The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF T 142 PUBLIC JOURNALS. We much regret to observe that throughout the country but little attention has been paid by the con stituency generally to the registration of their votes. How can the people expect to reap the benefits which may be derived from the Reform Act, unless they them selves will take some little trouble to look after the means by which the desired end can be produced ? We may be answered that there are so many formalities to be attended to, and so many legal quirks and quib bles thrown in the way to defeat the claims of voters, that they, therefore, give up in despair. Even if such were the case, it would only be a greater reason for ex ertion on their part. That there are many points which require amendment we confess, and we regret to find that, throughout the revision which is just closing, the unfortunate provision with respect to the payment of the ls. for registration has had not only a most per nicious tendency to diminish the number of electors in counties, but that in boroughs it has been productive of much trouble and litigation before the Revlsing Barris ters. Why it should have been productlve of the effect in the former case, we should think, must be tolerably clear to every one ; for there are many (and, we are sorry to say, some of ttiem most highly respectable persons) who have thus deprived themselves of their votes, feeling a rpug,nance to pay a shilling for what they conceive all are as much interested in as they are, and which they consider should rather be looked upon as a sacred duty to be discharged than as any boon. In the boroughs, the enactment has given rise to many objections to the names of persons who have not paid the shilling. And though we consider the words of the Act are sufficiently plain, whatever the intention of the Legislature may have been, there has been suf ficient difference of opinion on the subject, at any rate, to hold out encouragement to objectors ; and we also find our able contemporary the Examiner expressing considerable doubt as to the correctness of the decision of two Learned Revisers (Messrs. Sandys and Chap man), who, after taking time to consider their judg ment, held that the non-payment of this shilling was no cause of disfranchisement, on the ground, we be lieve, that it was not part of the rate. The words of the Act, quoted by the Examiner in support of its opinion, and on which the Learned Revisers also ap peated to rely, are these— " Every such elector whose name shall be on the register of voters for such city or borough shall be liable to the pay ment of ls. annually, which sum shall be levied and col lected from each collector in addition to, and as a part gf, the money payable by him as his contribution to the rate for the relief of the poor, and such sum shall be applicable to the same purposes as money collected for the relief of the poor." And the Examiner remarks on these words— " We can see nothing in the judgments severally deli vered by the Learned Gentlemen which at all contravenes or explains away the inevitable and common sense interpre tation of these words, and surely it is a mistaken and dan gerous lenity to give decisions in favour of the franchise which will not stand good before a Committee of the House of Commons." But, unfortunately for the accuracy and research of cur contemporary, this clause does nothing more than point out the mode in which the shilling may be col lected, and in itself contains no disqualifying words. The 27th section of the Act, however, which does, is as follows : " That no person shall be so registered, unless such per son shall have paid, on or before the 20th day of July in such year, all the poor rates and assessed taxes which shall have become payable from him in respect of such premises previously to the 6th day of April next preceding." We need hardly point out, even to our lay readers, that the ls. for registration does not come under the description of either rates or taxes payable in respect of the premises for which he claims to vote. And it is to such rates and taxes that the disqualifying words are expressly confined—and it is quite clear that a party might be in arrear for rates or taxes for other premises, either in the same borough or in a distant part of the kingdom, and yet be entitled to his vote. This same provision has also, with respect to the freemen, given rise to much contention, and a question has been raised as to whether the freemen whose names are returned to the Barristers by the Town Clerk are liable to the payment of the is. at all. And though the words of the Act are, " that every such elector whose name shall be on the register, shall be liable to the payment of ls," &c., as above, yet it is contended that, as a freeman may live out of the parish or borough, and therefore not be liable to be rated, that the sub sequent provision as to the levying of the shilling as part of the rates, shows that it was not intended to apply to freemen. To this it might be answered, that the Statute is merely directory in pointing out one way in which the shilling may be levied. But without professing to enumerate or decide upon all the argu ments pro and con, we will merely observe that, as this provision has been productive of much angry feeling and considerable trouble, we trust that, on the above grounds, to say nothing of the apparent hardship in its being an annual tax on borough voters, while a county elector may only have to pay it once in his life. This is the last year it will be allowed to exist ; and that on the Bill for the Amendment of the Reform Act being brought forward next Session, this vexatious and paltry enactment will be expunged from the Statute Book.—Morning Herald. We are glad to find that the Lord Mayor has, though at the eleventh hour, or rather at the close of his eleventh month, threatened to take in hand those abominable nuisances, mock auctions, which, to the disgrace of the police, both of London and Westmin ster, have been so long allowed to defraud the public, and especially to prey upon the unwary. Justice, whether in passing through the Strand, the Poultry, or Cornhill, must indeed be blind, or it cannot avoid seeing these places, where the most open system of plunder prevails, carried on daily by means of the same impudent actors and actresses. But the blame is not altogether with the Magistracy, the Lord Mayor rightly enough saying he shall point out their practices to the Excise. In this, we hope, he will be more successful than we have been, who, over and over again in this Journal, have for years past drawn the attention of this Revenue Board to this crying fraud and nuisance ; and yet, though some or other of the Commissioners, and some scores of their officers, must daily pass these receptacles of fraud, they seem to have been, one and all, as conveniently blind as the police officers and the Magistracy. The fellows who live by this species of plunder may, perhaps, think it hard that they should be routed out, or interfered with, while those greater miscreants, the keepers, high and low, of the various gaming-houses in the metropolis, are allowed to carry on their depredations with impu nity. As between these parties and the Magistracy, or whosesoever duty it maybe to look after them, this may be very true. We are, however, obnoxious to no such reproach. We object to both the nuisances alike. We chellenge and arraign at the bar of public opinion alike those who suffer the continuance of one or the other. With regard to the lesser nuisance of the two, we hope the new Lord Mayor will keep his eye upon it, and complete the work which his prede cessor has at length begun. The cheating E. 0. table on a race-course is not more flagrant or obvious than this impudent, open fraud in the streets. Yet while the tosser-up of a halfpenny is doomed to clur- . ance vile, these swindlers are allowed to go on cheating every one, laughin g at their dupes, and actually beard ing justice on its seat.