The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

, PIRIT of th, JOURNALS. TRY THE CIVIL COURTS-LAY BAPTISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • No medical gentleman was present to give evidence. The defendant, in answer to the Magistrate's in quiries, said that she had been turned out of doors by her mother, an upholstress, at Camberwell, with whom she had resided during the greater part of the last three months, but who had refused to give her any further support. She had been in service at St. John's-wood since th• death of her father, about seven years ago, and not being able to get another situation was the cause of her mother's cruelty towards her. She was not aware that she had ever given her mother greater offence than either of her sisters, who were more kindly treated, and yet she was turned into the streets at half-past eleven o'clock at night, and left to walk about till the next morning, when she applied to the Lard Mayor, at the Mansion house, and also to the magistrate at Union-hall, to both of whom she declared that she was destitute. They refused, however, to hear her story, and feeling too ill to bear another night's exposure to the cold, without food, she resolved to destroy herself, for which purpose she procured and drank the laudanum. Mr. HALL asked her if she had any friends ?—The girl replied that she had lived two weeks with a mar ried sister at Windsor; but she was now ill, in Guy's Hospital. All she wanted was, to get some shelter until she could hear of a place, as her mother would do nothing for her until she had obtained one. Mr. HALL directed the constable to take her to St. Martin's "Workhouse, in order that her case might be I investigated. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—As the Court of Aldermen has shown a disposition to listen to the remonstrances and recom mendations of Sir James Graham in the matter of the evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court, we venture to suggest to the Right Hon. Baronet that he offer a hint to their worships as to the expediency of taking the state of the City prisons into their serious consideration. An intimation from him, that the Government may find it necessary to interfere, if the civic authorities do not undertake the obvious duty of rendering their prisons sufficiently capacious for the purposes of health, and to admit of something like classification of the prisoners, might act as a spur upon the proverbial indifference of the Court of Aldermen to such matters. Really, it is too bad that, while every other city and town of the empire has provided suitable buildings for the purpose of introducing the plans which are required for rsiedering prisons not merely places of confine ment, but of discipline, the criminal prisons of the City. of London, provided and controlled by the Corpora tion authorities, should be, as they are, miserably de fective in everything that is required for the attain ment of this important object. Were it not notorious, and thus placed beyond all controversy, it would scarcely be credited that, in the very centre of the metropolis, stand ill-constructed buildings for the re ception of prisoners, placed therein for the punishment of offences against society—buildings which ought to be so constructed as to conduce to the reclaiming of those of the inmates who have not yet become har dened in crime. When surprise is expressed at the manifestly defective state of these City prisons, the answer which the inquirer in the cause receives is— " The Government has no control here : the Copora tion has absolute management of these prisons ; is extremely jealous of its privileges ; and, though the funds at its command and disposal are immensely large, it has not found either time or money for such purposes." Newgate—the principal criminal prison, situated in the heart of the metropolis, is notoriously in competent in point of size, and inconvenient in its construction, for the required purposes. We admit that there have been attempts to improve the system of management in this prison ; and that a marked change for the better has been effected. But the de fects of the building cannot be cured. These would prevent the best intentions of the most efficient prison disciplinarians from being carried into execution. The site of the prison is too contracted, and the formation of the wards and yards too confined, for the purposes of preserving the health of the prisoners ; classification, on which their reformation so much depends ; and stringent discipline, without which mere deprivation of personal liberty is no punishment to a London thief. But if Newgate be objectionable, as a pri son, for the reasons we have assigned, what shall be said of Giltspur-street Compter ? That prison was constructed according to the crude and im perfect notions of the prison architects of nearly a century ago ; when to thrust the largest number of prisoners within the narrowest pos sible space, and to surround them with immensely thick walls, was regarded as the perfection of prison building. With these now-exploded notions Giltspur-street Compter was constructed to accom modate about 150 prisoners. It is now by no means an unusual occurrence for 200 to be incarcerated therein :-210, and even 220, have been huddled to gether within its walls, exposed to the malaria arising from almost living putrescence ! We are not now describing things that were, and have passed away. Within the last few days, as we have reason to know, this was the case in Giltspur-street Compter What renders this state of things the more blameworthy is, that there is literally no excuse for their existence. So valuable is the site occupied by this ill-constructed and inefficient prison—especially to the Governors of Christ's Hospital, whose edifices it adjoins— that the latter have offered to build the Corporation of London a new prison, constructed after the best model, and on a convenient spot, in exchange for Giltspur-street Compter, and the site it occupies. Yet the prison stands—a monument of reproach to the City of London, and to the age and nation in which a Corporation is permitted to perpetuate a building which lacks every requisite, as a prison, suited to reclaim as well as punish its wretched in mates. STANDARD.—We insert to-day a great number of communications and letters upon the subject of some late proceedings in the diocese of Exeter, and of some further proceedings in the same diocese, which are expected with anxious alarm. These communi cations are not one-twentieth part of the communi cations and letters upon the same subject received at our office within the last two days ; and we can state with perfect truth, that, in selecting them from the voluminous mass, we have been actuated chiefly by a desire to publish those only which appeared the most moderate in their views and the most temperate in style. Let us not, however, be understood as con demning the spirit of those correspondents whose fa vours we suppress. We hope that the channel of pub lication which they have preferred is warrant that they are good Protestants and zealous Churchmen; but the best men, when they are dissatisfied and in earnest, will, as was well remarked by the late excellent Michae Sedley, say bitter things ; and the case is one from the consideration of which we would, if possible, ex clude all bitterness. Every Protestant must feel a deep debt of gratitude to the Bishop of Exeter—all acknowledge his stupendous talents, so long and so indefatigably devoted to the service of our Protestant Church ; and they who are acquainted with the kindness, the purity, and the sincerity of his private life, must unite love of the man with their veneration of his public character. The errors of such a man are, it is true, the least to be overlooked, because they are by their example, the most dangerous ; but, surely they are to be treated with gentleness in the exposure of them. The fheling that the serious errors, into which we conscientiously believe the Bishop to have fallen in the recent proceeding, command such gentle treat ment, might have caused us to modify even those of the articles relating to the proceedings in ques tion, which will be found in our columns, but that we dislike to meddle with the writing of our friends when we can help it, and also consider it necessary that the Bishop, and others who may be disposed to imitate him, shall be informed of the impression made upon the minds of some of the best Protestants and best Churchmen of the country, by his Lordship's treatment of the Helston case. Fully apprised of that impression, the Bishop of Exeter would, we are convinced, be among the very first to labour in effacing it by the manly abandonment of a course which, though re commended to him by his fullest conviction leads, as he knows, to nothing essential in religion, to nothing at least both essential and good (for it may, in many ways, lead to esse n ti a l ev il), w hil e i t causes both offence and fear, not to say scandal. We have already more than once lamented the prevailing propensity to make such questions as this before us the subject of newspaper discussion, but what can we do ? Views are presented and even acts are done that excite discontent and alarm from one extremity of England to the other, and the discontented and alarmed classes are composed precisely of those whom we are most