The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

II LIVEUPOOt gTANDARD.

HERBERT'S PAINTING OF THE ACQUITTAL OF

THE SEVEN BISHOPS:

The opportunities which have been afforded us of view-
ing this picture more attentively, and in detail, confirm
us in our already expressed opinion of its great merit as a
work of art. Viewed generally as a mere painting, irre-
spective of its historical character, it is almost faultless in
every respect. Its grouping is most skilfully managed
and perfectly balanced, none of the figures introduced
being obtruded upon us to the exclusion of others. The
coloring is splendid. yet suitable to the character of the
scene ; and the details and accessions are worked out
most carefully. Every portion of the picture, indeed,
will bear the closest examination *it'll a powerful lens ;
and the figures, in particular, are finished with the care
of miniature painting.
As a historical picture, however, it is that its merits
are most striking and wonderful. The time of action
chosen by the artist is the moment when the foreman of
the jury, Sir Roger Langley, Bart., is just pronouncing
the verdict " not guilty" ; and the varied emotions pro-
duced in the auditory are most effectively given. A strik-
ing figure is a lady in the foreground,—one of the rela-
tives of the Bishops—who is represented in the attitude
of listening. Another graphic feature is the youth who
is giving the verdict through the windows to the crowd
outside the hall. The leaning of the judges may readily
he traced by their countenances, Sir Robert Wright,
Lord Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Allybone, both in
the interest of the Court, betraying unequivocal symptoms
of vexation and disappointment. The Bishops themselves
appear the calmest parties in the hall. One great merit
of the picture, in which so many persons figure, who
were at the time, or subsequently celebrated, is the fact
that the whole are drawn from authentic portraits ; and
that the costume and the general appearance of the hall
are, as closely as can be arrived at, those of the period.
This effort of Mr. Herbert's, for the first time seen in
Liverpool, fully justifies the admiration which it excited
when first exhibited in the Royal Academy, and stamps
the artist as one of the first historical painters which
England has produced. It is being engraved by S. W.
Reynolds, a gentleman well qualified to do itjustice ,• and
we find amongst the list of subscribers in the hands of
Mr. Agnew, the spirited publisher, the names of some
of the most illustrious churchmen and laymen of the day,
Her Majesty, the Queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Archbishop of York, the Lord Bishop of Ely, the
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Lord Bishop of
London, heading the list.
The delineation of such a scene, where passion in all
I its variety has to be poutrayed, and where the calm dig-
nity of a court of justice must be observed, pervading the
whole, must have called forth all the mind, power, and
energies of the painter.
This work must undoubtedly be placed in the front rank
of the productions of the Historic and Heroic schools ;
indeed, there is little that the most captious critic could
object to,—the drawing of the figures is faultless, the
attitudes varied and imposing, the grouping natural and
free from restraint ; in colour and tone it is pleasing, and
as a whole very harmonious.
We feel proud that our country possesses an artist who,
by the magic of his pencil, can realise the worthy deeds of
our fathers in the olden time, and teach the world by his
canvas to understand and appreciate the great events of
history. As will be seen by the advertisement in another
column, the picture will remain on view for some days
at the large room, 82, Bold-street, and we recommend our
readers to take the earliest opportunity of inspecting it.

FEELING IN THE CORN MARKET,

YESTERDAY.

On Friday last, notwithAsulding the splendid weather
with.which we have been favoured, we had, in Liverpool,
a rise of from ls. 6d. to 23. per barrel upon Flour, and
Is. per quarter upon Indian Corn ; the value of other
articles remaining. steady. Yesterday the feeling of the
trade was still in favour of an advance in prices ; and
Western Canal Flour was sold as high as 465. Wheat
was also higher, the stock in the port not being estimated
at above 10,000 quarters, the smallest ever held for
the last thirty years. The stock of American Flour
is only estimated at 80,000 barrels, which, with the
Wheat held, one good market day would clear off.
There is no advance to note in other articles. The trade,
however, were waiting for the prices at Mark-lane yesterday.
One cause of the deficiency of our stocks, and the conse-
quent rise in prices, is the disproportion of our exports to
the recent imports of bread stuffs. From the first to the
third instant, our total imports of wheat were 734 quar-
ters, against which we exported to foreign countries, to
Ireland, and coastwise, 1,599 quarters. Our imports of
flour were 495 barrels, against 9,283 barrels e±ported.
Our imports of Indian corn were 3,031 quarters, against
10,628 quarters exported ; and of Indian meal, 99 quarters
imported against 2,310 barrels exported. Besides this,
large supplies are going into the interior. Beyond the
prospects of early foreign supplies, there appears nothing
to prevent a further rise of prices.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY-FULL-DRESS CON-
CERT, LAST NIGHT.,

