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BRIGHTON.
WEDNESDAY.—We understand that Sir James Graham
intends shortly to take a house here, near to the resi-
dence of Sir R. Peel, in Eastern-terrace.
Lady Holland, Sir Thomas' Fremantle, the Dowager
Lady Brownlow, and Lord A-ylesford, are also shortly
expected for the winter. Lord Aylesford has taken a
house, and Lady Holland is in treaty for one.
Lord and Lady Francis Egerton will take their
departure from Brighton on Monday next, and Baron
Gurney, who has been staying for the last six weeks on
the Marine Parade, will leave for town in a day or two.
Chief Justice Doherty, who has been staying for
the last fortnight at the Norfork Hotel, has taken the
Regency House.
Lady Mary Leslie, and Sir Edward and Lady Knatch-
bull, arrived yesterday at the Norfolk Hotel.
The Marchioness Wellesley is staying at. the Albion
Hotel, and the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine
Villiers, at the Bristol Hotel. Lord and Lady Bridport
and Mr. and Mrs. Sergeant Channel! are also at the
Albion Hotel. The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's
have arrived in Kemp Town. The Dowager Countess
of Chichester has arrived in Regency-square, where
Lady Longford is expected in the course of the week.
The Dowager Lady Longford is also shortly expected,
to pass the winter in Brighton. Lord and Lady C.
Paulet left Regency-square yesterday, for their seat,
Wel lesbourne, Stratford- upon 'Avon.
The Countess of Cardigan returned from France last
Thursday, via Dieppe and Brighton, by the General
Steam Navigation Company's packet the Menai. On
the following day, the Company's packet, the Magnet,
brought over from Dieppe about sixty passengers, in-
cluding Count Montholon, who was taken prisoner with
Prince Napoleon, but who was included in the amnesty
recenty granted by Louis Phillippe. The Count is stay-
ing at Brighton.

The Alfignet returned from Dieppe this morning with
about sixty passengers, among whom were Sir Charles
Duff Gordon. Sir William de Bathe has also returned
from the Continent.

OPENING OF THE ROYAL
EXCHANGE.

The members of the Corporation who are to take part
in the procession have been allotted their respective
places in it, and Sir Peter Laurie is to have the control
of the procession. It will be formed ss follows :

- Police officers on horseback.
State carriages of the Sheriffs.
Carriages of the Aldermen.
State carriage of the Lord Mayor.
The two City Marshals mounted.
12 members of the Common Council in their mazarine
gowns on horseback, and with an attendant.
Sheriffs Sidney and Hunter
in their scarlet gowns and chains on horseback, each
attended by a sergeant and a groom.
The Aldermen
in their scarlet gowns, those past the chair in their chains,
on horseback, each attended by a beadle and a groom,
placed as follows :
Mr. Alderman Hooper Sir George Carroll
Mr. Alderman Johnson Mr. Alderman Wood
Mr. Alderman Farebrother Sir P. Laurie
Sir J. Key, Bart. Mr. Alderman Lucas
Sir C. S. Hunter, Bart. Mr. Alderman Gibbs
The Common Cryer on horse- The Sword bearer on horse-
back, carrying the back, bearing the cap
City mace of maintenance.
The Loan MAYOR,
in a crimson velvet robe and collar of S S, on horseback,
and bearing the City sward of state, attended by three
footmen in liveries.

His Lord Ship will immediately precede
HER MAJESTY.

The joint Committee of the Corporation and of the
Mercers' Company, attended by Mr. Tite, the architect
of the new Royal Exchange, were engaged at Mercers'-
hall to a late hour on Wednesday, in arranging the ne-
cessary preliminaries for tire reception of her Majesty.
