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ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.
CORONER'S INQUEST.

miles. It was as strong as the engines originally
built for the Company, but latterly they had engines
of a greater power. The builder, Mr. Benjamin
Hicks, of Bolton, had been one of the first engine
builders in the country. It was his, Mr. Berry's,
opinion, that there was an internal flaw originally in
the axle, and that had increased until the time it gave
way. le was, however, surprised it had not yielded
to the test to which it had been subjected in March
last. Mr. Berry, in conclusion, said that the pro-
priety of placing a luggage-van between the engine
and the passengers' train was under the consideration
of the Company.
The CORONER here remarked 'that the cause of
death was so clear, and the evidenCe so satisfactory as
exculpating the Company or the servants-from blame,
that he felt certain it was not necessary for him to
read over the evidence.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Mr. Westland Marston's. tragedy,: The Patrician's
Daughter, which, on its publication some few months
since, produced a great sensation in the literary
world, was on Saturday night produced at this
theatre as an acting play, and its success was as com-
plete as eithei the author or the manager could have
desired. Mr. Marston has written this tragedy for
the purpose of illustrating a theory, the gem of which
is expressed in the words which he puts into the
mouth of his hero—

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. GXLI.
Was published on SATURDAY.
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

like Napoleon—he was the Rodolph of Hapsburgh of
his house, and it was impossible not to sympathise
with him in his hopes, his love, and his aspirations.
Miss Helen Faucit, as Mabel, was at once gentle and
dignified. In the scene at the conclusion of the
fourth act, she scarcely exhibited sufficient emotion,
but with that exception her delineation of the charac.
ter was beautiful exceedingly. Mrs. Warner, as the
high-bred, cold-hearted aristocratic, schooled to re-
press all human thoughts and feelings as
vulgar, to prefer conventionalism to nature—the
setting to the jewel was perfect; and when
at length, on beholding the ruin she has wrought,
her conscience is aroused within her, and nature as-
serts her supremacy—when the icy coldness of the
lady is thawed, and the feelings of the woman gush
forth warm from the heart in an impetuous over-
whelming torrent--she was sublime, terrifically sub-
lime ; and her passion was the more terrible from
the contrast it formed to her former state of cold, un-
impassioned, unnaturel existence. The tragedy was
preceded by a prologue from the pen of Mr. Charles
Dickens, which was spoken by Mr. Macready. This
prologue was neither more nor less than a poetical
version of Mr. Marston's preface to the published tra-
gedy. The house was crowded; there was not stand-
ing room in the pit when the curtain rose.

On Saturday an inquest was. held at Northchurch,
about 26 miles from town, before Francis Osbaldis-
tone, Esq., Coroner for Hertfordshire, on the body of
Mary Bye, who was killed near. Berkhampstead on
Thursday, by the breaking of an axle of one of the
engines on that line.
The first witness called was Robert Bye, who stated
that he lived at Aylesbury, and was husband to thd
deceased, who was nearly 70 years of age. On Thurs-
day last, about 11 o'clock, he accompanied her to the
railway-station house at Aylesbury, and put her into
a second-class carriage for London, and saw her off
by the train. She was then in good health, and sat in
the last carriage. He heard that day that an accident
had happened upon the railway, and that some per-
sons were injured, but did not learn at that time that
his own wife was one of them, though he went to the
station at five o'clock. On that night he received a
note, which caused him to go to Northchureh, and he
then saw his wife. She was quite dead at the time.
The CORONER here asked if Charles Callom, the
driver of the engine at the time of the accident, was in
attendance ?
Mr. Barker, the superintendent of the Railway
Company, replied that he was not in a fit state to be
present, and handed to the Coroner a certificate to that
effect.
Mr. Hilder, a surgeon at Berkhampstead, deposed
that on Thursday last, about twelve o'clock, he was in-
formed that an accident had happened on the railway
on the Dodswell embankment, near the Northchureh
tunnel, and he, in consequence, hastened there. en
approaching the spot, he observed the carriages in
great confusion, and several of them off the line of rail.
When he first saw the deceased she was in a cart, at-
tended by one of the passengers, and he observed that
she hada large wound upon the front of her head, and
several slight wounds about the face. She was at the
time insensible and in a state of collapse; and he
ordered her romoval to Northchurch. On reaching
the latter place he dressed her wounds, in which he
was assisted by Mr. Brown, gave her stimulants, and
had her put to bed. She was in such a state when he
saw her, that it would have been dangerous to bleed
her. e continued to visit her until the time of her
death, which took place about nine o'clock on the
same evening, and she never once rallied.
CORONER—What, in your opinion, was the imme-
diate cause of the deceased's death ? Witness— The
concussion occasioned by the accident, and the shock
to the nervous system.
Joseph Channel], of Aylesbury, labourer, deposed
that, on Thursday last, about twelve o'clock, he was
at work on the London and Birmingham Railway,
near Dodswell, where the embankment was about 15
feet from the level, and observed a train coming to-
wards him. When it had reached him within about
100 yards, and while going at a regular speed—he
should say about 25 miles an hour—he saw the en-
gine fall off the embankment on the left hand side,
and the carriages on the right side. The tender,
which was next the engine, fell with the engine on
the same side, and a second class carriage, which was
next the tender, tumbled down the embankment on

New Play by the Author of " Lords of Ellingham," " Lost
and Won," &c.

In Bvo. , price 45.,
Ti ONE ST Y. A Drama. In Five Acts.
By HENRY SPICER, Esq.,
" The preface to this drama appeals powerfully to the sym-
pathy of the reader. It suggests a long tale of hope, excited
only to be disappointed ; of promises, given with no sincerity
of intention to redeem them ; of feelings tampered witk and
time wasted ; in fact, of the usual occurrences that happen when
a dramatist, with genius to attract attention, but without influ-
ence to force respect, treats with the manager of a London
Theatre. The gentlemanly feeling of the writer evidently in-
duces him to suppress facts ; but his statement, partial and
subdued as it is, on this account more powerfully impresses, for
the injury must have been great that could have provoked such
a mind to hint at a reproach. There are many flee passages,
and a great number of sweetly poetical images and lines inter-
spersed through the work, the pervading sentiment of which is
refined and elegant."—Monthly Magazine, December.
G.W. I"iiekisson, 215, Regent-street (Successor to the late
James Fraser).

The forms
Of the heroic change from age to age,
The spirit in the forms remains the same.
As an abstract proposition, we at once admit the
truth of this assertion. The life of the present day,
doubtless, contains the elements of poetrybf tragedy,
but not of poetry for ourselves. A century hence
the poet may work np those elements into a thrilling
heart-rending tragedy, but the Scripture aphorism,
" A prophet hath no honour in his own country," is
a true one. No age was ever poetical to itself. It
contains the elements of poetry for the succeeding
age, as the age which preceded contained the ele-
ments of poetry for it ; but a tragedy, like a picture,
requires distance to bring.it out in all its beauty,- and
in spite of his theory, Mr. Marston has been com-
pelled to admit this. True, the scene of his
tragedy has been laid in the nineteenth century—
true, the dramatis person a are attired in the costume
of the present day. The language which they speak
is the language of past ages. lie has pointedly
adopted the language and the versification of the
dramatists of the Elizabethan age. Would he have
done this if he held perfect and undOubting faith in
his own theory ? We opine .not. The interest of
the play turns on the lutte which is constantly going
on between the aristocracy of birth and the aristocracy
of intellect ; and here again it strikes us that Mr.
Marston is false to his theory. That controversy
has been going on for centuries, and a Noble:of the
age of Elizabeth would have been as averse to per-
mitting his daughter to form an alliance with a
plebeian, however talented, as a Noble of.. he age of
Victoria. Would a Howard of that-56y have per-
mitted hi 3 daughter to form an alliance with Sir
Francis Drake Therefore Mr. Marston has not
chosen a subject exclusively of the present age, and
his tragedy would have been equally interesting, and,
perchance, more dramatic, if the scene had been laid
in the sixteenth instead of the nineteenth century.
With regard to the tragedy itself, it is replete with
poetry—true poetry, beautiful poetry—poetry that
speaks from the heart to the heart. It is -not a per-
fect tragedy, but•we hail it cordially as an earnest
of things to come. Mr. Marston can, and will, do
things that will throw this, his first attempt, into the
shade, albeit the Patrician's Daughter is entitled to
rank in the very first class of modern dramatic pro-
ductions. There is more promise in this play than in
any play that has been produced 'during the present
century. The plot is simple. Mordaunt (Mr. Ma-
cready), a man born in the humble class .of society,
whose father had earned his living by the labour of
his hands—his horny hands, which no aristocrat would
grasp save at a borough election—has, by his talents,
raised himself above his father's lot ; he is a Member
of Parliament—one of those men who, by his elo-
quence, leads senates to his will ; but let Mr. Marston
himself describe his hero in the eloquent words which
he puts into the mouth of Heartwell, Mordaunt's
friend

The Jury now retired for a few minutes, and re-
turned into Court, when the Foreman, addressing the
Coroner, said, "We find that the deceased, Mary
Bye, came by her death by accident—with a deodand
of five shillings on the engine ; and the Jury, in return-
ing that verdict, beg to recommend to the Company
that an empty carriage or luggage van should, in each
train, be placed between the engine and the passen-
gers' carriages; and they consider that if that had been
the case in the present instance, Lim accident would
not have ensued."

Mr. Creed, secretary to the Company, begged to
say that the Company had such 'a regulation under
consideration, and he was happy to say that the Di-
rectors had already made up their minds to adopt the
plan just suggested by the Jury.
The verdict was then recorded, and signed by the
Jurors.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.
A most melancholy accident occurred by the up-
setting of a boat in Kingston harbour, Upper Canada,
on the Ist of last month. Edward Hitchings, Esq.,
Barrister-at-law, of Kingston, and a native of this
city, accompanied by two young friends (brothers),
sons of John Jamieson, Esq., of Dublin, had, for the
purpose of fishing, engaged a sailing-boat, with the
management of which it appears they were unac-
quainted. A rope requiring adjustment at the top of the
mast, one of the brothers climbed up to rectify it, but no
sooner had he reached the top than the boat upset and
turned keel uppermost ; all three, however, succeeded in
getting to the boat and clinging thereto, which in
such a position floated. Being in the main channel,
they expected something would speedily pass and
pick them up ; but after waiting some time and no-
thing appearing, they agreed that one should swim to
shore and obtain a boat to save the other two. As
they were only about 300 yards from the shore,
the plan appeared feasible, and all this time, though
nearly submersed, they seemed to have entertained
no feelings of danger. Mr. Hitchings and one of
the brothers were good swimmers ; the other, un-
fortunately, could not swim ; and but for this latter
circumstance all three would probably have reached
the shore. It seems that Mr. Hitchings agreed to
remain with his young friend and the boat till the
other should succeed in making the land, with the
'view of procuring assistance. Here a series of mis-
fortunes happened which it is painful to reflect on
the brother who swam on shore, and who was near-
sighted, unfortunately lost his spectacles at the
time of the accident; this naturally added to
his fright, and his limbs being benumbed with
cold, himself fatigued with swimming, and the shore
whereon he landed strange to him and covered with
wood, he lost his way, and after wandering about for
two hours, found himself at the identical place at which
he started, and still in sight of the boat : here he saw the
other two poor fellows still clinging to it ; he called
out to them, and poor Hitchings made for answer
that they were both nearly exhausted. He then made
another trial for assistance, and after the lapse of two
more hours obtained a boat ; lout it was too late—
all was over—both had disappeared. Poor Hitch-
ings had remained by his friend until the latter par-
tially sank, and the boat having lost its equili-
brium, he made one dying struggle for the shore;
but his benumbed and paralyzed frame was unequal
to it. He was found not far from the shore, in only
four feet water, in the attitude of swimming, a corpse.
The other was found by the boat.—Oxford Herald.
The following is an extract from the Kingston Ga-
zette, Upper Canada :—Mr. Jamieson was only nine-
teen years of age. Mr. Hitchings was a native of
Oxford, in England, and connected vvith-somt of the'
most respectable inhabitants of that city. In the
year 1830 he came to this country for the purpose
of entering into the profession of the law. lie was
subsequently called to the bar, and practised
for several years at Toronto—where his fine talents
and high legal attainments, combined with great
Mr.
perseverance and strictly honourable conduct, so ;11
tiee to that
secured him a successful practice. On the estiti-j'Ash.
;:s Mind peculiarly
meat of a Court of Chancery in the Prov'in„',
11. having determined to confine his
t.''.ed the chambers of the
ciCuoaulrifit,edirlimlA,,hwichiththeehacraasettoof
".'istic energy proceeded
,tyt ando
this
s
'counsel and reporter, Mr. Russell.
country he immediately ob-
ctoelebtntgeldal
On his ree'tduq'rur.i.
ob-
tained a 10.g'hly lucrative and extensive equity prac-
tice, which has been constantly increasing until
his untimely death. The last act of his life
strikingly illustrated the kindliness of heart and
utter want of regard fcr self which have ever marked
his character. He was an excellent swimmer, and
could have reached the shore without difficulty, had
he not refused to leave Mr. Jamieson, who was un-
able to swim, and he thus sacrificed his life in the in
effectual attempt to save that of another.

Callom, the engine-driver in this unfortunate case,
some time ago received a medal from the Com-
pany, and such was the opinion entertained of him,
that he was the person always selected for any parti-
cular occasion.' As an instance, he was the driver of
the engine which took Marshal Soult to Liverpool,
and for the skill displayed by him on that occasion, that
distinguished soldier handed him a present of 101.
.•
The sufferer Totnlins was considered by his medical
attendants to be somewhat better last evening, but
considerable fears ars entertained for his ultimate
recovery. The inquiry lasted three hours, and ex-
cited intense interest.

EARL FITZWILLIAM AND THE
CORN-LAWS.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
The following letter was received from Earl
Fitzwilliam,, in reply to an invitation to attend the
Leeds AntiLCorn-law .Soiree : it unfortunately ar-
rived too late to be read at the meeting :
" Milton, Dec. 5, 1842.
"My dear Sir,—Saturday having been entirely
occupied with public business, this is the first oppor-
tunity I have had of answering your letter, and of
expressing how much I feel honoured by the invita-
tion to the intended meeting, which I would certainly
have attended if I had been at Wentworth. You are
probably aware that I consider corn as fit• as any
other article of import -to contribute to the national
revenue, by a uniform duty levied for that purpose;
but this is perfectly consistent (and is so considered
by foreign countries) with the most complete freedom
of trade. Such a duty is no more in contraversion
of free trade, than the tolls or rates paid by navi-
gators, or passengers to the Aire and Calder Naviga-
tion, or to the North Midland Railway. It is, in
truth, a payment of precisely the same character,
viz., for the maintenance of the establishment, and for
the interest of the debt of the community. I insist
the more strongly upon this, because I observe that
some persons hold that there is something peculiar
about corn which gives it a claim to exemption from
contributions to public revenue. This I conceive to
be a mistake. Another mistake is to suppose that
there are certain manufactures so important that they
ought to be protected by duty—this is the landowners'
mistake applied to other purposes, and must be
adopt the
know that
prepared las t autumnto aao
equally- guarded against. I advert -to it, because I
knov
quite mean
principlelt3•l of free trade.
Leeds was
not
throughout, and we also know that, at Lord Stanley's
re-election, a Ali. Brookes held that certain branches
of manufacture could not do without protection, and
thereby gave Lord Stanley a great trioloPh•
" Now, all these reservations must be cast away,
and the principle acted upon without exception, and I
trust that this will he the tone to-morrow—if it is
not, the meeting will do more harm than good, but I
hope all will be well.
" I beg to be believed, yours faithfully,
" FITZ WIL LIAM."

the right hand side, leaving the remaining part of the
train, he thought three carriages, on the railway. He
did not notice particularly how many carriages the
train consisted of, but he thought there were two first
class and two second class carriages'. Immediately
after the accident witness and two other men who
were at work with him, hurried to the spot, and the
first person he saw was Low, one of the Company's
overlookers, lying on the bank to the right. He next
saw the deceased in one of the compartments of the
second class carriage that had fallen on the right
hand bank. The carriage was lying on its side, and
he had been obliged to get upon the other side, which
was uppermost, and to get through the door, to her
assistance. He found her with her head under the seat,
and her legs :doubled under her. At the time he

Minds of thine order come not every year,
Nor are they grown in clusters ; instruments
Of power !if they be true,---of destiny !
Apostles to their age ! the virtuous
Hail them as Saviours, while thF common herd
Of coward knaves grow paralyzed with fear,
Expectant that their day is passing hence
This man is courted by Lord Lynterne, the Minister
of the day, and invited to his country house. Lord
Lvnterne has a daughter, the Lady Mabel (Miss
Helen Faucit), of whom rumour 'speaks as the pa-
ragon of her sex, and as Mordaunt says—
Rumour has not o'erdrawn her. She is rich
In beauty, and-in that which passeth beauty,
Or is perchance its source—a glorious soul.
I've known her but a month, and.yet she seems,
As tliehr own light, familiar to mine eyes.
She was methinks the vision which did haunt
Those reveries when mind shut out the sense,
Or else refined it. One resembling her
My fancy loved to picture, and my pen
To have as an ideal. Little need
That I should write again so. Nature's hand,
Anticipating mine, has wrought in, life
What I essayed on paper.
What wonder that they love. But the Lady Mabel
has all the prejudices of her station, and she knows
not how deeply she loves. She deems it impossible
she can love a parvenu. Her aunt, the
,Lady Lydia
(excellently acted by Mrs. Warner), takes advantage
of Mabel's aristocratic prejudices to crush her love in
the bud, and thus to avoid the mesalliance. She tells
Mordaunt that Mabel loves him, and urges him to
leave the Earl's house. As she had anticipated, this
induces Mordaunt at once to seek the Earl, avow his
love for Mabel, and demand her hand. Meanwhile
she seeks Mabel, tells her that the plebeian has taken
advantage of her condescending kindness to him, in-
terpreted it into love, and is at that moment closeted
with her father, and demanding her hand in marriage
as the price of his adhesion to the Earl's party. The
pride of the high-born Mabel is stung to the quick ;
she bursts in upon the conference of the Earl and
Mordaunt, at once disavows all love for him, and
tells him in answer to his remonstrance that she had, to
beguile ennui, twed with his heart, and that it was
sufficient honour .for him, the lowly-born, to have con-
tributed even in that manner to the amusement of one
who traced her ancestry up to the time of the Con-
quest. Mordaunt withdraws, his heart broken, and his
feelings blighted, and thus ends the third act. A lapse
of five years takes place, and at the opening of the
fourth act we find the parvenu Mordaunt a Baronet—
Sir Edgar Mordaunt—a star of the first magnitude in
the political world, a man whose alliance is courted by
the Earl of Lynterne, who, to secure it, has offered
him the Lady Mabel in marriage. They are betrothed,
the day of the nuptials is fixed, the wedding guests are
assembled at the Earl's residence, the writings are pre-
pared and only wait Mordaiint's signature,—he demurs,
and the Earl asks him—
Mean you to wed my daughter ? [pause)
Mordaunt (turning upon him fiercely). NO ! (rifler a
Frown not. I stand here to represent.
Those men of humble heritage who rose
To greatness by their virtues—those you deem
" Their country's ornaments," " Earth's master-spirits,"
" Whose merit outruns praise." Said you not so
Some moments hence ? In their name I say—No !
My wrong was theirs ; and they, through me, say—No !
This speech was most effectively given by Mr. Ma-
cready. lie was there as the representative of the
millions determined "to stand by his order." The
aristocrats by whom he was surrounded quailed before
him ; human thoughts and feelings had risen from the
depths beneath, and had broken up the icy surface of
conventionalism. Here was true tragedy. But still
the theory was not true ; the situation was sublime,
but it could not by any possibility have occurred at
the present day. the real Earl of Lynterne would
have coolly rung the bell and desired his servants to
order Mr..Mordaunt's carriage. A century hence this
little breach of the proprieties would not be perceived;
the reader would then be able to give himself up en-
tirely to the illusion of the scene. _ If the action had
been thrown a century back, we should not have per-
ceived this ; but when we are told that such a scene
took place at the present day, among the people whom
we constantly meet in our streets, and see in our se-
nate houses, we are almost tempted to exclaim with
liorace—" Quodcunque mihi ostendis sic incredulus
odi." In the fifth act we find Mabel dying of a broken
heart. The Lady Lydia, perceiving the misery she has
wrought, confesses that she has been the destroyer of
her niece by her machinations to prevent the alliance
with Mordaunt five years before, and in an agony of
grief throws herself at the feet of the dying girl to
ask her forgiveness. This scene was again true tra-
gedy, and tragedy of the highest order. Mrs. War-
ner'S acting in it was perfect, and drew down re-
peated rounds of applause. Taken as a whole, it was
decidedly the most perfectly-acted scene in the play.
The Earl, on hearing the confessionOf his sister, de-
thrtnines to seek Mordaunt. The Noble becomes
human, the man has conquered the aristocrat, and the
high-boys determines to humble himself to the ple-
beian, in order, if possible, to save his child. The
Lady Mabel, on becoming acquainted with his pur-
pose, hastens after him; to save him, as she says, from
scorn, from ignominy, and repulse. Again does she
burst in upon the conference of the patrician and ple-
beian, but not as before, to mock. No; she comes to speak
of love, of forgiveness, and to die—to die in the arms of
him who had been so deeply wronged, and so fatally
revenged. The play was completely successful, and
Macready's announcement of it for four nights a week
was received with the most enthusiastic applause.
Miss Helen Faucit, Mr. Macready, aiid-Mr. Marston,
the author, were successively called for, and received
with all the. honours ; and the success of the play
was complete. Macready acted Mordaunt most
effectively. He was the representative of a class—of
the class of men in opposition to the class of Noble,

thought slie was dead, but upon moving her she
groaned, and he found that she was not lifeless. He
assisted her out of the carriage, and she was attended
by a passenger, who was a medical man, and also by
Mr. llilder. She was the only person in the carriage.
The Rev. Christopher Erle, of Hardwick, was the
next witness. He stated he was a passenger in the
first compartment of a first class carriage, which
immediately followed that in which the deceased had
been in on Thursday last, on his way to town.
While the train was proceeding at the usual pace,
along the embankment near theDodswell tunnel, he
heard a dreadful crash, and a report, as loud as if a
field of artillery went off, and at the instant the pannel
of the seat behind him was stove in, and the flooring
underneath his feet broken up with great violence.
On looking out he saw on the left the wreck of the
engine and tender, and on the bank lay the engine-
driver and stoker. He, witness, got out as soon as
he could, and went to their assistance; first to the
stoker, and then to Callom, the engine-driver. The
latter, was evidently much stunned, but notwithstand-
ing this nothing could exceed the exertions which he
made to assist the passengers. In fact, nothing could
be more praiseworthy than his exertions, and no
blame' whatever could attach to him. The Rev. Geu-
tleman, in conclusion, said he was in the habit of
frequently travelling by the train of which Callom
was the driver, and he felt it to be his duty, from the
high -estimation in which he, Callom, was generally
held by the inhabitants of Aylesbury, for being a
steady, well-conducted man, as well as in justice
towards the Railway Company, to come forward on
the present occasion to give evidence of that which he
had witnessed.
John Lodge, of Northchurch, labourer, deposed
that on Thursday, about a quarter to twelve o'clock,
he was in a brick-field, about thirty yards from the
London and Birmingham Railroad, gathering some
chips, when he saw a train proceeding towards town,
and on its coming opposite to him he saw the engine-
wheels come off, roll down the embankment, burst
through the fence, and shoot past him with a rapidity
that was truly extraordinary.
Juror—Did you observe any piee,e of iron, or part
of the axle, start from the wheel after it parted from
the engine ? 'Witness—No, Sir, it was quit fiat.
Juror—l understand you had a very narrow escape
of the wheel striking you ? Witness—l had indeed.
John Pemberton stated he was assistant-engineer
on the London and Birmingham Railway, and had
been so for three years and a half. On Thursday
last,' at eleven o'clock, he left Aylesbury with the
London, or up-train, in company with Charles Cal-
lom, the engine-driver, who had been five years on
the line. The engine used on that occasion was one
that had been regularly used for six months. On
starting it was the duty of Callom and him (witness)
to examine the engine. He did so on the morning in
question, and it appeared all right, and the axle ap-
peared as usual. There was no machinery attached
to the fore-wheel of the engine. It was the fore-
wheel on the near side that flew off. The train was
going at a steady pace at the time the accident
occurred.

It appears that the Noble Earl, if he had been in
Yorkshire, would have thought it•his duty to attend
the Leeds meeting, quite regardless of the obloquy
that might have been cast upon him for co-operating
with the Anti-Corn-law League. This is another
proof of the high-minded disinterestedness and inde-
pendence of the Noble Earl, who has d;stinguished
himself, not only among his order, but among his
countrymen and his species, for chivalrous patriotism,
superiority to prejudice, and zeal in the pursuit of
duty.
Earl Fitzwilliam will be gratified to learn that no
principle short of perfect freedom of trade has been
advocated in Leeds either at this meeting or at any
other Anti-Corn-law meeting for several years. At
some of these meetings all wish for protection to
manufactures has been disclaimed in the most ex-

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
SUICIDE.—Mr. Baker, the. Coroner, held an in-
quest, on Saturday afternoon, at the Rose and Crown,
Bromley, upon the body of William Otley, of Ocean-
place, Stepney. From the evidence of a policeman of
the K division, it appeared that on Thursday night he
was walking up a lane, on the Bromley side of the
Tower Hamlets Cemetery, and saw a man apparently
reclining against the rails. He, thinking that the
person was drunk, went up to assist him, and saw that
a rope was passed round his neck, the other end be-
ing attached to the rails. He (witness) lost not a mo-
ment in cutting the rope, and with the assistance of a
brother constable, who at the time arrived, conveyed
him to the Bromley station-house, where it was as-
certained that life was not quite extinct, and Mr.
Garman, surgeon, of Bow-road, tried to bleed him..
A few drops flowed, and almost immediately after-
wards he expired. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Mr. Payne held an inquest at
a late hour the same evening in St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, upon the body of William James, aged 37,
a milkman, residing at 83, Cannon-street, Walbrook.
It appeared from the evidence adduced, that the de-
ceased, his brother, and a servant, named David
Morgan, had gone upon Tuesday morning last to
Finchley in a chaise cart, drawn by a young horse,
which had been purchased by deceased just seven days
before. 'When returning, about half-past five the
same morning, and on entering Finsbury-square, the
horse, on coming off the wood pavement on to the
stones, got frightened, and ran off. He had not pro-
ceeded, however, above fifty yards, when the cart was
overturned, the deceased falling under it. He was
conveyed in a hackney-coach to the hospital, where
he died on Friday morning. Verdict—" Accidental
death."

press terms, and at other times—iheprinciples laid
down clearly implied the same disclaimer. Not only
is this the case in Leeds, but at the largest con-
ferences of the Anti-Corn-law League held in Man-
chester and London, resolutions to 'the same effect
have been passed unanimously.
It is with great diffidence that we express dissent
from any opinion of Earl Fitzwilliam's on a subject
which he has treated so ably and peofoundly as he
has the Corn-law; but we confess that we do not
agree with his Lordship in "considering corn as fit
as any other article of import to contribute to the
national revenue by a customs duty levied for that
purpose:' It is indeed true, as his Lordship argues,
that a small fixed duty on corn imported, for the pur-
poseforeign countries) with the most
complete But it remains to be
considered whether it is consistent with the best prin-
ciple of taxation to levy a duty on the prime neces-
isso
ofco revenuens
freedomidered only,
by
ofly '
t irs " perfectly consistent (and
ade."
neces-
sary of life. It is generally admitted to be impolitic
to tax the raw materials of manufactures; and the
taxing of the chief article of daily food appears to us
to be still more objectionable ; for that in reality con-
stitutes a raw material of manufacture, and the neces-
sal f support of all labour. There is, moreover, this
peculiarity in the effect of taxing foreign corn,
namely, that it raises the price not only of the corn
imported, but also of all the home-grown corn. We
that the foreigner pays the duty, in a I
know that this effect is doubted by some
diminution of
the profit which he would otherwise
who believe
receive on the
corn brought into this country. But we conceive
must be to diminish the quantity importedforeign corn
that the effect of an import duty en
; and what-
article in the
ne vaerrk de itm
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may of
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raise the price
must raise the
pthrict contracts the
eheinfulsloemxotendtegorfeet,heindasutiny,nobhutasitit
power of importing corn with a profit and thereby
reduces the quantity actually
imported. A
fixed duty of 4s. per quarter, for example, would in
many cases prevent the Dantzic, or Odessa, or New
York corn-merchant from importing it may turn
the scale in many a calculation to the side of de-
clining the venture. A duty of 2s, 6d., or even of
ls., would operate in the same manner, though with
proportionably less force. Now it seems to us that
whatever diminishes the supply, or raises the price of
the chief article of human food, is an evil. Food can
no more be too cheap than the raw materials of manu-
factures can be too cheap. There ought, therefore,
to be no tax whatever on corn, and no species of limi-
tation on the supply from any quarter of the globe.
If we are mistaken on -the oint in which we have
ventured to differ from Earl I itzwilliam, we shall be
happy to be set right.

Frederick Parker, foreman to Mr. Berry, the super-
intendent of the Railway Company at their works at
Wolverton, for ten years, deposed that, on the 30th of
March, 1842, the engine Aylesbury No. 2, was
brought to the works to undergo a general inspection,
and have any repairs it might require done to it. The
engine was not built at the Company's establishment,
but he, witness, could tell whether an engine was well
built or not. The repairs done to the engine Ayles-
bury No. 2, where she had new tires on the driving
wheels, the front wheels were repaired, the pistons
were' repaired, the cylinders were bored, the steam
valves and axle-boxes were repaired, the framing
round the fire-boxes and starting-gear were repaired,
and flag signals, the use of which had been since dis-
continued, were put on her. He examined the engine
thoroughly, and the axle in particular, upon that occa-
sion. Did not detect any flaw or defect in the shaft.
If there had been a defect at that time he thought he
must have detected it.

ALLOTTING LABOURERS.—The labourers belonging
to the parish of Brill have been suffering severe pri-
vations from the want of employment. A short time
since nearly forty persons belonging to that parish,
were inmates of the union-house at Thome.
Those out of the house unemployed made an
attempt to see the Duke of Buckingham, at Wotton-
house, his Grace being a considerable occupier in
the parish, for the purpose of stating their grievances.
Their first attempt to get a hearing was unsuccessful ;
a second, however, was made by between 30 and 40
able-bodied men, in a body, which was successful
The Duke relieved their immediate necessities, and
ordered the parish officers of Brill to attend at
IVotton-house ; requested them to call a parish meet-
ing, for the purpose of allotting the men among the
ratepayers; and stated, that if the rest of the rate-
payers would take the men according to their assess-
ment to the rates, he (the Duke) would choose eight
labourers for his share for the winter, which is some-
thing more than his proportion. The parish meeting
was accordingly called, and an arrangement made to
send one labourer for each 701. assessment to the
poor-rates ; those paying less than a 70.1. assessment
to take a labourer so many days a week in proportion.
In the course of the past week the brooms have
disappeared from the mast-heads of many of the ships
in the various docks and canals within the port,
which maybe regarded as a very palpable indication
of a favourable move in maritime affairs. The ship-
wrights, too, who have been, very much to their dis-
advantage, idle hands about the banks of the Thames
for some time, begin to find occupation. The value
of tonnage is improving, and with the spring we may
expect more general and increased activity.
The Earl of Lucan and St. Clair O'Malley, Esq.,
are superseded from the Commission of the Peace for
the County of. Mayo, by the direction of the Govern-
ment.—Dublm Evening Packet.
DOUBTFUL SECURITY.—Looking at a mad bull
through a telescope inverted, for the purpose of
keeping the animal at a respectable distance.—Neu'
York Paper.

CORONER —Supposing you were now told that the
shaft was hollow, could you account for it in any
way ? Witness—l really cannot. Had it been hollow
in March last, I feel conscious I must have detected it
from the test to which I submitted it.

CORONER—Did you sound. or ring it, as itis called?
Witness—l did not then ; it would be no use in doing
so with the wheels on. The witness here.said the
axles of those engines were made of wrousht-iron,
and gave a description of their manufacture. the axle
in question was four inches in- diameter, but some
were made four inches and a half. Witness recol-
lected a similar aecident to the present happening to
another engine some months ago, when the axle broke,
yet the engine proceeded to its destination.
CORONER—Had this accident occurred to a six-
wheeled engine, would the consequences have been so
serious ? Witness—The six wheels would have made
no differdnce. The witness, in conclusion, said there
must have been originally a flaw in the axle in ques-
tion, and it had latterly increased.
Mr. Edward Berry, the gentleman under whom
the last witness is employed, was the last witness
called. He stated that the engine in question had,
since the 2d of January, 1840, ran upwards of 40,000

Lodge of this town,
Fellows,Gan of the Odd
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nc Kt.h—e A" tj
aames
last night, Mr. Wallace, M.P.,
numerousw at
t,,
was presented with a
splendid engraving of the insignia of the order, in a
gilt frame, of an unique description, bearing the fol-
lowing in3cription :
" PaEsEstED
To ROBERT WALLACE, Esq., of Kelly, , Ar.
I r•I
As a Mark of Respect,
By his BROTHER ODD FELLOW&
Greenock, 184.2." '
_

The Prov. G. M., in presenting the emblem, delivered
a speech in which he highly eulogised Mr. Wallace
for his attention to the interests of the order on seve-
ral occasion. Mr. Wallace, in returning thanks, ex•
pressed his entire approbation of such a benevolent
institution, and stated his willingness at all times to
promote its welfare.— Greenock Advertiser of Tuesday.

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Landed here. She spoke the Pique, off the Start Point,
and passed the Thunderer yesterday, on her way from
the Downs to Plymouth.
The Wasp, 16, Commander Drew, sailed yesterday
for Bermuda.

The Fearh s ; and Lightning, steamers, have returned
to Woolwich from the Downs. The Echo, steamer,
was also there yesterday.
The Alban and Megsera, steamers are nearly ready
for sea, at Woolwich.

In Harbour--ST. incent,Victory, Excellent, Royal
George, Bellone (Austrian), Semarang, Frolic, Nau-
tilus, Thunderbolt, steam frigate Rocket, and Volcano,
steamers ; Sovereign, transport.
At Spithead—Cambridge and Warspite.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
PROMOTIONS.—Commander—J. Hallowes (of the
St: Vincent), to the rank of Captain, in honour of
her Majesty's visit to that ship on a recent occasion.
Lieutenant—J. A. Gordon (b) of the Warspite;
Edward Peirse, of the Indus, to the rank of Com•
maiden

Mates—Robert Hopkins (1835), of the Warspite;
John N. Norman (1836), late of the Racer; Frede.
rick T. Chetham (1838), of the Queen ' • and Henry
R. Foote (1836), late of the Albert, to the rank of
Lieutenant.
APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenants--11. W. Baugh, to
the Samarang; W. Horton, from the St. Vincent to
the Gorgon ; J. C. Prevost, to the St. Vincent, vice
Horton ; F. W. Horton from the Endymion to the
Dido.

Assistant Surgeon—G. St. G. Bowen, to the Minden..
Midshipmen—Frederick Rich, to the Pique ; J.
Cust, from the Warspite, to the Thunderbolt.
Volunteers Ist Class—S. L. Peile, to the Samaraniz ;
A. D. Mercer, to the Tweed.
Acting Master and Pilot—E. M. Chaffers, to the
Warspite, vice Vanzetti, superseded.
Master's Assistant—G. F. M,Dougall to this
Samarang.
Clerks—W. Hickman (in charge) to the Spider; J.
A. Messum, to the Thunderbolt.
First Engineers—John Boswell, from Wildfire, to
the Virago ; W. Dunkin, of the Gorgon steamer, has
been presented by the Admiralty board with a medal
for zeal and good conduct.
COAST GuAan.--Lieut. William Southey, to Win-
chelsea Station ; Lieut. W. A. Ferrer, to the Fairlight
Station. Removals—Lieut. William Tullis, from
Belhelvie to Gourock ; Lieut. W. Congdon, from
Garnish to Milk Cove; Lieut. John Douglas Ramsay,
from Carrickfergus to Misner Haven; Lieut. Frede-
rick Hire, from Priory to Cornhill. The appoint..
ment of Lieut. Henry Augustus Finucane is eancelkd.

YlPOOF:RorErm.:772onAme3oll,:isf(ouirEG-
cTopmAarmnitednrseCialoißTvT:pmoaNsels7;:iwN.Vassg.
CITY, SATURDAY ,/2vENING.
little lower again to-day. An inf:uential house in
tghaeveponsoittiiocne
ofto the lenders Lombard-street, which held fur.'ds at 2+ per cent.,
c for the future they
would be unable to afford re.rore than two per cent.
The Bank averages ev'dibit no material change In
of the former rep) ration since the publication
the circulation The bullion has increased, but
':ias been moderately contracted. The
thsfri,ement was so very lately issued as to
hmaovnetli'letr:r acted much from the importance of the pre-
sent.4he arrival of the Locust steamer from Malta, with
the Chinese treaty, accompanied by a letter from the
Emperor, undertaking to attach his signature thereto
so soon as it shall have received the ratification of
Queen Victoria, was made known in the course of the
day, and the event seemed to create much interest.
among commercial men, inasmuch as little further
time will now elapse before the document passes into
the hands of the Emperor for consummation. So
much as is anticipated from the late arrangement in
the way of trade, it is no more than natural that a
somewhat feverish anxiety should be felt by sanguine
and enterprising persons for its formal completion,.
The treaty will no doubt be honoured with her 111a-
' jesty's autograph with all practicable dispatch, and as
speedily transmitted back to the celestial empire as it
has been transmitted to Europe.
EUN.—The business transacted to-day in tha Stock
Exchange has been but limited ; the market is,
however, rather flat. Consols are 93i • Three per
Cent. Reduced, 941 -I; Ditto Three-and-it:Half, 1001;
Exchequer Bills, 51s. 535.
Spanish Securities are flat and heavy ; the Three
per Cents. are now 17.1, and the Fives 23 ; Mexican
Bonds are firm at 31k ; Tiutch Five per Cents.,
101+; Ditto Two-and-a--Ilalf per Cents... 52t.
Very little- businet, -doing in the Share Market-
Prices are firmer,
Livxnrooz COTTON MARKET.--The demand during
k
e has been done in speculation, and for home
but li tet] l'as scarcely been so large as previousl
y ;
thethe :eiquiry has been limited. American descriptions
/..ave been drooping. The sales to-day are 3,000 bags.
SHARES.—We have had a fair amount of business
doing to-day, at moderate prices.
The New York papers, brought by the ship Hot-
tinguer, reached London this morning. They are but
one day later than the former advices. The New
York Herald, of the 20th, states that the Stock Board
exhibited no new feature. Sales of State Stock
were, to a fair extent, at fair prices ; Fancy Stocks
were down ; Delaware and Hudson fell 1 per cent.
The packet ship Hendrick Hudson, for London,
was to sail on the 21st.
The-quarterlv average of the weekly liabilities and
assets of the Bank of England, from the 10th Sep-
tember to the 3d December, as published in tire Ga-
zette of last evening, exhibits a decrease in the circula-
tion of 341,000/. ; deposits, 115,000/. ; securities,
724,000/. ; and an increase in the bullion of 195,0001.

TIIE NIGER EXPEDITION.—The Wilberforce steam
vessel, recently returned from the Niger expedition,
was aid off at Woolwich on Wednesday last, and
the kroomen transferred to the 'William and Mary
yacht. The Kroomen appear a hardy race of men,
and prove excellent sailors on their native seas,
and able and willing to work ; but in this
1 northern climate they complain of the piercing
winds going through them, although com-
fortably clothed, and with flannel shirts next
their body. The Wilberforce left the Soudan
steam-vessel at Fernando Po, and it is expected she
will receive the slight repairs she will require there.
The Albert steam-vessel is still on the coastof Africa;
and, owing to her small draught of water, it was said
she was to be employed in looking after slave ves-
sels.An impression prevails amongst the few
remaining of the crew of the Wilberforce that
she will be re-commissioned in the spring of
next year, and be worked exclusively by volun-
teers, assisted by Kroomen, and again proceed to
the Niger. That river is described as being for
about twenty miles below the spot where the model
farm was one entire marsh, the whole of that distance
clothed on each side with magnolia trees, growing
into the river, and presenting a singular appearance
where the rife and fall of the tide had washed away
the earth from their roots. It was invariably in pass-
ing through this spot that the greatest number of
cases of fever and deaths occurred amongst the white
portion of the crew, and even the West Indians em-
ployed in the expedition could not resist the effects op
the malaria. The country above Idah is described
as comparatively beautiful and fertile, and the intel-
ligent portion of the crew of the Wilberforce think a
situation for the model farm ought to have been
selected farther up the river, if such could have been
obtained from the King of that co country.The Niger
at Idah is represented as being about twice as
broad as the Thames at Woolwich, ands
in some parts immediately below Idah, about
three times the breadth of the Thames in
that quarter. The dew falls every evening after
sunset in ter marsh dew
of the Niger in the form
of a dense fog of greater intensity than was lately
experienced on the River Thames. Several or
the black crew of the Wilberforce, on being paid off,
were very Proud of being freemen, and proceeded to
Londogi t.):,e same evening, with the view of obtaining
vessels, The great majority understood and could
speak English very well, and conversed with each
other in that language.
RETURN OF POIRRY TO CILAMLEIGII.--The parish
Church of Chawleigh, as tradition says, was, by its
founders, the Roman Catholics, dedicated to St. An-
drew, who, of course, is the tutelar saint of the parish.
Wednesday, Nov., 30th, a day marked in the calendar
as St. Andrew's day (notice having been given the
Sunday previous, exhorting the inhabitants to retina
to that duty they had so long neglected), the. bell
tolled, the Rev. Divine with his Popish ean omea ls
walked to the church ; but fie! enlightenedinhabit-
ants of Chawleigh, only two were found to do ho-
mage to their patron saint. Report says it was by
order of the Bishop, and the inhabitants expect soon
to see lighted tapers oit the altar.—Exeter Paper.
STATE OF TRADE IN PAISLEY.—Work of all kinds
continues to get every day more difficult to be ob-
tained in this quarter, and the unceasing destitution
of the mass of the population beggars all description.
As a proof of this, the numbers on the relief list for
the week ending the 22d of November was 8,626—
week ending the 29th of November.—males, 1,594,
dependents, 4,698-6,292 ; females, 1,520, dependents,
1,748-3,268 ; total, 9,560. Increase, 934. While
the numbers of the destitute are thus rapidly aug-
menting to the highest amount of last year, we are
truly sorry to convey the alarming intelligence that
the funds at the disposal of the relief committee are
about exhausted, and that they have already run
themselves so deeply in debt to preserve the peace and
lives of the inhabitants, that it is now a serious ques-
tion with the members whether or not they will con-
tinue their services a day lonsrer.—Glaseow naner.