The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-27 00:00:00

TBE SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1819.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY.
The most extensive preparations are in progress for
giving her Majesty a truly loyal reception on Tuesday
next, when she visits the City to open the New Coal-
Exchange.
Yesterday a special Court of Aldermen was held,
for the purpose ot receiving the report of the Com-
matee Appointed to consider what steps ought to be
taken on the occasion. The report, which was agreed
to untinimously, was as follows :
" TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR AND COURT OF
ALDERMEN.
" In obedience to an order of this llon . Court, of the
16th of October inst, to consider the necessary arrange
mints in respect ot the eeremoidal to be observed on her
Majesty's visit to this City on the opening of the Coal-
Exchange. we, whose names are hereunto subscribed,
your committee of the whole Court, do certify that her
Majesty having been pleased to appoint Tuesday, the
30th day of October inst., for the purpose, and to signify
her intention or proc, cdin,g from Whitehall down the
river to the Custom-house, pi-, cepta were issued to the
several livery companies of this City to at:end in their
ba7ges in the stations to be allotted them, to witness her
Majesty's progress to the Custom-house, and on her return
therefrom, of which stations they would receive due
notice.
"And to insure due arrangements for her Majesty's
procession by water, and to preserve a free and uninter-
rupted passage on the river, the Right lion, the Lord
Mayor, as conservator of the River Thames, issued a
deputation to Commodore Eden, of the Royal Navy,
under the seal of the mayoralty, to preserve due order
on the occasion, and instructed the water bailiff and Mr.
Charles Rowland, the principal harbour master, to be
aiding and assisting therein, reporting from time to time
to his Lordship, as need may require; in all these respects
following the precedent in the year 1831, upon the open.
ing of London-bridge, when the then Lord Mayor (Sir
John Key) issued a similar deputation to Admiral Sir
T. B. Martin.
" That we directed the Commissioner of Polico to pre-
pare a statement of all requisite regulations for prevent-
ing the obstructions in the public streets communicating
with the Coal Exchange, and for preserving a free pas-
sage to and from the same, and instructed the City archi-
tect to make provision for duly stopping up such streets
and avenues for that purpose as the Commissioner might
think necessary, and having considered of the regula-
tisns as proposed by the Commissioners, we approved the
same, and recommend this Hon. Court to pass the proper
order for that purpose in the usual and accastomed
mode, and direct the same to be published and issued,
and we recommend this Ilon. Court to direct that no
market for the sale of fish be held at Billingsgate on
Tuesday, the 30th inst. ; and we also recommend the in-
habitants on the banks of the river and :otherwise to
abstain from the firing of guns upon her Majesty's visit.
" In order to render all suitable honour to her Ma-
jesty upon her visit, we requested the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor to provide himself with a crimson velvet
robe, according to custom; and it being the usual time
for supplying the sword bearer and common crier with
new damask gowns, we directed them to procure the
same; and we also directed the water-bailiff to provide
a like gown, it being 12 years since he had a new one.
" That the aldermen and sheriffs attend in their scar-
let gowns; those who have passed the chair in their
chains, and all in Court dresses. That we are of opinion,
for the due and proper reception of her Majesty, she
should be received, upon her landing at the Custom-
house, by the Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor elect, eleven
aldermen, and the sheritls, by the chairman and twelve
members of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committees,
under whose superintendence the Coal Exchange has
been erected, and to whom the fitting up of the same for
her Majesty's reception has been confided by the Court
of Common Council, and that her Majesty should be
conducted by them into the edifice, and having had a
communication with the chairman of that Committee, he
concurred therein; and we are of opinion that the alder-
men, according to seniority, should be selected for the
reception of her Majesty on landing, and the remainder
of the aldermen be in attendance at the area of the
Exchange.
"We requested the Lord Mayor to present the
sheriffs, the chairman of the Coal, Corn, and Finance
Committee, the mover and seconder of the address, and
the architect, to her Majesty."
The Court of Common Council also met yester-
day specially to receive report on the reference rela-
tive to her Majesty's visit.
The report which was at once adopted by the Court
was as follows :
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common( rs of the City of London, in Common Coun-
cil assembled.
" We whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your
Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, to whom, on the
16th day of October instant, it was referred to carry into
execution the recommendations in our report then pre-
sented, for taking the necessary steps for the due recep-
tion and accommodation of her Majesty and suite
upon the occasion of opening the now Coal Exchange,
and to report thereon, do certify that we immediately
proceeded therein, and requested the Right Honourable
the Lord Mayor, and John Wood, Esq., the chairman of
your committee, attended by the Remembrancer, to take
measures to obtain the necessary information respecting
her Majesty's visit, and on the 19th instant they re-
ported that they had been honoured with an interview
with his Royal highness Prince Albert atWindsor Castle,
and they had the gratification to communicate the fol-
lowing as the result:—
"That his Royal Highness Prince Albert will accom-
pany her Majesty; that, with her Majesty's approbation,
the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal will also be
present.
" That the other members of the Royal Family should
be invited to attend the ceremony
" That her Majesty will attend in state.
"That her Majesty will come to the Coal Exchange
by water, awl return in the same manner.
" That her Majesty will embark at Whitehall at half-
past twelve o'clock, and arrive at the Custom-house
Quay at one o'clock.
" That the committee sheuld erect a covered way
from tho landing-place to the entrance of the Coal
Exchange.
"That her Majesty will return at two o'clock, or es
soon after as convenient.
t 4" That her Majesty will receive an address from the
Corporation at the Coal Exchange.
" His Royal Highness Prince Albert suggested that
the arrangements generally should, so far as circum-
stances will permit, be in accordance with those at the
opening of the Royal Exchange.
" That we your Committee, anxious to carry out the
instructions of your Hon. Court with the best possible
effect, have met from day to day, and devoted our un-
ceasing attention to the subject, and we have made
arrangements for the reception and entertainment
within the Coal Exchange of her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who, we
feel great satisfaction in stating, will probably be accom-
panied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, to-
gether with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, her Majesty's Ministers, the
foreign Ministers, the great officers of State, and other
distinguished guests; as also for the reception and en-
tertainment of the members of the Court of Aldermen
and of this Hon. Court and their ladies.—(Cheering.)
"That your committee, anticipating that a suitable
address would be agreed upon by your Hon. Court to be
presented to her Majesty upon this auspicious occasion,
recommend that in addition to the members of the
Court of Aldermen and the members of your committee,
a deputation of your Hon. Court should be appointed to
unite iu the presentation of the address.
" We beg further to certify that we shall be enabled
to secure extensive accommodation, by the erection of
raised seats on the Custom-house quay, and in the line
of her Majesty's procession, upon landing from which
large numbers of persons may witness her Majesty's ar-
rival and departure; and your Committee have given
directions for the immediate issue of tickets to the seve-
ral members of your Hon. Court with the tickets of ad-
mission to the Coal Exchange."—(Cheers.)
Before separating, the Court, amidst loud cheering,
adopted the term of a dutiful and loyal address to be
presented to her Majesty on Tuesday.
The following will be the order of the procession
down the river:

The Morley steam•vesel, Master Commander
Bryant, towed up the Fly lighter and the Beaver
steam-vessel to Irongate-stairs this morning to be
stationed at moorings in the river.
The Jasper steam-vessel is to be under the charge
of Mr. Follit, and the Advice under Mr. Fogden, and
will be stationed below London-bridge.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the
younger branches of the Royal Family took their
usual early walk this morning.
His Royal Highness afterwards went out hunting,
attended by General Wemyss and Colonel Seymour.
There will be no addition to the royal dinner party
this day.
Sir James Clark arrived at Windsor Castle this
morning.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of New Zealand, New
South Wale:, South Australia, Van Diemen's
Land, the Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, and
Gibraltar.

HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular.)
In the early part of Thursday night her Majesty
had some refreshing sleep, but towards morning was
greatly exhausted by the violence of her cough, and
remains rather more feeble than on Thursday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, OCT. 20.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON.

In Malta Harbour—The Ceylon, receiving ship, boar-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey; the Thetis,
36, Captain H. Codringzon; and the Spitfire steamer, in
ordinary.
On a Cruise—The Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W.
Carter, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker,
Bart., G.C.8., the Commander-in• Chief; the Howe, 120,
Captain Sir J. Stirling, Knt.; the Queen, 110, Captain
C. Wise; the Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S.
Dundas; the Vengeance, 84, Captain the Right Hon.
the Earl of Hardwicke; the Prince Regent, 92, Captain
Martin; the Racer, Captain C. W. Beddoes; the Frolic,
Captain N. Vansittart. Steamers—The Odin, Captain
the Hon. F. T. Pelham; the Porcupine, Lieutenant E. F.
Roberts; the Bulldog, Commander Key; the Rosamond,
Commander Foote; the Sharpshooter, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Bailey; the Dragon, Captain W. H. Hall; the
Oberon, Lieutenant Gardiner; and the Locust, tender to
the Antelope, Lieutenant F. Smyth.
On Surveying Duty—The Volage, 6, surveying-ship,
Captain Thomas Graves; the Auxiliary cutter, Lieu-
tenant G. W. Geary; and the Research cutter, Lieutenant
Lord John Browne, both tenders to the Volage.

At Gibraltar—The Janus steamer, Lieut. Powell.
At Constantinople—The Tartarus, Commander Sir
G. Webster.

At Venice—The Ardent, Lieutenant Nowell.
En route from Malta to Alexandria, thence to cruise,
,he Growler, Commander Stoddart.

MAIL STEAM PACKETS.

At Malta—The Medina, Lieutenant A. Darby; the
Antelope, Lieutenant F. Smyth.
En route to Marseilles from Malta, the Merlin, Lieu-
tenant J. H. Turner.

En route from Malta to the lonian Islands and Greece,
the Triton, Lieutenant C. J. P. Glinn.
En route to Malta from Alexandria, the Medusa,
Lieutenant Bathurst.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEADI NAVIGATION COM.

PAN Y'S FLOTILLA.

At Southampton—The Paella, Ripon, Indus, Queen,
and Euxine.

En route from Southampton to Malta, the Erin,
En route from Constantinople and Black Sea to Malta,
he Sultan.

At Constantinople—The Tagus.
At Malta—The Ilindostan.
'UNITED STATES SQUADRON.
On a Cruise—The United States steam-frigate, Mis-
sissippi, bearing the flag of Commodore Charles W.
Morgan; the Constitution frigate, Lieutenant J. S.
Rowan (acting); the Jamestown corvette, Commander
Mercer; the Independence and Cumberland.

TOREIGN SHIPS OF :WAR AND PACKETS IN PORT.

The yachts Peterel, Nautilus, Firefly, and Sapphire;
the lonian Government steamer Eptanisos.
THE COAST OF AFRICA.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 26 —The Dolphin brigantine,
Lieutenant the Hon. R. F. Boyle, commander, arrived in
the night from the above station. having experienced
calms, light airs, and other drawbacks, she has not made
a quick passage. She left Ascension on the 3d ult.,
and Sierra Leone on the 15th. Beth places were
remarkably healthy. The Commodore was between
Loando and St. Helena, in the Centaur steam-frigate.
The slave trade was as brisk as ever. The Dolphin
has made five prizes during the time she has
been on the station, mostly well freighted with
slaves, of whom she has liberated 1,500 in about
18 months. The trade appears very active in the Por-
tuguese dominions between Benguela and Loando, off
h,ch place the Cygnet had captured two vessels in
July last: The Spy brigantine had taken a small felucca,
which had made two successful runs lately. The
Dolphin's boats chased a large three-masted steam slaver,
on the 20th of August, between Loando and Benguela,
on the south coast, but unsuccessfully. The Britomart
captured a fine fore-and-aft schooner off Mayumba, in
July. The trade appears rather slack in the Bights of
Benin, no captures having been made there lately. The
chiefs at the Gallinas were going to give up 3,000 slaves
to Commander Dunlop, of the Alert sloop. The Pluto
steamer, and Waterwitch brig, had gone from the north
to the south coast—the latter taking Mr. Duncan, Vice-
Consul, to Whydah. She had driven ashore a fine slaver in
July last off the Gallinas. The Britomart was at Loando
on the 20th of September, superintending the repairs
of the Snap tender. The Firefly steamer was also
there at the same date. The Britomart will be the
next ship home from the station. The Sealark had
taken an empty schooner in July, close to the place
where the Cygnet made her prizes. The Phcanix screw-
schooner, on her passage from England to the station,
had made prize of a Portuguese schooner off the Cape
Verdi, bound from Trieste to Pernambuco, on suspicion
of being intended for, or engaged in, the slave trade,
which has made a great stir, and is expected to lead to
troublesome consequences. Commander Wodehouse
sent her to the Cape of Good Hope for adjudication.
The Cyclops steam frigate was going to the south coast
as senior officer's ship. The piratical slaver which beat
off the boats of the Alert and killed their officer and
some of the crew, some time since, had not been cap-
tured by the Commodore, as has been reported from the
coast by previous advices. There was not a single slave
in the slave-yard at Sierra Leone, where emigrants wero
very much wished for. The Dolphin is ordered to the
eastward, to be paid off. She is in admirable order, and
has proved herself of the best class of sailing-vessels for
the slave-cruising service.
Wind—W., fresh breezes, with showers.
The accounts yesterday of the health of the Admiral
of the Fleet are still unfavourable, and little hopes are
entertained of the venerable and gallant officer's recovery.
The Leander, 50, Captain Deems, received a portion
of her heavy armament at Portsmouth this morning,
namely, her main deck guns; their weight, exclusive of
their carriages, is about 85 tons; it only brought this
fine ship down three inches deeper in the water. She has
a magnificent main deck, and her guns appear to occupy
a very small space on it, although of such heavy calibre.
The following will be her armament
_ .

Main deck...-8
guns 68 pounders or 8 inch. 9 ft. 65 cwt.
20 guns 32 pounders 9 ft. 6 inch. 56 cwt.
Quarterdeck 4 guns 68 pounders 8 ft. 6 inch. 65 cwt.
9, 12 guns 32 pounders 8 ft. 45 cwt.
Forecastle 6 guns 32 pounders 8 ft. 45 cwt.

Total 5O guns 12 68 pounders.
29 38 32 pounders.
Exclusive of boats' howitzers. With these guns she
has still plenty of spare room for a heavy pivot abaft,
though the four 68-pounder guns on the quarter-deck
can be shifted if required, two to the stern and two to
the bow, and fired in a line with the keel.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25.—Her Majesty's brig Wolverine
arrived from Portsmonth on Monday. She will require
to be caulked before sailing with the November mails for
the coast of Africa.

Her Majesty's steam-frigate Stromboli came in on
Tuesday, from Portsmouth.
The Devon lighter is ordered to take in stores for
Portsmouth.

Her Majesty's steam vessel Spiteful went on Tuesday
from Hamoaze into Barnpool, to have her compasses
adjusted.
The jurymasts of the Octavio frigate have been taken
out, and she is now alongside the jetty for the purpose
of being fitted as an advance ship.
The masts of the St. George, 120, are ordered to be
taken out and sent into the yard.
Orders have been received from the Admiralty that
all seamen riggers employed not more than eighteen
months in the Devonport yard are to be discharged on
Saturday.

The Constance, 50, Captain G. W. C. Courtenay,
from the Pacific station, which is to be paid off here on
her aarival, is to have none of her fitments removed.

The Scout, 14, is to be taken into dock, to have her
defects made good.

The Octavci, 50, is to be put into ordinary.
The Salamander, 6, sloop, is to be a first• class steamer.
The Ganges, 84, Capt. Smith, C. 8., and the Conflict,
8, steam-sloop, now refitting, will be complete by the
27th inst.

The Spiteful, 6, Commands'. Carmichael, has com-
pleted her fitment, and so has the Seagull, 6, steamer,
Lieut. J. Smail.

CHATHAM, OCT. 26.—The Magicienne steam• Sloop,
ordered for this port to be fitted for commissicn, is to
have a complement of 200 officers and men, including
marines.

The Tiger steam-vessel, building, and the Horatio,
fitting for a screw guard-ship of 350-horse power, arc
both being hasted, in order that when finished they may
be undocked and taken to the engineers to have their
machinery fitted. The Tiger is to have a complement
of 200 men including officers.
The Pigmy steam. vessel, which has been for some
time doing harbour duty at this port, is ordered to be
sent to Woolwich, and the Adder steamer at that port is
to be transferred to Chatham for harbour duty.
A general court-martial was held at Sheerness, on
board the Ocean, on the 24th instant, of which Captain D.
Price, of the Wellington, was president; and Captain P.
Richards, Poictiers; Captain Elliot, Ocean; Commander
Gordon, Wellington; and Commander Cammilleri, of the
Pole. iers, were members, for the trial of Daniel Donovan,
a gunner, from the ship Latona, 42, lying at Chatham.
The charge, which was for being drunk on board on the
sth inst., was preferred by Lieutenant James Carter.
There were tWQ witnesses fiZilialled. The prispor

made ❑o defence, and the court sentenced him to he
ed from her Majesty's service. Ile has ben a gunner
for the last twenty years, and of late he has been re-
peatedly found drunk, and warned of the consequences.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHOEA

ENGLAND AND WALES.

The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhoea reported to the General Board of Health
October 26, 1849 :
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Dlarrh.
Basford (Bulweli) ••• ••• 1 0
Bedford... ... ... ... 1 0
Birmingham ... ... ... 0 1
Bosmere (Needham Market) 1 0
Bradford (Cleckheaton) ... 1 0
Bridgwater ... ..• ••• 3 0
Chester-le-Street ... ... 1 0
Choriton (litime district) ... 1 0
Clutton (Midsummer Norton) 4 1
Cockermouth (Maryport dis ) 12 0

Dewsbury (Ba;le3)
Dudley (Sedgley and Rowley
Regis) ••• ..• •••
Glantord Brigg (Barrow) ...
Glendall (Ford district) ...
flunslet Walton and Scacroft)
Knaresborough ..• •••
Liverpool ...
Mailing (East Peckham) ...
Medway (Gillingham)
Newbury ...
Newcastle-on-Tyne ...
Newton Abbott (Torquay and
Chudleigh)
Oldham ••• ••• •••
Peterborough ... ...
Rochdale ...
St. Thomas (Alphington)
Salford (Pendleton) ...
South Shields (Westoe)
Stourbridge (Kingswinford)
Tadcaster (Aberford) •••
Tynemouth (liarsdon)
Walsall (Borough) ...
Watford (Bushey) ...
Wigan ... ••• •••
Witney (Fulbrook)

Total ... •.• .••

SCOTLAND.

Lillis Heal, Selkirk
Panbrido •••
Boness •••
Queensberry (from Oct. 4) •••
Dalmeny (from Sept. 25) •••
Cumbernauld-by-Glasgow ...
Dundee
Ilawick ..•
••• •••
Peebles .•• •••

Total ... ••• ••• ...

59 14

GENERAL TOTAL
England and Wales ... 59 14
Scotland ... ... 19 0

Total •••

NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im•
practicable to distinguish every place separately.
The house-to-house visitation of the metropolis having
almost ceased, no further returns will be published.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

passage in which the Apostle of the
Gentiles has pruhibitkd Sabbath-keeping, may use-
fully be made the subject of more remarks. How-
ever an Anglican bishop by lits proprio mote may
set his foot on the Apostle's claim to know anything
about the matter, the pagan Longinus will be found
right in his opinion, that Paul of Tarsus, (though like
the bishop he abnegated his authority), was a master
of his weapons in any cause he undertook.
The words of the Apostolic direction, after more
accurately rendering one or two not very happily
given in the common translation but about which it
is apprehended there will be no dispute, are these:
" Let no man therefore judge you, in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, of
of the sabbaths. Which are a shadow of things
to come ; but the body is of Christ."—Coloss. ii. 16.
Ilolyday as the common translation has it, gives
little or no idea. The Apostle's word is " feast,"
being the term constantly used in the New Testa-
ment for Jewish celebrations. And "judging you
in respect of a feast," clearly 'rtans, "setting up to
be judge over you, to decide. that such or such is a
feast you ought to keep." What then were the
Jewish celebrations which came under the title of
" feasts" ?

And now to see the clearness of the great Hebrew,

who was as much at home in his native religious
law, as an Anglican bishop knows little of his own.
Is there a peasant well-read in the Bible, who does
not see that the Apostle had in view the passage in
Leviticus,—
" The feasts of the Lord, which ye stall proclaim to
be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
" Six days shall work be done : but the seventh
day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation ; ye
shall do no work therein : it is tile sabbath of the
Lord in all your dwellings.
" These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy con-
vocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
[The others, mark, were things of constant occurrence,
and therefore did not want " proclaiming in their
seasons."]
" In the fourteenth day of the first month at even
is the Lord's passover.
" And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the

feast of unleavened bread" [and so goes on to enumerate
other feasts and their regulations.)—Lev. xxiii. 2 to 6.
It is difficult to know what an Apostle, or a Council,
or an Article in a Creed, could do to Eay more dis-
tinctly, that sabbath-keeping, along with the observa-
tion of meats and of new moons, was struck out of
the roll of Christian oWervances.

It is undeniable that the Apostles, in some way or
other, found themselves possessed of great power in
the way of countermanding Jewish observances.
With this it is not our business to cavil ; for, but for
this, we should have been subjected at this hour to the
most onerous of Jewish rites. The presumption must be
that they were ordered for particular families or parti-
cular races. Circumcision is three times over declared
to be "an everlasting covenant ;" (Gen. xvii. 7, 13, 19)
and yet, principally or entirely through the inter-
ference of the despised Apostle, we are not circum-
cised. The Passover, the feast of Unleavened Bread,
the sprinkling the door-posts with blood, the offering
of first fruits, the feast of Pentecost, the day of Atone-
ment, the feast of Tabernacles, are each severally
declared to be statutes for ever. And yet we keep
none of them, simply upon the strength of the dis-
pensing power of St. Paul. These we are to be al-
lowed to dispense with on the Apostle's authority;
but the other we shall not; and it shall be put back
into the orderly-book because it suits the purposes of
priestly domination which St. Paul repudiated, and
we shall be abused and black-guarded (I purposely
use the gross term, as the only one that is descriptive)
if we presume to resist the sacerdotal falsehood of our
own day, as cur fathers did in theirs.
Fancy now, that at the period when some bold and
good man took to pieces at St. Paul's-Cross the image
which goggled with its eyes, and showed the multi-
tude how the whole was a sacerdotal fraud, dependent
on springs and wheels which he handed about among
the crowd,—fancy that a morning paper of that day,
if there had only been such a thing in existence, had
published a letter to the Lord John Russell of the
hour, beginning "My Lord,—Are you a Christian
or an infidel ? Do you or do you not believe that the
Church has power to make images which can goggle
with their eyes ?" Or suppose it had taken this
other form, My Lord,—Are you a Christian or
an infidel ? Do you or do you not believe that the
Bible gives authority to the Pope to depose kings ?"
Or suppose it had been this third—" My Lord,—Are
you a Christian or an infidel ? Do you or do you
not believe that the Bible authorises the Church to
sell the forgiveness of sins for money ?" Had any
of these half insolent and half insane addresses been
directed to the Premier of our bluff Elizabeth, I
leave it to admirers of ancestral virtues, to paint as
their imaginations may suggest, the cool concentrated
scorn with which the fling of the feeble animal would
have been received, and retorted only by more
vigorous action against the clumsy fraud.
But the Lord John Russells of all times must take
care of themselves; and whether they do or not, the
matter cannot stop where it is. Every grown man
in the country has been insulted, who feels himself
capable of resisting an impostor who presents himself
with a falsehood in his hand and claims obeisance to

it. If' lords and gentlemen cannot be roused to face
the ecclesiastical hobgoblin, the appeal must, be to the
peasantry who have the Bible in their hands, and to
those working classes universally whom one object
of the falsehood is to mislead and keep in sub-
jection. Point, then, to the powerful religious
establishments in England and in Scotland,—Church,
Dissenters, Methodists, and all,—and cry aloud to
all those millions who have got one eye open to the
necessity of political and religious improvement, and
say to them, " See what these establishments are for,
and what they do. Weigh them, as your fathers did,
by the honesty with which they can quote to you
what they maintain to be the written rule. Have
not you the Bible, as your fathers had not at the
time of the Reformation ? If they tell you the truth,
give them credit for it. If they are found lying
prophets, then see what the machinery is for."
If in this there is anything too severe, the leaders
of the Church, the Dissenters, and the Methodists,
have the power to turn it into good, by coming forward
like honest men and of a good courage, to avow and
support the truth. Why does not the calm and
dignified Primate it was my good hap to listen to
only a few weeks ago, summon his wandering
younger brother and the schismatic priests and dea-
cons who have had the hardihood to present them-
selves to Lord John Russell with a heresy, to answer
for it to the Canons and printed Ordinances of the
Church of England ? Is the Church of
England a mouse-trap, that allows free
passage one way, - and only snaps up
those who would go the other ? Why do not the
honest men among the Dissenters and Methodists, of
whom there are many, avow the truth as Watts and
Wesley would have done if the book of Scripture
had been laid before them and they had been charged
to tell us what was there and what was not ? And
how long will the Scotch people, so ready to take to
the hills. again if any attempt were made to make
them acknowledge that the Pope's right to depose
kings was proved by Scripture, allow themselves to
be made the active tools of a grosser and more palpable
falsehood than ever their fathers contended against,
because enforced in the face of positive words in the
Scriptures appealed to, whereas in the other case it was
nowhere written in precise words that the Pope had
no such right.
So, however, the case stands. On which, in con-
clusion, it remains only to say, that however the
Nebuchadnezzar of a false religion may rage and
frown, and whether political leaders may think it
worth while to stand by them or not, there are still
those who have no answer to make to the mendacious

tyranny, but " Be it known to thee, 0 king, that we
will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden
image which thou bast set up."

ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV.
ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.

POEMS BY JOHNSON HARPER.--Hull : J. Nicholson,
48, Lowgate.—There is a peculiar fitness in the youthful
writer of these poems dedicating his elegant little work
to Eliza Cook. Intensely admiring the spirit, and not
incapable of appreciating the genius of her heart-thrilling
lays, he lays at her feet, as the most precious offering
within his reach, the first-fruits of his own ardent
thoughts. We are not disposed to criticise Mr. Barker's
productions. It is no slight praise to so young a man to
say that they have few prominent faults. Let him cul-
tivate his acquaintance with the muses, which, indeed, if
his nature is that of a true poet, he must do by inevitable
necessity, and he may yet distinguish himself in the
classic region on which he has now not inauspiciously
entered.—Hull Advertiser.
LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW BIL-
LINGSGATE MARKET. The first stone of the new
Billingsgate Market was yesterday laid in the presence
of a great multitude, by Mr. Feud, chairman of the Mar-
kets' Committe, and very popular member of the Court
of Common Council, with the usual ceremonies. The
stone bore upon it two steel plates, upon ono of which
were engraven the date and occasion of laying the stone,
and upon the other the names of the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, of the committee, of Mr. Bunning, the
architect, and of Mr. Jay, the builder. The chairman
used a splendid silver trowel; an appropriate prayer was
delivered by the Rev. Mr. Crosthwaite, rector of St.
Mary's-at-Hill, a speech was delivered by the chairman,
and the National Anthem was sung by the ward school
children. Three cheers were then, at the suggestion of
the comptroller, given for the Queen, three cheers for
the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London, and three
cheers for the success of the new market, immediately
after which the ceremony concluded.
NINEVITE ANTIQUITIES.—The recent arrival of
several packages of marbles, by the vessel La
b
Belle Al-
ance from Bombay, consisting of specimens illustrative
of history, which originally formed part of the ruins of
Nineveh. were not on this occasion brought for the pur.
pose of deposit in the national receptacle for such articles,
but were imported for Sir J. Guest, being the private
property of that gentleman, and intended to form part of
his private collection.

BERiIIaNDSEY MURDER.

TRIAL OF THE IVIANNE.IGS.

CENTRAL CIIIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(C )ntinued from our Afternoon Edition of yeqerday.)

Mr. BALLANTINF, at a few minutes before two,

rose to address the jury on behalf of Mrs. Manning.
Ile asked them to dismiss from their minds
the many reports they had heard with
respect to the charge against the female.
In the course of this case, they must have been sur-
prised that many of the statements that had appeared
in the newspapers were not brought before
them. They must be, therefore, of opinion that
many of those statements were far from realities.
Ile allied them to dismiss from their minds all the
calumnies they heard uttered with respect to his
client—calumnies fostered, too, and published by one
who was bound to protect her. The course pursued
by his Learned Friend was unparalleled in the annals
of proceedings of this kind. lie had, in the presence
of his unfortunate cut nt, denounced her, and
accused her of the crime with which she
was charged. The terms he had used were
far too coarse and strong. lle, however,
put this construction upon the course he had pursued
—that the course, his judgment told him, was
necessary, and that that course was opposed to
his own better feelings. He believed he
had erred in his judgment. Ho would rather never
appear in that court again, and seek some other but
more honourable and honest toil, than have uttered
such calumnies against a person who stood there
on

a trial fur her life, and who also
might shortly be led to the scaffold and ushered into
the presence of her Maker. The course of his
Learned Friend contrasted much with the
temperate opening of the Learned Attorney-
General, who had most creditably come for-
ward to prosecute on behalf of the Crown.
And he trusted the Learned Attorney-General, when
he sat down, would not think it necessary to offer, as
was his right, any further observations, and that
he would agree with him that the unfortunate
woman at the bar had had enough of counsel's re-
marks. He would not appeal to their passions,
but state such facts as he believed would snatch
the female from the fate which seemed now to
threaten her. It was difficult to determine what were
accessorial acts between a man and his wife, as
their relations differed much from ordinary
cases. Unless they were of opinion that the
woman was present at the murder they could
not find her guilty. The prosecution had led
the jury into a dilemma as to the exact period of the
murder. her connexion with O'Connor, her fall from
virtue to vice, should not prejudice her, as that might
have arisen from other motives than that which
would lead to the commission of murder. O'Connor
was a man past the middle age, and likely to
have yielded much to the wishes of the woman,
whatever they were, as it was but natural to
suppose that he was very fond of her. She
was constantly with Mr. O'Connor, and much
away from her husband. A bedroom, some
months ago, was fitted up in the house of the Misses
Armes, showing that the house was not let out for
any improper purpose. This showed that she
was on intimate terms with O'Connor,
and that she had no motive to the
murder. Indeed, if she required money, she would
have gone into a wealthy keeping, to use a common
and well-understood expression. She must either be
a most abandoned and wicked woman, or else one of
the most kindly feelings. Then there was the fact that
O'Connor was seen twice on London-bridge, the first
time about five, and again at half-past five, as if waver-
ing whether he should go or not to Minver-place. The
dinner hour of the Mannings was about five, and most
likely it was before half-past five ; and: the female
prisoner finding that O'Connor did not come, was it not
very probable that she left the house with the intention
of going to the residence of O'Connor? The Misses
Armes were not likely to speak very favourably of a
lady coming to their house under the circumstances.
She used to visit O'Connor. Now they stated she
reached his lodgings at a quarter before six, and left
at a quarter to seven. The distance had not been
measured, but it,.had been proved that it was three
miles. Both cabs and omnibuses, in consequence
of the obstruction in the thoroughfare, would take a
good deal of time to go. It was, therefore, probable
that she walked, and to do so she must have left
Minver- place at five, so that if the murder was com-
mitted at half-past five Mrs. Manning could not have
been present at its commission. This was an im-
portant matter for the jury to consider, for upon
it hung the life or death of the accused.
He was prepared to contend that the mur-
der was committed at half-past five. Then
arose out of this these questions :—Was O'Connor
murdered when she was absent, or after she came
back ? or was it probable that the murder was com-
mitted at a quarter-past seven o'clock, at the time
Manning was seen smoking on the wall ? His
conduct, however, was inconsistent, with O'Connor
being alone in the house as his guest at the time.
The presumption was, that he was in the house long
before. Before she went out she might have been a
guilty accessory to a murder which was to be com-
mitted. Was she really an accessory before the fact?
He suggested to them confidently that she was not.
The shattered head of the murdered man, and indeed
the whole violence connected with the murder, were
more the acts of a man than of a woman. He asked
them if the story of Manning, when taken into
custody, was true. It was, to his mind,
most improbable. Even if it were true, the act
of shooting was proved not to have caused the
death of O'Connor. A man who was at home when
the intended victim called, when he must have been
murdered, and who was there for a long time after,
was doubtless the murderer. There were three points
upon which he felt it necessary to remark relied upon
by the Crown, as showing that the woman was
an accessory before the fact namely, the
evidence with respect to the crowbar, the lime, and
the shovel. The shovel was an ordinary dust or coal
shovel, and it was absurd to suppose that a hole could
be dug with it. Therefore, he believed the purchase
of the shovel rather favourable to the accused than
otherwise. Why, if she required to dig a
hole, which could have been better done in :the
garden than in the back kitchen, it would
have been as easy to have purchased a spade.
Being about her usual household affairs in the
purchase of a shovel on the day before the murder
was inconsistent with the fact that she was then con-
templating the murder. It would be for them to say
whether the lime was purchased for the destruction of
the slugs in the garden, or for aiding in the murder.
The boy who took the lime, and called the next day
for some halfpence for doing so, would not swear
positively that the money was paid by the female
prsoner. It might have been given to him by
the charwoman. Then, with respect to the crow-
bar, which was falsely called, as it was in reality a
chisel, commonly known as a ripping-chisel, why,
it was a common thing for persons to say, when
about to make a purchase, " I shall send so and so
home;" and he might have said "I shall send a chisel
home for some work I have to do." Then Manning
stopped the man who was carrying it, and had it
wrapped in paper, and being wrapped in paper
Mrs. Manning might be utterly ignorant of
what the parcel contained; and the most innocent
person might say that the charge was too high. How
often did a person, when he went out in the morning,
say to his wife or to his servant, " I shall send a
parcel home—will you pay half-a•crown, or some
definite sum for it ?" A husband had no right to
shield his wife from the consequences of a murder
which she had committed, but in this case

th• husband had thrown all the blame upon the wife.
And when taken into custody, after he had had time
to consider the course he should take, th© first thing
he did, like a low poltroon, was to accuse his wife in
order to save himself. Then the spots of blood upon
the dress were proved to be ironmolds and not marks
of blood. It was true there were marks of blood
on the toilet cover, but there were a hundred

ways of accounting for blood upon such an article
which they could account for. The stains of blood
they would find were inside and not outside the dress,
which doubtless arose from natural causes. He felt
no delicacy in stating this, notwithstanding the fe-
male listeners, who were mere spectators, and had
no further interest in the case, the important
nature of which compelled him to be thus
explicit. Indeed, wherever a murder was committed,
if toilet covers and linen were carefully examined
blood might easily be discovered. Before the murder
took place there were the conversations as to the
influence of laudanum and chloroform, and the most
tender part of the skull, and the purchase of the
crowbar and lime by Manning, for he threw the
shovel overboard altogether; and then they found
Mrs. Manning writing a letter to O'Connor on the
day before the murder, inviting him to dinner.
Now
was it not possible that Manning, desirous to impli-
cate his wife in the murder, got her to write
the letter of invitation, so that no handwriting of his
should be found on the body, and might he not also
have placed her in a position to take in the crowbar for
the same end? her statement to Walsh when he
called, that she had invited O'Connor to dinner the
day before and that he had not come, and her cool-
ness and absence from all guile, showed guiltlessnes ;
and ashen O'Connor became faint, and she bathed
his head with eau de Cologne, did it not show that
she was the most unliktely person to have committed
the murder ? Why she would have recoiled from the
man whose murder she had determined upon. The
most abandoned and callous woman—the woman Apo
was the common prostitute of several men—nay, the
most abandoned woman that obtained a wretched
subsistence in the streets, could not act in this way
if she had contemplated a foul and awful murder.
When Mrs. Manning called at the deceased's house