accustomed and most bound to respect. Are we to impose sileneo upon their remonstrances, even if we our selves could say that we stand indifferent in the ratter, which certainly we cannot say ? The able and truly learned correspondent, whose letter we annex to these observations, proves, we think, most satisfactorily, th a t even the etter of the law does not enjoin any rigour of rubrical con formity, like that suggested in the Helston case, upon either bishops or clergy ' • but what if the letter of th e l aw did enjoin such rigour ? The letter has been a dead letter for at the very least two centuries. Now this long desuetude would be treated as an absolute repeal of the law in every country of the world except England ; and upon these obvious grounds of reason, that in the lapse of many years changes of manners Arise, new institutions have birth, new laws are enacted, to which it is natural to suppose the dormant law would have been adapted had not the law slept in the practical disregard of the people. In the secular code of England, and in this code only in all the world, desuetude, as we have admitted, does not work a repeal ; and why ? Because in England, the Legislature has for centuries been presumed to be always alive, and awake, and vigikint to relieve our code from mischievous or frivolous and useless laws ; an un merited compliment to the Legislature of the coun try, as was proved by all the, cloud of disused and obsolete laws swept from the Statute-book in 1824 by the present Premier ; but a complimen tary notion which sufficiently explains why in Eng land only desuetude does not work the repeal of a law. " Cessante ratione," however, " eessat et lex." Our ecclesiastical legislature is not constantly sit ting—on the contrary, it has not for more than a century sat for any effectual purpose ; and, therefore, by the analogy of all other codes in similar circumstances, we are bound to con sider as repealed all ecclesiastical laws that have fallen into desuetude. Even supposing, therefor e , i n defia nce o f t h e clear demonstration of our corres pondent, th a t t h e l aw relied upon by the Bishop of Exeter was ever of force, it is of force no longer; and why in the name of peace and common sense should it be now revi ve d , to distract the Churyfell no other p oss ibl e effect than SlR,—Great dissatisfaction appears to reign at many of the decisions given of late by Bishops upon com plaints made against many of the clergy. Now, as it is not generally known that charges against the clergy for non-conformity to the Book of Common Prayer may be made before the civil courts, I beg to solicit space to point out the authority, in ca3e parties should prefer a civil to an ecclesiastical tribunal. The Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, of the Ist Elizazeth, declares, that" it is enacted and or dained by the authority aforesaid, that all and every Justice of Oyer and Determiner, or Justice of Assize, shall have full power and authority, in every of their open and general sessions, to inquire, hear, and de termine all manner of offences that shall be done contrary to any article contained in the present Act, within the limits of the Commission to them di rected, and to make process for the execution of the same, as they may do against any person being in dicted before them of trespass, or lawfully convicted thereof." It also enacts, that if the offender first re ceive punishment from the Ordinary, no proceedings shall be taken in the civil court, and if the party have had punishment awarded by a civil court, the party shall not be liable to be brought afterwards to answer for the same offence before the ecclesiastical court. This Act of Elizabeth was not repealed by the sub sequent Act of Charles 11. for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, but was confirmed fully by this latter Act, enacting, " That the several good laws and statutes of this realm, which have been formerly made, and are now in force for the uniformity of prayer and administration of the sacraments within this realm of England, and plans aforesaid shall stand in full force and strength, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, for the establishing and confirming of the said book, intituled, ' The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England,' &c. &c., hereinbefore men tioned, to be joined and annexed to this Act, and shall be applied, practised, and put in use, for the punishing of all offences contrary to the said laws with relation to the book aforesaid, and no other." I believe, at the present time, there are five or six suits before different ecclesiastical courts against cler gymen of the Church of England for refusing to bury parties who have been baptised by Dissenting minis ters, and this after the decision of the Court of Privy Council against the Rev. Mr. Escott for the same offence, and his suspension from the performance of the functions of his office for three months. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker of Crown-street, Finsbury, attended before Mr. Bing ham to show cause why he refused to deliver up a coat, of the value of 205., which had been pledged at his shop, and the principal and legal interest on which had been duly tendered. Anne Barrett, a poor Irishwoman, proved pledging the article on the 4th inst., and that on going to re deem it, the defendant refused to restore it, on the ground that he had already delivered it over to another person. The defendant produced the usual printed form of " declaration," filled up in the name of William Bar rett, which is that of the woman's husband, deposing to his having Jost the duplicate, and said that the pledge had been delivered to the person presenting it. He maintained that he had thus exonerated himself from all liability. The complainant declared that neither she nor her husband had either made the declaration themselves, or authorised any other person to make it for them. She had pledged the coat herself, her name was upon the duplicate, and all the defendant's shopmen knew her intimately, from her being constantly obliged to pawn articles there. Mr. BINGHAM said, he was strongly inclined to think that the defendant was answerable for the pro perty or its value, and that he was in a correlative position to that of a banker and his customer, in which, if any of the customer's money were paid to a third party by fraud, the loss in such case clearly fell upon the banker. The defendant pointed out the extreme hardship of such a liability upon pawnbrokers, as it would place them entirely at the mercy of any unprincipled per son who thought fit to commit a fraud upon them. They were imperatively required by the Act of Par liament to give the necessary forms of declaration to be filled up, not merely to the owner of the property pledged, but even to any one representing himself as the owner, and as the property in dispute might some times be of the most valuable description, the magis trate might at once see to what a serious extent their interests would be endangered. Mr. BINGHAM, after referring to the Act, said the question involved in the matter was of such vast in terest to the public and to pawnbrokers in general, that he was of opinion no single magistrate ought to be called upon to decide on the point in issue, but that it should be settled by a deliberate decision in Westminster-hall. He put it to the defendant, whe ther it would not be worth while to refer the ques tion to some eminent counsel, as similar cases re peatedly came before him, and ke was very much afraid that the owners of property themselves were frequently in collusion with persons who committed such frauds. The defendant said, he should certainly forthwith adopt the magistrate's suggestion, as during the forty years that he had been in business he had never once been compelled to return property under such cir cumstances. Mr. BINGHAM felt the case to be one of great diffi culty, and should therefore take time to form a judg ment upon it, and would meanwhile recommend the defendant to consult his brother tradesmen, with the view of obtaining competent professional assistance, and having the matter further and more fully dis cussed at a future day. The defendent expressed his determination to do so, and the case was adjourned for a fortnight, that its legal difficulties might be put into a train of deli berate investigation. CLERKEIV WELL. Yesterday Mrs. Phillips, residing in Henrietta street, Brunswick-square, and Mr. Charles Olivar , a solicitor, livin g th ere , were c h arge d w i t h violently assaulting Mrs. Lucinda Montague, and her servant, Eliza Jennings, lodgers in the same house. Mrs. Montague, who seemed very nervous and de licate, deposed, that her husband having fallen into:a small arrear of rent, they received notice to quit from the defendant Oliver, as attorney for Mrs. Phillips, with whom he was on terms of close inti macy. The notice expired on Thursday last, but witness, in consequence of the delicate state of her health, did not leave on that day. At five o'clock, in the evening, her husband, on returning from busi ness knocked at the street-door; she sent her ser vant, a girl of sixteen, down to open it, but not hear ing the door open, nor the servant return, she ran down stairs, and on reaching the hall was shocked at seeing the girl on the ground, and the defendant Oliver with his knee on her chest, and both his knuckles pressing her throat, so that she was almost suffocated. The door was barricadoed with chains and staples. Witness screamed, and ran towards the door to admit her husband; but Olivar immedi ately seized her by the throat, and squeezed her with all his force. She burst away from him, but Mrs. Phillips grasped her arm and twisted it round with so much force as to sprain her wrist, which was for several days after :greatly swollen. At length she got up stairs to her own apartments, but the de fendants rushed in aft er h er , where they again used violence. Her three infant children screamed, but Olivar, tearing her shawl from her back, exclaimed, " I seize this in the Queen's name," and desired them all "to turn out." The witness detailed other acts of violence by the defendants. Eliza Ann Jennings, Mrs. Montague's servant, corroborated her mistress's testimony in every re spect. She had been nearly suffocated from Mr. Olivar's violence. Let one single case be taken before a Judge of Assize, and all this contumacy of the law will soon be put a stop to.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. &c. Nov. 19, 1844. NOT : CANT., U., R. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 21. MUNN V. DENTON. This was an appeal from the borough of Bury St. Edmund's. The claim to Tote was made for a house, which was in reality but a cow-house, with one room occupied by the person in care of the cows. The COURT held that where there was a habitable room actually occupied as a dwelling, that constituted a house, and the claim was good. MOSS V. THB OVERb3EERS_OF_ST. MICHAEL'S, LICHFIELD. : The appellant occupied a house jointly w ith his father, who alone was rated, although the son paid the rent. The barrister refused the claim, and the Court now de cided against the appeal on the ground that the payment by the son was a voluntary act, and could not entitle him to vote, u he was not rated. MARSHALL V. BROWNS. This appeal was also from Lichfield. It appeared that the appellant, with five others, took a house jointly, for the purpose of procuring votes for the city of Lichfield. The barrister disallowed the claim on the ground that it came within the meaning of the Act the 7th and Bth Wm. 111., for the prevention of splitting votes. The COURT took time to consider their judgment. There being now but nine cases decided out of thirty three, and this being the last day set down for hearing registration appeals, Mr. COCKBURN begged to ask their Lordships whether they would name a day for resuming the hearing ? The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said they must appoint a day out of term, as Monday would be the last day of term, and it was impossible to take any of the remaining appeals in the meantime. The Court then rose. POLICE ,INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Walter Bennett, an errand-boy, about thirteen years of age, in the service of ➢lr. Graham, an ivory -turner, in Bride-lane, was brought before Mr. Alderman Humphery, charged with stabbing Edward Ingram, an apprentice working for the same employer. A surgeon's certificate was put in that Ingram's life was in danger. Ingram's sister attended as complainant. Sh. said she was not present at the time the assault was com mitted, nor when her brother was brought home. He was first taken to a surgeon, who dressed the wound and sent him home to his lodging in Parson's court, Bride-lane. She believed he was dying. She understood he was wounded about six o'clock on Tuesday evening. John Speakman, City police-constable 329, stated that the prisoner was given into his custody on Wed nesday evening by the mother of Ingram. The wound was at the top of the abdomen. He produced the tool, a gouge, about eighteen inches long. Mr. Alderman HU2dPIIERY asked the sister how old her brother was ? She said he was about twelve. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked her if she had heard what led to the assault ? She said the prisoner and her brother had words. The prisoner said the apprentice had extinguished his own light by spitting on the candlewick, and finding a difficulty in lighting it again, he put pri soner's candle out in the same way. Having got a fresh light from a neighbour, the prisoner attempted to set fire to his hair, and prisoner in return tried to burn his shoulder. This made the apprentice cross, and he struck prisoner over the arm. Prisoner in return threw a gouge at him. Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY did not believe the tool would pass through the clothes and pierce the body if it had been thrown. It must have been pushed at him. The prisoner said it was. Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked if any one was present at the time ? The prisoner said there was another boy. The prisoner's father put in a certificate from some person that the prisoner was an inoffensive, mild tempered boy, and the father asked if he might be admitted to bail. Mr. Alderman HumrnEay said he could not admit to hail a person who might be chargqd with murder. The father smiled at the observation, and said it could not be murder. Oliver admitted having seized the girl, hut did not use the violence described. Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY asked him what he called it ? It was impossible that he could be a mild tempered boy, or he would not have seized a sharp instrument and thrust it into the body of the appren tice. It was very indecent for the father to be laugh ing while the son was about to be charged with mur der.---The father said it could only be manslaughter• Mr. Alderman th.:SIPHERY said he should not ad mit the prisoner to bail, and remanded him till Sa turday. Mrs. Phillips denied the assault, and called two witnesses, who did not, however, refute the com plainant's testimony. Mr. GREENWOOD said it was a gross outrage, and he would fine Olivar 3/. for the assault on Mrs. Mon tague, and il. for the assault on the servant; and Mrs. Phillips 2/. Mr. Olivar—ls there no appeal ? Mr. GREENWOOD—I cannot answer you that ques tion. BOW-STREET. Yesterday an elderly man, most respectably dressed, who refused to give his name, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having attempted to steal a piece of cloth from the auction-rooms of Mr. George Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden. The prisoner, it appeared, was present at a sale of cloth belonging to a pawnbroker, which was going on yesterday afternoon at Mr. Robins's auction-rooms, and was observed by one of the porters to cut a piece of cloth, about two yards long, from off a roll near the fireplace, with a penknife. The porter told Mr. Robins, who ordered him to go outside, under the Piazza, and wait till th e pr i soner came out, which he did, and walking up to him asked him to go back into the auction-room with him. The prisoner complied, and was there given into custody. On being searched, a penknife and two duplicates were found on him, but the duplicates had only " Groves, 25, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square," and gave no clue to his identity. The cloth lay just where the prisoner had left it. The prisoner, on being asked for his defence, in dignantly denied the charge, and stated that he was merely standing by the fireside, along with others, and never touched the cloth. He was quite surprised when he was given into custody outside, and he ap pealed to the fact of his having left the cloth behind, as to whether he intended to steal it. lie was inno. cent of the whole affair. Mr. Olivar—Could not we compromise the matter ? Mr. GREENWOOD—No such thing. It is a dreadful outrage. If you do not pay the money I will commit you for five weeks. Mr. Olivar did not pay the money, and was locked up. HINTS TO THE NEWLY MARETED.—In commencing your matrimonial career, start with a determination that no ordinary circumstances shall induce you to spend more than two-thirds of' your available income. Having resolved upon this, most rigidly adhere thereto, This is the first element of success, if accompanied with industry and perseverance. Pay all your household expenses, at any rate, at the time they arise, Take no credit upon such items of expenditure; if you can adopt the Rarnki plan in your business, you are on the high road to fortune. Let no foolish pride, no ridiculous example, no superficial advice, make you incur expenses in furnishing your house which your present means will not warrant, louts atten tion must also be specially directed to the propriety of limiting your circle of friends to such a compass and to such a class as will not interrupt your boeitieSa, or tempt you into expenses t these elt rOcics upon which the hap piness of hundreds have been wrecked. Are you to have a servant or servants ? is another question of no mean importance. Each servant, upon an average, will cost from thirty to forty pounds per annum; bc..sides the waste, the breakage, and the destruction through unnecessary roughness. Spend your evenings at home. A specimen of Irish linen, denominated " the golden flax," has recently come before us, as a manufacture in this neighbourhood ; and we cannot withhold our testi mony to the beauty of its bleach and fabric, uniting the Tneatest softness and brightnes s w ith th e strongest fibre. his bids fair to put further off than ever all foreign competition with Ireland in the linen fabric, and to ex tend our home consumption for this beautiful manufac ture ; affording at the same time an additional encou ragement for the production of the fltlest qualities of fiax at home, for which our soil and climate are found in every way suitable. We cannot help itAttigihg the hope that ere long Belfast may be to the linen trade what Manchester is to the cotton, with this further advantage on the side of the former—that her looms May be work ing up the product of a happy industry—gradually ex tending itself throughout our agricultural districts in the south—yielding food an d c l o thi ng — an appreciation of comfort, with means for its gratification—and, above all, issuing in an honest independence of mind, capable of discerning, and daring to choose, the truth.