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but allusion so personal had been made to himself, that he felt as if he should rather be shrinking from his duty than trespassing to address the House at that time. The Hon. Member who brought the motion forward had talked much of the advantages which the Universities possessed, and wished a commission to be issued, to ob. Lain information respecting the state of the Universities, when he had himself already shown that he was in pos session of that information. He had talked much of drawbacks on paper and allowances from the Consoli dated Fund, and of the great patronage of Government. What had the Government done ? They had paid 71. 19s. 6d. a year for a preacher ; lIL Gs. 2d. a year for a professor of divinity ; and 35/. 3s. for a professor of philosophy, and all their other grants put together did not amount to 300/ a year. The Government might have done something for some educational establish ment, but he believed that there was no country in Europe in which less had been done by the Government than in this, for promoting the intellectual hapiness of the people. The sum granted to the University of Cambridge was still less. It was not, therefore, on the ground that enormous grants had been made to the two Universities that the Hon. Member could foun 1 any claim to the exercise of this inquisitorial power of the Crown. It was not the amount, but the use or abuse of that amount which could alone justify the exercise of this inquisi torial power. But had either of the Hcn. Members who had preceeded him suggested any instance where the money granted to the two Universities by the nation or the Crown had been misapplied ? The lion. Member for Weymouth drew attention to the pre-eminence our Universities had attained with so little en couragement on the part of the State. How small was that encouragement compared with that given by other nations less rich than our own ? And yet the Hon. Member wished to appoint a Commission of Inquiry which would practically impede the progress, if not diminish that pre-eminence of which the Hon. Mem ber spoke so warmly. The lion. Member had, there fore, laid no ground for inquiry in respect of the abuse either of the funds received from the Crown, or the funds inherited by the Universities from their founders. But it was said, our Universities had produced no works of any great eminence. Now, it was not necessary that these works should be written within the limits of the University. Was it necessary that Mr. Allen should have written his works actually within the walls of Christ Church College ? No. It was sufficient that he had received within those walls that education, without which it would have been hardly possible for him to produce them. But he defied the Hon. Member to produce any work calculated to advance the history or literature of the country, either in respect of po litics or science, which had not been written by men who had been connected with one or other of the eniver- cities. Then again it wassaid, that the possession ofdegrees in either University was essential to the establishment of any man's fair claim to professional employment, but that argument would cut two ways. Was, however, the fact so ? Why with respect to the law, he thought he need not remind the House that, of the last six Lord High Chancellors, three of them had not been compelled to attain honours by passing through that course of education pursued in our Universities. True, also, some of the most eminent medical prac titioners of the metropolis had never bsen connected with either of the Universities, but this was no argu ment in favour of the assertion that the education pro vided at the Universities in this particular did not tend to confer benefit or advantage upon the great body of the people. In the law the Hon. Member had des tared that the Universities had something like a monopoly ; but this was certainly not the case with respect to the common law. But with respect to the civil law, there was a distinction which he could not help think ing the Honourable Member ought to have stated. It was this:—Our civil courts and their practice were materially if not exclusively connected with the welfare and well-being of the Church. With respect to the th;rd prrression, namely, the profession of theology anti holy orders, he thought it was necessary that some particular form of education should be gone through by persons who intended to adopt that profession, but it was not absolutely necessary that a young man should take a University degree before entering the Church. In the northern parts of England there were many yoang men who had been invested with holy orders by the Bishop, notwithstanding they had never been at either Oxford or Cambridge. In another part of the Hon. Mt mber's speech, he alluded to a vestion which, however im portant it might be, could not be settled by any inquiry instituted by a Royal Commission. Whether Mr. Ward be or be not correct, whether Mr. Hampden be or be not a heretic, or whether Dr. Pusey be or be not a heretic, were propositions which were never sub mitted to the University of Oxford or Cambridge, and therefore they could not have decided the spa stion. With all due respect to the House he must say, judging either from experience or analogy, a Royal Commission eould not allecl; eitl er of these three cases, er afiect any case which might hereafter arise. The facts connected with them had already been before the proper and con stituted tribunals, namely, a convocation of the University, anti he could state firmly, and with all due respect to the House, that no inquiry, instituted under the authority of the Crown, could change or alter the result of that inquiry. The fourth case to which the Hon. Gentleman had re ferred occurred in Trinity College, Oxford. That case had been referred to the visitor of the college, who decided that the Senate had not excesded its powers. He thought that after that d*cision there could be no ground of complaint against the College. The case n which the Hon. Gentleman had laid most stress was that of Mr. Rowe, in Exeter College. The Hon. Gen tleman had stated that the College had issued an adver tisement of the vacancy for a collegiate office. Ile (Sir R. Inglis) would admit that there was no occasion to advertise. But it was also quite clear that the College had exercised a sound discretion in rejecting Mr. Rowe, and electing his competitor. The fact that a man had been senior wrangler was not in itself enough to show that he was superior in academic acquirements to the person who might afterwards be brought into competition with him. In that case the visitor of the College, the Bishop of Exeter, who was moreempetent to defend himself than any one else could be to defend him, ought to have acted upon the advice of a great Lord Chancellor, wko said that in giving judgment he ought to: give no reason. He regretted that the Bishop of Exeter had not acted upon that ad vice, but had chosen to go into a full statement of his views on the whole case.—(The Hon. Baronet then read the judgment of the Right Rev. Prelate, which was of some length.) Mr. CURTEIS said that the matter of csmplaint was that, in the case of Mr. Rowe, there had been no exa mination. Sir R. INGLIS replied that the qualifications of the two ce.ndidates had already been ascertained, in previous competitions for collegiate honours. The College thought that the unsuccessful candidate was not equal to his opponent, in the requisites set forth by the statute ; and the decision was not influ enced by any pecuniary consideration. He apolo gised for having so long occupied the House ; but he had felt it his duty to go minutely into the qiies &ions raised by the Hon. Gentleman, in consequence of hie connexion with the University of Oxford. The Hon. Gentleman referred to a speech made in the House of Lords, some ten years ago, by Lord Radnor, which called explanations from the Chancellors of (Word and s'ambridge. But he could inform the Honourable Member that the University of Oxford had revised the statutes in consequence of that discussion. Ile admitted' that if an abuse were proved, and that all constitutional means of redress were exhausted, the authority of the Crown ought to be invoked. But the Honourable Member bad made out no case fur such interposition. He would not deny that the endowments of the Univer sities were originally Roman Catholic ; but the Legis lature had, for three centuries, confirmed the possession 3n the Protestant Church. He would ask, then, had the State a power which was repudiated in private life, to resume a gift, without allegation of abuse ? The fact was, however, that a large proportion o' the endowments in Oxford were of Protestant foun dation. The number of Catholic foundations was 297, of Protestant 232, and in Cambridge the Catholic en dowments were not more than one-fourth of the %hole. It might be recollected Out a great body of the resident members of the University were those whose age and the nature of whose circumstances may not admit their giving a large portion of their time to the study of theology. The Hon. Gentleman stated that at Oxford the education was now elementary. Ire should state that the education bestowed qualified those who had studied there to give the most detailed, answers to the most complicated questions. With regard to their edu cation in Greek literature, both poetry and history and in logic, it was by no means elementary. Their religious knowledge was not elementary, a great many of them possessing a ereater knowledge or theology than was exhibited for-- wady at final exarainations. In order to obtain a de g ree te must have a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures and theology ; this was the result of that I . ystem with which the lion. Member de . st o re that the Government should interfere. T T l ll l : ri l , i w on a . i e nn .n t _t . eman made no grounds for his motion. 15 unconstitutional in the change which he complained beneficial praetieql re sult of that change had been most ° He also stated that to the great body of the University. theat the University did not redeePa the p led ge made by statut N oble Chan cellor—that they would, evise the lle could state that different Colleges proceeded ins to e ta s. h f e orm Com mittees for the purpose, and in many sev eral . Colleges had made such alterations as wereesreaouired. The Hon. Gentleman presented a petition fro m street, which was signed by many who were not the most distinguished in the University, and several of them were connected with that which is now called an University College. Their opinions were less entitled to weight, because they belonged to an institution founded on different principles, and not a rival institution, for he would not do it the honour of c alling it a rival, but an institution which had attempted to establish itself in the vsition of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The Hon. Gentleman stated as one of the three great evils that the professors were not allowed to be the governing body of the University. In Gower street they were not allowed to he the govern ing body of the University. He also stated that those professors had pupils, and ought to superintend the general state of the Universities. The petition he pre • rented was irrelevant to the question that her Majesty's Government should institute a commission to inquire into the system of education in the Universities of Oxford gad Cambridge. He complained of the ecclesiastical body • but they should look to the statutes of the Col leges before they made any alterations. The statute did not prescribe what the Hot). Gentleman complained of. He complained that the elective franchise was limited to those wbo signed the Thirty- Articles. Admitting that, however, to be sit sail, which it was not, the Hon. Gentleman's proposi tion could not remedy it. He also made it a subject of co o m a glaint that the differences of rank was so aristocra tiy observed in Oxford, and especially in Cambridge; and he gave au account of the expense and colour of gowns of the different ranks and classes in the Univer sities, and the uses to which the worn-out garments were afterwards applied. lie believed that the colour and texture of the clothing in many instances proved to be no barrier to the wearer's acquiring distinguished honours in the University. The first instance he would give was Lord Lyttelton who, though he wore a gilt robe, distinguished himself in a manner that no one less favoured by birth, or less endowed by fortune, could have exceeded. There were many other instances, many of whom were within those walls to-night, who, though they had a great amount of wealth, who, at the same time, received, in the course of their academic life, the greatest testimony of their proficiency. There were also men born in a low rank of life, who had acquired the same attainments. The late Bishop Heber, whose name was not to be mentioned without creat ing respect, stated that their differences were to be re garded more as an encouragement to the literature of the rising poor than as a degradation. The Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in the commencement of the present century, was himself one of those individuals, and nevertheless raised him self to the highest episcopal dignity. The Hon. Gentleman ought not to consider their temporary inferiority for the first few years, but ought to take into consideration that their posi tion was inferior lacesre they went to the Universities ; soil it was that inferiority that raised one of them to the highest situ ation in the Church, and many others, if not to the same, at any rate to something like analagous distinctions. The Hon. Member for Weymouth introduced many subjects, and he thought it his duty to endeavour not to omit mention of any. If he did omit any, it was not from an unwillingness to meet anything to which the Hon. Gentleman called the attention of the House. Full as his speech was of facts, it had not contained anything which proved that there were abuses in those Universities which could not be remedied by existing tribunals. lie concluded by expressing his determination to oppose the pronosition which the Hon. Member had intro duced, but could not sit down without uttering his thanks for the tone in which be introduced it, and to the House for so patiently permitting him to address it. Mr. NYSE wished to congratulate the House on the tone in which this measure was proposed and opposed. However well disposed the Universities may he to remedy those abuses by internal regulations, the public opinion ought to be directed towards them through lthe introduction of some remedial mea sure to the Legislature. All the Universities of Europe were conducted upon a principle of efficiency well worthy of imita tion. In the University of Paris, there was a rule by which boys wishing to enter, should enter at fourteen years of age, and should remain there for three years, in a probationary school ; but in Oxford University the colleges had, by their practice, acquired too much of the character of grammar schools, and, therefore, that accounted for the manner in which attempts had been made to reduce them to a level still lower. He did not think that the Hon. Baronet had given by any means a satisfactory answer to the arguments of his Hon. Friend. The Hon. B arone t a pp eare d to hi m (M r. W yse) to argue in a manner which tended rather to confirm than to weaken the arguments of his Honourable Friend beside him. The Honourable Baronet had not said anything in support of the assertion that the Universities of 'Oxford or Cambridge were too elementary in their codes or practice. He (Mr. Wise) did not mean to say that those noble institu. tions should not continue to keep up the rule requiring the study of the magnificent languages and history of ancient times; hut he did contend that the course of education ought to embrace a department in which pupils would be able to acquire information such as would suit the state of society in our day, and the station in life they were ultimately to fill. The Universities of the Continent differed not only from each other in their systems, hut different from all of them were Ox ford and Cambridge. On the Continent, a University was regarded as a corporation which extended all over the country to which it belonged, as for instance the University of Paris, which extended all over France. And in Scotland the Univer sities somewhat resembled those of the Continent, for they had their different departments for each branch of education, while in Oxford and in Cambridge it was professed only to give a general education for the benefit of all classes, and hence the lamentable deficiency in the English Colleges in this respect. These were points which he feared the Hon. Baronet had not eonsidered, for if he had, he would not have condemned the proposition of his Hon. Friend. Mr. ALEXANDER HOPE said he congratulated the lion. Member for Weymouth upon the speech he had made in introducing this subject; and lie congratulated him, not only as the Member for Weymouth, but also as a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Two years ago the lion. Member made a speech, which appeared in the shape of a pamphlet, on this question; but he ( Mr. II.) feared that the arguments of the lion. Member to-night would lead to nothing better than a leading article in Prink.—( Laughter.) He (Mr. Hope) did not think that the issuing of this Com mission of Inquiry would at all tend to the reforma tion of the system pursued in the English colleges. The noblemen, and fellow commoners at the Universities sat on higher seats in the chapels, but in every other respect they were placed on the same footing as the others in the Unis versity. Did the Hon. Gentleman remember that Trinity College, Cambridge, had instituted some time ago an inquiry which had resulted in placing the sitar in the same position with respect to the election to university scholarships as the other members of the college? There was, under these circumstances, no necessity for a Government commission to issue, since one of the first colleges in the country had been its own reformer. What was the course which a student had to go through before taking a degree at the University ? Even iu taking the degree of senior optime or se fond class classical tripos, he must have a knowledge of moral philosophy, mathematics and algebra. He must have a fair knowledge of Greek and Latin, and a certain power of composition. This was as much as any young man could reasonably acquire in three years. lie (Mr. Hope) would caution the House against raising the standard of the University too high. At present the age at which a young man entered the University was eighteen or nineteen ; but raise the standard too high, these young men would stay at home, and perfect themselves for the University, and then run up, and carry away the fellow. ships, and thus, instead of the Universities being schools for young men, they would become lottery offices. Mr. HUNIE thought the arguments of his Honourable Friend who had introduced this motion had not been answered on the other side. Certainly not by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, who might con sider himself lucky if during the next fortnight he should es cape appearing in the columns of Punch. —(Laughter. ) The ground on which he (Mr. Hume) supported this motion was, that the Universities were national property. They were sup ported by the public, and could consequently be the objects of inquiry by that House. lie was anxious for inquiry to ascer tain why none but Protestants should benefit by a national establishment. When these colleges were established there were none but Roman Catholics ; now, half the population of the United Kingdoms were Catholics, but they could not par ticipate in these advantages. He would limit his reasons for supporting the motion to this one, that they were national in stitutions. Nothing was more important than throwing open the doors of these great seminaries to the people at large, and casting aside all sectarian and narrow-minded feelings. He would give this motion his best support. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that if he addressed the House as a Member representing the Uni versity of Cambridge, he would not be disposed to say any thing, on the present occasion, upon the subject now under consideration, for, having listened attentively to the speech of the Hon. mover, he had heard nothing imputed to the Uni versity which he represented like misconduct, or a breach of the sacred trust reposed in it—nothing which implied censure in its proceedings—nothing requiring the strong arm of power as a remedy for any existing or supposed abuse. He should, therefore, be content to rest on the judgment and good sense of the House, the impropriety of bringing forward the ma chinery of a Commission, by an address of the House of Com mons to her Majesty, to inquire into an institution against which no censure, and no abuse of trust had been imputed. But he was anxious, upon a question of this kind, after the speeches made, to state the ground upon which, as a Member of Parliament and as a member of the Government he objected to the course which the Hon. Gentleman recom mended to the House. The institution of a Commission such as the Hon Gentleman recommended, and the interposition of the House to advise the Crown to adopt it, were no light matters. A Commission such as that proposed was an instrument which the House of Commons used in contending with great evils existing in the institutions of the country. They were not the weapons to be brought out every day for the purpose of gratifying individual curiosity or satisfying indivi dual spleen. Honourable Gentlemen might think the system in the English Universities was inferior to that pursued in the Universities on the continent. They might think it better that young men should be educated under the care of professors. rather than under the care of tutors. These were questions for deliberation and discretion—for the discussion of literary and other men, who took an interest in these matters, and who were acquainted with all the details of those institu tions; but it was not a case which called for the interposition of Parliament, or for the appointment of a Commission. The lion. Member for Montrose said that if there was nothing to be curse. ted in the Universities, why should they resist the ap pointment of a Commission? fhey would, if the system pursued in them was found to be salutary, come out of the inquiry with triumph. The same argument must be used of an innocent man being put upon his trial. The result would show his innocence, but would not the aceusation imply censure in the first instance, and censure once implied soon swelled into charges of an aggravated character. The public mind was prejudiced and the man's fair fame must receive irreparable injury. Then, with respect to the Universities—a charge pre ferred against them in a serious manner, and investigated with the formality of a commission, must be productive of injurious consequer.ces. Why should they make inquiries of this kind into places of education which di charged their duty zealously and sedulously. it the motion were acceded to it would materially interfere with the duties of those connected with the college, prevent that attention to education and instruc tion which were the main objects of the institution, beget dif ference of opinion, engender controversy, and be most injurious to the best interests of academical education. It wonld unsettle men's minds, invite the discussion of particular systems, and disarrange the whole arrangements of collegiate education in these places. He believed that the sanctioning of the inquiry would produce no good, but a great disarrange ment. lie was sure that the course that had been pursued by the Government was the best to instruct the people. It had been said that the Government had not looked to the education of the people in any appointment that bad been made. Why, let them look to the appointments in the law of Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Justice Maule, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Baron Parke, and several others—were they not all men that had risen from the people, and it was to their honour that they had done so. Then look at science—they had such men as Herschel' and Airey. With respect to what had fallen from the Honourable Member upon the medical profession, it might be true that the Uni versity had made only twenty doctors, while the University of London had made one hundred and twenty doctors ; bat he would beg to observe that the number by no means guaranteed the eminence; and he would further say that the man most eminent in the medical profession at the present moment was a member of the Univer s ity o f Ca m bridge, and if Cambridge had conferred no other medical degree than this, it would have perfectly justified herself in tha eyes of the world. With re gard to the minor topics of distinctions of dress and seats in hall, he conceived that it was only in accordance with the no tions of propriety:ente r t a i ne d i n t hi s country, t h at w h ere t h ere I was a distinction of rank th ere s h ou ld b e an express i on o f re spect; and he did not see that there should be any less respect shown to a nobleman in college th,n was felt to be his due in there ip tinin sh ew andeo were distinctions the ieedat had could,sgtcrin particularlyoa d e t e i m o wm n i tn f th er r rti a eos eg n f war. tedh,thereih:tehpf highest eitst.vie: the were }lett iroraanymn other places in society. But this much he must assert, that if i s s t is h gioh o re gardoltrtrnhetrWhadititshtthinoese-.oi riAtitoleeuftvh.ebde Member state fur Montrose to of the Universities in Scotland, it should be the circumstances of th e t wo cases were widely differ t e i n a t t There were abuses existing in the U n i vers i t i es of Scotland, which that Commission had done much to rectify ; but such was not the case with regard to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; and if there were any abuses the Universities themselves hail ample power to amend them. He thought that the lion. Gentleman had made out no case for exercising this the most extreme power of the Constitution, for he had stated no fact which impugned either the utility of the Uni versities without their precincts, or the excellence of their discipline within them, and he should consequently oppose the motion. Lord PALMERSTON thought that if any Member of the House had been convinced by the able and very eloquent speech of the Hon. Gentleman who introduced the motion, their convictions were not likely to be unsettled by the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor- of the Exche. quer, who had just sat down. in the course of that speech he had used strong expressions against issuing of a commission, expressions and arguments which might have done very well in the mouth of the Hon. Member for Lincoln, who was knot; n to be decidedly opposed to any commission—( Hear, hear, from Col. Sibthoip)—but which came but ill from one who had had so much to do with commissions, and he must say that this commission seemed to him to be necessary, for it was not sufficient that no blame should attach to two great Institutions like these, it was sufficient to justify the ,in quiry if it could be shown that improvement could be made in the mode of education. He did not attach blame to the heads of these institutions, but he doubted whether they had the power or the disposition to carry out those improvements if they were necessary. The last point to which his Honourable Friend alluded was one which afforded strong grounds for in quiry. He meant the expediency of ascertaining whether they could not extend the means for persons of different religious persuasions attaining, not only the education, but the honours of a University. It was all very well to say that our Universi ties were open to Dissenters, but the honours and incentives to study were not given to them.— ( Hear, hear.) They gave them all the benefits of the education, but debarred them from attaining those honours which were given as inducements and impelling gauges to study. Take, however, a larger view of this point. If they considered a University educat ion as a means of making and seeking friendships which were to last for life, for bringing to ne; her persons of different ranks in society, and for producing that equality by means of feeling and accidental circumstances, nothing could be more desirable than that the system should be open to all parties, because it not only contri buted to improve the social, but the political condition of the country. Upon that ground also he thought his Hon. Friend had made out a good ease for inquiry, and he shou:d therefore give him his vote with great pleasure, Strangers were then ordered to w:thdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion .. Against it ... 143 Majority Mr. HUME then moved for the following returns :—Re turn of the total charge of a regiment of Life Guards (con sisting of the strength as in the Army Estimates for :844.5) of 436 men and officers of all ranks, for the year 1844; stating in detail the numbers of each rank, and the pay and allowances of the same ; also all other charges, distinguishing so far as may be possible, the amount for clothing, for contingent, for commissat iat, for medical, for barrack, and all other expenses under separate heads, stating also the average charge per man in such corps, for the year. Return of the total charge of a regiment of Horse-guards (strength as per Army Estimates for 1844), stating in detail the numbers of each rank, and the pay and allowances of the same ; also, all other charges, distinguishing, so far 23 may be possible, the amount for clothing, for contingent, for commissariat, for medical, for bar rack, and for other expenses, under separate heads, and the average charge par man in such corps. Return of the total charge of a regiment of Foot Guards (strength as per Army Estimates of 1844), stating, in detail, the numbers of each rank, and the pay and allowances of the same; also all other charges, distinguishing, so far as may be possible, the amount for clothing, for contingent, for commissariat, for medical, for barrack, and other expenses, under separate heads, and the average charge per man in such regiment. Return of the total charge of a regiment of cavalry of the line (strength as per Army Estimates, 1844), stating, in detail, the numbers of each rank, and the pay and allowances of the same ; also all other charges ; distinguishing, so far as may be pos sible, the amount for clothing, for contingent, for commis sariat, for medical, for barrack, and for other expense', under separate heads ; distingishing also the total charge of a regi ment of the same strength at home and a regiment abroad. and the average charge of such regiment per man. Return of the total charge of a regiment of infantry of the line (strength as per Army Estimates for 1844), stating, in detail, the num bers of each rank, and the pay and allowances of the same ; also, all other charges, diet nguishing; so far as may be possible, the amount for clothing, for contingent, for commissariat, for medical, and for barrack and other ex penses, under separate heads; distinguishing, also, the total aharge of a regiment at home and a regiment abroad, and the average charge per man of such regiment. Return of the total charge of a regiment of the West India regiments (strength as per Army Estimates for 1844), stating in detail the numbers of each rank, and the pay and allowances of the same : also all other charges; distinguishing, as far as may he pos. sible, the amount for clothing, for contingent, for commissa riat, and medical, and for barrack and other expanses, under separate heads, and the average charge per man for such corps; and the same return for each colonial corps (as per army esti• mates of 1844). Colonel SITiTHORY iV3.3 surprised at the motion for such expensive returns from a Gentleman who had long laboured to reduce the public expenditure. Mr. HUAIE made a few observations rqudiating his in tentian to throw any opprobrium upon the regiments in question. The Hon. G. BERKELEY wished to ask the Hon. Gentleman opposite, whether he had any objection to lay on the table the warrant by which part of the allowances and pay were taken away from the Life Guards, and given to the Royal Horse Guards Blue. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT slated that he had no objection to comply with the Hon. Genthman's request, as he had no doubt that the arrangements would prove satisfactory. He was also willing that the returns moved for l y the Hon. Mem ber Ear Montrose should be made. The motion of Mr. HUFF was then agreed to, and the House, after the third reading of the Mutiny and Marine Mu tiny Bills, adjourned at Twelve o'Clock. PARLIAMEN TAkt Y - 1/ 7 1V ISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. FIELD-GARD - FM BILL. Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Question pro posed, "That the Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Ques tion to add the words " upon this day six months:"—Question put, " That the word now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : . MAJORITY—AYES, 92. Acland, Sir T. D. Ellice, Rt. lion. E. Neeld, John Aglionhy,kll. A. Esmonde, Sir T. Newdegate, C. N. Armstrong, Sir A. Ewart, William O'Brien, A. S. Ashley, Lord Ferois•m, Sir R. A. Oswald, James fliwje, 1% - lliiiiM Fcrrand, W. F. Palmer, Robert Baird, %Villain Forman, T. S. Palmerston, Viscount Baldwin, Barry Fuller, A. L. Pecheli, Captain Bateson, Thomas Gladstone, Captain Peel, Jonathan Blaekburne, J. 1. Gordon, Captain Polhill, Frederick Bolder°, 11. 1 - i. Goring, Charles Rice, E. R. Borthwiek, Peter Graham, Sir J. Round, John Bottield, Beriah Greene, T. Russell, Lord J. Bowes, John Hamner, Sir J. P.ntherfurd, A. Brotherton, Joseph Harris, Captain Scrape, G. P. Bruce, Lord E. Ilastie, Archibald Sheppard, Thomas Buck, L. W. Herbert, Sidney Sheridan, R. B. ilusfeild, William Hill, Lerd M. Smythe, George Byng, G. S. liodgson, F. Somerset, Lord G. Cardwell, Edward Hope, Charles Sotheron, T. H. Carew, W. H. P. Howard, I'. H. Stewart, P. M. childers, J. W. Johnstone, Sir J. Sutton, Henry Clerk, Sir George Langston, .1. H. Tufnell, Henry Corry, Henry Lennox, Lord A. Williams, William ('ourtenay, Lord Lincoln, Earl Wilshere, W. Craig, W. G. M'cleaelly, F. A. Wortley, Lord Dancer, Colonel M`Neill, Duncan Wyse, Thomas Darby, George Mahon, Viscount Yorke, H. R. Deedes, William Manners, Lord J. Young, John Denison, E. B. Mitcalfe, Henry Duncan, George Morris, Davht TELLERS. Dundas, Admiral Mundy, E. M. C•;wper, W. P. Ebringtau, Viscount Muutz, G. F. Wortley, John S. MINORITY-NOES, 18. Berkeley, Craven Fitzroy, Lord C. Thornely, Thomas Collett, John Forbes, William Trelawny, J. S. Cripps, William Hamilton, W. J. Wawn, John T. Cartels, 11. H. Hawes, Benjamin Dennistoun, J. Henley, J. W. TILLERS. Divert, Edw..rd Moreland, Henry Bouverie, E. P. Estcourt, T. G. Round, C. G. Liam, 'lickham PROTEST AGAINST THE IN- COME-TAX. Dissentient 1. Because I continue of the opinion respecting taxes on income detailed in a protest entered on the journals '2lst June, 184'2. And though the revival of activity in the manufacturing districts, owing, I believe, to the cheapness of bread, aided by the remission of certain taxes, has caused a return of prosperity which was not then anticipated, I be lieve this tax must have done much to retard and to re press it. Because if scarcity shall again enhance the trice of bread, and occasion distress during the continuance of this tax, it will greatly aggravate all the evils, and increase the financial difficulties which will then arise. 3. Because in that case the financial circumstances of the country at the end of three years will probably be such as to render the farther continuance of this tax indispensably necessary ; and in the other alternative, and at all events, it maybe found convenient to the Minister of the day, and may he justified by the same arguments as have been now used. 4. Because I see no ground to hope that before that period Parliament will be prepared to repeal the duties on the im portation of corn, which might render its renewal unneces sary ; or to modify it in such a manner as to make it a tax, not on incomes generally, but on incomes arising from fixed realised property only, in which case I should think it alto•. tether unobjectionable. RADNOR. CLARENDON. C. J. MATHEWS'S INSOLVENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN. your report of the meeting of yesterday, you state that the debts of Mr. Laurence Levy and Mr. D. Levy were reduced 1,200/. I beg to state that no such reduction took place. Mr. Laurence Levy's debt of 133/. Os. 6d. was admitted and proved, and Mr. b. Levy's claim of 445/. was agreed upon, admitted, and proved at 434/. These were the only amounts ever claimed by the Messrs. Levy.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., JOHN LEWIS, 7, Arundel-street, Strand, Solicitor for Messrs. Levy. GREENOCK ELECTION.—We understand that the sheriff has fixed Tuesday, the 15th inst., for the nomination of a Member of Parliament for the town of Greenock, in the room of the late member, Mr. Wallace, of Kelly. The writ arrived in Greenock on Saturday afternoon, and must, in terms of the Act of Parliament, be announced within two days after its receipt, and the election or nomination must take place within ten days at farthest thereafter. Mr. Baine, the late Provost of Greenock, it is expected, will be re turned. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.— Monday a general meeting of the members of this Society took place at the London Tavern, for the election of six pen sioners, four men and two women. The chair was takea by Luke J. Ilansard, Esq. The Directors stated that they had invested 5001. in the life fund, and that there was at present 5,504/. of funded property, besides the surplus fund, amount ing to 600/., making a total of 6,104/. stock in the Bank of England. The annual income exceeded that of the last year by nearly 701. The ages of the pensioners were from sixty to ninety years, and they were sixty-six in number at the present moment. The men receive 11. 45., and the women 16s. monthly. The election having been concludedv ote of titans . / was passed to the chairman, when the meeting ad inurned. _ _ CART ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a little girl, in crossing Compton street, Soho, at the corner of Dean-street, was knocked down by a horse and cart. So rapid was the accident that it was truly wonderful how the driver managed to pull up in time to save the child, as it was the wheel rested on her ann. On being removed from under the wheel the girl was found to have received some severe contusions from the horse's feet, but she is likely to recover. No blame was at lached to the driver. STATE OF TRADE.—The market continues ex ceedingly dull both for goods and yarn, and in order to make sales to any extent, lower prices must have been submitted to. Many of the spinners and manufacturers, however, being still under contract, and stocks being universally low, there has been little disposition to press sales, and the business done has consequently been very limited. We regret to hear of the stoppage of a spinning and manufacturing firm of long standing in this town, whose engagements are said to be about 28,0001. Their failure is understood to be owing to losses incurred some time ago.--ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 7.—There is no improvement in the piece market to-day; the demand still continues limited, and prices low. Wool may be quoted rather stiffer to-day —Manchester Guardian, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Ai); il 10. The Lord Chancellor Fat at Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day. LANGLEY V. FISHER. The LORD CIrANCELLOR gave judgment to day in this case, which was argued before him some time since. Thu case came on upon appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolla; and the question involved was whether a husband was bound to answer interrogatories put to him on the part of the plaintiff, in a suit in which his wife was a defendant. The husband in this case had demurred to the interrogato ries on the ground that he was not bound to answer them. On the case coming on before the Master of the Rolls, his Lordship allowed the demurrer, and from that judgment the present appeal was brought. The Lord Chancellor, after going at some length through the facts of the case, affirmed the judgment of the Court below. The Court was occupied the remainder of the morning with lunatic petitions. ROLLS' COURT, Apil 10. The Master of the Rolls, after disposing of the cases "In re fender" and " In re I. l 'racey," proceeded to hear the arguments in the part-heard case of "Johnson v. North," which occupied his Lordship the remainder of the morning. VICE-CIIANCELLURS' COURTS, April 10. (I).efore the VICE-CHANcELLop. of ENGLAND.) WILISANIS V. WILLIAMS.—JUDGMENT. His HONOUR gave judgment today in this case, which was argued before him some time since, when we gave a de tailed account of the facts. Our readers will recollect that the plaintiff and defendant are two brothers, who carried on the business of distillers in Worcester, but having quarrelled with respect to the effect of certain arrangements they had entered into for the purpose of carrying on the concern, which had been established for a century, the present bill was filed for the purpose of dissolving the partnership, and for taking the .accounts between the parties. His Honour this morning went at considerable length into the facts of the case, and gave judgment, decreeing according to the prayer of the plaintiff's bill, with costs Up to the hearing. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRITCE.) IBS HONOUR took causes to-day, and having disposed of on his paper, rose before eleven o'clo c k. ( Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) SHORT V. EMPRINGTON. The Court was occupied the whole morning with the fur ther arguments in this part-heard case, which came before his Honour upon demurrer. ASSIZE' INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--NO, wich, April 8. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON. ) ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.—Raymond Caches, aged 48, was indicted for that he, being an apothecary and man-mid wife, so negligently, carelessly, rashly, and feloniously con• ducted himself in his attendance on one Jane Mary Lovett, in her delivery, as to inflict divers mortal wounds on her body, whereof she died on the 9th of January last, at Cos tessv, in this county. Mr. Evans and Mr. Palmer appeared for the prosecu tion ; Mr. Prendergast and Mr. O'Malley defended the pri soner. From the evidence of Honor Mortar and other witnesses it appeared that Mrs. Lovett had had nine children before the occasion which tetioinated fatally, and that on former occasions a difficulty had presented itself in the removal of the placenta, the danger from which was well known by medical men to increase with each labour. On the 19th of January the poor woman was taken ill, and the defendant called in to attend her at eleven o'clock. For some time the difficulty anticipated did not arise, but it did at length, and the nurses suggested further advice. The defendant, how ever, declined it, saving that "if there was a room full of doctors they could do no more than he was doing." After this he seemed to be using great exertions with the view of relieving the patient of the placenta, and after a while u round substance came forth, such as had never been seen before by the nurses in their experience, and be was then seen to use his scissors under the clothes. At that in stant the features of the sufferer underwent a sudden change and shock, on which the "doctor " observed "she was very sadly, and he would go and fetch some medicine." So say ing, he placed the substance above mentioned, and some other thing which he had afterwards taken from the bed, in a vessel, which he took away with him. In the course of half an hour afterwards the patient died in great pain, and, being duly buried, nothing more would, perhaps, have been heard of the case, had not the defendant, when interrogated by her mother, stated that the substance he had taken away was a tumour, weighing three ounces and a half, and that he had taken it to Mr. Crosse, the well•known surgeon in this city. This was, for the time, satisfactory to the in quirer, but afterwards a suspicion was excited that the de fendant had not constricted himself properly towards the de ceased; and her body being exhumed under the direction of the Coroner, was submitted to examination by Mr. Crosse and Mr. Francis, who ascertained that the uterus and a considerable quantity of the large intestines had been torn away. The evidence of these gentlemen was given to day to the above efftct, but as its details were of a purely profes sional character, it may suffice to state, that they gave it as their opinion that great blame was attributable to the de. fendant if the removal of those parts was ignorantly effected by him, and still more so if it had been accomplished know ingly. At the same time, they admitted that the case was not one of every-day occurrence, and that no stronger term than ignorance ought to be attached to his treatment of the patient, while the most skillful surgeons and operators were known to have " made mistakes." Mr. PRENDERGAST, .on behalf of the prisoner, contended that the course pursued towards him was somewhat harsh, as it was unfair to expect from every man embarked in so critical a profession the consummate skill of an Astlev Cooper or a Dr. Conquest, whose book on midwifery he largely quoted. kr. Justice PArrEsoN, in summing up the case, thought that the question was not whether the defendant wilfully had removed the parts in question, for no man in his senses could do that ; but it was for the jury to say whether, under all the circumstances, he had done more than fall into a mis take. For a mere error of judgment he did not think that a medical man ought to be made criminally responsible, unless he had displayed gross professional ignorance or inattention to his patient. The nurses all bore testimony to his kindness and attention, and it would therefore be for the jury to say whether they thought he had acted with such gross igno rance as was imputed to him by this charge. The jury, without much hesitation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. With this case terminated these assizes, and a Norfolk Circuit, which will long live in the memory of those engaged in it, by reason of the very important criminal trials by which it has been signalised. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 8. (Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) POST. OFFICE ROBBERIES.---Lewin Clifford, aged 24, a policeman of the Gloucestershire constabulary, was indicted for having forged a receipt for money purporting to be the receipt of William Smart, with intent to defraud Moses Smart. Mr. Whateley, Queen's Counsel, Mr. Godson, Queen's Counsel, Mr. Alexander, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Bros ap peared for the Crown ; Mr. Greaves defended the prisoner. It appeared in the evidence of this singular and interesting case, that the prisoner was the grandson of Moses Smart, the surveyor of highways, living at Tetbury, whose son Willi am ha of d t h f e o t l i o n s d a i o t r c g i n v e e n p i i e g n s t b s.,etvhee a Several yearsscar o f since, in consequence the parish, to breath e "the air of liberty in America." The reasons for his ab sence having gradually diminished, he wrote to his father ted that a in his name, ad dressed letter his uncle, William S for 51., to enable him to accomplish his voyage t o E ng l an d. The prisoner, aware of this circumstance, conceived an d executed a scheme to defraud his grandfather of 51. i n th e n art t o a followingd:h 3A manner:—lle eeasigVllianr e Bevorten, near T et b urv, and dated it from Saddlesworth, near Manchester. Thi s l etter h e en closed to a friend, named Bartlett , at that place, w ith a re quest that it might be there posted that any answ er t o it might be forwarded. to the prisoner, and that th e transact i on might be kept a profound secret, as the writer of th e l e tt er was desirous, for a family reason, that his fri en d s should think that he was residing in Manchester. Bartlett compli e d w ith the request, and posted the letter. Moses Smart rea d w i t h de light the intelligence that his son had reached L iverpoo l i n safety, and was then residing at Saddlesworth, w i t h a com panion of his voyage, and the letter concluded with a reques t for the sum of 5/., to discharge the liabilities of hi s j ourney to Tetbury. The old man addressed his reply, accor di ng to the instruction contained in the letter, to hi s son at M r . William Bartlett's, Royal Mills , Saddlesworth, i n ti mat i ng that he would forward a pcst-office order f or 5/ . , i nstea d o f bank- note, and requesting to know at what offi ce i t s h ou ld y be made payable. This answer was received by B art l et t, lad assumed forged and by him immediately forwarded to Clifford, who forged another letter in the name of William Smart, desiring his father to remit an order on the Manchester post-office for the Si. This letter was also inclosed to Bartlett, who posted it at Saddlesworth, whence it was received by Moses Smart, who immediately proeured a post-office order, which was duly received by Bartlett, who had been desired by the prisoner to open it, and after gettieg the order cashed to deduct half-a crown for his rouble and remit the remainder to himself (Clifford). Bartlett, unwilling to sign the name of William Smart to the receipt for the money, wrote to the prisoner for such authority, whereupon the prisoner forged another letter from William Smart, giving Bartlett full power to receive the money, who accordingly received the 5/., deducted the half-crown fur himself, and then remitted by another post office order on the Cheltenham post-office, the 4/. 17s. 6d to the prisoner. On the 30th of November William Smart really arrived at Liverpool, and immediately proceeded to hie father's house at Tetbury, in this county. The prisoner, in ignorance of his arrival, sent a letter of r thanks from the son to the old gentleman, which Bartlett posted at Sad dlesworth, and which letter was delivered to the father. after the return of his son. The contents of this letter naturally produced an inquiry as to the post-office order; and, on its being discovered that William Smart had never heard cf the transaction, an investigation took place, Bartlett was taken into custody, but released on the pro duction of his correspondence with the prisoner. On the 11th of December, the prisoner was arrested in Cheltenham, and the letters from Bartlett found in his possession, toga ther with the one from Moses Smart to William Smart, which inclosed the post-office order. On his apprehension, the prisoner stated to the police-officer who took him into custody that he had received a letter from his uncle, William Smart, who was at Bristol, directing him to inclose the letter to Moses Smart, applying for the 5/. to Bartlett, and that he acted only in pursuance of his uncle's instructions. This statement was sought to be supported by the produc tion of a letter, bearing the Bristol stamp, of August 30, 1844, which stamp proved also to be forged, and it was also made apparent that, at the period of that date, William Smart was not in a position to correspond with the prisoner. After a trial which occupied nine hours, the prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. John Barnard, aged 42, an agricultural labourer, was charged with stealing from a post-office letter, at Abinghall, on the Bth of March, a half sovereign. The same counsel appeared as in the last case. A letter, containing a half-sovereign, had been forwarded by mistake to a lady at Abinghall, whose servant employed the prisoner to carry it back to the postmaster. On his road to the office, lie opened the letter and abstracted the money, which he immediately changed into silver at a neighbouring beer-house. He was convicted, by the consent of the counsel for the Crown, of a common larceny only, and sentenced to one month's hard labour. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. • (Before Mr. Commissioner ButLecK.) FELONY. —Daniel Washbrook and James Gurney were in dicted for having stolen a handkerchief from the pocket of Edward Evans. Mr. Horry defended Washbrook. The priseners were found Guilty and sentenced to imprison ment for two calendar months. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) James Herbert, aged 24, a'shoemaker, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding William Girling, with intent to murder him. The prisoner had lodged with the prosecutor, and owed him some rent. On Thursday, the 27th of March, prisoner came home about two o'clock in the afternoon, and, upon being pressed for the payment of his rent, struck the prose cutor two violent blows on the head with a hammer, which rendered him insensible for some time. A surgeon proved that the wounds inflieted were of a dangerous nature. The prisoner urged, in his defence, that, exasperated by the threat of the prosecutor to seize his furniture for rent, he took up the hammer merely intending to hit him in the arm, but that it slipped in his hands and so missed his aim. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up, and the jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence—twelve months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, with hard labour. John ►Yells, aged 25, a painter, was indicted for unlawfully obtaining, by means of false pretences, 3/. 159. from James Smith, 3/. ss. Cd. from Charles Hodder, 3i. 15s. from George James, and 2/. ss. from Jonathan Lucas, and attempting to obtain 41. 15s. from Lucretia Baldock, with intent to cheat them thereof. Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. From the evidence on one of these charges, it would appear that the prisoner had presented an order on the prosecutor, Hodder, purporting to be signed by one Higginbottom, which he got casi:ed, and for which the prisoner gave a receipt. Mr. DoANE urged in defence, that the prisoner bad always been a man of weak intellect, and one who would be very likely to be made use of as a tool in the hands of others. The jury tcaind him Not guilty. Ile was then tried upon the other charges in the indictment. The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty on the remaining counts of the indictment, and the prisoner was discharged. ROBEERY.—Joseph Bradshaw, aged 20, was indicted for having on, or about, the 28th of February last, stolen two and a half yards of t ffeed, two pieces of doeskin, and other articles, value 2/, the property of Messrs. Mills and Hill, drapers, of St. Martin's-Jane, his employers. Mr. Hill appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. From the evidence adduced it appeared that some articles having been missed from the prosecutor's shop, the prisoner's box was searched, and in it was found the various articles described in the indictment. A portion of these articles the prosecutors spoke to as closely resembling their missing pro perty, but could not swear as to their exact identity. On the part of the defence. it was set up that the articles in question had been give', to the prisoner by his brother—a draper, carrying on business in Marylebone-street, in whose service he previously had been—in lieu of wages. After Mr. Clarkson had addressed the jury for the defence, Mr. Justice Coledrige summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Another case was raised against the prisoner, for having pawned a piece of blue cloth—the duplicate of which was found in his box on its being searched—which cloth a shop man of Messrs. Mills and Hill spoke to as closely resembling a similar piece which they had missed a short time before the prisoner was given into custody. On the part of the defence, the brother of the prisonerswore to his haying given him the piece of cloth in question more than a year and a half ago, for the purpose of sending it to his father, but afterwards the prisoner asked his brother's permission to send another piece instead, which he accord ingly did. After Mr. Justice Coleridge had summed up, the jury re turned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was dis charged. The grand jury came into Court about three o'clock, and returned a true bill against Joeeph Connor for the St. Giles's murder. Anne Pendry. 30, was charged upon the coroner's inquisi tion with the wilful murder of tier illegitimate child. A bill for the same offence had been preferred before the grand jury, but it was ignored. Mr. lorry defended the prisoner. The circumstances under which the charge was made will be fresh in the recollection of our readers, as they have been recently detailed very fully in the report of the proceedings before the coroner. The prisoner was servant at the Crown public-house, Isleworth, and, on the 28th February, she was seen to go to the water-closet, and, after remaining there fir some time, she came out apparently in a very weak and ex hausted state, and shortly afterwards the dead body of an infant was found in the soil. There was a slight. bruise upon the head ; but it appeared very probable that this was occa sioned by the instrument with which the child was taken from the privy, and there was no evidence to show that the child was born alive. When the prisoner was questioned, she said that she had been suddenly seized with the pains of labour, and that she was delivered before she could obtain any assistance. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, at the close of the case for the prosecution, expressed his opinion that the evidence was in sufficient, and, under his direction, the jury returned a ver diet of Not Guilty. NEW COURT. The Court was occupied during the whole of the morning in trying an unimportant case of feiony. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Tuesday, a fashionably-dressed young man, who had given the name of Geoffrey Brown, was charged with assault ing Mr. James Howell, on the stage of her Majesty's Theatre, on Tuesday night. The complainant, it appeared, had the charge of the pass• room leading to the stage, and seeing the defendant and an other gentleman behind the scenes on the night above-men tioned, he went up to them and demanded their business. The defendant stated that he had a right to be there, but his friend immediately walked away. Some warm expressions were used on both sides, which led ultimately to the alleged assault—the complainant having received a violent blow on his face. The defendant said, that after taking a stall he wrote to Mr. Lumley to get his name put on the pass-list, and re ceived an assurance from that gentleman that his wish bad been complied with ; in addition to which he (defendant) had been suffered to pass unmolested on a previous occasion ; provoked, therefore, by the insolence of the official, who, he said, had called him ad- liar, he struck the blow com plained of in a great passion. The defendant denied having applied the term "liar " to the defendant, in direct terms. Mr. TWYFORD fined the defendant M., or a months' im prisenmPnt. The fine was paid immediately. A cab-driver named James Aldridge, was charged with assaulting Sir George Head, of Cockspur-etreet, Charing cross, in January last. One evening, about three months ago, the complainant sent his servant for a cab, to take him to Hyde-park-gardens. On its arrival heoffered the driver ls. 4d. as his fare, but the cabman pronounced the sum too small and refused to take it. Sir George then offered him Is., and told him to drive to Orchard-street, Oxford-street. The cabman again declined, and complainant was proceeding to call another cab when the other obstructed him, and claimed Bd. for having been called off the rank, following up the :time by striking Sir George on the breast. The complainant's servant then took the number of the driver's badge, and a summons was forth with obtained, but, as it eventually turned out, the wrong party (although identified by Sir George and three witnesses, and positively sworn to by two of the latter) appeared to the summons. The case was heard OR the 10th of January, and again on the 15th of the same month, when the accused proved, beyond all doubt, that at the very hour named, he was six miles in another direction, driving an elderly lady to chapel. The magistrate, as well as the complainant and his witnesses, were so completely puzzled by this state of things that the matter was suffered to drop. A period of three months elapsed and the real offender, who had incautiously acknowledged his own guilt. was taken into custody. The defendant, by disputing some of Sir George's state ments as to the nature of the dispute, further committed him self, and Mr. TWYFORD having expressed himself satisfied, from his own defence, that the accused was the real offender, ordered him to pay a fine of 3i. In default of payment he was sent to the House of Correction for one month. John and Sarah Franklin, stated to be man and wife, were brought up on suspicion of causing the death cf their female infant child. Susannah Burke, on being sworn, said, I am a widow, and live at 22, Clement's-lane. This morning I was in Clare street, at six o'clock, when I met Mrs. Franklin (the female prisoner) at a gin-shop. She was having some rum, and lied a bundle under her arm. She beckoned to me, and I went and talked with her. I asked her how her baby was, as I knew she had been confined a month ago. She said, "My baby is dead." I said, " No, sure, is it ; and when did it die?" "At three o'clock this morning," she replied, and she then said it was at hoe in bed along with its father. I said it was a very odd thing for her to be out so soon after it, and so she asked me to go home with her and help her to lay it out. I agreed to go, and we went to a house in Charles-street, Drury-lane, where she and her hus band were lodging. I saw the baby in bed, and, after hud dling it a little, I said it was dead sure enough. I told Mrs. Franklin that I was sure she had been overlaying it, because (continued the witness) " it was all over as black as your Worship's coat," I raid I don't believe, mind you, that you would do such a thing intentionally, and God forbid that I should charge her with it. Mr. TWYFORD—Did she say anything else? Witness— Yes, your Worship. When she was at the public-house, I heard her ask a man there whether she should be taken up if she killed her child. She asked him, " What would they do to me for it—would they hang me?" Ann Hinsley, Mary Skinner, and another woman, deposed that they had seen the two prisoners the day before at a public-house. They were both drunk, and as the woman seemed wholly unfit to take care of her child, three of the women present took turns to suckle it for her. It was a fine healthy child then. They saw the prisoners safe home to a house in Charles-street, where they slept that night. One of the witnesses stated that on hearing the child was dead, the next day (yesterday) she went to her and asked her about it. The mother said it died in a fit. Witness then said to the other prisoner, " Of course you cannot think of burying the body without an inquest?' He replied, that " he meant to have a parcel of old women out of Clare market to sit upon it." Mr. C. J. Snitch, the surgeon to the police force, stated that he had examined the body of the child, which presented no external appearance of violent usage. He had not made a post mortem examination of the body, and was, therefore, unable to speak with certainty as to the cause of death. It was not an unusual thing for children, previously in good health, to die in a fit of convulsions. The female prisoner, who was still suffering from weak ness, caused by her recent eonfinement and subsequent dis solute habits, stated that the child had a fit in the night and died in convulsions, and that nobody was more hurt and frightened about it than she had been. The landlady of the house deposed to having heard the child cry in tne night, and the mother trying to pacify it. When all was quiet she naturally supposed that the child had been quieted; but in the morning the mother told her that it was dead. Mr. TWYFORD said Caere was no evidence before him to show that the child's death had been occasioned by violence and, therefore, he should discharge the prisoners, who would, of course, attend the coroner's inquest, where the matter would be further inquired into. He did not mean to say they were innocent. He wished to leave it to the coroner to settle that point. Mr. Boswood, from the Strand Union, then stepped for ward and stated that h e h a d a c h arge aga i ns t th e prisoners for deserting another child, which had consequently become chargeable to the parish. Mr. rWYFORD—But I would rather not hear that charge at present. Let it be deferred. Mr. Boswood said the parish had been put to a great ex pense and trouble by the prisoners, who were most drunken • and worthless characters. The woman had only just hit the workhouse where she was confined, and soon afterwards their daughter became chargeable to the union, haying I,en left by their parents at a public• house where they had been drinking. He had been ever since trying to find out their abode, and was anxious, now that they were taken, to press the charge at once. Mr. TWYFORD said he would rather not detain the pri soners. Let the inquest take place first. Mr. Boswood intimated that the prisoners might again disappear, but the worthy Magistrate, who seemed by no means anxious to get into a squabble with Mr. Wakley, de clined to hear the case, and the prisoners were both dis charged. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL ll, 1845: WORSHIP-STREET. On Tuesday George Williams, a tall young man, of very smart appearance, described as an accountant, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with feloniously utter ing several pieces of counterfeit money. Mr. Powell, jun., attended on behalf of the Mint to conduct the prosecution, and Mr, Atkinson as solicitor for the prisoner. It, appeared from the evidence, of Alfred Borlin, a youth living in Brunswick-place, City road, that while passing the house of a confectioner in the City-road. on the preceding evening, his attention was attracted by the circumstance et" a person in the shop cutting a base half-crown, and handing it to the prisoner, who then presented some good money, and in a hurried manner left the shop. In consequence of this oc currence the witness's suspicions were, excited, and he was induced to watch the further movements of the prisoner, whom he subsequently saw enter several public-houses, at one of which he obtained four half-crowns in exchange for a corresponding amount of smaller silver. The prisoner was closely followed by a male companion, n ith whom he held a short conference on leaving each of the shops, and at more than one of which the witness had ascertained he had en deavoured to pass base col.. The prisoner ultimately en tered the shop of a tobacconist, where a similar transaction took place, and soon after he had left that the witness gave information to a police-sergeant, who followed the prisoner as far as the Eagle, and then took him into custody. Mr. Frederick Smith said, the prisoner called at his shop and purchased some biscuits, in payment for which he ten dered a half crown. Witness immediately saw that it was a piece of base metal, and after defacing it, returned it to the prisoner, who then handed him the value of the biscuits in good money, and hurtled out of the shop, leaving the bis cuits he had bought upen fee counter. Mrs. Phyllis Almond said the prisoner called at her shop and purchased a cheroot, tendering a half-crown in payment.; she gave him his proper change, and he left the shop, but im mediately he had done so she discovered the coin to be a bad one, and - sent a messenger in pursuit of him, who found he was already in the custody of the sergeant. The prisoner closely questioned the witnesses with the view of shaking their evidence as to his identity; but they all positively adhered to their previous testimony, and the witness Borlin declared he could not be mistaken, as he did not once lose sight of the prisoner from the time he left the confectioner's shop until he was taken into custody. The police-sergeant, who took the prisoner into custody, said the latter had been searched at the station, and that among other articles found upon his person was a quantity of silver and copper money, amounting to about 245. or 235., which was good-coin. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, earnestly protested that the witnesses were entirely mistaken as to tbeir identi fication of him ; and, though he must, of course, admit that he was in the City-road at the time in question, he denied that he had been near any of the shops at which it was al leged that the base coin had been offered. The prisoner was proceeding in a similar course of strong denial, when he was checked by his solicitor, who advised him to reserve his defence. Mr. BneGunet said, that after the clear and positive evi dence that had been given against him, he had no alternative but to commit the prisoner for further examination, and lie must be brought up again next week. An application was then made by the prisoner's solicitor to accept bail for his client, which Mr. Bingham acceded to, but said he should require the usual 48 hours' notice of the patties, that their sufficiency might be inquired into. LAMBETH. Tuesday Mr Williams, proprietor of the New Inn, in the Bridge-road, Lambeth, being in attendance at the court on other business, requested the advice of Mr. Norton as to how he should nroceed in a case in which a person, calling himself a German 'Count, had obtained 20s. from him under false pretences. From the statement of Mr. Williams it appeared that the " Count" (who sometimes wrote his name " Count Julian -," and at others " Count Albert -"), had honoured his house with his patronage, and run un a I ill of upward,: of 10/. This, however, was not what he complained of, as he was aware it was but a simple debt, hut on the Tuesday, before the Count left his house, he sent hint from hia dressing room a letter addressed to Messrs. Merrick and Co , bankers, at Hamburgh, with a request that he - (Mr. Williams) would meal and send it to the post-office. He did so, and the Count immediately after applied for end obtained 205., on his posi tive assurance that Messrs. Meyrick were his bankers, and that lie had written for a remittance. Instead of a remit tance the Count's letter came to his house by return of post, and it was quite clear that the bankers at Hamburgh had no funds in their hands belonging to him, and that in fact the letter was a mere manoeuvre to throw him off his guard. Mr. NORTON inquired if Mr. Williams bad been made Sc. q . uainted with the contents of the letter written by th e Count to the barkers ? lyilliama replied that he bad rot ; and said that though the letter bad been send to him unFealed, he bad not had the curiosity to open it. It, however, came into his hancis, having been returned from Ilamhurgh, but as it was written in the German language he was unable to read it. Mr. NORTON remarked, that the guilt or innocence of the writer of the letter would very much depend upon the 'lan guarre or terms of the letter, and, theref,re, the applicant's first duty was to have his letter translated. Mr. WilFams said, he had no moral doubt the party was a regular swindler, for after leaving his house, he (Mr. Williams) discovered that he had borrowed money from the waiters of his establishment, and, in fact, laid most of his servants under contributions He had also ascertained that the Count was at present 'living in first-rate style at the west-end of the town, and not content with good living merely. had entered into engagements with a job -master for a carriage and horses to drive him about town. He (Mr. Williams) should, however, take his Worship's ad v i ce rela tive to the letter, and if he found, as he anticipated, that it was not a request for the remittance of money in the hands of the barker belonging to the writer, he should certainly have the Count apprehended. THAMES POLICE. _ Two coal-whippers, named NichadCollins and Matthew Harney. were charged with assaulting Robert Frederick Nunn, landlord of the Ship and Green Dragon. King street, St. George's-in-the-East, and James Park, who was drinking in the house, and also with assaulting three police constables of the K division, named Wiggins. 73. Brook. 364, and Jolly, 346. Another constable, named Plant, 34 K, lies very ill in the London Hospital from injuries which he sustained while conveying the parties to the station-house. It appears that the prisoners, two powerful fellows, went with another, not in custody, to the house of Mr. Nunn and called for two pots of the best ale, which they refused to pay for when served. They jeered at the landlord, and taking what are called " sights' at him, told him to get the reckoning out of that. A constable was sent for, but they still refused to pay. He then told them to leave his house, and took Harney gently by the shoulder. when the latter turned round on him, and commenced a most brutal attack. His wife and son were also struck by the prisoners. More police were sent for, and the prisoners renewed the at tack with increased fury, assailing the police and others who came to the landlord's assistance with the stools, the tables, the fender, and the other furniture of the tap. room. Wig gins 73 R succeeded in closing the door against a large mob who were endeavouring to force in to the rescue of the pri soners, and after receiving severe ill-treatment, from the pain of which he was still suffering, captured Collins. Just then, however, the door was broken in, and he, with the prisoners, were hustled out into the street by the mob. The prisoner was rescued, and again re-captured by Wiggins, who con veyed him to the station-house through a mob of 200 or 300 persons, amidst a shower of stones, dirt, arid brickbats. Mr. BRODERIP said, that a case involving such a series of gross outrages was too serious to be dealt with summarily. He should, therefore, require the prisoners to put in bail to answer the charge at the session', themselves in 100 b each, and two sureties for each in 501. As the Court was so crowded, he would take that opportunity of stating, that if any fatal result followed from the stones and brickbats thrown, every person in the mob sv.uld he liable to be tried for murder. THREATENING ( TO L P R O R IS ir OV E .-- A1 4 17 :1 1 : 111 Phi/ h ejoys-looking• w , man, wa, charged wi h thr , po'son h. r hu , band. The husband, a quiet, poor fellow, living at N., 9. Peter's-lane, St. Sepulchre's, swore that he was in con tinual fear of his life from his wife's violence. A month ado she threatened to stab him, and he brought her he f to - e this Court. She was sent to prison for a fortnight in default of hail. At the expiration of the sentence she returned home, but had not been long in the house when she attempted to burn it by pouring a quantity of tur pentine on the fire. He ,xtinguisheri the fire, and she, without any provocation, threw a bottle at his head, and swore she would poison him and their-eldest daughter ; so that they were in continual fear of their lives from her violence. On Tuesday night she renewed her threat of poisoning. and he fe:.-ed ,he would carry it into effect. Mr. GRI,:c:NWOOD—What have you to sly to this. nr soner? Prisoner—Oh, the wicked wretch, he'd sw, ar anything. The daughter, a modest, decent-looking girl, wss called, and she, with tears in her eyes, corrobrated her father's testimony. Prisoner—(to the daughter)-oh, you are g nice youth, ain't you? In default of bail, she was committed for ten days. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. PROTECTION TO TRADE AT ICHABOD. The Committee of Lloyd's have addressed a letter of thanks to Captain Sir John Marshall, R.N., for the great attention paid to their interest, and the mercan tile community ge-nerally, by him during the period of his command on the Cape of Good Hope station, by ar rangemen's made at Ichaboe for the preservation of the peace, and for the furtherance of trade otherwise on that Sir John Marshall. in reply, conclUded with, "Long experience in the public service has taught me duly to appreciate the importance, as well as to respect and ad mire the intelligence and honourable bearing of our shipowners and merchants." LONDON, APRIL 10.—Wind N.W., moderate breeze, and cloudy. . DEAL, APRIL 9.—P.M.. Wind N.W. by N., strong.—Sld. Pearl, Ceylon ; Paramatta, Valparaiso ; }reeland, Honduras ; Ann, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Walmsley, Prince Ed ward's Island ; Eleanor, Carshalton Park, and Neptune, Quebec, and the whole of the outward-bound. _ PLY;IOUTII, APRIL 9.—Wind variable.—Off, Velocity, Barbadoes. FAL3IOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind variab!e, fresh breeze.—Off, Hezog Bagislov, Jacgar, Buenos Ayres, and proceeded for Antwerp, sailed Jan. 23. PLYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Sid. Ann, Quebec. OFF DOVER, APRIL 9.—Triton, Robe, La Guayra, for Hamburgh ; Albania, Smith, Ichaboe. BRISTOL, APRIL 9.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Ajax, Stark, Trinidad ; Britannia, Simmons, Barbadoes. CLYDE, APRIL B.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Flavis, Jones, New York. Ayn, APRIL 7.—Arrd. Mountain Maid, Allen, Ichaboe. DUBLIN, APRIL B.—Sid. William and Ann. Quebec. LurEnteK, APRIL 7.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Sir William Wallace, M'Kenzie, Newfoundland. NEwity, APRIL B.—Sld. Agnes and Anne, Quebec. ABERDF;EN, APRIL 7.—Sld. Mayflower, Cuba. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind E. N E. to W. N.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's steamer Styx, Malta. left 28th ult., and pro ceeded for Southampton ; - IDuke of Cornwall, steamer, Higgin son, Constantinople. Sld. her Majesty's steamer Resistance, Plymouth. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 9.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Harvest Home, Heron, Calcutta; Bachelor, Napier, Ichaboe; Campbell, Campbell, Porto Cabello. Sld. 7. Severn steamer, Havre; 9. Syria, Countess Arran, and Saghalien, China; H Isabella arnett, Calcutta; Susannah Callings, Mauritius ; Bonne M'Cre, Africa; Henry Bell, Bahia; Champion, Barba. does: Lunena, Nassau: Dublin and St. Lawrence, Philadel phia; Superb and Rochester. New York: Huron a n d B . Avmar, Boston ; Crusatb-r, Staten. I ; 'do oy, United States; Washington, Acadia, D vertux. awl M A . g ret, Quebec; Mary Muir, Niontreal. The eau,. the Pennsylvania, from New Orl.oin s to t port, 1 .s;ir, the Colorados, has been sold for ,11J,(X)0. Oil', Enterprise (sup posed), Calcutta. HARTLEPOOL, APRIL 9.—The Zen^bia s Lucas, hence, was in contact yesterday morning off Scarbort - aigh with the Alonzo, Carnaby, and foundered; crew (except one) saved by the Alonzo, which has put inhere. CASTIETOWN (BEARHAVEN), APRIL s.—Sid. Triumph, St. John's, New Brunswick. CLYDEAPRIL B.—Arrd. Harvies, James, New York. Sld. Romance, Bathurst. SUNDERLAND, APRIL 9.—.Arrd. Agnes, Purvis, Ithaboe. Sid. Gundon, Prinec, Edward's Island. APRIL 9.—Ski. 4r~~eU, Quebec. Ili RE EDW BEAUFORT CULLEI'' TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sl-LV , of Stn,—Your statement in 71e Sun of this evemng," the examination o f th e a b ove g e nt l eman a t the C ourt Bankruptcy yesterd a y, b e f ore Mr. Commissioner Flule: is in some points very incorrect, and, if it remains re , noticed, may tend much to prejudic, him in certain. 1 4 ceeoings he has been compelled to institute aga' n 'b i t party whose name was publicly men ti o ned i n Court Mr. Cooke, th e i nso l vent ' s counse l , re l at i v e to the l. solvent's most unfortunate conn ex i on w ith the shiP e° , on 4 queror, and which was t h e so l e cause o f his all.l l.- in that Court. In ju s ti ce , th ere fi ire , to my e ;le- t 'of trust you will permit the following short explanation his case to appear in your journal of to-incrow: -- rii( r Your report states that he dealt largely in ace ° , lll ; .,, ~f dation bills, whereas, in point of fact, out of a !,`,;:i v.xty-five creditors, there were only four accomcann' o , 7 l, bills in the schedule. The individoal cases or iL : f taco persons opposing him not being establisla u ' d bJ Sturgeon made a sweeping s!ati ment, Ss rerr tf : - ho ut you. .liegint- that th e i nso l vent was a p er son v v ,l t- „ o ti viable m eans , raii.ini money wilt nnrer cloulu aceor[inotlation bills, for whi c h, i n some ins:ances. for was in the practice of allowing almost cent. per 0 4 ' 0 1 discount. Such a st a t emen t as t hi s counse l are lice,l ) t , to mat , . It has its effect for th. time; but the 011 ;Itl nes- of it Mr. Cooke completely disproved, audit 'v e t only have been fair in 3 - our reporter to have boa' ei d tea more lines on Mr. C o ok e ' s s p eec h , w hi c h fuj,i,tili. truly- stated the re a l c ause o f t h is gent l, ma n's d i f ,,, l " ' no ties. Your report f urt h er states t h at t h er e wc — he assets to meet the debts. This also is incorrect , as p Lot only inserted debtors to the amount of 9001, 0 also relinquished certain reversionary interests ' s1 :11 in Ireland and London, which he derived under th e of his late father, considerably more in value th' ln bond fide (Itobts, it the report truly st a t es th a t th e d e b ts inserted in schedule amount to 5,160/. 16s. 2d., but it entirely Mr. C. oke's analysis of them, which was, that sum 2.2.571. were due on account of the ship Con ( l7„ r° o all of which were disputed, except his own ani, ic ';,: e la costs thereon, amounting to about 4001.; 1,527&__, - 1 0 for Irish debts, nearly the whole of which are see" e 5; mortgage ; 1,0651 were di spute d d e b ts an d liabilit le t be and 3211. only were the real bona fide debts due frap i insolvent. the Cri ically situate as Mr. Cullen now is, relative tone, proceedings menti o n e d i n th e f ormer part o f mY re whereby he se e ks t o es t a blish his form e r c redit an `J spectvbility, and conceiving your report o f his case d 0 be injurious to him, I tr u st t o y our i mpart i a li t y in insertion to this statement; and I remain, Sir, S obedient servant. !JOHN BEART,r4, Bouverie-street, Fleet•s°- Solicitor for the said E. B. Cullen. April 10. MARKET NE WS.-(YESTERm-n -i . RAY Aft.allifUSTS. i „. ter SmirrHYlELD.—Coarse Meadow h a y, 3/ 10 s to 4 1 ,1s t tul 4 , 12, , tt• 5 , 4, , ; tine Upland do., 515 s t , 5; 105 • liar_ 4/ 10,: to 6/, (lat Stray.. I/ 18. n 2/: Wheat Ste jai '2' 2. 2s ,err load A f a i r average supp ly, a nd itiquir' 4/1511 CttinticuLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to - Os; useful ditto. 41 14s to 5/ 5 s ; fine Upland ditto, 516 3 t o - 2/1 5 ' Clorer Bay, 4/ 8s to 51 16 s; O at S traw, 11 18s tf st of Wheat Straw, 212 s to 213 s p er l oa d . B ot h H a y and , sold firmly, at full prices. 41 O P WHrrEcHArlia..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 53 0 useful ditto, 4/ 14s to 5/ 4s; fine Upland ditto, 0 ‘,,, 183 tv e d, ls 5/10s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs 'to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ • Wheat. Straw, 2/ to 2/ 2s per load. Supply tolerabl) and trade rather dull. tt.s WILT MA 11 n't S. e bY pd SOUTJIALL, APRIL 9.—Although the supply of taps, • of fat stock on offer this morning was moderately e pees' the general demand rul e d t o l era bl y steady, a t full 4s 64 2 Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; M u tt on, 2 s 10d to A porl Lamb, 4110 d to 5s 10d ; V ia l, 3 s O n to 4s 6d ; 28 10(1 to •s 6d per 81bs. Supply—Zeasts. 47 : SheeP Lambs, 3,004 : Calves, 39 ; Pigs, 48. ~,,042 04 RoNtri:RD, APRIL 9.—Prime She e p an d L a mbs a steady sale at f u ll p r i ces; ot h erw i se the dews' , " - 4 3 6 0 ; 4 active. Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, Ss i t l, /44'; Lamb, 5 5 t o 5 s 10d ; Veal :3s 10d to 4s 8d ; an d ( - s ° Eirt e '; 10d to 3s per 81bs. Sucklin g C a l ves , 18 3 t o 285; tbe' old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s ; and Milch Cows, Flt small Calves, 16/ to 181 lO s eac h . 5 0 LEWES, APRIL B.—Beef, from 3s to 4s ; But ton ' 4s Gd ; Lamb, 4 s 10d to Sc 10d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10 d ; g`^ „ foal. 3s to 3s Gil per 81bs. Supply but moderate, and trade CORN AVERAGES. ro vf GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISPI For the Week ended April 5,1 , 45, made up from the 11etim —H'-0 Inspectors m the different Cities and Towns la Engo4l per Imperial Quart er . • 3 56 7,1 Wheat ••• • • • 46s , d I Oats •...• .• • 21s 4d Beans •• " 359 ' Barley ...• • • :,2s W I R ye .... •• • • 29s Gd I Pease ••• WEEKS , Beam* 7 a 35 6 34 ; 35 6 5 34 35 6 I 34 5 34 . 34 " 0 , 34 iv 3 ,, 6 34 9 th 3 Vrti for Me 12 3 tan itiU r 0 „. e L applic Fw It e „7. 17.0 0t1 Neeb o , l'eeclete"; D 047 i h T ! . 44 ) cc An t, a _ I, 141.10 z, T e be (loi n c 1 411 6 :;" the „ ' 4l fibr i l 1 41)l e d You 6, lea, 12 44:,!t0r g"4l ' t o t% hi,to 4 : tk ? M 4- '1 41 ) ef ''or to 3 Ao ,ha vnti o 7tt i tigi4ortsi AVERAGES OF THE LAST SI: 11<iks Wheat. Barley. Oats. ending Mar. 1 45 0 32 3 45 0 32 2 45 1 32 2 45 5 32 4 45 10 32 4 45 5 32 3 21 7; 32 21 7 30 21 4 31 21 8 3.1 21 5j 32 21 4, 29 April 5.... 0 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE S— 3 4 4. 0 Wheat ...... 45s Ikd I Oats •• •• •• •• 21 Gd I Bosun ••••'. 3 • 5 Barley ...... 32s 3d I Rye ........30 8d Pease •• •'•• 6 3 . 1 DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. • £ll Wheat . 20s Od I Oats . Barley •• •• •• 6 9 Od Rye ...• •• •• 109 6d I pease— •'.. At the close of the fi rs t even i ng ' s perform an Antigone, in Dublin, a loud cry arose throughout the f or after the pri nc i pa l performers had appeared at th f o r so' boards, for th e aut h or. So unanimous was the call :i ;o e s i phocles, th a t t h e manager had at last to appea r, plain to the i m p a ti ent crow d t h at the wort hy Soph°c' es _, died acm e t wo t h ousan d years ago. We are request e d t o s t ate, th a t Mr. Be n t ' b ee ; bet New Burlin gron - stree t ( pu bli s h er i n or dinary, f e , of Majesty), h as thi s d ay pu bli s h e d "Th e Chrono o f F.shion," by Mrs. St one , A ut h or o f " The 'ror Needlework. &c., in 2 vols., Bvo., with numerous 010 iraits, which may now he had of all bookselle r t e d following new work :, have also just been publisoooo Mr. 8,-ntley :--I. The Lift. and Travels of „ Ale c : Simpson, the A rc ti c Di scoverer, b y hi s 13roth6L' r tfaiP ander Simpson, E sq ., one vo l ., Bvo., with gl e r o tV 2 Tbe Improvise -Tore ; or, Lite in Italy, " ° A, Se" Danish, by Mrs Ho.iit, 2 vols. post Bv - 4. 3 . Wh e t Edition of Soci a l Lif e i n E ng l and and France' g 0 1-. Editor d 21 " Madam e u Deffand's Letters." Aut" Bvo., with anditions, and a portrait of the ¢IV 4. Anne Hathawey mence, 3 vols., post Bvo. at Of ; or, Shakspeare in Love ; One of the g•,.ea bu :' , e k s t t impositions ~p r. a n d ,T i .d e , ,nd f i; . ., 1 ,„ • •. t.,r4 •1,..• PIM _ 3 ,4 914 , of i e a g lcu ;i' d e, :t i -ve n it' th " : ;l phorteubsielernth the sa4l4;ce s;s rA'i° those admirAlc requi ites for the Oil, and Odonto, a.. prepared by the st joib Rowland, and which, f , ow their merits and OP Th e are the constant hiects of fraudulent imitation' ou nd 4 parties Toilet, the 5 540' so imitating concoct some tra , hy e", rn r yi ktilt resembling in appearance those of Messrs. n'„,,fitt and by adopting the very same names, a nd e'r o9 ,9 the lt,bels and endeavour to pass off Ile ,t ir e'b ig n j ll as the " genuine" artielw , . ret,lth se of the ii . .P lr f a eig they w:li tn- lv en thos, who arc (- ",,y by using thorn W. shoul 1 have imagi , ed English tradesman, whose reputation for h°73(l-to- the integrity intvgrity is proverbial. would not have st °° PT ed ver 4l/- e meanness c 0 s. , base alcl paltry an action. 1 "' o el It'se we I:now f.tr certain that such is the eas e ' A - r tiel e ; 4. ":) 1,1 all Patrons of Messrs. Itovvlnna' s t' o lgtri/ to porches, only of re , p-ctable von fers—and P artic if - hi ° t;. observe the caution in their ndverti , eme nt, cinently appears in our pap:-r °PI I FIFTY RUNNIN G U LCERS C URED IN SIR .• i' latt fe etf HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTNFNT,—EXtraCt O f ,, S Tor.J . dated Tobago ( West Indies), 4th February, 1845 oa t v fessor Holloway—Si r , I h ave t h e pleasure to infoo n your a s t on i s hi ng me di c i nes have cured a gentlee 3l l, o o' island, wh o h a d, I b e li eve , a b out f i fty runn i ng U lcers I be fit: legs, ar ms , an d b o dy, w h o h a d tr i ed all other inedicillde:od, bil rea l° the arrival of yours, but all of which did bins 00 Pi o yours cured him in about s i x wee k s , an d h e i s quite re.s m 0 00 health and vi go u r . Signed—John Martin.— Chl' iSs° n t, g 4 4.11. Tobago." S o ld a t P ro f essor H o ll oway ' s es t a bl:sho t e vi - ot . Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by respectable v en d ors o f me di c i nes t h roug h o ut the ci world. ' . ‘".?IRTTIN o , soire r, On the sth inst., at Chesham, Bucks, 'Airs. Step hen of a son. eurge°°' On the 6th inst., the lady cf James Sharp, E °l ** „ 0 ' Grosvenor-street West, Eaton. square, of a son. ... Clitl'" On the 6th inst., in E a t on - p l ace, t h e Hon. lars• job° of a son. &dila On the 6th inst.. at Cambridge, the lady of -- ge, half o f a Macleane, Esq., Trinity College, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Park-row, Greeuwich. the ~,, 1 114 Smith, Esq., of a son. .„. • , i gto o 9 ti* On the 31st ult., at the Cottage, Stoke .+N eV" - o f S dlesex, the wife of Edward Hedge, Esq., barrister, to still-born. On the:sth inst., at Vernon-place, Bloomsburrsquare' I, s #4# wife Sloper, Esq., of a son. , 1 10..., On the 30th alt., at Bedford, the lady of W• ' Or r* of a son. of th e On the 31st ult., the wife of Mr. G. Downes , 0 road, Brixton, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Marlborough-place, ~ s I t. of William Henry Smith, Esq., surgeon, of a ''')'-' griu On the 3d inst., at Pelham-crescent, Brompton, _...../, Ashton, of a daughter. Walworthtu, i t . b w e rot, Farish,of of S t t h . On the Bth inst. at WelnAt4rlhl.-frl:'/O;kshire. the e M late r :daughter Esq., of G reat ' street, Bloomsbury. 'sjamSehseffic Upton, j e p ld to , o to Margaret Pyrial;o4.e, Ind O i n es t , h r e :ll: l 4. 4 tnhofirp Ar 0115!. George Cooper, of t itt ft °. lateO On the Ist iex a ir ii s a t e ., r a i‘ t i P ar i t n i n n, er ( , )f lt s l i r n s. ca So u p r h e i . a Native Infantry. aged 20. fsiki On the sth inst., at Enfield-wash,PJohn Worsiey, . fe CribOn the sth inst, at Buxted, Su ,sex, Elizabetb,"o Jo , Rev. William Falcon. age On the 6th inst., Mrs. Ann Abraham, of Hackn e3 ;' sel• . 4 at Patilghhaeutie9hteir ms, Ou the 6th inst., at Leicester, Thomas Handaslue'votlw v are, On. the 7th just.. in York-street, Portinati - sci fAt' , `l' , V7 Go , r7P !-1, , , ,,, I —,,,,,rd Esq. 'l William a n tla; last,ffri - ji,-id, y' , '"' lc ei . . . . ror • '-, ~ ' • :r. ~ .. , man, Martin, relic- ° :: -.• . •• . . :1. irralt. Calcutta, vf i,il , , 1.,, lif I' :t . t . .'f, iii4l4. 6:avers, 1....,q• lose On the 2d inst., at Milvertrn Lodge, Leal-nit/Sten' Smith, Esq., aged 72. ~4 . p ia, "" g . Guernsey, On the 3d inst.., in Thomas BrOWlle, ES C !' fail'. relict °. half-pay, 9th Foot. On the lth inst., at Belle Vue, Jersey, b.— , - 1 Lieutenant- Gener ainst.l Le Cout eur. On the sth ,at Carter-street, iii 0414 Hickson. Esq., aged 70. Walworth, a/ - - London: Printed and Published by gURDO loo,we No. 11 % Strand, Printer, ac The Eun Otfic' e, tf Strand, in the Preciuct of the Savo ,, , in th e Middlesex, Friday, April 11, 1845.