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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY' EVENING, MARCH 27, 1845: tattered, and not receipted as payments until February 'of the present year.—(Hear, hear.) Ho was anxious to "certain the effect of the new Poor-law Bill, and to enmpare th e expenses o f the first year under its opera withn their former heavy payments under the old 4 7: st em, and to his surpris e , he f ou nd i n th e fi rs t y ear Lsir rates were reduced one-halt (Hear, hear.) Now, I teY would recollect that the complaint against a union or !several parishes was that the poorer parishes would entails, heavier expense upon the richer parishes in the s ame union, and they naturally enough expected that walbrook would suffer heavily when in co partnership !fhb Whitechapel, but even with that drawback they ha al saved nearly one-half a year in poor-rates, and it could trot be said that this reduction arose from superior rteatgement because the same gentleman who managed to the former case was also chairman of the poor- law union. „ t r• Plight then referred to the letting of the houses in '''e parish, and cited some instances where the rental Was at a very low valuation, and that not in every case taid regularly. If the meeting were satisfied that Mr. 4 ock and himself had done their duty, they would be l ' e rY happy to allow themselves to be re-elected, and he OIL Plight) had no doubt that ultimately the cause of truth and of justice would triumph. He would re rat th en w h at h e h a d state d f ormer l y , t h at w h atever t e nds wer e wan t e d over th a t c ontrib u ted by th e p ar i s h- Lo ners, he should be happy to advance, without seeking an interest for it. un the motion of Mr. CUNLIFFE, Mr. Rock and Mr. Flight were re-elected Church wardens for the ensuing year. On the motion of Mr. f Mr. Henry Rock and Mr. Williams were elected over kers for the ensuing year. Mx. CROSBY, the vestry-clerk, then detailed the law ,theceedinfrbs between the parishioners and Mr. Gibbs. eY had not been able, in consequence of the impedi _tents throw n i n th e ir way, to g( t on so rapidly as they 7_Ould w i s h , b ut he ha d no d ou b t t h at i n t h e next term "e could give more satisfactory intelligence. CROLY then, in a lengthened and effective speech, , - " i jerted to the position of affairs, but the facts of it are "" embodied in the statement by Mr. Flight. . After Some further discussion the meeting adjourned the Bth of May. TRADES' DELEGATES CON FERENCE.—(THIS DAY.) The delegates assembled at half-past nine this morn at the Parthenium Club Rooms, and proceeded to ets cu __ kit is the recommendations in the report of the Cora t" on General Purposes. t o ld the C on f erence y e sterday a resolution was agreed tor the formation of " A Society, to be called the ra tiitst oc4 . a „ ti on of United Trades for the Protection of In- The following recommendations of the Com- It pe were also adopted this morning:— th e ' A Central Committee to carry out the objects of f k said Association, and the formation of a fund to de- Y the necessary expenses. t i : 3 - The l ea di ng o bj e cts of the Association may be lt isible into two departments—the first external, hay ,:l...reference t o th e influence of the Legislature on the 0 7dition of the industrious classes; the second internal, t o efforts made by the trades to improve their own editio n ) 34 T , e delegates then proceeded to discuss " the este *htlalnent of local boards of trade, similar to those tol°l have so long existed in France and g i am, composed of masters and operatives, Whom a ll m atters affecting the regulation of b:gas, duration of labour, disputes, &c., shall ofi r eferred, and their decisions have the authority thAzt Committee A very favourable opinion was expressed by as to the effect of the adoption of such a % o ral ; but considerable difference of opinion prevailed lil t ° r ig the delegates. It was objected to by some as ta e ? to place the operative classes under the tyranny of te s ters, and to make their condition worse than it is at t h e llt , Other delegates considered that nothing but itrrangernenb of this nature could remove the existing ses, and thought that both masters and men would be tit by i t. 4t• DELEGATE, a working man in the coal - mines of North e shire, spoke at considerable length, and in a strain of °( 1 fleece that proved him to be a man of great intelli 141ae, of the very many hardships which his peculiar de titinPtion of labour subjected the working miners to. He ttq ri bed the different gasses exiting in the coal mines their deleterious effects on the human constitution. ei h pre an instance of the destruct ive cons equences of li,r,2sive gasses, by which he said 17 men lost their NZ , )•et their employers refused to pay the expense of Ike i"lag the dead bodies. This statement was followed "Aid cries of " Shame." These, he said, were his rea ea for agreeing in the opinion that local boards of trade _VA act as a protection to the working classes. lii;' l) xeEcek , rx, who represented the tailors, expressed .1 1 PPrehensions for the stability of the proposition even should be carried out ; and he thought it would be i t : if each t r ade could place itself in a position to assist cf in th e fi rs t instance before it turned its attention to li s , uPport of others. hi gh DELEGATE from the linen-weavers of Beverley of Y approved of the proposition, and gave instances 144 1 " e hardships the linen-wearers suffered by the ab le,of it. is that s k -LJELEGATE from Bull cited cases where shipowners th e "St town were also magistrates ; and in consequence p oo t aest monstrous decisions had often been made when Ni t °len made appeals to those parties for their wages. ki w tbat could never occur if a local board of trade CI in that town. spt4 DELEGATE from the block-printers of Kent said he h, Cher in favour than against the proposition ; but th ts h aad, if those local boards were of so much benefit in *s e ° and in Belgium, how did it happen that so little known in this country of their co-operation ? %ki t • CaRISTOPHER, on the part of the London shoe kler,3. expressed his surprise at the sentiments he had to 6.. l ,istening to, which be said would be calculated sts,."‘a people to believe that the working men had Its,' found sympathy from their employers -, but lis e ijeald like to know when and where that had ever ip h .eaPerienced. He would ask, what did the work- IritC,!a mean by asking to be placed upon equal terms thi t , L 'Qeir employers in courts of Justice ? Did they Ste that, if even there were an equal number of masters ter men in a court that would be placing them on equal for s ? If they did, they never were more mistaken, tfo r ",,uatt were the masters present that they did not Ste t the day ?—(Hear.) He feared the project would ma found productive of the good anticipated. Se rel t. the debate concluded, and qr. FLEMING, Chairman of the Committee, then rose, so t daid that as it was not likely that anything new /to ti f., be offered in favour of the proposition, he 1116 4 take a short review of the objections raised to it. Noi, be did at great length, and then described the 1 4 0 48 . ,°Perandi of the proposed boards of trade, which *„ort` Consist of six persons—three masters, and three `sei t lg men, and all questions referred to them for decision were determined by a majority of votes, i st k t herefore an unfair or unjust decision could hardly V t a i t i l a ; and, if any peculiar difficulty arose, the board hire ,power to call in an umpire. !tat e ,' w Atm, block- printer, corroborated Mr. Fleming's set i Zeat as to fixing the rates of prices for menu 'Ss 4 ng articles on the continent for certain periods of N , ear• He said he had workedfive years in Belgium, l tt fo und th such to be the fact. He knew men to work u 'strort,t, th at from sun-rise to sun - set for 10 d.; but ,at sum went further than 2s. 6d. in this country. t (t . "'LEGATE from the wool-combers of Bradford was titsjanr of the boards of trade, if for no other purpose !!spi r , t ° prevent the workman from approaching his Ittiler in too humiliating a position, or being the 'ca n sfj of their long purses. — (Hear, hear.) But the loy o le g men could-never be respected by their em tlst:re so long as they did not respect themselves, or N os sal themselves something better than mere machines fed to make fortunes for their masters, and then die, A r ent, miserable paupers.—(Hear, hear.) l'h t :r i .,some few other observations, tZD o : ; . 3 IAtamAN suggested an alteration in the fourth iC h itlen which he contended would have the effect of the' acts of the boards free from the consequences tl 'th ee astructive conspiracy and decisioe." — (Hear.) alteration was in substance that an application L'a made to Parliament for an Act to legalise the The meeting of those local boards. lteeting then adjourned for an hour. .44 -ifi SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) I) °N, MAncii 27.-Wind southerly ..sT b l r ‘ e r et A ai r - i r d a c . l s ou ou d.r h . M 26t0 W.A. . • C A hi c n i a l ; Amphitrite, Davison, 11 muffins ; Char , tw, Weble, Mauritius ; Britannia, Lyme for St. John's, k g , t , 4 nswick. Sid. li saved! South Stockton t 71 14 1; i 4 e Margaret Thompson, and the crew of the ,P• le P• The Janet, of Alloa from Shie . hi g s , to bu C t o iN ns a t s an a t s i: on the Goodwin Sand ' s this mornin Il ith nh t)ll With loss of an anchor, and anchored in the Downs 4 a PParent damage. "CI, L h - "J - 111, MAncif 26.-Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze.- -a chelor, Na in, Ichaboe ; Andes, Smith and Cynthia, 2Ztohrthhy, Pernambuco ; Guiana, Kueft, , Fernando Po, - and sld. for London. Off Falcon, Rio, for k ,,„; r P ; Niord Kaufman, Havaunah, for'do. t _ v.N.w._ "td, 10 Lou'rit 'M kncii 26.-Wind N.W. \ l ith e i:res, Jamaica. Off Oriental, steamer, Alexandria, loft Kincar -1,11.1144\1PT0v Marten 25.-The Hawkhill, • ich had picked up at sea the crew of a v o e f ssel from nameunknocvn, was passed off Cadiz by the t l'i,,"teaner arrived hero. `chaCT°W, biaacit 25.-Wind W.-Arrd. Neptune, Jolly, `)'• 4, 4 ZWI, 11 Iwncit 26.-The sloop Endeavour, of Tenby, 't "e beer, fell over on her broadside last night, and on Po i :w,ing tide filled. "tla f',:' 1 AiLatoT MARCH 25 -The Two Sisters,. Wood,. of ::1 11 4 t,a 11 ,11,t ? l ita 'rn si iti o l t t t li 3 , tl s .i t t ra 2h6i c s k -m ‘ on the Bar in coming in last making much water. ngu packet, with t m he .. frorn this p'ort, ! had not arrived at Perna the 12th of February. • a Y serve as an useful caution connected with 14 t i oe gt) ,„ railw aY8, to mention a circumstance which has 1, /4 - sm r red with regard to one proposed to be formed e e - ig tat , e of S dinia the name of which need not i`ootssPe-'eu- Thrcircular issued states, that subscrip 44%dare received by the London Joint-stock Bank, in 1 / 4 ()r r uti ' by a banking -house at Vienna, and by Messrs. e t i (l, Alberti, and Co., and Mr. Bartolomeo Parodi, at 1 11. ( , ) : t. „ The latter, by , a letter of the 18th inst., de ,frig- 'oat his name has been used without his know the I% °r ; e " s ent, and that he is in no way concerned in °Act question.-Times. pIete%OPOLITAN IN I PROVEMENTS.-There is a COM. Istr"t clearance of tho houses from Holborn to Lily of the Saffron-hill, comprising more than three-fourths f ork: ( l l , is ta.oce to Clerkenwell, and the op r e o n ad re i m s nnaenatrloyf flit 1 , ' 0 its proper level, the y whole 40411°e", Fleet ditch having been covered over. No an the „erzlont, however, has yet been made for the sale of lapyi alai nder. The road now complete from White ou Spitalfield's Church has been formed and paved Nvl lo - l e ",.bide, the gas lamps having been erected, and the ct ,_ nue to the docks will be ready for traffic in the 44 " 9 / the summer. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI l'Y 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. I Is. 3d. ; New Shares, 34 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring ton, 6 1 % ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4% .44 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% to 9 3 / 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10%, Bs. 9d. ; Caledonian, 9% 16s. 3d. 3 / 4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 46%; Ditto, Half Shares, at 5 dis. ' ex div., 23 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8 1 4 ; Churnet Valley, 7 7 1 4 ; Clydesdale Junction, 10 10 1 / • Cork andpandon, ; Direct Northern, 4% 1 / 2 ; Dublin and Belfast, 6%; Dublin and Drogheda, ex. div., 86%; Dublin and Galway, 3 1 / a ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2% ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Eastern Counties, ex div., 21 1 4 21 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div„ 61 1 / 2 ; Ditto, New Shares, 5% %; Glesgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18 1 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 9 1 4 ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 21.25. ; 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 1 / 4 ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 7%; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Limerick and Waterford, 4 1 4 ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 6%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3/. lls. 3d. 3%; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 31 1 4 ; London and Brighton, ex div., 62% 3 / 4 ; Lon don and South-Western, ex div., 80; London and York, 3 1 % % ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 5/. 3s. 9d. W. ss. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester and Buxton, 1% ; Manchester and Leeds, ex div., 145 • Midland Stock, ex div., 141% ; Ditto, 401. Shares, ' 14% 15 1 8 ; Ditto, Birmingham, and Derby, ex div., 109%; Newailt and Sheffield, 4 1 / 2 •%; North British, New Shares, 4% •, North Wales, 2%; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4% 4 ; Preston and Wire, 32 1 % ; Scottish Central, 5 1 ,i ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. ss. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 112 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4% 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wori•erhampton, and Birmingham, 5 1 4 ; South-Eastern, ex new, 43; Ditto, New Shares, 16i die., ex New, 11 3 / 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 8 1 4 8% ; South Wales, 6% ; Trent Valley, 22% ; Ulster, ex div., 44 1 / 454 ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 21. 195.; Northern of France (English), 6 1 % 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 4/. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto, New Shares, V. :s. 6d. ; Ditto (Gan neron's), 2/. Its. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2% ; 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 affeeted their value yesterday shortly before the market closed. Consols have been 9914 to 99 3 / 4 for present transfer, and 99% to 99 3 / 4 for Account. Exche quesiebills 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 • hour, must become critical. The value of the Bonds this morning has been 35%, being dull. Colombian Stock has been up to 15% and 15 1 4. Spanish Bonds have been 29% to 3 / 4 for the Actives, and 7 for the Passives. Portu guese Converted have realised 62 1 /, and Brazilian 91%. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been 63% 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 Anns 99 1,41% India Bonds 1,000/ ••• - Ditto under 1,000/ 6B Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,000/. I 500/. - ..... 55 57 pm. Ditto Small — PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9lp Columbian Bonds. l5 es 15 1 / 2 1 4 Dall:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent 9O / 2 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 2 9% 3 / 4 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 ••• 21/ 3V4... to Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 82 1, 12...... to to Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian S 2 I A 3/36% to 4 Cambridge and Lincoln ... 1% 7 , 6% to 7M Chester and Holyhead S .... 8 Churnet Valley 2 ...... 6 7% to 7 Cornwall ... Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1% lq to 2 1 4 Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 Dublin and Galway Eastern Counties Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ...... 62 ...... to Ditto New % Shares 1 % ... Ely and Bedford 21 4 ... Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 ...... 14 1 5 Ditto Extension Great Western - to H arw i c h 1 Hull and Selby . . .. 50 Ditto Quarter Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... l5 . .... 36% to London and Birmingham ...100 232 ...... to Ditto Quarters London and Blackwell 16% 7%%... to London and 8right0n........ 50 London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d..• 16.. ... to 17M London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d 1 0 34 co London and South Western.. 41% 79 A t o London and Y0rk...,.... ....... 2%...... 3%M 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 Arne. 24 ...... 47% Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick l% l 4l Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% 2 to Newark and Sheffield North British Ditto New 1 .. ... 4 1 4 1 ,4 to Northern and Eastern North Wales l l4 2p%... to Norwich and Brandon lO ... 16 2 to Ditto New 1 Richmond and West End Junc. 1 Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 Scottish Midland l% 2 4 / 4%... to Shrews.,Wolver., Dad., Birm. 2% 4 % 3 / 4— to 5 South Devon South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 42% %IA to Ditto New, N 0.2 ...... 2 . .. 11 3 / 4 to Ditto New, No. 3 2% 8 to South Wales Trent Valley Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3M%... to York and North Midland Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux and Toulouse Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2 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 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, 57M ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5 1 1 4 prem. ; Midland Rail way Consols, 40/. Shares, 14% ; Preston and Wyre, 33% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and C eshire Junction, 9% ; Black burn, Dawen, and Bolton, 4 % ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 10 1 4 ; Caledonian, 10 ; Clambridge and Lincoln, 6% ; Erewash Valley, 15 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3 1 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 3 / 4 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% 4 ; London and York, 3% 1 4 • Manchester and Buxton, 2 1-16 ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% ; Scottish Central, 5% ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 4 1-16 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 5 ; Trent Valley, 16% ex new ; Great Northern of France (English), 6%. 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, WALHAM 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 EXPLOSION.—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 frequent occurrence, and it is seldom that they can be satisfactorily accounted for. MTDDLESEX 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. Ballan tine appeared on the part of the inhabitants by whom the indictments were preferred, and which were in most cases disposed of in a similar manner. 7'hos. 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 ono 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- SISTANT-JUDGE said l►e had considerable doubts whether he ought not to transport the prisoner. However, he should give him one chance more. The prisoner was then sentenced to six momths' imprisonment with hard labour in the Hou4e of Correction. MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY.) _EAT INZARZETS. SMITHFIELD.— 61.7 s e Meadow Hay, if lOs to 41 lOs ; use ful ditto, 41 12s to 5/4s ; fine Upland do., 5/5s to 5/10s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6l; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 21; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2l 2s per load. A limited supply, and a steady demand, at full prices. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 15s to 4/ 15s ; useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5l 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to 51 10s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 5/ 178; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2/ Is to 2133 per load. Trade steady, at the above quotations. WrirrEctrApEr..—Coarse Meadow Hay, Si 12s to 4/ 14s; useful ditto, 4/ 15s 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, 21 to 2/ 2s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. Weeks Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Pease. ending Feb. 15.... 45 4 32 3 21 7 30 6 35 0 35 0 22.... 45 2i 32 4 21 7 29 2 35 0 35 3 Mar. 1.... 45 0 32 3 21 7 32 6 34 9 35 7 8.... 45 0 32 2 21 7 30 5 34 8 35 5 15. ~ 45 11 32 2 21 4 31 1 34 7 35 8 22.... 45 5i 32 4 21 8 30 5 34 6 35 8 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE SIX WEEKii. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TIIE SIX WEEMS. • Wheat ...• • . 45s 2d I Oath ........21 7d I Beans ........34 9tl Barley .....• 32s 3d Rye • . DUTIES ON FOREIGN Cl Wheat ••• • •• 20s Od Oats . 65 Od Barley •• •• •• 6s Od I Rye . •••• •• lOs 6d :ORN. Beans •• •• •• •• 8s Gd Poase•• •• •• •• 78 6d THE SALT-HILL MURDER. AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—Iii 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, he 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 he 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 he 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., and to this he has given much attention. fie 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 same time 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 after 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 cf 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. Her 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 intenticn 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 Jahn Tawell. [We shall give full particulars of the execution (by Express) in our Afternoon Edition of to-morrow.] THE FOUNTAINS IN TRAIALGAR-SQUARPl.—Yester day at one o'clock these fountains were put in operation for an experimental trial, which attracted a concour:o 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 mouths 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. The 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. r .1 H B SCOTTISH HOSPlTAL. —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 chak. Major Adair, the secretary, read the report, from whip it appeared that in January there had been relieved 297 Scotch poor, in February 318, and in March 310, at an aggregate expense of 7211. 2s. 6d., that a balance of 6151. 4s. had been placed in the banker's hands, and that, in pursuance of a recommendation of the last Court, the Relief Committee had resolved to advise the medical officers 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. Tho Court, having gone through other routine business, broke up. DEAD WElGnTs.—There was an advertisement in the Times, the other day, fur 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 R. Peel, would have no objection to part with.—Punch. ACCIDENT TO IN 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 putatioa of th© limb Nyco found to be necoutry. 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 anchristianise, 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-lIOUSE. * This person has executed the above-named compound functions during seventeen or eighteen years. Some years since he was accustomed to eat his food in the bone-house, during the performance of his nightly tasks. Of late he has become more fastidious, and wears a " band-leather," to avoid contamination from the con tact of the coffin-wood. Some time ago he told one of his associates that "'pen 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 nightwork in the bone-house. The man has frequently " let his fire down," and has been chidden by his employer for so doing. He has replied that " the wood was wet." His 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. A late " manager" of the ground has entered the bone house 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 cighteenpence fee they lacked, a shawl, an apron, or even duplicates, whilst the following Machiavelian trick has been often practised :—The corpse being taken into the parlour of the " manager," he has removed 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 demurred, that he " would compel them to bury it in a regular way, by an undertaker." 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 filled 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 of this family grave, —, was "doubled 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-house, the fire being alight at the time. The " manager" has frequently been on the watch through the wicket of the large 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 most 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, 1843, 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. Greenwood, 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 Times 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 • flip, 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. Tho 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 coffins in the Spa-fields burying-ground ; 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 standeth 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. " 1 "" 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 wood of the coffins ; and that 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 thousand bodies have been pretended to be buried in this ground. That this plaoe 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-hard 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 watchmpu in this ground are provided with fire-arms. Take off your patteae." sand human bodies must have been displaced, mutilated, and mixed with the moist soil of this grave-yard, lung before the process of natural decay can have taken place. That it is a common practice in this ground to displace the stones marking the graves of deceased persons whose relatives have purchased the ground in perpetuity. That thus a fraud is perpetrated on the living, and gross indecencies inflicted on the dead, whose bodies are fre quently mutilated and displaced to make room for fresh corners. " That your petitioners desire to express their un feigned satisfaction and gratitude that the practices re sulting from the interment of the dead in towns have been the subject of a long, searching, imp ar ti a l, an d 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, &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. BURIAL-GROUND OF ST. SA VIOUtt'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 ;he present state of the grave-yard of this parish is such ;hat the burial of the dead ought to be discontinued ;herein. " 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. DEFENSIVE ASSOCIATION OF SURGEONS. A meeting of a few members of this body was held at the Literary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-square, last evening, for the purpose, as the advertisement 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, viz.:— " 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 without 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 leading 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 apon 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 trifled 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 i knowledge, n which, in a moral point of view, he could not be too particular, as he invariably became acquainted with the most privat e a ff a i rs o f a family, and, therefore, IT 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 de Sante, or officers of health," existed ; but the Minister of public Instruction having ascertained, through the report of a commission issued for the pur pose, from the profession 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 would ask why not pursue the same course in this country ?—(Hear, hear.) Ile regretted that what was called the Warburton Committee had not been attended with results such as thi s ; b u t unfor tunately 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. MORRIS seconded th e reso l u ti on , w hi c h th e meet ing, consisting of about twenty persons, declared to be adopted unanimously. Mr. HEALY, 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 com munity, complained of the slight which would be thrown on the midwifery branch of the profession by the pro posed Dill, though none would deny that the midwifery branch was one demanding as much care and attention as any other. Mr. LANE seconded the resolution, and it was declared carried. Messrs. Griffiths, Waite, and Osborne proposed and seconded some other resolutions, which having been passed, Mr. Griffiths was called to the chair, and a rote of thanks having been passed to Mr. Wyse, the meeting separated. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTIIALL, MARCH 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 10d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 8s 10d per Blbs. Supply—Beasts, 60 ; Sheep and Lambs, 2,968 ; Calves, 37 ; Pigs, 57. ROMFORD, MARCH 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 6s ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 293; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s ; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 103 each. _ _ LEWES, MARCH 25.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s to 4s 6d ; Lamb, Ss to 6s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Slbs. 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 .:.. Barley .... 458 5d I Oats ....•• .. I 21s 8d Beans •• •• • 32s 4d Itye•• •• 30s 5d Pease .•• •• • "ERAGES OF TI - 111 LAST SIX WEEKS. 345 6,1 355 Sd SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltr Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. 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 veTers 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 Astoodee 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. He dressed like a beggar, and when his personal eacts were sold off by auction his wardrobe etched 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 Gazette 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 just occurred there. A. native of Tunis, who at Malta had embraced the Chris tian religion, having arrived at Monestier in an English trader, the Cadi seized him, and it was with difficulty that he escaped death at the bands of the excited popu lace. The English Consul at Susa having been apprised of what was going on by an English sailor, went to the spot, and, having insisted upon the release of the man, he was set at liberty, and an apology was made by the Cadi. 11.11117 AND POZZON. In the case of France v. Dawson, tried at Oxford before Mr. Baron Platt, the jury found for the plaintiff, damages 25/. 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 unprovoked assault 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 lenee. Herbert was fined 10s., or a fortnight's impri sonment ; Carter was fined 205., or a month's imprison ment. _ _ James Ward, a 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 011iver, Esq., of Wimble- don-common, was fully committed from Wandsworth. COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Post 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. G eorge'e 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 be played over once more, and was much delighted with the composition and the manner 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-Thames by the incumbent. The following inscription is engraved upon the pedestal:—" Presented to the Parish Church of St. Mary, Hampton, by the Rev. Edward Johnston, MA., Vicar. Easter, 11145." 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 Bencb, where they will undergo discussion in the course of a few weeks on behalf of the associated non-freemen. On 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 Blackwell- 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 servants leave the kitchen, stole down the area-steps of Mr. Ellison's residence, No. 9, Half Moon-street, and succedod 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 cast 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 ♦ery 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 on the works, for which they receive an extra payment of 10d. per day. On Wednesday morning, James, 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 ber% ell, had latterly become very jealous of his wife, and in consequence lived very unhappily. Ho 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 Messrs. Samuda's factory, at Blackwall, was renewed and concluded, at the Town-hall, Poplar, before Mr. Baker. The depositions of the witne sses (fifteen in number), who were examined at the previous 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 boen signed, the foreman handed in the following a ddenda:— " 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 are 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 prev en t th a t f ear f u l destruction of human life which arises under the present imperfect system." The CORONER observed that the suggestions of the jury were very valuable, and be 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 Nevvgate.; TUE 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 Officer, who entered the navy in 1787, was midshipman of the Plicenix in her action with the French ship Resolu, in the East Indies, in 1791 ; and subse quently 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 groat many occasions, 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 250/. per annum granted to him for wounds in ISM—Herald. PROCEEDINGS at WASHINGTON• FROM THE DRAINING 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 rtain a strong moral objection against it ; and their arguments are on record. It was clear, however, that the mass of the Union, its newest and most active ele ments, were in favour of the measure. Their eyes were always reverting to Texas. Texas unappropriated, like independent Megara within sight of Athens, was 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 and impolitic 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. Mr. Tyler completes his career with a determination which 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 project imposed upon him at the first moment of his official existence. We in the old world have long since chastised one another's desires to at least the language of modesty and mutual deference. The President is not overawed by the presence of one sovereign power in the length and breadth of his conti nent. Hence he feels no indecency in expressing, in glorifying every aggressive impulse of the heart. Th© citizen, he says, must rejoice when a frontier line is re moved, when he can communicate freely, commercially and politically with his neighbours, without the restric tions of trade, or the interference of foreign claims, and foreign polities and morals. When such rejoicings are arguments, then we may reasonably fear for the invidi ous frontier lines of the St. Lawrence, not to speak of that other on the westward of the Rocky Mountains. 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 consti tutional unity, and interdicting moral and religious in terference between the inhabitants of adjacent valleys ; but human nature has assigned less to system, and more to spiritual influences. Sho will soon detect the hollewe ness of union without unity, and of a political combina tion that aims to embrace the world, while it is afraid to 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 ques 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 discom 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 WR6 handed over to the Tory Government as a fair field for the exertion of their diplomatic skill, and of the hun dred means at a government's 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, containing 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, if confined to its own exhausted soils, must have declined, and met a natural death at no incalculable interval of time, but which now, 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 New World, 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 Mcxioo on a. recognition by that power. But the independent feeling of the 70,000 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 powerful an empire. And, especially as Lord Aberdeen or his Envoy are to be the sole prompters and supporters of this independent feeling, there can bo small grounds for its maintenance 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 wo may not have to contemplate something worse. HERALD.—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 with joy and triumph, the other division as frantic with indignation and despair. There may be something in the lex 'Tors scripta 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 negotiation 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 whatever 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 can 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 belief that he is merely asserting a right. There are, however, two words to every bargain. POST.—We publish in to-day's paper very impor tant intelligence from the United States. This com prises, 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 broad fact that the overgrown . States of America are willing to sacrifice everythi ng for an addition to their already too wide domain. The 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 11con senting party to the contract, but i t i s 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 the new world, importance. • which may load to result s of the hi g hest • The other news will be found of no less interest. The President is determined to rapp ort 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 willpassage across eith e r o f the two important isthmusesalways be of i n t eres t t o t h e commercial public, if in the slightest degree plausible, and hence a French pamphlet, issued by the "Compagnio 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 les 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 likewise at,the Bay of Limon, would follow the valley of the Chagres to the conflux of the Trinidad, when it would be put i n connexion 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 11,000,0001., and the plan seems to be, to execute this first, and during its execution to complete these 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 thrown open to the public. 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