—Morning Herald. It has given us unfeigned satisfaction to hear that the late strike on the part of the builders' workmen is fast dwindling into insignificance, and that the base in stigators of it are likely in a very short time to be th. c sole remnants of the conspiracy. Many of the yjas ters, we believe, have already obtained their full, com plement of men ) and the remainder a re only waiting to make a selection of the best hands ere they, complet e their number. All those workmen too, be it remem bered, who have returned to their work have proved themselves superior to the arts of the demagogues who betrayed them, and have signed the masters reasonable requisition. This cannot fail to prove a beneficial result both to masters and workmen, and to us it is ex tremely gratifying, because we may, without presump tion, take credit to ourselves for having been instru mental in directing public opinion to a right view of this really important question, and in pointing out to the deluded workme n the folly and wickedness of the conduct of these designing knaves who called themselves Unionists. Our Correspondent the " Architect" has sent us another letter, which we have inserted because he has adverted to the monopoly question, although we trust his other arguments w ill b e scarce l y requ i re d i n addition to those with which the public are already fami liar. The monopoly-cry, it will be recollected, was first raised at the meeting of small masters, at which Mr. T. Duncombe presided ; and of course, proceeding from such an assemblage, and with such a president, it could not attract serious or general attention. Wc are relieved from entering into this branch of the sub ject, for the working classes very quickly discerned the object of Mr. Duncombe and his small-master consti tuents, and their organs of the Press have very copi ously, and some of them very ably, discussed the motives and conduct of the small masters, and have proved to demonstration that their public abuse of the monopolists, as they were pleased to term the large builders, was not poured forth to serve the workmen, but to advance their own private interests, by inducing the public to transfer the business into their hands. The workmen, too, with a shrewdness and frankness which are equally creditable, admit that it is infinitely better for them to be employed by capitalists, who can afford to pay them tolerably good wages, without any postponement on a Saturday night, than by small masters who screw them down to the lowest sixpence, and are frequently unable to make good their agree ment when the wages become due. On the score of advantage to the public, so long as there is a fair com petition (and we think there is no want of that) the question between capitalists and no capitalists does not admit of much doubt.—Morning Post. Some time since we promised our readers that we would take an opportunity of examining the reports which have been presented by the Commissioners of Excise Inquiry, and we intend, as briefly as possible, to place before them the substance of the very voluminous, but valuable, evidence and reports which have been printed under their direction. Nine or ten reports are printed, referring to spirits, wines, - tea, starch, vinegar, stone bottles, and sweets, besides that upon the summary jurisdiction, and other powers and privileges, at pre sent executed and enjoyed by the Board of Excise. This we regard as the most important, and although it is the third report, we shall bring it first under the no tice of our readers. Few perhaps are acquainted with the extent of the power of the Board of Commissioners of Excise, and especially with the business which is brought before the summary Court of Excise. It consists of—proceedings for penalties under the numerous enact ments of the Excise laws, including the condemna tions of goods seized ; proceedings for double duty, as a means of securing the payment of single duty ; pro ceedings on complaints, being applications for repay ment or allowance of duties levied on parties according to the strict application of the law, but under circum stances which appear to entitle them to relief. Before, however, we say a word upon the character or consti tution of this Board, we will quote the recorded opi nion of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Excise, which is as follows :—" Nothing, we con ceive, short of a necessity incontrovertibly established, is sufficient to justify the continuance of any branch of the public judicial institutions, of which the cha racter arid composition strikes every observer as sub versive of all principles of justice. The mere exist ence of such a tribunal we consider to be an evil of scrious . magnitude."• The character and composition alluded to in that report, consists in the Judges of this Court of Excise being appointed by and removable at the pleasure of the Crown ; and that the evidence against the party to be tried is brought forward at the instance of, and supported by, the testimony of the agents of the Judges ! Before the case can come into Court, these agents must have been in constant communication with the Judges who are to decide upon its merits, and who in their Board-room have already decided that there is sufficient evidence to condemn the party to be tried ; and moreover these agents are to the moment of trial collecting evidence through the officers employed on the premises of the accused, and who have access t 5, his house and works, and can watch every movement he makes. It has long surprised us, and we have frequently expressed our surprise, that those leading Journals which are daily pressing their great anxiety that the liberty of the subject should not in any way be infringed, and wino lately so violently abused the Government on account of the comparatively trifling power given to the Commissioners of Police and Poor Laws, should not long since have used their ut most endeavours to remove such an anomaly as the ex istence of this most tyrannical Court. This would have reflected more credit upon them than they have obtained by the tissue of falsehoods and misrepresen tations they have lately promulgated. The Commis sioners of Excise Inquiry appear to have attentively examined into the expense and duties of this Court, and also into the effect produced by this establishment, and we confess we are surprised that Sir Henry Parnell, who has distinguished himself by a most ardent desire to improve and abolish, where practicable, all laws (Effecting the industry of the country, should have agreed to a report on this most important branch of the inquiry, without examining a single person sub ject to; and working under the Excise Laws, or with out attempting to obtain their opinion of its efficiency, and of the justness of its decisions. It is true that the Report strongly recommends the abolition of this Court; but it also states that the inquiries have satisfied the Commissioners that this " branch of law is so administered as to be pretty satis factory to the publi c i n it s resu l ts , and that, therefore, although it is indefensible in principle, and inconsistent in practice, they cannot recommend its instant abolition. Let us look then for the evidence upon which it is stated that the Excise laws are admi nistered to the entire satisfaction of the public, and we shall find it consists of that of the Judges themselves, their Assistant Solicitor, and a Magistrate !