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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT ROUSE OF COMMONS, Wedncs'lay. Feb. 4. The House met at Twelve o'clock. Mr. BARRY BALDWIN moved that there be an intruc tion to the Committee on the petition of the Irish Great Western Railway Bill to entertain the petition of the Midland Great Western Company of Ireland, and James Mall e y, Da niel Desmond, and Jame 3 Malley, James Gaynor and James Malley, notwithstanding that the same may not have been presented three clear days before the meeting of such Com mittee. After a slight discussion, Mr. CHRISTIE moved as an amendment that such peti tion should be entertained. provided it should appear that they were in the possession of the Parliamentary agent, and would have been presented on the Friday if the House met on that day. Sir d. GRAHAM said that he had always understood the order and practise of the House to be, that if the parties were ready to present the petition on the day on which the House adjourned, the adjournment would be considered no obstacle. Mr. HODGSON said that his Hon. Friend the Member for Cumberland, was at that time sitting in a Committee on the Irish Great Western Bill, and it would certainly be strange to remove the Bill out of his Hon. Friends Committee. There was no reason to suppose that the Bill would be opposed, and such a proceeding would certainly be at variance with the decision already given. He for one should vote against it. Mr. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH said that if an Hon. Member pledged his word of honour that he had a petition in his possession on or before the day of adjournment, then such adjournment would be no obstacle to its presentation to the Committee to which it might be referred. Mr. ESCOTT said, that it seemed to be admitted on all hands that the petition would have been presented if the House had sat on Friday.—(Cries of "No, no.") At least it was the first time he had heard that proposition denied ; and if the petition had really been ready, he saw no obstacle to its presentation. Aftir a few words from Mr. E. FULLER, The House divided, when there appeared : Fur the amendment Against it Majority —33 The original motion was then negatived without a division. LANCASHIRE AND NORTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. Mr. 0. DUN,jOMBE presented a petition for leave to bring in the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Bill. HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY. lt ..- " I ‘:r. HUDSON presented a petition for leave to bring in .his Bill. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. A petition was presented by an Hon. Member in favour of the Bill. CORNWALL RAILWAY. A petition was also presented in favour of the Bill for this line. SHREWSBURY AND HALIFAX RAILWAY. A petition in favour of the Bill for this line was presented. LINCOLN RAILWAY. A petition in favour of the Bill for this line, from the Cor poration of Lin culniiraLaLsa larzusantad. TE . Mr. BROTHERTON H presented a petition from a town in Middlesex against the enrolment of the militia. THE CORN-LAWS. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from the inhabi tants of a town, the name of which we could not catch, for the total and im me di a t e re p ea l o f th e corn -l aw s. EMPLOYMENT OF THE_IRISH POOR DURING THE ENSI.TIC SUMMER. Sir 11. '. BARRON presented a petition praying the House to devise means for the employment of the poor in Ireland during the forthcoming summer. _ TIIE CHILTERN HUNDREDS. . Mr. BANKS moved for a return of all such Members o the Government as had applied for and obtained the appoint• rnent of stewards of the Chiltern Hundreds since the lasi session, together with the dates of such applications and ap. pointments. BONE-CRUSHING. Captain PECHELL said it was now very nearly eight years ago since he brought forward the case of a labouring man in the Eastbourne Union, in Sussex, who had been brought to death' s d oor b y th e sys t em of labour to which the peepers in that workhouse were subjected. On that oc easion he was met with very unjust and very severe obser talons on the part of those who chose to defend the system of crushing bones in union workhouses. Every year since ae had brought the subject under the notice of Government, and he was very happy to say that the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department, at once en tered into his feelings on the subject, and the House was well aware that during the two last sessions of Parliament the Right Honourable Baronet stated in his place, that he highly disapproved of the practice of employ ing paupers in crushing bones, either as a punishment, eras a means of employment, and he understood that an order was issued from the Home-office, forbidding the practice. The Poor-law Commissioners however, seemed to thwart the intentions of the Right Hon. Baronet, and notwithstanding the great pains that wen, taken to promulgate the opinion of the Right Hon. Baronet, still, every means were taken in the different unions to continue the practice. He (Captain Pechell) moved for a return last session of the number of the unions in which this abominable system was carried on, with the names of their chairman and vice-chairman. By that return, it appeared, that this in'olerable nuisance and cruelty was carried on in nearly 2CO of the unions in this country. These unions set the Secretary of State at defi ance, and the Poor-law Commissioners encouraged them. But, at last, came the monstrous case of the Andover Union, 'with respect towhich the Right Hon. Baronet expressed him self in the most proper and feeling manner, and sent down an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner to investigate the charges made against the authorities of that workhouse, and the result of whose labours, ho hoped, would be laid before the House. At the present time they were given to understand, through the public means of information that an order was at last issued to put an end to the pounding and grinding of bones. It had been stated that the several boards of guardians who had shown themselves most anxious to continua 'the system, had made representations to the Poor-law Commissioners which had caused a suspension of the rule and regulation that had been issued, on the ground, he had been told, that they had a stock of bones on hand, and. wished to continue the system on the sane principle on which they were to have a gradual dimi ksation of the sliding-scale. He hoped, however, that the night Hon. Baronet would follow up his noble exertions, and expose those who had disobeyed the order and conti imed the practice. Those in favour of it stated that it in flicted no injury un the pauper, and they brought lawyers and doctors forward to urge that this was so— that the bones were ground in a different room to that in which the paupers performed the labour, and, in fact, that they could not tell whether they were grinding bones or corn—free-trade corn, he hoped ; but those who had visited these mills whilst in operation stated that it was necessary that some of the paupers should be em ployed immediately in connexion with the machine, so that they were still, and, in short, were all liable to the misery and stench arising from the bones. Evidence was given before the Cmmittee on the'Gilbert Unions, by per sons who had visited those places during the hours of work, who stated, that the' effluvia could not be otherwise than injurious to the health of those employed in the labour, and that when any of the guardians visited the mills it caused them the greatest pain. The Right Hen. Baronet had ex pressed his desire to have the system discontinued, but, then, be was not quite certain:whether the Poor-law Commissioners bad not the power to employ the poor as they thought fit, but if they had the power, that House could at once abolish it. It was maintained that the practice of crushing bones for the purpose of manure was necessary i n or d er t h at part i es m i ght fie enabled to compete with the guano trade, and that nothing could be done. He trusted if the Poor-law Commissioners bad the power to continue the system, that the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) would l eg islate ou the subject, in order that the power of abolishing or continuing the practice might not be in the hands of those Commissioners. There are numbers of persons now employed in chop ping and scraping these bones; that number should be immediately reduced, and the whole practice dis continued, and he did hope that some steps would be taken immediately to put an end to this filthy employ ment. The Gallant Member concluded by moving for copies of letters and general rules issued by the Poor Law Commis sioners relative to the employment of paupers in pounding, grinding, and otherwise breaking bones,!and preparing bone dust. Also for copies of the remonstrances made to the Poor law Commissioners on the subject. Sir J. GRAHAM said he should not offer any opposition to the motion of the Gallant Member. From the earliest period in which this subject came under his consideration, et was his opinion that the emplyment was highly objection able, that it was degrading to the character of the paupers, and was more of a penal than a becoming occupation for a workhouse. He did consider that, as the law stands, the Poor-law Commissioners had not the power to alter the case. He therefore made it his duty to ascertain their ' legal power as to any regulations they might make, and the result was, that he now considered the Poor-law I Commissioners had, by a general order, the power of inter ference. Taking these things into consideration, he had pressed upon the Poor law Commissioners the necessity of issuing a general order forbidding this practice, and that Gallant order i s now upon the table of the House. The Gallant Member was correct in stating that the practice had of late become very general in workhouses in England. From the returns made to this House, it appeared that this practice was adopted in no less than 150 or 200 different parishes. In consequenc e of this general order, grlig eat de rangement had been mad e in t hemode of employing the paupers. In some of th ese workhouses where) this prac tice had prevailed it was necessary that time should be given to enable the guardians to prepare other employment for the p au p ers , an d to put the machinery to t iTm e oter purpose. In th ese cases, t h e power of suspenenee e order of the Poor-law C omm i ss i oners rested with th e ' Secretary of State. And ho (Sir J. Graham) had, in consequence of spe cial representations, agreed to suspend those orders in ul ' cases only ou t o f the whole number mentioned in the retueu until the first day of A pril. He was perfectly willing to urns con sent to the p ro d uction of the documents moved for by the Gallant Membe r , and hoped that the House would consider that, with reference' to those nine cases in which he had sus pended these ord ers , i t war desirable so to do. After the Ist of April that occupation would cease to be Mr. ETWALL as k e d if the Andover Union was one of those with regard to which the orders had been , upended ? Sir J. GRAHAM thought that it was not; he could not answer positively. Mr. ETWALL said that the inquiry instituted a t Andover was not considered by the inhabitan ts of that town to be of a satisfactory natunrt There was no bone m ill there, and the bones wee. . consequently obliged to b e pounded. The stench arising from that occupation he co ns id ered far more intolerable for the paupers to bear than wher e they were gro un d i n a mill. He would say no more upon that subject at present, as it was his intention to bring forward a distinct motion upon the subject. The motion was then agreed to. Mr. C EIRISTIE rose and said, that remonstrance had been made against the practice of grinding bones a t t h e union workhouses. Captain PECHELL said that he believed there wer e dif ferences of opinion at Somerset House on the question 'whether they had the power to interfere. The Right Hon. Baronet having acquiesced to the motion gave him very great satisfaction , and he ho p ed the Government would extend the order to the quantity of bones now on hand, and when they were purchased.—(A laugh.) He believed there were only nine unions who had other reasons, besides the stock of bones on hand, for wishing to avoid giving these returns. The motion was then agreed to. Captain PECHELL then rose to move for a copy of any communications respecting the right of searching fishing bnosat.s on_ the French coa s t, rece i ve d b y t h e B oar d o f T ra de. had observed in foreign newspapers that it was stated the Gove rnment of thiscountry had yielded the right of search. The fithirteenth article of the Convention states that their licenses, ndnulr' when required, shall show the Board of Tre a cle had when anxious to know whether terpretation of the i any instructions as to the in 'laved that boo s fishingßte t he Convention. He be there was some stron g -- se e , 1 ,1, to be examined, except peered to him the Gay - r-ci°ll 44 . theto • and it ap- CC ad; 9Ccitaien. )le m erit sir eft glYin w a el! cp 4 . of grrulZ fishing vessels coming and dragging the nets of the English boatmen with chains. The fishermen had no monopoly, as was stated, but on the contrary, the French fishermen had a monopoly. He feared the Government had yielded a part of their right to search on the remonstrances of the French Government. The Gallant Captain concluded by reading the thirteenth article of the Convention, After which the motion was agreed to. Sir G. CLERK had no objection whatever to lay the letter which the Hon. and Gallant Member asked for before the House. Complaints had been made by the fishermen of both countries that the 13th article of the convention sub jected them to great inconvenience, and rendered their boats liable to be unnecearily searched by the cruisers of both nations. The instructions in question were therefore issued to do away with these vexatious searches and only to render those vessels liable to be searched who had given strong indications of having infringed the rules and regulations of the convention. With respect to the notice which the Hon. and Gallant Member had given of his intention to ask a question of a Member of the Board of Admiralty on the subject of these instruc tions, he might as well state that a copy of the letter had been forwarded to the Admiralty for their guidance. Perhaps the House would also allow him to take that opportunity of answering a question which the Hon. and Gallant Member had given notice ofon a former occasion. The question related to the number of English fishing-boats which had been detained under the convention, and he begged to assure the lion. and Gallant Member that heshould have no objection whatever to lay the information he required before the House. _ THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE OF LIVERYMEN. The appeals from the decisions of the- Revising Bar risters having now been all heard by the Court of Common Pleas, it may not be unwelcome to direct more especial notice to some of those cases that must be of peculiar interest to metropolitan voters, as relating to the elective franchise of the liverymen of London. In the appeal alluded to, the judgment pronounced by the court, confirmed that franchise. It has long been a litigated question, whether a livery man, who has ac quired his freedom by purchase, subsequently to the passing of the Reform Act, March 1, 1831, is or is not prevented from voting for Members of Parliament for the city of London, by tha operation of the 32nd section of the said Act. Our readers are aware that this ques tion has been each year contested with much zeal by , the representatives of each party, and with varied suc cess at the periodical meetings of the Registration Court for the city of London, there hating been one decision against, and two in favour of the right. We now sin cerely congratulate the advocates for the intended fran chise on the result of their unwearied exertion-a - fin. the attainment of so desirable an object. The case to which we refer, it may be remembered, is that of Croucher (appellant), Browne (respondent), being one of the city of London appeals against the decision of the Revising Barrister, at the last Registration Court. The qualifica tion to vote fur Members of Parliament for the city of London, before the passing of the Reform Act, bad three' requisites:-Ist, freedom of a company; 2nd, freedom of the City; 3td, Livery of the Company whose freedom had been acquired fur 12 months before the day of election. These three conditions were essential to the existence of the right. It was contended by the advocates for the fran chise, that an elector in London voted as a "freeman" and " livery man," as contradistingsiished from one who voted in other cities or in boroughs as a freeman or burgess ; that the general scope and intention of the Reform Act was to prevent corruption and an improper introduction of freemen on the eve of a registration, as had been the practice in many cities and boroughs im mediately preceding an election; that the constituency of the Corporation of London could not be augmented by such means, inasmuch as to entitle an elector to be registered, he must have been a liveryman for twelve months. That it was immaterial to the question at issue whether a liveryman had acquired his freedom by birth, by servitude, or by purchase, and that the reason is hy the city of London was permitted to retain the fr.nchise, of which all other cities were deprived, was, that while the statute of the 18th Geo. 1., cap. 18, was unrepealed, the Cor poration of London had no power of itself to make voters, and, consequently, there could be no swamping of the constituency. It was further urged, that consider ing the vast importance of this metropolitan city, the high pe.itien it held in the earlier periods of our history, undiminished in the present times, and the extent of its franchises and privileges, it was probable that the Legis lature had seen reason not to disturb the electoral rights of London further than by the introduction of a class of voters, being 101. householders, and the limi tation to a residence within seven miles, of the old franchise to liverymen ; and lastly, that the Reform Act, being in the nature of a penal statute, ought to be construed liberally, unless it contained a clear ex pression of an intention to disfranchise liverymen who had been made freemen by purchase at the Ist March, 1831. The Lord Chief Justice Tindal decided that the disfranchising part of the 32d section, before referred to, was inapplicable to the city of Lon don, and did not disable from voting for Members of Parliament for that city, liverymen who had acquired their freedom otherwise than by birth or servitude, sub sequently to the passing of the Reform Act. The judg. went of the Revising Barrister was, therefore, affirmed; and the Chief Justice, referring to his sound determina tion, paid, as is admitted by all parties, a well-merited compliment to Mr. Arnold. Thus this important ques tion has at length been satisfactorily decided, and further litigation thereof prevented. It may be added, with re spect to the other appeals to the Court from the decisions of the Revising Barristers, that, though the arguments of Counsel have been heard in all of them, several of those cases are not decided, their Lordships' judgment not having been pronounced. Afters few words from Captain PECRELL and Sir J. GRA HAM the motion was agreed to. HARWICH AND EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition for leave to bring in the Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction Railway Bill, which was referred to the Select Committee on Public Petitions. MANCHESTER AND SOUTiIAMPTON RAILWAY. Mr. EWART wished to bring before the House an affair which, if true, would prove to be egress violation of the pri vileges of the House. A petition had been presented from E. Carter, complaining that the standing orders had not been complied with by the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company That petition had been interpolated, and was in that interpolated condition now, in the hands of the officer of the House, and had been printed with the Votes. He wished that a Select Committee should be appointed to investigate the allegations contained in the petition which he now presented, and moved that the petition be printed with the Votes.—Ordered. COURTS OF REQUEST. Mr. KEMBLE wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of Request during the present session. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was very glad the Hon. Gentle man had given him an opportunity of answering that ques tion. Many petitions during the part session had been pre sented, praying the Legislature to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of Request. Those petitions had been referred "Mir zerect — comnuttee, wkl.l. 14.e1f communi cation with the Courts of Request, in various parts, in order to get information on the subject. It was intended to extend the jurisdiction of the Courts of Request all over England, so that sums of money up to 201. might be recovered in those Courts. No time had been lost in making the necessary preparations for the intended alterations. He (Sir James Graham) should feel it his duty, in the course of the present cession, to ask the House to pass a supplementary Bill, to establish these Courts throughout England, aid to appoint barristers or soli citors of proper standing as assessors. Mr. HAWES wished to know . whether any papers re lating to the subject had been laid before the House. Sir J. GRAHAM raid that at an early period he should be in a condition to afford every information. The petition for the Direct Northern Railway Bill was presented. * The House then adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY EASINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, FEB. 3. The following Petitions for Railway Bills were referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills : Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway. Grand Union Railway. Midland Railway, Syston to Peterborough Railway (Deviation and Branches). Great North of England Railway Purchase. Great North of England and Bedale Branch Railway. Great North of England and Boronghbridge Branch Railway. York and North England Railway (East Riding Branches—No. 2). Leeds and Bradford Railway (Gaiseley Branch). Leeds and Bradford Railway (Junction Line at Bradford). Launceston and South Devon Railway (No. 1). Clonmel and Thurles Railway. Tenby; Saunicrsfoot, and South Wales Railway. Great County Down Railway. Belfast and Holywood Atmospheric Railway. Direct London and Portsmouth Railway. Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway. Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction Railway. Rugby and Huntingdon Railway. Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway. Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway. Somersetshire Midland Railway. Wilsontown. Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Caledonian Rail way Junction). Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness Railway (Bathgate Branch). York and Lancaster Railway. Great Western and Wycombe Railway. The following Petitions for Railway Bills wire presented, and ordered to lie on the table: — North Kant Railway. Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. TUESDAY, FEB. 3. Swansea Vale Railway—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. 11 3lalton and Driffield Junction Railway—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. IL _ _ , Blackburn and Preston and East Lancashire Railways Amalgama tion—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. 11. Clitheroe Junction Railway—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. 11. Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday 5 till Friday, Feb. 6. Norfolk Railway Extension (Stowmarket, Wyntondham, and Attleborough Branch)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday 5 till Friday, Feb. 6. Norfolk Railway Extension (Dereham, Wells, and Blakeney Rail way Branch)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday 5 till Friday, Feb. 6. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Amendment and Branches (No.'6)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday 5 till Friday, Feb. 6. Waveney Valley Railway—Committee on Petition, adjourned till Thursday, Feb. 5. Taw Vile Railway Extenslon-Committee on Petition, adjourned till Thursday, Feb. 5. Great North of Scotland Railway- Committee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 13. Great North of Scotland (Eastern Extension) Railway—Com mittee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 13. Deeside Railway—Committee on Petition, Friday, Feb. 13. Alford Valley Railway—Committee on Petition, Fritay, Feb. 13. HOPS, MALT, BREWERS, &c. The following returns were moved far by Mr. Alderman Hum phery, and ordered : Hors.—Accounts " of the total number of aeres of land in Great Britain under the cultivation of Hops in the year 1845 ; distinguish ing the number of acres in each parish :" " Of the duty on Hops of the growth of the year 1845 ; distin guishing the districts, and the old from the new duty:" " Of the quantity of Hops exported from Great Britain to foreign countries, from the sth day of January, 1845, to the sth day of January, 1845 ; distinguishing the countries to which the same have been exported, and also the quantities to each county ; also, British from foreign growths, and the dates of the years in which the British Hops were grown :" "Of foreign Hops imported into the United Kingdom from the sth day of January, 1845, to the sth day of January, 1846 ; distinguishing the ports where imported, and the countries from :whence exported :" " Of the total number of pounds weight of Hops charged with duty in each of the several collections of the United Kingdom from the seer 1840 to the year 1845, both inclusive." Maur.—Account " of the total number of quarters of Malt made between the 10th day of October, 1844, and the 10th day of October, 1845; distinguishing the quantity made in each country, and the quantity used by brewers, victuallers, and retail brewers." BREWERS, &C.—Accouut " of the number of persons in each of the several collections in the United Kingdom licensed as ' Brewers,' Victuallers," to sell beer to be drunk on the premises,' and to sell beer not to be drunk on the premises ;' stating the number of each class who brew their own beer, and the quantity of malt consumed by them ; particularising each class in each collection, from the 10th day of October, 1844, to the 10th day of October, 1845." NAVY AND STEAM VESSELS (NAVY). Oa the motion of Sir Charles Napier the under•named returns were ordered : Nevy.—lteturns " as far as the records will admit, of the number so three deckers cut down to two deckers, since the year 1800 tating the date of launching and the date of cutting down, with the expense of those cut down since 1832 ; the same as to two deckers cut down to frigates ; the same as to frigates cut down to corvettes ; stating the number of guns and weight of metal as frigates, distin guishing those which have a spar deck over the main deck and height of bulwarks, the number of ships, and their names, whose sterns have been changed on the plan of Sir Robert Seppings, and the expense, and those changed on some other plan, and the expense of those who have had their magazines changed :" " Of the number of forty-six, forty-four, and forty-two gun frigates built since the year 1815, the number cut down, and the number that remain, stating how many have been at sea, and the length of time :' " The total expense of all the alterations." STEAM VESSEie (NAVY).— Return " of steam vessels (hearing commanders), showing their length, breadth, and dep h of hold, tonnage, quantity of coals they stow, and the number of days the coals will last at full steam, and according to the usual expenditure ; the depth under water of the upper part of the lower floats ; the estimated draft of water with everything on board, and the actual draft :" " The same Return of steam vessels commanded by lieutenants and masters, distinguishing the packets." COU/tT OF LIEUTENANCY. THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE CITY MILITIA. Yesterday a Court of Lieutenancy was held in Guild hall for the election of officers to fill the vacancies lately declared. 'The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. The following was at the close of the business de clared to be the state of the balloting list:— Recommended by the Committee to the adoption of the Court : For Major Captain J. B. Home B4 For Adjutant Lieutenant W. T. Ha 11........... 48 For Captains Lieutenant C. Finch Mackenzie 82 For Lieutelauts Lzinesui b t w e n n a w n t . J j a . nille a, sT lk h e o r m p s o n . . . 64 80 Thomas Hi-ath 72 James Qu allett.... For Ensigns ........... Messrs. George Borlase Childs 83 Jesse Charles Melford 77 Theodore Ling 72 Fred. George Windsor 77 ohn Harrison Allan 75 For Quartermaster...Sergeant-J Major Ward 67 For Major Captain James Berkley 1 Lieutenant Gritton, R.M. For Adjutant Captain Edward S. James Captain Henry Curtis ......... 43 Lieutenant Wm. G un M ahon For Captains William Guize Roper, Esq. For Lku'enants Wm. J. Lawrence Macclonnell Ensign William Sprott For Ensigns John Charles Butcher For Quartermaster Henry Dive Parrett, Esq. Lieutenant Robert Dellinger. It is proper to state, that all the parties recommended and not recommended by the Committee, appeared with very strong recommendations from individuals of high rank and character. Captain Henry Curtis, who lost the Adjutancy by 5 to Lieutenant W. T. Hall, was supported powerfully by several of the most eminent merchants and bankers of the City of London. Mr. Childs, who bad the highest number of votes on the list of EnsigUs, is the able sur- All recommended by the Committee declared elect e d goon to the polic force.e NEWPORT, FEE. 3.—We understand that letters continue to be received from all parts of the Principality, as well as from the agriculturists of England, requesting their names to be added to th© list of contributors for the testi monial to be erected to Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., on the principal height in Tredegar Park, which is expected to be a magnificent object from the surrounding country, 43 well aA a useful laucluurk from the Bria Claxmcl. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORN] RAGGED SCHOOLS. A lecture on and in behalf of the ragged schools for the destitute poor was delivered yesterday evening by the Rev. Robert Ainslie, at the Literary and Scientific Institution in Aldersgate-street. The theatre of the institution was not so well filled as we should have wished to have seen it, but the audience was of a most respectable nature. After a short but fervent prayer, The Rev. Mr. Ainslie rose and commenced his lecture, by observing that he appeared before the audience in the cha racter of an advocate for the juvenile portion of the poorer population, for the purpose of urging upon their attention the necessity of judicious measures being adopted for the improvement and education of children born into the world under circumstances of a most unfavourable nature, born in the midst of more want, distress, infamy, and crime, than it was possible to conceive in an intelligent and free country. It seemed to him that the present state of the public mind and ofpublic morality was very advantageous for the improve- Ment of the community. Something of improvement was now being attempted in the shape of free schools, known as the ragged schools for children. The origin of the name was the fact that the clothes of the children were all in a ragged condition ' • where one was ragged the others were ragged also. The county of Essex had lately been building a large county prison, at au expense of nearly thirty-five thousand pounds. How much better would it not be to have spent that sum in educating the poor than in building a prison for punishing them? He had lately been invited down to Epping, where they wanted a school of this nature, and in one day there they raised 300/., and esta blished the school.. He found, however, that there were one hundred and fifty children in the town who ought to be re ceiving the benefits of education, and were entirely without them. It was matter of surprise to him when that was the state of a small to,s n like Epping, that more prisons were not wanted, and more crime was not committed. (The reverend lecturer here quoted some portions of a return lately made to Parliament, and which showed that in six of the counties of England, taking one hundred of the men who annually came to the registrar's office to be married, there were from forty to sixty who could not write their own names; and that out of one hundred of the females, there were from thirty to fifty who could not write their own names.) The moral debase ment, the disgrace and crime in the metropolis was equally great, if not worse; of that there could be no doubt; while we needed such an extensive police to protect us. There was not a greater disgrace to the metropolis than the police. He was not speaking with reference to the force or their character. It was a moat dreadful disgrace to us, that we should require six thousand men to keep us in order, at an expense of a quay ter of a million of money annually; and until that disgrace was wiped out by the universal education of the people, we had no thing whatever to boast of. Prison after prison had been built ; there was the Milbank Penitentiary, and lately the one erected at Pentonville, with solitary cells, into which man after man was put, where instead of thinking upon the causes that had led to their imprisonment, they were most likely nourishing feelings of enmity against those who had placed them there, against the laws of the country in which they were born, and against their more fortunate fel laweereaturee—(The reverend lecturer here gave a short account of the general principles of education.) Ile ap pealed on behalf of the education of the young persons, be cause of our common humanity. The great Creator had made us all alike, He appealed for it also on account of the great advantages, both social and moral, that would accrue from it. Last year, the total number of persons imprisoned in the United Kingdom was 24,549 males and 4,993 females. He would ask how many of those 24,549 men did they suppose bad received a superior education ? Did they think fifteen, ten, or five thousand, or the remaining 549? No ! The actual number was only 109. He stated that fact as a reason for his appeal to them on behalf of the poor, and to show the advantages that would accrue to society from the general education of the people. Oft he 4,993 females, to the honour of England, to the honour of the female sex, and to toe honour of the cause of education, only three of those females had received anything like a superior educa tion. lie had lately paid a visit to Windsor, where a school had been established on the ragged school principle. There were upwards of 100 young . persons present from the age of 18 to 10, boys and girls, all behaving with the greatest deco rum and respectability, tolerably well clothed—for, educate the mind, and it immediately revolts at the body being clothed in rags —they were in a shed, not boarded, the floor of earth, with a fireplace to keep them warm and comfortable; and there he had heard them read, some very well indeed, and answer questions which but a few weeks ago might just as well have been put to the very boards upon which they were sitting. And who had done all this? Not the Court! Not the peers! Not the clergy ! Not the Dissenting ministers ! Not the wealthy inhabitants of the neighbourhood! No, it had been done by a poor and humble chimney-sweep ; who had himself been a bad and abandoned man, but who was reclaimed, and who now sat there, with his dirty face, teach ing and doing more good than thousands of others of ten times his capacity. What was wanted was, that the inha bitants of London should collect together, in various places. the wretched and needy—those in danger of being tainted by crime—the juvenile portion of the poor—clothe them, educate them, and give them a just and proper notion of their stations in society, their social, moral, and political position in this world. They proposed to educate all, without refe rence to sectarianism, bigotry, or any party whatever, but to lay the Bible before them, instruct them in the good princi ples it contained, and bring them up in a manner that would teach them to respect themselves, respect those placed in situations above them—but giving them at the same time the primary means of attaining to the highest stations in life, should their talents and their assiduity bring th em within their reach—to honour their fellow-creatures and their Creator, and by so doing to benefit the whole commu nity. The Rev. Gentlemen concluded his lecture by thank ing the audience for their attention, and appealing to them to promote as far as lay in their power the cause of the Ragged Schools. The Reverend Gentleman then sat down amid loud cheers ; his lecture was frequently interrupted by very warm ap plause. LATE EXPLOSION at LAMBETH. Yesterday morning, at 11 o'clock, Mr. W. Carter, the co roner for Surrey, and a jury, assembled at the John Bull Tavern, Tyers-street, Lambeth, touching the respective deaths of William Kenyon, aged 19 years, and . William Holmes, aged 16 years, who lost their lives at the late ex plosion in King-street, Lambeth-walk. The jury having been sworn, proceeded, with the coroner, to the workhouse to vie w th e bodies, which presented a very shocking spectacle. The features of both were quite charred by the action of the fire. Upon the return of the jury to the inquest-room the following evidence was adduced : James Robins, a labourer, of No. 2, Francis-place, Lam beth-walk, deposed, that about 2 o'clock on Friday afternoon last, while standing in front of the bar of the Fountain public-house, Lambeth-walk, he heard a cry of" Fire, fire !" Witness ran out, and proceeded to No. 14, King-street, where he found the lowerpart of the premises on fire. Smoke was then issuing from the back cellar. Upon entering the apartment witness found it filled with smoke. He searched about, and then discovered two persons lying on the floor apparently dead, and dreadfully disfigured. There were several puppies in the corner of the room completely roasted. Witness obtained assistance, and succeeded in dragging the men out of the room ; theywere then quite dead. A stretcher was procured, and after a few minutes the police arrived, and carried the bodies to Lambeth workhouse. Water was thrown into the room before they could be taken out. Their clothing was entirely burnt off by the fire. Witness had no idea how the accident originated. When witness first reached the spot a ladder was being placed in front of the house, which was on fire also on the first floor, where the inmates had made their escape. Frederick Kenyon, brother to one of the deceased persons. said that he could identify both of them. He knew his brother by the boots, and he recognised the young man Holmes by his neckerchief and dress. On the day in ques tion, while sitting at dinner with his mother, brother, and I I father, they were all alarmed by h ear i ng a l ou d explosion. The leceased were making " stars,' which consisted of sulphur saltpetre, and antimony. By the CORONER.—After they were made they were placed round a fire in the back cellar to dry. A candle had been used that day by the deceased (Kenyon). He usually kept it on his board in front of him. Witness believed that there were about 2 cwt. of the composition in the lower room at the time of the accident, and it would easily ignite. The chief portion was in a dry state, and made up into tubes. Witness, in continuation, said that when ho left his brother he was packing up about twenty gross of " stars," to take to the house of Mr. Darby, as they were dry and in a finished state. Witness was of opinion that the accident occurred by the candle falling on the combustibles. Smith, Kenyon, and Spiers were with him at the time, and all seemed on the most friendly terms. Other evidence precisely similar to that taken before Mr. W. Payne, the City coroner, at Guy's Hospital, having been adduced, the Coroner briefly remarked on the melancholy nature of the case, after which the jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased individuals had lost their lives acci dentally." MURDER NEAR MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—This morning Na thaniel Curry, a spinner, in the employ of Messrs. Murray, of Ancoats, who is in custody upon suspicion of having thrown a young woman named Ann Ellison into the Rochdale Canal, at Newton, near this town, was brought up at the Salford New Bailey for examination, before H. L. Trafford, and James Hayward, Esq... Mr. Beswick, chief-superintendent of the Manchester borough police, conducted the prosecution; and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Aspinall. The evidence was to the following effect :—On the even ing of the 10th of December last, at about half-past nine o'clock, a man named Scott, who lives near the Rochdale Canal, at Newton, observed a young man and woman walking together on the towing-path of the canal, but on the other side of the water to where he was stand ing. The man had his arm round her neck, and had got one of her hands grasped within his own. After walking I together a short distance, the female called out " murder ; ' but presently walked on with her companion. In a short time they got out of sight of Scott, who again heard the girl call out. "Lord ! dear me; don't murder me; do save my life." Thi s l a tt er sentence he describes as having been ejaculated in a half-stifled voice. As he would have had to go a distance of a quarter of a mile to have reached the bridge which crosses the canal, he appears to have troubled himself no further in the matter, but walked quietly home. In the course of half an ho ur afterwards some young men, who were on their way home, saw something in the canal, and upon getting a stick f r om the hedge succeeded in getting to the bank the load b o d y o f a young woman. They &Int for the police, and upon searching her pockets two books were found in such a condition that it was quite clear she had only been a short time in the water. The body turned out to be that of Ann Ellison, and an inquest was held on the body on the following day by Mr. Rutter, the county coroner, and a verdict of "Found drowned" returned. From inquiries which were made by hr. Beswick, the prisoner was apprehended. The girl was a "big piecer" fur him at Messrs. Murray's mill; and as he had been known to be extremely lax in his conversa with her, at times, it was suspected that he had some band in the matter. Two young wo men, named Russell and Far rington, swore mos t distinctly to having seen the prisoner With a young woman answering the description of the de ceased, in a field close to the canal, on the night in question, a very sh or t t i me before the body was f oun d ; an d upon the body being woman, who h a d a l ways b orne a goo d c h arac t er for exemplary exhumed, it appeared that the unfortunate young conduct, was three months advanced in pregnancy. Other eircurnstancts were stated in evidence, tending, in some degree, to strengthen the suspicion against the prisoner, who was remanded until Tuesday next, for further exami nation. that countdr. Earl and C ountess G ranv ill e have left town for Staf fordshire, the Nobl e E ar l having gone to vi-it his estates in by Lady eorgiana Fullerton, has left Mount Fe l ix , near The Dowager Countess Granville , accompanied Walton, to visit L ord an d L a dy Rivers, at Rushmore Lodge, Dorset. AN EXPENSIVE PAUPER.—The parish of Longhope, in the Westbury -on-Severn Union, has had a pauper of the name of Elizabeth Dutfield, in the Gloucester Lunatic Asylum for more than twenty years. She has cost her parish nearly 500 i. ; And what is most remarkable, she died on the 24th inst., Aged 102 . -- qtßuceatershire Chronicle. THE FACTORIES BILL. The following is the text of the Factories Bill, brought in by Lord Ashley and Mr. Fielden, but now committed exclusively to the care of Mr. Fielden : " A BILL TO AMEND the LAWS RELATING TO LABOUR IN FACTORIES. " Whereas an Act was passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty, entitled An Act to regulate the labour of children and young persona in the mills and factories of the United Kingdom ; and another Act was passed in the session of Parliament in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled An Act to amend the laws relating to labour in factories ;' and by the said first-men tioned Act it was provided, that no person under the age of 18 years should be employed in any such mill or factory as in the said Act is mentioned, in any such de scription of work as thereinbefore specified, more than twelve hours in any one day, nor more than sixty-nine hours in any one week, except as thereinafter is pro vided ; and by the said last-Mentioned Act it was pro vided, that no female above the ago of eighteen years should be employed in any factory as defined by the said Act, save for the same time and in the same manner as young persons (by the said Act defined to be persons of the age of thirteen years, and under the age of e i g ht een years) might be employed in factories, "And whereas it is expedient to alter the said Acts for the purpose of further restricting the hours of labour of young persons and females in factories, "Be it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Ma jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that notwithstanding anything in the said Acts con tained, as from the Ist day of August, 1846, no person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in any such mill or factory in such description of work as in the said first-mentioned Act is specified, for more than eleven hours in any one day, nor for more than sixty four hours in any one week, except as in the said Act is provided ; and that as from the said Ist day of August, 1846, the said two Acts before-mentioned shall in all respects be construed as if the provision in the said first mentioned Act contained, as to persons under the age of eighteen years working in mills and factories, had been confined to eleven hours instead of twelve hours in any one day, and to sixty- four hours in any one week, in stead of sixty-nine hours. "And be it enacted, that as from the Ist day of August, 1847, no person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in any such mill or factory, in such description of work as in the said first-mentioned Act is specified, for more than ten hours in any one day, nor more than fifty-nine hcurs in any one week, except as in the said Act is provided; and that as from the Ist day of August, 1847, the said two - Acts shall, in all respects, be construed as if the provision in the said first-mentioned Act contained, as to persons under the age of eighteen years working in mills and factories, had been confined to ten hours instead of twelve hours in any one day, and fifty-nine hours in any one week instead of sixty-nine hours, and that the restrictions respectively by this Act imposed as regards the working of persons under the age of eighteen years, in all respects as by the secondly hereinbefore-mentioned Act is provided. " Arid be it enacted, that the said two hereinbefore mentioned Acts, as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act. "And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present session of Parliament.", --- UNMARRIED LADIES. TAKE NOTICE. Under this attractive heading the New York Herald, of Jan. 8, just received, contains the following tempting offer to the fair sex:— A short time ago wo bad some business in Morris county, New Jersey, and it bile there, we came across an old friend of ours, who has recently come into pos session of a fine farm on Long Hill, in said county and State, and on the same range of hills, and about twelve miles from Bishop Hobert's old country resi dence, nine miles from the flourishing village of Morristown and three from Baskinridge: and a more healthy, elevated, beautiful, and commanding prospect, or inland view, is not in New Jersey. Being a wi dower, and so pleasantly situated, we naturally asked him why it was, having a good farm, and everything around him so comfortable, he had no wife ? Said he, " My dear Sir, advertise and get me a good companion ; I am now ready, (after being in a single state nine years,) and all things now in order." Now ladies, here is a chance. He is in good health, of a sound constitution, a good-looking man, forty-five, a lawyer by profession—at present a gentle man farmer—his disposition amiable, his temper even and pleasant, and is domestic. In his religion, an Episcopalian, but no Puseyite. A good democrat of the old Jackson school, has two sons, he first a young mer chant in Philadelphia ; the second, just of age, a fine young gentleman, and accomplished, (and we speak knowingly too, for we all spent several weeks together, summer before last, at Belmont Hall, Schoo ley's Mountain.) The widower, above all, is a fine fel low, fond of good old wine, old books, and his Bible, his text-book, old friends, and cheerful old winter fires, and of a good wife. Now, ladies, here is the description of the wife he wants. She must be even tempered, good looking, accomplished (in the general acceptation of the word—i. e not too mcdcrnly refined), sound in health and constitution, domestic, a good housekeeper, of the middle size, and weighing from one hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds, her features regular, her teeth sound and natural, her tongue always eschewing evil, but speaking well—her feet small and in the right place —of good family—always neat and trim at home and abroad —from twenty to forty and upwards, and willing at all times to be counselled with and talked to—and in return, to give advice when necessary, and to be the mistress of the house and household always. Her re ligion of the Gospel standard —and her politics (if any) democratic —and, last of all, property or money, as much as she pleases to bring with her. If any more information is wanted, call on, or write to us —otherwise. address Major D. C. Mortin, at his head-quarters, the Merchants' lintel, No, 41, Cour dant-street (between Broadway and Greenwich-street), New York. December m l rk. l h , e e r forgot 1, 8 l 4 5 t . o mention that he goes for the "whole of Oregon, or none." Lord and Lady Stanley arrived in town on Monday, from Wrest Park, Beds, where the Noble Lord and Lady had been on a visit to the Earl and Countess De Grey. Lord Stanley joined the circle at Wrest on Saturday last, his Lord obi" having been staying at Burghley House with the Mar quis and Marchimeas of Exeter Ain* Wedueulay “3-, FEBRUARY 5, 1846. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, Feb. 4. _ _ The Judicial Committee of the Privy ,Council sat to-day at the Council Office, Whitehall. The Lords present were, the LordYresident (the Duke of Buceleuch ), Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenbam, Lord Campbell, and the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. Their Lordships, after disposing of several motions and petitions, proceeded to hear appeals from the Ecclesiastical Court. not then make, nor had he since made the slightest apology, al. though by suffering judgment to go by default he had ad mitted that he had acted illegally and unjustifiably. He (the Learned Counsel) believed defendant had busines on the Stock Exchange. The jury assessed the damages at 501. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT: OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and Mr. - Justice Cnr.sswEri...) Frederick Tyler Russell, a surgeon, aged 23, was charged with feloniously forging and uttering an order for 55/, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. There were other indict ments against the prisoner for the same offence.—Judgment was postponed. Henry Bushell pleaded Guilty to feloniously uttering a forged cheque for 375/., with intent to defraud William Henry Smith and others. — Sentence deferred. Y. James Thomas, described as a labourer, and George Green, a soldier, were indicted for an unnatural offence. Mr. BALLANTINE applied to have the case postponed, in consequence of the absence of the necessary witnesses. There was every reason to suppose that the prisoner Thonw, who was supposed to be a man of fortune, had bought the wit nc,ses.—The case was ordered to stand over for the present. Thomas Russell, Ann Russell, and James Scott, were in dicted for having in their possession counterfeit coins, and implements for coining. It appeared that information had been conveyed to the authorities of the Mint, that coining was extensively carried on in the house occupied by the prisoners, in John's-lane ' Westminster. They, theref ore , in structed the officers of police to take measures to ascertain if such information was well founded. Acting on these orders, they proceeded to the house in question, burst open the door, and found the prisoners actively engaged in coining. Several counterfeit shillings and false dies, as well as a gal vanic battery, were found in the room. A verdict of Guilty was returned against the male prisoners, and the female was acquitted.-4-3entenee deferred. Mary Ann Flood was found guilty of uttering a counter , felt half-crown.—Sentence deferred. THE ALLEGED 3IURDERS ON BOARD THE TORY. In the course of the day the Grand Jury came into Court and returned seven true bills for murder and felony against Captain Johnstone. Mr. BonruN said there were a great many witnesses to be examined in support of the indictments that had just been brought into Court, and the Attorney General would conduct the prosecution ; it would, ther e fore, b e a convenience to all parties if their Lordships would fix a day for the trial, and he suggested, with the sanction of the Court, that to-morrow (this day) would be a convenient day. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said be had no objection, and the trial, therefore, stands fixed for this morning at ten o'clock. The following prisoners were brought up to receive the judgment of the Court:—Henry Bushell and Frederiek Tyler Russell, who had pleaded guilty to in dictments charging them with forgery, were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years ; Thomas Russell and James Scott, who were convicted of coining, were also sentenced to fifteen years transportation`; and Mary Anne Flood, convicted of uttering base coin, after a pre vious conviction, was sentenced to eighteen months im prisonment and hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON- SERGEANT. ) John Best, a working man, was indicted for stealing 10 lbs. of solder, value 45., the property of John Kelk, builder, Vauxhall, on the 15th of January. John Harley said he was a clerk to Mr. Kelk, and was on the premises on the day in question, when the prisoner came down with the plumber, Watling, to take soma lead up to the job at King•street, St. James's. He had his suspicion excited by the manner of the prisoner, as he came down from the plumbing shop supporting his jacket pocket, and evi dently concealing something in it with his arm. He there fore laid hold of him and asked him what he had got there. It was a bar of solder, he said, which was booked. He had him taken back to the shop were he thr.ew down the bar and begged to be forgiven, and said the plumber had told him to take it. Harley said nothing was allowed to go from the premises without an order, and the prisoner knew that. John Edwards said he was Mr. Kelk's foreman at the job in King• street, and sent Watling on that day for lead, and afterwards ordered the prisoner to go and help him. There was no order given for solder, and no need for it at the job. Charles Watling said he was a plumber, working at the job in King-street, and went to the premises in Vauxhall for lead. The prisoner came to help him. He did not order him to take solder, and when the prisoner took it he was two hundred yards distant from the shop. The prisoner was deaf, and had occasionally mistaken his orders. • Mr. Ballantine conducted the case. Mr. Payne ad dressed the jury for the prisoner, and called witnesses to character. The jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment and hard labour. James Scott, George Collins, Thomas Robertson, and John James Williams, all lads about sixteen years of age, were in dicted for stealing various articles of wearing apparel from the brig " William," at present lying in the Thames, on the Ist of February, 1846. George Henderson, the master of the brig, said he was roused between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning by the police. He found that a waistcoat, coat, and trousers were gone, which bad been safe in the cabin on Saturday evening. He identified the articles in Court. John Innes, mate, said he was aroused at the same time, and found several articles belonging to him missing. He took the prisoner Collins in a barge alongside, and saw Scott in a lighter lying near his vessel. John Armour, a seaman on board the William, said he found Robertson and Williams in the after-hold of the ship. They were put into the cabin, and given over to the police, but Collins and Robertson refused to go until they got their shoes. Their shoes were found in a skiff, and Collins's hat in a coal -barge alongside. Policeman 37 of the Thames force, said he heard a noise as of a boat moving about, and suspected there might be thieves. He pulled off with his boat mate, Gregory, and found a hat in a coal-barge, lying off the brig William. In consequence of this he got aboard the brig, and roused the crew. When they had got lights, they found Williams in the after-hold of the brig, and took him down to the cabin. John Gregory, one of the Thames force, said he found the shoes in a skiff, which were claimed by Collins and Robertson. The inspector of the Thames force said, he asked Robert son and Collins why they bad put off their shoes. They said they had done so to go a shoring. Mr. 13ALLANTINE addressed the jury for the prisoner Williams. The jury found them all Guilty, and Collins was found to have been convicted of felony on a previous occasion. The COURT sentenced Williams to six months' imprison ment and hard labour; Scott and Robertson, as they were known to the police by various petty convictions, were sen tenced to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour; and Collins, alias amolly, on account of his previous conviction, was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Collins wished 'his Lordship might remain where he was till he came back. The COMMON SERGEANT called him back, and said he had made a mistake; the law left him no option, the period could not be less than ten years; he therefore sentenced him to ten years' transportation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CROYDON. At the weekly meeting of this bench, Mr. James Haynes, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Mitcham, attended before Messrs. Adams, Simeon, and Capt. Kemmis, the presiding magistrates, to prefer a charge against a poor labouring man, named James Pincham, of having, according to the terms of the summons under which he appeared, violently assaulted and beaten him. From the statement of the complainant, it appeared that Pinch= had been one of his tenants, and on the day mentioned in the summons, he met him in the field and asked him for a quArter's rent which he owed him. The defendant, however, refused to pay him, and was very abusive and eventually struck him, and this was the assault he complained of. The defendant, in answer to the complaint, denied alto gether having committed any assault. He said it was true he had occupied a cottage belonging to Mr. Haynes, but he always paid the rent, and had given him notice to quit, and had given up possession, and Mr. Haynes now endeavoured to get a quarter's rent for a period during•which he was not in possession of the house. He was a poor man, and had to work very hard to get the reat while he had occupied the cottage, and he would not pay it atter he gave up possession. Mr. Haynes, with an air of triumph, handed a piece of paper to the Chairman, and said that the defendant had certainly given him a notice to quite, but it was not a " legal" notice. The CHAIRMAN having looked at the notice, said that in strictness it was not legal. The defendant had given a notice, but being ignorant of the technicality of the law, which required that a notice should expire at the period when possession was taken of the house, it was one which the landlord was intitled to refuse to take notice of. _ _ _ Mr. Haynes said the notice was illegal, and he was entitled to another quarter's rent. Mr. ADAMS remarked that, legally, perhaps, he was ; but he could not help saying that, in his opinion, in a case where a poor man who appeared to have alw a y s paid his rent regularly had, through ignorance, sent a notice to his landlord of his intention to quit which was not strictly legal, it would be much more becoming in a person of education, and in the position of the complainant, to have told a poor man so situated that his notice was not legal, than to take advantage of the fact, and compel him to pay another quarter's rent. The complainant intimated that he should stand upon his legal rights. Mr. ADAMS told him he might do so, of course, if be pleased. He was intitled to " his bond" and his "pound of flesh" if he chose to exact it. The Bench merely expressed their opinion what the conduct of a gentleman in his position ought to have been towards a poor man, who appeared always to have paid his rent regularly, and that to a considerable amount, up to the time in ques tion, under such circumstances. The complainant said, the man had been very inso lent to him, and he was determined to have his money. He should bring an action against him if he did not pay him. The BENCH then consulted together for a short time, when the Chairman said that the magistrates considered an assault had been proved, but under the circumstances they should only inflict a fine of one shilling and the costs. It is now said that her Nlajesty the Queen and Prince Albert will not remove to Osborne House until the 25th inst. A semaphore is to be erected on some high land near Osborne House, which will enable her Majesty to signalise the sema phore in Portsmouth Dockyard. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE CITY OF LONDON THEATEE.—On Tuesday, during the performance of Mr. Can field, the American Sampson, a supernumerary, named Thomas Briton, lost his life, and another man, named Jones, was so seriously injured, that he is not expected to recover. The accident was thus caused :—After the discharge of the first cannon the flap of the trap-door was thrown Up, and, not being perceived by the parties who were carrying it, they tripped, and the cannon fell upon Briton, killing him instantly, and breaking the collar bcne and arm of Jones, and otherwise injuring him. The accident necessarily caused a strong sensation amongst the audience. THE WEATHER.—The unusual mildness of the present season has brought forward the early flowers, and hastened the fruit• trees to such extent as will hardly qualify them to sustain late frosts without injury. The benefit of such weather to the poor during the present 1101Vity 91f90d 444 beta you grot.--Aath Journal! COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 3. (Sittings at Nisi Prius after Term, before Mr.:Baron PLATT and Special Juries.) GRANT 'V. MADDOX. This was an action by Miss Grant, a vocalist of some cele brity, against Mr. Maddox, the proprietor and manager of the Princess's Theatre in Oxtord.street, to recover the sum of 941. for the alleged breach of a theatrical engagement. Mr. MARTIN (with whom was Mr. Peacock) stated that in February; 1844, Mr. Grant, the father of Miss Grant, en tered into an engagement with Mr. Maddox, on behalf of Lis daughter, the terms of which engagement were that Miss Grant was to perform as a vocalist at the Princess's Theatre for three years, at a rising salary of 51. a week fur the first year, 61. per week for the second year, and 71. per week for the third yeer respectively. The contract was contained in certain letters which passed between Mr. Grant and Mr. Maddox. The engagement went on satisfactorily up to the end of the season, which concluded in August, 1814. Mr. Maddox then closed the theare, and it continued closed until October, 1844. During the period it so continued closed Mr. Maddox refused to pay Miss Grant any salary. When applied to on the subject, Mr. Maddox said by an engage ment for three years, lie meant an engagement for three seasons. Miss Grant was willing to adopt this construc tion. She said, let our engagement be fcr three seasons, and pay me the increased salary of 61. per week for the second season, and 7Z for the third season. This arrangement Mr. Maddox refused to assent to. He paid Miss Grant 51. a week, with some slight deductions, from February, 1844, to Fe bruary, 1845, whilst the theatre was open. In February, 1845, the increased salary commenced; but Mr. Maddox in that year again refused to pay Miss Grant any salary whilst the theatre was closed. The sums thus deducted from her amounted to 941., to recover which this action was brought. Miss Grant stood on her written contract. In support of the plaintiff's case, Mr. J. Grant, the father of the plaintiff, was called. He proved the communications which had taken place between him and Mr. Maddox, which corroborated the statement made on behalf of the plaintiff. Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS (with whom was Mr. Thomas) then addressed the jury for the defendant, and contended that the construction of the engagement was a mixed m Ater of law and fact. It was for the jury to say what was the meaning of persons in the theatrical world, when they con tracted, as in this case, for a Year or years, at a weekly sa lary. The year, in theatrical language, meant the period of the year during which the theatre was open, or, in theatrical language, 'the season;" and as no money came into the treasury when the theatre was closed, no manager would be insane enough to undertake to pay his performers during that period. Mr. Maddox had never suffered the performers at his theatre, high or low, to leave on a Saturday without their full salary. Certain deductions hed heel made from Miss Grant's salary when the theatre was closed, in pursuance of the contract made with her; but with the exception of those deductions she had been paid every shil!ing to which she was entitled. On the part of the defendant a great number of persons, well known in the theatrical world, both as managers and actors, were called, and they all, without qualification, stated that in their understanding an engagement for a year at a weekly salary only entitled a performer to be paid during such part of the year as the theatre was open. No mo r e was ever demanded. If the theatre was open during the part of a week, the salary was proportioned to the number of nights the theatre was open. On cross-examination, the witnesses stated that nearly all performers of respectability had written engagements, the terms of which varied in many particulars, but the under standing universally prevailed that when the theatre was dosed there was no pay. If the theatre was closed during the whole year, the performer, though engaged for a year, would receive no salary. Mr. MARTIN, on behalf of the plaintiff, objected to the ad mission of the evidence produced on behalf of the defendant, and submitted that the written contract between the parties admitted of no doubt, and that it was not competent for the defendant to put a different construction on it from the plain import of the words, by evidence of a custom which prevailed, perhaps, under a different form of contract. The LORD CHIEF BARON thought himself justified in re ceiving the evidence, subject to the opinion of the Court. It appeared to him that the written contract was ambiguous, and that the evidence for the defendant showed that the un derstanding of the parties was probably that contended for by the defendant. The jury, with some hesitation, returned a verdict for the defendant. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Feb. 4. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) BOHN 0. BORN.—LORENZO DE MEDICL An application to restrain the defendant from publishing the works of " Lorenzo de Medici," was specially appointed to be heard to-day, but in consequence of the absence of Mr. Bethel], who was engaged in the Privy Council, upon his Honour taking his seat, it was arranged that the motion should not be proceeded with before Wednesday next, which is the first seal after term. BRADBURY V. MARRIOTY.-TIM DAILY SEWS NEWPSPAPEIL The motion in this case, which was for an injunction to re strain the defendant from publishing a daily papor, at a price of 2d., to be called the Daily Newt', was also postponed to Wednesday; Mr. Rolt, on behalf of the defendant, Marriott, undertaking not to do anything in the meantime. IN THE 3IATTER OF THE DIRECT LONDON AND MANCITESTBR RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. KENYON PARKER applied to the Court in this matter, that a sum of 219,4501., which had been paid into the name of the Accountant-General of the Court by the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company, might be had out, 120,000/. in Console, and 99,0001. in Exchequer-bills. The VICE-CHANcELLon said that the Learned Counsel had better take the order that the whole sum should be laid out, and then the parties might agree among themselves how it should be done ; because if the course proposed was adopted the price of Exchequer-bills might so increase as to make it impossible to carry out the order. Mr. K. PARKER at once acceded to the suggestion of the Learned Judge, and the order was directed to be drawn up in accordance with it. EXPARTE TDB BARNSTAPLE AND TAW VALE RAILWAY. On the motion of Mr. KENYON PARKER, the sum of 40,0004 paid into Court by this railway company, was directed to be laid out. LN THE MATTER OF TTIE WAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT YARMOUTH RAILWAY. On the motion of the same Learned Counsel, the sum of 32,000/., paid into Court by this company, Was ordered to be laid out. THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF LOUTH V. THE WARDENS OF THE FREE scnoor. OF LOUTH. The remainder of the day was occupied with the further arguments in this case, wiaich have already occupied five days. In consequence of the House of Lords sitting to hear appeals to-morrow, it was arranged that at the conclusion of the arguments to-day they should be resumed on Saturday, and that Lis Honour should sit for that purpose. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 4. (Sittings in Nisi Prins, before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and a Common Jury.) MOHLER v. BLOUNT. • This was an action to recover damages from the defendant on the ground of his having maliciously spread a report en tirely without foundation, accusing the detendant of an un natural cffence. The evidence went to show that the state ment was made wantonly and without the least justification, and the jute immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff.— Dam ages, 20/. STOCKER V. GRIFFITIIS.—ALLEGED ILLEGAL DISTRAINT. This was an action of trespass, arising out of the defen dant having obtained a warrant of distress in the Palace Court against the plaintiff; and in virtue of it having made a seizure of goods on the premises of the plaintiff, under the impression that the furniture in question was his proper. The defendant in the Palace Court action was Mr. Stocker, senior, and the goods were seized as his, for a debt, and the expellees of the action ; but now Mr. Stocker,jun., instituted the present proceedings, on the allegation that the father in 1844, about a year before the vizure, conveyed the goods by a deed to him, and that the seizure was in consequence illegal. The whele point therefore at issue was to whom the goods be longed. Evidence was called to show the execution of the deed; in opposition to which it was contended, and to some extent supported by cross-examination and counter evidence, that the transfer was made from improper motives, and at no money passed between the parties. The answer to the latter point, however, was, that a debt of 98/. was standing between the parties, and the goods were assigned as a consideration for it. At the close of the examination the jury retired, and, after an hour's absence, returned a 'verdict for the plaintiff-- Damages, 14/. BANKRUPTCY COURT, Feb. 4. (Before Mr. Commissioner EvaNs.) IN RE WALKER. This bankrupt, who had carried on business in Oxford street as a boot-maker, came up to pass his last examination, and was opposed on the ground that his balance-sheet was not prepared. _ _ On the part of the defendant it was alleged that the bank rupt had been unable to do so in consequence of the official assignee having refused to allow him to have access to cer tain books which had been seized by the messenger of the Court. Mr. Johnson (the official assignee) said that the bankrupt denied that the books he required to see were his own. The bankrupt's solicitor said that in reality they were not, but they were books kept in business by his sons.. The official assignee had threatened to have the bankrupt pro secuted for mutilating his books, and he was therefore anxious to get an order of the Court to inspect the books he had mentioned. The Learned COMMISSIONER said that if the bankrupt would swear that they were his books, he was entitled to see them. The attorney said ;that the defendant could not do so, but, nevertheless, an inspection of them was necessary. If they were not considered to be the books of the bankrupt, there was no right to seize them. Mr. LAWRENCE, for the assignees, said that a sum of money bad been paid into Court to .coyer damages in any action of damage for the seizure. The Learned ComstissroNun said he could not make any order, unless it was shown to him that they were the bank rupt's books; but, as the balance-sheet was not ready, the bankrupt could not pass his examination. The examination was then adjourned. with protection to the bankrupt, to enable him to go through the accounts with the official assignee. SECONDARIES' COURT, Feb. 4. (Before Mr. SECONDARY PorrEE.) CHELTENHAM V. SMITH. FALSE IMPIILSONMENT.—This was an inquiry to assess damages for a false imprisonment, the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default. Mr. HAWKINS stated the case. The plaintiff is a ship broker at Limehouse, and transacted business at the Stock Exch Inge. On the 9th of July last the defendant met plaintiff near that place and gave him a bill of ex change, requesting him to discount it, but he declined and returned the bill to defendant. The next day, whilst plaintiff was in Capel-court, in conversation with the captain of a vessel, defendant went up and said, "Where is the bill you robbed me of yes terday ?" Plaintiff said he had certainly had the bill, but returned it, and told defendant to look in his pocket-book and he would find it. Defendant refused, and said Mr. Sander son (the landlord of a tavern close by) knew that he (plain tiff) did not give it back. They went:to Mr. Sanderson, who said he knew nothing about the matter, and it was then agreed by all parties to go to the Mansion-h ouse an d h ave the case decided by the Lord Mayor. On reaching there, however, it was found that his Lordship was not there, and defendant then said ho would give plaintiff into charge, and actually did so. Plaintiff Was taken to the office of the Superintendent of Police, where defendant opened his pocket-book, and almost the first thing he pulled out was the bill, between two cards. Who GlArgo WM Qt . Mae; the claguaVat did ---------- at EN SEIZURE OF AN GLISg - BY A PORTUGUESE MA N -OF mot s dig. Considerable sensation, mingled with no littla ie user nation, has been created in this to wn amongst be chants engaged in the African trade, by brtb%' , Lady i seizure, by a Portuguese man-of-war , of the Sale, of this port, whilst trading on th e coast of Africe for t alm-oil, ivory, &c. of B t e h f i o s re se p iz r o o r c e e , ed w in e g oo to a off th e e r e r r: , t he stili ee A i s m o p ti or . titeht t ow i s the mony as to the affair from a French paper , w ill „, c aa :••-• w ill net r: the first public account we have read of the transack7:4itest "It seems certain that this vessel had not thesSveat intention of trading for slaves. But this I r lo r v e v in in s g rk i it from being condemn, d by the commission, e:0,01 double reason, that the Portaguese judge s ! v a il is i lia li t Y t ri be follow, in this case the example g i ve n Lee vessels r English judges in the case of Portugues e i w ill t b e , petted of slave trade, and that the EDlgi t t s- , i dty, °l t obliged to give proof of their impartially sr; t e , j ' one el showing themselves inflexible with rega l ' ditiocs ° guilt they have themselves - so their own vessels, captured under those 0 13 1 , lai , down ; and the vessel will be sac It usesll' greater glory of British philanthropy'. nis cbanclio vessels going to the African coast to obtain o'e r , dr & on board es such as gum, oil, and ivory, to have utensils a hich would beperfectly useless i ll °t h i s esee } ditions. Such utensils found on board t " - d Sr' She belonged to the house of Charles Horsf2ll a n is po l Liverpool, had remained twothree facintbsbut°' or Zaire and Congou, to get 0 1 1 of palm and ivory, A 113 1 gOigit° l'aCCOPtf atiblin,epTsiptnht. rxrfieasrt not been able to obtain either, and was to take a cargo of copal. She was captureu on bAlete.s of having-on board 26 casks of w ater, sev er ,: l b s bilq rice, a copper, and , some bars ; an d the Pr' hott t seinap that she will be condemned as a slaver. ---- foc i) Marseilles. r foing I t We have made inquiry, find be Pr e ° bO - and t a , i , o r riCrocuds ;to Lev, are substantially correct; and, what is ru - , e beell• elis t accounts we find the Lady Sale has `Muftiaippeorie'g demned by the Portuguese authorities. there is not the slightest imputation a to • e i' le ba• , i: a 4 ' i A op engaged in the slave trade; but, because % for I b i s board certain articles which were neee s r e eascb voyage, th and which are taken by every Vest " ge - dePlbe ' s e : sin n ligio s ne i ng :e otefh t n r ett a hl d oee e ft tt i seh n lrae p yot a efr l etmhtaretollytidrl feeds, arnethd,ymah:yethisdbit eiiteon p rt i roe tv , _ 4: - Isrti i i fee f° r i joe - td , iaavofeattihoenvoefssenlo. treaty, imp °, condemnation ottnee sad re' be• sponsibility to oar Government. • pia' • g is something like 20,000 tons There ment allow this act of virtual piracy sides property to the value of nearly a ii3llit4i. ofe r s , o f sb : l 7 ,, ste rhe o : engaged in this trade, the whole of ivhich , if cti alaf ri t 1 to Po s t T . l e l IP`Jof ° dress, may, in like manner, fall a sacrifice 0 ...sr retaliation which seems to have actuated 1' _ __ , , he ~ i DO dt e b4 the Lady Sale. In the individual case of this vessel, tlaer e -5 bas -1 beep even l under the letter of the treaty, the sei i i .l t sr b 6 hr 'll a illegal ab initio, the Portuguese taan-e'stAP-ebe The her whilst the captain was on Wir e - o nee 2 ' ,cl, le treaty requires that, under any cir,ciauibeschsi,ett,,,ips credentials of the seizing officer should before proceeding even to search the vessel. 0 disregarded. cli b ! ' ; s ite co lt We understand that active steps bafe taken by the merchants of this town to brirlc tb e pt: b at under the notice of her M i y' Gor ert/- at 1 1 unless the Government are Majesty unless the Government are equallY act ive a fl e rl re et ,; ll. in giving and demanding redress, u the co sel ls pOO be most serious to the trade of th ort.----`ff j r,) MARKET NEWS— YEsT P O Or et al C 0 ItI7..EXCECAN OS' ou r vo The arrivals of Wheat of home produce up the tlle s hit this week having been on a very limited 0 ° and e. rt this morning were extremely bare of both Ta 0.... ve r lait cf The attendance of buyers —many of whom Ic ih c '' de9; ad' of stock—being somewhat on the increase, i e 4°.'.l ',, ,est all kinds of English Wheat wasstea l 3n " 2 f rei n g l i : ' A ls vaned rates were firmly supported.t)iree '-„der?p; was quite as dear, with a firminq • 3 Core cadet c`opl'' held ness asomewhat higher figures. air. The s l l 3 ° - 0 oS li' el q ti We 'had a however, actually transacted in l eler t ag;l, sorts had ad large quantity of Barley offer. aall- - ties of Malting produced on h t gi l 11 ta distilling owo fu w l a l rcdutrernendcaniec7, u.,?,,c:11/oe..l:soli was dull, yet we can notice no alteration , I '-' sa d r Beans, Peas, and Flour, were in short suel:"P inquiry, at last week's prices. o. r il 0 0_,,. , 1, 64 ;': 5,0 204- / 2, 5° 12,010 ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. 2,710 qrs. I 8,430 qrs. English ...• • • Irish ........ Foreign .... 3,140 , 530 I - 11 0 Ilan. 5,500 Qrs. , e 5 St VT2EITECILAPZZ . ay I' ) iir ,- ' 0 The supplies of Meat on sale here o. a s a' 0 ~,, .7 means large. Generally speaking, the der o2 , r ' pfutt", o P . very full prices. Beef, from 24 10d to 3s 1 0 a ;, 5 10 3 ' to 4s 10d ; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; and Pork, per Sibs, by the carcase. O rt ,slr ,- NIGHT SIGNALS, TO F P rpVirS , COLLISION AT SEA, AND Sa. -. THE COAST. ded to ° t Mr. Retter, civil enineer has forwa r t ,i104 0. 1 , copies of resolutions p a ssed ,at various 11 1 e pis r d shipping interest in Scotland, in favour °' e code of night signals for the purpose of cr li ot, o pee lision at sea. By means of a red, or gree il ho f l : e to er , in different parts of the ship, Mr. Rette r na fr id tj ' a i code of signals which, if generally adopt e d cantile marine and her Majesty's no , a rte ry doubtedly tend materially to lessen the bin e ' 5 ell hir'' life and property at sea. e A Mr. James Love, of Hamilton, 0 , 0 0 has addressed a letter to Lloyd's ur",,IV similar subject. Mr. Love suggests, in r tr e pe o : 4B 0 remarks which appeared in this journal 50 0 1 c 'o oC : since, respecting the necessity of an anire te d to o l signals upon the English coast being ad e Pp, vessels of their proximity to dang er, ru ctir ie d% small gas apparatus, of a portable ceot 6tor fc dicing gas of a very clear and brilliant fl3'io in the form of a large lantern, from th ree ct ors , square, with exceedingly p o werful relie s ides o re; would throw the rays o f light through g lass oti (31 :10° d i e ferent colours, having the different fi see s ec" . quired for the object intended. NI:. J -4° ,,;,der , s p blue and red light as all that is n ecessal. he is desirous of seeing carried into effect , rs i 5 1 4 10 The feeling which actuates both wr it % thropic, and the object in view is of gr e " and of pressing necessity. ero s , c 's l „ l " SUSPECTED INFANTICIDE.—An in qu st Tuesday by Mr. Baker, at the White Swan,,.',°"ti the East, on the body of an infant, which was Wilnriilotbe.;or of that house on the preceding m'orning. T he p - 01 0 ,i child is Elizabeth Guard, who had been a 5- i n dV i ‘ ep ii'd White Swan, and whose illness and appearanc'oe''et picion that she had given birth to a child,•,. o 0 0 however ; until the child was discovered. . 1 ' ifirt adjou red. rs e tile r [ADVERTISEMEN T.] —Deafness and L' e O') Rellieved.—.The undermentioned sent into the" u fo, e :, post--39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly Bud v' t ° tie-street, Edinburgh.— Acoustic Instruments. ---- s te Conductors, when fixed in the cavity of the eStl' o all r e d ti t l comfortable, nor more perceptible than having s o t s IsP ,to f 's wool in its place. They enable individuals at al i t op and of extreme deafness of 40 and 50 y e ars' eti n- eh o' r to join in general conversation, and to catch , rb t- e l P' ti l' e ' o o ; distant low speaker at church, theatre, tie. ` . O conversation into the ears to such an extent tha t severe cases deafness cannot be observed. ;"06c4jliPt,e Ear Cornets, French, German, and Spanish f''on , and Improved Hearing Trumpets of every demer..n'lbati° a re of those instrum en t s h ave rece i ve d the 11Priitite,j1)( 1 ;,i Royal Society and Royal I ns tit u ti on o f Great y . p . ( 1 0 ;0 1 , 4 ° ro newly-invented Spectacles, i mme di a t e ly they Otie extremely imperfect vision, it is brought to its you ee p ef F eo o and original state. Also, Achratic c %o 4 Vre j Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Cantion— om Messrg• e , mons, Opticians, are net in any way co nneese,e, e ;o l l lo of the same name in their immediateneighbou rp ' - os t fA , part of the country. To prevent mistakes , b B ,t, 1%," Observe—Only to be had at .19, Albemarle- 0 , 3. '1e" opposite the York Hotel, and 25, South Cas' e.- slO l 4 burgh. 8 4 opt BAD DIGESTION.—WONDERFUL 0 - 4 1 0 WAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—T. Garo.l 0 er ' Aer r e,p, Grosvenor-square, declares that he had been eminent physicians, besides five of the gre a rbsd / tie ; London. He suffered from a distended stollen V l 4 h settled pains in the chest, was very nervous ! a n- A ,, litated, and scarcely able to walk a hundred Ya l. :bou' e stv . ll, riving the least relief from the faculty, he 50 his c irset; large quantities of Holloway's Oint ment b e took Holloway's Pills night and morning, *""ebort,so,lP restored him to perfect health and vigour in thei t tsh" three weeks.—Sold at Professor Holloway e 244, Strand, and by all respectable medicine yen re t" . A BIRTHS. ".1011 -01110 l .Or On the 23d ult., at Brlttas Castle, Ireland, lJ''• . Ow 1. F.sq., of a daughter. oo' .10' On the 30th ult., at Hamilton-terrace, 5t...-T01 f5.11 „trh r i, OP I.' John Johnson. Esq., of a daughter. w"r3t °ll of' On the 30th ult., at New Ne 1 " . 0 0 is i 24PKie, of a daughter. o, Ino ife ( 4 On the 31st ult., in Circus-road, St. John's-ivn f • .1 Lack ersteen, Esq., of a son. , ....atjas the ' fro! 4, 0 On the 31st ult., at the Rectory, Thornton w ~.ortv O a Rev. Regina'd Courtenay, of a daughter. ..,,,,...-- of On the Ist inst., in Curzon-street, the Hon. -"'"" ~,,. f o4. ' „ f rl a son. On the Ist inst., the lady of William Martin pol''' i„iIO P . - of ov - i Indian navy, of a son. the WV d p i On the let inst., at Charterhouse-squara, . Purnell, Esq., of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Leytonstone, the wife of Sir Ed/I ''''' Bart., of a-son. lkic pv MARRIED. ~,o rf oi--.! r On the 29th ult., at St. Botolph, Stow Bedoni ~„-`' pi." f e.' .0 ,r Maddox, to Eliza, second daughter of the late I`,• plis l/ t'e' Snetterton Hall, Norfolk. Lea d. ol l ° On the 31st ult., at St. Catherine Cree Church , II 10 ___,, t h to P. 4 Captain E. Taylor, of the East India ship Sim , ' i raiiiiii ir glans, daughter of Mr. William Measam, Aldgate' es, •- a On the 2d inst., at the Town-church, St. lie lie gh ter ° f J ames Malvin, Esq., to Frances Matilda (1 , 1 T,.,. Parke, Esq., of Thorpe Latimer Lodge, Lincollisa"" ----------- ,ar eiff DIED. .naibettil, st. f' 0 1 On the 30th daughter at te Rectory Trous e ,-.' 4 ' - 0 t 0411 A Mary Celia, second of the Rev. W. - 01 ,„- - ;,?:1; 01(1 0- 1 1P. On the 30th ult., at Eastbourne, Harlot 14[11.• of 3illre .I. of Thomas Willard, Esq., aged 80. 0 Val ° ' der o ' et cl l 6 oo l On the 31st ult., Sarah, the wife of Mr. Lie°rg A. Saar. A g On the 31st ult., in Regent-street, London , Yr' -g eld, of On the 31st ult., Sarah Lydia, wife ofSainuell3o __...., Cap u On the 28th of November last, at Grahaa ° 1.1""" e .vs if 7; Hope, Jabez Hart, Esq., aged 43. os berd°2l2 itO r' On the 27th ult., Joseph Law, Esel. , °f , SO S° im i, Horton, aged 85. ...-iolitOn , On the 29th ult., at Montpelier-crescent, ~ 'o - ~,A, n p' Esq., aged 55. ^ 4a arsor.,.. 7003 On the 31st alt., in Gloucester-street, Quee'' g etet, m' e t oe On the 31st ult., at Mount .Radford -terrace, . -road. f " oe P - i U. Hu Westrstgh, R.N.' d, IT P oer ell On die'lst inst., at Laurie-terrace, . kenzie, Esq , H.P., 94th Regiment. er, n 311 0 C°° -,fku P - 0 0 ' On the Ist inst., at Stoke Newington-gree—, , vi...-- ~,,O, On the let inst., Elizabeth Anne, the wife o'' • tnA Pric° l'''' surgeon, of Lincoln's Inn -fields. vi , raz On the Ist inst , in Princes-street, Ur* ' Pollee . , C 4 44. o p Supetintswient of the IT Pivision of '.‘l",tropolital:!,_ ~, g , a , ol jejt On the 2d in..t., j r . 1.„,.:_,,1uac,i,,,,,„ jollu_ut's"byson, ° On the 2d inst., in ralthorpe-strect, Dlr. 1.1"' I 1' nf 7;0 01 vou .sa, London: Printed and Published by liltrilestigsd,,, girOPPLPI Strand, Printer, at The Bun Office , 3 0 . L "' Apar' of the Sirrorr i 4 the Canty et 10.0-11144 ~r>~ f~'' %