The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EYEING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1856.

TH &NI-NOMA t,, aAus.

st'-'3"14"3 Ballinag!oo rid Birmingham left the North
Wall for Liverpool, :did :Om the Dnke of CAmbridgre
steamer and the StaTard screw boat. The Ocean nod
Herenks steamers sad for Holyhead. These vessels

A fiTEAM ER LOST IN THE CHANNEL, AND
NUMEROUS VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE.
At the height of the storm on Sunday morning a fine
screw steamer, called the Ida, outward hound, was cast
ashore t ) the eastward of Dungeness. The lives of the
yass( tigers and crew were placed in iminineia
of the hands Inv,: ting with a watery irave. The I le,
which was upwards of 600 tons burden, wai boom' for
the west coast of Africa. She left the river ou Friday,
Kith a miseellaneous cargo and 14 passengers, under the
charge of Mr. Cooper, a sea pilot, who was to go with
her to the Lle of Wight. Silo drove from her anchors
to within a short distance of the shore, where she
again held on for the greater part of Saturday night.
On the following morning, however, the heavy rolling
seas fOrced her upon the coast at Dyinehurch, upon
what is called the Wall, where she became a wreck.
Owing to the surf, all access to the ship was impracti-
cable. Happily a communication was made to the
wreck by a life line, by which means the whole of the
passengers and crew were hauled ashore in safety with
the exception of the boatswain. Her loss, with cargo,
will amount to several thousand pounds. They were
both insured.
Within a short distance of the spot where the Ida was
wrecked, and about four miles to the westward of Rye
harbour, rp coasting vessel belonging to Sunderland,
named the John and Mary, Mr. Johnson, master, from.
Caen, bound for London, was driven ashore at 11 o'clock
on Sunday morning, and soon became a wreck ; the
master and crew succeeded in saving themselves, but the
master's wife and four children perished. About the
same time on Sunday morning a wreak was seen off
Shoreham, running from the westward, with a flag of
distress flying in theeeioßefe The gale wale then blow-
ing W.S_W.,-vrithinceesant rain. ,The lifeboat Was got
put, manned by pilot and hovellers, and with the as-
sistance of a tug, they succeeded in saving the ship. She
proved to be the Elizabeth, Captain Normandade, 'from
Cardiff for London. She was in a most cieplorable con-
dition, one of the crew having died at the pumps. She
was eventually brought' into the harbour with five or six
feet of water in her hold.
Another wreck took place on Sunday morning, near
DymchurCh. It was that, of the French brigantine
Henri, Captain Beubille, of Nantes, bound from the
north. At daylight she was descried by the Coast-
guardsmen ashore near the Grand Tower at Dyinchurch,
with the helpless crew lashed L.) the rigging and the sea
beating over them.. The Coastguard immediately ob-
tained all necessary assistance, and by the aid of life
lines from the shore managed to rescue the whole of the
ship's company with the exception of one man, who was
swept overboard and dfowned. The vessel lies a wreck.
A large fleet of vessels were in the vicinity of the.
Downs, when they were overtaken by the gale, and
were compelled to put back, many running into Rams-
gate, Dover, &c., for shelter. Several large ships
brought up and laboured heavily. Nearly 20 went into
Ramsgate with loss of chain and cable, and having sus-
tained other damage by coming in collision.
Lower down Channel the gale appears to have been
very destructive in its consequences. The Sarah, be-
longing to Plymouth, bound to Newport from South-
ampton, was, during the height of the gale on Sunday
morning, driven from her anchorage on to the Milkmaid
Bank, a dangerous shoal at the entrance of the harbour.
When seen from the shore the sea was sweeping over
her with prodigious force. The crew were in the tops
crying for help. As soon as their perilous position was
observed, two pilots, named Thomas Hart and John
King, volunteered to go to their rescue. They went off
in the Contractor steamer, and, on getting to the wind-
ward, a boat was lowered. They were partly sheltered
by the steamer, and this enabled them to reach the poor
fellows, who were ail safely taken off. The ship soon
.afterwards broke up.
At Swansea and its neighbourhing coast Lloyd's agent
writes to say that it blew a hurricane the whole of
'Saturday night and Sunday, wind E.S.E. The havoc
'among the coasting vessels was of the most seriens ex-
p:ett ; ;14 vessels are reported to have been driven
ashore.during the night, and several of them afterwaria
sunk. Among. them was the Pioneer, of Exeter ;
Amiti, of, Bristol; Emmett,. of Aberysteith ; Happy
Couple!, of Newport ; Monkey, of Drogheda ; and the
of 'Cardigan-,—crews, saved. .At Cardiff several
vessels drove in Peparth Roads and sustained consider-
able damage.
The gale appears to have been,equally severe along the
east coa'st. Tbeberque,Coremaridel, Captain Anderson,
bound to London with tiinber frog] the White Sea, was
totally, lost qn the. Ridge Sands off Yarmouth.
' The-iron paddlewheel steam vessel Fire Queen, Mas-
ter Commanding F. H. Paul, which arrived at Plymouth
on Sunday morning, reports the total loss of the mete
chant.schooner Sarah, of Plymouth, wrecked in Stud-
land Bay, Poole ; the crew were six twang in t tar
_
--.l.47i.:„wirom:_zisr.-,-,,liaito c enumerate
mote disasters, and it is computed that upevarchi of 60
vessels have been cast ashore during the recent boister•
OUR weather, the larger portion of which must inevitably
be lost.

meet have encounterethe full weight of the storm, :ad
their fate has become matter of serious apprehension.
The Calypso sc..reee samer, laangieg to tloi Peitieli
Stn-'l'n N"vigttlfeh Cirse.;e, c.nemanded by Ospeein
Craw,,ll, arri vett at 10 'check ye eeeelay inoiniee ken,
Brietel, le tog n i henneteeetnd ha vine exp, rielieed oee
of the moot arduous al daneeretie pae.egee which tit
aide captain of the shinem*Mbers in his liletime. Capt.
Crewel! Informed u. th, heleft Itriatot on Fri.l ee even-
ing at half-past 4 o'elnclan4.iiiicenntered in the Channel
a storm unequalled in vienels in his experience. lie had
to bear op for Milford trepiir some damages, and left
that port at 4 o'clock n Saturday evening. While in
the Channel he fell in I.ell the schooner Friendthip, of
Plymouth, which vessel as disabled, with her mainmast
carried away. The Celeee bore down on the distressed
vessel and hailed her. captain Crawell asked her com-
mander to come on boss the- Calypso with his crew.
He refused to do so ; bseeelend that the Calypso should
pass a hawser on board face kind take his vessel in tow.
After two hours' towingthe-hawsers parted, and, as it
was then coming on nighanef the gale increasing, Capt.
Crawell was obligor:I, relctantly, to forego his humane
efforts, having in his Carla fine ship, with 23 cabin and
30 steerage passenger?, tgether with a valuable cargo.
Captain Crawell saes the the stem then blew with a
violence defying all desciptqn. He had enough to do
to preserve the safety of tis Own vessel, and it is much
to be feared that the '..aplee ii #697 of the schooner have
suffered the penalty thei. comenander'a obstinacy.
Dublin river presened eestatirday several painful illus-
trations of the fury of be .• the surface of the water
being covered witch' icetlteral produce, hay,
and eorn, and even.th'bedites of drowned aniusalg;
also, large trees which ed been torn up by the roots.
The Usk, small paddle stainer, trading between Dublin
and Wexford, broke froinher moorings in the river yes-
terday
evening, and canuhroadside in contact with a
large bark, the Harriett Crr. The steamer received
such injury by the col isio that she broached to and
filled. The mail steamer veich left here on Friday'for
Liverpool fell in with a bar, laden with coals, bound
for St. John's, New Bruesenk. The bark was in a dis-
abled condition, and the mil succeeded in towing her
into Kingstown harbour, evtich presented yesterday a
novel appearance. Nutnerses vessels, evidently bound
for other places were there loored for shelter.
On the east side of the pieta fine smack, the Robert
and• Mary, bound _front Whieaven to Drogheda, went
ashore and in a short time bcame a total wreck ; the
crew were saved by the exert3ns of the coastguard and
police. The ship Martin. Leher came in in distres4 ;,
[the was boarded by Capt. Huebinson, harbour master;
she is bound from Quebec t, Liverpool, with timber.
The- Greyhound schooner, Sound from Lisbon to
Drogheda, with corkwood, ral for Kingstown harbour,
but got ashore at the back of the coal wharf ; she• was
towed off into the old harbotirey the Liffey tug steamer.
The frigate Forth lies snug in 'arbour, with all her light
spars struck.
Along the northern c- act we:mild learn that the aisas-
trous influence of the storm has been severely felt. Be-
tween Leytovvn and Bettystoan a vessel lies ashore on
a sand reef. The sea was riming so high during yes-
terday that it was impossible a boat to live in the
surf breaking around the ill-feted craft. During the
brief intervals when the weather lifted, the crew, we are
told, could be seen clinging to he rigging. Tho mist
and spray, however, were so thick that our reporters
could not make out distinctly the size and build of the
stranded vessel. It was statedt hat the crew have been
24 hours in this fearfully precarious situation, expects
ing momentarily to be overwbelTned by the sea, there
being no means of rescuing them unless the weather
moderates.

A,t 11 o'clock last night the pie had slightly abated,
but it still blew heavily in the Channel.—Dublin Free-
man.

IMPROVEMENTS .IN TrIP, PARKS.' '

In all the metropolitan parks great improvempats
are being made. In Hyde-park the walks hav3 been
re-laid, Rotten-row, has been enlarged, the filthy outlet
from the Serpentine has been cleansed, and an outfall
made ready for letting off the waters of the lake when-
ever it may be desired to empty it. The unsightly para-
pets of the bridge which formerly contracted Rotten-row
and theadjapent walks have been wholly removed, and
the apProach'to Kensington-garflen, near the Magazine,
. t..‘,,
has been made mote available for carriageii' and foot pas-
sengers. The narrow footpath leafing freta the Serpa-
tine to the briciff.
-- Tore than t}„ bled in width.
"..1,3 U,ilsigrausig oarrstra_l_l. Legt „ _

"ittetriSF-d-- towiriff the —CI roiosiv ect; an .1-11 ft.
grand walk, from the point on which:the band plays on the
week days, has been e-natinued by the nortn eal of the
bridge, along the fine avenue, to Victoria..gate. -In St.
Jaines's•park the lake hes been emptied, and the foul rind
is covered with quick lime and perfectly deodorised. Tee
bottom of this lake will be brought to a u niform level, suffi•
ciently shallow to prevent those fatal accidents which an-
nually occur in the skating season. In order to prevent
the inconvenience resulting from the ferry not being
now available, the Chief Commissioner has ordered a
causeway to be run across the bed of the lake, which will
be available for foot passengers, until such time as the
suspension bridge is erected, and the lakes filled, when
the stuff of which the causeway is formed will be removed
and used in levelling the bottom of the lake. The bad
of this lake will, previous to the water being let in, be
covered with concrete, so that at any future time the
water may be let off through the main °Wall which was
made last spring. The surface of the concrete may be
easily cleaned, and the lake will thus be always clear.
This work will be completed during the winter and the
early part of the spring, and the works in the Serpentine
will probably not be commenced until after the next
1.,,nd0n season.

BRIGHTON, Saiv. 29.
The weather during the past week has been most Vois-
terous, and its effects have been sensibly felt along the
southern coast, and particularly so off this town on
Saturday and Sunday. O❑ the former day the tide ran
exceedingly high, and there was a very heavy sea on,
equalling in severity the recent gales, though, fortunately,
not attended with such fatal results. On Sunday, as the
tide approached its height, the sea raged and foamed
violently, but with less intensity than on the preceding
day, lts effects, however, were more seriously felt,
doing damage to the extent of several hundred pounds
to a jetty or outfall opposite the Albion Hotel, which
has within the last year or two been extended some 200
or 250 feet into the sea. The violence of the waves tore
up the piles and planking out of the chalk in which they
were imbedded, and large portions of the shattered work,
floated westward, were deposited on the beach. The
Chain-pier, we believe, fortunately escaped damage.
At Hestia; ike gale ess alr • seeerely felt.
SHIELDS, SUNDAY NIGHT.
A veryheavy gale from the eastward bas prevailed upon
the north-east coast during the past 48 hours, blowing
with great violence last night, and a very fearful sea is
rolling on the coast. At tide-time this afternoon the
mouth of the Tyne presented an animated and exciting
spectacle, vessels light and laden dashing through the
foaming waters upon the bar for the port ; fortunately,
with the exception of a few that have lost their bulwarks,
to the time of clo•ing this despatch they have all got In
in safety. The sea has clone a good deal of injury tJ the
pier works on the north side of the river, and the Tyne
is much flooded, the heavy rains having sent down the
" freshets" from the west. Several vessels broke a lrift
last ebb, but no serious amount of injury has arisen. A
large iron screw steamer, the Sylph, should have sailed
for St. Petersburg yesterday, with a valuable cargo.
She has fortunately been detained in port, for, as she is
deeply laden, she would have been in a perilous position
in the North Sea in such weather as was experienced
last night. Less rain has fallen this evening, and the
weather looks better.

In connection with St James's-park is the opening by
the German Chapel. Already the new footway is coin-
pleted, and the carriage way for cabs from " Pall-Mall to
Pimlico" will be open in a few days, judging front the
present state of the works. It will be recollected that a
proposal was made to take down the German Chapel, so
that the opening might he improved from Pall-mall. This
was objected to, and ono member of the Rouse of Com-
mons described the proposition as almost horrible, and
declared the chapel to be a " gent of art." The oppositien
was successful ; the chapel stands out as a complete ob-
struction to the thoroughfare ; and the prom iety of is
removal is obvious to any person coming from the Park
to Pall-mall. In the Green•park handsome new entrances
have been made in front of Devonshire-house, Half-
moon-street, and Down•street, in lieu of the narrow
openings previously existing in those places. Gravel
walks are being laid down in lines denoted by the track
of the public as thoroughfares touch used, and the site
of the filthy unwholesome reservoir adjoining Piccadilly,
and which was formerly the recep`acle of dead dogs and
cats, and not unfrequently wretched foundlings, and the
waters of which were drunk by the occupants of the
neighbouring houses, and at one time supplied the
palace, is now a green sward, the brightness of which
forms a strong contrast to the original appearance of the
ground ; while, in consequence of the destruction of the
entrencetnent, the eye is carried over the park, the
whole of the ground below forming part of the laridecape.
While these improvements have progressed in "the
Royal parks," the other parks have not been neglected.
In Victoria Park a new plantation is being formed on
the east side, to shut off the cold wind which sweeps
over the park, which is found so disagreeable, and which
gives such a bleak appearance to the enclosure. The
walks and roads are being improved, and handsome sub-
stantial iron railings are now erecting in those parts
where they are required. The water of the bathit g lake
and the other lake has a gloater flow from the increased
supply, and light wire fences are to be erected round the
neer plantations instead of the cumbrous and expensive
posts and rails which disfigured this much-valued resort
of the working classes of the east end of London. In the
Regent's Park the walks have also been improved. The
narrow entrance at Gloucester-gate, which admitted
of the passage of only one carriage at a time, has been
enlarged so as to admit of ingress and egress ; and hand-
some iron gates, similar to those by Mariborough•house,
in Pall-mall, have been erected. The lodge has been
thrown back and rebuilt. But while the First Commis-
sioner of Works has done his part of the undertaking,
his constituents who form the Paving Board of St. Pan-
cras have not exhibited any signs of vitality. The very
narrow bridge over the canal still remains as before, a
greater and more ostensible nuisance than ever, now thus
the opening to the park is completed, and no prepara-
tions appear to have been made by the representatives
of "100 ti self-government" for completing the improve-
ment which the neighbourhood demanded—and which
the increasing traffic required. The bridge over the canal
should be widened at least 20 feet, and better access
should be afforded to Albany-street and the park. Near
Avenue -road a new foot entrance has been made for the
accommodation of the inhabitants of the north-west side
of the park, and the passage near Kent-terrace has been
opened to the public.
In all these places of public resort the number of seats
has been generally increased. The inconvenient upright
bars which prevented the entrance of perambulatore,and
occasioned a squeeze to persons of not extraordinary size,
at the various foot gates, have Leen removed, and the
herbage, c'eanliness and enjoyment of the Viotoria and
Regent's Parks have been improved aed increased I y
the prohibition, by the First Commissioner, of any pas.
turage by cattle. Sheep only are admitted in these
parks. It is expected that those who have the power
in Hyde-park will blow the example which has been set
in the other parks, and that the walks and grass of
Hyde-park may soon be as free from the nuisances con-
sequent upon pastel age by cows as the other parks are.
If, as it is said, there are some subordinate officers who
maim a r:ght of the " rue of a cow," let them be settled
with. Toe day is gone by for such privileges of annoy-
ance to the public. Such an outline of some of the iur
provements in our metropolitan parks, which may rank
with any in Europe, the maintenance and preservation
of which are so highly prized by her Majesty's subjects.

GLASGOW, SEPT. 29.
Since the gale of last February, which swept over the
country, and wrought such direful havoc amongst chim-
ney stacks, buildings, plantations, and the shipping, We
have not been visited with such severe or stormy wea-
ther as during the last two days. Saturday was a very
wet and disagreeable day. About six o'clock hi the
evening the wind began to whistle and moan in a man-
uer betokening gr-ater violence as the night wr,uld ad-
vance. Towards 12 o'clock it blew a perfect gale, which
continued without intermission till the Sabbath morn-
jug was far advanced, when it gradually became more
calm and settled. During midnight, while the storm
raged, a few chimney cans were swept from the roofs,)
and in the mare elevated parts of the city several new
buildings were more or less injured, wooden pailings were
torn up, and outhouse doors wrenched from their hinges,
and hurled over garden walls. A portion of the gable of
a fine house in tue course of erection at Buckingham-
terrace, Ilillhead, on the Great Western-road, was blown ,
down ; Scott-street, Garnett-hill, about 40 feet of
wooden palling were totn out of the ground and
thrown across the street, and a portion of a house
chimney, some of the stones of which weighed nearly
a cwt., was overturned. An old brick building in
Cadopan-street, belonging to Mr. Tennant, St. Rollox,
and which' was used as a marble-work, was also levelled.
In the channel, the storm raged with great violence, and
must have done considerable damage to the shipping.
The steamers from Belfast and Liverpool Lad not reached
the Broomielaw up to near midnight 'sat evening, but, as
the weather would in all likelihood be as coarse at those
I places as it was here, these vessels would probably delay
sailing till the weather became more settled. It will be
observed from our Greenock intelligence that the storm
in that quarter was unusually severe, and that a number
of vessels were blown ashore and seriously damaged. We
have no intelligence from the country ; but, as a large
quantity of grain was cut and in stooks, there can be no
doubt that considerable damage must have been done.
No loss of life has as yet been reported.— iVortlt British,
Daily Mail.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 29.

We do not remember an autumn season during the
past 20 years wherein mild►.ess of temperature, and even
heat like that of summer, have been so suddenly suc-
ceeded by cold, wet, and tempestuous weather as during
the present month. The storm so long brewing seemed
to burst forth in all its violence on Friday night, when a
tempest of wind and rain—unequalled for many years in
our memory—visited, as we understand, the eastern
coast of Ireland. The gale on Friday night did not
reach its full intensity for some hours—at least in Dub-
l•.n. At or about the hour of one o'clock on Saturday
morning the etorm reached its fullest fury and intensity.
The wind could scarcely be said to come from any dis-
tinct quarter, but rushed in fearful gusts, howling and
raging through the empty streets as it seemed from every
point of the compass. The rain came dow❑ in nnbrokee
sheets of water, and to add to the horror of the night,
,everal fia,-hes of lightning broke forth, giving a mo
ribntary and dismal illumination to the scene. At Car-
lisle-bridge the water might be seen pouring in a
regular
flood from the centre towards Sackville street, whit
,gainst the abutments of the bridge on the east side the
wat:,r of the river, lashed into foam, broke with great
violence.
On Saturday evening the City of Dublin Company's

DETERMINED sniernx AT
BlE3lll'9'oll _AM..

A suicide of a somewhat extraordit,ary characteroc-
curred at the Hen and Chickens hot,.!, Birmin:y.diate, on
Thursday last, th,t pal tionlars of ore to r40,q,,
Ineasdro tiiplaitied at the int-114,4i he'd on Frida:,'
Saturday evenieLt-. It appear,d Wc,lnesdav
Is'it Mr. Cleor;.,;o V7i,it,lieari, e,f .1.1,,:ut!t•--, a g
tleman who had el .pt, a'. the hotel duriu:f pt,Jeetlip;!
night, retired to hi-4 elmenher a Inait midday, a!ol,
being seen ag sin up to Thursday itiornitig, Mr. Smith,
the proprietor t,l th,, hotel, became some.ha-, apprehen-
sive, and knocked loudly at the door of his spat ttnent.
Receiving no response the room w:l9 forcibly entered,
and a glia.tly sight pr,,ented itself. In a pool of blood
upon the mr Mr. Whitehead lay, face downwardv, lrie
face covered with clotted blood, and in his right hand a
pistol firmly grasped, with his forefinger restir g upon
the trigger. It, was evident the deceased had committed
self-destruction by discharging the content.; of the pistol
into his mouth. He was quite dead. Some shots and
a quantity of gunpowder were lying about the room.
The body lay there until Friday night, when Dr. Birt
Davies, the borough coroner, held an official investiga-
tion before a highly respectable jury r specting the death
of the deceased gentleman.
The first witness examined was Thoi.aas Bartholomew,
-waiter at the Hen and Chickens, and he deposed that
the deceased came to the hotel on the preceding Tuesday
morning, about half-past nine o'clock. He entered the
coffee-room and ordered breakfast, which witness served
him with. After paying his bill he said to witness,
" Waiter, I feel very much fatigued ; I've travelled a
long way, and should like to lie down tur an hour or so."
Wttneee.,-repliesi, "Very well, Sir, get you a.qoiet
room." Shortly afterwards the Odi2atieirwits'efiliwn'ty!
one of the chambermaids ,to a bedroom. 'Witnees did
not see the deceased again until We !ne.4day morning,
when he called f 4. a glass of sherry itr the coffee-room.
!The deceased told him, as he Was drinking the wine, that
he had been to Livt-rpool, and still feat very much
fatigued. He then had a Coon." glass of sherry, rind
initnediately afterwards rose fro:n his seat and appeared
Unwell. He then proceeded into the yard, where he
vomited, and in about five minutes returned to the
coffee-room, when whmess asked him if be was any
better. His soply was; "Yee, a little ; but the I,tet is
My stomach-is weak, and I've net bail anything to eat
since those two eggs you gave, me yes!erday inqrning."
He aided, "I've travelled along tin ance ; my House
is 200 miles distant, and, I left to a litirry, 'without a
change." • He said he thought,hee,bouid have to_ge to
Liverpool again' on the morrow, and .should therefore
'deep at the hotel that night,- Witness recommended him
to have a warm bath, but lie said ",No," and producing
'a little fiat bottle from his pocket requested that it
might be filled with brandy-and-water, which he said
would make him sleep better. The,decea.sed soon:after•
wards repaired to his bedchamber, and witness Haw )11141
no more until be was dead. From the d-seeased's' man-
ner witness imagined that he' had something on his
mind. He seemed very thoughtful, hitt not cxc;ted.
Mr. Brands Smith, proprietor of the Hen amid Chickens
Hotel, stated that on looking through his daybook on
Wednesdainigbt, according to his usual custom, he dis-
covered that nothing had hem booked t► the decoasel
during that day. On making inquiries he I;artitd that Mr.
Whitehead had gone to bed the middle of the day. The
chamber occupied by the deceased was near witness's own
bedroom, and when he retired to rest, %bout halhpast 12.
feeling somewhat uneasy at Mr. Whitehead's continued
absence, he listened for a fe v minutes at his bedroom
door, but heard nothing of him. Next morning, about
II o'clock, on going through the books, witness found
that the deceased had not -breaklasteil, and immediately
sent Bartholoinew, the ',.waiter, to his bedroom door.
He returned and said the door was locked, and be
could 'make no one hear him. Witness then went to
the.door and knocked loudly, but there was no reply..
Ile then _placed ladder against the bedroom window of
the deceased'and looked into the apartment; when he `saw
apiStol lying on a -h(itik upon the table. Witness then
directed the " boots" to enter the chamber through the
window and unlock the room &nor. He did so, and wit-
! nem on entering- the room beheld the deceased lying ou
the fleor, faee downwards, in a pool of bloc'''. Ilia tape
waS too much covered with clotted blood for any wound
to be observable. He was quite dead, cold, and stiff, and
his right hand firmly grasped A' discharged pistol. On
searching the pockets of the deceased a pocketbook and
various other articles were fotind. In the book, which
contained for the most part memoranda relating to Mr.
Whitehead's business, the following entry was made
" Mr. Smith, landlord,-=Have the goodness to forward
this melancholy intelligence to- Mr. W. Wright,
binder, Beccles, Suffolk. He will break '
wife. I scarcely know what I write." Oa the following
leaf was also. written
"I"e'liAkailY4l*-341491411.4.0eithiaAii

1.78 g: with our- 'feeble --ai exhausted army,
a line of trenches from left to right as extensive as
those occupied by the more numerous and better
provided army of our allies ; to beat every sortie
from the city; to meet with wretched, shivering, ill-
clad, half-starved men the parties of picked volun-
teers from the city, " let out hot and drunk" (to
use the expression of one of our own officers)
against us, and to send them back twice as fast, if
not quite as many, as they came. It was not the
French who enabled 7,500 British soldiers to beat
back and to repulse for three hours and three
quarters the attack of a Russian army of 40,000
men at Inkerman. All this is a matter of history.
What we owe to our allies we know, and need not
be told by any one. They know, too, what they
owe to us ; their troops transported, their flanks
protected, their food conveyed by our shipping,
and many other offices of friendship which the
generous nature of Frenchmen reciprocated and
will never forget. However, let us now pass on
to other matters, and leave this polemic for the
present.
The dinner giyen by the Marchands de Ville,
the bourgeoisie, &c., to the army, took place on
Tuesday, and was remarkable for the enthusiasm of
the guests and the absence of the hosts.
The Salle d'Exercise, which is intended for the
drill and exercise of troops during the severity of
winter, is an enormous hall, built in 1317, by
General Meyer Carbonnier. Oue of the boulevards
outside the Kremlin was covered with canvas,
and formed into a series of long rooms, in which
2,500 soldiers-10 from each battalion—sat down
to an excellent dinner, provided by the same hosts.
All the length of the hall, small trees or plants,
such as laurel, myrtle, and pines, were ranged in
bright green tubes ; bouquets and single flowers
in glasses were profusely used in the decoration of
the tables. The shafts of the stoves were covered
with trophies of arms. At the extremity of the
hall there was a raised dais beneath which the Em-
peror and the Generals feasted. Over this dais,
which was hung with red and cloth of gold, there
was a gigantic letter A and a numeral 2, with a
crown above worked in gold also. On the right
and left of the Emperor were two large orchestras,
occupied by the bands of the Chevalier Guard
and of the civilian amateurs and professional
SUICIDE o A MONET-TAKER or TIIE li•LoN STEAM players of Moscow. There wore 32 tables at the
BOATEL—Yesterday morning Mr. W. Gtrb3r field an in' upper end of the hall and 40 at the lower end, the
quest at the Boileau Arms, Barnes, on James Hardwick. space between the two being occupied at the sides
a middle-aged man, who, on Thursday, was found dead by the orchestra. They were glittering with silver
in the river, about 200 yards from Haunnersinith-bridge. pd of salvers, epergnes, and centre pieces
late, all finely polished, and there was a great
The pockets of the deceased were searched, and iu one
of them was a piece of paper, in which was wrapped a isplay
with.
ring, and on it was written the following :—" James laden . flowers, a rare and much valued orna-
mentation in Russia so that they go to great ex-
Hard wick, 175, Southwark-bridge-road, that will find
my friends and family.-25th Sep:.—Gad bless you all reuse and trouble in' this unfavourable clime to get
until I see youin heaven." The deceased had been mo- them. The galleries were filled with ladies and
ney-taker at Blackfriars-bridge, but sent instead to with civilians, but in the hail itself not a man
Strand-on-the-Green, and was in consequence very de- appeared, except the waiters and civil musicians,
spending, thinking he should ultimately be discharged, who was not in full uniform. The whole of the
although Mr. Binney, a gentleman ..ionnocted with the long ranges of tables glittered like a flower show
Company, stated that, as the unfortun ite man was ill, he with gold and silver lace, greens and Prussian and
was removed, for the benefit of his health only," to the powder blues, white, scarlet, and buff, all mingled
latter place. Verdict of "Temporary Insanity. together in endless variety, reflected from the
[ADVERTISEMENT.I—Mothers and Nurses vtill find Du Barry F masses of plate, and mingling with the hues of the
delicious Revalcnta Arabica Food admirably adapted to
plants or the rich horticultural display before and
remove all disorders of stomach and bowels to which in-,
fants and children are at all times liable, such as indigestion, behind them.
flatulency, colic, dysentery, diarrhcea, constipation, debility, At 3.45 the Emperor, dressed as a General of
and restlessness. It strengthens, nourishes, and is used with Division, and followed by a large staff, made his
more advantage than milk in rearing infants. Wo quote a appearance at the centre door. The company at
few testimonials:- No. 55,034, Grammar School, Steveuago,
.onto stood up at attention, and the Czar, preceding
Dec. 16, 1850. " Geutlemen,—We have 'ouud it admirably
adapted for infants. Our baby has never of ice had disordered 1 his suite by a dozen yards or so, walked slowly up
bowels since taking it.—R. Ambler." Must& a•dam, 31st Dec., the immense avenue of soldiers to the seat prepared
1852. Dear Sir,—Our child, up to the age of eleven weeks, for him. He bowed to the right and to the left as
servants.
was very delicate and wasting away, and II tilkt sago, and
he passed in return to the mute greetings of his
arrowroot turned sour on its stomach, causin g g: eat suffer-
faithful
Not a sound was uttered, for it
i
ing. We then fed it upon Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica,
which agreed wonderfully with her ; and she As now, at the s contrary to etiquette to cheer unless on certain
age of nine months, a plump and lively little girl. —Daniel occasions, when it is contrary to etiquette not to
Sorvas. Wildervank, Holland, Sept. 20, 1853. Dear Sir,-
cheer. His aides-do camp-general, generals, and
e
Our baby, which Heaven presented us with tea :months back, the officers attach dto the Imperial house followed,
was attacked, when four weeks old, with a disease of the
and took their places at the upper tables, where
stomach and glands, by which our seven previous infants
had all been carried off, and this last child seemed destined most of the great soldiers of the Empire who could
to follow its sisters and brothers before many • days, for our be spared or could come to the banquet were already
doctor, a very able practitioner, had, during th ree weeks, ex- assembled. The bands played the National Anthem
hausted all his skill, and was at a loss what to prescribe and dinner was served on silver plate. After din-
next, when he advised Du Barry's Revalents. A rabiesi, which,
nor the usual toasts were drunk -witt:immense en-
I ate happy to say, worked a great change for t he bettor in a
thusiasmand cthheeeEri
few days ; and, in six weeks' time, the child Iva s perfectly
Emperor, to well, and is now a cheerful, blooming boy—a, so urea of the character—to
greatest happiness to us all, This dclicio us re medy may members of the Imperial family, to ourselves, and
wero of the customary
fairly be considered one of the greatest bleF,sinL!s -ever disco- teen his Majesty
who provided to the Empress, to the
vered.—With eternal gratitude, yours, &c., L. IL. Vaalmas. ,
D At none of b
retired, And. the company broke
Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of ".- ' Les() dinners were any of the
Chemistry Dr. Andrew Uro ; Dr. Shoriand ; I )r. Harvey ; merchants
Dr, Campbell; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. WUMT ; -I
)r. Ingram; The dinner to the 2,500 soldiers in the Kremlin
them present.
Lord Stuart do Decies ; the Dowager Couutes sof Castle- garden went off with equal order. In the evening
Stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other res; lectablc
persons, whose health has been restored by it, aft er a. ,1 other - a -
there was ball at Prince Galitzin's, the grand
master or
means of cure had failed. Suitably packed for all cliff aates,
with full instructions, In canisters, 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 2f.b , 4e, i- Ca.; entertainment exhibited
the ceremonies. The prince is one of the
old Muscovites, and the
51bs., lls. ; 121b5., 225. ; super-refined, lib., Gs. ; 211; s., eW. ; 501110 curious conservative notions, in the shape of
albs,, 225.; 101bs., 335, The 101bs. and 1211 m. carriage 11•,:e, old dresses and old dishes at supper. He obstinately
on receipt of post orrice order. Barry du Barry and Co., 77,
Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Masco', and Co., Purveyor' i..;
m" fused to succumb to the taste for modern innova-
in the form of chandeliers and lamps, and on
findigg
to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 60. Gracechtarch-street ; "`°:ls.
330 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; CS, Cornhill ; 49, Bitiaop s. in the drawing-room a very fine French
gate-street; 55, Charing-cross; 64, Upper Maker-stre.)t ; 63 e lustre, which had been purchased and furtively in-
. and 151), Oxfcrd-street. -
,a troduced by his nephew, he ordered it to be taken

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THE cor„crilAvoii AT moscpw.

(Front tke Times' 4ecial.Correspondent.)
MOSCOW, SEPT 19.

1 shall begin with my postscript. 'to-day there
Will be grand maticelivres of-the troops, weather
wrinitting, and, .i 0 je;l:,,,e from the present, aspect
omorning, rho mornine., etkt 11' r will not permit, for it is
raining fast. furlfied It lve tempted the climate
,tr)CY long, and now we are horrified by hearing of
the probability of it; turning to snow, as it has been
L'WWII to do occasionally in the month of July.
Th, fetes are dragging: their slow length along, but
it has been found necessary to alter the programme
a little, and to hurry on the proceedings, so as to
get them all within the month. The Emperor and
Imperial family will proceed to the holy city of
Kieff after the coronation festivities have termi-
nated, in order to perform his devotions, in ac-
cordance with the custom of the Czars on such
occasions—the coronation being a purely religious
awl unsecular ceretnony The most interesting
portions of the programme relate to the grand bal
masque for the people at the Kremlin, at which
30;000 persons are expected to be present ; but:
supper will only ho provided for persons of the
few first classes. The dinner to the 200,000 people
in the plains outside Pettovsky Chateau will be the
next best sight; but itis said to be a scramble, after
all. Each person rushes at the table at a signal 1
given by the Emperor, and seizes what he can get
and rushes off with it. The move of this fierce
onslaught,is siao to be this. Each peasant struggles
to. get a pieeo'oc meat to take away with him. This
he religiously preserves till he gets home to his
family or frieridS, when he says, "I have dined
with the Czar to-day. 'Lo l here is the meat the
.Czar, has given- ; ' when they all fall to and eat
with much reverence and appetite. The wine will
flow from large fountains to the extent of half-a-
_piatt'a, man.. 'The stands which have been erected
to view the feast are very. numerous, and have
lieniLgoe up, with wonderful rapidity.
The ball given by AL dekorny on Monday night,:
althongh Jacking. nothing in the number anddignity
and rank Of--the .company, was, it is said, inferior
in 'spiel:Vadat.' to the entertainments of a similar.
kind .)6van. 14 the. English Ambassador and the
pountess Granville. The rooms of the G-raziani
lialice are better furnished, more rich, and at the
Smile time ' niore 'cninfortable 'than, those of the,
French Embassy, and, what is a good deal more to
the:purpose on such occasions, the wine and the
suppers are: better. Indeed Lord Granville has
(lege hii best to make the Russians familiar with
the -contents of an' excellent English cellar, and he
possesses „ another, advantage in having Lady
Granville to preside at his entertainment. The
.supply.. of dancing ladies is described as being
very inadequate, to the demand last night,•but the
French Ambassador is the giyest and best, host pos-
'sible' 'and did his utmost to atone for the absence
of a Madame de Morny by dancing incessantly.
It must be by no means inferred from this that the
Freneh Arnbassador'i ball was not very splendid.
It is only fair to state that the Embassy of England
has the advantage in Moscow, just as in St. Peters
'burg M. de Morny was able to give better and
inofe, frequent dinners than Lord Granville.
As: there is a very decided attempt made just
now by certain agents of the Russian press to dis-
credit' 'our Embassy 'in common with anything
English, and to cover anything French with un-
mea.aured eulegiuna;7—nftentimee,very well,hut, as
is.natural in all human affairs, not universally de-
-IServ6d; it is'as well to let the truth be known on
this at on :all. other matters. The most frequent
taunt jn the mouths of those, writers is that the
itussians. would` very soon have disposed of the
'English troops on all occasions had it not been for
the aid.of thb French ; and, althoughit seems un-
just and ungenerous in time of peace toyip up the
oTd iveundi of war, it is not Englishmen who have
done sc4 It surely was not French aid that enabled
us to drive a numerous Russian force out of its
entrenchments at the Alma, to storm its redoubts,
and to take the only two pieces of cannon which
fell into the,hands of the allies that.day. It surely
Was-: not French ~aid that enabled our '.heavy
cavalry , on the 25th,,pf October to ride though
the Russian horse thtee times their number, and

'Veen your atitteitublmrs since I lett My I know
that you have nothing to support yourself ; only you
have been.too kind. God Almighty protec;, and support
you, and forgive my worst enemies. Your affectionate,
though wretched husband, George Whitehead."
Ann Adkins, a chambermaid, was the next witness.
She deposed that, according to the orders of the deceased,
she went to his bedroom door to knock on Wednesday
afternoon. She found, ho 'ever, that the deceased was
already up and dressed. He said he wanted to wash,
and witness gave him a towel. About a minute after
deceased rang his bell, and witness entered the room,
upon which he gave her some coppers, and said " Per-
haps I shan't see you again before I go." Witness went
again to the room about half-past 7 o'clock, and found
that the door was locked on the inside.

This was the whole of the evidence forthcoming on
Friday evening. A. somewhat singular fact in connec-
tion
with the lamentable affair is, that the report of the '
pistol was not heard by any person in the hotel. It was
stated that three telegraphic communications and also a '
letter had been Bert to the friends of the deceased, but
no answer had been received. Under these circum-
stances, and from the fact that a post mortem examina•
tion had not yet been made up to that time, the coroner
adjourned the inquest until Saturday night, and in the
meantime the body was removed from the hotel.
On Saturday night the inquest was accordingly re-
sumed, when Mr. Norman, a gentleman from Beccles,
an acquaintance of the deceased, and who had accompa-
nied Mrs. Whitehead, upon hearing of her husband's
death, to Birmingham, was the first witness ca lid. He
deposed that he had known the deceased, who was in
the building trade, for many years, and :.hat he saw hint
last at Beccles on Monday morning. For the fait six
months he had considered him extremely nervous, and
sometimes apparently as not knowing what he was
about. Three or f air of his relatives had been confiued
for insanity. He left Beccles without the knowledge of
Ilia wife. Deceased was in partnership with his brother,
but a dissolution was to take 'dace on the 6th of January
next. This circumstance witness thought might have
some influence upon his mind. He wits not given to
drinking, but was a man of temperate habits.
It appeared that on the morning of the day the de-
ceased committed suicide he purchased a brace of pistols
from Mr. Batee, of Steelhouselane, and, according to
the evidence of that gentleman, he appeared to be iu his
perfect senses. _ .

- The coroner having briefly summed u, the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Insanity."