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to*: A s p * r ENO t t 4 0 n SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock, DESTRUCTION OF THE OLYMPIC THEATRE BY FIRE. A t the time] we are writing (six o'clock), a most terrific conflagration] is' raging at this favourite theatre. The flames and 440E0 issuing from the building are tremendous, and can be seen from all parts of the me tropolis. It is impossible to ascertain any authentic in formation, owing to the consternation at present pre vailing. There does not appear to be the slightest hope of saving any part of the building. Engines are continually arriving, and th*eie f `` .. is a copious supply of water. Pears are entertained far• the houses adjoining. Great efforts are being made to save some part of the wardrobe, which since the present lessee has held the theatre has become very valuable: it is being thrown from the windows at the back part of the theatre in Craven-buildings. TATTERSALL'S-TATS EVENING Six o'Ciocx. NEW MARKET HANDICAP. . 2 to 1 agst Fernhill METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 7 to 1 agst Lugar 10 to 1 agst Fernhill 10 to 1 agst Dacia CHESTER CEP. 20 to 1 agst Dacia 30 to 1 apt Loup-garou 40 to 1 agat Clermont DERBY. 3 to 1 on the field 8 to 1 agst Nunnykirk Betting very slack. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo sack at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up certain Bills. The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from Ballina praying for a❑ improved system of rating. The Ear of HARR° WBY presented a petition pray ing for the introduction of some measure for the better regulation of rum shops, and gave notice of his intention to introduce a Bill on the subject immediately after Easter. The Duke of RICHMOND considered that the pre sent law afforded too great facilities to those who were desirous of establishing beer-shops. NORTH WALES RAILWAY. Lord MONTEAGLE moved that the order of the day for the attendance of Mr. Chaplain should be postponed until after the holidays. The motion was agreed to. NORTH OF ITALY. Lord BROUGHAM inquired whether the Govern ment had received any intelligence of the victory of Radetzky, or of the abdication of Charles Albert in favour of the Duke of Savoy. If this were true, it had pleased Providence to bless Europe with an event which no human being could have foreseen and hoped for. He hr.cl also heard that England and France had deter mined to interfere to preserve the integrity of Pied mont:. wheal Marshal itadetalry and the Emperor of Austria had declared th4t they had no intention to de stroy the integrity of Piedmont. He did not believe it. It would he a libel on those two powers, and a libel on Austria. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there could be no doubt of the defeat and abdication of Charles Albert, and of the proclamation of the Duke of Savoy as his successor. There was no intelligence as to the fact of Marshal Radetzky having reached Turin, although it was probable. The intelligence had been received by electric telegraph, and therefore he was unable to enter into particulars, but he joined his Noble Friend in con sidering that it was a matter to be rejoiced at that the confl,ct should have been final. In answer to the Earl of ABERDEEN, The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE stated that the papers relating to the north of Italy would soon be laid on the table. THE STOCKPORT MAGISTRACY. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the borough of Stockport complaining of the recent appointments of magistrates iu the borough of Stockport. He be lieved, with the petitioners, that certain recent appoint ments which had,taken place to the magistracy of the borough had taken place from political motives, and not for the sake of furthering the due administration of justice. He would not for a moment be supposed to insinuate that the Noble and Learned Lord was at all cognizant of the real state of the facts, but he believed that the Noble and Learned Lord had been misled, as persons in his station must be always liable to be misled. 'Uhe petitioners prayed for inquiry. The borough of Stockport had been incorporated under the Municipal Corporation Act. The town council had at first been entirely Liberal, and it was most surprising that the magistrates recommended by them should have been Li be• ral also. In 1841 there was a change of Government, end Sir James Graham appointed five gentlemen of Conser vative principles as magistrates; and in 1845, en the re presentation of the Conservative party, he nominated tour new Conservative magistrates, so as to make an equality between the two parties on the bench. In June, 1845, there was a liberal majority in the town council, but it was expected that the majority would be altered at the next election. At that time Mr. Henry Coppock, the brother of Mr. James Coppock, neld the office of town clerk and of clerk to the magistrates. Fearing that in the event of the Conservatives gaining a majority in the town council he might be dismissed from the office of town clerk, and also from that of clerk to the magistrates, Mr. Henry Cop peck induced three of themagistrates to sign a memorial to the Lord Chancellor to appoint six additional magistrates. A memorial was presented from some of the other magistrates, declaring that there was no necessity for the appointment of additional magistrates. A meeting of the town council was held, and resolutions were come to that there was no necessity for the increase proposed in the number of magistrates. At the same time a communication was made to the Noble and Learned Lord that there was no necessity for any increase in the number of magistrates, because petty sessions were held every other day, and there was no arrear of magisterial business. In November, the majority of the town council became Conservatives, and Mr. R. Cop pock was removed from the office of town clerk. Immediately Mr. H. Coppock transmitted the commission of the peace for the borough to his brother, Mr. James Coppock, and it was lodged in the Crown Office, and on the 15th of No vember the Mayor of Stockport received a communi cation from the Lord Chancellor, stating that he had ordered five names to be inserted in the commission, four of whom were Liberals, and one Conservative, the one Conservative being an ex officio magistrate that year. One of the more liberal magistrates had since died, another was the judge of the county court residing near Manchester. The Town Council sent a deputation to remonstrate with the Noble and Learned Lord, and the Noble and Learned Lord said he would receive a memorial, if received, in three days. He asked for a further extensiou of time, which was granted. In the Council they fixed the salary of their clerk at 400/. instead of 5001. a year.--(Hear.) and that the same person should fill the office of town clerk and clerk to the magistrates, banding over his surplus fees to the borough fund. But in the meantime the Lord Chancellor went to say that he had determined to appoint the new magistrates. They sent another deputation, and that deputation found with the Lord Chancellor one of the old magistrates who had recommended the new magis trates one of the new magistrates, and Mr. Henry Coppock, This was ou the Thursday or the Friday the commission 'was transmitted to Stockport by Mr. James Coppock; the magistrates qualified, and on Saturday the magis trates, on the motion of the Judge of the County Court, who had never since attended ; the continuance of Mr. James Coppock, as clerk to the magistrates, was voted with his salary, notwith standing the opposition of the Council. He thought the Noble and Learned Lord was wrong in attending to the suegestions of unauthorised persons instead of attend ing to those of persons in authority, and he regretted that the Noble and Learned Lord should have been misled The LORD CHANCELLOR said that since the passing of the Municipal Reform Act the rule in ap pointing borough magistrates had been to con sider the number of magistrates requisite to transact magisterial business. There had been a representation made that the number was not sufficient in 1841. The same Gentleman, who had made that re presentation, to which the Noble Lord had referred, had represented that there was no necessity for any increase in the number, but nevertheless their number hid been increased. In 1842 a change of Ministry had taken place, and then these same six gentlemen thought that ,the number then existing was not sufficient, and then the Lord Chancellor ap pointed additional magistrates. upon the representation of those gentlemen. The coarse which he (the Lord Chancellor) had adopted, had been in cases in which application for an additional number of magis trates was made to inquire the number in the year 1841, because he knew that the position of the boroughs in that 3 7 0 r had been accurately investigated; to inquire then into the increase which had taken place in the population. Since the year 1841 the population of the • beroagh of Stockport had been increased by 10 000 while the Am ber of magistrates hadheen diminished d from ' 18 to 11, and on that ground an application to add to the number i°fruna ad been made to him tuag 2 is o t o r o atese received a memorial l inhabitants, had praying for an increase in the number of the and representing that the persons recom naagis:ra:es, mended were most respectable men, and were well fitted to discharge the du t i es n of magis trates ; and it so happened that those who memorialized against this appointment were the very same six gentlemen who had memo rialised against the appointment of additional magistrates in 1841, and who had so speedily changed their opinion on the matter when the change of Ministry took place in 1642. The Conserva tive majority of the town council having been changed into a majority, committed an act which he bad no hesitation in saying was a very improper act. They dismissed the town-clerk of the borough, not for any misconduct, but from party motives. It was only the other day that the noble Lord cow- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1849 plained of the dismissal of a gentlemen from office in a colony from party motives. The town-clerk of Stockport had no more notion of his dismissal than Mr. Fairbanks had, nor had he committed any greater offence. He considered it very wrong in municipal authorities to dismiss, and a very great hardship on municipal officers to be dismissed, merely from party motives. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. MUNDY' took the oaths and his seat for Derby shire. The Hon. Member was introduced by Mr. Packe and Mr. Fuller. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time :—Notting ham Gas ; Roxburghshire and Berwickshire Roads Amendment; Waldy's Divorce. PETITIONS. Mr. WALTER presented a petition from Nottingham praying for an alteration in the law of settlement. Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from Nova Scotia signed by six hundred persons, stating that the honour of the Crown had been violated by the Secretary for the Colonies, in scrutinizing the removal of certain officers and magistrates by the Colonial Legislature, and praying that such a constitution might be granted to the colony as would give to the people a just control over the management of public affairs. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from several places in Scotland against the Registration Bill for Scotland. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the Primitive Methodists of Salford in favour of international arbitration. Mr. BOUVERIE presented several petitions praying for the liberation of Mr. Shore. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the Edin burgh Financial Reform Association praying for a re duction in the national expenditure ; also, a petition from the county of Haddington in favour of interna tional arbitration ; and, a petition from the paper manufacturers of Edinburgh praying for the abolition of the duty upon paper; also a petition from a Baptist congregation in Edinburgh in favour of the Affirmation Bill. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Ire land in favour of tenant-right; also one from the Wes leyan Methodists of Rochdale, in favour of a measure to prohibit trading in seduction. Sir E. BUXTON presented a petition in favour of the measure to allow clergymen to secede from the Church. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition to the same effect; also three petitions in favour of international arbitration. Lord RENDLESHAM presented a petition from Norfolk, praying for the repeal of the malt-tax. Mr. G. THOMPSON presented a petition from Southwark in favour of international arbitration. Mr. MULLINGS presented a petition praying for the abolition of parochial settlements and assessments, and for the establishment of a national poor-rate upon all de scriptions of realised property. CONFINEMENT FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. Mr. HUMS moved for a return of persons who are at present confined for contempt of court in any of her Ma jesty's gaols in Great Britain and Ireland, under process issuing out of all courts, civil and ecclesiastical; stating the time at which, and by what court, each person was committed, and the cause of committal. Also, return of all persons who were in confinement for contempt of court in March, 1839, and of all persons who have been imprisoned for contempt of court in those gaols in each year since 1839; stating severally the names, the cause or grounds of imprisonment, the amount of debts or costs for which imprisoned, and the date of discharge (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 278, of Session 1839).—Agreed to. 4; ARBITRATION. Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition in favour of international arbitration. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition from a congregation of Protestants at Birmingham to the same effect. The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition, praying for the superannuation of poor-law officers. ABOLITION OF FLOGGING IN THE NAVY. Mr. HUME presented a petition from a person in the navy against the punishment of flogging. POLICIES OF ASSURANCE BILL. On the motion of Mr. FAGAN, the following Com• mittee was appointed:—Mr. William lapin, Mr. At torney-General, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Mr. Headlam, Mr. Milner Gibso n , M r . 'W oo d, Si r H. Willoughby, Sir Edward North Buxton, Mr. Napier, Mr. Coles, Sir William Verner, Mr. Spooner, Mr. O'Flaherty, and Mr. Mullings. POOR--LAW. - - Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice that on an early day after Easter he should call the attention of the House to the establishment charges under the poor-law, with the view of their being further provided fur out of the Con solidated Fund. add to the fund of information already before the public. Now let him direct attention to the Cuff-street Savings' Bank. It was established in 1818, and the usual com plement of trustees, managers, and actuaries were ap pointed. They opened, under the authority of an Act of Parliament, an account with the Com missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and the bank continued to receive deposits from the public, and exhibited all the various signs of inward prosperity, from that period of 1818 until that of 1831. On one occasion the deposits exceeded 300,0001., while they were seldom under 200,0001. In February of the year 1831 the officer called the actuary absconded, and it was found that he had been guilty of malversation of the money of the Bank, a full statement of the de linquencies and of the frauds he had committed, were transmitted to the Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt in London, and that central authority departed, a gentleman who had become notorious not only in Eng land but in Ireland, namely, Mr. Tidd Pratt, to visit the Cuffe-street savings' bank in order to inquire into and report upon the frauds, and to decide upon the best course to be adopted for the interest of the depositors. The trustees of that day were different to the trustees of 1847, and were all solvent and respectable individuals. Mr. Tidd Pratt entered upon an investigation of the affairs of the bank, and found a deficit of 8,000!., which had been received by the actuary and not accounted for. Having tinkered up the affairs in the best way be could, he returned and informed the then Chancellor of the Ex. chequer. The trustees wished to wind up the bank, to divide the assets Pro-rata among the depositors, and to clean their hands of the whole matter, but Mr. Tidd Pratt told them as they had good credit to keep it open, and depend upon making up the deficit by the surplus profits. From a statement of the bank accounts it appeared that, in 1832, the profits over and above the expenses amounted to 4,4764 10s. 5d., but in the follow ing year, in consequence of fraud and peculation, there ' was a deficiency of 3,671/. 12s. 3d., and from that year it gradually increased until 1849, when the deficiency amounted to nearly 33,0001. From 1832 to 1847 the Chancellors. of the Exchequer were cognizant of the fact that the bank in Cuffee-street was insolvent, and could not pay 105. in the pound, and yet they allowed the poor hard-working mechanics of Dublin, who denied themselves the necessaries of life in order that they might save something from their earnings to be defrauded of their earnings.—(Hear.) A com mittee sat in Dublin for some days, the depositors were called before them, when it appeared that the sum of 32,000/. was due to them, which was subsequently swelled on inquiry to 48,0004; and, in fact, 50,0004 w a s due to 1,664 persons from the two trustees where securities would not be taken in any bank in Ireland for 1,0001. All the money placed to that credit of the bank in the Bank of Ireland was but 821. He complained that Mr. Pratt was a flippant individual, and had calumniated the people of Ireland by saying in a letter to the Treasury from Tralee that he regretted many of the depositors had placed money in that bank in order to avoid the payment of their rents, and that many were subsisting upon charity and receiving out-door relief, and that they had been guilty of perjury and of subornation of perjury in order to substantiate their claims. Mr. Tidd Pratt had said he examined many of the depositors upon oath, and Mr. Tidd Pratt charged them with subornation of perjury, and when he was asked what subornation of perjury meant he could not translate the offensive term. — (Laughter.) Now he (Mr. Reynolds) called that whole sale calumny. Let him then call attention to the Cuffe-street depositors. He knew Mr. Tidd Pratt had been trying his hand at calumniating them too. He should read for the information of the House the classes of persons to whom that money was due, and then the House would say whether they ought to be so calumniated. The number of depositors in the St. Peter's Savings' Back, Cuffe. street, Dublin, under 11. was 59 ; under 21., 71; under 34, 56; under 41., 72; under 51., 92; under 101, 193; under 15/, 175; under 201., 131; under 251, 125; under 301., 82; under 404, 143; under 504, 190; under 601., 62; under 701., 38; under 801, 27; under 904, 24; under 1001., 21; under 1101, 14; under 1201., 16; un der 130, 17; under 140/., 11; under 1501., 8; under 1691., 11 ; under 170/., 3 ; under 180/., 10 ; under 190/., 7 ; under 1954 4 ; under 2004, 4 ; and under 237/. and 2804, I—making the total depositors in the Cuffe street Savings' Bank, whose deposits were under 150/., 1,617 ; and, with those that varied from 1501. to 2004, making a grand total of 1,665. The average sum for each depositor was as close as pos sible 27/. Then the House of Commons would be able to estimate the wide spread misery which the failure of Cuffe-street bank had occasioned. He was not anxious to harrow up the feelings of the Member of that House, but he was bound to say that the scenes of human misery which he had witnessed within the last eighteen months in the city of Dublin, and which had grown out of the failure of that bank, were, he believed, unparalleled in the history of human suffering.—(Hear.) He knew an industrious bookseller who had contrived by great self-denial to save a little money, and a man with a wife and seven children That poor man had lodged about 1501. in that bank, which was his whole all. His anxiety of mind consequent upon the failure of the bank, brought on brain fever, which ultimately turned to typhus, and he died, leaving his wife and seven children penniless, and five of those children were now ill of typhus.—(llear, hear.) He knew, too, of some cases of suicide which had occurred from the same cause. Here, then, were 1,664 persons practically working out the principle of self-reliance by accumulating 50,000/., and intrusting it in a bank which was believed to afford Government security. A case of gross fraud had been practised, but the trus tees had denied their liability, and a mandamus had been sued for and denied. Another man damus had been sued for, which it was in tended should either establish or entirely disprove of the liability :off the trustees of savings banks.— (Hear, hear. He begged the particular attention of the Right Honourable Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer to this part of the result of those inquiries. The decision of the Court was that they had no power whatever to interfere. The arrangements lay between the trustees and the commissioners of the national debt, and under the Act of 1844, there seemed to be no power to interfere. A verdict which had just been given at Tralee, seemed to confirm this decision. There was no power to institute an investigation into the books, and the only persons entitled to make any investigations were the Commis sioners of the National Debt, and even so far as they were concerned, it must be a matter of private arrangement. between them and the trustees of the particular bank to which any reference was made. In order to render any ,rustees liable it was necessary, under the act of 1844, thst they should give their consent in writing to become responsible. A question on this point had been submitted to Mr. Tidd Pratt upon this subject, in which it was stated that out of the 50,000/. for which the bank had originally been indebted, the amount of the debt had been reduced to 37,000/. since 1844.—(Hear.) The Honourable Gentleman then read various extracts from a correspondence between Mr. Egam and the official of the Commissioners for the National Debt, showing in the first place that the on ginal debt would if proper care had been taken of the assets have been reduced to as low as 27,7224, and in which a request was made to send a professional accoun tant down to investigate the circumstances, and to un ravel the several details, but that assistance was refused. It was in evidence that the trustees had neglected to put their balance sheets in the bank in Dublin, in order that the depositors should not know that they had been robbed; and for that neglect the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt were responsible, By the Parliamentary return it appeared that there were 1,364 depositors in this very bank, while the total number of depositors in Dublin exceeded 20,000. (Hear, hear.) He would not speak of this in any angry tone, but he was desirous of improv ing the law in order that the minas banks might be what they were intended for, namely, a place for the safe keeping of the earnings of the poor, which they were not now.—(Hear, hear.) He held in his hand a paper, by which it appeared that in all Ireland the number of depositors in 1844 were 91,243 whose aggregate gainings amounted to 1,749,0171., but if they had a return for the present year, so great had been the doubt created in the public mind as to athese banks by the Cuffee-street disclosures, he very much feared the figures would be greatly reduced, By the same paper it appeared that the number of de. positories in England and Scotland on the 3oth of No- vember, 1844, was 1,120,047, who had lodged with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, no less a sum than 31,275,6361.—(Hear, hear.) Now, tho House having indulged him ao long, for which he felt more than thankful, and for which he felt it was • V• • AV hardly necessary for him to offer any apology, as the subject was one of great importance. He would just recapitulate the facts connected with this bank. It was established in 1818, continued prosperous until 1831, but it was insolventfrom that period until 1844, as the return of the trustees to the Commissioners of the National Debt showed that at the first there was a deficiency of 3,7001. and ie 1847 of upwards of 32.0001., and yet the Com missioners had not the courage to put a stop to the pro ceedings of the managers. The Hon. Member concluded by imploring the House to agree to the appointment of a Committee.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. NAPIER seconded the motion, and said he could hardly think, after the able and lucid statement of The Honourable Member for Dublin, that there could be any reasoonable doubt whatever that this was a fit case for a full and searching inquiry be fore a Committee of the House. The whole facts had been so fully and correctly stated, that he was spared the necessity of entering into any details, but he wished to refer to one matter, viz., that the proceedings which were pending in the Queen's Bench against the trustees would not stand in the way of an investigation, and he was authorised to state, on the part of the trustees, that they were desirous of appearing before the Committee to give any evidence that might be required of them. (LEFT SITTING.) THE WAR IN THE PUNJAUB. (Extracts from the Journal of a Subaltern in the 2d Europeans.) CAMP CIIILLIANWALLA. JANUARY 15.—Two days have passed over, and, thank God, I am here to tell you we have had as severe an action as ever was fought in India. But I will go back, and give it you all in detail. On the morning of the 13th we marched at seven o'clock, struk our tents, took a glass of wine all altogether, and drank to ev e ry man' s esca p e during the anticipated action. Marched about ten miles, and came upon a thick jungle, where we were halted about an hour. The artillery went a-head, and presently we beard the cannonading commence—bang, bang, went our guns one after the other, in one continued stunning roar, and our hearts beat and our pulses quickened with anticipa ti&n, The enemy took it up, and a tremendous fire was kept up for half an hour, when the word came for the infantry to advance. " Fix bayonets—load—deploy into line—quick march !" And just then came a roll of musketry that drove us almost mad. " Quick march And into the jungle we plunged in line with a deafening cheer—the roll of musketry increasing every moment. On we went at a rapid double, dashing through the bushes and bounding over every impediment. Fester rolled the musketry, crash upon crash the cannon poured forth its deadly contents, and down upon them comes our brigade, and, gaining an open space in the jangle, the whole of the enemy's line burst on our view. " Charge !" rang the word through our ranks, and the mon bounded forward like angry bulldogs, pouring in a murderous fire. The enemy's bullets whizzed above our heads—the very air seemed teeming with them. Man after man was struck down, and rolled in the dust ; but a passing glance was all we could give them. And on ward we went, bearing on their line with a steadiness which nothing could resist. They fired a last volley, wavered, and then turned and fled, leaving the pound covered with dead and wounded.gorsuit in a jungle like that was useless, where we could not see 20 yards before us, so we halted, and began to collect our wounded; when all of a sudden a fire was opened upon us in our rear; a large body of the enemy had turned our flank in the jungle, and got between us and the rest of the troops ; another party were on our left, and we found out selves with our light field battery completely surround( d and alone in the field ; the word was given "Right about face ! " and we advanced steadily, loading and firing as we went, and the artillery pouring in grape as steadily as if on parade. If it had not been for that battery we should have been cut up to a man. The fire was fearful, the atmosphere seemed alive with balls; I can only com pare it to a storm of hail, they rang above my head and ears so thick that I felt that if I put out my hand it would be taken off. A man was knocked over on either side of me, and I expected every moment to be hit, so incessant was the storm of balls. I thought about you all, and breathed a short prayer—it was all I had time for, for we were obliged to be almost every where at once, keeping the men in line, which from the jungle was extremely difficult. Our firing was beautiful, every man was as steady as a rock, and fired low and well, while the Sepoys on our right were blazing away into the air, and taking no aim whatever. All this time the enemy were dodging about the bushes, banging away at us, and then disappearing. At last General Gilbert rode up, and said to Steel, " Well, Major, how are you? Do you think you are near enough to charge?" "By all means," said Steel. " Well, then, let's see how ycu can do it." Men of the 2cl Europeans, prepare to charge—" Charge!" And on we went with a stunning cheer. Poor Nightin gale was shot in the head, and fell at my feet. I had just time to order two men to pick him up. The Seikhs fought like devils. They charged down on us, singly, sword in hand, and strove to break through our line—but it was no go; and after a short struggle we swept them before us and remained masters of the field. This is only what happened in ona part of the field. The battle was general all over the line, and we were in the extreme right, and the thickness of the jungle prevented our seeing what was going on anywhere else. We t oo k th ree o f thir guns in our second charge, and spiked them on the ground. After all was over we did what we could for our wounded, and a fearful sight it was, and one to make a man's heart bleed ; poor fellows lying on the ground and writhing in agony, and not a doctor or drop of water to be got ; one poor fel low in my company was mortally wounded in the stomach ; another had his leg shot off. The enemy lay in heaps around—some dead, some dying, but fierce and untamed even in their dying struglo; numbers of them were bayonetted by our men in the act of rearing themselves up and taking aim at the officers. The battle lasted for three hours, and so maddening was the excitement that it seemed scarcely half an hour. The chief rode down our line afterwards; we gave him three cheers, and proud we were of the praise he gave us. In short we hare gained ourselves a name. The Brigadier and Major did all that commanding officers could do; the colours were carried gallantly by De Mole and Toogood, the senior ensigns, and were shot through and through. At sunset we collected as many of our wounded as we could find, blew up all the ammunition that we had taken, and moved out of the jungle into the open ground, where we piled arms and bivouacked on the ground, and a more wretched night I never passed; it came on a thick drizzling rain, and we were wet to the skin; sleep was impossible, and we were almost perish ing with thirst, but not a drop of water was to be got. In my wanderings about in search of it I came upon the field hospital, and the sight I saw there I shall re member to my dying day—poor wounded wretches lying on the ground without a thing to cover them; " Water—water—water," was their ceaseless cry, and not a drop was there to slake their thirst. All the hospital apparatus was behind, and there was not a single com fort for the poor fellows: even medical assistance was very scarce; many were lying bleeding on the cold earth for hours without having a soul near them; the ghastly sight of suffering, the fearful wounds and hideous gashes that met my eyes, would poison an angel's dreams. Never was dawn—a miserable and a rainy one as it was —so welcome. Jan. 14.—At daybreak the ground was marked out for an encampment, and we moved up in order. The Chief rode all along the line and congratulated us on our success. The way is which the 14th behaved is a black business, but give them another chance and I would stake my existence on their doing well. At four o'clock I went with the rest of the officers to the funeral— a melancholy office it was. The heavens were black with clouds, and the rain poured down incessantly. 25 officers were buried in one spot; 13 of the 24th (Queen's) were brought up one after another, and buried in one grave. Brigadier Pennycuick and his son were buried in another. The father was cut down first, and his son threw himself on his body and was killed there. Major Christie was buried in the same grave with his men; they fell together, and now they sleep together in the bed of glory. Ekins, the lleputy-Adjutant General, was buried there also. He fell in trying to rally the 14th Dragoons. JAN. 16.—Still raining —wretched, wretched weather, and very disheartening to the troops. Went to the hos pital—the men arc most of them doing as well as can be expected. One poor fellow in my company, who was shot close to me, died in the night. Nightingale is in a dangerous state, but hopes are held out of him. At four o'clock we buried poor Walden ; the clergyman was un able to attend, so I had to read the service over him; the rain was pouring all the time, and as there was no grave digger present the men had to fill in the grave with their hands and bayonets. The enemy's tents are plainly to be seen on a hill about four miles off. A sepoy, who had been taken prisoner, was sent back this morning with a message from Shere Singh. He says that the enemy's wounded are lying in heaps on the hill without any at tendance—left to die of their wounds. January 17.—A beautif u l day, thank God!—the bright sunshine has come out again, and no one who has not experienced the misery of wading through a wet camp with mud up to the ancles can appreciate the blessing dry weather is to a campaigner. Rode out to see the battle field—a sickening sight it was. The enemy had come down in the night, after we left the ground, and murdered every wounded man. Many of them had evidently only been hit in the legs, and they were gashed about in a fearful manner; every man had his throat cut, and many their heads clean cut off. One poor man of ours was obliged to be left behind in the charge, and a lot of the enemy came down and literally hewed him in pieces. Another, who is now lying, doing well, in the hospital, was awfully cut about too. He says that they took him and tossed him up in the air, to see if he was alive; but, as he himself quaintly expressed it, he had presence of mind to be dead. The most fearful sight of all was in front of the battery where the 24th had been repulsed. 150 of them lay dead on the ground; they were literally in heaps. The hideous way they had been mangled by these inhuman fiends no tongue can describe, and no mercy will be shown by our infuriated soldiers to any who may fall in their way. There were immense heaps of Seikhs lying there too, but they had taken away the greater number. Jan. 20—Two of the 9th Lancers who were taken pri soners the other clay wero sent back this morning with Shere Singh's compliments. They seemed rather sorry to come back, as they had been treated like princes, plied with champagne and brandy to the masthead, and sent away with ten rupees each in his pocket. Shore Singh is evidently providing for the worst, and making as favourable an impression as he can. The Sirdars are a fine set of fellows enough; it is only the rabble that perpetrate alt these atrocities. There are six of their wounded now in our hospital, and treated with the greatest care. Jan. 21.—Divine service at 11 o'clock in the mess tent; after that, took a walk out to the trenches. There is a breastwork thrown up along the face of the camp, interspersed with batteries here and there. Whilst we were down a lot of the enemy came and attacked our cavalry picket, and fired at the videttes. However, a 9.pounder shot, pitched into the middle of them, was very persua sive, and they quickly went to the rightabout. We are expecting an attack every night and day, and are all ready for them. Jan. 24.—Toward the evening the Seikhs fired a salute of 21 guns. Heaven only knows what for; but I sup pose some other blackguard has joined them. With the battery spy-glass one can see beautifully into their camp, and nice work they are evidently preparing for us. Large parties aro working away all day, throwing up defences. A fresh battery appears every day. Walked out to the advanced picket to see what was going on; saw a large body of cavalry moving along to the right; the sun was shining on them, and we could even see the hilts of the sabres as they flashed in the light. Jan. 25 . —About two o'clock there was an alarm, and my company was ordered out in advanced picket; took out my miserable old tent, and arranged ourselves for the night. However, nothing took place. At sunset we were visited by the Brigadier, and received orders, in case of au attack, to hold our position until most of us were killed, and then retire on the breastwork in rear of us. At ten o'clock it began to pour with rain, and lasted, without a lull, all night. Jan. 26.--Woke at daybreak; still raining violently. The tent was so flooded that the water was half way up the legs of my bed; on the top of which I lay, very much in the position of the ark on Mount Ararat. Not being able to rise, I made the best of my position, and went to sleep again. At eight o'clock it ceased, and the sun came out brightly; the clouds all cleared away rapidly, and slunk cif as if they were ashamed of having spent a night in persecuting three harm less subalterns and a company of unfortunate Euro peans. Fished about till I found a piece of dry ground, on which I stood to get dry. Breakfasted there, and then laid down on my bed and read till the sun had dried up the greater portion of the surrounding pools. At two o'clock a Royal salute, thundered from our big guns, announced the welcome intelligence of the fall of Moultan. At last the place is ours! I was look ing through a glass at the Seikh camp at the time, and As the first report from the heavies came bowing through the air it Foamed to swarm with human beings. I could see thousands of them rushing about; they evi dantipdid not know what to make of it. Bowie, one of our Politicals, who was taken prisoner with Herbert, came into camp to-day with a proposition from Shere Singh, on parole. Share Singh treats him " like a brick." He has twenty men to guard him all day and night; and such is their idea of us that he has a bottle of brandy plac€d on his breakfast tale every morning. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. DECLARATION OP DIVIDEND. J. Peake and T. Hall, Lichfield, ironmonger, 5s 7d., on Thursday, March 15, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Riley and B. Stott, Manchester, bookbinders and stationers—J. Whittaker, W. Whittaker, and J. Whit• taker, Sowerby-bridge, Yorkshire, ironfounders and mill wrights—W. J. Cannon and W. P. Browne, solicitors and attorneys—J. M‘George and R. G. Rose, drapers, St. John-street-road—W. T. Miskin and R. White, Water• lane, City, ship and insurance brokers, and Custom House agents—J. Lewis and T. Turpin, Brighton, timber and coal merchant s —C. T a yl or an d H. Aylmer, Manchester, commission agents for cloth and yarns—T. Walker and E. Holmes, Keighley, Yorkshire, manufac turers of anions and other worsted goods—Mary Usborne and R. Dickeson, Dover, wholesale and retail grocers, teadealers, and cheesemongers—C. W. Greaves and W. Greaves, St. John-street, Clerkenwell, teadealers and grocers—W. W. Brown, J. Whitaker, E. Janson, T. C. Janson, 11. Oxley, and E. Whitmore, jun., London and Lewis, bankers (so far as regards E. Whitmore)—C. E. E. Mousley and F. Lonergan, Port St. Mary, Spain— Jane Vigor, Mary Vigor, and Matilda Vigor, Bristol, schoolmistresses (so far as regards Matilda Vigor)— W. Yeo and G. Shapland, Barnstaple, Devonshire, teadealers and grocers, dealers in wines, spirits, and compounds, and ales and p or t er —W. Whit e , S. Green well, W. White, jun., C. G. Collins, and C. Dear, Watling-street (so far as regards S. Greenwell)— W. White, 6. Greenwell, and W. White, jun., and C. G. Collins, Cheapside (so far as regards S. Greenwell)— W. White, S. Greenwell, D. L. Hubbard, and J. Ro binson, Blackfriars-road (so far as regards W. White) — P. W. Fry, J. Loxley, and P. S. Fry, Cheapside, solici tors—W. Gardner and R. Cordner, Stanhope -in-Wear dale, Durham, iron, fire, and freestone quarrymen—W. Welton and D. Gledden, Sunderland wharf, Rotherhithe, and Greenwich, timber merchants, and dealers in fire bricks, tiles, slates, stones and coals —G. L. Graves and W. T. Graves, Iron monger-lane, woollen warehousemen—G. Brough ton and R. Noakes, Fenehurch-street, button manufacturers and hardwaremen—T. B. Tyetil and H. Luscombe, Plymouth, stock and share brokers—A. San derson and W. Thompson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gro cers and tea dealers—E. Staunton and T. Cromer, jun., Great St. Helen's, general and commission agents. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Humber, Potteries, Staffordshire, clogger and pat ten maker. John Punchard, Bootle .cum-Linacre, Lancashire, hair dresser. George Chalklen, New Brompton, Kent, beer retailer and baker. Thomas Kent, Longton, Staffordshire, beerseller. Edward Clemmy, Manchester, joiner and builder. Thomas Hewick, Manchester, boot and shoe maker. Harry Alexander Small, Haversham, Buckinghamshire, clerk. Joseph Towler, Manchester, hatter. Thomas Fry, Ulcomb, Kent, farmer. William Edmeads, Mere worth, Ken t, farmer and fruiterer. John Collins, Lenham, Kent, innkeeper. John Pigott, Marton, Cheshire, farmer. Isaac Smith, Keresley, Warwickshire, market gardener. John Risley, Northampton, baker. John Payne, Coventry, ribbon weaver. John Cooper, Coventry, sub -contractor. Henry Coleman, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, common carrier. Edward Dawson Stones, Burgh in the Marsh, Lincoln shire, ironmonger. Frederick 0 urnell, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, coach and __carriage maker. William—Johnson, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, coach and carriage maker. Thomas Halliday, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, currier. John Marshall, Horncasile, Lincolnshire, brewer's dray man. Joseph Cliffe, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Jonathan Swallow, Almonbury, Yorkshire, merchant. Matthew Crossley, Halifax, Yorkshire, boot and shoe maker. Morgan Robinson, Shotton Colliery,!Durham, coal miner. William Harrison, Barnard Castle, Durham, straw bon net manufacturer. John Henry Badcock Gurney, Paul, Cornwall, solicitor. George Line, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, blacksmith. Thomas Simpson, Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, road contractor. George Tinkler, Cheltenham, cooper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. G. Young, Glasgow and Dundee, merchant, to meet within Cowrie's Royal Hotel, Glasgow, April 3 and May 1, at one. D. M'Arthur, Greenock, woollen draper and clothier to meet within Melvin's Temperance Coffee•house Greenock, March 31 and April 24, at twelve. Janet Dunmore, Cults, Wigtonshire, shipowner, to meet within Mrs. Hawthorn's Inu, Whithorn, April 3 and 24, at two. FOREIGN FUNDS. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BurasELs, MAneu 28. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ............ Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ...... Loan of Thirty Millions, FourperCeut• • Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven 31illions,ditto Ditt0,ditt0,1840...... Ditto,ditto, 1842 ...... Ditto, 1844........... Ditto, 1836........... Ditto, 1838 .......... ••• • • .• 56% Ditto of the City, 1832 .........• •• • Ditto, 1843 ........ •• • • .. Bank of Belgium...—. ....... • • • • • • 69 IA Issue of 1841 • • ••• • • .. 100 Exchange on London, 25.44 1 , . ritussuic FU/NDS.—Bxxxizi, 31sucu 23. ... 8734 Bills. Money. St.Sehuld Sch., 3% per Cent .. . SO 79% Prussian 5 per Cent • . „ • •• • 101 1 4 100% Foreign Exchanges— On London, three months 6 25% 6 25% On Harnburgh, two months ...... 150% 150% On Paris, two months... ...... 81 1-3 80 1-6 lIADIBURGH FUNDS, M.kacit 2L Bills. Money. Q Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per Cent..... —. Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. • • ...... •• • • -- Bank Shares.. .....• •• • ........... Prussian 5 per Cent. ........ •••• • .• 100% 100 Russian Certificate .......... —.. • ..• 96 Anglo-Russian Loan ...• • ........ 101% Ditto, Certificate ................ mi t Russian 4 per Cent....• .......... • ... New 5 per Cent., Hope and Co. —•• •• Ditto Stieglitz .... .......• ......... 81 Belgian Loan, 23. per Cent...........• Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 663! 66 Ditto, in 1001. shares ........ —• . Angio-Swc.lish Loan ................ 96 4 - Ditto, Transport Loan .. —....•• .• • • Norwegian Joan, 1848 —•• .• ... •• • • 97 Spanish New 5 per Cent...—. •....... 9 8% Ditto 3 per Cent ........ •....... 20% 20% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent .• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...—. Ditto 3 per Cent. ........ •••• •• • • National Bank Shares .............. American, 6 per Cent. .. • .. .. .• 105 RAILWAYS. Hamb. Bergd. Ditto, Priority Shares ... ........ 100 Berlin and Hamburg .... .....• .• 52 51% Ditto, Priority Shares .. ..... •• •• 903( 90 Cologne and Minden ............ •• • • 74% 74 Ditto, Priority Snares ...... •••• .. 92 . Mecklenburg• • •••••••• •. • ........• 3414 34 Altona and Kiel ......... • • ... ..... 86% 86 Gluckstadt .. ••.• • • ...... • • •....... Rendsburg.. .. Hanseatic Steam Company ...... —..— —. BEGGING IN THE STREETS.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, jun., Deputy Coroner, at the Plough, Plough-yard, Sboreditch, re specting the death of an infant named Michael Donovan, aged nine months, who was alleged to have died from starvation and exposure to the cold air. The deceased was one of twins, and the mother was constantly in the practice of begging in the public streets, with the two infants in her arms. Sh e genera ll y left home about ten o'clock in the morning, and remained out all day with her two children until late at night. She usually sat upon the steps of doors in Finsbury-square, for se veral hours together, exciting the sympathy and commiseration of the public, who frequently gave her money, as she appeared in deep distress. In January last the deceased was attacked with a pulmonary disease, and an order was issued by the medical officer of the union, who directed that the child should be properly attended to. The surgeon visited the child daily until the dth of March, but the mother heeded not the surgical advice, and again exposed the two children in the streets. The surgeon discontinued his visits after the 6th instant, and the deceased gradually became worse. The mother never applied for the assistance of a surgeon, nor stated that her child was worse. On Friday last the deceased was apparently dying, but the mother took him out with the other infant, and did not return home until the evening. The deceased became worse, and expired early on Sun day morning. Mr. Hall, surgeon, said he attributed death to chronic disease, which might have been accele rated by the frequent exposure to the cold air. After a short consultation, the jury returned a verdict of " Death from chronic disease, aggravated by exposure to the cold air." The Coroner, by the directi ons o f the jury, sev ere ly censured theheartless mother, and cautioned her to take proper care of her remaining child. DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN IRELAND.—We intend giving in our succeeding numbers a series of articles, based on the Government regulations, and on Parliamentary documents, illustrative of the present condition of the District Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, considered as curative hospitals. These are without any resident medical control or authority whatsoever to minister to the urgent wants of their unhappy inmates, varying from 140 to nearly 400 in each. We frankly and unreservedly state, that it is not against individuals, but against a system, we enter the field; a system which we may ven ture to say only lingers now in an unhappy country united to the most powerful, most civilized, and most exalted nation in the world ; but which stands out, in her social condition as the most painful fact of the nineteenth century. Let us not be misunderstood. For all existing officers we will advocate the full and entire amount of their present salaries ; and in the event of compensation being deemed desirable to superannuated parties, we will advocate jus tice to its fullest extent ; but we loudly proclaim as scientific journalists, that the great institutions of Ireland should at once form an object of humane interest to the legislators and philosophers of Great Britain, who, by their own acts, are deeply responsible fur the system which at present particularly marks their medical C 94. trple—Neclical .11= STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS. NORFOLK ASSIZES.—NORWICH, ‘VEDNFSDAY. The bills against Rush were found by the grand jury to-day, at three o'clock, after an investi4ation which lasted little more than half an hour. There are four indictments against the prisoner —two for the mur ders of Mr. Jeimy and his son, and two for wounding viith intent, &c. There ware only four witnesse3 examined—the cook and butler at the Hall, Dr. Dickson, and _Emily Sand ford (alias James.) At one o'clock Eizi, Chestney, the maid, left Stan field Hull in a swinging cot, convoyed by a party of men, superintended by Colonel Okes, of the police, and proceeded slowly towards Norwich, where she was ex pected to arrive about four o'clock. She is very ill, but bore the fatigue of removing with great fortitude. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRC 11. I T.— Munmoutfi, March 27. CROWN couivr.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN ) John Collins was indicted for the manslaughter of Joh - i Richardson, at Tyilcc, near Ner.rort, ou the 9th of De cember last. Ile was also charged on the coroner's in quisition. The facts of the case were as follows: In the month of December last, the deceased, who was an Irishman, went into a beerhouse at Tydee, about live miles from Newport, for the purpose of sellin, his wares, consisting of tin articles, &c., and •y bile there in friendly conversation with two or three parsons, he was asked some question by the prisoner, who had just come in off the tram road, where he had left his team. They got into conversation about the purchase of two or three tin articles, and a quarrel en sued on the part of the prisoner, who was of violent character. He beat the deceased very much, and at length, having knocked him down, called out, " I have sent one -- Irishman to sleep; let's see for another now." The deceased got up after some time, recovered, and proceeded towards Pye•corner, on the road to Newport, where he again saw the prisoner, who once more beat him, on his saying he would have him taken into custody. The prisoner then went on to New port with his team, and just as he was getting his horses into stable there, the deceased again came up to him, and asked him where the tins were he had stolen from him (deceased), and that he would make him pay for the beating. Prisoner thereupon again beat him, and knocked him down, and in falling it was said deceased struck his head against a stone. He was taken up in a senseless and exhausted state, and removed to his home, where he died in a few days, leaving a widow and seve ral small children. The jury found him Guilty of an assault, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard lubcor for three months. NORTHERN CHWCll7'.—Liverpool, March 28. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Wm. Cornforth Demaine, who was tried for arson,was Acquitted by the jury. Mary Ford, an elderly woman, was arraigned on three indictments for uttering forged seamen's notes. I❑ the first case she obtained her acquittal; but was tried on a second indictment, and no less than seven forged orders were put in evidence against her, and the ease proved was too strong for her ingenuity, and she was convicted. It seemed that the prisoner had become acquainted with such notes by keeping a lodging•house for sailors, who are accustomed to pay the expenses of board and lodging, at least the latter part of their stay on shore, by notes given by the masters of vessels, which only be come payable on the men being actually shipped, but there are many persons who, as in this case, cash them at all risk, as the men obtaining them do not often fail to go aboard according to their engagement. His LORDSHIP told the prisoner it was a bad case, and he sentenced her to be imprisoned for two years in Lancaster Castle. Ile remarked she was too old to be transported. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIO2V-HOUSE. Gecrge Grcen vi as brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempted to break open the premises of Mr. Frith, wine -merchant, in Bishopsgate street. The policeman had seen, about one o'clock in the morning, a man close to the alley leading to the back of Mr. Frith's premises, and soon afterwards found that the warehouse door had been partly forced in, and that part of a housebreaking instrument was stuck in the timber. Upon turning his lantern down the alley he saw two men crouching down behind a dung heap. One of them was the prisoner; the other escaped. A crow bar and some skeleton keys were found in the dung heap, and its appearance corresponded with the marks on the warehouse door. Upon the prisoner was found some lucifer matches, a piece of candle, and other articles calculated to lead to suspicion. The prisoner was committed to Bridewell for three months. Thomas Fawcett was charged with having kicked his daughter, a girl between 18 and 19 years of age, in so dreadful a munner that considerable doubts are enter tained of her recovery. The wretched prisoner had gone home oa Saturday night and began to beat his wife, who, however, es• caped from the violence it was supposed he intended. The daughter was not so fortunate. The prisoner kicked her twice. She cried out " Murder," and soon after became insensible, and since that time had been repeatedly attacked by hysterical fits, and it was ap prehended on Sunday that she would have died in one of the paroxysms. A female, who had see❑ the poor girl, gave a painful description of her sufferings. Mr. Hall, the surgeon, called to examine the injured girl, and she complained of having been kicked in the abdomen. ller condition was rather doubtful, and she was open to danger from laying subject to tits. The prisoner was remanded. GUILDHALL. A young man, named James Anderson, was charged with stealing a box, supposed to contain a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of the Rev. John Co1gh•• lan, of Barnet. Daniel May, 357, said, that at six o'clock the previous evening he was in Fleet -street, when lie observed the prisoner its company with another walking along, and knowing them well, he followed them for upwards of an hour, until they arrived at Throgmorton-street, when Anderson lelt his companion, went behind a cart, and took a large box from it, and entered Copthall- court. His companion, however, observing witness, gave the " office," that is the signal, upon which the prisoner dropped the box, and ran into a court, which, however, was no thoroughfare. He then put his hands into his pockets, turned round, and coolly attempted to pass him, but witness instantly apprehended and conveyed him to the station-house. Alderma❑ SALOMONS asked from what part of the cart the box was taken? May replied that it was taken from behind the cart. Thomas Searle, of Barnet, cabinet-maker, deposed to being employed by the Rev. Mr. Colghlan to convey the box in question, with others, to Old Broad -street, pre vious to their transmission to Jersey. lie heard a cry of " stop thief," and immediately directed his boy to run after the prisoner, which he did, and afterwards returned with the box. Alderman SALOMONS asked the prisoner if he wished to say anything?—The prisoner denied all knowledge o the box, and said the officer was entirely mistaken. Alderman SALomotes thought differently, and sen tenced him to three months' imprisonment. L.43IBETH. john Lundy, alias Edward hompson, alias Jones, and Thomas Sheppard, alias Sheffield, alias Chapman, two impudent " cadgers," who had been charged on the pre ceding evening with going about with begging petitions and imposing on the benevolent, were again placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott. Mr. Joseph Dewhurst, an upholsterer in Crosby-row, Walworth-road, deposed that on the preceding after noon Lundy entered his shop and requested something to enable him to purchase a cork leg, to use for one lie had lost by an accident. He at the same time presented a petition containing a number of names with various sums attached, and pointed his attention particularly to the name of Mr Aston Key, the eminent surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital, with 1/. ss. attached, which he said that gentleman had subscribed. Believing his represen tations, and that he was the deserving object he was re presented in the petition, he gave him a shilling. Samuel Darnels, a constable belonging to the Mendi city society, said he knew both the prisoners very well since March, 1840, and from that time to the present both were gross impostors. Lundy's pretence generally was that of requiring a cork leg, or getting his tools out of pawn, to enable him to go to work, and Gardner's was that of stating that his goods were seized on for rent, and exhibiting a warrant, purporting to be signed by a broker, and by this means both managed to get a good deal of money from the benevolent portion of the public. Their perseverance, however, led to the apprehension and conviction of one of them (Lundy) no less than nine times, and the other four. Mr. ELLIOTT added another conviction, and sentenced the prisoners to one month's hard labour each. THAItIES. Jane Strudwich, a young woman very smartly attired, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a variety of property belonging to her master, Mr. Ed win Harrison, eatinghouse-keeper, N 0.125, Royal Mint street, alias Rosemary-lane. The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Harrison for three weeks only. On Saturday last, in consequence of some money being missed from the till, and suspicion falling upon her, she was discharged. On Tuesday af ternoon Mrs. Harrison had occasion to open a box in her parlour, and missed a valuable coral necklace. She then hastened to her bedroom, where her worst fears were confirmed by missing ,two silk dresses, a pair of gold earrings, and other property. She immediately obtained the aid of police-constable Rich, 152 11 , with whom she proceeded to the house of a person named Davis, who keeps a coffee-shop in Cable-street, Wellclose-square, where she had been staying sinca Saturday night, and found the prisoner wearing one of her gowns, her ears adorned with her rings, a n d h er nec k with the coral necklace, which had been stolen from the work-box, Mrs. Harrison exclaimed, " You have got my property on you," and cumpelb , d the prisoner to deliver up the gown, earrings, and necklace. It further appeared that the prisoner had given a neck-chain belonging to her mistress to the landlady of the coffee-shop, and repre sented to her that she was about to purchase Mr. liar• risons's eating-house business for 2001. Mr. YARDLEY committed the prisoner for trial. TIIB TEMPERATURE.—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the temperature was down as low as 31 degree s Fahrenheit; on Sunday morning It was even st ill l ower; falling to 28 degrees. Since Alonday, the barometer has been falling rapidly—yesterd a y morn i ng it stood at 29 40; at four in the afternoon, it was 29.30 ; and by seven P.M. it had fallen still furthe r ; being then 29.26. This would seem to indicate a sudden change of weather —probably a storm. — .Vancliestcr Guardian of yegerday. , MURDER AT LIVERPOOL. Mancrt have this day to record the particulars of one of the most horrible and cold blooded murders which we ever remember to have taken place in this town. About is elve o'clock to day. a boy, named Bradshaw, who is in the employ of Mr. Youlton, of Leveson-street, was passing the house of Captain Ilinrichson, who is in the employ of Messrs. James Aikiu and Son, and master of the ship Duncan, at pre sent at Calcutta. On passing Captain llindri h .son's re sidence he heard a loud and deep moaning, which was often repeated, and feeling sure that something was wrong in the house, he immaliately- ran to the police officer on duty in a neiglifiourit,g street, and gave the alarm. Two policemen at once hastened to the spot, but on their arrival there the alarm had become so general, in consequence of the moaning inside the house increas ing, tha they feting the house had been already entered. The persons who first entered the house (for on knock ing at the door, no admission could he obtained) did so by breaking a window in the front parlour of the house, having first looked tnroegh the window, and seen three bodies 13 leg on the floor, aelterino in bloori, their moans at the time being of the most pitiable description. On the arrival of the police, they were of course let into the house by the four men who had first entered. A few minutes afterwards Mr. Martin and Mr. Sister, surgeons, were in attendance, and seeing that life was not extinct in the three bodies, they gave orders for them to be at once conveyed to the Southern Hospital, which was accordingly done. The other parts of the house were then searched, and in the back cellar was found the body of a child, lying on the floor in a pool of blood, with its throat cut, and being quite dead. The three bodies found in the front parlour were two women and a child, and they were all lying surrounded by pools of blood, but the murderer had not used the same weapons as he had done to the other child. They were all dreadfully beaten about the head and body. Ou the forehead of one of the females (recognised as Mrs. Hinrichson) there had been a dreadful blow inflicted, the forehead being laid open to the depth of two or three inches, and there were also several deep wounds in other parts of her head and face. The other grown up female (the servant residing with Captain and Mrs. llinriehson) had also received similar wounds on the head and face, as also severe blows about her eyes, both of which were black and swollen up. The body of the child (Mrs. Hinrichsou's eldest child, a girl about seven or eight years od) also presented a most dreadful ap pearance. The poor litle creature's head seemed to have been beaten to a jelly by the inhuman ruffian, and the wonder is that life was not extinct. From the different positions of the bodies, it would appear that the attempt was first made on the lives of the servant and the children, and that at that time the unfortunate Mrs. Hinrichson was out at the market, and met her fate immediately on her return home. The following explanation renders this fact extremely pro bable :—The parlour fender and the appearance of the fireplace generally indicate that the servant was attacked while in the act of cleaning the fire-grate, and that the eldest child was near her at the time, for they were both discovered lying close to each other in the middle of the room, whilst the body of Mrs. Hinrichson was discovered close to the parlour door, her bonnet being close beside her bead, and a quantity of potatoes with an apron near to them. The poker was also lying by her side. A nian who lodged in the house has been apprehended on suspicion; in his bedroom a towel, soiled with blood, has been found, and upon his shoes and trousers marks of blood are observed. A:, drawer in Mrs. Hinrichson's bedroom had been forced, and the whole of the house had been ransacked. VAGRANCY. Mr. CAYLEY presented petitions from Market Drayton and from the_ board of guardians of Stafford and of Chester, complaining of the increase of vagrancy and the high amount to which the rate-payers were charged for its relief. Also a petition from the West Riding of Yorkshire, complaining of agricultural dis tress and the low price of agricultural labour. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented petitions from ♦anions places in Cardiganshire, in favour of referring interna tional disputes to arbitration. IMPORTATION OF WORKS OF ART. Mr. J. O'CONNELL gave notice of his intention to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on Friday or Monday, what restrictions are imposed on the importation into this country of works of art pur chased in Italy. Mr. HUTT asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any law existed in this country or any power vested in the Government which would prevent the delivery into this country of works of art purchased in Italy? Dir.IABOUCEIERE apprehended that there was no law of trade that prevented works of art coming into the country. PUBLIC HEALTH IN SCOTLAND. Sir GEORGE GREY gave notice of his intention to introduce a Bill on an early day to promote the public health in Scotland. IRELAND. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL in rising to more that this House will, upon: —, resolvelitself into a Committee, to consider of the condition of Ireland, and the necessity of changing the policy that has been hitherto pursued towards that country, and adopting such measures as shall go to the root of the evils of which she complains, said that hia only object in placing that motion upon the paper was to obtain un expression of the intentions ot the Right Hon. Gentleman who had the other night mooted a question with regard to Ireland. There seemed to be some idea throughout the country that there had been great mistakes made in the mode of legislating for Ireland, and that it was likely that all the small, petty, and what he could not help considering the ineffective measures ot Government, would only end in dhappoint ment and disadvantage, and that it was necessary that some large and comprehensive measure should be intro duced instead. The proposition broached by the Right Honourable Baronet the Member for Tarnworth had ex cited a deep and very general and anxious consideration in Ireland. That was a large and a comprehensive mea sure, and believing, as he himself did, that comprehensive measures could alone benefit that country, he was anxious to obtain the precise opinions of the Right Hon. Gentle men as to the measure which he seemed desirous of laying before the House. He was also equally anxious to kno w th e d eta il s o f t h e propo sition which it was intended to submit by the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli.) That Hon. Gen tleman had stated that in the plan which he had laid out he designed to confer large benefits on Ireland. For any such advantage the Irish Members would be grate ful, and he could say that the Irish Members would be ready to give their support to any one who would ho nestly take the welfare of Ireland in hand, Yet he felt reluctant to press his motion upon the House, but was earnestly desirous of getting the views of her Ma jesty's Ministers.—(Hear, hear.) He begged, how ever, to postpone his motion, in the hope that the measures of the Government would render it unneces sary.—(Hear.) IRISH SAVINGS BANKS. Mr. REYNOLDS, in rising to move for a Select Committee to inquire into and report upon the circum stances connected,with the failure of the St. Peter's ransh Savings Bank, in Cuffe-street, Dublin, and into any security or liability that may exist for the satisfaction of the losses thereby occasioned, said, last year he placed a similar notice upon the table of the House, but he withdrew it from time to time at the request of the Right Hon. Bart. the Chancellor of ' the Exchequer. In the month of July, however, a Se lect Committee was appointed to inquire and report upon savings' banks; that Committee sat nine days and came to the following report:_.' Your Committee have proceeded with the i nqu i ry i ntrusted to them by the House, but owing to the late period of the session, they find themselves unable to bring it t o a sat i sfactory con clusion; they are of opinion that it is desirable that further inquiry should take place either during the recess or in the next session of Parli ament into the existing system of savings banks. They ar e o f op i n i on . that it is expedient that a should be intro duced in the present session of Parliament for regulating the liabilities of the trusteess of savings banks." Now, he begged to state, that, in accordance with that report, a Bill was introduced and passed both Houses of Parliament, and was now the law of the land. That Bill did not alter the old law relative to the government of savings banks in any very material particular. It conferred the power upon the local trustees of the variou s saving banks to appoint auditors, and to!enable the trustees themselves to come into the management of the bank at the limited liability of 4,6001. Now he begged to remind the House that the savings banks of Great Britain and Ireland have been long established, and the preambles of the Bill or Bills under which they were established declared that they were instituted for the purpose of accumu lating the savings of the industrious classes—a very laudable and praiseworthy object, but in the case he should have the honour to submit to the House, he should he should be able to prove that the intention of the Legislature had not been carried out. The facts connected with the Cuffe Street Savings' Bank would be found to be un paralleled in the history of banking transactions. He might have gone into the statement he was now about to make last year, were it not that he apprehended that the statement of the facts if they had obtained cir culation through th e press wou ld h ave produced a panic, and might have injured the parties he was anxiousito serve. The evidenc e , however, taken before the committe e h a d since been published in. the Times and Chronicle, and he was therefore now re l eased from any difficulty or deli cacy tit the Ratter, because nothing be could say would THE COUNTRY MARKETS EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 2 7.—There Were in in the market to-day 76 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, whereof 67 sold thus : —5O at 117 s Od, 5 at 116 s 6d, 7atll 6s Od, 4at 115 s 6d, lat 115 s Od. Avera g e prce of the whole, 116 s 81 10-12 t h s. 8 sacks flour, whereof 2 661d i at 325, and 5 at 30s. 4 sacks barleymeal, whereof 1 sold at 25s and 2at 21s. 2 sacks peasemcal, Whereof 1 sold at 225, and I at 20s. 23 sacks pot-barley, whereof 14 sold thus: —2 at 119 a Od, 4at 1185(1(1, 7at 115 s, latl/ 4s 6d. 3 sacks brosemeal, whereof 1 sold at 28s, and 1 at 275. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, Marten 27.-- Supplies of all kinds large, except wheat. Oat straw, from 6s to 7s per kempl e o f 16 stones trots; wheat d o ., 7 s 6d to 8s; barley do., 5s to 6s. Hay from 7d to 93 per stone. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 27.—We had about 700 head of fat beasts on offer here to-day, including 67 from Leith by the Britannia steam-packet. As a whole the quality was excellent ; also about 4,300 sheep, the quality of which was seasonably good. The beef trade has undergone an improvement from last week ; and although we do not alter our quotations, yet there is a better demand for all kinds of sheep. Buyers are numerous, and, from present appearances, a clearance will be effected. Prices—Beasts, 4s 6d to 6s; pork, large, 5s ; small, 6s Gd per st of 14Ibs ; sheep, 5d to 6d per Ib, sinking offal. Conic, MARCH 26 .—Flour—Firsts 14s to 14s 6d; extra 15 ; seconds, 12s 6d to I3s 6d; households lOs to 12s ; thirds 8s to 108 per cwt. Meal—Oatmeal Ils to Ils 63; Indian meal 8s; wheat meal, II s per cwt. Indian corn 7/ 2s 6d to 71 108 pe;.• ton. Bran 41 It's per ton. Hay - Farmers 20s to Vs Od; average 355; dealers 423 to 48s ; average 003 Od per ton. Straw—Farmers 20s Od to 24s Od; average 00s; dealers 00s Od to 00s Od; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6p to 7d; household loaf 5d to Gd per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 103 per:lb. Coals—Newport 16s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 16s ; Best Neath Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s per cwt. Whiskey, 25 0. p., 6s Od per imperial gal lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to 60; veal 51c1 to 7d ; pork 4d to 5P ; bacon 73 to 8d ; sausages 6d per lb. Hops 61 10s per cwt. Bangor slates 31 2 s 6d t o 3l 53 per ton. Bark—B ar b ary 6 1 to 71; Valonia 11/ to 131; French 61; English 61 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone. Hemp 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 19s; red ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 10s to 12/ per ton. Timber—New Memel 41103; old scarce; red pine 31 15s ; yellow pine 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 201; second quality 171 per 120. Hides—Market lls to 16s; salted lls to 16s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 24e1; market 2d to 24c1 per lb. Potatoes, white 10d to 1'23; Minions 183 to 20d; Guano— Peruvian, 10/10s; Ichaboe 9/ per ton; T ar — A rchangel, 18s per barrel. Eggs, 4s t o 4 s 2d per hundred. BELFAST, MARCH 26.—Grain —The supply since Friday has been very small, andprices of all sorts of grain are well supported. The weather continues favourable, and the sowing of the spring crops progresses well. Wheat, 9s to 10, 3d; barley 5s 9d to 6s 6d; oats, 5s 6d to 6s 63; oatmeal, 9s 9d to lOs 9,1 per cwt. No change in Indian corn. Pork sells at 38s to 463 per 1201bs. Seeds —We have had but little inquiry since Friday for flaxseed. R;ga sells at 30s to 325, and Dutch about 703. Butter—firkins, first 9icl ; crocks 80 ; firkins. third 7/d; crock 66d per lb; shipping price 60s to 843 per cwt. Potatoes, per stone, 8d to 10d; ditto, per cwt, 4s 6d to ss. i Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 70; mutton, 5d to 7d ; veal, 63 to 7L.d. Fish—Trout, 6d per lb ; brett, 3s to 48; soles, Is to Is 6d per pair, Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s a• pair ; chickens, is 6d to 23 per pair; ducks, 25 to 2s 6d per pair; turkeys, 3s to 4s each ; geese, 2s 6d to 33 6d; eggs, per dozen, 7d. Hay, Is 23 to 2s ; straw, oat, 8d to Is 13; ditto, wheat, 7d to Is per cwt. BANBRIDGE, MARCH 26.—Prices to-day are as follow: Oatmeal, from 9s 8d to lOs ()d per cwt ; Indian meal, 8s Od to Sc 9d per cwt ; flour, first, per 1121bs, 16s Od ; second, 14s Od ; third, 12s 6d ; fourth, 10s Od ; bran, 4s 6d ; wheatmeal, 12s 6d to 14s Od ; wheat, from 8s 6d to 9s 63 per cwt of 1121bs; oats, 5s 6d to 6s 9d ; barley, 6s 6d to Os Od per cwt; American flour, 28s 6d to 30s Otl per brl ; best butter, firkin at the scale, Od per lb ; second, 03 ; roll, Od to 9id ; beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 4d to 6d; pot a t oes , O s Od to 5s 6d per cwt ; hens, 1 1 od od to hOd each ; chickens, 10(1 to is 2d per p a i r; ducks,ls to 2s 43 ; turkeys, 2s 9d to 3s 7d each ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s tur key, ; eggs, hen, 40 to Od per doze n ; d uc k , Od to 5 d per dozen; Os to 10d p er d ozen; h ay, upland, from is 6d to is 10d_ per cwt; ditto, l ow l an d, f rom i s 2d to is 4d; straw, from Bel to 10d; turnips, 9d to 10d; p or k, f rom 42 s 6d to 46 s Od per 1121bs. Weight of bread at Hamilton Moore's bakery, 41bs fur 50. Old grain whiskey, at Mr. Robert Bell's, 6s 3d per gallon, duty paid. BALLYMENA, MARCH -4.—Oats, ° 5s 33 to 7s Od ; oatmeal, 9s 9d to lOs (td per cwt ; butter, 8d ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ; mutton, 34d to 73 ; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 178 Od; third, 15s Od ; inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, lOs Od ; bran, 5s Gd to 6s Gd; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 8s Od to 8s lid; yellow, 8s Od to 8s 6d; potatoes, 2s 9d to 43 Od per cwt; hay, is to Is 6d per cwt; American four, 30s per barrel ; tallow, 4s Od to 5s 4d per stone; flax, 4s Od to 5; 103 ; straw, 9d to Is; hides, 2s 63 to Gs Gd each ; pork, 378 6d to 45s Od per cwt; turnips, 83 to Is per ditto; carrots, Os to Is per ditto; beans, 5s 9d to Gs Gd ; grey peas, 6s Od to 7s 6d. .51ARET.— Buddle's W. COA Hartl L K YasTEaDA Y. ey.. 14s 9d Belmont l6s Od Carr's Hartley Davison 's West Hartley 14s 9(.0 Hetton East Adairs Main..... 12s Od' Haswell l7s 3d Holywell Main ... ..... 14s OdWarnbton New Tanfield l3s 6d Lyons l 5B 9d North Percy Hartley.. 14s Od Morrison l4s 9d Ord's Redheugh Canfield Moor . Townley l3s 0(1:South Hartlepool \A: est Hartley Wylam Wall's End, &c Denison Acorn Close Framwell Gate ...... Harton Hilda l4s 3d Hartley ... ... 13s 9d South Killingworth Eden Main ...... ... Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner partY Yes" day at their residence in Chesham place. ofwil‘fleajootra Rogers, BIRTHS On the 24th inst., at Portobello, N. 13., the wife of John Clements, Esq., 2d Dragoon Guards, of a daughter. On the .25th inst., at Ickham, the wife of the Rev. J. A. Wright, of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at Messing-lodge, Messing, Esser ll s ,Mrs. le, of a son. G. Franks, of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at 13 a th, W th e e stm lad in y ster, (King's Own) Light Eragooll.9, of a daughter. cteste r•square, the On the 1: 6th inst., at West Brixton, the Esq., of Manchester -building s, On the 27th inst., at Chester-terrace Hyde -park-gardens, wife of S. F. :Noyes, Esq , of a son. On the 27th inst., in Glocester, terrace, the wife of G. L. P. Eyre, Esq., of a daughte r. O n the 26th inst, at All S ou l s ' C hurch, Langham.place, seco nd son of the lat e H. Glazbrok, Esq., of Bryan square, to Mary Jan e , e l, :est daughter of H. Allen, s a ner , : ' Atina-house, Sevenoaks, Kent. W. At the Cathedral, Bombay, on the sth ult., Richard Willis, E sq .., to Katherine Ross, eldest daughter of Major G. J. Jameson, Deputy Military Auditor General. On the 27th inst , at St. George's, Hanover-square, Mr. H. Lasenby, of Amersham, to Marianne Susanna, only daughter of L. Smeathman, Esq., ot Great Missenden, Bucks. On the 2Cth i ns t., at Bedd LIED ington-house, Surrey, Willion Henry, eldest son of Sir Henry and Lady Bridges. On the 16th inst., at Penryn, ‘V illiam Baker, Esq., aged 57, eldest son of the late Rev. W. Baker, Gerrans, Cornwall. On the 24th inst., at Holloway, Mr. J. Bateman, aged 34. On the 25th inst., Mr. J. Davies, at Duke-street, Blooms bury, aged 67. On the 26th inst., at Grove-place, Lee, Arthur Willis, Esq., aged 67. On the 26th inst., at East-hill, Wandsworth, Mr. William Bellamy, of the House of Commons, aged 63. At Turnham-green, on the 24th :list., Mr. E. Neatbam. At Exmouth, on the 24th inst., the wife of John Coke Fowler, E q., aged 25. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tile county of Middlesex, Thursday, March 29, 1849. -7- _ Wallop Charles Charles Anthon T. Coll( N. Vale 'BANS SOLICIT The Deed of in klopt 95 deg. 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