New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-09
FROM LONDON.
A Contribution 20 the Waste.Paper Basket
Talk Of the Gunpowdcr E1plosion-
nHuIier.s Triai-Rurai Grimes and Con-
ditions The Queen and the Royal Baby
-Denth Of the Dake OF Newcastle
Items.
From Our Special Correspondent.

Ibegan this letter with the inspiring conyic-
ton that If wrote as it with the pen u an angel
(Which would, suppose be a pinion plucked rom hs
own wing nobody would care 10 read IT, arriving, as 1t
must. within a week Of the Presidential Election So
that i'll rather like attempting the exploit Of Pyhagoras
who scIbbling in bean juice here upon earth, thought
and claed reproduce the syables upon the face OF
the NOON Opining that The TRBUsE's mild efficiency
will be wholly devoted TO the illumination Of more i'm
portant matters than any here TanspTng and feyenty
hoping that il will light Mr. Lincoln TO victory. and
slime sereney over the utter collapse and shipwreck OF
the hopes Of the meanest Embodied lnothciency ever
selected by our national manichaens or wohippers OF
the devil Of slavery)-which is saying good deal
plunge into the wastepaper basket, like Sadak into the
waters Of oblivion. When you have got through with
eItingu.shing the gunboat hero, (of whom and al
ExIKDusE correspondents during that otrocious Pc
ninsular campaign must always retain the sweetest the
most aectionae remembrances trust 10 come to the
SUI face again. and promise myself much satisfaction IN
observing and RENTING 10 You how John Bull takes it.
Then, marry win ny soil have elbOw.room. and you
must print NE. Pending which good time coming i
east my crumbs upon the waters
Crumbs. say. for there's little else TO be collected
this week, il your appetite set on English
'
manufacture served once every four years and which,
this time either 10 poison restore our natiorai
is,ence We have nothing here bu. tifes otak about
and triningly and briefly shall discourse OF them.
The last echo Of the great gunpovder explosion in the
Firth marshes seems to have died away IN the public
ear; even hardup editorials have ceased to be written
on If. The people Of Deptford, Of Chatham Pnrheet
Belvere and other nitrous localities have held meetings
S.t.s. 81. l.alsf aN
are exposed the Insurance Offices with udieious eye
10 their interests, have decided that an explosion
Of gunpowder is rot fire; the sufferers by it equally
COW inced that their losses ought fall not upon them
selves but upon their landlords or the Messrs. Hall,
Of the smutiy grain. and we are 81
lapsine into the normal impression that the Ike won't
happen again, which suppose, soothed the boSoms OF
the .quators around the base u Vesuyus within year
or two after the destruction OF Herculaneum and
Ponpci There are to BE- sure. unqniet souls who in
st the truth Of the axiom that the unexpected always
does occur but they are IN an infnesmal minority.
daily diminishing. We shah 20 and take our chances
The number oflives lost through the explosion amounts
20 Just dozen.
MuIler's trial is to begin on Monday tho 2th. with
the Central Criminal Sessions. We Lad temporarily
forgotten him or rather allowed our curiosity TO rest In
aheyance: now shall revive IT, There was talk Of
putting OF the trial at he Tcques, Of the German Legal
Protection Society. the ground OF procuring evil
donce FOR the defense. That ia now completed, and
legally cditoiialy and reportoriay, the case viii be
made the most Of you may be sufe. Tie prisoner. IN
Lis cell at that dismal northwest corner OF Nevgae IN
ominous propinquity 10 tie place Of execution. and
watched night and dsy is sold lookas well no may
worn and ANXIOUS Since his incarceration there has
been unusual and Gnnaturay decent reieenoe about
him in the papers-duc entirely 20 the authorities. We
shall make amends for this before long In the mean
time. We have two or three vulgar MURDERS generally
rustic cases in which poor have Lad their skulls
fractured or their Threats cut aud similar instances Of
tuoolio barbarism.
think Charlotte Bron,e was the fret person who
told us that the English peasant wss not merely a
human sheep. and little observation might convince
us Tia, innocence and green fields are by no means
SYNONYMOUS Country life wrote DR. Holmes lis opt
70 be dull bat when ii gets going. II beats the
city hollow because it gives its whole mind to what II
is about Thee rural snrefs make terrible work with
the middle Of the Decalogue, when they SET started
AS for England know enough Fl It's agricultural aide
10 corbora,c this 70 the fullest extent in j. pretty
thatcLed cottages mhntled with flowers and climbing
orceper. ts quaint, quiet little villages which have
scarcely altered since the days Of Elizabeth there exists
how much of brutality. low much Of sin, how much
Of hopeless almost rnpiacticahe ignorance am
not cooperating when say that have been not IN
frequently reminded by il Of the poor whtcs-nay Of
the very negroes Of the South As for povorty-wel,
here JIG q letter from Berkshire cotiagcrs wife to TIE
Scr. printed verbatim il IS worth insertion in TIE
TRIBUNE
Sir. Allow me on bchalfof my Self and Poar neigh
DOM Hfl.ltH
publco Of Oct 10 Tor drawing pa bic attention to
I.uTaI Iife n Berkshire
The description he az given f. am sorry 20 say hy
means rairc one In my Parrish and sian Exist with
noble Exceptions" in nearly nj rural parishes and
yet We air expected 10 Pay is or is Cd wcek-kent
for those Hoyos suppoart Wife and OF b Children
aid be HONEST in tho bargain with ~ week wage
with a Large Famley cannot oxtricate NV seli-but
a obi .ed remain and drag out life OF misery end
Tccheincse.
Ny advise 70 all young Farm Labourcs is TO Emigrate
use iconOm"y for few years and II may be done North
America would be- my favorite Place Where they VIII
BE- treated as Men"
Alive want IS "a water tite roomy Cottage Piaty of
yosom food and we viii work, nh work til air
doable Ne aud my Family 81 US ubsai seyrel weeka
Last winter upon o. p week with miserable Cooid
rcl in the Bargcn again thanking for the intrcs
A EEocKES SIIRrT
Hampstead Norris. Ilsey
I'VE will work, all work tn We are tbenU double 1
me and my family - what sentenced And observe
the preceding paragraph. How much, think you can
The Tiaes and T,Iegrapd and S'dnda,d and tie idle
b.a.iersLite in Parliament against emigration TO the
ned States effect with people WHO suffer Ike this
Is there any American peasant born. who in the pres
eli des serate condition Of his country after four years
Of c. &C, sc, would change positions with Eng
lish helot
TIE Queen "a sudden transition this, from the lowest
70 tie hFlosD Las cone back fiom Scotlandi the
Pincelct Of Wales returned from Denmark the latter
innocent infant becoming the victim Of rather more
than the uf nal smaunt Of toadym and sycophancy, d.
reotIy DO reaehed DIE Shores Mheron those Gunes do