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class of Austrian liabilities known as "Styrian Do•
mestic Invasion Obligations." With the details of the
operation by which such a result was extracted out of
such materials, we shall not weary oar readers—the
general fact is sufficient, that the subscriptions ob-
tained from the source in question are essentially fic-
titious.
We have already accounted for 40 millions, or
nearly one- half of the loan, in a manner which even
those who know least of finance will perceive to be in
no degree calculated to improve the reputation of a
Ministry resorting to such expedients. Of the re-
maining 45 millions, at least 20 have been obtained,
from persons and institutions within the Austrian
dominions, by means the most cowardly and flagitious.
Impoverished tradesmen, aged men, helpless women,
defenceless children, have been tortured and pillaged,
to eke out, by the most miserable pittances, the deficit
left by the caution or timidity of the capitalists of
Europe. The funds of schools, colleges, and benevo-
lent societies have been dishonestly Ind forcibly ap-
propriated to the same purpose; and there is probably
not a single person of repute and substance within
the reach of the Austrian police, who has not
felt himself compelled, in self-defence, to sacrifice
a portion of his property to this forced contribution.
Of the remaining 25 millions, the greater part is
described as having been raised in foreign capitals—
that is to say, the agents of the Austrian Govern-
ment have sent in from Hamburgh, Paris, and other
places, lists of fictitious subscriptions, which are about
equivalent, in point of financial value, to the notes of
the Bank of Elegance. Such is the manner in which
the recent Austrian Loan has beea made up. But
even if every farthing of that lean had been poured
into the empty vaults of the Imperial Exchequer in
sterling silver, it would have been utterly inadequate
to cancel the deficit of a single year. For the six
months ended the 30th April last, the excess of ex-
penditure over income was four millions sterling ;
and, since that time, but little has been done to dimi-
nish either the magnitude or the cost of that army of
half a million of soldiers, who may manage perhaps
to maintain the Imperial Government as it is, until
the intolerable burden of this War Department shall
break the whole system to pieces.
The advisers of the Emperor are doing their best
to hasten this catastrophe. At the commencement of
October the Vienna Exchange was in a state of
almost perfect disorganization. The loan was known
to be an utter failure—no imancould pretend to say
what new scheme of confiscation might be in pre-
paration—neither person nor property was secure,
and on all sides there were distress and discontent.
Even at that time the Government professed to be
totally unable to account for the panic which pre-
vailed among the merchants, and which led to an
hourly depreciation of every kind of immovable pro-
perty. But is there a single person in Europe, out of
the Austrian Cabinet, and pretending to the smallest
share of information or common sense, who supposes
that the price of Stocks, the course of the foreign ex-
changes, and the agio on silver, can, under any cir-
cumstances, be settled by police protocols and domi-
ciliary visits? The whole commercial experience of
Europe for the last five hundred years is utterly at
variance with so preposterous a doctrine; and it has
been reserved for Austrian statesmen, in these days of
newspapers and telegraphs, to attempt an interference
with trade which is as wicked, dishonest, and ridi-
culous as the debasement of coinage, the falsification
of weights and measures, the enactment of
fixed prices, the pillage of private indivi-
duals, guilty only of being industrious and
rich, or any other of the summary fiscal
expedients which so often disgraced
.the barbarous
and beggarly princes of the middle ages. On the
11th instant an irruption of police took place upon
the Vienna Bourse, and fifty or sixty of its members,
guilty of buying or selling Austrian paper for its real
marketable value in hard cash, were fined or driven
into exile; and another outrage of the same kind has
been since repeated. Of course there is no reasoning
with men who can commit follies so indescribably
gross and flagrant. Statesmen who have yet to learn
that a commercial panic is a natural phenomenon, and
only to be dealt with by removing its cause—that
where every man is more or less contending for his
life, it is impossible but that the price of the means of
escape should be enhanced—that it is a law of nature
that bread should rise during a famine, and the pre-
cious metals under a forced and fictitious paper cur-
rency—must be left to that signal correction which,
at no distant date, will assuredly overtake the authors
of a policy that is alike cruel, costly, and stupid.

