The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-27 00:00:00

i. t 1, 0 rtl ee .n . 1 1•1 001 16 • t 5 •• 8 6 ::3 116 • 8 65 e. I t/ o/ IP .• !,31i •• •39/4 •• 7, ': 101 " It! 9 16 ...J o , lb 1113/ 1 ". TO $0 IV' $O O „ 6 11 ho '; 4/ 2 .1 90 16 1 0 2 , gO' opt ffSi • F or' to i he ch, th e ion b. !hd r e (.11 t ) e in 01 0 , i to to . 0 0 .00 1 reo ; o r I'4 0 3j • . JP" entered, nd not receipted as payments until February of the Present year.—(Hear, hear.) He was anxious to "certain the effect of ,the new Poor-law Bill, and to infilie the expenses of the first year under its opera "on with their former heavy payments under the old S e e n?, and to his surprise, he found in the first year h eir rates were reduced one-half.—(Hear, hear.) Now, Y would recollect that the complaint agiinst a union c several pari s h es was that the poorer parishes would en ' t ail a heavier expense upon the richer parishes in the 4'lle Union,. and they naturally enough expected that pith would su ff e r hem ily when in co partnership. shvith Whitechapel, but even with that drawback they t .:„ "i i ,laveitiUlarly one-half a year in poor -rates, and it 14 " 1 1..n0t be said that this reduction arose from superior i,,O,itlement because the same gentleman who managed iltne runner Case was also chairman of the poor-law union. 1.7 the then referred to the letting of the houses in parish and cited some instances where the rental st'a very low valuation, and that not in every case ° regularly. If the meeting were satisfied that Mr. r _ et( and himself had done their duty, they would be (3' ' fl 11 , 1 1)1)y to allow themselves to be re-elected, and he bf ` Might) had no doubt that ultimately the cause ;„ Tab and of justice wou:d triumph. He would re in, then what he had stated formerly, that whatever 1,7 44 were w an t e d over that contributed by the parish ;net's; he should be harry to advance, without seeking . TIY interest for it. ,9n the motion of Mr. CUNLIFFE, 34 . Rock and Mr. Flight were re-elected Church srdens f ur the c nsuing year. ~ ,1-;t1 the moti o n of Mr. FLIGHT. 'lr.--lienre Rock and Mr. Williams were elected over fo year. r the t nsuing „ CROSBY, the vestry. clerk, then detailed the law 6ce edings between the pasi,hioners and Mr. Gibbs. e Y bad not been able, in consequence of the impedi ments thrownin the'r way, to gt t on so rapidly as they h"ldwish, but he had no doubt that in the next term ec ould - give more satisfactory intelligence. CnoLy then, in a length , med and eff !cave speech, k erted to the position of atiltirs, but the Lets of it an P, bodied in the statement by Mr. Flight. ti l j,lter some further discussion the meeting adjourned "le fith of May. 1 11.ADES' DELEGATES 11CON FERENCE.—(THISa DAY.) is a welerates assembled at half - pa t nine this morn a•at the Parthenium Club Rooms, and proceeded to ira the recommendations in the report of the Com / " on General Purposes. 1 ,,.. ,r! th e Conference yesterday a resolution was agreed i i tor the formation of " A Society, to be called the 4. Ba ciation of United Trades for the Protection of 1n p2tr...9, .., J The following recommendations of the Com lies were also adopted this morning:— 4 e 4. Central Committee to carry out the objects of f iu s sid Association, and the formation of a fund to de -13. the necessary expenses. t ii .• the leading objects of the Association may be ih . t tsible into two departments—the first external, hay rrferenee to the influence of the Legislature o n the 4 ition of . th e industrious classes; the second internal , et d ? efforts made by the trades to i m p rove their own tti on hi li f h is _e delegates then proceeded to discuss "the esta iew, ant of local boards of trade, simi l a r to those b e an have so long existed in Fran c e and tri‘ 6 ,n, composed of ma sters and o p eratives, 1 111 1 m all matters affecting the regu l at i o n of i h - ets , duration of labour, disputes, &c., shall St i r eferred, - and their decisions have the authority tl ie lt A v . * A very favourable opinion was expressed by ty„'°lninittee as to the effect of the adoption of such a s tri „' at il but considerable difference of opinion prevailed rots'ing.the-delegates. It was objected to by some as Mars, to place the operative classes under the tyranny of lis e te rst and to make their condition worse than it is at b t , an t• Other delegates considered that nothing but vi;rallgenr.eat of this nature could remove the existing ti's'l and thought that both masters and men would be "lt b It A D I t h ELEGATE, a working man in the coal-mines of North ehire, spoke at considerable length , and in a strain of Uenee that proved him to be a man of g reat intelli - fee, f the very many hardship s which his p eculiar de kyrtion of labour subjected the working miners to. He tad el lhed the different gasses existing in the coal mines Il e their deleterious effects on the human constitution. et t f t ti'e an instance of the destructive consequences of ky2 Bl v,-,gasses, by which he said 17 men lost their 1<! - 'et their employers refused to pay the expense of iiir /Mg the dead bodies. This statement was followed 104 :fld cries of " Shame." These, he said, were his rett ltouurcT agreeing in the opinio n that local boards of trade, ~,fte"% as a protection to the workin g classes. ituttEnsT.n, who, represente d the tailors, ex p ressed 11 ,Ppreh ens i o ns for the stability of t he p ro p osition even I Nl l'hould be carried out ; and he thought it would be itio,. l feach trade could place its elf in a p osition to assist ti t ' M the first instance before it turned its attention to : & "port of others. ELEQATE from the linen-weavers of Beverley hi tt Y approved of the proposition, and gave instances I! 10_° hardshi p s the linen-weavers suffered by the eh ' rirofi It.1 t. .s 1 ) E itc ~,i, rt from Hull cited cases where shipowners tOwn were also magist rates ; and in conse q uence EstAg monstrous decisions had often been made when ken made appeals to those parties for their wages. m. that cou ld never occur if a loca l board of trade ited in that town. s a ._I)4.F.cATs from the block-printers of Kent said he i t ,:q, ther in favour than against the proposition ; but i i"'„"ed, if those local boards wer e of so much benefit in 1140, and in Belgium, how did it happen that so little I t `noWn in this country of their co-operation ? !i lk '. enntsrovirEn, on the part of the London shoe %%ars, expressed his surprise at the sentiments he had l 1 list m i ng to, vvhich he said would be calculated t : 4l people to believe that the working men had 4found sympathy from their employers ; but tilttlahl like to know when and where that had ever _. experienced. lie would a sk, what did the work • ait 7 n mean by asking to be placed upon equal terms LLekemployers in courts of Justice ? Did they e that, if even there were an equal number of masters le N a t, i 'll in a court that would be placing them on equal tat „, 3 ,5 If they did, they never were more mistaken, phs r ",,,uen were the masters present that they did - not tl. the day 7—(Hear.) He feared the project would 47 found productive of the good anticipated. k r re the debate concluded, and kid • Fx.Esozsti, Chairman of the Committee, then rose, ts t upirl-that as it was not likely that anything new *N be offered in favour of the proposition, ho o i ( I take a short review of the o b j ections raised to it. 41, he did at great length, and then described tho lite l ; l 4fl Perandi of the proposed boards of trade, which *wk . "consist of six persons—.three. masters, and three b ring men, and all questions referred to them for ktid: decision were determined by a majority of votes, h e ki ' therefore, an unfair or unjust decision could hardly Ilse t a i le ; and, if any peculiar difficulty arose, the board ti r lower. to call in an umpire. # 4 htt e ,' I YAIri, block- printer, corroborated Mr. Fleming's ;!et t ,'",. e nt as to fixing the rates of prices for menu ‘4_ s - tfig artits on the continent for certain periods of , 4 01, t r• He said he had worked five years in Belgium, tit% "Mid such to be the fact. He knew men to work ths t . a ., t country from sun-rise to sun-set for 10d.; but ink',Nutat sum. went further than 2s. 6d. in this country. v "ti.Eciatrt from the wool-com bers of Bradford was t his 13 . 414 of the boards of trade, if for no other purpose Si "'Y prevent the workman from approaching his oti„,Yer in too humiliating a p osition, or being the it,l 3 of their long purses.—(H e ar, hear.) But the No y ag men .could never be respected by their em tit! era so long as they did not respect themselves, or th::_ . 111 themselves something better than mere machines Riirl to make fortunes for their masters, and then die, 4 f ,?llts miserable paupers.—(Hear, hear.) ICr aomelew other observations, rbp a NAIRMAN suggested an alteration in the fourth t t a sition, which he contended would have the effect of W. 4' 4 R the acts of the boards free from the consequences 4 t h a ° l3 straethe conspiracy and decision."—(Hear.) 11. alteration was in substance that a n a pp lication t► 4 l a 'latiq oe made to Parliament fir an Act to le g alise the Th e of those local boards. a Meeting thou adjourned for an hour. tl, SHIPPING.--('PHIS DAY. p . bk MARCH 27.—Wind southerly breeze and cloudy. L °loo, -1 1 Maxon 26.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. South x ,"tte_ -4 'n, China; Amphitrite, Davison, Mauritius; Char 'llll4l4,°blB,.l%laiiritiu-s ; Britannia, Lyme for St. John's, r answick. Ski. Janes, Halifax. The South Stockton Margaret Thompson, and savedthe crew of the 'IC -44 The Janet, of Alloa , from Shields to Constanti -444 got on the Goodwin Sands ails morning, but was as itl„„,lr with loss of an anchor, and anchored in the Downs I A - ,"` aPParent damage. 744:"„Mourii 26.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze. — .° 1 t)1 Zachelo ' r, Napin, Ichaboe ; Andes, Smith and Cynthia, 1•% ... 1 7 1 01' Pernambuco ; Guiana, Kueft, Fernando Po, ti e D e c. , "' d sld. for London. Off Falcon, Rio, for • %,_ r P *Ord Kaufman, Havannah, for - do. 714. uTir MARCIT °6.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.— ‘ l th. ;— " ,° Jarna ' ica. Off Oriental, steamer, Alexandria, left j 'Ap, l ,l 3 tAnt. • ;:, 11 ,ANtrrori MARCH 25.