The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-01 00:00:00

EMBANKMEcNT :OF-THE I'll-ME& possession. or their present accommodations on the river shore; and, idly, To provide increased facilities of communication between the east and west end of the town by a pablic road constructed in the iver. The details of a plan professing to be founled upon these principles must, it is obvious, be far more ex tensive and complicated in their character t' an those of any plan based upon au alternatiotrof olict em bankments and recesses only. A river wall inter posed between the navigable channel and the shore must have openings to aftbrd facilities of intercourse between the two. The position of•-these openings would form one subject for inquiry ; their width an other ; the facilities of .access at different states of the tide another. These openings, could, of course, be passable only by bridges ; and those bridges, in ac cordance with one of the leading principles of Mr Page's plan,. should be of sufficient width and height to admit of the accustomed traffic of any locality at any state of the tide. On the other hand, Mr. Page's terrace was to pass under the respective,bridges which connect the Middlesex and Surrey,, shores of the river ; and hence it would appear impossible to satisfy one of those conditions without conflicting, in some .measure, with the other. Another point, the importance of which was not to be overlooked, was the convertibility of these side chan nels into docks or floating basins. The treatment of this question involved the discussion of locks, their position, their capabilities, qeir size, and their probable cost ; the relative advantages of tidal docks and floating basins, in reference to the trade and the navigable interest of the river ; the su pervision necessary to the regulation of either : their respective tendencies to silt, and the facilities for cleansing and keeping them free from mud, furnished further subject for inquiry, and the Commissioners are compelled to add for much conflicting opinion. After adverting to these points they come to the most important—the difficulty of entrance to the side channels from the river. Toe number, position. and dimensions of these, they say, might be modified at almost any period previously to the commencement of the works, and we confined ourselves, therefore, to points less susceptible of modification. Mr. Hay, a lighterman, observes, " I think Mr. Page's plan is the best I have seen, and if a project of that kind is to be executed, I have never seen any equal to it ; hut, if the river is narrowed, the tide will go up with greater velocity. We have great difficulty now in brinaing up our craft. Now we can bring up to the wharfs, and bring up in a recess, and get out of the way; but I doubt whether we can ever bring up at all when the tide is running so hard as it would. Still Mr. Page's plan is a very excellent one ; I have seen no thing equal to it, if these difficulties of getting in at the openings can be done away with.' On being further questioned whether his objections would equally , apply to open entrances, he replied, "If there is a plan intended to be carried into effect on the river, there cannot be a better; but I fear when we come to the openings the tide will carry us by." Mr. Lucey, also a lighterman, apprehended no difficulty whatever ; referring to the entrances of the London and St. Katherine's Docks, he depended upon the eddy to assist him, and gave his reasons for that dependence. Mr. Taylor thought there would be be no difficulty, "unless the . speed of the tide were very much increased. In the flow of the tide it would then require some very experienced bargeman to bring up, and ring-bolts or piles must be resorted to for the purpose." Assuming an increase of IS per cent. upon a velocity of three miles an hour, he anticipated no difficulty whatever. Mr. Harvey had conversed with an intelligent lighterman, and inferred from the same causes, that admission would be more difficult. Mr. Pocock adverted to the increase of existing difficulties, since the removal of Old Lon don-bridge, and was also of that opinion, attaching little importance to the drift or eddy anticipated by Mr. Lucey; and Mr. Peache, referring to the fact that a great portion of the craft were worked by only one man, considered that there would be diffi culty, in such cases, in getting in without further as sistance. The . first.RepOrt of the- Comuussionera -appointed. to inquire into the most effectual means' of improving the Metropolis, has just been laid before Parliament. it is a very lengthy dOcuinenta , The principal part of the Report refers to the TKunes embankment, of which the following is an outline. Thetommissioners say " We have been 'induced to resent a detailed.re view of the very voluminous evidence ..and the great , mass of professional, opinion which we have collected with reference to an embankment of the Thames, by , the conviction that we could not, by, any more sum mary exposition of it, have done justice to the im portance 'of the subject itself—to the various and k tensive interests connected With it—to the- high clia racter and station of the eminent professional gontle tlemen from whom we have derived so much valuable. information (most .readily and unreservedly afforded), and also to the authors of the several plans which we have considered in comparison ,with each other. We have observed with great satisfaction the al most unanimous .concurrence in opinion, upon all the main topics to which our inquiries were directed, among. the. seientific and practical gentlemen thus consulted ; and• it was with' a corresponding confi dence that we finally came to the following resolu- tions I. That it appears to the Pominission that the pre sent state of the river Thames 'nbovt? London-bridge is such as to render highly expedient the adoption of some proceedings for xcinedying the exi3ting defects, and for preventing the lurther deterioration of the navigation. f 2 . That, for securing these important objects, an embankment of the river would be the most effective measure. 3. That, though a general embankment between Vauxhall" end LondOn-bridgerappears to be highly expedient, yet that it is most urgently required on that portion of the Middlesex, or left bank of the river, which lies between Westminster and Black friars-bridges. 4. That such an embankment might be advanta geously. combined with the formation of a cars4age and foot line of communication between Scotland }•ard and Blackfriars-bridge, whereby the great nb jects of public recreation and health :would be pro moted,-and considerable relief be given to the existing insufficient Aborouvhfares between the eastern and western districts of the metropolis. 5. That the adoption of the general principles of embankment presented in the plan of Mr. Page; or plan B (with certain modifications which have been suggested, and others which may be suggested here after), there is reason to expect that the great public benefit of the improvement of the river, and the ob taining a new line of communication, may be ac quired without detriment to the trade now 'conducted, on the.Mkldlesex shore. 6. That the Commission, being disposed on these grounds to recommend the adoption of this great me tropolitan improvement, will proceed forthwith to ascertain as nearly as it can be done the probable ex pense of carrying it into execution ; and also to in quire in what manner the funds required for the pur pose may best be provided, so as to press with the least possible weight and inconvenience on the in habitants of the metropolis and its environs. In pursuance of these resolutions , it became nece.s sary for us to place ourselves in immediate comninni cation with Mr. Page, and to direct his attention to with modifications of his plan as had occurred to us in the _course - of this inquiry. These modifications, however, necessarily involved many deviations from the estimate already before us, and we directed, there fOre, that further and detailed estimates might be pre pared and submitted for our consideration. The nature of these modifications will be beat explained by reference to the appendix. They involve, as will be seen; in Principle,' no departure from Mr. Page's original plan. . The estimate based upon the plan originally pro posed comprised an embankment and roadway between Blackfriars and Westminster-bridges, on the northern shore-of the river, 40 feet in width, and varyinn. from 3 feet 6 inches to 10 feet above Trinity high-water mark, with carriage -road, footpath, balustrades, &c., from MiddluScotland-yard to Blackfriars-bridge. The whole outlay upon this portion of Mr. £ Page's plan would have amounted to 192,728 Add for ga4-fittings, lamp-posts, irons, &c. 2,450 Looking to this question as one having rather a practical than scientific bearing, the opinions of the engineers consulted were, perhaps, not unexpectedly discordant: Mr. Hartley and Mr. Cubitt, , disapprov ing of the particular entrances shown in plan B, were nevertheless of opinion' that there would be no diffi culty in designing entrances such as should afford entire protection against strong currents and high winds.; the first, however, saw no necessity for locks, 'thee second , adinitted locks in deep recesses. Mr. Gordon