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4i. 1:4 rp; 147, .v-Ag - tt • _ - NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Handicap Plate of 504 Abdallah .., King of Onde Napank ... Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. First half of Ab. M. Pelerine filly ... ... Bay Middleton filly ... Sweepstakes of 10 sous each. T.Y.C. Mountain LUIS Malibran colt ••• •.• Sabra ... Won by reek. ourtt uttior SUN OFFICE, Seven o Clock. Nothing doing. HOUSE OFLORDS. The Bishop of CHICHESTER said that in a parish with which he 11 , 41 been connected inspection had been practised fur twenty sears, and they had never had any difficulty in apprenticing their paupers. The Bill was than read a third time and passed. ADMINISTRATION OF JLTS i'ICE IMPROVE MENT BILL. This Bill was ordered to be referred to a Select Committve. PUNISHMENT OF OFFENCES BILL. This Bill was ordered to be referred to a Select Committee. REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BILL. This Bill was or&red to be relorred to a Select Com mitt .e. IRESk3 SCHOOLS. Lord DUNSANY presented a petition from the county of Meath, against the exclusion of the Church Education Society in Ireland from Parliameutary grants. Their Lotd.hipa then aOjeurnecl. ROUSE OF COMMONS . The SPEAK ZR took the Chair at Fuur o'cLck. PETITIONS. Sir J. WALMSLEY prestnted a petition praying flit the alteration of a eititue in the Small Tonemeuts Bill. me. LACY preented a petition in favour of the Reli flonsei 8 . 11. Mr. D uNC A N presented a petition from Forfar against Lord elgund's Education (Scotland) Bill. Mr. ELIOT YORKE presented several petitions from Cambridgeshire complaining of agricultural dia. trees, and praying for some legislative remedy. Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from Newcastle under-Lyn@ aglinst the Regium Donum. Mr. BAINES preiented a petition from the county of Cheater in favour of the alteration of the law of settle ment. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented petitions from two places in Scotland against Papal aggression. Mr. TUFNELL presented a petition from Devonport against the paper duties. Mr. ALEXANDER HASTIE presente d a pet i t i on fr0m56,590 male inh a bi tants o f Gl asgow a b ove f ourteen y e ars of age, praying that the Housc will pass a more :itriaou.ientTtll for the purpose of repelling Papal aggres petition Whit had ever been presented to Parliament Mr. T.7' Finsbury hxai Ii NCOMBE presented sip petitions from Mr. azirv pt all taxes on knowledg e , against th, i te () D prst-rated a petition from Charley Mr. COw A .::4111:11 Dot.uno. and Leith, Eng tw e r b """'fd a petition from' Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Titl es Z,,, 3,75 4 persons, in favour of the but for a more stringent mea sure to repel p , , pu rt e h, stated that the petitioa!,,, g t l" B n i .` 3) . The Hon. Member yards in length. Sir G. CLERK presented petition from Arb roa th, and other places in Scotland Ed u cational Bill. against L or d M elgund ' s Mr. E. ELLICE, jun'',-,pr"ented against Pap a l t i nt ., a Petition from a place in Scotland a Mr. DISRAELI presented a ," ‘.ettverpool pray watts, an d mariners of the of the MRS. Au petitionsellil t e ters, Marine m ing for extensive modifications of the Act, presented three Mr. M. GIBSON for the repeal of the Manchester, praying ra zo r on knowledge. Sir JO HN TROLLOPE presented a petition h or n R . Place in Li nco l nsh i re , couiPloiffing of agricultural diEn treas. and praying tor a moderate protective d uty u cot 334 CEYLON. Mr ior vi h ic ; 1 7 4 ; b iI a A 4 ILLIE postpone d the following motion, of 27th instant given notice for to-night, to Tuesday, the siderati .—That this House, having taken into con on th e mittke aponin evidence adduced before the Select Com plaitied o f i n Vto inquire into the grkrancrs com that the pu n i4 n erown colony of Ceylon, is of opinion disturbances of l e a nt 41 the natives of that i,land in the sarily severe; that tia 4B i has been rxerssive and unneces cutiun of eighteen a House is of opinion, that the exo imprisonment, and p oi erson; and the transportation, hundred and forty fi v :P ° Pal punishment of one suppression of this dist . other peraong af'Pr the urbane.. • , - - only cf her Mes's troops 11 : In which one individual is at variance with the ta e reil l' u l been slightly injured, British. penal laws, and is tot ettEttltiliniStratiOn of the future effee'ituts and fidelity o f b ' c ulstrd to recure the suf.jer.:is.. Thet " this House is thereT o , M , tetra colonial the conduct of Earl Grey, in r.igtic y; 4 4. ll o , pinion, that approbation of L - ,rd Torrington's adminisirr r • M 'i esr Y'' Irm, has ly - -en prccipltate anti injudiciou,4tlc'n of Ce). 'establish procorl,ota I?: rigour and Feve,Ly i t , t t i e l "kg to ment of he r M a je s ty',.: tore;gn po3t esi , ns, and it iterti " to the character of this country's jo,tie and hutoa julorious ty . WOODS AND FORESTS. Lord SEYMOUR gave notice that on Monday next he would move fu. ItiotrQ to bring in a Bill for the bell e . regulation of C rown L and Revenue, P u bli c W orks, ei d Buildings, &c. PUBLIC REVENUE. On ae motion of Mr. MIME, the following return was ordered, namely—Accounts of public revenue and expendit ure , f rom t h e year 1822 to 18.50, both inclusive; showing, first, the amount received in each year from the ordinary revenue; second, the amount received from other sources; third, the total revenue in each year, deducting drawbacks and repayments ; fourth, the charges of collection, and other payracuta out i TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING SIX O'CLOCK• ELECTION COMMITTEE.—(THIS DAY.) HARWIOI-1. The Committee sat again to-day, and proceeded with 'their scrutiny of the votes polled by bin Yrinc , p. The potitioners did not secceed in s triking off a single vote. At 4 o'cl oc k t h e C omm i ttee adjourne d until to-morrow at eleven. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS EVENING.) -- The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from places in Sussex, , isga; ,si o r t o th ‘l e nuisance of dog -carts. The Earl of taL . presented several petitions at aggression. *g ait st Yap a 1 BILLS BILL. This Bill w's resd ft second time. STAMP DUTIES ASSIMILATION BILL. This Bill WAS row] a second time. INDEVINITY BILL. This Bill wa read a second time. CONFERENCES WITH THE COMMONS. Lord REDEiDALE moved the following resolution, according to notice, viz.:—" That in cases in which the Commons diisgree to any amendments made by the Lords, cr insist up- , n any amendments to which the Lords have disagreed, the Lords are willing to reccive the reasons of the Commons for their disagreeing or in sisting, as the else may be, by message, without a con ference, unless at any time the Commons should de-ire to colcmunic,ite the same at a conference—Agreed to. The NOBLE LORD tt“ n moved that the resolution should be communicated to the Commons.—Agreed to. APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS BILL. The Earl of CARLISLE moved the third reading of the Apprentices and Servants Bill, and proposed seroral verbal amPn(lmen4s. Lord BEAUMONT protested against such interfe rence between masters and servants as was proposed by this Bill. The effect would be that persons would not hire servants from workhouses. Ha admitted that one monstrous case of ill-treatment had been brought for ward, but he thought that the great majority of persons hired from workhouses were perfectly competent to make known to the public any grievances from which they suff?red. The Duke of RICHMOND deprecated any legislation on the matter. unless the whole subject of the relations of master and servants were considered. Be thought that the result would be that no persons would hire children from workhouses. The 8.11 would produce a very prejudicial et?. ct. It would be most unaiviseablo to send the par. chial authority to qu , ..stion a child hired out to a farms as to how he was frd, clothed, and treated. The present law was quite sufficient to meet th , - exigencieg o' any case that could arise. The Eirl of CARLISLE denied that they were le gislating upon a single case. There as nut ouly the case of the Sloanes, but there was the case of the Birds, in which a poor girl died from ill-treatment, and he found there were many cases in which poor children were E u jecc ed to cruel treatment; and it was evident from the case of the Birds, that in rural districts the interference of neighbours could not be depended on. It was, therefore, necessary to enact this system of in spection, which had much to their honour been volun tarily adopted by several boards of guardians. The poor-law authorities had received several representations in favour of the measure. and not one against it. Lord PORTMAN protested against the principle of the inspection clause of the Bill, and would move its omission, for th 4 purpose of recording his opinion on the subject. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, lof the revenue, in its progress to the Exche quer ; fifth, the charge of the public debt, funded i and unfanded; sixth, the amount of all other expendi tura; seventh, the total expenditure for each year, showing th surplus of revenue or of expenditure in each year: and, of the expenditure for the army, navy, and ordnance, from the year 1822 to 1850, both inclusive; distinguishing under each year, and under each head, the expenditure, first, for the effective service; second, for the non-effective service; third, the total expenditure (in continuation of, and in the same form, of Parliamentary Paper, No. 391, of session 1850). CONIMISSION OF SEWERS. In answer to a question from Mr. FITZROY, w Sir G. GREY said th a t he could not at present tell Government would introduce their Bill to renew and remodel the Commission of Sewers. DANISH CLAIMS. for Monday he should movea Select Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that on the first night of supply after Com mittee to inquire into D a nish claims. REPEAL MALT-TAX. Mr. Llpresented t: petition from a farm er i n Cambridgeshire :fining of agricultural distres s , an d DlSltAE complaining for a repea l olf a the malt tax. petition from farmer s i n U.ecounty of Sussex m in favour of th e re p ea l of the p FREWEN presented a malt-tax. Mr. CP YLEY then rose to bring forward his motion on the subject of tne repeal cf the malt tax. He had hoped, he said, that he would not have again been obliged to bring forward these claims under the notice of the House; he had hoped that if no other Member had taken up the subject, that at least Government would have turned their attention to it. The situation of the country in this respect was not much better than it was last year, the times of bliss and prosperity pro phesied by the Free-traders were just as distant as ever, and of all classes of her Majesty's subjects the agricul turists were labouring under the greatest distress. Her Majesty had noticed this distress, but her Ministers had done nothing to remove it. He had found himself equally unable to vote for the re-irepositien of the income•tax for three y- , ars, and for its abolition. Ia the division ou the windo%-tax he had taken no part whatever. Is was notorious that the beer consumed in the metro polis and throughout the kingdom was seriously adul terated, and it was mant'est that that adulteration was ' ... 2 ... 3 ... 2 ... 2 -. 3 eatved by the heavy tax which was imposed on malt. Sir Robert Peel had said that it the corn-laws were re peeled the malt-v.x must be abolished, and Sir James Graham, and other Honourable Members expressed a s;milar opinion. The Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire placed the repeal of the malt tax at the head of the Budget which he published some time ago, yet he and several Members who entertained the 5..,m0 views, when the motion was brought forward last year thought discretion the better part of valour, and did not appear in the division. It bad been said that the public credit must be sustained; he entirely agreed with that; but there were many sources of obtaining revenue besides imposing heavy burdens on the agricultural interest. It could uo longer be de nied that that interest was in a distressed state, and it shou!d be recollected that ono branch of industry could not be affected injuriously without in some degree af fecting others. While those dependent on the cultiva tion of land were in distress commerce and manufactures would suffer. All the legislation bad been in one direc tion. All attempts to revise taxation had been in the same direction, and when those who wished to change that mode of proceeding made some effort to accomplish that object, they were met with the charge that they wanted to return to protection.--(Hear, hear.) There were only two principles upon which the country could act. They must either protect home interests or reduce the taxes, and he fur one was anxious to see the burdens of the nation reduced to the ratio of its means. The land was suffering from the operation of free trade, while others were benefiting from it, and he therefore insired that this was one of the imposts which ought to be transferred from the agricultural to the manufactur ing interest. The malt-tax he should show before he sat down was a tax upon the producer, whom it grie vously oppressed, and ultimately reacted upon the con sumer.--(Hear, hear.) At this stage of the Honourable Gentleman's address a messsge arrived from the Lords requesting a con ference with the Commons. This request was complied with, and managers were at once selected to conduct the conference. On their return from the Lords they an n ninced that the conference had been held in the Royal Gallery. The result of the conference was a resolution that in future the present system of communication be tween the two Houses by conference should be dispensed ir,l. CAYLEY then resumed. It had been argued, he said, at the time of the repeal of the corn-laws, that the consequences of this new regime would be, that everything would be so cheap that people could afford to live with as much ease as ever under the reduced scale of wages. But he would ask the agriculturists whether that was the case or not? For his own part he had been perfectly astonished on a late visit to Yorkshire at the immense extent to which emigration was going on in that quarter—emigration of the bone and sinew of the country. (LEFT SPEAKING.) UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. CONFERENCE OF DEGREES. The annual public conference of degrees and presen tations of honours and prizes ' ,by the Chancellor and Senate of this U n i vers ity, took place, before a crowded and fashionable assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, in the spacious library of University College. This was the second occasion of this interesting ceremony having been performed in public, as it was previous to last year limited to the senatearoom of the apartments occupied by the university in Somerset-house. Iu the absence of any special building belonging to the university, the senate, on the last occasion, accepted the use of the lecture-room of King's Collige, but the recent comple tion of the new library at University College opportunely prevented the means of equalising their favours between the two chief London colleges, both of whieb, with several others in various parts of the country, are de pendent f 4. the acquirement of degrees upon the Uni versity of London. At two o'clock the Earl of Burlington, Chancellor of the University, took the chair, and near him we noticed Mr. J. Shaw Lefevre, Vice-Chancellor, Lord Munteagle, Lord OvLrstone ' Lord Saye and Sele, the Bi s h op of Hereford, Sir S. L. Hammick, Bart., Sir Phillip Cramp ton, Hirt., Sir James Clark, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Mr. G. C. Lewis, M.P., Professor Brande, Professor Faraday, Professor Malden, Professor Graham, Pro fessor Miller, Professor Sharpey, Dr. Hodgson, Rev. Dr. Gerard, Rev. Dr. Stowell, Mr. Macmurdu, Mr. Barcot, Mr. Grote, Mr. Hallam, Mr. Warburton, Mr. Walker, M. Kiernan, &t. The Rev. Dr. Rothman, Registrar of the University, then read a short report, which stated that during the past year 160 candidates had been admitted to matri culation, nearly all of whom had distinguished them selves by their attendance when under their various ex aminations for degrees, honours, prizes, &c. Of the number that had matriculated, 23 had passed the first examination of the degree of 8.M., and 12 had passed the last examination. Three candidates had passed the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, 58 candidates had passed the examination for the degree of 8.A., five had passed the voluntary examination in Scripture and Scripture History, 10 had passed the exa mination for the degree of M.A., 13 had obtained the degree of M.D., and one candidate had obtained the degree of LLD, with a gold medal. At the conclusion of the report, professors represent ing the various colleges and institutions at which the candidates for the degrees had received their academic education, presented to his Lordship the gentlemen on whom the respective degrees were to be conferred. The following is a list of the successful candidates, the degrees conferred upon them, and the colleges at which they studied : Etiward Severe—LL.D., University. John Burford Carlhill, William Thomas Edwards, and William Henry Ransom—M.D., University. Matthew Baines, Peter Eade, and . Stephen Monckton —M.D., King's. Edward Enfield Barron and Samuel Wilks—M.D., Guy's Hospital. William Henry Octarius Sankey—M.D., St. Barth°. lomew's Hospice,. James Newton Heale—M.D., St. Thomas's Hospital. William Ayre—M.D., London Hospital. George Billion—M.D., Charing-cross Hospital. Charles Elden—M.D., Leeds School of Medicine. James Healey Fletcher, Robert Nicholas Fowler, Uriah Brodribb Randall, William Rushton, Matthew Atmore Sherring, Rey. William Rawson. Stevenson, and William Bower Tedhunter—M.A.; University. John Hutton Taylor—M.A., University and Man chester. Rev. George James Hall—M.A. ; Highbury. Rev. Charles Wills—M.A., Horns rton. William Fowler—LLß., University. Rev. William Kii kus--LL.B., Lancashire. hanitl Smith—LL.B., Spring Hill. _Willism Fibiter, William Morse Graily Hewitt, and ch.l!:if 8 James Shearman,--M.8., University. ~r ! nrY Hyde Salter—M.B., King's. Thtis Growse—M 8., Guy's Hospital. h a n s 8 , 6 Y,7 Bristewe. ad James Robertson—M.B., St. dicine. Robert B e son Lewis—M.B., Leeds School of Me- Edmund Mania Boyd m anchestei Tlxhd William Henry Thornton—M.B., James Je tic „,, N ahool of Medicine. Ireland. 110 3'111 College of Surgeons of George Aitchison, job - B. voothby, Edw . Josiah il l; a Purdne Bidlake, William ling Fitch, Samuel, Lindo e Wiliam Thomas Henry Holden, m E ß d fus z ei r ti d lo s il e oue Martineau illis' ra ve d Gathrie, ry Pol iDaradv:dyKraireieniso2:Jra, J r ames A., s 01 , m— Chale Whni veiteb iota e' orne, and John BreadDanlel L W Pr i a e n t e g r e .: b( B. Urs .Daniel Hooper—B.A., Claus College, Cambridge.. Wm. Lien. Farthing Johnson—B.A., Corp. Chia Coll., Cam bridge. Join .Morgan Salter, Henry Robert Silvester, and kehard Chark-P, KeLtedv, John Lawson, Richard Payne, and Themes I'one r—B.A., Stoll) burst. Vernon Darbishire—B.A,, Manchester (New). William Gill and John .Hardwick Smith—RA., High. bury„ eFrederick Creak Robert William Dale, Edward irir.daer Glanville, and George Maraland—B.A., Spring- John Jones and Henry Oliver—B.A., Caermarthen. I saac' naycroft and George ShortSteney. Alexand er Anderson G eorge Hall ß , Joseph Stuteh bery, John Wadland, Jo seph W a ite, William Hale White —B.A., Cheshnnt. - Patrick O'Do n B.A ovan and Thomas Joseph Power-- . , Carl Ti St. Patri c k' s Spencer,l3ow. synel—B.A.,-Baptio (Bristol).- Jams Wm. Conrad Cox, Robert Stephenson, Samuel Danks Waddy, and James Anstey Wild—B.A., Wesley (Sheffield). John Evans—B.A., Western (Plymouth). Wm. Fletcher and Henry James Piggott—B.A., Wes leyan Coll. Inst. George Corney—B.A., West of England Dissenters' Prop. Sch. PRESENTATION FOR HONOURS AND PRIZES. The graduates having been severally presented to the Chancellor, the presentation of scholars, exhibitioners, medalists, and prizemen, then took place in the following order:— Edward Steere, LL.D., University Colleges, &c., to receive Medal. Samuel Wilks, M.D., Guy's Hospital, Medal for Che mistry. William Bower Todhunter, M.A., University, Medal in Mathematics. John Hutton Taylor, M.A., University and Man chester, Medal in Philosophy. William Fowler, LL.B., University, Law Scholarship. John Syer Bristowe, M. 8., St. Thomas's Hospital, Medal in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy. Robert Growse, M. 8., Guy'a Hospital, Medal in Phy siology and C ,, ratrantive Anatomy. John Syer Bristowe, M. 8., St. Thomas's Hospital, Scholarship and Lledal in Surgery. Robert Benson Lewis, M. 8., Leeds School of Medicine, Medal in Surgery. Robert Growse, M. 8.. Guy's Hospital, Scholarship and Medal in Medicine. Charles James Shearman, MM., University, Medal in Medicine. Examination in the Text of the Scriptures, &c.—John Brown Paton, Spring-hill, Prize; Robert Ainelie Red ford, Spring-hill, Prize. FIRST EXAMINATION. Thomas King Hornidge, M. 8., St. George's Hospital, to receive Exhibition and Medal in Anatomy and Phy siology. Jos: ph Lest'r, M. 8., University College, to receive Medal in Anatomy and Physiology. Frederick William Headland, M. 8., King's College, to receive Ivledsl in Chemistry. Thomas B. Washbourn, M 8., Guy's Hospital, to re ceive Medal in Chemistry. Frederick William Bevy, M. 8.. Guy's Hospital, to re ceive Exbibitien and Medal in Materta Medics. Fredurick William M. 13., King's College, to rective Mrdsl in Materia. Medics. Joseph Lester, ALB., University College, to receive M«mial in Botany. Francis Gthhrie, 8.A., University, Scholarship in Mathematics. William Flavel Hurndall, 8.A., University, Scholar. ship in Classics. Edward Hunt, B. A., University, Prize in Chemistry. MATRICULATION. James Savage, University College, to receive Exhi bition in Mathematics. Frederick William Farrar, King's College, to receive Exhibition in Classico. Henry Power, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to re ceive Prize in Chemistry. Edward Dowson, private tuition, to receive Prize in Botany. Henry Power, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to receive Paize in Zoology. The degrees having been conferred, and the honours and prisms presented, the Chancellor of the University declared the business of the day terminated, and the dis tinguished company separated. QUARTERLY RETURN OF MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) This return comprises the births and deaths registered by 2,189 registrars in all the districts of England during the winter quarter ending March 31, 1851; and the marriages in more than 12,000 churches or chapels, 2,869 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 623 superintendent re gistrar's offices, in the quarter that ended December 31, 1850. The return of marriages is not complete; but the de ects are inconsiderable, and have been supplied from previous years. The results of the returns from the whole country are satisfactory. The mortality is low; the births and the marriages are much above the average. ItARRIAGIES. 45,296 marriages were celebrated in the autumn quar ter, ending December 31. The marriages are always more numerous in this quarter than in any other quarter of the year. The close of harvest, the genial season of Christmas, the termination of the ordinary periods of service, and perhaps the old practice of an ticipating Lent, swell the marriage roll at the end of the year. So there is nothing very remarkable in the distribution of the marriages over the quarters of the year, 1850, although the marriages in the last quarter exceeded those in the first quarter by nearly 15,000. The marriages of the whole year exhibit an extraordinary increase ; in 1840 the number was 122,665; in 1850 it amounted to 152,235. In the four years, 1847 8 9-50, the marriages were 135.845, 138,230, 141,599, and 152,235. The first (1847) was a year of great depression and great suffering; the last (1850), as the marriages testify, was a year of prospe rity, which showed no symptoms of decline in the last quarter. The increase extended over 8 out of the 11 divisions of England and Wales. The South Midland and the Eastern divisions exhibit a marked decrease in the pro portion of marriages to population. The decrease was greatest in Suffo;k; but was also evident in the counties of Hartford, Buckingham, Oxford, Cambridge, North ampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Essex and Norfolk. In some of the other divisions the marriages did not keep pace with the population. In Wilts, Lincoln, and the North Riding of Yorkshire, the numbers declined. The marriages increased . in Berk shire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Lei cestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire, Durham, and South Wales. The increase was the greatest in London, and in the North- Weetern Divsion, comprising Cheshire arid Lancashire. The marriages increased at St. George's, Hanover 'quare, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and St. James, West minster; and at all the watering places, at Gravesend, Ramsgate, alargate, Hastings, Brighton, Worthing, Bath Clifton, and Cheltenham. There was a great increase in the pottery districts of Wolstanton and Stoke-upon- Tree t, in Walsall, Dudley, and Birmingham, in Coventry, at ..Basford and Nottingham, in Shadlow and Derby, in Stockport and. Great Boughton (Chester), in West Derby, Wigan, _Bolton, Ashton, Oldham, Rochdale, Blaekburn,,and Preston. : : In Liverpool and Manchester the marriages, though,more numerous than in some pre vious quarters, exhibit no increase on the corresponding quarter of 1850. Bradford, Leeds, and Sheffield exhibit a remarkable increase. 'The marriages decreased, were stationary, or increased slowly in many agricultural districts; and this implies a certain degree of depression in those parts at the close of the year 1850. In many of the manufacturing dis tricts the increase was remarkable. In the country gene rally, the great increase. in the marriages indicates that the great body of the people were in prosperous circumstances. The classes who live on wages should now husband their resources, and with their surplus earnings provide against the periods of depression which according to past experience invariably follow years of prosperity. I disposition to decline. The deaths referred to cholera • in the five quarters ending March, 1847.51, were 3,9, 516, 8, and 7. Typhus has been more fatal than it was in the March quarter of 1850. The deaths by poison were 29, burns and scalds 100, hanging and suffoca tion 71, drowning 70, fractures and contusions 163, wounds 34. The mortality was low in the South-eastern, South midland, Eastern, and South-western divisions. Typhus raised the mortality at Maidstone, scarlatina and hooping cough at Brighton, where the mortality was much above the average. The mortality was generally low in the Sur rey and Sussex districts. Portsmouth and Southampton were unhealthy; at Southampton scarlatina prevailed. Measles and hooping-cough raised the mortality in Abingdon; measles and typhus in Wallingford. The mortality of Windsor, whi c h h as b een recently drained, was much below the average; the deaths in the five quarters ending March, 1847.51, were 132, 109, 114, 103, and 86. In the South Midland Counties, Brentford, Edmunton, Ware, St. Albans, A) lesbury, and Oxford were the chief districts in which the mortality was higher than usual. Small-pox prevailed at St. Albans among the poor, "who live in great numbers in ill-ventilated houses." Measles, hoopiug-cough, and typhus prevailed in Wad desdon, Aylesbury, in Winslow, and in Witney; measles and hooping-cough in Oxford. In Huntingdon low and intermittent fever prevailed. Seven deaths in the parish of Kings Ripton were ascribed to typhus; three-fourths of the population suffered from it. The want of drainage, and bad sanitary arrangements are supposed to have produced the disease. In the sub-district of Wisbeach St. Peter the births registered were 81, the deaths 107. 51 deaths took place in the union -workhouse; 16 from measles, 18 from typhus, and 17 from other causes! This great mortality in a public institution requires in vestigation. In the eastern division the mortality was high at Sud bury, Colchester, Yarmouth, and King's Lynn, where measles and scarlatina prevailed. At Stow, 67 births were registered. The registrar observes that 20 still and pi emature births recurred during the quarter. Still births are not registered. Plymouth, remarkable for its insalubrity, is almost the only district of the south- weetern divibion in which the mortality is higher than in any previous winter quart , r. Scarlatina, typhus, and hooping• cough have continued to prevail. At Morice, in Stoke Demerol, the the oldest inhabitant of the town is said to nerve died iu her 103 d year. Such instances of longevity should never be admitted without ecrupulous inquiry; they are rarely supported by valid evidence. Scarlatina raised the mortality in Taunton, Chard, and Wellington, So mersetehire. The mortality has been high in many districts of the West Midland Divieioe. Scarlatina, measles, small-pox, typhus, hooping-cough, and bronchitis (ieflaenze?) have been prevalent, and have often terminated fatally. The mortality was low in Herefordshire, and the southern part of Shropshire. Vaccination is neglected in Shrewsbury; and several deaths from small-pox have in consequence occurred. Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Aston, and Coventry experienced a considerable mortality, The deaths in Birmingham were 1,252. In the North Midland Divisiou the mortality was low in Linceln, although scarlatina and typhus prevailed there; it was higher than it was in the previous winter in Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Chesterfield; measles and hooping-cough prevailed in many parts of those counties. The people of Stockport (in Cheshire, North-Western Division) have their children vaccinated with a most laudable regularity; and the result has been an almost complete immunity from small-pox. The registrar remarks:— " I have registered one death from small-pox—that of a child, five years of age, which had lately been brought ' over from Ireland, and had not been vaccinated. It is now more than three years since I registered a death from small-pox, out of a population of between 12,000 and 13,000, which I attribute to the appointment of public vaccinators, and the attention parents now pay to the vaccination of their children. In the same county the people of Runcorn offer an example of criminal negligence, which is a reproach to the religion which they profess and the country in which they live:— • Births, 132; deaths, 112. Small-pox has prevailed during the last 3 months; in the above number, 40deaths are from that disease, and only 3 of the deceased had been been vaccinated. There appears a great want of atten tion on the part of parents in nut taking their children to be vaccinated. I trust that stringent measures will be adopted to compel parents to have their children vac cinated. The disease has been prevailing in this district five months, and at the present time very severely. There have been 11 deaths during the last ten days. At Wigan the same negligence was observed. 139 children under 5 years of age died; and 25 were left des titute of medical advice. In Burnley 179 persons died; the cause of death was not , certified in 40 instances, and 31 had no medical attendant. Small-pox, scarlatina, measles, typhus, or influenza were prevalent in Man chester, Prescot, Ashton, and Oldham. The same zymotic diseases prevailed in many districts of York shire. The mortality was above the average in Brad ford, Leeds, and Sheffield. In the Northern Division we observe the loss of 27 lives by what it has too long been the practice to call vaguely an accident. The explosions in mines are now tolerably well understood; and with proper care and good arrangements could rarely or ever happen. Hooping cough and bronchitis (apparently influenza) have raised the mortality in Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bedlington and Morpeth have suffered from Scarlatina and typhus; more than tidy persons suffered at one time from the latter disease in the lower part of Bedlington town. The mortality in Wales was generally below the ave rage. Scarlatina and measles prevailed in Newport, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydvil, and raised the mortality. Scar latina also prevailed in districts of Pembrokeshire. Eighteen persons died of small in Holyhese, Anglesey ; only 2 had been vaccinated. Mr. Glaishr's description of the atmospheric condi• dons of the unusually mild, variable. and rainy winter, deserves atteniion. Cholera is scarcely mentioned in the registrars' notes. The registrar of Oldham recorth three deatbs from English cholera. No trace of the great epidemic is left except the diarrhea). No pains should be spared to deprive another outbreak of half its terrors by sanitary measures. If the towns were supplied with pure water, the streets and old houses drained, the. slaughter houses removed from the neigh bourhood of dwellings, the dead buried in distant places, the progresibt medical science, and well-ordered medical organirstion; would diminiih the mortality not only from chillerii,lut from all Oth er ep id em i cs. 11 : . 1 ill TH E CASE OP I fOISONING BY PARENTS AT - MANCHESTER. The adjourned inquest respecting the death of Mary Hardy, aticii' Widatigton, was held by Mr. Herford, the borough' corm*, at the Manchester Royal In firmary, on Tueiday last. It will suffice to repeat here that the deciaied was sixteen years of age, an illegitimate child; 'find lived with her mother, Ann Waddington and hei,:stepfather, James Waddington, a lamp-lighter. Aft6r her death, which took place sud denly on the 24th nit.. it was ascertained that she had taken 4 large •igiantity of arsenic, that she had had no '* medical ,assistance, while very contra dictory statements as to the nature and duration of her illness were made by her parents. The deceased was also in a burial club, from which 71. was received on the day of her death. James and Ann Wadding . ton, the parents of deceased, were at present in custody. A number of witnesses were examined in addition to these' 'previously produced, and the coroner. -went through the whole of the evidence, pointing•out how contradictory the prisoners' statements were within themselves,. as well as the great extent to which they ware contradicted by the witnesses. It would be for the jury to consider whether the evidence as to the treatment of the girl, taken together with some of the expressions said to. have been used by the prisoners, was such as to show that they felt a desire to rid themselves of the burden of her support. It was a remarkable thing that before death there was an admission that it was believed the deceased had taken arsenic v while from the time that Dr. Brown was called in there was no reference to it, until it had teen ascertained that death had resulted from arsenic. The jury, after a consultation of half-au-hour, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against both pri soners. :!The prisoners were immediately committed to take their trial at the next Liverpool assizes. TIM BELGIANS AND THE SCOTCH FISHERIES. , ... For several years back fishermen from the coast of Belgium have been in the practice of fishing off our coasts, within the three miles limit, and in many cases, especially in the west of Scottand, have entered our harbours, and taken every ad vantagt, afforded by ths':shoie,, the same as if they were British: subjects. Those privileges " thus seized upon by the Belgians excited not little jealousy among the fishing community, and the more so that the produce of our fisheries is completely excluded from the territory of Belgium. The matter was brought under the notice of the Board of Trade, but a letter from the secretary- to the Beard of Fisheries shows the conclusion that has been in the meantime arrived ItAtates:—. That the Belgian vessels claim the privi lege of ,being allowed to fish from British harbours in right of certain charters alleged to have been granted by King Charles 11., to fifty vessels of the town of Bruges, and that in coniequence of the claim put forth under these charters having called for particular inquiry, and thereby delay,d their Lordships' decision, the Belgians are to be allowed to fish', in the usual manner, for the. season of 18:4 only, but are thereafter to be restricted as foreigners, except in so far as any >of' the parties claiming under any of the , alleged chartensliball have succeeded in establishing the validity of the Wieners, and the righta,conferrei,by them, in due course of 1, w iQ, Lae courts of this, country.',T, Banffshire journal. An Englishman, Charles James Joseph Richard Halfhead, was shot near Murphy's diggings ten days since. It is•not known who did the deed, buit was evidently done for the purpose of robbing him. It ia said that the villain did not maka more than five dollars bb the operation. Half head was lorrnerly from Bedford, fleet Londou, where his friends reaide, but has been engaged in Boston as a machinist for five or six years previous to corning to California, two yearn ago.— Sacramento Transcript. ' Nr*lva roa " Poura " may,! per chance be natter of more than ephemeral interest to many ehevallers d'industrie, who hive visited' our shores to practi cally demonstrate, in their own persons, the "industry of all nations," on the hearth of John Bull;' to notify the fact, that Herr Felzenthal, the Daciel Forrester of the Viennese capital, and the vigilant M. Steiber, the police agent of Berlin, have been among the moat recent and not least im portant arrivals in London. - GUILDHALL, LONDoN.—We were glad to find that Mr. Bunning has made a commodious entr • nee to the crypt of Guildhall, so as to enable strangers to view it. 'We are, therefore, less disposed to think that A is the intention of the Corporation, as stated by some of our contemporaries, not to afford facilities to visitors for seeking such of the few anti quities as the fire of 1666, and the carelessness of later times, have left for London. This crypt was constructed at the commencement of the fifteenth century, and is a very interesting specimen of its class. It consists of three aisles, four vaults in lenth, and is in an excellent state of repair,. .Builder. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M ANSION-HOUS E. I STEALING NEWSPAPERS.-A boy named Henry Agar was brought before Alderman Hunter charged with having had a number of newspapers, which had been stolen, in his possession. Mr. Peacock, the solicitor to the Post-office, attended to watch the case on behalf of that establishment, Ile stated that the authorities of the Post office Isere anxious to show to the public that the numerous com plaints as to the miscarriage of newspapers did not arise from the negligence or misconduct of the servants. In ell probability they were, he said, caused by the want of proper care upon the part of the newsvenders, who entrusted boys with vast quantities of journals, which became thus, in consequence of the carelessness of some and the dishonesty of others, subjected to considerable diminution in the neighbourhood of the Post-office, in which they ought all to have been deposited. In the present case about Sty newspapers had been sent by a newsvender to the Post-office, in the care of a boy who by some means, lost them near the establishment; and the person in the country to whom they had been di rected, supposing that the fault of the non-delivery lay with the Post-office authorities, came to town to com plain of the injury. It was at the moment discovered that the paper:, instead of having been posted, had been partly sold in the newspaper millet opposite to the building, by the prisoner, who was no doubt in confederacy with persons of more experiuce in such matters, by which false imputations were east upon the system observed in that important department. It was thought necessary to look to all cases of the kind with great attention; and it would be seen from the evidence to be adduced that the newsvenders were bound to exercise more caution than was at all usual with the mass of them in deposit ing or causing to be deposited the newspapers they wished to put in the box. A letter had appeared in the Times of the day before from a gentleman of Shaftes bury, complaining of the non-arrival of newspapers di rected to him, and casting blame upon the Post-office; but some notion might be formed of the losses expe rienced in newspapers in other ways when he mentioned, and it could be proved by the officers in attendance, that in a grett variety of instances boys were to be seen in the vicinity of the building tearing off the directions and selling the newspapers. That the evil would be greatly abated by ob,erving the caution he suggested there could be no doubt, from the fact that an extensive newsvender who looked himself to the business of depositing the pa pers he transmitted to the letter-box did not lose one vut of 5,000. Jane Collins ' a poor woman, who se ll s f ru i t i n Li ttle Bell alley, said the prisoner called upon her and offered to sell her some newspapers at a very cheap rate. As she could not read she showed them to her son, wbo told her what they were, and that they were papers of a recent date, and she immediately gave the boy into custody, and found that he bad been getting them in a bad way. Mr. Beale, publisher, of Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, said, I have seen the prisoner in the newspaper market, near the Post-office, but do not know him. On Friday last I sent three boys with packages of newspapers to the Post-office. The pipers produced by the officer answer the de.cliption of those contained in one of the pack ages, which was addressed to Mr. Blanch, of Bath. I saw the parcel packed. It contained several numbers of the Illustrated London News, Weekly Times, Lloyd's Paper, IVews of the World, and Reynolds's Newspaper. That parcel never reached the Post -office. On Friday, in consequence of a stoppage which took place near the Post-office, the window was kept up five minutes longer than usual, and there was, I understand, a great rush in consequence of the impediment. The package in which the newspapers I have alluded to were deposited was dragged in the crowd from the boy's shoulder, and no doubt got amongst thieves. There is always at such a time a vast crowd, and it is easy for persons who pretend to be assisting extensive venders to run right through the Post-office. Mr. Joseph Jennings, newavender, said—On Friday afternoon I was in the market, opposite the Post-office, and I saw the prisoner. Ile was calling out London News, and I purchased six copies of him and paid him for them. The prisoner said that a boy had sent him to the mar ket to sell the papers, and had given him Is. 6d for per ' forming the business. The father of the prisoner said that no doubt the child had been put up to the robbery. Alderman BUNTER—I with that some of the fellows who urged this boy to dispose of the stolen papers had been brought before me. Upon them I would inflict the heaviest puuishment. I can only sentence this prisoner to 14 days' imprisonment. I think that a great deal de pends upon the caution used by the venders as to de positing their packages, and I would advise a more strict attention to that sort of regulation. I also think that the inspector of that district should exercise great vigilance when the packages of newspapers arrive at the Post-office in the evening. The prisoner was then committed to prison for 14 days. Johnson W oo d, a man GUILDHALL about 40 years of age, de scribed as a comm i ss i on traveller, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Moon, charged with obtaining goods to the value of 604 and upwards under false pre-- tences. He was also charged with illegally pawning a piece of hat plush, value about 201., the property of Mr. E. 1.1: Daviea, agent to M. Faeasler Pezzi, silk manufac turer, of Paris and Lyons. It may be in the remembrance of some of our readers that, about six or eight months ago, a person of the name of Edward Matthew Macklin was committed from this court for obtaining 600/. worth of goods of the same par ties, representing that he required them as samples to submit for inspection at the great houses of busive.s in and about London. On the examination it was shown that Macklin had been acting in concert with the pri soner, who had hitherto contrived to elude the vigilance of the authorities. Mr. Davies, in stating his case, said—l was obliged to bribe prisoner's servant, Thorned Ward, in order to enable me to take Macklin. The prisoner got out of the way at that time, and leave been on the look out fer him ever since. From information I received that prisoner was in Manchester, I went there on Wednesday last, and applied to the authorities for a warrant to apprehend him, which, however, was refused, as the offence was not committed within their jurisdiction, and I applied to this court, and a warrant having been granted, prisoner was apprehended. Prisoner said he would reserve his defence, and he was then remanded for additional particulars. MARY LEBONE. CUTTING AND W OUNDING. Yesterday William Franklin was plic!ed at the bar before Mr. Broughton for final examination, on the charge of cutting and wounding George Smith, a private in the 17th Lancers. A great deal of evidence was gone into upon a former and the present occasion, and it appeared that on the night of the 28th ult. the prosecutor, with two of his comrades, was walking along the Hampstead-road, when the prisoner called him a "swaddle," and knocked him off the footpath into the carriage -way. Some altercation and a few rounds at " fiitycuffs" took place between them, but they were speedily separated by 79 and 224 of the S division of police. Prosecutor then found that he had been stabbed, and he believed that the prisoner had committed the injury upon him with a knife, as he had seen one in his (prisoner's) hand just before the blood streamed from his forehead: He was conveyed to the London University Hospital, where be was attended to by the house surgeon, Mr. White. who described the wound. to be an incised one, an inch and a quarter in length, and cut to the bone. The said wound had evi dently been caused by some kind of instrument, and not by a fall on gravel or any stones in the road In answer to the Magistrate,the officers said that there had not been any knife found. The priscner repeated what he bad said before—viz., that he bad no knife in his possession, and. that he never carried one about him; adding, that the injury done to the prosecutor must have been occasioned by his falling in the course of the ace and fight which they had together. He was fully committed for trial on the charge of cut ting and wounding, with intent to do some grievous bo dily harm. TYE LATE CHARGE AGAINST A POLL — Adolphe Cza plantzi, a Pole, was brought up for re-examination, charged with having, by false and fraudulent represen tations, endeavoured to obtain money from Lord Leigh, 30, Portman-square. The particulars of what transpired upon previous ex aminations have already appeared in our paper. Some additional evidence was now brought forward by the Mendicity Society, but as the case was not looked upon by the magistrate to be One upon which he should be justified in convicting the 'prisoner, who was lavish in his abuse of the Polish Association, he was discharged. WESTMINSTER. Yesterday Isaac U hite, aged 10, and William Nichols, aged 13, were finally examined on a charge of stealing a 5L note of the Gloucester Bank; and Mr. William Cave, an opulent tradesman, canting on an exteusive business at 26, Rathbone.place, as toyman, with felo niously receiving the same note. The prisoner White admitted his guilt, and Nichols said White had offered another buy ls. to get the note changed. On the part of Mr. Cave it was submitted that there was nothing to show a guilty knowledge in receiving the note; he did not know the boy had not picked it up. The boy was in the habit of cowing from a wholesale manufacturer of toys, and Mr. Cave did not think for a moment he we , doing any wrong in buying it. 11, was a highly respectable man. lie had been twelve.years in his present shop. In buying a country note Cave incurred a risk that the bank might be broken, and gave sufficient value for it. Mr. littortEatP;—lt is my duty to send the case for trial. It will be for the - jury to lay whether the prisoner Cave received the note under. such circumstances would raise a fair . prelutnntion that he must have bee.,n aware it was stolen. A buy comes into a tradtaman's shop, says h 1 has picked up a note, and instead of send ing for the policeman and giving the boy into his hands, he haggles about the price, and then gives him a sovereign fora 51 note. The Solicitor applied for Mr. Cave to be admitted to bail, as he had no intention of doing wrong. Mr. BRODERIP refused, and remarked that the moral state of the prisoner's mind must be an odd one it he could not consider he was doing wrong in acting as he had done. AU the prisoners were committed for trial at the Con ral Criminal Court. The court was - thronged with the friends of the pri soner Care. mate paupers tinder his tare, woald not to prosecuted by the pßrish authorities. I, be rec.,ll: cted that at the la,t and final axemi nation Mr. Ballantinv, the counsel for the prosecution, press f d to the committal of the accused to tske his trial upon the charge of indecent atsault, which he said he felt himself bound to do in justice to the party prosecut ing and to the public. Mr. Ballantine now attended on the part of the parish, and Mr. Woetcer for the master. Mr. Combe on Monday last committed the accused for trial, bat yesterday having been appointed to take the depositions and finally conclude the proceedings, he ap peared to the bail, and took his position, as formerly, in the felons' dock, when Mr. Bal!entitle rose, and addressing Mr. Combe, said that the case against a person named John Henry Eaton had been heart for an indecent assault upon a girl named Eliza Smith, a pauper, and from time to time had occupied a considerable portion of the time and attention of the Court. At the last examination, after listening to the evidence, he (gr. Combo) asked him (Mr. Ballan tine) whether he itt ould press for the committal of the accused to take his trial. He did so, and he (Mr. Combo) committed him for trial. Since then, however, he had weighed over in his mind the statements made by the various witnesses, and had arrived at a conclusion, in which he felt no doubt the Bench would concur with him. He was of opinion that if the case was sent before a jury a conviction could not take place, and he felt it to be his duty to communicate this to him (Mr. Combo). lie then referred to the evidence of the girt Eliza Smith, in some parts of which she was contradicted by the witnesses for the defence. Mr. Bradshaw, the master of Hampstead Workhouse, and Lamb, the gate-keeper of St. Pencras Workhouse, who were respectable men, had coutra dicted the girl, and ether witnesses, especially a girl named Hurley, who was forms rly a pauper, and now a servant out of the workhouse, and not under the control of Eaton, give evidence favourable to him, and made Eliza Smith's statement inconsistent with truth. Other statements were gone into with reference to the state of the intellects of the girl Smith, and it would appear she was of weak mind, and there was a question whether it was not impregnated with a false notion against the master of the workhouse, Eaton. Under these cir cumstances he would now ask for his discherge, and he hoped it would prove satisfactory to the Court and the public. Mr. COMAE listened attentively to the Learned Gen tleman's address, and said he had felt consid,rable difficulty in the case, and after the speech of Mr. 1311- lantine he would discharge Mr. Econ, but, he added, " I purposely abstain from making any further obser vation." Mr. Eaton then bowed and left the bar, when he joined his friends, and getting into cabriolets in readi moss opposite the entrance of the court, they drove off in the direction of the workhou,e. THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN IN VAUXHALL-WALK. Yesterday Patrick Cane, John Hickey, James WElligatt, Dennis Harrington, John Fahey, William Burke, Dennis Shanahan, and Edward Shanahan, who have been in custody since Monday morning lett, on a charge of being concerned in the murder of Henry James Chaplin, a police-constable, in Vauxhall. walk, were placed at the bar of the Lambeth Police-office, before Mr. Elliott, for further examinadon; and Themes Lynor, Trate. Burke, and Edward Stelling were charged for the first time with being also engeged in the brutal murder. Mr. Games, who attended for the whole of the pri soners charged on the previous occasion, appeared for five of them on the present; and a Mr. Niele was pre sent for the others. In addition to the evidence given at the previous ex amination the following was adduced : Michael Connor said—l reside at No. 49, Vauxhall walk, and work at the London Gas Factory, Vauxhall. I know all the prisoners, and sac them on last Sunday night at a raffia at the White Lion public-house, in Vauxhall-walk. I went there at about twelve o'clock, and left in company with the prisoner, Denis Shanahan, at about half-past twelve. On our way home we mtt with two women, with whom Shanahan got into conver action, and I left them and went home and had my supper. In about a quarter of an hour after, Dennis Shanaham came in and went to bed. All the prisoners live in the saute house except M`telligate and Stelling. In about three-quarters of an hour after, Shanahan and myself went to bed. The other prisoners came in and I heard a noise both inside and outside the house. In his cross-examination, the witness said that Dennis Shanahan was quite sober, and before going to bed had folded up his clothes and put them into his box, and was as quiet as any one c tuld be. He (witness), though at the raffle at the White Lion on Sunday night, aid not see any dice, but did see some cards. To the Magistrate—All the prisoners had been drink ing, but neither of thom was out of the way when he saw them. C. Margaret Cole, the wife of Robert Cole, a labourer at the London Gas-works, said—All the prisoners, with the exception of M'Elligate and Stelling lodge at my house, 49, Vauxhall-walk. I was at the White Lion on Sunday night, but was at home and in bed long before twelve o'cl , ck. I heard the prisoner Cane come into the passage, and was awoke by his noise. I opened my hed-roon door. and saw him (Cane) in the passage with my servant Ellen Dunn, who was endeavouring to prevail on him not to go out, but he seemed de termined on doing so. I saw that he was bleeding from a wound on his face, which was covered well blood, and he said that he had been struck by a poncemen. I ad test d him not to go out, but he said he should, and did go our. I wen: into my bed-room, and in about a quar ter of an hour heard a noise in the passage which in duced me to get out of bed and go into the passage, and there saw Cane, Hickey, and Harrington, in the act of goiets into the cellar, when I tollossed to see what was the matter. I saw that Cane was cut and bleeding, and Hide y took a basin to get some water to wash it. At this moment the servant called out, and on my going up stairs I saw the police coming over the pilings, and I said I would open the door for th, m. Hickey stood at the wash-home door, and one of the policemen, on see ing him, said, **Here's one of them," and took Ilicke). He resisted, but I advised him to go, and before he got to the outer gate I saw his face streaming with blood, and that was the first blood I saw on Hickey. When be came in I saw no blood on him or Harrington. Atter taking Hickey away the pole man retuned tied took the prisoner Can in the passage. Atter Cane was taken away I went do-en into tee kitchen, and there saw the prisoner Lynor, and eked him what was the matter, and what it was all about? He said it was a bad joh, for when he was counng home he saw a man lying deaf in the street, near the Queen's Head beer-shop ; that it was a policeman, and Chet no one was near him. He said that he hal been to see two females home to Lam beth-walk, and saw the man on his way home. The prisoners Hickey, Cane, and Harrington, came home together, and when the police were taking Hickey I ssw the prisoner William Burke come down stairs in his stockings and partly undressed, and I advised him to go to bed again. In cross-examination, the witness said that it was after Cane had returned home and gone out that he and the prisoners Hickey and Harrington came home to gether. She went into the room where Themes Burke slept. but could not say she saw him in bed, nor did she recollect telling him that the police had taken Hickey. Sew Hickey before he was taken, and was quite sure he had no blood on him. The police had a great struggle with him to get him out, and she had not the least doubt that while so engaged the police struck him, and inflicted the wound on his forehead. Hickey was in the act of going with a basin to get some water to wash the face of Cane when the police rushed in and se:zed him. The witness, when pressed on the point, and after some reflection, said it was her impression and belief that she had seen Thomas Burke in his bed. Ellen Dunn, servant to the last witness, and who had been examined on the former investigation, was called, and said that the prisoner Lynor had core in some time after Hickey and Cane had been taken away, and on her asking him where he had been he said to see two girls home, and that as he was coming back he saw a policeman stretched on the side of the road, and that as he was corning by he struck him, or struck against him, she did not know which. Mr. Elliott—See if youcannot recollect, and say which it was? Witness—l think he said he kicked him when he saw him down. At the suggestion of Mr, Inspector Carter the witness was asked it the prisoner Lynor did not say that he had given the last kick; but she denied having heard him use such expressions. The witness, in reply to a ques tion also suggested by Mr. Carter, admitted that when the prisoner Cane first came home with his face cut and bleeding, he had a hat on, and this he changed for a cap , and went Out weaning the latter. The witness was ex amined and cross examined at considerable length about the periods at which the prisoner came home on the night in question, but her statement did not differ mate rially from the testimony she had given on her former examination. Police constable Puddyhatt, 98 L, deposed that about ten minutes or a quarter to one o'clock on Monday morn ing he saw the prisoners Lynn, Thomas Burke, and two women, in Vauxhall-walk, standing by a railway arc h between the White Lion public-house and N o . 49, Vauxhall-walk. As he passed them one of the, women said, " That is not the man that locked you up, is it?" and one of the men said, " Lst us. go." One of the women asked him if he should be on the beat the follow leg night, but he made them no answer, Mr. Elliott—What was the reply made to ur the first qiiesi i. , n of hie the female ? Witness -1 did nut ear it, yo Woree Police-sergeant Charles Barges Goff, 4L, said the White Lion was at the end of Vauxhall-walk, and the d i stance from i t to 49, wh ere t h e prisoner lodged, was 178 tirdstchile the distance Iron] it to where the constAle was hifirrh-red w as 663 ards ;. so teat in g oi ng from the White Lien !he) must have passed their residence by about 400 pads. Wituess, on let itig in formed of the murder on Mende) , morning, and see ing the clinkers in possession of one of the constables, examined the ['reelects and gardens of the dtffsrent houses in the neighbourhood, and found that they had beets taken from the garden of the house No. 121, Vauxhall-tvaik, a distance in the direction of the pii eoners' residence of sxactly fifty-three yards from where they hari been found, and v, hero the body of Chaplin lay. Mr. Inspector Carter sAd he had other evidence to adduce, but he did not think it prudent at the present stage of the inquiry to produce leis witness, but should request a further remand of all, except the prisoner Dennis Shaeaban, whom he believed to be perfectly in- noe , ..nt r.ny participation in the murder. Mr. Games Was glad to hear this declaration on the part of the inspector, a% be brlif v. d it to bo perfewly true; and he should, ther.fore, as hP., ivai s roan wh,. bore an unimpeavhatle. chare,,c:er, app !y for bi, imme diate discharge. Mr. Elliott consented to the reqlost, and remanded the other priaottera to a future day. BIRTHS. OF A SON. At Hill•street, Berkeley-square, the Viscountess Lewis ham, of an heir. On the 4th inst., in Eaton. Fquar e, the Viscountess Enfield. On the sth inst., at Hillersdon-house, near Cell o/4 t on , Devon, the wife et' W. C. Grant, Esq. OF A t.).A.,ouTtsia On the 4th inst., at Peckham-rye-common, the wife of Mr. R. Ramsden. On the 3d inst., at Marine-parade, Ilaatiega, the lady of Arthur Reusing on, Esq. On the Gth ins . , at the mach of St. Alphage, Greenwich, Mas„phiJ, youuges t d aughter of the late 'N. F. Barraud, Esq., of of Chatnpioh-hill, Camberwell, to Edward C. Pownall, Esq.. ot Blackheath. At St Nicholas Church, Brighton, on the 30th ult., Douglas Hay Lane, EN., lute Captain 10th L auc e•s, to Iliz,beth Middleton, onl y c h ild of the late Thomas V 6 ard, Esq., of London. 1 1 On the sth inst., in Cornwall terrace, Regent's-park, the Hon. Lady Blackwood, Widow of the late Vice-Admiral the lion. Sir fie.,ry Blackwood, Bart. and K.C.B. At Dover, on the 3d Lieutenan.-Colonel John Camp bell, late of the 9 th Regiment. On the t,th inst., in Alpha •placo Regent's-park, Thomas liarris,n, Esq., one of her Dlajcsty'ti ' Commissioners of Inland Revenue. On the tith inst., at Barton-under-\eedwood, Mary Ellen Loring, the elder daughter of the Rev. J. assliwood. M.A. On the 4th inst. at Kingston-on-Thames, James Bone, Esq. , of the Stock Exchange, aged 2S. Condon Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112 Strand, in the Precinct ox the Savoy, in the eeautl Atiddhees, Thureday,bley, s, 11 w , , CLERKEN WELL. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING.--Yesterday a most extraordinary degree of interei.t and exciiemunt w as manifested at this court, which was crowd.d t o excess by the, parish authorities of St. Pancras and other;, i:1 consEquerce of a report that the charge against John Henry Eaton, the master of St. Pancras Workhouse, for au indecent anault upon Elite Smith, one of the in. BIRTHS. 1 157,374 births were registered in the quarter ending Match 31, 1851. This is a greater number of births than was ever registered in any previous quarter; and the in crease is distributed over all the divisions of the country, although it was greatest in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire. In a few counties the births exhibit no in crease, in the majority the increase is considerable. INCREASE Or POPULATION. As 157,374 births and 105 ,456 deaths were regestered in the quarter ending March 31st, 1851. an excess is left of 51,928 living. It is the natural increase of the popu lation in three months. And as all the deaths are regis tered while all the births are not registered, the difference is lass than the actual increase. The variations in the increase of population from fluctuations in the births and deaths since 1847 have been considerable ; the excess of births over deaths was 19,704 in the winter quarter ending March, 1848, and 51,928 in the corresponding quarter of 18.51. The emigration in the quarter ending March 31st, 1851, from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are Government emigration etßeers, was 56,072. The emigrations from English ports amounted to 48,929 namely. 1,515 from Plymouth, 4,505 from London, and 42,912 from Liverpool. 2,339 emigrants sailed from Glasgow and Greenock: 4,804 from Irish, ports. It is well known that many Irish emigrants sail from Liverpool. STATE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 105,446 deaths were registered in the quarter ending March 31. This.number is less by nearly 15 000 than was registered in the corresponding quarters of 1847 and 1848; and more by 7,000 than was registered in the March quarter of 1850. Taking the increase of population into account, the mortality was slightly below the average. It was et the rate of 2'365 per cent. per annum: whereas the average rate of the quarter is 2'457 per cent. The highest rate of mortality experienced in any winter quarter since 1839 was 2 830 in the cold winter quarter of 1847; . the lowest was 2.144 in the mild winter quarter of 1846. A previous table shows that the average annual rate of mortality in winter is 2i- per cent. nearly (2.457); the mortality being above this range i„ town, and below it in country districts. The mortality in the- March quarter was somewhat lower than the average in the 117 districts, .including the chief towns; and considerably beleive the average in the 506 remaining country districts. The mortality of the towns was a fiftieth part, and of tbe country districts a twelfth part less than the average. , . The country dis tricts are therefore enjoying more than their usual im munity, while the mortality iu the town districts is scarcely reduced at all ; yet it was in the town districts that cholera' was must fatal," and according to a common theory cut off the we a kly lives in 1849. The returns show that little impression has yet been made on the mortality of towns, which have practically been left un improved. The drains, sewers, slaughter-houses, and churchyards are much the same as the were, and their effects therefore are the same. of. March. or whicht a g l 2 i u t o y asr i w t ned a re s ao highert thslast aLondron Influenza than in t was a s cor respondingepi- d d i e s T m e ahi epi demic; a and the mortality w as ) raised during the weeks . to more br 0 n t than t i s s o w ordinaryer e seasons d i rect l y is m s c u r i o b t e d f a t t o a lil t i u s t w e a r n e d many theresoufl result of l fe influenza.,6 l 2 deaths T a b s e cribed epi demic has ceased, and has been a l i g htcompared with that of 1847 . 8. Measlea and ho pg gh have be e n more, scarlatina less than usu:11 113- f - e c tI ti l - Small- ex was fatal in 275 cases, in the gr Y eater part of wh i ch P' vaccination was neglected. Diarrheas. was faial to 223 persona, dysentery to 30, cholera to 7. It is worthy .0t Dote that the winter diarrima 11119W11 no --5 uy, Od 04,.„ COAL MA fth.E*l.—l'EsTi t iwaY. . ids 84 Bate's West Hartley.. 13s 6d Cassup ..... ........ 13 gi Cares Hartley ........ 14 , 3.1 Denison ... ............... 45 3j Redhugh Main .... .. 128 6d [laugh Hall ......... 148 Od liavensvforth'sW.llart 13s 9d Howden Tanfield Moor ... ..... 12, 9d 'Senor.. ........... .... .. ... .. 45: pd Tanfield Moor Butee... 12s hd South Kelloe ............ ' 45 6,3 Howard's W.H. Neth. 14, 0.1 South Hartlepool ..... 1 0 1 13s oJ,Thornley ......... 1 4 41 9,1 Wylain . ...... 1 Wall's End, &c. ;West Hartlepool ... " 1 2, 9 , 1 Acorn Close Elm Park l3s 64:1 1 Adelaide Tees . ........ „. 9 4 Uostorth ..... Lawson Hilda ... I's Od l Maclean's Teas ........ • 135 ;t1 Morrison Walker Eden Main ...~ 15 0 Belmont l4s OdiTee:, Hatton Haswell lss 0.1 West Cornforth ...... 0 134 9 0 15. , 3 ,l l.langenniech ......... ~. gj Richmund .. .. ...... Pensher Russell's Hatton Stewart's Caradoc ..... ...... , 14. 6d Ships at market 119 ....... Sold, 68. Unsold, 51' RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. f LONDON AND NogTn.-WESTERNLwax.—ReII I ' o " Traffic for the week ending May 4:— Passengers, parcels, &c. £30,2!c3 11 1 Merchandise ... •.. 17,990 111 Cattle 97l 4 4 ' Total ... £49,214 17 4 Corresponding week last year 44,89 ,12 9 Note.—The ret urns as pu bli s h ed are exclusive 0 t tbl . rt i l traffic of the Hudd ers fi e ld C ana l and Shropshire Union, I „. I 1„4 Union, Preston and Wy re , S out h J unction, Manchester Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propo4 Lion of traffic deducted under agreement with the 1* Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for ti ll week ending May 4 ... .£18,595 5 6 Corresponding w ee k l ast year... 16,02 i 5 2 LANCASIIIRIC AND Y ORKSIIIRH R AILWAY. (260 in° open.) Traffic for week ending May 4 ..£15,332 6 7 Corresponding week in last year, (224 miles open) .. ....£12,832 5 6 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. -- Grosi traffic receipts fvr the week ending May 3 : Passengers ... Carrying account ....£10,245 4 11 ... 2,562 17 7 Total ... £12,808 2 6 Corresponding week last year... 10,160 6 7 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles 0pen9 112.).' Return of traffic for the week ending April 27 Railway and canal £5,246 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,399 0 0 Note. The abo ve i s exc l usive of the receipts availabl e tinder the agreement with the London and North-Wester° Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILwAr.--Traffie for the week ending May 4 : MAIN LINE. Passengers ... £1,254 2 3 Parcels, H. C. and D. ...• 61 17 2 Goods, cattle, & c . "'409 17 9 Mails ... 575 0 0 Total .. £2,304 17 2 MOLD. Passengers .. ••• ... £39 6 3 Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 2 7 8 Goods, cattle, &c. ~, 87 0 8 Total ••• ••• ••• £l4B 14 7 BrrEA2d-BOATS. Passengers Parcels, H. C. and D. ... £l3B 18 11 ... 15 1 2 Total £154 0 1 CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. (160 miles opened.) —Return of raffle tor the week ending April 17 : Passengers, &c. Goods, &c. ....£1,201 10 101 ... 3,852 19 9 •• £6.059 10 7* Corresponding week last year ... 5 9:37 16 2 • Including Wishaw and Coltneas, now in charge of I factor. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL. Malt 7. Srocx Excawrox.—The share market continues in a very depressed state., with prices tending downwards. The transactions reported to-day were —Bristol and Exeter, 80-- South-Eastern and Dover, 27. 1.1 V 7. STOCK EXCHANGE. The share market was quiet to•dair, without any particular feature. Quotations at the close were generally about the same as those of yesterday. The transactions were as follow • - Caledonian, 14 9-16—East Lan• cashire, 1 6%—Lancashire and York shire, 63 i/.,—Dit . to, Firths, c. dis. London and North— N o 3o l ; t ot to, di N sid e — : Quarters, 5 1 4 p.—Midland, Halves. h al. 'South- Eastern and Dover, land, 27%. MANCHESTER, MAY 7. STOCK EXCHANGT- - The market has been very inanimate to-day, and a further decline took place in prices. The transactions were as follow :—Eastern Counties, 7 1146-- Caledoni:an 444—Ditto. Preference, 6.1/I,—East Lancashire, 251., 16 1546—Lancashire, and Yorkshire, 6 2 5 i —Ditto, Pre ference, 6 per cent., 13 s.l6—London and Forth-Western , 1284—Ditto, New Quarters, 5 p. - Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 34 1 4 Ditto, New 61. Pref erence, 9-16 South Eastern and Dover, 271 A. BIRSI.IIsI(3HAM, Day 7. STOCK EXCHANGE. The market continues flat. only sales reported to-day we re — Midhuid Stock, 63—North Staffordshire, 6% dis. rADVERTISEMENT.]—IInIIowa's Pills for the Cure of Weak Stomachs and Bad Digestion.--These Pills are the finest stomachic and the n. os t i nv i gorat i ng med i c i ne ever known for weak stomachs. P ersons o f t h e must de li cate con stitntions may use soon them with th e m oa t per f ect sa f ety . A f ew dwes improve the tone of the stomach, and induce healthy digestion, by which means sufferers are restored to a state of vigorous health which they had never dared to antici pate. Hollowry's Pills are equally efficacious for bile, sink headach,s, liver complaints, and affections of the lung., and may be resorted to at any season without fear of danger arisin from catching cold whilst using them.--Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS JUNCTlON.—Yesterday his Honour Master Kindersley proceedfd with the further consi 'erotical of the list of provisional committee, expunging the names of Dr. Marsden, Mr. Addis, and ethers, for want of conclusive evidence. The ciltrt during the inquiry wan much crowded, and the brutal ereoefl a most lively een tlation through the p4ri.h of L.m l / 4 ith, ard taltleularly amo:l2st the inhabitants of that part of it whore CbaPlin did duty. At the end of the examination, the magistrate sup Bested to Mr. Inspietor Carter the propriety of the Go vernment i,ffering a reward to any person, except• t l . 3 e really guilty parties. who had witnessed the Ext, s a d who would come forward as witnetoes, so that the per' petrators of the brutal offence might be broug b; justice. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LrvaarooL, MAY 6. —The attendance her e to-dey wig pretty good. Wheat sold in retail at bareast week's wig Flour in demand, and the turn dearer.ly l Beans 6d dear. Barley and malt unchanged in value. Oats and ogtm egl good request, at a small advance. Indian corn rather dg but without change in value. LEEDS, May 6. - The arrivals of grain were moderate. Thee, wheat trade has assumed a somewhat firmer aspect, bu t PTA did not undergo any alteration. Fresh qualities of 1'1,4, were in request. Barley was steady. Beans as before. vas fetched full prices. Other articles unaltered. a NEWCASTLE C ORN M ARKET , MAY 6.--There r• e : i t fair supply of whe a t a t our mar k e t thi s morning, which selL previous prices. F actors were very firm, and in conseqg e"" little business was don e. B ar l e y remained about the sa me iata Flour moved off s l ow l y, an d former rates were ob tained• rather dearer. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MAY 6.—The 5-, - Le t cattle large, being about 250 head more than on last m ar !: a g d o ay od ; eqieuaarliatnyeveereyffegeotoedd,. de i m ,h a e nd su b p r p is ly k at drooping of sheep and lam show show to - day was much smaller as compared with last wjeui trc.de slow at former rates, and part left unsold. Beast —corresponding week last year, 1,108; she t e o p, 6, -- d ' p er corresponding week last year, 4,331. Beef, 45 stone ; mutton, 4d to hid per lb ; lambs, 8d to 9d per lb. is EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MAY 6.—There w o ere lbs• rates, anua the meal market to-day 10 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 4 . 8° 1 , imperial, which sold thus;-1 at it 115 Od and 9gt " d ou r, average price of the whole 11 105 Id 4-12015. I gack , which sold at .`ts. 4 sacks pot-barley, whereof 3 sold In t° • lat 25s 6d, lat 245, and lat 2ls Od. M•-f A 6 EDINBURGH H AY AND STRAW M A RKET, ••- • Oat straw, from 85 Od to Ifs Od per kemple of 16 sto nes tre es wheat ditto, 8s Od to 9s tid ; barley ditto, 7 g d to Hay, A oatmeal K o t m m E le lod Taill andtAoi 6ElSA.LpfebrilsirtAioennyeßm.Repa There at ': t i o bags a'Atiathrissd'ay'- ready. Oatmeal cliwn on the top 6d per bagT a a rket 9311 second quality 9d ; barleynaeal 8d per bag dearer. Oatmeal, per sack, ot IW. First ectead imperial " ••• ••• 30s Od 29s Od Barleymeal, per ditto .. ...... _18: 9 od a Odd Peasemeal Flour ... ••• Od —5 Od Pot barley ... Od I t , • T UE YOI In adcliti 'M Trull)Ai I ' s la A nt aP a E t C l i i tleAirous to p Fates t o of Wedne:c . Compaly ' • • the earnAritifn Mediate c etert ng of 183 A c Ot her adJ4 Also otbei Li tog Prised la eth P 71 „ ar he Tow, A PRE With G, and p epe 13 for the Ludlow, siderab e 'Vantage t rrinte ( the l said lane of lan : eelleitor Preeth, Robins, Ludlow 'Dint ou wllaster n•bb e CO: Valuable by Al eery, of Ricl Court. the Ci the M • T at Tw of the c lease for 1850 , at Dail for linhee hi T he Pre party I&1 M llon; o i Thomas tioneer' tAway'l ?once InT"fh the parpom af the , 1,6 b 7 Him of the Chetati Dr. B a !Lustre °Der Titty o leased entriin Ptrfor roettla The __ • Iterot. deters Port ferabl tom Th 4 prod, trac.e now from Work mow vox( ittip 941 Stier Dreg at 01 Carl tier, De • aehl ente dre ( the clef nse ind pa: art Isr k • . 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