—Belfast paper. Mr. JARDINE—Do you choose to give your name 1 Prisoner—l cannot ;I am most respectably con nected, and I cannot live any name. Mr. JARDINU—Then I remand you till next Tues day, in order to try and add your name to the deposi tions, and the witnesses must he bound over to prose cute at the sessions. The witnesses were accordingly bound over, and the prisoner will be committed on Tuesday. Yesterday a young woman named Mary Ann Jefferies was charged with having attempted suicide by taking laudanum. She had been brought up the preceding Monday to answer the charge, but as she was then suffering intensely from the effects of the poison the case was deferred, and the poor girl con veyed back to the hospital. No. 104 A stated, that on Thursday night, the 14th inst., while on duty in St. James's-park, he found the defendant lying under the milk stands, near Spring gardens, apparently asleep. On arousing her (which he had some difficulty in doing), she told him that she had just taken fourpennyworth of laudanum, and produced a bottle, which had evidently contained the poison. Ile then took her to the police-station, and thenc e to Charing-cross Hospital, w usual antidotes were effectively adrainister here the ed. ,olt/ITRING NEvv.—Those curio in the contem plation of the vagaries of nature na:a.t opportunity of gratifying their euricilstiltsynr haeiegan young ttt o )v b i b t tvegs, in the possession of y m[ 6 r e T a - a skinner, y This strange qua(,_lrupeaZe pfAtAne-lreTjr Tainily.of five, is of the rvewfoundland brkedi.an about five weeks old. The additional ler , t 6 the right shoulder, and b(,!h s eem t o wor k kperfeet Wiiikin."—Dundco Advetiser, .fit - Tull NEW POLICE COURT IN THE BOROU4III. This Police -court, which has been built on the west side of Blackman-street, Borough, adjacent to the Queen's Bench Prison, is completed, and the Secretary of State has issued orders for the removal of the public business from Union-hall t o t h e a b ove court by the early part of 1 the ensuing month, •• - 7 •,/, • , , t TH.E SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1344. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. A commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened yesterday at the Manor-house Tavern, Stoke New ington, before Mr. Commissioner Barlow and seven teen special jurors, to inquire into the state of mind of Jane Edwards, a maiden lady, aged thirty-six, daughter of the late wealthy George Edwards, Esq., of the Hampstead-road, described in the commission as "late of Clarendon-place, Maida-hill, but now of Northumberland House, Stoke Newington, spinster." Mr. Gregory, of the firm of Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., appeared as solicitor in support of the com mission, which was unopposed. The Learned COMMISSIONER explained the law of lunacy in the usual terms, and, in the absence of counsel on either side, stated the nature of the case ; from which, and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the unfortunate lady had in her infancy been affected with convulsive fits, which had weakened her mind, but decided unsoundness had not manifested itself till 1825, when she was seventeen years of age, when she was placed in Bethnal-green asylum. She then laboured under the delusions that people were continually breaking into her room, and also that many people were conspiring against her, and she ultimately became perfectly imbecile. rater her father's death, in 1839, she was removed to her uncle's, in lielgrave-square ; and upon his death, in 1842, to another relative's, at Maida-hill ; who, hay • ing also died, she, in September, 1843, became an in mate of the above asylum. Her father, at his death, left her a handsome annuity, to secure which the commission had been issued. Mr. Anthony White, surgeon, of Parliament-street, deposed to the imbecility of her mind from October 1, 1842. Dr. Alexander Sutherland also stated that she said her father was still alive, and she appeared incapable of understanding the value of money, figures, or any subject, though it appeared she had been originally well educated. She was decidedly of unsound mind. Her chief amusement was tearing paper, handker. chiefs, and other articles ; but she never asked for food or anything else. She was attired in deep mourning. The lady was introduced ; her countenance was mild and pleasing, with fine hazel eyes, and she had evidently been pretty. She continually smiled at the Learned Commissioner's questions, but her answers were chiefly " Yes," or " No." A book ws handed her to read, but she merely muttered indistinctly and unintelligibly. By request she took a pen to write, and first drawing off one glove she wrote in a good neat hand the words, "Miss Jane Edwards," when her mind appeared to wander, and she joined to the latter word " edsredseds," and was so continuing, when the jury expressed themselves satisfied, and re turned a verdict, dating the unsoundness of mind from Oct. 1, 1842. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals-Madeira, Smith, from Madras, in the Downs, sailed July 16, St. Helena Sept. 24; Arrow, 'Walker, from Zanzibar, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 3, St. Helena Sept. 29; Herald, Bolton, from Singapore, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 1, St. Helena Oct. 11 ; Agile, Small, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs, sailed Sept. 22, St. Helena Oct. 7; Helen Stewart, Whittingham, from China, in the Downs, sailed June 20, St. Helena Oct. 1; Ganges, M`Donald, from Sydney, off Torbay, sailed July 30, Pernambuco Oct. 15 ; Achilles, Veale, from Sydney, off Torbay, sailed July 11; Tamerlane, M`Kenzie, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed July 14, St. Helena Oct. 2; Pilgrim, Rawlins, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed June 13, St. Helena Sept. 26; Orient, Wales, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed June 29, Mauritius Aug. 21, St. Helena Sept. 29. Arrivals at St. Helena-Malvina, Sept. 30, from Batavia, and sailed Oct. 1 to Hamburgh ; Magnolia, Royal, 3d, from west'coast of Africa, and sailed to Liver pool ; Edward Boustead, from China and sailed 4th to London ; Sylphide, from Batavia, and sailed 4th to Amsterdam ; Freedom and Damon, 3d, from Ichaboe ; Antoinette Marie, 4th, from Batavia, and sailed to Rot terdam ; Rosanna, from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork; Hawk, from Ichaboe, and sailed 4th to Cork ; Gabrielle, from Bordeaux ; Marina, sth, from Ichaboe, and sailed Bth to Bristol ; Flora, sth, from Ichaboe, and sailed 6th to Cork ; Elizabeth Walker, 6th, from Ichaboe, and sailed 7th to Clyde ; Emperor, sth, from Manilla, and sailed to Antwerp ; Bouthsook, from Bourbon, and sailed 7th to Havre ; Arab, from Manilla and Mauritius, and sailed to London ; Canada, sth, from Bengal, and sailed to Liverpool ; Windsor Castle, from Bombay, and sailed 6th to Liverpool ; John Graham, from Ceylon, passed to London ; Bencoolen, Oct. 7, from Manila, and sailed Bth to Cork ; Indus, from Bourbon, and sailed Bth to Marseilles ; Bretagne, from Bourbon, and sailed Bth to St. Malo ; Prins Hendrick, from Batavia, and sailed Bth to Amsterdam ; Thomas Naylor, from coast of Africa, and sailed Bth to Liverpool ; Brooksby, 10th, from Manilla, and sailed to London ; Eliza Scott and Eliza, from coast of Africa ; Pondicherry from Pondi cherry. Arrivals in Table Bay-Edward Robinson, Sept. 1, from China ; G. H. Harrison, 21st, from Singapore ; Hope, from Mauritius. Departure from Table Bay-Owen Glendower, Sept. 18, to Madras and Calcutta. Arrival at Hobart Town-London, Attwood, July 9, from London. Departures from Hobart Town -Ben Nevis, June 28, to Launceston ; Eudora, July 10, to New Zealand. Arrival at Launceston-Agostina, Volum, for London. Arrivals at Sydney-Sarah, July 21, from Singapore ; Star of China, 27th, from New Zealand ; Lady Gray, from Hobart Town ; Blundell, from London and Nor folk Island. Departures from Sydney-Georgetown, July 20, to Guam; Nimrod, 25th, to South Seas; Governor, to Cape. Arrival at Port Philip-Sovendrapony, July 12, from Hong-Kong and Batavia. The Sea Queen cleared at Port Philip, July 21, for Liverpool. THE PRICE OF A JAW. (From Punch.) One would think that Plutus made most of our English laws, there are so few of them that are not to be mended with money, if the breaker can afford the tinkering. This is, indeed, the true aristocracy of wealth, and makes a man with gold in his pocket feel that he is unquestionably one of the superior classes-- in fact, a chartered ruffian, who may knock clown his fellow-creatures like nine-pins, if he have ready cash sufficient to pay for the sport. Blessed privilege of wealth ! How cor temptuously must the rich offender eye the pauper ruffian, who can RO more afford to enjoy the broken members of his neighbours than he can afford green peas at Christmas ? Again and again do Magistrates by their judgments—call upon us to marvel at the healing principle of gold—the never failing auruo potabile of the police-office. The subjoined case, however, applies, we presume, to a penniless ruffian : " CLERKENWELL.— George Combes was charged with breaking the jaw of an unfortunate girl, named Anne Gorman. " The poor girl was standing quietly in the Chalk road, when the prisoner told her to accompany him. She refused, upon which he dealt her such a blow with his elenched fist as broke her jaw, and felled her to the ground, where she lay insensible for half an hour She was then conveyed to a sur geon . " Mr. Comns—Will you make this poor creature some compensation for the grievous injury you have done her ? Prisoner—l won't give her a farthing. " Mr. COMM —Then you will pay 51., or go to the House of Correction for two months." " Some compensation" for a broken jaw ! George Combes could not, or would not, pay for the article, and—we cordially hope—he is a prisoner for two months, with the supplementary punishment of hard labour. If, however, he could have paid Si., he would have been free to break another jaw the next night on the same terms. The Magistrates say they have no discretion in these matters. If the ruffian have none', justice *rites him a receipt in full of all demands. It is the men who make these laws who are answer able for their injustice, Well, we will suppose it eight in the evening —the place, palace-yard. There goes Lord to his seat in the Commons. A ruffian, thinking that he has a good qiiattel with his Lordship's jaw, with his clenched fist breaks lt, Does his Lordship—the law-maker-- think the fine of a sufficient punishment for the atrocity ? We think not; but th.n Lords are so sel dotn assaulted : such doings generally fall upon the " lower orders," and they being made of coarser clay, are—like pipkins—to be paid for when broken, Men with money ca ❑ afford it. We are pretty certain that Mr. Thomas Duncombe must read the police reports, and equally sure that the iniquity of this law is wholly worthy of his re forming energy. Or where is Young England ? Wherefore does it not champion the jaws of what breeches pocket, in its big complacency, calls the lower orders? WORRYING SHEEP. —An immense number of sheep have been worried during the summer in the 'Vicinity of Haydon-bridge ; and, strange to say, the depredator has up to this time escaped, in spite of all attempts to discover him. The sheep are all bitten in one way, in the windpipe, which is generally torn out, and some of them clean bled. Many valuable dogs have, in consequence, been destroyed on suspicion. What is strangest of all is, that none of the worried sheep are in the least eaten or mutilated, which seems to prove that the love of blood rather than hunger is the cause. Many years ago a dog, near Wooler, killed great numbers of sheep, of which he only drank the blood and eat the kid ney, which he tore out very scientifically. After many attempts, he was shot op Cheviot.— Trine Mercury. ADVANCE IN WAGES.—We are happy to learn that an advance in the wages of all hands employed by the three extensive flax-spinning establishments here has taken place this week. The rise is from 10 to 15 per cent., making an aggregate increase to the income of that section of our population of about 50/. per week. We sincerely hope that the advance will be general throughout the country, and that the state of trade will justify its continuance. Notwithstanding this appearance of prosperity, we could wish to see the manufacturing interest in a more favourable relation, for the seller finds it impossible to realise an advance on linen equivalent to the rine in yorna—hlontron.Reviem THE MIDDLE CLASSES. It has been often observed, that a good middle class is the strength and glory of a nation: Without this unfailing source to draw upon, no great efforts can he long sustained. An aristocracy may be splendid for its wealth, and honourable for its generosity ; a pea santry may he respectable for its spirit and numbers, and still more so for its domestic virtues. But neither of them possesses the stamina of a good middle class for any great purpose, either of peace or of war. It brings to bear upon one another all the great elements of social strength, industry, talent, wealth, public spirit, and public opinion, in a far more efficient manner than any political effort of the state; because in the most natural way—bv actual combination. Where there are wide intervals between the classes, energy and promptitude are lost by dis tance of operation, by bad leverage, so to speak, and ill-direction of forces. When you have a good middle class, you have not far to fetch your mate rials, to communicate your intentions, to apply your impulses. There the state has not to get at the noble men, the nobleman to get at his dependents ; spirit has not to awaken industry, and industry to go t,aiut looking for means, and means to waste for want of hands. The electric circle is always com plete. The industrious man is also enlightened and wealthy; the wealthy man is also energetic and able. Go into the market-place and look around, and there you have in one view all the elements you want for any great internal improvement or external under taking. In this class you possess a storehouse and a school, on which you may depend for a constant and equable supply of political means and virtues. The state has not to set to work as soon as it foresees an exigency, or conceives a design, putting all the scat tered parts of the social machine together, and dis covering, at the last moment, to its cost, that it is not prepared, for that something is missing, some joint has gaped, or some member has shrunk since the last great turn-out of the nation. In such a predicament the results mu-t always be precarious and imperfect. But with a large class, neither very rich nor very poor, neither incapable of great efforts nor above them, always engaged in extensive and arduous designs, always augmenting and concen tratir's the resources o f th e coun t ry , t h e statesman has three parts of his work done to his hand. Even if he slept, ethers worked. He has only to speak to a prepared people, and open a well filled magazine. We are aware of the prejudices we offend by elevat ing the middle class into the saviours of their country. There are persons who would rather not be saved at all than by such means ; at least in theory, for most of them appear to acquiesce very contentedly in the historical fact, and to enjoy without any reserve the numerous benefits thence accruing. But when ever they can abstract themselves enough to mo ralise, and forget enough to be ungrateful, then they complacently meditate on the middle class as all that is vulgar, pushing, conceited, selfish, and unsocial, with the world for its god and money for its religion, without either the dignity of command or the grace of obedience; neither lofty nor dutiful; removed alike from the beauties of nature and the perfections of art ; a novelty on the past, a cload in the future, intrusive, encroaching, upstart, without right or inheritance, with out father or mother, absolutely without place in a perfect system, anti-aristocratical, anti-monar chical, anti-ecclesiastical, anti-everything, excepting only its own odious self. If so great an absurdity ad mits of aggravation, it receives it from the circum stance that most who so feel and talk are them se:ves of the middle class, and are only removed from the warehouse or the shop by one generation of parentage, or perhaps by seven years of school and college, or even not at all. As we never yet heard any serious project for dispensing with this class, and showing how England was to continue England with out it, and not relapse to holes in the earth and painted skins, such sentiments as the ahove do not pretend to be anything else than a rebellion of one's tastes against an inevitable dispensation ; and, as such, have not a very religious or rational character. However, they exist and continue. There are, and will be, thousands who consider their inward revolting at the middle classes to he the most exalted and precious part of their nature, and the most certain evidence of their soul's nobility. Such a prejudice, ridiculous as it is, is yet injurious. It estranges from paths of public usefulness many who might do service in their day; it diverts into the ideal many who might be practical ; and, though not in itself a very active principle, it furnishes the groundwork of dangerous appeals,—appeals from the living present to the dead past, from realities to chimeras, from duties to dreams. It is then with very great pleasure that we find the use, the necessity, and the rightfulness of a middle class, and an unbroken gradation of middle classes, advocated by men likely to command attention, and recommended by arguments which cannot be denied. With some minds use, with others rightfulness w ill have more weight. For the benefit of the former we will extract a very important passage, as seenis to us, from Mr. Tremenheere's exceedingly interesting report on the state of the population in the mining districts " Another result of the truck system, not less in jurious, though not so directly appreciable, is, that by checking the growth of a middle class it reduces the amount and effect of those civilizing influences which descend upon the labouring classes from the various gradations of society above them. The large sum of 200,000/. a-year, part of the wages paid by the principal works having stores as abovementioned, has been al ready shown not to be expended in these stores. The growth, therefore, of the class of retail dealers in those neighbourhoods has been considerable, as is proved by the case of Coatbridge, where there are at present 134 shops and three inns, besides six shops at Dandyvan kept by persons belonging to the works, who deal in the same kind of articles that are sold at the Dundyvan ' store. It is stated that eight years ago there were only 16 shops open at Coatbridge. The increase is un doubtedly great; but it must not be overlooked that the profits of the 50,000/. a-year estimated to be ex pended at the stores of the enumerated works would, under other circumstances, have been so much added to the fund which supplies the well-being and wealth of the class of retail dealers. It would have promoted pro tanto their advance towards the middle ranks of society, and therefore towards filling that void the existence of which is one of the fertile sources of evil in districts new and rapidly peopled." Only the old story, some will say. Who wants to multiply small shopkeepers ? They are enough already : one at every corner. What will a state come to of which retailers of sugar and cheese are the predominant citizens ? Well, we burn coals, and are glad to warm our hands and cook our dinners by their aid. Coals involve smudgy pitmen, smudgy pitmen involve smug shopkeepers, and what is more, if we have any bowels of mercy or of gratitude for the said pitman, lying naked on his side for live-long days, and picking laboriously at the walls of his dungeon, in utter darkness, and in deadly vapours, more than a hundred fathoms below the cheerful realms of day, we may be glad to think that he has a chance some day or other, before age surprises him at his toil, of standing upright, clad and clean, behind a counter, enjoying the light of day and the sight of fellow-men. The middle classes, we maintain, have an hereditary place in England, from which they have too generally been ousted. In the golden age of the old English gentleman there was a rising class above the labourer, and step above step to the highest station. This we have repeatedly asserted, and believe there is no fact for which more abundant and conclusive evidence can be adduced. There is hardly a village where, in the memory of man, there were not many times more holdings than there are now, and consequently many opportunities for the poor man to escape from that poverty which England calls a crime. The very sur face of the fields, the traces of ancient homesteads, roads, and hedgerows, declare the same historical fact. The statement in the following extract from Lord Willoughby D'Eresby's very excellent and sug gestive letter, which we published on Tu es d a y, would be found confirmed wherever the inquiry NA as made : MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS' FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The subject of the stamp on receipts is one which engages some attention among the trading Ing e " rests in the City, and a suggestion has . been made by an intellieent member of that interest, following the Illy ciple of the universal penny postage, to tax all recoptl for sums above 51. at Id. only, and make it compulsory to give stamped receipts in all cases, which he thinks would produce a revenue of 1,000,000/, while the tax yields at the present time a sum less than 200,000/. Th e party referred to, with whose respectability we are str .. quainted, has furnished a long written statement in elucidation of his plan, the leading points of which will be sufficient to render it intelligible to the public. He proposes that the paper to be used shall be issued , statnps d. as heretofore, by the Government, which /3 t ° print on the same paper a form of receipt, besides which, he would allow all acknowled gmen t s o f t h e rec eipt 01 money, written on paper which bears the Post-otfiee stamp, as evidence of passing through the Post-office, T i be considered legal receipts. All other paper to he us e d for invoices, accounts-current, &c., to be found by Per" sons requiring it, and to be presented for stamping at the Stamp-office. He proposes, also, that all hankers' c heques should have the penny st a mp a tt ac h e d to t h em , whirl' will make them legal vouchers, instead of being w e means commonly in uSo, as they now are, of evading the tax altogether. The calculation of the amount likely to be raised bi such a tax seems a startling one, but the writer advert s ,. to data which bear him out i n co n c l u di ng suc h a row' to be at least probable ; and he points out one more advantage from his plan, i n it s i n d uc i ng b etter habits of business in taking vouchers for all payments—a practice which may prevent litigation and disputes, which O s constantly occur through the neglect of such a precatr tion. It is something also, on that side of the question, to get rid of a law, the infringement o f w hi c h i s o f daily and hourly recurrence. We have proposed only now to offer an outline of the plan, and leave it to make what impression it may 11 2 01) the public. Ever since the passing of the new Bank Act, Inge: nuity seems to have been at work to devise methods which Ihe country bankers may escape the legal prow_ sions. A day or two ago . we no ti ce d t wo p l ans w hi c h tb . Bankers' Circular advanced for the benefit of those who p interest it represent s , an d t o -d ay our attent i on h as bee" called to another scheme which looks very practicabl e t though it is perhaps less ingenious than the others. Th e 11th section of the Act only forbids the bankers to issu e notes on bills payable to bearer on demand beyond 2 0 certain extent, and if any inst rumen t can b e contril°' that will answer the purpose of circulation, and not core° within this dt scription, it seems that the statute may b e evaded. The new scheme proposes that a firm of banker . , shall sign a note payable at sight or on demand, 81 the banking-house, to the order of one of the partners or one of the clerks, and that the payee shall enclor° the note in blank. Such a document is not, it appe s r! according to repeated decisions on the Stamp Act, a "note payable to bearer," and yet it can be transferred by d e " livery only, and imposes j u st as much liability on th e banker as the note such as the statute contemplat es ' Here, then, we have an instrument against which to e law is probably powerless. One view remains to be taken of all these ex pedient?' In the opinion of nearly all the disinterested persons the City who have spoken upon the new Banking Bi' s it has been considered a v e ry j u di c i ous measure, chilli') because it checks excess in circulation, and therefor° tends to repress reckless speculation. One class of Pe r sons, however, find that it does not accord with their oyre individual interests ; and th ere f ore , t h oug h there can beno doubt whatever as to the spirit and meaning of the 1a! all sorts of schemes are r ecommen d e d to evade the letter of the statute. Everybody who is aware of the exist' ence of the Act, is also aware that its object is to 07 the circulation of the country within defined limits ; those gentlemen who avail themselves of the varion° stratagems we have described, will place themselves no very enviable situation, with regard to the country ° large, who will consider a public benefit of more con 0:, quence than an individual i n t erest . S uppose these pis; succeed for a time, it is scarcely possible that they e"" produce any lasting benefit to the parties who adoill them. If they are carried on to any important exten 4 they will probably be checked by some supplementary statute that will render the provisions of the existing law more stringent and defined. A great and importaL i) principle is contended f or , an d e i t h er that mus t o' sacrificed, or these small contrivances must, in the led run, be crushed. SUN.—The Funds close firmly, Consols being 100 i i f for Money and Ti me . Th e N ew Th ree-and-a-Quat 4e. per Cents. were 1024 Bank and India Stock were th e same as in the morning' The Foreign Investments did not improve much uP° l l l the quotations of the ear ly p ar t o f t h e d ay. S pao L° Five per Cents. were 24 to 24i; the Three per Cen" 4 35 to 354 • Portuguese Converted, 551 t o 544; Mexica n ' 36 to 34; Chilian Deferred, 53; and Brazilian, Nell' 85k. Russian were 1194. The Railway Shares have been rather drooping th is afternoon, but the sales were of no maenitude. ADVERTISEMENT. ANOTHER EXTRAORDINAI I , CURE OF ASTHMA. BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS !—Patrie* Casey, residing at No. 1, Compton-place, - Brunswick' square, had suffered from a chronic asthma for more she three years. This poor man was so great a sufferer that he did not dare go to bed for fear of the phlegm choking him ; indeed, he could not even lay his head upon table for half an hour lest be should be suffocated nevertheless, this person is now labouring from morning to night, sleeps as we ll as ever he did in his life, and, is fact, is completely cured by the use of Holoway's Pills' Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at 244, Strand (whe te advice may be had gritis), and by almost an respectabl e vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. t COMMERCIAL LI TERATURE . —A n advertisement appeared the o th er d ay f or a c l er k , who was wante d ¢t Lloyd's, where he w ou ld rece i ve a h un d re d a year, an d It was added that editing Lloyd's List would be a part of his duties. Lloyd ought to be ashamed of himself to pay his editor so shabbily. It is true the List does not req uire II very imagin a ti ve I•nind, or a very f er til e f ascy ; b u t tbe e editor of such an important paper must be cognisant e l commerce, immersed in the mysteries of mustard, tho' roughly ground in pepper, and, in fact, a walking pric e. current. The man to edit Lloyd's List should be able t° see which waythe wind blows without the aid of a weather cock, and to discriminate at a glance between the varlet!, degrees of fresh, squally, and moderate. The noble sciences of breeze-ology, wind-ology, and tide-oh:0 should all be at his fingers' ends. He should be on the constant look out for bits of vessels washed a shore; and, as Hamlet knew " a hawk from a hand•saWy the editor of Lloyd's List should be able to distinguish . figure-head from a mar li ng - sp ik e. No blacking-boa,i,'e washed up by the tide should elude his editors' vig`,: lance ; for some of th e most i nterest i ng articles in Llo.ll° , List have been written on the subject of bits of pil e ,' discovered corked up in a former recipient of V and Martin's jettest of all jets that ever were mannili c ' tured. Such sh ou ld b e th e m i n d that ought to pres ine over the putting together of Lloyd's List ; and if our n Oll. temporary don't strike for an advance, he is a traitor i° a the press, a villain t o hi mse lf , and wretch to his fit . mily I—Punch. STRANGE SCENE.--On Friday last, a most singt ll s r t scene took place at St. P e t ers , near t hi s town. -c,;) some time, cracks and r e nt s h ave b een o b serve d i n , walls of various houses in this vicinity, and especially In those near the docks. On Friday, however, as the land' lord of the Ship In n was a t breakfast, several squares e t glass gave way with a crackling noise, and an evide° settling or sinking took place in the house. This n' l4 followed by a sinking of some other houses, and of th e docks. Some walls tell, and the whole had the apPeA5 ante of an earthquake o n a sma ll sca l e. N o pers on hurts were sustained, but the damage is great, and scant: of the houses are closed. The cause is a shrink °` " creep" in the older workings of Friar Goose Collie*: (on the opposite bank), which extend ander the river 0 5 this spot.— Tyne Mercury. BIRTHS. On the 4th ult., at Pernambuco, in the empire of Brao l the wife of George Francis Fox, Esq., of a son. At Bruges, the lady of John Stephen Dwyer, of Castle Connell, county of Limerick, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at St. Leonard's, Sussex, Mrs. H. Trew Wes of a son. Oa the 13th inst., at Colonel Romer's, St. Heliers, Jersef' the Countess du Pontavice de Henssey, of a son and On the 16th inst., at Inchbrakie, Perthshire, the Hon- DP' Grreme, of a daughter. Qn the 17th inst., a t P ar kh urs t, I s l e o f Wi g h t, t h e wife of the Rev. Thomas England, of a son. On the 20th inst., at the Grove, Highgate, the lady of Nisbet, Esq., of a son. -ere. On the 19th inst., in Burton -crescent, M rs . W. H. Ss./ of a son. On the 19th inst., at Grove-road, Perth Brixton, ° l* Frederick Wix, of a son still-born. On the 19th inst., at Ipswich, Mrs. Thomas Cleme nt' Browne, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Clapham New Park, the lady of T. West, Esq., of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at St. John's-park, Kentish-town , t he lady of George Shearwood, Esq., of a son. " The occupation of three acres of pasture would give him that great necessary of hfe, a supply of milk for his family, which he can very rarely buy, and at the same time afford him a profitable investment for his money, by the purchase of a cow and sheep, which would pro duce him as many pounds yearly as he could get shil lings in the savings' bank. It would consequently en able him to accumulate the capital necessary to stock a MARRIED. small farm. I cannot refrain from adding two very sig- nif,cant facts for the benefit of those who talk of the im- On the 19th inst., at the Chnrc . h o f ma H o ly Tri m .a .rv iO Brorepton, Middlesex, thi Rev. P. C. NiaboliOn, to l'ilio possibility of the labourer's purchasing a cow:—l have daughter of Isaiah Linwood Verity, Esq., late m a jor 0= seen the plan of A parish of the date of 1717, in which 92d Highlanders. g' every cottage had an allotment of pasture. At s ome O n t h e 19t h inst., at St. Marys, Islington. Mr. Ja m o n ly subsequent periods all three were taken away and let Tuit, of Colet-plece, Commercial-road, to Mary Ann: t , with the large farms. Ten yeat'z ago they were restored, daughter of the late Mr. R. Dickens, of Judd- trset• " bourers who; pur- Pancras. and there are now in the parish 33 2! 1, coal° chased cowt. for themselves as soon as the allotments On the 19th inst., at Alphington, Devon, Thomas .4- Sanders, of Exeter, Esq., to Mary Elizabeth, second daub were granted-" ter of Joseph Buckley, ofAlphingte , Esq. A et, These two passages, from different quarters, con- On the 20th of' June last, at St. Yhilip's Church, SY" ll e us atitute a very sufficient case for the practical benetit; - Mr. Richard James Hunt, late of London, to Mi° 3 A ° and successional right of an unbroken gradation of I li a :lker, of Princes-street, Sydney, New South Wales._ middle classes. If, however, they have been banished from the country to the town, and made thereby more democratic, whose fault is it ? Not their own.— Times. DIED. At the Royal Hospital. Chelsea, in the 15thyear or his l a. elf,' " Hugh Percy De Batibe, fifth son of the Rev. G. R. Chaplain-General to her Majesty's Forces. On the 10th inst., at Blackwell, Halifax, Miss HolniSltg,P"- ~, On the 12th inst., at Weston-super-Mare, Aims widow of the late Captain Lamb, of Leamington. „AMMO On the 15th inst., in Sussex-square, Kemp Toni, `"'"'" Madame Lefaudeux, aged 71. 100 614 On the 19th inst., at Ashley Cottage, Walton-on-Thames Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Campbell, Esq,, cf K,..,i 1a11 1,./i St. On the 19th inst., at Chailey, the Hon. uel 1 " - John, aged 82. -ormbils ll ' On the 19th inst., Richard Fowlkes, son of S. ivl Esq., of Finchley, aged 32. Pretley. On the 20th inst., at Hayes, Middlesex, Mr. T. J ost, On the 20th inst., at Liverpool-terrace, Isling t°l3 ' the wife of Charles Wilkinson, M.D. On the 21st inst., in Wimpole-straet, Adam As kew, T s i., On the 21st inst., Esther, the wife of Thomas Alla n ' of Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. THE CUSTOMS.—It was stated, a short time since, that an additional landing surveyor had been stationed at the London Docks, besides the two regular officers, owing to the great increase of business in that large establishment. It has since been also determined by the board to place an additional officer of the same standing at the St. Katharine Docks, where the business has also of late increased to a very great extent, the time of the one landing surveyor originally and till now placed on the station being almost entirely occupied in super intending the number of vessels from Leghorn which discharge their cargoes there, it being, consequently, impracticable for him to devote as much attention to the other portione of the docks as the wants of the public and the necessities of the case require. Besides being a great advantage to the mercantile world, as affording them additional means of dispatching their business, a greater degree of security is also afforded to their goads and the revenue,4 a measure strongly recom mended n the VMS MA of the Demo Inquiry Coo 4, , London: Printed and Published by MURDO 1) ` 119. No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Officet,aoi Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Vg l" Ifid4loggx• Fridsyi Nona* St, 1144% MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, newspapers. Mr. W. (TONER moved " That the thanks of the Court be presented to Lieut.