—There is no evidence from manufacturers or dealers who are unfortunately obliged to submit to the excise regulations. No evidence, in fact, from any one but those who are interested in supporting this most unconstitutional Court I We are, however, still more surprised at the report after perusing the evidence of the Commis sioners of Excise. For instance, Sir F. Doyle takes great merit to the Court because there have been very few appeals from its decisions, and this part of his evidence is quoted in the report. Here it IS not diffi cult to ascertain the reason of this absence of appeals from the decision of this Honourable Court, and we will detail a few of them. First, then, the penalties awarded by this Court are so perfectly insignificant ' co those they might and ought to claim, that every on must feel that all they could possibly gain by an arrperil would be an increase of penalty, increased expesices, and ad ditional rigour from the agents of the Commissioners for the future I Secondly, th at not above one-half of the penalties awarded by thip-tourt are recovered ; and thirdly, that an appeal must increase the publicity of the case I For these rea . ..4ons the decisions of this Court must be popular with •(hose who are brought under its jurisdiction, but is at the same time, equally popu lar with the hones;, ; trader ? Is he satisfied with the conduct of the I .lommissioners ? Does he approve of a sentence wh;(ch, from its leniency, only holds out an inducement ' - ‘o the continuance of the frau& upon the Excise, ar,d by which, perhaps, his neighbour has already nefa),-- y destroyed his trade, by the low price he is ena.'sited to supply his cus t omers ? W e say , arc decisions, awarding small penalties, of which only half rare recovered, popular with any but the fraudu lent. traders ? Is justice done to the honest trader by sr.egi decision s ? W e con fid ent l y say i t i s not : the interest of the fair trader is injured, and the interest of the revenue neglected by this Court, which claims to itself the merit of giving universal satisfaction. Had the Commissioners of Inquiry examined a few manu facturers who had not yet experienced the kindness of Judges appointed to protect them, and whose greatest anxiety appears to be to protect the smuggler, and annoy the respectable trader, they would have mad different report. The Commissioners of ,• Ex ,- ..: ise C s a e ~ne revenue, two duties to perform, viz.—to protect . s tradesman. and support the honest and indur•Lor.pu -I';h.eT-know anything of The latter, in an economical ld political econ o my, most important duty ; for • quantity view, is their would b SOOll infh be aware that a small 'any "eonimodity sold below the market - kenees the price of the whole quantity sold. I n price, this way it • is that the smuggler injures th e trader. His e induced honest by th e a d van t age h e o b tains to sell ow an in this wa' there is TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1834, between the prices of the smuggled and the duty-paid commodity. But the Commissioners of Excise seem to think, that if all smugglers were exposed and punished as justice demands, there would be too litttle busi ness, and, therefore, on the same principle that a rat catcher, when he has destroyed a certain number of rats, leaves a few to breed, in order to secure employ ment another time, the Commissioners appear to en courage fraudulent traders, by making the punishment as light as possible in small cases, and compromising the penalties in important ones. We think we have clearly shewn that the report in this respect is very un satisfactory. The Commissioners endeavour to prove that their, Court is economically managed. They are ' aware that if it had not this merit, their Court would not be tolerated for a moment. In this they are suc cessful, although it is evident that the stipendiary ma g 6 istrates could with facility discharge their buszness. In the country districts, the magistrates attend to Ex cise dute j % It is only a district round London which is favoured by the jurisdiction of this unconstitutional Court. Why should this be done ? Why should such men as Sir F. Doyle be allowed to exercise an almost tyrannical power over the manufacturing traders of the metropolis ? In another article we will, by ex tracts from his evidence, slew his fitness to discharge duties which ought not to be entrusted to any one, much less to officers belonging to the school of Pitt and Castlereagh, and whose sole object appears to be to retain every restriction upon the manufactures of the country.--Morning Advertiser. --- - The law appointments in Ireland announced yester day by our Dublin correspondent might at another time have been passed over, as not calling for much observation. Mr. Crampton, the new Judge, is a lawyer above mediocrity ; as the Judge Jebb, whom he succeeded, was nothing better. Mr. O'Loghlin, the new Solicitor-General, is a sound lawyer, a gen tleman (Catholic) of liberal principles and of popular reputation ; and Mr. Greene, the new Serjeant, a person no otherwise to be unfavourably remarked upon in the present instance than as having been put over the heads of nearly 40 King's Counsel, his seniors at the Irish bar. But as every thing in Ireland takes a party colour, and as circumstances had predestined this legal promotion to be regarded with more than common curiosity at least, if not jealousy, by certain portions of the Irish world, it may be fitting to observe that Mr. O'Connell has so far laboured in vain as to have failed—failed lamentably—in his professed pur pose, of dictating to Lord Duncannon and his Majesty's Government, the list of personages by which the vacan cies referred to should be filled up. It will be re-. membered what a volume of threats and denuncia tions has been poured out upon ministers within the last three or four weeks, if they did not leave in Mr. O'Connell's patronage the appointments of judges and of law-officers of the crown in Ireland. They must be of the " popular " party—that is, of the re peal or revolutionary party—of the O'Connell kidney —of the anti-British coterie. Yes, the judge who was to