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The Hungarian "lion" has had a great ovation in the thronged centres of manufacturing industry—Birmingham and Manchester.

M. Kossuth left London on Monday for Birmingham, and all along his route had repeated proofs of the popular sympathy. At the Euston Square station, the crowd of sympathizers was not very great, because there had been some misunderstanding as to the time of his arrival; but at every other station the telegraph had announced the moment of his pas- sing soon enough to allow of large gatherings. Mazzini was one of those who saluted him on his departure from the Euston Square station; and he set out on his journey in a carriage built for the late Queen Dowager, which the Railway Directors desired, but were not permitted by M. Kos- suth, to place at his disposal gratuitously during the whole time of his journey into the manufacturing districts.

At Wolverton and at Coventry the assemblage amounted to many thousands, and an extraordinary warmth of feeling was shown. Num- bers of persons clung to the train, and were carried along by it as it started : some females showed so great a recklessness in this respect that the railway officials had the utmost to do to prevent accidents ; and their duty was the more difficult as it is stated that they were themselves filled with the contagious fever of the moment. At Birmingham, M. Kossuth was received by Mr. Geach, Mr. Schole- field, and Mr. Muntz, Members of Parliament, and by a committee of re- ception. After refreshment at the Queen's Hotel, M. Kossuth entered an open barouche drawn by four greys, the postillions in scarlet, with ro- settes of the Hungarian colours; and at the head of other carriages started in some order of procession for Small Heath, where was to be organized a regular procession of the Birmingham trades into the heart of the town.

"As they drove at a smart pace down the green lanes, every moment added to the length of the cortege, until, by the time it had reached Small Heath, all resemblance to a procession had disappeared ; and the whole of the road, the hedges, the trees, and the houses, appeared swarming with people, or densely blocked up with vehicles of every description." The working men had made a holyday. "Every hedge, wall, and tree, every window and house-top, was crowded with people. On every side the gay banners of the various associated trades fluttered in the air ; and as the ope- ratives passed on in dense masses, each body beaded by their standard- bearer, the spectator recognized inscriptions of welcome and sympathy, and of sentences extracted from M. Kossuth's various speeches." The procession had been organizing from eleven until after one o'clock. Even at the last, new arrivals every minute swelled the throng into such dimensions, that, notwithstanding the enormous open space where the people were now as- sembled, with open fields on every side, it became difficult to march.

There was a total absence of police. Some of the accounts complain of the fact, others make it subservient to praises of the people for their voluntary good order.

Some time after one o'clock the procession set forward : in its nucleus it consisted of chosen "fifties" from the various trades, bearing the ban- ner of their association ; but the " fifty " was in every instance swelled to hundreds or thousands ; and in accounting for the enormous numbers, the reporters explain, that all the manufacturing districts, from "far away into the Potteries," and even to Sheffield, sent their large quotas of de- puted men. At the head of the bannered display, were men bearing the flags of England, Hungary, America, Turkey, Italy, and Poland ; and the old standard of the Political Union, so famous in the years of the Reform agitation.

As soon as the carriage of M. Kossuth drove up, at about half-past one, it was surrounded by a body guard of one hundred and fifty gentlemen on horseback ; and near to his carriage marched a body of Hungarians bearing the Hungarian standard, and another band of one hundred French- men.

"A little before Kossuth entered the principal part of the town, his car- riage was stopped, and the entire procession marched past him, that might gam a sight of him. All the exertions of his body-guard were necessary to restrain the enthusiasm of the people. The procession necessarily moved slowly, and was many times stopped in consequence of the enormous pres- sure on every side. As it approached the Bull Ring, the mass of people was such that it was fearful to look upon : it was one vast sea of human heads as far as the eye could reach ; every nook, every gullet, every alley, and every lane, every window, and every parapet, presented their hundreds of the po- pulation. From the corner of the Coventry Road to the Bull Ring occupied nearly one hour, so slow was the progress made. As the cortege turned out of New Street, the effect was very fine : there were impromptu scaffoldings, bearing. hundreds of people ; omnibuses at anchor crowded even to the tyre of tly heels ; from Deritend to the Town-hall there was scarcely a window with. I banner, and from the hands of thousands of ladies streamed ribands of the Hungarian tricolour." Triumphal arches overspread the streets.

The estimate of the numbers present is as vague and varying as usual. The less sympathizing accounts place it at seventy-five thousand ; and explain that much of the constant crowding was caused by the reappear- ance of the same persons, who joined the procession again and again at different points by a rapid detour through parallel streets. The most sympathizing accounts swell the numbers to half a million; and, remem- bering that the whole population of Birmingham is but a quarter of a million, they remind the reader of the enormous influx from the whole of the manufacturing districts around.

The procession reached the Five Ways at four o'clock. The reporter* says that Kossuth himself seemed almost amazed ; and Mr. Muntz, used to large meetings in the days of the Political Union, appeared lost in astonishment at the overwhelming multitude. At this point some evil seems to have resulted from the want of police organization or control: some cabs were fairly overthrown by the swaying of the multitude ; and though no serious mischief is mentioned, there must have been severe crushing and heavy bruises. Shortly after four o'clock, Mr. Geach expressed the gratitude of M. Kossuth ; explained that the state of his chest forbade any attempt to address them in the open air ; and gave the signal of dispersion. Shouts of God-speed to Kossuth in his national cause were raised by those immediately round M. Kossuth ; as the carriages drove off to the residence of Mt. Geach, the distant masses returned the shouts, and the fare- well was echoed again and again by far and near.

Next day, the enthusiastic reception at Birmingham was repeated at Manchester, though in an unorganized manner, on a scale so large that some of the accounts compare it to that lately given to the Queen. At the station several Hungarians were among those who awaited M. Kossuth's arrival. They embraced him in a most impassioned manner ; and a lady among them, after kissing his hand repeatedly with fervour, presented to him her child for his notice : M. Kossuth kissed the child, and returned it to the proud mother. Mr. Henry M.P. and Mr. Kershaw M.P. were at the head of a nu- merous deputation from the committee of reception.

" From the railway station the cortege took the way to Piccadilly and Market Street ; but the crowds of people were so immense, that it was diffi- cult, with all the aid the police could give, to make way through them. Many people were of opinion that the masses which came out to greet the presence of the Queen were not greater upon this part of her route. At the Royal visit, no carriages or vehicles of any kind were allowed to intrude upon the route ; here we had the reverse of this order of things. Carriages, omnibuses, porters' carts, vehicles of every kind jutting out upon the broad thoroughfare in double lines from either side, and crowded and covered with human beings, with masses of people mingled amongst and between them, formed a scene so novel and picturesque as perhaps was never witnessed here before. Balconies and windows were filled with people. In such a desul- tory assemblage, stretching through so many streets, it would be difficult to form a notion of the number of people, but gentlemen who had witnessed the reception at Birmingham declared their belief that the present exceeded even in numbers the crowds there." But the most remarkable proof of the public sympathy in Manchester was given in the number of applications for tickets to be present in the Free-Trade Hall, to hear M. Kossuth speak : the committee consisted of "a thousand of the first names in the locality," and the applications they received for tickets, "from persons of all shades in politics, exceeded one hundred thousand." Of these the hall, though it is the largest building of the kind in the world, would not contain more than about seven thou- sand. In hopes of a glimpse, or an occasional tone, vast numbers thronged all the avenues to the building, and waited patiently to the end of the meeting. M. Kossuth was the guest of Mr. Henry M.P. till the evening; and he entered the hall at seven o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Bright M.P., Mr. Kershawe M.P., Mr. George Wilson, Chairman of the Anti-Corn- law League, and Lord Dudley Stuart. On the platform were men of position from distant towns,—as Mr. Marshall M.P., Mr. Robert Milli- gan M.P., Mr. Pilkington M.P., Mr. Edward Baines of Leeds, and Mr. Smith the Mayor of Bradford. Mr. George Wilson presided.

Mr. Bright moved the presentation of the address from the people of Manchester, in a speech of some length. His chief points were a denial that such meetings as these do generate a war spirit in this country ; a magnifying eulogy on public opinion; a declaration that " it was a mag- nanimous and courageous act of Mr. Cobden to call a public meeting in London and denounce the system of foreign loans for the purposes of despotic war" ; a denunciation of the "secret diplomacy" of the Foreign Office; and a final testimony of his " admiration for a man whom half Europe fears and the other half admires, and the great nation across the Atlantic is prepared to receive."

The address was presented to M. Kossuth. It tendered to him the ex- pression of the warinest admiration of him as the statesman who through long years of devotion sustained by his unrivalled energy and eloquence the patriotic and constitutional resistance of a great and brave people against the encroachments of despotism. M. Kossuth bowed profoundly at the extraordinary burst of cheering which accompanied the delivery of the address to him.

Delegates from surrounding towns were led forward to present ad- dresses, sent by meetings of the inhabitants,—from Ashton, from Liver- pool, Bury, Burnley, Denton, Halifax, Heywood, Rochdale, the Stafford- shire Potteries, Stockport, and Wrexham. M. Kossuth's speech in reply was of considerable length.

Characterizing the popular demonstrations which he had met, by recalling that celebrated saying of Lord Brougham, that "now and then in the voice of the people the thunder of the Almighty is again heard," he said, "After I have seen these demonstrations, I loudly proclaim, Ye oppressed nations of Europe, be of good cheer and courage !' " ' He took up and expanded a point made in former speeches—that the comprehensive question now is, whether Europe shall be ruled by the principle of freedom or by the principle of despotism; self-government and mu- nicipal liberty being freedom, and centralization despotism. " Wo, a hun- dredfold wo, to every nation which, confident in its proud position of today, would carelessly regard the comprehensive struggle of those great principles ! It is the mythical struggle between heaven and hell. To be blessed or to be damned is the fate of all; there is no transaction between heaven and helL Wo, a thousandfold wo, to every nation which would not embrace within its sorrows and its cares the future, but only the passing mo- ment of the present time. In the flashing of a moment, the future becomes present, and the objects of our present labours have passed away. As the sun throws a mist before the sun rises, so the spirit of the future is seen in the events of the present day." These demonstrations are consoling because their very source is m the instinctive feeling of the people that the destiny of mankind has come to the turning-point of centuries; it is the cry of alarm upon the ostensible approach of universal danger. "It is the manifestation of the instinct of self-preservation, roused by the instinctive knowledge of the fact, that the decisive struggle, the destiny of .Europe, is near, and that no people, no country, can remain unaffected by the issue of this great struggle of principles. The despotic governments of Europe feel their approaching death, and therefore they will come to the death-struggle. This struggle is unavoidable; and because it is called forth by them, it will be the last in mankind's history." Referring to the late speech of Mr. Walker the America; at Southamp- ton, and to his prediction there that if the march of despotism in Europe should menace the free institutions of England, the result will form a turn- ing-point in the policy of both nations, he expressed a hope that he himself may be the humble means, when he goes to America, of promoting the soli- darity of the two peoples, and the adoption by. them in common of the rule that nonintervention shall be the guiding principle in European politics. "The fate of Hungary has already somewhat contributed to change the old rivalries between the two brothers into the most brotherly feeling." Some points of commercial persuasion were then placed before the Man- chester audience • especially the point that free-trade will not be "carried" till the whole market of Europe is open to the free advent of English industry. The assistance of the Peace Society is "precisely " the assistance M. Kos- suth calculates on ; because how can you expect France disarmed whilst the despotisms still threaten her in arms. Some further arguments were ad- dressed to the Peace Society. The principle of peace is not that of non- resistance. Peace to tyrants! that is impossible, and unchristian. Peace to the murderers! that is war against the murdered ; and a breach of the law "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, and shalt do to him as thou wouldest he should do unto thee." But England is not asked for " armed interference—to make an armed restoration of Hungary " ; she is entreated only "to respect, and make respected, the principle of the sacred right of every nation to dispose of its own affairs." In reference to the secrecy of diplomacy, M. Kossuth said—" If the se- crecy of diplomacy is turned out, I confidently hope that will give to the public of England such a weight in the destinies of mankind, that it shall not need to speak of material forces, but only to go on with the pronuncia- tion of that public opinion which itself will carry into effect the principle of liberty." In conclusion, he exclaimed—" People of Manchester, let not the world, let not history say, that on the eve of the last struggle between des- potism and liberty, you had nothing better to give to the principle of free- dom than the compassion of tender hearts. People of England, shout out with manly resolution to the despots of the world, like the people of old, that the world shall be free—and you have given freedom to the world."

The meeting did not separate till it had passed votes of thanks to the Sultan of Turkey, and the Government and People of the United States, for their practical sympathy with Kossuth.

The night of Tuesday was passed by M. Kossuth at the house of Mr. Henry M.P., at Woodlands. Before he left Manchester on Wednesday, a sort of public breakfast was given by Mr. Henry, at which two hun- dred gentlemen were present; whom M. Kossuth addressed. The chief point made by him in this subsidiary speech, was a very emphatically repeated disclaimer of "the doctrines, by some called Communism, by some Socialism."

On the return of M. Kossuth to Birmingham, at four o'clock on Wed- nesday afternoon, a grand banquet awaited him in the Town-hall. The tickets of admission were a sovereign each, and nearly a thousand diners sat down. The hall was appropriately decorated : on the pannels were emblazoned the names of Kossuth, Louis Batthyany, Bem, Dembinsky, Perczel, Guyon, Vetter, and other Hungarian and Polish worthies ; crape being hung over the names of those who fell in the struggle or in cap- tivity since. A multitude of letters of excuse were read,—from Lord Hatherton, Lord Leigh, Mr. C. Villiers M.P., Mr. Thornely M.P., Mr. Walter Savage Lando; and others. Mr. Landor's note said—" How happy I should be to sit or stand in the presence of the only statesman I revere or respect " ; and it enclosed some verses on the exile's voyage to America.

Mr. Scholefield M.P., in giving the toast of " Our illustrious guest Kossuth," said they were not to regard their meeting today as a mere idle ceremonial—

Let them not forget that for Hungary there is a future yet. In that future England must have a part. " They must insist on a real noninter- vention—that we should not interfere ourselves, but also that we should not allow the intervention of others." " In his conscience he believed that. never had it been more difficult to avert war than it will be during the next twelvemonth. Give the absolute monarchs of the Continent but a few months longer to tyrannize over their subjects, an the tide of anarchy— anarchy the consequence of men driven mad by t wression—will grow stronger and stronger; till it sweeps away laws and vistitutions as well as monarchs and thrones : and who is bold enough to sly,that England can escape in the general conflict of the passions thus let loose ? " M. Kossuth commenced with a highly picturesque piece of oratory-

" Three years ago, yonder house of Austria, which had chiefly me to tLank for not having been swept away by the revolution of Vienna in March 1848, having in return answered by the most foul, most sacrilegious con- spiracy against the chartered rights, freedom, and national existence of my native land, it became my share, being then member of the Ministry, with undisguised truth to lay before the Parliament of Hungary the immense danger of our bleeding fatherland. Having made the sketch, which, how- ever dreadful, could be but a faint shadow of the horrible reality, I pro- ceeded to explain the alternations which our terrible destiny left to us, after the failure of all our attempts to avert the evil. Reluctant to present the neck of the realm to the deadly snake which aimed at its very life, and anxious to bear up against the horrors of fate, and manfully to fight the battle of legitimate defence, scarcely had I spoken the word—scarcely had I added the words that the defence would require two hundred thousand men and eighty millions of florins, when the spirit of freedom moved through the ball, and nearly four hundred representatives rose as one man, and, lifting their right arms towards God, solemnly said, 'We grant a—freedom or death.' (The solemnity of gesture and voice with which Al. Kossuth ut- tered these words produced a powerful eject.) Thus they spoke; and there they swore, in a calm and silent majesty, awaiting what further word might fall from my lips. And for myself—it was my duty to speak, but the grandeur of the moment, and the rushing waves of sentiment, benumbed my tongue. A burning tear fell from my eyes, a sigh of adoration to the Al- mighty Lord fluttered on my lips; and, bowing low before the majority of my people, as I bow now before you, gentlemen, I left the tribunal silently, speechless, mute. (MI. Kossuth. paused for a few moments, overpowered by his feelings.) Pardon me my emotion—the shadows of our martyrs passed before my eyes; - I heard the millions of my native land once more shouting liberty or death. As I was then, sirs, so am I now in feelings." "The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect con- ceives ; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak inter- preter.

These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent."

Recurring autobiographically to the studies of his youth, he said that he had always chosen as his teacher, that book of life, history. The great ex- amples of the classical past warmed the susceptible young heart to noble aims and instincts ; but, looking farther among the ruins of vanished greatness, those monuments of the fragility of human things, he wished " not for ruins but for life, and to be able to teach his nation how to live." "It was then that my regards turned with admiration upon the Anglo-Saxon race, this ' living wonder of both hemispheres, the glorious Albion. ' Pursuing his re- trospection, he told again the admiration with which he learned that our na- tional progress is chiefly due to the fulness of our municipal liberties ; and from eloquent praises of local free government, he passed on to descant on the system of " small masters "—local and personal industries—which pe- culiarly characterizes, and is, he believes, an essential cause of the fame of, the crafts and trades which have distinguished Birmingham from the time of Julius Csesar. He dwelt on the historic names of Hutton and Watt, and I touched on the present fame of Elkington. He then turned to the sorrows of his fatherland. His enemies had de- scribed the people who fought with him as a mere faction, inspired by him- elf: but it was a whole people which had given inspiration to himself their eader, rather than a faction which had borrowed inspiration from him their guide. But the sympathy which has been shown to the million woes of that people concentrated in himself, is that sympathy to be a mere funeral feast offered to the memory of a noble dead ? God forbid ! He was preserved from this conclusion by three anchors of hope. "The first basis of my hope. is the Almighty himself—the God of Justice, who cannot grant a lasting vic- tory to wickedness. History has, to be sure, recorded the downfall of mighty ! empires, of nations to whom compared, we Magyars can scarcely claim a name. But the fall of those nations was precisely the revelation of the eternal justice of God. They fell by their own crimes. Nations die but 1, by suicide. That is not our case. Hungary is not the sacrifice of its own crimes." His next hope is his faith in the destiny of humanity. "They are rebels against God who believe the great pyramid of mankind but for the purpose to exist that they may proudly stand on its top, having the pretension to doom the pyramid to immobility, only to serve as a pedestal to them to look down haughtily from the height. One shivering only, and they are shaked oft', and hurled down to the dust. There let them lie." Lastly, he believes in the practical character of the mighty English race—of the elder branch which in its glorious isles raised its powerful voice to loosen the fetters of the captive, and of the illustrious offspring which sent a war- ship to conduct the captive from prison. "If the people of England lies once taken a direction, has once bestowed its sympathy, has once bent its mind to anything, it will carry it, and will have out of it some practical re- sult." The finger of God is already over Europe stretched out. There are but two eases possible : one, that the crisis will pit the established govern- ments against each other,—in which case, should the fate of Europe be de- cided without England's vote, England would be an European power no more; the other case, that in the coming crisis there will stand, not states against states, but the nations against the governments, the people in judgment upon their rulers,—in which case humanity expects from Britannia that she will be found on the side of the nations. "It expects that the people of England may not only respect—that is out of doubt—but shall make respected, the natural rights of nations : and should the Czar— requested or not requested, that cannot alter the matter—should the Czar once more threaten oppressed humanity—should he once more be willing to violate the sovereign independence of nations—should he once more be willing to take any pretence to put his foot on whatever people in the world he chooses, and to drown Europe's liberty in blood—humanity expects from the people of England that it will shake its mighty trident, and shout out a powerful 'Stop !' like yonder Perfilius of old. Be sure, gentle- men, this single word—spoken with the resolution to be as good as your word —this single word, will suffice. It will cost you neither money nor blood. Yea, by that single word, by the will to speak so, made known in time, you will have saved the lives of myriads, averted much bloodshed, and given liberty to the world. A glorious power ! a glorious calling !—nearly divine ! "

Speeches were made by M. Pulszky, Mr. George Dawson, Mr. Muntz, and others, till midnight.

The Commission at St. Alban's has continued its inquiry. The exa- mination of all the bribed voters was completed on Thursday, and no facts of a new or freshly interesting character were disclosed. Chief Commissioner Slade acknowledged the facilities which all parties had of- fered, and adjourned the sittings of the Commission to Monday the 1st of December.

The investigation before the Earl of Carlisle at Preston seems to be little more than half finished. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins has made a speech of great length on behalf of Mr. Ramshay, and has begun to call wit- nesses. The points he seems chiefly to rely on are, that the matters com- plained of, supposing them to be true, are not of a different sort from those which occur from time to time in the superior courts—the highest judges being the actors—without any serious evil being felt, or serious complaint made : at all events, they are matters for which Mr. Ramshay is not legally removeable. But in addition, he promises to prove that the whole of what has hitherto come before the public is due to conspiracy against Mr. Ramshay, in "getting up" scenes in the court, and in pro- curing them to be falsely reported in the public press. On Thursday the evidence for Mr. Ramshay was opened by the examination of many wit- nesses, who had never seen him behave in any way the least uneourteous or undignified; but had always, after much opportunity of seeing, thought him most able, most courteous to the suitors, and most kind to the poor.

The wires of the submarine telegraph were carried on from their ter- mination on the coast at the South Foreland, into the town of Dover, on Thursday ; and direct communication between Paris and London is only interrupted now by the half-mile of distance between the offices of the Telegraph Company and those of the Railway Company in Dover. A salute to the Duke of Wellington, at the moment of his departure from Dover, was fired on the instant by gentlemen at Calais ; and a message with the price of the Funds in London at the opening of busi- ness that day was sent to Paris, and received on the Bourse in full busi- ness hours. The news of the important division of the French Assembly on the electoral bill, on Thursday, appeared in the earliest editions of the London papers yesterday morning, having been received on Thursday evening in an hour and a half from Paris.

The farmers of Ashill, Necton, and Pickenham, in Suffolk, have reduced the wages of their labourers from Ss. to 7s. weekly ; a partial "strike" en- sued, and those who struck went round to the farms and compelled the other labourers to quit work and march about in procession with them. No fur- ther violence has been committed.

The cab-drivers of Liverpool have " struck " for an advance on their very small wages, and for a day's rest every alternate Sunday. Three hundred of the cabmen went in procession to St. Simon's Church last Sunday ; and the clergyman in his sermon incidentally supported their claim so far as the Sunday's rest was concerned. Many employers have already acceded to the terms of the cabmen.

James Anderson, foreman at alkali works at St. Helen's, near Liverpool, has been murdered by two men, who set upon him as he was returning home in the evening through the fields, in company with an infirm old man. and a boy. He was struck on the head with a heavy stick, and fell; then being beaten by the second man, he reeled into a ditch. The old man and the boy were knocked down ; they afterwards rallied, and pulled Anderson from the ditch, but he was dead. The murderers are unknown, and their motive unconjectured.

The two burglars who perpetrated the robbery at Miss Nicklin's, near Halesowen, have been taken at Leominster, after a fierce contest with con- stables. Superintendent Macrons observed a suspicious-looking fellow watching a chemist's shop in the evening ; and saw himjoined by a second man, who had been buying gunpowder in the shop. The Superintendent thought one of the men wore trousers which had been stolen from a cottage at Burford, and he collared him ; but as he saw the glance of a pistol in the other fellow's hand, he made an excuse and let the first go. Satisfied that he had met with desperate robbers, he hastened for a policeman to aid him, borrowed a double-barrelled gun from the Mayor, and set out in pursuit. The burglars were overtaken near the town, and a fierce conflict ensued. One of them fired a pistol at Macrone, and was preparing to fire again, when Mac- roue disabled him by lodging a charge from his gun in the upper part of his thigh. The other man gave Macrone's assistant two shots in the scalp but was at last struck down. Assistance came, and the ruffians were secured, Each was armed with two six-barrelled revolving pistols, folly charged; .and upon them were found housebreaking tools, a dantern, a ''.1ife-preserver," two hundred cartridges, and a bullet-mould. Bank-notes, a watch, and spoons, were found on them, -which had been -stolen from Miss Nicklin ; and the clothes they wore were the spoil of the Burford robbery. The life of the wounded robber is in danger.

Another man has flied from the effects of theexploaion at West Moor Col- liery ; making the ninth victim. It was stated at the inquest, that the men were working with lamps where the 'explosion happened, slight explosions having occurred a few days before. They are prohibited from smoking when lamps are used.

The inquest terminated on Tuesday. Mr. Dunn, the -Government In- spector of Mines, handed in a report respecting the causes of the explosion. He seems to have been baffled in his attempt to assign positively a cause for it, though he suggested some as probable. In the working of the pit there had not been "a very great margin between safety and danger" ; he sug- gested that more air should be thrown into the pit to render it safer. The verdict was "Accidental death."

Mr. George Waterston, partner in boiler-works on the Tyne, has been killed by an explosion. An old boiler had been repaired for a steam-boat; the steam was got up to test it ; Mr. Waterston was standing on the top of the boiler, marking with a piece of chalk some places where the steam es- caped, when the bailer burst.

The Demerara, a magnificent mail-steamer recently built at Bristol, has met with a serious accident. On Monday morning she was tugged out of the dock, on her way to Glasgow to receive her engines. While proceeding at a rapid rate down the river Avon, she struck on a hard gravelly bank, and become fixed. When the tide ebbed, she swung round, and lay athwart the stream. She suffered a considerable strain,—her coppers wrinkled, her butts opened, her keel bent, and her cabins and etaircues twisted. Hundreds of people were quickly set to work to lighten her of ballast and to caulk the openings in the hull. In the evening She was got off the gravel-hank, and moored on a soft mud-bank.; but the tide subsequently forced her from the moorings, and she again drifted into a dangerous position. On Tuesday mot ning, however, she was safely got to the entrance of the docks—her back broken, decks sunk, cabins destroyed, water pouring-through her. sides. At the best, the Demerara must be almost rebuilt ; while the more general

is that she must be broken up altogether.