The Sun. — London, England, 1833-07-05 00:00:00

'SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL§. A motion was brought forward last night by Mr. W. Torikt, on the subject of the delay whicli has taken place do ir,Tanting a Charter to the London University. Si long ago as 1830, a charter was applied for on a petition of the Duke of Somerset, Mr. John Smith, and Dr. Lush ington ; the draught of the charter was approved of by the then Attorney and Solicitor-General ; it wr.9engrogsed, ..ead went through all but the last sanction of the Great Seal, at an actual expense, in fees, 0f268/. The charter, however, was, when thus neatly completed, s'opped in consequence of applications from the universities of Ox ford and Cambridge. Mr. Tooke contended that these two learned bodies could have noelaini to circumscribe the Royal prerogative in its most beneficial exercise. The public will be gratified in learning through him, that the dilliculties which retarded the progress of the Univer sity in its outset, are now surmounted ; that the able body of professors have the entire conduct of the discipline, and literary and scientific portion of the establishment ; that a junior school has been esta• blisbed within the walls of the University ; and that "in aid of the medical students an hospital is now bu.'.l.ding by voluntary subscription, which is cal culated by the facilities for clinical lectures and the practical information it will afford to the medical cl•iss, to constitute the metropolis the first school of medicine in the United Kingdom, if not in the world." Mr. John Hominy ably seconded Mr. W. Tooke. He contended tint the single condition on which such charters ought to be granted was, that the parties asking them were capable of fulfilling the purpose of giving the proper instruction. The London University had completely fulfilled that condition. It had established hood regulations, chosen accomplished and able teachers, and was therefore entitled to the charter. We are glad to find from the speech of Lord Althorp that every thing is in a proper train. His Lordship said "he was one of those anxious for the success of the London University, and who thought it reflected great credit on those who founded it." And he added—" after what he had stated, he would recommend the Hon. Gentleman to Withdraw his motion." This recommendation having been also made by Mr. Abercromby and Mr. Hume, Mr. Tooke reluctantly withdrew his motion. —Morning The corruption of the Liverpool freemen is not to escape detection or punishment. The House of Com mons divided early this morning, son the question of the revival of the Committee on the recent petition, when a majority of 82 (166 to 84) determined that the reformed Parliament should not be allowed to stultify or degrade itself in the estimation of the country. It will be recol lected that the Tories, in their excessive patriotism, on the 'discussion of the first English Reform Bill, contrived a back water in the Ministerial plan for amending the re• presentative system, by perpetuating the city and borough freemen—a class of electors always purchasable by their oonservative capital. The epicurean taste of the Tories is very discernible. If universal suffrage, under open voting, serves their purpose, they are its earnest advocates; and they are equally earnest enemies of any alteration of the constituency, by addition or subtraction, which limits 'their means of improperly influencing the elector , . The part which Lord Sandon has taken in this matter is any thing but creditable to him as a Legislator or Repre sentative of Liverpool. His peculiar relation to the borough might have disposed him to promote inquiry, as a real justice to the petitioners, whom he repre sents, and the only effectual mode of clearing the charac ter of the freemen. Instead of such a straightforward and palpable course, however, his Lordship has been sedulously endeavouring to prevent investigation ; and by his motions and speeches last night, after the division, to Burke the real object of the appointment of the Committee, the Noble Lord was at least consistent and decided, though his general character is that of a waverer. The convenient political neutrality of this class of public men is always suspended when they are interested in a direct course. The occupa. lion of the time of the House of Commons in these Tory discussions Is extremely mortifying; the Conservative alloy in the reformed Parliament is still the great obstruction to public business, and the drawback from national im provement. Toryism, however, is in the last stage of consumption, anti its latter end will be, as usuil, pro tracted and tenacious of life. The Liverpool inquiry must and will end in a substantial redress of the notorious grievance existing, and there are many modes of cure. The Mouse of Lords will not he able to perpetuate the chronic disease in the Liverpool constituency. Great praise is due to the public-spirited individuals in Liver pool, who, despite of calumny and unreformed Parlia ments, lo ive, at last, succeeded in their remedial object. Morning Chronicle. We have elsewhere noticed the arrangement made in the House of Commons yesterday for the conduct of busi sem We think that not only will the work be quicker but much better done by this new method. Still, looking to the advanced period of the session, we do not see how it II possible to carry through the immense quantity of pro jected measures now on the order-book, except in the most slot enly and unstatesmanlike manner, or with an expen sditure of time which will keep Parliament together for at least three months to come. As Ministers cannot think of detaining the Houses till the end of September, we would recommend that all the business which can conveniently and safely stand over shall be postponed till next session. We take it for granted that the English Tithe Bill, which tsatisfits no party, and which will evidently be fought line by line, will not be pressed through till next year. The renewals of the Bank Charter and of the East India Charter might, we think, be both safely and beneficially deferred : the first is clearly a source of all but universal discontent; and the second must be a subject of length ened and repeated discussion. Two short Bills which am party could reasonably object to would suspend these questions for one year without any detriment. Parlia ment will even then have enough to do. The Civil Esti mates, at all times and now more than ever, an interesting subject of debate, will occupy no little time. The Irish Church measures (excellent, as far as they go—would they went further !) will require all the vigilance, all the acti vity, all the firmness and energy which Ministers can muster to carry them in any reasonable time through the Haute of Commons, and to carry them at all through the reluctant phalanx which constitutes the majority of the House of Lords. A hope is expressed in some quarters, that the House may rise in the first week in August, but this will he impossible unless the postponements which we take the liberty of suggesting are ogreed to. We may per haps be allowed to hint, that if some of the oratorical Mem bers would have the forbearance to suspend their eloquence (we are aware of the sacrifice both to themselves and the country) till next spring, they would facilitate that termi nation of the session which even they must desire when they are not on their legs comtnanding the admiration of their attentive auditors.— Times. The House of Commons, on Wednesday evening, by its acquiescence in the extravagant bargain for the renewal of the Bank Charter, or its consent to establish an immense paper monopoly for 10 or 20 years, in consideration of a paltry deduction from the overrated charges for acting as Government paymaster, with payment of the dividends, has established a claim rather to the wonder than the gra titude of the nation. To have allowed the public for two years to discuss the question as one on which both Parha • meat and the nation required to be informed,—to have ap pointed a Bank Committee—nay, "a Secret" Committee, on Bank affairs, to procure information,—to have opened before that Committee an inquiry into the general circula tion of the country,—to have summoned or received on its list of witnesses metropolitan and country bankers, mer chants, and joint-stock shareholders,—to have pub lished a huge folio volume of their depositions, with an appendix of accounts and documents be fitting the size of the report, —to have entered sub sequently into formal negotiations with the B an k Di rectors on the knowledge thus obtained of all the facts which the Bank could disclose—to have authorized meet ings of Bank proprietors to announce the decision of the Government—and, at last, to have proposed the settle ment of the whole matter in Parliament, and to have pro. cured the consent of the House of Commons to such a settlement for the insignificant sum of 120,0001.—" The crumbs which fall from the Bank Directors' table" seem really, if not a mere mauvaise plaisanterie, a very insult ing disregard of public opinion aad public expectation. The Conservatives some months ago expressed an al irm —real or effected we shall not stop to inquire—that the Reform Bill had filled the House of Commons with theo retic innovators—with foes to existing establishments — with hazardous experimenters in liberal legislation— with bidders for mob popularity with the pledged delegates of the national volition instead of the delibera tive organs of the national judgment—and, in short, with persons who would be more inclined to pull down than to repair, to change than to modify or improve, our institutions; but could any House of Commons, even of the rotten borough dynasty, have agreed to a more extravagant bargain with the ' Vest India body and the Bank Directors, granting the former 20,000,0001. of an indemnity, when 15,000,000/. was too much, and re ceiving from the latter 120,0001., when 250,0001. would have been too little? Under no Parl i ament which we remember, since the last renewal of the Bank Chat ter, wook. such an arrangement as that sanctioned by the Comm ittee on Wednesday night have been listened to for a moment. No Ministry would have ventured to pro pose it to an unreformed House of Commons, though it had included the whole 24 Directors among its 111emi 5. If Manchester, Leeds, and Birmindhain, had been silent, as having then no voice in St. Stephen's, Corfe Castle and Gatton (unless bought with Bank money) would have spoken mat in the language of indignant protest. We have so often established the right of the public to participate in all the profits of the Bank, after paying ft, reasonable dividend to the proprietors, that it. would be superfluous now to renew the discussion. In enumerat ing the immense gains Which the B ink proprietors have divided among themselves during the continuance of their expiring 'Charter it was not, of course, our intention to found upon their past accumulation any proposal to adjust the balance by requiring from them any conditions incon sistent with their present interests. Public bodies, or the trustees for public bodies, cannot afford to be grateful ; but we took thrie past profits as a measure of their future in come, when their circulation shall extend to nently its I farrier magnitude. In looking attentively at the accounts which the Directors themselves communicated to the Secret Committee, we find that instead of making only 178,5751. of profit by their monopoly of the circula tion, and their management of Government business, they ought to have put down their gains at triple that sum ; and, let them be paid off to. morrow, is there any Bank proprietor so insane as to expect that without the privilege to issue notes, or to hold Go vernment deposits and pay the national dividends, this great corporation could realize eight per cent. on their overgrown capital ? In order, without further repetition, to show, for the last time, that we are not singular or un reasonable in requiring better terms for the public from the Bank, we shall just recur to the opinion of a great authority on the subject —an authority- to which Lord Althorp might be expected to pay particular deference ; that eminent financier tohl the Bank Directors in April last, after, no doubt, mature deliberation, and after con sulting with most intelligent persons of his acquaint ance, that if a half of their capital which is lent to Go vernment were paid up, and the Bank were to divide only on such a reduced amount, they could, by the monopoly of the currency, afford to manage the dividends for nothing, and, after paying ten per cent, on their stock, divide with the public their remaining profits. The fol !towing is the "equitable adjustment " suggested by this distinguished diplomatist of the Treasury " The result of this will be, the Government will pay the Bank 7,Z , fi,000/., and the Bank will engage to continue the management of the public debt without receiving from the State any annual payment for the performance of this duty. " It is further proposed, that after the proprietors of Bank. Stock shall have received a dividend of ten per cent. upon their nominal capital, which will then amount to 7,000,0001., at the end of each year, whatever accumulation shall have taken place in their rest' during the preceding year shall be divided into two equal portions, one of which shall be added to the capital of the Bank, and be at the disposal of the pro prietors, and the other half shall be deducted from the pay ments made to the Bank for interest or other charges which they may haVe against the public." To every item of this scheme we heartily subsetibe. The adoption of such propositions would have been grati fying to the country, and perseverance in supporting them would have been creditable to the Ministry. Lord Al thorp himself must have applauded the dexterous patrio tism of the original negotiator, and would have heard no contrast to his disadvantage between the Chancellor of the Exchequer in April last, demanding from the Bank 248,0001., with a half of its contingent profits, and th , _! Chancellor of the Exchequer in July surrendering the greatest monopoly in the world, for the paltry saving of 120,0001., without any stipulation for sharing in its pro- fits at all.—nnes. We suppose that the Gallant Postmaster-General, and his subalterns, take great credit to themselves for the activity of their recent proceedings. It is true they keep a sharp look-nut after the pounds, shillings, and pence, and if the principle of getting money at any rate, and at all sacrifices, oe a correct one, they are entitled to claim under that rule of morality the suffrages of a certain class of economists. Still it engirt to make them pause and reflect a little, when they bear nothing hut complaints against the system they are pursuing. The attorneys denounce it as an injury to them and their clients, without any adequate return even in the way of revenue, to balance the disadvantage on the other side. Commercial men, and indeed all men, whether engaged in commerce or not, deprecate the practice of opening parcels and letters as an unwarrantable breach of confidence, calculated to erect the Post-office into a sort of inquisition, and to leave the concerns of every perso❑ obliged to have recourse to correspondence at the mercy of that establishment. Public meetings have been held at different places, arid inure are i❑ contemplation, at which the screwing-up system and the spy system have been exposed and condemned as un worthy of a liberal Government, and prejudicial in the highest degree to the interests of a great commercial coun try ►ike this. As (or the screwing-up system, it is quite ridiculous to look upon the Post•offrce establishment chiefly as a source of revenue, which those roust do who arc willing to sacrifice every thing to that one object. As for the spy system, the extent to which it has been carried may be inferred from this one fact, that letters have been opened—nay, the seal has been actually broken in some instances—for no other purpose titan to ascertain whether they had been put into the Pest-office at the place from which they were dated ; and is it for a wretched, paltry, pitiful object like this that the whole confidential character of what is falsely called private correspondence, should be sacrificed ? Surely such a crotchet must have sprung from the head of some Old Bailey lawyer, or of some petty clerk, whose mind never stretched beyond the verge of his little desk. But how any man calling himself a States man could give it his sanction, that Statesman is bound to explain. If to facilitate the irtercouree of life be a paramount object in all enlightened countries, what shall we say of the Government, or the public functionary, who, in a trading community like ours, would cast diffi culties in the way of communication? The authorities of the Post office will do well to consider that there are other sources of revenue besides the one which they are racking their ingenuity to screw up to the highest pitch, and that the success of their exertions may, by possibility, injure those other and more important sources. Much better would it become them to devise means for lighten ing the expense, and thereby adding to the facilities of communication, than mispend their time in the con temptible undertaking upon which they seem at present so deeply intent.—Morning .Herald. Fursey is acquitted ! the Verdict of the Calthorpe Jury has received a second confirmation—the conduct of the police is attain condemned as brutal and uncalled for ! We have no room for comments ; but the fact requires none. Justice has been done, and we are satisfied with the result. Will the Government attempt another pro. secuti,,n ? Will it back the Solicitor-Gtneral in quashing another verdict ?—Morning Advertiser. It is matter of surprise that Ministers, in recommend ing the reduction of the number of Irish Bishops, should have overlooked or forgotten the arguments and assertions of their earlier or opposition days. In those times, so rich in rhetorical exercises, those who now more silently figure as grey birds of :linerva hopped from bough to branch of our constitutional tree, now tappi❑g at all the suspected portions of its trunk, and now chirping in a delirium of joy at the discovery of a few rotten atoms. Among other topics of triumphant vituperation was the unnecessary size of our dioceses in general ; they were much too large to be paternally watched ; " a smaller field of duty would secure an improved supervision ;" as well as he " i❑ stricter conformity with primitive times." But now it is discovered that several Irish dioceses are most ridiculously small; so small, when compared with those of England, as to be worthily doomed to extinc tion, or, in other words, so easily comprised within the ken of a Bishop that to retain them would be au absurdity. We would seriously ask whether our Consti tution is essentially Protestant? Is Protestantism still such a❑ object of solicitude to the State as to be in its estimation worth upholding? Now a regard for Protes tantism would include anxiety about its future prospects, as well as its immediate condition; and is the possibility of Ireland becoming Protestant numerically, as it is now in regard to wealth and to intelligence, so very remote that no provision nerd be made for such an event ? " Our wishes" are not, in this case, " fathers to the thought." Such activity has been displayed during the last ten years in Ireland in the cause of true religion as to render such an event far from improbable to the minds of those who know the expansive force of truth in the hands of men resolute to do their duty, and unbounded at the same time in their reliance on the good pro vidence of God. How greatly would the cause of Protestantism be furthered if, when it merges from the darkness that covers it, the means, the full unim paired means, are at hand to perpetuate its improved life ! Among these means a number of powerful and accredited defenders are the most important in the estimation of all who believe that the Deity loves to put honour upon human means whe❑ employed in a dependent and humble spirit; and the smaller the several dioceses the greater would be the chance of their proper regulation. We would say to our rulers, " Reduce the stipends, if you are determined upon exercising the power which you pos ,ess, but do not, in the spirit of Goneril and Regan, re duce the number of the effective servants of your own religion. Argue not the need,' the immediate need, if you know in your hearts, as you roust know, that to Protestantism England owes almost all those blessings which have been poured in such profusion upon her, and that Ireland never will find repose and equilibrium till she eonbraces it; if you are sensible that the views of Popery art essentially selfish, and inevitably tending earthwards, and that all its fictitious aids are debasing and demoralit ing. "—Morning Post. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JULY 4. JOHN ALMOND, APPELLANT, MESSRS. JOHN DARKER, WILLIAM HOLDEN, JAMES CHAPMAN, AND WILLIAM ANDREWS, RESPONDENTS. This was an appeal of importance to rate-payers gene tally. The respondents were the overseers of the Hamlet of Mile-end Old Town, and the charge preferred against them by the appellant was, that they had, in the course of one year, diverted out of the poor-rates the large sum of 5441. 14s. 4d., from the legitimate purposes for which it was raised, and applied it to the procuring unnecessary luxuries and refreshments for themselves. Messrs. ALLEY and BODKIN appeared for the appellants, and Mr. ADOLPHUS for the respondents. Mr. ALLEY stated the facts of the case, and dwelt upon its importance, not only to the parishioners, but to the public at large. The inhabitants, generally, felt them selves excessively aggrieved by what they considered the unfair and unjust charges made by the overseers in their accounts. The respondents had for several years filled the office of overseers, and only retired from office last April ; but the law would only allow the appellant to object to their charges for the last year. The overseers, as required by the statute, did, on the 211th of May last, exhibit their accounts before two magistrates, and obtained from those gentlemen the following certificate, written at the foot of their accounts :- " Middlesex.-At a special sessions of his Majesty's jus tices of the peace acting in and for the county of Middle sex, held in the police-office at Lambeth-street, White chapel, in the said county, on the 25th May, 1833, for the purpose of examing into the foregoing accounts, we, two of the said justices, dwelling near the said hamlet, do hereby allow and approve of the said accounts. " T. WALKER. "EDMUND HALSWELL." Many of the inhabitants being dissatisfied with very many of the items in the respotrients' accounts, especially the feasting charges, Messrs. Stevens, Langley, Little, and North, were deputed to examine into them, which having done, they made a written report, loudly and justly complaining of many of the charges. Mr. Ste vens attended at Lambeth-street, and opposed the allowance of what he and his friends conceived to have been improperly and unwarrantably expended ; but not withstanding his objections, the above two magistrates allowed the accounts to pass, on the ground that as cer tain persons had audited the accounts and approved of them, it was their duty to allow them. The charges complained against might be ranted under seven distinct heads i-lst. Respondents' private table, including spirits. SW. Respondents' expenses, said to be incurred on visiting nurse children. 3d. 115 newspapers. 4th. Expenses charged as being paid to the collectors of the poor rates for brokers' fees, but which fur the most part were consumed in guttling. sth. Reliefs by respondents, and for which no vouchers were produced. 6th. Private reliefs, said to he given at their own houses, and no vouchers. '7th and last. By cash said to be paid expenses of officers at Larrabeth street and the Home-office. Mr. Daniel Edward Stevens deposed that he had in spected the various books of account kept by the respondents, t-,e town clerk, the beadle, and Miss Mudge, so far as the same were accessible to him, and that upon inspecting them he discovered that a sum of 1031. 14s. 6d. was ex pended for the respondents' own private table, and that of such sum 311. 3s. 10d was for wine, brandy, rum, gin, bsc., and ei2/. 10s. 6d. for poultry, fish, butchers' meat, kc., which witness has re rson to believe was consumed at the workhouse by the respondents and their friends. Among other items he found charged V. fur decanters and glasses, by order of the respondent Barker. The other items were evidently not for articles purchased for the use of the poor. He also found charged to the overseers' ac counts the sum of 201. 11s. 3d. for visiting the nurse children, and it appeared from the overseers' own account that more than two-thirds of this money was expended :n feasting. There was also a charge for 115 newspapers ; also a charge of 1501. 17s. 7d. as cash paid collector's ex penses for collecting the poor rate, independently of the re gular commission. He likewise found several sums, va rying from 15s. to 41., charged as sums given away by the respondents on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and other days at the workhouse, but for which they produced no vouchers. Witness finding the names of several respectable tradesmen entered in the respondents' general relief book, as though they were receiving relief, applied to several of them, and from them learnt that the money had been paid them for fish, poultry, gin, brandy, lac. He also found entered on the respondents' book and charged to the ham let 1261. 2s. 4d. for relief given them at their private houses, and for which, although he had applied, he had been unable to obtain any vouchers from them. Seeing a charge made of Si. 18s. 6d. for cash paid, expenses of officers at Lambeth-street and the Home-office, he bad made inquiries and found that no fees had been paid at either. He opposed the allowance of these accounts by the magistrates, but without effect, Mr. Walker remarking that the parish auditors had signed them as correct, and that business was always better conducted over the convi vial board than otherwise. Stone, the beadle, deposed that the respondents, with the exception of Andrews, kept books, in which were entered the particulars of the sums expended, as for reliefs at the workhouse, and at the respondents' own private houses, and that witness or Mr. Parker used to past the items from such books into the general account. There certainly was considerable feasting at the workhouse. Many of the entries were for spirits. Miss Ann Mudge kept a book, called the Officers' Ex- penditure Book, which contained an account of what was ordered by those gentlemen for their own consumption. Mr. Shields deposed, that he was a poulterer, residing in the hamlet, and that having been told his name ap. peared in the parish hook as though he had received ss. 6d. for relief, when, in fact, it was for a couple of ducks, he immediately applied for an inspection of the hooks, and finding such false entry, insisted upon the clerk correcting the same, which he did in the following terms :- " January 11, 1833, Shields, ss. 6d. N.B. This was entered in error, it was not for relief, but for goods sold to Henfree, the beadle, for the use of the overseers, as far as relates to the name of Shields." Mr. Heavens stated that out of the sum of 150/. 17s. 7d. charged for distraining upon persons in arrear for poor rates, a large proportion was expended in feasting, of which the respondents took their share. The following is a correct tabular account of the items objected to :- Officers' table, including spirits £97 14 11 Expenses visiting nurse children and coach hire .lO 19 2 115 newspapers By cash paid brokers and expenses. &c. Relief by respondents, and other charges and expenses no vouchers or account Private reliefs By cash expenses at Lambeth-street and the Home office sm. 3 18 6 £514 14 4 Mr. Anonesus, in reply, contended that the charge for refreshments was moderate, and was perfectly justifi able, fur it was not to be expected that tradesmen would give up their time during the whole day, and, as was often the case, up to nine o'clock at night, without par taking of some refreshment. Their services were gratui tous, and therefore it was but common justice that those they served should bear their expenditure. There was an old book, which, however it might be scoffed at by the wits in court, he would not hesitate to quote; he meant the Bible, and there he was told, " Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." His Learned Friend (Mr. Alley) had talked of the dinner charges as ex cessive, and had contracted it with what he was in the habit of paying at the London Coffee-house and other taverns, but his Learned Friend bad forgotten to take into account the beverage which usually followed the dinner, namely, a bottle of port, and after that the same of Sherry.—(Laughter.) The fact was, the waiters ❑o sooner saw his Learned Friend, than they rubbed their hands, and exclaimed, " Oh ! he is a good customer, and will pay, and tip well afterwards." A good deal had been said about the consumption of brandy, b u t i t was to be remembered that the cholera prevailed last year, and that spirits were required meiicinally, and if the overseers did, at their periodical meetings, take a little of this brandy as a preventive, he could see nothing objectionable in it. The CH♦IRMAN, after a consultation with his brethren on the bench, who were more than usually numerou ,, , , ;ionounced the judgment of the Court. He commenced by observing that lie was extremely sorry it did not fall to the lot of a more able person than himself to pronounce judgment in so important a case ; but it ' , vas a matter of satisfaction to him to see so many gentlemen in the com mission, and who had a practical acquaintance with the subject, present; and it was still more satisfactory to Lim to know that the body of magistrates to his right and to his left concurred in the opinion which lie himself enter tained. The abuses in this parish appeared to have been so many, that at last the parishioners were aroused, and he considered that Mr. Stevens had performed a most useful and meritorious service. Every difficulty had been thrown in his way. He had to tight up hill, and every door was closed against him but those the law, by main force, compelled to be kept open. The Court were unanimously of opinion that The appeal ought to be allowed to its full extent. On the application of Mr. ALLEY, the costs were also allowed, INFANTICIDE IN THE EAST. While infanticide, merely for the purpose of avoiding the expense of bringing up female children, was the open disgrace, and is still the secret practice of many classes of Hindoos, the curse of sterility has ever been considered, both by rich and poor, as the greatest misfortune that can attend the married state. When prayers and gifts to Brahims have been unsuccessfully employed to obtain the desired blessing, the despairing supplicants not unfrequently attempt to propitiate their blood-thirsty goddess, Doorga, by the promised sacrifice of their first-born. Should their desire be accomplished—a benefit which is of course attributed to the direct inter position of a deity delighting in the waste of human life—they consider themselves to be so lemnly pledged to the performance of the vow, and the hallowed spot in which the Jumna throws itself into the Ganges, is very com monly chosen for the fulfilment of the awful duty. Though the crime of infanticide, upon any pretext whatever, is not permitted by the British Government, there is not much diffi culty in eluding the laws in force against it, since the natives are possessed of so many fa cilities for accomplishing in private, what they no longer dare to perform before the world. A small quantity of opium, administered in the first nourishment given to a new-born babe, will send it to its everlasting rest ; and as no inquiry is instituted respecting . .he cause of death perpetrated without apparent violence, and where the probabilities are in favour of its having been occasioned by na tural accidents, the murderers escape detection. It is not difficult, when the broad surface of the united rivers is covered with boats, to drop the intended victim into the stream, a catastrophe which may be attributed to accident, and which the religious prejudices of the surrounding mul titude would prevent from being brought to the notice of the public authorities ; while the fatal ism which renders Hindoos apathetic, in the midst of danger to themselves or to others, is too great to induce them to make any attempt to rescue a drowning person from the grave. It is said that the Brahmins, on the supposition that Doorga may relent, and willingly relinquish the offered sacrifice, station themselves in boats a little way down the stream, and pick up those children who have escaped the dangers of the first plunge ; they are not, however, restored to their families, but retained by their protectors, and brought up in the performance of religious offices. When the affection of the parents for their first-born has been too strong to allow them to devote so beloved an object to the con sequences of a rash oath, the intended victim, when arrived at maturity, stung with remorse at the violation of a duty held so imperative, and attributing every family misfortune to the wrath of the justly-incensed Doorga, have voluntarily per formed the sacrifice by plunging into the river, or precipitating themselves from some rugged height to a frightful abyss below. In the Rajpoot States, the destruction of female infants was, and it is feared still is, common in the highest families for political reasons. The representation of the British residents, and their eloquent appeals to the better feelings, of kind-hearted, though misguided men, have done much, espe cially in Guserat, towards the abolition of this inhuman method of getting rid of a dilemma ; but there is no law against it, and the tragedy of Kishen Koor, the most cold-blooded murder ever perpetrated by the hand of man, is still re cent. The brother of the beautiful victim, slaughtered to secure a State measure, now sits upon the throne of Oodipore ; he was innocent of the cruel deed, and there is reason to hope that so shocking a scene will never be acted publicly again. In less exalted families, the money essential on the part of the relatives of the bride, to furnish the wedding paraphernalia, and to defray the expenses of the feasts, with out which no wedding can be celebrated in India, is so difficult of attainment, that although there are plenty of suitors of the same class to be found, it is deemed better to avoid the weariful business of saving cowries and pice until they amount to rupees, by giving the coup de grace to time impertinent intruder who has put the family to inconvenience by entering it in a female shape. " Daughters to marry," is the excuses given by servants who, having high wages, ap pear ill-appareled, and in ragged case ; years of privation must be endured, that all their ac quaintance may banquet at the period of nup tials. This is the " one thing needful ;" beauty, accomplishments, and amiable qualities may be dispensed with, but a hurra khan (great dinner) there must be, and where it is not practicable to furnish forth the wedding feast, parents, with admirable forethought, strangle their children, who would otherwise grow up to be married. In former and more barbarous times the junction of the Jumna and the Ganges was the scene of those fearful human sacrifices, which were not more savage than absurd, in a religion professing so much humanity towards the brute creation. A youth and a maiden, representing two of the favourite deities of the Hindoo Olympus, after having received divine honours from the crowd following their triumphal cars, were flung into the sacred waters, and supposed by the ignorant multitude, deluded by a clumsy device of priest craft, to be borne upon the holy stream to their dwellings in the paradise of the blessed. Figures of clay are now substituted forthe human performers in the pageant, which, degenerating into a vulgar show, serves to amuse the rabble on the anniver sary of a festival fast falling into contempt. Ano ther of these horrible spectacles used to be ex hibited at the commemoration of the triumph of Rarna and his ally, Hunaman, attended by an army of monkeys, over the giant Ravana. The luckless beings selected to enact the principal characters were at the end of the festival no longer visible to mortal eyes. The uninstructed imagined that they had been absorbed into the divine essence, and claimed by the deities whom they had represented, a process of which the officiating priests knew the secret. Poison was said to be mixed up with the sweetmeats pre sented at the termination of time feast, and the unhappy groupe, brought from a distance, and unseen except during the short period of their performance, were by many supposed to have been the deities themselves, descending to assist at the celebration of their avater. The Moghuls have the credit of being the first opposers of these shocking rites ; the Christian governors of the land have insisted on their total abolition ; and the example set in the Company's territories has been followed in the independent states : human sacrifices, excepting such as are volun tary, have become rare in India. The slaugh ters of the temple at Jyepoor have ceased, and the most fanatic of the priesthood are fain to be content with the blood of goats upon the pave ments once purple with the currents which ran in the veins of their fellow-men.—Asiatic Journal. COURT CIRCULAR. ills :MAJESTY left town about half-past six o'clock on Wednesday evening, on his return to the palace at Windsor. The Princes ALEXANDER and CHARLES Of Solms ho noured Lord HILL with their company at dinner last evening, at his Lordship's residence, Westbourne-house, Paddington. Prince CHARLES of Solms attended Almack's ball on Wednesday evening. Prince TALLEYRAND, Baron But-ow, the Prussian Minister, the Baron de WEssEtituitc, the Austrian Mi nister on a special mission, M. de AIATTOS, the Bra zilian Minister, and Mr. BouaxE, the Danish Charge d'Affaires, visited Viscount PALmEnsTort yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank vi sited Viscount A LTHORT yesterday. The Duke of RICHMOND, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl of RIPON, the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, and Lord AUCKLAND had interviews yesterday with Earl GREY at the Treasury. The Earl of CARLISLE entertained some of the Cibinet Ministers at dinner on Wednesday evening, at his residence in Grosvenor-place. Mr. a , rd Mrs. WELsir, with their daughter, a remark ably uri.ticient musician of about six years old, have had the honour of performing before the Princess AUGUSTA, at Fregmore, and afterwards before their M A JESTIES, at the Castle. The Royal party have shown the strongest proof of their gratification by commanding this musical family to prolong their stay for several days. DUTCH PAPERS. TUE HAGUE, JULY 2.—A respectable journal contains the following article : " We learn that M. Von Dedel, and his Excellency the Unist Verslolk Van Soelin, will set out for London at the end of this week. The journey of these two statesmen seems to afford a fresh proof of the serious desire of our Government to de on its part every thing possib!e in order to come to an equitable arrangement respecting the affairs of Belgium." ST. PETERIBBURGH, JUNE 18 —Accounts from Con stantinople, of May 31, received by express, definitively announce the pacification of the East. By the arrange ment just concluded, Mehemet Ali has obtained the inves titure of Syria, with Damascus and Aleppo ; and Ittraito Pacha the title of Fauna General (Mohassel) of Adar;a. His nomination has not been the subject of a special con vention, but is published in an ordinance of the Porte, in the usual way, api.ointing the Governors of the Pachalics as is dose annually. This arrangement between the Plenipotentiary of the Porte anti Ibrahim was confirmed by the Sultan the clay before the arrival of Count Orloff, whose business was then to see that the conditions approved by the Sultan should be respected by the Pacha of Egypt, and put out of the reach of farther infringement. The energy with which this business has be. al carried on has insured its complete success. Till then, there was, in fur, some uncertainty with respgct to the intentions of Ibrahim, who seemed inclined not to withdraw his army till the Russian troops should have quitted the Bosphorus. Count Orloff being informed of this circumstance, and sensible of the danger to which the Turkish capital would be exposed by the protracted presence of the Egyptian army, immediately repeated the formal declaration that the troops and the fleet sent by the Emperor to the aid of the Sultan, at the ex press request of the latter, should remain in their positions till Ibrabirta's army should have repassed Mount Taurus. This declaration, added to the news that a third oar a division was going to reinforce the troops at Constanti nople, speedily put an end to all further hesitation. A t the departure of our courier, official news had ken re• ceived that Ibrahim Pacha had already quitted Kiutakia with his head quarters, and that the retrograde movement of his army had commenced at all points. Count Orloff, in order to ascertain this fact, had ordered Captain Lieven to be upon the spot, and to follow the Eayptian army till its passage over Mount Taurus. The Ottoman Govern ment, with which Baron Lieven's mission was concert !d, sent Hafia Bey, Colonel of the Engineers, in company with that officer. They were on the point of proceeding to their destination when our courier left. On the return of Baron Lieven, and when tie retreat of Ibrahim is duly ascertained, his Majesty's ambassador will immediately order the troops and the fleet to quit the Bosphorus. By an examination of the distances, it is calculated that the retrograde movement of the Egyptian army may be com pleted in a month. Meantime Count Orloff has at once countermanded the sailing of the third division from Otit ssa, as it is nut wanted at Constantinople, since the troops of Ibrahim have commenced their retrea'. This counter order was brought to Odessa by the Melea steam boat. At the time of its departure, the squardon in the Bosphorus was preparing to receive the Sultan, whose visit was announced for the following day (June 1). Every arrangement had been made at Bujukdere that nothing might be wanting to the solemn reception 01 the Sultan by the lind and naval forces.—St. Petersburgh Gazette, June 19. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, JULY 2. Actual Debt, '2% per cent 4B to 49 Amort Syndic, 4% per cent B5 to 86f Ditto, ditto, 3 1 ,4 per cent. Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent lO2 to 102% Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1833, 5 per Cent. Exchange on London Two months Dutch Papers, July 3. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNEIII DAY.—The demand has been active to-day, both from the trade and on speculation. The sales amount to 6,000 bags, accompanied by a rise in price almost equal to the depres sion of the last two days. _ • During the thunder-storm on Monday night, the lightning set fire to a large tree in Wind,or Great Park, which broke out in a blaze, and continued burning for some hours until the trunk was completely destroyed, when it gave way and the large top fell to the ground. SLOOP WIIECLED.—On Tuesday night the 11 th inst., when the storm came on, the Dunrobin Castle, of Leith, Baillie master and owner, coal-laden, wail lying at anchor in the bay of Portgordon, but the weather becoming more tempestuous, and it being impos sible to !sot the vessel safe into the harbour, the master deterrrlineti. on running to Cromarty. In taking up the anchor the vessel received severe damage in the bow, and soon became unmanageable from the quantity of water she was drawing, and was driven ashore on the sands to the west of Speymouth, near a place called the Bare Head. She lay on her side, with her deck to the sea, and the master and crew, together with a pilot from Portgordon, were obliged to cling to the rigging to avoid being washed overboard. The surge in the meantime was dashing over her with great violence, and it was with much difficulty that the men could keep their hold. At last, the batches having burst open, one of the men jumped into the sea, in the hope of getting hold of the hatches, and being floated ashore upon theta ; but he was drawn back by the receding wave, and soon engulphed in the foaming ele ment. His companions, however, still hung to the wreck, and on Wednesday morning were perceived by the people of Kingston, who came to their aid. Ono of them, ALEXANDER GEDDES, a ship-carpenter, behaved in a most praiseworthy manner, having, after several fruitless efforts had been made, succeeded, at the imminent risk of his own life, in getting a rope thrown to the poor fellows, by which they were rescued from their perilous situ aim), after having clung to the shrouds upwards of seven hours. The vessel soon become a total wreck.—lnverness Courier. you A odd S e T ve ß n A ts, N l G m E us T t TRIAL.—Now lam g r one of the strangest heard. Last week an elderly wom an g ave an information ° telling I v ll e in e against her maid for coining, and the trial came on at the Old Bailey. The mistress deposed, that having been left a widow several yews ago, with four children, and no possibility of maintaining them, she had taken to coining : that she used to buy old pewter pots, out of each of which she made as many shillings, &e., as she could put off for three pounds, and that by this practice she had bred up her children, bound them out apprentices, and set herself up in a little shop, by which she got a comf irtable liveli hood ; that she had now given over coining, and indicted her maid as accomplice. The maid in her defence said, " that when her mistress hired her she told her that she did something up in a garret, into which she must never inquire; that all she knew of the matter was, that her mistress had often given her moulds to clean, which she did, as it was her duty ; that indeed she had sometimes seen pieces of pewter pots cut, and did suspect her mistress of coining ; but that she never had had, or put off one single piece of bad money." The Judge asked the mis tress if this was true; she answered " Yes; and that she believed her maid was as honest a creature as ever lived ; but that knowing herself in her power, she never could be at peace, that she knew by informing she co uld secure herself; and not doubting but the maid's real innocence would appear, she concluded the poor girl would come to no harm." The Judge flew into the greatest rage, toll her he wished he could stretch the law to hang her; and !cared he could not bring off the maid for having con cealed the crime; but, however, the jury did bring her in " Not Guilty." I think I never heard a more particular instance of parte and villany.— Walpole's Correspondence. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETRY. (From Fraser's Magazine.) I say there is not a man among us who col' not tell you stories of his first reading of Scot' I have many a tale of my own ; but I preft telling one of Sir Adam Ferguson's. It mayb known from history and regimental colours, tilt we were warrin g once on a time-4 , In our 11 youth, when George the Third was King"-- 1 the Peninsula, and that something like fightin . went forward on the occasion—end among tfr fights, not the least glorious was that of Albueml won by Lord Beresford, contrary to all the at guments of Colonel Napier, who proves that 1 0 Lordship was defeated. The French, to b , sure, were of a different opinion ; for they 0 1 away, leaving the field and a great Many goo' fellows of their own stiff' and stark upon tt which shows satisfactorily that they had Ile studied the excellent work of Colonel Napit with due attention. Well, in that battle Adam Ferguson, then a Captain in I fo' get what regiment; and he on the morning of fight, had received a copy of the " Lady of tb Lake," sent him by the author, his old, and the last, his attached friend. Sir Adam had 1) 6 gun to read the book, when the attack of th Polish lancers commenced, and he was oblige' to attend to a combat more personally pr e ssimli, than the adventures of " the stag who at Mdr r had drunk his fill." After a short time th regiment halted under some cover—perhaps . wall—perhaps a hedge—perhaps a mound-30 there, under a canopy of bullets, while the 6' ing and charging of time French were going lot ward fast and furious, Sir Ada n read, to a lark circle of congregated soldiers (officers, my de fellow, were soldiers in those days, whatefi they may be now), the " Lady of the Lake. There is a situation for you ! The poetry e Scott recited to the hoarse music of the musk s and the cannon, and time clinking treble of tb clashing sabre and bayonet. No, not bayonet for the French never gave us an opportunity c hearing our bayonets ring against theirs. Iho often wished that David Wilkie would paint , picture on this subject. The reading of Gazelle of the battle of Waterloo by the Clielse . , pensioners has been made immortal under 1 1 ' hands. What does he think of the reading e l , time " Lady of the Lake" to the Fiftieth—the 6 `, dirty half hundred—under the fire of Albuerk THE MARKETS. ROYAL A THE E Admission (t lopse One Shil GREAT RE INS COVER move th altogether, and the premium Farm e rs gill c hav e hitherto Agents for t th e principal tc OFFICE OF I CON'rRACT f DERsoi for the. Honourable TI Btated branches other Ordnanc Stations, from Years, detern3i notice after the Tenders On or dies , ied to " T 1 Alan, Londo n' the Tr a d e to ‘p PLASI SLAT' Persons ten Barrack at tvh Printed Sel tract, and a L quired, may b at the above.n Just pRINC 13 Fellow o. Part 11. (.i7 Part I. PL2 Cambridge, 1 VAL Comprihin g tl Acres of L of Wight. TO BE (By order of THE 1\ AFT , tena: “anees. A OILS% cal locienee of a - - SOUTHALL MARKET.—JuIy 3. Tnaite F arm This day's supply of Beast s and Porkers was limited, both a' e l t P numbers and quality;; of Sheep, Lambs, and Calves, moderst . the and and L good. The market was well attended both by London 3 ", - 'sleof 1 ; country buyers. Trade with each kind of prime meat was soO d acres r of rich what brisk, but otherwise very dull, at the following priceOr (small part) stone of 81b. to =ink the °flats:— fl' l Very hi .h Beet ---.. 3s. Od. to 4s Od I Vea1.........---. . 38. Bd. to 55 • 0 , . g st% Mutton -- 13 8 4 8 Pork ............—.. 3 0 4 or Alrs. C, H Lamb 4s. 10.1. to ss. 10d. A T t h e e Mo G r a r t:: The foregoing quotations are Veal from 2d. to 4d. per st . o 4 l ' dearer than on this day se'nnight ; prices of Beef, Mutt taken at a val L'unb, and Pork, stationary. Beasts, 115; Sheep and LalD o 2,849 ; Calves, 82; Pigs, 16. But a small proportion of the. , 11 „.. ply left the market unsold. ..„.„, - neY may ri LEWES MARKET.—JuIy 2. Per fu t the k a PP I Y (if 1 1 Ueet.,,,--........ 35.4 d. to 4s. 0.1. Veal ----........45.111k, to i•S• 6 , ty Mutton -- 4 La 0 410 Pork to COd ---.. 4 0 4 tiolicitor s , L' mb I ss. Cd. s. . Se Supply of Beasts and Calves limited, of small stock golWell, New . W., trade with prime meat somewhat brisk, but otherwi se d u ll. / , William Sqte - ''''' the Mansion RUMFORD MARKET.-June 26. 0 .4 Where a plan s. d. to s. d. e. cf. Beef 2lO 310 1 Veal 4 Mutton '3 6 4 6 Pork . 3 4 FORI 1 amb ,. ss. Od. to Os. Od. 4i Suckling Calves, 14s. to 325.; Quarter old Store Pigs, 12s, to 186 ' - NAL CIP Supply moderately good, and trade dull. C URE of thi tile uc i COUN PRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WE .. ....5 1‘ ' , poop P , ofbli the 1 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. t 2 ,..", CURE OF T , - -- ----- O' Per Quarter. Is.to s. s. s. 8. to a. Js. .- ~, 4 0 fllandford -.......... 1 - 53 - 24 - 20 --- 4 5 Brigg , 1 40 58 36 40 15 22 30 "e ] l DRAB SIR,. Cambridge-...... r - 53 - 27 - 15 - 0 ver sa! Medici' Chard -....-........ 46 54 24 28 17 20 ,0.2 0 or caving m y ] Huntingdon -.... 58 63 20 24 12 16 32' ~,Inj Wife wa Long Sutton-. 56 64 - - 17 22 :0 -40 pain in t L0uth,.,,,.,.,,„.....,,, 50 55 27 32 19 2 0 32 0 ° Peratod „,,,., Lynn 5O 60 22 25 16 20 32 44 r eturned t i;•' Newark _ , 42 tit 22 29 14 21 31 ? Pills m ore Nottingham -..... 43 60 25 29 19 21 35 4 1 oise ase _ sh , IN Peterborough -.... 43 60 23 28 13 21 21 .'„ A few eI Plymouth ,-.......... 50 64 30 34 20 7.3 - AI Under a h,l, days;, Pontefract . - 67 - 43 - 27 - 'rs distre ss i n --''' Sleaford -......... 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 si 1 to o k t : p Uppingham ...-...... 48 57 24 35 16 24 32 0 At nion, evi Wished) ....--........ 48 62 20 33 14 22 0 10 ,../ fo r a doet o c r 7 LEEDS CORN 51 ARK ET.-July 2. lie e °r °Peni Wheat, Norfolk and Suffiolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. o r reli All h Barley, Norfolk and Sutflilk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans __ nry ' Oats, I'otatoe o w e twer --Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Eng. 9d. to 10) % id. Peril, cram twee Shelling lll 21s. to 24e. per 0, 3 01 raw 4_ The Rapeseed, English. 23& . to 24, Foreign, -/. to -1. per . 2,,/ able to `'!. I 1 qu i te oit u p LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. 117 2. „„ # 1 d r ,, e ,_ ll , w WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. __----- Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx - s • I h , Prai re ~,, a , -- Irish, White 7 6 ' 8 Ptlbli s ''' N l o ] -];--- Red 7 3 7 9 4)0,4 of era( LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Al 2. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx -- Irish, White 7 6 '7 --- - Red 7 3 76 0 - Foreign 8 6 8 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 8 l i g - I rish . q. 4 - Fore i gn BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 2B 0 90 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. ----- Feeding 3 7 3 0 BEANS, English, per I mperial quarter 36 0 39 0 ---- Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 44 0 - Foreign 44 0 45 0 - FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 40 0 44 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2O 6 23 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RN F., per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT oi , GRAIN for the Week ending July 1. e .s. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatnly, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls.llrish, &c. Scka.l J- ,0 4j 3,501 , 3,903 425 -- I 5,054 3,. No. e 6, (34. We have it from most indubitable a utbor l .si t : that upwards of SOO Romanist; have, within slw: time, become converts to the Protestant religion in see parts of Ireland..—Dublin Warder. „ah ENORMOUS STURGEON.-1 here was ca-a in a stake net, neir Findhorn, on Tuesday last, a store; eight feet six inches long, three feet in circumference , 3 ; weighing 2031b5. It was immediately packed in ice, ul was sent by the Brilliant steam-boat this day to be war , ed to London.—lnverness Journal. rief ADVANTAGES OF Low PRICES.--A low tletnan in one of the steam-boats asked the steward, no he cime round to collect the passage-looney (Is. each the best cabin), if there was no danger of being blown of The steward promptly replied, " No , Sir, not thz. 101 we cannot afford to blow up people at these low p r ice Scotsman. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., at Sloane-street, the wife of the Rev. A' Wrench, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Gayton, Northamptonshire, the 101 the Rev. Dr. Butler, of a son. On the 29th nit., at the Rectory, Brighstone, Isle of the lady of the Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, of a son. t$ On the 4th inst., at Connaught-square, the Hon. Mrs . ford, of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, th• ReV. Wetherell, second son of the Rev. Richard Wetherell, of f t ; ley-house, Ticehurst, Sussex, to Anne, youngest Ilaugh te eil' Henry Winchester, Esq., of O a kfield-lodge, Hawkhurst. ,t and Alderman of the city of London. On the 4th instant., at All Souls' Church, the Rev. Stephens, of Culver-house, Devonshire, to Maria, second dal" On the ter of thelle4thd inst., Bisho at St.p of Exeter. Mary's, Wanstead, Henry Gaol 4 Esq., of Gracechurch. street, London, to Elizabeth, eldest 4:10 ter of the late John Hardman Lister, Esq., of Scarborough On the 3d inst., at St. James's, Piccadi l ly, Mr. Alfred 7', riott, of Taunton, to Mary, relict of the late John Smith, s ' r of Broadlands-lodge, Wilton, Somersetshire. On the inst., at Wellington, Somerset, William 13% Dyer, Esq., second son of the Rev. John Dyer, of Cambe r " grove, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late John pars 4 Esq., of Wellington. RINTfiA •N D --- o p SII OFFICE{ 112, STKANIN, LONDON. ih.isrmi) By MU It 1) 0 YOUNO, 1141° rison' use of aka_° sale v €lo' search ers bto gglata , a on t h E e inve ha ve Plun .h " A/ or U, a being ni verw means of ti ricratinß tl CINEs„ .; "OW ." must Preten ce) those whicl Pres,ed up 8" I"a cket ' h. land. DIED. On the 4th inst., at Greenwich, the Rev. George pla tl" 31., %War of that parish. ti r. On the 3d inst., at Aylesbury, Bucks, Jane, onlY sgr" daughter of Joseph Rose, Esq, CV On the 29th ult., at his house, Tulse-hill, Mr. Thomas et Great Guildford street, Southwark, aged 62. _____....di