The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-16 00:00:00

N°.17,751.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING
7 AUGUST 16, 1849.

SALES BY AUCTION.

TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the High
Court of Chancery, made in a Cause DAVIES v. DAVIES, with
the approbation of Joint EDMUND Dowinswin.r., Esquire, one of
the Masters of the said Court.
MR. ROBINS will SELL by AUCTION, at
the Rooms over the Town Hall, Ludlow, in the county of
Salop, on WEDNESDAY, the 29th day of August, 1849, at One for Two
o'clock in the Afternoon, precisely, in 34 Lots,
The valuable FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD ESTATES, late
the Property of EDMUND LECHMERE CHARLTON, Esq., de-
ceased, consisting of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, Plan•
tation and Orcharding ; the Charlton Arms Inn; Water, Corn,
and Paper Mills ; Farm and other outbuildings, Messuages,
and Tenements, comprising altogether about 582 ACRES,
situate within the liberties of the borough of LUDLOW,
and in the several parishes of Ludlow, Richards Castle, Ashford,
Carbonel, and Bromfield, and in the townships of Overton and Ste-
venton, in the parishes of Ludford and Richards Castle, in the several
counties of Hereford and Salop.
Printed Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had (gratis) at
the said Master's chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; of Mr. Tucker, solicitor, 6, Raymond-buildings, Gray's
Inn ; Messrs. J. 11. and G. Lake, solicitors, 10, New-square, Lin-
coln's Inn ; Mr Gregson, solicitor, 18, Bedford-row ; Mr. J. H. Ben-
bow, solicitor, I, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn ; Messrs. Parke,
Freeth, and Parke, solicitors, 63, Lincoln's lan-fields ; and Mr.
Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden, all in London; of Mr. J. Loyd,
solicitor, Ludlow ; o' Mr. William Shepherd, Sun Inn, Ludlow, who
will point out the property; Angel lan, Ludlow; Royal Oak, Leo-
minster ; City Arms, Hereford ; Lien, Shrewsbury; and of Messrs.
Hobbs and Sons, auctioneers, Worcester.

NEAR MANCHESTER.
A FREEHOLD EPISCOPAL CHAPEL, of the Gothic order of ar-
chitecture, newly built, in the township of Moss Side, near Chorl-
ton-upon-Medlock, presenting a capital investment.
MR. ROBINS is instructed to SELL, by
AUCTION, at the Law Society's Rooms, Manchester, on
TUESDAY, September 4, at Two for Three o'clock in the Afternoon
precisely (unless previously disposed of by private contract, of which
due notice will be given), . .

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An important Property, erected in the most substantial manner, in
THE GOTHIC ORDER OF ARCHITECTURE,
and intended for

AN EPISCOPAL CHAPEL,

situate iu a highly respectable and increasing populous district of
THE SUBURBS OF MANCHESTER,
and in the township of Moss-aide, near Chorlton-upon-Medlock,
about two miles only from the Exchange and principal part of the
town.
The Church presents a very attractive object, designed by an emi-
nent architect, occupying 2,020 yards of valuable land, an outlay of
about 6,0001. having been employed in its erection.
In its present form it is capable of seating above 1,000 persons, and
by a further enlargement of side galleries, at no great cost, about
1,500 persons might be accommodated. A most tempting opportu-
nity is presented for a clergyman to become an incumbent of the
Church, in an exceedingly Interesting neighbourhood, where church
accommodation is much desired by very numerous and highly respec-
table families, residing in the locality—indeed, a popular minister
might rely upon a considerable income from the property, which is
of freehold tenure, and will be sold free front chief rent.
The Church may be viewed daily, and particulars had upon appli-
cation to Mr. I. Adshead. 45, George•street, M anchester ; Mr. John
Morris, solicitor, 29, Dickenson-street, Manchester; and at Mr.
Robins's Offices, Covent-garden, London.

GEORGE GREENFIELD, DECEASED.-
The Heir-at-Law or legal personal Representative of
GEORGE GREENFIELD, deceased, who in 1781 resided in Tooley-
street, Borough, and in 1785 at Peckham Rye, is requested to com-
municate with Messrs. Broughton and Son, 5, Falcon-square, London,
Solicitors.

PARTNER WANTED.—To TAILORS and
Others.—A middle-aged man, of first-rate abilities as Trow-
ser Cutter, wishes to 'meet with a parson who can command about
1001., to Open a Business as Trowser Makers only. Good references
will be given to character. For other particulars apply by letter,
post paid, to A. L., 15, Savoy-street, Strand.

NELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite
Adam-street.
Messrs. ARCHER and HOLT most respectflilly invite their
friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee-room,
which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
Somerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
the Table d'Hote, which takes place at Ilalf-past Five precisely, the
most comfortable and reasonable in the metropolis.—Flsh and
Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers untt One
o'clock. Private Dining-rooms. excellent Beds, superior Wines and
Spirits, fine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.
N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden lane.

THE NICOLL PALETOT WAREROOMS,
114. 116, 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORN HILL.
Also for Nicoll's Morning Coat, now in almost universal request
for the Country, Riding, Walking, Seaside, &c. Shooting Jackets
adapted for the Moors, &c.
Many have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs.
NICOLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material.

nESSRS. NICOLL'S Wholesale and Counting
House Departments for the London Branches in the Ship-
ping and Woollen Trades are in CHANGE-ALLEY, CORNHILL,
and 120, REGENT-STREET.

FENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE
1. 7 The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty
years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to be the only
article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or
grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown er black,
without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro-
duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change.
While other dyes destroy the hair by their pernicious properties,
this liquid promotes its growth, nourishing the roots to the latest
period •f life. Persons who have been deceived by preparations
which have o horrillu stencil (a.iigerous to the heaa), troublesome
in their application, and unsatisfactory in their colour, will AM
Spencer's Chinese Liquid Hair Dye a distinct article, agreeable in
every respect, and that " none but itself can be its parallel." Price
35. 6d., 6e., and 10s. per bottle.
To be had of Spencer and Co., 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate-
street, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; • Sanger, 130, Oxford-
street; Barclay, Farringden-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
street; Hooper, 43, IC int. William-street, London laridge ; Hannay,
63, Oxford-street; Finrigin, Milsom-street, Bath; Elmore, Bull-
street, Birmingham ; Robert., 23, Church-street, Liverpool ; and of
most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country.
Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, post-
paid.
Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye."
Observe—Spencer's and Co.'s address is on the wrapper.

FABLES for the FANCIFUL.—No.
CECILIA AND THE TULIP.
Amid the garden's peaceflil shade,
At evening's tranquil hour,
Cecilia, meditating, strayed,
And in her leafy progress stayed,
To pluck a beauteous flower.
" Fair lady," (quoth the chosen bloom,
When taken from its stem)
" Those roses have a rich perfume—
Why take a tulip from the loom,
Instead of one of them ?"

Cecilia smiled, and thus addressed
The golden-petalled flower:—
" Fair bloom, it was thy beauteous crest,
Which made me choose thee from the rest,
That blossom in the bower.
" Flora has
butscloth theee assumethee with
;attire,
Which few
And 'tie this dress which ranks the higher,
However much I may admire
The rose's scented bloom."
APPLICATION.
I heard—and smile not IN hen I say
I thought of Moses' Mart,
Where fashion's flower., In choice display,
Attract admirers, day by day,
From many a distant part.
This splendid salt, by Moses made,
Tias won Cecilia's smile ;
She thinks the beauty here displayed,
Casts every other in the shade,
In point of make and style.
Had it not been for M. and Son,
She might have passed me by ;
But dress like this, excelled by none,
Has, like the tulip's beauty, won
Cecilia's judging eye.
LIST OF PRICES.
11,1• DY MADE.
Men' Spring, and Summer Wrappers.. from £0 8 6
1 he Bulwer, Pacha, Paletot, ant every descrip-
tion of light Over-coats •••• • • • • ••• • 1 2 6
Cloth Over Coats, of a light texture, and hand-
somely trimmed • .
Do. do. lined with silk.. •• ..... •• •• 1 8 0
Do. do. superior quality .... •••• . • • • 1 15 0
Jean and Holland Blouses .• •• •••••• •• •• 0 2 9
Fancy Victoria do. ......... ....... ........ 0 4 0
Dress Coat • .... .. • •
Frock Coat •
Spring and Summer Trousers .............. 0 4 0
Doeskin and Buckskin d 0....... • 0 7 6
Spring and Summer Vests in every variety • • 0 1 6
Black and Figured Satin Vests....
Black do., superior quality ... .......... •• 0 9 6
White Marcella Vests
Men's Black C'oth Vests .................. 0 3 6
Boy's Spring and Summer Ve5t5............ 0 0 10
Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits .............• 0 15 0
Men's Fishing Coats In great variety •• 0 4 0
MAD' TO MSASURE.
Paletots made from a variety of material, fitted
for Summer wear 1 1
Do. very elegantly trimmed .............. 1 8 0
Superior Cloth of a light texture........ •• 1 15 0
Ditto ditto lined with 5i1k.....• ........ 2 2 0
Ditto Dress Coat.. • • .... • ... • • .......... 1 12 0
Best d 0..... .••• • . • • •• .• • ...... 215 0
Superfine Frock do. •• ••••••• • •• •• ..... . 1 15 0
Fancy Doeskin Trousers. .. • • 0 16 6
Black do. 0 16 0

Black Cloth Vests • • •• • • """ 0
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The
newbook, entitled
Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice.
LOs.
A Suit of
directions
for Self-measurement, can be had en application, or forwarded,
post
free, to any part of the kingdom.
Notice— I he Shawl and Fiume Department are new replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to
Measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned.
E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Ratters,
Hesiela, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154,
155, 156, and 157 Minories, and i 3, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, City,
London ; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast
Establishment.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition ; but having heard that the untradesman-like
falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concern,"
h •g teen resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons,
hey beg to state that they have no connexion with any other house
in or out of I.ondon, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Far-
gate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire ;
.114 hose who require cheap and genuine clothing, Pm, should call
at •r send to the Vlinorios and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of
the laranch Establishments, as above.
Tate Notice.—This Establishment is nosed from sunset Friday,
to 'easel Saturday. when hug ness Is resumed tin twelve o'clock.

HOPS.-Our Mayfield correspondent writes thus
:
The hops are almost a failure iu this parish, and there
seems to be no chance of any improvement; they are
still infested with vermin and are very black. So
come what will as regards weather to assist them, they
will prove almost a failure." Of the harvest generally
he says—" Wheat harvest has partially commenced and
will become general this week; the crop is very good.
The peas are nearly all housed, and prove a good crop.
The oats are very good partially. The beans are also
good, and they are cutting them; so that if the weather
should prove fine through this month, the harvest will
be nearly completed."—Brighton Guardian.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

Bortoucm, AUGUST 13.—The accounts this morning
from the Weald of Kent and Sussex come rather
more favourable. In Mid-Kent the mould is making
sad havoc in some of the best grounds. The duty
is at 75,0001. We have a firm market at last week's
prices.
MAIDSTONE.—Where the grounds are good, the
bines seem to be improving, but the bad grounds are
getting worse. The mould is also more seen than
talked of, and in many places is increasing. We
have seen branches of hops, but in some districts
they appear to have ripened prematurely, and not to
possess that powerful odour which indicates strength
and condition.

MEREWORTH, TESTON, WATERINGEURT, &c.—The
hops in these parishes have grown considerably within
the week, but it is questionable whether they have
improved, as regards the ultimate crop, equal to their
growth. Where the bine is strong and vigorous, the
mould has generally attacked them, and where the
bine is weak, there they have not thrown out any
branches, and those that are blackened by the vermin
have shown their incapacity to produce any crop at
all. There is not, taking the appearances collectively,
any better account to be given as to the probable
produce than there was last week.

YALDING.-Our hops in the fair grounds, during
the late warm nights, have done wonders, but the
others remain incurable.

HORSZIONDEN.—In some grounds no improvement
can be noticed, and they appear to be irrecoverable ;
in others a great change has been effected by the late
thunder showers; the bines are growing away luxu-
riantly, and the burr is coming out fast. We have
gardens in the parish that are likely to grow from
twelve to fifteen cwt. per acre, but of these there are
but few.

WEST MALLING.—Some grounds are past doing
anything, and others want favourable
weather to
grow even a few. The mould is appearing in those
which looked most promising.
EAST MALLING.—There is but little or no improve-
ment in the blighted grounds, in the lower part of
this parish. The upper grounds look somewhat
better, with a slight improvement. One large gar-
den of Mr. Browning's, on the rocks, of nearly forty
acres, is looking exceedingly well, fast coming out
into hop, and promises a good crop.
CRANBROOK.—We have devoted a considerable
portion of our leisure during the past week in watch-
ing the progress of the bine, and in endeavouring to
ascertain what probability there exists in this locality
of growing a crop. The plantation seems to have
assumed three different positions : the good bine,
which has been comparatively clean during the
summer, and which, perhaps, constitutes one-fourth of
the cultivation ; the indifferent, which was black till
midsummer, but which has since thrown out a few
green shoots, and may comprise half; and the very
bad pieces, which the most favourable weather can
never rally, and which may be said to constitute the
remainder of the plantation. The first of these have
made rapid progress; the poles are covered with
thick foliage in many places, the pendant flowers
already appearing as light festoons, and with every
prospect of a luxuriant crop. The next have
improved considerably ; the late showers, accompa-
nied with thunder and lightning, and suc-
ceeded by very genial weather, are mani-
festing their salutary effects on the bine. The last,
which, as we have before stated, have be-
come black, and, instead of holding out any hope of
improvement, are becoming not less nauseous to the
smell than they are unpleasant to the view and unpro-
fitable to the grower. Such is a brief account of the
state of the plant in this parish, and those persons
whose long experience justly entitles their opinions
to some weight, and renders them competent to judge
of the amount of duty likely to be realised, are
most sanguine in their expectations that about eighty
thousand pounds may, with a continuation of propi•
tious weather, be obtained.
GOUDHURST.—The few gardens that have been
going on a little favourably, as might be anticipated,
in consequence of the few warm nights, are coming
very fast into hop. The whole of the blighted
grounds are in one sad predicament; their time is gone.
HAWKHURST.—The fair took place on Friday last.
This fair is celebrated for the transaction of business
in the hop trade, and it was as usual well attended
by mercantile gentlemen from London. The general
report was, that the present duty is thought to be
overrated in the borough. There is no improve-
ment on the whole in this parish.
BRENCHLEY.—We cannot quote any general im-
provement, although there is a little freshness visible
in some grounds. The season is too far advanced for
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lice follow
IGHTEIAM AND SEAL—Although the weather of
the past week has been very favourable, the hops have
improved but very little, excepting those grounds
which have been but partially blighted, and they are
very scarce.
ORPINGTON.—Four-fifths of the hop grounds about
here will not grow a hop ; what few good hills are
left will just be worth picking.
EDENBRIDGE.—There is an improvement in the
best grounds, but the blighted are nearly at a stand.
CANTERBURY.—The grounds here show but little
improvement, and the most sanguine estimate does
not exceed an average of more than a bag an acre.
Some few grounds exhibit a promise, which, with the
continuance of the present favourable weather, will, it
is hoped, be realised by affording a good sample for
the season, while many acres are too far gone to
expect a basket to be placed in them.
HURSTGREEN.—The hops in this locality are a little
improved in some places, while others are worse and
past all hope. There are some healthy looking
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ofg afreuroi
ts.s the alleys, but they do not
ha&c.—Suchve improved groundsw i at
within
in havethe not
last
and the vermin that were following up the young
shoots and bur have very much decreased ; those re-
maining present a weakly appearance, and the coming
hop is showing health and vigour. The Jones's and
Colgate's are the most favoured.
FARNHAM, ALTON, AND COUNTRY DISTRICTS, AUG.
I.3.—The best plantations are improving, but the
blighted grounds have a very sombre appearance, and
remain in state quo.—Maidstone Gazette.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LONDON AND
PARIS.—The French Government has accorded to Mr.
Jac. Brett the authorisation to establish on the coast
of France a submarine electric telegraph between Calais
and Boulogne, which, crossing the Channel, will go to
Dover on the coast of England. The treaty entered into
with Hr. Brett guarantees certain advantages to the
French Government, and leaves all the expense at the
charge of Mr. Brett, assuring him, however, a privilege
for ton years in case the experiment should succeed.
The works must be terminated by the Ist of Septem-
ber, 1850, at the latest; but it is probable that they will
be finished sooner. The first application of the subma-
rine electric telegraph, if it should succeed, as from the
long examinations which have been made there is every
reason to hope, will produce on the relations between
France and England results of which it is impossible at
present to estimate the importance. Dover, the point at
which the submarine telegraph is to join England, is
united to London by a direct telegraphic line; the
capitals will, therefore, be in this manner in almost in-
stantaneous communication.

A case of hardship from the strained interpretation
of an Act of Parliament on the part of a City company
has been presented to us, which seems to call for an im-
mediate remedy. By an Act passed in 1825 the masters
of all vessels under GO tons are allowed to pilot their own
vessels. The tug boats in the Thames are not only under
this tonnage, but they are also worked according to the
orders of the pilot conducting the ship towed. Insisting,
however, upon an Act passed two years later—namely,
in 1827, and which provides that none
but frc,emen shall he permitted to ply or work as
watermen or lightermen, or navigate or cause
to be navigated any wherry, lighter, or other craft, on
the Thames, the Watermen and Lightermen's Company
claim the exclusive command of those boats from Yant-
lett creek (between Gravesend and the Noro) to Windsor
for freemen or apprentices of their body. Hence the
proprietors of the tugs are prevented from giving the
command to mariners or even persons trained for years
in their service, and are compelled to select men whose
only qualification may consist in having served an ap-
prenticeship of seven years to row and work in the river
on board a wherry or lighter, and who are not examined
as to their fitness to pilot any sea-going vessel previously
to becoming freemen. A restriction so injurious to the
safety of Channel and river navigation could never have
been intended, and, indeed, the wording of the Act by
which it is enforced will not, in reason, bear such an in-
terpretation. The fear, however, of contesting the point
with a powerful company causes it to be submitted to,
and it would, therefore, appear desirable that the matter
should be put upon a just footing by some direct mea-
sure on the part of the Board of Trade.
The change of day and night—of the seasons, of
flowers and fruits, and wha 'ever else meets us from
epoch to epoch, so that we can and should enjoy it;
these are the proper springs of earthly life. The more
open we aro to these enjoyments, the happier do we
feel ourselves; but if the changes in these phenomena
roll up and down
.before us without our taking interest
in them, if we are insensible to such beautiful offers, then
comes on the greatest evil, the heaviest disease ; we
regard life as a disgnsting burdlen.— Eliza Cook's Journal.
Mr. Nicoll, the Sheriff elect for London and Mid-
dlesex, has appointed the Rev Thomas George Patter-
son Hough, M.A., incumbent of Ham, Surrey, to be
his chaplain, and Mr. David Williams Wire, of St.
swithia's-lane, to be hie Under...sheriff.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES —The only ground on which the policy of the
French expedition to Rome has bean defended, even be
the Minist( rs of the Republic, is the positive assurance
that the restoration of the Pope, as effected by France,
would be accompanied by a thorough reform of the abuses
which are encrusted on the temporal government of the
Papal States. M. de Tocqueville concluded his last
speech on this subject by a declaration that he could
undertake to say the Pope was prepared to sanction such
an arrangement, and that the consequence of the Papal
restoration would not be a blind and implacable reaction.
The honour of France, the tranquillity of Rome, and
the very existence of the Pope as a temporal Sovereign,
depend on the fulfilment of these engagements. Un-
happily, the first acts of the Pontiff betoken the exist-
ence of a very different spirit, and have at once roused
the hostility and the suspicions of the Roman people to
such a pitch that a fresh insurrection would immediately
have broken out if it had not been for the imposing atti-
tude of the French army. General Oudinot had prevailed
upon Prince Odeschalchi and some other eminent Roman
laymen to constitute a species of municipal Govern-
ment, in concert with the French military authori-
ties, until such time as he should hand over the govern-
ment of Rome to the Pope, or to his representatives.
These individuals, who :appear to have acted from very
patriotic motives, have since received General Oudinot's
official thanks for " the enlightened and active service
they had given him in the direction of public affairs;"
and it is obvious that Pius IX. could not have done
better than in entrusting the supreme power to this re-
spectable municipal body of Roman laymen until his
own return to the Quirinal. He has pursued, however,
a directly opposite course. The commission which ar •
rived in Rome on the 3d of August is a revival of the
worst and most contemptible usages of the old Papal ad-
ministration. A triumvirate of Monsignori, whose
names and characters are literally abhorred by the
people, has assumed the reins of Government, without a
word of practical assurance to the nation, or a word of
remonstrance on the part of the French General.
Their first measures were of a piece with their
proclamation. They instantly removed from office
all the persons who had obtained employment since
the revolution, and thereby augmented the discon-
tent
of the most formidable and intelligent agents
of the Republican party. They rescinded all the
laws passed since November, and restored the hateful
and clumsy old courts of justice. They appointed a
commission of inquiry with undefined powers, and
quashed the municipal bodies in the towns to which
they ought specially to have looked for support. And
they repudiated one-third of the paper currency by a
measure which could not fail at such a moment to occa-
sion excessive irritation and embarrassment. This paper
being inconvertible, it was the interest of the Govern-
ment to maintain its, circulation as long as possible; it
was a convenient fiction; and as the value of the Repub-
lican baiocchi must have eventually declined, that would
have been the time to propose the conversion of this cur-
rency. Coin had disappeared, and there was no remedy
for this state of things but to allow the paper to sink to
its own level. The unpopularity of such acts as these
is, of course, excessive, and if the object of the French be
to restore the Pope to power, they could not have ren-
dered him a greater disservice than by tolerating so fatal ,1
and absurd a comeaencement. We have no doubt that
when the Papal Government was attacked in November,
1848, by the murder of M. Rossi and a brutal outrage on
the Pope's palace, the better part of the Roman population
were disgusted and appalled by such acts of violence.
The Government which was then overthrown by
Mazzini was the best experiment Rome had witnessed.
The Cabinet consisted of able laymen; the Chambers had
convoked the best citizens of central Italy; the destruc-
tion of that form of government was a fatal blow to the
cause of the Constitution and of freedom. But, much
as that event has been deplored, we can entertain little
doubt that if the choice of the Roman people lies
only between the two extremes of a complete restora•
tion of clerical misgovernment and the evils of a de-
mocratic Republic, they would prefer the latter. We
can conceive nothing more odious than that a power
sanctioned by ages, and laying claim to something
like a divine authority, should show itself more ar-
bitrary, implacable, and unjust than the dictators
of a revolution ; and if this is to be the con-
duct of the Court of Rome, we venture to affirm that the
most hostile measures of Mazzini and his associates will
have proved less fatal to its security and power than the
foolish and intolerant actions of its own representatives.
The avowed object of France and the Catholic Powers
is to give permanence, stability, and independence to the
Head of the Church to which they belong; but the states-
men of those countries must perceive that this object is
absolutely unattainable, unless it be possible to promote
mutual confidence and union between the Pontiff and the
people whom he is to dwell amongst and to govern. If
PisuslX. has not sufficient ent iudcpcndonoo of judgment and
vigour of character to distinguish the just rights which he
may wphold from the gross delusions which have almost
buried the Papacy under their ruins, his infatuation will
give the deathblow to his power. lie is said to have relied
on some miraculous interposition of Providence on his
behalf ever since his Hegira or flight to Gaeta, and pos-
sibly he may impute to the unlooked-for operations of
the French Republic a somewhat miraculous and super-
natural character. But even Popes cannot reign super-
naturally; they have no charmed lives; and their tem-
poral power will, like that of other Princes, perish when
it is abused. An enthusiastic enemy of the Papal power
could perhaps desire no better than to see it restored by
means and with accompaniments which show its nature
to be incorrigible and its downfal inevitable. We de-
sire to speak with greater respect of the head of so large
a portion of the Christian world, but at the same time
we can discover nothing in the present policy and inten-
tions of the Popo which seems calculated to disappoint
the predictions of his bitterest adversaries.
CHRONICLE.—The Drury-lane Reform Meeting
reported in our paper of Tuesday was a display of
popular feeling which, despite the exaggeration of its
tone and the manifest extravagance of its professed ob-
jects, a far-seeing statesman will scarcely regard with
supercilous indifference. It would be easy, no doubt, to
find matter for criticism in this " first aggregate meet-
ing" of the now Parliamentary and Financial Reform
Association, as well as in the smaller local gatherings
which preceded it. Were we to remark, for instance,
that the leading speakers (assuming their entire since-
rity) greatly over-estimate the power of mere agitation
as an element in the formatioa of English public opi-
nion, and that they still more absurdly exaggerate the
practical advantages to be derived, even undl r the most
favourable circumstances, from organic chances which,
according to all recent European experience, have no
necessary affinity either to good government or to popu-
lar liberty, or to economy in public expenditure—and
were we further to hint that the whole movement, so
far as it has hitherto gone, appears much more likely
to answer Mr. Feargus O'Connor's purposes than
those of its original promoters—we should probably be
only saying what Mr. Cobden himself feels, though he
prefers to leave it unsaid. Certainly the curiously lame
excuse of the League leader, whom "absence" prevented
from " being present"—and who, while dexterously
putting in a prospective claim to the command of an
" army reserve' "another campaign," contents
himself for the present with admiring his "heroical"
friends at a distance—is, as we read it, the language of
a man who does not more than half like the business,
and who wishes to limit his responsibilities for a move-
, went that has outgrown his controul. We own, how-
ever, that wo feel no particular interest in the easy, but
unprofitable task of exposing faults and flaws that are
sufficiently obvious on the surface. We hold it to be
incomparably more important that Lord John Russell
should not think too little of Drury-lane demonstrations
than that the President and Council of the new League
should not think too much of themselves and it. We are
far more afraid of one mistake of the Premier's than of all
the violence of all the agitators; and if we could only
assure ourselves that he was carefully studying the signs
of the times,we should be more than satisfied to let the new
Charter pass off quietly. For our own part, we have
no difficulty in at once saying that we regard the
present movement as being, to a not inconsiderable ex-
tent, a genuine one. Without for a moment imagining
that any large portion of the classes whose opinion con-
stitutes " public opinion" are prepared for the wholesale
and sweeping changes indicated in the programme of the
new League, we quite believe that a conviction both of
the safety and the desirableness of further electoral re-
forms is entertained by a numerous and increasing class;
and wo are not at all sure that, if Ministers much longer
refuse or neglect to take measures for satisfying this very
legitimate popular wish, it will not eventually assume a
shape at once embarrassing and formidable. For, say
what we will, there is no denying that even the Drury-
lane agitators are truer, practically speaking, to the spirit
of the age and to the genius of the Constitution, than an
impassive and immobile Administration. The progressive
adaptation and re-adaptation of our political institutions
to new circumstances, new feelings, and sew wants;
the correction of mischievous anomalies, and the re-
moval, as opportunity serves, of gross and palpable in-
equalities; the gradual extension of political franchises
to classes of the people mentally qualified for their exer-
cise, and eagerly solicitous for their enjoyment; in a
word, the theory and practice of Progress, are con-
formable to the spirit of the British people, to the
precedents of our constitutional history, and to the
temper of the times. No British Minister, therefore,
however skilful and conscientious in the discharge of
ordinary or extraordinary administrative responsibilities,
can bo said to be fit for his office if he knows not when
and how, by " measures from time to time suited to the
occasion," to realise the natural and healthy popular
demand for the extension and improvement of popular
institutions. If, at a period when circumstances have
given an unusual stimulus to these progressive and re-
forming tendencies of the national mind, and whoa
likewise events have smoothed the way to moderate
and rational change, by impressing all prudent men
with the Conservative efficacy of timely conces-
sions to popular feeling—if, at such a period, a Minis-
ter is to content himself, year after year, with mere
verbal disclaimers of the " finality" which he obsttnetely
practises—and if any league or association, avowing
ultra principles and extravagant objects, is left to be the
only visible representative and organ of the nation's
favourite policy of progress—it is but too probable that
we shall one day do iu haste, not only many things that
ought to have been done at leisure, but some things that
, ought not to be done at all. It needs no particular
sagacity to predict, if the only two powers in.the political

