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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1846.

Lord Jour( Russ LL having at length very ex-
plicitly pronounced sentence of death upon the dif-
ferential Sugar Duties, the redoubtable Protectionists
have bethought themselves of their old tactics for
obtaining some commutation of the sentence, or, at
the least, some reprieve in its execution. The ban-
quet of home monopoly having been duly discussed
and demolished, our free-trade legislators, like Sir
HUGH Eyszie, are now concentrating their energies
upon t%os "pippins and cheese" of colonial monopoly.

Such a consummation, however, of the recent Par-
liamentary proceedings, though "devoutly to be
wished" by the multitude, is directly opposed to the
political and commercial palate of the upholders of the
protective system. They perceive the last fragment
of their beloved Idol doomed to destruction by the
Genius of Free-Trade ; and resolved, if possible, to
avert that doom by every logical artifice or
sophistical machination, they have assembled toge-
ther for the purpose of arranging their mode of
operation. That morlentous council has been
held ; those chieftains have ciesliberated ; their cham-
pion has already thrown down his izauntlet upon the
floor of Parliament.
Viewing the " Amendment" of Lord GEORGE TIEN'
TINCK, however, seriously and soberly, it is pre-
cisely the description of document which might have
been anticipated. It betokens in the very feebleness
of its verbs and adjectives the smallness of the faction
from which it has proceeded. According to the
language of their resolution, they opine—" That in
the present state of the sugar cultivation in the Bri-
tish East and West Indian possessions, the proposed
reduction of duty upon foreign slave-grown sugar is
alike unjust and impolitic." In the present state, &c. !
Why what a shallow apology is this for the introduction
of such an amendment ! If after the period which has
already elapsed since the Emancipation Act those
colonial possessions have not recovered their indus-
trial vigour sufficiently to compete with other terri-
tories engaged in the cultivation of sugar—if, in
addition to this, they afford no definite prospect of ar-
riving at that condition of prosperity, while their
owners are, on the contrary, availing themselves of
every opportunity to asptsrse the Govern-
ment for affording them but an inefficient
compensation,—why not, in Heaven's same, erase
that preposterous and superfluous "in the present
state ?" But let us inquire into the origin of the
opinion thus expressed by Lord G. BENTINCK, in be-
half of himself and his coadjutors. They conceive that
the proposed reduction would prove "alike unjust and
impolitic," because forsooth of its " tending to
check the advance of production by British
labour, and to give a great addition al
stimulus to the slave trade !" giving thereby
a most agricultural precedence to British labour, and
introducing the humanity argument as a kind of tag.
Of the validity of either of these very pompous and
high-sounding reasons we at once proclaim our
denial. If ever premises were fallacious, these are
so ; if ever a question of political economy were dis-
torted by sophisms, it is that of the differential
sugar duties, and those sophisms are in
the amendment of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. Con-
sidering, for example, the notion of these proposed
reductions tending to afford encouragement to the
atrocious and diabolical system of slave traffic—we
have already protested against the accuracy of this
supposition. We have commented upon the circum-
stance of these sticklers for the emancipation of their
fellow-creatures crying out against the patronage of
slave-owners only when that patronage interfered
with their own pockets—of their beholding with
silent indifference the commerce in cotton, and cop-
per, and tobacco, and so forth, maintained between
this country and colonies cultivated by slaves—of
their standing forth as the champions of humanity
solely upon the proposed importation of
slave-labour sugar, their own article of
merchandize I Besides this, we have declared
this dread of patronising slavery to be altogether an
illusion, because the planters of Cuba and Brazil are
already patronised by us in defiance of all our re-
strictions against their admission into British ports ;
and have shown likewise that this patronage is
most expensive to ourselves without preserv-
ing any exclusive benefit to our colonial
planters. So much for the vaunted humanity argu-
ment of the colonial protectionists.
Although the pretended patriotism of the other
reason against the proposed reduction of the differen-
tial duties is somewhat more speciously worded in
the Amendment, it is, nevertheless, quite as chime-
rical as the one already answered. We allude
to the supposed tendency of such a reduction "to
check the advance of production by British labour."
This position, we repeat it, is specious, it is adroitly
conceived; but we solemnly protest against it as a
most illusory, and a most flagitious argument.
To strip it of all its flimsy preten-
sions to patriotism, it amounts literally
to this :—" Never mind the thousands of artisans
who are turned away incessantly from your factory
doors through want of employment; never mind the
thousands of labourers who are rendered vagrants, or
are thrown upon your parishes periodically from
an incapacity to obtain work ; never mind these
people in England, let them shift for them-
selves. All we want is that you will cherish
some units of planters, and some tens of Hill
Coolies : let the thousands of industrious poor in the
mother country go to the devil. Shut your ports
against foreign slave-labour sugar, that our planters
and Hill Coolies may obtain employment and flourish.
Shut your ports against foreign slave-labour
sugar, although by so doing you prevent those
foreign countries from becoming customers for
your manufactures, and by this means prevent your
own starving population from gaining the employ-
ment which would be necessary on such an accession
of customers. Enable us to monopolise the traffic in
sugar, and you will thereby enable yourself to
throw a large portion of your insular community out
of employment !" That in literal and honest truth
is the substance of the requisition of these colonial
protectionists ; that is the simple tendency of
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S amendment ; and
that, moreover, is the tendency—unconscious,
we believe—of the clever and gentlemanly remon-
strance of the Hon. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. In
protesting against the proposed reductions in the
differential duties as "unjust and impo-
litic," the colonialists altogether overlook
the broad groundwork of injustice and
impolicy upon which those differential duties were
originally modelled. They forget that by thus en-
deavouring to pamper a few cargoes of Hill Coolies,
they are doing everything that can well be done
to promote the starvation and destitution of
whole generations of their fellow-countrymen
in the three kingdoms. Charity is hinted at by these
lovers• of protection and these worshippers of civil
liberty. Charity, so be it. But rather let it be
charity to the existent people of England, of Ire-
land, and of Scotland, than to these possible Hill
Coolies

An interesting discussion took place on Wednesday
in the Rouse of Commons, previous to the reading of
the order of the day for going into Committee on the
"Death by Accidents Compensation Bill." The
great necessity of an alteration in the law was ad-
mitted on all sides, and .the only question ap-
peared
to be in what manner that altera-
tion might be moat advantageously effected.
From the ability and legal knowledge of
the several parties who took part in the debate,
and the anxiety they seemed to display for the re-
moval of the inconsistency of the law as it now
stands, we entertain a sanguine hope that the prin-
ciple of the measure, considerably enlarged and ex-
tended, will soon receive the sanction of the Legis-
lature. We have already called the public attention
to the provisions of the present Bill, and the
state of the law which it is intended to remedy ; but
where such an important change in the law of the
land is contemplated, creating an extraordinary and
new responsibility, it cannot be uninteresting again
to explain things as they have been, and as it is pro-
posed they shall be.
At present, if any person should receive an injury
consequent upon the carelessness, negligence, or
wilful act of another, he may maintain an action
and recover damage for the injury so sustained
against the party by or through whose default it was
inflicted, but if he died in consequence, the civil
remedy became merged, and no compensation could
be recovered. Originally a personal action died with
the person, but now, and for some time past, the per-
sonal representatives of a party deceased might main-
tain actions for damages to his personal property,
or, in some instances, to his real estate. It is
difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for such a
distinction, and the object of ne present Bill is to
extend the principle, and to enable the represents..
tives of a person who had sustained an injury which
ended in his death to recover damages in the same
way as he himself would have been entitled, had
he survived. We cannot understand, however,
why it was proposed to exclude from the

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operation of the Act cases of murder. Is it
because the criminality of the delinquent is greater
that the remedy should be taken away ? It would ap-
pear as if it was intended to save duellists from the
operation of the law, a class of persons to whom its
provisions would be more applicable, end might more
advantageously be extended, than to any other what-
soever, against whom a similar law has been most
beneficially acted on in France, and which, if in
force in this country, might go far to 4111.1'
nish the pernicious practice. We are happy
to perceive that the late Attorney-Qeneral (Sir
F. MESMER) exposed this inconsistency in the Bill,
and suggested its amendment in that particular.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland explained the law
in that country, and mentioned a case wherein he
had, :s counsel for a railway company, advised a
compromise of an action brought against them, by
toeach
which 1,000/. was given cf the children
of the deceased pe;son, besides a large sum
paid to the widow. We do ne 0 suite approve of the
law as it is in Scotland, although wts ?Area it to be
far preferable to that which has hitherto existed '.:',
England: there the jury, by their verdict 'aPportion
the damages, as they think proper, amongst the sur-
viving relatives. Suits of this kind, however, could not
be brought by or for the benefit of the creditors of the
deceased, nor could they receive any advantage from
the amount of the verdicts. Now we cannot see the jas-
tice of this limitation. Surely the parties who have
advanced their money to any man, with a moral cer-
tainty of being paid the amount from the exertions
of the debtor, have sustained a seriousl loss
by his death, fur which they should be
entitled to obtain al recompense from the per-
son by whom that death was occasioned, by
whose default they have been deprived of the
means of obtaining payment of their demands. W e
think that in all cases the action should be brought
by the executors or administrators of the deceased
party, and by them only ; thus the evils consequent
upon a multiplicity of actions would be avoided, and
the amount recovered should be treated as assets of
the deceased, and distributed in a due course of
administration, precisely as if the party had re-
ceived the amount during his lifetime, and died
immediately afterwards : this would be just to all par-
ties, the creditors would receive the amount of their
demands, and the surplus would be applied according
to the terms of his will, or if he died intestate, ac-
cording to the provisions of the statute of distribution.
The further consideration of the Bill, as well as that
of the Deodands Abolition Bill, with which
it is intimately connected, was postponed until
Monday next. It is probable that both Bills will then
be referred to a Select Committee, on which there will
be placed some of the gentlemen acquainted with the
practical working of the Scotch law, by whom the
details of the measure will be fully considered and
revised. The Hon. Member for Kilmarnock, by whom
the Bills were brought forward, has every reason
to be satisfied with the manner in which they were
received by the House. And, although some defects
may exist in their present frame, it could scarcely be
expected that matters of such consequence, effecting
so great changes in the English law, could be brought
forward in the first instance in a perfect state,
under the auspices of a private Member. He
has called the public attention to the evil, and
it will be to his exertions that the improvements
which may be effected 'a ill be in a great degree
owing.
Mr. WAKLEI mentioned a curious case respecting
deodands, in the course of his speech : it was that of
an accident on the London and. Birmingham Railway,
where a deodand of 2,0001 was given against the
Company. He took the precaution of laying the inqui •
sition before an eminent barrister, whose very name
would satisfy the public that every precaution which
legal skill and ingenuity could suggest would be adopted
to insure success. It was, however, immediately
quashed, and set aside in the Court of Queen's
Bench. No stronger case could possibly be adduced
to prove the impossibility of carrying out the existing
law relating to deodands.

For some years past various plans have been pro-
posed fer turning the products of the metropolitan
sewage to profitable account, and by so doing to save
the Thames from the pollution of the filth of Londoi,
which (at least all of it that is soluble) is distributed
by the various water companies to the inhabit-
ants of the metropolis, as pure water fitted for
domestic purposes. Under the present system the
inhabitants of London are poisoned, and manure of
infinitely more value than all the guano that has ever
been imported is wasted. Thanks, however, to the
persevering efforts of the Metropolitan Sewage
Company, both these evils will be remedied. The re-
port of the Select Committee of the House of Com-
mons, to which the Bill of the Metropolitan Sewage
Manure Company was referred, is a most valuable
document. The Committee report that they have
considered the scheme proposed by the Metropolitan
Sewage Manure Company, for carrying away the re-
fuse of the Ranelagh and King's Scholars' Pond
Sewers, and rendering it available for agricultural
purposes, and that they recommend the House to con-
sent to the second reading of the proposed Bill. In
all the plans for collecting sewage manure which have
hitherto been propounded, it has been proposed to
erect tanks or reservoirs for the reception of the
sewage. The erection of these reservoirs has always
been strenuously opposed by the owners and occupiers
of neighbouring lands and houses. The Metropolitan
Sewage Company, however, although at first de-
sirous of having the power of erecting such reservoirs,
have now relinquished it altogether.
‘.‘ No reservoir, tank, or catch-pond can be constructed by
the company under the proposed Act. The sewage will be
conveyed in a covered shaft from the main sewer into the
well, from which an engine will pump it into iron pipes.
This process will be carried on in a closed building, and any
foetid exhalations from the liquid during the short period it
remains exposed to the atmosphere, will be conveyed into
the furnace of the steam-engine. Any silt deposited in the
well by the running water will likewise be removed from the
well within this covered building. The station-house will
not, therefore, be a cause of nuisance, and the liquid will be
removed in a far less offensive state than that in which it is
now found, when backed in the open sewer by the high tide,
and stagnating for hours together in the immediate vicinity
of an inhabited e,istrict, to be afterwards poured forth at low
tide into the open bed of the river."

Thus, therefore, will a great public benefit be
secured without the infliction of any private evil.
But, although the inhabitants of the metropolis will
greatly benefit by the removal of this pollution, the
advantage which will accrue to them is small indeed
in comparison with that which the agricultural in-
terest will derive.
• • •

"It is true (as is observed by the Committee) that this
measure has lost something of its efficiency, in consequence
of the abandonment of the reservoirs. The result of this
concession is, that no more sewage can be drawn at any time
from the drains than can be disposed of at the moment to the
agriculturist; but even this comparatively imperfect measure
will try a great experiment, and if the confident expectations
of your committee are accomplished, it will not fail ultimately
to realise all the advantages which were originally contem-
plated. Mr./Dickenson has proved the efficiency of liquid
manures. The meadows of Edinburgh and of Mansfield
have shown the power of sewage water. Mr. Thompson, of
Clitheroe, and Mr. Harvey, of Glasgow, have established the
fact that liquid manure may be applied at a cheap rate, by
means of the mechanical contrivance of service-pip2s and
hoses, to crops in every stage of their growth."
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It is in the application of the-liquid manures of
great cities, supplied at a cheap rate, that the agri-
cultural interest will find a compensation, and more
than a compensation, for any loss they may sustain by
a repeal of the corn-laws ; indeed, there is every
reason to hope that by the judicious application of
the sewage manure, which has hitherto been suffered
to run to waste, the fertility of the soil will be so in-
creased, that England will not only produce a suf-
ficiency of corn for the consumption of her population,
but that she may become, as she was a century since,
a corn exporting country. The sewage of great
cities is a mine of unexplored wealth, the value of
which no man can calculate. Wisely, therefore, have
the Committee acted in introducing into the Bill the
following provision :
" 2. That the state should reserve to itself the power of
resuming its entire property in the sewage, after a certain
period, upon conditions to be specified in the Bill."

The King of PRUSSIA has issued an ordonnance
confirming, definitively, M. DE BODELSCHWINGD, in
the office of the Minister of the Interior, the duties
of which he has performed for the last two years. This
ordonnance proves that the rumours that were in
circulation, that M. D'Aamix was about to resume
the portfolio of the Interior are without foundation.
The new Minister is much more liberal in his ideas
than M. D'Aamizi.
The Augsburg Gazette has the following from
Vienna, 12th inst. :—" Mr. AVAGLIoax Ls addressed
to the Ambassadors of Prussia, Bavaria, and Wurtem-
burg, a circular, stating that Germany should lose
no time in establishing, as soon as possible, a railroad

between the Adriatic and the North Seas, if she
wishes to prevent the superiority of France, which
proposes to form a line from Marseilles to Boulogne.
Mr. WA•ao&N requests the Ambassadors to transmit
his circular to their respective Governments."

The St. Petersburgh Gazette publishes the following
account of an engagement which took place in the
Caucasus on the 24th May:—

"Lieut.-Colonel Sousloll; commanding theregiment of Cos-
sacks of Grebensk, having received intelligence that a large
of Circassian cavalry bad made their appearance at
Ikbonrat Yourt, a yiiiage, situate on tile right bank of the
rfeneck, immediately marched on the threatened point, and,
reckoning on the co-operation of the moveable column o
Colonel Zaknmelsky, crossed the river. Ima
patient to fall in with the erieniy, 'Lieut. Colonel Sinisloff ad-
vanced with seven officers and B'2 Cossacks, without waiting
for the remainder of his regiment. After proceeding about
or an ho-
eight verso this iaandfql heroes discoyered the veuetles of
the rebels, and were immediately surrounded on all sides.
rn*orie9ltshea'snnla,s„,,y,i,lntountaineers
The only choice for them was a disgraceful flight
nowabie aestii7 The COS 4Plze d;d npt hesiLte 4 raoultni,
a rampart
repeated charges on them :
,botudtt,hwediros
ynblootdln4inee
sl;anng4l,
nsiztvarbilz,.dizii,tc,i.hui
the cossacks remained nun, and rehnlsea every attack-Dv
murderous tire. This unequal combat lasted more than two
hours. The Cossacks had five men killed and forty-nine
wounded, as well as all their officers except Lleutknant-
Colonel 4ouslorf aim.: 'Major iiambotf, the latth of Whom re-
ceived tome severe contusion's. BY this time the Cossacks
exppti4led, all their ammunition, and were, by the orders
of their valiant chief, preparing their poiparcis* to resist a
last attack which the enemy were preparing to make, when
some
of
Russian infantry advanced from different
points rescue, and the rebels, tearing to be in their
to bodies
their
turn surrounded, fled for refuge to the mountains."
The Grand Ihn-iher.s 01.94 of Rvssia was marrie4
on the 7th instant at the Palace of Peterhoff to the
Prince Royal of Wirtemburg,

Intelligence has been received from Rome to the
11th instant.

The Government Commissioners have negatived the
proposition for disbanding the Swiss troops by a ma•
jority of two. There is to be a railway communica-
tion established between the Adriatic and the Medi-
terranean, by means of a Rome and Ancona and
a Rome and Civita Vecchia Railway. The POPE
has given his consent to the construction of
these railways, and it is said that his HOLINESS will
likewise sanction a line to the Legations. There is
some delay in the appointment of Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affairs. Austria protests against the ap-
pointment of Cardinal Gizzi, and recommends Prince
ALTIERL formerly Nuncio at Vienna, for that post•
This recommendation is protested against by Count
Rossi, the French Ambassador, who supports the pre-
tensions of Cardinal Gizzt. Don MiouEL, who is
living at Rome, in a state of great distress, had a pri-
vate audience of his liousrEss a short time since, for
the purpose of soliciting a continuance of the pension
of 3,000 scudi, which had been allowed to him by
the late POPE.

A concordat has been agreed on between Spain
and Rome, dependent, however, on the adoption by
the Spanish Cortes of a measure for the dotation of
the clergy.

Madrid papers to the 16th have arrived. The star
of Don ENRIQUE seems at present in the ascendant,
and the friends of Don FRANCISCO de PAULA are
about to establish a journal, conducted on moderate
Progressista principles, for the purpose of advocating
his claims. There were rumours in Madrid of dis-
turbances having broke out in the Basque provinces,
but they were not generally credited.
The following from Lisbon, of the date of July 11,
is given in the Herald° :
" The Portuguese emigrants this day made their entry
into the capital, on which occasion the Septembrist party
made a great display of their forces. Some seditious cries
were even heard. The Patrieta, a journal opposed to the
present 2,linistry, says that the country is in a deplorable
state, and that a fresh revolution is inevitable, unless the
Government changes its course of proceeding. M. Fonseca
sLigalhaes, who has succeeded in escaping from Coimbra,
arrived at Lisbon on the 9th. The movement at Coimbra
has, it is said, been succeeded by another at Santarem, the
junta of which would not dissolve itself. At Coimbra the
inhabitants of the country round had armed themselves for
the defence of the town, in case the .Government should
act against them. While the Radical party triumphs at
Coimbra the Miguelist party every day acquires fresh
strength in Oporto and in the Algarves, and a serious colli-
sion between the people and the troops is anticipated. At
Elvas the corps in garrison do not seek to conceal their dis-
content, and the Government, fearing a fresh pronueciamiento,
had ordered General Celestino to that place."

MADRID BOLBA, JULY 16.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 33i for cash ; the Five per Cents. at
201; the Debt without Interest at 6i ; the shares of
the Bank of San Fernando at 390 ; and those of Isa-
bel at 204.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, the
leading articles of the whole of which are devoted
exclusively to the approaching elections.
The Prince DI JOINVILLE and his squadron were,
on the 12th, at Lampedosa, steering towards Tripoli.
It is expected that his Royal Highness will visit
Alexandria before he returns to Toulon.
A fatality seems at present to attend the French
railways. We find the following in the Journal de
la Somme :

"About four o'clock on Saturday evening, at the moment
of a heavy shower, a portion of the tunnel cf the Amiens and
Boulogne Railway, situate in front of the convent of the
Sisters of Mercy, suddenly fell in. The accident was attri-
buted to various causes, which, however, we shall not men-
tion, as they will most certainly be strictly inquired into by
the chief engineer charged with the direction of the works.
The storm had most fortunately caused the workmen to quit
the tunnel, otherwise a great loss of life would have most pro-
bably ensued."
These repeated accidents have caused quite a panic
among the railway speculators on the Bourse.
The Three per Cents. closed at 83f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents.,
121 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,262 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
960 f. ; Havre, 660 f. ; Great Northern, 688 f. 75c. ; Avignon,
855 f. ; Vieraon, 595 f. ; Bordeaux, 522 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 4501. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 367 f. 50c. ; Basle, 215 f. ; Fampoux,
407 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 480 f. ; Tours and Nantes,
482 f. 50f. ; Paris and Lyons, 493 f. 75c.; Spanish Domestic
Debt, 32.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Lyons and Avignon Detinitives, 4701. ; Bordeaux and
Cette ditto, 460 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOItE RAILWAYS AT THE

I:OliDON STOCK EXCHANGE, f u

--
Boulogne and Am?ens, 12—Lyons and iviinou, —:Namur net
Liege, 3—Northern of France Constituted, 12% es d.—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 7—Paris and Lyons Constituted, s—Rouen and [lane,
264—Sambre and Meuse, 4—West Flanders, 3!.i.

General Galloway and family, Archdeacon Magee.
Mr. Harrington and family, and Mr. Newnham and family,
left Loudon, yesterday morning, by the General Steam Navi-
gation Company's steam-ship Soho, for Antwerp.
The election for St. Ives took place on Monday.
There was no opposition to Lord Powlett, brother of the
Duke of Cleveland.

We understand that Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam
K.C.8., will not leave Blair Adam, his seat in Scotland, for
seven or eight days, to take his seat at the Admiralty Board.
The plan of the retirement is occupying the close attention
their Lordships, but it will necessarily be four or five
weeks afterth• arrival of Sir C. Adam before it will be com-
pleted.
COBDEN TESTIMONIAL—METROPOLITAN Suuscutr-
Tripss.—Although the address of the Committee appeared
only on the 14th inst., upwards of 9,0001. have been already
subscribed, being at the rate of 1,000/. per diem. The public
feeling in favour of this truly national object is rising and
increasing so rapidly in the city, that the subscription is ex •
pec:ed to exceed 20,000/. The inhabitants of Westminster
and Marylebone are already moving, and it is expected that
those of Lambeth, Southwark, Finsbury, the Tower Hamlets,
and Greenwich, will also endeavour to emulate the zeal of
Manchester and London. _ _

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THE LATE FLOODING OF THE TRURO MINES.—RE-
c\
t, thaYvoi
erwTtion
rnexl
vßeoti
ielidsi t LT' eux°i tTi IIUgE among
and children of the sufferers by this occurrence, a meeting of
the proprietors of the East Wheal Rose Mine was held on
Monday, at the company's offices, in this town, where it was
resolved that the sum of 5004 should be appropriated to their
immediate relief, its distribution being placed in the hands of
the purse-manager, Captain Champion, the Rev. E. Nix, and
It. G. Morris. This act of benevolence is highly honourable
to the company. The Bishop of Exeter has also sent a mu-
nificent sum, as well as numbers of the clergy and gentry in
various parts of Cornwall. Up to Monday evening the
pumps at the varieus shafts were still in full operation,
pumping the water out of the various levels; it will be
some time, however, before the mine is cleared. It is 100
fathoms in depth; we understand 40 fathoms
of it are under
water. Of the thirty. seven who fell a sacrifice, the bodies
of twenty-six have been brought up. These poor fellows, it
was evident, had died from drowning. lour others were,
recovered yesterday, who seemed to have been killed by part
of the mine falling in upon them. There appears to have,
been ten shafts or entrances to the mines, which are the
most capacious in Cornwall. The water burst in at the one
called Davey's, and afterwards at Gower, near which flowed
a small stream, called Gahne River. The flood, on its rising
hroke down the weir head south of the shaft in question
and then, by its weight and violence, broke in the foot shaft
in another part, and rushed down the levels. Here the water
lsosened and broke the timbers beneath; the consequence of
which was the falling in of some other parts of the mine
northward, and particularly of one piece of ground several
fathoms in circumference. This was considered a most
lot tunate circumstance; for had it got into the upper part, or
southern portion of the mines, the loss of lite would have
bean far greater.
THE DANIEL LAMBERTS OF ANIMAL LIFE.—We
certainly did not envy the huge beasts last week at the New-
castle Agricultural Show. Imagine an unfortunate cow,
twice the size of Daniel Lambert, with three chins, buried
in acres of fat, scarcely able to breathe, bending under the
accumulated weight of grease and glory, locked up with fifty
other apoplectic animals, on a day when the heat was so in-
tense that the legs of mutton were roasting in the butchers'
shops. The farmers walked about the show in their shirt-
sleeves, too glad to take off their coats, and we have no
doubt the poor animals willkd they could do the same. Our
wonder is there wag not a liVer of liquid tallow, as broad as
the Tyne, running through the pavilion. The Southdowns
alone seemed to escape the heat, but this was probably
owing to their superior breeding, which enables them to rise
above the ordinary we(a)ther. We noticed, with gushing
drops of perspiration, a poor wheezing bull, munching a bit
of cake, which we thought was only adding insult to injury.
We thought of the insatiable hatred and withering scorn we
should feel for the monster in human form who, if we were dying
of thirst.on the burning sands of Arabia, offered us a pound
of gingerbread, or a pot of anchovy paste.—Punch.

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