The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TILE A DI.FFICUL7 QUESTION. The question as to the propriety or impropriety, light or no right, of women to avail themselves of the advantages of a University education has been just raised in a somewhA unexpected form at St. Andrews. A young English lady, Miss Elizabeth Garrett, the daughter of a gentleman of independent fortune, who has educated herself highly in classics and in some of the physical scie nces w i t h a v i ew to the study of medicine, visited St. Andrews axing the summer, and intimated her desire to become a student in several of the classes during the winter. She received decided encouragement from some of the professors; and others were understood to say that they would offer no opposition to her becoming a student. They were all very gallant except, we believe, Professor Ferrier, whose strong conservative tendencies led him to oppose, and to intimate his opposition with that candour which extorts the re spect due to a trusty opponent as to a trusty friend. Relying on the encouragement which she had re ceived, this lady arrived at St. Andrews a few day s ago, and on W?dnesday last applied to the Rev. Mr. Macbean, Secretary of the University, for a matri culation ticket, paid the usual fee, received the tic ket, and signed her name in the matriculation-book. Next day she presented her ticket to Dr. Heddle, the Professor of Chemistry, and asked leave to at tend his lectures. He stated that he had no perso nal objection, and gave her a letter to Mr. Ireland, the secretary of the United College, a uthorising him to give her a ticket for the chemistry class. On presenting this letter and paying the class fee, she, according to the usual course, ob tained the ticket. In the same way she obtained a ticket f o r Dr. D a y's Class of Anatomy and Physiology, he having no objectio ns t o her b e i ng a member of it, but, on the contrary, giving her a cordial welcome. All this was very well, and just what might have been expected from the distinguished and accomplished Professors of this ancient and celebrated University. But, un luckily, they seem somehow to have become alarmed at the idea of being the first to take the lead, or rather to permit of its being taken, in regard to this so-called " innovation" of educating women in a college, and in those branches of education that have been generally confined to men, or at least not sought after by women. Accordingly on Saturday the Senatus met and passed a resolution to the effect that the issuing of the matriculation ticket and the class ticket to Miss Garrett was not sufficiently authorised; that this novel question raised ought to be deliberately considered and decided; that the opinion of other Universities and of lawyers should be taken if thought expedient, and that in the mean time professors should be enjoined to defer allowing the attendance of this lady on the classes of the University. No one can fail to sympathise with the difficulty of the St. Andrews' Senatus. We feel assured that it appears to them a very serious one, or gentlemen so enlightened and so much before the age in point of liberality as the majority of its mem bers are, would not have hesitated to make up their minds at once and settle this question one way or other upon grounds of reason and common sense. We feel sure that on these grounds the great majo rity of the professors think as we think, that it is not wrong, but right, to educate women in the highest pitch possible, and that female doctors of medicine would be a great boon to society, and an inestimable safeguard to the feelings of delicacy of their own sex. However, there is still left the prac final difficulty of mixed classes of young men and Young women—especially in medical classes—and we can see that this difficulty may attain very for midable proportions, though not at St. Andrew's, which, in this sense, would be a favourable field for the experiment. The classes there are all com paratively small, in anatomy averaging about a dozen, and in chemistry about twice that num ber; so that every student is under the professor's eye, and no indecorum can go unnoticed, as might be the case in very large classes. More Over, not many ladies are likely soon to seek to attend college classes, and such as do are all but certain to be true and devoted students_ By a strict entrance exami nation aYI frivolous female applicants could be ex cluded, should they ever think of offering them selves, which will not be until the tide of fashion has set in very strong, and that cannot be for a generation or two. But one lady —a true lady with self-control sufficient for the most difficult positions —need give no great cause of alarm. If the diffi culty as to mixed classes does not arise hereafter, and experience is against their continuance, they can be put down as easily as they can be repressed now. But, besides these practical, there are knotty legal points in the matter. For example, it may be doubted whether any Senates can exclude ladies from those Universities that are established by law and supported by public money. Where do they find the right to do it Girls are not yet prohibited from attending parish schools—they are rather en couraged to attend—and what difference is there, unless arising from custom, between parish schools and Universities? We are unaware of any difference in law. Males are admissible, and in Acts of Par liament the male includes the female. It may have been decided in the Court of Session some time or other that a woman was not entitled to the privi lege of a University education, but we have never heard of any such odd decision. Most likely the question was never raised, and we presume that but for custom it is still open. A custom that regulates the measure of rights may be very important ; but when there has been no exercise of right at all, there can be no custom, and it is not in every class of circumstances that the non-use of a right is fol lowed by the loss of it. Not very long ago the women of this country could neither write nor spell. Would custom have been effectual to prevent their entering classes for spelling and writing at schools ? —Scotsman. • ACCIDENT ON 7HE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday morning an accident of an alarming nature happened on the West London line of the London and North Western Railway. A coal train, consisting of 25 waggons and two break vans, left Willesden-station about 9 a.m. for Fulham-bridge, and proceeded at the customary speed for such trains as far as the canal, which is passed before ar riving at Wormwood Scrubbs, where the coupling chains broke and the train was divided into two portions, the first consisting of the engine, the two break vans, and five waggons, and the second of the remaining 20 wag g ons. A s th ere was no s h oc k w h en the c hains gave way the men in the break vans did not know of went on the accident, and so the first portion for some little distan c e, l e a v in g th e o th er behind. On arriving at the bridge on Wormwood Scrubbs, th e in the train were apprised of the • occurrence hy rn ee en in the break yan n'e s • men working below. The men as it was veryinstantly stopped the train, and was in the firstwa break van, foggy at the time, Henry Plews, who after the other ran up the line to see there was the waggggelne. In the second break van examiner and a breaksman, named Joseph Ba e ki n placed next to the engin e , 'Roth break vans were Be,efon account of the great incline on the down l ine.B ef or e pi e far the missing wagg ons had proceeded breakcombin great speed. who saw tf, e ,: ed him at Buckingham, traineut before he could first van to take off the wasana e in to collision. coming, went into the do eo the two portionsof the The van in which he was at work up,and hung over the bridge, and theial"led right l 3 el precipitated into the roadwaybe t n ak e aetn h r u f ad i 7 ta w n a c s e of about 50 or 60 feet. He was bie, and conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital,Pplandsde.nig nsi- ton, where he was p rom p tl y attended to by Dr. Ur e , and notwithstanding the skilful m e di ca l treatment to which he was subjected our reporter Was informed that the injuries he hadreeeived were so severe that death would inevitably follow, and he could not last m any hours. He is bet ween thirty and forty y ears of age, and has a wife and one child. The other off, and so escaped any men in the train jumped serious injury. Both of the vans and many of the waggons were very much damaged. The top of the van in which Buckingham was at work when the accident took place was found by his side on the ground. Mr. Bruyers, general superintendent, was soon on the spot with a large force of men, by whose exertions the line was cleared and the traffic re alm:tad in a few hours afterwards, W_EEZ. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The deaths in London, which rose in Ihe preced ing week to 1,224, declined in the wee' that ended last Saturday to 1,884. The avers e number of deaths in the ten weeks (of 1852-61) corresponding with last week becomes, with a correction for in crease of population, 1,215. It appears from this statement that the number of deaths in the present return is less by 31 than it would have been if the average rate of mortality at the end of October had prevailed. Scarlatina, which had been recorded in 104 cases in the previons week, declined to 94 last week. Of the latter number 3 occurred in the sub-dis triot of St. Mary, Paddington, 3 in that of Ken sington Town, 3 in the Amwell sub-district (Clerkenweil), 3 in the town of Bethnal-green, 3 in Mile-end New Town, sin Kennington first part, 3 in Peckham, and as many as 7 in the sub-dis trict of St. Peter, Walworth. The death from measles were rather numerous in the week—they rose to 68. Nine children died of measles in the district of Kensington, 3 in the sub district of St. Botolph, 11 in the district of Shore ditch, 3 in the sub-district of Wandsworth. In the Tottenham -court-road subdistrict a death occurred from " ague (16 d ays ) , apop l exy ( 2 hours.)" A boy, aged 2 years, died of porrigo. A woman, aged 63 years, of lupus exedens. In the Kensington Town sub-district there were, besides the three deaths from scarlatina mentioned above, 3 from measles, 3 from diphtheria, and one from typhus. Last week the births of 920 boys and 963 girls, in all 1853 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1856. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 26.682 in, The reading fell to 29.44 in. on Sunday, and it was 29.82 in. on Monday and Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 46.8 deg., which is exactly the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature *as 58 deg. on Sunday— the lowest night temperature was 28.5 deg. on Thursday. The range of the thermometer in the Week was, therefore, 29.5 deg. The mean daily range was 13.3 deg. The range on Thursday was 23.3 deg. The difference between the mean-dew point temperature and air temperature was only 1.7 deg. The air was excessively humid. The mean degree of humidity was 94, the point of complete saturation (100) having been reached on Thurs day and Friday, and nearly reached on Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday. The wind was in the south-west on Sunday and Monday ; it was after wards in the north-east ; and on the last three days it was in the south-east and east. Tho total amount of rain was 0.54 in. There was rain on six days. There was fog on the night of Wednesday, which became very dense on the following morning. The mean of the highest tem peratures of the water of the Thames was 50 6 deg.; the mean of the lowest 48.6 deg. TILT 7ARRAGONA AND MICHEL GROTE AFFAIR. Ours is not a sporting paper. We neither keep a prophet nor a poet, nor advertise " tips," nor pub lish "the odds ;" nor have we any sympathy with the detestable new morality which prevails among the haitues of Newmarket and Hyde Park-corner. Our sole object, therefore, in noticing an affair which has kept the sporting press and the sporting world in a state of ebullition for the last fortnight is to point out how utterly absurd and untenable are the pretensions put forward by the friends of the individuals implicated in the Tarragona and Michel Grove affair, when they argue that those persons should have been dealt with by the stewards of the Jockey Club otherwise than offenders on their trial are usually dealt with by the ordinary tribunals of the country. It appears that two officers of the Guards, named Burnaby and Annes , ley, have been accused of foul play at Newmarket. Colonel Burnaby is stated to have caused his mare Tarragona to be "pulled" in a match with a horse called Michel Grove, and Captain Annesley to have made a fictitious or collusive bet with the owner of Tarragona, with the view of misleading those who heard the bet made, and inducing them to suppose that Colonel Burnaby really considered his mare likely to win a race which he had privily arranged that she should lose. When the subject was first brought to the notice of the Jockey Club Colonel Burnaby expressed great anxiety that a full and searching investigation of his conduct should take place before that tribunal, and, as the club appear to have readily acceded to and acted upon the gal lant colonel's invitation, it seems to us that the complaints which are now made by that officer's friends of the over-rigorous way in which the in quiry was conducted must necessarily fall to the ground. If the colonel did not really want a full and searching inquiry, he ought not to have asked for it. The result of the investigation has been a dry verdict of " not proven," which, as may be sup posed, is by no means satisfactory to Colonel Bur naby, Captain Annesley, and their friends. Long before this verdict was arrived at their supporters in the sporting press had been clamouring loudly for a full and complimentary acquittal, abusing the Jockey Club for hesitating to accept the word of honour of the parties accused that they were not gulty as a conclusive proof of their innocence, and lamenting that " a court of honour" should be con ducted by English noblemen and gentlemen in the same deliberate and stringent manner as a common court of justice. Having now discovered that the Jockey Club was not to be intimidated by the vapoaring of racing prophets, the same writers are proceeding to denounce that body as a prejudiced and incompetent tribunal, and are recommending the injured officers to appeal for protection to the Commander-in•Cbief, who, we should imagine, has no leisure to bestow upon the "urgent private affairs" of gambling Guardsmen. It may, therefore, not be inopportune to explain to the uninitiated w ho the members of the Jockey Club are, what are the powers which they wield, and how far they are likely in the present instance to have misused them. The Jockey Club is composed of 62 members, almost all h ofo u themly per sons of high degr ee , an d all of them or co nversant with "t ur f" matters and men . Among these are to be fou n d one ki ng, thoroughly "turf" turf" four dukes, five marquises, 20 earls, one count, two viscounts, six lords, five baronets, and but 18 com moners. The Earl of Derby is a member of the club; so is Viscount Palmerston. More than half of the club are members of the Legislature, and, as such, are in the constant ha bit of conduct ing the most difficult and important inquiries. Th e great majority of them are men of unble mished charact er ; and although it cannot be deni ed that there are among the lot a few black sheep, who w ould be sh y of showing themselves in a witnes s-box, the only wonder is how they got into such good company, and why they are allowed to remain in it after hav ing betrayed their true colour on the turf and in the ring. It cannot, therefore, justly be said that the accused in this Tarragona and Michel Grove case have been tried by inexperie nce d h an ds, or that such men as those of whom the Jockey Club is mainly composed (Capt. Annesley's brother being actually a member of the club) would be likely to allow the slightest shadow of an imputation to rest unjustly on the characters of two gentlemen of their own class, with whom they have been for years in daily 1 and familiar intercourse, if they could, with honour and with justice, have protected them from such a di sgrace. It has been urged that the club ought n,t:2::ve permitted themselves to return any ver dictWhY not? entirely o n th e e the characters of v ei l i and on their depend a littre one of previously bore ? Does not or of complete innocence. man who nocit,the nature of a verdict depend cc the ° tice always honourable the judge never allow th e the dock in significant silence him ahnads (tile() subrroted to the Court, on give the evidence, givin g it ? Does it not also Ate acqu ittals which the accused t al h e a t t w he ith ha u encecrepto slink Does muittalsin courts of jus ac compl imentary? a had better be careful f or lu out of oes he never tell undeserved good luck. ' the future ? We know nothing of the • getting himtha off, circumstances of the present case, and wish to know nothing of THE SIJN; LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1862. them; indeed, we care very little whether the par- ties accused of foul play are guilty or innocent, or whether they deserve the modified acquittals against which they are now protesting. But we see no rea son why the Jockey Club should not have arrived at the conclusion at which they have arrived if they thought that it was borne out by the evidence ad duced before them, or why they should be expected to go out of their way to compliment Col. Burnaby and Capt. Annesley on their complete innocence if they entertained any doubts of it, which they very possibly may do. Col. Burnaby and Capt.Annesley knew very well what sort of a tribunal the Jockey Club was when they appealed to it. Had they chosen, they might have refused to submit to its jurisdiction, and have stood upon their own cha racters. The worst, or rather the best, that could have happened to them would have been exclusion from the heath and the rooms at Newmarket and from the stands at Epsom and Ascot, so limited are the powers which the club wields. But as they did not see fit to do so, as they invited the opinion of that tribunal and volunteered to submit to its decision, to which they would have appealed triumppantly had it been more in their favour, we really conceive that the only sensible and manly course which is now open to them is to eat their leek in silent resignation, than their stars that they have not fared worse, and do their best to mend their ways for the future. They may rest assured that such a case as theirs will not be bettered by the combined ravings of all the racing prophets in England, no matter how loudly or how rabidly they rave.—the London Review. mercy, and it was stated that there would be no other home for the family but the workhouse. Mr, Payne said this was truly - painful case,..aci he thought, under the circumstances, he woulo. cm justified in altering the sentence, which wast that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six weeks. There was applause at the back of the court, but it was suppressed by the officers. The jury in the box, as well as the jurors in wait ing, immediately got up a subscription amongst them, and to which we believe everyone contri buted, which was handed to the poor woman, for which she expressed her deepest gratitude. John Hurd, 19, and James Jennings, 18, were in dicted for stealing a table , icover and other articles, the property of Napihali Meyers. Mr. Martin prosecuted, Mr. Taylor defended. The prisoners got in at a window of a charitable institution of Baron Rothschild's, at Bedford square, Stepney, and stole the articles in question, a little girl seeing Hurd come out. The jury found Hurd guilty, and acquitted Jen nings. Mr. Payne sentenced liurd to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 4. GUILDHALL—ALLEGED FORGERY OP A BILL OF EXCHANGE.--Edward Brauodbeck, a dealer in sewing machines, was placed at the bar before Al derman Hale, charged with forgery. Mr. Benham appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Holt conducted the defence. _ _ . It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner called upon Messrs. Pitt Brothers, sewing machine manufacturers, of Cleckileaton, in Yorkshire, in July last, and requested that certain goods should be sup plied to him upon credit. The state of his account was not considered satisfactory, and the prosecutors therefore declined to extend their credit, upon which the prisoner said he had two bills of exchange for £lB 15s. 6d. and £l6 10s., which he gave in reduc tion of his account, and was accordingly supplied with other goods on credit, but on the bills arriving at maturity they were found to be worthless, and farther inquiry elicited the fact that " W. Peters and C 0.," the acceptors of the £lBlss. 6d. bill were not known at the address given en the bill, and there was no such number as 25 in George-street, Commercial-road East, where it was alleged Peters and Co. carried on business. The prisoner had since admitted that there was no such person as Peters and Co., and that he should have to pay the bill himself. A comparison of the handwritings of the drawer and acceptor of the bill led to the conclusion that the whole had been written by one person, and several witnesses stated that, to the best of their be lief, the handwriting was that of the prisoner_ In reply to the charge, the prisoner said he had been swindled out of the amount of the bill which he had received from a man named Peters, but when he found out that Peters did not live at George street, he merely said that Peters and Co. were no body, and not that there were no such person. Alderman Hale committed defendant to Newgate for trial, and refused bail. BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF £250 WORTH OF PROPERTY.—Ribert Smith, alias Jackson, alias Moss, alias Henderson, was charged with burgla riously breaking and entering the premises of Messrs. Berthold and Co., of 13, Little Britain, and stealing a large quantity of silk and other goods, to the value of about £250. Richard Balkwill and Charles Howard, a couple of labourers, were employed in repairing some pre mises situated opposite to the prosecutors' ware house, shortly after six o'clock in the morning, when they saw the prisoner and another man come out of No. 13. They stood on the doorstep for a few minutes, after which they closed the door and walked away in the direction of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes the prosecutor came to the warehouse, and after he had been in a few minutes he came out and called the policeman on duty, with whom he re entered the warehouse. About seven o'clock the prisoner came back alone, put the key into the lock, and was about to open the door when it was opened from the inside by the policeman, and the prisoner ran away. The witness Blackwill followed the prisoner into Falcon-square, where he saw him throw something down an area. Mr. Dullens, of the firm of Berthold and Co., umbrella manufacturers, of 13, Little Britain, said he locked up the premises on the previous evening, between seven and eight o'clock, and on the follow. ing morning he came rather earlier than usual to business, and on entering the warehouse he saw half -a-dozen packages and bales, which he knew were not there over night. He immediately called in a policeman and examined the premises, and found that every desk, drawer, and box, had been broken open, and their contents, consisting of 16 pieces of alpaca, three dozen silk umbrellas, _six dozen alpaca umbrellas, two piedes of silk contain ing 220 yards, 16 gross umbrella materials, and other articles, all packed up ready for removal. He concluded the thieves would come back for their booty, and had not waited many minutes before he heard a key put in the lock, upon which the con stable ran out and eventually captured the prisoner. There were signs of the thieves having been in the warehouse all night, as they got at some wins and appeared to have enjoyed themselves, for they left only empty bottles, with the exception of some cyder which they took for Champagne. The lock of the street door was not forced or injured in any way. Sergeant Oram said, he found the prosecutor's tool-chest was the first thing broken open, as the tools had been used in forciug all the other places. He produced a skeleton key which had been found by another officer in the area in Falcon-square, where the prisoner was seen throwing away some thing. The skeleton key had been tried in the lock of the street door and found to unlock it. P o li c e-constable Betts, 461, and policeman 23 K, proved three former co nvictions against the prisoner for burglaries, in d iffer ent parts of London, during the last seven or eig h t years, for which the prisoner had one The f undergone 12 months each, and two e imprisonment. t rnis of reserved his defence, was fully olprisoner, 8 months w, committed for trial. BOW-STREET. — Mr. Edward Capel White hurst, of G u ildhall-chambers, City, and Lower Bel grave-place, Eaton-spar!, solicitor, wa s pl ace d a t the bar, charged with inciting the prosecutor, Mr. George Blake Lebeup Rogers, of Grosvenor Hotel, late cornet in the sth Dragoon Guards, to commit an unnatural offence. The case excited considerable int eres t f rom t h e high standing of the prisoner both in his profession and in society, and from the fact that the prosecu tor, also a person of highly respectable p os iti on ,h a d recently stood prominently before the public in cer tain proceedingsin the Westminster Police-court. Two solicitors were engaged on each side ; Mr. Smyth and Mr. Abrams for the prosecution; Mr. George Lewis, jun., and Mr. Bury Hutchison for the defence. Mr. Rogers, the prosecutor, having taken his seat in the attorney's box beside his solicitor, Mr. Lewis requested the magistrate to order the prosecutor to quit that position. After alluding to the ease at the Westminster-police court, Mr. Lewis said that he wondered that Mr. Rogers should take the liberty of sitting there. Mr. Rogers removed to the seat usually appro priated to witnesses. Mr. Smyth said the charge which he had to pre fer against the prisoner was of a most serious and distressing nature, and he regretted to have to press such a charge against a gentleman of acknowledged respectability, especially being a member of his (Mr. Smyth's) profession. It appeared that the prosecutor, who was a gentleman of wealth and position, had unfortunately got into company with some soldiers, one of whom was brought up at the Westminster police-court, upon the charge of rob bing Mr. Rogers of his watch. The soldier de fended himself by some charge against Mr. Rogers. The case was adjourned, the soldier being ad mitted to bail upon his own recognizances. That case was reported in the newspapers. After the appearance of that report Mr. Rogers received several anonymous letters, one of which would be shown to have been written by the prisoner. The letter contained a proposal of an infamous nature, It commenced, "If Mr. Rogers really desires," &c., and it closes with a proposal that Mr. Rogers should on the following evening, at six o'clock, present himself at the top of Consti tution-hill, under the arch, wearing a pair of white kid gloves, when tt e writer would introduce himself. That letter was directed to the address, 11, Queen's-road West, Chelsea, which Mr Rogers had given at the Westminster police-court, and which had appeared in the papers. Mr. Rogers had iu the meanwhile removed to the Grosvenor Hotel, and the letter was forwarded to him there. It bore the postmark 25th October. A second let ter in the same handwriting, bearing the postmark 30th October, was received by Mr. Rogers. The writer said he presumed other engagements had pre vented Mr. Rogers from keeping the appoint ment, and he proposed another appointment at the same place, also at six in the evening. Mr. Rogers handed over the two letters, and all the anonymous letters he had received, to the police. A third letter was received, in which the writer ex pressed his regret at learning that Mr. Rogers had been ill, and proposed an appointment on that day at the same pl ace and hour. Mr. R ogers d e li vere d that to th e police. After this Mr. Rogers had occa sion to write to the Times a letter which appeared in that journal, and in which he gave his address at the Grosvenor Hotel. On Monday Mr. Rogers received a• fourth letter in the same handwriting as the other three, addressed to him at the Gros- venor Hotel. The writer suggested that Mr. Rogers' change of address might be the cause of his not keeping the previous appointments, auu proposed ''ter that night (Monday) a fresh appointment the same ladece and hour. By the advice of the police. Mr. Rogers kept that appointment. He was accompanied by an inspector of police, a ser geant of police, and a person named Malcome, re commended by the police, and one other person. Malcome was concealed at a certain place in the en closure within the rails, and near the archway. Mr. Rogers remained under the archway until the pri soneri after passing him several times, said to him, "Are you Mr. Rogers ?" Mr. Rogers replied in the affirmative, and asked the prisoner if he was the writer of the letters. The prisoner said he was. They then walked arm in arm along Constitution hill to the spa Where Malcolm was concealed, and a conversation took place Which Malcom overheard. In the course of that conversation the prisoner pro posed that be and Mr. Rogers should dine together on the following day (Tuesday), at an hotel, where they should pass the night. Mr. Rogers then asked him whether he was sure he had written the letters ? He said, " Yes." Mr. Rogers produced one of the letters, showed it to the prisoner, and said, " This is a matter of great confidence, will you swear that you wrote this letter, and the other let ters in the same hand writing ?" The prisoner said, " Yes, I will swear it." The prosecutor then asked the prisoner for his name and address, which the prisoner wrote down in the prosecutor's pocket-book, " C. C. Whitehurst, 6, Lower Belgrave - p l ace.” The prosecutor then gave him in charge. Mr. Rogers was then called, and deposed to the facts as above stated, with some further details of the conversation utterly unfit for publication. He also produced letters, the substance of which we suppress for a similar reason. Edward Malcome, commission agent, formerly a police-constable, but having left the force for some years, and subsequently manager to an omnibus company, deposed to that part of the conversation which he had overheard. Mr. Lewis severely cross-examined both witnesses. The case was adjourned, the defence being reserved, with an intimation from Mr. Lewis that the case would be fought out to the last. The defendant en tirely denied that he had being guilty of any im propriety. Mr. Smyth bad several other witnesses to call. Mr. Lewis said as he believed Mr. Smyth was about to apply for a remand, the case might as well be remanded upon the evidence now before the court. The case was then adjourned, Mr. Whitehurst being admitted to bail in two sureties of £250 each, and his own recognizances for £5OO. Substantial bail, approved by the prosecutor, was provided. WANDSWORTH.—THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN BATTERSEA-FIELDS. —George Robert Kilsby, clerk in the Tothill- fields House of Correction, was brought before Mr. Ingham after the business of the court had been disposed of, for final examination, on the charge of wilfully shooting Henry Cooke, a grocer, with a pistol. Mr. Butt, the superintendent of the V division, was present to watch the case on behalf of the po lice. The prisoner was undefended. The wounded man attended for the first time. He appeared in a very weakly condition, and was al lowed to be seated in the witness box while under examination. He frequently placed his hand to his right side, as if still suffering from pain. Although his deposition had been taken at his house at the time it was believed he was dying, Mr. Ingham requested Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, to take his evidence again. On being sworn he stated as fol lows :—My name is Henry Cooke, and I reside at No. 1, Thoresby-place, Battersea-park. I am a grocer. 1 have known the prisoner about eighteen months. He lodged with his wife and family in my house for about nine months up to Saturday, the 6th Sept. last. Before he left I had some dispute with him. It was on the Friday night before. It was with reference to a statement he had made to my wife that he had caught me kissing his wife. He told my wife not to mention it to me. I spoke to him and asked him what induced him to tell my wife a parcel of lies. He first of all denied that be had said so ; but after pressing him more closely, he ad mitted that he had. I said I would not let the mat ter drop. I said it was a parcel of lies he had told my wife, and we should part. He then ordered his wife to bed, but she refused to go, I may observe that my wife was present at the time. He seized his wife violently and shook her. During the struggle she cut her fingers very badly with some glass. She then appealed to me to protect her. I interfered to separate them, and pushed him out into the passage. That ended the dispute, and we went to our separate apartments. I did not speak to him again until this matter happened. He spoke to me on the following (Saturday) morning, and said he was going away that day. I said " Very well." He and his family left on Saturday night. I saw him again on Monday night a few minutes before 10 o'clock. I was closing my shop. He, his brother, and his brother's wife came across the fields opposite my house, and stood in front of my shop. The prisoner said, "Well, sir." I answered him " Well, sir." He said, " What have you done with my wife ?" I said, "I have a wife of my own to look after, without troubling after yours ; you are very foolish to ask such a question.' He stood a few seconds while I continued closing my shop. After 1 had done I stood on the step outside the door in front of the shop. My wife stood imme diately on my left hand side. I had scarcely stood still before I heard him say " There." I immediately turned round and received the charge in my side. I heard him distinctly say, " Take that," simulta neously with receiving the charge. I immediately said to my wife, " He has shot me." He then walked away. I then went indoors, thinking he might have another barrel. I rushed indoors immediately. Mr. Ingham—What distance from you was he standing when he fired ? Witness—About two paces. Mr. Taylor—Did you see what he fired from Witness—l did not. I had no time. I have no doubt be fired at my other side. When he said " There," I turned sharply round, and instead of receiving the charge in my left side it entered my right side. My wife was standing so close that some of the gunpowder scorched her face. Mr. Ingham then asked the prisoner whether he had any questions to put to the witness, and he re plied, " Nothing, sir." He immediately afterwards said it was a pity that the witness could not tell the truth. The evidence taken on the first examination was then read over by Mr. Taylor. It will be remem bered that the prisoner, with his brother and his wile, were seen in the evening in question walking to and fro in front of Mr. Cooke's house. Shortly before 10 o'clock the prisoner inquired of Mr. Fey, one of Mr. Cooke's neighbours, whether Mr. Cooke was at home. He was told that Mr. Cooke went out at 11 o'clock in the morning. The prisoner went away. After Mr. Cooke had been shot the prisoner walked into the Prince of Wales public house next door. The prisoner was hilly committed for trial. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 4. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) Charles Clark, 32, George Edwards, 22, and Henry Cole, 22, were indicted for stealing two paintings, value 190 guineas, the property of James Partington and William Turner, in the dwelling house of William Turner. Mr. Besley prosecuted; Mr. Collins appeared for Cole; the other prisoners were undefended. Waiter Holmes, police-sergeant, 3 F, stated that between five and six o'clock on the evening of Mon day, Oct. 20, he was in West-street, Five-dials, where he saw the prisoners and another man, and he watched them for a considerable distance to Birdcage-walk, where he lost sight of them. He returned to the Five-dials, where he apprehended a man for picking pockets, whom he took to the station-house, and afterwards on passing through Long-acre he met the prisoner Clark carrying two paintings, which he produced. Prisoner was stopped, and witness asked him where he got them, and not giving a satisfactory answer he was taken into custody. He resisted a good deal, and it was with difficulty that he was got to the station-house. The witness then returned to the Five-dials, and hav ing waited there some time he saw Edwards, and he took him also into custody for being concerned with Clark in stealing the pictures. Subsequently, from information he received, he apprehended the pri soner Cole on the night of the 24th of October. He told him he suspected him of being concerned with Clark and Edwards in stealing two pictures, and he said he was not, but was at Alec Keene's the whole of the evening, which witness told him was false. Sergeant Joy said about ten minutes before seven o'clock on the evening of Monday, the 20th of October, he saw the prisoners Edwards and Cole in conversation together in Brewer-street, Golden square, from 200 to 300 yards from the house of Mr. Partington, the prosecutor, and the prisoner Cole was carrying two paintings, and afterwards gave one of the paintings to Edwards. He followed them, and saw them look into several public-houses, but finally lost sight of them in Crown-court. He saw Sergeant Holmes the same evening and told him what he had seen. Mr. James Partington, of No. 17, Golden-square, picture dealer, said on the afternoon of Monday the 20th of October he saw the two paintings produced safe in his front parlour, and he valued them at 190 guineas. He locked the parlour door about six o'clock that evening, and left the paintings there. On the following morning he missed the paintings. Mr. Collins made a very able defence for Cole, but The jury found all the prisoners guilty. A previous conviction was put in against Clark, who was convicted of burglary at the Central Cri minal Court in 1857, and sentenced to penal servi tude for four years. Walter Holmes, 3 F, said he had known Clark for years as the companion of housebreakers, and had known Cole for twelve months to be associated with the same companions. He had seen the pri soners repeatedly together. The Assistant-Judge sentenced Clark to be kept in penal servitude for five years, and Edwards and Cole to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen months each. _ Thomas Inwood, 44, was indicted for feloniously receiving 50 knives and other articles, value £B, the property of John Kearns, well knowing the same to have been stolen. Mr. Pater (instructed by Mr. Warrand, solicitor to the Association for the Prosecution'of Swindlers, &c.) prosecuted. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor is a manufacturing cutler, carrying on business at 125, Oxford-street, and on the 12th of June he missed a quantity of knives from his stock, he having seen them safe on the 11th. Suspicion of theft fell upon a son of the prosecutor, who was taken before Mr. Knox, at Marlborough-street, and charged with stealing them, but the evidence being deficient, after being two or three times remanded, he was ordered to be discharged. On the 13th June the prisoner went to the house of Mr. Fenwick, a cutler, residing at 29, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, and produced a quan tity of table-knives and handles, which he offered for sale. Mr. Fenwick was struck at the lowness of the price asked, taken into account the quantity of the articles, and seeing the name of the maker on them he determined to keep them in his possession to ascer tain that they had been stolen. After he bad com pleted the purchase he told the prisoner he believed the knives had been stolen, when he at once admit ted he got them on "the cross„' and said if Mr. Fenwick would send them away immediately they might make a pound or two of them. Therefore, at the time of these dealings, there could be no doubt whatever the prisoner knew they were stolen. Mr. Fenwick immediately corresponded with the prose cutor, informing him of whet he had got, and there was not the slightest reason for supposing but that he entered into the apparent purchase for the purpose of completing the case against the prisoner. Several witnesses having proved these facts, the jury found the prisoner guilty of receiving the articles, well knowing them to have been stolen. The Assistant-Judge sentenced the prisoner to be Imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. (Before Mr. Payne.) ' - Thomas Wiltshire, 42, was indicied for stealing two florins and other moneys, theproperty of George John Jones, from his person. The evidence showed that the robbery was com mitted near to a beer-shop, at the corner of Mul berry-street, Cr mmercial-road East, by three men, and the prosecutor swore that the prisoner was one of them. He was convicted, and, pleading great dis tress and an inability to obtain anj work to do as a dock labourer, Mr. Payne ordered that inquiries should be made as to the truth of his statement. James Braybrook, 92 A, said he had made in quiries, and he ascertained that the statement of the distressed condition of the prisoner was correct. He was a dock labourer, and great numbers of them would stand abo u t for days unable to obtain em ployment. He had four children, one 14 years of age, insane, one aged 10 years, another three years and a half old, and another 15 months, together with his wife. When the husband was taken into custody, the family were living at 5, George-yard, Spitalfields, but as the wife could not pay An arrear of 3s. for rent, the whole family were turned into the street. A poor woman, however, living at 14, New-court, George -yard, Whiteehapel, had compas sion on their distressed condition, and gave up a room in her house in which the unfortunate family could take shelter, and where they had ever since remained. There was not a single article of furni ture in the room, and the only thing they had to lie down upon was twopennyworth of cane shavings which the poor landlady had purchased for them. There was not a scrap of food of any kind in the room, and the prisoner's wife and children were all but naked, and there was not even a fire-place in the room. The room was nine feet long and seven feet broad, and for some days the prisoner's wife had endeavoured to get a morsel of bread for her children by selling matches. Mr. Payne asked the prisoner if he had anything to say to the Court. The prisoner said until this charge he had never had a speck or stain upon his character, and that he worked for the support of his family when h e could obtain work to do. He admitted thit he had lately taken drink; mercy on him he would never touch it again as long as he lived. The police-constable said the prisoner's wife was present, upon which Mr. Payne ordered her to come forward, and her appearance excited ge neral com miseration. She appeared to be nearlyhalfstarved, and had scarcely any clothing upon her. Mr. Payne hoped that when the prisoner came out of p r i son h e wou ld a b s t a i n from drink a 1 to. gather, an d h e should sentence him to he imprisoned , and kept t o h ar d l a b our for four mont h s. The wife strongly appealed to his lordship for SPOR7ING INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER 'AUTUMN RACES.—TUESDAY. Match. 60 soya. Half a mile. Mr. 13eauclerk's Furious, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ....(Fordham) 1 Mr. Park's Westender, 5 yrs, Sat 41b (Cu.stance) 2 Betting-2 to lon Furious. The non• favourite made running to the distance, where Furious took the lead, and won very easily by a length. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added, for all ages. About a mile. Winners extra. 17 subs. Mr. Hawkesley's Lady Peel, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1 Mr. W. S. Cartwright's Ripon, 5 yrs, Bst 61b (H. Grimshaw) 2 Mr. R. Walker's Colonel Crockett, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Whiteley) 3 Mr. H. Marsh's Maydew, 3 yrs, Gst 71b (E. Taylor) 4 _ . Betting-6 to 4on Ripon, 3to 1 agst Colonel Crockett, and 4 to 1 agst Lady Peel. Lady Peel set off in front, with Colonel Crockett, pulling hard, second, and Ripon last. After going about 400 yards, Lady Peel was drawn back, and Colonel Crockett took up the running, Maydew going on second. In this order they rounded the bend, and on entering the straight run for home Maydew went up to Colonel Crockett, Lady Peel and Ripon at the same time advancing from their rear- , ward position and catching the other two at the rails. A magnificent race from the distance ended in favour of Lady Peel by a short head, Colonel Crockett losing second place by a length and a half; Maydew was a bad fourth. Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added. For horses of all ages, with additional selling weights and allow ances. Five furlongs. Lord Coventry's Hypermnestra, 2 yrs, sst 81b (X3O) (J. Grimshaw) 1 Lord Uxbridge's Mountain Buck, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (£3O) (Woodhouse) 2 Mr. J. Morris's Herald, 2 yrs, sst nib.. (£3O) (Deakin) 3 Mr. Wm. Nelson's Paresseuse, 3 yrs, 7st llb (£3O) (Plum) 4 The following also ran :—Springbok, Lord Chancellor, Daryineor, Commander, Vesper, and Jack-in-the-Box. Betting-7 to 4 agst Mountain Buck, 5 to 1 agst Hyperm nestra, 6 to I agst Lord Chancellor, and 7 to 1 each agst Paresseuse, Herald, and Jack-in-the-Box. Mountain Buck and Herald jumped off with the lead, and Hypernmestra headed the nick, at the tail of which was Commander, Vesper being left at the poet. When they passed the last bend-the three which had been in front all the way quitt e d th e res t, and a fine race took place, oHerald dropping astern at the enclosure. Hypermnestra by head, and H era ld was th re e lengths behind n Buck, h Jack- Paresseuse bei ng a bal. fourth ; Springbok wa Jack in-the -Box sixth, and Lord Ohancellor seven th. There was no bid for the winner, but Mr. Morris claimed Moun tain Buck. The Worcester Autumn handicap, a sweepstakes for 3- yr-olds and upwards, of 10 soya each, h ft, and 3 only if declared on or before Tuesday, the 21st of October, with 100 soya added ; a winner of 100 soya after October 14 to carry 71b; of 200 soys, 101 b extra; and the second horse to sai) L... ‘ , ;s stake. The winner to pay 20 soya towards the expenses. on New Course, 1 mile 3 furlongs. 56 subs, 16 of whom declares, The highest weight accepting zised to that, and the being under Bst 121 b, it has been t others in proportion. Mr. Morris's Balham, 4 yrs, 7st 5113 . . 6;zzild) 1 Mr. W. Goater's Aurelian, 4 yrs, Bst 51b, carried Bst 61b (Goater) 2 Mr. Merry's Costa, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (H. Covey) 3 Mr. H. Wyatt's Ledbury, 3 yrs, 6st (J. Plum) 4 The following also ran :—Brilliant, Exchequer, Myrtle, Newstead, Master Begot, Gray Hen colt, Imperatrice, My Mary, Hungerford, Leonora, Gardener, Merry Maid, Avongrove, and Egyptian. Betting-9 to 4 agst Balhalm, 3to 1 agst Aurelian, Bto 1 each agst Leonora, and Costa, 100 to 8 each agst Myrtle, Exchequer, and Gardener, 100 to 7 each agst Brilliant, Master Begot, and the Gray Hen colt, and 15 to 1 agst Merry Maid. Balham set off with the lead as soon as the flag. , was lowered, his immediate attendants being My Mary, Master Begot, Leonora, Avongrove. and the Gray Hen colt, New stead being last, and Exchequer last but one. The favourite increased his lead as he went from the river side and round the bend at the end of the course, where Leonora took second place, Costa third, and Master Begot fourth. The field now began to spread, and Balham in creased his lead at every stride. Master Begot dropped back, beaten, before he came to the last bend, and Aurelian joined the first rank of those behind Balham, who cantered on by himself and won, pulling up, by ten lengths. The race for the second money was decided in favour of Aure lian, who beat Costa by half a length, a similar distance separating the third and fourth. Leonora was fifth, Bril liant sixth, Hungerford and Avongrove seventh and eighth. Newstead and Master Begot were the last two, and did not pass the chair. Costa struck a post in running, and bruised Covey's knee, but neither horse nor rider were seriously hurt. The Nursery Plate Handicap of £5O, added to a sweep stakes of 5 sous each, for 2-yr-olds. The winners to pay 5 sous towards expenses, and if more than 10 sub scribers, the second to save stake. Winners after October 29 to carry 71b extra, and winners of any stake worth £2OO after that date, 101 b extra. T.Y.C., a straight half mile. 43 subscribers. Mr. J. Dawson's Trumps, 7st (Wheatley) 1 Mr, T. Cliff's Airedale, 7st 91b (including 71b extra) (Ferdham) 2 Mr. Taylor's Liston (late Coup de Main), 7st.. (Ward) 3 The following also ran :—Kennett, Abernethy, Line, Golden Drop, Jesuista, Zara, Strawberry Hill, X.enius, Herdsman, Don't-come-late, The Dictator, and Lufra. Betting-9 to 4 each agst Airedale and Lufra, Bto 1 each agst Trumps and Zara, and 10 to 1 agst Don't come-late, Zara made the running at a fair pace for about 300 yards, with Airedale and Trumps next ; Trumps then went to the front and was not again caught, Liston running into third place at the end of the saddling paddock. Airedale made an effort to reach Trumps at the stand, butbeing unable to do so, was beaten very cleverly by three-quarters of a length, Liston finishing two lengths from her. Lufra was a bad fourth, Zara fifth, Herdsman sixth, the Dictator seventh, and Strawberry-hill last. The Severn Bank Stakes of 5 soya each, p p, with 25 added, for horses that have been regularly hunted ; llst 71b each, winners extra. Gentlemen riders. Three miles over the Steeplechase Course. 8 subs. Mr. H. Lington's Willoughby, h b, aged, 12st 71b (in cluding 141 b extra) (Owner) w.o. The Hurdle Race, a handicap of 5 Boys each, with 40 added, a winner of 50 soya clear after Oct. 25 to carry 71b extra. The winner to give 5 Boys towards the expenses. Two miles, with six flights of hurdles. 25 subs. Mr. R. Sly na Everlasting, 4 yrs, lOst 21b (B. Land, jr) 1 Mr. W. Barnet's Butterfly, 6 yrs, lOst 91b (G. Holman) 2 Mr. Ward's Holderskye, 4 yrs, 9st (car. 9st 21b (Duckner) 3 The following also ran :—Old Woman, Shropshire, Sa tellite, Kington, Hungerford, Wild Chieftain, Avongrove, and Emblematic. Betting-7 to 4 agst Shropshire, 3to 1 agst Butterfly, 7 to 1 agst Everlasting and Wild Chieftain. Avongrove made running at a great pace, and cleared the hurdles before the stand about a length in advance of Em blematic, who was second, and Shropshire third, with Hol derskye, Everlasting, and Butterfly next. On rounding i.(3 railway turn Avongrove had a by lead, but bolted towards the turn at the gate on the New Course, when Butterfly went to the front, with Holderskye second and Kington third, Old Woman and Hungerford lying next. On crossing the fiat Holderskye took up the running, and with Ever lasting and Butterfly in attendance, carried it on round the bend at the extreme end of the course, where he obtained a lead of at least a dozen lengths. As they came duwn the straight run Everlasting and Butterfly gained upon Hol derskye, who knocked down the last hurdle, and allowed them to overhaul him; an exciting race from that point was won by Everlasting by a length, Holderskye losing second place by a like distance ; Shropshire was fourth, Satellite fifth, and Kington sixth ; nothing else near. THE DIS7RESS IN 7HE COTTON MANU FACTURING DISTBICTS. At the monthly meeting of the General Central Relief Committee for the management of the fund for the relief of distress in the manufacturing districts, held at Manchester, on Monday, Mr. CoBDEN said—Having had the honour of having his name added to the committee, the first question he ha& to ask was what were the unctions of the General Commit tee ; and he had been told they amounted to nothing more than to attendance once a month receive the report of the Executive Committee as to the buin . L.'!ss done in the distribution of the funds. He was going to suggest whether the duties of the General Committee might not be very much enlarged, and whether the committee might not be employed usefully in increas ing the amount of subscriptions. He thought that all their experience must have taught them that with the best cause in the world in hand the success of a public subscription depended very much on the amount of activity on the part of those who solicited it. In order to induce them to make a general and a national effort to raise additional funds in this great emergency, it was only necessary to refer to one or two facts which had been stated in the report which had been read. It was there stated that it was estimated that the loss of wages at present was £136,094 per week; and it is added, " there is no doubt that the savings of the working classes are :almost exhausted." £136,094 per week repre sented upwards of £7,000,000 sterling per annum. So that at that rate £7,000,000 sterling per annum was now being deducted from the wages of labour in this district. He saw it stated also in the report that the resources which till; Committee could at present foresee that it would possess to relieve this amount of distress was £25,000 a month for the next five months, which was at the rate of £300,000 per annum ; so that they foresaw at present the means of adapt ing relief was somewhat less than 5 per cent. upon the actual amount of the loss of wages at present incurred by the working classes of this country. He need not tell honourable gentlemen practically acquainted with the district that the loss of £7,000,000 in wages per annum was a very imperfect measure of the amount of suffer ing. The loss which would be inflicted in this respect on this community three or four months hence might be taken to be £10,000,000, and this £10,000,000 loss of wages before next spring was by no means the measure of the loss the district would incur. For they must take into conside ration the loss to the capitalist—the loss on fixed machinery and buildings. Perhaps this would not amount to so much as the loss upon labour; but it would be a very large amount, and, in the opinion of some people, very nearly approaching to the loss of wages. But even this was not all. Mr. Farnall had told them that at present the increase of rates in the district was at the rate of £lO,OOO a week. That would be at the rate of half a million per annum ; and, of course, if the distress went on, this must be largely in creased, perhaps doubled. He had always been of opinion that the privation which was threatening the district must be cumulative; and it bad proved so to a degree that very few foresaw. The means of meeting the diffi culty would diminish just in proportion as the diffi culty increased. Mr. Farnall had told them that one third of the rateable property would fall out of existence as it were ; and future rates would have to be levied out of the remaining two thirds. That, however, would be by no means the measure of their condition three months hence ; because every additional rate forced out of existence a large amount of rateable property, and the more they increased the rates the more they diminished the area over which the rates would be productive. (Hear, hear.) This view of the case had an important bearing also upon the condition of the shopkeeping class, as well as the millowners and man ufacturers who had not a large amount of floating capital. There was no doubt that a large number of the shop• keeping class were rapidly falling into the same condition as those who suffered from unemployed labour. He heard, when at Rochdale, a sorrowful example of this. A poor wo • man who kept a shop was obliged to sell the Sunday clothes of her son to pay off a distraint for a poor rate; and r . she re the ceived relief from the committee on returning:from paying rate. That was a sad, sorrowful example , and he was afraid that it would not be a solitary one for a long time to come. He said, then, that they must add this shopkeeping class in their estimate of the prevailing distress ; and it was evident that they must be so when £7,000,000 per annum was with drawn from wages. The consequence must present itself to every rational mind. They then had another class, the class of young men of s uperior education, usu a ll y em ployed in warehouse s and counting-houses. A great num• ber of those would rapidly sink to the conditi on i n which they now found the operative classes. All this would add to the distress and embarrassment of this part of the king dom. To meet this state of things, they had the poor law as the only legal relief to rely upon—in fact, the only re lief, excepting that of their own ioluntarY exertions.ai before A n yone who read over what M r. Farnall had 1 them must see how inadequate this relief must be. It ran from ls. Oid. up to ls. 4d. and ls. 5d per week. There was hardly one case i n w hi ch the allowance was 2s. per week for each individual —he would not call them paupers, but distressed to bringtressedpe the attention Theregaveeat was as one point to which he wished attention of relief f e committee. In a ordinary times wh en t h ey t great relief being given w h e n t he r m e ttae le o to f the e wPoorekrpe, th a t relief are in full employment, the measure of relief to an isolated family or two who might be in distress, was by no means a measure of: the amount required for their subsistence ; because they all knew that in prosperous times, when the bulk of the working people wer . em ployed, they were always kind to each other. The pOur) in fact, did more to relieve the poor than. any other clerks- A working man out of employment gets a meal from hie neighbours, just as in a higher class they entertain friends who were making a journey. But they must recollect that. now the whole mass of the operative population was brought dowz to one sad level of destitution; and what they might be alllowed from the poor rates and from voluntary subscrip tions, was actually the measure of all they would obtain for their subsistence. That being 50 , and insufficient food generally producing depression of spirits as- well as phy sical prostration, there was great danger of thus health and. strength of the working classes suffering, unles, s something more was done to meet the case than he feared h. ad yet been provided for it. All this brought him to this c, Inclusion, that something more must be done by the Gener'al Com mittee than had been done, to awaken the attention - of the public generally to the condition of this part of the cou'nt'y It was a totally exceptional state of things. It had no parallel in all history. It was impossible that they cm.. point out to him a case in which a limited sphere, such as: they had in Lancashire, in the course of a few months there, had been a cessation of employment to the amount of £7,000,000 per annum in wages. There had been nothing like it in the history of the world for its suddenness and for• the impossibility to deal with it and manage it in the way of an effective remedy. (Hear.) The country at large must be made acquainted with these facts. And how was that to be done ? It could only be done by the diffusion of infor mation from this Central Committee. An appeal must be made to the whole country. (Hear, hear.) If this destitu tion was to be met by voluntary aid, the nation at large must be made acquainted with the exigency of the case. They must be reminded that a national responsibility rested upon them. (Hear, bear.) He would, therefore, suggest that this General Committee should be made a National Committee. (Hear, hear.) They should then get rid of those little difficulties with the Lord Mayor. They would want all the co-operation of the Lord Mayor. He re peated that the committee, instead of being a Manchester or a Lancashire Central Committee,shOuld be made &National Committee; and from them should go forth invitations to all parties, beginning with the Lords L:eutenant, inviting them to be vice presidents. Let the noble lord continue at the head of the National Committee. Let the Committee in vite every Mayor—and they should have new m fryers in the course of a week, and though he was sorry to lose the pre sent Mayor of Manchester, yet new mayors would o,ome in who probably would be more willing to take up a new un dertaking than if exhausted by a year's labour—let every Mayor in the kingdom be invited to become a member of the General Committee. Let circulars be despatched ten them inviting them to organise committees in every borough. let secretaries be employed through these bodies to com municiite information to counteract misstatements as to the condition a this district. Or they might, if necessary,seud ambassadors to important places ; but, better still, they might induce them to send some one here to look at the state of things themselves ; and so far from finding the calumnies alleged against the property class being founded in realty, they would find instances not a few of great libe rality and generosity, such as he thought would surprise anyone who visited this pizrt of the country from the south ern portion of the kingdom. (Applause.) This could only be done by active effort from the centre here ; and he sub mitted that they would not be doing' justice to this effort un less they gave the whole country an o pp ortunity of co - o peration, and throw upon every part of the kingdom C a share of this great crisis and emergency. llesr, hear.) He submitted that there was every motive why this com munity as well as the whole kingdom should wish to pre serve this industrious population in health and in posses sion of their energies. There was every motive why you should endeavour to keep them here rather than drive them from here as you will do if they are not sufficiently . fed and clothed during the next winte r . They would be wanted again if the district revived , as he hoped it soon would. The fixed capital here was of no use without the population and without the raw material. Lancashire was the richest county in England when its machinery wee employed. It was the poorest when its machinery, its fixed capital, was paralysed as at the present time. He re peated, that it was the interest not only of this community, but of the kingdom, that this population should be pre served for a time, he hoped not far distant, when the raw material of their industry would be again supplied to this region. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, he submitted that for the whole kingdom this district, as well as the rest, it was advisable, until Parliament met, that they should have an effort made to raise the amount of £1,000,000 sterling. Short of that it would be utterly insufficient for the case. He believed that if an appeal was made to the country, and a proper organisation formed, such an amount might be raised ; and he had not the least doubt whatever that an appeal coming from that body would meet with such a response as would not only be honourable to the country, but honourable to our common humanity. (Applause.) He begged pardon if he had trespassed too long upon their time. He should not have the opportunity of seeing them often. The experience he had, he repeated, was this, that if they wished subscriptions ni aid of this great disaster to be successful, it could only be by an effort of the Central body. In proportion to their centriftigal force would be the amount they would receive throughout tie country. (Ap plause.) The vote of thanks to the Mayor of Manchester was carried amid general acclamation, and, his worship having replied, the proceedings terminated. COUNTRY MA RA-L.I(S. .1.. LEEDS—TUESDAY. To-day at our market best American wheat sells at 50s. This draws the demand from new English wheat, sales of which progressed slowly, although factors were inclined to sake lower rates. Barley rather easier. Beans and oats a .. slow" sale. LYNN-' 'IIESDAT. White . 49s to 528 I Barley. 3Bs to 400 Rid .. 47s to 50s I Grinding .. 30s to 346 Beans .40s to 4te I Oats.. New —s to j New 22s to 260 MARKET HARBOROUGH—TvEsnAY. White wheat, 50s to 55s ; red, 46s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley at 34s to 38s per qr., grinding 30s to 34s per 30 st. Oats, 26s to 28s; new, 21s to 24s per 24 st. ; beans, 38s is 42s per qr. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. At our market to-day there was a moderate attendance , and wheat and flour sold at the prices of Friday last. In dian corn rather firm. Other articles unaltered. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. Red wheat, per lead of 3 imperial bushels 22s Od to 22s 6d , White 9 I 23s Od to 25s Od New red l7s Od to 208 Od • New white ~ ), 2ls Od to 22s Od Beans 9) I, l6s 6d to 198 64 5 1 Peas, per qr. Grindmg barley, per cir 24s Od to 30s el Malting ditto, „ 000 31s Od to 360 Od Oats 3) 24s Od to 308 Od Flour, is 10d to 2s 2d per stone. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—TUESDAY. . A fair quantity of wheat exhibited to-day, and a quit tone prevailed in the trade. Old wheat brought Saturday s rates, new is lower. Oats and oatmeal flat. Barley, beaus, and other articles are unchanged. MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—Old white wheat, 52s Od to 56s Od ; old red, 47s Od to 52s per 36 stone beans, 50s for old; new sorts, 40s to 45s per 38 at. p_ barley, 36s to 40s for malting, and 30s to 33s per qr. Or grinding; oats, 20s to 34s Od per 24 stone. C RK —TUESDAY. The following were the quotations this morning — g e ts wheat, 100 Od to 250 Od ; white, 23s Od to 29 s Od; ba rle y , to 6d to 16s 6d.; oats, Espd to 16s Od. ; new bere, —s Od —s Od. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment is a wonder ful remedy for bad legs, whether caused by external vio lence or resulting from colds, erysipelas,, varicose veingo gout, or rheumatism. The deepest ulcerations of the flesh yield to the powers of this unguent with the same readiness and the same certainty as the simplest scratch or the slight est inflammation of the skin. The heat and smarting of scalds and burns are checked at once by this soothin ar plication, and the progress of the cure, to the sufferer astonishment and delight, pryceeds in its painless course• This important fact should induce everyone having the charge of children always to keep this pain-saving applies' tion within reach. Holloway's Ointment will spare the child torture and the mother anxiety. BIRTHS. he ef 3l L st ieu ul t. t . . c , o a lo t n l e ir i e p od o m w a b n ig c g o i tel .n, r i j h DURBIN.—On the 3d inst., at Weston-super-mare, the wif e of Commander Durbin, R.N., of a daughter. R e gt., of a daughter. Do H w e ß n re I G d i , ll ll - 1 1 wife t livooms. — On the 3d inst., at Kentish-town, Mrs. Henri Huggins, of a son. PHILLIPS.— in s t . , On the 3d at Belvedere,Kent, the W ife of G. J. Phillips, of a son. MARRIAGES. CRESSA v LL — ...EMI ) TON —0 the Ist 'at St. Mark's, last Tolliugton k . 11 " ri o-, -par , Mr. Samuel Lee Cresson, to Cathe youngest surviving daughter of the late Mr. Edview Kempton, of Ilford, Essex. JEinst., at the Baptist C elf FF S — BAYLIS.—On the 4th haP Borough-road, Mr. Alfred Jeffs, o f Hounslow, to Faliti Payne Baylis, the only daughter of Mr. Richard Ba y L l °' Royal-road, Kensington-park. DEATHS. WO' By— On the 2d inst., at Selsfleld Lodge , Sussex, and Frances Ann By, relict of the late Henry By, Esq" iii.• -1-'' eldest daughter of the late G. M. Turner, Esq ., of both, and of the Stock Exchange, London. John' s CAzABET.—On the 4th inst., at 38, cacia-roa. St. „,, wood, Lieut.-Colonel Peter Grenvi A lle Cazalet , late 1/. 1 " .,0 Madras Army, aged 49. hwarlr, EVANS.—On the 3d inst., at Tooley-street, Sout Mr. Thomas Evans, aged 67. Nael l GOATLY.—On the 2d inst., at Twickenham, Mr. J. Goatly, aged 52. SMITH.—On the 3d inst. , suddenly, Be!jamin Smith, EEO of Foye Cottage, Blackheath, ------ LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLII2, IN, of N 0. 11 2, Strand, Printer, at THE Suisr Office, No. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County ° f Middlesex.—Wedueedity, NoTember 6, 1862. 1111111111111111