The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL AMERICA.

Whilst the British public have been bent on the
destruction of Petro Paulowski and Sebastopol,
leaving the French to arrange for the quiet occupa-
tion of Egypt by the commercial agency of a canal;
—whilst the Russian has been allowed-to establish
himself in Villa Franca, and France to complete
the late quiet arrangement whereby Italy is to be
still further enslaved, pendulous between the
tyranny of Austria and the sympathy of France ;
—whilst fears have been entertained lest Russia
should subvert our Indian authority, and France
convert the Mediterranean into a French lake, we
haverepeatedly called the attention of the mercantile
classes of this country to the condition of Central
America. The present Emperor olthe French has
evinced a desire to dictate to. Europe; but the mari-
time country that shed possess Central America
will
be in a position to rule the world. This was the
opinion of Louis Napoleon when a prisoner in Ham.
He had time to study the map, not only of :Europe,
but also of America; and on his escape, he pub 7
lished in London a pamphlet showing the feasibility
of connecting the Atlantic ?:icy Pacific C)NPAIR by thP,
River San Juan and the Lake of Nicaragua. This
rout has since teen virtually taken possession of
by the United States, by ineauS of the bombardment
of Gre—town and the disorganisation of Nicaragua,
e,ieeted by the piratical aid of William, Walker.
For several years past the secret diplomacy of
the Foreign-office has led to the belief that P,riiish
interests in Central America were to be
The United States, with a keen
P:Zl°"Jandoned.
eption of the
future, put their own construct
Clayton Treaty; and, kn '.on on the Bulwer-
--`nving that this construc-
tion would no,, t. bnr the test of reasoning, re-
fused to subr,-
-ic the matter to arbitration, and de-
mpded +' --Lc
Great Britain should yield up the Be,y,
ands and relinquish her protectorate over the
Mosquito Indians, who have ever been silent,
enough to defy the Dower of Spaiu„. and te;
faithful to the British in affording them sheher,
wood, and water, and in rendering other assist-
ance when Great Britain has bee. n at 'war with
Spain. Nay-, so, far did th;:s lims of fatuous
policy etoAdk that thel'e Wag, even a fear
that the British se.ttlErks in Belize might be reduced
to the same position that American diplomacy
would assign to the Mosquito race—the same right
that a buffalo has upon the prairie, or a turtle on a
sandbanl-4,
-It is. with considerable pleasure, therefore, that
the eye rests on one or two small items in the
" Civil contingencies" just presented to Parliament
by her Majesty's command. From these we learn
that Mr. Moir, the presiding magistrate of the Bay
Islands, has recently been sent from Jamaica to be
formally installed in his duties in the islatd of
Rnatau. And we further learn that, though it
pleased Lord John Russell once to stigmatise the
head of the Mosquito race as a " phantom king,"
yet Lord Malmesbury has not hesitated to remove
thr reproach by having him publicly recognised by
hid title of "King of Mosquito," and entertaine
on board her Majesty's ship Valorous at the expense
of the British nation, There is also a rumour that
Lord Malmesbury has put one dangerous question
at rest by inducing the Republic of Guatemala to
settle the boundary of British Honduras, so that
the settlement of Belize will be assured that it is
not the intention of their brethren at home to leave
them to the mercies of any set of filibusters a weak
or iOOI,IS, Government at Washington may en-
courage or permit to attack them. These acts of
Lord Malmesbury show that he has more sagacity
about him than his opponents gave him credit for ;
and we trust his foresight will not be defeated by
the apathy of the present Government. It is with
oausiderable pleasure, also, that his lordship cast
the first stone at secret diplomacy on Fridayuight,
when he regretted that the rules of the craft did
not allow him to clear himself from imputation
whilst assisting the cause of peace in Italy.--
Liverpool Albion.

•
TERRIBLE RAILWAY CATASTROPIIE
IN AMERICA.

