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own national limitsin our free-trade agitation. We neither sought for aid abroad, nor stipulated for conditions with other countries; nay, I will candidly admit to you that any admixture of such toreign elements would have only compli cated and retarded our movement. Would to Heaven that every other people were left as we were left, free to carry out its owu domestic reforms, without the intervention of extraneous influences. Having said this, you will not suppose, if I add a word or two upon the proceedings of our League, that I do it with the view to incite you to imitate us. The League was organised solely for the purpose of disseminating amongst the English people those truths which Adam Smith and your own Baptist Jay had promulgated half a century before. We wished to make their principles, which had been confined to the knowledge of the learned few, familiar to the mass of our countrymen. Our object was to prepare public opinion for the removal of all those impediments, which, under the name of protective duties, prevented the flee exchange of our productions for those of all other countries. We wished, moreover, to teach the Government that its duty consisted in abstaining from all interference with trade. The doctrine of the League could not be better explained than in the words of your own great Turbot, written I believe before Adam Smith published the " Wealth of Nations." "Ce que l'Etat &tit I chacun de ses membres, c'est la destruction des obstacles, qui les generaient dans leur indust trie, ou qui lea troubleraient dans la jouissence des produits qui en seraient la recompense. hi ces obstacles subsistent, les bienfaits particuliers ne diminueront point la pauvrt te generale, peace que la cause restare tout entiere." There, gentlemen, all that I have spoken or written in Eng land or the last seven years has been only an amplification of this maxim of your illustrious statesman. The League rai'ed funds, established its own journal, printed hundreds of tons weigh of tracts, which were distributed V:roughout the land, and sent forth its missionaries to lecture in every town. Copying, in our moral warfare, the tactics of your great general, we precipitated all our force upon one division of the enemy. We attacked the corn-laws with a full expectation (which has been since realised) that if we carried that position, the rest of the monopolists would surrender at discretion. I shall not dwell upon the details of our struggle further than to give you one or two of the great arguments with which our opponents managed so Iota; to maintain their ground. If you should find them to re semble t hose which you are accustomed to meet with in France, it will not surprise me, for as truth everywhere wears the same divine aspect, so error must always disguise itseif in similar sophistries. Our opponents, the monopolists, pleaded that they were heavily taxed by the Government, and that, therefore, they required protection. Our reply was, that we, the free-traders, were as heavily taxed as they, and that that was one great reason why we could not afford to pay addi tional taxes for their protection, and after a seven years' trial before the tribunal of public opinion it has been decided that we were right. Then they urged how dreadful it would be to be dependent upon foreigners for food—that it it had only concerned articles of clothing, or wood, or iron, it might have been tolerated; but what madness to be at the mercy of foreigners for corn! Well, the people took time to con sider this terrible plea, and at length decided that they would not subject themselves to famine during the time of peace for the fear of being starved in ease of war. But the great argument of all is to come. Our opponents set them selves up as the representatives of native industry; they protested that they were the great employers of labour, the supporters of the revenue, and the main pillars of the State. We modestly ventured to suggest that au interest so powerful ought at least to be able to support itself, without putting its hands into other people's pockets. We were then assailed as traitors to England, who wished to ruin our native country to enrich foreigners; we were denounced as the friends of France, America, and Germany, nay one of the protectionist journals actually charged us with - being in the pay of the Emperor of Russia. le vain did we try by argu ments and facts to put an end to this ever-repeated tale of native industry. Oh, the hundreds of dull speeches that I have been doomed to hear in the House of Commons in de fence of restive industry? I shudder when I think of their length and weight, and wonder that I am alive to tell you of my sufferings. At last the judg. ment of public opinion saved me by declaring that all kinds of industry were equally native industry, mid that to one portion of it was entitled to any privileges at the ex pense of the rest. There was one claws of our opponents, the most able men in the ranks of the votectiouists, who eeeili e the impossibility of defending any of these argame ts sought refuge in an abstraction : We agree with ycu," said they. " in principle we admit that you are right in the abstract." To them we replied, that we were not fighting with a phantom, but with a pretty numerous body made up of flesh and blood, and which was making free with other men's property ; we asked them it' they were prepared to maintain that the eighth commandment was an abstraction. Oh, give me an opponent who will admit that I am right in the abstract! We felt that we had nearly finished our struggle when our ablest adversaries were driven to admit the justice of our principles in the abstract. I must not omit to do honour to one class of our antagonists who had the prudence to resort to prophecies instead of appealing to the facts and experience of the past. They always argued in the future tense. 'rimy predicted for seven years without ceasing, that if the corn-laws were abolished the land of England would be thrown out of cultivation, and no rent would be paid to the proprietors. Well the corn-laws are abolished, and these very men have since been selling and letting their land higher than before. I am delighted for their own sakes that they have proved as false in prophecy as they were deficient in logic. The same men predicted that if we threw open our ports without stipulation with foreigners, that other con:ltries would not follow our example; unluckily for these prophets the last mail from America brings the account of the passing of a new tariff in the United States almost as liberal as our own, and I am told his Holiness the Pope is pre paring to add his infallible te-timony to the truth of tree trade principles, But lam w earying you with these recitals. Suffice it to say, that our victory was achieved after more than seven years of discussion had elicited every argument in de fence of protection which the ingenuity and the sincere alarm of the protectionists could devi'e. if you ask me whether the question is settled for ever. I answer, Yes ; for in England we Dever recede one inch in the path of reform, when every step has been gained by the force of reason and argument. Besides, we have no man deserving the name of a statesman who would undertake a Government founded upon the protective principle. Ido not speak merely of Sir Robert Peel, who has immortalised his name by the part he took in the emancipation of our cernmerce,or ofLordJ.Russell, who so nobly supported him, but I mean that there is not one member of the late or present Ministry who now advocates the principle of protete ion. One and all have modestly repudiated, on the part of Government, the right of interfering with the freedom of individual industry and enteratiee. Gentle men, I should not be doing justice to my own feelings, or the views of those with when I have had the honour to co operate in England if I sat down without saying that we look for far higher results from the universal application of our principles than those to which I have alluded. Doubtless it is good to extend commerce, to multiply the comforts of life, to stimulate industry, and increase the rewards of labour ; but, valuable as are these physical gains, free-trade is des tined to confer a far greater moral blessing upon humanity. You have joined this evening in drinking a toast to "peace" —a sentiment which will find a response in every English free-trader. True, we have now peace in Europe, but at what cost is it preserved ? Everywhere we see preparations for war. Peace is neon our lips, but war resounds from our arsenals. The world sighs for some better guarantee against that scourge of humanity than is to be found in enormous and cosily armaments by land and sea; for ex perience has, unhappily, proved that the warlike passions of communities are more likely to be stimulated than sup pressed by the threatenings which surround them. To render peace something better than an armed truce, we must array on its side such a preponderance of ma terial interests as shall prevent the possibility of war. Here, then, is the mission of the free-traders! Do we believe that the daily and hourly interchange of mutual services which must follow from the triumph of our principles would aftbrd the surest safeguard against national hosti lities? Do we believe that free trade, if adopted by all countries, would make the universal people the negotiators of peaceful relations with each other, and thus put an end fur ever to our present system, by which the balance of peace and war between two great nations trembles upon the finger of diplomacy ? If we sincerely believe this, then it is our duty to strive to demolish those barriers which separate man from his brother man, and which pre vent them from interchanging the kind offices of humanity. Let nations meet face to face in the spirit in which we meet together this evening, forgettieg that we I are Frtnehraen and Englishmen, and remembering only that we are men. This must be the object of every tree trader, each in his own legitimate sphere. Gentlemen, I heartily thank you for the patience with which you have listened to this imperfect expression of my sentiments, and, in conclusion, I drink with you to the " Cuion of all Nations." This toast was received with great enthusiasm, as were also several others in favour of free trade, and the ameliora tion of the condition of the labouring classes, which were proposed by different gentlemen. THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Thursday, in the metro. polls, there was a general rise in the price of bread to the amount of one halfpenny on the quartern loaf; the highest price is NOW, con sequently, 9d., and the lowest 6d. The Edingburgh Weekly Journal of Wednesday states, that " in Glasgow and Dundee, the fine 41b. loaf Is retailed at id. ; in Edinburgh, the bakers demand for a mired oar. 7d. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were present at ber Majesty's Theatre on Thursday evening her Royal High ness the Duches of Cambridge, accompanied by their Serene High nesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meeklenburgh Strelito, and attended by the Baron Kneseb. ck ; her Majesty the Queen Dowager's box was occupied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricardc and party. There was also present his Royal Highness Prince George 01 Camoridge, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Headfort, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Baroness isrunnow and Millie. Olga de Lechner, the Prince Treubetakol, the General de Berg and Madame de Berg, the Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Duke de Litta, his Excellency the General Count Bjomstjerna, the Earl of St. Vincent and the lion. Mrs. Dyce Sombre, the Earl and Countess of Bective, the Countess of Blessington, the Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, the Count de Courcy, Lord Arthur Lennox, the Ladies Dulicannon, Lord and Lady Carriegtue, Lady Laieley, Lord Ward Connt D'Orsay, Lied and Lady Shelburne, Lord and Lady _rumple. more, the Count M. tie Berg, Both Mr. Will aighby, lion. General Upton, Hon> Foley, Hon. Mr ii. air Join Bur. goync, &e. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES Itatewar.—in a Parliamentary paper, obtained by Sir H. Inglis, an account was given of the late accident on the Eastern Counties Rail . way, as rendered by the secretary (31r. Roney) to the railway de partment of the board ot"frade. Un the 18th of Ju!y the passengers injured were —Mrs. P ayne, leg broken ; Mrs. Wetdeultall, ditto ; Mrs Bromley, contus e d ; Mrs. litliooe, con cuss i on of brain bliss Thiiiiewood, arm broken; Th o m as :Mi llwood, loot i i • ed .' J h Smith, ribs broken ; Hi ram Morrish, foot injured ; lticl j a ur rd .Murphy, ley, William Keeler, collar-lame - broken ,e• Cotton, stone, COntu , ,ed face; Archer Ryland. leg injured; William shaken ; J o h, I.•r a tads, ditto; William Thorougliwood, ribs brokei n i: W. Preston, knees injured; William Hind, concussion of brLi '' i t4 - e Atkins, shaken ; Mr. Bromley, fractured leg; Mr. seeone., le ' ‘ , in . Juredi Mr:le:Slipper; shaken; Miss Crippen, ditto; Juhn Peire: - dislocated shoulder; Hon. George de Gray, bead cat ; Miss Bur: Welter, shaken; Rev. U. Wrightson, 'wee broken and cut eye; Thomas Clifford, aliaken ; 11. Olive, porter, Company'a service, leg broken ; William Prentice, ditto; and Janies Skef linzton, bruised. The following remarks appear on the re. tun: as made - by the secretary :—" The circumstances were fully in• vests sated on the tfOth ult., before the magistrates at Ilford, and the • eag i,e.defeer and stoker, on whom the blame rests, committed for - trial at the Chelmsford sessions. The sufferers, with the exception a ma,. Prentice, arc reported to be going on favourably on the whole. Aug. 12. Mr. hind has since died; an inquest was held, and the jury returned a verdict of ' Manslaughter' against William Clare, • the driver. Porter Prentice's leg has been amputated, and he is now reported to be going on favourably." In the column stating tae natere of the accident, it is mentioned fhat " the one o'clock . up-train from Ipswich was discharging its passengers at the Strat ford station, when a train, consisting of an engine and some empty trucks, ran Into it." The cease of the accident is described in the following terms :—"Disobedience of orders on the part of the engine driver and stalker of the trucks' train in discharging signals." INTENDED VISIT OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Patocess OF Panssti.—We understand that his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen has revived official Intimation that her Royal Highness the Princess. of Pmesta; •consort of Prince William of Prussia, eldest • brother cut the-King; will visit this country at the close of thiS month, • with Dia viese of sojourning three weeks here. Her Royal Highness Is alipsefed to-accompany her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Serene,Wghness Prince Edward of aaxe Weimar. -Queen Adelaide. ' and otter inebihone of the family, have been visiting their Serene 'fljefel'ifffseetlfis Gtand Duke and Grand 'Duchess of Saxe Weimar, at • Wein A t *Bl t4le Princess of Prussia ; and the ill ustr i ous P r i ncess revialatheY;Fleen;DowaVer, eri route to England, purpose to pay a0e134 c 'and • Queen of the Netherlands, at the flagne,. where .• • tinarlifie er t peeted to stay two days, and, then proc.e.ed tci Rotterdam ; ,Vo,eafbara untr y . The precise day fur Cic embarkation of "tnewisufit party is sot defillitivay settled, but taller tlie lzsM or '--1114- it is generally thought, will be selected. THE THE ANDOVER UNION. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the admi nistration of the poor-laws in the Andover Union, and into the management of the union workhouse, and into the con duct of the Poor-law Commisioners and their late Assis tant-Commissioner, Mr. Parker, with reference to the two investigations held at Andover, and into all the circum stances under which the Poor-law Commis-Toners called upon Mr. Parker to resign his Assistant-Commissionership ; and who were instructed to inquire into all the circum stances under which Mr. Day was called upon to resign his offiee of Assistant Poor-law Cemmissioner ; and who were empowered to report the minutes of evidence taken before them, together with their observations and opinion thereupon, to the House; have considered the matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following resolu tions : RELIEF. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee,- 1. That it appears to have been the practice of the An dover board of guardians to consider and determine upon cases as stated in the relieving officer's books, without pre viously inquiring whether the applicant or any person on his behalf be in waiting. 2. That when applicants having made application to the relieving officer have been admitted to the board, on its being made known that they are present, it has ordinarily been only on their objecting to the decision in the case; whereas justice and humanity alike require that every applicant for relief should have the opportunity, if in waiting, of making a personal statement before his case be decided upon. 3. That the Andover board of guardians have adopted the practice of leaving it to the relieving officer to communicate their opinion to the applicant, a practice of which your Com mittee strongly disapprove, it being in their judgment no less just to the pauper, than expedient, with a view of pre venting mistake orfraud, that the decision in each case should be communicated to the applicant, if in attendance, by the presiding chairman, in the presence of the board. 4. That in this censure on the practice of the Andover guardians, the Committee would not be understood as fa vouring a practice which may often lead to serious hardship, of requiring all applicants to attend at the board. 5. That the tree admission to the presence of the board of applicants for relief was the more important in the Andover Union, in which it has been proved that the relieving officer's books have been very imperfectly kept ; columns which should contain important particulars, e. g., the earnings of the applicant, and the present cause of seking relief, being often left entirely blank. 6. That from instances brought under their notice, the Committee believe that the board of guardians have, in several cases of applications for relief to them, left to the relieving officer a large dis:retionary power as to adminis tering or withholding it. While they admit that, under special circumstances, this may sometimes be necessary (though whether such special circumstances existed in the cases referred to, the detective state of the relieving officer's book affords no evidence), the Committee think it right to record their conviction of the impropriety and inexpediency, under ordinary cases, of thus delegating to the relieving officer the discretion which the law has vested in the board of guardians. 7. That in regard to the non-all.twance of partial relief to the aged and partially disabled, a principle which appears to have been generally acted upon in the Andover Union, the Committee feel bound to express their apprehension, that, if rigidly carried out, it may lead to various individual hard ships, without any equivalent amount of public advantage. It is just to add, that the boards of guardians have in this respect only followed out the recommendations of the Poor law Commissioners in their annual reports and other publi ciitions, trough no order has been issued by the Poor-law Commissioners to that effect. 8. That on the application of an able-bodied man for re lief, on account of sickness ir his family, and also in some instances where the applicant has been partially disabled, the Andover board have required, as a condition upon which such relief is made dependent, that he should perform a cer tain task of work at the workhouse, the amount of food to be allowed to him not being supplied until such task is com pleted; and although, as stated by some witnesses to have been the case, thi, practice may have been only adopted as regards the able-bodied applicant, and where lie is out of work, and under circumstances, therefore, which, were it not tiw the sickness in his family, would render admission to the workhouse the only relief applicable in that union to the case, still your Committee think that the annexing this con dition to the relief otherwise deemed necessary, and espe cially where parties are brought long distances from their homes, to execute the task imposed, is (except under sus picion of fraud or gross imposition) an unduly severe mode of administering relief. WORKHOUSE. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee— ' 1. That on the investigation which took place in Septem , her, 180 (as hereinafter stated), before Mr. Parker, many charges of gross immorality, and of fraudulent appropriatit n of the workiouse stores, were brought forward against Mr. M'Dougal, the then master of the workhouse, and were deposed to en oath by many witnesses; that that investiga tion was brought to a close (under the circumstances parti cularly detailed in the papers and evidence printed here with) by Mr. M•Dougal's resignation of his office, no evi dence up to that time having been brought forward by him in his defence against the greater part of the charges so preferred. 2. That having reference as well to the necessarily great extent and variety of the subjects referred to them, as more especially to their obvious incompetency to complete that inquiry satisfactorily without the power of administering an oath, the Committee have thought themselves justified in forbearing to re-open the investigation referred to. 3. That the Committee at the same time think it right to state that several of the witnesses examined in proof of the charges of gross immorality on such previous investigation, have given evidence before them, as well upon points which did not come under inquiry in that investigation as upon some matters which were then deposed to, and that the evidence so given appears to your Committee entitled to credit. 4. That this Committee is of opinion that Mr M'Dougal's conduct while master of the workhouse was marked by undue severity; that he was, on several occasions, once even when reading prayers to the inmates, seen in a state of in toxication ' • that he was utterly deficient in many o f th e qualities which are of essential importance in the difficult position which be tilled. viz., fairness and impartiality, a due sense of truth, a well-regulated temper, and proper habits of self-control. 5. That the Committee cannot refrain from directing special attention to the case of Hannah Joyce; she appears to have been presumed by Mr. and Mrs. 111‘DJugal to have been guilty of child murder, not only without evidence, but against the verdict of the coron e r's jury, and to have been treated by them, in consequence, with great cruelty. It has been further proved, that on the day of the inquest on the • body of her child she was threatened by Mrs. AP Dougal with being compelled to sleep in the dead-house, where that body was then lying; and having been confined, apart from the other women, in the night time, she was forced by Mr. M'Dougal to carry the body of her own child up the High street of Andover to the grave; moreover, on the occasion of her leaving the workhouse, some days afterwards, Mrs. 11‘Dougal directed some of the f ema l e i nma t es t o take pans, plates, Asa, and make as much noise as they could, on the ground of her presumed guilt. It al s o appears th a t this I latter proceeding took place at the time when the guardians were assembled in the board room, and that some of the guardians, at least, were aware of what was going on ; but no inquiry appears to have been instituted by the board, nor any censure passed in consequence of the outrage which had been committed. 6. That as a farther proof of the ill-regulated state of the workhouse, your Committee refer to the fact that commitments took place to the gaol of Andover during'--- for offences against the rules and discipline of the work house, a state of things which they believe could not have existed had the workhouse been properly managed. That they cannot omit farther to state, that it has been proved that on numerous occasions individuals were taken from the workhouse to the borough gaol of Andover, by the direc tions of Mr. DPDougal, and were subsequently discharged therefrom without, on either occasion, being taken before a justice of the peace. 7. That without going further in this place into details, fur which they refer to the evidence and papers printed here with, the Committee feel bound, upon the evidence given before them, to express their conviction of the utter unfit ness of Mr. M'Dougal and his wife for the situations of mas ter and matron, which they respectively held from December, 1836, to December, 1845, and they have therefore learned with much astonisment that his influence with the board has been far greater than that which should properly belong to his office, and the confidence reposed in him seems to have been unqualified. 8. That the Committee feel called upon further to express their opinion that no such misgovernment of the workhouse could have taken place bad the visiting C omm i ttee acted re gularly and duly in the discharge of their important duties, as defined in the workhouse rules laid down by the Poor-law Commissioners (Article 56), and carefully recorded the re sults of their observations and inquiries for the weekly in formation of the Board. 9. That the Committee believe it to be one of the most im portant duties of the Visiting Committee to ascertain from inmates whether any groundexists for just complaint; to inquire into such complaints when preferred, and so to discharge this part of their functions, that the inmates may entertain a just confidence in the•fairnees of those under whose charge they are placed; but your Committee fear that in the Andover workhouse this important duty of the visiting gudrdiaus has not been satisfactorily per. , formed. 10. That the bad administration of the Andover work- house, and the rigour with which tbe board of guardians, generally acting in accordance with the frequently published views of the Poor-law Commissioners, have carried out the law, have often been the means of inducing labourers to accept reduced wages in order to avoid the workhouse. 11. That the system, as p ursue d at t h e Andover board, of granting gratuities to the master for boys and girls placed out to service, without requiring any proper voucher for the accuracy of the master's statement, was very reprehensible. WORKHOUSE DIETARY. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee,- 1. That in the month of February, 1836, several forms of dietary were 9,•bt down by the Poor-law Com m i ss i oners, of which one, marked No. 8, was selected by the board of guardians for adoption in the wol:kh,,nse, and sanctioned by the Commissioners, and has been in use from that time until December, 1845. the:2. 1,12 Poor-law a i their c,)ln o s i e i c s o si t o u n l e a r n s n ualre publishedpc)rt, s p ix ub to l i f s i h_ o e s d f in dfi e l t B a 3 f 7 y , r as actually di at Andover, and is is fact a superior dietary. ers in in u l i e l r i allvorrekshpoecutsses'frobnul but form that No. 3. , , 3, as o gsanc tioneduchfoin 3 a . os l v, 'h e a r tf o - o t u h r e C ir o i n o r io i i t r t i e e e s h u a .h v i e ch no o t an rec e eiz b d le a t n h y om evi t d o e e n x c . e plain satisfactorily this admitted discrepancy, and that in the absence of any such explanation they must infer that the improvement made in the form No. 3, between its transmis sion to the Andover Union, and its publication in the second annual report, was owing to its being judged insufficient by the Poor-law Commissioners; they cannot in any case re frain from expressing their surprise that the improved die tary, as printed in the second annual report, was never spe cially communicated to the Andover board. 4. That from toe evidence taken before the Committee, and from the circumstance that the board of guardians, on the recommendation of, and in concurrence with the Poor-law Commissioners, have lately thought it advisable to adopt a higher scale, the Committee believe, that from the forma tion of the union until the last autumn, the general dietary of the workhouse was, in quantity at least, too low, and more particularly- that the allowance of bread was insufficient; and they find that this dietary was often further diminished by the dishonesty of the master. It is right, however, to add that on the first inquiry held by Mr. Parker, on the sth of August, 1845, the medical officers of the union, Mr. Westlake and Mr. Payne, gave evidence on oath in favour of the suf f iciency of the workhouse dietary to maintain the inmates in health. But it has been proved before" the Com mittee that some of the inmates of the workhouse were in the habit of eating raw potatoes and grain and refuse food which had been thrown to the hogs and fowls. 5. That it has been proved that during the continuance of that dietary, and while Mr. AtTougar was master of the workhouse, instances occurred in which inmates of the workhCuse, employed in bone crushing, eat the marrow re maining ititharesh bones whiCh they were set•tctineak. 6. That although the practice of bone-crushing at the An clover workhouse Tr ae in operation in the year 1841, and th e . petition from another union complaining of its injurious effects was presented to Parliament in 1842, it appears that no order for the absolute discontianance and abolition of the practice was issued by the Poor-law Commissioners until November, 1845. As, however, the practice of bone-crush ing in workhouses is discontinued in the Andover Union bombe, and plohibite,l by a general order of the Poor-law Commissioners, it does not appear necessary to remark further upon this point than to say, that by a very irregular and improper practice the produce of the labour of the paupers in bone-crushing at the workhouse is stated to have been disposed of among the guardians, by the chairman puting up the same at a sort of mock auction in the board room. 7. That it is the opinion of the Committee, that this em ployment —or in fact any labour which can justly be con sidered of a penal or disgusting character—should not be adopted by boards of guardians, as such a course must tend to prevent the really destitute poor from entering the union house, and is not consistent with a mild and considerate ad minisA.ation of the law. 8. That from evidence given before your Committee, they believe that instances have occurred in which inmates of the workhouse have not received the extra allowance to which they were entitled ; and as regards the sick, inasmuch as it was not the practice of the medical officer of the work house to make any such orders for extra allowance in writing, or to record them in a bpok, as provided for by the work house regulations, there has thus been no satisfactory check upon such abuse. 9. That the Committee are of opinion, that if the medical officers of the Andover Union had held their appointments during good behaviour, instead of being exposed to removal at frequently recurring periodical elections, and had they been in a position of less dependence upon the guardians, they would have been in a position to execute the trust reposed in them with much greater advantage to the interests of the sick poor, and the abuses which have been exposed before the Committee would have been earlier disclosed and more efficiently checked, if not prevented; and your Committee would refer the House to the order of the Poor-law Commis sioners of March 12, 1842 (Article 20), in which, while it permits an annual appointment, the Commissioners have re cognised the principle of the appointment of medical officers, " until they may die or resign, or become legally disqualified to hold such office, or be removed therefrom by the Poor-law Commissioners." 10. That no remonstrance appears ever to have been made to the Poor-law Commissioners by the chairman, any member, or nicer of the board, or by any Assistant Poor law Commissioner, upon the subject of this omission, or in reference to any of the instances of irregularity and mis management which have been stated in evidence before the Committee. 11. That the evidence before your Committee leads to the belief that a general system of laxity has prevailed iu regard to the accounts of the union ; that many important books have remained for long periods unchecked; and that in this respect the board of guardians, and more especially the clerk of the union, have failed in the due performance of the duties which they respectively owed to the ratepayers and the poor of the district. 12. That your Committee cannot omit to mention, as one contributing cause of the irregularities prevalent in the union, the circumstance that the clerk has, trom the commence ment, been permitted, with the knowledge of the Commis sioners, to act by , deputyl a state of circumstances in which it is obvious that the personal respectability of the principal affords no security for the due and horeSt discharge of the duties of the office, and from which, in this case, a seri , us defalcation in respect to the funds of the union (subsequently, however, made good by the principal clerk out of his private funds, for the particulars of which your Committee refer to Paper No. 3 in the Appendix) appears to have taken place SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1846. UNION BOOKS. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee,- 1. That the proper keeping and inspection of the various books which the Commissioners have directed to be kept in all unions, in order to give security both to the paupers and the ratepayers for the due administration of the law, appear to have been habitually neglected in the Andover Union ; the abstract of application and report book, which ,tight to be prepared for the chairman at every sitting of the board, and filled up by him, and signed by him, as each care is de cided upon, the relieving officers' books, the workhouse ad mission and discharge books, the provision check book, and the medical officer's books have be6n produced before this Committee, and have all of them afforded the clearest proofs of the negligent manner in which the business of the An dover Union has been conducted. 2. That the state of the union books and the abuses in the workhouse prove that the Assistant Commissioner has failed in the efficient performance of his duties of inspection at Andover, and that, as regards the books, which needed only a moment's glance on any one of his occasional attend ances at the board to show the discreditable manner in which they were kept, the Committee can find no sufficient excuse for his neglect, and can only account for it by the supposition of an unlimited confidence in the board of guar dians, which no circumstances whatever can justify in a con trolling officer. _ _ 3. That as regards the workhouse abuses which would require a longer time to detect, and which have entirely escaped detection by the visiting guardians, the Committee feel bound to express their opinion that the , great extent of Mr. Parker's district, the large number of unions comprised in it, and the various heavy special calls made upon his time by the Your-law Commissioners, have rendered it almost im possible for him to pay visits to each of the unions under his care numerous or long enough for effective inspection of the . workhouses. 4. That the Committee have received evidence of Mr. Parker's zeal and laboriousness, which render it impossible for them to attribute this imperfect superintendence of the Andover Union to idleness or intentional neglect. 5. That Mr. Parker was not appointed Assistant-Commis sioner for the Andover Union until May, 1842 ; that he has had a much larger district to superintend than had either of his predecessors : the number of assist an t-com missioners,w h ich from 183— to 183— was 21, and from 183— to 1841, 17, having been reduced to 12 in 1841, and then further reduced to nine in January,lB42, while the number of unions have of course increased; and the Committee find that the Poor-law Commissioners, speaking of the number 12 in their seventh annual report (1841), say, that the number of assistant-com missioners ought zwt to be further reduced, and that even then •" some of the districts, from their area and the number of their unions, almost exceed the powers of a single assist ant-commissioner." 6. net the Committee have been informed of a strong representation made by Mr. Parker to the Poor-law Com missioners, shortly after he joined the district including Andover, of the disgraceful state of the accounts and the workhouses in many of the unions in the district, and of special representations made by him as to the accounts in the West Firle and Wycombe unions, which seem to have received no attention whatever from the Poor-law Com missioners; and these are not the only circumstances dis closed in the evidence which have led the Committee to the conviction that the Poor-law Commissioners have not given that encouragement to their assistant• commissioners in the detection and removal of abuses which would have been the best security for the zealous services of their subordinate officers. MR. PARKER'S CASE. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee,- 1. That the Committee, in considering the circumstances of the inquiries which took place at Andover, feel called upon to express their opinion that the practice of entrusting public and special investigations of complaints arising under the Poor-law to the assistant-commissioner of the district in which such complaints have been made, is an objectionable one, which ought to be discontinued. 2. That the proposal made by the Poor-law Commissioners to suspend the investigation on the 9th of September, and to proceed against the master of the workhouse by indictment upon one set of charges, and by information before justices upon another, conditionally upon his suspension by the board of guardians, and upon the willingness of silr. Westlake to adopt the suggested modes of prosecuting the charges, was ill-timed and inexpedient, for the following reasons :- Ist. Because at that time a considerable portion of the case bad been gone through, and the effect of suspending the further progress of the inquiry, as proposed, until proceed ings by indictment could ne taken, would have been to pro long the uncertainty and excitement already existing upon the subject. 2d. Because it made the mode of proceeding against the master, and consequently the time and manner in which he was to be heard in his defence, dependent upon an act of the board of guardians, over which be had no control. 3d. Because it sought to throw a large proportion of the expenses of prosecuting the inquiry upon Mr. Westlake,who appears to have done no more than his duty in bringing be fore the board of guardians and the Commissioners instances of misconduct in another officer of the union with which he had become acquainted, and into which any inquiry should have been instituted on public grounds, and at the public expense ; and, 4th. Because it implied that the fitness of the master for his office was the only subject of inquiry, whereas there were strong grounds for an investigation into the alleged mis management of the workhouse, and the abuses stated to have been practised within it, independently of any charges which could have been made the subject of indictment or in formation. 3. That one unfortunate consequence of having made the mode of prosecuting the inquiry dependent upon the condi tions above referred to, was, that on their failure, the inves tigivion was necessarily renewed in its original shape, and the Commissioners were thus exposed to the charge of vacillation and want of firmness in their policy. 4. That the overruling the adjournment for five days, allowed by Mr. Parker, was, under the circumstances of the case, unnecessary, and therefore injudicious, inasmuch as it had the appearance of injustice towards Mr. M'Dougal, who had claimed that time for preparing . his defence. 5. That the overruling by the Commissioners of the ad journment, and the previous suspension of the inquiry on the 9th of September, appear to have _proceeded from a determi nation on the part of the Poor-law Commissioners to bring the inquiry if possible• to a close, and so stop the public criti cism and excitement which it produced. 6. That in conducting the first inquiry —namely, that on the subject of bone-crushing, Mr. Parker discharged the duty confided to him with ability and promptitude, and that his conduct therein received the approbation of the Poor-law Commissioners. 7. That as respects the second investigation there is no- thing in the objections stated by the Poor-law Commissioners before this Committee to Mr. Parker's mode of conducting it, which affords &justification of their conduct in calling upon him to resign. 8. That Mr. Parker's recommendation of Mr. Price as a temporary master of the workhouse, made in answer to a re quest addressed to him by the chairman and other guardians, did not deserve the condemnation bestowed upon it by the Poor-law Commissioners. 9. That while they think that Mr. Parker's insertion, in his letter to Mr. Dodson, on the October, of a paragraph implying a reflection on the Commissioners, was indiscreet and inconsistent with his position, still it should be also borne in mind that the difficult and annoying circumstances in which be bad been placed might reasonably palliate a temporary display of irritation. 10. That after a full consideration of the whole case, what ever opinion the Commissioners may have entertained with regard to Mr. Parker's mode of conducting the Andover in quiry, or his defective superintendence of the Andover Union, the time and the manner of Mr. Parker's removal from his office were such as to give him just cause of complaint, and were not consistent with a discreet exercise of that power of dismissing their subordinate officers which the law has en trusted to the Commissioners. MR. DAY'S CASE. _ ---- 1. That the Committee, after considering the statement which has, been made to them by Mr. Day, and the corre spondence on the subject of his resignation, which he has produced, and the explanations with reference to that corre spondence which have been given by theilPoor-law Com missioners, are of opinion that the Commissioners have alto gether failed to justify their removal of Mr. Day from his office of Assistant- Commissioner. 2. That while they readily admit that the nature of the re lation between the principal and assistant Poor-law Commis sioners, the heavy responsibility attaching to the former for the general administration of the law,f and the fact that they are necessarily committed to a considerable extent, by the acts and expressions of their subordinate officers, com bine to render it, essential that they shall_ possess and exer cise,. on -fit ncastuns; life'power of dismissal vested in them by the Act of Parliament, the Committee think, at the same time, that such power ohmic! not be ozervised witilOut warn' ing or statement of reasons to the officer to be dismissed; without minutes being kept of all letters written and received on the subject, and without official record of the grounds on which in each case the power of dismissal is excercised. 3. That further, while they are ready to believe that the conveying a call to resign in the form of a private rather than in that of an official letter, may in many cases result from a wish to avoid unnecessary annoyance or injury to the person about to be dismissed, the Committee ate of opinion that it is, under ordinary circumstances, more just to all parties concerned, that such communication should be in official form, bearing with them the authority, and issued under the responsibility, of the board ; and they cannot ab stain, in touching upon this pant of the subject, from point ing to the inconvenience and irregularity of conveying, as in the two cases now immediately under consideration, com munications of essentially public and official character in letters written by a single Commissioner, and in form and language purporting to be private. 4. That the Committee believe that in both cases the time of the compulsory resignation has been the means of cruel injustice—Mr. Parker having been called upon to resign be fore the excitement arising out of the Andover inquiry had subsided, and Mr. Day at the close of the inquiry into the South Wales disturbances in 1843, was to lead the public to ascribe blame to both, which the Commissioners acknow ledge to be unmerited, and to divert existing public dissatis faction from the Poor-law Commissioners by concentrating it on Mr. Parker and Mr. Day respectively. 5. That on a review of the conduct of the Commissioners with respect to the Andover inquiries, and towards Mr. Par ker and Mr. Day, the Committee are of opinion that their conduct has been irregular and arbitrary, not in accordance with the statute under which they exercise their functions, and such as to shake public confidence in their administra tion of the law. That the Committee have incidentally in the first instance, and subsequently from a feeling that accused parties ought in fairness to be allowed to answer charges made against them, received mnch evidence upon the mode of transacting busi ness which has been adopted by the Poor-law Commis sioners throughout the existence of the commission, and upon the insufficiency of the present number of Assi s t an t- Commissioners for adequate inspection and control, an d upon other important points connected with the administration of the Poor-law, to which they think it their duty to direct the special attention of the House; but upon which, as th ose subjects are not included in their order of reference, they consider themselves precluded from offering any opinions of their own. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Baron PLATT and Alderman Sir P. LAURIE.) MURDER IN SHADWELL.—Benjamin Gibbons was placed at the bar this morning, indicted for the murder of Jane Sloman, on the night of the Ist of June last, in Labour-in vain-street, Shadwell. Mr. BALLANTINE, with whom was Mr. CLERK, introduced the facts of the case briefly to the jury, and then called Ann Sloman, who said she was the mother of the de ceased, who lived in Labour-in-vain -street, Shadwell. Wit ness and her daughter went on Whit-Monday, the Ist of June, to Stepney fair, where they met the prisoner. At half-past six o'clock the same evening she parted with the deceased, who said she would go home and cook something for the prisoner's supper. At that time she was a little fresh, but not intoxicated. The prisoner on the following morning, about seven o'clock, roused the witness and said, "Jane was dead; she had fallen down stairs and broken her neck." John Hodges, a lumper, said he was at Stepney fair till ten minutes past twelve o'clock at night with the prisoner. They parted at half-past twelve o'clock, the prisoner being quite sober. John Lewis, who lived next door to the prisoner, said, he was awoke between twelv e an d one o ' c l oc k on Tuesday morn• log by a man in the street singing out, "Jane, come down and let me in ; open the door." A female voice, which he did not know, answered "I shan't, I shan't." The first person then cried out, "Throw down the key, my dear." He heard no more. His wife was at this time sitting at the window. Ann Lewis said, she beard a noise after the prisoner called for the key, as if of a person falling down stairs. The prisoner had not left the door at that time, nor had he got in. The witness called out to the prisoner, " Oh, father, she must have got a drop too much." He said he did not know, he could not get in, and he would go and see if he could get lodgings somewhere else. The prisoner next morning, about half past five came again to the door and tried, but could not get in. After some trouble he got in by a window at the back of the house. The witness in the meantime looked through the keyhole of the door and saw the prisoner stretching the legs of the corpse, which lay at the foot of the stairs rather across the passage. The prisoner then lifted up the head of the deceased, and cried out, "Jane, Jane, my dear." The witness was of opinion at the time that the noise she had heard before carne from that part of the house. Mrs. Slack, who lives next door to the prisoner, on hearing the knocking, went to the street door. After the communi cation had ceased between the prisoner and the deceased, site beard a noise as of a person falling down stairs, and exclaimed "0 my God! that woman has fallen down stairs." The prisoner knocked and called twice after this noise, but no answer was given. She heard no noise as of a quarrel or struggle afterwards, although the partition between the houses is such as to transmit conversation very plainly. 'Mrs. Lewis, recalled by the JUDGE, said she had sat up all night, and heard no noise whatever after the falling down stairs. William Darlow, who lives in Jamaica-place, Limehouse, said, that in the back room of deceased's house there was a private still. The prisoner came to his house on Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock, and said his wife was dead ; he came home about 3 o'clock, and she tumbled down the stairs and broke her neck. He requested the witness to bear a hand and remove the still. lie said the back door was open, he would get in by it. Witness said he occupied the two back rooms on the ground floor for the purposes, of the still. The prisoner's room was up stairs, and he had nothing to do with the still or the rooms below. On Monday, about three in the afternoon, he used the piece of iron produced in Court as a hammer, and left it on the tub in the still room. Martha Darlow, the wife of the last witness, said she would not swear that she had not removed the piece of iron after her husband left. John Robert Crawford, owner of the Nelson Cofie-house, Commercial-road, Shadwell, said the prisoner had coffee at half-past twelve o'clock on Monday morning, and returned about half-past two next morning with a coalheaver. Both had coffee, with bread and butter, and were rather noisy at first. The witness threatened to put them out, and the pri soner having promised to be quiet, laid his head on his arms, and twice sighed heavily. The coalheaver said to him, ".What the —a— the matter?" H. saint nothing. They both seemed to have been enjoying themselves. William Pod, who serves .t the bar of the Duke of York public-house, say he saw the prisoner at the house about six o'clock on Tuesday morning, when he had a pint of beer. J. Harris, a beer-seller, on Market-hill, went on Tuesday morning to No. 6, Labour-in-vain-street, and looked through the keyhole, and saw a woman apparently lying dead. He arought a policeman, and they broke open the door and went in. The prisoner came while they were there, and while he was crying over the body one of those present said he ought to have given the alarm sooner. The prisoner said he could not give an alarm at that time of the night, so he went to a coffee-house ' and got himself a cup of coff e e. Th e f ee t o f the deceased might be about a foot or eighteen inches from the stair, and the body lay askew. Constable 380 K, said he found the head of the corpse to. wards the wainscot, resting on a bag, the feet to the stairs, the left arm touching the wainscot. On the wainscot were the marks of two hands, and a patch of blood between. He found the piece of iron produced in the yard. It lay on the middle rail of the paling, which separated the yards of Nos. 6 and 7, the place over which it would be convenient to lift a still, with a view to removing it secretly. Constable 8 K said he observed a spot of blood on the second step of the stairs, which seemed to have been smeared with the linger. lie examined the prisoner, and saw blood en his hands and jacket. The witness asked him how he accounted for the blood? Hesaid he had cut his finger theday before the fair. The consrable examined his hands :nal round °lily a slight woundOn his fore finger which did not appear to have bled recently. On asking him how he got the blood on his jacket, the prisoner said " Heaven knows, I don't know." Me prisoner then said he had come home about seven o'clock, and described how he got in and bow he found the corpse. The jacket and waistcoat were taken off the prisoner at the station-house, when witness observed blood on the waistcoat and inside the pocket of the jacket, which the prisoner said he supposed he had got from lifting the head of the corpse. Daniel Ross, a surgeon, High• street, Shadwall, said he was sent for to 6, Labour-in-vain-street, on Tuesday morning, the 2d of June. He went and saw the corpse of a woman, lying with the feet slightly inclined towards the stairs, the head and left shoulder touching the skirting-board. He examined the body, when he found altogether on the head, cheek, and nose six marks, which had the unusual appear. ance which is produced by a blister on a child before death. The wound on the back of the head was jagged and lacerated, tending upwards, and laying the bone bare. The scull was fractured, and there was one of the veins rup tured ; both he had no doubt would cause death. He saw nothing about the stairs which wouldhave caused thewound, There was nothing hard in the bag on which the head was lying, and the stairs had no bannisters, the stairs being wooden and without carpeting. If the wound had been caused by a blow on the stairs there might have been blood on the steps, but not ne cessarily. If the woman going down stairs had fallen back, the wound would be upwards; but he did not think the edge of the step could have inflicted the wound seen. In the room above which the body lay there was vomiting which smelt strongly of drink. On the matting where the body lay, part of the blood was dried, part in a fluid state. The woman might have been dead for six hours when he saw her first. He had examined the marks of blood on the jacket of the prisoner, some of it about the bend of the arm, some on the left collar, and some on the edge of the pocket. The blood was a little Hewing from the head, and the marks might have been produced by lifting the head. The iron pro dnced might have produced the wound, or, perhaps, the toe of a heavy boot. Mr. BALLANTtsz—Were there not some jets of blood seen? Witness—Yes, drops upon his shoes. Baron PLATT—Did you observe whether any artery was ruptured? Witness—No, he had not examined. Baron PLArr—Then what kind of post mortem examina tion have you made? Would not the blood spurt from an artery? and was there not a difference between arterial and venous blood? Witness—Venous blood changed in colour after exposure to the air. Baron PLATT—WouId not a drop of blood from the head take the same form, an elliptical form, is the spurting blood would in falling? Witness—Yes. Baron PLATT said he asked these questions because he spoke of spurting and jets. Did you apply the piece of iron to the wound ? Witness—No ; the wound was somewhat triangular. Baron PLATT—You have said the toe of a boot might have caused the wound, might it not have been caused by any blunt instrument, the edge of the stairs, for example ? Wit ness--Yes. _ _ Baron PLArr—Then I collect that a person falling down the stairs might have suffered this wound? Witness—lt is improbable. Baron Purr here intimated his opinion to Mr. Ballantine that the case had gone far enough. Mr. DOANE, counsel for the prisoner, said he had inti mated as much to his Learned Friend at a previous stage of the case. _ _ Baron PLATT said to the jury that the man had been seen by two of the witnesses raising the head of the deceased. That action was sufficient to account for the whole of the blood seen upon the prisoner If they had any doubt as to the issue of the trial, they might proceed with it, but it ap peared to him unnecessary. Thejury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Joseph Davis, 21, clerk, was indicted for forgery. Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. The circumstances under which this charge was preferred were of rather a peculiar nature. It appeared that the pri soner was in the service of Messrs. Gadsden and Son, brokers, in the City, and that he had received from that firm eight MU notes and other moneys to be applied to a.particular Airpose, and that he, at the same time, recpred from Blears. Wainwright and Gadsden, another firm in the City, two Islllllk cheques regularly Biped, and which he ought to , have taken to Messrs. Scott, Simpson, and Co., and another firm in the City, with whom Messrs. Wainwright and Co. had had transactions for sugar, and he was empowered to fill up the blank cheques for the amount that might be required in reference to these transactions; but it appeared that, in stead of doing so, he filled up the cheques fur the respective sums of 3501. and 5001., and instead of paying in the cash and cheques he had received from the other firm, he applied those cheques for that purpose, and kept the money. When he was apprehended five 100/. notes and other moneys were in his possession. The jury Acquitted the prisoner of the forgery. He was then arraigned upon an indictment for larceny, in stealing the eight 100/. notes, and the evidence having been again produced, the jury returned a verdiet of Guilty. Mr. Baron PLATT sentenced the prisoner to be transported for seven years. Mr. CLARKsorr applied for the restoration of the money found upon the prisoner, and also. that a large quantity of shawls, cigars, and other property, which had been found in the prisoner's possession, and which no doubt he intended to have gone abroad with, it being the produce of his plunder, should be delivered up to the prosecutor. Mr. Baron PLATT said the property ought to be de livered up. PsEW COUR!: (Before the RECORDER and Alderman HuGHEs.) On the opening of the Court several prisoners who stood indicted with cases of petty larceny, &c., pleaded guilty. A young man of respectable appearance, named John Roberts, who had surrendered himself to answer four separate charges of embezzlement, was placed at the bar. The prisoner was first indicted with embezzling 11. out of Si. 10s., the property of his master, Mr. I'. Shepherd, and which he had received on his account. Mr. CLARKSON appeared as counsel for the prisoner. Mr. PARRY, counsel for the prosecutor, stated the case, from which it appeared that the prisoner was occasionally employed at Covent-garden, as salesman to the prosecutor, who is a market gardener. The requisite evidence having been given, the prosecutor was cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON, who elicited from him that the prisoner had served him faithfully for seven years. He also admitted that he had turned out the pri soner while the late storm was at its height. The jury considered the evidence insufficient, and accord ingly acquitted the prisoner. A similar charge was preferred against the prisoner upon which also he was acquitted on the same ground. The counsel for the prosecution refused to proceed with the hird indictment, and the prisoner was liberated, a result that eemed to give great satisfaction to nearly all present. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. THEATRICAL Moa.--Joha Belasco, nrother to the well• known prize-fighter of that name, appeared upon a warrant before Mr. Broughton, charged with having violently as saulted a glass-deall named Henry Davis. The complainant, whose person exhibited marks of severe and recent ill-treatment, stated that while passing through Petticoat-lane, on the afternoon of Monday last, he was accosted by the prisoner, who told him that a gentleman, with whom he had been in communication, had informed him that Mr. Barnard Gregory was to perform that even ing at the Haymarket Theatre, and that he wished him to organise as many persons as he could collect together to hoot him off the stage. The prisoner was accompanied at the time by a large mob of the lowest characters in the dis trict, and offered him a shilling. together with a free admis shun to the theatre, and as much liquor as he chose to par take of, if he would join the expedition and allow his name to be inserted in a book in which those of all the others were inscribed. Witness, however, refused to take any part in the proceedings, upon which the prisoner distributed a quantity of halfpence amongst his followers, to pay their passage by the penny steam-boat to Hungerford-stairs, and they all set out on their errand. Shortly before they parted, the prisoner threatened that he would "serve him out" for refusing to form one of the party, but he saw no more of him until the preceding [evening, when they accidentally met each other at a public-house in Petticoat-lane, and the pri soner, after assailing him with the most scurrilous epithets, struck him on the nose with the bowl of a tobacco pipe, and nstantiv followed up the attack by a violent blow with his fist, which blackened both his eyes, and caused an effusion of blood from the nose that had continued, at intervals, ever since. In answer to a question from the magistrate, the wit ness stated that when the prisoner made the first overture to him he was in company with an acquaintance who was also solicited to proceed with the mob to the theatre; but that person Is as then unable, from the pressure of business, to attend and give evi dence. On being called upon for his defence the prisoner declared that the whole of the complainant's state ment relative to their alleged interview on the previous Monday was a fabrication, and that with regard to the assault in the public-house, the complainant himself was the aggressor, by flinging at him a quart pot, and that he merely acted in sell• defence. The prisoner then called Edward Myers, a Jew clothesman, who corroborated the latter part of his de fence, but admitted that the prisoner had uttered some ex asperating expressions to the complainant before any per. sonal violence was resorted to. On being interrogated by the magistrate, the witness said that the contepnplated gathering to interrupt the performances of the theatre had been the common subject of conversation in Petticoat-lane for the last fortnight, but that he bad not known the defendant to be mixed up in it. The complainant here intimated that he should be able to bring several witnesses in support of his testimony, and amongst them the brother of a publican in the neighbour hood, whom the defendant had also threatened with violence because he refused to connect himself with the riotous faction. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was impossible in the present im perfect state of the evidence to arrive at a correct judgment on the case; and as both parties were anxious for an adjourn ment, he should order the warrant to stand over, and require the prisoner to enter into recognisances for his future ap pearance. THAMES. An old Cambridgeshire man named John Hillard, who carried a basket containing blackberries, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with selling poisonous berries of the deadly nightshade, and causing the deaths of '1 ho:nas Parker, late proprietor of the Veteran beer-shop in the Whitechapel road, and a child named Jones, aged three years, who died in the London Hospital. Police-constable Bird, 105 B, stated, from a descriptio which he received of a man who had been selling poisonous berries in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, he apprehended the prisoner that morning in Stretton-ground, Westminster, while he was vending blackberries, and on taking him into the presence of Mrs. Parker, the widow of the man who died in the hospital, she at once recognised him as the man who sold her what he described as nettle-berries on Saturday la.t, which she formed into a pie, and said be had murdered her husband. Mr. BALLAWIINE supposed an inquest had been held on the deceased persons? Inspector Donegan, of the H divi sion, said there had been, and it was adjourned until Wed nesday, for tde purpose of affording time to apprehend the man. Mr. BALLANTINE required evidence on which he could either remand or commit the man. Donegan said Mrs. Parker identified the prisoner, and said he sol , l her the poisonous berries. She was at present at home and very ill. Mr. BALLANTINE—She might as well be in Heaven. What you are telling me is not evidence. Surely some other per son saw the prisone: selling the poisonou s ✓ berries. Donegan—Yes, sir; an old man was pri-seut when Mrs. Parker purchased the berries of the prisoner. Mr. BALLANTIXE—Where is he? Donegan—l have been looking after him this afternoon, and cannot find him. I shall see him to nileit I have no doubt. Mr. BALLANTINE—Then - I will commit the prisoner till, to-morrow, :tad I shall then expect some evidence. The prisoner was then remanded till this day. The other persons lying in the various hospitals, who were attacked with severe illness after eating poisonous berries, are, with one exception, going on favourably. John Stevens, a powerful swarthy man about 50 years of age, better known by the name of Gipsy Stevens, pro prietor of the large Crown and Anchor booth erocted at various fairs, and who has for come months pas:: been the landlord of the Multerry-tree public-house, in Stepney, was brought before Mr. Ballarcine, charged with committing a Murderous assault on Trinity Stevens, his wife. It appeared from the evidence that at a late hoar on Wed nesday night, about 11 o'clock, Mr. Janes St an a bill dis counter, residing in the Old Jewry, was passing toe Mulberv tree when he hearda woman within the house , hrielcingl.ully and calling out "Murder." Ile immediately rushed • up-stake into a room and found the prisoner beating his wife, ivh,) was lying stretched on the ground bleeding copiously from a severe wound on the head, which Stevens had just before laid open with a fender, and knocked her down. Stevens knelt on his wife's chest, and beat her head on the floor iu Mr. Swan's presence. The gentleman interfered, called the police, and gave the prisoner into custody. Mrs. Stevens, who is a gipsy, was conveyed by the police in a cab to the London Hospital, where her wounds were dressed. A certi ficate from the house surgeon, Mr. Wordsworth, aros put in, stating that Trinity Stevens was received into the hospital with a severe wound of the scalp, and that she was at pre sent in danger therefrom. She was subsequently removed to her own home, and in the course of yesterday she was visited by Mr. Bride, a surgeon, residing in Jamaica-street, Commercial-road, who found her in a very dangerous con,li lion. Besides the wound on her scalp she Lad received very severe bruises. The pri,oner offered no defelce or excuse for his bratiEty, and Mr. B&LLAWTINE remanded him for a week, and said laa should take no bail for him. SUSPECTED POISONINGS. NEWPORT, ESSEX, Auo. 19.—The magistrates acting for this division of the county, the Right Hon. Lord Braybroke, chairman, were occupied nearly the whole of yesterday at the gaol of this town, in investigating a eharge preferred against e. married woman, named Sarah Chesman, for having attempted to poison the illegiti mate male child of Sarah Taylor, a resident of Mann den, a neighbouring village. In consequence of what has transpired since her apprehension for the al:win alleged offence, active measures are being adopted with a view of ascertaining whether the deaths of two of her children, which occurred in a very sudden and mys terious nanner, were not also the result of some foul play. .The prisoner is the mother of a large family, and with her husband lived in the village of Littlebury, near Saffron-Walden. The mother of the child, a single woman, while in the service of a farmer, at Clavering became enciente by him, the result of which was the infant in question, and he was adjudged to pay the usual weekly amount towards its support. A few weeks after it had been born, and while the parent was staying at her mother's residence at Maunder), the pri soner, who was a.perfect stranger to them, visited her upon a pretence not yet explained. On seeing the child, she evinced great fondness towards it, took it up in her arms and nursed it. Immediately ararwards it became violently sick, fell into strong eonvu:sions, and has since assumed a wasting appearance. On that occasion it was surmised that the prisoner had ad ministered something poisonous to the infant, but as in most villages there bclg but little assis tance at hand, she made off. In a few months, however, the mother weaned the infant, and went to service, leaving it in charge of the grandmother, and in a day or two the prisoner again made her appearance to inquire after the condition of the child. She expressed the deepest concern respecting it, and apparently mani• fested the greatest kindness towards it. Tue grand mother had to leave the h-use for a few seconds, when the prisoner instantly took up the infant, and said she would go too. She then went out, and on proceeding a short distance from the house, she turned a corner, and immediately afterwards she was seen putting something into its mouth, and she was then seen to wipe her fingers on her gown., The child was almost instantly convulsed and manifested the usual symptoms of being poisoned, The mouth was besmeared with something similar to yellow salve, and the prisoner was accused of baring attempted to destroy it. She however decamped, and escaped detection until Tuesday week, when she was apprehended by Mr. Superintendent Clarke, of the constabulary force stationed in this district. On the child being taken from her she was noticed to throw something into the hedge, but on being accused of endeavouring to poison the in fant, she was seen to remove what she had apparently thrOwn there. A little girl spoke to seeing in the mu cus the child had expectorated two yellow pills, all of which, however, she had unfortunately destroyed, thereby preventing their analysis. At the prisoner's dwelling a number of galleypots, filled with various sorts of ointment, were found, which the bench ordered to be forwarded to London to undergo a strict chemical examination. A great mass of evi dence was adduced, and the Chairman, after consulting his brother magistrates, determined uron committing the prisoner to Chelmsford fur trial at the next assizes for the attempt. The magistrates in the course of their investigation having received infor mation of a must suspicious nature relative to the death of two sons of the prisoner, which were interred in Clavering churchyard, instantly communicated with the county coroner, who as promptly ordered the exhuma tion of their bodies. This was accomplished on Monday, and nothing could exceed the sensation that prevailed in the village. The holies, which were much decomposed, were found in one coffin. The medical gentlemen in attendance possessed themselves of what was left of the contents of their stomachs, which will undergo analysis at one of the London Hospitals. The boys were of the respective ages of ten end twelve years, and died in January, 1845, The eldest is represented to have been well on a Sunday at 2 o'clock, and a corpse late in the evening. The other one died on the Tuesday following. They are stated to have been very hearty lads. The coroner, at a late period of the day, opened the inquiry, and after taking evidence identifying the bodies, ad journedit. THE DAGENHAM MURDER. -- - The adjourned inquest on th e b o dy o f Cl ar k e, the — mur dered policeman, was remmed on Thursday, at Dagenham, and disclosures were made which will probably lead to the detection of the murderer. The suspended policemen, Batfoy, Farns, Kimpton, and Hickton, appeared and swore that their former evidence was false, so far as regarded their statement that on the night of the murder they had seen police -sergeant Parsons on duty at eleven o'clock, two o'clock, and six o'clock; that they made