The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

erb trti Ebttton \ THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bask 5t0ck..,.." ..... ex dlv. 205 ;Indian Stock .... 3 per Cent. Red 99 ;Ditto Bonds .......... ..... DI pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. l% per Cent. Red New 3q per Cent. lOl% Ix. Bills, 1,0001. I}id ... 7 3 Pm. New 5 per Cent. —. Ditto 5001. ......... ..... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 'l3 pm. Jan. 1860 l2 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 IIN Console for Act.... ...... :MS Jan, 1860..„..." - India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, S per Cent ..... -..... 104 Date, New Ditto... ........ — Brazilian Bonds ..... —........— Prussian, 5 per Cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent ..... — Chili:in, 6 per Cent ............ 102 (Ditto, Metallic ..... - ..... — Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 14% S panish , _ 5 per Cent 23% Ditto, 1824 ......... ........ . Ditto, 3 per Cent 34 % Cuba Bonds, 6 per C0nt...., 'Ditto, Deferred..„.......„ Deferred,..,...., Danish, 3 per Cent — (French, 5 per Cent. E. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per Cent —i Exchange ..„ ....... ..,.....r. .—c. Mexican, 5 per Cent .. 34% French, 3 per Cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837....... —ae Dutch, 2) per Cent 63 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent,. Ditto, 5 per Cent 98% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 102 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid Harwich, 1 paid l% Hull and Selby, 50 paid 62 Kendal and Windermere, 1% paid S IA London and Brighton (50 paid) London and York, 2% paid 3% Midland Counties (100 paid) .............. „,.,...... Birmingham and Derby, £lOO paid 75 Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 21 paid 46 South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) ..... ... 41 ' Yarmouth and Norwich (ld paid) Central of France, 2 naid ..... —...... Boulogne and Millen's, 2 paid .................. Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid SPIRIT of th• PUBLIC JOURNALS. TOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The case of Mr. David Salomons is likely to be the last of its kind. The spirit of the age is, happily, hostile to religious tests, as qualifi cations for secular offices. The manifest inconve nience of the practice, no less than the flagrant in justice of the principle they involve, requires that they be expunged from the statute-book. In the present instance, a worthy citizen, whose public and private virtues have obtained for him the respect and confidence of the public ; who has been selected b y th e c iti zens o f London for the office of Sheriff, which he served with honour to himself and advantage to the community, and who worthily fills the office of magistrate in two counties —was elected as alderman of one of the City wards. His election is pronounced void by the Court of Al dermen. Why ? lie is a Jew ! The law—which has been changed and modified, in order that profes sors of other religious sects may be admitted to office in corporations—sets a mark of degradation on a Jew, as such. A Jew may be virtuous, wise, wealthy, charitable ; esteemed by all for his private worth, and venerated for his public excellences ; the community may deem him worthy of trust, and his Sovereign may select him as a fit subject for honour ; but corporations will bar their doors, and refuse to admit him to office within their halls. Though the magistrates of two counties actually receive him as their equal, and concede to him the precedence in their sessions, those of the city of London will exclude him, as ineligible to be their associate, and stretch the law to prevent him from occupying a seat in their assemblies ! Such is the monstrous exhibition which the public is compelled to witness and deplore in the middle of the nineteenth century, but of which it will exert itself to prevent a repetition. It may not be either uninteresting or unavailing, if a brief retrospect be taken of the course by which the pre sent invidious and injurious state of the law has been arrived at. The injustice of the principle, and inconvenience of the practice, will be thus clearly ex posed. The declaration which Mr. Salomons was unable to subscribe, and for which inability he was ousted by the Court of Aldermen from the office of alderman, to which he had been elected, was in tended to protect the interests of the Established Church. 13y binding those who are not members of that Establishment under a declaration, made " upon the true faith of a Christian," not to use their influence, as members of municipal corpo rations, against its interests, a security, it was sup posed, had been obtained against the machinations of evil-minded Dissenters who, if members of cor porations, might plot its destruction. When the Cory Government of 1828 was compelled by the progress of liberal opinions, to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts, this declaration was imposed upon all. Thus, while professing to abolish all tests, it contrived to create a new test—lest repulsive, but not less invidious and insurmountable than the old. The practical operation of the new declaration was loudly and justly complained of at the time. Many persons, who had no objection to bind themselves against offering injury to the Established Church, had conscientious scruples about oaths. These regarded the declaration of 1828 as partaking of the nature of an oath ; they consequently objected to this form of de claration. To meet the case of such persons, the Le gislature, in 1837, passed an Act making a special exception in favour of three descriptions of persons, and professing to relieve them alone. It left all the rest in the same position in which they were placed by the Act of 1828. The sects relieved by the Act of 1837 are Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists. The Jews, and all persons not of these comprehended sects, but who have conscientious scruples respecting oaths, are still excluded. The words of the declaration, or test, of 1828, " on the true faith of a Christian," ex cluded the Jew ; it excluded also the Quakers, and others ; the latter objected to it, as partaking of the na ture of an oath, which it certainly does ; the Jew, who does not object to any oath, ho w e ver formal,was excluded by the substance, though not by the form, of the words. The new test, or declaration, substituted by the Act of 1837 for that of 1828, leaves out these words; but contains a declaration that the party making it is either a Quaker, a Moravian, or a Sepa rarist. This necessarily excludes all, whether Chris tian, or Jew, or Gentile, who belong not to these three excepted sects. STANDARD.—An Evening Contemporary has admitted an article upon the insolvent laws, the spirit of which may be easily apprehended from the following passage, with which it commences :—" An persons in the land (i. e. all the honest) are indignant at the laws which have been growing up of late years respecting insolvency, and which have reached the very top of vice and error in Lord Brougham's late Act." In this strain the writer proceeds through a full column of " money lenders' lament ;" but, though our Contemporary has thought the composi tion deserving of the distinction of leaded lines and large type, we must decline proceeding to examine its trite fallacies. According to the writer, money lenders are all suffering inno cents, debtors all knaves, a view very different from what we should collect from the doctrine of the Scriptures, and from the opinions of moral writers. The truth is, that the old debtors' law was so monstrously oppressive as to compel its mitigation. Sixty-four years ago, as Mr. Burke declared, at Bristol, its " savage operation " had reached those physical limits that it could not pass ; there were not in the kingdom gaols enough to hold the debtors whom the merciful cre ditor class would consign to' dungeons ; and hence some insolvent Act became necessary. During the 64 years of interval tlse insolvent laws have been gradually ameliorated, with the constant accompaniment of unparalleled improvement in the morals and in the commercial credit of the country. At length these laws have reached that point, that character, and character only is the foundation of credit. The man of substance, or of known probity, industry, and pru dence, can now certainly obtain credit as easily as when the debtor law was in most savage operation ; nay, more easily, for the money formerly staked in otherwise desperate credits, relying upon the security of the debtor's body, is now turned into that channel in which it can be lent upon the security of character. The moral importance of this change can hardly be overrated; but its effects are