The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-27 00:00:00

EVENING. SEPTENIBER 27, 1851.

and energy. Lord Palmerston's gre•,dt object
was to make a speech, without givireg utterance
to a single expression which coul d in any
way commit his colleagues in the Cabinet, or
himself, to a specific line of political action. The
only apprehension of the chairman of the Manchester
gathering —of Sir Joshua Walinsley—and the other
speakeee, was lest they should not be able to say,
in the limited space which circumstances allowed
them, all they wished to say, and which they deemed
necessary to utter, in justice to the can se of popular
progress. If from the absence of any allusion, on the
part of the Foreign Secretary, to the pro raised Reform
Bill of the Premier, the country is fo reed to arrive
at the conclusion, that the contemplated. measure will
be a mockery, a delusion, end a snare, it is the source
of no small satisfaction to be able to infer, from the
proceedings at Manchester, that the country is deter-
mined not to be deluded by the Whig Minister.
The thousands there assembled declared, without
one single dissentient voice, and in tones which
will accompany the Premier for weeks to come, go
where he will, and travel as rapidly as he may—
that the people of these realms will not be deceived
nor trifled with on the great question of repre-
sentative reform. They are too intelligent and too
shrewd to be imposed on by any mock measure of
reform which he may propose, however specious the
measure may be. They are determined to accept no
new Reform Bill which will not lay the axe at the
root of the existing evils in our Parliamentary repre-
sentation. They are bent on a thorough revision of
the constitution of the House of Commons, and they
will never rest until they have wrenched it from the
grasp of a reluctant Legislature. And here let us
whisper a word of warning into the ear of Lord John
Russell. It is right that he should know that the
people of England will no longer brook those experis
ments on their forbearance, which the Whigs have so
frequently ventured to make. There are limits even
to good nature—bounds to the patience of a nation as
well as of individuals. Those limits have been reached;
those bounds have been touched. Any further at-
tempt on the public endurance will be made at the
peril of the Whig Premier. If he has the temerity,
and the unfaithfulness to the principles which be pro-
fesses, to insult the country by a delusive measure of
reform, after hiving led them to expect a measure
fitted to meet the emergencies of the case, he may
rest assured that he will be visited with such an out-
burst of the popular indignation as will not only
fiercely sweep him from the Premiership, but will
do such damage to him, as a public man, as will
prevent him from ever afterwards filling any office
in the State. Any attempt at cheating the nation
out of that thorough reform in the representation
of the country, on which the popular heart is set,
will not only fail of success, but will destroy for
ever the public character of the Noble Lord. He will
by such an act seal his own doom. He will commit
political suicide. The Manchester gathering pro-
nounced in favour of certain great principles of re-
form. To the friends of progress everywhere else,
our counsel is, "Go, and do likewise." Manchester
demands the extension of the suffrage to every man
of mature years, who occupies a tenement—an
abridgment of the duration of Parliament—the vote
by ballot—a revision of the electoral districts into
which the country is divided—and the abolition of
the property qualification. These are excellent rally-
ing points for the friends of reform. Some go much
further, but every one who has any claim to the cha-
racter of a reformer goes thus far. He who stops
short of the points we have named, may, if he please,
call himself a reformer, but the term is a misnomer
as applied to him. The mass of the people are deter-
mined not to accept anything less than is embodied
in the Manchester propositions. The thing that is
required is, that all parts of the country should give
an explicit and energetic expression to their views.
It is in that way only that Lord John Russell can be
made acquainted with the public sentiment and
feeling on the subject of reform; and unless there
be some such expression of the national wish,
Lord John Russell will have a show of
reason for affecting ignorance of the state
of public feeling on the question of reform.
When his measure is assailed in the House of Com-
mons on the ground of its inadequacy to remedy the
evils with which it professes to deal, he will not fail
to get up and throw the blame on the country for not
having given a tangible expression to its wishes. If
the friends of the cause of progress would cut from
under the feet of the Premier all pretext for saying
that he did not comprehend the views of the nation,
they will not lose an hour in giving expression to
their wishes. If Lord John Russell will persist in
proposing for the people's acceptance a measure of
reform, falling far short of what they demand and
what the necessities of the case require, let us have at
least the satisfaction of feeling that such a measure '
was the result of the Noble Lord's inherent hostility
to all real reforms, and not the consequence of his
ignorance of what the people ask. I❑ this way, the
Premier will find that the country will not fail to
fasten on him the responsibility of bringing forward
an insufficient measure. The speech of Sir Joshua
Walinsley was characterised by much practical wis-
dom as well as by great ability. The Hon. Baronet
went far enough, without going too far. While he
dwelt on the encouraging prospects of the popular
cause, he adjured the colossal assemblage he was ad-
dressing not to let these cheering indications induce
a feeling of too much confidence, so as to lead to inac-
tivity, but to make the favourable symptoms by which
we are surrounded the incentives to strenuous exertions.
This is sound and salutary advice. We must never
feel certain of the success of our cause until that
success is an accomplished fact. We must labour,
and struggle, and strive, until we have reached the
goal. As one of the best means which can be adopted
for giving an effectual expression to public feeling on
the question of reform we would urge on the people
the propriety of rallying round the National Parlia-
mentary Reform Association. That association, with
little noise and without any pretensions, has rendered
essential service to the popular cause. The country
has but a very imperfect idea of the obligations under
which it lies to the council of that body. For several
years they have laboured in the promotion of the
cause of progress, with a zeal which has seldom been
equalled and never been surpassed ; and they have
done so amid discouragements which would have
crushed the energies of less resolute men. They have
worked vigorously and hopefully, when everything
was calculated to dishearten and to divert them from
their purpose. The nation owes it to them, more than
to any other agency, that the cause of reform has
not perished altogether. They have kept it before
the public ; and, time after time, given it a powerful
impetus, when matters seemed to render its progress
a moral impossibility. They had to struggle with,
and overcome a combination of the most formidable
obstacles, with which a great question ever had to
contend. They had no distinguished names gracing
their list. The most death-like apathy pervaded the
public mind. They were without any adequate pe-
cuniary resources to carry on the war with Parlia-
mentary corruption—without, indeed, any pecuniary
means at all, other then those which were furnished
by themselves; and yet the Council of the National
Parliamentary Reform Associatio❑ persevered in their
great object, never for one moment flagging in their
zeal, and never slackening in their efforts. The time,
we believe and are sure, is at hand when the public
will do full justice to their noble exertions in the
cause of popular progress. But meanwhile, the best
practical procf which the country can give of the
sense which it entertains of their services, would be
to rally round them with their contributions. Furnish
the Council of the National Parliamentary Reform
Association with the requisite pecuniary resources,
and we pledge ourselves that before the re-assembling
of Parliament they will get up such an agitation in
the country as will compel the Whig Cabinet to bring
forward a measure of reform which will fully meet all
the exigencies of the case, and give entire and uni-
versal satisfaction to the country.

SUICIDE IN MILLBANK PRlSON.—Yesterday an
inquest was taken by Mr. Bedford, in the Millbank Prison,
on the body of William Stanton, a convict, who committed
suicide. It appeared by the evidence that the deceased was
received into the prison on the 24th of January, having been
convicted at Worcester of an unnatural crime, and sentenced
to be transported for life. The Coroner asked whether any
regulations different to those which the other prisoners had
to observe were put in force in his case? The witness
replied that he was kept in separate confinement, and he
could not be sent to the hulks; and as he was a Roman
Catholic in religion he was not sent to chapel with the ether
prisoners. The Coroner—Had he a priest to attend him?—
Mr. Macintyre said he had. Other evidence was then given
to show that on the morning of Thursday he was seen in his
cell at a quarter to nine, and apparently in good health, for
the rules of this prison require that all prisoners shall attend
the chapel at half-past eight, and the warder having seen
that they go there, he has, in the case of such a wan as the
deceased (ordered to separate confinement), to see that he is
there and lock him in his cell, which was done. When the
warder went round half an hour afterwards, he was found to
have put some twine round the bars of his window, and had
then put his• handkerchief in the noose, tied it round his
neck, and jumped off a table. He was quite dead when dis-
covered, and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary in-
sanity."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH- WESTERN
RAILWAY.—On Thursday evening a fatal accident took place
on the line of the South-Western Railway, whereby a young
man received such serious injuries that he expired. The de-
ceased was a porter at the sine Elms goods station, l'atter-
sea, and on Thursday night was engaged in shifting several
luggage waggons, preparatory to their being loaded, when
he by some means was jammed between the buffers with
such violence that his body was completely crushed flat. His
screams soon brought his companions to his assistance, and
he was extricated in a shocking condition. lie wan carried
immediately to the accident ward of St. Thomas's Hospital,
where he died yesterday morning.
_

DiUitnEas.—On Tuesday evening last a man named
Regan was attacked and brutally murdered by the infliction
of blows of a loaded whip, of which he immediately died.
It appears that the deceased lived at a place called Slogger,
and on his way from the fair of this town had some alter-
cation with a person named Jennings, whereupon Jennings's
brother•in-law, named O'Malley, came up on horseback and
attacked Regan, striking him several blows of his whip upon
the head. (YAlalley has trot been made amenable.--.llayo
Constitution.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BAL NIORAL, Tin JRSDAY.