that statement at Parsons' own request, who, in point of fact, was not on duty, and he had not accounted for his time. To make the suspicion thus raised against Parsons still stronger, a man named Henry Clements, a sale porter and hawker, residing at Romford, deposed that a week after the murder, being at the Lion, at Romford, he went into a room where sergeant Parsons was sitting, absorbed over a newspaper, which contained an account of the finding of Clarke's body, and then he heard him exclaim, in a state of apparent abstraCtion, "Poor fellow, I wish I had not done it now." Parsons had stated in his evidence that he was on duty all night; and on being now confronted with the parties who made this new and astoundinz revelation, he declared that all they had said was false, that he was actually on duty, and that he adhered to his statement. Under these circumstances the Coroner further adjourned the inquiry for three weeks. Of course a strong sensation has been produced in the neighbourhood by these disclosures. The detective force at Dagenham have orders to keep the suspended men in a state of surveillance, and not to permit Parsons to be out of their sight, or to permit any communication between him and the constables referred to. The next sitting of the Coroner is likely to produce im portant results. THE LATE MURDER. AT THE GUILDHALL COFFEE-HOUSE. The unfortunate young woman, Susan Tolliday, was the daughter of James Tolliday, a whitesmith, residing in Maye's.yard, Castle-eden, in this town. The deceased was the eldest child, being about twenty-one years of age. She left Cambridge fourteen months since, when she went to London and entered into the service Jf Mr. Walters, of the Guildhall Coffee-house, King-street, Cheapside. John Smith, the murderer, was distantly related to his victim through his wife. It appears that he was a man of violent passions and of intem perate habits. A great degree of intimacy existed be tween Smith and the deceased, consequent upon their relationship, though frequent quarrels took place between them. About six weeks ago, the deceased had arranged to pay a visit b her friends in Cam bridge, but instead of coming, she. addressed a letter to her mother, in which she stated that she could not come until she had received another month's wages, as she had lent some money to "John" and he had not paid her. This was the last communication her parents received from her. Last Sunday morning a messenger, dispatched by Mr. Walters, brought a letter to de ceased's mother, stating that she was very ill and not likely to live, and that unless her friends immediately hastened to London they would not see her alive again. Her eldest brother, an industrious well-conducted young man, who hrs worked for Mr. Finch of this town for many years—suspecting from the tenor of the message, that his sister was dead, pressed the man to tell him the truth, but the messenger declared that when he left London she was still alive. Not the slightest hint of the murder was given to the wretched woman's friends, nor did a suspicion of the horrid fact cross their minds until the Monday daily papers arrived containing the particulars of smith's examination and of the Coroner's inquest. Mrs. Tolliday and her eldest son left Cambridge on Sunday, by the ....ix o'clook evening train: - The particulars we have been able to learn of the family of the deceased are as follows:—The father came originally from Histon, where there are several branches of the same family located. He is a man between fifty and sixty yearsof age, and has all his lie been subject to fits, which have prevented his being employed in his trade, and he eatas v. subsistence by carrying water and eollecting manure. His wife, a very industrious woman, takes in washing and goes out as a charwoman, and although there are seven or eight young children, they are spoken of by th..ir neighbours as always being cleanly and neatly clad. The eldest son, as we have said before, works for Mr. Finch. There is a niece of the old man's living in Barnwell, and another married woman residing in King-street ; and a nephew is an ostler in some livery stables in town. The unfortunate deceased was a girl of prepossessing appearance, and bore a very goad character for steadiness and industrious conduct among her neigh - bours.—Cambridge A dverti,er. REMARKABLE SUPERSTITION. The following astonishing narrative of superstition is abridged from the Patriot, which describes in the letter of " A Parishioner," headed "A Woman Sold to the Devil," and addressed "To the Very Rev. the Dean, the Right Rev. Fathers in God, the Very Reverend and the Reverend the Prebendaries of Westminster":— On Friday night a large number of the thieves, pros titutes, and other blackguards residing in the vicinity of Westminster Abbey, collected in the churchyard along side that venerable building. They began to congregate soon after eleven o'clock at night, and, by midnight, the number assembled is estituriter 10 have between one and two thousand. They continued together, shouting, swearing, phying, aed fighting, until nearly two o'clock of Saturday inorning, when they dispersed in the most uproarious manner. On inquiring into the cause of the tumult, it was ascertained that a report had gene abroad that one of the prostitutes infesting t)e•fieiglf.ou , heod of the Abbey had sold herself to the I )evil for 4.4, 6d. on the Tuesday nieht previous, arid had engaged to ratify the bargain, and deliver herself over to his Satanic Majesty, in the etwehyard, by the side of Westminster Abbey, on Fri lay, at niidn gilt ; and the assembly had. taken place to see the bargain consummated. The various tales current since then among the in habitants in the vicinity of the Abbey, caused the writer to make inquiry of the agerta of .the City Mission, who visit those disteista ; and lir, Grads' the idea is universally entertained that the poor girl had so sold herself, and that the Devil was and is actually on the look-out for her. Several declare that while the people were as sembled in the churchyard waiting for him, and the girl had gone out, her room was illuminate-I with a most unearthly flame; that, after the clock had struck twelve the flame gradually vanished, and left b9hind a smell of brimstone of the most horrid kind. One of the City Mission agents in his visitation met with the unfortunate girl who has INen the cause of all this hubbub, who is still suffering much fear and per turbation of mind. Site narrated to him very artlessly the actual occurrences that gave rise to the alarm and confusion of the district. She is a young woman, re siding with her sister near the Abney ; they both pos sess some claims to beauty. The e lder o n e had gone to Tothill-street, on Tuesday night, when a gentlemanly man beckoned hot. He sail lie had be en watching her for two hours, and ached her if she could take him some where, and she offered him to go to her room ; he said he had only 4s. 6d. in his pocket, which he gave her. He had he be r e o n se on a l l4 only two or ie threemust go minutes whenin bed, im mediately. She was suprised, and. offered to get up and light a candle for him to see to dress ; he said "No, I can see as well in the dark as the light." He asked her if she knew who he was: she replied, "No." He asked her to shake hands, and then said; in a tone that alarmed her, " Do you know what you have done?" She replied, " I have done no harm." He then said, "I am the devil: you have sold yourself to me, and in four days you shall be in the Church-ya r d, an d I will fetch you." Ile then went off. The sister told the tale to others, and it spread abroad with additions, until it was in every ones mouth, that the bargain was to consummated at the Abbey at midnight, and the multi tude assembled as stated above. It. has been said that the darkest spot in a room is that directly under the table on which the lamp stands; and oh, Most Reverend Sirs! how truly da:k is the spot on which the shade of Westminster A.ibq rests! HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —About seven o'clock en Satur day evening last, as a commercial traveller, named Bailey, represent ing the firm of Messrs. Edgington and Co., tarpauling makers, Borough, was proceeding al , fig the high road, near Berkhampstead, in a lour-wheeled chaise, four fellows, wearing short frocks, and having the appearance of navigators, suddenly emerged from behind a hedge, and darting into the road, one of them stopped the horse, two others seized Mr. Bailey, whilst the fourth employed himself in rifling his pockets, and took therefrom his pocket-book and some gold and silver; but fortunately not to the amount that was pro bably anticipated, Mr. Bailey having made a rethittance to London in the early part of the day. The fellows finally effected their escape across the fields. THE LATE SIR - CHARLES WETTIERELL.—Wednesday evening, at three o'clock, Mr. Dticllow, one of the coroners for Kent, and a jury, composed of gentlemen residing at or near Aylesford, held an Inquest on the body of the late Sir Wetherell, which lay at Preston Rectory. Several witnesses were examined, including Mr. Itudge, the valet to the deceased, who was with him at the time of the accident, the driver of the vehicle, a female who was on the road, at the particular time, the medical gentleman who was present when he breathed his last. The evidence corroborated the state ments which have already been made public, and which proved that the fatal injuries sustained by Sir Charles were sole the result of accident. The jury returned a Veriii , A in ace , malice lib the medi cal testimony given, which was to the efUct that Sir C. Wetherell died from the effects produced by a concussion of the brain, the re sult of the accident on the 10th lust, Mr. Beach, clerk to the de ceased, was hi attendance. The remains were removed from Preston Rectory on Ilpiursday afternoon, and arrived at Berkeley-ntate at flint o'clock, MARKET NEWS-(YESTERDAY) CORN EXCIZANGE. The arrivals of English Wheat far our market during the preeen t week have been on a very limited scale, consequently the show •f samples here to-day was small. Owing to the bad accounts received from Ireland respecting the potato crop, and the present unsettled weather, the demand 'tor Wheat of home produce was active, at an advance in the quotations of quite Is. per quarter, and at whicat good clearance was effected. Holders of foreign Wheat were very' firm, and a large quantity was disposed of, at an improvement in value of 2s. per:quarter from Monday. No new Barley at market. Grinding sorts were quite as dear, but other kinds were neglected. The supply of Malt was moderate. Selected parcels moved off stea dily, other kinds slowly, at late rates. Oats were in ,brisk demand, at a further improvement in value of Is. per quarter. All tan .1' Grain unaltered. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. 2,250 qrs. 2:30 qrs. - -. 2,200 1,790 Malt, 2,850 ors. SMITHFIELD. The supply of beasts on offer here was limited, and, comparative!y speaking, of very middling quality, owing to which the beef trade was steady, at fully the advance noticed in the quotations on Mon day. There were oa sale 119 Oxen and Cows, 700 Sheep and Lambe, and 39 Calves, mostly from Rotterdam. The number of home) Sheep were smaller than for some wee k s past. All kinds moved 0 ft eely, and prices were well supported, while the trade was bees . / . .. and, in some instances, the currencies had a downward tendency. In Calves, only a moderate business was doing at late rates. Pigs , were dull, but not cheaper. Mich Cows sold slowly, at from 1 61 ie . 181 each, including their small Calf. Suckling Calves lfis to 28s, erm, old store Figs , 16s to 18s eac h. B eas t s, 6 53 ; Cows, 135; Sheep an'' Lambs, 9,710 ; Calves, 443 ; Pigs, 280. NEM/GATE AND I.IIADENHALIE. We had a fair demand, at full prices. BOROUGH HOP MARILIM The first pocket of new Hops, gown by Mr. J. Cl. Hart, of Stew' market, Suffolk, has been disposed of at 91 per cwt. The quality We very good. The supply of old Hops, as well as yearlings, is gmu'. yet the demand is heavy, and prices, owing to the favourable rely2,,, rig , from the plantations , are not supported. The duty is 178,7 i Sussex pockets, 41 10s to Si 15s; Weald of Kent, 51 to 6160; 31 . 14 . ' n East Kent, Si 108 to 818 s. English ...... [risk ...... .. Foreign ...... Oats Flour. 330 qrs. 2,010 4011. 2.160 ----• 16.700 ---"' (From the London New Price Current of August 21.) SUIIAR.—To-day the market presented a dull - appears/ JO for raw Sugar from our Colonies, and prices have assumed /I downward tendency, there being an increased quantity offer' ing for sale. Although West India was offered at a fleclblil. on previous rates of 6d to Is, still the business transacted was extremely limited in all kinds, the private sales amounts , ing to only 190 hhds and trcs. BEFINED.—To-day many purchases were made in refined goods by the home trade, but there was a desire evinced hi, the refiners to sell—Brown grocery lumps at 63s to 63s ba r and standard lumps at 64s and 64s 6d per cwt. For Bonded' Crushed Sugar, of first quality, 34s is asked. Maunrrius.—The demand pri va t e ly h as b een goo d for yellow, brown, and grey descriptions, but the rates paid do. not generally show an advance on those previously cu rrent ,• merchants have manifested fi rmness , an d refrained fro m: 14' supplying the market l arge ly. A t pu bli c sa l e 1,640 bags , casks and 244 trcs sold at stiffer rates. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Manilla! Sugar brought to public sale was large, and amounted to, 8,965 bags, duty paid. But little desire was shown to operate, and nearly the' whole was taken in under former rates. FOREIGN.—This afternoon a large parcel of Porto RICO . Sugar, duty paid, was submitted to public competition, li ncr consisted of 1,048 hhds 176 barrels and 2 tierces, subject to the 21s per cwt duty; the whole was taken by the ha le trade and fetched very full rates. TEA.—The demand has fallen off for black and gree n ' and by private contract little business has been transacted,: although merchants are disposed to make some concession la , price, and there is a larger quantity on offer of all kinds' At the public sales the trade operated with much eatitioni notwithstanding there were selle rs a t eas i er rates , and .11 the quantity offered, amounting t o 26,000 p k gs , the srn"" t . proportion of only 6,000 pkgs ac t ua lly so ld, t h e c hi e f part„..° which consisted of damaged tea. The trade hold fair Awl', both in town and country, and the quantity in bond here •!' much greater than it was last year. COFFEE.—This afternoon Jamaica Coffee was purchase d with less freedom, and 78 trcs, 3 brl_ ,s 1 bag, at public OW' sold at rather low e r ra t es . Of Costa Rica the large quantity of 5,844 has were brought to public sale, all sold to all' pers and the home trade, in consequence of previous mode rate rates being taken. C ey l on was less i n request, ankxwk bags at auction only in p ar t so ld . at t h e former value. rdai ' tive Ceylon has fallen i n va l ue, sa l es pr i vately of g oo d or • having been made at 403 to 41s per cwt. SPICES.—To-dly Pimento met with attention 9 bags at public sale sold at 31c1 to aid for low middling; an dl2 7 good quality, being the full v a lu e ;' 19 b oxes J ama i ca Ging, e 90s to 105 s. Nutmegs are litte wan t e d, an d 20 casks 00)017 limed at auction from Madeira w ere t a k en i n a t 36 6d_ ..tt t b bold of first quality. 579 bag s P enang P epper on ly . in Pa — sold at 24d for half heavy brown, being the former value. Rim—Tu.-day Bengal Rice was much sought after P ri i vately, and stiff rates offered ; but few parcels were to be rue_ with. At auction 665 bags wen t 6d to 9d per cwt ab OTO former prices. Saco.—lmporters have been more inclined to realise, b ut submitting to a reduction on forme r ra t es o f i s t o 2s per eri' t l occasioned the demand to be good, and the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to 647 boxes, were all sold. COCHINEAL.—HoIdera have more confidence, and refrain front offering any at public sale; the demand is improvilk and the parcels disposed of by p r i va t e con t rac t we re at rat 2 . 45 higher rates. Black is held the m os t fi rm ly. The We . ' 1 a small one. FRUIT.—The present stock of Currants being ve r i vaa ced and the consumption good, th e i mporters have ° is b e ing their prices; a parcel of Ceph a l on i a i n secon d hande d ", to in resolthat 50s, but the grocers do not appear ine"•; t i n g very' crease their stocks at the advance required, exP e e early arrivals of new. Of Valentias there are seek rather and inquired for, which has indu •ed the buyers to s rice being the p more after Red Smyrna and Chesme Raisins, very low. • firm at SALTPETRE.—For English Refined prices remain der& on hand 29s to 29s 6d per cwt, and the refiners are still full of or Rough has been purchased with caution by private treaty ! ur home consumption and exportation; but no further decline bas taken place in the val,w. TURPENTINE.—There has been less demand for Spirits, bitt in the value little variation has taken place, 44s to 45s per cwt being required. The supply is by no means so large se it was. Rough has been sparingly dealt in. Oths.—For Seal Oil holders manifest firmness, and a g° °4 . business has been transacted. There has been little desire evinced to operate in Cod. Southern is wanted, the tendenc, of prices upwards, and supply less. Sperm only in modera request, but holders are not disposed to reduce their prices,_ For Rape Seed Oil the demand has been brisk, and prices Or firm. Linseed Oil has been in excellent request on the sr: and several shipping orders have been executed. For n r ward delivery a good bu s i ness h as b een do n e at 245. .I_,„ Olive the demand has been brisk, and prices are still rising for all sorts. Palm has been iv brisker demand, and prle are firm. There are seve r al b u y ers o f C oc o a Nut, and pre vious rates are well sustained. Roar, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There are several a„rrii.; vals of Ruin this week, the principal part Jamaica. dullness in the market has increased for all kinds. For 1 17 .. ward Island previous' rates are insisted upon but little %et sire has been evi nce d t o d o business, and the sales amount to only 100 puns, at 2s 6d, proof strength. Calcutta i 4 been sparingly dealt in at is 111,0 to 21, P rn 4 with certificate. Holders of Jamaica, for the " 1 % part, .ire, e unwilling to reduce their price s ; b u t exporters era the home trade have only taken trifling parcels. Deml ur has met with little a tte nt i on; but Wong sorts are . helu_A,_ 3s 3d to 3 s 6d. I n Brandy lame purchases have been ti more particularly in the olckr kinds. Prices are higber_old alesorts. Geneva is wanted for export, a n d the parcels re at 2s ld to 2s 2d for common. Fine, fit for dn'l: has been sold to a fair extent, at 2s. 6d to 3. For British Corn Spirits the demand is on - the increase. . 0 . I:slim-Q.—Although sonic holders of East India ar,e l e a ;lined to sell upon rather lower terms, still it has occaso tie j little increase in the demand, a n d th e pr i nc ip a l transitl'iast fa t, for the week has b een th a t o f 80 c h ests o f Beega which the rates takon show a decline on those of the r o quarterly sale of 2d per lb. Exporte rs an d the hone af are not inclink d to take more than their immediate wiln require, mod-rate as prices are. rate Woot..—There las been little d es i re ev i nce d to oP l e ine d to ColoniaLor Foreign, but holders are not s ale.' further reduce their prices, and offer a Tess - quantity f treme ly HOPS.—The business transacted has been e' dow n; limited in all -descriptions, and pri ces are looking u i t tb several parcels are pressing for s a l e; i n d ee d i t is diffic quote 'accurate quotations, so trifling is the demand. accounts fr,ni the Plantations are highly satisfactory, an the duty for the kingdom is estimated as high as 170,0001._, TALLOW.— Although there have been several arrivals Eussi on this week, yet merchants manifest firmness: th e _,, trace have been deAroui to operate, and on the spot a gok business has been transacted. For forward delivery moY purchases have been made, and 41s 3d to 41s 6d are the rates given for the last three months of the year for new. Do ne made has been largely dealt in on the spot, and prices am firm at 40s to 41s nett cash. THE SANATORY CONDITION OF THE METROPoLT,S4 On Thursday, a meeting of th e mem b ers and friends of the l'inte3 Philanthropic Institution was h e ld a t t h e L ondon Tavern , to r"-pi vd the the report of the perm anent committee appointed to watch oveL, sanatory condition of the metropolis, with a view to protect it J r " • cholera, typhus lever, &c., by t h e removal of the causes wh i c h ro duce those diseases. The committee was appointed at a ntb...o. held last week, a report of which app ear ,d i n Tia Sun 0. n , day last At the meeting held last e v en i ng , Ch ar les Coch r .: + o Esq., presided, and M. Davies. Esq., th e hon•rary secretary, rep o r t that in answer to the circulars issu e d severa l replies had " — rbe s received, and that the committee now consisted of two mein, of the House of Coninuals, eight ph: sicians, many incurno c _.,, u 'i of metropolitan parishes, and a lar ge num b er o f enn y ur e ;, surgeons, amongst whom tll was Benjamin Travcrs, Ea president of ' the Royal College of Swum'. In e011 10.— „,43, with a resolution passed at the l ast meeting, Dr. LP" i - ,,0 Mr. Abraham; and Mr. Liddle, sen t i n for the considera tesi of the committee a series of questi ons t o b e submitted to the medi of profession, clew, and parochial authorities, as to the conditiono their respective parishes. To thew the several pa r ti es will r etu replies from time to time, and on 'Nese a statement will be base- to pi,ced be:ore the Government. The questions had referenc e in drainage, ventilation, sewerage, and the practices of the Poo r De reference to their health. It was agreed that an address shot,'" circulated amongst the publi c explaining the object of the mee tind, and that a deputati o n s h ou ld wait t. on Dr. kionthwood Smit h questing him to prepare it. A vote of thanks to the chairman e'v— ,4 the proceedings. ree. BIRTHS. d rg On the 16th inst., a t Beverley, the lady of Henry rJu" -1. Silvester, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst., at Castle Ashby, the Lady William Compton, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., the wife of Henry Grant, Esq., of Shel l. ley House, Brighton, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Champion-grove, Camberwell, the wife of P. Le Neve Foster, - Esq., barrister-at-law, of a vo id On the 23d of May, at Rio de J a nei r o, the lady of Ilowden, Esq., of a son. On the 18th inst., at Arborfield Rectory, Berks, the WV; of the Rev. J. Warren Hayes, of a daughter. On the 18th in=t., in Belgrave-square, the Hon. lift s ' Sanderson, of a daughter. On the 19th lust., at Witham, Mrs. Jacob H. Pattissen, of a daughter. • 14 C0 0 On the 19th inst., at 0:c1 Bond-street, Mrs. Frederic of a daughter. 411ARRIED. On the 18th inst., at Stoney Middleton, Derby, 'Frederkk 'Holland, ESq., a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, to Ann* fifth daughter of Lord and Lady Denman. n B a d brigges On the 18th inst., at Woolwich, Captain ~....„,0 , Royal Engineers, to Margaret, dau g ht er o f C o lonel raw— Superintendent of the Royal Military Repository DIED. On the 9th of June, at Hu sole, near Ahmedabad+ James Wedderburn Hope, Esq., Li eu t enan t an d Adjutant Bombay Native Infantry. On the 15th inst., at Lordship-terrace, Stoke Newlostak David Langton, Esq., aged 88. ~. E arl, of On the 18th ins t., H es t er , . th e. w if e of J am es • Albany-street, Regent's-park. On the 18th inst., a t Y armou th, Ed wa rd Henri, --s son of T. E. Preston, Esq. aid t augh t. On the 18th at So u thitl, B e df or dshire, the of Commander Charles C. Grey, R.N. 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