not as obvious as soon they must be. Many persons who gave credit upon the security of the creditor's flesh and bones, find themselves losers by the loss of that security, and complain, with some plausibility, that they are cheated. For example—the writer to whom we have alluded tells a story of a creditor, who, " after immense difficulty and expense," procured the arrest of a debtor who owed him 2001., the debtor obtained an interim order, and escaped to Antwerp. " Th e i mmense difficulty and expense," fixes the date of the debt at some period prior to the late insolvent Acts. Now this may be a hard case, though we confess that our impressions are not in favour of one who bestows immense expense upon the capture of a creature so very poor as to fly his country for 2001. Be this, however, as it may, such cases are not likely to recur in the present state of the law. Creditors will not inconsiderately trust men so dishonest or in such bad circumstances as to be likely to fly to Antwerp from debts of 2001. The present wrong must therefore be submitted to, for the sake of a far more extensive exercise of justice, and a far greater good. One knave has escaped to Antwerp ; thousands of honest and industrious, though unfortunate men, have been rescued from the cruelty of hard-hearted, or vindictive creditors. The Jew has lost " his pound of flesh," but the pecuniary value of character has been greatly enhanced—almost the greatest bles sing that can be conferred upon a nation. Consoled by thi s reflection, we turn to an other matter connected with the subject. Sixty- four years ago, as we have said, Mr. Burke indignantly declared that all the gaols of the kingdom were insufficient to contain the vic tims with whom relentless creditors would load them. And now we find our Contemporaries en gaged in a hot dispute as to the disposal of the oldest, and we believe the largest, debtors' prison in England, the Fleet, which has for more than a year been unoccupied, and is now " to let." This we must think a salutary and even a glorious clung; ; blit our immediate subject is the disposal of the prison. The Times takes up the proposition to convert the late prison into baths and laundries for the poor, tind iestows more than a column of highly animated rebuke upon those who hold the site and buildings are too valuable to be applied in specie to that object. At the risk, however, of incurring share of the censure of the Times, we must agree with those who think that the locality is not well adapted to the proposed object ; and, further, that even were the locality a more indifferent matter than it is, there would be a great want of true economy in converting the Fleet into baths and laundries. Every one knows that the value of ground varies greatly in this metropolis, and the value of ground, to say nothing of the building, is perhaps six or even tenfold greater in Farringdon-street, than in the less affluent districts, the very places where baths and laundries for the poor are most wanted. Supposing, then, that there was good ground for saying that the value of the Fleet is in an especial manner due to the poor, it is plain that the economical way in which to go to work is to sell the old prison, and from the proceeds provide baths and laundries for the poor in the several quarters in which they can be at once most cheaply and most usefully provided. Even if the neighbourhood of Fleet-ditch be desirable, a great deal of waste ground in the neighbourhood of that agreeable stream can be had within a few hundred yards northward of the prison, in the middle of a much poorer neighbourhood than that of Lower Farringdon-street. We are, however, probably wrong in treating the article of the Times as really relating to the question of disposing of the Fleet Prison ; we ought, perhaps, to consider this topic as " a peg" upon which our Contemporary would hang an invec tive against the indifference to the comforts and the claims of the poor, which it supposes to prevail ; if so, the topic is as ill chosen as most of the topics which the Times employs on the same or kindred subjects There is nothing disrespectful or indicative of a want of care for the poor, in saying that the site of the Fleet Prison is too valuable to be applied to the construction of baths and laundries. Some of the frontage on the river hank is said to let for a guinea and even two guineas the inch ; would not this frontage though admirably indeed adapted for baths and laundries, be much too valuable to devote to the object when, by retiring a hundred or two hundred yards from the river, a perfectly suitable site could be obtained for a tenth or twentieth of the money—would not (supposing a specific sum provided for baths and laundries) the selection of the river frontage be to rob the poor of nine-tenths or nineteen-twentieths, as the case may be, of the benefit designed for them. COMMERCIAL CHANGES NOW IN PROGRESS IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE. A plan has been some time in contemplation for effecting a junction between the river Elbe and the Baltic Sea, by the enlargement of the harbour, and by the construction of wet docks, on the best English principles, at Gluckstadt, a port situated a few miles up the lbe, in the deepest and most accessible part of that river, and by a railroad, nearly finished, from the new docks to the deep and capacious harbour of Kiel, in the south-western quarter of the Baltic. Kiel, one of the finest harbours in Europe, is the most commodious station in the Baltic, for steam -packets to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Stettin, Dantzic, and all parts of the Baltic, and to St. Petersburgh and all in tervening places. This new and efficient line of rail road will not only connect Gluckstadt with Kiel northward, but also with Altona eastward, above the dangerous and difficult shoals off the Schleepsand, Schulan, and Blankenese, which renders the naviga tion of the Elbe, above Gluckstadt, so tedious and expensive ; and, at the same time, being below the Hanoverian port of Stade, will save all the onerous dues levied on vessels and merchandise that pass the guard-ship placed there by the King of Hanover for collecting them. An English engineer of eminence has surveyed the locality, and made plans and esti mates for the enlargement and improvement of the harbour, and the construction of the wet docks, which are to be executed under the control of a company now forming in that part of Germany and in London ; half the capital to be rained in Holstein and half in England, with a joint board of governors in the two countries ; that in England to have a veto and a ge neral controlling power. To this co-operation the Government of Denmark have made several im portant and liberal concessions. By these means the long and circuitous voyage :round the Shawe and through the Cattegat, by way of the Sound to the northern shores of the Baltic, will be shortened nearly eighty degrees of latitude, and render the arrival of merchandise from England, France, Holland, Italy, and places southward by steam-ship to Gluckstadt, and by railroad from that part to either the Baltic, via Kiel, a distance of about forty English miles, or to Hamburgh and the Upper Elbe, by similar con veyance, via Altona, a distance of about thirty English miles, far more certain, and much shorter in time than by the present route. It will also avoid the slow and dangerous passage between Gluckstadt and Hamburgh, which often detains large sea-going ships many hours out, and in waiting for water to carry them over the bars between those cities. Be tween the months of November and January last, upwards of 160 vessels which sailed from Altona and Hamburgh, were detained, as is well known, for six weeks in the Elbe, by the prevailing and westerly winds that then prevailed, whereas had they loaded, and taken their departure from Gluckstadt, the same wind which brought them from Hamburgh to the Kraustsand, opposite Gluckstadt, would have taken them to the open sea. This im portant junction of the east and north seas will effect a junction between Great Britain, the greatest manufactory in the world, and those countries which border on the Baltic, and whose rivers empty them selves into that sea on the north, and into the Euxine on the south, the granary of Europe, and the most productive of timber, hemp, pitch, tallow, iron, and other materials used in ship building. It will thus open new sources for the reception of British manufactured goods, and new supplies of grain, cattle, and raw materials in return, entirely free from and out of the jurisdiction of the anti-Bri tish impost of the Prussian Zollverein (Customs Union) from which Denmark, Holstein, the Hanseatic repub lic of Hamburgh, Lubeck, and Bremen, the kingdom of Hanover, and the empire of Austria are at present free. The Government of