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first part in The Waterman; but they might do so as a
matter of courtesy.
[Here both his Lordship and the Learned Counsel
complained of the intense cold which was suddenly
felt, occasioned, as it mas believed, by a blast of cold
air having been thrown into the court by the party hav-
ing charge of its ventilation.]
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS (adverting to the cold) said,
The only thing we regret, my Lord, is that we have not
the Reid hero to be shaken by his own wind.---(Loud
lati,?hter.)
Mr. Fenton resumed—Did not know that Miss Har-
land was a lady of considerable personal attractions; he
left others to judge of the t.—(Laughter.)
William Stokes, the call-boy at the theatre, proved
Chet on the night in question, when Miss Harlard refused
to play, he eelivered a message from either Mr. )110-
dox or Mr. Fenton to Miss Harland that the music si as
taken out of the part of Wilhelmina, and that she
consequently refused t i appear in the part.
Miss Julia Murray—I am an actress. I was at
Sadler's Wells Theatre on the afternoon t f the 17th
April last, and saw the plaintiff there. I had previously
seen the name of Miss Harland in the bills of the
Princess's Theatre tLat day to play 'Wilhelmina. Mr,
Hoskins seemed very much astoaistied at that comma.
nication.

Mr. Frederick Mellon—l am an actor. I saw Mr.
Hoskins on the day Miss Harland was to play
Wilhrlreina at the Princess's, and accomi anied him
to his house, when Mr. Hoskins told his wife she was to
oppear in the part at the Princess's that night, the part
of Wilhelmina. She was very much surprised, and then
wrote a note to Mr. Maddox.
Cross— rxamined—The plaintiff's wife is the daughter
of Henry Wallack. She some years ago played Kitty
in the farce of Shocking Events, at Sadler's Wells.
Mr. B.UMPHREY thought it a shocking event that she
should have done so—(Laughter)—but could not per-
ceive how that could affect the matter in issue.
His LORDSHIP was of the Same opinion.
Mr. Richard Marsh—l am a performer. My theatrical
name is Henry Marston. I call the Waterman a musical
farce. I never knew the part cf Wilhelmina in it played
without music—l mean without Wilhelmina singing in
the part.

Cross-examined—Believed when a new song was sub-
stituted for an old one in a piece, such new song was
previously submitted to the revision of the Lord Cham-
berlain. Had known the " Marseillaise" introduced into
a piece without the Lord Chamberlain being consulted.
Miss llalkett Rafter—l am a prima donna. I have
never played Wilhelmina in the Waterman, but it has
been played by many prima donnas. I never knew it
played without the music; certainly by no lady of posi-
tion. lam now prima donna at Drury-lane.
Cross-examined—There was no grand opera played
at Drury-lane at present. I have played in musical
pieces at Drury.lane this season. I have played in Bob
Roy three times this season, and the musical part in the
Merchant of Venice. Guy Mannering has not been
played at the theatre this season, but it has been in re-
hearsal, and I took the part of Diana Vernon.
:[(The case was proceeding when our report left.)

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A respectably attired young man, whose name did not
,ranspire, was charged with creating a disturbance in
Parliament-street.
The police-constable who had him in custody stated
that between one and two o'clock this morning he was
on duty in Parliament-street, when he observed the
prisoner knocking violently at a public-house door, and
upon asking him what hes wanted, the prisoner replied,
"a night's lodging." He made a great noise, and being
rather the worse for liquor, he was taken to the station,
having refused to go home. At the station he broke the
lock off the cell door.
Mr. HALL—What are you? Prisoner—l am no
trade. lam independent.
Mr.llAnn—What have you to say to the charge? Pri-
soner—l was knocking for a friend with whom I had
been drinking, but I was not drunk.
Mr. HALL fined him 40s. or eight days' imprisonment.
The fine was paid.
A lad named Williams was charged with picking a
gentleman's pocket of a silk hankerchief.
The offence was committed on Sunday, between one
and two, in the Strand. The prisoner way, however,
not caught in the act, but he was seen to drop the hand-
kerchief; and before ho could escape he was in the cus-
tody of a policeman. At the station he gave his age as
10 years
Mr. HALL now asked him how old he was, and he re-
plied 15. When he said he was 10 years he had for-
gotten that he was older.

The officer stated that he had been in custody before
for stealing a jar cf pickles. Be was then sentenced to
three days' imprisonment with a private whipping.
Mr. HALL observed that the latter part of the sentence
accounted for his now changing his age. Whipping was
a punishment inflicted on offenders under 12 3 ears.
The prisoner admitted the offence, but said he would
not do it again if he was let off this time.
He was fully committed for trial.

MARLBRO*-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
POT STEALING.—lienr,y Clark was brought before
Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing two pint pots, the
property of Mr. John Wyatt, landlord of the Matquis
of Granby, Brick-street.
Saunders, 70 C, stated that yesterday morning, about
eight o'clock, he was on duty in Park-lane, when ho
saw the prisoner, whom he knew to be a notorious pot
stealer, coming towards him with something bulky
sticking from his breeches► pocket. On catching eight cf
witutss the prisoner ran away into St. Jameb':..-parlr.
Witness followed him and took him into custody, and on
searching him he found the two pots produced in his
coat pocket. He subsequently went to Mr. Wyatt, who
identified the pots as his property.
The prisoner, in defence, said he saw tho pots lying
in the middle of the road, and he picked them up for the
purpose I f conveying them to the owner.
Mr. BINGHAM, who doubted the prisoner's tale, com-
mitted him fur trial.