IRELAND.
REPRESENTATION OF RINSALE.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY.--There are no longer any
doubts as to the intentions of Mr. Hawes. Mr. Isaac
Heard has written to the Hon. Gentleman to inquire
whether the acceptance of his new appointment va-
cated his seat, or if it did not, whether it was his in-
tention to retain his seat in Parliament. In reply,
Mr. Hawes stated that his acceptance of the office did
not vacate his seat, but that It was his intention at
the proper time to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.
The constituency (says the Cork Constitution) may
therefore prepare for the unopposed return of Mr.
Heard. Such are the first steps towards the pro-
mised return of 80 Members pledged to oppose any
Ministry hostile to the pretensions of Rome. Mr.
Heard is a Whig, and nothing more. The gallant de-
fenders, meantime, are too busily engaged in intrigues
for the paid secretaryship, and other little jobs, to afford
any time for the fulfilment of the vows registered at
the great aggregate meeting in the Rotunda.

THE EXODUS.

The thinning of the population proceeds, in spite
of wind and weather, as briskly as it did in the month
of May last. The quays of Dublin are just now
crowded with emigrants, chiefly from the western
counties, and the bulk of them of the most wretched
class of the peasantry. There are, no doubt, excep-
tions, but whole hordes of the poor creatures who are
taking shipping here have not sufficient covering for
the journey to Liverpool, not to speak of an ocean
voyage of some 3,000 miles. A. Dundalk paper con-
tains the following statement in reference to the
" flight" of farmers from the northern counties

"An M.P. of an Ulster county passing through this
town last week stated that the Government were becom-
ing alarmed at the crowds of emigrants leaving Ireland.
He informed the person with whom be was conversing
that the Ministry will devise some measure early in the
next session to check emigration. It is probable, he
said, that they will pass an Act limiting the ports from
which emigrants shall sail to one or two, arid compel the
owner of each emigrant vessel to pay a tax of 41. or 51.
for each passenger taken on board. We give this in-
formation as we have received it, without vouching for
its accuracy."

The Waterford papers state that the tide of emi-
gration from that port is as brisk as ever. On Fri-
day two steamers left for Liverpool, having on board
between them 400 passengers, and those for the most
part consisting of the " energetic and persevering
portion of the peasantry." In addition to all this
an Ulster correspondent of the Western Star writes
thus :

"In my last I gave an intimation of the extent to
which emigration from Ulster was proceeding, although
the local journals seem to have taken very little notice
of the matter. I have since beard, from trustworthy
sources, sufficient to convince me that if some of the
landlords do not soon come to some arrangement with
their tenants different from that which prevails at pre-
sent, another year will not elapse before there is as
great an exodus from Ulster as from your own province."
THE IRISH CHIEF SECRETARY AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

The immaculate electors of the borough of Drog-
heda, it seems, are about to hold a meeting in a few
days, with a view of providing a substitute for Sir
William Somerville, who has fallen into disgrace with
a portion of his constituents, most probably from the
inability of the Right Hon. Baronet to keep pace with
the incessant demands of the seekers after the Govern-
ment loaves and fishes.

EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1851.

THE LATE SERIOUS COLLISION.
WEEDON, TUESDAY EVENING.—This afternoon, at
one o'clock, the coroner's inquest on the body of Mr.
James Currie, aged fifty. two, one of the unfortunate
passengers killed by the serious collision which took
place on the London and North-Western Railway, at
Weedon, on the afternoon of Saturday last, was opened
beforo Mr. H. B. Hicks, coroner for Northamptonshire,
at the Globe Hotel, Weedon.
Mr. Hayes, of the firm of Parker, Hayes, Banes, and
Co., solicitors. attended with Mr. M'Connell, the chief
of the locomotive department. Mr. Conker, and other
gentlemen, on behalf of the North-Western Company.
Mr. Martin attended on behalf of the relatives of the
deceased.
The CORONER having briefly addressed the jury on
the nature of their duties, viewed the body, which lay
in the bed-room where he died, at the Globe Hotel, and
on their return,
Mr. George Currie, a coal and timber merchant, re-
siding in London, identifi, d the body.
Charles Livock examined—l am station master in the
employ of the London and North-Western Railway
Company, at the Weedon station. The first train that
arrived on Saturday afternoon, just before the collision,
was the cattle train from Market Harborough. That
was at forty minutes past three. It stopped at Wee-
don, in consequence of its engine being unable to
take it on. When I found the engine had not
sufficient power to do so, I signalled for an en-
gine to Rugby, which came up in due course. Previous
to that engine arriving, a coal train came up from Rugby.
The coal train pushed the Market Harborough train well
into the station, sa as to allow room for the engine to
come up and get across the points in front of the dis-
abled train, and as soon as it was attached, the Market
Harborough train proceeded. I then brought the coal
train to the top points on the south side of the station,
and was in the act of shunting it, on to the down line
when the passenger train was struck. It is the duty of
the policeman, when a train is at the station, to show the
signals. I did not myself see if the proper signals were
up, as I was shunting the coal train. It is the duty of
the policeman to show a red signal. The signal post from
the station is distant about 300 yards. I don't know dis-
tinctly how far those signals can be seen on the Rugby
side of the station. A man on an engine can see over
the bank for a great distance the red board, but not
the auxiliary signal. The latter is worked by the
policeman by a wire. It is lower than the board
signal. The distance from the signal-post to the
auxiliary signal is 567 yards. It is worked from the
signal-post. I have printed rules for my guidance from
the company, as to my duties. There are times laid
down for starting the trains from Rugby. We are to
allow ten minutes for a heavy train, to elapse before al-
lowing another train to leave the station, and five mi-
nutes after a light train. If I were to start a passenger
train after a goods train, I must allow ten minutes to
elapse, and caution the guard ; but a great deal is left
to the discretion of the station-master in starting trains.
As a general rule, passenger trains are to take prece-
dence of goods trains, and goods trains must not be
started from any station when passenger trains are due.
The witness here read the rule on the point, at the
request of the Coroner, of which the following sentence
formed part :—" This regulation, however, will be sub-
ject to modification, agreeably to the circumstances of
the trains, the state of the weather, the weight of
the load, and the character of the engine. Thus,
a light through goods or cattle train, in a clear
day or night, with a good engine, may be started before
a passenger train which is due, should the latter have
to stop at all the stations." He then proceeded,—
Rule 35 states that the luggage trains shall not exceed
a speed of ten miles an hour within a quarter of a mile
of any stopping place, and on arriving at that distance
the engine-man shall give two distinct whistles, and put
on the break. We always take the precaution to warn
the engine-man of any train that may be before him.
CORONER—Was the cattle train that arrived at 40
minutes past 3at its proper time? Witness—No; that
was not the proper time for the Market Harborough
cattle train, but there are no special times for this train
at the Weedon station. The coal train arrived shortly
after the Market Harborough train. It ought to have
arrived about half-past twelve o'clock. The passenger
train for Rugby was about its time—at 4.37. Its proper
time was 4.25. When the first train broke down I sig-
nalled to Mr. Crawford, the locomotive foreman, at
Rugby, for an engine to take the train on. The cattle
train which ran into the passenger train was a special
cattle train to Thrapstone. It would not stop unless the
engine required water. I sent for Dr. Campbell and Dr.
Swan. There might have been 15 or 16 passengers in-
jured with bruises or cuts.
By the Solicitor for the deceased's friends—The rea-
son the engine of the first cattle train broke down was,
I understood, that the fire had got choked with clinkers
and there was no draught. The engine I telegraphed
for to Rugby came up before the passenger train from
Rugby, and my telegraph message arrived at Rugby
before the passenger train started from Rugby. The
distance between Rugby and Weedon is 13 miles. The
average run between Rugby and Weedon is twenty-five
minutes. The time a cattle train would be
coming between Rugby and. Weedon would be
about three-quarters of as hour. We have no
siding at Weedon station. They knew by my tele-
graph message to Rugby, that the line was blocked at
Weedon. The reply to my message was that assistance
should be sent. If a break down took place at Weedon,
the main line would be blocked. If we had a siding
there, I should put all trains, when stopping, into such
siding. I had notice by signal on the coal train which
was ru❑ into, and the four P.M. passenger train also, that
a special cattle train .was following. Whenever there is
a special train following, the preceding train carries a
aigna!-board by day, and a lamp by night. It is the
custom to telegraph when a special train is coming. I
had no telegraph of this special train on Saturday. I
think, had the line been clear of the coal train, the acci-
dent might have been less.

APPOINTMENT.

Charles Parsons examined—l am a guard in the em-
ploy of the London and North-Western Railway Com-
pany. I was the guard of the four P.M. train from
Rugby on Saturday last, due here at 4.25. We left
Rugby at four, and when we were stopped by signal at
the Weedon station, we were at our time. We stayed
outside the station, and as the coal train kept drawing
out, wo gradually drew into the station. We had not
stood still at the station half a minute when the cattle
train drove in on to our train. I should say at the time
of the collision the cattle train was going at the rate of
ten miles an hour. I saw the cattle train at Rugby,
and had the signal given me to show a special train waa
following.
Mr. George R. Colbeek examined—l was on the plat-
form of the Weedon station, on Saturday afternoon.
The first cattle train came up while I was there, and I
heard some of the drovers complaining of a " tin-kettle"
engine, The first cattle train was out of sight before
the accident happened.
Mr. William Swan—l am a surgeon residing at Wee-
don, and was called about half-past four on Saturday
afternoon to the Weedon station. I saw deceased, and
found him lying on the floor of the station-house. There
appeared to be a great deal of blood about the head.
On a superficial examination I found a large cut above
the right ear, about throe or four inches in length. He
was in a comatose state. He was brought immediately
here. I was assisted by Dr. Carnball. We continued
our attendance, but he never rallied, and died yesterday
afternoon about half-past six. I have this day made
a post mortem examination. There was extravasation
over the external part of the brain, a deep-seated
fracture of the skull was found from the right
orbit of the eye to the left sufficient to cause death.
George Bower, sworn—l am fireman in the employ of
the London and North-Western Company. I was fire-
man of the engine to the special cattle train on Satur-
day, which was conveying cattle from Rugby to Thrap-
stone. There were sixteen carriages and the break van
in our train. They were all full. I don't know the time
we left Rugby. We did not stop between Rugby and
Weedon. I don't know the rate we travelled at. I have
been on this line four years, and was on the Gloucester
line previously. We usually drive at about twenty-five
miles an hour. We did not slacken speed until we got
to the skew bridge, which is about a mile on the Rugby
side of the Weedon station. The engineman shut the
regulator to slacken speed before we saw the signal.
When we got in sight of the auxiliary signal the engine-
man whistled, for the breaksman to put on his break,
and I put on the tender break, and the engineman shut
the regulator, but as we did not slacken speed much, he
reversed his engine. The metals were greasy; we should
have stopped, but just before we got to the signal-post,
the engine flew over to forward gear. The regulator
was then open again, and the engineman could not shut
it. That prevented the driver of the engine from stop-
ping the engine; there was no other means of stopping
an engine than was done by the engineer, to my know-
ledge.
By Mr. Hayes—The regulator was shut when we
reached the Askew bridge. We shut the steam off as
soon as we saw the auxiliary signal. The regulator was
then in order. The engine is reversed by a long lever
with a handle. The driver did not hold the lever all the
way. There are some notches into which the reversed
lever fits to prevent flying out of gear, and when he
went to open the regulator the lever flew out of the
notches with forward gear. The driver had his thumb
on the lever. I believe if he had held hold of the lever
tight by the hand it would still have flown out of gear.
There are valves or cocks, which if opened would have
the effect of stopping the engine. The driver did not
touch them. I have known the lever of an engine fly
out of my hand when held tight. I have been on this
engine before. Her number is 67. I never knew her get
out of order, or her reversing gear spring forward
before. All the signals were up.
Thomas Robinson—l am a breaksman in the employ
of this company. I was breaksman of the cattle train
from Rugby to Thrapstone on Saturday last. We
had an engine, 16 carriages, and the break in one
train—all the carriages contained cattle. We left Rugby
at 4.10, and when we arrived at Weedon, and wo
were brought to a stand, it was 4.39. I should think
we travelled at about 25 miles an hour. We
slackened speed and shut off steam at the skew bridge.
We did not slacken speed on passing the Crick station.
The passenger train started from Rugby nine or tea
minutes before us. On approaching a station I always
look out for the auxiliary signal, and if the green light
is on then we always know that the danger signal is on
at the station. We can depend upon it. The green
light was on at the auxiliary signal on Saturday, and I
instantly applied my break, and the driver blew his
whistle twice for me to do so. We slackened speed a
great deal between the auxiliary and the main signal. I
think the rails were greasy. I can see whether the steam
is shut off from an engine or not from my break. On
Saturday the steam was shut off at the skew bridge.
Between the auxiliary and the signal post the train
started afresh. After the eollision I left my train, and
went up to protect the line. I had my break on from the
time I saw the auxiliary signal to the time of the
collision.
Gordon said, I am a policeman in the em-
ploy of the Neith-Weateru Railway Cowie'', mid am

stationed at the up signal at Weedon. My signals were
on the moment the first stoppage took place on Saturday
afternoon. I was 280 yards above the signalpost when
the cattle train which caused the collision passed. It
was going at the rate of five or six miles en hour. I
think the craLks were on, but I cannot swear it. I think
the passenger train might have been in 15 minutes be-
fore this.

The CORONER here said he would now adjourn the
inquiry till Friday, as he should require evidence as to
the condition of the engines, and as to the starting of the
cattle train from Rugby.
Mr. M'Connell said he would take care that the Co-
roner and jury should be satisfied as to the condition of
the engine of the cattle train immediately after the
shock, and Mr. Bedford, the police superintendent, said
the station-master at Rugby should also come forward.
Mr. Hayes said, on behalf of the company, that they
were most desirous for a thorough investigation, and
that all evidence which the coroner and jury required
should be forthcoming.
The inquiry was then adjourned.
We regret to state that the report last night at Wee-
don as to the other sufferers, leaves but little hope for
the life of the poor labourer from Northampton, who
was dreadfully injured about the legs and thighs. Co-
lonel Douglas Pennant's servant is, however, stated to be j
progressing favourably.

INQUEST ON MR. lINNELLE
Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Wak-
ley, M.P., on the body of William Finnelly, Esq., at
the chambers of the deceased gentleman, Old-square,
Lincoln's Inn. Deceased was fifty. two years of age,
and was for many years connected with the daily
press. He was called to the bar in 1827, and was
one of the editors of " Clarke and Finnelly's Cases in
the House of Lords."
The jury, composed of members of Lincoln's Inn,
having viewed the body,
Olive Humphries, laundress to deceased, stated that
on going iuto his sitting-room on Sunday morning
about eight o'clock she found him lying on the floor iu
his night clothes, and apparently dead. Sheimme-
diately called in medical aid, but life was found to be
extinct. Of late deceased had declined in health and
appeared much depressed. He had suffered much
from expectoration and nervousness. On a visit to
Brighton in October last he had been taken ill, and
had never perfectly recovered. He had dined at the
Reform Club on the evening previous to his decease.
Mr. Dunn, surgeon, stated that he attended de-
ceased for the first time on his return from Brighton
in October last, when he appeared to have an attack
of influenza, with much nervousness, accompanied with
symptoms of indigestion and bronchial irritation. He
had ceased to visit deceased for three weeks, when he
was called in on Sunday morning, about ten o'clock,
and found Mr. Finnelly dead. Deceased's counte-
nance was perfectly placid, as if he had died without
a struggle. He had since made a post-mortem exa-
mination of the body, and found be had died from
rupture of one of the small intestines. There was
not the slightest reason for attributing death to any
other cause.

The jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death."
In the course of the inquiry Mr. Sergeant Miller,
a friend of the deceased gentleman, stated that no will
had been found in his chambers, and that there was
not a single relative of the deceased in town. But it
was understood that some of his relations resided in
Ireland, to whom the melancholy occurrence would
be made known.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The following officers had interviews with Rear-
Admiral Dundee, C. 8., at the Admiralty yesterday:—
Captains Sweny, R. Douglas; Commanders Gayton and
West; Lieutenants J. Dayman, R. Robertson, Bagley,
H. W. Hire, Horatio Nelson, F. Cutler; Dr. Bowring;
Masters W. B. Mainprise, R. C. Alten; Paymaster W.
G. Parmenter, and Mr. T. T. Jennings.
Mr. Allen, the master of the late Arctic Expedition,
has been re-appointed to the Fisgard, flag-ship, at Wool-
wich, for surveying duties.
A court-martial is ordered to take place this day a
Portsmouth, to try Mr. Campbell, assistant gunner of
the Helena, 16, Commander De Courcy, on charges of
drunkenness.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY..—SiMOOM was taken into the
basin under the sheers on Monday, and will come out
again to-day.
There are no more apprentices to be entered for the
present in her Majesty's dockyards.
That active and gallant officer, Captain George Davies,
R.N. (1851), has been unanimously elected chief con-
stable of the rural police for Cambridgeshire.
The Dutch frigate Prins Von Orange and corvette
Mercure anchored at St. Helen's this morning, and
saluted the naval and military authorities, which was
duly acknowledged.
The Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, has hauled off to
her hulk to-day to receive her crew.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. G. Allen acting-
master commanding, returned from Plymouth this
morning, and this afternoon conveyed the Commander-
in-Chief Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., to
Osborne, to pay his respects to the Queen.

Mate Marcus E. xx,i ithett(lBsl), to the Waterloo,
120, at Sheerness, making ready for the Mediterranean
station.

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THE SUSPECTED SUICIDE IN GREENWICH-PARK.—
On Monday morning, Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for West
Kent, held an inquest on the body of a respectably-dressed
man who was found dead in Greenwich-park on Friday
last by police-constable 111 S, with a small pistol, bearing
the name of " Smith, maker, London," on it, grasped
firmly in his right hand, his fore-finger on the trigger,
and a wound from a bullet on his right temple. The body
has not been identified, neither was there any evidence ad-
duced to throw the least light on this mysterious affair;
aid, by direction of the Coroner, the jury returned an open
verdict.

DEATH OF C. A. MACKENZIE, ESQ.—We copied
yesterday, from a provincial paper, a notice of the death of
Lord Mackenzie; to-day it falls to our lot to notice the death
of another member of the extensive clan to which the late
Scottish Judge belonged. Mr. Mackenzie, whose death we
are now called upon to record, was frequently employed by
Government on important missions. He was sent over in
1810 to Morlaix, to negotiate an exchange of prisoners with.
Napoleon; and shortly after that negotiation was unsuccess-
fully terminated, and Napoleon had condescended to abuse
the English representative in the Meniteur, the Government,
to mark their approbation of his services, appointed him to
receive and entertain Prince Lucien Bonaparte, who had
been taken prisoner of war. After the peace Mr. Mackenzie
presided for several years over the Commission for the Inves-
tigation of British Claims on the French Government, and
shortly after the closing of that office, in 1828, he was sent
to Portugal to adjust some political differences, at the diffi-
cult period of the troubles between the brothers Don Pedro
and Don Miguel. His health had failed for some time before
his death; and though he was frequently seen at the Tra-
vellers' Club, one of whose founders he was, yet he had
almost entirely withdrawn from society for the last two or
three years. He died at his house, in Hyde-park• place, in
the 73d year of his age, and has, we understand, lett a con-
siderable portion of his property to found a museum at
Dingwall, N. 8., in which his valuable pictures and works of
art, and a considerable portion of his library, will be de-
posited.—lliorning Paper.

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THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLEGED MURDERER
BARE. —This man, in the House of Detention, continues to
display the most callous indifference as to the serious
offence with which he stands charged, and he eats aad
drinks almost voraciously. On two handkerchiefs being
taken away from him in his cell to prevent him using them
for the purpose of committing suicide, he remarked that he
knew what that was done for, but they had no occasion to
trouble themselves, as he did not wish to cheat Jack Ketch
out of a job, especially as he did not have much work to do
now-a-days.

CITY IMPROVEMENTS. Much disappointment
having been expressed by the merchants and traders of the
City at the removal, from the Egyptian Hall, at the Man-
sion House, of the splendid model prepared by Mr. Charles
Pearson, in illustration of his great plan of improving the
line of the Fleet valley, notices have been circulated stating
that the plan is now deposited in the City Library, in Guild-
hall, the entrance to which place of exhibition is in the ves-
tibule leading to the Great Hall, on the right-hand side up-
stairs. It is to be regretted, that the entrance is so obscure
that those who are introduced to the interior would suppose
that the authorities, in imitation of the priests of old, were
desirous to conceal from the public the view of the deposited
treasures and sources of knowledge.
REDUCTION IN CAB AND OMNIBUS FARES.—The
reduction in fares which lately took place with regard to
omnibuses has now extended to cabs. Yesterday the numer-
ous cabs belonging to Mr. W. Thompson, stationed on the
stands at Southampton-row, Russell-square, King's-road,
Gray's Inn, and other places, had affixed to each side large
printed placards, intimating that they conveyed " two passen-
gers at 6d. a mile." As Mr. Thompson is one of the most ex-
tensive cab proprietors in the metropolis, and as the low fares
will naturally command preference with the public, other pro-
prietors will, no doubt, speedily adopt the reduced tariff in
their own defence, so that 6d., instead of Bd. a mile for two
passengers may be considered as the future price of cab con-
veyance, unless, indeed, the proprietors, to crash the project
recently talked of, of a new company to run at 4d. per mile,
should themselves descend to that charge.

NEW BRIDGE AT ROCHESTER.---bridge
across ancient
across the Medway, uniting the town of Strood with the
hciatiyghotf
in ltoictliseasrteebr,eah)aas
cleonnsgidbeereanblefonubnadtru(fertoinmn
t o thethew riaanta of
r
time commerce of that locality. The roadway above, from
the increased traffic consequent on the contiguity of the
railway, has become also inefficient, and accordingly the
wardens of the old fabric some time since determined on
erecting a new bridge very near the latter, but higher up
the stream. It will be chiefly formed of iron work, from an
elegant design by Sir W. Cubitt, who has been appointed
engineer, and will consist of three lofty arches. The centre,
will open at the crown
50,feet span,
Dock bridges, so as to allow vessels
Fos,without
Henderson,striki ng
and t the ec
a. masts.w b of, similar
large
burdenthe Londonto pass
the foundations by sinking The contractors. are Diessorst;
o be formed upon a series of arches
prin-
ciple.t In order to relieve the acclivity,ciroonare now actively eroplged
inerstubepoan ' t
so forward a state as to admit of a consl%iheircahbleaPrper
covered with Seyssel asphalte from the companys works.
Westminster-bridge. These arches are a good specimen of
portionoa alreadychebsbeing
iaairgne
brickwork, and as in the rest of the works every care seems
to be taken to execute them in a manner which the wardens
of the bridge may naturally expect from the eminent per-
sons
se
whom
are
they
informedhav h
e engagedtot h t toe p
completenkeo
f the undertaking.
Newcastle
has
We
ordered his tenants on the Clumber estate to kill the hares,
as intendtshetowhporeleseorfvethethceinbmirbdosr
estatesfor
areown
beinguse.
Besides
onlyd, andthisboon
sundry repairs are progressing upon various
farms.—Sheffield Times.
The British Contributors to the Great Exhibi-
tion have it in contemplation to present the members of the
Executive Committee with a substantial testimonial, to mark
their sense of the able and considerate manner in which
those gentlemen performed the very arduous and responsible
duties which devolved upon them ; and a meeting is shortly
to be convened for the purpose of giving effect totheir wishes
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