also was of opinion that there would be no difficult", thought the gates in the plan " judiciously laced; and recommdnded the addition of others. Mr. Rennie observing that " all the entrances to the various docks at present on the river are occasionally affected by currents and high winds," assumed that " a careful observation of the prevailing winds would determine their _position." Mr. Giles, that " they would.be affected by the same causes, but that these would not impose g'reater difficulties than exist at the entrances of various docks on the river, and which might, by 'the means resorted to in these cases, be overcome.' On the other hand, Mr. Macneil was of opinion, that "these entrances would impose difficulties and obstructions such as do not now exist at the en trances to the various docks or wharfs on the river ;" and Mr. Rennie, " that they would be difficult, if not dangerous, except for an hour•and-a-half, at most, before and after high and low water," The experience of Captain Maughan may, here, be again of service in elucidating a practical question. To questions whether theentrances should be at right angles with the stream, he replies, " As regards facility of entrance, I think that is of very little im portance. The craft will have to stop outside first of all, and if there is no tide, which I apprehend there will not be, close to the embankment wall, they will go in as they like • I do not think the stream will run rapidly close to the terrace, so as to prevent the easy ingress of barges." He apprehended no difficulty in getting in, no pressure of the tide upon the vessels at the entrances. In his letter he observes, " The diffi culties which have been raised about entrances at right angles I confess I cannot understand ; they ap pear to me very much exaggerated. With a floating platform or dumb-lighter, and piles driven down at proper distances to check the barges, any lighterman could pass in his craft, even should• the stream run up rapidly outside, but which I very much doubt its doing, as stated in any evidence. 195,178 Add for contingencies, 10 per cent 19,517 214,695 The futther estimate which Mr. Page was directed to prepare and lay before us, was to comprise an em bankment and terrace 20 feet in width, from West minster-bridge to Whitehall-place, and 50 feet in width for - the remainder of the distance, varying in height - frotri.3 feet 6 inches to 10 feet above - Trinity datum.; and to show the relative expense of construct ing these.—lst. With brick walls faced with granite; and, 2d, With brick walls and granite dressings only. The following was the result:— For an embankment and terrace 50 feet in width, and varyiac , from 3 feet G inches to 10 feet in height, having brick walls and a facing of granite £366,409 For a like' embankment and terrace, having brick-walla, with granite dressings only As- the made of connecting the general line of the proposed' - embankment with the frontage of the pre mises now occupied by the residents in Privy-gardens, and alsowiththat of the Temple-gardens, may be subject to modifications of various kinds, with a. view to meet the convenience of the respective parties,' the foregoing estimate maybe affected by the ultimate de termination respecting these portions of the work, probably so as to diminish the cost of it the public. We have adverted to the manner 'in which the funds required for the improvement in the City 'of London, connected, more or less; with the: approaches to Lbadon-bridge, and also the.great-alterations more recently sanctioned by Parliament, and now in pro gress, have been provided ; and although it may not appear strictly a part of our duty to accompany our recommendations of iamb further improvements as may appear to us to be the most 'desirable by sugges tions of pecuniary resources for defraying the cost of them, we trust that we shall not he considered as transgreasing the limits of our commission if we sub mitto your Majesty our views of the meats which appear to us the most readily available, and with the smallest degree' of pressure and inconvenience to the inhabitants of the metropolis and its vicinity, for the iinmediato object of our present report, and also for INC ENDIAHISM.-01.1 ThHisday nightobout a rivar ter-past ten, a wheat rick, the property of Mr. John Harris , some of those further improvements which it will be at Abbey Farm,•Little Marlow, was discovered. to be on fire. our duty hereafter to submit for the approval of your An alarm was immediately given, and the engine from Mar- IVaj'est v and of Parliament. . low was shortly in attendance, but notwithstanding the rick was A . Ve Law stated that the coal duties of Bd. per ton consumed: It contained about seven loads. llv the f e:ex e io a n of the neighbours of Mr. Harris, further damage in the port of London are now charged until year ; a o p n p u re l e r n ie d k e s a w3 a s , prevent e d. The constable of Little 1864 5 •withtthe improvements already made or in pro- Marlow ' e s lolbrook the sow evening. gross. 1.1.5 r wl.ole" rate of duty upon this article, as The prisoner underwent . a n i. examination on Friday before the noiv collected, 6 13d. per ton ; viz. , 8d charged and • ' as . magistrates, , was committed for trial. _ before trientionek 4d. received by the Corporation in On Saturday the following noti ces cf r oloberi Gazette es lieti.Ol. certain ancient rights and interests, sand id. were•cireulated and inserted in• the Polk e az ette :—At the also-collected - by them for compensation to be paid to pit entrance of Drury-lane theatre, the Rev.. H. A. Holder of iver-street, of 151. in Si. Bank-notes, endorsed with th e Gower-street, individualls,"and other expenses' incidental to the coal " Evans." Mr. Edw in-Thomas,of . Globe-fields, M tuile arl:e!,".o6 the cccaision of regulation the new of the . name end, of his watch, the pit of the Pavilion Th ea t re . coal trade under the Act of 1831. . Mr. Wilson, Portugal Hotel, Fleet-street, of a gold ova l his- estimated that the• charges upon the last-men- brooch, a p in and a g old -signet ring at the Victoria tioned duty' of Id. per ton will be extinguished in Theatre. Mr. Brown, of Narrow-street, Limehouse, of hi s watch (maker's name " Oliver, Falmouth,") at the Garrick about 'three years from the present time. - Theatre. Information was also given that Mr. Thoma s Such being the existing state of these duties, it is Bayne,-of;13, T W ower-street, estminster-road, w a s robbed • our opin ion that-it may be advisable to augment the at a public-house in Holle.s-street, Soho, of a tin case, six total rate of the tax collected from 13a. to ISd. per 50/. hank-notes (Nos. 93,768, and following numbers to i ton; making the duration of the whole cOntempora n 9,7 0 1d 73), a 10/. bank-note, and a moleskin bag containing 27/. . • rrealld with that of the duty-of Bd. per -tint - s-rabow - * 3 g REVIVAL OT THE CEN"LIIAL ' RAILIVAT.--We Thellii o''' . ng, of sour-.e, ned—elicsour-.e, the duty of 4d. per hu tch belonginlX to the city of London,. which is - dtecat a n t t i l la t i l l i t at a , n si u n i ce he tl r ie o f aiV i a t ioi t i . o l f the rival i lines of railway me n t l i - n •a u v e e i t : l :i le a itli line 1 ( !!'"nanoPt• By these means there Would be at the contemplation to number a " cO n nirmi g ;, n t t o . di sal of Parliament for metropolitan improvements . that may be selected by Parliament to Chatham through the and more immediately for that which is the subject of central parts, of the county of Kent, as 11w as Dover. We our present' consideration, the prod cof duty of doubt not- that this scheme will meet with the cordial support 3d. per ton until. the duty of 11 - n t e a 't d of Sittingbourne, Faversham, Canterbury, the Isle of Thank, to the coal market, is set free, a nr of oo dd appro it aria f e and other placel t r i l t iie l ha t ve at li presei l it no direct communi, pitted in the remainder of the term. It is estimated reoil the r c<ation..hr.irait:‘ e• l sel;emea of rail asst o l . riA ve is no ee t n n n that the elaas i „, _ _ r, annual?amoutit'vtauld be, in the former ease, 5.1,875/. neral support would be given such a railway, as it w ould and in the latter, 65,851 L • - :- be by far the shortest and most direct line to the Continent. . . -We 'are :ti m o rous, that your Majesty should be —Cunteiburg j"rnal. On Saturday a Commission.of Lunacy was opened assured that we . . shaiald ' not lightly recommendev e n before 31r. Commissioner Barlow, at Ilie.King's Head, Eiiani, this comparatively inconsiderable augmentation of to try the state of mind of Mr. A. M I Woolliouse,• formerly loCal tii7x:vtinn nor without a careful consideration tile interests of that great community on whichm'of holding , a commission in her Ma l l i es r tsfic3_th Regiment, but this f u r some ti th e past an inmate of ta' . J ohn . Chapin 'an s lunatic additierialleMPemry . burden would be imposed. We asylinn, near Egliant The' commiss i on was supported by . - should not, ireheed , venture to offer this suggestion Mr. Collins, of the Chancery bar. ,No opposition was offered, except under the -strongest conviction that benefits and . it was clearly established that Mr. Woollionse was, much more than equivalent to the sacri fi ces thus pro- l t ‘ u h r t;l e l z r . incapable a T ble of managing his own a ff airs. Thejury.re- , 1 • 1 . 8 1 v. t he insanity had commenced from posed Would result from the _ adoption of the plans the let of verdict igusZ now submitted for your Majesty's approval. The he. AFFLICTINO AND FAI AL k ENT —One of the bourn of successive Committees of•the House of Com- most af fl icting accidents which ' we C C . I h D . I ad . t he sad mons - Who'have pursued elaborate inquiries, and have 1 opportunity of recording occurred oi n i v SV n e v d e n r es i da i n tile expressed-,decided opinions on the subject, have spared neighbourhood -of this tow n, and ' has east a y, oom, lig . the necessity of setting forth in detail - the grounds n of ot ti o l i i i s ly over the extensive circle in which the g vietim upon which we consider that an addition to e t a co a l lustre of ageamllionft amiable. of moved, and spread the virtues, h but among every dutieSlS:(witlain certain limits) the most equitable 1 class society, rich and 100 and the.. least burdensome mode of providing for im- 1 ttine - to be acquainted . whim P tnhO' 'a w_ ii Va . had the good for d irable traits of her ' provernents •of this description ; and we therefore i highly exalted character. edeceased 'The was x ', ' cannot hesitate to recommend it as the best resource `John Tuthill, Esq., of lapis, the mother vi.c of .., of a numerous for_the accomplishment of a measure having for its and-interestine , family, and sister of Mr. Justice Jackson. object to : s ecure to the , metropolis the advantages .of She breakfasted as usual- on Wednesday morning with an - improved and better regu lated navigation .c4 * .a .1 the family party, Mr. Tuthill and her five sons— an d proceeded up stairs soon afterwards, to a room in the f., , rtait portion Of the noble river which flowa:through I utmost sl it, -in which she was about ordering some it, and calculated at - the -'same time to contribute ; eyairs.. °thing more is known -of her until her Itreely to the convenience, the recreation, and the r . tireless i corpse was discovered, in about half an , 110244 pi, iti inhabitants. ' - • I n the area bruised—her hair disheve lled, the . The principles of Mr. Page's plan are distinct in back part of .her head broki - n in by the and shock character 'from those of Mr. Walker, and in some re- sustained in contact with the ground. lt would it stiecti;Oppaseoo them. - It proposes- an embaufkment appear that she fell from the window of the room With tiorg (iJ4aO.IO.A,AIe embankm ent of itself forming to whic h she had g one, into the a rea , a hei g h t o f about koontianotis pub l ic terrace. Assuming ev'erabstraC- '6O feet—and that death was instantaneous. .No one tion Of. - tidal: water from a navigable • river to be inju- • witnessed the accident. No one can conjecture hoW rious to the navigation -below the locality of the em- . t it occurred, except that the lamented lady over-reached, - bankinent; by depriving a portion of the river of its and losing her balance; was precipitated below. Mr. Tuthill was the first to discover the lifeless body in the sefiur, - Mr Page prOposes — lst, To avoid encroaching' area; and it is needless to remark that the poignant upon the Capacity of t he river for the rece p tion of its sensation which he endured can be more easily ima tidal waters, and to make the prevention of encroach- • gined than described. An inquest was held on the re 'od - as far aspractica ble , ratt!titkcat any future pori , fadin g .. f e ature ; 2dly . , To leave to the wharfingers. and a verdict according to the circumstance. was returned. aid - ottfell ingested in . the n trade of the 19oniity th e ' —Tipperary Vindicator. • - •- -- '" - • a .., ... _ . ...,._ .- . THE Str - N, h-ONDON, NUONDAY_VE-NING, APRIL 1-1, 1844. THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THE , : MINI', AND THE- LIGHT SOVEREIGNS. - On Friday the Governor and the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England waited upon the Lord Mayor, in consequence of, the statement of Mr. Hill, an officer of the Mint, under the head of Mansion-house, relative to the issue .of light sovereigns. His. Lordship received the gentlemen iu the public justice-room, as it was their wish that the public should be correctly informed of the answer to what appeared in ,the form of a complaint against the Bank. Mr. Cotton, the Governor of the Bank, stated that he appeared in consequence of a communication which had been made to him by Mr. Charles Freshfield, the sub stance of which appeared in the public prints of that day, that Mr. llill, the weigher and teller of the Mint, com plained to Sir Peter Laurie that the Bank were using glass weights instead of the weights which were stamped by the Mint. Considering the great importance of the subject, he thought it right •to attend in person, to explain the facts of the • case, and if 'he had been • aware of the intention of Mr. Hill to make the application on Thursday, he would either have been present himself, or sent some person to explain why the Bank used weights made of grass. The facts were these :—When the proclamation came out in the year 184-2 the Bank had a large amount of sovereigns which they had received from the public, each sovereign having been weighed by Mint weights; some of these sovereigns were, when issued, brought back to the Bank, and stated to be light. That repre sentation was found to he correct, and in consequence of that fact every sovereign in the Bank and its branches was -re-weighed, and' upwards of 300,000 sovereigns, which had been received as full weight, were found de ficient, and were sold for re-coinage, by which the Bank incurred considerable loss. That fact led to the exami nation of the Mint weights. and it was found that the weights which had been used were about four one-. hundreds or one twenty-fifth part of a grain below the legal current weight. That was admitted by the Mint, and corrected in a proclamation having reference to the issue of new Mint weights. Since that period the Mint weights had been much improved, but there was still found so much difference between them that a sovereign which had been received as current by one of the lightest weights would afterwards be rejected when weighed again at one of the heaviest weights of the Mint, and some of the new Mint weights still differed one-fiftieth of a grain from the true current eight. In • order that the weights used at the Bank might be as ac curate as possible, glass weights were made, which were less subject to wear and corrosion from the atmosphere than the brass weights in common use, and he (the Go vernor of the Bank) felt confident that those glass weights did not differ from. the accurate weight the one thousandth part oca grain. He assured the Lord Mayor that the - only-tinxiety felt by the Bank -was, that the weights should be as correct as it was possible to make them, and, in addition, he thought it necessary to state, that every sovereign now received underwent a second weighing, and every sovereign received by the Bank as of correct weight, if found to be deficient was Cut and. melted, and the loss was sustained ,by- the Bank. He had sent to intimate to Mr. Hill that he should attend at the Mansion-house for the purpose of giving the necessary explanation, and had received a communication from that gentleman to the effect that engagement in business at the Mint would prevent his attendance before the Lord Mayor. He regretted Mr. Hill's absence, but he should be prepared to justify, upon all, occasions, the course the Bank had taken to obtain correct weights. He was quite aware that, in the event of any dispute, the -question must be determined by an accurate Mint weight, and - the Bank did not wish to shrink from' any responsibility. The LORD MAYOR said he had no doubt that the public would have, next day, before them a correct state ment of the important matter - communicated by the Governor of the i3ank of England, and expressed his surprisq.that Mr. Hill should have appeared to make a complaint against the establishment, without having given formal notice Of his intention, in order, that it might have been officially met. MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. On Saturday evening the neighbourhood of St. Marylebone, was thrown into a state of great excite ment by the perpetration of a most dreadful murder, committed by a man named Wm. Crouch upon the person of Frances Crouch, his wife, and thi subse quent attempted suicide of the murderer. The scene of the horrible occurrence is Little Marylebone street, leading out of Great Marylebone-street, near High-street. The murdered woman, who is about 26 or 27 years of age, had been married to her wretched husband, who is about 25 years of age, in the month of July, 1842, and had a child, \now about nine months old. Since their marriage Crouch has led rather an idle life, acting as a horse-keeper occasionally, but never being in constant employ, while his wife was a most prudent and industrious woman, main taining him for a part of the time by her labour, and the assistance she received from her Mother, who is living, in the situation of a lady's maid, in the neigh boarhood. of Wilton-place. For some time they were living together at No. 7, Little Chesterfield - street, but his conduct towards his wife was very bad, and her mother declined any longer to assist her un less she - consented to part from her husband, which step she adoped about a fortnight since, when the lodging in Little Chesterfield-street was given up, the landlord relinquishing I/. rent which was due. Mrs. Crouch from that time slept at the house of a person named Ilembury, Corn-dealer, 22, Great Marylebone street, to whom she was well known, and during the daytime left her infant in the care of a female named Line, the wife of a journeyman tailor, living at the house of Mr. Davis, circulating library, No. 4, Little Marylebone-street, at which house the murder was committed. Crouch still remained at No. 7, Little- Chesterfield-street, in the room of another lodger, where his wife, notwithstanding they were parted, almost daily took the child to him that he might see it. On Saturday morning Mrs. Crouch went to chair at the house of Mr. Bubb, bottle merchant, No. 11, Westmoreland-street, in the same vicinity, leaving the child, as usual, with Mrs. Line. On leaving her work, shortly after six o'clock, she went to Mrs. Line's for the purpose of suckling the child, and while doing so began to mend a pair of stockings for her husband. Mrs. Line, shortly after Mrs. Crouch had entered the room, which is on the attic story, left it for the purpose of cleaning the stairs, leaving in the room with Mrs. Crouch her own child, of about six years of age. While so - engaged the husband, William Crouch, came up the stairs, and was allowed by Mrs. Line to pass her and go into the rode. Ile had not been there, however, above a minute before Mrs. Line was alarmed by the loud cries of her child, " Oh, mother, mother !" and on her hurrying up, and entering the room, she saw Mrs, Crouch in the act of falling off her chair, with. the floor,deluged with blood, and her husband stand ing by a chest of drawers, wiping a razor with a piece of rag. On seeing Mrs. Line the murderer instantly rushed past her, and ran down stairs into the street ; but she immediately followed him, and raising an outcry of " stop him , " he was stopped, after running about two hundred yards, and given into the custody of Sergeant Bennett; 18 D, who came up at the moment, by whom he was taken back to the hour. On their return to the afoartment, a most hoirid spectacle pre sented itself, the murdered woman being found on the fLor in a sitting posture, with her back against a turn= up bedstead, having in her lap her unconscious off spring, whose clothes were completely saturated with her bided, which was flowing from a most desperate wound in her throat. The child was immediately given into the care of a female in the house, and re moved from the tragic scene. Mr. Joseph, surgeon, of No. 15, Great Alarykbone-street, arrived in a minute or two after the discovery of the murder, and, oa examining Mn. Crouch; declared life to be quite , extinct, the instrument with which the wound was infikted having completely severed the windpipe, with the whole of the arteries and veins of the- neck, leaving only the vertebrm. In the meantime the murderer was removed by Sergeant Bennett and others of ,the police to the statiun-house in Marylebone-lane, followed by a large concourse of persons, where, on his arrival, he was immediately searched by order of Inspector Brown, when the razor, which was stained with blood, was found iu his trousers pocket. While searching him he was noticed to hold his chin down in his necker chief, and on Inspector Brown telling him to hold up his head, it was found that lie also had a wound in his throat, from which a considerable quantity of blood had flowed inside his clothes. Mr. Clark, a surgeon, living opposite the station-house, was in stantly sent for, who, on examination, found a wound, about three inches and a half long, on the left side of the neck, full one inch deep, and gaping about two 'inches, which extended nearly to the windpipe. Mr. Clark, finding great difficulty 'in dressing it in the station-house, had the prisoner re moved to his own surgery, where the wound was sewed up and properly dressed. While dressing it Mr. Clark asked Crouch how he could have been guilty of so horrible an action ? to which he replied, "It's all drink ?" He was then removed , back to the station-house, where Mr. Joseph had by that time arrived, when the charge was entered on the sheet as follows :—" William Crouch, charged with murder ing his wife, Frances Crouch, at No. 4, Little Mary lebone-street, by cutting her throat with a razor, and with attempting to commit suicide." Crouch was then, on the recommendation of a surgeon, removed in a cab by Inspector Tedman and Sergeant Bennet to the infirmary of St. Marylebone workhouse, in the New-road, where he will remain until he is brought up for examination at Marylebone Police-court. A. LENGTHENED PAST.—MI; Hay, bi!Eiker, Friar's Vennel, had two hens, which she kept in a backcourt. But one of them having disappeared, she suspected petty larceny; and sold the other to prevent its going the same road. This occurred more than three weeks ago,. and it appeared the poor bird had found its way to a cellar to make a nest and lay an egg. While there, unperceived, a washing-tub had been acciden tally placed on the top of it covered over with straw ; and .there the feathered prisoner lay for twenty-one days,not only without a morsel to eat, but exclud e d f rom the cheerful light of day: On Thursday last the tub was wanted, aid on re moving it chuckie reappeared, reduced to skin and bone certainly, but still with so much tenacity remaining that she bids fair,.under careful =sing, to become herself Dumfries Courier. THE FACTORIES BILL DIVISIONS. ANALYSED. Government. Lord Ashley o. 1. Monday, March 18 172 181 9 . Ditto 3. Friday, March 22 ...... 4. Ditto (Tellers included.) In each of the four divisions 101 Conservatives 141 voted uniformly with Government 40 Liberals.. 139 voted uniformly with Lord Ashley, 74 Conservatives6s Liberals. No. L ' No. 2. Govt. Ashley. 141 139.: Govt. Ashley. Throughout Not again 5 5 Absent, No.'2 only Ditto 3 and 4 - - 12 23 - 1 - Govt. 1,2, 4, Ashley 3 1 Govt. 2, Ashley 1,3, 4 — 172 161 155 163 No. 4. Govt.. Ashley 141 139 1 30 30 13 13 1I 1 Govt. Ashley. . 141 139 190 183 Absent on the first night ; p Voted with Government (30). t Allis, J. P. tArbuthnot;Hon. IL Bailey, J. t Bell, M. • t Blackburne; J.I. t Buller, Sir J. Y. t Cartwright, W. N. t Charteris, Hon. F. Currie, R. • f 'Follett, Sir W. t Hamilton, W. J. Hayter, W. G. t Heatheote, Sir W. • t Irving, W. Lascelles, Hon. W. S. • Marjoribanks, T. Maunsell, T. P. Morrison, James Ord, W. t Powell, Colonel t Bons, Hon. Captain t Russell, C. t Seythour, Sir li. t Sheppard, T. t Stuart, H. • . Villiers, Hon. C. t Waddington, H. S.' • Ward, IL G - • Wrightson, W. B. . t Yorke ; Hon. T..E. No. 3. Throughout Not again 1 Absent, 1 and 2 3O 30 Ditto 2 Govt. 1,2, 4, Ashley 3 Govt.. 2, Ashley 1,3, 4 — Absent 1,2, Govt. 4, Ashley 3 The peCuliar votes were— (Those to whom t is prefixed are Conservatives.) Government—Nos. 1,2, and 4. Lord Ashley-3. W. Aldam (Leeds) Government—No. 2. Lord Ashley-1, 2, and 4. . J. Collett (Athlone) Absent-1 and 2. Ashley-3. Government-4. f M. Archdall (Fermanagh) W. Ewart (Dumfries) J. Martin (Tewkesbury) t G_Pahner (South Essex) On the first division, and not again— With Government. Lord Ashley, Bellew, R. "M. Barclay, D. 1. Dick, Q. Bulkeley, Sir R. B. W. t Master, T. W. C. - t Chapman, A. Paget, Lord W. t Round, C. G. Scrope, G. P. Sturt, IL C. On the second division, and not again— ( Hastie, A. On the third division, and not again— t Jolliffe, Sir W. • On the fourth division, and not again— f Shirley, E. J. (Warwickshire) . Absent on the second division_ only, otherwise uniformly voting with— Government (13) t Fielden, W. Hastie, A. Langston, J. 11. Leader, J. T. t Mackenzie, T. t Mildmav, 11. St. John Neeld, Joseph t Pollock,-Sir F. t Reid, Sir J. R. Tancred, H. W. t Trench, Sir F. t Vivian, J. E. Wall, C. B. Present on the first night, voted with — Government (12) Bowring, Dr. Dawson, Hon. T. V, Dehnistoun, J. 1. Duffield, T. Elphinstone, H. Hobhouse, Hon. Sir J. C. Hume, Joseph t Manners, Lord J. C. Norreys, Sir D. J. t Owen, Sir J. Pattison, J. Shelburne, Lord Lord Ashley (13) Bannerman, A. • Browne, Hon. W. Dalrymple, Captain t Douglas, Sir Howard t Eaton, 11; J. Hall, Sir B. Hatton, Captain V. t Marton, G. t Miles, P. W. S. 1* Smith, Abel Standish, C. Staunton, Sir G. T. t Stewart, John Lbsent on the second,' but bad Lord Ashley (23) t • Astell, W. / Byng. Hon. G. S. . f Cresswell, B. • Duncozbe, Hon. H. t Emlyn, Viscount - t Gladstone, Captain J. N. 1- Goring, C. t Grimston, Viscount 1 Hayes, Sir E. Hope, Alexander Legb; G. C. t Lowther, J. IL t Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Murray, Alexander .1. Newport, Viscount Paget, Lord Alfred t Pennant, Hon. Colonel Russell, Lord John Smith, Right Hon. R. V. t Smollett, A. • t Trotter, J. Vivian, J. H. t Wortley, Hon. John • ►resent on the second. % Voted with Lord , Ashley (30). t Adare, ViscOunt t Adderley, C. B. Aglionby, H. A. t Baskerville, T. B. M. Berkeley; Hon. (Ghtuees..