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Hitchcock behalf. of Mr, Cutting, whose daughter was lost in the ship; Mr. Clifford Wigram, one of the owners of the London, was also present. The first witness called yesterday was Richard Lewin, an able seaman on board the London, but after answering a few questions he became so con fused that his further examination was postponed. Benjamin Sheals was then called and examined. -He said he was an able seaman on board the Lon don on her last voyage. He had been a sailor 18 years. On the ship leaving Plymouth the weather was fine and calm. On Sunday morning they had a light wind ; they were on the starboard tack, and had been so ever since leaving Plymouth. He had taken his turns on the watch, and was on deck from 12 to 4 on Monday morning, when he went below. At 8 o'clock the same morning he came on deck again. It was then blowing hard, but in what direction he could not say. He remained on deck till 12. " The wind was increasing. He went below at 12, and came on deck again at 4. The ship was still on the starboard tack, and was then labouring very hard. At 8 o'clock on Tuesday the ship was pitching. The flying jib had b een was h e d away , and he and others went out and restored it. He then went below, and at 12 came on deck again, when the jibboom was pitched away and the head of the foretopmast and the mainroyalmast were gone. During the time he was on deck on Tuesday the lifeboat was washed away. The ship was then labouring hard, and the coals on deck were drifting about. No water had then been made. He was on watch from 6 to 8 on the evening of Tuesday, and then a green sea came over the bow of the ship, and the water ran down the main hatch. The wind was at this time a very hard gale, and a cross sea. He went below at 10, came up at 12, and remained till 4 on Wednesday morning. The captain was then on the quaiterdeck. During the middle watch the ship was steamed round on the port tack. He was employed at the time in baling water out of -one of the saloons. The ship appeared to him to lie easier on the port tack than on the starboard tack ; she did not ship so much water over to leeward. He was on deck again at 1, when the wind was blowing almost a hurricane. The watch were then called to get the jibboom in. They got it up and fastened it to the foreriggiug on the port side ; but at 12, when he went below, the flying jibboom was hanging overboard on the port side. The boom had beau broker}.: He came on deck again at foui p.m., when a heavy sea came and swept everything before it. This happened just as witness was lashing one of the broken parts of the jibboom to the side of the vessel. The water knocked him against a case, which injured his leg, and he was obliged to be taken below. The two midship ports were knocked away altogether. About half-past 11 that night he crept on deck on his hands and knees, when another dangerous sea swept over the ship and he was then taken down into the forecastle, where he remained till 8 o'clock in the morning of Thurs day. Reports then came that the ship was sinking fast, when he again crawled out and got on deck. He could see she was going and settling hard. He helped to lash some of the gear that was float ing about the deck to the forecastle. The ship was taking the water clean across over all ; she was clearing herself as well as she could through her ports. At that time they had no command of the ship ; her helm was half down. She was laid to the best advantage. Orders were givenby Capt. Martin to get out the boats th at rema i ne d, th e s t ar b oar d lifeboat and the port lifeboat and the cutter having all gone. About 9 or half-past 9 o'clock in the morn ing they got the starboard iron boat out, when Mr. Harris told the men to get into her. Witness was the last man out of six who did so. While the boat was being lowered, the bow fall went too quickly, and the boat went down under the ship. Ropes were hanging from the ship, and the men got on board again. They then took the port boat and pre pared it. It was impossible to get the iron boat out; the ship continuing to heave so much the boat could not be got clear of her side. Witness then went into the aft saloon, where there were several ladies, and assisted Mr. G. V. Brooke in baling out the water. He and three or four others went to the port cutter and got bread and two bottles of brandy in her, when Capt. Martin said, " Hold a bit, men, don't leave yet." About that time the ship took a heavy sea forward. They immediately flew to the wheel and heaved up, cut the braces, and then let her go. This was done in pursuance of orders given by Mr. Harris. The ship immediately rode round to the other tack, the foresail being then standing. She flew right round before the wind ; he never thought a ship could do anything like it. The ship had never been before the wind till that time since she left Plymouth. As soon as the ship had gone about on her starboard tack Capt. Martin said, " Go into the boat, some of you." They did so, witness being one of them. Eleven lowered themselves down. One man asked Capt. Martin if he would come into the boat. The captain, who was standing close by the mizen rigging, said, "No, my men, I will not come into the boat ; I will go with the ship, and passengers, and crew." King then asked the captain the course and distance to the nearest point of land. The captain. told him E.N.E. for Brest. Witness then heard the captain shout, " Good bye ! God jumped into the boat, making o l u 9 r' Eialtogether.ht sin more.Th eking boat was then pushed off, and the ship was fast. The witness then corroborated the evidence which had been already given as to the skylight of the engine -room being completely s mashed. James Edward Wilson, a passenger on board the ship London, was then examined. He said he was at present residing at 4, George-street, Tower-hill, and that he was connected with the gold diggings in Australia. The witness referred to a diary which he had prepared from the day the ship left Ply mouth until the catastrophe occurred. He de scribed the wind as increasing from the Sunday, but nothing particular occurred until about 6 o'clock on Monday evening, when the ship gave a considerable lurch, which upset everything. The water then for the first time came in through the skylights, and soon after a heavy sea came down the hatchway. About 10 a.m. of Tuesday the ship pitched consi derably ; the "jibboom was swept away, and the foremast was broken down. The witness described other damage done to the ship ; although the day was fine and clear, the sea was strong. The lids of the hatch were closed, but not being tight-fitting they did not prevent the water from coming in. The ladies in the second class showed much terror, the ship continuing to roll very much. During the lull , ' of the sea the hatch was opened to give fresh air to the passengers. He said that the coals which had been put on deck had tumbled out of the sacks and were tumbling about the ship. On Wednesdey he noticed a different motion of the ship, when he heard that she was being put about with the intention of going back to England. She was not running ahead on the sea ; the motion was that of a ship being close hauled. The weather became worse. On Wednes day the water poured down the hatch incessantly. Everybody was terrified. About 10 o'clock the water on the starboard side of the state room was up to the knees. At 11 o'clock on Wednesday night some sailors came near his state room, and he heard one of them say, " Let us make haste and get a sail, or she will sink." Immediately of ter an order was given that all men were wanted aft on the poop. That he understood to apply to the passengers, and he went to the poop. The wind was then at its height. He went below into the cuddy. There was a minister praying at the time. All the first-class passengers were in the saloon. As soon as the prayers were over some of the passengers went to assist, and he then learnt the fires were out in the engine -room. He assisted in getting up the sails. While he was holding a light to the men he saw Capt. Martin and Mr. Greenhill in conversation. The doctor and Mr. Harris were also present. On Thursday he was as sisting in baling out water, when Capt. Martin came _and said, " Men, put down those buckets, and come and try to secure the engine -room hatch, for thatis the only chance to save the ship. Secure that, and we may keep her up." We all left the buckets, and were going to the saloon, when orders were again given for the sails. Witness went up with a sail, and assisted in nailing it down over the hatch, where a large heap of other sails had been already nailed down. Soon after Mr. Grant, one of the officers, asked witness to go to the pumps, and he worked at them till the morning. About 9or 10 o'clock they were all relieved by the donkey-engine. He met Capt. Martin, and asked him whether it was any use to continue baling out the water, when he said, " You may, but I think it is of no use." Witness then went to his cabin, and on coming back again he saw that a change had taken place, and that a great mass of water had come down. Nothing was done after that time. He then made up his mind that the ship would not last long, and immediately went to the poop and did not go down again. He saw the sailors preparing the boat, and he stood by waiting his chance of escaping in it, and when it was lowered he got into it, and soon after the ship went down. The inquiry was then adjourned till this day. Searching for Guy Faux. Among the duties that have to be discharged by her Majesty's Government previous to the opening of Parliament by the Queen in person is one of which but little is said, and still less is known. It is a duty which has been performed by successive Governments—Whig, Tory, and Coalition—for more than two centuries and a half ; and it is therefore remarkable for its antiquity, though not perhaps very useful in its results. It is a duty that is per formed with punctuality, and always with great ceremony ; and, if it were not for the venerable associations that are connected with it, the search for a Guy Fax of the present day would be almost ludicrous. A short time since Parliament in its wisdom decreed that there was no further necessity for continuing the Form of Prayer and Thanks giving for the sth of November, the anniversary of Gunpowder Plot, and the happy preservation of his sacred Majesty James the First ; but, though the time for prayer and thanksgiving has passed away, the duty of watchfulness is still en forced. The sound of prayer and the song of thanks giving may be hushed, but the feeling of suspicion still lingers in the offices of the Lord Chamberlain and in the Palace of Westminster. We have for given, but we have not forgotten, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Any of our readers who had doubts upon these points could yesterday have satisfied themselves of the existence of these feelings, and of the fact of this strange and curious search after traitors and con spirators in the New Houses of Parliament. At 11 o'clock precisely there were assembled in the Prince's Chamber, at the back of the House of Lords, sonic 70 persons—peers, commoners, officers of the household, yeomen of the guard, policemen of the A division, marshals, and heralds, some in array so " blazing" and gorgeous that it would have " as tonished" Mr. Bright to the highest degree, but all intent on the one great business before them—" the search." While the procession was being organised some members of the Government strayed into the royal gallery, and saw and admired the magnificent fresco of Mr. Maclise, the Death of Nelson, which for the first time was uncovered. It is a worthy companion to the grand fresco on the opposite side, of the meeting of Wellington and Blucher on the field of Waterloo. The picture is 45 feet in length and 12 feet in height. It represents the deck and quarter-deck of the Victory. The central figure is the wounded Nelson supported by his officers, a group finely painted and full of character and ac tion ; indeed, one of the tall yeomen of the guard, arrayed in his full plumage, and who stood for some time admiringly before the picture, declared it to be as " good as life." The conclusion is a homely one ; and were it not that there was death in the expression of the dying admiral's face—death painted on so many of the stalwart forms that lie on the deck—death on the poor fellow's face that is being carried by his comrades down the cockpit —death on the quarter-deck, but death relieved by the noble valour of the men who serve the guns— death softened by the sorrowful faces that cluster around the dying Nelson—death, cheered by the consciousness of duty done, the expression of the tall and burly Yeoman would fitly characterise this noble work. While looking on the many beauties of this fine picture, the varied groupings of the figures, the wreathing smoke, the tattered sails, the shattered bulwarks, the torn British ensign still waving proudly in the great sea fight, the deep, rich, but mellowed colouring of Maclise, the order to " fall in" is given, and the great procession is marshalled. Inspector Moran, of the A division, leads the way ; then follows representatives of the high bailiff of Westminster, marshals of the Guard, a detachment of a score of beef-eating Yeomen,with their halberds and swords. The Clerk of the Parliaments, Colonel Todd, one of the exons of her Majesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, bearing a silver stick of his office; the Earl of Ducie, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard; Major Fitzmaurice, the Lieutenant, and other officers of the Yeomen of the Guard ; Mr. Burrell, representing the Lord Cham berlain. The Board of Works was represented by Mr. Fincham, the Clerk of the Works in the new palace ; and there were many others representing various departments of the Government and her Majesty's household. By the courtesy of the Lord Chamberlain we were permitted to join in the search; a lantern was given to each member of the party, and the order, " Right about face, quick march," set the whole cavalcade in motion. It first passed through the House of Lords, going in front of the throne, and along the Opposition side of the house. Ushers and doorkeepers stood respectfully •at their posts, and the brazen doors were opened wide at the approach, and we passed in through the Peers' corridor by frescoes which tell of the historical events of the escape of the son and e g s r c a a n p d e s d o n being a of that victim of the James Across the large octagon hall the procession passed, each Member bearing his lantern , w hil e th e SUR who Gunpowder s o narrowly Plot. streamed brightly through the richly coloured win dows—lanterns in sun-light, as strange an ana chronism as searching for Guy Faux in the 19th century. The lobby doors of the House of Commons were next thrown open, policemen stood at attention as we passed, and their stolid features relaxed into AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW PATTERNS for the Season now on Show. TABLE GLASS. ENGRAVED AND CUT. DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET. TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS. Newest Patterns, Correct Measure. JDEFRIES and SONS, • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET. 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They drew their swords, not, however, for the purpose of offence, but as a precautionary measure to prevent their being tripped up as they descended into the cellars ; and by dint of good management this first stage in the descent was made, and the pro cession reformed beneath the floor of the House of Commons. Its appearance resembled the maindeck of a man-of-war cleared for action. There vas a bulkhead at either end with small doorway openings —there were hatchways carefully covered, and steam pipes, and iron columns supporting the floor above. At the further end a door was opened, and again the searchers came to a hatchway, downwhich they passed to a lower deck. Here is the place where the air is manufactured and purified, and warmed and cooled and moistened for consumption by the legislators above. Along each side of the hall or deck long sails of gauze are stretched to catch the breezes that are wafted into this cave of .7Eolus. Lower down, and resting on the floor upon each side of the hall, is a row of " batteries." liaise holland wrappers that keep them all so scrupu lously clean, and it will be seen that each of these batteries is made up of a series of plates of metal arranged as in the cells of an electric battery. Through the centre of these plates there passes an iron pipe charged with steam, the heat from which is radiated from the plates of the batteries, and warms the air that comes down and is filtered through the area of gauze like sails. Thence the air ascends by shafts up to the air chamber, and passes through the pieried iron work of the benches to warm and comfort the hon. members who early and late sit in debate on the welfare of the nation. From this hall we were conducted to a large and lofty vaulted area immediately under the octagon hall, between the House of Lords and Commons. Here a hundred or more of large iron pipes rise from the ground to the roof—here clustered, like the columns of some gothic cathedral ; there single, as though a large meter or gasinain had started up on end ; in other places arranged in groups of a score or more. Some sprang out of horizontal pipes ; some climbed up and rested against the walls ; others stood solitary and alone. The great hall resembled the interior of a gigantic organ—some immense instrument which Vulcan might have forged for a Titan organist—and it would hardly have excited surprise among the cavalcade if they had heard thunder pealing from this gathering of great pipes. Through these, however, there come no sounds of music, save when the hot air of the cold blast rushes through the hollow pipes, and then they gave forth a moaning noise which mingles strangely with the roar that may be heard from the furnaces below; and to these our steps were next directed. At one corner of the great hall there is yet another descent to make, and this conducts to what may be termed the realm of Pluto. Here furnaces glow, and huge ' fires roar, and the winds howl, and keep up a con stant tornado as they rush towards the glowing fires. We are at the bottom of the great shaft which runs up the centre of the Victoria Tower to a height of nearly 300 feet, and on the hearth or bottom of this huge shaft there is a fire which would roast or grill a score of oxen, and cook more beef and mut ton than all the beef-eaters of het Majesty's Body Guard would eat in 12 months —be they as voraci ous as popular notion supposes them to be. This immense fire causes a constant draught of air in the shaft, into which the foul air from the various parts of the building is conducted, and discharged high in the upper strata of the London atmosphere. The furnaces in which the air is heated are in another part of the gallery. Walking along the galleries which form the entrance to this laboratory of purl.- I fled oxygen, the yeomen shivered with the cold, noble lords buttoned close their overcoats, and hats were firmly held_ to prevent their being blown— where, it is impossible to say. The roar of the rush ing air, the lights that burned dimly along the gal leries, the winds that howled, shaking temporary doors and brattices, the crimson glow of light from the furnace fires reflected on the whitened walls, gave considerable interest to this portion of the search. Glad to escape from this part of the lower Parliamentary regions, the cavalcade next wound its way through another long gallery. Here they saw overhead a huge pair of paddle-wheels, only the paddles were formed of canvas. This was a novelty introduced by that wondrous Dr. Reid. Fans like these were to be turned round rapidly by powerful steam-engines, and bring in the fresh and cast out the foul air. Somehow or other the plan did not answer; like many other great inventions, it would have succeeded but for some little "if," or some unforeseen " hitch" which baffled all the calcula tions of the sanguine mechanist. The paddle wheels are permitted to swing on their axles ; and Goldsworthy Gurney, who now reigns in the stead of his great predecessor, may look upon them with something of the feelings of gratification with which the soldier surveys the tattered flags of the enemy that he has *on in hard fight. The scarlet and gold of the halberdiers, and the uniform of the marshals, and the gleam of the lanterns, and the remainder of the procession in irregular order, wound their way through this long gallery, until a small ladder leading to a trap door was scaled. This ascent made, another spacious hall, charged with batteries and hung with gauze sail, and with care fully covered hatches, was entered. Thi s was two t stages below the floor of th e H ou se of Lords. The here was mild, an d an agreeable con trast with the cold and chill of the gallery below. ' Another ascent was made, and the diligent searchers were conducted by Mr. Fincham imme diately below the House of Lords, similar in deck-like arrangements of bulkheads to the floor beneath the Commons. From this a small i door was at the en opened, and the procession merged into daylight d h of o t_e last near the Chamberlain's office, to the floor.tsof the series of open courts. that the search Guy Faux was search was a fruitless one. dis covered in the vaults, but one vulgar wag was member of the procession heard to say as the lasi r behind Mr. disappeared down the trap door one down. Not only Speaker's The reader will not have failed to notice chair, that all the Guys had r ar c e g oncealed in the no cellars in which cellars,he All the lower regions tin,- could conceal himself: s halls, formed into versed are broad spacious hinny i the arches which ries by rows of pie or floors. Everything below but, was strangethere n too caoanys,ptihraereto support the basementslean a worthiy scientific of p a o n i n t o whitened ; and the explo ration,is in perfect order,. c interesting in the curious, answered ious answered f view, or however gratifying no practical purpose. It is a ceremony Which casts smile upon what should be in ridicule and raises a . ceremony befitting the dignity of a every respect a great nation, and occasion tinin en lightened nation.—Morning . ' n —Morning Post. however initneres RAILWAY • COLLISION.—An accident occurred on F r id a y night, on the Great Western Railway, near Charl bury station. The accident arose from a collision between two luggage trains. The line was blocked up for a consi derable time, and the carriages forming the express train, which should have reached Kidderminster at 10 on Friday night, only passed through that station at a few minutes before 10 on Saturday morning. 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Yesterday, at a meeting of Aldermen of London, held at Guild. ,ke Mayor presiding, a complaint was made Thy William Fisk, of St. Alban's, against Mr. Charles Bennett, a sworn broker in the City, having offices at 2, Copthall Chambers, in reference to a stock broking transaction. The complainant, Mr. Fisk, said that Mr. Frederick Bennett had for some time acted as clerk to Mr. Charles Bennett, his father ; that on Sept. 6 last the complainant wished to buy fifteen £2O shares in the Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway, then quoted as at par, and on that day he went to the office of Mr. Charles Ben nett, where he saw his son Frederick, the father not being then in attendance. He explained the business to the son, and resolved to buy the railway shares, with which view he had to sell some New £3 per Cent. Annuities, which he possessed. Later in the day he went with the son to the Bank of England, and hold out £350 New £3 per Cent. An nuities, which realised £309 odd, and that sum he handed over to the son to pay for the railway shares. The son gave him the customary bought note signed on behalf of hi s f at h er, and handed the complainant the balance, £6 3s. 9d„ promising to send him the share certificate in a few days, but that he had never done, notwithstanding many applications that he would fulfil his engagement. The secretary of the railway company had written to the complainant, in answer to a letter from him, that his name did not appear on the books of the company as a share holder. On 6th January the complainant received a letter from Mr. Frederick Bennett, the son, to the effect that, on balancing his accounts at the end of the year, he was somewhat deficient, and was compelled to beg his indulgence for a short time, while he was arranging his affairs. The writer en closed a promissory note for the amount due from which note the complainant returned, declining to accept it. Under these circumstances the com plainant prayed that the Court of Aldermen would be pleased to put in force the bonds of Mr. Charles Bennett, the broker in question, or to take such other steps as to them should seem meet. It may be stated that every sworn broker in the City gives security to the Court of Aldermen, himself in £l,OOO and two sureties in £250 each, for the duo and just execution of his office. The Court exercises a very stringent supervision over brokers in the public interest, with a view to prevent collusion and fraud, insisting particularly, with that view, that a broker shall on all occasions act only between party and party, and in no case as a principal. This is understood to have been the only instance within the last three years in which the Court has been asked to exercise its penal jurisdiction. The answer of Mr. Charles Bennett in this case, made by a letter, was in effect that he had retired from busi ness about eight years ago in favour of his son, that he himself was seventy-eight years of age, and resided in the country, a considerable dis tance from London, and that, though he knew no thing of the transaction in question, he would have been willing to make restitution to the party ag grieved if it had been in his power. His son Frede rick did not appear in court to make any explana tion. Eventually the Court referred the matter for consideration to a committee of their body. A re port was presented by Mr. Alderman Stone, chair man of the general purposes committee, to whom, on the 26th of January, it was referred to consider a communication from the Chamberlain of London, relative to the sale of freedoms of the City. The committee stated that they had been attended by the Chamberlain, whom they had heard upon the subject, and, after due consideration, they were of opinion, and recommended, that the sale of free doms should be no longer continued, and that the charge of £25 upon the admission to the freedom of " foreigners," thatis persons neither living nor trad ing within the City, should cease. The report was agreed to, and the Court adjourned. The Improved Metropolitan Railway. On Saturday Messrs. John Noble and Co., engi neers, of 10, Bridge-street, "Westminster, exhibited at the Westminster Palace Hotel a model of the improved Metropolitan Tramway, to be submitted to Parliament during the present session. The model represented a cross section of the tramway and two of the rails, which are made of malleable iron, but in practice Bessemer steel will be used. The cross-tie is fastened to the sleepers by a trenail of iron, but can be done by wood or any other suitable fastening. The company have obtained a patent for their roof or crescent rail ; and a plate, as shown in the model, is inserted into the upper surface of the sleeper beneath each joint of the rail, in order to make each joint more rigid and durable, and screws fastening the rail to the sleeper below. The model also represented, between the rails, on which the carriages are to run, woodwork, imitative of the ordinary paving -stones, cubes, or macada mised materials used for streets or road-making, which are laid so as to be level with the top of the rail. After the model was fully investigated by the company, Mr. Noble more elaborately de scribed its merits. The rail is laid below the level, and is such a mere slit or chink in the roadway, that in crossing " the most tender vehicle cannot experience any shock," amounting to no more than such a rent as is com mon between paving stones—amounting, in short, to a smooth, shallow groove, in which the wheels of tramway carriages will run noiselessly, and with "a very small amount of friction." It was explained that the use of longitudinal sleepers allows of the adoption of a very thin rail, the upper surface of which is convex, or crescent-shaped, the wheel tyres being concave in their periphery to fit them. Mr. Noble adverted to the opposition which the company was likely to encounter to their sc h eme f rom the General Omnibus Company in Parliament, based on previous failures of the tramway system. It was shown that in the Bayswater tramway of Mr. Train a fear extended through Oxford-street and the large establishments of the West-end on finding the nuisance and obstruction of that railway, on account of the dangerous jumps and jerks in crossing and re-crossing the rails ; but, as Mr. Noble explained, the proposed crescent rail is laid on a level with the road, and therefore there cannot by any possibility be the " jumps and jerks" referred to. And with respect to legal decisions, he showed that the inves tigation of the cases heard at the police-courts and the action at the Croydon assizes demonstrated that the danger arose in every cam) from the peculiar form of rails used. The opinion of the company present was unanimously in favour of the proposi tion of Messrs. Noble and Co. THE SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS IN SPAIN.. The public lands sold in Spain during the month of January produced one-half more than the upset prices. The number of lots sold was 2,124, and the total proceeds amounted to £398,000. ." ATTEMPTED MURDER. -.A determined attempt to murder was made ye s t er d ay afternoon in the immediate vicinity of Finsbury t B etween three and four o'clock some persons passing a l ong Eldon-street observed a man in working dress st a b a man much younger than himself. The wounded man sta ggered, and exclaimed, " Send for a doc tor; I am dyingatte ndance, and findi ng th ree woun d s, ono very d angerous, about the l ower region of the throat or neck, ho dressed A medical man was immediately in them, and had the sufferer removed to St. Bartholomew" hospital. A person who had witnessed the occurrence .fol lowed the assailant until he met a police-constable, a whom ho mentioned what had happened. The man, w h o said he was on his way to the statienhouse to giv i ' v e en i u custody by Mr. Henry Golding, attached f t° b Southstreet, Messrs. Sadgrovo and Co., upholsterers, of to dis charge was then taken back to Eldon-street, and fto g ie.mfieromy in o : Finsbury. Ho was recognised as a 0 corn 'sent as a fixer of plained of by customers to whom ho ~ . e th h e a i r l o • e e n i Tl c o o y n , s h eq u u t c o n n e e e t o h f e d y is h s identified as one he likewise x furniture. The wounded man respected. At the sta nch resPe • of the salesmen of the firm, much his name as Adam Exell, 51 tion-house the prisoner gave theio f Messrs. Sadgrove's years of age. Observing lst7ding near, he said, " I meant salesmen named Hansom standing brewing a long time." He was it for you as well ; it s table-knife was found in his pocket. Perfectly sober. A hasbeen for some time on the d seem that Ezell It would waylay some person in the employ of Messrs. Sad grove, twohoa few we eks since refused him a character for sobriety.g rov N o particular spite is known to have been en tertained by him against his present victim. John Fox, the dissipated t f e o d u l in:liilit.stsr' be ce continuallys saT. wounded man, has a wife and young family living at Cam. den-town. He is very dangerously wounded. 3 54 4 0 $ 444 403 Of f Pa" P et ;ne• )1. 11 1) ' )ID' J.