The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-30 00:00:00

IMO Mittion THE FUNDS--(CLOSING PRICESO BRITISH FUNDS. Blink !Reek ....... 00000000 — llndian 5t0ck............ 8 per Cent. Red ... — ',Ditto Bends .............. 3 0 ,per Cent. Cons. lOO% Ditto Old Annuities .. 3 per Cent Red — 'Ditto New Annuities ... ew 3% per Cent............• Ex. Bills _, 10001. I%d ... 75 pm. New 5 per Cent...-. 00000 ..• •-• Ditto 5001. .. 000000 ...... 76 pin. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 76 pm. Jan 1860 Bank Stock for Acct.... 209% Oct. 1859 Console for Act. ......... 100% Jan. 1860 •..•• 12% India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ !Portuguese, 5 per Cent ..... 854 Belgian, 5 per Cent............ !Ditto, New Ditte 00000 .......... Brazilian Bonds .....„....«.. 89%IPrussian,5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... - Russian, 5 per. 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London and Brighton (50 paid) ...... ........... „ 46% London and Croydon (Trunk) l7 London and York, 2% paid 4 Manchester and Birmingham ...... I'vewcutle and Darlington Junction, '2l paid 47 South Eastern and Dover (33 25 4d paid) .... 39 Ditto New Shares, 4 paid „....„ ..... ...... 12)6 York and North Midland (30 paid) ........... .......... Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) York and Selby Scrip. paid 34 Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid ..... .....„ 1% Paris and Rouen. 20 paid Rouen and Havre, 10 paid lB% SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FLOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAL STANDARD.—We are not surprised at the dead silence of the Times on the subject of the "mayor alty." A reasonable time ought to be afforded to our Contemporary to digest the " great fact," that its influence Li the City is not quite so extensive as it has taught us to believe. It . i s true that its campaigns against Mr. A lderman Harmer and Mr. Alderman Wood were entirely suc cessful ; but the cause must be referred to the extreme weakness of the candidates, rather than to any extraordinary influence exercised over the citizens of London by our Contemporary. Such, indeed, was the self gratulation with which these successive victories were proclaimed by the Times, that it seemed to fancy it had secured a pa tent for the rejection of any aspirant to the civic chair whom it might desire to exclude. This flattering delusion must, or ought to have been dissipated by the proceedings of the Common Hall' on Saturday. After exaggerating the clamour against the successful candidate by every possible tmeans—by denunciations of his fitness for the office to which he aspired ;—earnest admoni tions to the Livery in its leading columns; and letters from the übiquitous Mr. Rock, under every variety of signature, elsewhere ; it is obliged to confess that its imperious mandate has been de fied, and its authority not only disputed but set at nought. It is no part of our present business to account for its suscess on the occasions referred to. Suffice it to say, that the cases were widely different from that of Alderman Gibbs, because the proof of the correctness of the imputations by which the parties were declared to have been disqualified had preceded the allegations. In assuming, therefore, to have con trolled the decision of the Livery on those occasions, our Contemporary was entirely beside the mark. In the case of Alderman Gibbs its exertions have far distanced any of its previous efforts to bear down a victim. The labour was, indeed, worthy of the difficulty of the task. It charges him with refusing to submit his accounts, when the simple fact was, that be did submit them to the only parties competent to audit them, so far back as December, 1843, since which time they have been printed and published. It is true that these accounts, audited by men of character and station in the City, have been ques tioned by Messrs. Rook and Co. ; 'and equally so that the Alderman has afforded every facility for their examination, and that the Master's report upon them would have been concluded, but for the vexatious interposition of the plaintiff. Well, these accounts disposed of, what other charge has the Times to allege against its victim ? It admits that it has none. The gravamen of Mr. Alderman Gibbs's offence appears to have been that he was . Chancery ; whither he was forced and detained in order that some excuse might he afforded for the recent attempts of the Times to obstruct his passage to the civic chair. Mr. Alderman Gibbs could not repudiate the select vestry which had existed from time immeieceiel ; out he proposed that the question should be tried by a court of law, and offered every facility to his opponents for bring ing such an inquiry to a speedy issue. Had this proposal been accepted, that question would ham been decided a month ago ; but a decision which was so likely to be in his favour was not to be thus pee cipitated. The object of his assailants was to indutce the Livery to believe that the charges which were impending might terminate unfavourably to the defendant; and that meanwhile the Livery shoiald " wait until be was cleared." The proceedings before the Master in Chancery for the purpose of establishing the correctness or incorrectness of the Alderman's accounts, have been delayed in a similar manner, - and, as we must believe, for a similar object. The Livery would, indeed, have been "des titute of all sense of propriety," if they had not at once seen through the motives and objects of bis i assailants. If, however, they have preserved the r self-esteem, they have lost the countenance of the Times. We presume that they will have no difficulty in adjusting the amount of the balance in their favour. The result of this contest is useful beyond the vindication of an upright man from the imputations which have been *east upon him; for it has shown that the influence which his cowed so many worthy and respectable pe,eple is a mere bugbear, which has no manner of existence, PO far as the City of London is concerned, save in the imaginations of the alarmists themselves. '.l he clams of the would-be lion have been clipped, and, roar :he ever so loudly, his roar will never again be mistakeen for the " thunder" of the king of the forest. In Sts present position " silence is wisdom." GLOBE.—The selection of Mr. Alderman Gilalbs, by the Court of Aldermen, as Chief Magistrate for the ensuing year, is made the subject of a triumph by the Herald. Nearly two columns of exultii ig comment are appropriated to the occasion. 'rine powers of the eulogist are peculiarly adapted to the theme. The Herald, which has failed as an organ of Government, may, possibly, acquire noto riety as the adopted advocate of Mr. Alderman Gibbs. If " The Gibbs' Gazette" were to be introduced as a second title, the thing might take, or rather be " taken." It would indicate the special mission of the journal ; and impart a kind of Aldermanic and Mayor-like importance to its character. Whatever appeared in its columns would bear the unquestion able stamp of truth, and be redolent of integrity. The signature of the Alderman of Walbrook would not give it a more sure passport to public confidence. . . . . The Court of Alder men had an undoubted right to select which they thought most eligible of the two Aldermen returned to it by the majority of the Liver. We are not disposed to quarrel with their choice l'he cir cumstances in which they found themselves were by no means such as to render it of much consequence to the character and influence of the Corporation, as to which of the two Aldermen, to whom the Livery bad limited their choice, was selected for the office. It was fortunate for Mr. Alderman Gibbs that there existed strong grounds to justify the Court of Alder men in again passing by his competitor for the Mayoralty. Had there been any other candidate before the Court, we do not believe that even the Court of Aldermen could have had the temerity to elect Mr. Alderman Gibbs to the office of Chief Magistrate, surrounded, as he is at the present moment, with the most grievous prejudices and im putations. 'Whether they be created solely by his wrongheadedness, and imperturbable obstinacy, as his friends maintain ; or whether they be the re sult of absolute breach of official trust, as some have not scrupled to assert ; one thing is certain—the dignity of the office will be obs c ur e d, an d th e effi ciency of its administration will be diminished. An individual placed in a post so elevated as that of Chief Magistrate of the metropolis of En g l an d s h ou ld b e not merely free from the imputation of having abused any public trust confided to his keep ing ; he should have done nothing w hi c h would seem to imply that he has not fulfilled that trust with fidelity. Mr. Alderman Gibbs may be, and probably is, free from the graver offence of malver 113tion of the parishlfunds of St. Stephen's, Walbrook ; but he has acted, with reference to the accounts of the receipts and disbursements of these funds, us if he were interested in preventing an investigation into their integrity. For nearly twenty years they had remained unaudited. This alone, when discovered by the parish ioners, was calculated to excite suspicion. The legal ex istence of a select vestry in that parish was questioned ; the neglect of the select vestry to perform the duties which pertained to it, was beyond all doubt. The unaudited accounts of the churchwardens for nearly 20 years ; the deplorable state of dilapidation of the parish church, one of the most beautiful edifices in Lon don, the chef d'auvre of Sir Christopher Wren ; and the salaries of lecturer, organist, and other servants of the church, unpaid for two years—these glaring proofs of neglect showed that the se lf- cons tit ute d seleci hod had proved their incompetency to promote the welfare of the church, and to protect the i n t eres t s o f th e parishioners. When, therefore, the demand for an audit of the accounts became loud and ge aeral—whea the parishioners urged their reason- able claims to a fair statement of the way in which the large sums which had passed into the hands of their churchwarden, Mr. Alder man Gibbs, had been appropriated; and asked that this satisfaction should be attained by the whole of the accounts, with the vouchers, being placed in the hands of a competent and disinterested accountant, whose report should be conclusive—we do maintain that Mr. Alderman Gibbs owed it no less to himself than to the parishioners of St. Stephen's, Waibrook, - whose pecuniary interests were involved, and to his fel low-citizens generally, who had an obvious interest in his reputation, as one of their magistrates, to sub mit his accounts to a full and fair scrutiny. He has - thought it consistent with his duty to himself, in his private and public relations, to decline to do so. He at length rendered an account, it is true, extending over :nearly twenty years, including multifarious items. This account was audited by the " select ;" but the examination of vouchers was dispensed with. The Alderman-churchwarden refused to allow any pa rishioner, not being one of the " select," the slightest satisfaction. He has thus given occasion for grave suspicion that his accounts, so long withheld, would not bear the light. The question of their correctness has been made the subject of a Chancery suit, as the only means of compelling the Alderman to produce the vouchers, and other documents, to attest their correctness. That the , Court of Aldermen had no discretion between elect ing Alderman Wood or Alderman Gibbs, may be an excuse for their choice of the latter. But how humi liating must be this consideration to every one who regards the character of the Chief Magistrate as likely to influence the public estimation in which the Cor poration should be held, and the confidence which the administration of the immense revenues intrusted to its administration, should inspire I There will be the usual civic pageant on the coming 9th of November; there will be the: usual pigmy court at the Mansion. house during the coming civic year ; and the Mayor will bear the title of " Lord," and will be addressed as " Right Honourable." Fah! " Worth makes the man ; the want of it the fellow ; The rest is nought but leather and prunella." Mr. Alderman Gibbs' right to the respect and con fidence of his fellow-citizens, and of the public ge nerally, has been placed in abeyance by his own acts. He would, for once in his life, have acted wisely had he voluntarily postponed his claims to the office of Chief Magistrate until that right had been established. He has taken a different course. After his election by the Aldermen had been announced tc the Common Hall, " he left the Hall," the reports state, " by a private door," without addressing the Livery, as is usual. In this there was more of caution than of courage. We hope before the day of the grand inauguration banquet, the award of the Master in Chancery will show that nothing worse than obstinacy is imputable to the Lord Mayor elect. GREAT FOOT RACE BETWEEN ROBINEON AND STEWARD, FOR 1002 The race of 120 yards, for 501 a side, between William Robinson, of Newton Moor, and George Steward, alias Sherrin, came off this after noon on the New-road, Hammersmith, adjoining the Thatched House, in the presence of a numerous assem blage of the sporting fraternity. After the usual preli minaries had been arranged the signal was given, when, after a very severe race, Steward was declared the winner. COLLIERY EXPLOSION. DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE. EDUCATION OF THE POOR. IMPORTANT SPEECH OF LORD WHARNCLIFFE. The following speech of Lord Wharnellffe, deli vered on Monday last at a meeting of the friends and supporters of the Society for Promoting the Increase of Church Accommodation, and the Endowment of Churches in the Diocese of Ripon, and also of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Education, held at the Court House, in Barnsley, is most important, and may be considered as a declaration of the feelings of Govern ment on the important subject to which it refers. We take our report from the Leeds Intelligencer. Lord WHARNCLIPPII rose and said—" Ladies and Gentlemen, the resolution which you have just passed concludes the business of the day, but before we sepa rate I am very anxious to address to the meeting a few words upon the present state of the questions with regard both to church accommodation and to the education of the poor; and also to take this opportu nity of explaining what Government have done— what their objects are—as well as what the objects of Parliament have been in voting money for both these purposes—and finally to remind you how to obtain, and to instruct you how to make use of the sums so granted. And first with respect to churches. But before I address myself particularly to this point, I may observe that this district—the West Riding of Yorkshire—and the county of Lan caster, are perhaps the two parts of the whole kingdom that require the greatest care with -expect to the religious instruction of the people, from the nature of the manufactures carried on in them, from the vast congregations of people without any instruction brought together within them numbers so great as to be far beyond the power of that number of persons which, up to a late period, were alone Appointed to instruct them as their pastors. I say that this district, of all others, is that which requires in extension of church accommodation and. tke Appointment of additional ministers to instruct the people. Both those objects have been kept in view, and, to a certain degree, the wants of the people in this respect have been supplied. First of all let us re collect what this district was originally. The greater 'ad of it was a very thinly-peopled district, and a large portion of it scarcely cultivated at all ; now it is crowded with people; many parishes of enormous extent are become very populous. This town in which we are assembled, which is very populous, in which manufactures have increased and are increasing, and in which there is a prospect of the continued *ncrease of those who should be provided with reli gious instruction—this town, I say, is not a parish ; it is merely a township in the parish of Silkstone, the :sarish church being situate several miles off. And so it is in many other places—the parishes are so large that the mother church is totally inadequate to accom plish its original purpose of affording space for those who should worship their God in it, at a convenient distance from their homes. I say that this district is the one which, above all others, requires the atten tion of the Government, the attention of the Bishop, and of the clergy, as well as of all persons who have really the interests of religion and the welfare of the people at heart, to provide such accommodation which shall enable the people to perform and to receive in struction in their religious duties. Under these cir cumstances, then, I am happy to say that the session of Parliament before the last produced a measure which does enable these districts to receive a much greater degree of spiritual instruction than heretofore. I al lude to that Act of Parliament, usually called " Sir Robert Peel's Act," which puts it into the power of the clergy and their parishioners to apply to the Ec clesiastical Commissioners to form districts within which even though there may be no church erected, but where a suitable room can be procured to be li censed by the Bishop, a clergyman may be appointed to give that spiritual instruction to the people which is so much needed. By that Act provision is made by which the maintenance of such ministers so to be appointed is secured. I cannot help hoping that that measure will have a very great effect upon the reli gious instruction of the people. It was intended to have that effect ; and my hope is that it will prove so. I was myself at one time of opinion 'that the first thing to be done was to build churches ; but now I incline to think that that was a mistake. The first duty, as it seems to me, is to appoint persons who will administer religious instruction to the people, allotting to him a suitable and convenient district; and I am satisfied that when that duty is properly performed by duly qualified and sealous men, there will be no want of the means for building churches in this country. lam persuaded that, upon suitable religious instruction being afforded by zealous and competent ministers to those classes of persons to whom it is very important that such instruction should be given, they will not be satisfied with a mere room in which to worship God, but will find the means of aiding the Government in providing a proper place for religious worship.—(Hear.) So much for the first object which we have met to promote this day.—(Hear, )ear.) I now come to that of educa tion ; and, standing in the situation which I do, neuees ea as J of that department—for a department it may now be called—to which the education, or rather the means which are supplied by Parliament for the education of the people is committed, I am anxious to say a few words upon that subject ; and I very much wish that there were a greater num ber of persons present here, that a larger number of the inhabitants of this district might hear what I have to say. I say this, because, undoubtedly, there are great misapprehensions abroad upon the subject. There are misapprehensions, in the first place, as to the objects for which Parliament have voted the sum which is at the disposal of the Committee of Council for Education. The misapprehensions are still greater, perhaps, with respect to the objects which the Com mittee of Council have in view, and the mode in which they will carry into effect the wishes and inten • tions of Parliament. You are all aware that up to a very late date nothing was contributed by Parliament towards the education of the people. It was left en tirely to the efforts of individuals, and I am sorry to say, that the result of that was, that the state of edu cation in the greater part of England is lamentable in the extreme. Ido not think that in this parti cular district it can be said to have been in so bad and inferior a condition as in some other portions of the kingdom. We all know that the greater portion of the poor hereabouti, and still further to the northward, are educated to a certain degree. They can most of them read and write to some extent, and many of them can go through certain rules of arithmetic; but in the south of England the absence of that kind of knowledge even to that extent among the poorer classes is lamentable and frightful. I think, there fore, it was time for Parliament to interfere, and to give something towards the education of the people. It was the duty of a paternal Government to propose it to Parliament ; and when proposed to Parliament it was cheerfully acceded to. The first grant made by Parliament was in the year 1836. I may be wrong as to the year, but I think it was in that year. It amounted to 20,0001. A small sum, indeed, to assist the efforts that were making for education, especially when one remembers the number of persons and districts over which a sum of that description was to be extended. However, that was the sum. It was to be distributed by the Lords of the Treasury, upon no conditioa whatever, except that the Lords of the Treasury might, if they thought proper, send a person to inspect the accounts of the schools that were to be benefited by the grant. There was no inspection with respect to what was taught in those schools. There was no charge of any kind. There was no condition on the part of persons who received part of that grant that their schools should be devoted solely to the education of the poor.. This system lasted not above two years. It was found that, after the money was granted, nobody knew anything about it—that Parliament and the Government were giving money, without knowing what it produced—and it was thought advisable to put the matter on a better footing. Accordingly it was taken from the Treasury, and placed in the hands of a Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council—now called the Committee of Council for Education—con sisting of some of the Ministers of the Crown ; and the grants are now distributed upon their responsi bility. When it was so removed from the Treasury to the Committee of Council, it was absolutely neces sary that the objects for which this money was granted should be thoroughly understood, and th a t certain conditions should be insisted upon in order that the money voted by Parliament—the public money—might be so properly distributed as that it should not be turned to evil instead of to good. Ac cordingly certain rules were established by Order of Council. One of those rules was that, in a deed, the promoters of every school should agree that any school to be built with the aid of money from these grants should be devoted for ever to the education of the poor. Another condition was, that they should also be liable to inspection by inspectors appointed by the Committee of Council for ever. These ere the two conditions originally required ; and be sides this great care is taken by that committee that the money granted by them shall not be the sole and only means by which the school buildings shall be erected ; but that the number of persons will ing to contribute in aid, and the amount they are pre pared to contribute, shall be taken, in great part, as the real evidence of the want of a school in a particular district.—(Hear, hear.) It is quite clear that were it otherwise the whole country would be looking to Government to do the work at its expense, and the true sources of charity would be dried up. Every body who had the means would be disposed to stay their hands ; and, in short, the whole would be suf fered to fall into the hands of Government. This seemed to the Government to be anything but de sirable; and, therefore, let it not be supposed that any party, or any parish or township, can come to the Government, and say, " Give U 3 part of that grant," claiming it as of right. They must, in the first instance, show the destitution of the place in respect of education, and then they must show tha t those within the district, who have the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER SO, 1844, FURTHER PARTICULARS. This calamity appears to have been even more dreadful than we at first announced. The number of men in the pit at the time of the explosion was nearly 150. Only one man, it is said, has escaped alive or uninjured. Upwards of 100 dead bodies have already bean brought to the bank. It is utterly impossible to describe the dreadful anguish of the surviving relatives. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. One man was found unsinged, with his cap in his mouth ; he had probably placed it there in order to pre vent the foul air getting into his mouth. Several had their fingers closed into each other, and Fussing on their mouths. Fifteen putters (boys and young men employed in taking the coals from the hewers to the bottom of the sh aft) were in one lump—all clasped together. They had their clothes on prepared to ascend. When werking they' are nearly naked. The state of the relatives, beggars all description. Each cottage had its dead father or brothers, or both. Three men at the bottom of the shaft were saved : the shock was so great that the roof near them had fallen down and so blocked up up the passage as to stop the further progress of the bad air. These men thus providentially rer,,i3d weeß the tii .3!: —4lO brought the intellifence to the han!:! the explosion was nos by those outside the pit. The men when asked the cause of the dreadful accident says that the state of the pit must have been known to some persons ; but it does not appear that any com plaints had been previously made. One lad had his bones sticking out of his thigh; many had their bones broken, some were very much scorched, while others to all external appearance were uninjured. The "After damp" is generally fatal to those who escape the immediate effect of the explosion. The three men saved are John Thompson, waggon wayman ; John Hall, hewer ; and Coats, putter. These three were at the bottom of the shaft when the explosion occurred. An equally disastrous explosion occurred twenty years ago at Wallsend, about four miles from Newcastle on-Tyne. A hundred and one perished on that occasion. Wallsend was then under the superintendence of the late Mr Buddle, who was also the head viewer Of the Northumberland and Durham Coal Trade ; and it strangely happens that Mr. Foster, the present head viewer, is the practical superintendent at Haswell aLd some neighbouring colleries. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARIEBT, LEEDS, SHPT. 27.—We have no alteration of moment to report in this branch of trade. Prices are firm and stationary. There have been rather more sales effected in some kinds of comb in wools. - FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, SEPT. 27.—We have no material change to report in the Foreign Wool Trade this week. Sales have not been very extensive, many buyers being absent at the London wool sales, but prices remain firm. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SETT. 27.—There has been more doing this than for several preceding weeks in deep combing fleeces at previous rates, which has caused an increased degree of confidence in holders, that prices proportionate with those recently given to the growers will be established, and the trade firm. In short wools there is no variation, and no accumulation in the stock. DONCASTER Wool. MAl:arr.—We beg to remind our agricultural and manufacturing readers, that the last market for this season will be held on Saturday, Oct, 5. LEEDS.—There has been rather less business dono this week at our Cloth Hall than for some time past. Prices are steady, and the stocks on band are much les s than is usually the case at this season. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAT.—The attendance of merchants is not Tumorous to-day, and, upon the whole, the Piece Market may be termed flat. Manufacturers complain bitterly of the extreme low prices at which sales are effected. We are sorry to hear that many respectable houses are already curtailing their produc tion. We regret the necessity for so doing, not the fact itself, which may indeed be, most likely is, the wisest course to adopt. There is nothing new in yarns since our last publication. We cannot quote any improvement in wool; the demand continues of the same limited character as noted for several weeks past, and prices somewhat in favour of the buyer. There is scarcely so much activity for noils and brokes, but no alteration in prices. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EvENiNo.—We have had rather more doing in cloth this week, and prices more steady on all kinds except in printing fabrics, which, notwithstanding an extensive demand, continued to recede, though almost imperceptibly ;—for instance, the decline may be called 6d. per piece during the last six weeks. The low price of the staple, with a prospect of its continuance, is a favourable omen that such will be the case. The home trade is very brisk, so far as extensive sales can make it so. Our dyers were never more busy. From present appearances the ope ratives will succeed in obtaining a small advance of wages without a general strike. The sale of Yarns is still very large, but without any new feature as to value. —Leeds lifercury. We have hoard that on the recent ♦isit of a section of the Archmologic&l Association to Dover, the Duke of Wellington, as constable of Dover Castle, refused to al low the learned members adrsaiesion to that ancient and interesting fortress, to make eketohes or memoranda. The Duke has no sympathy with antiquarian or histo rical pursuits ; witness his reply on being remonstrated with on the dangerous position of the National Records, Placed over the ammunition in the Tower.—" He would take care that the gunpowder received no injury !"-- Kent Herald. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—This place of public amuse ment has, during the past week, been crowded on each of the three gala nights, with numerous audiences re sembling the scones of its former gaiety. The manage went has brought forth such novelties that have pro duced an entire re-action in favour of the " Royal property," and the success attendant on the exertions of the conductors has induced them to prepare a series of fetes, the first of which b e i ng a magnificent pyrotechnic display by Darby, the artist to the gardens, will take place this evening (Monday). On Wednesday the juve nile fete will be held ; and on Friday, the last night Vauxhall will Ie open, a brilliant festival will b€ when the gardens will be splendidly illuminated, and or namented with tropbie=!, emblamatical of our late victories in China and Alfgbanistan. The typhus fever is said to be raging in Newport, several fatal cases of which are reported to have occurred I within these last few days.—Afonmouth Merlin. means, are ready to make pecuniary sacrifices, in order to have that destitution removed.—(Hear.) I am quite sure that that is the best ground upon which this matter can stand. Its effect is to make the in habitants themselves aid the Government in its efforts, but by no means to make the Government supply that which, in point of fact, ought to be contributed locally, from a feeling of the want of education which is at the time pressing upon the place.—(Hear.) These being, then, the terms upon which the grant was to be made, the grant was increased ; and the grant, since the year 1842, has been exactly doubled. It is now 40,0001. a year. Now, lam very far from saying that 40,0001. a year is the whole that is re quired ; but it was much better to go on by degrees ; it was safer to see in the first place how the scheme worked. And I have very little doubt that if Parliament finds that the former grants of money which they have voted have been properly ap plied, and that they have produced the desired result —nay, I may say, instead of having very little doubt, that I am quite satisfied, Parliament will be ready to increase the grant. In order to obtain information in this respect, it is necessary that the schools to which money has been granted should be inspected, and that a report should be made to the Committee of Council for Education, and through it to the Bishops ; and also 1 that Parliament should be made aware of what has been done by means of these grants, and what the re , sult is; and whether, in point of fact, the objects of 1 the grants have been properly carried out. It was necessary, then, to appoint inspectors for this put- Ipose ; and the Committee of Council begun very mo -1 derately, for they appointed only one inspector. Be fore that appointment was made, a great discussion arose with respect to the propriety of such an ap pointment ; and, on the part of the Established Church, it was stated that the effect of the ap pointment of those inspectors would be to throw the whole system of education into the hands of the Privy Council, and that they had no security that the Com mittee of Council would, in fact, be members of the Established Church. It was necessary therefore so to guard the appointment of inspector as that no im proper person should be placed in that office. After much discussion, it was arranged that the persons to be appointed inspectors should be subject, in the first place, to the approval of the Archbishop of each pro vince, and so long as they had the confidence of the Archbishop within whose province they acted they should continue inspectors. That each inspector POLICE INTELLIGENCE. should he appointed by the Committee of Council, (SATURDAY.) with the approbation of the Archbishop, but if the MANSION-HOUSE. Archbishop should at any time afterwards declare his A host of poor fishermen appeared before Sir J. disapprobation of the conduct of any inspector, and Key, to answer several informations laid against them require his removal, he should be removed by the by the City water-bailiffs, for fishing in the Thames Committee of Council from the office. I think you with illegal nets, thereby damaging the fisheries to a will see that this gives to the Established serious extent. The justice-room was much crowded Church the greatest security against the danger by dredgermen and others employed in the fish trade, that was apprehended. I mention it because there has the proceedings being of the greatest moment to this been great jealousy upon that subject. A notion has class of persons. The complaints were laid under a got abroad among the clergy, I am sorry to say, that *ode of regulations passed by the Court of Aldermen the object of the Committee of Council is to get as far back as 1785, for the better preservation of the possession of, and to direct the whole education of, the young fish in the river, and which enacts that no net people. They urge that they (the clergy) are the shall be dragged in the Thames for flounders above appointed ministers of the Church, whose duty it is London-bridge less than 2f inches in the mesh, and to give religious instruction to the people, and that not more than sixteen fathoms long. secular instruction, without religious instruction, is Mr. Rough, one of the bailiffs, in proving the case of no value, and that, therefore, the Church has a sort against several of the offenders, stated that he caught of right to conduct the universal education of the most of them fishing at about midnight with the net people of this country. Now that would be true, produced, which, so far from being 21, the average perhaps, if all the persons of this country professed was full lf, the use of which must have seriously de the Established religion; but, unfortunately, that is teriorated the fisheries, inasmuch as the nets drew the not the case. We all know how rife Dissent is ; young fish. moreover, we see yearly and monthly new sects The defendants, in answer to the charges, positively arising, some of which, more or less, detach persons denied that the nets were illegal, but admitted that from the Church of England ; and there can be t h ey m i g h t now be found within the measurement, as no doubt that the whole body of Dissenters from the the twine shrunk from its constant immersion in the Church in England is a very considerable one. Now, water. They complained of some recent alterations they all, undoubtedly, contribute towards these grants. which the Court of Aldermen had adopted in the Every man, whether Churchman of Dissenter, pays fisheries, almost precluding their gainin g a li v elih oo d. the taxes out of which this fund is to be provided, Si r I. KEY—The nets I am bound to condemn, and, therefore, they are to be considered in this and I am sorry for you. matter; and, this being so, I don't think that the The men then left the justice-room. clergy of the Church can set up a right to teach those persons who do not belong to the Church of which MARLBOROUGH-STREET. - they are ministers. It was, therefore, thought neces- Abraham Myers was brought up for fin a l e x a m i ne tion, charged with having wilfully and maliciously sary, in some degree, to guard against that; and the stabbed John Clayard, livery-stable keeper, with in result was that Parliament, when it voted the money, tent to murder him. stated that the grants should be made riot only to T schools in connexion with the Establishment and he prisoner and the prosecutor were each pro the National School Society, but also to schools vided with legal assistance. Mr. Clayard,' who was in cour t, w ith hi s arm i n a in connexion with the British and Foreign School Society—a society which differs, un- sling, was called on to give evidence, and was accom doubtedly, from the National Society in many modated with a seat in the w it ness -b ox . Hi s state respects, and especial in this—that the National went was as follow s :—I am a livery-stable keeper, Society requires the Catechism techism :to be taught in the and keep the Whit e B ea r-y ar d, Li s l e - s t ree t, Leicester schools connected with it; whereas the British and square. On Tuesday l as t I was a t th e h ouse o f M r . Foreign School Society, while it inculcates the neces- Banks, the Crown, in Cra n b ou r ne -p assage , w ith some ' sityof reading and exercises in the Old and New Testa- friends. About half-past six o clock I was standing meats, does not admit of a catechism of any descrip- in front of the bar, when My e r s came i n . S ome wor d s I tion. As I have stated, the Church received a security ensued between us, but forget what they were. with regard to the inspection, in the arrangement that Myers said to me that if I ca ll e d hi m th e same name no person can be appointed as inspector by the Com- which 1 had called him t o a f r i en d, h e wou ld p unc h mittee of Privy Council without the approbation of my head. I called him the name, and he then struck me on the mouth: I got up, and blows ensued. I +v... A,..1.4.;.V.0p of the pro v ;oo. in which hp acts ! nor 1,..1,1 I ' agaioat e.b.............,f the bar, nod he tried. force my eye out with his thumb. He put his fingers can he continue his duties, though so appointed, if the Archbishop should atany time declarehisdisapprobation into my mouth for that p ur p ose . I t o ld hi m if h e did of that person. Now the British and Foreign School Society had no security upon this subject; yet it has not take his fingers out o f m y mou th I wou ld bi te been stated, and I mention the statement now for the them. He persist e d, an d I b e li eve I bit hi s fi ngers. purpose of explanation, that that Society has received We were parted, and I sa t on a s t oo l ; w hil e s i tt i ng more favour from the Committee of Council in this re- there he came up to me and we h a d ano th er t uss l e . sct than the Church. An inspector was appointed for I told him to be qu i e t, as I did no t w i s h t o hurt him. pe the schools in connexion with the British and Foreign Myers went into the t a p-r oom , b u t came ou t aga i n School Society; that inspector, a man with whom I almost immediately, and wan t e d me t o fi g ht, an d h e am personally acquainted, a most excellent, a most then kicked me. I did no t ki c k hi m aga i n , b ut I valuable man, a member of the Church of England, kicked his hat, and aft e r war d s wen t i n t o th e par l our. in the course of his inspection, undoubtedly, alarmed In the parlour wor d s ensue d w ith M yers an d some the members of the British and Foreign School So- other persons in th e p ar l our a b ou t hi s h av i ng ki c k e d ciety; they conceived that his object was to cry me. About half an ho u r a ft e r thi s , My ers came i n t o down their mode of educating their children, and that me and asked me why I ki c k e d hi s h a t. I t o ld hi m because he had kicked me in a brut a l ma nner . M yers he was endeavouring to force upon them his own favourite modes of education. Nothing could -be wished to force his conversation on me, but I t o ld hi m more unfounded, I sincerely believe, but as this feel- to drop it, as we h a d a lr ea dy b een a nu i sance t o th e company. I got up and went to one end of the r oom , ins extended itself among them, they, having no and Myers went to the other. Two persons cam e i n security as to the appointment of the inspectors, and sat near Myers. Myers spoke to one o f th em , naturally looked for some security equal to that which the Church had received. They complained— and said, " You are not going away ju s t y e t, g i ve an they said, " All we ask is, that a person may not be eye to my coat," and then w e nt out. I n t en m i nutes appointed who, by the mode in which he carries on or a quarter of an hour Myers ret urne d, an d sat the inspection, will hurt our Society, and prevent us down for a time in his chair. H e th en rose as if to light his cigar, and I said to Myers, don't l e t us h ave from carrying out our views and objects." We said, any animosity between us, shak e h an d s . I h e ld ou t my hand, mid I forget wh e th e r I sa id, h ere ' s my " We perfectly agree with you with respect to the appointment of inspector, that the person appointed should be cautious ; and that instead of doing anything heart with it, but I might h ave sa id so . M yers to injure the Society, or to weaken its influence or power took hold of my right hand w ith hi s l e f t , an d pu t over the schools in connexion with it, he ought, on his right hand behind him, an d scu ffl e d w i t h his coat pocket. He then suddenly made a the contrary, to do everything he can to strengthen blow at my breast, and he was about to repeat it, that influence and to support the Society." The EAST SURREY REGISTRATION. Mr. S. C. Fish, the Revising Barrister, held his a T n h d is se w iz a e s d d the one k a n l i l fe i , 1 1 and a b when I saw he had a knife in his hand. I across u Society then said, " All we ask, as the condition upon which our schools shall he inspected, is, that court, on Saturday, at the Horns, Kennington, to In re 3 a ' th ti , al a m nd b A w ly as ers e , u when t he , made the blow, said, " You b—, I'll have your if at any time your inspector should conduct him- revise the lists of voters in the parishes of Clapham self so as to forfeit our confidence, we should be Streatham, and Lambeth. Myers stepped back and placed himself against the b— heart." I staggered, but did not fall ; and allowed to return the money we may have received, Mr. Meymott attended on behalf of the Conserve- Ydney door , looking round the room, as if he wished to and be no longer subject to your inspection." To tives Mr. Jeans for the Liberals, and Mr. S stick , the knife into somebody else, Myers remained that the Committee of Council have agreed. The Y Smith, the well-known anti-corn-law lecturer, also thought it was right that the Society should have appeared to support a new claim made in the Lambeth against the door about half a minute, and sonic per some security that the inspectors to be appointed district. sons called out, " You villain, you have murdered should be persons in whom the Society bad Mr. Rowland Evans, of Lower Tulse-hill, attended the man." Every one in the room appeared afraid to confidence, and upon whose discretion it could rely. t o support his claim to vote, which was objected to oak l approach Myers, on account of the large knife in his I have said that a notion has got abroad, especially the ground that he had not sent in a proper claim. ' hand. Myers opened the door and ran out, and I did among 'some of the clergy, that there is a disposition It appeared that Mr. Evans had merely written a not see him again until I saw him in custody at the in the Committee of Council to assume to itself the letter to the overseers requesting them to place his station-house, after I had got my wounds dressed. I whole of the direction of the education of the peo I P-e, name upon the list of voters for the county, his quell- had two wounds ; one on the breast, and one on the or so to interfere, at all events, as to indicate a disposi- fication being a 501. rental. hand. The hand was very much cut. tion to separate the clergy from the peOple with re- The REVISING BARRISTER said this was not a proper Cross-examined—Myers commenced the quarrel, spect to education. Now, I won't rebutnter into the notice. The Act of Parliament specified a particular by saying, if I repeated the term whick I had applied question of the right of the clergy - to him, when speaking to another person, he would quite sure of—that if the people who profess the doc- rial particulars. As this had not been done, he could i punch my head. I did appl% th e term, but I forget trines of the Established Church are to be taught, the nut allow the claim. the precise words. It was not, " You are a 1) clergy are the instruments through which the educe- Mr. Evans said he thought it was hard that he a_.....„" lii the scuffle I got the best. I did not use tion must mainly be carried on.—(Hear.) They are should be disfranchised, when it was quite clear that any language to Myers to warrant him in striking the parties with whom the bulk of the people are he had a legal qualification. He wished to know me. I did not abuse him or his house ; nor did I tell almost constantly in communication, they are always whether he could not now amend his claim. him that he had better hire a gig, to go in the coun on the spot ; they are in a station between the higher The Revisits° BARRISTER said he could not do so. try to fight it out. I told him that I was too much classes and the lower classes; they are themselves, The claim must be sent in by a certain clay in J ul?r 2 for him. I had been drinking that day, and so had generally, persons of education and talent ; they have or it could not be received. The claimant con d Myers, but I did not think Myers was drunk. influence not only with the lower classes but with easily obtain a copy of the proper form, and he mast John Acton, waiter at the Crown, said Myers and the upper classes ; and whatever may be said of the renew his application next year, when his name Clayard had Lien quarrelling during the afternoon, voluntary zeal of country gentlemen or of tradesmen, in would be placed on the list. and aftewards they went into the parlour. Heard a the cause of education, I say that it is the business The claim was then disallowed. scream and ran into the parlour and saw Myers with of the clergy to be zealous in that cause. I say that, In the parish of Lambeth, Mr. W. G. Aime a knife in his hand. Was about to seize Myers, but if education is to be carried on at all, it is absurd to claimed to vote in respect of an original lease of a his master shook his head. Myers went out and think f that you must not make the clergy the active house in Devonshire-street, Kennington, let to sepa- dropped the knife in the passage, and then ran out of means of carrying it on. I can assure you that there rate tenants, each paying less than 101. per annum, the house. Witness followed and seized Myers, and is no ground for this jealousy of the Privy Council in but .'producing in the whole more then 101. a year, threw him down and held him till a police-constable this respect. There can be no ground for supposing clear of all charges. The claim was opposed by the e up . that the Privy Council are desirous to oust the clergy overseers. of what must be considered as part of their duty ; but Cross-examined—Witness did not hear any bad The REVISING BARRISTER asked on what ground names applied by Clayard to Myers. it is the duty of the Council to see that the money the overseers opposed the claim ? Mr. Joseph Banks, the landlord of the Crown, was voted by Parliament is properly applied, and so Mr. Meymott said that the objection was, that the examined, and his evidence went t o c o r ro b ora t e th e anplied as to carry out the objects for which it was property in question being within the borough of statement made . by Clayard. He was of opinion that voted ; and no one can ever think that Parliament i L I ambeth, was properly the subject of a borough qua- Clayard tried to south Myers rather than to provoke will continue to vote money unless they have some , lification, and not one for the county. assurance that the re su lt s w ill be such as they hoped Mr. Smith said he appeared in support of the claim him. Myers appeared to be inclined t o quarre l w i t h for when the money was voted. With this view it is i and he apprehended that the claimant was clearly en-' any one. that we have appointed four additional inspectors, . titled to vote for the county. He said it was an ins- any knife was produced. It was a butcher's knife sur with the perfect concurrence of the Archbishops, portant question, and he should be very glad to have used for cutting up the largest joints. It was and at their request as well as that of the National the Barrister's decision upon it. The claimant held prising to think that any man attacked with such an Society. I have endeavoured to explain these mat- instrument could have escaped with comparatively so the lease of a large house, which was let to several ters to you as fully as I can, because, as I have said, tenants, some of whom, however, paid to the amount little injury as the prosecutor. there have been great misapprehensions upon the sub- of 10/. a year, so that there was no borough qualifi .a Mr. Thomas M`Queal, assistant to Mr. Morgah, ject, and I know that things have been said which L . surgeon, No. 71, St. Martin's-lane, said he dressed tion. The 25th section of the Reform Act appeared to , have no foundation, the effect of which I trust that the prosecutor's wounds. There was a wound on the be framed with the object of preventing two persons what I have stated, speaking with the authority which left side of the chest, and a wound on the ball of the from qualifying for the same property. but in this in my station gives me, may, in a great meesure, tend stance, if the present claim w a s not a ll owe d, the pro- , thumb rho wounds had e vi d e ntly b een infli c t e d to remove. —(Head.) B perty would lint there are some other points with a knife or some sharp in s trument. The w oun d s confer no vote whatever. Mr. S mith to which it may be well to advert; and one is corc were not dangerous. luded by oe stating that one similar case h a d with respect to the aid and assistance which is to curve d il _lnspector Ages, who took the charge, was a s k e d d last year in the parish of Bermondsey, and the as to the state of the prisoner when b; ought to the be given to the normal schools. You are aware Revising Barrister allowed the cla im . that normal scho o l s are i ns tit u tions tor the par- Mr. station-house ? -The inspector said Myers appeared Meymott said he recollected the case referred pose of educating persons who are intended for to by Mr. Smith, but he did not see any anal g el to be drupla the o ffi ce of schoolmaster—an object most impor-Mr. MALTBY asked Myers a hat he bad to say ? between it and the present claim , because, in tent in every point of view. Nothing is more dyers —l have only this to say, that I was intoxi former, there were several separate houses held under deplorable than the state of education (speakin : cared at the time, and so I cannot contradict anything g one lease, whereas, in the present case, it was one house generally) of the schoolmasters who affect or pretend ' the witnesses have said. I don't know what hap only, which was clearly .4' greater value than would to teach the people. No aystem of edw2ation, no W f.. p'ned, and was :,o unconscious of whet took plave, form a borough. qualification, and, therefore, it could , t h at w h en I got sober in the morning, I did not .------LF°l forts for education, can be of much value until we not confer a vote for the county. Tfurupo You ii , shall have masters who shall be Eble tc combine the mr. Smith , know what it was tor that I had been lucked up I , „ --, ~-. pul,l;xtauti b y ‘,.---- NO. contended that the ca es were simil r ; • aceeaa . t'r L. 1.0.-, Nal—. , . The 81674 Office , improvement of the moral and religious knowledge of , a• , was quite drunk, and I bad Leen out drinking all 1 4,,. ih, :ltrand, .7eriutea, at T . l qty There were several different holdings by tenants in i d ay . strand, in the Precinct a the Savoy ?. mtu their pupils, as well as of their manners, with the i I both cases ) none of them being 'of sufficient amount I Ur. Kuala fully committed the prisoner for the tocicuesex, bionday, kepterabsr sot 104 ' general education they may impart. If Weir art of / carrying on the discipline of the school and in the management of young people shall be such as to enable them to do this, then may we trust that they will be able to give theta an education which may make them good. men and good subjects. No pains that can be taken are too much in this matter. I wish I could say that the business of a schoolmaster could be truly called a profession. I wish that the middle and lower classes of the people in this country could see in the situation of the schoolmaster a situation to which they might hope to arrive, and which would not only afford them a decent liveli hood, but raise them in the scale of society to a sta tion which the important trust reposed in their hands seems to require. This must be done by degrees ; and yet, perhaps, there is no object more important. —(lean) Towards this object the Committee of Council have given considerable assistance. They have given the National Society 5,0001. towards build ing a normal school, and they have given 1001. a year towards the maintenance of that school. They have given (I am speaking only of what has been done in England)—they have given 3,5001. towards a building for a training school at York, and they have given as much for a building in the county of Chester ; and there are other applications now under consideration of which I shall say nothing. They also have given to the British and Foreign School Society the sum of 5001. for their building, and for the main tenance of their schools 7501. a year; the relative proportions of 1,0001. and 