A full-dress concert of this society was_given last night,
and most numerously and fashionably attended. The
first overtige was Boildieu's " Jean de Paris," which
was respecffibly played ; after which Signor Tagliafico
gave an aria from Donizetti's " Lucretia Borgia," with
excellent effect. This gentleman pessesses a fine bass
and barytone voice, and has evidently studied in a good
school. Signora Corbari next sang a rondo, " I Lom-
bardi," by G. Verdi, in a very chaste manner; and was
followed by Madlle, Alboni, who gave a romanza.
from " Lucretia Borgia," with that astonishing contralto
voice for which she is so eminent. Herr Joachim was the
next on the programme, and gave' a violin solo (Spohr's
eighth concerto) with exquisite effect. A much finer
player than this young man it is impossible to hear.
Although he has not the power of_ De Beriot, Vieux-
temps, and some others, the quality of his tone is- most
beautiful. His left hand is surprising ; and his manage-
ment of the bow is both graceful and commanding. The
introductory movement, which is full of cadenzas and
embellishments, was beautifully played, as was the move-
ment in two four time. His octaves, tenths, double

shakes, and aspeggios were perfect and masterly. The
duet rorn La Gazza Ladra, by Signora Corbari and
Aidlle. Alboni was finely sung, 11Idlle. Alboni's extraor-
dinary contralto voice being again put in requisition. A
greater compass of voice was certainly never heard by us,
or, we believe, by any other party in Liverpool or else-
where. Rossini's aria from "11 Barbiere di Siviglia "
was splendidly sung by Signor Tagliafico, and well de-
served the encore which it received. The chorus from
" William Tell" closed the first part, and was well sung
and supported by the band.
The overture to Part Second was fairly played. The
violins, however, were out of tune. The recitative and
aria, by Madlle. Alboni, was a wonderful piece of vocali-
sation, her voice extending from G below the space to C
in alt. In the duet from " Don Pasquale," by Signora
Corbari and Signor Tagliafico, after hearing Gi isi and La-
blache, we expected to be disappointed, but the playfulness
of the pretty Corbari, and the exquisite manner in which
Tagliafico sang, satisfied not only ourselves, but the
whole audience.. The solo of young Joachim, by
Ernst, was a treat of the highest class. It would
be impossible to describe his luscious tones.' We never
beard such since the days pf Pacranini. In power be is
short of other players we have heard. His execution is,
howeyer, wonderful, his style of the highest order, and
his intonation clear ds a bell. His legato passages are
especially fine. Madlle. Alboni's Ca vatina from Doni-
zetti was another triumph, and was loudly encored. The
remaining portion of the concert We were unfortunately
unable to listen to, on account of the lateness of the hour
and the necessity of being in time for post. On the
whole, a more gratifying concert has never been given by
the society.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE POTATO DISEASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlF,—Having heard it reported that the potato disease had
al peared on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, I hasten to con-
tradict the report so far as the parish of Wallasey is concerned,
as on Saturday last I went over the parish, and the uniform
answer to my question, as to the existence of the disease, was,
"There was nothing of the kind, and the plants never looked
better, nor did they ever recollect the promise of a more early
and abundant produce." The appearance of the wheat, oats,
hay-grass, &c. is equally good.
If you can find room for the above in your paper to-morrow,
you:will oblige me, and I enclose you my name and address,
which you may show if you think proper.
I remain, your obedient servant, P.
Liseard, 7th June, 1847.
[Our correspondent will find in another column a contradic-
tion of the report on the authority of our reporters.] •

DISSENTING VITUPERATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Stn,—With your permission, I would follow- up the observa-
tions
of your correspondent "Nigel," tending to expose the
base and unwarrantable conduct of Dr. Campbell,-the editor of
the Christian Witness.
PreCisely the same course of unjust and disreputable pro-
ceeding, upon which "Nigel" very properly animadverts, has
this man been pursuing in reference to the Wesleyan Methodists.
In the January number of this Witness, his readerswere treated
with an elaborate essay on what he conceives the unscriptural
and despotic character of our church government. This is only
what might be looked for in a.publication noted for its advo-
cacy of low and democratic principles. While we concede the
right of Dr.. Campbell to hold opinions howsoever loose and
destructive, we very much question his right, unprovokedly
and wantonly, to attack another Christian community, whose
chief sin, in his estimation, seems to be the conservative cha-
racter of its government ; but this by the way. What we
specially complain of is the course he afterwards pursues in
courting and giving insertion to some couple of dozen anony-
mous letters, containing the vilest aspersions on. zndaccusa-
tions against, the characters of our ministers ; while, with one
solitary exception, and that an amazing act of grace on his
part, he states, not one letter vindicatory must be admitted.
What think you, sir, is the reason this sapient editor assigns
for his partial and strange conduct? "J he elucidation of truth
not by contioversy but by facts,"—which means, the-editor's,
vagaries must be supported by such communications as, any
anonymous scribbler, or mischievous and quarrelsome soul
might think fit to furnish him with. To say this is the way to
elucidate truth is a burlesque on common sense; rather is it
the direct way to spread falsehood and to promote strife and
contention.
Now suppose,. Mr. Editor, you should feel disposed to take
up the subject of "Independency," and show its•unscriptural ,
character and downward tendency, and how unfittetj to carry
out the design of the Saviour, in the salvation of sinners, as
exemplified by the experience of dissenting churches in our
own town ; and then to support your position, seek for infor-
mation from those disaffected within its pale, as well as from
parties who have left it in disgust, and not a few of such are to
be found. What a hue and cry would be raised t Haw lavishly
would the charges of bigotry and unfairness be rung in our
ears, and by none more so than Dr. Campbell ; and yet this is,
precisely his-method of dealing with Wesleyans.
It is high time that the respectable members of the "
gregational Union," whose organ the Christian Witness pro-
fesses to be„ should arise and rid themselves of such a deadly
incubus, whith, as at present conducted, is a stfinding.disgrace
to the Christian name. Many of those gentlemen profess to be-
zealous friends of the evangelical Alliance. We call upon them
to act consistently, and either withdraw from the Alliance, or
discountenance a work the direct tendency of which is to pro-
mote disunian and strife.
In this month's number, the learned Dr. is-fairly rampant
with rage. Nothing but the entire disruption of the present
system of Methodism will do for him, which isevidently caused
either by the fate his bantling has met with down at Dover, in
being taken up as an unclean thing with the tongs and crammed
into the fire ;. or, that the excellent Sir Culling E. Smith should
have had the daring to preside at our late missionary anniver-
sary, held in London, and at which meeting both clergymen
and dissenting ministers were seen delightfithr amalgamating.
This was too much for our Witness man • hence he is very
wroth. The speakers, he says, contented' themselves with
lauding and" praising one another, without saying one word about
the nature of Christ's kingdom. Now, a great deal was said at
the above meeting, by the different speakers, concerning the
dissipation of darkness and the diffusion of Gospel light, on
the destruction of sin, and the spread of Christian holiness;
but these blessings seem not to enter into our editor's-ideas of
Christ's -kingdom. No, the Church must be separated from the
state, and Methodism must be rendered democratic in-its con-
stitution ; and then we are to have the Saviour's kingdom in all
its pristine glory set up on the earth. From such may we long
be preserved, is the ardent wish of
Yours truly,

A WESLEYAN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sta,—Allow me space for a few remarks, elicited; on tbe spur
of the moment, by reading a paragraph in the Mereibry of this
day, respecting Scotland Ward Election,—a paragragh of the
most vicious and malignant tendenCy. I allude to theremarks
about some officials of the Albert Dock, &c.
I was not in any way present during the late contest for that
ward; but I know the parties so sr..eered at to he highly re-
f pectable ; whilst I am so determined an Englishman (and
Lancashire man, too,) as to maintain that liberty of thought
and action in public affairs is one of our proudest national
boasts—the very germ, bud, and fruit of our free Constitution,
which will allow no man to be deprived of his right of citizen-
ship, let his situation be what it may, unless under the
immediate pay of the crown. This ungentlemanly remark
in, a paper professing (alas !) to be liberal, is fearfully
ominous of what will be resorted to at the next general
election ; although such modes of partisanship can only
be viewed with disgust and contempt by every well-regu-
lated mind.—since the tenure of a man's livelihood ought not
to, be a chain upon the mind! He ought to be able to thank
the Omnipotent that he can not only "live and think," but
ire and speak, and act, in all matters in which the weal of his
country is connected. Cardinal Wolsey advises Cromwell to
Be just and fear not;
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy Country's,
Thy God's, and Truth's
•

As in the case of the Oxford contest, the uncharitable remark
about Mr. Round going to a dissenting chapel brought forth a
private domestic pain to a respected and honourable family,
once of this town, that ought to have been spared.
The same veritable 211 k reur.v has, in the pruriency of its po-
litical hate, once called me "a wretch,." and "Jackass," but
calling names is only the resort of certain characters, and harm
not the truly liberal.
I am, Sir, your constant reader,
Mount-pleasant, June 4, 1847.

