The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

IMP ER . AMENT. from obtaining a limitation of their hours of labour, considering that he was: at present receiving a large pension for doing nothing out of the taxes imposed upon the people. Now the pensions which he and his Noble and Learned Friend received were only compensations for large incomes they had sacrificed at the bar. His Noble and Learned Friend behind him (Lord Campbell) was in a still worse position, for he had given up a large income, yet he did not • receive any pension. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 28. Their Lordships filet at the usual hour. Messengers from the Commons brought up the Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, and other Bills, which were , Pead a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to orrow. _ ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. " Lord DINORBEN presented a petition against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. Lord KENYON presented a similar petition from the University of Oiford. The Earl of ROSEBERY presented a petition from several Dissenting congregations in the town of Birming ham against the Dissenters' Property Bill, stating that it was likely to be attended with most injurious effects. - Lord CAMPBELL—I often work ten hours a day. Lord BROUGHAM said his Noble and Learned Friend had worked ten hours a day, and frequently worked so hard that he envied the situation of the factory children. Some of the letters requested him to follow up the useful suggestion which he had made, that wages should be fixed at a minimum, and that manufacturers should be prevented from giving their workpeople less than a certain amount. What he said was, that he would prefer a law for a minimum of wages, unjust and absurd as it might be, to a law for a maximum of hours. Another of his correspondents asked him, how he could say that toil was the lot of man, and at the same time advocate the abolition of slavery. He spoke only of voluntary toil; all that he required was that men should not he compelled to work, or prevented from working. The report was then received, and agreed to. LUNATIC ASYLUMS—IRELAND. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The Duke of WELLINGTON gave notice that on Tuesday next he would move that the House, at its ring do adjourn to the 16th April. IRELAND—THE STATE TRIALS. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said that in pre senting the petition, of which he had given notice for to-morrow, he would not offer any other observations, or raise any discussion on the state of Ireland. He was induced to take this course for two reasons. The first was, that he was anxious to know what was the Govern ment plan relating to the municipal and electoral franchise, on which subject they expressed their intention to bring in a Bill. He had thought that this plan would be submitted that evening in the other House of Parliament; but in consequence of the state of public business there, it was not likely it would be brought forward that night. Lord BROUGHAM—The state of public business there is, that there is no House.—(Laughter.) The Marquis of CLANRICARDE—That was one reason, but another and much more serious reason for his coming to the decision which he had was, that the pe tition alluded to the administration of justice in Ireland upon which he certainly would feel himself called on to make some observations. It would be quite impossible for him to do so without adverting to the recent trials which had taken place in Dublin. There was SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, every reason to suppose that some proceedings connected with th ose tr i als would come before the FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. House in it s j u di cial capacity. Therefore, to cis- GLOBE.—We are glad that farth er i n t er f erence w ith cuss the qu es ti on at the present time would be adult labour is not carried by a coup d e ma i n; an d t h at highly improper, b ecause hi s No bl e and Learned Parliament and the public are allowed some i n t erva l t o Friend s on e i t h er side of the House would be quite "look before they leap." Th ere are t wo p o i n t s o f v i ew , disabled f rom o ff er i ng any opinion on the subject. He a party and a. pu ga W blic one—from w hi c h th e su bj ec t may would therefore p resen t t h e pet i t i on to - morrow, without be re y rded. e have refused to place our se l ves a t th e offering any o b servat i ons on it, but would give notice point of view, though we see as c l ear l y as t h e Party that he wo u ld ca ll t h e attention of the House to the p e - Times the chance of Opposition a d van t age f rom ma ki ng tition immediately after Easter, and would probably this question the occasion for detaching the wavering or malcontent section of the Ministerialists. Our versa move that it be referred to a Select Committee. Lord BROUGHAM cou ld not help expressing his tile Contemporary expresses thi s w ith some na i vete; an d concurrence with his N o bl e F r i en d, as to what he consi- indicates that he has a month's m i n d t o s t r ik e i n w i t h dered hi s d u t y upon that important subject, and he such a combined movement. H e exc l a i ms , "L et i t b e (Lord Brougha m ) cou ld not b ut consider that the looked on as a Ministerial que s ti on . Mi n i s t ers ma k e i t same principl e wou ld apply to the motion of which one. Can there be a q ues ti on more i m p or t ant an d notice had be en g i ven b y the Noble Marquis near him more worthy to divide the Hou se ? At p resen t th ere i s (Lansdown e ). Th ere was one of two courses open no rallying point in the H ouse — no one respecta bl e to his N o bl e F r i end. He could adopt the course taken standard to assemble round. Why no t ga th er by the N o bl e M arquis (Clanricarde), and postpone into one all those who a re no t as h ame d o f his motion, whi c h h e (Lord Brougham) thought wo the principle of protecting the l a bo urer ?" C er t a i n l y be the b e t ter way ; or he could take the other course of here is a great temptation" the ea s y v i r t ue o f th e having it most di st i nctly understood, that there was not Times jumps at it. The Ti mes i s ti re d o f th e pre one word to b e i n t ro d uce d i nto the discussion to-morrow " small blaine to it," a s P a dd y sent Ministry ; which could i n any way affect the pending law pro cee - would say. So is Young England ; those yo ung ( or ings, o r re l a ti ve to the present aspect of affairs in Ire- ci-devant young) gentlemen occupy a pl ace i n th e i r own land, opinion which, at present, they o ccu py now h ere e l se . The Marqui s o f LANS DOWNE entirely concurred They are the natural and inevitable malcontents of th e in the p ro p r i ety o f not entering into a general discus- present party in power ; and ready to swell an y defec tion "pour avoir de la consideratio n ." Th e y fight, or Sion on the s t a t e o f I reland ; but he could not agree rather stand under arms, " under the cold shade of as to the ex p e di ency of putting off his motion with respect t o th e c h allenging of jurors. In answer Peel," and have lost hope of their " ex qu i s it e no ti ons " to a que s ti on w hi c h had been put to him (the Mar- flourishing, unless in a ne w an d " bright field." It quis of L ans d owne) in that House , when he had may suit party purposes to offer this field to these inte given this noti ce o f mot i on, he had stated his inten- resting a n d se l ec t com b a t an t s ; b ut we cannot think "All the Crotchets" an acquisition, so much as a nui tion was not at all to interfere with any proceedings sauce, to any party. These gentlemen . are so fine, that that had taken place in the late State trials, but to have a they are always shooting over everybddy's heads o . prospective inquiry as to the course to be taken by the They are always aiming at something, which is to do Government fur the future in Ireland with respect to the something no one else ever dreamed of. We are to"keep challenging of jurors. His motion was grounded solely upon the e x p e di ency o f ma ki ng k nown the in- the holidays of the Church," or restore the mona s ti c orders, or liberate Don Carlos, or send an ambass a d or t o structions given by t h e G overnment to the officers of the Crown in I re l an d f or their future guidance. He should, the Pope—in short, we are to retrograde, as f ar as possi ble, from all that three centuries have b een d o i ng . I t i s therefore, allow his mo ti on to rema i n , on t h e under a curious historical and p o liti ca l t h eory wh i ch these standing that th ere s h ou ld b e no reference to the conduct of the G overnment i n t h e l ate tr i als. gentlemen would s eem t o h ave i m bib ed. One of their • The LORD CHANCELLOR sa id t h at the result of kindred geniuses, o f a c l er i ca l cut, not long back, in the motion of th e N o bl e M arqu i s would be, that their the British C r iti c , d ec l are d t h at English history Lordships would b e i n f orme d t h at the course which had stopped, at the end o f th e seventeent h century—that no f been adopted by the pr esen t Att orney -G enera l had been farther developm e nt o f th e nat i ona l m i n d or sp i r i t was precisely th e same w hi c h h a d b een adopted by his pre- to be looked f or i n th e e i g h teent h. F orsooth, priestly decessors, and he had n o d ou bt b ut t h at suc h a statement ascendancy came d ec id e dly t o an en d i n t h e f ormer pe would be satisfactory to the Noble Marquis. rind ; and of course the progress of empire, science, and The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was confirmed in his industry, could deserve no notice afterwards. Ac resolution of bringing forward his motion t o - mo r row b y innovators backwards, it i s our what had j us t fallen from the Noble and L earne d Lord cording to these supposed progress which h as pl an t e d us w h ere we are. The whole tendency of th e age i s t owar d s over-exer on the Woolsack. N o thi ng cou ld b e more b ene fi c i a l to tion, and overproduction. P eo pl e requ i re t o b e checked the Govern men t, or g i ve greater satisfaction to the country, than th e announcement that such was the inten- in the excess of their ea gerness t o b e t ter t h e i r condi tion of the Go vernment as to the challenging of jurors. t Lord BROUGHAM would only add, that if hi s Noble trial heresy of laissez f a ir e . A n d h ere th e Retro grades hav e r ea lly distin g uished support amongst writ ers preclud e d f rom g i v i ng his opinion on the whole sub- Friend th oug h t t h at he (Lord Brougham) was to be and thinkers ; though it always appears to us th a t ject, if it s h ou ld b e submitted to their Lordships, such reasoners do not put th e sa ddl e on t h e r i g h t h orse. he w ou ld fi n d he was mistaken. If an Noble When a writer quarrels with the w h o l e ten d ency, Lord, i n t h e course of the discussion,y should theoretical and practical, of th e age h e li ves i n , i t i s allude at a ll t o t h e conduct of the Government in the a fair question—What ar e y ou d riv i ng a t ? Wh at i s late prosecution, or to the conduct of the Court before }'our ideal of soci a l econom y ?If h e says —l t i s not which the c ause was tr i ed, he should feel it to be his my business to tell you--I am sufficiently occupied i n duty to give hi s c l ear opinion upon the subject. If that uncovering the social sor e pl aces w hi c h y ou cannot d eny subject exist—we reply : That answer might perhaps be al subject were once gone into it would be impossible fur lowed to pass, if you did not indicate some theory of any one to say where the debate would end. your of own by your mode of criticising others—if you Lord WHARNCLIFFE was understood to say that there wo u ld b e no o bj ection to the production of the did not assume that certai n phil oso phi ca l an d po li t i ca l papers. aberrations wer e th e causes o f certa i n soc i a l di sor d ers— The Marquis of LANSDOWN E sa i d that his motion that at some former pe r iod( uns p ec ifi e d) thi ngs were b etter, would n o t go t o t h e i nculpation of the Court before because men acted on b e tt er p r i nc ipl es — at some f ormer which the late trials had taken place. period men were more guided and governed ; and Lord CAMPBELL un d erstood that it was agreed prospered mor e accor di ng l y . N ow , we d emur to this that during the di scuss i on there should be no allusion to assumption of the cause o f ex istin g ev il s , as res idi ng the late trials, because that subject would be brought in the too great laxity and independence in the rela tions between man and man. W e d en y th a t t h e con judicially before th e i r L or d s hi ps b y writ of error. His flexion existing in former ages between superiors an d own opinion was t h at the discussion could not be en interests of the latter ; and tered on with a d vantage. There would be great difficulty i inferiors was more in the in separatingthe legal from th e cons ti tut i ona l quest i on. we do not believe that a total r evo l u ti on i n th e pre - It was much more expedient, in his opinion, that even valent tendencies in this respect is possible or desirable. now they sh ou ld no f urther refer to the more difficult And we and delicat e quest i on which must, from what he had factories deny, above all, the justi ce of a tt ac k ing th e as the worst example of present ill. Indeed, heard, soo ner or l ater come before them. Let it the best dispro o f o f thi s i s , th a t peop l e go t hi t h er f rom not, howeier, be imagined that because he (Lord the country, and won't go back. The Dorsetshire Campbell) and oth ers a b sta i ne d f rom giving any opinions philanthropists may find the pres s ure on lab our nearer upon the s u bj ec t now or to-morrow that they admitted ome. • Let them single out th e fi rs t h e d ger or di tc h er, , eking out his pittance by piece-work. Let them exa the recent proceedings to be constitutional, er that they mine if that man does not endure harder toil than fac in any way sanctione the conduct of her Majesty's Go vernment. tory operativ es — en d ure it vo l untar il y — as vo l untarily ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL. as can be said of a man working for scant bread for himself and child r e n . Th ere i s no "f ac t ory system " On the motio n th at t h e report on this Bill be there. There are . general causes of pressur e , p er i o di ca ll y brought u p, The Marquis of NORMANBY sa i d he must take that aggravated, on indi v id ua l l a b our everyw h ere. U nless that pressure is worst in the factories ; unless the opportunity of strongly expressing his dissent from the " factory system " dictates the laws (instead of suffer principle of this Bill, and also from the grounds on ing the common necessities) ,of labour—unless it can which it had been proposed. He did not know why the be shown—not that the competition is severe—we all discussion of such a Bill should be left solely to the know that—but that its severity is owing to too wide Noble and Learned Lords in that House ; and having a field being left open by law to industry—instead attentively listened to every word which had been uttered of being owing to too narrow a field being left open for on the second reading —and he thought he was about its returns—unless existi ng ev il s can b e t race d to the the only Memb er o f th e H ouse t h at had done so—he must factories as their source and birth-place, we must con say that never was Bill brought forward with so little tinue to think, as we think now, that the whole agita title to their support. Why, the only ground on which tion against them is a farce. And we must protest very it was supported was the not very creditable one that seriously against Lord Ashley paying himself the linde n better Bill would not be brought forward, inasmuch served compliment of imagining that the mantle of "Mr. as A.:would be opposed by the country practitioners. Cade" (commonly called Jack Cade) has fallen on him. He would say that he thought the House of Commons Mr. Cade was an Irishman, and a Parliamentary Re had been very much wronged on this subject. Let him former, and would have been sent to Kilmainham, if the call their Lordships' attention to what was the plain ecclesiastical statesmen of that age had not found shorter . state of the ease. In the House of Commons, previous ways of dealing with him. Mr. Cade was a decided Laissez to the division. Sir James Graham, after stating all the faire man, more likely to have been an Anti-Corn-law, authorities for the abolition of these Courts, Leaguer than a single-str ing p er f ormer i n t h e Short p o ssible on th e subject, wound and stating hi s own op i n i on as strongly as Time strain. It appears from M r . C a d e ' s memor i a l s speech by saying, "up a most effective to the King, that his views were partly directed to- Uton principl e , t h en, I cannot yield wards reform of the game-laws—" Simple people (he to the opposition to this Bill. With all deference I must says) that use not hunting are greatly oppressed say that if the House shall think proper to reject this by indictments "—partly to reform in Parliament:— Bill, I cannot offer any measure likely to be more accept- " People of Kent not suffered to have free election of able in its place." Sir Robert Peel, also, at the conclu- their knights of the shire, but letters haye been sent to sion of the debate, said the Government were aware the great rulers, f orc i ng t h em to c h oose other per by introduci ng thi s measure, t h ey were exposing them- sons than the Commo ns w i s h e d." I t appears from the selves to th e o pp os i t i on o f t h e i r fr i ends, but they would following heads of griev ance , th a t M r. C ade was the not endeavo ur t o purc h ase a cont i nuance of their sup- decided opponent of the Statute of Labourers, which the port by shrinking from the discharge of what they con- Morning Post considers the great precedent for " pro sidered their duty. On the division the numbers were testing labour :—" That all the extortions used daily 186 to 84, a much larger majority, in proportion to the among the common people be laid down ; that is, the Members present, than any which the present " strong " Government h a d h a d s i nce they first came into office. green wax so falsely us e d t o th e perpetua l d estruct i on of the commons of Kent ;also the King's Bench so greeve- Now, what became 'of all that courage and determination ful to the shire of Kent ; also the taking of wheat and not to shrink from their duty? Why, the Bill was re ferred to a Select Committee, and so far from being re- other grains, beef, mutton, and all other victuals, which cognised and a d opted by the House of Commons, it was is importable to th e sa id commons ; a l so the statute of reported by that Select Committee on the 28th of labourers, &c. &c." We are not profound enough in May, and from that period to the end of the local and general research to trace the exact sense of session no steps were taken on the subject. He thought some of the above items • but viewing Mr. Cade's opi therefore, it was hard upon that House to call upon it to Mons with the respect Parliament now views them, we pass the Bill which was admitted by all to be should suggest to both Houses whether the present corn the means of perpetuating very great evils ; i laws may not come withi n th e mean i ng o f " taking " kept up the diocesan courts and perpetuated courts . t from the commonalty "of wheat and other grains"— that had not business to sus t a i n them, whi c h i s i mporta bl e to t h e said commons." The Under all th ese c i rcumstances , h e thought the country words, doubtl ess' were used in another sens e a t th e ti me ; when it jud ge d o f thi s Bill , wou ld b e li eve t h at the Go- but it is the property of great men's utt erances t o ac - enlarged scope in the lapse of ages . vernment had purs ue d a course o f yi e ldi ng to the m os t quire an humiliatin g necess i ty to w hi ch a " strong ' Government STANDARD.—Our readers will have seen by the was ever driven. report of last night's proceedings in the Hous e o f C om - Lord WHARN CLTFFE said that he had no objec- mons, that th e F actory question is postponed. Sir tion to take his share of the respoosibility of bringing in James Graham will to-morrow night withdraw the this measure. He admitted that the Government did Bill now before Parliament, introduce a new Bill at the same , tune, and take the di - before bring in a Bill that went much further than carrion onthis second Bill as soon as possible after ' the present one. They found that there was a strong opinion respecting th e Bill , not only in the House the recess. Lord Ashley assents to this arrange of Commons, but elsewh ere , not only on the part of ment, reserving to himself the r i ght to introduce a practitioners, but of the publi c i n general. He was quite short-time Bill, independent o f the Government ready to take any blame for the p art he had hail in measure. In one view this arrangem en t i s satisfactory, bringing in the Bill. for the great question in issue will thus be distinctly dis- Lord COTTENHAM said the question was nototherwise we must lament that the postpone cussed, little of accommodation, whether the Government had yielded to pressure or not, ni takes place with prospect but whether it had acted properly. The question w h o _ thoughent • hperfect certainty that, sooner or later, the ther it would be inconvenient for parties to come to ten hours' t li a itation will be carried. We are weary of London to transact their business had been a matter of the subject, and so, no doubt, are our readers; but duty requires often that we submit to inquiry ever since the year 1832, and every report some in order to arrive at truth and to do justice, of the Commissioners had stated that the advantages of all of investigating as removing the courts to London would far outweigh any inconvenience that would be occasioned by making long and complicated accounts. Such is in the matter bef ore us ; f or not on l y are t h e In answer to a questi on f rom L or d B eouailasr , parties come to London t o a tt en d th e cour t s . the case circumstances perpl ex i ng i n themselves., but every day, , brim s fo as to the standing to be r equ ir e d i n a b arr i ster, i n or d er g rth some new f a ll acy , or some new scheme of accommodation, the mor e t o entangle our judg to be qualified to sit as a j u d ge i n th e court, The LORD CHANCELLOR saw no reason why five merit. This morning's f a lla c y i s t h e argument of years should not b e a su ff ic i ent qua lifi cat i on. H e had the Morning Chro n i c l e against the competency of the Factory Commis s i oners as witnesses in the case. no objection to mak e th e requ i re d a l terat i on. , en It is known that the op i n i ons of the Factory Corn- The question th a t th e re p ort b e rece i ved was tn about to be p u t, u p on w hi c h missioners, men select e d f or their intelligence and Lord BROUGHAM rose, an d sa i d he wished to sa o e•acity, and officers of the G overnment, which opposes correct a mis a pp re h ens i on w hi c h had arisen out of what Lord Ashley, are all favourable t o a considerable limi he had stated th e o th er n i g h t, upon the presentation of tation of the hours of labour. A n d accordingly the a petition from cer t a i n f emales in Scotland. He had Mornin g Chronicle finds it necess ary Co impeach their received several l e tt ers from' ersons in the count authority :—"lt is the more necessary. to insist upon ry, and oner d '"ifitol, "'that- ,- .p •fi2" : •truer - Ititrght—'nut impropriety the of rest* the whole cafe uporth e ,d ic t a to attempt to p reTen t t h • la b o classes of the Factory Commissioners, because not only i s wisw Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a return of the cor respondence between the Government and the Inspectors of District Lunatic Asylums, on the subject of the treatment of lunatics in asylums in Leland. In Ireland lunatics were not subject to the supervision of any Government agents, and he thought there should be some provision made from the estimates of the year to effect this purpose. The motion was agreed to without opposition. Their Lordships then adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, March 28. There being but thirty-four Members present al four o'clo.ek, the SPIJAKER adjourned the House till to-morrow. THE Lord Ashley's interference with millowners, and the other parts of society, defended by appealing to their report, but the superiority of their know ledge is assumed to be so great, that it is described as a new species of reason for other men to surrender their own judgment to the conclusions of Messrs. Horner and Saunders. Parliament, which deputed them to inquire, is held to have given up its own senses and will to them, and is held to be bound to see only with their eyes, and le gislate only with their understandings. By this kind of deference they are elevated into the masters of the Minis ters and the Parliament. By Lord Ashley and some of our Contemporaries they seem to be regarded as the concen trated essence of good sense, which alone is capable on this subject of giving flavour to a general vapidness. Now, it is precisely because their attention has been closely and exclusively fixed on a single point that we are dis posed to resist their authority, and affirm that their sug gestions, as the basis of a law which is to affect the whole community, are unworthy of notice. Let it be fur ther remembered that the inquiries of the Factory Com missioners have been as much limited in time as in space. They have seen the factories in operation only, we be. lieve, since 1833, the date of Lord Ashley's Bill; and certainly the greatest and the worst complaints have been made since that time. Through a - large portion of the intervening period great distress has prevailed in the manufacturing districts. The millowners have seen their property, and even their subsistence, in peril ; they have had difficulty in scraping together the means of paying their workpeople, and of paying the very large demands of the public tax-gather ; they have been forced, therefore, to be thrifty—at times may have seemed to lean hard upon the operatives, exacting out of them the means of bearing the public charges, and of sustaining their own fortunes—which w e hold, when honestly performed, to be laudable in the individual and beneficent to the State ; they have been unable, also to find adequate employment for men, and have been glad, on account of the pressure on themselves, to use only the cheapest labour." One must admire the new canon of rea soning asserted in this argument. The witnesses are be yond dispute originally impartial, and they happen to be the only available witnesses who are impar tial ; if there are other impartial witnesses let them be named. But to attend to the evidence of these, the only impartial witnesses, is to elevate them to be masters of the Ministers and the Parliament ; -just, we suppose, as an impartial witness in the Court of Queen's Bench becomes the master of Lord Denman and a special jury. Our Contemporary, however, thinks that notwithstanding their unimpeached intelligence and impartiality, the Factory Commissioners are unworthy to have their opinions seriously considered,. and this for the strangest reason in the world—" precisely because their attention has been closely and exclusively fixed upon a single point"—which is the point in ques tion, neverthless. The witness is to be slighted because he has minutely studied the subject of his evi dence; or, to come to the matter, the gentleman who, by careful consideration of repeat e d e xp e r ime nt s h as sa tisfied himself that more work, and better work, and cheaper work, is done by a given number of hands working ten hours in a cotton mill than by the same number of hands working twelve hours (a conclusion of more than one Com missioner) is to be disregarded—because, we suppose, he has not taken "a course of the lectures of the League. But there is another reason why the report of eye-witnesses is 'to be held of no account. They have not merely been deprived of the peripatetic lights of Messrs. Cobden, Maud, Bright, and Smith, which our Contemporary designates as a want of space. -" The inquiries. of the Factory Commissioners have been as much limited in time as in' space, they have seen the factories in operation only, we believe, since 1833." Only during eleven years ! quite a transient glance, says the Morning Chronicle, and these 11 years have been years during which the millowners have had difficulty in scraping together the means of paying their workpeople and of paying the very lame de mands:of the public tax-gather e r, " and have been gla e 'd, on account of the pressure on themselves, to employ only the cheapest labour." Poor fellows, nothing but neces sity could prevent their overpaying their labourers. But .for these sad eleven years—we must notcall them tedious—because they are but a twinkling of the eye, in our Contemporary's opinion—for these sad eleven years, we should like to know, to what extent thenumber of mills has been diminished during the period of depression ? Will the Morning Chronicle t e ll ? Well, if it 'cannot speak of any diminution, perhaps it "mighty tell the extent to vt hich the number of mills has increased, notwith standing the sufferings of the poor fellows "scraping" to pay their way. Has the increase been 10 per - cent. ?-20 per cent. ?-50 per cent. ?=-100 per cent. ? We are very much disposed to rate the increase even above the last ratio ; and if we should 'happen to be right, what becomes of the peculiar circum stances that render the last eleven years an unfit period to be taken as a sample of the manufacturing ,history of the country ? Mark, we do not dispute - th e existence of great distress during the eleven years ; but we ascribe it altogether to that system of over-building, over-pro duction, and over-working, of which long hours of la bour constitute the basis, and, if we may so speak, the charter—for without long hours of labour there would be no temptation to over-build, and little opportunity of over-production. ' once of such an intimacy for so long a period, and he considered that there was an entire absence of any proof that he had ever made a promise to marry the plaintiff, for if he had, when she was delivered of a child her father must have insisted neon the promise being ful filled. He put it to the jury whether this was not what would be expected from a father • under such circumstances, and whether the absence of such evidence was not a convincing proof that no such promise had been given. The only evidence that had been adduced to prove the promise, was the evidence of the brother as to certain observations and statements alleged to have been made by the defendant, and the production of a Testament, in which there was an entry of the child's name in the defendant's hand-writing. This, however, he contended, was no proof that any promise had been given, and if the jury w e r e t o fi n d a ver di c t against the defendant upon such slight grounds, it would enable parties, no matter however abandoned they might be, to get up cases of this description, for the purpose of extorting money from persons who might have an illi c it conn ection with any member of their family. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment upon the evidence that had been adduced, aid concluded by expressing his opinion that the jury ought not to countenance a case of such a description. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001. CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) Frederick Fox, 50, was charged with a felonious assault upon John Hammond. Mr. Clarkson, with Locke, conducted the prose cution. The details of the case are quite unfit for publication. The offence was committed in. the workhouse of the Hambledon Union, in December last, at which time it appeared the establishment was full of inmates, and in one room there were fifteen beds, all occupied by able-bodied paupers. A com plaint was made to the governor of the workhouse, but he did not appear to' take any notice of it, and no in quiry took place until som time afterwards, when the most disgusting proceedings were disclosed, and the prisoner and three other paupers were eventually com mitted for trial. Mr. Baron ALDERSON remarked that the conduct of the governor, in not instituting. an immediate inquiry, when the complaint was made to him, was most scandalous. The jury found the defendant Guilty, and at the same time said they thought the governor of the union-house was very Much Co blamC _ _ Mr. Avon ALDERSON said he quite agreed with them. Such proceedings as these ought to have been taken notice of immediately, and it was impossible to say what mischief might have been occasioned by neglecting to do so. The defendant was then ordered to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. George Elderfield, 28, was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a barn belonging to lames Peto Shrubb, Esq., at Guildford. Mr: Locke conducted the, prosecution, and Mr. Knapp he defence. ' The case was not made out, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. IRISH ASSIZES. NORTH TIPPERARY.—Nenagh, March 23. WILFUL MURDER OF THOMAS TIERNEY. Patrick . Gleeson, a powerfully-made young man, was placed at the bar, charged with having, on the 12th of March, 1843, been concerned in the wilful murder of Thomas Tierney. Mr. 1 1 nEwsrEn;Q.C., stated the case for the Crown, and said—Gentlemen of the Jury, the prisoner at the bar stands indicted for oue of the most barbarous murders that has dis graced even the annals of this county. It will appear in evidence, that some time in the winter of 1842, or th e b eg i n ning of 1843, Thomas Tierney, who had been a' prisoner. swore informations against two persons for firing at him That fact will be established beyond all doubt ; but whether he himself was mistaken 'in reference to the person who fired at him we have no means of judging, as he never lived to proseeute the parties: A man named Thomas Gleeson, the brother Of the prisoner at the bar; was one of those whom he charged with the commission of that offence. The .place where this occurred was between Toomavara and the Devil's bit—a wild district in this county ; and. Tierney having sworn his informations in February, 1843, and being bound over to prosecute at the following spring assizes, it was con sidered advisable to put an end to the prosecution by 'putting out of the way of the author of it. ',Thomas Gleeson„ one of the men accused, was a brother of "the pri soner at the bar; and it is impossible to shut one's 'eyes to the fact, all distressing as it is, that in this country there are two ,codes of law in full operation. One is the law of the land, which we are now assembled here to administer—one in which every man accused has thrown around him the best safeguard and protection, while every care is taken to pro .test innocence from being unjusily condemned. It is a righteous and beneficent rule that better should ninety-nine guilty men escape than one innocent man suffer, and, such is the code we are here to administer. By its agency the pri soner is put on his trial in the face of open day, with his ac misers before him, and the Court vigilant to see that his cause shall suffer no unjust prejudice. Thomas Tierney," the deceased man, met with no such trial. He was tried behind his back—he did not know what was his crime, or who were his accusers —no forms of justice were gone through—he was condemned in secret, and met his death: by the hands of as sassins, the willing instruments of that terrible code which has made life and property, and everything' dear. to man, insecure in this country. On the evening of the 12th of March„, 1843, the deceased was sitting in. the hot* of a woman ,named Sally Gleeson, or Sally Brien—in that house where the owner of it, her two little children, _,and a. young girl, Bridget Grady. 'Bridget Grady . was stand ing beside the lira-place facing the door, 'having 'a view of every one coming to the door ; the deceased was at the opposite side of the fire, fondling one of the little chil dren between his knees, when a party of monsters rushed into the house, just after nightfall, and found him in that condition, which was one calculated to disarm the most sa vage heart. But those executioners had no compunction ; they desired the mother to take her children into another small room, and she did so, getting with them under a bed, and being in such a position as to render it impossible for ; her to swear to the appearance of any of the men —or, at least, she_could not identify any engaged in that, transaction, She is an adult, and'prObably had'not the courage ,to brave the mandates of a savage code. Lftnd here that complaints have been made,• and. sometimes I myself have indulged in the' expression of disapprobation, of the conduct of those who refuse to come forward to bring the perpetrators`of a crime after reading the details (I this case,; myl to justiceurprseon ; but, thesuect has ceased. It is an awful consi l deration, and lam afraid you will find during th e progress o f th ese sizes that murder is a crime committed here in the :most daring manner, and that those concerned in it proceed in the most business -like way to put their unfortul nate victims to death. The child Bridget Grady, who was is the house that night,. has not 'sense - enough to know the danger of telling the truth. She witnessed the transaction: ' and she is the only witness you can have to assist you in your investigation. Upon her testimony alone the case y m e u a s r t s depend, She an S d he sh is e, a w v h erY o is 3ro fu u l n ly g sensible of the obligation child-not. more than 11 you the, entire of this transaction. It to a particular circumstance, she d of oe an s h o a a p t p h e , a wi t l h l a t t e , ll owing was well acquainted with the person of the prisoner. She was accustomed to receive i nstruction in the house of a schoolmaster of the name of Kennedy, living very, near to the cottage of Sally Gleeson, and his place was on the road side leading to a bog, to which the prisoner was in the habit of going frequently to draw turf. I believe she did not know his name, but she knew him by a soubriquet applied to him of the " Omadhattn," and was intimately acquainted with hit person. She will prove that he was one of the five men con cerned in the murder, although I believe he did not strike a blow. Upon the whole of the case it will be for you to form and are also certain th a t s h e an opinion as to the veracity of this witness, a nd if you en why Then it will b e your duty to find the prisoner guilty. could d n n aot o b d e ou m b i t st o a f k h e e a r , veracity, Sally Brien was examined, and corroborated the statement of counsel as to the murder of Tierney in her house. On her crosa-examination she stated 'that the place was dark.. She never saw or keard who the men were that committed. the murder. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.' HOME CIRCUIT, Kingston, March 28. CIVIL SIDE. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Common Jury.) BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.--43ELSON V. WILLIAMS. This was was an action brought by the plaintiff, to re cover damages for a breach of promise of marriage by the defendant. Mr. Montagu Chambers and Mr. Knapp were for the plaintiff, - and Mr. Thesiger and Dir. Platt for the de fendant. Mr. CHAMBERS stated the case, and said the plaintiff in the present action was a person in a very humble station of life, and she sought from the defendant com pensation in damages for one of the greatest injuries that could be inflicted upon a woman. The plaintiff and the defendant were both about thirty-two years of age, but the intimacy first commenced between them at a much earlier period of life. They both resided at Erimley, in this county, and they first became acquainted in 1831. An intimate connection and affection sprung up between them, the result of which was, that in 1835 the plaintiff gave birth to a female child. The defen dant was the son of a gentleman of some property in the neighbourhood. He always expressed great affection to• wards the plaintiff, avowed his intention to marry her, and when the child was born he permitted it to be christened in his name ; and to show what his intentions were at this time, he should produce a Testament, in which the defendant had entered the words " Maria Augusta Wil liams, born Friday, July 17, 1835, half-past six, P.M ;" and, in fact, the defendant always recognised the infant .as his.legitimate child, and on several occasions stated to the brother of the plaintiff that he would rather the breath should go out of his body than that his sister should ,not become his wife. He admitted that an illicit connection had continued for a consider able period between the parties, but it was alone countenanced upon the representation of the 'defendant that he could not marry without disobliging his father, from whom he had considerable expectations, and that he would embrace the first opportunity of redeeming his pledges to the plaintiff. The father of the defendant died in 1843, and he then still adhered to his engagement, and expressed his satis faction that the period was at length come when he could carry out the promise he had made and restore to the plaintiff that position of honour and respecta bility of which he had deprived her. In spite, however, of all these protestations the defendant had deserted the unfortunate plaintiff, and had put it out of his power to do her justice, by marrying another woman. 'the defendant, while in poor circumstances, had alwayi professed great affection for the plaintiff, and had led her to believe that she would be raised to a station of comfort and indepen dence, but when he became comparatively rich and in dependent, he forgot all those professions, and basely desdrted the• woman. who had sacrificed everything to him. Under these circumstances the plaintiff appealed to the jury for damages for the injury she had 'sustained, and he was satisfied they would give her such compensa tion as she might be considered fairly entitled to under such circumstances - . The Learned Counsel then called the following witnesses:— John Belson—l am the brother of the plaintiff. She is about 32 years old. I have knOwn the defendant for twenty years, and I believe he was thirty-three last August. The defendant used to come very often to our house at Frimley. He used to come courting to my sis ter, and was received at any time. In 1835 my sister was delivered of a child, and I had a conversation with the defendant before her confinement, when he said " I shall make your sister ray wife as soon as possible." He constantly visited my sister while she prgnant,and he told me his father had offered him 50/. to give my sister, and break off the connexion, but he said, he would rathe r lose all the breath out of his body than forsake her. The defendant's father died in January, 1843, and he then told me that he intended to make Kate, meaning my sister, his wife, and he would take a little farm in the country and live away from his brother and sister. Soon after this we• ascertained that the defendant had been married, and upon my sister hearing of it she be came very ill. Cross-examined—l get my living by labour in an honest way as well as I can, occasionally by holding horses. My father never earned more than. forty shil lings a week. Our cottage had eight rooms. I did not know before. March, 1835, that there had been any im proper intercourse between the defendant and my sister. He used sometimes to whistle, and at others to throw stones, and she went out to him, and they remained out for some time. Defendant was not more than seventeen when he first became acquainted with my sister. She was not in the habit of dancing at beer-shops. She has sometimes been with me to a beer-shop, but she never drank at such places with strange men. The defendant was of very dark complexion. The child was rather fair, Bridget. Grady, a very intelligent , child of about eleven years of age, was also examined and gave strong evidence of, the prisoner's guilt. The prisoner's brother, sister, and mother, were examined in support of an alibi. Judge BALL charged the jury, remarking that the case de pended on the veracity and accuracy of the child. ' The jury retired• at ten o'clock, and after a time the fore man intimated that they had notagreed ; andaskedif these was any reasonable doubt of the child's accuracy, should net the prisoner get the benefit of the doubt ? Judge BALL said that was the great principle of the law criminal cases. . The jury at half-past eleven. returned a verdict of Net Guilty. When they first went into their room the majority were, we understand, for a conviction. Amelia Gurney deposed, that she took lodgings in Gravel-lane, Southwark, for the plaintiff and the defen dant who passed as man and wife ; and she said, that defendant told her now there was no obstacle to his marriage with the plaintiff, and that it should soon take place. The 'Testament, with the entry referred to by the Learned Counsel, was then put in evidence. Mr; THNSIGER them addressed the jury for the de fendant, and commenced by entreating them not to allow themselves to be prejudiced by anything they had heard stated, but to be guided solely by the evidence, and the real facts of the case which it disclosed. lie ,then went on say, that at the time the intimacy first commenced between the . parties, the defendant was a boy of seventeen just come 'from boarding school ; and it was more likely t h at •at such an age, he should liave Peen seduced by the plaintiff, - than that she' ilhonlif:have fallen a victim to him. He then proceddeirti e s'reiiiiii - upon. the 'Conduct of the family of the plaintiff in permitting the confirm- SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEVING, MARCH 29, of making the complaint ;' but he considered it to be his duty to come forward on an occasion of so much importance to prevent a practice calculated to increase most prodi giously the expense of the Government who had acted with regard to the light sovereigns and half sovereigns with great liberality to the public. lie had, he said, been twenty years connected with the Mint, and had weighed many millions of sovereigns and half sovereigns, and he well knew the large expense incurred by the re cent calling in of the coinage. Sir PETER LAURIE then sent a messenger to the offices of Messrs. Freshfield, the solicitors to the Bank of England, observing that the subject was .too serious a one to entertain without the attendance of some autho rised person upon the part of that establishment. Mr. Charles Freshfield immediately attended, and having been informed by Sir Peter Laurie of the nature of the representation which had been made, said, that he should make inquiry on the subject ; and that no doubt a satisfactory explanation would be afforded as soon as possible. Two yoUng men named Edward Stone and William Dunn were brought up charged with having used threats againsfMr. Christopher Clark. The prosecutor stated that he was the proprietor of eight omnibuses, which plied to and from the Bank and Pimlico,' and that some time ago he detected two thieves belonging to what was called " the swell mob," who had robbed a lady in an omnibus of which he was conductor. In consequence of having caused the transportation of the delinquents he had been exposed to the grossest insults from their " pals," who still remained to prey upon the public. On Wednesday, as , witness was ' with his omnibus in Cornhilt, Dunn shook his fist at him, and used some words in a menacing tone. Witness got down off his foot board, and asked the man what he meant? and' Stone said " Cut a button-hole in his b— eye." Dunn then said to witness, " You lagged poor Moore and another, and we'll put you away." He gave them into the custody' of the police, as he considered his life to be in danger from such men. He added that one of the prisoners had threatened him as he was attend ing his omnibus in Regent-street. Sir PETER LAURIE—Why did you not give him into custody then ? VVitness—Because my omnibus was full, and I had • nobody to take my place, otherwise I cer tainly should have done so. Stone denied that. he had ever opened his lips to the prosecutor. He was, he said, of no trade or pr o f ess i on , but was allowed 1501. a-year by his uncle in Aberdeen. Dunn said he knew nothing whatever of the prose cutor ; that he never in his life had been in trouble, that he was a cab-owner in extensive business, and was wholly unknown to people of bad character. Sir PETER LAURIE said the very circumstance which led to the annoyances to which Mr. Clark had been sub • ject, proved how deeply the public were indebted to him for the manly exertions he had made to catch and punish the thieves who had robbed the female passenger. The prisoners were then ordered to find bail in se curity to the amount of 40L each, and to be bOurid over in the sum of 'BOl. each to keep the peace towards all her Majesty's subjects, particularly towards Christopher Clark.—The bail was procured. CLERKE.IV WELL. John Hill, a cheesemonger, residing at No. 16, Stock well-street, Greenwich, was charged with causing the death of Ellen Cash, a child of seven years old, by driving a cart over her. From the evidence of police-constable Churchyard, 174 G, and that of other witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner was driving a spring-cart along Portpool-lane. That at the junction of this lane and Leather-lane a number of children had gathered round a heap of the sweepings of a grocer's shop, and were busily engaged in picking raisins .out of it, when the prisoner drove up. They all ran in different directions, but the unfortunate deceased, running against the step of the tart, was knocked down, and the wheel passed over her chest. A yowl.g man, who witnessed the occurence, which took place at eight o'clock on that morning, immediately took up the - child, and ,carried it into a surgery hard by, but when he reached the surgery life was extinct. All the witnelies concurred in the belief that the prisoner was driving at a moderate pace,,and that he could not haie " pulled up " in safficient - time to enable the child to escape. The father of the deceased who seemed' greatly dis tressed, said the constable had told a different story out of Court, imputing the blame of neglect to the carter, but this the constable positiiely dewed. The prisoner'," who seemed to treat the matter with un feeling indifference; was then discharged. • Joseph Wright was charged with deserting his wife and child, whereby they became chargeable to Islington parish.' The prisoner deserted his wife about three years ago, and she became chargeable to Islington, in December, 1842, at which time, being largely pregnant, she was admitted into the workhouse. The wife, however, ad mitted to the magistrate, that the child who was fourteen months old, was not her husband's, but the result of an adulterous intercourse with a man named Briggs. Mr. GREENWOOD decided, that in aecordance with the opinion ,of the judges of the Queen's Bench,. in the case of the Xing v'. Fiintan, that where an adulterous intercourse was proved to have taken place; the husband was no longer liable for the' maintenance of his wife. The prisoner was'dischiirged; WORSHIP STREET. Wm. BrouM, who lately kept a beer-shop at Hackney, was brought before Mr. Bingham, for final examination, charged with -having been,concerned in the perpetration of numerous burglaries in Essex and Cambridgeshire, in conjunction with two notorious " cracksmen," named Cuttress and Bennett, who have since been sentenced to transportation for life. It maybe recollected that a vast quantity of multi farious property was discovered by the police at the pri soner's residence, the greater part of which was proved to be theproduce of different burglaries that had been committed in the`', above' counties within the • last few months. Four distinct eases were established against the 'prisoner at the former examination, and he was re manded, to give tune for the identification of numerous valuable articles thati remained unclaimed in the hands of the police, Emma Dean, -a domestic in the service of the Ron, Mr. Herbert, of Ickledon, in Cambridgeshire, now iden tified various articles consisting of two silver candlesticks, a pair ,of antique brow. chimney ornaments; a writing desk, &c., as the property of her master, whose mansion was broken into and plundered during the absence of the family on the 19th January last. Sergeant Bra nnan d e p ose d to his having found the several articles recognised by the last witness, at the house occupied by the prisoner in Nelson-street,"Haek. ney-road., The depositions in all the cases having been com pleted, the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to await his 'trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court. . - BrcA3tv.—Anne Connor, otherwise Layton, a person of very respectable and 'prepossessing appearance, was fully examined on the charge of having intermarried with Thomas Hayward during the lifetime of t dtuund Connor, her former husband. • The case excited a good deal of interest in• conSeL (pence of the prisoner having been given into custody through the instrumentality of her sister,- who vain tarily presented herself as a material witness in support of the charge against her. BenjaMin Turner, the parish-clerk of St. Sepulchre's, produced a register-book, containing the entry of a mar riage solemnised between Edmund Connor and Anne Layton, on the of May, 1837. • Mary Oiertind proved that the signature " Anne Layton," in the book produced, was in the handwriting. of the prisoner, who was her sister. _ Joseph Rouse; the parish-clerk of St... Mary's Hag gerstone, ,produced" the ris6y of the prisoner's second marriage with Thomas Haywood, which took place o n May 28, 1839:' ' - The priioner's sister stated that she acted as bride's- Maid at the latter Marriage, and‘she knew that the pri soner's former husband was hviiag , hiving seen hini in Court that mbrning.: - A solicitor who attended' for the prisoner addiesied the magistrate, and said that the unfortunate woman was greatly to be pitied, as 'she contracted the second Marriage in the pbsitive conviction that her first husband, from . whom she was separated a f ew d ays a f ter t h e i r union, had been long dead ; and she received no assur ance to the -contrary until she was given into custody by her sister, who was well aware that the prisoner was on the eve of acquiring considerable property, of which she would necessarily be dispossessed in the event ,of her conviction as it felon. Mr: •EtIIGITA* said that it was his duty tO.send the case before a Jury, but, under the circumstances, he should take very moderate bail for her. appearance. The prisoner was then committed for trial. TairLmEus,---In the district of rie)en's little change has taken place in the, state of things described in our last week's 'paper. A few additional hinds havebeen taken on so, that the number of men now out does not pro bably awount 'tot more than 300. The soldiers . who were brought into the town on the day of the riots would; prtiba bly take their departure yesterday, the magistrates having intimated to the commanding officer of the Manchester dis trict that their services were no longer required. It is said, however, that the coal-masters do not coincide in opinion with the magistrates that the presence' of a military force is no longer necessary, and . that, having been unable to alter the decision of the justices, they have appealed to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order to 'secure the 'continuance of the soldiers in the town. It is ;thought the result. will be that a few will be ordered to .remain for a short time .longer. The turn-outs are waiting with anxious ex . - pectation forthe decision of the great delegate meeting which was to be held: insterday, In Staffordshire the turn-out has has sot been an, event of serious a character as was at first feared. A portion of the masters have acceded to the de mands of the mem—Liverpool Times. COAL TAR AS .MANURE.—A communication was . read at the Bath Agricultural Society on the subject of the Value of coal tar as a manure. ' The writer stated that in 1840 he published his experience on the subjeCt. •He had now used it as a manure for seven years, and had never found it to fail when properly applied,' By means of a water-cart ho distribUted over his wheat stubble 180 gallons to the acre, allowing it to remain there two or three months in' the autumn before being ploughed in. Its cost was a halfpenny 14 ; galloni it was economical, and valuable for carrots, .tur nips, potatoes, and all roots. He had tried it on seeds, but not with Anal advantage' as on wheat. It was very -useful: Oa a sandy loam, resting on a marl subsoil ;next to th a t a deiP - Clay !and was best, but its least beneficial effects had been upon. soil resting on An .00lite formation. ' Tim BANS, or FRANcE.--The National observes that o' the obstinacy-of the Bank of France to cOutinue the rate of discount at from four per cent. is producing its fruits. , We have before us some returns which demonstrate that, whilst-the value of all public securities have risen, the Bank Shares have fallen in one year 220 francs per share, or 22 per cent.-mi their original cost, and everything leads us to believe that this fall will continue. Now, if we compare the value of Bank shares with railroad shares, -we find a sensible dif ference, as the first have fallen 22 per _cent., whilst the latter have risen froalo to 45. r.. cent. We shall.liaTa. Occasion to return to the subject of railroad LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 28. The House met to-day to hear appeals. The Lords present were Lord brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. MURRAY V. MU'RRAY. The arguments were concluded in this ,part-heard case, and their Lordships postponed their judgment till after the Easter. recess. BRYAN V. COOPER. The arguments in this part-heard case were also 4- stuned, but not having concluded at four o'clock, the further consideration of the case was adjourned .till to morrow (this day). COURT OF CHANCERY, March 28. The part-heard appeal motion of Nicholl v. Stretton occupied " the Lord Chancerfor the greater part bf the day. . VICE-CHANCERY VOUR7; March 28. The VICE-CRANCELLOR or 11(LANI) took motions to-day„ none of which were of such interest as to require a special report. • LICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) • hiANSIOg-HO USE. Mr. James Hill, who holds the situation of weigher and teller and stamper of weights at her Majesty's Mint, appeared yesterday before Sir Peter Laurie, for the pur pose of complaining that he had presented at the Bank of England a sovereign, which the official to whom he handed it clipped, without baying tested it by the legal and authentic brass weight. The weights used by the establishment were made of glass, and not authorised by the Government, and enormous loss to the Government was likely to be incurred by the use of such weights in dealing with the gold coin of the realm. Shopkeepers would follow the example of the Bank in 'using unsanc tiOned weights, if some step were not immeffiately de vised to put an end to the practice ; and he was fully determined to proceed against all parties who . should issue any spurious instruments of the kind. Sir PETER, LAURIE, after some conversation with Mr. Hill, which, as nobody was in attendance on the, part of the Bank of England, it would be imprudent to report, asked that gentleman whether he came to the Mansion House to make the complaint upon the authority of the Government. Halt raged" that - it was - not - known - to the Government that he meant to attend for thethiitose DARING - BURGLARY, GALLANT CAPTURE, AND SPEEDY CONVICTION. Information having been received by Mr. Goodyer, thief constable of the Leicestershire constabulary,' that a number 'of burglaries were contemplated in the neigh bourhood of Leicester, by a gang well known to the bo , rough police, he immediately took steps to secure the burglars in the very act of committing the offence, and the .result shows the signal success attending his plans, the whole of the gang being captured and convicted within a few hours after the perpetration of the burglary. The first house which it was intended to plunder was that of Mr. Davenport of Evington. On Sunday, the 24th inst., constables Rowley, Allard, Iliffe, Wardle, Dawson, and special constable Widdowson, were sent over singly to Ev ington, and arrived at the house at different periods to prevent any suspicion being entertained of the premises being watched. A little after six o'clock, Mil. Davenport and her servants went to chapel, leaving the, police in the house, who- then divided themselves into two parties, agreeing on a signal which Allard was to give when he required their. assistance, Allard, Dawson, and Wid dowson secreting themselve's in 'the drawing mein, and Rowley, Wardle and Iliffe locking themselves up in the servants' bed-room. In a feW minutes they. heard a smart rap at the door, and • shortly after two men came, up stairs into the drawing room. When they had , got into the room two others followed, and having procured a light, imme diately broke open the escruitoire, from which they began to remove the plate, one of the gang remarking, "Look : here, you ----, here's plenty of swag.", The burglars (whose names are . John Boulter, James Merrall, Frede rick Noon, and Edward Gibbons) had removed ready for carrying away, the following articles of plate :—Coffee urn, 2 decanter-stands, cream jug, 13 dessert-spoons, 5 table-spoons, pepper castors, toast racks, wine strainers, pint cup, candlestick, snuffers, and extingtiishers; and a prettily-ornamented work-basket, when they were dis turbed by Allard, who gave the signal previously agreed upon. The lamp which the thieves had with them was immediately extinguished, and they made a rush 'at Allard, whose lamp was put out in the scuffle, and who was knocked . down on the stairs, but kept , his hold of the burglar nearest to him, which proved to be Noon. The other party of police ar rived .on the spot at this juncture ? - fife tripping Merrall's heels up as he passed him, and Rowley seizing him as he was rising at'the bottom of the stairs. Boul ter then made , a rush, but was seized by Wardle, and the two rolled together down two flights of stairs, where, after a desperate resistance, Wardle succeeded in • securing him. The • only remaining burglar, Gibbons, sprang at Iliffe, and struck him a severe blow on the back with a "jemmy." On Iliffe turn ing upon him with his staff, he retreated into the bed room and crept under the bed, from which place he was dragged by Iliffe, and conveyed to his companions in cap tivity. Underneath the bed where he had beeri concealed were found -a number of skeleton keys, a jemmy, and a quantity of silver spoons. The police having now got pos session of the whole gang, secured them, and brought them over to Leicester. Ox the following afternoen they under went an examination before the Rev. J. M. Cooper and J. D. Burnaby, Esq., and were fully committed for trial. In about an hour afterwards they were arraigned before Baron Gurney, - when they pleaded Guilty. The next morning they were sentenced as follows :--Merrall, Nqon, ,and Boulter to transportation for life ; and Gibbons (who received a good character), to 12 months' imprisonment to hard labour.—Leicestershire Mercury. ' AN OLD . TRICK SUCCESSFULLY • PLAYED-. OFF. On Friday last two men, named John Lee and John Johnson, were 'brought up at the Borough Court, charged 'with obtaining tw o 5/ notes by the old practice of " megging." The. prosecutor, a middl e -a ge d man,, named Edward Marsh, a, nail-maker, from Chowbent, stated that, On the Ist inst. he came toManehester on buiiness ; and, as he Was passing the. Infirmary Mee accosted him,'saying that he' had just. arrived from America, and was intending to purchase goods in Manchester to take back with' him. Proiecutor remarked that he was in the nail trade; and the prisoner said he would purchase any thing Upon which-he could Make a profit, ;riddingthat business was very brisk in New York, and that there was.a great deal of building going. on.. He. then': invited the prosecutor to .go to the Brunswick Hotel, Piccadilly, arid take a glass of ale. They.went into a private room, and had not been:therelong when the prisoner Johnson. came in, when Lee saidto him, "Landlord ; willyeu fill me a glass Of ale?" Johnson 'replied, "I am not the landlord, Sir; I wish I wis." Immediately afterwards, Johnson said, " I have been:a working man all the days of my life; but I have lately received a fortune, and same land is come to me. 'My consin, has been holding it from me for three or four years, but I have got it at last ;" and, he then drew from his pocket a roll of papers, resembling bank notes, saying, - - "Here. I have got some of the money -with me, and I will now enjoy myself." He appeared very careless about the papers, and -Lee offered to assist him to wrap them up; he consented to-this,• and the roll was afterwards safely deposited in his fob. Lee then took out of his pocket a similar' roll, and per formed- the same office- for himself as he had done for Johnson;, after which, as the prisoners' had exhibited their money; the.presekitor thought -he - would show his also, - and • took from his . pocket, -two 51 notes. • These. Lee' .took from his hand, wrapped them up in -a:paPer, as the prosecutor thought, and, then placed there"in his pocket, beok,telling him to•take care of it... Proseeittor : having. returned the book :to his pocket, Lee proposed that, as Johnson had obtained.* fortune, he should treat each of them with -a handker chief, and he took them out for that purpose; but the pro secutor was soon left alone, and, on examining his pocket book, he foUnd That the two '5l 'notes had disappeared. Nothing.was heardof either of theprisoners until Thurs day east when the pro sec ut o r met 'Lee in High-street and charged him with the robbery.- He denied the charge, and said that'he wits. landlord of the Turk's Head, Shudehill, The prosecutor accompanieds,him to the Turk's Head, where the _prisoner /ohnsori, Was :found, and both were given into the custody of Inspeoto_r APEIroy : and, police :constable Wm,' Sutcliffe; rßoth, the ; prisoners denied the _charge; but, the prosecutor swearing positively. to them, they were committed for trial at the sessions.—Manches ter Guardian.-.. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE' CITY. Those who hive been absent:ft-bin the "-City end" of this great metropolis for a'series of years will: be some what startled if they - have occasion to pay a visit to that pact ,of London. " Stands the qty where it aid?" may peihips be their exclamation of astonishment on contemplating the march of improvement, which:is now rapidly approaching its climacterii Point. To say nothing of the immense advantages"- obtained some ears back by the remo va l of Old-Lo n d on -b r id ge and its contiguuous abominations, the abolition - Kif Crooked -lane and. the ” purlieus of the One famons "Boar's Head Tavern,' 'and the opening of a new bridge.across " Old rather . Thames," - withhandsonie and spacious ap proaches, it - is only necessary to :.make a ,circuit of half a mile round the Royal Exchange, in order to be made .in some r degree Acquainted with . the refohns effected from time to time in that important com mercial locality. Some of our more elderly readers may perhaps 'have a faint recollection of old Princes street, on the west side of .the Bank of England, which some'ls'years agci'vras not wider; it we rightly remem ber, than Finch-lane is at present. Now, on the other hand, we r have a fine wide street, which, continued by , Moorgate-street, , forms one grand :and direct line of cogiumniqation : from the Mansion Hmise to 'lalitigton. On , the eastern side of the Bank; Bartholomew-lane has been latterly most con veniently 'Widened, and the old Alined tower - Which. formerly reared its head at the north:Western corner; flanked by a boot-;niaker'S 'stall (for it could . hardly to be dignified by the -term "Shop") has given place to-n handsoine'foeade of buildings, which very worthily hold -up their- heads by the side of the new Royal - Exchange. Going still further, it will be found that the old and ugly -little church of St. Benet Vinck is now on its last legs, and on the eve orfinal. extinction. The unsightly heap of bricks and mortar yclept " hank buildin " is •alreadY.leyelled with the ground, and the elegant "portico ofthe' 'ExChange may now , be viewed. to Some advantage. By the encroachment of this edifice, two very ancient City thoroughfares, Castle-alley and Bank-street, have been utterly annihilated, -hat of course, WithOilt any.'disadvantage to the public. The alley of " chop and steak" 'houses, cigar shops, ttc., which' formerly ran- along the east side of the old Exchange, has also been destroyed, although Finch-lane still, remains intact and unimproved. In Threadneedle-street the, .increased width of the thoroughfare will shortly be . carried .out , along its whole length by the removal of the, houses and shops in, front of Werchant ; and the Hall of Commerce" (as it is termed)' bas been erected, since 1842, upon the site formerly" . occupied by the old French Protestant nhureh—as ugly a building, per haps, as architect ever devised. It had stood, how ever; for nearly 000• years, and some curious antiqua rian • discoveries were :made: beneath the foundations when it was pulled down by Mr. Moxhay. These are a few of the principal improvements recently effected, and it seems a pity they have not been , extended much further. The view of the new Royal Exchange from the large open space in front of the Mansion-house, will be grand in the extreme, especially when the, Welling ton statue is erected, as no less than six great thorough fares pour their Stream of traffic into that central point. —Times. • - • SmOan.-=-In the voluminous report On smoke, lately made to the House of Commons, by a Seledt Commit tee, some curious Acts . are • Mentioned . ; for example, Mr. Chandler, camellia grower at Wandsworth, states that on account of the great increase of chimneys from manufacto ries in that vicinity,,plants which formerly might be handled without any bad effect, now:soil, the hands to the greatest extent: - Among other plants which formerifflourished, but will not now grow in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, ire China roses, rhododendron hirsutum, rhododendron vir ginium, and many others of the prettiest varieties; now quite extinct. Mr. Anderson, the curator of the Physic Gard ens a t Chelsea, testifie s t o the noxious effects of what he calls the "bitter smoke" upousthe trees' of that establishment, parti cularly on evergreens, and on two magnificent cedars which have so long been an ornament to the gardens, and form a : very conspicuous object from the river. • It appears that the sooty - particles are attracted to and attached' by tiie resinous etudations of the leaves, while the large-siirface of the foliage above prevents their being washed away by the rains, so that the functional action of the leaves is disturbed, if not entirely neitroyed. • • THE CONVICTED MURDERER.---The execution of George Lowther, who is now lying in York Castle, under sentence of death, for the murder of the gamekeeper of the Marquis of Novmanby, will take place on Saturday, ,the 13th ofApril, should a reprieve not be received in •the York Courant. Much curiosity has been "excited during the last week.' by the .coMmencement of the laying down.o?flie India rubber pavement ever the court-yard . at - the..Adrokiralty, Whitehall. 4.301.111= EDINBURGH TOWN COMIC**, TUESDAY, MARCH 26. i tio; AMPUTATION PERFORMED j - ING MESMERIC SLEEP._ : ,' lf ig The Wolverhampton Chronicle contains the 1 01 ,f0 if/ extraordinary statement, for the accuracy of , lt Var vouches :--tfohn Marrion, aged 45, residing - w . ,_ 441,1 lane, Sedgeley, received an extensive injury of te.l % die finger in January last, and became a patient a 4 11 ._ Thompson and Dunn. It has been since treated " 13 ),1' 6 4 0 gentlemen in the usual manner, but the nature,Ol,,, r jury rendered amputation necessary. With . 3tl - Intlis test mesmeric sleep, Marrion consented oi sl esi proposal to place himself under the 0 r e , 11 .-.4 of Dr. Owens, and on Sunday week,'' '''hiesi first time, he was mesmerised.. 'The* :I'rao was afterwards daily mesmerised, and the case ere, iiiiitf, tense interest in the public mind, • more Pari ts - Oil among medical men, who attended in _..,. 1 O. every day to mark Dr. Owens' progr am" : i t •10 Saturday the operation was performed. . 5 _740 Dunn's room was thronged with medical ! . r it ' t , gentlemen, to witness the event. The bee being brought into the room, appeared rat et a but Dr. Owens addressed him in a lively and ~ : iks manner, and he took his seat evidently quite ee n3 40 In two minutes and a half deep sleep was prodll r in i, the doctor kept his position some time long' o vet Mannix then felt the patient's pulse, w hich best I ..ft - a l ill minute. Some questions were put to him wiiilliosif, - state by Dr. Owens, and language being excite!'" ' tioef' • 'he felt very comfortable. " Proceed with the en tf er: said the doctor ; and in one minute Mr. Duee,,"' . Oa' formed it very neatly; the cutting the flaps and..best ing of the bone by the nippers was watched with un it 4i? scriktiny.-by all present, but not a muscle quiveretil t o or te,*lleffee d , nor any single thing occur to be,! ''sreh ; slightest .. ~ , l iw .ption. During the dressing t,P!,:i i i - ' ! 46, hand — Wen "snspended over the - tale - ors. cataleptic state, • without any further : ; 4 3 11 4 0 0 TWo - minutes after the operation .. Dr' ' - - Pr' felt the man's 'lptilSe--- it was 'still- 10% tig ` bed "Owens then 'e r iclfearlaughter, and . the patieltll o ,l3 o4 , happily, evidetiOrquite unconscious of-the relie f : h ' lxv, undergone. Some time elapsed, during vin t i c iaiP, continued sleeping, and •on being . V e nt . e ? e in that state he was not at all •-a t. 'l, - 3 ee, what had been done. - J3eing awoke, (" 1 "rcl done instantaneously by Dr. Owens touching the? ; i tio firmness, which seemed to act almoit tairaetiletit'tor, finding his arm in a sling, he ' ulated= u n,,,,, Jo p Lord for that." In reply to ' igons he said .." fi telh not felt it. Every gentleman p ' Affhikned the n i t i oth which were noted by Mr. Gatis, during the OPE" — a sti when a liberal subscription was raised for-the 101: i Dr. Owens was warmly congratulated. , iii FASHIONS FOR APRIL: ;f: (From the London and Paris Ladies' Nagazisi " Fashion.) :,;f re sofj The make of the new spring xedingotes An a •' 4 iclitir is with tight bodies, open in a lengthened cceill i g thing resembling the straight, waistgos4 either plain, without lacing or revers, or have a slo ll row revers forming small chile ; or ^" collar forming lengthened :V,, with should not be too wide. Another so high on the shoulders, but stilt lengthened opening in front to the will :be used for demi-toilettes, eon, parties, and a fichu - adapted to it guimpe style, with Brussels lace fullf the front formed of inlets of lace any the top, and narrower towards the " styles of ornament are used on these newest is the embroidery cameleon, by working with the four shades of those of which the most beautiful gro: m6l6ons are composed; but this, of fined to the shot silks. A new and of gimp is the passementerie byrinth netian gimp. In walking dresses, cor zone are fashionable, with the littlf over the waist. In dinner and evenin of the skirts are made open at the si , satin, closing with ornaments of ri gimp, or trimmed with Aleneon lace • tuz de .' cceur, with revers open to the waist. • The 1c ) ",,, -- der l'Orientale, tk la bonne sceur, &c., 'filth. the e ' t eclu,. more or less ornamented, will, it iff ,e,!l 2 `. • 1i the prevailing style this spring ; I t ' g proposed to open them in the Lavalli?re S&l f dteitil puffings of muslin or gros de Naples, and d ee tie . them with brides, nceuds, or gimp. Ball still be with double and triple siirts; 4 '4 of ornamenting them is with small scatlL. t olftt o f illusion, suspended from the waist to the i. ,..r — „ o bei l e, the skirt, where they are attached by the me fie :de flowers. The spring bonnets 'are of gros O b i impale lilac, lapis pink; and blue ; some a r e 1 0 , of white or light coloured crapes, °mutat e -Ato m to bouquets of flowers or wreaths, 'floweringa half blown. lilac, field daisies, with' leaves anted to of, grass.' • Capotes of paille de riz are ornitaen,„; bofe i r o ruches, and fancy straws with bouill on nes. 4.1 : 0 1 continue small, and with deep bavolets. The h ot ' inside are of tulle chiffonn‘e, with sprigs of bee flowers. f stal l ` u ncle' PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.-- " tlativ that .Lord Ashley contemplates extending his exertions to the case of the unhappy official cow" The. 4o l during the debates in the House of Comrnon, s 'be Hours' Bill for the regulation of the factories is,' ° ,„„g• ~ i cr", is, by a measure limiting the speeches of certai,..,E , 1 ; fi er",,, Members to a duration of only ten minutes.. 0 ' 107 to be . introduced as a Ten Minute Bill for the the unsatis-factories.-=Punck. AP•••-•-• BIRTHS. 1;1;cl ,l On the 21st inst., at Mannheim, the ladyet t () of a son. goo 0 4011 On the 25th inst., at Paris, the lady of - • i t- • re• Esq.,- of a son. On the 25th inst., at the Ryalls, SeatOn, le76lo o 7i c re lady of Major Daubeney, C. 8., of the 55th FacP"s e q., 0 ' On the 26th inst., the lady of T. G. Bergma n, 6 ' moss, Cookham, Berke, of a son. On the 26th in s t., a t Harrow-park, the lsoiy of Harris, Esq., of a daughter. he lady On the 27th inst., a t Highbury Lodge, t• -- Soares, Esq., of a son. - -- 7 --- ' ' $ MARRIED.. T. es , lila , 80 0 On the 27th of November, at the Mali ri soatt- o err Swan, Esq., Assistant Commissary-General, to , opii i eldest daughter of J. B. Price, Es q., PePu t Y ' yre4• t E 5 "c General. Gorc leil dn' g es On the 26th inst., at Speldhurst, Kent, Hon" fo- th' only son of Sir Orford Gordon, Bart., -to El /lire -I° daughter of the late B. Barn.wall, Esq •' °- Clie r street, Portland-place. r fi ptsifi eh 'irlf 6 On the 27th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington , l a te v lock. of Dover, to Sarah, only daughter of a l ' ...ter' C.rickett, Esq., of Deal. -Welitli l ...t ij 're t ' On the 27th inst., at St. Margaret's Cluirelb,_ ?Jew John Cox, Esq., Gorgie-mills, Edinburgh, 1 " eldest daughter of J. R. M'Cullooh, DM' DIED. ....rt liee P ell On the 23d inst., Sophia, the wife of John 0 ~c PO I Esq., and daughter of the late Joseph Aldridge, : rt d c l e ' s ft,. t o of Great Newp . ort-itreet, and of Hampstead, MP' lOW On the 9th inst., at Oestricb, N eu, Dr. J 611148 ' -,... or ~ riu , surgeon to the Forces, half-pay. Thomill . On the Mit inst., at Little Bray, Devon, .. . /1 ,13.• Aeland, Esq. Rev Rober t 3 ° l/elt ' use vi O ca n r t o h f e ß 23 edf d o in n st m ., at Jersey, the a, b° • ens hill 4 f iots' On the 25th inst. at Langhame, Carmarta"„ "l a te w_ 77th year, Colonel John Frederick Browne, C.'" L o o nant-Colonel commanding 28th Foot On the 25th inst., in North-crescent, ..-$.,--°- , OM Armond De Grenier, Esq. On the 26th inst., at CoYentry, Mrs. Whitten', • , 00 , late Alderman Whittem, aged 80. Foot• 'll,if r d-s 1 1: 0 7 - t 0 1'° N or th °el ' On the 26th inst., at Blackborough House , - gr , Elizabeth, relict of the late W. Ironies, Esq. , An gtov , On the 27th inst., at Tollington-park, m" --- _ . ,09 , Thomas Rudd, aged 96. A r storld ig— On the 27th inst., at Homerten, ArthurEulthr-Aoilill On the 27th inst., Mr. Henry Bentham, of.r" If g London: Printed and Published by MURPO ai your 1.11 No 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Otricti Strand, in the. Precinct of the Sivoy, in Mitdlsoexaridspiltereli-29%-15 44 . - 11' , IN AMERICA. Baillie Urquhart SLAVERY having called the attention Council to the case of J. L. Brown, who bad been tenced to death by a judge in South Carolina, for he ti. - to liberate a female slave, a short discussion tool Pap, on the subject, in which all the members who spo lo3 . ; precated the sentence as most inhuman and unehrtlf e i Reference was made to a meeting which had been My by the Anti-Slavery Society on the subject for Thll!aa evening next ; but it was thought that a meetiogrLA, under the auspices of the Corporation would haye or dd more weight. It was accordingly agreed that, in g to afford the inhabitants an opportunity of etpral.'io their opinions on a proceeding so 'very revelts,, humanity, it should be remitted to the Lord PISI,, of Committee to make the requisite arrangement's for h° l l7 o a public meeting on as early a day as possible''' . pi; meeting has since been fixed for Friday next, at tr • VACANCY IN THE PARISH OF ti CURRIE .. .__ A • A na Sir ABMS GIBSON CRAIG appeared at the -1.60 1 " 4. ' 00 0; presented a petition from the heritors and alarrta • ber of the parishioners of the parish of Currie, C. o f i the Council to appoint the Rev. Thomas Bare ' 'at Peterculter, in the Presbytery of Aberdeen, to the Y ' charge. It was agreed to fill up this vacancy at next • ee*al OLD CHURCH VACANCY. L )1a OK Mr. DICK, in a few words, then proposed Rev. John Clark, of the Catongate, be appointed 0 1.,a ter of the Old Church in room of Dr. Clark, tran,tlT,i, to St. Andrew's Church—which motion was seem:loc" MY. A. WRIGHT. • Mr. MACK, while concurring in all that had been 5 7 0 : about the character of Mr. Clark, moved that thst,...go tleman be not appointed, which amendment was s ec ' by Mr. WHYTE. amok A short discussion then ensued, when, on .a Mr. Clark was elected by 13 to 10. Mr. MACK said, that as the city Vacancies boo de g , been nearly all filled up, and as he had had a gee . . t hs to do with them, he begged to thank the Counc ilf:A its! kindness, kindness, courtesy, and iodulgence he had rece i Thitif; the various discussions ; and if he bad said °1- alTrof which was calculated to give offence, he could 704" he never intended it, and he most cordially trate"' would forgive him.—(Cheers.) ,f to Mg' Mr. LOGAN said that, being physically opPose - Mack, seated as he was at the opposite end of theLa f f and having sometimes been opposed - to sense, he begged, in the name of those who lumt . ' - wf , t with him, to acknowledge the uniform urbanity, V u "- - 0,„ and fairness which had distinguished Mr. }I.VA somewhat difficult part he had had to act.—(neic r :k: • DIVINITY CHAIR. .161. , ' Mr. MURRAY gave notice that he would, off pre, April next, move that Principal Lee be aprint„,o o fessor of Divinity, on the same terms and conww - • ' the office was held by the Rev. Dr. Chalmers. Adjourned. :sity are e 1 :e Yi s ilin ' A . clttii,l iss 41c) Angl .11 y 0:7! ieserring iri; w aist ; thi9 ' ncerts; .an soot is n3sde in ilie Lid it .0 de ie b d o t ' " trOwniu°rn cl ; ' d i l i 'ice :D.: e dresses, .bud ibe,Bl which is ProauF e of silk, aiatebOu ros de Naples Or f e9trtse, li cg,ii t ; d light distill le, and also , r orsages A - I'it vi ,„,..; le jseketa 'wit,. 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