The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-14 00:00:00

REMINISCENCES IN CHURCH AND

STATE.

A new generation has sprung up since the passing of the
Reform Bill. The working of the older system is begin-
ning to be but faintly understood among us. Bribery, in-
deed, and treating, with all their attendant scenes of vice
and blackguardism, will not suffer themselves to be shaken
out of our memories; but with all the elasticity which be-
longs to living and active 'forces, they have contrived to
fasten themselves to the new system, and to feel themselves
as much at home in it as they did in the old ; but though
the principle was the same, its manifestation and modes of
work were different. Our cleverest electioneering agents
now-a-days would be puzzled to get through the work that
fell to the lot of their luckless predecessors. We can fancy
a man not necessarily of sensitive conscience, or needlessly
dainty about the cleanness of his hands—a man who has,
as it is termed, the poorer voters of his borough under
his thumb, sigh in dreary despondency at the
approach of the election day ; and as he thought of the
dirty work he zoust "get througlr-by evening, feel inclined
to say with Falstaff—" Would it were bedtime, Hal, and all
were well.' " But what would he say if that pressure
upon his conscience, and those mil dies upon his hands—
to say nothing of the strain upon his wits in looking after
the interests of his client, bribing the voters for his oppo-
nent, and preventing his own voters from being bribed
away from him—were to last not for the day,
but for 14 ? It is hard enough now upon a candidate to
hunt up all his voters in a town, and in his course to make
such acquaintance with its holes and corners, and out-of-
the-way places, as none but a parliamentary candidate or
detective policeman can boast of? But what is that corn-
pared to the endless labour of seeking for stray voters in
every county, almost in every town of the kingdom? Trac-
ing them through all their peregrinations, and coming upon
them at last only to find that, before you can have the be-
nefit
of their vote you must take their clothes out of pawn
—perhaps their persons out of prison, pay the expenses of
the journey to and from their native places, and allow them
reasonable expenses for the loss of employment (which pro-
bably they never had), and for staying at home a short time
after the election to see their friends. And when to this is
added that the worst scenes of revolting rioting and drunk-
enness which we now hear of in some of our modern bo-
roughs, were then kept up during the whole fortnight of
the election, it will be understood from what a sink of abo-
mination the Reform Bill has delivered us.

My recollections in this matter relate to a seaport in the
North, which enjoyed its full share of these unenviable
distinctions. In some respects it was more favourably
situated than others of our old corporations ; it was not a
close borough, it had no patron, it was open to generous
impulses, and it was rare indeed when one of its mem-
bers was not to be found on the Liberal side. In its
better days it had been a pure democracy ; in its latter it
had degenerated into a perfect form of oligarchy—that is to
say, one privileged class in the borough. The freemen de-
cided by their votes in Guildhall all points of internal ma-
nagement and regulation. There was no town council, nor
committee, nor representative body in the place. The bur-
gesses managed all by their direct action. Was there a street
to be paved, or a lamp to be put up, or a piece of the town
land to be let, a guild was called in a public hall, some 200
or 300 noisy freemen decided upon the right and the fitting;
and the right and the fitting in their eyes was just what
may be expected from such a course. It happened that the
lands in possession of this sapient body were extensive and
valuable. James VI. of Scotland, on his way to take pos-
session of Elizabeth's crown, first set foot on English ground
there, and was entertained by his new subjects with gene-
rous hospitality, and what he liked as well, a flattering ad-
dress. In gratitude he endowed them with a large slice of
crown lands that lay round the town, the appanage of a
royal castle that had once played a conspicuous part in
bridling the Border. These lands, the burgesses at a
very early period came to the resolution of appropriat-
ing, not to the benefit of the town as a com-
munity, but for their own individual advantage.
With the single exception that
they could not be alienated
from the corporation nor transmitted by hereditary descent,
they treated them exactly as the neighbouring squires
treated their estate, as existing entirely for their own be-
hoof. The burgesses therefore throve, but the town
languished; for as every improvement and reform of the
public property must be paid for ont of the fund, thus
otherwise appropriated, it may easily
be supposed that the
patriotic freemen regarded with jealous eyes all propositions
that involved expenditure, and looked upon them as so
many downright robberies committed on property. And
in the long run it was found that these estates did not even
benefit themselves. They operated in this way. There
was not enough to divide among all the burgesses; so the
residents, who, of course, bore rule, passed a law that all
their brethren living beyond the borough bounds should be
excluded from the benefit. So rigidly
was this enforced,
that a burgess living on the opposite bank of the stream
which divides what for all practical
purposes is one town,
had no share in the division of the spoil. The natural
effect of this was to deaden the spirit of enterprise among
the freemen ; to induce them to remain at home, vegetating
upon the pittance
they received from the public property,
rather than to seek for wealth and independence farther
afield. But even with this restriction the pigs were more
teats —the burgesses
than thethan the patches of
A farther discrimination common land. --Nitation was therefore
resorted to, and the lands were given according
to age. The oldest burgess had the fattest
share ; the benefit gradually
diminishing as it
reached the juniors; and there was a considerable
proportion of young fellows who
kept loafing about the
town, with or without work as the
-8e might be, in expec-
tation of the older men whose obstinate
vitality kept them
out of their inheritance, dying off at last, and admitting
them upon the first step of the ladder. Their earnings at
other work were eked out in the meantime by their attend-
ance at the guilds, where a shilling or two might often be
icked up by voting for or against a proposition which
some
person might have private reasons for taking an inte-
rest in. Then there were the agents for the sitting mem-
bers, and the attorney who aspired to some
be the agent for
future member—all men of practically benevolent turn of

