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THE SUN, 140.1.41)0N, FRIDAY _ EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1846.

in the affirmative. They had been several times sum-
marily convicted at the Southwark Police-court. The
Magistrate, on that account, committed them for trial,
believing that the punishment they would receive would
prevent such disorder occurring again in the workhouse.
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, Acquitted
the prisoner, but recommended some attention in the
mode of admitting paupars into the workhouse. Such
women as the prisoner, they considered, ought to be re-
fused admission, which would be the only means of pre-
venting tke recurrence of such disorders. The pri-
soners, who had suffered nearly a month's imprison-
ment, were then discharged.

GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
James Ring, the man who was charged on Tuesday
last with having attempted to commit suicide, by hanging
himself, was brought up again this day, and, on his ex-
pressing contrition for his folly and rashness, he was
discharged.

Mr. took.' a farmer and grazier, being also a cattle
salesman in London, preferred a complaint against Mr.
Smith, a brother salesman, for using abusive and threat-
ening language in Smithfield market.
The complainant stated that he considered himself in
danger from the violence of the defendant.
In the course of the inquiry it appeared that the
whole matter, which had at length assumed a serious
character, arose out of some very trivial illustrations of
the adage, that " two of a trade cannot agree." After a
good deal of wrangling between the solicitors, Mr.
Sidney Smitb, for the complainant, and Mr. Hobler, for
the defendant, Mr. Alderman Hunter bound over the
parties to keep the peace towards each other.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held.
MARBLE BUST OF MR. R. LAMBERT JONES.
After some preliminary business,
I‘.Ir.D.W.WIRE rose to submit the following motion:—
That permission be granted to the Jones testimonial
committee, under the direction of the City Lands Com-
mittee, to place a marble bust of Richard Lambert Jones,
Esq., upon a suitable pedestal in the Council Chamber
(which bust has been purchased by subscription), to re-
cord and perpetuate the grateful sense entertained by
the public and his fellow-citizens of his disinterested
and laborious devotion in the discharge of his duties as
Chairman of the Committee for re-building London-
bridge, and making suitable approaches thereto; for
re-building the Royal Exchange, and for effecting pub-
lic improvements within the City." He anticipated a
unanimous concurrence in his motion, the object of
which was to do honour to the corporation itself, as well
as:to the able and excellent member of it whose talents
and industry had been so long engaged in the service of
his fellow citizens and of the community.—(Hear.) Ile
admitted that the four busts already in the Council
Chamber represented individuals of the most distin-
guished character, two most illustrious heroes and two
of our most remarkable philanthropists. He rejoiced to
see honour done to men whose energies had been called
forth by other excitements than those which led to the
effusion of blood, and amongst that most meritorious
class the name of Mr. Jones ranked high as a benefactor
to the commercial and trading community of this great
kingdon.—(Hear.) He thought it unnecessary to say
more of the character of a person whose acts were writ-
ten in the hearts and memories of all present.—(Hear.)
Mr. JOHN DIXON seconded the motion with the
highest degree of gratification, for he had long wit-
nessed the indefatigable exertions of the gentleman to
whom the honour was intended.
Mr. PRENDERGAST unwillingly opposed the motion,
for he was aware of the many great claims which Mr.
Jones had upon the citizens of London. He believed Mr.
Jones to be one of the ablest men withwhom it had been
his good fortune to meet, and he was of opinion that the
merit of such a man ought to be noticed, but not exactly
in the manner proposed.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared
that the bust was to cost the corporation nothing. That
was one of the arguments for placing it in the Council
Chamber. Now certainlyfif it were not worth the while
of the corporation to purchase a bust, the chamber was
not the place in which to erect it.—(Hear, hear.) He
would ask the court whether they seriously thought that
the bust of one of their own body should be placed in
such company as that of the bust of the hero of Tra-
falgar, and that of that great advocate of the slave trade
abolition ?—(Hear, hear, and " Oh, oh!") He thought
that nothing could be more absurd. The individuals to
hom such distinctions had been awarded were public
men celebrated for their public conduct, which involved
the national honour in a high degree. Now, Mr. Jones,
when he meddled with public matters, was not consi-
dered by the very persons who were now advocating his
cause just the sort of public man whose deeds were
likely to attract their sympathy. Posterity had to do
with the names of the great men whose busts filled the
niches. The battle of Trafalgar and the abolition of
the slave trade were, after all, greater deeds than
the building of London-bridge, or Gresham-street,
or any' other of those excellent improvements
for which the public certainly had to thank Mr.
Jones in an eminent degree. In a generation or two
people, who would know from history the achievements
by reason of whieh the warriors and philanthropists were
allotted their places in that room, would ask with sur-
prise, upon seeing the bust of Mr. Jones, " But who is
that?—what brings him into such society ?" The an-
swer would be, "He was a man of high reputation in
the corporation, who greatly improved the City of
London, and preserved an unblemished private character
all the while."—(Cheers.) What had that to do with
the history of England, in which the names of all the in-
dividuals with whom he was proposed to be associated
would unquestionably appear? Why should the Court
place amongst such men one of whom posterity could
never know anything?—(Hear, hear, and murmurs.)
Finally, he disapproved altogether of the idea of erect-
ing any memorial for which the corporation did not pay
themselves, and with every respect for Mr. Jones, and
every wish that all honour should be rendered to him in
the various ways in which his claims were not to be for
a moment questioned, he proposed as an amendment the
previous question.
Mr. SELSON seconded the amendment, because the
bust would be ill-placed by being placed in that Court,
and the Court had already decided upon the question.
Mr. LAWRENCE ridiculed the notion of keeping the
Court as a place of exhibition for the busts of heroes and
men of high rank and connexions, and excluding their
own fellow-citizen from an honour to which he was
most indisputably entitled. If there were not the busts
there were the portraits of men around them whose great
actions were not chronicled. What had Mr. Deputy
Pindar done, to be remembered by posterity?—(Laugh-
ter.) What had the Chamberlain (Mr. Clarke) done,
that he should appear at full-length in such company?—
(Laughter.) What was the case of Mr. Jones? Here
was a committee, consisting of merchants and bankers
of the metropolis, determined to carry out the principle
of extending the vast benefits of the arts of peace, and
manifesting their sincerity by subscribing for a testi-
monial to a member of the Corporation who had de-
voted his time and talents to She service of
the community. :That committee asked the Court
for permission to erect the bust of that man, and the
answer they were to
.get was, •• What! admit a person
who was not victorious at Trafalgar or Waterloo!
Dreadful !" Would the Court be carried away by such
nonsense?— (Hear, hear, and laughter.) What! when
they wanted to fill up a niche must they look about for
a stray warrior, instead of fixing upon the ablest, one of
the most honourable men amongst themselves ?
(Cheers.) He would seriously ask the Court whether
the City of London had not derived as much advantage
from the labours of Mr. Jones as from the
labours of any of the men whose busts or por-
traits adorned their place of meeting?—(Cheers.) In
fifty or sixty years the likenesses of warriors would cut
but a sorry figure by the side of the great promoteh of
national and commercial improvements.—(Cheers.) A
member of their body was chosen in preference to all
others to direct and superintend the great improvements
in the City of London. It was asked what member was
worthy to be in such company as•that of the great person
to whom so much allusion had been made. It happened
to be a weakness of our nature that we should think the
only way to greatness was to aim at pulling down the
reputation of others.—(Hear.) Almost every man was
given to depreciate the merits of others. Now he hoped
to see the Court as a body throw that feeling aside.—
(Cheers.) The refusal to accede to the original motion
would cast indelible disgrace upon the Corporation, who
were bound to show to the public that they were de-
sirous to encourage the members of their body to adopt
a line of conduct similar to that by which Mr. Jones had
been so long distinguished.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BENNOCII, in supporting the original motion,
said the fit place in which to erect the bust of Mr.
Jones was certainly that which constituted the theatre
of his exertions.

