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howeveri'declared to be equivalent to raising the " No
PoPery cry !" And to what, let us ask, is the eleeatien
to office, of Mr. Spiel himself, taajuivaient ? Is it not
equivalent to e helrayel by Ministers, of the sacred
rights tit the Established Church ? Did not Mr. Sheil,
on being permitted to enter the House of Common,
swear to respect the letter and the spirit of all the privi-
leges of the Clinach of England? Has hot Mr. Sheil
violated that oaths in every particular ? It is time, as-
suredly, to raise the " No Popery cry," when Papists
are elevated to high office, for no other reason than be-
cause they have been zealaras conspirators against the
Protestant Estalaliaisept
(Vital the .3/4*l.fiti Advertiser.)
The speech of Mri. F. Baring, the new Cbahaello?
of the Exchequer, at the dinner lei glee on Thurs-
day by the Reformers roitatnouth, in celebration of
his re-election fee that borough, will amply repay peausal.
It was ltsealr,ous and happy throng.hout t in some parts
he hit the Tories with pet tiliar effect. Buts pethdpg,
the best point in the Right Hon. Gentlathan's address
was his vindication of the coasted of Ministers in ap-
pointing Mr. More ()Terrell, Mr. Wyse, end Mr.
Sheil, to offices in the Government. Lord Melbourne's
Administration has been more eesailed, in reference to
these appointments, than it has in regard to any other
ofits acts for some months past. The, tould not be
attacked eta a less vulnerable point. The Tories do
not, because they know they tAnnot with the slightest
regard to truth, arra'san the appointments on the ground of
either the private or public cheramer of the parties. They
do not charge Messrs.O'Ferrall, Wyse, and Sheil,with any
improprieties in their moral conduct, or with any mental
or business incapacity for the effective discharge of
the duties which attach to their respective offices, The
only ground of objection to their being appointed to
Government situations is the accidental circumstance of
their being Roman Catholie, A more untenable ob-
jection could not be anted against them. Anything
more futile it was impossible to imagine. Have those
persons who have been so vociferous in their clamour
against (Ale appointments of these gentlemen already
forgstiten soma of the most important transactions
which have taken place within the last ten years ?
Have they even forgotten some of the most momentous
measures which have received the sanotion of the
Legislature within that yerioti ? Can their minds be
already oblivious of the passing of the Roman Catbolin
Emancipation Bill of 18'29 ? What was the avowed
object of that uteastire ? Was it not to tender itom:ln
Catholics eligible to offices of State And the mea-
sure being now the law tic the land, are we to be told
that it ought to rtihan a dead letter on the statute-
book? That is certaiely the opinion of the Tories, if
their sentiments may be inferred from their conduct.
Then, why, we ask, did they consent to the passing of
the Catholic Relief Bill—for their leaders in both
Houses of Parliament did sanction, and even actively
support the measure. ? Was not this holding the word
of promise to the car, and breaking it to the hope ? Was
it not offering a gratuitous insult to the Roman Catho-
lics, thus to mock them with a measure which it was
never intended should be practically carried into effect ?
IVe had thought that that portion of our fellow sub-
jects had been subjected to indignities and persecu-
tioes enough already, without superadding the outrage to
their feelings of professedly conceding to them emanci-
pation from their civil disabilities, while it was meant
that the doors of office should be as strongly barred
against them as ever. The Tories in this matter stand
convicted, out of their own mouths, of the most flagrant
breach of faith with the Roman Catholics. It is in-
finitely to the credit of the Melbourne Administration
that they have the moral courage, in the face of so
much calumny and misrepresentation, practically to
carry net, in the spirit of the measure, the provisions of
the Emancipation Bill. Our only surprise is, that any
body of men making the slightest pretensions to intelli-
gence, or to a desire to do justice to all parties, should
dream of arraigning Ministers for appointing two or
three Roman Catholics to official situations of very
secondary importance. Unless freedom in this country
be no better than a mere name, we cannot see on what
ground either Roman Catholics or the members of any
other sect, should be debarred from, crossing the thresh-
hold of office. Men's religious opinions, provided the
parties arc honest, can have no injurious effect in refe-
rence to the discharge of their official duties. Why a
Roman Catholic should not make as good a Vice-Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade as the staunchest Protestant
that ever vociferated with stentorian lungs for Church
and State; we cannot for the life of us see. We hold
that, in a free country like England, the doors of office
ought to be equally open to all classes of religionists—
to Christians and Jews—to Protestants and Catholics
—to Churchmen and Dissenters, aye, and to Deists
too. No inquiry, in such a ease, ought to be made into
a man's religious opinions. The simple point to be
ascertained is the mental, moral, and physical fitness of
the man ; in other words, whether, in addition to a
good private character and the requisite intelligence, he
possesses the necesssary business habits.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Quarterly Review, a wretched croaker in its last
Number, forbodes the utter ruin of the Tory party,
" beyond human relief," unless they "without delay act
upon fixed principle rather than on their late fluctuating
policy." We took the liberty of pointing out a little
difficulty in this prescription. " First catch a hare,"
says the renowned Mrs. Glnsse, in her recipe for cook-
ing one. So of the Tories. How are they to act on
fixed principles, if they have not got any ? First catch
our principle. But this is sooner said than done. And
accordingly, though we have started same of our Tory
Contemporaries in the chase, and they open in full
cry, we cannot congratulate them on their success.
What is the fixed principle of Toryism ? Waat is
any fixed principle of Toryism ? Is it their Parlia-
mentary support of the new Poor-law ? Or is it their
popular appeal, and ministration to all popular preju-
dices against the New Poor-law ? Is it their own
emancipatory act, the charter of Roman Catholic
eligibility to office ? Or, is it their vehement prac-
tical denunciation of Roman Catholics, as, ipso
facto, ineligible ? Is it in their antagonism to the
Reform Act, as deadly to the Constitution ? Or,
is it in their adhesion to that Act, with a perti-
nacity that resists the minutest change ? Is it in
their patronage of Scripture extracts, in the Na-
tional schools, in the Kildare-street system, and in
Lord Stanley's plan of Irish education ? Or, is it
in their vigorous clamour for " the Bible, the whole
Bible, and nothing but the Bible"—meaning thereby
very many things besides the Bible ? Is it in the per-
sonal devotedness to the Sovereign, which, in the days
of Pitt and Perceval, upheld the prerogative against
Parliament ? Or, is it in the personal assault on the
Sovereign, which, in the days of Peel, has attempted to
manage Parliament by fataifying the Monarch's feel-
ings? Which of all these is it Here is choice of
principle, but no fixedness. We pitch foot with
the Quarterly Reviewer, we say this is a " fluctuat-
ing policy"—we' agree with him, that it tends to
ruin the faction " beyond human relief ;" and we
may add, that it deserves ruin beyond all relief, either
divine or diabolical. A sucking Conservative Contem-
porary, lately hatched, complains that we did not, in a
former article, reply to the Quarterly jeremiad on the
ruin of Toryism from the absence of fixed principles.
Why, how should we? It is our opinion also that-
Toryism is ruined, and has no fixed principles. Te.
reply to the croaker is his business, not ours ; and he
does make the attempt, though without knowing what
he is about. He says that "fixed principle" has cha-
racterised the Tories ; and also that it has kept them
out of office. Well, then, still they are ruined. Neither
" fixed principles," nor " fluctuating policy" will serve
the turn. What are they to try next ?

less against Buenos AyreS than against the Govern Merit
cf this tatintry, by the hurnal des ,Dcoats, on the sub-
ject of the quarrel of France; and the poAtore (if its
belligerent enterprises on the River Plate: That jdufrtfil
is well understood to act, on occasion, as lie special
organ of the French Government, and therefore the tone
of unrepressed insult and undisguised defiance indulged
in becomes the rnOte elttiresSite, and rtittst pefhripsi he
taken as the measure of the consideration in Which &it
Ministry are held, and of the respect inspired by the
empire whose affairs they administer, miming our neigh-
lantin on the other side of the Channel. Notwithstancl4
ins the signal provocation thus volunteered, the subdued
rtseekaess and modekatioti of the English Ministerial
Papers in reply, where a reply has been adventtirei,
cannot fiol to ottatti. itij ithpreolon tinfave!irahlo to the
ltettiOnat dignity and good faith, and as exhibiting us. lit
this aggression of the French on the Argentine Re-
titiltlie! ad Willing to Wound, and yet afraid to strike, by
the course of our interference. The real grounds of
these hostile tirades must he sought in the rage
and disappointment of the trench Ow:emit-Idg At
the long-continued and obstinate opposition of
Buenos .Ar'es to the arms and the machinations of
France. or eighteen months, we are querulously told,
has the river Plate been blockaded by the naval
forces of France with all possible rigour, and expedi-
t!ons directed against various points of the river coast
have succeeded in the destruction of the coasting craft
by which the blockade had been eluded and commerce
partially carried on. In proportion as the position of
Rosas, the Chief of the Republic, became more despe-
rate and his resources cut off, has his resistance been more
determined, and his refusal of compromise more decided.
Thus foiled by a power so insignificant, and humbled
at a moment when still exulting over the trophies of
San Juan de Ulloa, unwilling to impute to the ineffi-
ciency of its force, or the inability of its commander, the
allure of its object, and averse from confessing and re-
pairing the original wrong of an unjust war, the French
Government has Nlen foul of British diplomacy, and
accuses Mr. Mandeville, our Minister at Buenos
Ayres, with the covert encouragement of Roses, and of
intrigues on his behalf. • These intrigues refer to his
mediation between the neighbouring and contending
States of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres,' a mediation
accepted on the open request of one and with the ac-
quisescence, if not the public approval, of tip other
party. According to the accounts last received the ne-
gociations thus undertaken by Mr. Mandeville, and fic-
tively prosecuted in person by a visit to Monte Video,
have ended without result, through the inordinate pre-
tensions on each side preliminarily insisted on and ob-
viously inadmissible.

--A7 I - 3-

I (From the Standard.)
Ministers have, it is said, after positively promising the
command at Portsmouth to Sir G.;-orge Parker, K.C, 8..
• on the same principle that they bestowed Greenwich
Hospital en Admiral Fleming, and the command at Lis-
bon on Admiral Onamaney, been so far ;yolked upon by
the universal expression of indignation to which the last
and most flagitious of their jobs has }given rise, as; to alter
their intentions In favour of Sir Edward Codrington.
He is, it seems, to be the new Commander-in-Chid. at
Portsmouth ; and as he has been engaged in other
tha❑ " untoward affairs," and can exhibit claims to
a preferenen over " the very few Admirals who
hold Whig principles," we have no desire to in-
vestigate too closely his title to the appointment.
We cannot, however, forget. that, with pretensions
of ultra-Radicalism for ever in his mouth, he has been
one of the most time-servinv adherents of Ministers in
the House of Commons. We may infer, thence, that
it is to his political, rather than to his professional ser-
vices, that he stands indebted for his good fortune. The
policy of Sir Edward Codriogton in Parliament has evinced
a good deal of tact, and something more of cunning than
belongs ordinarily to the character of a British sailor.
For the purpose of satisfying his Radical constituents
that he does sometimes venture to differ from Minis-
ters, he has always some pocket grievance in hand of the
most absurd and impracticable nature, the bringing for-
ward of which will afford him en opportunity of expa-
tiating upon the unjust conduct of the Admiralty, and
the cruelty of their treatment of his protege. The case
invariably flashes in the pan, and the indignant Admiral
is as -invariably found voting through thick and thin
with the oppressors ! We cannot charge our memory
with a single instance in which an individual who
has been the hero of any of his pocket motions has
ever obtained the slightest redress, for the very
striple reason that the advocate was never in earnest
in the matter himself. Nay, during the debate on the
state of the Navy, which took place last year, Sir
Edward said more to convict the Admiralty of miscon-
duct and oppression than any other of their assailants.
He admitted the correctness of all the leading charges
against them ; but, like 'n waterman, who looks one way
and rows another, voted in their favour. He has a
famous nose for a small grievance.

It is said in the City that at the weekly meeting
of the Board of Directors of the Bank of England on
Thursday, it was resolved to adopt more astringent mea-
sures in regard to discounts than those heretofore acted
upon ; the Directors being now more than ever con-
vinced that the unfavourable state of the exchanges,
and the consequent drain upon their coffers for gold can
only be checked by keeping money dear and scarce.
A professor ir: one of the Universities was lately
engaged in a course of botanical lectures. Among
other things he prided himself upon having discovered a
very uncommon species of the nettle. This he pro-
duced, and informed his auditory that it possessed every
other property of the common nettle, but that it did not
sting. A wag in the secret had unluckily changed the
specimen, and introduced the common nettle in its room.
You see, gentleman," said the Professor, " that it
does not sting." He then applied it to his hand, and
with eager astonishment add, " D—n it, but it does
though !"

ANOTHER SUICIDE IN THE WESTMINSTER-
ROAD.—Between four and five o'clock yesterday after-
noon, a respectably dressed person, about 33 years of
age, entered the parlour of the Crown public-house, at
the corner of Stangate-street, kept by Mr. Broad-
hurst. On entering the parlour, he called for a glass of
ale, and shortly after for a second ; this he likewise
consumed ; and the waiter, a third time, was called
upon to replenish the glass, which was done, the per-
son giving payment for each glass as it was brought
in. Shortly after the third order had been completed,
the family aad servants of Mr. Broadhurst were alarmed
by the report of a pistol proceeding from the parlour ;
they immediately rushed in, and were horrified at behold-
ing the deceased lying on the floor dead, a small pocket
pistol being firmly grasped in his right hand. Medical
aid was instantly procured, but life was extinct. The
police upon duty were directly called in, and Anderson,
the beadle, was sent for, when the clothes of the de-
ceased were examined, and there were found a few shil-
lings, and a duplicate, with the name of Williams
written upon it, but no address or letter to lead to a
discovery. The body was subsequently removed to the
vaults of the Waterloo church.

BATH.-It is said, but we know not whether the
report be correct, and heartily trust it may be, that
Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart., of Sandhill Park, will
start_ as a candidate for the city of Bath, the next
vacancy, on Liberal Whig principles. Should he do
so, there is hardly a doubt but he will be triumphantly
returned, and a curious anomaly would be presented of
Sir, P. Burdett and Sir T. B. Lethbridge representing
a constituency adjoininc, each other ; but with their own
political principles decidedly opposed to what they for-
merly were. Sir Thomas has advanced greatly ; Sir
Francis has retrograded more. Sir T. B. Lethbridge
is an advocate for an alteration in the Corn-laws, and
_decidedly the friend of general education. His abilities
are not equal to Mr. Roebuck's, who is an extraordinary
man, and glad should we be to see him in Parliament,
but we are afraid that in Bath the feeling of very many
of the Liberal party is opposed to him ; and, were he
to start, a division of the Reform interest would take
,place, .and the Tories again slip in. One man, like Sir
T. B. Lethbridge, is worth a dozen or a score of the
present Bath Members.—Wilts Independent.
SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.—On Sunday last, as
a young man was ringing in the belfry of the church at
Lutterworth, he was pulled up to the ceiling by the
rope, and his hand partially forced through the sockets
through which the ropes are carried. The nails of
two fingers were torn off, his arms severely bruised,
and he fell down in a senseless state. Medical assist-
ance was procured, when he shortly recovered. The
same afternoon, another lad was ringing, when by some
means the rope became entangled round his neck, and
before he could be extricated he was nearly strangled,
and the blond rushed from his nostrils and mouth.—
Leicester Chronicle.

BAVARIAN GENEROSITY IN GREECE.—The
Grand Duke of Oldenburgh has subscribed 2,000
drachmas to the University, and a Greek merchant in
Egypt 20,000. Count Saporta, ci•devant Marechal de
la Cour of Greece, and now occupying the same place in
Bavaria, having subscribed the paltry sum of four
florins, the Committee have returned it, on the plea
" that as subscribers names are to be ciigraven on
marble slabs, his names and titles composing 155 letters,
which would cost fourfold the amount of his donation ;
therefore, for the interes of the building, they feel
obliged to return it '-" couching their letter in very
polite terms, thanking him for his good will for the in-
stitution, &e.
This, considering his s dary when here
was 40,000 drachmas a-year, is set up as a mark of Ba-
varian generosity.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY HANGING AND
ROASTING.---On Saturday evening last, the keeper of
the beer shop in the South Ward, Leeds. attempted to
put a period to his existence by the double process of
hanging and roasting himself before the fire. It is be-
lieved that, at the time the man was labouring under a
temporary depression of spirits, occasioned by the loss
Qt a sum of money which he had lent to a friend. The
attempt was made during the absence of his family,
and when he was discovered, he was found suspended
before the fire on the crane usually employed to roast
meat, his clothes on fire, himself horribly scorched, and
nearly dead. He was of course instantly cut down, and
though he_still survives,_lies in,a most lamentable state. ,

TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATTAIDAY, OCTOBER lg, 1839.
UCTJON OF A FEMALE.

At the Essex Quarter Sessions on WeOncsday, Jas.
Ldioetiegi2i yea,-,; of age, described as a labourer, and
dregsed 3n d qtt:cfeen jeicke, ;;'as indicted under the
9th of George IY. tor teleHititt4Y away Mary
Anne Green, under the age a io Scedwq;
Abe Vs-
tody of her father, without liis knowledge and eVile-6,11E,
liSrol* stated the case for the prosecution, anti
after calling ditenticiti tO the h on the subject, he said
the consent of the girl herself, evert if it couhl be proved,
oould be no answer to this charge. The prisoner had
resided with M. Green, who was a farmer at Waltham
Abbey, and had a family Of ten children, and amongst
them this unfortunate girl. Stid lee ben labouring
tinder rather a weakness of mind. If would lie
showt they the prisoner had been paying hig Atten-
tions to the daughter, Wldeb being perceived, the father
dismissed him from his service, so that precautions had
been tithe!) to prevent the parties meeting. The indict-
ment did not charge that any force was used, for there
was no doubt that this toting girl, worked on by the
persuasions of the defendant, went a willing victim to
her own dishvonouti. For three or four weeks this young
girl bad been living with him ; arrd the Jury would,
therefore, have three points to consider--first, whe-
ther the girl went away without the conserit of her
father ; secondly, whether she went with the defendant
and the third was a mere technical point, whether she
was under sixteen years of age. If she had b, en under
ten years, the offence would have been of a more serious
character.

Mr. Waterman Green examined--I am a farmer at
Hoiyfleld, Waltham Abbey, and have a daughter
named Mary Ann, the eldest of ten children. Law-
tome had been living. in my service as a labourer, but I
did not obserVo atsything particular pass between
.him
and my daughter while he was there. On the Nth of
August, about a quarter past tetta I cerise home from
market, but did not find her at honiei fititi her wearing
apparel was gone. I searched the river anti voids till
two o'clock in the morning, thinking she might be
drowned, as she had apeeseei dislike to a boarding
school, to which we proposed to §entl her, I dis-
charged Lawrence last November, and I have
never seen him on the premises since, for I tdd bins
if I caught him there I would shoot him. 1 told him
that becau-e my brother-in-law saw him and my
daughter together, and I thought he came alter my
daughter. I never consented at any time to try daugh-
ter going away with bins. He worked about a mile
and a half from ray house. I want to his mother's house
the morning after I lost my daughter; but I did not find
him. On the 10th of September I had information of
my daughter, and I went to Harlow Bush fait, where
I found her, and the prisoner was given into custody.
I took my daughter home. She was at a booth, and
was in a dirty state." Her abaeace appeared to have had
a great effect upon her and she wished to go home.
She was very ill, and has been in that state ever singe
I took her back. She c stinot get up stairs to bed with-
out being carried. Her clothes and flesh were dirty,
and she was eaten up with vermin.
Elizabeth Lawrence—l am the mother of the pri-
soner, but he did not lodge with me in August last. He
was at work at Mr. Chapman's, at Holyfield, about a
mile from Mr. Green's. I cannot say it was the 18th
of August that my son came to my house with Miss
Green, but I remember his coming about a quarter be-
fore twelve at night. Miss Green had three bundles
and two handboxes. I endeavoured to persuade her to
go back. They left my house just as the clock struck
twelveat midnight, taking their bundles and boxes, for
I would have nothing to do with them. I saw them
again in the middle of the month, about a fortnight
after. They came together about five o'clock in the
morning, and kept in the little room all day. My cot-
tage is in a retired spot. They stopped till nine o'clock
at night. I believe my son had been at work on the
day he was taken, and had gone to the fair for a holiday
in the evening. When my son first came to my house
he said, " I've got my young woman here," and I was
quite surprised.

Catherine Handley—l live at the Bali-yard, Rom-
ford, and keep a lodging-house. The prit.oner came
to my house with a young woman and asked for a bed.
The young woman called him Lawrence, and herself
Mary Ann Lawrence. They were there twenty-two
days. They once went away on the Saturday night,
but she came hack On the Monday morning, and he in
the evening. The young woman said she was nineteen
years old.

Cross-examined—When she came I asked her if the
prisoner was her father She said, " No, he was her
husband." I said she looked young ; and she replied,
I must not take people by their looks ; she was nine-
teen, and had been married four months.

Mr. Dowling then addressed the jurYfOr the defence.
He submitted that if this girl went away of her own ac-
cord, the prisoner neither being present at the time nor
in the neighbourhood, so that she could be considered
acting under his inducement or force, he did not come
within the Act of Parliament ; and if there was no evi-
dence of this before them, the prisoner could. not be con-
sidered guilty on this indictment.
The Chairman, in summing up, said the object of the
Act was to protect oung women under sixteen years of
age ; and though in this case it had been argued that it
was necessary to show that the prisoner had actually
taken her away, if by his arts, by assuming the character
of a lover, he induced her to go, he was guilty of the tit.
fence charged. If they were satisfied that any ac_ of hi,
induced her to leave her home and go to him they would
be justified in finding him guilty.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verfEet
of Guilty.
The Chairman directed that he be imprisoned twelve
mouths, and kept to hard labour.—Abridged from the
Chelmsford Chronicle.

THE OFFICE OF CITY SOLICITOR.—The
office of City Solicitor will be declared vacant at the
next court day, and it is believed that there will be a
severe struggle for it. The names of some gentlemen
who have no idea of entering into competition have
been mentioned ; but, amongst the corporation, the
following are freely spoken of as likely to become can-
didates :—Mr. Charles Pearson, Mr. Titson (formerly
Under-Sheriff,) Mr. Brand (of the City Solicitor's Office)
and Mr. James (the Secondary ). It is believed, how-
ever, that Mr. James will not offer himself if (as it is
supposed will be the case) the office of the City Solicitor
be separated from that of Comptroller:of the Bridge
House estates, to which it has been united since the
appointment of Mr. Newman, who has lately sent in
his resignation.

SUDDEN DEA Tll.—On the 12th inst., as John
Mere, a travelling pedlar from Lane End, Staffordshire,
was getting out of a cart near Belper market-place, he
dropped down and instantly expired. It is supposed his
death was occasioned by the rupture of a blood-vessel,
as aconsiderable quantity of blood issued from his mouth.
—Derby Reporter.
ROCHDALE.----EVILS OF RAILWAYS.—The
shopkeepers, but more especially the linen-drapers of
Rochdale, complain bitterly of the falling-off of their
business since the opening of the Manchester and Leeds
Railway. Some of them assert that their receipts
have been 301. or 36/. a week less since that event
took place. The publicans also complain of theii bu-
siness being affected by the same cause, as all the spare
money of the working classes, which formerly found its
way into the pockets of the publicans, now goes to the
railway-office.— Manchester Paper.

SPEEDY JUSTICE.—On Monday morning last
Hanson apprehended two men who were offering dead
rabbits for sale, under suspicious circumstances. On
Inquiry they proved to have been stolen from Melbourne.
They were committed for trial on Tuesday, and tried
and convicted on Wednesday.—Derby Reporter.
On Monday last a child of John Talt's fell into
the brook, on Nun's Green, in this town, and would
have been drowned but for the courage and activity of
a young woman named Mary Maddock, who jumped in
and saved it from drowning. A man (?) stood by all
the time, without rendering the least assistance.—
Derby Rej)orter.
EARTHQUAKES IN PERTHSHIRE.—A series
of these alarming subterranean convulsions, the fearful
effects of which we have so often and lately read of as
happenio., ia other countries, took place last week in
Crieff and' the neighbourhood with a violence which
'has not been felt for many years past. One of these oc-
curred about four o'clock on the morneg of Tilursday
last, and was distinctly felt throughout this and the upper
portion of Strathearn. Tile shock generally resembled
a smart but severe crash, accompanied with a tremu-
lous motion, and loud continued noise, not unlike dis-
tant thunder, but more hollow and deep in its tone.
On Saturday, again, no fewer than four shocks occur-
red during the day, one of which, about three o'clock,
P.M., was very violent, so much so, that general atten-
tion was arrested by it ; and many of the inhabitants
ran into the street. Considerable excitement prevailed
in the town ; in some of the shops the bottles and
crockery were reeling in the shelves, and in private
houses similar effects among the furniture, &e. were
very apparent. To the west, we hear the earthquake
was also very forcibly felt, although in no instance any
eruption or damage has as yet been expel ienced.—Cor-
respondent of the Scotsman.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—FIVE LIVES LOST.
On Saturday night last, about 11 o'clock, a frightful
accident occurred at an ironstone p:t on the farm of
Handickswood, a few miles distant from Whitburn, Six
of the workmen employed about the place were sitting
in the engine-room of the works, when the boiler in the
adjoining room exploded with a terrible crash, .bursting
the walls of the building, and burying the men beneath
the ruins. Owing to the darkness and confusion which pre-
vailed, about an hour and a half elapsed before the bodies
could be dug out. One was found in the bottom of
the pit, with his head shockingly mangled. Only one
out of the number was got out alive, but so severelyin-
jured that his recovery is doubtful. It is supposed
that the accident arose from negligence, as the men were
talking together at the time. The explosion shattered
the whole of the building, with the exception ,of the
chimney-stalk, and such was, its force that some of the
bricks were thrown a distance of 150 yards;—Scotsman.