The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

THE DEATHS FROM CHOLERA AT TOOTING. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. Yesterday morning Mr. Wakley resumed, at the Globe 'Tavern, Gray's lon-road, the inquest which has been ,continued by adjournment since Monday se'nnight on the bodies of four children chargeable to the Holborn Poor-law Union, who died at the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road, soon after their removal from Mr. Drouet's establishment for pauper children at Tooting. Mr. Ballantine, the barrister, was present on behalf of Mr. Drouet. After the Court had been opened, Mr. Ballantine said he held in his hand a letter from Mr. Baker, who was coroner for some portion of Mid dlesex. The CouoszEn,--He is one of the coroners for the county; he acts for the eastern division. Mr. Ballantine—Mr. Baker states that he is holding an inquest on the bodies of three or four persons who have been in the establishment of Mr. Drouet, and that he gives Mr. Drouet notice of the circumstance to afford him an opportunity of attending the incjuiry if he chooses to do so. The inquest is held at one o clock to-day; but, as Mr. Drouet has been attending this inquiry, and as everythqag connected with his establishment has been investigated to the fullest possible extent before this jury, I think it advisable that he remain here. I wished to snake this statement publicly that it may not be sup posed that Mr. Drouet is absenting himself from another inquiry which some persons might think he ought to attend. At the suggestion of the Foreman, after some conver sation between the coroner and jury, Joseph Saunders, an inmate of the Holborn Union Workhouse, was called in and sworn. He stated, that on Friday last he had charg e of the children who were brought to the jury -room for examination from the Royal Free Hospital. He placed them in the taproom below. At the conclusion of the sitting Mr. Drouet en tered that room. It was a public room. Mr. Drouet said to Henry Hartshorn, one of the children who had been examined, "As to you, you lying young scoun drel, mark my words; you will be taken ill before the night's over." Witness did not interfere, because Mr. Drouet went away directly. The CORONER observed, that he had considered it right to inquire into this matter, for if the boy to whom Mr. Diouet had spoken had not been examined Mr. Drouet's conduct might have been construed into a contempt of court. The observation of Mr. Drouet could produce no effect on the evidence of the boy to whom it was addressed, as he had already been exa mined, and he (the Coroner) was not aware that any other child who was present on the occasion would be called as a witness. He must say, however, that Mr. Drduet's conduct had been as improper and reprehen sible as it was impolitic. The Foreman was glad an inquiry had been instituted into the transaction, as Very exaggerated reports had been circulated on the subject in the neighbourhood. Mr. Ballantine considered that the jury bad acted with great kindness to Mr. Drouet—whose conduct had certainly been most improper—in ascertaining the real facts. Sarah Sellers was then called, and deposed—l am an inmate of the Holborn Union Workhouse. I went to Mr. Drouet's establishment to attend to the children on Friday, the sth of January. I arrived there about mid night, was employed in the boys' sick ward. There were, Z think, 30 beds in the wrrd; there was only one child in each bed. I saw the greatest attention shown while I was there, both with regard to medical attend ance and nurses. I was there ten days. Two of the nurses belonging to the establishment were taken ill while I was there. Mr. Popham—She does not state she was herself ill. Witness—l was attacked with purging and vomiting. Elizabeth Elliott, another nurse, remained up with me five nights and five days. We were obliged to be up, because there was no other assistance. I had not my clothes off for five nights. I never went to bed, or got any rest whatever. The ward was very dirty and dusty when I went into it. We cleaned the rooms. We had two little boys belonging to the house to assist us in carrying away the slops. • . • Mary Ann Keith, widow, an inmate of St. Pancras Workhouse, deposed—l attended the children from St. Pancras parish in Mr. Drouet's establishment as nurse. I went to Tooting last Friday fortnight, and arrived at Mr. Drouet's between eleven and twelve at night. I was in Nurse Green's ward. I remained there till the next morning. The ward was c!ean. There were three chil dren in one bed, but they did not remain long. I had 19 children to attend, and for the first two days there was .no one but myself. I at first carried down the slops myself, but after the first two days I got a little girl as a helper. I was up three nights without going to bed. I did not go to bed in the daytime. Thomas Lovick, assistant-surveyor to the Metropo litan Commissioners of Sewers—l surveyed the vicinity of Mr. Drouet's premises by direction of the Board of Health, mainly with regard to the ditches. That exa mination was made on the 6th of January. (A plan was _handed to the witness.) The plan of the premises pro duced is generally correct. I did not examine the buildings, with the exception of one of the dormitories, besi•les what is called the farm-yard. I observed that one portion of the drains at the end of Mr. Drouet's pre mises had been cleaned out, and I was informed it had been done recently. Mr. Kite, in answer to the Coroner, said the ditch in questiun had been cleaned out twice within the two months be had been at Mr. Drouet's. Mr. Whitfield, surgeon to the Holborn Union, ob served that one of the ditches was not a stagnant ditch, but a clear running stream. Mr. Lovick was understood to say that in same of the ditches the water was stagnant. The For( man aaked whether the boys were employed in cleaning out the ditch. Mr. Kite said he believed not; the cleansing took place under the direction of the local sanitary com mittee. Mr. Lovick, in reply to the Coroner, said be certainly considered that the (Alluvia from the ditches would have a prejudicial effect upon the health of the inmates of Mr. Drouet's establishment. Mr. Erasmus Gilbert Livesay, proprietor of a board ing-school at Tooting, and a member of the committee of health for that place, observed, that about the 6th or 7th of Decembrr men were employed in cleaning out the ditches near the new range of buildings in Mr. Drouet's establishment. Most of the ditches were thoroughly cleaned, but it was impossible in some parts of the ditches to prevent an accumulation of offensive matter. One of these ditches was in such a bad condition that witness pointed it out to the committee as the cesspool of Tooting. Witness had not noticed that any case of illness or fever had resultvd from the condition of the ditches. Witness might observe that he had formerly resided at Guildford, and that since he had lived at Tooting, three years and a half, his medical bills had been much less in proportion to the number of his pupils than at the former place. • William Porter—l have been master shoemaker at Mr. Drouet's establishment for ten years. I also drill the boys and attend at their meals. I assisted in serv ing out the food to the children. The pottage fur break fast was made of milk, flour, and arrow -root, and was of the substance of or linary gruel. The meat for dinner was weighed ;it was entirely without bone. Mutton was supplied to the young children only. The children had the same allowance for supper as for breakfast. The bigger bo ,y s had four or five ounces of bread each. A 41b. loaf was cut into about thirteen pieces. I never saw a loaf cut into sixteen pieces. The bread was not weighed for each child. Sometimes a boy has come and told me that from the manner in which the bread had been cut he had got too small a piece, and I would then give him another. The children seemed satisfied. None of the children ever spoke to me on the subject of their shoes being too small, and hurting them. I should say that the bays could always get water when they wanted it. There is no water in the boys' yard, but I have always considered that there was a sufficient supply in the children's dining-room. I had half-a-crown a week to distribute among the boys who were engaged in my workshop in making and mending shoes. A juryman stated, that when the jury visited Mr. Drouet's establishment they saw seven or eight children sitting round the fire, who said they were waiting till shoes were provided for th em , or t h e i r shoes were mended. The witness said, they mi g ht h ave b een waiting till the matron coul g d get them sh oes f rom the store-room. The juryman observed that the children stated that some of th:.m had been waiting for shoes for a day or two. examined in Mr. W. B. Whitfield, surgeon, sworn and d —I am medical officer of the Holborn Union. con sequence of an order of the b eard of guardians, 3d o uardtain. js'anwuhaircyh I received about nin e in the evenin g of the I went down to Tooting at ten o'clock in the morning of the 4th, to exa,nine the state of the Holborn children there, and report thereupon. On account of the great number constantly being brought into the sick ward, I found considerable confusion prevailing. There were not attendants enough. In a case of this kind every threw or four children would require a separate attend ant. But I do not blame Mr. Drouet on this account, be cause confusion was inevitable from the sudden und violent nature of the disease. Mr. Drouet requested me to make any suggestions I could, and promised to adopt them. I accordingly made an entry in his book, re commending the use of flannel as an under-garment, four blankets to each bed, and an alteration in the diet. I returned to town in the evening, and the guardians met early next morning, and heard my account, and on the same day Vie of our children were removed by me in vans, to the Free Hospital, Gray's. Inn-road. Seven teen of them died at Tooting, and tour at the Free Hos pital. saw the deceased, Andrew s , th e d ay a f ter h e I arrived at the hospital, about four hours before his death. His disease appeared completely similar to what I had seen at Tcoting. I have do doubt Asiatic cholera was the cause of his death. I say the same of the girl Johnson. The children generally girls. The looking abdomen pale, with the exception of the younger was tumid in many of them. A great many of the young children were very thin. A number of them had the itch and various forms of cutaneous eruptions, enlarged glands, sores in some places, scrofula, and impetigo. We always find these most among tiro poor; it is p ert l y from the want of proper cleanliness and diet. I believe that Andrews and Johnson had the seeds of the disease of which they died in them when they started from Tooting. I believe cholera to be infectious under par ticular circumstances; where a number of persons, hay ing received the atmospheric poison, are confined toge ther in a small place, or place not well ventilated, the exhalations of the bodies of the diseased are capable of communicating the disease to others, but in large apartments, in which there are but few cases, I think there is little chance of infection. I attribute this outbreak of cholera to a poison which then and still .