The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ...
Females ...

Total .

••• 682
••• 654

-.1,336

STARTLING PROPOSAL OF
MESSRS. JONES LOYD AND CO.
"Our Manchester correspondent,", says the Liver-
pool Courier of yesterday, writing last evening,
says, ' Since this day week we have had several very
considerable failures—two of which will, it is pretty
certain, turn out to be merely suspensions, viz.,
Messrs. Marsland and Veltman, and that of Messrs.
Hargreaves. Mr. Marsland was one of the M.P.'s for
Stockport during the last session, and the stoppage has
done little more than cause surprise and regret, as no
one seems to dream of any loss by the circumstance.
He is supposed to possess large freehold property,
and to have been very prudent in his expenditure,
and these combined make it difficult to account for
the present position of the firm. The Messrs. Har
in •
greaves are extensively engaged the China trade,
and are said to be in possession of large stocks
to
silks and teas, but which they found it impossible

convert into cash. Mr. David Ainsworth`b oreditoiii
are to meet on Thursday next, and the meeting 15
looked to with much interest both by the public and
the creditors.

" The town has been all but electrified by the cir-
cular of Messrs. Jones Loyd, and Co., signifying
their intention, at the expiration of the present year,
to conduct their extensive operations on a totally
different footing from that on which they have been
conducted for the last sixty years. It will in future
be simply a bank of deposits and discount. Of course
no advances will be made, as has hitherto been the
case, and on a most extensive scale ; though with
prudence, as events have shown during so lengthened
a period.
"All parties, therefore, who stood indebted to them
have been required to liquidate the debts due to the
Bank, and this, if peremptorily enforced, cannot fail
to lead to the most serious inconvenience, if not to
more serious results."

LIVERPOOL, TUESDA Y EVENING,— THE ROTA!.
BANK.—No positive report has yet been received from
the deputation to London, but it is understood they era
progressing favourably. A considerable number of the
preference shares have been viken up by the ptopric-
tary, and to morrow the remainder will be thrown opera
to the public, brobably by advertisement.—Manchester
Guardian.
SUSPECTED POISONING.

TIVERTON, MONDAY.—The magistrates have been
again occupied a considerable time in investigating
the supposed murder of Richard Fisher, a farm
labourer, at the village of Morchard, a few miles di--
tent. Two other persons, Thomas Leach and Mary
Hodge, sister-in-law of the unfortunate deceased,
have been apprehended on suspicion of being con-
cerned in causing his death, and, with the widow,
Ann Fisher, have been committed to the county gaol
for trial at the ensuing assizes. It was ascertained
beyond all doubt that he died from the effects of
arsenic. He was 71 years of age, and his wife V,
and at the time of his death they had not been mar-
ried three months. It may be mentioned, that she
had been married Previously, and her husband, John
Lee, died as late as February or March last. The
deceased rented a small piece of land in the above-
named village, and occasionally worked for a Miss
Partridge, in the neighbourhood. It would appear
that they lived comfortably together until the 25th
of August, when she left her house, tai•ing with her
some papers of importance and an account of the
amount of wages due to him from Miss Partridge,
51. or Gl. The latter she endeavoured to obtain, say-
ing that her husband was ill and wanted the cash,
but Miss Partridge having been cautioned not to
give it to her, she failed in getting it. As subse-
quently ascertained, he had quarrelled with her about
a young man named Thomas Leach. He suspected
that a certain intimacy existed between them, and
found fault with her for allowing him to kiss her.
Notwithstanding this ill-feeling, deceased employed
Leach on the 26th to reap, and in the evening he was
permitted to sup in the house with the other la-
bourers By this period the wife had returned home,
and she joined the party. The deceased probably from
a desire not to continue in their company, retired to
bed at an early hour, and they kept it up until between
one and two o'clock in the morning, the wife causing
Leach to be seen home in a cart. The poor old man
again complained of his wife sitting up so late with
the party in question, and on the morning of the 27th,
after breakfast, he complained of being unwell. He
went to bed and remained in a bad state all day. At
four o'clock on the next morning (the 28th) the wife
called her sister, Mary Hodge, up to attend the de-
ceased, as he was seized with a violent retching; such
was their statement before the coroner and magistrate.
Upon Hodge arriving, the wife begged her to look
after him, as she was going to Woodford for a
doctor, adding that she had made some tea in a half-
pint cup, which she was to give him if he was thirsty.
He died at half-past six o'clock. Mr. Haley, the
surgeon who was called upon to visit the poor man,
did not see him till eleven o'clock, when l►e
was dead. He was told that the deceased
had died at half-past six o'clock, but, from
the condition of the body, he thought that
life had been extinct more than eight or nine hours.
The post mortem examination of the body, and the
analysation of the contents of the stomach, detected
the presence of arsenic sufficient to produce death. It
was also shown by a Mr. Wood, druggist, of Tiver-
ton, that she called at his shop, accompanied by a
woman, about the first Tuesday in August, and pro-
cured half an ounce of white arsenic, to destroy rats.
These facts induced the magistrates to commit the
widow for trial on a charge of having administered
the poison to the deceased. The police then sifted
other suspicious facts, which told considerably against
the sister-in-law, Mary Hodge, and Leach. Their
apprehension was determined on, and, on being exa-
mined before the magistrate, they, as previously an-
nounced, sent them also for trial at the assizes, to be
holden in March next.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BET I'ING AT MANCHETEti.—TuEsDAY.

CHESTER Cur (enter or not)-1000 to 12 agst Mathe-
matician (t)-1000 to 12 offered agst any othtr.
MANCHESTER TRADES Cur (enter or not)-1000 to
20 offered on the field. Offers to take 15 to 1 about
Scott's lot.

DERBY.-1,100 to 100 offered on the field-20 to 1
agst Springy Jack (offers to take)-25 to 1 agst Load-
stone (offers to take).

PUGILISM.

WM. HATES AND H. COOPER, FOR 251. A-SIDE..—.
These pugilistic aspirants, whose respective weights
were limited to 9st 61b, decided, yesterday, their
claims to the battle money and the honours of vic-
tory. The venue was laid in county Surrey, and on
Woking-common issue was joined. Both the lads
are highly esteemed as " glovers," and Cooper, whose
calling is that of a baker, was considered well qua-
lified to take the conceit out of any commoner who
might ;ask such a favour at his hands. His game,
strength, youth, and size, at his restricted weight,
9st 61b, are undeniable. To this he adds a respect-
able amount of wrestling capabilities. These, with
his stamina, were justly considered as strong points
in his favour. On the other hand, Hayes, who is
but little known, save in his own immediate London
circle, which, we believe, principally to lie in the
hundreds of Drury and the parts adjacent, had already
earned the good opinion of those who witnessed his
battle with Finn, some two months since, when, un-
prepared, and contending against superior weight and
strength, he achieved a conquest, by caution, clever-
ness, perseverance, and presence of mind, under dif-
ficulties. At a few minutes after eleven, the men
were within the roped enclosure, skilfully arranged
by the veteran commissary, old Tom Oliver, and,
their toilette completed, stood up. Cooper, who
is a model of a fine young fellow, ron
opened the ball by running, rather than
hlnalk ianng,
into his man ;
dropped him a slight taste of
bored on, on, quality
and Hayes
Hayes artistically timed
with
hisd
left; Cooper, nothing daunted,
was thrown in the close.
wFaraomplaytheed;seccoonodetro, ther
ft
eighth round the
gmaosre a
portraitbu l, making
pai
nt
ion
solute as
fighting,
receivingn land s t
fraorn
than be could accomplish in return. In the ninth
round Hayes caught Cooper heavily on the left eye,
bautlion
the latter rushing in wildly, missed his right at the
body, and encountering a ditto repeated, scrambled
to a close, proving his strength by throwing Hayes
heavily. The rounds from thenceforth to the 30th,
were mere counterparts of what we have briefly de-
scribed; Cooper's rush at each onset becoming more
wild, while the precision of Hayes remained unal-
tered. Nevertheless, there was cause for doubt, in..
.ared to fall
asmuch as Hayes, about this period, apps
successive round
off weak, doubtless from the hustling of Cooper, who
gwainithelleysstiemfte'ecdth. his
Imnan theth3o7utgh rnhenanchd
Hayes
evidently
improved, as he, for the first time, turned Cooper in
the close. Thenceforward the question of victory
was a foregone conclusion. Cooper, despite the per-
suasion of his friends, came up till the 44th round,
when his seconds, seeing that his last chance wag
gone either at in or out-fighting, threw
man,ukip atarhanendasrmacnangoa.
in token of defeat,
seacc seconded
active
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dbh aattrhtdlee
fighting.hl
oasviinngg l lasted precisely,
dy6os in
onuamnigdauSntadems,Tb°oufrner, Hayes.

DEATH OF DR. DILLoN.—This rev gentleman
died on Monday morning at one o'clock, in the cottage
attached to the Reformed English Chapel, White's-row,
Spitalfields, of which he was the clergyman. He had
been indisposed for a considerable period, and had some
time back ruptured a blood-vessel. In consequence of
domestic misfortunes, which have more than once st•
tracted considerable public attention, the deceased foi
some time was very much depressed in his mind. He
had removed to Islington to enjoy a purer atmosphere
than that of Spitalfields, but unfortunately without Imo.
cess. On Saturday he returned to White's-row, where
he expired. The deceased bad attained—whether justly
or unjustly, it is needless to say—an unenviable no
riety; hut his friends and neighbours say thathe was
His _
more sinned against than sinning.hearers, and
hies
in who were best acquainted with him, speak of hies
in the kindest and most respectful terms.

MANCHESTEn.—SHOCKING DEATH FROM THE
BURSTING OF A CANNON.—On Saturday last Mr. W.
S. Rutter, coroner, held an inquest at Barnes-green,
Blackley, two miles from Manchester, on the body of *
young man nineteen years of age, named John Murphy,
blacksmith. On Friday evening last, Gunpowder-plot
day, the deceased and a number of other young men had
a large bonfire ; the unfortunate man had made a small
cannon out of an old gas-pipe, and charged it with three
ounces of powder, wet paper, rags, and grass, and on
discharging the cannon it burst ; one portion enter d
the young man's head, and killed him on the spot. A
verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. He was
the son of a respectable person in Ireland.--,Liverpoot
Mercury.
ARRIVAL OF IBRAHIM PACIIA AT LEGHORN. W.
have received intelligence of the arrival of Ibrahim
pasha at Leghorn, on board a French frigate. He is
accompanied by a suite of fourteen persons-, =pa biom ds
taking up his winter quarters at Pisa.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Among the many speculative sugges-
tions offered for Ireland, the public are almost in
danger of forgetting those essential conditions of Irish
prosperity about which there can be no doubt or
speculation at all. Whatever laws, under favourable
circumstances, may have a tendency to advance the
interests of that country, it is very clear that nothing
will work well, ail will be wasted, and no advance
made, unless life and property are secured. Security
is the very breath of social existence. We might as
well expect a man to exist without sleep, or to
breathe freely under the peine forte et dure of an-
tique barbarity, as that Ireland should thrive and
develop itself while its vital organs are crushed by
the incubus of terrorism. It is mere mockery for
Ministers, and Viceroys, Secretaries, and journalists,
to goad on the landowners to duty, to residence, to
enterprise, to useful expenditure and personal denial,
if all the time we are driving them to the very jaws
of the grave. They may reply, they will reply, as
they have replied,—" Make our lives our own ; give
us back our own property; protect us while we exe-
cute your orders, and then we will make the attempt."
To this there is only one answer. If we choose to
put on others the perilous honours of a forlorn hope,
we must bestow what protection we can. We protect
our colonists from Kafirs and New Zealanders.
Wherever we push our advances into the heart of bar-
barism or the wilderness, we take care to afford such a
basis of operation that our hardy outposts may always
rely on the Imperial support. It would be folly to
neglect these precautions in Ireland. We cannot in
reason and honour send the champions of loyalty and
order into the thick of the foe, and then leave the two
parties to settle it between themselves. It would be
a standing disgrace to the nation were it to set the
brave and loyal subject "in the forefront of the hot-
test fight," and then " retire from him that he may
be smitten and die." There can be no doubt of a
wide-spread conspiracy against the rights and laws of
property in Munster, and in other parts of the island.
The sudden increase of crime evidences concert.
Whatever may be said against the harshness of such
a supposition, it is felt to be true by those who are
too nearly interested to insist on the rigours of logical
inference. "The Irish metropolis," we are told, "was
never so full at this period of the year ; every one who
has the means at his disposal is flying the rural dis-
tricts, and seeking for safety in the crowd of the
city." Men who have heard their doom whispered
long, who have seen the bloody lists of proscription,
who find their fellow-victims falling around them,
and perceive too clearly that the destruction of agents,
process servers, interlopers, improving landlords, and
all who offend against the agrarian code, is univer-
sally acceptable, are not in a position to argue. Self-
preservation dictates their course. Unless they have
frames of iron—unless they will be ever on the
watch, and fight night and day for their lives and
their properties, they wi 1 fly. Nothing will hold
them ; and we should be assuming an awful responsi-
bility if we should induce them to continue in the
field against such fearful odds. It is very possible that
they who are immediately and actually implicated in
these crimes may be few. It is possible that few have
attended the midnight council, given the fatal suffrage,
cast the lot of murder, negotiated with the assassin,
or struck the very blow. Were it so however, that
would neither clear the people of a moral participa-
tion, nor release the State from the duty of vigorous
measures. There is every reason to believe that the
mass of the Celtic population in certain districts of
Ireland take as much part in the maintenance of a
savage code as the minority does in enforcing the law
of the land. Judge, jury, sheriff, executioner, and
every other rank or shade of officer, constitute alto
gether but an insignificant fraction of the people.
Yet no one would hesitate to say that in England the
execution of the law is the act of society. Grieved
as we are to say it, we must say, that in the same
sense, a certain lawless and sanguinary system is the
combined act of the Celtic population. Major Mahon
was murdered on his own estate, among his own
people, and only a hundred yards from cottages
occupied by his tenants. Three armed murderers
had been lying in ambush some time un-
molested, and unmolested they retired after
the bloody deed. The Major had long been known
to be a doomed man, and on the fatal morning, we
are told, the whole neighbourhood had been in a
state of evident commotion, as if with the expecta-
tion of the horrible event. The same fatal marks
of safe audacity, and a previous general presenti-
ment, characterise almost all the crimes reported.
The people are never surprised. The result fulfils
not only their ideas of what ought to be, but their
actual expectations. Long before the execution the
offender has been arraigned, his crime declared,
the verdict given, and the sentence pronounced.
The motive of fear is hardly enough to account fur
so great and universal a concealment as that which
secures impunity to the murderer. Further, who
could read the addresses lately ,delivered at Holy-
cross, and compare them with recent events, with-
out being struck with their evident connexion ? The
murder of a hard-hearted landlord, that is of any one
whe should not surrender to the present occupier
the property of his land, was said to be a less
crime than the tyranny it revenged. There is
another still more painful sign of general complicity.
Major Mahon had been reprobated from the chapel
altars the very Sunday before his death, and abused
ita tyrant and an oppressor; thus adding one more
tistance to hundreds proving the fearful import of
priestly denunciation. The Legislature for these two
years has dealt hard measures to the landowners, ex-
posing their estates to waste and their lives to danger.
It is now the time to meet an evil more serious even
than famine or pestilence. A murderous organization
is to be broken and suppressed. We feel very sure
that no measures, no powers, will be denied the
Minister, if they be only such as will really meet the
occasion. It has been the fault of former Coercion
Bills that they have been more vexatious than effec
tive, and if passed, have rather disfigured the statute-
book than repressed crime. The evils, however, are now
undeniable, and as there exists the most unanimous
wish to strengthen the hands of the Executive, it rests
entirely with the Minister to say what shall be done.
If we may venture to anticipate his course, he will first
put in full force all the instruments of executing the
law already in the hands of Government. He will take
care that localities compromised in crime shall be
brought under the eye of the Executive ; and that,
when there is reason to ascribe a guilty knowledge,
accompanied with a general interest in the perpetra-
tion of a crime, the accomplices shall gain nothing by
its accomplishment. He will then safely ask that a
population which combines to resist and neutralize
the law shall be mulcted for a time of those constitu-
tional privileges proper only to the well-affected
citizen, and that the law shall be adapted to a state of
intentional rebellion. The accomplice, the harbourer,
and the concealer should he treated according to their
several shares in the crime. We wish, too, that some
means could be devised that should make the priest
feel that responsibility to human law which he seems
in some cases to have forgotten to the Divine. In
this island, the least approach to an offensive personal
allusion in the mouth of the clergyman subjects him
to punishment. Extend the principle to Ireland,
where personal allusions are too generally the prelude
of death. Let the priest have some share in the re-
sponsibility of the crime which he has the credit of
commanding or foretelling. Whether this be done or '
not, one thing is clear,—England will consent to none
but whole and effectual measures.
CHRONICLE.—If we have been rather less
shocked than some of our contemporaries on learning
the Papal condemnation of the new Irish colleges, it
is not that we are at all favourably inclined to the
principle of foreign eccle-iastical intervention in our
domestic affairs. We quite agree with those who
pronounce it an " impertinence' for an Italian eccle-
siastic, however respectable in personal character or
political status, to interfere in such a matter as the I
secular instruction of British subjects, on British
territory, and under the provisions of a British Act
of Parliament. Nor are ice disposed to bate a jot of
that ancient national protest, the gist of which is,
that Great Britain has the right to manage her own
affairs in her own way, and recognises no concurrent
orsiadiction within these realms, in any foreign prince
potentate whatsoever. At the same time we
hardly feel hound to put so very serious a face on the
matter as some of our neighbours have done. Of the
tw° sagreeable
one is not, under existing
which the business presents,
open to British existing circumstances, altogether
a kind to criticism,ex and the other is of too fa-
miliarobnoxious Papal re:CT tany violent emotion. The
offensive pie
regarded either as
an irregular and offr
ference by a faossreui pri„ceepiena of
political inter-
gmnption
a,nder as an exhibition of
ecclesiastical
narrow-
mindedness. Looking at it in sacerdotaltlf point of
view, we really do not see that wuettorrarrecneinerntitled to
wtith Pope
say much. We have no right to
Pius IX. in his political capacity, or in that c
we have not thought proper to recognise him.
we had regular diplomatic relations with the elnec. tivief
monarch of central Italy, we should certainly be
entitled to resent so pilpable a breach of interna-
tional propriety as the attempt to prejudice a section
of our own community against an Act of our own
Legislature. As, however, we have deemed it wise
to know nothing of any such monarch or monarchy,
the Papal decree is, to us, nothing more than a sort
of private letter, addressed by an eminent foreign
divine to the heads of a religious community by
whom his opinion is held in peculiarly high esteem.
Viewed in this light, it is, of course, a fair subject
of criticism; and we need not say that we entirely
agree with those who have criticised it unfavourably.
We consider the opinion expressed in the document
alluded to a very mistaken one, founded on erroneous
representations and narrow ideas, and calculated to
retard the progress of intellectual and social improve-
ment. We regret, likewise, to find that a potentate
with whom we have so many sympathies and inte-
rests in common, and whose political character and

