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East Cumberland feted its newly-elected Members, the Honourable Charles Howard and Mr. William Marshall, at Carlisle, on Monday. Sir James Graham and Mr. Ferguson, the city Members, were also pre- sent, together with many Liberal notables of that district. The banquet was held in a "spacious pavilion" erected for the purpose ; and went off with great spirit and hilarity. Of course the chief speaker was Sir James Graham ; who handled local and general topics with his wonted raciness. He was immensely successful, and carried everything, from cheers to laughter, all before him. His speech had four divisions,—local compliments ; a collateral light on the Derby bribery case, and on "Mr. Frail, Clerk of the Course, Shrewsbury " ; the aspect of Democracy ;

and a general criticism of Ministers and their Free-trade-Protectionist professions. We pass over the local compliments and the local fun, and come at once to Mr. Frail. After some obvious banter: on the name of Frail, and "Frailty thy name is woman," Sir James said— "Now, gentlemen, on the 6th of April of the present year, a friend of mine—this 1E1 a secret, mind—a friend of mine told me in the House of Com-

mons, 'You are going to stand for Carlisle : you must be on your guard

with respect to a certain barber from Shrewsbury of the name of Frail. (Roars of latwAter.) We have reason to believe that he visited Carlisle

once before. He was in Carlisle at the election of '47. He has been in London lately, and we have reason to believe that his mission will be to Car- lisle at the approaching election.' I was much dismayed, as you may sup-

pose. (Laughter.) I had never heard of Mr. Frail before ; but I did write to my friends at Carlisle, and said, 'Be on your guard with respect to Mr. Frail of Shrewsbury.' (Laughter and cheers. They took the wise precau- tion of sending over to Shrewsbury to make themselves acquainted with the - person of this Mr. Frail. The alarm was excessive throughout the contest. As the critical moment drew nigh—that terrible night between the nomina- tion and the poll—we became exceedingly alarmed (Laughter) and I tell

you again, we watched diligently the arrival of every train at the station of Carlisle, expecting Mr. Frail to make his appearance. But he was so busily

occupied elsewhere that he did not come. I know not whether the claims of Derby or Shrewsbury kept him away, but he was not forthcoming; and we had no Man in the Moon' in Carlisle, for Mr. Frail did not venture to show his face." (Roars of laughter and cheers.)

Then he turned to the cry of alarm which Lord Derby raised about the spread of Democracy. "I have no great alarm at the spread of Democracy," said Sir James : "I have seen the conduct of the electors and non-electors of Carlisle ; and whatever apprehensions I may have had of the increase of Democratic power,

they have been very much mitigated by what I have seen." "If I were the most timid person, dreading the increase of power on the part of the

Popular party, I should say deliberately, that Lord Derby, during the short period he has held office, has done more to give a sudden and violent influ- ence to the Popular party than any course of mild progressive reform could have effected in the space of two generations." He instanced one act of Lord Derby, who, on the very day he kissed hands, created eighteen Privy Councillors—men "with no official training whatever, and without any peculiar ability or intelligence to mitigate their inexperience " : and "in a popular sense that was an immense stride towards Democratic government." He somewhat fiercely ridiculed the conduct of Lord Derby in throwing the question of his policy before the people and

leaving the people to decide. We are told that after the overthrow, of Lord Derby's Government the deluge comes. What was the fact before the deluge is recorded: we read that all people spoke one language. What was the post-diluvian symptom ? There was a confusion of tongues. I think the deluge is past and Babel is come. There are not two Members who hold the same language." (Cheers and laughter.) Later in his speech, he said—" We hear of things 'looming in the future.' I will tell you what is looming in the future.' A quart-bottle, into which a conjuror is to jump." (Laughter.) And he characterized Mr. Disraeli's promised revision of taxation as a "vain delusion, which would be died pated into thin air."

-Sir James was uproariously greeted when he sat down.

The triumphal banquet of the "elected of North Essex" was held at Braintree on Monday. Sir John Tyrell and Mr. Beresford, with their Mends, entered the town in procession, saluted by groans from a body of the "rabble" and a shower of stones. One of these struck Mr. Beres- ford on the neck as he was dismounting. Even when he had entered the inn the animosity of the mob did not cease. He showed himself for a moment at the window of the White Hart, and a stone, smashing the glass, struck his forehead. About two hundred farmers dined with the Members and three other Essex Representatives. The noticeable points in this Tory banquet are the speeches of the Reverend H. Magendie and Mr. Bereaford.

After the usual toasts, came "The Bishop and clergy of the diocese."

The Reverend H. Magendie said that his "order" rejoiced at the cele- bration of the triumph, for they had "done their best to give firmness and

stability to the Ministry of Lord Derby." He said "there was a charm which

he could not describe, and a warm feeling which Game over them when the affairs of this country were administered by a purely Conservative Govern-

ment. He could not describe that feeling ; that was beyond his power; but it was something akin to this—a consciousness that whatever changes and reforms might be necessary, they were effected by a Conservative Govern- ment in a manner congenial to them all. There was a courtesy and a kind -spirit which attended a Conservative Government; and for that reason, if there were no other, they were attached to it." The health of the Members followed.

Sir John Tyrell contented himself in the main with personality. But he said that theclergy, the yeomanry, the tradesmen, and in fact all classes of the community, had combined for the common object of extractiag justice from the late rulers of the country. They asked no more, and, by Heavens, they would be satisfied with no less." Beresford said, he had come there full of "kindness and good-will"; but how had he been met ? Had not the conduct of the mob that day justi- fied the harsh words and opprobrious epithets he had applied to them ? But they were not Essex men—they were hired to insult him and his colleague. He could name the house where the money came from ; but the proper place to do that would be the House of Commons. He said also a few words about Mr. Lennard ; and in reply to some hustings speeches of that gentleman, he defied him to bring forward facts which would invalidate the North Essex election. As to Free-trade, he was in favour of cheap bread • but those who produced it ought to have a fair remuneration. He was in favour of a small Lied duty. Upon the Derby scandal he made these remarks. "Now, I am facing my constituents, and I think that they have a right to know that which affects the honour, character, and credit of their Members. I have seen within the last few dap statements in certain adverse journals, that I have been tampering with the purity of the election of the borough of Derby. I do consider, that if any set of men have a right to ask of me an explana- tion on that subject it is the electors of North Essex. I shall give them but a very brief explanation, under existing circumstances. I consider that, though they are the people alone who ought to ask me a question on the subject, there is nevertheless, but one real place where it ought to be and shall be discussed, and that is the House of Commons. I sin not going to

permit these false accusations to go forward and not to notice them. The proper place, however, is not the dinner-table here at Braintree, but the floor of the House of Commons. Still, I am not going to dismiss you quite so quickly. I tell you here, that, directly or indirectly, I have had no hand whatever in any case whatsoever of bribery in the borough of Derby. Fur- ther as to the particulars I will not go ; because, whenever Parliament meets, whether it is mooted on the other side or not, I shall consider it my duty, in my place, to state that these accusations have been made against me, and I shall call on those.who made them to prove them. I shall endeavour to have an inquiry into the whole thing ; which, I have not the slightest hesi- tation in saying, will expose bare and broad to the public view as gross a case of conspiracy, combined falsehood, and vile subornation, as ever was brought before a Committee of the House of Commons."

The " rabble " followed, and hooted Mr. Beresford out of the town, when in the evening he set-off by the railway.

The oficial declaration of the poll in North Northumberland did not vary from the figures as they were given in our last number.

The North and South Shields. Gazette says that "startling disclosures of bribery and corruption" have been made with regard to the Tynemouth election, and that the return will be petitioned against.

The Liverpool correspondent of the Globe says that the Derby revela- tions have aroused suspicions in Liverpool; and as it was known that vast sums were spent there, a petition may be expected. It is rumoured that within a few hours of the return, Mr. Edwin James Q.C. and two other learned counsel were retained to defend the seat.

Mr. H. G. Liddell was at .Alnwick on Thursday, and he got among some of the supporters of Sir George Grey. A cap having accidentally fallen upon him, befell upon his neighbour in the crowd, a Mr. Ross' and beat him with a stick. An uproar-followed, and Mr. Liddell would have caught a flogging had not Captain Frederick Grey interfered and rescued him.

