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Derby's officials were accused. The only consolation of
an alleviating character that is left for us amid the con-
vulsion in the money-market is the prospect of bread and
meat being ls. a mouthful. It cannot be said that that
has been done by the noblemen and gentlemen of
the counties for their own benefit. That is the only
pull in a selfish point of view that we have. It
is a deplorable state of things that we have a Cabi-
net composed of statesmen without a party, who are
staking the very existence of the honour and cre-
dit of the country upon the decisions and num-
bers of public meetings that Ministers of the Crown get
on waggons and platforms in order to give their opinions
weight at the next Cabinet Council. I sincerely wish
well to the objects of your meeting. I cannot see my
way in this crash of the Conservative party, and I know
that the gentlemen of the Hedingham district under-
stand the local but meritorious object of their meeting
better than I do • but at the same time I acknowledge
that I have neither the heart nor courage to attend and
speak my real opinions of the causes that have brought
about this internal confusion and break-down of our
party in the House of Commons. I admit it would
bring such a hornet's nest about my ears, attended with
no beneficial result, that I shall refrain from attending
meetings, and content myself with floating upon the
political surface till some event takes place that may
render it less disagreeable than it would be now, by
coming in conflict with many of those with whom we
have fought many a battle.—l am, &c.

" J. T. TYRELL."
The second was from Major Beresford, and was
as follows :

" r Hampton Court,
t,Aoscsot.cila3t,lolnB,s3
" You will oblige me by communicating to the
mem-
bers of the Hincidod Agricultural
that
upon mature consideration I have thought it advisable
to abstain from attending the dinner at Castle Heding-
ham on Friday. Till within a few weeks it was my
decided resolution to have taken advantage of their
annual meeting to lay before them -and the constituency
of North Essex a full and detailed statement of the
transactions connected with the Derby election and
the consequent inquiry, and to have vindicated
myself from the unjust and malignant imputations
which I have borne hitherto in silence, awaiting that
opportunity to expose and refute them. A fresh perse-
cution has been lately commenced against me. The
whole matter has been opened afresh, and is to be
brought to the issue of a trial. Such proceedings ne-
cessarily preclude me from entering into those explana-
tions which might be impolitic as far as I am indi-
vidually concerned, but which must be unfair towards
others whose cause has been mixed up with mine upon
this occasion. It would not therefore become me to present
myself at Castle Hedingham tongue-tied, neither would
it be justifiable to put forward a one-sided statement to
prejudice the case before it was fairly submitted to the
tribunal by which it was to be investigated. Such is
the reason which induces me, however distasteful it is to
my own inclination, to absent myself to-morrow from the
meeting. I trust that those to whom you will read this
letter will patiently await the conclusion of those legal
proceedings before they condemn unheard, or on the ex-
parte assertion of malignant enemies, one whose unre-
mitting exertions for six years in the cause of the agri-
cultural and Conservative interests, if overlooked by the
party in whose service he has toiled, have not been for-
gotten by their opponents and his unrelenting perse-
cutors.—l am, &c.

" WILLIAM BERESFORD."
The toast having been enthasiastically drunk,
Sir W. B. SMIJTH, M.P., returned thanks.

The " health of Mr. C..Ducane and Mr. J. T.
Miller," the members for Maldon, who had been
unseated on petition ; " Lord J. Manners and Mr.
Hawkins, the Conservative Members for Colches-
ter ;" "The Yeomen of Essex ;" " The Chair-
man ;" " The Committee ;" " The Ladies ;" and
other toasts followed, which protracted the pro-
ceedings until a late hour.

IMPORTANT TO TRACT DISTRIBUTORS.

A young man named William Smith was brought be-
fore Mr. O'Callaghan, the sitting magistrate at Capel-
street police-station, Dublin, on Saturday, charged by
Mr. Martin A. O'Brennan, with having acted in a man-
ner calculated to provoke him to a breach of the peace,
by thrusting a handbill or tract of a sectarian character
into his hand on the public street. The case excited
considerable interest, Mr. O'Brennan having published
his own version of it in the shape of a letter to a
morning paper ; and the office was crowded to excess
with persons anxious to witness the proceedings.
Mr. Whithorne appeared for the prisoner.
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GATESHEAD.—.Oct. 14, cholera, 3.

Mr. O'Brennan (who is a Roman Catholic schoolmas-

ter, residing in Bolton-street,) having been sworn, said
—Yesterday evening, whilst I was going to the theatre
with a lady I was encountered by this man in Sackville-
street ; he "thrust" a paper violently into my hand, and
as he and a woman who was standing by both laughed
at time, I took it for granted that something was
wrong. Accordingly I opened the paper, and found that
it was a species of tract, containing matter which I look
on in the light of a nuisance. lam of opinion that when
a man is going about his business no one has a right to
offend his feelings in this way by thrusting into his hand
a paper which is calculated to irritate and drive him to
commit a breach of the peace ; under these circus:-
stances, I felt it to be a duty, as a lover of peace, to give
this person into custody, in order to put a stop to what
I consider to be a most noxious and dangerous system
of addressing people in the street, and asking them to
read articles entirely opposed to their religious tenets ;
for my own part, I would rather receive a dose of poison
than the poisonous matter contained in this paper.
(The paper " handed" to Mr. O'Brennan by the pri-
soner consisted of an invitation to Roman Catholics to
attend a sermon to be preached by the Rev. J. O'Carroll,
A. 8., S.T.C.D., in St. Luke's Church, on Sunday even-
ing next, upon the alleged supremacy of St. Peter.)
Mr. O'Callaghan (to witness)—Have you any reason
to believe that the prisoner knew who you were when
acting in the way you have stated ?
Witness—From the fact of his laughing, I think he
must have known me. He admitted alter his arrest that

he was the agent of the Rev., Mr. M'Carthy, of St.
Michan's parish.
Mr. Whithorne (to witness)—How long is it since you
put the " 0 " before your name ?
Witness—l don't choose to tell you.
[The witness was, till lately, in the habit of styling
himself simply Mr. M. A. Brennan.]
Mr. Whithorne—Were your feelings very much hurt ?
Witness—Yes, my feelings as agentleman. (Laughter.)
Mr. Whithorne—Yon are an orator.
Witness (with a complacent smile)—Yes, I think I
am. (Laughter.)
Mr. Whithorne—And you are a publisher too ?
Witness—Yes, I write for the press occasionally.
(Great laughter.)
Mr. Whithorne—And you wish to bring your name

into great repute ?
Witness (seemingly offended by the question)--Sir,
my name has been in great repute for many years.
(Roars of laughter.)

Mr. Whithorne—You published a note about this
case in the Freeman's Journal of this morning. What
was your object in doing so ?
Witness—My object was to call the attention of the
public and of the public authorities to this system of
circulating tracts, which are, in my opinion, more poi-
sonous than the most noxious miasmata. (Laughter.)
Mr. O'Callaghan—Do you swear that he "thrust " it
into your hand ?
Witness—He did. I saw a number of similar papers
in his possession after he was taken to the police station.
Mr. Whithorne submitted that his client had commit-
ted no offence in point of law. All he did was to
" hand " the paper quietly to Mr. O'Brennan, and for
doing that he was not only arrested, but actually kept
in close confinement during the entire night. The charge
was such a trumpery one altogether that he did not think
it necessary to go any further with the defence.
Mr. O'Callaghan (to witness)—Did I understand you
to say from what took place there was any likelihood
that a breach of the peace might ensue ?
Witness —My opinion is that " if "my temper had not
been controlled by education, it is " probable" that I
might have struck him.

Mr. O'Callaghan—lt strikes me, to say the least of it,
to be exceedingly indiscreet and improper for any man,
whatever may be his religious opinions, to thrust them
upon another man who, as in this instance, is of a d if-
ferent way of thinking. If a paper put into a persons
hand contains anything that is likely to make him angry,
or to disturb his feelings, it is, in my judgment, calcu-
lated to provoke a breach of the peace, and it is the pro-
vincete of the magistrate (who is termed a justice of. 11_
peace) to take care that it is sufficiently presertvheed
cannot entertain a doubt that conduct such as the
lead
toi
soner has been guilty of is greatly calculatedh has oc-
a breach of the peace ; but as no actual.
' curred in this instance, I will only requiroefthe prisoner
good beha-
' to enter into his own recognisanccs to be
viour for the future.
elk for me, but as
Prisoner—l have no witness to sp
sure as I stand before your worship I did not `r thrust"
the bill into Mr. O'Bren I simply offered it,
nan's hand.
and he took it, without the least pressure on
I can, in all these
:nY part.
Mr. O'Callaghan--I am a justifce of the peace,
be committeadndfoir
am determined to preserve itt
0, sboaiair
oars
cases. You must enter in
14 days.
The prisoner accordingly entered into the required
bail, and was discharged from custody.

TLTE LATE SHIPWRECK ON BARRA-HEAD.—GLASGOW,
Sunday Afternoon.--The steamer Islay arrived at the
Brownielaw early this morning with 40 passengers, saved
from the disastrous wreck of the Annie Jane. They
left Barra in a small sailing smack on the morning of
Wednesday last, and, arriving at Tobermory in the
course of the same night, were thence forwarded to Glas-
gow. The majority of the passengers are pretty well
attired, having obtained clothing from the wreck of the
boxes which were cast ashore ; but many are totally pen-
niless, and 18 of the number had to receive food and
shelter during the night in the police-office. Captain
Mason, with the remainder of the passengers, including
most Of the women, still remain on Barra.

A' '.- )

~ 0ct.17.)

Board of Health,
ith the directors
of the poor of the parishes of St. Giles and St. George,
Bloomsbury, with a view to the preparation of plans
for securing the preservation of the public health in
those districts.

Mr. Yardley, of the metropolitan police office, has
to-day reported to the General Board of Health seven
cases of cholera in the parishes of St. George in the
East, Shadwell, Bermondsey, Kennington, and Green-
wich, and on board the ship Ivey, in the river Thames.
Dr. Milroy, in pursuance of the instructions of the
General Board of Health, has just inquired into and
reported upon the sanitary condition of the Queen's
Bench Prison in so far as it may be affected by the foul
effluvia arising from the knacker's yards, bone-boiling
factories, &c., in its immediate vicinity. Attention was
drawn to these nuisances a few days since by Captain
Hudson, in a letter addressed by him to Viscount Pal-
merston, and referred by his lordship to the General
Board of Health. Dr. Milroy observes :
" That it appears from the statements of all whom I
examined that the stench from the factories, &c., com-
plained of, is often so horrible, more especially when the
wind comes from their direction, that not only must
every window be shut, but the inmates of the prison--
the average number of all within the walls, including the
officers and their families, is about 200—are frequently
so nauseated that they cannot take their meals when
brought to them. One of the patients in the infirmary,
suffering chronic asthma, stated that his breathless-
ness was always much increased whenever the air
was polluted by the emanations from the bone-boil-
ing and other offensive trades in the neighbourhood.
On such occasions he was forced to leave the rear
of the building, which is most exposed to the dis-
gusting nuisance, and go into a room in front ; but
even then he did not find relief unless he at the same
time closed the windows. The proper ventilation
of the infirmary at the very season when it is most
required is seriously impeded, nor should it be forgotten
that .the weather when the mephitic effluvia are the
most powerful is that when the freest aeration is the
most necessary to health and for the prevention of dis-
ease. The testimony of Mr. Watson, the surgeon of
the prison, leaves no doubt as to the results of the nui-
sance in the production and aggravation of sickness. 'I
attribute the prevalence of bowel-complaints in the
prison,' he says, to a great extent, to be caused by the
noxious effluvia arising from the knackers' and bone-
boiling yards in Green-street, and this I observe is par-
ticularly the case with prisoners recently committed,
who invariably complain to me of nausea and loss of
appetite, which they attribute to the peculiar offensive
effluvia. During the prevalence of north-westerly winds
it is at times quite impossible to open the Infirmary win-
dows for the necessary ventilation.' Captain Hudson
and Lieut. Evison, the Governor and Deputy Governor
of the prison, testify to the depressing and otherwise
hurtful influence of the atmospheric pollutions upon the
health of their families, who have been much more ailing
since they have resided in the place than they were
before, and both gentlemen very decidedly say that
they would refuse to live on the spot, if the nature of
their duties did not render residence compulsory. From
a list given to me by Captain Hudson, I find that in one
street alone there are no fewer than four bone-boilers,
three slaughterers of horses and other animals, two cat-
gut manufacturers, and one bone button manufacturer.
The Board of Guardians of St. George the Martyr have
made more than one attempt to suppress the nuoiances,
but hitherto they have been foiled. They are still most
desirous to get rid of them from a conviction of their
pernicious effects ; and at the recent interview which
Mr. Hall, of the Poor Law Board, and I had with the
board to confer with them upon the measures to be
adopted at the present time for the protection of the
public health; the chairman pressed upon our 'attention
the necessity of means being taken to correct the two
monster nuisances—viz., the horrible condition of the
sewers, and the disgusting trades of bone-boiling, cat-
gut spinning, and horse slaughtering, carried on in the
midst of a thickly peopled neighbourhood."

NEWCASTLE-lIPON-TYNE.—DEATHS.-OCt. 15— Cho -
lora, 2 ; diarrhma, 2. Oct. 16—Cholera, 2 ; diarrhoea,
2. The total number of deaths from cholera and diar-
rhcea. in Newcastle during the present outbreak has been
1,501. In the same period (namely, the first 46 days)
during the prevalence of epidemic cholera in 1331-2, the
number of deaths was 289.

SCOTLAND.—Dundee, Oct. 15, cholera, 1. Glasgow,
Oct. 14, cholera, 1. Edinburgh, Oct. 14, cholera, 1.
DARLINGTON.—Oct. 15, cholera, 1.
BRRNTFORD.—OCt. 14, cholera, 1.

HAMBURGH.—The visitation of cholera appears to have
been comparatively slight ; only 15 fresh cases have oc-
curred since the 26th of September, and no new case
was notified to the authorities on the 6th of October, nor
on the three preceding days. The total number of per-
sons attacked is stated to have been 537, of whom 279
died( and 201 recovered, 51 remaining at that date under
treatment. In all human probability the community of
Hamburg are indebted for their comparative immunity
to the improved sanitary condition of their city since the
last visitation in 1848. In that year great mortality oc-
curred among the British seamen in this port, amount-
ing to upwards of 800 ; but on this occasion an eminent
English medical practitioner of the city, Dr. Helbert,
has been officially appointed to visit the captains and
crews of British merchant vessels in the port and neigh-
bourhood of Hamburg. Under the zealous service of Dr.
Helbert upwards of 400 vessels have been visited, and be-
tween 40 and 50 cases requiring immediate assistance were
thus discovered, of which only three have proved fatal, all
the deaths being from developed cholera. It is stated that
but for this ship visitation, very few of these men would
have been brought under medical treatment at all, and
still fewer in time for treatment th have been of any
avail. Speaking of the British seaman generally, Dr.
Helbert says, " I think the general state of their health
i 3 very satisfactory. In comparison with the Hamburg
population, these English sailors look much stronger and
healthier. As I often had occasion to visit the vessels at
dinner-time, I was generally struck with the excellent
food they had, which is far superior to that of the Ger-
mans ; particularly there always was a much larger
allowance of meat than the Germans have." The great
distance of the hospital from the port (namely, about
three miles) is greatly and justly complained of. It is
always difficult and often dangerous to remove the sick
so far, and even when they safely arrive at the hospital,
the journey produces a depressing effect. Attempts
have been made to remedy this evil, but hitherto without
success, though it is stated that a seaman's hospital
might be supported at a very moderate expense, were
the seamen to pay only at the same rate as they do at
present in the general hospital. namely, one mark daily.