The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-24 00:00:00

rtiE stTN LONDoiL THURSDAY EVEN,NG OCTOBER 24 H 44,

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OPENING OF THE BELGIAN

IRELAND.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.--The Queen and Prince
Albert took their accustomed walk this afternoon in
the slopes.
Their Royal llighnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, were taken their usual airing in the course of
the day.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland arrived
at the Castle in the afternoon, on a visit to her Ma-
jesty.
Iler Royal highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw, and
Colonel Knollys, joined the royal dinner circle at the
Castle this evening.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards were in at-
tendance during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended at
the Castle, and performed the remainder of the
evening.

CHAMBERS.

SUBSCRIPTION FOI37I.ATIiER
DUBLIN, OCT. 22.—A very c-reditable movement
has commenced to • relieve Father Mathew from the
pecuniary embarrassments produced by his sacrifices
in promoting the cause of temperance.
Lord Cluncurry has just forwarded GO/. as his sub-
scription.

SPEECH OF THE KING.

On Tuesday
The following appeared only in part of our im-
pression of yesterday :
opened the parliamentary session for 1844-45. The
his Majesty the King of the Belgians
Rue Royale and the: Rue Ducale were lined with
detachments of the civic guards, infantry and ca •
valry, and with a few troops of the line. The
Queen, accompanied by the two young Princes
(the Duke of Brabant and the Count of Flanders),
arrived at the Palab; do la Nation (the Parliament-
house) about one o'clock, and was shortly after-
wards followed by the King on horseback,
who was dressed in the uniform of an Offleer-

The Cork Examiner of yesterday contains a list of
subscriptions, including 1001. from the Earl of Arundel
and Surrey ; 201. from G. S. Kendrick, Esq., West
Bromwich, Birmingham ; 51. ss. from J. S. Buck-
ingham, Esq. ; 51. from Mr. Gore Jones, stipendiary
magistrate, "'buries ; and 101. from Messrs. J. and E.
Grundy, Bury, Lancashire. Amongst the contri-
butors in this list are two English clergymen of the
Established Church, and an Irish Unitarian clergy-
man, the Rev. J. Vixon Porter, of Carrickfergus.
The Temperance Societies in Cork, and other parts
of the south, are making arrangements to co-operate
in the good work.
Before many weeks, a fund amply sufficient to
rescue the Rev. Mr. Mathew from his pecuniary en-
gagements will have been obtained.
SEIZURE FOR MINISTER'S MONEY.
The following notification has been served upon
Mr. Fitzsimons, upon whom a seizure had been made
by the bailiffs f Archdeacon Torrens :
" Take notico—That the following articles dis-
trained for minister's money—viz., six chairs—will be
sold at the public auction-room, 14, Dame-street, on
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1844, for the said tax.
-" W. ADAMS, Collector.
"To Mr. Fitzsimons, 17, Rathmines-mall'."
Thus Archdeacon Torrens has determined to push
matters to extremities in the attempt to enforce
tithes in the most obnoxious form, in the rural district
of Rathmines.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday morning from his seat, Becchworth House,
Surrey. The Right Hon.. Gentlethan had an inter-
view with Sir James Graham.

General of the Civic Guard, and accompanied by
Lieutenant-General rrllane, by the General-in-
Chief of the Civic Ward, by the military Governor
of Brussels, and by a numerous staff. The escort
was composed of half squadron of the Regiment des
Guides, and a squadron of the Civic Guard on horse-
back. The space near the Parliament-house was
occupied by
a company of artillery of the Civic
Guard. Their Majesties were respectively received
with marked respect throughout their passage to the
Palais de la Nation. A discharge of artillery an-
nounced their departure from the royal' residence.
The following is a translation of the speech delivered
by his Majesty:—
GENTLEMEIR,-I have anticipated the ordinary epoch
of your session. I was desirous of enabling you to
vote the budgets before the commencement of the
year to which they apply, and to complete the exa-
mination of several Bills which you have already dis-
cussed.

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Leadbetter,
Miller, and Bannatyne, the chairman, engineer, and
solicitor of the Glasgow, Dumfries,
.and Carlisle
Railway, on the subject of that railway ; a depu-
tation, consisting of Messrs. Learmouth, Miller,
and Bannatyne, the chairman, engineer, and solicitor
of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company,
on the subject of the proposed branch to Stirling, and
on the subject of the Caledonian and Scottish Central
Railway, as competing lines to the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway, and its proposed branches; a de-
putation from the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and
Ayr Railway Company, on the subject of their pro-
posed branches to Barrhead, Mauchline, and Cum-
noch ; and a deputation from the Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and
Ayr Railway Company, on the subject of a proposed
line to connect these railways,and also communicating
with the harbour of Glasgow, had an interview with
the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

When the appeal against the Archdeacon's appoint-
ment had been before the Privy Council, one of the
items disallowed was 18s., the annual tax, demanded
for a house then in progress of building, for the
future residence of the parish priest and his curates!
The house not
.been roofed at the time, the Privy
Council compelled Archdeacon Torrens to delay his
claim for minister's money, as against the Catholic
clergy, at least until the house should be in tenant-
able order,— Dublin Evening Post.

You meet under auspicious circumstances. I con-
gratulate myself on the sentiments of cordiality and
reciprocal confidence which prevail in our relations
with the various Powers.

Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller to the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, and Captain Boldero, had interviews with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

In the preceding session you decided on the conclu-
sions arrived at by the committee for judicial investiga-
tion (enquete) appointed four years ago. The law
which you voted will occupy an important place in
our national legislation.

FATHER MATHE W. -
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Observing the statement in the public papers
relative to tho pecuniary circumstances of the Rev.
Theobaid Mathew, I beg to inform you that the
Committee of this Society have instituted the neces-
sary inquiries into the subject ; and, should the re-
ports be correct, and Mr. Mathew be willing •to re-
ceive any assistance, the Committee feel assured that
the public will most cheerfully afford such aid as the
case may require.
Mr. Mathew has hitherto refused to allow any so-
cieties or individuals to contribute•to his vast expenses,
from a fear of injuring the cause in which ho has so
long and so disinterestedly laboured; and if he should
now find it impossible to proceed without such aid,
trust the English nation will avail themselves of the
opportunity of showing their respect for this real be-
nefactor of Ireland.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
THEODORE COMPTON, Sec.
The National Temperance Society,
39, Moorgate-street, Oct. 22.

The commercial suggestions which you forwarded
to the Government hive been the object of my most
serious attention; some of them I have realised. The
measures which I thought necessary to take will be
submitted to you; I doubt not that they will obtain
your approbation.

By the aid of the commercial policy which you

have sanctioned, I have concluded with the German
Zollverein (Association Allemande des douanea), a
treaty of navigation and commerce, which secures our
mutual interests. The examination of this treaty will
be the object of your.first deliberations.
By a recent convention, the postal communications
between Belgium and Great Britain have been regu-
lated on a basis at once more extended and more fa-
vourable to commerce. The charge on letters has
been reduced, and special advantages have been stipu •
nesnzie
lated for the transmission of foreign correspondence.—
wMill be likely to assist
system, combined
(Expedition des Correspondances Etrangeres.)
in the development of our international relations.
wiAth nberwoafdacialnitdieslibeefratral
A Bill having this object in view will be presented
to you. It will also remain for you to consider
other measures likely to increase our distant con-
nexions and exports.

-
The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Times :

" Sir,—Perceiving from a letter in your journal of
to-day that the National Temperance Society has ap-
pointed a committee to inquire into the alleged pecu-
niary embarrassments of Father Mathew, arising from
his great expenditure in promotion of temperance,
you will, perhaps, permit me to save the time of such
inquiry, and the consequent delay of the requisite
relief,- by giving you the strongest proof of the reality
of the case, in a letter I have this morning received
from Father Mathew himself, as I felt it my duty, on
first hearing of his embarrassments to write to him
on the subject, enclosing some trifling aid, as the
direct transmission of such assistance as can be given
is generally more acceptable than the dilatory and
expensive process of committees and public meetings,
though both may be useful.
" Your publication of his letter in your extensively
circulated journal will bring his case more speedily
and more effectively before, the eyes of thousands than
any other channel of communication ; and I can bear
my personal testimony, from intimate acquaintance
and co-operation with this excellent man, as to his
conduct being as pure and disinterested as that of any
philanthropist who can be named.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,

The harvest, which caused some momentary alarm,
has turned out satisfactory; no exceptional measure
appears necessary. The Provincial Councils have con-
tinued their deliberations on the measures to be
adopted for clearing the uncultivated parts of our
territory ; it will be soon possible to determine what
assistance is to be required from the legislative
power. Some improvements have been made in the
course of the Blouse, the Government introducing
some also with respect to the other rivers of the
country.

The important works undertaken in the Campine
and in the Flanders continue to be actively pursued.
The increase of traffic on the railway, and of the
receipts, has surpassed expectation. This state of
affair 3 may become even more prosperous by perfect-
ing the conditions of circulation, which the incomplete
state of the lines and of the stations renders difficult
and expensive.
The re-organisation of modes of carriage, irre-
spective of the railway, is also an urgent subject for
consideration.

" JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM.
" 13, George-street, Hanover-square, 0et.23."

" Cork Oct. 20.
"My dear Mr. Buckingham,—I am fully aware of
the many claims upon your benevolence, and deeply
regret that my embarrassments have added to them.
" It was after much importunity and with great
reluctance that I consented to have my pecuniary
difficulties made public by the Rev. Mr. Ilincks, the
editor of the Inquirer. It is unnecessary in writing
to you to vindicate myself from the charge of impru-
dence—you well know the unavoidable expenditure
attendant on a great popular movement. With the
exception of 1001. sent to me some years ago by the
Marquis of Lansdowne, I never received aid from
any one.

A law relating to the remuneration of the members
of the judicial order has been presented to you. The
state of our finances removes all necessity for adjourn-
ing the discussion of that law, the propriety of which
you will acknowledge with me.
The government of the prisons has already under-
gone some useful modifications, and I am desirous
that additional measures shall be taken to complete
them.

74 A report, propagated by the antagonists of temb
penance, of my having amassed wealth, increased the
calls upon me, and, I must confess, prompted me to
exceed my resources to rebut the calumny.
" I had, it is true, large sums of money offered to
me whilst I was in England, but I wished to act in-
dependently, and refused them.

The benevolent institutions have not failed to re-
ceive a portion of my solicitude. My Government is
resolved to introduce into them all the ameliorations
which humanity claims.
Your aid will, on this occasion, be
requested in an
especial manner towards the reform of the establish-
ments for the insane.

Accept, dear Mr. Buckingham, my grateful ac-
knowledgment of your gift, and have the kindness to
add to the many obligations you have already con-
ferred by explaining to my friends how free I am
from any imputation of either prodigality or avarice.
" All my own private resources have been ex-
hausted. I have drawn to a large amount upon my
brothers, and all this to promote that sacred cause to
whose success I have devoted my existence.
" To your good and amiable lady, to my dear
Leicester, and every member of your family, I pre-
sent my affectionate remembrance, and with fervent
prayers for your happiness, I am, with profound re-
spect, dear Mr. Buckingham, yours gratefully and
devotedly, " THEOBALD MATHEW."

Some propositions will be laid before you to cor-
rect the vices and to fill up the gaps (lacunes) which
experience has brought to light in certain portions
of legislation. Thus- will the revision of the codes
which has been prescribed by the constitution be gra-
dually effected.

The army, that essential element of our national
existence, commands all our solicitude. I am
delighted to be able to acknowledge that it shows
itself deserving of it by its devotedness, its discipline,
and the excellent spirit which animates it.
It remains for you to decide upon the Bill which
has been already laid before you, the details cf which
are so important for its organisation (that of the
army).

MORE COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, TUESDAY.
Another explosion of fire-damp—so frequent in this
district--occurred last night at Walisend. The explosion
took place in a drift at the end of a board," on the
underviewer going in to examine the workings. It ap-
pears the board had been carried forward to a dyke or
trouble, the stratum of coal rising at this Part some feet,
and tlui drift was made by excavating the roof, to reach
and continue the seam of coal. The underviewer going
in with a candle, the gas fired, and he and another party
were severely burnt, but no other injury took place. On
Wednesday last another accident occurred at -lletton
Colliery, and, indeed, explosions are almost of daily
occurrence, though rarely so fatal as that at Haswell.
CALAMITOUS EXPLOSION AT ROWLEY REGIS.

Some change in the laws relating to the militia
hare become necessary; they will be
proposed to you
simultaneously with a new law on the organisation
of the Civic Guard:--

Thanks to the consolidation of our credit, the
powers accorded by you to my Government havo
allowed it to effect successfully, and without any
shock (secousse) two grand financial Operations ; their
results have been the reduction of the rent, and of
the capital of the public debt.
_ _

ELEVEN LIVES LOST.
On Saturday last a most calamitous explosion of fire-
damp took place in a coal-pit belonging to Mr. Darby, at
tho Five Ways, Rowley Regis. The number of persons
at work in the pit at the time of the explosion is under-
stood to have been seventeen or eig:hteen, and of these.,
we lament to state, no less than eleven have fallen vio-
tims to this lamentable occurrence. Immediately after
the explosin, the effects of which were perceived for some
distance, the most active measures were takem to afford
assistance to such of the workmen in the pit as might be
alive, and six of them were as soon as possible extricated
from their perilous situation. In a short Limo the bodies
of eight workmen also were got out, those of three others
being left in the pit in consequence of the foulness of the
air. The six poor fellows who were got out alive are all
mere or less injured, but not, wo are happy to state, to
such a degree as to endanger their lives. The awful
extent of this calamity has occasioned a most mournful
feeling throughout the neighbourhood.— Wolverhampton
Chronicle.

roeffi c
thei al
You will join with me in congratulations that the
been made to balance with the re-
ceipts;for the treasury of the
conversioni"ui of the rent, the in-
crease in the receipti of the railway, and of several
intt:barenebdeh
branches of public revenue, halm contributed to
facilitate this happy equilibrium,
el
axsplrioda

Somenw efforts,
expenses, are necessary to cover
the
public interest may enevertheless, ewv ehritchhe lteh ses
re-
quire, and by a permanent excess of revenue to arrive
successively at the &Oration of the floating debt, and
the creation of a reserve fund.

You will assist me to attain this object, which a
prudent foresight renders obligatory on us to pursue.
GENTLEMEN,—The country may have confidenee
in itself. Its elements of moral activity and material
prosperity are freely developing themselves. I doubt
not that this favourable situation will be strengthened
and completed by the support which the Government
will find in your patriotism and loyal concurrence.
Shortly after the Speech was delivered, her Ma-
jesty and the young Princes left the House, end,
proceeded to the Palace by the Rue Royale. In
a few minutes after their arrival they presentedthem-
selves in the balcony in front of the Palace, and waited

LAND-SLIP. THREATENED DANGER. OF THE
CUSTOM-HOUSE:One of the consequences of the storm
which visited Dublin on this night week, has been a
land-slip between the south front of our beautiful, but
nearly useless, Custom-house, and the river. The first
appearance of the occurrence was-noticed on the morn-
ing of Thursday last, when a sinking of the earth was
observed between the carriage-way and the granite wall
with which the quay is faced. Since then a gradual de-
pression and loosening of tho earth has been going on ;
but early this morning a rent took place, and the earth
sank in some places, and disappeared in others, to the
extent, in one instance, of full twenty feet. The line of
quay along which the rent has taken place is about 170
yards, and comprises an extent of bank exceeding the
whole area of the south front of the entrance, with its
noble portico and ponderous dome, and the water of the
river is now only some twenty feetirom the flagway at
the base of the Custom-house. The wall still stands
cut, with the water at both sides of it ; but it is thought
that the subsidence of the very high tido to-day will
swcep it out in the river, although it is strongly propped,
and lighters are busily engaged in emptying stutf against
it, in order to Support it against the power of the back-
water.—Pilot.

there till the Kinghad returned from the Parliament.
His Majesty entered the Palace for a few minutes,
and shortly afterwards returned on horseback to the
open space in front of the Palace, and reviewed the
whole of the Civic Guard, who defiled before him.
He was saluted repeatedly with cries of Vice le Roi I
which ho frequently acknowledged by lifting-off his
hat. The Volunteer Regiment, who occupied the
posts of honour, displayed their flag, which they
bore at the time of the revolution.

THE WRECK OF TEE SLOOP JANE M'ASKXL OF
BELFAST,—Wo regret to learn that this vessel, which
was driven ashore at Annalon during the gale of the 9th
ult., has become a total wreck. She was 19,clen with
freestone, flagging, and salt, and was on her way from
Runcorn to Dublin. Tho master, John Welsh, who was
also the owner, has written a letter to us, expressing the
deep gratitude ho feels to Lord Newry and Morrie for
the kind interest he evinced in his behalf since the wreck
of his vessel. He mentions that at the auction of the
materials on the 12th ult., a great portion of them was
purchased by his Lordship with the view of disposing of
theni again to better advantage in behalf of ihe owner.
lie adds that he experienced nothing but sympathy
kindness in the neighbourheed.-IVorthein "(I

NEWPORT, MONMOUTIISUIRE.—(FrOm a Corres-
pondent,)—We feel great pleasure in announcing that
the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury have been pleased to
raise this port from a sixth to a fifth class port, and also to
sanction an additional number of officers, in consequerice
of the very great increase in tho general trade of the
port ; and wo have every reason to believe that should
the trade increase as it has of late, we shall soon have to
announce that Newport has been raised a class higher in
thcs classification olvort.. A new line of railroad is lic.w
in contemplation ;Awl this town to font-y-pool and
Blauavon ; the surveyors are daily • surveyljng
pro-
posed line. the

LORD STANLEY'S SPEECH
AT LIVERPOOL.
(From the Times.)
The debates of the agricultural societies have been
enlivened by a speech from Lord Stanley. Matters
were certainly getting uncommonly prosaic—flat and
dull indeed were the orations delivered to the best-
prize servant—or over the broadest backed bull, or
the most unnaturally-magnified potato ; and the dis-
sertations upon the social causes and conditions of
falling rents and ill-farmed lands were becoming
daily more humdrum and more monotonous. Into
the midst of these common-plces Lord Stanley has
descended like a living man into a company of
dummies, and has astonished the good people of
Liverpool with a real bona.fide
.extempore harangue.
We publish his Lordship's address in another part
of our impression of this morning.
He has not, indeed, been able to make that which
was old itself new again, or to tell us much on the
worn-out subjects of which he treats, which all the
world did not know before. But ho has washed the
faces of all the old musty " association " topics, bur-
nished them all up, and set them all going again with
renewed life and vigour.
On the rather tender question of improvements,
for instance, Lord Stanley breaks into the following
graphic reproduction of a very well-established though,
like most others, also a double-edged truth :
" Some of the old farmers in this country—l mean
the real old class—(A laugh)—shrug their shoulders
and say, What is the need of all this stir about im-
provement, and making the land grow so much more ?'
By-the-by, it is not so much making it grow more,
as-making it grow different crops—making it grow
wheat instead of weeds.—(Hear.) But some say,
What is the use of all this ? It is not a question for
the farmer. We shall only have our rents increased
the more productive the land is:
If the " real old farmer" were to use such an ar-
gument as this with respect to improvements in the
cultivation, or any expenditure for increasing the fer-
tility of the land, made at his landlord's expense, and
the increased annual return of which, for however
short a time it should last, would be manifestly and
palpably pro tanto an advantage to himself; or, even
were the argument used with respect to " improve-
ments" to be effected by the tenant at his own expense,
and were it also used without reference to the proba-
bility, or improbability, of the Capital expended being
again recovered before the anticipated rise in the
rent—then, or in either of these cases, we should cer-
tainly be very much disposed to answer the " real old
farmer" as Lord Stanley does :--
" Such an argument, allow me to say, is the climax
of absurdity. To use a very common phrase, it is
cutting off one's own noso to spite one's face.' Why
should I undertake an improvement because my land-
lord will benefit by it,' appears to me a very incon-
clusive and absurd argument. lam not here to dis-
pute the fact, that every improvement in value, every
addition by science to the productive power of the
land, everything which adds to its fertility, must in
the long run be an advantag,e -to those in whom the
fee simple is vested.—c Hear.) But the question is,
at the same time that it is an advantage to the land-
lord, is it not also an advantage to the farmer who
occupies the land, and makes his livelihood out of it ?
I ask no man to undertake an improvement if his own
good sense does not lead him t 6 do it. I ask no man
to apply any improved mode of cultivation if it does
not appear that his own individual advantage would
be promoted by so doing; but,when farmers argue
that because at the expiration of their tenantcy their
rents may be increased, it is not worth while to adopt
improvements, I must say they take a very short-
sighted view of their own interests, and must think
their landlords very great fools and blockheads."
But if the capital laid out is to be wholly the capi-
tal of the tenant, it is, of course, also manifest, not-
withstanding Lord Stanley's undoubtedly just reply
to the opponents of improvement, that it is unfair to
call upon the tenant to begin paying to the owner of
the soil his per tentage on the profits of the invest-
ment, until the capital is first returned. The matter
is, indeed, not very complex, and it is no great task,
perhaps, for the united wisdom of an agricultural
association to discover what is fair and equitable as
between landlord and tenant in the matter of money
expended in improvements ; but these are things which
it must be admitted, are somehow sometimes for-
gotten. Lord Stanley has, at all events, the merit of
being undeniable. " Give your tenantsleases, gentle-
men, if you persist in expecting any great and per-
manent improvement of our land' to be undertaken
by them ; but if you wish to have your land really
productive, and well in your owriliand
is, improve it your-
selves& and then you can fairly let t.as•
you like." "If
improvements are to add a permanent value to the
land, they ought to be undertaken by the landlord him-
self, charging on the tenant such an amount of inte-
rest as may repay him for the outlay he has made, and
at the same time afford a reasonable profit for the
•
tenant."
We have no fault to find, as we have already said,
with this sort of advice, and we only wish that more
of this kind of practical inculcation of what is already
a great deal better known than acted upon, would
find its way into the speeches of the agricultural asso-
ciations. Lord Stanley has certainly kept himself
safely within the proper limit's of his subject. He has
considered the question before him to be simply what
is the best and fairest mode for all parties of gaining
legitimately the greatest quantity of produce from a
given quantity of land. He has not needlessly
travelled into the ulterior questions of the
social condition of the people, or expatiated upon
the political bearings of the associations over which
he was presiding. Ile has simply considered
their object to be that of increasing to the
uttermost the available power and value of land.
Whatever is beyond this, as the political weight, the
position, and the happiness of the agricultural popu-
lation, will of course be influenced by an alteration
or increase in this available power ; but Lord Stanley
leaves this influence to the indirect operation of that
change and improvement, which alone he is directly
seeking to make.
This is so far well. As far as it goes, it places
agricultural associations in certainly a less objec-
tionable light than heretofore. It excludes, at any
rate, the high and sacred social duties which are in-
volved in the relations of master and servant—rich
and 'poor—lord and labourer—from the bandying
of public meetings, and the machinery of associations.
But we doubt whether Lord Stanley's speech is a
trustworthy index of the real state of the case; in
fine, that it can hardly be said to represent the senti-
ments and principles of one single agricultural asso-
ciation. We shall be truly glad to find that we are
deceived ; but in the meanwhile, and until Lord
Stanley's example has been more generally followed,
we must be allowed to cherish our own misgiv-
ings as to the object and spirit of the meeting " agri-
cultural."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

Sin,—l observe by an advertisement in the Dublin
Evening Mail of the 21st, that the promoters of a rail-
way, called " The Irish Great Western from Dublin to
Galway," have discontinued in their new prospectus to
publish, amongst the members of their Provisional Com-
mittee, the names of Andrew 11. Lynch, Simon Boileau,
William Newcombe, and George M‘Bride. Now, as I
subscribed to that undertaking partly on the faith of
those names, I should be glad to know whether they
have, like Sir John Macneil, the celebrated engineer,
disclaimed any connection with--that company; as, if so,
it is essential that any persons who, like myself, have
applied for shares upon the faith of those highly re-
spectable individuals, should be informed at once how
the facts are, as otherwise much mischief and loss may
arise to innocent and misguided_ parties.
London, Oct. 23, 1844. FAIR PLAY.

CORONER'S IN QUEST.—FRIG FITFUL ACCIDENT IN
TILE WEST INDIA DocKs.—Last evening, Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the London Hospital, on the body of
John Phillips, aged 17 years. William Tulley deposed
that deceased was a seaman on board the ship Prince
Albert, lying in the West India Export Dock. On
Friday last, deceased went altrft.to the main royal mast
head, for the purpose of clearing an ensign which had
become entangled in the haulyards. He was in the act
of doing so, when the small ihigstaff to which the flag
was attached, suddenly snapped with deceased's weight,
and he fell from the top of the mast to the deck, a height
of upwards of 100 feet. In his fall, he alighted upon
another seaman of the vessel, and the latter was thrown
with great violence on the deck. Both of the unfortu-
nate men were immeditely picked up, completely insensi-
ble, the deceased bleeding profusely from a dreadful
wound on his head, and from a severe fracture of the
right les.r, the hone of which was protruding. The other
man had no visible injury. They were promptly con-
veyed to the above hospital, 'Where deceased died on,
Monday last. The other man was much injuued inter-
nally, but hopes are entertained of his recovery.- Ver-
dict—" Accidental death."
Louis PHILIPPE'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.—The
King, in his late visit to England had made extempore
replies to the corporations of Portsmouth and Windsor;te
but having learnt that it was customary to commutnoictabe
before hand in writing the royal words addressed_
Lord Mayor of the City of London, he
" This time I shall act as a Constitutional I
ofmg;r let
.M..
said,c.laughinj;,
Guizot write my answer." The Minister .otrieigao
gave the toanswerd it
wasd
jAaffr airsnac setto to w
translate.ork, andl,
it and give him her opinion of it. Her Majesty
sent to the King,
geefin Victoria to
peruse
approved of the speech, observing only that there were
some words in it that were not quite English. She then
took up her pen, and herself corrected it. The King was
extremely cheerful during his .passage from Dover to
Calais. Covered with a Macintosh, ha hummed a song
of 112. Vatout deriding such poor passengers as suffer
from sea sickness. What rendered it piquant was that
M. Guizot was a prey to the miseries which M. 'Want
h a ssriiidEi;:rulleEdL.D—/AkNtz
de lAIcaCHESTER ItAiLWAY .—The
Directors of this railway have come to an arrangement
with the Midland Counties Railway Manchester and BirmingAham ‘.arlwayCcumompapnayn,y,aniodr tt ee
lease of the alK\ve meeting of the Proprietors is
been immodfately to cOpfi.gc the terms which have
to be call
agreed upon.