The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. - - Some very interesting Parliamentary Returns rela tive to emigration to the American and Australian colonies were yesterday distributed. They consist of extracts of correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Governors of the British colonies re specting emigration and the disposal of Crown lands, and dispatches from Colonel Arthur, tending to throw light on the state of Van Diemen's Land. If ever there could have been a doubt as to the impossibility of connecting the two objects of farming and penal discipline, it must be removed by the dispatch of Go vernor Arthur, of 28th June, 1832. The discipline and control of the convicts in Van Die men's Land is carried, perhaps, to a higher degree than could ever have been contemplated. The colony may be traversed from one end to the other, by day or by night, with the most perfect safety ; and the community, without reference to political feeling, affords the Government steady support in upholding a system which they have the good sense to perceive is intimately blended with their personal security ; many of the convicts also become greatly re formed when in the service of considerate and judicious masters. But with all this abatement, there is so much peculation, so much insubordination, insolence, disobe dience of lawful orders, and so much drunkenness, that re ference to the magisterial authority is constant, always at tended with loss of time and expense to the settler. If the case, indeed, be a serious one, and the prisoner be com mitted to take his trial, the master, or some member of his family, with perhaps two or three servants, is brought from the interior to appear before the Supreme Court or Sessions, at a considerable direct charge, in addition to the injury which is sustained by his absence from his family and from his property ; and this is felt to be so burthensome, that there can be no question things appear better in the colony than they really are, for in numberless instances masters are known to submit to peculation rather than incur the addi tional expense of prosecuting their servants." change in this province, while the price of labour continues very high in the neighbouring states ; nor, indeed, in any new agricultural country, where the population is not pro portionate to the extent of land to be brought into cul tivation. " In adverting to these circumstances, it will appear evi dent that emigrants having many difficulties to encounter in providing shelter for their families, their first object will be to obtain land, and clear a few acres in a neighbourhood in which they may procure work ; and that many of those who bring with them sufficient property to maintain their families for two or three years after their arrival in Canada, will quit the provinces if great exertions are not made to fa cilitate their location in districts where their industry can immediately become profitable. " The settlers sent out from Wiltshire by the parishes, and from Sussex by Lord Egremont, and also those from Yorkshire, had been led to expect that land would be granted to them upon terms that would enable them at once to cul tivate a sufficient portion of land for the maintenance of their families. All these must have been forced into the United States, had they not been placed on land by the local Government. They have completely succeeded, and are useful to the officers who have taken their grants near them. " Farming in this agricultural country is in fact the only resource for a man with a large family, either as a tenant or proprietor of land ; for although an industrious labourer may readily obtain work, his family cannot. " Officers of the navy and army must necessarily receive their grants in new townships ; these and emigrants with capital—a class of settlers now becoming numerous—can not be prevailed on to enter the forest, except they are assured that indigent settlers will be located with them. " The most advantageous system that can now be adopted to raise the value of land, or to correct the errors which have been committed in settling the province, is to condense the new population as much as possible in townships contiguous to those already settled. The minimum price might be fixed at 10s. per acre when a township contains 100 families, or when about 8,000 acres have been sold ; but I certainly should recommend the land to be disposed of at, a more reasonable price, till a tract of land had been par tially settled." The principle is here admitted, that the condensa tion of the people is an advantage ; and that regula- tions to prevent the dispersion of settlers are beneficial; and the only question is as to the means by which, in a colony like Canada, the condensation may be best promoted. In the Westminster Review for October we observe an able and laboured article on the sub ject of the proposed New South Australian Colony. We fear that from the nature of the soil and climate of New Holland, the scheme is open to several of the objections of the Reviewer. But it appears to us that the Reviewer has not met in a fair and manly manner the principle he opposes, namely, that the productive power of labour is increased by the concentration of the population within certain limits. The evil of dis persion has been, to a certain extent, counteracted in North America, by the extent of water communica tion ; but who does not know that the scattered popu lation of North Carolina would be able to employ their labour to more advantage, were the inhabitants to be settled sufficiently near each other to admit of the making of roads and bridges, by which easy commu nication might be practicable ? The settlers are buried in the woods, grossly ignorant, and can only be said to vegetate. The principle of concentration does not appear to us to be affected by all that the Re viewer has said. He has merely shown that, in the application of the principle to different countries, the same rules cannot be observed.—Morning Chronicle. The picture which Colonel Arthur draws of the difficulties which the master has to encounter in con veying a convict to his settlement, is somewhat dis heartening— " The master has to take the convict to his home (either to the other extremity of the island, a distance of one hun dred and forty miles, or nearer, as the case may be,) and well would it be if he could get him quietly there ; but the contrary is of too frequent occurrence. Either with some money the convict has secreted, or from the bounty of some old acquaintance, the assigned servant, now relieved for the first time for months from personal restraint eludes the vig►lance of his new master, finds his way into a pub lic-house, drunkenness follows, disorderly conduct is the consequence ; and the first notice the settler has of his servant, for whom he has travelled to Hobart town, for whose clothing he has paid the Government, and for whose comfort he has made perhaps some other little advances, is, that he is lodged in the watch-house, with the loss of half his clothing, or committed to the gaol for a felony! This is not in the slightest degree an overdrawn picture, but a plain matter of every day's occurrence. A settler, newly arrived, thinks it at first a vexation not to be endured ; but he soon falls into compliance with difficulties which are visited alike upon all ; and finding there is no es cape from them, he is forced to participate in the common mischief, which he cannot avert." When