---exittsjuthe atmosphere through the whole of this '2:_eciuttielekefa - it - varions parts of Europe. I attri ,' •irate-the—spread-rind great prevalence oti the disease iu tlziL vase`to sfii'veral causes. First, the excessive OW, and the inV9rfect planner in which the children , , ~, were protected from it; next, the want of proper venti• lation throughout the establishment, and the overcrowd ing; and I think, from the fact of the children's abdo mens being tumid and the extremities not so stout as they should be, that the food may not have been suffi cient to keep them in that vigour of health which would enable them to resist the evil influences I have men tioned. Mr. Withall, registrar of births and deaths, in Toot ing, was next called—He had no deaths from cholera re gistered except those registered from Mr. Drouet's es tablishment; these were about 150 in all. The popula tion of the parish is above 3,000; the deaths registered are about 50 a year, Dr. T. B. Peacock—ln my opinion Johnson and Har per died of Asiatic cholera. Harper, within half an hour of his seizure, was entirely pulseless at his wrists; the hands and feet were deep blue ; the skin cold. 'A thermometer placed under the tongue showed only 84 degrees. There was vomiting and purging, very slow breathing, and rapid collapse. The children, generally, were not so robust as in our charitable asylums. Eighteen of the 71 girls who were not confined to bed had cutaneous eruptions—either itch or eruptions cha racterising children not in good health, four had scrofu lous sores chiefly about the neck, three had ophthalmia, and one chilblains. In those who died from cholera at the hospital I believe the system (the blood) was im pregnated with cholera before they left Tooting. I think, being in a low state of health, they more readily suffered from the epidemic influence prevailing in this country at present. Mr. Drouet's situation is not very healthy, and there is very defective ventilation. The girls who came under my charge in the hospital had not been sufficiently clothed. The children did not appear to me to have been well nourished. I should say that the establishment could not safely accommodate the number of children it contained. Mr. T. C. Jackson, resident surgeon of the Free Hos pital—Eighty out of the 155 children who came to the hospital were attacked by " the Tooting disease," and four died. Others in the hospital, who had not been at Tooting, were also attacked with the disease; one, a nurse, died: and so, I believe, did a man who had been backwards and forwards between the hospital and the Holborn Workhouse. f Mr. Wakley—" And two took the disease who slept at the workhouse in beds opposite to or adjoining his."] I attended Quin. I have no doubt she died from malignant cholera. When the children came to the Free Hospital they were not in a healthy condition. A great number of the boys had the big belly so characteristic of scrofulous children. Their muscles were generally lax; a vast number had erup tions, and some had sore feet. A great portion of the eruptions were scabies or itch, and others were of a class indicating a very low condition of the system. I refer the outbreak to epidemic in fluence, which always makes its greatest ravages among the ill-fed and ill-clothed. There was not a particle of flannel about any of these boys when they came to us. [Dr. Peacock, in answer to a ques tion—" Nor the girls, except two or three that were ill.] The children presented the appearance of having had a deficiency of animal food, and a large proportion of ve getable. Children require material for growth as well as for nutrition. Dr. W. Marsden, one of the surgeons to the Royal Free Hospital—l do not consider that the disease was Asiatic or malignant cholera, but a species of asphyxia. I observe, first, that the locality of the Tooting estab lishment is low and damp. Next, a north-easterly wind there contains a London atmosphere. [Mr. Wakley— "We live in that."] It is not so bad to live in it.—(A laugh.) The residence altogether is inadequate for the number received—the diet included too little solid mat ter, and far too much fluid. I examined the boys when brought to the Free Hospital, and found the abdomen large, limbs spare, complexion pale and sallow. I com pared 25 of them, taken indiscriminately, with 25 boys of the same age at the Welsh School, and found the following results :—The 25 Welsh boys weighed 1,5161 b. 12 oz. —the 25 Tooting, 1,3321 b. 8 oz.; measure of the thick part of the arm in the Welsh boys, 1791 inches—in the Tooting, 1614; round the abdomen, the Welsh children, 567 i inches—the Tooting, 595. This would indicate that the Tooting children had been living too much on fluids rather than solids. I have ascertained that the total atmospheric contents of tho 44 dormitories at Toot ing amount to 196,705 cubic feet; deducting 1-20th for bedsteads and the children, there would be not quite 136 cubic feet of respirable air for each child, or an amount equal to what would be contained in a box 5 feet 2 inches every way. This quantity, with doors and windows closed, would not support life for more than eight hours, because every expiration yields 4 per cent. of carbonic acid. In the boys' schoolroom, occupied for three hours twice a day, there would be 37 feet to each boy. There would be no sufficient ventilation unless there was some thing to establish a current; and carbonic acid gas would produce precisely the same external appearances as cholera. In this way cattle brought over from Holland in the hold of a vessel suffer. Two children died lately who hid themselves in a corn-bin; and men who have gone down into deep vats have also perished. A great mortality in the Maternity Hospital at Dublin, some years since, and another at Norwood Charity School, were found to be owing to the want of proper ventilation. The witness proceeded to say that the prin cipal symptoms of Asiatic cholera were incessant vomit ing, purging, and extreme thirst. Of forty cases which ho had seen among those children in the Free Hospital, there had been vomiting in four cases, and only one of those cases had been fatal. In these cases stimulants and food had been given to the patients, while in cases of Asiatic cholera it was useless to attempt to give food; the stomach would at once reject it. Witness also considered that this disease was not Asiatic cholera, because not one ease had he en reported at Tooting out of Mr. Drouet's establishment, and the average number of cases reported in Loudon during the last two months, among one million of inhabitants, was only two a day. He had, in deed, great doubt whether any cases of real Asiatic cholera had occurred in London, for he believed that cases where severe diarrlicea had existed had frequently been reported as cases of cholera. He might observe that in the Royal Free Hospital, where many patients who were most likely subjects for cholera were admitted, not a single case of that disease had occurred. Only four of the children removed to the Free Hospital from Toot ing had died, and those had died within forty-eight hours after they were brought to the hospital. He did not believe the disease of which the children died at the Free Hospital was communicable. Tie CORONER—How do you account for the nurses dying? Witness—l can only say that the nurses who were sent to the Royal Free Hospital were a very bad set. I was obliged, on the first night of their arrival, to send one of them away drunk, and if she had been attacked with diarrhces it is very probable she would not have recovered. Witness considered the predisposing cause of the disease to have been improper and insufficient clothing, low temperature, and the humid state of the atmosphere; and the immediate cause, the defective con dition—or want of vital principle—of the atmosphere in which the children were living. He thought it was as well that the children had not been allowed to have as much water to drink as they wished, for he believed that had that been the case they would have beeu in an in finitely worse condition. Dr. Garrod, assistant physician to University College Hospital, deposed that he had made a post mortem ex amination of the bodies of Andrews and Harper, and read a statement detailing the appearances presented by the bodies. He had no doubt, from his examination, that the cause of death was cholera. The witness pro ceeded to state, that to establish more clearly the nature of the disease, he made a minute chymical analysis of the blood, the result of which he detailed to the jury. He thought there was no doubt that what might be ealled the " cholera influence" was now prevalent in this country. In ordinary cases it had very little power on healthy individuals, who were able to resist it; but persons who were in an ill-conditioned state of body, either from previous disease or from insufficient diet especially when they were exposed to the influence of malaria arising from the decomposition of animal or ve getable matter, were very likely to be affected by its agency. He thought overcrowding, especially during the hours of sleep, would be one predisposing cause of cholera. He should think the immediate cause of cho lera at Tooting was the overcrowding, but at the same time he believed that the same causes would not have produced the same disease the previous year. From what he had heard the witnesses say of the food at Tooting it appeared to have been a poor diet, but it must be remembered that the quantities of food given were not mentioned. The minute book kept at Mr. Drouet's establishment for the entry of remarks by the visiting guardians was then put in evidence, and numerous entries made in it since January, 1848, and signed by guardians of the Holborn Union, were read by Mr. James, clerk to the hoard of guardians. The general effect of these minutes was that the guardians, having inspected the establish ment, Here perfectly satisfied with the general condi tion of the children. In some cases the visitors ex pressed their " unqualified approbation" of the general management of the establishment. Mr. Ballantine said it might be satisfactory to the jury to know that Mr. Drouet's establishment was visited not only by the guardians of the Holborn Union, but by the guardians of all other unions which had children there. The consequence was that the establishment was visited by the guardians of some parish every two or three days. Mrs. Dimond, matron of the Holborn Union Work house, who was recalled, stated Faterdee Hospital toswpihteani mostthe children were were brought to the Royal were in a very bad state; they had sores on the feet— about the toes and heels, which did not appear to have been dressed. Witness did not know to what the sores were attributable; it might be to chilblains. Witness thought if some of the children had continued in the same 3siany state much longer their toes would hav e d roppe d off. of them were very pale and thin. They h a d had very good diet since their return—mutton for din ner, beef-tea for supper , and for glass of mulled wine after a d r in d n in er n . er. The children had now half a pint of porter after as to the number of Mr. Grainger wished to observe, with with reference to a statement made on a former occasion that lie children in whom premonitory symptoms of diarrhoea had been discovered at Mr. Droners establishment, had r ece i ve d th e information embodied in his report from Mr. Kite, and had now the statement in his posses sion signed by Mr. Kite. Mr. Kit e exp l a i ne d t h at h e h ai l not examined the chil dren himself, in order to discover premonitory symptoms, and the information he had furnished to Mr. Grainger was obtai ne d f rom the gentlemen who made t h e exami nation. Mr. Grainger then stated, that in company with Dr. Ferro, he had examined 554 children belonging to the Holborn, the St. Pancras and the Strand Unions, who had been at Mr. Drouet's establishment, and of that number 239 laboured under various affections, princi pally cutaneous, whil e 315 were healthy. Among the children affected with the itch, many had the disease in the most severe pustular form. Dr. Farro and himself had also visited Mr. Aubyn's establishment at Norwood, where there were now 1,114 children , The medical officer of that institution told them that there was not a case of sore bead in the house. Dr. Farre and himself were so much surprised at this statement that they examined 530 of the children, and in that number they did not discover a single case of itch or sore head. This circumstance was so creditable to Mr. Aubyn that he considered:it right to mention it. In Mr. Aubyn's;establishment the chaplain was paid from public funds; 6001. or 7001. a year (as we understood) was contributed from the same source for the payment of schoolmasters; the house had been visited by Dr. Arnott with a vtew to its ventilation, and it might there fore be regarded in a great measure as a quasi-public establishment. _ _ _ In reply to the CORONER, Mr. Grainger stated that he still adhered to the opinion he expressed in the report he had read on Friday week, that the predisposing causes of the cholera in Mr. Drouet's establishment were over crowding and insufficient food and clothing, combined with the noxious effluvium arising from the drains in the neighbourhood of the house. The evidence being now concluded, the proceedings were at five o'clock adjourned to seven in the evening. Mr. WAKLEY then proceeded to sum up. The de ceased children, the jury would remember, were under the care and legal guardianship of the authorities of the Holborn Union; and the guardians, finding that their own establishment,wasunsuited to the accommodation of the inmates, considered it prudent to send a portion of them to some country asylum. They were rather to be praised than blamed for that. The confined space at command in London was not calculated for recreation or proper education or discipline; but whether they made a judicious selection in sending the children to this parti cular establishment was another question. The guar dians stood, in fact, as the legal parents of these unfor tunate children; and the letters which passed between the guardians and Mr. Drouet, the resolutions of the board communicated to him, and conversations which passed between him and the representative of the board, constituted a contract which bound Mr. Proust to maintain the children sent to him from the Hol born Union at 4s. 6d. a head. The sum, under the circumstances, was adequate and liberal; but, liberal or not, Mr. Proust had no business to undertake the charge unless he was prepared to do his duty. The guardians having entered into this arrangement with him, monthly visits were paid to his establishment to see in what manner he was performing his duty to their wards; and the reports on these occasions expressed ap probation. It was, however, strongly to be deprecated that the very natural course was not adopted by the visiting guardians of calling the children aside, and asking them, where no official connected with the esta blishment could hear, whether they were properly treated. The visitors appeared indeed to have executed their duty in a very slovenly, inefficient, and negligent manner; if it had been performed with energy, and se as to enable the children to state the naked truth, it was his (Mr. Wakley's) conviction that the jury would not have been sitting on this occasion. —(Hear, hear.) Now, it was only by a verdict of murder or manslaughter that the jury could make any person legally responsible for the deaths of these children, supposing the deaths to have occurred through some culpable neglect or misconduct; and the question was, whether any one was so respon sible. In his (kr. Wakley's) judgment, the guardians were not; far they paid an adequate sum for the chil dren's maintenance, and appointed visitors to examine them, and as soon as they knew of the outbreak of disease they spared no cost to place the children in se curity instantly. Next, with regard to the Poor-law Commissioners, they were empowered by the Act of 1834, " as often as they snould see occasion," to issue regulations for the government of establishments in which pauper children should be at school or located, and to annul any contract entered into with persons keeping such establishments ; but the Commissioners had not "seen occasion" to issue such rules, and Mr Drouet's establishment had not really been under their superin tendence and control ; they were therefore absolved from legal responsibility. The next party was Mr. Hall, the Poor-law Inspector, he acted under the autho rity of the Commissioners, and if the master was re lieved from responsibility it would not be fair to visit it UDOLI the agent. But it was very unfortunate for the children that there should be this loose, inefficient, and ill defined arrangement with regard to carrying the law into effect. It was well for them that inquiries of this kind should occasionally arise, when the ser pentine windings and intricacies of the system were disclosed and brought down public con• tempt, disgust, and reprehension. He held that Mr. Hall was absolved from legal responsibility, but he was bound to say that he did not think that gen tleman could be complimented for the manner in which he had discharged his duties. They must next consider , the case of Mr. Kite the surgeon to Mr. Drouet's i establishment. Mr. Kite had not been consulted as to the construction of the building, or with regard to the' diet and clothing of the children, or as to whether the establishment was fitted to receive an additional number of children. It would be difficult, indeed, from Mr. Kite's evidence, to imagine any person holding so appa rentl3 important an office who seemed to possess so little real power; but it was his conviction that Mr. Kite was not legally responsible for the deaths which had occurred at Tooting. The only other person who could be held responsible in connexion with this matter was Mr. Drouet. That gentleman had voluntarily entered into an engagement with the board of guardians to feed, clothe, and lodge the children they sent down to his es tablishment. He (the Coroner) considered that, although there was no written contract in terms be tween the board of guardians and Mr. Drouet, the word " maintenance," which occurred in the first ac count furnished by Mr. Drouet to the board, sufficiently showed what the nature of the contract was. The guardians had fulfilled their part of the agreement by paying the 4s. 6d. a week which they had agreed to pay for each child; and it was for the jury to con sider whether Mr. Drouet had performed his part of the engagement. Ile (the coroner) held that, if it should appear to the jury that the death of these children was attributable to any culpable negligence in the establish ment of Mr. Drouet, the proprietor of that establishment was responsible in law. Mr. Drouet was bound by his engagement to provide adequate food, clothing, and lodging for the children committed to his care. A dietary table had been submitted by Mr. Drouet to the Holborn board of guardians, which, it appeared, had been ap proved by Mr. White, their medical officer. He (the coroner) must say that he considered the plan of limit ing the poor to a supply of victuals of prescribed weight was a shocking, an odious, and an abominable system. Why, when a man put out an animal to feed, he did not bargain that it should have so many pounds of hay or of grass; and he considered it an abomination that such a system should exist with regard to human beings. The object of the plan might be economy; but when they considered how much disease was engendered by this system,—disease of the lungs, of the mesentric glands. of the joints,—when they considered that it created a ricketty and scrofulous population, he would ask, where was its economy? In addition to the human misery created by this system, it must be remem bered that it imposed lasting burdens upon the parishes. The question for the jury to consider was, whether the children had been adequately fed, clothed, and housed ; if not, whether the disease of which they had died had resulted from a defective carrying out of the conditions implied in the engagement with Mr. Drouet ; and who was the party responsible for such defect? With regard to the cause of death, the great question was, whether it was owing to something over which Mr. Drouet and those whom he employed had no control? Much had been said about drains, but there was really a good deal or cant upon that subject; a farmer, with his dunghill close to his house, had his children healthy enough. As to exhalations from the ditches, the moderate mortality of Tooting seemed to show that there could be but little set down to anv such exciting cause in the atmosphere compared with a predisposing cause, which the wit nesses found in insufficient nourishment and overcrowd ing. Few things were more dangerous to life than placing a large number of persons in an ill-ventilated room: they actually poisoned one another. It seemed difficult to understand how there could be two opinions on the question whether these children were sufficiently fed, and clothed, and lodged; and, whatever the visiting guardians might see or not see. Mr. Drouet must have known it. Why, too, should the cholera have prevailed for four or five days before information of it was sent to the guardians? It was just possible that the lives of these children might have been saved if they had been removed earlier. Out of 156, no case of collapse had occurred in the Free Hospital after the fourth day from their removal to it. The first death from cholera oc curred on the 30th of December; but no official notice of the disease was given to the guardians till the 3d of January. That fact ought to have been explained by Mr. Drouet, for these children were entitled to the same consideration, on such occasions, as the children of gen tlemen or tradespeople. The jury must consider the reports of the visiting guardians expressing satisfac tion, and the fact that the children might have given their evidence under the impression that some wrong had been done them; but certainly they seemed to speak the truth, and their statement was uniform as to insufficiency of diet. The sores and erup tions were signs of gross and reprehensible neglect somewhere; and to whom were the guardians to look but to the head of the establishment? If, in the opinion of the jury, these children lost their lives in consequence of neglect of inattention in that establishment, Mr. Drouet, and no one else, was responsible. The law had held it manslaughter where parochial officers bad removed a pauper under improper circumstances, or where insuffi cient food had been afforded. The jury must not fasten upon an individual what belonged to a barbarous, and cold-blooded, and mercenary system; they must fairly consider under what obligations Mr. Drouet had come, and what was the cause of this outbreak of disease. If it was atmospheric poison, their verdict must be " Na tural death;" if they believed it to be owing to defective arrangements in Mr. Drouet's establishment, and cul pable neglect on his part as proprietor of it, they must be equally firm in a different decison. The jury retired at a quarter to ten o'clock, and re maiaed in consult a ti on f or an hour, when they expressed a wish to see th e Coroner. After a few minutes con versation with Mr. Wakley, the jury returned into the inquest-room at t e n m i nutes to eleven o'clock, and deli , jury vered their verdict :—" W e , the impaneled to in quire touching the death of James Andrews, unani mouily agri e to the following verdict—" that 13artholo mew Peter Drouet is Guilty of Manslaughter." (This announcemnt was received with some manifes tations of applause by the spectators ass em bl e d in the room.) The jury added to their verdict the following observ ations :—" In announcing this verdict we cannot refrain from expressing our opinion that the guardians of the Holborn Union have acted most negligently in their en gagements with Mr. Drouet, and also in their visits to his establishment. We regret that the Poor-law Act is quite insufficient for the purposes for which it was in tended; and we hope that the time is not far distant when the necessity for such establishments as Mr. Drouet's will entirely cease." The CORONER then inquired whether Mr. Drouet was present, and. being answered in the negative, he di- rected a warrant to be made out immediately for his ap prehension. The CORONER said he thought that, in a case of this kind, he should flinch from his duty if he were to refrain from expressing his opinion that the verdict of the jury was strictly just, and that if he had been a juryman he should have given the same verdict. The Foreman wished to observe, that the jury consi dered Mr. Winch, one of the guardians of the Holborn Union, was entitled to great credit for having brought this case under the notice of the Coroner. A similar verdict to the above was retarned in the case of each of the other deceased children—Johnson, Quin, and Harper. The proceedings did not terminate until midnight. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 23. CRI3I. CON.—PRATT V. FLETCHER. This was an action to recover in damages from de fendant for an alleged criminal conversation with plain tiff's wife. It was tried at) the last sittings after term, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff, for 800/. The defendant was a surgeon, practising in the neigh bourhood of Hackney, and the acquaintance which led to the criminal intercourse sprang up whilst defendant was attending plaintiff's wife in his professional capacity. Last term a rule was obtained for a new trial, which came on for argument to-day. Mr. Sergeant SHEE was heard against the rule. He said there were a great number of details in the affidavits on the other side, but the substance of them was this—that the plaintiff, then being twenty-five years of age, first met the young woman who afterwards be came his wife, and was then seventeen years old, at a house of ill fame. Mr. HUMFREY—No, he first met her in the streets. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—The present motion called upon the Court to decide the amount of immorality in the husband and wife previous to their marriage; but he apprehended, looking to the nature of the affidavit, that the husband was entitled to protection. The Learned Sergeant having stated that many of the persons making those affidavits were per sons of improper character, proceeded : —What he wished the Court to consider was, the extraor dinarythe plaintiff's position in one respect. he wa s guilty of immorality, hardship Nodoub o t f and of gross imprudence in marrying a person of this kind; but they agreed to marry, to abandon s all immoral conduct for the future, and he gradually introduced her into respectable society, and also to his own friends and relations, and for two years afterwards they lived perfectly happy and with perfect propriety. CHIEF BARON—For anything that appears to the contrary. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Her sisters were the proper witnesses to call respecting her previous conduct. Why were they not called ? CHIEF Batton—lt is impossible to disguise the fact that the plaintiff has obtained the verdict under false pretences. He stated by counsel, which counsel believed to be true, that which be knew was untrue, to obtain commensurate damages for an injury which he did not sus tain. If this action, instead of being one for damages, had been an action for a debt, the plaintiff would have been guilty, I think, of a crime. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—It is clear, upon the affidavits, that there has been adultery on the part of the de• fendant. Mr. HUMFREY, on the part of the defendant, said he would admit that. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Then, as that is the case, the parties had better make some arrangement, to save the expense of a new trial. It would be better for the parties to reduce the damages very much below 8001. Mr. HUMFAEY—I should think so, my Lord. 80i/. indeed for this woman!—(Laughter.) Mr. Baron ALDERSON-If the jury thought the plain tiff married an innocent woman, all I can say is, that they were very much mistaken.—(Hear.) The parties not being able to come to terms the rule was ma le absolute, on the understanding that the trial should take place in the Queen's Bench, that the adul tery should be admitted, and that the costs should abide the event of the plaintiff obtaining the costs of a new trial.—Rule absolute. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WESTMINSTER. THE LATE DISTRESSING CASE IN YORK-STREET, WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday, Mr. Lav i s, the eminent surgeon of Great George-street, Westminster, who h as been in attendance upon the widow of the late Henry Williams, the deplorable condition of whose family has created so much public sympathy, came to this court to report the state of the poor woman. He said that she was improved in health, but in a very feeble condition. On his visit to her that day she appeared much depressed with respect to some disclosures connected with the former history of her family, the truth of which she admitted, adding that her two children had been punished ; but the boy who bad been committed, and who was at present in the refuge, had by his good conduct there been made a monitor. She expressed her willingness and desire to give every in!ormation upon the subject of her melancholy history that might be required by the authorities, and declared that they were in great distress at the time the children committed the offence. Mr. Lavis showed Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk (to whom, owing to the absence of Mr. Broderip yesterday, the above communication was made), a portfolio of drawings, and some exquisite specimens of penmanship, executed by the late unfortunate man, which exhibited considerable talent. The following additional subscriptions have been re ceived for the family:—E. S. (Yegwell Bay), 53.; 31,367, the remaining halt of a 51. note of that number; L. K., 10s.; Duke, 11. 108.; T. S., 55.; D. E., 55.; A little girl, eight years of age, 55.; C. W. M. R. W.,11.; a Lady, the remaining hall of a 51. note, 40,654 (the latter being for the, poor-box); an Artist, 55.; a Lady at Dover, 55.; J. 11. C. W., 51; M. C., 10s.; East, 10s.; C. C , 51. for the poor-box. THAMES. Henry Hamer, master of the Sea Bird, appeared to his recognizances, and Launcelot Wilson, his chief officer, was brought up on remand under the following circum stances:—At the opening of the court on Saturday, Mr. Vessey, solicitor, accompanied by a man of colour named Hughes, and Fraser, No. 93 of the river police, applied to Mr. Yardley, requesting that warrants should be is sued for the immediate apprehension of Mr. Henry Hamer, master, and Launcelut Wilson, chief officer of the barque Sea Bird, which arrived in St. Katherine's Dock from the river Gambia on the previous day. Hughes, who seemed very faint, made such a statement as induced the magistrate to issue warrants for their immediate apprehension, which were put into the hands of Fraser with instructions for their instant execution. Shortly after two o'clock the prisoners were placed at the bar. Mr. Pelham appeared for the defence. John Hughes, the complainant, who stated himself to be a native of New Orleans, said he joined the Sea Bird as able seaman in the Gambia. On the llth inst., the vessel being then at sea, the mate came to his berth about twelve o'clock at night and ordered him on deck. Complainant, who bad been worn out by ten hours' la bour, and whose clothes were wringing wet, replied, ell, sir; "nl wait n lamgett oon ready."getting The mate at once V e exclaimed, r y and began to cut at him with a cutlass. The pain of his wounds made him jump up, and he ran on deck, the mate still pur suing him with the cutlass. Complainant held for a while for by the galley door, and then crept into the galley, but was immediately followed by the mate, accompanied by the captain. The latter seized him by the hair of the head, and kicked him, whilst the mate still continued to cut at him with the sabre, wound ing him in several places. He was then sent to work at the pump, where he continued for ten minutes, but being faint, from loss of blood, he returned to the fore castle. The mate again followed him there, but, seeing he was bleeding, s aid "Go to bed, I won't hurry you any more." In his cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, who was prepared to show that the complainant was dogged, lazy, turbulent, and refused duty when the vessel was in im minent danger, the complainant admitted that he was in gaol at Gambia, but not for attempting to gouge a former captain. He had never threatened Capt. Hamer with a knife. He had no knife in his hand on the night when he was stabbed. There was a heavy gale, but he had worked very hard that day. Capt. Hamer—So had I. I was several hours at the pump, and the vessel was in the utmost danger. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Yardley ad journed the case until today, admitting the captain to bail, himself in 1001., and solvent surety to the same amount. When the case came on for hearing to-day, Fraser, the constable, who had taken the complainant on Saturday evening to the Dreadnought hospital ship, handed in a certificate from the surgeon of that establish ment, to the effect that he was, at present, too ill to at tend at the court. The further hearing of the case waa adjourned until Tuesday next. FURTHER EXAMINATION AND COM MITTAL OF MESSRS. WARREN AND FULLER OF BATH. BATH, Timm:an—Atter the dispatch of the parcel .last night, the examination of Mr. Horatio Warren and Mr. Samuel Fuller, the extensive silversmiths of West gate-street, in this city, was continued. Thomas Mitchell deposed that he had worked for the prisoner Warren a great number of years, and for the firm of Warren and Fuller ever since the partner ship was formed. They had an extensive business. In the month of October, 1847, witness received orders— he believed from Mr. Fuller, but was not sure—to ham mer out a piece of silver to a pattern. It was not stated what it was for, but witness's impression was, that it was for the bowl of a spoon. Ham mered it out and sent it to Messrs. Warren and Fuller. Shortly afterwards received an order to hammer out another a little thicker than the other, which wa s not t hi c k enough. Hammered out one accordingly, and sent it to them. This was about the 13th or 14th o f O cto b e r, 1847. Was directed by Mr. Fuller to charge it to Mr. Cousins, who is a working jeweller of Bath. This instruction was an un usual one, and out of the regular course of business, but witness charged it to M r . Cousins, and ho afterwards paid it. Afterwards received the service-spoon pro duct(' and a fellow from a young man whom he believed to be in the employ of Messrs. Warren and Fuller. This was about a fortnight or three weeks after he made the bowl, but ho was not certain as to the time. Thought that the bowls produced were the same down as usual b o h r e ders ma t d o e, gild th e was not certain. Received spoons. The order was sent Warren came to me, and Gilded the spoon an d . 5 sent them home to the prisoners. Y Messrs . Warren and Fuller's boy. " About three weeks Since " continued the witness, " Mr. a to ny m o e f , a tn n e d l ol s d ai m ke a d de m a e oin if e l ye h a a r d a I believe he asked me if Mr. Thompson had been down patterns by me e t t h h e a n t l as ' I thought he seemed excited. ago, and I said ' Yes, I bad,' Ile then said the Gold- j smiths' Company were down here, and I had better put them all out of the way. I thereupon hid them. I buried them in the garden. The same day Mr. Warren came back to me, and said he thought they had better be melted, as there might be some among them like those in stock. They were then melted by me—they were the same patterns that I had buried in the garden. Mr. Warren then said it would be well to put away the books; that I had better fold them up and seal them, and give them to a friend to keep, or else let him hold them for me. I sealed up four of my modern books, and gave them to him, and some old books, which were of no use. I burnt. I was shortly afterwards sent for to Mr. Warren's house, and was asked into his sitting room, where I saw him alone. He then said, respecting the spoons, that they were the only things he cared about. He also asked ice if I remembered the spoons that I hammered out the bowls for. I told him that I did, and he said those were the only things that there would be any trouble about, or words to that effect. I then said if they were shown to me I could not say but that I had seen them before. He then said they were drawing up a memorial to the board to try to get the fines eased, and in the course of the conversation he said that there was an old hall mark on the spoon. Upon cross-examination the witness said he could not say positively whether the bowl produced was that ham mered by him or not. It was on the Bth or 9th that Mr. Warren called on him. Herbert Sawyer Cousins, the elder, working silver smith, of Bath, deposed that he had worked for the pri soners in their business for six or seven years. Received from one or the other of them, but he could not say which, an order to make a service spoon similar to that produced. No spoon was brought but two silver skewers were brought, and at the same time, or about the same time, he received two small figures of apostles. The figure on the head of the spoon produced was one of them, or at least was very like it, only that it was not then gilt. Did not make the bowls, they were brought to him by a man since dead, named Merrifield. The skewer had the hall mark on it. When the spoons were completed witness sent them home to Messrs. Warren and Fuller's. About ten days ago Mr. Warren came to him and asked him if he had the patterns then in his possession, but did not say what patterns. Witness replied that he had, upcn which Mr. Warren said the gentleman bad been down and had taken some things away, and he had better destroy them. Mr. Warren then asked if he had any books of account, and, upon his replying " yes," said " Then you had better put them out of the way." In consequence of this witness melted the patterns and burnt his books. The witness was cross•examined by Mr. Stone, but nothing materially bearing on the case was elicited. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Prideaux, for the Goldsmiths' Company, submitted that he had made out a charge of felony, and called upon the magis trate to commit. Mr. Stone, for the defence, insisted that there had been no felony within the statute made out. The Magistrates, after a short deliberation, committed both prisoners, and refused to receive bail for their ap pearance. The streets around the Guildhall remained crowded for a long time, and a great excitement prevailed. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 23, 1849. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. George Sulyarde Stafford Jerningham, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Madrid, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy to the Ottoman Porte. DOWNING•STREET, JAN. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Daniel Blair, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, to be Surgeon. General for the colony of British Guiana. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint George Marsh, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate at Mossel Bay, in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. HILARY TERM, 12 Vic.—JAN. 23. This Court will hold sittings on Monday and Tuesday, the sth and 6th days of February next, and also on Thursday, the Bth day of the same month, and on every succeeding day (Sundays excepted), until and including Wednesday, the 28th day of the same month ; and will at such sittings proceed in disposing of the business then pending in the Paper of New Trials, in the Paper of Demurrers, in the Paper of Special Cases, and motions appointed to be brought on with any case in the New Trial Paper or Demurrer Paper, and also in giving judgment in all matters then standing for judgment. F. J. PoLLocx. J. PARKE. E. H. ALDERSON. Read in open court, T. J. PLATT. E. BENNETT. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. HILARY TERM, 12 VIC.—JAN. 22. _ _ This Court will, on Thursday the Ist, Friday the 2d, Thursday the Bth, Friday the 9th, Saturday the 10th, and Monday the 12th days of February next, hold sit tings, and will proceed in disposing of the business in the Crown Paper, Special Paper, and New Trial Paper; and will also hold a sitting, on Thursday the Ist day of March next, and give judgment in cases previously argued. By the Court. BANKRUPTS. James Strange Junes. oil and colourman, High Hol born, to surrender Feb. 1, at half•-past twelve, and March 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Jervis, Law rence Pountney-hill. Helen Watts, innkeeper, Chelsea, Feb. 1, at one, and March 6, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canna!), official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Dupleix, Lin coln's Inn-fields. Joseph Frith Everett, engineer, Red Lion-street, Cler kenwell, Feb. 2, at one, and March 6• at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Taylor, Finsbury •place South. Stephen Noden, rug manufacturer, Swinton-street, Gray's Inn-road, Feb. 3, at one, and March 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett. official assignee, Basinghall•street; Dickson and Co., Old Jewry. Henry Hughes, linendraper, D wer, Kent, Feb. 2, at eleven, and March 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall•street ; Jones, Thomas Core, innkeeper, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Feb. 9 and March 9, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Not tingham; Taylor and Collisson, Great James-street; Brewster, Nottingham. James Jarvis, plane maker, Birmingham, Feb. 8 and March 3, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Powell, Bir mingham. Richard Branwell, attorney, Holsworthy, Devonshire, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Exeter Dis trict Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Baker, Ruck, and Jennings, Lime-street. Harry Valentine Stroud, miller, Spettisbury, Dorset shire, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Ex eter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Ex eter; Fincham, Dursetshire; Stogdon, Exeter; Edwards and Peake, Westminster. William Cradock, auctioneer, Truro, Cornwall, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Baker, Ruck, and Jennings, Lime-street. Thomas Potter, hosier, Sheffield, Feb. 10, at half-past twelve, and March 10, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield r Duncan, Buckingham-street, Adelphi; Unwin, Sheffield. John Womeraley and William Womersley, delvers, Clayton, near Bradford, Feb. 5 and 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Trinder and Eyre, John-street, Bedford-row; Harle and Clarke, Leeds. Samuel Brownentt, fruit merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 5 and March 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Cornthwaite and d Jewry Chambers; Pemberton, Liverpool. Co.,.dames Pierce, corn deaer, Chorley, Lancashire, Feb. 6 and 27, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Norris, Allen and Simpson, Bedford-row; Turner and Son, Preston. Christopher John Spence, timber merchant, Stockton upon-Tees, Feb. 8, at half-past ten, and March 6, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Allison, Dar lington; Harle, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall•streot. W. Cusse, Christchurch, Southampton, grocer, Feb. 14, at half-past eleven—Catherine Uhoules, Reading, Berkshire, ironmonger, Feb. 14, at eleven—J. W. Po cock, Southampton-street, Strand, upholsterer, Feb. 15, at half-past one. In the Country. S. Mayer, Burslem, Staffordshire, earthenware manu facturer, Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court Birmingham— C. Allen, St. Ives, Cornwall, ironmonger, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—W. Richardson, Newcastle upon-Tyne, glass manufacturer, Feb. 16, at half -past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Wallace, Durham and Sunderland, grocer, Feb. 15, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon Tyne—W. Todd, Whitehaven, Cumberland, ironmonger, Feb. 15, at half-past twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T. Rowell,Hartlepool, Durham, merchant, Feb. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--G. Fletcher, Egremont, Cumberland, tanner, Feb. 15, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. J. Ferens and R. Ferens, Durham, drapers, Feb. 15, at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—G. Hewitt, and G. Hewlett, Manchester, woollen-drapers, Feb. 16, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. Prytherch, Ty Maur, Anglesey. cattle-dealer Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Pratt, Liverpool, stock and share broker, Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. Slattery, Liverpool, corn broker, Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Day, Liverpool, draper, Feb. 16, at eleven, the Court, Liverpool—E. G. Hone, Liverpool, licensed victualler, Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Broadbent and J. Hughes, Walmersley-cum-Shut tleworth, Lancashire, paper makers, 4s. 9J., on Tues day, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. _ _ _ J. Broadbent, Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth, Lanca shire, paper maker, 205., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Hughes, Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth, Lanca shire, paper maker, 205., on_ Tuesday, Jan. '23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. D. Greenwood and J. Bateman, Bury, Lancashire, joiners and builders, 7d., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. R. Holt, Rochdale, Lancashire, innkeeper, 9s. Bd., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at, the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Strange, Abingdon, Berkshire, wine merchant, 75., on Thursday, Jan. 25, and three following Thursdays, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. R. Stephenson, Lombard. street, banker, 3 2-30., on Thursday, Jan. 25, and three following Thursdays, be tween the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Siansfeld, Basinghall-street. H. Mawhood, High Holborn, dealer in lace, 3s. 4d., on any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street. E. Smith, Brentwood, Essex, cheesemonger, 10d., on any Saturday, between the hours of elevcn and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. H. Turtill, High Holborn, saddler, 4s. 7d., on any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Guildhall-chambers, Basingball -6 treet. R. Knight, Lewes, Sussex, butcher, and Barcombe, Sussex, famer, Bs. 9d., on any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Guildhall-chambers, Basingball. street. Olive Ginder, Canterbury, licensed victualler, 6d., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and three following Wednes days, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. T. K. Thompson, Great Tower-street, whole:ale dealer, 5d., on %\ ednesday, Jan. 24, and three following Wednesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. F. E. Morrish, Leicester-square, draper, second divi dend, 7d., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and three following Wednesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. W. Cooper, C. Wilson, and G. Black, Aldermanbury, straw hat manufacturers and furriers, second dividend, 6d., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and three subsequent Wed nesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. C. Robson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer and tea dealer, 9d., on Saturday, Feb. 3, or any subsequent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. Smith, jun., Stockton-upon-Tees, earthenware manufacturer, 45., on Saturday, Feb. 3, or any subse quent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. T. Harrison, Haydon-street, Minories, cooper, Feb. 16, at twelve—C. Abbott, Lower Edmonton, market gardener, Feb. 16, at one—A. Butterfield, Hitchin, Hert fordshire, builder, Feb. 15, at eleven—G. Benda, Camo mile.street, City, importer of foreign goods, Feb. 16, at eleven—J. Lockyer, St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell, metal tool, steel, and wire merchant, Feb. 14, at twelve. In the Country. J. B. Amey, Liverpool, ship broker, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Hutton, Liverpool, painter, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—H. Pinhey, Plymouth, grocer, Feb. 15, at one, at the Court, Exeter —J. Roles, Maiden Newton, Dorsetshire, linendraper, Feb. 15, at one, at the Court, Exeter—J. P. Durant, Plymouth, chemist and druggist, Feb. 15, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W. Stephens, Leigh, Worcestershire, blacksmith, Feb. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birming ham—W. Wall, Bridenbury, Herefordshire, cattle dealer, Feb. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, Feb. 13. J. Clarkson, Charlton, builder—C. D. Smith, Batter sea, florist—A. Turnbull, Blue Anchor-mad, tanner— W. Farlar, Brompton-square, builder—R. W. M 'Donnell, Bitten, Gloucestershire, paper manufacturer—E. Gart side, Preston, draper—W. Chambers, Blackman-street, carpenter and undertaker—R. L. Evans, Liverpool, butcher—T. Jones, Old Swineford, Worcestershire, grocer—W. Watson, Golden Valley, Derbyshire, inn keeper—J. Vaile, High Holborn, auctioneer—J. Rees, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, woollen draper—W. Hall, Kington, Herefordshire, miller—J. Petty, Gargrave, Yorkshire, farmer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Lidgett and J. Shepherd, Billiter- street, City, ship brokers—W. Whitehouse, J. Whitehouse, and J. White house, Dudley, Worcestershire; Tipton, Staffordshire; Birmingham, and City-road-basin, &c., canal carriers— T. Taplin and H. Freeman, Stanley-place, Paddington, auctioneers—J. A. Bartlett, T. Ashworth, and S. Roun thwaite, Liverpool and Litherland, Lancashire, and Glasgow, asphalte manufacturers (so far as regards the said J. A. Bartlett)—E. Ord and T. Humphrey, Sunder land, linen drapers—J. W. Lawson, and W. M. An derson, Lime- street, City, merchants—B. Sewell, B. Sewell, jun., and C. Sewell, Chatham-place, City, mer chants—T. C. Jackson and J.H. Jackson, Little Bolton, Lancashire, engineers—Mary Okey and W. J. Okey, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, glass stainers—W. Wil kinson and J. Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire, cotton warp dressers—H. Shaw and J. Shaw, Stalybridge, Cheshire, woollen manufacturers—T. Waddington and G. Wad dington, Beverly, Yorkshire, fellmongers—H, W. Woods and F. Bauer, Great Russell-street, lithographic printers Mary Ann Blackit and Sarah Rennoldson, Sunder land, dress makers—C. Marshall and T. Wright, Shef field,fpawnbrokers—J.D.Grayson and C. Grayson, Liver pool, shipbuilders—R. Carbines and J. Sallip, Great Guildford-street, Southwark, ironfounders—G. R. Min nikin, J. Lancaster, R. Crosswaite, and J. Crosswaite, Keswick, Cumberland, black lead pencil manufacturers— J. Redfern and W. Owston, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leices tershire, chemists—E. Lane and C. Lane, Bahia— J. Carlton, G. Walker, and D. Lewis, Manchester, ware housemen. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Henry Stephen Reynold, Stamford, Lincolnshire, hotel keeper. Samuel Hartridge Tyler, Sutton Valence, Kent, painter, plumber, and glazier. William verest, Toys-hill, Brasted, Kent, farmer. . . Joseph Driver, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, book seller, stationer, druggist, cooper, and patten maker. Thomas Cole, Cheltenham, beer house keeper. William Wakefield, Cheltenham, trunk and stay maker. John Charles Banks, Lymington, Southampton, painter an plumber. Thomas Darnton Millner, Leeds, student in civil law. Thomas Bowman, Kirkdale, Lancashire. Thomas Barber, Liverpool, wharfinger. Owen Griffiths, Liverpool, licensed victualler and en- gineer. James Towers, Liverpool, shoemaker. John Parry, Liverpool, boot and shoemaker. Matthew Henry Lister , jun., Petworth gaol. Charles Smith, Northampton, jobbing butcher. William Holland, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, stamper at a glass tube factors. John Ward, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, coach maker. James Mitchell, Blackburn, Lancashire. Thomas Carlyle, Blackburn, Lancashire, draper's as- sistant. Henry Bramley, Leeds, dealer in periodicals. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Ross, New Wynd, Glasgow, joiner and cabinet maker, to meet within the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 29 and Feb. 26, at two. W. Todd, Glasgow, warehouseman, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 20 and Feb. 19, at twelve. A. Marshall, Edinburgh, accountant and commission agent, to meet within the Paxton's Coffee-house, Edin burgh, Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at twelve. W. Steedman, Guirney- bridge, Kinross, farmer, cattle dealer and grazier, to meet within Kirkland's Inn and Hotel, Kinross, Jan. 26 and Feb. 19, at twelve. N. Scouller and Co., Glasgow, warehousemen, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 26 and Feb. 16, at one. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL, JAN. 23. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states that during the past week firmness has been the characteristic of the trade, with a very limited business doing; buyers were ready enough to give late rates, but the great bulk of the recent arrivals being landed, importers were unwilling to sell without aa advance. The supply of wheat from our own farmers at this day's market was somewhat less than usual, with little inclination evinced to give way in price, and good dry parcels were readily taken off at full last week's rates. A small show of foreign, with a good deal of inquiry for best runs deliverable duty free on the Ist of February; such are held at 44s to 46s 601 b, with buyers at is to 2s under those rates. The barley mar ket ix firmer; more inquiry after best descriptions of malting, and no more grinding to be had on late low rates. Beans of all sorts have been better sale during the week, without actual advance being quoted. The bulk of the peas being landed, prices are stiffer; indeed, for some sorts is to 2s more money is paid during the week. Nothing doing in foreign oats, and English are only saleable on low terms. Not much business passing in linseed, with only a moderate import; prices are well supported. The mild weather, and the low value of other articles of feed, interferes much with the consumption of linseed cakes, which are now, both English and foreign, to be procured on easy terms. The little rapeseed here is hardly on the market, or some advance on previous sales would be obtained. Very little doing in rape cakes. Bones fully support our quotations. The following are the present prices of grain : B. s. Linseed cakes, English, per Wheat, red Do. new do 4O 44 Do. foreign, do 7l to 810 s Po. white 44 4 6 Rape cakes, do 87s 6d o. new do 42 —44 Bones, do .85s Od to 90s Od Do. Dantzic ..... 48 50 Guano 41 to 91 5s Do. Lower Baltic & FOREIGN GRAIN IN BOND. Hatnburgh . 44 46 The free prices less current Barley,malting 26 31 duty. Do. grinding 2l 24 Wheat, Dantzic & Konigsberg 0at5........ l4 16 Do. Lower Baltic& Ham burgh 1/o. Danish l2 14 Do. Archangel & Petersburgh Do.Friesland l6 18 Barley, Saal and Magdeburg Do. Russian Beans 3O 33 Oats, Russian Do. foreign 2B 34 Do. Danish and Pomeranian... Peas Linseed, crushing 34 38 40 Do. do. feed... Do. feeding Rapeseed, per 10 qrs. 24/ to 27/IPeas HULL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN OF THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 16. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1,094 Qrs at 43s 3d 327 at 28s Od 96 at 13s 3d Rye. Beans. I Peas. 0 Qrs at Os Od 0 at Os Od 0 at Os Od LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—At this day's market there was a slender attendance of dealers, and the business transacted was on a limited scale. There was no change in the prices of free wheat; and bonded samples, without much inquiry, supported the advance of Friday. Oats, being less plentiful, were fully as dear; the sale, how ever, was slow; and oatmeal, being still neglected, was 6d per load cheaper. Barley, beans, and peas were oaly saleable by retail, and at barely previous rates. Indian core 1,4 104 ociwe repot thau at the awe of the week, yet good sound yellow brought 30s 6d to 31s per 4801bs. hellsn corn meal held for 6d per barrel ad-. vance. Free flour was 6d per barrel lower, and bunded 6d per barrel higher, 25s 6d being paid for Baltimore. IPSWICH, JAN. 23. We had a good attendance of farmers at market to day. Wheat was a slow sale, and prices scarcely so good as last week. Making barley was in fair request, at steady prices; other qualities were dull. Oats, beans, and peas are a shade lower. Malt not much in request. Flour steady. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 4os to 50s Beans 258 to 32s Barley Oats ... Rye.. ....... .. . 23s to 26s Flour, per sack 3Bs to 438 AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 20. Wheat' 1,389 quarters at 44s sd. Barley Oats Beans 162 ~ 29s 2d. Pea 5.... . - - - LEEDS, JAN. 23.—There is a pretty good arrival of grain here to-day. Wheat has met a moderate con sumptive demand at rather under last week's prices. The quantity of barley offering is very small, and is taken off in some instances at Is per quarter advance. Oats and beans maintain last week's rates. PETERBOROUGII; JAN. 20.—We have a large supply of wheat at this day's market, and there is also a fair quantity of barley, beans, and oats offering. The trade continues in the same dull state that we have had to note it for several weeks.past,:the millers only taking the best qualities at late rates, whilst the inferior sorts are le cheaper than last week. Barley, beans, and oats, are not cheaper, but the demand for each is very limited. Cur rency to the growers:—Wheat, new, 38s to 425; fine, 44s to 465; old, 42s to 465; fine, 48s to OOs. Barley, 26s to 28s; fine, 30s; malting, OOs to OOs. Oats, new, 14s to 16s; fine, 18s to 21s; old, 20s to OOs.; fine, 26s Beans, 38s to 40s; new, OOs to OOs per qr. Inspector's corn return for week ending Jan. 20—Wheat, 760 qrs. 4 bu. 42s 71d; barley, 343 qrs. 3 bu. 27s 84d; oats, 250 qrs. 4 bush, 13s 61d; beans, 20 qrs. 0 bu, 37s Od; peas, 0 qrs. 0 bu., 00s 0d per qr. HERTFORD, JAN. 20.—Arerages—Wheat, 21s Od to 33s Od, 429 qrs., 5 bu, 46. 3d; barley, 24s Od to 32s 6d, 2,086 qrs., 4 bu, 29s sd; oats, 00s, 8 qrs, 0 bu, 18s. HAVERHILL, JAN 21.—A fair attendance at market last Friday, but business was very dull, at still lower rates. A short supply of stock. Wheat, 101 to 101 10s per load; barley, 28s to 30s per qr; peas, 40s; beans, 365;: oats, 18s to 20s; hay, 70s per ton; flour, 37s 6d to 40s per :sack. IYALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 22.—There were 123 bags of oatmeal, and 13 of barleymeal at this day's market; sales ready; oatmeal obtained the currencies of last week; barleymeal brought is 3d to 2s per bag over he prices quoted on th,it day fortnight. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. 27s Od 26s 6d 26s Od Barleymeal, per ditto ... 22s 3d 22s Od 21s 6d Peasemeal ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —s Od —5 Od Pot barley —s 6d —s Od —s Od HAMBURGH MAIL. HAstnunoa, JAN. 17.—The Elbe is again very:inse cure, and becomes increasingly so from the continued thaw. Scarcely any sledges venture upon the river, and the country people from Harbourg cross at Wilhelms burg, where the ice is thinner. In several places, at Stade a❑d Cuxhaven for instance, the river is free, and no more drift ice is to be seen. HAMBUROH FUNDS, JAN. 17. Bills. Hanoverian New Loan, 5 per C'ent. .• • • 103%. Ditto, 3% per Cent. _ Bank Shares . Prussian 5 per Cent.... ..... ••• • • • 1(0% 100% Russian Certificate ............ ••• • • • 964 96 Anglo-Russian Loan •• •••• .• •• 99% 99 Ditto, Certificate •• .• ••..•• •• 91% Russian 4 per Cent. ........ ••.••• •. 81 ); New 5 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... Ditto Stieglitz ........ ......... Belgian Loan •••••• • .• • • 41% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • • 65 61% Ditto, in 1001. shares .............. Anglo-Swedish Loan ............ •• .. 96 96 Ditto, Transport Loan .............. Norwegian Loan, 1848 ........ Spanish New 5 per Cent ... Ditto 3 per Cent ........., Ditto, 1846.. ................ Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • . . Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. National Bank Shares .. American, 6 per Cent. ••..• • • . 103% 100% RAILWAYS. Money. 103% 91' 80% •••• 95 95 9% 934 ••••• 19% 19i Hamb. Bergd. _ Ditto, Priority Shares Berlin and Hamburg - - - Ditto, Priority Shares .. Cologne and Minden ........ - . Ditto, Priority Shares Mecklenburg.. Altona and Kiel ..... • • Gluckstadt .... Hanseatic Steam Company 68 99 61 93 79 91% 98% 60 35% 88 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANOB.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 21-- Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, a n d W est Yorkshire, Prefer ence, guaranteed 6 per cent. (B), 20 1 4—Birkenhead, Lance shire,and Cheshire Junction (late C. and B. 271. 10s. Shares), 15.74 Caledonian, 26%—Ditto, Preference, 1 1 4 p.—East Lancashire, Quarters, 51. Is. 3d.— Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Leeds), Fifths, 3 1 4 dis. c.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 1% p. ex int.— t itto, Halves (late Hull and Sheffield), 13 dis. ex int.— Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and Bury), 13 1 4 dis.—London and North- Western, 132 Ditto, New Quarters, 4,y p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 1 ,4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln (late Sheffield and Lin coln), Eighths, 5% dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, 1196—Ditto, 20/. Shares, 10 dis.—Ditto (Docks), 12 dis.—Midland Stock, 92 1 4—Ditto, New Halves, 5 1 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 die.—Scottish Central, 26—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Ches'er, 4 dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 101. Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 14%—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 7 3 A ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 34 p. MANCHESTER, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Shrewsbury and Chester, Preference, 974 Caledonian, Preference, 1 1 4 p.-- Leeds, Fifths, 3 15-16 dis. —West Riding Union, 4 9-16-- Sheffield and Lincoln, 12 1 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 7 5 4—Sheffield, Eighths, 5. 3 4 dis.—Wharfdales, 445. 6d. dis.—East Lancashire, Preference, 714—Clitheroe, Pre ference, 20 dis.— Old Grimsby, 25 1 A c. dis.—North Stafford shire, 274 dis. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The market was firm, and very little stock was offered. The sales are—London and .North- Western, 131—Midland, 6 per cent., 126—North Stafford shire, V. 16s. 3d. dis. Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Prefer ence, 1 1 ,4 p.—South Staffordshire, 3 dis. YORK, JAN. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows :—Great Northern, 8/. 16s. 3d. ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), 274—Ditto (Extension), No. I, 201. 13s. 9d.—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 2 0%—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), Si. Es. 9d. HULL, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 0/4—Caledonian, 26%--East Anglian (fly and Huntingdon), 3—Hull and Selby, Halves, 50; 1 / 4 —Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 35e..—North British, Quarters, 735.-- -Ditto, Thirds, 925. NE WCASTL E-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Caledonian, Quarters, 6 1 4 1 dis.— Great Northern, 1O dis.—Newcastle and Car lisle, 107. GLASGOW, JAN. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and Glas gow, 82. N—Edinburgh and Northern, 11 1 / 2 —Edinburgh and Newport,; —Glasgow General Terminus, 11 - Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, s—Glasgow and Greenock, Halves, 7% Scottish Central, 26. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A Respected Member of the Society of Friends Cured of a Cough and Asthma, by Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —Extract of a letter from Mr. Benjamin Mackie, to Professor Holloway, dated Creenagh, near Loughall, September 11, 1848:- 6 . Re spected Friend, I feel it only an act of justice to thyself, to state that I have personally experienced the benefit of thy excellent Pills and Ointment, in the cure of an inveterate Cough and Asthma, which afflicted me for three years to such an extent, that I was obliged to walk about my room at night, afraid of suffocation if I went to bed. I then tried thy invaluable medicines which, I am pleased to say, have perfectly cured me."--- Sold by all vendors of Medicine throughout the globe, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. CHEAP WATER AND GAS.—Last night a numerous meeting of the rate-payers of Lambeth was held at the Vestry•room, to take into consideration the best means of obtaining a cheaper, purer, and more abundant sup ply of watt'. and gas, Charles Pearson, Esq., M.P., in the chair, at which it was agreed to petition Parliament upon the subject. (3 -1 COMPA Tl.e I the l rol of tie ban ly qnisite f arrive pita ac( bincd the viev opriet And Stateme !newel still fee Correct!, It wil of the co Lamy, t Uncle] pany to Lions, at went of Fort] l'arliam a aeries trils it 1 gression 'victors These Legislat 1336, wl or great Inunical east coa don and that, to owners great pi Irnentar3 time it stance 1 the dire attendef The I homy it ground I of Rah their tri ready it to seeur The li traffic b Etru — , Party Th e d o The Nvz The ure t th e , • Will torn T 1 Jam be s, I)riei and BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Emsworth, Hants, the lady of Capt. E. H. Beauchamp, R.N., of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Holmwood Parsonage, Surrey, the wife of the Rev. J. S. Utterton, of a daughter. On the 21st inst,, at Shorrolds, North end, Fulham, Mrs. W. 11. Lammin, of a daughter. On the 2lst inst,, at Coin Rogers Rectory, Gloucestershire, the wife of the Rev. H. B. Forster, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Coston Rectory, near Melton Mow bray, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. J. Sand,lands, of a son. On the 21st inst., Mrs. Timothy White, of Landport, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Radnor-place, Hyde•park, the wife of VV. G. Taunton, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 20th inst., at Heston Church, Middlesex, Frederick E. Trimmer, Esq., to Adelaide, daughter of the Rev. E• Withers, of Sutton, in the same parish. On the 22d inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Florence Fox, sou Of W. J. Fox, ALP., to Caroline Phcebe Caulfield, youngest daughter of the late J. Caulfield, Esq. DIED. On the sth ult., at Fort William, Calcutta, Colonel James Peckett, of the Bengal Engineers, aged 58. On the 12th inst., at flue de l'Universite, Paris, the Vicomte de Montchenue, Marechal de Camp, Chevalier de St. Louis, and 011 icier de la Legion u'llonneur ' aged 91. On the 17th inst., Jane C a d ogan , w if e o f the Rev. William Nourse, rector of Clapham, near Worthing, Sussex, and youngeet daughter of the late Rev. J. Hyde Gill, of West Cowe, Isle of On the Itqh inst., at Brighton, Samuel Fyson, Esq, of Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, aged 53. On the 20th inst., Lt Adelaide road, Haverstock-hill , Ellen, the wife of John Berry, Esq., aged 32. On the 21st inst., at Bath, George Haynes, Esq., late a merchant at Trieste, On the 21st inst., at Cheltenham, Sarah, wife of Lieute nant-Colonel Spedding, aged 53. On the list inst., at Old Broad-street, the Chevalier Don. Jose Maria Barrer°, Spanish Consul-General. On the 21st inst., at Cirencester, Susan, widow of the late George Bever, Esq. On the 20th inst., Mary Ann, second daughter of Mr. E. Allen, of High-street, t-palding, Lincolnshire. 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 the cetuity of Wodueaday, January 24, 1849, P.ortan them t capital tome on the thorls4 Wiley desiral capita] eoMpl4 caPen• It vi love of GRIME The ISt of Hlll ill Uh en The 'eased which et the 1 511 m linnet The term ;the r In adi and I A Com p cheat] 4)11 asl Th, heavy static 1 0505 Lave Veen diree exert THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1849.: