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London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, -LONDON, SATURDAY tz,v PANT SPPTEMBER 19, 1857

as reinforcements arrive I fancy we shall go in and
take Delhi.

" Jnly_l6.

"I had to go off on duty yesterday, so could not I
finish this letter. I was at work with 200 pioneers I
at our most advanced post, called the Ram Summy
House, about 700 yards from the walls of Delhi.
We could plainly distinguish the Pandies at work
on their batteries, and also watching us. They sent
in several shot very near us, but happily no one was
wounded. Whenever we are working under fire a
man is stationed on the look out, who, as soon as
he sees the smoke of a gun from the city, calLs out,
" Look out I" when everybody immediately ducks
down behind the nearest cover, and as soon as the
shot has gone past up they get again and go on with
their work. The most disagreeable things are the
shells, as after the smoke is seen it takes a minute
or two before they reach the ground, and, as they
come down vertically, it is impossible to get out of
their way.
"You will see by the papers better than I can
tell you the progress of the rebellion over all this
part of India. Almost every native regiment that
could has mutinied, in many cases murdering their
officers. Daily accounts of some more regiments
revolting come in, and, as they make for Delhi at
once, the number of Pandies in the town is increas-
ing every day. The only native regiments in which
we put any faith are the Sikhs and the Ghoorkas.,
These, however, are famous fellows, fighting splen-
didly, and even in some cases outdoing the Euro-
peans. We had a very hard fight on the 9th inst.,
lasting almost the whole day. We lost 258 killed
and wounded. On the 14th our loss was 212,
chiefly wounded. I have only just heard these re-
turns. They are grea'er than I expected.
" Col. Baird Smith is our Chief Engineer ; he
was sent for from Roorkee. Our strength is up-
wards of 20 officers. We all live and mess together,
in one of the unburat bungalows, in- cantonments.
, We are very fortunate in this respect, as everybody
else in camp is under canvass, which must be rather
unpleasant novi that the rains have set in. Lately
I have been blowing up a good many bridges in
the neighbourhood of the camp to prevent the Pan-
dies getting into our rear.

"On these expeditions a party of Sappers, es-
corted by about 100 Sikhs and 50 native cavalry,
go out to the bridge (generally from three to eight
miles distant from the camp), a mine is then dug
in the pier of the bridge, two or three barrels of
powder ptit in, and then exploded. These expe-
ditions are very pleasant, as the country about the
canals is beautifully wooded, and it is a great relief
to get out of camp for a short time. This, however,
is provided it does not rain. About a week ago I
went with a party to blow up an aqueduct three
miles distant. We started about 2 p.m., and re-
turned about 12 at night drenched through and
thoroughly miserable, it having rained tha whole
time. Our turn of duty comes on every 24 hours.
We have 10 hours on duty and then 22 off. The
night duty is the worst, it is so difficult to kelp
awake. At times yonr eyelids will close, however
Sou may try to keep them open ; and it is abso-
lutely to look after the men the whole time, as
otherwise they are certain to go off to sleep, and
then nothing is done.
" We are by no means badly off in the living
way, having a very comfortable mess. I don't
dislike our manner of life—the only grief is being
kept here by a lot of villainous mutineers. As soon,
however, as reinforcements come up we shall pay
them out in fine style.
" P.S.—The ether day C—, of the 2d Fusileers
with his men, burst open the door of a house in
which were a lot of Pandies. C— was in front
when the door gave way, and he fell into the house
with it. Lucky for him, as a Paudy blazed away at
him from the le, but the ball went over his head.
C— then tried his revolver at the mutineer,
but it would not go off, so he ran him through
with his sword. His men then went in and finished
off the rest of the Pandies in the house.

"The general opinion in the camp is that we
could take Delhi by assault any day we like, but as
it is so large our small force would not be able to
hold it. We are snug enough here, and are making
our position stronger ovary day by constructing
new batteries."

The following is from an artillery officer :
" Camp, Delhi, July 25.
" There is not much difference in the state of
affairs here since I last wrote, and I wish I could
say the same of other parts of the country—Oude
and about there. We have heard but lame accounts
but in many places all the Europeans have been
murdered indiscriminately. We have had 8 or 10
smell engagements with the Pandies, but most of
them unsatisfactory ones. It generally ends in our
troops finding themselves under the walls of the
city and coming under the grape of their heavy
guns. On the whole, I think we have lost 32 offi-
cers either killed or died of cholera, which has car-
ried off several lately—one or two friends of mine,
poor fellows—(i is a wretched graveyard to lie in)
the victims of these accursed traitors. Before long
I hope Providence will avenge the loss of some of
our bravest and best. The men I think look well,
much more so than I have often seem them look at
this season of the year in cantonments, and I hope
they will continue so ; the excitement, of course,
keeps them up, but they get very tired of this bush-
fighting, the jungle is so very thick that it is most
unsatisfactory work, and they dread so being left
behind, poor fellows ; one or two have been, unfor-
tunately, and their heads are cut off and paraded
through the city. We have large reinforcements
coming both from the north and south, and
it is but a matter of time. They are falling very
short of caps, and their powder, which they are
making themselves, is very inferior. We took a
lot of saltpetre, too, the other day, which will limit
the quantity they used to make—namely, eight
barrels per diem. I have not received your letters
for the last three mails and am very anxiously
looking out for them. I gave very particular in-
structions about forwarding them. I continue very
well and jolly. I have left the heavy batteries, which
was really very heavy work, and am now with Tur-
ner's troop of Horse Artillery. We take the picket
duties, and 1 am on every third day, and get two
in camp ; but when here you cannot move about
far—the alarm is constantly sounding, and we have
to go out to our respective posts. We have the rains
new, which makes it very pleasant, as the heat is
very great in the day, and I don't know how often
my hands and face have been peeled. What a glo-
rious campaign it will be for those who live to fight
it this next cold season, hunting 'down those
wretches and exterminating them. At Jhelum,
Sealkote, and other places where they have but
lately mutinied the Sepoys have been nearly all cut
up, and those-that have escaped are gradually being
sent in from different places to be hung. How well
this state of things has been fore' old by Lord Ellen-
borough and others ; hut how little we thought we
should see it in our time ! In Oude a great many
have been cut up, principally in the small out sta-
tions. But the communications are still cut off ;
all our news from below come through Bombay and
Lahore, except now and then a cos.ed (or messen-
ger) finds his way disguised as a fakeer from Agra,
but their reports are very exaggerated. We ought
to be allowed a year at home after this is over, but
I fear we shan't get it. We know of the China troops
being on their way up, but we can't ascertain
where. I don't think anything decisive can be done
for the next month. We could go into the city
any time we liked with but little more loss than we
have every time we get under the Walls, but then
what are we to do when we are there? We have
not men enough to bold it and defend our camp
here. They have latterly been trying hard to get
at us again in the rear, but we have blown iv all
their bridges, and effectually stopped them. My
things have not come down here yet, but we are '
pretty comfortable. We all wear as much flannel
as we can. 1 often emus) myself with sketching,
but was stupid enough to leave my colours at
Lahore. Gholab Singh is going to send us a lot
of his rabble. 1 would much sooner be without
them. However, they hate the Pandies. All our
wounded are doing well. The greater part who can
have gone to Sienlah, where I hope they will soon
pick up. We are acting now merely on the defen-
sive, and fire as little as possible, only now and then,
to induce them to waste their ammunition."
The following is an extract from a letter from a
Staff officer of rank in the Camp before Delhi,
dated July 26 :
" Here, you see, we are still before Delhi, and
no immediate prospect of our finding ourselves in-
side the walls of the city. Since I last wrote just the
same kind of thing has been going on as before ;
attacks on our position every third or fourth day
or so, always terminating in the same result—the
entire ie-pulse and discomfiture of the enemy, and
often with great loss, but never without a greater
number of casualties on our s'de than with our small
force we can well afford. The newsletters from the
city describe the mutineers to be much dishearten, d
at their constant want of success ; and no doubt it 1
must be
rbdeefseoti
defences,
their attacks of late have been much
tioe e
makeb e
prepared,
ra padanaryse
dei each day is adding to tie strength
'la'. ;leeno fear whatever is felt of their bet rig
hardly be impression on them. 'You will
there say, at home to hear of
our still remaining on
in fact, instead of' beseiedgeerfesn;sibvuet,
stoheitbheasaieilcue(l,,,
I the
such maysay from the day
of our atTlVis
al here and when
the strength of our little arra
known, peaple
army is
ch to, b
will be the less surprised to
case. It looks mighty well on paper—six e the
re
g
men ts of Europeans, and four of native infant
ry
(Sikhs and Ghoorkas), and I have
no doubt the
number is set down at 10,000 men, but the re '1
strength is probably under 4,ooo—say 2,100 Ee_
ropeans, and the remainder natives. I have nob
seen the returns lately, but I think I must be
above the mark in saying we have 4,000 infant' y.

In artillery we are fortunately tolerably well off, ;1
but in cavalry the enemy perhaps outnumber ue
by five to one. It is as well that they are
a most unenterprising set of scoundrels, the :
cavalry, or they might do us infinite damage in
cutting off our supplies. As it is, our rear is per-
fectly
open, and supplies as plentiful and cheap as!
they would be in the best regulated cantonments. :
You will ask impatiently what we are going to do, '
and how long we are to remain in our present po-
sition. lam not in the General's secrets, but I
fancy there is no doubt that we shall do nothing
towards attacking the place until we receive con- I ;
siderable reinforcements. Matters are in such a
distracted state below that though troops are '
known to have marched from Allahabad on the '
4th of this month they may have so much to do at
Cawnpore, Lucknow, and elsewhere that we almost
give up the hope of their reaching us in reasonable
time, and we therefore look forward to the large
force now on its way to the Punjab to join us. All
ought to be here abeut the 12th or 15th proximo,
and then we shall be strong enough to work in
earnest with the wretched city. The troops coming
down amount altogether to some 4,000 infantry, of
whom 1,400 are European and the rest Ghoorkas
and Sikhs. There are also artillery and cavalry,
and another siege train with heavier guns than we
now have, and our force will on the whole very
nearly be doubled, certainly so in infantry in which
we are now comparatively weakest. We have
only .to pray that sickness may not overtake us
here before these fresh troops arrive, and there is
every hope that it may not be so, as the sickly sea-
son seldom commences here before the middle of
September or later, when the rains leave off. At
present there does not appear to be more sickness
than there would be were the men located in their
barracks, and several of the regiments, the com-
manding officers tell me, are positively healthier
than they probably will be in cantonments. When
once our fresh troops are here I should think a
week ought to put us in possession of the city, and
onceinthere the Palace and Old Fort could not hold
out a day. It will be a great advantage certainly if
three or four European regiments join us from
below, but this I think is hardly to be expected un-
less it is determined to abandon Lucknow and all
the country on the left bank of the Ganges—that
is, Rohilcund and Oude. We should then have
only Cawnpore and Futtyghur to hold in any force,
and all the troops not required for the defence of
these places might move up to us. By the latest
accounts from Lucknow, but which are only up to
the 2d July, all was right there, and Sir H. Law-
rence had some 700 Europeans of her Majesty's
32d, and part of the 84th, but he was almost con-
fined to the intrenchments he had made, and I
should doubt, when all the mutinous regiments of
Oude gathered round him, his being able to hold
his own for many weeks. Havelock, however,
ought to be with him in good time. The latest in-
telligence from him is of the 11th, and he was then
said to be on his march, and within 40 miles of
Cawnpore. The strength of his force is not men-
tioned, but I should doubt its being more. than
2,000 infantry with perhaps nine guns and a very
small party of cavalry—quite sufficient, however,
to thrash any force he- is likely to meet of the
enemy. More European regiments must, how-
ever, be on their way from Allahabad to join him.
The accounts we have from Cawnpora, also, I am
sorry to say, from Futtyghur, are very bad ; but
they are merely the reports of natives, and we still
cling to the hope that they may not be true. They
. are to the effect that at both places after holding
out a very long time against enormous odds, our
small garrisons took to the river in boats, but were
attacked there, overpowered, and nearly all killed.
This news about Futtyghur only came in this morn-
ing, that about Cawnpore about a week ago ; but
you may imagine how defective our communication
is when your hear that it was upwards of three
weeks before the intelligence of the Cawnpore cata-
strophe reached us. You will, probably learn via
Calcutta exactly what has occurred at these places
and also much later news of Allahabad and of
Havelock's movements. Of our new Commander-
in-Chief Pat Grant's movements we know literally
nothing, but he ought, in my opinion, to come up
country, and the Governor-General too, for
when we have disposed of Delbi there will
be many matters of moment to settle that will
be better done on the spot, without the inter-
vention of the council, by the Governor-General
and the Commander in-Chief. The council will
be better employed in undoing the numerous ab
surd acts and regulations they have been at work
at for years past. After the capture of Delhi one
short act disarming the whole of the population in
India would do more than anything else to insure
its prosperity and preierve peace and quiet in the
land. It was to this measure that Sir Charles Na-
pier owed so much of his success in quieting Scinde ;
but Lord Dalhousie was too proud to tale a lesson
from him, and there were many that might have
been taken to our advantage, and had Sir Charles
been listened to regarding the magazine of Delhi
our position in India would have been a very dif-
ferent one to what it now is. There seems no end
of the shot and shell they have in Delhi, and of
guns, too, they have an unlimited number, but
their powder is said to be expended. They make
it, of course, but it is not so good as ours, and
their stock of percussion caps is reported as coming
to a close. It is to be hoped that it is so, for these
they never can manufacture, and their only plan
will be to alter the locks for flints."

three Horse Artillery guns. We are a very nice
little force, and ready for any emergency. The
mutineers we are after are on one side of the
Ravee, near Lahore and cannot cross ; on the other
side of the river are the 52d (Queen's) Light Infan-
try, some guns, and some Irregular troops, under
Colonel Nicholson ; so if we cannot polish them off
most effectually it will be strange. I need not say
what we have to undergo in marching during this
trying weather, nothing to protect us from the
burning rays of the sun but a fold of. canvas, and
the hot winds blowing through it like a blast from
a furnace. In an expedition of this nature officers
and men all share alike, the only thing to bear us
up being the excitement and the hopes of encoun-
tering these murderous ruffians, which may
possibly happen about the 20th
„ _

" I have not much more time to write, nor in-
deed could I go on much longer, as I am nearly
done up with the heat. Imagine me sitting, as I
now am, in a suit of thin muslin, with a wet towel
tied over my head, and a fellow behind me
continually dropping cold water upon it.
Colonel 8., Dr. S., de M., and B. are
lying all about the tent in similar costume,
gasping for breath and trying to sleep. However,
none of us complain, simply relieving ourselves
from time to time by some mild imprecation upon
niggers in general and on Sepoys in particular for
the privations and sufferings which they are the
cause of. Mais le bon, temps viendra, and in the
meanwhile I place my life in the hands of an Al-
mighty Providence, in whom I have an unbounded
trust. Our hope is that England will not forget
that her army now in India is actually keeping the
country for her until reinforcements arrive, and
that in doing so we are fighting like bulldogs, and
undergoing with cheerfulness privations and hard-
ships which must be experienced to be described. I
am dreadfully in want of a- revolver ; no man is
safe here without one ; all those that were dispos-
able in the country have been bought up. The
Government at home would confer a great benefit
an.,l a great boon upon those who have not revol-
vers if they were to sanction an issue of them."

wrote you was our intention, and reached Mhow after 1
a march of 12 days, accompanied with the usual amount
of misery to which which we here been so long sub-
jected. On the let' of August we reached the left bank
of the Nerbudda, and found the moveable column, which
consisted of four troops, her Majesty's 14th Dragoons,
25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, and Wool-
coomb'e Battery, with a force of Madras and Bombay
Sapperveconamanded by Major 115ileau of the former.
With the column (which is commanded by Stewart, Bom-
bay 16th Native Infantry) we proceeded to IVlhow,
where, on arriving, we found all the' European inhabi-
tants under shelter of the tort. The news of our ap-
proach was the signal for them to abandon their hiding-
Vace and return to their houses, those who had such,
for many bad not, the jolly Padre among the num-
ber. Confidence 'wee at once restored, and we
had the satisfaction of again seeing the poor people
brew he freely. This force came by Aurungabad
and Asseergurh, meting out punishment to those de
serving such at either place. Three of the wing of the
6th Regiment of the Gwalior Contingent at Asseergurh
were blown away from the guns. They had incited the
company of the sth Regiment, Gwalior Contingent, at
Boorhaunpoor, distant about 12 miles from Asseergurh,
to join them, but failed. Oudan Sing, subandar of the
company, behaved well, but it' was deemed prudent to
disarm them all, and both parties are encamped here
under Scott, second in command of the "6th Gwalior
Contingent. Their final disposal seems to be with
Durand a subject of much concern, for the company of
the sth Gwalior Contingent are positively innoceet as to
acts of mutiny. 250 men of the 86th Queen's joined us
on the 6th inst. ; and it was supposed an immediate
advance upon Indore would take place. Circumstances,
it would seem, have altered since the 6th. Holkar's
force, hitherto in a state of open and avowed mutiny.
(hearing, no doubt, of the approach of our dreaded
Europeans), have, it seems, returned to their allegiance,
on the promise from their.chief, it is understood, that
all previous offences will be condoned ; but we surely
will not allow ourselves to be compromised in such a
a matter, nor the blood and treasure split on the let of
July to be so easily forgotten. Now, not a word re-
garding an advance is ever heard. The rebel remains
of the Gwalior Contingent is round about the Fort of
Gwalior, at the solicitation, it is said, of the old demon,
the Bhazee Baee,' but for all news of this description
I mustrefer you to the papers. However, I must tell
you that a letter arrived in camp last night from Bom-
bay, relating that 160 of the 27th Bombay Native Infan-
try had mutinied and taken possession of the Fort at
Kolapore, that the remainder of • the regiment bad
turned out on them, killing or taking prisoners the
whole—a satisfactory result, but as einfortunate cir-
cumstance. It may be the means of deterring others
from following so bad an example. No native officer
higher than a havildar joined in the revel', Burlton's
corps, 2 Cavalry, Gwalior Contingent, has all gone ; so
has Alexander's -(lst Cavalry, Gwalior Contingent).
Burlton died of cholera. Alexander and Cockburn
both wounded. God Only knows when peace again will
reign in Central India ; I fear the day is far dis-
tant. Oh I how thankful you must be that it pleased
Providence to release you from the trials and dangers to
which a residence in India at this crisis would necessarily
have exposed you. Would to Heaven that I was at home
with you ; but it is the -duty of every Englishman to
. stand by the old craft when in distress; and, please God,
I shall never be found absent from the call Of duty."

of the heaviest calibre which completely command the
city of Agra and all approaches by which assailants
could attempt an attack.

The quarre:s of the Sheeahs and Sunzees during the
Mohurrum Festival are far more likely to tend towards
the peace of the garrison than to create alarm, for the
townspeople of their persuasions will ►lave enough to do
to settle their own religious broils, without attempting
an ineffectual attack against a force prepared on all
sides to resist them.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Versailles, Sept. 17. CENTURION.

TLIE CHELSEA VESTRY AND CBEIVORNE
GARDENS.

London is perhaps less favourably supplied with
the means of al fresco enjoyment than any of its
Continental neighbours. The glories of Vauxhall
have departed, and the Surrey Gardens are in that
unenviable condition that the Sheriff of Surrey
may at any moment close its doors against the ad-
mission of visitors. Cremorne alone is left to us,
and, if we are to credit the record of proceedings
in the Chelsea vestry, that immaculate body
contemplate an early endeavour to deprive the
tired London citizen of the means of rational
enjoyment which he has hitherto obtained in
these gardens. That an insignificant coterie should
venture to place themselves in direct opposition
,to the feelings of the great mass of inhabitants of
the parish may occasion surprise, but that their op-
position should meet with anything short of igno-
minious defeat, is not to be believed. These gar-
dens have been conducted with decorum which has
obtained for them the personal sanction of the
highest personage of the realm, while their daily
patrons have occasionally in lulled some of the
leading members of the aristocracy. That the op-
polition of no less than a score of self-constituted
dictators should be allowed to interfere with the
legitimate enjoyment of the masses, is simply ridi-
culous ; and the following abstract of the proceed-
ings which took place at the meeting of the Chelsea
vestry on Tuesday last is given only to show the
absurd length to which party virulence, associated
with personal hostility, may be carried :
A memorial from the so-called Ratepayers' As-
sociation of the parish, alleging that ce:tain evils
arose from the late hours to which the festivities of
Cremorne were prolonged, and praying inquiry,
was presented about a mouth since by Mr. Dickson,
a member of the vestry. Subsequ-ntly Mr. Dick-
son declared that he had presented the memorial at
the request of a friend, without any knowledge of
the merits of the case, and that personal investi-
gation having since satisfied him that many of the
allegations it contained were untrue, he desired to
withdraw the memorial. To this course objection
was made, and ultimately the discussion was ad-
journed until Tuesday last, when the subject was
debated before about 30 out of the 80 vestrymen of
the parish. _ _ _

Die question was opened by Mr. Till, who pre.
eented a memorial from a large number of his
fellow-parishioners, protesting against the em-
ployment of any portion of the parish funds in
opposing a renewal of the licence for Cremorue.
A. similar memorial was presented by Mr. Wal-
lace.
Both having been received,
• Mr. LAURANCE spoke at some length in favour
of opposing the renewal of the licence, ground-
ing his argument upon the alleged diminu-
tion of the value of house property in the
district, in proof of which he read a long list of
statistical returns, and concluded by proposing, as
a resolution, that the renewal of the licence of Ore-
morne Gardens should be opposed by the parish at
the ensuing sessions.
Mr. TILL moved au amendment. He said that
he had no interest, either immediate or remote, in
the matter under discussion, but he was prompted
only by a sense of justice and common fairness to a
person whose property had been attacked. The
reason he appeared thus publicly in taking up the
case of Mr. Simpson was because be considered that
gentleman had not been treated with the fairness
which every individual had a right to expect when
his character and property were at stake. (Hear,
hear.) He thought, with reference to the memorial
first presented from the ratepayers' Association, that
the first duty of the vestry, if they took action upon
it at all, was to act in accordance with the prayer of
the memorial, and as a preliminary measure to in-
stitute au inquiry into the allegations. He gathered
from Mr Laurance that an inquiry had been made.
He (Mr. Till) had attended- most of the meetings
on this subject, and he was quite at a loss to know
when that inquiry took place. Mr. Laurance, as
an individual member of the board,' had certainly
taken great pains to obtain a mass of statistics, and
it could scarcely be imagined that any other mem-
ber of the vestry could have acted with equal zeal
on the part of Mr. Simpson. Mr. Laurance had,
no doubt, acted in this matter with the best inten-
tions ; but ie was too much to expect an equal
amount of zeal on the part of any individual con-
nected with the board, in attempting to disprove
the position which Mr. Laurance had taken. In
the next place lie would remark that inasmuch as
all the memorialists asked for was an inquiry, he
thought that step ought to be taken before they
came to any final resolution to oppose the
' license of Cremore, and spend the parish fUnds
for that purpose. (Hear, hear.) It was a most
serious matter, and involved a great principle—
(hear)—for if this vestry had a right to interfere
with Mr. Simpson's license in the way proposed they
had an equal right to interfere with every license in
the parish. All licensed establishments were under
the special jurisdiction of the police authorities—
and if Mr. Simpson committed any violation of the
law, the proper quarter for it to be reported to was
the police magistrates, and, if proved, they would
undoubtedly fine him for his misconduct, and the
matter would not rest there ; for when Mr. Simp-
son applied for a renewal of his powers, the parties
who had lodged the complaint against him would
be there to make the representation to the licensing
magistrates, and if the Bench considered the police
magistrate justified in inflicting the fine they would
in all probability suspend the license. (Hear.) This
would have been a better course than that which
the board had chosen to adopt ; and his opinion on
the subject remained unchanged, notwithstanding
the decision of the board on a former occasion.
Now, with reference to the arguments advanced, as
fir as he had heard them, they went not to the
limitation of Cremorne, but to its entire extinction.
It was easy to say they only wanted the gardens to
be closed at 12 o'clock, but if they had evidence
before them to show that the immorality was as
great as had been represented with reference to the
seduction of young men from honesty and young
women from virtue, they must all be quite awed e
that these courses were not confined to any hours,
nor restricted to any places where the disposition
to such courses existed. (Hear, hear.) Therefore.
when the plea of morality was advanced, he did not
think it applied to the limitation of the hours, but
to the extinction of the gardens. (Hegr) With re-
gard to the empty houses, he thought there were
other causes than those mentioned. There were the
gas works, chemical factories, the drainage into the
Thames, high rent, and exorbitant parochial ra'es.
In his own street (Stanley street), out of 58 houses,
within the last month there had been 17 empty.
Cremorne had not exercised any influence in depopu-
lating that locality. He had one other observai ion
!o make with reference to the injustice done to Mr.
Simpson in calling upon him to close his gardens
at twelve o'clock unless they called upon the
public-houses in that vicinity to close at the same
hour. It was an act of injustice to expect Mr.
Simpson to lay out 30,0001. or 40,0001. to cater for
the public amusement aid recreation, and then to
call upon him to close at an hour when he reaps his
greatest reward for his spirited enterprise. The fact
was it would only be driving the people out of the
gardens to a few public-houses in the vicinity. He
had yet to learn that the morals of the public would
be better protected in the close atmosphere of tt:e
smoking-room of a public-house than in a place
where they could enjoy the free air of cheavee—
(hear—and he had also yet to learn that there were
more contaminating influences in an establishment
like Cremorne than there were in the cidar-cellars
of the metropolis. (Hear.) One other circumstance
he would allude to with reference to the term (1'
duration of this monster nuisance. The season of
Cremorne was 16 weeks, that was 112 days. If
they deducted 16 Saturday nights when the gar.
dens must be closed at 12 o'clock, and the same
number of Sunday nights when they Must be closed
at 11 o'clock, and taking further an average of 1.6
or 18 vet nights during the season, when they were
closed by 12 o'clock owing to the unfavourable state
of the weather, there were left at the most 64 days,
or little more than two months out of the 12 on
which the state of things complained of could ob-
tain. With the-se observations he begged to move
" That this board do appoint a committee for the
purpose of instituting an inquiry into the manage-
ment of Cremorne.

Mr. CORNELL, clerk to the un:gistrates of tie'
Kensington division, seconded Mr. Till's amend-
ment, supporting its adoption in a powerful and
argumentative s•peec").
Mr. LEGG supported the amendment on pu‘.li •
grounds. Ho thought no sufficient; rea:sens had b en
shown for instructing the solicitor; to oppose the
licenses, and in so serious a matter there ought-, at
least, to be inquiry.
Mr. DicKsoN wished, as fully as possible, to re-
cal tue ,expressions and criticism be had made use
of on a famer occasion. Although he presented
th 3 memorial from the Ratepayer: Assoi.Eo!o. , he
was not aware of its contents at the time he under-
took to do so, and was not praent at the meeting
when it was adopted. lie had visited Crememe
size the last discussion of the subject, and was

satisfied from his own observation that the conduct
of the visitors in the gardens was irreproachable.
Mr. WALLACE supported the amendment, and
said he was certain Mr. Sitnp,ou was desirous of
doing everything consistent with his duty to remove
any complaints that were specially made to him,
and he believed if a committee of the vestry waited
upon that gentleman he would give them every
satisfaction they could possiby require—(hear, hear)
—and he believed he was ready to sacrifice a por-
tion of his own interests rather than have any mis-
understanding with the parish. He should there-
fore support the amendment.
After a few observations from Mr. FINCH, who
spoke in favour of the resolution,
Mr. LAURANCE replied upon the discussion, after
which,
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to take a show of
hands upon the amendment, when there appeared
8 in favour and 10 against it.
Upon the original motion there were 18 for and
7 against, and the same was declared to be carried.
Mr. LAURANCE insinuated that in the event of
not carrying his point at the sessions for granting
the music license, he had prepared another resolu-
tion to the effect that the spirit license should be
opposed at the sessions in March.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that that matter should
remain over, to which

Mr. LAURANCE acceded, and the prcceeding
terminated.

Country Markets,

LIVERPOOL-SEPT. 18.

There was a thin attendance at maikat to-day, and
with a moderate extent of transactions. Old wheat was
slightly easier in price, whil-t Irish new declined 2d to 3d
per bushel on Tuesday's prices.' Of old oats and oatmeal
we were never so bare before. American red wheat 8s 4d
'to Ss 10d, white up to 103 2d. New oatmeal 35s to 370
per 2101bs. Indian corn 37s 6d to 42s per 4801bs.