—The Hawkhill, of Kincar "nuLch had 'icked up at sea the crew of a vessel from `ta '• ttt--- "a, name unknoWn, was passed off Cadiz by the I:ea A steamer , arrived here. ''. 4 41 ) 14 0 ; MARCH 25.—Wind W.—Arrd. Neptune, Jolly, lad Eq,pOßr , MAricti 26.—The sloop Endeavour, of Tenby, q'e ' h beer, fell over on her broadside last night, and on , It ° wing tide filled. 411 4 f t / 'TALBOT, 25.—The Two. Sisters, Wood, of alot;•°tba Plymouth, struck on the Bar in coming in last JAI Nt WaB got off this morning, making much w . ater. ianti MARCH 26.—The Penguin packet, with the from this port, had not arrived at Pernam- It . on the 12th of February. „,_ t) „ 41 V serve as an useful caution connected wt. j it :l2 i6l raih "Ys, to mention a circumstance which has i A thwuurred with regard to one proposed to be formed tZ l ,l 4 , l itto of S ar dini a , t h e name o f which need not i ae 'ned• The circular issued states, that subseriv -1,6„4TQ reeeived by the London Joint-stuck Bank, in tio" It ; a, banking -house at Vienna, and by , Messrs. d.at ~ il erir ru, Alberti, and Co., and Mr. Bartolomeo Pare I,_ (41 . The latter , by letter of the 18th inst., de are e • t 1 th at his name has been used without his know- th e or consent, and that he is in no way concerned in AP r ''ect in question.— Times. ;.. . rhere is a coni ,, Renew:it AN hi PROVEMENTS.— r — , Z_le clearance of the houses from Holborn to Lii) Yt, Saffron -hill, comprising more than three fourths fo4nue distance to Clerkenwell, and the road is nearly th e ~t 1 to its proper level, the whole open remnant 404 ''d Fleet ditch having been covered over No an the ri " l nflut, however, has yet been made for the sale of eh a tonlainder. The road now complete from Wh'.te ri to SpitalfiehrsChurch has been formed and paved I,4,4reh,..Side, the gas lamps having been erected, and . the er ,„ . _ nue to the docks will be ready for traffic in the v 4 c 4 o of the summer. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1845; • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before the ASSISTANT JUDGE.) At the sitting of the Court this morning a number of indictments which had been preferred by several of the parish authorities of the neighbourhood of St. George's, Hanover-square, and others, in the west end of the metropolis, against persons for keeping houses of ill-fame were heard, to which the parties implicated pleaded, in most instances, guilty, were and allowed to depart the Court, after entering into recognisances to abate the nuisances. There were also several indictments for keeping ; disorderly houses in the liberty of the Rolls tried, in which Mr. Milan tine appeared on the part, of the inhabitants by whom the indictments were preferred, and - which were in tnost eases disposed of in a similar manner. Thos. Williams was indicted for stealing a shawl, the property of James Godson. It appeared that the prosecutor kept a large draper's shop and was in the habit of placing his articles outside his shop-door for sale. On the 18th of this month, about one o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner was observed loitering about the premises, and finding the policeman off the beat, he made a snatch at several of the articles hanging up, but succeeding only in getting one shawl. He was stopped by a gentleman who was passing at the time. The prisoner immediately knocked his captor down and brutally assaulted him, kicking him in the most dreadful manner while he was on the ground. -A verdict of Guilty being returned, the Learned As- SISTA *T-JUDGE said he had considerable doubts whether ho ought not to transport the prisoner. However, lie should give hiM one chance more. The prisoner Was then sentenced to six momths' imprisonment with hard labour in the Hou e of Correction. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. BURIAL GROUND PRACTICES. "If indiscriminate mutilation and disturbance of previous deposits, and consequent desecration of the last resting places of those who have preceded us, are still to be per mitted; if the ashes of our deceased countrymen are entitled to, or obtain too frequently under the present order of things, no respect; if the ties of relationship and affection and the best feelings of the heart are to be outraged by a trading: sexton or a brutal gravedigger ; if a system has too long been, and continues to this hour, in operation, which most une quivocally tends to brutalise, to nnchristianise, the officials who execute the disgusting work, and the crowds of people exposed constantly to such scenes; if our very beautiful burial-service has been too frequently disgraced by the acts perpetrated previous or subsequent to its performance, it is more than time that such an evil were crushed, and for ever ! It degrades religion, brings its ministers into contempt, tends to lower the standard of morality, and is a foul blot upon our boasted civilisation."—G. A. Walker, Surgeon, in "Inter ment and Disinterment."—Nov. 3, 1842. The condition of the Spa-fields Buring-ground has recently attracted much attention ; and though the par ties who profit by a continuance of that most disgraceful and dangerous receptacle of corruption are industriously engaged in circulating statements to the effect that the facts already before the public are much exaggerated, the reality is in truth far worse than the representation and that it IS so the following ADDITIONAL FACTS, for' the correctness of which I hold myself in every respect responsible, will abundantly attest. The practice of burning the coffins and portions of their contents has been carried on in Spa-fields burying ground for upwards of a quarter of a century ; a fire has been continually burning day and night. It has not been possible for a very long period of time to obtain a grave for an adult, without mutilation and disturbance of previous deposits. Stephen Bishop, the WATCHMAN (?) of the ground, has performed the double office of calling the hour of the night and burning coffins, &c., in the BONE-HOUSE.* This person has executed the above-named compound functions during seventeen or eightem years. Some years since he was accustomed to eat his food in the bone-house, durirg the performance of his nightly tasks. Of late he has become more fastidious, and wears a " hand-leather, " to avoid contamination from the con tact of the coffin-wood. Some time ago he told one of his associates that " 'pon his soul he couldn't eat his grub in the bone house now." The relief-guard (the gravediggers) entered upon their daily work in the grave-yard as Bishop had concluded his ;iightwork in the bone-house. The man has frequently " let his fire down," and has been chidden by his employer for so doing. lie has replied that " the wood was wet." Ilis master has rejoined, " You ought to save all the deal wood you can for the purpose of keeping up _the fire." The coffins of " still-born" children have been broken up and used for the purpose of lighting the fire in the bone-house; deal, of which they are composed, being more combustible than the elm coffin of the adult. _ BURIAL-GROUND OF ST. SA VIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK. A Vestry :meeting of the parishioners of St. Saviour's, Southwark, was held on Easter Tuesday in the Vestry room, at which the following resolutions were moved by Mr. H. B. Clark:— _ _ . " Resolved,—That it is the opinion:of this Vestry that the present state of the grave-yard of this parish is such that the burial of the dead ought to be discontinued therein. " That the churchwardens be empowered to call for such information as will enable them to investigate the subject, and to make arrangements, if necessary, with one of the metropolitan cemeteries, or for any eligible plot of ground, subject to the approval of a subsequent Vestry, for the interment of the dead of this parish." In the course of some observations addressed to the meeting in support of these resolutions, he stated that, allowing the shortest time for the decomposition of the dead which he thought possible, twenty years, according to the size of the ground and the number of interments, they must lay five bodies deep all over it ; numbers of which were decomposing close to its surface, and spread ing an effluvia round, the evil effects of which could not be calculated. He considered that it was high time something should be done to put an end to what to him, and he doubted not to them, appeared a most dangerous and most repulsive system of burying the dead. The resolutions , were seconded, and carried unani mously by the Vestry, who have appointed a committee, consisting of the churchwardens and three inhabitants, to investigate the subject, with a view to its alteration in accordance with the terms of the resolutions. The grave-yard in question is a narrow strip of ground, about 160 feet by 50, including a footpath, bounded on one side by the thickly-populated Clink, and by London bridge and the Borough-market on the other sides. It has been used as a burying-place for many hundreds of years, and has become a complete Golgotha. This resolution of the Vestry will, therefore, be hailed by the inhabitants at large, as the first step towards the removal of what has long been a nuisance and an eyesore. It is to be hoped that other parishes will imitate their example, and that soon these predisposing causes to disease and death will be banished from amongst us, and a more decent and healthy system of interment substituted in its place. A late " manager" of the ground has entered the bone houso at various hours in the morning, and has observed —" Ah, Steevy" (Stephen Bishop, the so-called watch man of the ground) " has been asleep. He's let his fire out. Why don't you take care of the deal for lighting the fire ?" It has frequently occurred that the poor creatures who have brought children to be buried (" still-born") have left, as a pledge for the eighteenpence fee they lacked, a shawl, an apron, or even duplicates, whilst the following Machiavelian trick has been often practised :—The corpse b..ing taken into the parlour of the " manager," he has reriNved it from the coffin, and has endeavoured, by the exercise of a little tact, to elicit from the attendant or nurse, as the case might be, whether the child had breathed; if so, he refused to bury the child unless the fee of four shillings was paid—threatening the party, if they w demurred, that he " would compel