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not reply directly to the inquiry of the Noble Earl, and
all he could say was that the British fleet would be com-
manded by their own officers.
POOR REMOVAL (ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND)

BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this
Bill. He said the present Bill proposed what was but
equitable justice to both countries—England and Scot-
land. The law for the removal of paupers first originated
in the reign of Charles 11., when power was given to
remove paupers out of the parish on which they had no
claim. In the reign of George 11. the necessity was felt of
a law giving the power to remove the paupers that had
come from the Channel Islands, Ireland, and Scotland,
and had become chargeable to England. Laws more
stringent had been enacted from time to time after-
wards, until the enactment of the law,as it at present
stood. But there was great difficulty in putting that
law in execution ; for, first, the pauper must be brought
before a court by summons ; if the pauper did not heed
the summons a warrant was issued against him, but
before that could be done the pauper was out of the way,
and the law could not be carried into effect. The Noble
and Learned Lord read a statement from a private in-
dividual to the effect that up to the 31st of !May last
176,462 Irish paupers had gone over to Liverpool, and
that previous to January there were already 160,000 in
Liverpool, making in all 236,462.
Lord BROUGHAM was understood to say that he
entirely concurred in the view which the Noble Lord
bad taken of the subject.
After a few words from Lord ELLENBOROUGH and the
Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
Earl FITZWILLIAM said that there was an ambi-
guity in the Bill which he would wish to see removed,
the Bill did not state where the paupers were to be re-
moved to.

Lord CAMPBELL was understood to say that pro-
vision would be made to meet that case in some clauses
which it was proposed to introduce into the Bill.
Earl FITZ WILLIAM thought that considerable diffi-
culty would arise in carrying out the provisions of
the Bill even according to the proposed clauses.
Irish paupers would be removed from Liverpool to
Belfast, and upon Belfast would devolve the duty of
forwarding the pauper into the interior of the county.
It was quite clear, therefore, that the Bill did not treat
with the Irish pauper in the same way that it did with
English paupers.
Lord CAMPBELL' said, the case suggested by the
Noble Earl was provided for by another Act.
Earl EITZWILLIAM wanted to know whether the
whole of the expense of the entire removal was to fall
upon the parish of Liverpool. His Noble and Learned
Friend had not answered that question.
The Earl of WICKLOW conterded that the Bill was
most unconstitutional, and ought not to be passed.
His Noble and Learned Friend who had introduced
the Bill justified by producing a letter he had re-
ceived from certain magistrates of Liverpool, who
found it too much trouble to carry out the law as it
present stood. Under an existing law a man could not
be removed from one place to another, unless it could be
proved before a magistrate that he had become
chargeable to a parish, and he thought it would
extremely dangerous if not impolitic to repeal that pro-
vision. He deeply regretted that Liverpool had suffered
so much from the influx of Irish paupers ' • but looking
at the immense advantages, the great wealth that town
had derived from the importation of corn from all parts
of the world, for the use of Ireland, he did not think, after
all, that the people of Liverpool had so much cause to com-
plain. This Bill arose out of the clamour and pressure

to which the Government were now subjected, but it was
a Bill which would not have the slightest tendency to
promote the objects which the parties had in view. It
had been said that the existing law had become
inoperative. The Bill was inoperative, solely in conse-
quence of the misconduct and neglect of the magistracy,
and it was not right, upon that account, to pass a mea-
sure so unjust and unconstitutional as the present.
But he contended that the existing Bill had not alto-
gether failed in carrying out the objects for which it wa3
passed.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

the Lieutenant-General to use his discretion regarding
it, but in case jt should not be continued as a penal settle-
ment, care would be taken that the Government build-
ings should not go to ruins.
AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.
Lord G. BENTINCK said, seeing the Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) in his place, I
wish to press upon him the desirableness of postponing
his motion with respect to the affairs of Portugal from
Thursday to Monday next, if it can be done with the
consent of the Government; but I doubt not but the Go-
vernment will willingly exchange the day for which it
has been fixed, as there appears to be every reason to
expect that the correspondence in the report will prove
very volumnious; and it is only right as that corres-
pondence has not yet been placed on the
table of the House that a postponement should take

This Bill was read a second time.
On the motion that the Bill be committed,
Mr. DUGDALE opposed the committal of the Bill,
and moved that it be committed that day three months.
Mr. WILLIAMS supported the amendment.
Mr. NEWDEGATE also supported the amendment.
Lord BROOKE was in favour of the committal of the
Bill. He thought, instead of the Bill having been hur-
ried on, it bad been too much delayed.
Mr. R. SPOONER supported the amendment moved
by Mr. Dugdale.
Mr. ADDERLEY opposed the amendment and sup-
ported the Bill.
Sir R. H. INGLIS supported the Bill.
After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE and Sir C.
DOUGLAS,

Mr. Andrew Christie estimated the annual saving in coals I
alone to the inhabitants of the country to the north of the
Edinburgh and Perth line at 86,0001.
Mr. Sidny, Lord Provost of Perth, said that the effect of
the opening of the Edinburgh and Perth Railway would be
to make Perth a large exporting town to the Baltic.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

GROUP XL VI.
The Committee met at twelve o'clock, and were engaged
ail the forenoon hearing and arranging the clauses of the

NORTH BRITISH.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE BILLS

(THIS I)AY.)
LIVERPOOL WATERWORKS.
The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock (Sir
J. Johnstone in the chair), when the clauses were again pro-
ceeded with.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
No case of interest occurred in this Court during the day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
WARWICK COUNTY PRISONS BILL.

place, in order that Hon. Meinbeis may have an oppor-
tunity of perusing it. If it should be placed on the
table of the House to-night, it would not be in the hands
_ _

of Hon. Members before Wednesday morning, and
as there is an early sitting on that day, little
time would be afforded to Honourable Members

to make themselves acquainted with their contents.
This is a question on which it would not be well for the
House to come to a decision without having all the
papers before it. This short delay would not be a matter
of serious consequence, as the troops of the insurgents
had been arrested in their progress.
Mr. HUME said after several attempts, in order to
obtain a day in which his motien could be brought for-
ward, Thursday ss as fixed upon by the common consent
of the House—(Hear, hear)—and no party was mere
anxious to have the motion brought forward on

Thursday than the Noble Lord and his friends—
(Hear, hear)—and as he was not aware that the

correspondence was beyond a research of 24 or 48 years,
he should persist in bringing forward his motion on that
day ; in fact, he had made an arrangement which would
make it utterly impossible for him to be in the House on
Monday. The House had fixed Thursday. He wished
to continue to it.

TAT TERSAL L'S—T Ins EVENING
SL' O'CLOCK.

The House divided, when there appeared—

For the amentment..
Against it
Majority against committal ...
The Bill was consequently lost.
HORNE'S (FERGUSON'S) ESTATE BILL.
This Bill was read a second time.
REPORTS.
The following reports were brought up :
Ashton Gas.

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The conversation then dropped.
HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.

Mr. WARD moved the appointment of the following
Committee on this subject:—Mr. W. 0. Stanley, Lord
Sandon, Colonel Pennant, Earl Grosvenor, Mr. Hamil-

ton (Dublin county), Mr. Golburn, Admiral Bowles,
Lord Morpeth, Mr. Parker, and Mr. Ward, with five
Members to be chosen by the Committee of Selection.
Mr. WILLIAMS objected to the appointment of the
Committee, until they had the report of the Committee
on the harbour, and the evidence adduced before it.
Without meaning any disrespect ' to the gentle-
men nominated, he could not help stating that it
appeared to him that they had a direct interest
in the carrying out of the undertaking. If the
Committee were appointed, it would be appointed
before the Committee to which he had referred had
made their report, which would show that the estimate
of 600,000/. for the cost made by the Government engi-
neer was eggregiously wrong, as it would be shown by
the testimony of Sir John Rennie, and some of the most
eminent engineers that the cost would be at least
2,000,0001. The very names which the Hon. Gentleman
had suggested showed that he did not think very
highly of the scheme. And as a proof that the Mem-
bers of the Committee were interested, he might
state that Mr. Stanley held 120 holdings,
which would be required for the harbour, and
some of the others were equally interested.
He moved that the consideration of this subject be re-
ferred to the Committee this day fortnight.
Mr. WARD said that he did not wish the Committee
appointed to investigate the matter to begin their labours
before the report was before the House. He had reason
to believe that it would be printed and before the Com-
mittee as early as Thursday next, and therefore the
House %mild have ample time to consider the matter
_ _

before it was placed under discussion, and every con-
clusion come to upon it. Ho thought, however, that
theie ought to be no attempt to pospone the discussion
of the matter by a waste of time.
Lord SANDON thought that they ought to have the
evidence before the House before they appointed this
Committee. He had no objection to the Committee in
itself, but he did think it would be advisable to have
that document before them before they proceeded to
take further evidence.

Mr. HUME said that matter involved the expenditure

of half a million of money. He fully agreed with the
Noble Lord who had last spoken, that this document
should be in the hands of Hon. Members. He had, in
a previous session moved for certain returns connected
with tha Holyhead harbour, but he had not time to
follow it up, and others had not done so. He thought
they were premature in appointing the Committee, and
that the evidence, if before them, might possibly satisfy
the House.
Mr. W. COLLETT said that a sum of 150,0001. had
already been expended on Holyhead harbour. The facts
that had already been adduced OR the subject were suf-
ficient to warrant a Committee being appointed, and he
hoped the House would sanction that appointment.
Mr. BANKES said the question was net quite so
narrow in its character as some Hon. Members ap-
peared to think. In fact, it was a question whether or
no Holyhead was the best harbour for English mer-
chants that could be formed on that part of the coast of
Ireland. If large sums of money was expended upon
that harbour it might prevent shipowners in
this country, having the most desirable harbour that
could be established. He did not deny that Holyhead
was a very desirable harbour ; but it was, in reality, a
question whether it was the most desirable that could
be constructed for the merchants of Liverpool and other
ports in this country. The question was not, therefore,
as he had already ebserved, quite so narrow as was
imagined.
Mr. W ARD had never heard of the evidence till now;
but, in his opinion, the question simply was, whether
the present Government would carry out an arrange-
ment entered into by the late Government. If half of
the allegations of the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Williams)
were correct, the House, he believed, would not carry it
out; but if they were not, he thought they would.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said, the question was, which
port was the best for facilitating the intercourse between
this country and Ireland. Several inquiries had been
made on the subject. An eminent civil engineer, and an
officer of the Admiralty, hsd made a report on the sub-
ject, and they concurred in reporting in favour of Holy-
head. Another inquiry had been made with the same
result, and, if he did not mistake, a third had been
made, all of which took place during the last three
years, were in favour of that harbour.
Mr. ORMSBY GORE said that he was aware from
the indentations of the coast, that at the other place
there was a much better position for an harbour than
could be at Holyhead. With regard to the anchorage,
he had taken great interest on the subject, and had
taken the opinion of many practical men, who had stated
that the anchorage was much more free from rocks than
that of Holyhead. •
After a few words from Viscount SANDON, which
did not reach the gallery,
Mr. WARD said that it was the height of absurdity
to go over the whole of the examination which had al-
ready been taken. His sole object was to. prevent the
Bill from being got rid of by a side wind, and he
thought that these objections were raised for the purpose
of getting rid of the measure.
Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that the Committee
had been appointed in a very unusual manner; in fact,
it was one Committee appointed to appoint another.
He thought that the same rule should be observed in this
instance, as was observed upon railways, and that no
Member at all interested in the sale of land should be
appointed upon the Committee. The case involved the
expenditure of 2,000,0001. of public money, and
it ought not to be carried out by indirect
influence, nor any information on the subject refused.
The public would not be satisfied if the Committee stood
as proposed. Therefore, he hoped, his Hon. Friend
would at all events consent to postpone the appointment
of a Committee, in order that the House might have the
evidence of the Commissioners in its hands, who would
no doubt make an able report.
Mr. WARD appealed to the Speaker, whether he had
not adopted the proper course. Two or three Bills had
been before the House, with respect to which com-
mittees had been nominated in the same way. He had
consulted the Honourable Gentleman in the chair,
and mentioned to him that one of the Gentlemen whom
he proposed to nominate was locally connected, but
he over-ruled his doubts, and he placed his same on the
list.

GOODWOOD CUP.
4 to 1 agst Hero
6 to 1 agst Wolf-dog
8 to 1 agst Mendicant
12 to 1 agst Dulcet
12 to 1 agst Sting
20 to 1 agst Eryx

ST. LEGER.

7 to 2 agst Cossack
8 to 1 agst Van Tromp
8 to 1 agst Black Dwarf
11 to 1 agst Mr. Martin
11 to 1 agst Foreclosure

IMPE MIL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

OF LORDS.
The Lie! S E
oA:kc ELL° R took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Bills, which were read firsta time
IRISH JUDG.E.S,
Lord BROUGUANI begged
rto ask his Noble Friend
on the Woolsack whether there
judges haeaerifau,sseadnyto tgruotthheiinr
etihre.
report that the Irish
C11;0 on account of the infectious
The LOUD CHANCELLOR sa'ide.rth t h
--e was not
but he be
aware that any such report had been maade,
lieved that the greater number of the
gaols had recovered.
prisoners in the
Lord BROLTGIIANI would then wish to ask of his
Noble Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster'
what had been the course pursued within his district?
Lord CAMPBELL said, that although it w a a under-
stood that the prisoners in the gaols, which were not fifty
yards from the Courts where the assizes were held, at
Stafford, were dying by dozens, none of the Judges had
refuaeAßMEDd to take the circuit.
INTERVENTION IN PORTUGAL
'T he Earl of ELLENBOROIJGH wished to ask the
Noble' Marquis opposite (the Marquis of Lansdowne)
what s_vstetn it was intended to pursue in the armed in-
tervention in Portugal, if it were necessary; whether the
command of the combined fleets was to be committed
to the senior officer; in other words, whether the com-
mand of the British fleet was to be given to the Prince
de Joinville?
The liarquis of LANSDOWNE said that he could

Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway (Deviation
of Line, &c.)
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway
(Stonrbridge and West Bromwich).
Chester and Holyhead Railway (Extension at Chester
and Alteration of Levels).
Eastern Counties Railway (Lynn and Ely Railway, and
Ely and Huntingdon Railway, and Lynn and Dereham
Railway Lease).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Improvement of the
Ferry between Ferry Port on Craig and the North
Shore of the River Tay).
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway (Leith Exten-
sion).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway, St. Andrew's and
Newburgh Harbour Branches and Road Crossings
(Newport Railway Extension).
Kilmarnock Police and Improvement.
Guildford Extension and Portsmouth and Pareham
Railway.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Eaglescliffe and Stillington
Extension).
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Knaresborough and Bo-
rough bridge Branch).
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Branch from Melmerby to
Northallerton, &c.)
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrowgate and Pateley
Branch, &c.)
Liverpool Guardian Gas.
Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and
Dereham Railways Amalgamation.
Norfolk Railway (Branch from Norwich to Aylsham,
with a Branch to North Walsham).
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway.
Stockport Manorial Tolls and Bridges.
Wolverhampton General Cemetery.
York and Newcastle Railway (Wearmouth Dock En-
largement).
York and Newcastle Railway (Pelaw Tyne Dock, &c.,
Branches).

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The SPEAKER said the Committee had been ap-
pointed strictly in accordance with the forms of the
House. When Bills came before Parliament of a public,
and partly of a private nature, some Honourable
Members representing local interests were chosen,
whilst the remainder were appointed by the Com-
mittee of Selection, under the ordinary rules laid down
by the house.
Lord CLIVE said it was for the House to consider
whether they would appoint this Committee before the
report and evidence of the Commission had been
printed and laid before the House, whether they
would appoint a tribunal before they knew what
they would have to decide. The question was not
simply whether Holyhead harbour would be a good
packet station, but whether it might be made a great
national harbour of refuge, or whether, after they had
epent all this money they had not beenenclosying
a space full of rocks and utterly useless for shipping.
He thought the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Coven-
try had adopted the proper course.
Sir DE LACY EVANS said he was a Member of a
Committee on which there were members having a local
and personal interest in the matter under investigation.
The Right Honourable Baronet (Sir Robert Peel)
had stated that the report had been investigated by three
eminent engineers, which he thought was good evidence
in favour of their proceedings.
Mr. S FANLEY said that he had been personally re-
ferred to in the course of this debate, and he therefore
rose to express his desire that he should not sit upon
the Committee, but he roso also for the pur-
pose of adverting to some words made use of by
the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool. He stated
that his constituents wished to see the report in order
that they might see what further steps were required to
be taken. He would remind the Noble Lord that the
distinct understanding with the Honourable Gen-
tlemen near him was, that the Committee should
see the end of the matter. There was a
great misunderstanding upon the subject of this question.
The point for the Lords of the Treasury and the Lords
of the Admiralty to ascertain (for they only were ac-
countable to Parliament) was, whether Holyhead was a
fit and proper harbour for a packet station ; and the
Commissioners appointed by them had reported upon
the subject. That report had been demurred to by the
inhabitants of Liverpool and other places, and the pur-
pose of this Committee was to see that Mr. Rendall's
plan was a proper one or not.
Lord SANDON, in explanation, said that the engage-
ment distinctly was that no further steps should be
taken until this report were in the hands of the Members
of this House.

'l* it E s .LO DO N, MONDAY EVE 14 1 lk.l I.PN 10 7, 1641.

Mr. WILLIAMS said that he could assure the House
that they did not wish to get rid of this Bill by any side
wind. He was as anxious as any other person to have
a harbour of refuge on that part of the coast of Ireland
where Holyhead was situated.
The motion was agreed to without a division.
Mr. HUME said—He wished to make a few observa-
tions before the Committee were appointed. It was a
standing order of the House that no party interested in
a Bill should be appointed as a member of a
Committee on that Bill. Now, here was Mr. Stanley,
who was deeply interested on the subject of this Bill—
why should he be appointed on the Committee ? He
regarded this Bill as a public measure, and,
therefore, he treated it as such ; and he thought that
the rules of the House shuld not be set aside on this
case. He would therefore move that Mr. Stanley be
not appointed on the Committee.
Mr. W. 0. STANTEY said he had no wish what-
ever to be appointed on the Committee.
The motion for the appointment of Mr. Stanley was
agreed to.
Mr. WILLIAMS proposed that five Members should
be chosen by the Committee of Selection and added to
the Committee. He did not think that he was out of
order in making such a motion.
The motion was then agreed to.
ABOLITION OF TRANSPORTATION.
Mr. KELLY wished to know whether in abolishing
transportation periods of imprisonment, compulsory la-
boua, and exile, were to be substituted equivalent to
the fixed seutence of transportation now passed; or
whether it was to be left to the option of the Executive
Government, according to the circumstances of the case?

Sir G. GREY said that he had already stated the
course to be taken in his observations the other evening.

THE CORN AND NAVIGATION LAWS.

Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said—Sir, I beg to give
notice that I will to-morrow move for leave to introduce
a Bill to extend the period of the suspension of the duties
in the importation of foreign corn. I shall also move
for leave to introduce a Bill to continue for a limited
period the suspension of the Navigation Laws.
RAILWAY BILLS OF THIS SESSION.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said as
it was exceedingly desirable that no time should be lost
in proceeding with the resolutions of the Committee
with respect to these Bills, he begged to propose that the
consideration of them should be proceeded with before
the other orders of the day on Wednesday next.

(LEFT SITTING.)

THE TRIPLE MURDERS AT
MIRFIELD.

It is now proved that the soldering iron which was
found at the bottom of Mr. Wraith's well, and which,
from marks on the bodies of the victims, there is scarcely
a doubt had been used in the commission of the murder,
belongs to the father of the prisoner Patrick Reid, and
that the prisoner fetched it the day before the murders
from the house of a neighbour to whom it had been lent.
On Saturday morning last Reid, and the other prisoner,
Michael A/Mahe, were brought before the magistrates
at the Dewsbury Court-house for further examination.
Mr. Superintendent Green produced the soldering
iron found at the bottom of Mr. Wraith's well, and the
first witness examined was—

Thomas Kilty, hawker, of Daw-green, who stated—l
know the prisoner Patrick Reid, having travelled with
him many days. He lived within twenty or thirty
yards from me. I have not seen the prisoner since the
day before this occurrence, which was the day before
Dewsbury fair. On that day I saw him in my own
house. Reid said his father had sent him for the iron.
There was a soldering iron lying in the corner of the
house. Reid took up the iron, and took it away with
him. I have had the same soldering iron several times
in my possession, but the last time it remained with me
a considerable time, six or seven days.' I had a use for
the iron in the way of my trade. The iron was Patrick
Reid's, to the best of my opinion. The prisoner Reid's
father was the owner of it. The soldering iron now pro-
duced is the same soldering iron I borrowed from Reid'a
father.

Catherine Kilty, the wife of Thomas Kilty, corrobo•
rated the evidence of her husband.

Mr. Richard Green, superintendent of the Dewsbury
police, stated—l produce -a soldering iron. I received it
on the 20th of May, from John Leadbeater and John
Howarth, constables.

Thomas Kilty recalled—l used the soldering iron in
the way of my trade. I know it by a particular mark
upon it. There is a mark or hole on one side of the
copper, on the iron, which required to be subdued by
filing before it could be used. I have frequently com-
plained of the hole to Frank Brennan, who lived next
door, and who has seen me use it. There is a hole
burnt in the handle. If it was amongst ten thousand I
could pick it out.

Mr.:-uperintendent Green here produced a dark green
coat and cap.
John Sheard, a boy of fourteen years of age, stated—
I live in the city, at Mirfield, with my father, George
Sheard, who is a blacksmith. I remember the day on
which Mr. Wraith was murdered. I know the prisoner
Patrick Reid. I saw him on that day in our house. It
was betwixt eleven and twelve o'clock. He had on a
grey coat, and a cap like a striped shirt, only the stripes
were bigger. I said to him " Your cap is nearly like
mine, Patrick." I am sure he had a cap on. Patrick
replied, " Yes, lad." I live 400 or 500 yards from Mr.
Wraith's. The cap now produced is like the one Patrick
Reid wore on that day.
Henry Clarke, of Mirfield—l am servant of Mr.
Joshua Ingham, the magistrate, of Blake-hall, Mirfield,
and I live at one of the lodges. I remember the day of
the murder at Mirfield. I saw the prisoner Reid on that
day, about ten minutes past two o'clock in the afternoon.

.11j had a gray coat and a black hat on.
Jonathan Ashton, of Lee-green, one of the witnesses
examined before Mr. Barker, the deputy coroner, on
Thursday week, proved the finding of the soldering iron
and key at the bottom of Mr. Wraith's well on Wednes-
day, the 19th ult.
Joseph Cowgill, constable of Dewsbury—l found the
cap produced last Tuesday morning in Reid's father's
house. By the instructions of Mr. Green, I went with
John Martin to search the house, and I was present
when Martin found a man's cap on the top of a box, and
he directly gave the cap to me.
William Sheard, of Robert-town, pot hawker for
Charles Flint, stated—On the day of the murder I had
gone as far as Hopton, and, as I was returning, in
Hopton, I met a woman named Ellis, who asked me
if I had heard of the murder. In consequence of
what she told me I went to Mr. Wraith's, and saw Mr.
Wraith lying dead in thefront room. I saw him through
the window. I saw blood running under the front door,
and there was a great crowd about the house. I then
went home to Charles Flint's, and found his housekeeper,
Mary Scorah, in the house. I had been two or three
minutes in the house, when I saw the prisoner Michael
M'Cabe come down from the chamber, with some mugs
in his hand. Charles Flint was with him. I told
M'Cabe, in the presence of Charles Flint. that I heard
he had been at the place where the murder had been at.
He said he had, and I asked him which way he went.
He said, " Down the footpath opposite Mr. Wraith's
house." He then said he went into the yard, and that
the blinds were down and the shutters to. I went to
Mr. Wraith's house, where I saw John Howarth, con-
stable of Mirfield. I remained there about 10 minute:,
Half an hour after I left M'Cabe at Flint's, I saw him
met on the road by Leadbeater, the constable, who
took him into custody. M'Cabe, at the time,
was in the direct line from Robert-town to
the Shoulder of Mutton. He was alone, and
had the pots, mugs, and glasses with him. When
I was going to get upon my galloway to go home.
M'Cabe tapped at the window and said, " Bill, come
here." I inquired what he wanted, and he asked me to
sell the pints and glasses to the mistress. I said I
would not have anything to do with them. He then re-
peated, three times, striking his band on the table, " I
see where I have missed it, I see where I have missed
it, I see where I have missed it." The Liversedge con-
stable heard him at the same time as myself. I asked
' the prisoner where he had missed it. He said if he had
made an alarm the man would have been taken, and he
said, " Now the man's gone, and I'm here."
Ihe CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Green if he had any fur-
ther evidence to produce at present? Mr. Green—l
hare not to-day any other evidence.
The CHAIRMAN then, addressing the prisoner, said—

You will be brought up this day fortnight, and, if the
case be then in a situation to be carried out, we shall
probably take it from day to day till it is completed, if
Mr. Green is in a possition to present it in that form,
which he possibly may be.
The prisoner then left the bar.

MERTHYR TYDVIL.—SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM THE
Exrf.osfos OF GUN COTTON.— Several parties from London
and elsewhere, believing gun cotton could be made applica-
ble in rock blasting, had applied to some of the iron-masters
near this place for permission to test its powers. Accord-
ingly Monday last was fixed upon for the trial to take place,
at the lime quarries at Morlais Castle. Several scientific
gentlemen connected with the works were invited to be pre-
sent, amongst whom were W. Needham, Esq. ; Messrs. Mar-
tins, mineral agents; Mr. Rhys Watkin Rhys, of Aberdare;
and Messrs. Wheeler and Ringer, the gentlemen for whom the
trial was to take place. For the purpose a hole of about nine
feet in depth had been bored, and everything being ready, a
charge of cotton was inserted therein. From some cause not
explained, the charge could not be sent far enough, when an
iron rod was employed, the end of which was, as a precaution,
covered with cotton. Mr. Rhys, of Aberdare, took hold of
the rod to ram it down, Mr. Wheeler standing near him, and
a workman on the other side, when an explosion, caused
either by compression or a spark from the iron rod, took
place, wounding Mr. Rhys in the face so very seriously, that
it is greatly feared he will lose his sight. Mr. Wheeler was
also cut on the face in three or four places, and the workman
seriously hurt.— Welshman.
TYPHUS FEVER IN BRlSTOL.—Bristol, we regret
to say, is, in common with Newport and other places on
the western coast, now suffering from the ravages of the
typhus fever, imported from Ireland, in consequence of
the great influx of Irish paupers who have arrived in Bris-
tol in a state of complete destitution and disease, the effects
of the famine in that unhappy country. In St. Peter's Hos-
pital, which is in Bristol used as one of the poor-houses,
there are now upwards of forty cases of severe typhus
fever, chiefly affecting the Irish paupers; and the great-
est care will be required to be taken by the medical au-
thorities to prevent its spreading among the other inmates
of the hospital, which contains some hundreds of inha-
bitants. The governor and deputy-governor of the Bris-
tol Corporation of the I'oor have memoralised the Home
Secretary upon the subject, praying him to take imme-
diate steps to prevent the masters of sailing vessels from
bringing paupers from Ireland, many of them in a state of
fever, and landing them on our shores, leaving them to the
mercy of casual charity, or to the relief afforded by the poor's
rates.

NEERS.

We regret to state that Dr. Whitley, one of the
district surgeons, died yesterday from typhus fever, caught
in the dicharge of his professional dutiee.—Liverpool paper.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI-

The second conversazione of the season, given by
the President, Sir John Rennie, to the members of
the Institution of Civil Engineers, his friends, and
the eminent in the scientific and literary world, took
place on Saturday evening, the sth instant, and we
never before remember to have seen one so brilliantly
attended, or at which there was so much to amuse
and instruct the visitors. The models and works of

art had been entirely re-arranged, and considerable
additions had been made to the collection.

