The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-22 00:00:00

'A
TE OF T.RAD.B.

LEICESTER, Sept. 21.—There is a
general activity
in the hosiery trade, all branches are well employed,
and there is more than an average amount of busi-
ness transacting, with the prospect of the continu-
ance of a good and healthy demand. The hosiery
trade in the country districts is alto in a buoyant
st.te. Stocks in hand are unusually light. There
is a fair amount of business doing in yarns, and.
prices remain firm. The wool market is tolerably
active, and high inic-s are
obliged to be given for
snpel for sorts.
NOTTINGIrAM, 21st.—There is no improvement to
report in the lace trade; indeed, there has hardly
been so much doing during the last few days.
Buyers have purchased very' sparingly, and manu-
facturers are determined not to accumulate stock
by producing more than they require. The cotton
fancy trade is dull ; the silk lace trade also continues
quiet. The hosiery trade is more active than is
usual at this period or the year. Orders for export
are in course of completion, and an increased trade
will before long, it is expected, be done in this de-
partment. The home trade, except in some parti-
culax branches, is quiet, but upon the whole busi-
ness is in a very healthy state. The yarn market
is firm, materials selling at high prices. Silk has
"an upward tendency.

THE SUN.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1859.

The dreadful explosion of that water-jacket of
the paddle funnel on board the Great Eastern
seems to be echoed back just now very remarkably
and very frightfully by a variety of similar fatal
catastrophes. It is like—what is sometimes notice-
able—the periodical epidemic of suicides. Or like
—what is also sometimes noticeable—the occa-
sional contagion of inhuman murders, whether by
personal violence or by secret poisoning. It seems
inexplicable this simultaneous blowing up of boiler
after boiler, of one steam engine after another—the
noise of these deplorable casualties coming upon
us by a sort of choral 'detonation. There were six
unfortunate firemen, we all know (and in the man-
ner we all know), scalded to death the other day
on board the Great Eastern either off Hastings or
off Dungeness—another poor fellow (also fearfully
scalded) being driven in terror over the side of the
giant vessel, beaten into a state of insensibility
by the revolving paddlewheel, and washed away
beyond recovery in the waters of the Channel.
Hardly have the public generally got over the first
shock of this most lamentable intelligence the
Great Eastern is still lying off Portland, in one
compartment at least seriously damaged, and
actually yet in the midst of undergoing £5,000
worth of repairs—when whirr-clang-boom ! cff the
coast, near Shirehampton, there is a little steam
tug (the Fury of Bristol) " literally blown to atoms"
by some unaccountable explosion ! While another
appalling accident of a like kind takes place upon
the very same afternoon (yesterday afternoon,
Wednesday, the 21st of September), by the explo-
sion, no less incomprehensible in its way, of a little
four-horse steam engine in the midst of a sheep fair
at Lewes, a fair in which farm implements and
machina in actual operation are exhibited for the
inspection of the assembled agriculturists. In
both of these lamentable accidents yesterday
several persons were instantaneously killed, and
others frightfully mutilated. As to the steam-tug
'Fury, that, as we have already stated, was abso-
lutely shivered " to atoms " by the explosion.
Fortunately for himself the Captain chanced
at the time to be on board another vessel
hard by (the Ant) at the moment of the
fatal occurrence. The engineer is "missing "
no doubt destroyed. The fireman also " missing "
—he also, no doubt, having perished. The
mate, by a marvellous freak of good fortune,
is picked up on a fragment of the wreck, compara-
tively uninjured. A stripling of sixteen (completing
the little crew of five souls) having been, mean-
while, blown on board, the Ant—where, as we have
seen, the captain of the Fury happened to be at the
time of the explosion. And from the Ant, on to the
deck of which the poor boy has been blown, we are
not surprised to find, from the report, that "he has
since been conveyed, in a very precarious state, to the
Bristolßoyal Infirmary." When we have collected
together all the particulars of the accident, we can
only learn at the end of all, that—the thing is done
—and that nobody can account for it. Nobody, in
this instance, even can conjecture how the explo-
sion could possibly have happened.
It is pretty much the same in regard to the other
more fatal, and if possible more bewildering occur-
rence--viz., that fearful steam-engine explosion at
Lewes, during the local sheep fair, while the farmers
and the farm labourers were standing about
there in
groups exercising the farming-machines
and the agricultural implements
• . While they are
thus standing there, and looking about them, we
read in the reporter's vivid account of the catas-
trophe "The engineer was attending the
engine, and getting it in readiness to work a chaff
cutting machine,. and
was
altering its level,
when suddenly there
was a tremendous re-
port, said by bystanders to greatly ex-
ceed that of the largest of the cannons at the Artil-
lery Militia Depot." And the writer,thes
,
pun adds
"Instantly the engine rose from the ground amidst
a cloud of steam and smoke, ashes and water, and
dashed a distance of above 30 yards in the direc-
tion of the sheep pens, when it struck the ground,
and whirling over, was forced with terrific violence
for a further space of ten yards, finally alighting in
a corner of a pen of sheep." Then comes the list of
the killed and wounded—all in the twinkling of an
eye either blown into eternity or horribly mangled
as by the detonation of an infernal machine. The
engineer," we read, "was lying near the engine,
in a lifeless'condition. Near him were three other
men in a similar state, others were thrown down
and more or less injured and contused. The engine
in its impetnous course had swept all before it,
crushing everything in its progress, and in addition
to the unfortunate men whose lives have fallen a