A rumour is very current, that it is not improbable that Lynn may very soon be again the scene of contest. It is stated that, in the event of certain arrangements succeeding, by which a noble Lord will vacate his seat, the "conductors" of election affairs have determined on inviting the most gallant the Marquis of Douro to fill the vacancy.—Norfolk News.

The railway between Farnham and Alton was opened to the public on Monday ; when a special train took a large party from London, and there was feasting of rich and poor at .Alton.

At a meeting of the Manchester Committee of the Great Exhibition of 1851, the following resolution was adopted in consequence of an inquiry by the Royal Commissioners as to whether the exhibitors would desire a public distribution of the medals and Jurors' reports-

" That., in the opinion of this meeting, the distribution of medals so libea rally offered by the Royal Commissioners to exhibitors, commemorative of the Exhibition, should be made publicly ; and they hereby respectfully soli- cit the Mayor and Corporation of Manchester, assisted by Sir John Potter as Chairman of the Executive Committee, and the Lord Bishop of Manchester, to make the necessary arrangements."

The already long investigation respecting the Stockport riots was con; tinued on Saturday and Wednesday. All the evidence turned on the share which the persons in custody had in those disgraceful proceedings: Last week we quoted some exclamations showing a criminal animus" on. the part of the Protestant mob. On Saturday, two witnesses swore that Murray, one of the prisoners, said on the night of the riot—" We had our day on Sunday, and we'll have our night tonight : we'll wash our hands in Protestants' blood, and walk on their heads for stones." Finally, it was determined on Saturday, to discharge seven prisoners, and continue the case against twenty-two. At the subsequent hearing on Wednesday, six more were discharged.

The fatal accident at Burnley has risen again into prominence by the important revelations of railway management contained in the evidence and the verdict of the Jury. It will be recollected that the excursion-train started from Burnley on the 12th instant, carrying 1070 persons, and weighing altogether 175 tons; that it had performed its journey, and arrived again at Burnley from Goole the same evening ; that going, by misdirection, to the arrival station, down an. incline, the guard lost all control over it, a collision ensued, and four persons were killed ; and that thereupon Parker, the pointaman, was arrested. An inquest of course followed.

At the first sitting, only the necessary evidence was taken, proving how the persona killed came by their death. The next sitting was held on Thursday week, and a real inquiry into the cause of the "accident" was commenced. The first witness examined was Charles Smith, the guard in charge of the train. He stated, that when the train arrived at the top of the incline leading to the Burnley station, the engines were detached, and went into a siding. He had been told by Grant, the night watchman and Parker, the pointsman, that the train was to proceed down the East Lanca- shire siding, "which is a main line" ; but he found that he was on the ar- rival-line of the Burnley station. He immediately put on his break and scotched the fore-wheels, and looked round for another break ; but finding it collision imminent, he jumped down. There were five breaks on the train, but only two in use ; the others were not manned. They would have been manned had he known where he was going. He said the buffers of the second carriage were higher than those of the first, which made them more liable to fly up than if the buffers met centre to centre. Richard Ashton, guard of the York excursian-train which was waiting -at the station, went to assist when he saw the Goole train approaching. He thought they were going too quick for a heavy train. The wheels were scotched, but he tried to oppose a further obstacle by thrustina" a piece of timber through one of the wheels. He thought it would be safer to let trains down by the engine than by two breaks. James Crabtree, not a servant of the Company, but a hanger-on at the station who sometimes helped, was first at the points opening on the East Lancashire line ; but Thomas Bridge, another hanger-on, coming up, Crab- tree left Bridge at the points, telling him to be sure and turn the train down the East Lancashire line. Crabtree worked "free gratis." "On Sundays, Parker and Ashton are guards to the trains alternately, and have holydays each alternate Sunday. They cannot attend to the points and be guard also:"

The Coroner—"Then who attends to the points if you do not ? " "Well, there would be nobody if I did not do it, so far as I know." (The witness afterwards said it would be Gledhill'a, the ticket-clerk's, duty.)

Thomas Bridge told a very straightforward story. He was at the points when an engine came down the line, and the driver asked him to turn the engine into the shed, a distance of only five yards : but before Bridge could get back, the "guard's van was on the points and partly through ; and the guard [Smith], who appeared to be crouched down on the break, said, "The

train is _going too fast, all to —; and I can't hold it." Bridge naively said—" The•train went upon the wrong line, because I had not time to get back to the points after letting the engine through the engine-points. I had not seen the train coming before this at all. I had never attended the points before for trains, but only for engines and for odd goods-carriages. I had done that only once or twice. I thought myself a competent person from what I had seen because I knew which way they should be turned." Richard Ashton, recalled, said that Crabtree was employed to set him and Parker free, alternately, on Sundays. " It was arranged, I believe, between Parker and Gledhill and Sykes, the late station-master." " I do not know whether they were authorized to do this by the directors." James Parker, the pointsman, was examined by his own consent. His narration does not contradict that of the other witnesses. With regard to himself, he said he had left Crabtree at the points, and felt quite satisfied. He then walked up to the train to consult a Mr. Cross, station-master at Man- chester, as to whether the engines should be unhooked. Mr. Cross was in the train, but before Parker could find him the engines were unhooked and the train was in motion. Parker ran back, got on the van, and told Smith to stop, at the same time waving his lamp, that the " guards " behind might put on the breaks. In vain. Then he got down, and "put stones on the metal," but the train went faster than he could walk. He says, he was afraid the train would run hard down the East Lancashire line, and come in contact with the York train. As to the employment of Crabtree, he cor- roborated the statement of Ashton. Ile did not know whether any superior officer to Mr. Sykes had been informed. It was sufficient for him that Mr. Sykes had approved of it. He thought the points such a simple matter, that when Crabtree told him Ashton and Bridge were left at the points, he must have been quite satisfied that it was all right.

Here the proceedi gnai stopped, in order that Mr. Hurst, the superintendent of locomotives, Mr. Hall, manager of the excursion-train, and Captain Bin- stead, superintendent of the division, might be examined.

The inquiry was resumed on Saturday. John Gowland, station-master, was examined. He accounted for his absence on the night of the accident, by stating that he went home ilL He admitted that Crabtree was permitted to hang about the station to take charge of passengers' luggage, but he had never sanctioned his attendins. to the points. "If I had seen him at the points, I should have ordered"him out of the yard." Parker ought to have remained at the points. Two men were sufficient for the points and the sig- nal, and Parker and Grant were the men for that duty. William Gledhill, passenger and ticket-clerk, corroborated the statements about Crabtree; whom he thought sufficiently practised at the points to handle them safely.

Mr. H. D. Fielding, a passenger by the Goole excursion-train, thought the -carriages were weak, and testified to the fact that the buffers of the fifth were four inches lower than those of the sixth carriage. Charles Fay, carriage-builder and repairer to the company, deposed that the carriages were sound. The buffers were of unequal height, but, "as a practical man, he would say that there was nothing in that to lead to the accident."

Mr. Herat, the company's locomotive superintendent, had examined the breaks, and thought them quite sufficient to take the train down the in- -cline. He bad, in company with Captain Wynne, Government Inspector, taken a train of 98 tons down the incline and stopped it three times with the breaks, and he was certain two breaks would have ample power over a train of 175 tons. Ile thought two guards were sufficient. Captain Binstead, superintendent of the Eastern division of the company's lines, considered the staff, at the Burnley station quite sufficient-to work the traffic. Parker was expressly appointed as pointsman and porter. "Should consider it a breach of duty to engage a man like Crabtree." "Never knew till now that Parker had been an extra guard to Todmorden on Sundays. He -ought not to have left his points. If the station-master ordered him, he would be obliged to obey." Mr. George Hall, the company's superintendent of the Manchester district, said that Parker would have been justified in getting a substitute only. on the superintendent's appointment. "The duty at the points was very sim- ple, but its importance could not be overrated, as requiring great caution and punctuality. Seventy trains a day went into the Manchester station, all of which were dependent on the pointsman for their safety. It would not be proper for the station-master to appoint Crabtree or any other person to the points, even if Parker was .going out as guard. No one but the resi- dent engineer had power to appoint a pointsman, except on a sudden emer- gency.'

After a minute summary of the-evidence by the Coroner, and after nearly two hours' deliberation, the Jury returned the following verdict— "We find that the four deceased lost their lives at the Burnley station of the Lan- caffiire and Yorkshire Railway accidentally, in consequence of the return of the Coole excursion-train running into the aiding instead of the main line connected with the East Lancashire Railway, and coming in contact with the buffers fixed in the masonry of the abutment of the bridge at the terminus of the said siding, there- by causing a violent concussion to those carriages at the head of the train, and the total demolition of the body of the carriage in which the deceased were found. The -cause of the train being thus run an the siding., the Jury attribute to the points on the wooden bridge being closed when the train passed, which should otherwise have been --opened to shunt the train on to the main line. It appears to the Jury from the evi- dence produced, that there were only two guards, each working a break, for this train, consisting of thirty-five carriages, and containing upwards of 1000 passengers; who they consider were quite inadequate to check the impetus of such a train-de- scending an incline ; and that, had more guards accompanied the train to work the breaks, or had the engines not been detached from the train, but their action had been reversed in descending the incline, the Jury are decidedly of opinion this accident would have been—if not entirely prevented—very much less fatal in its consequences. The Jury are unanimously a.greedthat the sole cause of this accident was owingto the deficiency of guards and pomtsmen to let the train safely down the incline into the station, and to the employmcnt of incompetent and irresponsible men, and to the want of order and discipline among the company's servants generally, and the total absence of any responsible personto direct and superintend the safe arrival and un- loading of the train ; and they feel bound to state that the greatest negligence was displayed by the executive officials of the railway company on this occasion. It is the opinion of the Jury that there-is great blame to be attached to the selection of carriages for this train, more particularly on account of their inequality in size and difference in height above the rails to the centre of the buffers, as given in evidence at the same time, the Jury wish to record that they had no opportunity of forming an -opinion of their condition and construction, as the whole were removed before they were c 'lied upon to visit the station. In conclusion, the Jury beg to submit to the directors of this railway, that, in their opinion, -the aiding into which the ordinary arrival-trains run is fraught with danger, in consequence of being situated at the bottom of an incline, and terminating against a strong dead buffer."

The Coroner—" Then your-verdict as to death is, that it was accidental?" The Foreman of the Jury—" Yes."

Although it was twelve o'clock before the proceedings were finally wound up, an immense number of people staid them out.

As a companion to the Burnley accident, we find another which occurred at Stockton-on-Tees, last Wednesday week. A passenger-train from Fer- ryhill to Stockton, upon passing the junction into the Leeds Northern line, was run into by a Leeds Northern goods-train ; -the engine-driver of the passenger-train in vain blowing his whistle loudly as he saw the goods- train coming on. No lives were lost on the spot, although "the passen- gers were swept away in a confused heap among the broken mass," says the .Areivcastie Guardian. Among the surerers was Mr. Grainger of Edinburgh, the civil engineer ; who sustained a compound fracture of the leg, a little below the knee. "He was immediately removed to Stockton-on-Tees ; and a notice of the pain- ful occurrence was received in Edinburgh the same evening by electric tele- graph, with a request for the immediate attendance of Professor Syme and Dr. Newbigging. These two gentlemen accordingly set off next morning, and on arriving at Stockton found their worst apprehensions realized. The severe nature of the fracture appeared to render amputation absolutely necessary; but with a patient of so full a habit as Mr. Grainger, though otherwise a strong man, and at this extrem* hot season, the alternative of the opera- tion was still more alarming. We are grieved to say that these anticipations have not proved unfounded, Mr. Grainger having expired on Sunday after- noon." "This melancholyevent," says the Caledonian Mercury, " will excite a great sensation not only in Edinburgh, but throughout the country ; for few men were better known than Mr. Grainger, in the course of his extensive professional duties in connexion with several of the important lines of rail- ways, both in Scotland and England. Mr. Grainger would be from fifty-five to sixty years of age ; and, as is well known, a tall, stout, powerful man, and extremely active in his habits. He has been for many years in business here as a civil engineer, having been long the senior partner with Mr. Miller, from whom he separated about seven or eight years since. When the rail- way operations in this part of the kingdom commenced, the talents of Mr. Grainger were especially called into requisition. He was the leading en- gineer of the Edinburgh and Northern, and was extensively employed in connexion with other lines of railway on both sides of the Tweed. Great confidence was reposed in his skill, and such was the demand for his services that in a few years he accumulated a very handsome fortune. He was in- duced, at the earnest solicitation of many of the most respectable citizens, to stand candidate for the civic chair of Edinburgh at the hat municipal elec- tion, when he received an amount of support that might have insured his success had he started at an earlier period. Many were zealously looking forward to the period when he might still be called upon to discharge the office of chief magistrate; for there was a general feeling among all classes of his fellow-citizens that he was well worthy of that honour, looking to the amenity of his deportment, his aptitude for public business, and his steadfast reputation as an upright honourable man. We may, therefore, well deplore this accident, which has so suddenly deprived Edinburgh of a much-esteemed and public-spirited citizen, and various extensive undertakings of their chief professional adviser. As to the blank which this melancholy event will cause amidst Mr. Grainger's domestic relations and a large circle of private friends, we need say nothing."

An inquest has been held this week before the Coroner, and witnesses ex- amined as to the cause of the accident ; and evidence has been received in proof of the death of Mr. Grainger. It seems that the Leeds Northern trains coming from the Stockton station must pass up the down-line of the Clarence Railway in order to get on the right line of the Leeds Northern. In this case the goods-trucks were passing along the down-line of the Clarence ; that is, they were coming up the line on which the train front Ferryhill was ad- vancing. Mr. Ramsay, the station-master of the Leeds Northern Railway at Stockton, said, on the inquest, that no man could take his engine from one line to another without trespassing on one line or the other. On the day of the accident, the passenger-train was coming down and the goods-train from the Stockton station was coming up. Maugham, the pointsman, had signalled the paesenger-train to come on ; but seeing the goods-train perseveringly advancing, he signalled both to stop. Thompson, night-pointaman, ran towards the goods-train waving his cap ; a labourer called out to George Welborne, driver of the goods-train, to atop. But no ‘notiee whatever was taken of these warnings. until it was too late and the collision was imminent. When Calvert, the engine-driver of the passenger-train, saw what would happen, he put on the steam, in order that the engine might clear the points. "If," said he, "I had not pushed the engine past the truck, it would have come slap into the truck would have broken the engine, and scattered the hot water and hot cinders among the passengers." Thompson, the night-points- man, deposed that Welborne had often come up to the points and had been stop- ped by the danger-signal. He had once attempted to come on against the dan- ger-signal, from the Leeds Northern without whistling. Ralph Robinson saw George Welborne drinking at a public-house after the accident. He there assaulted an old farmer ; and Robinson thought Welborne drunk. The evidence against Welborne was in fact complete; and the Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against him, "for neglect of duty and want of proper care." They also expressed their opinion that the practice of running upon the reverse line of the Clarence Railway. i attended with great danger, and that the system of signals at the junction is very imperfect, and not pro- perly understood by the engine-drivers.

While an empty down-train was waiting at night on the up-line at the Ileadcorn station of the South-eastern Railway, to allow a mail down-train to pass, an up-train from Dover ran into it, and forced two trucks on to the down-line; the mail-train came op at the moment, and ran into these trucks. Several passengers were much hurt The disaster is ascribed to the negli- gence of the driver of the Dover train, as signals were up to stop his train.

One man has suffered a dislocation of the shoulder, and some forty others have suffered minor hurts, by a collision on the railway at Bootle Lane station, near Liverpool. A passenger-train was stopping for the collection of the tickets, and a luggage-train ran into it. This was at ten o'clock in the morning, while the danger-signals were displayed. There were two engines to the luggage-train. The drivers were taken before the Magistrates, on a charge of negligence ; but it appeared they were not in fault. There is a tunnel close to the Bootle station ; the luggage-train was stopped at the other end to allow of the passenger-train's getting forward ; the pointsman gave the signal when the luggage-train should proceed; the drivers obeyed; and when they issued from the Bootle end there was not time to stop the train to prevent a collision. The Magistrates considered that the collision arose from the defective regulations of the company, and they liberated the accused.

Birmingham was last year the scene of a curious arrest of two foreigners, and of the death of one in the Police-office. Our readers will see that we allude to the Baroness von Beck and Constant Derra de Moroda. The Ba- roness was the authoress of a book on the Hungarian War of Independence, which met with great success; and she, in company with Derra, had gone down to Birmingham to solicit subscriptions for a history of her life. There she was introduced to Mr. George Dawson, Mr. Tyndall, and other Liberals of the town ; who treated her with great kindness, and subscribed ,to her book. As-she was ill at the time, she was invited, and Derra with her, to stay at the house of Mr. Tyndall ; and they went. Meanwhile, she became suspected as an impostor—no Baroness, and possibly a spy. Suddenly, one evening, she and Derra were arrested at the house of Mr. Tyndall, and lodged in prison, upon a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. Yon Beck and perm were confined all night,—Von Beck in the Governor's house, where she slept on a feather-bed, and had a nurse to attend her ; and Derra in the common lock-up. The next morning they were taken before Mr. James, a Magistrate ; and in the anteroom of the court Von Beck died. But depositions were nevertheless made by Mr. Dawson, Mr. Peyton, Mr. Arthur Ryland, and Mr. Richard Peyton, which alleged false pretences oa the part of Von Beck, mainly on evidence derived from Hungarian sources ; charging her with being no Baroness but a spy, and averring that her real name was Racidula. Mr. Charles de Soden, a foreign interpreter, al- leged that she was a spy in the pay of the Foreign branch of the English Police : but that charge has never been either substantiated or confuted. The upshot was, that the Magistrates found no case against Derra, and he was discharged without imputation. Since that time, a good deal of controversy has been carried on without at all clearing up the matter as regarded the Baroness; and as she is dead, it remains a personal mystery. But Mr. Constant Dena, remaining alive, first wrote a pamphlet against the Magistrates and Liberals of Birmingham, and then had recourse to law. The action, which has been pending some time, was tried at Warwick on Tuesday, before Mr. Baron Alderson and a Special Jury. Mr. Derra claimed damages, which he estimated at 5000/., against Mr. Dawson, Mr. Peyton, Mr. Tyndall, and Mr. Ryland; alleging that they had falsely and maliciously procured his arrest and imprisonment. Mr. Field and Sergeant Miller stated the ease ; witnesses were called to prove the arrest and imprisonment ; and Constant Derra gave his evidence. Certain depositions were then handed in as having formed the ground of the proceed- ing; but among them there -was no warrant of arrest and no statement of charges. Mr. Baron Alderson pulled up at this, and asked for the warrant. No answer.

Mr. Gem, Clerk to the Magistrates, in answer to the Judge, said he was present at the second hearing, when the prisoner was discharged.

Mr. Baron Alderson—" How did it come on ? One would suppose that even in a police-court they would follow the ordinary rules of justice. One would suppose that it would be brought on upon some warrant being read." Mr. Gem said it was not the practice. The charge was stated verbally before the Magistrates, and then the case came on. The Judge—" But is not that charge reduced to writing?" Witness -" Not at the moment: when the witnesses are sworn the charge is re- duced to writing." The Judge—" I suppose, if you were to do everything regularly, you would not get on at all. But it is very hard on other people."

Mr. Gem stated, that, the charge being abandoned, the notes he had taken of the second day's hearing were not drawn up as depositions, and were not signed.

The Judge—" It is really very irregular. When a man is accused, let him have the accusation read, so that he may know afterwards who makes the accusation, and who calls the witnesses. What remedy has a person situated as this plaintiff is ? You should have something to show who prosecutes. Was there no police-sheet signed by the man who gave the parties into custody ?" The witness said that in all probability there was.

The Judge—" Then, why is not that produced?"

