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office of 'Mr.'Hernaman, Exeter. • ' • -
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NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall•street.
E. Woodgate, Greenwich, electro-plate manufacturer,
Aug. 10, at eleven—G. Savage, Eastdean, Sussex, grocer,
Aug. 11, at eleven—W. Couchman, Farringdon-street,
iraper, Aug. 10, at twelve—W. Ridge, Grosvenor-row,
Pimlico, corn dealer, Aug. 11, at twelve—V. Jenkinson
ind J. S. aollison, Argyll street, King's-cross, cow
keepers, Aug. 13, at one.
In the Country.
C. Rippon, Durham, lime turner, August 16, at eleven,
at the Court, Newcastel-upon-Tyne—S. Aliller, Eamont-
bridge, Cumberland, banker, August 9, at half-past ten,
4t the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tlne—W. Thomas, Aber.
tare, Glamorganbhire, grocer, August 10, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—S. Dodd, Manchester, fustian mann•
taeturer, August 10, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester
—W. Maddox, Liverpool, tailor and draper, August 13,
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Holden, Liver-
pool, money scriviner, August 10, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—A. Heron, Birkenhead, stonemason
and builder, August 10, at eleven, at the Court, Liver-
pool—A. Peacock, Liverpool, corn merchant, August
9, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—l. P. Cartwright,
Nantwich, Cheshire, chemist and druggist, August 14,
at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—A. B. Esst, Bir-
mingham, scrivener, August 11, at twelve, at the Court,
Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, August 10.

J. Buckland, Grosvenor-street, laceman —G. W.
M'Arthur Reynolds, Wellington-street North, Strand,
publisher—G. M'Donell, Trinity-square, wine and spirit
broker—W. Smith, jun., Stockton, Durham, earthen-
ware manufacturer—J. Crossfield, 'Parton, Lancashire,
linen merchant—J. Snook, Ledbury. road, Wes:bourne-
grove, Paddington, builder.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
P. Harris and P. Pierce, Birmingham, wholesale
chemists and druggists—F. Edwards and R. Nevins,
Strand, house decorators, painters and glaziers—G.
Gibbons and C. E. Brown, Old Cavendish-street, auc-
tioneers, surveyors, and house agents—H. C. Marshall
and J. Elves. Regent-street, and King's-row, Bedford-
row, land agents—S. Mendelson, L. Culp, and I. Herzig,
Newgate:street, Berlin wool and silk warehousemen (so
far as regards S. Mendelson)—J. Roberts and T. H.
Tinker, New Mill, Huddersfield, woollen cloth manu-
facturers—T. Herbert and J. Jones, Chester, mail coach
contractors, coach, car, and omnibus proprietors, and
carriers—G. Thompson and W. J. Foulkes, Birkenhead,
Cheshire, chemists and druggists—W. Green and J.
Spence, Liverpool. cigar manufacturers and tobacconists
—A Cotton and W. Cotton, Linthwaite, Yorkshire, far-
mers, and Da4lin, woollen cloth manufacturers and mer-
chants—A. Almond and E. Daxbury, Entwisle, and
Billington, Lancashire, contractors—J. Lilley and H.
Wilson, Leeds, brassfounders—W. Tyler and C. Reed,

Bolt-court, Fleet-street, printers—B.l). Wood, W. Self,
and Ann Self, Wolverhampton, tobacconists—R. Kilvert
and G. Hellaby, Manchester, manufacturers of glass
paper and emery cloth, and manufacturers of emery—
W. G. Taylor and T. Cock, Stainton and Burton, West-
moreland, flax spinners and manufacturers of cotton
wadding—W. H. Ablett and T. C. Measam, Manifold-
place, Lambeth, soap manutacturers—C. Butler and S.
Woodard, London and Oporto, merchants and insurance
brokers.

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INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
William Forster, Brandon, Suffolk, blacksmith.
William Frederick Hooper Francis, Topsham, Devon

shire, carpenter. •
Nathan Matthews, Birmingham, butcher.
Aaron Payton. jun., Birmingham, licensed victualler.
Jabea Lacey, Redboura, Herttor./shire, chair turner.
William Williams Swansea, licensed victualler.
John Williams, Swansea.
John Farrer, Chester, clerk at railway station.
Patrick Burns, Toxteth-park, Liverpool, painter.
Isabella W atkiason, Liverpool.
Richard Dodge, Liverpool, licensed victualler.
Richard Downs, Newcastle-under-Lyne, plumber.
Robert Collett, Northleach, Gloucestershire, boot and

shoe maker.
Thomas Hasland, Sheffield, table-blade forger.
Robert Rawling, East Dereham, Norfolk, kiddier.
Thomas Munn, jun., Brighton, plumber.
John Thomas, Lianbeblig, Carnarvonshire, blacksmith.
Wm. Richardson Buckley, Tranmere, Cheshire, corn,

broker.
Mark Davis, Norwich, jeweller.
Thomas Thomas, Llanrhidian, Glamorghanshire, auc•

tioncer.
Robert Malister, Norwich, cabinet maker.
James Pratt, North Walsham, Norfolk, gig maker.
Francis Swift, Stamford, Lincolnshire, chemist.
Thomas East, Lyme-Regis, Dorsetshire, servant.
James Silvers, Dudley, Worcestershire, boot and shoe

maker.
Joseph Cook, Dudley, Worcestershire, clothier.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
A. Cairns, Edinburgh, wino merchant, to meet within
Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, July 25 and Aug. 15, at
eleven.
J. Dunlop, Rawyards, near Airdrie, carter, to meet
within the Royal Hotel, Airdrie, July 25 and Aug.
15, at two.
J. Comrie, Paisley, logwood chipper, to meet within
the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, July 27 and Aug. 17,
at one.

P. Brown, Edinburgh, grocer, to meet within Steven-
son's Rooms, Edinburgh, July 24 and Aug. 14, at one.
J. Glen, Dalgerven, Ayrshire, timber merchant, to
meet within the King's Arms Inn, Irvine, July 26 and
Aug. 18, at twelve.
A. Waddell, Burnhead, Whitburn, to meet within Ed-
die's Inn, Whitburn, July 26 and Aug. 16, at one.
J. Miller, Pennycuick, wood merchant, to meet with-
in Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, July 25 and Aug. 21,
at two.

NORTH KENT RAILWAY. -On Friday, Captain
Wynne, the Government inspector went over this line, and
will pay it a second visit of inspection prior to its opening,
which is expected to take place during the week. On Sa-
turday, also, the directors took what is termed a con-
tractors' trip, to satisfy themselves as to the stability of
the works.

. HUNGARY.
A public meeting, on behalf of the Hungarian refugees
now in England, was held on Saturday evening, at
Glsnvill's Hotel,North-street, 'Westminster; Mr.Mallock
in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said, the subject which had brought
them together was one of vast jimportance. A number
of brave and noble men had sought refuge in this
country, being, as it were, driven from their native home.
As far as he could understand their history, there were
three hundred individuals in all, Hungarians, whs had
been draughted from their own country to the Austrian
army in Italy, where they had. fought under Radetzky,
but understanding that every blow they struck
against Italian liberty would be fettering the
liberties of their own country, they took an
opportunity, in plain language, of deserting from
the - army of Austria and entering the army of the
Danes, commanded by the unfortunate Charles Albert,
an individual who no doubt meant won, but from want o!
natural ability was unable to overcome the strength and
power of his a"dversary.—(Hear, hear.) These individuals
were not included in the armistice or the treaty of peact
between Austria, Germany, and the Danish powers, and
they saw at once, if they were delivered up to Austria.
their death-warratitif were signed; the consequence was
that about a hundred of them made their escape to
Switzerland, a number to Croatia, and fifty-five made
their escape to France. When the latter arrived upon
the soil of the Republic they thought themselves safe;
but, alas 1 they were miserably disappointed, for they
discovered they htd not the sympathy of the French
Government with thleu4-although they had the sympath)
of the French nation; nor had they the sympathy of
that man, that exile, thee wandering vagabond, who, in
a moment of frenzied.ex.citement, the French people pie
at the head of thvir cettlgry. The President of the Re-
public connived{ with his Government in putting the
police in motiontiind ordering these individuals to move
from town to town and from place to place, and dogging
them through every part of France, till at last they were
compelled to seek refuge on the soil of that country
which, with all its faults, is the home of the brave, the
high-minded, and the great, and is ever ready to receive
the exile wanderer with open arms of whatever cast he may
be, and no matter whatever political feelings ho may
entertain.—(Cheers.) These individuais had landed
upon our shores without a penny in their pockets, driven
from the soil of France, the boasted country of liberty
and freedom, for preferring the rights of their native
country to the pay of the despot ; and they had, there-
fore, met for the purpose of expressing their sympathy,
in favour of these unfortunate sufferers.—(Hear, bear.)
He hoped and believed that this meeting would be the
forerunner of many others of a larger and more im-
portant character ; indeed many individuals, whose
names have great influence, such as Lord Nugent, and
no less than twenty-two Members of Parliament had
taken up the subject, under a feeling of sympathy,
for the purpose of raising means to relieve these in-
dividuals, and ultimately sending them back to their
native country to aid in the struggle now going on for
independence.—(Cheers.) Many people do not under-
stand the nature of the contest, and perhaps the meeting
would excuse him if he dwelt upon it for a few minutes,
in order that they might have a clear idea of the nature
of the present struggle, its ultimate tendency, and the
effects which will be produced in Europe if barbarism
proved successful against civilization; or, on the other
hand, if civil liberty was successqd in overcoming barba-
rism.—(Hear, hear.) Hungary, ho found, for the last
three hundred years, had been an independent country.
In the year 1560, or thereabouts, the Hungarian crown
of St. Stephen, as it was called, was bestowed upon a
branch of the House of Hapeburg-Lorraine, under the
conditions that the Hungarians should have their laws as
they had existed of old secured to them, and that every
successor to the Kingdom of llungary and house of
Hapsburg should be crowned with the crown of St.
Stephen, in the city of Presburg; and that if any
change took place in the descent it should only
be done with the consent of the nation, that was the con-
sent of the Diet, the representative of the Hungarian
nation assembled in Presburg.—(Hoar, hear.) Under
these circumstances Hungary, not being a province but
a kingdom, was bestowed upon the present house ot
Austria; that was beyond all doubt, and yet in the space
of two hundred years the Hungarians have had no less
than eleven struggles in defence of the rights which
were granted to them in 1560, and they were successful
in each instance.—(Hess, hear.) The house of Aus-
tria had always wished to reduce the kingdom of Hun-
gary to a mere province, but it should be recollected
that while Austria contains only three millions of inha-
bitants, the kingdom of Hungary contains no less than
fourteen millions; and, he believed, when the Crown
of Hungary was bestowed upon the house of Hapsburg.
the proportion of the inhabitants was nearly the same,
that was to say, the population of Hungary was four to
one, when compared to that of Austria.—(Hear, hear.)
Under those circumstances well might the Hungarians
be successful in their struggles for independence, and
the rights granted to them in 1560. From 1795 to
1815 Hungary continued faithful in asuccessfull)
struggling in favour of the house of Hapsburg,
that was to say, during that time, al thoug'e
the designs of Napoleon were more directed against
Austria than Hungary, Hungary still entered the field
against Napoleon; and yet, notwithstanding that they
sent petition after petition to the Administrative Council
at Vienna, the Hungarians had never received those im-
munities which their patriotism had merited.—(Stsame.)
On the contrary, further encroachments were made upon
their rights in 1815, when the Holy Alliance was entered
into between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, who joined
together under the pretence of defending religion; and
under that pretence they endeavoured to subjugate all
those connected with them, and to establish despotism
where freedom had previously reigned. Front 1815 to
1825 encroachments went on, and attempts were made
upon the freedom of Hungery. Resolution after resolu-
tion was sent to the Administrative Council at Vienna
complaining of those attempts; but those resolutions and
those petitions were rejected, and the encroachments
continued. Unjust fiscal regulations were imposed upon
the commerce of Hungary; and while attempts were
made to set race against race, and class against class,
upon the principle of divide et impera, no less than nine
distinct races had occupied the kingdom of Hungary.
At the present moment there were the Wallachians, the
Germans, the Sclavonians, the Buckowinans, and the
Croats, and by endeavouring to sow discord amongst
these races, the house of Austria attempted to make
further encroachments upon the liberties of the Hun-
garian people. In 1842 Joseph Kossuth, the president of
the Hungarian Republic, took up the subject, and ex-
posed the machinations of Austria, and the consequence
was, that for four years he was immured in an Austrian
dungeon.—(Shame.) The meeting would see from these
facts that the Hungarian people were struggling for
freedom in the same manner that the inhabitants of this
country did in the reign of Charles the First. Even
now, if encroachments are made upon our liberties, we
endeavour by moral means to preserve them, and
the Hungarians were doing nothing more.—(tiear,
hear.) In the year 1848, after all their petitions
and resolutions had been rejected by the Austrian Go-
vernment, the flame of liberty was suddenly lighted up
in France, it rolled onwards, and its effects were soon
felt in Hungary, where the people rose; the consequence
was, that after revolutions and insurrections had taken
place in France, in Hungary, in Italy, and in Germany,
the flame extended to Vienna and the whole of the Aus-
trian dominions, where it was only extinguished by the
Emperor Ferdinand, who felt himself in a state of
danger and was supposed to be an incapable, resigned
in favour of a boy Emperor. What was the conse-
quence? Why this boy has laid claim to the kingdom
of Hungary; but-the Hungarian people deny that Fer-
dinand had a right to depose himself without the con-
sent of the Hungarian Diet. This young man, who
was only eighteen years of age, had no right to the
kingdom of Hungary, unless the Diet had consented
to the deposition of Ferdinand, and unless he
took the oath at Presburg to defend the liber-
ties of the Hungarian people. He had not done
so, and the Hungarians had risen in defence of their
rights, contending against the whole power of Austria,
who had bean bated by their prowess; and now, in a
state of distress, Austria had called in the aid of Russia
for the purpose of crushing that spirit which they see, if
they do not crush, will crush them.—(Hear, hear.) That
was the present state of things in Hungary; the Hun-
garians were nobly contending for their rights, and they
were doing so in a manner which ought to call forth the
sympathies of all who had hearts beating in their
bosoms, or who loved liberty and freedom, the dearest
right of humanity. The sufferings of a portion of this
noble nation had brought them together, and he trusted
what he had stated himself and what would be stated by
the speakers who would follow him would so stimulate
the liberality of his bearers as to prove beyond question
that they sympathise with those who had acted so nobly
in contending for their rights, and who, in contending
for their own rights, were contending for the rights ot
humanity.

Mr. 'WRIGHT having been called upon to move the
first resolution said, England had long obtained the re-
putation of being the refuge of the unfortunate, and it
had happened so in the present instance; it mattered
very little what cast, what religion, or politics they be-
longed to, the unfortunate always found a refuge in
England. Within the last few years they had had despots
and liberals seeking refuge alike upon our shores, and he
hoped it would ever remain so. He was but little con •
versant with the Hungarian question, but it was suffi-
cient for him to know that the whole of the Hungarian
people had risen against Austria to satisfy him that their
cause was right. The bare fact, that Austria was unable to
subdue Hungary without the assistance of another nation
proved, beyond all doubt, that the majority of the people
were opposed to the rule and encroachments of Austria.
It was au important matter for us to consider whether a
nation which could not defend itself without the assist-
ance of a larger power, should be respected as a nation
at all, and whether the Government protested against
the interference of Russia or not, ho was quite sure the
English nation would protest against it. Ho did not
say that England ought to go to war with Russia. She
was not in a position to do that, as the aristocracy of
the country had taken good care to spend all our money
in wars to put down freedom; and when we came to ask
for money to uphold freedom we found that there was none
in the Exchequer.—(Hear, hear.) Ile was quite sure,
however, that the country would heartily sympathise
with the struggle of the Hungarians, who had conducted
the war in a manner that would reflect credit upon the

most civilized nation on the face of the earth—they
had carefully refrained from taking reprisals until
within the last few days, when the barbarities of Austria
had compelled them to follow the example of Washing-
ton in dealing with their prisoners.—(Hear, hear.) The
object of Russia was evidently to destroy national
freedom in Europe, to subdue Hungary as they had an.•
nihilated Poland ; and if her tyrannical despotism suc-
ceeded, the progress of civilization would be stopped,
and barbarism would be extended.—(Cheers.) He con-
cluded by moving the resolution, to the effect that the
meeting warmly sympathised with the struggle of the
Hungarian people.
Mr. THOMAS M‘ENTEEn. said he was not aware until
a few minutes previously that a meeting of this kind
was about to be held, but he was very happy in having
an opportunity offered him of expressing, however
feebly, his entire sympathy with the object which they
had in view.—(Hear.) He had heard with great atten-
tion the observations of the speaker who had preceded
him, and it struck him forcibly that if they limited the
question before them simply to the Hungarian struggle,
philosophicalhomesteads,
bsense,li
as
a not
powerful
w merelyerful as
ru s t
without any regard to its attendant consequences, they
would take a very narrow and confined view of the
matter. They should look at it in a broader and more
struggle
againststruggle a of
vilee
gallant nation for the protection of its farms and its
And ruthless despotism, which, up to the
present time,
had kept the greater portion of Europe in
subjection.—(Cheers.) They had all witnessed the
efforts for freedom on the continent, but, unfortunately,
from a variety of causes, they had disappointed the
sanguine expectations of the lovers of liberty in this and
other countries—they saw the gallant beginning which
was made in France, and the glorious results which
arose from that beginning, but, unfortunately, they now
witnessed the melancholy . spectacle of a people, who
themselves fought bravely in defence of democratic insti-
tutions, carried away by the influence of a great name,
and induced to grant to the unworthy successor of that
great name the highest honours of the kingdom.—
(Cheers.) And we then see that man, instead of justi-
fying the hopes which were entertained of him as the
accredited head Of the French Goveihment, forgetting
everything that was due to liberty, philosophy, common
sense, and reason, and attempting to suppress the
struggle for political and religious liberty at Rome.—
(Cheers.) They had seen, whenever the progress of
freedom had been stopped, that the friends of despotism
had rejoiced, and they found in this country, when the
gallant struggle of a gallant people for their best and
dearest rights sustained any reverses, it was treated as
a matter of exultation both in the House of Lords and

in the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) But they found
also what was still worse—they found the press
of a people who almost universally sympathised
with the gallant struggle of this gallant nation,
they found the great bulk of the metropolitan press
making use of every trick, and rascally misappropriating
the talent at their command, for the purpose of throw-
ing odium upon this noble struggle, and of falsifying
the feelings of the British people, as if they exulted in
the defeat of the Hungarians and the fall of the noble
liossuth.—(Cheers.) It was attempted the other day
by the scoundrelly ''(times to draw a parallel, and to prove
that there was a strong analogy between the case of
Scotland submitting to England and that of Hungary
submitting to Austria.—(Hear, hear.) Only fancy
how much they must have been in want of any-
thing in the shape of an argument to attempt to draw
A parallel between a few hundred thousands of our own
island submitting to the government of England and a
nation of fourteen millions submitting to the yoke of
despotism.—(Cheers.) The Morning Chronicle took up
a similar argument, but dealt with it in another shape,
and these opinions and views were issued as belonging
to the people of this country.—(Hear, hear.) There
were, however, other portions of the press which
reflected more truly the national mind, but the greater
portion—which, feeling bound to give full ex-
pression to his feelings on this subject, he
would call the scoundrelly press—falsified the feelings of
the people, and endeavoured to throw odium upon them.
lie believed himself that if the gallant Hungarians sank
under the ruthless hordes of Cossacks, that these barba-
rians would ultimately overrun Europe, Napoleon had
said, that posterity would yet venerate his name for the
efforts he had made to curb the power of the Autocrat,
whose hordes, if they once penetrated into the fertile
southern climes, would sooner perish than return to
their snow-clad and inhospitable country.—(Hear.) He
hoped that that would he not only the first of a series
of meetings in this great capital, which was the
centre of civilization, but that it would be followed by
similar meetings in every town in the United Kingdom
for he believed, if the matter was once fully set on foot,
that there was scarcely a homestead in the country
which would not contribute something, if necessary,
towards the maintenance of the Hungarian refugees
while they were compelled to remain in England.—
(Cheers.) lie sympathised most strongly and sincerely
with the Hungarians, and his whole adherence should be
given to their cause. Mr. M•Enteer concluded by
seconding the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN—It appears to me almost a work
of supererogation to put the resolution to the
meeting after the manner in which it has been
moved and seconded, and received by the meet-
iog. The struggle, it has been justly said,
is not merely the struggle of a nation—it is a vast and
great struggle of humanity against barbarism—(Cheers)
—and, as it has also been justly said, if the barbarians
are successful, we may expect a struggle not merely on
the continent, but a struggle here.—(Cheers.) We look
upon it as the struggle of liberty against darkness and
despotism, and it is for us to see if the expression of our
sympathies may not tend to bring it to a successful ter-
mination. Looking at the geographical descrip-
tion of Hungary, and knowing that the brave
Hungarians have responded to the call of that
great man, Kossuth, and have driven their cattle to the
hills, thus leaving the country desolate, I am of
opinion that, even should they be overcome, the barba-
rians, when they find themselves destitute of animal
food and other provisions, will die in thousands of pea-
tileree and famine.—(Cheers.) Let us hope that this
meeting, which is the first movement of the kind, will
be followed by thousands of others, that the whole na-
tion will respond to the cause of the Hungarians, for
Britain, with all its faults, is looked upon as the moral
beacon of the universe.—(Cheers.) It is here that the
Hungarians look, and let us assure them that as long as
we enjoy freedom humanity need not despair.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. HUGGET, seconded by
.Mr.
DIPPIE, it was agreed that subscriptions should be then
gathered for the purpose of assisting the Hungarian
refugees in England. Subscriptions were then collected
in the room, and it was astonishing to see with what
readiness and liberality half-sovereigns, half-crowns, and
shillings, were handed in, the meeting being a very
small one, and the majority present being working men.
It was directed that the sum total, which appears iu
another column, should be sent to The Sun-office.
A committee was then appointed to collect further
subscriptions, and it was agreed that they should take
into consideration the propriety of holding a larger
meeting at the Temperance Hall, in the Broadway, at
which the working men of Westminster might have an
opportunity of expressing their sympathy on behalf of
the Hungarians.
On the motion of Mr. Evaris, seconded by Mr.
NUGGET, it was agreed to unanimously that a vote
of thanks should be tendered to 7'he Sun and Daily
News, and to the other newspapers which advocated the
cause of the Hungarians.
Alter a vote of thanks to the Chairman for his able
conduct in the chair, which he briefly acknowledged, the
meeting separated.

totally unremunerative. When the Dee (intercolonial
I boat) left with the mails for the Thames, the House of
Assembly had not met. A very stormy session was an-
ticipated, particularly relative to the Retrenchment Bill,
which will not in all probability be carried, and on which
there is no doubt the House will be dissolved. The island
was perfectly quiet and healthy.
GUADALOUPE.—A serious disturbance took place about
the 26th June at this island, between the natives and
authorities, relative to some municipal changes, which
was, however, quickly suppressed, but not without the
loss of some doz-n
Both at St. Vincent, Martinique, and Guadeloupe,
there was a vast deal of sickness prevalent.
The Tobago papers contain nothing of interest. At
Grenada the Assembly had imposed a tax of ten per
cent. on all incomes paid out of the treasury. The
quarantine was reduced from 20 to 10 days. At Trini-
dad a retiring pension of 8331. 6s. Sd. had been voted to
Judge Scotland, but Mr. Scott gave notice of a Bill to
deprive, for the future, all officers of such pensions.
From the Deme7ara Colonia we extract the follow-
ing:—" June 18. The slave brig Uniao, taken by her
Mujest)'s ship Hydra, off the coast of Brazil, has just
been sold here for 1,418 dolls. The weather during the
last fortnight has been most unfavourable for sugar
making, and the loss and injury to planters cause seri-
ous alarm. Trade continues in the same depressed
state. The people are peaceable, and crime and outrage
have much diminished."
BIRDAD;XS, JUNE 25.—June 13—Sailed the Laurino,
Hawkins, for Liverpool, the Indian Queen for ditto, and
the Helen, M•Gtegur, for ditto. Quantity of sugar
shipped to the 21st-24,666 hhds., 1,390 tierces, and
4,801 barrels. Molasses-5,518 puncheons, 414 hhels.,
and 153 barrels. There is no news of interest from this
island, but the retrenchment agitation is as great as
ever. Fears are entertained that the diseases now ra-
vaging the islands of St. Vincent and Martinique will
attack Barbadoes.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT IRELAND IRLAND.
An inquest was held on Tuesday last, on board of the
Medway convict ship, by Charles C. Keane, Esq., coro-
ner, on view of the bodies of Thomas Kerrigan and
John Tobin, who had been shot. The following is the
substance of what was elicited before the jury
" The four or five hundred convicts on board the Med-
way were assembled that morning on the Spar deck (the
forwart part of the ship), to witness the punishment of
one of their number, James Cronin, for mutinous con-
duct. The overseer, F. B. Black, Esq., and his officers,
with the convict guards, fully armed, and their pistols
being loaded with bell cartridge (the usual practice, we
believe), were drawn up on the quarter-deck to the num-
ber of twenty. The medical officer was also present.
The quarter-deck is divided from the spar-deck by a
railing about five feet high.
" The man to be flogged had a brother on board the
ship, older than himself, who had permission from the
overseer to absent himself from witnessing the punish-
ment ; but this kindly offer on the part of Mr. Black
was refused, and he appeared with the other prisoners.
" When the proper officers were in the act of securing
the man to the gratings or ladder, his brother rushed
forward, and leaping on the berries, and waving his hat,
called to him by name. He (the elder Cronin) then
addressed some words in Irish to the convicts, which
was answered by a wild cheer, and a rush of some 250
to the barriers, upon which they clustered like bees
preparatory to a descent upon the quarter deck. The
men were desparately excited. The overseer waved
his hand, and called to the men to "fall back ;"
which order was quite disregarded. Mr. Black, plainly
perceiving what must be the object of the prisoners
viz , the rescue of Cronin, and the probable butchery
of himself and his small party, gave order to the guards
to fire, which was immediately tellowed by a volley from
the front rank. This did not have any immediate
effect—the desperate men entertaining the idea that only
blink cartridges were fired. The rear rank of the guard,
which had been kept in reserve, then moved to the front,
and, under orders of Mr. Black, fired. Two of the
mutinous convicts fell dead, and twelve were wounded.
This instantly quelled the mutiny, the men hurriedly
retreating to hiding places about the forward part of
the ship.
" The punishment was then administered to the
younger Cronin.
" After a lengthy investigation, the jury unanimously
returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide.'
" One of the wounded men died on Tuesday afternoon.
AA inquest on his body was held yesterday. The verdict
has not yet transpired.
" The ringleader, Cronin, was wounded in two places.
Two others are maimed for life—one having had his leg
amputated at the knee, and the other having received a
ball in the spine."
The royal mail steamer Clyde arrived on Tuesday
;tom Nassau.

THE SIEGE OPERATIONS AT

CHATHAM.

On Saturday the siege operations, which had been
postponed in consequence of the illness of Colonel Weare,
took place at Chatham, on a scale which fully justified
the great interest evinced by the public and the military
profession on the subject. On the day first fixed for
the purpose his Royal Highness Prince Albert hnd an-
nounced his intention to be present, but the delay which
had taken place rendered this impracticable, and the
display was therefore deprived of the Mut which would
have arisen from the visit of his Royal Highness. The
Duke of Wellington also was absent, and all the interest
which must have been excited by his Grace's personal
inspection of the operations was lost. But notwith.
standing these drawbacks the proceedings of the day
were of the most striking character, and it is rarely, if
ever, that in this peace-losing country—this nation of
shopkeepers—so splendid a military spectacle has taken
place. Nor wtro the operations unwatched by men
whose experience of the stern realities of war well
qualified them to pronounce upon the discipline of the
troops employed and the knowledge of warfare displayed.
A brilliant staff of general and field officers were pre-
sent, including the names of the Marquis of Anglesea,
Viscount Hardinge, Sir John Burgoyne, Major-General
Fox, and Sir Frederick Smith. They visited every point
of the lines where the operations were in progress, and
appeared highly satisfied with everything they saw. Su
far, therefore, whatever was dune was exhibited before
but to stand under it, and many of whom had been com-
petent judges—men accustomed not only to see fire, pre-
sent at sieges where the cartridge s used were not "blank."
But besides this body of connoisseurs, there was present
at Chatham on Saturday a countless host of people
eager to participate in that form of excitement which
classic writers have illustrated by the desire to see a
great battle from a safe point of view. Let others ex-
plain how it happens that military spectacles are of such
rare occurrence in England; one thing at least is clear,
that a hen they do take place on an adequate scale they
prove eminently attractive. As a nation we are not
perp?tually dreaming "of cutting foreign throats,
of breaches, ambuecsdoee, Spanish blades,"—the
thoughts which Queen Blab awakens in the
brain of the sleeping soldier. Yet the parade-
ground of a military station has always its group
of gaping spectators, and a review, however small
the number of troops employed, will collect thousands of
visitors. The same spirit invades our theatres and
public gardens, and it will be long before mimic sea
fights cease to be popular at the Surrey, mimic cavalry
charges at Astley's, and mimic battles at Vauxhall. The
siege operations at Chatham, therefore, were looked for-
ward to with intense interest by the public at large, as
likely to furnish much more than the usual quantity of
the "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war."
As a mere display it would be worth seeing ; as telling
a connected story in these operations of war,'d
which o,hello says "make ambition virtue, it
be still more interesting. To the civilian there is no
Part of history so perplexing us the detailed narrative
of siege operations. The technicalities of fortification
are unknown to him, and among ravelins, curtains, es-
carps, counter-scarps, entonuoirs parrallels, and saps, lie
10-ee himself so completely that Uncle Toby himself,
hacked by Corporal Trim, could never put him right.
No doubt, therefore, the desire to see what a siege
really was like acted as one of the moat powerful means
in drawing together the immense number of
persons who, on Saturday, witnessed the opera-
tions at' Chatham. Amongst them were many,
military men who appeared to take a lively in-
terest in the details of the day's proceedings. The whole
were scattered over the lines, occupying, as far as they
might be permitted to do, all the prominent positions
whence a commanding view might be obtained, and pre-
senting a singular appearance of confidence amidst a
scene the sights and sounds of which were anything but
reassuring on the point of peestsbal safety. Thus dif-
fused over a wide space t 'effect of numbers congre-
gated on one particular t was not produced, and no
fair opportunity was eeented for judging accurately
how many people the occasion had drawn together. But
they could not have amounted to less than from 60,000
to 70,000. Rochester and Chatham are considerable
towns, and their population of course turned out to wit-
ness the spectacle. The inhabitants of the surrounding
country were also present, and the resources of the rail-
way and the river steamers proved quite unequal to thew
transit of the extraordinary numbers coming downhfrcoir.
London. As might have been expected under
ossuec
cir-
cumstances, the price of beds and fly-ahnireaniroun
enparalleled height. There tto aonf
.cl and had it not
crowding, crushing, racing,
.and"."general excitement
worthy of the great Der3'
which the the operations cora-
-1 been for the early hour a,tow
the
demand for transit to
Those who know the
meneed, it is hard to sbayenn
met.
Chatham could haveGaaticons there will readily understand
position of rho fc.,rhti
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they present, not only for carrying
the facilities which
on siege operations, but,
fwohraytieiswifnagr
them
mre
the sight-seeing public,
respect the most and the least privileged persons were
nearly upon a level, and no room was left for those pa-
ths tic regrets in which the foreign correspondents of
our newspapers so often weal, that when a great battle
was fought or a fortress taken, no proper view could be
obtained of the action or the siege. True, the whistling
of bullets sadly disturbs that calmness of mind so essen-
lial in the midst of military evolutions ; but the very
booming of cannon and the retie of musketry are for-
midable to the civic mind, and there was, therefore,
something quite heroical in the steady courage with
which masses of the spectators held their ground, th_,ugh
placed between the fire of opposing columns, and shot at
by troops ensconced behind ramputs, or showing only

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breastwork heir heads -acrd guns over of their
parallels, The programme informed you that certain
positions were to be cannonaded, and on turning your
eyes there you found it not occupied with soldiers and
bristling bayonets, bat covered with a dense crowd of
people in the homely garb of peaceful citizens. As they
seemed to be perfeetly at their ease, any uneasiness at
their danger speedily gave way, and for the rest, though
the expenditure of gunpowder was frightful, though the
mines sprung were awful, and though there could be no
mistake about the Mourir pour la patrie spirit of the
men engaged, it was very comforting to find that the
bloodshed was not greater than at the great battles of
some of the South American Republics, and that as the
same staff o(General Officers passed freely to the one sido
or the other,`there could not be a very hostile feeling be-
tween the besiegers and the besieged. The auk of the
company present were accommodated with cards of ad-
mission to the Belvedere Battery and the Casemate No.
1, whence upon the whole the best view could be obtained
of the operations. Amongst them were—Prince peorge
of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the
Duke of Leeds, the Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Canning,
Viscount Newport, Viscount Cantilupe, Lord J. Mur-
ray, Admiral Elliott, Admiral Dundas and Lady Emily
Dundas, Lord G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Hubert de Burgh,
Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P., the Hon. W. Scarlett,
the Earl of Darnley, the Hon. M. and Mr. D. Astley,
Major-General Pasley, Mr. Greaten, M.P., Mr. Moffatt,
M.P., Mr. Ross, M.P., Sir W. Fraser, the lion. F.
Charteris, M.P., and the HOD. C. Hardinge. Lord F.

Fitzciarenc9, the Hon. Captain Berkeley, M.P., the Hon.
W. Fitzroy, M.P.. and others accompanied the staff in
the inspection of the operations.
Above any other place in the kingdom, Chatham is
admirably adapted for the purposes of such an exhibition

as took place on baturday: it contains a large garrison,
being the great depot of our military establishment,
and the head quarters of troops on their way to or
their return from the different parts of our colonial

empire. Here, therefore, there is a greater number
of regiments represented, and a more complete
type of the various elements which go to make up
the British army, than in any other of our military
stations at home. The engineer and artillery depart-
ments of the service also have here their strongholds.
The dockyards employ 2,000 artisans. The naval force
stationed at Sheerness is rendered easily available for
such an occasion, and altogether, without saying any-
thing as to the results of a real siege, for the purpose of
a sham siege the situation of Chatham has pre-eminent
advantages.
To understand the operations of Saturday, it must be
supp )sed that an army having orginally captured the
outer line of works, and carried on an attack upon the
I citadel (which is represented by the works extending
from Prince Frederick's to the Terrace bastion), has
been suddenly obliged to raise the siege for the pur-
pose of giving battle to a force which had approached
to the relief of the place ; and that the besiegers
having been victorious in this engagement, desired to
renew the siege of the citadel. It is assumed also,
that during the absence of the besiegers the garrison
have mined some of the batteries of the attack, have
prepared countermines under the trenches, and are de-
termined to resist any attempt to escalade the outer line.
The object being to condense into a few hours the ope-
rations of a long siege, a pull upon the imagination like
that just suggested is quite as necessary as in the repre-
sentation of Shakspere's henry V., or any other his-
torical play. In point of fact, the whole affair was
neither more nor less than an out-of-door two-act dra-
matic representation, the interest of the plot being well
sustained up to the denouement: first, by the repulse
with which the earlier operations end, and afterwards
by the increasirg magnitude of the mines exploded, the
breaches effected, and the other military resources de-
veloped. But to proceed with a more particular account
of this great warlike spectacle—the first part consisted
of an unsuccessful attempt to carry the right of Chatham
Lines by escalade. The Lines in that direction were
defended by a company of the Royal Artillery en the
extreme right, the Provisional Battalion and Enrolled
Pensioners in the centre, and a company of the Royal
Sappers and Miners on the left, the whole lining the
parapets from the Gun-wharf to the Spur. The flanks
and salients were armed with ordnance, and manned by
two companies of the Royal Artillery. So much for the
force of the beseiged. The assaulting columns, on the
other hand, consisted of the 17th Regiment on the left,
the Royal Marine Artillery and Royal Marines in the
centre, and the Royal Sappers and Miners on the right.
On the signal being given the three columns rushed for-
ward simultaneously and with admirable precision. Skir-
mishers were thrown out, and the cover which the ground
afforded used as far as practicable. The Sappers ad-
vancing along the side ot the hill and sheltering them-
selves from the fire of the fortress, descended into the
ditch, but were there pulled up by a hedge which they
were unable to get through, and so iu hunting fashion
were obliged to put about. The Marines were equally
unfortunate, the left wing being beaten by a high
wall, and the right, after descending into the ditch,
and scaling the opposite escarp so as to get a footing,
being obliged by the vigorous resistance of the besieged
' to retire. The 17th Regiment also descended into the
ditch, but there found that their scaling ladders were
too short, and the opposition too strong for any chance
' of success, and so the 17th also withdrew. Withi❑ and