11, 1860

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
WLdnesclity the 6th two votes connected
with one and the same subject took place, which pos-
sess importance, and may usefully be explained. On
a motion for a Select Committee to inquire into
grievances in Ceylon, Mr. D'lsraeli moved an Amend-
ment by which the House should "express its disap-
probation of the manner in which her Majesty's
Government have evaded the understanding of last
session " for the production of witnesses. Mr. Bright
took the lead in stating, that the question had not
been brought to a point where it was proper to ask
for a vote of censure on the Government; and the
Liberals in general followed him, leaving the Amend-
ment in a minority cf 68 against 140. Immediately
afterwards, Mr. Hume proposed to add to the original
question a summons to witnesses froth Ceylon to
attend the said Committee, and the motion was only
lost by 100 against 109. A sufficiently significant
warning that there is a freling on the general subject
which it is wisdom to attend to.
On Thursday motion was made by Mr. M`Gregor
for forming the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea,
Fulham, and Hammersmith, into a Parliamentary
borough, to return two Members to Parliament, to
fill up the vacancy caused by the disfranchisement of
Sudbury. Nobody can tell whether the opposition to
it was serious, or meant for a sportive imitation of a
classical composition known under the title of the
"Noodle's Oration." If Kensington, &c., why not
Knightsbridge; and if Knightsbridge were admitted,
why not Turnham Green ? And were the people of
Kensington, &c., such as it was most desirable to ad-
mit into the representation ; were they of the caste of
man, &hundred and twenty thousand of whom ought
to be-Omitted to the same power in Parliament as
three hundred in an agricultural borough ? Were
they not, notoriously men given to "pribbles and
prabhles,' much in the habit of discussing in parish
meetings, and presenting anything but a guarantee
for the preservation of " order " and good govern-
ment ?
There is no answering such reasons but by falling
back upon the general question. The time cannot be
far off, when it will 1:e discovered that a man is a
man, and as such has a right to be represented, with
•
out leaving to some mysterious tribunal to decide
whether twenty Members of his sending shall count
for one, or fifty, or ten. The question may, if
chosen, be separated from that of the extension of
the suffrage. Assume any criterion of suffrage that
may be named; and the question is, whether after
that, the representatives are to be classed by twenties-,
or fifties, or tens, to balance one of some favoured
kind. In all this, who is to be Grand Regulator ?
Perhaps we shall be told, it must be those who at
present have the power. It may be so; but this is
only a reason why means should be used to snake
those who have the power, reform.
On Friday Lord John Russell made his declaration
on the intended colonial policy of the Government.
If words are things, it is impossible that such a speech
should not have weighty results ; for even if they
were not intended to be true, no man could get out
of such words and their consequences. It was not
possible to hear such an address, without at all
events a lively feeling of the distance to which we
have got from the old days of cant and prejudice,
when nations were governed by the tinkling cymbals
of party cries and national sillinesses. Not a word of
British Supremacy, nor Colonial Dependency, nor the
Anglo-Saxon race. "Mr. Mother-Country " must
have been in despair, at hearing a discourse from a
Minister so stripped of all he had held dear. It is
not too much to believe, that we may have here the
commencement or the marked advance of a system,
ending in making this country the source and origin
of free communities, which shall hold its name in re-
spect, though time and change should even obliterate
the soil men called the father-land.
The colonies are to have representative constitu-
tions, with limitations and deductions in some few
instances, which it is difficult to quarrel with when
there is such a great disengagement of good upon
the whole. And they are, moreover, to have the
power of altering their constitutions under certain
rules, if the present do not work. One point which
will be highly interesting to many within this
country is, that it is to be constitutional law in all
the colonies, that the aborigines are to be "True-
born Englishmen," as fast as they comply with cer-
tain provisions, the principal of which are understood
to be, that they shall read and write English and
have a house. The declaration of the Government
on this subject, in reply to question asked, was
made with clearness and good-will. There is some-
thing more magnificent in this than ordinarily illu-
mines the routine of public business. England
stretches out her hand, to be the guide to the less
favoured portions of the human kind, without distinc-
tion of complexion, form, or race, in moving from the
ills of barbarous to the blessings of civilized life, as
herself was led when her tattooed and painted sons
were taught to emulate the sciences and arts of Rome.
It may be that more hangs by this than meets the
eye. What if the struggle for and against the
permission of Slavery, should within the life-time of
our children he the turning-point of England's politi-
cal existence ? Are we not daily outraging the insti- '
stations of a strong and growing country, which
knows no good but Slavery, and feels the
" Slaves cannot breathe in England" a standing inva-
sion of its hearths and homes ? And have not the
descendants of our negro-drivers promised, within
the duration of existing lives, to have fifty thousand
men drawn up behind the Horse Guards, and shift
the flag at Windsor Castle ? Of course the first
stipulation for peace would be, the legalisation of
Slavery in England, and particularly in Ireland,
where the peasantry are getting ready for the latest-
born of modern philosophy the " beneficent whip."
Greater things have grown out of less cause. In the
meantime, go we on ; and God be with the right.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER
London, 11th Feb., 1850.

NO."
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)
Would ye learn the bravest thing
That man nun ever do?
Would 3 e bean uncrowned king,
Absolute and true?
Would ye seek t) emulate
All we learn in story,
Of the moral, just, and great,
Rich in real glory ?
Would ye lose much bitter care
In your lot ['Wow?
Bravely speak out when and where
'Tis right to utter No."

Learn to speak this little wcrd
In its proper place—
Let no timid doubt be heard,
Clothed with sceptic grace.
LE t thy lips, without disguise,
Boldly pour it out;
Though a thousand dulcet lies

Keep hovering about.
For bo sum our hierts would lose
Future years of woe,
If our courage could refuse
The present hour with " No."

When Temptation's form would lead
To somo plcaiant wrong—
When she tunes her hollow reed
To th© syren's song—
When she offers bribe, and smile,
And our conscience feels
There is nought but shining guile
In the gifts she deals,
Then, oh! then, let courage rise
To its strongest flow;
Show that ye are bravo as wise,
And firmly answer "No."

Hearts that are too often given,
Like street merchundise—
Hearts that like bought slaves are driven
In fair freedom's guise.
Ye that poison soul and mind
With perjury's foul stains,
Ye who let the coil world bind
In joyless marriage chains,
Be true unto yourselves and God,
Let rank and fortune go;
If love light not the altar spot,
Let Feeling answer "

Men with goodly spirits blest,
Willing to do right,
Yet who stand with wavering breast
Beneath Persuasion's might,
When companions seek to taunt
Judgment into sin;
When the loud laugh Nu would daunt
Your better voice within,
Oh! be sure t'e'll never meet
More insidious foe;
But strike the coward to your fee,
By Pveasen's watchword "No."

Ah, how many thorns we wreathe,
To twine our brows around,
By not knowing when to breathe
This important sound.
Many a breast has rued the day
When it reckoned less
Of fruits upon the moral " Nay"
Than flowers upon the " Yes."
Many a sad tcpentant thought
Turns to " lung ago,"
When a luckless fste was wrought
By want dtaying " No."

Few have learnt to speak this word
When it should be spoken,
Resolution is drferred
Vows to virtue broken,
More of courage is required
This one word to say,
Than to stand where shots are fired
In the battle tray.
Use it fitly, and yell see
Many a lot below,
May be schooled and nobly ruled
By powert o utter " No."

FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION
STOURDRIDGE, SATURDAY.—A shocking colr
explosion, attended with the loss
ef four - lives, lie
haaty
happened this week at the Dudley-wood coal it at
the Five Ways, near this town' belonging to Messrs.
Pargeter and Darby, in reference to which an.
inquiry was commenced on Friday before the
coroner. The circumstances of the explosion
are somewhat singular, and mayO be attributed
to the effects of the hurricane of Tuesday .
The pit is 120 yards deep, and
below the coal isnight
an
iron mine, one engine working both mines, there
being a separate shaft for each, though the are
connected with each other below the surface.y A
skip was descending. the coal abaft at the time of the
explosion, and was hurled out to an extraordinary
of it falling at a distance height in the air by
ance th
someexplosion, soe portions
o f one hundred yards
from the mouth of the
pit. In co
it of
the' rush of the foul air from the pit it w uence
as some
time before any person could descend into the
mine. lt should be explained that
are ventilated in connexion, an opening being mad the two minese
between them by which the fresh air was passed
from the coal mine into the iron mine, and then
passed outward. The explosion had by some un-
accountable process of nature reversed these cur-
rents of air, and this being discovered, an intrepid
fellow, named John Webb, descended the zron
shaft, and climbing into the coal, mine, with a
in his band, was the instrument of
edi
ss ta av safetyt i
eng
of
fsa several
auusntfioorntunilaltethme inpeirts. wohthoerwees
roan:::
Webb, and the miners were got out before midnight,
though four of them—named Joseph Warwick, a
youth named Griffiths (son of the superintendent,
who was also in the mine, and was blown some dis-
tance), and two brothers named Webster7—were
killed. Most of the men (fourteen in number)
who survived were burnt ; Griffiths, the sitpen.
tendent, has . received some very serious injurriies,
and is in a precarious state. The cause of the acei-
dent can only be surmised, though it is pretty clearly
traceable to the effect of the high south-west wind of
Tuesday evening. The workings of the mine extend
in a southerly direction from the shaft, and it is
thought that the fire commenced about midway be.
tween the shaft and the head of the workings,
near a " bolt hole" leading to an old working
now dammed off, where an inequality in the
roof of the mine would allow of some little
accumulation of the vayour, undeteeted. The pit is
occasionally liable to be-eketried with sulphur; some
bur or five years ago eleven men were killed in it by
a similar explosion. It appears that when the wind
is in a southerly direction, or shortly before a fall of
rain, sulphur accumulates in the pit, and then safety
lamps are used, though at other times the miners
work with naked lights, and this was the case wile;
the explosion took place. It is supposed that the high
wind disturbed the foul air from some branches of old
workings, supposed to be securely dammed up, and
thus escaping to the place were the men 'were at
work with naked candles the explosion took
ebpee.

BALLOONS FOR THE CONVEY.
ANCE OF INTELLIGBNCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF 2hE stay.
SlR,—Can you furnish such of your readers in.
terested in the recent balloon experiments with some
particulars as to the size of the balloons, the material
of which they were made, and kind of varnish used ;
the weight of a balloon in its flaccid state, and ita
available buoyancy when inflated ; the means of in-
flation, and weight of gas : also the means of infla-
den proposed to be adopted in the Arctic regions, the
sort of slow match used, its weight per yard, and rata
of burning ?
'Would it not be well to set the balloons free from
an open field, and under a condition of a strong breeze
of a velocity of at least SI een miles per hour? The
balloons in a flaccid state could be taken to a conve-
nient station and there be inflated under the lee of a
canvass screen; the gas for their inflation could be
conveyed in a gas-holder, a large bag of some .two
hundred cubic feet, rendered air tight by a suitable
varnish (perhaps gutta percha would be found to
answer well); the gas can be condensed, so that
a large quantity may be conveyed in a compact form
I am, Sir, &c.
NAUTICUS.

February 9, 1850.

DIAMOND DUST.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
Good newspapers are the only paper currency that is
worth more than gold or silver.
Nowhere —a place where no one ever has been, nor
ever will be.
Instruct your son well, or others will instruct him ill.
No chili goes altogether untaught. Send him to the
school of wisdom, or he will go himself to th. rival
academy, kept by the lady with the cap and bells. There
is alwa)s teaching going on of some sort, just as in fields
—vegetation is never idly.
There are more fools than knave% in the world, else
the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
To live is a gift; to die is a det t.

It is a sign of wisdom to be willing to receive intiroo.
tion: the most intelligent surnetimes stand in need of it.
lie who is reckless of the Future must have had a
desperate Past.

c.
aciotHE OF A ComPOSlTOß.—Yesterday Morning,
about hall-past ten o'clock, a man named John Walker,
a compositor, who for some time plat has been lodging
at the Angel and Crown, LleJdon-street, Regent-strvet„
committed a most determined act of suicide by cutting
his throat with a ri'x It appears that the deceased
was separated from his wife, and latterly had given any
to drinking. Yesterday, while labourii.g under delirium
tremens, he iseizA hold of a razor, and before Mr. Davis,
the landlord of the house, could prevent him, drew it
across his throat from ear to ear, inflicting a frightful
gash. Assistance was immediately procured, and the
unfortunate man was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospi-
tal, where he died shortly after his admission.
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors of
this company have just issued their half-yearly re-
port, which will he srnbmitted to the shareholders
at the general half-yearly meeting, at Skipton, on
Wednesday next. This document states that thirty-
nine miles of the line are now open for traffic, and
that the directors have every reason to believe that the en-
tire line from Skipton to Lancaster will be opened in the
first week in June next. The arrt ars on calls have
been reduced since the last half-yearly meeting by
16.0004 The Isurplus land of the company is to be
offered for sale at the earliest opportunity. The
traffic on this lino being in a greet measure dependent
on two trunk liner, punctuality and certainty in the
working are most essential, and to ensure this the
directors strongly recommend the laying down of
a double line of rails from Skipton to Clapham, at a
further outlay cf 45,000/. It is proposed to borrow this
amount, the directors being prepared to do so on their
own personal security, provided the shareholders will
empower them to make further calls on the old shares,
should it become necessary to do so, in order to repay
their loans. Only 8,446 shares of the preference stock
have been taken, and as the directors hope to borrow
money at a lower rate, it is now proposed to restrict the
issue to this number of preference shares. The capital
account shows an expenditure, up to the 31st December,
1849, of 760,916/. 113 s. W. The traffic returns show the
receipts for the half-year ending 31st December, 1849, to
have been 5,8781.45. 5d., which, with the receipts fora part
of the year, up toJuze3o, 1849, amounting to 1,4851.105.
108., makes a total of 7,3631. 15s. 3d. The expenses for the
same periods ate stated to be, up to June 30, 1849, 6581.
14 s . Odd., and for the half-year ending
leavingDecembera balance
last,
4.0191. 18s. 3id., total, 4,678/. 14s, Odd.,
(1 profit of 2,685/. 28. I Id., applicable, we presume, to
dividend.—Leeds Mercury.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons gave his first Parliamentary full dress enter-
tainment for the present session on Saturday evening,
at his residence in Eaton-square. The guests, as usual
at the first entertainment, consisted of the leading mem-
bers of the Government having seats in the lower House.
The party comprised the Right Hon. Lord John Russell,
Viscount Palmerston, Sir George Grey, Sir John.
Hobhouse, the Right Hoe. H. Labouchere, the Right
Hon. Fox Maule, Lord Marcus Hill, the Right Hon. Sir
Francis Baring, Admiral Deans Dundas, Hon. W.
Cowper, Mr. John Parker, Sir William Somerville, the
Right Hon. the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General,
Mr. Tufnell, Mr. G. C. Lewis, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr.
H. Rich, Mr. R. M. Bellew, Mr. Hawes, the Right lion.
We.e?
G .H.a)itenre,on. Lord
Lord Edward
Clarencelitz Paget,ala LordnHoward Alfred
,Ciol.the
H
Paget, and the Bight Hon. E. .Ellice. The Chan°el oriof
thethe Exchequer,Judge Ad Advocate-General,
cie.AdmiralG en
and the Hon. W. B. Laacelles were prevented from join-
erßa the el eity,igthhteHLoonr.dß.. s Advocate,
hei
owingSolicitor-General
to
hs promotion f for Scotland
to a
judgeship.
join-
ing
ntheceesspalirritry: e"arsbsdwene&reht: laid for 27.theTbnisexSt.peaker will
report on inter-
ments will be presented in a few days by the General
aidnint ensttaotne Saturday
that
Board of Health; and that the Bill for the Prevention
of Intramural Interments, prepared by them, will imme-
diately follow.
ZxTRAoRDINARY CHANGE OF FORTUNE.—Within
the past week an authentic legal announcement has been
made to Thomas Strickland, carpet-weaver, living in
Caroline-street, Kendal, that he is heir-at-law to the
estates of Miss Burns, of Cringlemire, near Bouth, Khan
died recently at Cheltenham. The valus of the real
estate is stated at 14,000/. The fortunate successor to
this property has hitherto been in poor cirdumstances.—
IVesimoreland Gazeite.
ABERDARE.— Crawshay Bayley's colliers, seeing
that the strike was not unanimous, wisely returned to
their work. Hopes are entertained of the others coming
to a settlement soon.—Cambrian.
The America, Captain Leitch, sailed from Liver-
pool on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston.
THE LATE MR. WILLIAM PATERsON.—We regret
Pater_
son was the
to have to record the death, at the age of 65, of Mr.
William Paterson, silk dyer, which took place at Her-
mitage-place,a
worthyStockbridge,citizen,
and severalonthe3lst u t
1 ti m
eldr s ie
office of Deacon and Convener of the Trades, and in
that capacity, in troublous times, rendered good service
to the cause of Reform. He took an active interest in
public affairs, and the promction of liberal views in
politics; and some of our readers may remember his
appearance in support of the late Lord Jeffrey at the
of the Reform Bill, when the
opposition, to Mr. Dauclaser
electionthen
w .b
jefecffrreeythoetopoasdsiizing
Seetaman.