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oad. thr 3 wife in his compang since 184!, when he went
keel
of the aw Paris, perfumer in the Strand, tateir,„ Plaintiff, deposed to the plaintiff
having no
and brother
Llio ~;€B, at his command, to support himself or
qlt4si, 4‘ the time of and after the marriage.
4:114 4 father smart about seven years ago ; ho keew
ei.of about thiage of the plaintiff. .
gl'irtie B,7„%zined by Mr. JAMES—After entering the
ate kessrs Green 'h
. - was home every year for
I`,SelleelotiZ°Lllloll°dtlotiallsie wentlle.L out last in June, 18 51.
me and solile
114 tree /41e101118 aCjtber• visited.Hsornwiftellne:slled upon me only once,
,eo;let, RO, to quire when my brother would re-
°:11:11, el';:u* rrTayb,a.et was the last time I saw her.
lerk in the office of the plaiutif's em-
t4iciala 118
called to prove that the plaintiff's father
4 i 3 Ihrge 'arn as premium, outfits, and mess-money,
I•Pall• 'tee first v
1,
yonNar ‘ . oyages, and that he only received a
i'reryhe , his
subsequent voyages,
kreteez char
for mess and outfits. a.ely enough.,e
el a ln'inea by Mr• JAMES—The plaintiff's wit
ash P'b Me f • c • .
1144 b er three . for in.ortnetion, but never in. distress. I
4431 tel ieft,, times, and she came to ascertain when hero
I'4 the pcind would return, and nothing. more. I IsePloinotrlittti Was about twelve months in England.
lillliv'ets.ll°! on a voe age to India. He is about ‘',.er,,„g ..is of age
iiknligdirriaewd--The plaintiff's wife never asked me it
tit end rb any Money.
liii, Pod. urgood, assistant to a chemist and drugat-
li e'ree.,,lieM, said—ln 1847 I occupied a house ,
kyalleeta-b'e'. Lambeth, and had then apartments
liht, tee / e.,,184 7, a lady came and loyLked
Aat
ftehwe, the afterre..eiu Lot see her; she saw my wife.
who
lidttibehateda she called again with a
s,,,,?adetre of Mr. Spurrier, of the Reform Club andd
gentleman,
keer geh,eiet- I have since called at Bond-streetwair,e
ediett,
efe,stuan there; he is Mr. Spurrier, thei liqoNlyh thateld-street. They engaged the rooms,._me
11 I t'stabe era as Man and wife. They lived. with
e Rea r, 1848 'when I gave them notice to quit,o
pub I, about e e
'he about
.givine up the house. die used t
ill*tdi'll!' 4,141 in tee morning and return in the
I.ierlllle, ''',„ tB. Warren frequently brought a boy to
liti'tiosti 'he lady who passed as Mrs. Spurn,
ece at iz„ ~ .
,„.tp t that° J aeuse in March or April, 1848, of a
!,It,t,e° that easloe Mr. Spurrier took an additimorria,3!
L'll h 4 ted ii another part of the house.
iltei-gele„,,, aa eurse. The infant was taken away I L `/41, A? ill about a week after its birth. Mr.
1 iN,aliod„'4,,the habit of leaving home every Satur-
L /,'"N sand
11-4 'ar the country,but the female did not
eat'ic,rt shidr°', 1 went tooupell-street with Mr,
ei,r. 'TC teere saw the lady who passed as Mrs.
'e,:tlt kr" house was kept by Mrs. Warren. I
LC.,,''''helil' SPurrier at Mr. `-; urrier's place in Bond-
'llyt,llllloztvet there aboutkaP matter of business. .
le-14 I,,b'Y td hY Mr. JAMES—Mrs. Warren said
111(1'1;4v:4 1-84°,7a1 she bi-. ought. to my house was two
iiite zbtitider;, was told it was Mrs. Warren's
y 401 ergo d wed),
I,i, irtik, , o Corroborated the above, and proved
~i'i'ie`'lcabliertoif birth produced gave the correct date
.tstelq a.
eth elite w_
.I,,'N, It the Os put in and read, from which it
vavir. oseld had been registered in the name
‘41'44 183911 I)ent
O'll, .45 to ~ an, now a lady's maid at Jersey,
lisaifeellg sileesB servant at Mr. Thurgh d
a,esde _ Ylleolierpie r: Spurrier and the lady wo p d Ilaift,t exfon riIY in the bed• room together.
lii. Ilttllty.,g,„4 Perfumer in Maddox-street, stated
s 1,114. s ty `gays ePurrier occupied apartments at his
el e b
e 4 e!,believed them to be man and wife.
