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,PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The project for the establishment of baths and washhouses for the labouring poor is now so far advanced, and so extensively supported, that the completion of the undertaking may be reasonably anticipated. We have, however, reason to believe that the ideas prevalent among those who have so honourably distinguish e d themseves in the promotion of this project, as to the precise manner in which they are to effect their object, or even as to the nature of the obstacles they may probably have to con tend with, are yet exceedingly undefined. They propose to put themselves in direct and imme diate communication with a class of persons with whose habits and notions they most probably pos sess a very imperfect acquaintance. The daily life of the poor and the destitute in our courts and alleys is as little—perhaps less—known to those whose names appear most prominent in the list of subscribers to this benevolent scheme than the habits of the aborigines of New Zealand or Labrador. Tact and intelligence, in addition to an untiring spirit of philanthropy must be employed to make the means of cleanliness, about to be offered to the poor, available for good, to an extent in any degree commensurate with the expectations of those who have taken so warm an interest in furnishing them. It is not enough that the means be there. We must also have, in those for whose use they are in tended, a disposition to use them. One of the most constant results of a life of poverty in a large city s an indifference to personal cleanliness. Such an indifference is, we believe, at this mo ment, almost universal among the poor and labouring classes of London. It would, indeed, be surprising if it were otherwise. In the first place cleanliness is scarcely compatible with the miserable domestic arrangements, and the priva tion of light, air, and water, to which the poor el a city are always, more or less, closely habituated. Their occupations also, which, with the industrious, fill up nearly the whole of their waking hours gene rally oppose a barrier to the cultivation of a taste for cleanliness. If it could be supposed that there is in man, as there seems to be in some of the lower animals, a natural tendency to be clean, we might perhaps depend upon its displaying itself whenever the obstacles to its indulgence might be removed. But experience and observation show that this is not so. Where food and warmth are scarce, there is, on the contrary, a strong tendency to shun cleanliness, as a positive infliction. There is an old Scottish proverb—"the clartier the cosier"—which recent researches in animal physiology have stamped with the authority of a scientific truth. It is found that men who are insufficiently fed and clothed are lite rally not fitted to bear cleanliness. It augments the rapidity of the process by which the vitality of the body is in a constant course of reduction, and renders an in creased supply of food and warmth essential to its preservation in a state of tolerable comfort. These, we apprehend, are causes which will greatly reduce the numbers of those who are expected to take advan tage of the establishment of the proposed baths and washhouses for the improvement of their personal habits. There are also other circumstances worthy of careful consideration in reference to any attempt to make such an establishment generally useful. Among those of the poorer classes who may be least affected by the causes we have already enumerated, we may expect to find many whose desire for cleanliness is one of the rem nants of a mode of life adopted in a station from which they have been reduced. But in dealing with this class we have to encounter another obstacle, and one less likely to be readily obviated than any of those yet referred to. Such persons will usually be found to cherish strong objections to the receipt of public bounty in any form. The preservation of any portion of the habits and feelings of a station from which they have sunk, is generally accompanied by an unwillingness to acknowledge the depth of their fall. They cling to all that remains of the past, as something distinguishing them from those by whom they are surrounded. And the same course of feeling too commonly urges them to reject everything which, however beneficial in itself, might seem to place them upon a common level with those who have no such remem brances to give dignity to the present, or to cast the light of hope over the future. These are undoubtedly the very persons to whom the benefits of the scheme would be most acceptable, could they be accepted without a sacrifice of the feelings which tend to make them so. They form, probably, a large majority of those who, in the present condition of the poor, will recognise the value of the proffered advantages ; but we fear they will also be found, in reference to this and all similer schemes of public benevolence, most difficult to reach and to relieve. There is much in the nature and object of the plan alluded to, which must secure to it the warm approval and hearty co-operation cf every intelligent and humane observer of the state of the poor in this country. It reflects the highest ho nour upon all concerned in its formation and pro motion. But, with our best wishes for its success, we cannot but mingle some portion of anxiety. Should this effort fail, its failure will long be found an obstacle in the way of any similar scheme. We should be sorry to see any movement, resulting from the awakened attention to the manifold miseries of the poor, frustrated by a want of care in con ducting it to a definite and beneficial result. And there is probably no subject upon which the want of accurate information is more general, or less appa rent, than upon the actual state of the lower classes of society. Our past indifference to their sufferings has indeed only one excuse—our ignorance. The first motive to a change of our conduct has been fur nished by a partial removal of that ignorance. We already see enough to discover our error ; but we fear it will be neces,,ary to push our knowledge much be yond its present extent, before we shall be in a fit condition to amend it. STANDARD.—The rapid decline of the repeal rent for some weeks past appears to have filled the arch-mendicant with unfeigned alarm, and to have induced him to break ,the " sagacious pause in direct agitation," which he had prescribed for himself. The daily subsiding fanaticism of his followers, and the dissensions which have arisen among them, have imposed upon him the necessity of reviving, route qui route, the expiring agitation. Another motive. hardly less cogent, has doubtless had something to do with his decision. Next Sunday will be tribute day, and unless he makes some show of not having alto gether abandoned his trade, he seems likely to have a Flemish account from the " begging brothers" of his order. Influenced by these very sufficient rE asons for bestirring himself, he has, in a long and wordy letter to the Repeal Assoiciation, an nounced his intention to be present at the Concilia • tion Hall on the 25th instant, and to bring for ward two subjects of " great vital importance." The first (rzsum teneatis) is his " proposal to impeach the persons principally concerned in the late monster prosecution," and to procure the aid of the people of Great Britain in enforcing in Parliament the necessity of such impeachment. This little interlude will of course involve a sub scription, the alpha and omega of all his speculations. But his grand object is the organisation of the Preservative Society of 300, who will be re quired to subscribe 1001. a-piece, for the doubtful honour of rendering themselves liable to prosecu-. tion ; and who will form a sort of provisional par_ liament until a repeal House of Commons be elected. It is confessed that the legal (liffi cu i_ ties which must attend such a scheme arse great, and that, if these cannot be satisfactorily overcome, it will proceed no further than the deposit of the " sum and front" of the speculation—the collection of the cash. Ifere, then, is something with which to amuse the repeAtlers until the 25th. With regard to repeal O'Connell plainly intimates that if the substitute he has proposed does not yield him a little more profit than it has hitherto done, he will fall. back on his oreo.'eel idea. He admits, moreover, that the fede7e. experiment has, so far, proved unsuccessful ; for Protestant gentlemen of rank, talent, and patriotism, have not flocked to its standard in the numbers that might have been expected. Mr. Grey Porter had, to be sure, promised to enlighten his countrymen on the subject, but the mountain is still in labour. Mr. Sharman Crawford has treated us with an outline of the benefits which federalism is to realise for its adherents, but with all this there have been no public meetings, no agitation, and worst of all, no subscriptions. Such a state of things can- Riot, of course, be tolerated any longer. Mr. O'Con nell has accordingly come forward to inti mate to his countrymen that federalism is but a name for another sort of agitation, which will not only eventually give them " simple repeal but something more." Ile ascribes the present failure of the movement to \Vhig disaffection from its ranks, and reprobates the conduct of the Tory press in having ascribed to him an intention to coalesce with them ; whilst he admits that they had " countenanced every effort of his to procure a de claration from the federalists," with the view, of course, of taking a part in the speculation. We were, therefore, not so far wrong when we expressed our belief that a coalition was in course of negotiation, and would have been effected had not Mr. O'Connell demanded exorbitant terms as the price of his ad hesion. Looking at these disappointments and modifications, he proposes to consider federalism asr merely an i n t er l u d e o f t h e grand drama of epeal• With th ese op i n i ons, and with an eye to some defections from the especially to that cause, and m ore o f Mr. D u ff y an d hi s newspaper fellow-l a b ourers, he proposes that federalism shall no longer be one of Cabinet quest i ons, but shall be throw n open. booking to the u npro fi ta b le results of the comp rom i se, he trawexesses his det erm i nat i on not to be co n t en t with anythin gof short o f the repeal ref t o he Irish H ouse of of the uni on , the restoration Lo,r6, the reco ns t ruct i on Irish House o f Commons andrm principle s ) o f its inv es t ment • • Wit 4 tale the power it enjoyed' (and abu se d) before - '44 1N ‘-' ( 7 the union ; that is to say, complete legislative and judicial authority in Ireland, subject always to the preservation of the connexion (ad libitum) be tween great Britain and Ireland, through the means of a sole executive and the golden link of the Crown. This is what he is pleased to consider simple repeal, and those who do not care to call it by that name, may call it federalism, or anything else they please. His sole object in giving it that title was, he can didly confesses, to conciliate certain Protestant noble men and gentlemen who had held aloof from the ori ginal movement ; " seeing that repeal, to be useful to Ireland, should have their assent." It is thus clear, that he has not yet given up the hope of a coalition with the Whigs, and that the " sagacious pause," of which he has just spoken, was designed to afford op portunities for further deliberation and negotiation. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.—Nov. 13. The Lord Chancellor sat to-Jay shortly after ten o'clock. quisition should be set aside, he (the Learned Counsel) might object to any public inquisition being taken. The form of the inquisition raised as many objections as there were lines in it. It stated that he administered a quan tity of laudanum, but it did not state that that was a poison ; that he drank the same, and became distempered in body. It did not allege any place where he died, nor state when he died. It alleged that he died on the 2d of October instant, but the word " instant" was meaning less in this inquisition, because the question was whe ther the party had died within a year ; and it stated that he did kill and murder himself, but it did not declare in what manner.—Rule granted. BRUNTON V. NEELD.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was argued before the Court some time since upon motion to discharge an order of the Vice-Chancel lor of England, refusing to dissolve an-injunction he had previously granted. The facts of the ease appeared, from his Lordship's statement, to be as follows :—The plaintiff purchased, at a sale by auction, land put up for sale by the defendant Neeld. He paid the deposit, signed the usual agreement, which was also signed by the soli • citor of the defendant Neeld, and the plaintiff was put into possession of the property. A draft of the convey n,nce was drawn up, bat no conveyance was executed. In the month of March, 1839, one of the defendants, a person named Remnant, advanced money to the defendant Neeld upon his property on mortgage ; on that mortgage being foreclosed, Remnant entered into possession of all the landed property of Neeld, with the exception of that purchased, but not paid for, by the plaintiff. On the plaintiff refusing to give up the possession of the land he had purchased, an action of ejectment was brought against him, and a verdict was returned for the plaintiff in the action. In consequence of this the present bill was filed, and an injunction obtained, restraining all further proceedings at law. An application was made to the Vice-Chancellor of England to dissolve that in junction, which he refused to do, and from that judg ment the parties appealed to this branch of the Court. His Lordship new gave judgment on the appeal motion. He considered that there was nn sufficient ground shown for the application. It had been said on the part of the defendant, that if the injunc tion was continua it ought to be upon the terms that the plaintiff should pay the costs of the action of ejectment, and also his purchase-money, into Court. His Lordship thought there was no ground for bringing the action, and therefore that it was beside the question to order the plaintiff to pay the costs. On the whole, his Lordship was of opinion that the motion to dis charge the Vice-Chancellor's order ought to be dis missed with costs, and ordered accordingly.—Appeal motion dismissed. IN BE JOHN GRAY. A writ of habeas corpus was obtained in this case, to bring up the body of John Gray, then a prisoner in Salford gaol, under the statute of the 4th George IV., c. 34. The writ was obtained on several objections made to the commitment and conviction ; but the principal objection was, that the conviction did not show on the face of it that any witnesses were examined upon oath in support of the charge. Mr. COWLING now appeared in support of the validity of the conviction. Mr. Justice PATTESON decided that the conviction was bad. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mile, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 421 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 571, it follows that gold is 0.59 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4,35 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31.175. 141 per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ; and the exchange at H a mb urg h on London at short being 13 101, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. Opinions seem to differ much as to the effect which the French loan will have upon our money market. The amount will be 8,000,0001. sterling, and not 12,000,0001., as was originally expected, and the times of payment a ill be spread over a period of twenty months. Hence many are of opinion that the loan will have no great influence, but it is to be recollected that a liberal discount will be allowed where the payments are anticipated. In consequence of a modification in the Bank of Eng land's scheme for charging a commission on remittances, the statement made yesterday does not now present a perfectly correct view. To prevent error the whole plan had better be restated : First, with respect to remittances. All sums advised for the credit of a person having a drawing account at the Bank or branch, are to be subject to a charge of 6d. per cent., the minimum charge to be Is. Thus, sums not exceeding 2001. are to be charged Is. ; sums not exceed ing 300/. are to be charged Is. 6d., and so on. Any fraction of 100/. is to be charged as an entire 100/. Secondly, with respect to payments. Where neither the party paying nor the party receiving has an account, the charge on sums not exceeding 5001. will be i per cent., the minimum charge being 2s. 6d. On sums ex ceeding 5001., and not exceeding 3,000/., the charge will be 4 per cent, on the first 5001, and per cent on the remainder. If the sums exceed 3,000, the above charge for 3,000/. will be made, and Is. 6d on the excess. Where COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 13 (Sittings in Banco.) BARON V. DENMAN, This case came before the Court on demurrer in June last, when Mr. Kell' opened the case at some length for the plaintiff. The tacts of the case have already been laid before the public. The defendant Captain Denman, was employed as a British officer on the African coast, to enforce a treaty for the suppression of the slave-trade. Having reason to suppose that certain barracoons were filled with slaves, he proceeded up the River Gambia for the purpose of destroying them. They were found on examination not to contain any slaves, but it being sus pected that they had done so, and that they had only been removed in order to avoid detection, orders were given for their destruction; and for this act the plaintiff claimed compensation. Sir T. WILDE addressed the Court this morning at great length for the defendant. He contended that the case was one in which the Court had no jurisdiction. It was not the duty of their Lordships to say what the Government of this country, or the commanders of its vessels, hail a right to do, in enforcing a particular treaty against the subjects of other nations. They had not before them the informa tion necessary to enable them to form an opinion. The act complained of in this case, and for which compensa tion was now sought by the plaintiff, was an act done by Captain Denman in his public capacity as the com mander of a British ship. An act committed under such circumstances was to be judged of by totally dif ferent rules from those which prevailed in a conrt of jus tice. The complainant was not without means of redress. If the act was wrong, it was to be presumed that the Government who sent out the defendant to enforce the treaty would afford redress, especially as it appeared that the act in question was necessary to prevent a breach of the treaty. Captain Denman being employed upon this particular service in:a public capacity, to en force the treaty the more or less was a matter between the Spanish and the English nations, and not a matter which could be inquired into in a court of justice. Could English courts of justice say what was the discretion to be exercised by a naval or military officer when he found that the terms of a treaty were being evaded ? When the Crown of England stipulated with the Crown of Spain for the right of search, it was agreed that certain appearances should be taken as evidence of an intention to violate the treaty ; for it was to be observed that not only the actual em ployment of vessels, but preparations for engaging i n th e slave-trade subjected the parties to punishment. If this claim were good why were not the owners of the Caro line there ? The Caroline had supplied some of the Ca nadian insurgents with stores ; she had gone to the American shores for the purpose of obtaining a fresh supply ; and when she was destroyed by British sub jects the British Government avowed and justified the act on the ground that the situation of the vessel was convenient for committing an aggressive act. If an act were considered wrongful the party supposed to be in jured must seek redress through his government on these two grounds—first, that acting in his public ca pacity Captain Denman was exempt from any action of this description, and secondly that he averred that what he did was done by command of her Majesty.' He con tended that judgment ought to be given for the de fendant. The Court then proceeded with appeals. PARSONS V. BIGNOLD. The arguments in this appeal were concluded, and His LORDSHIP postponed giving judgment. His Lordship was occupied the remainder of the morn ing with appeals of little interest except to the parties concerned. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. N. The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND Was occupied the whole day with the hearing of pleas, demurrers, and further directions, none of which possessed any feature of public interest. (Before Sir J. WIORAM.) JOHNSON V. CHILD.—JUDGMENT. MS HONOUR gave judgment in this case this morning; the questions to be decided were, whether certain charges payable out of the testator's property were chargeable upon various specific legacies left by the said testator, and how a mortgage upon a part of the property was to be dealt with. His Honour now directed that the mort gage should be apportioned between the leasehold, in cluding a property called Belvedere-wharf, and the pecuniary legacies, and the charge on the Taragon pro perty should be paid out of the general estate prior to the legacy accruing. on the contrary, the party lodging the money has an account, the commission on sums of 1001. is to be 2s. 6d., on sums of 1001. and under 300/. it is to be 4s. 6d., on sums of 300/ and not exceeding 3,0001. it is to be Is. M. per cent., and on sums exceeding 3,0001. it is to be Is. per cent. The distinction between "remittances " and " pay ments" which is made in the above statement is the one adopted by the Bank of England. Where money is paid to the credit of a party who has an account at the Bank, the sum is of course not paid over to him at once by the Bank, but he remains credited with it, until he draws it by means of a cheque. This transaction, when pay ment is made by a credit, is called a "remittance." When the money is paid for the use of a stranger, and is there fore given to him by the Bank immediately, and not through the medium of a credit, the transaction is called a " payment." POST.—The English Stocks continue steady. Money is not quite so easy as it has been. This is shown by a fall in the premium on Exchequer-bills, but the quota tions for, the permanent securities have, nevertheless, been very well supported. The proceedings of the French Government, relative to the forthcoming loan, occasion no great anxiety in the minds of our capitalists. because the payment of the instalments is to be carried over so long a period of time, and, therefore, in. somo • what minute proportions. How the stock that may be created will rank in the London market is another ques tion. The French authorities affect to think it hard that their Three per Cents, should not stand as high as our own, but prudent persons cannot but feel that the future holds out the prospect of some fierce political struggles in France, and this at no very remote date ; nor is it likely, therefore, that capitalists of that character will have much, if anything, to do with the loan. The pub lic at large should take warning from this circumspec tion, and be equally wary. French stock is certainly not a desirable investment just at the present moment. and, without reference to price, our own feeling is, that parties here would act wisely in leaving the native capi talits of France to fill up the subscription lists, and keep the whole of the 200,000,000 francs to themselves. The circumstance that the Government will be content to receive 400,0001. per month from December next to August, 1846, and which of course an easy mode of collection, should be no temptation in a case where the consideration to be given for the money is one, the value of which depends on contingencies of a palpably critical description. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. FLINT. His HONOUR then resumed the hearing of the argu ments in this case, which occupied the whole of the sitting of the Court yesterday. (Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.) His Honour sat for a short time this morning in Bankruptcy, as Chief Judge of the Court of Review, but the greater number of bankrupt petitions on the paper were ordered to stand over, the parties not being pre pared. The cases in equity were then taken. WRIGHT V. TALLIS. This case, which has been already postponed, was on the paper this day for hearing. It is an application, on the part of the plaintiff, for a special injunction to re strain the defendant from continuing the sale of certain works, which are translations from the writings of the German author, Sturm ; the said sale, the plaintiff alleging to be an infringement of his copyright. When called on to-day it was again postponed till next week. COURT OF QUEEIV'S BENCH, Nov. 13. (Sittings in Banco.) THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE MAGISTRATES OF BERKSHIRE. This was an appeal, by the Great Western Railway Company, against an order of sessions confirming the assessment to the poor-rate, in the parish of Tilehurst, through which a part of the Great Western Railway runs, on the ground that the railway was rated at too high a sum. It was contended, on the part of the Com pany, that before the amount was fixed on which their rating was to be assessed, there were various deductions to be made. Among the deductions claimed was the income-tax paid by the Company. The Company also claimed deductions on account of losses incurred by the renting of branch lines, and on account of their liability to rates in other parishes, in conse quence of the recent decisions of this Court, but the exact amount of which had not been ascertained. They also contended that the rate should be assessed upon the profits only, calculated at five per cent. upon the gross receipts, and that a deduction should be made for a renovation fund. It was replied, on the part of the re spondents, that before making the assessment every de duction had been made to which the appellants were en titled. With regard to the property-tax there was no reason why any deduction should be made on that ac count. There could be no right to claim any deduction on account of losses on the branch lines. All that the respondents had to do was with that portion of the pro perty of the appellants which was situated in the parish of Tilehurst, and it was no matter to them what losses might accrue twenty miles away from their parish. The same argument applied to their claim for deduction on account of their supposed liability to rates in other parishes ; besides, those rates had not yet been assessed, and this being a rate from year to year, assessed as a yearly tenantcy, they had I, right to make a claim fo r a d e d uc ti on ou t o f th present rate on the score of liability to payments 'which had not yet been made. In regard to the argument that the rate was to be asses s ed on the profits, it wa s con t en d e d by the respondents that the rate was to be assessed on the gross value of plant, and in support of this argu ment, the dec . .sietts of the Court in the cases of the. Grand J'faiction Railway CompttnY, the SoUth-Western Rail.,,,ay Company, and the Cambridge Gas Company, were relied on. With regard to the deduction claimed on account of the renovation fund, it was contended, that as the assessment was upon a yearly tenantcy, the only deduction that could be allowed was for the sum actually expended during the course of the year in the repair of that portion of the road passing through the parish. Mr. M. D. Hill and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake appeared for the appellants, and Mr. Whately and Mr. Terrett for the respondents. The COURT took time to consider their judgment. Their Lordships took time to consider their judgmen EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. 13. :Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middlesex, before the LORD CHIEF BARON.) LAWREY V. SIR CHARLES GREY. This was an action brought, by the widow of the plaintiff, formerly a solicitor at Tynemouth, to recover certain sums alleged to be due from the defendant for attending the Revising Barrister's Court and other elec tioneering services, which resulted in the return of the defendant to Parliament for the borough named, and the defeat of his opponent Mr. Young. Before the case had proceeded far, Mr. Jervis, as counsel for Sir Charles Urey, put in certain letters of the plaintiff's husband, and the defendant founding ob jections upon them which the Court held to be valid, a nonsuit was directed. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13. Their Lordships this day took the special paper, and were for the most part occupied with the arguments in two cases of deniurrer. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION -HOUSE. A wretched woman, named Ann Navy, the unfor tunate victim of gin, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempted to strangle herself with her bonnet strings on Wednesday last. Thomas Balchin, City policeman No. 618, stated that on I . l , r ednesday, having been inf orme d th a t a ferr - dre had attempted to destroy herself at the corner ' of Widegate-street, Bishopsgate, he went to the place and found the prisoner black in the face in conse quence of having tried to strangle herself with her bonnet ribbons. When she recovered from her in sensibility, she said she had made the attempt because she had murdered her mother. The agony of her mind appeared to be so intense, ,as completely to da mage her intellect. She:was placed under the judicious care of Mr.,W,Murdo, who signified in & note to the Lord Mayor tliat when she was first conveyed to the Compter she acted in the most violent manner, and it was absolutely necessary to force the victuals down her throat ; tbat she had since become more calm, but was very weak, and that her condition was attri butable to excessive drinking. The LORD MAYOR—What are you, prisoner ? Prisoner—l have no home, but I have been em ployed in the book business in Jewin-crescent. The LORD MAYOR—What did you mean by say ing you murdered your mother ? The prisoner —I consider that I did murder her. I broke her heart by my wickedness ; that's murder. The Loan MAYOR—Where did she die ? The prisoner— One day last week, in Bishopsgate Union Workhouse. The LORD MAYOR—Are you sure that if I send to the workhouse I shall be informed of her death ? The prisoner—Certainly; there is no doubt of her death, and I was the cause of it, I was so wicked. The LORD MAYOR—In what respect was you wicked ? The prisoner —By drinking. The LORD MAYOR—Have you a father, or brothers, or sisters ? The prisoner —N o ; they are all dead. The last person I lived with was my sister, who has died since. She was obliged to turn me out on account of my dreadful propensity. The LORD MAYOR—How do you know she is dead ? The prisoner----I heard so. She lived in Red Lion-court, fleet-street. I have been the cause of dreadful misery. The LORD MAYOR—Have you ever received parish relief? The prisoner —Never. I have been able to support myself by book-work, in which I have been regularly brought up. The LORD MAYOR directed that the unhappy creature should be taken care of in the Compter, under the authority of the medical officer, and that inquiry should be made into the melancholy part culars of her case. BAIL COURT, Nov. 13. IN RE THE REV. JAMES MEDE NISBETT. A writ of habeas to bring up the body of the de fendant was obtained in this case. As far as the facts were disclosed it appeared that Mr. Nisbett was imprisoned in this country for a debt due to Mr. Bucannan, who discounted some bills for him. He was in prison for sixteen months but lately applied and obtained an °Her for his liberation, under the late statute for the relief of insolvent debtors. He was, however, detained under a warrant issued by the justices of the peace for the county of Tippe rary, which was backed by Mr. Jardine, the police magistrate of Bow-street, for a riot with which he was charged. The warrant stated that the defendant policet rl o rhsdei i was " indicted at the peace-office" for a riot, and " it charged and commanded the police-constables of Tipperary to apprehend the said James Mede Nis bett, if found in Tipperary, and him in safe custody keep, so as to have his body before the justices of peace at Nenagh to answer for the said offence." Mr. Humphrey, with whom were Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Sturgeon, appeared in support of the discharge. Mr. Doudeswell appeared to oppose the discharge. Mr. Justice PATTESON, in giving judgment, said that in this country there would be two fatal objec tions to the warrant. The first was, that it stated the defendant was indicted " in the Peace-office." He did not know what the Peace-office was. If the indictment was preferred at the Court of Quarter Sessions, it should be so stated. If it was not, then the justices of Quarter Sessions had no jurisdiction. The other objection was one which arose from the extraordinary nature of the warrant. It directed the whole body of the police of the county of Tipperary to appre hend the party if found within the county, and him in safe custody keep, so that they might have his body at the Quarter Sessions. It was clearly contrary to law to give the police any such authority unless there was some Irish statute to justify it. If the offence was a bailable one the party was to be bailed by the proper authorities, if not a bailable offence he was to be impri soned and kept in the custody of the Sheriff. But accord ing to this warrant neither of these things was to be done, but the party was to remain in the custody of the tilltpntairnir prisoner Li s. n e ien n r.r e 13, ,h x , eat : nsp s c e dao s ri session. It rrugeselti ;Ibraccordingly.e. j appearedustice discharged.tpo hits A - TTESON.) EXPAP.TE GARDNER. Mr. MELLOR moved for a writ of certiorari to bring up the inquisition held on the body of George Gardner, and also the depositions taken at the inquest. It appeared that Gardne r h a d b een indicted for abducting a young lady from a boarding-school, but an arrangement had been come to. The defendant pleaded guilty, but was discharged on his own recognizance s , and was not to be brought up for judgment. Gardner then went to Ca nada, but subsequently returned to this country, and was articled to a farmer named Page, for the purpose of learning the business of a farmer. He then renewed his acquaintance with the young lady. After his return from Canada he went to the house of the young lady, having got in through the window in the course of the night. The next morning he had some coffee given him by the young lady. He was vi sited by the mother and daughter, the father being igno rant of the circumstance. After breakfast the daughter in n th a e butstateddi d that t she know w perceived ha a t it was.peculiar o ~,e smell ve r, room, bottle being produced at the inquest, she stated that the smell was something like that. After he had taken the con tents of that bottle, which had contained laudanum, he asked for a razor and shaved himself. He then became ill, and died in the course of the day. A verdict of felo de se was returned upon the coroner's inquest. The object of the present application was to bring up that inquisition and examination, with the ulterior view that in case the in- Edward Taylor, cab-driver, No. 4,144, was charged with having loitered in such a manner about Fleet- street and its neigbbourkood as to cause serious obstruction. The defendant proved to be one of those fellows who are constantly perilling the safety of the public by turning about in the most crowded thoroughfares, and impeding the transit of other vehicles. He was described as having turned a deaf elr to the requests and threats of the police, and to have lingered at a variety of places in expectation of a fare. The defendant said the police we: 0 prejudiced against him, and that he was the most respectable and amiable of cab-drivers. The LORD MAYOR—You are finf d 10s. aid costs. Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) informed his Lord ship that the defendant had been summoned in Sep tember, by another officer, who described the route which be had taken with his cab, and the stops he had made, exactly as the present witness had represented. The defendant said he would not pay the money. He would rather go to prison for seven days. The Loan MAYOR—I know very well you would prefer going to prison for seven days, but my sen tence upon you is, that if you do not pay ten shil. lings -penaltrand three shillings costs, you shall go to prison for a whole month.—(A laugh.) The defendant grum bl e d i n a l ow tone, b ut in less than a minute p u ll e d ou t t h e thirteen sh i llings, and walked off, while the Lord Mayor was directing the officer to keep a particular look out for him in hia gyrations. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. - POLICE REGULATIONS. A letter, of whi c h the following is a copy, has been sent by th e C omm i ss i oner of the City Police to Mr. Sergeant Merewether, Town Clerk : " City Police-office, 26, Old Jewry, " Noy. 11, 1844. " have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a resolution unanimously passed at an especial Court of Mayor and Aldermen, expressing their entire appro bation of the measures taken by the Commissioner of the City Police. ' I have to request that you will do me the favour of expressing to tho Court of Mayyr And Aldermen the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNIING NOVEMBER 14 184 t. feelings of gratification with which I receive this dis tinguished testimony of my services, and to assure them that it will be my constant study to merit their appro bation. " The auspicious visit of her Majesty brought with it responsible, and, to myself, untried duties; but the liberality of the Committee of Aldermen, in the means placed at my disposal, the zealous and efficient co-ope ration of the officers and constables under my direction, and still more, the kind-hearted and forbearing temper of the people, relieved me from all apprehensions, and rendered my duties as easy as they were honourable. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient humble servant, (Signed) " W. HARVEY. " To Mr. Town Clerk." CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED BY THE LATE LORD MAYOR. Last February Sir William Magnay, the late Lord Mayor, received the one-half of a 51. note (97,281), inclosed in a note, of which the following is a copy : "L. M. presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor, and requests his Lordship will apply the inclosed to the use of the lady connected with India, whose case appears in the Post of this day. The other half-note will be sent on the receipt of this being acknowledged in the MOrn ing Post. " February, 14, 1844." Our readers will recollect that a great many con tributions were received about the time stated in the note addressed to the late Lord Mayor, and this no tice of the receipt of the half-note described might have escaped his Lordship's benevolentcorrespondent. The half-note was received in due time. Subsequently the late Lord Mayor received the following note : " Mr. L. M. presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor, and begs to inform him that the day after his Lordship mentioned in court the case of a lady connected with India, who was in great distress, Mr. L. M. inclosed the half of a 51. note (97,281) to the Lord Mayor, with a request that the receipt of it might be acknowledged in the Morning Post. As this has not been done, Mr. L. M. is afraid the half-note has been stolen, and requests, therefore, his Lordship will be kind enough to state to the reporters of the Morning Post or Times whether it has been received, that the Post-office may be informed of the loss of it. or that it has miscarried. " Thursday, February 22." At the request of Sir William Magnay we insert Mr. L. M.'s communication, and announce that the late Lord Mayor has received the half-note described, but never received the other half. GUILDHALL. John Peter Kirk, a baker, carrying on business at No. 49, Tottenham Court-road, was charged before Sir Chapman Marshall, with having :obtained 30/ from the West London Savings' Bank, Wine Office-court, by re presenting himself to be a Mr. M'Donald, one of the depositors. Mr. Thomas Underhill, a clerk in the office of the savings' bank, stated that on the 2d of March last he re ceived 10/, from a person named M'Donald, as a deposit. The entry in the books of the savings' bank ran thus:— " Adam M'Donald, Fore-street, Cripplegate, aged twenty-four, 10/." M'Donald subsequently made an other deposit of 20/ Mr. Underhill, actuary to the Bank, said it was his duty to repay deposits. Last evening the prisoner pre sented a deposit-book to him, and applied for the 301. which had been paid to the bank by Adam M'Donald. Witness requested him to sign his name in the receipt book, and he wrote the name of Adam M'Donald. Wit ness then gave him a Bank of England note for 301. The first witness said he should not know Mr. M'Donald again. He was a young man, and the pri soner a middle-aged man. They identified persons by their handwriting. The writing of the prisoner and the depositor were very dissimilar. The clerk asked if it was not usual for depositors to give notice when they were desirous of drawing out money? Mr. W. Underhill said a notice had been left at the office in accordance with the rules which had been laid before the Managing Committee, by whose direction an officer was placed in the office, and when the prisoner received the note he was given into custody. M'Donald had lost his original book, and had been supplied with a duplicate of it. The prisoner presented the book that had been lost at the bank. The prisoner said that M'Donald gave him the book to draw out the amount when he (M'Donald) went to Scotland. M'Donald owed him money. He had not seen him for two months. He told him to put his name in the receipt-book at the bank. Sir C. MARSHALL said he had better get M'Donald to come forward to corroborate his statement. He was remanded until the police can obtain the at tendance of M'Donald, who was stated to be in London. The prisoner applied to be admitted to bail, but his application was refused. CLERKEN WELL. William Brown was charged with furious driving, and thereby killing a horse, value 14/. The prisoner, who was driving a cab, began to race with a four-wheeled vehicle at King's-cross, and when opposite this Court, on the Bagnigge-wells-road, driving at the top of his speed, and on the wrong side of the road, he attempted to shoot by the vehicle. A cab, belonging to Mr. Voucher, was coming at a walking pace against them, and the driver cried out to the pri soner to halt, but, instead of doing so, the prisoner still whipped, and, coming into collision with the cab opposite, the shaft of his vehicle penetrated a long way into the breast of the horse, and the poor animal fell down, bleeding profusely. Both cabs were shattered dreadfully, but fortunately nobody was hurt. The prisoner is not a licensed driver, but was driving for a Mr. Clarke, a cab proprietor in Camden-town. The rroprieter of the cab said the prisoner took ad vantage of his absence and drove away the cab from the Strand. His wife was dangerously ill, and he was sent for to attend her. Sergeant Wilkinson said he believed this to be utterly untrue, and he had been informed the proprietor was drinking and fighting at a public-house. The prisoner was remanded. WORSHIP-STREET. Two men, named Samuel Brown and James Keat ing, private watchmen in the service of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, were charged with being drunk, and violently assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. Mr.. Humphreys_ attended for the prisoners._ The' case had occupied the greater portion of two days, but the facts were briefly as follow :—As. po liceman 77 H was on duty at a late hour on Saturday night in a new line of road now in progress of forma tion by the Woods and Forests from Spitalfields Church to the London Docks, he was assailed by the prisoner Keating with threatening and offensive ex pressions, of which, by the advice of his sergeant, he took no ntice. On his return over his beat he was assailed in a similar manner by Keating, who, in ad dition, set a large dog rpon him, which instantly seized the constable by the coat, while Keating struck him on the head with his truncheon. The officer at tempted to take him into custody, the dog still hold ing him, and, a violent struggle ensuing, they were both thrown to the ground. The policeman called for assistance, when Hope, another constable, came up and seized hold of Keating, upon which the other prisoner rushed out of his box and immediately dealt 77 II three blows on the head with his staff, which knocked him down, and caused a great effusion of blood. Sergeant Easthope then came up, and further assistance having been procured, the prisoners, after a violent resistance, were ultimately secured and con veyed to the station, threatening all the way the ven geance of Lord Lincoln and the Woods and Forests upon the heads of the whole police force. Sergeant Colman said that a formal complaint had been laid on a former occasion befbre the Woods and Forests against the prisoners, and that Superinten dent Pearce had been obliged to remove one constable from that beat, in consequence of the exasperating conduct of the prisoners towards him. In their defence the prisoners preferred a counter charge of malicious conspiracy on the part of the police, and severe treatment towards themselves. Mr. Humphreys, after calling several witnesses, who gave them a good general character for propriety of conduct and sobriety, deprecated any conviction ' as it must inevitably lead to th e i ns t an t di sm i ssa l of his clients, and their bread would be gone. Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his total disbelief of the alleged conspiracy by the police, and said that, under the circumstances, he should have certainly sent the parties to prison without the chance of paying a fine ; but as the punishment he should inflict upon them would most likely not be all they would suffer, he should take a very lenient course, and sentence Keat ing to pay a fine of 205., or undergo a month's im prisonment in the House of Correction ; and the pri soner Brown to pay a penalty of 405., or six weeks' imprisonment. Several gentlemen connected with the Woods and Forests attended in Court, and exhibited great in terest in the proceedings. Tuesday Anne 111`Cormack, a young Irishwoman, was charged with stealing a sovereign, the property of Leah Aarans, her fellow-servant, at the house of Mr. G. Da Silva, a foreign merchant, who was deeply affected, and, on entering the witness•box ' stated that the charg e u p on w hi c h t h e pr i soner had been given into custody would sink into insignificance in com parison with that which he himself had to prefer against her, which was that of decoying away from her home one of his own daughters, a child only ten years of age, with a view of introducing her to a life of infamy. While at his counting-house, in the City, about noon on the preceding day, he received a ..message from his family, requesting hint to return hOme instantly, as the child was missing, and, on reaching his house, and finding that that was the case, he, in, extreme anguish of mind, -went in every direction he could think of, in all parts of the town, for several hours, in search of her, bu t without suc cess. On again returning home, be tween six and seven o'clock in the evening, he was informed by one of the other servants that, during his- absence, the prisoner had suddenly absconded from the house, and that a sovereign had been stolen from a box belonging to another domestic. .Mrs. Da Silva also showed him a letter which had arrived by post that afternoon, addressed to the prisoner, and in the 123indwriting of his daughter, requesting the prisoner to proceed to her immediately, at a house in Charles- court„ St. Martin's-lane. Previous to his seeing this „letter, his eldest daughter, on being apprisei tat' its contents, had, by direction of her mother, Exile to the {house in question, in the company of an upper-servant, arid soon after returned, bringing the child with them, which they had found at the house. The prosecutor here handed the letter to the ma gistrate. It was written in a neat and rather elegant hand for so young a child, and was to the following effect : " 4, Charles -court, St. Martin's-lane. " Dear Anne,—l write to inform you that I have gone to the West-end, but I hope you will come to-night, fir I do not know what I shall do without you; for, now I have gone, I cannot come back. Come about seven o'clock. Now, do come, for Ido not know what I shall do without you. lam obliged to take any place till you come. I have no mo' (sic) to say, but believe me to re main " Your affectionate, "JULIA DA SILVA. " P.S. Pray come." Policeman Marks, 61 L, said, that between five and six o'clock on the preceding evening he was ac costed by the sister of the little girl in St. Martin's lane, and requested to go to the house in Charles court, where they suspected the child to be. He im mediately accompanied them to the house No. 4, which he found occupied by a man of apparent re spectability, and who, upon being informed of his business, took him into one of the rooms and pointed out to him the child there. The man told him that the child had been brought to his house by a woman living in Chandos-street, who told him that she had applied to her for leave to write a letter in her house, and that she, believing from her elegant dress and manners, that she had run away from home, had brought her there to be taken care of. Soon after the little girl's arrrival she had asked for writing materials, and addressed the let ter already read to the servant, which at her re quest was put immediately into the post. Witness (the policeman) remained at the door until six o'clock, when the prisoner arrived and inquired for the child, and as soon as she had done so, he took her into cus tody. On asking her if she knew anything about the sovereign she positively denied all knowledge o the money, but on her way to the station said that the little girl had herself taken it out of her fellow servant's box, and added, that the other s ervan t s h a d persuaded th e child to leave her home, and that she had merely gone to the house to look after her, and bring her back. The child herself, who appeared very intelligent, was then put into the witness-box, and stated that the prisoner had repeatedly importuned her to leave her father's house, but that she had resisted her overtures until the preceding day, when she had agreed to go away with the prisoner that night. About noon, however, the prisoner told her that she (witness) must go on first, and gave her a sovereign for the purpose of buying clothes and paying expenses; after which she placed her in a cab, and told her to go on to the Strand and wait for her there. On being set down in the Strand, she became greatly alarmed, not knowing where she was, and wandered into Chandos-street, at the door in one of the houses in which she saw a woman standing, whom she accosted, and asked per mission to write a letter in her house to the prisoner. The woman, however, after putting some questions to her, took her to the house in Charles-court, where she wrote the letter in question, and where she remained until she was rescued by her friends. The prosecutor here, in a state of great excitement, said, that the landlord of the house in Charles court, whom he had ascertained to be a respectable man, had informed him that he had learned that a woman keeping a house of notorious character in the same court, had made arrangements for the reception of , the child, and was to give ten guineas for possession of the child's person, and whose ruin would h ave b een effected that night but: for her providential discovery. If the Magistrate would adjourn the case for another examination, he should be able to bring forward the most positive evidence t o th a t effect. Mr. 13mouast then asked the prisoner if she wished to say anything in answer to the charge ? The pri soner said that it was all a conspiracy entered into against her by the other servants, that she never saw the sovereign, and that she knew nothing whatever of the letter put in, as, in fact, she could not read at all. In answer to this, a pretty Jewess, 15 years of age, nursemaid in the prosecutor's service, was called, and proVed that the letter, which was inclosed in an enve lope superscribed to the prisoner, was delivered to her at her master's house at half-past one o'clock, and that she immediately handed it to the prisoner. She afterwards found the letter lying open upon the kitchen table, without its envelope, and, as the pri soner had absconded, delivered it to her mistress. In reply to questions from the magistrate, the witness stated, that the prisoner had on numerous occasions attempted to seduce her from the house in order that she should resort to a life of prostitution, but that she had indignantly rejected the prisoner's importu nities. On one occasion, when closely pressed by the prisoner on the subject, she declared she would inform her mistress of the prisoner's conduct, and ran up stairs for that purpose, but the prisoner pur sued her, and, seizing her at the head of the stairs, flung her violently down them, and used such dread ful threats towards her, if she divulged her offers to her master or mistress, that the witness had been afraid to do so till the present occasion. Mr. BINGHAM said, that he had heard quite enough to warrant him in remanding the prisoner, in order that a searching investigation might he made into such an abominable transaction, and the officers must, between this and the next examination, make the most rigid inquiries into all the facts of the case and use strenuous exertions for its completion. The prisoner, who behaved with extreme boldness throughout the hearing, was then removed. THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT BLACKWALL. CORONER'S INQUEST. Precisely at half-past twelve o'clock, yesterday, the Coroner for the Eastern District, William Baker, Esq., attended at the Queen's Head, High-street, Poplar, where a jury, composed of the most respec table inhabitants of the division, were met to inquire into the cause which resulted in the death of Jacob Samuda, Samuel Dodd, James Scianders, Henry Scovell, Thomas Nugent, John Newman, and Arthur M'Gee. The jurymen afterwards proceeded to view the re• mains of the sufferers, which lay in the bone-house of the parish. The exhibition was truly a painful one, for, in addition to the sad relics of mortality, the re lations of the deceased were in the immediate neigh bourhood, and their unaffected sorrow, if silently ex pressed, was only the more touching. As the room in the Queen's Head was not suffi ciently large to accommodate the parties who, from curiosity, or more generous motives, attended the inquest, the jurymen retired to the Town-hall, where the following evidence was taken before the worthy Coroner : t is since ascertained that two of the unfortunate r men removed to the London Hospital have died, but ' the jury will not take cognisance of their deaths to ' day.) The names of the jurymen having been called over, the first witness called was an engineer, a workman in the service of Messrs. Samuda, whose evidence was merely taken to identify the bodies. Joseph Reed, Blackwall, pattern maker, knew the body of Mr. Jacob Samuda, who was an engineer, residing in Summer-street, Southwark. His age was somewhere about thirty-one. Also the bodies of Henry Scovell, aged 44, residing at 14, Earl-street, Poplar; James Sclanders, aged thirty-seven ; Thomas Nugent, aged eighteen, of 157, Union-street; John Newman, fireman, aged thirty-seven; Arthur M'Gee, labourer, aged thirty-five, also of Poplar; and Samuel Dodd, aged twenty-seven, of Blaawall. The bodies were those lying in the dead-house. George Low, 14, Hamilton-street, Deptford—l am an engineer in the employ of Messis. Jacob and Joseph Samuda, the former the deceased. They are builders of iron boats, as well as engineers. .They built and placed the engines in the Gipsy Queei', which I believe belonged to an Irish company. A ship of her size and measure might be worth about 15,0001. The engines were double, but moved by one shaft. I believe the engine is patented. It is generally known by the name of the "bell-crank" engine. The engines stand fore and aft, instead of across the vessel, the object being merely to save room. The beam of a common engine revolves upon its centre, but the beams of Messrs. Samuda's have their motions at the end, and not in the centre. I cannot say what effect the difference of engine may have in causing the accident, but from my glance at the remains of it I should say that the steam pipes look as if they had been taken from an old vessel in stead of being new. The engines were condensing ones and worked all day yesterday. The valve would not rise at 10Ib. to the square inch, and before mis chief could arise it was calculated to work 401 b. to the square inch. The horse power would depend upon the pressure, but I suppose the average power to be about 200, as the diameter of the cylinder was 45 inches. She started at a quarter to three yesterday for the second trial, she having been first tried from her moorings on Friday last. She turned when off Woolwich, an,l arrived at Blackwall at ten minutes past five, when she was moored to a buoy off Brunswick Pier. I worked during the trip one engine, and the deceased Mr. Samuel Dodd the other. The power was kept up till the vessel was fast at her moorings, and then the deceased Mr. Samuda said to me, " That will do with the engine." I replied, " Then I will draw the fire and blow the boilers off," which meant that I would throw the water off. He said, " Don't do that." I want to see 251bs. upon the boilers, meaning of course 251bs. to the inch. He added " fetch me a candle," and I did so, and we then looked at the guage, and found it 101 b. to the square inch. He told me to go and see if the steam was going strongly off. I or dered one of the firemen to go, but deceased would not permit it, saying, " I cannot depend upon any one but you." I then went, but had not gone 40 inches or four steps on deck, when 1 heard the explosion. I cannot tell what caused the explosion. By a Juror—No steam could blow off without a REPEAL OF THE MALT-TAX. The farmers never knew the full extent of their strength till they last year measured it with the League ; but having made the discovery—having ascertained the amount of pressure which they can exercise upon statesmen—having, in fact, squeezed the celebrated declaration on the corn-laws out of Sir Robert Peel, they conclude that by the same pro , cess they can squeeze the repeal of the malt tax out of him. Accordingly, a Committee has been appointed in London, and subscriptions entered into ; and it is probable that between this and the meeting of Parliament, the question will be agitated and discussed in Essex and in all parts of the kingdom. Of the injustice and impolicy of this tax, and the advantages that would flow from its repeal, we need say nothing : they are so clearly ' pointed out in the speeches of Mr. Ellis, Mr. Robert Baker, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, and others, that we could add little to the arguments they ad vance, or the force of the illustrations they employ. We may assume, for it is not denied, that there would be a much wider growth of barley, which in itself would furnish a large increase of labour for• the poor, now so much required, and carry comfr jr t , and we believe, by weaning them from the tiaunts of vice, a greater degree of morality to their cottages, while at the same time it gave greater ',cope to the farmer, and furnished him with a re.ddy and better market for the inferior descriptions of this grain, which cannot he now malted on account of the high duty. A substitute for the tax, which cannot be yet spared, is the only question. Double the property tax, if neces sary, say the leaders of the new movement. This is a bold, though not very popular way of putting the question, because it is calculated to provoke a powerful antagonism to the repeal ; but we do not r see why a well-regulated property-tax for a limited period—certainly not the tax in its pre sent shape—should not be adopted. We say, for a limited period, because sire are told that the altered tariff and the new - Corn Bill are bringing large sums into the ;:offers of the State, and if the revenue goes on Increasing' from this source, the farmers, who were the principal sufferers from the changes,. have a right to demand that the increase shall be applied for their benefit ; and in what better way 'oan this be done than in the repeal of the malt tax ?—Essex Herald. A Hamburgh newspaper, Der Freischutz, contains a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Times as follows :—" The British newspaper, the Times, is known to be the largest in size, and has the greatest number of copies circulating in the world. The budget of the expenditure of that journal at the present time is as follows, namely :—Editorial expenses, weekly, 65/. ; salaries of correspondents, 401. ; Parliamentary reporters (twenty in number, 51. each per week), 100/. ; scientific, tine arts, and literary reporters, 211. ; penny-a-liners (re porters of the occurrences of the day in London, viz., tires, murders, curiosities, &c.), 21/ ; for extraordinary information from authors of celebrity, per week, 30/. ; law and police-courts' reporters (several in number) per week, 20/. The whole of their expenses for literary matter (as above stated) amounts per week to 3001. The expenses of printing and composition weekly amounts to 250/. ; the expenses for the managing clerks, bookkeeping, &c., 2562 ; adding to it the interest upon capital sunk by the es tablishment for building, machinery, and type, &c., amounts to the sum (weekly) of 1,0001, therefore, per annum, of 52,000/, or 364,000 thalers. The payments to Government for stamps and advertisement duty, :35,000/. (Qy., the paper ?) The budget of receipts of the same journal is as follows :—ln the year 1842-3, 6,300,000 copies were sold per annum, amounting to about 125,000 L, or 1,000,000 thalers. The entire ex penditure, with the exception of the payment to the Government for stamps, &c., amounts to 600,000 thalers. It appears the annual profits derived from it amount to 400,000 thalers, without the profit derived from the advertisements, of which we are unable to give an account, but the average number of each copy of the Times contains from about 700 to 1,000 an nouncements, 4,000 to 7,000 per week, and annually 208,000 to 364,000 announcements ; as stated before, we regret not being familiar with the rate of charging those advertisements, and we are unable to give a statement of the profits derived from it by 480,000 the proprietors. It has also been calculated, that typographical letters are used to each copy on an aver age, and each such copy, divided into octavo pages, will form a volume of 300 pages ; so that the 6,000,000 im pressions of the Times annually in circulation would form a library of 6,000,000 volumes in octavo." [Our Contemporary, who has mixed a good many errors with a considerable portion of truth in this statement, has made one omission, which we will take upon ourselves to supply. He has said nothing about the number of letters we receive, and the time consumed in reading and answering them. We leave the latter point to the cal culation of our readers ; but with respect to the first, we take this opportunity of stating that we receive 130 letters every day upon an average, or, in the whole year, the immense number of 40,000.] Times. LONDON, CAMBRIDGE, AND ELY RAILWAY.—The line of road in the vicinity of Cambridge continues to progress with the greatest rapidity. In a few months the road will be completed throughout, opening a rapid communication with the metropolis and the country be tween this town and the city of Norwich.—Cambridge Chronicle. pressure of 26 lbs. to the inch upon the boiler, for then only would the safety-valve lift up. There was a little steam blowing out when I got on deck, 5 1 that, instead of the 10 lb. pressure which we shod when we got under weigh, we had a pressure of ,23 lbs. The main steam pipe has given way—it is jointed , and the explo s i on h as lift e d i t out o f t h e soc ket. It was only fastened by a pac ki ng, i n th e customary mode, with cast-iron steam pipes. Messrs. Sonias were under a contract to use up such parts of an old engine as was fit for the purpose. By the CORONER—The cast-iron pipes, the air" pumps, &c., used, were of that old material. . p By a Juror—l am no t awzre o f t h e conditions o f the contract. I should think that the Messrs. Samuda need not employ any part of the engine that was defective. The CORONER said that now, as he understood the case, there did not appear to be any bursting, but a giving way, if he might say so, of the socket: By a Juror—The socket was fourteen or fifteen feet from the boiler, and had the pressure never beta more than 101 b. there would have been no danger is working with s uc h a j o i nt, b ut w i t h t h e i nc reased pressure it was not safe. The CORONER did not see how the same Acei devt should not happen every day, if the main pipes were only connected w ith th e eng i ne i n the way describe d and if the witness, as a practical man, would linee ti°n some other way mor e sa f e , th ey s h ou ld f ee l oblige d to him. Mr. Low's examination continued—The s tate of the engine could not be seen for above an hour and half, in consequence of the dense volume of stolle there. If Mr. Samuda had remained where 1 le ft n him, beneath the j o i n t, th e s t eam wou ld rus h lir" him at its first escape. The deaths of all would, e e doubt, be instantaneous. Some men escaped. Holes were cut in the deck to get at the deceased persons; but, as I have sail, it was more than en bout and a half before th e fi rs t o f us cou ld go d o wn. " have no doubt it was entirely accidental. . By James Pim, jun., Esq., of Monkstown Cast' e ' who appeared for the Brothers Samuda—The cause of the accident was no t i n any way to b e attributed to the construction of the engine or boiler, tteitber had the material itself of which the steam pipe was composed anythi ng t o d o w ith it. The cause in my opinion was th e mo d e i n w hi c h the joie was made. I could not, however, with the same pipe resist any possible pressure of steam that these engi°,l could generate; but, by a lt er i ng th e pipe, rcoll'" make it capable of withstanding any pressure. The CORONER said there wa s no ques ti on o f te e solidity of the engine or material, the only pestl° ° . was in the socket itself; a n d h e w i s h e d t o knorl: e any person in court differed from the witness as to t u t cause of the accident ? N one a pp ear i ng , th e inques t was adjourned till Saturday next, at 10 o'clock. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY) CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English Wheat was by no rae_q i extensive, yet the demand f or it was i n a very s lugg' ll d, state, and . previous rates were with difficulty suppor ge f Owing to the firmness on th e p ar t o f t h e h o lders free Foreign Wheat, v e ry littl e b us i ness was transact , (in it, at unaltered currencies. Grinding and distill ll3 .! Barley was extremely d u ll, b u t ma l t i ng parce ls vre" . quite as dear. The M a lt t ra d e ru l e d h eavy . Olt " Beans, and Peas were in fair request. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Earley. Oats. I rata English.... ..... 1,090 qrs. 910 qrs. 250 1, 15° 1ri5h.............. - -- 3,2411 9 11 . -...... F0reign.......... 1,310 - ....... -- Malt. MO cas. WHITECIMPEL. 0 Although the supplies of ea c h ki n d o f mea t w ereby means large, the demand was in a very sluggish state, $' our quotations. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Muttt 2s 6d to 3s 8(1 ; Veal, 3s to 4s ; and Pork, 2s 4 -I"'" 3s IOcT per Blbs by the carcase. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) The Yarn Market continues without chang e ,: indeed the spinners are und er con t rac t t o so g reat extent, as to leave very littl e y arn f or prese nt sal b e; and prices are very firm, exce pt f or some f e w of t finer counts suitable f o r d ou bli ng .- which are rath er easier to buy. Goods are steady at previous rates. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, NO/% 1 • —There has be en very littl e c h ange i n the -11 market to-day, except, p er h a p s , it ma y be 831 t:, that the buyers hav e s h own a great e r desire I purchase. The manufactur e r s h ave complained the forced sales of last Monday were quoted ID the Guardian, as it is well known that prices fq . e . submitted to by some parti es ( a t a s l ac k time) 1 ! November, which are, perhaps, not a fair criteria for those who can hold their goods. It-appears to D s ; however, that the prices at which business is d° ° , are the market pric es , an d as suc h oug ht to be quotea . The wool market is much the same ; manufacturers buy for immediate use only. PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN WALES AND JERSEr•j It is satisfactory to us to know that the wages, Ode° to the privileges of the working classes in this 'it nity, are superior to those of the same class in man) parts of England, while they have house-rent and P r° :. visions much che a p er . It may b e i nterest i ng to °ui distant readers to l earn th e prices of the luxuries, living in Carmarthen ; our L on d on f r i en d s i n partiea'''.,.° will be astonished at finding that in the market last fine turday might be bought—fine g eese a t 2 s . ea ch ; a ti. young turkey, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. ; a p a i r o f d uc ks, 2s. 2 to 2s. 6d. ; and fowls from Is. to Is. 6d. a coupl e. Our poultry is certainly not so large as that from IN Or .: folk, but for succul e nce an d d e li cac y o f fl a vour is not to be surpassed. Beef, mutton, and ork are to be bought at 4d. and 4d.; pickled joints, , 0 ; the finest meat, sd. We have a most plentful year of potatoes; they may be bought fine an good, at one shilling the bushel, 60 to 651bs. to th d. bushel. Fresh butter, 26 ounces to the pound, at Is. 5 Eggs are now 24 a shilling ; in the summer the,' are 36. Good heavy oats, forty pounds to the bushel, ar e at Is. I Id. to 2s. Cheap, however, as all this, aPP eeri l to be, we are quite outdone in Jersey, which, being; free port, is en a bl e d t o i m p or t, d uty f ree . frt . Brittany, one of the cheapest provinces of Fras;:, provisions, wines, &c., at very low rates. Tl) e a (in Jersey) a turkey is 2s. to 3s. ; d u cks, Is- " a pair ; gunpowder tea, ss. per lb. ; double di re fined sugar, 4id. t o 6d. a lb. ; and Brazil sugar, 5 Very good p or t an d serry at 245. the dozen; claret , 5 18s. to 245. the dozen ; b ran dy, 4 s . th e ga ll on; very fi ne and old ditto, 7 5 . ; H o ll an d s , 2 s . 10d. t o 3 s . 4d. the The prices are still further reduced by the Enkt shilling passing for thirt ee np e n ce . Add t o a ll ti" there are no taxes, and there is not a toll-bar in th e island.—Carmarthen Journal. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A POOR MAN'S LIFE SA/f t sr HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Jeremiah L aug hli n , a porn, about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night per s P i rations, and general weakness of body, a want of &Pil e ; tite, sick headaches, besides suffering much from tP liver. This man was in the second stage of consul:oP: Lion, and not expected to live three months, when commenced the use of Holloway's wonderful pills, si ll ,' by their means alone, he is now as strong, as hale. f il % as well as ever he was in hi s lif e .—S o ld ( a l so Hollows,'" Ointment) at the establishment of Professor Hollow* 224, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and b) ; almost all resp ec t a bl e ven d ors o f me di c i ne t h ro ughth" „ the civilised world. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., at I'orchester-terrace, the wife of °- mund Dewar Bourdillon, Esq., of a son. On the 10th inst., at Peckham, Surrey, the wife of the lO C Edmund Lilley, of a daughter, still-born. On the 10th inst., in Eaton• square, the lady of Capes Townahend, R.N., of Balls-park, Hertford, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Lower Clapton, Mrs. Boult, Of daughter. On the 11th inst., at Highgate-hill, the wife of - x • L. Tatham, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, of a son. On the 11th inst., Mrs. Bellville, of Red Lion-street, W l ' born, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at St. Mark's Church, Kennington, 31.1 " 1 Ann, second daughter of Mr. Robert Meldrutn, of Kennington( to Mr. Andrew James Roby, of Tavistock-street, Bedford" squ.are. On the ith inst., at Monkstown Church, near Dublin, ~1 {" Pater, Esq., to Lucinda, (laughter of the late Richard, Milir ken, Esq., of the above city. On the 7th inst., at the British Embassy, Paris, 11 Henry Arthur O'Neill, to Emma Charlotte, third daughter o Robert Sympson, Esq. On the Bth inst., at Goudhurst Church, Alfred Josep h Tapson, Esq., M. 8., of the Edgware-road, London, to Anne Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Daniel %Vest, Esq., of Lidn'ell6 Goudhurst, Kent. DIED. On the 23d of Angnst, at Bangalore, in the East In dia, Lieutenant Edmund Whiteford Metcalfe, of the 43d Nat ive , Infantry, aged 26. On the 10th ult., at Southampton, William Frederick Hummel, of Brixton, aged 25. On the 6th inst., at Chorley, Mary Ann, only daughter of Henry Trappes, solicitor. On the 7th inst., at South Grove, Rye-lane, PeChharor Surrey, Mr. Charles Oakley. On the Bth inst., at Saodgate Lodge, Sussex, Elisabeth, the wife of George John Gibson, Esq. On the Bth inst., at the Bryn, near Swansea, Thomas Ede ll ' Esq., aged 57. On the Bth inst., at Hammersmith, Sarah, relict of the ilt Archibald Gibson, Esq., of Weybridge, Surrey- On the 9th inst., in 13rook-street, Grosvenor-square, Janie, John Best, Esq., Major. Unattached. On the 9th inst., at New Church-street, Lieson-groYe• . 1813* the wife of Mr J. W. Tracy, surgeon. On the 11th inst., in Harley-street, Major-General Sit Leonard Greenwell, K.C.8., and K.C.H. On the 11th inst., at Mornington-crescent, L av i n ia, the in fant daughter of G. W. Dunsford, Esq. On the 11th inst., Mr. Forrest, of Ongar, late of Alderegetv street, aged 76. On the 11th inst., at Clapham-rise, C. R. Thomas, EM. At Turnwood. Dorsetshire, Lady Hill, wife of MN"' General Sir Dudley Hill, Knt., C. 13., and K.T.S. upper On the 10th inst., Mary, wife of N. van Fowinke l, Ebu seet, Pimlico. On the 10th inst., at Broadstairs, Mary, the infant_daug ter of I. H. Benbow, Esq., of Doughty-street. London: Printed and Published by MURDO TNo bi No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 11 S::rand, in the Precinct of the Smvoy, in the Coantir Middlesex, Thursday, November 14, 1844. rt sp , to t x Paz) tßitti co n , G a h, °rico ~,li Fkm t , ttu e an t i airier op~ f~ ~1 A b t