Hanover, alive to the import ance of keeping free from the shackles of the Zoll verein, have also resolved to make a port in the Elbe, and the same English engineer has reported to them thereon, recommending one at Brunchauven, at the mouth of the Swinge, a tributary stream run ning through Stade into the Elbe, in preference to Haarburg, opposite to Hamburgh, for similar rea sons, as being below the before-mentioned shoals and in deep water. Also a railroad from that place through Stade, with a branch line to Faarburg, to the city of Hanover, where there is already a rail road just opened to Brunswich, which will shortly be connected by railroads with Magdeburg, Dresden, and Southern Germany, so as to make a railroad com munication between the Elbe and the Rhine, through the metropolis of Hanover. The consequences of these projects to the commerce of Great Britain is easier fore seen than detailed within the narrow limits of a newspaper announcement. Since the above became known, a company has been formed at Harwich and London, to run a steam-boat daily from Harwich to Gluckstadt, which can be accomplished in twenty one hours. It is called the European Steam-packet Company, and they propose building five iron steam-ships of five hundred tons burden, as a commencement of their operations. A public meeting of this Company was held last Saturday in the Town Hall, at Harwich, the mayor, R. Cob bold, in the chair. The hall was crowded to an overflow. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Bag shawe, the chairman, Mr. A. Bauer, of Hamburgh, the deputy-chairman, Mr. Crofts, and other Directors of the Company, Captain Deane, of Harwich, who for years commanded a vessel from Harwich to various parts of the North and Baltic Seas, and who confirmed the facilities of the plan, and by Mr. Elmes, the surveyor of the Port of London, and engineer to the Gluckstanck Harbour and Dock Company. A meeting of the London friends of this latter company was held yesterday at the London Coffee-house, which determined that, as they were thus supported by a projected as by exist ing steam-packet companies, and by the Government of Holstein, to complete the London arrangements forthwith. UN LONDON EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1844. THE , , AGRICULTURAL POVERTY. Having lately visited a part of the country on the borders of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and only a few miles from the Duke of Buckingham, I took some interest in observing the condition of the agricultural labourers in that neighbourhood. Had I not beheld those poor people, I could not have credited a true description of their state. Where the manu facture of straw plait is carried on, you will now see a great many of the grown-up lads, and even the men, engaged in it, in consequence of the want of employ on the farms. And yet that business is overdone; the men and the lads are, evidently, not at all wanted in it, but turn to the employment merely from having nothing else to do. Their next move is, into the union house. It is a difficult thing to depict, in a few words, the vppearances of the misery here exhibited. We may say " very, very poor," "excessively poor," and so forth, using any general terms you please, which, after all, can only express such depth of distress as might occur to any body from accidental circum stances, and in a short time. It needs minuteness of description, to those who have not beheld it, to repre sent the character of the poverty seen here, which ap proaches very near l y lowest depth of wretche dness it which you find in the most despotic States on the continent of Europe. The mud-matte huts or hovels are for pigs to live in, and the eiistente of such dwellings *for human beings i$ a disgrace td °Ur tornmtin toiititry..4ture especially to tnat part or It itherkisuch things are seen—and still more especially to those great torus of the soil who inhabit that part, and who make so many loud pretensions of solicitude for the people on the land. The raggedness and the filth of that people is surpassed, I should suppose, nowhere but in Ireland. But it was the lords of the land who brought Ireland to her present state ; and, therefore, why may we not expect them to produce the same here, if they are allowed ? There is a squalidness which looks almost like the plague—denotes the suf fering either of dreadful disease or long-continued famine. And this is in England I and in Bedford and Buckingham ! 1 two of the counties the most ex elusively possessed by those who call themselves " farmers' friends," and who demand " protection ! ! 1" In the counties to which I allude, and where the people are thus suffering, the land is nothing like fully cultivated, and it requires no more than for the people to be allowed to till it properly, to furnish them all with abundance of food.—October 12. (From a Correspondent of the Wiltshire Independent.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) WORSHIP -STREET. _ _ Samsel Edge, a tall, thin personage, and Charlotte Edge, his wife, were brought before the Magistrate by Sergeant Dubois, and charged with being part of the very numerous gang of swindlers who have de frauded tradespeople to an almost incredible extent in all parts of the metropolis and environs, and two parties, of whom seven or eight in numbhr are al ready in custody, at this Couri, upon many charges, The female prisoner was first charged with having been concerned with Henry Miller and Sarah Dewar, alias Miller, his reputed wife, in obtaining no less than seventeen very expensive bonnets, from Mr. Feats, a tradesman at Hammersmith. Miller and the woman Dewar, who passed as his wife, had hired one of a set of cottages in that neigh bourhood, called Peter's-cottages, for three years cer tain, but after a few weeks' occupation, during which they kept up a dashing appearance, and gave extensive orders to all the neighbouring tradespeople, they shut up the house and removed away clandestinely in the night-time, and afterwards sent the keys to the lodg ing by another of the gang named Smith, jun., who had the impudence to demand a sovereign for his trouble in delivering them, but was given into custody and the keys taken from him. The day before they so disappeared they obtained the seventeen bonnets from the shop of Mr. Peat, and upon their apprehen sion lately in Harvey-street, Holton, two of the bonnets were found in their possession, together with a variety of silk and other dresses, false fronts and ringlets, &c., in which the females of the gang were in the habit of disguising themselves in their preda tory visits to the different tradespeople whom they victimised. Mary Anne Gibbins, shopwoman to Mr. Peat, identified the female prisoner now at the bar as having enacted the part of servant to the others at Peter's cottages, and received the bonnets. The two prisoners were then charged with having been concerned with the others in defrauding Mr. Mussared, at Hammersmith, of boots and shoes. Miller and the male prisoner, whom he introduced as his nephew, first ordered boots and shoes for them selves, and when they were taken to the cottage fur ther orders were given for the females of the family, and a number of pairs of boots and shoes supplied, after which another order was given for some more, which were to be delivered by a particular day, but before the time arrived the whole party had dis appeared. Mr. BROUGHTON remanded the two prisoners for re-examination with the others. UNION-HALL. William BrockBopp, formerly in extensive business as a grocer and tea-dealer in High-street, Southwark, was brought before Mr. Traill on remand, charged by William l3rocksopp, jun., his son, with stealing a gold ring, a gold pin, and portfolio, his property. On Wednesday last, the accused was given into custody by his son on the above charge, when it ap peared that the articles above specified were taken out of a box belonging to the complainant, and left in the care of the accused, who had been for some length of time struggling against adversity with a large family. The complainant on examining the box, and finding the articles missing, questioned his father on the sub ject, and it appearing the latter had pledged them, and had objected to restore them, was given into cus tody by his son. Mr. TRAILL, who could not help expressing his surprise at a son bringing such a case before the pub lie, adjourned it over, merely making the accused enter into his own recognisance to appear this day, the magistrate and every other person in court, who heard the details, believing that an arrangement would take place betwe the parties, and that no more would be heard of the charge. In this expectation, however, a disappointment was experienced, for when the case was called on, the complainant immediately appeared, and, in answer to Mr. Traill, said that no arrangement had been en tered into respecting the charge. The accused then handed in a note, of which the following is a copy, that he received from his son since the last exami nation : " 13, Norfolk-place, Kent-road, Oct. 16. " Mr. Brocksopp,—lf you are willing to deliver me the articles I claim, viz., the two rings, gold pin, and portfolio, or give me the tickets and the money fur which they are pledged, I will drop any further prosecution. If they are not delivered up on these terms, you must take the consequences. If not settled by to-morrow by four o'clock, my solicitor has my instructions to make out the necessary brief.