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carry the day. Other opportunities will no doubt pre-
sent themselves for adverting to those particular topics
which strike us as more immediately deserving the at-
tention of a prudently-reforming Administration; and
we shall now say little more on this interesting sub-
ject, than that we earnestly trust that the author
of the Reform Act will spend a considerable portion
of the present recess, not in preparing philosophical
Parliamentary replies to Mr. Hume, Mr. Cobden,
and Mr. Feargus O'Connor, but in devising some
rational and practical way of meeting an extremely natu-
ral and perfectly legitimate popular demand. Without,
however, undertaking to do any part of Lord John Rus-
sell's work for him, we may perhaps suggest that the
preposterous anomaly of unenfranchised payers of direct
taxes to the Crown affords matter for at least one piece
of electoral reform, which any statesman of Liberal
aspirations and Conservative prudence might, one would
think, be only too happy to avail himself of. Nor can
we forbear adding, that some of the rather numerous
list of East Retfords discovered by the Parliamentary
inquiries of last year (not to speak of the vacant Sudbury
seats), together with a few of the rising Manchestf rs and
Birminghams that have shot up in our manufacturing
districts within the last seventeen years, might very ad-
vantageously be catalogued, without further delay, in a
pair of appropriate schedules. Waiving, however, for
the present, all detailed discussion of these
.and other
similar points, let us say that the grand desideratum
io make a beginning of some sort—to break the ice of
Finality—to give the country some practical proof that
progress is possible without knocking the Constitution all
to pieces, and that Conservatism does not mean standing
still with folded hands while unreformed abuses, unre-
dressed grievances, and unappeased discontents are
growing at compound interest.

THE CHOLERA.
RETURN OF CASES, Aua. 15.

Attacks. Deaths.
In London and vicinity, viz. :
Lambeth ... ... ... ... 14 14
Bermondsey 8
Rotberhithe 7 3
Southwark 13
Kennington 21
Bethnal-green ... ... ... 36 24
Shoreditch . .., . 10 10
Other localities in London .. 261 92
In England and Wales, viz.:—
Liverpool ... .„ ... ... 154 49
Merthyr Tydvil ... ... ... 14 5
Dowlsis .. ... ... ... 20 9
Plymouth ... ... ... ... 23 13
Newcastle-under-Lyme ... ... 23 4
Other towns in England ... ... 164 73
In Scotland, viz.:—
Dundee ... , 37 13
Other towns in Scotland ... ... 10 3

Total ... ... ... 877

THE HEALTH OF LONDON
DURING THE WEEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
The deaths in London during the week ending
Saturday, Aug. 11, were 1,909. The mortality is
somewhat less than it was in the previous week. The
deaths from all causes in the six last weeks were
1,070, 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, 1,967, and 1,909, of which
393, 630, 1,002, 1,173, 1,308, and 1,185 were by
diseases of the zymotic class. Small-pox, scarlatina,
and hooping cough are comparatively quiescent ;
typhus is more fatal than it was. The excess of 901
deaths over the average is due to diarrhcea and
cholera, which were fatal to 173 and 823 persons.
The deaths from cholera during the six last weeks
were 152, 339, 678, 783, 926, and 823. The decrease
is gratifying, but is right to observe that the im-
provement is chiefly confined to West London, Pop-
lar, St. George, Southwark, Newington, Camberwell,
and Lambeth. The deaths from cholera in the two
last weeks were 29 and 48 in Wandsworth, 9 and 21
in Pancras, 4 and 14 in Islington, 3 and 10 in Lon-
don city, 16 and 35 in Bethnal-green, 15 and 35 in
St. Giles. The deaths from all causes on the north
side the Thames (1,118) were 89 more than the
deaths (1,098) of the previous week. The parishes
which have not yet been visited must be on their
guard. Those in which the epidemic has partially
subsided should redouble their precautions. The
epidemic of 1832 broke out in three successive
cruptinns ; the first commencing in February, was
at its maximum in April and subsided ; the second
rose rapidly from June to July, and sunk again
down to the second week of August ; its course
was very much like that pursued by the present
epidemic. The deaths returned by the parish clerks
in the three weeks from July 17 to August 7, in
1832, were 968, 793, 661 ; which, allowing for the
defects in their returns and for increase of popula-
tion, are equivalent to 2,323, 1,903, 1,586, or 5,812
deaths in 1849, when the deaths registered in the
corresponding week were 1,931, 1,967, 1,909, or
5,807 :in the three weeks July '2l to August 11. A
third eruption in 1832 broke out at the end of August,
and extended to the first weeks of September ; a
fourth in 1833.

It is satisfactory-to find that the deaths of 819 out
of the 823 persons who died last week of cholera are
certified. They were seen by qualified medical at-
tendants. But it is to be feared that the advice was
not obtained in time. The accounts of the sudden
stoppage of the epidemic by prompt medical treat-
ment and the house-to-house visitation are perhaps
over-coloured. But a mortality as high now as in
1832 should not take place ; it may be prevented by
improvements in the treatment, by arresting the pre-
monitory symptoms, by still earlier attention to the
general health. Medical men are called when the
people are dying; but it is then too late. If the
families of the middle and higher classes were seen
at intervals during the epidemic by their medical
attendants, and a corps of medical officers employed
by the guardians to visit the poor at short intervals,
the present epidemic might very probably be cut
short, and a third eruption be averted. The precise
locality in which almost every victim of cholera lived
is given in the present return under each dis-
trict ; would it not be practicable for the autho-
rities to have all these and the neighbouring
localities inspected ? If this were done and
proper precautions taken, the tragedies of Albion-
terrace, Wandsworth-road, where seventeen persons
died in two weeks in ten houses, could scarcely recur.
Another case appears this week in the note under
Hampstead. In the house No. 6, Albion-terrace,
five deaths had been registered—a Wesleyan mi-
nister's wife, aged 59 ; his mother, 80 ; a widow, 49 ;
and two old servants. This is all we learn from the
Clapham registrar. The registrar of Hampstead adds
that during the week an aged man came with a friend
to Hampstead for change of air—breakfasted, dined,
went to London to transact business at the Bank of
England, and after his return seemed "pretty well."
At six o'clock the next morning he felt i 9, had
medical advice, bat died in eight hours. This old
family,he
minister was apparently the last of his
for
him
in seen his mother, wife, and servants die before
in Albion-terrace, and could not fly from the poison
which he carried in his breast. Such scenes of deso-
lation could scarcely happen without great negligence
on the part of the people themselves and on the part
of the authorities.

SCREW STEAMING.—Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and
Field, the eminent engineers, made an experimental ex-
cursion from Blackwell down the Thames on Monday
on board the Bosphorus, belonging to the General
Screw Steam Shipping Company. There were present
to witness the trial Captain W. Houston Stewart,
R.N.; Captain Halsted, R.N. Mr. Halstead, Indian
army; Mr. Chatfield, head of the School of Naval Ar-
chitecture, Woolwich; Mr. Humphrey, Chief Engineer;
Mr. Smith, Chief of Screw Department, Somerset
house; Mr. Dinnen, Inspector of Machinery, afloat ;
Mr. Laming, Managing Director of the Company; Cap-
tain J. Ford, Superintendent ; Mr. Mare, the builder ;
and Mr. Jackson. The Bosphorus left Blackwell about
one o'clock, and made five runs in Long Reach, the
mean rate of which showed a speed of 9.G79 knots per
hour, which is considered by the above scientific gentle-
men the best result ever obtained by a screw-vessel of
the same horse power per ton. The Bosphorus was
much admired for her symmetry, and the engines
worked with the greatest accuracy, without noise ; the
vibration could scarcely be felt at any part of the ship.
The following particulars will be satisfactory to those
interested in the propulsion of ships by the screw :
The Bosphorus is 175 feet between the perpendiculars,
breadth 25 feet, depth 15 feet, engines 80-horse power,
direct toting ; draft of water on trial, forward, 6 feet
8 inches, aft, 9 feet 6 inches; mean draft of water, 8 feet
1 inch; screw, 14 inches above the water ; diameter of
screw, 10 feet 6 inches; pitch, 18 feet 6 inches; mean
revolutions, 62.2 per minute ; speed of screw, 11.348
knots; slip, 14.7 per cent.; length of engine-room, 30
feet, including stowage for 150 tons of coals.
A letter from the Falkland Islands, dated the Gth
of May, has been received. It states that affairs on the
whole were proceeding prosperously. ArraegemV
wer4 being made to supply vessels calling there wiih.Peo_
visions and water, and a floating tank had alirdyabtt.:
constructed, besides a slaughter-house far killigecf,
and!
&c. The vegetables produced are high!! sP°k
it is said " equal any in Covent-garden. The
Berkshire
A CHURCHWARDEN's MisTAK B.
Chronicle states, that in some circulars sent round by the
Bishop of Oxford to different parishes was
hthis i
g p elnquiry
the os
—" Does your officiating clergyman
and are his conversation and carriage consistent there-
with?" To which a churchwarden, about four miles
from Wallingford, wrote in answer, " He preaches the
gospel, bat dos not keep a carriage."

[PRICE OD.

THE HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT

DOVER.

DOVER, WEDZIESDAY.—This gigantic undertaking,
which has been steadily and satisfactorily progressing
since its commencement two 3 ears since, was this day
visited and inspected by his Grace the Duke of
Wellington. The Noble and Gallant Duke arrived
at Weimer Castle on Monday, and came over here
this morning to preside at a special meeting of the
Barbour Commissioners, of whom his Grace, as Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports, is the official head. The
fact of the Noble Duke's intended arrival having been
made known to the military commandant, Colonel
Tylden, R.E., that gallant officer gave directions that
a guard of honour should be in attendance to receive
his Grace upon his arrival at the sessions-house, and
at eleven o'clock 100 men of the 50th Regiment, with
the band and colour of the corps, marched down from
the barracks under the command of Brevet Major
Long, and took up their station in front of the
building. The visitors and townspeople also came
out in great numbers to greet the Duke, and the
harbour presented a very gay appearance, the fleet of
steamers moored therein displaying all the canvas
they could muster.
Precisely at a quarter to twelve o'clock his Grace's
barouche was observed descending the Castle-hill, and
at the same moment the heavy booming of artillery
firing a salute from the battery on the heights an-
nounced the approach of the Noble and Gallant Duke.
About ten minutes were occupied in the descent of
the hill, and at the expiration of that time the Duke's
carriage drew up in front of the Harbour Sessions
House. His Grace on alighting was received by
Colonel Tylden, R.E., the Commandant of the Gar-
rison; Mr. Jenkinson, Lieut.-Governor of Dover
Castle ; Colonel Pettet, of the 50th Regiment ; and
several other officers. The Commissioners present to
meet the Lord Warden were—Sir E. Dering, Bart.,
Captain D'Athe, Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. Deedes,
M.P., Mr. Hammond, Mr. Passillon, Mr. Jenkinson,
and the Mayor of Dover (Mr. Payne). The Noble
Duke, having exchanged salutations with the various
officers, entered the Sessions House, and the business
of the meeting was immediately proceeded with. This
consisted chiefly in receiving the reports of Mr. Walker,
the engineer, and Mr. Hardwick, the architect to the
Harbour Commissioners, as to the state of the works
now in progress ; each of which having been read,
were respectively approved and adopted.
The appointment of registrar to the Commissioners,
vacant by the resignation of Mr. G. W. Ledger, was
conferred by the Court upon Mr. G. Thompson, of
Dover.

The Noble Duke having expressed a strong desire
to inspect the harbour of refuge, in progress of
formation at this port, Mr. Walker, who combines
the twofold character of engineer to the Harbour
Commissioners, and also to the Government in this
great national undertaking, at once volunteered to
conduct his Grace over the works. Before proceed-
ing to describe the Noble and Gallant Duke's visit of
inspection, it may be well to remind the reader of the
circumstances under which the work itself has been
undertaken. The desirability of forming harbours of
refuge on our southern coasts has for years past been
admitted both within and without the walls of Par-
liament, and the important recommendation of the
Committee who sat upon this subject two or three
sessions since, to the effect that five such harbours
should be at once commenced, will be freely in the
recollection of most of our readers. The localities
recommended were, first of all—as most important to
the maritime service of the country—Dover, and,
after that, Portland, Harwich, and the Channel Islands
of Jersey and Alderney. The works of all these are
in progress, though none has yet advanced to anything
like the degree of completion attained at Dover.
The difficulties to be surmounted at the latter port
were for some time considered to be almost insur-
mountable, owing to' the constant accumjialtition of
shingle in Dover- sy, which it was vew naturally
feared would create an obstacle to the freeepassage of
vessels of large burden to and from the proposed
harbour. The inconvenience arising from this accu-
mulation has been notorious for years past, and the
necessity of landing and embarking in small boats at
ebb tides has rendered the' continental passage, via
Dover, very objectionable. All the anticipated diffi-
culties, however, appear to have been surmounted by
the engineering chill of Mr. Walker, and although
Only a small portion of the proposed harbour wall is
yet finished, the effect already produced is sufficient
to show that when complete, this part of the coast,
which has heretofore been dreaded by mariners as
one of the most dangerous in the Channel, will
form a perfectly secure haven. One circumstance
we may mention in proof of the correctness of
this opinion, and it is this, that since the com-
mencement of the operations, the shingle which
formerly accumulated in the bay has altogether
disappeared, in consequence of which the
Harbour Commissioners have been enabled to take
away a quantity of rock from the mouth of the old
harbour and give three feet greater depth of water to
vessels entering. The plan of the proposed harbour
may be described in brief to consist of the enclosures
of about 500 acres of water, extending from about
100 yards west of the old harbour nearly to the
South Foreland. That portion of the contract already
let consists of a wall or pier running out from the
main land 800 feet into the sea. This pier is 63 feet
in width, and 29 feet above low-water mark. The
west wall consists of 18 feet, and the east wall of 164
feet of solid masonry, Portland and Bratnley Fall
stone of the best quality being used in their con-
struction. The centre is filled up with patent con-
crete composed of due proportions of shingle, hy-
draulic lime, and pozolanna (or lava from the burning
mountains), obtained at Civita Vecchia, the extraordi-
nary binding qualities of which, when ground to a fine
powder, and moistened with water, have only
recently been discovered. The foundation of
this wall is laid six feet below low water
mark, and the operations for this portion of the
work are carried on in three colossal diving bells, the
arrangement of which is so perfect that the workmen
remain under water for five hours at a time, hewing
the rock and fitting in the stones, the least of which,
by the terms of the contract, must weigh three tons.
The contractors for the execution of the work are
Messrs. Henry Lee and Son, of Chiswell-street, who
executed the branch of the South-Western Railway
from Nine Elms to the Waterloo Station. They com-
menced work in July, 1847, the contract allowing
them seven years for its completion ; but so favour-
ably have their operations been conducted that at the
present moment, two years only having expired, they
have already advanced 400 feet into the bed of the
ocean. The vastness of the undertaking makes the
sum total allowed for its completion (230,0001.)p
only
ap-
pear a very small sum of money, a
be realised by the most rigid economy rot can
of arrange-
ment.ary This is carried out in a very -
steam-engine of twelve horse power works
a crane by which a cargo of stone can be landed in less
than one-tenth of the time it would occupy were manual
labour employed. More than 600 tons of stone
have been delivered on to the trucks of the contractor
in one week by this engine, which we should mention
is also made subservient to the grinding of lime and
pozolanna at the same time. One circumstance came
to our knowledge yesterday, which will probably
occasion some little surprise. Of the advantage of the
proposed harbour of refuge to the Harbour Commis-
sioners there cannot be a doubt ; we were therefore
astonished to learn that these very Commissioners levy
a toll of 131 d. per ton on all the stone landed for the
purposes of the work.
We now return to the inspection made by the Lord
Warden. His Grace having ascertained that Mr.
Walker's presence was required at Inverness on
public business to-morrow—a circumstance which
would oblige him to leave Dover by the afternoon
train, the Noble Duke begged his co-commissioners
to excuse his presence shortly before the business of the
court had concluded, in order that he might view the
harbours of refuge, under the conduct of that gen-
tleman. At the entrance of the works, Mr. Walker
introduced Mr. Lee, the contractor, to the Noble
Duke, and then proceeded to explain the progress of
the undertaking. The Noble Duke was first shown
the process by which the loose shingle is convertedomost
into solid blocks equal in strength
toth
durable stone, with which his Grace expressed him-
selfin the
much pleased. Walking some distance
Grace was enabled
direction of the Shaksperecl pier, and to observe
cliff, his
to survey the outer walltr
of
uction. the
eturning the
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shelter already obtained ointed outß the effectto of the
inner wall, Mr. t ined in producing a perfect calm
within the circuit of the pier
whilea rough sea was
running outside.The Noble Duke, on observing
exclaimed, " Oh, yes; I see—l see—it'll answer
this,
—I am sure it will. And again, in reference to the
solid wall of masonry presented by the external
stonework, his Grace remarked to Mr. Lee that it
appeared to him to be " very good work—very fine
workindeed." After traversing the pier for some
distance, and entering into conversation with Mr.
Walker on the subject, his Grace, addressing
that gentleman, said, " I have no objection
to all this, Mr. Walker, but (striking his
hands together, end speaking emphatically) you
must finish it—you must carry it out in a
workmanlike manner." Mr. Walker assured the
Noble Duke that he would take care of that. Before
leaving the works the Noble and Gallant Duke ap-
pealed to Mr. Iron, the harbour master, as to whether

he had any difficulty
Mr. Iron replied that
culties which formerly
diminished since the Government works were begun,
and that in his judgment the proposed harbour Lf
refuge would prove of immense service to the com •
munity. The Noble Duke then left the works and
proceeded to inspect the harbour of D ,ver itself
where the various improvements in progress, n n(1
recently effected, were pointed out to his Grace by
Mr. Walker; among the rest the new patent slip for
repairing steamers, and the protection wall along the
esplanade now in process of erection by Mess;s. Lee,
and the new steam dredging machine for deepening
the harbour. The Noble Duke having made the
circuit of the harbour, with great consideration in -
sisted upon Mr. Walker's proceeding direct to the
railway, and after taking leave of that gentleman, Iti;,
Grace walked to Birmingham's Ship Motel, and pod
a visit to the Lord Chancellor, who, with his family,
is at present sojourning at that establishment.
The Noble Duke returned to Waliner in the course
of the afternoon.

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT
PECKHAM.

Last evening Mr. Carter held an inquest at the
Marlborough Arms, South-street, Camber well, on the
bodies of Maria Lindsay, aged 22, and Charlotte
Lindsay, aged seven months, the illegitimate daughter
of the former and a person of the name of Rich, who
were found drowned in the basin of the Peckham
branch of the Surrey canal, about four o'clock in the
morning of Monday last. From the evidence of the
various witnesses, it appeared that the deceased had
formerly been in the service of a respectable family
on Rye-common ; but, having lost her situation, was
employed by a Mrs. Jackson, a laundress in the same
neighbourhood ; and about four months since she was
engaged by Mr. Jackson to superintend the manage-
ment
of a small general shop, called Rose Cottage,
Shearmore-place, Rye-lane, his son also following
the occupation of a general dealer, and peram-
bulating
a m
deceased Maria Lindsay, who was described as
being
woman, notwithstanding her unfortunate liason with
the father of her child, (from whom it appeared
she had never received any relief, nor could his
well-behaved
whereabouts be traced), had gained the esteem of
both Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, and the son had conceived
so great an affection for her that he bad contributed
to the support of her infant, and offered her marriage,
believing (as he said in his evidence) " she would
make a good and industrious wife." On Sunday last
a conversation ensued between them relative to the
marriage, when he told deceased it might as well take
place about next Monday week, and they had better
put up the banns at the cheapest place. Some time
after this conversation the deceased went out to see
some acquaintances in the neighbourhood, leaving her
child in bed at home, and did not return for upwards
of an hour, when young Jackson remonstrated with
her. She replied, " Never mind," and took up the
baby, and went out as it was supposed to sup with
a friend, but nothing more was heard of her until
her body and that of the infant child were taken out
of the Canal Basin, near Archer's coal wharf at
Peckham.

The only important evidence adduced during the
inquiry, to show that the deceased must for some timehave contemplated the act, was that of Mrs. Cecilia
Shergold, who deposed to repeated conversations with
the deceased, in which she expressed the distress of
mind she experienced at her inability to support
her infant, and to find the residence of the father,
to compel him to contribute towards its support.
About three weeks ago the deceased stated she was
determined to destroy herself, and would some day
" drown herself and the baby." The witness
urged her to acquaint her father and mother with
her position, as they were ignorant of her dishonour.
She, however, refused to afflict them with the fact,
as they held a respectable position in the county of
Oxford.

The jury, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict of Wilful Murder against the deceased Maria
Lindsay with respect to the deceased Charlotte Lind-
say, and that the deceased destroyed herself in a fit of
temporary insanity.