them to bury it in ei regular way, by an undo t 'ker." It has been a common practice to remove the grave stones from the "common' , into the "best" ground. A double object was thus accomplished—the ground had a more respectable appearance, in consequence of the array of tombstones; freer space was left for the digging-up, levelling, and raking over the " worst " ground, whilst an additional charge was demanded from the relatives of every new-comer. The stone designating the family-grave of has been removed about thirty yards from the place it once occupied, and the coffins of three other persons occupy the original grave. The stone marking the grave of has been re moved. The-family grave of --- was shifted from its posi tion in the "worst" to the "best" ground; the differ ence in the charge for interment in the latter being four shillings extra. The stone has been replaced, for Spe cific reasons. The stone marking the family grave of -- has been removed about twenty-two yards from its original site. The stone marking the family grave of -- has been removed twenty yards from its original position. The family grave of -- has been charged to the surface with the bodies of others not connected in any degree with the original purchaser, and this grave thrice filld and thrice "cleaned out" within the last ten years. The bodies interred in the family grave of —, of street, have been mutilated ; upwards of two feet in length of the coffins and bodies have been chopped off. A highly respectable family, residing in —, pur chased a double family grave in Spa-fields burying ground. This grave was marked by a head and a foot stone. The grave was opened some time since, for the reception of a deceased member of the family. A tier of eight or ten coffins was found projecting in every direction, and filling up half this double grave. The coffins and bodies of adults and children were remorse lessly cut through, and upwards of five hundred weight of coffin-wood taken out of the grave and burnt. The original occupant ofihis family grave, —, was " doubb d up" and thrust into the mud, &c., at the bottom of the grave, out of which upwards of forty pailsful of a most sickening compound were baled. His coffin was taken to the bone-home, the fire being alight at the time. The " manager" has frequently been on the watch through the wicket of the largo gates of the ground, and, as soon as the mourners have made their appearance with the de ceased, he has shouted to the gravediggers, " Make haste—they're coming ;" earth has been quickly thrown over the floor of the grave, the body deposited, and within half an hour—even before the funeral service was concluded—the coffin has been covered by the water. Water containing, in solution or suspension, portions of human remains, has been almost constantly " bucketed" out of the graves, more especially those situated in the " best" ground. The earth covering the coffins and their contents in the immediate vicinity has been pierced in every direction by the boring-rod, for the double purpose of getting rid for the instant of the fluid ma terial removed from the graves, and for promoting the more rapid decomposition of the bodies. The body of a male relative of an ex-gravedigger of twenty years' practice in Spa-fields burying-ground has been mutilated, and his coffin burnt. The " head man" in this ground, Tom Smith, an hereditary gravedigger, has committed the mcst fearful and unheard-of atrocities on the bodies of the dead. The long hair of the women has been cut off and sold to the hair-dressers ; " rails" (teeth) have been taken from every corpse affording them of sufficient quality to stimu late his cupidity ; whilst the materials in which the bodies of the dead have been clothed by the hand of af fection have been, in hundreds of instances, torn off by this midnight prowler. On December 23, 18.13, I attended at the Clerkenwell Police-court, for the purpose of substantiating the above and other allegations, and should have endeavoured to do so had not the sitting magistrate, Mr. Greerwood, peremptorily declined interfering in the matter of a me morial that found its way into the Clerkenwell Police office, although, I believe, it did not come under his offi cial cognizance. I had the first intimation of the complaint then made from the 7'imes of December 21, 1843. It is probable that the audacity of the manager, Mr. C. Bird, and his attempt to intimidate, under a threat of legal proceed • ings, induced me to give several hours of time, at much inconvenience to myself, on that occasion, although, from a sense of duty, I accepted a challenge I had nei ther desired nor provoked. The memorial, in my pos session, is signed by about a hundred and fifty of the neighbouring inhabitants, and- contains, among others, the following allegations:— " The inhabitants of the aforesaid places" (Garden walk, Exmouth-street, Northampton-road, Northampton row, Vineyard-walk, Fletcher's-row, Chapel-row, and parts adjacent) "have been annoyed from the unpleasant and exceedingly unwholesome smell arising from the burning in the bone-house of coffiuis in the Spa-field, burying-f.Jound ; and from the nauseous fumes which, at such times, impregnate the air, your petitioners firmly believe that human bodies are consumed therein ; and your petitioner James Wilson, humbly maketh com plaint, that he standvth in constant dread of being burnt out, in consequence of the aforesaid bone-house being joined to the back of his house, from the chimney of which bone-house flames occasionally arise to a great height ; and on last Thursday (December 21, 1843) the bone-house was actually on fire, which 'caused the adja cent inhabitants to remove their goods in great terror." In March, 1843, or thereabouts, I caused to be pre sented the following petition to the House of Commons. Upwards of 500 signatures were attached thereto. "To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament as sembled. "The humble petition of the undersigned resident in habitants of Exmouth-street, Northampton row, Chapel-row, and adjoining neighbourhoods, " Showeth—That your petitioners are forced to com plain of, and are constantly annoyed by, the disgusting practices employed in the Spa-fields burial-ground. " That many of your petitioners have repeatedly wit nessed the most shameful mutilations of the dead. " That it is a common and almost daily practice to break up and consume the wood of the coffins (not yet decayed) in large quantities in an out-house in this place. That many hundred tons weight of coffin-wood have been thus disposed of. "" That your petitioners are frequently sensible of a most disgusting smell, which they have no doubt arises from the surface of this grave-yard, and from the burn ing of the wo , d of the coffins •, and dolt your petitioners have every reason to believe that the health of themselves and families has been affected from the above causes. "That, in the judgment of your petitioners, this bury ing-ground does not contain more than eighty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty square feet of -sur face. That your petitioners believe that, on a yearly average, two thougand bodies have been pretended to be buried in this ground. That this place has been em ployed as a burying-ground more than half a century. That it appears that not more than 1,500 bodies can be decently and properly interred in an acre of ground ; and that consequently upwards of fifty thou- * The following sign-board is placed on the right-hand side of the entrance, in the grave-yard, near the bone-house. It is supported by a pole wedged in between two ledgers (upright gravestones) :—" Take notice. The watchmen in this ground are provided with Ere-arms. Take off your . patten6.' sand human bodies must have been displaced, mutilated, munity, complained of the slight which would be thrown and mixed with the moist soil of this grave-yard, long on the midwifery branch of the profession by the . pro before the process of natural decay can have taken place. posed Bill, though none would deny that the midwifery That it is a common practice in this ground to displace branch was one demanding as much care and attention the stones marking the . graves of deceased persons as any other. whose relatives have purchased the ground in perpetuity. Mr. LANE seconded the resolution, and it was declared That thus a fraud is perpetrated on the living, and gross carried. indecencies inflicted on the dead, whose bodies are fre- Messrs. Griffiths, Waite, and Osborne propoiied'artd quently mutilated and displaced to make room for fresh- seconded some other resolutions, which having been corners. passe], " That your petitioners desire to express their un- Mr. Griffiths was called to the chair, and a vote of feigned satisfaction and gratitude that the practices re- thanks having been passed to Mr. Wyse, the meeting suiting from the interment of the dead in towns have separated. been the subject of a long, searching, impartial, and patient inquiry of a Committee of your Honourable House ; and that your petitioners venture to express a hope that the labours of your Committee will cause the immediate introduction of such alterations in the pre sent system of interment as your Honourable House, in its wisdom. may deem necessary. " And your petitioners will ever pray, 8:c." Having passed in review the scenes of the terrible drama that has been constantly and systematically enacted in Spa-fields burying-ground, I reserve to my self the choice of time for a further unmasking of hy pocrisy of a most disgusting description. I will prove that " grave-yard management," even in its minutest de tail, is so perfect in its scheming, so determined in its execution, so terrible and dreadful in its results, that the well-constituted ',mind must indignantly recoil from its imaginings, much more from its realities. GEORGE ALFRED WALKER. St. James's-place, St.. James's-street, March 22, 1845. PROCEEDINGS at WASHINGTON. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.--The consent of Congress to the annexation of Texas is an event so long expected, that the question of its justice has gradually merged in the vision of its certainty. There was a time when the most enlightened and-thoughtful men of the Union could venture to en tertain a strong moral objection against it ; and their arguments are on record. It was ver, however, that the mass of the Union, its newest and most active ele ments, were in favour of _the measure. Th#it,ges were always reverting to Texas. Texas unappropriated, like independent Megara within sight of Athens, wag the eyesore of the Union ; not but that there are other eye sores to the ambitious gaze of that people. Whatever they see they love, whatever they love they covet, and whatever they covet they ex pect and endeavour to obtain. But Texas was the first thing in their way, and formed the bold foregrOund of their hopes. Texas adjacent, revolted, independent, still menaced and molested by the weak acid Ampolitic rulers whose yoke it had broken, already peopled and governed by the citizens of the Union, or adventurerS'of the same language and principles, was an acquisition absolutely necessary, not so much to the happiness as to the very comfort, the ease, the sleep, the digestion, of certainly more than half the republic. The only part of the business, therefore, on which there could be say surprise, would be the particular time and manner which republican wisdom and taste would select for the acquisi tion. To an European understanding there is something quite grotesque in the time and manner actually adopted. The Congress comes to this momentous decision in the very point of time between the two presidentships.,pr. Tyler completes his career with a determination w he cannot have the smallest share in carrying out, and Mr. Polk will be engaged throughout his whole term in the arduous execution of a . prv - ct imposed upon-him at the first moment of his official existence. We in the. Old world have long since chastised one anotheeht-desires to at least the language of modesty and mutual deference. The President is not overawed by the presen&of one sovereign power in the length and breadth of, his Conti nent. Hence he feels no indecency in expressing,ln glorifying every aggressiiT impulse of the heart. The citizen, he says, must rejoice when a frontier lino is re moved, when he can communicate freely, commercially , and politically with his neighbours, without thesestrtc tions of trade, or the interference of foreign claithe,.and foreign pulitics and mor'ils. When such rejoicings are arguments, then we may reasopably fear for the invidi ous frontier lines of the St. Lawrence, not to spepk of that other on the westward of the Rocky Motintain!. But other difficulties will arise before that day. Neither democracy nor federation can solve the great problem of society. Government is not so easy a task. , The crea ture of a mob election, addressing his creators, may talk in the same breath of clustering all nations in a °Mad tutional unity, and interdicting moral and religious. Its terference between the inhabitants of adjacent valleys) but human nature has assigned less to system, and more to spiritual influences. She will soon detect the hollow ness of union without unity, and of a political combine. tion that aims to embrace the world, while it is afraid to DEFENSIVE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS. A meeting of a few members of this body was held a the Literary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-square, last evening, for the purpose, as the advertisemeet stated, of " taking steps to defend the body from the wrong in flicted by the recent charter, and the further aggression to be inflicted by the proposed Government Bill." The meeting was called for seven o'clock, but it was long after that hour before the proceedings commenced. Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. having taken the chair, The Secretary read several letters from eminent me dical gentlemen, expressing their approval of the objects of the meeting, which were stated to be in substance the correction of certain evils, via.:— " The irresponsible management of the surgical colleges. "The varieties of grade recently introduced amongst the members of the College of Surgeons of England. " The Association is impressed with the conviction that at a moment when wealth is so superabundant, and the candidates for the learned professions so numerous, a wise Government should take advantage of such cir cumstances to raise the whole body of medical practi tioners to so high a point of science as would preclude the existence of inferiorly educated grades. Its mem bers have observed, however, with deep regret, that her Majesty's Home Secretary has provided in his recent charter to the College of Surgeons, for the creation of a low class of practitioners unknown before to that Col lege. This forcible and uncalled-for creation of a de graded class of medical men, is not only confirmed by that measure, but that the large body of British surgeons are distinctly stripped of their titles as surgeons,' and that equality of position with them is, for the future, offered to any youth who may spend two years of medi cal studies in any of the British universities. " The Defensive Association of Surgeons are con vinced that the new charter, and proposed Government Bill, thus menacing the interests of British surgeons, will re-act on the prosperity of the colleges to which they belong, and thus doubly urged to action, respectfully and earnestly invite their surgical brethren to unite with them in one great effort to repair the wrongs already inflicted, to ward off those that are now but too clearly menaced, and introduce among all classes of surgeons that good fellowship and contentment so necessary to the happy and successful cultivation of their science." The CHAIRMAN said, in consenting to take the chair at this meeting, he was actuated solely by a desire to forward the general interests, and to promote the condi tion of the honourable profession to which those whom he now addressed belonged ; but not being a member of that profession himself, he could not of course be ex pected to possess an intimate knowledge of the detail of the differences which at present divided that body, but no one could lament them more than ho did. That they were matter of regret there could be no doubt, because he felt convinced that, by the union and co-operation of the profession, the benefits they individually derived from experience could be applied with greater effect to the well being of humanity.—(Hear.) But at the same time it could not be supposed that a learned profession, like that of medicine, should be suffered by its professors to permit an opportunity to pass withcut bringing its grievances before the public, and stating what they con ceived to be the most fitting remedy for their removal. —(Hear.) However, while he wished to be understood as holding himself disengaged from the differences and divisions of the body, yet he could not refuse lending his humble aid towards the furtherance of this, as well as every other branch of education in this country. — (Hear.) The Legislature, in dealing with a question so important as this, at least a Legislature constituted as that of England was, should afford the highest possible range to its full and free action, consistent with the public tranquillity and safety ; and in order to do this, there were two courses pointed out:—the one, that any man should be allowed to adopt that branch - of the profession which he should deem the best suited to his capacity, and most likely to serve his private in terests; while the other was to point out certain limits beyond which it would not be safe to permit him to pass.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member then drew a comparison between the legal and medical profession, and showed how much more important it was to the in terests of humanity to have a greater degree of care be stowed upon the education of the members of the latter than of the former. The lawyer, he conceived, was a man whose abilities and capabilities would soon be discovered and appreciated by the public, without the use of those tests applied in other countries, and even the worst results that would attend an incompetent lawyer's efforts would be a loss of property, results which he did not mean to underrate; but then how much more serious would be the results attending an inefficient, or incompetent, or badly educated medical man?—(hear, hear.) It was upon these grounds that the Parliament should feel justified in interfering with this profession to the extent of taking care that a guarantee should be given to the public that life and health were not to be trilled with by the incOm petence of persons, arising from their not having gone through the necessary ordeal. (Hear, hear.) Indeed he did not think that in point of scientific knowledge, intellectual attainment, or moral culture, the test could not be carried too high.—(Hear, hear.) As a practitioner, the surgeon and the medical man should bring to bear extensive reading and practical knowledge, in which, in a it oral point of view, lie could not be too particular, as he invariably became acquainted with the most private affairs of a family, and, therefore, he should be a man of high morals, honour, and prin ciple.—(Hear, hear.) He next alluded to the society of apothecaries, amongst whom, he said, were to be found men of as high attainments as in any other profession, and who would be an honour and an ornament to any ; and, therefore, the proposed Bill ought not to contain any proposition tending to place them in a humiliating position.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. W. B. COSTELLO proposed the first resolution, which was to this effect :—" That the present state of society is highly favourable to the requirement from all future candidates for the medical profession, of high proofs of scientific attainments." In so doing, he drew attention to the state of the profession in France a few years ago, When a class of medical men, of inferior grade, called " Officers dc Sank, or officers of health," existed ; but the Nlitlister of public Instruction having ascertained; through the report of a commission issued for the pur pose, from the procession generally, that the abolition of this grade would not be attended with any danger or disadvantage to the public, he did abolish them, and the results were most beneficial to the public, because me dical men were then obliged to be better educated ; and therefore he wou'd ask why not pursue the same coarse in this country ?—(Hear, hear.) He regretted that what was called the Warburton Committee had not been attended with results such as this ; but unfor tun itchy the opportunity it afforded of doing good had been converted into a plan for the advancement of a few at the expense of the degradation of the body. Mr. MORIUS seconded the re solution, which the meet ing, consisting of about twenty persons, declared to be adopted unanimously. Mr. lIFALY, in proposing the next resolution, which was in substance that the maintenance of the medical profession in the highest possible position, is of as high concern to the general public as to the medical corn- MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY QUARTER TO THREE. A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. The sales were 5,000 bales, all to the trade, and the market was firmer.-The Share Market had a steady aspect, and sales to a good extent were made. Barnsley Junction; ex new, 71. Ils. 3d. ; New Shares, 3%; Belfast . and Ballymena, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and .Accring ton, 6 1 / s ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1 / a ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% to 9%; Bolton Wigan, and Liverpool, 10%, Bs. 9d. ; Caledonian, 16s. 3d. 3 4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 46% •, Ditto, Half Shares, at 5 dis., ex div., 23 ; Chester and Holyhead, 84 •, Churnet Valley, 7 ; Clydesdale Junction, 10 10 1 / 2 • Cork and Bandon, 3% ; Direct Northern, 4% 1 / 2 ; Dublin and Belfast, 6%; Dublin and Drogheda, ex. div., 86 1 %; Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2 3 / 4 ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Eastern Counties, ex div. 21 1 4 21 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div„ 611,4 ; Ditto, New Shares, 5% 1 / 2 ; Glasg.ow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18 1 4 ; Ditto, half Shares, 9'% ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 2/. ; Grand Junction, ex div., 223 ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex div., 111 110 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div., 55; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 18%; Great North of England, 30/. Shares, 22%; Great Western, London to Bristol, ex div., 181 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 41. 14s. 4 3 4 ; Lancaster and Car lisle, 35%; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 7%; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Limerick and Waterford, 4 1 ,74,• Leeds and 'West Riding, 7 6%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3/. Ils. 3d 3%; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 3114; London and Brighton, PK div., 62% ; Lon don and South-Western, ex div., 80; London and York, 3 1 / 1 ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 5/. 3s. 9d. 51. ss. ; Manchester, Bary, and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester and Buxton, 1% ; Manchester and Leeds, ex-div., 145 ; Midland Stock, ex div., 141%; Ditto, 401. Shares, 143 15 1 / s ; Ditto, Birmingham, and Derby, ex div., 109%; Newel k and Sheffield, 4% •Ny ; North British, New Shares, 4% . 1 4 ; North ' Wales, 214 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4 1 % 4 ; Preston and Wvre, 32 1 4 ; Scottish Central, 51,4 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. ss. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 112 ; Shrewsbury, Osweatry, and Chester, 4% 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham,s l 4 ; South-Eastern, ex new, 43; Ditto, New Shares, 16i dis., ex New, 11 3 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 8 1 4 8%; South Wales, 6% 6 1 4 ; Trent Valley, 22 1 % ; Ulster, ex div., 44 1 /. 2 45 1 4 ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 2/. 19s. ; Northern of France (English), 6% 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 4/. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto, New Shares, 21. 185. 6d. ; Ditto (Gan neron's), 2/. lls. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2 3 % ; Sardinian, 17s. 6d. The information received yesterday and to-day from the United States, upon the subject of the annexation of Texas, has taken almost all the merchants in the City by surprise. Still, however, it is not expected by parties well acquainted with American politics, that the scheme will be carried out if our Government takes a bold front in opposition to it.. The majority of 2 in favour of the plan, will open a wide field for discussion, as we have it upon very good au thority that four, if not six votes, were obtained under a distinct (and our informant adds) a written contract of future patronage being bestowed. Without question, this is a subject of very deep interest to our mercantile men, and much weight ought to be attached to the intrigues which have been adopted to bring about the decision of the Senate of the United States in favour of the project. Although we have in our possession some curious details on this subject, it is perhaps more politic, in a national point of view, to withhold facts men tioned to us connected with this matter, until we find that the confirmed policy of the Republican Government is that of annexation, as far as Texas is concerned. The message of the new President in other respects is looked upon among merchants as of little worth. Commer cially speaking, the advices by the packet are somewhat sa tisfactory. Confidence appears to be rising, and, as a matter of course, a better disposition is shown in favour of manu factured goods. The public securities have been again under the influence of the intelligence received from America, which so sensibly and unfavourably affected their value yesterday shortly before the market closed. Consols have been 994 to 99% for present transfer, and 99% to 99 3 4 for Account. Exche quers-bills have receded to 575. and 555. premium. South Sea Stock has not been done, but a resolution has just been come to, declaring a bonus of 6 per cent. and the continuance of the Company's affairs. The value of Mexican Bonds has naturally suffered to a greater extent than that of Consols, as whatever may be the . ' effect of annexation upon our relations with the United States, . the position of Mexico in reference to its aggrandizing neigh bour, must become critical, The value of the Bonds this morning has teen 35%, being dull. Colombian Stock has been up to 45 1 4 and 15%. Spanish Bonds have been 29% to 3 4 for the Actives, and 7 for the Passives. Portu guese Converted have realised 62 1 / 2 , and Brazilian 91%. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been 63 1 /s to 62%. Shares generally have been rather drooping, but Cam bridge and Lincoln, Churnet Valley, and one or two others, are firmer. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Anne 99%1A% India Bonds 1,0001 Ditto under 1,000/ 6B Bank Stock for Account. • Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 4 d. 1 1 ,4 d. 1,000/. I 5001. Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 91% Columbian Bonds. 159 15% 1 4 Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent._ 90% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. - Ditto for the Account Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 - Ditto for the Account 29 % 3% Ditto Passive Bonds 7 Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, P:..rtrush 1%...., 1% to -- Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester 3O 5B Caledonian 5 9 l / 2 3A1% to Cambridge and Lincoln ... 11,4 7% 6% to 7 1 ,E Chester and Ilolyhead 5.... 8% to Churnet Valley Cornwall Disc, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1%....•• 1% ...... to 2% Pirect Northern - - Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% -7%...... to Dublin and Galway 2 l /2 2 % to 3 Eastern Counties Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto New % Shares 2% Ely and Bedford l% ...... 1 1 to Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 ...... 1 , 0 to -- Ditto Extension • . 2%...... 9/ 2 to Great Western Harwich 1 99 Hull and Selby • 50 Ditto Quarter Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... .... : . 15 ...... 36 1 /2 to London and Birmingham ...100 ......232 Ditto Quarters - London and Blackwall 16% 7%%... to London and Brighton... . 50 London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d 16% .. ... to 17 IA London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d l O 3 /4 ...... ..o London and South Western.. 41% 7 9 1 /2 to London and York... ..... ...... 214...... 3% % to 3 Lynn and Ely - Manchester and Leeds 73 .....146 Manchester and Birmingham 40 Midland lOO 142 ...... to 143: Ditto Fifths Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 lO 9 Newcastle & Darlington ;) - Nitic. 24 ...... 47y 2 Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick - Newry and Enniskillen Newark and Sheffield North British Ditto New 1 .. ... 4 1 / 4 1 ,4•• • to Northern and Eastern 0-' % to North Wales l% Norwich and Brandon lO ..... 16 1 ,4 to Ditto New 1 - RichmondandWest End June. 1 Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 Scottish Midland l% 2 3 / 4.%.. to Sh re ws.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4 % 3A... to 5 South Devon South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 423 / 8 1 / 2 1% to Ditto New, No. 2. Ditto New, No. 3 2 1,4 8 South Wales Trent Valley Waterford and Kilkenny 1 Vork and North Midland ... 50 Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux and Toulouse Bortleaux,Toulouse,andCette 2 ...... 2%% to Great Northern of France ... 4 Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 11 Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2 Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ... Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 Paris and Orleans... ........ .... 20 Sambre and Meuse Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 26.—The sales are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5 11-16 ; Manchester and Leeds, 147 ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 20 ex div. ' • Manchester and Birmingham, 5714 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5% IA prem. ; Midland Rail way Consols, 401. Shares, 14 3 / 4 %; Preston and Wre 33%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Ches hire Junction, 9% ; ' B 1 a c k - bur ii , Dawen, and Bolton, 4 % ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 10 1 A ; Caledonian, 10 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ; Erowash Valley, 15 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3 1 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. 3% ; London and Worcester , Oxford and Rugby, 4% 4 ; L - ondon and York, 3 1 / 1 4 • Manchester and Buxton, 2 1-16 ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% ; Scottish Central, 5% ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 4 1-16 ; Shrewsbury, ex Wolverhampton, Nor Dudlthern ey, of & France c., 5 ; Trent Valley, 16% new ; Great (English), 6A. The author of "Cecil," after a silence of four years, is again, it appears, in the field ; and exhibiting, we are told, unabated causticity and vigour. The new work, we understand, may be considered as much in the light of a witty memoir of the times, in the style of Walpole, as in its nominal character of a novel ; abounding, it is said, with graphic sketches of the powers that be and have been, treated in the usual auda cious style of this brilliant and powerful wrirer. BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION, \VALIIAM GREEN.—The Committee have determined on holding a grand fete and fancy fair at the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, on the Bth and 9th of July next. We heartily wish them that success so excellent a charity deserves. POWDER• MILL Exmosiori.—On Tuesday night, about half-past 11 o'clock, an explosion took place at one of the powder-mills belonging to Sir Henry Brydges, and situated on Ewell-marsh. Fortunately there were no men at work at the time, and the damage was con fined to the blowing off of the roof. These explosions are of fr.( quent occurrence, and it is seldom that they can be satisfactorily accounted for, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND latr Opinion. " Who runs may read." WOREIGN. The Queen of the French, the Count de Paris, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, the Duke de Montpen sier' and the Duchess d'Aumale, attended vespers on Sunday evening at the church of Saint loch. The Minister of Marine informed the Chamber on Monday, that the Bill relative to the organisation of the transatlantic line of steam-packets would be shortly pre sented by the Minister of Finance. Admiral Baudin, Maritime Prefect of Toulon, has ar rived in Paris. He comes as delegate from one of the French colonies. A letter from Toulon states that the Asmodee steam frigate will leave that port on the 4th of next month for Marseilles, to take on board his Royal Highness the Duke de Montpensier for Algiers. The Spanish Government intends to send into France, Germany, Belgium, and England, a certain number of railroad and canal engineers, to study the different con structions. A Limoges journal announces the death in that town of M. de Saint Leger, a rich miser, who had for many years been remarkable for his sordid avarice. Ho had considerable landed property and large sums invested in the funds ; and in his house, after his death, more than 100,000 f. have been discovered buried or concealed in . various places. Ile dressed like a beggar, and when his personal effects were sold off by auction his wardrobe fetched sixty centimes. The investments into the savings' banks of Paris on the 23d and 24th inst. amounted to 562,415 F., and the re imbursements to 900,000 f. A letter from Bayonne states that on Good Friday there was found in the poor's box of the hospital of St. Leon, a stock receipt for 110,000 f., giving an annual divi dend of 4,600 f., with an anonymous note, announcing that it was for the benefit of the hospital. The Universal German Gazdt; has the following under the head of Berlin, March 18 :—" There is no longer any talk of the diplomatic negotiations about the acknowledgment of the Queen of Spain on the part of the Northern Powers, insurmountable difficulties having arisen." A Malta journal publishes a letter, dated 26th ult., from Monestier, in the Regency of Tunis, giving an account of an affair which had' ust occurred there. A native of Tunis, who at Malta had embraced the Chris tian religion, having arrived at Monesticr in an English trader, the Cadi seized him, and it was with difficulty that he escaped death at the hands of the excited popu lace. The English Consul at Susa having been apprised of what was going oa by an English sailor, went to the spot, and, having insisted upon the release of the min, he was set at liberty, and an apology was made by the Cadi. LAW AND POLION. In the case of France v. Dawson, tried at Oxford before Mr. Baron Platt, the jury found for the plaintiff, damages 251. This was an action brought by the father of a servant girl, who had lived with the defendant Dawson (the governor of the Salop county gaol) to re cover 251.. 61. of which was for maintaining an illegiti mate child, of which Dawson is the father, and has acknowledged his paternity aforetime by different pay ments, being the alleged seducer of the plaintiff's daughter. In his defence, the defendant attempted to cast imputations on the character of the girl. This un manly proceeding, however, availed him nothing. At Worship-street two young men, named William Carter and David Herbert, were charged with having been concerned with another man, not In custody, in committing a. violent and unprovblted . assauTt upon Mr. S. Vincent Phillips, a clerk in the Bank of England, re siding at Barnsbury-park, Islington, and also with the commission of other outrages. The prisoners had been amusing themselves with throwing stones at the passen gers in Shepherd-and-Shepherdess-fields, and on any remonstrance being made, they knocked down the re monstrant. Several females had suffered by the vio lence. Herbert was fined los., or a fortnight's impri sonment ; Carter was fined 205., or a month's imprison- ment. James Ward, - tt lad 15 years old, one of three young urchins who were amusing themselves with throwing stable-dung at persons passing through Golden-lane, was fined ss. at Guildhall for wilful damage done to a me chanic's best coat, and being unable to pay, he was com mitted to Bridewell for 14 days to be kept on bread and water. Esther Gilbert, 19 years of age, charged with com mitting several robberies whilst in service as house maid in the family of Lionel 01liver, Esq., of Wimble don-common, wdiTully committed from Wandsworth. • COURT_FASHIONABLE. The P 0.4 says it is now arranged that the Court will leave Windsor for the Isle of Wight on Saturday next. The various reports which have been circulated for some time past, calculated to lead the nation shortly to ex pect an increase in the Royal Family, are totally without foundation. Yesterday a new anthem, composed by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, was rehearsed for the first time in St. George's Hall. The Queen's private band and the choir of St. George's were in attendance. Her Majesty and the Prince came into the Hall, and his Royal Highness, after the first trial, picked out a few errors in the instru mental department. The anthem, on being tried over again, proved to be perfect. The Queen then commanded it to he played over once more, and was much delighted with the composition and the mann.T in which it was per formed. This anthem, entitled "Out of the deep have I called thee," is acknowledged by a number of the first rate judges who were present to be the chef d'oeuvre of the Prince's compositions. MISCELLANEOUS. A very beautiful communion chalice was given last week to the church at Hampton-upon-Tbames by the incumbent. The following inscription is engraved upon the pedestal;—" Presented to the Parish Church of St. Mary, Rampton, by the Rev. Edward Johnston, M.A., Vicar. Easter, 1545." The pending prosecutions by the City against the merchants and other non-freemen have been removed from the City courts into the Court of Queen's Bench, where they will undergo discussion in the course of a few weeks on behalf of the associated non-freemen. Oa Wednesday morning the body of a young man, dressed in a blue Guernsey frock, light waistcoat, dark trowsers, and high shoes, was found floating in the river Thames off Blackwall stairs. He is supposed to be one of the persons who, about six weeks ago, while proceed ing to Billingsgate-market with a cargo of fish, was run down in Barking Reach, and four individuals were drowned. The others were picked up soon afterwards. On Saturday afternoon, one of those fellows denomi nated "area sneaks, who are ever on the watch when s( rvants leave the kitchen, stole down the area-steps of Mr. Ellison's residence, No. 9, Half Moon-street, and succeded in carrying off some silver forks, two salt spoons, two silver sauce ladles, a soup ladle, a gravy spoon, and a pair of sugar tongs. The plate had the crest of an eagle's head with a coronet. There is every prospect of the old Tower ditch being added to the list of public walks at the east end of the town during the summer, and considerable activity is displayed in gravelling it, a solid foundation having been laid, and the drainage being very perfect. It will not be attempted to make a plantation, for which the nature of the subsoil quite unfits it, and the vegetation will be confined to a few flower-beds. The foundations for the new barracks in the interior have made but little pro. gress, although, in addition to the ordinary labourers, 100 soldiers are daily employed (Ai the works, for which they receive an extra payment of 101 per day. On Wednesday morning, .Tames, alias Jem Crow, aged twenty-eight years, terminated his existence by hanging himself. It appears that the deceased, who had kept a cheesemonger's shop in Walworth-street, Cam berwell, had latterly become very jealous of his wife, and in consequence lived very unhappily- He had spoken of letting his shop, and intended to have proceeded to town yesterday for the purpose of advertising it. He came down stairs at seven o'clock, and was seen in his shop about twenty minutes afterwards, but at eight o'clock he was discovered in the water-closet suspended with a cord. He was instantly cut down, and medical aid called in, but it was too late. THE LATE FATAL EXPLOSION AT BLACKWALL. CONCLUSION OF THE CORONER'S INQUIRY. Yesterday forenoon, the adjourned Coroner's inquest on the bodies of Jonathan Smith, Richard Grimes, George Chapman, and William Neale, who lost their lives by the late boiler explosion at INlessrs. Samuda's factory, at Blackwall, was renewed and concluded, at the Town-hall, Poplar, before Mr. Baker. The depositions of the witnesses (fifteen in number), who were examined at the preview inquiries on the body of Thomas Wright, another of the sufferers, for whose death a verdict of manslaughter has already been recorded against Mr. Lowe, the chief engineer, having been read over by , the Coroner, he briefly addressed the jury, and recommended them to return a similar ver dict in each case. This they unanimously agreed upon, and after the inquisition had been signed, the foreman handed in the following addenda:— " The jury cannot close this investigation without ex pressing their opinion, that the application of low pressure boilers to high pressure purposes is highly dan gerous, and ought to be prohibited by law. And they aro further of opinion that the important facts elicited in this inquiry should be laid before her Majesty's Govern ment, in the hope that some legislative enactment may be adopted whereby, if possible, to prevent that fearful destruction of human life which arises under the present imperfect system." The CORONER observed that the suggestions of the jury were very valuable, and he would not fail in for warding them to the proper quarter. The witnesses were then bound over to appear at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and the five warrants were placed in the hands of the police for the apprehen sion of Mr. Lowe and his committal to Newgate.„ TIIE ADMIRAL'S GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—The Earl of Haddington has conferred the Admiral's Good Service pension of 3001. per annum, which reverted to his Lordship's patronage by the decease of Vice-Admiral Sir T. Baker, on Vice-Admiral of the Blue Henry Hill. This Gallant Otliccr, who entered the navy in 1787, was midshipman of the Phoenix in her action with the French ship Resobi, in the East'lndies, in 1791 ; and subs (ineptly distinguished himself in the West Indies. He was Lieutenant of the Zebra at the reduction of the French islands there ; and was warmly engaged on shore in their capture, He served with the storming parties on a great many occasion°, and particularly in storming Fort Royal, Martinique, in 1794. In the fol. lowing year he was engaged in quelling an insurrection at St. Vincent's. In thataffair he was severely wounded, and had a pension of .25,0/. per iiniium granted to him for ‘i i tomid4 in 1415. Herald. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MAREAMS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41 10s ; use ful ditto, 4/ 12sto 5/4s; fine Upland do., 515 s to 5/10s; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, I/ 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 212 s per load. A limited supply, and a steady demand, at full prices. CUMBRRLAND.—Coarso Meadow Hay, 3/ 151 to 4/ 15s ; useful ditto, 4l 16s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to Si lOs; Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 5/ lis ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ is to 2/3s per load. Trade steady, at the above quotations. WiinEcturEi..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 41 145, useful ditto, 41 155 to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to 5/ 10s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 2s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. SOUTHALL, Maacii 26.—For the time of year we had a fair average supply of fat stock on sale to-day. Prime Sheep and Lambs were in steady request., at fully last week's quota tions. In other kinds of stock comparatively little business was doing. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10(1 ; Mutton, 2s 10d, to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 10(1 to 4s 8(1; and Pork, 3s to Ss 10d per Sibs. Simply—Beasts, 60 ; Sheep and Lambs, 2,968 ; Calves, 37 ; Pigs, 57. ROMFORD, AIARCIt 26.—We had only a moderate supply of stock here this morning, yet the general demand was in active, without any material alteration in prices. Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 5s to 63 ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 295; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s ; and Milck Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181103 each. LEWES, MARC!! 25.—Beef, from 2s 10d-to 4s; Mutton, 3s to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 4s to 45 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs. Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 15,1845, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat •. • ... 4 , s 5d I Oats ..... I 21s 8d Beans ••• • • • 34s Gd Barley .. •• • • 323 4d Rye . VERAGES OF T 1: 111 LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending Wheat. Barley Oats. r Rye. Beans. 30 6 35 0 29 2 3S 0 32 6 34 9 30 5, 34 8 31 1 34 7 30 5 34 6 Feb. lb.. • . M&r. 1.... 45 4 32 3 45 2 1 32 4 45 0 32 3 45 0132 2 45 1 32 2 45 5 32 4 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 4 21 8 Pease. 35 0 35 3 35 7 35 5 35 8 35 8 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS. Wheat • ... 455 2d Oats • I ••• •• .. 21 7d Beans •• ..• ••• 34 9d Barley •• •• I 325 3d Rye . - DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat ...... 20s Od I Oats . •••••• 6s Od I Beans •• •• •• •• Sa G 1 Barley •• •• •• 63 0,1 Rye . •• 103 Gd Poses• • •• •• • • 73 GU THE SALT-HILL MURDER. AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—In the course of yesterday evening, it was intimated to the condemned man, John Tawell, that the final event was close at hand. Upon being told that he may regard the remaining interim between himself and eternity more as hours than days, ho seemed somewhat shocked, and an ex clamation escaped him ; yet he did not inquire the precise day. There can be no doubt but that he clings to life in some degree, notwithstanding the resignation which he evinces. He certainly had not prepared him self for so early a day as Friday, but his self-command soon returned. Tawell has not at all maintained the character be assumed before his condemnation. Prior to his trial there was a degree of briskness, cheerfulness, and confidence about him, which has wholly departed since. The people about him term him " a wonderful man," consider him to possess excellent abilities, and ad mire his conduct. The behaviour which ho has ex hibited since his committal, and more especially sub sequent to his conviction, is said to be more and more studiously correct, than while in the world. This morning the culprit's wife and her daughter, Miss Cutforth, together with the brother, Mr. W. Ta well, arrived to take their final farewell. The prisoner had prepared several memoranda for his wife. His wishes were committed to paper with great method and accuracy. Minute commissions were set down, and various small and outstanding accounts. were mentioned. There is a chapel at Sydney upon which he has laid out 7001. or 8001., mind to this he has given much attention. He at:one time resolved upon making this property a present to the Society of Friends; but he has now de termined that they shall only use it rent free for a cer tain period, and upon condition of their keeping it in repair. This and other matters Were all adjusted, and having mentioned a trifling debt or two, he congratu lated himself upon not owing a penny, and remarked, that if anything further should come across his mind, he would commit it to paper. Upon this, as upon all former occasions, he never alluded to his crimes, nor in any of the numerous and long epistles which he has addressed to his wife, and to others of his family, has he men tioned the circumstances of the murder. The subject is one which he has always avoided. When pressed to reveal all that he knew concerning it, he always answered, "I am not prepared—l am not prepared ;" at the nine tune leaving an impression that something in the way of an explanation or confession would ulti mately appear. Mr. Wilcox, of Berkhampstead, urged him to confess so earnestly, that law his departure he expressed a disinclination to see - his reverend friend again. There is a reason for supposing that Tawell will write some kind of confession, if he has not done so already, and deliver it under seal to the chaplain, or the governor (1 the gaol, to whom he is very gratefully attached. This gentleman will sit up with him all night previous to his execution, and every possible precaution will be observed in order to prevent his carrying out a design which is regarded as probable outside the prison only—that of his destroying himself. Within the gaol, no such notion has been for a moment entertained. The latter part of the visit of Mrs. Tawell was spent in devotion: Iler husband prayed earnestly and elo quently. Miss Cutforth was deeply affected, and wept nearly all the time. Mrs. Tawell was reluctant to abandon all hope or intentit.n of seeing him again, having some vague expectation of a favourable commu nication from certain personages to whom petitions have been sent. This evening 'Tawell will be informed by the chaplain that Friday morning ends his earthly career. Independently of any confession of the murder, some extraordinary disclosures will be made relating to the fate of J ohn Tawell. [We shall give full particulars of the execution (h, Express) in our Afternoon Edition of tomorrow.] THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAFALGAR.SQUARE.