The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

' not do good when you could, instead of catching
shoe applaudits by going down. with the night train
to Brummagem. Is the emancipation of Jewry money
lenders to save the commonwealth ? Save the mark!
Issachar's burdens oppressed no shoulders save his
own, and being well padded with usury, he
never felt them. Could Rothschild not light and
pave Jerusalem, or Salon-ions lay down a grand
trunk from Dan to Beersheba, and so raising the
wind in Palestine; contrive to make the Promised
Land a land where men would not only promise to
pay, but in reality come down with the rhino. The
sick man lacks rupees, and for ready money the 'Holy
Land might be transferred to Montefiore in any
juceglery of conveyancing that Fitzroy Kelly may
think lies nearest to his conscience. But
let not your Lordship think to raise the
Gentile by elevating the Jew. Ah, but there's
that live-long Reform Bill. In Humbug's
sacred name, you, Baron John, indited a thing
that has to be coopered in twenty years ! There's
Magna Charta and the Treaty of Union as fresh as
paint, and that after many centuries. Angels,
unfold your cambr:cs—a Lord, nay, a literary Lord,
who writes plays and biographies to boot, hears a
nation's cry, and offers the mechanic, starved down
to the depths of a walking skeleton—he offers such.
this panacea. Friend, be of good cheer—your re-
demption draweth nigh. I, John Russell, am at
this present now returned by Shoreditch without
you ; but look up to heaven, for next year you will
have a 57.894 th share in my election.
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HA.RBOURS,OF REFUGE CO3I3IISSION

WEST HARTLEPOOL, Ocr. 19.

The commissioner: resumed their inquiry this
morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. R. W. Jackson was
re-examined at some length. He produced a plan,
showing the great fields of coal and ironstone lying
withinthe line of coastbetween the Tyne and Runs-
wick Bay. He produced returns of the number of
lives saved by the Hartlepool and West Hartle-
pool lifeboats from the year 1846 to the present
time, amounting to 557 in the whole. He also sub-
mitted a reduced plan for a refuge harbour, the cost
of which would amount to about £087,520, and
enclose an area of 1,286 acres. Ile calculeted that
every vessel frequenting the coast would, on an
average, use the harbour three times a year, in the
proportion of twice in ballast to once loaded. Mr.
Cialver, C.E., gave evidence as to the condition of
the bay during 1846, the last time he minutely
examined it. He found then that it was silting up
over two-thirds of its surface from one-quarter of
an inch to 21 feet. Since that period he knew
nothing of his own knowledge, but could easily
conceive that changes might take place to com-
pletely alter the state of things that existed at that
time, and which he then deemed likely to continue
to exist. Had a refuge harbour been formed in the
bay in January, 1857, he believed that all the T.'s-
sels wrecked on the 4th of that month would liar .!
been saved. He deemed both Sunderland and &d-
-ear unsuitable places for a harbour of nine. Mr.
H. Mossman, havenmaster, handed in returns, ox
the prevailing winds on the coast fi r a lengthened
period, ascertained from tables kept at the light-
house, a return of the wrecks occurring wtilrn the
limits of the port, and a return of the nutab r cf
storms, with the variation •7 the compass, during
the years 1854-5-6-7. Mr. W. Russell, outdoor
manager of the Wrecks Committee of Lloyd's, gave
evidence of the peculiar adaptability of hartlepool
Bay for a refuge harbour, it being the most central
port on the coast. He preferred one large harbour
to a number of small ones, though under certain
circumstances he would prefer two moderate-sized.
to one large one. A harbour at Filey would be
valuable to vessels that had weathered the York-
shire coast, and one at Hartlepool for vessels that
had not cleared the high land of Ycrkshire. Mr.
W. Hutchinson, contractor, who had made an esti-
mate of the cost of the work proposed by Mr. Jack-
son, vould undertake to execute it at £375 per
cubic yard, notwithstanding that the breakwater at
Alderney, similarly constructed, was costing £568
per yard. He had made careful ca7culations, anti
could execute the work for that sum in five years.
Several nautical witnesses, North Sea pilots, ship-
owners, and captains from various ports were
examined, including a Hamburg captain, all of
whom agreed as to the great necessity of a refuge
harbour on the coast, and that Hartlepool was the
most fitting place for such harbour. Presuming that
two harbours instead of one were suggested, they
would approve Hartlepool-bay and Filey-bay. The
commissioners terminated their sitting at a quarter
to 10 p.m., and proceeded next morning to Redcar,
which place they had. originally not intended to
vi sit.

THE ATTEMP TED MURDER OF P OLIVE-
INSP ECTOR B UDD.

Edwark Mark Council, a pensioner from the
Royal Engineers, and formerly employed at Wool-
wich, wns placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, at
Woolwich Poliee-court,r.yesterday, on a remanded
charge of attempting to murder William James
Budd, senior inspector of police at Woolwich Dock-
yard, by firing a loaded pistol at his head.
The prosecutor was not in attendaxce, and the
following medical certificate was handed in :

wi" I hereby certify that Inspector Budd, of the It d i i3ion
of police, is unable to attend the court, in consequence of
the state of prostre.tion and debility which has resultei from
the injury Inflicted on him. The wound on his face is
healing favourably. " WILLIAM STUART,
Divisional Surgeon of Police."
Mr. J. P. Cook, surgeon, attached to the Fisgard,
flag-ship, corroborated the above certificate, and
added that the shock to the system rendered it
unsafe for Mr. Budd to attend the court at present.
Mr. Traill said, under the circumstances, he
should again remand the prisoner for a week, and
when again brought up he would be sent for trial,
a:4, if it was necessary, Mr. Budd might be bound
over to prosecute at the Old Bailey after the pri-
soner's committal.

Amongst the numerous documents which were
addressed by the prisoner to the coroner's jury.
whom he stated would have to sit upon his body,
is one which contains the following singular state-
ment., signed by the prisoner :
" Sly father, John Council, was the illegitimate son of
Councillor John Scott—afterwards Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of King's Bench at Dublin, and Earl of Clonmel. My
father's mother was a young woman of good family, and
gave my father a good education. He was apprenticed to a
gumnaker at Dublin, in King-street, and afterwards be-
came connected with the leaders of the Irish Rebellion in
1798. The Earl of Clonmel was before that a good friend to
my father, but finding that he had joined this party, sent
him a message that he (the earl) never wished to see his face
again. However, after this, my father and several of his
friends were captured, and but for the intervention of the
Earl of Clonmel they would have been hanged."
The prisoner then details his early history,
having enlisted into the Royal Military Artificers,
subsequently termed the Sappers and Miners, &c.

Roberti, the composer, has just left Paris for
Tulin with a new opera. The subject of the opera, of
which report speaks highly, is Petrarch and Laura."
The libretto, by Dall'Ongaro, is said to be of the highest
interest, the poet having chosen the moment of Petrarch's
triumph at Avignon, and, with great taste and judgment,
has introduced the famous stanzas of Petrarch on the hopes
of Italy, for which ltoberti has composed a chorus of im-
mense power and effect. The role of Laura was written,
bath by poet and composer, expressly for Mdlle. Vuneri,
of
the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, to whose talent and per-
sonal appearance it is said to be admirably adapted.
Calzado has engaged with the composer to bring out this
opera, during the season, in Paris.—Court Jorrdol.
A GIRL ROLLED TO DEATIL—A few days ago
a young girl, not more than 14 years of age, named
Thomas, met with a fearful but instantaneous death at the
Cyrarthfa Ironworks where she was employed. In the
and
always
ing is
course of her work her clothes caught fire, and with her
burning dress she ran to the rolls where
running water, to put out the flames.
In
a Fanhs t°alnv
ever, her dress was thecaughdtrabyedtween d
espindles,
the revolving
t
the poor creature was dragged
rollers, and literally crushed to pieces, one of her legs being
Of course the d ath was in-
stantaneous, to a g eat height.
the dreadful affair being but momentary. The
fragments of her body were gathered together and an in-
quest held over them, the customary verdict being re-
turned.
TnE OFFICE OF CLERK TO THE JUSTICES IN THE
CITY.—In consequence of the f
and clerks' committee of the core eraretnicoennatoadine to the
• itot officers'
h
e
nature of the duties and the corporation
of t emoluments of the office of clerk
he peace, the delay of a few weeks has taken •
place
since
the death of the late holdof fielder the office, Mr. John Clark,
deceased. That report, however, being brought up and sanc-
tioned, has been ordered to be printed, and a copy sent to
every member of the court. It details the duty of the office,
which are numerous, and in which it does not propose or sug-
gest any alteration. Nor does it disturb in the least degree
the principle of remuneration, which heretofore has been by
fees, the sums paid by licensed victuallers, billiard and baga-
telle keepers, and the vendors of game, being the chief items
of receipt, the victuallers alone furnishing the principal sums
on the renewal of their licenses and annual transfer of their
property in cases of change of occupancy. Besides these there
are amounts received for fees in the shape of copies of legal
documents, the sums realised by which arc comparatively of
a trifling amount. The holder of the appointment has to
pay an assistant officer about £lOO per annum out of the
proceeds of the office. The election will take place at the
ensuing Court of Common Council (Friday next, at two
o'clock). We do not hear that any other candidate has
appeared as an applicant for the situation besides Mr. Good-
man, the chief clerk to the magistrates at the Mansion-
house ; nor indeed, so far as can be gleaned, is any opposi-
tion expected to the return of that gentleman as the
successor of Mr. Clark.
The Royal mail steamer Trent, Capt. Woolcott,
left Southampton yesterday for the West Indies, via Ma-
deira. She was built in 1841, and is one of the original
ships possessed by the Royal Mail Company. She has un-
dergone a thorough overhaul, has been fitted up with new
boilers, and her speed has been got up to 101. She is gone
out to' carry the intercolonial mails, taking out about 50
passenger's,
chiefly for Madeira, and a considerable amount
of cargo: Amongst her passengers were Mr. Stoddart, the
late consul of Madeira ; Admiral Lempriere, and the two
hiss Fortescues, sisters of Lord Ebrington, who is at pre-
sent in Madeira in ill-health. Stoddart is succeeded-
in the Madeira coluttl§hip by hiss 04-iurlaw, Mr, graine.