850/. having, in point of fact, been calculated upon the number of masters that each of those societies intended to educate. And here I may take the opportunity of saying that I was very much surprised recently to read in a newspaper that a reverend gentleman had stated at a meeting, held in the East Riding of this county, that it was true that the Committee of Council had given 3,5001. towards building a normal school, at York, but that they had given 7501. a year to the British and Foreign School Society, and had refused to give any thing to the National Society. Now, such a gentleman, before he states things in a public meeting, should be quite sure of his facts. And what did this declaration produce 1' It elicited from another reverend gentleman who was present at that meeting the impassioned ob servation, "I never heard of such conduct in my life." (Laughter.) Now I would entreat gentlemen, clergy men especially, before they make charges of that description, to inform themselves of the real state of the case ; to take the trouble of writing to, or of in quiring of, those who know something about the matter, and not throw out those insinuations and groundless imputations. I trust that, after what I have said, these accusations of a partiality hostile to the Established Church may not be repeated, at least within the county in which we are now met. The object of the Committee of Council for Education is to accomplish that which Parliament has declared to be its object; that object is not to educate only those who are connected with the Estab lished Church, but others. It is not only to give education in the way pointed out by the Church of England, but to give the means of education to other persons who have means, and are willing to contribute from their means to the education of the poor of their respective sects.—(Hear.) Now these are the subjects upon which I was anxious to say a few words. I have said already that I regret that there are not more present to hear me.—(Hear.) I wish that every clergyman in this district had been now present; I wish that every man who has at heart the education of the people of this country could hear me, that I could remove from each of their minds anything like a feeling of jealousy of the powers and proceedings of the Privy Council in respect to educa tion. All that the Committee desire is to act cordially with the clergy in this matter. Their object is to give education to the people, religious in the first place, and secular also—and with respect to those schools that are connected with the Established Church, to do it not only with the consent of the clergy, but with their active, with their willing, with their free co operation.—(Cheers.) Perhaps you will excuse me saying a little more upon the subject of school masters.—(Hear.) I have already stated the great want of proper and efficient schoolmasters that now exists. It is a want that is daily increasing, and. upon which we have the most clamorous claims , upon us for assistance. What we shall be able to do, or what persons may expect us to do, I cannot say. But no person is more convinced than I am that upon the improvement of your scoolmaster does in fact de pend the improvement of education. (Hear.) We have done something. By the last Order of Council upon the subject we have agreed to do something towards building schoolmasters' houses. That is a great point. In order that a schoolmaster should be held in proper regard and respect, and that he should hold the rank and station which I have already stated I think it desirable that he should hold, lam of opinion that he ought to be pro►ided with a suitable residence—a house by no means too large, so as to exalt him too much in the scale of society, but he should be taken out of a cottage and out into a decent residence. which would be calcu lated to make those persons of the classes lower than himself inclined to show a proper feeling of respect for the schoolmaster who teaches their children. I need not, after what I have said, assure you that the great object I have at heart is, that in the per formance of the duty I am called upon to perform, no act of mine shall give good ground for jealousy or ill feeling to any class or to any person, whether Church man or Dissenter.—(Hear, hear.) I am a Church man, from a strong feeling that the Church of Ehg land contains doctrines infinitely superior to any others that have ever been promulgated upon earth; that they are the doctrines of our Saviour; that they are the doctrines which will lead to our eternal salva tion ; and for those reasons I am a steady, a staunch Churchman. But I cannot help feeling that others are at liberty to judge for themselves upon this question, and that there may be per sons who may conscientiously feel that they cannot agree with me in my opinion. I am not, therefore, to shut them out from all education ; I am not to say to them—" Though Parliament has voted a sum of money for the education of the people, I will not give you any part of it, although, in fact, you contribute part of it in the first instance." These are the grounds upon which I shall act in my office.—(Hear.) I do entreat the clergy to co-operate cordially with us ; and if they will do so I do not fear that, in process of time, the people of the country in which we live will become the best and most religiously educated people on the face of the earth. His Lordship sat down amidst loud applause." alone to confer a borough qualification, and he there fore summitted that the lessee was entitled to vote for the county. The REVISING BARRISTER said, if he understood the question rightly, the subject of the clairn appeared to be a house split into several tenancies, all of them under 101. a year. Mr. Smith said this was so. attempt to murder, and refused bail when applica tion was made to him. John Locker, a well-known dog fancier, was charged with having att em pt e d t o s t ea l a valuable little dog belonging to Mra. Parsenc, of llalfmoon-street. Mrs. Parsons said she sra Vir taing in Curzon street about nine o'clock on Friday evening, when the suddenly missed her dog; she turned round, and saw the prisoner attempting to cover it with a cloth. She called " Stop thief," and the prisoner then ran off with the dog, but dropped the animal when pursued. A person named Cadwallader Waddy said he fol• lowed and overtook the prisoner. The prisoner, it appeared, had enticed the dog by the well-known means of a piece of prepared liver. Mr. MA.LTET fined the prisoner 51., the value of the dog, and . 201. additional fine, or six months' hard la' bour. The Rxvisimui BARuisTeu inquired whether the whole building, if let, would not be worth more than 101. a year? Mr. Smith replied that it would. The REVISING BARRISTER said that under these circumstances he did not think that a county quali - - fication had been made out. It was clear that the building was worth more than 101. a-year, and being within a borough, it clearly conferred a right to vote for that borough, and the fact of its being split: into several tenements made no difference. Mr. Meymott said the 25th section of the Reform Act declared that "no person should be entitled to vote in the election of a knight of the shire, in respect of any estate or interest in any house, warehouse, &c., if the same were of such value es would confer on him or any other person the right of voting for any city or borough, whether he or any other person shall or shall not have actually acquired the right to vote for such city or borough in respect thereof." "( The REVISING BARRISTER said he had no dc(ubt upon the point. He thought the claim could nGtlie sustained, and therefore the name would be expunged from the list. When Mr. Fisn had gone through the Lambeth list, he addressed Mr. Clark, the vestry clerk, and complimented him and the overseers upon the careful manner in which the lists had been prepared. The whole of the revision having been gone through, Mr. Meymott addressed the Revising Bar rister, and said that on his own behalf, and he had no doubt Mr. Jeans would concur with him, he begged to tender his thanks for the courtesy they had experienced at the hands of the Revising Barrister, and the extremely careful and efficient manner in which the several lists had been revised. UNION•HALL. Thomas Purren and Jeremiah cross, two drayrnesr appeared on bail to anslx er the charge of causing the death of Mr. Scott. Mr. COTTINGIIAM, addressing the accused partiee, said that since the inquiry that had taken place with respect to Mr. Scott's death at that court, an inquest had been held on the body of the deceased, and a ver dict of accidental death returned. This was the result which he (the magistrate) anticipated, and in dis , charging the accused, he seriously impressed on their minds the necessity, in future, of haying some peril attending at the heads of their horses while thei themselves were engaged in unloading their drays. Had that precaution been adopted in the present is' stance, the lire of a human being would not have been sacrificed, and they would not have been placed in the unpleasant position from which they had been just discharged. In the course of the day an aged man, in the garb of a sailor, applied for advice under these circunr, stances :—The applicant s t a t e d th a t h e was a na ti ve CI Prussia, but had been fifty-one years in England, tell of which he had served this country on board a man-of . war. He was now, in his old age, in great distresO and considered that he had some claims for his ser vices, although he was allowed almost to perish in 60 street. Mr. COTTINGRAM, who deplored the situation of the old man, questioned him on the subject of tho nature of his services, from which it appeared that be was wounded on board the Orion, line-of-battle shin in an engagement with the Spaniards off Algesiragt e mi l that he also received another wound in the heal frofn a splinter while serving in the Montague, in tits Wri i st Indies, and lastly that he was in the ever memo' rage battle of Trafalgar. He added that he derive! no ,pension for his services, not being long enough io tha navy to entitle him. He had waited on the Prue' aim Consul, who refused to send him to his own country, saying that as he had fought and bled for England, they had a right to maintain him. Mr. COTTINGHAM who interested himself very muchin the fate of the old tar, advised a memorial to br drawn up, setting forth his services, and addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty, with a view that his cos might be taken into consideration, and be granted so asylum in Greenwich Hospital for the few remainirif years of his life. The mag i s t ra t e h a d th e memorial dispatched to the Ad m i ra lty, an d it was acc ompanied by a note from himself, calling the attention of the Secretary to the ca s e. Th e a ppli can t, w ith tears 0 ; gratitude, thanked the magistrate, and he was desire°, to call in a few days t o b e i n f orme d o f th e re sult 01 the application on his behalf. Shortly before the termination of the business of the day, two deputations of tradesmen waited on tb e magistrate to solicit his advice with respect to tiff°, grievous nuisance s , the one a l uc if er manu f a ctory, 1 ° Kent-street ; and the other an exhibition of works, at a house. situated in the populous vicinity °, London-bridge, on the sou th s id e . At the first ?' these places, there was carried on a brisk trade 0 1 lucifer matches, upwards of a dolen men and . 11 bting employed in the manufactory. The stele. wising from the process of making the matches 0 1 intolerable, and the manufactory itself; being nothieg bst a wooden erection, was exposed every . momen t to 've conflagration, in which case great and extols' damage would accrue to the owners of the adjace nt plemises. With resp ec t to th e ex hibition, it vo l " stated that a fellow with a big drum and a pandesf pipe was stationed at the door a ll day long, from eight in the morning until ele v en o' c lock at nt ~ 'Prat during the intervals he was Rot engaged his 101 be+ting away on the drum he was exerting to the titmost limits of their power andawling out, Walk 1 1 , , ladies and gentlemen, behold, t a , ~ , m ishing works of natur:' The result of suei l l eot E ibition was, that it caused great crowds to co s_d o i lposite, and who hicg.ked the thoroughfare, __; 11 gave great facilities for pickin g --- -Lets. There was scarcely a day passed that persons pas s ing to and 1 5 from the City were not robbed by the gaffs thieves infesting the spot. Mr. COTTINGHAM, having listened to the complai ta tj . in each case, advi se d th e app li can t s t o i n dict Iw 7 paxtiats at tho ensuing aossions. The REVISING BARRISTER said he was very glad they had concluded their labours ; and he thanked th• agents on both sides for the assistance they had ren dered him, and which, he said, had rendered those labours comparatively light. The court then adjourned. MARRIAGES.—By an Act passed in the late session concerning bans and marriages in certain district chureb" or chapels, various doubts which had arisen art remove", respecting the legality of such marriages, and it 15 ti:r dared that in every case in which a district has be" shall be assigned to any church or chapel under A t he , Church-building Acts, it shall be determined by r ef Commissioners and the Bishop o f th e Di o cese wiletP bans of matrimony shall b e p u bli s h e d an d ma rriages 0, % 4 lemnised in any church or c h a p e l or no t. The 101 1 ing clause has been f rame d t o ren d er marr iages "de which have already taken place, and provision is Isisot for future case s . S ec ti on 3—" And whereas by trews bans have been published, and divers marriages bate been solemnised in chapels with districts assig nv r te ci them under the provisions of the hereinbefore ree l , d a Acts, or some of them, but in which chapel bins c, ° " o . net be legall y . published, nor marriages by law 90 ;p g nised ; and it is expedient to remove di ffi culties 111 ; ; I i y from te circumstances aforesaid touching the "" as of such marri a ges ;be it therefore enacted, that b d s . o already puolished and marri ages a l rea d y s olernili 6e such chapels as aforesaid shall not hereafter be 4 1 . 11 0 ,1 tioned on account of the said bans having been publ i- 1 nr the said marriages sol emn i se d i n any suc h 010%4 aforesaid; and the minister or m i n i t t ers w h o 8 0100 1 re the same shall not be liable to any ecch-siastical cepsubf or to any other proceedings or penalties w h a tsoefer see reason thereof, and the regi s t ers o f a ll mar riages s° 4' 0 11 lemnised as af o resaid, o r co pi es o f suc h reg i s ters be received in all courts of law and e qu i ty asevi,'"'" such marriages respectively." HORRIBLE CRUELTY.—THE K.,. - In the months of November ant public wind was awakened by made by " the National Animals' horrible cruelties in the above should have thought it would have of these charnel-Houses to a just sen flieted by them on that noble animal, such is not the case. Mr. May, with the --A' Society, have continually kept a sharp eye on them► io f have, during the week, succeeded in entering sele rti t hs the yards •, and the reports are truly horrible, following declaration will show :—I went into ?slit, ter's horse-slaughtering yards, Belle I s le, Battle -VI fii, in company with Childs. The yard was in a horrid.coriths don—there were nineteen living horses pent up molls shed, and twenty-ore dead horses lying about the ?; no s just as they had died ; the man told us they hA killed a horse for the ast fortnight, as more died ° ere and nightly than could be skinned. Those horses, aid in all imaginable positions, just as they had streggl o es the last agonies of death. A bricklayer, who bad t he some days building a wall which formed one end or e to yard, said it was enough to melt a heart of SW n ec rr see what the poor horses suffered.—llimaT MAT , tarn ; W. CHILDS, officer. MARRIED. r 136 On the 18th of September, at the British EmbassP Be b. Captain Henry Smith, R.N., C. 8., to Anna, daught er - late Sylvester Costigin, Esq., of Dublin. J. G" .0 On the 26th of September, at Newark, the 2-c c ' u gh' Bussell, Vicar of Newark-upon-Trent, to Julia, eldest dat ter of G. Hodgkinson, Esq., of the above place. h G. On the 27th of September, at Marylebone Cbu re %Ata Macfarren. Esq., of Berners-street, to Thalia, eldest c lll4O of Heinrich Andrao, Esq., of the 15th Regime DIED. Ser At his seat, Euston Hall, Suffolk, on the 28th ." - Umber, the Duke of Grafton, aged 84, deeply and Wu °. lamented. bolo, Oil the 19th of September, at Brighton-place, F° ll° .A 7 4 Captain Andrew Barclay, after a few days' illness, 7stid years. His loss will be deeply felt, especially by the I°' destitute. 0 118 On the 21st of September, Joseph Taylor, Esq ., late 0 Royal Exchange Insurance-office, aged 82. On the 21st of September, at Sarum, Wilts, Janes L el° Esq., of Wheeler-place, Haverstock-hill, aged 79. cabell ° ' On the 22,1 of September, at Raywill, near Hull , A reliet of Daniel Sykes, Esq. On the 23d of September, at the Vicarage, Swinderbyt cuinshire, Mary, the wife of the Rev. W. J Clark John r ot, On the 25th of September, Ann, wife of Mr. ohn of Victoria-road, KenNington. ,•,„Abetht On the 26th of September, at South Lambeth, D,'l" wife of John l'ittar, Esq. On the 26th of September, at Christ's Hospital, Reining Rice, of University College, Oxford gorri c. On the 27th of September, William , so n of Mr. Levy, of Norfolk-street. Strand. On the 26th of September, Charles Graham CleatherLro, eond son of Captain lAiv.arti Cleather, o f nigher A rdvn ." near Alanclirs Ellett trr. 0 0111- On the 27th of September. in the Strand, Mrs. stun, relict of the late Mr. Edward Roulston. 0 111- On the 27th of September, Ed war d Peppercorn, EA . ' grove, Rye-lane, Peckham. Mr . 9°l On thv 28th tifSepteinber, at Chertsey, Surrey , Street, tveth 50, . ~A re et, On the 25th of September ßlßTHS , in Great Marlboroug h- ' the wife of the Rev. C. H. Gaye, of a daughter. flAck On the 25th of September, at Upper Thurlow-pla ce ' o .bt.r. g ney-road, the lady of T. Ware, Esq., solicitor, of a daut.ife On the 26th of September, in Bedford-square, the Patrick Black, M.D., te of a son. On the 26th of Sepmber, in Bennett-street, St- Jap iejh Mrs. Alexander Bridge, of a son. On the 27th of September, in York-street, Coyent - g gird Mrs. H. G. Bohn, of a daughter.