—Yester day at one o'clock these fountains were put in operation for an experimental trial, which attracted a concour - e Of some hundreds of persons. Several experimental trials have been made previously to test the works, which have been ascertained to be complete, and they will again be put in operation to-day at the same hour. Although the water will ascend to a height of 40 feet, the jets were only suffered to play to a height of from six to eight feet, as with a greater ascent the water is driven by the wind to a considerable distance across the square. These trials are made with a view to ascertain the consumption of water, and the dispersing jets with the water running from the months of the dolphins into the basins had a very pleasing and novel effect. The fountains will be put in operation constantly as soon as the basins are repaired, they having got out of order, and the cement being cracked in many places from imperfect workmanship. Tho fountains are to play for 10 hours each day, such being the contract with the engineers of the works. The cistern from which they are supplied at the top of the engine-house in Orange-street holds 37,000 gallons of water, and the higher main at the top of the tower for the supply of the Government-offices about 20,000 gallons. Tara SCOTTISH Hosmar, —Yesterday, at one o'clock, a General Quarterly Court of the Governors and supporters of the Scottish Hospital was- held at the hall . of the corporation, Crane-court, Fleet-street, to receive the report of the past quarter. Dr. Webster in the chair. Major Adair, the secretary, read the report, from which it appeared that in January there had been relieved 297 Scotch poor, in February 318, and in March 310, at an aggregate expense of 721/. 2s. 6d., that a balance of 615/. 4s. had been placed in the beaker's hands, and that, in pursuance of a recommendation of the last Court, the Relief Committee had resolved to advise the medical officer's' to give wine and other nourishing diet that was necessary to the sick poor. 'The minutes being approved of; Mr. Noble moved a resolution of condolence, upon the death of the Honourable Mr. Fraser, of Saltoun, brother of General Lord Saltoun, one of the Vice-Pre sidents. The resolution was agreed to unanimously. The Court, having gone through other routine business, broke up. DEAD WEIGHTS.—There was an advertisement in the 'Ewes, the other day, for a couple of millstones. We understand that Sir R. Peel answered the announce ment, offering Sir James Graham. and Lord Stanley to the advertiser as a couple of millstones which he, Sir H. Peel, would have no objection to part with.—Punch. ACCIDENT TO AN ELDERLY MAN.—Yesterday afternoon, as a man named Dodsworth, 73 years of age, was crossing Oxford-street, he was knocked down by the horses attached to the waggon of Messrs. Parker, of the Old Bailey, and one of the wheels passed over his right leg, which was so dreadfully smashed by the occurrence, that on his being conveyed to St. George's Hospital, am putation of the limb was found to be necessary. interfere with the grossest social corruptions in its own bosom. CHRONICLE.—So far as the United States Govern ment is concerned, the annexation of Texas is, to em ploy the phrase now so often used to characterise acts of national rapacity, un fait accompli. We confess we are much more mortified than surprised to find this clues• tion terminated, like all others in which the Tory admi nistration had to combat the arts or the ambition, of foreign and of rival powers, that is, by the total discorne fiture of British interests and views, whether dictated by feelings of justice, of security, or of humanity. The question of the independence or absorption of Texas was handed over to the Tory Government as a fair field for the exertion of their diplomatic skill, and of the buns dred means at a governments disposal for the work ing out of its ends. In these the Tory Govern ment has most miserably failed. The American Go vernment have decided upon the annexation of this im mense country, containiug 300,000 square miles, and are about to establish over that region their system of slave-cultivation. It was, indeed, a question of life and death to American slavery, which, it confined to its own exhausted soils, must have declined, and met a natural death at no incalculable interval of time, but which no* have secured to it most ample room and root, cannot be expected to pause till it fills the whole territory to the Pacific, and deluges the fieve-Werld, from which it had been partly stayed or driven, with its flood of misery and crime. There is, indeed, one glimpse of hope, however faint, and that is the resistance by the Texans, Who might reckon in the present state of Mexico on a recognition by that power. But the independent feeling of the ;0,000 white citizens of Texas is, we fear, not proof against the augmentation of value which their lands and property would instantly gain by annexation to so poe erful an empire. And, especially as Lord Aberdeen or his Envoy are to be the sole prompters and supporters of this independent feeling, there can be small grounds for its maintepance or triumph. It is painful, indeed, to be thus driven to despair, painful to behold, without a struggle slavery, which we have so long and so extensively, and not ineffectually combated, thus regain what it has lost, and sweep, like a huge sea, in uncontrolled devastation. over a surface of such vast extent. Deplorable as is such a prospect, God grant we may not have to contemplate something worse. 11ER ALD.—The decision of the American State in favour of the annexation of Texas seems to have thrown the good citizens of the republic into a state of phrensy, one division of the republicans being mad withjoy and triumph, the other division as frantic with indignation and despair. There may be something in the le .r.ron scripts of North American politics to account for such extraordinary raptures on opposite sides, but we confess that we cannot fathom the mystery.. The admirers of negro slavery may rejoice at the prospect of an accession to the slave-owner's interest, , and the abolitionists may dislike such a prospect In a corresponding degree ; but what the decision of the two chambers authorising the President to annex the Texan territory to the United States, if he can by The means of negociation and 100,000 dollars, has to do with the safety of the American constitution, we cannot easily comprehend. The constitutionality or unconstitution ality of the proceeding, however, does not properly concern us, and we will not imitate the example of Mr. John Tyler by impertinently meddling in other people's affairs. We have our own opinion of the character and destiny of the American constitution ; but wtaitever our opinion, that constitution will run its course, and it will not less rapidly reach the appointed goal of all such systems, because of projects like that of the annexation, should the project take effect. Since writing the above the President's Message has reached us. A fter the usual rig marole, in the course of which Mr. Polk compliments his own country very warmly at the expense of " European monarchies," he dwells with much satisfaction on the decision of the American Senate in favour of the annexa tion of Texas, and assigns as an excuse for this viola tion of national faith, "that it is desirable to extend the peace policy of the United States." He also asserts, in most unequivocal language, the intention of the Ameri• cats Government to take possession of the Oregon. " Our title," says Mr. Polk, " to the country, is clear and un questionable;" and the world is called upon to admire the "peaceful triumph" of such a mode of acquiring ter ritory. On paper, at least, the disputed country is already occupied These are the only intimations in the Message calculated to excited any sort of sensation in Europe. When a man proposes to commit an aggression, nothing is more common than the befit f that he is merely asserting a right. Thereaire, however, two words to every bargain. POST.—We publish in to-day s - paper very impor tant intelligence from the United States. -This corn prkes, first, the resolution of the Senate confirming-that of the Congress with regard to the annexation of Texas; and, second, the speech of President Polk on his in auguration. The Senate, despite of all opinions to the contrary, has agreed to the resolution of the Congress, and Texas, so far as the United States is concerned, is a part of the Union. The new President has also expressed himself in favour of the proposal. True, an amendment was appended to the resolution of the Senate, but the amendment does not alter the bread fact • that the overgrown States of America are willing to sacrifice everything fur an addition to their already too wide- domain. 'rho news is certainly of a very grave character, and will re quire the utmost attention and care from the Executive in this country. It is true that Texas must be si'coa seating party to the contract, but it is equally evident that America is determined to use every effort to ac complish her purpose, a purpose which cannot but com promise the interests of this country in the new world, and which may lead to results of the highest importance. The other news will be found of no less interest. The President is determined to support the claim of the United States to the Oregon territory ; and, at the same`time, desires peace with all mankind. It is to be seen how both can be maintained. Plans for facilitating a passage across either of the two important isthmuses will always be of interest to the c ommerci al . public, if in the slightest degree plausible, and hence a} rench pamphlet, issued by the "Compegnie de l'lsthme de Panama," or the projectors of such a Company, is worth a brief notice. The notion seems to be to undertake the double method of railroad and canal to connect the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the scheme for the canal being apparently much le.-s matured than the other. It seems, however, that it would start at the • Bay of Limon, take the direction of the Chagres, and after availing itself of _the waters of this river, would enter the sea by the valley of the Caimito. The rough estimate of expense is 70,000,000 E, but this does not pretend to be anything like an accurate calculation. The projected railroad would take its origin likewi se at the Bay of Limon, would follo w the valley of the Chagres to the conflux of the Trinidad, elien it wou.d be put in connexi( n with the navigation, would continue in the valley of the Chagres to the conflux of the Cano-Que brado, when it would cross the Chagres by a bridge, and descending the valley of the Caimito, would finally reach Panama. The expense of the railroad is estimated at 11,000,000 f., and the plan seems to be, to execute this first, and during its execution to complete those obser vations which will be requisite for the promotion of the greater work, the canal.—Times. NEW PIER, GRAVESEND.—This work is now finished, and was on Monday morning throwp open tQ the public. The engineer is Mr. liedinan. - , - 9 - wt." Ai I 1 t I 1 - ' ii i Prf 7 :7 .: :r_ won