Star. — London, England, 1829-11-19 00:00:00

.1u77 - 1 - J ' THE FINANCE . COMMITTEE.. Fr';rn tits Quarterly Review. WC are now came to the for great heads of current expenditure, tht Army, Navy, Ordnance, and Miscellaneous Ser vices. The charges of these, of Is well known, are not perma nently provided for, even under the uniform tenour of peace. The jealousy of our Constitution allows them to be voted for the cur rent year only ; so that, If within twelve months Parliament were not again summoned, these great establishments would be altoge ther brought to a stand, by the sudden failure of their supplies. While these four heads of expense are the title-deeds of the Com mons' Annual Sessions, the secondary advantage is gained, that they are thus subjected to yearly consideration. For each there is prepared a separate detailed estimate of the expense proposed to be incurred during the year ; this estimate is laid before the Home by a Member of the Government connected with the Department concerned ; the items are by him severally proposed for its appro hation ; the Honourable Member for Aberdeen or for tbingdon rises as each article is named, examines thn official Mover, often provokes a debate, and sometimes demands a division. Thus do the discussion stn these Estimates form an essential part of each Session's standing business. The Finance Committee has inserted ln its Repoit a return of the amounts lately expended under these heads in each year. Since a tabular view presents, in a little space, arithmetical facts which many pages might fail to convey, we give the following abstract of the most importsnt particulars : Estimate of Finance Sums voted Sums voted Sums voted Committee in 1817. in 1818 1827 1828. Army 8,500,000 9,061,883 8.194,504 8,049,939 Ordnance 1,150,000 1,245,600 1 649,972 1,597,196 9.650,000 10,218,483 9,844,476 9,647,735 • Navy.. ... . 6,000,000 6,456,809 6,195;850 5,995,965 Vote of Credit 500,000 Total 15,650,000 16,764,292 16,470,526 15,645,110 Miscellaneous 1,700,000 2,206,687 2,275,054 2,184,941 • 17,350,000 18,970,959 18,745,360 17,828,041 Our expenditure. as Is well known, was thoroughly examined 'by. the Finance Committee which sat in 1817. Their estimates, amounting for the three defensive services, to fifteen, millions and a half, were exceeded in each of the four succeeding years by m ore than a million. In 1822, the voted expenditure fell below h• termined level ; it was swollen beyond it by the expedition to Por tugal, and in last year had returned within a few thbusands to the original standard. The ordnance was made by the Finance Com• mittee the subject of a massive Report, but the reductions recom mended bore a small proportion to the bulk of the volume. Indeed, the chief feature-6f retrenchment was •the Lieutenant-Governor's salary, a proposal in which the House did not see fit to acquiesce ; and Mr. Hume himself has since made -the candid admission, that " much time had been expended in examining the Ordnance Es timates, and very little progress made to warrant any reduction whatever." Indeed, the low expenditure of this department arose in the last year from a peremptory order to reduce, experi mentally, 475,000 on the total amount; but the abatement proved to be a mistaken economy, and has been abandoned. On the whole, the safety of the Empire is, then, entrusted to one hundred - ;Ind• thirty thousand men. Now France, we believe, maintains about two hundred thousand soldiers. The forces of Austria and Prussia have always been on a much higher footing than ours. Even the late Xing of Bavaria kept, we know not how, seventy thousand men under arms. Indeed, Old England , * by nothing more happily distinguished from her neighbours than by the silence of the trumpet and drum. At this moment, moreover, the dee level of our peace establishment is but an object of speculative research. No man Who looks to the plains of Rou melia. or whose vision reaches even to the Palace of Elms Bourbon, would consent that this country should lose the aid of a single tight arm. But although the number of our forces is moderate, indeed, the charges of the three services are very large amounts. These gross numbers, however, but ill shew the nature of our defensive expen diture. which consists of two very different elements, the effective payments and the non-effective. They are stated separately, for the Bra time, we believe, in the following return of the • votes for the year ending Stb Jan. 1828 : Effective Estab. Half-pay, &c. Total. Army .... 45,226,771 . 42,967,735 48.194,504 Ordnance.. 1,272,266 377,706 1,649,972 Navy .... 4,578,491 1,547,359 6.125,850 4411,077,528 £4,922,798 £15,970,528 We here see that out of sixteen millions expended within the year on the three services, about five millions, or nearly one-third, • were absorbed in payments to persons not engaged in active service. This latter sum constitutes the bulk of the charge popularly termed the Dead Weight, which is, we must observe, no further connected with the advance laieTy made by the Bank to the Government, than inasmuch as the diminishing amount of this annual loan was calculated on the decrease erroneously expected to arise in this class of claimants. That a twenty years' war should have multiplied the claims of the country's old servants is natural, nor is it sur prising if national gratitude has done in some cases More than enough. Though the sum total be large, it is some comfort to think that this money is not absorbed by the rich or the idle, but . is diffused in numberless minute payments amongst persons who all have claims for past eervice,and most of them no other resource. for our parts, we never see a veteran's red coat and three.cornered bat without satisfaction. and we are glad that the stateliest pile in this kingdom welcomes the mariner on the shore of Gresnwith.n- Nor has our old enemy's gratitude been much less fruitful than ours.. The beacon. of their capital is the gilded dome of the Invalid's ; and it should be known that their dead weight at this moment passes four millions sterling. Indeed a Gallant Admiral bad much reason in repelling this new term as too cavalier, and in protesting against the old couplet— " When sailors are wanting, we'll give them bread and beer, But when the French are beaten, there's nothing more is fear." Still, in these matters, it must be always remembered, that if the claims on Our bounty are strong, our means are limited, and if our old servants are poor, many of their tax-paying masters are not .much richer. The Finance Committee have accordingly made this branch of outgoings the subject of a Special Report, in which they insert detailed accounts of the whole. On the half-pay, amounting for the three services, with some similar allowances . , to more than two millions, the Committee re port that. they have no suggestion to offer as to the existing rates, but that they must express the strongest objection to the recent changes in the regulations under which it is received. Until the year 1820, ise half.pay.was payable to any officer holding any office or employment, dell or military, under the Crown; . but in that year, Parliament, contrary to the wish of the Government, re pealed the regulation. 4 "This; ' says the Report, " was an ill-ad vised measure, only to be accounted for by a strong sense of re cent services." Its effect his been an Increase of £71,000 In the joint annual charge of the army and navy. The next item, a charge for Naval and MilitariOnt-Pendoners, and for disable d men in the Ordnance, amounts to tbe most se rious sum of 11,820 765. During the first years of the century, threatened invasion fixed public attention on the means of increas ing our militarr force. The demand for the militLi clogged the recruiting of the regular army, and the bounties on enlistment Tom to a ruinbui height. In 1806, when the death of Mr. Pitt ilidwed the Whigs a short occupation of office, Mr.• Wyndham, who bad taken up the question strongly from the benches of the Opposition; was appointed to the War Department. Enlistment bad hitherto pledged the recruit without limitation of' time. ; but, in raider, a discharge was scarcely refused to g 3 or 24 years service, and good conduct would probably be. crowned with a pension. The new Secretary's 13111 limited .to . seven year! the militeri engage- • ment, and when that bond had been twice renewed, gave the ' mature soldier, for his twentrone years of service, the -legal claim of a permanent daily shilling. On the latter "part of the ar rangement, which has alone been retained, the Committee deliver . the following judgment : " It appears, however, to the Committee, that no time °millet° be lost In reverting to the principle of enlistment which existed In' • the army before the expensive regulation of 1806 ; Which would leave it in the power of the Crown, with the sanction of Parlia ment, to regulate from time to time, unfettered by, positive en gagements • the scale of pensions to be granted . to soldiers when discharged after such a period of service as viciuldeve them a jolt claim upon the liberality of the country." This recommendation has received the attention of Government ant the terms of. the contract .will. in future enlistments, be Wholly revised. But the public faith Is plighted on the present footing to two large bodies of men. Eighty-two, ybOttSand veterans, at this moment, receive the promised pension from .Chelsea and Klimaits- • ham Hospitals ; and since tt.e only drop with their lives, their country cannot - desire ies - Aessatio9.. thtMeticid force of the army stands at ninety thousand in theetnes of the year; Now-t compulsory 'reduction of these*eikn's teversiOns • would be a breach of engagements ; but the Setretary at War ptb poses to offer them the choice of immediate, and therefore, wore certain advantages. These are free disibarges after fifteen yea's° of service • and after sixteen, seventeen, er `Teen. itatuitsta one half, of one, or of two years' pay, as 'We as an allotthetit ground, to those who ere quartered in Colonies Where therelis land to be settled. Sir limy Harding , apreared to suppose diet tour thousand men may accept the proposed terms; and to egisnate 'at .8500,000 the sweat* unseal saving: Another considerable in- • These two services bars been added together, became there lbee been • transfer of expenditure from the Army tot** Otabiance Department. gredient of the non-effective charge is, the head of pensions to Officers' widows On these the Committee reports : " The old restrictive regulations were all abrogated by the in terference of Parliament in the years 1818 and 1819; the effect of which has been to entail on the public, according to the accounts of the last year, an additional annual charge, for the three services, of £74,471." It Is really curious that the benevolent intervention of the House of Commons, twice unfortunate in military finance, has not been more happy in civil departments, u the following Rcport of its selected members testifies. After premising that, in 1821, the Treasury hail made a minute that steps ought to be taken with a view to diminish the allowances of civil superannuation, their Re port subjoins these remarkable particulars : " In the Session of 1822, his Majesty's Ministersbrought in a Bill, founded on this minute, which was passed into a law. The two chief objects of that Statute were, -1. _ To reduce the rates of the superannuation allowances. 2. To impose upon all persons entitled to the benefit of the Act,. the obligation of contributing a yearly sum, hearing reference to the amount of their salaries. towards a fund, appropriated to defray the charge of • the super annuation allowance.. These were salutary regulations, and having once been es•ablished, the Committee cannot but ex press their regret that Parliament was prevailed upon, in oppo sition to the declared wishes and disposition of the Govern ment, to repeal in the year 1824, the clauses relating to the con tribution fund." But during the last session the Chancellor of the Exchequer made the following declaration :—" Since the Committee of Finance re commended to our consideration a bill upon superannuation. I have felt it my duty to enter into a strict inquiry on the subject ; and I have found a considerable saving likely to be the result. lam deeply impressed with the importance of investigating the Dead Weight, and I am entwined that it is In that branch that the most important relief can be afforded to the public." Accordingly, the system of civil self-insurance has been restored, and thus has official prudence at last prevailed over parliamentary bounty. These are not the sole instances in which the Commons have defeated the saving rules of a Minister ; yet there are blind guide., who impute all our incum brances to the want of a democratic Chamber. All history gives them the lie. The mob of Athens applied to the stage the revenues which should have defeated• Philip, and death was the doom of the patriot who attempted to restore their use. It was not until re publican • hypocrites had dethroned the King, and unbound the Lords, that the excise officer stepped over the Englishman's thre4h ohl. Indeed, the funding system, as we have seen, took its rise in republics, and came over in' the ship that brought us the third William. Even if history were silent, we know that three great nations of Christendom, England, France, and the Netherlands, are governed on the representative system, and burtheued with national debt,. while its three eastern Powers, severally bound by one man's will, are subject, each of theni, to a very moderate rent charge. The causes of the distiktion are also well known. The treasurer of an unlithited Monarch stands alone ce posed to a nation, and must answer for the discontents which his demands may occa sion, while a representative is a comparatively irresponsible body, whose constituents defray more readily expenses to which the ex ercise of their franchises has given a previous sanction. As for the respective credits of a single and of a mixed Government, Messrs. Hope or Rothschild's preference for the stock of the latter rests on the simple mercantile principle,_ that the safety of a bill grows with the number of its acceptors. We have now followed the Finance Comniiitee through the principal elements of our current expenditure, arid there only re mains to be considered the charge of our National Debt. These arithmetical details, which, when they retied private affairs, or the dealings of a trading company, offer scanty tare to . a liberal mind, acquire higher interest when the bring of an empire de pends upon the just movement of their revolving millions. We have seen that, since the constitutional era of 1681, six wars raised the debt to an amount nominally exceeding eight hundred Millions. But it was the last contest which created the mass of our debt. This was not waged for the hairbreadth balance of power, but for our firesides, our Monarchy; and our Church. National' defence did indeed 'grow into the deliverance of Europe, brat the treasure wes not unproductively sunk which was beatowed on the latter contest .between right and wrong, religion and atheism, spirit and matter ; and troth that gold, fertilized by gallant blood, this country has reaped incorruptible honour. Even now that the heavy costs are reckoned up, if the question of peace or war could be laid kefore our countrymen anew, we are persuaded that they would fight the goof fight once again. Had the war been unjust, impolitic, and inglorious, we should still have been bound to the costs, unless we had been swilling to bear such byewordf as attach to the defaulting broker. or to the fugitive gamester. Least .of all can we, who have carried off the prize, now speak of drawing the stakes. They, too, who have entrusted theft means to 6ur honour, are our fellow-subjects, and consequently do not withhold from equal contribution to the public necessities, the annual fruits which they receive from our hands. Moreover, though the aggregate of their rights is exceed. ingly large, their individual shares are by no means exorbitant. — There were lately two hundred and eighty-four thousand holders of the several stocks; and twenty-eight millions sterling of divi dends. Now we may fairly reckon for each fundhoider at least two members of bie family dependent on his resources. On this calculation the twenty-eight millions will have been divided into eight hundred and ifty-two thousand average portions of three sod ;thirty poinds each; but, u some who stand in the. above list. of Auditors may have owned at once two descriptions of stock, and have been theretcue doubly enumerated, it may be safer to assume the medium share . at forty pounds yearly. The stockholder's claiM on our honesty gives him then only a Moderate command of necessariesainduimferts, bur its loss would .be heavy indeed, ~ `cause in moat.evese that small fortune is all. Let us now borrow for at. moment the light which the Cem entite, has retested ori the retrogi'ade movement of our debt during the period 'of' peace. 'The following extract from one of their `-tables shows the:permanent amount of its..annual charge for the years •1816 anti•lB9.B 3 CHAIM or TSB PUBLIC DM. ..Ingest of the Funded . Debt, incluaing Ma. Bth Jan. 1816. sth Jan. 1828. Dimioutlo barman • £118,663,592 25,769,689 ' Terminable Annuities, • • . in equivalent Pape-. Mal Annuities 1,553,615 Total Interne of Fund ed Debt and • Aa.: 1,842,881 unities • . Total Interest of Fund- Debts and Annulties 89,917,W7 27,612,570 2,304,637 Interest. of Unfunded Debt outstanding enpaotidettfor.... 1,998,937 1,842,an , 807,814 1,191,123 • . 51.916,144 28,420,384 5,495,760 This reduction of 3i miWdas effected in the `fourteen years of the peace, the Committee states to be somewhat more than fifteen per cent. oh the debt contracted. in the preceding war. We were led to inquire what proportion of this decrease bad been brought about by the Sinking Fund, and we found in the Report some • curious calculations by which this question is set at rest. The diminution of charge was effected , 'By Reduction'of Interest on Funded Debt now existing 1,604,02.5' By ditto ditto on Unfunded Debt now existing 498,053 Total Reduction of Charge by Fall of Interest 1409%078 By Annuities expired, land Tax, &c. By application of Surplus and Bahire • • X 3,495,760 " Nearly two-thirds, then, of the total diminution have followed the reduction of interest, one.third has been worked out by the re demption of capital. On this point, howevet, the Committee re marks—" That the above diminution of the debt has been effected while it reduction in the rates of taxation, equivalent to a remhsion at £97,009,000 a year has taken place, and also while advances Opt of. the public revenue were made for the promoilin of public works and tie employment of the poor, to the extent of £4,797,443 haTosed the sums repaid." . This reduction. however, falls far indeed below the promise of the sinkingluod, which, even on its new basis of 1823, bad been nominally endowed with five animal millions, as ahq with the * Flawing interest of the stock, purchased by its Commissioners. ,During the five years since elapsed, twenty-seven millions had been Pttid osier according to law ; but there had been effected no cur responding reduction of 'debt ; and, indeed, in the last two accounts. our income had scarcely appeared equal to our current expenditure. The poise, therefore, of these flee years financial balance. became as object of the Committee's inquiry, and they have stated it for . each year all fiiii9WB Expenditure including Imam • Charges of Collection. 3or p lus. 1843 a158,317.083 -63,434,658 4,882,2 VS . . - . . 1824 4 • 59,749,975 54,844,449 4,908,524 182.5 )826 ... •: , 54454,856 $5,122,702 • 33141.54* . 1137; ~T e . . ..., 55,401,611 55, 15 9 ,12 5 248 , 488 ' . ova Ant _ 57,512099 52,888,695 1 4 ,6 33 , 704 . , $ -VIVA ‘ , 4441 . qms eye years which preceded the labouriof tlip • tsatisittee, had elrtiiinstaaces gradually raised ourhaPendituteil . . • Ws Table is the mate as that contained in the Report ; but the drawbacks. ate. have been subtracted from both income and eapenditure. Since the same sum is deducted from both sides. the balance is of course unchanged.. t ‘42,000 advanced per 7 Gto. IV. has been deducted. while our means varied also at the use rate, but unhappily in a contrary direction, so that the surplus is at last reduced on the table to the trifling amount of 5et451,4118. We' have added, how ever, from the public accounss, the balance of the put year, which is most satisfactory; for in that our income increased by more than two millions, and the same sum was reduced in our expenditure. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 18. INJUNCTION. Ewa V. VIVIIIIIII. The Soucrloa-Gamaaar. applied fur an ex-parte injuction to res train the defendant, who is the master of the ship Rose, from sail ing out of the port of Exeter, or any other port of the United Kingdom, to any place beyond the seas. It appeared that the plaintiff, Hannah Maria Ellis, in 1827, became possessed of six teen shares in the vessel, the defendant and another individual being the hol len of the where. The defendant acted as the ship's husband, and received and paid all moneys on account of the part nersiip concern. The .hip had now performed several voyages, from which con.iderable profit had been realized. Of those profits, however, he had rendered the plaintiff no accortut. and she hearing the other day that Webber was preparing for another voyage, was obliged to resort to this as the only means of securing her rights. The Vacs-Csrawczxxos granted the injunction as prayed. COURT OF BING'S BENCH,—Nov. 11. Till LIM IP. moncutunost• This was an appeal under the Hawkers and Pedlars Act.—The defendant had been in the habit of purchasing berm or yeast at different times, and selling it at Nottingham to such persons as were in want of it. He was convicted by the Quarters Sessions. It was now contended, in support of the decision, that yeast was not included in the exceptions of the Act which were allowed to be so hawked. The Cones decided that the conviction of the Quarter Sessions was improper. BOLLAND V. 11OLLAIID. Mr. Aacnaoto chewed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Knowles, for allowing the defendant his costs. The application was made on the 45d of George 111. which gives the Court autho rity to allow the defendant kis costs in every case where there Ls great discrepancy between the sum demanded and the sum found by the Jury to be due. The parties are brothers, carrying on the business of booksellers at York. The plaintiff arrested the defendant for £lOB, and the Jury found a verdict for £l5. There was an imputation of malice on the part of the plaintiff, who was incensed against the defendant (according to an affidavit,) because he bad commenced the trade of a bookseller in York. Mr. Ascusotn now produced the plaintiff's affidavit in which there was a denial of malicious feeling. Ir was, on the contrary, asserted that the plaintiff bad instructed his attorney to avoid if possible bringing an action. The small amount of the verdict was attributed to the ignorance of a witness, who was unable to state the amount of the prices attached to a list of book► sold to the defendant. The Learned Counsel contended that the rule ought to be discharged. Lord TRNTRILDIN-.4 think, on this enormous difference, where a man arrests for £lO5, and recovers only £l5, be ought to pay the costs.—Dale made absolute . COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 18. MI also P. POMO. Mr. Baron Boman!, came into Court this morning, and after bearing a few motions of course, he was joined by the other Judges, when Sir CnaaLss Wrruzsett-resumed his argument in support of the objection to the jurisdiction of the Court raised on Tuesday by the Solicitrir-General. The Learned Counsel, after alluding to the enormous mass of affidavits and pleadings, which he described as being su ffi cient to paper every room in the Custom House, not even excluding the long one, said he would draw their Lordships' attention to what he considered the principal point in this import ant case, viz. the construction of the Statute of Henry Eighth. 'That-Statute certainly gave every facility of defence to an indivi dual sued by the Orono, but it never intended to give two separate and distinct modes of defence to the same cause of action. It was absurd to suppose that aCrown debtor had one defence at law and another at equity. When a party was sued he must at once set up his defence, and if he can show any cause in bar of such action, be ieentided to the benefit of it, but If he fail in so doing, be has no right under the Statute' to appeal to:the equitable jurisdiction of this Court. Mr. Exiour.—lf not under that statute, I shall be able to show he has such a right. ,Sir -Cua sacs Wzrazazta,—l am glad to hear yon say so, but I must deny it. Mr. Peto's Counsel now jay. " Oh, we have only failed in our legal defence—we don't mind that, as we base an equity defence to make." If this is a proper construction of the Statute, what becomes of the mod eminent lawyers that ever walked Westminster Hall? Where is the value of the opinion of the Scarletts of former days—(Great laughteror Pepys and Knights of the present day? He was willing to acquit Mr. Peto of any fraudulent neglect—he was willing to acquit him of any neglect whatever ; and suppose that he had, to the best of his abi lity, performed his part of the contract in a most honourable manner. He would even go farther • and suppose the falling down 'of the Custom-house was purely accidental, yet still he must con tend that under the terms of the contract entered into by Blr.Peto, he was liable to the Crown for the full penalty of the bond. Mr. Baron VauorsaiF—The only ground pleaded on the trial by Mr. Peto in justification of breaking tie contract, by not driving the piles into a bed of gravel, was, that there was no bed of gravel to be found, which was negatived by the evidence, : and the Jury found on this issue for the Crown. Sir C. Warozazu.—Exactly so, my Lord, and the present pro ceeding is one of the utmost importance to the public, not as it re gards this 'particular case, but if allowed, it goes to introduce another practice in all cases where the Crown is concerned, by letting in a new species of jurisdiction. The Crown would .never be able to make any judgment it obtained available. If this pro position is to be supported, there is not a public officer, from a Re edier General down to the lowest officer who gives a bond, but what, if he should be sued for the penalty, and a verdict given against him, would tura round and say, why I have fai'ed in my legal defence,.but I have a good defence at Equity, and will file a bill in the Court of Exchequer against the Crown or against the At ' trirbey General. If, as he before said, this practice was to be esta blished, it would lender all judgments obtained in a Court of Law unavailable and nugatory, and the Crown debts must be continually locked up. The Learned Counsel concluded a most animated and eloquent speech by contending, that the equitable jurisdiction of this:Court could not interfere in preventing entering up judgment obtained on a bond at common law. Mr. Waal' followed on the same side.' CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. Is. (Before Dr. Lushington.) JUDGMENT. WYNXII aaatx.T MTltllll. In this case, which was a suit instituted by Grace Wynne against her huslased, for a restitution of conjugal right.., Dr. Downs( appeared on behalf of the wife, and read the pro ceedings in the case In answer to an allegation on the part of the husband, that at the time of marriage the wife bad a former husband living, affidavits were produced denying the fact. Dr. Donsox prayed the judgment of the Court in favour of the wife, with costs. The husband's Proctor not being in Court, some delay occurred. On his arrival justice was prayed. Dr. LVIIHIMOTON said it was the duty of the Court to pronounce in favour of the Wife. The marriage of the parties in Anglesea, On the 6th 'tine, 1816, was fully proved, and no cause, bad been shown why judgment should not be pronounced in favour of the wife, which the Court could hear. He therefore decreed, that the husband should take his wife home and treat her with conjugal affection, and make a return to such effect in the next Term— The wife havirig costs. About four o'clock on Wednesday morning last, the inspector of the newly-established watch at Guildford ollserved three men very heavily loaded ; and on questioning the parties they stated, that they bad bought some hops at Farnham, and were obliged to leave their cart on the road, the horse being knocked up. They' were very properly watched ; and on their nut depo siting then at the place they said they intended, the officer tol lowed and apprehended aU of them. The men were committed for rr-examination•-I(akistene Casette. Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the London Hospital on the body of Henry White, a mechanic, aged 26. It appeared that on the lit instant the deceased and a shopmate of his named Gill, had been spending the evening at the Cherry-tree public-house, at Bromley, and on his return home at night, slung the. Bromley New -cut, he was met by a ruffian, whose object, no doubt, was to rob him; - and 'a ho struck him a violent blbw on the forehead with a bludgeen, which so stunned hint that he instantly fell into the water. lie almost instantly, from the cold of the wa ter, recovered front the running effects ot the blow,but perceiving .his assailant, standing on the bank, and apparently waiting for his relurtl, .ittt swam ttclise opposite side of 'the canal, and thus evaded 'further &tun. Or foundia deep•wwtnil ota his forehead which gave him great pain, and on the litif instant be want into the hos pital. The wound was not mullet, but it produced•lock-jaw and edeath. The Jury, after doing deliberation, returned a verdict— " That the deceased's death war caused by a leek-jaw, produced by a wound on the foteltead,- but by whom - it was inflicted there was no evidence to show." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET . James Davis and Rachel Allan, the two persons charged with hay ing a great quantity of gloves and silks in- their possession, which bad been stolen from the warehouse of Mr. Town, a wholesale glover and silk-mercer, in Fleet-street, were brought up yesterday, and underwent another examination. Mr. Harmer attended for the prosecution, and Mr. E. Isaacs for the defence. A porter, named Francis Hodgkin , who had assisted in remov ing the goOds, at the instance of the prisoners, was a very import. ant witness, and, yesterday, when he was called, he was not forth coming. Ruthven said he had desired him to attend, and bad taken the pains to go to his lodgings to remind of the necessity of being punctual, but be ascertained thet he bad suddenly absented himself after the last examination, and he was now not to be found. Further evidence was adduced as to the identity of the goods stolen, which was clearly proved, and the prisoners were again remanded. the witnesses who bad already been examined being bound over to photocell. Mr. Hall., said his motive for having another examination was, that the property which was not owned by Mr. Town might be identified by those from whom it bad been stolen. The prisoners were then remanded. TRY ACCIDINT AT WATIRLOO-Baloas.—The two young gentle men, William Augustus Wilson and Jonathan Henry Wilson were again brought up, and the following certificate was produced as to the state of poor Carlo : " Henry Carlo is much better to-day, and appears to be slowly but progressively improving. We have great pleasure in stating that he is now out of danger, though still suffering from the effects of severe injury of the head and general bruises. " T. CALLAWAY. " Nov. 18, 18.19." "JAMES HANDY." Mr. MAYNARD, the Solicitor for the defendants said no men could regret more than his clients did the injuries which Carlo lad sustained, and as a proof of their anxiety to make all the repara tion in their power, they had made ample provision for the present for his wife and children, and to this they intended to add further assistance as occasion required. Mr. Hama said be was glad to hear so, and he hoped that this case would operate as a warning to young men not to indulge in " larks," as they are called, at the risk of inflicting injury upon unoCending persons. The defendants were then admitted to ball, themselves in £5OO each, and two sureties to the amount of £250, and wet. liberated. Between nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday night, just as the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Minsnou., was about to retire from this ' office, the beadle f Waterloo Bridge brought before bins a young female, named dlice Naylor, whom he charged with having at tempted to drown herself a few moments previously. The unfor. tunate woman's clothes were dripping wet, and her senset seemed to be benumbed with cold. Finding that her power of speech had left her, the humane Magistrate ordered her to be placed before the fire,when the soon became so far recovered from the stupor in which she appeared when brought in the Office, as to be able to use her tongue. Mr. blinsmett—Do you not find the heat of the fire is much more agreeable than the cold of the water? Female—Fire and water are both very well in their way; I should have preferred being in the water. Mr. linuouta—What, do you mean to say you would like to drown yourself ? Female—l do say so : I don't wish to tell you a lie about it, for that would be sinful. Mr. Mnosuust —You say that to tell a lie is a sin, then how much more dreadful is the act which you contemplate ? Female—Perhaps so, Sir; but there are plenty of people in the world without me. I would not be missed out of it, except by my poor little child ; even that would not miss me. Mr. Missoutt.--You have got a child then? Pray are you a married woman ? Female—l am not. I was seduced by the father of my child; but 'tis no matter, he takes good care of it, and has not been un kind to me. Mr. MINSHULL-Has any one else treated you ? Female—No Sir,so one. Mr. Mossitits. observed that it was a lamentable case, and asked the poor creators, what abs would wish to have done for herself ? Female—Nothing. I want nothing but to quit this weary life. The beadle stated, that hearing a splashing in the water, he ran down the steps on the Middlesex side o f the brid g e, and tiere saw the female wading into the river. At the time he saw her the water had reached above her waist, and it was with great difficulty that he diagged her back to the shore. As she was advancing for ward in the water she kept exclaiming, " My baby ! oh, my poor baby ! would you were here with me, that we might die together. Hr had ascertained that the unfortunate woman lived in a court as servant to her sister. Mr. Mono= asked her if her sister used her ill? Female—Oh no! I've no complaint to make against any one ; but I would rather perish than Jive in such a situation any longer ; that I would she added, at the same time piteously wringing her hands. Mr. Nlortostms. ordered her sister to be sent for, but a consi derable time having elapsed without the sister having made her appearance, he directed that the poor creature should be taken to the House of Correction, with a request front him to the Governor that she Might be made as comfortable as possible, until measures could he taken to pass her to her parish. A lad of the name of Wit/Samos was brought np yesterday be , - fore Mr. Halms, the Sitting Magistrate, charged with having taken, on Monday last, several articles of wearing apparel, the property of Edward Owen, residing at 16, New-street-square, and pawning the same through the medium of a lad of the name of 'George Holland. William Summers, one of the new police, No. 65, stated that the prisoner had been givt•at into his custody this morning, at seven o'clock, by the watch-house keeper of St. Bride's, Fleet. • street, when he conferred havii.g taken the property, and destroyed • the tickets, but gave the names of the pawnbrokers,who were now In Court. Mr. HALLS told the officer that he had no right whatever to • take any person into custody in the City, as he would, if the parties thought proper, be liable to an action. He ought to have got one of the City constables to have accompanied him on this side of Temple Bar, as the jurisdiction of the new police does not, as yet, extend beyond the City of Westminster. He only made this observation, that some of his brother officers might not run into any mistake. Several pawnbrokers were then called, who produced the arti cles; and the prisoner acknowledging the fact, he was remanded until Saturday for further examination, as there is a second charge against him. Al A R LA-BONNE. Mary Russell, Mary Dante*, and ElisabethCoyle y obree young women of repulsive appearance, were placed at the bar before the Presiding Magistrate Mr. Houma, under the following circuit stances :-- Mr. John Toole, a gentleman holding a situation in the Zan India House, stated that himself and wife were passing slang Oxford-street, about eleven o'clock on Tuesday evening, when the defendants obstructed the way, being all more or less in toxicated. He desired them to move, but they saluted him with a torrent of abuse, and finally assaulted and jostled him and his wife. The defendants all denied the charge. The complainant expressed his determination to press the cue. and the Magistrate accordingly held them to bail. Was. Wilson and John Davis, the latter of whom has been in the service of Francis Cross, Esq. of Park-street, were yesterday placed at the bar, charged with stealing three table covers, the property of that gentleman. The only feature of the case was the indiscretion of James Langtrey, 117, 1). division of the Metropolitan Police, who went into a public-house and drank with Davis after the accu• sation had been made against him. Mr. Bossism censured the conduct of the constable in this re• sped with a prisoner. The prisoners were both fully committed for trial. MARRIED. At St. George's, Hanover-square, John Dunlop, Eeq• of die Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to Charlotte Constance Jackson, youngest daughter of klajor-Gen. Sir Richard Woo Jackson, ICC B. At Cramlington, Nonhumberiand, Niaior Scott, 17th lancers, to Alicia Eliza. eldest daughter of the late Rev. Henry Forster chancellor of York. DIED. 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