The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-09 00:00:00

b ot h!" he cries, " and therefore my wife contradicts her o! let her choose to which statement she will adhere !" When told that there is really no contradiction, he becomes ion positive tbst there ie. The report concludes by stating deeet Mauer a verbose and probe in his explanations. j p, o g e e, it says, scratches his head violently, and then re• aa rds his finger nails with great attention. Hie glans* is de to be vernole, and, to use the word of the physicians, ; v ow**. !Gift Qroun. Th e Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the prime e t Wale*, Prina Alfred, the Princess Royal, the pria ,, Alice, and the Prince us Helena, and also by the Duke Gild Duchess Sane-Coburn, at.d by Count Arthur Yrnsdorff, left Windsor Castle yesterday afternoen for toe.n. The piny occupied six carriages and four, and was escorted by a detachment of the Horse Guards from the Castle to the Slough station of the Great Western Railway, and left by • special train for the Paddington terminus. The Queen will held a wiry council on Friday di ere eou, at three o'clock, at Buckingham Palace. A deputation from the committee and owners of homes in the parish of Islington, for opposing the erection of the fever hospital in . the Liverpool-road ie. that parish, had a interview with Yesconet Murpeth yesterday, at the office of the Woods and Forests i n Whi tehsll-place. Colonel W. L Freestun had an interview with Sir O. Grey yoteraey, at the Hume-office. A deputation from the landowners, clergy, gentry, sisaatseturers, yeomen, and others, resident in the eountiee of Dorset, Wilts, and Somerset, on and near the line of the r aposed South Western extensions from Salisbury to Yeo vil, had an interview with the Commissioners of R*ilways yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade, to present a memorial unanimously agreed t at a public meeting held se Shaftesbury, on Tuesday, Feb. 1. A deputation, consisting of Mr. W. J. Hale (chair men), Mr. T. Brushtield (treasurer of the parish of Christ Church, Spitalfieleb.), Mr. Waldron, Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. Siihes, had W o od s and with the Conimisioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday. COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON.—A special gene ral meeting was held yesterday at the bank, in Lothbury, for the purpose of filling up three vacancies in the direc tion, occasioned by the resignation of Mr. J. Skewell, Mt. Henry _Caulfield, and Mr. George Ramie. Mr. C. D. Archi bald, Mr. Wm. Cooper, and Mr. J. A. Chowne were elected in their stead.—The Chairman ',Mr. John Taylor) then said he felt great pleasure in stating that the progress of the hank bad been meet satisfactory since the annual meeting in July last. They had existed through times moat difficult and por tentous; indeed, he supposed that at no period had there been such remarkable changes in the value of public secu rities, stock, and all descriptions of property, as during the past year. They had had Consols at 94 and at 79 ; they had had Exchequer Bills at 15 and 20 premium, and they had had them at 37 discount. All great articles of commerce, such as cotton, sugar, indigo, &c., had declined in value from 25 to 40 per cent. Under these cir cumstances the management of the bank had required pecu liar caution, and he was harpy to say that at no period, not even in October or November, hod there been a diminution in their balance above 10 per cent. below the highest amount of last year. He had great pleasure in stating that for the last hali.year the gross profits were as large as in the cor responding period of 1846 : for although their balance had been les!, the higher interest bad made up for the deficiency. It could not have been expected that they could have been free from any losses during such times as they had gone through; but those losses had been of no importance, and the bad debts bad been much less than might have been expected considering the state of the market, and the anoint of husins now done by the bank. In that respect they had been fortu nate. Foreseeing in some measure the coming pressure, the directors had, in the early part of September, sold a con siderable amount of Exchequer Bills and stock, in order to be enabled to meet the demands 'mon the bank, and give accommodation and assistance to their friends. They had since replaced the whole of that stock at a price considerably less than they had sold it for; and hail by the means been enabled to add something to the profit and loss account of the concern. Since the beginning of the present year their progress bad continued to be equally satisfactory, and they had during the month oealanuary alone opened fifty new accounts. The statement was received with considerable applause, and was acknowledged by a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. The meeting then adjourned. METROPOLITAN DEBTIVITION.—YesterdI a public meeting was held at Willis's Rooms, King-street, t James's (granted gratuitous by the proprietors), under the auspices of the Poor Man's Guardian Society and the National Phi lanthropic Association, to support the soup kitchen and re fuge in Leicester-square, and for the employment of the poor. Toe meeting, the larger portion of which consisted of ladies, was but thinly attended. Shortly before two o'clock Mr. Charles Cochrane was called to the chair, and, on opening the proceeding+ of the day, expressed his regret that that duty had devolved upon him instead of Lord Ashley, who was prevented by a priorand important engagetisent fnim being present. The noble lord, however, had authorised him to state that he cordially es mpathised with the objects aimed at. The societies by which this meeting had been convened afforded every day good, wholesome, and nutritious soup and bread to 900 poor persons, and the meeting would therefore feel that the societies sto od: in need of a tolerably goad exchequer. In this respect they had, as yet, had no reason to complain during the winter of the want of supplies fur l:1101,d by the public. Those supplies had vaned from 5 guineas! to 15 guineas per day, and though the supplies bad talien off, mill the societies would not be disheartened from pursuing their present career. The amount of destitution which at present prevailed in the metropolis was truly ap palling. The workhouses and unions were in an over crowded state, and the casual poor were driven to lie all night on the pavement in front of the workhouses, to which they could not get admission. The evils of this distress and destitution were increased by the harshness and cruel severity with which the authorite s carried into effect the provisions of the new poor-law. Until that law was modified, it was necessary to appeal to the public to support the institutions establi+heil in Leicester-square and in other parts of the metropolie.—The Chairman stated that Prince Albert had contributed 201., and yesterday the Bishop of Oxford had intimated that a donation of 51. would be paid ou applies nee at the It lel Alruunry, Whitehall. The chairman concluded by making an eloquent appeal fir the support sad sympathies of the public on behalf of the humane objects ninth were contemplated by the societies already alluded to. lk Charles Aldis moved, and the Rev. Dr. Sprenger se waded, a resolution to the effect, " That the amount of po wily and destitution now existing in the metropolis has attained a height, and assumed an aggravated form of the mast alarming kind ; that the overcrowded state of the nu ' serous workhouses, coupled with the many instances of the maladministration of the poor law, has led to the mise ries and sufferings of the poor being greatly multiplied, and that mendicity, crime, mortality, and disease, have increased to a fearful extent, evils which can only be permanently re medied by a humane and comprehensive system of legisls lion, and temporarily palliated through the inetrumentality of Christian mediation and spontaneous benevolence."—The resolution was passed unanimously, as also did another, pro posed by the Rev. Herbert Smith, chaplain of the New Forest union workhouse, Hants, and seconded by Mr. Roper, ',the Distressed Needlewomen's Society, to the following elect: " That the mop kitchen and refuge, established in laieester-square, united with the department fur procuring employment for able-bodied poor, have proved of emi nent service in relieving the unemployed and destitute psor during the winter season, and that in consequence of the heavy expenses eutailed on the governing bodies of these societies by the daily distribetion of relief to 900 poor parsons, this meeting pledges Reelf to support the kitchen and refuge by every available means, and at the same time earnestly recommended it to the protecion and support of a generous British public."—A third resolution was also agreed to for the presentation by Lord Ashley to the legisla ture of a petition praying the abolition of a practice sanc tioned by the euar,lisns of many unions, of permitting the sale roar to sleep naked together in the casual wards —a practice no oppo-ed to all the rules of decency and propriety ; std thanks having beet voted to the chairman, the meeting Depilated. ABOLITION OF TUE Wisnow TAX.—A meeting of ratepayers of the parish of St. James Westminster, was held last evening at the Crown-tavern, Broad-street, Golden square, fur the purpose of taking measures to procure the total repeal a the windoo -tax. Mr. Geeein, churchwarden, presided, and said that • petition to parliament had been adopted by the vestry and preeentol to Sr De Lacy Evans and Mr. Lushington for introduction into the House of Com mons. The present meeting was called fur 'he purpose of having the petition adopted and signed by the parishioners gem rally. Delegates had been appointed to act in concert with the parish of Marylebooe to communicate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject; and he hoped to hear the opinion of Sir Charles Wood on Thursday (to-morrow), when the deputation would wait upon him.—Mr. Niven proposed the first resolu Lion, which was to the effect that a petition be presented to parliament for a total repeal of the window tax, without which no sanitary measure was complete. He pro ceeded to give a general review - of the gradual growth of that tax, from its origin in the house tax of the reign of William the Third, to its estahlishmeat in its present form, and l gradual increase by William Pitt, to which minister, how , ever, it was a popular delusion to ascribe the whole of the odium attached to its introduction. A great portion of the deficiency which it would cause in the revenue would be covered bythe extra amount of ahem, wood, lead, and paint. —lll articles paying duty—which would be consumed in consequence —in addition to which, the extra employment which would be given to a large number of persons was a material point. Some years ago, Lord Althorp had promised that the tax should be repealed, and, in consequence, a large number of windows in the parish, which had previously been shut up, were opened. Bone time after this a new survey was made, and every window so opened was charged with the duty. lie did not , 1 I blame Lord Althorp or any other person for this occurrence, . which could only be cuasidered as the result of accident. lie I was a commiseioner of taxes, and the case had come under his especial notice. He considered that the advocates of the proposed measure were under deep obligations to the newe -1 Eeper press for their support ; he particularly instanced the Deily Aeles, in which journal an article appeared a few lays ago—he believed on Fnday last—which he had no Ilesitatlon in saying was the best article that had been mitten on the subject ; ald he thought they were peculiarly tdebted to that paper for its advocacy of the cause._ ztAustin seconded the resolution. He was surprised in the report of the sanitary commission there bad been no allusion to the window tax, which he con sidered to be a material point of the subject. Those (rem liming:a had repeated the authorities of St. James, Westminster, to make an examination into the state of the poorer habitations in that parish. The returns made showed that there were 1,150 habitations on the ground, which were unfit for human abode. He considered that that fact ought to have given the commissioners an idea as to the evils of the tax. Out of 3400,000 houses in Great Britain not more than 500,000 were chargeable with the winds a tax. There was no doubt that many gentlemen's houses escaped, because they were classed as warehouses, or were in the ea cupation of gentlemen Carmen, or were exempt from other causes—so that a very small part of the sum paid was eon. tributed to by the rich, the great burden falling upon the lower claws. The resolution was carried unanimously, and a large number of signatures affixed to the petition, se veral gentlemen also pre , - - their influence m• _..0 promising t_. _-- pro:Airing its further support by the parishioners. The petitson was as follows : - -- That the tax ups wholesim esWed, but is reality a tax upon light and air, the BM ad mess awed of Heaven's bounteous guts, Is is it. ant tnjui toasted* lives, mord, and "na umieel=t ialli Sr= et the commit, who es but dant le be digebled elluslurs ea which tele Meld et MOM se mile Aqui um the ammo. of the house le emeretly en. redeem the Ml, lbel Owe eve In Greet Retain UNA* home, not tree Sim Medd et dab ebergeoble Neith era Ude um theft poem pegerlkm et Ile IMMe Wog the abodes dame who haft Rodin of rawareffEr rieSeelyg magi helms la did lacantim, trem Yin deildell vow Id es dem war odreedve Meru burs meet uffrjeml add while the aims of the nobility ad {misty, sod the warebeina of the wimekseha, me, u retard. thecae, by the modem style ef archltes. tun (daybed It sway fairly he gromaned„ la eerie m to weeps this tat), et es mopeds the dm, *en the mmereueeteset Interferers, dear very stiedy died* sr ebony imempird have its operation lb* the podium me of minion that as merry meseures sea be eerie ,dri sr elliedel which do est esibrem the abolition dale tee. They Mtwara Mealy pray you bermalle honer that the window tea may be forthwith totally treed& THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IN LONDON during the week ending Feb. 5 was 1,478, the weekly average being 1,107. The excessive mortality is shown in the return of the registrarl.weral to have arisen from diseases of the lungs, influenza, scarlatina, typhus, and small pox. The number of births during the week wa. 1,367. THE GREAT PROCESSION OP SAILORS. The sailors' demonstration on the Thames this day will be one of the meet novel and imposing th. tprobabh ever was witnessed on the river. According to the arrangements made up yes. to rdsy afternoon by the committee of delegates, three power. ful steam-boats will be employed in arranging and conducting the ceremony u far u relates to the marine portion of the proceedings. At an early hour the steamers will be employed in collecting the crews from the numerous vessels moored between Blackwell and Gravesend, and towing them in their boat. to the starting point opposite the Shadwill 'Urdu d the London Docks. By this period all the boats fres the vsaelo in the docks and in the pool will have assembled there, and at 12 o'clock they will be formed in three lines, each headed by a steamer, and in that manner proceed up the river, each boat bearing its ship's colours, and the band on board the delegates' steamer playing the usual popular national airs. The men will he dressed it; " blue, and rowed their caps will wear a blue ribbon, bearing " The Navigation Laws." On the boats reaching Waterloo-bridge the crews will proceed to disembark, and resemble in Trafal ger-square, and at two o'clock tho men will ('em in proces sion three abreast, and move on to the Hoinnoffice, when the delegates will be granted an audience by Sir George Grey, the Secretary of State, to whom will he entrusted the petition for presentation to the Queen, praying her Majesty not to sanction any alteration in the navigation laws of this country. The seamen will then return to their respective boats, and in the same order as they arrived proceed down the river to their several vessels. All the shipping in the docks and the pool will he decked out with their flags, in order to evince the feeling of the owners on the subject. THE CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT AT WOOLWICH. — ALL POE LOVE!—A day or two since a convict belonging to' the Justitia convict bulk at Woolwich, named Warren, who had been removed from Millbank Penitentiary about a fort night since, attempted to perform a feat which bears some analogy to that of Leander, of classic memory, on the Hellespont. A number of female co,.victs had been brought down from Millbank prison, for removal en board the Eliza and Ilenry, a hired transport-ship, lying off the Royal Arsenal, and amongst them was a female with whom War ren had formerly cohabited. The prospect of thirteen thou sand miles between him and has " Hero " was too much for the poor fellow, and after one or two lingering longing looks at the vessel, he sprang from the deck of the Junkie, a height of between 30 and 40 feet, and plunged into the stream. From his powers as a swimmer, there is no doubt he would have reached the Elk& and Henry, lot a boat rowed by another convict, named Fletcher, pursued him, and he was brought hack to the hulk, to endure a separation which must last either ten or seven years, the period for which his ladye love and himself are respec tively sentenced.—On Monday morning a savage attack was wade on a guard of the Justitia named Daniel Frazer, by a half-witted convict named Joseph Craig. The cause of the outrage has not transpired, but the guard was struck and knocked down by the prisoner, who afterwards kicked and jumped upon him; and had it not been for the assistance of some prisoners standing by the consequences might have been SkTIOUS.—A convict named William Wrenshaw, who was placed in solitary confinement for an assault on Quarter. master Knowles, attempted to commit suicide on Sunday by strangulation. He had tied one end of his handkerchief to his arm and the tither round his throat, and it was with some difficulty that Mr. Blyth, the assistant-surgeon, succeeded in restoring animation. INQUEST, YESTERDAY. THE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF AN AGED COUPLE IN RATELTPE —Before Mr. Baker, adjourned inquiry, at the Queen Catherine public ' house, Brook-street, Ratcliff, respecting the deaths of Mr. Andrew Witham, and his wife Aun Witham. In noticing the close of this extraordinary case it may be necessary to mention the facts connected with the last moments of the deceased. The male deceased died early on the morning of Tuesday, the Vith ult., at his resident • in Carolina street; and his wife on the Sunday previous. For several weeks prior to their demise they were bedridden, and on the Wednes day preceeding his death Mr. Wit ham bequeathed the whole of his property to on elderly woman named Elisa beth Taylor, who acted as their nurse, amounting to near a 1,0001. No medical man was called in to attend there, or their relatives apprised of their state ; but it did appear that Mr. Buchanan, a surgeon, who happened to EAU at the house on the Saturday on other business, saw them and prescribed medicine fir them. With the exception of Taylor and another woman who assisted her, the neighbours , spoke of his mind baing impaired. On the Turelay, Mrs. Taylor called upon Mr. Donne, a solicitor, in Spiteltielde, and inti mated to him that Mr. Witham was desirous of leaving her all his property. The next day Mr. Donne said, he called and received instructions, and, on the following day, the will was brought and read over to the deceased, a neigh bouring barber and a labouring man being called in at the spur of the moment to act as witnesses. According to Mr. Donne's statement, he was scarcely able to articulate, and he (Mr. Donne) was only able to glean his information from what the nurse suggested, and the poor man's brief replies to questions put to him. The witnesses to the document could not say if the &ceased understood the effect of the will when it was read over to him. The contents of their stomachs were handed to Dr. Letbeby for analysation, and in the :stomach of the male deceased there was half an ounce of a thick brownish green matter, the odour from which was strictly identical with that from hemlock and its prepara tions. He entertained strong suspicion of the existence of hemlock. The stomach of the female gave forth a similar odour. On the investigation being re-opened, Mn. S. West more, of No. 1, Brook.street, Itateliff, was called. She said she had known the deceased for several years past. On the Tuesday previous to Mrs. Witham's death, she went into their house, and noticed that Mrs. Witham was ill. She re marked to the nurse, " Mrs. Witham is very unwell ;" who replied, " Yes, he will have to make another will" (mean. ing the husband). She made her no reply. On the fol lowing morning .be again went to inquire about them, when the nurse informed her that he had made a will in her favour. (By the solicitor's testimony it appeared that the will was not made till the following day.) She never taw anything administered to them, even medicine. She saw him on the Saturday before his death, and he seemed quite imbecile—certainly not fit to make a will—The Coroner here inquired of Mr. Superintendent Bilaon if the police had learnt anything more about the matter ?— Mr. Bilson said he had causedinquiries to be made respecting the stater' nt which had been given before the jury at the previous bitting in reference to poison being all iced to be boiled at the barbers' shop, and he found it to have been reported in the street... — Mr. William Witham, a brother of the deceased, was sworn : He first saw the deceased on Saturday night, and then his brother did not appear likely to die. His wife expired on Sunday, and on Monday he noticed lie relative to be retching. He had occasion to go out about seven o'clock, and on returning at nine he perceived that a remarkable change had taken place in his state.—Coroner : Why did you not call in a medical man ? —Witness: They said he would soon be better, that he was only in a tit, and that he would get over it. I said if it was a fit I thought he would not get over it.—No other witneases appearing to be examined, the Coroner proceeded to sum up, and a 6 er going through the whole fact., recommended such a N erdict to be returned as would enable the police to re-open the case, should more conclusive evidence be brought to light —The jury retired for half en hour, and then found " that the deceased persons died on the days mentioned in evidence, but that the precise cause of death did not appear ; that a brownish green matter was found in their stomachs impreg nated with a certain narcotic mortal poison called hemlock, but how the materiel impregnated with such slid smell was taken, did not appear to the jurors." , THE EtPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1848. description of the state of the poor. On the open- ing of the workhouse on Thursday morning 3,000 wretehed awares besieged the entrance, suppli cating in •or out door relief. The aspect of all testified to the necessity of aid, even more than their tomplaints. And yet this is only one detachment of overwhelming pauperism. Less than one-third were placed on the out-door lists. In the south, the distress is neither so intense nor gene ral. Still, strong murmurs of imperfect administra tion on the ppaarett of the guardians are occasionally heard. In Idacroom, about 20 miles from Cork, the catholic clergy have addressed a very severe memo rial to the poor-law commissioners, complaining of the total neglect of their duties to the poor 11 the district proprietors. Every mode of evading the intended ope ration of the law is resorted to, and the poor in consequence are in deep distress. The district in spector has received orders to report on the charges in the memorial, and if true it is not improbable a paid board will compel property to its duties. In Waterford Capt. Newport has given notice of moving for the substitution of paid guardians. The stipen diary tendency is almost universal. The remains of the Itev. T. Maguire having been exhumed after a long interment, the stomach and in testines were extracted and transmitted to Dublin for analysation, on the suspicion that the rev. gentleman had shared the late of his sister and brother-in-law. The general impression is that his death, at least, was natural. The Rev. Dr. Lang, member of the legislative council of New South Wales, has been addressing the burgesses of Derry on the advantages of emigration to Port Philip. Trade during the past week has worn an improved aspect. Pikes have advanced with the growing con• fidenee, and the commercial classes are in better heart ,1 than they have been for many months. Stocks have shared in the general movement. Even the share market, which had been avoided with as much repul sion as the abolitionist shuns the slave market, has attracted buyers. This is owing to the low urice of shares and the increase of money. The Royal Bank, which for the past two months allowed 4 per cent. on deposits, has reduced the interest to 3 per cent. DUULIN UNIVENSITY.—The provost and senior fellows of our universiii ►ave addressed Mr. Shaw on his retiring from the representation. SCOTLAND. EDINDtiII.OII, Fen. 8. In moving for reform it is custom for given burghs to take up certain public questions, and bring them before the other burghs by circular letters. Thus Glasgow has taken up road reform, Aberdeen church reform, Arbroath cur rency reform, Elgin burgh police reform, and Edin but gh threatened to take up university reform, but appears to have broken down in the attempt. Gies gow is about to have a public meeting on the currency question on Wednesday. The Lord Provost has called it, and will most likely preside. The manufac turers of the western metropolis have also sent the following memorial to Earl Grey, relative to the tariff recently adopted by the colonial legislature: That the provtneial government of Canada, in their last tension, pawed an act, vie., "The 10 a 11 Vic., chap. 31 and 32, for repealing and consolidating the present duties of customs in the province of Canada, and for other purred& therein mentioned, to take effect on Sth January, 11145," but now awaiting the royal sanction. Your me morialiata observe with regret and alarm the formidable augmenta tion of import duties on British producta and manufactures, proposed by that act, as specifted in the "Table of Custom Ihities," published by her Majesty's printers in Canada. That while the mother country admits the staple producta of Canada, either duty free, or at discri minating duties, that colony proposes to levy duties era British emits factures, varying from 3 to 30 per centum, ad valorem; and that the average rate of mid duties is equivalent to 121 per cent., the complex character and numerous different rates in the " table" Itll. thong an elect estimate unattainable. That the other great colonies in the taut and West Indies and Australia, have hitherto imposed low dories, averageg about three-and-a-half per cent. That the art com phoned of pommel* to place the mother country in a more unfavoura ble position than the very colonies under her dominion—namely, the "other British North American colonies." the native produce and ma nufactures of which are propisel to be admitted into Canada free of iltity,provided said colonies shall receive Canadian produce and manu factures on the same terms. That the said colonial act prispose- to place t►e mother country in a more unfavourable position than the United elates of America, In so far fie it repeals the differential duties hitherto maintained in favour of British manufactures. We 'ball deem it a hardship if, as British subjects paying tams, of which a portion is ex. pendetl in the government and defence of that colony, our goods shall be admitted on lets tameable terms than those of he United State. maniffacturer, who contributes nothing to that expense, mai who may thus, by unfair competition, ►e enabled ultimately to dove the British merchant and manufacturer out of that colonial market. For these reasons, an well as for the maintertanceed the "British connexion" in America, your memorialists pray thin when said act shaft come under your lordship's consideration, it may not receive the consent of the crown. 1 Matters have been soldered up at the episcopal col lege, Perthshire. Mr. Sandford, sheriff of Kirkcud bright, has addressed a letter to the council, expressing his entire satisfaction, as a parent, with the arrange . ments of the establishment, and all the other parents have approved of Mr. Sandford's letter, so that no more can be said. As to the sticks of the prafects if not cut they have been thrown aside, and, in fine, ac cording to Mr. Sandford, Mr. Wordsworth's acceptance of the office of warden is a blessing to Scotland. of the season. She will appear in several great works, I o before presented on the Italian stage. Among these is the " Hiurnensta," which Meyerbser is now occupied in conjunction with Signor Giannoni, the Italia' poet, in pre paring for this theatre. Madame Viardot will sustain the part of Valentine; Mario will be Raoul; Harlot, Marcel; Tambarini, Never.; Tagliafico, St. Brie; and Alboni, the Page—a cast of unparalleled strength. And it will be saris rectory to English readers to know that this most powerful, but enormously long opera, will be reduced front five to three sots, eo as to be of the ordinary duration. Meyerbeer, it is expected, will visit London when it is produmid. Ma dame Viardot will also personate the heroine of Bee . boron's " Fidelio," adapted to the Italian stags by Cueta, who has converted the spoken dialogue of the original piece into reci tative. It is further in contemplation, we understand, it time permit, to produce the " Moil " of Romini, and the " Flauto Magico" (Zanterflote) of Mozart. Mdlle. Zoia, the original Maria, in Donisettes " Figlia del Reggimento," will make her first appearance in May. Auber's new opera of " Haydee," adapted to the Italian stage by Signor Gies noni, in concert with H. Scribe, the original author of the poem, will be produced under the superintendence of the composer, and the principal characters will be performed by Madame Viardot and M. Roger The magnificent band of last season has been considerably strengthened ; and the chorus will contain nearly a hundred voices. In the ballet department, Flora Fabbri and Lucile Gratin are mentioned, with a number of others what names (being as yet un known) it is unnecessary to repeat, as their merits remain to be ascertained. IRELAND. pretax, Fes. 7. The English reader will hardly feel surprise at the announcement that a case or two are about to come under the cognisance of our law courts in which de nunciations by Roman catholic priests from the altar will form the subject of investigation. I understand that "a bad case" of this description, though one which as yet has not at all been brought before the public through the press or parliament, has recently been submitted to most eminent counsel, who have advised that a preeecution will lie, and if the case be proved that it will be successful. Also, that it ought to be prosecuted not by the crown, but by the party denounced. The object of attack was in this case a nobleman of whig principles and very liberal ten dencies, who has property in a north-western and an eastern county. I do not say positively that this pro secution will proceed, but recent developments from Rome incline me to the belief that such a course may be deemed necessary. In the west distress begins to assume a shape very portentous to property. The Thant Herald—bating the exaggeration which suffuses most provincial nar ratives of popular destitution—coatsuns a painful PROVINCIAL. YORKSHIRE. DF:ATII FROM DRINKING ARDENT SPIRITS.- —.....• . - . Early on . Sunday morning last, as one of the public watch men of Leeds was on his beat in the northern suburbs of the town, he discovered three men lying in a state of intoxica tion near the footpath in a field about a mile and a quarter from the centre of Leeds. Close by he found three bottles of seine (Marsala) and four empty bottles, some of which had contained whisky. He also found an iron implement called a jemmy, commonly used by housebreakers, and he there fore deemed it his duty to convey the party to prison. Having handcuffed two of them who were leas inebriated than the other man, he procured assistance, and the third man was removed in a wheelbarrow. The two men who were most sober gave their names as William Harrison, aged 18, and Robert Farnms, aged 23; and the moat druoken man was Mated to be George Greenwood, aged 23, who up to about a fortnight previous bad been for some years in service as groom to Mr. Simpson, tobacconist. During the re moval of Greenwood to the police-office, a change was observed to take place in his condition, which led the police to call up Mr. Clayton, • surgeon, whose door they bad to pass, in order that he might examine him. Mr. Clayton on seeing him pronounced the man dead. His body was, however, carried forward to the police-office, where a post mortem examination was made; and on open ing the head the vessels of the brain were found much gorged, and smelt of whisky. Yesterday morning the other two men (Harrison and Farneut) were brought up for exa minatton at the court house, when it was stated that in the night of Saturday last the Leeds Public Fever Hospital had been robbed of several bottles of Marsala wine and two hot ties of whisky, by some thieves, who had entered through a window grate, and had le ft be hind them a mason's chisel and a hat. An inquest wan held p aterday afternoon on the body of Greenwood which had just terminated when our despatch was sent off. Verdict, " Died by excessive drint ing. ' • WPM lir AN ATTEMPT TO BURN DOWN A PRINTING-OFFICE is thus reported in the Ipswich Express of yesterday : " We noticed the calamity by fire which had occurred to Mr. Piper's premises. As if the loss sustained on that occasion was not sufficient, an attempt has sines been made to fire the premises from end to end. On Monday morning, at a little past seven o'clock, a lad belonging to the plate went to the premises and found the back printing-office doer wide open. On entering he dis.overed the office to be filled with smoke, and in one portion of it flame' were burst ing forth. He inimedi.ntly carried away some burning papers, and found the woodwork below them in a blaze, which he succeeded in extinguishing by throwing water up•in it. Other persons were then called, and on a search being made it was found that some villain had endeavoured to lire the premises in nine different places on the lower floor. In three places wire files, full of papers, had been hung under light wood-work and then fired, burning valua ble documents to ashes, and igniting the wood, which fortu nately in each case burnt out without doing serious damage, in consequence of being saturated with wet, The front counting-house (a small room filled with paper and shelv ing) was set on fire in four different places, and a mass of burning papers falling on the floor burnt tt through over a space exceeding a square foot : brickwork underneath and the damp state of toe wood alone prevented a general eonflagration. Two attempts had been mute in tke newspaper printing. office; one was an attempt to fire a wooden-framed press, by means of papers attached to it, but which did not succeed ; the other was more successful, although the damp state of the frame and the timely arrival of the lad prevented much damage. Inquiries have been made as to the causes of the first fire, but without success; the conclusion now arrived at is, that it also was the act of an incendiary." fiflustc. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COYBNT-GARDEN.—The management of this est►blishment hen now issued the pros pectus for the ensuing season ; from which, and 1101110 authentic information we have obtained elsewhere, we are enabled to give our musical readers the following particulars. The season is to commence on Tuesday, the 7th of March, and will consist of 46 nights, terminating on Saturday, the 12th of August. The principal vocal perform:rs engaged are: Soprani, Mesdames Gnsi, Persiani, Garcia Yiardot, Roncons, and Castel:an, Mesdemoiselles Steffononi, Corbari, and Znia; Contralto, Mlle. Alboni; Tenors, Signors Mario, Salvi, Roger, Levis, and Luigi Mei ; Baritones and Basses, Tamburini, Ronconi, Marina, Corradi-Setti, and Rovers; besides several other names of lesser note. Signor Coate is dinctor of the music and conductor of the orchestra. The season will commence with Rossini's Tancredi," in which Alboni will be the hero, and Persieni the heroine ; and in Muth Alboni will also appear in the •' Cenerentots." In April " La Favorite," of Donizetti, will be produced, with Grisi, Mario, Renconi, and Marini ; and Castellon will appear in Rouini's " Guillaume Tell." Madame Pauline Viardot Garcia will arrive in April, and remain to the end ' CLERICAL. PREPERMENTL—Rev. E. W. Balker, to Blakeney and Corhthorpe C., Norfolk; Rev. E. 11. Bickerateth, to Banninrliain C., Norfolk; Rev. It 11. Bicknell, to Southwold C., Suffolk; 1t... A. Deady, to %Orman C., Suffolk; Rev. I'. A. Diem, to St Clement's C., Ipswich, Suffolk; Itov. F. Preach, to Clanton and Hampton C., Norfolk; Rev. G. 8. Goodwin, to As laham C., Norfolk; 'Rev. P. C. Gosling, to Marketed and Yrmarton C.. Suffolk; Rev. 1. S. Given, to Wrozham C.. Norfolk; Rev. It. It. Holherton, to Bodney C., Nor folk ; Rev. J. Jackson, to Wrentham C., Suffolk ; Rev. 11. James, to Aldeburgh C., Suffolk; Rev. 8. N. Ifficklethwalt, to Worstead C., Norfolk; Rev. c 11. R. Nevis, to Yarmouth C., Norfolk ; Rev. C. to Norfolk; Rev. R. Jones, to Braude.- ton C., Norfolk; Rev. J. J. A Peroune, to Tangoed with Soo-Rnaton C. Norfolk; Rev. W. Leeper to St Nlcholaa C., Lynn, Norfolk; W. J. W e l c h. to at. Margaret C., Lynn, Norfolk ; Rev. It. R. &Actium, to Ilemworth C. all to the diocese of Norwich.—Rev. J. N. cones., to Mu ling Curd 11., Norfolk, dio. Norse; 1851.; pat., Re,. T. Greene.—Rev. D. P. Calliptuosas, to the rectory of the JIMMIE of West Walton,Norfolk ; 7171.; pat., Rev. C. Townrhead.—Rev. IL. Wileon, to St. Michael-at-Thorn P.C., Norwich; MIL ; pat., the Dowager Lady Suffield. NAVAL. PRIZE 24024EY.—Lesiniihi'iiGazetle gives notice to the officers and company of H.M.'s a. Cygnet, Coal. Layton, that an ac count of the 4.rocteas end of the bounty looney on the tonnage of the slave brigantines, names unknown, captured 11th )lush, and Clan, on the 12th March, 1846, will be deposited in the registry of the Ad ' roiralty on the Bth of March.—W. and E. Chard, agents.—Notice is likewise given that the acceunt gales of the proceeds arising from the minor., of the slave vereel QUIUIO4 by 11. We s. Waterwiteb, Com. Birch, on the Ist of May, 1846, will be registered in the Court of Ad miralty on the 19th inst. ; and that the account sales of the proceeds arising from tho capture of the slave vessel Gabriel, air o by 11.M.'. s. Waterwitch, on the 10th April, 1846, will be registerod in the Court of Admiralty on the 14th Woodhead, airenL Deect:9volt; Fen. 7.—Pantaloon, 10, Com. Dougles, arrived this morning from the North American and Weed India eta- Poe, last from Cork, to whieh place ebe bore up in want of water. She will come into harhom to be paid off. Meander, 44, Copt. Hon. H. Koppel, sailed last evening for the East Indies. Kite, et—tug, intended for service at Bermuda, arrived on the night of the sth, and came into harbour. Twenty-tire apprentices are ordered to he en tered on the establishment of the dockyard this week. taw Entettanut. HOUSE OF LORDS. _ ------- CHIPPENDALE ' S DIVORCE BILL—The Lord Chance lor, the Earl of Devon, and other peers, met at 4 o'clock to take evidence on the second reading of this bill. It may be re membered that Mr. Chippendale petitioned the house mime time ago to be permitted t prosecute his bill for a divorce in forms pauperis, upon the allegation that his means (being now an attorney's conducting clerk, formerly an attorney himself) were not sufficient to bear the usual expenses. The house granted his prayer; hie bill was then presented, and now came to be read a second time—Mr. Terrell and Mr. Joyce examined the witnesses for the hill. It appeared by their evidence that Mr. Chippendale was married to Miss Arthur in 1828, in the church of St. Mary-le-Strand, London. They lived together for some years, and had one child. Mr. Chippendale went in or about 1833 to Belgium, and re mained abroad two years. On his return be found his wife and child at Mrs. Arthur's, the wife's mother, and he remained with her there two days. Suspecting that her affections were alienated from him, he left, and went into lodgings by him self; hut coming in search of his wife to her mother's after wards, he found she was gone away. It appeared she went to reside with a Mr. Hunt, and they lived together as Mr. and Mrs. Hunt for some years in St. John's wood. Mr. Chippendale brought an action for damages against Hunt, who let judgment go by default. The friesids of the parties proposed, to save further expense and exposure, that Mr. Chippendale should accept MX for damages, which he agreed to. The record of the action and also the proceed 3 ings in the ecclesiastical court, granting a divorce there, sir re put in evidence. At the close of the examination of the wit nesses the Lord Chancellor asked the counsel if they were prepared with a precedent of a divorce being granted in a case where there was a compromise of the damages —Mr. Terrell said they had no such precedent, but he reminded his lordship that the judgment, on which the damages were taken, was not the result of a compromise.—The case was then adjourned. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Lord Chancellor. His lordship took his seat in his court, in Lincoln's-inn, at 11 o'clock, and gave judgments in thy following cases, which were argued before the long vacation in 1647 : STOCREN V. DOWSON.—FARTNERSHIP ACCOUNTS.—Tbis war an appeal from an order of the Master of the Rolls, upon exceptions to parts of the mattes report, under the decree in the cause. —The Lord Chancellor read his judgment, stating at great length the circumstances of the portnership and the proceedings in the cause, and his lord• ship affirmed the order of the Master of the Rob and dis missed the defendant's appeal with costa. Ex PARTE BASIL IN RE SIR G. STEPHEN AND OTHERS, SOLICITORIL—RAILWAY SPECCLATIONS.—TAXATION OF SOLICITORS' BILL OP COST'.—J IRIBDICTION.—This was an appeal from an order of Vice Chancellor Knight Bruce, made upon a petition presented by Mr. George Bass, a brewer in Burton.upon-Trent, and once acting director of a railway company called "the London and Manchester Direct Independent Railway Company," praying for an order to refer for taxation the bill of costs of Sir George Stephen and partners, the solicitors to that company, which is now defunct. The petition stated the formation of the said company in April, 1845, under the designs of Mr. Rem ington, engineer, in conjunction with another design called " Itaatrick's line," Mr. Bass was a shareholder and mem ber of the provisional committee, and was afterwards chosen a member of the managing and acting committee. Sir George Stephen and partners were the solicitors of the com pany, and had the possession and use of the plane, levels, and various other documents relating to the railway. Some differences having arisen between the pectin in November, 1815 Sir G. Stephen and partners proposed to give up all the documents relating to the company in their custody, and to withdraw front the office of solicitors of the company, upon condition of receiving the full amount of their hills of costs, estimated by them at the sum of 28,0001. The commit tee, or the majority of them, agreed, aftersome discussion, to accede to thi• proposal, and accordingly five of them signed cheques for 28,0001., of which a sum of 13,0001. was given to Stephen and his partner, Hutchinson, and 10,0001. was divided between two other solicitors on he line. Bass and others of the committee protested against these payments. The petition, after stating those and other matters, alleged that Sir G. Stephen and partners never delivered any bills of costs, though often requested to do PO ; and it prayed that they might be ordered to bring in ouch bills for the purpose of being taxed. The Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, doubt ing whether, under the circumstances, the court had joins .. make the order prayed for, directed the petition to . dieuon to stand over, with liberty to the petitioner to tile a bill as r to enable the court better to see the merits of the ease. Sir G. Stephen and the ether solicitors presented a petition of appeal against that decision, and Mr. Bass presented another of appeal praying as, by his former petition, that the bills might be referred for taxation. These petitions were argued before the Lord Chancellor in May last. His Lordship, now giving hia judgment, stated the circum stances, and rid, the main paint raised by Mr. Bass's peti tion was, whether the sum of 28,0001., paid by the acting committee of the company to Sir G. Stephen, was the right sum fur his professional services. It appeared that Sir G. Stephen had been joint solicitor to ti.e Direct London and Manchester Independent Rail* ay Company, of which the petitioner was a member. Being desirous of resigning such office, Sir G. Stephen made a proposition to the company to give up all the papers and documents relating to the company at his hands, and afferd any assistance that might be required of him, upon being paid the sum of 28,0001., as compensation in full for all his professional services. Several letters passed between the parties, and eventually the sum demanded was paid by the acting committee in four checks, and a receipt in full of all demands signed by Sir G. Stephen. It ap peared from the affidavits filed in support of the appeal that at the time of this arrangement Sir G. Stephen had in his hands a great quantity of valuable docu ments relating to the company, and threatened to take proceedings for the recovery of his costs unless his demand was agreed to, and the documents themselves proved how much the company were at the time in his power. Mr. Bus was no party to this arrangement, but pretested against it; and when a bill was filed against him, as a member of the acting committee, for misappropriating the funds of the tympany, he immediately applied to have the bill of costs of Sir George Stephen taxed. The first question to be con sidered was, whether the relative position of solicitor and client was so far made out between Sir 0. Stephen and Mr. Bass, as to entitle the latter to call for a taxation of the former's hill of costs ; and if so, whether he could do so by petition, or only by means of a hill is chancery. Did the fact of Mr. Base being a member of the acting committee, a trustee, in fact, for the shareholders, make out such a posi tion ? Did his being a shareholder himself constitute him a client of Sir G. Stephen ? His lordship read eerier sections of the act 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73, the act for consolidating the laws relating to attorneys and solicitors, ander which the present petition was presented, and which gave the court power to refer their bills of casts for taxation rammarily, upon the application of the party liable to pay them; and his lordship then proceeded to say that Bar, having been one of the committee:who had engaged Sir 0. Stephen as solicitor to the company, was in his ( the Lord Chancellor's) opinion liable to him for the amount of his bill of costs for such professional service*. Such also sp peered to be the opinion of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, otherwise he would hare dismissed the petition, iasteed ot letting it stand over. He regretted that he had not furnished with any note of the Vice-Chancellor's judgment The only ether pont to be considered was, supposing thi Mr. Bose was entitled to call for taxation of these bills. coats under ordinary circumstances, was there anything epecial in the case to deprive him of that right ? The S. , ' of payment Gould not be any bar, for the court had in awes referred solicitors' bills for taxation after payment. Nor was there any contract proved between the parties themselves to show that Mr. Baas had waived kis right tax the bills, although the nature of the receipt given by b. 0. Stephen showed his intention to be to exclude any taxation. There were, therefore, no special cin stances in the case to oust the jurisdiction of court to order the taxation of these Mile, on the contrary, although the money was say to have been (raid for work and labour done, no r whatever had been furnished of such services. And, . it was manifest that Sir 0. Stephen had used pressure undue isfluence in obtaining payment of the 28,0001. ; the evidence also prey. --d that the documents in Sir G. phen's hand, at the time were very much wanted b company. The terms in which • solicitor thought -_ draw up a eettlement of account could not oust the jurisdie. lion of this court over the taxation of their bills of costs.*- therefore the usual order must be made upon Mr. Bass's tition to refer the bilis of costs of Sir 0. Stephen, in re. of this railway company, to the master. for taxation, there was nothing in the ease to compel Mr. Baas to fr bill to obtain suck relief.—His lordship, in the course . judgment, referred to several cases; among others, " Waters v. Taylor" (2 Mylne and Craig); " In re Rhodes (8 Beavan); " In re Callen " (9 Beaver). Id I:011.Yr V. WILK INA—SOLICITORA.—P•RTNFRAh.. —INFORMATION.—This motion, to dissolve an information granted by the Vice-Chancellor of England last week, pied the rest of the dar.—Adjourned. Before the vice-Chancellor of England. RATCLIFFE v. BOND.—BILL TRANRACTIONB.—The Chancellor delivered judgment in this Cale, which e guel at great length during Hilary term. The Vice-Chancellor said it did not appear to him there wee any evidence produced which would enable to continue the injunction. The plaintiff's equity depended upon the fact that the bills were suppressed. It was - tainly a very singular transaction, but upon the cue , by the defendant it wu impossible to fix him with any ledge of the previous trans action. The order for dissolving the injunction must therefore be made absolute. Sutra O. TEE EAST INDIA COIIPANY.—POWER MARINE BOARD AT MADRAS.—LAW OF PRINCIPAL AGIENT.—The Vice-Chancellor delivered judgment i , case, the facts of which have been folly reported in press. The snit was instituted by the plaintiff, who wu captain of one of the East India Company' ships, called the London, to restrain the comp , from proceeding against the plaintif f upon a entered into by the plaintiff upon the purchase of a ciL of cotton from the East India Company.—His Honour, delivering judgment, said he had carefully read over wipers in this case, and, in the first place, as to the on. of the East India Company, it appeared to him that could not have done otherwise than they bad done. It quite right for them to take the opinion of a court of e upon the question, and act strictly accorzling to the rip the parties. It appeared that a bond had been given plaintiff, under which the company was entitled to a less there was some equity apart from the bond to their right given by that bond. lie thought, howes the question rested entirely upon the Icters passed between Captain Smith and Mr. Chamier, the 4 tary of the government board, and Mr. Underwood, secretary of the Marine Board and Commercial Committee of Madras. It appeared that upon the arrival of Cap , Smith at Madras he received a letter from Mr. Chamier, which he wan directed to place himself under the ordr the Marine Board, and in that letter Mr. Chamier himself chief secretary to the government board. After it appeared that Capt. Smith entered into an agreement she Marine Board for the purchase of some cotton of an ferior quality, then lying in the company's warehouses Madru, and the offs r made by him was transmitted by 1 Underwood to Mr. Chamier, with a statementthat it we best offer which, under the circumstances, was likely chained. An answer to this was returned by Mr. Charm in which he stated that the offer would be acne' agreeably to the recommendation of the Marine ' and that Capt. Smith might be permitted to the portion of the tonnage of the ship celled the corn; three-fifths, but that he was to pay such freight I cotton as the company should see fit to determine. lever was shown to Capt. Smith by Mr. Underwood, Capt. Smith thereupon stated, in the most explicit ma that he would not carry on the transaction it he were obliged to pay the freight. He was then assured ' Marine Board that he ehould be allowed to take the free of freight. but he was required to sign the usual entered into by captains of ships upon the purchase of the company 'a merchandise. The form of this lx that the freight should lie paid, but a letter was WI Capt. Smith by Mr. Underwood at the same time . bond was forwarded to him, in which it was expressly that, notwithstanding the clause contained in the no freight would he charged on the cotton purchased b, captain from the government. All these letters were wris by fir. Chamier and Mr. Underwood, as the secretaries the respective boards to which they belonged, and it first letter the captain was told expressly that he s. lace himself under the orders of the Marine Board. Ilonour thought, that under these circumstances Cr Smith was fully justified in placing absolute reliance statements made to him by Mr. Underwood. The lam of Mr. Justice Bayley in a case which bad been cited the argument was descriptive of what the law was relating principal and agent ; it was laid. down, that where - authority was given by a company to their agent, agent exceeded his power, those who instructed the must hear the loss, and not the innocent party. It was that the impression produced upon the mind of Csr' frow the letter addressed to hint was, that be was at to consider that in executing the bond he was discharged from the obligatioa to pay freight for the cotton. His Ho nour's opinion was, that the government was bound by th' act of their secretary just as much as if the contract had br entered into by the government themselves, and that r Smith had made nut a clear case of defence, and was to the relief sought for by him. The only other teas as to the c ate, and he considered, upon this po as Capt. Smith had acted perfectly right througl proceedings, the company must pay the costs. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Nut Pane.—Before Mr. Justice Erie. TIDIWRY V. BILYANT.—SEDUCTION.—Ia this Crowder, Q.C., and Mr. Atherton, appeared for the and Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., with whom was Mr. L couneel for the defendant. This was au action recover compensation in damages for the injury the had sustained by the defendant having seduced his in -UN, one Caroline Floyd. Mr. Crowder, in stating the cue to the jury, This was a case in which the plaintiff had to cimpbain very grievous injury which had been inflicted upon hit the defendant. The plaintiff was a most respectable son, though in the very lowest station of life, yet hi satisfied that the jury would consider that his domestic ' fort i.ad been destroyed. So poor was the plaint' - - had been obliged to sue in forma pauperis. The followed by him was that of a horse.keeper, putilic.house, in Fulham, and he resided at place, near Par on'xgreen. He married, ninetee_ ago, a Mrs. Floyd, and it was her daughter by a former riage who formed the subject of the present inquiry. plaintiff's wife carried on the business of a laundress, io she was assisted by her daughter, Caroline Flop' defendant was a clerk in the Treasury-office in the He became untainted with plaintiff's daughter-in February, 1846 ; and it would seem that he gave h. order to make some shirts, which he made a pretext visiting her. An intimacy soon followed, and the r was that, in December, 1846, Caroline Floyd found ' enceinte. She informed the defendant of her - when he admitted himself to be the father, and pi provide for the child. He now came to a part of which would be deposed to en the solemn oath herself, and which would make this ease most the defeadant. It was this one occasion, plaintiff's daughter-in-law mentioned her pregnant defendant, he said, " You had better give the little some prussic acid and get rid of it." He (the counsel) understood it would be said to-day that fendant was oat the father of the child. The child on the 13th of April, 1847, and the plaintiff had the expense of his daughter-in-law's confinement. fondant hal refused to make any compensation, (erred dragging into a court of justice the family injured. The jury would hear the evidence Floyd herself, and it would he for them to , damages the phintiff was entitled. Caroline Floyd examined by Mr. Atherton daughter of the plaintiff's wife by a former husband. now 22 years of age. I have lived with my mother since her marriage with the plaintiff It is 19 p my mother married the plaintiff. The plaintiff horse keeper at the Ship Tavern, Fulham : he was horse keeper at the George. Daring the last two mother has carried on the business of a laundress. waisted her, and managed the affairs of the house. the defendant George Bryant ; he is employed as the Treasury-office in the Temple. I first became • with the defendant in Feb. 1846, and kept up an once with him from that time. The defendant empi to make some shirts in March, 1846. He came mother', house almost every night while the eh; making. Sometimes my mother was present, and not. In the course of my acquaintance with the we became intimate, the result of which was that myself in the family way in the month of Nov., It informed the defendant of that fact in Dec., He then asked me if I knew Mr. Howard Mr. Ford. I said I knew the former. I again - the defendant in March, 1847, on the subject. He December, he would allow me 2s. fel. a week for t. whim it was born. I said I would not take it um agreed to allow it from the time 1 became in the family Uponthat defendant said my mother would throw ...- parish, and he would pay what the law allowed. said he would pay Use 2s. 6d. either weekly, monthly, quarterly. He told me that he would give me • - the Lying-in Hospital, which would cost him three Defendant said I must fgo to service, and put the c) nurse. Before the child was born defendant . glee " the little devil some prussic acid and get That was in December, 1646. I remember when I the defendant about providing some clothes for the saying that his mother had had a child which had he would get her to give him its clothes. In April, was delivered of a child, of which the defendant en Mau. Previous to my confinement I was in Ell health, math to attend to any Intent's'. I was obliged to MAW &Undone io =megaton. The baby I. l v. ! . l • J 7. 3 i.. . , of been provided at say father-in-law's expense. My mother was coos- dgment. wiled to have a woman in the house six weeks before I was ins that confined at 3s. • week. I was attended by a medical gentleman. e bills of of clot aunt of Rouse. There was• nurse engaged, when L i inythiag was confined, at 7s. 6d. a week I was six Weeks before I he fact recovered, so uto be able to attend to the household arias. in many The child is living at my father-in-law's house, nod has been apnoea kept by hint ever since its birth. Crou-examined by Sir. i parties Humfrey: lam now twenty-two years old. I lint became I' right to acquainted with the defendant in February, 1846. I had in by Sir comae:ion with Mr. }toward before I had any intercourse exclude with the defendant. It was sex months after L ceased to eircum• have any connexion with Mr. Howard, that the intimacy of the with the defendant began. I went before Mr. Beacon, at the L, for. Hammersmith police-court, to swear this child against the 'apposed defendant in July, 1847. My mother went with me. and account she was examined. On that occasion Mr. Beaton el missed . I, again, the case ; he beard all that the defendant's counsel bad to um and say, but would not hear what I had to say. I did not swear K. ; and that I had never had any connexion with Mr. Howard; but G. Ste- I said I had net had anything to do with him since I became by the eequainted with the defendant. Mr. Howard was not mai- m fit to ing for are outside the court, but I met him on my way t juriadie. thither. My mother did not know that I had had any • osta, and connexion with Mr. Howard when I went before the magi* . acs'sto pc- trate. She did not know it until -day. I have been 1 respect examined by an attorney. He inquired if I had ever had l ition, as connexion with any other man than the defendant, and I • to file a told him I had not. Mr. Howard is not now with Mr. • . se of his Rouse, and Ido not know where he live:. I saw him last this hen, to morning outside the court, and he said, " Good morning." .' . thodes" He attended my little boy (the defendant's child) when I .** was ill, and that was charged in Mr. Rouse's bill. Mr. . raeusr. Howard was present at my confinement. The last time I 'mitten taw him to speak to him was about two months after MI ek, eau. confinement. The connexion took place at Mr. Rouse's house when I went to see Mr. Howard, being unwell. I . 1 will swear that I have never been at Mr. Rouse's hr my- self so late as a month before the child was born. Mr. Rouse did not know that I had had connexion with Mr. llowaril A 'he Vice-. till I went before the magistrate. My mother was present ~ . I was ass- when the defendant spoke about giving the child the prussic acid. Oa one occasion, when the defendant spoke about sin' that providing for the child, my cousin Sophia was present, but .ble him she is now down in the country.—Reexamined by Mr. iepended Crowder : Upon my solemn oath I never had connexion with , . was Me' Howard from the first time I knew the defendant. Mr. ise stated Rouse attended me himself, because it was rumoured that! : 1 i le. know- had alrerely been delivered and the child had been destroyed. i limedeieff The child is a boy, and in good health. Ann Cook proved that she lived next doer to the plaintiff, 07 THE and deposed to several of the facts stated by Caroline Eloyd. 1 I ; 'AL AND Mr. Rouse stated that he was a surgeon, that he had I ein this known the plaintiff's family for twenty years, and that be , th e Ez - delivered the plaintiff's daughter-in-law on account of r. 4 plaintiff, rumours afloat to the effect that she had already been ' , mPail's delivered and the child made away with. Had heard a company rumour that his assatant, Mr. Howard, was the father, but a bond paid no attention to it. His bill was 81. quantity Mr. Humfrey then proceeded to address the jury for the . .. mom, in defence, and said no doubt it was a very serious thing for a tar all the man to have his .laugbfer seduced—God forbid that he . e conduct should say it was not ; but it was their duty to defend r 1 that they young men from charges that were brought against them on It was inch evidence as that of Caroline Floyd. He was not there of equity to say because this girl had been seduced before that she was rights of to be the prey of any one else. But if there was any truth en by the in her statement, they might have braught the cousin, r sue, un- .. Sophia," of whom mention had been made, as a witness— e o displath she, es it was alleged, having been present on one oats- . ever, that sion when his client admitted that he was the father I 'a which of the child. When the eye was before the wager- ' the secre- tote it was fully gone into and was dismissed. On e•od, the the part of his client he was instructed to deny that he had . . oramittee ever had any improper connexion with this yeuag woman, l of Capt. an d h e con t e nded th at a party making a charge of this sort '1 amier, in should at least be corroborated in her testimony. Nothing orders of was so easy as to make such a charge, and nothing so diffi- or signed cult as to rebut it. His client could not ecru indict this After this young woman for perjury. He implored the jury to weigh l i went with well the circumstances of this cage fore they found a ver- I . of an in- diet for the plaintiff, for if they did fled such a verdict it , 1 :houses at would go forth to the world that they believed the horrible i dby Mr. story told by this young woman about his client's suggesting it war the to her to poison the child, a thing a greet deal more likely to kely to be be done by a doctor's auistaut. His client held an honour- Chamier, able situation in the Treasury-office, and a mere verdict • ) accepted found against him in such a case would ruin hie character ne Board, and reputation. . i o occupy Mr. Justice Erie then summed up, and left it to the jury . l smsPenY's to say whether they believed the testimony of Caroline I i ht for the Floyd or not. Oae thing which would ralier go to show Ise. This that she had spoken the truth was, that she hard publicly ad- ll. f wood, and m i ste d a very painful fact—namely, her connexion with Mr. .t manner, Howard, which she might have den ied had :he chose nto de t • ere to be so. Von the re was the evidence of the woman Ant. Cook, red by the who proved meeting the defendant mid this )(mug woman • the eott'n walking out together, which showed they w. re on such sisal hood terms that if the defendant were not courting her, it might see of e any he very probable they were tog. thee for /erne improp' r par- ' bon d .was poee. e as Occurrences such as the present were diffieult to . written to prov. It w true this young woman had hewn ai dueed . , te that the no reason why she should fall rI , felY stated down that was before, but although the barrier of virtue hod been th r o wn the bond, the victim of any one who wished to take met- ed by the vantage of her situation. If they determined on .re written finding a verdict for the pl .iatiff they would say what :reunite of damages they thought him entitled tn. Ha had been put to and in the some expense, which they had heard pros ad, and they ; ho was to would judge, under the circumstances, what woe a fur • earde Hie compensation for the injury inflicted. HlCaptain The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 131. ince on the e language COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 1 iced during ~., e , relating to` ...I , r ate u l/ p t ie K d r. th tar ' greatestlittit: ti p : l lC o E f e. y• general . the d a ay L° wlt A li N e — case n° of ' c ' o 'l l e l hai rt .1 .1, i f t h at Duke of Brunswick o. Stomata," which is an act i on forcible entry by the sheriff; but ea, it was ocey part bead, the agent Was evident • apt. Smith and adjourned till to-morrow, we postpone cur report. s at liberty COURT OF EXCHEQUER. discharged Nisi Parra—Before Mr F. Pollock, C.A., and a Common Jury. ~ i His Ho- WINDLE v. 810015.—COLLIAION. — Me. 31 . itttu, LI C , and . Ind by the Mr. Joyce etre comae' fur the plaintiff; who is a dealer in , 3 had been jewellery. Mr. Wiesen, Q.C., and Mr. Pearson represeuted i that Capt. the defendant, who is a rowkeeper, earryiug on business at vas entitled Edgeware-road. The action was brought to recover com- er question pegution in damages for injuries sustained by the elaintiff, , point, that in consequence of the negligence of the defendant's servant. ughout the On the 16th of August last, while the plaietiff was niakiug it . • business call at T o ttenham-court-road, he entrusted his V chaise to the care of a friend, who used the preceitien of standing at the bone's head during the plaintiff 'a ,bsenee. The vehicle was drawn up close to the kerb atone, which, at that part of the street, was rather deep. While it wee thus is Mee Mr . mending, on the left-hand side of the road leading towards ;he' Lush, were wagg on laden with hot grains, just then taken from Meux's 1 -ainti ff e, Hyde-park, the defendant's servant wee /ten drivin g a brought to brewery, which is in the immediate neighbourhood. The the plaintiff street was wide, and at that time there were no other is daughter- vehicles of any sort in it. Oa approaching the plaintiff's chaise the waggoner suddenly went from his horses' heads, jury, said . where he had previously been, to the herb .tour. They l I . . implain of a immediately helined towards the same dinetion, aed the ipon him by result was the collision complained of. The jure, upon this eatable per. state of facts having been proved, found a verdict for the a yet he was plaintiff, with 8/ lee. damages, that having been the full ' l si esti e cam' amount of the cent incurred for repairs.— There season appli- intiff that he eatien made to the learned judge to certify. e occupation Sittings in Basco. at the Shi p xi ...ORGAN r. HEATH. — Allints EY.— RLTAINEK. — Thio Lb i Iteet°ry - was an action on an attorney's bill for 281. odd, the coat. of a rieteen tears chancery suit, which was resisted on the somewhat ravel former mar- ground that the plaintiff having accepted the retainer of the iquiry. The defendant was bound to go on with the star, and the not -ess,ia which having dune so, though the defendant had offend to supply 'loyd. The whatever funds were neeereare fur the purpose, he cauld not the Temple. recover the amount of his hill. At the trial befere Lord ter-in-law in Denman at the last Midland Circuit his lordship directed a gave her an verdict for the plaintiff. and a rule ha, ing been obtaiued for ' Prete"' fm a new trial on the ground of misdirection, Mr. Haw., with id the result whom was Mr. Mellor, appeared to show oases ound hersch against it. The ouestion was a sir:miler one, for 'r condition. few people would object to gettinx oat of a suit I promised to in Chancery for 281 . only. The defend int, however, COW: of th e ease tends, that e,:e attorney, Laving once accepted his retainer. iof the girl had entered into a single and indivisible wetted to cley on t serious foe the suit to the end of it, so long a+ hie client was willing tall 1, when the supply the funds. What the end of a Chancery suit might nanny to the be it was difficult to say—it might be the worlu's end, off I little devil no en d at a ll, or it m i g h t be the Master's office. It might (the learned last out several generations. He, Mr. bar 1, had himself ' hat the de- recent l y seen proceedings in a suit, the petitions ii which lid ad w be as e hr a had been filed se far back as the reign of William a d Mary ! 83 that if the doctrine of the defefolaut was our- . Td r h a e d so do t rent, an 'attorney must be immortal who would lirteke to m.a c n ao P li re ne • see his client to the end of a Chancery suit. 'l'hero could ly h e h not, however, be any such obligation. Every sl- ottirney had the power of backing out of a suit between the h el an y d eo . l what ... on giving reasonable notice to his client. The not part ari ie sc s were a t t h h o s on ca ly .c ee k ..l7 s uCi n in l, n : I am a for broad t the e l q e u t t e e s r t d i o b i l e it, and it there appeared abundantly that the retain r wows, mother ever limited one, and that having filed a bile he had dune all i. 5 _ years since t h at h e h a d un d erta k en to d o f or t h e d e f endant. e is now the The learned gentleman then referred at length to the corre- nu formerly apon d ence, w hi c h appearing to bear out his view of it to the I ' . 1 wo Years. ha v e full extent, Mr. Martin was called on to support hi, role. sm. 1 know Wav e He submitted that the letters left it open to the defendant to as a clerk in this by a reference to the tell of costa—The court, however, I *e. I contend that the retainer was a general one, and he fortified 1 r acquainte d was clearly of opinion that the broad question advanced by en evramt - the defendant was not raised, and that the retainer loiug a mployed me limited and qua lifi e d one on the correspondence, tilt plaintiff use to my was entitled to recovers—Rule discharged. shirts were szmi tE N S ,— lo l. NS ionsequence d sometimes - le defendant STABLIS S T . R E A N T T I o O r R P D iTT PETTY y that 1 found E Iv•, 184 6 . 1 of the large increase in the population of the parish of West Dec., 1846 Ham, numbering near 10,000 souls, the magistrates acting °wird and for the half-hundred of Beansntree, in the county of Essex, in went to have established petty sessions, to be held every fortnight, at He said, in the Swan, at Stratford. This has been long wanted, tine for the child business transacted at Ilford having frequently key: the it unless he magistrates on the bench days engaged from 10 o'clock in family war. the morning until late atnight. For the future, sessions will wme on the I be held on the Monday at Stratford and on the following Defendant Saturday at Ilford. The ' magistrates who preside are Sir H. • monthly, or Pelly, W. Cotton, Esq., W. Davis, Esq., and W. W. Mart- a ticket for I land, Euq. roe 'chilro n u e" tto . _ told me to POLlCE.—YEontanoy. • et rid of it." BOW-STREBT.—PeIIe-orrice ROBBERY.— T. Eagle, n I spoke to a clerk in the General Post-office, was finally examined, he child, his charged with stealing two letters containing money, the ad died, and property of the Postmaster-General. The primes- was an- • prig, 1847, I played, on the morning of the Ist inst., in dividing letters, 4 - ant war the and was observed from the gallery by a ens:eager to weevil I health, and one letter under his handkerchief and the other among ged to have some newspapers, both of which were subsequently found on 7 Wain was his paws. lie sated that it war the Ant time he had ir • _. _