know ; and we cannot doubt
that it is its duty to prevent and punish the circulation
of false information, and the assumption of false
characters by a gang of conspirators. The local
authorities have done their duty throughout the
whole of the recent occurrence (and not least so
generally, where their opinions had been deemed ultra
Liberal)—it is for Government to do theirs, by taking
effectual means to secure the tranquillity of the loyal
body of the people from disturbance by fraud or force.
We are far, however, from thinking that the duty of
Government stops here. We have already expressed
our sense of its duties in one department—the promo-
tion of instruction. If that Parliamentary inquiry,
which our opponents talk of as to the cause of the
tumults which have frighted the isle from its
propriety for some short time past, be insti-
tuted, we trust the friends of popular improve-
ment will see that it is extended to more re-
mote, as well as proximate and immediate influences.
Amongst those we have enumerated the want of ordi-
nary instruction ; but we are far from regarding that
as the only source of the mischief. The best instruc-
tion which can be brought within the reach of the
workpeople, can only save them from such gross delu-
sions as those we have mentioned, and from such evils
(no doubt they are many) as result from their own im-
providence, but cannot preserve them from discontent,
produced by a fluctuating condition, and from evils
brought on them by ignorance and improvidence in
higher places.

(From the Courier.)
The more the late outbreak in Wales is inquired
into, the more plainl3 does it appear than the plans of
the rioters have been for a long time in preparation.
In truth, it has been a regularly organised plot, em-
bracing an extensive district, and many thousands of
persons. How this local insurrection, requiring the
aid of extensive contributions for it's funds, and in-
volving a correspondence and contrivance commensurate
with the numbers and space which it included, could
have rrisen its height without the knowledge of that
,department of the Government whose especial province
it to preserve the peace of the country, has oc-
casioned much astonishment, which has given place to
a more indignant feeling since the suspicion, from
recent disclosures, has been generated, that had the
Government exercised the most ordinary caution, the
riot and bloodshed which ensued at Newport might
easily have been prevented. Admitting that the
Government was in ignorance of the extensive
preparations of the misguided Chartists in Mon-
mouthshire and Glamorganshire, which it seems
were known to every body else, such ignorance
can be considered as hardly less culpable than
the supineness of the Government in not adopting the
necessary precautions for counteracting an insurrec-
tionary movement which they were aware was orga-
nizing. In whatever light the affair may be viewed, the
Government cannot get rid of its responsibility ; nor
have we yet heard any apology offered for the palpable
neglect of one of its most important duties, which the
disastrous result of this Chartist plot evinces.
• (From the Standard.)
The accounts received by this morning's mail from
Monmouthshire and South Wales are satisfactory—
the insurrection seems to In at an end, the labourers
in the collieries and iron-works returning to their
peaceful occupations. It is worthy of observation, as
we pass, that the persons engaged in these two
branches of industry supplied the mass of the in-
surgents, and that at no time perhaps were these branches
more active and prosperous—so true it is that
real suffering rarely prompts to a violation of the law.
We rejoice to find that our powerful Contemporary,
the Times, adopts the suggestion thrown out in this
journal, that the late Chartist movements shall be
made the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry—the
total absence of any provocation connected with want
or suffering is an additional reason of great weight to
recommend such an investigation. Meanwhile we can-
not be better employed than in preparing the way for the
inquiry by examining, as far as they are obvious to the
public, the causes that have led to the calamitous and dis•
graceful events that have so lately filled our columns.
First, let us try to dispose of such causes as arc in
our opinion improperly assigned. A Ministerial paper
charges the insurrection upon the ignorance of the
insurgents. If by this ignorance is understood an igno-
rance of social and religious duties, we concede it as the
predisawaing, though we cannot admit it as the proxi-
mate, cause. The colliers and iron workers have been
unhappily too much loft to the voluntary system, and we
see what the voluntary system has done for them.
Ignorance of the arts of reading and writing is,
however,- .._urhat is plainly intended by the minis-
terial writer—and the hypothesis of such ignorance is as
plainly at variance with the former statements of the
parties who would now reason upon it, no less than op-
posed to the known facts. The insurgents were
generally men engaged in manufactures ; and how
pften have we been told of the superior intelligence
and loarning of the manufacturing population
by those wile new represent them as a class
of ignorant savages ? nat Mr. Justice Frost
did not regard them as ignorant of the art of reading
is pretty plain from his whole course of conduct.
He prepared for the rebellion by a long series
of libels. A printer was his chief ally and in-
strument : and almost the last act of pre-
parationthe explosion was the circula-
ionof
inflammatory
Again, we admit
that the ignorance of which the voluntary system
however, the consideration
was the predisposing
presenti, more immediately is the parent
cause of the insurrection—but there is not the slight-
estof provocation from actual
ground for supposing that ignorance of read-
nt
a nd placards.n
urse,
read-
ing and writing had anything to do in the matter.
suffering, it is impossible to assignT any but the political
con-
cernedw. i 1 tihe which 11 ica proximate
ei
n areti
agitation commenced by the Whigs and Whig-Radicals,
and prosecuted so industriously through so many years.
ciea uaste
absence
Such agitation, indeed, never can have any other result.

-- _
TILE INCREASE OF CRIME.—It appears to me,
in some measure, to arise from the high price of food,
for when the poor were first thrown on their own re-
sources, under the new Poor-law, there was a decrease
il' 1.4 P number of offenders, which may b,
attributed to
the low
price cf prrolslons. A labourer's wages then
would buy two gallons Cif breaidi 41.1 double the quan-
tity of potatoes, more than the present time. lam of
opinion, that the repeal of the Corn-laws would be better,
force, which will
and thus enable them to live by their labour, than entail
- -
will
more the rate-payers
have to pay in rates, the less wdl they have for the poor.
aognatrlaievacteoutnhteyirthseurfeciTzss,e
as
sf aopolice
spirits are conti-
nually of the Wiltshire Independent.
y ; and the want of them
for seuo mid judgment.
n4aAnyNltNatkAeni,
foSrPwlißt
laTl:d—fittAtenimal

DIABOLICAL PLOrr
HUMAN LIFE A AGAINST
T
RADSTOCK.

• TWELVE LP. IES LOST.
the Bath Herald, dated
(From the Second Editiov of
Friday Evenitrg, Seven o'Clock.)
This morning (Fridr43), at four o'clock, one of the
most awful calamities ;occurred at Radstock Wells.way
Pit, which it has ever been our melancholy duty to re-
cord, by which, the lives of 12 unoffending fellow-crew—
turns have been saerified. At about that hour, the fol-
lowing individuals, viz.:—Richard Langford, aged 44,
Farnham Langford, his son, IG, Alfred Langford, an-
other son, 13, James Keevil, 41, and his two sons,
Mark, aged 15, and James, 14, William Adams, 19,
Leonard Dowling P., William Summers, 26, Amos
Dank, 13, J01)0 Barnett, 4h and James Pearce, IS.
assembled at the pit fgr work; the whole number were
hooked on the top prior to being lot down into the pit,
when, as soon as their weight was felt fuily on the rope
it broke asunder and precipitated the whole 12 to
the bottom of the pit, a depth of two hundred and fifty-
two yards, or 740 feet; by which frightful oataseroplm
they were all dashed to pieces, and consigned to instan-
taneous death,

So terrible was the shock to life and limb in falling
this tremendous depth, that, out of the twelve bodies,
only one was sufficiently entire to be instantly recog.
nised ; the rest were literally smashed and dissevered
limb front limb, and presented a sight so au ful and
ghastly, that the seven men who had been doing the
night duty and were waiting to be relieved by this very
party were so horror-struck, that they were found wholly
speechless and stupified by the men who went down to
look after the party which had met with this awful
fate. The evidence below goes to establish, beyond
all doubt, that some diabolical malice had caused this
calamity wilfully and premeditatedly,aod that the rope was
perfectly sound over-night, but had been chipped nearly in
two during the night. These wile are at all acquainted with
the strength, thickness, and general constructioa of
these ropes, are aware that is would be easy to
weaken nn4 damage them by a blunt instrument, so
that they would preserve the outward appearance of
their usual strength, but would snap when the ordinary
weight was suss ended to them,
A was quite clear from the appearance of this mew,
which was nearly anew one, that it had been so prac-
tised upon ; for, where it gave way, the fibres were
jagged and uneven in the part which had not been tam-
pered witht hut., in the rust they were almost as even
and level as ii a knife or chisel had passed over and
into them. The very night before this same rope had
borne a weight of 32 ewts.

We lament to say that there is at present no clue to
the perpetrator of this diabolical act, and—worst of all
—that some of the unfortunate sufferers have left
widows and families—viz., R. Langford, a widow and
two children, J. Keevil, a widow and five children, and
John Barnett, a widow and seven small children.
The inquest took place this morning before R. Up-
hill, Esq., County Coroner, and a highly respectable
jury, when the following witnesses were called and
examined ;--

George Kingston, bailiff at the Radstock Wells-
way coal-pit, deposed that on Thursday night seven
men went down the pig, when the rope was per-
fectly secure ; he was at the pit this morning at the
time the distressing occurrence took place ; twelve
men were hooked on the rope to go down into the pit—
when all of a sudden the rope broke, and the end came
with great force on the tiles of the shed under which he
and others were standing ; the rope beity, made ready
again, three men went down with as little as pos-
sible ; when they came up, they told him that the whole
twelve were dashed to pieces at the bottom of the pit.
In answer to questions put to him, witness further
deposed, that he was decidedly of opinion that some
person or persons must have injured the rope to have
caused it to break ; he left' the pit the night before
about a quarter past eight, when all was right. He
did not see any one about at the time ; he slept on the
works and heard no noise during the night. He knew
of no ill-feeling existing among the men, but always con-
ceived them to be upon the most friendly footing.
Thomas James worked at the pit ; was there about
four o'clock this morning at the pit : saw twelve men
ready to descend ; just as he pulled back the wooden
covering of the pit-mouth, before they descended,
the top-man, Wm. Summers said " What is the mat-
ter with the rope ?" I said there was nothing the mat-
ter, and immediately after that they all fell to the bottom.
[This witness also corroborated the statement of the
last, as to his opinion of the rope having been wilfully
and maliciously injured.]
John Frieker was at work at the pit at eight last
night. Everything was then all right. Could dis-
cover nothing wrong about the rope. He deposed to
the same effect as to the manner of the rope breaking,
and confirmed the opinion of the preceding witness, as
to the rope having been wantonly injured.
George Short worked at the pit , his business was to
clean the coal and help to load ; he left his picker and
shovel at the mouth last night, and found them there
this morning as he had left them.

Thomas Hill worked at the pit : was there imme-
diately he heard of the disaster ; went down with two
others and found all the twelve men dead, and smashed
to pieces at the bottom of the pit. The rope was quite
sound at eight o'clock the evening preceding.

The jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons
unknown."

HlNTS.—Thursday next is the day fixed fox
taking out certificates yearly by such persons as have
been admitted as attorneys, or solicitors, or proctors,
or writers to the signet, or admitted and enrolled as a
notary public, and by every sworn clerk, clerks in
courts, and by any member of an inn of court in Eng-
land acting as conveyancer, especial pleader, draftsman
in equity, not being at the bar. Any neglect on the
part of all such persons, in not attending to all such
certificates, will, of course, be attended with much in-
convenience and loss.
NORTHERN AND EASTERN AND MIDLAND
COUNTIES RAILWAY.—Mr. Robert Stephenson, Inving
been called upon to report upon the present and future
prospects of the former railway, recommends that, in-
stead of continuing it directly northward to York, through
a thinly populated district, it should be carried from
Cambridge by Peterborough, Stamford, Oakham, and
Melton, and form a junction with the Midland Counties
Railway, about half way between Loughborough and
Leicester ; thus connecting the manufacturing towns of
Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester with
Cambridge and the eastern agricultural districts.—
Der•by Mercury.
DEATH BY TAKING AN EMBROCATION
TBRoUGII MISTAKE.—On Friday evening an inquest
was held, as seven o'clock, before Mr. Higgs, at the
Running-horse, Chapel-street East, May-fair, on the
body of Mrs. Susannah Hodgson, an aged lady, resid-
ing at No. 8, Chapel-street West. Mr. Davis surgeon,
of No. 11, Curzon-street, was called in to see deceased
on Monday morning, about nine, when she appeared in
a very drowsy state and complained of a burning sen-
sation in the throat. He was told she had swallowed a
liniment given to her to rub her back. Emetics were
immediately administered, and she was ordered to be
kept awake, in order to remove the narcotic effects o
the liniment. They were removed, but on the third day
depression became so great that it was impossible to
prevent her sinking gradually, on accunt of her advanced
age and feeble constitution. She died on Thursday
morning, at three o'clock, from debility, consequent on
having taken an embrocation, composed of narcotics
and stimulants. The phial was labelled " opodeldoc,'
and verbal directions had been given to use it as a lini-
ment for rheumatism, with which deceased had been
afflicted.—Verdict, " Accidental death," with a recom-
mendation that such medicines be more fully labelled.
FIRE NEAR GOLDEN-SQUARE.--OR Satur-
day at an early hour the premises of Mr.Leefkins, a marine
store dealer, residing in Bridle-lane, were discovered on
fire. It originated among some rags and paper, and
made considerable progress, but by the timely arrival of
engines from the Chandos-street station, the llamas were
quickly extinguished ; not, however, until a large quan-
tity of stock had been consumed. Mr. Leefkins is in-
sured in the Alliance fire office.

STONE FOR TILE Two NEW HOUSES OF PAR-
LIAMENT.—On Monday, the 28th ult., a party of
workmen commenced operations under the direction of
Mr. Nelson, the contractor in the stone quarries of
Bolsover Moor, near Chesterfield, belonging to Earl
Bathurst. The stone, we are informed, will be 03n-
veyed to Stockwith, by the Chesterfield Canal, and
from thence to London.—Doncaster Gazelle.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-
AMPTON RAILWAY.—On Thursday evening, about ten
minutes past nine o'clock, as the mail trains were pass-
ing Wandsworth station, the guard, Mr. Scott, having
to leave a parcel there, was handing it to a person in
waiting, when, before he could recover himself from his
reaching position, he was struck on the head whilst
passing the tunnel, just beyond the station, and,
violently stunned, he fell off, and the carriage
passing over him, completely severed bis body asunder.
He was a man universally respected by all who knew
him, and his loss will be deeply regretted by his
employers.
RURAL POLICE IN WILTSHIRE.-- The
Committee of Magistrates appointed to obtain partieu-
lars,&c., relative to a new constabulary force, met in De-
vizes on Thursday ; and were unanimous in opinion as
to the desirableness of establishing this force in Wilts.
They recommended that the full complement of men
shall be appointed, in order that the operation of the
Act may be extended throughout the country. The i
annual expense, it s stated, will amount to 11,000/.
Wilts Independent.,
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT CHELSEA.—Yesterday
morning, about half-past two o'clock, a fire broke out
in the lower
part of the house of Mr. Brian, North-
street, Chelsea. A police constable alarmed the in-
mates, who effected their escape by climbing over tho
roof, with no other covering but their night clothe&
Before three o'clock the fire engines had arrived, and
they were put into immediate operation, but, notwithv
standing- every attention, the whole of the furniture,
&c., contained in the house, was consumed.