Mr. L. TAYLOR objected to the proposition to erect a
bust to a person while he was a member of the Court.
The case wonld be different if Mr. Jones did not happen
then to be a member.
Deputy STEVENS said that more public money passed
through the hands of Mr. Jones than through the hands
of any other man in the City of London, and slander
was never breathed against him in the application of it.
—(Cheers.) It was by his integrity, as well as by his
zeal and activity, and skill, that he entitled himself to the
gratitude of his fellow-citizens. His words were some-
times as rough as the stones with which the magnificent
buildings he directed were raised. He made no friends
by his mode of treating the language in which he com-
municated his sentiments, but the straightforwardness,
the fair-dealing, the integrity of the man, were impos-
sible to be mistaken.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PEWTRESS was surprised at any hesitation in the
Court, upon the very first occasion on which the honour
had been done to them of an offer to put up a bust of one
of themselves.

Mr. R. TAYLOR never heard a speech in which inge-
nuity and subtlety had so completely failed as that of
Mr. Prendergast.
Mr. LOTT objected to the original motion, because he
could not admit that the Royal Exchange and Gresham-
street were so decidedly superior. He thought, too,
that Mr. Jones's influence would increase if his bust
were placed in the Court, and everybody knew that there
was quite enough of him there when he presented him-
self.—(Laughter.)
Mr. ASHURST said the Government of the country
had for 20 years maintained such an opinion of the Cor-
poration as to pass into their hands two millions of
money to accomplish certain public improvements. Mr.
Jones was the person who devoted his time and talent
to the judicious expenditure of that enormous sum, and
through him the trade and commerce of the great port
of London was benefitted to an immense extent.

Mr. KING had the greatest respect for the integrity of
Mr. Jones, but it did not follow that he was, therefore,
to do all he could, by placing Mr. Jones's bust in the
Court, to make the gentleman uncomfortable as well as
useless.

Mr. ANDERTON said the Court would disgrace itself
by agreeing to the amendment.
Mr. DE JERSEY deprecated the haste with which the
business was got up, and said that Mr. Jones's character
could not suffer by delay.
Dr. LYNCH accused the panegyrists of Mr. Jones of
the grossest sycophancy. Praise undeserved was cen-
sure in disguise, and the sycophancy of that day ope-
rated as the most severe censure.—(Cries of " Hear
Who ,
hear," and " No, no.") were the parties to whom
werec' while they were
advocating out niches
Mr. Jones was indebted. for so much compliment ? Just
the
aspirants
thfeoirr municipal fame,
carving who
in the Court for themselves.—(Laughter and cheers.)
They supposed that if they could only get in so large
an object as Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, they would be
able to squeeze ii themselves by and by.—(Great
laughter.)
Their praise was one for Mr. Jones and two
for themselves; and, as cheapness seemed to be a recom-
mendation, it was possible that a pawnbroker's shop
might supply them with the materials for the exhibition.
Indeed, he had been given to understand that Mr. Wire
had a bust quite ready for use after Mr. Jones's should
be safely deposited.—(Great laughter.) Of all the gen-
tlemen in the court, Mr. B. L. Jones was in the most in-
describable position. Some called him a colossus, others
asserted that his feet were of clay. He was certainly a
most antithetical character, made up of the most contra-
dictory and unintelligible materials. Some said that he
had made his own greatness, and others declared that he
was merely great under the shadow of the corporation.
But how barbarously did they treat him by raising
him to a parallel with those men whose high names had
been so profanely mentioned in the course of that discus-
sion. Dr. Lynch concluded a most humorous speech,
which we are obliged to
_curtail very much, by calling
upon the Court to pass the amendment.
Mr. WIRE replied, and drew an admirable character
of Mr. Jones.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF YAR-
BOROUGH.
The death of this Nobleman took place on the 10th
instant, on board his yacht, the Kestrel, at Vigo.
The following particulars are supplied from the only
authentic communication received by the members of
the family.
The Noble Earl had, for the last eighteen months,
been in the decline of health, his original illness having
succeeded a severe attack of gout. While at Cowes with
his yacht in July, he was considered sufficiently well to
cruise with the squadron of her Majesty's ships, then in
rendezvous at Cork. At Lisbon the Noble Earl seemed
to be much improved in health by his aquatic trip, and
while there a perceptible change took place, but his
spirits remained good, and he there received at dinner,
on board his yacht, several friends. He pursued his
voyage as far as Gibraltar, and was on his return to
Cowes, when, owing to alarming symptoms, they called
in at Vigo. It was there apparent that his Lordship
was fast sinking, and he was himself conscious of hi,
approaching dissolution. He expired without a struggle
at about four o'clock A.M., on the 6th instant, on board
his yacht. As to the statement of the Earl having eaten
unripe grapes, there is not likely to be any truth in it,
for he did riot take anything for some days before his
demise, and, therefore, it is not likely that in the event
of his taking that fruit that it had any influence on his
health.
The above details may be relied on as true. Lady
Charlotte Copley, his Lordship's only daughter, was
deeply affected when the lamented death of her father
was communicated to her yesterday morning. Her
Ladyship is staying in town with Sir Joseph Copley,
Bart., who has come to town from Yorkshire for medical
advice.
Charles Anderson Pelham was Earl of Yarborough,
Baron Yarborough of Yarborough, county Lincoln, and
Baron Worsley of Appuldercombe, in the Isle of Wight,
D.C.L., F.R.S., and F.S.A. He was born on the Bth
of August, 1781, and married, the 11th of August, 1806,
Henrietta Anna Maria Charlotte, second daughter of
the Hon. John Bridgman Simpson (second son of Henry,
first Baron Bradford), by whom (who died in 1813) he
had issue :

Charles Anderson Worsley, Lord Worsley, now Earl
of Yarborough, who was born the 12th of April, 1809.
Dudley Worsley, born the 23d of April, 1812, a Cap-
tain in the Royal Navy, and
Charlotte, married in 1881 to Sir Joseph William
Copley, Bart.
The late Noble Earl sat as second Baron Yarborough
at the decease of his father in September, 1823, and was
raised to the Earldom on the 24th of January,.lB37, by
Viscount Melbourne's Administration, having been al-
ways an ardent supporter of Whig principles.
He was also Vice-Admiral of the coast of the Isle of
Wight and county of Southampton, recorder of Grimsby
and Newport. His Lordship was, however, perhaps
better known as commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron,
which command he had held for a long series of years,
and during the period he had held that command the
distinguished members of the squadron have had re-
peated opportunities of witnessing the interest he always
had in promoting the welfare of that influential aquatic
club, as well as of partaking of his princely hospitality.
The deceased nobleman is succeeded in the family
honours and large estates by his eldest son Lord Wors-
ley, M.P., born April 12, 1809, and married to a daugh-
ter of Viscount Hawarden. The present Earl has sat
in the House of Commons since 1830, when he was re-
turned for Newtown, Isle of Wight, a close borough,
which was disfranchised by the Reform Bill. In 1831
he was elected for Lincolnshire, which he has continued
to represent up to this period.
An express was sent yesterday morning to his Lord-
ship, at Manby Hall, near Brigg, to apprise him of the
death of his father, and also to the Hon. Captain Pel-
ham, the Noble Earl's other son, at the Isle of Wight.
From the brief accounts received yesterday, we hear
that the remains of his Lordship were on their way from
Vigo, for interment in this country.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
DEATH OF THE EARL OF YARBOROUGH, COMMODORE
OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON.--This good old
English gentleman, of whom Britons were deservingly
proud, is no more! He breathed his last on board his
yacht, the Kestrel, in Vigo Bay, on the sth inst. He
had been some time ill, but was considered better when
he embarked, and while cruizing in these waters. • It is
supposed that the great heat of the days and coldness of
the nights, when on the coast of Spain, hastened his end.
He was a general peace-maker, be it on the magisterial
bench, in the Royal Yacht Squadron, or amongst his
neighbours. His charity was unbounded; he was looked
up to, admired, and beloved by all. His death will be a
severe blow to yachting and the Royal Yacht Squadron.
His Lordship was in the 66th year of his age. The
Kestrel was to sail from Vigo on the 7th with the body,
and is hourly expected here.

PRICE AND CHARGES OF A
NEWSPAPER.
(From the Times.)

" Why," argued Mr. Hudson—" why is it, if the Times
is so solicitous for reduced fares, that it does not illus-
trate its precept by reducing its own price ? There is
one daily paper already published at 2d. ; it would be
a great saving to the public if the Times were likewise
published at 2 d., instead of 5d." We may, however,
turn round upon him with his own words, and exclaim,
" Would that people knew something of the subjects on
whioh they talk 1" Does Mr. Hudson know anything
of the expense of getting up a journal ?
Now, for his benefit, and for the instruction of others
who have fewer opportunities than he has of studying
statistics, we present him with the subjoined account of
the cost of each single copy of the Times, as published
to-day :

d.
Cost of paper for each copy of this day's publication 2
Stamp
Newsvender's profit

Sale to the public 45

Profit on each paper of
Now, according to our royal censor, out of these
three-eighths of a penny, or one farthing and a half for
each copy, are to be defrayed all the substantial ex-
penses of the journal, reporters, printers, compositors,
correspondents, foreign and domestic, repair of ma-
chinery, and all the numerous burdens to which journal-
ism is liable. We omit to speak of the contributors to
the leading columns, but we suppose there are few per-
sons blind to the necessity of retaining for this purpose
men of sound education, undoubted intelligence, and in-
tegrity beyond the temptation or suspicion of a bribe. No
one, we should imagine, is blind to the proprieiy of re-
munerating them well ; and we ask, how would it be
possible to do this, and all that is required besides from
the proprietors of a London journal, at a lower tariff
than the present? Could we cater for the public as we
have done— could we continue to do so, were our charges
reduced? Clearly it is impossible. It is obvious that
no extent of circulation can by itself repay the outlay
required for the complete management of a daily paper.
Nay, increase of circulation is itself, after a certain point,
an evil, for it entails the necessity of further appliances
and a more numerous corps, for the due support of which
recourse must be perpetually had to the profits on ad-
vertisements. A journal may, indeed, weather out a
short time on a scale of reduced prices; but any one con-
versant witlAthe exigencies of the press must be fully
aware that to continue this mode of operation under ex-
isting circumstances involves one of two conditions,—
either that the proprietors shall always be able to fall
back on the ample subsidies of some undisclosed million-
naire, or that they shall be eventually ruined.

ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.—An inquest was held on
the 12th instant, by J. W. Cowley, Esq., Coroner for
Bucks, at Marsh Gibbon, on view of the body of the
daughter of Charles and Ann Rawlins, aged five years.
The deceased went out to play on the previous afternoon,
accompanied by two other children, and she proceeded
to a well in the neighbourhood, near which they sat
down, and the deceased in attempting to reach something
from the surface, overbalanced and was precipitated into
the water, and before any one arrived life was quite
extinct. Verdict, "Accidental Death." An inquest
was held by the same coroner on the 15th instant, at
Aylesbury, on view of the body of John Holland, aged
fifteen months. On the 30th ult, the deceased upset a
cup of hot coffee over his head, which had shortly before
been poured from the coffeepot and placed upon a table
by his mother. A surgeon was immediately sent for,
and every attention paid, but the child died from the
effects of the scalds received on the 14th inst. Verdict,
"Accidental Do ath.l

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON AND CHI-
CHESTER RAILWAY.-AS the train from Brighton to
Chichester was passing at full speed between Shoreham
and Littlehampton, early on the afternoon of Wednes-
day, a man was observed to jump off one of the carriages.
On arriving at Littlehampton, the guard was made ac-
quainted with the fact, and the engine was detached and
sent back to discover if any accident had occurred. The
unfortunate man was found lying on the railway with
his skull so fearfully broken that, though alive at the
time this information was dispatched on Wednesday, no
hopes whatever were entertained of his recovery. It
appears that the unfortunate individual, who has suffered
by his own indiscretion, is the master and part owner of
a coasting vessel in the neighbourhood of Littlehamp-
ton, and was on his way from London to spend the
evening with a friend, but the train not stopping at the
Goring station, where he wanted to get of he risked
his life to avoid walking a mile, the Goring station being
one mile, and the next station two miles from the resi.
deuce of his friend.

THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 17.—The
Oriental Company's steam-ship, the Queen, Captain
Russell, arrived in the docks at 7 P.M. yesterday, with
the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails of the follow-
ing dates:—Gibraltar, Sept. sth; Cadiz, 6th; Lisbon,
10th; Oporto, 11th; Vigo, 12th; and Corunna, 13th.
The mails were forwarded to London by the 1 A.M. train
this day. The Queen has a full cargo of grapes, and
some other packages. She also brings the sad intelli•
gence of the death of the Earl of Yarborough. The
Noble Lord's remains are on board the Kestrel yacht,
which left Vigo on the 10th instant, he having died on
the previous day. The Queen had fifty-eight passengers.
The Madrid, Captain Bingham, left the docks at 3 P.M.
this day with the Gibraltar and Peninsular mails, full
cargo of bale goods, and fifty-one passengers. The
Royal West Indian mail packet, the Clyde, Captain
Simons, also left the docks with the West India and
other mails, and fifty passengers, and sundry stores, on
the Company's account. The splendid new steam-ship,
the Pottinger, Captain Cooper, belonging to the Oriental
Company, is preparing for sea; she will leave on the
20th instant, with the East India and China mails, vid
Alexandria. The Pottinger is now taking in a full cargo
of bale goods. The Transit steamer arrived this day
from Vigo, which place sho left on Friday last, with a
large cargo of beasts, all in most excellent condition.

TJ

IRELAND.
ADDRESS OF THE GENERAL A..
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH r BESBOROUGH:
On Tuesday a deputation from the ministers and ruling
elders of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, composed
of the Rev. P. Morgan, moderator, and the Rev. Messrs.
Stewart, Young, and Wilson, waited upon his Excellency
the Earl of Besborough, at the Viceregal Lodge, to pre-
sent an address. The Rev. Gentlemen were most kindly
received by his Excellency, to whom the Rev. Mr.
Morgan read the address, as follows :
" May it please your Excellency—We, her Majesty's
most dutiful and loyal subjects, the ministers and ruling
elders of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in Ireland, embrace the earliest opportunity
. since your Excellency's arrival in this country to offer
our respectful congratulations to your Excellency on
your appointment to the Viceregal Government of Ire-
land. Deeply attached as we are to British connexion,
we do not consider any nobleman in the United Kingdom
as a stranger or an alien ; yet, we must confess that we
feel peculiar interest in approaching a Viceroy who is a
native of our island, and a nobleman so distinguished by
generous and philanthropic exertions for the prosperity
of the country.
" We dare not boast of our worth, but we are thank-
ful to Almighty God that he has enabled the people
under our care, by industry, peaceableness, and regu-
larity, to render the portion of the country in which
they live no disgrace to the empire, and but little ex-
pensive to the Government.
" We lament to state that the calamity which it has
pleased Almighty God to inflict upon the world at large,
in the destruction of the potato crop, has fallen upon
our people. They were last year subjected to the loss
of at least one-half of this crop, in the present they
have lost all—yet they have hitherto been no burthen
to the country. Into the other provinces Government
have been obliged to send both money and provisions to
prevent actual starvation, and much greater supplies
appear to be in those localities still required, while idio
Ulster little or nothing of the kind was introduced.
" What may be the effect of this year's calamity we
are unable to conjecture. The present prospects are
dark and threatening ; but our people are taught and are
accustomed to put their trust in Him who feeds the
raven of the valley, and we trust that by His blessing
upon their patience and industry, they will be enabled
to submit to and to bear whatever His providence may
lay upon them. We have the fullest confidence in your
Excellency's paternal care over us, and all portions of the
community. We are assured that in any emergency
which may arise, our people may rely upon receiving
from your Excellency every aid and encouragement
within your Excellency's power.
" We and our people shall continue, as we have been
accustomed to do, to plead at a throne of grace, that the
King of kings may shower down his choicest blessings
upon our beloved sovereign and her family, and nume-
rous subjects, and that a large portion of the same bles-
sings may descend upon your Excellency's person, house-
hold, and government.
" Signed in the name of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, at Belfast,
this 27th day of August, 1846.
"JAMES MORGAN, Moderator.
"THOMAS M. REID,I
Clerks."
"ROBERT PARK,
His Excellency returned the following reply :
" Gentlemen—l receive with the satisfaction
the congratulations of a body so distinguished as the
Presbyterians of Ireland have ever been for their
loyalty to their Sovereign and attachment to the British
constitution.

" I am too well aware of the awful dispensation of
Providence, which has deprived so large a portion of the
people of this country of that crop on which their ex-
istence almost depends ; but it is satisfactory to me to
know that they bear their sufferings with resignation to
the will of God.

" As an Irish proprietor, I am aware of the wants and
deprivations to which so large a portion of the people of
this country are constantly subjected, and of the patient
endurance which they have always exhibited.
" On that forbearance I rely for being able to conduct
the government under this most pressing difficulty; and
you may be assured of my inclination to watch over the
interests confided to me with anxious solicitude, and
with a determination to see those measures which the
Legislature has placed at my disposal carried into opera-
tion as efficiently as it is poisible (or me to do by any
exertion it is in my power to make."

MAIL FOR LISBON AND THE CAP➢.—This morning
a notice was posted at the General Post-office, that her
Majesty's ship Balldog, for Lisbon and the Cape, which
was to have sailed this day, will not sail till the 21st inst.
TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE.
—A fearful accident, attended with loss of life and in-
jury to several persons, happened on Tuesday, at the
factory of Messrs. Thompson and Co., at Treforest, by
the explosion of a steam-boiler. It took place at about
six o'clock in the morning, when the day men were re-
lieving those that had been employed during the night.
The terrific character of the explosion, and the severe
vibration which it caused, induced many to suppose that
some dreadful convulsion of nature had taken place. For
a time the district was enveloped in smoke and dust. On
its subsiding it was discovered that one of the large
boilers attached to the works had burst. The building
in which it stood was of the soundest description. The
roof was supported by massive iron beams. The entire
was shattered to a complete ruin. On the mass of
rubbish being searched, the body of a man named
Rowers was found sadly mutilated. His death must
have been instantaneous. Two other workmen were
much scalded, but hopes are entertained of their re-
covery. It is impossible to account for the accident, the
boiler having been in good working order for the last
five months. The body of it was thrown nearly 100
yards from its original position. An inquest has been
held on the poor fellow who was killed, and a verdict of
" Accidental death" returned.

THE MANCHESTER ATHEN/EUM.—The grand annual
soiree of the Athenmum will be held a little short of a
month hence. Besides the distinguished nobleman, Lord
Morpeth, who is to preside, the list of those who have
promised assistance on the occasion contains the names
of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Right
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich, the Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of Oxford, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount
Sandon, M.P , the Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil,
M.P., the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., Captain the
Hon. H. Keppel, R.N., Mr. M. Gore, M.P., Mr. J. T.
Clifton, M.P., Mr. J. W. Patten, M.P., Mr. W. Ewart,
M.P., Mr. M. Philips, M.P., Mr. J. Brotherton, M.P.,
Mr. J. Bright, M.P., Mr. Charles Mackay, Mr. George
Dawson, M.A., Mr. Douglas Jerrold, and Mr. J.
M`Gregor. The Vice-Presidents comprise among them
a number of the wealth, talent, and influence of the town,
and altogether the soiree promises to equal any of the
delightful assemblages with which the name of the Man-
chester Athenaeum is so pleasingly associated. The ex-
cellent bands of the 4th Light Dragoons and of the 69th
Infantry will be in attendance, and a variety of arrange-
ments for the comfort of the guests are advancing
Tickets may now be bad, an intimation of importance
to those who, residing at a distance, may intend to wit-
ness the proceedings.—Manchester Courier.

NATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY.—The Committee
of the National Society. for Promoting the Education of
the Poor in the principles of the Established Church
have resolved on the establishment of two examinations
yearly, analogous to those in the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge, with a view to impart an additional
stimulus to persons preparing themselves for the office
of schoolmasters. To those who creditably pass, formal
certificates will be given, and there will be immediately
afterwards an examination of a higher kind, in which
candidates who shall have passed the first trial will have
an opportunity of showing their proficiency in any ad-
ditional branches of knowledge, directly or indirectly
useful to an elementary teacher in the exercise of his
vocation. For the " pass " examination, the subjects
his, vocal music,
and h
are to be reading, writing, grammar, the Liturgy, and
Scripttue theoryres, ari
anthmedtic,geography, tory,
practice of teaching. In the " ex-
amination for honours," most stress will be laid on high
proficiency in the branches above enumerated—on skill
in English composition, the elements of history and
philosophy, and knowledge of classics and mathematics.
The first examination is to take place in London at
Christmas next.

DEATIIS OF CONVICTS AT WOOLWlCH.—Yesterday
Mr. C. J. Carttar, Coroner for West Kent, held inquests
at Woolwich, at the Salutation Tavern, opposite the
Arsenal gates, on the bodies of two convicts, who met
their deaths under the following circumstances:—The
names of the deceased are William Gibbs and Thomas
Trison, who were convicted at the Surrey Assizes, held
at Kingston in March last, and sentenced to transporta-
tion for life, on a charge of robbery. From the evidence
of Messrs. Bossey and Bligh, surgeons to the hospital
convict-ship, it was proved that the deceased received
during their illness, wine, custards, fish, flesh, and fowl,
in order to rally their constitution, which had no effect,
and they died of consumption. The jury expressed
their entire approbation with the kind and humane treat-
ment they had received under the distressing circum-
stances, and returned a verdict, " Died from natural
causes." An erroneous impression having gone abroad
that such unhappy creatures are nearly starved and
worked to death, the following official return of food and
clothing, issued from the Secretary of State's office, will
tend to remove such doubts. Weekly regimen—oat-
meal, :31b. 1 oz.; soft bread, 71b.; biscuit, 11b. 120 z.;
beef, 31b.; cheese, 120 z.; salt, 40z.; and a pint and a
half of small beer on cheese days. Annual clothing-
-2 jackets, 3 pair of trousers, 3 shirts, 4 pair of stockings,
3 pair of shoes, 2 hats, 2 handkerchiefs, 1 waistcoat, 1
blanket, and 1 Guernsey frock. Dr. Bossey said he had
the power to order, without the least restriction, any
luxury or indulgence during sickness to the convicts.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES IN ST. MARTIN-
IN-THE-FIELDS.—This morning a numerously attended
meeting of the rate-payers of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
was held in the Vestry-room, for the purpose of deter-
mining whether the Act to encourage the establishment
of baths and wash-houses should be adopted for that
parish. The chair was taken by the Rev. Sir H.
Dukenfield, the Vicar. The rev. gentleman said that
those persons who, like him, had visited the abodes of
the poor in that parish, must be convinced of the neces-
sity of giving them increased means of keeping their
bodies, their garments, and their rooms in a state of
cleanliness. It was very unusual to find that the poor
had more than one apartment, that inconveniently small,
and in which it was impossible that they could enjoy
those ablutions which were so essential to health. If it
should be determined to build baths in that parish, the
money would be borrowed from Government, and paid
in the usual manner by instalments, in the period of
twenty years. The cost of the building would probably
be about 5,0001., and the annual expense about 4001.
Mr. Hall, churchwarden, then moved the erection of
baths and wash-houses in that parish, which was seconded
by Mr. Staunton, aad carried unanimously. Thanks were
then voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated.

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