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Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prin. Jess Royal
and the Princess Alice, drove 3 esterday t(3 the Lynn
of Qusich.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer.
stalking.

Sir David Dundas arrived at Balmoral yesterday,
and bad an audience, for the purpose of submitting
to her Majesty the proceedings of setae courts-
martial.

The dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Baroness Spaeth, the
Duke and Duchess of Leeds, the Earl of Carlisle, the
Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir D. Dundas.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo-
nial-office to the Governors of the North American
Colonies.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Yesterday the receipts at the doors amounted to
2 4151. 15s , the number of visitors being 23,694.
The temperature in the interior of the building was
cool and pleasant throughout the day, the mean being,
according to Bennett's thermometers, 54.4. This,
combined with the partial exclusiveness secured by
half-crown admissions, enabled all who came to see
to advantage the different objects of interest which
they were desirous of inspecting.
In another fortnight the Great Exhibition closes,
the Crystal Palace will have fulfilled its purpose, the
tide of cabs and omnibuses will cease to flow towards
Kensington, and those vast assemblages of spectators
which for months past have made pilgrimages from
every corner of the globe to the shrine of industry
will be deprived of the centre round which their curi-
osity attracted them. "When that event happens the
grandeur of the demonstration which has taken place
in favour of the peaceful arts will be more distinctly
appreciated, and the results, beneficial or otherwise,
which the display leaves behind it, will be calmly
ascertained and realized. In the meantime it behoves
all who can afford it not to lose the few remaning
days of opportunity for the survey of an unparalleled
spectacle such as in our day we can hardly hope to
see repeated. For the first time since the world
began the different nations of the earth have collected
into one focus the choicest specimens of their natural
wealth and their industrial products. Within
a building happily adapted for the purpose
thousands of people of all ages and from every
country have assembled to view the spectacle. Four
millions and a half of visits have been paid to it since
the opening; nearly 400,0001. has been realised by
admission fees, the greater proportion consisting of
shilling payments. The popularity of the Exhibition
became its greatest wonder, and many who went there
to study the marvels of manufacturing skill could only
gaze at the multitudes which they attracted to Hyde-
park. There is a magnetic power about large masses
gathered in one vast edifice, and swarming in happy
excitement along spacious avenues, where their num-
bers tell upon the eye, which eclipses every other
spectacle, however splendid or interesting. Man is
superior to the choicest examples of his handiwork,
and never have vast assemblages been seen in a situa-
tion more imposing. Those who have witnessed the
aspect of the building on a crowded shilling day will
not readily forget the strange and indescribable sen-
sations with which it inspired them. Who can say
that we shall ever be able to witness such sights
again ? It is not a small excitement which drags up
humble provincials en masse from the country, which
induced an old woman of eighty-four to travel on foot
all the way from the Land's-end—which sends a
bushel and a half of watches in one night to the shop
of a single pawnbroker in Leeds, and which so stirs
the heart of private benevolence throughout the
kingdom that even our charity schools, and the in-
mates cf our workhouses, are largely represented at
this jubilee of industry. On the ground, therefore,
of popular excitement alone, few of us can expect to
see such a spectacle as that which is now about to
close repeated in our day. Let those who have not
yet visited the Crystal Palace, and who have it in
their power to do so, defer no longer. After the
11th of October it will be no longer pos-
sible for them to take the measure of the industrial
arts in the middle of the 19th century. Books may
supply them with the fullest information on the sub-
ject, but they can never touch the heart or stamp
their lessons upon the memory like a personal in-
spection of the display. For ourselves we have al-
ways felt our powerlessness in dealing with the details
of a collection so vast and comprehensive. An exhi-
bition which embraces every kind of industrial pro-
duct cannot be grasped within the limits of a news-
paper article, and a history of it if attempted would
exhaust the patienca of the most indefatigable reader.
The bare classification of objects occupies 18 closely
printed foolscap pages. The power of discussing ad-
vantageously each division of that immense classifica-
tion involves a minute knowledge of every art to
which the ingenuity and the labour of mankind have
been directed, and is plainly impracticable in a jour-

nal. For the determination .of excellence in each

department the public may, therefore, be most safely
and authoritatively referred to the awards and reports
of the different juries. There are, however, general
results which it comes fairly within the province of
the press:to point out, particular inventions, to indicate
the importance of which justifies a special notice, and
lessons of experience for the guidance of our future
industrial career which ought not to be lost sight
of. Many of these topics have from time ,to
time been touched upon. Others may not suggest
themselves till long after the Exhibition has closed ;
but now, when the 11th of October is so near at
hand, the discussion and solution of such questions
become more urgent; it is necessary to gather up the
threads of interest which the spectacle in its progress
has brought into light, and to trace out the full sig-
nificance of facts and objects which we have still for
a limited period before our eyes.
One point that strikes us forcibly on a survey of the
last few months is, the extraordinary contrast which
the attractive and the useful features of the display pre-
sent. It will be remembered that the American depart-
ment was at first regarded as the poorest and least in-
teresting of all foreign countries, Of late it has
justly assumed a position of the first importance, as
having brought to the aid of our distressed agricul-
turists a machine which, if it realizes the anticipa-
tions of competent judges, will amply remunerate
England for all her outlay connected with the Great
Exhibition. The reaping machine from the United
States is the most valuable contribution from abroad

to the stock of our previous knowledge that we have
yet discovered, and several facts in connexion with
it are not a little remarkable. In the first place
the want of such an implement was so much
felt that we find in the catalogue a list of eight
British exhibitors showing inventions designed to
accomplish the same objects. Again, it appears to
have been in use in America for the last ten or twelve
years without finding its way across the Atlantic, and
although Messrs. Garrett had at length discovered its
merits, there can be no question that but for the Exhi-
bition the attention of our farmers would not for some
time to come have been so strongly drawn to it.
Another point worth noticing is that the agricultural
interest, that which at first gave the most hesitating
and lukewarm support to the scheme of an interna-
tional display in Hyde-park, is of all other interests
the one which receives from it the most conspicuous
and confessed benefit. To return to the contrast be-
tween the attractive and the useful features of the
Exhibition, it must have struck every observer how
little notice such things as the illustrations of Mer-
cer's and Claussen'e processes—discoveries of the
highest importance to our manufacturers—have ex-
cited among visitors. The stalls where these are
shown have rarely been visited, while from the
automaton toys in the Austrian compartment to
the malachite ornaments in the Russian section,
and the plate and jewellery in Hunt and Ros-
kill's stand, everything that could excite an ill-
directed curiosity has been industriously hunted
after and wondered at. The most deserted por-
tions of the Exhibition from the commencement
have been those where the more useful textile fabrics
are displayed, yet for England, and for other Euro-
pean countries also, they ought to possess the greatest
interest. Manchester, with its enormous indus-
trial development, has its staple products repre-
sented in a remote corner of the building, where no
one thinks of pausing to examine. Vain splendour
has carried popular favour completely in the Crystal
Palace against common place but profitable industry,
and the Americans almost at the cline have come in
seasonably with several of their practical notions to
damp our ardent admiration of finery, and give our
thoughts another bent. It is natural to inquire whe-
ther the Royal Commission may not have contributed
to this result by their arrangements. We think they
have, although they ought by no means to be blamed
for it. They decided, no doubt with the best inten-
tions, that prices should not be attached to the goods
exhibited. Now, in all industrial products, the
question of cost is one of extreme interest to the
mass of mankind, and from that source of interest
the visitors to the Exhibition have been debarred.
The commerce of the world is ruled by this influ-
ence more absolutely than by artistic design, impor-
tant
as that is, and the consequence is that the po-
pular tendencies of the Exhibition have been sti-
mulated in a direction adverse to our manufaoa
turing interests, and favourable to the expensive
and ornamental, but comparatively useless, produc-
tions of other countries. The fall from 2s. Cd. to 1. s.
in the price of admission is a gain in money to the
Royal Commission, and in the same way machinery
and abundant labour make the industrial wealth of
England. If her great merit of cheap production is
concealed from the vulgar eye, and her manufactures
put in competition with the more expensive ones of
the foreigner, at the same time she is evidently placed
at a disadvantage by the contrast. It is consolatory
to think that, though in consequence of this omission,
the natural inclination of the public to admire what

is wonderful and fine, rather than what is useful and
cheap, may have been increased, though at present our
industrial pre-eminence may be somewhat damaged
thereby, we are likely to be greatly benefited here--
after. Our people have not for months been inspect_
ing the choicest specimens of design in form and
colour from abroad without having had their taste
im-
proved and corrected. The opportunity now offered
may at least be seized for the encouragement of the
best systems of ornamentation at present extant, and
perhaps out of it may grow a new style of design,
regulated by sound principles, and at once national
and appropriate.
A melancholy occurrence took place about three
o'clock in th 3 afternoon in the western refreshment
room. An elderly gentleman suddenly dropped down
and to the horror of the bystanders expired install.
tan eo usly.—Morning Paper.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
VALE OF NEATH.
The portion of this line extending from Neath to
Aberdare, nineteen miles in length, was opened on
Tuesday for public traffic. When the main line to
Merthyr is completed, the whole length of the line
will be twenty-two miles. It is a double line, and is
laid on the broad, or seven feet gauge. Between.
Neath and Aberdare there are five stations—Aberdn-
laia, Resolven, Glyn Neatb, Hirwaun, and Merthyr.
road. The principal gradients on the line are, that
opposite to Blaengrach, one in 100; that near Rheola,
one in 300, and that at Pontwalby, one in 50, which
is the steepest gradient on the whole line. The po-
pulation in the district through which the line passes
numbers about 60,000. The principal traffic is coal,
ironstone, and other minerals, which it is expected
will be very considerable when the line is completed
to Merthyr. It is thought that the line will com-
pete to some extent with the Taff Vale Railway for
the coal and iron traffic of Aberdare and the district
beyond it. The event of the opening was celebrated
at Neath with great rejoicing; all the shops were
closed, and from one end of the town to the other
there were demonstrations in various forms—ever-
greens, devices, and flags, appeared in nearly every
street. The directors and their friends started from
Neath in a special train at half-past ten o'clock in the
morning, and reached Aberdare in less than an hour,
where an address was presented by a deputation to
the directors and refreshments were provided for
them by the inhabitants at the Railway Hotel. Many
of the houses in Aberdare were decorated with
triumphal arches, banners, and flags bearing suitable
inscriptions. After partaking of the refreshments
provided, the directors and their friends returned to
Neath, where a grand entertainment was given to
them by the corporation and inhabitants of Neath, at
which the Mayor presided. Several toasts were
drunk and responded to, and the proceedings of the
day were concluded by a grand display of fireworks.

NAMUR AND LIEGE.

COMPLETION or THE WORKS AND FINAL INAU©URA.•

TION OF THE LINE.

Oa Thursday, the 18th inst., this long-desired
event took place. At an early hour a special train,
decorated with flags and flowers, and composed of 22
carriages, left the station of Guellimins (Liege) for
Namur. About 400 persons, being the friends of the
contractors, the chief functionaries of the province,
the directors and officers of the company, and several
of the English proprietors, were thus conveyed through
the beautiful valley of the Meuse, returning to Liege
by:the same route to Flamelle, and thence by the right
bank of the river to the company's station of Long-
doz, near Liege.
In the evening a splendid banquet was given by the
contractors at the Casino near Liege, in honour of the
occasion. About 150 persons sat down to dinner,
which was served in excellent style. The fine band
of the First Regiment of Infantry played at intervals
during the evening some of the choicest morceaux of
the best composers. The room was decorates with a
profusion of colours (Belgian and English), flowers,
evergreens, and emblems, among which were happily
introduced busts of Queen Victoria and King Leopold.
The whole effect, when brilliantly lighted with gas,
was extremely striking.
The number of toasts was limited to six. " The
King of the Belgians," given by Mr. BATES, vice-
president of the company, was enthusiastically re-
ceived, the band playing the national air of Belgium,
" The Queen of England," given by the Government
Commissioner, was hailed with great acclamation, and
with repeated rounds of applause, the band playing
" God save the Queen."
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M. DEMONCEAU (who occupied the chair), and 1471.
CAPITAINE, president of the Chamber of Commerce of
Liege, bore testimony to the importance of such an
undertaking as the railway to the industrial interests
of the district through which it passes as well as to
the whole of Belgium. They spoke of the admirable
manner in which the works have been executed, and
to the certainty of remuneration which awaited the
proprietors.
M. DELAITAYE, chief of the Ponts et Chaussees of
the province of Liege, also spoke in flattering terms
of the whole conduct of this enterprise.
" The Health of the Directors" was then given, and
was received in a manner which must have been very
gratifying to those gentlemen.
Mr. GREIG, on behalf of his colleagues in the direc-
tion, returned thanks. He stated that throughout the
whole course of the company's affairs a cordial feeling
of mutual confidence had existed between the con-
tractors and the board, to which happy circumstance
be attributed much of the success which had at length
crowned their exertions in completing the works.
This consummation was a matter of equal rejoicing
both to the directors and to the contractors, who had
met together that evening to celebrate the final "in-
auguration" of a line which was one not only of great
importance to Belgium, but which gave the most di-
rect route from France to Germany, as well as from
England to central Europe. After some further re-
marks, Mr. Greig sat down amidst much applause.
Mr. STOOKS, engineer of the company, in return-
ing thanks for the high compliment which had been
paid him by M. Demonceau, the chairman, in propos-
ing his health, made some well-timed and judicious
remarks upon the management of the company's
affairs, which were very warmly received by the as-
sembly.
After dinner a brilliant display of fireworks on the
lawn of the Casino terminated the proceedings of a
very agreeable day.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY. -- The Fire Queen iron
steam-vessel was taken into deck on the 24th, as wo
stated, to repair damages done by a steamer running
into her. The officers of the dockyard were directed
to examine and report on the state of her bottom,
which was payed 13 months since with Mr. Hay's
composition. The bottom was covered with mud and
slime, but scarcely any weed; the whole was washed
off clean, leaving the composition hard and firmly
adhering to the iron all over the bottom, with the ex-
ception of a few small spots, which appeared to have
been rubbed off, and would have lasted well another
13 months. This appears a most successful applica-
tion for the protection of iron, so much sought for
now that iron is again sanctioned for shipbuilding.
The Fairy royal yacht is ordered to proceed to-
morrow to Holyhead, and thence to Liverpool, to be
in attendance on her Majesty.

The Victoria and Albert royal yacht will leave for
the same destination on Monday next.

The Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain LTalsted,
goes out of harbour to-morrow.
The Topaz, late a target for the practice of the
officers of her Majesty's ship Excellent, is to be
broken up.

The Bellerophon, 78, Captain the lion. Lord
George Paulet, has been towed into harbour this day
by the Sprightly and Echo steam-vessels.
The Fanny tender, Second Master Commanding
Scarlett, sailed last evening for Deptford, with furni-
ture belonging to Admiral the Hon. Sir 13. Capel.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen,
Master Commanding, did not sail last evening. She
was detained for the purpose of towing the Bellero-
phon into harbour. She sailed this evening.
The Vulcan, steam troop-ship, Master-Commander
Penn, has hauled alongside the Malabar, to complete
coals, &c. She sails on Tuesday next for Queenstown,
to embark troops for the Cape.

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS.
(From the London Gazette of last night.)
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th of
August, 1851, her Majesty in Council has been
pleased to ratify the scheme prepared by the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of
the 3d and 4th Victoria and the 4th and sth Victoria,
recommending that they be authorized forthwith, and
from time to time, to pay the Rev. John Hutchinson,
holder of the first canonry in the cathedral church
of Lichfield, as from the period from which he be-
came entitled to a share of *be divisible corporate
funds thereof, and to his successors in the said,
canonry, such a sum of money as, together with th e
moneys which shall appear to them to have become
due in each year to the holder for the time heir.q of
the said canonry out of the divisible corporate reve-
nues, will nif,ke up the annual amount of 5001. ; and
in case the amount of the moneys so payable afore-
said out of the corporate funds to the holder of the
canonry in respect of any year, shall exceed the an-
nual income specified, the amount of the surplus
shall be retained by the treasurer, and be by him
carried to the credit of the Commissioners in the
account for the next succeeding year, and so on from
time to time, until the average income of the said
canonry shall be again below the amount specified.

ACCIDENT AT PEMBROKE GARRISON.-011 Monday
evening last, as two privates of the detachment of the 82d
Regiment on duty at the above garrison, were returning to
quarters at tattoo, the night being dark they both mistook
their way, and at two several places fell into the dyke, Some
18 or 20 feet deep. Fortunately no bouo were broken, but
memo matikaina were tie Mit?