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London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

aged 78, a labouring man from Fromo in Somersetshire, I for Mr. Reeves in some part worthy of his powers;
fell exhausted from inanition, in Mornington-crescent, on I Ernani is promised in the course of a few days. I must
Sunday, February 9, 1851, and died a few hours after- not close my letter without quoting an opinion given in
wards. The verdict of the jury was, Died from want the foyer upon Reeves by the most celebrated composer
and destitution.' " A policeman, giving evidence, in France--' He Messieurs, donne:. moi ce gaillard la
stated, that a short time previous to the deceased's fall- pour trois 71201.8, et j'en feral le premier tenor en Europe.'"
ing, he had ordered him, whilst lying shivering on the
pavement on another part of his beat, to get up and move
off, as he thought ho was shamming. The other instances
to which we have alluded are thus chronicled:—" At
an inquest held on Thursday (Feb. 20) on James
Kearney, painter, aged 65, at the Goat, Tash-street,
Gray's Inn-lane, it was stated that the body lay in a
wretched hovel, denuded of furniture, which had been
sold to buy food; and the surgeon, at the post mortern
examination, deposed that he had not fouad the 16:2.4
particle of solid food in the stomach." At an inquest held
the same day, on John Long, at the Three Compasses,
Cowcross-street, West Smithfield, the body presented
an appalling appearance—was a " mere skeleton." Dr.
Walker performed a post mortem examination, and, in
accordance with his opinion, the jury returned a verdict
—" That the deceased died from want of food and
nourishment."

These are terrible realities, that must not be per-
mitted to continue in a Christian land. For the sake of
our common nature it must be presumed that the affluent
are in ignorance of the existence of such appalling dis-
tress in the midst of unprecedented plenty, prosperity,
and grandeur. It must be that they do not know of
it, for rarely indeed is any genuine case of wretched-
ness unrelieved, when the particulars are fully known
to the public.
There is only one institution in the metropolis the
doors of which are never shut against the destitute inha-
bitant of, or sojourner in, the metropolis. That institu-
tion is the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen and Hospice.
It is to be regretted that the public are not more fami-
liar with the objects and practical working of this insti-
tution, or no doubt its resources would be considerably
greater. Its object is to provide a gratuitous soup kitchen,
an asylum for sheltering the houseless, a free registry
for servants and labourers, and free lavatories, &0., for
the poor. The incalculable amount of benefit it has
done, and the extent of human suffering it has alle-
viated, may be gathered from the fact that in 1850
476,111 persons were supplied with an abundant meal
of soup and bread; 16,264 were sheltered in the hospice
and supplied with supper, bed, and breakfast; and
227,371 were accommodated at the free lavatories with
water, soap, towels, &c. An immense quantity of soup
and broad was also distributed to ragged schools, and
237 deserving persons were placed in respectable
situations. The total number of persons relieved at the
soup-kitchen in January, 1851, was 24,642, of whom
11,189 were famishing children. But it must
not be supposed that this relief is confined
to the necessitous, who are unable to work
in consequence of infirmity or old age, and who are
struggling to keep out of the workhouse. A great por-
tion of the relief is given to labourers and skilled work-
men for whom there is no employment, and who would
have been in all probability driven to the, commission of
crime had not this timely assistance been afforded to them.
In the month of January last the institution relieved
3,870 labourers, 960 excavators, 548 carpenters, 734
bricklayers, 392 plasterers, 41 butchers, 37 bakers, 185
clerks, 167 waiters, 39 watercress sellers, 115 cos-
termongers, 26 bookbinders, 11 map-colourers, 21
wheelwrights, 13 blacksmiths, 369 shopmen, 8 harness-
makers, 507 painters, 432 glaziers, 557 servants, 621
female servants, 127 sailors, and 107 distressed foreigners.