mind, who would not see a poor fellow—of course a burgess
I—want for a half-crown at an odd time. All this was ex-
cellent training for the great septennial orgies when they
came, and produced a gradual sapping of the independence
of the whole body which it required no small amount of
moral courage to resist. But these special municipal privi-
leges operated to the disadvantage of the- borough in
another way. They were so valuable, and their value
depended so much on keeping down the number of those
who could claim a share in them, that the utmost jealousy
was shown in admitting any one to the burgess roll, who
had not an indisputable claim. The only terms of
admission were hereditary right or apprenticeship ; for
which latter an enormous fee was charged, and not the fee
only but actual service for seven years was rigidly exacted.
This of course prevented any man who had come into the
town from becoming a burgess. He might, by his energy,
industry, and enterprise, have risen to be the richest and
most influential man in the borough, but he could not hope
to have as much voice in the election of members of Par-
liament as a drunken day-labourer whose father happened
to have been a burgess before him.
Every new election in the borough brought a contest.
Such a thing as an unopposed return was hardly ever
known. This arose from the position of the out voters. The
residents
might have been bribed into quiescence by the
old members, but it was not in their power to persuade the
electors who had gone away to forego their visit home to
see their friends, their three weeks' or a month's holiday
and their being paid for idleness at a far higher rate than
could ever have been earned at their work. So that the
members, on taking their seats at one election, might
reckon
upon it as a matter of course that they must en-
counter a " third man" at the next. A requisition was got
up for some gentleman, whose existence was never heard
of before, but who was suddenly diacovered o -possess all
the virtues under heaven; and to that requisition there
was
sure to be appended the names of all the out-
voters. The sitting members resorted to various ex-
pedients to defeat the practice and enlist the out-voters
in their favour; but they rarely succeeded. There was
honour among thieves ; and the voters were true to the
man without whom they felt they could not have enjoyed
the advantages the sitting members were offering. Here
and there cases were found where a mean-spirited wretch
had signed the requisition for one man, and when the poll•
ing came had found reasons to vote for another, but he was
held " ruddering " by his stout Saxon companions, who
stood stiff upon their honesty that they were invariably
faithful to the first briber. Sometimes the bribe was trans-
ferred from the voters to be conveyed to the person who
conveyed them. One such successful trick still lives in the
memories of the borough. The great body of the out-voters
were to be found in London ; and from London the voters
were conveyed, generally in one vessel, by sea. An in-
genious sitting member bethought him of opening com-
munications with the skipper of the smack that was to con-
vey them; and the result was seen in the poor fellows—
some hundred or more—being kept tossing about in the
North Sea during the days the election lasted, the cross-
grained elements only allowing them to reach the port after
the return was made and all was over. The trick was only
played once, but it was often apprehended; for in those
days steam was not, and in the capricious elements that
vex our eastern coast, a seven or eight days' pasaage, even
with the most pushing of skippers, was of no uncommon
occurrence. When such a delay took place with the ves-
sel that was freighted with electors, and the fortune of the
election, what an agitation and speculation and general
state of fidget there was all over the town. How many
anxious eyes were turned seaward to the grand expanse of
dark blue water that rolls through that bay. How every
flow and puff of wind was watched as indicative of a
coming change I For one of the peculiarities of election
here was, that though the poll could be kept open for a fort-
night, that was only on condition that voters were con-
stantly coining forward. If a given time elapsed—an hour,
if I recollect right—in which no voter appeared at the
hustings, which in those days was synonymous with the
polling booth, it was held that the list of voters was ex-
hausted, the poll was closed, and the members declared.
Therefore it behoved the candidate who was lowest on
the poll, but who expected his out voters to turn the scale,
to husband the resident votes that remained to him. If his
supply had run very short, he would expend them in drib-
lets, one vote an hour. The candidates in the majority on
the other hand withheld their remaining votes altogether—
to send a man to the poll was only to help their antagonist ;
for the law did not care on what side the elector voted,
every vote recorded left the poll open for another hour.
And the burgesses at large did not care how the poll went,
or how long it was likely to last. It was enough for them
that the public-houses on both sides centinued open, and
that drink was to be had in them during the fortnight with•
out stint and without p4v. 'What exhibitions need to be
made I How the pot-valiant electors used to strut about
the streets shouting out the names of their favourite candi-
dates, while others, in a more maudlin state, insisted on
slobbering and kissing the candidates or their principal
agents as often as they met them in the streets. With
much drunkenness there was little or no fighting. The
praetiee of hiring "roughs" to decide elections by club-
law did not then exist, and as for the electors themselves
they were not enough in earnest to fight for their favourites.
Tongue-doughty warriors there were in plenty; but the
brawl seldom or never proceeded to a riot, At that time a
single constable sufficed to keep the peace for a town of
6,000 inhabitants. The temper of the burgesses on those
political questions which they might be expected specially
to look atter as the theoretic guardians of the constitution,
may be gathered from one characteristic incident. While
the agitation for the Reform Bill was at its height, the
great majority of the burgesses were Tories, and opponents
of reform. Their opposition did not stop the measure,
which in due time became law. When the measure was
passed,a motion was made by an anti,Reformer—a drunken
hell-ringer—that each burgess should get a sum—a sove-
reign, I think—out of the common fund of the borough, to
"drink the Reform Bill's health." It was seconded by ano-
ther man of the same kidney ; and though opposed by the
Reform party among the burgesses, yet as they were in a
small minority, the motion was carried. On this the
Reformers took counsel together : they held.that though it
was a monstrous waste of the public money, yet, as the
waste was to take place, they might as well go and take
their share. And so they did, and for once in the borough
annals the two parties exhibited an edifying spectacle of
drunken unanimity.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WOLVERHAMPTON RACE S.-WEDNE SDAY.

The Shakespeare Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya each, 3
ft, with 25 added ; for all ages. Three-fourths of a mile.

8 subs.
Mr. Mills's Vulture, 6 yrs, Sst 21b Grinishaw) 1
Capt. Christie's Spicebox, 5 yrs, 9st 31b ....(Fordham) 2
Mr. Angell's Astarte, 4 yrs, Bst (T. French) 3
Mr. Barber's Ophelia, 3 yrs, 6st 21b (Noble) 4
Mr. Crook's Redpole, 4 yrs, 7st 12lb (Clement) 6
_ _ _ _ _

Betting—Even on Spicebox, 9 to 2 each agst Vulture and
Red pole.
Vulture jumped off first, but in a few strides was passed
by Astarte, Spicebox occupying the third place, and Red-
pole bringing up the rear. Entering the straight Vulture
took up the running from Astarte, and at the distance was
joined by Spicebox. A slashing race ensued from the half-
distance, Fordham, however, failing to get up, was beaten
a length ; a similar distance separated the favourite and
Astarte; and Ophelia was a bad third.

The Stamford Biennial Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft, with
50 added; colts, Bst 91b ; fillies and geldings, Bst filb;

certain penalties and allowances. One mile and a half.
39 subs, five of whom pay forfeit.
Lord Stamford's Dusk, 9st 81b
Mr. Lincoln's Ross, Bst 61b
Mr. Ward's Ellangowan, Bst 21b (Keeler) 3
Mr. T. Parr's Equator, Bst 6 b (Marlow) 0

. . .
Betting-5 to lon Dusk, who made the running through-
out and won, after a magnificent race from the half-dis-
tance, by a neck. A bad third, and Equator did not pass
the post.
The Borough Members' Plate of 60 sovs, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 7 soya each, 4ft, for all ages; winners extra.
Straight half mile. 27 subs, 4of whom pay four sovs

forfeit, and 6 two sous to the fund.
Capt. Christie's Lady Clifden, 9st 91b (includ. 71b extra)
(Fordham) 1
Lord Coventry's Mousetrap, 4 Tat ....(Maidment) 2
Lord Stamford's Ellerton, Bst •Yr. s'.
. ... (Edwards) 3
Captain D. W. Pack Bbresford's: . Diaz(`...
.
(inc 71b extra) .. Virodehous 4
yrs, Bst 21b
Mr., Barber's The Cutler, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ...... (Cf. Noble) 5
Mr. W. Saunder's Bradord, 5 yrs, 7st 41b •... (Ruby) 6
Lord Wilton's Achyranthus colt, 2 yrof 68t.... (Hulme) 7
Betting-5 to 4 agst Lady Clifden, 9to 2 agst Ellerton,
5 to 1 agst Diana, 8 to 1 agst Mousetrap
When the lot got away together, which occupied a little
time, they were sent away by Mr. M`George simultane-
ously. Ellerton and Diana, however, showed in front, with
Lady Clifden third, and Mousetrap and Cutler together
ft,
next. Lady Clifden waited upon Ellerton and Diana to the
extra,
; half
Aiiie
distance, where, splitting the pair, she came away, and
Fo rdh am
whh hands down, by two lengthssecond and third, and a length between
a
length between
the
the third and fourth.
The flolyoake Stakes (Handicap) of 20 sous each, 10
,
and 5 if declared, with 100 added ; winners
and a half. 18 subs, 10 of whom
Mr. E. Buckley's Wynnstay, 4 Yrs, Bst 41b pay 5 ft, and one
10 ft.