the whole expense of punishing the assigned convict is thus borne by the settler, we may be pretty sure that the discipline will not err on the side of rigour. And this, by-the-bye, prepares us for the great difficulty which will be experienced for some time in our slave colonies. We admit that the negro is more docile than an English convict, and that old habits will do much ; but still considerable difficulty must be experienced during the apprenticeships in maintaining order through the magistrate alone. The settler in Australia is driven by self-interest to connive at the misconduct of the convict, for, besides the expense, the punishment of the convict deprives the settler of his services ; and in like manner the apprentice negro, if refractory, can only be punished at the expense of the master. , The account given by Colonel Arthur of the parent stock from which the population of Van Diemen's Land must principally be derived, is in keep ing with the above description : " Free hired labourers receive 151. of surplus wages over and above a most liberal allowance of food and clothing ; and fencers, reapers, carpenters, masons, &c., derive a still larger surplus ; yet these men, in eight cases out of ten, do not accumulate ; every farthing is expended in the pur chase of ardent spirits ; and when all is gone they return to labour. Were spirits reduced in price they would still ex pend all their money—they would dissipate for a longer time ; were spirits, on the contrary, raised in price, the only effect would be an increase of the time devoted to labour, and a reduction in the number of hours spent in in toxication." After this picture who would be in a convict settle ment ? It is quite clear that, if the master connives at peculations, by which he is himself a sufferer, he will not be more anxious to suffer in order to protect his neighbours. A free settler can have no adequate protection in the neighbourhood of convicts. A better description of labourers from this country would be soon contaminated by the example of the emancipated felons from England. It is greatly to be regretted that the attempt to forma colony of convicts was ever made. Our North American Colonies present a more cheering prospect. The correspondence between Lord Goderich and Sir John Colborne is calculated to throw light on a question a good deal agitated at this time— namely, the extent in which the combination of labour ought to be aimed at in granting new land. By the regulations of the Colonial-office of Ist March, 1831, all lands must be put up to sale • but the lowest price is fixed at 53. per acre. Lord. Goderich, in his despatch to Sir John Colborne, dated Ist Jan. 1833, observes— ., I am satisfied that, viewing the lands as a great finan cial resource, the sale of them at a high price is no less ex pedient than in reference to that other object of keeping the inhabitants of the colony within limits, and of prevent ing a forced determination of the people to the single class of landowners. * * * * * From the tenor of my communications, I trusted that you would gather my in tention, that indigent emigrants should never, except as a measure of the last necessity, be settled on lands allowed them on more favourable terms than to any other class. When, therefore, I approved of the settlement of poor emi grants reported in some of your dispatches last year, I proceeded on the supposition that the parties could not have been possibly provided in any other way ; I by no means proceeded on an assent to the doctrine, that as every industrious emigrant can in two years become an owner of land, it is better for the provinces that be should commence immediately on his own property. It is precisely by the prevention of this event that I think the rigid establish ment of a high minimum price will be beneficial. I know not how to propound, in plainer terms than I have already done in my dispatch of the 21st November, 1831, the ne cessity that there should be in every society a class of la bourers as well as a class of capitalists or of land owners. The high rate of wages and the scarcity of labour is the complaint of every growing society ; to force the condition artificially by tempting into the class of landowners those who would naturally remain labourers, appears to me a course opposed to the dearest interest of the colony ; it is injurious to the individuals themselves, who would eventually profit more by passing through two years of labour, and then enjoying the services of others during the same, than they can profit by the immediate ac quisition of land, with no capital and no supply of labour. I object, therefore, to favouring indigent settlers, either in the price of their land, or in the period of credit allowed to them ; I object to it as regards the revenue, both because it directly depreciates the value of land, and because it ope rates indirectly to the same end by diminishing the number of competitors for land on the usual terms." The failure of the house of which the Governor of the Bank of England is a member, though an event of no more intrinsic importance than any other bank ruptcy, is calculated, we imagine, to have an injurious effect upon the minds of such foreigners and other persons as are not aware of the total absence of con nection which may, and did, in this instance, exist be tween a man's mercantile and official character. The Bank Direction, indeed, including the late Governor himself, derives credit from the fact which has been undeniably established, that the latter either did not, or could not, derive from his situation in the bank the smallest relief to ward off the approaching crisis of his house. Yet, under all circumstances, it is an event which ought to have been, as we are assured it might have been, avoided. In the first place, considering that it is only a very few months ago that the late Go vernor of the bank was elected to that office, there are many persons who consider him to blame for allowing himself to be placed in a situation of such high finan cial credit and responsibility, when the precarious state of his own mercantile credit could scarcely be unknown to him. His own family and immediate connections, which are known to be among some of the most wealthy persons in the city, are also blamed that they did not step in and avert, or stave off the crisis till the party in question could have disrobed himself of his official garb. We do not wish to appear to press upon misfortune by any stronger remarks than these. The event in question, however, gives rise to this general remark, that it ought to cure the bank proprietors of their too ready acquiesence in " House Lists," which have for time immemorial rendered the chairs of the direction of the Bank of England their own nominees ; a system mischievous in itself, and evidently not car ried into parctice with anything like sufficient previous scrutiny and caution.--• Morning Herald. The relation which actually subsists between Mr. O'Connell and the present Government of Great Bri tain on the one hand, and the nature of that anterior and perhaps more intimate connexion (for the latter qualification is at least of questionable accuracy) which enables him to sway at will the understand ings and the passions, to govern with absolute au thority the opinions and the conduct, of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, are questions for the contemplation of British Statesmen, and of the whole British community, of greater importance than any other within the whole range of national affairs, fo reign or domestic ; much as there is, at almost every point of our political position, at the present day, of embarrassment, doubt, confusion, and alarm. The political efforts of Mr. O'Connell, have never, either in Ireland or in the Legislature, been directed to pro cure for the destitute and half-starving peasantry of his country any mitigation of the evils of their phy sical condition. He has, on the contrary, aggravated those evils by his strenuous and successful endeavours to promote discontent, tumult, and crime, to fan the flame of intestine strife, and to shake the security of life and property ; thus erecting a barrier the most in surmountable against the influx of capital, and placing the imperious and irresistible interdict of agitation, upon all the pursuits and all the habits of regular and beneficial industry. Not content with these efforts to perpetuate and increase, the physical sufferings of the lower orders of his countrymen, Mr. O'Connell has omitted no opportunity of shewing that his heart is in capable of any touch of sympathy with the material evils of their condition. Giving nothing to the poor, he has for many years extorted from the most destitute of their number large sums under the name of rent, enriching himself and family with the spoils of beg gary and famine, and making a profitable escape from the toils of a profession which afforded him the means of an honourable and affluent independence. The triumph of Mr. O'Connell over the understandings, the feelings, and the pockets of his poor Roman Ca tholic countrymen is a triumph sui generis. It entirely differs both in kind and degree from the ordinary achievements of political leadership. It presents to our view not so much effects withoutany adequate cause, but effects totally incongruous and incompatible with the visible causes by which they seem to be produced. Ireland under the cultivation of Mr. O'Connell seems to be a garden of which the chief product is a monster. A miracle surpassing that of any legend of the Church of Rome grows there in rank...luxuriance. Mr. O'Con nell sows the seeds of meanness, extortion, fraud ; he waters the ground with the tears, and enriches it with the blood, of his suffering countrymen, and lo there springs up an ample harvest of rich and ever-increasing popularity. The continued and growing popularity of IVIr. O'Connell among the poorer classes of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, in spite of the foul injuries he inflicts and the sordid extortions he prac tises upon them, is indeed simply a manifestation of the power of the Popish Priesthood over the minds of their benighted followers. That with so much wickedness and baseness as he daily exhibits he should be tolerated by any considerable number of the people, in the character of a political leader, is a fact to be explained no otherwise than as every other anomaly of the Church of Rome is to be explained—by the ignorance and superstition of the people, and the despotic authority which the Were British America by itself, and were the Go vernment unfettered by the acts of its predecessors, there could be no difficulty in carrying Lord Gode rich's plan into effect. But the proximity of the United States influences the price of labour in Canada, and no system with respect to future grants of land can have the effect of keeping labour lower than it is in the United States. Of course, the price of land in the United States, and the extent of land already in Canada, in an improvident manner, must also, in a great measure, determine the price of future grants. " In carrying into effect (says Sir John Colborne, in his dispatch to Lord Goderich, dated April 16, 1833) arrange ments proposed for the advancement of the agricultural in terests of the colony, and for the improvement of the terri torial revenue, it is not only necessary to bear in mind the present political state of the province, and the injudicious manner in which the land in the front townships had been granted, but that the four or five townships in a northern direction from the St. Lawrence and the Lakes Ontario and Erie, are for the most part occupied by the U. E. Loyalists, or settlers from the United States, and much in tersected by Clergy reserves, the Crown reserves pur chased by the Canada Company, blocks of land set apart for the support of schools, and large improvident grants made at an early period ; that as the Canadian farmers improve their estates slowly, and are contented with small profits, they do not employ labourers constantly ; that the rates of wages cannot undergo generally any material THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1834. priests are enabled to exert over minds thus debased and depraved. Mr. O'Connell is the agent and the instrument of a permanent and comprehensive Papist conspiracy against the Protestant religion, and against British government and law, in so far as British go vernment and law are understood to be the natural allies and protectors of the Protestant faith. It is in virtue of this mission that he can alternately fawn and bluster—without incurring the imputation of incon sistency ; that he can profess in Parliament his full satisfaction with a measure, and in Ireland, after the interval of only a few weeks or days, declare that he never regarded it but as the forerunner and preparative of other measures still more propitious to the cause for which he works,—without any impeachment of his integrity and good faith; that he can revel in wealth abstracted from the scanty meals of thousands of the starving families of his countrymen,—and still retain a high reputation for disinterestedness and generosity. What would be vice and infamy in other circum stances become virtue and honour in the estimation of conspirators when they tend to promote the objects of the conspiracy. This affords, we believe, the only pos sible explanation of Mr. O'Connell's continued popu larity with the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, notwithstanding the mean and degrading vices which have distinguished his political career. In the absence of any other proof the ascendancy of such a man would furnish conclusive evidence that the Papists of Ireland, under the controul and dominion of their Priests, are a vast body of conspirators against the Protestant re ligion, and against the connection of their country with Great Britain. Until this conspiracy be broken up, or reduced to weakness and consequent humi lity, it must have one or more political leaders, and those leaders must, of necessity, be such as Mr. O'Connell is. It is this conspiracy which has created and will uphold Mr. O'Connell, not Mr. O'Connell who has been essential to the institution, the mainte nance, or the success of the conspiracy. We have now explained our deliberate view of the character and position of the great leader of Irish agitation, with re ference to the Roman Catholic population of his own country. The relation in which he stands towards the actual Government of Great Britain remains to be un folded, but this we must postpone until another day. We are bound, however, at once to express our belief, founded upon circumstances which seem to us perfectly unequivocal, that the conspiracy against the Protestant faith and the connection of Ireland with Great Britain, of which Mr. O'Connell is the ostensible and promi nent leader, already reckons among its members a con siderable and influential portion of the King's Cabinet. —Morning Post. CONFESSION of the MURDERER of MR. RENS. STO W, OCT. I.