represent the Sovereign, and administer justice in his name, and the law officers who were to ad vise His Majesty's government in all cases between Crown and subject, must by all means be selected from the faction whose only distinctive character now is its eagerness for a measure against which the King on the throhe has declared that all his constitutional power shall be in the most strenuous manner directed. " The people of Ireland," with Mr. O'Connell's usual modesty, we were assured, would be content with nothing less than such impli cit obedience to his mandate. But the mandate has not been obeyed. Among the gentlemen of the bar now promoted, there is not a single repealer of the Union —not one ! The " people of Ireland " must, therefore, swallow the disappointment as best they can ; ay, and they will swallow it—meaning by " the " people of Ireland"—the agitators of Ireland, and their degraded, infatuated, miserable dupes. As for th© real spirit or inclination of the Irish " people," comprehending the intelligence and property of the country, it now never enters Mr. O'Connell's brain to speculate upon it as being within the range of his mal practices. The course to which his evil genius long since prompted him must have convinced him that all, save only the lowest of the multitude, were inaccessible to his most dexterous devices ; nor does he wish, on the contrary, he dares not bring matters to such a test. He dares not risk any public crisis which would only se parate the respectable part of the Irish nation from his boasted " people of Ireland,"—namely, his own pe nance-bound slaves, whose credulity is more signalized by their faith in him, than in a thousand saints and 10,000 priest-begotten miracles. There is no sort of difficulty, however, in conjecturing to what use Mr. O'Connell will now turn this rebellion of the Govern ment against him. It is a magnificent grievance ready to his hand, and a lucrative one he will make it, or his name is not Daniel O'Connell. The " people of Ireland" will be told that such a catalogue of nominations out-herods all the crimes of the bloody , Saxons for more than seven centuries ; they will be called upon to attest by substantial evidence their indignation at the enormity of passing over the names of O'Connell and Sheil, and a dozen other Catholics, and choosing a Judge, Solicitor-General, and Serjeant, to the exclusion of the dictator himself and of all who enjoy his confidence. Will he pronounce himself still a " Ministerialist," we wonder. We doubt it : this dose would be too much for a West Indian shark to swallow. No, but he will first inflame the poor mob against the public authorities, and after driving them to the verge of madness, he will conjure them " not to violate the law." Why ?—because their blood will be shed for it, and that would be an encroachment on the agitator's own province. T o hi m a lone it belongs to bleed his faithful " people of Ireland," and bleed them pretty freely, to be sure, he will, on and after the Ist of next month. This fresh offence, therefore, of the King's Government against Mr. O'Connell is to a godsend the " annuit an t of the people of Ireland." The stream of popular fury he will turn to gold ; from each halfpenny among them he will wring at least a farthing ; and yet this is the man, the humane and grateful being, who gets up in Parliament and has the face to withhold a legal provision against famine from the benefactors whom he has done his best to starve ! —Times. COURT OF BANKRUPCY, OCT. 7. (Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.) RICHARD MEE RAMS ' BANKRUPTCY. In this case the bankrupt is the principal of the firm of William and Thomas Raikes and Co., and was Governor of the Bank of England till Wednesday last. This morn ing some merchants and others interested in the estate of Raikes attended at the Court for the purpose of open ing a fiat of bankuptcy against him. Parties having been examined privately, Mr. Commis sioner EVANS decided that there was sufficient evidence before him to direct a fiat to be granted. The chief evidence of the commission of an act of bank ruptcy was afforded in the fact that on the 29th ultimo Mr. Raikes addressed a letter to a person in his establishment, which stated that, in consequence of his endeavours to ex tricate the concern from the difficulties in which it was in volved, he had determined to proceed to the Continent, and he gave instructions to the party addressed to procure a power of attorney for the disposal of 4,0001. Bank Stock, standing in his name in the Bank of England, and to trans fer it to another party. This letter the Learned Commis sioner considered adequate proof of an act of bankruptcy, and a fiat was awarded. The petitioning creditor was Mr. William Dean Labouchere, who proved for 1,5001. It is said that the assets of the estate exceed 9,0001. The 20th instant is named for the first meeting of the creditors, and the bankrupt's last examination is fixed for the 18th of November. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mild:ell, a cabman, on Saturday remanded upon the charge of having stabbed a man named Charles Bradshaw, was brought up for re-examination. Bradshaw appeared with his arm in a sling. On Satur day morning, while he was in the Bull Inn, Aldgate, read ing the newspaper and waiting for his breakfast, the prisoner entered the room, asked him for the paper, and said, " If it was not for you, I'd be in a place now." Witness asked him what he meant, and he called the witness the most horrible of names. Witness said, "If you go on in that way, I'll shake you," and got up accordingly, and did shake him. Prisoner then took up the knife, and stabbed witness in two places in the left side. Witness's hand was also cut in the attempt to prevent the prisoner from doing him further mischief. The prisoner declared that the witness had called him by the horrible names just mentioned. The LORD MAYOR (to Bradshaw)—Did you use that epithet to the prisoner ? Bradshaw—Quite the contrary. He called me by it. I never said a word of the kind. The LORD MAYOR—Did you strike him ? Bradshaw— I don't recollect striking him, but I certainly shook him well. The LORD MAYOR—A man who was present says that you struck him first. Bradshaw—l don't recollect it. The LORD MAYOR—Did he go to your box, or did you go to his, when you told him you would strike him ? Brad shaw—l went to his box, and when I shook him he took up the knife off the table and stabbed me twice with it. The wounds are still very bad. The prisoner —My Lord, I wish to say something. The LORD MAYOR—I think you had better hold your tongue for a while. lam not one of those who think it is acting in a spirit of British law not to caution a prisoner against doinc , himself an injury. The prisoner—l only say he struck and abused me violently, and I held out the knife to protect,myself, for he is a much stronger man. The prosecutor certainly is a much more powerful man than the prisoner. The Loan MAYOR—I shall remand you for a few days, and then commit you for cutting and maiming. The wife of a metropolitan policeman complained to the LOUD MAYOR that the parish to which she belonged, and to which her husband, who had left her, allowed her 3s. a week for her maintenance, had refused to give her that al lowance, but proposed to her to go into their poor-house at Stepney, where she should be maintained, the 3s. a week going into the hands of the parochial authorities, according to the provisions of the new Poor Law Act. The complainant had the greatest objection to go to the poor-house out of the parish, as it was in the power of those who superintended such places to act very harshly to the poor. The LORD MAYOR asked why the officers of a city parish were so anxious to drive their poor to their poor-houses in the country ?—The overseer replied that the parish had no workhouse in the city, and were obliged to give their paupers out-door support, or to send them to the workhouse at Stepney. As the complainant was an able-bodied pauper the authorities did not consider themselves at liberty to dispose of her in any other way than by sending her to the only workhouse they had. The LORD MAYOR—You have no right to send any of the poor out of the parish except their health require the change of air. I shall not authorise any thing of the kind. The Overseer—lt is not our wish to do any thing that may appear harsh, and we consider that in refusing to give the applicant the 3s. a week, we act according to the spirit of the new Act. The LORD MAYOR—I admit that if you had a work house in your parish I could not interfere, but I shall not permit you to drive this woman away to a place from which the complaints of the inmates cannot easily be heard in the city. You may take her husband, if you please, and make him give you a better allowance for her. He ought to give more than 3s. a week, and I wish you would tell Mr. Mayne, the Commissioner, the facts of the case. The Overseer should represent the matter to the Com mittee. The LORD MAYOR—I consider that it is most cruel, as well as most impolitic, conduct towards this woman:parti cularly as she is abandoned by her husband ; and I think that any fellow who acts as he acts is a very improper person to have anything whatever to do with the adminis tration of justice. Pi)OR LAWS' AMENDMENT BILL. ST. PANCRAS' BOARD OF GUARDIANS AND DIRECTORS. The above Board held a quarterly meeting yesterday morning at the workhouse. Mr. COOKE in the Chair. A memorial was presented to the Board signed by a number of rate-payers in publi c mee ti ng assembled, request ing urgently but respectfully, that the Board would be pleased to postpone any reply to the questions of Mr. Chadwick, the Secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners, until the 14th inst. From questions put by the Board to the gentlemen who presented the memorial, it appeared that the memorialists desired that a general meeting of the rate payers of the parish should be held, that the option of the parish might be taken as an instruction to the Board how to proceed in reference to the subject. After a short dis cussion the memorial was ordered to be entered upon the minutes. The confirmation of the minute of the previous meeting ordering that answers to the questions of Mr. Chadwick be forthwith forwarded was then about to be brought on, when A Guardian and Director moved that the application of the Memorialists be agreed to, and that the farther notice of the answers to the questions be postponed until the 14th inst. Mr. WILLIS seconded the motion. Mr. MORRIS thought it behoved the Board to act in obedience to the Act of Parliament, which empowered the Commissioners to call for information. Mr. ROUTLEDGE was opposed to the principle of the Bill, but con s id ere d t h ey were bound in duty to t h e rate payers to attend t o the letter from Mr. Chadwick. Mr. ECKETT pelt it his duty to object to the motion , as he did no+ DID ...orialists for the postponement of the subject.,.... - see that sufficient reason had been shown by the Mr. NEWBERRY moved as an amendment that the Board proceed to consider the questions. Mr. Stumm?* seconded motion. hen i , 1'. .1 _ The motion for the postponement u ntil th e 14th t - z..:t. ; vas put and lost. `hough the The Quadrille h a ll s a t th e Rotunda-- losc— series of those delightful entertainments is drawing to a . re are as fascinating and as attractive as ever. There nearly three hundred of the leading members of our fashion able circles present at the assembly of Thursday evening, and the amusements of the gay scene were kept up with spirit and enjoyment till a late hour. The musical promenades are held every afternoon in the gardens, and never were more nume rously attended than during thq past week....L.Cheltenham Journal. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Robert Hambridge, collecting clerk to Messrs. John Baker and Co., silk manufacturers, Cheapside, was re-examined before Mr. Alderman Scholey, charged with embezzling on the 22d ult. a 301. note, which he received from the Bank of England on account of his employers in exchange for a bank post bill. The Prisoner was committed for trial. William Hobrow, a letter-founder in the service of Mr. Thorogood, attended before Mr. Alderman Scholey to answer a complaint of his employer for going away and leaving his work unfinished. The Defendant had obtained money in advance to the amount of 1/. 145., and it was urged that receiving the money, though without any specific agreement, constituted a contract to perform labour to that amount, that it was not a loan of money but a payment of wages. The defendant replied that there was a custom in the trade to give fourteen days warning, and having complied with this custom he had a right to absent himself. The work could be finished as well by other hands as he could have done it, and he intended to repay the money. It was decided that the defendant having given the usual warning the statute did not apply to his case, and the de fendant was discharged. BO W-STREET. THE POOR LAWS AMENDMENT ACT.—Yesterday a very fine-looking old woman, named Elizabeth Withers, was in troduced to the notice of the bench by a lady of great re spectability, whose name, at her own particular request, we refrain from mentioning, under the following curious cir cumstances : The lady stated that her friend, the woman who stood beside her, was upwards of 100 years of age, having been born in the same year with George 111. Sh kept the pub lic-house now called the Marquis of Anglesey, nearly oppo site the office in Bow-street, then called the Green Man, for thirty-five years, and consequently had a claim upon the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden. Falling into distress she was compelled to sell the house and everything she had in the world, and became a pauper upon the parish, from which she was allowed Is. 6d. per week until the new Poor Laws came into operation, when she was informed that she could no longer receive that sum, but must go into the house. She felt greatly hurt at this intimation and refused to go into the workhouse, and hence the present application. Mr. HALLS greatly regretted that he had no power to grant assistance. No one could look at the poor but fine looking old creature before him, without a strong feeling of commiseration ; but what could he do ? The Act of Par liament completely deprived him of the power to do as he would wish in such a case. The lady who accompanied Mrs. Withers stated that, taking a peculiar interest in the case of her aged and re spectable " client, she had perused the Act of Parliament very carefully, and she thought that the 27th clause em powered two Justices to give " relief" to p er s o ns who, from age or otherwise, were unable to procure subsistence. Mr. HALLS, upon a careful perusal of the Act of Parlia ment, particularly of that portion of it which bore upon the present case, was sorry to say that he could render no aid whatever to the applicant. According to his own construc tion of the word " relief," and taking the context of the clause altogether, he was of opinion that it meant food only, and was not meant to apply to money to be given by way of weekly allowance out of the workhouse. At the same time, said Mr. HALLS, I feel myself bound to say that this is in all probability one of the cases which the framers of the Poor Law Bill had not contemplated. The worthy magis trate then wrote a note to the parish officers, r equestingtheir . 'ention to the case of the unfortunate applicant, and sug at. • the propriety of an appeal to the Commissioners un gestint, N. Laws, who might, perhaps, be induced to re der the Po. There was a circumstance mentioned in the lax a little, 'ration which gave additional interest to course of the invest,,,"o made the application said that the case. The lady w 4.1, Mrs. Withers' daughter, who was upwards of 60 years of age, and had worked from childhood at Mr. Bywater's, an upholsterer in Oxford -street, had been the main support of her mother for a great many years past. A young man of respectable appearance, named Ray, was charged with committing an extensive robbery on Messrs. Alston, Mather, and Co., merchants at Glasgow. Ruthven, an officer of this establishment, from informa tion he had received, had reason to believe that the prisoner had absconded from the employ of the above firm, carrying away upwards of 7001. On his person witness found 52/., a gold watch and chain, a powder-flask full of powder, and two pistols loaded with ball. Ruthven further stated that he apprehended the prisoner in the Waterloo-road, and when he was in custody he conducted witness to a back room in a house, where he opened a portmanteau and handed him a cash-box out of it, containing 691/. in gold. In another place was a 50/. note, and four 101. notes of the Bank of England. The whole sum found was upwards of 800/. The Magistrates asked the prisoner whether he wished to say anything to the charge ? The prisoner at present should not offer any explanation. He was ordered to be re man d e d f or a week. It was stated that the prisoner had taken his passage for Sydney, and had paid 501. to the Captain of the vessel for his berth. QUEEN-SQUARE. COMMITTAL OF THE WESTMINSTER COINERS.—Wi/- liam Page, one of the most notorious coiners in Westmin ster, and Mary Edwards, a young female, were brought up for final examination before Mr. BURRELL, charged with coin ing counterfeit half-crowns at a house, No. 47, in Orchard street, Broadway, Westminster. The case excited considerable interest, as the house where the prisoners were apprehended is supposed to be the grand depot for the base coin lately circulated to an alarming ex tent about Westminster and the suburbs of London. Out side the office there were no less than thirty well-known utterers of base coin. The prisoners were apprehended last week by Mr. Balu ster, one of the inspectors of the B. division, and police constable Goose. They , broke open the back-room door on the second floor at the house No. 57, Orchard-street, and found Page with a mould for maxing half-crowns, hot metal on the fire in a pipkin, and all the other implements and materials for coining. A desperate scuffle ensued, and one man who was in the room escaped. The other prisoners were secured. Near the fire-place, and amongst the ashes, thirteen base half-crowns were found, some of them quite hot, as if just turned out of the mould. Mr. Field, the Inspector of the Mint, was sworn, and proved that all the half-crowns produced were counterfeit. Mr. BURRELL committed them both for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. My. NEW POOR LAW ACT.—Yesterday three mise rable-looking lads, with scarcely a rag to their backs, who gave their names Thonzas Waters, Frederick Scott, and Robert Marshall, were placed at the bar, and charged be fore Mr. TWYFORD with having no homes nor any visible means of subsistence. William Breakwell, a police constable of the N division, No. 143, stated that about five o'clock yesterday morning he found the prisoners crouched up together in a brick-field near Lea Bridge, and fast asleep. The unfortunate lads, on being questioned by the Magis trate as to the cause of their sleeping in the open air, said that they had no parents, and were entirely friendless, and had not slept in a bed for weeks. They belonged to St. Luke's parish, and had applied to the overseers for relief, and had been refused on the grounds that they were capa ble of getting their own livings. They were willing to work, and had tried every means to procure it but could not. The youngest prisoner of the three said that his father had died in St. Luke's workhouse, and he had since his death been turned into the street to shift for himself. Mr. TWYFORD—I have no power under the new Act to order the parish to give you relief ; all I can do is to commit you to prison under the Vagrant Act on your own statements. The poor orphans said they would be thankful if the Ma gistrate would even do that. Mr. TWYFORD said that if any poor creature was to die from want, the overseers of the parish to which the unfortu nate wretch belonged would certainly be indictable for murder. The prisoners were each committed as vagabonds to the House of Correction for a month. HORRIBLE NUlSANCE.—Yesterday a man of the name of Lewis, the proprietor of a penny theatre in the Kings land-road, was charged before Messrs. BENETT and TWY FORD, with having on the preceding night assaulted police constable 34, N division, while in the execution of his duty. It appeared that in consequence of various complaints having been made at this office by a great many very re spectable tradesmen in the Kingsland-road, of the nuisance of the defendant's theatre, Mr. Twyford directed the police to keep a sharp look out, and to abolish such a public nui sance, and on Monday night ordered Hanley and Brown, two officers of this establishment, to go and witness the actions. The nuisance, as described by them on that night, was im mense. There were about a thousand persons assembled in front of the theatre, and most of them were young `thieves. Hanley and Brown finding it quite impossible to disperse the crowd without considerable assistance, sent to the station-house for a body of the police, and on their ar riving, the defendant became quite incorrigible, and struck N 34, a violent blow in the face ; for which he was taken. into custody. • The MAGISTRATES informed the defendant that they would have every person apprehended that was found in the act of performing at his theatre, and they should there fore recommend him to cease violating the law in such a manner ; for he was under a very heavy penalty for con ductinn- an unlicensed playhouse, and that, the Magistrates said, the defendant must be aware of. The defendant said that he would not persist in opening the theatre for the future ; but he denied having assaulted the officer. One of the police constables conducted himself in a most cowardly manner towards a respectable female who was passing by at the time. The officer Brown said that lie witnessed that fact. The constable alluded to by the defendant certainly acted in a most unfeeling manner to the woman, and knocked her vio lently to the ground. BENETT asked Serjeant Hall who the constable was, as it was highly proper that his conduct should be re ported to the Commissioners of Police. The serjeant said that the constable's name was Fitzgerald, and his num ber 255. The MAGISTRATES Said that previous to the case going before the Commissioners, they would investigate it, and ordered Fitzgerald, who was not in attendance, to be taken into custody when he went to the station-house. The defendant was ordered to gay a fine of 10s. to the King for the assault he had committed on 34 N, and on his doing so he was discharged. TOIVN-HALL. NEW POOR LAW Acc—Police Constable Wallace 11l D, brought up an Irishman, his wife, and two children, whom he found between five and six o'clock at the foot of London Bridge, in a state of complete exhaustion. Their names were Murphy, and they had journeyed from Cork to this country. About a fortnight since the wonran was taken in travail and remained so for two days, when she gave birth to a child, who shortly after died. The poor mother caught cold which has settled in her eyes, and she had become stone blind. They bad been picking hops in a plantation two miles from Maidstone, the proprietor of which, to get rid of the poor creatures, as also to prevent their becoming burthensome to the parish, put the whole family upon the top of a fruit cart on Monday afternoon. They were put down at two o'clock yesterday morning at the foot of London Bridge, and there left in the most des titute condition. Upon application to the overseer of St. Olave's, Southwark, he gave them a shilling to purchase them a breakfast, and afterwards came to this office and said he was willing to take the poor woman into the workhouse, but he could do nothing for the man and his two children, one seven and the other nine, years of age ; they must travel back to Ireland the best way they could. Shortly after a chair was brought, and the poor woman lifted into it and taken to St. Olave's workhouse, Parish-street, Horse leydown. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a foreign seamen, named Siege, was brought before Mr. MURRAY, charged, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, with stabbing Otho Ludovico, a countryman of his own and carpenter of the same ship. The prisoner was remanded until the fate of the wounded man is known. A caravan is a complete republic ; but I do not be lieve that most republics are so orderly. Of our eighty camels, every three or four belonged to different individuals ; and there were four Cafila-bashees. Still there was no disputing about the arrangement or order of the march ; and it is a point of honour, that the one shall at all times wait for the other. If a single camel throws its load, the whole line halts till it is replaced ; and one feels pleased at such universal sympathy. These feelings make it agreeable to travel in a caravan, for the detentions are much fewer than would really be imagined. The more I mingled with Asiatics in their own sphere, and judged them by their own standard, I imbibed more favourable impressions regarding them. One does not see in civilized Europe that generous feeling, which induces the natives of Asia, great and small, to share with each other every mouth ful that they possess. Among Mahommedans we have no dis tinction of gentleman and villain—at least, so far as hospitality is concerned. The Khan fares as simply as the peasant, and never offers to ra i se a mors el to his lips till he has shared it with those near him. I myself frequently have been partaker of this bounty from rich and poor, for nothing is enjoyed with out society.—Barnes's Bokhara. PAPER. The vexatious excise restrictions imposed agatos' of manufact ure o f p a p er , if necessary to the collectionoce the revenue, are in themselves sufficient to delw u visi the policy of this tax. Paper, under the e xcise lA is divided into tw o c l asses : the first class pap er is o f ject to a duty of 28s. p e r cwt., and the sec ond ci rthe 14s. per cwt. miliboards and scaleboards made eh o - e a same material as the second class paper ate e a with 21s. cwt. duty. That quality subject to 14s' Trod cwt. must be made of no other material than if ropes, without the tar being previously extracted ; t . _ the tar is washed out, and the' ropes prepared for t 0 . e .. su bj e ct 7,, manufacture of paper, the manufacturer is an additional duty of 14s. per cwt.; while the " cts te ui Parliament, which pretend to teach the manufaetn,‘„a the art of manufacturing paper, are so nurnerousi'er complex, that it requires an almost supernatural e, tent of legislative knowledge to escape the hea v Yl ic , nalties they impose. To prohibit the pa per man u op a turer from using any other material for m aking se c iesg class paper than tarred ropes, is just as reasen ab to ng to prohibit the cloth manufacturer from making itch class cloth from any other material than sheep marks. Since rope cables have been so generallYo, perseded by those made of iron, old tarred rope is t o cult to obtain ; and when a scarcity arises , hemp it it be manufactured into ropes, and then tarre d be 0, can be used for paper-making, although the would be double the value for paper -making 'eh were allowed to be used without passing thr°ioo, the expensive process of spinning an ;'d t a . rr r to Rags and old sacking, which are too ieferl°„fac e used for first class paper, cannot be ll'a n- re h e nce e j lured into any other description, and are dered of little or no value. The heavy duty c har ri g n st i n the ' OO on licenses to manufacture paper is levied unfair manner. A small capitalist, who in the vat, pays as much for his license as a large ca l! -- for iieces sity ern. who works ten. Surely there can be no so burdening the small manufactunr. The 64. ? th s the ment, which professes to be greatly impiessed cari importance of encouraging British manufactures,,hich not with any consistency defend the system un: p ro. these duties are levied, and must concur in priety of a speedy alteration, even at the sacildenite the entire revenue raised on paper. A fix ed in° s le rate of duty on all classes of paper might no raised ; but, if effect could be given to ad ' i m be duties, to which, we fear, it could not, they decidedly preferable.—Browning's Domestic an nancial State of Great of Britain. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. .....----gio• ....'" Wheat. Barley. I oats. I 11 t ',../ is o 11 . l'er Quarter , s. to s. s. to s. s. to S. 1.- t - 3 s " " Boston ...... 37 43 26 32 16 21 3 3 31 --- " Gainaborough — 41 29 26 -- 4 e --- -- Grantham Grimsby - , Horncastle... Lincoln 33 40 27 12 16 24 40 ss ...• ,- Spilsby 45 51 21 28 16 18 9 2 „ 42 .... Stamford 34 4 ! 29 3 , 1 22 27 IA , E 3 i " York 46 56 .4 30 15 22 2'.3 asTras o 0C1.... *; r l 11 9 12 15 9, t 15 ;8 u 12 13 0 )4 14 18 0 Jac. si. per §. 16 , "i• t° a 11 , t° 11i• t° ;11. IRISH MARKETS. RIVET NOTE for the WEEK From 15 6 9 9 11 0 8 6 5 0 le 0 DUBLIN MA 1,573 Wheat, per barrsl 20 stone Ls) Bore l6 stone 998 Earley 2,451 Oats 12,3:36 Flour, per cwt 62'2 Oatmeal-- l stone Sold to Bakeis cnly. 8,142 Cwt. Flour I 11 0 Average price of Wheat and Flour ;363 Receipts of Flour, 15,5301 First. fro' Sale of Do 12,3..6 Seconds . Tnilds ' fro fro] PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern L0af......", V. I Half Quartert" oil' CORK MA RK EIS.--Oct. 4, 5 04 0 Wheat (per 205 t.)... 7s. Od. Id. Oats (per 14st.) ...... t 0 Barley (per 16st I ) ... 5 0 12 0 Flour (per cwt.) ..... - Oatmeal (per cwt.) I Is. Pd. to 1'25. Le ; Beef, sd. to bd. ; Mutton, sd. to ; Veal, 6d. Pork, 2d. to ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to 112 d. p er Co nn PRICE OF IlllrrElt. do TO • To the Merchants. First Quality Second . Third 57 ....................... Fourth Fifth4'l ............................... Sixth 4G ........................... CLO NME LL M Oc`. a Cw•t ii ii Bag. es (. ra.:)....................: ( 1 1 , t i : . 0 s. ti t • 0 :0 9 Bacon Pigs ............ ‘2O „ .. 16 v it Heads . ~ 0 I lour, Thirds ........ 7i i ' 1 Fourths. ..... IT ) 0 ;arra. i Coo; .................. -- - Barley .............. ••• 0 0 s . it 0 , stone. 6 0 , Tallow (rough) ...... 6 44 Potatoes ............... "` 0 'ound. Ir M e u a t l t . o .. n . ................................. i o, I i i l bl s. d. s. d. New Putter 00 0 to 70 () Oatmeal I t 0 14 6 Rendered Lard••• 33 0 31 0 Per Flour, Second 0 9.9 Household U •2 0 Per I Rapeseed 20 0 Bere Wheat 0 10 0 11 Oats Pert Fresh Butter 1 1 1 2 Beef 0 31 0 5 ------- '- MARKETS. . Beef (per lb. ......... 0 5 0 6 t 0 6 Mutton .... ..... 0 2 Pork. .................. „ 5 . Veal ....... .......... 11 , 0 91 Frebh Butter ..... 0 .3 • Salt Ditto ............ 0 5 Potatoes (per st.)•• KILKENNY Wheat (perbarrel) I9s. Pd. to 20s. Od. Barley l2 0 12 6 Oats Flour (per bag) IS 0 29 et Butter(percwt.) 72 0 25 0 Bacon Pigs 22 0 25 0 Coals 1 0 1 1 SCOTCH A RKETS. HADDINGrON CORI MARKET.- 4116 3. 13'1 Wheat.. isarley. ..arr.. Ire e ; 3( 2 6 0 First .... Ms Od 3.5 s 0.1 23s 04 2 s ild C 0 . 1. 0 ..,' Second. 4Bs Od 2'is Od 22: (Li --s ill. 1 hird 44s Oti 24s Od 'O , Od OW ' There were 551 qrs. of Wheat in inarket,497wher eof 53 Unsold-0 Grey. Avcr tge V. 4..5,1 4.12 0 L .. 0 0 ; DALKEITH CORN MARKET.-- , C . .q 0: Wheat. Barley. oats. i , • 4 1., e i n: 0 0 I 53s 041 Oh 0 I 22, 01 376 v ~ 0 4 44s Oct 26s (kl .2.4; 01 :44 , O d i 1 2 Ss Od 194 041 , 17s 441 29 ' °' ......., Vfl ' BIR THS. a ith' ° ' On the 4th inst., at Eastbour n , the lady of Joh n -r ter' o ( of On the a daughter. a &lig di 4th inst., at Brixton, Mrs. E. Godsell, A th e l' On the sth inst., in Burton-street, Burton-cresc ent ' of Sidney Smith, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. t ' 'On the 4th inst., Mrs. Henry Gompertz, of a ac.1%.„.c A' ' n g On the sth inst., in New Broad-street, Mrs. " e " - ' 0. es , a son. „h i Sau lla On the 4th inst., at Charlton, the lady of Cap'" -- i c e" the O Ral Artillery, of a son. l ady ° f f f" n the 4th inst., at Hampstead Heath, the 104 oo ol l' Harwood, Esq., of a son, still-born. , John I' On the 3d inst., at Anan Lodge, Bognor, Nrs' of a daughter. Fiat Second hint . MARRIAGES. W On the 4th inst., at Otter St. Mary, Devonshire, „ vs r. Esq., of Upper Clapton, to Mary, eldest daughter 0 ' h oe to caster, Esq., of the former place, and recently of i i t d, ft•;ii, At Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, Lieut. ii r . iT hi LD , fi e j o i ft° Elizabeth eldest daughter of the late Rev. "'"-- A Di< Newark-upon -Trent. Edosr'" oo'J On the 30th ult., at Newcastle-under-Lyme , IW% man Fourdrinier, of Northwood, Staffordshire, t o daughter of the late Thomas Moyle, Esq of the °l in :b r a in , efticli' On the 2d inst., at Lawton, Essex, Mr.i ' John 80 0 lot' W se e a s l t , E M s all q., in o g f , H K a e e n k t n , e t y o .. Eliza, youngest daughter oi ( VP Ars ba les na On the 2d inst., at Paris, at the Hotel of the Britisiblobe.,res, Frederick Liardet, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, M. A_ t° oesb i daughter of the late Peter Marsland, of Wood Bar it ' o llebl e iVor erlr ' On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Wit. 'O. 14°e . William Ward, of Saffron Walden, Essex, M rs. of London. chelse On the 6th inst., at Trinity Church, Ti l ot 00 1) ; o, to MarY,i' 3o ,lo , Harris, Esq., son of Lieut.-Colonel Noel Harris, of the is child of the late Reginald Alleyne Elleock, Esq" 9 4 ;; Barbadoes. n• bl a- On the 4th inst., at Edinburgh, John N • ‘- • • ran , ti• Joe Bengal Army, son of Brigadier-General 0. aloc:corsl Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Major-`-' aloorf' Pringle, Hon. East Company's Service. flanofe r f Thel ° On the 7th inst., at St. George's Church , ;de o ,fo ci. , Captain Falcon, Royal Navy, to Louisa Curshino,,w,:forrielco Captain Cursham, and dau hter of the late Rich ora ' tee • t y of Runkton, Sussex. g On the Ist inst., at West Grange, Perthshire, John ! t o rte °:( . ra . writer to the signet, Edinburgh, to Christian, mill late Lieut.-Colonel John Dalgleish, of West Gran e ge,, , s s q.;_ab' In the Parish Church of Dingle, Robert FitzA.rtl , " ei d e s . t son of the Right Hon. the Knight of Kerry, to . PI !L ai . ter of Peter Bodkin Hussey,Esq of FarranakillYl Tiv d lefr *, of O c n ha t r h le e s- 3 s d tr i o n e s t t : 'llll‘lnaTesttphereE-sbqllelvrileedSagwife 6osf.Mr. nom• ' 'i tt ' cliffonofthHeig2clh_isntsrte.e,ti,niDslianwgstoon-a.street,bublin, Jam es ' le sed sci,4l‘Djge." Dawson, Esq., of Ballynaccourte, county of Tipperarp IL: vroilw' On the 3d inst., aged 41, Jane, thenife of Mr. A r On the 3d inst., at Dawlish, Devonshire, t ° of Mr. Matson, of n, Battersea.eV. VI. On the sth inst., in Hans-place, Sloane-street, the 11 Augustus Cane. ss4'' On the 6th inst., at Bayswater, Chas. Edward Hitchrneo, t/ 0 aged 38. of On the 2d inst., at Landaff, Susanna second daughter Rev. Richard Pritchard,Vicar of that place. Eliza, eldest clad' OW On the sth inst., Mrs. Tulloch, relict of Alea• Tullecii' d late of Charles-street, St. James's -square, aged 75. w ife On the 6th inst., at Boyne-terrace, Notting-hill, Ellen► , Mr. John M. Parsons. Oriee On the 6th inst., Hannah, wife of Thomas Ireland, of street, Westminster. CO' s ; On the 6th inst., Mrs. Jane Hammack, of Colet-plecte 000 mercial-road, relict of Mr. Johns alllinaCk, formerly of , v 1 0 place, and Shadwell High-strbet, ed 77. On the Ist inst., at Athlone, aged 4 years and 9 months the 1;1i Peter, eldest son of Captain P. V. Wocd, Pa}•master of ei Foot. . ~,,,ior, On the 6th inst., Eliza, only child of Mr. William ,^1 Daiston, Middlesex. L o ndon : Printed and Published by MURDO Y O(114 a t The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand.