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nesday last signed by an " Eye Witness!".
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answers to the 'assertions contained in thiSslettelt . -S
have been_ addressed to that paper, but have 'jade
been inserted. The pnblic, and eispecia.lly mere- ,
bers of Friendly Societies, ought to be informed of
- the little truth there is in the assertions of an
".Eye Witness." .i
The Crystal Palace advertise certain terms upon.
which FriendlY Societies' Committees can take per-
sons to the Crystal Palace, and realise a benefit '
for their Charitable Funds. The Odd Fellows'
Committee engaged with the Secretaries for au
Excursion on Monday, the 4th of August, and im-
mediately announced it in London and the pro-
vinces. The expenses of the committee wore very
great, large quantities of bills and tickets being
issued in all parts of the country, and deputations
waited upon the -South-Western, North-Western,
Great Northern, and Eastern Counties Railway
Companies, to engage trains for excursions to Lon-
don. The result was that several thousand persons -
came to town on Saturday and Monday purposely
to ho at the Crystal Palace on Monday.
A depuation from the committee also asked the
Brighton Company for a train from Brighton, which
was refused in consequence of the Company's other
engagements ; but. it was afterwards found that a
train was announced in Brighton for the-Crystal
Palace on the Odd Fellows' day, and the deputa-
tion insisted upon having a percentage from the
company on all persons coming up on that repre-
sentation,
which was conceded by the company.
On Aouclay morning, when our members at-
tended the London-bridge station, the use of a desk
for selling tickets, usually allowed on societies'
excursions, was flatly refused ; and several mem-
bers, posted as usual for the sale of tickets,
were not a little surprised to be told such sale
would not be allowed, and that they would be
given in charge of the Police.
This was not however done, because Mr. Slight,
the Secretary, knew his threat was an idle one, as
he knew also his next statement was untrue ; his
words were, "Every Ticket you sell, you rob me
of sixpence." Mr. Slight knew well from the large
, Lptessig,..e..)._the entrance, more than an
ordinary day,' 'that they-came' bee-Anse-- ths' OM— -----
Fellows—and the Odd Fellows alone—had can-
vassed for them. Later in the day he and the
other officials refused to take Odd Fellows'
Tickets, which had been purchased by members in
the country days before ; and also stopped the
trains for conveying Vlem and their friends to the
Palace. .

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD•

TEE IVEA.TIIER AND THE CROPS.

-HEIITITORDSATRE. —Wheat cutting was commenced by
several farmers near Hertford on Tuesday. The crops
look splendid, rind there is every prospect of a better
yield than last year.—Bucks Herald.
LEICZSTERSHIRE.—The brilliant weather we have had
for the two last weeks has been most auspicious for har-
vest prospects. The hay,.a very heavy crap, is nearly
all secured in good order, and the extraordinary heat of
the past week bas forced the corn towards maturity in a
rapid manner. The fields present the appearance of har-
vest being now at hand. Some early pieces of oats and
barley are already en t, and if this fine weather continues
the corn harvest will become general in ten days. The
showers in the previous week had the best effect upon
the corn, causing the ears to fill with bold corn, which,
if well got, will insure a 'good quality. Speaking of the
corn crops in this neighbourhood generally, they are
good, and may be estimated at something above an ave-
rage measure. The heat has beep excessive ; at 3 p.m.
on Friday the thermometer wrote 88, and en:Satur2.ay
it reached 02 in the shade.—Leicester Journal.
NoliniAmproNsaTaP., -The weather continues Warm
and fine. The cutting of barley and oats is now general in
the neighbourhood. and some patches of forward wheat
have fallen hetire the sickle.—Noeth.anipton Herald.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Since our last the weather still
continues ac propitious as ever, and the crops are fast
verging to maturity. In some places in this county the
reaping of wheat has already commenced ; and should
the weather continue as warm, fine, and settled, as it is
at present, the harvest next week in the vale will become
pretty general. Feemonr own observations we can safely
aver that a heavier and mare psorp;sing crop of wheat, in
this neighbourhood at least, has perhaps seldom hem
seen ; and as there has been yeey few storms of rain
during the important period between the blossoming and
the near approach of the wheat c:op to maturity, and ,
also a very small proportion of corn beaten down, thire
is every likelihood of .a very large yield. Prices he
rade& hi colteetittenettylltA tt A.... 44 :Nat tenet ', per,
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bushel has already taken place. Breada:so in errn -
tropolis has already become cheaper, with every prospect
of becoming more so. The hay crop may now be consi-
dered as nearly secured, and for bulk and' quality has
never in the memory of man been equalled. Barley is
fast becoming ripe, and likely to prove productive.
Some early patches are ready for the scythe. Notwith•
standing the sinister reports about the potato crop in
some parts of the country, our opinion is that the dis-
ease is very partial, if it exists at all, and that a good
crop may be considered certain. Beans are a very
heavy crop almost everywhere—abundance of haulm,
and well " corned." Indeed, with the exception of fruit,
which has in most places almost entirely failed, we may
look forward' hopefully to one of the most productive har-
vests which has been ever seen, and fervently thank the
Merciful Giver of all good for the great blessing He has
vouchsafed to me—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
YORKSHIRE.— We have had a succession of brilliant
weather since last week, under the effects of which the
crops have experienced a marked and beneficial change,
Wheat is now ripening fast, and some of the earliest
....

A proof of the ticket was shown to and approved
by Mr. Slight in June, and on it was stated that
the trains would run up to 5 o'clock.
It is unpleasant for Odd Fellows to have those
complaints to make, and it is to be regretted for
the sake of the Brighton Company, that its legal
adviser was not at the station, as he might have
told Mr. Slight the little fact that these acts
amounted to a breach of contract, for which the
Odd Fellows' Committee would recover damages.
But, sir, the annoyance to the Odd Fellows did
not end here. The letter of an " Eye Witness"
who might have signed himself " An interested
agent of the Company," states the Odd Fellows
were "allowed" to go to the Palace after persuad-
ing the directors. The truth is, the directors' ad-
vertisement persuaded the Odd Fellows, and after
engaging with them the companies threw every
difficulty in the way. The Odd Fellows who
went by early trains to the Palace, found that
though the engagement was made months since,
the doorkeepers of the Palace bad not received
orders to admit the tickets. The Widow and Orphan
Fund, which was intended to be benefited, lost
money by this proceeding--lost money by the dis-
honest and unjustifiable conduct at London-bridge
—and lost money in providing a dinner, which,
from the delay at Loudon-bridge, the excursionists
could not come to partake of and pay for.
An " Eye Witness" says the Odd Fellows eat.
and drunk too much, and that disorderly conduct
prevailed. Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Tidd
Pratt, and others can testify that in the
dining-
room nothing was amiss. The vice-chairman,
Grand Master Cox, proceeded from that room to
the terrace to deliver an address as announced
in the bills. He was a little behind time, how-
ever, a large crowd was collected to hear him,
and the leader of the band was asked to allow a
pause between the pieces of music, that Mr. Cox
might speak. This was the gentleman whom an
"Eye Witness" sneeringly calls an "Orator," and
wishes it to be inferred he was one of Thomas Car-
lyle's stumps. Mr. Cox had nearly concluded his
short (not " long and tedious") speech, when the
band again commenced. All around who were
attentively listening to him were astonished at this
insult, and many called out to the band to stop.
One old gentleman near the platform ventured to
raise himgAlf to be more plainly heard, and was
struck by one of the band with a music stand.
After the irritating proceedings all day, this dis-
graceful conduct aroused a few who ascended the
platform, doubtless with the intention of compell-
ing the band to desist, but the whole of the
band (without main force) immediately descended
from the platform. Mr. Cox was pressed
to resume ; he did so, and immediately con-
cluded. This an "Eye Witness" calls a " scan-
dalous row." I, as another eye witness, and one
of the Odd Fellows' Committee, can only say if
there is any scandal, let the blame of provocation
rest on the right shoulders.
It is hinted• that the Crystal Palace Company
ought not to allow those excursions. If the company
can do without the industrious provident classes,
those classes can do without the Crystal Palace
until the Brighton Railway and Crystal Palace Com-
panies know how to treat them properly. The Odd
Fellows cannot think they should tamely submit to
the annoyances that were practised ; the committee
have worked most zealously for more than two months
past to insure the comfort of their fellow-members
and friends; engaged lecturers to explain the various
Courts ; have been in repeated communication
with the proper officers of the companies on the
plan of the day's proceedings, and were animated
with the best spirit towards the companies.
The Odd Fellows were therefore surprised to find
themselves treated with such contempt—to find
their chief officers, representing a quartet of a mil-
lion provident men, insulted whilst speaking—to
find, in a leading newspaper, one individual is per-
mitted to question the right of themselves and their
wives and families to have a little healthy and in-
nocent recreation on the lawns, and to unjustly
stigmatise them as a drunken band when returning
home.
They have not hitherto sufficiently courted the
aid of the Press in behalf of their cause ; but have
maintained a steady resolve to help themselves ;
yet they desire, like every other well-meaning body
of men, to have "Justice" meted to them by that
Press, and I therefore beg to offer a true statement
of the circumstances to you.

crops will be ready for the sickle next week. Barley and
oats, too, are now fit for catting in many places, and
harvest operations will commence in earnest in these de-

scriptions of grain next week. Wheat generally presents
a satisfactory appearance, having greatly improved during
the last few week?. There are complaints of blightin some
of the wheats on thin and poor soils. Occasionally, too,
we hear of the plant being thin on the ground, and the
ears being short and small, but on the best wheat lands
the crop is in excellent condition.—Doncaster Chronicle.

•!: STIRLINGSHIRE.—During the past week the weather
has‘ been most oppressively hot, and the effect upon the
crop is a'ready very apparent. Many fields are approach-
ing the golden hue of harvest, and all are looking ex-
tremely healthy. It was feared that the thunder showers

of Wednesday would have damaged the standing grain,
but we are glad to see that these fears were not realised.

The heat still continues, and there is at present no ap-
pearance of a change.—Stirling Journal.
EDINBITRGH.—The weather in this neighbourhood dur-
ing the past week has been very warming and forcing,
and the cereal crops have made astonishing progress
towards maturity. So far as we can judge wheat will
be a full average crop in the Lothians, for though some
of the spring sown crop is somewhat thin on theground,
much of the autumn sown is considerably over an ave-
rage. Barley will be a fair crop, but the acreage extent
is small this seams. In early districts cutting may
begin about the end of the month. Oats are somewhat

irregular ; on fine land they are about an average, but
in the late districts they are short in straw and rather

unpromising. Potatoes have improved with the fine
weather, still the crop muat be greatly inferior to that

of last year. Turnips.have made rapid improvement of
late. There aro some fair crops to be seen here and
there, but on the whole they are not very satisfactory.
—North British, Daily Mail.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CHILD
FROM POISON.-SINGULAR CARR.

On Saturday, Mr. Wm. Payne, the coroner of London
and Southwark, held an inquest at the Sportsman Ta-
vern, Southwark-bridge-road, on the body of the male
illegitimate child of Sarah Pearce, aged two years and
tour months, who died under the following somewhat
remarkable circumstances.

Mr. John Collier, of No. 176, Southwark-bridge-road,
a clerk and collector, deposed that he knew the deceased,
who bad resided in the same house with its mother. On
Monday last he heard, upon going home, that the child
had taken an overdose of medicine, which he took in
the next house to that in which he resided. Dr. Humble
was present when be went home, and he remained with
him several hours. Witness sat up with the deceased all
night, and he found that his pulse was beating at 31 to
the minute.

Mrs. Eliza Hardwicke, a highly-respectable married
lady, residing in the Southwark-bridge-road, said that the
mother of the deceased had lodged with her for nearly 3
years before she took her present house, and that she was
remarkably fond of the child, and used to call him Wil-
liam Williams. On Monday last the child came into her
bedroom before she was out of bed, and, unfortunately,
as she had to go out, she asked his mother to come in,
and whilst she was away to prepare her (witness's) din-
ner. When she returned home she found her medicine
bottle on the mantelpiece, and some of the contents gone.
She spoke to her servant about the circumstance, and
she said that the child had taken the bottle up and had
spilled some of the contents. Finding- that he grew
sleepy, she sent for Dr. Humble. In spite of his exer-
tions the child continued to sleep, except when aroused,
and he died on Thursday night. The witness added
that she was in the habit of taking 25 drops of the me-
dicine diluted with water, and had derived immense
advantage from its use.
Sarah Pearce, the mother of the child, said that the
deceased must have gone to Mrs. Hard wicke's bedroom,
have t'mken the bottle off the mantelpiece, and drunk
some of its contents.

Dr. Humble, of the London•road, proved that he at-
tended the child, who, he was informed, had taken part
of a bottle of chloradyne, but in spite of all that he could
do for him, including artificial respiration and the use of
the galvanic battery, he died from the narcotic poison,
the chief ingredient being opium.
The jury, after being addressed by the learned coro-
ner, returned a verdict that the deceased was accident-
ally killed through inadvertently taking an over-dose of
medicLe of his own accord.

- JOHN HARRIS,
" Earl Cathcart," MARC ANTONY LObGB.
Munster-square, Regent's-park,
7th August, 1856.

EASTERN COUNTIES Rarraviv.—We fear the expenses
of repairs on the permanent way have been so great that
the forthcoming dividend of this company will be a serious
disappointment. There is a talk of submitting to the
shareholders to put a large portion of the expenses to an
account to be liquidated by annual instalments, spread
over a period of perhaps 10 cr 12 years.—Heraina.
SCENE IN A CHURCH.—yesterday morning, during
Divine service in the recent:y opened church of St.
Stephen's, in the 'Westhourne Park-road, Paddington, a
numerous congregation were suddenly seized with feel-
ings of alarm, at a precipitate descent of a portion of tha
ceiling from the right hand gallery of the church. The
noise and dust, coupled with the uncertainty of what
might follow, naturally caused the greatest portion of
the congregation to retire. After a suspension of nearly
a quarter of an hour, the service was renewed before an
extreme:y diminished congregation, to whom the worthy
incumbent, who had exerted himself strongly to allay
the excitement, stated that providentially no injury of
serious import had been sustained.
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