Subsequently, Mr. Baron Alderson said, "The whole proceedings con- nected with the depositions and the informations were of the most disgrace- ful and irregular character ; and Mr. Justice Coleridge agreed with him in that opinion. ' Finally, after a great deal of evidence had been take; chiefly respecting the Baroness von Beck, her right to that title, and her character, the Judge concluded that there was no case for a jury, as there was no evidence of the issue of a warrant, and consequently no proof that it was issued upon a "false and malicious statement." Constant Berra was therefore nonsuited : and the much-disputed questions respecting Baroness von Beek remain exactly where they were. Mr. Baron Alderson thinks that an action might be brought against the constables; but the issue of the trial at Warwick decides nothing.

At Warwick Assizes, on Wednesday, Henry Box Brown, a Negro who es- caped from slavery in the Southern States of .America, obtained 100/. damages from Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the Wolverhampton and Seaford- shire Herald, for libel. Brown travelled the country with a panorama of scenes in the Slave States, exhibiting the horrors of slavery. After he had lectured and shown his painting in the Corn Exchange at Wolverhampton, an article was inserted in the Stafordshire Herald ndiculing and abusing him—representing him as speaking in the patois of the "Ethiopian Sere- naders," whereas he speaks good English. In consequence, his next lecture was not well attended. Another abusive article appeared, and he was obliged to leave the town.

At Maidstone Assizes William Butler, a Sapper and Miner, was convicted of uttering a forged certificate of marriage. The case was extraordinary. Ann Farrell, a young Irish girl, was "courted" by the prisoner at Chat- ham ; the banns of marriage were published at Chatham Church ; but Butler afterwards told the girl they should be married at Gillingham. Accordingly, one morning they went to the church there, and some men asked questions, went through forms, and one man, in "a sort of cloak," pretended to marry them. Subsequently, Butler gave a paper to the Young woman—her " mar- some money, of which her pretended husband got possession. They lived siege lines " ; this was the forgery. Ann Farrell, like Butler, is a Roman Ca- tholic, and knew nothing of the forms of the English Church. She had saved together fourteen months, and had a child ; then Butler told her she was no wife. It appeared that the soldiers had access to Gillingham Church to make surveys from the lofty tower. The culprit was sentenced to be trans- ported for seven years.

At Coventry Assizes, on Saturday, William Chappell was tried for the manslaughter of Thomas Williams. The prisoner was a policeman in the service of the London and North-western Railway Company, stationed at the North end of the Kilsby tunnel, near Rugby. It was his business to prevent a train's entering at his end of the tunnel while another train on the same line of rails was in the tunnel. Chappell neglected to do so on the 14th of June last, when a train ran into another in the tunnel, and Wil- liams lost his life. It appeared that the electric telegraph, by which the prisoner was usually made acquainted with the departure of a train from the farther end, was in a very .confused state, in consequence of lightning; and as the signal which the prisoner had received, announcing the departure of another train, might reasonably have been supposed to mean the train that was run into, the Jury found a verdict of "Not guilty."

The two young men and the girl who robbed George Gooch, a cattle-dealer, of 700/. at illdborough, and who were recently arrested in London, have been convicted at Norwich Assizes, and have received sentence of transport- ation.

Smith, the Irish vagrant who accused himself of murdering George Bush, at Priston, has been committed for trial by the Bath Magistrates. While the Magistrates were consulting together about calling more witnesses, on Saturday, the prisoner exelginied,Gentlemen there's enough evidence to hang twenty without any more." He wrote lifs signature to his statement in a capital handwriting.

A number of the seafaring men of Southend are said to have been dis- gracing themselves by most barefaced "wrecking." A schooner struck on the Nore sand, near Sheerness ; and the crew left it, but subsequently-returned. A dozen boats from Southend full of men came up ;. the men began ransack- ing the vessel and cutting away portions, threatening the crew with their axes. The approach of a Government steamer from Sheerness drove the rob- bers away, and some of the boats were captured, containing plunder. But when the steamer had left the stranded vessel, the wreckers returned, and cut down the masts to carry them away. A second steamer was despatched from Sheerness, and the depredators were again driven away. The so-called 41 wreckers," however, tell another story : they say they were only saving

property for the owners, and-'-' hat they delivered it to the proper officer at Southend. The vessel has since sunk in the sand, and is likely to be quite lost.