The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

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DI!AGAZINES, Zz.c. 1
1 '4ACK WOOD,
°Vhoed bth t industrious, the
si kdth Y e loos
living
1 ',,
hs aim secompliihed of IN 'lllw L n commenced
li,:,ll4%bireorf Iptt° ' isd
ackwoo .
,0010 ,
I vs, 'us added to the interestNomoarite:
v'gis chief of the monthly period, ici4lllalastauces this would have been
par-
1111t,Y now, after the recent aPp4 ,
Ilill mouth in. the pages of 'IL. gil
''rOtii) the moat exquisite of all
eat ;Nils of our poet-novelist.
li g Propitious, therefore, in the fact.
:ttoolteenced by the same master
111 tediste „nat.xion with that lovely
lyttlaistewrPiece It is entited simply,
ty p.'"ll Novel; or, Varieties in
tL histratus Caxton"—and promises-
t' Preseut age What was se m
Plit a ,
8 of
tEtr4,. age oy the graphic power Sir
veiti the to be the intention of
....
.115111t,00urse of these pictured " V
u Ifs' a •
of the characters
qabi,,,. , portraiture
Stsd 71ttkin ,-,
among
. his own memory
chit_
q 41341018 of this kingdom—such
'4130 ti
,r the village, the parson of the
liale,uKer, the village labourer, ac
suggestion
trlttisbstive arises out of the lttuo) his father that he should redeem
ttir,o if possible, and dissipate
I bovelist. In this performance,

tie,
/541,4111 e
ti ,: it _ try
squire, as you remember
1111 idiot,' a aPeeireen of a race worth pa.-
4:44ll'isjynserb4s.ies of which are rapidly
°( the "tog Norfolk and Yorkshire
t4itLitiott4 ',sailers of London. You can
debut iParsee, as in all essentials he
Sloy' nee %It iteteca ,„; You had to drag him out
Nt.,!gliile :Lir bog; and, for the rest, I
their 113 1101 told, many popular
qiit'4,of,,kod7stot, especially in. France, and
d
tt, ttie t Set class against class, an
11,.1011tiis 6 Kennel to shy at a gentleman
1itii:54,1503,, something useful might be
t; Bali 14' if sketches of those innocent
Ittee t 6:, than their neighbours, whom,
Xtrie take it for granted we shall..
they
IP.._ or another, as long as CLV.I-
- w'ra, on the whole, as good in
o.th. sre likely to get, shake the
11,11
these e will."
1,,.bY suggestions are carried out
Nat. Per 4
4,1841 of the nine chapters of
Rutin
Neie Ras first instalment. Squire
114tfotte h
54 ida/
,A GI; of an English landlord.
1441 and tour contrast by the beau-
,
the
680enntleness of his disposition..
~eeziedetto .of a poor widow living in
041 WOrici Is charmingly sketched as a
Dale
wi'llrg among the haymakers.
heii•,loellsal;re, akf, the clergyman, is pen-
tzett tole opening portion of the
with the good parson giving
teeth dissertation on words of en-
N:t the dear be," says Sir Edward, " the
the rt. tuPerba ; the dear pallida,
o.t ths'elr umbrosa, jiorens, or spicata.;
emit"ar horrid..." The first incl..
sitY told. The Squire is in-
Yttit eautpearance as being disreputable.
Otpti the e,,e240t have been very gratifying
tit ttaki",.° of a Justice of the peace and a
k I 10r
AtiNto the, author says—
etllho the taZt; h was worm-eaten; it was
'tio,ed by t, die; through its four socketless
4t of 4,3 nettle, peered the thistle: —the
Lltie thistl.
.hol„ „-'•—and to complete the de-
itls,.ll4-4:Luese thistles had attracted. the
Nth act '''l3!.; and the irreverent animal
thstT4tsking his luncheon out of the
(1, paring Stocks."
Ito.4italeitlf*V_,With his cane, the Squire
enon ' and falls, neck and heels, head
Ot4ts, men make thistles. The disagreeables
t'tletittle tagli be guessed on learning that he
thistle M Pair of nankeens ! Getting
tea b tab himself, the Squire calls
eKst."
aShtuit Poor , Meanwhile the Parson dis-
:l'l4lo lipo, 4441 is tormented by a swarm
‘jk‘kkketot,- sore on the shoulder. Having
‘sl"°4lt. qf With a green bough torn
ttNraisel4/3 e•heannt, Mr. Dale utters a word
eOtfit th ttAttoo •
pats° ) almost in soliloquy..
apple ~11 Put his baud into his pocket,
.
. 044' 3 Was a fine large rose-e eek 4
*lnter'g store, from the celebrated
Otiatle te„Favden, and he was taking it as. a
N"liOlelf.J.al the villa e who had notably punydis-
ttl4 the Sund g h 1 ' Nay, in corn-
yi,
:Itltet. hon. 1 hi should have the reference,'
441 hash, ass pricked up one of _
A ate pi timidly. 'But Lenny Fairfield
\IT t° Ili "14° With A, et?) ~, twopence; and whatcouthlde
"6,1144tLit „ The ass's nose now touched
"41 name of Charity,' quolh the
C.titilllkilth!lioe Pplteastrned to be served last.' And
yta Q'utir,r How had you the heart,' said
stopiA the Squire's cane.
1/41151:141 Launching, and looked askant at
ets he'll
not beat thee now!'"
:tlhl"°tchitlrikill an exquisite tone of sensi-
N L‘te; ...eg passages of Sterne are alone
again intro
Oho `4l, the donkey is • t
po
gain Y With its master, the itineran
ctliet'‘Ve ;g jolly fellow in his way,c
l4,4'l4Lttpt, tach-s he flourished his staff, an
'tt'ke °f the refrain down carne the staff on
.\44 i dooke
'N h Y• The arrangement of the
11114,, 'etinhe'4ed up in the most comic manner,
.o r
tti,),Nt /id went behind and sung, the donkey
d
tt),Stjt (iiat as thwacked." Dr. Riccabocca an
~(11a° are other characters not yet
01‘,_° nevertheless promise to figure
k),411." It a - lee narrative. From our remarks
IL, go
tb utZe;„_
'tutly clear that we augur " splen-
-01411 Brow4j the
, k „„dnew novel begun by Sir Bulwer
liteirit''')Lltsit„-: Our observations upon this
4tt-49 exten",'ion to the number for September
rilleitthatt -th'ed so far as to preclude us. ifersom
4%. 141,Itial erely. allude to the other ar m _
WNI tj'eei,:2tsWillch, the last, is an estimate f
o'9:14)) % lait't"?ently from the hand of Archibald
(Mtlittilt °rlsll. A paper on " Foreign
X 10;, and 4(4
• preceded by
ilvly inappropriately
w.
Iq4t.,,,',PlB?des of a Campaign in S. chles
twelfth
41144 e klreen Hand" reaches its
hErei:t,.. The "Proposed Exhibition of
uranglat under consideration ; and
ttßq„,
1/441);) ..ttirel, chapters, one on "The
.Nighto,.
for tel tad ,ad another on " The Mysteries t a nurable
'3epte„Lr. number ofßlackwood is coin-
Vet.
LAtitle t PENTLEY.
til° Which all the readers of Bentley, for
OtttuSytt°onftillts‘vill first turn is the one entitled
ttp4l4l'latetc iloYal Exile," by Adolphe. d'Hou-
ktotsligt tltree Y Leon Besson. It is a history of
Y, of Lo
3', 18 aLs Philippe, during the last week
4i3 from the moment he left Paris,
" UMr wotild say, to that in
ii.Llttlte tooe
ts
Brough have said--
404 `ols island' in the name of Smith."
the Non w
ilt tAt, mid es.l the companion of Louis. Philippe
k;ttiVtlieg this article may be considered as
14tke-qtli I:'wn account of his journey. It is illusi-
lttoitt/ttherkl„sfe:like portrait of Louis Philippe. We
it fof kreat
"Cable portrait in this month's Bentley,
tl)stell and glorious Lablache, in the
.chi arac-
nd
Qlt4l spirit, It It is by Alfred Crowqml , a
't 444' A third illustration is to Robert
lltlttle*" *e :testing story, "The Ladder of Gold,"
'st eye the conclusion of the fifth and the
4te °f
ht~hrry e sixth book in the present number.
ati es
b; En sk at the beginning of the end. Lord
Iht"4tory has discovered some rtion of the
`414.1.R4:1..,4411:`,a11aw1ing5, and threatens. him with
Litt tt, hi Iv tnston, who, in an interview with
ha.. 4 aa,certained that' the memorable letter
Laldresse ltitttitt I,sapiare dto her before her marriage
ties ased, endeavours to excite Lord
it%ll4.shle-nrldet.,°,anger, failing in which he strikes
do
lth, ii.LL Lord, and throwing his card at him,
consequence of this attack will no
ap-"tit-411t4 ge-ts 141 the next number. Mr. Willie
attack well deserved castigation for his
4‘"a •.011
114ty the -I.oung Italy ;" we fully agree in the
b isot.a reviewer, who says., "we close thi s
I,4VelUrne somewhat disgusted with Ding.
kLst tliSr i• a alight nausea for Pio Notlos and
N, tlg ish of
at:l' .1 Young England," of which. last
btat al he Cochrane may be considered the
4 oh ,
,;;Ni to • phi reactionaries have always
.en
-me ,;,‘,ltn,si east the opprobrium of the assassina-f
tlter of °!1 the Republicans ; the evidence o,
tet4t, s,ho this review of Mr. Baillie Cochra?e s
'ltioe Was resident at Rome at the time, is a
h thti this
Pe%, even
_, ea utnny so complete, that we doubt
okt, clerical mendacity will again venture to
EN' alm -•Y
itt 7 lOW cautoient took place on the l 6th of Sep-
ilkeb°.okiery,"lKK doorn.:d to last exactly two months.
111 l'eriod do we remember than this unnatural
hit, tie fell Stery of
hotetto lend. modern Rome. The man had not
dartedars b4l'ttclett hT" Jesuits hated him as an infidel,
'eld aloof from him, the nobility ab-
,tLest°c tershrt two cardinals out of the fifty had ever
';gttlp„P°Ptliats coalmen civility with him, and t;) the
P4arty be
svas in utter abomination. [lia
1112 4t hul been haughty enough when
.merely
Phili
hthi•w:li came „,, [-Pe, and agent of the doctrinaire
b- -.Parve -'erlY unbearable as prime ultuist.euri•
htgheat 44 Pride in keeping Prince B.arberi_,
ta • his hioed of Rome, for hours waiting midi 6 tlh :pit a
toll4-4A,,t;-- oClll4i-patior. His von had becionusoemsoe otvheart-,
I,.cirder josui ve to th,-• young nobles o
Iltah n tand refusing to tight,
the -'1%(14 Ofd tawn and he went off for service in
his tattier had.
thi
41l4etilt !act: Cochrane talks of Bosses en-
lira nt of greed 11 independence, devoting his child o. n
tom,atkeWlliatOshg7e4
Lhill • The man would laugh at the
ii ..dameas that. lie had long out-
e before us a letter from h.i.:ento.
aht mf 111 which he says—J'adore lips
...X OUP • 7 .

concludes :
" Perhaps we have been wasting space in disproving
Mr. Alison's scholarship. There are blunders
the s
much
a nature, that one of them instantly betrays
of ere
superficial reader of the classics. At page 45 this
volume we find the following specimen of Mr. Alison 'S
Latinity, which, in a re-edited essay cannot be set down
as an error of the press. Mr. Alison's words are: ' When
the Mantuan bard wrote
Soaps exiguus mus
Sub terrain posuit domes atque horrea fecit.'
" The writer who can toist such a hideous falseh bequ
•
tity upon Virgil, needs no elaborate refutation, wen
dabbles dogmatically with classical literature."
The " Inedited Letters" of Mrs. Piozzi are continued.
The present batch relates to the publication of her
anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. Mr. W. Cooper gives us
an interesting paper on the " Snakes and Serpent
Charmers at the Zoological Gardens," and in he
course of it states that he was informed by the elder
of the snake-charmers, that the reptiles used by them
in their exhibitions are deprived of their poison fangs
before they are exhibited. This at once explains the
whole mystery of snake-charming. The other ar-
ticles in this month's Bentley are.
above the usual
-y
e. It an excellent number.

averai

THE NE MONTHLY.
Besides additional chapters of " Hester Somerset"
and of " Anatole de Sails," the New Monthly is en-
livened by more of the comical adventures of
" Soapey Sponge." A delightful paper on " The
Empress Josephine's First Court" contains some
most entertaining anecdotes in relation both to her Im-
perial Majesty and to the Emperor Napoleon. In his
latest " Sung of the Months," J. E. Carpenter, one
of the most graceful of living lyrists, tells us why
he loves September. All sorts of musinga gossip
are, as usual, crammed into th te-book
of the Habitué." Those who delight in travelling
without the trouble of leaving their arm-chair, may
do so in imagination readily by scanning the con
on
tributions on " Chiva, Tartary, and Thibet,"
"Kreuznach Spa," and on "The Boundary Commis-
sions in Canada." A review of the remarkable work
lately produced by Dr. Knox is entitled "The War
of Rices." Of genuine magazine articles, light
sparkling papers capable of being perusede Magic
with an
evanescent pleasure, there are three, Th
Mize," "The Great Little," and " The Hinging
Saddle." These, with a sagacious article by Dr.
Hamilton, of Plymouth, on the " Advantages and
Practicability of Forming a Junction btween the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans," and some miceellaneous
notices of literature, make up the contributions to the
current number of the Nets Monthly.

AINSWORT II S.
Three additional cha
endptersle Forest,r" Tof M. H
hearrLaisonncashire
Ains-
worth's romance P
Witches," introduces the reader t ) the Executioner, to
Wiswell Hall, and to the Holehouses. Other divided
novels of a romantic character are continued, such as
" Valdarno," " The Confederates," and " Jacob Van
der Neessi." Besides which we ea`hav Romance of
Reality," a sailor's yarn called ``Rattlin the Reefer's
Dream," and a love story entitled " Isabella Burton."
Duncan Craig contributes a " Legend of the Timo-
net," and E. P. Rowseil an essay on " Bullies and
Hypocrites." These, with other minor contents,
render Ainsworth even more than usually attractive.

no; 4rIIIIC

LONDON,

" Order and ,esurity for life and prop, -sty had never walls and airy rod sprang upwards in silence. Though
ceased to preveil since the re.-:cession of tile new Pope. the. weakness of
.mati was unable to copy the per et
Rossi's appointment vres this fir murder end rob • stillness with which the planets move slung their spheres,l
berg to recommence througheut the Papal Stetes.' We with which the tides ebb and flow, the treee'and plants
live iin the city and heard with alarm every morning bud and blossom; still, so far as human itigenuity cen!d
the night's disaster'. Now it was an ol i advocate who aid.
.humen weakness, the earthly deeliiig-plece of the
had been murdered, and his house robbed: next it was Divine glory was disturbed by no harsh and ear piercing
Mat:bean, the English banker, who bringing 4,000 doi- clamours;
.no mighty sound awoke the echoes of its
Lars to R had been waylaid outside the gate to Civita courts until the voice o‘ praise and thank-givieg came
Vecchia. Then it was Mr. Macpherson, the well-known forth from the throng of worshipping Israelites."
artist, whose apartments, in the densest part of the city, "Such," says the writer, " was the rise of the tem •
had been entered and cleared of 200/. worth of valnables. poral power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ." The
comprehensive " Ecclesiastical Register," at the con-
People dreaded an application
.to Ressi for redress or
friendly interfereace as an o.,mico
.de Rossi,' but, in the elusion of the magazine, contains allusions to the mi-
language of insurance companies, a lift &hub!), hazardous.
racle at Rimini, to the imprisonment of Monsignor
The parliament of laymen crested by Pio Nono, such as Franzoni, and to' the elevation of Bishop Wiseman to
it was, having been prorogued, the public voice could
the Cardinalate.
find no other exponent. The premier, who wrote news-
paper articles himself, would not tolerate other jour-
nalists in reply. He wanted to suppress Punch' (Don
Pirlone) for caricaturing him, but when he viewed him-
self depic with desperate charcoal' on every stale
gate he satew dit was useless, and braved unpopularity with
unblushing front.
" One of the most exasperating of his bravadoes
against the Romaus, and which snore than all his accu-
mulated sins in the estimation of those who marked at
the time the beating of the public pulse, a std watcheil the
current of the town feeling, sealed his doom, was an
de
-
ar-
ticle from his pen against Carlo Alberto, whom, un
the insulting term of 11 RI &band() or Le Roi Savoyard,
he attempted to denigrate in the most odious colours.
We marked the furious eye and ginture of the Univer-
sity students engaged in groups in its perusal. It Rossi
had ventured but on that single act we felt at the time
that he had done quite enough is the prevalent excite-
ment. He had snuffed himself out by an a: ticle.'
" But the chamber of lay deputies, such as it was, had
to be met on the 16th of November. Not a single sup-
porter could he count on in the Senate House, though
composed exclusively of men chosen for property, lo altyy
to the Pope, and freedom fcom merely popular tendencies.
He called in, heaven knows why, from various country
barracks, seven hundred Carabineers, a force like the
mounted gendarmerie of France. These men he actu-
ally harangued iu person the night before his death,
calling on them to act against the people in the event of
any disturbance. Tne ten thousand Natienel Guards
heard in the morning that the city was not considered
by Rossi in sufficiently safe keeping without a garniture
of regular troops. Every shopkeeper who shouldered a
firelock took this as a personal insult. The frantic fury
with which ,in Juvenal, Tacitus, and Suetonius we find
this same Roman people gloating over the strangled
body of Sejanus is merely proof that human nature is
not changed, and if the same causes produce the same
effects after the lapse of centuries, it is sheer folly to lay
the blame on Republican principles."
Alison's fallacies anent the fall of ancient Rome,
which be attributes to the free importation of corn,
are exposed in a most complete manner—not only his
politico-economical fallacies exposed, but also his pre•
tensions to classical scholarship. The writer thus

THF: ECLECTIC REVIEW.
Apart from the religious controversy raised in the
Eclectic in reference to Foxton, Froude, and New-
man," apart even from the purely geographical papers,
such as the review on Aubrey de Vere's " Sketches
of Greece and Turkey," and another on Byam's
" Western Republics of America," there are subjects
of peculiar interest brought under discu,sion in the
present distinguished periodical. A concluding no-
tice of the recent edition of " Pepys's Diary and
Clrresponience,"edited by Richard Lord Bray brooke,
will be read of course with undiminished curiosity,
and being read, will be relished. Scarcely justice is
dine to the elegant and classic drama of " Toe Virgin
Widow," by Henry Taylor; but full and ample
praise is awarded to that i xquisite volume, " In
Memoriam," to which we have already ourselves
given the creed of our admiration. The critic
in the Eclectic is evidently one competent to appre-
ciate poetry of that pure and elevated character. A
memoir of Dr. Hugh Heugh is commented upon with
evident predilection. Together with a capital paper
on " Building Societies," we have also in the
Eclectic Review an article on the punishment of
death, and a summary of the last session of Parliament.

IN MEMOR IAM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sat,—A correspondent in your paper of Saturday
draws the attention of tour readers to what he con-
ceives an error in the title of Mr. Tenn:.-:son'.s work,
saying that it ought to he " In Memor:a," as
except in a few instances, governs the ablative c2sP.
This, however, is one of those instances. 111, with an
ablative case, signifies rest or position, with an accu-
sative motion or direction, bodily or mental. Here
the object to which the poetry is directed is the me-
mory of some one, therefore " In Memoriam" is
right. I would refer your correspondent to the titles
of several of Horace's Odes and Epodes—" In cani-
diam veneficarn," Epod. iv. "On or to Canidia the
Witch." "In Mcevium poetam," Epod. x. "On or
to the Poet Mcevius." To this I may add that monu-
ments to the deceased are inscribed " In Memoriam,
and not " In Memoria."

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Sept. 2, 1850. CANTAB.

BURIALS IN LONDON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—.l again intrude upon the columns of your
paper a description of the state of the graveyards of
the metropolis. "The City Bunhill Burial-ground,"
better known as the Golden-land graveyard, from the
notoriety given to it by Mr. G. A. Walker in his lec-
tures, is again open for the interment of the dead.
This graveyard is situated in one of the most thickly-
populated districts in London, in the midst of a ps,•or
and impoverished neighbourhood, which, during the
prevalence of cholera ar.d the annual epidemics, was
visited by the fatal consequences attendant on the
poisoned air produced from the burial of the dead in
crowded localities. It has been proved that the bodies
were taken from their graves and disposed of by burn-
ing or by some other means, and the coffin wood,
saturated as it must be by the liquid from the decom-
posed and decomposing corpses, caused a stench which
was felt for several hours after all through the neigh-
bourhood. The parish of St. Luke's will be found on
reference to the Registrar- General's returns
to be most unhealthy, and it may be argued that
the local graveyard system of burial is the
cause of that evil. The Act passed in the
last session of Parliament, and which was considered
by Ministers of sufficient importance for the public
benefit to call for encomiums from the Sovereign in
her speech, would seem to be a nullity, when the
Commissioners appointed, under the provisions of the
Metropolitan Interments Act, allow the graveyards
of crowded, impoverished, and sickly localities to be
opened for interments, in defiance of the law ; and as
the Act provides for land in the present suburban
cemeteries, pointing thereto as a remedy for the ex-
isting evils in the parishes of the cities of London and
Westminster. The powers of the Metropolitan In-
terments Act extend so far as to prevent all inter-
ments in the city, and to compel the interment in the
present cemeteries, where there is sufficient ground
undisposed of,until a cemetery of adequate dimensions
is prepared for the interment of the dead of this great
city. Something ought to be done to compel the
Commissioners to do their duty, if they are unwil-
ling ; and the farce of advertising for 100 acres of
ground, within twenty miles of St. Paul's,
with the perfect knowledge that such a quantity
of land in one eligible spot is not to be had,
will be no excuse for the fearful results of the neglect
of the duties imposed upon the Board of Health, as
Christians, and as servants of the Crown, to whom
they are answerable for the r.eglect. It has been re-
marked by an observer of the present plan of inter-
ment, that he knows not "how the repulsive system
of burying the dead in intramural nooks and corners,
in such grave-holes and charnel-dens as abound in
London, could ever have come into practice, or been
thus long perpetuated, and says it is explainable
upon no principle either of enlightened Christianity
or rational humanity. There is, on the contrary,
something grand and religiously consoling in the
idea that the civic generations, who in life have
dwelt together, should not in death be divided.
Community of sepulture would be a powerful stimu-
lus to a higher standard of religious and moral ex-
cellence than as yet exists; for, when the ashes of the
deceased rich and poor, of the deceased good and bad,
repose within the wall encircling one vast mausoleum
church, the living rich and poor and the living
good and bad will be desirous of hastening the day when
time shall more and more be regarded as a prepa-
ratory stage to eternity—the day when death and
the grave shall more and more be looked to as the
gate and entrance to immortality."
The burial-ground of a vast Christian metropolis
should occupy a great space in the public eye,and fill
a large place in the public heart, and I would impress
on the minds of the Commissioners, and the public at
large, the necessity there is for having a stop put to
I burials in London, and also the benefit to be derived
from the interments being made at a distance from
any inhabited locality, and in a space of ground ap-
propriated to cemeterial purposes, of vast and, exten-
sive dimensions, so as to prevent useless outlay of the
public money by keeping up separate establishments
for different cemeteries. Let, then, a space of several
hundreds of acres be enclosed for one grind cemetery
at a great distance from, but within a short time of,
London ; this will remedy the evil of disseminating
from different points or cemeteries the mephitic gas
which produces GO much disease in the locality of
every graveyard, and, above all, to hasten the closing
of those graveyards and charnel-dens in populous
localities.
Hoping that the authorities will be called upon to
inquire into the fearful miseries entailed by the
spread of sickness and destitution brought on by their
neglect, I remain, Sir, your obliged servant,
London, Sept. 2. W. H.

COURT CIRCULAR.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Jones, Mr. Perfect,
and Mr. Lewis, on behalf of the Bolton, Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway Company,
had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways
yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governor of Canada, and from
the Governors of the other North American Colonies.
Dispatches were also received yesterday from the
Governors of the West India Colonies.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ors THE RAILWAY.-MI occur-
rence took place on Saturday morning at Colchester, which,
besides the destruction of much valuable property, nearly re-
sulted in the sacrifice of human life. The scene of the catas-
trophe was on the farm of Mr. Garrad, veterinary surgeon,
through which runs the Eastern Counties Railway. It ap-
pears that there is a road-way from the above gentleman's
farm over the line to his fields on the other side, and that
since his occupation the company have erected a high en-
gine-shed just below the crossing, so that an up-train could
not be seen coming till it was close at hand. A waggon with
three horses and driver were engaged carting barley, and
were in the act of crossing' over for another load when at the
same moment the eight A.M. passenger-np train dashed into
them smashing the waggon to pieces, and dreadfully mutilat-
ing the horses. Most providentially the driver, who was
riding at the time, just before the engine struck the team,
had the presence of mind to spring to the ground, but in sto
doing, barely escaped with his life, the engine in his perilous
descent, catching the flaps of his coat and completely sever-
ing them from the garment ; one of the horses was found
under the engine, and the others lay helpless on the ground.
The passengers in the train were alarmed, and rushed shriek-
ing to the windows, but it does not appear that any were
injured.—Essex Herald.
PROPOSAL TO CONVERT THE THAMES TUNNEL
INTO A SEWER. FOR. DRAINING THE MIDDLESIX AIDE
OP
THE DIETROP;;LIS.-A proposal has been forwarded to Lord
Ebrington, as chairman of the Metropolitan Sewers Com-
mission, by Mr. James Graham Harding, a gentleman of
independent property, although a practical man, residing
in Albany-street, Regent's-park, for the conversion of the
Thames Tunnel into a means of draining the whole ofthe
Middlesex side of the metropolis, and carrying the sewage
into the main sewer of the Ravensbourne, on the Surrey side,
as proposed by the engineer of the Sewers' Commission for
the drainage of the whole south site of the river. Mr. Hat.
ding's proposal is as follows :—Let a sewer be formed along
the side of the river so as to receive all the present sewers
and drains into it which are above and below the Thames
Tunnel; next make two sewers along the bottom of the
Thames Tunnel to the Surrey s'de, emptying themselves into
the intended main sewer proposed to be made, according to
the plan of Mr. Frank Forster. By adopting this plan it
would be making a valuable use of part of the Thames
Tunnel, and a ready way to get rid of the vast amount of
filth which at present pollutes the river Thames, to, the
great injury of the health of the inhabitants of London .
The proposal is considered by several scientific men to be
exceedingly advantageous, and it remains to be seen whet
decision the Commissioners of Sewers will come to on the

subject.
THE Lois Doti COFFEE AND EATING-MOM-
EEEPEZie ASSOCIATION.—Yeaterday evening a
of the meetiabng of e
subscribers and the committee of management ov
institution, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern for genera 1
business. The report of the society's progress was very satis-
factory. During the past half-year the committee has been
enabled to add upwards of 2001., thereby making their capital
stock in the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt now to consist of 2,449/. The balance
sheet for the past year showed the receipts from all sources
to be 4171. The expenditure left only a trifling bulance.
The report concluded with an earnest appeal to the members
of both branches of the trade to extend the society's use-
fulness.
SECESSION FROM TEE CHURCH'.--The Rev. Erra
Stewart Bathurst, rector of Kibwortb, Beaucharep, Leices-,
tershire, and formerly fellow of Merton College, Oxford, has
resigned his living, value 1,500/. per annum, and was received
into the Roman Catholic Church, on Thursday last, by the
"Very Rev. Dr. Newman, at the Ocatory, in Alcester-street,
in this town.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette.
SINGULAR VERDICT.—On Tuesday T. Lee, Esq.,
coroner, held an inquest on the body of a child at Dodsworth.
near Barnsley. It appears that a young unmarried woman,
named Hannah Stones, had been delivered of a still-born
cbild, and made no one acquainted with it for several hours
after the circumstance, which caused several reports to get
into circulation, although she had prepared clothes, &c., for
the child, and had made no secret of the matter. The jury
returned a verdict quest o use." We presume they intended
that holding an inq under those circumstances, was cf
no use.—Halifax Guardian.
NATURAL CURIOSITY.—During the present week
a pigeon belonging to Mr. Jonas Jennings of Horton, has
batched a hen's egg, and produced alive chicken; and what
makes the circumstance more strange is the fact of the
pigeon being of the masculine gender, its mate having been
shot some time ago.—Leeds Xercury.