—l remain, Sir, yours most re spectfully, " WILLIAM BIIOCKSOPP. " To Mr. W. Brocksopp, sen." Mr. TRAILL said that he expected to have heard no more of the charge, when the complainant imme diately answered, that as the prisoner did not think proper to restore the jewellery articles, he should go on with the charge. He then proceeded to describe that the rings and pin belonged to him, and that the box from which they were taken was opened without his sanction by the prisoner. Mr. TRAILL said that, after all, the complainant could not produce evidence of the stealing of the ar ticles, the utmost being that of illegally pawning against the father. _ _ _ - The complainant said that he was still willing to forego the prosecution, if the accused restored him the articles. The accused (in strong terms) denounced the con duct of the complainant, for the harsh steps he had adopted towards him, and said that, even if he was adjudged to restore them, he had not the means of doing so. The complainant said that, if he did not proceed with the charge, the prisoner would not stop until he deprived him of all his property ; that his father, some time ago, was the cause of preventing him from ob taining 2,0001. The prisoner denied the assertion. Mr. TRAILL (to complainant)--Then, I suppose, you have adopted this proceeding against your father out of revenge ? The complainant, however, declared that such was not the case, and complained loudly of his father's general misconduct. The accused retorted. The magistrate stopped the recrimination between the parties ; and, after some further evidence respect ing the charge, adjudged the accused to restore the gold ring and pin to his son, saying at the same time that if he did not consent to do this, an order would be immediately issued to compel him. The accused declared that he was wholly unable to redeem the articles ; and he was then informed of the consequences if he neglected to obey the order made upon him. William Batty, the proprietor of Astley's Amphi theatre, was summoned at the instance of Birch, the informer, for suffering certain exciseable liquors to be sold on his premises without a licence for that purpose. Mr. Humphries, the solicitor on the part of the de fendant, contended that an information of that nature must be laid by an officer of excise or some person authorised by the Board, and not by a common in former. After some discussion upon the point, it, however, was over-ruled, and the case proceeded. Birch then called his witness, George Pratt, who stated that he was a watchmaker out of employ, and that, on Tuesday night last, he went to Astley s Am phitheatre. While in the theatre he went into the pit saloon, and was served by a female with a glass of gin-and-water, and some time after had a repetition of the " dose," when he observed a lady taking a glass of wine, and two gentlemen called for a glass of brandy-and-water, with which they were also served. He added that he was acquainted with the person of Mr. Batty, and saw that gentleman going into the private entrance of the theatre, when he (witness) was going into the pit. Mr. Humphries said it was incumbent on the in former to prove that the defendant was the owner of the theatre. Birch immediately drew forth a bill of the play, to prove the fact ; but this descripti on o f evidence not being considered sufficient by the magistrate to sus tain a conviction, Birch then said that he had no other means then of proving the fact; that everybody knew, since Ducrow's death, that Mr. Batty was the pro prietor. I thought, added Birch, that no objection of this description would be urged. Mr. TRAM. said it was most important to prove the ownership of the premises where the alleged in fringement of the Act took place. Birch then said that he procured the bill of the play to save the trouble of applying at the Lord Chamber lain's office; that in case the magistrate considered the allegation not proved, ho should obtain other evi dence. Mr. TRAILL—You must before I can convict. The summons was then ordered to stand over for PARLIA the above pnrpose, and on Mr. Humphries apply..-, for the costs, the magistrate, iri reply, said that he snow,. 14 be guided as to whether the informer should pay all the costA on the final deci s i on o f th e in ormat!e2: EXETER COURI aBANKRUPTCY. PURITY OF ELECTION IN CORNWALi4. IN RE ROBERT EVERY. The insolvent, a farmer of Callington (Cornwall), was opposed by Mr. Whiteford, of Plymouth, for a debt incurred by judgment against him, in an action for " malicious" trespass. lie had rented a farm called Castlewick, of Dr. Penny, and forcibly kept possession, on the expiration of the lease, against the new tenant, after his furniture had been removed. After a long examination he was remanded. A curious electioneering anecdote came out in the examination. Captain Poade, of Slades, son-in-law to the late Dr. Penny, was latterly insolvent's landlord. During the election for East Cornwall, insolvent said he met Mrs. Poade in the street at Callington. She asked who he was going to vote for ? " I don't know," said he. She said, "To be sure you vote for Lord Eliot." He said, "Why have you not done as Lord Eliot has ?" (His Lordship had recently re mitted part of his rents, and insolvent complained that his rent was too high.) She said, " This is no time for such a discussion as that." He answered, "You have used me:very ill. She took a blue ribbon from her reticule, and tied it to his button-hole. "There," she said, "go along and vote for Lord Eliot, and you shall have no cause to complain." "And so," said the insolvent to the court, "I did go and vote for Lord Eliot, and this is the way she has served me." PAPERS. - "ORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FingT "'"f; INTO THE STATE OF FOR "INV "T) POPULOUS DIS LARGE 'Grit' '$ Al.- We proce v ;d ri at so o u n t c h e w to oo g d u s et m e ith fr , o t m he TRICTS. 'teresting ' io 4 llo;ing :a li g id- O e 's ri ; : a ;' s ' illustrating the almost inconceivable condi tion of wretchedness which prevails among a numerous community in one of the largest suburban districts of London : " The evils which 'you described in 1838 as referable to these districts still continue, and with increasing viru lence P—At the present moment with increasing viru lence, certainly. " The districts referred to contain a vast population, not in ono part of London, alone, but in different parts of it, to which the same considerations apply ?—Th fever districts of the metropolis are situated in different parts of it ; and it is in accordance with ordinary ex- ' in some of these districts, perienee to find fever raging have found, on my i a m t m t the n v i e ty ry fr t o i m in e that t. I !l o f t% s e r fro enjoying a temporary a personal examination, some localities in which there was not a single house in which fever had not pl.vailed, and in some cases not a single room in a single hogse in which there had not been fever. I observed this parti cularly in certain localities in Bethnal-greon and chapel ; now, during the present year, there has been a very remarkable absence of fever in these its ordinary , seats, while in other districts it has been more than com monly prevalent. " Did you attribute that, in those districts, to bad drainage, or want of water, or some causes of that kind? —ln every district in which fever returns frequently, and prevails extensively, there is uniformly bad sewage, a bad supply of water, a bad supply of scavengers, and 1 1 a consequent accumulation of filth ; and I have observed this to be so uniformly and generally the case, that I have been accustomed to express the fact in this way. If you trace down the fever districts on a map, and then compare that map with the map of the Commissioners of Sewers, you will find that, wherever the Commissioners of Sewers have not been, there fever is prevalent ; and, on the contrary, wherever they have been, there fever is comparatively absent. " This statement is made in your report—' It appears that the streets, courts, alleys, and houses in which fever first breaks out, and in which it becomes most prevalent and fatal, are invariably those in the immediate neigh bourhood of uncovered sewers, stagnant ditches and ponds, gutters always full of putrefying matter, night men's yards, and privies, the soil of which lies openly , exposed, and is seldom or never removed. It is not pos sible for any language to convey an adequate conception of the poisonous condition in which large portions of both these districts always remain, winter and summer, in dry and in rainy seasons, from the masses of putrefy ing matter which are allowed to accumulate.' Does much of that to which you refer still remain in the same state? —lt is essentially the same. I have very recently been over the same places with a distinguished foreigner, who takes an interest in the welfare of the humblerjelasses, and who was desirous, his attention having been drawn to these reports, to test their accuracy by a personal in spection of the places described. Before we set out on our visit he could not conceal that he thought the de scription exaggerated. From the cleanliness, neatness, and apparent healthfulness of the main streets and thoroughfares in London, he could not bring himself to believe that there could be large districts containing hundreds of thousands of the people allowed, year after year, to remain in such a neglected and poisonous con dition. 'lt would be incredible,' said he, it would be unworthy of your state of civilisation, were such descrip tions true, even of a few isolated places; but when it is asserted that they are true of the localities in which a very large proportion of the population resides, I own I feel curious to see these places.' It so happens that the district over which I took this gentleman has been im proved in some respects since these reports were written. A common sewer has been made in the most densely crowded and filthiest locality; and the very worst place 1 ever saw, namely, Baker's Arms-alley, a narrow court in Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel, has been materially changed for the better, by the building of the Blackwell Railway directly through it. But these improvements relate only to a few of the larger thoroughfares ; the places most concealed from the public view, the most close, crowded, and filthy districts, remain wholly un altered. When my foreign friend saw these places, he admitted that the wretchedness of their condition had been understated—when ho expressed his astonishment that a concern for the common safety had not induced the authorities to attend to the sanatory condition of these extensive districts, I told him (but he thought the statement scarcely mended the matter) that these places were as unknown to our legislators, to almost all our people in power, as, an hour ago, they had been to himself. " Have you, from your experience in these matters, formed a strong opinion that fevers and other diseases to which the humbler classes in these populous districts are subject, might be, to a great extent, removed by cleansing, draining, and improvements in building ? Every day's experience convinces me that a very large proportion of these evils is capable of being removed ; that if proper attention were paid to sanatory measures the mortality of these districts would be most materially diminished, perhaps in some places one-third, and in other places even one-half. " Are you aware that the rate of mortality is actually found to be nearly double in some of the neglected dis tricts in the east, compared with what it is in the western part of London ?—I am ; and this interesting and im important fact is dependent on several circumstances, and not on any one cause. Thus a larger proportion of the people who reside in the western part of London con sist of the wealtkier, while the eastern part is prin-ii pally inhabited by the poorer classes. The higher ♦alue of life indicated in the western district is partly owing to the better food and clothing of the wealthier classes, to their more temperate habits, and less exhausting labour, and especially to the better care taken of their infants and children, and, in general, to the more favourable circumstances under which infancy and childhood, the most precarious and mortal epochs of human life, are placed. But still the poorer classes, in these neglected localities and dwellings, are exposed to causes of disease and death which are peculiar to them ; the operation of these peculiar causes is steady, unceasing, sure ; and the result is the same as if twenty or thirty thousand of these people were annually taken out of their wretched dwellings and put to death, the actual fact being that they are allowed to remain in them and die. I am now speaking of what silently, but surely, takes place every year in the metropolis alone, and do not include in this estimate the numbers that perish from these causes in the other great cities, and in the towns and villages of the kingdom. It has been stated that "the annual slaughter in England and Wales, from preventible causes, of typhus fever, which attacks persons in the vigour of life, is double the amount of what was suffered by the allied armies in the battle of Waterloo." This is no exaggerated statement ; this great battle against our people is every year fought and won ; and yet few take account of it, partly for the very reason that it takes place every year. however appalling the picture pre sented to the mind by this statement, it may be justly regarded as a literal expression of the truth. lam my self convinced, from what I constantly see of the ravages of this disease, that this mode of putting tha result does not give an exaggerated expression of it. Indeed the most appalling expression of it would be the mere cold statement of it in figures. " But great as th© mortality from these causes may be, do you think the mortality alone includes the whole of the evil?—Certainly not; the number of people who die can ho taken only as an indication of the much greater number who fall sick. The mortality, even of the London Fever Hospital, to which the worst cases of fever in the metropolis are sent, is not, on an average of ten years, more than one in seven; in some years it is not more than one in ten or twelve, and, comparing the number attacked with the number that die over the whole kingdom, the mortality would not, in ordinary years, amount to one in twelve ; so that the number of sufferers from this disease is at least twelve times greater than the number of persons that actually perish from it. " The classes of the population referred to are chiefly those occupied in labour; in case of their being affected by fever they are, of course, disabled from obtaining sub sistence for their families?—This is among one of the most powerful causes of pauperism. The returns made in the year 1838 to the Poor-law Commissioners from the twenty metropolitan unions, in answer to queries sent to the medical officers, with a view to ascertain the actual prevalence of fever during one year, contained in the several unions, as well as the number actually attacked with fever. From these returns it appears, that of the total number who received parochial relief in most of the districts, a very large proportion received it in con sequence of their being ill with fever; but in one district, namely, St. George's, Southwark, out of 1,467 persons who received parochial relief, 1,276, that is, the whole number with the exception of 191, are reported to have been ill with fever. This is an unusually large propor tion; but these returns in general place in a very striking point of view the pauperising influence of fever. " If this be the case, the power of the humble classes of getting their bread and maintaining their families is extremely diminished by the neglect of sewage, draining, and cleansing which exists in these localities?—There is a special reason why it must be so, the knowledge of which has been taught by large experience, though that knowledge has hitherto been confined to very few: but the fact itself is one which ought to be familiar to the mind of every man, and more especially to that of the legislator. There are certain diseases which prevail so remarkably at certain epochs of life, that you may assume that three-fourths of the persons who die at those epochs die of those diseases. Now it is established by indubitable evidence, that of all the acute diseases to which the human frame is subject, during that variable, but most important, period of human life which inter venes between puberty (when the dangers of infancy and childhood have been passed) and old age—of all the acute diseases which cut short this, the most precious part of the term of existence, and the only part of that term which it is in the power of human precaution and wisdom to extend indefinitely, fever is incomparably the most prevalent: so prevalent, indeed, that it may be said to be the disease of adolesence and manhood. I was first taught this fact while making some researches into the cause and results of fever, derived chiefly from the records of the Fever Hospital, and as long ago us the year 1830 I published a table exhibiting 01,3 evidence of it. I took out one by one the . ages of all p ersons who had died of fever in this hospital during the four years from 1825 to 1828, both inclusive, being [th e f our years immediately preceding the year in which I was making the investigation." We are able to state, from authority, that one day next week a marriage will take p ace between the Hon. Horace Cochrane, second son of the Earl of Dundonald, and Mrs. George Carnegie, widow of the late George James Carnegie, Esq., nephew to the late Earl of Nor theek—Court Journal. COPPER TANKS AT ST. HELENA. Some letters lately appeared in the Times, stating that the water supplied to the India ships touching at St. Helena contracted poisonous qualities, by being kept for a long time in tanks of copper. Some of the passen gers and crew of the Moffhtt, from Bombay, having been seized with severe symptoms, and of a suspicious - 4 0 , • the symptoms were attributed to the water This induced Messrs. Ma being poisoned as a.— :ofessio . nally attending son and Dawson, the doctors i; iry into the one of the parties, to institute an inj i -.7 matter, for which purpose Dr. Venables, a i: St. in cent-place, Islington, an eminent physician, well versed in animal chemistry and toxicology, was re quested to undertake and assist in the investigation. The report is so far satisfactory, inasmuch as it nega tives the presence of copper in any form, the analysis showing that the water did not afford even a trace. A specimen, taken from an iron tank in which it was kept on board the vessel, held a large proportion of peroxide or rust of iron in mechanical diffusion. The peroxide, it is observed, was evidently derived from the rusting of the tank, and diffused through the water when agitated or disturbed. Otherwise it was found tolerably pure and wholesome, free from any bad taste or smell, specific gravity 1.0025 slightly acidulated with carbonic acid, and probably holding a trace of iron in solution. Some very useful obser vatiGns upon the danger of using water kept in copper vessels follow. Thus it is stated :—Copper is not readily attacked by pure water, but under the joint influence of air and moisture it is corroded. By agi tation the crust becomes detached, and is diffused through the water. A fresh portion undergoes the same process, and by a succession of corrosimis, &c., the water may become strongly impregnated wio a poisonous form of copper, which, by the agitation of the water in the casks communicated by the motions of the ship, will be mechanically diffused, and persons drinking it almost to a certainty poisoned. During cooking, too, the insoluble oxide may be rendered so luble, and thus converted into a still more active and speedy poison. Hence the propriety of doing away with copper tanks if in use, and their replacement by others of a less deleterious nature, are strongly urged. The labours of Dr. Venables and his colleagues are a public benefit, and highly creditable to their zeal and philanthropy. THE OPENING OF THE NEW EXCHANGE. The preparations which the joint Gresham Com mittee are making for the reception of her Majesty Queen Victoria and her Illustrious Consort, on the opening of this magnificent edifice, on Monday, the 28th inst., are upon the most extensive scale. The Chairman of the Gresham Committee, Richard Lam bert J0n,15 , Esq., and a special sub-committee, have met every day during the week, in order to give the necessary direction: ;and, seconded as they have been by the energy and abi;:tY of Mr. Tite, all the arrange ments for the grand ceren2onial are in a great state of forwardness. in front of the At the west end of the fcrui:ding , portico, is a temporary coverirq , which is so con trived that if the weather prove favlaux: it 3ble can be removed on the morning or the day appoi.2 ted for the royal visit. Her Majesty will be received at this barrs'er) in front of the steps of the portico, by the Lord Mai " 1., the Court of Aldermen, and by Mr. R. L. Jones, the Chairman of the Gresham Committee, the Master of the Mercers' Company, and a certain number of the Court of the Mercers, thus representing the two cor porations, who are the joint trustees of Sir Thomas Gresham, the original founder of the Exchange. ller Majesty will be conducted quite round the merchants' area in procession, attended by the former gentlemen and the architect, who will explain the nature of the arrangements and decorations of this important part of the structure. The procession will then continue up stairs, through the grand staircase of Lloyd's to their magnificent apartments, to their library, which is to be fitted up temporarily as a throne-room. Her Majesty will here receive the address, and afterwards retire to the private apartments fitted up for her until the banquet is ready. As the new Exchange is fire proof, or rather as each separate establishment is distinct from its neigh bour, a door-way, in order to obtain a suite of rooms for her Majesty, has been cut through one of the party walls into the apartments to be hereafter oc cupied by the Corporation of the London Assurance. These rooms are in the front, towards Cornhill, and are now being arranged with the same simple ele gance which characterises the rooms built for her Majesty at the Farnborough station by the same architect. The number of visitors to the dejeune will be about 1,400, beyond which number it is found that accom modation cannot possibly be afforded. Of these about 700 will be seated in the Ambulatory, and the same number will be seated in Lloyd's apartments. Mr. Staples, of the Albion, as has been already stated, has the contract for the dejeune, which is to be on the most splendid and liberal scale. The plate will be supplied solely from the stores of the Corpo ration of London and of the Mercers' Company, and not, as haskeen incorrectly stated, partly from the Goldsmiths' Comrany. _ . In the Ambulatory and merchants' area every pro vision is being made to protect the company from draughts, or the encroachments of bad weather. The north and south entrances will he closely boarded up, and ample protection will be provided at the east and west ends. A very thick and brightly ornamented carpet will be laid on the parts of the area and build ing on which her Majesty will walk, and under the tables and seats for the company temporary flooring and drugget will be laid down, so that there will be complete security against damp. The seats will be confined to a double row, quite round the Ambula tory, which, from its ample dimensions and noble height, will admit of such a regulation, without at all being liable to be prejudiced as to the view of its architecture. The tesselated pavement in the open area is finished, but it is not intended to introduce the statue of her Majesty, as has been somewhere erroneously repre sented, until the marble figures now being carved by Mr. Lough, can be entirely completed. We are in formed, upon good authority, that that gentleman has finished the model, but it was never intended for the Gresham Committee to put up a mere plaster figure, when a few months will suffice to complete the sculp ture in a material worthy of its subject, and the grand position assigned to it. Her Majesty will arrive at Temple-bar at twelve o'clock. A speech will be delivered, according to custom, upon the visit of the Sovereign to the City, at St. Paul's, by a scholar of Christ's Hospital ; and it is believed, if her Majesty have time to hear it, another will be spoken at St. Paul's school by one of the youths on Dean Colet's foundation, of which place of education the Mercers' Company are trustees. The procession from Temple-bar to the Exchange will be led by a certain number of the Corporation, Aldermen and commoners, on horseback, in accord ance with ancient custom. It is supposed by the Committee that her Majesty will arrive at the Exchange at about one o'clock, and leave the building on her return to Windsor at three. Her Majesty will appear in state and in the state carriage, accompanied by her Ministers and suite. Most of the distinguished Members of both Houses of Parliament, and all the leading merchants and bankers, have been invited. As the day appointed for the ceremony approaches, the anxiety exhibited amongst the crowds who are constantly seen collected around the superb edifice becomes every hour more eager and urgent. The following is a description of the interior :—Passing through the grand portico, under a lofty archway, the visitor proceeds at once to the grand area, or mer chants' walk, which is surrounded by an arcade sup ported on massive pillars. The area is beautifully laid with a tesselated pavement, and the decorations of the arcade in a