The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-22 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1851.

ALLEGEDFRAIID AND CONSPIRACY.—The Brighton
bench of magistrates were occupied for some time yesterday
with an examination of the bail offered in the case of Broome,
Staden, and James, who stand committed on a charge of
cor.spiring to cheat and defraud Mr. W. Hemp, of Becton
Villa, Hereford, of three 1001. bills, and about 201. cash. Mr.
Sill, of Tavistock-row, London, was in attendance for the
prosecution. Mr. Henry Nottidge, who was offered as bail
for Staden, stated that he was a cook and confectioner, re-
siding at 2, Allington-street, Pimlico, and had lived
.there
and next door for fourteen years, and was worth the required
sum of 1001. On further examination, be stated himself to
be cook at the Argyle Larder, Panton-street, Hayroarket—a
night house, which closes at two o'clock. He said he had
offered 5001. for that house, but there was a difference about
the painting. Before he (Nottidge) went to the Argyle
Larder he was cook at the Argyle Rooms. He used to ex-
hibit in the poses plastiques in Windmill-street ; he repre-
sented " Mercury," and the " Dying Gladiator." Besides his
lease, for which he gave 3001., and his furniture, he had
590/. in the Bank. The magistrates were disposed to accept
him as bail, but the case eventually stood over. Another
person offered as bail was Mr. H. Spark, 25, 0/tendon-street,
Haymarket, carpenter, builder, and undertaker, but he be-
came somewhat excited in cross-examination, declaring that
be would not submit to be questioned about the details of
his affairs, and the magistrates said they had not the means
of being satisfied of his sufficiency. Mr. Lewis tendered Mr.
M'Laren as one of the bail for Broome, but the magistrates
declined 'having
,having any examination in the absence of the se-
cond bait
TUE LILY AND THE BEE."—Such is the title of
Mr. Warren's recently announced prologue or romance of
the Crystal Palace—a title which has as greatly excited cu-
riosity, as the work itself has created expectation. We un-
derstand that the Continent has shown great anxiety for
early copies for translation; and we ourselves are somewhat
curious to see from what point of view such a writer will
regard this marvel of the a What produced hiden under the
name " Lily and Bee,' ha sealready speculation.
We have heard it suggested that Mr. Warren is favourable
to the conversion of the Crystal Palace into a garden, and
symbolizes its present industrial character under the " Bee,"
and its proposed floral character under the " Lily." A few
days, however, will set this matter at rest.—Dublin Daily
Express.
BALLOON ASCENT FROM CREMORNE-GARDENS.--
The host who drinks his own wine gives mute though elo-
quent testimony to its excellence, and when the director of
Cremorne-gardens goes up in his own balloon, he proves
that he has no wish for others to undergo a peril— or it
should rather be said have an enjoyment—which he is un-
willing himself to share. Such an occurrence took place last
night at Cremorne-gardens, when Mr. Simpson made one of
a party, consisting of jthe celebrated Spanish aeronaut, Giu-
seppe Lunardini, and two ladies, said to be scions of an emi-
nent mercantile house in the city, who had resolved to try
the freshness of mid air under such secure guardianship.
The ascent was eminently beautiful and prosperous on this
occasion, and after a delightful voyage, an easy descent
was effected on Pluinpstead Marshes. The whole party re-
turned, in full enjoyment of their aerial excursion, to Crc-
morne-gardens at an early hour, when their presence was
greeted with shouts of welcome from the many thousands
of spectators who had witnessed the ascent only a short two
hours previously.
BRITISH ARCirmOLOGIC AL A ssocrATlorc—The first
excursion of this society took glace on Tuesday, on which
day a party of about ninety ladies and gentlemen lett Derby
for Chesterfield, from whence they proceeded to Balsover
Castle. After making a tour of the house and adjoining
ruins, the p:rty were conveyed to Hardwick Hall, the resi-
dence of the Duke of Devonshire, where, having made a
minute inspection of all that was rich and curious, the
visitors were ushered to the banquetting-room, in which an
excellent cold lunch had been provided for them. The next
place visited was the Manor-house of South Wingfield, the
ruins of which are situated on a wooded eminence. From
the inspection of these remains the party proceeded to the
railway station, and reached Derby about nine 00104 in the
evening.