To descant upon the usefulness of such an institution
would, therefore, be idle. There is, however, another
class of persons to whose wants this admi-
rable institution has directed its attention. It
is well known that hundreds of infants an-
nually die in the metropolis in consequence of the
want of their natural food. It is impossible that the
wretched mother, whose form is wasted by famine and
exhausted by inanition, can replenish the fountain from
which her infant ought to draw its life stream. Within
the last twelve months 180 infants are reported to
have died from " want of breast milk." This calcula-
tion, however, gives no idea of the number who ac-
tually died from causes more or less attributable to
a deficient supply of their natural food. In order
to remedy as far as possible the ravages of this de-
plorable disease, the institution has notified that medical
advice and nourishment will be afforded to all poor
women applying under such circumstances. The result
has been, in the highest degree, satisfactory and gratify-
ing, the poor women rapidly regaining their strength
under the kindly and judicious treatment which has been
afforded them.
An institution achieving so great an amount of good,
and founded upon principles of such unostentatious
philanthropy, is surely deserving of the countenance
and support of all good men. To satisfy the madden-
ing pangs of hunger—to assuage the pains of disease—
to allay the agony of mental distress—and, above all to
snatch from the paths of temptation and ruin the
young and guiltless, is a high and holy vocation. Great,
indeed, will be the reward of those who assist in such an
object. We feel assured that the claims of the Leices-
ter-square Soup-kitchen and Hospice will not be.dis-
regarded by those whom Providence has favoured
with ample means. That charity, twice blessed—blessing
alike the giver and the receiver—cannot be directed to a
quarter where its benefits are more urgently required, or
where its influences will not be more sensibly felt. And
how consolatory will be the reflection that the assistance
thus timely afforded may essentially mitigate the great
sum of human suffering—perchance restore to society
many of its most useful members; but,- at all events, ar-
rest the ravages of that disease and famine with which
so many of the very poor of the metropolis are afflicted.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following officers had interviews with the Right Hon.
Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., at the Admiralty:—
Rear-Admirals—The Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, C. 8.,
K.C.11., J. B. Purvis.

Captains—Peter M'Quhae (Commodore for the West In-
dies), G. Gifford, J. Harrison, T. R. Sullivan, C. 0. Hayes,
J. B. Maxwell, J. Hackett, E. T. Michell, Douglas Curry,
Thomas Fisher, W. Loring. _ _ _

Commanders—Grey Skipwith, L. S. Tindall, F. B. Mon.,
tressor W. F. Maitland, T. Belgrave, Alexander Boyle, E.
F. N. k. Wayse.
Lieutenants—J. W. Dorville, A. M. Noad, the Hon. R.
Boyle, E. G. Crawley, W. K. Jollitle, W. Horton, R. B.
Harvey.
In consequence of the proximity of the Court, the Vic-
tory, flag-ship, the Britannia, 120, ordinary guard-ship, the
Blenheim, GO, screw guard-ship, the Excellent, gunnery-
ship, and Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord E. Russell, at noon
yesterday, fired Royal salutes in honour of the anniversary
of the birth of her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa Ca-
roline Alberta, her Majesty's youngest daughter.
The day for holding the court-martial oa the officers and
crew of the late steamer Flamer is not yet fixed. We hear
that two other courts-martial are likely to result from this
vessel, one on a marine for shooting a Krooman, and one on
a subordinate officer for drunkenness—but this we only give
as a report.

We are sorry to announce that Deputy Medical Inspector
Dr. James Allan (1845) died yesterday, after a protracted
illness, at his residence, Hasler Hospital.
We also regret to state that Master Charles Penrose Bel-
lamy (1822), late master attendant at Chatham Dockyard,
died yesterday at Hasler Hospital, after a very long illness.
By Allen's New Navy List we find that Mr. Bellamy served
in the Apollo, fire-ship, at the attack of the French fleet in
Basque Roads, and in the Walcheren expedition in 180;
was midshipman of the Termagant, in the operations is
defence of Sicily, incluiing the attack on Reggio and Leg-
horn, and takirg of Genoa, and of the Albion, at the battle
of Algiers.
We understand that when the troops for the Cape em-
barked on board the Singapore steam-vessel, the crew of tke
American frigate St. Lawrence gave them three cheers.
MORTALITY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN MAN-OF-WAR.-...
The Preble, 18, recently returned from a four years' cruise
in the Pacific and China, has lost the whole of her original
crew, 145 in number, except one commissioned officer and
two foremast ditto.—Halifax Journal.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Vice-Admiral Sir George Sey-
mour, K.C.8., in the Cumberland, 70, dropped down to St.
Helen's on Sunday night, with the intention of getting into
the Channel with the then favourable breeze, but it chopped
round, and she remains at anchor.
Commodore Bruce hoisted his red broad pendant as Com-
modore of the first class and Commander-in-Chief on the
coast of Africa station yesterday, on board the Vengeance,
84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, for the purpose of saluting.
The Vengeance then saluted the Port-Admiral with 17 guns,
which the Victory acknowledged with nine. The pendant
was afterwards removed to the Blonde receiving-hulk, which
is hulking the crew of the Commodore's flag-ship Penelope.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen, Master
Commanding, proceeded to St. Helen's to-day with Ad-
miralty dispatches for Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour.
We regret to announce that Mr. Alfred Balliston, Acting -
Master Commanding her Majesty's dispatch yacht Elfin, met
with an accident whilst on duty with his vessel in attendance
upon the Queen's commands yesterday, at Cowes, by falling
off the paddle-box.
PLYMOUTH, MONDAT,—Her Majesty's seam-vessel Alecto
arrived on Sunday, at noon, from Woolwich and Portsmouth.
She will be paid advance of wages here and proceed to the
coast of Africa.

