The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-26 00:00:00

BRISTOL GENERAL UNION. Council of the Bristol General Union having read Irnatien issued b y his Majesty, (kern it their duty l iely to d ec l are , that such proclamation does not -'" this " Association," inasmuch as it is not (as the on exp resses ) " com posed of separate bodies, r ri "s divisions and subdivisions, under leaders, trudation of ranks and authority, and distin .,ll certain badges, and subject to the general con rived l im en 'directi on of a superior Committee or Council.' :" I , 4 neil confirm their late declaration of the neces- AshbV,." t their fellow-citizens of property and influence al authority them to preserve the peace of the city, under Queb l ih la uthority which they can respect, as the Council L 11istil r e ;" 44, nt that they speak the sentiments of every ) (1 ,°, 1 , t he Union, in saying, that they will yield to ; t c uody of men, in a sincere desire for the pre °` Property and social order. WILLIAM HERAPAtH, 'Vice President. 15 Y order of the Council; 24) 1 881; J. P. VEN, Secretary. ived it, bo' I Bet ff, an d ;old. ppOsee and' brisk: 3n thl6l '2 natl. Lr ty 0 0 days etshire. 1 of °, '7 „t BRISTOL, Nov. 25. !rdsy ;a C' dated Alid (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) pi "'able alarm was created by a fire that was dis d:t 5 ° early h our this morning at a tea-warehouse tstreet. The danger was exceedingly great, and k L v ery praiseworthy exertions of the citizens, act % slitabul i ry force, aided by the military detach tala w as immediately called out , it is hard to tell Ue destruction would have ended ; for the build ti:srl close, an d itt the neighbourhood of Bridge btti,s,!' are numbers of old houses built with a large thou °f wood. As soon as the alarm of fire was e c i'uleves congregated to the spot from all quarters tlbl e Y ' a nd would have made sad work had not the arrangements of the constabulary alluded to, and la w ta rYs compl e t e ly frustrated their attempts. The i ere bro ug ht s p ee dily to the spot, and the con ther'nmilitary formed double lines of communication ,6 b urning premises, as well to facilitate the efforts iN ter ucla as to keep off the numerous bodies of thieve 4. got arr angements they were successful, and the fire V e er without extending to any of the other o ut The Sun agents were busy in removing the pro c`f the premises during the day. The cause of 4 (4.1 not yet k nown . 11 4 °l nrnittee of I n quiry appointed at the late meet retlrat ec nninenced receiving evidence to - day, and 1 re uri that s ome o f an important nature has already d t e :, iv eds but as no reporters from the Press are al hee Present nothing further is known. rel Ur t of Inquiry upon Colonel Brereton finished te l a t y l : 1 ' 4 3 as this Court was also a close one in the Proe," 4 of the word, nothing whatever is known of et ta , - ,7 l °P. The inquiry was conducted in the most tha t , —.la crs and more resembled a Court of Inquisi commonly understood Military Court of In k, rYeral of the members of the Court have already ati ga L o ndon, and no doubt the result of the tedious will be speedily laid before the Commander elitlu Till the result of Lord Hill's examination of he ti l es sub m i tte d to hi m b e k n own, we must of ti !! 4 d e , ignorant of the course to which tLe inquiry tp, eit Y is in a most dieorgvnized state. Robberik sof 11 13 ;t datirg character occur nightly. Yesterday 1 4 ° 4 ,, gentleman was ro bb e d on one of the quays ; and li t l i t glass in a shop window was cut in one of -the 41, let , ) and pr o p erty t o th e a mount of fifteen pounds 4di at o efficient police must be established, and that followi or the c onsequences w ill b e dr e adful. td n h, g is a copy of a letter which has been re ;te to-day from one of the Members for the city, ailie E'q., acknowledging the receipt of the ~ouin e stating th a t he had presented it to Lord have onl Seymour-place, Nov. 24. e . dated hers had the honour of receiving which I take the liberty of men- Ipio,nthceasroeethere may hate • been any mistake at the Post-office. bei ng confined by indisposition in Hertfordshire, inlrnediately on Lord Melbourne with the memorial meeting of Monday last, praying that his Lordship 'alesty's bdinisters would reconsider the applicati f ellow-citizens had made for a public and official in Je late disastrous events at Bristol. ~ r ipossible any arguments of mine could add weight ae. language of the memorial, I felt that I should best duty imposed upon me by merely entreating his wourable attention to the earnest and repeated de_ itituents as expressed at their public meetings. me stated' that he would return an answer in .nt delay. ' er nOY gratified by the vote of thanks from the m ed ee t. the kind manner in which you have been pleas o to have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JAMES E. BAILIE. Esq., Bristol. RACY TO SETA HOUSE ON FIRE. HATT ON-GARDEN. Mr. John N. Walters, surgeon, was placed !, before Mr. ROGERS, for further examination Ire charge. . who gave his name as Lieutenant Steele, that an impression, highly prejudicial to his w ts afloat, in consequence of his having disclosed Proposals to him. His nephew was a young t f l ' Most irreproachable character, and that fact he • Publi c to be put in possession of. Indeed he couch injured that his fellow-students at the where be attended, actually shunned him, and P o n him as a traitor. 14 Rs advised him not to harrow up his feelings to idea, as his character from the army would strat e a very different caste ; one title of which c haracter he had not lost by bringing the pri fijii4tice, but the contrary. .mend fresh witnesses were examined : James Brice—l am an assistant to Mr. of 52, Edgeware-road, and know the ,`", l e• On Tuesday, the 15th inst., Mr. Steele t nie morning a villainous proposal was made to desirous of obtaining your advice as to the mode of acting under the circumstances. me that the person who bad made the infa to dim was a friend of his, whose name in i° and who was a surgeon in Tottenham Court -4,1° object was either to cheat the Fire Assurance or * blob h e was insured, by getting his house to ensnare him. Mr. Steele then entered into My advice to Mr. Steele was to lose no loainting either the Magistrates or the police of of th e prisoner's proposals. ill em Cook, collecting clerk at the Sun Fire fee `' f6 ce, produced a copy of the policy of t 3001., eff ec t e d eff e cted by himself and the prisoner, to flee of the latter, on the 30th of July last. The t rade an d fixtures were insured for 2501., and the a nd wearing apparel at 501. The house was, insured in the British Fire Office. lebael 'Ward, a surgeon, of Great Russell-street, as to the value of the prisoner's stock in ttures, and stated that there was comparatively the shop, it principally consisting of turpen ld about a gallon of tincture, if all the bottles *itnesses were severally bound over to prosecute but, owing to the chain of evidence not being he will be brought up for final examination next. t ° & question from Mr. Wooler, Mr. ROGERS co nsent to receive bail for the prisoner until examination, and then be should require ea c h recognizance in 1,0001., and two sureties Bomb b 4 Y Pap ers to the 30th of June have ; ay Their columns are almost wholly filled intelligence. The festival of the Moho. o o lj ; i11 °13 _ the 21st ; no accident or disturbance oc t its continuance, a circumstance which ap a 4 / g been rather unusual. His Majesty's sloop rt,v ed from B assa d ore on the 25th. As this was arrival from the Persian Gulf since it was known p la gue was raging at Bagdad and the countries 'lily of the G u lf, it created a lively sensation at T he Clive was to perform quarantine at Middle „„,,4l3e last arrivals were the Hyte, the General "" th e Good Success. The Bn h ckin9hanishire for China on the 26th. No engagements -ur onts had b een latterly entere d i nto, and t h e l ast rent offered nothing worthy of notice. lil ts N },,aPles journal announces that a dis l'eeo made in the ruins of Pompeii of greater of interest than any that has preceded it. On the Octobe r a picture in mosaic was found in the of the house said to belong to FAUNUS ; it is 9 Palu m high by 10 p a l ms i n width (or about 1S 441;e feet En glish), and of exquisite workmanship. J , t is th e b attle of Sarpedon from the Il i a d , t h e of half th e natural s i ze. T i me has i n j ure d so me (patis precious relic, which, however, is still the n Jte of Pompeii, as to the expression of the is the perfection of the drawing, and, what is more a Marbl e picture, the finish of the execution. The '°d the whole Court have been to view this mag inotaic, and while there the room adjoining the - was explored, and several vases and utensils and bronze brought to light. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. DOWNING-STIIVET, Not. 23, IRII. The King has been pleased to appoint Major-General James Alexander Farquharson to be Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Island of St. Lucia. \VAR-OFFICE, Nov. 25. 4th Regiment of Foot—Ensign C. C. Elton, from the 63d Re giment, to be Ensign, vice Griffith, promoted, Nov. 25. 30th Foot—Paymaster D. Hay, from the half-pay of the 6th Dragoon Guards, Lobe Paymaster, vice Wray, deceased, Nov. 25. lst Foot—Ensign A. 'Dickson, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, lice O'Gbrman, deceased, March 8 • R. O'Brien, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dickson, promoted, Nov. 25. 35th Foot—Serjeant- Major D. M'Curdy to be Quarter-master, vice Howe, deceased, Aug. 29. 40th Foot—Lieut. J. Richardson to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Dalrymple, deceased ; Ensign A. T. Lewis, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Richardson, Nov. 17 ; Lord J. Thynne to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lewis, promoted . Nov. 25. 45th Foot—Ensign R. J. Edmonds to be Lieutenant, without purehase, vice Jones, deceased, Jan. 10 ; Ensign C. Smith waite to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Smith, appointed t 9 the 57th Regiment ; Ensign W. H. 1%1. Ogilvie,'from the 94th Regiment, ti) be Ensign, vice Smithwaite, Nov. 24. 54th Foot—Lieut. F. Thdrnbury to be Captain ; Without purchase, vice Barbauld, deceased; Ensign J. B. Chalk to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Thornbury, Feb. M ; R. ' Dyke, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Chalk, pro moted, Nov. 25. 67th Foot—H. D. Dacres, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lloyd, who retires, Nov. 25. 720 Foot—Ensign M. C. O'Connell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Primrose, deceased ; Gentleman Cadet W. L. Y. Baker, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice O'Connell, promoted, Nov. 25. 923 Foot—Ensign T. D. Gordon to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Gordon, promoted ; K. D. Mackenzie, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, Nov. 25. Foot—Gentleman Cadet T. L. K. Nelson, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ogilvie, appointed to the 46th Regiment, Nov. 25. 99th Foot—Captain J. Duberly, from the half-pay of the 11th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Boyce, who retires, Nov. 25. 99th Foot—Captain W. Gill, from the half-pay of the 27th Regiment, to be Captain, vice S. W. Mayne, who exchanges, Nov. 25. UNATTACHED.—Lieut. J. Gordon, from the 92d Regi ment, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase; Ensign H. 1). Griffith, from the 4th Regiment, to be Lieutenant of Infantry, by purchase, Nov. 25. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant -Surgeon R. Tuthill, M.D. from the 52d Regiment, to be Staff-Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cal lender, appointed to the 69th Regiment; Assistant-Surgeon F. C. Huthwaite, from the half-pay of the 90th Regiment, to be Staff-Assistant-Surgeon, vice R. M'Nab Robertson, resigned, Nov. 25. MEMORANDUM.—Lieut. C. Shaw, upon half-pay 52d Foot, has been allowed to retire from the service by the sale of an un attached commission, Nov. 25. WHITEHALL, Nov. 19. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Urwick, of Lud low, in the county of Salop, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed James Matthews, of West Bromwich, in the county of Staffbrd, Gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex. T. rider, Esq., Sept. 16; J. Shuter, Esq., Nov. 19; C. Prater, Esq., Nov. 21, to be Deputy Lieutenants. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln. Royal North Lincoln Regiment of Militia. G. H. Tennyson, Esq., to be Captain, Nov. 18. Royal South Lincoln Regiment of Militia. P. M. Pell, Gant., to be Ensign, Nov. 1. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carmarthen, Royal Carmarthen Fus,ileer Regiment of Militia. Ensign . J. B. Gwyn, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Nov. 17. hole I.Pit.,,t'rotl;"°` 'mere little l' $ , irn er °e heir the 01';At thenlmediatel, e W hi s ,-eetin difeo frrny festy,s i bolero' ai l o th e ta, the t:ine late d in the C . 1-tibie F:nssiu. t ril >undell, 04tiP'iefaduty In! he prety'd T? covnTjabl , if tt lbo,:itue Laula, iNtwithot,ane , 1 alarlittleXtren? del:, and bu r , ''Y if:he ViYnt )rte of ei rne......, I rv , auTtp il ~: ,every c` neync„.., iIN s, '..,.: L." 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ROBERT THOMAS, Glyn, Llantrissant, Glamorganshire, cattle-dealer, from Nov. 29 to Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol. WILLIAM PRENTICE, High street, Southwark, iron monger, from Dec. 2 to Dec. 23, at twelve, at the Court of Com mi `.l loners. BANKRUPTS. ALEXANDER JOHN CRANSTOUN WRIGHT and WILLIAM HENRY BUCKMASTER, New London-street, Crutched-friars, wine -merchants, to surrender Dec. 6, at twelve, 9, at eleven, and Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Smith, Dorset-street, Salisbury-square. CHRISTOPHER CROXFORD, Iver, Buckinghamshire, shopkeeper, Nov. 30, Dec. 6, at eleven, and Jan. 6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Pocock, Bartholotnew-close. EDWARD HOLGATE, Mitchell-street, St. Luke's, car penter, Nov. 29, at two, Dec. 9, at one, and Jan. 6, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Aston, Old Broad-street. FRANCIS BAWLER, Bath, baker, Dec. 5,6, and Jan 6, at eleven, at the Three Cups Inn, Bath. Harvey, Barnard's Inn, Holborn • Hellings, Bath. FREDERICK WILLMOT, Old Windsor, Berkshire, car penter, Dec. 6, at two, 16, at one, and Jan. 6, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Ivimey, Harper-street. FREDERICK MARTIN, Cheapside, ribbon-manutacturer, Nov. 30, at eleven, Dec 5, and Jan. 6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Goddard, Thavies-inn, Holborn. FREDERICK GROSJEAN, Piccadilly, hatter, Dec. 6,9, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Bickerton, Barnard's-inn. HENRY WA RD Elt, High-street, Newington, Surrey, china dealer, Nev. 29, Dec. 2, at nine, and Jan. 6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Rosser and Son, Gray's Inn-place. JOHN EDWARD EYLES, Canterbury, Kent, hatter, Dec. 2, at eleven, 9, at one, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Richardson, Ironmonger-lane. JAMES BATEMAN, Southampton-buildings, agent, Dec. 6, 9, at eleven, and Jan. 6 at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Spurr, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street. JAMES ADAMS and ABRAHAM KETTELTY, Fen church-street, tailors, Dec. 2, at twelve, 6, at eleven, and Jan. 6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Brough t Fleet-street. JAMES LUCAS, Compo Cottage, Cromer-street, Brunswick. square, builder, Nov. 29, Dec. 6, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Manning and Son, Dyer's-build- ings, Holborn. JAMES JENKINS, Forties, Southampton, pork-butcher, Dec. 12, 13, and Jan. (I, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn, Portsea. Conry, Gray's Inn-place, Gray's Inn; Long, Portsea. JAMES LOMAX, Robert-street, Adelphi, money-scrivener, Dec. 9, at eleven, 16, at ten, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Bickerton, I3ornard's Inn, Holborn. JAMES TURNER, Great Portland-street, tailor, Dec. 2,9, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Cook and Hunter, New.inn. JAMES BENNELL, Kennington-lane, Surrey, boarding house-keeper, Dec. 2, at twelve, 6, at eleven, and Jan. 6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Sylvester and Walker, Furni val's-inn. ROBERT NICHOLLS, Bath, silversmith, Dec. 5,6, and Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Three Cups Inn, Bath. Harvey, Barnard's inn, Holborn ; Hellings, Bath. SAMUEL WOOD, Strand, boot-maker, Dec. 9, 13, at ten, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Saward and Waterman, Furnival's Inn. WILLIAM LEES, Newton-Moor, Cheshire, cotton-spinner, Dec. 10, 12, and Jan. 6, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Johnson and Weatherall, Temple; Seddon, Manchester. WILLIAM BATTAMS, Hardingston, Northamptonshire, grazier, Nov. 30, at eleven, Dec. 5, and Jan. 6, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Vincent, King's Bench.walk, Temple ; Cooke, Northampton. WILLIAM WHITE, Manchester, livery-stable-keeper' Dec. 8, 12, and Jan. 6, at two, at the Albion Hotel, Manchester. Jones and Hughes, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane; Wheeler, Manchester. WILLIAM MAYELL, Exeter, jeweller, Dec. 12, 14, and Jan. 6, at twelve, at the George Inn, Exeter. Clowes, Orme, and Wedlake, King's Bench-walk, Temple; Laidman, E xeter. WILLIAM LAXTON, Holborn, auctioneer, Dec. 2, at eleven, 9, at one, and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Webber, Caroline-street, Bedford-square. WILLIAM FOX, Compton-street, Clerkenwell, millwright, Nov. 29, Dec. 6, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Boviden and Walters, Aldermanbury. WILLIAM THOMAS, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, victualler, Nov. 29, at twelve, Dec. 6, at eleven, and Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Duncan, Lincoln's Inn-fields. WILLIAM MASON, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, axle.tree-manufacturer, Dec. 2, at eleven, 9, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Rogers, Cannon-row, Westminster. DIVIDENDS. W. Remington, R. Stephenson, D. R. Remington, and J. P. Toulmin, Lombard-street, bankers, Dec. 23, at one, at the Court of Commissioners-T. Lumley, Gutter-lane, Cheapside, mer chant, Dec. 16, at two, at the Court of Commissioners-T. Mar shall, Poultry, haberdasher, Dec. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners-W. Martin, Newgate-street, wine-merchant, Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners-J. Brown, Sheerness, barge-owner, Dec. 16, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners-W. W. Dunn, and J. M. Dunn, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, brokers, Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners-R. Songhurst, Budge-row, Watling-street, box maker, Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners -G. Kettel, Tunbridge Wells, corn-dealer, Dec. 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners-T. Griffin, Belvidere Wharf, Lam beth, timber-merchant, Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners-4. W. Nyren and A. Wilson, Battersea, colour-ma nufacturers Dec. 16, at twelve at the Court of Comm issioners- W. Noble,Pall-mall, banker, Dec. 16, at one, at the Court of Commissioners-J. Bramwell, Leadenhall-strect, hatter, Dec. :Ai, at two, at the Court of Commissioners-J. Hunter, J. Morg,o, A. Morgan, and W. P. Paton, Sun-court, Cornhill,lmerclyints, Dec. 16, at one, at the Court of Commissioners-J. tiale. Paternoster row, stationer, Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commis. sioners-M. and J. Bristow,Ratcliff-highway, fire-engine-makers, Dec 16, at one, at the Court of Commissioners-E. Ambrose, King-street, warehouseman, Dec. 16, at three, at the Court of Commissioners-E. R. Strickland, Coventry, chemist, Dec. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners-H. Redstone, Win chester, linen-draper, Der. 16, at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners-Z. Hubbarj, Jeffrey's-terrace, Kentish-town, flour factor, Dec. 16, at :me, at the Court of Commissioners-J. Came ron, 'l'. Johnston, and W. Revern, Henrietta-street, Westmin ster, tailors, Dec. 16, at one, at the Court of Commissioners-R. Birch, Shrewsbury, grocer, Dec. '2O, at twelve, at the Talbot Inn, Shrewsbury-J. Gouthwaite, Leeds, butchers, Dec. 19, at eleven, at the Commercial -buildings, Leeds-J. Mc,rtlock, Bury St. Ed mund's, innkeeper, Dec. V, at eleven-C. Baster, Abingdon, Berkshire, money-scrivener, Dec. 17, at eleven, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Abingdon-T. Coclpll, Littletown, Yorkshire, dyer, Dec. 17, at eleven, at "Alessrs. Stead and Dyson's office, Ha lifax-J. Fletcher, Oldham, Lancashire, hatter, Dec. 19, at ten, at the White Bear Inn, M a nchester-J., Welford, Oxford-street, auctioneer, Dec 16, at eleven, a t the Court of Commissioners- S. Wilson, Goldsmith-street, silkman, Dec. 16, at ele ven , a t the Court of Commissioners-S. Bar ker and J. Gilpin,Billiter_square, merchants, Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners- W. M'Neill, sem Charles-street, -Middlesex Hospital, coach-maker, Dec. 16, at ten, at the Court of CommissTners--R. Holden, Mincing-lane, West India-broker, Dec. 16, at one, at the Court of Commissioners-T. Platt, Brentford, 'Middlesex, c oa l_ merchant, Dec. 16, at twelve, at t he C ourt of Commissioners- R. Evans, Leamington Priors, W a rwickshire, .wine-merch an t, Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners-J. p . Richards, Liverpool, merchant, Dec . 19, at one, at the office of Messrs. Lace and Sons, Liverpool-J. Dewey, Balton St. Mary, Gloucestershire, builder, Dec. 19, at eleven, at the SpiTad Eagle Inn, Gloucestershire-S. Welch, Whitchurch, Shropshire, saddler, Dec. '22, at twelve at the Red Lion Inn, Whitchurch, -J. Simmons, Plymouth, grocer, Dec. 19, at twelve, at Han.. naford's Commercial Inn, Plymouth-E. Downes, Manchester, publican, Dee. 19, at ten, at the York Hotel, Manchester -J. Brown, Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, corn-dealer, Dec. 17, at eleven, at the George Inn, Hun tingdon-W. Moorsom, Scar borough, Yorkshire, banker, Dee. 23, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn, Scarborough. CERTIFICATES, DEc..l6. J. Cooper, Liverpool, bone-dealer -G. Irvine, jun. New Shore ham, Sussex, timber-merchant-J. Hobson, Leadenhall-street, wine -merchant-E. P. Rendell, West Coker, Somersetshire, sail cloth-manufacturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Steele and E. Matterson, Wh i te h a ven, Cumberland , dress makers-M. Pearson and K. B roa dbent, Regent-street, milliners -S. Butterworth and W. Wells, Manchester and Middleton, cotton-manufacturers-W. Stenton, G. Wostenholm, sen. and G. Wostenholm, jun. Sheffield, merchants -O. 0. Roberts and 2. ' Rees, Carnarvon, surgeons-J. Rogers and T. Carver, Notting_ ham, hosier'-J. D. Derringtvn, .1. Jenkins, and W. MD. Dec. rington, Swansea, Glamorganshire, attorneys—J. Jones, sen. and J. Jones, jun. of Liverpool, iron-merchants—J. F. Ceal and E. Banister, Enfield, Middlesex, school-masters--A., S., and H. Smith, Manchester, engravers to calico-printers (so far as regards S. Smith) --W. Hardy and C. Tilson, Mincing-lane, East and West India produce-brokers—P. and J. L. Statham, Lamb's Conduit-street, blacking-manufacturers—R. Farrer and R. W. Cain, Liverpool, wine-merchants—J. and R. Tayloi, Newington, Lincolnshire or Nottinghamshire , nialtsters—J. King and J. Thompson, York, Dublin porter-merchants—J. and J. C. Thomp son, Liverpool, rope-manufacturers — W. Birkett, jun. and J. C. Thompson, Liverpool and Manchester, manufacturing-chemists. CHOLERA AT SUNDERLAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIII,-1 have just been attending a very numerous meeting of the Newcastle Board of Health. Mr. M'Allom, a surgeon, stated that he went over to Sunder land yesterday to obtain information respecting the dis ease which has been prevailing there for some time past, and has excited sa much alarm. He met with a very courteous reception from the Commissioners sent down by Government. Drs. Daun and Barry both declared them selves convinced that the disorder was the Asiatic cholera modified by the climate, and by the constitutions and habits of the peop'e ; though some of the resident practitioners still entertained an opposite opinion. Mr. M'Allum said he was taken to see two cases, but the parties appeared to be sinking, and the characteristic symptoms had ceased to present themselves. He observed that he learnt several particulars respecting the case of an individual in are. spectable station of life, who took ill on Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, and died at six o'clock next morning, ex actly eleven hours after. He had been sensible of nausea during the day, but was at the time specified attacked with cramps in the calves of his legs, which soon after extended to the stomach. This had continued for some time before he was affected with either vomiting or purg ing. The treatment pursued was, i❑ the first instance, bleeding. The blood at the outset was thick, and flowed very slowly, though afterwards more freely. The patient was much relieved by it. Ammonia, calomel, and opium were then administered, in the bolus form, but rejected ; brandy and laudanum were also given, but rejected. A bladder of oxygen gas was administered, with evident ad vantage, the patient's spirits being sensibly raised, and his pulse, from being almost imperceptible, rendered quite dis tinct. In half an hour this effect disappeared ; another bladder of oxygen gas was given with the same apparent benefit, but in half an hour more he again became de pressed. No more oxygen was in readiness. This person, as it has been observed, died at six o'clock in the morning after he was attacked. But it must be observed, that his case is like that of many others, he was much addicted to the use of ardent spirit. It appeared that several of the common women of the town, who were exposed to severe cold, and much in the habit of drinking, had fallen vic tims to the disease. Instead of the warm bath, in future, Mr. M'Allum was given to understand hot air would be introduced into the bed, so as to carry warmth to the patient without disturbing him by removal into a bath, which is attended with inconvenience. Dr. Dann recom mended also that patients, when removed from their own houses to the hospital, should be carried in a recumbent, not in an upright posture. The Mayor, who is the Chairman of the Board of Health, observed, that he had heard a report, that seven cases of malignant cholera bad appeared at South Shields ; he Lad great satisfaction in being able to show that such a rumour was entirely unfounded. His Worship then read a letter, dated last night, from Nicholas Fairless, Esq., a fqz:gi strate of South Shields, stating that that town was so far entirely free from the cholera : he produced a similar let ter from Mr. Edward Greenhow, showing that North Shields was equally exempt from it. The Miayor added, that in Newcastle he was satisfied there would be no con cealment; that he should, and the medical gentlemen also, he felt assured, would, act with perfect openness and can dour, if this dreaded complaint should unhappily appear amongst us. It was then resolved, in order that every precaution might be taken, that visitors should go round in every part of the town and examine into the state of the poor, to enforce cleanliness and ventilation in their houses, and to ascertain their wants in regard to food and clothing, that they might be supplied. Dr. M'Whirter observed, that on Tuesday, the 22d of November be had the pleasure of sheaving the Newcastle Infirmary, Fever-house, and other institutions of the town, to Dr. Barry, and that that gentleman expressed himself highly gratified with the excellent arrangements he every where observed in them. The Mayor stated, that be hoped to have the company both of Dr. Dann and Dr. Barry here to-morrow, to meet the medical gentlemen. By the official report of the 23d November, which we have just received from Sunderland, it appears there are five new cases, and one death, of common cholera, and four recoveries ; three new cases, and four deaths, of ma lignant cholera, but no recovery. In the report of No vember 22, there appears to have been a mistake , Dr. Daun sent us a report of one death only of malignant cho lera ; to-day he has sent it corrected to two, and adds, that though two deaths only have been reported to him, he is certain there are three more. I have said from the first, that the resident practitioners did not co-operate pro perly with the Commissioners : of this every one must now be convinced. I am yours truly, A MEMBER OF THE NEWCASTLE BOARD OF HEALTH. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Thursday. Nov. 24. CHOLERA MORBUS. (From the Times Correspondent.) SUNDERLAND, NOV. 23. In accordance with the law of predisposition, the cholera is slowly thinning the ranks of the debilitated in constitu tion, whether that debility arose from prolonged habits of dissipation, physical disorganization, the effect of old age, or temporary extremes in fasting, fatigue, &c. The disease seems to spread in families in proportion to their destitu tion. A respectable shopkeeper of the town, however, whose constitution is supposed to have been much impaired, but who walked about yesterday unapprehensive of imme diate danger, was attacked last night, with rapid symp toms, and perished before morning in spite of the medical assistance which was obtained in a short period after the disease had commenced its galloping career. In these cases vital resources are wanting to bear the use of remedial measures to an extent like to influence the cause of the malady. A rumour obtains, that the acting members of the medical establishment here are not throughout on the most amicable footing with each other. " SUNDERLAND, NOV. 23. " appears necessary to explain the form of the daily report which has been adopted, to communicate to Government and the public at large as correct an account of the number of persons attacked with cholera at Sunder land, as could he obtained. " On Mr. Daun's arrival here, he found the medical gentlemen of the town divided in opinion as to the exist ence of any unusual disease. Had the report, therefore, only included a column for " malignant cholera," I am persuaded we should have had blank returns sent in by many; it nas therefore necessary to spread a net large enough to catch all the fish, and the columns for diarrhosa and z ommon cholera were introduced, because those who denied the existence of the malignant form of the disease, were willing to admit the prevalence of the other two. Now, however, Dr. Daun has consented to discontinue the column of diarrhoea on the express understanding, that all cases of death, from whatever disease, are to be reported. As Dr. Daun's colleague on this duty, I have thought proper to give this explanation in reply to various News paper criticisms, and request you to publish the same. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " JAMES GIBSON, M.D." " SIR,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and in reply have to inform you, that if an almost perfect similarity of symptoms during life, and of appear ances after death, be sufficient to establish the identy of the two diseases, that which has recently appeared in Sun derland is unquestionably the Indian or spasmodic cholera. I prefer the name of malignant cholera—a designation in volving no hypothesis as to its origin—not implying the existence of a symptom which, though genera ly, is not invariably present, and expressive merely of its fatal cha racter. I enclose, for your satisfaction, a copy of my daily report to Government, by which you will see the number of cases of malignant cholera is surprisingly few, when it is considered that it is now above a fortnight since the disease first appeared here, where from the filth, poverty, and density of the pauper population, in many parts of the town, it might have been expected, (considering the rapi dity with which the disease spread in every town on the continent of Europe as well as Asia, after it had appeared in it), that there should have been, by this time, as many hundreds of the inhabitants of Sunderland attacked as there have been individuals. The only sufferers hitherto have been the aged, infirm, and intemperate. •' I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " ROBERT DAUN, M.D." We are glad to perceive that the public at tention has been called by a contemporary to an intolerable nuisance which is carried on under pretence of balloting for the Middlesex Militia. If half that is reported upon this subject be correct, it well behoves the Duke of PORT LAND himself to inquire into the matter ; and, above all, to see what sort of hands they are to whom the duties of Deputy-Lieutenants are confided. BRIGHTON, Nor. 25. Their MAJESTIES are enjoying excellent health and spirits at their Marine Palace. Yesterday their 111.kaxs vas took a carriage airing through various p iris of the town, and returned to the Palace about two o'clock ; afterwards his MAJESTY, accompanied by her Royal High ness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, left the Palace in a car riage and four, with two outriders, proceeded along the Marine-parade, to near Rottingdean, back along the Cliff to Brunswick-terrace, and returned to the Palace after four o'clock. In the early part of the day their Royal Highnesses the Princess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER took an airing on the Chain Pier ; their Royal Highness were joined by several ladies of distinction. His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER took an airing on horseback. Lord A. FITZC LA MINCE returned from town last evening to the Palace. _ . -- ----- Prince GEomax had a juvenile party yesterday at the Pavilion. The following nobility and gentry, with the Royal Suite and Household, formed the Royal dialler party last even ing :—Prince Talleyrand, Duchess dc. Dino, Earl of Bee borough, Marquis of Queensberry, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Sir W. Freemantle, Sir Robert Otway, Rear-Ad miral Thompson, Mr. A. Baring, Monsieur de Barcourt, Mr. and Lady Barbara Ponsonby, Sir F. and Lady Emily Ponsonby, Earl and Countess Bathurst, Lady Georgiana Bathurst, and Lieutenant -Colonel Grey. Colonel Sir JAMES REYN!TT arrived last evening at the Palace, and had the honour of dining with their MAJESTIES. . _ The weather yesterday was exceedingly fine, which in duced many of the nobility and gentry to appear in public ; i❑ consequence the drives were thronged with splendid car riages and the promenades visited by the haut ton. Messrs. Ciialuoss and ROBERT GRANT are among the latest arrivals. The following nobility and gentry left their names at the Palace yesterday :—Capt. C. Bagot, Mr. and Lady Mary -Ross, Hon. A. Duncombe, Lord and Lady Bel haven, Colonel Sir Thomas Downman, Lady Emily and Miss Drummond, Mrs. and Miss Gibbiogs, Lady A. and Miss Freemantle, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Mr. and Mrs. Longford Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. Beaumont, Mr. C. Fergusson, Mrs. Colonel Payne, Captai❑ and Mrs. Frank land, Mr. Robert Grant, and Mr. Charles Grant. DREADFUL FIRES. (From the Norwich Mercury.) We lament to record that incendiary fires still go on. But the country is reused. An advertisement from the Lord L;eutonant calls the Magistracy together to take the best means of prevention, and societies are forming, as may be seen by the notice of the meeting, at which Mr. Coke presided. We trust they will institute effectual precaution. On Thursday se'nnight, about seven o'clock in the evening, a fire was discovered in a wheat stack belonging to Mr. Samuel Sears, of East Beckham, near Holt. It burnt with considerable fury for some time, but with the great exertions of the labourers and people assembled, was fortunately extinguished before the stack was more than half destroyed. On Friday ennight, between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, a fire was seen blazing in the direction of Coluey Hall, which proved to be on the middle farm of Jehosphat Postle, Esq. It broke out from the interior of the barn, and was not discovered till the roof was ail on fire, which a few minutes after fell in with a tremendous crash. A❑ old by•tlock-shed also, which stood between the barn and the house in which the steward lives, and adjoining to both, was entirely destroyed. The engioee quickly arrived from Norwich, and directed their principal force to the dwelling-house, and so prevented its destruc tion. The barn was nearly full of barley in the straw— supposed to be between 20 and 30 lasts, which was all destroyed. The property was insured in the Norwich Union Office. On Friday se'nnight a fire broke out in the parish of Cattield, in the cottage of Mrs. E. Wright, which was entirely consumed. On Wednesday evening about half-past six o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in a stack of barley, the produce of 43 acres, on the farm of Mr. J. Kitton, of Bircham, in this county, and in a short time the stack was wholly consumed. The loss is computed to amount to from three to four hundred pound., and we lament to add that the fire must have been the act of an incendiary, as the stack was in a field apart from any building. The Marquis of Cholmondeley, on whose estate the fire oc curred, and Captain Hoste were promptly on the spot, and exertions are using to bring the offender or offenders to justice. Mr. Kitton is insured in the Norwich Union Fire Office. THE MURDERERS of the ITALIAN BOY, IMPORTANT DISCO VERY. It may be remembered that, on searching the privy of Bishop's house, the clothes of a female, including a pocket, were found. In consequence of information received by Mr. Thomas, he on Friday despatched Sergeant Taylor to Holton, for the purpose of inquiring whether any female had been missing from that quarter. After much exer tion the policeman discovered that a female, named Eli zabeth Pigburn, had left home about five weeks since and had net been heard of, but that her sister was still resi dent in the n eighbourhood. Taylor at length found the sister, and after some conversation with her, asked her particularly the nature of the dress her sister wore when she left horse. The description given was so close to those of the clothes fou n d, th a t T a yl or at l engt h informed her, as delicately as he could, of the find ing the clothes. Mrs. Pigburn immediately said, "If it is my sister I should know her clothes ; and as to her pocket, I have the pattern of it by me now"—at the same time producing a paper patt e rn, which agrees in every particular with the pocket in question, and which is one of a very peculiar description. Mrs. Pigburn, with a female friend, then accompanied the officer to the station-house in Covent-garden, where they immediately identified the clothes, and added the age of Elizabeth Pigburn was forty-five years, and that although every in quiry had been made, no tidings could be gained of her. There is now no doubt that this female has fallen a vic tim. to the monster or monsters now in Newgate. 1 Since writing the above, we have learned that Mr. Tho mas has obtained further information, which leaves no doubt that the female in question was at Bishop's house about the time she left home. CONVEYING THE BURKERS TO NEW. GATE. In all the examinations which before took place, it was I arranged that the prison van, owing to the multitude that assembled, should not take up the Burkers, as they are called, with other prisoners, but that the van should return at another hour and convey them quietly from Bow-street. Yesterday the mob assembled, with augmented force about the Police-office, it having got abroad that the Burkers were committed for trial, and were to be conveyed to New gate. When the van arrived in Bow-street, the dryer could hardly force his way, without great risk to the people, to the office door, and, as the Burkers came out, Bishop was violently struck upon the left side, but his as sailant did not escape the vigilance of the officer he was e ntrusted to, by whom the offender was seized. After this the va❑ proceeded to the Strand, followed by an im mense meb, yelling, whose numbers had so accumulated on getting to Temple-bar, that in order to divert their pursuit, the driver went sharply down Chancery-lane, where, notwithstanding, an accidental stoppage gave time for the populaoe to overtake him ; when, be-. sides their hooting and yelling, they began to pelt the officers who guarded it, calling on them to turn out the Burkers, and at the same time, bespattering the van with mud and stones. Having got to the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, for which several persons had been committed, from Marylebone, and from Marl borough-street, the van was driven into the yard, and the gates closed ; but its followers, far from being yet foiled, were found waiting its egress, and actually went into Clerkenwell Prison, when it was found expedient to get three officers, in add ition to those coming from Alaryle bone and Bow -street offices, to proceed on to Newgate. Cries of " Burkers ! Body-snatchers ! and the murdered Italian Boy !" with groans, and booting, and whistling, saluted the van at every turn. People looking out of their windows, and even from the house-tops, to catch a glimpse, although impossible, of the Burkers. Nothing could di vert the attention of the multitude. On the van, at length, reaching the Old Bailey, at a quarter-past five, it bad again to encounter a dense mob collected at the Felons'-door, so that the officers, at least five in number, had great difficulty in forcing a passage for the prisoners to the door, amidst the most tremendous hooting and shouting. Never was such a scene witnessed in conveying prisoners to Newgate. They seemed, in fact, glad them selves to be secured there from the vengeance of the in furiated mob. The Rev. H. B. SNOOKE, of Portsea, has been licensed by the Bishop of Exit Tan to the Curacy of Torpoint Chapel, Devon. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The country papers continue to publish ac counts of fires. We know not whether the re- publication of these accounts may not be calcu lated to increase the mischief ; for incendiarism, we suspect, is, like other vices and diseases moral and physical (the cholera morbus for ex- . - ample), epidemic, if not contagious. The ex istence of the crime to so great a degree will, we hope, lead to an investigation of its causes. Undoubtedly, where the guilt is established, ex amples must be made ; but with se%erity we trust will be mingled kindness,—we fear we may add, in explanation of the word kindness, a change in the manner of treating the poor. Had there been half as much pains taken in examining into their condition, and keeping them in warmth, cleanliness, and independence, as has been spent in the preservation of game, 'matters would not have been as they are in the rural districts of England ; farmers and landlords might have slept in peace, and their labourers having done the same, would have been able to come to their daily labour with cheerfulness, and return to their cottages at night in content. They must, however, now be employed at reasonable wages, or worse will ensue. It may be said that the incendiaries are always the worst subjects in a parish—idle, dissolute, and unwilling to work on any terms. That they are the worst inhabi tants of a parish, there can be no doubt ; but has every thing been done to reclaim them ? and putting them personally out of the question, is their work of incendiarism viewed with proper dissatisfaction and abhorrence by the more - decent and respectable labourers? Do these latter as sist with hearty good will in extinguishing the fires which have been kindled, and in detecting the authors of them ? The incendiaries them selves may be desperate villains, whom we do not wish to rescue from condign punishment; but when a vast mass of the labouring popu lation approves of their work, matters are at a sad pass indeed ; and we again say that kind treatment and liberal wages are the only remedies of the evil. While we are speaking of excesses and crimes in the country, we must point out an approaching evil in town. The number of beggars is increasing daily. The police ought to have instructions for apprehending these, not for the purpose of punishing them as vagrants, but with a view to transfer them to their several parishes, before the severe season sets in ; otherwise many of them will die in the streets, or through desperation commit acts fatal to the peace of society, and calling for the severest punishments. In general, we do trust, that with Parliamentary Reform will be introduced an amelioration of the con dition of the industrious class of society, pro ceedii,g not from that worst of all methods, con descension or voluntary kindness on the part of the upper ranks, but from the more equalized condition of all. Indeed, if wd were bound to pitch upon those who in their conduct and by their wages have generally shown themselves the most considerate of the poor, and the most liberal to them, we do not know that we should look for them among the clatnourers for Re form.— Times. Our readers will observe, by our Bow-streek report that the three resurrection-men, charged with the murder of the Italian boy, have been finally committed for trial. Of them, therefore as individuals about to be brought before a jury of their country, or of the strength of the evi dence against them, we shall at present say no thing. But we are not deciding on their case, or perverting the minds of their judges, when we declare that the public examinations which have of late taken place before the police-offices esta blish sufficiently, in our opinion, the fact, that in this great metropolis, as well as some time ago in Edinburgh, a trade has been carrying on in assassination for the purpose of supplying subjects to the dissecting-knife,—and that the young, the aged, and the unfriended, have been entrapped into dens of murder, in order that a horrid livelihood might be obtained from the sale of their bodies. The mode in which our theatres and schools.of anatomy are now supplied with subjects, and the present state of the law, which renders it almost impossible to obtain a number adequate to the ends of science without exhumation or murder, should be pressed on the minds of the public till some effective ex pedient be adopted by legislative humanity, and sanctioned by general consent, to destroy the ne cessity of disinterment, and the contingency of assassination, for the attainment of anatomical knowledge. That those who engage in the trade of resurrection-men will not always confine their operations to the plunder of a church-yard, has been proved by a terrible series of facts, and might have been anticipated by reasonable sus picion. Under the existing temptation the prac ticed resurrection-man is an assassin ready-made. He is already a criminal—he is engaged in a trade which is generally esteemed robbery and sacrilege—he is excommunicated from the rest of society with disgust and horror—he feels no restraint from any regard to a character irre trievably lost, or from feelings of humanity which are utterly extinguished ; and whether he adds one more crime to his list—one additional title to execration to a name already abhorred—whe ther, in short, lie makes a subject of the living, instead of digging one from the earth, if he can do the former with equal safety as the latter—can be to him a matter of little conse quence. Sir Astley Cooper had precisely the same idea of this class of men, even before the disclosures of the murders of Burke and Hare in Edinburgh. " They are," said he, on his examination before a Committee of the House of Commons, in 1828, " the lowest dregs of degradation. Ido not know that I can describe them better. There is no crime they could not commit ; and as to myself, if they could imagine that I would make a good subject, they really would not have the smallest scruple, if they could do the thing undiscovered, to make a subject of me." Men who live only by a breach of the laws,—whose daily bread is the fruit of felony,—who would be ruined if they were sus pected of virtue,—who can only support a pre carious existence by a co ntinued offence,— and who would be discarded by their employers if they did not incur the general odium of man kind by prowling about the graves of their re latives—are not very likely to care much whe ther the subject be living or dead, if, as Sir Astley Cooper says, they " can d o th e thi ng undiscovered." A highway robber or a bur glar, without such an appr en ti ces hi p i n cr i me , often risks his life for a smaller sum than 81. or 10/.,—the usual price obtained for a recent subject. And only let us reflect upon the great temptations held out to the increase of the trade, by the necessity of sup plying the various anatomical schools of this metropolis, and by the facilities of obtaining poor victims prepared for the dissecting knife, whose wanderings nobody observes, and of whose exis- ... „ .6 4 :0 Pc / . c en t tence their nearest relatives may be ignoWll - less we had a vigilant police or inquisittse.rin . B at, tomical professors. The number. of -Aitti • ' . r.,.... - 3 : \ 41.. - , .1 schoolsin London amount to eigh :-:' - ti,,b .*A 4, lj lor ). , _ . ..,„4. - ,$,..., the number of pupils in the whole s.. . „ 4_ ,. 45.1 , -71:... than 900 or 1,000; and in order the 1 1 ... - 4,-,,SAr. )ti,._ lectures and private demonstrations inafblillitililtii ducted properly to their advantage, the number of subjects dissected in the year should exceed that of the anatomical students. Indeed, Sir A. Cooper says, that in order to complete his anatomical course, each pupil should at least dissect or perform surgical operations on three bodies. Here, then, we have a growing neces sity for a great supply, which has been indicated in the rise of price from 2/. to 101. or 121. in the course of the last thirty years. There is no chance that this demand can be reduced ex cept by driving our medical pupils abroad to study their profession in more favourable circum stances, and with improved opportunities, or by declaring 'that profound anatomical knowledge and great surgical dexterity are unnecessary. In this latter case the dead may sleep in their graves, but the living will be deprived of the resources of medical skill,—the poor may not be killed by Braking, but persons of all classes may be killed by surgery. It was the unani mous declaration of all the professors and prac titioners examined by the Committee of 1828, that dissection is necessary to the acquisition of anatomical knowledge, and that anatomical knowledge is indispensable to the beneficial practice of either medicine or surgery. To this question, " What is your opinion as tothe ne cessity of dissection, for teaching what is known in anatomy, aad for the further improvment of that science ?" Sir Astley Cooper replied, " that without dissection there can be no anatomy', and without anatomy a surgeon can do nothing —certainly nothing well." " Without dissec tion," said Mr. Brodie, " there can be no know ledge of surgery, and very little knowledge of medicine. The other medical witnesses de livered their opinions in similar terms. All of these gentlemen at the same time la mented that from the high price of subjects, or the difficulty of procuring them at all times, many of the pupils were prevented from engaging in dissection themselves, or seeing the demonstrations of others to such an extent as to attain a competent knowledge of their profes sion. Sometimes the lecturers at our public in stitutions were obliged to suspend their course, or to change the order of their discourses, from the impossibility of obtaining subjects at the proper period. This state of things cannot be permitted to continue ; the hostility of law and prejudice to the progress of knowledge and the interests of humanity cannot be permitted much longer to exist. The most sensible portion of the public are now prepared to see some legisla tive remedy adopted, and the best friends of the poor will not he deterred from consulting their interests, and those of all the other classes of society, by the loudest clamours which can be uttered about the hardship and cruelty of dis secting the unclaimed remains of such as die in our hospitals or workhouses. We say unclaimed, because the relatives of the poorest dependent on public charity ought to have their feelings con sulted as well as those of a higher rank, and if they claim the remains of their relatives for in terment, they ought to be surrendered. If neither relatives nor friends take such interest in the de ceased inmates of our hospitals, prisons, peniten tiaries, and poor-houses, as to make such a demand, it is plain that their feelings cannot be outraged by any useful disposal which the law may make of them. Nearly all the witnesses who were examined on the Com mittee to which we have alludod recom mend this plan as " a simple and adequate remedy for the existing evil." The bodies of those who in life have been maintained at the public charge, and who die in public establish ments of charity or houses of detention, seem to be most naturally placed at the public disposal for purposes of public utility, unless their next of kin, objecting to the arrangement, take upon themselves the care of their burial. The supply thus obtained would, in the opinion of Sir Astley Cooper and other witnesses, be nearly sufficient for all the demands of science ; and regulations, according to the same authorities, might easily be made to secure the equal dis tribution of subjects over the different ana tomical shools. "It appears," says the House of Commons' Committee on the anatomy question, " that by returns from 129 of the parishes in London, Westminster, and South wark, or their immediate vicinity, out of 3,741 persons who died in the workhouses of these parishes in the year 1829, 3,103 were buried at the parish expellee, and that of these about 1,108 were not attended to their graves by any relations." Many other parishes had not made their returns, but there can be no doubt that this source alone would supply more subjects than are now obtained by exhumation or murder. We are aware that this scheme is liable to some objections, and that it may furnish, as it has already furnished, a fertile topic of exaggerated declamation and hypo critical raving about the rights and hardships of the poor ; but we have the example of other countries to show that it has " worked well," where it has been long in practice, and we have now only a choice of evils of which the project now recommended would appear to be infinitely the least. If the criminal tendency and demoralizing effects of the present system (leaving out all reference to its drawback on science) were felt and confessed so strongly and so generally about four years ago—before the late disclosures in Edinburgh, and the more recent atrocities in London—with what astound ing force must they now fall upon our minds, and call for a radical change. For if we per mit the trade of the resurrection-men to go on to its present extent and under its present temp tations, we can no more prevent it from being occasionally stained with murder, than we could cut out Shylock his " pound of flesh," without drawing " a drop of blood."—Times. We have now before us a copyof w tl e le yester com mitment of the lad Barber, by Mr. Roe, of Marlborough-street Office, to which day alluded. That commitment is at variance with what fell from Mr. Roe in the public office. In the report in the Chronicle of Thurs day, it is stated that a policeman charged a youth named Barber, residing at Walworth, with ob structing Coventry -street, having attracted hawking a new penny pub iatin ,n a the w ri ot f l o e " Mr. Roe observed (after a perusal of a portion l c oentitled footway w " English Revolution ; ' that by tay in of the work) that it was the most execrable trash he had ever met with, and it would be making it of too great consequence to hold the prisoner to bail for vending the same. Being about the streets, however, and obstructing the footway, was another offence, and he should order the prisoner to find bail on that charge." All who I were present went out of Court with the ''''.;mta