The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

EGYPT. Aran Bev, the Prime Minister, has returned from Constantinople, and is engaged in making alterations iu the a dministration of affairs, which are in future - to be carried on in the same way as at Constantinople. f. The currency of Egypt is also to be abrogated, and . Turkish coins alone will pass in the country. The interior of the country is at present in an un satisfactory state, and many robberies and some mur ders have been committed. The Hon. Mr. Murray, our Consul-General, has returned to Cairo from the Upper Country, and pro poses visiting England in the course of the summer. Trade is slack owing to the scarcity of money. Cotton has a downward tendency. Flax is in demand. Wheat and beans neglected. Exchange on London, 96 piasters per pound sterling. MALTA. Our advices from Malta are of the 25th March. The French mail steamer, due from the Levant on the 21st inst., in coming down got on shore at the Dardanelles, and it is feared will become a wreck. Crew, mails, and groups saved. A portion of the mails was sent to Athens by the Tartarus steamer, and forwarded thence to Malta by the Spitfire. The aff iirs o Greece remain in statu quo. The Locust, with the crew of the Ardent, was to • sail immediately for England. The Odin steam-frigate had been ordered to rejoin the fleet of Sir William Parker. The Ganges, 84, was to take up stores and provisions for 5,000 men. A court-martial, under Sir James Stirling, Knight, had lately condemned Lieutenant d'Aguilar, of the irebrand steamer, to dismissal from his ship, and to • be placed at the bottom of the list of lieutenants, for • assaulting, Mr. Taprill, Second Master of the Fire brand. Lieutenant Harvey, 69th Regiment, has leave of absence to England, and was to proceed by the Pot finger, hourly expected. lIAMB UR G H. We have received Borsenhalle accounts dated linuiburgh, March 29. It being Good Friday, business was closed ; there were no exchanges quoted, and excepting London bills, which were inquired for at 13 104 for three months after date, there was little doing. In funds there was some business transacted. New Danish Fives at 91 per cent.; Threes at 69 per cent. ; and Spanish Inland Threes at 161, per cent. Itnilway Shares—llaniburgh-Berlin, at 791-; Magdeburg- Wit . tenbarg, 59 There was nothing positive respecting the state of affairs with Denmark, but from various reports people wertt inclined to anticipate a peaceable settle mPnt very shortly. Copenhagen pliers down to the 27th were likewise more confident, owing to more satisfactory communications from the Danish corn missariesat Berlin. Since the return of Mr. Harbon from Berlin to Kiel, the Diet there assembled con tinued busy on administrative affairs of local interest. In the ilamburgh colonial produce market, there was a fresh stir in coffee; the. trade, as speculators, have been very active purchasers at firmer rates: 10,000 bags were transacted. Sales of the week-21,000 bags (,f Brazil, 2,500 bags of Domingo, and 1,500 bags of Maracayho. Tile market closed yesterday with m - we buyers than sellers 4 for real ordinary Brazil. Other produce quiet. Suggrs lower. Spelter sold last at 9 12, but not much doing. Grain in better spirit, but transactions small and prices not higher. ST: rETERSBURGII, A.lAncet 22.—Tallow flatter; 106 ro. cash down, and 110 ro. with handmoney, sellers. O'bor produce quiet. Exchange on London, 33 to 38 3-16. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. EXTRAORDINARY DI3CLOSTJRES or A LIVERPOOL CLAIRVOYANTE.—There is in Liverpool another fe male clairvoyante, whose disclosures have already caused much sensation amongst a large number of in dividuals. We allude to a young woman in the ser vice of C iptain Hudson, of 5, Chesterfield-street. Captain Hudson is well known in this town as a man of religious principle, of strict integrity, and as having ben for many years connected with the Bethel Union. For so:ne time past he has felt much interest in, and paid much attention to, mesmerism, especially to its higher range of phenomena. The girl in ques tion was very poor and uneducated, and she had, moreover, an effection of the arm which prevented her from using it in the acquisition of a livelihood. This infirmity was removed, through mesmeric agency, by C 4ptain Hudson.; she was then taken into his service, and having experimented upon her, he has found her to be not only a susceptible mesmeric subject, but one who has developed to a very considerable extent the power of clairvoyance. On the 9th inst., in consequence of a request communicated to him from Lady Franklin, Captain Hudson " put the girl to sleep," as the mesmerists style the opera- Lion of throwing the patient into that state which only resembles sleep in some few of its phenomena ; and in that state the following disclosures were made as to the arctic expedition :—" Did you say," in quired the operator, " that Sir John Franklin is dead 'e" And to this and other questions the claire voyaete responded, "that cannot be, for I see him ; poor fellow ! he looks sad and wearied, and not so well as when I was last here. (The girl had pre viously been sent in search of the missing expedi tion.) He says he is poorly and tired, and almost worn out with hopes deferred, but his men console him and behave nobly. God never made a path through these desolate wastes. What could induce him to try to break through these icy mountains ? He frequently thinks of the folly of his daring to do so. Such thoughts humble him, and make him sad and hopeless, yet he thinks he will succeed in returning to England. He is right. He will return in six months, and three or feur days. The ships are at a great distance from each other. They look dirty and battered. They have no sails set. They (the sea men) are cutting the ice before them. In some places it appears as thick as two houses ; in others like moun tame. They. (the vessels) are in a different place now to what , they were. when I was last here. They are now where ships .never sailed before. They are not returning the same road they went. They are going that way (pointi ng .:,to the west). What can be the use of this road ? It oug h t never to h ave b een sailed. It will never be sailed again. He has seen some of the natives. They are wild, stupid, and un communicative. The vessels sent out to search for him (Sir John Franklin) will not find him; they will cross each. other, and he will he first heard of at a place called the Cape. It appears to have no other na me." The above were replies to question put in the presence of two highly respectable parties residing in Liverpool. The accuracy of the above report will be vouched for by Captain Hudson, so that in less than six months we shall either have to record the arrival of Sir John Franklin or the utter failure of clairvoyantes to see those unknown and distant things which they pretend to see. It will be observed that both the Bolton and the Liverpool oracle fix nearly the same period for th e re t u rn of the missing expedition. According to the f o r me r, Sir John Franklin will probably reach England in September next; whilst the latter, with a remarkable attempt at precision, fixes the 12th or 13th of September as the date of the return.—Liver pool Mercury. - FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER : DEATH OF MR. LOWNDEB.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Lowndes, Judge of the Liverpool County Court, by an unfortunate casualty whch occurred last night on the river. We learn, from the narrative of a gentleman who was present on the occasion, that shortly after ten o'clock, as the Seacombe steamer neared the Land ing-stage to land her passengers, a gentleman was observed to step towards the gangway, imagining, apparently, that the usual bar was stretched across the gap in the bulwark. Our informant, observing this, hastened forward to arrest the gentleman's pro gress, but too late. Another individual, almost at the same moment, sprang forward, with the intention ofjunap ing overboard after the unfortunate gentleman, who was t h e n being carried away by the incoming tide. Our informant grasped his coat to prevent this attempt, and for a few seconds succeeded in restraining him, but at length the cl ot h tore away in his hands, and L ow ndes' son plunged into the river in a brave, but, unhappily, futile attempt to save his father' s lif e . In tense anx i e ty prevailed on board amidst the darkness, but boats immediately put off from the Landing -stage, agd, after some time, succeeded in picking up the son. Mr. L own d es , sen., we regret to say , was lost; and so fur ;a we ean ascer tain, his bedy has not yet been re covered.. Mr. LowndeS, J ilin., we believe, was conveyed to the receiving -house, and received every attention.— Liverpool Albion of yesterday. MONEY ORD ERs .___G ENE ILAL POST-OFFICE, MARCH, 1850.—0 n Monday the Ist of Apri l . the followin g offices will be opened as Minor Money Order Offices:— Aberayron, Cardiga ns hi re; Albrighton, Shropshire; Axbridge, Somersetahire Barton-under-Needwood, Staff irdshire ; Chipping 'Sealburv, Gloucestershire ; Dedham, Essex; Debenhans, Suffolk; Darwen , Lanca shire; Dolgelly, ' ,%, Terionethshi re; Haslingden, Lanca shire ; Hinging, Norf o lk ; R aw l : b urs t, Kent ; Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire; M ar ket Bosworth, Leicestershire; Newent, Gloucestershire ; NOrthiatn, Sussex; Potton, Bedfordshire; So werby-bridge, York shire; Staindrop, Durham; Shotley-bridge, Northum berland; Ticehurat, Sussex; Wrington, Soraersetshire; Wadhurat, Sussex. Y CHIME AND SUICIDE.—An inque s t was held last week, at Devonport, before A. B. eon©, E , th of a naval pensioner, named Thomas Wedlock; who b com mittedod- suicide under very shocking circumstances. The ceased resided with his wife in a house in Mount-street, with several other families ; and on Wednesday a woman named Pearn, one of the lodgers, hearing a child cry out, proceeded to the deceased's bed-room. She knocked for admittance but was refrised, and on her threatening to break open the (loor he o , ,,cned it. A little girl, named Harriett llalls, aged twelve ; then came out, with her face dreadfully swollen and blackened, the result of tyiti.,; a towel on her mouth. The child was then examined, anil from appearances it was evi dent that the deceased had made a criminal attempt on the c hild. A policeman was sent for, but before his arrival the deceased had completely severed his windpipe with a razor, and was quite dead. The jury returned a verdict of ji!lo de se, and the deceased was buried between nine and ten o'clock, r, )1. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, April 1. CROWN SIDE. Mr. Justice Mule was sufficiently recovered to day to be able to take his seat in this court. Thomas say, 22 ; George Beden, 23; and William Clark, 23, were indicted for the manslaughter of Eli Wing. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk prosecuted for the Treasury ; Mr. Charnock defended Day and Clark ; and Mr. Woollett was for the other prisoner. This case occupied the court for several hours, but, from the confused character of the evidence, it will be much more intelligible to the public in the form of a narrative than if the testimony of the witnesses were to be given in detail. It appeared that on the night of the 24th of Fe bruary the prisoners Beden and Clark had the charge of a fcur-horse waggon belonging to a carrier at Godalming named Holden, and that they were on their way to London. A one-horse van under the charge of Holden's son, was also in their company, and it appeared that at Esher the prisoner Day, who was driving a one-horse cart, joined them, and they all proceeded on their way to London. As they were on the road towards Kingston two men, named Car ter and Dyer, got into Day's cart, and another man, named Bishop, got into the one driven by llol den, and after they had gone through Esher-gate Holden gave Beden fourpence-halfpenny to pay the Robin Hood-gate, which was the next towards Lon don. The whole of the vehicles stopped at the Fighting Cocks public-house at Kingston, where the prisoners and the other men had some beer and gin, and they set off again on their way to London about 12 o'clock at night, and almost everything that oc curred after this was left to conjecture. The unfor tunate deceased, it appeared, was the toll-collector at the Robin Hood-gate, and, according to the evidence of a person who lived in a cottage close by, about the time when the three vehicles would have arrived at the gate, the noise of a violent altercation was heard between the deceased and the parties upon the road, who refused to pay the toll, and a good deal of bad language was made use of, and shortly afterwards the carts were heard to drive off. Very soon after this had occurred a police-constable, who was on duty on the Kingston-road, and going in a direction towards the gate, met the waggon and the van coming along towards him, and shortly after they had passed be met a cart driven by the prisoner Day, going very fast, and soon after it had gone on he observed, upon going nearer to the toll-gate, the body of the deceased lying in the road. He turned him over, and he died al most immediately. Upon an examination of the body it became quite evident that death was occasioned by the deceased having been run over, several ribs being broken, the spinal column also severely injured, and the lungs la cerated, and almost instantaneous death must neces sarily have been the result of these injuries. Upon seeing what occurred, the police promptly went in pursuit of the prisoners, and succeeded in corning up with them at Wandsworth, and they were taken into custody. It appeared that some of the party were asleep at the time, and they all professed entire igno rance of anything wrong having happened. When the matter was subsequently inquired into before the magistrate, however, it appeared that Day made a statement to the effect that when he got to the turn pike•road at the Robin Howl, and pulled out his money to pay, Beden, the driver of the waggon, called out that he had paid for him, and he then said he would not pay a second time. The toll-collector re. fused to let him pass through, and a quarrel ensued, and the deceased laid hold of the horse's head, and ho plunged forward and threw him down, and the wheel went over him. These were the principal points produced in evidence against the prisoners, but there was no direct testimony to show in what manner the occurrence actually took place. Mr. CHARNOCR, at the close of the case for the prosecution, submitted that there was nothing to go to the jury against Day ; but his Lordship having ruled that the whole matter met be placed before them, the Learned Counsel proceeded to address them for both prisoners ; and he submitted that the case was so confused, and there had been such a mass of evidence produced, as rendered it utterly impossible for the jury or any one else to unravel it or to see how it effected the prisoners, and, under such cir cumstances, he called upon them not to jump at a conclusion in so serious a case, but if they were not satisfied that the charge had been duly brought home to the prisoners, they would returnt a verdict of not guilty. Mr. WOOLLETT also addressed the jury for the other prisoners, and he called their attention to the fact that the only parties who could have thrown any light upon the transaction had been, included in the charge, and as they had been left in. this doubt and difficulty, he submitted that they had no alternative but to declare by their verdict that the offence had not been proved against either of the a3cused persons. Mr. Justice Mamas summed up, and The jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Witrwick, April 1. The Right Hon. Lord Campbell, at ten o'clock this morning, took his seat on the Civil Side, and the Right Hon. Mr. Baron Parke at eleven, in the Crown Court. _ The cause list comprised 14 entries, of which three are marked for special juries. The Crown business will be heavier than usual, the calendar presenting the names of 135 prisoners, and 125 eases for trial, including 1 of manslaughter, 1 of infanticide, 9 of stabbing, cutting, and wounding, and 2 of shooting at with intent, &c., 7 of burglary and 4 of housebreaking, 1 of robbery with violence and 1 of stealing from the person, 4 of felonious assaults upon females, 2 of bestiality, 2 of conspiracy, 2 of coining, &c., 2 of armed night poaching, l of bigamy, 1 of cruelty to a child, 1 of embezzlement, 1 of ob taining goods by false pretences, and several of felo niously receiving stolen property. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, March 29. The Judges sat to-day, after divine service, and continued sitting till past eight o'clock. Mr. Keating, Q.C., also assisted in trying prisoners. No case of any particular interest arose before either Mr. Baron Platt or Mr. Keating. The following case engaged the attention of Mr. Justice Patteson from half-past one o'clock till half-past six. CROWN CO URT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) FORGERY BY WHOLESALE. Henry New, aged 32, and marked in the calendar as able to road and write imperfectly, a respectable looking sort of man, was indicted for uttering, on the 31st of March last, at Winchcombe, in Gloucester shire, to one Thomas Higgins Brydges, a forged note for 101., purporting to be a note of the Bank of England. Mr. Whateley, Q C., and Mr. Rickards conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Huddieston the defence. It was proved that the prisoner went up to Mr. Brydges at the Winchcombe fair on the aboremen tioned day, and was anxious to buy a horse which that gentleman had to sell ; but he having known the prisoner for a long time, and thinking him a very unlikely person to buy a horse, was disinclined to show off the merit-, of his animal. There was another man with the prisoner, and the latter pre teaded it was for this person he wanted him. Brydges would not sell at their offer, and rode back to his inn, and was followed by the prisoner to the stable door. The prisoner offered 6/. los. ; the prose • cutor wanted 101., but at last said if the prisoner would fetch the money, he would sell the horse at 71. The prisoner affected not to have the money, and said he would go to his principal for it, and went away about 100 yards towards the fair for the pretended purpose of getting it. The prosecutor watched him, and ob served that he went into the fair, stood for five mi nutes, spoke to no one, and then returned and pro duced a 101. note, out of which the prosecutor took his change, and gave the prisoner his balance. The latter then said that he had made nothing by the transaction, as he bought for a friend, and asked the prosecutor to treat him, and the latter did so to the extent of a shilling for ale. They parted , and the prisoner afterwards rode the horse in the fair. In a few days the prosecutor discovered that the note was a forgery, and obtained a warrant against the prisoner, but he was not arrested till last January. In order to show that he knew the note was a forgery, it was proved that on the 23d of that same month of March he passed off another note, for 51., to a Miss Bagshawe, a draper and hosier, rat Stockport in Cheshire ; a n d another 51. note on the 2fith of that month to a Mr. Woolley, a chemist, in the same town. When the officers went from Worcestershire to arrest him at Birmingham they were dogged by a brother of his, and as they came near the inn where they had learnt he was staying, he came out dressed in a smock frock, looked round, and began to run ; but they soon over took him, and under the smock frock they found a complete suit of new black. He was found Guilty, and a previous conviction for felony at the Glucester sessions was proved against him. Mr. COOKE then said that be was instructed to prosecute him for four distinct acts of uttering, w i t hi n a period of two hours, in the town of Mon mouth, four 51. notes, purporting to be notes of the Old Abergavenny and Monmouth Bank. His LORDSHIP said, under the circumstances, it would be u nnecessary to go on with these cases, and therefore sentenced him to be transported for life. It appeared that he had met with extraordinary success in passing off the forgeries of the Old Bank is this county. lie began in Abr•rgavenny, an d cir culated several there. While the coach stopped to • exchange horses at the little village of Ragland, he contrived to exchange t‘.vo of them. He reached Monmouth by that coach ,t two in the afternoon, and before eight o'cl oc k when he went off by the mail, 1 he had passed off upwards of sixteen of them at vari ous shops under pretence of buying some articlee, though all he purchased might have been bought for 11. In short, the forgeries on the Old Bank passed off by him and his fellows within a few days in this dis trict, in which the notes of this bank chiefly circu lated, exceeded 2,0001. BURGLARY. Henry Wilkins was indicted for burglary in the house of Mary Jenkins, at Usk, in this county, on the night of the 30th of October last. Mr. Barrett conducted the prosecution. It appeared from the testimony of the witnesses that the prosecutrix kept a public-house in the town of Usk, in the parlour of which was a table with a drawer containing a quantity of silver spoons, money, and other articles. Adjoining the parlour was the tap-room, where the prisoner had partaken of refresh ment on the morning preceding the night when the offence was committed. When there he had the op portunity of seeing the prosecutrix go to the table to procure change for a customer. About three o'clock in the morning of the 31st a carpenter of the name of Simeon Trotman, who was watching his timber yard, situated opposite to Mrs. Jenkins's public house, hearing a noise in an orchard next to his yard, went there and found the prisoner standing near a table with the drawer broken, and a silver spoon in his hand. A violent struggle ensued between them, in the course of which the prisoner, who was much the stronger man, dragged Trotman a considerable distance, beat him severely, endeavoured by twisting his neckcloth to choke him, and thrust into his mouth a quantity of manure, during which process, however, Trotman got the prisoner's linger between his teeth and bit it off. Trotman, at length, gallantly secured his prize. The table, with its drawer and its con tents, which the prisoner when disturbed was inspect ing, were proved by Mrs. Jenkins to have been the same that were in her parlour on the night of the 30th when she retired to bed. The prisoner cross-examined the witnesses, and addressed the jury at considerable length, but was found Guilty, and transported for 10 years. The Learned JUDGE awarded Trotman the sum of 5/. for his gallant conduct. March 30. The business of the assizes was brought to a close this afternoon. Both Judges sat till near three o'clock. Before Mr. Justice Matteson three men were tried successively on charges of rape, and each sen tenced to fifteen years' transportation. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 1. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDER.. 80N.) John Johnstone, aged 53, the actuary of the St. Helen's savings Bank, and William Johnstone, aged 42, the under-secretary of the same bank, were to-day brought up for judgment on the charge of having conspired together to retain and use the moneys of the depositors of the bank for their own profit, con trary to the Savings Bank Act, to which on Saturday they pleaded Guilty. _ _ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said there was one fact of which his Lordship ought to be informed, and which did not appear on the depositions, namely, that the younger prisoner had been in his brother's ser vice from the age of 16 until the year 1843, when the younger prisoner succeeded him at the bank as under-secretary, and all the defalcations occurred be fore that period. His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said,.it was distressing to see two persons who had borne excel lent characters, and had moved in a respectable sphere, brought up to receive the sentence of the Court for having committed a misdemeanour. He could not but regret that so many cases of the same kind of breach of duty bad recently been discovered, and which had arisen, no doubt, from the common vice of the country—the desire to acquire wealth too quickly. That inordinate desire to acquire wealth verified the Scripture saying, that "Nobody that hasteneth to be rich will be innocent." It often hap pened that the transactions which in the first instance led to frauds of this kind turned out wholly different to what was expected, and the parties were compelled in the end to do that which at the commencement they would have shrunk with horror from. His Lord ship then sentenced each to be imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for six months amongst the first class of mis demeanants. His LORDSHIP then proceeded to try several com mon jury caules of no interest. NISI PRIUS COURT. —(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.) RUMMENS V. ()EPLEY AND OTHERS. This was an action on a contract to recover back 1341. liks, paid a quantity of wine alleged to be sold on the terms that, if not approved, the price with in terest was to be returned. Mr. Atherton and Mr. Milward appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. 11. Hill for the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff is a zinc-merchant in Liverpool, and that the defendants, klessrs. Utley, Webber, and Co., are wine-merchants in London. The defendants being anxious to form a connexion for the sale of their wines in Liverpool, sent down a very active salesman from their house, named For rester, who held an auction of some of their wines which were in bond at the Albert Docks, at a public auction-room in Liverpool called the Portico, and announced to the buyers that if they were dissatisfied with the wine they bought they should have the option of returning it in three years, and should re ceive their money back, together with interest at 6 per cent. Accordingly, at one of these sales in July, 1848, the plaintiff was induced to buy several pipes and hogs heads of port wine i❑ bond at the Albert Docks, for which he paid the defendants 1341. 15s. From that time to the present the wines had remained in bond. The plaintiff; for some reason not wishing to retain the wine or to consume it, had offered to return it on the terms of the contract under which he alleged he had bought it, but the defendants refused to pay him back his money and interest as he demanded, and thereupon the present action was brought. For the defence it was contended that the sale of the wine to the plaintiff was on the ordinary terms, and without the condition the benefit of which the plaintiff claimed; but that the offer to receive back the wine and repay the money with six per cent. had relation to prior sales within three years, and was made be cause the trade had said that Messrs. Offley's wines had not turned out well and had been mismanaged. In answer to which the defendants said, " We will take back our wines and repay the price and six per cent. interest to any one who has bought wine of us during the last three years, and is dissatisfied with it." The jury found a verdict for the defendants. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAPTURE OF A BATCH OF GAMBLERS.—James JOHet., James Iteinsford, Wm. Smart, Charles .Green, Louis Laws, Wm. Johnson, Henry Doncaster, Abraham Good man, Henry Seymour, and Maurice Moss, most of whose names were assumed, were placed before Mr. Bingham charged with being found in a common gaming-house fur an unlawful purpose. Mr. Superintendent Beresford, of the C division, stated that he produced a report made by him to the commissioners, and their orders for entering the house, No. 14, Jermyn-street, signed by Mr. Mayne, one of the commissioners. Is compliance with that order, he went, about half-past one, on Sunday morning, to the house, accom panied by Inspector Lester and several constables. On arriving there he rang the bell at the front door, which was immediately opened by the defendant Jones, the door-keeper. Witness at once apprehended him and gave him in charge to a constable, and directed him to be taken away. On passing along the passage he found a door covered with green baize cloth. In this door was a small wicket, which was open, and on looking through it he saw the defendant Goodman come down stairs and run into a parlour. He then knocked ut the door, and obtaining no answer ho commenced forcing the door with tools he had for that purpose. With the exception of breaking one of the bolts, the door resisted all their efforts to break it open. At this moment some ono called out, " Wait, I will open the door," which was eventually opened. Witness then entered and found three of the defendants in the parlour, but he could not identify them. The remainder he found in a room on the first floor, sitting round a table at supper. He di rected the constables to take them into custody, and he proceeded into a back room to see if any other persona were there. On his return to the fcont room he took the names of the defendants, and sent them all to the station. He then examined the house, and found in a back room on the first door a long mahogany table. The blanket and green baize produced were lying at the end of it. He also found, lying on the stairs, a painted table-cover, which exactly fitted the table. It was torn as it is now. The blankets also cover the table com pletely, so that no noise could be heard. He examined the windows and found the front-room shutters secured by strong bolts and bars, in the back room the window was permanently closed by boards bound strongly with iron. The doors leading to the upper rooms and the roof wore all secured by iron bars. Ho did not find any gaming implements, but he found several cards with horses racing engraved upon them; some were smaller than the others, and some were cut in halves. There appeared to be the remains of paper burning on the fire. In cross-examination by Mr. Clarkson (who, with Mr. Roberts, appeared for the defendants), Mr. Beresford said the table was like a dining-table, and had nothing peculiar in its construction. The door on the first flour was open, but the others leading to the second floor were shut and secured. Mr. Clarkson then addressed the magistrate at some length for the defendants, against whom he contended there was not the least shadow of a charge. They were found at supper; no gaming implements had been brought forward, nor had any been found. ll° therefore consi- dered the case at an end, and hoped that the defendants would he at once discharged. Mr. BINGHAM said he should take until tomorrow (this day) to give his decision. In the meanwhile he would take moderate bail for the whole of the defen cantz,' appearance at three o'clock this day. Bail was immediately procured, and the defendants left the court. THAMES., Jane Kirtland, aged 39, was brought before Dlr. Yardley, charged with the wilful murder of her bus band,William Kirtland, who was better known by the name of Cutler, in which he carried on busine•Js for many years as a butcher at 153, High-street, Shadwell. The prisoner and her husband had led a very un happy life for some time past, and he had been com pelled to take out warrants against her in consequence of the violence of her disposition. The neighbours had also been frequently called to the house to settle their domestic brawls. The last quarrel, which ended fatally for the unfortunate deceased, occurred on the evening of Saturday the 23d ult., when the prisoner took up a chopper and cut her husband across the right arm, inflicting a very deep wound. Inflammation supervened, and he died on Sunday morning in the London Hospital. James Kirtland, an intelligent boy, the son of the prisoner, and who was very deeply affected, said be was present during the quarrel between his parents. His mother was the worse for liquor, and his father called her a drunken b-. At that time his father was chopping a sparerib of pork, and his mother said if his father called her by that name again she would chop him. The offensive expression was repeated, and his mother took up the chopper and struck his father across the arm with it. His father immediately ran out of the shop and came back again, and went to the doctor's to get his arm dressed. In answers to questions by the Magistrate, the lad, who sobbed loudly, said he knew his father was dead, but he had not; seen his corpse. Mr. Y A.r.nr.Er asked the prisoner if she would put any questions to her son ; and she interrogated him relating to a joint of meat sent to his aunt and re turned. He was somewhat confused as to whether the quarrel commenced before or after a calf's head had been sent to his aunt and returned. Mr. YARDLEY said the boy had made rather a mess about the affair, but he did not think the point was material to the prisoner. The prisoner said that some meat had been sent to her husband's sister, contrary to her wish, and that she accused her husband of studying his own family more than herself and her children, and that was how the quarrel began. Mr. W. Medhurst, a hairdresser said he lived in the house adjoining the late Mr. Kirtland's shop, and that the deceased came into his shop with his arm bleeding on the evening of Saturday week, and said his wife had done for him at last. His arm was then hanging powerless by his side. There bad been un happy differences between the deceased and his wife, and they had struck each other. Police-sergeant Sutherland, who had charge of the case, here said the deceased's hands were chopped as well as his arm. Mr. li. Farish, officiating house surgeon at the London Hospital, said the deceased was brought there on the night of the 23d ult., with a very deep wound on the back part of his right arm, which brought on erysipelas and death. The prisoner was asked if she had anything more to sap; and she coolly answered, " No, not at pre sent." Mr. YARDLEY.—When is the inquest to be held ? Sutherland—To-morrow, Sir. John Kirtland, the brother of the deceased, said that he saw and identified the body in the London Hospital, and knew his relative had been very seri ously wounded. Mr. YARDLEY—Let the prisoner be remanded for a week. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A great number of hands are working on the Nankin, 50 guns, at Chatham; but owing to having all the cabins and internal fittings to put up, she will not be ready before the middle of June. The barque Honor, from Ancona, has arrived at Chatham, with a cargo of timber for the dockyard. APPOINTHENT.—John S. William!, surgeon su perintendent, to the Maria Soines. MALTA, MAhen 22.—The Bulldog, steam-frigate, has left Malta for England. She will touch at Tan giers to receive on board the remainder of some beautiful animals, a present from the Emperor of Morocco to her Majesty, and which the Rosamond, it was thought, would not be able to take on board. The Odin, steam•frigate, has repaired damages, and will proceed in a few days to rejoin Sir \\ 7 m. P3r ker's fleet at the Piraeus. Her damage from getting ashore was very trifling. MARCH 26.—The French mail-steamer due from the Levant on the 21st inst., in coming down got on shore at the Dardanelles, and it is feared will become a wreck —crew, mails, and groups saved. A portion of the mails was sent to Athens by the Tartarus steamer, and forwarded thence to Malta by the Spit fire. No particulars have reached us. The Locust, with the crew of the Ardent, closed mails yesterday, for England, and will leave during the day. The Olin steam-frigate will rejoin the fleet of Sir W. Parker immediately after the arrival of the mail of the 24th inst. The Ganges, 84, has instructions to take up stores and provision for 5,000 men ; no chance exists of the return to Malta of the fleet under two or three months. The court-martial under Sir James Stirling, lint., has lately condemned Lieutenant D'Aguilar, of the Firebrand steamer, to dismissal from his ship, and to be placed at the bottom of the lists of lieutenants. His offence was assaulting Mr. Taprill, second master of the Firebrand, for interfering to save a young gen tleman from the anger of Mr. D'Aguilar. Mr. D. goes home by the Locust. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL I.—The Sharpshooter, iron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander J. C. Bailey, went out of harbour this afternoon to Spitbead, shipped her letters, &c., for Commodore Martin's squadron, and sailed this evening for the Mediterra nean station. A rumour is very current here to-day that Sir Francis Baring, M.P. for the borough, and First Lord of the Admiralty, is about to resign the latter office and be succeeded by Sir James Graham. We give the report only as we have received it. The Sprightly steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen, proceeded to Southampton to-day to embark convicts to transfer to the Blenheim convict-ship, lying in Cowes Roads. The Orestes merchant barque passed the Wight this morning from Bombay and Ascension, and sent on mails and passengers. She sailed from Bombay on the 16th of November, and put in at Ascension on the 7th of February. The Tortoise store and guard-ship, Captain Hutton, was the only man-of-war at th e l a tt er island, where provisions were very scarce, as were vegetables. She made the Western Islands on the 6th of March. PLYMOUTLT, MAncu 30.—The Lily, Commander Bedford, arrived from Portsmouth on Thursday. bier crew are to be paid advance here, and she will pro. bably sail on the 2d of April for the East Indies and China, taking the mails to the coast of Africa. A considerable fleet of wind-bound merchant vessels are in the Sound. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The Assistance, Captain Erasmus Ommaney, was taken out of Messrs. Wigram's shipbuilding yard to day, being now in an advanced state. The workmen have commenced replacing the engines of the Pioneer, and she will soon be ready. A quantity of coals, about thirty tons to each, have been put on board the Resolute and the Assistance at Black wall, as the best article for stowing the hold with under the water. tanks. Captain Penny's expedition is in an advanced state, and will be ready to sail on the 15th inst., according to letters received from him in town. SCURVY ON BOARD OF TEMPERANCE ___ VESSELS. Sir,—l am desirous of giving publicity to the fact that during the past twelve months, I have had oceasion to rest more cases amongst the crews of English ships visiting this port than during any of the preceding five years I have conducted the medical duties of the station. Scurvy is almost exclusively confined to vessels coal laden from England, and, as you are well aware, several ships have almost been disabled by it, from both officers and men suffering. The worst cases seem invariably in such vessels as do not allow a ration of spirits. I would, therefore, most earnestly suggest to char terers and owners of vessels the propriety of allowing a portion of spirits daily, and that the quality o f t h e provisions supplied t ) th e s hip be strictly attended to ; also that cleanliness of person and clothes be strictly enforced. I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) J. A. VAUGIIAN. To Captain 5.13. Haines, Political Agent, Aden. Naval Department, Aden, Feb. 26, 1850. Sir,—l take the liberty of enclosing the copy of a letter from Dr. Vaughan, who has medical charge of the Naval Hospital at Aden. Since the letter was written, two more ships under temperance rules have entered this port with their crews suffering from scurvy. I have the honour to be, &e., (Signed) S. 13. lIAINEs, Capt. 1.N., and Political Agent. To Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary, Lloyds. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.— Yesterday afternoon a general meeting of the governors of this charity, established in 1818, for afording relief to de cayed tradesmen and mechanics over sixty years of age, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing four additional pensioners from a list of thirty-one candidates; Luke Hansard, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that the society was at present affording relief to thirty-three men and twenty-five women, making fifty-eight aged persons who are receiving pecuniary assistance, the men 275. and the women 18s. per month. The income of the charity for 1849, from all sources, including a balance in hand of 167/. 7s. id., amounted to 2,120/. 3s. 9d., while the expenditure for the same period had fallen short of that amount by 4511.85. Id., which remained as a balance in favour of the society. This report was received and adopted, and the meeting proceeded to the election of four candidates, two men and two women; at the conclusion of which the meeting separated, with a vote of thanks to the chairman. CITY BOARD OF HEALTH. The following report of the Committee of Health upon Mr. Simon's report was at the last court ordered to be printed and circulated : "To the Honourable Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London. " We, whose names are hereunto set, your Com mittee upon Health, to whom on the 21st of November, it was referred to consider the report of the medical officer of health presented to your court on the 6th day of November last, and to report our opinion as to the course to be adopted thereupon, and especially with reference to those matters recommended therein, which do not come within the powers of the commis sioners to carry into execution, do certify that we have from time to time met together and have been attended by the medical officer of health, and having attentively considered the various sections of the said report in the order in which Mr. Simon has treated them, we beg to report upon them in the same order, as follows : " HOUSE DRAINAGE. " Ist. As respects the question of house drainage, we beg to say that we are fully impressed with the great importance of this branch of the works in con nexion with sanitary operations ; an importance which your court has also recognised for several years past in the most decided manner, as may be estimated by the large amount of sewerage which has been constructed within the city of London, in order to facilitate the extension and improvement of domestic drainage, and especially since the passing of the new Act of Parliament, by the application of the powers which the Act confers to enforce the drainage of houses, and the supply of water for do mestic and sanitary purposes, in connexion therewith. In furtherance of these views, we have endeavoured to ascertain, as near to the tact as possible, the number of houses within this city which are not drained. There are considerable difficulties in getting at this information, from the very complicated nature of the private drainage of various estates and premises, the work of successive generations of owners and occu piers. IVe directed your surveyor to inquire into and report to us, which he did as follows : " Gentlemen,—ln pursuance of your instructions I beg to report approximately as to the number of houses within the city of London that are drained. " The number of houses and premises within the City is assumed at 16,300. " The number of outlets of private or service drains, which stand recorded upon the hooks of this commis sion, as entering the public sewers, up to the 31st De cember, 1848, is 6,814. " This would appear to give 9,486 houses as un drained at that period ; such, however, is not the case, and for the following reason : " Although many houses have each a distinct and separate drainage, yet such separate drainage is by no means universal. In many instances one drain serves the purposes of two, three, or more houses. In other instances courts of six or eight houses collect their separate drains into one main drain, which ultimately connects with the public sewer, and which is recorded in your books but as one drain only. Again, a large portion of the premises south of Thames-street is known to be drained into the river, and are therefore not entered upon your books as entering the sewers at all. " ' I think, therefore, that the number of houses drained up to the 31st of December, 1848, may. be assumed as follows : The number of drains or outlets connecting with the sewers was And the number of premises known by the inspector of sewers to be drained by them ••,.••• Adding to this the houses assigned to . be drained into the Thames, or otherwise, in manner before stated It leaves as the number of houses drained 7,986 1,500 upon the 31st of December, 1848 ..... 9,486 And the number of houses undrained at 6,814 And as the number of houses drained during the present year (1849) is about The, total number of premises drained within the city of London at the present time may be taken at . Leaving of houses undrained " ' This will not give the number of cesspools which have periodically to be emptied, which at present may be assumed to exist within the city, as in a very large number oF cases one cesspool serves for two houses, and oftentimes for more, and in the poorer courts, where there is a public privy, one cesspool only most frequently exists. " think that I may safely deduct from the 5,914 houses undr&ined 500, and that 5,414 may be taken as a fair approximation of the number of cesspools at present in existence within the city of London. " The number, however, can only be accurately determined at the termination of the inspector's ex amination of the houses. " ' In this number of cesspools, also, I do not in clude those existing upon premises having overflow drains into the sewers. " This mode of construction was formerly very common, although not so much during later yearn, and entirely introduced since you have had control over internal works. The number of such cesspools, I think, can never be accurately ascertained but by breaking open the drains of those premises that are suspected of having such cesspools—a work which ap pears to me almost superfluous, excepting in special cases, such as complaint of effluvium, &c.; for most of such constructions are in the better class of houses, where they are securely domed over, where the conve niences are securely trapped, and where for the most part they have water-closets and other appliances likely to pre►ent inconvenience from them. Besides which, most of them having now been in use some years, and it being more than probable that at the date of the construction of the drain they would, I apprehend, upon examination, be generally found to be filled with almost solid residual matter—so solid that they virtually cease to retain any additional sullage which now may be delivered into them. "' It is proper, before I conclude, that I should state the reason why the number of houses within the city drained cannot be more accurately determined. Until the commencement of the present year, the officers of this commission had no power to enter premises for inspection, nor had the commission power to direct the internal drainage of buildings; but their functions were exclusively confined to the sewers and such portions of the drains as lay under the public thoroughfares. " When, therefore, a person applied for a drain to a particular house, the drain was constructed up to the front of such house, as required by the applicant, and was so registered in your books ; but as to where the applicant led the drain within his own premises, how he constructed it, what other drainage he con ducted it to, your officers, having no power to con trol or to supervise, could not take account thereof; and of such drainage the commission therefore have no record. " 'For the same reason this commission cannot be held accountable for the prevalence of so defective a system as that of leaving unemptied cesspools upon premises with drains constructed beneath them. - (Signed) " WILLIAMi HAYWOOD, Surveyor.' "We recommend that your Honourable Court should persevere in calling upon the owners and oc cupiers of property to effect these necessary works with the least possible delay ; but more especially in those neighbourhoods which are exclusively or mainly inhabited by the poor. " THE DISCHARGE Or THE PUBLIC SEWERS. "In reference to the remarks of Mr. Simon, in connexion with this subject, upon the propriety of in tercepting the contents of the public sewers before they reach the Thames ; and, upon his suggestion, that while the various plans for effecting this great object are under consideration, the existing nuisance caused by the overflow of the drainage on the banks of the river, at low water, should be got rid of by the construction of culverts, so as to convey the sewer water to beyond low water mark— we beg to draw attention to the experiment making by Mr. Moffatt, with your sanction, at the mouth of the sewer in Puddle-dock, which, if successful, as we trust it will be, may prove the first step towards effecting an object which all must desire—the purifi cation of the river Thames, and the systematic adaptation of the sewage manure to agricultural im provement. Meanwhile, we have conferred with the committee for navigation of the river upon the sub ject of the proposed culverts to the sewers, and they have stated their willingness to co-operate with your honourable court in reporting to the Court of Com mon Council upon the advisability of such a system. Though pending the general inquiry now going on in the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers upon the system of drainage for the whole metropolis, and the question of outfall for the same, we recommend your honourable court not to take any steps therein, but to await the result of that inquiry, which will proba bly not be very distant. " PUBLIC NUISANCES. " In reference to the public docks mentioned as a source of nuisance to their neighbourhood, we find that they were formed under the provisions of Acts of Parliament of a very distant period, and that it is not in your power, as Commissioners of Sewers, to effect more in connexion with them than to remove all im pediments to the sewage that may drain through them, and to enforce the periodical cleaning of them by the proper authorities—namely, the City Lands Committee, as the representatives of owners—the Mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London. These public docks are three in number—Puddle-dock, Whitefriars-dock, and Dowgate-dock ; and we are of opinion that that committee should be requested to exercise a vigilant control over them, so as to pre vent them from being made a nuisance and injury ; and we recommend that your honourable court should suggest to the Corporation to obt4iin a!Itl-ioriv to 'ill up these docks, leaving the river frontaga to 1.).2 as public wharves, as in a sanitary point of view they are extremely objectionable. " THE TRAPPING OF GULLIES AND VENTILATION OF SEWERS. " In reference to the recommendation of the adop tion of a more perfect system of trapping the street gullies, we draw the attention of your honourable court to the circumstance that there does not exist within your jurisdiction a single gully which is un trapped, and also that the trapping of street gullies as a system was first adopted by this commission about seventeen years ago ; and although the example was followed to some extent by the then existing Metro politan Commissioners of Sewers, yet we believe we are correct in stating that the city still presents the only metropolitan area throughout which the gullies are uniformly trapped ; and that you have been fully aware of the necessity of perfecting the system is evinced by giving a fair trial to all such traps as have been from time to time submitted to you, and have appeared to possess sufficient merit to justify their being put to a practical test. " With regard to the present mode of ventilation of sewers, we admit, as indeed it has always been ad mitted by your honourable court, that the system is defective ; but we believe that it is, nevertheless, the best which has been hitherto devised. The ventila tion of sewers is a subject of much difficulty, and, perhaps, a perfect system may be only attainable at a very large outlay, and a considerable future annual charge ; but we have reason to think that the in creased care and attention given of late years to the cleanliness of the sewer/ has very much diminished the escape of effluvium from the ventilating shafts. This mode of ventilation was likewise first adopted by your honourable court about fourteen years ago, and it was rapidly followed through•• out the whole metropolis. It is still, we believe, the only mode adopted for the ventilation of sewers; and we fully concur in opinion that a more perfect system of ventilation and trapping is highly to be desired. " WATER SUPPLY. " In reference to the very important question of water supply, which forms the subject of the second section of Mr. Simon's report, we have been in com munication with the New River Company, who, as you are aware, supply almost ell the city of London with water, and also with the East London Company, who supply a very small portion of the easternmost part of the city. We have had a return made from them, severa►ly, of the nature and extent of that sup ply. [Here follows an account of the quantity sup plied by each company, and the manner of supply.] We also directed the surveyor and the medical officer of health to report to us their opinion as to what would be a sufficient supply of water to the houses and premises within this city, and the best principle upon which to effect such supply; and having atten tively considered the question, we agreed to the fol lowing resolutions, which we directed the clerk to transmit to Mr. Nylne, the engineer of the New River Company : " That the quantity of water daily supplied to the city being, upon an average, for ad purposes of con sumption, 25 gallons, and for domestic supply 21k gallons, is sufficient per head per diem, with the pre sent usages of water if properly economised ; but the water companies should be bound to supply 30 gal lons per head per diem, should the anticipated pro spective fair increase of consumption take place. " That it is desirable that a supply, at a pressure sufficient to deliver water at the tops of all the houses, should be given uniformly throughout the city of London. " That application be made to the New River Company for the trial of the system of constant sup ply, at high pressure, upon a particular district within the City of' London, for a given period, in order to determine accurately what are the effects of its intro duction as regards waste, and what benefits may practically be derived from it, and that the details of its execution should be carried out under the joint superintenee of the surveyor and medical officer of health.' " We were subsequently attended by Mr. Mylne, who expressed his opinion that the New River Com pany cannot at the present time afford the quantity off watt r necessary to make an experiment of the con stant supply at high pressure to such a district of the city as we proposed, as he anticipates the waste would be so great that with the dry season approach ing the company would not be able to give the neces sary supply to other districts. But he stated that in the month of November next there would be no dif ficulty in rendering the necessary supply for such ex periment. Mr. Mylne informed us that the New River Company had last year tried this experiment in a district north of the Regent's Canal, consisting of three thousand houses, and had found such result to fullow. Mr. Mylne suggested, by way of meeting the difficulties at present experienced in affording the needful supply of pure water to the houses of the poor situate in tbe courts and alleys where a com mon cock is now only fixed, that capacious iron tanks should be erected in the open court, at a height of about ten feet from the ground, and covered to avoid pollution of the contents, so as to be accessible only to the officers of :the company. He proposed that pipes should then be carried through the houses on the ground floor, so that all might have access to a supply thus to be drawn off by spring taps within their houses, and he engaged that, if erected, the tanks should be kept constantly filled. Mr. Mylne expressed to us an opinion that the company might be induced to erect such tanks at their own cost, when required, if your Court would use its power to compel the owners of the property to pay for the supply of water; and, to obviate the objection of the water being thereby polluted, it should be a part of this system that no pipes should be allowed to take water from these tanks for the flushing of privies, but for that purpose water should be laid on from another source. Mr. Mylne further intimated to us that if the three days a week high supply at present given to the city be deemed insuf ficient, a further high service might be afforded du ring three nights in the week, or alternate nights, in accomplishing which no alteration of the time of supply during the day would be made, nor wou ld it require any additional machinery or pipes ; and he also stated that if the New River Comp an y succee d in passing their Bill now in Parliament, they will be enabled to supply to the city of London and their other districts one-fourth more water than at pre sent, which will exceed the quantity recommen d e d i n the before-mentioned resoluti on as proper to b e sup plied to the inhabitants of this city. " We having heard Mr. Mylne to this effect, he in timated his desire to report to the directors of the New River Company the result of our conference, and signified that they would no doubt communicate in writing their reply to our resolutions, and we therefore adjourned the consideration of the mat ter. It our next meeting we received the following letter : " New River Office, March 14, 1850. " Sir,—l am instructed by the directors of the New River Company to state that, in compliance with the request of the Committee of Health of the Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London, as expressed in their letter and resolutions of the Ist instant, addressed to Mr. Mylne, the company's engi neer, they instructed Mr. Mylne to attend the meeting of the committee on Monday la s t, an d th e y h o p e d that the information which he has given in reference to those resolutions, and the additional inquiries then made, had been satisfactory. " If, however, the Committee of Health are de sirous of any further information on any points, and would transmit their wishes in writing to this com pony, the directors will give them their earliest con sideration. " The directors regret that their engineer, being engaged with one of the engineers of the Metropo litan Sanitary Commission, appointed by the Go vernment, in the inspection of the works of the New River Company (which will occupy the whole day), will be unable to attend the meeting of the Commis sioners of Health to-morrow. " FREDERICK STAPLES, Clerk. " Joseph Daw, Esq.' " We very much regret this unsatisfactory issue of our inquiries with the New River Company, so dif ferent from that which our interviews with Mr. Mylne had led us to hope ; but as Mr. Mylne dis tinctly informed us they cannot for some months make the experiment we have desired, and as the New River Company had also before stated their in ability to render a high-service supply to the city of London generally, we think it most expedient to ter minate our proceedings therein, and no longer delay our report. We therefore recommend to your Honourable Court to adopt as a principle for water supply to the city of London our two first resolu tions already recited. " OFFENSIVE TRADES . " In reference to the 3:1 section of the report, which treats of offensive and injurious trades, we beg to re mind your Honourable Court that upon your attempt ing to put in force the powers of your Act of Parlia ment in reference thereto, it was found that consider able difficulties were opposed to your efforts. Suffi cient powers are not given by the City of London Sewers Act to meet some of the cases we allude to, while other legal and technical objections presented themselves to the enforcement of the powers in ques tion. In reference to slaughter-houses, and snore particularly to under-ground slaughtering, the proceedings which the Court have taken to obtain the opinions of high legal authority on your power to suppress the sane', in connexion with your other pro ceedings to which we have alluded, are evidence of the desire felt by the Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London to carry out these provisions. And we beg to report that, after considering all these va rious points, we think it very desirable that means should be ta\ten to remove the sanitary evils which belong to intramural slaughtering and other offensive trades, and to pint out to you the necessity, when the question of renewing your Act shali come into consaicration, of acquring additional oiwer:, may enable you effectually to remedy those evils. 1 ' INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS. "In taking lip the matters referred to in the 4th section, we agree unanimously to report to your ho nountble court, that in our judgment all intramural interments within grave-yards or within vaults should be discontinued, an opinion in which your past pro c(sedings have materially- proved that you concur. 'We would add that it is right that attention be called to the necessity of having one uniform law in this re spect throughout the metropolis, otherwise the evils resulting from such interments would only be removed from one locality to another. As we find the atten tion of Government and the Legislature is called to this matter, we do not think it necessary that your honourable court should at present take any further steps therein. " STATE OF TAR DWELLINGS OF TUE POOR. " Upon the vast and difficult questions referred to in the sth section of Mr. Simon's report, we feel that we are to some extent spared the necessity of entering, the Court of Common Council having (as it belongs to them in reference to this city) taken up the ques tions connected with the filthy and bad conditions Of the houses of the poor in many of the confined courts and alleys of London, and the best means of remedying the alarming evils that result there from. We feel it due to Mr. Simon to add from the result of personal investigation, that the staten tents contained in his report under this section are not ex aggerated. The very filthy habits of some of the lowest portions of the community, which we have had opportunities of witnessing, are such that it beca mes an exceedingly difficult question to deal with th em. Already, under your directions, in many of th ese localities various works have been effected, calculated to improve materially the condition and to increase the comforts of the inhabitants ' • and yet ex perience has shown that th e y h ave b een far from an preciating these improvements. We do not mean t ay that this is so in all cases ; and we can only h , pa that the Court of Common . Council will not cease from their efforts to improve the conditions of the localities in question, by widening the avenues and admitting more freely the light and air to these hon los of poverty. The erection of lodging-houses for the pour upon an improved plan, of public baths and or wash-houses, are among the questions of serious portance connected with this subject. But however desirable it may be deemed that these propositions should be carried ont, yet we do not consider that that they come within the objects for which the rates under your authority are raised. We cannot pass the subject, however, without recording our opinion that the operation of the window-tax is directly opposed to the sanitary interests of the population of the city, and that its continuance must in a great de gree neutralize the effect of those exertions which your honourable court is making for the purpoies of sanitary improvement. We find that it affords in ducements to the construction of houses with de f ective supply of light and air, that it opposes great obstacles to the improvement of such houses as have already been constructed on a faulty principle, and that these circumstances tend to aggravate the fre quency and malignity of epidemic diseases, and to in crease the mortality of the population. " CARRYING OUT OF A SANITARY SYSTEM. " We have taken into consideration the various s ug gestions which have been made by the medical ()Dicer of health, for the more effectually obtaining that extent of information necessary far the duly carrying out of a system of a sanitary improvement within thts city. We consider it is quite indispensable that any committee on health which may be appointed should receive the largest and most accurate returns that can 12e procured of all sickness occurring among the poorer classes, and particularly in respect of all epidemic, endemic, and infectious disorders. That the medical practitioner who communicates the fact of illness should likewise report the existence of any local causes, or other influences of general operation, which have tended to produce, or are tend ing to continue such Mons; and having duly weighed the various considerations connected with this subject, and your past proceedings therein, and believing that it would not be judicious to appoint eleven medical officers, or any additional medical: staff to be attached to your court, but at the same time deeming it necessary that the information asked, for in Mr. Simon's report should be obtained, we re commend that your honourable court empower Mr:. Simon to obtain such information at an aggregat.e annual expense not to exceed 2501. "We have also taken into consideration the Ist suggestion in Mr. Simon's report (page 71)—' That an account should be kept, corrected year by year, of every house in the city, as to the area of the build ings, the number of floors, rooms, and windows—as to its ventilation, drainage, water supply, and other facilities for cleanliness—as to its method of occupa tion, and number of inhabitants, And having had a report from your surveyor upon the matter laid before us, we are of opinion that it is desirable to have in formation in the form prepared under the direction of the surveyor, and that such additional assistance be obtained for that purpose as may be necessary. "We have thus endeavoured to give to the leading points contained in Mr., Simon's report our best consideration, and to offer our opinions to your honourable court as to the course to be pursued in reference to them. " The question of the sanitary condition of the city of London is one in which not merely its in habitants, but the whole metropolis are interested, and we have regarded it in that light, while con sidering the details of the work requisite to carry out a system of improvement therein, which has been suggested to us. " The question of applying to Parliament for a renewal of your Act must occupy your attention at the close of the present session ' • and as the provi s io n s of the Act, in connexion with some of the subjects on which we have reported, will need to be amended, enlarged, and modified in various ways, as the past year's experience has shown, we feel it right to draw the attention of your honourable court to the impor tance of taking early steps to carry into effect the suggestions we have ventured to make, either by re porting to the Court of Common Council, to invite their concurrence in the work of sanitary improve ments, or otherwise as may seem to you best. "All which we submit to the judgment of your honourable court." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Amt. 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market has been dull to day-, and the amount of business done was very limited, but prices are almost stationary. The transactions were as follow :—London and North-Western, 105 c. Ditto, New Quarters, I3s. 9d.—Ditto, Fifths, ls. 3d.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol., 34—Ditto, Fifths, 10% dis.—Man cheater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 6% —North Union (A), 235—Midland, 38% c--Ditto Halves, 261. ls. 3d. —York. Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension, Nos. 1 and 2), 12 dis. MANCHESTER, Arlin, 1. STOCK EXCHASIGE.—The market was very dull to-dap and prices were much lower. The transactions were as fol.. low :—Eastern Counties (Perpet. 5 per cent. No. 2). VA—Lancashire and Yorkshire Fifths, 10% die. —Ditto (Preston and Wyre), 41 1 ,1—London and North-Western. 104 N —Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters. c. p—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 1234-- Ditto, Preference 6 7 4 —SOUth-Eastern and Dover, 14%...-• Ditto, Thirds (No. 4), 4 5 ,4—Ditto ' Scrip, 474. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transactions to-day were-- Birini ngham,Wolv erhampton, and Stour Valley,3%—Shrews: bury and Birmingham (A), B:r i dis.—Ditto, Preference, 9% —South Staffordshire, 4E /5 dis. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A. certified Cure of Scrofula by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—The following certifleat• from Mr- Alcorn, of Jerry's Plains, New South Wales, wan forwarded to Professor Holloway by Mr. Pinkey, chemist, of the same place. " This is to certify that my daughter, aged seven years, was afflicted with scrofula for three years, and that, after she had been attended by several respectable practitioeerse without success, I was induced to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which remedies in about three months completely cured her, and she is now in the best of health. This can be verified by various persons in this vicinity, where I have resided for twenty-two years. ( Signed) R. Alcorn. Jan. I, 1849." Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish ment, 244. Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., at Kilburn -cottage, Kilburn, Mrs. Thomsl Earwaker, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Stamford-hill, Mrs. F. W. Brind, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., Mrs. William Manby, of Wolverhamr ton, of a son. On the 28th ult., the wife of the Rev. Dr. Welldon, mastvt of Tunbridge School, of a son. On the 30th ult., in Old Bond-street, the wife of Liewt-' Colonel Blake, 33d Regiment, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., in St. Mary's-road, Canonbury, Mrs. E•. C. Dermer, of a daughter. On the 25th of January last, at Colombo, Ceylon, the -ifife of the Rev. J. D. Palm, of a son. MARRIED. At Kendal, on the 26th ult., John Charles, third rson of T. Litchfield, Esq., of Twickenham, to Agnes, eldest (laugh" ter of W. Bainbridge, Esq., of Newlands, Kendal, West moreland. - On the 28th ult., at St. George's, Ramsgate, John, third son of the late Mr. T. Turner, of Wingham, Kent, to Sarah Ann, second daughter of Mr. C. Drayson, of Fevershaltio Kent. Also, John William, son of the late Mr. W. Bellaalt of East-hill, Wandsworth, to Charlotte Ellen, fourth (laugh ter of Mr. C. Drayson, of Faversham. On the 28th ult., at Christ Church, St. Pancras, Mr. A. Garrod, of Albert-street, Regent's-park, to Charlotte Eliza beth, only daughter of the late Charles Bern, Esq., of Tiver ton, Devon. . DIED. On the 26th ult., at Gravesend, Mr. Thomas Stanley, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, aged 36. At Michell-hill, Truro, Cornwall, on the 26th ult., ADO , the wife of R. Michell, Esq.. aged 90. On the 27th ult , at Springfield, Wandsworth common , Jane, wife of Dr. H. W. Diamond. On the 28th ult., at Claremont Cottages,Emily Frances, the wife of Hr. H. Franks, aged 21. On the 28th ult., in Bolton-street, Piccadilly, Edmund 0 . Bartrum, Esq. At Bath. on the 2,nh ult., Mary, eldest daughter of J. T. O'Brien, Esq. On the 29th ult., in Claremont-place, Brixton, Mr. John Partridge, of Chancery-lane, aged n. On the 31st ult., in Alfred-place., Mr. B. Watkins. . . • Ptiritcyl iuir3 ikilJR.O() yOU - f NI-vc, , v. ii 2, Printer, 41t, The Sza Office, Nx strand, in thes Precittat .1 the s'ffivoy, in the celua , ddlesex : Tueslay, April 2, 1850. k •. ►. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1850. Thl Car Cha The Gec are D. x dep oth, sttri the; stall lam in a seen rase IN sr with tithe intuit of iil ()nth es;i 11 , Th dire Thir the eithe Tear clety their 'who] for t cent. Tear INS' n be t ex pi i or at maw 147, price 4nrsl .Fore Trip Rost vote the !, bitt4l latio Of th lieen illid