Among the new works of art we noticed portraits
of Mr. Aaron Manby and the Hon. Mrs Boyle, by
Mr. Boxall—painted as he only can paint—full of
vigour and truth, and with a beauty of texture that
almost resembled a miniature. Some good oil
sketches, by J. Wood; an admirable chalk sketch of
a dog's head, by Edwin Landseer ; water-colour and
chalk sketches by Scanlan, Oliver, Duncan, Digby
Wyatt, Johnson, Alfred Crowquill (Forrester),
Bauguiet, Robertson, and Phillips, in such abundance
as to make us regret the small opportunity afforded

for dwelling over them.
A curious clock, made by Tompion, in 1670, and
presented by Charles I. to the Duchess of Cleveland,
was exhibited by Mr. Vulliamy.
Monsieur Praget contributed some extraordinary
specimens of gold electro deposit for ornamental work
for clock cases, &c. It appeared, from the state-
ments, that this introduction would make a great
diminution in the price of this kind of work.
A collection of fossils from the Oxford clay at
Trowbridge, made by Mr. Mantell during the exca-
vations on the line of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway, appeared to excite much atten-
tion among the geologists, as did two casts of impres-
sions of the feet of some unknown species of animal,
found in the new red sandstone in the United States,
and recently transmitted to Dr. Mantell, whose
splendid microscope occupied as much attention as it
usually does, when the Doctor exhibits its power and
describes it so well.

Among the additions were several working models
by West, of the vibrating and the stationary steam-
engines.

-Stern propellors, by Mr. Hays, much resembling
that of Woodcroft, only furnished with means of pre-
venting the rush of water against the propeller when
not in use, and rendering the dead wood an uniform
surface when sailing.
A very ingenious revolving disc I endulum, by Mr
Fronde, for rendering uniform the circular revolu-
tion, under considerable variation of the maintaining
power.
Otis' American excavator, which was worked on the
Eastern Counties Railway, and that of Messrs. Bar-
ber, Brothers, invented by Colonel Hamilton, and now
in construction, for dredging the port of Toulon, were
appropriately placed with Frideaux, excavator, men-
tioned at the last soiree.

The Electric Telegraph Company contributed a
new and complete assortment of electric clocks and
telegraphs.
A capital model of the Somerset-bridge, of 110 feet
span, by Mr. Brunel, on the line of the Bristol and
Exeter Railway, was an example of the strength and
simplicity that may be attained by well constructed
trussed timber bridges, even for large spans—when
Admiralty and other Government agents do not in-
terpose difficulties to gratify whims, or from want of
knowledge of the subjects they are sent to report
upon, and for which the public, who pay the expense
in the first place, eventually suffer by the want of
solidity in the constructions executed according to
the rules proscribed by these controlling but irre-
sponsible agents.
Fuller and de Bergue's application of thick rings
of vulcanized India rubber alternating with metal
discs, formed an excellent buffer spring for railway
carriages.
Clarke and Varley's application of pneumatic pres-
sure to the pile driving machine.
Davison's system of cleansing casks, which is used
so effectively at Truman and Hanbury's and other
breweries.

The crowded state of the rooms may have caused
us to overlook some objects of interest, but the cause
itself must be our excuse, for at one period of the
evening, spacious as was the suite of apartments all
progress through them was hopeless, until the pressure
was relieved by opening of that most agreeable safety
valve, the refreshment rooms which were on the
drawing-room floor of the adjoining house, and to
which access was given to the balcony. There the
President, Sir John Rennie, had done everything to
perfect the hospitable reception of his friends to which
he had entirely devoted himself and his household,
and in which he was ably seconded by the Secretary,
Mr. Manby.
His Royal Highness the Conde de Montemolin,
attended by the Marquis de Montenegre, and others
of his suite, came up from the Royal Society's dinner
at Greenwich, and examined with great attention all
the objects of interest; Sir Robert Peel also paid a long
visit to the collection. Among the visitors we noticed
his Royal Highness the Conde de Montemolin, the
Marquises of Northampton, Douro, and Londonderry;
the Earls of Dundonald and Liverpool ; Count D'Or-
say, Viscount De Cressy, Lords Newry, Somers,
Ross, and Colchester ; Baron Goldsmid, Bishops of
Gloucester and Norwich ; Deans of Westminster and
Ely, their Excellencies the Ministers of Saxony, Bel-
gium, and the United States ; Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel, M.P., F. Baring, M.P., E. Strutt, M.P., Sirs
W. Jolly, J. Willson, W. Burnett, Howard Douglas,
J. Barrow, C. Ryan, W. Newton, J. Hamilton, J.
Coulburne, H. Ellis, G. Clarke, R. J. Murchison, J.
South, J. Brackenbury, C. Pasley, C. Forbes, W.
Magnay ; Admiral Dundas, General APLeod, Colo-
nels Griffith, Leake, Colquhoun, Douglas, Sabine,
Williams, Yorke, Evans, Stanhope, and Sykes ; Cap-
tains Ford, Cocks, Barber, Swinny, Porter, Young-
husband, Barker, Wynn, York, Henderson, Herring-
ham, Probyn, A. Chapman, and Knox ; Majors Jef-
freys, Brandreth, R. E. S. Clerke ; Captain Schwabe,
Lieut. Helberer, M. Diego Echapparre, Chevalier
Octave Delepierre, Assam Hayat, Doctors Phipps,
Mantell, Thomson, Grant, Mayo, Jelf, D.D., Bow
ring, M.P., Reid, Paris, Roget ; Professor Wheat-
stone, Lieut. Leake, R.N., Messrs. W. Harding,
Cockerell, Lang, de Bergue, Landseer, Donthorne,
Smirke, Gautier, Engstrom, Samuda, F. Stone, C.
Enderby, Rev. S. J. Rigaud, Sherriff Kinnard, Bab-
bage, G. R. Ward, H. Twiss, Knight, Broughton, Ir-
win, Sanderson, Warrener, Rev. J. Barlow, Baldwin,
APlan, R. Doyle, Klengunann, B. Webster, Dundas,
Errington, Peacock, Wooley, Aspinale, Thomas
Brochedon, Robert Stephenson, W. Cubitt, Wood-
croft. A. Smith, Fuller, S. Robinson, J. Walker,
Varley, Cousins, Gooch, Bidder, Scanlan, Brett, Al-
derman Moon, Wood, Lance, Hamilton, Barber,
Renagle, A. Smee, Sopwith, Cotton, Hyde, Clarke,
Peto, Baily Boddy, Little, Solly, Ditchbourne, Mar•
tin, S. Cooper, Hart, R.A., Lonsdale, A. Morgan,
Bone, Piaget, Castle, Loury, Cheverton, Botheld,
M.P., Crampton, Henorett, Farey, D. Burton,
Pole, De `'Vint, Cooke, Youens, Carey, Bain, Griss!ll,
Gustaffson, Etty, R.A., Oliver Amyot, G. Cruik-
shank, Hawkshaw, Ellscombe, Delane, Forrester,
Mulready, Gravatt, Herring, A. E. Chalon, Bougniet,
and Scott Russell.

