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The British Association" which opened its session at Hull last week, con-

tinued its business proceedings in sections, with unabated vigour till Wed- nesday.

Among the more generally interesting papers read, were those relating to railways, railway accidents, the condition of Ireland, and gold in Great Britain.

3)r. Scoresby read a paper on railway signals; propounding a plan for the prevention of collisions. It consisted of an elaborate system of distinct tele- graphic stations, every four or five miles, which Ahould announce that the line was clear, or blocked up, as the case might be; no train being allowed to pass unless the proximate telegraph stated that the line was clear. Of course this would lessen the speed. Enlarging on this point, Dr. Scoresby described the public at large as a very unreasonable public. It wants to travel safely— whieh is right enough ; it wishes to travel punctually—which is natural too, when punctuality can be obtained; but the public wants to go not only safely and punctually but fast, and not only fast but as fast as possible • and thew things are not compatible.

.Mr. Dixon, civil engineer, defended railway directors, and declared punctuality to be impossible. Mr. Croskill thought rain and wind should be taken into account in fixing time-tables. Mr. Nelson pointed out the small number of preventible deaths caused by collisions, and the large number caused by individual carelessness. Mr. Fairbairn showed how the iron of the rolling deck is deteriorated, and referred many accidents to this source. Mr. Oldham suggested the registration and regular inspection of all loco- motives by Government. The Reverend F. F. Statham set forth a plan for stopping trains by means of fans or wings; but it was shown by the engineers to be im- practicable.

On a subsequent occasion, Mr. Nelson gave an analytical view of rail- way accidents in this country and on the Continent, for the twelve years ending with 1852.

"In the period of 1840-'51, the number of railway passengers was 478,488,607; of whom,237 were killed and 1416 injured ; showing a ratio of 1 killed in 2,018,939, and 1 injured in $37,916. Of engine-drivers, stokers, and guards, the number killed was 275, and the injured 274, out of 40,486; showing a ratio of 1 killed in 177, and 1 injured in 148. Number of porters and other servants, 3.59,683, of whom 683 were killed, and 343 injured ; the ratio being 1 killed in 527, and lunered le 1058. During the years 1844- 51, 7,044,469,481 miles have been travelled by passengers, and 1,76 deaths have happened through peedeas from all causes. Hence, one passenger has been ' lulledfor every 40,06,395 miles travelled. Supposing a person to be al- ways in motion on a railway, and travelling-at an average speed of twenty miles per hour including stoppeges, he would travel 170,200 miles yearly, and he must constantly travel 228 years to be killed by accidents from all causes. The period for which be must constantly travel to be killed by ac- cidgnts from all causes under the control of the companies is 490 years; and he must be constantly travelling 426 years to be killed by accidents from causes beyond the control of companies : but if the person is supposed to travel twelve hours only per diem for each of the 365 days in the year, then in 456 years he will be killed by accidents from all causes ; in 980 years he will be killed by accidents from causes under the control of companies ; and in 852 years he will be killed by accidents from causes beyond the control of companies. Of the 237 passengers .killed in the period 1840-'51, 103 were killed by causes beyond, and 134 by causes under, the control of the com- panies. Of the 1416 persons injured, 188 were injured by causes beyond, and 1228 from causes under thesontrol of the companies."

Mr. Nelson says that it is an error to suppose that the third-class passen- gers suffer the most severely by accidents; he affirms that the greatest por- tion ef accidents fell upon first-class passengers. He showed that there is a diminution of deaths on railways, and a gradual improvement in the railway system. Deaths from causes beyond the control of the companies have lin* been the majority.

The tendency, says Mr. Nelson, a accidents which may be considered to arise from details of management is to inflict bodily injury rather than °earls sion death ; for out of every 100 injuries about 11 deaths happen, while among the accidents due to causes within the influence of the passenger themselves, for every 100 injuries 55 deaths take place. In the period 1840-'3, the deaths from causes under the control of the companies was 62.50 per cent of all the deaths ; in 1844-'47 they were 51.56 per cent; and in 1848-'51 only 43.16 per cent : so that it was evident that the class of lie- eidents under the control of the several companies was decreasing in relation to the total accidents in a most satisfactory and very rapid manner.

Referring to the German railways, Mr. Neison gave the following results for the years 1848, 1849, and 1850,—length of railways open, 8480 miles (English) ; number of passengers, 51,713,297; number of miles travelled, 1,155,436,890. During this period only one passenger was killed, and 14 injured ; 53 railway employes were killed, and 88 injured. Mr. Locke read a paper, in continuation of that of last year, on the condi- tion of Ireland. He showed how the exodus rose gradually from 1840 to 1851 ; then attained its greatest number, 254,537 ; and had since steadily declined. This decrease of the number of emigrants he referred to three re- parative agencies,—first, the decrease of pauperism concurrent with the ge- neral diffusion of employment ; secondly, the establishment of civil end social order, evidenced by the decrease of crime; thirdly, the increasing sol- vency of the lauded proprietary, concurrent with the improvement of agri- culture. The number of paupers in the workhouses has decreased from 86,303 in 1851 to 50,938 in 1853; and the average rates are now estimated at no more than ls. 8d. in the pound. These effects are mainly referred to the admirable industrial system now adopted in the Irish workhouses, and to the increased demand for labour. Crime has also diminished in quantity and quality ; and the assizes of Tipperary, which were wont to occupy ten days, are now completed in five hours. The third reparative agency, the increased solvency of the landed proprietary, introduced the Encumbered Estates Court. A return made last April showed the number of cases trans- ferred from Chancery to the court to be no leas than 974; of which number 19 have been more than forty years and 135 more than twenty years in

Chancery, and, probably, would have remained there for a score of years

longer but for this intervention. From the 31st of October 1849 to the end of July 1853, 2878 petitions have been presented, 654 being from the owners themselves. The Commissioners have sold 1,691,000 acres, or one-twelfth of the area of Ireland, estimated by the Ordnance survey at 20,316,979 acres exclusive of water. The total produce of the sales is 10,429,8931. Si. ld., Within 1,000,000/. of the total annual valuation of the country. (The total annual valuation of Ireland, made for Poor-law purposes, is 11,572,4131.) Deducting one-ninth, which is about the proportion allowed to encum-

brancers who became purchasers, it would appear that nine millions and is quarter have been reproductively invested : 1081 encumbered owners have been replaced by 4213 solvent purchasers; thus quadrupling the number of proprietors in a country throughout a great part of which there have been no resident gentry. Up to the 31st July last year the proportion was only treble. Of these purchasers-2718, or two-thirds of the whole number, aie small capitalists or farmers, none of whose purcheses exceeded, 20001., thus aiding in the formation of a middle class, so in4ispeneshie to civil security and social prosperity in Ireland. English and Scoten have invested in ever's, part of the country, except the Northern counties of Sligo, Armagh, aud Londonderry. The number of English purchasers is 181, a twenty-third of the whole number. The amount of their investment, 1,779,608/. 12.s. 6.1., or one-sixth of the total produce of the sales; the quantity purchased, 496,936 acres, or upwards of two-sevenths of the total acreage sold. Up to the same date last year the comparative proportions were respectively, as to number, 1-25th; as to amount, 1-10th; and, as to quantity sold, somewhat under 2-7ths. Still, though British purchasers are steadily on the increase, the number is too small to awaken the jealousy of invidious objectors; while the very large amount invested justified the expectation of further accessions of capital to develop those ample resources now brought into the market.

Making especial reference to Connaught, Mr. Locke expressly says that the improvement of the Western Highlands of Ireland will have been brought about by British capital and British emigration.

Mr. J. Calvert read a paper on the production of gold in the British Is- lands; stating that, from his own exploration, from researches in various works, and from communications made to him, he believed gold is to be found in forty counties in these islands, and over an area of 500 square miles. The yearly produce of gold in the United Kingdom is 5000/. and he ex- pressed an opinion that this might be largely increased. The largest known nuggets were one of $ pounds from Lanarkshire, and others of 21. pounds from Lanarkshire and Wicklow. Mr. Calvert considered the clay-slate for- mations of Canada would soon be discovered to be a vast gold-field.

Mr. Nieolay read a paper on the importance of certain places in the Pacific with reference to great circle routes across the ocean. Some of the statistics of distances are interesting.

In the Pacific route to Australia via the Isthmus of Panama, the distances appear to be, from Land's End to Panama, 4369 geographical miles; from Panama to Sydney, 7680 miles ; making altogether 12,049 miles. But from the Land's End to Hobart Town, via the Cape of Good llope, is only 11,200 miles-849 miles shorter. The facilities afforded on the route from Panama are however, great. The Galapagos Islands, where the existence of coal is reported, afford a refuge from the horrible climate of the Isthmus, and they .offer every advantage for a depat. be steam company formed for the pur- pose of effecting communication by this route proposes Tahiti as the inter- mediate depot; but Tahiti lies far out of theshortest track, and is dangerous. of access from the East. Easter Island lies nearest the directline, and if it. harbour be sufficient is well suited in other respects. The Sandwich Islands present themselves as the most important insular position in the North Pacific. They are distant, respectively, from Vancouver's Island, '2293 miles ; St. Francisco, 2083; Central America, 4023; Callao, 5060; paraiso, 6905; Japan, 3853; Chilean, 4301; Singapore, 5832; Sidney, 4500; Auckland, 3817. The conclusions come to by Mg. Nicolay are, that what is now called the overland route to China ought to be the most rapid, until one is opened across North America. That by the Cape has the next preference ; whiU the advantages of that by Panama are almost exclusively confined to the Southern States of the Union and the West Indies, and with respect to them, it will be superseded by the overland route.

After a good deal of debating, on the relative merits of Glasgow, Liver- pool, Dublin, Gloucester, and Brighton, it was resolved, with unanimity, that the Association should meet at Liverpool in 1855. The Earl of Harrowby was elected President for that year ; and Colonel Sabine was appointed to the office of General Secretary, vacant by the resignation of Dr. B.oyle.

A general meeting, on Wednesday, brought the formal proceedings to an end. It appears that the visit to Hull has been most successful. The returns, up to three o'clock on Wednesday, showed that there had been present 141 old life members, 13 new life members, 59 old annual mem- bers, 58 new annual members, 368 associates, 236 ladies, and 6 foreign- ers; making a total of 881. The amount paid by these members and as- sociates was 9041., and 221. had been received for books.

The excursions took place on Thursday. One party went to visit Lord Londesborough at Grimstone Park ; another to Beverley, where there is a fine minster and Mr. Croskill's manufactory ; a third to Flamborough Head and a fourth to Lord Yarborough's at Brocklesby, to Grimsby, and Thornton Abbey.

The continued investigation at Barnstaple has fully established the guilt of the agents and voters of the Derby candidates in 1852, Mr. Bremridge and Sir Walter Fraser. A wholesale system of buying votes at six pounds a piece, specimens of which we gave last week, has been anatomized. Nor has the inquiry been without an attendant tragedy. A family named Gaydon are much implicated. One of them, an old man of eighty, a freeman, attempted to cut his throat. It was proved that he had taken a bribe, whereas he swore before the Election Committee of the House of Commons that he had not. The inquiry was expected to terminate on Friday.

A correspondent draws our attention to the disgraceful scenes which occurred at the last election of Town and Harbour Trustees at White- haven. For many years there has been a rancorous contest going on between the Earl of Lonsdale and the inhabitants of Whitehaven. The bone of contention is the choice of the Town and Harbour Board of twenty-one Trustees; one-third of whom are nominated by the lord of the manor, Lord Lonsdale, and the other two-thirds by masters and owners of vessels belonging to the port, and the inhabitants of the town who deal in merchandise liable to harbour-dues. In order to carry their candidates, "the Castle," or Lonsdale party, originated in 1832 a system of manufacturing votes, by selling and buying with the lowest characters, herrings, or other goods, subject to dues. This plan has been carried out on both aides; in 1850, with effect, by the Liberals. Last August, the election again took place ; but this time the "Yellows," or Lonsdale men, not only converted men, women, and girls, colliers, and even married women whose husbands had voted, into shopkeepers and dealers, but armed a body of ruffians with bludgeons, placed them at the polling-booths, and gave them orders to admit none who had not yellow lists. Hereupon the Liberals protested and retired, and the Yellow in- terest carried the day. There is no appeal ; and Whitehaven, long known for its disgraceful want of drainage, is banded over to the mono- polizing party—and the cholera on our shores !

At a meeting at Graveaend, on Monday, it was resolved that a me- morial should be presented to Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Russell, setting forth the claims of Gravesend to direct representation in Parlia- ment. According to the census of 1851, Gravesend contains 16,763 in- labitants, and 2663 houses rated to the poor at 101 and upwards. Not -brae-than 300 of the inhabitants have a vote for the county.

The Royal Bucks Agriculturl Association held its annual meeting at Aylesbury on Wednesday.... The most conspicuous guest was Mr. Disraeli. At the dinner in the evening, he made a speech ; but it was confined to purely agricultural topics of no general interest. He vindicated the so- cieties from the ridicule thrown on them for offering such small rewards to veteran labourers and well-skilled ploughmen ; and claimed it as some- thing for the farmers to be able to say, that before the change now oper- ating in favour of the labouring classes began, the farmers showed their sympathy with them. There were no kind of political allusions in the speech; and the whole performance was very tame in comparison with former speeches to the same body. Some of the prizes were curious : among them were three—the first of 2/. 10s., the second 1/. 10s., the third 1/..—given by Mr. Disraeli, to labourers who had had borne to them a certain number of children, varying from eleven to four, and had brought them up without parish relief.

The Birmingham Gaol inquiry terminated on Tuesday. Nothing has been elicited which at all refutes the charges of cruelty against the Go- vernor and the system of which he was the administrator. Several other cases of cruelty, similar to those we recited last week, were investi- gated; and the evidence clearly showed that the prisoners had been M- used, und that illegal practices were not infrequent. Some of the visit- ing Justices, who were examined, said they had placed full confidence in Lieutenant Austin, but they did not know such cruelties were practised. Others admitted the cruel acts, and still held by the Governor. Towards the close, Mr. Lucy and Mr. James, both Magistrates, brought a serious charge against Captain Maconochie. They alleged that he had received 3001., in three sums, which be had never accounted for. The charge was only made public at this investigation, and was not mentioned by the two Magistrates to their colleagues. Captain Maconochie explained, that he had received the money from the Treasurer of the Corporation as a loan, and he considered it a perfectly open transaction : he came down from London at great expense, and had to furnish a house—that was the reason why he wanted the money : when the Treasurer died, he immediately communicated with the then Mayor. The Commissioners did not con- sider that Captain Maeonochie had intended to misappropriate the money, and it appeared that it had been repaid. The public will wait with anxiety for the report of the Commissioners.

The Archbishop of Canterbury concluded the triennial visitation of his diocese last week. He expressed his gratification at the state of the churches and schools in the diocese, and at the full attendance of clergy and churchwardens at the places which he visited.

- The Bishop , of • Durham, who manifested -unmistakeable signs of the effects of ago and infirmity in his recent visitation tour, continues to be in a very precarious state of healtk At the confirmations about to take place in different parts of the diocese, the Bishop of Manchester will officiate for the venerable prelate —Leeds Ineollpneer..±*. • The Anti-Church-rate movement proceedi at a rip-Upsets, Two rates were refused last week by large majorities; one at Wakeldi the other

at Salisbury. • _• -

The Festival of the Three Choirs, at Gloucester, eommenciattli•Tues- day. The principal singers were Madame Clara -Novelle,- -Midaine Cas- tellan, Miss Dolby, Mr. Lockey and Mrs. Lockey, Gardohi, regliafico, and Formes ; the leader of the orchestra was Mr. H. Itlag,rore, . and the conductor Mr. Arndt. A very large audience attended the perfornithee of .Elflah, on Wednesday; and altogether the success of the &stink is described as "unprecedented." The total collection up to Thursday was 8051.

The alarm of cholera at Newcastle has proved to have liehn but too well founded. From day to day reports have appeared in the journals, showing for the last few days a number of deaths varying from 234:6 58. An authentic return issued by the Board of Health states the total deaths from August 31 to September 14 at 214, but does not state the number of cases. The average of recoveries appears to be not much more than a half of the persons attacked : thus, out of 57 new cases, on Monday, 23 died. The report gives the local authorities credit for having pro- vided extra medical aid. Inspectors who go from house to home have caused the arrest of many cases of diarrhcea; and druggists' shops, open night and day gratuitously to the poor, have been very beneficial. It has been a ground of serious complaint, that in parts of the town of Newcastle most densely overcrowded by Irish labourers flocking North- wards to the harvest, the provisions of the Common LOdenghouses Act, for regulating and limiting the numbers accommodated in such places, had not been put in force, though the Town-Couneil was the body to whom the execution of that act belongs. But by the Board of Health report we are informed that the Town-Council have now suspended their by-laws to pass the common lodginghouse regulations under the act.

Gateshead has also suffered severely. From the 31st August to the 14th September 83 persons have died. The disease is also reported at Hexham and Morpeth. The Northern towns are beginning.to stir ,-, and various orders from the authorities for the prompt clearing away of nui- sances appear in the journals.

There was a " demonstration " at Wakefield -on Monday by the-colliers of that place and the surrounding districts, for the organization of the miners of the West Riding. The men and masters cannot agree on the subject of wages : coals have risen 10d. a ton, and the men say that 214. or 3d. of that amount should be granted to them. One at leaist-of the owners had offered 11d. a ton' which a speaker at the meeting "scorned." Resolutions were carried to effect the proposed union. A memorial ad- dressed to Lord Palmerston was also voted ; praying the Government to pass a law for the protection of colliers, by compelling the proprietors of mines to adopt more efficient methods of ventilation, and by eying miners and their families a power to claim compensation in case of hurts or death by explosions. The memorial complains that eufficient care of their health is not exhibited in pits where carbonic acid gas,prevails; explo- sions not being feared, the ventilation is bad, and the poisenous air de- stroys the health of the workers.

The colliers of Messrs. Charlesworth were absent from the Wakefield meeting of miners—their employers had voluntarily made an advance of 16 per cent on their wages. The men were more than satisfied. On Monday they made holyday, marched in procession to the houses of their two employers, read addresses, and received answers, couched in the most pleasant terms. Messrs. Charleeworth handed presents of 20/. and 25/. from their wives as contributions for a tea-party to the miners' Wives in the afternoon.

_ The strike of the Dowlais colliers is at an end. Those who remained on the spot-300 out of 1200—have accepted the terms offered by Lady Charlotte Guest—a rate of pay 30 per cent higher than last autumn. The remuneration now settled is within 5 per cent of what was paid in 1845 and 1846, when rails were sold at 111, a ton : the present price being only 8/. 108. It is said that manufacturers have now gone to the utmost limit of wages—any further increase must be paid out of capital.

Coal freights to London rose on Friday to 128. 6d. and those to South- ampton and Plymouth to 13s. 6d. per ton ; while 181 per keel has been paid to Hamburg and Havre. Sailors' wages continue at 44, with small stores, to the Baltic, and at 31. 158. to the Mediterranean.--lferecastle Guardian.

The master aailmakers of Liverpool have met and resolved to give an advance of 2s. a week to the men who are not paid by the piece.

The Birmingham Police are preparing to make what appears likely to be an unanimous demand for an increase of pay ; and if this be rejected, they will seek other employment. At a meeting of the men, other rae.a- sures for their benefit were mooted, beyond mere advance of wages.

The shoemakers of Plymouth and Devonport are "on strike." The masters held a meeting, and offered to give an advance of 121 per cent : when this was submitted to them, the workmen rejected it ; the masters again assembled and resolved not to go beyond their original offer.

The housewives of Macclesfield have to contend with the general ad- vance of prices : the bakers charge more for baking, the manglers for their work, and the washerwomen are meeting to demand an ailvance. Kitchen-ovens and flat-irons are said to have come into great requisition to defeat the bakers and the manglers.

Doncaster races have been celebrated this week, under the influence of tolerably fine weather, and a company rather above the average. The ordinary races were well contested.

The Fitswilliam Handicap was carried off by Mr. I. Osborne'd-Miss Agues (Bates) from eleven competitors. The Great Yorkshire Handic4i fell to the lot of Baron Rothschild 's Hungerford (Charlton), who contested the prize with fourteen others. These were the principal races on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the chief race—the St. Leger-was the more remarkable this year from the fact that its winner, West Australian, also won the Two Thousand Guinea Stakes and the Derby. This fortunate horse belongs to Mr. Bowes, and was ridden by Frank Butler. He had to outstrip ten rivals; the betting on him at starting was six to four. -*After:tjusetnitianntiainter and parade, Abel drew togetbes at thot- post; and at ijje Teryfirg AiPal. autiful start was effected. Feversham, followed by Sitting- -6.mile, the Reiver, robnut, and Latvian, in the order stained, • made the running Sittingbourne went in front, and galloped on with the lead atepsiiest Passing the milepost, Itataplan drew into the third place, and West Australian began gradually to improve his position. Coming round the bend, Sittinghoynne was caught and passed by the Reiver, whose friends now began to at theii gams, ' At the distance, however, he found West Australian at his quer- ,Kapositkeverldah'Svas held until they were opposite the stand, when West Aus- tralian went in advance, and, amid the cheers and roars of the vast multitudes, • Frank,' with hands down, landed him an easy winner by three lengths: four itegaistetiveen the-second and-third; Balrownie a bad fourth, accompanied by Mr. ;Ass face Cimeas; behind whom, at long intervals, came Sittingbourne, Cobnut, Cat'spaw. Yevershaiu Pulled up a long way from home, and through the serried croWdethat rushed into the course immediately after the race he slowly threaded Jas- Way back to the saddling enclosure." -Tho races terminated yesterday ;- and on the whole there has been capital-sport _ The receipts at the grand stand have exceeded those of previonsiyears.-13y as much as 2001. on the first day ; a result attributed to the extension of railway communication.

thie'of the members of the British Association, Mr. Hugh Edwin Strick- land, on his return home from Hull, met an abrupt death. He reached Eaatitatford on Wednesday; and, being a student in geology, he went in the afternoon to examine the strata in the deep cuttings on each side of the Clarborough Tunnel, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line. Here be was seen by a boy standing near the tunnel, on the space between the up and down rails, writing in his pocket-book. A coal-train came slowly down the line; Mr. Strickland stepped off the "six feet" space, on to the up line ; but at this moment a Great Northern passenger-tram came out of the tunnel; and in an instant Mr. Strickland lay a shattered and shapeless corpse. His watch, it was found, had stopped at 4 h. 29 m. - and his pocket- book contained a pencil sketch of the fatal strata and a descriptive memo- randum.

Mr. John Hales, the constructor of railways, well known as contractor for the line extending from Coalville to Burton-upon-Trent, was killed, a few dap ago, by falling from a scaffold erected against his house, called Felcotes Hal, near Tunbridge Wells. He had recently purchased the estate upon which the mansion stands, and was superintending the outside repairs when this melancholy accident took place.—Lekestershire Mrereury.

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'gentleman William Joseph Greenland, has been drowned while bathing at Margate. He and two younger brothers entered the sea in the bay beyond' Newgate Battery, without having bathing-machines. An under-current carried one of the younger brothers out dins depth ; William went to his aid; the brother was thrown on a rock and escaped, but William got into, deep water. Two gentlemen, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Addis, made gallant efforts to save him, but failed. The body was washed ashore an hour after.

A Coroner's Jury at Withington, near Manchester, has found that a little

glii was " accidentally " shot, under the following circumstances. Thomas Knight took a double-barrelled gun into a friend's house ; it was loaded, percussion-caps were on the nipples, and the hammers were down : this

infernal machine" stood against the door-cheek; two dogs ran against it, and it fell ; on striking the ground the barrels exploded, and one charge entered the leg and abdomen of the poor child, who was standing inside the house.

The Watford tunnel was blockaded for two hours on Friday sennight by the break-down of a luggage-train within it. No one was hurt. The par- ticulars are not publicly known, but a local paper says the train was " smashed to pieces."

Two fires occurred near -Birmingham last week, succeeding others of recent date, which are supposed to been wilfully caused. In one ease, a stack yard was ravaged to the extent of 1000/.

Two men have lost their lives by the explosion of a boiler at the Corde lead-anine, -near Matlock. The engineer had some difficulty in getting the steam up to start the engine ; a blacksmith partially obstructed the safety- valve by means of a nail; the engineer drove the nail closer, and thus caused the death of himself, and of a miller who happened to be on the spot bargaining for some iron pipes.

An attempt has been made to fire the factory of Messrs. Whyatt and Sons,

at Openshaw, Manchester. A box of ignited lucifers was thrown through a window at night, and it fired a piece of fustian in a machine ; the light was noticed by a boy, and the factory was saved. A reward of 501. has been offered for the detection of the incendiary. It is surmised that the crime originated in the dyers' strike : Messrs. Whyatt's men have been much persecuted by the tuni-auts.

Marsh, a brewer at an inn in Oldham, has been found dead under extraor-

otOtecircumstances. Though generally intemperate, he was seen at two ir in the afternoon going towards the brewhouse quite sober : half an hour after, he was discovered under the copper furnace, a charred corpse. The ash-hole was of such small dimensions that the body was closely Wedged In; had any one forced the man in, his cries would have been heard ; it did not appear likely that he had got in for any rational purpose and then been overpowered by the heat : what conclusion then, could be arrived at but that he had committed suicide ? but if so wilt a horrible mode of death to choose ! A witness at the inquest deposed' that Marsh had said to several persons, that "before next Sunday he should be buried." The Jury re- -turned an open ;verdict of "Found burnt."