(From the Cleveland Herald, Acne 29.)
The most dreadful railway disaster which ever
appened in America took place the night before
ast, about 12 o'clock, about two miles east of South
Bend, Ind. A train, consisting of six cars, was
totally demolished,. and over seventy persons were
killed. The precise number is not known, but no
less than sixty dead bodies had been recovered at
the date of the latest intelligence. People were
searching for more.
It is stated that there were 150 passengers in the
train, only 75 of whom are now living. We think
the estimate of the whole number is rather small.
When the train left the city, at eight o'clock p.m.,
there were two first-class cars crowded to excess,
one sleeping car comfortably full, one second-class
car full, and one emigrant car empty. The latter
was taken along for Ilie_./mrpcse of carrying down
a number of railroad hands, who were taken on
board at Ainsworth, Calumes, and other stations
along the road. Among the passengers were a
number of Chicago people,, of whom we have the
names of only of L. P. Hiliard, E. Dickinson, Mrs.
Sumner, and some others. David Runnion, late
proprietor of the Revere House, left the train at
South Bend, two miles this side of the place of the
accident.
A passenger on the train, just arrived in the
city, gives us the following account of the fright-
ful calamity :—He was in the sleeping car at the
time of the accident, and was startled by a sensation
as if the car was jumping on the bare ties. Then
came a crash and a plunge downward into a deep
abyss. The car turned over 02 its side ; but being
the last car in the train, and strongly built, did not
break up so badly as the others, and therefore pro-
tected its occupants from severe injuries.
The train was a heavy one, containing five well- .
filled passenger cars, besides the baggage and mail
car. The tr ain was about half an hour behind time
previous to. reaching the fatal spot. About ten
o'clock on Monday night, two hours before the time
of the accident, a tremendous rain fell throughout
that section of the country, flooding the fields and
swelling the streams to considerable bulk.
The surviving breaksman says that the train was
run with great caution over all the culverts pre-
vious to reaching the fatal culvert, but on nearing
the latter the speed was increased to twenty-five or
thirty miles an hour, as this culvert was considered
the most reliable on the road. On reaching the
gap, which was about one hundred feet wide, and
about thirty feet deep, the train first fell on the old
trestle work which crushed beneath the weight,
and then leaped into the chasm. The engine fell at
the base of the farther bank, and buried itself in
the sand. The baggage car, two second-class cars,
and two first-class cars piled into one mass, and
drove each other into the earth. The sleeping car '
fell on its side on the top of the pile of shattered
cars .

Every man connected with the train, except the
conductor, one breaksman, the conductor, of the
sleeping car and his boy, were killed.
When the uninjured passengers crawled out, the
scene is said to have been awful. Scarcely dis-
tinguishable in the darkness lay a pile of shattered
wood and iron, and about 150 dead and dying per-
sons, part buried in mud and sand, and part wash-
ing away in the boiling torrent that swept down to
the St. Joseph's river, but a few rods distant.
The conductor and breaksman set out to seek
succour at the stations of South Bend and Misha-
waukie, whilst the uninjured passengers built fires
around 'the spot, and carried off some of their
wounded fellows to the neighbouring houses.
It was nearly three hours after the accident before
succour arrived from the nearest towns which were
three or four miles distant. A strong body of
labourers were brought down by the people of the
towns, and the work of digging out the dead and
wounded commenced.

Tuesday afternoon 32 bodies had been taken to
Mishawaukie ; eight or ten Were reported taken to
South Bend. Some 10 or 12 bodies were reported
to have been taken up about 10 miles below, on the
St. Joseph river. About a dozen of the wounded
have scarcely a chance of life.
Some five or six labourers who were on the train
report that about 20 of their fellows are yet miss-
ing. It is supposed they remain buried in the
sand, or have been washed out into the St. Joseph
river.

Very few of the passengers escaped death or
frightful injuries.
The scene on the banks of the ravine, a passenger
says, was truly awful, as one may well suppose ;
but he says the amount of human misery among
the wounded was terrible to behold. In the
Misha*aukie Hotel he saw a fine little boy, about
nine years old, with his left leg broken, and almost
open through the thigh ; while the right leg was
cut completely off. He was failing fast, and it was
impossible for him to recover. He was one of a
family of five children, with the mother, who were
going to meet the father and the husband of this
family. The mother is killed, a daughter is miss-
ing, and another boy is wounded, but not seriously.
He is in the same room with his wretched brother ;
while he saw another of the young ones, six years
old, dead, having had his face completely cut off.
The bodies of the females were not much mutilated.
into
the passenger got out of the sleeping car
the current and was swept along; but in going
down he luckily clutched hold of a tree, and by
that means effected a landing.
One woman, who was on the train with her hus-
band and five children, ran wildly about all night
seeking her family, but without success, until morn-
ing, when she found them all dead. She then went
to a farm house, a few yards off, where, after sit-
ting some minutes, the wretched wife and mother
expired,

T I ON:

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock,

TATTERSALLS"-(THIS EVENING.)

NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP.
sto 2 agst Newcastle
4to 1 agst Des Chiles
GOODWOOD STAKES.
9to 1 agst Lifeboat
10 to 1 agst Leamington
10 to 1 agst Gaspard
100 to 6 agst Compromise
20 to 1 agst Mutineer

GOODWOOD CUP.
6to 1 agst Union Jack
7to 1 agst Prioress
7to 1 agst Leamington
ST. LEGER.
Bto 1 agst Trumpeter
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Buccaneer
15 to 1 agst Mainstone
40 to 1 agst Van Stroora

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ARRIVALS AT NOTTINGHAM.
Ronconi, Little Agnes, Eva,•Oliver, Dilkoosh, Pactolus,
Newcastle, Caliph, llars. Stowe, Tommy Noble, Butterfly,
Tousle,
Chiles, and Lotolliltmretery, 'ountain. Dew, Smut, Attraction, Des
e.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—(rms EVENING)..
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at 5 o'clock.

Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice that, on Thurs-
day, he should present a petition from the Archdeaconry
of Buckinghamshire, praying that no alteration might b 6
made in the marriage law.
Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition from Exeter in
favour of tke Endowed Schools Bill.
Lord REDESDALE presented petitions from Kidder-
minster and Glasgow in favour of the Sale of Gas Bill.

- -- --- THE ITALIAN QUESTION.--- ----
The Earl of MALMESBURY begged to ask the noble
earl opposite (the President of the Council) whether the de-
spatch which appeared in the papers that day addressed
by Lord John Russell, on the 22d of June, to the Govern-
ment at Berlin, advising Prussia not to enter into the war,
was authentic, and if so, whether there would be any objec-
tion to lay a copy of the said despatch, with the answer
thereto, on the table of the house ?
Lord WODEHOUSE said the despatch was in sub-
stance correct, there were some inaccuracies that must
have occurred in its translation—(hear, hear)---but a
copy of, the - document would be laid upon , the table.
The noble earl had said in anotherplace that the present Go-
bu t he
vernment were
Wodeh following out the course he had chalked out,
(Lord ouse contended that if there was oe
line of policy the noble earl had specially chalked out, int
was that of preventing Prussia from interfering in the war.
Lord BROUGHAM hoped that as England had had
nothing to do with war, or in making the marvellous peace,
this country would take the full benefit of her insulation.
After a few words from the Duke of NEWCASTLE and
Earl GRANVILLE the subject dropped.
THE STATUTE LAW COMMISSION.
Lord CRANWORTH rose to call the attention of the
house to the fourth report of the commissioners for consoli-
dating the statute law.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendment to the Forth and Clyde Naviga-
tion and the Maybele and Girvan Railway bills were con-
sidered and agreed to.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Epping Railway; Isle of Wight Railway (Eastern Sec-
tion) ; Llanrwst and Abergele Roads ; London and North
Western Railway (Sutton Coldfield Branch), changed from
" Birmingham, Erdington, and Sutton Coldfield Railway
(Western Line) ;" Norwich and Spalding Railway; Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway; Sandwith's
Divorce (Lords) ; South Durham and Lancashire Union
Railway; WaveneyValley Railway; Wells and Fakenham
Railway.
On the motion for the third reading of the Chicester Har-
bom- Embankment Bill,
Lord C. PAGET said that the Board of Admiralty ob-
jected to the bill on the ground that the proposed embank-
ment was injurious in a military point of view, as batteries
might be erected on it and directed against Portsmouth har-
bour. The inhabitants were also opposed to the bill,
considering that it would if passed have the effect of injur-
ing the local navigation of Chichester. The noble lord
concluded by moving that the bill be read p third time that
day six months.
Mr. BUCHANAN supported the bill.
Mr. H. BERKELEY also supported the bill, and re-
ferred to the favourable i-eport of the select committee, who had overruled the objections of the Admiralty, after a care-
ful inquiry.
Mr. KER SEYMER said that he felt bound to support
the amendment.
After some conversation, in which Mr. Bouverie, Mr.
Whitbread, Mr. Bonham -Carter, Mr. A. Smith, and Sir E.
Colebrooke took part, the bill was read a third time and
passed.
The amendments to the following bills were agreed to,
and were read a third time :—Baganelstown and Wex-
ford Railway, Bury St. Edmunds' Gas, Cleveland Rail-
way, Dublin and Drogheda Railway, Mlford Bridge and
Banbury Road, Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lanca-
shire Railway Companies, Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax
Junction Railway, Newry and Armagh Railway, North
Eastern and Badele and Ley' burn Railway Companies
Amalgamation, Perth, Kinross, and Fife Roads, South
Staffordshire Railway, and Victoria Station and Pimlico
Railway.
BRITISH AND CANADIAN TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
On the motion for the consideration of this bill, as
amended,
Lord DUNCAN moved the following amendment :—To
leave out clause 30 (giving power to the Treasury to make
agreement with the company for use of telegraph on her
Majesty's service). He deprecated the practice that prevailed
of giving guarantees for the expenditure of public money by
means of private bills, which he considered afforded a suffi-
cient check. He also proposed that clause 22 should be ex-
punged.
After some discussion the debate was adjourned until to-
morrow.
FISHING VESSELS PASSING THE NORE BILL.
On the motion of Mr. M. GIBSON, the following com-
mittee on this bill were nominated :—Mr. M. Gibson, Sir
J. Duke, Mr. R. W. Crawford, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Deedes,
and Alderman Salomons ; and five members to be added by
the committee of selection—five to be the quorum.
GALWAY HARBOUR AND PORT ACT (1853)
AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion of Mr. LAING, the committee on this bill
was appointed.
DESPATCH TO THE BRITISH MINISTER AT
Mr. S. FITZGERALDBERLIN gave notice that to-morrow he
would ask the noble lord the Foreign Secretary whether
the despatch which appeared in the evening and some of
the morning papers on Saturday, from the noble lord, was
authentic.
THE ANTRIM REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY Ar
KINSALE.
Mr. SCULLY asked the Secretary of State for War
whether any report had reached him of the conduct of the
Antrim Regiment of Artillery at Kinsale on the 12th of
July; and, if so, whether he had taken any and what steps
in regard to that regiment ?
Mr. CARDWELL said that a military and a civil in-
quiry liad been instituted in reference to the subject, but
the reports had not yet been received.
LONDON CORPORATION REFORM BILL.
In reply to Sir J. SHELLEY and another hon. member,
Sir C. LEWIS said that he proposed to move the second
reading of this bill on .Frlday night. He would postpone
the further progress of the Highways Bill.

THE BUDGET.
The house having resolved itself into Committee
of Supply,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
rose and said—l presume it will be for the conve-
nience of the committee if I should follow
the usual practice, and make known the
results the receipts and expenditure—
of the present year before discussing
the plan of Government. When he came to
test the estimates of the financial scheme
of the right hen. gentleman who preceded
him in office, by experience we were enabled to ar-

rive at certain conclusions, but in some particulars
it was necessary that there should be some
further knowledge as to the working of those
changes, before they could arrive at a satis-
factory conclusion as to their results. The

right honourable gentleman had estimated
the receipts from the customs at £23,400,000,
while they produced £24,117,000. The right hon.
gentleman had also estimated the excise receipts
at £18,600,000, while they produced £17,901,000.
The estimate with reference to the income tax was
that it would realise £6,000,000, while the actual
produce was £6,668,000. being about a half a mil-
lion more than was anticipated. With regard to
other items it appeared that the charge
for the
national debt was £28,575,000, and for the consoli-
dated fund £90,040,000, while the expenses for the
army were £12,515,000,and for the navy£13,215,000.
The total receipts for the past year amounted to
£64,663,300, and the receipts to £65,477,000,
leaving a balance
in
Thefa duty on Irish
vour of the latter
r
of about £BOO,OOO.
spirits was expected to realise £500,000, and
though it did not reachtha
therefore that
I
sum,
they i t
could
had d not
n o t been
s a y
o hweques, there ou l
anticipated.
were
in operation, and
dat hmu at
oyt u
on
nit t
d not
eventually produce the
With
no
meansregardof f
knowing
e
exactly what was the amount realised from that
source of the revenue, as it was mixed up with the
duty on stamps. The exemption of persons receiving
met;tey from the operation of the tax from this source
Ras regarded as a hardship by bankers, and
he proposed to make an alteration in re-
gard to the existing law, which lie hoped
Would remove all just grounds of complaint.

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I He now came to a graver portion of the question
—to consider the estimated revenue andexpenditure
for theyear which was nowoccurring. The committee
would be aware, from the estimates which had been
presented, that the expenditure would be unusualy
kirge, and would veryconsiderably exceed the ways
and means which the ordinary revenue would
sup-
ply. The Customs for the year, which commenced
on the Ist April last, and ending on the 31st March
next, were estimated to yield• £23,850,000; the
Excise, £18,530,000 ; the stamp duties, £8,100,000;
the land and assessed taxes, £3,250,000; the in-
come tax, 5,600,000; the Post-office, 3,250,000; the
crown lands, £280,000 ; and the miscellaneous re-
ceipts, £1,530,000. The total of these items was,
in round numbers, 64,340,000. He now - came to
the estimated expenditure of —the current
year. The charge for the funded and
unfunded debt was estimated at £28,600,000,
the consolidated fund at £1,960,000 ; the army- and
militia service, £13,200,000 ; the navy and packet
service, £12,782,000; the civil service, £7,852,000 ;
and the estimate of the charge of the revenue de-
partment, £4,740,000. In the miscellaneous de-
partment there wasjan increase of between £580,000
1 and £590,000 on the same estimate of last year
made by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. Add-
ing these items of expenditure together it would be
found that whereas the revenues for the year would
amount to £64,340,000, the estimated expenditure
of the year would amount to £69,207,000 showing
a gross deficiency of £4,867,000, and that was the
sum with regard to which the committe would have to
consider the question as to what manner provision
should be made to meet it. Next year Parliament
must come to the general consideration of our sys-
tem of taxation. Next year the Income-tax would
lessen, and not only the Income-tax, but certain war
duties charged on teas and sugar would also cease
and therefore he held that it would be best for
Parliament now to legislate for this year only,
which he considered was not the fitting time to enter
upon the consideration of prospective finance, but
rather to consider temporary or permanent '; nonce.
Large as were the items of the estimated expendi-
ture for the services necessary to the defence of the
country, he should not apologise for them,
because they had been received and voted warmly
and enthusiastically by Parliament, and because
he believed that if the Government, from the in-
formation it possessed, had thought it necessary to
ask for a still larger sum the patriotism
of the Legislature would have cheerfully
supported it. (Cheers.) There was a deficiency of
nearly £5,000,000 to be provided for, and the
question would be whether the sum should be
raised by having recourse* -to • borrowing or
by taxation. (Hear.) The committee would
have to consider whether the present was an
occasion upon which recourse ought to be had
to the expedient of a loan for such a sum as
£4,000,000 or £5,000,000. It was a large surn,:itwas
true, to require from thettap;•x-p;• yers of this country,
at a short notice, but, on the other hand, it
was not an amount which had ever driven
Parliament to adopt the expedient of an
addition to the national debt, and he cal-
culated that nothing but dire necessity should in-
duce the Legislature to adopt that course in time
of peace. He therfore was averse to having re-
course to a loan. The question then presented
itself whether, in order to supply the defi-
ciency they ought to look to direct taxation, or to
an augmentation of indirect taxation. ' In selecting
articles for taxation, those that presented the
readiest sources of revenue were malt, spirits,
tea, and sugar, but he would take that op-
portunity of stating that there was no in
tention of augmenting the duty on malt.
Then with respect to operations he thought that
as up to the present

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

•
7.ERNESS SILEEP AND WOOL FAIR.

(Fronz the Inverness Courier.)
Our annual Sheep and Wool Market--so impor-
tant to the whole northern counties—commenced
nominally on Thursday and closed this evening.
The attendance was larger than that of last year.
In addition to our old friends from Lancashire,
Cumberland, and the South of Scotland, many new
purchasers appeared, while tenant-farmers from all
parts of the Highlands, Caithness, and the Eastern
Counties, were present. Few proprietors attend the
market—a circumstance to be regretted, for the
mingling of landlords and tenants on occasions of
this kind, could not but prove advantageous to
both.

The state of the weather and condition of the
crops exercise, of course, great influence on this
market. There is still a want of rain ; but the
improvement of the crops since the beginning of
the month is very remarkabable. No doubt they
look their best just now, and when they begin to
ripen the effects of the drought will be more evi-
dent in the deficiency of bulk, but upon the whole
the harvest prospect has greatly brighteued. Grass
is also freshened up. and the aftermaths promise
by their luxuriance to compensate in some degree
the extreme poverty of the hay-crop. The turnip
crop generally suffered much from drought and an
some places from high winds ; but it is mending,
and the later sown fields particularly are as forward
in this district as they were last year.
In addition to these rural prospects, the state of
trade generally throughout the kingdom has an
important bearing on the market. This is highly
satisfactory. The manufacturing districts are fully
employed, and the excellence of our trade has been
stimulated by the prospect of peace. Hence wool
has greatly advanced in value. The late wool sales
established a rise previous to the peace, and the ad-
vance has been greatly increased by that fortunate
event. Dealers would have advanced more freely
for sheep had it not been for the indifferent promise
of the turnip crop, of which, however, fully enough
has been made by the buyers. It is generally
allowed that but for this cause the prospects of the
sheep trade never appeared better. The stability
of the present vigorous state of commercial matters
is confidently relied upon, and the ease in the money
market is held to support the idea even of a consi-
derable improvement.
dnod y.
ae
u
In discussing these questions our friends_ at theln
market spent most of Thursday and F
no former year was there less business done
and the market has been emphatically a
ap-
proximate,
Friday evening. Buyers and sellers could nn otpto
.stiff one. But we are happy to say it has also
the advance
over ss. to 7s. per stone
proved a good market. On Cheviot wool
over last year's prices is from
in some cases still more. Blackfaced wool was less
e dis
sales were
in demand. The market at Fort-William, next
week,
is
ythaendbessttocfike,ldanfdn
orhe
the
c osal of
then bot pressed here. We believe the blackfaced wool
has not kept its place in the manufacturing dis-
tricts so well as the Cheviot. Formerly it was
largely used in the carpet trade, and sold higher
in proportion than the Cheviot ; but it is now only
used in the worsted manufacture, as foreign wools
—lndian, Russia, &c.—can be obtained at lower
rates. In sheep the results of
the market have been
a sligh. t reduction from last year's prices on wed-
ders, in consequence of the uncertain prospect of
ices
the turnips, though in several instances last year's
pr were maintained, and in a few an advance
of is. took place. On ewes and lambs there has been
a rise of from ls. to 2s. Some of the principal lots
of wedders are unsold, but on the whole a great
amount of business has been done. In wool the
demand has gone on increasing all day, the price
advancing. Clips which sold last year at 16s, per
stone, sold readily this afternoon at 225, and 235.
The finer fleeces went at prices varying from 225.
to 245. 6d., and in one instance, it is said 255. was
obtained.

THE DINNER—FRIDAY.
A large party, numbering upwards of 120 gen-
tlemen, dined together at the Ordinary in the Ca-
ledonian Hotel. Mr. Macdonell of Morar officiated
in the chair, and the occupiers were Mr. Macleod,
Kingsburgh ; Captain Macleod of Orbost, and Mr.
Houston, Kintradwell. Mr. Spinks provided an ex-
cellent dinner, after which the cloth was removed,
and the company proceeded to what may be de-
scribed as the business of the dinner.

FEARFUL OCCURRENCE
AMONGST THE JEWS IN
PETTICOAT- LANE.—Yesterday forenoon, at a few minutes
before 12 o'clock, considerable excitement was caused in the
vicinity of the Jews' Clothes Exchange, Barnes-passage.
Cutler-street, Houndsditch, in consequence of the following
occurrence :—lt appeared that some time back three or four
of the houses in the passage before alluded to were taken
down, and the ground floor to the basement was used by
the members of the Hebrew persuasion as an exchange for
the sale of old waffling apparel.. As was usual on the Sun-
and those who re
day morning this flooring was packed with human bein
upon it were precipitated in a body to the we
0
buying or selling articles of clothing. -Whilst so engaged
iaeccleepothf flofoonrii nnegorgatevne feet.way way,
The scene forgra°mun,a-4
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with a great many of the neighbours, hastened to the I
and they were fortunately
enabled to extricate the who le of
the endangered persons. pot