It is understood, however, that considerable difference of
opinion existed among them with respect to several im-
portant details connected with that event, and the bal-
lotting glasses were on several points called into requisi-
tion. The tesselated pavement in the centre of the
grand quadrangle was on Wednesday completed. All ob-
structions necessary to the completion of the works were
entirely removed from the portico and the vicinity of the
grand western entrance of the Exchange, and already
workmen have commenced the arrangement of the
tables and chairs for the dejeuner, and which continued
to arrive in ran loads throughout the da). The order
issued is for the accommodation of 1,500 persons. The
pavement on the northern side of the Exchange, facing
Bartholomew-lane, is now completed, and Cornhill,
which has been for some time blocked up for the pur-
pose of laying down the wood paving, has now been
thrown open to the public. Now that the whole of the
scaffolding and other obstructions are cleared away, the
splendid encaustic painting of the Merchants'-walk ap-
pears to great advantage, and gives to the entire build-
ing a light and very pleasing •effect. The great gallery
erected on the summit of the, Bank of England, for the
accommodation of the Directors and their friends to
witness the reception of her Majesty on her arrival, is
now covered in with a thick roofing of tarpauling,
and is fast approaching completion. It is understood
that it will be fitted up with drapery, and will present a
very pleasinc, appearance. The galleries around St.
Paul's Churchyard, and all the other places along the
line of route, are also rapidly progressing, and great pre-
parations are now manifesting themselves for an illumi-
nation in honour of the event. It is now arranged that
the horses on which the Aldermen and the members of
the Gresham Committee are to ride in the procession will
be supplied from the Royal Artillery.
The Subscription-room of Lloyd's, in which, as wo
have previously stated, the royal entertainment is to
take place, is in a very forward state, most of the tem-
porary decorations having been finished. It is now in-
tended to have four tables, instead of three, as was at
first contemplated, in addition to that at which the Queen
and Prince Albert are to partake of the dejeuner. The
south end of the banquetting-room has been hung with
crimson draperies, festooned at the top in gracend folds.
There is an enormous mirror, and the royal arms sur-
mount it, denoting the place at which her Majesty is to
preside at the festive table. On each side of the large
looking-glass it is proposed to have the British standard
and ensigns. The royal table at 'the south of4d of the
room is to be on a raised flooring, so that her Majesty,
and the distinguished personages selected for the honour
of meeting the Sovereign at luncheon, shall be so
situated as to command an uninterrupted view or the
room when the whole of the company have assembled,
for it is determined there is not to be a throne or canopy
in that room, but merely two gilt state chairs for the
Quern and her Royal Consort. The doffs,
the o rr
oroenli raised
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flooring, is to be covered with rich carpeting,
be covered generally by a less costly material.
ate_rial. The
library, or reading-room, is to be appropriated as an au-
dience chamber or throne-room, in which her Majesty is
to receive the City address.

The arrangement is at length completed between
M. Laurent and Jullien for the opening of the prome-
nade ooncerts at Covent Garden. They will commence
on the 15th of November, and positively close an tho
15th of December. After that period dramatlo perform-
ances will be attempted. Wo believe a foreign company
is already engaged.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BURN
THE BARQUE HERINIES,- OF LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—Considerable sensation
was excited in Liverpool yesterday morning by a
ru-
mour, for which, unfortunately, there was but too
much foundation, that an attempt had been made by
one of the crew, named Henry Brown, without any
conceivable reason, to burn the barque Hermes, Capt.
Donough, about nine miles off Holyhead. This fine
first-class vessel, 241 tons, the owners of which are
Messrs. Tayleur and-Co., general merchants, of this
town, sailed from Liverpool on Friday last for Buenos
Ayres ; and, when the dreadful attempt to destroy
her had been made, about six o'clock on the morning
of Sunday, she was put about and brought back to
Liverpool, where she arrived on Monday afternoon.
Brown, who is a native of Sweden, and an athletic
fellow, of middle age and ordinary height, was imme-
diately given into custody, and brought before Mr.
Rushton yesterday for examination. He was dressed
in a blue pilot cloth coat, spoke English tolerably well,
and was undefended.