building of such a structure form the most novel and not the least attractive of its fea tures. These decorations are after the plans and drawings of Mr. Sang, and have been elaborated under his constant personal direction, on the system of wax painting which he introduced into this coun try three years ago, the colours not being mixed with oil, but with wax and some other ingredients, so as to give not only peculiar brilliancy of tint, but a hard ness and smoothness of surface, combined with dura bility, unequalled by any oil painting. The side walls and roof of the arcade surrounding the merchants area, divided into compartments, have afforded great scope for the exercise of this distin guished artist's taste and skill in arabesque painting. The side walls are divided into arched panels, by pilastres corresponding in character with those front ing the area, and the ornaments of the different compartments, arches, and panels are at once strictly classic, and in keeping with the architectural charac ter of the edifice. Each arched panel is surrounded by a quiet gillosh frieze, upon a Pompeian red ground, quite original in its details, embodying, amidst all its brilliancy, a great many neutral tints, which soften down the dazzling effect of the positive colours, and give a light and extremely pleasant aspect to the whole arcade. _ _ _ In the semicircles, the wall arches around the whole of the arcade, some very bold ornaments have been introduced upon dark, positive grounds, all different from each other in general design and the minutest details. These are surrounded by clusters of fruit and flowers, executed with almost incredible trans parency of colouring, upon a black ground, which produces at once a most striking and pleasing effect. Immediately under these wreaths of flowers and fruit there are candelabra, in the style of the Logii of Raphael. The middle panel is surrounded by scroll ornaments, and has a Roman tablet in the centre, enriched with arabesque, on which the different mer chants' walks will be inscribed. The designs of the candelabra and medallions intro duced in the different panels vary almost in every instance, while the mythological And comtnexcial emblems represented in the compartments of the rust and side-wall panels, give a character of the IS agreeable variety to the w h o le. The base of the 5 , 1 4 panels is painted in neutral tints, and is skirted in wainscot, which harmonizes well with the arniuteG tural arrangements of the arcade. The arms of the different nations are introeucedf into the principal covers of the roof; also the arms f the Right Hon. Willia m M agn ay, the Lord May or ° London, the Mercers' Company, the Building CO; mittee, Mr. Tite, th e arc hit ec t, and I‘.lr. Sang , t artist. ORLEANS, TOURS, kind BORDEAti% RAIL WAY. The engineer of the Chemins de Per has WI visited the works on the line between Orleansr, Tours, and gives an account of their progress. -1') line from Orleans to Tours is about 71/ miles 1°135 ( ; and has many bridges crossing roads. There area curves under 650 feet radius, and the gradients iuvc, extremely favourable. From these facts, We 113a1 safely say that the, working of the line will be el and secure ; and one trip through the country Wi lle d the line traverses will be sufficiently convincing it the productiveness of the enterprise. It is difficni to conceive why Bullot, Drouillard, Martin, snc l S ° 3 . : refused the terms offered by the Chambe rs, in , The bridge which crosses the Loire at Mount Lc'e is almost finished ; it is executed by M. LaYaUre, Nantes, on the plan of the Fonts et Chausseeks s , 31/ o f ti is elegant, solid, and enduring. The only works of importance which are still unexecuted, are the sta at Tours, and the bridge which crosses the high at the Faubourg Bannier at Orleans. It 'these on be ll proper to enter slightly upon the details of ll works. The earthNork in course of executi tile right of the Fauxbourg Bannier appear., t h ° , l o i n tended for the construction of a station . Iv e, rea d y reason to believe, however, that if it as not been deciaed to accept the use or the ari g r - it Orleans ternnous in common with that cornP3n); of Feni is at least under :serious consideration. The par' rg the railway near G:leans crosses the to be Barmier on embankments, and a bridge i 3 constructed to cross the Nthway fr o m Paris to ‘cied, leans, This bridge, which.B not yet coalme n b i e will be of such magnitude as to occasion consideratbe delay. After passing the Fauxbwirg Branie„dy line is bifureated ; one branch join.- th e °r t ;st station, and the other meets the Paris a nd O rle ,. c ity , nearly three-quarters of a mile from the latt e ` The body of workmen employed on he e arthW tho does not seem to be so well organised as to give best best result ; thus all the earth is removed 1 4 1 % 0 1a of tumbrels, each drawn by three horses, which c o w drag a tenfold weight with waggons moving onloo, porary rails. In conclusion, the works st i.i ip ptlf finished between Orleans and Tours are sn'Det—itioo advanced or unimportant to allow of the exP ec , 1 - 845, that the opening of the line may take place 311 Tho on the anniversary of the day of adjudication. oiti, greatest, and indeed almost the only serious diffic lies in procuring the requisite stock, but thisepts. probably be surmounted by proper arranget 0,01 As for the rails, by dividing them among to manufactories, they might be obtained in ti"; lit commence laying them in the beginning of 1 8 tbert is to be hoped, therefore, that the month of Ocv-i,• 1845, will witness the opening of the Bordealllgo —Railway Chronicle. NORTH DEVON RAILRO AD' via TIVERTON. fres ie" (Abridges from the Second Edition of the Timt'B.) Tiver ol An important n: feting of the gentry of seder and its neighbourhood, ii,!= well as the leadia,g iye rtoef men of the town, was held at the Guildhall, r Friday, October 18. te tb° q uisitioe The meeting was convened by pe Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gai.'il e f , la ' 4 .l i s e ci te .' ° j o t s consider the propriety of co-operating w:w d of Southmolton and Barnstaple for the p . ';:;`,ltil extending the railway from Tiverton to the o h off' Devon, via Southmolton, and for taking 511° 4i means as might be necessary for endeavor secure to the country between Tiverton en' 0 staple the advantages of railway communication•def, The meeting was most respectably a t e t/ d 3 ..- 1 ' Among the gentlemen present we obsery 1;00' Heathcoat, Esq., M.P., W. Hole, F. Hole, It t, ford, A. Brewin, Rev. Carew, of Collipli! 1/. Toms, J. Barne, F. 0. Patch, --Bendel ), geoP l i Tripp, J. Loosemoore, Carew, Jun., Esclr a ",i i n d Besley, Trix, Ellerton, Parkhouse, Pairre , an all the leading tradesmen of the town. 0 4 ' The Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gay len ' t he having taken the Chair, o Mr. lIRATHCOTE, 21. P., moved the adoptiev 01 01 1 following resolution :—" That it is the opinionte, meeting that in the event of a railway being el . D e from the Bristol and Exeter lire of ra ilway . 0 10, staple and the North of Devon, the most de sl .„ t ot line in mercantile, agricultural, and view, is by the way of Tiverton and Southinoltec...,,,el' that a memorial, expressing the opinion of this,',/ ing, be signed by the Mayor on its behalf, an d , t i o l i se j diately forwarded to the Directors of the Bils - Exeter Railway Company,"bey The memorial was subsequently signed oe general poaito of the meeting by W. H. Gamlen, Esq., Mar r '„dia Mr. F. 0. PATCH had great pleasure in se°° ; o4 the resolution and the memorial, which were c unanimously. A Committee was then appointed for the Partele of co-operating with the Committees at Ba r ,r,t, and Southmolton, in the furthering of this Obrawic.: Colonel HARDING moved, and Mr. Alderman ,b seconded, a vote of thanks to the Mayor, %lb''^ cordially carried. -1 01 The MAYOR, in acknowledging the con 3 P to said it was the most influential, as well Ito rous meeting, which he had been called or preside over. (11" Dispatches were received yesterday, at the - 0 , office, from the Governor of New South lire n le s. fri; ALARMING INTELLIGENCE.—MURDER.---tes or; day evening considerable alarm was created ill t ‘ rrea ; by a report that a inizn had been horribly 13211 r-e the neighbourhood of Whorlton. The discovello f° made by a party of boys wiio had wandered th at o olti,r, the purpose of gathering blackbt:', ries. There 1; 0 po no mistake about the matter—they actually s aw al eci r ,, and the gaberlunzie-like dress in whia; it w as ° "Here lay Duncaiz , A His silver skin laced with his golden bit.'er nt ittv And his gashed stabs looked like a breach , : 11 " For ruins wasteful entrance." ,dos 11 0 3 of It was a trying moment, and fully-bore out the Macbeth, that no person, at the same time,. 