BROAD HINTON.—A fire broke out in this village
at two o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, by which two
cottages and the school house were totally destroyed. The
furniture was nearly all saved. The villagers rendered every
assistance in their power, but unfortunately the supply of
water was short. The cottages were the property of Mr.
Rundle Brown, and the fire is supposed to have originated in
some children playing with lucifer matches in an adjoining
out-house.—Hants Independent.
The Office of Comptroller of the Customs at Bor-
rowstoness having become vacant, has been filled by the
promotioa of Mr. David Gay, sub-collector at Au-
struther, who is succeeded by Mr. Hayton, searcher at
the port of Montrose.
ARRIVAL Or HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FROLIC.—
Her Majesty's ship Frolic, Captain Hamilton, has arrived
in the :Manuel, having on board two millions of dollars,
collected on the south-west coast of America; and also
18,000 dollars, salved from the brig Canning, from Islay,
for London, which caught fire at Port Famine, in the
Magellan Straits, and sank. The Frolic sailed from San
Blas, Feb. 15; Valparaiso, Feb. 11; Port Famine,
'arch 22; Rio de Janeiro, April 18. The packet
Swift had left for, and the packet Crane had arrived
from, Falmouth. No news from the Brazils by this
arrival.

ATTEMPT TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC WALKS IN HOL-
LAND PARK, KENSINGTON.—For SOLlle days past, consi-
derable excitement has been created throughout the
parish of Kensington, in consequence of an application
made by Lord Holland, to the parochial officers, to
divert the footpath which passes at the top of the lawn,
in front of Holland House and down Nightingale-lane,
into the high road, and Addison-road, which has for
many years been a favourite walk of the inhabitants,
and since the creation of the district chapel of St. Bar-
nabus, in the Addison-road, has been used as a church
path by the inhabitants of Notting-hill and Kensington
Gravel-pits. His Lordship purposes to substitute
for it a new foot path, forty feet wide,
eighteen feet of which to be well gravelled ;
commencing from the High Great Western Road,
directly opposite Earl-street, and on the east side of the
grand en rance gates of Holland Park, and passing
under the shade of the noble avenue of trees, skirting
each side of the drive, to terminate and form a continua-
tion of the present public footpath, and ancient right of
way, from Notting-hill which now divides his lordship's
grounds from those of the Dowager Duchess of Bedford.
A large number of the inhabitants view the application
of his lordship as an attempt to deprive the public of the
beautiful walks they hale so long enjoyed in that neigh-
bourhood, and a committee of inhabitants has bee
b
appointed in vestry to confer with Lord Hollands
advisers and surveyors, whose report is anxiously looked
forward to by the parishioners.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The depot of the Bth (King's Own)
Regiment
CHATHAM,
hasJ
arrivedTjNE 4.—at
this garrison, from Canterbury, for embarkation for India;
and the 63d, recently formed tntoßaa
ttfaoluiorn-C,oamndpatnoydadteeP6itts
the '
was detached from the Provincial
month. The depot is in corn-
separation from the Ist of
has recently returned from India.
mind of ',Nor Greenovhc