The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-18 00:00:00

Our correspondent, writing cn the sth, says :
" I have just heard from Washington to the following
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THE UNITED STATES.

LONDON.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
LIVERPOOL, MoNDAy NiGuT.
The royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Jud-
kins, which passed 1101.)head at noon to-day, reached
the north west light ship about six o'clock this evening,
where she was obliged to stop for water, the state of
the tide et that time not permitting her to cross the
Bar. The steam-tender Satellite, Captain Parry, met
the Canada below the light-ship, and took up the mails
and papers on board the Canada. She reports that
the Niagara at Halifax had arrived out, and that the
Caledonia was met at Boston on the 31st ult.
The Washington, from Southampton, had, after a
passage of fifteen days, reached New York.
The Canada brings 112 passengers, and details of
the cause why the Hibernia has not made her passage
in the regular time, 1;1.0 is yet on the other side of the
Atlantic.
One of the Halifax papers of the 7th inst. says :
" The Hibernia, on entering the harbour, struck on
the rocks at Chebueto Head, and knocked a hole in her
bottom. She was greurded in the deck immediately
after her arrival, and the pumps have been incessantly
wet ked to kee p her free of water. Efforts were made
to stop uc leak by building over it. They must have
succeeded, as situ sailed again on Saturday afternoon.
"From one of the Admiralty agents, Lieutenant Ray-
mond, we have received the following report :
" The ilibkJ.nia was proceeding at slow speed, the
weather being foggy ; she had a sea pilot on board in
whose charge ttw ship was then placed, and the c n•
firmed to proceed at the same reducA speed.
" At 6 30 A. 31. (August 31) she struck on Chcbucto
Head Rocks, and sprat g a leak forward.
" The engines were immediately reversed and trimmed
by the stern. At 6.55 the port anchor and fifteen
fav,orns of chain cable were dropped under foot, and
she was backed cif and proceeded up the harbour to her

- The Cabinet have held a meeting, and the impres-
sion prevails that ti.ey have decided to receive an accre-
dited Miniqtr from Hungary, to recognise its independ-
ence, and to enter into treaties.'
" This, however, is nothing but a rumour; yet I have
heard from another quarter that the affairs of Hungary
have been actually discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet

West Distri&-s •••
Nor:h Districts
Central Districts ...
&Ist I)stricts
South Districts ...

2371 49 53 58

Cour4cil.
" Thus far the United States House of Representatives
shows 109 'Whip acid - 104 Democrats. A few more
Members are yet to b?, elected."
The crops of provisions bid fair to be very large
this season, and bu:,:.ers are holding back before
making their purchases.
Sugars remain the same as last quoted. There was
not a hogshead fur shipment to France.
The market was almost entirely bare.
Exchange on London was quoted at 13 to 15, and
on New York 5 per cent. premium.

Total

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
MitursToNE.—The hops seem to come down short
of expectation in every ground that we have heard of,
in this neighbourhood. One of the best (Mr. Gur-
ney'e) will fall shore one-third. The quality, where
the hops have grown out of the blight, is generally
very fine, but many other grounds are much damaged
by the mould. Indeed it is the opinion of some old
planters that in route of tle first-mentioned grounds
the samples will be better than they have been for
years. It is not expected here that the duty will
reach 90,0001.
WATERINGBUR.Y, TESTON, MEREWORTH, AND NET,
TLESTEAD.—The imps in these parishes are far from
good as to quality and also far from great as to
quantity, as the pickings will show ; although there
may be instances to the contrary, yet the result will
prove that we are far from an average crop.
WEST MALLING..--.-This week will nearly finish the
picking, which will be made short work of this year.
All come down much short of expectation. The duty
is supposed to be much over-rated.
EAST Mannereca—Nearly all the planters have be-
gun to pick, and some have left off again owing to
the bighted hops not being sufficiently ripe to take
the fire. It is a general complaint that they come
down full one third short of expectation. But few
pockets have as yet passed the excise scale.
BRENCHLEY.—Picking is now in full operation.
The crop is evident ly very much short of what many
have set them at on the poles, and the opinion of ex-
perienced planters ie that we shall not average 4 cwt.
per acre in this parish, the number of acres in plant
being nearly 500.
YALDING AND HUNTON.—Picking has become
general. The hops come down genet ally far short of
what before was at ticipated, but there are many fine
samples procured.
RoavaNDEN.--Picking became general yesterday.
Some planters who began lost week cleared the
ground quite as fast as expected. A few pockets
have been vveiglier-3, which required about sixty-three
bushels to the cw'z. According to our parish we think
the duty overrated.
lloasmoisnaer.—The picking in this parish will
very soon be over as we fall shorter and shorter, from
the slackness of Vine ; the hops having the advantage
of sun and air, are excellent in condition. Every
L planter in the parish has overrated his growth; in
tact, there was but one person who had any accurate
l idea of the growth, and that was the wite of one of
l our largest planters. The very best garden in the
3 parish was laid at 5i tons; it came down at 3 tons 12
I cwt. ; so on in every instance and shorter still.
D CRANDROOK.--Picking is proceeding rapidly, the
2 complaints of s'aort returns are universal.
3 EDENBRIDGR. Picking has commenced in this
1
8 parish, but the nops come down very light, under one
O cwt. per acre as yet.
6 CANTERBURY.—PiCkiIIg is now in general opera-
• tion in this neighbourhood, and in most instances the
o produce falls be low the estimated quantity. It is
O generally though that this district will not contribute
3 morn than one-th.ird of the amount of last year's duty,
1 and hence the estOa-rate for Canterbury which has ap-
O geared is overrated. The duty meets supporters at
1
1 90,0001. to 95,000/., to reach which some districts
O must prove more favoured than East Kent promises.
1 ORPINGTON.--We commenced "licking on Thurday
O last, in the only grcund that will have a bin in it,
o and to give you. as correct an idea of the crop
undthis
o year, compared with last, in this particular gro,
o we have picked off the best two acres 369 bushels
1 (of which last year we picked 1,381 bushels). The
CI rest off the ground will come down shorter than this,
and we cannot reckon on more than 1-1 cwt. per acre.
O TICEHURST.—Some good samples have been ga-
-1 thered in this parish, but the quantity per acre in
I most places comes short of expectation, and the
O general opinion, is that the present estimated duty is
a too high.
2 HURSTGRERN.—Picking has become general, and
O many come down short of expectation, about 75
8 bushels to the cwt.
2 FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS,
3 SEPT. 17.—The hop-picking at Farnham is progress-
() •
ing very favourably both as to quantity and quality.
1 We wish we could say as much of the " country ;
O the quantity falls short, but the quality is very good.
—Maidstone Gazette of this day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK.—Since the last steamer business has re-
vived to a great extent, and all departments are now
very active. The disappearance of the cholera had
brought a large accession of visitors from all parts of the
country, and goo:is are going eff freely. The payments
from the interior are prompt, and the trade of the sea-
son promises to be as large and safe as that of any pre-
vious one since 1836.
The money market remains abundantly supplied with
capital, and there is no change in the rates on bills. On
good collaterals loans are made at 4 to 8 per cent., and
even lower in same cases. Business paper sells at sto
7 per cent. for short time, and 8 to 10 per cent. for long
time. The banks are full of specie, and are dise,:unting
all the good paper offered. The amount of coin is the
State Treasury at this point has accumulated to 3,200,000.
The exchange market has been inactive for this steamer,
with a good stvply of bills. First class sterling closed
dull, at 9- ; but good names could be had et 81- 91.
Francs, 5 271 to 25.

CANADA.
The news from Canada is not important. We '
make the following extracts :
" MONTREAL, AUG. 25.—The long and arduous
labours of the coroner's jury over the body of Mason,
shot during a recent edicute, have at length come to a
close. They rendered a verdict that the deceased
'.i‘lason) came to his death by having been shot by some
person cr persons unknown to them; and that such
person or persons were firing in defence cot' the life and
property of M. Llfontainc. The jury, at the same time,
expressed their opinion that, had the corporation used
timely and necessary precaution, the calamity would
have been avoided; and that said corporation were very
much to blame for such neglect.
" MONTREAL, AUG. 27.—At a meeting of the Exe-
cutive Council it in as said to be determined to retain the
seat of government here, and to keep the horse police
out of the city. MM. Lafontaine and Merritt have left
for Halifax, supposed on business of the Custom-house
League.
" MONTREAL, AUG. 29.—Everything here now is
quiet, and judging from the general feeling of the people,
is likely to remain so. Special constables patrol the
streets all night, to prevent the occurrence of fires, which
are feared from depredators.
"Five hundred houses are vacant at Montreal, and
rents have fallen considerably. Many labouring people
are finding their way to the United States, not being able
to get emplo merit in Canada.
" MONTREAL. AUG. 31.—The opinion is becoming
general that differential duties will be imposed on Ame-
rican goods, unless the Government of the United States
will consent to reciprocity in navigation-laws.:
" MONTREAL, SEPT. I.—To-day Government Ex-
change on London for 25;000 sold, by tender, for 10 to
10i. The Governor is expected to arrive in town to-
morrow.
" MONTREAL, SEPT. 3.—Governor-General expected
and he will attend the church.-26,0001. in Government,
Exchange sold at 1011 per cent.—Wheather fine, cholera
bad."

station.
" After undergoing repairs she resumed her voyage
with her passengers and the mails.
" On the 4th she experienced unfavourable weather,
which caused her to labour heavily, and the leak to in-
crease to three feet an hour by 9 A.M., up to which time
her four bilge pumps, with the aid of an injection every
hour for eight minutes, kept her free. The leak had
now iner4ased nice inches i.n fifteen minutes upon the
four bilge pumps, being at the rate of three feet per hour,
as above stated. These circumstances rendered it neces-
sary to use the injection for ten minutes every quarter
of an hour. An attempt was made to place a foresail
over the leak, but it was unsuccessful. A consultation
was then held between the Admiralty agent, the com-
mander, and the chief engineer, who, after maturely
considering tie imminent risk of continuing her on her
course, agreed upon the urgent necessity of bearing up
for Halifax. where she arrived at 5.20 A.M. on the 7sh.
"On the Bth, at 3 20 A.M., the Canada arrived from New
York, and having taken on board her own mails and
passengers, and those of the Hibernia, proceeded on her
voyage to England at six o'clock the same morning."
Captain Stone, of the Hibernia, thus writes to the
agents:—
So far as I am able to form an opinion, I think the
injury the ship has sustained is entirely confined to her
tore toot ; or, in other words, she only touched the rock

forward.
" The Hibernia proceeds to New York for repairs.'
On considering this unfortunate accident, it is
pleasing to find that the captain and his officers
are entirely without blame in the matter, and that in
the trying emergency in which the ship was placed
they have manifested that skill and coolness which
is so eminently requisite in persons having such an
important charge in hand, and for which, moreover,
the cap4tins and crews of the British and North
American royal mail steamships are justly celebrated.
This opinion was very strongly expressed by the
passengers, who met on board the Hibernia on the
Gth inst„ and passed the following resolutions, the
Hon. Joseph Balestier in the chair :
" Resolved—That this meeting is of opinion that Capt.
James Stone is in no manner whatever blameable for the
grounding of the ship Hibernia on the morning of the
31st of August on Chebucto Head Rocks, as he bad at
the time two experienced pilots in charge of the ship, and
was hi calf on duty.
"Resolved—That Captain Stone acted strictly in ac-
cordance with his duty in returning towards Halifax on
Tuesday, the 4th inst., as, in the disabled condition of
the ship, the lives, mails, and property on board, would
have been put in imminent danger had the vessel pro-
ceeded on her voyage to England, and they cordially ap-
prove of the conduct adopted by Captain Stone.
" Resolved—That this meeting is of opinion that
Captain Stone, his officers, engineers, and crew generally,
have ever shown great skill and seal in carrying out the
duties of the ship, when placed in danger, as well as at
all other times, and that Captain Stone, bis officers, engi-
ne( rs, avel crew generally are entitled to the best thanks
of the mf eting.
":11solved—That the chairman be requested to com-
municate the above resolutions to Captain Stone."
These resolutions were signed by all the male
passengers on board the Hibernia.
We regret to learn that the splendid packet ship
Henry Clay, which formerly used to bring us late
intelligence from New York has been wholly
destroyed by fire.
A communication from New York, written just
before the steamer sailed, thus alludes to the

CO U CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, SEPT. 15.

There hls been no interruption to the usual even
.enour of the liFe of Ler Majesty and her Majesty's
Family at Balmoral for the last two days.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
the Matuitius, and St. Helene.

"BETTER FED TITAN TAUGHT."
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
Let him look about who wanders,
And he'll surely find,
When he notes where Fortune squanders,
That she must ba blind.
Gilded ignoi ante will jostle
Poor Wit from the wall;
While brute Wealth pursues its wassail,
Worth waits iu the hall;
And when such strange things confound ua
WI may come the thought,
Oh! hop many are there round us
" Better fed than taught!"

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
ALLEGED MAI:SLAUGHTER OF A MARRIED
WOMAN BY HER I:IUSBAND.—Before Mr. H. M.
Wakley, at the Perseverance, Weston-street, King's-
cross, on the body of Yiary Anne Porter, aged 34.
Mary Casey, a midwife from the workhouse, who
was on Thursday last sent to attend deceased, said
that she had then all the symptoms of Asiatic
cholera. In the evening the husband came home in
a state of drunkenness. He kissed her and said,
" Tell the nurse did I ill-use you." Ehe replied,
" Leave off—don't kill me altogether." She had
been delivered of a child the previous Monday, and
it died of cholera on Wednesday.
Elizabeth Bandon saw the husband, on the day
before the child was born, throw his wife on the bed,
and dreadfully beat her; after which, he and his son
(deceased's step child) went out. Deceased's cheek
and lips were frightfully swollen by the beating.
Matilda Maddow stated, that on the Sunday men-
tioned b the previous witness, deceased came nto
her room, and said that her husband had stabbed her
in the arm. Her lips were dreadfully swollen.
Mr. Popham, surgeon, accompanied by Mr.
Eastell, another district surgeon, visited deceased
on the Wednesday before her death. The husband
and her sister were in the room, and attempted
to force her from the „bed, when he (Mr. Popham)
said, " Fellow, what are you doing ? You will kill
the woman." She gradually sunk until Friday,
when she died. tle performed a post m2r-
tem examination. The body was one mass
of bruises. Her upper lip was swollen and
cut inside. On the top of the head was a wound
which reached the brain, causing congestion of the
brain. There was a wound behind the ear. The left •
side along the ribs was also bruised. She died of
Asiatic cholera, and the injuries might hare been
moving causes to the disease. Had she not died of
cholera, the injuries in course of time would have
caused death.
Verdict—Deceased died of Asiatic cholera, after
having been cruelly and disgracefully treated by her
husband.
At the close of the inquiry the police arrested the
husband to charge him with his wife's death before
the divisional magistrate.
DEATH OF MR. W. WALKER, STOCKBROKER, FROM
CH,LEna.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Horns, Hackney-
road, on view of the body of Mr. W. Walker, aged sixty,
who died of Asiatic cholera, at No. 45, Cut tain-road.
Deceased was by profession a stockbroker, and was a
frequenter of the block Exchange. Ho was of the most
penurious habits, and lived with his brother, who was also
of an eccentric disposition. They would never allow visits
from any one, and the room which they occupied had not
barn entered fur months by any ono except themselves.
It was in a most filthy state, and there were boxes is it
piled one above another. Deceased was in the course of
the last fortnight twice attacked with Asiatic cholera.
He was attended by Mr. Bowen, who stated that the
room occupied by the deceased was in such a revolting
condition as was quite sufficient to lead to an attack of
the disease. Deceased was stated to be in possession of
property. Verdict—" Death from Asiatic cholera."

When we see a stately madam,
In some lofty place,
Proud as any child of Adam,
Of her worldly grace,—
When we hear her lips inveighing,
Bitterly and long,
Against some lowly sister straying
In the path of wrong,—
When she breathes the loud decrying,
As no Christian ought,—
Charity keeps gently sighing,
" Better fed than taught."
Whets we find a Priest, who groweth
Greater every year,
Taking corn that labour soweth,
When 'tis in the ear,—
W hen we see his heart get thinner
As his tithes increase,
Snatching from the helpless sinner
All he can of fleece,—
When we find such saints defaming
Creeds with mercy fraught,—
Tell me, who can help exclaiming,
"Better fed than taught!"
When we see a young man leaning
Idly on his gold,
Large in speech, but small in meaning,
Out of danger, bold,—
When we see him rude to Weakness,
Insolent to Age,
Trampling on the words of Meekness,
With a braggart's rage,—
When we note the revel vision
Of his brain distraught,—
Wisdom sneers, in cool derision,
" Better fed than taught!"

disaster :
" Tne New York and Liverpool packet-ship Henry
Clay, took fire at her wharf, foot of Marden-lane, East
River, at three Ain. to day, September 5. She was
loaded with cotton and turpentine. It is expected she
will be a total loss. She was scuttled, with the view to
save her, but the water at the wharf was not deep
enough, and the effort failed. She was to have sailed
for Liverpool to-morrow, September 6. She is still
burning, and is now nearly destroyed to the water's
edge. All hopes of putting out the fire have of course
been given up. The cause of the fire is unknown. One
reason that has been assigned is the heating of the damp
cotton on board."
The United States sloop of war Dale arrived at
New York on the 30th ult. from San Francisco, with
65,000 dollars in specie ; no freight. The Empire
City was expected in a few days from Chagres. It
is probable she will bring two or three weeks' later
intelligence from California.
General Taylor was at Niagara Falls.
The cholera was decreasing.
Colonel Benton had been arrested for a libel.
A meeting of' Northern and Southern delegates,
with regard to a revision of the tariff, had been held
at Newport; about fifty delegates were present.
Nothing was finally agreed on but the policy of
changing the basis of duties from ad valorem to
specific. A slight increase of duty on iron, coal,
wool, woollen and cotton goods was recommended.
The annual report of the State Treasurer of Penn-
sylvania gives a most gratifying exhibit of the condi-
tion of the finances of that state. From Mexico we
learn that the Mexican Government on the 11th ult.
was in difficulty with Mr. C. M'lntosh in regard to a
contract for the railroad across the isthmus of
Tehuantepec. The Government intend to back out
from the agrement; while 3.lllntosh insists on its
fulfilment. The Chamber of Deputies authorised
the Government to raise half a million on the pledge
of the imports, but the measure would probably be
defeated in the Senate.
The late Financial Minister, Senor Arranjeuz,
has been appointed Miniater to France. It was
rumoured that Herreira intended to resign the Pre-
sidency in favour of Gutitrrea, the present Minister
of Finance.
The municipal elections, which have just closed,
give a large majority to the monarchical party Con-
gress was still in session, but was doing nothing of
importance.
The cholera was prevailing in the state of Durango
to s frightful extent.
The Traite d'Union of Mexico, of the 11th ult.,
says, " As to the regulation of the debt, it is postponed
to a more propitious epoch. TAO new projects have
been presented. Mr. Robertson, the agent of the
English creditors, published in a lengthy article do-
cunients relating to the recent negotiations with the
Minister of Finance. The press is earnestly discuss-
ing the pro and con, but nothing has been done, and
we do not hesitate to say that nothing will be likely
to take place.
Advices from llavannah to the 27th of August
have been received. The stock of rice was large and
the sales small, at 10i- reals. There were four cargoes
afloat.
Itet'pecting the general news by this arrival, the
Courier and Inquirer says:—
" lu political matters we have nothing of moment to
communicate.
" The journey undertaken by the President is likely
to be circumscribed by his illness, induced by over-
exei tien, and the cholera atmosphere. He will probably
go back from Niagara, where he now is, to Washington,
without visiting the Eastern States, cr delaying for the
great agricultural fair at Syracuse, in this state, to be
held next week.
" From Oneida we have no news of special interest.
A new paper is about to be undertaken there for the ex-
press purpoze of advocating the independence of the
British North American colonies, with a view to ulti-
mate annexation to the United States. We presume
such a paper will be abundantly sustained on both sides
of the line.
" With respect to the movement against Cuba, which
the President in his proclamation denounced—very vi-
gorous measures are taken by the authorities for its sup-
pression. A steam-boat cleared at this port with arms
and auanunition for Curacoa, has been seized on suspi-
cion, and st me arrest:, it is rumoured. were made to-day
of pergons connected with the enterprize against Cuba.
While thus observing good faith towards other na-
tions, the Administration at Washington are not un-
mindful of the rights of their own flag, and hence upon
a peremptory demand upon the Governor of Cuba for
the surrender of la y, a Spanis:h subject forcibly ab-
due:EA, or rcpriv‘utit,g himself to be, from New Orleans
and carried to Bevannab, that individual was promptly
surrendered to the American Consul and restored to the
United States.
"In Mexico all goes on, or rather stands still, as
usual. From Calitopia no very late news."

When some little miss or master,
Fresh from desk and form,
Manages to spread disaster
In a household storm,—
When they cry for " moons" above them,
And for " chimney bricks,"—
When they cling to those who love them,
With most filial kicks,—
Let us brand such olive blossoms
As wise people ought,
And hang this label on their bosoms,
"Better fed than taught."
Good sooth I we must mind our manners,
One and all and each,
Or Shame will leap and plant her banners
In some moral breach.
When Prosperity's broad table
)(aids us all we ask,
'Ls to make us strong and able
Fur some Duty-task;
Let us fe.ast, but let us render
Goodly deed and thought,
Lest our lives bear this addenda,
" Better fed than taught."
ELIZA. COOS

CURE OF THE POTATO DISEASE.—The following
letter from Cept, Elliot. R.N., inspector-general of High-
land destitution, will be found deserving of attention:—
" Loch ilsh, Aug. 29, 1849. The existence of the potato
blight in Wester Ross and Skye is certain. It is ge-
neral, but it is not, as yet, so universal or destructive as
hitherto. Its ravages are now, however, much more
rapid than when 1 discovered its reappearance in June,
and gave so much unintentional offence by stating the
fact in a warning tone. The season is now far advanced.
The tuber is of some size, and in some of the early va-
rieties near maturity. I think the poor people might
save some portion by attending to the following two
experiments, the result of which was also wit•
nessed by Mr. Ord, of Muirhouselaw, Rox-
burghshire, a most extensive and intelligent agri-
culturist, and Mr. Macleod of Kingsburgb, on
whose farm the experiment was made. About the 4th
of August the black spot appeared on the leaf. It was
spreading. After a few days, Mr. Macleod selected two
different situations for experiment. He took three drills
in each case;
he let the shaw remain on the middle one;
he cut those on ono side of it, and he pulled those on
the other. On the 28th we found the result in both
cases exactly similar. In a given space the drill that had
the shaw pulled was sound, without an exception that
we could discover, and of a size scarcely less than ordi-
nary. On the middle drill, where the shaw had been
left untouched, but which by that time was almost all
rotte d away, we did not discover a single sound potato.
I think the tubers were larger, but the difference was
trifling. On the drill where the shaws were cut, the
potatoes were all sound, with a single, or at most two
exceptions. I eaw the sound potatoes cooked, and they
were mealy, laughing fellows, more like the olden time."
—Aberdeen Herald.
ACCIDENT IN WATFORD TUNNEL.—The train from
the north due last night at five minutes past nine o'clock
did not arrive at Euston-square station till half an hour
aster midnight. It appears that about the middle of
Watford tunnel the axtetree of the tender broke, and the
train was immediately brought to a s'andstill, without,
however, any further damage. After nearly three hours'
detention the train was taken back to King's Langley,
and brought through the tunnel on the down line. From
the same cause the later trains did not arrive till much
atter their time.
Noavacti, $ Err. 16.—1 t is confidently stated here
that Lord Auckland, the present Bishop of Sodor end
Man, will be translated to the see of Norwich. Several
gentlemen, two or three cf whom are connected with the
diocese of Norwich, have been spoken of as successors of
Lord Auckland, but it would be invidious to particularise
iaames.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.—The steamer
from Havre which arrived here this morning
brings but a repetition of our last advices respect-
ing the cotton market. Yesterday's sales were
144 bales for immediate consumption, without any change
in prices. The Narraganset, for New Orleans, and the
Elizabeth, for Constantinople, sailed from Havro yes-
Lrctay.
POUT AND HARBOUR OF CHESTER, RIVER DEE
A most important inquiry took place at the Town-hall,
Chester, during the last week, before two Admiralty
Commissioners. The object of the inquiry was to ascer-
tain how tar the River Dee Company had carried out its
engagements respecting the maintenance of a depth
of water for vessels drawing fifteen feet at high
water of a moderate spring tide in this important
and once flourishing navigation. It is contended by
its opponents that the company has embanked large
estates from the estuary of the Dee at the sacrifice of
the navigation. The meetings were numerously and
respectably attended, and among those present were
Sir A. Dalrymple, Mr. Rankin, Mr. W. A. Provis, C.E.,
on the part of the company, Mr. Henry Robertson,
C.E., Mr. Robert Ray, and Mr. Martin, Parliamentary
agent, representing the Chestor and Shrewsbury Railway
Company, and Mr. T. L. Marriott and Mr. Hamilton
Fulton, C. E., on the part of the shipping end manufac-
turing interests. The report of the Ac.miralty is looked
for with much interest by all parties concerned, and the
citizens of Chester are sanguine as to the Dee Company
being compelled to restore the navigation to its former
efficiency,
The mortal remains of the late Bishop of Norwich,
who died on the 6th instant, while on a visit at B re.hun
Castle, Inverness-shire, the seat of the Honourable Mrs.
Stewart Min kenzie, will be interred in Norwich Cathe-
dral, on Friday next.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN HYDE PARK.—A French
gentleman attempted to commit suicide on Sunday
afternoon, near the Magazine in Hyde-park, by shooting
himself through the body with a pistol. The report
was heard by some boys passing, who gave the alarm to
the police, and the unhappy man was conveyed on a
stretcher to George's Hospital. He wes severely
wounded in the ribs, and thee alleged cause of the rash
attempt was that he had been plundered of 30,000 f. the
preceding evening in the Haymarket.
Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by
them ligti9lll.--Al4a Cook'B Journal,

TAP, UN, LoNDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18,

1849

LITERATURE.
SLATER'S SHILLING SERIES.
Another excellent publication in the form of
monthly volumes has recently been issued from the
establishment of Mr. Slater, to which we cordially
offer our meed of commendation. Four of the
latest volumes are peculiarly deserving of at-
tention. One of them is the commence-
ment of a cheap translation of the admirable
fictions of Frederika Bremer, the Swedish
novelist—a lady who is, as a writer, what
Mademoiselle Jenny Lind is, as a songstress.
Within a portable compass we have here her "Minor
Tales," a book which has tended not the least to
spread her celebrity. These "Minor Tales" consist
of six stories or :ketches—the "Twins," "Axel
and Anna," the " Solitary One," the " Con-
soler," " Stockholm Suppers," and " Hopes."
these graceful little compositions are already
so generally known, and their merits so ge-
nerally appreciated, that nothing remains for us to do
beyond the mere announcement of their re-publication.
Another of the present series comprises, within a
similar space, the " Orations, Lectures, and Addresses"
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Carlyle of America.
" Man Thinking ;" "An Address ;" " Literary
Ethics;" the "Method of Nature ;" "Man the
Reformer ;" the " Young American ;" and a speech
delivered on the anniversary of the ".Emancipation of
the Negroes ;" are contained in this remarkable
volume. No one who has ever perused them need be
informed how bold are the arguments, how quaint is
the style, how inimitable are the illustrations,
or how generous is the philosophy of this
extraordinary and original author. Mr. Emerson
has secured for himself the attention of every reflec-
tive mind even though he may provoke against him-
self the opposition of the majority of Christians by
the audacity of his logic. The gis tof his ethical belief is
this :—I am God; you are God; the intelligence of
every man is a portion of the Divinity ! la himself
has never expressed this view so explicitly, but that
we maintain, and nothing less than that, is the gist of
his creed. Hence we are diametrically opposed to
him; yet, antagonistic though we be, we listen to him
respectfully, because of the earnestness with which
he evidently searches after the truth, and the rever-
ence with which he speaks of the Omnipotent
God. To learn the boldness of his articulations we
need only listen to him when he says that " the
natural philosophy that now is, is only the first
gropings of its gigantic hand." His independence of
thought is sufficiently shown in that declaration—" I
had better never see a book than to (?) be warped by
its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a
satellite instead of a system.' If it be asked what are
the feelings of Emerson in reference to Religion—
hear him talk of the " religious sentiment" in the
abstract—" It is a mountain air. It is the embalmer
of the world. It is myrrh and storax, and chlorine
and rosemary. It makes the sky and the hills
sublime; and the silent song of the stars is it." Here
again is an indication of the current of his philosophy
—" In the divine order intellect is primary; nature,
secondary—it is the memory of the mind. That which
once existed as pure law, has now taken body as
nature. It existed already in the mind in solution :
now it has been precipitated, and the bright sediment
is the world." '.120 us that is an odd but beautiful
definition of creation. Of the dignity of human
nature in his consideration, here is a token :—" An
individual man is a fruit which it cost all the fore•
going ages to form and ripen. He is strong not to
do, but to live not in his arms, but in his
heart ; not as an agent, but as a fact."
Of the duties of manhood he speaks thus:—" What
are the thoughts we utter but the reason of our incar •
nation; to utter these thoughts we took flesh, mis-
sionaries of the everlasting word which will be
spoken." Do we wish to give an instance of the
felicity of his metaphors or illustrative expressions ?
Here is one, where he speaks of " the locomotive and
steam .boat, like enormous shuttles, shooting every
day across the thousand various threads of national
descent and employment, and binding them fast in
one web." Again, referring to the necessity of the
agricultural cultivation of the American continent,
he says " This great savage country should be
furrowed by the plough and combed by the harrow."
Without transcribing one other sentence, we feel
satisfied we have quoted enough to demonstrate the
singularly original and powerful character of the
intellect of Mr. Emerson. Another distinguished
American is the author of the two remaining volumes
now under consideration—the poet and novelist,
Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Besides
the tale called " Kavanagh," we have before us a
reprint of his well- known poetical romance of
" Evangeline." Written in exquisite hexameters, this
story cannot fail to charm the mind by its
grace, and to move the heart by its inculcation of
the principles of love and gentleness. Faultless the
poem is not, but fraught with beauty it is. The hero
is admirably depicted—with a face,
" like the face of the morning,
Gladdening the earth with its light and ripening thought
o action."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The resolute attack of the Board of
Health on the dangerous and revolting practice of
intramural sepulture meets, as was to be expected,
with an equally determined opposition on the part of
the local authorities, whose,traditional jealousy of cen-
tralized control is enhanced in the present case by
their anticipation of direct pecuniary loss from the
closure of the obnoxious graveyards. At a recent
meeting of the St. Saviour's vestry, when it was re-
solved by a large majority to keep open the Cross-bones
burying-ground, notwithstanding the prohibition of
the Board of Health, the chief arguments employed ,
were, that the rich would lose the sums paid for
family vaults, and the poor find their burial fees
doubled if, y ielding to a " meddlesome and imperti-
nent" interference, they gave up a burial-place
which they had enjoyed for 200 years, before an-
other equally cheap and accessible should be pointed
out. As for the complaints of offensive effluvium
preferred by persons residing in the vicinity of the
ground, they wsre stigmatized by the chairman as
exaggerated and false, :seeing that the coffins were
of lead and airtight; and the smell, even in the
public vault, not offensive, but only " close, damp,
and earthy." Setting aside the average intermixture
of prejudice and passion in all discussions which in-
volve conflicting interests, the objections urged by the
'Warden of St. Saviour's are not without an ap-
pearance of weight, and are such as plain men of
business, accustomed to compute their own interests,
and to manage their own local affairs, on rigorously
economical principles, might, at the first blush of
the proposition, very reasonably maintain. Much,
therefore, as we deplore the spectacle of an eeriness •
nious conflict between rival sanitary authorities, in
the midst of a pestilence, requiring for its effectual
encounter the heartiest and most energetic co-opera-
tion, we shall, on the present occasion, refrain from
pronouncing a censure which would probably but
aggravate existing animosities, and address ourselves
to the practical elucidation of the questions at issue.
The first point to be decided is, whether deleterious
effluvia really escape from graveyards, or whether, as
the chairman of the St. Saviour's vestry alleges, the
gases resulting from the decomposition of the dead
are retained in the "leaden, airtight" coffins? Upon
this subject it is first to be observed that the bodies of
the poorer classes are not buried in lead, but in
coffins made of boards, often very slightly nailed to-
gether. Moreover, even in the leaden coffins it is
customary to make a number of holes underneath the