The first witness examined was a sailor on board
the Hermes, of the name of Parry, who said :
About half-past six o'clock on Sunday morning
last, I saw the prisoner rummaging about the
forecastle. He took a box of matches out of one of
the chests, and tore a leaf out of a book. He took the
leaf out of a book belonging to a seaman named Lamas;
and he also took a leaf out of a book belonging to
me. He then went and took the scuttle out, rolled
the sheet of paper up, struck a snatch, and lit it. Im-
mediately after, he went down into the forefoot, came
up again, stood on the edge of the scuttle, and said,
" By—, he would either sink her or burn her."
He put the scuttle on carefully, and placed the bar
over it. About half-past nine o'clock, three hours
after, the men went up to reef the topsails, and when
they came down there was a smoke in the forecastle.
After the ship was put about on the other tack, .the
smoke came up out of the scuttle. One of the sea-
men, James Cowan, gave the alarm, and the captain,
mate, and second mate went down into the forecastle,
where they discovered a fire. The chief reason I did
not tell the captain before of what was said and done
was because I was unwell in my hammock.
The prisoner, in reply to Mr. Rushton, here said
that he was not an Englishman, that he was a Swede,
but that he understood the purport of the evidence.
Witness, in continuation, observed that he was an
apprentice on board, and that no one saw the prisoner
take the match and strike the light but himself. He
had had no quarrel with the prisoner, nor had the
latter any dispute with anybody on board the ship.
The prisoner—Why should I go to your box for
matches when I had plenty of my own ?
Witness—l don't know. You struck the light
against the side of the forecastle and put the box of
matches into the chest, from which you had taken
them when you got one of them out.
James Cowan examined—l am a seaman on board
this vessel. The prisoner asked me where was Isaac
(another seaman). I belonged to the prisoner's
watch, so also did the last witness, who had pains in
his legs nearly all the time. About five minutes after
I had been in bed in the forecastle I heard the pri-
soner knocking about. What he was doing I know
not. It was about a quarter past six o'clock at the
time. I did not hear him say anything except to ask
for Isaac. The last witness did not tell me anything,
when I awoke. I found the. prisoner lying down
when I awoke. He was lying either on a chest or in
his hammock, but it was so dark that I was unable to
see distinctly. The chests are all placed round the
forecastle, on their sides. Lamas's chest was on the
larboard side of the vessel, right aft, next the bulk-
head. The last witness lay in a hammock from the
top of the forecastle. The prisoner's hammock was
slung on the larboard side. The first time I heard of
this was about nine o'clock, after we had put the ship
about. I had been on deck about an hour at that
time. The prisoner was on deck at that time also.
The first witness (Parry) was the only person left in
the forecastle. I smelt the fire when I went below at
nine o'clock. I was the first man down. I smelt it
before anybody told me of it, and I gave the alarm,
and brought the captain, mates, and carpenter, to the
forecastle. All this time we were looking about the
forecastle for the fire. Parry was still in bed. I heard
Parry calling the mate once or twice. Parry knew
nothing of the fire till I gave the alarm. I said some
cotton must be burning, but Parry said it was not
cotton. He did not tell me what was burning, nor
where it was. He said nothing more. The scuttle
was taken off, and a greardeal of smoke came out. I
looked down to see the blaze, and myself and one or
two snore went on deck, got some water down, and
extinguished it. At breakfast I said it was a strange
thing how fire could have got down, to which the
prisoner replied that sticks or anything would strike
a light by rubbing against each other. While he and
I were talking together, the captain came forward and
accused him. This was about half-past nine o'clock.
The prisoner said he knew nothing about it, spoke
saucily, and asked why the captain should accuse him
more than any other man on board.
Nicholas Donough examined—l am master of the
Hermes. About half-past nine o'clock on Monday
morning the mate gave me the alarm of fire, and I
went down in the forecastle. On going down I saw
the smoke coming up. There was a small scuttle
made for the water there, and, on going down, I saw a
tar barrel with the bung out, and flame coming out
of the bunghole. About six feet further off it there
was a bundle of oakum all on fire, which set fire to the
forecastle deck. The tar barrel was bunged and quite
safe before we left Liverpool. I then called the first
witness, and said, that if any one know of the fire he
must be the man, as he was in the forecastle all night.
Parry then said, that he saw the prisoner go down
the forepeak, take a box of matches out of Lamas's
chest, and a sheet of paper out of another, and light
the paper and go down into the forepeak. I asked
him why he did not tell me about it at once ? to
which he replied, that he had no idea that the prisoner
was going to set fire to anything, and that that was
the reason he neglected to tell me before. Ile said,
he thought the prisoner must have lost something,
and that he wanted the light for the purpose of finding
it. It WaS about ten o'clock when I questioned Parry.
John Lamas examined—My chest was about mid,
ship in the forecastle. I left it open on Saturday
night, with the key in it. There were some books in
it, five or six. The books are at present on board the
ship. There were six boxes of matches in the bottom
of the chest. and one box at the top. After the fire
the latter box was brought aft to the captain, and I
immediately identified it as mine.
The captain recalled—l never had any quarrel with
the prisoner, and received a good recommendation
with him.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, made a long
statement, in the course of which he said that Cowan
took a leaf out to light his pipe with, and that
after the fire a question was asked whether the cook
or anybody else had been down with a light.
Cowan here observed, that the part of this state-
ment relative to thq cook was true. The question was
asked as to whether he had been down with a light.
Constable Greaves said that, in his opinion, five
pounds of oakum had been consumed ; and
The captain said a couple of gallons of tar had
been burnt.
Greaves added, that a match which had not ignited
was found on the tar barrel, and also a bit of wood
burnt at both ends.
The prisoner, at this stage of the proceedings, was
ordered to be remanded until the next day.;

CORONER'S INQUEST AT THE
ETON UNION.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23.—This afternoon an inquest
was held in the board-room of the Eton Union
house, at Slough, before Mr. John Charsley, one of
the coroners for the county of Bucks, an the body of
an illegitimate male child, who died in the workhouse
on Friday last, within '24 hours after its birth. The
mother, a single woman named Martha Hitch, lived
as cook in the service of a gentleman at Slough of the
name of Rigby, and was removed from that gentle-
man's house in an extraordinary manner, at the time,
as iti s stated, she was enduring the pains of labour,
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at a late hour on Wednesday night, the 16th inst.
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writing at the time, and of which the following Is an
exact copy :
" Martha Hitch states, that she was dragged out of
bed by three or four men, at a late hour of the night
(shout 9 o'clock), and forced by her master, Mr.
liighy, to become an inmate of the Eton Union
Worlzhouse, she having at the time wages due to
amounting to between 3/. and 41., a 0110,7:ter's salary,
and bills paid on her mistress' a account, still (he.
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was not complied with."
In conseluence her wish
befotT thca bo4r4 of guardians. their weekly metet-
.av having been laid
meet-
ing, held in the hoard-room of the
day, and of further inquiries which they ocuauseseYdetsoeir):
made into the treatment of the mother of the de-
ceased infant at so critical a period, the board re-

solved that a full investigation of all the eirturna
stances should take place, and due notice of the death
was forwarded to Mr. Charsley, at Beaconsfield,
who caused a jury to be summoned at three o'clock
in the afternoon.
The first witness examined was Mrs. Caroline Aitken,
the matron of the Eton Union, who deposed as fol-
lows :—Martha. Hitch, the mother of the deceased
child, was brought to the workhouse in a fly, between
nine and ten o'clock on 'Wednesday night, the 16th
inst. She was accompanied by Mr. Bryan, a medical
gentleman, the brother of Dr. Bryan, of Slough.' A
woman named Cripps rode in the fly with the mother.
When she arrived she was in labour. She told me
that she was taken with the pains of labour on that
morning. She was carried up stairs into the lying-in
ward by the man who drove the fly. Mr. Bryan said
she was in labour. She appeared very ill and well
vomiting. I remained with her in the ward during
the greater part of that night, and until she was
delivered, which was between six and seven o'cloc k
the following evening. The child was found dead in
the bed about two o clock the next afternoon. On
being told the child was dead, I went into the ward,
and found it under the clothes. The body was then
getting cold. I had no suspicion that the mother had
behaved ill to the child. She said she came from Mr.
