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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1845.

could not but acknowledge that a line which would con-
nect them with the manufacturing districts of the north
would also be most beneficial to their trade.—(Hear.)
'There was another railway proposed, which would unite
with this line, and would give them an opportunity of
travelling and conveying goods between that town and
Newbury, Ilsley, and Oxford, and so northwards. This
conflux of railways must be beneficial to their local
trade.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member expressed his
hope that they would make common cause with the pro-
jectors of the line, and do all in their power to secure
the success of that desirable undertaking.
Other gentlemen addressed the meeting at some length,
and the motion having been carried with three cheers,

The CHAIRMAN said the unanimity of the meeting was
a source of great satisfactior to him. He was most
anxious to promote the undertaking by every means in
his power. He would represent to the Earl of Clarendon
the feelings of the meeting, and he felt assured that in
as far as the property of the Noble Earl was concerned,
every facility would be offered to the undertaking.
The petitions then received numerous signatures, and
the meeting broke up.—Hampshire Advertiser.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—(YEsTnnDAY.)
Yesterday, if not a very busy, was an important day at
the corner, inasmuch as the hopes and fears of the backers
of Merry Monarch were effectually set at rest by a de-
claration that he would not start, owing, it was reported, to
his having fallen lame; while to increase the excitement,
Mentor, who but the day before, owing to a similar rumour,
bad receded to 40 to 1, sprung to 12 to 1, at which price
nearly all the money for which he was backed (some three
or four hundred pounds at a guess) was laid out. Miss
Sarah was quoted at 3 to I, layers, Weatherbit at 7 to 1, laid
once to a small snm, and afterwards offered, but not currently.
The Pacha at 11 and 12 to 1, both taken in several quarters,
and Red Robin at 16 to 1, to which figure he rose from 1,000
to 45, laid twice at the commencement of the betting.
Forth's lot, now confined to Mr. Irwin's two and John
DAries, was backed by Mr. Irwin himself at 20 to 1,
but did not appear to have any admirers out of the stable.
The other changes were of little moment. Closing prices
ST. LEGER.
2 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's lot—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's lot—taken
3 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Miss Sarah
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor
12 to 1 agst Mr. Painter's The Pacha—taken
14 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England
15 to I agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa
16 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin
18 to 1 agst Mr. Watts' The Baron
25 to 1 agst Lord Milltown's Duc-an-Durras—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Mid-Lothian—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland
33 to 1 agst Mr. llesseltine's Fitzallen—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way
40 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger
30 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Worthless—taken
66 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Chertsey

THE NEW GERMAN llOSPlTAL.—Yesterday,
meeting was held at the London Tavern for the purpose of receiv-
ing the report of the Provincial Committee appointed at a public
meeting held at the same place on the 18th of June last, at which
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge presided, when it was
unar.imously resolved that a hospital should be established in Lon.
don for the reception of all poor Germans and others speaking the
German language. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., presided on the
occasion. The report of the Provisional Committee stated that the
prospects of the intended charity were favourable, and promised
the greatest success. It was supported by many illustrious per.
sonages, who have taken the institution under their protection,
amongst whom may be enumerated the Queen, 1001. ; Prince
Albert, 1001. ; the Queen Dowager, 100/. ; the King of Prussia,
3001, and 1001. annually; the King of Hanover, 1501., and 501.
annually ; the Duchess of Kent, 100/. ; the Duke of Cambridge,
501.; the Duchess of Cambridge, 251.; the Emperor of Russsia,
1001. ; the King of Denmark, 1001.; the King of Bavaria, 1001. ; the
King of Saxony, 501, and a long list of influential subscribers and
donors. The report stated that the appeal to the public for pro-
viding funds for the purchase and fitting up the house at Dalston
(la'ely occupied by the Infant Orphan Asylum Society) and the
proper maintenance of the hospital has resulted in the sum of
3,3001. donations, and 350/. annual subscriptions ; in addition to
which the committee have received 1001. donation, voted by the
Senate of the Free City of Hamburg. Several committees have
also been formed in England and Germany for the purpose of
raising subscriptions. The original estimate of 5,0001., for the
purchase, repairs, and fitting up the interior of the hospital, will
not be materially exceeded, and the whole is now nearly completed,
and will be opened for the reception of patients on the 15th of
October next, the anniversary of the birthday of the King of
Prussia. The report was unanimously adopted, as likewise the
rules and regulations proposed by the committee; and, thanks
having been voted to the chairman, the Meeting separated.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident took
place on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on Thursday
morning about one o'clock, which was attended with the death
of George Macklin, one of the guards. It appears that Macklin
has been employed on the line for only four months, and in ac-
cordance with a custom which provides that all new guards be
appo nted to the charge of luggage trains as an initiatory step, he
had charge of a train of this kind which left Glasgow at eleven
o'clock on Wednesday night. The train reached Linlithgow in
safety, where one of the trucks was to be left, and for the sake of
convenience it was the last In the train. It was in connexion
with this particular truck that Macklin lost his life, but as no
person saw the accident, the particulars cannot be given with cer-
tainty. From the position, however, in which the body was found,
it is supposed to have occurred as follows :—Before the train had
been fully stopped he had swung himself on the buffers of the
second last truck in order to save himself the trouble of running
forward and uncoupling the last one at the proper time; and
while in this situation, he had fallen down on the rail, and im-
mediately the remaining truck passed over his body. The unfor-
tunate man was quite unable to speak, and died in about a quar-
ter of an hour afterwards.—Sco!sman.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON
ATMOSPNERIC RAlLWAY.—Yesterday forenoon a lengthened in-
quiry was instituted before Mr. W. Carter, and a jury, at the
White Horse Inn, Croydon, on the remains of Michael Murphy,
a,red 3.2, who was killed on Friday last during some experimental
trips on the above (atmospheric) line. Mr. Samuda, the patentee
of the line, and several gentlemen connected with railways, were
resent during the proceediins. The jury having viewed the
bo ly of the decca-ed, which was frightfully mutilated, several
witnesses were ca:led, who clearly proved that the deceased had
sufficient warning to get out of the way when the train was com-
ing, but which warning he did not heed. The jury, after a few
minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of" Accidental death."

INQUEST ON MR. OLDFIELD.—Yt s'erlay Mr. G.
J. Mills resumed, at the Marquis of Hastings, Ossulston-street,
N., road, the inquest on the young gentleman who c immitted
s.•i •ide in a hors• of ill-fame, 26, Alilenham-street, which was
a,jrairned from last Friday, that the body might be identified.
Mrs. Emily Oldfield, the wife of Mr. 041 field, repe-
rnak,r, Southgate-road, Ball's-pond, Islington, who was
t:,,p:y affected, during her evidence, stated that the deceased was
h-r inn, and that he was warehouse onrk in the employ of Messrs.
Warwick and Sons, wholesale druggists, Garlick-hill. Last
Tu-sday morning he left home far his office, and told witness
that he would, if allowed by his employers, go with some friends to
Grave-end that day. She gave him Ss. 6d , but did not know what
outer money he had. She never afterwards saw him alive. Her
impression was that he had been drugged in the house in Aldenham-
street, and then murdered. The coroner assured Mrs. Oldfield that
both he and, the jury were fully convinced, by the evidence given
on the fist day, that her son had not been drugged. Mr. Wrent.
in,,re, brother and assistant to Mr. Wrentmore, surgeon, said that
he sold to the servant of the house in Aldenham-street, half an
ounce of the essential oil of almonds, in an ounce and a half
bottle. He imagined that it was required by a soap-maker or a
pastry-cook. Mr. G. Wakefield, surgeon, examined the body,
which, from the tesophagus downwards, gave evidence of the
destructive presence of prussic acid, and which, no doubt, was the
cause of death. The quantity sold the servant was sufficient to kill
four persons. The jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned
a verdict," That George Oldfield, jun., died by taking the essential
oil of almonds with his own hands, but that there was no evidence
of his state of mind at the time that he took it." The jury accom-
willed the verdict with a censure on Mr. Wrentmore, jun., for
having so incautiously sold the poison.

ROBBING FURNISHED LODGINGS. —Yesterday,
Thomas Benjamin Matthews, a man of respectable family, who
was stated to have been a lawyer's clerk, but for a considerable
time without other employment than occasional writing, was
charged at the Worship-street Police-court, with his wife, with
robbing their furnished lodgings. The prisoners had both of them
an exceedingly meagre and pinched look, but their apparel, though
scanty and threadbare, seemed to be worn with a scrupulous re-
gard to cleanliness and neatness. The charges against them
baying been proved, the male prisoner said he had been driven by
distress to the commission of these offences, although he belonged
t a family all of whom were highly respectable, and had himself
been well brought up. His father, who is dead, had, he said, been
a magistrate, and he has a brother a clergyman, rector of a parish
at Doncaster, and it was but on Sunday that he received tidings of
the death of his mother. He asserted that, having expectations
of property, he intended to make good everything belonging to
others that he had made free with under the pressure of distress,
and ho hoped the magistrate would deal leniently with him. He
begged that, at all events, his unfortunate wife, who had acted
under his control, should be set at liberty. Mr. Bingham did dis-
charge the wife, but he remanded the male prisoner till Friday.
KEMEDY FOR THE DISEASE IN POTATOES.—The
following is a remedy proposed by Mr. Prideaux, the eminent agri-
cultural chemist of Plymouth :—Amongst the most effectual pre-
ventives and correctives of putrefaction, are chloride of lime and
salt`; both quite wholesome, and consisting of elements suitable for
manure. For arresting the decay in the ground, a mixture of
thole—say I cwt. chloride of lime, 3 cwt. salt, per acre—may be
strewed round the plant, and immediately covered in (for day-light
kill, the chloride of lime). Or if the weather should, happily,
become dry, it may be applied liquid, at the rate of 1 gaL water to
1 lb. of the mixture. Potatoes dug apparently sound and subject
to rot afterwards, may be first washed in water, and then steeped in
the•above solution 12 hours (perhaps lees time will be found to do).
The same liquid will do for many quantities of potatoes, by adding
mote of the mixed salts and chloride, as they absorb it out; for
whtch the taste may be a sufficient guide. The salt should be
clean, such as is sold for about Is. 6d. per cwt. for agricultural
purposes; foul salt would exhaust the purifying quality of the
chloride. The chloride of lime (bleaching powder) should be of
the very best quality, which is the cheapest for use, as it is a
perishable article. The salt should be well mixed with the chloride
first, as the latter is apt to curdle in water alone : and no iron or
mpg of any kind should touch it, either in mixing or In solution,
AS Metals quickly exhaust its qualities.—Western Times.
ROBBERY BY A FALSE FRIEND—At the Thames
Polle-court yesterday, a young Irishwoman, named Sarah
Downly, applied to Mr. Broderip, the presiding magistrate, to
solicit his advice and assistance. The applieant, whose sobbing
almost choked her utterance, stated that she came from Dublin a
fortnight ago in the Devonshire steamer, for the purpose of emi-
grating in one of the New York liners for America, and provided
herself with every requisite for the voyage. During the trip from
Dublin to London she formed an intimacy with a Cornwall woman,
named Williams, who embarked on board the Devonshire at Fal-
mouth. The woman represented that she was proceeding to
London to take charge of her brother-in-law's children. Having
obtained her confidence the Cornwall woman proposed that
they should engage an apartment in London between them.
The applicant consented, and they hired a lodging at No. 4,
Well.street, Wellclose-square, where they remained until Sunday.
On Sunday week her fellow.lodger borrowed a sovereign, and on
SatOrday another, which she promised to repay when her brother-
in-law came to London. On Sunday morning while eke was
dressing, her companion managed to possess herself of the key of
her trunk, in which all her property was deposited, and soon
afterwards sent her on an errand, and on her return home she dis-
covpced that her trunk had been opened, and everything of value
bad been taken out by her false friend. The poor creature, who
appeared quite heart-broken, said she had riot a friend in England,
and was: quite destitute; all; her money was gone, and the stores
she had provided for the intended voyage to America. Mr.
Broderip gave the young woman some money to support her
teraporarily, until inquiries could be made.
FATAL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.—OII Sunday
night, 'between ten and eleven o'clock, an aged widow woman,
named Horley, who occupied apartments at the house of Mr. Hart-
well. shoemaker, Planover.street, Lewisham, fell down stairs from
the attic bedroom to the passage upon her head while drunk, and
was picked up in a state of insensibility, and in a short time after.
rude an cowl to WA
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LYCEUM THEATRE.
A new and original comedietta (and for once the
word comedietta, as applied to a one-act piece, is not a
misnomer) entitled Peter Jenkins; or, Fibbin? for a
Friend, was produced at this theatre ast evening, and
an excellent comedietta it is. Mr. David Brown (Mr.
Meadows) is a partner in a mercantile house, who mixes
up sentiment and the main chance in the oddest manner
possible. His partner is Mr. Whiffen (Keeley) a plain
straightformard man of business, who makes it his boast
that he has never told a lie in his life. David Brown is
surprised and disappointed at discovering that his ladye
love, Miss Jenkins (Miss Dawson), a young lady with
2,0001. in her own right, has eloped with a gay
Lothario ; and Whiffen is surprised and pleased
at receiving a note from young Victor de Mont-
morency (Mr. Wigan), a Frenchman, returning
him 501. which he had borrowed of him, and in-
viting him to his cottage at Richmond, where he is
spending the honeymoon with his young wife. Brown,
who is going to the Star and Garter, gives Whiffen a
cast down in his gig. Now Mrs. Montmorency is the
very Miss Jenkins who was engaged to Brown, and Mont •
morency, who is awfully jealous, has discovered Brown's
portrait in his wife's possession ; to appease him the
wife declares it is the portrait of her brother Peter
Jenkins, and Miss Clear (Mrs. Keeley), the teacher at the
boarding-school from which the elopement took place, and
who has accompanied the lovers, vouches for the truth of
the statement. The confusion which arises when Mr.
David Brown makes his appearance as the companion of
Whiffen may be easily imagined. Brown, however, is
got rid of before any discovery takes place, and Miss
Clear, who has her own designs on Whiffen, persuades
him to declare to Montmorency that Brown is Peter
Jenkins. Old Jenkins, however, arrives, and when
Montmorency introduces Whiffen as a friend of the
family, and the intimate associate of his son Peter,
the old man is astounded. He has no son. Miss Clear
again prompts Whiffen. Peter is a wild dog, has outrun
the constable, the father cannot bear to hear his name
mentioned, and for that time Montmorency is pacified ;
but Brown again makes his appearance, and Mont-
morency is determined to bring about a reconciliation,
by introducing them to each other, and then it is dis-
covered that Peter Jenkins is David Brown. Mont-
morency declares he will repudiate his wife, and
annihilate Whiffen, but again Miss Clear recon-
ciles everything. She declares that her father
had determined to sacrifice her to another ; that
years ago she had been engaged to Whiffen ; that
they had kept up a secret correspondence ; and that
Whiffen had sent her his portrait by Brown, who, for
motives best known to himself, had substituted his
own ; that on Montmorency finding the portrait, his
wife, in order to spare her friend's feelings, had said it
was the portrait of Peter Jenkins ; but that now all ob-
stacles being removed, she can make her dear Whiffen
happy—and most happy, too, does she make Mont-
morency, for she has an enormous appetite, and he is
right glad to get her out of his house. This little play
is admirably written and admirably acted. Mr. and
Mrs. Keeley and Wigan were called tor at the con-
clusion, and the piece was announced :for repetition
amidst unbounded applause.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION.

MEETING OF SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S

SUPPORTERS.

Yesterday evening a crowded meeting of the friends of
Sir William Molosworth was held in the Literary In-
stitution, Borough-road, at eight o'clock. The Theatre
of the Institution, which is calculated to hold 1,200 per-
sons, was crammed to suffocation, an :I at least as many
more were compelled to leave, having been unable to
find admittance.

Sir William, on entering, was greeted with enthu-
siastic cheering, which lasted several minutes.
Mr. MARTIN was called to the chair, and proceeded
to congratulate the meeting on the prospect they had of
returning their candidate, despite of the unworthy con-
duct pursued by Mr. Miall, in seeking to divide the li-
beral interest iu the Borough.
Sir W. MonEswoaTu then rose to address the meet-
ing, but was interrupted by a person in the body of the
room, who was, however, put down by the indignant
shout that arose from all parts of the Theatre. The
Hon. Baronet was then allowed to proceed. He thanked
them for the enthusiastic reception they had given him.
In all the meetings ho had held he had been equally
well received, and he believed that his principles had
been generally approved of.—(Cheers.) He had so
• often told them what those principles were that he sup-
posed they must now have them by heart.—(Cheers.)
He would not, therefore, go over the ground again, but
instead he should, with their permission, review the
leading features of the contest as far as it had gone.
And, first, as to the reasons which had induced him to
come forward. He had been asked to stand by a num-
ber of the electors in that Borough, and he was sorry,
exceedingly sorry, to find that after his address had been
published of those gentlemen who had prayed him
some
.to come forward had gone over to another party.—
(Cries of " Shame.") There were but two antagonists
in the Borough, for Mr. Pileher's chairman had pub-
licly stated that that gentleman's committee had called
upon the Liberal electors, asking them to support Mr.
Wall in his election.—(Cheers, and cries of " Shame.")
and tremendous uproar.) He was, however, confident
of success; and when retuned to Parliament, he trusted
that the angry feelings which now actuated them would
be soft, cod down, and that they would, even if late, do
him full iustice.—(Cheers.) But what had first occa-
sioned this disunion in the Liberal ranks ? Why, the
question of Maynooth.—(Cheers and hisses.)—llid he
shirk that question ?—(Cries of " No, no," and cheering,
which was greatly increased when a stentorian voice
shouted out—" You're a straightforward honest man.")
—Sir William attempted to toldress the meeting in con•
tinuatien, hut was obliged to sit down for a time, as it
was absolutely impossible to make himself heard in con-
sequence of the confusion arising from the dense
crowd admitted into the building. After con-
siderable
exertion OR the part of the Chair-
man, the Hueourable Baronet proceeded to explain
hi.; reasons for holding that the grant to Maynooth was
a just one. Would any man there find fault with a
measure a filch provided that a proper eel:cation should
be given to the ministers, who were to direct, at a future
period, the religion of seven millions of Irishmen?
Let thein do away with the monster church of Ireland
—(cheer)—th :t incubus which press. d upon the ener-
gies of toe cewitry—(contiuued cheering)—and then
the Irish would not ask this country for their paltry
grant.—(Cheers and disapprobstion.) A voice, "Be
quiet, Miall's lot.."—(Roars of laughter ) But this con-
test had turned not upon the proper political questions,
but upon matters peculiar and personal to himself.—
(Cheers.) The enemy, finding that they were driven
from the one position, the hypothetical question as to
what he should have done on the subject of Maynooth
if he had been in the House of Commons, had tried other
ground.—(Cheers.) The last question that had been
raistd—the last charge th it had been made, had been
that he hal edited the works of Thomas Hobbes of
Malmesbury.— (Cheers, hisses, and great confusion.)
At this time a person who had repeatedly interrupted
the Hon. Baronet by his ill-timed and ridiculous ob-
servations, was ordered by the chairman to be turned
out of the room. In a secon 1 the unfortunate
wight was with a degree of violence altogether
unnecessary, pitched over the seats to the very feet of
Sir Wm. Mulesworth, and thence out to the street. A
second person who had ventured to question the pro-
priety of this course, was by the same summary process
ejected, anti the rapidity of the punishment having
quieted the other malcontents the Hon Candidate con-
tinued. He explained the nature of Hobbes' works, aed
defied any of his opponents to produce from those works
one line, or one sentence inimical to Christianity.—
(Cheers.) Just before he. had come to that meeting a
paper (the Pat-iot) had been put into his hands, anti
there he found many extracts from Hobbes, but these he
would inform them were garbled, and to understand them
they should be real with the context. Those extracts,
however, could not be tortured into anything derogatory
to religion.—(Cheers.) Thomas Hobbes, he repeated,
was one of the most profound writers of the times of the
Commonwealth, and he (Sir Wm. Molesworth) should
have thought he was doing a service to the
literature of his country by spending a few thousand
pounds in editing the works of this great man— (Cheer-
ing.) But he had been charged with having opened
public-houses in the Borough.—(Cheers, and hear,
hear.) He indignantly denied the charge. Another
imputation had been made against him—a charge of
wilful falsehood—by a person well known to them all.
That person was Mr. Feargus O'Connor— (Great con-
fusion, groaning, &c.)—and were he alone to be satis-
fied he should disdain to reply.—(Cheers.) But he was
asserted to have advocated universal suffrage.—(Cheers
and confusion.) He denied it most unequivocally.—
(Cheers.) Here a Chartist with the most admirable
sang froidcoolly distributed bills purporting to quote
Sir William Molesworth's speech in favour of universal
suffrage. The confusion that arose beggars description,
but notwithstanding the shouts of " put him out,"
" throw him over." the undaunted bill distributor stood
his ground. Sir William thanked them for their kind-
ness and sat down.

Mr. HowELLsaid tiiat there had been some interuption
to their proceeding., but from whom had it arisen ?
From professed Chartists—the tools of Feargus O'Con-
nor.—(Cheers, and tremendous confusion.) He (Mr.
Howell) was that night entrusted with a resolution,
pledging the meeting to the support of Sir William
Molesworth ; he did not expect that it would be carried
unanimously, for he observed that there were several
well known persons in the meeting banded to oppose it.
(Cheers and hisses.) Why, even they were, if they
but told the truth, in favour of Sir William Molesworth's
principles, and on every question excepting one—the
Maynooth grant.—(Cheers and hisses.) He would tell
them what had occurred that morning to himself, and it
was one of those things that, better than anything else,
tested the opinions of candidates.—(Cheers.) Mr.Pileher.
had called upon him that morning, and after some con-
versation, told him that, if Sir Robert Peel brought in a
measure next session for the repeal of the corn-laws, he
(Mr. Filcher), if in Parliament, would support him.—
(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Now, would they not rather
put their faith in the straightforward, than
in the candidate who varied in his opinions.—(Cheers.)
He might inform them that it had been said that Mr.
Filcher had pomised, in the event of his being re-
turned, to defray the half of Mr. Midi's expenses.
Mr. HEsaNE, in seconding the resolution, said that
some gentlemen canvassing for Mr. Pitcher had called
upon his wife and so frightened her with stories of Sir
William Molesworth's infidelity that the good lady had
threatened if he (Mr. liearne) did not revoke his pro-
mise to vote against Mr. Miall, that he should not have
an hour's sleep—(Laughter)—and he had therefore made
up his mind not to sleep at all till after the election.
The resolution was carried by a great majority.
Thanks were awarded to the Chairman, and the. meet-
ing broke up at ten o'clock.

MEETING OF MR. MIALL'S FRIENDS.
Mr. Miall met the electors last night at the Duk© of
Wurtemburg Tavern, Hatfield-street, Stamford-street.

The room was very full ; at least 300 persons must have
been present.
Dr. Newth was called to the chair. __ _

Mr. MIALL said, he wished it well understood for
what it was that his supporters were about to give their
votes on Thursday morning. He came forward especially
on the question of the ecclesiastical policy just introduced
by Sir Robert Peel ; and this had brought up the sub-
ject of Sir W. Molesworth's opinions on the nature of
religious liberty. That gentleman had confessed himself
an admirer of Hobbes, whose system was this,—that all
men are in a state of natural war one with another ; that
it is absolutely necessary, in order to the peace of so-
ciety, and the due government of human beings, that
there should be a central, unlimited, arbitrary power ;
that the despot should have power, not simply over the
persons and the property, but over the conscience
and the opinions of all his subjects ; and that it
is rebellion against law to profess any other princi-
ples' of religion than those prescribed by the
legal authority. A Mr. Maddox, too, had come
forward with an address, expressing really terms of
rapture on writings which in that same address
he confessed he had not read through.—(Hear, hear.)
Tho best service that Sir William Molesworth's sup-
porters could do to the cause of civil and religious
liberty would be to sit down at Hobbes's works early on
Thursday morning, and keep reading on till four o'clock
in the afternoon.—(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Miall)
should be mortified to see this election regarded as a
fight between Christianity and infidelity—a controversy
to be decided not by votes, but by arguments ; nor
would he introduce the topic, but for the absolute con-
nexion between religious opinion and the political sub-
jects that now came before them for settlement. A
definite reply must be made to the Government and to
both political parties, who had menaced the country
with further interference with religious liberty. It was
necessary to know whether Sir William Molesworth's
religious opinions were such as to allow of the payment
of all religionists, degrading the general mind of the
people by making the ministers of instruction, who
ought to be the first to lead them forward, the tools for
effecting the purposes of the aristocracy.—(Cheers.)
The Whig press was very wroth with him (Mr. Miall)
for forcing his `• crotchet" of voluntaryism on the public;
but, deeply interested as he was in the cause of free
trade, he felt that the question of the day was, whether
this policy of encroachment on our religious liberties
was to be fastened upon us or nipped in the bud ? The
impending danger to the country came from an eccle-
siastical quarter ; and if, in our ardour for the repeal of
the corn-laws, a proper stand was not taken against it,
the people would deserve to be treated not merely as
fools, but as slaves.—(Cheers.) He had come forward,
further, as the opponent of the new poor-law, and of
that system of centralization which, whatever its merits
in a merely mechanical and executive point of view, was
perfectly incompatible with the free movements of those
institutions, whether municipal or parochial, which we
regard as safeguards of freedom.—(Cheers.) On these
points he differed from Sir William Molesworth ; and,
lastly on the question of the suffrage. Under the
existing system, both parties were " feathering their
nests." An immense sum had been squandered by
the Ecclesiastical Commission—not in sustaining
and helping the poorer churches, or devising fresh
means to convey truth to the people, but in building
noble palaces for those who ought to be " clothed with
hum ility."—(Cries of " Shame!") The people, if intrusted
with the franchise, would in time see where their
interest lay—in the maintecance of order, the protection
of property, the sustentation of law, the dispensation of
justice. As a believer in the great maxim, "Do unto
others as you would they should do to you," and as an
advocate for confiding in human nature, recognising in
every man a friend and a brother, and raising his self-
respect by raising his position and station in society, he
(Mr. Miall) was for universal suffrage.—(Great cheer-
ing.) Mr. Mall proceeded to urge his friends to be
early at the poll, assuring them of his confidence of
being, with their aid, successful. He then sat down
amidst general applause.
The usual resolution in his favour was moved by Mr.
S. ALLEN, a member of the Society of Friends, seconded
by Mr. TAYLOR, supported by the Rev. Mr. FOSTER,
and carried unanimously, after which the meeting
broke up.

ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAlLWAY.—Yester-
day (Monday) morning, as the seven o'clock mixed train
from Brighton was approaching the Clayton tunnel slowly, in
consequence of the slippery state of the rails from the fog, a
pilot engine, proceeding to its usual station at Holley, came up
with the train, and struck the last carriage, a third-class, which
was unhooked from the train. The passengers in that carriage
suffered a severe shock, and many of them jumped out; in
so doing, Mr. Neale, of Fleet-street, printer, was cut in the
foot, and others sustained some bruises, amongst whom was a
lady residing at Clapham. No injury accrued to the engine or
carriage. The train was immedirAely stopped, and the carriage
re-attached, and all the passengers, excepting a lady and gen-
tleman, who, we believe from alarm and not from injury, re-
turned to Brighton, were brought forward to their respective
destinations in safety. [The above account of the accident is
given in an evening paper, but at the London terminus the
matter was treated very lightly. It was said that the rumour
of an accident had originated from the circumstance of two
passengers having become alarmed by a slight " shake," and
had left the train at the Hassock station, and returned to
Brighton.]
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM FIRE-AlLMS.—Yesterday
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a serious accident
occurred to Miss Amelia Philip., residing at North Bank,
Lisson-grove. Mr. S. Philips, jun., was about leaving town
on a sheetinr, excursion, when in a joke he presented his fowl-
ing-piece at"bis sister, and imag4ting the piece to be only on
half-cock, he touched the trigger, when the gun went off. The
shot carried away a portion of Miss Philip's ear, and lodged in
her neck and face, destroying the sight of the right eye. Me-
dical assistane was procured, and Miss Philips, though severely
injured and in great danger, is expected to recover, though dis-
figered f.,r life.
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REVIVAL OF PECKELIM FAllt.—Yesterday Peck
ham Fair, which fur some years has remained in abeyance, in
consequence of its having been suppressed by magisterial inter-
ference, was revived with more than its wonted glory. The
spot selected for holding the fair is on the north bark of the
Surrey Canal, at Peckham New Town, the fair itself being of
great extent. There are a great number of shows, and no
fewer than three booths devoted to horsemanship. Among
the attractions for this day ( Tuesday), a rowing match is to
take place upon the canal between two clowns belonging to
rival shows.

SUPPRESSION OF A PRIZE FIGZIT.—At 'Woolwich
Police-court yesterday, Sergeant Glas:.eock brought up two
prisoners, charged with having been concerned in a prize fight
that had taken place that afternoon in the Erith marst,es. The
prisoners gave the name of John Hick and John Clark, and
described themselves as iron-plate workers. The face of Hick,
one of the principals, was covered with bruises, the left eye
being blackened and fearfully swollen. Sergeant Glasscock
deposed that last night he received incormation that a prize
fight was to take place in the marshes. He accordingly went
early in the morning with four cmstables. About ten minutes
past one he are a mob of about two hundred persons coming
towards the Leather Bottle, in the parish of Erith. Before he
got up to them two rounds had been fought. Directly he went
up the mob ran away in various directions. The other princi-
pal got away, but he succeeded in apprehynding Hick, who had
neither shirt nor trousers on. The prisoner at first told him
they were fighting for ten sovereigns, but afterwards he said it
was only for two sovereigns. Clark got into a boat, and tried
to aid Hick in escaping. The defendants were ordered to find
good bail to keep the peace, and were remanded till this day.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO SIR JOHN MORDAUNT.—
We most sincerely regret to state that on Tuesday afternoon
last. about four o'clock, a very distressing accident occurred
to Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., one of the Members for the
southern division of this county, at his seat, at Walton,
near Wellesbourne. He was shooting partridges, on his
beautiful estate, accompanied by his relative, A. AB's,
Esq. While thus engaged they came to a hedge, through
a gap in which Sir John passed while Mr. Mills was
walking behind him. The latter was in the act of unlock-
ing his gun, when by some means he accidentally touched the
trigger, and the whole of the charge entered the calves of both
the legs of Sir John, lodging upwards of 100 shots in the left
leg, and upwards of 40 in the right leg. He immediately
fell to the ground, and was taken up by one of the game-
keepers, who was in attendance, and instantly con-
veyed home. We are assured that the medical gentle-
men do not expect he will be able to walk for many
weeks; up to yesterday afternoon, they had not been enabled to
extract any of the shot from the wounds—yet we are informed
that the sufferer bears all with an excellent spirit of patience,
and even cheerfulness. The sad occurrence has created the
utmost anxiety in the neighbourhood, among all classes, as Sir
John is universally esteemed for his excellence of heart and
great kindness of disposition on all occasions.— Warwick
Advertiser.

DEATH BY DRINKING.—On Saturday Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the Three Cranes, Fashion-street, Spital-
fields, relative to the death of John Connell, aged forty, a
labourer. The room in which the body was viewed by the
jury exhibited an appearance of the most abject destitution,
there being no bed, and scarcely any furniture. John
Waller said that he knew the deceased, who about twelve
months ago enjoyed a good state of health. He had since
been left an annuity, by which he obtained about Itis. a
week. Upon the receipt of that money he and his wife led
a life of constant inebriat►on, the whole of the money being
spent in drink. In witness's opinion his death was brought on
from not taking the necessaries of life." He was offered to be ad-
mitted into the workhouse, but he refused to go there. Witness
advised him to have medical assistance, but this he also ob-
jected to; and he died on Friday evening. The Coroner
asked if the wife was present ?—Mr. Hart, the summoning
officer, said she was then in a state of intoxication, and un-
able to attend. Verdict, " Natural death."
At the Court of Assize of the Haut-Rhin, on the
29th, ult , a man named Freyburger, of the commune of Buet-
wilier, was tried for the murder of M. Wagner, the Cure of
that place. M. Wagner was returning from mass on the 10th
of June last, when he was fired at and sturck by a ball in the
head, and ten days after he expired. Freyburger was sus-
spected, for he was known to have uttered menaces against the
Cure, who some time before had refused to read the burial ser-
vice over the wife of Freyburger, who had hanged herself, and
had also on the following Sunday preached a sermon against sui-
cide. The man was arrested, and confessed that he bad fired
at M. Wagner from his window, but he pretended that he had
done so because the Cure and some black man had been plotting
against him. He gave other symptoms of insanity, but they
were supposed to be simulated, and this was the opinion of the
jury, for he was found guilty, hut with extenuating circum-
stances. He was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment with hard
labour.— French Paper.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—With the exception
of a slight shower of a couple of hours' duration yesterday, and
a change of wind from the west to the east, the weather for
the last eight days has been as fine as the heart of man could
desire. The sun has shone brightly forth from a sky of the
purest azure, and the atmosphere although almost fiercely
hot, has been dry and breezy, and of the most favourite cha-
racter for harvest operations. In the earlier districts great
progress has been made, and the few stacks in the barn yard
give assurance that no time has been or will be lost. In the
secondary districts harvest has barely commenced, but with a
continuance of fine weather, all hands will be at work by the
beginning of next week at the latest. In the hills, and
amongst the latest growing districts, there will be no general
harvest before the first of October. Wheat and barley are
both well spoken of as to bulk, although it is feared that
much of the former, particularly the spring sown, will be de-
ficient both in weight and quality. Oats, it is generally
feared, will be less productive than on the average, and the
same apprehensions are entertained as to beans and peas, which
have shot out to an unusual length of straw. A few days,
however, will give us some insight both as to the quality and
produce of the harvest, and we shall take care that ample in.
formation on this important matter is laid before our readers.—
Caledonian Mercury.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
It is reported that Captain Charles Colville Frankland
( 1841) will commission the Carysfort, 26, at Portsmouth
this week.
Captain Patrick F. Blake, whose appointment to the Juno,
26, at Sheerness, we announced on Saturday, commanded the
Larne, 18, in the operations against Canton.
Lieutenant Lewis de Prevost (1841), son of Captain J.
Prevost, who so gallantly led the boats of the Pantaloon to
the attack of the pirate slaver Butterfly, on the coast of
Africa, the successful boarding and capture of which vessel
appeared in our journal of the 27th ultimo, has, at
the strong recommendation of the Commander, Edmund
Wilson, of the Pantaloon, been promoted by the Admiralty
to the rank of commander.
The master, Mr. Thomas T. Crout, who was second in
command, and was wounded severely on his daring entrance
into the port-hole of the pirate slaver while the gun was
being fired on him, has been appointed to the Penelope
steam-frigate.
Lieutenants—Thomas A. Pakenham (1844), from the
Mutine, and Wm. P. Jameson (1840), of the Thunderbolt,
are appointed additional to the President ; W. A. R. Lee, on
promotion to the Kingfisher ; Spencer H. Pickard and
Octavius Bentall, on promotion frmn the Mutine and Spite-
ful, additionals to the Agincourt ; Edmund E. Tumour
(1844), late of the Seaflower, to the Juno.
Master Peter Loney (1841), to the Juno.
Mate—Arthur Wilmshurst, late of the Spartan, to the Ex-
cellent.
Surgeons—James Walsh, M.D. (1844), to the Heroine ;
George Doak (1841), to the Kingfisher.
Paymaster and Purser—William Thomas (1845), to the
Kingfisher.
Assistant Su-geon—James Morgan (1843), of the Satellite,
to the Kingfisher.
Clerks--Robert Kelland, late clerk in charge of the Sea-
flower, acting paymaster and purser of the Heroine ; C.
Sherwin, to the Kingfisher.
Master's Assistant—C. P. C. Clements, to the Heroine.
COAST Gum:D.—Lieut. Henry Probyn, R.N., from Great-
ham Creek to Calluston, N. 8., vice Lieut. J. W. Patterson,
R.N.
The Terrible, steam frigate, now nearly ready for the
pendant at Woolwich, will be fitted, under the joint super-
intendence of her talented constructor, Mr. Lang, and Capt.
Horatio T. Austen, C. 8., as the most complete steam-frigate
of war in the world. It is likely the gallant Captain will
command this superb vessel.
The Neapolitan frigate Urania, 44, Capt. Lettieri, at Spit-
head, was again visited by Rear-Admiral Decree on Thursday,
and was saluted with 13 guns on going on board, the Victory
returning it The Urania got under weigh, and made sail in
good style on Saturday afternoon, proceeding on her voyage
homeward, touching at Plymouth.
The Cambrian, the second 36-gun frigate of the surveyor's
designing, has had her masts taken out at Portsmonth, pre-
paratory to being repaired. She is said to be very defective,
considering she is nearly a new ship.
The Nautilus, 10, gun-brig, Lieut. Commander J. M'Do-
nald, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday, from Brighton, for
provisions and water.
The Dee, troop steamer, Master Commander T. Driver, ar-
rived at Portsmouth, from the river, on Friday, with Mr.
Henderson, the assistant master attendant of Devonport, and
the party of men belonging to the Caledonia that navigated
the Avenger steamer to Woolwich. Mr. 11. and party were
transferred to the Confiance tug-steamer, which vessel sailed
for Devonport the same afternoon.
The Dee will take the remaining part of the 55th Regiment
to Devonport.

ARRIVAL OF THE SQUADRON AT CORK.
(From the Cork Examiner of Friday.)
COVE, SEPT. s.—Wind E.—Arrived, her Majesty's ships
Queen, Albion, Rodney, and Canopus ; also her Majesty's
steamer Alban. They lost sight of the Admiral ship St.
Vincent, Trafalgar, Vanguard, and Superb, on the 30th ult.,
in a fog, and have not seen them since, but they are ex-
pected by to-morrow. The four ships above• mentioned en-
tered the harbour this morning, shortly before six o'cloek,
and at half-past six o'clock saluted the Admiral with a dis-
charge of thirteen guns, which was instantly returned by
the Crocodile (flag-ship), by a discharge of a similar number
of guns, arousing the inhabitants of Cove to curiosity and ex-
citement ; and in about ten minutes after all the vessels
were safely riding at ancher in the man-of-war roads. It is
reported that these vessels parted company with the re-
mainder of the fleet on Saturday last in a heavy fog ; the
other vessels, however, are hourly expected. Cove is all
bustle and preparation ; the river steamers are working
" double tides," and, in fact, the arrival has thrown our city
sight seers into a high state of ferment. The flag has
ben transferred from the Crocodile to the Queen, at whose
lofty mast head it now floats. Owing to the delightful wea-
ther with which we are at present blessed, the whole fleet,
when in harbour, cannot fail to be seen to the very greatest
advantage.
Two o'CLocx —We have just heard a rumour that, in
consequence of the prevailing easterly wind, a portion of the
fleet has put into Bantry Bay.
(From the Southern Reporter of Saturday. )
' The St. Vincent, 120, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, and the
Superb, SO, Captain Corry, hove in sight early this morning
and entered the harbour, having fired the usual salutes,
which had a grand and most imposing effect. They are at
present at anchor outside Spike Island, the tide not admitting
them to come up to the moorings for a couple of hours.
The fleet were close into the harbour of Crookhaven and off
Bantry Bay on Tuesday, and beating to the eastward,
wind S E.

THE WEATIIER.—It afforded us much pleasure to
notice in our last that the weather had at length taken up, and
that there was every prospect of its conthiuing fine ; and we
are now glad to record that since that time the crops have been
brought rapidly forward by the continued influence of genial
sun. It has been a week of glorious harvest weather, not only
in our own immediate district, but throughout the length and
breadth of the land, and the effects have been visible in the
activity with which harvesting operations have in many places
been commenced. A considerable quantity of barley and oats
has been cut, and in several instances wheat has also given way
to the sickle. There is much corn in stock, and not a little has
already been housed, and is reported to be in fair average con-
dition. Our marketplace has been thronged, early in the
mornings during the week, with shearers; but the wages
obtained, we understand, have been generally very low—vary-
ing from Is. 6(I. to 2s. a day.— Cori& Journal.
'l'ur IhavEsT.—The accounts of the weather
from all parts of the country, and of the progress of the harvest
during the last few days, are extremely gratifying. In this
neighbourhood, the cutting of wheat has become general, and
another fortnight of such glorious weather as we have at pre-
sent will leave very little outstanding grain.—Lancaster
Guardian.
Tn. WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—At len:cal we
hive beautiful harvest weather, an 1 the prospect of its con-
tinuance is most cheering. The last fortnight has been de-
lightfully fine, and the sickle is now in universal requisition.
In this neighbourhood the grain crops have not sustained very
much injury from the wet. Barley has, in some instances,
where much laid, been damaged; but, generally speaking, the
crops are fine. Wheat has su,tcined less injury than barley,
and, if the present fine weather continues, there will be an
average yield as to quantity, and the quality will be generally
good. The crops of oats are exceedingly fine. Potatoes pro-
mise a most abundant yield, and we do not hear that in any
part of this county the weather has had the same injurious
effect upon this most useful vegetable which it has had in some
of the southern and western counties of England. On the
whole, a good and abundant harvest may now, we think, with
tolerable certainty, be relied on.—. Welshman.
THE FISHERIES.—ADERLEEN, SETT. 1. The
herring fishinr, is drawing to a close at this station, and has
been throughout very unproductive ; the greatest number
of hosts at one time were under forty ; a good many left
early in consequence of tempestuous weather and indifferent
prospects for the remainder of the fishing season. The
salmon fishing, which closes in the Dee and Don about
the middle of the present month, has been pretty fair upon
the whole.
THE IRON TRADE.—In our notice of the coal and
iron trade last week, and the recent strike of the work-
men, we expressed an opinion founded on information on
which we could rely, that another rise in the price of iron might
safely be calculated on. The advance which we anticipated has
taken
nplaceduringthepresent week, several of the largest
houses in South Staffordshire having issued circulars on
Thursday last, quoting the price of bees at 205., and pigs 10s.,
in advance of the firmer prices. Under these rates no
further orders will be executed by the leading firms. The
effect of this rise will be injurious to the manufacturers of
heavy goods, whose trade suffered severely during the rapid
advance about nine months ago, and was but just recovering
from the shock it then received. There is every probability,
however, that the present rates will be maintained, as the de-
mand for rails for the new Companies is very great, and likely
to continue so for some time. The colliers have given notice
of another a-d a yt
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concessions on the part of the
masters, remains to be seen.—Birmingham Journal.
According to a recent return it appears that the
manufactories of France are increasing in an extraordinary
degree. In the department of the Seine-Inferieure the num-
ber of steam-engines now at work is 345, and their aggregate
force amounts to 3,600 horse-power. The great majority are
employed at Rouen, Elbceuf, and Bolbec.— Galignani.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY MEETING,—.There was a
meeting of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany held yesterday (Friday) in Manchester, which was most
numerously and respectably attended, at which meeting it was
resolved by a considerable majority, that it was inexpedient to
carry into effect- the agreement between the Manchester and
Birmingham, and London and Birmingham Directors for the
amalgamation of the two Companies.—Preston Guardian.
PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS.—SiT
George Cayley suggests, in a letter to the Mechanic's Maga-
zine, two plans for the prevention of accidents on railways,
caused either by collision or by the engine getting off the rails.
His first suggestion is, that there should be a very large
buffer fixed to the front of each engine to be composed
of "a series of large cushions or mattresses, well packed
with some elastic material," to deaden the effect of a
sudden collision. His second proposition is, that the front
wheels of the engines should be provided with three or more
grooves capable of running on the rails to prevent the engine
from being thrown off in the case of any obstruction, which
causes the engine to " jump." By this means the engine would
be kept in the right course till the train could be stopped, and
in many cases the accidents arising from the engine being
thrown off the rails would be avoided.
STALEYBRIDGE.—A CASE FOR LORD ASHLEY'S
COMMISERATION.—The following conversation took place the
other day ;—Master Manufacturer—" Well, William, I sup.
pose you have been very busy these wakes, as usual?"—
Butcher : " No, sir, not so buisy as last year. We have only
killed 50 or 60 head of cattle this year ; last year we killed be-
tween 60 and 7"."—Master Manufacturer : " Why, William,
how is that ? The operatives are getting more wages this year
than last."—Butcher " That's the reason, sir; they have
been more amongst the ducks, sir." Surely a commission
ought to he sent to inquire if the poor distressed factory banes
are really reduced at last to duck and green peas. It is a proof
that if common food were admitted from all the world, such
would be the prosperity of the country that our farmers might
become rich by growing luxnriei for the million.—Leeds
Times.
THE LATE MRS. LAWRENCE.--It is now ascer-
tained that the vast landed estates of the late munificent Mrs.
y ;
Lawrence, of Studley Park, are bequeathed as follows —The
Studley and Ripon property, including Fountain Abbey and
Hackfall, to Earl de Gre the Hutton,
Slaarrow, and Kirkby
Ma!zeard estates, with the Moors, to the Earl of Ripon ; the
Leicestershire estates to Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart. ; and
the manor and estate of Kirkby Fleetham, to Mr. H. E. Wai-
ler, who, in case the deceased lady had died intestate,
would, it is said, have been heir-at-lawto the landed property.
Legacies to large amounts have been left to several useful pub-
lic charities and for religious purposes, as well as to many dis-
tant relatives and private frieurts. Leeds Mercury.
STATE OF IRELAND.—Materially the state of the
country is better than we remember for many years. The har-
vest promises well, if not superabundantly. The people are
tolerably well employed—many of them on public works, and
not a few, at present, in the labours of the autumn. Manu-
factories are raising their heads in different localities, and
there is, unquestionably, a movement in advance.—Dublin
Evening Post.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The Trent, royal
mail steam-ship, Captain Boxer, arrived this morning, at
half-past seven o'clock, with the usual West India and South
American mails.

Her latest dates are—Tampico, 23d July; Vera Cruz, 2d,
Havannah, 11 th August; Honduras, 19th July ; Jamaica,
Bth August; Cathagena, 28th July; Demerara, 3d, Trinidad,
4th, Barbadoes, Bth, Grenada, 9th, St. Thomas, 14th, La
Guayra, 7th, and Bermuda, 20th August.
She brings 13 77-100 lb. of platina, Bioz. of old lace,
2,743 ounces of gold dust, 3,690 ounces of plata labrada,
1,481 ounces of plata brute, 356 serons of cochineal, 3 bales
of jalap root, 196,616 cigars, 15 cases of rare plants, and a
quantity of other packages of various descriptions. The
amount •f dollars is 255,131, of which 55,563 are on account
of the dividends, 6,000 of which are from Tampico, and the
remainder from Vera Cruz.
The news brought by the Trent, relative to the affairs of
Mexico, is neither decisive nor important. The news
of the annexation of Texas had been received with
great dissatisfaction, and which, in fact, continued to gain
ground. The talk of fighting was very large, but it will no
doubt end in smoke, for want of the means. The
Minister of War had sent a message to Congress, demand-
ing the sum of 15,000,000 dollars for the purposes of sup-
ply, but the grant was impossible. Ten thousand troops
had been ordered to march to the Texian side,
but by the date of the sailing of the Trent no move-
ment had taken place. The squadron, consisting of two
steamers, two brigs, and several small vessels, were lying at
Vera Cruz, preparing for defence, but it was reported that
as soon as they were completely fitted out they would pro-
ceed to Jamaica for safety. Her Majesty's brig Persian had
arrived at Vera Cruz from Galveston. She left there on the
15th of July, and reported that the American flag would be
hoisted in the Texas on the 17th.
A large number of the American troops had already crossed
the Texian frontier. . . .

Mexico, on the whole, was in a very excited state, in con-
sequence of the annexation question, but as to going to war,
the idea seemed too preposterous to be entertained for a mo-
ment by the right-thinking part of the community. Business
was almost at a standstill, and trade of every description dread-
fully distressed. This arises in consequence of the new tariff,
which had been for some time promised, not having been pro-
mulgated.
It is reported that the whole of the West India Islands,
with the exception of Jamaica, were in a healthy state, and
that, in accordance with the news brought by the last
steamer, the crops continued to be promising. The troops in
Jamaica were healthy, but fever and sickness had prevailed
to sonic considerable extent amongst the community generally.
Her Majesty's ship Eurydia was at Vera Cruz on the 24th
of July, as also a French brig of war, La Perouse, and the
Spanish brig La Patriota

FLANDERS and HAMBURG H MAIL
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 6.—The official part of the Moniteur
Beige contains to-day the following

REPORT TO THE KING.

Brussels, Sept. 5.
Sire—The state of the crops in different parts of the king-
dom has constantly engaged the attention of your Majesty's
Government.

We have called on all the constituted authorities, and
persons wall acquainted with the subject. Though the facts
are not yet completely known, the information we have re-
ceived is sufficient to demonstrate the necessity of immediate
measures. The several kinds of corn have in general suc-
ceeded beyond the expectations that were entertained after a
rigorous and protracted winter; on the other hand, since the
4th of January, 1845, more than 44 million kilogrammes of
foreign wheat have been entered for consumption in the coun-
try ; but the crop of potatoes, one of the principal articles
of the subsistence of the most numerous classes, has almost
wholly failed.
With these facts before us, to prevent a rise in the prices of
provisions, and the exaggerated fear which the people might
conceive, we have the honour to propose to your Majesty im-
mediately to allow the :importation, duty free, of certain arti-
cles of food, till a date to be fixed by the law. We likewise
propose for your Majesty to prohibit the exportation of buck-
wheat and potatces, an immediate exportation of which
there are some reasons to apprehend.
If circumstances authorise these regulations, the nature of
our institutions seem to require that it should be done without
delay.
The measure taken at once by the Government will be a riew
proof of the solicitude of your Majesty for the welfare of the
people, and the convocation of an extraordinary session of the
Chambers to deliberate on the especial object will be a testimony
of re'pect for their constitutional rights.
If your Majesty should be pleased to approve the decree
which we have the honour taring before you, it would result
that the modifications of the corn-law voted under either cir-
cumstances will not receive royal sanction.
The Minister of Finance,
J. MALORE.
The Minister of the Interior,
SYLVAN VAN DE WEYER.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
A. DECHAMPT.
Then follow two decrees.

I. Art. 1. —Till a day be fixed by the law, the following
articles are to be free from import duty :—wheat, rye, barley,
buckwheat, beans, and vetches, oats, groats, pearl barley, the
fecula of potatoes, vermicelli, and potatoes and rice.
The above shall pay a duty of ten centimes per 1,000 kilo-
grammes.
Art. 2. The exportation of buckwheat and of potatoes are
prohibited.
Art. 3. Our Ministers of Finance, the Interior, and Foreign
Affairs, are charged, each, as far as concerns him, in the
execution of the present decree, which shall be in force on
the day after its insertion in the Moniteur.
Given at Laeken, Sept. 5, 1845,
(Signed) LEOPOLD.
Countersigned by the three Alinisters.
11. Convokes an extraordinary session of the Chambers for
the 16th of September next. •
The King presided yesterday in a council of Ministers.
ANTWERP, SEPT. I.—Great preparations have been made
to receive Queen Victoria, who was expected between four
and five o'clock. She will be received by the King and Queen
of the Belgians, who have not yet arrived at the palace (half-
past two o'clock).

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-ROUSE.
Mr. Hall, of the firm of W. J. Hall and Co., of the
Custom House Quay, waited upon the Lord Mayor for
the purpose of making a communication to his Lordship
relative to the suicide of a gentleman on his passage from
Hull to London, in a steam-vessel.
It appeared from a statement made by Mr. Hall, that
on Saturday afternoon, the 6th of September, when the
William Darley steam-vessel was on her passage from
Hull to the port of London, a gentleman, best cabin
passenger, jumped overboard near the Lower Middle
Buoy abreast the Shears, and was drowned. The moment
Captain Turner saw the unfortunate man in the water he
ordered the engine to be stopped and reversed, and the
boat to be lowered and manned. The order was instantly
obeyed, but all the efforts of the crew were ineffectual.
The deceased sunk, and was seen no more. No appearance
of insanity was attached to him as far as those on board
had opportunities of ascertaining during the voyage, but
he was observed to be exceedingly low-spirited and rest-
less. On Friday night he partook of tea with the rest
of the passengers, and he sat in the cabin all night.
On Saturday morning he took breakfast alone. At
about two o'clock in the afternoon be had a small bottle
of porter and a biscuit, and after the other passengers
had dined he dined by himself on deck, and soon after
he had finished his meal he committed himself to the
waves. He was about five feet eight inches tall, had a
round face, appeared to be thirty or thirty-one years
of age, and was dressed in a Taglioni coat, light
drab trousers, light waistcoat, light neckerchief, and
Wellington boots. According to the hest of the recol-
lection of Mr. Barrow, the clerk of the William Darby,
the deceased had a watch in his pocket at the time he
jumped overboard.
The following certificate was handed to the Lord
Mayor
We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we were pas-
sengers on board the William Darby steamer, Captain William
Turner, which left Hull for London on the sth day of Septem-
ber, 1845, and en the 6th, when at sea, near the Lower Middle
Buoy, a gentleman, best cabin passenger, jumped overboard
and was drowned, and we, to the best of our judgment, do be-
lieve that Captain Turner used every exertion to save him, by
lowering and manning a boat, and reversing the engines, but
it was all in vain.
(Signed)
" E. Pickering, H. Edwards
J. Dobson, F. Edwards,
D. Milner, J. Rastram,
W. R. Grove, Richard J. Pears,
Geo. W. Codd, Wm.Mears Newton."
S. Wride,
A passenger was booked as Mr. N. Cull, • Norwich,
who was supposed to be the gentleman who drowned him-
self, as a box with that name upon it was left on board,
and had not been claimed. There was also a light
leather portmanteau, a coat, and fishing tackle, un-
claimed. It was stated that the articl s specified as
having been on board without being claimed may be
seen for the purpose of identification by application to
Messrs. Hall.
The deceased was said to have destroyed himself just
as the other passengers had all moved to the opposite
side of the vessel to look at the Gazelle steamer which
was rapidly passing along.
The LORD MAYOR approved of the course pursued
by the c ptain of the William Darley, in causing the
statement to be made public as soon as possible, and in
order that the friends of the unfortunate gentleman
might be made acquainted with the facts. It was also
satisfactory to be assured that every thing that could
have been done by the captain to save the life of the de-
ceased had been done, as was evident from the wording
of the certificate. .
Mr. Edward Morbleau, an old gentleman of rather
eccentric appearance and manners, was charged with
drunkenness.
A policeman said, that as he was passing upon his I
beat, the defendant, who had all the evidences of a hard
night's booze upon him, staggered along, and at last
made a full stop, and turning round like a dog three or
four times, to snake himself comfortable, was about to
Hump down in the kennel to sleep, when he was taken
hold of and shaken.• He had his watch in his hand to
ascertain, as it was supposed, the exact time he was re-
tiring to his repose. Upon being brought round to some
knowledge of the exposed condition of his bed-room, he,
instead of expressing any feeling of gratitude for the
care that was taken of him, swore that he had been
robbed of 51. _ _
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Sir, what have you to say
now that you are sober? The defendant—Why, upon
my word, my Lord; I did very wrong, I protest, in
drinking beyond my power of carrying it in a steady
and respectable way.
The policeman added that the gentleman should have
been discharged, but the complaint of the loss of the 6/.
cast an imputation upon the force, and it was therefore
considere 1 necessary to introduce him to his Lordship.
The defendant—l am a man, my Lord, advanced in
years, and, therefore, I ought not to get turned over
head and heels in liquor as I was. It was a scandalous
act upon my part, my Lord.
The Loan MAYOR—I am most decidedly of your opi-
nion, if you are sincere. It is disgraceful to an old man
to drink until he fancies himself no better than a dog.—
(A laugh.) As you so candidly acknowledge your error,
and as you have been confined -in tie station-house, 1
shall only fine you 55., but take care how you are
brought here again.
The defendant bowed to the very ground, paid the
penalty, and departed.
A young man, named W. Friend, .who was stated to
he an apprentice in Bishopsgate, was charged with
having gone into a public-house, . owned by a Mr.
Bromley-, used most grossly offensive language, en-
deavoured to strike the landlord, and with having
actually struck two of the policemen. The landlord
declared that although the defendant was a mere lad, he
never beheld such an outrage as he had committed.
The policemen :aid that he hail kicked at and struck
them most violently, and that half a-dozen were obliged
to get hold of him before he could he mastered, as they
were determined not to use their staves upon him. He
boasted that his friends had plenty of money to pay any
penalty the Lord Mayor should think proper to inflict.
The Lone) MAYOR-1 do not intend to inflict any
penalty whatever in a pecuniary way. But I shall cer-
tainly see what a month's imprisonment will do towards
his correction.—Committed to prison for one month.
SIDC UP POLICE.
A woman of decent appearance, named Mary Ann Gent,
'rho was described in the warrant upon which she had been
apprehended, by one of the Sussex constables, as a widow, was
yesterday taken before J. Chapman, Esq., at the Sidcup
Police Station to answer a charge preferred against her at the
instance of the Board of Guardians of the Bromley Union, of
having deserted her children, and left them chargeable to the
parish of Cadharn.
Mr. Poole, the relieving officer, proved the case. He said
the present warrant had been granted since 1839, but they had
net been able to apprehend the defendant until the present
time. There were originally five children chargeable to the
parish, but three of them had been taken away by the de-
fendant's mother, and there were at present only two children
in the house.
Mr. CHAPMAN asked the defendant what she had to say in
answer to the charge of having deserted her f'amily, which she
was, in law, bound to support and provide for.?
The defendant, with considerable earnestness, said that she had
no desire to desert her children, but what could she do ? She
had been left with five children, and it was impossible for her
to support them. She had asked the parish to give her a
little help, but they would not do so.
Mr. CHAPMAN said that if she was unable to support her
family they would have been taken into the union workhouse
The defendant said they would not take the children unless
she herself went with them.
Mr. CHAPMAN said that was the law, and she was bound
to obey it,
Defendant—Yes, but they would not have lot me be with
the children. One of us would have been sent to the Bromley
house, and the others to the one at the Cray.
Mr. CHAPMAN said he would not enter into any discussion
upon this matter. She was bound to obey the law.
The relieving officer said the defendant was a very bad cha-
racter, and the fact was she would not maintain her children.
She had been committed once before for three months for ne-
glecting to do so. She was advised on that occasion to take
care of her children when she came out of prison, but, instead of
doing so, she ran away, and they had not been able to find her
until the present occasion.
The defendant admitted that she had been sent to gaol be-
fore, but she said how was it possible for her to take her chil-
dren away when she came out of prison ?
Mr. CHAPMAN said the offence had been proved, and he had
no alternative but to commit the defendant again to the House
of Correction for the full term.
The defendant said that if a gentleman could feel himself
justified in committing a poor creature to prison under such
circumstances, she must of course submit to it.
Mr. CHAPMAN said that after the former conviction she
was liable to be sent for trial, and she would then be subject to
a much severer punishment. If the did not take away her
children and provide for them, at the expiration of her impri-
sonment, it was very probable this course would be resorted to
on a future occasion.
The defendant was then ordered to be committed to the
House of Correction at Maidstone, and kept to hard labour, for
three calendar months.
The constable who had apprehended the prisoner then
applied for the amount of his expenses incurred in so doing,
which was 41. ss. 9d., and after some inquiries had been made,
the relieving officer was directed to pay the amount.

SHIRLEY MARKET.—Shirley h-is commenced a
market for the sale of pigs, sheep, horses, and other cattle,
which took place on Friday, and was well attended. There
was a good supply of pigs, which met with a very brisk sale ;
the first lot was penned by Mr. Stockwell, of Shirley, and were
purchasvd immediately for stock, and the supply was insufficient
to meet the demand 2. There was Likewise a plentiful supply of
cows and horses, which also met vi ith a ready sale. It is
thought probable that this will become a good !indict, as it
will be a great convenience to many ; and at the ordinary
which was held at the White Swan, several dealers expressed
their determination to exert themselves to ensure a good sup-
ply of cattle.—Hampshire Advertiser.
REDUCTION OF THE HOURS OF LABOUR IN FACTO •
ancs.—A most interesting and crowded meeting of factory
operatives was held in the Temperance H3II, Bolton, un
Thursday evening . last.
.The meeting was called by the
operatives to take into consideration the propriety of soliciting
their employers to reduce the hours of labour, and to adopt
means for effectually carrying out the same. Several ad-
dresses delivered by operatives showed that they had made
themselves acquainted with the evils of the present system.
Thelsubject was viewed morally, physically, and economically;
after which a number of resolutions, and an address to their
employers, were unanimously adopted. The address requested
that the masters would limit the hours of labour to eleven each
day for the usual five days in the week—the hours on Saturday
to remain as at present—and that the change might commence
on the 22d instant.

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