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B RITIS II COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-
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with its usefulness and gentlemanly appearance, has secured such
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Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince
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several royal visitors to the British Court. In London it can only be
purchased of the Patentees, H. J. and D. NICOLL, Court Tailors,
114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill. Agents for Liverpool, Daw-
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public will have none other. Designs suited to the cottage, and so
on to the mansion of the nobleman.
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grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black,
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SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday forenoon a serious
accident occurred at Cambuslang, on the works of the
Clydesdale Junction Railway. It appears that the
miners were engaged in blasting some hard rock in an
open cut, and, for this purpose, bad beside them a barrel
of gunpowder, which was at the time almost full.
With most reckless indifference as to consequences,
as the event showed, the loose gunpowder was left
uncovered during the operations of the workmen ;
and it is conjectured that a spark, struck from the rock
by a pick-axe, had fallen into the barrel, for the con-
tents suddenly exploded, with tremendous violence,
among the labourers, of whom about fifty were em-
ployed near the spot. Four of the men were injured,
two of them very severely, who had to be conveyed to
the Royal Infirmary in the course of the day. One of
the two, an Englishman, named William Gormley, was
blown, by the violence of the explosion, against some
large stones, and has thus, in addition to his body being
dreadfully scorched, received severe injuries about the
head. The unfortunate men lie in a very precarious
condition. We understand that the miners have been
repeatedly warned of the danger to which they exposed
themselves by leaving their gunpowder uncovered.—
North Mitish Mail of Tuesday.
THE BUTCHERS' CHARITADE INSTITUTION.—The
nineteenth anniversary of this charity was held yester-
day, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. Mr.
D. Salomans presided, and among the company were Mr.
Alderman Challis, Mr. J. Sharp, President of the Insti-
tution, Mr. F. Ely, Treasurer, Mr. Hall, Mr. J. Knight,
and other friends of the charity. About 150 of the
leading members of the trade sat down to an excellent
dinner, after which the gratifying announcement was
made that, notwithstanding the recent depressed state
of the trade, the funds of the institution had never been
in a more satisfactory condition. It was stated that the
Building Fund Committee bad purchased three acres
and a half of freehold land, at Walham-green, Fulham,
whereon they had erected fourteen almshouses, to be
occupied by aged members of the trade who had known
better days. The amount thus expended was 4,000/.,
of which the ladies, by their contributions, had raised
1,0001. The total sum invested in the Three per Cents.
is 10,4381., and the number of pensioners now on the
funds of the institution is forty-six. The society gives
pensions of twenty guineas to the men and fifteen guineas
to the female recipients of the charity, besides a fret,
residence in the almshouses, which are exceedingly corn-
. fortable. The payments to pensioners during the pre
sent year will exceed 950/., and a further election of
five men and three women to the benefits of the charity
will take place this day ( rhursday). It appears that
every master-butcher may be elected a pensioner,
although he may not have been a member of the society.
The donations and subscriptions of the evening amounted
to about 2501., among which were the Chairman,
101. 10s. ; Mr. Byng, 101. 10s. (annual) ; Mr. T. I).
Sharp, 101. 10s. ; Mr. John Collins, 10/. 10s. ; Messrs.
H. and R. Arnold, each lot. 10s. ; Mr. P. Emans,
10/. 103 ; Mr. Alderman Challis, 51.55., &c.
FATAL FIGHT.--.Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P.,
held a very lengthened inquiry at the Pitt's Head,
Henry-street, Portland-town, concerning the death of
Thomas Henry Birmingham, aged 26, a greengrocer's
servant. On Sunday evening last, deceased and a man
named Good, also a greengrocer, began to dispute and
quarrel about the amount of business done at their re
spective shops. The result was a reciprocal challenge to
fight. The parties, accompanied by four others, pro-
ceeded to settle their difference in a field near Primrose-
hill, it being then eleven o'clock at night. They fought
one scrambling round, at the end of which both were
down. Good rose immediately, but while deceased was
striving to do so he fell again, as it was supposed, from
a blow struck by Good. None of the witnesses, how-
ever, actually saw the blow take effect, but Good
acknowledged that he had knocked deceased down with
his left hand. Deceased was picked up in an insensible
state, and conveyed to his residence by his two friends
who had accompanied him, Good and his friends declin-
ing to assist in so doing. Mr. Britton, surgeon, called
in by the police, found deceased quite dead, and having
subsequently made a post mortal' examination, by order
of the coroner, stated yesterday that the right lateral
sinus of the brain was ruptured, causing extensive effu-
sion of blood in the brain. There was no corresponding
external injury. The rupture of the sinus was the
cause of death, but he would not swear positively that it
had been caused by a blow, though it was his impres-
sion such was the case. After a long discussion,
twelve out of fourteen jurymen returned a verdict of
" Manslaughter" against Good.
THE PENINSULAR MAIL.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steam-ship Iberia, which arrived at
Southampton yesterday, at two p.m., brings advises to
the following dates :—Gibraltar 19th October, Cadiz
20th, Lisbon 22d, Vigo 24th. She brings a cargo of
fruit and sundries, and the following passengers:—Mr.
Cockburn, Mr. Thompson, Dr. Phillips, Dr. Dombeck
and lady, Rev. W. Tottenham and lady, Mr. Walker,
Mr. Dickison, Mr. Vanzeller, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Goetz,
Mr. Ormerod and family, Miss Cousins, Mrs. Murat
and son, Mr. Roope, and Mr. Sandeman. Stations of
her Majesty's Ships—Gibraltar, her Majesty's steamer
Virago; Lisbon, her Majesty's ships St. Vincent, Cale-
donia, Queen, Canopus, and Vengeance, steamers Ter-
rible, Odin, Dragon, Avenger, Vixen, and Jackall;
Oporto, her Majesty's ship Polyphemus.
ST. PANCRAS VESTRY MEETING.—Yesterday, pur-
suant to special notice, a very numerous meeting of the
vestry of. St. Pancras took place in the new vestry-rooms,
King's-road, Camden-town, for the purpose of con-
firming the minutes of the previous meeting rejecting
the proposition to enlarge the workhouse at a cost of
10,000/., and to consider other important matters con-
nected with the parish. Mr. B. J. E. Wright was at two
o'clock called to the chair, and the minutes of the pre-
vious vestry were confirmed.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The momentous' step taken by
the Government on Monday last will obviously have
one very important incidental consequence, which
has, no doubt, already begun to occupy the attention
of Ministers. An immediate meeting of Parliament
is, we take for granted, regarded as a necessary cos
rollary to the result of the recent Ministerial delibe-
rations. Lord John Russell's known disinclination,
on constitutional grounds, to anticipate the presumed
judgment of the Legislature on such a matter as the
suspension of an Act of Parliament, will naturally
render him solicitous to obtain immediate legislative
sanction for a proceeding that in tbe.meanwhile rests
only on public opinion, and the necessity of the case.
The circumstance that this most important step has
been taken shortly after a general election, and while
Ministers are (officially) unacquainted with the
temper and opinions of the House of Commons on any
subject whatever, is evidently a' strong additional
reason for losing no time in submitting the whole
matter to Parliamentary approval. We sup-
pose, therefore, that we cannot be mistaken
in inferring that the Legislature -will meet on
an early day in November, for dispatch
of business. We count this a vety.fortunate neces-
sity. On every ground it appears to us essential
that the legislative year should commence forthwith.
It is not possible to exaggerate the practical import-
ance, to the commercial and trading community, of
immediately learning the precise views of our leading
public men on those vitally Interesting questions
which at present agitate it. We shall all see our way
the clearer for knowing at once with the distinctness
and publicity which only Parliamentary debate can
afford, what Ministers think, and what Sir Robert
Peel and his late colleagues think, of the causes,
proximate or remote, that have produced the crisis,
and of the extent to which these, or any of them, are
to be regarded as within the range of legislative
action. There never was a time when the British
public needed more than now the guiding and re-as-
suring influence of that frank announcement of
Ministerial and ex-Ministerial thought and pur-
pose which is only to be had through the me-
dium of Parliamentary discussion. At this mo-
ment the whole order of things, in the commercial
and monetary world, is provisional. We must
wait till Parliament meets, to learn how far we are
to consider the first and chief of our commercial and
monetary institutions as in a state of revolution.
Even apart from the immediate necessities of the
present commercial juncture, it is in the highest
degree desirable that the first session of the new Par-
liament should at once begin. There is a vast
quantity of work to be done, which would infallibly
be slurred or neglected if the opening of the legis-
lative year were deferred to the usual period. Par-
liament and Ministers have an extraordinary amount
of heavy business before them, of the utmost urgency
and moment ; and it is but too easy to see that if we
waited till after Christmas the next session would
present a more lamentable record of lapsed measures
and lost opportunities than its predecessor. Much
time will necessarily be occupied in discussing, not
merely the present commercial emergency and the
pro tempore expedient which it has dictated, but
the general principles and policy of that once-
admired legislative Act which has received so severe
a blow. Considering to how large an extent the
new House of Commons is composed of new men—
one may almost say of new parties—who will pay
but little respect to the traditions of 1844, and will
require to come to a clear understanding of the case
on its actual merits ; and considering, too, that events
must have more or less modified the opinions of our
oldest and most experienced statesmen--it is plain
that the crisis and the " currency theory " will make
very serious inroads on the available time of Parlia-
ment. We cannot begin too soon economizing a
commodity which is at least as scarce, in relation to
the demands certain to be made on it, as our national
capital itself. 'We welcome this necessity of an
immediate session as a saving of much precious
time, and a guarantee for the early passing of
many useful and indispensable legislative mea-
sures. Why, the Irish question is enough of itself
to demand and reward the labours of a November
session. We hope we are correct in presuming that
Ministers will avail themselves of this opportunity,
by passing through Parliament, without the smallest
avoidable delay, one or two of those measures which
the state of Ireland most imperiously requires—which
rank, in fact, in the same order of instant necessity
with the Executive act of Monday. Most reluctantly
would we contemplate the possibility of Ministers
consenting to let the wants and woes of Ireland stand
over for three months without attempting any legis.
lative solution of that most tremendous of difficulties.
From the dismal materiala which daily crowd our
columns, one can imagine the frightful problem which
Ireland would present to statesmanship and legisla-
tion in the month of February next, if absolutely
nothing were done in the interval to arrest the pro-
gress of social disorganization. With the law of
landlord and tenant what it is, and the poor-law what
it is, and the utter hopeless misery of the people
what it is—with the whole collective relations
of Irish poverty to Irish property still unaltered
—without a thing done, or attempted or begun
to be done of restorative efficacy or promise—
the Ireland of February, 1848, would be a
legislative perplexity, and an imperial peril, of per-
fectly appalling magnitude. As Ministers were
ready at an early period of last session with measures
on the most important of the great Irish questions,
and all the mere preliminaries to legislation have
been long ago adjusted, there seems no real reason
why some of the chief difficulties of Ireland should
not be disposed of between now and Christmas. Con-
sidering the variety and magnitude of the questions
which must occupy the attention of the new Parlia-
ment during its first session, we do rejoice that events
have in a manner decided that there shall be no
avoidable loss of time. We trust that Ministers will
not be wanting in that methodical industry and vigo-
rous management which are just now among the
most indispensable qualities of British statesmanship.
The prospect would be really alarming, if one did
not know what can be accomplished by re-
solute diligence and an energetic love of order.
With the whole question of taxation and
finance thrown open by the expiration of the
income-tax ; with the rumoured approach of the
dreadful visitor of 1832, warning us to hasten and
complete, at this particular time, those sanitary
precautions which are right and necessary at all
times, and to finish at a blow the legislative " war
against filth, fever, stench, and death-dealing pesti•
lence ;" with the remnants of old commercial restric-
tions, and older theological intolerance, waiting for
the final extinction of their miserable existence ; and
with European politics in a state
of agitation and
unsettlement which may impose we know not what
demands on the time and thoughts of a British Par-
liament ;--with all these inexorable claimants on their
attention over and above the " crisis" and Ireland,
Ministers are prepared, we hope, for a most deter-
mined exertion of all the cardinal fficial virtues. We
cannot but think that it must be a source of satis-
faction to a Premier thus beset with hard work and
weighty responsibility, that events have done their
part towards accelerating the fulfilment of his multi-
farious obligations. The necessity of a November
session may have its inconveniences ; and we should
hope that Lord John Russell regards it as, on the
whole, a fine opportunity, worthy of being vigorously
improved.
POST.—Although tradesmen, merchants, and men
of business in all departments of commerce, demanded
the adoption of some temporary measure for the alle-
viation of the particular exigencies of the moment, it
is important to remember that the great spring of the
evil is a permanent one, and can 'only be got rid of
by a thorough alteration of the system, which a trial
of twenty-eight years has proved a failure. We are
anxious to impress men with the necessity of protest-
by which it is
i
be
near the period
nn gaagainst thel
mischief
m continuancesy,
originates,
may
of the
no system itself, in
whicht
and,
of reaction from the present gloom. Property may be
near a partial recovery from the extraordinary depres-
sion of the late season. But, while the evil itself lasts,
every such revival can be but precarious. If Consols
were now selling at par—if share property were fetch-
ing prices proportioned to its absolute value—we
should not feel justified in advising men to put confi-
dence in the permanence of the improvement. There
is no depending on the workings of a currency system
which, at the moment when its action should be most
free and elastic, shuts up, paralyses, and renders use-
less for the time the vast amounts of paper (or
credit) representatives of value by whose f
the exchange
and current acceptance the bulk o nation's
business is transacted. Within the last fortnight we
court of law refuse to make
have seen the judges in a
an order for the sale of an estate, on the score that,
" in the present state of the nioney market," not half
the actual value could be realised ihn cash. We have
not only seen houses ruined,
hestw ic , six months ago,
were in possession of the higcharacter and great
substantial wealth, but cases have occurred wherein
nded payment rather than
merchants voluntarily suspe
submit to the excessive rates of interest at which
alone money can be raised. Such facts indicate a
rottenness at the very core of the system which pro-
duces the anomaly, and this rottenness can only be
cured by extirpation. Here are thousands of