The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-06 00:00:00

r.HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1857.

Fir ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
I First Night of LUCIA DI LA.NIMERMOOR.
PICCOLOMINI, GIUGLINI, BELLETTI, VIOLET PI,
POCCHINI.
TO-MORROW (THURSDAY) EVENING, May 7.
LUCIA DI LAIDIERIIOOR.

Lucia, PiccoloninT(l:er first appearance in that part).
Edg,,ardo' Sig. Giuglini.
Ballet—LA ESMERALDA.
La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Pocchini.

Fe? particulars see bills.
A limited number of boxes in the Half Circle Tier have
been specially reserved for the public, and may be had on ap-
plication at the Box-office at the Theatre Colonnade, Hay-
market.
Price One Guinea and One Guinea and a Half each.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE,
THIS EVENING, will be performed
Shakcspere's tragedy of
KING RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.

NEW ARRANGEMENT OF PRICES OF ADMISSION.

THIS EVENING (Tuesday), and to-morrow Evening
Wednesday, for two nights only, to commence at Seven
with the Comedy of THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM. Archer,
Mr. Howe ; Aimwell, Mr. Far en; Sullen, Mr. Chippendale ;
Boniface, Mr. Rogers ; and Scrub, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Sul-
len, Miss Reynolds ; Dorinda, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
After which, the successfu. Classical Love Story, tin-
der the Apple-lation of A I'ALANTA ; or, The Three Golden
Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M.
Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan.
Concluding with MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER.
In future the prices will be:—

Orchestra. Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the

evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d
Dress Boxes
Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 0 Pit. 1 0
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery_

THEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed LIKE AND
UNLIKE, Chara,ters by nessrs.lYright, Paul Bedford, dtc.;
Madame Celeste, Miss Windham, dtc.
Followed by a new Farce, called FEARFUL TRAGEDY
IN THE SEVEN DIALS.
To conclude with THE ELVES, in which Madame Celeste
will perform

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE,
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.

THIS EVENING (for the Be.nefit of Mr. Flexmore) will
be performed THE REST DAY, Martin Heywood,
Mr. Creswiek.

After which, THE BIRTHDAY. Poor John, Mr. Flex•
more ; Une Jenne, Madlie. Auriol.

To conclude with a pantomimic sketch of HARLEQUIN
SEE SAW. Clown, Mr. Fie/more.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, will be performed a new drama, called
DADDY HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, &c.
To conclude with YOUNG AND HANDSOME. Messrs.
Robson, G. Murray, &c.
Commence at half-past Seven.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
L Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

Unprecedented success of the New Grand Military Spec-
tacle, in which Mr. W. Cooke's highly trained Horses appear
in novel and exciting situations,

THIS EVENING, and during the week, the Enter-
tainments commence with the New Military Spectacle, in three
Acts, entitled THE FRENCH IN ALGIERS ; or, The Battle
of Constantine.

To be followed by Recherche SCENES' IN THE ARENA,
giving an EQUESTRIAN FE PE; introducing the great ar.
tistes of the establishment, including Miss Kate Cooke.

Signor Corelli and Family, and a variety of other entertain
meuts.

Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ;
Pit, 25.; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, 6(1..
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

A.NTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow.
lig company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance o:Y
elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, exc., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunel], Mies Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr. J
caulfield, Herr F. Jonglimans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S,
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri. Senor Antonio M,
de Solla, and E. L. lime ; Masters Bennett and Corri;
Messrs. Sam Cowell, Sam Collins, and E. Mackney,
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
Erector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre
cisely. Suppers, die., until twelve o'clock.

departments of Art, in departments the most
widely scattered and the most strikingly diversified !
HOGARTH her Great Painter of Manners. TURNER
her great Landscape Painter, and not hers only,
but the world's, accomplishing more as a veritable
interpreter of Nature than was ever dreamt of by
LORRALNR, or SALTA TOR, or VANDERT MDT, or
CANNALETTI, " in their philosophy !" And so step
by step—perhaps we should rather write it steppe
by steppe, through all that flowery fairy land of
Art If the Dutch have their HOBRISIA, have
not we our COLLINS!If they have rejoiced in a
TENIERS have not we had reason to exult in a
WILKIE ? The very pigs in our farmyards have
been "glorified" by the brush of MORLAND, even
as nowadays the fruits from our gardens and or-
chards are magically perpetuated in perrennial
bloom upon the luscious canvass of LANCE. The
marvellous adaptability of Art has, perhaps,
indeed been nowhere more curiously ex-
emplified than in this country, amongst
ourselves—an adaptibility not one jot less marvel-
lous, in its way, than that which once made Lord
JEFFREYS liken the steam-engine, by an exqui-
site analogy, to the trunk of an elephant—capable
at once of rending an oak and picking up a needle !
The secret of success in Art, in its lowliest no
less than in its loftiest phase, having been epi-
grammatically expressed by SCIILLER in that
most felicitous phrase which the closing fragment
of the happily-chosen motto for this year's Royal
Academy catalogue—as sey jeder vollendet in sick
—each be complete in himself ! A recommendation
from Poetry which, if but strenuously and con-
scientiously followed out by the Votaries of her
Sister Art, under the guidance of Genius, leads
naturally and inevitably to the same goal—Per-
fection—whether it be in the portraiture of a dog
or in the delineation of a hurricane—an axiom,
the unconscious compliance with which, in our own
day, has placed LANDSEER at the head of all Animal
Painters, and TURNER in a much grander
and more glorious walk of Art, in the
very van of all the World's great Painters
of Landscape I With such nurseries in Art
as those we have here cursorily hinted at, no
marvel that England is the scone of the first grand
Fine Arts Exhibition. England that, while boast-
ing of artists like REYNOLDS, and ETTY, and GAINS-
BOROUGH, can boast also of sculptors no less
eminent than FLAXIIAN, and Gasolv, and
CHANTRY ; .as also of engravers such as
STRANGE, and Doo, and WOOLLETT ! Yesterday
will be redlettered in the annals of the reign of
VICTORIA. It will be long remembered in the
city of Manchester. When we think for a mo-
ment of the Treasures there collected together in
the noble structure erected for the purpose of this
remarkable and unprecedented Exhibition, we
think also, and with little less than a shudder, of
the frightful possibility of there being just the
chance of some new EROSTRATUS ! A casualty
there would be altogether in its way as deplorable,
as irreparable, as calamitous as that of the library
of Alexandria.

Deprived of his seat in Parliament, Mr. Ceis-
DEN still continues to keep his name before th•
public. He returns elaborate answers to the
various sympathising addresses, forwarded by
those who, mindful of the important services he
rendered at the time of the Anti-Corn-law agita-
tion, forget the grave mistakes into which he has
since suffered himself to be betrayed ! By so
doing, he endeavours to delude himself and the
community at large. He endeavours to soften
down the decisive, nay, more, the ignominious
defeat which he, in common with all the leading
Members of his school, has received, by ascrib-
ing it to anything but the true cause. He de.
Glares that " his entrance on the contest for Hud-
dersfield was, at the timO, simply and solely,
a mistake." No, Mr. COBDEN, it was "no mis-
take !" And in saying so, we are influenced by
charitable feelings, remembering the apophthegm
of TALLEYRAND, that such "a mistake is worse than
a crime." It was not because you entered late
on the contest, or that your opponent, Mr. ACK-
ROYD, " occupied an influential position," or that
he was already "in the midst of a canvass from
door to door," that you were defeated ! It was,
to use your own words, simply and solely be-
cause you had enunciated a wrong principle, and
endeavoured to make the electors of Huddersfield,
participators in the erroneous doctrine. They
would not permit themselves to be dragged
through the mire, or to be chained to the chariot
wheels of the Peace•atrany-price Society, or
to be enrolled amongst the " Yehites." They
resented the nu-English policy of which you
had been the exponent in the House
of Commons. They responded like true-
hearted and independent Englishmen, to the
spirit-stirring appeal of the Premier, being firmly
resolved to maintain the national honour at any
and every cost.
Time was when your name was a " household
word," when any influential liberal constituency
in Great Britain would have been proud to have
obtained you as its representative ; when no sound
Free-trader would have opposed your pre-eminent
claims, and no honest voter would have required
"a canvass from door to door." The change has
not been in the people, but in yourself I Profit by
the salutary, albeit painful lesson—take the rough
instruction deeply to _heart, and learn to amend
the errors by which it was rendered necessary.
Then indeed you will be again received with joy,
and the portals of the House flung wide for your
reception. There is still a toms penitentice—still
an opportunity for reconciliation. Confess your
fault, promise amendment and the ameade will be
accepted. Then, indeed, " RICHARD will be him-
s ,If again," and his last days will be more honoured
and prosperous than his earlier ones 1

Let Mr. COBDEN consider these things calmly
and maturely. No honour is to be gained by
obstinate adherence to error. Let him not impeach
the sound decision of the b.onest jury, who re-
turned a just verdict. He cannot convert the
people to his Peace at any Price Notions, and as
" the m:iuntain will not go to MAHOMET ;" why
" MA HOMET should make up his mind to go to
" the mountain !" We could bear much from
RICHARD COBDEN with a'l his faults ; and
" their name is legion ;" we could " better spare
a better man." Ho ought to be in Parliament,
and were not the issue too momentous, we should
gladly waive a point in his favour I But ho should
take the initiative. The onus rests on his shoul-
ders ; and ho may be assured that it will be far
more honourable—far more conducive to his
political reputation—ta atone for than to glory
in his offence.

He declares that the " real cause of his finding
himself out of the, House is to be traced as far
back as 1847." It is ! But it was not in elect-
ing to sit for the West Riding in place of Stock-
port. It was because he committed his firsi
error in reference to the commercial crisis of that
year. It was his vote in the select committee on
Money Law, which gave the bullionists a slender
majority as'lo the causes of the monetary distress.
The praises so lavishly bestowed by Sir
RaBERT PEEL on his previous career won him

over to the Anti• Free Trade party, and induced
him to give what might almost be regarded a

casting vote against " unrestricted competition"
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in currency. From that time forth he has floun-
dered in the mire, leaving on each shoal and quick-
sands some shred of his former reputation. He
subsequently babbled forth fallacies about the
facility with which Russia could be "doubled up,"
and when the crisis came, strove, with all his
energies, to induce England to back out disgrace-
fully from the inevitable contest into which she
bad been unwillingly dragged I These were the
errors that changed his political character—that
destroyed his quondam prestige. The motion on
the Chinese question " capped the climax." It
was the last straw that " broke the camels back"—
that insured his opponents success far more than
local influences, or canvass from door .b door.

If Mr. COBDEN thinks rightly on these things,
his "relief from Parliamentary duties" will be an
unequivocal benefit, both to himself and the com-
munity at large. If he persists in his error, we
can only deplore that a man, who had once esta-
blished so high a position, should have been so
ill-advised as to sacrifice the basis on which it
was sustained, and with regret join in the verdict
of the men of Huddersfield, that he shall " never
more be officer of ours,"

The casualties (0 to the Transit, and her twin-
sister the Urgent, cast considerable light on the
mode in which "My Lords" carry on their busi-
ness, and prove, beyond the possibility of doubt,
with how little wisdom the affairs of the nation
are managed, at least so far as the Navy is con-
cerned. Both these unfortunate vessels had to
put into the very same port—Corunna—in almost
a sinking state ; and it will be truly fortunate
if something far worse does not result from a
" perseverance" in retaining on the establishment
vessels, the inefficiency of which has been so fre-
quently exemplified. Similar accidents do not
occur in the Merchant Service. The managers
there have personal interests to attend to, and
profit by the lessons they receive. But so long
as routine is pursued, provided all the regulations
of redtapism are fulfilled, my Lords are very
indifferent as to consequences. It signifies little,
although 800 gallant men should go to the bottom,
or the national honour and the national interest
should be jeopardised in another hemisphere, if all
was done in strict accordance with precedents.
One of the chief causes of the misfortunes of
the Transit, has been her unwieldy anchors. As
the correspondent of a Morning Contemporary,
whose letter we have inserted in another part of
our impression, declares " routine and the Estab-
lishment prevailed against every effort to obtain
more manageable anchors," although the experi-
ence of the Naval Review, when " Noble
Lords and grave Judges had to lend a
hand at the capstan," might have satis-
fied any impartial observer of the disadvantages
arising from the use of the ponderous
instrument, which could scarcely be weighed by
all the available power on board, and the fluke
whereof, on that disastrous day, " hooked an
unfortunate gun-boat, and tore the masts out of
her," and, in the early part of last month, went
right through the bottom of the ill-fated ship.
The anchor was the monster to which it was
bound—" the old man of the sea" from which it
could not extricate itself. My Lords were proud of
the Leviathan which was "big enough, and expen-
sive enough" to have done better. There was
but one drawback, ii was utterly beyond the
capacity of the condemned vessel which
could not require the enormous weight. The
mere rudiments of naval science, its very A. B. C.
ought to teach the nature and magnitude of the
anchors required to tide out a heavy gale. The
Himalaya had passed through a stringent ordeal.
She had safely sustained the terrific storm of the
14th November, 1854, in the Black Sea, and the
anchors that had been so severely tested, weighed
in the aggregate 7i tons, and cost some 280/.
Now, the Transit being 1,000 tons less burden,
might have carried a proportionably less amount
of ground tackle. In place, however, of so doing,
the Admiralty anchors on board exceed 13i tons
(costing more than three times as much, viz.,
8801.). The cause of "the straining" may there-
fore be easily guessed. The heavy concentrated
weight must necessarily tell, and it has told with
a vengeance, on repeated occasions.

A little foresight would remedy these evils, but
my Lords are incorrigible. They will not deviate
from the beaten path, or transgress the assigned
limits, no matter how urgent the occasion. This
should be locked to, and it is a matter which can
only be properly attended to in Parliament, where
Sir C. WOOD and his colleagues may fairly be
called to task for the gross mismanagement of so
important a bralich of the public service.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF

NA POLEON I.

Yesterday the 36th anniversary of the death of
Napoleon 1. was celebrated as usual at the Hotel
des InAralidos. A mass in commemoration of the
deceased was celebrated by the chaplain of the In-
valides, in presence of General Count Ornano, the
Governor, the General Commanding, and the entire
staff. Places were reserved in the nave for the
great bodies of the State. M. Billault, the Minister
of the Interior, attired in mourning, and wearing
the decoration of Grand Officer of the Legion of
Honour, attended, as also did Baron de Lacrosse,
Generals Lafontaine and Foucher in uniform, and
Gen. Polat in the costume of senator, M. Larabit,
Colonel Laborde, and several m-mbers of the two
Chambers and of the great bodies of the State. On
the right of the ptruet d'honneur, formed of inva-
lides, were placed delegates from the veterans of
the Empire, attired in their ancient uniform. The
Princes of the Imperial family attended the service
m the Citapel of the Tuileries. The Church of the
Invalides was filled with private individu ds, and a
number of old soldiers came to pray fur the repose
of the soul of him whom, when living, they re-
garded as a demi-god. The eight magnificent
lustres presented by Prince Jerome were lighted.
After the ceremony the old soldiers were permitte d
to visit Napoleon's tomb, and to pray in the chapel
of St. Jerome, in which the ashes of the great man
are deposited.

Loss of THE SHIP PHAETON, EAST INDIA TRADER.
—Tnis fine ship, 1,932 tons burtben, belonging to
Nies/n.B. Sheppard and Co., of Fenchurch-street, with
260 Chinese emigrants on board, on a voyage from
lion Kong, for Adelaide, has been wrecked near Cape
Dom boy, Gurchen Bay, Australia. Although several
casualties occurred by the upsetting of the boats, no
lives were lost. The ship subsequently became a
wreck ; the hull was sold for 1,2001., and the cargo of
teas for 4451. The owners are understood to be
insured.

AN ADVENTURE IN A DRAW-WELL,—A short distance
beyond Brandling-ulace, and near to the Moor Edge, is
a. draw-well, about 35 feet deep, three feet five inches in
diameter, with water to within about eight feet of the
top. Chi Sunday morning last a hat was found near the
sf:at, and certain finger marks on the aides of the well in-
dicated that a struggle for life or death had very re-
cently taken place. At first it was whispered that a
man bail been drowned in the old well, and eventually a
vague rumour to that effect reached the Prudhoe-street
police-featioa. Long poles and grappling-irons were in
immediate requisition, but after some hours' labour, the
search was given up as hopeless, and the bystanders
Slowly and sorrowfully returned to their homes. And
thus the matter rested, until a pitman belonging to
Gos.forth-row, named William Craven, having beard that
an unclaimed bat was lying at the station-house, came
and identified it as his property. lie said that en
Saturday evening he was going home over the Moor in•
tox!cAted, in company with some of his neighbours, and
having quarrelled with them he returned towards the
town. -Us remembered nothing after that but having'
plumped very suddenly overhead into a deep hole full of
water. On coming to the surface he worked himself
clear of the water by means of his feet and shoulders, and
whilst in this position he stated he fell asleep several
times, but awoke on finding himself slipping down again,
How he got into the well—how long he remained in the
perilous situation in which he atat,id himself to have ben
placed--and f ow he got out again, he was totally unable
t, remember, but this he did recollect, that he went over
to Crat!-eheikii to some of his friends, wet, cold, and hu,-
grv, and inibus his hat, coat, and two waOtcoata,—New-
castle Chronicle.

The Duke of Sutherland and Lord Ronald Leveson
Gower have arrived at Stafford House, from Cliefden,
Bucks,
The Duke of Beaufort left Badminton on Monday, for
Chester, where his Grace wilt stay during the race week.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
arrived at Northumberland House, from Sion Home,
for the season.
The Marquis of Lothian arrived in town yesterday,
from Newbattle Abbey, Mid-Lothian.
The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained at dinner, on
Monday, the Countess of Morley, Lady Wm. Russell,
the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Viscount and Vie-
countess Duncan, Mrs. Lane Fox, Count Strzelecki, the
Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, the Hon. F. Byng, Mr. B.
Osborne, M.P., Mr. De Lane, and the Right Hon. J.
Bouverie, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Bouverie.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are expected
in town in a few days, from Burghley, for the season.
The Marquis of Stafford, M.P., has left town for
Manchester. The marchioness remains in town.
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers
arrived in Berkeley-square, on Monday evening, from
Oakley-park, near Cirencester, the Earl Bathurst's seat,
where the countess made a short stay on their way to
town from Devonshire. The noble earl has come to
fown from Middleton-park.
The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr. Har-
court, M.P., have been entertaining during the past
week, at Strawberry-hill, the following company :—His
Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de
Weyer, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Countess de
Flahault, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Mr. G. E.
and Lady Selina Vernon, Viscount Chelsea, the Bishop
of Oxford, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord and Lady
John Russell, Mr. Ralph Sneyd, Mr. Chichester For-
tescue, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Colonel and Mrs.
Malcolm, Mr. Grenfell, and Mr. William Harcourt.
The Earl and Countess Manvers are expected in
Portman-square, on Friday next, from Thoresby-park,
Notts, for the season.
The Earl of Lonsdale, who arrived in town a few
days back from Paris, has since gone to Lowther Castle,
Westmoreland.
The Eail and Countess of Yarborough have arrived
in Arlington-street, from the Continent.
The Earl of Powis arrived in town on Monday, from
Walcott House, Shropshire. The Countess of Powis
and Lady Lucy Herbert have also come to town.
The Earl Granville, President of the Council, will
preside at the ceremony of conferring degrees in connec
tion with the University of London, which takes place
to-day. The noble lord was elected Chancellor of the
University upon the resignation of the Earl of Burling.
ton some time since.
Viscount Palmerston will give a State dinner to the
members of the House of Commons, at Cambridge
House, this evening. Her ladyship will " receive" on
Saturday, the 16th inst., and on the following Saturday.
Lord and Lady Cochrane have arrived on a visit at
Mr. Mackinnon's mansion, in Hyde-park-place.
Lord and Lady Churchill have arrived at the St.
George's Hotel.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Coventry and family have
arrived at their residence in Belgrave-square for the
season, from Melton Mowbray.
Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevill have arrived in Gros-
venor-street from Dangstein House, near Petersfield.
Mrs. W. E. Gladstone has cards out for an assembly,
on Monday next, at the family mansion on Carlton
House-terrace.
Sir Robert Peel has, we are informed, resigned his
office as Lord of the Admiralty. His brother, Mr. F.
Peel, having failed to obtain re-election, has been com-
pelled to leave the War Department, and the estimates
will be moved by Sir John Rameden, who will not, how-
ever, be able to present himself to his constituents fer
re-election until 14 days after the meeting of Parliament.
Mr. F. Peel wll, we believe, be sworn of the Privy
Council.

DEATH OF LADY ASHBURTON. —lt is with much re-
gret that we announce the death of Lady Ashburton,
which took place at Paris on Monday last. She had
passed the last winter at Nice, and had reached Paris
on her way to England, having, as it was hoped, over-
come the malady under which she sank. Lady Ashbur-
ton was the eldest daughter of the sixth Earl of Sand-
wich, and was married to the present Lord Ashburton,
then Mr. Bingham Baring, in 1823.
Sir Charles Napier, it is said, was offered the Devon-
port command by the Admiralty, bat would not give up
his Southwark constituency for it.
Mr. Monsell, it is said, will leave the Government
before long, inasmuch as his new department—the Board
of Health—is to be abolished, or rather not renewed,
alter this year, and will in future form a branch of the
Home-office, under the supervision of the Secretary of
State.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The income of
the Wesleyan Missionary Society this year is 119,2051.
Ss. 2d.
THE TEA TRADE, May s.—The deliveries in London
estimated for the week were 828,1C91b., being a decrease
of 184,3151 b. compared with the previous statement.
The 200,0001. of gold announced last week by the
Anglesey is expected to he delivered to day, but only a
portion of it will be retained. The market for silver is
heavy, and furl her private advises from Mexico confirm
the statement that the Parana, to arrive here about the
Ist of June, may be expected to bring a large quantity.
FATAL EXPLOSION. WOLVERHAMPTON, Tuesday
Evening.—At the blast furnaces of Messrs. W. Riley
and Sons, Millfields, two miles from Wolverhampton,
there occurred this afternoon an explosion of hydrogen
gas, which has caused the death of three persons, the
supposed fatal injury of a fourth, and the serious injury
of four other persons, all workpeople of Messrs. Riley.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Payne, the
coroner, held an inquest at Guy's Hospital on the body
of Mr. Joseph Gann, aged 50, who died from injuries
which he received in an accident to a Crystal Palace
train, near the London-bridge station, on Saturday, ar,
already noticed in this journal. The jury, after some
deliberation, returned a verdict of accidental death.
City of Hamilton (Canada) Six per Cent. Debenture
Bonds for 92,0001., redeemable in 18 or 19 years, have
been brought on the London market for disposal. The
amount is to be applied to the construction of the Hamil-
ton and Port Dover Railway.
Persons in America directing letters for London
should be careful to put the initial letters of tae metro-
politan dfstrict intended above the word "London,"
and not under it. A leading house in New York having
transmitted bills for 70,0001. in a letter directed
" London, W. C.," it was carried to London, Western
Canada.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A. man named Wm. Forman,
while at work last Friday repairing the premises of Mr.
Doulton's Pottery, in Lambeth, which were damaged
by fire a few weeks ago, was killed by the fall of a
piece of timber, the tackling baying broken with
which he was attempting to hoist it. up. An inquest
was held yesterday by Mr. W. Carter,, at the John
Bull Tavern, Tyers-street, Lambeth, and a verdict of
" Accidental death " returned.

An English gentleman recently incurred a fine of 600 r:
and the seizure of his cigars for attempting to pass 80
cigars without declaring them at the gates of Turin, and
the authorities were with some difficulty induced to re-
duce the fine to 50f., on satisfactory proof being given
that the gentleman had no fraudulent intentions, and
that he was in complete ignorance of the laws of Sar-
dinia on this head. It should be mentioned alio, that all
travellers are liable to have their baggage searched on
entering Turin, and the presence of cigars and tobacco
therein which have not paid duty will bring the proprie-
tor within the action of the law, although he may him-
self have purchased the articles within the Sardinian
States, the only security against which is to buy always
at the registered shops for the sale of such government
monopolies, and not from waiters or other vendors of
smuggled goods.
INSTALLATION OF AECIIDSACON MANNlNG.—Yes-
terday morning a ceremony which excited a great deal of
interest among the members of the Roman Catholic body
took place at the church of St. Mary, Moorfields, in the
preaenceof a large congregation. For some time pasttbe
Very Reverend Dr. Manning, who, bef,re he became
a priest of the church of Rome a few years since,
was a beneficed clergyman in the church of Eng-
land and Archdeacon of Chichester, hai been at

Rome perfecting himself in all the details of the
ecclesiastical systel.: of the Roman church, and has
received from the Pop 6 the appointment of a canon and
provost of the church in L-Torseforry-road, Westminster.
Yesterday morning the rev, gentlemen presented him-

self for installation-at St. Mary's, where he was received
by Cardinal Wiseman in bi+ robes, and by the priests
and other officers of the establishment. The service was
condeeted in Latin. The new provost Promised, ac-
cording to the forms of the Roman Catholic Church,

canonical otedience to "his Eminence the Cardinal
Archbishop of ‘Vestrainster," and was then formally ad-
ini:ted to the possession of his new dignities.
EXALOSION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY.—LIVER£OOL, TUESDAY.—AIymt noon this
day a I.iggage engine, named St. Patrick, wee in an
open space below the engine-house at Edge Hill, with
steam up, waiting the approach of the trucks containing
cattle from Wapping, with which it was intended to
proceed up the line, While thus' situated and every
attention was being paid in expectation of the trucks,
the boiler of the engine burst will a terrific report.
The noise of the explosion was accompanied by the
diversion of large quantities cf. coke and fire. Assis
tanco was promptly rendered, and it was then die-
covered
that the engine-driver, Joseph Ford, had been
blown away a considerable distance, was dreadful;v
mutilated, and quite dead. Further on, in the fourth
carriage from the engine, the body of Seth, the fireman,
was recognised. Ono leg was very much shattered,
the thigh bone protruding through the skin, and the
back part of his skull was broken in. Life had not
d parted, and, he was consequently removed to the
Royal Infirmary, but shortly after his reception be
breathed his last. The breaksman, or line foreman,
was dreadfully scalded, his body being blackened from
bead to foot ; he also was taken to the Infirmary, and
lies in a precarious state. Ford has left a widow and
four children, and Harrison has a wife and seven of a

family, all of whom were dependant upon the victims
of this distressing disasttr.