\ Butler, Hon. Col: Carew, Hon. R. S. t Colvile, C. R. Denison, W. J. t D'lsraeli, B. 1 Douglas, J. D. Egerton, Sir P. . • Fell Owes, E. Ferrand, W. B. Fitzroy, Lord C. Grosvenor, Lord It. t Halford, Sir IT: Heathcote, G. J. t Hervey, Lord A. Howard, Hon. E. (Mot . • • ptli) f Knight, F., W. _'Macaulay, Rt. llon. T.B. ' Mienamara, Major t Mordaunt, Sir J. - - t Newdigate, C. N. t Newry, Viscount • - , - - O'Connell, D. O'Connell, M. J. Scholefield, J. Stanton, W. 11. RAILWAY RETURNS. • We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefiked to each; The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandise:— Week Name of Railway. Total; ended - X. s. ' 1 Mar. 23 Arbroath and Forfar • 118 4 5i 23 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,279 5 11 22 Birmingham and Gloucester - 1,988 3 2 23 Brandling Junction - 755 6 10 22 Chester and Birkenhead 356 8 6 26 Dublin and Kingstown 646 12 4 24 Dundee and Arbroath ' 214 .6 2i 23 Durham and Sunderland 519 5 11 . 23 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1,982 5 0 24 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,331 10 11 23 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,228 18 11 23 Glasgow and Greenock 651 11 4 23' Grand Junction 6,651 19 0 23 Great North of England 1,253 6 8 24 Great Western • • . 12,030 14 :6 22 Liverpool and Manchester 23 London and Birmingham 14,190 2 1 28 London and Blackwall . 629 5 7 23 London and Brighton 27 London and Croydon -. • 215 -12 14 28 London and Greenwich 687 1 7- 24 London and South Western ....... 21 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 739 6 11i 23 Manchester and Birmingham 2,828 8 9 23 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 5,383 2 10 23 Midland Counties 23 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,415 14 2 24 Newcastle and North Shields 3lB 11 11 23 North Midland 4,047 7 0 22 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,113 19 9 19 Paris and Orleans 4,215 13 6 25 ParisPand Rouen 3,925 '0 0 23 Preston and Wyre 238 12 ' 4 23 Shiaeld *and Manchester 469 8 1 28 South Eastern 23 Taff Vale 24 Ulster ,p2o 8 2 23 York and North Midland At the . expense of consistency, they :denounced the very.. policy .on which they now find • them selves compelled to act, and opposed the very measures which, with scarcely any variation, they have brought forward as a Government! Had this conduct been imitated by Lord John Russell, and the party which recognises his Lordship as their leader in Parliament, Sir Robert Peel would on more than one occasion have seen the incon venience of sacrificing principle to expediency, and would have deplored the provocation to ob• struction which he had • supplied to his poli tical opponents. A more worthy and dig nified policy has been pursued by the Liberals, as a body. . Lord John Russell has not merely de clined to make himself a party to factious obstruction —has not merely refused to confer the sanction of his silence upon a course which (though permitted by the • forms of Parliament, as the last resource for constitutionally obtaining a redress of grievances from a tyrant majority in Parliament) can only be justified by extreme circumstances, such as do .not, • happily, now 'exist—he has strongly repu diated the course taken by Mr. S. Crawford, and those Members who have united with him in preventing the House from going into Committee of Sup ply. Indeed, wherever the manifest object has been obstruction, and not fair and open discus sion, the Opposition, as a body, has kept aloof. They have thus given a dignified reproof to the con, duct of the members of the existing . Govern ment, and its supporters, when in opposition. • They have also shown that the public interests, and. ' not personal motives, have actuated their Parliamen tary course. Whence, then, the humiliating position of the " strong Government ?" Either the measures of Ministers have been such as were ill-adapted to the wants, and in antagonism to the opinion of the country; or those who entered Parliament as their supporters' have withdrawn their confidence, and either refuse their support, or positively propose " amendments", on the measures brought forward on the responsibility of the Government. Sir James Graham's Factory Education Bill of last session was of the former -de scription. The introduction. of that Bill raised a storm of opposition, which increased in strength until the measure, after several attempts to modify and amend its proposed scheme for educating the peo ple, was withdrawn, as the only means of allaying the excitement it! had produced throughout the coun try. The Members on - whom the Government relied for support, in carrying their Bill through the House of Commons, were compelled, by the strongly declared sentiments of their constituents, to intimate that they could , not vote for the Government measure. How utterly ignorant of the state of public feeling on the subject of education must the Government hate been, when.: they supposed they should be able to consign the youth of the factory districts to the predominant superintendence of the national clergy, for the purposes of education ! They tried 'the experiment—they persisted in press ing their *measure' to the last moment of hope— and then dropped •if, under all the humiliation of an ignooiniouS defeat ! The Factory Bill of the pre : sent,_.sessiOn. has been equally unfortunate to the rgpatation. of the Government for Parliamentary strength. .The Ministerial defeats successively sus tained on the twelve hours'•• clause, though not lowed up by Lord Ashley as they might have been, have shown the lack of that cordial support which is essential to the efficiency and stability of an administration. The Cabinet was at the feet of Lord Ashley. Though he has declined to•preSs his advantage to the extent of breaking up the " strong Govetnnienf," he has shaken its 'hold upon public confidence, and destroyed the prostige which is an element of strength. GLOBE.—The County Courts Bill—which- had been delayed until hope of its appearance had almost become,extinct—was last evening introduced to the ' House of Commons by Sir James Graham. The more, easy recovery of small demands—whether of the, nature of simple-contract debts ; or of .clarnagcs for trespass against the person or property of 'the claimant ; or for the unlawful holding of pro perty, rendering the party liable - to an action of trover—are proposed ,to be brought' within the juris diction created. _by the. Bill, should it pass into a law. The County Courts (sometimes called the Freeholders' Cotrts) are' among the most ancient Courts Of the realm ; but they .partake of the de fecta_Whieb tithe, and the changed condition of so ciety, necessarily create in ancient institutions. No limitation exists as to the amount for which a per sonal action may be brought in them; a writ of justiciei is therefore issued to' remove actions from their jurisdictien into the superior. Courts 'in West- Minster-hall. While the practice of the superior COurts has been re•-modelled and their machinery simplified, in accordance with the recommendations Of the report of the Common-law Committee in 1839, the county courts remained unimproved. This abstinence from• interfering with their constitution, probably arose from .an anticipation that they Would undergo a complete remodelling by Parlia tnentary enactment, with a view to simplifying their operations and extending their jurisdiction. So far as we have been able to examine the Bill now introduced; it appears to be adapted to the ob jects proposed to be effected by its means. , The claim is to be limited to 151., the subject-matter of the jurisdiction we hitie already described: in the case of small debts the writ of summons must be issued at least seven days. previous to the day of trial : either party may demand a jury, which is to be com posed of 'five : the Court may order the debt to be paid by instalments : execution to issue against either the body or g00d..4 - of . the defendant. Upon giving proper securities, either party may remove the case into a superior Court; and also obtain a new trial, on the same conditions. 'Cases for the recovery of possession of premises, in which two magistrates have now the power to interfere, are to be trans ferred to the Judge of the Court. In cases of debt, the Court. is empowered .to examine either, or both, the parties; with the view to the discovery of the truth relating to the matter in issue. The brief outline we have given of the leading features of the proposed measure will" serve to show that, if passed, it will lie a great boon to the poorer classes of arti ians, small tradesmen, and shopkeepers, who will be enabled to prosecute their claims fur debts or injuries under 151, without.the apprehension of being ruined by the expense, or worn down by the law's delay--tha dread of which has often induced them to submit, to the loss of the debt, or to sit down under the injury, rather than encounter the greater loss in the shape of costs, and the uncertainty with which the issue, caused by the protraction of the proceedings, hai been involved. The measure will also place the whole kingdom on the same footing with respect to these advantages. The principal cities and towns have already availed themselves of the Act of 1839. About forty of them have applied for, and obtained Acts for the erection of local courts, in which debts under 151. are recoverable by a cheap and easy process. Mr. Hawes made an oliservation of great practical im portance, and' which will well deserve the careful con sideration of the House when in committee on' the clause to which it relates. The Bill gives power to issue execution 'against the person of the debtor. The operation of this power, invested in the Courts of Re quest, has given rise to serious oppression, and in flicted heavy burdens on the county rates. The Acts under which these Courts were created apportion im prisonment in the county prison, for default of pay ment, at the rate of is. per day for the amount of tl.e debt and costs. The persons who are subjected to this imprisonment are; we need hardly sad•, the poorest of the poor. They are maintained while in ... prison at the cost of, the county, and thus inflict upon the county-rate payers an amount of costs for their maintenance and safe custody, more than double the amount of debt for which they are confined. Mr. Hawes remarked—"lt had been re- commended by a Committee which sat some years ago, that, all persons proceeded against for debts beIoW certain 'amount . sliould be . liable to an SPIRIT .9f,tllQ.- PUBLIC JOURNALS. execution against their goods. He always thought GLOBE.—The , strong Government, which was . that some . . general provision should be mad e on to, have everything its own way—whose measures, that point .. Re: ShOdld- call "attention to this poi n t conceived in wisdom, were to be brought forth in tri- when the Bill came regularly under the eon umph, cuts rather a sorry figure in both Houses. sideration of the House. He hoped that those. With a majority of upwards o f 90 in the local Acts, which enacted so many days to liqui- Commons, and a subservient peerage prepared to date a debt, would be taken into conside ra ti on ,• vote at the nod of Wellington or a t the wink as he was quite sure it would not only effect a. of Lyndhurst, the present Ministers seem •as Inca- saving in the county-rates, " but also put an end pable of getting onward with the p u blic business of to the enormous misery so frequently suffered by the country as those they obstructed, and eventually families being broken up in consequence of the irn overthrew, The " dead lock" to which the party prisonment of the head." The - great . objection to now in power boasted they were able to bring legis- limiting by law the remedy of the creditor to - the hition—so strong were they as' an opp6sition—seems goods of his debtor, consists in the difficulty of "iSeer likely. to be , produced now they are placed in the taining shether " the poor per Son who applies-'for Government, with a large majority at their back. credit has furniture, or. any other description of goods, . This difference is, however,_ perceptible in their properly his own property, so as to be available to meet position, and that in which their predecessors were the process of the Court. sirJ, Graham reuia - iked placed. • The embarrassments of the late Government; "If to have ereditwas advantageous to thepoor (of which • were created by their factious opponents, who ob he was not .quite Convinced).he was very much afraid . structed .the Government fur the purposes of party ; that unless there was a remedy against the person, credit the difficulties of the present. Government have been would be stopped." • If-imprisonment could be ren either produced by themselves, or ha've emanated dered of any advantage to the creditor, in such eases, from the ranks of their professed adherents. On by obtaining for him the payment of his claim, there more than one debate and division on the tariff, would be some reason for depriving the debtor of:his the present Ministry was saved from defeat by liberty. But this is impossible. The trader has the the generous aid afforded to them, in the time remedy in his own hands. Where there are not of their extremity, by the Opposition. !A jam- visible means 'of payment, lie can refuse credit. tion of the Opposition with the mal-contents of If he thinks there are, and is deceived by ap the ministerial benches would have left Sir Robert pearances, he had better regard it as a bad debt, and Peel in a minority on questionsof vital importance to forego his claim, than pursue his debt for the mere his govermicent. This might have been justified on the purpose of incarcerating his person, and thus break principle of retaliation.: Precedents might easily have up his family, compel them to seek refuge in the been found in the policy of Sir Robert Peel, on va- workhouse at the expense of the parish, while the rious occasions, as leader a the Opposition. On the man himself is maintained out of the county-rate. Jamaica question—on the Education scheme—on the Let false-pretence, for the purpose of obtaining credit, war with China—and on several other questions, the be punished as a fraud; but where a trifling amount Conservatives determined to embarrass, if not to sub- of debt has been incurred, as a simple contract be vert, the Ministry. Led by the Premier and his yet tween the parties, and there is no property upon more factious and furious coadjutors, and acting which. to levy execution, the practice of imprisonment upon the obstructive policy. avowed by Lord Stanley, is, to say the least of it, extremely impolitic, if it be the Conservatives, as a body, united on various occa- not unnecessarily severe. sions with the - Ultra-Radical section of the Liberals : STANDARD.—A curious difference of opinion . . . . was last night exhibited on the Opposition side of the House of Lords. • The Marquis of Clanri carde explained that in presenting a petition from Ireland of which he had given no tice .for this night, he would abstain from offering any remarks—chiefly from the considera tion that as a writ of error, which would come before the House in its judicial character, was threat ened by the parties convicted at the late State trials, the House ought not to • enter into any discussion calculated to lead to an extra judicial decision in the case. Lord. Clanricarde •is clearly right as far as he goes ; but, perhaps, he ought to' go further. If the petition to be introduced to-night has any refer ence to the late trials, it ought to be withheld until the writ of error shall be &opposed of, for courts of justice are properly careful to exclude suggestions, from whomsoever proceeding, upon the subjects about to come regularly before them. What would Lord Denman say of a Chartist petition presented to the Court of Queen's Bench, suggesting the course that ought- to be pursued with reference to the- trial of a number of persons accused of conspiracy, or convicted, and waiting for judgment, as the case might be ? Would he not commit the petitioners, or at least the persons guilty of the indecency of placing such a petition in his hands ? The double capacity in which the House of Lords acts, no doubt, forbids such severity on its part ; because petitioners- may : be easily enough mistaken as to the -character in which that Assemby receives petitions, but Members of the House ought to re member the distinction, and, as we think, to withhold all petitions touching matters in which the House is likely , to be called to act judicially. The Marquis of Clanricarde has probably not thoroughly considered the subject, for it is quite plain from the forbearance which his Lordship observes so far, that he is desirous to offer all respect to the administration ofjustice. What however, is to be said of the course menaced, by the Marquis of Lansdowne, who, notwith standing the excellent example of Lord . Clanri carde—notwithstanding the strong remonstrance of Lord Brougham—notwithstanding the volunteer proffer by •the Government, of all the papers for which he proposes to move, declares that he will persist in his purpose of making a speech upon that very topic—the construction of Irish juries in criminal cases—which is universally known to be the basis of the writ of error _upon which, within a few weeks, his Lordship may be called to decide as a judge ? The Noble Marquis, indeed, promises that he will make no allusion -to the late State trials ; but then, he says, the question presses so much that .he cannot wait until the writ of error, if auy be brought ; arising out of these trials, shall be disposed of. But why, if his Lordship's speech is to have no re ference to the late trials, is he, at this particular moment, pressed to make it ?—why was not the Speech made last .year, or the. year before ?—or why will it not keep till the month of May ? These are questions that we confess ourselves unable to answer; but they are questions - to which we think Lord Lansdowne is bound to reply. .STANDARD.—For forty years the Whig party has been essentially a persecuting party—we use the phrase in a strict sense, as describing a party mean and malignant enough to hunt out indi viduals frequently very Inniible and obscure individuals against whom to- direct the whole power of the party; be it much or little, for the purpose of injuring or destroying the selected victim. The - only opportunity of indulging the persecuting disposition, hoWever, arises when the person to be in jured happens to be promoted or otherwise favoured by the advisers of the Crown, for happily, in social life,. party has no poWer, and this opportunity has the recommendation; that persecutors may invest themselves with pretences of care for the public good, 'and indulge their spite under the cloak of patriotism. The memory of most readers will Supply numerous instances- in which the Whigs have resorted to the expedient, hut we challenge a single example of a recourse to it . on the part of Tories or Conservatives. And let us remark by the way, that this contrast alone decides- the Cuestion which party is composed of • gentle men—generous men, and men of honour—and which Is not. The Whigs •attack the individual, no :matter how humble his rank—no matter how fatal the attack may be to the interests of an innocent and meritorious man •and to the living of his family ; and in this way they have directly ruined many better. "men than themselves, and indirectly ruined more by rendering it intolerably • embarrassing, if not impossible, for the . opposite party to pay their debts to their most zealous and useful, who are always their least discreet and most .uncbm, promising,- friends. A Tory or Conservative Go vernment might anfely confer patronage upon a Worthlesi lukewarm hanger-on, but woe be to it if it should dare to aid a bold and efficient friend— a motion in Parliament would be the inevitable consequence ; and to men overworked, as Ministers are Overworked, such a casual addition to their toil is `no light matter. This has, however, one good effect, that a Conservative Government will find its more prominent supporters only in men of.independent minds. The Conservative party, on the other hand, scorns to strike -at individuals. Its Adversaries, when in power, are free to promote whom it shall please them, except they insult the public by offering -to notice some one marked with a stigma as- scandalous as the executioner's brand. We again challenge an instance in which a Tory Or Conservative has ever complained Of the appointment to office of any man of generally fair character; solely on the ground of his political opinions. . • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) CITY POLICE COMMITTER. Mr. W. Timbrell, proprietor of the Goldsmiths' Arms, Albion-buildings, Bartholomew-close, attended, in com pany with Mr. Thneombe, the solicitor, to answer a summons forunlawfully allowing his house to be open on Sunday morning last during Divine service, to -which he pleadecl. Not Guilty. The Magistrates prusent were Mr. Alderman Cope land, M.P:'; Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Mr. Alderman T. Wood, and Mr. Alderman J. Johnson. The statement of the police-constables examined was to the effect that, on Sunday morning last, shortly be foie twelve o'clock, they went to the Goldsmiths' Arms, and saw five persons standing in front of the bar counter, and found several pewter pots hid under a form, which evidently had contained: beer. After'a lengthened.cross- exam ination, Mr. Duncombe, on the part of the• defence, said his client had been summoned for " opening his house on S un d ay morn i ng p for the • sale of spirits," &c., which not having been proved, he subm;tted . there was no case, and that Mr. Timbrell ought to be discharged. The mere stilt of pots in a suspicious position did not constitute the proof of serving. If it did it much resembled an old anecdote, which he had very oftei& related, where a horse's collar was found under a patient's bed, the physician who attended concluded that he had eaten the horse. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said that the Bench was of opinion that the officers had clearly proved .the case. Mr. liuneombe—Then, Sir, my instructions are, that the • persons seen by the officers were overseers of the parish, who had met th e r e t o di scuss some parochial business. Mr. Alderman COPELAND —What 1 Overseers meet on a Sunday for parish business. , —(A laugh.) Mr.liun combe—Yes, to be sure, Sir ; the better the day the better the deed.—(Muc:l laughter.) I and a great many others are compelled to do a good deal of businesS on a Sunday.—(lncreased laughter.) Mr. Alderman COPELAND—WeII, let's have the-over seers and hear what they say,!—Mr. Duncombe re gretted that they were not in attendance. He (Mr: Dun combe) had but a few moments before entering the Court received his instructions to attend the case, other wise they should have been brought forward. Mr. Alderman COPELAND—WeII, we will postpone our decision until next Saturday) for their attendance.— Mr. Duncombe (after consulting with the defendant) said it was the wish of Mr. Timbrell for the case to be set tled then, for it would not only save him (Mr. Timbrell) much trouble and expense, but prevent his (Mr. Dun,' STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS 1 MARCH The Foreign Wool Market has not this week been quite so animated as we have noticed during the last few weeks, although some tolerably extensive sales have been -effected: In respect 'to prices, the iiii pression seems now prettygeneral that there is no probability. of their being lower, for some months to come at least, than at present. 'ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, Marten 29. Sales of combing Wools during the present week have been limited. Prices are quoted about the same as last week. ,We have not any. alteration to notice in clothing wools. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MARCH 29.—We have. this week to report a feW transactions in comb , ing wools, principally in the best class of hogs, and hog and wether skins at former quotations; Other de scriptions are firm, but nothing doing in 'them of iin ' port:lnce. The demand for . blanket and low' clothing wools is steady, and prices firm. LEEDS, MARCH 29.—There has been rather more business done at our cloth halls this week than last, •and there have 'also been c onsiderable - deliieries of goods to order duri ng the week, particularly to houses who are in the shipping trade. The market is very thin of goods of low qualities, and prices are still looking up, whilst fine goods continue dull of sale, without any alteration in prices. There has also been a little improvement in business, in the warehouses, with the houses connected with the home trade, and the shipping houses are busier than for some years, 'at the same period of the year. 11RADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—In the Piece market there is not quite so much doing by the Ger man houses, who appear to be getting in their orders for -. the Leipzie sprin g fair, commencing at Easter. Buyers for other markets are tolerably active, and on the whole a satisfactory business is doing. Yarns are not brisk as a few weeks past, ner can old rates be maintained.. Wool continues in slow request, and at nominal prices. • MANCHESTER, .THURSDAY EvENINO.—We have had a week of great depression in our cloth market. and prices are lower even since Tuesday, with a cer tainty of things going .still lower. The demand for sheeiings on China ac c ount is still good, and prices rather higher. Till the Liverpool market has gained • what is fancied the lowest point, we shall have, it is Nought, very little doing. . Twist is operated upon ekactly like cloth. PriCes are lower, with sales of the most limited description.. EXTRAORDINARY 'LONGEVITY. — An old and re spectable mason, named Pincombe, died at his house at the back of James-street, in this borough, on Tuesday last, aged 105 years. He retained his Mental facultieS' iip 16 the las few daye Qf hi 4 existeucei—Devonport Independent. combo's) again .attending, for which he should expect the extra fee.—(Laughter.) • Atarwan.C..tni)s-ljutler those..circUrnstances, fine tho defendant in the penalty *Of.4oS.uud costs, which, were immediately paid. Mr. Alderman COPELAND - trusted it would be a cau tion to Mr. Timbrdl not to allow overseers'of,the parish to do any business on a Sunday.—(Laughter:) • Mr. E. Jer'vis, of the Blue Posts, High Holborn, next • appeared to answer a similar information, - From the evidence adduced, it appeared that on Sunday morning • last two of the police entered the house, and saw five persons drinking in front of the bar; wiho shortly left the place and. got into an Ealing and Acton omnibus, which was waiting at the door. - • • • • • - It being proved' that they went to Acton, and that they required refreshment before they started, the Magistrates dismissed the summons. • .• " Mr. Alderman COPELAND said, seeing a large number of: publicans then in attendance in. the Cdurt, t r great' • portion of whom lived in the ward which he-represented in the Court of Aldermen, he considered it proper to state publicly a fact relative to a new system of,Sunday trading which had lately come to his knowledge. It was th:s :—Certain publicans in Bisliopsgate ward finding themselves so st r i c tly wa t c h e d b y t h e police as not to- . enable them serving on Sunday mornings, fixed upon a. plan of carrying bottles of gin and beer in baskets to the different cigar shops in the neighbourhcod, where they found a quick consumption. It wa's only last Sunday that a friend of his (Mr. Alderman Copeland), while proceeding to church with his family, met with one of these parties, who, in his hurry to gain the door of a • cigar-shop,.missed his foot and fell with his basket, the contents of which ran down the pavement into the gutter. The system was carried on to a very great extent, and • he was determined,' if any of the parties came before. , him, not only to enforce th e hi g h es t penalty the law permitted, but to resist licensing' their houses for the. future. . Mr. Busbridge, landlord of the Robin Hood public- . house, Robin Hood-court, Shoe-lane, and Mr. H. Yeat man, of the Sun, in Bishopsgate-street, were severally fined 40s. and costs for serving during Divine service on Sunday last. - _ _ _ There wera between twenty and thirty drivers and conductors of omnibuses convicted in various fines for , creating obstructions in the City, by plying for hire. BO W- STR EE T. A respectably-dressed young man, named . William • Smith, alias . 'Therms Collins, was placed at, the . bar charged with stealing 106 yards of silk and ,10l yards of satin, value 371., the property of Mr. Foulkes a silk mercer, in little Russell-street, Covent-garden. • , . Mr. Foulkes,-.jun., stated that on Friday evening 0,, man entered his shop, representing that he came from, Mr. M‘Dowall, of .St. Paul's Church-yard, and offered , a quantity of goods for sale. He was told that it would be necessary to . examine them previous to entering into ' ariy agreement, and he then went away. •About,nine o'clock in the evening a porter came and left some arti cies for examination. On Saturday the prisoner came to. the shop and presented the paper produced, and on which was written in pencil, ." Mr. Foulke z, s'lk and ducape left by mistake," at the same time drawing the attention of the assistant to the goods that had been ieft at the shop on the previous evening, whereupon some remarks were made upon the extraordinary nature of the tran saction, and the prisoner's reply thereto led the witness.:; to suspect something wrong, and after- the prisoner ha left the shop .with the parcel, a porter was directed to - follow him, and watch his proceedings, and to take care not to lose sight of him,. . . John Driver, the porter stated, that in consequence • of the directions ho had received he followed the pri soner, and saw him take a 'cab, which drove to Black" friars-road •, there the prisoner' alighted, .and imme" diately hired another cab, which he left with the g oods ; in it at the corner of a street there'. "On his return,' witness demanded the return of the goods, and on his „ refusal told the cabman to drive to the prosecutor's with the prisoner and the goods. - In answer to, a question from the Magistrate, . Mr. Foulkes stated that it was customary. for silk•. • merchants in the City to send round to the trade and inquire, whether . Certain articlei were wanted, by them, and that the man who called at his shop on 'Friday, and . said he came from Mr. M`Dowall's, while he was, there asked for a piece of paper to make a memorandum, upon which one of the shopmenincautiouslY, handed bird one of his (Mr: Foulkes's-) printed bills, and on which bill it appeared was subsequently written the order for' the goods, which had by that means been obtained &ere' Messrs. Leaf and Co. in his (the prosecutor's) name.. The policeman stated that, on searching the, prisoner'', he found a small memorandum bo o k, i n whi c h pa written the names and addresses of several silk-mereerS at the west-end of the town, some of whom it, is sus". • petted have already been the victims of this new species. of fraud by the prisoner arid his confederates. - The prisoner was remanded until Wednesday next. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Beale, the alleged proprietor - of the saloon in Piccadilly, was summoned before 'Mr. Hardwick, by the police, for having his house open before one o'clock on Sunday, to , wit, after twelve o'clock OR 'Saturday night. , Inspector Beresford proved that he went to the aloon, twice on Saturday night,. after twelve o'clock, and founa, Persons in the saloon drinking. His last visit was rile at two o'clock, and he then saw nineteen , females, the majority of whom were prostitutes, and several gentle men drinking and carousing. He saw wine on the table, and a bowl which appeared to contain punch. The solicitor contended that no offence bad been COrn' .; mated, inasmuch as it had not been proVed that the de fendant had his house opel for the sale of liquOrs,,or that any liquors had been.sold after twelve o'clock. Mr. HAtiDwicx said that point had been, raised on 6. former occasion, and had been overruled by him. The solicitor said he had two recent cases to adduce' in which two magistrates, Mr. Twyford and 14i. Jar' • dine, had come to a different decision. The cases were precisely similar to the present case; in particular, in the case of the Albion Tavern, heard by Mr. Jardine, it was held by that magistrate iat the mere circumstance. of liquor or wine being on.the tables after twelve. o'clock was no proof that a sale. of those articles had taken place . within prohibited hours, and he in con - Sequence dismissed the information. Mr. Haanwierk said it was advisable that there shcitild, be unanimity in mag i s t er i a l a dj n di ca ti ons , b u t h e 'could not bold himself to be bound by the decisions of anY other, magistrates ; all he could do was to listen to arguments. If he found those arguments were not con' ' elusive to his mind, then it was his duty to arrive at different conclusion. . The solicitor said the saloon. Was not open.for the sale of liquors, and it was only open for the sale of chops steaks, and cigars. The cigar and chop-shop which joined the saloon and opened into it supplied those .; articles.. Inspector Beresford, said since the solicitor chose to take that view of the ease, he should take care to re pre' sent the matter .in the proper quarter, as • Mr. Good' ered, the real proprietor of. the saloon, was: liable to n penalty of W. per day, for every day he allowed the communication to exist. . Mr. HARDWICK said, though there was no direct proo f. " °Only sale of liquors, there was presumptive -proof sub' ciently strong to warrant him in deciding that the saloon was open for the purpose of selling liquors. As the de; feudant had been fined bef ore , h e s h ou ld this time infli c t the fine of 51 and costs. • The solicitor tendered the money, and gave notico that he should appeal against the conviction:' LLOYD'S SHIPPING. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Light at the Pert of Brindisi, Adriatic Coast. Admiralty, March 29, 1844. Sir,—l dm commanded by my Lords Commissioner ° of the Admiralty to transmit to you het-ay/410or tbe information of the Committ ee f or manag i ng the affairs ati Lloyd's, a copy of a disp a t c h f rom h er M a jesty' s Collo'' . at Naples, report:ng th e es t a bli s h men t o f u light at th e ,. entrance of the, port of Brindisi.—l am, Sir, &e., ' (Signed) JOHN BARROW. To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's. (copy.)_ Naples, March 8, 1844. Sir,—l beg leave to report to you, for the informatio n of the Earl of Aberdeen, that I have received:a note fro l his Excellency the Prince of Scala, Minister of State Of' Foreign Affairs of the Sicilian Government, Apprising t , Me that a light has tieen established at the entrance all the port of Brindisi, on the Adriatic coast, on a stn island, on which a fort is constructed, and on which " small military detachment is usually maintained. Tht;, place is designated in the charts as the "Forte a Mar e ' i and the official communicati on re p resents t h e position,° it to be in lat. 40 deg. 39 min. 17 se c . N. t% meridian of Paris, 15 d eg . 57 m i n . 57 sec. E.,. and fr°7',...' the Royal Observatory a t N a pl es 3 d eg. 42 M i n. 50 50— ; ' cast; the height of th e li g ht f rom t h e level o f t h e se: being 123 palms; equal to 103 feet. In the.event j good light being established in that position, it wilt prove of great benefit during the winter Season ' vessels coming down the Adriatic.--I have, &c. • , (Signed) THOS. GALLWEV To John Bidcwell, Foreign-offiee. • • Lord Denman, in his charge to the grand jury, Ai the Essex assizes, said—" I cannot but think that a mu higher duty than that of inflicting punishment upon criul e a rests upon all concern e d i n th e a d m i n i strat i on of.justice, ftd , that we ought to look rather to the prevention' of crime the salvation of those unhappy- individuals, before•theY l ltd fallen to that dreadf u l 'st a t e o f d egra d at i on calcu l ate d.to 1 . to crime. . I allude now to the general education °tale Pe n , pie; and- although we have to lament that the well -int er tioned efforts which have been Made by the ver" l 'll o k i have not been 'crowned ivitli success, I think we 'lutist D, ry look for the time when the public institutions Of the coulV., shall provide a good moral and religiouB educationfor our . 4 creasing population," " , BIRTHS. On the 10th ult., at Florence, the lady of J. Wyn"" Bruce, he 28th Esq., of a sou. • the :it On the ult., at Chastelton Rectory, the lady 0 ' Rev. Horatio Westmacott, of a. son. On the 23th ult., at Bocking, Essex, Mrs. John Courtal`h.- or a son. On the 29th ult., at Wandlebank House, Wimbledon, )11.13.. :,' Harry P. Ashby, of a daughter. o lit On the 29th ult., the lady of Daniel West, Esq., Egr e " — place, New-road, St. Pancras, of a daughter. j,ter On the 29th ult., the laity of the Rev. D. Marks, Miu of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, of a Sen*--.• MARRIED • • • . 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