Star. — London, England, 1828-03-08 00:00:00

required for the formation and repair of the footways, and mach of that used in paving the Macadamized streeets, have been prepared or broken, until lately, in a part of the ground belonging to the workhouse, which was lent to the Vestry for this purpose by the Directors and Guardians (k). This ground the Direc tors and Guardians have been obliged to reclaim ; and had not the Vestry been provided with a spot to which their workmen and stone-breakers could be removed, that work must hart been stopped, and the M hole pav ing establishment broken up. flow injurious to the parish such a cessation would have been will be easily seen, when it is known that every stone for the Mac adamized streets is broken by paupers, who would, otherwise receive parish relief. They are thus wholly, or in a great measure, kept off the peril . ' books, and enabled to earn their living by honest industry ; while the parish is provided with the material for its streets and footways, prepared under the inspection of its own Surveyor, upon much more advantageous terms than it could otherwise be obtained. The number at paupers employed in breaking stones throughout the year has averaged sixty weekly. It may be mentioned, as an incidental advantage arising to the parish from the purchase of this ground, that it enables the Directors and Guardians of the poor to keep many idle, but able-bodied paupers off their books, who apply for relief under pretence of being unable to procure work. This class of applicants are sent to the stone yard (1), and With what effect, a single instance may be sufficient to prove. From the 7th to the 26th Febsuary, tickets were given to fifty-one paupers of this description, authorising them to obtain work at the stone-yard in breaking stones; of these tickets fifteen only were presented, and of the fifteen persons thus employed ten only are now at work. Such have been some of the practical advan tages resulting from the purchase of this ground. But it has been insinuated that more was paid for it than its real value, and that the Vestry had been influenced by an undue regard for the interest of the respectable individual (ati of shorn it was bought. The parishi oners then should know, that the price paid for the ground was thirty years purchase, at a valuation of SOL per acre; and it is notorious to builders, and persons acquainted with the subject, that land in the neigh bourhood has been let at a much higher rate. It should also be known, that after the purchase had been completed, and the money paid, the individual from whom the ground was obtained, when he heard that some members of the Vestry had expressed doubts of the expediency of the measure, immediately offered to return the money, and take back the land. The remainder of the debt is chargeable upon the paving and highway rates. The debt upon the paving rate is produced by the necessity of a large outlay at first, for Istaterialsior paving new carriage and foot ways. And it is so evident, that the whole of this charge cannot with justice be laid on the rates of any one year, and that it is a charge which must frequently occur, as new streets are formed and built, that it is unnecessary to dwell for a moment on the subject. The debt upon the highway rate bas been gradually accumulated in consequence of the difficulties Which the Veatry have felt in making an adequate assessment,l owing to the ambiguous, and, as it has been supposed, contradictory language of the 19th and 25th sections of the Act, 3 Gt0.1V.c.84. And the money now owing on that rate aas raised in pursuance of the directions of the 20th section of'►hac Act. The Vestry have been censured for charging the repairs of the Alpha and FA road leading to &John's Chapel on the Church rate. These are Church roads. They are expressly made as approaches to the parochial burying ground, along which funerals are daily passing. It was therefore deemed right that the expense of their repairs should be charged upon the church rate. It should also be known that, in the contract for the pur chase of that land in 1807, a covenant was introduced, stipulating that these roads should be originally made at the expense of the vendor (a), and then for ever kept in sepair out of the church rate. Nor could the Vestry obtain the land on any other terms. The present Velars, then, cannot be justly blamed for complying with, and acting upon, covenants which were made twenty years ago. But it is urged, as an incontrovertible proof of the i esuavagance and inconsideration of the Vestry, that the rates have been raised elevenpence in the pound this i year. It is true that the poor rate has been raised Is. IJ. in the pound ; and the paving rates have been lowered 2J. in the polled; so that the total increase of the rates is lid. in the pound. It is also true that an increased poor rate is not a burden which fells on the parishioners of St. Mar y.la-bonne alone; it is an evil to which the whole kingdom is unhappily subject. It has been the good iortune and the boast of the parish hitherto~ that its rates have been remarkably low. For that advan tage. then let the Vestry, now so loudly accused of mismanagement, inconsideration, and .extravagance, have its due share of praise. Even now, the parochial taxes of this parish are.comparatively low; and when all the ea curnstances of the case are fairly considered, no small share of commendation ought to be given to that continual watchfulness and careful manageinent which still keeps them down. The poor rate, it should be remembered, must ever be a ti , ,ctuating rate. It is raised, among other pur. poses pointed out by law, for the necessary relief of the poor ; and as the number and wants of the post increase or diminish, so will it rise or tall. The rate at present is 2s. 3d. in the pound. In the year 1801 it was 25.4 d. when the population of the parish w as taken at 63,982 (o) —From the year 1801 to 1814 the rite fluctuate,i between 2s. 4d. and Is. 9.1. In the year 1814 it nas again raised te 2s. Id. and after many alte.ations in the intervening years, it was lowered in the year 1824 to 13.2 d. at wh;cli sum it continued for the two follow ing years. It mill probably be again diminished : on doubtedly the Vestry will lower it if they can. They did not raise it until difficulties of no common kind convinced them that the measure was not only neces sary to provide for the immediate and Fressing claim, ef a greatly increased body of paupers; but to restore tteir balances to a state which,might enable them to give time for cellteting at least a portion of the rates of the current year, without having recourse to.tem porary loans from their bankers. When it is known that at the end of the last year (k) The stone used hi the first conversion of the pavements of O:M7d-street and Portland-place into Macadamized road', was broken on the spot: but this cannot be done in narrower streets. (1) An able-bodied 131.12 can earn 12s. per week by breaking stones. (In) The whole, or nearly the whole of the landed property of the parish was in the hands of Vestrymen. If then the Vestry wanted land within the parish, they were obliged to apply for it to , members of their own Pody. • • (~) k B uy be observed, that the vendor was not then a Vestry. Bien, nor even resident in the kingdom ; nor was Iris agent t h en a member of the Vestry. or living in the parish. (o) In the year 1921, the population amounted to 90,040, and k is supposed to be at present from 112,000 to 11.1,000. INNowilmi 7,388 persons (p) were receiving relief from the poor rate, either in or out of the workhouse ; that the expenses of the poor in that year amounted to 54,000/. (q), the inhabitants will then judge how far they have just cause ' for complaining of the management which h as so lon g kept their poor rate down, and has now only raised it to 2r. 3d. with a hope and expectation of being able, in some degree at lest, to diminish it again. Be it re membered also, that the poor are only a portion of tl , e burden entailed by law upon the poor rate. The county rate (r), the expense of those prosecutions which the parish is required by law to institute or maintain, and all the various incidents to which such an establishment as the parochial business of this large parish requires is liable, all expenses indeed except the items charged upon the church, paving, and watch rates, are by law directed to be paid out of the poor rate, and necessarily add to its fluctuating character. We do not feel ourselves pledged for the correctness of the calculations made by the opponents of the Vestry but the real state of the case, as regards the poor rate, is this: The rate of 1826, of Is. 23. in the pound, amounted to 40,'9641. The additional rate of is. lel. amounts to 38,629/. and the whole rate for the present year will give a total of 79,5931. On the other side of the account we shall have to place the following items :—Charge of the Poor, 54,000/. County Rate, 6,1901. Interest on Bond Debt, 1,357/. Portion of the Debt to be paid Off according to the itovisiuns of the Act of Parliament, being one-thirtieth of the whole sum borrowed, about I,oool.—Total. 62,5471. leaving a balance of 17,0461. on the 31st of Mcember ; which, when added to the balance of 1826, 9,7791. will make a total of 26,8251. to provide for the necessary relief of the pour until the following 30th of June, when the first half-yearly payment of the current year's poor rate becomes due (s). We trust, then, that it will appear evident to every candid person that the poor rate has not been hastily, inconsiderately, or unnecessarily increased. Two other charges have been brought against the Vestry, which seem to require an answer. It has been urged as a proof of their extravagance, that their Vestry Clerk receives a salary of 1,2501. per annum. This, though nominally, is not really the cawnuch is the sum charged in the accounts under the head of the Vestry Clerk's salary ; and it is divided in due proportion among all the rates, as it would not be just or equitable that any one rate should be charged with the whole salary of an officer whose duties render him responsible for the due conducing of every department under the controul of the Vestry. Bat out of this nominal salary the Vestry Clerk has to pay the assistant clerks employed under him ; and the net income which he enjoys, when these deductions ate made, is 8451.