sacrifice, a colt, which was being exhibited for sale
by the son of the owner, was struck, and the
animal as well as the young man killed.
There were also two sheep killed and several
others injured, the boiler part of the engine having
fallen on them." As evidence of the terrific violence
of the explosion, it is said that " large pieces of
iron" were scatterd about in all directions, some of
them as far as a quarter of a mile from the actual
scene of the calamity. Of course, down at Lewes,
and again down by Shirehampton, we shall have
coroners' inquests sitting to inquire into the cause
of these explosions. And if the jurors emulate
their Dorsetshire compatriots down at that recent
inquiry upon the 'Crowner's 'Quest at Weymouth,
we shall have verdicts deciding—what we already
know perfectly well—that so-and-so perished in
the one instance by the bursting of a steam-engine
at Lewes Sheep Fair, and that such-a-one was
destroyed in the other instance by the explosion of
the steam-tug in Kingroad. It becomes a matter
of serious anxiety, however, to the general
community to examine a little more searchingly
into the veritable cause of accidents so fatal and of
such frightfully rapid recurrence. Are we not
"going a-head" a little too fast sometimes P Are
we not "getting the steam up" a little too reck-
lessly ? The "pace" attained in the onward March
of Civilisation—it ought to be called the onward
Rush of Civilisation—is, no doubt, very fine,
very exhilirating : but is it not now and then
just a trifle too rash—whirling away at odd
moments into a very Dance of Death ? It
would be well at any rate to pause and see whe-
ther rational precautionary measures might not be
taken to prevent if possible repetition after re-
petition thus frequently of these disastrous catas-
trophes. Measures of precaution let us say, for
example, that should include among them more
stringent inquiries as to the qualifications of those
entrusted with the management of steam•engines of
all kinds—locomotive or stationary.

If ever there were a case in which a whole band
of men had nobly earned the Victoria Cross, it is
that of the survivors of the 350 who were precipi-
tated headlong as a storming•party on the Chinese
forts at the mouth of the Peiho. Whether the
'whole proceedings were well or ill advised, and the
strategy good or bad, we think all who have read
the accounts will agree that nothing in the Crimean
or Italian campaigns, or the Indian mutiny, can
have surpassed in cool bravery, and in undaunted
execution of an almost impossible duty, the beha-
viour of these 350. We have the accounts of sur-
viving eye-witnesses—surviving, when out of the
little band 64 officers and men were killed, and
252 wounded—only thirty-four uninjured, and that
by what seemed a miracle.
From the moment they left the ships' sides the
conflict with water, mud, and cannon balls com-
menced. Encumbered with ladders and weapons,
they leaped out into water four feet deep, wetting
their rifles and ammunition, and leaving them little
but their cold steel to rely on. They had more
than the third of a mile to pass over before they
could reach the forts, and 200 yards they had to
walk before the water became only knee deep. At
length, delayed by the adhesive mud and the
water, they succeeded in reaching the first ditch.
It would seem that by this time they had lost,
while slowly struggling along under a cross
fire, nearly one-third of their number; all the
ladder-party had been killed but two, and
many of the ladders smashed by round
shot ; but after an hour's deadly struggle
with the elements of nature and the shot of the
enemy, there stood the remnant of the 350 on the
brink of the first ditch, to combat the 300 cannon,
and perhaps the 20,000 Tartars of the Empire of
China; and had they had nothing but men to con-
tend with, they would have driven the 20,000 from
the walls.

But now their colonel sounds the advance—they
leap down intothe; ditch instead of finding it knee-
deep, they are out of their depth in mud and water.
Some swam for their lives—somehow,—such as are
not shot down get across. Pushing onward,—still
knee-deep in%iud, they reach the second ditch ; it
is diy—but, the mud is soft, it takes an hour, under
fire, to get across it. The narrator was almost
smothered in its mud, it was at least 80 yards from
the wall, and the officers, distinguished by the
colour of their clothes, are picked off by rffienaen,
wherever they come from.
And now the mud ditch lies before them, not
fifty yards from the walls. Three ladders only
remain ! Their rifles were wet, and would not go
off; with nothing but swords or bayonets to fight
with, it were useless for fewer than three to mount
the wall at once. A few, by the help of the ladders,
got over this last ditch, but too many pressed for-
ward, and the ladders broke ! And there they
were, the enemy picking them off at leisure,
only -35 yards off. Their ladders broken, their
powder wet, before them rand full of
spikes, and a diet:aux de frise under the
walls, and their two superior officers badly
wounded—they had done all that men could do,
and now there was nothing for it but to retreat,
and a retreat it was. No Xenophon will describe
it; but nothing recorded in the Anabasis outdoes
this work of kind, cool, soldierly courage. They
would not leave them wounded. For an hour and
a half they had to protect the return of the
wounded through all the perils they had faced in
coming; and they helped their wounded to the
boats under a fire, to -which an officer who had
been in the Redan told them that the fire there was
not to be compared. Thus fought ber MAJESTY'S
troops at the Peiho. We again ask is there
an individual who survives that murderous
day, who ought not to wear in future
the Victoria Cross ? Balaklava and the Redan
wore but a rush forwar.d amid a hail of artillery,
but at the Peiho the dreadful mud, water, and
ditches, infinitely more depressing than any fire—
though this was fast and furious, a feu d'enfer,
as GORTSCIXAKOFF would say were the most
deadly enemies. Had it been a land run of 700
yards, in a few minutes not a Tartar would have
stood to his guns.
Let, then, these brave troops have their due.
Let their reward show that England's Sovereign
will not coolly look on such service. Let other
forlorn hopes know that they do not die or dare
death in an unhonoured service. Dispute with
brave admirals, if need be, the merit of their places,
but give to brave men the reward of bravery.
Let every English soldier know that not success,
but duty bravely done shall never miss its reward.
The more fortune denies to merit, the more let
Justice reward it !

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and family
have left Belgrave• square for Buchanan Castle, N. 8., for
the winter.

The Duke and Duchess of Buceleueh have left
town for Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire, to entertain a
succession of visitors.

The Earl and Countess of Devon are passing the
autumn at Powdexhana Castle, Devonshire.
On the 13th inst., at Castle Forbes, the-Countess
of Granard was delivered of acisizstill-born.
recovered fromWea the
are
sduring the race week at
gra-
tified to state the countess is progressing_ favourably.
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THE RAI'IIL4RICET THEATRE.

MISS AMY SEDGWICK.

The lovers of good old English comedy have the
prospect before them—if they so please—of a treat
this very evening. For to-night, for the first time
upon the London boards, Miss Amy Sedgwick im-
personates the character of Miss Dorilion in Mrs.
Inchbald's celebrated comedy of "Wives as they
Were and Maids as they Are." Our accomplished
and popular actress is certainly just now bent upon
giving us a taste of her versatility. Her reward
can hardly fail to be—judging from the recent
effect of her Rosalind—an increase of her popularity
proportioned to this widening display of her ac-
complishments.

CLARA NOVELLO AND BOBRANL

(CRYSTAL PALACE-YESTERDAY.)

Madame Clara Novello made her last appearance
in England (previous to her departure for the Con-
tinent) at the Crystal Palace, yesterday afternoon ;
and her interpretation of Medelssohn's inspired
aria, " Hear ye, Israel," produced an impression on
her audience that few of our vocalists could hope to
imitate.

Her execution of Benedict's rondo, "Prendi
per me," was as perfect a gem of brilliant
vocalisation as it has ever been our lot to listen to,
and, but for the length and arduousness of the task,
would have been redemanded. Her naive rendering
of the Jacobite air (which she substituted for " The
beating of my own heart ") was rapturously re-
demanded.

Mr. Borrani made his first appearane3 at the
Crystal Palace, and sang his song, "Ths heart
bowed down," as he alone can sing it.
The fall power and flexibility of his rich bass
voice was, however, more fully displayed in Ros-
sini's grand aria " Sorgete," which was as faultless
in execution as his ce...aam'Brx"vi.°`linit''_Novello--

a greater compliment it would be difficult to pay.
" The Wolf" (though in our opinion too dramatic
for a concert room) was a most charming perform-
ance, full of expression.

We hope to hear this favourite artiste on the
stage—English or Italian, n'importe which. We
should prefer the latter.
We have to thank the spirited management of
the Crystal Palace Company for adding Mr. Bor-
rani's name to their repertoire, thus largely adding
to the pleasure of the public, for whom they thus
provided a rich musical treat.

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegram have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

BOULOGNE, SEPT. 21.

The members of the deputation from the Na-
tional Assembly of the Romagna to the King of
Sardinia have been named.

The deputation is composed of Count Bentivoglio,
Count Gozzadini, Marquis Tanari, Count Salvoni,
M. Laderchi, M. Scarabelli, Vice-President; and
M. Mareschotti, Secretary to the National Assembly.

BERNE, SEPT. 22.

The Sardinian Government has addressed a cir-
cular to the Great Powers denying the report of
the cession of Savoy to France, and declaring such
reports to be entirely devoid of foundation. 1.

BERNE, SEPT. 21.

Advices received from Zurich announce the
arrival of a courier from Vienna, with instructions
to draw Hp the instrument for the treaty of peace,
and the document for the cession of Lombardy to
Sardinia. No allusion is made to the Duchies.

It is hoped that the treaty of peace will be
signed in a few days.

BIARRITZ, SEPT. 21.

It is asserted that the King of the Belgians,
Prince Richard Metternich, and Count Walewski,
will prolong their stay here until. the departure of
the Imperial Court, which will take place towards
the end of the month.

TURIN, SEPT. 21.
Prince Poniatowski left Florence to-day for

Biarritz.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition) says :
" Judging from the tone of French diplomacy, my
impression is that the negotiations now geing on at
Biarritz will end in the 31oniteur publishing a note
in which the people of Central Italy will be solemnly
invited again to receive their Sovereigns under pro-
mise of reforms. This done, Franee may consider
that she has washed her hands of the Italian ques-
tion, and the 50,000 French troops in all probability
will return home. The Emperor no doubt is sadly
puzzled to know what to do. His sympathy is with
the Italians—with the people of Italy in fact. I am
assured, on high authority, that he has not in any
may modified a desire, so often expressed, to improve
the political condition of the peninsula. But he is
perhaps the only friend of Italy at the Biarritz
Conference. As it has been again asserted in some.
Belgian paper (and therefore, as a matter of course,
reproduced in certain English journals) that the
Emperor has yet some lingering idea about placing
Prince Napoleon in Central Italy, I can assure you
his Majesty never had, nor has he now, any such
desires. He has always acted on his conviction of
Italy for the Italians. For such he made war, and
in such a spirit he would, if he could, I am con•
vinced, complete the treaty of peace. Whatever
may be the result of the. Biarritz meeting the Ita-
lians of Central Italy should depend on their own
swords as their only guarantee.

FRAN CE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

BOURSE, Sept. 21.—The market was dull at
the opening, but afterwards recovered. Threes
have been done at from 68f. 85c. to 68f. 95c. ;
Mobilier, 782 f. 50c. to 790 f.; Austrian, 542 f. 50c.
to 545 f. ; Lombard, 546 f. 25c. (ex. div.) to 551 f.
25c.; Lyons, 777 f. 50c. to 782 f. 50c. ; Orleans,
1,375 f. to 1,380 f. The following were the last
quotations :

If per Cents. 95 10
Do. end month
3 per Cents 69
Do. end month 69 5
Bank Shams. 2BOO

ors it Mobilier .. 795
Do. Account ..... 797 50

Credit Foncier
41 . —
Piedmontoso (5)
Roman B4 50
Austrian

Spanish Threes —
Home Debt 44

B.LILWA.YS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans -
Northern . 922 50 923 75
New ditto BlO 810
Lyons and Mediterranean BB5 885
Geneva 520 .. 520
Southern
Western 5BO .. 682 50
Eastern
Sardinian 412 50 ..
Austrian

Lombard .. ...

551 25

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 1210. ; money,
25f 10e.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 e.; money, 21f. 921 c.

SUTTEE IN INDLL

The Commercial Gazette, of Aug. 9, publishes
the following :--
" We published some days ago an account of the
suttee in the Hissar district, and the steps which
had been taken to punish those concerned in the
affair. The following has been sent us for insertion
and we give it below, but a good deal is repetition.
" Intimation of a suttee having taken place near
Hansee in June last, having appeared in several of
the local newspapers, the following authentic ac-
count of the same and the punishment awarded to
the'participators in this serious crime, is published
for general information.
" On the 19th June, 1859, Jhullum Choomar, of
Koonghur, died a natural death. His widow Nun-
noo was then very anxious to be burnt with his
corpse, but was restrained by the village community
and seemingly acquiesced in their advice.
" On the 21st June, or two days after Jhullum's
death, a rumour spread through the village at dawn
that Nunnoo had received an inspiration, and was
about to become a suttee. Her deceased husband's
uncle, Koora, her nearest connection in tLe N
assisted with the other Choomars connected with
her, particularly distinguished themselves in the
work to which the whole village swarmed, each
Choomar fetched wood, and assisted in preparing
the pile.
" Before, however, these preparations were com-
pleted, the Lumberdars of the village depatched
.Babur,' the village clauraha, to report the circum-
stance at the Bullecalee chowkee. Bahur now
states that he fell ill on the road, and did not re-
cover till evening, when he returned to the village
without going to the chowkee.

" Shortly after sunrise Nunnoo (the suttee) issued
from the hamlet and proceeded to the pyre. The
entire body of villagers, whether Choomars, Jats,
or Bunnias, poured libations of ghee, and placed
cocoa-nuts on the pyre. Nunnoo ascended it of her
own free will, and against the remonstrances of the
people generally, but these remonstrances had been
partially silenced at an early hour by a threat to
curse any one who attempted to prevent her im-
molation, and the villagers seeing there was no
help for it, gave hearty assistance to the suttee.
Thus Nunnoo was immolated, assembled crowds
looking on.
" All therefore more or less aided and abetted in
a crime which they knew to be heinous.
" The Lumberdars, men of superior caste, might
have prevented the suttee, but failed to do so ; the
village chowheedars gave information, and the
dauraha did not, as he was ordered, report the sut-
tee to the nearest police chowkee. The whole case
has been carefully investigated by the civil autho-
rities at Ilissar, and the followinc, are the results as
reported by the commissioner of division.
" Five Choomars, who were most active in pre-
paring the wood for the pyre, have been sentenced
to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour in
irons.
"Five of the Lumbndars, whose bounden duty it
was to prevent the perpetration of the suttee, to a
similar term of imprisonment.
" Nineteen others who were ciders and abettors
in the crime, though in ikless degree, have been sen-
tenced to imprisonment with-labour in irons for five
years.
"'The dauraha who failed to report the crime to
the police has been sentenced to two years' labour
in irons ; ay.d, lastly, a fine of 500 rupees has beep
levied on the corporate community of the village.
" These sentences will be proclaimed in every
village in the Ilissar division, in order that the con-
sequences of aiding in a crime so atrocious may be
clearly made known to the people, and that beads
of villages be specially warned that they will be
punished to the utmost limit of the law if they fail
to present sutte...
,6 The dismissal of Dowlut Ram, thanandar of
Hansee, and Peer Buxsh Khan, jetnadar of the
Chowkce Bulecalee, and of every individual police-
man attached to the thanah of llausee lies also been
directed."

THE GREAT EASTERN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l observe in the Times of to-day letters
from "A Passenger. Shareholder" and from " Spec•
tator," pretending to contradict my evidence and
Mr. Dixon's regarding the part I took, and the part
I did not take, in the management of the paddle-
wheel engines; and I find another from a Mr. Dil-
lon, of a previous date.
I frankly admit that I communicated probably
100 messages, in the course of the voyage, from the
bridge to the paddle-engine room.
I as readily admit that my chief assistant was in
the paddle-engine room, giving all the assistance in
his power to carry the orders I transmitted into
effect. _

I equally admit that my son Norman assisted me
in transmitting some of those messages, and that
he counted for me the strokes of the engines, and
reported to me every five minutes their condition
and speed.
It is perfectly true that at one time the screw-
engines went faster than the paddle-wheel engines,
and at another time the paddle-engines faster than
the screw. _ _

But all your correspondents have omitted to state
(what they could equally have stated if they were
competent witnesses and wished to be just), that I
transmitted the same number of orders in the same
manner to the screw-engines which were not made
by me, and where no engineer of mine was assisting.
The fact is I merely worked the telegraph, and
transmitted the necessary instructions to both
engines from the pilot and captain, in such a man-
ner as would best give effect to their wishes, and
cause the vessel to perform the evolutions they
desired.

But is it just or fair to argue from such circum-
stance that I was in responsible charge of the work-
ing of both sets of engines ? lam sure Mr. Blake
will not say I was responsible for his engines be-
cause I concerted telegraphic arrangements with
him.

I may further state that I did not go into either
engine•room, and I could not even see the paddle-
engines work from where I stood. My engines, and,
as I imagine, those of Messrs. Watt and Co., were
in the hands of -the Company's engineers serving
under the ship's articles. Out of 170 persons, ser-
vants of the Company, employed on the engines and
boilers, only four were appointed by the Company
on my recommendation, and an equal number on
Messrs. Watt and Co.'s recommendation.

Had the paddle-engines remained my property;
had they been worked on my responsibility ; had
the trial trip been in any degree mine—l should
have taken upon myself the entire and absolute
control of the whole paddle-wheel and boiler de-
partment, and should not have permitted any one
to touch either engines or boilers who had not been
absolutely appointed by me, and been solely re-
ponsible to me. As it was, the Company refused
my offer to recommend to them competent persons
for the entire staff of the paddle-wheel engines and
boilers, and only accepted my recommendation for
the appointMent of their four first engineers.
The management of the engines and boilers being,
thus placed in the_hand4 of the Company's own ser-
vants, all I could &io was to render the utmost
assistance in my power, as every maker of engines,
naturally would do, when he had the opportunity,
in a work of extraordinary magnitnde.--d remain,
sir, your obedient servant,
Weymouth, Sept. 20.

J. SCOTT RUSSELL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—Mr. Wm. Patterson, jun., has claimed for
his father the merit of being the designer of the
Great Western and Great Britain, and it is beyond
dispute that the lines were his ; and, perhaps, it
would have been nearer the mark had your notice
stated that the Great Western and Great Britain
were emanations of Mr. Brunel's genius. I was
the managing director "of the company which built
both ships, Mr. Patterson, a friend of my own,
having been pointed out by me to Mr. Brunel as a
man of talent and above prejudice, and one
more than any other man I knew likely to carry
out his intentions, views, or whatever term
best suits the occasion, if design does not
fit. Mr. Patterson drew the lines ; Mr. Brunel,
Mr. Guppy, and myself, often sat over them ;
Mr. Patterson got instructions and mace his own
calculations accurately; Mr. Brunel made his also
often by my side. The company built their own
ships, Mr. Patterson superintending the building
of them. Mr. Brunel advised the directors, and
having the responsibility of the engines, aided Mr.
Patterson, if that term is better approved -by his
son, in his praiseworthy effort in upholding that
which I think requires no effort—his father's fame.
That as a ship-builder is established,' and I have
always thought, and still believe, he was proud in
being called upon to assist Mr. Brunel. Of this I
am quite certain, had Patterson died and Brunel
lived, the latter would have been the first to bear
testimlny to the share the former had in the con-
struction of both vessels.—Your obedient servant,
Chelsea, Sept. 21. C. CLA XTON.

SCENES FROM TILE REVIVALS IN
ULSTER,

The northern papers are chiefly occupied with
reports of the religious revivals in progress through
the province of Ulster. - A few extracts are sub-
joined:—
" GARvAmi.--The work of revival is still progressing
favourably in this locality. The weekly congregational
meeting, held in the Rev. J. B. Rentoul's church on Thurs-
day, the Bth inst., was intended to be commemorative of
God's goodness to the district for the last three months. In
reviewing the work during this period, Mr. Renton' stated
that, though he found it impossible after some weeks to keep
an accurate register of the awakened, owinc, to the great
variety of public meetings held by the convertsb themselves,
and also to the fact that multitudes, were brought under
the influences of the work apart from public meetings
altogether, yet ho had kept as accurate an' account of the
results •of the meetings held by himself as possible.
They were as follows :--The cases of bodily prostration,
or otherwise visibly awakened to a sense of sin, were 175;
of these, 85 belonged to his own congregation, 40 to First
G4rvagh, under Rev. Mr. Millar; 21 were Episcopalians;
5 Lelonged to Rev. Mr Thompson, of the Free Church ; and
the remainder to Aghadowey and Moneydig Presbyterian
Churches, or otherwise unconnected with any congregation.

" COLERAINE.—Some marvellous instances of conversion
after conviction and prostrating are still oceurring ; but they
do not now elicit such an extraordinary amount of joyful
wonder as a first, though they differ in no way from those'
which marked the commencement of tho movement. On
Wednesday evening a young man of dissipated habits, whose
deserted wife and children were left ou more than one occa-
sion to the cold cares of the world, was suddenly arrested in
the midst of a drunken orgie, and foreed to cry out in strong
agony and remorse for sin. Like one who has now become
strong in the Lord, this young man was almost insensible
with drink, and staggered with a drunken compaion in a
race for more of the accursed thing,' when ho was pros-
trated. In an instant sobriety of thought, followed by the
usual symp`oms of an awakened conscience, visited him, and
after long hours of wrestling prayer he professed to have
found peace. He has since been at our various prayer
meetings, and evinces a desire to bo made acquainted with
spiritual thing
" BALLYMENA.—The work of religious reformation in this
town and neighbourhood is proceeding with persistent ac-
tivity of action, and warrantable hope of an abiding influence
upon the people. k New cases of impression' occurred at
Divine service in all the Evangelical churches of Ballymena
on Sunday last, and fresh impulse has been given to the
good work by the proceedings at an open-air meeting held
in Linen Hall (ma:ket- place) , on the fallowing-Tuesday. This
meeting excited unusual interest, in coxsequence of an
announcement that it would conclude the out-door services
for the present season. Seats for the accommodation of
about 2,000 people had been provided in the open air, but
the entire assemblage doubled that number. In the course
of the proceedings we observed that several persons, of both
sexes, were affected •to tears ; and a number of them were
assisted from the meeting, pr were obliged to retire to some
of the neighbouring offices; evidently in greet weakness of
body and agitation of mind. Some cases of ' prostration'
ensued, wherein the parties gave utterance to the usual ex-
pressions of penitence and supplications for mercy ; and we
noticed that a female, of advanced age, had fallen silently
upon the ground, her features, for a considerable interval,
presenting all the appearance of ordinary death.
" CASTLEDERG.—Prayer meetings aro established
throughout the whole, country every evening. The Roman
Catholic population are still hostile to this religious move-
ment. On last Friday, September 2, while the Rev. Mr.
Dawson, from Strabane, was preaching the everlasting
GoSpel of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to
perishing sinners in an open space, in no way in-
terfering with the public thoroughfare of the town,
a large and lawless mob congregated, and shouted
and yelled, and threw stones at the preacher. Some of the
congregation were much hurt. They attempted to rush in
on the preacher, but were prevented by some of the hearers
and by the constabulary, who acted in a most praiseworthy
manlier. Mr. Scott, the local magistrate, said. to the
preacher that it would be better for him to leave off; he did
so shortly afterwards, but was followed by a disorderly mob;
who shouted and threw stones at him, and attacked the
house whore he stopped, by throwing stones, which broke
part of the signboard."

• DR. HUMPHREYS.—The Boston (Tottrnal says :
Some two or three months since it was announced in the
papers throughout the couxtry that an Englishman, named
Edward It. Humphreys had
.suddenly left his native land
for this country, in company with a woman other than his
lawful wife, and that he took with.him funds to the amount
of £-10,000, the property of other personS. The sufferers by
his rascality subsequently despatched a messenger in pur-
suit, who traced the defaulter to various places in this
country and Canada, until at length the messenger learnt
that he was in this city, or the immediate vicinity. Con-
stable Calder traced him to Cambridge and back to this city,
and learnt of sevetal houses, public and private, where
Humphreys had represented that he boarded, but on in-
quiry he found that no such man had beenthere. Continuing
his search, Mr. Calder finally found and arrested Hum-
phreys yesterday afternoon at No. 17, Harrison-avenue,
arid committed him to gaol to await examination in the
police-cc-art. Previous to conveying him to gaol, Hum-
phreYs requested the privilege of writing a note or two to
his friends, and, the request being granted, he addressed
notes to the Hon. Edward Everett, and Professor Long-
fellow, desiring them to- call at Suffolk County Gaol and
bail him out. tipon being asked if he knew Mr. Everett.
he replied, No, but I hay 6 a letter to him.' Just before
being placed in his cell he asked Mr. Gaoler Bartlett if he
could be allowed his wine and cigars, and was politely an-
swered 'No, Sir, this is a temperance 4ouse and smoking
is strictly forbidden,' ,