cArraoLic DEFENCE ASSOCIATION.
(From the Times.)
The " great aggregate meeting," convened at Dub-
lin, has fairly come off; the " Catholic Defence As-
sociation" is formally constituted and established, and
the world has learnt as much as it was thought advis-
able to disclose of the designs and resolutions of its
members. Tue meeting was intended to have been
politically as well as ecclesiastically " Catholic," and
a Lancashire baronet stood forth with an Edinburgh
divine to typify the union of the kingdoms in those
halls which had been solemnly dedicated to the cause
of Repeal. This attempt, however, was unsuccessful.
The proceedings were emphatically Irish from first to
last—lrish in their audacity, Irish in their illegality,
Irish in their inconsequence, and Irish in their con-
tradictions. Dr. WHale moved a declaration that
Ministers had forfeited a confidence which he admitted
they never possessed, and betrayed a trust with which
he acknowledged they had never been charged. One
speaker defined the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill as an
" atrocious and Algerine enactment ;" another de-
scribed it as an empty counterfeit, absolutely impotent
for any object at all. The statute in qaeation was suc-
cessively represented as destructive and harmless, as
ing every office of religion, and as doing more
good than evil, as a piece of diabolical subtlety, and
as a specimen of nonsensical folly. Mr. Moore chal-
lenged the entire audience to say whether there was
the smallest reality in the grievance against which he
was urging them to protest ; and his hearers, we are
told, rose in a mass and declared, with the " most
vehement cheering," that "no Government under
heaven" could do that which they had just resolved
Lord John Russell had done. In his brief speech
the Hon. Gentleman embodied the logic and convic-
tions of his countrymen. lie said that the Bill
against the Roman Catholic titles was wholly depen-
dent for effect on the " forbearance, moderation, and
compassion" of Roman Catholic prelates. He said
that it existed only by supposition, but that he never-
theless " defied, spat upon, and scorned it." In se-
conding a resolution that " Catholics were precluded
from the enjoyment of their religion," he
triumphantly affirmed that this religion stood
just where it did before, " all statutes to
the contrary notwithstanding ;" and, after re-
cording his own determined opposition to
the measure at every stage, and testifying his still
lively indignation by his conduct that day, he con-
cluded with a remark, that "on the whole he did not
regret the passing of the Bill." Finally, a meeting as-
sembled to protest against the proscription of certain
titles asserted their practical belief that no such titles
were proscribed, and constituted twenty-eight prelates
with territorial designations a committee for securing
territorial designations to these very men. It needed
only to complete the character of the proceeding that
some one should have appeared on the platform and
regretted his utter inability to be present.
Irish resolutions, however, are seldom the less mis-
chievous for being contradictory, nor are our readers
likely to be deceived respecting the true intent and
meaning of these extraordinary transactions. Dr.
Cullen, after violating the law in his own signature,
and approving a systematic repetition of the offence
throughout the proceedings of the day, was pleased to
close the meeting with the characteristic remark that
" What had taken place would make them all better
subjects, better Christians, and better able for the ful-
filment of their duties." What, in Dr. Cullen's opinion,
may be the obligations of a subject, we cannot at-
tempt to define; but the purport of the resolutions,
which, " when properly understood, could cflaud no-
body," was to hurl defiance at the law, and compel
the Imperial Legislature to rescind its most solemn
acts under menace of intolerable agitation. It is
quite true that, apart from the assumptions of
illegal titles, there is little to distinguish the trans-
actions before us from the ordinary proceedings of
Englishmen under similar circumstances. When
we conceive objections to any particular law, we
attend public meetings, we record protests, we pass
resolutions, we nominate committees, and we sub-
scribe funds. We are not very squeamish, either,
in the language we employ, and the offences of
Her Majesty's Government" are often stigma-
tized in strong idiomatic phraseology. But we do
not proclaim the duty of general disobedience to
the law of the land in furtherance of our parti-
cular desires. High words have been used about
the army estimates, about the franchise, about
chicory, and about the malt. tax, but, until the law
is altered, all parties concur in obeying it as it
stands. If the agitators have a good case they are
ultimately successful; if not, their clamour dies
away. In Ireland the case differs altogether. The
agitators of that country have been taught one method
only of extorting compliance with the demands they
are pleased to prefer on the Legislature of the empire,
and this method is to make Ireland ungovernable till
they are satisfied. By exerting the influence of an
unscrupulous priesthood, and abusing the suscepti-
bilities of an ignorant and suffering peasantry they
have heretofore succeeded at their will in producing
such social disorganization and misery as half. scared
and half seduced their opponents into surrender. They
have now proclaimed the same tactics again. They
have publicly asserted their intention of violating a
law which was passed by larger majorities and dic-
tated by more powerful opinion than had ever been
witnessed since the days of Pitt. In executing their
resolutions they will stop at no excess of agitation
or turbulence. Tney will thwart, oppose, and as far
as in them lies, suspend the improvement of the land,
the education of the people, and the pacification of the
country. They will evoke all that Ireland contains
of wretchedness, atrocity, and passion, and will
marshal their millions of deluded followers in delibe-
rate defiance of authority and order.
No good can be done by disguising these facts, and
it is on many accounts desirable to look the matter
steadily in the face. Ultimately these Irish tactics
proceed on the assumption that under a certain
amount of annoyance England must give way. We
do not presume that even in the aggregate of bluster-
ing mountebanks collected in the Rotunda there was
a single man who doubted the absolute power of the
Imperial Legislature to enforce its decrees from the
shores of Donegal to the coasts of Cork against any
conceivable resistance. The strength of England, if
once exerted in earnest, would crush these devices of
insurgency fur many a long year to come. It is on
our own indisposition to severity that the
hopes of the agitators are built. But there
must be a limit to these concessions, and
Dr. Cullen and his colleagues should con-
sider whether this limit may not soon be
reached. It is very troublesome, very costly, and
very painful to be under the necessity of maintaining
large forces in Ireland, and to be living from day to
day under those conditions of discord, hatred, and col-
lision which the Pope's representatives know so well
how to create ; but it is still more painful, and must,
in the end, be still more costly, to leave in such hands
as these a practical veto on the decrees of the Imperial
Parliament. For, as all must see, the menace with
which we are threatened, now is available for every
occasion alike, and, if it is permitted to be effectual,
it will vest the power of decision in the last appeal,
not in the Queen, Lords, and Commons of our Con-
stitution, but in the priestly demagogues of the
Irish Rotunda. It is not a mere question of titles
or privileges, but a contest for supreme authority.
If the " Catholic Defence Association" can
dictate a recantation to the English people on such a
point as this they can do so on any point which
may be raised, and it will always be in the power of
the Pope's nominees to compel the enactment or repeal
of laws as they may think fit or expedient. In self-
defence, therefore, we must take our stand, and main-
tain our rights. We yielded in the case of Catholic
Emancipation, for there was really a grievance which,
for two generations, had been recognised by liberally-
minded statesmen. But the voice which spoke last
autumn, throughout the length and breadth of Eng-
land, will not be silenced at the bidding of an Italian
monk. We have our convictions, if Irishmen have
theirs ; and, although we assented to what Irishmen
asked for themselves, we are not likely to permit them
to dictate to us. An agitation in Dublin to enforce
the claims of the Pope in 'Westminster is a flight
even above the natural impudence of the Rotunda, as
it will assuredly prove beyond the well-tried patience
of Englishmen. Dr. Cullen has thrown down the
glove with a challenge in which the dissimulation of
the hypccrite ill conceals the designs of the agitator.
The people of the kingdom have expressed their will
in a simple and most considerate law. They will see
that this law is obeyed, and Dr. Cullen will soon find
that he has calculated too far on the forbearance of
those whose weakness is only a reluctance to exert
heir strength.

GOOD NEWS FOR NOVEL READERS....a new
work, from the pen of the author of "The Wife's Sister; or, ,
the Forbidden Marriage," to be entitled " Life and its Les-
sons," is, it seems, on the eve of publication, and there can be
little doubt that the talented niece of the celebrated novelist,
Miss Austen, will turn so fertile a theme to rare account.
This new
om
new Work of Fiction is said to he founded on the fair
writer's n
experience of Men and Manners, and her main
object to be, as in the writings of Miss Edgeworth, to hold
out a timely warning to the young and inexperienced, in
order to save them as far as possible from the trials, tempta-
tions, and disappointments which all are more or less likely
to experience in their journey through life.
MANSLAUGHTER.— Yesterday a carman, named
Daniel Tubitt, was committed to Newgate, from the petty
sessions at Twickenham, on the charge of manslaughter,
having caused the death of a child named Cornelius Dono-
van, by leaving his horse and cart in a road unattended. It
appeared that on the 19th instant, the prisoner left his horse
and cart outside a public-house in Twickenham, having pre-
viously taken the bit out of the animal's mouth, for the
purpose of his having a feed of corn and hay. Some time
afterwards the horse suddenly started on, and the deceased '
who was in the road near the kerb, was knocked down before
he could get out of the way, and the wheel of the cart passed
over his head. lie was picked up insensible and removed to a
neighbouring surgeon's, where tie usual means were applied
1 ' for his restoration, but without success, and he soon sank
. 1 under the injuries he had received. The prisoner ex-
I pressed his regret at what had occurred, but the bench were
i unable to look over the offence, as it was such a glaring caw
iof negligence.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.
COWES,
HIJRSDAY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
FIFTY GUINEA CUP.-MATCH BETWEEN THE SECRET,

THE PHANTOM, AND THE BLONDE.
These tittle " uns" started this morning with a
splendid breeze from the west by south, and the "Se-
cret" soon made her beating, the rest nc secret at all,
the Phantom faded in the distance, the Blonde
brought up the rear. The course was the old one,
and the best one round the Bramble buoys.
There is evsry appearance of a good day's sport to-
morrow ; there is a spanking breeze which is likely
to continue; the Roadstead is a forest cf masts; we
scarcely ever saw so many yachts here. We have
the Royal yachts, the Royal Yacht Squadron yachts,
and, to all appearance, the yachts of 611 the other
yacht squadrons, not omitting that phantom ship the
" America," on which the eyes of all the world are
fixed, and will be to-morrow in the gratol match.
BEE MAJESTY'S CUP, GIVEN TO BE SAILED FOIL ON

MONDAY NEXT BY YACHTS OF ALL NATIONS.
This cup, which was by some mistake sent to Ryde,
and is announced to be sailed for by the yachts of the
Ityde Club, is to be sailed for by the yachts of all
nations, round the isle of Wight, on Monday ne:at;
this will give the America a second trial. Doubtless
a whole fleet will start, as there are to be no restric-
tions as to size or rig.
While the yachts are contending to-morrow there
will be boat races, duck hunts, tize,, and fireworks on
shore and afloat in the evening. A regular engage-
ment is to take place between the steamers and the
yachts, and again on Wednesday next, being the
town regatta.

(From the Times.)
COWES, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.—The challenge
of the Americans has at last been accepted. Mr.
Stephenson, M.P., has taken up their gage, and all
that remains is to sail the match as soon as the re-
gatta to-morrow is over. The conditions of the race
are not known, but the sum staked on the event by
Mr. Stephenson is 1001. The vessel which is opposed
to the America is an iron schooner of 100 tons called
the Titania. She was built by Messrs. Robinson and
Russell, and is said to be a fast vessel' in smooth water;
but I must confess I share in the doubts expressed by
most people here as to her being a fit rival for the
America, and am inclined to think she will be beaten
hand over hand, notwithstanding the high reputation
of her builders. However, Mr. Stephenson will have
the credit of taking up a challenge which could not
have been permitted to lie before us much longer
without some degree of discredit being attached to
the spirit of our yachtsmen, which hitherto has been
unquestioned. If he win, the America may pull
down her stars and stripes as soon as she likes. If
he be beaten, it will only be after a good race ; and
no one can say he did not do his beat for the credit of
the country, and that he did not lose 1001. with a
becoming grace honoris masa. It is a characteristic
trait that the Hon. Member puts his trust in iron, but
wonderful as are the capabilities of that universal
metal it is yet to be proved that it is a better material
than wood for the hulls of yachts.
Under the rays of a bright sun and a clear sky,
scarcely freckled with light patches of cloud, the ap-
pearance of Cowes to-day is very animated and pic-
turesque. The moorings in front of the esplanade
and before the Royal Yacht Squadron Clubhouse are
studded with yachts, which it may be fairly said are
innumerable, ihr the graceful confusion of hulls, sails,
and spars, and the shifting about of the various vessels
from place to place, render it impossible to count
them. The waters of the Solent in every direction
are studded with yachts careening over in a fine sail-
ing breeze, with every stitch set, leaving the roads
and beatiug up towards the Needles, or running up
to their anchorage from Southampton Water and the
Nab. In the middle of them all lies the America,
easily distinguished by the peculiar cut of her hull,
her bows and entry so fine and acute, and her stern
cocking up slightly at the end ; by her tall raking
masts; but, above all, by a huge square ensign at
her main, of blue bunting, dotted with a whole
heaven of white stars and by her distinguishing
flag at the peak—white with red stripes, a square
blue patch in the upper quarter, with a circle of
white stars round a foul anchor—the flag of the
New York Yacht Club. Further out lies the trim
little Fairy, with her fiery-coloured funnel, and the
Royal yacht as bright as a new pin. Boats are pulling
to and fro in all directions. Every steamer from
Ryde, Southampton, and Portsmouth brings over a
full freight of gentlemen in yachting costume, and of
ladies in the peculiar attire devised at watering-
places to keep off the weather. Lucky is the man
who has a berth afloat, and is not forced to run up
and down the little mountainous streets of Cowes
looking for a bed with a heavy carpet-bag and the
thermometer at 90 degrees—and that, too, generally
without success. On the beach and esplanade pretty
little groups are strolling about and talking over the
great event of to-morrow, or criticising the various
yachts ; some of the ladies being greatly puzzled at
that " ugly looking America without any clean nice
ropes, or anything attractive like the vessels near
her, being able to sail so well," and a tremendous
traffic is going on in the transfer of hampers, bottle
cases, ad joints of Meat, fowl, and such creature
comforts from the shore to the men at sea. The
club-house is crammed with members, and altogether
there is more excitement than is usually visible on
such occasions among the easy-going yachtsmen.
It does one's heart good to see the Marquis of An-
glesey as full of life and fire as in his best days,
with a jaunty tarpaulin hat and hi
head, a pale
bluejacket, flawing canvas trousers, and a dapper little
walking about in front of the club, with a
hearty shake of the hand for all his friends, and a
word for all around, and then getting into his boat
with a stout stiff stride, as though be never had left
a leg behind at Waterloo. But that the old Pearl had
no chance, I am certain that the Marquis would not
have allowed the Americans to have it to say that it
was weeks before any Englishman took up their chal-
lenge. Lord Jersey and a number of other members
of both Houses are also here, looking much better,
but very different as regards the outward man from
what they were a few weeks ago in London. About
one o'clock a fillip was given to the saunterers and
idlers by the America showing signs that she was
getting under weigh. She hoisted her mainsail,
then her fore and aft foresail, and when ber prodigi-
ous foresail was up and filled, shot from her moorings
like an arrow towards the Needles, greatly to the
discomfiture of a little fleet of artists around, who
wore busily engaged in taking her portrait. I had
a good opportunity of seeing how she was handled,
as I was close alongside at the time speaking to Mr.
Stephens, and I must say that, though her men were
smart, in that respect we have nothing to fear from her,
the start being made only in a fair average way. This
is no criterion, to be sure, of what she can do, as there
was no occasion for haste, the Commodore merely
wishing to have a sail in her; but it did not strike me
that her crew, undoubtedly fine, able-bodied young
men, were at all superior to our ordinary sailors. Her
exterior is so finely smoothed—l might say polished
—that it is difficult to believe till you touch her sides
that she is not made of iron, and I again observed the
curious way in which the water fizzed up from her
bows—it was not raised up in foam breaking away
before the prow as with our cutters, but started up in
thin little jets, and fell away under the bows just in
the same way that water spurts up before a knife
blade moved rapidly through it. Another peculiarity,
and one I think which it would be well if our yachts-
men copied, is that her sails are laced to the booms
and masts, so that not the slightest particle of wind
can escape the sails. Long as her masts seem she stands
remarkably well under canvas. Judging from her
course to-day she steers easily and is very manageable.
With all sail set she is not so handsome to our eyes
as our own craft, mainly on account of the cut of her
main and fore and aftforesails, which are more in the
shape of lengthened, obtuse-angled parallelograms
than our own, and have not near so great a difference
between the length at her boom and at the gaff.
Just as I am writing this the people are running
down to the piers and to the beach. It is nearly 3
o'clock, and the America is sailing back from the
Needles, past Cowes, with a flotilla of yachts around
her. She has foresail, fore and aft foresail, and
mainsail set (her new jib not being used), and goes
almost as softly, lightly, and quickly through the sea
as a swallow skims over a meadow. About twenty
cutters, schooners, and yawls are after her, most of
them with every sail they can set, but she shoots away
from them witlathe greatest ease. Several yachts which
have been cruising about alter their course, and drop
in before her, but the America gains on the best of
them as if they were not moving at all, and before she
had passed the point which shuts out my view of the
Solent, just off the entrance to Cowes from the
i Ports-
mouth side, she had left them all hopelessly n the
rear, the work of about ten minutes.

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SUPPRESSION OF DISORDERLY HOUSES IN THE
PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.-At a vestry meeting of
the inhabitants of the parish of St. Clement Danes, held
last night in the;Vestrv-room, Strand—Mr. N. M. Bates in
the chair—Mr. Lewis Called the attention of the vestry to
the statement made by Mr. Sergeant Adams on the bench,
which appeared in the public prints of the 10th instant, that
the authorities of this parish were unwilling and refused to
institute proceedings against disreputable
.houses, and in-
quired if such a statement was true, for a judge should not
go out of his way, as Sergeant Adams had done, to
asperse and throw odium on public bodies. The chairman
said that the statement of Mr. Sergeant Adams was utterly
unfounded, for the parochial authorities had never been un-
willing or refused to institute such prosecutions. Mr. Lewis
strongly condemned the conduct of the Learned Judge in
making extra-judicial statements from the bench, which
were uncalled for and unfounded, and did not come out in
evidence. Several speakers having addressed the meeting to
the same purport, the consideration of the question was ad-
journed for a fortnight.
1 TOLLS: FOR LIGHTHOUSES. —On Tuesday a return
to Parliament was printed, from which it appears that in the
i year 1849 the gross amount of tolls cn vessels for lighthouses
was 195,824 t. ss. 4d. The Corporation of Deptford Strond,
in 1849, after all expenses, bad a surplus of 98,6131. 2s. lid ,
which had been applied to the charitable and other purposes
for which tho corporation taeeaAblasol and maintained.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

APPOINTMENTS
Acting Assistant-Surgeons—James Long and C.
G. Wolfenden, to the Impregnable.
Assistant Surgeon—Philip W. Govett (confirmed)
to the Penelope.
Cierks—H. W. Sanders, to the Portland ; James
B. Howling, to the Waterloo.
Gunner—W. Smith (D), confirmed.
Boatswain—W. Smith, advanced 2d class.
DEVONPORT, AUGUST 20.—Commodore Lord John
Hay passed a restless night, but we are happy to state
his Lordship is better this afternoon, and may be
considered much the same as he has been the past few
days.
This morning the Lords of the Admiralty trans-
acted business at Moorsheads's Hotel. Sir Baldwin
Walker came into the yard early this morning, and
was met by Messrs. Turner and Peake, master ship-
wright's assistants, and went on board all the ships
building and repairing. On board the Sanspareil
they stopped a long time, and minutely inspected the
machinery now being erected on board of her. Sir
Baldwin did not leave the yard till near four o'clock.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Rear-Admiral Pres-
cott, C. 8., superintendent of this dockyard, is pro-
moted to the red squadron of her Majesty's fl- et, and
will shift his flag from white to red at the mizen of
the Britannia, 120, Captain Yates, on Saturday
morning.
The Sprightly steam-tender, Master-ex-amender
G. Allen, conveyed the Port Admiral and Rear-Ad-
miral Superintendent to Cowes this morning.
Sir F. Barima, Admiral Dundas, Captain Milne,
the lion. Mr. Cowper, Captain Hamilton, &c., went
in two carriages to the Royal Hospital, and made an
inspection of that department, the Royal William
Victualling• yard, and the Marine Barracks. Their
Lordships give a dinner to-night at Moorshead's
Hotel.
Myrmidon was paid advance this Efternoon, by Mr.
Mills, master attendant.
Rochester, lighter, Sudwick, master, arrived this
day with stores from Portsmouth.
By the death of Vice-Admiral of the White John
Ayscouth, Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas
Cochrane, K.C.8., becomes Vice of the White ; Rear-
Admiral of the Red Sir William Augustus Montagu,
C. 8., K.C.H., becomes Vice-Admiral of the Blue;
Rear-Admiral of the White H. Prescott, C. 8., be-
comes Rear of the Red ; Rear-Admiral of the Blue
William Bowen Mends, becomes Rear of the White ;
and Captain the Right Hon. Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
Commodore Superintendent of Devonport dockyard,
becomes Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
The fine ship Herefordshire, 1,500 tons, Captain
George Richardson, may be hourly expected at Leith
from Quebec, with the 79th Highlanders on board.
She sailed from Spithead for Gibraltar on the 25th of
May last, with the 13th Regiment. and arrived there
on the sth of June-11 days; sailed for Barbadoes,
with the 54th Regiment, on the 13th of June, and
arrived at that island on the 3d ofJuly-20 days ; sailed
for Quebec, with the 56th Regiment, on the 10th of
July, and reached that port on the 28th-18 days;
sailed for Leith with the 72th Highlanders on the sth
of August inst , and is expected hourly at that port,
thus accomplishing the round in the unprecedented
short period of three months.

THE ÜBBERLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT
On Wednesday morning the inquest on the suf-
ferers by the late catastrophe at the Übberley coal
mines, Staffordshire, was opened at the Saracen's
Head Inn, Crown Bank, Shelton, before William
Harding, Esq., coroner. The Government, although
apprised of the event, as directed by the statute 13
and 14 Vict., did not appoint any person to appear

on behalf of the public.
The jury having viewed the bodies of the deceased,
Mr. John Ridgway, of Cauldon-place, was exa-
mined—He said : I am the proprietor of these works.
They are called the Übberley Colliery. My orders
are, that no man shall enter the mine in the morning
unless a butty precede him with a safety-lamp, to see
that all is right.
Richard Edwards, of Broom-street, Upper Hanley,
a collier, deposed—l am employed as a butty at the
Übberley Colliery. Was at the work at half-past five
o'clock on Monday morning. Mountford and three
other parties came an hour afterwards. Thomas
Jones did not descend with the first party—
Edward Forrister, Ephraim Mountford, Joseph
Knight, John Goodfellow, and Henry James, a boy,
went down in a second lot shortly afterwards. From
the second descent more than seven or eight minutes
did not elapse before the explosion took place. A
partner of mine and myself descended as soon as I
knew what was amiss. At the time of the explosion,
a great noise and stench came up the shaft, and I let
the chain down first, then, after the chain came up
again, John James got a waggon out and be and I
got to the bottom of the pit, where we discovered
four men and two boys uninjured. We then pro-
ceeded to ascertain where the fire had taken place.
At the south and in the ten feet mine, Ephraim
Mountford had made a rash attempt to save his bro,
ther, and finding him overpowered with the sul-
phur, I rescued him. We found Thomas Jones,
Goodfellow, and Hopkins close together quite dead.
I could get no further, and returned to the top
of the pit, and advised that some water should be
thrown down, which was done. I went down
again after that, and proceeded to search for the
rest of the men. Edward Forrister and George
Sumner were found about an hour afterwards—
they were quite dead. About two hours afterwards,
two others, George Mountford and Ralph Hancock,
were found. They were further in the workings. I
discovered the furthermost man. I assisted in get-
ting the bodies taken up the shaft, but I remained
down. I was in the pit on the Friday previous to the
accident.
By the CORONER—The men had worked for the
last month with naked candles on the south side of
the mine. I did not consider it dangerous. May
found the lamp, which was driven in the direction of
the shaft.
By Mr. Pierce—l account for the accumulation of
sulphur by the state of the weather. The air-ways
were in good order.
The CORONER remarked that at a previous inquiry
Mr. Tremenheere had urged the necessity of keeping
a fireman, whose duty it should be to enter the mine
with a lamp daily, to ascertain if the mine was
clear of sulphur, and it was to be regretted this was
not done at Übberley.
Ephraim Mountford, who was so weak that he was
accommodated with a chair, was next examined. He
said—l went down into the pit with the second lot of
men, but went north two or three minutes before the
explosion. I was about fifty or sixty yards from the
deceased men when the explosion took place. I went
to look after my brother, but the smoke prevented
me. I saw one man dead and then went up the shaft.
William Cooper, a collier employed at the works
generally, corrobarated the evidence of the other
witnesses, and swore that the south air-way was
cleaned out about two months since. He said aWe
made a good job of it. I should think that air-way
was sufficiently large for the purpose."
By Mr. Pierce—The north side, in which I worked,
was generally considered the most dangerous. We
—Forked with candles at times. The air came to us
f ern the south.
George Perrin, ground bailiff at Übberley, sworn,
said that on Friday Hancock brought him all the
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On Saturday about eleven o'clock witness was down
in the mine, and found it the same as usual.
After about a quarter of an hours' deliberation, the
jury gave a verdict, "That George Mountford, the
deceased, came by his death at the Übberley Colliery
accidentally," and accompanied that verdict by an
expres9ion of regret that an inspector had not been
sent down to investigate the cause of the accident.
A similar verdict was taken in the cases of the six
others, and the jury retired.

THE 'WASHINGTON COLLIERY
EXPLOSION.
The inquest upon the bodies of the persons who
perished in this dreadful calamity—no fewer than 34
in number—was commenced on Wednesday, although
the Government Inspector of Mines in the district
had not arrived. It was stated that Mr. Cruddace,
the viewer, who was in London, had intrusted the
management in his absence to an underviewer, John
Bell, but that he was in a public house from five
o'clock in the afternoon till ten at night, at which
latter hour "he was the worse for liquor, but was able
to walk." The night shift went down between four
and five o'clock. About half-past six o'clock ono of
the workmen, John Bird, observed, by his candle,
that gas was aceutuulating ; he became alarmed, and
told Hall he was afraid to stay. Hell replied thatthe
gas was not so bad as it was on the previous Friday
night, and Bird was quieted. A few hours after that
two or three of the men, not including Bird, left the
pit, because they considered it in a dangerous state
to work in. Between 11 and 12 o'clock Bird became
alarmed again, on noticing the gas at his candle
elongating the 'flame. lie then determined to leave ;
and while he was making his way out of
the pit the explosion took place. Bird was
thrown down, his legs were hurt, and he was very
much cut by the force with which he was thrownl
against the walls of the mine. He, however, es-
caped. The noise of the explosion was, of course,
heard at the mouth of the pit, and an alarm was im-
mediately given. Bell was sent for, and he and
several others, as soon as it was practicable, descended
into the mine. Two of these resolute men perished
in a noble attempt to save their comrades ; and of
those in the pit when the explosion took place, thirty-
two were taken out dead ; making,
with the other
two, thirty.four who have perished by this calamity.
It was nearly twenty-four hours after the explosion
took place before all the bodies were recovered; and,
during the whole of that period, the excitement at

the pit's mouth and the neighbouring village was
painful to witness. Most of the sufferers were killed
by afterdamp ; but some of 'the bodies were much
injured by fire and the force with which they were
thrown against the sides of the pit.
The evidence of the workmen, so far as taken before
the coroner, showed that the pit had been for some
time in a dangerous state ; but it is intimated that
there will be satisfactory evidence of a contrary
character, showing that the pit was quite safe, and
the ventilation perfect. In the course of the inquiry
it came out that the pit exploded about three months
ago, when two lives were lost; and again only three
weeks ego, when no one perished. An explosion
took place in the same pit twenty-three years ago,
when fourteen lives were lost.
The following evidence was among that given on
Wednesday :
Mr. Cruddace produced a plan of the underground
s, oi kusgs, showing the course of ventilation. The
place where the pit fired on Monday night was the
first cross pit of the Hutton seam. The upcaet and
downcast shafts are from 200 to 300 yards apart.
From 28,000 to 33,000 cubic feet of air per minute
descends the downcast shaft, and is diffused over the
workings. The ventilation is by furnace. The air
splits at the bottom of the engiaa-bank, about 1,000
yards from the downcast
,shaft. Part of the air goes
direct into the part of, the workings where the' pit
fired, and returns by toe west side over an overcast,
thence up some old wastes to a return staple, which
leads into the low main seam to the furnace. The air
travels at that part at the rate of three or four feet
per secand. The air does not ventilate more than two
acres of the workings. It travels in some places 4i
yards wide, and in others only from 3 to 4 feet wide,
but where the ways are so narrow there are several
of them together, to keep up a uniform velocity.
George Charlton, back overman, said, he left the pit
o
on Monday afternoon, between five and six clock.
Had examined the pit in every working place, in-
cluding the part where she is supposed to have fired,
and left, considering her quite safe. William Hall,
who is killed, took charge of the next shift. Witness
worked with candles, and candles were generally used
in that part. Has had charge of that part about a
year and a half. There has been gas there before,
from falls. Has not known any blowers come off.
Considered it safe to work them with candles, unless
a fall should come off with the workings. Had never
known gas come off so strong from a full as to fire the
pit. sever heard a complaint of danger from work-
ing at that part with candles. Cannot account for
the explosion.
Thomas Todd, deputy, left the pit the same time
as Charlton, and confirmed his testimony. He said
there was no danger from a blower where lamps were
used. If the explosion was caused by a blower, it
must have been where a candle was used. The men
prefer to use candles, because they give a better light.
they find their own candles. If they use Davy lamps
they are saved expense, as the owners provide lamps
and oil. Witness has never heard the men ask to be
allowed lamps in that part of the pit.

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER
The neighbourhood of Tottenham has been in a
state of the most painful excitement since Wednesday
evening, in consequence of a desperate attempt to
murder two respectable women, mother and daughter,
by a German named Carl Ragelaek, who afterwards
destroyed himself. The uu fortunate deceased, who is
stated to be of highly respectable connexions in his
own country, came to England some twelve months
since with a recommendation to Mr. Broad, clerk in
a bank in Lombard-street, and has since resided with
that gentleman's family at Tottenham• hale. He is
said to have had an attachment for Miss Broad, whose
father, however, objected to their union, chiefly on
account of the disparity of their age, the deceased
being 35 years old and the young lady only about 20 ;
added to which the deceased had on several occasions
evinced symptoms of a disordered mind. About three
months back he disappeared from home in an extra-
ordinary manner, and nothing was heard of him for a
considerable time, until at length he wrote from
Liverpool to Mr. Broad, who went to that place
and brought him back. On Wednesday, after having
been in London during the day, he returned about
eight o'clock in the evening to Tottenham, and had
scarcely entered the house when screams and cries of
" Murder" were heard, and immediately afterwards the
two women, who were alone in the house, ran out bleed-
ing from various wounds. Mr. Ryan, the railway
station-master, having entered the place, found Carl
Ragelaek lying dead in the parlour, and a dagger
covered with blood lying beside him. it appeared
that be had attacked Miss Broad with the dagger, in-
flicting a slight stab upon her body, and a more seri-
ous wound upon her hand, with which she bad endea-
voured to ward off the blow, and her mother on has-
tening to her assistance, hearing her cry out, was at-
tacked, and received a rather severe stab in the chest.
The two women then ran out, as already stated, and
fell fainting in the road, and the deceased, turning the
weapon against himself, plunged the weapon into his
abdomen five or six times, and terminated his exist-
ence in less than two minutes. Mrs. Broad and her
daughter were placed under the care of Mr. May, a
surgeon, who reported yesterday evening that they
were progressing favourably. The deceased was con-
veyed to the White Hart, near the railway station,
to await the inquest, and on stripping the body yes-
terday to place it in the coffin, a belt was found round
the waist containing upwards ,of 1001. in German
money, besides 71. 17s. English in the pockets of his
clothes. The dagger with which he committed the
crimes is eight or nine inches long, with black handle,
apparently of foreign make, and it is stated that he
had another instrument of the same kind, but more
handsomely mounted, in his possession.

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.
Our town was thrown into high excitement on Mon,
day last by the arrival of a runaway couple from the
county of Amherst. First came Dr. Williams and Miss
Morriss (the affianced lover) with two brothers of Dr.
W. and Mr. Hill. Soon afterwards, Mr. Richard Mor-
riss end his son Richard (the father and brother of Miss
Morriss) and Mr. Shelton arrived in hot pursuit after
the fugitives. The whole of Monday evening was con-
sumed in propositions from ono side to the other, Dr.
Williams refusing to give up the young lady to her
father. Counsel was called in, who decided that there
ac no lave by which Mr. Morriss could recover posses-
sion of his daughter. Threats passed freely on both
sides, and young Morriss being told that his sister
would not be given up without a fight, drew a pistol
upon one of Dr. Williems's brothers, who showed that
he was fully prepared for such an emergency, and blood
would haN e been shed had not the bystanders interfered
to prevent it. The parties were then arrested, dis-
armed, and bound over to keep the peace. In the course
of the evening Mr. Morriss obtained possession of
his daughter, and thus ended the affair in Char-
lottesville. On Tuesday morning the Morriss party,
with the daughter, set oat upon their return home, and
a few moments afterwards the Williams party followed.
The Williams party passed the others, and arrived at
14°vingstoll (Nelson C. H.) first, mid it so happened that
both parties stopped et the same hotel.
when Youn
so g Morriss
and Mr. Hill met at the supper-tab,something
Pff"ed that exasperated Morriss, and he threw his
fiplate
at Hill's head. Hill thereupon drew a pistol and red
at Morriss, the shot taking effect in the region of his
heart. Morriss then shot Hill in the abdomen, giving
him a severe, and it is thought mortal wound. He also
fired at Dr. Williams, the shot taking effect in the spine
and the doctor expired in five minutes thereafter. Miss
Morriss is a raving maniac, and threatens to put an end
to her existence if her lover should not survive his
wound. Mr. Morriss proceeded home with his daughter
and the corpse of his son, expecting that th© dreadful
calamities which had befallen them would cause the
death of his wife. Thus has ended one of the most
terrible tragedies that has ever occurred upon the soil
of Virginia. Nothing is wanting to render it complete
—love, misery, madness, and death, make up the
scenes of the bloody drama. We trust that so awful a
lesson will not be lost upon the community.—Charlottes-
ville Advertiser.

M. Cretnieux, representative -of the people, cora•
plained on Sunday to the commissary of police of the quarter
Montholon, that an extensive robbery had been committed
in his house, No. 8, Rue Riboute. His servant, Rosalie
Klein, a Jewese, stated that at six o'clock in the morning
she had gone as usual to seek the milk, leaving the apartment
open by mistake. On returning she found a man dressed in
black in the ante-room, and he knocked her down by a tre-
mendous blow on the head. Stunned by the blow, she could
not, she said, cry out, and on recovering she perceived that
the jewel box of her mistress had disappeared. M. and Ma-
dame Crinnieux placed full credit in her statement from the
air of sincerity with which it was made. The commissary
of police, however, suspected the girl, and made a minute
search in her apartment, and all over the house, but without
finding the jewels. A watch was, however, set on her, and
yesterday morning she was observed to leave the houso at an
early hour, with a basket on her arm. She walked rapidly
to the Boulevards, and on reaching the Boulevard des
Italiens, perceived that she was followed by a police-
inspector. She immediately took to her heels, but he caught
chase, at the corner of the Rue Taitbou.t:
her, after a sharp
In her box was found the jewel box, containing two ge'a
watches and chains, a gold lorgnon, a large gold chain, tin'e
simple brooches, eleven pins, three brooches ornamented with
brilliants, several rings, earrings, &c., the whole of.
i and her
of 10,000 k The inspector proceeded to take the gif
over the
booty to the Prefecture of Police. On P the value
Pont Neuf she broke from his grasp, and
into the river. • She was, however entarte_s_dmshiele to leap
On being
Preves-eizeed a bottle of
taken into an office at the Prefecture,
ink, and struck herself a violent blow
o,snlitehe forehead. She
fell senseless, but after a while reco Fred. She was then
interrogated, and locked up.—Galig"a" .
—A coroner's inquest was
DF.A.TII FROM FIGIITiNa•
d Dragon, Hoxton-market,
held yesterday at the Georgeoran
the district, on the body of
before Mr. Baker, coroner
f
Daniel Michael Dutton, a sawyer, residing in the market,
who met his death under the following circumstances '•—lt
evidence adduced, that on Tuesday
appeared from the
Gregory was in
evening last a man of the name of Henry
above named, in company with several
th© public house.,F
(Dutton), all of
among whom was tn., ueceasaul
other men.
h m were playing at bagatelle and :kitties. A few words
`avi.-eose---, and there was a stand-up fight, the details of which
have already appeared. The evidence of Mr. Biackmore
and Mr. Watson, two surgeons, went to show that they had
made a past modem examination of the body, and it was
their candid opinion that the deceased died from the inju-
ries he had received at the hands of the man Gregory, who
is now in custody. The jury, after fifteen minutes' Llibe-
ration, returned a verdict of "Illazzlaughter" against Henry
Gregory