career are the admiration of Europe, is, after all, as
contracted in some of his ways of thinking as any
lArchbishop of Canterbury, or representative of
Oxford University. It comes upon us as a dis-
agreeable surprise, that one of the most enlightened
rulers of this century is willing to endorse all our
British Protestant nonsense about "godless colleges."
We are vexed to discover that Rome is so very much
like Lambeth, and that Pius IX. thinks exactly
what Sir Robert Inglis thinks on one of the
greatest social questions of our age. That is all.
It is a little disappointing to find that an able
and large-minded prince is as weak, on the eccle-
siastical side of his character, as the British Pro-
testant prelates and politicians who used to denounce
the London University, and who went up in
a body to the Throne to record their abhorrence of
unsectarian education. Whether this is altogether a
reasonable surprise, the reader will judge for himself.
At all events, we are not entitled to be very angry
with Pepe Pius IX. for adopting the favourite ideas
of our own British Protestant bench of bishops.
Why, a year or two ago the Pope would have had
the Times with him. Our contemporary ought, by
the way, to remember this, and be tolerant. How
was the Pope to know that "diffusion of knowledge,"
and " godless colleges," had come to be articles of
faith with those by whom they were not long since
denounced as something worse than heresies ? 'We
are not unaware of the practical inconveni-
ence that will attend this ill-judged exertion of
Papal influence. The late rescript will, of course,
aid considerably to the strength of that noisy and
not very scrupulous party among the Irish Roman
Catholic priesthood, by whom Sir Robert Peel's
scheme of academic education has been, from the
first, so intemperately opposed. It is now more
than ever dubious whether the new colleges
will be able fairly to root themselves in
the esteem and confidence of the classes for whose
benefit they were especially intended. We are sorry
for this; but few of our readers will wonder at a
result for which we have all along felt it right to
prepare them. Heartily as we appreciated the liberal
purpose of the Bill of 1845, we never attempted to
please ourselves with the expectation that that mea-
sure would be successful. We said at the time that
Sir Robert Peel had begun at the wrong end—that
he set about his noble task under the most ill-chosen
of conditions—that he neglected invaluable facilities
which were ready to his hand, and went out of his
way to brave opposition, where he might have
counted on quiescence or sympathy. By simply
throwing open the honours and emoluments of
Trinity College to all Irishmen, irrespectively of
creed or sect, the Minister would have at once
established on an impregnable basis the principle of
unsectarian academic education. No Pope would
ever have pronounced against that. No priesthood
would ever have agitated against that—though possi-
bly a portion of the priesthood might have looked with
jealousy on so decided a triumph of liberal ideas.
That would have been redressing a Roman Catholic
grievance, instead of creating one. By thus offering
to the educated Roman Catholic laity of Ireland full
religious and social equality with their Protestant
countrymen, Sir Robert Peel would have silenced op-
position into neutrality, and warmed up indifference
ioto enthusiastic co-operation. We have always
deeply regretted that this simple and effectual course
was not adopted. We especially deplore that such a
potentate as Pope Pius IX. should have contributed
so large a share towards realising anticipations which
certainly did not rest on the hypothesis of an en-
lightened and reforming ruler presiding over the
counsels of the Vatican.

MONEY-MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 18 per
mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31.175. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 .60 ;
and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being
23.75, it follows that gold is 0.58 per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris.

By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is
4352 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 13.104; and, the exchange at Hamburgh
on London at short being 13.12, it follows that gold
is 0.80 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh.
The English Funds opened this morning at an im-
provement of an eighth on the closing prices of yes-
terday, and a considerable advance subsequently took
place, which was maintained up to the termination of
business. The first quotation of Consols for money
was 832 to a, from which, owing to a succession of
purchases by the public, they steadily advanced to
84i- to 1. For the account they began at 831 to 2,
and left off at 844 to I. Money for short periods
continues to be freely offered in the Stock Exchange
at 4 per cent. At the Bank it is understood the de
tnand has greatly diminished, and out of doors also
the market is much easier.

There was a good supply of foreign bills offered on
'Change to-day, which, generally speaking, went off
currently at rates rather lower than those of last post.
There has been a more quiet feeling in the City to-
day than has been witnessed for some time, and no
failures have been announced either in London or
from the country. One house, whose liabilities are
believed to be comparatively small, was alleged to
have stopped, but we have received a letter from the
partners stating that the report arose from a tem-
porary difficulty, which they hope to arrange in the
course of a day or two. _

Advices from Hamburgh received this morning re-
port the rate of discount 5i to 6, with money some-
what easier. At Antwerp, at the last dates, the rate
was 5 per cent., but the supply was not abundant.
The Hamburgh steamer has not brought more than
20,0001. in gold, the Lubeck boat, which was to have
left St. Petersburgh on the 30th of October, not
having arrived in time at Travemunde.

We are glad to state that Meisrs. Bonds and
Thomas, whose suspension took place on the 2d of
October, have been enabled to resume business. The
trade of the house is chiefly with Ceylon, and the
character of the firm warranted the hope which has
now been realised, that their difficulties might speedily
be surmounted.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—CHARGE OF MANSLAUGII-
TER.—Last evening Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at
the ship, Waterside, Wandsworth, on the body of James
Powell, aged 29, who was drowned whilst fighting with
a man named Wright, on board a barge lying in the
river, off the Silk Mills, Battersea. The examination of
the different witnesses occupied a considerable space of
time, but the facts of the case are briefly these :—The
&ceased and Wright formed a portion of a gang em-
ployed on board the barge Patience. On Sunday
morning some of them went into the Waterman's Arms,
where they had some beer, but not sufficient to intoxi-
cate them. They were taken from thence, at two o'clock
in the afternoon, by Davies, the captain, who wanted
them to go to work again. On the way to the barge
deceased and Wright had some words about which could
do the most work, and soon after they had got on board
they commenced fighting. The barge is an open one,
and the men fought on the gangway board on which
they worked to raise the sand. They had several
rounds and one or two falls into the barge, which was
nearly full' of sand, when the captain insisted upon
stopping the fight. The deceased then jumped into the
boat and challenged Wright to renew the fight. They
accordingly did so ; they closed, and in the struggle fell
into the river, and sunk together. Wright rose and
was rescued by the captain, but the deceased, whose arm
only appeared above the water for a moment and then
disappeared, was not found until twenty minutes or half
an hour expired, when his body was dragged up by
Abraham Baker, a waterman. The witnesses concurred
in stating that they considered the falling into the river
an accident. The coroner having read the evidence
ever, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
Wright, upon which he was committed to Horsemonger-
lane Gaol. The prisoner was then taken away by Mr.
Superintendent Bicknell, of the V division.
LIB LATE FATAL EXPLOSION or FIREWORKS.--
Mr. W. Payne held an inquest on Monday night, at the
Dover Castle, Old Kent-road, on the body of Mrs. Isa-
bella Bartrope, whose death was occasioned by an ex-
plosion of fireworks on the sth instant. It appeared that
on Friday evening Mr. Huff, foreman of the goods depot
of the Bricklayers' Arms terminus of the South-Eastern
Railway, was letting off some fireworks in the yard of
Mr. Bartrope's house. A quantity of the combustibles
were placed in a washhouse near the spot, and on a rocket
being discharged which accidentally took a horizontal
instead of a perpendicular course, the deceased being
frightened took refuge in the washhonse. Some sparks
from the rocket, however, were thrown in as the door
was opened, and falling on the box containing the fire-
works, occasioned the melancholy catastrophe. During
the inquiry it was elicited that the box in question had
been brought up by one of the railway trains, and had
remained some time at the station, notwithstanding the
regulations of the company, prohibiting the conveyance
or reception of such dangerous articles. The jury ulti-
mately returned a verdict—" That the deceased, Isabella
Bartrope, was accidentally burned to death by an ex-
plosion of fireworks ;" and added, " that they consi-
dered it was through the loose manner in which the
business at the Bricklayers' Arms station is done, ane
they also considered that great blame is attached to the
directors of the South-Eastern Railway Company in not
giving sufficient and proper instructions to their ser-
vants."

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 20.—The Russian Am-
bassador. Baron Ustinoff embarked on the 17th instant
in a French steamer for Greece intends
from whence he
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V Vienna. According t,,
ti, arrived here to-day from
latest official accounts from
Trebizonde, the cholera nearlybadoeeeurr entirely disappeared;
occurred at Surmene and Ple-
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Exchequer Court, at Castletown, in the Isle
judgment was given in the case of Dumbell v. of Man,
her,
for a libel in the Mona Herald, when sentence w as P
on the defendant by the Lieutenant-Governor of
island of imprisonment in the gaol of Castle Rushen for
three months, and a fine of 50/., and imprisonment until
the fine was paid, with costs of suit.