The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Two important months have now elapsed since the appointment of the Poor Law Commissioners, and the public is beginning to inquire what they have done, and what they are doing. The answer to the first question is not very easily given. It appears at first sight to consist of an abundant list of negations. They have not appointed any assistant-commissioners ; they have not united any parishes for the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor ; they have not di rected that the administration of those laws in any single parish shall be administered by a board of guar dians ; they have not made any rules, orders, or regu lations to be observed in workhouses ; they have not directed any parish or union to appoint and pay of ficers for superintending or assisting in the relief of the poor, or the examining, auditing, allowing, and disallowing accounts ; they have not declared to what extent the relief of the able-bodied in any parish or union may be administered out of the workhouse ; they have not directed on what day, or in what form, a register of the paupers of every parish or union shall be made and kept ; they have not declared what species of relief shall be considered as having been given by way of loan ; they have not issued any rules, orders, or regulations respecting the ;apprenticing of children ; they have not called for the.accounts of any trust or charity estates : in short, of all the powers confided to them by the Act, powers u n de r w hi c h, we were told, that th e libecties of England would expire, the Commissioners have, as yet, exercised only one, —that is, the power of franking their letters. We do not, however, infer from all this, that their time has been wasted, or even that it has been employed less beneficially than. ,it might have been. We know how much time it must take to set such a machine as the Poor-law Commis sion fairly at work. Of the three Commissioners, two were men most actively engaged in other pursuits up to the very moment of their' appointments ; and the third, as a member of the House of Commons, had, during the last session, employment quite suffi cient to engross all his time. The Commissioners, therefore, had, in a great measure, their business to learn. And certainly, two months is 'a short time to get a tolerable insight into the Workings of that most complicated system, or rather, chaos, the ad ministration of the English Poor-laws. They had, or rather have, to acquire not only a general view of the whole subject, but also precise details as to the state of every parish with which they might think it necessary to interfere. Indeed, we might say of every parish in the kingdom ; for nothing but a detailed knowledge of the state of a parish could justify either their interference or their non-interference. It may be said, however, that these details were to be acquired through the medium of their assistant-commissioners. And, therefore, that every day during which the Board has unnecessarily suspended the appointment of assist ant-commissioners, is a day lost in the utility of the commission. And in this we agree : but we are not sure that a day has been lost. It is matter of noto riety that the applications for assistant-commisssioner ships have been more abundant than, even in this place hunting age, could have been expected. We are told that they amount to 'seven or eight hundred. Nov, if the post of assistant-commissioner were one requiring mere routine qualifications, there would not, probably, be much dificulty in selecting from such a number nine perfectly unobjectionable men. But the situation is one which demands a very extraordinary union of some what dissimilar qualities. It requires a knowledge of general principles, and also familiarity with their prac tical application—great zeal, and yet great discretion— the power to generalize, and yet readiness to at tend to the most trivial details— courage, pru dence, mildness, firmness—in short, almost every thing united that is most difficult to find even separate. We certainly do not hope that the Commissioners will be able, whatever be their care, to obtain nine men perfectly fitted for such a station ; but on that very account we are most anxious that they should select from those who will accept the office the nine that are best fitted, whether those nine are all to be found among their seven hundred appli cants, or whether, as probably is the case, some of them are to be searched for, and pressed into the ser vice. And we are not surprised that the commissioners have taken two months' deliberation before making any appointments. Much, therefore, as we regret it, we do not complain of the delay which has taken place before the Poor-law Commissioners have begun to exercise their functions. We believe it to have been perfectly unavoidable. But we must also express our belief that the fair period of mere deliberation is over, an d th e time for action arrived, and that if it were possible that the Com missioners should continue in their present state of apparent quiescence, not only would a great opportunity of effecting extensive good be lost, but that, in fact, the Poor-law Amendment Act would work much less beneficially than it would have done, if all the clauses relating to the Commissioners had been expunged. It is true that the mere provisions of the Act make very little alteration in the law as to relief ; and, as Mr. Pratt has observed in the preface to his edition, that, until the Commissioners shall pro mulgate their regulations, every form of relief which was either legal or illegal before the Act was passed, still preserves its lawful or unlawful character un altered ; and, therefore, that those parishes in which the relief of the poor is well administered have nothing to change, and those in which it is ill administered should themselves immediately but temperately' set about the work of reform. But if it be inferred from these premises that the Act will work well without the active interference of the Commissioners, that all they have to do is to sit at Somerset-house and give advice, which those to whom it is addressed may follow or not, as they like ; and that they may safely suffer all their attention to be engrossed by a con stantly increasing correspondence, we are convinced that a more fatal error will never have been committed. It is not necessary to repeat the evidence so often and so triumphantly referred to in the discussions on the bill, that a large proportion of the existing mal-ad ministration has been created or aggravated by the im mediate individual interest of the local administrations. What effect can be expected from the clearest demon stration of the general mischief of allowance or pay ment of rents, if addressed to the shopkeeping or farm ing overseer, or to the vestryman who has covered with cottages his half acre of common ? Not much good is often effected by attempting to prove to an uneducated, or even a half-educated man, that the conduct which he has . pursued until it has become a habit is adverse to his interest. But what can we hope from proving to him that it is adverse to the interest of the public, admitting at the same time that it is favourable to his own ? How