—The examination before the Ma gistrates led to the apprehension of Edwin Jeaffrey, alias Butcher, (living as carter with Mr. Ellis, but cher, in this place), who, in his confession, says— " That about a week before the murder, as he was cutting hay in his master's rick-yard, adjoining the road, he saw Mr. Rens pass, and observed he had a nice gold chain and seals attached to his watch, and thought he should like to get pessession of it. He still harboured that thought until the night of the mur der, when he again saw the deceased pass his master's rick-yard, wished him good night, followed him down to his stable, at the back part of his master's house, which leads into the lane where the deceased was walking ; he went into the slaughter-house and took a large stick, which the butchers use for knocking down calves ; he followed the deceased, and leant against a gate, near the spot where the murder was committed, while the deceased passed round the head of the horse pond ; the deceased came up to him, wished him good night, and he wished the deceased good night; turned round, and knocked him down, when he took his gold watch, purse, and a piece of Indian rubber from his pocket ; he heard some person coming, and jumped over the wall into a garden, concealed the watch, and lay concealed himself until the person passed ; he then got back over the wall, went to his stable, fetched his lanthorn, returned to the spot, and lighted the persons who had discovered it home, with the body ; he then went home, ate his supper, and went to bed, as if no thing had happened. He concealed the watch for a few days, when he put it into his pocket, and has worn it constantly until within a few days of his detection, when he changed it away for another watch of very tri vial value. On being asked how he could suffer two men to be imprisoned and tried for the crime, knowing they would most probably receive sentence, he said, he was aware of that, but he did not care so as he kept the watch—he was so in love with that watch—but at last he got so tired of it that he was determined to get rid of it." There is no doubt that it produced such uneasiness of mind as to lead to a confession of the horrid crime. Since his confession, he says he feels happy, and has nothing to do but to pray to God to, forgive him. He is about twenty years of age, of a boyish appearance, and during his examination he displayed the greatest indifference ; there was such a vacancy in the expres sion of his countenance, that it remained unaltered during the whole of the examination ; and afterwards, when his friends came to take their farewell, he exhi bited the carelessness of feeling and recklessness which characterised him throughout. He says he had no enmity against the deceased, but his sole motive was the stealing of the watch. He is committed to Glou cester gaol to take his trial at the next assizes.-ox ford Journal. METHOD OF MAKING PLATE GLASS. When the glass is melted, it is poured out upon a table, which should be of metal perfectly level, and fur nished with iron ledges of the same thickness as the plate of glass is intended to be ; the ledges are to con fine the fluid glass to the size proposed. A heavy copper roller then passing over it, pushes the soft glass before it, and presses it into a smooth, level surface. The newly-formed plate, when sufficiently hardened by cooling, is slid into a furnace, or kind of oven, where it remains for a fortnight, care being taken that it should cool very gradually. The plates thus formed are afterwards ground to a more exact level with sand, and then polished with emery, tripoli, and putty, till they acquire that beautiful surface we are accustomed to see. I have said that we are indebted to the inge nuity of the French for the art of casting plates of glass. At Ravenhead, in Lancashite, they are now cast in such perfection as to equal, in every respect, those that are made in France. A number of persons have formed themselves into a company, to defray the great expense and share the profits of the undertaking. They have an iron casting-table fifteen feet long, nine feet wide, and six inches thick. This enormous table is so heavy that it is supported on castors, for the con venience of moving it close to the mouth of the ovens, in which the plates of glass are to be gradually cooled. The room in which this great table stands is said to be the largest under one roof that has ever been built in England. It is even larger than Westminster Hall, being 395 feet long, 155 feet wide, and proportionably lofty. The melting furnaces are ranged down the middle, and occupy about one-third of the apartment. The ovens in which the glass plates are gradually cooled, are placed in two rows along the side walls of the room. Each of them is 16 wide deep and 40 deep. Their floors are just level with the top of the great casting-table ; so that when all is ready, the table may be rolled up to the mouth of . the oven, and the plate slipped in without delay. It is a great favour to obtain admission to a plate-glass manufactory. Mr. Parkes, who was permitted to witness the casting of a large plate, describes it as a grand and interesting sight. A vast body of melted glass, of the finest and purest ma terials, is poured out of an immense crucible ; when the large copper roller has passed over it, the glass is spread out into a sheet of uniform breadth and thick ness, and its surface exhibits a variety of colours. At least twenty workmen are employed in the operation. All are busy : but there must be no bustle—no dis turbance of any kind ; even the opening or shutting of a door must be avoided till the glass is tolerably har dened, lest the motion of the air should cause a wave or wrinkle on the surface, and thus lessen the value of the plate.—Lectures at Home. Mr. Rickards, the Factory Inspector, has aban doned the right which he claimed under the Factory Act, of limiting the signing of children's certificates to surgeons ap pointed by himself.—Leeds Intelligencer, REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT. COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX. __• _ _ Mr. COVENTRY and Mr. KEENE, the Revising Barristers, attended yesterday at the Marylebone Court House for the revision of the lists. Mr. KEENE, in adverting to the decision pronounced at Brentford on Saturday relative to the claim to the elective franchise by remainder-men, said the case involved the right of a very numerous class of persons in respect of the county franchise. The case was this :—A gentleman from Shep perton claimed in respect of a reversionary interest in cer tain freehold estates devised by his father to the claimant's mother for her life, with remainder to the claimant and his heirs. The claimant had been brought up by, and conti nued to reside with, his mother in the same house, part of the devised premises, and there was a clause in the will providing for his maintenance and education during his mi nority out of the rents and profits of the devised estates. Now the 25th section of the Reform Act provided that no person shall be registered in any one year in respect to his estate and interest in any freehold except he shall be in the actual possession of, in respect of the rents and profits thereof for six months, before the last day of July in each year. Upon this clause the first question that arose was, how could a person claiming a future interest satisfy the condition of six months' actual possession or receipt of the rents and profits. The claimant, with considerable ingenuity, had contended that his residence in the same house with his mother was a sufficient possession within the meaning of the Act ; that he shared in the rents and profits during his minority, under the express direction of the will, and that he had continued to do so since he attained his age, and he further relied upon his interest being vested, and upon his capacity to dispose of it. It appeared to him (Mr. Keene) that there was no weight in any of these arguments. As to its being a vested interest, the question was not whether it was vested, but whether it was vested in possession ; and the claimant's power of selling a future interest, subject to a prior interest in possession, proved nothing as to his capacity to exercise a right incident to that prior interest. It occurred to him (Mr. Keene), however, that the rule of law which de clared that the possession of the tenant for life is the posses sion of the tenant in remainder might have been brought in in aid of the claim ; but, upon considering the effect of that rule, he was of opinion that the possession of the tenant for life was considered the possession of the remainder-man, for the purpose of protecting and supporting the rights of the latter, and not for the purpose of giving him any present interest. Thus the tenant in possession defends the re mainder-man's as well as his own rights in the action of ejectment. If the tenant in possession had been a male, the claimant could have had no pretence for claiming the right of voting ; and it could not be for an instant con tended that the sex of the tenant for life would make any difference in the rights of the remainder-man. It might be said, and said truly, that the effect of this decision would be to leave unrepresented a very considerable portion of property, namely, wherever the tenant for life in possession was a female, but that observation applied to all cases where females, sui juris, were in possession, whether for life, in fee, or for any lesser interest, which but for their sex would confer the elective franchise. After having given the fullest consideration to the present case, he was of opinion that a claim to vote made in respect of an estate in remainder, in lands and tenements (the tenant for life being in posses sion, and in the receipt of the rents and profits) conic' not be sustained. Mr. COVENTRY concurred in the decision expressed by his Learned Colleague. WESTMINSTER. IMPORTANT DECISION. Mr. Caleb Elisha, of Piccadilly, claimed to have his name placed on the list as an inhabitant householder, pay ing scot and lot. _ _ _ - In answer to questions put to him by Mr. TAMLYN, he stated that he had for upwards of twenty years rented and occupied a house in Duke-street, St. James's, and which he held on lease. He left that house in February last, and took another house in Piccadilly ; but although he had let the house in Duke-street for one year, he continued to pay the rates, and it still stood in his name in the parish books. This he did in order to continue his right to vote in respect of such house ; but should the barristers think that his not continuing to occupy it deprived him of his vote, then he claimed to vote for the other house in Piccadilly, his re moval there constituting a " continued occupation" of a house within the city and liberties of Westminster. Mr. TAMLYN—You clearly have no vote for the house in Duke-street, it not being occupied by you. Have you paid the rates of your house in Piccadilly ? Mr. Elisha—l have not, and for this reason. I did not take possession of it until the 25th of February, yet I was called upon last quarter to pay the poor rates from the sth of January. I requested that some deduction might be made on account of the six weeks prior to my taking pos session, and offered to pay for a quarter and a half. The collector refused to take this. My objection was to being taxed retrospectively. The question is still pending -be tween me and the parochial authorities. lam willing to pay whatever is just and reasonable. Mr. THOMPSON—The question here is whether your re fusal to pay the rate demanded of you was one that you were justified in making. If the parish authorities insist upon your paying the whole of their demand, will you do so? Mr. Elisha—Most certainly ; but they doubt themselves whether I am liable or not ; and until they decide, the col lector acting under their advice declines taking my money. Mr. THOMPSON.—I cannot think that under these cir cumstances you can be considered as having refused to pay the rates, or, rather, that your refusal is such a one as comes within the meaning of the Act of Parliament. This is not a case of a formal demand of a payment of rates and a refusal. Mr. Buzzard did not object to Mr. Elisha's name being placed on the list, but as there were other claimants under precisely similar circumstances, he felt it his duty to take the opinion of the Revising Barristers upon the subject. Mr. THomrsori.—From whathas been stated I am bound to assume that Mr. Elisha is willing to pay whatever sum the Commissioners may decide he is liable for, and I there fore think that he is entitled to have his name placed on the list, not for the house in Duke-street, but for the one he now occupies in Piccadilly, his removal there being a " continued occupation," within the meaning of the Act. Mr. Tamlyn was of the same opinion, and the claim was consequently allowed. Messrs. John and James Oliver claimed to have their names inserted on the list as the owners of a house in Duke -street, St. James's. Mr. Buzzard did not object to the claim, but in this case also there was a question on which he wished to take the opinion of the Revising Barristers. The claimants had not paid the poor rates, and there not doing so arose from the following circumstances :—" At Christmas last their house was pulled down for the purpose of being rebuilt, and when the parish rate was made the house was omitted, it being at the time nearly pulled down, consequently no de mand for the poor rates was made on the claimants, but as soon as it was rebuilt the claim would be made as before, and lie had no doubt it would be paid. Mr. Tnowsox—We must consider this house as extra parochial for the time being.—Claim allowed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -r MANSION-HO USE. A young man of respectable appearance; just arrived from the country, appeared at the Justice-room to complain against the gentleman who sells goods by auction in a shop in Cornhill, where a voice behind a counter is constantly inviting strangers who are fond of getting bargains with the words " Going, going, going." The applicant was first in duced to purchase a penknife, and then some other trifling article which he considered very cheap. Afterwards, how ever, be began to bid for other goods, until the amount rose up to several pounds. He remarked one person at the auction, who, at the same time that he praised the articles very much, bid for them too, so that he (the appli cant) might have had them much cheaper if it had not been for the conduct of this intermeddling customer. At last the auctioneer began to put down to him articles which he did not at all want, and which he had not bid for. At this time the applicant bad put down a deposit of 71., and the bargains were soon sent home to him with a bill for 17/. ; but a friend, who is a man of experience in London, called upon him, and told him that he had been regularly humbugged. The LORD MAYOR desired that an officer should give an intelligible hint at the auction rooms about which numerous complaints have been made, and the auctioneer attended to explain. The LORD MAYOR asked why the Gentleman who com plained had been subjected to such a fraud ?—The auctio neer laughed, and said that he did no more than other auc tioneers did. He got off the goods he was intrusted with as well as he could. The LORD MAYOR—You keep a person to bid, and as soon as you can take in any inexperienced person, you knock down the goods, as you call them, to him. Auctioneer (laughing)—That's the way it's always done, my Lord. There is always somebody to buy in if we auc tioneers can't get a proper price. The LORD MAYOR—I shall do all I can to make the Excise interfere to prevent you from committing those acts of fraud. Auctioneer—lf I don't do what is required of me, that's a question between me and the Excise. The LORD MAYOR ---In the meantime I shall send two officers to caution the public against your place of sale. Auctioneer—Ay, a y ! Then I will bring a n action against you. . The LORD MAYoft—l shall commit you too if you are insolent. Auctioneer—l humbly beg pardon, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR then ordered that officers should be stationed at the door of the auction-room. BO W-STREET. Yesterday a well-dressed boy, named William Rayner, was brought up charged with stealinc , a silver snuff-box from th e p erson o f a gent l eman named 6 Thermott. The prisoner said he bought the box from a boy in the street for 2s. The story was not believed, and he was fully committed to Newgate for trial. A young female of most distressing appearance, was brought before Mr. HALLS, charged by the police with having created a disturbance on Saturday evening. In answer to a question from the Magistrate, The defendant said that she had two children by a young man who had deserted her, and on her meeting him on Saturday evening, she asked him to give her a trifle to sup port them, which he refused, and she was certainly very much exasperated in consequence. MAGISTRATE-Ah, we shall have plenty of this soon. The prisoner was then ordered to be discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. NUISANCE IN SOUTHAMPTON -STREET, PENTONVILLE. —THE LATE MURDERS.—Yesterday several respectable inhabitants of Southampton-street, Pentonville, attended at this Office to complain of a gross nuisance which had existed during the last week in the above street, and to solicit the advice of the Magistrates under the following circumstances : One of the applicants resided with his family in a house adjacent to thattin which Steinberg murdered Mrs. Lefevre and her children. Some cunning individual had taken the house of Mr. Cuthbert, the landlord, and had got up wax effigies of the murdered persons, which were laid out in the various apartments in the same postures as they were found when discovered, and the public were admitted to view them and the house at so much per head. The consequence was that immense crowds of persons daily assembled in the neighbourhood, and the respectable part of the inhabitants were so extremely annoyed that many of them had quitted their residences, and others were about to do so unless the nuisance could be checked. Applicant here handed a letter to Mr. Rogers, which stated that the inhabitants were an noyed and disgusted by the gross and indecent exhibition of the figures of the murdered persons, and having the awful circumstance revived in their memory by such proceeding. The letter assured the Magistrate that it would do great injury to persons holding house property in the neighbour hood, and was truly horrible and disgusting to the respect able portion of the inhabitants, especially the ladies. The letter was signed by Mr. Leevor, of Southampton -street. Mr. ROGERS conceived, with the applicants, that it was annoying and disgusting, but he could not see how he could interfere as a Magistrate, although he conceived it to be a very fit subject for the interference of the parish authorities. He advised that the housekeepers should make their formal complaint to the parish officers, and cause the parties be longing to the exhibition and house to be indicted for the nuisance. Applicant—The housekeepers did complain to the parish officers, and on Sunday morning the overseer or church warden attended and took down their names, but I am sur prised not to see him here, or more of the inhabitants. Inspector Thompson, of G division, here stated that on Saturday evening last Inspector Miller, of N division, attended to ask the advice of Mr. Sergeant Sellon upon the subject, when he stated that the proprietor of the exhibition intended to exhibit the house and figures on the Sunday. Mr. Sergeant Sellon then expressed his indignation, and said that it would be a disgraceful proceeding, and the par ties ought to be indicted for the nuisance. It was here stated that parties were actually admitted into the house on Sunday, aad that the, proprietor had bought a knife, which was represented to be the instrument with which the awful tragedy was perpetrated, and for the purpose of effect had steeped the blade in blood, whereas the identical knife is still in the safe keeping of Bugg, the beadle, in the event of any legal proceedings being insti tuted by the Steinberg family. Waddington, the gaoler, on Sunday morning last passed by the house where the figures are exhibited, when he saw a crowd round the house, and a constable named Atkinson, who is an inspector of police, standing in an upright posi tion, with a large brass staff in his han, before the door to attract the attention of the passengers, he saw several per sons admitted into the house, and he cautioned the constable, who said that there was no exhibition. Mr. RouEas advised if he caused a mob to assemble to take him into custody. The Applicants waited for some time under the expec tation that the parish authorities would meet them ; but they eventually quitted the office. Mr. Garland, the churchwarden, ultimately arrived at the office, where he was informed f the applications that had been made. Mr. Garland said that he had been de tained on parish business, and expressed his surprise that more of the inhabitants had not attended to meet him, as he had taken down the names of several complaining of the nui sance, which he had witnessed himself ; but he would not interfere further unless the inhabitants more generally came forward to put down the nuisance. It has been stated that the figures exhibited have on the identical clothes worn by the deceased. Such is not the fact. Steinberg was buried in the same clothes in which he was found on the morning that the murders were discovered. Edward Barratt, a young man of very distressed appear ance, was charged by Josiah Dean, who represents himself as inspector of Hawkers' Licenses, with having sold and of fered for sale the unstamped publications called the Weekly Police Gazette and the Hue and Cry. Dear stated that on Sunday morning he saw the pri soner in Liquorpond-street, Gray's Inn-lane, offering the publications for sale. He sold some. Mr. RoGEas(looking over one of the publications)—Oh, I see there has been a meeting of newsvenders. Here is a long account. _ Dean—Yes, your Worship, they have had a meeting, and they have passed resolutions putting the Government and the law at defiance. Mr. ROGERS asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself ? Prisoner—l was out of employ, your Worship, and could get nothing to do. I was distressed. I tried to sell those papers to get something to eat. Mr. ROGERS—You have offended against the law, and you are now committed to the House of Correction for fourteen days. The papers (very few) were detained. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. Thomas Davis, late police-constable 92 N, was re-exa mined, charged with obtaining a situation as footman and under-butler with J. E. H. Abdy, Esq., of Claybury Hall, Chigwell, Essex, by means of a false character. _ He was fined 201., the full penalty, and committed in de fault to the House of Correction for three months. William Henry and Joseph Paragella, two itinerant mu sicians, were charged with playing in Jermyn-street, and creating an obitruction ; and Mr. O'Haro and Mr. Dunkin, two inhabitants of the same street, were charged with as sainting the police, and endeavourinc , to rescue the two first-named defendants from th e i r custody. Mr. CHAMBERS ordered the whole party to find bail, and the question -whether persons were allowed to play in the streets or not would be decided. W OR SHIP- STREET. A miserable-looking old man, 60 years of age, was yes terday placed at the bar before Mr. TWYFORD, charged by police constable Lacey, of the N. division, No. 87, with being in a state of destitution. The constable said that about twelve o'clock on the pre ceding night he found the prisoner asleep in a brickfield at Hackney, and on questioning him he said that he had no home, nor the means to procure a morsel of bread. The prisoner said his name was Richard Bartlet, and that he had applied to the overseers of Whitechapel, in which parish he formerly carried on a respectable business, but they refused to grant him any relief. He wished to be sent to prison. Mr. TWYFORD.—No Magistrate has now, under the new Act, the power of ordering relief to the poor, and all I can do is to commit you to prison under the Vagrant Act. Mr. TWYFORD asked the poor fellow whether he was a married man ? The prisoner replied that he was a widower and had two sons, but it was entirely out of their power to afford him any assistance, for they were almost as poor as he was. Mr. TWYFORD.—When did you sleep in a bed last? The prisoner, after a few minutes' consideration, replied in the parish of Whitechapel, but he thought that was at least three months ago. Mr. TWYFORD.—Then I suppose you have been wan dering about the streets ever since ? Prisoner.—Yes. I generally slept of a night in the field where the officer found me. Mr. TWYFORD.—WeII, I again say that I have no power to interfere otherwise than to commit you on your own statement as a vagrant. _ Prisoner.—l should be thankful if your Worship would do that. Mr. TWYFORD.—I shall commit you then to the House of Correction for a month. The prisoner was then removed to the lock-up. MAR YLEB ONE. Benjamin Mays, a labourer, was charged with the fol lowing assault on a female named Elizabeth Willoughby The complainant, wh o a pp eare d t o be sufferi ng severe ly from the injuries sh e h a d rece i ve d, a b ou t t en o ' c l oc k th e previous mornin g , accompan i e d by h er h us b an d, wen t i n t o a public-hous e and called for a pint of ale. While drinking, a man belonging to the Union abused her husband in a very gross manner for not joining them, and the prisoner, who was in the room, tried to bring them to .a fight. Com plainant and her husband then went out, when the prisoner and his comp an i o n f o llowed them, calling out " Rat ,t ~ &c., for some time, when the man who first accosted ti u ': came up and struck h er h us band. The prisoner wa ss about to do th e same , b u t w it nes s went between them, an the prisoner then struck her a tremendous blow which felled her to the ground ; her head coming in contact with the.ti edge of the cu r b- s t one s h e l a id i n sensible for some time, an on recovering f o u n d th e p r i soner in custody. r Th e ( Abe man had escaped. Police constable T 137 saw th e assault, and on going.uP to take the prisoner into custody he offered a violent resist ance, and kicked witness several times. The prisoner, who seemed to treat the affair as a~o]ce, was fined 305., snd in default committed to the House 0 ' Correction for six weeks. UNION-HALL. Three of Barclay and Perkins's draymen were charged with assaulting John Huggins, a man well known in the hoi rough of Southwark, who has rendered himself particulal obnoxious to the draymen belonging to the above firm consequence of laying informations against them. i n The informer went into a house called the Dolphin, Itedcross-street, and while there the three defendants tered the house, and, seeing him, they determine d on Ilainit° inn their revenge, as he had informed against one of trao a few days previously, and had him fined at the,Tovin for riding on his dray. Luckily for the informer, Furl the officer, happened to be near at hand, at the woultehe the draymen were carrying Huggins to put him into ir water-butt, and the officer, seeing they were bent o_oo chief, immediately interfered, and prevented them tru_r, putting their designs into execution. Furlong , how eve' had much difficulty in restraining the feelings of the defeatscr. ants on the occasion ; and, during his efforts to save 0 informer from the fury of his assailants, he was thro b down himself, but he ultimately succeeded in rescuing " informer. In the course of the investigation into the case of r a . sault, it turned out that Huggins had, on a previous ° e rg sion, threatened to summon one of the defendan ts . riding on his dray through the street, contrary to a Sar Act in operation in one part of the Borough. Ol e r ed man, knowing that he had committed the offence, caseente into a compromise with the informer, who settled t he without going before a magistrate for a sum of moneY• vet t The facts above-mentioned having been distinctly Pr ° the the Magistrate committed the informer for trial that t h a t offence, observing that informers were necessary ell° ; t he as long as they performed their business agreeably intentions of the Legislature, they had a right to be P , s e, tectcd, but when it was manifest, as it appeared in thi! eye that the informer was heedless of every thing so a s "b e t money into his own pocket, then it was that such co h a te ought to be visited with that punishment which would ore the effect of making the character of the informer "- pure than hitherto it had been. ' THAES OFFICE. Yesterday, a poor decre M pid old man, aged 79, cotelm ' rd aW o f to Mr. COMBE, the Sitting Magistrate, that the 13°3 ou t- Guardians of the hamlet of Ratcliffe had stopped 131 , 5 ,, re 0f door allowance of ls. 6d. per week, and had in lieu 1 7, - be offered him the workhouse, of which he had no wish to come an inmate. Mr. COMBE could not interfere with the parochi tig ht cers, the new Act had taken away the power, but 61° be the workhouse was the best place for the old loll 'sel f would be taken more care of there than he could of bi n ' out of the house. t and The old man said the ls. 6d. paid his weeklY renloios° he wished to keep out of the workhouse, the clo s . phere of which, and the confinem en t, wou ld soon giu.,,,„ia He considered it very hard that his scanty pittance r pe o be withheld from him, more particularly a s he bad "- rate- M payer . in the hamlet. r. COMBE said he could do nothing for the aPP I who had better accept what was offered to him. ra c er a The old man shook his head, and gave to the e t %i i icii petition, which he handed to th e mag i s t ra t e , and of the following is a copy : res pec t ' " The humble petition of Andr ew M orr i son rats_ c t (ag:' fully showeth, that your petitioner is s even ty- n ine yealrooi'; and quite unable to work, having r en t e d a house in se' street, Ratcliffe, at 231. per annu m , an d paid all raterope° taxes, has been employed forty yea r s by M r . ThomPs °° ' t the maker, of Hove-lane. He has r ece i ve d p aroc hial relie f . s f rate of Is. 6d. a week, but has b een d en i e d that re l ii le ao l) l6 , last three weeks by the parish o ffi cers . Y our very 53ie . petitioner begs leave to requ es t y ou t o renew the t Ac t, allowance and relief by the new Poor Law Amentinl en direc t sec. 27, that it shall be lawful for your WorshiPf, r etio l '' such allowance to be continued at your Worship's cu t t• s 1 0. 4 as your petitioner now humbly solicits your Wer 3 T i r, tr ess . mane interference in his beFalf, as he is now in deep u •- et itic° Mr. COMBE said the person who wrote out the P ia 00 for the old man was a very bad lawyer. He V a „ c tiol order relief out of the workhouse under the 2 7 ° 1 4 b pd until a union was formed. The hamlet of Rat e " thie formed no union, and therefore he had no power case. The worthy magistr a te r ea d th e c l ause as folio' . ii iaY And be it further enacted, that in a n y u nion which of be formed under this Act, it shall be l a wful for aPI w 0 his Majesty's Justice s o f th e P eace , usua lly acf,ng t 301 district wherein such un i on may b e s it uate , at, t'neirj% a nd proper discretion to direct by order under o,eir vilio seals that relief shall be given to any ad'alt Perslle to shall from old age or i n fi rm ity o f b o d y b e w h o lly aria / tb ° work, without requirin g th a t suc h person shall re side workhouse." n d The old man then rec e i ve d b ac k hi s pe tition, s ' o f parted very much disappoint e d at t h e resat' - application. ed t Mr. BULWER'S NOVELS.---We are req -es ,, t o pe i- i state that new and cheaper editi ons ' o f M r . Bulvrer li r stories of " Falkland," " The Disowned," " Deveret e ner s ' " Paul Clifford " are now on sale, at the various lo' d y 0 1 ' Of the latter work, " Paul Clifford," it has been i lls u or served, that the character of Brandon, shows in its ,„ o B- Ics , bil o f deep knowledge of human nature, not obtained from v eil : " by looking right through the hearts of men—not the bo 11 ,`' e history, or the men of poetry, but the men of reality, l c s oli' A e ' the life, who struggle, speak, write, wheedle, tri,l' e ceiv e ,, t ' assert, retract, deny, but still push on, deceiving 10 16 ,, - bis, to their great end—power or wealth—on the arena ot most vicious, most glorious metropolis. the P C : MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Friday week a 5, ' Fo rfar fiance coach from Edinburgh was passing throng' sa da i e : ll ' child, not more than two years old, toddled out - leo` 15 from a door that the first seen of it was close at the e heads. To pull up on the instant four high-sPi rited u ld has' was impossible ,• besides the smallest hesitation w c '„ thrown the child from the position it was in under . t ,'', -- r ese 6 : .; Captain Barclay, therefore, with great coolness an d Or o . of mind, determined at once on attempting to clear the he succeeded in doing in a most wonderful manner ; t In c as ter bar of the leaders first missing it by not more then,: hae n ,,: e and the fore and hind wheels by half an inch ; its it t b ,", n , which it held up as if by instinct, actually touching t ", - he st r re , e child, or rather infant, continued its course across at, quite unconscious of the miraculous escape it hado a , bore. ) o guard, passengers, and all who witnessed it, Wer-aleoi struck, considering the child's fate inevitable. -- Mercury. -Ned for I tr eo .. o f ( .. 6 of n from 11" "Thinab th ' of t h 2e fi 1 I* °rdn " atlee, Printed list °f th e P li eation to LIST of Vic A . lin g , a I .4th P c P i Alsto n, J. 81„ krnore ' , No e ' LIS T of Tipi c Shilli n C but he , ton e Cq rnit . l Ur ° ss n 4; ( 'lorri es, Lernarle., h gT 0 _ r ct R , P., e S I . rj e 'rh o lob ( ThO~as cp Ni co: ..........-----'••••- , Cl' ° ' , BIRTHS. geoTY , On the 4th inst., in Carlt on H ouse - terrace , Lad Y - lad). mondeley, of a son. the ° On the 6th inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor-squ ares C. W. Puller, Esq., of a son. e soil; 000 , On the 4th inst., Mrs. Elgood, Wimpole-street , e l ,:ho r e al On the 3d inst., at Arran Lodge, Bognor, Mrs..' of a daughter. fto;' FrolO' At Woolwich, the lady of Lieut. Edward CharP 9 Engineers, of a daughter. , „Alte r ' On the 4th inst. , Mrs. Burder, of Parliament-stree t ' Co' MARRIED. fs ( l,,,,•'„ s cil On the 6th of May, at H o b art T own , J o hn Greg of o f u'o - hiliP lonial Treasurer o f an Diemen's Land, and a M ember of i ' in that Colony, to Harriet Elizabeth, eldest dauOter.casileero Jean, Esq., P a y mas t er o f t h e 21st Royal North British I-00%i On the 4th i ns t., a t S t . Pancras New Church, J. S. pyrite, of Store-street, to Miss Pyrke, only daughter of J• —' ,to Lloyd-square, Pentonville. cos , '" , l i On the 3d inst., at Edinburgh, Dr. John . Gra t. si n ,_o. Miss Isabella Hamilton Brown younger daughter of J °llll ti' A t Brown, Esq., writer to the sijnet. ' OP' Thomas Caulfeild „ a y 0 . t y ' Esq.,_ to Isabella St. Lauren' ' lge Port, 10 daughter of the late Sir Neal O'Donel, Bart., of •'. -w -county of Mayo. Two ne 9S On the sth i ns t., at Belvider D e, M IED aria Maron EardleY' " Save and Sel e , age d 66 . Gene On the Ist inst., a t D ean House, Hants , of Sir 11 ,i F o ot. Warde, G.C.8., an d C o l one l of the 31st Regime!! A i rs , Ph i l? On the 3d inst., in Clifton-terrace, Notting-hill, ei wife of T. A. Phipps, Esq. On the Ist inst., at Cwmcynfelin, near Aberyst:Ltlt.aget:of 19 Charles Lloyd, youngest son of Isaas'Lloyd William .D'`i Pembrokeshire' IoVI above place, and of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex. On the 30th ult., at Robeston Wathen, Pembro Vickerman, Esq., of Gray's Inn Solicitor, aged 4. 5 . so u, $ 54 ...,, On the 4th inst., at Royston,'Herts, Thos. Wortham , pi`r On the 29th ult., at Trengwainton , Penzance, Sir Ros'e 1104 Bart., aged 65. On the 27th ult., in Eccles-street, Dublin, the Ba roness 1'3 , 0 0 De Malahide, in her 87th year. iW lb In Henry-street, Dublin, Louisa Sophia, wife of Joseph Morris, Esq., and daughter of the Hon. F. Cavendish On the 29th ult., at the South Sea-house, Mr. A n dre w 0, Chief Cashier of the South Sea CompanY , ag ed 48 ' 0 , Oah e ' On the 3d inst., at Aldenham-terrace, St. Pancr of widow of the late John Etches, Esq. On the 3d inst., Jane, wife of Geor g e Bramwell, jun., r' 4l. ' . Sergeant's Inn, Fleet-street. ig D Ali On the 30th ult., in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, u r t tpi ,tal' wife of Thomas Draper, Esq., Inspector-Gene ai io Jamaica. • ' King f "., On the 3d inst. , in U pp er Baker-street, William , his 77th year. 11, °„, 14 On the 2d inst. , Elizabeth Mary, wife of ThornasPoeigne , of the Blackh eath -road and Stock Exchange. libl ? On the 30 th ult., at Bath, Sir Joseph Dacre App.."l! 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