The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-13 00:00:00

AMEND. g yeste:dis meta that . the Sr, mentioed fnr.! the Cleti ..nn,cted, had 1; while those ime periodltsd if orders issued th • °dicers of I: au 7s. 6d. per n 31. ls. ns t to than here. no fewer then erable length. ystc.n the Wm , and reading Alone, indica of the county at the meenrg ut the County situ nts which t, a•ni, at the iy of facilitating adopted, and ~~ ~K~ -- - sasses of impure air la the metropolis, Dr. Epps proceeded to any that medical men and others, in their anxiety to re move that very prominent cause, bad sewerage, overlooked the equally important questions of light and ventilation, the a:elusion of which from small rooms occupied by four or five persons necessarily rendered the atmosphere of those rooms most unhealthy, by reason of the quantity of carbonio acid gas, one of the most noxious and poisonous gases known, which was breathed from the human body, and which it re spired a constant supply of good air to neutrali,e.—Mr. Mar loll having seconded the resolution, it was supported by Mr. Dunhill, who; read a number of statistical tables, showing" amongst other facts, that while mortality in Surrey was 48 in 1,000 it was 58 in London, and the average periods of life in Surrey 43 and only 37 in London ; the difference being entirely attributable to foul air; arising from imperfect sewerage, bad ventilation, and the exclusion of light. Mr. Paris then moved, and Mr. Kyzor seconded, the following resolution : That the window duties are obnoxious and oppreraice, and unequal in their operation, the burden being borne by the industry instead of thews-dal of the nation ; that they originate a vet amount of disease, thereby impairing the efficiency of any measures intended for the improvement of the health of the people, and thermbre ought to be immediately repealed. A third reeolution, declaring that petitions, in conformity with these resolutions, be presented to both houses of parlia ment, having been also unanimoualy agreed to, the meeting separated. SANITARY Pitecatrrinss.—A meeting was yester day held in the vestry-room of St. Andrea's Undenthaft, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Bishop of London's pastoral letter, with the view of appointing a committee of inhabitant householders to enforce the obser vance of sanitary precautions, and to compel the landlords and tenants of unwholesome dwellings to cleanse the same. The clergymen, churchwardens, oveveers. guardians of the poor, and several other vestrymen attended the meeting.— Mr. P. G. Dodd took the chair; and, after some routine business had been transacted, called the attention of the meeting to the case of Caroline Sherritt, a pauper parishioner who had recently died, and whose death had been asserted by her mother to have been preceded by *out neglect on the part of the medical officer whore duty it was to attend to her ease. A very lengthened dis cussion took place into the circumstances of the pauper's death, in the course of which it clearly appeared from the statements of the clergyman (the Rev. Mr. Antrobno) and others, that the mother of the young girl (upon whore es parte statement the accusation made by the chairman was chiefly based) was an eccentric and even a bad-tempered woman, who, in her excitement from the loos of her daugh ter, was very likely to have uttered inconsiderate and unjust expressions towards the medical officer. It also appeared from the statement of that gentleman, and the additional evidence of Mr. Bruen, a surgeon, who was called in, that the greatest care and humanity had been shown to the un fortunate patient, and it resulted from the inquiry that her death was attributable to that sudden prostration which in so many instances has characterind the recently prevailing epi demic. tinder these circumstances, and atter the subject had occupied two hours' attention, it was resolved unanimously, that " In the opinion of tic vestry Mr. Roberts had pool every attention required by his duty as medical officer to the union to the use of Caroline Sherritt, and that if cause for blame existed it ought to attach to the mother of the girl, in not haring seat for Mr. Roberts when the graver symptoms of the malady appeared." Some discussion then ensued as to the insufficicucy of medical attendance in the City f London union. It was stated that for ninety-one or ninety-six parishes there were only four medical officers. It was resolved that " In the manna of the vestry a greater number of medical officers required in the City of London union, in order to do j tow to the poor." The vestry clerk was requested to com.eur tate this resolution to the board of guareiana of the London union. The next question mooted was that of ' the mindere candid -m of the parish. Several resolutions reamed for the purpose of carrying into practice cleansing operations were proposed after which a committee of ten per sons—comprieiug the curate, churchwardens. and other pa rochial oflicers, wa t.ppointed, and a resolution empowering the trust es ot parochial gifts to advance 501. for the purposes ot the committee was agreed to. BATIK AN!, WAsil-nuosEs.—Yesterday a general meeting ot the committee and subscribers to the above , 1 establiAtment, founded for the benefit of the labouring classes in the north-west district of the metropolis, was held at the instituti am in Cie-rge-street, Euston-square—Lord Southamptou in the chair. The report conerotulatcd the subscribers on the gratifeing results which had attended the , general progress of the undertaking since the opening of the , establishment on 3d August, 1846, to the present period. The directors of the New River Company in the most liberal manner gave the society the land for the present building, at the but of the reservoir in the Hampstead-road . ; and for the first fourteen months gratuitously gave the necessary supply of water, and for the succeeding twelve months have offered to continue it for 1001., and have mnreovcr extended their grant of land for the enlargement of the establishment. There are 40 single baths for men, and 13 for women ; eight vapour and two swimming paths. Yet further ace .mtuoda tion is required, as ,on an average in the warm weather 800 bathe daily, and 200 or 300 aro frequently refused admis sion from want of accommodation. Since the 3d of August, 1846, the bathers were 154,221 males, and 15A0 females. The poor women who have washed dried, ironed, end mangled clothes fur themselves and fami lies were 45,1.24 individuals, and the aggregate of the ar ticles washed was above a million and a half. The increase , during the past five months, as compared with the corre sponding period lost year, was 2,000 bathers ; washers, &e, 11,960 • and the articles washed from 276,876 to 707,436. The charge to the poor for a cold bath ie me Imlay, and for a warm one, including use of towel, twopence; and for the , washing department, one penny per hour, or tie use of the drying closet, irons, and mangles, four hours for three pence. Ihe balance - sheet showed the donations and sub scriptions to amount to 5,0221. Is. 6d. Receipts from , bathers, washers, and plunging bathers, 2,8871. Ils. Bd. Expenses of the building and incidentals left a balance of 161., which leaves a btdenco debt of 8741. its. for loan and liabilities. When the debt is entirely paid off, and the build ing completed, it will not only be sell-supporting, but also self-extending. The report was adopted, and the thanks of the meeting were given to the noble chairman for his pre- sidency . and the warm support he had from the commence ment given the society. . TUE PRINCE OF WALES'S ENTRANCE TO HYDE- PART —76-itreday a new entrance from the Keneington road into Hyde-park, called the Prince of Wales's Gate, was opened to the public. There are two entrances for carriages and equestrians, and two far foot passengere, having a lodge. TUE SUGAR Dune:B.—The revenue authorities, having hail under their consideration the expbmation of ono of their warehouse officers, respecting the delivery of sundry bags of sugar at the duty of 14s. per cwt., es not equal to , white classed, hut which were properly chargeable with the , duty of lint. 41. per cwt., as equal to white clayel ; and it having appeared that the irregularity in question was mainly attributable to the imperfect manner in which the , official landing-book of the cargo iu question had been made , up, and their principal officers having recommended, with the view of preventing similar errors in future, that the fol. , lowing new regulations may be observed in the adjustment of the landing accounts for sugar in bags, vie.: that the registering °titer, when preparing the official lading books , for the landing officers, shall record each entry for the , warehouse separately, leaving a sufficient number of blank pages fur the weight, the., of each of the marks to complete , the entry, the name of the merehant being continued at the head of each page until the eutry of the parcel is completed. , That the lanuing waiter do make at the foot of each ac count a specification of the several tares or allowances , for the weight of the package in which the sugar is contained, as ascertained by the superintending officer, showing the exact amount of tare allowed for each parcel of . the mark, with the total tare which is to be deducted from the gross, and show the exact net weight • and that a reca- , pitulatioa of the marks and numbers of t he packages, and the different qualities of the sugar be shown at the front of , each entry. Finally, that in the event of any sugar being detained for being entered under a wrong denomination, and the board's sanction obtained for an amendment of the entry, the totals of the gross, tare, met net weights only be tran scribed to the corrected entry, and the quality of the sugar written against the several lots, marks, and numbers re corded at the time of the sugar being landed from the im porting ship, and weighed to account, as well as in the abstract, unities, as in cases of Ravenna sugar, where it may be necessary to transcribe the weight of each package, agreeably to tho relotted er resorted accounts of qualities. Orders have been issued for these regulations to be forthwith adopted, and that as a general rule the entries and official landing accounts of other goode imported from foreign porta be recorded and kept in a similarly distinct manner. These regulations are of iutcrest and importance, as tending to the greater coirectnees of the public accounts of the property of merchants housed under bond. lIIORTALITY IN THE METROYOLIB.--By registrars return it appears that the number of deaths during the week ending Jan. 8 was 1,364, being 2.57 above the average of the corresponding week during the last five years. It is satis factory, however, that the mortality of last week is lighter by 235 than that of the week ending Jan. 1. The number of deaths last week from influenza is stated to have been 102 ; from typhus, 87. Average temperature 43 deg. In the east district of Islington, a woman is reported to have died of "carbuncle and debility," at the advanced age cf 102 years. TILE Fuescrr AT BRIGHTON.—JoIIy Mr. Punch,— "As a lone woman, air, I write to you about our natural defence. I've been ;eliding the Sussex Adverfieer, and Brighton, it seems, is in a pretty state of dt , shabille, and may be surprised any morning—u one may say . —with its hair in papers, afore the town knows where it is. The place ruined, Mr. I'unch ; lodgers not coming here, as thinking themselves double hazardous. For is it to be believed, sir, that married men with families will let their wives and chil dren come down when—at no notice at all—the town may be boarded by the French fleet, and streaming women and children be carried off in gigs and jolly-boats ; to say no thing of the property ? And yet, Mr. forted—as my poor dear Gerlsins used to ask, and 'specially when he'd had a glass—and yet, we arc called upon every day, I may say, to pay tame. Yee, sir, we are made to pay window - lights, when, at any minute, our sashes may be blown to mince meat by the cannon-balls of the French! At Gerkins would have said, is this honest of her Majesty's ministers ? If ever there was a town that had its weakness—and that weakness known to the French—it is this precious Brighton. Of coarse. Wily, I myself —never minding what I thought the nonsense of nat'ral enemies, so as they paid their way—l have let my fret and second floor to French families, that now, I'm sure of it, only took 'em for spies. Yes, sir ; I've no doubt teat Periwinkle Villa, Marine Parade—that's my 4 house, sir, and painted from top to toe only last May—is known to oil the French. There isn't a French soldier (I'll be bound) that doesn't know where to put his bend upon the plate basket—net a man among 'em but wouldn't, In the dark, find his way to the beer-cellar. (Not but what I shall take precious good care to disappoint 'cm.) And this is the came with every other house in the place. We ate known,thelde and out. We haven't a garret hid from 'em. They may cut us up, and share us catlike cakes. Thinking of this, I put on my bonnet and victoriz,e, and went out to taints good look of the town. When I sow that we'd only a haafhl of guns at West-street, and not so much as a pocket pistol at Seaford Bay, I said to myself—What's to prevent the French coming here whenever they like ? Why —l'm certain of It—when the moon didn't shin*, they might come over, and let themselves into all the town with latch keys; for It isn't likely—so many . lodgers as there have been here—that they went away without taking false ones. I am not a timid woman, Mr. l'unda—poor Gerkiton would always allow that much of me ; but upon my word and ho nour I do assure you, when I taw myself standing on the Marine-parade with not a gun —no, not a single piece of cold iron, as the words go—between me and France, I did tremble for Brighton; I did tremble for my Queen (though her Majesty has left us for the Isle of Wight) ; and I did tremble for Prince Albert and the re.t of the royal family. I do hope, Mr. Punch, that you will write directly to Rear- Admiral Lord John Russell—(who, I have somewhere heard, once did such wonders when ho commanded the Channel Fleet)—and beg of him to send two or three hundred ships always to lie between us and the French. The wooden walls, sir—u poor Getkins used to say—the true hearts of oak that grow the laurel ! And moreover, Ido think, if government would only send down Mr. T. P. Cooke to dance twice 'Alight the sailor's College Hornpipe it would do • great deal of good to public spirit. However, at least Ido trust that you will insist upon the heads and branches of families all going into the Militia. Not that I hope we shall have any use for them—'specially with the hearts of oak besting in the sea—but there is always this beauty about soldiers; when they're not useful, they're very nice to look at. Once I used to think there was a sort of protection about the royal liveries, that now and then flamed in and out of the Pavilion. To be sure —poor things !—they rather looked like the ghosts of foot men on board wages, than the stout rosy fellows that, when George the Fourth used to bathe here, made the place so gay and handsome. Well, sir, now they are gone. It was a sad sight, but only yesterday the last footman (with a car. pet.bag marked in faded worst,d, G. R.') took his long leave of Brighton by the second train. And there's the Pa vilion, u empty and good-for.nothing u a shell that's held an addled egg. What should be dose with that, sir 2 Why I'll tell you. It should be worked with loop-holes over and over, and be filled from top to bottom with brass cannons. If brass can't be got, let 'em, without owning it, try wood, as better matching the building. And moreover, sir, as it's the dull season, I do think—especially as the court's left us—that government might take all the lodging-houses (the barracks not holding 'em) for the soldiers. First and second floor for officers—third, t'or men. Struck by this happy thought, I send you my card of terms. Ten guineas first floor, seven the second. Plate and linen found. (Boots not included.) Address, post-paid, and believe me, your obedient servant, MART (MIRRINA.—P.S. As at such a time England—a/ poor Oerkins used to say—expects every woman to do her duty, 1 shall have no objection (for an extra three pounds) to mount two cannons at my attic windows, if warranted not to be fired."—Punch.. _ _ INQUSSTS, YESTERDAY.—CHARGE OF MANSLAUGH TER.--Before Mr. Baker, at the Jolly Gardeners, Lea' bridge, on the b , Kly of William Ives , aged 37, a labourer, who died of injuries inflicted by J. Kemp, who with 1). Crudgington, is now in the house of detention awaiting his trial for a violent assault on the deceased in the forenoon of the 24th of December last, while the deceased was at work in Cow-lane, Cambridge-road. Crudgington and Kemp, with another man, passed by, and Crudgington pushed Kemp against the deceased, who asked the former " what he did that for." Crudgington, who is a returned transport, struck deceased in the face with his list : deceased, who had a silo vel in his hand, put it up for his protection. Kemp laid hold of it, and having succeeded in yr, sting it from the deceased, gave him with ell his power a tremendous blow with it on his left side. D-ccesed immediately put his hand to his side, and ever after complained of pain at the injured part. Crudgington and Kemp ran away. They were pursued by several persons, and were eventually apprehended by the police.--Mr. Hayward, the crown soacitur, stated that the accused were now in the house of detention, and that they would have been tried at the last Middlesex sessions, but that the trial lwu postponed in consequence of the dan• gerous state of decea•-ed.—Mr. B. Clarke. surgeon, Hackney, said that he atsended the deceased about a fortnight before his death, he having beta ;Attacked with smallpox. When he (witness) first prescribed for him, he found some ribs broken in the left side. Ho died on Monday morning last. Witness, on a peat-martem examination, found four rith frac tured on the left side. There was no adhesion of the pleura to the side, corresponding with the injuries to which witness attributes death. The inquiry was here adjourned at the' suggestion of the coroner.— DEATH FROM STARVATION.—Ikiere Mr. C. J. Canter, at the Royal Oak, High-street, Deptford, respecting the death of Thomas Sturges Nichols, aged 50. The evidence adduced showed that the deceased at the period of his death was in an extreme stage of destitution, as indeed tie appearance of his body fully confirmed. e was known as a jobbing labouring man, and when in the service of the General Steam Navigation Company, at the works in Deptford, he lost three fingers from his right hand. He then became an inmate of the Greenwich union, which he left about four or six months since. How he maintained himself did not appear. Tho pariah allowed him Is. and a loaf of bread per week, which was evidently his principal support He was frequently seen wandering about the streets in quest of employment in a deplorable state of distress, and often when he received the pariah loaf he was in so famished a condition as to devour it at one meal. Oa the 4th inst. he was in so reduced a state that a person who had humanely given him lodging determined en taking the unfortunate creature to the house of Mr. War man, the relieving officer of the district, with a view of ob taining an immediate attendance to his wretched condition. He was carried to the door of the relieving officer, and on being put duwa on the threshold, it was noticed that a great change had taken place in his countenance, and it soon was evident that he was dying. Mr. Arthur, the pariah surgeon, quickly saw him, and he was taken into the passage of the house. The deceased was then quite insensible, and some warm brandy and water was administered to him. The po lice were instructed to procure a stretcher to remove him to an adjacent lodging house, but of little use, however, for in a few minutes he breathed his last at the door. Mr. Arthur made a post mortal& examination of the body. There were no symptoms of disease, and death was the result of the want of nourishment and exposure to the weather. The jury re turned a verdict ".that the deceased had died from the want of the common necessaries of life." DR. H.AIIIPDEN'S APPOINTMENT.—MEETING OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF GLOUCESTER. GLOUCESTER, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon about one hundred clergymen met in the chapter-house of the cathedral, to consider the propriety of presenting an address to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and the other twelve bishops who joined kis lordship in the memo rable memorial to Lord John Russell on the subject of the appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford. Rev. C. KENNAWAY, vicar of Cempden, moved the address of thanks to the thirteen bishops, which appeared in this paper yesterday. Rev. Mr. Earcoent seconded the address, and urged the imperative necessity of a strict adherence to the creeds of the church, a relaxation in sr hick was favoured by Dr. Hampden. Rev. Dr. Jet NE, master of Pembroke college Oxford, and canon of Gloucester, then rose to !nave an amendment, and ad dressed the meeting for upwards of an hour and a halt. He maintained that in convening this meeting the clergy of the archdeaconry had been placed in a position in which they ought not to have been placed without urgent necessity. They would be virtually passing a vote of censure on the other bishops if they paved this address to the thirteen bishops who had signed the memorial. lle entered into a history of Dr. Hampden's career at college, alleging that he had mo delled his own mind after that of Bishop Butler, and was the only man who had fathomed the depths of scho lastic divinity. After denouncing the " garbled ex tracts " which had been made frem Dr. Hampden's works, he alluded to the prophecies of Soeinianism which were likely to result from Dr. Hampden's teaching which had been indulged in, and asked for the production of a single instance of perversion or secession produced by him. The charges brought against Dr. Hampden had been varied in the most extraordinary manner. The rev. canon went ea to deplore the recent discussion, which had been the means of arraying bishop against bishop, and priest against priest, division in the church was promoted, and the conse quence would be, the falling off of many—some to Roman ism, and some to dissent. Separation of church and state would be promoted, or they would have their churches pro bably beoomiug national property, and the beauty of its holi ness might serve only as a foil for the artificial eloquence of some methodistical preacher. (Order.) lie wished to dis courage this agitation, and therefore moved as an amend ment that it is not expedient that any address should be pre sented to their diocesan. (Cheers.) The Rev. F. Ciote, of Cheltenham, seconded the amend ment. Rev. MURRAY BROWNE, rural dean, replied to some of the remarks made by the mover and seconder of the amend ment, and after some further explanations, the meeting divided, when there appeared— Fer the address to the bishop For the amendment The addrem was therefore carried, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting broke up, having been for five hours in conclave. VAN DIEMEL OF TRANS N'S LAND. —PROP OSED RE VIVA PORTATI Sir,—l was happy to see by your paper of the Bth that the attempted revival of transportation to Van Diemen 's Land had not keen lost sight of by you. Be assur one who has been very recently a resident in thatunhapp y colony, that your labours were never devoted to a more righteous end than in resisting the least addition at the pre sent time to the criminal populace in that quarter. when ministers brought forward their comprehensive penal reforms last year, Van Diemen'a Land was the text upon which they founded their appeals to parliament and the country. This moral and religious nation had raised up a community at the other end of the globe, which we should ransack all his tory in vain to parallel, both in the degree and character of its wickedness. In these days of "statistics," when morals and commerce are alike reduced to arithmetical expressions, the gloomy array of figures in the blue books, intended to elucidate the condition of the colony, affords too tangible a proof of a fact so discreditable to the nation, and causes men is England, not conversant with colonial administration, to lift up their hands in astonishment at the deliberate polity a state of things icy so awful and deplora ble, resulun ßß from of the government. And yet thoee blue books fall far short of conveying the truth in all its reality. There is much crime which never gets into their columns; while the effect of such an a tmosphere of guilt on the unhappy free colonists must be left to every man to appreciate as he best may. Very satisfactory then was it to find Lord John Russell, in one of the discussions on penal discipline last year, thus THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENIN(I, JANUARY 13, 1848. expressing himself :—" I do hope," said his lordship, "that, when the house does oome seriously to wonder any bill having the question of transportation directly in view, it will consider the benefit of the colonies, as well as the benefit of the mother country. I own I think it hes been too much the custom both to par acts imposing the penalty of transportation, and to per sen tences of transportation, with a view rather to the conve nience of this country than to the reformation of persons known to be of vicious habits, or the interests of the colony to which they were Pent. We ere bound to consider those interests likewise. We are bound, when we are planting provinces, to endeavour that they should not be merely seats ci• malefactor. and of convicts, but communities fitted to set an example of virtue and of happiness." The truth is, the free colonists of Van Diemen's Land had, until these generous utterances became the vogue last year, beets regarded merely as so much penal machinery. They supplied a body of masters for the feted convicts or ticket men ; they afforded a fund for the remuneration of labour and so many examples of good conduct in the social rola tions of life. They paid for police and polo, and supported a large body of chaplains. Any risk, however, to their own morals, or the morals of their posterity, any insecurity to person and property, seemed to have been wholly lost sight of. Lord John Russell cams forward with different senti ments, and he was well and ably supported by his colleagues, so wel t as by Mr. Ewart, the member for Dumfries. But now more male convicts are to be sent out ; ticket men from Bermuda. Bare the government no resolution, or do they only inculcate principles for the sake of a little rhetoricel effect in the houses of parliament ? The fact to, Van Diemea's Land requires to be purged of many of the convicts now in the island, instead of having more of that class sent thither, under whatever designation ; while any addition to the population should be of free male and female emigrants. This is the outcry now in the colony ; and the demand is one which, io reason and justice, and in con formity with their own loudly enforced principles, the government should hasten to comply with.—A COLONIST. — London, Jan. 12. ecnnplezionamKmild expression. After stating the birth of the child, and that the rev, defendant was the father, she said she had attended the church and the Sunday s chool many years and had had a Bible given her for good con-' duct. One Sunday before Christmas. 1846, Mrs. Seddon sent her from the Sunday school vs the vicarage for some magazines. Mr. Seddon was at home, and looked for them in the parlour or dining-room, and afterwards went up to seek for them in the drawing-room or study, and called her after him. [The witness then detailed some liberties which the defendant took on that occasion.] The second occasion was on Christmas-day, when witness went to the vicarage in consequence of • message from Mr. Seddon, conveyed to her by James Mellor, a teacher in the Sunday school. She waited in the kitch en ' till the vicar sent for her into the parlour, and then told her he would give her a new 2s. hymn-book, if she would return a Is. one she had. She went home directly, sold her Is. one, and returned to the rectory with the money. Mr. Sed don was then in the parlour, directing letters, which he sent by • servant. \Vhile witness was waiting William Harrop, the parish clerk, came in with the money collected at service that morning, and he laid it on the table and went away. When he was gone, Mr. Seddon took up Is., put it into her hand, and told her to put it into his hand again, saying that would be the same as paying for the hymn-book. He told her to take the other money in her frock up stairs into the drawing-room, which she did. He went up with her, and gave her a 2s. hymn-book and a catechism. No one else was in the drawing-room.—[The witness described a repetition of liberties taken with her.)—He told her to stay all the afternoon and dine with the servants, and she did so. On the Sunday after Christmas-day, after morning serene, Mr. Seddon sent for her into the vestry, and when alone, asked her if she was going anywhere that week. She said no. He asked her on what day she should wail, and she told him Wednesday. He then asked if he might come to her father's to see him, about his attending church and lectures. She said she did not mind. On the following day (Monday) Mr. Serleon came to her father's, when witness was washing herself in the back kitchen. A young woman, named Ann Hobson, came in, and when witness had put on her dress she went into the front room of the cottage, where they were. Mr. Seddon asked her for the catechism he had given her, and gave it to Ann Hobson, and said he would bring witness another. Mr. Seddon and Ann Hobson went away, and he returned in the evening between six and seven and brought another catechism; but he had not been there more than two or three minute., when Aan Hobson came in. She went to fetch some sewing, and he left directly afterwards. On another Saturday night, about the time that Ebenezer Woodward died (in March, 1847), Mr. Seddoa came to her father's. Witness was alone. She went into the back kitchen. He followed her. [Witness descried some improper liberties, and indecent conduct.] While they were in the back kitchen Ellen Reigate, a young woman, came in. and witness went to her; and the defendant, after picking up two potatoes from a quantity near the slopstone, followed her with the potatoes in his hand, and asked what price they gave for them. She said she did not know ; her father bought them. He talked to Ellen Hol gate, and en learning her mother was ill, he went out, but returned in ten minutes, Ellen Holgate having then left. He asked witness if she thought Ellen Holgate had noticed them, and witness said she thought not. He gave witness a shilling, and went away, but came again a third time, and while he was there her father came in, and a girl named Sarah Platt, and he Mon afterwards went away. On the following day, Sunday, Mrs. Seddon sent witness from the Sundae school to the rectory, to fetch a memorandum-book. "'Witness stored in the lobby while Mr. Seddon looked for it in the parlour, and then he said he could not find it, and went upstairs into the drawing room, calling her to follow. He placed her on • chair.— [Witnesedescribed a repetition of the liberties and indecent conduct, and said that :—] Hearing a step he desisted, opened the door, and seeing hie aervant Nancy Robinson, he told her he could not find the book, and sent her to seek it. She brought it, and witness then left and took it to M rs. Sed don. The same Sunday evening witness gave her Bible to her teacher (Miss Fanny Cooper) to have her name written in it; and the following Sunday Mrs. Seddon sent her to the vicarage to fetch it. Mr. Seddon was not in, and she was returning to school with the Bible (in which het name had not been written) when she met him near the vicarage, and he told her to turn beck and he would write her name for her in the Bible. He went up with her into the drawing room. [Witness described further improper liberties, and said that Mr. Seddon only desisted on her telling him some thing.] While she was in the drawing-room, Mr. Harrop, the clerk, came in. Mr. Seddon wrote her name in the Bible, and she then left. On the evening of Tuesday, the 16th March (which she knew because it was the first Tues day after she begun to work short time at the factory where she was employed), she went to the weekly evening lecture, at Broadbottom, and after lecture witness and a girl named Elisabeth Holt returned homewards, by the old road. Having parted with Holt at the door e itness proceeded homewards, to do which she had to pass the vicarage, and while passing it, on the opposite side, Mr. Seddon, who was at the gate, came across to her, and told her he wanted her . He took hold of her arm, and led her towards an old building near the vicarage. She said some body would see them, but he raid nobody would, and she went with him. (The witness Hated that the offence was completed in this building, and that while there, in reply to questions from the defendant, she told him that she had had no improper intimacy with any one since about a month be fore Christmas, and that man was Thomas Jackson, a ser vant of Mr. Sidebottom, surgeon, Mottram.) On the fol lowing Tuesday morning, Mr. Seddon came to her father's, between seven and eight o'clock, and then questioned her about herself. (The details we cannot publish.) Witness saw Nancy Sinister (a neighbour), at her door, while Mr. Seddon was in the house. On Monday nights a class of young women went to practise singing at the vicarage, and while there one evening, in the kitchen, Mr. Seddon asked her further questions (which she stated; amongst others, if she had seen the doctor) ; and she having told him what she thought to he her condition, he suggested that the father must be " that young man," Thomas Jackson. She told him that was impossible. Other girls were present singing when thin conversation took place ; but witness did not sing. Wit ness first told her father about this, on his questioning her. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Greene, at very great length, but nothing material was elicited to shake her evidence in chief. She said that Mr. Seddon had never spoken totter before the Sunday when she went to fetch the magazines. W. Harrop, parish clerk of Mottram since 1810, said—Oa Christmas-day 1846. when he took the collection money to the vicar, he di d not recollect whether anybody was with him or not. One Sunday morning after Christmas, about the time the new hymns were introduced, witness went to the ' vicarage, to get some papers for the singers. Being told the vicar wai up stairs in the drawing-room, witness went up. The door was shut, and he knocked. For a few seconds there was no answer, but after the lapse of that interval, Mr. Seddon called out, " Come in ;" and witness went in, and found Mr. Seddon and Mary Green in the loom ; she was seated upon the sofa. Mr. Seddon said, " Clerk, vou want your papers?" Witness said, " Yes, sir." Mr. Seddon then rang the bell, and told his servant, Nancy Robinson, to bring a book out of the parlour. She returned, saying she couid not find it. Witness got his papers, and went away. He had seen Mary Green at the vicarage four or five or six times. Mr. Seddon once, on • Sunday, told him to tell Mary Green to go to him in the vestry, as he wanted her. She , went, and remained there five or six minutes. After witness ' had toll her, he went into the vestry, and stayed till she came, and then came out and shut the door, leaving her with Mr. Seddon.—Mr. Hudson : When you saw Mr. Seddon and Mary Green together in the drawing-room did you think it was proper or not? I did think it was not proper.—ln cross examination by Mr. Greene. witness said he was in his G9th year. He had seen various Sunday school girls at the vicar age besides Mary Green, and had known Mrs. Seddon send them on errands thither from the Sunday school. Ellen Holgate, aged 18, stated that, about the time of Woodward's death, she went one night to Mary Green's. The door was latched. On opening it, she saw nobody in the front room, and, after shutting the door, she stood for about a minute and a half, hearing no noise, and then saw Mr. Seddon's back, in the back kitchen, as he stepped back wards. He was near the elop.stone, and seemed, by the motion of his arms, to be doing something at his dress. Mary Green then came out of the kitchea into the front room, and Mr. Seddon followed her in about a minute. He first stooped down near the edge of the slop-stone, and when he came he had two potatoes in his hand. The witness corro borated Green fully as to what passed subsequently.—ln cross-examination she said this was about three or four weeks before We:Award's death.—ln re-examination, wit ness said she thought nothing more about it, till the report broke out, and then she mentioned what she had seen. Nancy Siei.ter, an old woman, said she had seen Mr. Seddon at Green's hoarse " three times of a day." (A dis cussion ensued as to the purport of this expression. It ap peared ultimately that the witness had seen him there thrice on one particular day.) She saw him there before 8 o'clock one Tuesday morning in May last. As he crossed to enter the house, Mary Green came out, and he tapped her on the shoulder. She flushed in the face, which caused witness to take notice. Mr. Seddon went into the house, and Green went to a neighbouring shop, and returned in a minute or two. The door of the house was closed as soon as she went in. Witness suspected something, and mentioned it at the time. In cross-examination, witness said her house had been searched on ono occasion. She had seen Mr. Seddon altogether about a dozen times at Mary Green's. Neither witness nor her husband were against Mr. Seddor. She did not think she had ever spoken against him ; but she would not swear she had not. The morning Mr. Seddon tapped Mary Green on the shoulder was the Ilth of May. Witness had not then heard any report. —ln re-examination, the witness said she had lived in Mottram 35 years. When her house was searched nothing was found, and no proceed ings were taken against any of her family. Ann Ogden, aged 21, went with others on Monday even ing, to practix singing, at the vicarage. One night, on leaving (Mary Green, and Mary Swann, and witness being there, with others), as the girls were coming out of the lobby at the door, Mr. Seddon put his band indecently upon witness, and said, "Mary." Witness said, " No." He said, " Who are you ?" She replied, " Me, sir." He said," Good night, and make haste home." At this time Mary Green, Mary Swann, and others were standing near the rails out side the house, about a yard and a half from the door, and Green and Swann were laughing because Mr. Seddon mis took witness for Green.—This witness was cross-examined at some length, and explained that it was dark in the lobby ; there wan no candle ; and at first Mary Green was the last of the party ; but she pushed past, got out of the house, sod witness was left the last of the girls. She supposed Green and Swann were laughing at her because they could hear what Mr. Seddon said to her. Before the trial (the inquiry at Mottram) witness had said to Charlotte Shaw that what she (witness) had said about this was a lie ; that Mr. Seddon had done nothing, but had only spoken to her for her good. Witness had not been wild, any further than not going to school on the Sunday. She had said nothing to Charlotte Shaw about it since the trial Witness bad said, on coming away from the at Mottram, " They have puzzled me so, I don't know what I said ; if I had known I should have been asked so many questions. I would not have come for all Mottram." In re examination, witness said that Charlotte Shaw was a weaver at Broadbottom, and a teacher at the school. She asked witness if Mr. Seddon had ever done so, and said she could not believe it. Charlotte Sbaw is a young woman. This conversation took place in the mill: five or young women who went to the school were present. It is true that Mr. Seddon did take the liberties with witness. She told Char lotte Shaw differently, because she did not want to have any thing to do with it. Frederick Tinker, surgeon, proved the birth of the child on the morning of Tuesday, the 30th November, and stated that it was full grown, and its appearance agreed with the dates given. This closed the complainant's case, about twenty minutes to 5 o'clock. Mr. Greene addressed the court at considerable length for the rev. defendant. He commented upon the evidence, observing that according to Green's own statement, Mr. Seddon did not seek her, but she was sent by Mrs. Seddon. It was incredible that he should so far have misconducted himself to a girl to whom he had never before spoken, as on the occasion when Green went for the magazines. He said that all the probabilities were against the truth of the story. There was nothing remarkable in a Sunday scholar going into his study, for such was the drawitt,roem, and having her name written in her bible; nor in the vicar visiting her father, to induce him to attend church and lectures. Then, the doors were never locked ; according to Green they were several times interrupted ; at.d, had Green's tale been true, why Mr. Seddon's conduct would amount to sheer insanity. What security had Mr. Seddon that, as suming he took liberties with a girl he bad never before spoken to, she would not go and tell her companions and sohoolmates ? lie commented on discrepancies as to dates and times, especially as to the vicar having been at home an hour on Christmas-day, and stated that be had not been at home more then a quarter of an bone He urged that the familiar terms with a girl in Green's circumstances, which might be unbecoming is many, was in a clergymen rather praiseworthy than blameable. As to Ellen Holgate's story of what happened at Green's house, it was madness to suppose that anything criminal was intended, when no door was fastened,and anybody who had looked in at the kitchen window must have seen. Then all the vicar did was to give linen Ilolgate a catechism, and to visit her sick mother. He argued that Ann Ogden was not to be believed, and would be contradicted by Charlotte Shaw. Or, if true, might not Mary Green, in pushing past her in the lobby, have pushed her against the vicar ? He would show that what passed between Green and Swann and Lee was not, as Green alleged, on another night, but on the 16th of March, and that, consequently, the offence she alleged could not have been committed that night. This would be a conclu• sive answer to the whole case. Mary Swann, a dressmaker, and teacher in the Sunday school, stated that, on the evening of the 16th March, she attended the lecture, and did not see Mary Green there. I The witness entered into a long statement to prove how she knew it to be the 16th, and no other night. On the let March she was on Mr. Woodhead's coach on the Hyde new road, and the coachman said it was a fine morning for the Ist March. She then accounted for her time, working at various customers' houses, till she returned home on the evening of Tuesday. the 9th March, too late to attend lec ture, and she then learned that that evening Mr. Farthing had been lecturing. The evening she met Mary Green was the following Tuesday evening. After the lecture on the 16th, by Mr. Seddon, witness and her brother went along the new road towards home, and Mr. Seddon overtook them on that road, and ported from them at the gate where witness lived, and witness went in. She found Mary Kelsall Lee there, preparing to go home; and, as the night was fine, witness accompanied her for a walk. They went past the vicarage ' and law nobody there, and along the old road, a little higher than the school room (Lee living opposite the steeple of the church.) After they had missed the vicarage they met Mary Green on the old road going from 13roadbottom towards the vicarage, and witness told Green she had been a long time on the way, as she (witness) had teen at home, and was then so far on the road back. Green said she had been at the lecture with Mary Holt, and had walked slowly. Witness then left Lee and turned back wits Mary Green, and they passed the vicarage, but saw no one there, and witness left Green turning towards and near to where she (Green) lived, and went home herself. Witness never saw the vicar do anything, or heard him say at the vicarage door to Ann Ogden, Is that you, Mary 1" or anything like it; and never laughed at Ogden there. Cruse-examined: Two years since this Christmas witness went with Mr. Seddon and a part of the family to London as nurse, and returned before them on account of her sister's illness. When examined at Mottram witness said nothing about Mr. Wood head's coach and the let March. She only knew from being told that Mr. Fm thing lectured the night she returned. She did not recollect being asked at Muttram, repeatedly, if she had then given her only reasons for fixing the evening as the 16th of March. She bad heard it said that one evening at the singing class the vicar and Mary Green were whispering together; but witness had never said so herself. [Under re-examination by Mr. Greene this witness became faint, and she was removed from court. It was stated that she had been in attendance all day, and hail had nothing to eat. A glass of water, and subsequently one of wine, was given her, and when recovered, her examination was resumed.] In the interim, the Re►. Thomas Newham Farthing, of Denton, pro►ed that he lectured at Broadbottons on Tuesday e►ening, the 9th of March. He knew it because he went o►er to Mottram to a►oid the incon►enience to a bachelor in lodgings of the birth of his landlady's first child. Mary Swann's reexamination was then renewed Wit ness was quite sure that it was the 16th March, and no other night she met Mary Green. Mary Kelsall Lee, aged 17, stated the circumstances, in corroboration of Swann, but could not fix the date beyond its being a Tuesday, alt cture night, when Mr. Seddon 'ec hoed. She only so met Mary Green on one a- vision.— , Cross-examined : Witness could not say whether it was in March, April, or May. Witness got home about half-past nine o'clock. Witness's aunt had said that it was the same day that witness had been at Manchester, but witness herself could not recollect this. Mrs. Sarah Blenkinsop, the aunt, knew it to be the 16th March they went to Manchester, because the 12th was her son's birthday, and as he did not come aver on the 11th (Sunday they went on Tuesday, the 16th, to Manchester. Mary Ann Wild was called to speak to having on the 10th April slept with Mary Green, and seeing her drink herb tea. [This witness stated that the date mentioned by Green to her, of a particular matter, was the Ist February. Nary Green, in her evidence, had stated it to be the 28th Feb.] In crossexamination the witness stated the had told this conversation to Miss Cooper and Mn. Seddon. after the report wee about, and also Mr. Paul. Previously she had told her mother only. Witness told Nancy Robinson, the vicar's servant, about it, and witness was then sent for to the vicarage. When she bad told them, witness was sent by Min Cooper to Mary Green, to see if she would alter her tale any, and she went. --- • • Charlotte Shaw, aged 31, wife of James Shaw, shoemaker, Mottram, stated that Ann Ogden had told her that what she had said about the vicar was a lie ; he bad never done any thing improper to her. Witness saw Ogden about ten minutes after she left the inquiry-room at Mottram, and said to her, " I hear thou haat contradicted thyself many a time;" and Ogden replied, " They have puzzled me so, I don't know what I have said ; but if I had known what they would have asked me, I'll be d—d if I would have come for all Mottram." She burst out a.crying, and said Mr. Seddon had never done anything, only to advise her for her own good. [Ann Ogden stated afterwards that this witness was not the Charlotte Shaw she had told with others at the factory.] This was the defendant's case, which closed at 20 minutes past 7 o'clock. Mr. Hudson replied. The last witness had been called to prove that Ann Ogden had contradicted, when not on oath, her statements on oath at Mottram, which statement she had again made on oath at Hyde. But putting her evidence aside altogether, there were abundant grounds to justify the magistrates in making an order on Mr. Seddon. All Mrs. Blenkinsop proved was, that on the 16th March she and her niece (Lee) went to Manchester; which might be true, bat Lee did not prove that on the evening of her return she and Swann met Mary Green on the road. Mr. Farthing proved nothing material to the case, and the main witness for the defence was Mary Swann, who had been nurse in the vicar's family, and who fixed the date only from a coachman telling het it was a fine morning on the Ist March. Surely her reasons for recollecting the date were not to be relied on. Even on Swann's own statement, she did not see Green enter her house, but only go towards it. Green, on the other hand, said th at this meeting on the road was some weeks previously to the 16th March. She had every reason for remembering that date ; Swann none. Was it possible to conceive a poor girl like Green could have invented such a story, corroborated as it was at so many points by irre proem:6lole evidence ? Even the suspicions of that respect able old man, the parish clerk, were awakened by what he saw in the drawing-room. It was absurd to suppose that a clergyman needed to have Sunday-school girls closeted with him in his study. The evidence of Ellen Holgate, as to what took place at Green's house, when Mr. Seddon pro duced the potatoes, was not contradicted, nor her credit impugned. Then, Nancy Simister saw the Tim come at an early hour in the morning to Green's, and tap Mary Green on the shoulder. Upon what legal errand could the vicar be going there before eight in the morning ? Mary Green's own evidence was the only natural explanation of that visit.. On the whole case, he submitted the evidence of the mother had received more than a usual amount of corroboration. The question was not as to the destructive effect to Mr. Seddon's reputation, but whether he was to support his offspring. The consequence of his own act must be upon his head - - • • - • The three acting magistrates retired to consider their deci sion, and after an absence of nearly half an hour, returned into court a few minutes after eight o'clock, and Mr. Turner said,—After very carefully going through the evidence, the magistrates are unanimously of opinion that an order must be made upon Mr. Seddon. [The terms of payment were those usual in cases where the mother's condition is similar. Loud applause in the court was instantly stopped by order et the magistrates.]—Mr. Greene I suppose we shall be prepared to enter into the usual recognisances to ap peal.—Mr. Hudson accepted service of notice for the mother, the act of the ith & Bth Viet., cap. 101, requiring that notice be given to the mother within 24 hours after the order , is made, of the intention to appeal to the Quarter Sessions. —Mr. Paul said two sureties were present quite prewred but the reputed father ROC being present, the clerk said that any tine within seven days would do. [The appeal will be to the linutsford Quarter Sessions; and, as they are just over, it cannot be heard before the next Quarter Sessions in AprilA—This investigation occupied upwards of nine henry. IRELAND. Drama, JAW. 11. The address of the Chief Justice yesterday, in pas& ing sentence on the prisoners, has been universally admired for its clearness and simplicity. A letter from the Scariff Union, administered by paid guardians, states that the inmates now amount to 1,655, while 3,000 receive out-door relief. The very heave rate of 7s. Gd. in the pound is variously cone dered by occupiers and proprietors, the former striv ing hard to realise—the latter to retard the collection. The current rate amounts to 17,0001., of which the farmers within the last fortnight have paid 3,000 L, while not a sixpence has been contributed by the landlords, with the exception of two. " The vioe guardians," observes the writer, " have done every thing that men could do to ameliorate the awful des titution prevailing in this anion." The Dart schooner was run down this morning in the channel by a foreign vessel. Some of the crew perished. Tenant-right meetings are on the increase. Yester day there was a large assemblage of tenant-farmers, with long speeches, in Kilkenny. To-day Monaghan shines forth; and to-morrow the great county of Cork " pronounces," under the guidance of Mr. Fagan, M.P. SCOTLAND. EDINErROB, JAN. 11. There has been more than a usual amount of work behind the scenes in filling up the vacant sheriffdom% There is a growing feeling in the public mind that when sheriffdom, are vacant, substitutes are too much overlooked. These gentlemen work very hard, do not interfere in politics, and from constant experience possess much aptitude for judicial functions; but the practice has been to cut them off from all hope of promotion ; as no sooner does a vacancy take place, than younger men, who happen to possess influence, are at once put over the heads of the veteran substi tutes of many years' service. Mere mechanical seniority would be as bad as the present system, bat the systematic neglect of sheriff substitutes is not creditable. Excise usages are becoming ludicrously strict. Not only is pager wine charged with duty when sent from Scotland to England, but the essence of coffee is also threatened with duty, because, forsooth, in order to preserve the freshness of the beverage that " cheers •but not inebriates," a hoinu•opathio quantity of alcohol is dropped into each bottle of the mocha fluid. But worse than all, some of the smel funguses of the excise, stationed at the border, have been taking it into their wise heads, that chloroform is a taxable commodity, and this on the ground that spirits are some way or other used in its manatee ture. Upon the same principle turpentine should be interdicted. England should really see to the chloro form embargo in time, as being best made at the seat of discovery : the excise by suspending the imported article may promote an inferior substance of home manufacture. Its singular utility in cholera is another reason why it should be allowed to go free. The Edinburgh Municipal Extension Bill is causing much local clamour—and the suburbans are demean- ing themselves as if they were in the same position towards Edinburgh that America was toward Britain in the time of Franklin—quoting ore rot mid phrases about "taxation without representation," and other wise trying by rhetorical arts to mystify the very plain question, that while they enjoy all the advan tages of connexion with a city, they will not take their fair share of its burdens. The Glasgow bill cost 5,0001., and if the threatened opposition to the Edin burgh measure be carried into effect, a similar amount will require to be sacrificed. The citizens of Aberdeen have obtained the opinion of counsel to the effect that they are entitled to the right of way on the south-bank of the Don, recently attempted to be kept exclusively for the use of Lord James Stuart. A subscription is to be raised for the formal trial of the question. The calendercrs in Glasgow have resolved to limit credit in their business to three months, from and after the Ist instant. EXIBHANOE COMPANIES.-A defence of exchange cons. panics, by the manager of one of these establishmtnut in Glasgow, has excite 1 cdnaiderable interest. It appears that they have been a very favourite kind of investment, CV at one time eight exchange companies were commenced in Glargow, afterwards reduced to six by amalgamations. which latter number were still in existence, although some of them ore at the last stage of vitality. Besides these, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee, have their comp ta.ice. The " gold mists " out of which these cometary oodles sprung were engendered by the following considerations : ' " • The rate of intenst elorged for advances was taken as the oat's of a calculation. The paid-up capital putdown—under it a own of r_ops. sititious deposit money—the interest on the whole calculated—a proper allowance node for the expenses of management —the remit fairly brought out—and such companies clearly proved to be capable of paying 20 per cent. per annum. There was the rllm,lAtlon—ra might cheek it, or, if you were still incredulous, ntake ample ottow. luxe for exaggeration ; and suppose the business yielded only 13 pt cent., was that a return to be despised in these times? Woat would be the value of glares when the company paid annually 1 O per ant. I Think over it, and you will be sure to put down your name lursnarm. If you suggested the propriety of making allowance for bud debts you were told that, however in oper in other concerto, It was whoa* on. necessary in them. The funds were only to be advanced on security, and, therefore, nothing could be lon, as If some kind of security bed been found that might, and ywobably would, increase in value, but could never decrease, and as tf Glasgow was favoured with the paw. once of • number of individuals who might become very nob, but who could never, by any chance, become poor. • The tricks of ;hare traffic are sharply touched on : 'cannot help referring (says the manager) to the caw men of wealth and high atan ling m the community, who were not ashamed to apply for Pharos is c..ch company, as it was projeeted, for the wale purpose of selling them oc neon as pcoeible at a yet miam. Mire gm. thanes were in fact wilig, for a few wenho, the toe of the goal name they enjoyed with theu :.ow citizens for so much moms.. They were in fact holding out to the public that which war, not the truth. The public, no doubt, thought they were right and ode iii talung shares in any concern in which there prudent men of property in. 'ended to hold an interest; while, In fact, there men titter Mit Intend to hold any interval in it, or to care about its success at aIL All they intended w►s to take advantage of the existing mania for shares, end put money in their own pockets. It was painful to hear there gen. t:emen (I; narrate with scif.satiefaction the pronto of their summate, operations, an if they expected praise for being clever enough to do. °rive their neighbours. The amount of talent yequired app,ars to me very much upon a par with that shown by a pirate when be hauls up At present the practice of tae company, manage." by the author of the pamphlet (" The Glasgow Commercial Ex change"), is to borrow at tire and a half per cent., and lend at eight; to the extent of four-fifths of the stock offered in se curity. This may or may not be safe data, but there can he little question of the very striking identification of pro prietary interest in companies passing under different names, as exhibited in the case of nine exchange COMpallitS, the partners in all which arc, except as regards three of them, identical. INCLOSURES-SURREY. SI a,—ln your valuable paper of yesterday appeared a ietter advocating a general inclosure bill, giving as a reason the inoperative part of the present enactment, particularly in the county of Surrey. Being a resident in the county, I may be permitted to make • few observations upon the 'letter, in reference to the capability of the soil ter giving em. ployment to the poor. It is true that on an inclosure taking place employment would be given for a short period until the necessary works required in forming incloeures were completed, after which it would be doubtful whether any benctit would be derived by the poor. In the division the large copyholders would necessarily absorb the greater part, and men is the general nature of the soil on the com mons of this county, that there is no doubt it would be planted with trees for the protection of game, instead of being appro priated to the growing of corn, as suggested by your corre spondent. lam the more justified in coming to this condo. sten by the following facts and remarks, which were drawn up for the consideration of the thinking pert of this neigh bourhood, by some gentlemen who had the welfare of the poor at heart, but who could not conscientiously agree with the principles of the proposed ineloeures : 1. " That the health, comfort, and enivenience of the in habitants of the neighbourhood are directed by the recent acts to be considered, as well so the interests of the proprie tors; and the main object in eaemining inte the necessity of an inclesuro is (in the language of one of the inclosure commissioners), to prevent any mischief being done to the interests of the public, and more especially to the poorer class. . . 2. " The present population on and around the common amounts to upwards of 600 persons, the principal portion of which are kept from the pariah by the benefits which they derive from the common. 3. "The quantity of land on the common amounts to 600 acres, and the estimate of the permanent labour is stated by one of the inclosure commissioners to be one man and his family for every 50 acres. It follows from thi., then, the interests of 161 families to place in one scale, and 12 in the other. 4. " In estimating the increase of goad to be produced by the inclosure of a common, it mutt be borne in mind the soil in many parts is not worth the expense of in closing and cultivating. The cattle now led upon the waste land form • material item in the advantages of its present state. 5. " An erroneous opinion prevails with regard to the re duction which an inclosure would occasion in the poor rates, the reduction being now calculated to amount to only one penny in the pound. 6. " The numberless allotments into which the common would be divided would necessarily intro :uce the erection of labourers' cottages, and the effect of the recent Poor-law Re- moval Bill is to entitle all persons to parish relief after a re- Mdence of five years. The commissioners are of opinion, whenever an inclosure has driven the poor to a distance from their dwellings, it has been found an evil." For the reasons here stated (and others I could mention) I think any enactment, having the effect of compulsory taking away the homes and bread of the present inhabitants of the commons, would inflict a serious injury, and sacrifice the in terests of the many to the benefit of the few. Your corre spondent says, " sauce fur the goose is not sauce for the gander," but he should recollect— " The crime Is great, in man or woman, Who steals a goose from off s common; Hut surely %la a worse abase, To steal the common from the goose." Jar. 12. WILLIAM SUBAIIMUIIN, forking, Surrey. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST THE VICAR OF MOTTRAM. For the heat seven or eight months an affair has been the subject of much discussion and excitement in Mot tram, as involving nothing less than a charge of adultery against the Rev. D. Seddon, vicar of that parish, a married man, with a family. It seems that in May last a man, named Isaac Ashton, • labourer, in the service of Mr. Motley for the last 21 years, stated that his illegitimate daughter, Mary Oree was enceinte, and that she stated the father to be Mr. Seddon, the vicar. The churchwardens determined to lay the matter before the Bishop of Chester, the vicar's diocesan. I Accordingly, a sort of ecclesiastical CODIMNIMOR was issued b. four beneficed clergymen, who held a court of inquiry at Mottram, to which the public were admitted. Tins court having been formally opened in the parish church, was ad- I journed, for obvious reasons, to the Sunday schoolroom con. nected with the church. At this court, which occupied the greater part of two days, the 15th and 16th of June last, the Rev. Chancellor &likes presided, the other members of the court being the Venerable Archdeacon Wood, of Northwich ; the Rev. C. K. Prescot, rector of Stockport ; and a fourth beneficed clergyman, whose name we have not beard. The court was crowded to excess during both days. At this inquiry, a great number of witnesses were examined, including the girl herself, who, of course, gave the principal evidence, and who, as to various times at which she bad been alone with the vicar, both at the vicarage and at her father's house, was corroborated by other witnesses, in cluding the parish chrgy and a number of girls, attendants at the church Sunday school, at the Tuesday evening lec tures at Broadbottom, and at • class which practised singing en Monday evenings at the vicarage, and on Thursday even ings at the church. As to the actual offence, there was, of course, no witness except Mary Green herself; she stated it had been committed on the night of the 16th of March, after the lecture at Broadbottom, in an old ruined building or cottage a few yards from the vicarage. To rebut the charge, two girls were called, to prove that, on that night, they walked home with Mary Green, past the vicarage, and saw no one there. It thus be came, as to the night in cpustion, a matter of conflicting testimony. During UM' proceedings it was sought to be shown that there was ill-feeling in the parish against the vicar, and that, in fact, this proceeding originated in a conspiracy against him amongst certain of his parishioners. While cross-examining Mr. Stott, one of the churchwardens, with this object, the court intimated that Mr. Stott had con ducted himself very fairly, and expressed a wish that Mr. Stott might not be further questioned, as to any alleged ill feeling in the parish.—The defence having been closed, the four clergymen forming the court retired to consider the evi dence, and their own decision upon it; and after an absence of about forty minutes they returned into court, and the Rev. Chancellor Itsikes is reported to have pronounced the opinion of himself and colleagues to the following effect: " People of Mottram and its vicinity, we have patiently and assiduously, as you all know, investigated the charges against your minister, we hope in the fear of God and to your satis faction. The conclusion we have come to is not to recom mend to the bishop to institute any further inquiry." Of course, though this might aispose of the case to the satisfaction of the rev. gentlemen making the inquiry, and to that of the bishop, the matter could not rest tnere. On the 30th November last, Mary Green gave birth to a male child, and, as she declared that no one but Mr. Seddon was the father, it became necessary, in due course, for the over seers of the township to bring her before the magistrates for the usual affiliation. This hearing took place at Hyde on Monday last. HYDE PETTY SESSIONS, JAN. 10.—(Before Mr. J. Tur ner, of Godley, chairman; Mr. J. Howard, of Brereton hall ; and Mr. R. Ashton, of Hyde).—The fact of this in vestigation coming before this court, caused the new court house to be densely crowded. Amongst those present were two other magistrates, and a considerable number of clergy men and surgeons.—Mr. Hudson, solicitor and coroner, of Stockport, appeared to make the application for the affilia tion order; and Mr. Greene, barrister-at-law, appeared for the rev. defendant. Mr. Hudson stated the case, and applied for the usual order of affiliation. After stating generally the nature of the evidence to be adduced, he observed that, in cues of this kind, the legislature properly required that the evidence of the mother should be corroborated in some material points (though of course it could very rarely be as to the actual commission of the offence) to the satisfaction of the magistrates. He should call a number of witnesses to prove that Mary Green and the defendant had been alone together on various occasions under suspicious circumstances, both at the vicarage and at her father's house. It had been said • that this case was the result of a conspiracy in the parish of Mottram against the vicar. What possible object contd& poor girl have in entering into any such conspiracy ? This affiliation was enough of itself to show that she would have every kind of difficulty thrown in her way in seeking legal redress. He must utterly deny that there was any suck con , spiracy. It was also said that no one could be safe, if, upon such testimony as this girl's, such a charge could be cast upon a clergyman to disgrace him in the eyes of his parishioners, and to destroy his usefulness. If Mr. Seddon were guilty, he had no just ground of complaint, whatever might be the consequences to himself, but must be answerable for his mis conduct. Mary Green, the mother of the child, was then called, and was under examination upwards of three hours. She is described as a quiet, docile, intelligent girl of 20, with pale [examination] PROVINCIAL. HAMPSHIRE, POST-OFFICE ON SUNDAY.- 7 he mayor of South ampton has received a communication from the Postmaster- General, in which hi; lordship states that the memorial sent by his wonhip on the part of the inhabitants, for the closing of the oust-office daring the greater part of Sunday, has hem complied with. CORNWALL. FARM MEMORAND.Z 7 L — TIte following account of Ty warnhayle Farm, near Redrnth, was given by Mr. Karkeek, at the late maxima meeting of the Cornwall Agricultural So ciety, as reported in the Gardeners' Chronicle. Mr. liar keek stated that Mr. Trethewy, Mr. Treaties:us, and himself, went out to Messrs. Davey's farm, for the purpose of seeing the method of feeding cattle lately introduced there. The farm was taken in by the Messrs. Davey, but a few years shim, from the common at Tywarnhaye. The plan consists in feeding ca'tle in loose hones, on a compound of linseed and ryemeal, prepared as fellows :-231be. of crushed linseed is gradually mixed with 21 gallons of boiling water in u copper; after which Bi lbs. of rye meal and a handful of silt is ad,li d ; the mixture, having been wall stirred, is cast into moulds, forming cakes of 71bs. each. The quantities of ingredients above mentioned will make 36 cake., and the whole can be manufactured by a man and two girls in about one hour. One of these cakes, with 1 cwt. of Swede turnips and a bushel of straw and hay chaff (which last is also mixed with linseed mucilage), is given to an ox in six meals per day. The method of preparing the linseed and chaff is by dissolving 121bs. of bruised linseed in 24011.. of boiling water; this is poured on straw, chaff, and day. equal to 60 bushels, in a shallow cistern; whilst one person gradually pours the boil ing mucilage over the chaff another person turns and beats it witk a beater till the liquid be perfectly absorbed. The ex pense of feeding an ox in the manner here described is about is. per day. The consumption of the compound is gradually increased in quantity. Same feeders give from 14 to 211 be. per day, being nearly in the same quantities that linseed cake is given. The advantages derived from the use of the compound over the oilcake are very considerable. The oil cake costs, on an average, from RN. to 121. per ton ; whilst the linseed compound can be manufactured with either pea, bean, barley, Indian corn, or rye meal, at from 60e. to 70s. per ton. Again, from the various trials which have been made by practical farmers, of the feeding qualities of the two articles, the advantages are in favour of the compound, weight for weight. The utensils required for manufaeturing the compound are a 30 or 40-gallon copper, a hand-null for crushing the linseed food 605.), a half-hogshead or two, half a dozen moulds, a hand cup, a three.pronged fork, and a wooden rammer, the whole of which may be pun Used for 30s. Mr. Kerkeek next de•cribed the Messrs Davey's sys tem of boxsfeeding. The boxes are about 9 feet square, sunk 3 feet (2 feet, it is said, is quite sufficient) below the surface, in one continuous excavation, and having sliding bore be tween the boxes, and a sliding trough placed in the boxes for holding food and water. The ben and troughs are made to elide upwards, as the manure accumulates underneath. Messrs. Davey'. settle had been placed in the oozes and fed in this manner for six weeks up to Saturday last; and there was scantly the slightest Matilda arising from the dull& . . • .•