Mr. F. Swindell's Millionaire. 5 (H. Grimshaw) 1
yrs, 7st 131 b (in 71b ea)
(Challoner 2
Mr. Hawksley's Satanella, 3 yrs, 6st 51b ..(Williamson)) 3
Betting--Even Wynn stay, on Wystay,
5 to 4 agst Millionaire, 10
to 1 agst Satanella.
wynnatay made all the running, and won bl.r:
lengths; Millionaire on being called upon at the balf
tart had
tance refused to try, Satanella, who prior to the .

mile. 24 subs, one of whom pays forfeit.
Count F. de Lagrange's Vivid, Bst 131 b (11. Grimshaw) 1
Capt. A. Hawksley ns Abernethy, Bst 131 b.. (Castance) 2
Lord Stamford's Barchettina, Bst 101 b (Edwards) 3
Lord Coventry's Zara, Bst 101 b (J. Adams) 4
Mr. R. C. Naylor's Stockbroker, Bst 41b (Challoner) 5
Betting-7 to 4on Vivid, 4to 1 agst Zara, 100 to 15 agst
any other.
Zara on the inside, with Stockbroker next to her, and
Abernethy wide on the left, came on to the distance, where
Zara giving way on nearing the inclosnre,
and stalling off Abernethy's
Vivid took
beaten,up the
running,
rush, galloped home three lenahafg§t. A length divided
the second and third, and a similar distance separated third
and fourth.

The Cleveland Cup, of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for
3-yr-olds and upwards; winners extra, with maiden and
selling allowances. Twice round, starting from the

Stand. 9 subs.
Mr. Astley's Atherstone (not to be sold), 4 yrs, Bst 121 b
(Fordham) 1
Mr. James Barber's Ophelia, 3 yrs (S 200), 6st llb
(Noble) 2
Lord Stamford's Dusk (not to be sold), 3 yrs, let 71b
(Edwards) 3
Betting--6 to 2on Atherstone.
Ophelia made running into the straight, where she was
joined by Atherstone and Dusk, the latter, however, died
away up the straight and was beaten at the distance. At
the paddock enclosure Atherstone took up the running
from Ophelia, but did not win without being called upon,
Ophelia being beaten only by a neck.

THE CULTIVATION AND SUPPLY OF
COT7ON.

A et
f n cew
Horticultural
was held yesterday,
Society,
n the
betweenCounc a
p
i -
t
Council-
room u )
f ion from the Manchester Cotton Supply
oe oao conference
Royal
Association and the commissioners representing
countries contribating specimens of cotton to the
International Exhibition, in reference to the growth
and cultivation of that article. The deputation
consisted of Mr. J. Cheetham, President of the
Association ; Mr. E. Ashworth, Vice-President :
Mr. H. Mason, Mr. E. Walmsley, Mr. T. Mosley,
Mr. W. Armitage, Mr. W. Wanklyn, and Mr. S.
D. Sutton.

Mr. CHEETHADf having been called to the chair,
in opening the proceedings, said that the cotton
manufacture of this country was in an unexampled
state of depression, owing to the difficulty of obtain-
ing an adequate supply of the raw material. As an
individual, he looked forward to the next few
months with feelings of the greatest anxiety,
amounting almost to despair. The cause of this
state of things was the civil war in America.
Hitherto our main supply of cotton had been de-
rived from America. The value of the American
crop for the yearlB6o was estimated at £40,000,000,
but it was now evident that for many years to come
America would not be able to attain the position
she had lost, and indeed it was held in some quar-
ters that under no circumstanees would she ever
attain that position again. He thought that in
future other countries would at least obtain
£20,000,000 worth of the supply previously mono-
rlised by America. If the represente*ives of dif-
ferent countries whom he saw before hini wanted
to extend the cultivation of cotton in their respec-
ttve countries, he recommended them to make the
American planter their guide, and to remember that
the quality whioh he had produced with so much
satisfaction was the quality which they should
attempt to produce. The country which came
second in point of quantity was India. The -pro-
duction in that country was 400,000 bales annually,
but they had nothing whatever to learn from
India, except that it produced the worst possible
cotton on the face of the earth. The question
for the meeting to consider was, whether
they could look steadily forward to remuneration,
if they could induce the various countries they repre-
sented to enter upon the cultivation of cotton. If
they could produce cotton at from sd. to 6d. laid
down in Great Britain they had a perfectly safe
market.

Mr. MARKT, M.P., observed that, as had been
fairly stated by the chairman, cheapness was the
essential element to be borne in mind in the consi-
deration of the whole question of cotton supply,
because inasmuch as it was used to clothe all man-
kind, from the most civilised to the most savage,
the question of price became of the most paramount
importance. He warned them against deluding
themselves, or the Cotton Association, or the starv-
ing population of Lancashire, by vain hopes and
expectations of supply from the colonies, especi-
ally that of Queensland, in Australia, unless a con-
siderable change took place in the rate of labour.
He presumed that in Queensland, which he repre-
sented on the present occasion, the class of bullock-
drivers might fairly be taken as representing the
class of men who would be cultivators of cotton ;
yet that class would earn about £6O a year, includ-
ing rations, and it was quite useless to expect a
cheap cotton to be grown that could at all compete
as respected labour with other articles. Under the
circumstances, he considered it was impossible
a good description of cotton could behproduced under
ever, fertile
Bd. or 9d. a pound. There were,
districts extending towards the Gulf of Carpentaria,
the climate of which was more
tropics, where they had regularra lika that of the ,
ins and monslodobnes
If cheap labour cou
six months in the year.
obtained in that district an excellent
would be cheap and
good. He thought
sample of cot-
ton could be produced,
Would be possible to bring
both Chinese and Coolie it
labourers, and therefore he
that innetfubtuereprtehdeuceoedttoinn I
was not prepared toirsay
w
for the English mar—et
Q,ueenslan d 12.
.p„ who represented Barbadoes,
Mr. CAT,
observed that he had some knowledge, as chairman
of the Indian Committee, of the capabilities of
that country for producing cotton, and although
he quite admitted that the West Indies could
produce cotton, yet the real fact was, that the cul-
tivation of sugar paid better, and it Was in vain to
suppose that cotton would he grown while other
things paid better.

Various gentlemen from different cotton-growing
districts addressed the meeting, from whose state-
ments it appeared that the principal difficulty was
the dearness of labour, but the general opinion of
the speakers app
eared to be, that if there was any-
thing like a
Prospect of continuance of the demand,
tl.ere would be no difficulty in obtaining an effi-
cient supply of cotton. ..'
Mr. ASHWORTH observed that this was one of the
most important meetings that had 'grown out of i
the International Exhibition. Nl' th respect to the
Cotton question, there could be no doubt that the
Northerners had stimulated the cotton producers of
the South, but the withdrawal of the Northern ca-
pital would probably shackle her one-third, and
instead of four millions of bales, one-third of that
would not continue to reach England. It was the
cotton-producing countries that had to consider
this, in order to see which country should produce
it. There could be no doubt that the cotton culti-
vators were men ct vast energy, education, and
talent, and they had their associations for the pro-
motion of the growth of cotton, just like we had
our agricultural associations for the promotion of

For some time pastplaearAs have. been extensively.
Circulated 'throughout the contry And advertise-
that it had
men ts inserted in the newspapers
become known that divers ships huA late been
unlawfully end innliciousi ic,t,troyt-d.
v cast away
by fire or otherwise, with intent to deire.:td
writers and others, at the instance of fra'ucl ulent
shipowners and their accomplices, and that a is%vs and
of 1:200 would be paid and a free pardon given to
any persons who would give such information Cs
would lead to the conviction of their accomplices. .4-
case involving facts bearing upon the above was yes
terday brought before Mr. Raffles at the Liverpool
Police-court, when Thomas Jamieson, late a sea cap-
tain, and we believe a part owner of some vessels,
was brought upunder the following circumstances :
—He had written a letter to a shipowner and mer-
chant, in which he intimated that unless Ruckstow
gave him money he would expose some joint viiiany
connected with the destruction of ships. This letter
was banded by Mr. Ruckston to his legal advisers,
and ultiMately on Jamieson refusing to retract the
assertion as to Mr. Ruckston's culpability he was
given into custody on the criminal charge of en-
deavouring to obtain money by intimidation. The
information was yesterday laid against the priso-
ner under the Act 24 and 25 Vic., cap, 96, which
provides that whoever shall send any letter or writ-
ing, knowing the contents thereof, to any person,
with menaces, and without any reasonable or pro-
bable cause, for the purpose of obtaining money.
shall be guilty of felony, and liable upon conviction
to penal servitude for life. It appeared that some
ten years ago the prisoner became acquainted with
the prosecutor, and he then suggested the purchase
of a ship called the Roscoe. Ruckston and Jamie-
son then became joint owners of the Roscoe, and
after she had made several voyages was (as Jarnic-
son alleged in his letter) purposely lost at the re-
quest and instruction of Ruckston. The following:
is an extract from Jamieson's letter demanding an
arrangement :—" Now my intentions are that I
must have a settlement, for I cannot lose the op-
portunity the advertisement gives me of exposing
our joint villany when you reaped all the reward."
* " I would advise you to come to terms
immediately." The prisoner and Mr, Ruckston
had also transactions with another vessel the, Ma.-
rino, about which there was some difficulty respect-
a mortgage-deed, and Jamieson had quarrelled With
the prosecutor several times about it.
The solicitor for the prosecution stated that on
several occasions the prisoner had been most abu-
sive to his client before he had sent the letter of in-
timidation.
For the defence it was contended Jamieson would
be able to substantiate the allegations made in his
letter if a remand was granted ; and that he would
not only be able to substantiate these allegations,
but expose a gigantic system of swindling practised
upon underwriters.
A remand was then granted, bail being refused.

THE SINKING OF 7IIE IRON SEW
GANGES IN THE .RIVER.

It has now been ascertained that five of the crew
of lascars of the iron ship Ganges, which capsized in
the river off the Shadwell entrance of the London
Dock, perished iu the vessel when she went down.
On the crew being mustered at the Home for
Abiaties, at Liulebouuo, on Tuesday night, five were
found to be missing, and 'there is no clubt they
were drowned in the ship. They were fife tascar
doctor, or compounder of physic for the men, and a
lasear who was sick, two ether lascars who were
cleaning out the hold, and a little boy, “n Asiatic,
servant to the captain. It appears that the little
fellow was in the cabin, and, probably being over-
whelmed by the rush of water, he perished. On
the fall of the tide yesterday vigorous efforts were
made by the Thames police to find the bodies of the
missing men. The officers mounted the side of the
hull of the ship, which had been left several feet
out of the water, and after working about some
time the bodies of the doctor and the sick man
were discovered in their bunks in the outhouse on
deck. A drowned dog was lying near the latter
body. The remains of the deceased men were sent
ashore and deposited in Shadwell bone-house, and
the police continued their search after the other
sufferers, but nothing could be seen of them. It is
expected, however, that they will be found in the

ship.
During the ebb tide of yesterday morning and
last evening gangs of shipwrights were engaged in
getting the masts out of the ship, but owing to her
being fitted with wire rigging the work was one of
much difficulty. It is anticipated that in the course
of to-night they will be got away, and operations
will be at once commenced to lift the sunken wreck.
Application was made to the East and West India
Dock Company for the use of the powerful floating
derrick, which is in the East India Dock, to raise
the ship, and which would have made short work
of it when once the chains were firmly fixed. The
dock company declined, however, to grant the ser-
vice of the derrick, on the ground that, by the
terms upon which they held the machine, they were
precluded from employing it outside the dock. An
appeal was then made to the Thames Conservancy
Board for the attendance of their powerful chain
lighters. They also at first declined,
g ing that
it was not usual to grant them exceapltl allegingthe
board
up, and i
undertook the
hew work.
etieotnnmoefretheeosfhtihpe really The application was
followed
beingpointed out that the posi-
tion
lighters to affected the navigation and
whole ft
le aport, the board directed the
be placed
the
vessel.
a t the
Should
service of those
who are employed inraising
all
go well,
the
well,it is thought that the chains will be got
under
sunken ship in the course of to-morrow
morning's
ebb, and the lighters being pinned
down alongside her, she will float at the afternoon

At present she is a very serious obstruction, right
in the fair way of the stream, and a foreign barque
in coming up the river yesterday afternoon touched,
it is thought, the upper part of her starboard bul-
wark, and remained so for 10 minutes. Fortunately
and a tug being at hand
the
ee tidefore wasigner notwas ftaolwlinegd,
off,
but whether she sus-
tained any damage or not we could not learn. Capt.
jm
principal harbour master attached to the
Tahaneise thsCeonservancy Board, has taken every pre-
caution to protect the shipping passing up and down
Green (wreck)
flags are placed near the wreck
during the day, and lights at
night. At high water
yesterday afternoon she was
perfectly covered with
broken water.
It appears that the ship had only 40 tons of bal-
last and 20 tons of water in tanks in her. Her top.
masts were also not struck, and some of her yards
were not sent down, which would all tend to make
her topheavy.
e ses e commander,l,which
was
Purchased owns the
She was intended to have been
placed on a berth in the London Dock, for Austra-
plirai.nciCpaapl
ptaeirntioNnooutrsteh,e
vth
of Messrs. Pill, of Sunderland, last year.
.._.........

1 GOVERNMENT EMIORATION —The Government
ewigrant ship I Northumberland, of 812 tons, Capt, W. H.
Hawkins, belonging to Mr. G. W. Tyser, of London,
sailed from Plymouth on the Bth of August, for Sydney)
New South Wales, with 18 married couples,
male and
men, 106 single women, 21 boys between the ages of 1 and
12, 25 girls between. the same ages and three 106 single
three female infants, making* a total 'of 300 sot:ils, equal to
Surerintendent C.
'271 statute adults, under theb charge of
G. H. Graham, M.D., assisted by the services of Thomas
Thursby, schoolmaster, and Ellen A. Smith, matron.

XI.-vns. TORTURn Or PETER & SELY--.NO FAT-BALTET,
The" the'—Prince Consort of—the Coin-Law.
' Be not afraid' —MENDELSSOHN—‘ I even I co.'.
Romish-harpys are acting without mypecaul-leave, altho
their will-6th deputy by 31 G m.c 32, §7. '9l act (1820-25,
by Castlereagh's Calvin-protußrant to Flaws's al double
office of Archbishop of Lyons, and Cardinal of E-ney Ca-
nada—as Labrador successor to 14th Clement '72's Jesuit
outing, to 93's NAP. temporal holy see,)'ng—in Quebec's
Virginian 1764-76-88 Admiralty High Crt. of delegates
thro' yellow King's-post master, Benj. Franklin, for
Prince-Consort'd La die's Pocahontas & Mary March%
on Crown Probate-surrogate Ackerley—over Montagu
Dalhousie's Commune'ty Affranchie to red Scarf-chamber
of Deputies, as of Great Beitain,'-33 G. 111., C 44, §
the free Veritannos Superior of Imp. Vespasian.
BALLOON ASCENTS without " LE NOR-
MAND'S" 1783 PARACHUTE FALL, A TD.
MEMO.—The Cruelty to Animals Act' gives civic cause
for magisterial stoppage of these R. G. Coal'rs fra-fooleries,
without 10-negative & poisitive wisdom shown in collapse
retreat, 7----22-4ffiux—at giver-3-mile
W Zone-olverehampton's lectric to gas lb.
-within the balloon, as seen—abovepoor
Union mill' of the Dudley Somerie Swinford Exchange—
at which bar9mete point of 26itio.uFgohult
taoirhdarvoep,baelen'AE-trgyibputte.
out-brace Paraellute-aordium,
spread, on 17 July, by Accidents & Suez Offences bill.
Yard. -26-- 32- 36 in. Bar.
Mr. Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure
oxygenic wax taper flame (obtained in Pimadilly), used in
its vehicle ' the lamp of life,' for nasal vacie-shield-bone
inhalation—by all Aeronauts, against the 151 b square inch
atmospheric pressure on the lungs—accounts for nlue-lipx'd
Glaisher suffering the 451b/it., tho' descent-saved by hydro-
gen gas-life Voltaic-circumvent—reminding him of Shen-
stone's Tulchan 'straw-calf' couplet (onQu'endrida
of Tip'ton), for bringing down the mayn°6th milkuser
c' That in Clent, as t martyr'd, under a thorn I mu.
Lieth, King Ken'elm with head off-shorn.' j
itg the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad IL's G.-daughter
Agatha, Malcolm m & wife Margaret's 9. offspring, now in
Spanish Escurial of Philip 11. (whose daddy, H CAR. v., was
(3-aunt-constable of England), as Saxon kin of Edward 111.,
herein ambush'd Salve Lucr°in' Pompeii yr. 79.
The quicksilver drop 16 an.—show aloft with I di-luced met
expansion of 'palxwn' evidenced the absence of xitro-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 Tucked-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
Monochord on entering 'Paradise where the first pair meet
at 151 n. deg., of Specula-crystalization to blood—on Airey's
false 31 barometer scale and : : Sector, to this latitude, to
a' hall of science' idea—to out Stephen's Parrment 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 thee of Indian Peter, with Surveyor LOGA.N's fishery
clatin-a-meter level, of 1818 Act, § 9, on '42-62.
So Windsor-tie bowl-waft Z°' erhead 0/hot, Cole region of
-ere.hr-Wulfra Hampton of EDGAR'S sister—jahn-lifeseat
to klieeton'd collapse, bull'srem (belly-paunch-like), on the
Lang-Nazulet of Oakham-ft,on Union deputy D.C.L. Pa 1,91
,91 Tulchan-pope vise, by xWrottesley's g?r6thy
merstort's
Dudley-War:dship of Bassett-wilton*Stamford.
This r cfyil education code Comigla 1826.31 go bye, Sir
C. Stuart, Admiral Hamond, & Hill Sandys' survey 29th
Aug., '2s—shows (Wages motur cbangel—for man's 9- re-
aeriform-within, in. cases of Low fire-damp on Vaccu° rarifi-
cation of the breathi for purification of the blood against any
police-blueskin Carbonic discolour of hands, ' at four miles
altitude' wing-life absence—sets a '32 TIBET precedent for
future Pendur umbrella-like bottomless pit dipfalls, tho' op-
posed to miltonie Virgil s oct-troy 9th discord comet spiral
Aine--(to Mtmdane-S-oval of Henry B's-lease at Ken-
ington-4Tiutt's ET caetera-1791', on sham Giichei ' of
anker star's white-Al ba-pait for 'Ruff's of Scotia minor) on
two Exeter Ursa stellar G-'9fegog ••• : : gyrationfwitnits
night poach N. bill, 6 August to J'sus-nomenalist' N day,
as th,a Rotherham-will, 1490, O.S. Te-tranf;faguration
errant .L'enfer—Conception fest° realist-idea. 'He rides;
A CD " Facilis defcendsus Xverni." [lndia
• • c*Atkyns- Montague C. ACXERLET, mx6c.
v, • • 12 W. Iv., No. 54, ' Chamberlayne' (lie-sworn.
V, •• PETER 13 A9QuET, Income-tax chief (1842 unp of
• China Ruff wall circuit horizon ofe—London Aug. :1.4.
3 1862) its Montgzuma-inch Admiralty red flag, no
Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793-Cluna, to
ler%
ee =es support, th 6
& GREY-CaUSO of Capt n s y.
ministers ue his brains, and mock him &c; to death.
/ntimoris to dalla voce, del Padrone su l onde,'
5..37.8 Carib-protec.torship oath on its
tdhuet, yTerxepa es nu or t u.rreethosfe £
tic:6op
pay
foro or
for holding to 1820-2
DI- yr reteining fee
which
richhis
EtNt
oi Nimrod-sentinel rloBdlB- n9ti,nfeolr
pe appointment,soil-
titleputy
Indian of America,
reply to their own unn..ripnlicez
under the polar map -inch
T voice, on an-juration act 1791 § 7)
(to Ackerley's
---to Romish Catholic corporate Labrador, Baltimore-
,aryland, and Brazil, under Luther church pay—for their
(Timce oath, unknown to him till Peter's arrival in 1851, as
PontiSs deputy—recognised by Earl Grey's Rovember
letter t :tat Indian justice should be done,'—by his election
as 'fit' Doputy High Constable of England t on report of
the theft of Tower stores 'J. King' issued to him in '42 for
Ashburton lad. survey of the New Found-land of Virginia,
by the Earl of Derby' and Blackwood, sectry.-holding the
Indian Yellow Cold-edged 1764 3ty. grant land at Freda.
rickton, N. Bruns widc• (Signed) Benj. Franklin, Rich-
mond -delegate—on 'l7BB Inseparable a jowls' by 1794's
Deputy Jefferson's IL.S.e. 1, ¢3 nesume-1819-26.
Whence the doubtfui subscribed public fund for the
Prince Consort Memorial of 1851 recognition, as above-
-11123 definite article of this adjective sentence under the
King of Prussia's signature at Windsor Castle, with Albert
of
and Wife of the Church for Sir Wm. Logan's survey
Canada—intimates to Sir C. Eastlake my 1842 VIOTORIA
co Conso rt-tie to th Soil right, has no reference to Act
Vin
ri'.in, proclaimi e
ng without Kelly's City nomen to P.C.
icto
for a double sectarian Kirk-head illegality.
t On the Broad arrow stamp to Cuba's Bell towers by
1761 Quadruple 3ty-sign grants of America, till Spanish
cutting logwood convention of 178 or Brant's
Nwl deputyr
-
Percy assumption on Peter's grandfat2, f
her, John war
removal to Spanish Ezqu'real for their relic-title to Cum-
berland Fort, Nova Scotia, Indian Chia over the Con-
stable's hors©, removad to their Hali-gone'mn stable by
George m tacit Rexadraission for Clarence Belies lAfrie.
To M— Jefferies, & Tame-(worth, Stour-Trent
Anker e. river DEE fishery ou Poor-law 0. S. audits, March
25, Rate in aid 0n43-Eliz.) in Irye part of Guy's Hospital
by 21 July, 1521-211 CARL. V. & IL 8, of Southark 'bar' for
Clapham's Conjugate reciprocity Oty, to Yellow Tiber'
Gaul' Zolls
-
verein trustee.ship, yr 42—on the 4 great nations of
Lion Pont del' Arcuba/istar'y—Jetsam-statute 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 lin receipt of my father's life-hold name estate—its
rental being withheld by Attorney Cole's freehold voting
on my brother Chamberlayne by 1-2 Will. rv., No. 64,
(not Ackerley), whence the double forge of " Charles and
C. Henry," in Master of Roll's toist-decree, 15th March,
'62, touching the `S'Bourton ON the Water Act, by Cole'r
as canal Ells-mere agent of Saugh-&-ivashall, of Dean and
Chapter of Chester's Crt. of itairfax delegates, Nov., 1807-
9, on-Yoßx—'excommunication of name—Tie-palatine.'
" As ' Hawksey•-owl, in desert line
' Hugh Loop'd now, am I—Lo one."
(See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & July 19.)

CIRYSTAL PALACE.-TOMORROW
‘-..1 (FRIDAY) ALL the GREAT FOUNTAINS.—One

;hillilig.

THE GREAT FOUNTAINS are one of the
Special Attractions of the Crystal Palace. They will
all be Displayed at Four To-Morrow.

pip AL AIS DE CRISTAL.-TOUTES LES
GRANDES EAI7X DEMAIN, Quatre Heures.

C ANTERBURY HALL.
Grand Selections from
"DON SEI3ASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE,"
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Signor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor,
Artistes-Miss Mr. Russell Grover.
The great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Ellsworth (the
orirrinal Stump orator, "Or any other man." Also the fol-
lowing Comic favourites-3Tarshall, as " Lord Dundreary ;"
J. G. Forde, A. B. Hollingsworth, and Miss Georgina
Smithson.
Visitors to London are informed that the Picture Gallery
18 open to the public on Sunday evenings.

T 11 E 0 X F 0 R D,
6, OXFORD STREET.
Verdi's " IL CORSARO " Every Evening, by Miss Russell.
Messrs. AI orley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and
Chorus ; the Comic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes
and Mr. Randall, the Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey,
Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the origins,. " or
an,/ other mall), and the astounding feats on the Flying
Trapeze of DEBONNAIttE.
Ball, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

*** For full particulars et amusements see first page.
THEATRE-ROYA.L, DRURY-LANE.
i„ A KISS IN Ticr
'This Even"-" Ab E ..-E DARK. After which,
f the ra nte
the first part o
THE COLLEEN
%%lament at half-past 7. To
nv THE DESERT •
A.VirN 'To conclude with
be followed bY
THE ARABS ,-,' DESERT, 4 Troupe of the Beni-
Zoug-Zoug.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAT/AA.,
Cisa,otiter which,
This Evening-, FIST' OUT OF WATER'. BET.
OUR AMERICAN COUSI'N. With
And THE CHRISTENING. ''CA-LIA.
Commence at 7.
.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.
After which, Tax
This Evening,. OUR CLERKS. ,BREAKER bt.k.
Followed by THE PRETTY HORSE • AAA
THE SHILLING DAY.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. h, at a
Thig Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After whiC
r"
quarter to 8, KING HENRY VIII. With THE
POLTS

Commence at 7.