0t11t4114
de ease for the plaintiff,
kt,tttlrolte'diersed the juryP on the part of the de-
`btthe-aisoted eloquently and severely on the.
iii:t te,-riplaititiff in leaving his wife alon.e. in
)111,1, fpt'leytiYi fire Years, not only without visiting
ate the t"hll°,ra voyages but without contribut-
- P 'Nil' uer support; and asked the jury to
6i 4t;1114d, ad the misery she must have suffered
t'tot, kite, the inevitable destruction which the
os ' told -",chaed her from, by furnishing her
"
,;''q If
batheTe comforts which she looked in
itt he , Tae
of her heartless and cruel
eiitti.4the -a"ed the present proceeding as one
VII e Purpee , • moey into
Ay soc, -e oe putting
:. a y arid -t, and of di.; racing ands proclaim-
4,oistoel, elltrhe dishonour oilgthe unhappy lady, to
"1. ortunatelY been united, than for the
•1'.11'41 ease] h• - ' -• d feelings, as
It. e on R Is avenged or injure
e'1,14,,1a hi` deserted husband. He had done
rtllteatie Ittwer to bring her in ther wtoay
be
;11 totde2
edefendant was rathe
\ol,let shit ilacia d
.for having affordeda hheor,usaen.
tiliitilti,zS,, tt
,might almost say
' \ti ras xf t. norne, and the protectionm
\,,thq victim " had not done so she
.Iget
i,,,,:' of her cruel and necessitous
it she I:lreBe,,,e,
4 thata the a a picture of those unhappy
\ley iN the Metropolitan thoroughfares. Be
NNII Wow, steeliest possible damages which
~ ~jr,e Meet the justice of the ease.
4il 'I.iQE having briefly summed up the
ki4oit'hafter
ow
''p kelllsir ,Yeea minute's consideration, found a
.•ii.e -q4i.4,"a---bamages one farthing.
llk lersed 4,,,..................).....21........._,rtifyfi=5t5.
,lf 'IL
•I CO URT, —( THIS DA Y)
ik ILI 14
ij, Of
("11 40 'oth -1) couRT. I
.ill .71....
c.•,!,;te;,'11d,r74, Charged with the wilful. murder
iltht t,i`r Ille bieds discharged, the grand jury
41!Idyitil'Itc;
ee:L.llrlBtdia! 6, was
\i:kitkti
t3'. " George Ford. The prisoner
tt. okipetehlete
IN, '44 a the , d the prosecution, and Mr. Hal-
to d e(k PrisonET.
c,'411 Ott havinz briefly opened the case,
,4, Ilse, , a follow. - • es •
la as,„ ee de ing witness .
0 41 G.P°sed that he lived at Maidstone,
tli et, -alb a -"'et. Oa the 19th of August last
''W4l
w4l
1 t the
M . fair, and the de-
tyle I%t
tittoziettted aidetone
there also. The de-
tl‘, 11
itkAP:ratiji Et bar ihewres and the prisoner was
\tytitely'eel,tl gave witness a pot, but the pri-
likqt,tvas ehtiat allow him to drink; and the
teol,h'a te•e; old than,told the prisoner that he
•4
ler t'ilje'' The
$" 11°,4 )1, ''''hiee),,4l4l threivr deceased, who was
t Naeot tt' was two or° threee feet high. The
&14%kt,a...;betL111,1t. Witness was present at the
00ei-j`i by ';3'. It was that of Ford.
ig,,,tboll:- attar'''. BALLANTINE—Was a general
leery, -ities b- '" fairs Never came in contact
ic., eeki, t/ tit c„ne ti;nd then it was for driv-
-441 14 '''as fir ' did a withl
0 tp. tilt, 4,&yh led 55., but not p
the
,t,,;a4ilcl,4,:!seea,,e_,°ger, was in the boothhk
i•• 14tat4ialyi,„°__and_ helped todpwi the de-
hen lifted
4'.1) ti, 411 c nis back, a_ri
' ati, 141.4.' He was taken to the in-
tatter illitirte 'rack the deceased two or three
petty,tsrt, a 0e,.54 Of c.
j,, 116 84,'Iltte,'ers Hospital, had seen the de-
-I!el"e'le,-r bl:''ai ihy-ee, and found that he had sus-
.l,lle7 8 0115 ek„-,,J4rY in the neck. The deceased
'''Ve'si 4aa - liaill the 21st of October, when
Atectak l'etl ;° °I the Ice by the
4 •erecet ye the - ieneys, produced
{•sileair ll.e te booth,
Ilit-hiil.4l'sit 1.-:neihebileaddressed the jury for the de-
,(i,,,,,lti,ltiell b,Le ,1,,,r of witnesses.
'l&ll,,„"uures "lee
Ile, an Guilty ury, after a
~elsy i't sei,Lteelee; "le pris6ner il
litirlio ~.,I''' I.,,iith prisoner to three months'
k''iNy‘fok4,4l' aged 'lb.:111r.
! ),t,44bb, . ag,d 231 described as a brickmaker,
,i,' t tt1r1,,.. 4 20, a labourer was indicted for
to, kti,cit et'd Wound. ' Edward Earthy
l 4) er hilt ing
titer t 411,D • The prisoner pleaded not
41i1t5 44 Nired f
6t iecto qetd ,(1,..r the prosecution, but the pri-
,lli,,rthe't,",as'a'
s? counsel.
,th,1,44 firt`e of o".l"geatlt in the police, and on
'6 ietokhe Jlseyy irl'a,,ber, between eight and nine
\Veetl, she qty
Uxbridge-road, where. he i Ille,t,'rEe le ec,h 'le named Bailey. This was
ty's ,§ ~pi Et .satiuence of information which
e ...e ta eieji ,
ioe,,kbrid es thieveW•ty robbery, he and Bailey
ksy ~. ti4b.,o,d.s (I°WII a lane which leads
iedsi„teler lahe When they got a few
kt Ap `4 i ee
Iltesei oleeeee , they observed two men
I;Ili, ko led ~°' rsa,e'L'adge with their faces
(I.lier'-e of ti;4B, and the prosecutor im-
Vlo lo,ree'i 41))171134 of the No sooner, however,..hard.
le 4c'd ju e Ito "e prisoners, who was atte
,greh the prose,,l4 tired a pistol, the contents
I•ll',eii.a.ile'ited. While left thigh, and felled
'IV' 'llia tecom l'a oh the ground he saw the
ettell„hyibrissd hr Pistol and aim it at Bailey, but '
le\ ares ' With eh'. Bailey struck the pistol out
ik, ~, •1,41 e and aftels trancheon as he was about to
l'';,,:,tyt ',' reee tearorwards succeeded in throwing
yallesieCt tre,t, Irne the second man made his
*Tit 'r's ebotang the prisoner Round left a
WitOtl tehil the bin Idoundsditcb, but he never
Y. 6 kei, eau at it , atid.le was given up to the po-
itt, hil> ei,"4etehitotiatuted, besides a uantity cf
's, la etk 'stove 4s, which corresponded with a
ttl t)f tllahk l'(i ill th- a
, ihil..,ctd s. i, e possession ofHarris,
tff 414 the
Altid was afterwards arrested.
ihke,t g Yehr,,,,efrisoners Guilty, but the Court
"OtOethieo eb t
h',ltit,-'.1'.4- 4-40,‘,4.'„
alitO( ./? i'.
i,arykt .e tor "
thin
was indicted for
AN, 41711 e °/, with iietent to defraud Messrs.
;,Iy liflr trt ~,Itit', arld pleadeGuilty.
1,1,4kre ed what then ircumstances of the
e Pe. -, soh
~,,Ik titltlißl4)ber ° 4Pe
~,,,
Lit
~,,t) h4c,
bayed for the prosecution, stated
klly Ile qribe the ,01..e1l in the service of Messrs.
o`,,,tt, ci,ft
t,t of r Icitors, of Bedford-row, and had
,1, 'Ye °sir a„eee,'"fine money from their bankers.
~'l,,iticlei Itotl eoPlee he presented a cheque at
,-,ll'ltifstk,tilatiti.tBoClunter. It was signed " Ch,arle,s,
,'I Iti4teaetane eh r Messrs. Weston and Son,
.qhktrataeis• Pee,etcla" Were always signed " On
~,q, ,t, ae 1 tatiee „°a and Son—Charles Weston,
:k..4,105h, 4sit ti, ea excited the suspicion of the
k!kt;',ati,,,,aaeehPanater to consult a superior in
Il'l 'l ' h ' Wte l'e the Drisoner took to. his heels,'
I,k k t 4 e 41,4 ue atter°.
til th, pa. 8 kr,„„, pte.d fraud was given to the
e al,t'lle,ra kto •Lecl while in the very act of ai.-
1444,:qi a al,
tier
f chy quo for 501. On
kie,'%gi 41, ti k
of these Itio,te . et , spurious cheques were
~Ikl, 4k) 0., 14 olac, had been ascertained that he was
'..L'ltlitata reee
t; instance of uttering, and in that
~l'Alll'a hti the a,,s stance for 71. 10s. Te© prisoner
~ ji 4eht lvioe of Messrs. Weston arid Son,
klkliO4:,hbt Charge he had borne an excellent
t'Yt, tteil?as It' talting into Considerationthe pri-
i-4t 4 thstYpush.eQe.°dede:Aaduct, and believing that his
lillttilittot(ii ihlittl:gi::,
trmto,otel
sicetoviln7t r i3t
ielltr sl'otrr transportation.
oor tffaettilocne'.
pp
Culeey of Victoria,
'441 Larl Grey, yesterday, at the

THE CAB EXTORTION.

class of Austria❑ 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 our 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 and 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 been made up. But
even if every farthing of that loan had been poured
into the empty vaults of the Imperial Exchequer i❑
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 man could 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.

NOVEM

THE LATE SERIOUS COLLISION.
i 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
before Mr. 11. 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. Coulter, and other
gentleman, on behalf of the North-Western Company.
Mr. Marti❑ 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 ho died, at the Globe Hotel, and
on their return,
Mr. George Currie, a coal and timber merchant, re-
siding in London, identified the body.
Charles Livock examined—l am station master i❑ 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 is 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 1)r.
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 wo 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 run into, and the four P.N. passenger train also, that
a special cattle train was following. Whenever there is
a special train following, the preceding train carries a
signal-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.
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 o❑ 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, we gradually drew into the station. We had not
stood still at the station half a minute when the cattie
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 was
following.
Mr. George R. Colbeck examined--I 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 aria 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 three or four inches in length. He
was in a comatose state. He was brought immediately
here. I was assisted by Dr. Cambell. 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 le ft 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 lull. 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
lino 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, ho
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 shpt
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 wo 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. Tho 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 we
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 ,laeken speed on passing the Crick station.
The passenger train started from Rugby nine or ten
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.
William Gordon said, I am a policeman in the em-
ploy of the livrth-Westera Railway C9u3P§DY, shit stn

E R 26) 1851.

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 cranks were on, but I cannot swear it. I think
the passenger trai❑ 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 ho would take care that the Co-
roner and jury should be satisfied as to the condition of
the engine of the cattle train immediately af er 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
progressing favourably.
INQUEST ON MR. 11N.NELLY.

Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr: Wak
ley, M.P., on the body of 'William Finnelly, Esq., al
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 in
his night clothes, and apparently dead. She imme-
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 he 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
Irela❑d, to whom the melancholy occurrence would
be made known.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The following officers had interviews with Rear-
Admiral Dundas, 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. 13. Mainprise, R. C. Alten; Paymaster W.
G. Parmenter, and Mr. T. T. Jennings.
Mr. Allen, the master of the late Arctio 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, TErESDAIto—SiWOOM 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 Ton 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 Blanc, has hauled off to
her hulk to-day to receive her crew.
Tho Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. G. Allen acting-
master commanding, returned from Plymouth this
morning, and this atternoon conveyed the Commander-
in-Chief Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, G.C.M.G., to
Osborne, to pay his respects to the Queen.
• --

APPOINTMENT.
Mate Marcus E. Smithett (1851), to the Waterloo,
120, at Sheerness, making ready for the Mediterranean
station.

TUE SUSPECTED SUICIDE IN GREENWICII-PARK.--
On Monday morning, Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for West
Kent, held an inquest on the body of a respectably-dressed
man who was fuund dead in Ureenwich-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;
and, 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 Aliniteur, the Government,
to mark their approbation of his services, appointed him to
receive and entertain Prince Lucien Bonaparte,3 who had
been taken prisoner of war. After the peace Mr. Mackenzie
presided fir 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 1823, 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, left 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.-21.forning Paper.
THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLEGED MURDERER
BANE. —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 and
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 iu 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 Gd. 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 Gd., instead of Bd. a mile for two
passengers may be considered as the future price of cab con-
veyance, unless, indeed, the proprietors, to crush the project
recently talked of, of a new company to run at 4d. per mile,
should themselves descend to that charge.
NEW BRIDGE AT ROCEIESTER.—The ancient bridge
across the Medway, uniting the town of Strood with the
city of Rochester, has long been found (from the want of
commerce et
traffic
flatfa c
consequentl oe ait y . Tote
trhooa dewo anch3t'i
contiguity
yv eo mf the
railway, height in its arches) a considerable obstruction to the
ari
,
tthimeeincocrme
railway, has become also inefficient, and a
cordb ingly the
wardens of the old fabric some time •
since determined en
erecting a new bridge very near the latter, but
higher up
the stream. It will be chiefly formed of
iron
elegant design by Sir W. Cubitt, who
hasbeweorn k,
appointedfrom an
engineer, and will consist of three lofty arches.
The centre,
50 feet span, will open at the crown, similar to the London
Dock bridges, so as to allow vessels of large burden to pas,
without striking the masts. The contractors are Messrs.
Fox, Henderson, and Co., who are now actively employed on
the foundations by sinking iron cylinders upon Votes prin-
ciple. In order to relieve the acclivity, the approaches are
to be formed upon a series of arches, which are already in
being
covered forward a state as to admit of a considerable portion eing
covered with Seyssel asphalte from the company's works,
Westminster-bridge. These arches are a good specimen of
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
fromthe eminent per-
sonsthe undertaking.
whom they have engaged to complete
We are informed thathas
ordered Duke of Newcastle
Clumber estate to the hares,
ordered his tenants ou the
as ho only intends to preserve the birds for his own usu.
Besides this boon the whole of the Clumber estates are being
revalued, Clumber
and sundry repairs are progressing upon
various
farms.—SljieldTimes.

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 to their wishes
§tibitct.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC ONAL
TIMES.--The most hopeless subject
of negotiaeS:
tion with the Governments of other countries has
long appeared to be an international copyright law.
Intellectual "produce" has been the only description
of goods excluded from equitable conditions of ex-
change. With regard to hogsheads of sugar, bags
of coffee, and bales of cotton, there could exist no ra-
tional doubt that, sooner or later, the commercial trans-
ctions of the world would be placed upon a rational
footing. The advocates of exclusion and monopoly
invariably fabricated an economic system in accord-
ance with their own views, and endeavoured to invest
it with the most fascinating attributes of philosophy
and justice. There was error in their calculations,
but it was error under the colour of reason, and
wrong with the semblance of right. The property
in literary works has been regarded from a different
point of view. The various Governments of Europe
and the United States of America have, from time
immemorial, virtually declared that a work of litera-
ture or art, the property of a single individual in a
single nation, was a fair mark for piracy and theft.
Genius has been outlawed. The property it should
have owned, whether in its most splendid or most
trivial productions, has, by the comity of nations,
been treated in the same way as the goods of a con-
victed felon. All this has been done in the broad
light of day, under the sanction of the most dis-
tinguished statesmen of the most civilized nations of
the world. Ignorance must not be pleaded in bar
of the indignation which such a policy is calcu-
lated to inspire in any mind not destitute of the
first impressions of right and justice. The time
has long since passed away when it was considered
fair to rise in public and maintain that a sufficient
copyright law should not form part of the municipal
States
institutions each particular country. The Unite!!
wou "
Chronicles History of
ofP etrhue
Id protect the property of Mr. Prescott in
;"
thehis ,
~mFerraonvciethian Kings ;,
that ofAI.Th, E
ierryng.
in
land that of Mr. Macaulay i ngn his " History of the
Times of James IL and his Successors." Each Go -
vernment acted respectively against the
piratical
attacks made upon the property
by its own subjects. But here the its own subjects
defence stopped.
Mr. Macaulay's history would be reprintedin
cheaper form in the United States ; that of Mr. Presa-
cott— with certain possibilities in his favour—in
England ; and the chronicles of M. Thierry might he
reissued at the pleasure of the booksellers in itber
country. Still worse, copies might be, and actually
were, multiplied at a cheap rate in Brussels by compo-
sitors versed in the French language, and then dissemi-
nated over the continent, to the prejudice of the au-
thor's legitimate rights. In each State the obliga_
tion of the Government to maintain the rights of its
own subjects against its own subjects was fully re-
cognised; but at this point all stopped short. Nor,
in fairness, can the reprehension be confined to the
leading statesmen of the time, no matter what their
country, or what their political connexions. The
real blame lay with the great bulk of the popula-
tion, whether in Europe or in America. There has
too long existed a profound immorality of thought
with regard to the productions of literary genius.
Men have said, "It is for our interest to have the
readiest means of access to the works of literary men.
Their labours cannot be the subject of property any
more than the wild fowls of the air. They are fern
naturd, irreclaimable, and therefore the subjects of
dominion to the first person who can reduce them
into possession." Such has been the spirit in which
the various nations of the world have acted time out
of mind with regard to literary property. How short-
sighted the policy has been the example of Belgium
will best evince. The effect of the habitual piracy
practised by the Brussels publishers on the works of
French authors has simply been the extinction of
original literary genius throughout Belgium. We
are glad to be enabled to state that a treaty for the
suppression of this most disgraceful system has at
length been signed between England and France. It
is :stated that if the provisions of the treaty are not
more complete—if they are not framed with a retro-
active as well as with a prospective effect, the fault does
not lie at the door of the French Government. The prin-
cipal provisions of this most important and interesting
document may be so effectually condensed that we
will venture on a brief recapitulation of their general
tenour and effect. The first article absolutely pro-
hibits literary piracy in either country against the
subjects of the other. The second article forbids
the importation of piracies of the works of either
country from other countries. By article three the
same provisions are extended to musical compositions,
designs, paintings, sculptured and other artistic works.
In the fourth place, translations of original works
published in either country, when made on account of
or by the author, also translations of works published
in other countries, are protected. The concluding
article of principal importance puts dramatic produc-
tions on the same footing as other literary works. It
is obviously impossible for us, in the brief space ne-
cessarily allotted to these remarks, to deal with the
details of the measure, such as the forms of deposit at
Stationers'-hall in London or at the officer of the
Minister of the Interior in Paris respectively---of
the nice distinctions with regard to translated
works, and so forth. The treaty will, no doubt,
ere long become the subject of much comment in
literary circles, and we shall have other opportuni-
ties of considering its merits or deficiencies. Mean •
while we would suggest, with every deference to the
wisdom of the French and English legislators and
negotiators, that now the time has arrived for either
country to reconsider its own municipal regula-
tions with regard to copyright in literary works. This
description of property will have been much en-
hanced in value, as far as French and English sub-
jects are concerned, by the operation of the present
treaty. It should consequently be freed as much as
a pos, -..ble from all difficulties of litigation, and the tran-
sitory property of the author be placed upon an
equitab • le basis with regard to its period of endu-
rance. We question, also, whether the exclusion of
all books already published from the effect of the
treaty might not be made the subject of future ar-
rangement. Why, in fact, should the works of
living authors which have already appeared be ex-
cluded from protection ? Who but pirates have a
vested interest in piracy ? We cannot see that the
ill gotten gains of wrong-doers should be treated with
any peculiar delicacy or respect. This treaty for the
protection of authors, so recently signed between
France and Great Britain, is not the only one afoot.
France, more especially, has shown a praisworthy ac-
tivity in the affair. Treaties of the same nature
actually exist, we believe, between France on the one
part, and Portugal, Hanover, and Sardinia. It is said
that the French negotiators are upon the eve of
achieving a diplomatic victory in a still more delicate
quarter at Berlin, and gaining a more facile triumph
at Madrid. We know not precisely how matters
stand between France and Belgium, but even in this
quarter rumour says that a suppression of the dis-
graceful traffic, of which Brussels is the chief seat,
may shortly be looked for. So much activity should
be a lesson to our own negotiators. What Belgium
is to France, the United States of America are to us.
The greatest boon that could be conferred upon our
own literary men would be an extension of protection
to their works throughout the United States. Nor
would the advantage be without adaquate reciprocity.
There are more readers throughout the vast empire
subjected to the dominion of the English flag than in
the United States. When this question comes to be
finally settled, American authors can only expect the
same measure of regard to their interests AS their own
Government extends towards the literary productions
of British subjects. For the moment they may have
the advantage in our market, but let them be well
assured that such a state of things cannot be conti-
nued in the face of reckless dishonesty on the part of
their own publishers and printers. The example of
Belgium should convince all thinking men throughout
the United States of the danger of importing worked-
up literary " stuffs" from another country. So long
as they do so they may succeed in picking the pockets
of our authors, but they will never have a national
literature that deserves the name.
T

inquest
NvFmß.ihTeßldicoinDhelN
b °l'd i:Olf
been stabbed by his brother Joshua, dusieg an altercation
which had taken place between them on the day previous .
yrtgolLT Blunt,Yes terda an
who
had
y
The jury returned a verdict:of " Manslaughter" against
Joshua Blunt, who was committed for trial at the next as-
sizes.

this gallant corps enter-
tained their late officersß of the Woolwich division
much esteemed Commandant,
respected
- andatma farewell dinner yesterday
ROYAL MARINES—WOOLWOfICu, Nov. 25.—The
Major-General Parke, C. .
Ind iavdi
es i otne
a; t
iaf3n.
idn agf ttehr
edinnergreat
several appropriate speeches
of their late commandant,
officers felt at the loss
regret the o
with whom they had always acted in harmony during the
evening in the mess-room
f the
were
long period he had commanded the Woolwich division. Col.
Second Commandant James Whylock, of the Portsmouth
division, is about to retire on the full pay of that rank. The
gallant officer will retain the good service pension to which
he succeeded on the appointment of Colonel Commandant
Charles Menzies, K.H., to be aide-de-camp to the Queen.
In consequence of the death of the King of Hanover the
officers of the Woolwich division have postponed their first
soiree to the middle of January.
THE FRIEND OF THE CLERGY,—Yesterday the
half-yearly meeting of the promoters of this society was
held at the offices of the Royal General Annuity Society,
Basinghall-street, for the purpose of electing six pensioners
on the funds. The Rev. J. E. Cox occupied the chair, and
in opening the business, observed that the objects of the so-
ciety were to make some permanent provision for the widows
and orphan unmarried daughters of clergymen of the
Established Church, and to extend relief by loan or other-
wise to clergymen who were embarrassed by temporary dif-
ficulties. The question as to the usefulness of this institu-
tion -
tion had long been decided by the large number of ctanedried aw
as
at each election, and he was happy to find that n
• every prospect of increased and permanent
seccess.h Head receivedhad
much pleasure in announcing that the society
donation of 10 guinea., College, Oxford; and also an annualr a
d College, Oxford;
a donation of 501. from the master and fellows of St. John's
from the president and fellows of
election of six. pensioners from a
meet-
ing then proceeded to the
lat
and 10 guineas from the Deanofsgalen
Christchurch. Themeet-
list of st; candidates, and the result baying been dee 04
the business terminated.