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N°.175783.] LONDON, SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 23) 1849.
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AND ABATTOIR COMPANY.
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Capital 200,0001. Shares H. each, to he paid in full on allotment,
thereby avoiding any calls, and unless the Company complete the
parch tse of On property, the whole amount will be returned to

the shareho'ders.
The responsibility limited to the amount o 7 the shores.
The rental of the houses, &c., on the Islin,:ton Market Estate ensures
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Smithfield Market.

TRUSTEES.
Geo. Ston., Esq. (Mogsra. Martin, Stone, and Co.), Lombsrd-strect.
John fwellq. Esq. (Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Cu.), Grace-
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Win. Shaw, Esq. (Member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

casting discredit on the tooth and religion of Buddha I
—now in Van Diemen's Land, striving to reform
the fiends whom he has transported to that pandemo-
nium—now in Canada, discussing the Indemnity Bill
and the war of races; or," concluded the lively
speaker, "in the fair isles of the lonian Sea, enjoying
I hope, for the sake of my dear friend Mr. 'Ward, a
life of luxurious ease and perfect trahquillity." Alas !
vain was the friendly aspiration. The single excep-
tion to an otherwise universal turbulence was not to
be. Even while the wish was breathed the elements of
discord were stirring; and but two months later— "Oh,
freak perverse of fate !"—the " dear friend," to whom
the philosophical but too imaginative orator had
generously assigned the only pleasant role in the
whole drama of British colonial politics, is rudely
awakened from the delightful day dream into which
the echoes of St. Stephen's may probably have lulled
him, and finds himself summoned to as mull a Piece
of work as ever fell to the share of the unluckiest even,
of Lord Grey's Governors. In place of felicitating -
Mr. Ward on the enjoyment of "luxurious ease" and
" perfect tranquillity," we have now to congratulate
him —which we do most heartily—on his very narrow'
escape from the bullets of " Young Greece," and;
on the vigour and decision with which he his
accepted the hard necessity that converts a churn'
ing sinecure into a post of difficulty .and .peril.
For the Lord High Commissioner appears to have
acted with admirable promptitude. On the first
tidings of the revolt he proclaimed martial law, dis-
patched troops to reduce Scala, and followed them
in person next day. He found Argastoli "in a
state of unprecedented excitement and alarm. The
rebels were said to be advancing in large numbers,
and a combined movement of the disaffected upon the
town was talked of, in which the mountain villages
were to take part. Business was suspended, and the
Custom-house closed." We quote Mr. Ward's own
words, as they decisively show that he, at any rate,
did not feel that he was dealing with a mere riot. At
Trojanata, while standing near the entrance of a
church, the Primate was shot dead at his feet. How-
ever, the vigorous measures adopted soon produced
their effect. By the 3d of September the numbers of
the insurgents were reduced to insignificance; and
their leaders, the priest Gregorio Nodaro (surnamed
" the assassin") and, Vlacco, were being hunted
through the hills with every prospect of a speedy
capture. The next advices will, it may reasonably
be hoped, announce that the revolt is at an end.
In our recent remarks on these disturbances we
alluded to the main grounds for believing that the
outbreak, however slight and easily repressible in
itself, was by no means a mere sudden ebullition of
Cephaloniot cut-throats and thieves. We showed,
that however largely a lust of plunder or bloodshed
might have entered into the enteute, it was in reality
only a new manifestation of a spirit which had long
existed, and which we feared it would take long to
lay. These views are fully borne out by what we
now learn. Mr. Ward observes—" There is ample
evidence to prove that secret societies were connected
with this movement—that it has been many months
in preparation, and is countenanced by persons still
resident" in Cephalonia, " who fancied that they could
guide the passions which they stimulated and let loose."
If these words mean anything, it must be admitted

FROM TINS MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
TIMES.—The immunity from cholera enjoyed by
residents in the immediate vicinity of certain City
graveyards is one of the arguments most frequently
advanced in defence of intramural sepulture by its
interested advocates. " Look," say they, "at such
churchyards as that of Spitalfields, with its pleasant
grassy walks, its green waving trees, and the open
space for ventilation, which it maintains amidst the
densely peopled streeis and alleys adjacent; compare
the healthiness of the neighbouring residents, whose
windows look out upon its ancient sepulchres, its
charnelhouse, and its newly opened graves, with the
far greater mortality observable in certain districts
remote from the exhalations of the dead, and then
maintain, if you can, the pretended insalubrity of
graveyard gas, or the alleged necessity of withdrawing
from the citizens of London the privilege of burial
within the precincts of their respective parishes."
This reasoning, though plausible, and not without
a foundation in some partial and exceptional facts,
betrays an imperfect acquaintance on the part of
those who adopt it with the habits of morbific
miasmata and pestilential exhalations. A closer
exainination of facts furnishes the means of its
immediate refutation. It is perfectly well known, for
example, that the effect of marsh poison is often more
severely felt at some little distance from the place of
its emission than on the generating swamp or marsh
itself. Thus, the Essex marshes, north of the
Thames, occasion aguish attacks on the opposite side
of the river, especially during the prevalence of
northerly winds. In the neighbourhood of Lewisham
the poison brought from the river-side marshes by
the westerly breezes has been known to afflict with
ague the inhabitants of the hills above the town, while
the lowland population has remained exempt. And,
generally, those who inhabit a level marsh suffer less
from its exhalations than those whose dwellings are
situated between the marsh itself and some adjacent
rising ground ; the local obstructions serving to
retain and concentrate the watery vapours and
the specific poison of which they are the vehicle.
Just so, in a town, it is perfectly conceivable that
vapours wafted from a crowded graveyard may in
some cases tend to accumulate in distant courts and
cul de sacs adapted for their retention, while less con-
fined localities, even though nearer to the source of
poison, may escape with a less concentrated infection.
Those, too, who overlook the City graveyards, are
accustomed to close their windows when, as at St.
Olave's the other day, " human heads in a green
state, with the hair still attached, and other mangled
human remains," are thrown up steaming in the sun ;
or when, as at St. Bride's, heaps of decaying bones,
and half-disjointed skeletons, ragged with spade-
chopped flesh, are piled up to a level with the sur-
rounding casements ! But those who have not this
ocular forewarning of the putrescent steam advancing
towards them, are liable to get their houses filled
with its deadly infection unawares. A hot sun,
moreover, may draw up to a level above that of the
neighbouring houses a portion of these noxious
vapours, which, like the similarly raised dew,
may be again condensed by the cool night
air, and descend upon remote localities. The
advocates of urban burial—with all its horrible
adjuncts of skeleton-mashing, coffin bursting, and
the subterranean decapitation of the' dead—must,
therefore, look further for proors of the salubrity of
their trade than to the exceptional escape of some
whose dwellings abut upon their hideous poison labo-
ratories. To those who, like_the recalcitrant guardians
of St. Saviour's (whose apolegetic letter we published
in our Thursday's paper), defend their intramural
burial-grounds as being little used, and therefore
little crowded, two obvious rejoinders apply. The
first is, that for a practical benefit confessedly se
small it is not worth while to continue burial
customs which frequent and loathsome abuses have
rendered obnoxious to the general sense of the coin-
umnity. The second is, that the putrescent emana-
tions from the dead being of the nature of a ferment,
a very minute proportion may, under certain circum-
stances, produce zymotic disease—which, once en-
gendered, propagates itself as yeast in wort ; and,
so, like a little leaven, " leavens the whole mass."
It is hardly, however, a little leaven that the
poison distillers of St. Saviour's confess to have
prepared in their three parochial graveyards. Upon
their own showing they have, during the lnsi. Leu years,
buried in less than 4,000 superficial yards of ground
an aggregate of nearly 3,000 corpses ; of which even
the earliest interred can scarcely as yet be thoroughly
decomposed. How huge this bulk of putrefy ing
flesh—how hideous in its several stages of decay—
how saturate with its black sanies the surrounding
soil—we spare to compute. Let the reader work out
the ghastly problem for himself, and then decide
whether this festering mass shoul I, day by day, be
disturbed by the sexton's mattock, and day by day
gorged with fresh corpses ; or whether, as we ventured
to contend, the order of the Board of Health for the clo-
sure of the yard should forthwith be made imperative.
A. more serious argument, in appearance if not in
reality, is advanced by those who inveigh against
the Board of Health for attacking a few only of the
many metropolitan burial-ground owners, and leav-
ing the rest to the uninterrupted pursuit of their
now, alas I too lucrative trade. The result, it is
contended, will be, not to promote extramural in-
terments, but merely to procure an undue accession
of profitable business to the uninterdicted grounds.
This may be partly true ; yet the course adopted by
the Board of Health is on the one hand inevitable,
and on the other justifiable and advantageous. It is
inevitable, because by the terms of the Act under
which they proceed certain evidence must be taken,
and forms gone through, requiring too much time and
labour to be susceptible of simultaneous adoption
throughout the whole metropolis. It is justifiable,
because the most obnoxious graveyards are closed
first, and the rest will follow in their turn. It is ad-
vantageous, because its immediate effect is to divert
interment from the more crowded to the less encum-
bered yards; while it will inevitably bring about, as
its ulterior result, the total abolition of intramural
sepulture. One other objection remains—the gravest
of all, and by far the most difficult to meet. It is
founded on the absence of any present provision for
the extramural interment of the poor, without adding
to funeral costs, already very burdensome, a further
charge for funeral transit to suburban cemeteries
more or less remote. This objection is, however,
fairly encountered, and we think satisfactorily re-
futed, by the sanitary reformers. They show, in the
first place, that any additional cost involved in the
transport of corpses beyond the precincti of the me-
tropolis would be more than counterpoised in the
saving which would result, as well to private as to
parochial funds, from the abatement of fever and
pestilence caused by the inhumation of the dead
among the living. They add that, by a proper re-
organization of the undertaking system, at present
conducted on very false and uneconomical principles,
corpses could be transported to suburban cemeteries
for a less charge than is now made for their convey-
ance to the nearest intramural burying-ground. And
they particularly indicate the facilities which the
railways afford for the establishment of cemeteries,
ten or fifteen miles from town, with suitable receiving-
houses, to which the corpse could be conveyed by
night, and where the mourners might assemble, at
small cost, the next day, to attend the funeral service,
and to pay the last tribute of respect to their departed
friend. To these suggestions, which have our entire
concurrence, we invite- the attention of the great
railway companies, who, by their suburban village
experiments, and associative arrangements for the
benefit of their workmen, have already done much to
advance the great cause of social and sanitary reform,
and to whom the present emergency presents
a new occasion for the humane, and, because humane,
therefore profitable application of their energy and
capital. It is not necessary, in the first instance,
that the ground laid out should be consecrated.
Many intramural cemeteries—the Crossbones yard
for one—are unconsecrated ; and, amongst those
which are consecrated, many—like the St. George's
churchyard, described as little better than a huge
" cesspool"—have ceased to deserve or justify the
sanction of the church. The consecration of such
horrible cloaca for the reception of the dead is not
less a mockery of Christian faith than an outrage on
human feeling. Who would not rather rest from
" life's fitful fever" in some sequestered spot—fanned
by the pure breeze, watered by the clear dew, and
illumined by Heaven's unintercepted light, than be
laid, amidst the harsh clamour of the sunless town,
to fester in a consecrated "cesspool ?" Away with
them, then, these plague spots of our metropolitan
organism ! Away with these gangrenous cancers,
that poison the blood of the people. Let us root them
out this very winter, lest, ere the next summer be
past, they breed another pestilence among us. The
air above—the earth beneath—and the waters under
the earth, are alike polluted by their loathsome
presence. Away with them—at once, and for ever!
CHRONICLE.—We well remember the picture
which Sir William Molesworth drew last June of the
multiform duties of the Colonial Secretary :—" Giving
a few hours to one dependency, and then a few hours to
another; traversing and re-traversing, in his imagi-
nation, the terraqucous globe ; flying from the Arctic
to the Antarctic Pole ' • hurrying from the snows of
North America to the burning regions of the Tropics
—now in Ceylon, a financial and religious reformer,
promoting the interests of the coffee-003F, and

that they point to an organization of classes superior
in position to the prominent actors in the present out-
break—more wary, averse to mere plunder and riot,
and who are biding their time. Another bad feature
in the affair is an apparent sympathy on the part of
the peasantry with the rebels. "Between the 28th
and 31st August," says Mr. Ward, " the houses of
seven resident proprietors were destroyed; murders
of the most diabolical character were committed. The
Cavalier Metaxa, a man universally respected, was
burnt with four servants in his own house, while the
whole population of Scala looked on." Meanwhile,
we cannot forget that this affair is the second of its
kind within twelve months—that Mr. Ward himself
connects both these disagreeable events with " poli-
tical causes"—and that those causes must long
continue in operation. We stated on a former
occasion, that whoever hates law and order and
British rule iu the lonian Islands has but too real a
grievance to cast in our teeth—in 1815 we
guaranteed to give the States free institutions,
and we have not done so. The truth is, the
promise was one which it was rash to make,
and (at that period) morally impossible to keep. We
had not been a year in the islands before we found
uub *bat free institutions, if cfrnnt—. ,pinddeniV
without pree.cauou, would at once lean to all the
horrors of anarchy. The constitution framed by
Sir T. Maitland in 1817 is, indeed, a sort of travesty
of the representative system which we originally pro.
mired, but it is scarcely less of a grievance on that
account. On the whole, it is excellent stock in-trade
to the agitators of Young Greece. We also referred
to a second grievance, of a cognate though much later
origin ; and some curious errors on the part of a
weekly contemporary tempt us to add a few further
remarks on the subject. Our contemporary has
republished a letter, written ten years ago by
the present leader of the Whigs to the then Lord
High Commissioner, in which many generous specu•
lations on the fitness of the islanders for free insti-

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THE IMPRISONED CHARTISTS.
A well-attended meeting took place on Thursday,
at the Hall of Scienco, City-road, upon the subject of
the recent deaths of Joseph Williams and Alexander
Sharpe, in Tuthill-fields Prison.
Mr. DAVIS was voted to the chair, and opened
the proceedings by a temperate address, in which
he dwelt on the importance of devoting their
efforts rather to serving the living sufferers
than bewailing those who were no more. He could
not, however, help remarking, that a diet of bread
and water, and solitary confinement, for refusal to
comply with what some of the soundest legal autho
rities considered an unlawful order, was, in the time
of such a serious visitation of epidemic disease, an act
which he should feel loth to characterise in the lan-
guage of indignation, lest he should injure the cause
.of other sufferers. He would, therefore, leave the
subject in the hands of the gentlemen who would
'follow him, with the remark that now, for the first
time, was a cordial fusion taking place between the
working and mid Ile classes, an union which would
give to their cause irresistible power.
Mr. T. CLARK moved the first resolution. They
had met on a melancholy occasion ; hut this was
not the time for a display of personal feelings, as well
remarked by their chairman. He would look beyond
the grave where Sharpe and Williams lay, and
where, perchance more victims of political per-
secution might soon lie, unless a general am-
nesty—(Hear, hear)—for such offences should quickly
arrive from the Government. He would look to the
widows and orphans of the dead and the living men
incarcerated for like offences. On the death of Wil-
liams the jury found that he had been six days con-
demned to bread and water, because the sum of ss.
per week, as a substitute for labour, had been omitted
from the poverty of his friends. He thought, and
very good men thonght with him, that there should
be a distinction between political and criminal of-
fenders, that a thief and the man who might have been
intemperate in his expressions of opinion should have
a different treatment. There were, however, a large
number of good and sensible men, who thought no
man should be treated in the way Williams and
Sharpe had been, and which, in the opinion of a jury,
accelerated at least one of their deaths. He would
not allude to the sufferings of the wives and families
of the imprisoned survivors at such a crisis, lest he
should become too warm. Now was the time to exer•
cise the prerogative of mercy towards them, there was
an excellent opportunity of earning the gratitude of
the working classes, and there would be wisdom in
snatching the opportunity. Mr. Clark then moved,
" That when circumstances render the punishment of
political offenders necessary, a broad distinction
should be drawn between them and offenders against
person and property, and that distinction not being
observed in Tothill-fields gaol, that the Government
be petitioned that all such prisoners should be re-

A R R I A G E.
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4 caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
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,n 4 broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
•.ni aoci 11 content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
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ry misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
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,ogether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
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CHRIST'S HOSPITAL ORATIONS.

Yesterday being St. Matthew'sitay, a large raums
ber of the friends of the venerable and excellent
charity of Christ's Hospital assembled 'in the great
hall to hear the orations delivered, in accordance Kith
annual custom, by the "Grecians" or senior scholars.
In no way can a man destitute of every qualifi-
cation to secure for his memory the respect of pos-
terity, save good intentions and money, obtain a place
among those who have immortalized their names so
'effectually as by endowing a great seminary or adding
to the resources of a seat of learning. Year after
year his reputation is embalmed in grateful speeches
and laudatory orations, while the effect of his good
deeds can scarcely be estimated by those who are
unable to follow through their various paths in life
the men of genius, talent, and industry, who have
been enabled century after century to raise them-
selves to honourable positions by the aid held out to
them in their indigent youth. With great propriety,
therefore, the most important orations at the annual
celebration in Christ's Hospital are devoted to the
elucidation of "the benefits of the Royal Hospital,"
and the praise of the illustrious founder is proclaimed
in the choicest phrase which Latin, Greek, good
mother English, and French can afford.
The Lord Mayor, attended by the state officers of
the corporation and a number of aldermen and civic
dignitaries, attended Divine service in the chapel at-
tached to the college, where they heard an excellent
sermon, and at half- past twelve o'clock the doors of
the hall were opened to the crowd of ladies and gen-
tlemen who had besieged it for some time before, and
who soon occupied every seat on the side benches and
in the galleries of the spacious and well-proportioned
building. At the termination of Divine service the
boys were let loose, and a stream of fluttering blue
gowns and yellow legs flowed up from bench to
bench of the lofty platform at the east end of the hall,
till it was full to overflowing, and presented one
dense array of happy smiling facer. The Lord
Mayor, chained and robed, preceded by the sword-
bearer, whose hairy cap and paraphernalia of office
divided the admiration of the boys with the glittering
scarlet and gold of the city marshal, went in state
down the hall, and took up his seat in the chair of
honour; then came the sheriffs, aldermen, and go-
vernors of the hospital on either side of his Lord-
ship—Dr. Rice, the venerable head-master, and
the assistant-masters, occupying places near
the rostrum, in the centre of the hall, from
which the orations were delivered. Lawrence Cra-
ven, second Grecian and classical medallist, 1849, who
is proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, delivered
the Latin oration with propriety and taste. The
composition itself was excellent, and distinguished by
the good feeling of the allusions to the retirement of
the matron, who for fourteen years presided over the
domestic details of the hospital, and of the gentleman
who long acted as treasurer. Next came one in
English by Hermann C. Heilbronn, first Grecian
(proceeding to Emmanuel, Cambridge), who enlarged
with considerable eloquence on the past success of the
scholars of the hospital, two of whom have obtained
Brown's medals this year at the university. A Greek
oration, most admirably spoken by Thomas Holbrow,
third Grecian (proceeding to Trinity, Cambridge),
and a French oration, remarkable for purity of diction
and elegance of expression, to which George Hector
Croad, fourth Grecian, mathematical medallist, 1849
(proceeding to Trinity, Cambridge), did every justice
both in pronunciation and feeling. All these were on
the benefits of the Royal Hospital, which seem fully
appreciated, as they are apparently well bestowed,
by the gentlemen who are now about entering on
the career of academical competition. Latin
Alcaics, on Nineveh, in which Mr. Layard's
vivid portraitures of his great discoveries were
not inaptly embodied, fell to the lot of Alfred
Sweeting, sixth Grecian. The passage from Samson
Agonistes wherein the great Israelite laments his cap-
tivity and blindness, done into Greek lambics, was
spoken by Charles Spread Townsend, fifth Grecian.
We cannot pass over the Latin hexameters on the
death of Julius Cwiar, although we detected familiar
old friends in some of the dactyls and spondees, with-
out complimenting the speaker, Gilbert Wilson
Brown, ninth Grecian, on the extremely good taste,
ease, and declamatory power with which he delivered
them. Latin elegiacs on " Jepthah's vow," by H.
Dove Sweeting, twelfth Grecian, Greek Sapphics on
" the Spanish Armada," by IL C. Pryce Jones, eight
Grecian, Latin hexameters (from Goldsmith's Tra-
v.,,,, , uy v., • ,
tenth Grecian, Latin Sapphics on "the Emigrant,"
by G. C. Bell, eleventh Grecian, and an English
poem "on the Shores of the Mediterranean," fol-
lowed in due order, and the orations were terminated.
The senior Grecians then proceeded to make the
usual collection, and we hope the small gloves in
which they received contributions were satisfac-
torily filled. Then came a very startling event.
Without a moment's warning, the organ pealed forth
"God save the Queen," and we know not how many
hundred boys drowned it in their shrill tenors, with a
suddenness and effect which, for a moment, were al-
most paralyzing.

tutions are set forth. We have already expressed
our own hope that so many years of British rule
have not been utterly unavailing to prepare our
proteges for at least a partial fulfilment of our former
pledges. We are quite willing, therefore, that the
Noble Lord should have full credit for the liberality
of his views. But let the credit be given justly, and
not at the expense of other people. It is not fair to
lead the public to imagine that free institutions have
been thus long withheld from the lonian Islands be-
cause the late Lord nigh Commissioner, a military
man, was averse to forwarding the Premier's liberal
views. Lord Seaton's latest act was to pass a resolu-
tion, according a larger measure of freedom to the
people of the lonian Islands than the Colonial. office
thought fit to sanction I The resolution, which had
excited much sanguine exultation among those whom
it was destined to enfranchise, was quashed and set
aside. One of Mr. Ward's chief difficulties at this
moment is to assuage the disappointment which Lord
Grey thus created; and the other is to frame any
measure really calculated to transfer power from
Downing-street into the hands of the people, which
Lord Grey will confirm. We confess that we shall
watch with the utmost sympathy the efforts of the
" Liberal civilian" to escape from the horns of this
practical dilemma.

leased."
Mr. Dixoic seconded the resolution in a speech of
considerable force. Five shillings a week, for prison
diet, had been paid by a friend of the deceased until
a few weeks since, when, it being discontinued, the
prisoners were ordered to pick oakum ; they were of
opinion that the Governor had no such power, and
they refused. Hence they were solitarily confined on
br, ad and water. Now, he was advised by all he had
read, by the instruction of every medical man, that a
generous diet was a preventive of the fatal epidemic ;
what, then, was the inference, when, with cholera in
the prison these men were put on the lowest food
which could support life ? He implored them not to
forget the widow and the fatherless bereaved by their
deaths, and exhorted them to petition earnestly for a
remission of the sentence on the other political
prisoners now suffering. There were men higher in
station than themselves now embarked in this cause
in the true spirit of philanthropy, and with their aid
they could not but prosper in their endeavour. He
trusted that not in this alone, but for other objects,
he should see the middle and working classes united;
when that union sh iuld take place they would only
have to ask earnestly and their prayers must be
granted.
Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON came forward amid much
applause. He congratulated himself on the opportu-
nity of meeting so large and intelligent an assembly
of the working class. One of the causes of the gulf
which had hitherto separated these classes in thought
and feeling was now filled up, he hoped for ever, and
nuthing wouta divide them Roain. Mr. Atkinson
----laded an energetic address by announcing that
Mr. Cobden, dii Joshua Walmsley, and other
influential men, were with them in their endeavours
for a remission of the punishment of those yet incar-
cerated. If they sought mercy from the Crown, it
would scarcely now be denied, in a time of profound
peace and general order.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was
carried without a dissentient hand.
Mr. M'GrtaTu then read a memorial to her Ma-
jesty, setting forth the circumstances of the prisoners
recently deceased, and humbly beseeching her Ma-
jesty to exercise her prerogative of mercy in favour
of the surviving prisoners. After an address, in which
the speaker urged the motives of patriotism, philan-
thropy, and religion, as prompting all to its support,
he promised them, if they succeeded, the felicity of
rescuing the suffering and wiping away the tears
of the distressed—if unsuccessful, the satisfaction of
an approving conscience.
Mr. STALLWOOD seconded the memorial. He
doubted not Mr. Richard Cobden would present it,
and Sir Joshua Walmslev accompany him; it had
also the approval of Mr. Joseph Hume.—(Cheers.)
The memorial was then proposed from the chair, and
unanimously agreed to.
Mr. DIXON wished to announce a gratifying fact.
Through the exertions of Mr. Cobden, Cuffey and his
companions would be freemen on arriving at their
destination, though not permitted to return to this
country. The mother of Mullins was now in the
establishment of that gentleman, and, with the in-
tended wife of her son, would, he believed, by the
benevolence of the Member for the West Riding, be
forwarded after their husband and father.—(Cheers.)
Thanks were then moved to the chair, and the
meeting separated.

THE PRINCE or CANINO.—BIRMINGHAM, THURS.
DAY.—Last evening Mr. George Dawson and co! hers
waited upon the Prince to request he would accept of a
soiree. He declined the honour, and immediately wrote
the following reply :

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THE LATE LORD METIMEN.—The mortal re-
mains of this lamented nobleman were conveyed to
Corsham Court, the family seat in Wiltshire, from the
metropolis, on Tuesday last. On Wednesday the body
lay in state in one of the saloons, when the attendance
of the tenantry and inhabitants of the neighbourhood aas
very numerous. The funeral took place on Thursday at
noon, when the remains of the late Lord were deposited
in the family vault at North Wraxhall Church, Lord
Methuen and the immediate relatives of the deceased
attending.
DUNDEE.—CUoLERA.—There has been a marked
decrease in the number of cases of cholera since our last
publication, and we think we may express a hope that it
is disappearing from us. The following shows the result
during the last week:-52 cases, 35 deaths; previously
reported, 1,477 cases, 670 deaths; total, 1,52 oases,
905 deathei—Pcrthshire Courkr,

THE BERMONDSEY MITRDER.—Since the last exa
mination of Manning and his wife at the Southwark
Police-court for the murder of Patrick O'Connor, a cir
cumstence has come to light which is likely to throw
guilt upon a third person. Yates and Burton have been
untiring in their exertions to trace out the truth, and
yesterday they ascertained that O'Connor was seen by a
woman who keeps a tobacconist's and news shop, at
twenty minutes before six o'clock, in company with Mrs.
Manning on the evening of the murder. They passed
her shop arm-in-arm, and proceeded towards London-
bridge, followed about twelve yards in the rear by Man-
ning and another man, whom she has minutely described
and identified. It is therefore supposed, from other in-
formation, the three men, including O'Connor, entered a
public house, while Mrs. Manning hurried to his lodg-
ings to ascertain whether the deceased's property was
sate. In the meantime, Manning and the other man
contrived to get O'Connor to his house, where they were
shortly afterwards rejoined by Mrs. Manning, and the
murder committed. It is quite clear that the murdered
man's property was not stolen on the first evening, and
that her calling at his lodgings then was to ascertain
whether his box and things were as usual before the deed
was committed. Other circumstances of importance in-
culpating a third person are known, but until the whole
affair has been laid before the authorities at the Ilome-
office it would be improper to publish more of the facts.
There is no doubt that the suspected person will be in
custody prior to the next examination. Several of the
tradesmen residing in Bermondsey and the vicinity of
the murder have determined to present Barnes and Bur-
ton with some testimonial for their active services in
finding the body of the murdered man, and subscrip-
tions will be received by Mr. Bailey, the landlord of
the Leather Market Tavern, where the inquest was held.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHOLERA.—The officers of
the Customs, a large portion of whom are exposed to
the inclemencies of the season on board ships, on arrival
in London from foreign ports, are furnished with pro
cautionary instructions for the preservation of their
health at the present time. Tile-waiters, when on board
ship, are recommended to sleep in a dry covered part of
the vessel; to keep their bedding free from wet or damp;
to air their bedclothes, by hanging them upon deck when
the weather is like; to be very careful not to go on deck
at any time without being completely dressed: and to
have always a dry shift of clothing with them. It is also
recommended to them as desirable, that, when they are
boarded in ships not in dock, each should be provided
with a cup of warm coffee before going on deck during
the night-watches. A package containing four small
parcels of medicines is given to each tide-waiter before
going on board ship; the first being a preservative, to be
taken night and morning, as a tonic, during tho preva-
lence of cholera; and the others to be used if the person
be distressed with diarrhoea or the premonitory symp-
toms of cholera. We believe that up to the present time
not a single instance has occurred of death from cholera
among the officers of the Customs' water guard although
two or three deaths have occurred in other branches of
the department.
Though years bring with them wisdom, yet there
is one lesson the aged seldom learn, namely, the ma-
nagement of youthful feelings. Age is all head, youth
till heart; age reasons, youth feels; age acts under the
influence of disappoint:Dent, youth under tho dominion
of hop's—Elits Cooks Jowled.

FUNERAL of the, lute BISHOP of NORWICH.

" 13irmingham, Sept 19, 1849.

On the morning of Monday, the 17th inst., the
remains of the late Bishop of Norwich were removed
in a hearse, followed by a single mourning coach,
from Brahan Castle, near Dingwall, Ross shire. On
reaching Invergordon, which is about 20 miles from
Inverness, the body sas put on board the Duke of Su-
therland steam-vessel, which reached Yarmouth Roads
at about half past five rem. on Wednesday. Thence
the remains were conveyed, in a hearse with four
horses, to the palace at Norwich, arriving there about
eleven o'clock at night, and being at once placed in
the private chapel. On the coffin, which was covered
with black cloth, was the inscription, " Edward
Stanley, D.D., Lord Bishop of Norwich, aged 70;
died Sept. 6, 1849, at Brahan Castle." During the
preparations for the funeral the cathedral service was
performed in St. Luke's chapel adjoining. On Wed-
nesday and Thursday an immense number of applica-
tions were made for tickets to view the interment,
more than 1,200 of which were issued. Yesterday
morning Norwich was filled with the clergy and gentry
of the surrounding district, all anxious to pay their
tribute of respect to the memory of the late bishop by
accompanying his remains to the tomb. All the
shops were closed, and business of every kind was
suspended until the funeral was over. The
Cathedral, the Close, and the Palace-gardens even,
were crowded with people anxious to view the mourn-
ful ceremony, and to show the esteem in which the
departed prelate was held by them. The funeral
procession left the palace at one o'clock, the coffin
carried by 12 bearers, the pall borne by the following
dignitaries of the church :—Dr. Collier, Archdeacon
of Norwich; Dr. Ormerod, Archdeacon of Suffolk;
Dr. Jennings, Archdeacon of Norfolk ; and seven
Honorary Canons—viz., the Hon. and Rev. E. S.
Keppel, the Hon. and Rev. W. J. T. Pelham, the
Revs. Ralph Berners, W. A. Bouverie, F. T. Bevan,
Henry Tracy, and George Stevenson. The chief
mourners were Mrs. Stanley, Miss Stanley, Miss
Catherine Stanley, the'Rev. Arthur,Penrhyn Stanley,
Mr. E. Penrhyn, Archdeacon Hare, Lord Heytesbury,
and Mr. Henry and Mr. William Stanley, his son
and nephew. The coffin was preceded by about 800
of the citizens of Norwich, all clad in deep mourning,
who walked six abreast, and were followed by the
mayor, sheriff, aldermen, and town-council, also in
deep mourning, with crape scarfs. After the chief
mourners came the domestics of the palace, and behind
them nearly 1.000 clergymen of the diocese, ministers
of all denominations, and gentlemen from the country.
To these succeeded about 500 more of the citizens
of Norwich, the school children of the city, and
immense numbers of the working classes. The long
procession passed over the palace plain, through the
Erpingham•gate, to the west door of the cathedral,
where the Dean of Norwich, the Lord High Steward,
the canons, and members of the cathedral received it,
and preceded the coffin to the choir, which was hung
with black. The chief mourners took their places in
the stalls, the clergy and gentlemen from the coun-
try occupied the seats on the east side of the choir,
and the spectacle presented—while the burial service
was performed in a very affecting manner by the
Dean of Norwich—was of the most striking and
solemn description. The gravein which the remains
of the late Bishop were then deposited stands near the
centre of the nave, and thither, while
,the organ
sounded forth the " Dead March in Saul,' the coffin
was borne in the same order of procession as was
observed in entering the cathedral. The mournful
ceremony ended shortly after two o'clock: Bishop
Stanley is only the ninth diocesan of Norwich hurled
within the cathedral since the Reformation. The last
Bishop interred there was Richard Montague, D.D.,
who died in 1638. Bishop Reynolds, who died in
1660, and Bishop Sparrow, who died in 1676, were
both buried in the private chapel. Bishop Ling, who
died in 1723, rests in the parish church of Heigham;
and Bishop Bathurst, who died in 1837, at the age of
94, was interred at Great Malvern.

"To Messrs. William Potter, George Dawson, and
other gentlemen of the borough of Birmingham who
have been kind enough to invite me to a soirée in con-
nexion with their admiration of the conduct of the truly
heroic Roman people, my best thanks are due. After
the satisfaction that causes to every man the certitude
of, in his own conscience, having fulfilled his duty, no
other can be so grateful as the approbation of generous
and truly-free Britons. Could I have remained in .Bir-
mingham until Monday nothing, would have gratified
me more than to attend on the company who have ho-
noured me with an invitation, and then certainly should
I not have remained mute and dumb, as I shall never
remain whenever my. feeble voice may be raised in fa-
vour of liberty and civilization. I should specially have
been proud in looking in the face of every Englishman
in the room, to greet him as a friend to the oppressed
and dread foe to the oppressor. I should have been
happy is thanking the inhabitants of Birmingham—to
thank, at the same time, the noble nation from which I
have received so kind hospitality, and to testify my ad-
miration to that constitution which, notwithstanding the
faults that in theory you may find an objection to, works
so admirably in practive, and gives this great people so
much greatness, and happiness, and liberty, to an extent
that is not possessed in any other country, not only of
Europe, but of all the world; whilst better framed con-
stitutions, without the vigilance of an enlightened people,
can make pseudo-monarchies, or, what is worse, mock
republics.—C. L. BONAPARTE."
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES....-The sale of plain
lace goods is steady at present. but they are not in such
active demand as they were a few weeks back. The in-
quiry after fancy goods is very limited—nevertheless
we would advise those who hold stocks (which, by the
way, are very small) to keep them rather than submit
to a reduction, as there is almost a certainty of a further
rise in the price of doubled yarn. The hosiery trade in
nearly all its branches is in a healthy state, with the ex-
ception of gloves, particularly silk ones, for which just
now there is very little inquiry. We expect exten-
sive orders shortly from the United States.—Nottingham
Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY EFFECTS PRODUCED BY ELIHU
BURRITT'S LECTURE.—On Thursday morning the
citizens of Lincoln were horrified to learn that Mr. J.
W. Coleman, chemist, had been found dead in bed. On
Wednesday night be was at Mr. E. Burin's lecture,
and at the close he rushed out in an apparently excited
state, and without his hitt, Prussic acid was the im-
mediate cause of death. Deceased was a very useful
and highly-esteemed member of the Wesleyan congre-
gation, and his death will be deeply regretted by n large
circle of friends. lie has left seven children.— Netting-

ham Journal.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON THE CONTINENT.—The
Prussian government has arranged and intends throwing
open to the public on the Ist ot next month, five grand
lines of electric telegraphs, which place the capital of
Prussia in direct communication with almost all its fron-
tiers, and consequently with the conterminous states.
LYNCH LAW IN TAUNTON.—We understand that
several persons have had their handkerchiefs and purses
stolen by the swell mob. One of these rascals was taken
in the act of purloiuing a handkerchief, and lynch law
was adopted. He was taken to a pump and thoroughly
drenched, and then had his ear slit, sc, that he might be
L known again.—Shekorm Jootal,

INCENDIARISMS IN THE ClTY.—Last night the
inquiry, adjourned from Friday, the 7th inst., respecting
three tires, which occurred almost simultaneously in the
Alton Ale Stores belonging to Mr. Ward, No. 30, King-
street, West Smithfield, was brought to a conclusion.
The jury returned the following verdict:—" That the
premises were wilfully set on fire, but by whom there was
not EafficiePt ovidoce to pron..'

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THE EDITOR OF THE .friend has sent me a copy of two of your
read the excellent articles respecting my
ion, the victim of tyranny and oppression, far
greater than he was advised to plead, and such as shall
yet be laid before the public. That public has as yet
but a faint notion of the savage barbarity of the late
Commander of the Childers. The articles I have read
are full of sound judgment and honourable feeling.
Would to God they may find their way to the hearts of
tthose who have the power to redress the wrong done
o one who was a better seamen and far better officer
than Captain Pitman ever was. I have received a
letter from my son this morning; he is incar-
cerated in the prison at Exeter as a felon. Will
the justice-loving people of England quietly
submit to this ? No! I believe that through that
powerful and independent organ, the Press, their
opinion will be so loudly expressed that justice must
be done. My son tells me he cannot live under his
present degradation. You will scarcely believe
that the fearful ex-parte accusations, emanating
from a vindictive mind, are all either gross fabri-
cations or trifles so exaggerated and magnified as to
be scarcely recognised. I will trouble you with two
instances—he charges him with robbing the mess in
the Belvidere, and intimates that he was turned out of
that ship. I happened to have preserved a letter from
Dr. Maconaby, then in the Hecate, a great friend of
my son's, who went on board the Belvidere to see him.
His letter is dated Malta, February 8, 1842.
He says he found my son had been foolishly pre-
vailed upon to accept the office of caterer of the
youngsters' mess, all boys ; that having no notion of
the value of money, he had fed them too well and run
the mess in debt 151.; that the youngsters, finding
they must fare less sumptuously, were furious, and.the
matter was referred to the Hon. Captain Grey. Mr.
Maconaby paid the 151., and Captain Grey, who
knew, as every officer he has served under, what he
was worth, wished to have him remain, but he felt too
uncomfortable, and his Captain (after consulting with
Commander Knox, who went from the flag-ship ex-
pressly for the purpose), gave him a certificate of good
conduct and a regular discharge. This—a very
common occurrence in a youngster's berth—is called
robbing the mesa ; but the man who could
Fay the boy Claverton called to express his
gratitude for his Commander's numerous
kindnesses, and that he had present a witness
to prove this youth's gratitude, and never produced
him, is so utterly unworthy of belief, that it were
almost a useless work to convict him of falsehood ;
but I will give you one more specimen. He has ac-
cused Lieutenant Graham of drinking to such excess
as to have been suffering under delirium tremens.
Now, I might rest this matter upon the fact, that so
far from there being any proof of this, there is at
least implied proof to the contrary—in such a state,
from which few men recover, be must have been,
even in defiance of Pitmaniac cruelty, under medical
discipline. Was any such entry on the log ? Did
any medical officer attest the truth ? Though Mr.
Newman Braham could not recollect any act of
cruelty in the commander, yet he must have recol-
lected such a case. But, Sir, I will let you into the
secret of this so-called delirium tremens by relating a
little scene which took place at Plymouth, related
to me by one of the parties, a gentleman of great re-
spectability, whose name I furnish you with, in
case of need. The gentleman was about a week be-
fore the first court martial walking up Union-
street, when a young man, having all the
appearance of a naval officer, came out of
a shop and said, "Your name, sir, I believe
is B—;" on receiving an affirmative answer,
he said, I have just come home in the Childers, and
have a message to you from young Chevallier. He
was then asked by Mr. B. " Do 3cm know anything
about this unpleasant affair of Lieutenant Graham ?"
He replied, " I know all about it, but would rather
say nothing, as it may be a matter of public inquiry,
and I may be called upon." Mr. 8., however,
pressed him, and at last he said, "I will tell you
thus much—l have seen Lieutenant Graham undergo
persecutions and cruelties in the Childers which no
British officer could or ought to undergo; I have
also seen him, under these cruelties, so affected in
mind, that he has gone about the ship, with tears in
his eyes, asking for mourning, saying his father, his
only friend, was dead."
This, Sir, is the delirium tremens the monster
speaks of. Had all the witnesses for the defence
been examined, this and much more would have been
brou;ht out. Why were they not examined? Simply
because they would have damnified his cause.
I beg pardon for taking up so much of your valu-
able time, and remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
H. E. GRAHAM.
Ludgoan Rectory, Ma narion, Cornwall,
Sept. 19, 1849.

BALLOON ASCENTS IN PRUSSIA.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Our scientific countryman, Ilem.y Coxwell, has lately
which are spoken of by the Berlin
papers in tho „
ascended' itT,T?:.__°° the, 21k,
aeronaut ever rose over this seaport, consi-
Sezttetinimbeerahne
derable interest attended the exhibition. From the
proximity of Stettin to the east sea, the aerial voyage
was considered by the inhabitants to be exceedingly
dangerois; and the case of Mr. Green, who lately lost
his life in the Severn, was cited to show that this appre-
hension was not altogether groundless. The bold son of
Albion, however, saw no fear, and sagely piloted his
balloon over the Dammsischesee, much to the astonish-
ment of the spectators, many of whom declared that an
Englishman could do anything and tar_aything.
On Sunday, the aLls of September, Mr. Coxwell as•
cended again, from Berlin, taking up with him three
fellow-voyagers. Descending about three miles from
Berlin, one passenger was sakly landed, end the rest
made a second trip, which lasted about an hour and
a half.
A German paper, in commenting upon Mr. Coxwell's
enterprises, says:—" This intrepid Englishman appears
to have his gigantic balloon so much under command,
as to be able to perform feats which we never heard of
other aeronauts attempting. At one time be descends
several miles from the place of ascent, and instead of
allowing the gas to escape, he brings his balloon back
by night and is ready to start again the following morn-
ing. On other occasions he lands passengers as easily
as a ship captain or coachman would, and then continues
his voyage. But what is most surprising, he bombards
towns, discharges fireworks, and performs divers ex-
ploits which aro amusing, and which keep up the in-
terest of a balloon ascent. Truly this is the Napoleon
of aerostation."

DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYII.
With a Lite and Notes by Lord Braybrodte. Five
Vols.—The fifth and concluding volume of this new and
very much enlarged edition of tne singularly interesting
Memoirs and Correspondence of the Secretary to the
Admiralty in the reigns of Charles IL and James IL,
has just issued from the press. It will be superfluous at
this time of day to say a word in commendation of the
legacy bestowed upon the world by the incomparable
Pepys. This Diary is unique—there is nothing like it.
It gives the most clear, unvarnished, satisfactory view of
public and private morals during the closing years of the
Commonwealth and the first years of the Restoration
that it is possible to obtain. Had a person actually
lived in those times be would hardly have known so
much of what was passing in society around him as he
gathers from this exquisite gossip. Then the secrets of
public affairs, the personal intrigues, the proftigacies of
the Court, the corruption of the town, the mud revel-
ries, the looseness of public and private morality—
all is exposed without malice, without exaggeration,
with a naivet6 the most delightful. The correspondence
is full of valuable information, and embraces letters
written by some of the most remarkable personages of
his time, from the King downwards. It elucidates many
debateable points in the history, the biography, the
literature, and the general manners of the period.
Lord Braybrooke's notes number fifteen hundred,
proving that his editorial duties have been well fulfilled.
A copious and well-prepared general index much en-
hances the value of this edition. By aid of it any of
the multifarious subjects touched by Pepys or his cor-
respondents are found at once.—Morning Post.
THE SMITHFIELD MARKET NUISANCE.—The ad-
vocates of the removal of nuisances from the heart of
the metropolis will be glad to hear that the Registrar-
General,clid
at Somerset-house, and the Commissioners of
that Sewers
no i n
morethe City,
slaughtering have
almost
shall
take simultaneouslyplace
in London.()a
The consequence of this must be that the last excuse
for the extension of Smithfield will be swept away.
throughsio n of.
the the
Sewerspub l public
Every one knows that the supporters of Smithfield.
market have urged that the slaughter-houses in its im-
mediate neighbourhood prevent the necessity of driving
Commission and the Registrar-General, both being of
great sanitary importance, (and clearly indicative of the
intentions of the Government), must therefore cause the
danger to the public to be greatly increased, by the cat-
tle being driven away to be slaughtered in distant places
sthtreeegoreafrtommajt'ohreitymaorfkette
—unless what may now be fairly expected—the market
ai flutt
ahgueepooulupon the
public)
ttehrem
be at once removed. This, we believe, is decided upon,
and by the middle of next week we expect to be in
recommendtpossessionprepara-
tion
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theiro f
it
meat, authentic
to the
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We have heard it is tho laudable intention of the Isling-
ton Cattle Market Company (and one which ought to
spacious " abattoirs" on the it estates, to,give accommo-
dation to the butchers for the slaughtering and prepara-
abattoirs will not allow of any particle of the offal or
blood to escape into the drains, thus avoiding one of the
great incentives to miasma, producing cholera, and many
other virulent diseases.
LADY FRANKLIN.—This noble-minded and devoted
1 heroine has purchased one-fourth of the Hull whaling
ship Abram, and paid the additional risks for insurance,
with a view to her t xpl ,ring Jones's Sound and Smith's
Souliding, and senrch for Sir John. She has also
offtred a reward of 5001. in case of succeas.-11'ew York
Courier.
MORTALITY AMONG CATTLE AT MALTA.—AC-
counts from this island announce the breaking out of a
disease amongst cattle, which has p•ovsd fatal to a large
number of bullocks, and considerably enhanced the price
of fresh meat in the market. We trust it may not be
the forerunner of the cholera morbus, the prevalence of
which at Marseilles, only 70 hours' Yon from titbit* hats
giTen some growls defame