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THE SUN, LONDON, PIIJ'DA.:V EVENING, SEPTEMBER lB, 1846 MA- METROPOLITAN SE W AGE NURE COMPANY. The first public meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the British Hotel, Cock- Spar-street. -J. C. B. WARREN, Esq , having been called to the chair, congratulated the meeting on the success With which they bad been able to struggle through Parliament, notwithstanding that they had had the aid of no men Of title, but they had had able leaders and men to ;ia them whose opinion in science was attended to. The SECRETARY then read the Report of the Directors, which stated that though they had made some conces sions in their plan to prejudices, it was substantially still the same. The Company would begin its operations at King's Scholar's Pond, pipes being carried on to Hounslow. After alluding to Mr. Martin, the projector of the company, and the claim he ht.d on the share holders for compensation, the report congratulated the meeting on the cert a i n prospects o f a remunerative return. Mr. NEISON moved that the report read be received and adopted. Mr. Pao',ExT seconded the motion. Messrs. aellico and Owen Junes were appointed auditors tr; the company. Mr. &Vans, of Deanston, then addressed the meeting and stated at length the experiments which had been made to ascertain the practicability of their scheme, and demonstrative of the certain good effects which would follow its application. lie gave notice that he would move at the next general meeting of the Company, that the half-yearly meetings in future should take place in May and November. Mr. MoonE, the Secretary, entered into his own twenty-three years' experience of the good that would result from the adoption of the Company's scheme, cor roborative of the remarks which had already fallen from Mr. Smith. A vote of thanks was moved to the directors, and the meeting then broke up. BANDON AND BANTRY RAIL WAY. The requisite number of shareholders to constitute the dissolution of the company having attended yesterday, the chairinan declared the company to be legally dis solved. WELSH MIDLAND DAILWAY. A meeting of the scripholders in this company was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the repo'rt of a committee appointed to wind up the affairs of the company. Lord Hereford took the chair. The SECRET-Art.lC. having read the advertisement con vening the me :sing, proceeded to read the report, from which it elepeared that the Bid had not passed the Standing Orders' Committee, and that although the directors did all in their power to retrench the expenses, still the demand of the engineers and solicitors remained unsettled. The report concluded by stating that it had been resolved to dissolve the company, vrbick had been accordingly done, and that 15s. a share would be returned to the shareholders. The CHAIRMAN then rose to address the meeting. It was the wish of the directors of the company to court inquiry, and to seek the strictest scrutiny into their con duct. The delay in giving the shareholders the full in formation as to their circumstances was owing to ina bility to get in the accounts of the claimants. More over they were - anxious to promote the formation of a new and good company. The enormity of the accounts was as much reprobated by the directors as by any of the shareholders.—(Hear, hear.) It was proposed to resist those claims at first ; but the boar 4 found it would be necessary to review all the transactions, such as con tracts with other companies, &c., and it was considered mom politic to endeavour to make arrangements than to oppose them with all the means in their power. He stood there on the pert of himself and his brother directors to give any individual present full and imme diate explanation as to the past proceedings of the direc tors, which he had no doubt would be satisfactory. In conclusion, he trusted that a searching inquiry would be made, and this inquiry the directors demanded as a right.—(Hear, hear.) The SECRETARY then read a statement of the liabili ties, in which was one item of payments of over 20,0001. to Mr. Baxter, as well as large demands still due to him. Mr. GEORGE JONES said he regretted that printed copies of that report had not been made, as the details were too numerous and various to be retained. After the enormous expense that had b en gone to, a little more might have been incurred for this purpose. The SECRETARY, in reply to a question, said that there would be a balance of 20,0001., after paying the 15s. a share, but the accounts were not yet arranged, and the assets were not certain. Mr. MAUBERT said that he was sure that they must all be struck with the amount of the charges brought against the company. Enormous as were railway charges in general, these exceeded all other;. One thing should give them great satisfaction. F-rom the explanation they had just heard from the chee'lem an , it appeared that they had to deal with heenourable men, and who had the same interests witen themselves. He felt satisfied that they would do all in their power to for ward these interests.—(come dissent.) Now, as they had heard from the chairman that the directors were de sirous of inquiry, he woul'et take the liberty of asking a few questions. In the first place he would ask, why 5,000 shares had net been disposed of ? and, in the next place, how many stares the directors held originally ? Mr. AKERS, in reply, stated that the 5,000 shares al luded to were not allotted from a consideration that it would be better to reserve a certain number of shares for the pr4rietors of the land through which the line was to pass, as well as the canal proprietary. With respect to the second question, there was a minute on the books that the directors should be compelled to take one hundred shares. Mr. MAIIBERT said he would now ask how many shares were held by the directors ? Several directors here stated that they held not bnly the number of s h ares or i g i na ll y allotted to there,but a considerably larger number. Some stated ttey held as many as 350. The deed giving power to the directors to extend their line and construct new branches was read by Mr. Baxter, to show that the directors were authorised in enlarging their line beyond the, P.mits laid down in the prospectus. In reply to a question, The SECRETARY read a list of payments already made to Mr. Baxter, amounting to 20,000/. The CHAIRnAN, in reply to a question as to the re maining debt of 21,0001. to Mr. Baxter, for which that gentleman had offered to take 7,000 L, said that they did not believe that the amount of Mr. Baxter's demand would amount to the sure claimed, and the first intention of the directors was to resist that demand. Mr. BAXTER se id it was the first time that he had heard of the intention of the board to resist the claims he had made. He would bog leg leave to state what had occurred between him and the directors. (Mr. Baxter here entered into a long detail, the purport of which was, that when his account had been made out he was himself surprised at its amount, and sug gested that it should be taxed. He also stated, that when the affairs of the company became so very bad he had offered to make a deduction even from the taxed bill of costs, which, however, he would not have done bad he been aware of the intentions entertained by the directors, and stated, in conclusion, that he would not demand the full balance remain ing. —(Hear, tend cheers.) The CHAIRMAN explained that his meaning was, that it wets the original intention of the directors to resist the papnent of Mr. Baxter's demand, but from the moment they entered into communication with Mr. Baxter they abandoned that intention. After a protracted discussion, it was finally agreed that the report should be printed for circulation amongst the shareholders, and the pre sent directors should be continued in office till the affairs of the company had been wound up. Thanks were voted to and acknowledged by the chair. man, after which the meeting separated. THE PEERAGE—ASSUMED NAMES. The Duke of 'Wellington is not a Wellesley ; his real name is Colley ; his grandfather, Richard Colley, as sumed the name of Wesley (now modified into Wel lesley), without having a particle of the blood of that fa mily in him, but merely because he succeeded to the Wesley estates, under the will of a distant relative. The earl of Clarendon is not a Hyde ; his only connexion with that noble family resides in the fact that his grandmother was the granddaughter of Henry Hyde, the last Earl of Clarendon of that line ; paternally the Noble Lord i s Villi ers. T he Duke of Northumberland is not a Percy ; his real name is Smithson, and his ancestor paternally was Sir Hugh Smithson, who took the name of Percy, and re ceived the honours of that famous house ur der a new ereation, solely because his wife's grandmother was a Percy. The Marquis of Normanby exhibits a still wider excursion in search of a title, which seems ancient, but ; is not really so, His Lordship has not a particle of the Mulgrave nr Normanby blood in him. His great grand mother, when she married Mr. Wm. Phipps, was the widow of Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, who was also Marquis of Normanby and Baron Mulgrave ; thus Constantine Phipps, her son, contrived to get a re crea tion of a title belonging to his mother's first husband, whom he had never seen, and whose descendant he was not. lord Stafferd is not a Wentworth ; Lord Wilton is not an Egerton, although he has assumed that name. Lord de Tably is not a Warren, which desig nation he now assumes ; nor is he a Leicesttr, which name he bore a few years ago ; he is, in truth, the descendant, paternally, of a certain Gregory Byrne, of the Queen's County in Ireland, whose successors, having married two or three Cheshire heiresses, seized upon the name of those ancient homes. The Duke of Marlborough is not a Churchill ; his real name is Spencer ; and he is only connected with the great military commander by the fact that his ancestor married the celebrated Duke's daughter. Earl Nelson is paternally a Belton ; his father was Thomas Belton, and his grandmother was the immortal Nelson's sister. The Martinis of Anglesey is riot a Paget—his father's name was Bayly. Tire surname now used by Earl de Grey is the same as his title ; a few years ago he called himself Weddell, but his real name is Robinsen.—The Topic. We have to announce the death of one of the oldest servants attached to the Palace of Fontainebleau —viz., Aly, a Circassian by birth, whom l'.7apoleon brought from Egypt, and placed among his- mamelukm Ile was after - wit-ifs taken into .the service of the Etepress Josephine, and in ISOS sent to Fontainebleau as garcon d'appartement, a Fzition h prcscrved till his death,_ Paris Paper. LEAVING WORK WITHOUT they would have been fernished with the bobbins they NOTICE. usually worked. IMPORT ANT DECISION, This was the complainants base: Mr. Roberts then add r essed.the befich for the elefjnee. (From the Mandicsier Guardian.) . He appeared, h e said, be f ore them that day o n b e h a lf o f a On Saturday, a t th e B o r eug h C our t, S toc kp or t, Ch ar l es large euneleal• or the working men of th ese di s t r i cts, an d not Putts, Willi am Ey e , an d J ames }J e t t i son , wor k ers f or . Messrs. Kershaw, Leese, and Co., of Mersey Mills, ap. 'only of these districts, but, he might also say, on behalf peered to answer inf o rmations, charging them with l eav - of the spinn e r s o f t h e ent i re k i ngdom, to protest against ing the service of their employers without notice or per- the fraud—for he would not mince the matter—to pro mission' and before the term for which they were en - test again st th e f rau d attempted to be practised upon gaged had expired. them in this instance. The defendants were 'threatened Mr. Thomas Eskrigge, of the firm, appeared in per- with a heavy imprisonment ; their master had boasted son, along with his attorney, Mr. William Vaugh an ; that he would send them to prison. He seemed to think Mr. J. P. Roberts, the miners' "attorney-ge nera l," ap - he h a d th e power of the bench ; contemplating, possibly, peered for the defendants. the time when he should fill that high and distinguished The case of Charles Potts was first taken. position, and speculating, probably, upon the weight of Mr. Vaughan, for the complainant, stated that the his private and personal influence with the bench, he told defendant Potts was engaged by an overlooker named the defendants that he would send them to prison ; that Jackson, whom he should call, upon the usual terms— he would not let them off so easily as he had done the viz., that he should give a week's notice whenever he others. But the defendants were there that day not on left. Potts was a frame spinner, and he continued to their trial merely ; their master was there on his trial work up to the time of the present complaint. Last also. He had attempted to practise upon the de- Thursday, it happened that the defendant, with others, fendants a gross fraud—gross, horrible, and tyran was using a particnlar kind of rovings. They were of a , nical ; and if his (Mr. Roberts') attendance there rather softer nature than usual, and the manager wished that day should end only in his saying so, . he to employ them temporarily on that kind of work, in had done something, for he had proclaimed the order to prevent them from stopping altogether. De- opinion of the defendants, working men generally, , feedant at once said they would not do the work, but that the attempt to introduce a kind of work never bar would rather l eave . J ac k son rep li ed that they were, o f gained for —ne ver d reamt o f— wh i ch other men were course, at liberty to leave on giving the usual notice, but paid higher wages for working, was a gross attempt at they still pers i ste d that they would leave rather than do cheating. H e k new not w h ether this attempt was to be the work, an d t h ey accord i ngly did leave, and had not followed by ot h ers o f a s i milar kind, bet if the principle since r e t urne d to the m il l. Prior to their leaving, it was was once admitt e d, i t was qu i te i mpossible to say where stated that the fresh rovings, such as they had been it would end. Whether the master in this case con working upon, and did not object to, would be supplied templated pursuing the practice in future he did not to them a ga i n . know; but he hoped th a t h e wou ld rece i ve a lesson from Joseph Jackson was then called, and examined by the bench that would teach him that he was not quite so Mr. Vaugh an —l s over l oo k er o f sp i nners. Engaged the omnipotent in Stockp or t as h e h a d prev i ously fancied defendant Potts to work in the employ of Messrs. Ker- himself. The men came there not to be sent to gaol, shaw, Leese, and Co., nearly two months ago. En- but to be protected against the tyranny of their master; gaged him on the usual terms, to give and take a week's they threw themselves upon the bench for protection. notice, according to their rules. Defendants went away Regarding the merits of the case, there were at first two on the Thur s d a y morn i ng at h a lf- past n i ne o ' clock; their issues to b e t r i e d, s i nce reduced to one; the first was, week's work is made up on the Thursday night. They whether the master required the men to do a different receive notice at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. work to that which they had been accustomed to do; and, There is a notice to that effect up in the room, where the secondly, whether the work was of a harder kind. The defendant worked. question was now reduced to the latter consideration This notice, p as t e d on a b oar d , was h ere put in. It alone. It matter e d no t w h et h er t h e work of a single day was as foll ows :-- was or was n o t divided among three men. Ch ea ti ng f or " Notice.—All persons now working, or hereafter an hour, or for a moment, was the same in principle as c coming to wor k, on t h ese prem i ses, are required to give cheating for a d a y, f or seven d ays, a month, or a year. a full w ee k' s not i ce prev i ous to leaving their employ.. Only let so dan gerous a prece d ent b e set, and it would at ment, and such notice to be given by four o'clock on the once be followed by all other cotton spinners. Only let Saturday afternoon, it go forth that Eskrigge got one day's work more from " Mersey Mills, July, 1845." his men, and other cotton spinners would immediately The notice was a l so p u t up i n different , t parts of the follow the exam pl e . Wh o would say that, if the men mill. Some rovings of a softer nature than usual had worked an hour under such circumstances, they should been given out to the defendant, with others. They not work longer? If Eskrigge, by a cheat, was allowed were from Dyer's frame bobbins, and the others of a to tax the labours of his men for a single hour, who better quality were from press frame bobbins. Defen- should say where it was to end? His instructions were dant abruptly refused to do the work on any account, that in other parts of the country Dyer's work was paid and said he would leave rather than do it. Told him for in the same proportion to the press work. As to the and others if they did leave, it must be with notice. The agreement. In law it was no agreement at all. It was soft rovings would, perhaps, have lasted that day out. not even in pursuance of the terms of the information. H-ad supplied them with soft rovings, that the machinery In law the agreement ought to be full and plain with might not be kept standing, and they remain idle. That the parties at the time ; the party ought not to be left was the reason ; had done it for the defendant's good ; to derive his knowledge from something stuck upon a not that he was to continue on that work constantly, wall, as in this case. The agreement put in stated that but only until the better rovings were ready. the man should give a week's notice, but it did not say By the Bench—When he engaged the defendants, they the master should. Now no agreement in England was were not to do any particular kind of work. Did not binding where it was not mutual. He had tried the say that they were t o h ave press b o bbi ns or jack frame question in the C our t o f Q ueen ' s B ench, b efore Lord Denman, and it had b een d ec id e d i n hi s favour. Let, bobbins. Th ere was no diff erence that he knew of i 1 the prices gi ven . Th e wor k propose d to them would therefore, the cotton- s pi nners o f S toc k port know it, not have made o ne p enny diff erence i n the defendant ' s that any such agreement must b e mutually binding on wages for that week. both partie s . Th ere was no d ou b t upon this point. He should ha ve no h es i tat i on i n appealing to them upon Cross-examined by M r . R o b er t s —T o ld t h em t h at t h e soft roving s were on l y put i n w hil e t h e ot h ers were got the point, ev en suppos i ng there was no law upon the ready. Th e y sa id th ey wou ld not d o i t . Th ere was no case ; but as th ere was, and as it was in his favour, extra work required. They said if he (witness) would he asked them to set their faces against the fraud to pay them something extra for that kind of work, they be perpetrated by such an agreement as that put in. would do it. Said he would not, that it was not a prac• The agreement put in was neither consistent with corn tice of the mill ; that there would be no alteration, and mon sense nor justice ; it said, in effect, that the ras ter should h ave t h e power of turning the man awaythat there was no n ee d o f any . D e f endants had been working press bobbing, and the work they were required at a moment's notice, and the man should be compelled to attempt was Dyer's frame bobbins. Press and Dyer's to give the master a week's notice. In the circuit of gs. The difference is, that press are both made from the same quality of cotton, but press Mr. Maude's jurisdiction, at Manchester, the master was makes the better rovin bound by an agreement as well as his men. There was rovings have a twist in them which Dyer's have not. a case in point, "Sykes v. Dixon," in the 9th vol. of Part of the duties of a spinner are performed by his Adolphus and Ellis' Reports. A workman had left the piecer ; the piecer is paid so much a week by his plaintiff's service and gone to work for the defendant, spinner. That is an arrangement between the parties. Plaintiff brought his action for harbouring the workman. On Thursday morning the decent - tents were required An agreement similar to that in this case was p u t i n , to work Dy er ' s rovings. Tie requirement was but was eventually set aside for want of mutuality ;it made on the Wednesday evening, and on Thurs- was all on one s id e —th ere was no corresponding agree day morning again i b".t b etween the Wednesday m en t on t h e part o f the master, similar to that which evening and the fnursday morning, they had worked bound the man. Resting upon this case, therefore, as to the point r a i se d, h e conten d e d t h at a contract to press bobbins. saw Potts take hi s Dy er ' s b o bbi ns out, and he told him (witness) he was afraid he was going to hold good in law must be mutually binding upon both take some a d vantage of him. The refused to wo r k parties. But supp os i ng it were otherwise, then the infer D er's I j o bbi ns on the Wednesday, the - same as on the tnation was good f o r no thi ng . Th e i n f ormat i on was, that y Thtersday. Did not know whet'ner the same wag es were " Charles Potts, of the township of Stockport, did, on the sth S e pt em b er i nstant, contract and engage with raid for Dyer sas for press bobbins. Th a t was a ques- Thomas Eskrigge, a spi nner , f or t h e term of one whole lion for the master to determine. Th e y did not spin Dyer's reg u l ar l y . C ou l d not speak to the practice of week, such co n t rac t b e i ng carr i e d on between the said other mills. H a d wor k e d D yer ' s b o bbi ns before, and parties to continu e f rom wee k to week, until one party paid for tho se an d press b oth alike. Would swear that shall giv e th e ot h er t h ereto one clear week's notice to had been the c ase . Th e sp i nners were paid so much a dissolve and determi ne th e same. " T h i s information thousand. Th ere was no diff erence in the wages was most accurat e ly d rawn an d pr i nted, but it mis-stated g of the s pi nners t h ey had, b etween Dyer ' s and press the date and d a y o f t h e commencement of the defendant's bobbins ; on l y i n the former case the spinner was service by a peri o d o f s i x wee k s. He had now stated allowed a b o bbi ner to creel them. (Mr. Roberts, his preliminary o bj ec ti ons , an d s h ould pause for Mr. mistaki ng t h e terms used by the witness, repeated, Vaughan's reply. If th e B enc h t h oug h t there was any weight in them th e case wou ld b e at an end ; if not, he with s o l emn i ty and emphasis, " A bobbiner to clean them." T a k ing advantage of the circumstance, was prepared to p ro C ee d. Mr. Vaughan observed, "So much for a bid at Mr. Vaughan said the contract was made when the popular applause.") The bobbiner was not employed defendants first commenced working for the com i.lainants. H e h a d prove d , b y evidence, that they were when they w ere wor ki ng press work. When Dyer ' s was done, an a ddi t i ona l b o bbi ner was allowed. The mutually to give and t a k e not i ce ; and the contract was a continuing on e f rom t h at t i me to the present.- He master paid th e b o bbi ner. A mu l e was d i vided into boxes ; eac h b ox conta i ned 16 ends or, spindles, and proposed to recall th e w it ness J ac k son to speak to that there were 576 spindles in each mule. The defendant had fact " 14 boxes i n hi s mu l e . E ach of the defendants had to do Mr. Roberts obj ec t e d. A : pr i nte d notice had been put four boxes, so th a t th ree an d a h a lf men were together in ; by that, h e con t en d e d, t h e B ench must be guided, te, d o t h e same work that one man would have to do if and that no par o l e ev id ence cou ld afterwards be ad -Ihe was w or ki ng ent i re l y D yer ' s work. Six shillings a milted. Mr. Vaughan r e j o i ne d th at h e h a d proved the terms of week was paid to th e b o bbi ner w h o ass i sts the man who does Dyer' s wor k. Th e b o bbi ner ' s name was Thomas the contra c t by ev id ence ; t h e pr i nted form put in was Kershaw. He (K ers h aw ) wor k e d at the same pair of not that agre emen t, b u t mere l y a general notification to mules that P o t ts did. Th e wor k requ i red from Potts the hand s . was as nearly as p oss ibl e one - t hi r d o f w h at h a d b een The Bench reti re d t o d e lib erate and decide upon the done by K ers h aw on t h e D yer ' s work . Did not pay objections. H av i ng b een a b sent about twenty minutes, Kershaw himself; his wages were given him in th e they return e d i n t o C ourt, w h en warehouse. Did not tell ' defendants on Wednesd a y Mr. Newton, th e Ch a i rman, sa id , we have considered evening that th e y m i g ht go h ome w h en t h ey the objections, an d we t hi n k them good, therefore we refused to work the Dyer's bobbins. Told them dismiss the case altogether. It is upon the ground that when the Dyer's bobbins were out they would have the agreement put in by the complainants is not the more press to go on with. Never said anything about same that. was made in the first instance, and that they going to gaol. Believed the master had never men- ought, as is understood from the notices issued out in the tioned that word. Master told defendants, in his hear- town, to use the proper form, which would be binding on ing, that he would not let them off so easily as the both parties. others had been ; that he should not be satisfied with Mr. Eskrigge—That, sir, is up in the lodge. their paying the costs merely if they did not give proper Sir R. Pendlebury—lf you had put that in instead of notice. The bobbiner he had spoken of was allowed the one you did, the case would have been altered. for Dyer's work at that time, because they were then Mr. Vaughan—l believe it is my mistake. Like my t' on inferior work. He believed there were better Dyer's friend Mr. Roberts, I was only spoken to about half an bobbins in the creel wh e n th e d e f en d ants gave over, hour before I c ame i nto C ourt, and, therefore, in that than the press o nes th e y h a d p rev i ous l y b een working. respect we wer e a b out on an equa li ty. The quantity of Dy er ' s b o bbi ns h e wanted to put in Mr. Newton—Th e case h as b een very ably argued on would have mad e no diff erence i n the defendant ' s both sides. wages. Supposing tL e y h a d wor k e d a ll Dyer ' s work, Mr. Roberts—l wish all the m ag i s t ra t es i n other dis they could n o t h ave earne d qu i te so much as at the tricts used the sam e p recau ti on . press bobbin s ; no t f ar from r.,however, wh en a ll ow - Mr. Newton—lt i s rat h er un f ortunate that the notice ance was made f o r th e extra ass i stance o f t h e b obbin- was produced at a ll. nor, as well as f or t h e t i me d ur i ng which the creels Mr. Eskrigge—They are all aw are o f i t , s i r, and were stopped and put i n a p os i t i on f or t h e other bob- these men (th e d e f en d ants ) k new i t too. bins. It would h ave t a k en , per h aps, two hours to alter Mr. Roberts—Y ou mus t not sen d them to gaol this the creel, an d d ur i ng t h at t i me the defendants would time, Mr. E s k r i gge . have been earning nothing. They were not paid by Mr. Eskrigge—Not this time, sir. . their time, but by their labcur. The duty of the piecer Mr. Roberts applied for costs, but they were not was to put the bobbins in and keep the mules clean. The allowed. relativ e d urat i on i n t i me between the press and dyer's The case lasted f u lly t wo h ours and a half. The bobbins depended upon the yarn from which they were magistrates on the bench were Mr. Newton, Mr. Baker, Mr. Wilki nson , Si r R. P endlebury, and the Rev. C. K. spun. On th e average , t h e same number of each would be put in each day. There were 576 spindles in a couple Prescott, rector. of mules working press work, 288 spindles in each mule. We insert the form of notice alluded to in the above The weight of a press bobbin was seven ounces ; of a as that which ought to have been used. It constitutes dyer's, six ounces. The pr ess was s t ronger an d had a the rule by w hi c h t h e d ec i sions of the Bench are now in twist in it, which accounted for the additional weight. all cases guided:— A piecer's duty was to piece up the ends. It d e p en d e d " NOTICE.—P ETTY S ESSIONS, DEC. 5, 1838.—As a upon the nature of the material, and the number of h anks great num b er o f cases are brought before the borough whether there were more ends in the dy er ' s or th e p ress magistrates whi c h ar i se f rom di sputes between masters and their workpeople in the cotton manu f acture and the bobbing. Could give no answer as to any average in th e matter. other manufactures which are carri e d on i n t hi s b orough, The witness hesitated in many of his r e pli es , ev id ent l y the magistrates give this publi c no ti ce, as a general perplexed by the ignorance of the details of the business guide to all parties concerned:— displayed by the advoc a t e i n hi s cross - exam i nat i on. S ee . , "That the general custom i n thi s ne i g hb our h ood, and ing which, , the only one r ecogn i s . d b y t h e mag i strates, is a week's Mr. Eskrigge, addressing the witness, said—JOseph, wages and a week' s no ti ce . give your ans wers as p o i n t e di y an d di rect as poss i ble. "That any party i n a case i n f uture depending before Mr. Roberts, upon this, observed to the witness— the borough magistrates, wishing to prove a contrary Now, Sir, you have r ece i ve d y our instructions, follow custom, will be req u i re d t o prove that a printed or them. written notice, varying this general custom, hat been Mr. Eskrigge begged to observe that the witness'had Publicly posted in the room in which the workman was never received any instructions at all. - employed, or an agreement i n writing, signed by the Corss-examination con ti nue d—Th e b reakages were Parties, varyi ng t h at custom. not so frequent as some folks represented ; that de- " Any person leaving his employment without no pended upon the numbers they were spinning. Th e tice, except in those cases where notice is dispensed with by both parti es , f or f e i ts b y law any wages for that average might be from thirty to si x ty i n a d a y ; b ut i t depended upon the manner in which th e mater i a l was P onion of the week during which h e h as worked, in used. Could not say whether the breakages were more addition to renderin himself liable to p un i shment by frequent with Dyer's than press bobbins. Dyer's make more dirt than press bobbins. The scavengers cleaned nated without the full notice, imp.rNisoonsmerevnitce where noti ce i s requisite cm be termi . g the dirt aw a y. The piecer cleaned the spi n dl es and except by.the consent of rollers. Some of the manufacturers in Stockport had both parties, or by the gross misconduct of either party e both cress and Dyer's work going on. Did n o t k now, and any person alleging such mi scon d uct will be required even as matter of comm in rumour, that they paid more to produce strict proof of the fact. for Dyer's than f o r pre ss w ork. " The better way, in all cas e s, if p ract i ca b le, is to ter- Mr. Vaughan—Oh, do n 't l e t us ha v e an ythi ng on minute the se rv i ce by th e regu l ar not i ce, or bring the rumour, if you please. charges for misconduct before the magistrates for their Mr. Roberts be gge d h e m i g ht no t b e i n t erru pt e d. Th e adjudicatien. " R. PENDLEBURY, M a y or . liberties of five individuals were a t st a k e , an d th a t was a "JONATHAN THORNHILL. very grave r es p onsi bili ty to b e entruste d i n t h e h ands of " W. B. WORTHINGTON. one advocate. " JOHN SLACK." The object of twisting the roving was to put more on the bobbin, both a larger weight and quantity. The rovings came to the spinner from the carder. Had made no calculation as to the relative quantity that could be made in a given time between the Dyer's and press bobbins. The rovings were made on the premises. Th..ir anything he (witness) knew to the contrary, the threads spinners were paid the same for both Dyer's and press work. The bands worked so many hours to Ole day, and six days to the week, only when there was. a stop page for roving. The stoppages were not very frequent. The defendant Potts had had more than two whole weeks work since he had been employees at their mill. It had never happened that a man had been stopped for roving three days out of the six. Potts might have been off two days some weeks, being idle for want of rovings. Re-examined by Mr. Vaughan—lntended to put sixty Dyer's bobbins in each pair of mules, on the morning in question. The quality of the cotton would have been setter than that of the press bobbins. The object of furnishing them with Dyer's roving, was to prevent them from stopping, so that they might go on earning th , ±ir wages. They would otherwise have had to stand halt' a day, if not more. Told them they would have to stop, if they refused to go on with the Dyer's bob bins, until such time as they could have press bobbins to pat in. They would not have had to work the Dyer's b Qbb llll M9r9 AU a dgy 9r PM Pla 4 P s *, 41114 theA _- --=- -- EGYPTIAN BARLEY.—We have been favoured with a few stalks of this favourite grain of the Nile, grown in the garden plot of Mr. John Bowie, New Richmond Cottage, Fochabers. The barley was first planted about three years ago, from a few grains, which in due course, sprouted up to maturity ; and subsequently additional produce rewarded the exertions of the cultivator. Ia order to show the rich produce of this species, from one seed seventy-two grains were counted last year ; and, this season, twenty-two sterns are growing from one root 1 The barley is quinquangular shaped— having five corners ; and in approaching the ripening, has a very beautiful appearance. The spike is not so thick a s th e square barley or bigg, chiefly cultivated in England and Scotland ; but the calyx, husk, awn, and flower, more resemble rye —the flour is, indeed, very fine. We question much, however, if it could be pro duced to any great perfection in this country, as an alternate soft and warm soil and climate are imperatively necessary for its cultivation. Mr. Bowie, we understand, has sufficient seed of this grain to plant three acres.— Elgin Courant. IRISH ORE.--A vessel arrived in the river from Belfast, has brought the large quantity of fifty-one tons weight of load ore, the pr(Auctkou of that part of the sister kingdom. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANS'ioxlio 00. G'torge Bead, Alderman Wilion's coachman, wtt§ brought before Alderman Gibbs charged with having threatened to murder Mary Hill, his fellow-servant, waiting-maid to Mrs. Wilson. • Mr. Humphreys, who attended for the prosecution, stated that the complainant had .been many years in the service of Alderman Wilson's lady, and that the pri soner had been the Alderman's coachman for but a com paratively short period. The prisoner had by his atten tion engaged the affections of the young woman, who was a person of most excellent character and highly re spected in the family in which she served. Having, however, learned beyond all doubt that the man who had thus ingratiated himself was a married man and the father of a number of children, she, of course, rejected any further acquaintance, beyond that which ordinarily existed between fellow-servants, and the prisoner exas perated at the disappointment threatened to destroy her, and she had every reason to believe that he would per form his promise, if allowed to carry into Effect his pre sent intention. A letter could be produced which clearly showed that the prisoner was a married man, but as it was not legal evidence it could not, without the consent of the prisoner, be read. Alderman GIBBS asked whether the complainant and the prisoner were to have been married ? Mr. Humphreys replied that they were ; and he be lieved all the necessary preparations had been made, when the prisoner's wife interfered. The complainant refused to have anything more to do with him, and he threatened to shoot her, and then himself. The prisoner—Did she break open the seal of a letter of mine ? Mr. Humphreys—You have no right to ask any ques tions of the kind. It was here stated that there was no evidence of any thing of the kind. Mr. Humphreys—l am ready to read the letter I have alluded to, if the prisoner has no objection. The prisoner—l do not wish the letter to be read. Alderman Gums—She says you are a married man. The prisoner (smiling)—l am not. Alderman GIBBS—She says you have threatened her life. ' protector was himself a party to the infamous outrage, she instantly ra n t o th e w i n d ow and implored the as -sistatice of a donstable who happened to be passing, and having admitted him into the house, gake the prisoner into custody. Police-constable K 217 stated that while the last wit ness was relating to him the particulars of the transac tion, the prisoner, who was accompanied by her husband, came down stairs ; and on asking him if he had been invited there by the latter, he answered in the negative, and said he had been admitted by another man. Witness then asked the husband if he wished to give the prisoner into custody for being found on his premises, to which he replied carelessly that he knew nothing about the matter, and had no charge to prefer. The wife, however, who appeared excessively shocked and agitated at the indignity she had suffered, insisted upon pressing the charge herself; and the prisoner was accordingly con veyed to the station. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that he had been drinking freely, and was unable to explain how he got'int.) the house or anything that subsequently occurred. Mr. BROUGHTON characterised the case as one of the most flagrant that had come under his cognizance, and said, that on a review of all the circumstances, he could conic to no other conclusion than that the husband had been accessory to the whole transaction for the further ance of some ulterior object, the nature of which was sufficiently obvious. He considered the prisoner's defence an aggravatiOn of his conduct, and should therefore, order him to be committed at once for a criminal assault, and direct the immediate apprehension of the husbane, to answer for the previous ill-usage towards his unfortunate wife. STARVATION IN LEWES GAOL. The Sussex magistrates, living in the vicinity of Lewes, and most of whom are visiting justices of the House of Correction, held a meeting at the County Hall, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances con nected with the death of James Allen, on whose body an inquest was held on Monday week. The magistrates present were the Earl of Chicester, Mr. Sergeant D'Oyley, Sir H. Shiffner, Bart., Mr. Blackman, Mr. Molineaux, and Mr. J. G. Blencowe. The meeting took place at the termination of the usual business of the weekly petty sessions, and the reporters of the local press having left, Lord Chichester expressed his regret at the circumstance; whereupon a message was sent to the offices of the two Sussex papers, published in Lewes, and in a few minutes reporters from those papers were in attendance. On the arrival of the representatives of the press, an examination of the officers of the gaol com menced ; but in order to refresh the minds of our readers with the circumstances of the case, we first give a sum wary of that portion of the evidence adduced at the inquest, which shows the cause of the inquest being held, and which will be necessary to render the present examination intelligible. Our readers, we take for granted, remember that the verdict attributed the death of the deceased to the rigorous enforcement of his sentence of eight months' hard labour, interspersed, as it was, with nine separate weeks of solitary confinement, combined with the insufficiency of the prison diet. The father and sister of the deceased deposed at the inquest that the deceased entered the prison as a healthy man, never having had a day's illness ; that at the end of six months they were, for the first time, ad mitted to an interview with him, when they saw him looking very ill, but that he made no complaint to them, the governor of the gaol being present at the interview ; that when the deceased came out of gaol at the end of his eight months' imprisonment, he was very weak; that he suffered much from diarrhoea, and soon afterwards died, notwithstanding that he was attended by Mr. Ver ret), the parish surgeon at Brighton, and at his recom mendation was supplied by the directors and guardians ith all the nourishment which his case required ; :hat while on his deathbed he stated, that in the ,gaol he was very weak, that the food was not enough for him, that when tho prisoners had what was called soup, it was only " skilly," that no meat could be seen in it, hut that there were bits of something resembling cow's udder boiled up; that he complained to the surgeon and the chaplain of weakness and illness, but was told that he must work at the treadmill; and that one day he was so ill that he could not go to the treadmill; and that in consequence he was placed in the woodhouse, where the flesh peeled off his hands, and that notwithstanding he was obliged to work. Ile stated further, while on his deathbed, that when he was in solitary confinement he was very ill, and that from six o'clock in the morning till six o'clock at night his bed was taken from him, and that when he could not Fit on the edge of the bedstead he was obliged to be on the cold stones or boulders. He thought he should have died, as there was no one, to see; and he asked the doctor if he could not give him any thing for weakness in the inside; when the doctor gave him some pills which did him no good. He told the man who was over him in the woodhouse, that the flesh came off his hand, on hearing which the man said he must work or be reported. When they sent him to chapel he was so hungry that he could not listen to what the minister said, and if he dropped a crumb while eat ing his bread, so hungry was he that he would after wards cross his cell to pick it up. 1 his was the evidence, a rumour of which led to the inquest. In addition, Mr. W. Verrall, of Brighton, sur geon, deposed that when the deceased came out of pri son he was suffering from diarrhcea and disease of the lungs, for which he (witness) attended him almost daily, being, however, satisfied from the first that there was no chance of recovery. The disease of the chest appeared to have existed a considerable time, and from a post mortem examination witness thought it was of five or six months' standing. A man with such a disease was unfit for hard labour or solitary confinement, and paucity of food would tend to aggravate the disease. Such dis eases required a generous diet. It was to meet this evidence that the magistrates now examined witnesses, but not on oath. We subjoin an abstract of their statements:— Mr. John Sanders, governor of the Lewes Hou s e o f Correction, stated—James Allen, the deceased, was on bail before his trial, and he came into my castody on the 27th of November, the day of the adjourned Michaelmas sessions, for stealing 25., the property of Mr. L. Slight, clerk of the commissioners at Brighton, from a desk in the Town-hall. He was sentenced to eight calendar months' hard labour, except the first week of every month and the last week of his sentence, which was in solitary confinement. He was discharged on Saturday, the 25th of July. The greater part of his time he was on the treadmill, besides the pump, and other labour. He never complained to me of inability to work, or of insuffi ciency of food. I saw -him every day, and sometimes twice or more. When in solitary confinement, he was in a boarded cell with the exception of two or three weeks, when he remained in a cell having a stone floor. lie had a wooden bedstead, and need not lie upon the stone floor. There is no floor with boulders. The stone floors are flat, the cell having the stone floor was in the upper part of the prison, and very dry. He was never taken from the wheel to the woodhouse, except in his turn, and never for lighter work. He had a cough sometimes in July, for which he was treated by the surgeon. I saw him leave the prison, and meet his friends outside. His friends had visited him in the beginning of June ; they made no remark to me as to his appearance or treatment. The meat in the soup is from clods cut up into small pieces. It was always beef clods, sackings, and shins. There were no pieces of cow's udder in it, or anything like cow's udder. It is wrong to say he was obliged to sit upen the stone floor. He might sit upon the bedstead or water-closet, the lid of which is a good wooden seat. I have no reason to think he ever complained to a turnkey. The turnkey would have re ported it to me if he had. The dietary consists of 11b. of good wheaten bread, made of the best seconds flour, two pints of gruel, l oz. of meal (flour and oatmeal mixed) to each pint, one pint of soup, 3 oz. of meat (beef), without bone, 1 oz. of mixed meal, 2 oz. of pota toes, and leeks or onions to flavour it, to each pint. This is for the first three months. After three months 110. of potatoes is allowed daily, in addition. The witness having signed his examination, the next witness was called. Mr. R. Turner, surgeon, deposed—l saw Allen when he first came into the prison. He was in good health. Two months after he came in he laboured under a gonorrhoea. I treated him for it accordingly. He was very anxious about his complaint. His diet was 141 b. of bread a day, one pint of soup, and two pints of gruel. The soup contains three ounces of meat without bone, one ounce of mixed meal, two ounces of potatoes, and leeks or onions to flavour it to each pint. This is for the first three months; after wards 11b. of potatoes was given daily in addition. I have often tasted the soup; it is very good; no cottager ever gets better. There could be no cow's udder in it. It is good nutritious food, with three ounces of meat in each pint. The soup is always stirred up, so that each prisoner may have an equal quantity of meat. Allen was from six weeks to two months labouring under the com plaint of which I have spoken. He was treated by me accordingly. No obstacle has ever been thrown in the way of increased diet. I have ordered, and my instruc tions are to order, extra diet, if I think it necessary. I consider one pound of potatoes as a great addition. The prisoners are thankful for it. A prisoner now in the gaol is having porter and mutton every day. The de ceased complained of' cough on the Bth of July. He had complained on the 20th of June of spasms in the stomach, for which I treated him and cured him, and at the end of June he said he was well. I prescribed for his cough on the Bth - of July, and never afterwards. He never complained of diarrhoea. I saw him the day before he went out. I have seen him on the The prisoner—l deny it. Mr. Humphreys—lf this letter be a falsehood, I shall give the prisoner an opportunity of punishing the writer. Mary Hills was then called and sworn. She stated that the prisoner said if she refused to marry him he would carry pistols about him for twelvemonths, and follow her to church to destroy her, as he did not care about getting hung for her, he was so fond of her. Alderman GIBBS—When did he last say anything of the kind? Witness—On Thursday last. He said he'd follow me to the Sydenham station and take my life. The prisoner —Did I offer to take your life? Witness —You threatened to do so. Alderman GIBBS called upon the prisoner to find bail, himself in 40/., and two sureties in 301. each, to keep the peace for twelve months. The prisoner —I cannot find bail. The prisoner was then committed to prison. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. ALLEGED FAVOURITISM BY THE POLICE.—A batch of omnibus drivers were summoned by t.e police for stop- ping at the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, longer titan was necessary to set down or take up passengerc. Amongst these summonses was one against Andrew Fletcher, the driver of a Richmond omnibus. Police -constable C 134 Droved that on the day stated in the summons the eefendant stopped before the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, for two minutes, during whict time he neither took up nor set down passengers. In defence, the driver said the police stationed at the White Horse Cellar, from some cause which they alone could explain, chose to favour the Hammersmith omni buses, and to deal oppressively with the Richmond ow nibuses. The first were allowed to stop at the White Horse Cellar without limit; the last were hardly allowed to draw up before the office. The species of favouritism was known to and protested against by several of those gentlemen who resided at Richmond, and who were in the habit of riding with him. He denied that he stopped longer than was necessary, and he had:evidence to estab lish that fact. The defendant first produced a letter from a gntleman at Richmond, named Wall, which stated that the defen dant had not stopped, as the summons declared, longer in Piccadilly than was absolutely necessary. Two witnesses, Mr. Godfrey Dyne, of Bolton House, Turnham- green, and Mr. Whitby, of Richmond, deposed to the same effect, and expressed their belief that par tiality was exercised by the police in the cases of the Richmond and Hammersmith omnibuses. Inspector Aggs, C division, said he was entirely igno rant of the suspicion of partiality entertained against the police. He could assure the Bench the police had no au thority to show favour to any party. The constables were to treat all alike, and as some proof that this par tiality was imaginary, he would just mention that the very next summons the Court would be called upon to hear was one against the driver of a Hammersmith omni bus for loitering. Mr. HARDWICK readily acquitted the superintendent and inspectors of any intention to act otherwise than with the utmost fairness; but as the impression of par tiality appeared to be shared by so many respectable witnesses, he could not help thinking there must be some ground for the belief. The defendant had been sum moned for stopping two minutes only, and respectable witnesses had sworn that during that time the defendant was engaged in the business of the omnibus. Now he thought that it was attempting to carry out the Act in a spirit and manner foreign to its real intention, for the police to summon a person for stopping so short a time, and more especially when the convenience of the public appeared to require that this temporary stopping should occur. Under the circumstances of the case he must dis miss the summons. A second summons against the same defendant for a like offence was also dismissed. SOUTHWARK. Yesterday Frederick Dixon, a man of respectable ap pearance, appeared before Mr. Combo on a charge of absconding with the wife of James Williams, a milk man, of Portsmouth-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and stealing a portrait painting, a Bible, and other articles. The complainant stated that about three years ago he engdged the prisoner as his clerk, and in five months afterwards, business calling him into the country, he left home. His business being finished in a month, he returned to town, when to his great surprise and morti fication he found that his wife had eloped with the pri soner, after having ransacked his house of a consider able quantity of property. He had made repeated in quiries after the fugitives, but could obtain no precise information about them until last Friday evening, when he discovered the prisoner was living in the Broadway, St. Thomas's Hospital. On the following morning he went to the prisoner's place of abode, and finding several articles his property, and which had been taken from his house at the period his wife eloped, accordingly gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, in the most indignant manner, re pelled the charge, and said that he never acted as clerk to the complainant, who merely employed him in his capacity of accountant, he (the complainant) heir... at the time an uncertifi ca t e d b an k rupt. That with respect to the complainant's wife, she had been treated in a shameful manner by him, and his conduct was so bad to her that she determined not to remain any longer under his roof, and accordingly quitted his house without a shilling. At that period he (prisoner) was living in the district of Queen square, and out of compassion admitted the poor woman into his house from pure motives of humanity, and no other feeling. That the complainant knew perfectly well where his wife had taken refuge, and, as a proof of this being the case, about 18 months ago he (prisoner) gave hi m i n charge for creating a disturance in front of his house. The next morning he was taken before Mr. Bond, at Queen-square, and punished by the infliction of a fine, which he (prisoner) subsequently paid for him, not hav ing the money himself, in order to prevent him from being sent to gaol. The MAGISTRATE said that he was very much in clined to believe the prisoner's statement of the affair, he having admitted, without disguise, that the few articles found at his house were brought there by the prisoner's wife, at the time it was alleged she was compelled to abandon her home. However, without the pro duction of much stronger evidence he (the Magistrate) should not think of sending the case before a jury, but merely continue the accused's recognisances to appear when called on. wheel, and he made no complaint that he was unable to work. The turnkey would report every case of weakness of a prisoner on the wheel, and I should immediately attend to it. I cannot imagine the diet insufficient. The dietary agrees very well with the prisoners generally. Free drinkers would feel it most. There is nn alteration of diet from the labour to the solitary cell of 21 ounces a day out of 49. They do not have the soup and potatoes in solitary. I have not seen the prisoners suffer from this change of diet in solitary confinement. The - Rev. Richard Burnett, chaplain to the House of Correction, deposed--I have a distinct recollection of Allen's case. I saw the first entry in the surgeon's book of some complaint. I asked him if he had any complaint, and he said he had not. He was low-spirited in solitary confinement. He was naturally silent. He could not read when he came in. He attended my school, and learned to read and acquired information. He made no complaint to me whatever. Mr. Turner being recalled, and questioned by the magistrate, said the prisoner seemed to suffer more in his mind than anything else. After this evidence had been adduced, we understand that the magistrates expressed themselves satisfied with the officers of the prison. We may, however, add, that all these witnesses were examined before the coroner's Jury, who returned as their verdict that death was occa sioned by the rigour of the sentence and the insufficiency of the diet. Sir Henry Shiffner has given notice that he shall bring the subject before the magistrates at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessitsm TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.—MEETING OF THE VESTRY. A meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras took place on Wecineeday i at the Vestry-rooms, Gordon-square, at which a long anti stormy discussion ensued concerning the recent charges made before tt coroner's jury (in the case of Mary Ann Jones, the pauper, who committed suicide) against the authorities of St. Pancras Work house, and as to the general treatment of the poor .herein. Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff was its the chair, and ;he foreman of the jury referred to and several ratepayers were present to watch the proceedings. The first business was to levy a rate for the relief of the poor for the ensuing half-year, and an elevenpenny rate having been proposed, and the various estimates read, Mr. LEWIS called the attention of the vestry to the recent charges made in the public press with reference to the treatment of the poor in their workhouse— charges which, if true, reflected not only discredit upon those who had the management of the workhouse, but upon the vestry, and indeed the entire parish. He learned that the board of directors were instituting an investigation into the treatment of the poor in the women's " shed."—(Cries of " There is no shed.") He thought the men's oakum room equally demanded investigation.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") One case would suffice—it was that of John Mackenzie. This poor young man was of weak intellect. He was a pianoforte maker by trade, and had been occasionally an inmate of the workhouse fur the last three years ; he was out the last time for three or four months, but whenever he re turned to the workhouse, although he had never com mitted the slightest offence, he was consigned to the oakum room, and made the companion of vagabond.. Mackenzie's master and other gentlemen were at that moment present in the vestry-room, and could speak to the excellence of his character. The poor fellow's mind had become so affected by the position in which he was placed, that he had written to Mr. Eisart, his master, to say that unless removed from the oakum shed he would destroy himself. Was this, he would ask, proper treat ment in such a case? He (Mr. Lewis) also understood they put the poor in a dirty cellar.or black bole. Mr. GOODWIN (a director)—The black hole is as clean as this room. It is a clean whitewashed kitchen. Mr. DOUGLAS said he would be bound to say that there was some strong reason for Mackenzie being sent to the oakum room. Mr. LEWIS moved a resolution calling upon the direc tors to make an inquiry into the case of John Macken zie. Under what circumstances he came into the oakum shed, how long and why he is still detained there. The motion having been seconded, Mr. MANN said he considered the inquiry should be made general, and that an individual case should not be selected. A full and feir explanation to the ratepayers and the public was demanded. The CHAIRMAN said the board of directors were at the present time pursuing an inquiry into the whole manage ment of the house. Mr. HOWELL considered the inquiry going on by the board of directors a partial one. They were themselves inculpated in the matter, and had constituted them selves the judges in their own case. He considered the only satisfactory mode to be pursued was:to have a com mittee appointed on the part of the vestry, and another on the part of the rate-payers, to go into the whole mat ter.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN considered the board of directors could not be charged with conducting their inquiry unfairly. The doors of the board room were open to vestrymen and rate-payers, and there were three reporters for the press present taking notes of their proceedings. Mr. BRIGHTON considered the more rigid and general the inquiry was made, the more satisfactory it would prove to the rate-payers. It would also be more satis factory if the vestry, who were the representatives of the rate-payers, made the investigation. He would move, as an amendment, " that ten members of the vestry be selected to carry out the necessary inquiry, with the di rectors of the poor." Mr. MANN seconded the amendment. Mr. Churchwarden HOWARTH denied that the board of directors were in any way implicated themselves in the charges made. Many of the regulations had existed for thirty years, and the board was a perfectly com petent tribunal to inquire into the general discipline of the workhouse and the conduct of their officers. With respect to the appointment of vestrymen, the board were an independent body, and could not legally act with them.—(Oh, oh.) The vestry, if they thought proper, could appoint a committee of their own, but if they did so it would imply a want of confidence in the di rectors. Mr. GOODWIN admitted that the guardians, as also the vestry, were remotely mixed up in the charges made, but at the same time he thought the interference of the vestry premature. Mr. T. H. SMITH, as a director, was desirous of every publ city, and if the amendment was withdrawn, he should call upon the vestry clerk to issue a summons calling upon the whole of the vestry to attend the next investigation by the board of directors.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HOWARTH hardly saw the necessity, as the board had determined, at the conclusion of their evidence on Tuesday, merely to meet on the next occasion to consider their report. The amendment having been withdrawn, the original resolution was pat and carried. Mr. SMITH said, after the statements about the report, he would now move that a committee be appointed to inquire into the conduct of the directors, the rules and regulations, and general management of St. Pancras workhouse. The CHAIRMAN announced that it was ten minutes past four o'clock, and notice not having been given of the motion, he could not receive it. The vestry then broke up. THE EARL OF RIPPON AND THE REV. MR. CROWTHER. Mr. Crowther has addressed the following letter to the Editor of the Times, in reply to the defence of the Earl of Ripon's solicitor, of that Nobleman's conduct : Sir,—l have this moment seen a letter in your paper of the 12th from Mr. Pearson, of Sleaford, the solicitor of Lord Ripon, which letter he states he writes by his Lordship's directions. In that letter he states, " although Lord Ripon had nothing to do with Mr. Crowther's appointment, he, nevertheless, (the Vicarage-house not being then vacant), put him in possession of furnished apartments, rent free, and paid 401. towards his salary as curate." After this public statement from Lord Ripon, the public will, per haps, be surprised when I state that, instead of having the furnished apartments " rent free," I virtually paid 301. a year for the rent of the same. The stipend to which I was legally entitled was 1201., instead of which I only received 201.; and my vicar, the Rev. W. T. Marsh, in one of his letters tells me that the remaining 301. he considers fully made up by the furnished apart ments which Lord Ripon had provided for his conve- nience. With respect to the other assertion of Lord Ripont that he p lid 401. towards my salary, I can only say i is the first time I ever heard that he contributed any towards my stipend ; and if he did so, it must have been paid to the vicar, the Rev. W. T. Marsh, who, and who alone, was benefited by it, as I never received one farthing, either directly or indirectly, from his Lordship. I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully, 11ENRY CRO WTHER. The Rectory, Waddington, Lincoln, Sept. 14. P.S. I would add, that I know Lord Ripon is fully aware that I was virtually paying the 301. a year for his furnished apartments, because in September, 1845, I sent one of his principal tenants (Mr. Cartwright), in whose house I resided, with the newspaper to Lord Ripon, con taining Mr Marsh's advertisement offering 901. a year and a furnished house ; and he told Lord Ripon, by my direction, that Mr. Marsh considered himself entitled to deduct the 301. for-the apartments. TF Finney s A , DOCKS.—Yesterday DISTRESSING c an ox i o n E g n u ar est I w N as T h il el E d at W M E r s . the Queen's Head, Poplar, before Mr. W. Baker, on the body of John Wood, a labourer, aged 50, who was killed on board the Maria Hardy, a brig from Jamaica, lying in the West India Import Dock. It appeared from the evidence, that on Tuesday afternoon last the deceased was in the after hold, under the half deck, engaged in the delivery of the cargo, when a beam which supported the flior of the half deck over the hold gave way, and fell with a loud crash, taking with it about half a ton of coffee, ginger, and other merchandise, the whole of which fell upon the unfortunate deceased. Several la bourers immediately went to his assistance, and in about twenty minutes afterwards they succeeded in removing the mass. The deceased was found sitting on a cask with his head and shoulders bent down, and a heavy beam, which had crushed him, lying across his neck. The poor fellow exhibited no signs of life, and he was taken to the guard- house, where he was examined by Mr. Pritchett, a surgeon, who pronounced him to be quite dead. His skull was fractured, and there was an extensive bruise on the neck. The beam which supported the flooring of, the half-deck and cabin was cracked in Jamaica, and was not capable of supporting the heavy weight placed on it. Mr. Dixon, the superintendent of the dock com pany's police, who attended to watch the proceedings, produced the remains of the beam, and an old fracture was evident. The extra weight of the men sent on board the Maria Hardy to deliver the cargo might have caused the flooring to give way. The jury appeared to be of opinion that sufficient caution had not been used. The Coroner said the jury could not levy a mite, because deodands had been recently abolished, and unless there was culpable negligence the jury were not empowered to return a verdict of manslaughter. The law of deodands he always thought a good one, and a check upon people not to trifle with human life. There was, however, an other Act recently passed, which would in some measure counterbalance any evils that might arise from the aboli tion of deodands. The executors or administrators of deceased persons killed by accident could maintain an action against the parties guilty of negligence, and re cover damages. The jury then returned a verdict of " Accidental death." SEIZURE FOR RENT.---THREATENING NOTICES. Notices were posted on several chapel doors on Sunday, stating that auctio©s for the non-payment of rent were to be held in various places on the following Monday and Tuesday, and directing all the men in the district to leave their work and give their attendance at the auc tions, and to fail not at their peril! Notices were also posted on the doors of the stewards of several of the gentry in the neighbourhood. An auction of corn was to have taken place on Tuesday, for non-payment of rent due to James Willington, Esq. In consequence of the determination of the people to resist the sale, it was postponed for a week, in order to apply to the authorities for a military force to effect a sale.---IVenagh Guardian. GRAPES FROM HoLLAND.—Yesterday afternoon, 500 baskets of Dutch grapes, ex Rainbow, from Holland, were landed at the Custom House Quays. Upwards of 3,000 baskets of this fruit have been im ported ftom Hamburgh and Rotterdam within the last few days► LAMBETH. Six WEEKS AFTER MARRlAGE.—Yesterday James Milner was brought before Mr. Elliott, charged with violently assaulting and threatening the life of Mary, his wife. The complainant deposed that about six weeks ago, and while carrying on a good business in a beer -shop in Alfred-place, Old Kent-road, she unfortunately, and contrary to the wish of all her friends, married the de fendant. At the time he had scarcely a shoe to his feet, but he had no sooner become master of the place, than he began to ill-t rea t h erse lf an d h er c hild ren in the most brutal manner. On the second day after their marriage he gave her two black eyes; had frequently since beaten her violently, and threatened her life ; and on that morning had brought a man to the door to carry away all her good s . The complainant spoke to various acts of personal violence by her husband, and was fully corroborated by a respectable witness, when the defendant was convicted in a penalty of 5/. for the assault, or one month's im prisonment ; and also ordered to find bail for his good behaviour for two months more. WORSHIP-STREET. FLAGRANT OUTRAGE.— Thomas Byrne, a well-dressed middle-aged man, was charged before Mr. Broughton with having committed an aggravated assault upon a married woman named Caroline Spiller, residing in Charles-street, Mile-end-road. To elucidate the extraordinary features of the case it is necessary to premise that the prosecutrix attended on Tuesd a y l ast at this court, and complained to the magistrate o f a long-contin ue d series of ill-usage she had su.tainecl at the h an d s o f h er h us b a nd, who had beaten her in a most cruel manner on the preced i ng evening, and ultimately flung her out into the street, where he kicked her about the lower part of her person until she became insensible. The magistrate imme diately ordered a warrant to be issued, and appointed the following Friday for the investigation. The prosecutrix now stated that since she made her application at this court she had lived on the most un happy terms with her husband, who got up at four o'clock that morning, and proceeded hastily down stairs, s)on after which she again fell asleep. About five o'clock, however, she was awoke by some one grasping hold of her, and observed the prisoner, who was an en tire stranger to her, lying at her side, whilst her hus band was stretched across the foot of the bed, apparently asleep. She appealed to her husband for protection, but instead of affording her assistance, he addressed a slang expression to the prisoner, calling him a fool, and urging his immediate escape. Aladin; that her legal , CUSTOMS' SALES.—DELIVERY OF TOBACCO. --The Board of Customs having had under their consideratiO a communication from the Commissioners of Exc ise ' suggesting, with a vie w t o th e greater secur i t y of t revenue, that in cases where l ea f t o b acco i s purchas e i at customs sales, th e goo d s s h ou ld b e d e li vere d to lions!" manufacturers only, due notice to this effect being Itt i serted in the conditions contained in the cataloguef e sale, orders have be en i ssue d t o t h e pr i nc i pa l s of I' d several departments in London, and the collectors an controllers of the Customs at the various outPrr throughout the United Kingdom, to take care that In future the suggestions of the Excise Board be duly qr. vied into effect. This regulation is of very consideraT; importance, and should be generally known by ti ll numerous parties who will be affected thereby. 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Fieldin, newsvender, Olds-street-road, aged 22. weld On the 16th inst., Richard, second son of Willis° W On the 16th inst., at Kentish-town, Mrs. E leanor relict of the late Mr. T. Ames, of John-street, Ox f or d.strr o. On the 15th inst., at Chislehurst, Kent, Ellinor, wife ° Hulse Berens, Esq. . .., wee, On the 15th inst., Mr. James Moore, of Carthusle' Charter-house-square. On the 15th inst., in Kinland-road, Mr. T. Ward. i t Onth a e g l ed 6 6t 6 hinst. , at Yarmouth, Isle of W i g ht, Mr. 105 0 _ ..... P Squire, piscine* Longon •. Printed and Published by AIIIRDO YOUNCh o• r I, r , c ine* Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. llB . Strand. in,t11,9,1' Ser of tire Savoy, in/ tin County of atddlemax, on Ith tenter 18, 1546. FATAL CASUALTIES AT SE A ' Letters have been received from Lisbon, reporting the entire loss by fire of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's coal depot in that harbour, whic h unfortunately was attended with loss of life. It wag 5 , ship called the S an D om i ngo . Th e fi re w h en di s covered appeared to be kindling in the forepart of the ship, and immediately on the alarm being raised the ships of wa r lying in the harbour sent every possible assistance to th.e. burning vessel. The flames, however, still increasing , was deemed prudent to fire s evera l s h o t s i n to her hub' with a view of scuttling her. On that operation being com::2en.ced her cables were slipped, and every e ffort was made to haul her c l oser t o the shore, in the bor e that she wouid sink in shallow water. ILTnfortune ellt in her course she i;:ok the shore and was burnt to the water's edge. One of iii'ic crew fell down the main h old, and before he could b e ex t r i ca t e d is o was burnt to cleat h, , She had on board 700 t ons o f coa l, A portion of whic h are expected to be saved. fi n e The same communic a ti on re p or t s t h l loss °' 'fro American steamer, the Genie, while on a vassag e St. Jago da Cuba to Batabano, by which twelve of . e . crew and two passen gers me t their death. He!'l°!l 6 reported to have occ urre d th roug h one o f h e r ixwe' exploding.