Righy's, at Slough, and that she was dragged out of
her bed in that gentleman's house by three or four
men, and brought to the workhouse.
11.1 r. Aitken, the master of the union, examined—
At about a quarter past nine o'clock on Wednesday
evening, the 16th instant, a gentleman named Bryan
came to me, and said a woman was going to be
brought here in a fly, who was in labour, and
asked me if I would receive her without an order ? I
replied that I could receive any person without an
order, who was brought to the house in that condi-
tion. Ile then went away. In about a quarter of an
hour afterwards the fly arrived with the mother of the
deceased and Mrs. Cripps, who accompanied her. Mr.
Bryan also came at the same time. The woman was
carried up stairs into the lying-in ward by the fly
man. I have not seen her since. Mr. Bryan told
me that evening, in the hall, that she was Mr. liig-
hy's servant.
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Susan AVOW*, one of the inmateso of the work-
house, who acts in the capacity of nurse, deposed as
follows :—Martha Hitch was brought up stairs to the
lying-in ward in the arms of a young man, named
William Renton, on Wednesday night. 'She was
very sick, and I thought she was then in labour. She
was put into bed directly. Mr. Bryan Caine 1% ith her.
Mr. Ilanunond (the medical officer of the union) ar-
rived within about an hour afterwards, when Air.
Bryan left. Mr. Bryan, when he came with her,
said she must be taken care of, as she was in labour.
Mr. Hammond remained with her until she was de-
livered, which was not until between six and seven
o'clock the following evening. The child did not
appear healthy ; the first night I did not think it
would live. It took the breast from a woman who
had been recently confined in the union, at noon the
next day, when it appeared better.
Rebecca Moody, another inmate of the workhouse,
examined—l was in bed when Martha Hitch was
brought into the ward. I immediately got up, in
order that she might get into my bed, which was
warm. She was vomiting when she was brought up
into the room by William Henton. She was de-
livered about seven o'clock the next evening. The
child died at about three o'clock the following after-
noon. It appeared to be a nice healthy child when
born. I gave the child the breast the next day, about
eleven o'clock, by desire of the matron. It then ap-
peared healthy; I put it into bed by the side of its
mother. I laid it down so that I could see its face, •
and that it could breathe. At three o'clock that
afternoon, when the mother asked me to turn her
over in bed, I saw that the child (which was lying
on its mother's arm, with its face uppermost, so that
it could breathe) was dead. It was a little warm. I
saw nothing to induce me to suppose that the mother
had injured the infant, The child then looked very
black.
Mr. Hammond, the surgeon to the union, informed
the Coroner and jury that he had just returned from
viewing the body of the deceased.
A juryman asked if he observed a black mark on
the neck of the child ?
Mr. Hammond replied, that he observed a slight
discolouration on the neck, but that might have been
caused by a variety of circnenstances.
Some of the jury having suggested that a post
mortem examination should be made,
Mr. Hammond said, in that case he should prefer
making it by daylight; but he would suggest that
the evidence of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Norblad's as-
sistant (both of whom had seen the mother before
her removal from her master's, Mr. Righy's) should
be taken by the Coroner previously to his own.
A juryman stated that when Mr. Norblad's as-
sistant saw the mother at Mr. Righy's on the morn-
ing of the day she was brought to the workhouse, she
denied that she was in the family way.
The Corm:NEIL having intimated that he would d-
journ the inquiry until Friday, in order that Mr.
Bryan, William Henton (who drove the fly), Mr.
Norblad's assistant, and the mother of the deceased,
might be examined,
Mr. Hammond said the mother would not be in a
fit state, after her recant confinement, to be examined
at so early a period.
The CORONER observed, that the evidence of the
mother would be necessary as regar!ed the treatment
she experienced before her delivery.
The inquest was then adjourned to Friday next
(this day) for the examination of the witnesses we
have named, and others, with the understanding that,
if necessary, it should be then further adjourned, in
order that the evidence of Martha Hitch might he
taken.

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MISERY—AMONG the FLOWERS.
(From Punch.)
Esther Pierce, another pallid victim of the needle,
was charged at Worship-street, with illegal pawning.
Yes—famine took her to the prwnbroker with the
goodsof a Mr. John Halden, 01.62, Bread-street, Cheap-
side. Esther Pierce was employed to embroider a silk
shawl with flowers—with no less than eighty silken
blossoms—for the sum of 6d.! Well, this was a hard
day's work ; bringing something less than a halfpenny
en hour. The young woman had neither food nor
drink ; and so, with misery and famine at her heart
—in the very despair of biting hunger—she took
Mr. John Ilalden's property to the pawnbroker. She
is urged, tempted—sorely tempted beyond the power
of suffering nature to withstand—to commit crime,
to make herself a felon, by the miserable wages
awarded her by the tradesman of Bread-street, Che-,p,
side. Bread-street.—There is a cruel irony liven is
the address.
There is a society—all honoured be its object-4°r
the relief and conversion of miserable young women,
cast like weeds upon the world—for the wretched
Magdalen, desttised, outraged, degraded. This society
calls with a voice of comfort to the defiled creature,
B.nd teaches her, in goodly season, modesty, self-re-
spect. She is snatched from daily, hourly perdition,
and restored to the decencies of life. She is no
longer an animal, cursed with a soul. All praise be
to the institution that works this goodness.
Yet, surely we think, the Principle of Wickedness
must grin and hug itself at the gatherings of this so-
ciety—must chuckle, as the devil only chuckles—
when the secretary, with grave face and self-compla-
cent tone, reads the number of victims saved--of
brands snatched from the fire—and turned to worthy
uses. 'We say, this same Wickedness must laugh at
the small retail humanity of such an institution,
when, as in mockery of it, there are thousands and
thousands of young women tortured by the injustice
(..:c the world, by its mercenary, heartless tasking, into
a life of infamy. A feeble philanthropy saves indeed
a few wretches; but then there is a Giant Injustice--
iron-hearted son of avarice and trade—that drives his
crowds into the street; that makes them in a wild
despair of heart—for bread, horrid bread indeed so
purchased—bind themselves to agony and shame!
How many fall—how many, with heroic serenity of
soul, their wounds bleeding inwardly, pine from day
to day, and at length wither from the earth, no more
accounted of than autumn flies ! And now and then
some haggard, white-lipped creature—some famishing
Esther Pierce for the sake of meal dares Newgate
and the doom of a felon. And so it will be, until
throughout all society it shall be preached—not
meekly mouthed, but preached with a terrible, soul-
smitin"- energy, that there are holier things than
-oonds and shillings ; that human souls are in very
account than bank paper.
h r Pierce—our readers will rejoice at it--
escapedr,
truth of more
Est e
prison, the benevolent pawnbroker (we should
have liked to chronicle his name) giving up the shawl
without payment—the shawl which contained the
eighty flowers, worked for 6d. ! In the East they
have a well-known way of arranging flowers that,
like words, they may discourse a passion. Alas
what a story may the eye of pity read in these eighty
uiltit;
flowers, worked for a tester. On the one hand what
comfort of
and lifes u—:Lhinat to
tshould
cruel, selfish, iron-hearted tasking ! On the other
blanknessw-haof
misery—whata weariness nes
all
that
humanity !
We should like to know the t. 1
par icu ar eighty flowers
worked for 6d. by Esther Pierce for John Malden. Is
it possible that for such a
tradesman any of them could
be heart's-ease ?
Mr. Malden, in a letter to the Times, says, that
`c he gives considerably more than sixpence " for such
Work ; but then, with the diffidence of genuine libe-
rality, he does not specify how much more.
Afe. Malden also observes, that the wretched story
of Esther Pierce is " calculated to do him serious in-
jury." We do not think it unlikely.
In conclusion, however, we would say to all whole-
sale dealers in embroidered shawls, give something
more to female toil than sixpence for eighty flowers.
Something more, considerate masters ! So that whilst
your wretched slaves are working flowers, your own
consciences may not—for the after time—be working
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