'doicil " wise, amazed, temperate, and furious." Th e y bil l e d ) left the scene of horror, and did not venture to anything of their dreadful secret, until safelf - coy' within their respective domiciles. Rumour thieoVO4 menced to do its work, and in a short time a o , 11 .4 coach, with a county officer and a town's polieeo3'erfolL accompanied by a guide, were on the road, t ° P t the offices of humanity and justice. The fatal seveli' reached, and one of the policemen, on touching t, 11 , (3 ,, 0 1 5 declared that it had been dead for a consideraa' A re" The discovery was soon made that the object wasTpe t man, and the result of the night's aiventure ha, OD source of considerable merriment. One repo: La T' d that it was " a man of staw," whose original mi f igbs: to frighten birds, but was never intended to 'id Pip man ; while another alleges it to have been P ar Or ° AI ° - I remains of a dead animal. It is impossibl yei eu determine, as the officers of justice are net fi munieative on the subject.—Newcastle Advertise • f the wife° STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, OCT. 18.—The de mand for Foreign Wools has been somewhat inani mate, this week, and sales not very extensive. Prices, however, are very firmly supported. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, OCT. 18.— The mauufacturers have bought very sparingly of wools this week ; but as there is not any general reduction in their consumption, their stocks of wool are decreasing ; and it is expected they will shortly be in the market again as purchasers. Prices in the country are very firm ; and higher than the rates at which the partial sales which have lately been made in their markets, have been effected. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCT. 18.—There is a dullness in this branch of business, and scarcely any sales passing, but from the continued absence of con sumers, dealers are lad to hope that shortly they must see them again in the market as buyers. LEEDS.—This week we have had two of the dullest markets which have been held during the autumn. This applies more particularly to heavy winter goods, the stocks of which are on the increase, but there is no alteration in prices. Rather more business has been done in finished goods than for the last week or two, by the home buyers, but the foreign houses are doing little. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is no im provement at our piece market to-day, and the com plaining of the manufacturers is greater than we ever remember, and the total stoppage and abridgment of the time of the working of the looms is con siderably on the increase, and without some decided alte ration fur the better, we fear the prospects for the winter will be discouraging. Yarns are not so ready of sale as a few months past, to meet which there is a growing disposition on the part of the spinners to stop machinery, for they complain loudly that they cannot realise prime cost. There is still a slow de mand for all kinds of combing wools, and the trans actions during the week are extremely limited, and last week's prices barely maintained. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY ETENING.—There has been an unprecedented demand for cloth this week, buyers to a large extent for India and China having been numerous ; shirtings, in consequence, are a little higher, whilst all sorts are firmer and buoyant. The advance in wages has now become general. It is hoped the demand will continue, so as to justify the advance. There never has been so complete a clearance in our twist market as at present ; still no very decided advance can be noted. The market may he called firm, with a strong upward tendency.— Leeds Mercury. THE RATAN AFFAIR. The investigation into the Ratan affair, by which Sam Rogers, the jeckey, and a Mr. Braham, his friend, living at Newmarket, are charged, with other professional betting men, of laying large sums against the horse to procure its defeat, has been entered into by the stewards of the Jockey Club at Newmarket. The inquiry has originated in a joint letter from Cap tain Rous and Lord George Bentinck to the stewards, and the examination commenced on Tuesday. The court consisted of the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Strad broke, Colonel Anson, the Duke of Beaufort, and Colonel Peel. The public press on the occasion were refused admission, an intimation being given that the stewards had employed a short-hand writer of their own from the office of Mr. Gurney, and they should hereafter publish what portions of the evidence they deemed expedient. Captain Roos opened the case, stating the facts simply as they had come to his knowledge.—Lord George Bentincic entered into the entire history of the case, drawing deductions, and showing the neces sity for inquiry. It is understood that Rogers, in the first instance, voluntarily went to Mr. Crockford, and stated that overtures had been made to him to lose the race, and that, impressed with a belief that if he did not appear to accede, the parties who held out the temptation would find some other means to attain their end ; he had agreed to lay 10,0001. to 2,0001. against the horse, and signed his name to this bet on the solicitations of a Mr. Braham, in the book of Mr. Ives, a gentleman well known in the betting circles, and that, subsequently, other bets had been made against the horse, on his account, by a gentleman named Crommelin, at and after the Chester Meet ing, to win a stake, if the horse lost, of 1,0001. — The inducement of Rogers to make this statement is not known. By some the confession of the circum stance is attributed to anonymous letters sent to Mr. Crockford, senior, which that gentleman sent to Rogers's father ; while others assert that he made the disclosures of fear of discovery, and to gain ' protection should his guilt be discovered. The statement was then communicated to Lord George Bentinck, who, on the 'Wednesday following, publicly called over Sam Rogers's betting-book at Epsom, Mr. Ives being present. Lord George Ben tinek required, if any bet were not mentioned it might be claimed, but neither Mr. Ives, or any other person answered. Sam Rogers solemnly declared his inten tions to have been pure, and that he never would re ceive or pay if the horse won or lost ; he at the same time made statements highly prejudicial to the bets made by Mr. Crommelin. Lord George Bentinck placed the fullest reliance on all these statements of Rogers, believing him to have been imprudent, but sincere and honest, and, under this persuasion, he permitted him to continue to ride for himself and the Duke of Richmond. His confidence in him was the firmer because, on oath before a Select Committee of the House of Lords, he denied that he had or was to receive any portion of the bets he had laid. Sub sequently Lord George Bentincic discovered that Rogers had departed from truth in many material points, and more especially that h e h a d ac t ua lly re ceived 1,660/., a fact disclosed by Braham, who ab sconded. Braham's story of the transaction was also quite at variance with Rogers's, arid he owned that he himself had solicited Ives and Crommelin, through Stebbins, to execute the commission, assuring them that, however good the horse might be, he was in capable of winning the Derby • and further, that in stead of 10,0001. to 2,0001., ;he actual bet laid by Rogers, through him, to Mr. Ives was 5,000/. to 1,0001. With Ives the negotiation was made in Febru ary, with Mr. Crommelin not till the Chester Meeting. Messrs. Ives and Crommelin, in explaining on their part, said they had betted only on the firm belief they had in Rogers when he represented that the horse could not win, and they were both desirous of a full ex planation, so as to refute the calumnies against them. On the first day Sam Rogers and Braham were exa mined ; and on Wednesday, Rogers was again called in, and followed by Mr. Crockford. Foster, a shoe maker, a friend of Braham, was next examined, after which Mr. Ives was called in, and entered into the most unreserved account of his portion of the transac tion. Some warm altercation ensued between Lord George Bentinck and Mr. Ives, and at last the court was cleared. On Thursday morning, Rogers, Bra ham, and Foster, as well as Mr. Ives, were recalled. At the evening sitting, Mr. Crommelin was called in, and entered into an account of his conduct from first to last, refuting what had been said in his disfavour. This led to the /veal of Rogers, who said and unsaid, and equi vocated so palpably, that he was ordered to withdraw, and the impression in favour of Mr. Crommelin was general and conclusive. His defence, and the re examination of Rogers and Braham, lasted from five till eight o'clock. On Friday Mr. Ives was again called in, and Mr. Hill and Mr. Sadler were likewise examined. 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