coffin-plate, to give egress to the gases, which would
else, by their accumulation, first bulge and then burst
the coffin. When this precaution is neglected con-
siderable danger ensues to the gravediggers, who
have on many occasions been seized with asphyxia,
or even killed on the spot, by the poisonous
gases emitted from a suddenly-burst coffin.
To escape these hazards they not unfre-
quently " tap" the coffins, and let out a jet
of gas, which, being ignited, burns from ten
minutes to half an hour. These are perfectly
well-known facts, as any man may convince himself
by inquiry amongst the undertakers and sextons.
The gases which thus escape are partly absorbed into
the earth which surrounds the coffins, and partly
ascend into the air above the graveyard, from which,
by the law of the diffusion of gases, they rapidly
spread through the entire mass of the air of London.
In old graveyards the earth becomes so saturated
that it can take up no more gas ; the whole of which,
therefore, is emitted into the atmosphere, and may,
indeed, in hot, close weather, be observed rising in a
sort of steam out of the ground. Thus, during the
last century, have the two millions and a quarter of
corpses buried in the merropolis within that period
ascended into the air, and been inhaled by the sur-
vivors ; a species of gaseous anthropophagy, or
aerial cannibalism, hardly less loathsome to our sense
than the consumption of the same flesh, in its solid
form, as practised by the howling savages. The
next question raised by the advocates of intra-
mural burial is, whether these effluvia, admitting
'them to be evolved, are in reality the cause of epi-
demic disease. In Paris they argue there are
neither graveyards nor slaughterhouses, yet the cholera
at each visitation has ravaged Paris with greater
severity than London. What reason, then, is there
for anticipating any sanitary advantage from the
establishment of extramural cemeteries and abattoirs,
like those of Paris, around our metropolis ? This
argument is plausible, but founded partly on igno-
rance, partly on misrepresentation of facts. In Paris,
though there are no graveyards, there are large cess-
pools under all the houses. Each of these cesspools
is made of sufficient dimensions to contain the whole
ordures of the establishment beneath which it is
placed for twelve months ; the object being to avoid
paying the vidangeur's charge (100 francs) more
than once a year. Now, the gas which accumulates
in these cesspools is identical in its nature and proper-
ties with that which accumulates in our leaden coffins.
So deadly is it that the vidano•eur whose duty it is to
raise the stone covering of the tank with his crowbar
rushes back the moment he perceives a chink, in order
to escape the first outgush of gas, which, if inhaled,
causes a man to fall dead, as if shot with a
musket-ball. The Parisians, therefore, are in
this respect nearly as ill-off as the inhabit-
ants of those Eastern towns- where they bury
their dead underneath their houses; for it is ob-
viously unimportant, so far as the production of dis-
ease is concerned, whether the putrescent gas be
generated from one kind of animal remains or another.
If we add to this the fact that the lower class of
Parisians drink a thin sour wine, in itself deleterious,
and rendered still more so by the adulterations prac-
tised in consequence of the heavy octroi duties levied
at the city gates, we shall be at no loss to understand
why Paris is more fatally ravaged by cholera than
London. Gases distilled from coffins in the church-
yard, and entering through our windows, reach us in
a more diluted form than when they are generated
under the house itself, as a chemist generates gas
under a bell-glass. Every other pretended exception
to the established law, that putrescent effluvia are
deleterious to man, and promote the spread of pesti-
lential epidemics, will be found to disappear in like
manner before an attentive examination. Science,
therefore, concurs with humanity in dictating the
removal from among us of animal residua,
whether contained in coffins or cesspools, and
whether lying beneath or beside our dwellings.
But the Warden of St. Saviour's raises a question
of pounds, shillings, and pence. He reminds the
parishioners that those who have paid from 5 to 10
guineas for a family vault in the Cross-bones grave-
yard will require their money to be refunded if the
ground should be closed, whilst the poor, who only
pay a burial fee of 13s. at the Cross-bones ground,
will, if driven to the parish churchyard, be charged
265. for interment. To this we reply, 'that it is the
declared intention of the Legislature to deal tenderly
with all vested interests with which the proposed
changes may interfere, and the bona fide proprietors
of family vaults in intramural graveyards need not
fear uncompensated expropriation. With respect to
the burial fee charged to the poor, it forms but a
small part of the cost of interment, which amounts on
an average, to from 41. to 51. for a person of the
labouring class. It is, moreover, in the power of the
clergy and the parochial authorities to reduce the
parish burial fees to a level with the means
of the poor; and, for the price now exacted
from working men for intramural sepul-
ture they might procure equally decent
transmission, and far more decent and undisturbed
repose, in either of the. suburban cemeteries. Indeed
the pecuniary side of the argument tells greatly
against the advocates of the intramural system. The
diseases promoted by graveyard gas cuts short many
lives at a period when they are profitable to the com-
munity l and prevent the repayment, in reproductive
labour, of the social debt incurred during helpless
infancy. The workmen destroyed in their prime by
the present epidemic have left many thousands of
widows and orphans, of whom a considerable pro-
portion will become chargeable on the funds of their
respective parishes. And the parochial expenditure
necessitated by the fever cases which are promoted by
the putrescent effluvia in question is immense. In
the Bethnal-green and Whitechapel Unions alone the
charge for the relief of fever cases during the first
quarter of 1838 was 6161. 195., or at the rate of
2,4671. 16s. per annum ! We invite the attention of
the ratepayers of London to these simple but signifi-
cant computations, which, we think, go far to prove
that intramural sepulture is as inconsistent with sound
parochial economy as it is dangerous to the public
welfare, and repugnant to the general sense of the
community.
HERALD.—The intelligence received from the
Cape colony will be read with much interest. We
were quite prepared for the news which we received
last week from this dependency. We knew that it
must soon come • and it came in the very shape that
all our knowledge of the Cape colonists led us con-
fidently to expect. We knew that they were a very
loyal people; and we knew that they had been
grossly injured. We had the utmost faith in their
attachment to the Crown. We believed that, strong
in the justice of their cause, they would not suffer
themselves to be betrayed into any violent, unconsti-
tutional excesses. But we were equally certain that
moral force would be exerted to the utmost fur the
resistance of the Ministerial attempt to force on an
unwilling and protesting people a polluting cuTs7ee,
from which they shrink with horror and
di!may.
were equally certain that the Cape e colohnist s, vvhcsil_st
true to their Sovereign, would be tru to t emsely
that they would not endure in patience the mighty
wrong which had been done to.them—the violation of
their most cherished political rights, and the subver-
sion of their best social interests. The Cape colony
te is hals,
was threatened with ruin and disgrh colonyace analmost,
it would seem, as one man,
risen up
in resistance of the injuries and in-
dignities which were about to overwhelm them.
The tidings which we received last week
assured us that they had resorted to no violence

—that they had broken no law. They had not weak-
ened a good cause by one unseemly act of intem-
perance. When they said that " they loved their
country—they loved their Queen"—that" there is not
in the wide circle of her Majesty's dominions a people
more grateful for benefits, or more patient under
ordinary errors incidental to all human institutions,"
we felt that they uttered no more than the truth.
Their past conduct had entitled them to be heard, and
we believed that all their future movements would be
governed by the same love of peace and order. Our
last intelligence, however, from the disturbed colony
proves that we have somewhat overestimated the
patience and forbearance of the inhabitants of Cape
To. n. We regret that even one blow should have
been struck—that the slightest act of violence should
have been committed, under any kind of provocation.
Up to a certain point nothing could have been more
dignified and decorous than the conduct of the Cape
colonists. The means to which they resorted in
the fine instance, to enforce the withdrawal of the
, noxious order, which had so excited their indigna-
tion, were Eisele to be far more effectual than any
demonstrations of physical force. They petitioned
the Crown, aid they petitioned the Parliament of
Great Britain. Toe Governor, like an old soldier,
declared his fixed resolution to obey orders. As they
had nothing, therefore, to look for in that direction,
they determined, so long as the cifensive order re-
mained in force, to co-operate in various ways to
render it inoperative. They bound themselves to
employ no convict labour; and to taboo any man who
did. He who lent himself directly or indirectly to
the furtherance of the great iniquity was thenceforth
to be a marked man. He was to be avoided as a moral
leper—as one who had contracted a noisome disease
—who was to be Fainted at as a feul thing with which
no clean and healthy man would come in contact.
Evitandus est! He was to be placed beyond the
reach of human sympathy. Buyers and sellers would
have nothing to do with him. The banks closed their
coffers against him. The insurance offices agreed to
regard him as one tainted, and to deny their policies
to him. Employment of convict labour was thus pub-
licly declared the one unpardonable social offence of
the colony, and all classes of men combined to shoot
their arrows at the offender. In this crisis Govern-
ment came forward to throw the tegis of its protec-
tion over the social culprit. It promised aid to those
who could get no aid from their fellows. The public
treasury was opened to those to whom the banks
denied accommodation. Provision contractors were
encouraged to supply food to the convicts by advances
from the Coloniali Treasury. The war was thus
commenced in earnest, and there could have been no
doubt of the issue of the contest. The Cape Govern-
' ment could not gain a victory over such a combina-
tion as that to which it was opposed. Already, in-
deed, had it given way. Sir Harry Smith had
determined that when the convicts arrived they should
not come ashore upon the main land, but be unshipped
at Robben Island, or placed on board a hulk in
Simon's Bay, and remain there until the pleasure of
her Majesty should be known. In this position we
hoped that affairs would continue pending the
rescission of the noxious order. So far the colonists
had defended their rights without resorting to one
act of physical violence. But the last accounts
exhibit a different state of things. The movement
has assumed a more dangerous and less dignified
aspect. The new Members of Council, who had been
called in by the Governor upon the resignation of his
old colleagues, have been mobbed, outraged, and
assaulted. The property of one of them has been
violently destroyed; another has been reduced by
the combination of his townsmen to the very verge
of starvation ; and it was at one time in contempla-
tion to cut off the supplies of the Governor himself.
Thus threatened, Sir Harry Smith has issued a pro-
clamation of no very conciliatory character. He has
declared his determination—and situated as he is we
may pity, but cannot blame him—to uphold the
majesty of the law ; and so the case stands at present,
or so it stood when the last advices left the Cape.
Heaven knows to what extremities, in the interim,
the contending parties may have proceeded. We
regret that matters should have reached this pass—we
regret that the smallest act of violence should have
weakened the cause of the Cape colonists. Still, we
cannot wonder at—we are scarcely prepared to blame
their conduct. There has been nothing of factious
opposition in the present movement. None of those
lower motives which impel men to place themselves
in an attitude of antagonism with constituted autho-
rities have been at work among them. The Cape
colonists are lovers of peace and order.
They would fain have preserved all the re-
lations of society in their most settled and
organized condition, and maintained the political
institution of their country with all loyalty and
respect. But there was a point beyond which their
forbearance could not carry them. All they de-
manded was, that the convicted crime of Great Britain
should not be poured out upon their hitherto unpol-
luted colony. This they have asked in vain, and now 1
they are enforcing the compliance which it would
have been wisdom to have granted in the first instance
under the influence of something nobler than fear.
What her Majesty will be pleased to decree under
such circumstances no person can seriously doubt.
However disagreeable such retractation may be, the
responsible advisers of the Crown have now nothing
in the world to do but to slide out of their present
difficulty with what grace they may, and bow to the
force of public opinion as it exists alike in the colony
and in the mother country. It is very plain the Cape
will have nothing to do with convict labour—
that it will not suffer itself, without a desperate
struggle, to be converted into a penal settle-
ment. The condition of our colonies all over the
world is not such as to encourage Ministers to
trifle with, or to attempt forcibly to suppress, such
a state of public feeling as now exists at the Cape.
Wherever we turn our eyes, if we have no recent
outburst to contemplate, there are symptoms a
feverish unrest—of latent disorder, which may, we
know not how soon, develope itself in fierce and
alarming paroxysms, which must be suffered to take
their course. There is no other path open to
Ministers but concession. The convict experiment
must be manfully declared a blunder; and the crimi-
nals intended for the Cape must find an asylum else-
where. It is well that the present difficulty should
be got over without any loss of time—that an attempt
should be made to conciliate the Cape before new
dangers threaten us more alarmingly from all quar-
ters. It is to be feared that this outburst in South
Africa will prove in the sequel but a faint reflection
of a far more portentous storm in some of the Austra
Tian colonies. We have been threatened with such a
tempest for some time; the next arrivals may report
that it has burst over uc.

Noble is his lamentation over the miseries of the
world, as it exists at present, where
"Daily injustice is done, and might is the right of the
strongest 1"
What an exquisite picture is that sketched by him in
five lines, where he depicts Evangeline and her be-
trothed :

~ -- in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure,
Sat the lovers, and whispered together, beholding the

moon rise
Over the pallid sea, and the silvery mist of the

meadows.
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blussom'd the lovcty stars, the forget-me-nots of the angds."
Here are two golden verses. One on affection—

Talk not of— wasted affection ; affection never was

wasted."

The other as follows :
" Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is

godlike.
Another thought of subtle meaning runs thus—
" Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on
the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is
hidden."
Speaking of Evangeline as she wandered in the dark
through a garden, he says very daintily—
" Nearer and round about her, the manifold flowers of
the garden
Pour'd out their souls in odours, that were their prayers
and confessions
Unto the night, as it went its way, a silent Carthusian."
Another of Longfellow's strange and fantastic de-
lineations is that of the forest, where—
" Over them vast and high extended the cope of a cedar,
Swinging from its great arms the trumpet-ilower and the
grape-vine,
Hung their ladder of ropes aloft like the ladder of Jacob,
On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, de-
scending,
Were the swift humming-birds that flitted from blossom
to blossom."
So odd, singular, and occasionally grotesque is
" Evangeline"—a poem sometimes charmingly
rhythemical, at others deplorably common-place and
prosaic—but throughout marred by its careless and
uncertain volubility.

DEATH OF ANOTHER CHARTIST
Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Lang
ham, deputpcoroner for Westminster, upon the body
of Alexander Sharpe, one of the Chartist leaders, who
died of cholera in Tuthill-fields Prison, on Friday last,
under circumstances similar to those attendant upon
the death of Williams, the Chartist convict, whose
death from cholera we recently announced. Sharpe
was concerned with Williams, Fussell, and other
Chartist leaders, and was sentenced to two years'
imprisonment ; at the end of that time to enter into
his own recognizances in 1001. and to find two sure-
ties in 501. each to keep the peace for three years.
The deceased was in good health w bon he entered
the gaol on the 12th of July, 1848, and, as in the case
of his friend Williams, a sum of ss. per week
was paid by his relatives to the governor of
the prison for his exemption from doing
any work, such as picking oakum. The money
was paid regularly until the 11th ult., when it was
stopped, and work was offered to Sharpe, who re-
fused to do any. On the 20th ult. Mr. T. Cue, the
deputy- governor, gave the deceased some oakum, and
ordered him to pick the usual quantity. The de-
ceased declined doing so. On the 20th of August he
was taken before the visiting magistrates, who ordered
him to suffer six days' solitary confinement, and to
receive bread and water; the amount of bread allowed
him being lilb. 'per diem. On the evening of the
Bth inst. the deceased was taken ill, having been seised
with bowel complaint. He was attended in his cell
that night, and the next morning removed to the
infirmary, but pain in the bowels and purging
came on occasionally, with cramps, until Friday
evening, when he died. He was generally restless,
and impatient of being kept in bed, saying that
the doctor wanted to try his constitution, and that
it was an infernal shame. Before his death he
told his wife that he had never been well since he
had been locked up and kept on bread and water.
Mr. Atkinson, the barrister, attended on behalf of
the relatives of the deceased, who expressed great
dissatisfaction at the treatment he had received.
Several of the warders and sub warders of the prison
were examined, and afterwards cross-examined,
by Mr. Atkinson, with a view to show that
the sudden change from full diet and plenty
of exercise to solitary confinement and bread and
water, whilst cholera existed in the prison, had caused
the death of the deceased. One of the jurors wished
to know how it happened that the deceased had either
to work or pay for his exemption, when his sentence
did not include hard labour, and also that he had been
confined to his cell and put upon bread and water upon
the authority of the governor only, unsupported by
that of the visiting magistrates ? Captain Williams,
one of the inspectors of prisons, referred to the Act
4th George IV., chap. 64, section 38, to show that
even where no sentence of hard labour was passed,.
the country was not to maintain the prisoner unless.
he was either incapable of labour or of paying for his
exemption. The 42d section of the same Act specified
certein breaches of discipline for which the Governor
might, of his own authority, commit any prisoner,
not exceeding three days, to solitary confinement and
bread and water. The inquiry having lasted three
hours, Mr. Atkinson suggested an adjournment,
which was ultimately agreed to i and the inquiry was
adjourned to this day.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

" THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION 'WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND LI..
BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Intervene

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Mertsiori-nonsE.—Yesterday. evening the Lord
Mayor had the honour of entertaining at dinner a party
of private friends connected with the City of London.
Covers were laid for 50.
WIG
NEWPORT, ISLE OF LIT.—COINS F0u141)..—.
A most curious and interesting discovery of coins of the
14th century was made on Saturday morning last, by
the workmen employed in erecting some buildings at the
back of the premises of Messrs. Perress and Dallimore,
drapers, of High-street. They consist principally of
the pennies of the reigns of Edward 1., 11., and 111., of
the mints of London, Canterbury, York, Durham, Ber-
wick, Newcastle, Lincoln, St Edmund's, Bristol, Dublin,
and Waterford, intermixed with many of the reign of
Alexander of Scotland. About 2,500 are in the pos-
session of Mr. Perress, and it is known that very many
more were taken by the workmen, previously to his be-
coming aware of the discovery. So large a hoard of
coin, of one period, has not before been discovered in
the island, and is equalled only by that brought to light
some few years since at Buriton, in this county, and
which consisted exclusively of pennies of the Conqueror.
From the circumstance that all the coins now found
are immediately anterior to the time of King Richard
11., the period of the deposit may not unreasonably be
referred to the burning of Newport by the French in the
second year of the reign of that monarch.--Hampshire
Advertiser.
„„"' SBOCKING SUICIDE BY A CLERGYMAN.—Consi-
derable excitement has prevailed in the village of Mal-
vern during the past week, in consequence of the Rev.
Peter Hall, a visitor, lodging at INir. Nash's, Castle
House, having cut his throat. The rev. gentleman, who
was about fifty years of age, and had been visiting Mal-
vern for some months past, committed the rash act in his
bed-room on Tuesday week, in the:presence of his lady,
who, in endeavouring to prevent him, had her hands out.
He was immediately attended by Mr. West, surgeon,
under whose care he lingered until Monday morning,
when he expired. At the time of his committing the
rash act Mr. Hall was under medical treatment.— Bristol
Journal.