The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-28 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS, Sept. 27.—There was a good attendance
of buyers in the. cloth-halls this morning, who
operated freely in woollen and mixed fabrics suit-
able for the approaching season. The tone of the
market was firm, and the condition and prospects
of the woollen trade are altogether satisfactory.
Prices, too, are firm, those of wool continuing to
creep upward. The manufacturers have seldom been
more employed on orders than they are at the pre-
sent time ; hence the public markets are compara-
tively thinly supplied with new goods.
MANCHESTER, 27th.—The market is flat, and
yarns suited to Calcutta are down fully id. per lb.
For this market, in fact, there is nothing doing, and
desponding people say it will be six months before
we can expect a resumption of business ; but such
opinions often undergo a considerable change with •
the next telegram, and it is sufficient to say that
business is very much checked for the present.
For Bombay there is not much business, but the
engagements of spinners keep prices steady. There
is some business for Germany, and also for the
home trade, sufficient to keep prices firm ; but
buyers for these markets are not active. Fine and
doubled yarns are mostly in demand, and firm in
price. The cloth•market is very quiet, and
buyers for Calcutta are offering 3d. per piece
lower. The advices from China are considered
quite as good as expected, and the letters from
Bombay are encouraging; but there has not
been much business for these markets to-day.
Cloths suited for other markets, including printers,
are firm. MaNfacturers mostly hold heavy con-
tracts which will not be finished for some time
forward, and the general steadiness of prices is
owing to this circumstance. Messrs. John Slagg
and Co. report :—" The improved demand for India
and China goods reported on Tuesday last, and
which continued throughout the week has been
checked by the unfavourable accounts per telegraph
from Calcutta, and yesterday and to-day there has
been little or no business done in them, the low
offers made being apparently more to test the mar-
ket than with a view to business. For other mar-
kets and for the home trade the demand continues
healthy, and there is steady business doing without
change in prices."

VENERABLE PEERS.—In consequence of the de-
mise of Viscount St. Vincent, Lord Slaair, one of the
Scotch Representative Peers, becomes father of the House
of Lords, having been born in 1768. The next peers in
seniority are Lords Lyndhurst, and Guilford, both having
been born in 1772.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO NORTH WALES.—Pen-
rhyn Castle, in Caernarvonshire, the seat of the Hon. Col.
Pennant (not of Sir W. W. Wynn, as already stated), is one
of the most stately baronial mansions of the kingdom. It is
erected on the site of an ancient palace, occupied by Rhodri
Molwyirg, a distinguished Welsh prince, and is constructed
in the richest Norman style. The castle is situated on ele-
vated land; overlooking the Menai Straits, about two miles
from Bangor, the country surrounding it comprisingnuichof
the wild grandeur and picturesque beauty of the Snow-
donian district. The interior of Penrhyn Castle is gor-
geously furnished, and among its eurioaitios is the only
hirlas, or ancient drinking-horn to be found in North
Wales. It eriginally belonged to Piers Grufydd, the owner
of the Penrhyn estate in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
DEATH OF GENERAL EVELEGH, R.A.—The
death of General H. Evelegh, who bore the oldest com-
mission extant in tho Royal Artillery, took place at his
residence at Standen, near Newport, Isle of Wight, on
Saturday, the 24th inst., in the 87th year of his
age. The deceased officer's commissions bore date
as follows :—Second-lieutenant, April 24, 1793; first..
lieutenant, January 1, 1794 ; cantain, November
3, 1797; brevet-major, July 25, 1810; major, May,
8, 1811 ; lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 20, 1814 ; colonel,
July 29, 1825 ' • colonel-commandant; Feb. 6, 1845; major-
general, Jan. 10, 1837 ; lieutenant-general, Nov. 9, 1846 ;
and general, June 20, 1854. General Evelegh served in
the Corunna campaign, and received the war medaland one
clasp for Sabagen and Benevente.
Several of the French journals announce
.the
arrival of Mr. Disraeli at Bayonne, and evidently are under
the impression that it is the late Chancellor of the Exche-
quer who is thus travelling in France. The gentleman in
question (Galignani says) is the eminent statesman's
brother.

XUBRACIIEE.

(From the Friend. of India, August 11.)

As the resources of the country are devloped,.
and tradein -Crease, the more purely European cities -
of India grow with amazing rapidity. The ten-
dency of a conservative people like, the Hindoos, or
a non-commercial race like the Mussulmans, is to
raise great cities in the interior, and feed them
with the overgrown wealth wrung from the pro-
vinces.- Genuine taste, barbaric pride, and sensual
gratification,
caused them to rise and to extend
with ever-increasing splendour, all the more re-
markable from the misery around it. Invasion and
war, which blackened the, fairest districts, little.
affected the cities. They sprang up from their
ashes only to be more splendid and more wealthy
than before. When they depended at all on com-
merce, the tolls of, the rivers and the transit
duties were sufficient to satisfy them. 'Rut
a trading, company and a nation who resort to
war only to extend and' secure the uses
of peace, have acted on a different policy.
They have drawn the wealth Of the centre to
the extremities, and for the glories of old Delhi
and Lucknow, of Lahore and Hyderabad, have sub-
stituted the utilitarian plainness of Calcutta and
Bombay, of Kurrachee and Madras. Even the
permanent centres of the power and depots of their
wealth—London, Liverpool, and Glasgow—are
lacking in the very 'rudiments of grandeur.
The growth of European cities in India will de-
pend much on their internal goveriMent. Health,
security, comfort, the steady increase of personal
wealth, are all affected by that. Calcutta and Bom-
bay owe something to their municipal authorities.
How much, more might not havebeen accomplished
if these authorities had been more energetic, more
wealthy and more liable to be influenced by public
opinion. A municipality is the only body which can
counterbalance the evils arising icom the 'incessant
fluctuation of the Europeans in India. The re-
quirements of great public bodie-, such as railway
companies; will assist in making the improvements
demanded by'prop,ress, and in' rendering them per-,
manent_ Kurrachee is a good instance of munici-
pal develOpement. In. 1853 its municipality was_
first established, and in the year 1858-59 it raised
about 61,000 rupees, of which about 52.000 was
expended,leaving a balance of Rs. 27,862. Kur-
rachee is now beginning to have all the appliances,
privileges, and comforts of a large European-town,
while taxes and the mode in which they are raised
do not seem to be oppressive. Half of the revenue
is derived from town duties, and this source has
yielded threefold during the past four years. There
is a wheel tax, and fees are paid on the sale of liquor,
on markets, and for registry of deeds. The committee
have recently received from England a supprly.of Cab
and cart plates such as are Used in Londbn, Three
new roads, one of which is called Havelock-road
have been made during the year. A new town has
been laid out near the railway station, and three
regular streets of store-houses are being formed by
the railway officials, and the representatives of
Bombay Firms. The tanks have been walled in
with masonry, the wells improved and increased in
number, and pipes laid down from them along the
main road, where there are to be seven cisterns with
fountains, to supply the wants of the port and
shipping. A bill is now passing through the legis-
lative council to enable the committee to raise ten
lacs of rupees at nine per cent. to supply the whole
town with good water from the Mulleer river, 14
miles distant.„ The interest is to be paid and the
works kept in repair by a water rate of 2i per rent.
on the value of houses and lands. From the muni-
cipal funds a grant of Rs. 100 a month is given to
the Kurrachee schools.

The municipal revenue of Calcutta is seven lacs
of rupees, and that of Madras two and a half. It
speaks well for Kurracheo with its comparatively
small population of 25,000 that it raises nearly two-
thirds of a lac.

STEAMERS AND BARGES FOR THE
RIVER GANGES.

From the Daily Chronicle and Northern Counties Adver-
tiser, Sept. 22.) .

Yesterday there was a trial trip on the Tyne and
at sea of one of a series of eight steamers, which,
with a barge each, are being built for the East
Indian Railway Company. The eight steamers and
two of the barges are being built by Messrs. Chas.
Mitchell and Co., Low Walker Iron Shipuildiug-
yard, the remaining six barges being built on the
Mersey: The trial took place with the following
gentlemen on board, viz. :—Mr. Noad, the secre-
tary to the East Indian Railway Company ; Mr.
A. M. Rendal, the company's engineer; Mr. W. H.
Budden, financial manager at Messrs. Robert
Stephenson and Co.'s works in this town ; Mr.
Crow, the working foreman at Messrs. Stephenson's ;
Mr. Walter, the head draughtsman in the same
firm ; M. Ringeinin, agent to a Russian mercantile
company, for whom the Messrs. Mitchell are build-
ing a chain traction steamer, one of the new de-
scription of vessels intended to ply cn the Oker and
two other tributaries of the Volga ; Mr. Crawford,
agent to Messrs. Mitchell and Co. ; Mr. Davie,
Messrs. Mitchell's head draughtsman ; Mr. Shotton,
one of the foremen at Messrs. Stephenson's ; Mr.
Forrest, the resident engineer of the East Indian
Railway Company (this gentleman having succeeded
Mr. Briscoe, who left to join the Great Eastern) ; and
Mr. Stuart Rendal, brother of the company's en-
gineer.
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- Both steamers and barges are of a peculiar con-
struction. They are designed for the navigation of
the rivers of our Indian empire, especially of the
Ganges ; and, as in the dry season, the waters of
these rivers are in most places not more than 21 or
2 feet deep, the vessels are being constructed on a
principle which will combine the maximum amount
of power in the steamer, and of freight in the
barges, with the minimum amount of draught of
water in each. They are, therefore, flat-bottomed,
or very nearly, and the steamers furnished with
donkey engines, by means of which they may be
hauled off in the event of their grounding. They
will run through India from Calcutta as far as Delhi
or Allahabad ; and the special purpose for which they
have been built is, in the first place, to assist in the
formation of the East Indian railway, by carrying
the material for that undertaking up the country
from the coast. They will afterwards be em-
ployed in the goods-carrying traffic of the country.
During the recent rebellion so many boats were de-
stroyed on the Indian rivers that freights rose to
four times the ordinary rate, and though they have
since fallen considerably they are still very high.
The directors of the East Indian Railway Company
have therefore considered it most expedient, in an
economical point of view, to possess boats .of their
own; and there is no doubt that after these boats
have asssisted in the formation of the railway, they
will, by their voyages on the Ganges, pay a hand-
some per centage on their cost.
Two of the eight steamers to be built by Messrs.
Mitchell have already been completed, and sent
out to Calcutta. They have been--and the re-
mainder that are to follow will be—sent' to their
destination in pieces, packed like ordinary mer-
chandise, and will be fitted together at Calcutta.
The vessel tried yesterday is the third which has
been completed ; and she was tested yesterday by
the wish of the directors of the company. It appears
that the contractors undertook to furnish vessels
which would tow a barge each at the rate of ten
miles an hour ; and in order that the speed and
capabilities of the vessels might be ascertained the
trial of yesterday was instituted ; because, as the
steamers will be almost
one
of each other,
the performances of one can be taken as certain
indications of what can be done by the rest.
The steamer just completed is the fifty-ninth
which has been sent out from Messrs. Mitchell's
yard.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners have given notice of eir
in-
tention to receive tenders to-morrow (Thursday) for ships
to proceed to Sydney, New South Wales, and to Melbourne,
Passengers on
such days
sthasblerecoadkfoisrsitohneerrseemepatyioanppoofint between the
Ist and Bth of November. The ships Must be furnished
with cots, or bed places, as the commissioners may direct,
with Dible's ventilating apparatus, and with Dr. Nor-
mandy's fresh water distilling apparatus.
TAE CHINESE—NAVAL AND MILITARY PREPA-
RATIONS.—We
understand that, in addition to the ships of
war already in the Chinese waters' no fewer than 40 new
vessels are to be forthwith sent out with the ;view of exact-
ing reparation for the late outrage. On Thursday forty
charts of the Chinese seas and rivers were ordered by the
Admiralty to be made ready at once. In order, too, that
all the troops which can be spared from India should be
made available for active service on Chinese territory, with
all possible expedition, the Indian mail was delayed a day
on Monday, that the requisite instructions should be given,
after a definite course of action had been agreed on in Down-
ing-street.—Morning Advertiser.
A St. Petersburg letter says :—" It is said that
the Emperor yielded to the urgent solicitations of
the Empress in hastily leaving Moscow, which is
cruelly suffering from Asiatic cholera. To prevent the ex-
citement that his Majesty's sudden departure from the city
might have caused among the population, his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Michael stayed two days longer,
and then joined his august brother at Trarskoe Selo. St.
Petersburg was last week visited by a violent storm. which
must have produced many disasters along the shores of the
Gulf of Finland. For the last 30 years we have not been
exposed to such a gale. The losses, it is supposed, will
amount to millions of roubles."

THE DIVORCE COURT.—In the new act "to make
further provision concerning
the Court for Divorce and
Matrimonial Clauses," there is a clause which will shortly
come into operation. The court will sit before term, and
then, in any petition presented by a wife praying that her
marriage may be dissolved, by reason of her husband hav-
ing been guilty of adultery, coupled with cruelty, or adul-
tery coupled with desertion, the husband and wife respec-
tively shall be competent and compellable to give evidence
of or relating to such cruelty or desertion.

THE GLOUCESTER ELECTION
COMMISSION.

SHIREHALL, GLOUCESTER, TUESDAY.
Commissioners, James Vaughan, Lucius Henry
Fitzgerald, and Richard Griffiths Welford, Esqrs.
Secretary, Mr. Coleridge.
The Court resumed the inquiry at 10 o'clock this
morning. The-first witness called was
Mr. Geo. Moffatt, formerly M.P. for Ashburton,
who was examined as to the interview at the Re-
form Club in London, spoken to by Mr. Wilton.
At that interview Mr. Surrell, Mr. Monk, and Mr.
Wilton were present, and Mr. Price during a por-
tion of the time. The deputation represented to
Mr. Monk that Sir R. Carden was very unpopular
in Gloucester, and that if he would come forward
as a candidate he might be elected for £1,200 or
£1,500. Nothing was said as to how the money
was to be spent. They said they believed that a
large sum of money had been spent by Sir R. Car-
den in bribery. About the 10th of April he re-
ceived a letter from Mr. Price, in which he said he
believed money would be required for preliminary
expenses, £5OO, and he would be glad to have it
got ready by the time the agent for Mr. Monk
was appointed. His (Mr. Moffatt's) impression was
that something was said about sending down the
money—the sooner it was sent down to Gloucester
the better. He was rather pleased that the com-
munication should come from Mr. Price, as being a
man of experience, and not likely to misapply the
money. On the receipt of the second letter, I had
sent the cheque for the money to Sir W. Hayter,
and on a receipt of the letter he :sent an order to
deliver the cheque. The amount was £5OO ;it was
a cheque on Mr. Ralli, Mr. Monk's father-in-law,
to pay the bearer the £5OO. Mr. Price had re-
quested that the cheque should be sent to Sir W.
Hayter, and he accordingly sent the cheque to
Sir W. Hayter for the money to be applied,
according to Mr. Price's approval. The person
who was to take the money to Gloucester was
Richard Thompson. He came to witness with
a note from Sir W. Hayter, who described him
as a trustworthy person to convey the money
to Glocester. Did not destroy the note ; saw it two
months ago, and most likely could find it among
his papers. It was about 10 days before the elec-
tion that the transaction took place. Never under-
stood that that money, or any portion of it, would
be required for any other than the legal expenses.
Mr. Commissioner Vaughan—Were younot under
an impression to believe that any portion of that
money would be spent for the purposes of bribery ?
Witness—l had no reason to believe that it would;
on the contrary, I believed that it would be properly
applied, as it would be applied at Mr. Price's in-
stance.
The Commissioner—l suppose you are aware that
all payments snould be made through the auditor P
Witness—l certainly ought to have known that
fact, as I assisted in passing that act, but until your
secretary, Mr. Coleridge, reminded me of it a short
time ago I was not aware of it. The witness then
said he was not aware until he read the evidence on
the Glocester petition how the £5OO had been ap-
plied. Some time early in June appifcation was
made to him by Mr. Wilton for money to pay Glo-
cester election bills, and he then obtained from Mr.
Ralli £2OO, and sent it to Mr. Wilton. Witness had
heard that there was another sum of £2OO sent to
Glocester to another Mr. Wilton, of which sum £BO
had been disbursed, and £l2O was left in Mr. Wil-
ton's hands.
By Mr. Welford—Considered £1,200, or £1,500,
a very fair expenditure for such a constituency as
Glocester.
Did you think it necessary, if the expenses were
legal, to send the money down secretly ?—I fol-
lowed Mr. Price's instructions in that.
Did not the fact of the secrecy observed give an
impression to your mind that something wrong was
to be done with the money ? Witness replied that
he did not consider the fact of sending the money
by private hand made the matter secret. He added
that he had never seen Thompson before or since.
Sir W. Hayter, M.P., was next examined. He
made the following statement :—A short time be-
fore the general election I had a communication
with Mr. Moffatt in the House of Commons in
reference to the Glocester election. He told me
that he had been in communication with Mr. Price
respecting the probable expenses that would be in-
curred by the election at Glocester, and especially
with regard to the expenses that might be incurred
by Mr. Monk, for whom Mr. Moffatt, as I under-
stood, was acting as a friend, and he told me as the
result of that communication that very probably a
snm of money would be required to be sent down
by some private hand to Glocester on behalf of Mr.
Monk, and he asked me if I knew anybody who
would take it down. I said I did not, but that I
would inquire and let him know. That was the
whole of the conversation that passed between us.
That conversation never was renewed, nor am I
aware that from that until after the general election
I saw Mr. Moffatt. On the next day, I think it
was, that I saw a person named Webb, the chief
clerk of Mr. Gilbert, a Parliamentary agent ; told
him what Mr. Moffatt wished, and asked him if he
knew a person who could take the money. He said
he could recommend a person on whom he could
entirely rely, and that his name was Thompson, on
which I gave a short note to introduce Thompson
to Mr. Moffatt. Here, as far as I am concerned,
the whole matter would have ended, if it had not
happened that I was going to remain longer in
town. But about the 21st of April I received a
uote from Mr. Moffatt containing a check for £5OO
drawn on Mr. Ralli (Mr. Monk's father-in-law). In
that note Mr. Moffatt stated that he was going
out of town, and he requested me to give the
check to Thompson, if I received a communica-
tion from Mr.. Price to that effect. I put the check
into an envelope, and my impression—for I will not
be certain—is that I put the note and the check
in the same envelope, in order that the one
might demonstrate what the other was meant for.
I put that envelope sealed into a despatch box.
Time passed on, no communication with Mr. Price
took place, and I went out of town to my own
election. But before I went I saw Mr. Parkes,
and asked him in the event of any note or letter
coming from Mr. Price, to have the kindness to do
what Mr. Price directed. When I was at Wells I
received a letter from Mr. Parkes stating, among
other things, that he had given the cheque to a
person who had called for it, and who had authority
to receive it, and there is an impression on my
mind that he enclosed a letter from Mr. Price to
me, stating that the money was to be paid to Mr.
John Wilton ; but I regret that these letters are
destroyed. I thought the matter was done with.
That is the whole of the case as far as I am con-
oerned.
Sir William was next questioned by Mr. Vaughan
and said,—l lad but one conversation with Mr.
Moffatt, and that was in the House of Commons. I
can't say how long that conversation took place be-
fore the Reform Bill was introduced by the late
Government. Had no recollection with regard to
the time, but it could not have been long before the
dissolution of Parliament, because it had reference
to Mr. Monk's candidature. Can't recollect the
date of the division on the Reform Bill. Thinks
his conversation with Mr. Moffat took place before
the beginning of April. Mr. Moffatt gave me no
statement connected with the object of sending the
money in any respect. Had no conversation with
Mr. Moffatt other than that I have stated. Mr.

Moffat simply said he wanted some person to send
down to Gl.cester with money on behalf of Mr.
Monk. He did not state from what source he ob •
tained the money. Never heard the name of Italli
before I read the cheque. I had known Mr.
Gilbert for 15 years as an active electioneering
agent in East Somersetshire where I re•
sided, and he held an official position in
_ _

Bristol. Last autumn Mr. Gilbert- wrote to
me that he had come upsto town to practise as a
Parliamentary agent and soliciting any assistance I
could give him, and consequently during the con-
test in East Worcestershire, when I was applied to
by Mr. Foley to recommend a person to manage
the
Conduct of that election, I recommended Mr.
Gilbert and he was employed in one of the districts
of Worcestershire and conducted himself with great
propriety there, and I have received a letter from
Mr. Foley
expressing his satisfaction at it. I.'hat
is the sole reason wiy j
applied to Mr. Gilbert.
At that time I certainly had no knowledge that any
money at all was to be sent to Gloucester for an
improper use. Moat !assuredly nothing was said
about any money being spent in bribery. Mr.
Monk never said a word in which
it was implied
that the money was intended to be sent down for
the purpose of bribery. I received the letter from
Mr. Moffatt at my lodgings in Rydew-street. They
are lodgings taken for myself. I had. to do with
many elections for a party, and it was convenient
to myself to have lodgings centrally situate. The
check on Mr. Ralli forr6oo is the only sum of
money I have heard of as connected with the Glo-
cester election. Daring my absence from town I
asked Mr. Parkes to open my letters. I did not
know that Thompson had been connected with elec
Lion matters for some time in any way ambiguously.
I most solemnly say that I never knew him before,
or of the existence of such a person. I was deceived
—no doubt of it. I relied upon Mr. Price in the
matter. Mr. Price stated to me that there was a
great difficulty in Mr. Monk obtaining any agent
at-all, and that a pressure was being made upon
him for money for messengers and for various other
matters, and that he (Mr. Price) had provided his
own agent with money, but that no money came
from Mr. Monk's agent. He said there was diffi-
culty as to the agent at Glocester, Sir Maurice Ber-
keley's agent refusing to act, that there was in fact
no agent, and that under the circumstances he
thought Mr. Wilton was more like the agent than

any one else. That statement was made subsequently '
to the sitting of the Parliamentary committee. I re-
lied on Mr. Price, and considered that the arrange-
ment made by him was one which could be justi-
fied. He did not think Mr. Price would make any
which would involve a Thestion of bri-
bery. So far as I am concerned, I solemnly declare
that I never knew and had no infornaation to lead
me to the knowledge that the money was intended
to be applied to the purposes of bribery.
By Mr. Fitzgerald—As to the, term " trust-
worthy," I understood that the pe'cson was one to
be trusted with carrying down the money, but I
had no notion that such a person would be em-
ployed to disburse it.
By Mr. Welford—l know a good deal about the
character of borough constituencies.
Mr. Welford—l supposes you know as much as
Mr. Coppock did ?
Witness—l know a little ; Mr. Coppock knew a
great deal. (Laughter.)
Does not Mr. Parkes hold the situation formerly
held by Mr. Coppock ?—No ; no person occupies
that position, it is quite open. (A laugh.) As to
the character of Gloucester it happens that of the
many constituencies wit h which I have been con-
nected I never had on ainy Occasion any connection
with Gloucester.

Then you are not aware that the borough has
been charged for years past with bribery ?—I cer-
tainly know that the character of Gloucester does
not stand high. It is notorious.
You were aware of that at the time when you
were asked to be the imedium of sending down the
money. At the time when you were so asked, had
,you any suspicion of the intended application of the
money ?—When you come to " suspicions," you
must pardon me saying that that is rather hard to
inquire about a man's suspicions. (Laughter.)
Sir William further stated, in answer to further
questions, that although he ought to have been ac-
quainted with the requirements of an Act of Par-
liament which he assisted in passing, it was practi-
cally useless. The practice was to send the money
to the agent to pay the election expenses, and not
leave them to be paid by the auditor. He knew
nothing of any meeting in London last Friday re-
specting this matter, had no knowledv of any
money having been sent to Glocester in 1857. £3OO
was advanced to support the petition on the part of
Sir Maurice Berkeley afterwards, but prior to the
petition he was morally sure no money was sent.
He believed, on the contrary, that Sir Maurice Ber-
keley was rather hurt that no assistance was given.
Certainly the Reform Club was not in the habit of
sending down money to carry elections in boroughs.
' This money was supplied by agents from private
sibscriptions. He was morally sure that not a
farthing was sent to Glocester
,from the Reform
Club at the last election.

Mr. Ralli, Greek Consul General in London, and
father-in-law of Mr. Monk, proved that on the 19th
April last he had an interview with Mr. Moffatt,
who applied to him respecting the funds for his son-
in-law's election. He was led to understand that
the candidate could not interfere in respect of the
costs until after the election was over, and there-
fore he consented to advance £5OO. This was for
legitimate expenses, of course. (Laughter.) Pro-
ducing a letter from Mr. Moffatt enclosing docu-
ments, he said these documents were letters from
Glocester asking for more money.
Mr. Moffatt was recalled and examined on these
documents. The letter was from Mr. Wilton, ask-
ing for £5OO more, and enclosing documents which
were statements of engagements made, and which
they wanted the money to satisfy. His impression
was that the applications were for money to satisfy
illegal claims, and hence in his letter to Mr. Ralli
he spoke of them as unsatisfactory.
The telegraph clerk having produced a bundle of
telegrams,
Mr. Parkes was examined as to some of them
which contained the words " I have seen P. and
made it all right." He knew nothing ofit. He had
seen nothing of the man to whom he had delivered
the envelope containing the check, except on that
one occasion. He corroborated Sir W. Hayter's
statement as to instructions received by him
from Sir William, and which he carried out.
He denied that the Reform Club had had any-
thing to do with sending money down to the
borough for the last two general elections, such
arrangements having been made independently of
the Reform Club.

John Clarke, the witness who gave evidence on
the Parliamentary committee, was next examined.
He stated that he was by trade a fancy milliner,
living at 22, Enfield-street, Hoxton, and that he
became acquainted with Thompson as being engaged
with him and a Mr. Crouch in conducting elections
for the Conservative party. He had been engaged
in more than 20 elections with Thompson during
Mr. Crouch's life, and as many subsequently. Had
been engaged with Thompson in conducting perhaps
a dozen elections on the Liberal side. He had been
engaged with Thompson in acts of bribery at elec-
tions on both sides. Thompson lived at 4, Bridge-
road, Hammersmith. The witness repeated, with
little variation, the evidence given by him before
the Parliamentary committee as to his receiving a
telegram at Maidstone requiring „his presence in
London. Here he found instructions to go down to
Glocester to meet Thompson, and he went down
accordingly. He described his inquiries for and
subsequently, his meeting with Thompson, and con-
ferring with him at Mr. Wilton's. Thompson went
by the name of " Thornton" at Glocester, and wit-
ness was known as " Brettles." Witness told Mr.
Wilton and the Glocester people that he came from
the Reform Club, but in reality he did not. (Sensa-
tion.) He and Thompson wished to lay out the
money, but the Glocester people preferred to do it
themselves, and he blamed Thompson for giving
away all the money to Mr. Wilton and leaving none
to take them home. Mr. Wilton came to them at the
Glocester Railway Hotel, and Thompson went out
to him. Witness had previously counted out the
£5OO and packed it up in parcels of 25 sovereigns,
which Thompson gave to Mr. Wilton in the passage,
witness being in the coffee-room. On Thompson's
return he said, " He's got the money, hut he shall
have no more. On the nomination day Thompson told
him "He had s•en the parties and could have £l,OOO
if he wanted it, and he must give an acknowledg-
ment for it." Thompson also produced a roll of notes
from nis pocket, and said he had given an acknow-
ledgment for £l,OOO. Witness was to have £5O for
his services, but had only received £5, and had paid
£3 for expenses. He had received £25 from Mr.
Gilbert's clerk before he was examined before the
committee.

The commissioners shortly after adjourned for
the day.

THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT LEJVES.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.
LEWES, THURSDAY, SEPT. 27.

The jury meet again this afternoon at five o'clock,
and the coroner, Mr. F. H. Gell, informed them
that he had communicated with the Privy Council
of the Board of Trade, requesting them to send
down an officer of theirs, and the Council had re-
plied that they had not the power to do so, but
that it rested with the Home-office. They would
remember that he had corresponded with the Se-
cretary of State, who declined to interfere ; there-
fore it would be for them (the jury) to decide upon
what course to take.

The coroner then read over the practical evidence
of Mr. Jackson, a steam engine builder at Brighton,
and Superintendent Jenner, who watched the case
for the police, called George William Bailey, a
miller at Cuckfield.

Witness then deposed—l was at the sheep fair,
and witnessed the explosion. I know a person names
Plummer, and had some conversation with him
about a‘quarter of an hour after the accident. In
speaking of it, he said he was round there, and saw
the pressure at 301 b, and he tried the safety valve.
By Mr. Briggs (who again attended for the
Messrs. Cheale);---There was no one present on the
hill when this conversation took place. There
were mans persons round about, but we were talk-
ing by ourselvss.
Albert John Skinner, a lad, a resident at Lewes,
deposed—l was about four feet and a half— (a
laugh)—from the engine at the time the explosion
took place. I had been standing there, about ten
minutes. I saw a man (Gold) with the engine, and
saw him turn on a tap on the right-hand side of
the engine, and saw him stir the fire.
John Haywood, in the employ of the Messrs.
Cheale as principal engineer, deposed,—l went up
the hill in consequence of hearing of the accident,
but cannot speak at all as to the state of the
engine previous to leaving the premises. I went
up in consequence of receiving instructions from
my master to go and pick up the fraginents of the
chaff-cutter. I picked up the safety-valve, and put
it into the cart, and conveyed it back among the
rest.

• Coroner—When you picked it up did you ex-
amine it at all P
NBVitness—No, sir.
y Mr. Briggs—When the engine went away
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screwed down corroboratedgeo.fth the evidence as to the
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blew off at that pressure.
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Was he in the habit of getting drunk
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Witness—Not when he was on at
Foreman—Haven't you llad some eonversationin
the shop as to the strength of this engine p

Witness—No, sir ; we always thought her safe
enough.
John Sadler, in the employment of the London
and Brighton Railway Company, under Mr. Craven,
the superintendent of the locomotive department,
was next called, and deposed—l am foreman of the
locomotive department, and in that capacity received
a portable steam engine from the Messrs. Cheale,
in November, 1858, for the purpose of being re-
paired. I received instructions to repair the fire-
box and put a few new ferrules to the tubes, and I
was also requested to test the boiler by hydrauli
pressure. I did those things as requested. I put
three additional plates and five extra stays to the
fire-box, and I only tested the boiler after I had
got those secured.
Coroner—What power did you use ?—I tested
801 b. pressure, and I also put a ferrule on the sprin,
balance, so as to prevent the pressure exceeding 45
And you returned it in this state to Messrs.
Cheale ?—Yes, sir.
no you consider it advisable to have an indica-
tor ?—lt is advisable. The spring balance does
partially indicate what pressure you have in the
boiler if properly attended to.
Do you consider a boiler with angle-iron safe
without stays ?—Not after certain pressure. Boilers
are all constructed with angle-irons.
Superintendent Jenner—What part of the front
of the engine would have most of the pressure ?
It would be equal all over.
By a Juror—l cannot tell why the steam did not
blow off at 45. Engineers have been known to put
a wedge in to keep the valve down to get more
pressure.
The Foreman—The jury wish to understand
whether if you had general orders you would have
done more to the engine in the way of repairs ?—I
only had the boiler, and understood Mr. Cheale was
doing some of the work himself; and we don't do
general repairs unless we have the whole of the
work.
The court then adjourned.

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION IN BIR-
MINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING.

At 40 minutes past 10 o'clock this morning a dis-
aster, attended with the most frightful results and
accompanied by circumstances peculiarly afflicting,
occurred in this town. The cause was an explosion
upon the premises of Messrs. Phillips and Pursall,
percussion cap makers, of Whittall-street, in the
neighbourhood of St. Mary's, one of the most densely
populated, or, rather, closely built districts of the
town.

At the hour above named all the people employed
were at their work. There are various rumours as
to the number, but it ranges between 60 and 70, of
whom by far the greater proportion were women.
There were an extra number of hands, for the prin-
cipals have in course of execution a contract for the
Turkish Government, and its completion within a
given time is imperative.
The premises upon which the business was con-
ducted are three story, the room which is called the
" priming shop" being upon the first floor : in that
room there were several persons employed; suddenly
and without a moment's warning, a violent explo-
sion occurred ; it was followed by another instan-
taneously. A loud report was heard, houses in the
neighbourhood were shaken, then a crash, and the
building fell in, leaving nothing standing but the
front wall immediately facing the public street.
The timber within the walls became a mass of
flame, so violent and so intense that in an incre-
dibly short time the beams were burnt to a charred
mass. The instant after the explosion a suffocat-
ing vapour arose. From the barred windows of an
adjoining factory poor creatures who had been at
work on the premises upon which the explosion
had occurred were seen struggling, half-suffocated,
maimed, and blackened, vainly endeavouring to ob-
tain an exit: Messrs. Callisher and Perry, breech-
loading gun makers, whose premises adjoined, and
which had bepn partly blown down, did their best
to rescue the sufferers; and, in one or two instances,
succeeded ; but the fatal consequences of the
catastrophe were too rapid.
The fire-engines arrived promptly ; the flames
were got under speedily, and such of the poor
creatures as had escaped with life were taken, six-
teen or seventeen of them, to the General Hospital.
Most of these were in a frightfui state, burnt with
more or less severity. One woman died immedi-
ately ; several others were between life and death.
In the meantime thousands had assembled ; the
engines played upon the blazing and smoking mass,
as a precaution against another explosion. Very
soon after that event had taken place a couple of
dead bodies were pulled from the ruins. Soon after
a number of men were set to work to dig over the
smouldering mass of bricks and material—the con-
tents of the pile of building. As this process went
on gradually bodies were discovered ; in one or two
instances the poor creatures are said not to have
been 'lead, but to have struggled convulsively yet
vainly for help, which could not be given to them
with sufficient haste. These must have died in
extreme agony.

As' hour- after hour went on the interest became
painfully intense. There was no muster-roll of
those who were missing, and a crowd of anxious
faces stood expectantly by. The work of the dim-
gers went on, and body after body revealed itself, a
blackened mass too frightful to behold, and too ap-
palling a spectacle to describe.
Towards the afternoon, about 3 o'clock, the ex-
cavators had made their way into the line leading
from the front door of the premises ; buried three
or four yards beneath the ruins of the walls and
fragments they dug out the bodies of three women ;
it is almost needless to add that all were dead. The
story of these poor creatures is soon told. They
had doubless been working. on the floor, had heard
the explosion above, and rushed to the door, but
before reaching it were buried beneath the ruins.
These three made 14 bodies which had been dug
out up to that time ; but it was known then that
there were others still entombed, and presently
afterwards others were discovered. Those nearest
the surface had been burnt to death, and a speedy
work that mast have been, such was the fury of
the flames. Crushed beneath burning and explo-
sive material, or stifled by suffocation, the remain-
der must have died as speedily. Tattered female
garments were dug up, and many hundred-weight
of p'ercussion caps, from beneath the smoking pile.
The cause of this explosion will probably for
ever remain in conjecture. It may have arisen from
something in connexion with the detonating pow-
der itself—the accidental connexion with it of some
foreign and sufficiently chafing substance to cause
an explosion, and against which no human fore-
sight or care could guard. Indeed, the rays of the
sun might have been sufficient to cause the disaster;
but be this as it may, this, the third explosion of
the kind within three months here, makes it in-
cumbent upon the authorities to interfere. It can
no longer be tolerated that manufactories of this
kind should be permitted in the centre of large
towns. The risk is great enough for those em-
ployed in this perilous trade, without its.beinf,r, in-
truded into the midst qs a dense population. In
the occurrence of to-day windows were shattered in
the neighbourhood, houses shaken, and it was only
by a miracle that several persons residing near
escaped serious injury.
Messrs. Phillips and Pursall are partially insured
in the Phoenix-office.

In the midst of such excitement as prevailed on
the spot to-day and of -such vast crowds who had
assembled it was almost impossible to procure defi-
nite information of any kind. Bad as the disaster
has been, there were many exaggerated rumours
afloat ; but the above narrative is believed to be not
far from correct.

7 30 P.m.

Since the above was written it has been confi-
dently stated that four more dead bodies have been
dug out, making 20 killed. This is by no means
improbable.
There were not more than six or eight men em-
ployed upon the premises ; and one of many affect-
ing incidents which might be narrated is that of a
man who, having rescued his wife froin death, him-
self perished beneath the ruins.

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