—a sum which no pinion will consider too great, who is aware of the laborious duties of that Gentleman's office, and that they necessarily occupy all his time. The only charge against the Vestry which yet remains to be cos. sidered, relates to the transferring of the evening services from seve ral of the Proprietary Chapels to the District Cburches and St. John's Chapel. It may be sufficient to say of this measure, that when it is carried into complete effect, as will be the case when Trinity Church is consecrated, the means of attending Divine Service on the Sunday evening will thus be afforded to more than 9,000 persons, instead of 4,600, the utenost number which the (lapels at which the Evening Service has been discontinued could accommodate. The annual charge to the parish will also be de. creased from 1.1721. the sum paid for the third services at the Pro prietary Chapels in question, to 8124 the sum which will be paid Ifor the whole expense of the third services at the foLr district Churches, and St. John's Chapel. 'The arrangements at the parish Church aid parochial Chapel have suffered no alteration, and are, therefore, not included in this statement. Clearly, then, this ma.. sure cannot be deemed an instance of inconsiderate extravagance. Whether it is an effective measure, as far as the interests of religion art:concerned, and particularly as respects the power classes, they will heat judge who attend the service, and observe the numbers and conduct of the several congregations. As for the charge of in tokrance affixed to this measure, it will be time enough to answer that when the accusers have rendered it intelligible. And those who said that considerable addition is made to the ecclesiastical patro. nage of the Vestry, ought to have known that the Act of Parlia ment which sanctioned the bulking of the district Churches, placed this patronage, such as it is, in the hands of the respective district Rectors. Vide 1 and 2 Oeo. IV. c. 21. s. 17. It winnow only be necessary to add a few remarks, for the pur pose of explaining briefly the real objects of the Consolidatiou 11111 which the Vestry wished to bring into the present Session of Par liament, and have now abandoned in deference to the presumed desire of the parish. Some doubts had been expressed by high legal authority, as to interpretation of two of the clauses in the Act of 3 Geo. IV. c. 84. And these doubts had rendered it difficult to assess and collect a portion of the rates on the north-western part of the parish. The consequenie of this was that the expense of repairing, lighting, and Watching the unpaved parts of the parish, has very greatly exceeded the amount of the rate levied for that purpose. Acting, therefore, under the legal advice they had obtained, the Vestry conceived that no other alternative remained, if the inha bitants of that part of the parish should refuse to pay the necessary rate, than either to leave it without the protection of watchmen or lamps, or to obtain from Parliament powers to levy a rate cent. menaurate with the expense. Such was the original sound on which the Vestry determined to apply to Parliament for a new Paving Act. It was then deemed expedient that, as the expense of an Act was to be incurred, other matters relating to the police, and civil concerns of the parish, and likely to be very conducive in themselves to the comfort and cut,- venience of the inhabitants, should also be provided for. One of these was a better system of watering, now rendered imperatively necessary by the anxiety expressed by the inhabitants to have so many of the streets Macadamized. When the Bill was introduced in the last Session of Parliament, the Noble Chairman of the Com mittee of the House of Lords suggested the propriety of a Conso lidation Bill, that the law of the parish might thenoeforth be found in one Act, instead of being searched for 4n four. To this opinion, thus expreased, the Vestry felt themselves bound to defer ; and thus wee produced the Bill which has been so much opposed, but really so little understood. That Bill is now withdrawn. Whether the best interests of the pariah have been consulted by its abandonment, time will show. But though the Vestry will not claim for that Bill, or for any of their measures, the character of perfection, they may truly say that the object of them all was the benefit of the parish ; and that nei ther in asking for new powers, nor for the re-enactment of those which they already possess, were they actuated by any motive but that which honourable men will always feel an anxious desire, rightly to perform the useful and lahoeieus duties of their important office. By order of the Vestry, , J. H. GREEN WELL, Vestry Clerk. Court House, St. klary-la-bonne, March 5, 1825. (p) In the month of Illarch, 1827, the numbers stood thus— In the workhouse 1,025. In the sick house 318. Out.door poor 7,194. Total, 2,537. In the mooch of Match, 1822, the total number was only 5,524. (q) In this sum are of course included the salaries paid to the different dicers of the woilatoisse ; the rent and repairs of the building; and all which properly wines eider the establishment required for the poor. (r) More than one-eighth of the county rate for Middlesex is paid by the parish of St. Muy.la.bonne. (a) Poor Rate, 479,50; Chasse of Poor . . £54,000 County Rate . . . 4,/flO Interest . . . 1,357 To pay off . . 1,000 Balance . . 17,046 0NN.M......... BRUNSWICK THEATRE. ADJOURNED INQUEST. • (Condausd from the STAR of Thursday.) Thursday, at half past two o'clock, the Coroner and Joey atreaL:ed the Court House, Wellclose-square.— Mr.Gough, the district surveyor, was in attendance. The surveyor of the Theatre was also present.—Mr. HILL attended as Counsel for Mr. Whitwell ; Mr. COMYN was present for Mrs. Maurice. The Jury being sworn, William Hooper, of Green , street, 13.rck-lane, St. George's, deposed to having, on the night of the accident, been called on from Sr. Katharine's Dock, to clear away the rubbish. They commenced about six o'clock, at the entrance of the stage door. After working for about two hours, they di.covered the body of a man quite dead; part of his body was on the first step of the entrance, and his legs on the pavement; believed that his naive was Davidsoo. Hooper was further examined, and deposed to finding. Jesse Miles about eleven o'clock at night under tht ruins inside the theatre. Mr. Pulsiord was put into the witness box, and a paper being handed to him, and he being asked by the Coroner whether he knew that paper, Le replied that he did, and that it contained the articles of agreement. The Coroner's Clef k then read the paper, which con-, tained the a rticles of agreement between the propriernra j and contractors, consisting of eleven, regarding the structure, materials, and prices in the different arCieles used in the builditt. Witness, in continuation—The prices named in the contract are the best prices, and I made it with Mr. Maurice and Mr. Carruthers. It was the same speci fication which I have mentioned in my former evidence. The examination was here interrupted by the entrance of the King's Surveyors. Coeonea (to the Surveyors)--Do you think there will be any clanger if 1 let the wall stand for a week? Mr. Nash—l do not think there will. Mr. Smirke was of the same opinion. The proprietor of the house adjoining the Theatre addressed the Coroner, and said, that in the presence of the Government Archi tects he begged leave to state the anxiety himself and family were in by the proximity of north wall of the Theatre to his house. The workmen who had been employed to take down the upper part of the wall had stopped bison, and left a part of the cornice, which excited most serious apprehensions. The Coaoaaa said that the workmen had stopped by his direc. tion, as he wished to leave such portion of the wall standing as would enable competent persons to form a judgment of its stability. Mr. Nash said. that it was quite unnecessary to leave any more of the wall up, as it could not have any influence on the judgment himself and Mr. Smirke should form. The papers he now wished for were the specification of the masons' and carpenters work. .(The specification required was put into his hand.) Mr. Nash—lf there he any specification or indemnification of the iron roof, we would wish to see it. Mr. Comm said, that unfortunately there was no specification cm the part of the smith. • Mr. Aiding was then called into the witness-box—My first in structions were from Mr. 'Vs'kitwell, the architect, to attend the masons with chain bonds, to be worked into the walls as they went up. I sent the chaiu bonds, and men to put them in, and the clerk tit the works gave orders where they should be put in. The chain bond was put into the wall at distances generally of three fret six inches apart. Doting the progress of the carcass, the first erection was merely that of the four walls; as the walls proceeded, ties were put from the back to the front, I believe nine in number, with braces and struts; at the new angle—one wall being old—angle-ties were intruiluced, at about ten or twelve feet front the corner, dove tailed upon the chain bond, as appears from the plan I now hold in my hand. COM:WM—Give in the plan. Witness—l beg leave to observe that this plan is made merely from recollection, and to elucidate such evidence as I expected to be called upon to give in the course of my examination; therefore, I do not give it in as an accurate plan. The plan was then banded in, and marked by the Coroner. Witness—The carcass work in which I was engaged was done according to that plan, under the direction chiefly of Mr. Shaw, Clerk of the Works. The size of the chain bond was nine inches by six ; the size of the ties were from 14 to 15 inches by 41 to 5; the braces and struts writ five inche• by six; there were many other braces and struts used in orhcr parts of the building which are not shown in this plan. From the building of the four walls, before any thing was done in the interior, those braces and ties were ne cessary to secure them. I believe I have stated all that we did. A long explanation of some differences between Messrs. Maurice and Carruthers and Mr. Whitwell was here entered into by the witness, but which had no bearing, directly or indirectly, on the question at issue. The Jury then adjourned until yesterday, at nine o'clock. The investigation was resumed yesterday morning. The frames •f the Jury having been called over, and proclamation being made, Mr. James Arding's examination was resumed—The plan in my % hand is a section showing the whole of the openings as left in the wall in front of the Theatre.o-it shows also the longitudinal section of the stage, the dressing rooms under the flies, the carpenters and painters' shops. The iron roof was putting on, and the works of the stage and rooms under were going on at the same tiose.My impression is, that she timber for the stage was supplied the third or fourth week in October. There were two meetings of the Proprietors, and at the second meeting Mr. Shaw was engaged to do tbe works. They were begun about three days afterwards ; I was at the Theatre at the time; the joists of the stage were doing at that time ; the flies were not then begun; I think the flies were begun about a fortnight after. I saw the stage in its progress; Mr. Silaw's people were doing the works of the flies under his direction ; I do not know what sort of directions Mr. Shaw gave. By a Juror—Did Mr. SIIAW act under the direction of a surveyor? Witness--Z do not know that he did. Juror—Was +there or not a surveyor appointed at the second meeting ? Witness—There was no Surveyor ..resent but Mr. Benson, whom I took as my friend, but he had nothing to do with the Theatre. I took bins only to guide use in the contract I was about to make. By Mr. Comex—The ties took about a fortnight to erect, and the painters' workshop about four days. The carpenters' workshop was not finished until three or four days before the house opened, When the stage floor was up, one end of the flies was supported in the walls, the other was ft anted into a trimmer, and the trimmer supported by struts from the stage. The painters' shop rested upon the flies. The carpenters shop had girders resting in the waUs, and suspended by bolts and iron straps to the roof. I now look at Plan No. I. The lines represent the meets, they are about one foot apart, and numerous. The bear upon the walls at one end. The struts or uprights are placed under the trimmer. I think the height of the first fly was about 14 feet from the stage. The stouts supported that fly. These were two tiers of flies, one precisely the same as for Other, but over it, and were the same on both sides of the stage. The upper flies were supported by strata as well as the lower. The upper fly was about seven fret above the lower. The Baur of the winters' shop rested on the second tier of flies. The plan No. 2 shows correctly, as far as am able to judge, the manner in which the floor cf the painters' shop rests on the flies. The joists which supported the floor were irons thirty to thirty-four feet. I believe they were about twelve inches by three inches thick. The floor of the carpenters' shop was' supported by girders, the ends of which laid in the wars, baying suspension bolts and straps, both of iron. the bolt from the roof went through the girder. On the iron ties of the roof were placed long pieces of 'limber, two of which ate repre sented in the plan above the straight line. The bolt is attached by nut and screw to the pieces of timber, and is fastened on the top by a nut, screw, and iron plate. The iron roof rested on the four walls of the building. There was a plate laid on the walls, and the roof `rested on that plate. I never before saw but two Iron roofs in my life, to the best of my recollection. Ido not know how those two roofs were laid. The plate was bedded in mortar—it was com posed of an immense number of pieces, dove-tailed together. The roof was constructed of a great many separate pieces. The witness Was here proceeding to describe, from a plan io his hand, the formation of the roof, when A Juror inquired whether the witness had any thing to do with the roof ? Witness—Nothing whatever. Juror—Then it is only lost time to examine him on that point. Mr. Cosirs—l submit that it b most important, because it ap pears to me that the main question rests here. Coacuma—l think we are proceeding in the proper course: It the Learned Counwl desires to put these questions, I am bound to take down the winiess's answers. Mr. Comyx—l think them most essontiaL The witness then described the construction of the roof, which was of wrought iron—there were gutters of cast iron. Cosmisa—ls there .Lny Qentletnan attendist on behalf of the person who made the roof? Mr. Coarn—l believe nut ; it was made at Bristol, sad I think . there is no imputation on the construction of the roof. Entwined= resumed—The several pieces of the roof grappled each other in such a way as to prevent exposition. The baits I alluded to in a farmer part of my deposition Ma not afford any sup. port to the floor of the carpenters' shop , they only supported the flies. I was at the Theatre on an average about twice each week, while the flies and the workshops were gnieg on. I applied as the timber; I received the orders from Air. Shaw tor the timbre for the fires and workshops ; during the time they were in progress, I saw the architect, but not often ; I did the joiners' work in patt ; I have already said that Mr. Shaw did the other part. Tie upright from tire first fly stood on the floor of the stage—lds nu kuow that it rested on the joists—the only part of the carpenters wink which I performed in the interior of the building was the pit ; there was a circular wall upon the back of the pit upon whit* rested cast-iron eiders, from which strong britk arches, over which were joists, flow log boards, and 3t2t4, forming the pit. The ph, I my judgment, was very properly supported in all its points. TJus joists were Dantzic timber. The scantlings differed from 8 inchee by ei inches, to 9 inches by 3 inches, according to their different bearings.—The witneu here put in two letters. which he wished to have read—they were front the late Mr. Maurice. addressed to himself. Mr. COMYN objected to the reading of the letters, as they Mold break in on the chain of evidence. The Cueowee—At a future period those letters will be important, but it is not convenient to read them now. Examination resumed—The support for the boxes Tested on the circular brick wall at the back of the pie, at one end, and at the other are wrought-it on columns, resting on brick. The second tile of boxes rested as bet ot e oa one end, and the other on wroughtiroer columns, above the ones described already. The galleries wetest ported in a similar way, the principal timbers of which ran into the main walls; to the under side of the girders, sustaining the carmine ters' shop.—The interior brick work stood upon its ion base. There was no connection between the brick work in the interief of the Theatre and the exterior walls. In my judgment the gallery and boxes were snfficiently and safely supported— the columns running front the bottom to the top were amply sub. went for the purpose of supporting the galleries. The flies had DV other supports than the uprights and the joists, being let into the external walls. I will add, there were four posts in tht building, which I understood were called proscenium posts, into which the trimmers of the flies were framed. Those suppotts were 40 feet keg --they were wood. The two front sprang (eons a wall which was built for the foundation of the stage, and the two back ones from brick piers brought from the foundation of the boildiug. The upper and lower flies were framed into these poses, and the carpenters' shop rested on the top. I cannot say whether a not the uprights were properly let in, as I did not examine than; Mr. Shaw did that work; I newer saw soy plans of thefiiel, the workshops, or the roof, up to this dab ; I have been a carport, from 18 to 20 years; I do not know that Mr. Shaw was a cats penter ; I never knew hint until I met him at that building; at. cording to my judgment and experience, the joists of the flies whirl, were let into the external wall injured them, pod I would explain k thus :—The building, as I have already stated, was entire, and the joists being afterwards cut into the walls, mutilated them, and ia my judgment weakened them. Mr. Coatre—Frona your knowledge and experience in building, 'Can you form any opinion as to the cause of the Theatre falling ? Witness—l cannot form any opinion on the subject. Mr. COSITNI wistl to know how the joists of the flies rested upon the walls? • Witness--The apertures were cut out, and the joists simply rested On the brick work. Coes:isnot— Were they not tied in ? Witness—Some of them were let in with plates. This was alto. gether a peculiar building. It is not usual to fasten joists let in with iron ties. I never before saw a fiour let in in that way, as re. wards the joists without them. In letting in joists into externs/ walls, it is usual to fasten them with halts . lit my oriole, the bolts which were let in through the trimmers and girders, and con. uected with the carpenters' shop, affected the roof. In my judf. ment of practical carpentry, 1 have always understood that the lower part or tie of a roof is for the purpose of preventing the spreading or' the foot of the rafters—a weight placed upon the tie of the roof must necessarily tend to pull the roof Nithin the walls that support it. Mr. Couve—eWas there suck a weight as you describe from the carpenters' and the painters' shops, and the flies, 45 to produce that effect? Witness—Certainly not, so long as the uprights which I before described, from the stage to the flies, remained. Mr. Conve—Did the uprights prove:it the weight of the flies and the workshops from dragging in the roof? Witness—ln my judgment they did. Mr. Comex—What was the utility of putting the bolts and swaps through the trimmers to the roof? Witness—To tie the floors together. Mr. Comex—Supposing these bolts bad no communication mid the roof, would the external walls have been sufficient to support the roof? Witness—Yes, in my judgment, they were sufficiently strong. COMTN—Do you know that any other weight was put upea the roof other than the cast iron guitars? Witness—The slates, the lead hips, the ridges, and the sky fights Mr. Castro—How lately before the accident happened were yea at the theatre? Witne,a—l was there for a very short time on the morning pre. Timis, and I was alio there for a few hours on the Friday. Mr. Coxrie—How long had your work been finished before the accident ? _ _ Witness—l had men there at the time, one of whom, a Most faithful servant, John Abbott, is now in the Hospital, with the loss of a leg; he had been in my father's and my employ for nearly forty years. Mr. Cowrst—Did any thing occur to you at the last time yes were at the Theatre, as to the dangerous state of the building? ' Witness—Nothing whatever. Mr. gostro—When a settlement takes place in a wail, are oat the doors affected ? Witness—lt would be in common building, but it would twit affect-the internal doors of a theatre. Mr. Coasyx—Why nor in this particular building—if a settle ment had taken place, which I do not say there had? Witness—The wells of this Theatre were carried up separately. If a settlement had taken place in this instance, the internal doors would nut be affected by it. bemuse the esterOal walla rested as their own basis. Mr. Cown—Do you know whether any of the uprights whici supported the flies had been .taken away or removed before the accident ? Witness—l do not. Cross examined by Mr. Hill, for Mr. Whittvell—l never re ceived any instructions from Mr. Whitwell respecting the stage, flies, or workshops nor did any of my men to my knowledge. There were bats and straps connecting that part of the carpenters' hop next the gallery wieti the roof. The weight of the workshops would have strained ,tie roof but for the nest iron columns. De distance between the upper and lower boxes was about ten feet. k my opinion, if the uptights had been taken away front the steps or if they had been lessened even by two, the tiers of Bits worsid have depended for support on the roof. The throwing on Melt a weight as that would not have been a fair and proper me of the roof. If it had been thought proper to throw wvigist on the roof at all, such weight should have beeirthrowst on alas principals and not on the ties. The effect of throwing a Wrolglin on the ties is to belly them down, and if so a great weight would be thrown on the girders of the floor of the carpenters shop. Sup posing the weight to be so great as to bleak the girders,they would break where the bolts pierced them. The bolta were alter nately inserted into the girders near the ends—those of the girders which broke near the back wall would Oferale as an easy lever, to prize asp the upper part of the front wall. The joists might have been supported by trimmers, let hoe the wall, and vertical posts; the joists 13i the flies snigte have been supported by trimmers at arch end, without fleeing the wall at all ; in point of fact, the joists of the stage w e re setTorted on latest-summers and vertical posts. i Was in tin theatre only two or duce minutee on the morning Were the accident. I was in the pit, and on the box staircase. 1 was in no pert of the theatre where I could examine she state Cl the roof. I did not prepare the gliders rfor the carpenter; shop. Six weeks before the house opened, I had an order let (cur or six trusses for the carpenters' shop from Mr. Show. but they were countermanded. The object .of a truss is to Jet it in between the pieces of timber, to strengthen those picas of timber, and if these trusses had been erected, they would haw strengthened the girders, consequently the floor; the trusses wort to be let into pieces of timber from 62 to 64 feet long ; there were no girders in any part of the building but in the carpenters shop. Mr. CO”YN here put in the memorandum of agreement betel* tit* proprietors, Messrs. Maurice and Carruthers, and Mr. Stoiluili Whitwell, for the building of the Theatre. This having been read, a letter was banded by the foreman the Jury to the Coroner,which be had received, directed to binawk. The COROtilla read it, and putting it into his pocket, said Jar would keep it until after the verdict was returned. Of soon* the purport of the letter did not transpire. The foreman of Mr. Arding was then called, and he aepored having given the order fur the trusses, as elicited In the:Close examination of that gentleman. The COROMIL then adjourned the Inquest at hair postiour until Monday next, at nine o'clock in the mortaing. The Jurors were each bound in a recognizance of 1104 to appear. HIGH-WATER at LON1)ON-1.11LIDGE TO Milt ROW. Moraiag 4Q minute), atter 1 Afternoun . • 16 'lmitate ater LONDON: Printed and Published by Joan blArss. rbe.,Peqprittut, si we Sran Or Tics, Nc; l'idiett-place Teigplo.Bat • 1 ., • • NUMBER 12,807.] • EAST INDIA Hog. THE COURT of DIRECTOR' COMPANY of MERCHANTS of E at EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, . In conformity to the Sixth Section of th the By-Laws of the said Company, That the hallowing Proprietors, qualified a i 1 . jAltd,fias in Writing , to the Secretary, the' Candidates for the Direct on, at the ensuin Thews, on WIDISADAT, the 9th of April ne . ~ ewn Alexander, Iteq. George ' • William Stanley Clarke, Esq. Sir Geo. , Hick- Chicheley Plowdea, Esq. John Tb ... .70SEPI EAST INDIA THOU 1 1 , HE COURT of *DIRECTOR , . ga-. COMPANY e MERCHANTS of E the EAST INDIES, do hereby give• Notice, That the QUARTERLY GENERAL COMPANY, appointed to be held at their street, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th Instant, foe thb purpose of -submitting, for confirmed as General Court of the 19th of Decembe ~licsolotion of the Court of Disockirs at • : . ;kodi, gnat* to rapt* Est ifoesi perintendent of the Ilanshay Marine, a Annum, on the grounds therein stated. The Report required by the Bg.Law, es 4 with the Documents upon which the said I founded, are open for thi impeeden of the it: House. JOSEPH .... VICTUALLING OFFIC • • THE COMMISSIONERS for ' kis MAJESTY'S NAVY, to. do . that on Tnuasner, the 20th Instant, receive Tenders in writing (sealed op i • SEVENTY MILLE UP QUEBEC Tohe delivered into his Majesty's Virtue . • . ford, one half thereof by the 50th -day of 1 the other half-by the 15th of Salutary, 1829. The Conditions of the Contract may be t E. 'Tender mast specify the price in w &Moored before Ave o'Clock on the day • Ferson who makes she Tender, or some ' e moat attend to answer id= called for. t s lL Nu i s VICTUALLING-OFF! • , • O ". T HE COMMISSIONERS for '' . kis MAJESTY'S .NA yr; tic. do e . That on TOSSOAT, the 18th Inseam, they Tenders id Writing (sealed up), and tseat for I Flee Thousand BLUE CLOTH JACKE Five Thousand Pair of DUCK TROWS Five Thousand DUCK FROCKS, Fight Thousand Pair of WORSTED ST I I Five Hundred FLUSHING JACKETS, t For. the me of the Seamen of his Majesty's erred into the Victualing Stores at Deptford of sack Public Packer ha London, as the V * 'hereafter determine, on or before the let day 3 , Putman of the aboemmootioned Slops re ^'Oilice, and those to be agreed for are to be in thereto, in quality, size, and make. c ` • I The Conditions of the Contracts may be be -"; Each Tender must specify the price in wo davered before One o'Clock on the Day et Penton who makes the Tender, or some Perso Se *mod to answer when called for. IT M. ;VAL re This day was published, price Ss. sc at D is4ojou.R.sELosc:K i E. sran w sl i a th mp te i dfr ort o :t Original French. • 1. On the Existence of a Goo. 2. On the Weakness of Man. e. 3. On the Way of preserving Pe Dedicated to the Countess of Shaftesbury. N y. the Autograph of the Translator, in the P. n II A..41,1+C11C, M.D. et London r Printed for Harvey and Dorton, A CURTIS ON DRAFNES he Lately published, a Fourth Edition, con i improved. Price 7s. 6d. . A TREATISE on the PI - IYSIO t. 1 1 EASES of the EAR; with the mo Ir. Treatment. le• ' By J. HARRISON CURTI r e , Surgeon Aurist to the K* in " This Work Is intened to convey a pl '. k ledge of the important and interesting subje k testimonials of its value, see the London im ' Journal, London Medical Repository, Medic id Monthly Magazine, New Moodily Magaz eh .. Ikvrew, Ste. Plc Printed for T. and G. Underwood, 5 tot Of whom may be had, by the sa ,Ins A CLINICAL REPORT of the ROY Os: for I)ISRA SKS of the EAR, Dean-street ail '„ 1817 to 1827, containing an Account of the if- kilmitted, cured, and relieved. Illustrated lid tic.' It‘eresarks relative to the Deaf and Duns :5- • '• We find that, in several instances of he came under Mr. Curtis's own care, the Pate • ne pm atively simple means furnished, first, with I NIL ..rid subsequer.tly with the gift of speech.' we Depository. rtc - It appears that Mr. Curtis has laboured erg as assiduity, in the department upon which ere his attention; for it is a tact of pecular inter :lo Dumb might often be cured, were they suhj the urination and method of treatment."—Lond to of si' FROM FRIDAY NIGHTS G let DIVIDENDS to be made in BASING a . 'March 28, Charles Dollman, Regent-street It at eleven. March 28, William Abbott, Win• as et eleven. March 28, Thomas Bignold, SCR. or e friars, dealer in boots and shoes, at ten. y;e 13tishopsgate-street.Within, grocer, at eleven. Is Martian, Water-lane, Tower.street. brandy March 28, Thomas Porthouse, Wigton, • o twelve. March 28, William Capel, 'Mark- o March 2s, Edw. Hickman, Loniberd4treet, April t, John Bennett, Warwick-square, et March 28, George Noah, Pall•mall, tailor, a v g. ' Simnel Wagsta ff and Thomas Baylis, Kidder ,hr ' facturers, at eleven. rat - • DIVIDENDS to be made in the I March 51, Filcher Longley, now or late to carpenter, at twelve, at the Guildhall, Cant ore April 22, Samuel Nickels, Liverpool, woolle the Court House Leeds. April 5, William D A bampton, -Staffordshire innkeeper, et twelve ors Inn, Worc ester . April 8, Robert Medfortb, lease dealer, at twelve, at ,the Red Lion April 11, John Baughan, Buckingham, inn L Dell Inn, Northampton. April 14, John L *ire, miller, at five, at the Beverley Arms I Solomon Sims, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Office of Mr. John Chadborn, Barton-street. 0, CERTIFICATES, Nag , . i John Nadia, Manchester, calenderer. Ja . •