The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-08 00:00:00

ALLOTMENTS OF SPACE. 'easing dune who hare put in their claims a day too late for the fair to tight their way in us Nat they ern, we proceed to notice a few of the more prominent points to which in the intere , t of the Exhibition the Executive Committee wish attention to be particularly direeted. In the lint place, then, and with reference to the allotments to foreign nations, it must he borne in mind that these allot ment, have been regulated upon a geographical principle, which excludes altogether any idea of preference, and ought therefore to allay all jealous or dissatisfaction. Each country basing its industrial nets collected within a sepa rate boarding will be ut out from insidious comparison, with it, neighbour, and form its own centre of attraction. It is necessary that this should be thoroughly understood, as scone eornp!aint , have, we hear, been made by the agents of foreign .tates, founded, we must believe on an erroneous impre , -ion of the principles and motives which have guided the arrangements on the east side of the transept. Ther can be no wish on the part of the COMMi..iOI3. or of the Esecutive Comroitt. e, which has not for it, object to afford eshihitors from abroad, without distinction, every facility and rowernienee in their power. With respect to our home contrihuton who have duly complied with the form , and condition , of entry, there are two kinds of iliffi cultic , constantly recurring between them and the Executive Committee. Those who have applied fur and received cer tain a mount. of hanging apace are con.tantly applying to Lt. , • a proportion of horizontal space along with it and hate ben allotted horizontal vac, wish to have it all in front, with the knot possible depth. As an exempli ficitioo of the find point, we ntny inintiim the case of a loanufitturin., town, which, basing obtained 900 feet of for the display of shawl , and ouch-like tnanu factuncl good% demands, in addition to that accommodation, a hr..4th ..t two or three fee t abate the whole length, in r to ;h.e their goods that slope which sets them off to the loot advantage. GOOD NEWS FOR THE EXCLUDED. The stmt-de for frontage in the allotments of horizontal span , will lie easily understood. In originates in the same instinct which makes the traihsman dress his win dow. and iounten with his most attractive good. , while tin hack shelve-o of the shop and the wan house behind an filled with the more ordinary materials of truffle. Of MON., Wert the Esecutive t'ommitter to give way to either elan or application. their whole calculations as to space, and the arraugerreents founded on them, would at unee he upset. /sleibitor• would he at glagvers drawn about the placing of their respeetive contributions, and harmonious action and Inuniony of effect would be alike banished from the build ing. Another difficulty, which is the ware of much eta hums-silo nt and annoyance, is the delay which has taken plan on the part of some lona committees in sending in the irout hen of allotments to individuals. These vouchers ought all to have been returned to the Executive Committee by the 10th of Ile cember. A month's in dulge ore was granted--week after week urgent applica tions wen Made upon the subject; yet many of the local corrimittess, and thow of leindon and Sheffield especially, delayed. In the mr antime the popularity of the Exhibition has ls. n lire .itly on the increase. l'eople who did not at first think of comp ling now come forward, and, in cense quenec, the most passing applications are made fur an en larged a llotment of •IMICe. The Executive Committee have decided not tss nject these application.; but, of course, their calculations and arrangements, founded on the vouchers already sent in, are now completed, and cannot in the mean time be installed. When those exhibitors who have taken inn , by the forelock hare liven properly pros ided for, it will Is' seen what exnrot of accommodation still remains ' , ratan-le. Until then nothing can he done, and applicants who have been too late must remain in suspense. It is much to be regretted that local committers, upon whom nee large si share of the preparations NM devolved, have by their want of promptitude., at the lust moment almost, thrown such 14 . 1 . 1.111. 011..talts in the way of the Executive l'onimitto e. In the provincial towns this remissness and delay might have Men pardoned, but in London it is very re pre behold , The industrial reputation of the country is to a large extent in the hand. of the ).cal committees, and, if we do not come out with credit from the competition to which we have rhalhoged the whole world, public opinion will not la stow to visit with its censure those by whom the disgrace of our failure has been caused. HUDDEESPIELD EXHIBITION COMNIITI A meeting was held at the Comminimsers' Ttooma Saturday, at which the following delegates attended : from Lred•—the Mayor, Messrs Batestin.Firth, Church, George, lloldforth, and Cawood ; front Bradford—Meows. Ripley, l'aylor, and Lockwood; from Halifax —the Mayor, and Messrs. Carter and Sehischkar, with other gentlemen from Batley, Burgley, Keighley, Qfce. ; Mr. Winans, the consta ble, in the chair. lfhe object of the meeting was to receive the report of the deputation to London. Mr. Norton, one of its members, exhibited the plans, and explained the wishes of the executive committee, adding another plan in which he hail mapped out the allotments of the respective limns. On the part of Halifax, Mr. Carter complained that as they had only about 300 feet of counter allotted, and a very large proportion of wall surface, the goods from that district would be virtually excluded if thin plan were adopted. Mr. Ripley, on the part of Bradford, said the proposed plan of swattUirs would nut in any way answer for the proper display of the Bnalford goods. After a little converisstion, it was resolved that, of the unappropriated space in the allotments Halifax should have 41M Set, and on the nrOMMrtlthitillti of Mr. Lockwood, of Bradford, it wax revolved to choose tan members from each of the principal committees to apportion tlw apace as might be most condu cive to the interest of the various district'. The several emontittees immediately elected the following gentlemen fur this purpose: For Leeds, Merars. birth and Cawood ; Brailiord, Messrs. llipley and Lockwood; Halifax, MM. Carter sad rehischkar ; and for Huddersfield, Messrs. Nor ton and Pritchett—to meet at Bradford at 9 a.m. on Mon day, in order to have their plans prepared to he submitted to a meeting of the several rummittees, to he held at noon of tie ,one thy, at the Court-house, Bradford, when it was hoped they would ho able to decide upon sumo: general phut of oiling up the apace. NIEETING OF YORK EXIIIBITORS. On Thursday • pmliminary meeting of the York exhi bitors was held at the house of Mr. T. Scott, (}olden Lion, St. SampsoWs-stpuire, when it was resolved that Mews. Janowski, Wolstenholnw, and Cooper, form a committee to make such arrangements as may seem advisable to con vey the ',trims. article" (made in York for the Exhibition) to their de*tination. Mr. Janowski was elected chairman, and Mr. Cooper secretary, to the exhibitors in York, of whom there are sixteen. DUBLIN EXHIBITORS. A meeting of manufacturers who intend to be exhi bitors WAG held on Saturday evening, in the Dublin Society House. The object of this meeting was to confer with the disputation appointed at the public meeting from the Dublin executive committee, who left for London on Tuesday last. The deputation received from the meet ing general initructiuns as to the wishes of the exhi bitors. and the final arrangements with the royal commis sioner.; also relative to the transfer of the several articles to London. and from the quay and railway-station to the exhibition building, the providing for proper care in the moving of the article., Re. It was, above all things, sought to impress 011 the deputation the absolute necessity of pro curing for the Dublin exhibitors an extension of time beyond the lit of March. On it now mainly depends the rimer of the Dublin part of the exhibition, es some fabrics would he destroyed by remaining over so lung, and some of Our best articles would not otherwise be finished in time. This favour has been granted to different part. of England as well rto foreign nations. We understand that France hes gut an extension of time to the 15th of April. LONDON PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. rare TNCONTITIONALLT. Greenwich Hospital, boson Monday and Friday ; Society of Arts Museum, Wednesday • Entiah Museum, Great Russell-street, Monday, Wedn;sday, and Friday.; Saull's Museum of Urology, Aklersgatostreet, Thurs&y • East India Company's Museum, Saturday • Museum of Econo mic Geology ; Gresham Lectures, Wednesday, Thursday, and Vriday ; Hampton Court, Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday, sad Saturday ; National Gallery, Monday, Tuesday, Welluv+day, and Thursday ; Vernon Gallery, Marlborough House ; Kew Gardens, daily; London 3Lts- Nonary Museum. Bloomfield-street, Finsbury ; Pantheon, Garold-street ; St. Katherine's Docks, London Docks, West India Docks, and Custom House. _.-----....--. Sy ticket., to to Maned Sew ses= r stationers, or sambas of As mod Antiquarian Mumma, Oullaidl, daily ; Aahburton Col lection, riccadilly, daily; Asiatic Illwe am, New Burbisictow- i street, Monday, Wednesday, sad Friday ; Botanic Gardens._ Cliches, daily ; DeWitt Gardena, Regent's-park ; College of Surgeons. Unarm. Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ; Dulwich Gallery. Monday. TowAsY,Wedsle_Sall. Thursday. and Saturday ; Entosoklical Manual, Mond street , Tuesday ; Orowenor Gallery, I pper Grosvenor-street, daily ; Horticultural Gardena, Chiswick, daily ; Runterian Museum, College of Surgeons, daily; Linnwan Collections, Sobo-screLaily ; Royal Institution Museum, Albeniwie street, ; r Weed Service Museum , Seotland-rird. daily Sir John 's Museum, Tun& and Friday ; Flassnan's Ball and the Mu s eum, rni College ; Mumma of King's College ; Royal Veterinary Museum ; Anti ver j tjAlts =Society's Museum, Somerset 'wise ; Geological , Somerset Mast MIMI 701 41)1111118ION. _gyp willia l a wi rave=tly ; Chelsea ll= CCLI SII .O/1 1 4; Cosanwess, doi lPa jum liga nkinws, mid Maki, se fhillhAd; liseahay. Twig, Tbsysisy, Mk. oil Isessesr; Maim Tamed sod gm'. lbaar - ,........ - *rod ; llsellxd's Flaseuss, Psilisessis rams sifts Nil ,e OM Pu rair eadisibal,: di niass alls issad. - sdiudifty d!iir itl,_ _ mo w a. . qiizi,v---.=0.0,aL a .126.2 . CNI. , • . . A PAL/Cif Cada? wit it is said. be established in' , 4 'm L; s t ei lli t thil elaplit fdisiassig thaosatisasoso of , Os* THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVF.NTiqa • •vr-au 71‘ , ;. e -- • • •••• 431...... , X1.1V 1 0, 10'11. ALLEGED T .:stArDi IN THE LONDON DOCKS. I have received about 201. since lad May. Perhaps some times they sent for me three limes a week. I have received altogether about 301. lam 25 years of age now. In 1846 I would have been A years of age. 1 was not suspended in 1843. In 1844 1I was accused of taking sugar, and I was afterwards reinstated. I was altogether six years in the service of the company. I was not excluded, either before or since my marriage, for indecent behaviour to a Mrs. Forster, from a chapel at which I attended. There was a charge of indecent behaviour, and here is an answer. I (Laughter.) Sir F. Thesiger then read the investigation into the wit ness's character by the Mile-end New Town chapel, and their acquittal of him. Cross-examination resumed—l was not accused before 1 , I Mr. Bales with having put sugar into the black stuff. The contents were turned out and examined by Mr. Balks at my suggestion and request. That was in March, 1850. I deny that I was dismissed from the service of the company for putting sugar into the black stuff. The black stuff was sold to Schwinse. I had no communication with him. I have known tens of tdna of sugar destroyed at Davis's corner. (Wi ma. named several persons who knew of it.) Ido not know that any except Robinson are in the employ of the docks. Mr. Norman knew very well that sugar of the best description was converted into scrapings at Basis corner. I can not say that Norman was present at Davis's corner when merchantable sugar was converted into drain lugs or sweepings. When good sugar was sent to Davis's corner no complaint was made ; but it was approved of. Jeremiah Donovan examined—l was in the employ of the Dock Company as a labourer up to November last. I have been 22 years in the employ of the Dock Company. I was at the Giggan when 1 heard of the officers coming. Wicks gave directions respecting the three baskets of sugar. They were sent up stairs by the crane. I saw 21 casks filled with I sugar. That Was in the upper floor of the Eastern Dock Warehouse. I recollect taking eight original bags of sugar, and two re-packers from the No. 12 Gang ' way, about the beginning of the year. It was brown sugar I believe it was Manila sugar. The casks were filled in a hurry. There were two cases slung up to the north floor. Mr. Rales said the cases were not broken up small enough, but to break them up again and sling them into the cooper age door. A man named Crisp took the tally of the delivery of sugar for Antwerp. The mate refused to sign, saying that there were ten in dispute. In consequence I saw John Fay. I told him the mate refused signing for the whole. I repented to Hearn what I had said to Fay. Hearn then heard that ten parcels were on the floor that must belong to this party. The mate ultimately signed the book. Fay said before the ship went out that the sugar was on the floor. I heard the mate say, " I ant ten lap short ; they must be in the warehouse." Hearn said he must have his complement. The mate was obliged to go without them, and he has never had them at all. They remained fur 18 months in the warehouse afterwards. I have taken 100 tons to Davis's Corner, front the loop-holes and the in clined plane. As much as two tons of sugar was taken there from one ship. It was mixed up with water and other matters. It was perfectly well known what was done with the sugar at D avis 's Corner. Cross-examined—The vessel went to Antwerp in 1847. The missing bags were in the same warehouse when the mate came back, and I knew they were there. Mr. Hearn was the foreman when they were removed. I was one of the parties who masted to put the sugar into casks. The 21 casks I saw filled were part of the 28 casks seized by the officers. George Churchill examined—l cans a labourer in the London Docks, and was dismissed about six months ago. I helped to fill eight casks of sugar. Some of the men were employed cutting open the bags and others filling. They were coopered up in the casks when Cross-examined—l first went into the dock company's service in 1847. I left for four months about two years ago. I was not dismissed for drinking. I had a glass on board ship. I have received only 21. from the Customs. I first had communication with the Customs about three weeks ago. It being then six o'clock the court was adjourned The cause on behalf the crown, in the case of " Attorney-General r. the London Dock Company," was resumed, inthe prius sittings of the Court of - Exchequer, I yesterday morning, at ten o'clock. The same counsel ap peared as on the first day. Richard Down examined—l am a landing waiter of the port of London. I have been in the custom six years, and sin generally acquainted with the mode of doing business at all the docks. Bags are invariably marked at the scales. The low, when any, and weight are marked by the coin- P 2 ny's servants in large legible characters. I was at the London Docks on the Rth of March, 1850, and following days. On the 9th 1 searched for goods, and went to No. 35, South-quay Warehouse. I found amongst others what appeared tome to he an original bag of cocoa, stowed away amongst a pile of rice in the corner. I pulled down the bag, and found it was not rice. Was told it was cocoa. It was lcwt. 221hs. I also found three original bags of good cocoa under the large wheel. There were sweepings there to the amount of some tons weight not of cocoa. In' No. 52 I found six bags of cocoa, under a pile of miscel-1 'anemia sweepings, amounting to 18 tons. The bags here were mixed amongst the sweepings. One was under the wheel and the cocoa sound. In No. 39 I found original begs of sound cocoa. It was on the top of some casks. In i No. 31 I found nn original hag of cocoa. In No. 32 I found two original bags of cocoa which was good. The weight was threo hundred and some pound.. In No. 52 I seised 23 hags of cocoa and four casks. They were not original packages. I was told by Spencelev that they were sweepings, but they were not. The total weight was 1,89-51bs. The supposed sweepings cal we ROUI eases better than the contents of the original bags. On the 6th of March I made a seizure of 28 hogsheads of sugar on the west floor. They were all said to be warehouse sweepings, and were so marked. All the casks seer , sub stituted casks, and the sugar was perfectly clean. (The witness here gave the weight of the casks. The total weight is nearly 12 tons, and duty paid would amount to 5001. The duty is one-third off that. I said to Mr. Wicks, ",You appear to have a good place here." He said, yes, that he would not exchange with any customs officer, and it was not the salary so much as the bonuses he got. Sir F.P ollock thought this was mere gossip. Sir F. Kelly hoped, after the otaservations of the Solid- 1 tor-General Mtn gratuities, it would he taken down. The Solicitor-General—l distinctly mean that gratuities were given by the company to their o ff icers, LB a reward for their sweepings. Sir F. Kelly—Preeiscly so; and I must beg that what ever transpires on this subject may be taken down, in jus tice to the defendants. Sir F. Pollock—lf you please I will ; but I thought we had enough to do wit h out gossip of this sort. The evidence was then taken down, and the witness. examined. 1 afterwards saw casks of sugar had been re moved. (The stowage hook was produced to show that goods had not been delivered.) The goods were afterwards rewired. The Eastern Docks warehouse contains 60,000 bags of sugar ; the weight of this would be about 4,500 tons; the value might be perhaps 180,0001. Mr. Bales told me 20 of the casks were made up in 1849, and R in 1850. He said nothing about en account being made at that period for exportation. He did not tell me what quantity had been exported from that warehouse for the last 4 years. I have no directions from the customs ; I wasunder the directions of Mr. Cocluehot, When I find a considerably quantity of dirt in cocoa, I eall that real sweepings. I applied to no one for information about this coma. I inquired of Borings' and other merchants; but I did not soy that the dock company were in possession of any property for which there was no owner. I deny most distinctly that I ever said to any one at Baring's that I said the company paM their dividends out of the goods which they exported. I went twice to Baring's. I was accompanied by another officer, who said nothing of the sort in my presence. Re-examined—l went to the merchants' because I could not obtain satisfactory information from the Dock Com- pan It:. Ogilvie produced the plan of the Lyndon Docks, and also one of the, astern dock and warehouses. O. Robins aea mined —ln 184.5 there was a delivery in the eastern dock warehouse. I was discharged last Sep tember. The alleged ground was that I hail spoken the In the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, Samuel truth. I had a laboratory on the lower dour, where Hill surrendesed to take his trial before Mr. Justice Cole we used to mix and melee up th e ba g s. When we ridge and Mr. Justice Cresswell , for t he manslaughter of were abort, we made it up from our dmwino. Moses James Barnes. It frequently happened that we found a deficiency Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution, when we were called on to deliver goods. After the goods instructed by Mr. Undersheriff Law, the solicitor to the are weighed, they are piled, and when the merchant wants Commissioners in Lunacy. The prisoner was defended by ' them, and we find a deficieney. I then should take a bag I from another pile. I should on first t o the laboratory, and Mr. Collier and Mr. Parnell. Mr. Clarkson, in opening the case to the jury, said that if we had a hag of corresponding quality, I should send it out. If we had none, I went to the over drawinowhich arias he and his learned friend appeared by direct ion of her Maji sty's Commissioners in Lunacy, for the purpose of lays from the samplings. That takes place before the weighing ins before at the wales. When a hag is sampled it i s pierced through them the facto upon which this indictment was founded, and upon which the grave charge of manslaughter and withdrawn ; a little of the sample is put on the table, was preferred against the prisoner at the bar. An offence and the residue in a tub by its side. I should say each hag of this description was at all times looked upon as most loses three or four ounces. They are stabbed a secon d time. serious, but in the present instance the offence was aggro and the sampling goes into the tub also. This is done in all cases. I should go to the laboratory first, and if I did not sated by the fact that the unfortunate d eceased was a lunatic patient in an asylum, and that tho pri get what I wanted I should go to anyone's cargo. I so acted for eight years, under every deputy warehouse-keeper inner was a keeper, place , over him , whose du t y it undoubtedly was to have treated an unfortu- I served under. I have seen good clean sugar sent to nate Davia's corner and wetted down to molasses. They am person in that condition with the utmost kind ness and attention. Ile need hardly °lnclose that under what arc called " dminings." 1 know the ten bags of Ma - these circumstances the inquiry into which they were about nilla sugar ought to have been shipped for Antwerp. I to enter was one of the very greatest public importance, know of gratuities being given ; I coeval two myself. My and it appeared to him that the commissioners had not only wages were latterly 240. a week. I began at 14". a week. perfonned their duty in adopting the present preceding, The bonuses were 3/. each, and the last was given three but that they would have neglected their duty to the public years ago. if they had not done so. The learned counsel then pro ems-examined—l was not dismissed for irregularity. I had not been absent without leave. I was away T on the recited to state the facts of the case, and hr informed the jury that he should be compelled to call one of the patients Saturday ; I was ill. I war su s p ended on the uesday, who w present at the time the fatal attack wan made upon as when 1 returned, and I was dismissed on the Thursday the decdeceased, and who he should, under the unctioned, of their lordships, offer as a competent witness upon the pre s e nt week. I have been paid for my services since by the crown. I have not anything else to live on. I have received 4s. 2d. occasion. per day, and I have been in daily attendance there. The The following evidence was then adduced : Customs have asked for information, and I have given it William Muneaster deposed that he was an attendant in every day. lam not aware that before I was (Herniated in nines were made into my charscter. All I know is, I Mr. Armstrong's asylum at Peckham, and was employed in the infirmary fur some time, and the prisoner then took his had a good character from ltlessra. Martin. The last place place. There were generally about seven patients who slept in the infirmary, but when witness left the infirma r y , I was in before the desks was the Post-office. I left because there were about nine or ten, and the prisoner had t he I was involved in debt. Davis's corner is in a room which charge of them all during the day, and he slept in a room is under Custom-house lock , an d is entered b y an officer every day. close to them at night. The patients were left at night entirely by themselves. The patients in the infirmary were Its-examined-1 asked Mr. Chandler about m'vheingtrua generally of an inoffensive kind. Witness knew the de pended, and he gave me an evasive answer. I had been absent on several occasions before, but I was never sus- ceased. He had been a patient in the asylum since March, pended. 1850. He was one of the patients in the infirmary. He John Thomas Smith examined—l was formerly in the died on the 2nd of January. Witness first heard that he employment of the London Dock Company, and first en- had received some injury on the 27th of December. The tired their service in 1842. 1 was then sixteen years of age. prisoner gave him the information, and wished him to go I think I remained twelve or fourteen months with them and look at the deceased, as he thought he had received some before I left. I was check clerk's pupil. I retuned as injury. He went to the infirmary, and while the deceased soon as Mr. Catley, the chairman, had me reinstated. I was in the act of changing his shirt, he noticed that his was then assistant foreman ; my salary was six shillings per left shoulder looked as though it were broken or out of week. I remained about five or six weeks, my salary war joint, and there was a swelling on the shoulder the breadth e ighteen shillings a week, with a promise of an increase. I of a man's hand. The prisoner said he could not imagine ultimately sent in my resignation on the 25th of May, 1850. how it bad happened, and witness remarked that ho must I had opportunities to observe the warehousing of sugars have had • severe fall to have caused it, and that it must when I first went to the docks. I was partially engaged have been done two or three days. The prisoner then said as " sampler " samples from bags were put into the inclined that the doctor must be mule acqu ainted with it directl y , Aisne, samp les from hogsheads were sent to Davies corner. and at that moment Mr. Burton, one of the medical officers, The sugars taken to Davis's corner were converted into dry came in. Ile saw the prisoner often during the three or scrapings. The dirty sugar is put in first, then the clean, four preceding days, and he made no communication to him and all are stirred together. From the West ladies the respecting the deceased, and if he had been aware of any sugar comes in hogsheads. From Manilla it comet in mats injury happening to a patient it was his duty immediately made of narrow grass; they are very liable to breakage ; to have given information to the m edical gentleman ho re they are very tender. A ton might be obtained for over- sided in the establishment. Witness had seen the deceased drawings upon an ammo from a cargo, suppose shout on the previous day. It was the duty of the prisoner to 8,000 or 10,000 bags. The Manilla sugar would be col- dress him or to see that he war dressed, and it was also his tested and sent to Davies's corner. A great quantity of duty to wash him. The deceased was a sullen, obstinate sugars were carried to the inclined plane. There were prison. 13,000 or 14,000 ham on hoard the Bulah. It depended en- Cross-examined—The infirmary was upstairs and the pri tirely on the modem which the cargo was used to say the saner was the sole attendant in it, but witness went quantity for overdrawings, fie. I have had sometimes there occasionally, and he could ace what the patients were three or four, and so many as twelve casks from cargo, about. The prisoner's conduct towards the patients always each cask weighing ten hundred weight. Rhuinage appeared to be very kind and attentive. Some of the pa ' saless are of goods unclaimed by the owners to tents slept out of the infirmary, . and the prisoner had to ' pay the expenses of warehousing them. I should say take care of them also. The prisoner was assisted by some an excessive cargo would not find its way to the of the patients to take care of the others. Attwood, Taylor, rhumagc sale. Them is no loss from sugar in bags, unless and Donelly were those who were so employed. He did not they were broken. The bag sugar pays the duty according know that they washed or dressed the patients, but they to *eluding waiter's weights. I remember the seizure of assisted in scouring the floors, carrying things down from 28 casks of sugar. I heard that the officers were expected the bedrooms, and he had occasionally seen them help to from Mr. Wicks, the deputy warehousekeeper. The casks dress the patients, and also help to feed them. The were all brought together and piled together. I think I attendant wag sometimes obliged to leave the patients, but went to Mr. Wicks to get him to sign the wholesale grocers' he did not think he was ever away so long as half an hour. return. I saw Mr. Wicks, Hem, Baker, and a gang of Attwood and Donelly laboured under delusions. Donelly men there. They were running out bags of sugar, that was under the delusion that spirits were continually about were being sampled by Baker. The peaces' of sampling him, and, so far as he was aware, that delusion was never takes place except immediately prior to being brought absent from him. The delusion was that he had to the scale. I saw no marks or numbers on the bags. spirits continually about him ; that he had spirits in his They were original Mauritius maul. There is no difficulty ears, and that the spirits had lost their lips and in detecting the different countries from which bags come. noses. Attwood, the other patient, was very excitable, There were 20 bags sampled by Baker while I was there. but be was not aware that he laboured under any Wicks and I went down to the office together. There was particular delusion. Deceased was a gloomy, sullen kind • gang of men turning out sugar which consisted of the of man, and he had frequently heard him make use of very him I had previously seen sampled. I saw the men filling bad language, not only to himself, but to the other Wends the war in casks. Wicks, Hem, and Randal were pre- ants. The prisoner always appeared to have acted with lem• to that. The sugars were very different colours and forbearance both towards him sad the other patients. iindltiee. Some were brown and others quite white, The Re-examined—The patients were usually washed after mob were afterwards weighed at a temporary beam erected breakfast, about half-put nine o'clock. The water was At Ike purpose. All this was done quickly, with hurry and fetched either by the attendant or by one of the patients, if mmlbeion lo get it out of sight. I say that because I re- the attendant chose to send him. He never upon any oc aiked seders to get every thing out of the way. The over- canon saw a patient dressing another patient alone and in dm slags in the Inclined plane have been sent to Davis's the absence of the attendant. iliglier. I have been frequently directed to take sugar By the court—Two or three days before the 27th Decent *" Davis's corner. I reco ll ect on one occasion having ber he heard the deceased complain of having the sensation rdirected to take six or seven or eight casks there. of having a board in his stomach, and he wished witness to e g i l a t aot recollect the month, but it was pnor to the middle take it out. of 1848. The scrapings were taken to Davis's corner, the By Mr. Bodkin—He laboured under the delusion that he proper place for them. I made out an account which was had }muds in his stomach and back. returned because 4 made an account of fractions. The total Mr. J. T. Burton deposed that he was the me. of the ennmay's earnings for the half-year was 2,6891, but dical superintendent to Mr. Armstrong's establishment that a net a far proportion for 12 months. The black at Peck ha m. It was a private aayylum. He haw =allaaa a wear not good enough for the con- the deceased. He came to the establishment On the aid no gag to be thrown away. From 1844 to 80th March, 1860. Witnem fi rst beard he had received 11148 *we wen NO togs of wet and 60 asks of dry *Crap. some injury on the 27th December. The prisoner = lags sent out. The clean sugar would fetch feces ltds, to 424. the fact to him about ten o'clock in the morning. per cwt. immediately to the infirmary ward, and the gel- Crees-elamieed—l made this esanurendure in hay, *met strip the deceased , and he immediately obasmsd WM& It might be seven or foetelosu days before that the le arm was fractured close under the shoulder I bit I believed at that time ' abet I was rug' in * s and the joint was very much bruised and infiemed. li. metinee is their service. The legs were • was aW a mark on the arm as if produced by a sly . I did it for ay own inibresation. I will not grey. The bruises extended all round the chest. In we wow it as only for my inibringfim. I was sent tiee's opinion these appearances wen attr i butable to vio stkejnealealai b y 92a rtall iQ v i rig ill"lahril them . . • That n was f l rll: e' b s ra ia li fin "... th. ed b . ;' so °ulde =p a e n "d r. , I lonained until 25th May in thii of am ordered deceased to he put to bed, and ih in=o- emi r ". It a in Oa • r=tbg I sent to Kr. Fidler. the resident 'upon. Ha had set given law Skip 1* the remarked to the primate that it mug have °e nigma till Julia or July. I did not teeny of tbe cursed two or three day., and the poisoner replied that he ResisSempaes dims that I had maw away. hi ton souglaiising of haying treads en iii sberlder. MANSLAUGHTER IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. but he was always talking nonsense of that sort, and he took no notice of it. Witness told him he must have had a violent fall, and the prisoner said he knew nothing about it. The deceased could not have dressed himself on the previous day, on account of the injury. In witness's opi nion, at the time he saw the injury, it must have been at least of three days' standing, and he did not think that any in peon who dressed him jury. The deeeas•d u c ld 'uld not ba h v a e ve f rai ailed sed t h o is o a b r 7 n n a e t all after receiving the injury, and it must have been per fectly seleas to him. It would have be en the p risoner 's ' duty to report any accident to him immediately. By Mr. Collier.—Witness went into the infirmary every day himself, and on the 26th December he looked at the deecased's head, but did not observe anything the matter with his shoulder at that time. The deceased laboured under the delusion that his belly was as big as a butt. Witness never had any occasion to complain of the conduct of the prisoner. The deceased never made any complaint to him. The prisoner appeared very anxious about the injury. The memory of the de ceased was affected. lie was capable of giving a cornet answer to a question, but was certainly a lunatic in the ordinary meaning of the term. Witness was aware that lattwood, fondly, and Taylor were in the habit of assisting the prisoner, and he had seen them arranging the dress of the other patients, but he did not remember having seen them feeding them. Donelly laboured under a delusion, but he was not aware that Attwnod or Taylor laboured under any particular delusion. The delusiou of Donelly was always present in his mind when his attention was directed to it, and witness had never known him free from that delusion. Attwood was incapable of carrying on a con nected conversation, and was at times very abusive and of very irritable temper. Taylor was a man of weak mind, and incapable of taking care of himself: and they were both lunatics, and unfit to go at large. Donelly was decidedly a lunatic in the ordinary sense of the term. By Mr. Clarkson—Barnes was able to Five a rational account of an ordinary transaction. NI ith respect to Donelly he laboured under a delusion that he hail spirits in his head, but in his opinion he was quite capable of giving I a rational account of any transaction that paned before his I eyes, and he hail always tbund him able to give an account of anything that hail happened to him, and he was always rational, except with regard to the delusion of having spirits in his head, and on that account only he considered him a lunatic. In every other respect he looked upon him as a perfectly sane man. Dr. Hill deposed that he formerly occupied the offioe tilled by Mr. Burton, who succeeded him. Witness was at opium ilum on the 27th of December, :mil found the de ceased was suffering from a fractured arm: and, according to his opinion, that injury had been occasioned by a severe fall on the back part of the shoulder, and that it could not have arisen from a mere ordinary fall by the man's own weight. The deceased was rather tall, hut a very spare man, and at this time he was in a very feeble state. Witnsss put some questions to the deceased, and he told him how he had received the injury, and by whom it had been inflicted. The prisoner shortly after wards came into the room, and witness said to him, " This is a said occurrence, the man's arm is broken." Tho pri soner replied, " I assure you I know nothing about it." Witness said that the deceased said he had done it, and Downy said that he saw him do it. The prisoner replied that it wan false, and he had never lifted his hand against him. noway then interfered and said, "You know you' . did do it. You took hold of him in this way." Downy then laid hold of the prisoner as if to show him how it had happened, and the prisoner again declared that what he had stated was false. Witness remarked that the injury must have been inflicted several days before, and the prisoner said he could assure hint that he knew nothing of it until that morning. The conversation of the deceased at this time was quite rational, and he seemed to under nand perfectly the conversation which passed between him and the prisoner. Witness had had his attention directed to the insane for some years, and his experience had taught him that persons of unsound mind would bear personal in jury and pain withnitt complaining. By Mr. Collier—The memory of an insane person was not necessarily affected ; it frequently was, and it frequently was not. In a great number of eases the memory certainly was affected. Madneas was generally accompanied by a great degree of irritability in the brain. In cases of acute madness the ideas would succeed each other much more rapidly than in a sane subject. A man might labour under a particular delusion without that delusion affecting his mind particularly upon other Subject. ; but in moat cases where such a delusion existed the mind was certainly to some degree affected upon other subjects. The only delusion that Barnes appeared to labour under was that his stomach was as full as a butt and could not contain any more, and this was the chief reason why he refused to take food. It was difficult in , some eases , to ascertain the extent; of a madman's delusion ; and they frequently succeeded in concealing their delusions' front a medical man, particularly when they become aware that those delusions were the ground for their detention. Ile had known eases where a madman had pretended that he no longer laboured under a particular delusion, in order that he might obtain his liberty. It was also common fur certain classes of madmen to exhibit a great deal of dissimu , 'Alan. Ikfore Barnes was admitted to the asylum he had refused to take food, and it was necessary to feed him all the time that he wa. in the establishment. Donelly was, in his opinion, in the strict sense of the word, a lunatic. He had a peculiarity of manner, but he was nut excitable. Wane.s had questioned him repeatedly upon the subject of his delusions about spirits, and he always found him labour ing under the same delusion. When witness asked the de ceased who had hurt his arm, he replied "the keeper ;" , and when he asked him which keeper , he sold he did nut ' know, or he could not recollect his name. He then men tioned the names of two keepers, and deceased said they were not the men ; and he then asked him if it was Hill, and he replied that it was. By Mr. Bodkin—The deceased, from his obstinacy and other circumstances, was undoubtedly a troublesome patient. Mr. A. Poland deposed that he wax assistantssargeon at Guy's Hospital, and demonstrator of anatomy at that insti tution. On the 3rd January last he made a post-mortem examination of the lady of the deceived. The witness &aerated the nature and extent of the injuries the deceived bad re ceived. There were extensive bruises on both sides of the body, the left arm was fractured, and the lower portion of the bone driven completely up . into the arm pit. The sixth and seventh ribs on the right side directly opposite were also broken, as well as the eleventh and twelfth ribs, and the broken portions had penetrated the lining mem brane of the chest, and had produced extensive inflamma tion. The head presented the ordinary appearance in the post morn= examination of lunatics. 'lhe substance of the skull was thickened, and the brain partly absorbed. In witness's opinion the injuries had been inflicted between the period of four to ten days preceding, and in his opinion they were all sustained at the same time, and that they were the result of great and inordinate violence, and could not have been occasioned by a simple fall, or by the man himself. The injuries he considered might have been occa sioned by the deceased being tripped up and thrown to the ground, but it appeared to him that when be so fell the per ' son who had thrown him must have fallen on him, and this would be the most likely mode for such injuries to have been received. The injuries the deceased had received were un doubtedly the cause of death ; but the immediate cause death was exhaustion consequent upon these injuries. 117 Mr. Parnell—The head of the deceased presented all the indications of his being a confirmed lunatic. The lungs of the deceased were diseased from long standing consump tion. The double character of the injuries led hint to be lieve that the deceased could not have occasioned them him self by • fall. Mr. J. 8. Flower, another surgeon, who assisted on the, post ntortens examination, confirmed the testimony of Mr. Poland with regard to the nature of the injuries received by the deceased, and the cause of death. By Mr. Collier—There was a great number of separate bruises upon the deceased's body, which had nothing to do with the broken arm, and they might, in his opinion, all have been the result of severe beating, either by the fins, or by some blunt instrument, and whoever injured the deceased must have exercised very great violence ; and the injuries did not appear to him to be such as would be the result of any ordinary conflict. By the Court—The injuries might have been occasioned by one heavy man falling upon another. By Mr. Collier—The whole of the injuries mightcertainly have been produced by one heavy fall. By Mr. Clarkson—lf the deceased had been lifted up from abed and thrown with great violence upon the ground, and afterwards knelt upon, it would account for the whole of the appearances he observed upon the body of the deceased. Mr. Bodkin said that he now proposed to call Richard Donnelly, the lunatic patient, as a wining. Mr. Collier said he should submit to the court that enough appeared upon their lordships' notes to make it quite clear that he was not an admissible witness, as being a lunatic. Mr. Justice Coleridge said that unless the learned counsel could cite any case in which it had been ruled that a lunatic of the character of this person was not a competent witness, the court should certainly receive his testimony, and reserve th e c eo p e int n f oc or further it i consideration, nsi b t i ra eT ti e o d n, tle if such question couhz nevera should been decided. Mr. Collier admitted that be was unable to cite any deci sion, but he apprehended that it was contrary to every principle of the English law that a lunatic should be per mitted to give evidence. Thteourt said that they should allow the witness to be examined if it should appear that he was aware of the na ture of the obligations of an oath, and upon that point they would allow the learned counsel an opportunity to examine him upon the soil. dire. Richard Donnelly, the person referred to was then brought into court and he was examined by Mr. Collier. In answer to the questions that were put to him he said he was aware that he had a spirit; he maid that he had twenty thousand spirits. They were not all his own spirits, and he did not know whose they were, bat he would in thquire. His own spirits, he said, be could •as being ese which ascended front his stomach to his head, and those which were in his man. He considered that these spirits were created by the palpitation of the nerves. Mr. Collier asked him whether these spirits ever spoke to him 1 He replied that they did incessantly, and particularly ei a ln t' answer to further questions of the same kind, he said bebelieved that these spirits were immortal, and that they livv , after he was in the grave. Hr. Collier inquired if he was aware wlsre thee' spirits from ? nonwlly said that he believed they came from variotis are and from various people. He believed that soma nand Item the Queen, he she was in the habit ot 'jam. hiss Br aid lathw isi Cabo* asi all those controversial spirits," occasionally came to whit him, but, he said, there was goodness in them. These spirits were often speaking to him, and they were sp. 'king to hint now. Ile was not him-elf a spirit hut 6csh and blood, and when his body went to the grsvo Lis spirit would fur. iIYC him. Mr. Collier—Where do you expect your spirit will fp when you are dead ? Donnelly—l cannot say ; perhaps to heaven, or perhaps to purgatory. Mr. Justice Coleridge—Do you believe in purgatory ? Donnelly--I do. lam a Roman catholic, and I have been brought up in the fear of purgatory from my iulanry. By Mr. Bodkin—l understand the meaning of tak:ng en oath. I have been taught by my Catechism that it is lawful to swear for Ood's honour and my neigl hour's good. Mr. Bodkin—What does a man do when hi 'wears? Donnelly—l consider an oath is an obligation imposed upon men for the good of the law. Mr. Bodkin—Do you appeal to anybody when you take an oath ? Donor llv—Ccrtainly, I appeal to the Almighty, and I be lieve that if a man takes a false oath he will g 9 to hell to all eternity, Mr. Collier was then about to re-examine the witness, but Mr. Clarkson contended that he had no right to do en, and he, at the same time, complained that the learned counsel ' had not put a single questien to the witne s s applying to the point whether he understood the nature of un mith, but that all his questions related to subjects calen:..ted to excite the witness. Mr. Collier denied that he had any such object, and said it appearml to hint that all the inquiries he Imo made tended to ascertain whether the witness really nederistood the sacred obligation of an oath. The Court then ruled that the witness should be ex amined. Ilenelly was accordingly sworn. Ile said— I am an Irish man. I have been in the establishment at l'euilium four years and four months exactly, yeetertlay. I went on the 14th October. I used to be in the infirmary eceasionally. I knew the deceased man, Barnes, and I ined to attend upon him. Taylor and Attwood wen two other patients in the infirmary. I know the primmer. Ile , was one of the keepers. I remember a late time before Christmas-day, at bedtime, that the deceas: ereuld not go to bed. Ile did not like going to bd, and I told Hill The prisoner) on that night that lie would not go to bed. prisoner went up to him as he was sitting on the bell and laid hold of him to put him to bed, and ho threw hint rashly on the Hoer, and they both went down together, and the patient was "hurt, d." I know that he was hurt by the report of the dotter, and my own observation that hi, hand was swelled. They both got up together, and Barnes was then put to hod, and I said to him shortly afterwards, " You have got year Christmas box." Ilarnee complained to me after ties that he was hurt, and I examined him and thought his cellar-bone was broken. I saw llill the next morning wit, a the patients were waehed and dressed, but I am not cure that Barnes complained at that time. I believe that I dressed Barnes after tie in Hill's presence, and that he heard him com plain of pain in his arm, and upon one occasi m Hill litkd the arm up, and when he left go of it the arm fell down as though it was dead or powerless. Ily Mr. Collier—The demised objected to the other patients undressing or dressing hint, and we frequently disagreed about it. The prisoner, however. used to put him to bed whether he liked it or not. ttom• times Barnes would let them dress him, and sometimes 11.• would not. Attwood and Taylor used to wont in dressing and un dressing him. Attvrood was a man whine pass' was very easily rtised, and 1 have frequently seen hint very angry with the deceased, and once lie pushed him down upon a them, and the prisoner interfered and checked him. I believe that upon another octts' he laid hold of Barnes and struck him. Taylor is also a very passionate man, and the only way to keep him quiet is to give him tobacco. Ile is apt to be very violent if you don't look after him, but yet he assists both the keeprx. I myself thought the occurrence took place on the Monday before Christmas-day, but the spirits want to make me believe that it was Tuesday. Mr. Justin Coleridge to the witness—ls the account you have just given us of the transaction, an account of what you yourself saw, or is it what these spirits hare told you took place ? llonelly —My lord, I have only told you what I myself was an eye-witness of. The spirit+ , only want to make me believe that I ant mistaken in the day, and that it was 'rues day instead of Monday, but I myself believedbeieve it wa.s Monday. (The occurrence in reality did Monday.) Mr. Clarkson said this was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Collier then addressed the jury for the defence, and after remarking mein the nnueual nature of the charge, and the extntordinary character of the evidence by which it was sought to be supported, he said it was perfectly clear that the only evidence which in any way identified the prisoner as the person who had committed the vio lence, was that of the witness Donelly, and he urged upon them the danger that would result from convicting a person of AO serious a charge as this, or indeed of any charge whatever, upon the evidence of a lemon who was admitted to be a lunatic. It had been ingeniously argued that the prisoner was perfectly rational upon , every subject but that of the purtieular delu sion under which he laboured; but he mired the jury whe , ther it could be safe to place any reliance upon the evidence 1' of an individual whose mind, it was udmithd, wasdiscased. Mow was it ptmible for the jury to distinge;sh how for the delusion in his mind extended, or where sanity ended moll insanity began; and for all that appeared to th e contrary , the whole of the statement he had mule might have been a delusion. lie did not in making these observations at all intend to complain of the enquiry having been instituted; on the contrary, he thought it a most proper one, and lie agreed with Mr. Clarkson, that the com missioners would tint have performed their duty if they had not instituted a strict enquiry into all the circumstances, where the death of an unhappy persoa of this description was involved. The learned counsel then culled the attention of the jury to the medical testimony, and to the extent of the injuries , received by the deceased, and he argued that it was more probable that those injuries should have been occasioned bye desperate struggle between a numberof mailmen left together during the night without an attendant, than that they should have been wantonly inflicted by the prisoner, who had always borne the cha racter of a kind humane man. lie concluded by observing that the present inquiry, he had no doubt, would at all events have this one good effect, of doing away with the practice of leaving a number of madmen thus without pro per restraint, a practice which he could not help saying se him meet improper, and which had most probably reedare to the present unhappy occurrence. Mr. Justice Coleridge having summed up the whole cose, The jury, after deliberating a short time in the box, re . tired. After being absent about half an hour, they returned . into court and gave a verdict of Guilty, but at the same • time etrougly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account t of his previous good character. • Mr. Justice Coleridge said that judgment would be poet ; pond, in order that the opinion of the judges might he taken as to the admissibility of the evidence of the witness • Ilondlly. of • ' - • y.i . THE. BLUE AND WHITE CRYSTAL PALACE TO TB! EDITOR 07 TUE DAILY NEWS. Stn,—As you gave insertion to my letter at the dose of last autumn, suggesting that the finest vines (t o . gether with beautiful climbing plants, for flower yd odour) should be profusely planted inside the Cryst.,,t p a l ace, with a view to shady foliage and graceful festoons, and, ulti nuttely, grapes, I take the liberty of offering a further ..uggestion, through your columns, as to the external orna ments of this immense edifice. We are informed that it is in contemplation to ornament the entire edifice externally in blue and white ; and fears have already been expressed by the Times and in other quarters that this combination will give, with so light a structure, combining acres of calico no less than glass, the appearance of a vast booth at a fair. There can be no doubt of the matter. It will be a wore of Crown and Anchor booths in one, or rather it will give the elf, et of an enor mous tent, or marquee, at a great cricket-match or race course. Possibly it may have the look of a gigantic Chinese porcelain pavilion, or an endless elaboration of the " willow pattern" plate. Besides, what will all this amount of white look like, after it has received the smoke and smut of our metropolis during a few months ? It will become as black as the Achilles. Allow me to suggest that, instead of white and blue for the ornamental colouring, grey and gold should be adopted—the grey in broad maw*, the gold in narrow bands, wreaths, columns, and serpentine belts or mouldings round the columns. The effect of this, combined with the' , glass and white calico, would produce both a rich and aerial effect—a palace of romance. The masses of grey would not show the smoke of London by any means so soon as white ; and when they did, they would only take the appearance of a darker grey for some time, and the gold, being brightened, would again give the whole a fresh appearance, only with a darker slate grey for the masses of colour. I do not know if it would be best that the gold should be by means of gilding. It might be made of a metallic sub stance of the colour of gold and taking a high polish, yet not likely to rust. When it got tarnished it might be cleaned and brightened as at first. If real objections be found which render this unavailable, then grey masses of colour with bronze columns and other ornaments of bronze, would look both light and noble in effect. At any rate, something of this kind might he adopted at all the en trances. If it can be managed, however, I am clearly for grey and gold; and would suggest, with every deference to better judgments in all these matters, that the question should be well considered. I am, dte., R. H. HORNE. PUBLIC URINALS. The correspondence which we published some weeks bark relative to the c.taliliAment of public urinal., and in which the commiloiem r, intimated that they were het by diffi culties, has canal forth the following important suggcs- lions To E. H. Woolrych, Erg., Secretary to the Metropolitan Commission of St.WCT.I. Sir,—We avail ourselves of the invitation from the Me tropolitan Commissioners of Sewers that we should submit any suggestions for removing the obstructions, which you orm us the commissioners have felt, in establishing public urinals, and for promoting the establishment of the public water-closets and urinals. It appears to us that public water-closets and urinals, though admitted to he great public wants, can only be effectually otablisheil by the good-will and co-operation of the public ; and that any attempt to establish them as a mem set of power would be likely to defeat the object in view. We are, therefore, of opinion that the first thing to be done in to invite general assistance and stimulate the means of affording it. Some useful experience may be derived from the state of the existing arrangements, and the amount of the convenience, imperfect as it is, which they certainly afford. We think that the statement of the commis sioners of the difficulty they have found in obtaining possession of suitable sites, must he admitted to he a proof that the present public urinals arc not acceptable to the immediate localities of them. Without undervaluing them, they may he pronounced to be inferior to those which the public arc accustomed to use in railway stations, and are of no use at all to women—half the population. , We submit that the public would hardly welcome an ac commodation less eligible than it obtains from the rail ways ; and we are led to conclude that, to insure success, any future public urinals should he of a decidedly superior character to the few which already . exist, and should be united with public water-closets ; in which case ar ments might, perhaps, be made, whereby their imp7ee c- tions might he remedied. If improved, WI they might be, we apprehend that the commissioners would not experience obstruction, and that neighbourhoods would be both recon ciled to the adoption of them, and even seek to have them established. Probably the plans of Mr. Austin might fur nish some suggestions. It is assumed that some conve niencee uniting water-closets and urinals would he tato blished and managed directly by the eotnmimioners. There appear to be four modes of obtaining sites for this clam of conveniences: 1. Plots of public ground, it is thought, might be readily obtained from the Commisaioners of Woods in the neigh bourhood of the public parka and buildings, as in Somerset House, 4te. 2. Oround floors and the areas of houses belonging to the Commissioners of Woods, as in Holborn, Regent-street, &c. 3. The commissions of sewers might themselves, perhaps, be able to hire ground-floors in a few of the principal tho roughfares for the purpose ; and lastly, sites might be ob tained on the recommendation of parishes. It seems desirable to consider all these modes of obtaining sites at the outset, and if tw etre establishments wenr orga nised in different parts of the metropolis they would give confidence to the public, and make them sensible of the ad vantages of the plan. If the commissioners should concur in these views, we would suggest that a circular be issued, and proper explanation given to certain parishes, expressing the readiness of the commissioners to establish public water closets and urinals, if the parishes themselves will provide a site which, in their judgment, would be most eligible. In Issuing this circular, it would be obviously necessary to send a plan of the general character of the arrangements pro pelled to be made. It might be expedient to ask the parish to Pectinate the superintendent, even though the commis sioners should pay But it is not from this direct action of the commissioners OM the chief extension of these conveniences can be ex pected. At present it is notorious that the public seek them in hotels, public-houses, pastry-cooks' shops, &c. ; and it appears to us, that if the commissioners would foster this ladarect provision by making it the interest of the public to do its own work and make the conveniences known, a gene ral system of such conveniences might be established with comparative ease and cheapness. ithout entering at present into all the details, we sug gest the following outlines of a system, which will be found to have some analogies to the location of post-offices, and would probably, after a time, be self-supporting:— lot. The commissioners to publish that they are desirous to receive offers of the willingness of private parties to pro ' vide such conveniences in public streets, and in connexion with shops, subject to the regulations and superintendence of the commissioners. 2nd. Shops affording the con venience to indicate the same, as "A waiting-room for Gentlemen." or " A waiting-room for Ladies." 3rd. Rooms for men and women always to be in distinct shops. There are certain kinds of shops which each class only frequent, e.g.. Women--staymakers, bonnet makers, ladies' boot and shoe shops. Yen—cigar shops, tailors, Ike. 4th, Such parties should be atliberty to make a small charge. 6th. The commissioners would register and advertise the exist- ace of these authorised place's. and make them known. Probably it would be found that parties were willing themselves to fit up such places. If not, the commissioners would assist to such an extent as they found necessary to insure success. When there should be a prospect of com petition fur the sanction of the commissioners, the standard of the kind of accommodation might be raised, and the conditions made more stringent, but in the beginning they should only be those necessary to insure propriety and cleanliness. We are, sirs. yours, Re. Signed by almost all who signed the letter of the Bth November, and by mans others, among whom are,— Charles Dickens, Thomas * Carlyle, the Right Ron. the Earl Granville, John F. Chorley, Professor E. SoUy, the Right Ron. T. Milner Gibson, M.P. ~..:-- THE INITrzo INvAstos.—What, then, will be the condition of Cheapaide, about twelve o'clock on the Bth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one ? The lowest estimate we have 1111011—(w e do not pledge ourselves to put our trust in it) --computes that there will be an extra million of people in the metropolis during the most part of the time (hat the Great Exhibition remains . would augment the passengers through the open y's centre to Afteen thousand; and, as the new comers will have to be kd with food carried from place to place on wheels, the passage of vehicles will be in creased in umber to upwards of fifteen hundred! What they nal do when they try to push through the Pool- W ai l i t s e turd Mayor only knows ! Upon this, another con engervimes :—if there will be a dedrieney of walking and iddime-Tooen for the welcome invaders, how they are to be hewed? Although a great pressure otbuslner being breed umbers astute, by personalising in more af- Ihtentoolshbaorhasis, who hope to make harvests of profit tematheininsteletiongss ; yet, each stranger a can afford geed asesemeandon and high rants will, we apprehend, fern hat • smil stissority. Me balk of visitor. will be of the Minn INA humbler dares ; Tat, for such persons, he +try arecoussodation been planned, op= a stale Lowdown in these own rank are not am eizinstmlasoed as to be aide to tarn ant et their homes to Wirt, even to their own the cooing strew iatiebriYmlMe " aa P tai ; se few of the we advert too will to remain tw itis t the laaltitudinosta Cos igeessollgkeipesnstrneted would aellice. These r =7lll. eat abold withrat of ti eeerDialsona's Wipe. - COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-YESTERDAT. BAHCO, arras Tsau.—Eaveas Ma. Seance Parma,. Ms. Aroma Wiamum, 4WD Ma. Jyrrica eau. nICILARDSON V. WATSON. This was an action of libel, tried at York, before Mr. Jus tice Wightman, in which the plaintiff, an attorney, claimed damages agains ti the defendant, the publisher of the York shireman newspaper, for an article inserted in that paper, charging him with having been corrupted by Mr. George Hudson, M.P., in certain transactions relating to companies with which they were connected. The plaintiff was one of the eolieitors to the York shire Union Banking Company, and the article in question was headed " Union Bank.—i uriouaEsposurv,"aadaated, amongst other things, that it appeared as if there existed a charter for mismanagement, artifice, and defalcation, in all joint-stock companies over which the plaintiff and Hudson had any control, and that no person ought to be trusted in any responsible situation who was connected with Hudson, as be was a man not only corrupt himself, but who corrupted every person who was narrowly con nected with him. The declaration set out the whole of the libel, and denied the imputations contained in it. The plea justified so much of the libel as was contained in the two paragraphs above set out, alleging as the grounds of such justification a number of transactions over which either Hud son or the plaintiff had been engaged; that Hudson had purchased iron at 61.105. per ton, and had sold it to one company of which he was chairman at a higher rate ; that, as chairman of another company, he had, together with one of the other directors, signed cheques fur the price of lands purchased by the company of Lord Tankerae and others, and for the purpose of paying contractors, and had kept the money in hui own pocket until compelled to pay it over; that upon the occasion of the purchase of the Brandon junction by the Newcastle and Darlington Railway Com pany, and the issue of 22,000 shares, Hudson bad appro priated 1,600 to himself and the plaintiff 100 to himself, the shares being then at a premium, and that being chairman of the North Midland, Hudson had sold to that company , his own shares in the Hull and Selby at a premium. The jut 7 found that mismanagement, artifice, and defalcation did exist in every company with which the plaintiff and Hudson were connected, but negatived the fact of the plaintifrs having been corrupted: Upon this finding the plaintiff claimed to have the verdict entered for him gene rally, upon the plea of justification. And the defendant, on the other hand, claimed a right to have that issue divided, and to have a verdict entered for him asto the first part of theplea which the jury found had been proved,rit., so much ar charged mismanagement, artifice, and defalcation. The cue was now argued by Mr. Atherton and Mr. Brice for the defendant, but the arguments were of a purely technical character, and it was admitted that the sole question was one of cons. Mr. Cowling was to have argued on the other aide, but was not called upon by the court, Mr. Justice Patteson saying there was no doet about the ewe; the defendant himself picked out two par tinder parte of the libel and joined them together and justified them, and that the court could not divide • them; if it did so it would lead to a most tricky stem of pleading. The plaintiff was entitled to the ver&et upon the whole plea , for the part which the jury found to be Proved did RA arareeerily involve the chewier of the plaintiff at "ill ; • there might .be nfismanefententa artifice). and eorruption eta every company with which thif plaintiff was unne es cteff and =ft set be imitlieseed - ia The ~Antar NM s(