NEW PERVERSIONS.—The Rev. R. Ornsby, M.A.,
late fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Oxford, and pub-
lic examiner for the responsions examination in that uni-
versity in 18111, has resigned the assistant-curacy of St.
Paul's, Chichester, to which he was lately appointed, and
conformed to the Roman Catholic faith. Mr. Ornsby
was, according to a statement in the Standard of Wed-
nesday, originally a member of Lincoln College, ar►d took
the degree of B.A. in the first class of Literce Humaniores
in 1840. The Rev. F. Oakeley, late fellow and tutor of
Balliol College, Oxford, received the order of deacon
from the Popish Bishop Griffiths, at St. Edmund's Col-
lege) on the Saturday in Whitsun-week. It is not,
perhaps, generally known, that this reverend gentleman,
when a candidate for a fellowship at Oxford, which re-
quired that the party to be eligible should be in priest's
orders, found himself moved to take on himself the office
of a deacon in one week and the next that of a priest.
These orders were obtained in that unusually short period
of time through the indulgence of our present metropo-
litan; and Mr. Oakeley within a few days found himself
in the enviable position of fellow of his college.—Church
and State Gazette.

Is EMPLOYMENT WANTED ?—A crowd is besieging the
Legislature with cries to provide occupation for the people.
" Make a thousand miles of railway in Ireland. " Compel
the bank to lend us all money to take up our acceptances,
and keep our factories going and our warehouses full."
" Lend us money fer draining," " Send two millions of
people across the Atlantic, and make a railroad from Ha-
lifax to Quebec." "At least half a million for one er
two Irish railways, if you will not help them all." We
will venture to say that never were demands more utterly
unseasonable. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is worried
for employment. Employment ! There is too muchalready.
There is much more employment undertaken than
there are wages to pay. Railway companies pledged to
find employment, are obliged to break their promises to
the people and the legislature. Factories are closing.
Machinery is becoming useless. Our difficulty is im-
mensely increased by our having " too many irons in the
fire." Yet the Chancellor of the Exchequer is asked to
put a few more in. Providing employment under present
circumstances is sending coals to Newcastle. The Trish
companies are finding employment beyond their means ;
so are the Lancashire manufacturers ; and so are many
other classes. The employment is too much for the wens
of remuneration.—London Time*.

FRIGHTFUL COLLISION ON THE LONDON

AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

Wolverton, Sunday.

Last night one of the most alarming and fatal accidents
that ever occurred on the line of the London and North-
western Railway took place within a short distance of the
Wolverton station.

The down mail train for Liverpool, consisting of 19 car-
riages of various descriptions, started at its appointed time,
a quarter before nine o clock lass evening (Saturday) from
the Euston-square terminus, and was due at Wolverton at
15 minutes before 11. The train was heard approaching
the Wolverton station at its proper time, and was properly
signalled by police-constable Fossey who was stationed at
the bridge between 600 and 700 yards on the London side
of the station. The signal indicating that all was right
for the train to enter the station was hoisted at the latter
place, but to the astonishment of the officers of the sta-
tion the train turned off into a siding instead of coming
onward down the main line, and in an instant after a fear-
ful crash was heard. On the superintendent reaching the
spot a shocking scene, presented itself. The mail train
had entered the siding commencing near the bridge, •
usually appropriated to coal and merchandize waggons,
and had come into collision with, five or six waggons
laden with coal. The fifth and sixth carriages of
the mail train were literally smashed to pieces, and
were strewed about the line together with the passen-
gers they had contained ; whilst, singular to relate, the
engine and tender and all the other carriages in front of
them, which consisted of the Liverpool and Manchester
parcels' vans of the second-class carriages, were, with the
exception that the engine had its buffers and plant some-
what broken, comparatively uninjured.
The consternation amongst the passengers at this mo-
ment
was frightful in the extreme, and some were observed
rushing from the broken carriages with blood streaming
from their faces ; and the groans uttered by those unfor-
tunate persons who were unable, from the severe injuries
they had sustained, to extricate themselves from the frag-
ments by which they were surrounded, were truly appal-
ling. As soon as the consternation created by the first
shock had somewhat subsided, all the energies of the com-
pany's officers and the more fortunate of the passengers
were directed to the assistance of the sufferers, and body
after body, apparently in a lifeless condition, was removed
from the line to one of the anterooms of the Wolverton
station, where they were at once attended to by Mr. Rogers
surgeon, of Wolverton, in the employ of the company, and
by the other medical gentleman • who happened to be in-
the train at the time of the collision. We regret to state,
that no less a number than seven persons,who were in the
sixth second-class carriage, were found either in a dead or
dying condition, scarcely half an hour having elapsed from
the time of the occurrence before they all ceased to exist.
The most singular occurrence, however, connected with
the deaths of these unfortunate persons is the appearance
of their bodies, so unusual in railway collision. With the
exception of a few slight scratches and bruises, none of the
bodies (which are those of seven male persons of various
ages) exhibit crushing of bones and other marks of violence.
Scarcely any blood is to be seen about them, and they are
all believed to have died from the same cause, namely,
concussion, resulting from the suddenness and violence of
the shock.
Amongst the passengers injured is a gentleman named
Turner, residing in Staffordshire, who received several
severe cuts about the head and face, but who was yester-
day reported to be plying on favourably. Another gentle-
man had one or two'of his ribs fractured, and six or seven
others are stated to be more or less injured, but were
enabled to proceed to their destinations as soon as the
train was got ready to forward them, after having received
proper medical attention.
As soon as possible after the sufferers had been attended
to, and the broken carriages removed from the main line,
an investigation was made into the circumstances which
had led to so frightful and fatal a calamity. It was stated
that at the Wolverton station the points are always kept
straight with the mainline, and they require to be altered
to allow a train to enter the siding. It appears that the
constable, Fossey, after having given the signal for the
arrival of the mail train, ran from the bridge, where he
was stationed, to the points of the siding, about forty or
fifty yards, and held them back, so that the mail, train
passed on to the siding instead of passing onward down
the main line. This was not discovered by the engine
driver until he had passed the points a considerable dis-
tance, when seeing the danger he instantly applied; the
breaks, turned off his steam, and reversed his engine, and
then both he and the firemen jumped off on to the. em-
bankment, and thus in all probability saved their lives.
The train was at this moment going, it is stated, at a-rate
not exceeding ten miles an hour. On the constable,
Fossey, being interrogated as to the causes which led him,
after signalising the arrival of the mail train, to run down
the line for the purpose of turning it on to the siding, the
only explanation which he afforded was, that he after-
wards thought it was not, the mail train, but the luggage
train, and he did so for the purpose of securing its safety.
This statement, however- being very much doubted, the
man having been employed by the company at his preeent
duty six months, the superintendent of the Wolverton
station felt it his duty immediately to give him into.
custody.
Immediately after the mail train, which was detained
nearly two hours by the unfortunate occurrence, had been
despetched on its journeyea special engine was started off
to London with the melancholy news to the directors, and
other high officials connected with the railway, and Cap-
tain Huish, the general manager of the line. M. Bruyeres,
the superintendent, and Mr. Creed, the secretary, and
some of the directors, arrived at Wolverton yesterclaytby
the mail train, for the purpose of pursuing the investiga-
tion
and ascertaining who, were the sufferers. This was
found extremely difficult e but froth the cards and other i
evidence discovered on the persons of the deceased parties
their names are supposed to. be as follow :
J. B. Ratteray, belonging to an iron foundry at Den-
dee ; Miller, secretary of a London Ragged school;
James Clifton, supposed to• be from Coventry ; T. Mac-
kinson, a collegian of Cambridge ; T. Shenott and
Cooper, not known where belonging to. The seventh, is
the body of a respectably attired young man, but who had
nothing upon him to lead to identity. All the deceased
persons are attired in the-most respectable manner.
The bodies were removed to an outhouse at the Wol-
verton station, where they now lie awaiting the inquest
of the coroner for Northamptonshire.
The following official report is furnished to the reporter
by Captain Finish, general manager of the line :

" OPMIAL REPORT.

"It appears that the R. 45 p. m. down mail train, on
Saturday the sth of June, left London at its usual time,
and passed safely till within sight of the Wolverton, sta-
tion. . At the bridge, which is distant from the entrance
to the station about 600. yards, a siding commences,. into
which coal and merchandise trains are passed. The train
arrived precisely at its proper time, the steam was. shut
off before reaching the bridge, and the • guards were- at
their post. The policeman at the bridge gave the usual
signal of the arrival- of the mail, and the signal was
acnowledged and repeated from the station. At this
time the points were right, and everything in, proper
time for the entrance-of the train into the station..
" From some cause, yet to be explained, the signal
man appears to have gone to the points, a distance of 40
or 50 paces, and to-have turned the train into the siding..
On finding himself off the main line, and going
man erseirAtohias
siding usually full of goods, the engine reversed
engine, and worked the wheels backwnels
areds.
way applied,
break
of the tender which. locks all the six
and the guards used their breaks. The train, .which was
p sed of 16 carriages of various kinds, after running
composed
considerable distance into the siding, struck a waggon
of coals, which with four or five others was standing there.
The engine-man and fireman were unhurt, and the buffer
plank of the engine only damaged. The leadirrscarriage was
the Liverpool panel van, and the second, the Manchester
parcel van ; both are uninjured. The next-was a second-
class carriage, also uninjured, and the passengers unhurt.
Following this was another second-class carriage, the fifth
from the engine was a second-class also. This carriage
appears to have been lightly loaded ; and from the mo-
mentum of,the train, and re-action of the buffers of the

leading carriages, was lifted up on its end. The next car-
riage was a second-class also, being the sixth from the
engine, and on this the lamentable effect of the concussion
was felt in the' deaths of seven male persons. The car-
riage was forced under the one which, was lifted up, and
the injuries appear to have resulted entirely from the iron
work of the under framing. The carriage itself is broken
to pieces, and, although the leading carriages show marks
of the collision, with the exception of the parcel vans, the
whole mischief appears to have fallen on the sth and 6th
carriages.
" It would be improper to anticipate the evidence be-
fore it is officially given, but from all we can learn the ac-
cident arises entirely and solely from the pointman turning
the train off the main line. It is not an act of omission
of duty, because the points are always right for the main
line, and require holding back to enable a train to enter
the siding. The man is in custody.
" In a collision attended with so fearful a loss of life it
might be expected that many passengers would be injured,
but we are happy to say this is not the case. One gentle-.
man had a rib injured, and two, others were much shaken,
but with these exceptions we do not learn that any' pas-
sengers were seriously hurt "

SUNDAY NIGIM_

In London, throughout the day, in consequence of a
rumour extensively circulated, that 40 lives had been lost
upon the line, the applications at the Euston-square ter-
minus as to the truth of the rumour were most incessant,
and parties whose friends left last night by the mail train
were solicitous as to their safety, awaiting the arrival of
each train with great anxiety. Some of those who were
unfortunately injured in the collision were brought up
from Wolverton by the York mail train, and were re-
moved to their residences suffering much from contusions
and bruises.
The guards of the train had a most miraculous escape,
the chief guard, Haines, was actually sitting on a carriage
that was destroyed, and on seeing that a collision was in-
evitable threw himself, at all risks, off the top down the
embankment and escaped unhurt. The second guard also
followed his example and was uninjured.
Although every endeavour was made on Sunday night
to get a more authentic description of the parties dead, it
was unattended with success. It is to be hoped, however,
that by the publicity given to the supposed names in the
foregoing account of the accident, the friends will be
discovered.

THE TRIPLEMURDERS ATMIRFIELD.—It is now proved
that the soldering iron which was found at the bottom of
Mr. Wraith's well, and which, from marks on the bodies
of the victims, there is scarcely a doubt had teen used in
the commission of the murder, belongs to the father of
the prisoner Patrick Reid, and that the prisoner fetched it
the day before the murders from the house of a neighbour
to whom it had been lent. On Saturday morning last
Reid, and the other prisoner, Michael M`Cabe, were
brought before the magistrates at the Dewsbury Court-
house for farther examination,

June 8, 1847.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
At this day's market the wheat trade opened with consider-
able excitement, and, having only a short supply of English,
met a free sale at about Bs. per qr. over the currency of this
day week.
'We had a good attendance of country buyers, and a consider-
able quantity of foreign changed hands at an improvement of
ss. to 6s. per qr., sack flour 55., and barrel flour 38. dearer,
owing to the rumours of the re-appearance of the potatoe disease
in Ireland. Floating cargoes of Indian corn are held 2s. to 3s.
per qr. higher. _

Although rain is wanted in many parts for the spring corn,
no advance could be realised on barley, malt, beans, or peas';
but each met a more steady sale at our previous currency. A
further large arrival of foreign oats has tended still more to
depress this article 6d. to is. per qr., but at this reduction a
fair quantity was disposed of to country buyers.

SMITHFIELD. CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
From our own grazing districts, the arrivals of beasts fresh up
to-day was small' and of middling quality. This falling off in
the bullock supply, together with the large attendance of
buyers, produced considerable excitement in the beef trade,
a very considerable advance took place in the quotations. In
some instances the primest Scots produced as much as six shil-
lings per 81b.; but the more general highest figure was ss. Bd.
per 81b., at which figures, which are quite 6d. per Blly. above
those obtained on this day se'nnight, previously to the close of
the market, a total clearance of the beasts had been effected.
This was decidedly one of the dearest markets on reeord.
Compared with those at the corresponding period of 5846, the
quotation of beef ranged from Is. Bd. to 2s. ; of mutton Is. 4d.;
of lamb, Bd. to 10d. ; of yeal„6d. to Bd. ' • and of pork, 2d. tos4d_
per 81bs. higher than at that period. And these high rateewere
in most instances obtained with very little difficulty.
There was a full average number of Sheep on offer. Still,
however, the mutton trade was steady, though we cannot call,
it brisk, at last Monday's currencies, the best old Downs out
of the wool realising ss. Bd. per 8 lb.
The supply of Lambs was tolerably extensive. Prime breed*
were in request at extreme figures, viz., 6s. 10d. to 7s. per 81b.
but other qualities were a slow inquiry at last Friday's prices.
With Calves we were scantily supplied, yet the veal trade was
dull, at the late decline in value.
We had a slow inquiry for pigs, yet in most instances late-
rates were supported.

MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY.
The business in public securities has not been large, and the
tone of the market is very heavy, the accounts from Mark-lane
of the great advance in the price of Corn on last Monday's
currency; having had some influence in causing a decline on
the rates of Saturday. Consols for the Aecount have been at
s.s 4, and for money the rate has been, 88„-. to 74. Reduced
per Cents. marked 86Z to 7, Three and a Quarter' Per
Cents.
-88ri, anti 'NeW‘ Five per Cents. at 11r—Iftertirnmids
have been operated in at 5 1 pm. Exchequer-bills maintain
the improved quotation of Saturday, with'a slight tendency to
weakness, the latest rate being 6 4 pm., small 812 pm. There
has been nei, transaction in the scrip of the Loan or Bank
Stock.

The Jour: sal des Debats publishes a lung article to
demonstrate the necessity that exists forperrnitting the
free importation of provisions into France.
INCOME-TAX OF GREAT BRITAIN.—MF. W. Ray Smee
estimates the annual income of Great Britain at Z. 188,000,000
of which amount only £185,000,000, or rather more than
one third, is charged with income-tax.
The Pope left Rome in the morning of the27th ult. for
Subiaco. The streets were filled with people,-and a hun-
dred young men on horseback joined spontaneously the
detachment of the guard of nobles, and escorted his Ho-
liness to Subiaco:,

Young astronomers may have an excellent opportunity
at present of studying the planets Venus and Jupiter,
which are splendicYobjects during the evenings ; the for-
mer planet is crossing the Milky Way, and moving
towards a point south of the stars Castor and Pollux ,
Mars and Saturn are near together, and may be seen near
the eastern horizon before sunset.

The principal lodge of the Freemasons of Breslau has
struck out of its laws the causes which prescribed that no
person could be received a mason without belonging to
the Christian religion, and which particularly interdicted
the admission of Jews. The Prince of Prussia,. grand
master of all the masonic lodges of the kingdom, has
consented to this modification of the laws.
On Saturday, the British Association for the Relief of
the Distress in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland,
made their nineteenth report of receipt and expenditure.
Amongst other subscriptions, £717 17s. 7d. has been
received from Malta and Gozo, and £570 from Consnti-
nople, the total amount paid to the credit of the associa-
tion being £495,164 13s. lid.
The Pope's Nuncio, Monsignor Brunelli, made his
entry into Madrid at five o'clock in the afternoon of the
29th ult., without any ceremony or parade. The nuncio-
tura had been splendidly fitted out for his reception ;...the
bells of all the churches were set in motion, and• the
churches of the Italians were illuminated at night, in honor
of an event which was considered of the highest import-
ance for Spain.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LINE.--Mr. Buckley, the present
Conservative member, in' consequence of private engage-
ments and an intention to travel, has announced that he
shall not offer himself at the approaching general election.
Mr. Samuel Christy, of Poynton-park, Cheshire, has come .
forward as a new candidate. The present candidates are,
therafore, Lord Howard, Mr. Jackson, of Birkenhead, and
Mr. Christy.
THE POTATOE DISEASE.—At a meeting of the Irish
Royal Agricultural Improvement Society last week, the
council recommended, on this subject that, in any
instance where a crop appears decidedly affected with this
disease, the immediate substitution of Swedish or Aber-
deen turnips, or of mangel or cabbage plants, where they
can be obtained ; all of which may be dibbled into the
drills between the potatoe-stalks, without any additional
TAIIIIIIII.O.
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS.—THE G R.l: AT
BRITAIN.—June 1. The paper read was an account of
the iron barque Josephine;. of Liverpool. The chief fea-
ture of the paper was that which treated of the local
attraction of the compasses. It appeared that as long as
the ship was on an even keel, and perfectly upright, the
compasses acted correctly; but in proportion to the listing
over, so was the derangement of the magnet ; for, the
local attraction being changed by the side frames and
deck beams falling into new positions, this caused great
variation in the ship's course, and it led to a conjecture
whether this may not have been the cause of the loss of
the Great Britain, as, if her compasses were acted upon as
much as those of the Josephine, a deviation of six miles
and a half out of her cows might easily have occurred.
THE RAILWAY BILL.—A letter on the subject of this
bill, introduced by the chancellor of the exchequer,, has
been extensively circulated. It is signed by the respective
chairmen of the following railway companies : the Mid-
land, Eastern Counties, Great Northern, Caledonian,
South Eastern, Great Western, London and South
Western, Manchester and Leeds, and London and
North Western. The letter. states that these gentlemen,
" in connection with a large body of railway directors and
proprietors, have well considered the provisions of this
second bill. In our view they tend so seriously to endan-
ger the security and to depreciate the value of railway
property, while, at the same time, they so interfere with
that freedom of action which is indispensible to the effici-
ent management of railways, that we feel it to be our
duty to invite you to assist us in opposing it effectually.
They urge upon members of parliament the duty of
attending the House of Commons last (Monday) night,
" to protect the great interests at stake in the bill"
SOUTH AMERICA.—Her Majesty's brig Frolick,Com-
mander Hamilton, arrived off Falmouth on Sunday
morning, from tha Pacific, having sailed from • San Blas
December 15, Valparaiso February 11, Port Famine (1z
the straits of Magellan) March 22, and from Rionooaa
Janeiro April AinprialddliStionSthoewhhaischo,nalfsroeiglisitmoaboduotux. fsrse;suvvt;ks
ovt of the wreck of the brig Canning, which
fire and sank in December last, in Port Famine, on
voyage from Islay to London, laden with woole, saltpetre,
and .30,000 dollars on freight. The fire is supposed to
have arisen from spontaneous combustion, and three!):
the crew were unfortunately drowned at the time. The
Frolic left at Rio her Majesty's ships Curacoa, the Fire-
hoeekr
brand steamer, the Griffon (from the River Plate), and
the Crane packet, arrived from Falmouth, on the 17th
April. The Swift packet sailed two or three days before
the Frolic, for the Northern ports and Falmouth ; she
spoke on the 2nd inst., in lat. 48 55 N., and long. 10 12
W., the ship Tudor, with the 50th Regiment of Foot on
board, from Calcutta for London.
PRIFSTI.Y ESTIMATE OF MR. O'CONNELL.—A Most
remarkable, if not extraordinary, letter appears in the
Nation of Saturday. It is from the pen of the celebrated
Father Kenyon, and is addressed to the editor as one of
the accredited leaders of the Young Ireland party-
The reverend gentleman opens his battery with a fierce
denunciation of, and protest against, a resolution pro-.,
posed by Mr. Smith O'Brien, at a recent meeting of
the council of the " Confederation," pledging the bodY
to join in a national demonstration of honour to the
remains of Mr. O'Connell—a course altogether repugnant
to. tie feelings of the writer, for the reasons stated, withl;
out reserve or qualification, or " mincing of the matter.
His reverence concludes his letter as follows:—" I deal
not the good points of O'Connell's character; and, if I clo'
not enumerate them, it is only because all his points--
good, bad, and indifferent—have been extolled over-1 "'
quently and overmuch. He was, all in all, tui, granite
homme manque, possessing great elements of greatness,'
but alloyed below the standard. He failed in his mission*
and he deserved to fail in it. .The real liberators of natioo
have steered a straight course. Instead of stultifyil
ourselves by another national demonstration, we shoo
rather study the ways. of Providence for our instructioil.
and learn from the signal failure of O'Connell a greate,
"
confidence in God's truth, and less trust in ma,'
devices."

MARRIED.
On the 3d instant, at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington,
Rev. John limes, Vicar of Down Kent, Captain G.
Royal Artillery, only son of the late Colonel Innes, of Birltete
head, Cheshire, to FRANCES CAROLINE, widow of the 18„,
HAMILTON GYLL, Esq., and daughter of Sir John Murfs'
of Stanhope, Part.

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