The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

AVENING, JUNE 17, 1851.

CENSUS OV GREAT BRITAIN.

HOUSES AND POPULATION.

1851 (31st llareh).
tlousEs. POPULATION.
. In- Unin- Build-1 %
hablted. nabitecl iug. Persons. Males. I Females.
Great Brl-
ta-11 an,,
• Islands •
in the
British
Seas... '1675451 165603 29109 209195311 10184637 10734841
England &
Wales.. 3276975 152570 26529 17905831, 8754554 9151277
Scotland. 376650 11956 2378 2870784 1363622 1307162
Islands 1,
the Bri-
tish -:eas 21826 1077 202, 1429161 66511, 76405
London .. 307722 16589 481711 2363141 11013511 1256785
1841 (7th June).
Great Bri-' •
tain and
Islands
in the
British
•
Seas 3465951 , 198129 30334 18645981 9074n42 9581339
-
En,z1,11,1 &,
Wales ...' 29439391173214 27468 15911757 7775224 8136533
Scotland.. 5026321 24026 2646 2620184 1241862 1378322
Islands in
the Bri•
tish Seas 19110 869 220 124010 57556 66434
---
Londetn ..! 262737 • 11321 4032 j 1945369 912001 103q3(z8

• .
NOTE —The army in Great Britain, ant the navy, merc:utot sea-
men, ant other persons on board vessels in the ports, are included
in the return of 1851 ; the navy, merchant seamen, and persons on
board vessels, were not included in 1841.
The apparent decrease of houses in Scot'and between 1841 ant
1851 is attributable to the fact that in 1841 fiats or storeys were
reckoned is many peaces as " Houses ;" in the present Census the
more correct definition has been emploced.
GEORGE GitAHA f, Registrar-General.
Census-office, Craig's-court. June 14, 1851.

THE CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN

IN 1851.
(From the Times.)
We are enabled to-itAy to fartit.n an epitome of thi
grind totals obtained from the Census of Great Britain,
tsken on the night of the 30th of March last. These
results have been anticipated with more or less of in
terest in various quarters for the last two months, and
we have met with persons who seemel somewhat dig-
appointed that they were not furnished with the general
result somewhere about the middle of last April, an
_ _ d

who might as reasonably have looked for it on tha:
earliest day of the month which is specially set apart for
,he benefit of those who prefer unreasonable demands.
The varied and-lengthened processes of common
arithmetic which were necessa-y before a few general
results could posibly be obtained must be obvious to
every one who will give the subject a very little con-
sideration, the result of whicb, we think, must be that
dis appointment will give place to admiration of the skill
and energy with which a work of such magnitude has
been completed.
Let it be observed, then, that the number of enume-
rators employed in this work on the 31st of March was
40,000 in England and Wales, Scotland, and the islands
in the British seas, and on board the vessels in the ports
of Great Britain, and that the schedules with which they
were furnished called for several important particulars
not required in any previous census, and often placing
them in the position of persons engaged in " the pursuit
of knowledge under difficulties."
The "Instructions to Enumerators" is a paper of some
complexity, approaching in stubbornness to a fluctional
equation or a railway time-table, and we understand
those " instructions" have been faithfully carried out,
with scarcely an exception, and that in the face of strong
opposition, or much inattention, or strange caprices on
the part of certain " householders," by whom the
schedules ought to have been filled up.
From what we have had an opportunity of learning
as to the difficulty of eliciting the requisite information
from many of her Majesty's lieges, we are satisfied
that a very respectable and very interesting volume,
perhaps " the book of the season," might be manufac-
tured in the shape of the History of the Census of 1851.
Enumerators have strange tales to tell of ladies of a
certain age who would rather lose a tooth—a loss they
could ill afford—than admit they were a year older than
when the census was taken in 1841—of Irishmen who
were expected to give a straightforward answer, under
a penalty of five pounds, " besides the inconvenience
and annoyance of appearing before two justices of the
peace"—of various poetical " householders," who
" Lisped in numbers as the numbers came;"
who gave figures, indeed, but not the figures which the
sober censor called for—of mathematical " househol-
ders," who have made out among them a XIIIth Book
of the Elements—and of the ravings of the thirty thou-
sand who, though at large and acting for themselves as
responsible persons, seem on the way to the place of
seclusion and restraint, and whose seribblings have had
to be replaced by authenticated facts.
Notwithstanding all these difficulties, the enumerators
had, by the Bth of April. to transmit their books, con-
taining all the required information, together with the
schedules carefully arranged, to the local R-gietrar, and
a summary," cont aining the name of each parish or town-
ship, either wholly or partly in his district, the number
of separate occupiers, the number of houses inhabited,
uninhabited, or building, besides the computed numbers
who were in bargee, boats, barns, tents, or the open air.
This information, us snort us it was obtained by the
Registrars, and had undergone their careful revision,
was passed on to the Superintendent registrar, from
whom it was, according to the statute, to b received at
'he central office by the 31st of May. It is now 14
days, exclusive of Sundays, since all the requisite
tif.irmation was received at the chef office, inf trma-
tion spread over shout 6,000,000 printed forma, ate'
those forms weighing nearly 40 ions of paper,
end the important contents of the whole in
their grand results are to-day published throughout the
country. The fact oneht also to be chrontch-d, that
such was the extraordinary celerity manic, sted by the
various officers under the C-n•us Corntoh.sion, that the
approximate returns, in a manner sufficient for the pur-
poses of Government, but not for general publication,
Nero known a week ago by the Secretary of State.
The excellence of the arrangements by which these
early results have been secured will perhaps be the better
appreciated when it is observed that the United States
census of last year has but just now arrived at the point
which our Government has been enabled to reach in ten
weeks.
It should be noticed also that in France, where the
census has been taken every five years, a year has gene-
rally elapsed before the public have been able to learn

the results.
It is interesting to observe, that the results which
have been obtained of this census in ten weeks are
igainst four months in the last census; and we believe
it was above a year before we could learn the results of

,he enumeration in 1831.
The expedition with which the work has been con-
'noted would, however, be of little value if it had been
ieeured at the expense of accuracy. From the tests
which we have applied to the abstract before us, we
believe that the results will be found perfectly to ac-
cord with the expectations which might have been an-
ticipated.
The decennial amount and rate of increase will be
understood by the following table, in reference to
which it should be observed that, owing to the early
period of the year at which the census was taken,
here has been a loss of 68 days, which ought to have
lone into the interval between the last and the present
census :
Great Britain Persons 2,212,892 The decennial Persons 12.10
with the Cha- Males • . 1,062,213 per centage Males • . 11.94
nel Islands Females 1,500,679 of increase is Females 12.25
Persons 1,946,383 Persons 12.48
England •• / Males .. 934,345 Ditto M ales .. 12.25
Females 1,012,043 C Females 12,69

Persons 245,237 Persons 9.55
Scotland ...... / Males.. 116,551 Ditto •••. • . / Males.. 9.57
Females 128,686 Females 9.52
Persons 18 876 Persons 15.53
Islands in the. Males .. 8.955 -Ditto Males.. 85
British seas • • Females 19,921 Females 15.23
Persons 406,961 Penons 21.33
London .•..• • • • Males.. 184,900 •Ditto • • MaFemales les• • 20.70
Females 222,061 21.88
_ _ _

Had there been no disturbing causes in operation the
increase of the population would probably have pro-
ceeded in geometrical progression t) an amount from
which the numbers now presented materially differ. A.
deficiency to this extent might, however, have been an-
ticipated from the causes which have been in operation
during the last ten years, and which have been sufficient

THE UNITED STATES.

NEw yoRK, 3.—Some months have now
elapsed since tne ',ensue returns' or. 1850 were sufficient!),
made up to show the eggreg-ste increase of every class
of population in each section of the country; but it is
only within a few days that some of the minor details
have been published, which cannot fail to interest those
who have made a study of the present condition and
future prospects of the black population in the free as
well as the sieve States.
New England has, since the existences of the union,
been generally looked upon as the land of promise as
well as of refuge to the fugitive or emancipated slave—
as the place where, of all othere, his relative position to
the whites would he least degrading; and among those
of that quarter be has, doubtless, found more sympathy
end kindness than has been elsewhere extended to him.
The returns, however, do not afford evidence of that in-
; erease in nemeer which this state of greater equality
should naturally have encouraged, and which is actually
raiteitested in those States where his happiest condition
ie that of slavery.
The total increase of the whites in New England
within the last thirty years Ilan been 1,066,294, or 65
per cent. upon the nutru)nr existin4 in 1820, though the
constant migration to the Western States has not been
fully counterbalanced by the number of foreign immi-
grants introduced. During the same period the increase
of blacks has been 1,350, or only 6i per cent., notwil-
standing the constant influx of fugitives. Since the
previous census of 1840 the number has absolutely de-
creased. The greatest falling off is in New Hampshire,
where of all other states most has been done fur their
safety and present protection, and where no attempt has
,hu, tar bets wade to pursue a runaway; yet even :here
the decrease is about two-fittbs of the whole. In Ver-
mont and Connecticut it is also visible, and the increase
in Massachusetts is only 105.
The following table shows the number of coloured
persons in each of those States at.the periods to which
it refers

1850. 1841. 1830. 1820. 1790.
llaine 1,313 1,355 1,177 929 with Mass
New Hampshire 477 537 607 783
788
Vermont. 7lO 730 881 918
271
Massachusetts 8,773 8.6t;8 7,049 6,740 *6,001
Rhode Island ...•3,543 3,238 3,578 3,502 4,355
Connecticut .... , 7,415 8, ,05 8,072 8,009 8:57;

22,:31 22,633 21,364 20,881 16,987
• Including the then province of Maine.
Increase ,bf coloured persons in New England—
From Ig2o to 18 0 ..... 483
From 1830 to 1840...... 1,269

1,762
Decrease from 184) to 1850........ 402

Net increase in ,?0 years .... . 1,350 or 6i percent.
WHITE POPULATION IN SAXE STATES.
185'►. 184 ►. 1330. 1820.
Maine ...581,920 500,438 398,.e60 297,340
New Hampshire ... 311,354 284,036 28,721 243,236
Vermont
NlaQsachusetts ..... 985,498 729,030 603,359 5 l 6,419
Rhode Island
Connecticut ...... 363,189 301,556 •,89,f03 267,181

2,704.729 2,212,165 1,933,310 1,638,435
INCREASE OF WHITES IN NENV ENGLAND.

From 1820 to 1830.... 294,9n5
From 1830 to 1840-- ...... 278.825
From 1840 to 1850 49.',564

Total increase of Whites in 31 years 1,066;e94, or 65 per cent.
Nor will the intereit of the investigator cease with
this reference to the N,.w England States. The decrease
{if coloured people in New York during the last decade
has bk en 2,583, and in lodiana 2.068; the latter may, it
is true, be accounted for by the imposition of civil disa-
bilities which are unknown in the former; bur, while the
population of all the other non-slaveholding &ates has
increased 37t per cent., that of the black has in the ag-
gregate increased less than 8 per cent: The exact in-
crease or decrease of both races itt each of these States is
thus set forth in the returns, leaving out California,
where the number of coloured people is known to be very
trifl
POPULATION IN NON-SLAVEHOLDING STATES.
Year 1850. Year 1840. lucrease. Decrease.
New York ... 47,448 ... 50,031 ... ... 2,583

New Jersey 22,38 ... 21.714 ... 674 ...
Pennsylvania 53,201 ... 47,918 ... 5,283 ...
Ohio 25.930 ... 17,345 ... 8,585 ...
Indians ...... 5,100 ... 7,168 ...
111in0i5......... 5,239 ... 3,929 ... 1,310 ...
Michigan ... 2,647 ... 707 ... 1,840 ...

... 2,068

Wisconsin .. 626 ...
lowa ... ..... 292 ...

196 ... 430 ~.
188 ... 104 ...

162,771 149,196 18,125 4,651
4 651

Increase in ten years ....... ...... 13,575
Deduct decrease in New England.-- 402
Net increase in all the non-slavehold-

iag State:,, except California . ...... .. 13,173
WHITE POPULATION LN SAME STATES.
1851. 1840. Increase.
New York ..
New Jersey ... 461,283 I'•s' ,588 114,695
Pennsylvania ...
Ohio •
Indiana ...4, 983,614 678,698 304,935
Illinois . ... ..

Michigan ..... 39 4,156 211,560 181,546
Wi,consin ..... 303.601 30,749 272.851
lowa 191.830 42 924 148,9(►6

Maine

F 81.920

`00.438

81,452

New Hampshire 317,354 284,036 33,3 8
Vermont 312,756 291,z18 21.53 S
Massachusetts ... 985,498 724.030 256.458
Rhode bland ..... 144,012. .05,517 3t.2,425
Couuecticut .... :-.63.189 301,856 61,333

13,148,443

9,557,065

3,:,91,381.

. , .
The increase of white p.itiulation to the slave states
since the pri shims census of 1840 is 34 per cent., of slavcs
28 tkr cent , and of free blacks in the satni.• States ab ut
9 p-r cent., being a greater per centage of increase than
is found ausang the same class in the free States; though
in many of their their civic tights are the same as those
of the whites. This, of course, the census takers do not
attempt to account for, nor is it to ob:able iv)), cause could
ho found for it, except in the wonderful attachment to
birthplace and early ass,,ciations which nature has so
strongly, as well as visibly, implanted on the whole race.
This it is which induces the einstomp:ted nt gro to submit
to restraints, more degrading than those to which slaves
are subjects-d, ina-anucir as they are voluntary, and
because a ohango of residence would place him out of
their power.
'rho actual existence of this peculiarity has been known
and shown to the world by men cf science and philan-
thropy. who have pointed out the mode of taking adva:i-
tage of it, but appears to form Ito portion of the study of
legislators, who csonot iniiigne a possibility of any other
condition for the black than that of slavery us it now
exits in the south, unle,s found in emancipation, at-
tended by the horrors of St. Domingo, or by the les-
sened production and depreciation of property like that
o which the planter.; lit Jamaica have b,,en reduced.
It has been for some limo rumoured the, large claims
are likely to hi, brought format-al aLainst this country oy
the Government of Mexico on account of Indian dt pre-
da,,,iols, the protection oglin,t which was guaranteed by
the Treaty of Guaiialoupe Hidalgo. The accounts al-
ready on tile are said to amount tu-a heavy sum, and the
full swing document, which is no doubt authentic, indi-
dicates an intention on the part of the authorities to
push forward all claims which there is any chance of
aubstantiatitv:—

" State Department, Chihuahuam, March 5, 1851.
" Tha citizens of this State are hereby informed (in con-
formity with instructions from the Government at Mexico),
that all persons who may h ve claims against the Goverment
of the United States for damages sustained from the incur-
pions of Indians will forward them to this department, so
that they may be admitted and their payment demanded.
" AMA DO DE LA VEGA."

No doubt exists that the protection atturded has been
very unlike that which was stipulated for, while it is
quite possible that the entire existing army of this
country might be found insufficient, even if quartered
on the Mexican frontier.
The Congress of that Republic adjourned on the 2oth
of May. Both Chambers annulled the contract made
with Senor Jose de Garay regarding Tehuantepec, and
a motion was made to impeach the Minister who had
granted the renewal after its privileges had been twice
forfeited. The Treasury Department appeared to be in
the usual state of confusion, not lessened by the number
of those who had attempted its direction. The present
Minister, Senor Yaries, was about to propose as a finan-
cial scheme to double all the taxes, as also to levy an
extraordinary tax for the payment of preferred debts.
Some of the States had protested against these prejcts
as unconstitutional. Congress had refused to modify
the.tariff by removing prohibitory duties.
At this city the number of vessels from foreign ports
during the month of May was 477. Ot these 77 were
British, and the entire number of immigrants lauded was
38,436.
Accounts from California are to the lst of May. Two
steamers have, within two days, lauded here 3,000,000
dolls. of gold tram that country. The miners appear
to be doing even better than usual. The Governor of
the State has transmitted a message to the Legislature,
announcing the organisation and departure of a force'
under a Mr. Morehead, who was Quartermaster-General
of California, with the intention of revolutionising
of the Mexican States. The Governor asks thatone
stepsthe
may be taken to arrest the leader, and frustrate
ex-
pedition. This movement upon Mexico causes no sur-
prise here among those who have
that
etched for some
h
time past what has:been going on in at quarter.
The Asia has just arrived from yverpool.
Exchange on London, 10' to 104,

.NSURARCE AGAINST LANDLORDS.—AMODgSt the
unjust and anomalous laws which are disgraceful to our age
and nation, that which allows the landlord of a house to
seize the goods and
event of the householdeehr ,ast treelnst onfoltobdegienreg and visitors in the
p
such bold relief, that laomm
am amazed b
it shouldt aeid'
caseevs e
et! nshtdanavn eosub:e sweei nn
enacted by a British Government.
are "sure of nothing but death and quarter-day :" the land-
lord comes in for his rent, and the householder, perhaps, falls
through misfortune or dishonesty in the payment. Lodgers
and their friends, both "furnished and unfurnished," are ig-
norant of what is taking place, and their effects are perhaps
seized some morning to be sold. is there no mode of insurance
against thi power of landlords in this manner ? Builder.
FOREIGN VISITORS TO TOR EXHIBITION.—The
influx of foreign visitors to London is daily on the increase,
and bids fair to exceed the anticipations of the most san-
guine: T e scene presented every evening at the terminus
of the South-Eastern Railway, on the arrival of the Paris
special ekpress train, is truly exciting. The great speed of
this train, the short sea passage. and the fact of the steamers
and trains being in exact corres...ondence, thus avoiding all
delay, render this special service extremely popular with our
continental neighbours. About 300 passengers arrived by
this train on Sunday evening, a great proportion of them
an
njdo journey,
ladies, who did not appear at all fatigued with t
the sea passage having tccupied only two hours
rninutea, notwithstanding the heavy freight.
GRAY'S INN, JUNE 16, 1851.—At a •
pension of the
Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Jackson Gal-
t banks; .Esq.,. LLB, and BA, was called to_the -degree of
Bittlitift*liw.

DISASTROUS BALLOON ACCIDENT.
Yeeterday evening an accident occurred to Mrs. Gra-
ham, the celebrated aeronaut, and Mr. Grate:En, her
husband, which perilled not only their lives, hut thine
I of many other persons, and occasioned the destruction
of a large amount of property.
For some days past an announcement has been made
that on last evening Mrs. Graham would take an aerial
trip, accompan ed by her husband end other persons,
the starting place being Batty's; Hirpodrome, a place
erected, as its name implies, fur feats of horsemanship,
in the liensiegton-road, a short distance beyond the gate
which leads to the principal entrance of the Crystal
Palace. As early as 3 or 4 o'cl uk many hundreds of
persons collected in the neighbourhood of the Hippo-
drome with a view to witness the ascent, and these
numbers gradually swelled until nearly six o'clock, the
hour appointed for the ascent.
True to the appointed hour the aeronauts made the
afternece six o
ssarya,crrloaonkgete mheltganfaoir
wthaesascent, end a few minutes
and Mrs. Graham were the onlygiv for starting. Mr.
en
two persons who
took their seats in the car. The balloon rose gently,
and ascended about twenty feet above the top of a
pole which surmounts the building, but suddenly de-
scended rapidly upon the top of the pole alluded to,
and a large aperture was made in the balloon. Tne grap-
pling irons were thrown out, but there was nothing to hold
by, and the balloon again ascended and descended alter-
nately, until at length it drifted away in a northerly
direction towards the Crystal Palace. ets.
who was on duty in the park states that as the balloon
was passing from the Hippodrome four men managed
seize the ropes which depended from it; but this appears
inexplicable, as it has been ascertained that four wen of
average strength might have held down the balloon, and
have thus prevented the very serious mischief which
atterwards took place.
As the balloon approached the Crystal Palace great
fears were entertained for the safety of a portion of that
building, and of those who were inside. The police re-
port that at the time alluded to these were between
35,000 and 40 000 persons in the building, some little
departure having taken place from the ordinary time of
" clearing nut." In a few moments the balloon was di-
rectly over the transept of the ExhibitionTiheaheiro;o
nauts, seeing the tearfully dangerous position
they were placed, let out the whole of their ballast on to
the roof of the palace. At this time the grappling irons
were within a few feet of the summit of the transept, and
if a hold had been obtained a vast mass of the building
must have been torn away.
Clearing at length the Crystal Palace, the fl igstaffs of
which it destroyed, the balloon proceeded, or rather
dratt d, towards Grosvernor-gate, and thence took a di-
agonal dirt-eta-in between Halt aloon-street and Engine-
street, Piccadilly. As though by magic it instantly rose
again, and was driven towa; ds the front of the houses
in Arlington-street which lace the Crie en Talk. These
houses, together with those in Park-place, St. James's-
street, form two aides of t
i) v
"a r
beautd upon o
must
ese
severe.the
work of destruction appears' o
Alighting on the park front of Colonel Nei th's nriesion,
16, Arlengton.street, the grappling irons came in contact
with the parapet. A gust of wild arose, and the bal-
een again slightly ascended, bearing away, by
means
of the renewed foice imparted to it, the heavy coping
stones and a large portion of the parapet, hurling them
on the root, through which they descended, carrying
away in their downward course the rafters over the stair-
case, which they precipitated into the bell below. By
this time the escape of gas from the balloon was so
great that nu altitude could be obtained. It drifted be-
tween the huge stacks of chimneys v nich surmount the
houses in Arlington-street and Park-plece, tearing down
all with which it came into contact—breaking in roofs
wherever they fell.
At length the balloon became embedded between two
huge blocks, the chimneys from which had been torn
away, and this arrested its progress and prevented any
further damage. A burly ot police, under the c :mmaud
of Mr. Superintendent Otway, immediately provided the
means of arriving at the top of the houstetwhere a fright-
ful spectacle presented itself. The car of the balloon
was jammed between the two blocks so firmly that all
means of releasing it appeared for a long time hopeless.
Mr. and Mrs. Graham had been thrown from their seats,
and were lying on the roof of the house apparently lite-
less. The first impulse of the police was to procure
medical aid for the unfortunate aeronauts, and they wets
removed with as little delay as possible to the residence
of Mr. Moore, a surgeon, in Arlington-street. On ex-
amination they were found to be alarmingly contused
sod lacerated, but the surgeon expressed his opinion
that death was not to be apprehended. After
having their wounds dressed they were placed in a cab
and removed under the care of a police-officer to their
residence, No. 8, Liverpool-street, Walworth.
After considerable difficulty the tattered remnants of
the balloon ware removed to the Vine-street station,
where the officials afterwards attended to make a preli-
minary investigation.
Mr. Harvey Gramm, son of the unfortunate aero-
nauts, who was present, in answer to Mr. Superintendent
Otway, gave the following account of the matter:—My
fattier and mother made arrangements for ascending in
tbe Royal Victoria and Albert balloon from Mr. Batty's
Hippodrome in the Kensington-road this evening. The
balloon was conveyed over and iefisted in the ordinary
way. It eras necessary that the ascent should take place
at the precise lime mentioned, namely, Jim o'clock, in
order that the Hippodrome might be cleared for the
evening p,rlormitece. A taw minutes attsr six o'clock
I saw the balloon rise, and noticed my father and mother
in the car. It struck me at the time thaw it was a false
wind that bad taken them up, fur the balloon almost
immediately, after rising about seventy feet, began to
desceted again, and at I watched it very intently I
noticed that in its descent it struck a large flag-staff
which is erected in the Hippodrome, which made era in-
eisien in the silk of the balloon, at a piste us nearly as
I could see, about the zone. I iminsdiately saw
that the gas was escaping, and knowing that my
mother was aware of the fact that the balloon bad got
injured, my impression was that she would endeavour
to sflact a descent in the park. As semi as the
balloon cleared the Kensington-rosd I dlowfd its
course as fast as I possiely coula, and, as I had previ-
ously supp,sed, it dared et en :altitude of 100 feet, va-
rsii,g however occa,ion.dly. Ott arriving at the Crystal
Palace they threw out the ballast; I mould judge all
they had with them. I ,aw them fall on Col ni I North's
house in Arlington-street, and tear away the (rent part
of toe building. I saw them taken down hem' Coletiel.
North's house, and taken to the xurgeon'‘. My father
was almost iesenstble when he was pot into the nab, My
father is 66 years ot lig,% and my mother about 47 or 48.
Tee hellfire, is nearly nestr‘q ed. I estimate the damage
done re it at shalt 1501. I have no doubt that had they
nor thrown out the butlost vrhen over the Crystal Palace
a large portion ot' the root of the budding would have
been dragged uw ey. 'the ballast thrown out was scarcely
suffic cut to break the glass.
Police-con,tabio Thomas Bird, C 24, said he was On
duty at the Crystal Palace. tihorily atter six o'clock _he
saw a balloon arise from I.34t:y's Hippodrome in thefKreans-
stugton real; when it hat arisen about 80
he could itiegs, he saw it descend again,
athe top of the
de-
scent it appeared to corns into contact with Ineedtitais itsa de-
tewards the Exhibition. It passed over western ad w
ee nn -t
flaeoeiti ou that huilfing. It then rose again
the
:he transept, tore
trance, and then making its wee
took a south-westerly direction over
Park-lane
ovweer.nt across the' Ser-
' aptse'netia:l
f?e,vere lof the ft .g a ffs. It.
into Piccadilly, dropped on to a
isblocke aogfmn h.o,uspsseasbeed ova*
Halt-moon and Esgine-streets, r)
r
. i
the reservoir in tbe Green-park, darted over Park.
place, an finally settled on the houses inri.ngton-
A
street, where the car became jammed between two stacks
of chimneys.
Inspector Whall, who had been very active in render-
ing every possible assistance to the sufferers, detailed the
particulars of the position in which they were found, aid
the measures which he subsequently took for their safe
conveyance home.
Sergeant Barnes was also examined, and corroborated
the atetement of Police-coostatae Bird.
From inquiries made at Mr. Graham's residence last
night it was ascertained that the unfortunate gentleman
had received a fearful cut on the forehead, extending
from tensple to temple, and also a severe contused
wound in the side. Mrs. Graham received an incised
wound on the head and several contused wounds in
the back. Both are in a dreuctul state, end are unable
to give any account of the accident which befel them
It is e.timated that the dramage done to the houses of
Colonel North and his neighbours is not less than from
5001. t, 1.0001.
An off teal report eves conveyed to Mr. Commissioner
Mayne by Mr. Superintendent Otway as soon as..
the
particulars rs. G
r aihfam appears to have been particularly un.
abortthe uccid'nt
were correctly ascertained
fortunsee in her ascents. A very abort time
ehseir onnebeaslloople
rustles brought a light by means of which
ched.
A
I Was set on fire awl herself dreadfully sear

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Mr. Tufnell, Member for Devonport, has given
notice of an instruction, on going into Committee on Mr.
Hutt's Colonial Property Qualification Bill, for the purpose
The last discussionmu
of dOing away with any property qualification for members
:Inn material change°use
of
to servain Parliament. the sub-
ject, on Sir Williem /ilolesworth's motion in 1837, led to the
pas,ine of MN. Warburton 's Bill, which so much mitigated
qualification from a seat in the House of
the system which formerly excluded any person who bal.
not a real pr
Commons. o
p
Pue
br
t
liy
c opinion has undergone a •
mimeo that time; and were it only for the character
House, and to save it from the imputation ofdeliberately of the
allowing the evasion of a regulation which it •
strictly to enforce, we is found im-
possible true that
every shade will unite in abolishing any
. , the Liberals of
qualifica-
tion, and leave the same tree choice of property
to the constituencies of England and their representatives
has always enjoyed. Mr. Butt' lreland which Scotland
Wednesday next. a lis on the orders for
0 ETV RMIN ED SUICIDE ''''' —n
n Saturday evening,
Mr. W. Chapman, a gentleman residing at No. 11, Hyde
Park-place, while walkin
near Kensington gon the north bank of the Serpen-
tine,
himself head f Gardens-bridge, observed a man pre-
cipitateoremost into the water. He without
loss of time raised an alarm, when the drags hei. g procured
the body was found and conveyed to the receiving• house'
where every means were resorted to by Dr. Woolley to re-
store animation, but life was found to be extinct. Decested
was attired in the garbof
his -
pockets relative to horse-racing, was ascertained to have
been" a small betting man" at Tattersall's. No money was
found upon him, but a letter addressed to his wife, and
written with pencil, commencing "My dear wife," and
saying that that was the last token she would receive
irom, him, for he could not thwart fickle fortune, and be
hoped that happiness would yet shine upon her; conclud-
log with, " This is my last farewell. Your loving husband
—W. PEIRCE." •
At the recent dinner of the Lincolnshire Club, at
the Clarendon, London, the subject of the representation of
Lindsey was slightly alluded to, and Sir Montague Chol-
mele, assured the Tory gentlemen present that he would not
be ousted without having A good fight for his present posi.
tion: It is said that some of the guests looked very blank
at this announcement, its• it forebodes 'the expenditure of
large sums of money. 1`
.he total cost to all parties of the
last comes for No/41 Lincolnshire was estimated et 26,00 e/.
P .r.iStarigford ,a3ferctoy.