The Sanspariel, 80, screw-propeller steam-ship, was
launched from No. 5 slip on Tuesday, March 18, at four P.M.
Her dimensions are as follows :—Length, 200 ft. 6 in.;
breadth, 52 ft. 2 in.; depth in hold, 22 ft. 8 in. 'f he yard
gates were thrown open to the public at three o'clock.
WOOLWICH, MARCH 18.—The Black Eagle steam-vessel,
Master Commander Petley, was to leave Yarmouth harbour
to-day, on her return to Woolwich. She could not leave be-
fore, owing to the small depth of water during the neap tide
en the bar at Yarmouth.

The African steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich at half-past
o' clock A.M. to-day, to take a quantity of stores from the
Royal Arsenal to the Rhadamanthns troop-ship at Sheerness
for conveyance in the latter vessel to the Cape of Good
Hope.

THE ESSEX MURDERERS.
(From the Essex Herald.)
Up to yesterday evening there had been little altera-
tion in Drory. Rumours had been abroad of his hav-
ing been attacked by brain fever, but there was not
the slightest ground for the statement; his health eon-
tinnes good, and his manner calm, and he appears to
be sensible of the value of the anxious spiritual atten-
tion of the worthy chaplain. He has not been visited
by his friends since the day above stated, but it is un-
derstood his family will take their final leave of him at
the close of the week. Many persons have been anxious
to obtain an interview with him, some, probably, from
mere curiosity, but this, of course, has not been
allowed. On Friday, Mr. Hammond, one of the wit-
nesses against him, applied to the magistrates of the
Chelmsford bench, for an order of admission, but
on stating, in answer to the inquiries, that it was only
as a neighbour he wished to see him, and that he did
not know the culprit had expressed any desire for the
visit, the application was refused. Of course all sorts
of rumours have been flying about relative to the cul-
prit and his connexions, scarcely any of which have the
slightest foundation in truth. Amongst other things it
was stated that Miss Giblin, the young person to whom
Drory was about to be united, was staying in Chelms-
ford during the whole of the trial—it was even added
that she was in a condition that would render the matter
doubly terrible to her and to her friends; but we have
reason to believe that both assertions are utterly false,
and we allude to them only because we feel that the con-
tradiction of statements that have been so widely spread
is an act of justice to a respectable family.
Drory's victim, Jael Denny, it seems was not a na-
tive of Essex. Up to four years ago she resided at
Fransden, in Suffolk, where her mother married her
present husband, and they then left to enter into the
service of the criminal's father at Doddinghurst. Jael
is represented by those who knew her in Suffolk as hav-
ing been there noticed as " a superior girl for her sta-
tion," and her deportment and personal appearance gave
her a prepossessing character.
Mrs. Chesham, the other culprit, up to last night had
made no confession of the crime for which she is about
to suffer.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—Con Monday the 17th, and the day following,
the debate was resumed ou the Papal Aggression Bill,
with more of vigour than on the day of its introduction.
Bit by bit, facts and arguments find their way before the
House and the public, wbich were overlaid for a time by
the clamour of the friends of Rome and the weakness of
the Illinisterial;measure.
Nobody now seems to deny, that in one way or other
the Bill is not the thing. Some think there ought to be
no Bill; but more that the present Bill is aimed at little,
and that little wrong. It is beginning to be found out,
that the receiving of directions from a foreign power is
the evil required to be stopped. John Wesley might
divide the country into circuits, and make provision
for their governance during his lifetime, and for be-
queathing his power to a Conference afterwards. But if
John Wesley instead of being an Oxford scholar and ex-
horting his military proselytes to fight to the death for
the independence of the British Crown, had been a
foreign priest residing at the French head-quarters, or
with the French head-quarters established' with himself,
his operations would hare been regarded with a very
different eye by the people of Great Britain.
The speech of Lord Ashley on Tuesday was worthy
of the occasion and full of matter. In some way or
other that nobleman appears to have incurred the repu-
tation of being exaggerated; and it would be easy to
cite subjects on which there is strong contra-
riety between his opinions and those which have
been often submitted for your judgment. But the
truth is that Lord Ashley is a wise man, and a goad ;
and even to those who do not ultimately agree with him
on a point at issue,
_ he comes out with an unexpected
flow of reasons for his course. On the present question
he doubles the small number of those who have hitherto
shown themselves on a level with the case.
Two particulars in Lord Ashley's speech struck me as
novel; their correctness being of course open to ecru-
tiny to auy extent. One is, the ostentatious way in
which the modern instrument of the Papacy has boasted
of baring formed himself on the model of Thomas it
Becket. He makes no secret of it; Becket has been all
his life the hero of his adoration, and he comes here to
imitate him if he can. And the other is, the extent to
which the triumph of the Papacy is operating upon the
Protestants in France. " With the exception of the
Dragonades," they write, " their condition has never
been worse." This may be exaggerated, .but it would
not be risked without to some extent being true. The
man must be demented who does not see, that the power
of Absolutism on the continent has come into combina-
tion with a new element, the power of the Papacy,
and that the whole is " rolling onward like
a compact solid globe," as was the phrase
applied by its friends in our own country ;
the end of which is with the Disposer of all events. If
any of ns has ever regretted, that he did not live in
times when men could bo martyrs in fire or field, a brief
term of life may suffice to show him enough to set his
mind at ease.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 19th March, 1851.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MARCH 18.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The only transaction to-day Was—
Bristol and Exeter, 853/4.
LI VERPOOL, MARCH 18.
STOCK EXcHANOX.—A good business has been done to-day.
The transactions were as follow : Aberdeen, 1814—Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 20—Amber-
gate and Fast Junction, 2%—Caledonian, 1614—Ditto, Pre-
ference, 6%—Chester and Holyhead, 2E—Ditto, Preference,
guaranteed per cent., 18—Eastern Counties, 73/4—East
Lancashire, 178—Edinburgh Perth, and Dundee, 1014—
GreatlNorthern, (A), 6%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 623/—
Ditto, Fifths, 61,12 dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 5 dis.—
Leeds and Thirsk, 19%—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport,
1 p. London anti North-Western, 131 c. Ditto, New
Quarters, 5% p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 39—Ditto, Preference, 12 3-16
Midland, 65w—Ditto, Halves. 123/4 dis.—North British, 1114
—North-Western, 9% dis. -- Shrewsbury and Chester, Pre-
ference, guaranteed 5 per cent., 15—South-Eastern and
Dover, 28 - York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 2218—York and
North Midland, 251/s —Boulogne and Amiens, 11—Dutch
Rhenish, 33/4—Northern of France, par—Orleans, Tours, and
Bordeaux, 3'4 dis.— Paris and Strasbourg, 04 dis.— Rouen
and Havre, 12 —Sambre and Meuse, 51 —Tours and
Nantes, 734 die.

MANCHESTER, MARCH is.
Swot EXCHANEM—There has been a fair amount of
business, but at much reduced prices, and the market closes
decidedly weak.
BIRMINGHAM, Manor 18.
STOCK ExarimeGv..-1 he only transactions reported to-day
were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 34 dis. Midland,
50/. Shares, 13 ois.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 'd23/4.
YORK., Mime!' 17.
&roar EXCHANGIC.—The transactions to-day were aa
follow :—Great Northern, 18% —York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick, 223/4—York and North Midland, 28%.

AN ENGLISH TENOR IN PARIS.
Extract of a letter from a musical friend in Paris:-
" An immense interest was excited in the musical circles
here by the Milt of Mr. Reeves on Saturday night, at
the Italian Opera. For the last two years every singer
or other artiste, who has visited London, has brought
back wonderful accounts of a certain magnificent tenor,
combining tone, power, and expression unequalled since
the days of Doneelli' who possessed beyond all question
the finest voice ever known on the Italian stage. This
tenor was Mr. Reeves, and an Englishman. Now, the
notion of a fine tenor and an Englishman at tho same
time presents a combination which no Frenchman could
be brought to admit the possibility of, and hence the
crowd that filled the Italiens on Saturday night; not a
musician of note in the capital was absent. It was in
fact a regular trial by a jury of musicians, and I am
ay de-
lighted, fur the credit et old England, to sahat Mr.
Reevei came out of his ordeal most triumphntly. Real
talent always makes itself felt, and Mr. Reeves had not
sung half-a-dozen bars of his first duo with Madame
Sontag before the public felt that a great singer stood
before them; and the manly amplitude of the style
with which he poured forth the andante ear fog
t ed9wn
a thundering round of applause, which wes
telocwod up
by prolonged and enthusiastic plauditsA at h
_1 se of
the duet, and settled the question that Ir. Sims,,.Reeves
—(I wish he would get rid of that infernal Sims")—
is fully entitled to the first rank as a tenor, quoique an
Englishman! lie delivered the recitative in his ea vatina
with great expression, and gave the
"Sc Canto in ire"
air with a mingled power and sentiment that won him
another triumph, and set the seal upon his success. A
concluding duet with Linda comprises all he has to sing,
which gloriously concluded the opera, leaving but oue
disappointment upon the mind of the auditory, that he
bad sot had much more to sing. In addition to one of
the noblest tenor voices ever heard in Paris, Mr. Reeves
appears to possess musician-like qualities of a very high
order, and above all a perfect mastery over his immense
organ, which reaches the celebrated ut of Duprez with
marvellous ease. His modulation will require some im-
provement, for his sotto voce passages, which delighted
those of the audience near the stage, were nearly un-
heard on the second circle. To conclude; this debit was
a most successful hit, and will bring the season splen-
didly to its conclusion. We are now anxiously looking

CLIILD MURDER IN HOLDERNESS.-011 Tuesday a
country girl, named Sarah Harrison, aged 27, was
brought before Messrs. Edward Gibson, Keiro Wat-
son, and Robert Harrison, at the Sculcoates- hall,
on the charge of having murdered her female child.
The evidence entered into showed that on the Tuesday
previous the body of a female child, verging on a state
of decomposition, and with its side completely ripped
open, was found in a ditch in the township of Thirtleby,_►,),, a
man named James Kendal, a labourer in the emptlromver;
Hyam. of Thirtleby. An inquest was accordingly
put into the
the body by Mr. Iveson, the coroner for
tthheencustriet, but
adjourned to Thursday next. The case wasinendent constable
hands of Mr. Anthony Coulthard,
fcur hours after the
he succeeded in ap.
of the middle division of, Holderness,suantC?
prehending the prisoner within twenty-fear y 5,
1 Alicia-street, Hull,
adjournment of the inquest, at
gved with a Mr. Dunn, of Hutnbleton,
with her father and mother. It ap-
peared that she hadnpegnant,
she left Mr. Dunn, and went
but, on finding herself
to the Skirlaugh Union, where she was delivered of a child
She left the union on the 4th of
on the 14th of Jan ry-
u that she was returning to Mr. Dunn's
February, tel them ,
- She seems to have remained at Mr.
at Humbleton. Dana's
when she left, and came to Hull on
about a week,Tuesday,
the 4th inst. She then went to the house of a person , f the
nameef
Ann Hague, to whom she gave the infant's clothes,
stating to her that the child died at the union, and had been
buried there. A post mortent examination of the body was
made by Dr. Kirk, of Hedon, and it appeared that the child
had been killed by two stabs in the side, from the spine of
the back to the breast bone. The prisoner, who cried bit-
terly while the case was proceeding, was committed to the
assizes by the magistrates, and was conveyed to York Castle
on the same evening, in the custody of Mr. Coulthard.—Hull
Advertiser.

Love—a passion which has caused the change of
empires—a passion which has inspired heroism, and subdued
avarice a passion which he who never felt never was happy;
and he who laughs at never deserves to feel.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.

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