much good would be effected by the Commissioners of Police, if they were to lecture the thieves on the mischief done to the public by thieving ? The framers of the Act never could have entertained so wild an idea as to suppose that anything short of commands, enforced by penalties, would check those abuses which have their origin in fraud. If it had been supposed to be possible that the Commissioners would continue qui escent, or interfere only by counsel and remonstrance, those abuses would, without doubt, have been put down by express and stringent enactments. But the difficulty of applying any general enactment to the whole country, and to abuses infinitely diversified, ac cording to the state of almost every district or even every parish, induced the legislature to leave the task of extirpating them to the Commissioners. Again, the clamour raised by the London press against the powers given by the to the commis sioners, has produced an exaggerated opinion as to the extent of those powers. A vague idea has been diffused that the Commissioners succeed to the justices, and are to exercise all the powers which their predecessors possessed Cr usurped. The , Poor-Law Amendment Act is, in fact, a code, as in telligible, we believe, as any code written in, Law English can be made, but not.very-ea . sily understood even by the educated, and perfectly - gibberish to the illiterate. We are not sure that many , of the overseers, or . perhaps even of th e mag i strates , would very well understand it, even if they were togive to it the time and the attention which a long adti - complicated . Act of Parliament requires ; and we believe that few have given to it any attention at all. Every police report. even in London, is full of cases originating in a mis conception of the provisions of the Act. And what reason have we to believe that it is better under stood, or even so well understood, in the country ? In the mean time, every blunder of the adminis tration is thrown on the Act, or on the Commis sioners. We hear that in many of the rural dis tricts overseers are capriciously giving and refusing relief, on the obviously false plea that they arc for bidden by the Act, or forbidden by the Commissioners, and that justices are refusing to interfere on the ground that the Act has put an end to their power. We hope that the diffusion of the popular outline of the Act contained in Mr. Pratt's preface will do some good, and we think that it might do more if it were printed separately, and circulated in a cheap form. But a tour made in a district by an able assistant com missioner, who could visit in person the local authori ties, would do more with persons unaccustomed to gain information by reading than the circulation of a thou sand prefaces, outlines, or abridgments. But the prin ' eipal means of amendment proposed by the 'Act is one towards which no progress whatever seems to have been made, or perhaps could be made, during the pe riod for which the Commission has existed ; we mean the formation of unions, or the organization of in dividual parishes. The Legislature were well aware of the unfitness of magistrates, open vestries, and overseers to administer the relief of the poor ; they proposed, therefore, to confide it to guardians, to be appointed by united parishes, or by the rate payers and owners in separate parishes, and to be as sisted by paid and responsible officers. And they gave to the Commissioners absolute and uncontrolable power of effecting unions, and directing the appoint ment of officers and guardians. Many were the at tempts made to fetter this power, but they were all successfully met by the argument that unions, ua r - dians, and responsible officers are absolutely necessary, and would not be voluntarily appointed by the vestries. Until the Commissioners begin to exercise these poWers, the Act can scarcely be said to be in opera tion. Another of the important provisions of the Act is, that all overseers and other persons entrusted with the parochial fund shall, in addition to the annual ac count now by law required, pass their accounts quar terly. But the Act does no expressly provide the ma chinery by which this is to be effected. It leaves it to the Commissioners to direct the appointment of officers who are to examine, audit, allow, and disallow accounts. The Commissioners have not, as yet, directed the appointment of any officers whatever, and in the mean time this enactment remains a dead letter. - We have not heard of a single parish in which - provision has been made for a quarterly audit, or, indeed; for any other audit than the annual farce perfornied 1G;000 times every Easter. 'We repeat, that in all these re marks we do not impute a shadow of blame to the Commissioners. They are, without do_ubt, as well aware as we can be that every hour for_which any means of amendment is delayed inflicts loss on the rate-payers, and vice and degradation on tfie•receivers. We see clearly that the delay which has occurred could not have been prevented, and their characters preclude the possibility of doubting their anxiety to proceed with as much rapidity as is consistent with safety. It. is not the Commissioners whom we address, • but .the public, and we are anxious to impress on the minds of our readers that they are not to judge of the efficiency of the Act by the two months which have passed since its enactment.—Morning Chronicle. A Privy Council is to be held to-day for the purpose of investigating the cause of the conflagration of Thurs day night. It is perfectly true that Miss Wright, the housekeeper of the House of Lords, was examined be fore the Cabinet Ministers on Friday, and that her evi dence most unquestionably threw blame of the most serious character upon some public functionaries, who, it is shown, absolutely disregarded the information she ,gave, and utterly neglected the communications she made. So early as half-past ten o'clock on Thursday morning Miss Wright gave information to one of the Government Offices (which at present we consider it would scarcely be proper to mention), that she considered the conduct of the workmen in burning wood in the flues under the House of Lords to be in the highest degree dangerous. Of this application no notice was taken ; to it no answer was returned. We abstain from making any remarks upon this apparent negligence and remissness. The proceedings of the Council to-day will of course be made public, and we have no doubt that, whatever their decision as to the conduct of the Government departments may be, the country will be satisfied that the calamity was not caused by the hand of an incendiary, unless—which we cannot believe—the workmen themselves were the perpetrators of the crime. We have received informa tion, upon which we can rely, that persons were heard in some of the back streets in Westminster publicly declaring that they knew the fire was to be, and it must be admitted that the rapidity with which it spread, and the circumstance of its appearing sud denly and simultaneously in several places, in a great degree supports what seems to be the general opinion. Still the possibility of the workmen being engaged in the work of destruction only renders the neglect of the housekeeper's warning more flagrant. There are coincidences of circumstances which, the moment the thoughts take that direction, become important and corroborative of the suspicion. The workmen were evidently careless, else Miss Wright's alarms would not have been excited—they left work at half-past five=at half-past six the fire was discovered —at which time it was dead low water ; and at which time all persons in charge of the buildings it was known would be at tea ; it being certain also that they would not go their accustomed rounds until they had finished that repast. It is also true that a bundle of matches was found under one of the trees in the Speaker's gar den. If it should prove that the workmen are criminal, complete detection will most certainly follow. Con science or treachery, or jealousy or remorse, or the hope of reward, will undoubtedly bring the incendiaries to justice. For ourselves, we cannot yet but believe the fire to have occurred through carelessness on one part, and negligence and indifference on the other.—Morn ing Post. If we thought that the paltry and rubbishing addi tions made in modern times to the old and once mag nificent Palace of Westminster would be substituted by a building which, in design and execution, would redeem our national taste from the reproach that many tasteless public piles of brick and mortar and Roman cement have brought upon it, we should rejoice at the accident, if accident it be, that has swept those puerile barbarisms away. But we confess we have much doubt and great anxiety on that head. The jobbing in mat ters of this sort in England is so inveterate a vice that we are not easily induced to believe in its reform. It is not long since we had to expose the glaring want of taste which was exhibited in the original design for the new National Gallery, and which would have ex cluded from view at an important point the majestic and beautifully-proportioned portico of St. Martin's Church, one of the finest specimens of classic ar chitecture in the kingdom. In that matter our inter position did the State some service, and happy shall we be if, with regard to the new Houses of Lords and Commons, we can reason or shame those who have the management of sach things and the dis posal of the public money into something that will do them credit, and be an ornament to the country. When we recollect that it is only within two .or three years that we were obliged to come forward to oppose the mutilation of such a glorious edifice as York Min ster, and the utter demolition of such a beautiful and chaste specimen of pointed architecture as the Ladye Chapel of St. Saviour's ; and when we found that the Vandalic spirit that would have committed both those irreparable enormities against taste was supported and encouraged by some persons, with whom the depart ment of the Woods and Forests are in the habit, or at least, have been in the habit, of advising upon public works, we feel confident that we shall be justified in the eyes of the public for expressing our doubts and fears, touching the future operations of Government, in regard to the construction of national edifices. It is not generally known to the public that in the 12th :year of the reign of George the Second, a series of designs were made for a building to accommodate both Houses of Parliament, by the celebrated Kent, at the request of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury. The designs were approved of by the peaker, Onslow, and the estimate was but 171,1671. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1834. These designs comprised a plan of a House of Commons of most convenient and beautiful ar rangements. Yet the intention of erecting a truly national edifice for the Legislature was somehow or other. thwarted by the spirit of jobbing. From that. time to the present the changes which have been made in the old Palace of Westminster, in cobbling and vamping apartments never intended for the purpose, to adapt them to the accommodation of the Legislature, have probably cost the nation half a million of mo ney ! In our columns to-day will be found a letter from the able architect Mr. Cottingham, known for his restoration of Rochester Cathedral, his works on the University of Oxford, and Armagh Cathedral. He states that he has the original designs of Kent in his possession--'' .;;se drawn by himself and never pub lished—'and certainly government ought, at least, to be in possession of those designs at the present moment. Even Mr. Hume, to whom they were shown some time ag-o, expressed the same opinion upon seeing them. We question if there is an architect whom government employs at the present day capable of making such de signs—at least, none of the modern public works allow u:-; to think so. Of Kent'sdesigns Mr. Cottingham says, " Old Palace-yard was intended to be greatly enlarged, the new buildings to present a grand facade next the Thames, and the splendid chapel of St. Stephen to be re tained.. The arrangement of those plans is truly admira ble, every convenience for such an august establishment being amply provided for. They received the approbation of the Lords Commissioners and Mr. Speaker Onslow." Fully do we agree with him when he says " that the execution of this grand design should have been aban doned, and the bit-by-bit system adopted, is sincerely to be regretted ; but the ground is a:ow cleared, and I Lope a building will soon arise in character with the stately Hall and venerable Abbey, that will do justice to . the taste and feeling of the nation." When we think what it has cost the nation to build Bucking ham Palace, and look on what it is, we cannot say it is any consideration of economy that prevents our pa laces and public buildings of modern date from rival ling the grand and beautiful monuments of the archi tectural genius of our forefathers. Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey now look down iii sublime dui•ability upon the ruins of the modern structures that' have perished beneath them, though seven or eight .centuries of time, with its storms and sunshine, have - rolled over their battlements. Thus did they build of old for remote posterity, and we are glad to find_ that even now, while the lath and plaister excre sclaaes have been swept away, there remains enough • of the ancient chapel of St. Stephen to serve -for the plypnse of its complete restoration, and, by Kent's plart * •it was intended to be preserved.—Morn. Herald. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMEMT. Mr: Editor—The interesting account you have given this day.of the awful catastrophe which Ira occasioned the destruc tion of the Houses of Lords and Commons, induces me to offer a few remarks for your valuable paper, on a subject of such ge neral importance. The destruction even of the mutilated remains of the palace of ' our ancient Kings at Westminster cannot be viewed but with the deepest regret. The walls of the solemn painted chamber in which Edward the Confessor breathed his last, and the glorious chapel of St. Stephen, before whose sacred altar Ed\lard the Third poured out his thanks for the conquest of Fiance, are now shattered and nearly prostrate with the grit:mild. But the magnificent, the unrivalled Hall, where the sons of the proud Norman revelled, and Britain's Kings have celebrated their coronations for nearly eight centuries, still remains May it—as it was pointed out a century ago —.form the grand portal to a House, worthy of a British Senate. In the 12th year of the reign of King George 11. the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury requested the archi tects at the Office of Works at Whitehall, to make a series of designs and estimates for building for '• The Reception of Parliament ;" the whole of which are in my possession. Old Palace Yard was intended to be greatly enlarged ; the new buildings to present a grand façade next the Thames, and the splendid chapel of St. Stephen to be retained. The arrange ment of these plans is truly admirable ; every convenience for such an august establishment being amply provided for. They received the approbation of the Lords Commissioners and Mr. Speaker Onslow. The estimated expense was " One hundred and seventy-one thousand sixty-seven pounds." That the ex ecution of this grand design should have been abandoned, and the Lit-by-bit system adopted, is sincerely to be regretted ; but the ground is now cleared, and I hope a building will soon arise in character with the stately Hall and venerable Abbey that will do justice to the taste and feeling of the nation. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, L. N. COTTINGHAM. Waterloo-bridge-road, Oct. 17. The Middlesex magistrates have dealt with the applications for theatrical licenses even more severely than with those for music licenses. The gratification of the public, and the interests of individuals, have been equally disregarded. The Kent Theatre at Ken sington was refused a licence, though Sir John Conroy, with the sanction of the Duchess of Kent, signed the application. A performer now filling the first parts in tragedy at Drury-lane was brought into notice at the Kent Theatre : had the judgment of the magistrates come into force a few weeks sooner, the declining me tropolitan stage would have wanted the only recruit it has found. And what objection can be conceived to a theatre at Kensington, one of the most respectable and orderly suburbs ? If the inhabitants, with the Duchess of Kent at their head, were content, why were the magistrates to deny dramatic amusements 1' What could they be afraid of but the gratification of people who could not ride or walk upwards of three miles to a theatre ? The other applications for the Mile-end, the Portman-market, and the Strand theatre, were all refused. The unfortunate proprietor of the last pleaded earnestly for mercy, as his very means of ex istence were in jeopardy, but in vain. It may be said that there are theatres enough in the neighbourhood of the Strand ; but if that is a good answer to Mr. Rayner's application, what was the objection to the Kensington, the Portman-market, or the Mile-end Theatre, which are distant from the established play houses ? Further, if the neighbourhood be respec table, the respectability is a reason for refusing the ' licence ; if it be low, its lowness is an equa lly good objection. The Magistrates exercise their authority in ▪ this instance precisely with the variety with which the drummer in the old story exercised the scourge—cut ting high when cutting low would not satisfy the suf ferer, and vice versa, and wondering that neither would give content. It is to be observed that the small theatres are the most free from immoralities, and the worst idea associated with them is, that they are the resort of low or roguish characters. Thus we often hear magistrates hold forth against places of cheap theatrical entertainment as frequented by pickpockets. This objection passes for a great deal more than it is worth ; and, to try the value of it, the reader has only to answer this question— whether it would better please him that a pickpocket should be stealing his watch or gaping at the mum meries and buffooneries of a petty theatre? If the activity and industry of the pickpockets were of any value to the public, the magistrates, w e a d m i t , w o u ld reasonably and usef u lly p u t down places of amusement in which they might lose their precious time ; but pick pockets being what pickpockets are, we confess that we like the idea of their sitting in a cheap theatre, even though they be diving into each other's empty pockets, better than their prowling about the streets in quest of watches and pocket-books. But, after all, it may be questioned whether these gentlemen have such a turn fne dramatic amusements that a petty theatre must be filled with them ; we rather suspect that they are people of too steady application to their pursuits : thus the French very significantly call their sharpers knights of industry. But, seriously, there is almost as much insolence as folly in preventing the entertainments of the humble classes, on the pretence that bad company have the principal share in them. Small theatres and houses of mu sical entertainment may become nuisances, but it would be time to put them down when it appeared that the licenses had been abused. Vicious persons will be found in all places, but it is a most preposterous blunder to refer the vice to the attraction of the place ; and according to such a rule of judgment, a cook's shop has as much to answer for as a beer-house, and a promenade as a play-house. While the people are denied the harmless recreations, they will be sensual and gross ; and then, when they are found snatching any of the forbidden innocent pleasures, any excess or rnisconduct is attributed to the unaccustomed enjoy 'ment, though it in truth belongs to the coarse habits that have been formed under the austere system to which our Magistracy so impoliticly inclines. The !tendency is now to more and more severity, though the state of the patient should be convincing evidence of the error of the treatment. What we have reanarked upon in the „Middlesex licensing proceedings is, but an , 1 exhibition of the same spirit that carried the Beer Bill and the Poor Law Amendment Bill. It is a fault not more vexatious to those who immediately suffer by it, than dangerous.to the authors.—Times. • Thank Heaven, our lachrymose contemporaries have regained their senses ! on the subject of the late fire, or, at all events, have ceased to exhibit their feelings in the same pathetic manner which rendered it neces sary for us to sit down calmly on Friday and adminis ter a dose of cool consolation to them. Wo cannot, seeing that we were most ably assisted by a Tory journal (we name it to its credit), take to ourselves the exclusive merit of having banished tears and the blue devils from their columns ; but if we have at all aided in inducing either the parties immediately con cerned, or the public generally, to moderate their grief for the destruction of the two Houses of Parliament, the Royal Humane Society ought to award us one of its most splendid medals. The " gloomy month of November' is approaching, with all its horrors—and what dreadful accidents by flood and fire may we not have averted ? Considering our contemporaries to be now convalescent, or at all events out of danger, the next point to be settled is where the two Houses of Parliament are to assemble ? Various hints and sug gestions have been thrown out on this subject, among which we may mention, after our evening contempo raries— 1. Westminster Hall, where impeachments, and other great public trials, have been so frequently held. 2. The Guildhall in the city, in which the Convention Par liament fr'squently held its sittings during the great rebellion. 3. The old Palace of St. James's. 4. The new Palace at Buckingham-house. O.' Marlborough-house, where, with a little expense, ample accommodation might be afforded ; and 6. Whitehall Chapel as a building for one of the Houses of Parliament. We do not, of course, add to the above list the Peni tentiary, at IVlillbank, because, although the 800 millions of debt with which we are now saddled, might very safely be taken as evidence of the deserts of both Houses, it would be a pity to disturb the amusements of the present inmates, by the intrusion of equally deserving partners—nor shall .we add the Brixton House of Correction for the same reasons ; but as his Majesty, our gracious and kind Sovereign, is reported by the Tory journals, not to find sufficient accommodation, on the one hand, in St. James's Pa lace,. and, on the other, to be anxious for the occupa tion, except on account of the public service, of Bucking ham'Palace, why, we ask, should not his Majesty be relieved from all suspense on the subject—the latter building rendered fit for his habitation, and the former adopted in the meantime as the proper place for hold ing the sittings of the two Houses ? Why, also, we may ask, should not such an unsightly building be taken clown, and buildings erected on its site for the accommodation of the two Houses of Parliament ? A pew House, sufficient for the exigencies of the times cannot be erected on the site of the old, and where can more ample and more appropriate space be found than where St. James's Palace now exhibits its dingy red walls ? We throw out this hint for the consideration of others who with ourselves desire to see, not a House of Commons only, but a House of Lords also. The latter, it is hinted by various authorities, might either be safely dispensed with, or at all events adjourn for a Session or two without any loss to the public service ; but having no wish to be supposed partners in this revolutionary scheme, we should like to see provision made for both branches of the Legislature. If not useful now, the House of Lords may be unquestion ably rendered an instrument of public good, by sub jecting to election, instead of permitting its wisdom to remain hereditary.—Morning Advertiser. OLD BAILEY, OCT. 18. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Benjamin Underwood alias Nicholson, was capitally in dicted for assaulting and robbing Mary Scully on the 14th ult. The prosecutrix, a country-looking young woman, was the wife of Edward Scully, a tailor, residing in Tender court, Old-street. On Sunday, the 14th ult., she was passing through Field-lane, Holborn, when, seeing a female sitting at the door, she asked permission to enter. On leav ing, witness was met by the same female, who asked her for something to drink for her civility. Prosecutrix complied, and sat down in the room while some gin was sent for. The woman and the prisoner drank the liquor between them, prosecutrix refusing to partake of it. Another female en tered the room at this time, and, seeing prosecutrix, ex claimed with an oath, " You've been robbing my husband," and immediately struck her. The prisoner struck her also. One of the women forced some money from her hand, which the prisoner put in his pocket, and with a violent blow on the face knocked her off the chair. While lying on the floor the prisoner kicked her and continued to beat her. She was picked up and placed on a chair, and then the two women and the prisoner fell upon her, and tore nearly all her clothes off her back. Prosecutrix fainted, and when she recovered heard the prisoner say, in answer to a ques tion, " Yes, and she shall be murdered before she leaves the place." They then locked the door, and one of the wo men threw away two basins full of blood, which had come from the prosecutrix. The injuries she had received caused her to be confined in the hospital up to the present time. On her cross-examination she denied that she was awar that the house was one of ill fame. The COMMON-SERGEANT remarked that it was by far the most serious case he had tried during the sessions, and as the prisoner's life appeared to be in danger, time ought not to be spared to ascertain the truth of the case. A policeman went to the house about four hours after, and saw the prosecutrix sitting in the yard washing her self, assisted by two females. She was covered with blood. The prosecutrix said the prisoner had nearly murdered her, and he took him into custody. The yard of the house and the room was covered with blood. The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a ♦erdict of Guilty. The COMMON-SERGEANT—Underwood, you have been before convicted, and I would now reccommend you to prepare yourself. I am unable to tell what your fate will be. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILD-HALL. A letter was received from Blanchard, the comedian, now a prisoner in the Fleet, respecting his claim to the gaol allowance of 6d. a day, which he now declines accepting. He says that having subsisted without it for the last eight weeks, he can very well decline the allowance during the three weeks he has to remain, and he regrets that he made any application for it. BO W-STREET. Thomas Rae, who has undergone turd examinations at this office,- on a charge of absconding from his employers, Messrs. Mather and Co., merchants, of Glasgow, with up wards of 1,000/. in money, their property, was finally ex amined at this office before Mr. MINSHULL. Mr. Miller, the high constable of Glasgow, who had ar rived in town since the apprehension of the prisoner, was in attendance, and produced the warrant signed by the Glas gow Magistrates, upon which the prisoner was delivered into his custody to be conveyed to Glasgow, where the necessary examination previous to the committal of the prisoner for trial will take place. Mr. Miller then left the office, accompanied by the pri soner, whom it was his intention to carry by the James Walt steamer to Edinburgh, and from thence to Glasgow. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Gibbon Fitzgibbon, an Irishman, was brought before Mr. CONANT by the officers of the Mendicity Society on sus picion of being an iinposter, and with having levied contri butions by begging letters on a great number of the nobi lity and gentry. In defence, the prisoner had been a sargeant in the 27th regiment ; had been wounded at the battle of Alexandria, and was now in the receipt of one shilling a day pension. This sum was not adequate to maintain his family and him self, especially as he was under the doctor's hal. ls, and he thought there was no harm in asking for a trifle from people of humanity to assist him. He hoped as it was the first time he had been detected that the Magistrates would deal leniently with him. Knyvett, manager of the Mendicity Society, put a letter into the Magistrate's hands which had been sent to the Society, and which described the prisoner to be one of the mos t artful and ingenious imposters now preying on the humane portion of the public. A long list of the individuals whom he had practised upon was appended to the letter. Among the names were those of the Earl of Bandon, Earl of Caledon, Earl of Cholmon deley, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of London, Lord Henley, Sir G. Rose, Mr. Spencer Percival, Mr. Pell Platt, &c. &c. The latter also s tated that the prisoner had bee n ser j ean t i n the 58th Regiment and not the 27th, as he stated. • At the request of the Society, the prisoner was remanded for a few days. LAMBETH-STREET. THE POOR LAWSBILII—J —aTnesOverall, an engineer, on board the Royal Star, Lisbon steamer, was brought up by Waring, the beadle of St. Anne's, Limehouse, for the purpose of having an order of affiliation made upon him for the maintenance of an illegitimate child. Waring stated that since the apprehension of the defen dant a circumstance came to his knowledge of which he had not previously been aware, namely; that the mother of the child was married on Sunday last. In consequence of such marriage the defendant was, he thought, under one of the clauses in the New Poor Law Bill, not liable to the support of the child, as it was incumbent on the person who had married its mother to do so. Waring here handed to the Bench the Act of Parliament, and directed the Magistrate's attention to the 57th clause. The mother of the child was a widow at the time of her connection with the defendant, and had two legitimate chil dren by her former husband, whose name was Ruston. She also stated that she was married to a labourer in the docks, named John Collins, at Stepney Church, on Sunday morn ing last. The Magistrates, under the law, could make no order. HATTOIV-GARDEN. A fine-looking woman, about 28 years of age, was brough before Mr. LAING. A policeman on the previous evening saw the defendant in St. John-street, Clerkenwell, holding forth to a mob of persons relative to the good effects of imprisonment. She was drunk, and would not leave the spot, therefore he took her into custody. Mr. LAING (to the prisoner)—What is your name ? Prisoner—My name ? Why, Ann Lee, to be sure. Mr. Mole; the clerk, here said to her—Come, give your proper name. Prisoner—l want no lip from you, so shut up. Mr. LAING—HoId your tongue. Prisoner—lf you want to make me keep it, still you must deprive me of the use of it, old bald pate. Mr. LAING again asked her her name. Prisoner—lt is Mary Bond. ___ _ Mr. Mole—That is correct (to Mr. Laing). She is the terror of the licensed victuallers in Westminster, and has been to Queen-square, I should think, one hundred times for smashing the windows of different tradesmen in that district. Prisoner—That's all true, and I mean to do it again, for I like to visit prisons, and I intend to get sent to every one in England before I have done. Mr: LAING held her to bail. MAR YLEB ONE. Last Wednesday, the Reporter who was excluded from Marylebone-office by Mr. SHUTT, on Thursday, the 9th instant, addressed a letter to Mr. Spring Rice, from whom he received on Saturday the subjoined reply on the subject : " In reply to a letter which Mr. G. addressed to Mr. S. Rice, Mr. Phillips acquaints him that he is informed if Mr. G. wishes to attend at the -Police-office, Marylebone, he will be admitted." ' '° Home-office, Whitehall, Oct. 17, 1834." Q U EEN- SQUARE. Christopher Johnson, a private in the 2d Battalion of Coldstream Guards, and James hope, a lad, were charged with unlawfully possessing moulds and other implements for manufacturing shillings, and also with having base coin in their possession. The prisoners were remanded. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. Yesterday (Friday) morning, a little after ten o'clock, the utmost consternation prevailed at the Custom Hcuse at Liverpool and its neighbourhood, in consequence of a shock ing and probably successful attempt to murder William Southgate, Esq., Surveyor of the Customs at Liverpool, and recently from London. The assassin is a man named Norman Welsh, fifty-seven years of age, who had been em ployed in the Customs there upwards of nineteen years. It appears that Welsh held a situation for the above period as load; but his drunkenness and irregularity had led to an investigation before'his- superior officers, and he was re ducedlo the more menial situation of weigher. His dis grace being principally brought about through the informa tion of some of the London Custom House officers at this port, he had been frequently heard to express himself in revengeful terms when speaking of them and the occur rences which caused his discharge from the situation of locker. It appears that-on receipt of his wages on Thurs day afternoon he took to drinking ardent spirits until he •became beastly intoxicated, and the effects of the liquor had , fibt left him when be awoke on Friday morning. He was not to be found at his work at the accustomed hour ; but at a few minutes past ten he entered the Custom House-yard, in the centre of which stood Mr. Southgate, of course perfectly unconscious of his danger. The prisoner went deliberately up to him, and was observed to take some thing out of his pocket ; but. before any of the individuals present could have the least suspicion that any thing wrong was intended, the report of a pistol was heard. Mr. South gate screamed and instantly fell. Persons in the vicinity immediately rushed to the spot, and found that a ball had entered the unfortunate gentleman's body, at the lower re gion of the abdomen on the left side. The murderer stood by and, never attempting to escape, acknowledged the com mittal of the deed, at the same time attempting to swallow the contents of a bottle which was slung round his neck by a string. His attempts at self-destruction, however, were frustrated by those who surrounded him ; and on examining the bottle it was found to contain laudanum. The man was secured by a party of the dock police-officers, who were speedily on the spot and was lodged in Bridewell. Medical men were promptly in attendance to afford profes sional aid, when it was ascertained that the ball had taken a direction towards the spine, but fortunately had not reached the fatal spot. Some hopes, therefore, are entertained of Mr. Southgate 's ultimate recovery, unless, from the ex treme corpulency of the unfortunate gentleman, mortifica tion (which is so much to be feared) should speedily take place. It was found impracticable to extract the ball, and the surgeons directed that he should be immediately con veyed to his residence. This was accordingly done, and he now lies there in a most precarious state. A report of the shocking affair speedily reached the Exchange, where the greatest consternation prevailed, as it was known that differences had for some time existed between many of the Custom-house officers and their superiors ; but it does not appear that Welch had anything to do with the general dispute. Mr. Parlour and several of the men, shortly after the occurrence, repaired to the spot, and conveyed the pri soner from the Dock Bridewell to the police-office, where he was brought up before Mr. Alderman Peter Bourne and Mr. Alderman Staniforth, who were then transacting busi ness. The prisoner, a short, thick -set, sailor-looking fel low, having the appearance of a Welchman, but bearing no indication in countenance of a ferocious disposition, be ing placed at the bar, Mr. R. Fisher, a gentleman residing in Toxteth Park, stated that he had business at the Cus tom-House in the morning, and when there, about five or ten minutes past ten, saw th e pr i soner come dO wn th e yar d. In his progress he observed him pull something from his pocket, and immediately afterwards heard the report of a pistol. Having fired, the prisoner threw down what ap peared to be a pistol, and stood still. The witness did not observe where the shot was aimed at, as he was behind a corner, and could see the prisoner but not Mr. Southgate. Immediately, however, on his hearing the report he saw Mr. Southgate spring forward, and place his hand to his abdomen. The prisoner, who did not attempt to escape was instantly secured. _ _ The prisoner, who had nothing to urge in his defence, was then taken away. The only reason, it is supposed, for the prisoner's selecting Mr. Southgate as a victim on whom to wreak his malice, was the circumstance of that gentle man having been the principal witness to his drunkenness and irregularity of conduct, which was the means of re moving him from his late situation. Half-past Two o'Clock.—The surgeons, after considera ble difficulty, have succeeded in extracting the ball, but we are sorry to state that Mr. Southgate still remains in a dangerous state.—Manchester Courier of Saturday. (Further particulars.) LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The wretched culprit who committed this dreadful deed remains in the Exchange Bridewell in a state of callous indifference tin the awful si tuation in which he has placed himself. After firing the pistol he remained standing in the yard, and on some one advancing towards him said in a very calm and collected manner, " I did it ; let me alone ; I am an injured man, and I don't regret what I have done. Mr. South gate reported me to Mr. Ross (the Inspector-General), and took 201. a year from my wife and family. I was determined to take my revenge, and I am not sorry that I have taken it." When taken into custody by a sergeant of the Dock Police, and conveyed to the Dock Bridewell, he was searched, who appeared to annoy him very much. It was then found that he had a bottle of laudanum suspended round his neck under all his clothes by a tape string. On this being taken from him, he became so infuriated that unless he had been prevented he would have struck the policeman who searched him. The prisoner, who resides at 57, Kitchen-street, Liverpool, with his wife and family, is a native of Parkgate, Cheshire, and has been nineteen years in the service of the Customs at this port. He was a pri vate in the Lancashire Militia for some time, and when in that corps he bore but an indifferent character. It has been ascertained that the wretch had fully made up his mind for murder when he left his home on Friday morning : on leaving his wife and children he deliberately bid them farewell, saying that he probably might never see them again. On quitting the house, his wife, fearing that he might contemplate suicide, followed him to the Custom house, but unfortunately not in time to prevent the dread ful occurrence. Unhappily neither the. Inspector-General of Customs of Liverpool nor the unfortunate gentleman who is so dreadfully wounded are popular amongst the Liverpool Custom-house officers. During the whole of this day (Saturday) the surgeons have been in attendance on the unfortunate gentleman, and the opinion is, that although he may linger for a few days, the wound will prove mortal. DREADFUL SUICIDE AT MACCLESFIELv• A young man, named William Harrison, who bits ev e many years held a confidential situation in the mercantll made his appearance on Wednesday week, establishment of Du Far, Colin, and Co., of Manchester! spe nt tlie where he is well known to several individuals, and, evening at the Derby Arms, in Chestergate. In a nswer t° as to what hall the friendly inquiries of his acquaintance,. brought him to Macclesfield, he declined to say further tli.cin a " little business." He slept at the Derby Arms, and not come down stairs until the afternoon of the followingd day, when he appeared to have been sick, and coraPla hle s of being very ill. From the Derby Arms, in Macelesfiel4 Ile went, much to the surprize of his friends who kne w , habits to be very different, from one public-house to ann tlle , drinking heavily, and at night he retired to rest at the . g ing Horse, in company with one of his acquaintance,. no t of them much intoxicated. The following day did f rise until a late hour, and there were again appearanee,!,°„ his having been very sick. The same routine of drinKe i ; was pursued during that day (Friday), and in the evc n i , l at he and his friend had got to Prestbtrv. Harrison of tha t night slept alone at the house of Mr. Kinsey, the sign °I t it appears ths Llack-a-Moor. About eight o'clock on Sat ur d a y morning, mi., Igusepe/cl'' who slept in an adjoining r o om , h ear d no ises which itlar, her to suspect that something tragical was going 00 thither, rison's bed-room, and o n M r . Ki nse y proceeding tl y , t hie the awful and ghastly s ight p resen t e d itself of the mba r man lying on the bed with hi s th r oat cut in four or ibis places. The razor with which he had committ,&4""i. _ ,ter shocking deed lay on a chair by hi s bed side. Mr. bottom, surgeon, who resides at th e next door, w a ',, in, and the wounds having been recently inflicted, , ~.70 3 0 rnediately stitched them up. Further medical ass' tly was, without delay, procured from Macclesfield, ballet out avail ; the miserable man had too effectually accomPlls his purpose, and at two o'clock life was extinct. n ds An express had in the meantime b e en se nt to his ..r -e la te in Manchester, who arrived in the afternoon, but t °° „ble, to see the unfortunate man alive. He had hee a t;4 ' r e- Lintly,' to answer questions put to him, and front a to Flies it was gleaned that he had taken since he ca cn i i ieli Macclesfield, at different times,- as much laudanum , as he had purchased in small quantities at various Plaeica'ar would have destroyed half a dozen men, but it W u ' o or pear that his stomach would not retain it. From the r d be' presenting every appearance of not having been OS o r fore this horrible occasion, it is presumed that he h a 'f a o` t) , chased it on Friday, (though he did not state that L u lti fully determined, that if the laudanum which h e s ;yof that night take did not effect its deadly purpose, they two should. He did take on that night laudanum fraors different bottles, for one was found em pty in his tr° f o und pocket, and another, also emptied of its contents, sca a sk j it. amongst the bed-clothes, where he said he had onc e ~iser A coroner's inquest was held on the body of the P;ore able man on Monday, when some of the circumstances the proved in evidence, and the jury returned a verdict ° tir ing effect that the deceased destroyed himself w hilst lab ° A in under temporary insanity. The bOdy was interre'not Prestbury church-yard the same afternoon. It i r a roved in evidence, but we have learned that the ,„10 which the deceased was employed, and who paid if,lojea handsome salary, bad discovered diat he bad ern dr their money to a considerable amount, and that ta.''coir dining to institute criminal proceedings against hi 'yid on sequence of the length of his services, discharge_; toot the morning of Wednesday. It would thus aPPMption be had come direct to Macclesfield, with the fu ll 114 " d" C M' of ending a life now, from the loss of his situation 311 3 that ratter, become insupportable to him. It is sup Po se f edi unfortunate speculations upon the turf, a vice that P' oo , ve le to an immense extent amongst clerks and vvarehonsf Manchester, have led to the embezzlements wh ie ,rbe do brought on such a fatal and tragical catastrophe• been ceased has left a wife and one child ; he had a ' - ',00 06 married about eighteen months ago, to a respectable lady from Staffordshire.—Macclesfield Paper. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ciOUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAS Wheat. Barley. 1 Data. Beans. Per Quart?r. s. to s. 5. to s. S. to s. s. Carlisle 45 29 40 licxham 36 46 2.1 i 30 21 26 Ni..rpeth 34 42 25 26 17 22 32 Peurith 414 27 18 Sheffield 43 32 21 Winchester 40 48 26 at 18 22 42 44 Per Bushel. 5.d. s. d. s. it. s. d. s. cf. s. d. s. d. 1 1 ,,• d Carmarthen.,.....,. 56 66 36 39 16 26 00 ?(,) t , 0wbridge......... 60 00 36 00' 29 00 56 ? „ Newcastle (Staff.) 80 89 46 50 30 34 5 0 Northallerton 70 93 36 4 6 : 1 3 3 40 56 6 80 8 6 4 0 48, 3 0 3 4 6 0 ?, Swansea 69 73 39 40 23 26 00 „`' s i" Warwick 8 0 90 3 0 4 (31 2 - 0 3'3 b 6 - Per toll. Haman:castle— 'l2 0 14 0 8 0 861 5 0 6 0 8 6 1 9 4 , C Durham..--...... 90 12 0 7 0 80: 4 9 544 7 3 90 u Richmond 11 0 16 6 8 6 901 5 0 64 8 6 Stockton 40 0 12 0 8 6 90; 4 0 4 8 8 0 8 SCOTCH MARKETS. Vi neat. Barley. Oats. s3eato. Aberdeen 4O to 51 24 to 25 19 to 22 —t° Berwick 24 ::0 15 19 13 17 18 Coldstream Cupar (rife Dundee 5O (30 30 33 20 25 30 g 6 Elgin Inverness 4O 46 25 26 16 19 23 Kelso 23 31 16 19 12 16 20 ` 48 Kirkaldy Perth 11:ifk - The siz, of the measure varies throughout We had a large dull in general. )INBURGI ;c supply of i CORN all kinds f Grain' to-day, and to 71-: - ,6c• re , / 0,. t , ,- • !I 3 0 , fi 1 - 0 119 , ...-30 I°ll I, 19 / , / ... / ... / ... 0 19 / ...- 1 1 49 / it : 01t o. . pease. w- 0 38s .id 11 06 0 3'7 0 3 5 0 7s. 6d. First Second Third Ave Oats. 26s Pd. 24 0 16 8 Wheat. Barley. 565. tld. 34s Od. 50 0 32 0 40 0 `;2 0 .!rage price of Wheat PRICES OF PROVISIONS, BC. PO. I° t ' 4 l Beef, per lb. ......... Os. 4d. toos.6d. Freshßutter, 1b.... 4 Mutton 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditt0—............ 0 i., '`,", 9 ' Veal —.........—...... 0 5 0 9 Ditto, per cis t....—. 9, 0 0 9 ° Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per d 05........ v 0 9 6 Lamb, per qr.— 1 6 3 6 OatStrawkp'.).••••• ,if; 6 i a fallow, cwt........... 56 0 38 0 Wheat Ditt0........, 6 0 1 Uuartern Lost ........ 0 0 0 ei Barley Ditto .......—. 0 l'otatoes. 17i1b........ 0 4 0 0 Hay,perst.—.*-- 0 EDINBURGH MEAL There was a middling supply of G sales were rather heavy. L MARKET.—Oct• "ket, latmeal at this day's Per Sack of •60113. Imp. Fint Oatmeal XI 13 0 Second ditto 1 11 0 Barleymeal l. 4 0 Peaseixeal ~.. 1 6 0 A 0 Per Stone of 1411 , - . AO , First Oatmeal ...••••••••;•, 0 6 Second ditto . ............ 6 Barleymeal ......... • ..... e ,41 Peasemeal ..... ..... . •.•••... 128.-3 d. 14s ........ Pot Harley—No. I, per cwt. 108.-2 d. 11 01° MARKET-9,1. 15. ,„„, ntar Grain from Ireland. "" s J. itif t Oats, per 04 11 '• 14 0 t'r Irish— ................ •••• 15 0 n British .............. Beans, per 0 v English .......... ...." 18 0 0 Oft Scottish ................ • 1 9 14 Pease, Scottish 0 0 4 06 Oatmeal, per 1444 b ..• 0/ 0 Flour, per 28011)......• GLASGOW CORN We have good supplies of New dull, and prices ruttier lower. Wheat, , per 240 W. British, old new s. d. a. d 210 to 236 160 210 Canada, free Irish Barley, per 3201 b English Scottish.. Irish 21; 0 28 0 140 230 -o - 226 240 18 0 21 6 CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel), ------------. • 1........-4 to q 9 _____-_-------- ~, • . 0 8. d. to L d. s d. to S. (1 * ° 1! 0 Truro 0 17 Si 0 10 0 ---- 0 9 0 Helstone St. Austell.. 0 0— 0 2 20 16 0 1 --0 g I I 9 , ,1 g O .. -1 - ! 10, 10 „ il liodmin Liskeard 0 19 6 0 10 I ;,' ...- X c ' 0 Launceston 0 9 8 a " Camel ford l6 0 19 0 10 6 11 v,, ~- - Penzance l6 6 17 11— 0 11 v Wheat Barley. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT T H R OW' BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MOR- A• Ii• t lt 9s -i9 H. W. Rich, wine -merchant, Joiners'-hall-t , .... g g C J. Watson, baker, Milton-terrace, Southwark Bridge' ~._••••,,.1.. I (From the London Gazette) ...... g E Law, salt-merchant, Lower Thames-street •...• 9 J. Gallaway, cheesemonger, Bronti-place, S Wells, hatter, Wood-street, Cheapaide .................. ..... ".. ..... H. F. oley, surgeon, Windsor ........................................ ...... ... W. Redhead. jun., ship-broker Lirue-street ...... P. Wootton, grocer, BirchingtOn, Kent .................... Walworth ........ _ ... ___________---------------', B n r na d / e R y T ii r On the 15th inst., the of A• F. idsvvof Melton h G e r l an st g h e i , n Y st o ., rk a s t hi ß re o , of a dau ht • William Ont Henry Elliot, Esq., surgeon, gßeplo of s ter, ' f t he Ott the 12th inst., at Ochiltree Manse, Ayrsu ue ' of tiv Rev. James Boyd, of a son. the 11 On the 14th inst., in Chester-place, Kea:lloo°n' J. M. Hope, Esq., R.N , of a son. On the 16th inst., Mrs.. Thomas Grissell, of a on' .------------- Th isel' MAR RIAGE S. w na . D. del' On the 16th inst., at Norton, Worcestershire, the youre ton, E s q., Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, o„laariiiddleses• r, ofear Le.snio the l'abdeyloadY daughter of the late Peter Tabois, of Great Eau n g - ward ThoeS°to On the 16th inst., at Croydon, by the Rev. Ed_,,r,c, ~, Vicar of Lamborne, Berks, Mr. John Tay of i t r i` vroo " d Lol l % Mary, second daughter of Thomas Tegg, Es, ( l* , vicar of Cr °, 0 , At the same time, by the Rev. Henry Linc . isaY , ,, ,e a bove the Rev. Edward Thompson, to Frances, sister of b. , A gotie' u° John Taylor. '''Ariar., -- _ u irer On the 15th inst, at Hillingdon, Middlesea.'_n ~h _ Ches:_ te f Griffiths, printer, bookseller, and stationer, aof•Pjaria7o'4, he only son of Mr. Griffiths, of Bath, to Ann 4.11 • soy of Mr. William Lake, printer, &c., Vabridge D uke, Esq. , t° On the 16th inst., at Arundel, William Rebecca, eldest daughter of Robert Watkins, .r. q. DE,4T115. Wlllitw. Bo O ot n h, th E e sq l . 7 , th of in ß s o t y . , do a n t GLoudngnee,rsEbussrey,. Ealing, Middleaat n► VT ' PeOtrnie,thEesql4.,thofincista.p,hPaan7ce, the wife of Thos. Thompso youn of Woodhead, near Cheadle, and eldest daughter of the lat e .I.°f 'ff. On the 15th inst., at Poplar, aged 36, Sarah, ~..e wif e Edward Stringer. r eiici On the 12th inst., at the rectory, Ashrnore, Dorset, Jae , of the Rev. Dr. Chisholm, aged 80. Will is° On the 17th inst., at Mr. Rosier s, Adelphi-terrace, Petrie, Esq., formerly of Riga. Ork g On the 29th ult., Miss Isabella M'kenlay, of Stroinness' nays, aged 63. O D O Y GI London : Printed a nd Published by II2 IJ , Strand MA a t The Sun Office, No. t il ') t q4all ed 4factlu., Ug l" I ,A ,A R , oN.,