The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1862

MLYR. CIVIL-LAW TORTITRE OF PETER—NO STATE-PAY.
As Oat-cast (Prince .consort z.) of the Civic-X.-coin.
' Be not afraid—Mendahn's-Eliichaled—fiefty 0:71'
Romish-harp'ys are acting without my fi*sca/-leave, altho
their will-6th deputy by 31 G m.c 32, §7. '9l act (1820-25,
by Castlereagh's Calvin-protußrant to FEscif s cr. double
office of Archchief bishop of Lyons and Cardinal of Cana-
da—as Labrador '49 act successor to 14 Clement's Jesuittees
outing, to 93's NAP, temporal holy see,)'ng—
n
Virginian 1764-5-76 Admiralty High Court iof delegatesQe
thro' Yellowstamp, King's-post master Benj. Franklin's
Crown veto grants, a
on ' J. Adam's 499. yr. idea to North,
Prince-Consort'd to Ladle' s Pocahontas & y March',
v
in Crown Probate-surrogate Ackerley--o rMontagu
Dalhousie's Commune'ty ytam„ranchie to red Scarf-chamber
of Deputies, as of ' Great n
• • 33 G. iii., 0 44, §l, the
free n'sritannos Superior' of Vespasian a E/cotland
Rome) to Bristol's Supeor-
ravia (lb. AS' sister not Church of 13
C *b •
alt9mare, offspring-sea above—.' Poorand's Liberum veto,'
so Chriseian thieves have no rights in Carib-America.
-America.
BALLOON ASCENTS without " LE NOR-
MAND'S" 1783 PARACHUTE DROP, AID.
MEmo.—The ' Cruelty to Animals Act' gives civic cause
for magisterial stoppage of these R. C. Coarrs frafoolrywith-
out the 10-negative wisdom shown for collapse retreat, at
the over-3-mile Zone-electric 7=22-positive gfilux, to gas lb.
within the balloon, as seen—above Wolverhampton's poor
Union mill' of the Dudley Somerie Swinford Exchange—
at which bar9mete point of 261 n. Foulatrdrop, a £'A-tribute
out-brace Parachute ' ought to have been Egypt-6.-SAID,
on 17 July, by the Accident, & Offences bill,—on Suez 300
my Ely-Padifelith, 6th Aug., 1828, Darclamell'-ship.
Nat'. 12 4 B=l6= -26_ 320. :: 36 in. Yard.
Mr. 2 Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure
oxygenic wax taper flame (obtained in Piccadilly), used in
Its veniele the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu.Q.shield-bone
inhalation—by all Aeronauts, against 151 b sqr-inch atmos-
pheric Cough pressure on the lungs, accounts for Blue-lip'd-
Glaisher to suffering a 5-sqr. in, tho' descent-saved by hydro-
gen Voltaic-gas circumvent, reminding him of Shenstone's
occult Tulehan 'straw-calf'—couplet (on Nun Qu'endrida
of Tip'ton), for bringing down the mayn'6th milkuscr :-
8•8 " For in Clent, as + martyr'd, under a thorn l 981
Lieth, KinkKen'elm with head off-shorn.' J
as the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad H.'s 0,-daughter
Agatha, Malcolm in & wife Margaret's P• offspring, now in
Spanish Escurial of Philip IL (whose daddy, 11 CAR. v., was
Gaunt••constable of England), as Saxon kin of Edward In.,
herein. ambush'd —' Salve Lucr°in TITUS A at Pompeii yr.
79, set' on barometer 2in. -= r lb. vaceu°ff I coincidence for
Double-reason 4 —4-8-16-32—by Geometric progres-
sion, to 'Treble and Quadruple reason ng.
The quicksilver drop 16 tn.—show aloft, with di-luced Net
expansion of palAwn' evidenced the absence of Nitro-moist
fog within the motive power, and influx of the dry elec-
tricity, by the drowning-like effects on the system—the pit-
a-pat pulse of a nicked-up heart o'er its key 'diaphragm,
sounded the Thumb-inch tic-dirge ' music of the spheres,'
'whilst Wiry hair and ruffled paper gave a voltaic battery
.llonochord on entering 'Paradise ' where the first pair meet'
at 15in. deg., of Crystalice'a shewn blood—on Airey's false
latitude 31 barometer scale & Multiple : : sector A school,
to hall of science' idea—to out Stephen's Parl'ment Mon-
tague House shift of the Port Gaspe-basin marine league'
by ' cannon shot 3-mile off-shore limit of 1794 3ty' for river
ligne tiree of Indian Peter, with Surveyor LOGAN'S fishery
chain-°-meter level, of 1818 Act, § 9, on '42-62.
So Windsor-(Bowl-waft Z9'erhead Ofeot Cole), region of
wehr-Wulfra Hampton of EDGAR'S sister—/ahn-Ell-seat to
balkon Phaaton'd collapse, bull'srun (belly-paunch-like), on
Lang-hamlet of Oakham-fl,—on Union deputy-papal Pal-
merston's '9l Tulchan-loge vise, by xWrottesley's
Dudley-Wardship of Bassett-wilton *Stamford.
This go [bye 'civil education code Comifin 1826.31, /wa-
ges motu Game law], on Holy Alliance out'ng, -14- by Sir C.
Stuart, Admiral Hamond, & Hill Sandys' decree, for Ac-
kerley, 29th Aug., 1825-26 Jan.—shows the 9' La belle
rr:
aeriform- within, in cases of Low fire-damp on Vaccu9 rat Bication of the breath, for purification of the blood aglienl•__
po-
lice 1829 Blue-carbon discolour of hands, at
31
mile
life-absence aloft—sets a '32 Coorg-TIBET sack-rent
on
future Pendul'umbrella'd Miltonic bottom/essp..i
opposed to Virgil's 9th discord on Comet's 4 pts. variation-
snwri-11-lease at lien-
" Facilis de/cendsusf
171v8ex,
spiral line (to Mundane-2-oval o H.
Tudor sham au-che/
So Tudor
of Scotia minor) on
mington-Butts to 1791 Sphinx, ore.
'Ruff-
: : gyration /within
of Zanker star's white-Alba-Fait
the Exeter Ursa stellar 099./eg°g, •
night poach bill 6 August 15, to J sus-nomena/ist' .N day,
as the Rotherham-will,
1490, O.S. transfiguration o 0 Et-
rider-kerrant renfer to Conception Pest 9 realist drama,
'He rideth round the heavens as upon a horse.'-11An'ver's
A (1) 44 sus Jovrs xtrimix.” [lndia
* N.] PAtkyns- Montague c. 134 ASKERLEY, Exec,
TEI
04 • • 1-2 W. No, 54, Chamberlayne' @le-sworn.
. PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ of
• China RUO Wall circuit horizon of-'London, Aug. 23.
$ 1862) its Montezuma-inch Admiralty red flag, not in
Brant's power to give up IMP, 1793-China, to iercy,
& GREY-cause of Capt'n's RI-yr support, th 6 Nn's.
ministers use his brains, & mogul mock him to death
43-1 as Padrone su l'onde,' for Bahar's Dewanney,
for holding to 1820-25-37's Carib-protectorship oath on its
£9O• yr retaining fee for his duty expenditure of £1,600 for
Indian of America, which the Treasury refuse to pay or
reply to their unrelieved Double-portion sentinel's acting
order--under the Polar map-inch Act of 1818 § 9, for a Soil-
title (to Ackerley's R.N. T voice, on AB-juration act 1791 § 7)
—for Romish catholic corpo?rates of Labrador, Baltimore-
rearyland & Brazil, on Calvin Luther church pay—for their
idea colonial Crown veto for I.CPP. acts, if Tacit home shown
at 6 months for Law—unknown till Peter's arrival in 1851,
as *Pont-I,f Landlord recognised by Earl Grey's November
letter that Indian justice should be done,'—by his election
as Le Congru'ss 'fit' Constable of England t on report of
the theft of Tower stores 'J. King' issued to him in '42 for
Ashburton Ind. survey of the New Found-land of Virginia,
by the Earl of Derby' and Blackwood, sectry.-holding the
Ind. Yellow Gold-edged 1764-5 3ty Nepal-grants, at Frede-
rickton, N, Brunswick. (Signed) Benj. Franklin, Rich-
mond -deleg-ate—on 'l7BB _lnseparable djamass' by 1791's
13eputy Jefferson's U.S,c. 1, 0-1819-26 Resume—not for
the now Hudson Bay Co.'s Guerilla brigands.
Whence ' the doubtful subscribed public fund for' the
:Prince Consort Memorial of 1851 recognition, as above—
THE definite article of this adjective sentence under the
King of Prussia's signature at Windsor Castle, with Albert
and Wife of the Church for Sir Wm. Logan's survey of
Canada—shows Sir C. Eastlake, ikric 1842 VICTORIA-mould
coin Consort-tie to the Soil right, has no reference to 'acts
Victories' proclaiming without Kelly's City nomen to P.C.
for double Je-suit-able Gresham-m Kirk-head, on Stone
statue cause for Standard bearer Ackerley's oath Jan. 30,
1837.—50 no Figure date on illegal Florin.
t On the Bengal <>broad ds arrow to Cuba's Belltower by
1764-5 Quadruple 3ty-sign grants of America, till Spanish
cutting logwood convention of 1782, for Brant's deputy-
Percy assumption en Peter's grandfather, John Nwlwarr
removal to Spanish Esau Real for their mant/erelicto Cum-
berland Fort, Nova Scotia, Indian Chief over the Con-
stable's horse, removed to their Hali-cone'ian stable by
George riT tacit Rex admission for Clarence Beltse iAfric.
To M— Jefferies, & Bailiffs of Tame-(worth, Stour-Trent
Anker river DEE flsh'ry on Poor-law 0. S. audits, March
25, Rate in aid on 43-Eliz.) in Wye part of Guy's Hospital
by 21 July, 1521-211 CARL. V. & 11. 8, of Southark bar' for
Clapham's Conjugate reciprocity 3ty, to Yellow Tiber' Zoll-
verein trustee*ship, yr 42—on the 4 great nations of Gaul's
Lion 'pont del' Arcuba/istar'y--Jetsam-statu'e of 4-Geo. 4
Ch. 74—on Barometer oz-libralis lb. Air-'-pressure.
Ye I will ask the UNION for Loan to Indian and Self?
Was I in receipt of my father's life-hold name estate—its
rental being wittlield by Attorney Cole's freehold voting
on my brother Chamberlayne by 1-2 Will. IT., No. 54,
(not Ackerley), whence the double forge of " Charles and
C. Henry," in Master of Roll's foist-decree, 15th March,
'62, touching the ‘L'Bourton ON the Water Act, by Cole'r
as cano.l Ells-mere agent of Saugh-&.•washall, of Dean and
Chapter of Chester's Crt. of dairfax delegates, Nov., 1807-
9A on-Yoßx—excommunication of name—as palatine-man.
"As Hawksey•-owl, in desert lona
' Hugh Loop'd am I, Lo I now, as one."
Genappe bridge 10•f8 p.m., June 17, 1815, Wellington
signed the carte blanche for Jesuit restoration Motu of Pii
7, 12th of May, 1814 (as Pub. by Gonsalvi's Regol6 219,
6th July 'l6)—on Blucher's 42,000 aid, for 18th June-
-11. Thiers knows the Waterloo 'Game' Bill of '3l and '62
fit-villany—on 30 deg. Is-Suez siderial.
(See Sten April 19, 28, May 16, & July 19.)

CRYSTAL PALACE. - SPECIAL ATTRAC
SHlLTirws DAILY for the last week in August. ONE
monday G EVERY DAY, Saturday inclusive.
TRY Sliatiesday, and Wednesday, GREAT POUL-
Wedlletldfty
Gymnastic s,Vt3EUTSCHES TURNFEST (German
Fountains. ~-,ONDIN on the HIGH ROPE over the
Friday.—FULL DISPLAY of all the GREAT FOUN-
TAINS.
Saturday.—BLONLlN the LOW TIGHT ROPE.
Great Picture Gallery, withpictures on Sale—Victoria
Cross Gallery, by Desaug,,..
Fine Arts Courts.
hotographic Exhibition—
Strangers to London will find ell
sale_aell kinds of manu-
factured articles in great variety, of
tion, particularly in the China, Glam.:ll choicest de,eri_
Industrial, Furniture, and Foreign Stationery, French,
-otuts, and
Department. the Carriage
reatest bea
The Park and Gardens in gnty• Thousands
upon thousands of flowers in full bloom.
Sunday open at 1.30 to shareholders gra
tickets. 411 "161 Y by
Season Tickets, One Guinea each, available till April 30,
1863.
N°TE.—Excursion Parties may learn rates on applies..
lion to the
Secretary.

*** For full particulars of amusements see first page:—
THEATRE-ROYAL, DRTJRY-LANE.
'This Evening, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which,
the first part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. To
be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. To conclude with
'THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-
Zoug-Zoug. Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
This Evening, FISH OUT OF WATER. After which,
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA.
And THE CHRISTENING.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
This Evening., THAT BLESSED BABY. With MEDEA.
Followed by THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. And
THE SHILLING DAY.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
'this Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a
quarter to 8, HMG HENRY VIII. With THE TWO
POLTS. Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAH-
NRY. Conclude with THE COLLEEN HAWN SETTLED
AT LAST. Commence at 7.

ASTLY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
This vening, 31AZEPPA, Brilliant Scenes in the Circle.
Concluding with a comic Bauct.
Commence at 7.

Vvr. S.
Poly,graphi'z WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES,
Ring Charing-cross.
Commence at 8.

every
evening_
ict)t:pr‘oNin'inendamdilel;siatarepetE,inciHnga3:-
AR 0 YLL ROOMS, c---Tie---
market. Open
,CANTERBUBY HALL .....RvElpev
...r!i,_nd Selections from
Steckel, the great Trapeze performer_ 6" - EVENING.—
" Don Sebastian " and "II Trovatcre..,
aLd Duley, the great comic trio, &c. eneworth, Eugene,
Commence at 7.

THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERYbI
EVENING.--Verdi's "11 Corsaro. with and
clictus.=-The comic performance of Miss carolinep%k
Steckel on the Flying eze—The Ethiopian oddities
of
Rum sey, fie vcomb, &c.
Commence at 7,

THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1862.

To-morrow is Bartholomew's Day—and what of
that, we suppose, the reader will ask. We shall
have our appropriate service at Church, and there
will be the end of it. It will be very much like
other Sundays. The great body of the Noncon-
formists, however, do not mean that it should be
like other Sundays. Precisely two hundred years
ago, the KING, Lords, and Commons of that year,
by a kind of Cesarian operation, gave birth to what
is now English Dissent. It was born, indeed, Pres-
byterian, but as the governmental system of that
Church never took firm root in English soil, all the
apparatus of presbyteries, synods,
soon dropped off, and Dissent
beca and assemblies
became not a Church,
but Churches ; it presented the singular aspect of a
vast number of little municipalities or republics,
wherever it gathered a congregation, and soon was
chiefly known under the denominational names, so
familiar to us since the Reform Bill and the late
census, of Baptists and Independents. It is singu-
lar, in this respect, to note the difference between
Scotland and England. In the former country the
Dissenters, who are very numerous, indeed, since
the Free Church secession, a large majority, all re-
tain the form of the State Church they seceded from.
Scotch Dissenters, with few exceptions, are Presby-
terians. With English Dissenters, on the other
' hand, Episcopalianism is the exception ; all the
great bodies, Baptist, Methodist, Independent—
reject the system, and nearly always the Prayer
Book, of the State Church. This is the more re-
markable, since the 2,000 who were ejected two
hundred years ago were not disinclined to a mode-
rate Episcopacy, nor did they, like the Scotch, ob-
ject to a Liturgy, but to the Liturgy, or rather to
what they deemed superstitious in it.
It might not be difficult to trace the reasons for
these apparently singular results. But one, in
which the politician must take most interest, is that
this great ecclesiastical secession was the safeguard
of English liberty. We may, unless indeed we be
bigots, we must, regret the hard usage at the time
of so many of the best clergy of the Church of
England; but whatever injury she did herself by
the Act of Uniformity, she created a body of ener-
getic freedom-loving Englishmen among the middle
classes, compelled them to suffer all kinds of hard-
ships, for what men instinctively feel to be their
birthright ; and thus, in forcing them to be dissen-
ters, she forced them also to study, with the rights
of conscience, the civil rights of men also. It was
the civil power which enabled the ecclesiastical
power to drive these clergymen from their flocks,
and to harass both flock and pastor with con-
venticle acts, and five mile acts, and test and cor-
poration acts; thus every dissenting chapel became
a training school for teaching the great doctrines of
civil and religious liberty.
How wisely and well they went to work in that
study MACAULAY'S immortal chapter on the trial of
the seven bishops, and his description of the
" auction" at which Papists and Anglicans bid
against each other for the aid of the Nonconformists,
has taught, we doubt not, most of our readers. Per-
haps a nobler instance of forbearance and forgive-
ness of injuries by a large body of men hardly stands
on record than that of the English Nonconformists
in the time of JAMES 11., refusing to take advantage
of their opponents' difficulties, and standing firmly
to the fundamental principles of all freedom, when
a blind and superstitious despot was prepared to
violate them in their favour. They had their
reward in the Toleration Act which, poor instal-
ment of religious liberty, as we regard it in these
times of religious equality, was a considerable
emancipation for them, and much grudged by their
unworthy opponents when the latter again saw
themselves in a position of safety. Happily, the
Nonconformists had in WILLIAM
one of the sin-
cerest believers in the rights of conscience. How
their congregations have multiplied since, how they
have become in most boroughs the staunchest sup-
porters of liberal principles, and how in the number
of its worshippers Nonconformity now equals and
slightly surpasses those of the State Church, are
matters of notoriety.
It is not, perhaps, so commonly noticed to
what the steady, sober character of Noncon-
forming liberalism is due. We take it to be due to
the fact, that its acknowledged members, as
distinguished from the promiscuous and fluctuating
congregation, have the entire management of their
own affairs. They form a little republic in each
chapel. JEFFERSON, the founder of American
Democracy, is said to have taken his first concep-
tions of thorough-going republicanism from the
Baptist Church, of which his father was a member.
If so, in applying their principles to the State, he
overlooked the fact that the franchise in the Baptist
church was not without qualification. Whatever
their errors, they lay rather in the direction of too
high than too low a moral qualification for admis-
sion, to
membership. Early Puritanism, and the
Dissenters, as its successors, gained their name
more Nea their moral and religious strictness than
from their doctrines. Had JEFFERSON'S electors
been as carefully tested, probably America would
not be what we now
see it. To this circumstance,
however, that in addition. to taking part in the
parish and municipal institutions of the kingdom,
they had, even when excluded from corporations, the
management of their own churches, we are inclined
to attribute the practical character of Dissenting
liberalism. Chartism and the extreme forms of
liberalism never found much favour with the
political and ecclesiastical successors of the two
thousand. How strong the political influence of
the religious organisation is on those who corn_
pose it, we see in the contrast presented by the
Methodists to the older, and we must say more in-
telligent Dissenters. The Methodist system is one
in which the absolutism of an oligarchy of clergy
and the submission of the people is complete.
Hence there is probably, proportionably, much
more Toryism among Methodists than even in the
Church of England.

To-morrow then, perhaps almost every Dissenting
chapel in the Kingdom, will have services appro-
priate to the historical fact of the ejection of the
two thousand. The legendary flaying alive of St.
Bartholeme w himself, and the dreadful massacre of

the Huguenots on that day by the Church of Rome
and CHARLES IX. will be, we may presume, but
lightly noticed. The theme will be the one on
which we have already had many public lectures in
London itself, as well as throughout the country,
and on which also a sort of " Bicentuary" literature
of tracts and larger volumes has begun to appear.
It is perfectly natural that Dissenters should
thus do honour to the memory of their forefathers.
The attempt to prove that they are not the founders
of modern dissent, is historically, an unworthy and
futile course. Dissenters have advanced on the
notions of their ancestors, as we all have, we may
hope, on the notions held two hundred years ago.
But they have advanced at least logically and con-
sistently. The 2,000 refused the service and church
created by the State ; they did not perceive it at the
time, but assuredly the only consistent consequence
of such an act is to deny the right of the State to
prescribe a service and church system. This
inevitable consequence soon became both logically
and practically apparent to them, and they natu-
rally became not only Nonconformists but Anti-
State Churchmen. Methodists, on the contrary,
were not turned out. They began with supple-
menting what they held to be Church deficiences,
and they still regard themselves as but a supple-
mente
learned from the
r r tboa
bt hl
ye
tChheu
greatr c h
lesson England
to
b.
Bartholomew's-day of 1662 is the folly of Acts of
Uniformity and of coercion in matters of religion.
The Episcopal party of that day got the
upperhand, and improved it by passing an Act,
of which its chief promoter said " we will make
them knaves if they conform." Most of what all now
generally regard as the deformities of the Prayer-
book are due to this purpose. The result is ever-
lasting scruples of conscience and secessions from
the Church on the part of good men, like-minded
with the 2,000, and in the end the existence of a
powerful body numerically as strong as the Church,
and hostile to it. Could the bishops of that day
have foreseen all, they would have let the 2,000
die out in their livings, and concocted a Prayer.
book of a simple character, one, at least, more free
from the Popish element ; while a large amount
of freedom would have been preferred to a
childishly minute, yet tyrannically rigid uni-
formity.

The result of the coroner's inquest yesterday upon
the bodies of Mr. BARRETT and his two young
daughters, who were suffocated on the morning of
the 15th instant during the lamentable fire which
then broke out in Mr. BARRETT'S dwelling-house
near the Marble Arch, must be regarded—as but
too often happens with reference to coroner's in quests
—as in the highest degree unsatisfactory. After a
very careful and lengthened investigation abso-
lutely nothing whatever comes of it. Witnesses
are examined in abundance. All particulars that
can in any way bear upon the calamity, either directly
or indirectly, are collected together as to a focus—in
order to throw as much light as possible upon what
was previously dark or doubtful in respect to this
melancholy occurrence. The newly elected Coroner,
Dr. LANHESTER, shows himself more conspicuously
if possible than he has ever before done, to be a
man singularly fitted to occupy that responsible
post as Mr. WAKLEY'S successor : and this almost
equally by reason of his particular aptitude and of
his general intelligence. The Jury are patient and
watchful throughout the proceedings. Policemen,
firemen, escape conductors, insurance agents, do-
mestic servants, and " medical practitioners " as
they are called, meaning the surgeon (Mr.
ARCHER), and the physician (Dr. SPIIRGIN), who
were, at the time of the calamity, summoned to
the assistance of the deceased—one after another
all these various individuals are subjected to a very
deliberate and scrupulous examination. And—yet
as the upshot of it all—what is the verdict ? The
value of it is just simply nil. "Accidental death
by fire and suffocation, but how and by what
means the fire originated there was no evidence to
show." Not a syllable more—not one word of ap.
propriate comment or timely advice ! Not a hint of
blame to anyone—though one or two, if not more,
must, in honest truth, be pronounced to have been
most blameable ! That the cause of any fire is not
to be discovered in any given instance cannot, of
course, be deemed in any way a matter of surprise.
It would at any rate be most unfair to take it as a
plea for our reprehending of any man. But when
the origin of a catastrophe, like the one now referred
to, remains to the last utterly undiscernible, some
wholesome moral, some practical result in the way
of warning for the future, might at least be de-
duced from the circumstances of the occurrence.

The unfortunate gentleman who perished so
miserably with two of his children upon this
melancholy occasion—the elder of these children
being but " ten," the younger not yet " four"—
quite manifestly owed his own death and those of
his little daughters to the - total loss of what is
termed presence of mind. Every reasonable pre-
caution against fire was seemingly there to guard
the household. It was a household to all appear-
ance singularly orderly in its arrangements. The
members of this household had assembled at ten
o'clock, according to custom, on the 14th inst., at
family prayers. By eleven they had all retired to
rest—not, however, until the master of the house
had (again according to custom) gone his rounds
to see that all was safe. There was a stone
staircase, connecting all the floors of the mansion
from garret to basement. There were means of
escape—through the trap-door in the roof, along the
leads and over a parapet. Fire-escapes were there,
moreover, within a very few moments after the
first alarm was given. According to the evidence
of the policeman who gave that alarm scarcely four
minutes could have elapsed before Mr. BARRETT,
the master of the house, came to the door in answer
to the summons. Twice the unfortunate deceased
appeared there—at the open street door—once in
answer to the policeman, once in answer to the
summons of a neighbour—and yet, after all, he and
his two children were allowed to perish. Simply
because in his confusion (probably to prevent the
draft from fanning the conflagration into greater fury)
he had, by a grievous blunder, locked the street door
again on the inside. Close to that door his dead
body is found, and with it the body of his eldest child
—the latter still breathing. They are so close to the
door when they are discovered that their bodies
have to be moved before the door can be opened.
Entrance being first made to effect this movement
by the crashing away of one of the panels of the
door with a hatchet ! A means of access to them—
from the first—within the reach of the _firemen.
Yet a means only resorted to when too late, when
utterly useless. It is idle to say that the danger of
the sufferers was unknown to those outside. The
evidence clearly establishing the fact that their
screams for help were distinctly audible. Besides
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of the hatchet, plied only when too late, against
the panel of the street door—the father and the
child were allowed to perish ! Something more
satisfactory, in the way of a conclusion, might
surely have come from the Coroner's in-
quest yesterday, after a dispassionate con-
sideration of all these facts—something more
satisfactory than the utterly valueless verdict ar-
rived at by the jury. To that verdict, at any
rate, a recommendation might • reasonably have
been appended, enforcing the necessity of
a readier use of their hatchets by the
firemen, particularly upon the panneliing of doors
within which screams are clearly audible—and
for the exercise of yet greater promptitude and
vigilance on the part of the fire escape conductors
in regard to those actually within the range of their
sight and hearing, in the very room against the
window-ledge of which their " escape" is actually
resting. Had either precautionary means been
more vigorously adopted on the morning of the
fifteenth instant, Mr. BARRETT and his eldest
daughter might still have been in existence.

The Prince Zagiell has arrived at Maurigy's
Hotel, from Edinburgh.

The Duke of St. Albans has arrived at Long's
Hotel.

The Duke and Duchess de Galliera, accom-
panied by their son, have arrived at Brown's Hotel.

His Excellency the Count Piperno has left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Switzerland.

His Excellency M. A. Be Clerey, accompanied
by M. C. L. David and M. Bind°lan, has arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel, from Paris.
General Le Comte and Madame Milochevitch
have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, from the Isle of
Wight.

Count M. van Limburg Stirum, aide-de-camp to
his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, has arrived at
Brown's Hotel.

The Countess and Madlle. De I'lsle and Madame
Bouranoff have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Paris.

L. le President Turkutt, accompanied by M.
Venceslas Preszyuski and M. Ortowski, have arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel, from Paris.
THE BIRTH OF THE LAST PRUSSIAN PRINCE.—
The _Bourse Gazstte of Berlin says :—" The delivery of the
Princess Royal took place with extraordinary rapidity.
Baron de Schleinitz, Minister of the King's Household,who
has held himself in readiness for the last fortnight to pro-
ceed to Potsdam to certify as to the birth, onlyarrived when
all was over. It was the same with Lord Loftus, the Eng
lish Ambassador, although he has taken up his residence at
Potsdam."

We understand that Brevet-Major T. C. Dunbar,
of the 75th Regiment, is likely to be selected for the office
of Assistant-Inspector of Army Clothing under Colonel
Daubeney.— drmy and Navy Gazette.
ILLNESS OF THE JUDGES AT THE LIVERPOOL
ASSIZES.-Mr. Baron Wilde, who since the commencement
of the Liverpool assizes has evidently been very unwell, and
has been obliged to close the court on several occasions very
early in the day, did not appear at all yesterday in the
Crown Court. It had been arranged that the Ashton mur-
der case should be tried in the morning, but at half past 9
it was announced that his lordship had found himself unable
to attend to business, and had gone to London, and the
Ashton case was therefore postponed until Monday. Mr.
Justice Mellor, who has been sitting in the nisi prius court,
was also very unwell yesterday, and did not take his seat on
the bench until 10 o'clock, though he had arranged to open
the business at 9.

THE REPRESENTATION OF STOKE,—The death of
Mr, Ricardo has created a vacancy in the representation of
the borough of Stoke-on-Trent. On Thursday an invita-
tion was sent to the Hon. Leveson Gower, formerly mem-
ber for Stoke, but now member for Bodmin, and who was
defeated at the last election by Mr. Copeland. When our
information left Stoke no answer had been received. If Mr.
Gower consents to stand there is no probability of any con-
test. If he declines it is probable that Mr. Sergeant Shee
will offer himself in the Liberal interest.—Birmingham
Daily Post.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The attend-
ance on the high-priced days now begins to show a tendency
to fall off. For the last two or three weeks the numbers on
every Friday and Saturday have been going steadily lower,
ana promise to become still more attenuated as the season
advances and visitors leave town. Yesterday the total was
only 23,615, of which 5,998 were by season tickets, and
17,617 by payment. After all that has been said on the
subject of opening the building on Saturday for a shilling,
and the certainty of the beneficial results that would ac-
crue to the Commissioners' exchequer from such a course,
it has at last been decided that no alteration will be made.
To the close, therefore, Saturday will remain as now a half-
crown day, though another month is certain to reduce the
payments on such occcasions to a very nominal sum in-
deed.

The London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany have issued a notice that they are now prepared to
make arrangemez.ts for the conveyance of bodies of work-
men and their wives and children, in numbers of not less
than 250, to London and back from all parts of their line
for a sum as small as 65., and for ss. when the parties are
not less than 300. These excursions will be conveyed in
special trains, and will be allowed to return on any one day
that may be agreed upon, within one week from the date
of the ticket. The company will only treat with the heads
of firms or persons delegated by them, and will require a
certificate that the parties availing themselves of these
arrangements are bona fide employed in one establishment,
or are members of the families of workmen employed by the
firm.

THE DUBLIN AND MEATH RAILWAY.—On Thurs-
day the Duke of Leinster and Earl Russell and party tra-
velled by special train over the Dublin and Meath Railway
between Dunboyne and Bective stations, returning in the
evening from Bective to Dunboyne en route for the Duke of
Leinster's seat near Maynooth. The train throughout the
two journeys travelled at the rate of 40 miles an hour, and
both the Duke and Earl expressed their gratification with
the journey. They were accompanied by Richard Bolton,
Esq., a director of the company, and Mr. J. Broughton,
the general manager. It is fully expected the line will
be open for public traffic by the 291 h instant.—Freeman' s
Journal,

COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Thursday evening the express
train which leaves London for Manchester at 2.45 p.m.,
ran into a train of empty carriages, immediately after
passing through the Bletchley station. The empty car-
riages were being shunted at the time. Fortunately, the
driver and guard saw the obstacle in front of them and
immediately applied the breaks. This had the effect of
checking the speed of the passenger train, and proportion-
ately lessened the force of the collision. As it was, several
of the passengers sustained some severe cuts about the
head, and were so much shaken and injured as to necessi-
tate their being left behind. An eye-witness describes the
escape as almost miraculous, and due, in a great measure,
to the prompt action of the driver and his assistant and the
guard. The train was detained for two hours.
A CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH ON THE CHARING-
CROSS RAlLWAY.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne held
an inquest at Guy's Hospital on the body of George Web-
ster, a child eight years of age, who was crushed to death
on the Charing• cross Railway. From the evidence of Mrs.
Bird, of Jane-street, Gravel-lane, Southwark, it appeared
that at half-past two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon she
was passing the works of the Charing-cross Railway Com-
pany, near Gravel-lane,when she heard a scream from seve-
ral children. She went to the place, and there saw the de-
ceased child fall from between the " bumpers," or wooden
projectors, of two railway trucks that were used for the
purpose of bringing bricks and other materials on the line,
but at the time these trucks were empty. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death."

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.—The following is
an instance of shrewdness on the part of the blockade•run-
ning captain, from the New York Journal of Commerce :
" I have received information that the British steamer
Minho, 800 tons, arrived at Nassau from Charleston, S.C.,
having entered that port with a valuable cargo, intended
chiefly for the defence of that city, of which the following
memorandum has been furnished me :-5,000 Enfield rifles,
100 tons best water-proof English powder,five(2oopounders)
rifle Whitworth cannon (ordered expressly for the defence
of Charleston), a stock of medicine which cost in London
£B,OOO, with other cargo of various classes of munitions,
&c., besides which she took from Nassau, " freight free,"
for the Confederate Government, 60,000 pairs of blankets
and a large lot of soldiers' shoos. The Minho, which be •
longs to an English house, is said to have cleared this voy-
age (including 550 bales of cotton, delivered in Nassau on
return voyage, and already shipped in London),near 600,000
dollars.

THE CASE OF SHOOTING AT ISLEIVORTH.—On
Monday week George Messenger was examined before the
magistrates at Brentford, on a charge of causing the death
of a young woman named Annie Barnham, by shooting her
through the head at Isleworth, The prisoner was proved
by the witnesses not to be the man who committed the
murder, and suspicion fell on Robert Cooper, alias Baker,
alias Charles Copeland, alias Bailey, aZias George Barn-
ham, the reputed husband of the deceased, and a deserter.
from various regiments. As he had absconded a reward
of £lOO was offered for his apprehension by Government
He was captured last night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, by.
the police, under the direction of Inspector Foulger, m
the Isle of Dogs, where be had been employed as a labourer,
and was immediately forwarded to Isleworth for examina-
tion. The prisoner was brought before the magistrates
this morning, and after some evidence had been given, he
was razumuled.

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