without the lines nothing could be more praiseworthy
than the manner in which the men went through their
evolutions. They all went about their work as seriously
as if the harmlessness of the contents of their cartouch-
boxes was still a secret unknown to them, and they ran
the greatest possible danger of being knocked over the
next moment. It was quite comforting to see how care-
fully they sheltered their bodies within the ramparts,
never showing till the instant they were about to fire,
and then withdrawing again. Without the attacking
columns exhibited the utmost daring; and it remains
an even question between the divisions which dis-
tinguished themselves most on the occasion. An im-
pervious hedge, a high wall, and short scaling lad-
ders were the real causes of the retreat, and not the
slightest taint rests upon the honour of the corps
engaged. Its fact, they seemed to court destruction, and
how they escaped the deadly aims taken at them by the
besieged was what no one present could perfectly under-
stand. The details of this first operation were in all
respects admirably performed, and excited general ap-
probation. The scenic (fleet of it was beautiful from
the height at which the lines attacked stand, and the
evolutions of the troops in availing themselves of the
shelter which the ground afforded. It was also in-
tert sting to see the harmonious action of the different
arms of the military service, the rapidity and regularity
with which the whole work was conducted, and the
hearty, zealous manner in which every man performed
his duty.
The second portion of the day's proceedings was a far
more elaborate one than the first, and consisted of a
successful assault and escalade of the left of Chatham
Lines, and in further operations leading to the reduction
of the place. The garrison was formed of a squadron
of cavalry, two companies of the Royal Artillery,
one company of the Royal Sappers and Miners, four
companies of the Enrolled Pensioners, and the
Provisional Battalion. The columns of attack
were the same as in the escalade of the right of the
lines, with the additions of two companies of the Royal
Artillery and a small force posted in the island and the
north side of St. Mary's Creek. A portion of the
sailors and marines of the fleet also were employed in
manning four gun-boats, and in capturing Gillingham
Tower and battery. The operations commenced with
the formation of a pontoon bridge over St. Mary's Creek
for the passage of troops from the island to the main,
combined with a succesetul assaul: and escalade of the left
of Chatham Lines, and the occupation of the first parallel
and its batteries, these operations being supported by the
fire of artillery from the high ground near Burnt Oak
Cottage, and by the fire from gunboats in the Medway
and St. Mary's Creek. Of the entire proceedings this
was perhaps the most striking. The great variety of
military and naval operations combined in it, the im-
mense numbers of spectators by this time assembled on
the ground, and the admirable precision which charac-
terized every movement of the troops, all contributed to
the effect produced. Within the lines the besieged
had been drawn up 1 inexpestet,aatiiionngfo;,assom
tentimbee beforeseen
the attack commenced.
of the enemy unless the eye searched closely
the distant landscape, when heads of each column
might be distinguished cautiously peeping out, while the
main body was covered by the nature of the land. At
length, however, the signal was given. Gillingham
Tower took up the firing; the different divisions do-
bouched upon the open ground in front of the works,
and having taken up positions in echellen therein, the
skirmishers were quickly thrown out, and the whole
again moved forward. The garrison make a sortie, but
are beaten back, and passing through the gateway of an
interior stockade are unable, from the rapidity of the
pursuit, to lift the drawbridge. In the meantime the
' firing becomes general from the attacking skirmishers,
and a sortie is made by a squadron of cavalry from the
Brompton barrier. The 17th forms square and repulses
the charge. The stockade at St. Mary's is breached
with gunpowder, and the flank of the besieged being thus
turned they retire behind the parapets of the parallels.
At the same moment the lines are escaladed, and the at-
tackinge columns pouring in great numbers across
.nthof
ditch, take up position on the banquette and teeri 1 1
b' rrePweay to
the works. Thence they gradually makieret
behind the
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blown up. The left of the lodgment at the
foot of the counterguard of the left attack is also blown
up, and a part of the advanced trenches of the besiegers
on the right attack; the whole of the entonnoirs formed
by these mines being successfully crowned by the sappers
of the besiegers. The sieging operations concluded with
the blowing up of the counterguard, and the breaching
of the right face of the ravelin, as well as of the
counterscarp and escarp of its left face by mines,
the crowning of the entonnoirs, and the oc •
cupatien of the lodgments, the breaching of the ter-
race bastion by mines, and the storming of that work,
as well as the escalade of the Duke of Cumberland's
bastion. During the whole period of the second and
successful attack, an almost continuous goad rapid dis-
charge of fire-arms was kept up by the troops, while the
guns in the different batteries kept booming away in grand
style. Now and then there was an awful pause, not that
the work of destruction might cease, but that it might
gather strength. In those pauses some immense mine
ingled smoke and earth into the air,
and shaking the solid was sure to explode with a dull heavy sound, tossing a
ground to a considerable diatance.
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