-Colonel Cox, and the officers and gentlemen of the Hon. Artillery Company, for their efficient services as the guard of honour to her Majesty on her visit to the City on the occasion of opening the Royal Exchange." Mr. Join( Dlxost seconded the motion, which was carried amidst loud cheers. WHOLESALE DEALERS. In the Hit of applicants for freedoms to the Court, presented by the Chamberlain, appeared the name of Sir John Rae Reid, M.P. for Dover, late a Governor of the Bank of England. The announcement was received with cheers ; but why the applause was given was not stated, for it was evident to the whole Court that the change in the opinions of Sir John Rae Reid was occasionei by the City Solicitor's letter to the wholesale dealers, informing- them that if they did not forthwith take up their freedom, proceedings would be at once adopted against them. The name of the Hon. Baronet was followed by those of five publicans and one barber. RLACKFRIARS-lIRIDGE PIER. Deputy Thom brought up the report o f th e Th ames Navigation Committee relative to a pier at Black friars-bridge. The report recommended the erec ti on o f a p i er at upon piles, a ccor di ng Walker, the eng i neer , an d w ommittee, to be carried t t ohae the h e re a e s f t e e rrrne suggestion side b d back o k f o fth to e Mr. t bride, the Committee, into effect. A report relative to steam-boat piers in the river was also brought up. It recommended that all piers, in which due provision had not been made for the security of the public, should b e i mme di ately removed, and that the Corporation should act merely as con servators of the river, leaving th e pecun i ary b usiness connected with the piers to private speculation. The report was ordered to be printed, and taken into con sideration on a future day. The sum of 2001. was voted to the Royal British Institution for the Education of Children. BETTER SUPPLY OF PURE WATER. Mr. H. PHILLIPS moved " That it be referred to a Committee to consider the best means of securing to all classes of the citizens of London a pure, abundant, and forcible supply of water, at a reasonable charge, and that they report thereon." After some observa tions upon the monopoly of the New River Company, the subject was referred to the Commissioners of Sewers. Upon the motion of the same gentleman, it was referred to the same Committee to consider and report to the Court the best means of providing for the poor ka better supply of pure water in different parts of the City than it at present afforded to them.—Adjourned. CRUM IN PRANCE, OR THE PRZNCII PAINTED in TRrentimr.vm.— The Constitutionnel of Sunday pub lish* the following horrible details of a murder and suicide which were committed at St. Laurent-de-Vignes on the Ist instant —" M, Beaupoy had sold to M. Brunet, softie yearn 'trice, a property which he pos sessed at Cetty, ih the commune of St. Latimit des=lrignes. lie reserved for himself at the smile time the enjoyment Of the property for a emrtain period ; but at the expiration of that time he refused to give up pos te session, threatening to murder M. Brunet if h e re peated' his demand, Ilr. lirunet, beitlg aware of the savage character of M. iieaupoy, suffered him to re• main at Getty ; where he became the terror of his neigh bours, M. Beating, had jilt only daughter ; whom he determined to disinherit, for which ptirpose fie con verted all his property, worth, it was said, 40,000 f., into baro.notes t with the determination to destroy them, at the same time that he should put an end to his own existence. On the morning of the Ist instant he pro ceeded to the house of M. Geraud, his brother-in-law, armed with a double-barrelled gun. M. Geraud, seeing that he appeared greatly excited, endeavoured to pacify him, but he quitted the house, uttering most violent threats. At a short distance from M. Geraud's house he perceived a vine -dresser, at whom he fired two shots, and wounded him severely ih the antil. lie then returned to M. Geraud's h o u se , an d reloaded his gun. He again set out, and having met a servant of M. Brunet, to whom he had expressed his dislike, he fired at him, and left him for dead on the road. He next set fire to a neigh bour's house, and threatened to shoot the owner should he present himself. He then proceeded to his own dwelling, and, having placed a quantity of brushwood round it, he set fire to it. lie then set fire to the apart ments, and having called for assistance, he presented his gun at the peasants who came to aid in extinguishing the fire. in a moment afterwards two reports of fire. arias were heard in the hotis6, which Were eatibed by M. Beaupoy shooting himself through the head. The authorities having proceeded to the spot ; found the house almost entirely consumed. Among the ruin 4 were found the remains of a human body ; supposed to be that of Ist, Beatiroy i hut do trace eould be discovered of his bank-notes, which it is supposed he bUrrieci ; in order to prevent his heirs from enjoying them. The peasant, Who Wag wounded in the arm, is at present out of danger, but M. Brunet's servant expired after three days of horrible torture," IntAttoE.-- The ship Ann, Row, of South Shi e ld s , arrived in this p or t on Saturday last, with a cargo of guano, after an interesting voyage. The passage has taken up eleven weeks. On her way she touched at the Island of Ascension for water, but none was to be had, the springs being completely dried up. At St. Helena she was more fortunate. The weather was delightfully fine until the Ann made the Azores, after which it began to be stormy and tempestuous. Captain Row states that he was seven weeks in procuring and stowing his cargo, which is guano of the first quality. He has made a chart and sketch of the Wand, which are highly interesting.— Vine liformy Martha Brassinton, the schoolmistress of the Beth nal-green Union, was indicted for an assault on Jane Kingston, a pauper inmate of that workhouse. The facts of the case lately appeared at length in The Sun, under the head of our Worship-street po lice report. The jury, after about an hour's consultation, re turned a verdict of Guilty, accompanied with a re commendation to mercy. She was fined 55., and discharged upon paying the sum. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday the first Court of the present Mayoralty was held. The LORD MAYOR, in addressing the Court, said he had full reliance upon their support during his year of office. FLEET PRISON. Mr. JOHN DIXON said that, having seen an adver tisement in the papers that the Fleet Prison was to be sold, he wished ,to know from the Chairman of the London-bridge Approaches Co mm itt ee w h e th er t h ere was any intention upon the part of the City of London to purchase the ground f or th e purposes o f t h e great improvements which were in progress ?—(Hear.) Mr. R. L. JONES said he certainly was of opinion that it would be extremely desirable that that pur chase should be made by the Corporation, with the view of forming an avenue through the ground into the heart of the City.---(Hear, hear.) He had called upon the Commissioners of W oo d s an d F orests, and pressed the necessity of not making sale of the pro perty until the Corporation should have an opportu nity of taking the question into consideration, and de ciding upon it.—(llear, hear.) THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. Mr. HUPPELL desired to know when the account of the expenses incurred by the visit of her Majesty to the City to open the Royal Exchange, and of the fund from which the expenses were to be paid, would be laid before the Court ? Mr. R. L. JONES stated that the Court might expect the accounts within a fortnight. THANKS OF THE COURT TO THE LATB LOUD MAYOR. Mr. KING rose to move the thanks of the Court to Sir William Magnay, Bart., the late Lord Mayor.— (Cheers.) It was, he said, unnecessary for him to address those who had had such experience of the late Lord Mayor's conduct during the Mayoralty at any length, upon the claims of a gentleman who had entered on his office without ostentation or parade, and had performed all the duties of it so highly to his own honour, and to the maintenance of the dignity and honour of the City of London.-- (Cheers.) In the comparison with those who pre ceded him in the office, Sir William Magnay could suffer nothing in respect of any one of the essentials of a chief magistrate of the City of London, and it was to be hoped that those who are to follow would take a leaf out of his book.—(Cheers.) Mr. King then moved " That the thanks of the Court are emi nently due, and are hereby presented, to the Right Hon. Sir William Magnay, Baronet, late Lord Mayor of this City, for the ability, energy, and zeal, dis played by him in discharging the various dutie s o f chief magi s t ra t e ; f or th e discriminating judg men t which charact er i se d hi s administration of the law, whereby he combined moderation with vigour, and uniformly tempered justice with mercy; for hi s fi rmn ess in maintaining the rights and privileges of all orders of the Corporation, and in preserving the franchises of the freemen and liverymen of the City; for his courteous attention to the members of this Court, and for his prompti tude in convening, a n d hi s impartiality in presiding over, all their meetings ; for the ready and cheerful as sistance he has at all times rendered to the various charitable and benevolent institutions which adorn this City ; for the manner in which h e upheld the character of the C o rp ora ti on for hospitality, graciously blending with the dignity and splendour of his official banqu e t s th e lib era lity and urbanity of social life ; for the indefatigable zeal and sound discretion which characterised his Lordship's conduct on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to open the New Ex change, whi c h o bt a i ne d f ro m his Sovereign a signal mark of her royal a pp rov al in conferring upon hi m a title of honour a bl e di s ti nc tion, which it is the earnest wish of his fellow-citizens that he may long live happily to enjoy."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. D. W. WHITE seconded the motion, which was, after some observations from other m em b ers , carried, amidst loud an d enthusiastic expressions of applause. The vote was ordered to be published in the usua I