• Mugshots of James Geary 1874 and 1889
• Nevin's mugshots: the transitional pose and frame
• Laterality: poses in Nevin's portraits
• T.J. Nevin's prisoner mugshots, Mitchell Library NSW
• The case of Francis Sheahan

• John Nevin snr Service Record in the First or Royal Regiment 1825-1841
• On board the Fairlie 1852 with the Parkhurst boys
• Nevins on sick list during voyage out on Fairlie 1852
• John Nevin in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellion 1837-38
• The Medical Officer's report of the Fairlie passengers 1852
• Mary and John Nevin, Thomas Nevin’s parents
• Kangaroo Valley and the New Town stereos
• John Nevin and Gould's white goshawk
• John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
• Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881
• John Nevin snr and the Genge family
• John Nevin’s Wesleyan Lament for William Genge
• The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters Rebecca Jane and Mary Ann
• Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890

CAMPBELL TOWN, Tuesday.
On Sunday last, a man named Joseph Barnes was shot dead on the Barton Estate, Macquarie River, by another man named Hugh Cohen. Today an inquest was held on Barnes' remains before Mr Alex Finlay, and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Cohen who was committed for trial on the coroner's warrant.

SUPREME COURT CRIMINAL SITTINGS. THURSDAY, April 4.
Before his Honor Sir Francis Smith, Chief Justice.
The Court opened at 11 a.m.
The hon. the Attorney-General,iMr Alfred Dobson, appeared on behalf of the Crown.
WILFUL MURDER.
Hugh Cohen or Cowen, aged 62, was charged with having on thle 30th December last, at Campbell Town, wilfully murdered Joseph Barnes.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
The following jury were empannelled : James Lamont (foreman), W. Crabtree, D. Sutherland, W. White, W. Appleby, jun., W. H. Valentine, Thos. Bartlett, G. Coward, W. Atkinson, B. West, J. C. Greig, J. M'Bean. Mr R. B. Miller appeared for the defence.
The Attorney-General briefly stated the circumstances of the case, characterising the deed as one of more than ordinarily premeditated and cold-blooded murder. He then called -
Susan Parkhurst, wife of James Parkhurst, who deposed that she resided on the Barton estate; Joseph Barnes was her step-father; the prisoner lived on the Macquarie River about a mile or mile and a half from their house; on the 29th December prisoner came to her house, and said their bullocks had been in his garden and destroyed it, and he was going to take them away; her husband then came to the door and told prisoner he was very sorry the bullocks had got into his garden; prisoner said he would summons her husband to Campbell Town, and see what he could do with him ; her husband said he must leave them on the run where the garden was, as he wanted to use them in the morning, but he would see what he could do to replace what the bullocks had destroyed; prisoner then went away; on the following day, Dec. 30, prisoner came to their house about 8 a.m. with a gun in his hand; her step father met the prisoner as he was coming up to the door, and said "Good morning, Bluff ;" she went into a backroom where there was a hole in the door through which she looked; prisoner asked if Jim (her husband) was in ; Barnes said he was at Barton ; prisoner said her husband was a daylight robber, the bullocks had destroyed his garden, and robbed him; Barnes said Parkhurst could not help it, for he had no other run to put the bullocks on, and that Mr Fletcher, the manager of the estate, had authorised him to run his bullocks there; prisoner then held up the gun and asked Barnes if he saw it; Barnes said " yes," and prisoner said he would give Parkhurst the contents of it before night ; prisoner then got peaceable and came inside the house; a man named Worthington had been in the kitchen all this time; she then came into the kitchen, and prisoner said "good morning;" he then began stating all he would do to her husband because of the bullocks, and that he would summon Parkhurst ; Barnes said that would be the best thing prisoner could do to stop all rows; prisoner told Barnes to tell Parkhurst to come over to his place at 6 o'clock, and to come himself ; he then went away. Her husband came home shortly afterwards, and she told him what had occurred ; about 10 a.m. prisoner came back; her husband was in the yard ; the yard is not fenced round ; her husband was standing with Barnes near the bullock dray, to which the bullocks were still attached; as prisoner came up Worthington went into the yard from the  kitchen; she was standing at the door ; the prisoner, when about thirty feet from her husband, said "Come here, Jim, I want you". ; her  husband walked over to prisoner, and some conversation ensued between them which she did not hear, but she saw prisoner lift the gun and say "I will blow a hole through you ;" her husband said something and walked back to the bullocks, and drove away with them; Barnes then walked over to prisoner and said - "Now, Paddy, don't you think you ought to be ashamed of yourself, coming where there is a woman with a young family and putting them in bodily fear with fire-arms;" prisoner told him to stand off; Barnes said he would put prisoner and his gun in the river; Barnes had his hands in his pockets at the time ; prisoner again said, "Stand off, or I'll shoot you" and lifted the gun to his shoulder; she screamed and ran back inside the house; she had only taken a couple of steps when she heard the report of the gun, and turned back into the yard; she saw her stepfather falling, and ran and caught hold of him, but the weight of his falling body drew her down on the ground also. At the time prisoner lifted the gun he was not more than six yards distant from Barnes; Worthington had been standing on the woodheap while these matters had been going on; she did not hear him speak to prisoner; her husband came running back on hearing the report, and made at prisoner to get the gun from him; prisoner seized the gun by the barrel and struck at her husband, who stepped back, and the stock struck the ground and split ; Worthington came up with a piece of batten and struck at prisoner. Prisoner had been a neighbor of theirs for nearly four years, and though there had been occasional rows they were on the best of terms. Prisoner was a quiet man when sober ; he was drunk on this day.
Cross-examined by Mr Miller-Prisoner's wife had taken a bottle of brandy from our house on the Sunday morning before 6 o'clock; prisoner's wife had previously asked me to obtain it for her; prisoner was a quiet man when sober, and had never had a quarrel with Barnes; up to the time prisoner threatened to shoot him they had never had an angry word; Barnes was advancing slightly to prisoner at the time ; in spite of the threat Barnes still advanced, and said he would put prisoner and his gun in the river; Barnes was still advancing when prisoner raised the gun. Prisoner had several times during the previous two months complained of the bullocks breaking into his garden, and had about six weeks previously complained of my husband shooting his dog. I and the three men did not attack the prisoner when he came. There was an axe on the place, I believe it was in the bullock-dray.
Samuel Worthington deposed that he was a laborer on the Barton estate, and on the 30th December was staying at the house of James Parkhurst, with whom he was working at the time. He corroborated the statement of the previous witness as to the condition of prisoner when he came to Parkhurst's on the Sunday morning, and the position of the various parties in the yard the second time prisoner came; prisoner asked Parkhurst if he was going to look at his little bit of a garden that Parkhurst's bullocks had upset ; Parkhurst said "No"; Mr Fletcher told me when I unyoked the bullocks to turn them out on the run;" prisoner said, "If you don't come I'll take it out of this," lifting the gun; prisoner then asked Parkhurst to bring Barnes or witness to see what damage the bullocks had done; Parkhurst said " No," and prisoner presented the gun at a him; Parkhurst said he wasn't afraid of prisoner shooting him and, picking up the bullock whip, drove off with the dray; Barnes asked prisoner what he meant by coming there frightening people with a loaded piece ; prisoner said that if Barnes came any nearer he would shoot him too; Barnes said he would throw prisoner and his gun in the river; Barnes was just making a step forward when prisoner shot him dead ; witness seized a piece of batten and rushed towards prisoner who was making a blow at Parkhurst with the butt of the gun, but struck the ground with it; witness struck prisoner wlth the batten, knocking him down; Parkhurst tried to obtain the empty gun from prisoner, and in struggling brought prisoner on his feet, and then wrested the gun from him; prisoner then ran away; witness identified the gun produced as the one prisoner fired; there had been no threatening of prisoner on the part of anyone previously.
Cross-examined by Mr Miller-I have known the prisoner for about four years; he is a quiet and hard working man when sober ; he had never quarrelled with Barnes in his life. I believe if Barnes had not interfered after Parkhurst went away with the dray, the prisoner would have gone away quietly.
The witness was examined at some length by his Honor as to the manner in which Barnes stepped when he said he would throw prisoner in the river, whether in a quiet or threatening manner. The witness said that Barnes still had his hands in his pockets, and had just lifted his foot to step forward quietly, when the prisoner shot him, and as he fell his hands were still in his pockets. Witness imagined from the expression Barnes used that if he had not been shot he would have tried to throw prisoner in the river; the river was only some 30 or 40 yards distant.
James Parkhurst deposed that he was a labourer, living on the Barton Estate; he knew the prisoner as living close by him for four years or more; he had al ways been on very good terms with the prisoner until last Christmas twelve month, when the prisoner came to his place with two guns, and had a few words with his wife; the prisoner complained about the 30th of December that witness had shot his dog, or was cognisant of the fact; witness knew nothing whatever about the dog; prisoner came to him on the Saturday previous to the 30th of December, and asked him to come down to his ground and see what damage the bullocks had done; he went down very early the next morning but prisoner and his wife were asleep; he did not speak to them then ; he had made preparations on the morning of the murder to go away to his work; just as he had got the bullocks yoked and ready to start, he saw prisoner coming up the track towards his place with a gun in his hand; he went forward to meet him'; prisoner said "What's the reason you robbed me, Jim ?" he said "In what shape?" prisoner answered, "By turning your bullocks into my garden;"; he said" That is false"; with that the prisoner flew in a passion and levelled the gun at him; he said, that prisoner was frightened to fire; prisoner stepped back and levelled the gun at witness a second time; he turned round to walk away when his wife sung out, "He is shooting you" ; he turned round and saw prisoner with the gun levelled again; prisoner then lowered the gun and came towards him, who said,. "Keep away until you are sober." Witness then walked away. When he got to the corner of his garden he heard Barnes say, "Paddy, you ought.to be ashamed of yourself coming here with a loaded piece, where there is a family of young children, putting them in bodily fear" ; witness then turned round and saw Barnes take two or three steps in the direction of prisoner, who said, "Stand off, or I"ll blow a hole through you"; with that he pulled the trigger and the gun went off...

The jury retired at 5.45 p.m. and twelve minutes afterwards returned into Court with a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. In answer to the usual question the prisoner said if the Judge was content he was satisfied, but he hoped his Lordship would have mercy upon him. His Honor said there was but one sentence allowed by law, that of death. The prisoner had after a patient trial been found guilty of wilful murder and that sentence imposed upon him the duty of passing sentence of death upon the prisoner. Whether that sentence would be carried out in the extreme limit rested with the Executive Council. He knew no reason why it should not be carried out, and he therefore advised the prisoner not to buoy himself up with any false hopes, but to seek the consolations of a minister of whatever religion he belonged to. The sentence he now pronounced was that the prisoner be taken from the place he stood in to the place whence he came, and from thence to a place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till he was dead, and may God have mercy on his soul.

SUPREME COURT, LAUNCESTON.
[From our Own Correspondent]
THURSDAY, APRIL 4.
Before His Honor, the Chief Justice.

The additional witnesses in the charge of wilful murder against Hugh Cohen or Cowen, the result of which you have already received by telegram, were James Parkhurst, Melmoth Fletcher, jun., Con- stable Thompson, Sub-Inspector Palmer, and Dr. James Lever. No witnesses were called for the defence, but prisoner's counsel, Mr R. B. Miller, made a long and interesting speech, in which he endeavoured to induce the jury to mitigate their verdict to one of manslaughter only, on the grounds that the prisoner was under the influence of liquor at the time, that owing to an old injury on the head his mental faculties were impaired, and that under the influence of these two things, and the provocation he received from Barnes, the prisoner pulled the trigger in a state of over excitement and fear, and really believed he was acting in self-defence. His Honor summed up very calmly and lucidly, and the jury after an absence of only twelve minutes returned a verdict of guilty of wilful murder. The Judge then passed sentence of death in the usual form holding out no hope of leniency from the Executive, and advising the prisoner not to buoy himself up with false hopes.
The prisoner, who had been very self-possessed during the trial, nodding to various acquaintances in Court, seemed stupefied when the sentence was pronounced.

HOBART TOWN, April 15
The sentence of death passed upon Hugh Cowan, or Cohen, for the murder of Joseph Barnes has been commuted by the Executive to imprisonment for life.

• George Leathley, No. 226
• Archives Office of Tasmania records of Nevin’s convict portraits
• Port Arthur convict with headrest
• From glass negative to printed carte
• Bewley Tuck can speak for himself
• More on the versos of some convict cartes ...
• Recto & verso of a “Port Arthur convict” carte
• Aliases, Copies, and Misattribution
• Convict carte No. 1: George White aka Nutt
• Thomas Nevin's hand-coloured convict photographs 
• Two mugshots of Hugh Cohen/Cowen/Cowan 1878
• Mugshots of James Geary 1874 and 1889
• Mugshots removed: Thomas Reilly/Riley
• Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890
• Poster boys 1870s
• Aliases, Copies and Misattribution
• Julia Clark: A Question of Stupidity and the NLA
• Edwin Barnard: it takes one to know one

PORT ARTHUR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY.
SIR,-The time has arrived when the Port Arthur question must be settled, and to this end members of the Legislature should be possessed, without delay, of the fullest information on all subjects connected with the internal economy of that isolated prison. Port Arthur has closed doors, secrecy, silence, are engraven on its walls, and little if any thing of its inner workings can be learned by those outside its penal enclosures, except prepared re- ports shewing the economical working and control of Colonial criminals under the present Commandant. Too much reliance, however, should not be placed in these reports, drawn up is they are, under instructions from one whose orders none of his subordinates dare gainsay. Members of Parliament can,however, by a very simple process, obtain a variety of information, not only desirable, but necessary for their guidance at the present juncture.
A tramway is now being erected at Port Arthur, and its praises, as a piece of engineering skill and reproductive work, have been already trumpeted. It would be interesting to know who planned this work, who is its engineer? What good will it effect? What is the opinion of the honorary Director of Public Works, Mr Meredith, or his worthy factotum, Mr Cheverton, on it. Is it under his direction, or is it an experiment of the Commandant, who desires to make for him-self a name not only as an amateur photographer of the day, but as an amateur engineer of the 19th century. What are its gradients? Again, is it not proposed to repair and re-shingle the whole of the buildings, some of which are so leaky that official documents cannot find a dry resting place? Will the walls, except those of the separate prison and one or two other buildings, bear new roofing without being rebuilt? Has the opinion of the Director of Public Works been taken on this matter, and what is it? At this time if such work is progressing when all but interested parties are agreed that Port Arthur should be broken up, the public are entitled to this information, and any member of Parliament can get it for the asking.
The economical working of Port Arthur is a favourite argument with the friends and patrons of the present Commandant ; and the wholesale pur-chase of sheep and cattle is pointed to in proof of his economical qualifications. Would this stand the test of enquiry? How much have the sheep weighed when bought? How much when dead? Have they grown fat or lean on Port Arthur pasturage? Has the scab broken out among the Port Arthur sheep? If so, have the scab inspectors proceeded against then owners? Who is their owner-the Government or the Commandant? Are they beyond the operation of the law? Does the sub-inspector of scab, who purchases stock for the Government, receive any commission for the business in addition to his annual stipend, and if so, how much? Could not the meat be supplied, after deducting all charges connected with purchase and keep of sheep and cattle, at a cheaper rate by con- tract? Why are so many officers constantly leaving Port Arthur? Why are serious offenders appointed to billets which makes punishment for crime a farce? How much does it cost to feed the dogs? These are questions which, if put in Parliament, must be answered, and there are many others of equal importance which the Ministry of the day cannot refuse to answer, without leaving the impression on the public mind that Port Arthur is maintained solely for the benefit of its Commandant, and that the present Ministry are following a course which, when adopted by their predecessors, received their most strenuous opposition.
QUERIST.

public:wadsley-1 2011-06-16 11:31:23.0
The Commandant of Port Arthur in 1873, Mr A. H. Boyd was known to be an amateur photographer as was indicated in a letter to the Editor of the Mercury of Friday 20 June, 1873 page 2.

Anonymous 2011-06-19 13:04:56.0
T.J. Nevin photographed convicts at Port Arthur in 1873 and 1874, at the request of the PA Commandant A.H. Boyd's brother-in-law, Attorney-Gen W.R. Giblin. Plates sent to PA in July 1873 were intended to photograph the ruinous state of the prison site for the Public Works Dept. Boyd did NOT photograph prisoners, nor the site. The commission was awarded to the partnership of Clifford & Nevin.

Anonymous 2011-06-20 00:12:00.0
@wadsley-1: the newspaper item in The Mercury June 20, 1873, is a letter to the editor- it is NOT an official record, and it mocks Boyd being DESIROUS of playing at amateur photographer. It also mocks Boyd's pretensions playing at being an engineer. There is nothing in this newspaper letter to the editor which you cite which in anyway indicates Boyd was a photographer. Being DESIROUS is not the same as being ABLE,, and no mention is made of photographing prisoners by A.H. Boyd. If pretension was a gene, I would venture to suggest you have inherited it.

• Fraudulent pretensions
• Margaret Glover and the fabrication of photohistory
• Anne-Marie Willis & Richard Neville on the Boyd misattribution
• Three significant prisoner cartes by T. J. Nevin
• Isobel Crombie and Helen Ennis: how misattribution can persist
• The A.H. Boyd misattribution at DAAO
• About those photographic glasses 1873
• Nepotism, corruption and Port Arthur 1873
• The QVMAG, Chris Long and A.H. Boyd

• Two couples, two dogs by A. Bock and T. Nevin 
• One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865
• Alfred Bock's other apprentice; William Bock
• With Alfred Bock at The City Photographic Establishment
• Alfred Bock and Thomas Nevin at Port Arthur
• Alfred Bock’s stock in trade

PORT ARTHUR.-The breaking up of Port Arthur is proceeding more rapidly than the public have any idea of. The transference of prisoners to Hobart Town has been completed so far as is considered advisable till further accommodation can be pro-vided in Hobart Town, and sufficiently far to allow of Mr. Boyd's early transference from Port Arthur. Dr. Coverdale proceeds to Port Arthur at once, and takes medical charge, vice Dr. McCarthy resigned. He will be initiated into the duties of Superintendent by Mr. Boyd till 31st March, when he will assume duties as the head of the establishment, and when Mr. Boyd will be transferred to the Cascades, which, we learn, can be fitted up at a very moderate ex-pense to be a place of safe-keeping for criminals. (Mercury, 19 January 1874).

"The photographs from which our views are engraved, as also those of Port Arthur, given in our last issue, were taken by Mr Clifford of Hobart Town." The Australasian Sketcher 4 October 1873.

• Samuel Clifford and dry plate photography
• T. Nevin and Samuel Clifford identical views
• Nepotism, corruption and Port Arthur 1873
• Stereographs by Clifford & Nevin at 'Narryna'
• Samuel Clifford, Thomas Nevin and two cameras

In their dark-grey uniform and black leathern caps, with their criminal visages, shaven of the covering Nature had given to aid them in the concealment of their vicious propensities and villainous characters, they were, in truth, a forbidding, repulsive lot. Yet very far from unintelligent, at least, in some marked instances. A villainous shrewdness and a perverse cleverness writ in many a cunning, gleamy eye and heavy brow ; and a dogged determination to be read in the set of the jaw, and the style of the gait, were as the translated speech of artfully calculated, daring crime.

In the carte of Walter Johnson aka Bramall aka Taylor (sic, below), however, there IS no neckerchief. He is not wearing one at all underneath his collar, so the blueish colouring we can see is actually just paint patterned in squares to look like the standard issue neckerchief. This is a telling detail, and would have been added by Nevin to the print he made of an earlier photograph he took of Bramall to underscore the fact that the man was in effect a prisoner who had absconded in prison clothing. The eyes of this man have intense blue colouring as well. The reason for the colour was not to render a pretty picture; it was to aid the public's recognition of him. The carte would have been displayed at the Town Hall Police Office, and most likely exhibited in Nevin's studio window at 140 Elizabeth St, Hobart Town. It would have been available to the public, on sale, since Johnstone alias Bramall alias Taylor absconded from the Cascades area of Hobart on June 6th, 1874, and appears to have succeeded in remaining at large, as his recapture was not recorded during 1875.

• The Journey from Hobart to Port Arthur 1873-4
• The fruitless search of wadsley-1
• Julia Clark: A Question of Stupidity and the NLA
• James Boyd, Commandant, Port Arthur 1860s
• Working with police and prisoners
• Nepotism, corruption and Port Arthur 1873
• Improprieties: A.H. Boyd & the Parasitic Attribution
• T.J. Nevin's prisoner mugshots, Mitchell Library NSW

" ... no longer fit to carry logs, she is patched up like other whited sepulchres, stuffed with a living cargo by a contractor, and dispatched to the ends of the earth – a voyage of more than twenty thousand miles ..." (see the editorial below)

Editorial 31 August 1842
Cape Town, August 31 1842
On the forenoon of Sunday last two large vessels, the Abercrombie Robinson and the Waterloo went on shore on the South Eastern beach at the bottom of Table Bay.
Both vessels were engaged as Transports by the British Government. The Abercrombie Robinson had on board, besides her crew and several passengers, 501 soldiers with their officers. She was a large Ship of nearly 1500 tons burden. After grounding near the shore she stood upright, and no lives have been lost. She will probably, or rather certainly, be a total wreck.
The Waterloo, a Ship of 414 tons, bound to Van Diemen’s Land, had on board, besides her crew, two hundred and nineteen male convicts, Dr. HELSELL in charge, Lt. HEXT, Ensign LEIGH, thirty men of HM 99th Regiment, five women and thirteen children. She took the ground between eleven and twelve o’clock in the forenoon and in fifteen or twenty minutes became a mass of rubbish, And now ensued a most piteous massacre. In about two hours and a half, amidst the crumbling heaps of their perfidious prison – of men, women and children, one hundred and ninety four were crushed, disabled and drowned.
There was no preparation for saving life made on board or on shore. No life buoys, no coils of ropes lashed to casks, nor any apparatus for establishing a communication with the shore from the Ship.
On the shore there was no Life Boat, no apparatus for throwing ropes over stranded vessels, nor any thing, in short, to show that the Government or people here had ever before heard of such a thing as a shipwreck. We stood amongst thousands on the beach within a hundred and fifty yards of the dissolving fabric, looking on the agonised faces of our fellow creatures, as they sunk in dozens, battered and bruised and suffocated – useless as children, or idiots, or wild Caffers. As corpse after corpse floated to our feet, and was raised from the brine, there seemed a curse in every dead man’s eye on the improvidence, the imbecility, the brutish indifference to human suffering and human life, to which, combined with fiendish avarice, so many miserable souls had been sacrificed.
For this ship, it appears, was built twenty seven years ago at Bristol, of light materials for the timber trade. No longer fit to carry logs, she is patched up like other whited sepulchres, stuffed with a living cargo by a contractor, and dispatched to the ends of the earth – a voyage of more than twenty thousand miles.
No doubt a “survey of professional men” will “find” that there was no fault anywhere; that the Waterloo was a sound ship, thoroughly repaired, and perfectly seaworthy; that she had on board all the equipments requisite for such a voyage and such a consignment; that the officers of the ship did all that human strength, directed by skill and animated by humanity, could do; and that the accident must be ascribed entirely to a hurricane, a mountainous sea, and a remarkably hard beach.
Now as to the hurricane and the mountainous sea, it is enough to observe that there were twenty other vessels at anchor in the Bay, besides the Waterloo and the Abercrombie Robinson, and none of them parted from their anchors, or dragged them to any perceptible extent. The wind was blowing a gale, but by no means a violent one, and it was partly off shore. The sea was not running unusually high. Without ropes in their hands or any precaution, men walked into the water up to their shoulders to drag out the bodies of the dead and dying, without the slightest risk. This could not have been done had the surf been such as a gale causes on an open beach. These are facts to which thousands can bear witness.
With respect to the bottom or ground where the ship struck, some say it is rock, others that it is sand, like the rest of the beach. As soon as the weather is fine it will be examined, and the most convenient spaces marked for this method of disembarking Her Majesty’s troops or convicts.
For some years back such “accidents” have been ascribed to the insufficiency of Lighthouses at the entrance of the Bay. That fault has just been fully remedied. The old Lighthouse is now properly attended, and the new one is so well placed, and so brilliant, that no man dare pretend to miss it, or to mistake it for anything else. These and some further improvements in this department, still in progress, were forced on the Government by the remonstrances of the Public, and particularly of the mercantile body.
When the Helen was lost at the entrance of the Bay, four or five months ago, the Commercial Committee very properly inquired into the cause, and found on the testimony of numerous witnesses that the Lights on that particular night were defective, and had thus misled the master of the vessel. This they represented to Government, and a remedy was instantly found.
We recommend the same course in the present case. The committee cannot compel witnesses to attend or give evidence, but they can invite them; and if interested parties disregard such invitations, that fact will not be without meaning.
These two wrecks will be much talked of at home. We think we can insure their being mentioned in Parliament. Let us show that we here are neither indifferent to human life nor to the character of our bay, which the villainy and the incapacity of strangers have too often brought into undeserved disrepute.
In the midst of this unhesitating condemnation on some points, and charges of guilt on others, we have to mention that two unofficial spectators, Mr. MOLTENE and Mr. STILL, procured the assistance of a common boat belonging to a Malay, which reached the Waterloo after she was falling to pieces, and brought off two men, and on a second trip fastened a rope to the wreck. After this a larger boat, belonging to Messrs. SINCLAIR was brought from the Abercrombie Robinson, and moving backwards and forwards along the rope, saved a good many lives. This shows what might have been done by a Life Boat used in time.
We purposely avoid going further into details at present, satisfied with thus openly charging all the parties concerned, before the world, with the offence of culpable negligence, or criminal intention. The world, let them be well assured, expects an answer, and will treat them according to the case they may make out in defence.
It is not strange, by the way, that we should hear such lamentations from what is called the Shipping Interest, as if no employment could be had for their new-built, fine-moulded, copper-fastened A.I. Vessels, while for the most important of all services, the transport namely of troops, and of persons under Judicial Sentences, such vessels as the Waterloo find ready acceptance in the twenty seventh year of their fragility and rottenness? We shall endeavour to force our way through this moral confusion, convinced that either the Shipping Interest are a pack of liars or the Contractors a pack of knaves. The official gentry who grant the contracts and their cousins the Surveyors will naturally fall into their proper places in the course of the Inquiry.

• Cousins Edward Goldsmith and Elizabeth Day baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
• Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
• Captain Edward Goldsmith, the patent slip, and the McGregor family
• Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
• The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup
• Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
• The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son

PUBLIC BANQUET
TO CELEBRATE THE
OPENING of the NEW MARKET.
THE COMMITTEE for making the requisite Arrangements beg to acquaint the public that the Banquet will take place at the New Market, Macquarie-street, on FRIDAY, the 20th instant, at half past 6 for 7 o'clock precisely. The Worshipful the Mayor of Hobarton will preside on the occasion, anti the Committee have been honoured by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor's acceptance of their invitation. The Hon. the Speaker and the Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Commander of the Forces, the Corporation of Hobarton, the Officers of the Garrison, and other guests will be invited to attend; and the Committee rely upon the inhabitants of the island to support them in an entertainment which must lend to the establishment of that good-will and co-operation which is so necessary for the prosperity of the colony.
Tickets-price 30s- each-may be obtained until the 13th instant, after which none will be issued, of Mr. W. Coote, Macquarie-street, Mr. C. Toby, Old Wharf,
Mr. F. G. Holbird, Elizabeth-street, Mr. F. Lipscombe, Murray-street,
Mr. J.T. Coram, City Market Office,
And of Messrs. Huxtable & Co., Murray-street, Messrs. Walch, Elizabeth-street, Hobart Town ; and Mr. A. Duthie, Launceston.
Applications from country residents may be made to the Secretary.
91 J. T. CORAM, City Market Office.

NEW MARKET BANQUET.
HAVING in our last, given a notice of the entertainment, on occasion of opening the New Market, on Friday evening, we proceed according to promise, to furnish a more full report. The time fixed for the Dinner being half-past six for seven o'clock, His Excellency the Lieut.-Governor arrived at about five minutes before seven, being received by a guard of honor, at the southern entrance of the market. His Worship the Mayor of Hobart Town, conducted His Excellency to the Dinner Hall, the hon. Colonel Despard commander of the forces,' and M.E C, the Colonial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer, Lieut. Colonel Last, (Private Secretary) Lieut. Colonel Ainsworth, Lieutenant Lochner, (Aide-de-Camp) Mr. Coote, (Chairman of the Banquet Committee) 'ace., attending him; His Excellency being loudly cheered on arrival at the building, and during his progress along the dining hall. The city Aldermen, the members of Council, the remainder of the officers of ihe garrison, and the other guests, then took their places at the tables, cards being arranged on the plates, to indicate their appropriate seats...



... At the centre table, and immediately near the upper table, we observed the honorable members for Oatlands, Brighton, and Campbell Town, together with Captain Langdon, Mr. Bisdee, Mr. Hone, Lieut.-Col. Jackson, D. C. G. Bishop ; Aldermen Elliston, Bonney, Worley, and Thomson. The Revs. Dr. Lillie, Buckland. Messrs. W. Robertson, Roope, Harris, Roberts, J.C.Walker, Capt. Goldsmith, Dr. Huxtable. Mr. Frederick Lipscombe as representative of the Market interest occupied the Vice-chair, assisted by Mr. Coote, in consequence of Mr. Lipscombe laboring under a severe cold. The band of Her Majesty's 99th regiment struck up " God save the Queen," when the Governor entered the hall ; and, during dinner and throughout the evening performed a variety of favourite pieces in their usual excellent style.
Grace having been said by the Archdeacon, the company proceeded to test ,the quality of the viands (provided by Webb) ... (From The Hobart Courier, 24 January, 1854)

• Cousins Edward Goldsmith and Elizabeth Day baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
• Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
• Captain Edward Goldsmith, the patent slip, and the McGregor family
• Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
• The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup
• Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
• The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son

GRAND BALL TO THE OFFICERS OF THE 99th REGIMENT
This grand affair came off last night, at the Victoria Theatre, which was splendidly fitted up for the occasion. The stage and Pit were boarded over, and carpeted, and under the centre boxes was inscribed in flowers: -"Success to the 99th.: The pillars supporting the boxes were elegantly festooned with the most beautiful flowers, and from the roof of the theatre were suspended the flags of all nations, friendly to the great cause of civilization. On one side of the ball-room, tables were arranged, for a supply of coffee, tea and lemonade for the ladies, and in the saloon a mots sumptuous supper was displayed, under the able supervision of Mr. Webb whose catering on such occasions, needs no eulogium at our hands we may observe; however, that every delicacy of the season, and especially in fruits from the Pine Apple to the Cherry, was abundantly supplied; in fact the tables were covered with good things, in almost endless profusion. It is but right that we should mention tht the arrangement of the floral display was made by Mr and Mrs Watson, and a more graceful display of floral elegance, we never witnessed. The company began to arrive at about nine o'clock, and the vie of the ball-room from the boxes presented a spectacle, which we could only compare to some fairy scene. In fact, all the bright beauty and fashion of Hobart Town were there, including His Excellency and Lady Young for whom a most commodious seat was provided at the upper end of the Ball-room. As is usual on such occasions, the festivities were prolonged to a late, or rather, to an early hour, when th party broke up, highly delighted with their enjoyment.
We may add, that His Excellency was received with a Guard of Honor, and on his entrance into the Ball Room, the Band played the National Anthem, the company standing.
Amongst the visitors we observed, the following citizens:- The Colonial-Secretary, Messrs Anstey and Clerke, M. L. C. , the Speaker, Messrs, A. B. Jones, John and James Dunn, Pitcairn, W. Robertson, R & N. Lewis, Capt. Goldsmith, Doctors Bedford, Jackson & Brock, Messrs. S. Moses, Hull, J. Roberts, Hall, Bowne, B. O'Niele Wilson, D.C.A.C. Ashton, Mills, Mr D'Arch. Mr. Sorell, Col. Hamilton, Capt. Miller, and many others.

THE NINETY-NINTH.
WE observe that it is in contemplation to give a ball to the officers of the Ninety-ninth Regiment prior to the departure of the corps from this colony. As an expression of good wishes, this is so far very well, but, in our opinion it does not go far enough to meet the case. The Regiment has been for some years amongst us, and its behaviour, generally, has been of a nature to secure the respect and esteem of the citizen : it would be improper therefore, to let it depart without sufficient testimony that such has been the character of its service in the colony. But why should the expression of this feeling be confined exclusively to the officers? Are we under no obligations to the men also ? During the term that the regiment has been here, the town has been visited by more than one calamity, in which the men of the 99th have behaved with exemplary benevolence. In the great fire which destroyed so large a portion of Liverpool street, and threatened to consume a much larger portion of the town, the exertions of the 99th were most praiseworthy, and to it was owing, in no small degree, the stop which was ultimately put to the progress of the devouring element. At other similar though less striking seasons of threatened calamity, the men of the 99th have behaved with the same prompt and steady endeavour to save both life and property. Again, when the town was visited with one of the severest and most devastating floods which its history has ever known, the men of the 99th were the theme of universal admiration for their coolness, and for the readiness with which they devoted themselves to the exigencies of the moment. Whatever services the officers may have rendered to the community, and we are not inclined to dispute them, we yet think that the services of the men should by no means be suffered to pass unrecognized, or unacknowledged. And in this feeling we know we shall be supported by a large class of the community to which the officers are unknown. And now, then, as to the form which the acknowledgment should take. We believe that the better form would be, that the Mayor of the City, as the most proper person, should convene a public meeting to adopt an address to the officers and men of the regiment, which address he should afterwards read to the men at the head of the regiment. This course is often adopted on the occasion of the removal of regiments in Britain, and appears the most feasible, as well as the most proper thing to do here. It is rumoured that, the regiment will ho ordered to the seat of war upon its arrival in England, and this forms, perhaps an additional reason why our acknowledgments should now be
"tendered it.[sic]

• Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
• Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
• The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son
• Captain Edward Goldsmith at the New Market banquet 1854
• Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the Waterloo 1832
• Cousins Edward Goldsmith and Elizabeth Day baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
• Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
• Captain Edward Goldsmith, the patent slip, and the McGregor family
• Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
• The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup

"There are three rooms literally crammed with exhibits ... The question which pressed itself on my mind time and again was, how comes it that these old-time relics which formerly were Government property, are now in private hands? Did the Government sell them or give them away? The same query applies to the small collection in a curiosity shop at Brown's River. Whatever the answer may be, I hold the opinion that the Government would be amply justified in taking prompt steps to repossess them, even though some duplicates may be in the State Museum. Today the collection is valuable and extremely interesting. A century hence it will be priceless. It would surely be unpardonable to allow it to pass into the hands of some wealthy globe-trotter which is the fate awaiting it, unless action be taken to secure it to the State.

He had offered this collection to the Hobart Corporation, but the negotiations were not successful. It was his idea that the collection should find a resting place in the Lady Franklin Museum building at Lenah Valley.

March 1866 Account of Private Telegrams
Date 27th March, No. 269, Alfred Bock to Mr Clifford Liverpool St. H. Town,
"Send down 24 dry Plates Panoramic. by the Shannon,  at once. - Reply."

Surely no wet photography ever excelled these delightful representations of nature.

CHAPTER XII:
3. The Tannin Process
This dry process derives its name from the use of tannin-a bitter principle obtained from gall-nuts a preservative agent. To Major Russell is due the credit of having introduced it.
The glass to be prepared should be cleaned with great care, particularly from any greasy substances. This is conveniently done with a mixture of Tripoli powder, spirits of wine, and solution of ammonia. A tuft of cotton is dipped into this mixture and rubbed over its surface for a minute or so; then well rinsed in water and rubbed dry with a clean cloth.
The glass, just before being used, should be wiped with a perfectly dry and warm cloth, and then coated with the following solution:--
Nelson's Patent Gelatine 20 grains.
Distilled Water 10 ounces.
Alcohol ½ ounce.
Dissolve and filter; this solution will keep good for a considerable time.
This gelatine solution is applied to the glass in the same way as ordinary collodion, taking care that the whole of the surface is covered, and that the back of the plate be net soiled. The superfluous liquid is received back into the bottle, and the plate set to dry, as shown at Fig. 69; when well drained, remove the accumulation of fluid very carefully from the lower edge of the plate by a piece of blotting-paper drawn along it. When the surface is dry, warm gently by the fire, and retain for use in a grooved box. As plates thus coated will keep good any length of time, any required number may be prepared, taking care that the backs of them are quite free from stains of gelatine.
The gelatinised glass is now coated with old iodised collodion in the usual manner, taking particular care that the whole surface of the plate be covered; it is then immersed in the silver-bath employed for the wet collodion process (page 34), and allowed to remain in it from three to five minutes.
Remove the sensitive plate from the bath, and wash it freely under a water-tap for about a minute, it will then be ready to receive the preservative solution, composed as follows:
Tannin 60 grains.
Distilled Water 4 ounces.
Filter through paper, and measure out two separate portions according to the size of the plate to be prepared, allowing about two drachms in each quantity for a stereoscopic plate. The first portion of tannin solution is poured over the washed coating of the sensitised plate two or three times, so as to remove the water adherent to it, then the other quantity is poured on and off, and the plate placed on end on a piece of blotting-paper, and allowed to dry in a perfectly dark and warm place.
After exposure in the camera, which averages from one to three minutes on a favourable day, and from four to eight minutes in dull weather, the picture is to be developed, for which purpose the following solutions are required:--
No. 1. Pyrogallic Acid 72 grains.
Alcohol 1 ounce.
Dissolve and keep in a stoppered bottle.
No. 2. Nitrate of Silver 20 grains.
Citric Acid 20 grains.
Distilled Water 1 ounce.
Dissolve and filter should any white or other precipitate be formed. To three ounces of distilled water add half a drachm of No. 1, and if the plate to be developed be a stereoscopic size, take three drachms of this solution and add to it from ten to twenty minims of No. 2; this forms the developing fluid.
The exposed plate is first moistened with distilled water, which must be done quickly and evenly, otherwise stains are produced, and then the developing fluid poured over its surface and kept slightly in motion. The development must be carefully watched, and if' in a short time the sky comes out strongly, but, is not followed by the other details of the object, the plate was not long enough exposed, and the developing fluid must be poured back into the measure, and say ten minims of No. 1 added, so as to increase the quantity of pyrogallic acid. If the whole of the picture, however, appears to come out at once, a few drops of No. 2 is to be added, so as to increase the density of the sky.
When the picture is properly developed, it is fixed with a solution of hyposulphite of soda, washed and varnished as described for the wet collodion process.

Undoubtedly, Beattie was the greatest documentary photographer of his generation in Tasmania.  As such, he has been increasingly accorded the status of popular legend, and has been credited with many achievements which were not his own.

"Enlargement from a stereoscopic view by A H Boyd Esq."

• John Nevin snr and the Genge family
• "Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866
• Samuel Clifford and dry plate photography
• Photographers A. Bock, S. Clifford and T. Nevin at Port Arthur
• Fraudulent pretensions: the Boyd misattribution at SLNSW
• Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890
• Convict portraits by Thomas J. Nevin at the NLA
• Robert Ogden, aka James, photographed by Nevin 1875
• Securing a proper likeness: Tasmania, NSW and Victoria from 1871
• Julia Clark: A Question of Stupidity and the NLA
• Anne-Marie Willis and Richard Neville on the A.H. Boyd misattribution
• Thomas Francis was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th February 1874
• W. Radcliffe’s The Old Curiosity Shop
• Beattie’s Port Arthur Museum Catalogue 1916
• Beattie and Searle reprints of convict portraits

NOTICE
CAPTAIN GOLDSMITH, being about to leave the colony, particularly requests that all Claims against him be forthwith sent in for liquidation.
Broadland House, 17th Dec. 1855

Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip.

"Wild legends are in circulation among the servants how that Captain Goldsmith on the knoll above--the skipper in that crow's-nest of a house--has millions of gallons of water always flowing for him. Can he have damaged my well? Can we imitate him, and have our millions of gallons? Goldsmith or I must fall, so I conceive."

The Government proposes to give land for the erection of a slaughter house,at Cornelian Bay; being near the river, most cattle vessels would be able to land their cargoes there. The matter has been discussed in the Municipal Council. Alderman Lipscombe objects to the site, and proposes another near-Captain Goldsmith's ship-building yard. The whole matter is to be submitted to the Legislative Council. The municipality spends at present about £16,000 per annum for salaries and labours, and it proposes to ask the Government for endowments of land and grants from the sale of land; the latter they are not likely to obtain at present, because the Government wants money for general purposes....

12th November 1855
TO SHIPBUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, AND OTHERS
Unreserved Clearing Sale of the well selected and thoroughly seasoned Gum, Planking, Knees, Treenails, English Pine Spars, Yards, Cut Deals, Huon Pine in Logs; also Pitch, New Ten-ton Launch, Punts, &c, &c,, at the Yard of Captain Goldsmith, Government Domain.

NOTICE
CAPTAIN GOLDSMITH, being about to leave the colony, particularly requests that all Claims against him be forthwith sent in for liquidation.
Broadland House, 17th Dec. 1855

"I was better pleased with Gadshill Place last Saturday," he wrote to me from Paris on the 13th of February 1856, "on going down there, even than I had prepared myself to be. The country, against every disadvantage of season, is beautiful; and the house is so old-fashioned, cheerful, and comfortable, that it is really pleasant to look at. The good old Rector now there, has lived in it six and twenty years, so I have not the heart to turn him out. He is to remain till Lady-Day next year, when I shall go in, please God; make my alterations; furnish the house; and keep it for myself that summer." Returning to England through the Kentish country with Mr. Wilkie Collins in July, other advantages occurred to him. "A railroad opened from Rochester to Maidstone, which connects Gadshill at once with the whole sea coast, is certainly an addition to the place, and an enhancement of its value. Bye and bye we shall have the London, Chatham and Dover, too; and that will bring it within an hour of Canterbury and an hour and a half of Dover. I am glad to hear of your having been in the neighbourhood. There is no healthier (marshes avoided), and none in my eyes more beautiful. One of these days I shall show you some places up the Medway with which you will be charmed."

The association with his youthful fancy that first made the place attractive to him has been told; and it was with wonder he had heard one day, from his friend and fellow worker at Household Words, Mr. W. H. Wills, that not only was the house for sale to which he had so often looked wistfully, but that the lady chiefly interested as its owner had been long known and much esteemed by himself. Such curious chances led Dickens to the saying he so frequently repeated about the smallness of the world; but the close relation often found thus existing between things and persons far apart, suggests not so much the smallness of the world as the possible importance of the least things done in it, and is better explained by the grander teaching of Carlyle, that causes and effects, connecting every man and thing with every other, extend through all space and time.

It was at the close of 1855 the negociation for its purchase began. "They wouldn't," he wrote (25 November), "take £1,700 for the Gadshill property, but 'finally' wanted £1,800. I have finally offered £1,750. It will require an expenditure of about £300 more before yielding £100 a year." The usual discovery of course awaited him that this first estimate would have to be increased threefold. "The changes absolutely necessary" (9 February, 1856) "will take a thousand pounds; which sum I am always resolving to squeeze out of this, grind out of that, and wring out of the other; this, that, and the other generally all three declining to come up to the scratch for the purpose.""This day," he wrote on 14 March, "I have paid the purchase-money for Gadshill Place. After drawing the cheque (£1,790) I turned round to give it to Wills, and said, 'Now isn't it an extraordinary thing -- look at the Day -- Friday! I have been nearly drawing it half a dozen times when the lawyers have not been ready, and here it comes round upon a Friday as a matter of course.'" He had no thought at this time of reserving the place wholly for himself, or of making it his own residence except at intervals of summer. He looked upon it as an investment only. "You will hardly know Gadshill again," he wrote in January 1858, "I am improving it so much -- yet I have no interest in the place." But continued ownership brought increased liking; he took more and more interest in his own improvements, which were just the kind of occasional occupation and resource his life most wanted in its next seven or eight years; and any farther idea of letting it he soon abandoned altogether. It only once passed out of his possession thus, for four months in 1859; in the following year, on the sale of Tavistock House, he transferred to it his books and pictures and choicer furniture; and thenceforward, varied only by houses taken from time to time for the London season, he made it his permanent family abode. Now and then, even during those years, he would talk of selling it; and on his final return from America, when he had sent the last of his sons out into the world, he really might have sold it if he could then have found a house in London suitable to him, and such as he could purchase. But in this he failed; secretly to his own satisfaction, as I believe; and thereupon, in that last autumn of his life, he projected and carried out his most costly addition to Gadshill. Already of course more money had been spent upon it than his first intention in buying it would have justified. He had so enlarged the accommodation, improved the grounds and offices, and added to the land, that, taking also into account this closing outlay, the reserved price placed upon the whole after his death more than quadrupled what he had given in 1856, for the house, shrubbery, and twenty years' lease of a meadow field. It was then purchased, and is now inhabited, by his eldest son.

Its position has been described, and a history of Rochester published a hundred years ago quaintly mentions the principal interest of the locality. "Near the twenty-seventh stone from London is Gadshill, supposed to have been the scene of the robbery mentioned by Shakespeare in his play of Henry IV.; there being reason to think also that it was Sir John Falstaff, of truly comic memory, who under the name of Oldcastle inhabited Cooling Castle, of which the ruins are in the neighbourhood. A small distance to the left appears on an eminence the Hermitage, the seat of the late Sir Francis Head, Bart.; and close to the road, on a small ascent, is a neat building lately erected by Mr. Day. In descending Strood-hill is a fine prospect of Strood, Rochester, and Chatham, which three towns form a continued street extending above two miles in length." It has been supposed that "the neat building lately erected by Mr. Day" was that which the great novelist made famous; but Gadshill Place had no existence until eight years after the date of the history. The good rector who so long lived in it told me, in 1859, that it had been built eighty years before by a well-known character in those parts, one Stevens, grand-father-in-law of Henslow the Cambridge professor of botany. Stevens, who could only with much difficulty manage to write his name, had begun life as ostler at an inn; had become husband to the landlord's widow; then a brewer; and finally, as he subscribed himself on one occasion, "mare" of Rochester. Afterwards the house was inhabited by Mr. Lynn (from some of the members of whose family Dickens made his purchase); and, before the Rev. Mr. Hindle became its tenant, it was inhabited by a Macaroni parson named Townshend, whose horses the Prince Regent bought, throwing into the bargain a box of much desired cigars. Altogether the place had notable associations even apart from those which have connected it with the masterpieces of English humour. "THIS HOUSE, GADSHILL PLACE, stands on the summit of Shakespeare's Gadshill, ever memorable for its association with Sir John Falstaff in his noble fancy. But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards for you all; you have horses for yourselves." Illuminated by Mr. Owen Jones, and placed in a frame on the first-floor landing, these words were the greeting of the new tenant to his visitors. It was his first act of ownership.

All his improvements, it should perhaps be remarked, were not exclusively matters of choice; and to illustrate by his letters what befell at the beginning of his changes, will show what attended them to the close. His earliest difficulty was very grave. There was only one spring of water for gentlefolk and villagers, and from some of the houses or cottages it was two miles away. "We are still" (6 July) "boring for water here, at the rate of two pounds per day for wages. The men seem to like it very much, and to be perfectly comfortable." Another of his earliest experiences (5 September) was thus expressed: "Hop-picking is going on, and people sleep in the garden, and breathe in at the keyhole of the house door. I have been amazed, before this year, by the number of miserable lean wretches, hardly able to crawl, who go hop-picking. I find it is a superstition that the dust of the newly picked hop, falling freshly into the throat, is a cure for consumption. So the poor creatures drag themselves along the roads, and sleep under wet hedges, and get cured soon and finally." Towards the close of the same month (24 September) he wrote: "Here are six men perpetually going up and down the well (I know that somebody will be killed), in the course of fitting a pump: which is quite a railway terminus -- it is so iron and so big. The process is much more like putting Oxford-street endwise, and laying gas along it, than anything else. By the time it is finished, the cost of this water will be something absolutely frightful. But of course it proportionately increases the value of the property, and that's my only comfort. . . . The horse has gone lame from a sprain, the big dog has run a tenpenny nail into one of his hind feet, the bolts have all flown out of the basket-carriage, and the gardener says all the fruit trees want replacing with new ones." Another note came in three days. "I have discovered that the seven miles between Maidstone and Rochester is one of the most beautiful walks in England. Five men have been looking attentively at the pump for a week, and (I should hope) may begin to fit it in the course of October." . . . .

With even such varying fortune he effected other changes. The exterior remained to the last much as it was when he used as a boy to see it first; a plain, old-fashioned, two-story, brick-built country house, with a bell-turret on the roof, and over the front door a quaint neat wooden porch with pillars and seats. But, among his additions and alterations, was a new drawing-room built out from the smaller existing one, both being thrown together ultimately; two good bedrooms built on a third-floor at the back; and such re-arrangement of the ground floor as, besides its handsome drawing-room, and its dining-room which he hung with pictures, transformed its bedroom into a study which he lined with books and sometimes wrote in, and changed its breakfast-parlour into a retreat fitted up for smokers into which he put a small billiard-table. These several rooms opened from a hall having in it a series of Hogarth prints, until, after the artist's death, Stanfield's noble scenes were placed there, when the Hogarths were moved to his bedroom; and in this hall, during his last absence in America, a parquet floor was laid down. Nor did he omit such changes as might increase the comfort of his servants. He built entirely new offices and stables, and replaced a very old coach-house by a capital servants' hall, transforming the loft above into a commodious school-room or study for his boys. He made at the same time an excellent croquet-ground out of a waste piece of orchard.

Belonging to the house, but unfortunately placed on the other side of the high road, was a shrubbery, well wooded though in desolate condition, in which stood two magnificent cedars; and having obtained, in 1859, the consent of the local authorities for the necessary underground work, Dickens constructed a passage beneath the road from his front lawn; and in the shrubbery thus rendered accessible, and which he then laid out very prettily, he placed afterwards a Swiss chalet presented to him by Mr. Fechter, which arrived from Paris in ninety-four pieces fitting like the joints of a puzzle, but which proved to be somewhat costly in setting on its legs by means of a foundation of brickwork. "It will really be a very pretty thing," he wrote (January 1865), "and in the summer (supposing it not to be blown away in the spring), the upper room will make a charming study. It is much higher than we supposed." Once up, it did really become a great resource in the summer months, and much of Dickens's work was done there. "I have put five mirrors in the chalet where I write," 0 he told an American friend, "and they reflect and refract, in all kinds of ways, the leaves that are quivering at the windows, and the great fields of waving corn, and the sail-dotted river. My room is up among the branches of the trees; and the birds and the butterflies fly in and out, and the green branches shoot in at the open windows, and the lights and shadows of the clouds come and go with the rest of the company. The scent of the flowers, and indeed of everything that is growing for miles and miles, is most delicious." He used to make great boast, too, not only of his crowds of singing birds all day, but of his nightingales at night.

One or two more extracts from letters having reference to these changes may show something of the interest to him with which Gadshill thus grew under his hands. A sun-dial on his back-lawn had a bit of historic interest about it. "One of the balustrades of the destroyed old Rochester Bridge," he wrote to his daughter in June 1859, "has been (very nicely) presented to me by the contractors for the workss, and has been duly stone-masoned and set up on the lawn behind the house. I have ordered a sun-dial for the top of it, and it will be a very good object indeed.""When you come down here next month," he wrote to me, "we have an idea that we shall show you rather a net house. What terrific adventures have been in action; how many overladen vans were knocked up at Gravesend, and had to be dragged out of Chalk-turnpike in the dead of the night by the whole equine power of this establishment; shall be revealed at another time." That was in the autumn of 1860, when, on the sale of his London house, its contents were transferred to his country home. "I shall have an alteration or two to show you at Gadshill that greatly improve the little property; and when I get the workmen out this time, I think I'll leave off." October 1861 had now come, when the new bedrooms were built; but in the same month of 1863 he announced his transformation of the old coach-house. "I shall have a small new improvement to show you at Gads, which I think you will accept as the crowning ingenuity of the inimitable." But of course it was not over yet. "My small work and planting," he wrote in the spring of 1866, "really, truly, and positively the last, are nearly at an end in these regions, and the result will await summer inspection." No, nor even yet. He afterwards obtained, by exchange of some land with the trustees of Watts's Charity, the much coveted meadow at the back of the house of which heretofore he had the lease only; and he was then able to plant a number of young limes and chesnuts and other quick-growing trees. He had already planted a row of limes in front. He had no idea, he would say, of planting only for the benefit of posterity, but would put into the ground what he might himself enjoy the sight and shade of. He put them in two or three clumps in the meadow, and in a belt all round.

Still there were "more last words," for the limit was only to be set by his last year of life. On abandoning his notion, after the American readings, of exchanging Gadshill for London, a new staircase was put up from the hall; a parquet floor laid on the first landing; and a conservatory built, opening into both drawing-room and dining-room, "glass and iron," as he described it, "brilliant but expensive, with foundations as of an ancient Roman work of horrible solidity." This last addition had long been an object of desire with him; though he would hardly even now have given himself the indulgence but for the golden shower from America. He saw it first in a completed state on the Sunday before his death, when his younger daughter was on a visit to him. "Well, Katey," he said to her, "now you see positively the last improvement at Gadshill"; and every one laughed at the joke against himself. The success of the new conservatory was unquestionable. It was the remark of all around him that he was certainly, from this last of his improvements, drawing more enjoyment than from any of its predecessors, when the scene for ever closed.



Victoria & Albert Museum
Charles Dickens House Gadshill
Date: 1850s to 1870s (photographed)
Artist/Maker: Francis Frith, born 1822 - died 1898 (maker)
Materials and Techniques: Whole-plate albumen print from wet collodion glass negative
Credit Line: Acquired from F. Frith and Company, 1954
Museum number: E.208:1513-1994


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• Cousins Edward Goldsmith and Elizabeth Day baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
• Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
• Captain Edward Goldsmith, the patent slip, and the McGregor family
• Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
• The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup

CITY POLICE COURT
Tuesday 26th October, 1875
Before Mr. Tarleton, Police Magistrate
PEACE DISTURBERS. - Robert Evans and William Inman were charged by Constable Pearce, of the Cascades, with having disturbed the peace in Upper Macquarie-street on the 24th inst. The defendants pleaded "not guilty". Constables Pearce and Nevin, of the Cascades, proved that the defendants were throwing stones and making a disturbance. The Police Magistrate said that in Upper Macquarie-street there existed the roughest of lads in Hobart Town. He would sentence both defendants to 14 days' imprisonment, and warn them that on proof of a second they would probably be birched.

The location of the graveyard is shown on two historical plans. A c.1859 plan of the Female Factory Reserve shows the graveyard to the northwest of Yard 5 as a roughly triangular shaped parcel of ground (AOT, PWD 266/382). An 1884 survey locates a morgue building on what was later to become Syme Street. It also locates nine graves orientated east-west, along the eastern boundary of the graveyard (LO, Hobart 65, 90469). Private residential development from the mid- to-late twentieth century occupies most of the place today. The housing is not considered to be of State heritage significance. Described in The Mercury in 1873 as ‘a pretty little green patch of three-quarters of an acre…. and has no denominational subdivision. Prisoners, paupers and juvenile offenders, of all creeds, find a resting place in the same spot, and a few graves are marked with neat little crosses erected by the friends or relations of those buried there’.

FUNERAL OF QUEEN TRUCANINI. (1876, May 12). The Mercury

The remains of the last of the original inhabitants of Tasmania were yesterday consigned to their final resting-place, without any of that ostentatious display which took place at the burial of King Billy. Whatever difference of opinion there may be on the point whether there ought to have been any pageantry on so important an occasion, there can be no doubt that the Government, in their ostensible desire to interdict any such scandal as that which stirred up public indignation in 1869, have laid themselves open to blame, and to a feeling on the part of the public that they were simply playing into the hands of the Royal Society, which body was so anxious to obtain possession of the remains. Let the facts speak for them- selves. Trucanini died early on Monday afternoon, and her body was at once removed to the hospital, a constable being specially told off to watch over it, and prevent any snatching or mutilation. There was, of course, considerable anxiety felt as to where the remains were to be deposited, and when the funeral was to take place ; but it was Wednesday night before the Press was made acquainted with the decision of the Government, and not till yesterday morning was the information conveyed to the public. It was then done in such a manner as clearly to show that an attempt was to be made to deceive the public. The note from the Colonial Secretary, which appeared in yesterday's issue, after stating that the Government had refused the body to the Royal Society, ran thus :—"The Government have given orders for the decent interment of the corpse ; but, to prevent a recurrence of the unseemly scenes which were enacted in March, 1869, it has been deemed expedient to inter the body at the Cascades, in the vacant spot immediately in front of the chapel. The funeral will take place at noon to-morrow." The inference drawn from such information,when it was well-known that the body was at the hospital, was that the funeral would take place from that institution at noon, and that there would be a hearse, with the usual procession of mourners ; for there were many citizens who, prompted by a desire to show respect to the deceased, would have followed her remains. Towards noon numerous inquiries were made at the hospital, and up to one o'clock people were standing at street corners on the route which it was thought the cortége would take, waiting to see it pass ; but the Government had taken as much pains as possible to deceive them. It appears that at 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, Mr. A. H. Boyd, Superintendent of the Cascades Gaol and Reformatory, went to the hospital, armed with an authority from the Government, and demanded the body of the deceased Queen. It was, of course, given up, though the officials were taken completely by surprise, and evidently had never dreamt that any such demand would have been made upon them at that unseemly hour. At all events, the body was placed in the cart, and in the dead of the night, when all good citizens had retired to rest, it was borne through the streets of the city up to the Cascades institution. In this way, by a stratagem for which there was not the least necessity, and which does no credit to the Government, was the public frustrated in their desire to see proper respect paid to the last member of a now extinct race. To show how secret this removal of the remains was, and the duplicity which it was considered necessary should be practised, no intimation of it was conveyed to the undertaker, Mr. Hamilton. He, therefore, acting on instructions received, went to the hospital yesterday morning with the coffin, and was as much surprised as anyone when he found what had taken place. There is no palliation for the conduct of the Government in this matter. The remains were sufficiently protected by the presence of a constable, and the deliberate deception practised upon the public in the way we have described merits the strongest condemnation.

The funeral would have rejoiced the hearts of those who are strenuously advocating a reform in all matters pertaining to the burial of the dead. It was of the simplest character imaginable, entirely devoid of all that useless paraphernalia, all those expensive and showy trappings, which in these times are looked upon as emblems of sorrow and respect for the deceased. In the little Protestant chapel at the Cascades Reformatory, the body of "our native Queen" lay stiff and cold in the plainest of coffins ; no ornamentation of any kind, with the except of the usual silver plate, being upon it. The sombre black contrasted with the white shroud, which, when turned back, revealed the dusky features of her whose life was one romance. We have heard some doubts expressed as to whether the coffin really contained the remains of Trucanini—doubts quite excusable, remembering the mutilation of King Billy and the conduct of the Government on this occasion—but our readers may rest assured on that point. Previous to the lid being screwed down several spectators, our reporter among the rest, were shown the face of the deceased Queen, and one lady, of eccentric habits, and who assumes to herself a title as high as that of poor Trucanini, touched the face, as if to make "assurance doubly sure." All this time the bell in the reformatory yard was tolling, and as none of the inmates of the institution, a few of the officials and servants excepted, were to be seen in the spacious enclosure, a death-like silence pervaded the place. The coffin screwed down, the spectators assembled in the chapel. They did not number, including some children, more than twenty-five. Among those present was the Hon. A. Kennerley, Premier ; the Hon. G. Gilmore, Colonial Secretary ; the Ven. Archdeacon Davies, Rev. W. W. Spicer, Mr. J. W. Graves, Dr. Lewis, Mr. Whitcombe, Mr. Gravenor, Mr. A. H. Boyd, etc. The Rev. Canon Parsons read the beautiful burial service of the Church of England, commencing "I am the resurrection and the life," and after the Psalm and the Lesson, the coffin was carried out of the chapel and placed over a grave that had been dug just in front of the door, all present following and assembling round the grave. The coffin having been lowered, the officiating clergyman read those solemn words beginning "Man that is born of a woman," etc., and committed "our dear departed sister" to the grave in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. Before it was placed in the grave, Mr. Gravenor, of New Town, who mixed as much with the natives in years gone by as any one now living, touched the coffin and uttered some native word, very much like farewell. After the ceremony was over Mr. Graves threw a sprig of heliocrysum (Graves-eye) into the grave ; and when just about to leave, an officer came up with a pretty bunch of native flowers and berries, kindly sent by Mrs. Dandridge, with whom Trucanini lived for the long period of twenty years, and in whose house she died. The bunch was handed to Mr. Boyd, who passed it to Mr. Graves, and that gentleman deposited it on the coffin. The inscription on the coffin was simply : "Trucanini. Died 8th May, 1876. Aged 73 years." There is no doubt that the number of spectators would have been much larger had the arrangements been thoroughly understood. The invitation of the Government to "any friends and sympathisers" reads now like a huge joke, and, under the circumstances, might well have been omitted. Among those who were specially anxious to be present was Mr. Calder, the Sergeant-at Arms, but he did not arrive till the proceedings were over. We may mention, to satisfy some doubts, that Trucanini was baptised at Oyster Cove by Bishop Nixon. We understand that a monument of some kind is to be erected over the grave, and Mr. Graves has been requested to write an epitaph for it. He has willingly undertaken the task, and proposes that it shall be inscribed in both the English and native languages.

• Nevin Street and the Cascades Prison for Males
• Constable W.J. Nevin at inquest 1882
• Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890
• Jack Nevin, the other photographer in Thomas Nevin's family

Dear Geoffrey,
Enclosed is a photostat of a convict history sheet, featuring a photograph. I think we have a couple of these.
Should you be interested in including them in your exhibition or any of our T.J. Nevin photographs, do let me know.

Best wishes,
John

[24.ii.1977]

• Convict Nathan Hunt 1870s-1890s"
• Mugshots removed: William Ford 1886
• Tasmanian prisoner portraits from TAHO at Flickr
• Two mugshots of Hugh Cohen/Cowen/Cowan 1878
• Mugshots of James Geary 1874 and 1889
• Mugshots removed: Thomas Reilly/Riley
• Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890
• Robert Ogden, aka James, photographed by Nevin 1875
• Securing a proper likeness: Tasmania, NSW and Victoria from 1871
• Habitual offender Edward Wallace at Hobart Gaol
• Thomas Francis was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th February 1874
• The Supreme Court mugshots taken by T.J. Nevin from 1871 onwards
• etc etc

• Julia Clark: A Question of Stupidity and the NLA
• Edwin Barnard: it takes one to know one
• Thomas Francis was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th February 1874

IMPORTATIONS.-We learnt that Captain Goldsmith has brought out in the Rattler, and landed in prime condition, for W. A. Bethune, Esq., a number of pure Merino rams and ewes, as a change of blood in this colony, and for the improvement of the fleece in fine wools. He has also succeeded in bringing into port in a flourishing and healthy state several varieties of new strawberries for T. Horne, Esq.; new kinds of hops for Mr. Sharland; several cases of flowering shrubs and plants for Mr. Newman, of the Royal Botanical Gardens, another for E. P. Butler, Esq., and one, also, for Mr. F. Lipscombe. At his own expense Captain Goldsmith has imported upwards of one hundred varieties of plants and shrubs of the most approved sorts in the English nurseries; and, in accordance with his considerate attention on former visits to our port, has on this occasion not been unmindful of a desire to introduce to the colony additional objects of attention. Of these are white swans, so attractive in the sheets of water in park scenery; and pheasants and partridges, likely to become prolific in the bush of this colony, which is deemed well adapted to their nature and habits: so that, eventually, the " Old English Gentlemen" may once more enjoy their favourite sports, and the native youth become practically acquainted with the game which abounds in the rich domains of England. Examples of this kind are worthy of imitation by captains of colonial traders.

IMPORTED PLANTS.- The medal awarded to the Rev. R. R. Davies, of Longford, was mentioned in the Courier. We have been favoured with a list of the plants, &c. which the rev. gentleman has imported; we publish it, with a view to prevent a contingency that often happens - the importation of duplicates, when new specimens only are wanting. Amongst them are the following, which are new: - Magnolias purpurea and soulangeana ; azaleas Phœnicia, coccinea, and calendalocea ; hibiscus variegata and Syracus alba ; nerium versicolor, alba plena, alba plenex, lutescens, and cardinalis ; rosa aimee, Vibert's aimee, Jeanne desprez, Rivers musk, rutifolia, and six other varieties of which the labels are lost; rhododendron pygmœae and dauricum, (there are also two other varieties, but it is doubtful whether they can be saved;) the true snowberry and dog's-tooth violet; viburnum, hairy-leuved, opulifolia, and variegated myrtles. Besides these, he has imported magnolia grandi- flora, annoniflora, and gracilis ; azalea indica alba and pur- purea ; hibiscus rosa sinensis, flava, plena, and peduncu- latus; nerium purpurescens, grandiflora, alto-purpurea, and lacteum ; rosa unique, alba odorata, oduralissima, microphylla, and perdita ; Banksia lutea ; rhododendron ponticum, arboretum,and feruginnea; bougainvillia specta- bilis; syringa or mock orange, and other varieties ; lily of the valley; althauturtea; viburnum Japonicum and sinense; Portugal laurel, glycine sinensis, variegated holly and ferox, with about fifty varieties of double camellias ; and a box of plants from the Cape of Good Hope, containing some new mesembryanthemums and aloes, two plants like the richea of this country, and two others not named, with rosa Banksia alba, another new sort.The flora of this country has also received a great addition by the importation of some plants for Mr. F. Lipscombe in the Rattler,Captain Goldsmith. The following are in good condition :-Lilium rubrum, schimenes picta, campanula novilis, gloxinia rubra, Rollisonii, speciosa alba, and Pressleyans ; anemone japónica, lilium puctata, torenia concolor, lobelia erinus compacta, myasola (a "forget-me not"), and another new specimen of the same; cuphan mineara, weigella roses, phlox speciosa, cuphea pletycentra, lantana Drummondii and Sellowii, phloz rubra, achimines Hendersonii ; with the following camellias - Queen Victoria,- elegans, tricolor, triumphans, speciosa, Palmer's perfection, and Reevesii. These were all contained, with others, in one case ; they were well established in pots before packing, which has tended to their preservation. Another case contains lemon thyme, sage, and the Mammoth and Elisabeth strawberries. The same course in this instance had not been pursued; the plants were put into mould at the bottom of the case, and in almost every instance have perished. A quantity of carnations unfortunately experienced the same fate. Importers will therefore do well to impress upon their agents in England the necessity of establishing them in pots before packing. In the exportation of Van Diemen's Land shrubs to the United Kingdom, India, and Mauritius, Mr. Lipscombe always adopts this method, and it is of rare occurrence for any specimen to be lost.

SEED POTATOS FOR ENGLAND.-We noticed recently the importance that would be derived by the Home-country,could the potato disease be eradicated by a change of seed. At the same time, we did not express any sanguine opinion, founded on experiments that had been already tried, of the success of any extensive exportations from this colony. Experiments, however, are about to be tried-not, it is true, on a large scale, by merchants in the way of business, but by the philanthropic efforts of private individuals. We have heard within the last few days, of several samples of very fine and ripe seed potatos-including especially the black Derwent and the fine ash-leaved kidney-being already on their way to England in the vessels that have recently left our shores, freighted with colonial produce. Captain Goldsmith, of the Rattler, took with him, not as merchandise, but on his own private account, as presents for experiment by his agricultural friends in England, samples of several varieties. Many samples are now being packed for transmission in the Derwent and other vessels, whose departure may shortly be expected. These also are comparatively small; but as they will be dispersed as presents to friends in different parts of the kingdom, the experiment of success in eradicating the disease, by change of seed from this colony, will have, perhaps, a fairer and more satisfactory trial than if exportation had taken place on a larger scale on merchants' account.

17th December, 1851.— John Lillie, D.D., a Vice-President of
the Society, in the chair.
After a ballot, the following gentlemen were declared duly elected
into the Society :— Captain Goldsmith, of Hobart Town, and
Andrew Mowbray, M.D., of Circular Head.

Captain Goldsmith presented a fine specimen of gold upon an indurated
ferruginous clay, brought by himself from Central America, where it was
obtained at an elevation of about 3000 feet, in 13° North.

FELLOWS,& CORRESPONDING MEMBERS,
AND HONORARY MEMBERS.
*Denotes Members admitted since the close of 1851.

Gardner, W. A
Garrett, Rev. James
Garrett, Robert
Giblin, Thomas
Gibson, James
Gill, W. H
Gleadow, J. W., M.L.C
Goldsmith, Captain
Gould, John, F.R.S.,* &c
Grant, James
Grant, James
Greenwood, Joseph, Capt. 31st Regiment,
Major Brigade
Gregson, T. G., M.L.C
Gregson, John Compton
Gresley, Nigel, Union Bank
Grey, Sir George, K.C.B., Governor-in-Chief
Groom, Francis
Gunn, Ronald C, F.L.S
Gunn, William

LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S
GARDENS DURING 1852.

January — 1 case, 29 plants, per " Rattler," presented by Captain Goldsmith.
„ 1 case, 32 plants, per " Emma," from Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
„ 1 case, 31 plants, per " Rattler," from London, presented by the
Venerable Archdeacon Davies.
February — 1 case, 16 plants, per " Emma," from Camden, Sydney.
April — 1 case, 300 plants, pines, from Norfolk Island.
June — 2 cases, 40 plants, from China, presented by A. MacNaughtan, Esq.
„ 1 box of seeds, 120 species, from Cape of Good Hope, presented by
Alexander MacNaughtan, Esq.
„ 1 case, 50 varieties bulbs, from Cape of Good Hope, presented by
His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison.
„ 1 case, 400 pines, from Norfolk Island.
,, 1 case, 34 species bulbs, from Cape of Good Hope, presented by His
Excellency Sir W. T. Denison.
July — 1 case, 50 plants from New Zealand, presented by H. S. Chapman, Esq.
November— 1 case, 40 plants, from Knight and Perry, Chelsea.
December — 1 case, 40 plants, per " Desilles," from Bourbon, forwarded
from the Botanic Gardens there.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MUSEUM DURING 1852.
Abbott, John.
Addison, S., Capt.
Aitkin, Marcus, A.P,M.
Allport, Mrs.
Allport, Morton.
Anstey, H. F., M.L.C.
Archer, Wm., M.L.C.
Becker, Ludwig, M.D.
Berthon, Benjamin.
Browne, Thomas.
Burnett, J. L.
Butterworth, C. B., Hon. Colonel.
Cartwright, Henry Durance.
Champ, W. T. N.
Cotton, Major.
Cotton, Henry.
Crowther, W. L.
Denison, His Excellency Sir Wo T,
Dixon, Capt.
Eardley- Wilmot, Chester.
Eraser, Peter.
Gardiner, Arthur.
Glover, John, junr., Sorell.
Goldsmith, Captain.Gresley, Edward.
Groom, Francis.
Hawkes, W. K.
Hone, Joseph.
Hull, George.
Hull, Hugh.
Johnson, John.
Jones, A. B.
Kenworthy, Dr.
Lillie, Rev. Dr.
Loch, J. D.
Maclaine, H.
MacNaughtan, A.
Milligan, Joseph.
Moore, Wm.
Moses, Samuel.
Moses, Alfred.
Newman, F. W.
Officer, Robert.
Propsting, Richard.
Robertson, Rev. J.
Rolwegan, George.
Stieglitz, Francis.
Storey, G.
Walker, G. W.
Westcott, W.
Wheeler, J. A., A.P.M.
Young, Wm. Portland.
Young, J. M.

Captain Goldsmith presented to the Society's Gardens a case of valuable plants (28), imported per Rattler. A case containing 31 plants received from A. McLeay. Esq., of Sydney. From the Botanic Gardens at Sydney, a case received containing 32 species, partly exotics.

An able paper on the relation between earthquakes, volcanic action, and hurricanes, designed as a pendant to the paper produced on the same subject last month, was read by Thomas Dobson, Esq., of the High School. Discussions on earthquakes and volcanoes followed, in which Mr. Mitchell and others took part. Mr. Hort stated that the earthquake of 1848, in New Zealand, was accompanied night after night with a most brilliant display of auroral lights, and that a season of excessively stormy weather succeeded. Captain Goldsmith's long experience on the Coast of America did not allow him, he said, to conclude that volcanic eruptions are usually or necessarily accompanied with, or followed by, high winds and stormy weather.

The thanks of the meeting to the persons making donations, and for the papers read, proposed by Mr. Hathaway and seconded by Mr. Hopkins, were voted. Mr. Hort drew attention to the great interest so constantly manifested by Sir William Denison in the welfare of this Society and the promotion of its objects ; and, instancing the communications between His Excellency and the Governor-General read to night, moved that a vote of thanks be passed to His Excellency, which, being seconded by Captain Goldsmith, was earned unanimously, and the meeting broke up about half-past nine.

DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS, SEEDS, &c., FROM THE
SOCIETY'S GARDENS TO PERSONS AND PLACES ABROAD
DURING 1852.
January — 1 case, 51 plants, per " Tasman," to Knight and Perry, Chelsea.
„ 1 case, 41 Araucarias, to Messrs. Lane, London,
,, 1 case, 72 Araucarias, per " Wellington," to Messrs. Lee,
Hammersmith.
„ 1 ease, 51 Araucarias, per " Wellington," to Messrs. Lee, of
Hammersmith.
„ 1 case, 42 Araucarias, per " Rattler," to Lucombe and Price,
Exeter.
February — 2 cases, 600 strawberry plants, to Norfolk Island.
„ 1 case, 28 plants, per " Rattler," to London, in exchange with Captain Goldsmith. June— 1 case, 29 plants, per " Middleton," to S. Kennard, Esq., London.
,, 1 case, 43 Araucarias, per "Middleton," to Messrs, Lee, Hammer-
smith.
„ 1 case, 29 plants, per " Middleton," to William Jackson, Esq.,
London.
„ 1 case, 400 Araucarias, per " Aurora," to Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

LIST OF BOOKS PURCHASED DURING 1852.
Gould's Birds of Europe, folio, 5 vols.
Gould's Humming Birds, folio. Part I.
Horticultural Magazine.
Paxton's Flower Garden.
Journal of Agriculture and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural
Society of Scotland.
Annals of Natural History.
Hooker's Journal of Botany.
Beck's Florist.
Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.
United States Exploring Expedition. Wilkes. 1 vol., large 8vo.
Report of British Association, 1850.
Pickering's Races of Men, 1 vol.
Supplement to Penny Cyclopsedia, 2 vols.
Lindley's Introduction to Botany, 2 vols., Svo.
Victoria Regia, plates, imp. folio.
Grant's Outlines of Comparative Anatomy.
Brewster on Magnetism.
Dennis's Silk Manual.
Franklin Expedition, by Scoresby.
Conchologia Iconica. Reeves. Parts 1 to 108.
Hooker's " Rhododendrons of the Himalaya." Parts 1 & 2.
Hooker's Flora of New Zealand. Part 1.

• Charles Dickens and Captain Goldsmith at Gadshill 1857
• Captain Edward Goldsmith at the New Market banquet 1854
• Departure of Captain Goldsmith and the 99th Regiment 1855
• Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
• The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the Waterloo 1832
• Cousins Edward Goldsmith and Elizabeth Day baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
• Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
• Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
• Captain Edward Goldsmith, the patent slip, and the McGregor family
• Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
• The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup