The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. IRON THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The near approach of tpe he heren Parliament will be called upon to decide whe the property and income-tax shall be abandoned, or con tinued in a modified form for a longer period, invests with peculiar interest the question of its superior fit ness as a means of obtaining the necessary supplies for the government and defence of the country, to an indirect system of taxation. This question is dis missed, with considerable clearness, in the pamphlet on the property-tax by G. P. Bushe, Esq., to which we alluded on Monday. We resume our notice of that pamphlet, for the purpose of examining the writer's views on the expediency of continuing, and even perpetuating, the tax on property as a sub stitute for the existing system. Mr. Bushe strongly advocates a modification of the present income-tax, so ea to convert it into a property tax, which shall be levied upon every description of property in the United Kingdom, whether the proprietor resides at home or abroad. One of the arguments—the expense of collect ing the indirect taxes—adduced in support of this re .commendation, is worthy special attention. The pro portion which the means bear to the end, will always be a consideration in the fiscal arrangements of a wise Government :—" The Customs produce annually about 22,000,0001., and the expense of the establish ment, in all its department, civil and military, for collecting this sum, is about 2,400,0001., or nearly 11 per cent. on the amount received. Now, according to the best authorities, about 19,000,0001. of the Customs' duties are „obtained with comparative little difficulty or expense ; and it is to secure the other 3,000,0001. that a great part of the establishment is required; the proportion of which is estimated at about 1,000,0001., or 33 per cent. on the sum collec ted." This most improvident expenditure—this waste of public money, the impolicy of which a careful re vision of our present system of taxation would expose, and thus pre pare for its abandonment—is thus illus trated :—" If a merchant sends his clerk to call in moneys due to him ; and, on his return, the clerk makes out a bill for expenses amounting to one third of the sum brought home, the merchant will assuredly Investigate the matter, and introduce very material alterations into his system of proceed ing. Yet it is in a precisely analogous manner that England, the most commercial nation in the world, has for a long time collected a large portion of her revenues, and still continues to collect them. An abo lition of the Customs' duties which produce these three millions, would enable the Government to reduce the expense of a Customs' department by about a million —a clear saving to the country to this considerable ex tent. It is certain that the demands of the revenue must be supplied. The great mass of the labouring poor can only be enabled to pay an increased rate of taxation by an increased rate of wages; so that, after all, the. means of taxation must be furnished by the wealthier chimes. Some of these may be tempted to cry out against the increase of taxation to which they would be subjected by a tax upon property ; but without reason. The further taxation is removed from capital, and the more indirect its operation, the greater must be the cost of its collection ; or, in other words, the greater must he the sum lost in gather ing it in, and the greater the gross amount re quired for the services of the State. Nothing can be more unequal than the pressure, nothing more expen sive than the collection, of revenue from the great masses of the population. If the labourer is to pay one shilling, the capitalist will have to supply him with much more than one shilling, in order to make up for the waste and profits, of capital while passing through so many hands-downwards, from the capitalist to the labourer ; and upwards, from the la bourer to the tax-gatherer. The ultimate saving to the community by a system of direct taxation would be immense. Nor is this the only form in which the people would find relief from the substitution of direct for indirect taxation. It is under the veil of indirect taxa tion that monopoly, with all its miserable conse quences, has been allowed to stalk through the land. It is only because the evil is not discovered in its natural hideousness, that a bread-tax in the shape of corn-laws, or sugar-tax in the shape of protection to the West India interests, has been allowed to carry on its inordinate exactions. Were the wants of the State supplied from the property of its subjects, 'with out any circumambulations, the benefit would be felt by all. The burden would be equally distributed; and payment for protection would be made in pro portion to the value of the property protected. STANDARD.—At a late hour yesterday it was determined to withdraw the addition to the statute " de auetoritate," &c., intended to be proposed at the Oxford Convocation on the 13th prox. We deeply regret this determination, but we have been tome time prepared for it by the multitude and variety of objections to the intended proceed ings which we have heard from different quarters— objections not proceeding from the - Romanist party only or principally, but from men who highly prize the Protestant character of the Church and Univer sity prize it above everything, except — each man's display of his own private wisdom. It is a melan choly reflection that in the age in which we live, no united effort can ever be made upon mere reason and conviction—passion is the only feeling that will so far discipline our rampant self-opinion as to bring us to act in perfect harmony. Tell any one in cold blood that he must sacrifice this crotchet or that scruple to ensure the success of a common enterprise, and he will tell you that his crotchet orscruple is very precious in his eyes, and that he is not a man to compromise his own convictions in even a trifling matter ; while in this very obstinacy about trifles he is making the meanest and most unprofitable of all compromises—selling a noble end for the saving of some petty means. This wretched temper of the time is almost a sufficient excuse for those who inflame men by appeals to their most violent passions before calling upon them to act in pursuit of any important object, a complete excuse for the authorities in the Church declining to take any definite course in repressing the evils that threaten the Church, and ultimately the State, with ruin. Men can be brought to concur in nothing ' definite, because such concurrence involves the humiliating confession, that there are others in the world as wise as one's self ; the offer of the most simple definite proposition is a sum mons to the exercise of that most vulgar and universally diffused of talents, the talent for " picking holes." What simpler proposition, in deed, can be imagined than this, that " men ought to be made to say only what they mean, and to mean what they say r Yet this is the proposition which cannot be safely hazarded at a convocation of a Christian Protestant university. This state of the public mind is distressing, not merely as affording protection to the most serious evils, but as proof of a great intellectual decline. Great men wrestle with or dispose of objections that little men weave about themselves, like some insects, until they are smothered in them. We need not reflect long to know whether the manufacturers of or the tramplers upon objections most advance the knowledge and the happiness of mankind ? Not all the Germans that ever lived—and they have ever been and are the great artists in this line—have done so much for human knowledge and learning as Locke and Butler, Bentley and Porson—men more remarkable for nothing than their contempt of the objection trade. The most eminent objector that ever disgraced this country was Mr. Malthus. He objected to feeding the poor, lest they should exhaust the granaries of Providence. He had his day, as the objectors to making men speak truth will, we suppose, have theirs. Posterity will look upon both with equal contempt and pity. But Mr. Malthus was the cause of inde scribable evil ; and the objectors of whom we have now to complain will, we have no doubt, be the authors of even worse evil. Let us not be understood 'as imputing blame to the Oxford Board ; they have done their part nobly in, framing the sta tute, and perhaps they have used a sound discretion in withdrawing it. We know not whether it is com petent to a single member of Convocation to propose the measure. If so, we have no doubt that it will be proposed—aye, and carried too—while the Board will he relieved rom the responsibility of having it . carried by a small majority. MONEY MARKET and CITY NISW6 CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12f per mille which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10}d, pis ounce fer standard gold gives an exchange of 2: 46 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at sho. bein g 25 , 65 , it follows that gold is 0.74 per cent dearer in London than in Paris. By advises from Harnburgh the price of gold is 41.1 per mark, which, atthe English Mint price of 3/.175. Mit. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 jti; and the exchange at Hatoburgh on London at shot: being 13 10i, it follows that gol f is 0.57 per cent. deems in London than in Hamburgh. The English securities were pretty steady to-day, ants prices underwent no material alteration. The Govern went broker continues his official investments in Threq• per Cent. Reduced and Three and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities ; and these, with the purchases of the publ'e who, notwithstanding the large amount of business doin g in shares, by no means neglect the old Gove rn me n t stocks, give the market altogether a very health; appearance. The operations in the foreign market have been almost wholly confined to Spanish, which has further improved, although the highest prices of the day were not maintained towards the conclusion of business. The favourite stock, the Three per Cents., was done at the top figure of 41, but .11‘11-uly aSterwards declined, an ! closed at to The rise in Spanis h within the last 40f few days, and which has been cons i de rable, appears mainly to be caused by the punctual payment of the di vidends, and the hopes entertained that they will not fail in future. It must, however, be remarked, that the greater part of the buziaess transacted is among the speculators ; and as this is conkssedly one of the chief THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, '1845. of the speculative stocks, we should not be at all sur prised if a reaction to the full extent of the rise shortly takes place. The opinion is, that the advance has oc curred too suddenly to be of a permanent character. In Railway Shares there is still a very large extent of dealing. The constant , accession of new securities, and the interest a numerous class of capitalists take in this description of investment, have quite given an altered appearance to the business of this market. Compared with what is really doing in the other de partments, we should say the dealings in shares exceed by almost double the amount of business done either in English securities or foreign stocks. Nothing like the activity that is at present observable in this quarter of the Stock Exchange was ever before known. The only fear is, that all this activity and buoyancy . cannot last for ever; and that when the day of reckoning comes with the desperate speculators, they will find it a heavy and ruinous settlement. Among the parties that are coming forward for the remission of the existing duties the coopers are taking a prominent position. The incorporation of coopers of Glasgow and the journeymen coopers of London have alike memorialised the Board of Trade for a repeal of the duty on the raw material required for their work. The movement is not a new one, but was mask in 1842, before the existing tariff was brought into operation, and also in 1843. The memorials now presented call attention to the inexpedieaey of allowing foreigners to import manu factured articles into the British colonies without the payment of duty, while the British manufacturers are charged from 20 to 30 per cent. on the raw material, and to the fact that there are no United States staves used in this country, althouzli they are of the best quality and suited for the largest portion of the export trade of Great Britain. This exclusion from the United States market has the further effect of enhancing the price of the inferior material, which, the cooper complains, he is compelled to use. Under these influences it seems that the• export of coopers' work has materially fallen, al though the English workmanship is allowed to be far superior to that of any other nation in the world. The returns of the circulation of the private and joint stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending respectively the 14th, 21st, and 28th of Decem ber ult., and the 4th of January inst., as published in the Gazettes, when added together, form the aggregate circu lation for the month ending the 4th of January instant, and give an average circulation as follows : Private banks Joint-stock banks . Average circulation of private notes in Eng land and Wales during the past month... .£7,487,14n On a comparison of the above with the returns for the month ending the 7th of December, it shows— A decrease in the notes of private banks of £15,097 A decrease in the notes of joint-stock banks of Total decrease last month - .£42,301 And as compared with the month ending the 6th of January, last year, it shows— A decrease in the private banks' issues of £394,964 A decrease in the joint-stock banks' issues of 175,56: Total decrease, as compared with last year, £570,52 1 , The Bankers' kagazine for the present month contains. prefixed to the weekly circulation returns, the exact amount which each bank respectively is now allowed tc issue. The amounts are as follows :- 199 private banks allowed to issue 71 joint-stock banks allowed to isaae Total fixed issues This amount is somewhat less than the total of the fixed issues, as originally published in the Gazettes ; se• veral of the banks (as specified below) having given up their privilege of issue, and the total of the fixed issues being diminished accordingly. On comparing the re turns for the past month with. the fixed amotrnts, as given in the Bankers' Magazine, it appears that the Private banks are below their fixed issue £583,38C Joint-stock banks below their fixed issue • Total below the fixed issue ... xi,001,27s On comparing the present weekly returns, as pub lished in the Gazette, with the list of the several banks allowed to issue notes, as certified by the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes under the recent Act, it appears that the following banks have ceased to avail themselves of the privilege of issue, and we presume they have adopted the circulation of Bank of England notes. Against each of the banks is affixed the amounts they were to be allowed to issue, viz.:— Bristol Old Bank Baillie, Ames, and Co. ... 89,54( Wrexham and _North 1 Wales Bank R. M. Lloyd Oxford University Bank Sir J. Loch and Co. Staines Bank Bi l Ml la o t p nps l h S' i ' r a e lt ß h a am nk and i Gunner and Co. Cambridge Bank Messrs. Humfrey and Son 2,61 r Cambridge Bank Messrs. Fisher and Sen... 8,75 Margate Bank Messrs. Cobb and Co. ... 9,99 t The Western District } (Ceased business) Bank • Total $7160,43b From this statement it appears that already the sun. to he deducted (as the amount of the circulation of those " banks which have ceased to issue") from the aggregate sum fixed for the amount of the country issues in Eng land and Wales by the recent Act, is 160,4351. ; and this sum being taken from such aggregate sum, leaves the present fixed issues of the banks which now make weekly returns at 8,488,4181. At the St. Katharine Dock Company's meeting to-day the dividend declared was at the rate of 5 per cent. pet annum. Although from the prevalence of easterly winds at the end of the year the receipts of the Company hat decreased, still, as the amount had been fully made op by the increase of business in the present month, arising from the coming in of the vessels which were previously wind-bound, the Directors said they felt justified in de claring the same rate of dividend at previously. The Directors have given notice of a special meeting about to be called to consider the propriety of cancelling the remainder of the floating debt of the Company. he (Dr. Addams) submitted that the Court would not be justified in pronouncing a sentence of deprivation hi the present suit. Dr. Phillimore, jun., remains to be heard on the same side. stealing his gloves, acid called a policendan arid gave him into custody. The constable received this charge, and persisted in conveying him to the station house, although the landlord of the house came forward and said the gloves were in his bar. The charge was booked, and he was detained to answer it. As he cer tainly should bring an action against the party who had thus deprived him of his liberty on Such a trumpery charge, he begged the magistrate Would allow him to have the name and address of the complainant as it ap peared oh the police•sheet. This was granted, and the defendant was then dis charged. CABMEN'S FROLICS.— Thomas Sttdly was Charged with having assaulted Thomas bell. The parties are cabmen, and the assault occurred on Nionday evening, in Conduit -street, in consequence of some ." larking," commenced at the Coach and Horses public-house. It appeared that a number of cabmen were engaged in a new game called " one off behind"—the multi feat ture of which consists in approaching D. person unper ceived, and by a smart blow on the rim of the hat be hind, causing it to fall off backwards. The complainant and defendant were of the party, and as there was an old grudge between them, the play very soon ripened into earnest. According to the defendant, the complainant com menced hostilities by throwing a pewter pot at him. The complainant, however, denied this. and asserted that the defendant followed him out of the house, and knocked him down repeatedly. A good deal of conflicting evidence was brought for ward, but as the defendant did not succeed in clearing himself from the charge of having acted with great lence, Mr. Maltby inflicted the penalty of 40s. James Thomas was charged on suspicion of stealing four silver table-spoons, two silver forks, and two silver tea-spoons, from the house of Mr. Matthew Vantein, of No. 8, Hanover-street, Hanover-square, tailor. It appeared that the prisoner had been hi the service of Mr. Vantein as errand-boy, and quitted it about nine months since. He was, however, in the habit of calling at the house to see his fellow-servants, and on Monday evening last was there, and left but a few minutes pre vious to the robbery being discovered. No doubt could be entertained but that it had been done by some person well acquainted with the premises, and suspicion, in con sequence, fell upon the prisoner, who last evening was given into custody ; but, on searching him, and also his lodgings, nothing wa s f oun d t o in cu lp a t e him with the robbery. Mr. AIALTIIY said ho did not think, in the present stage of the case, that the evidence was sufficient to warrant the detention of the prisoner, but Mr. Vantein would hare the assistance of the police in tracing out the property.—The prisoner was, of course, liberated. gilarditim 3 shoitld laa*e more power to punish within their own hands. Mr. Ryder repeated his regret that such a sentence should have been passed for so brutal and premeditated an attack. After contrasting the sentence passed at this Court a few days ago of 14 days on some of these boys for insolent and disorderly conduct with that tOrarded Afr. Sergeant Adams at the Sessions, he ob served, With a sii lie, that lie tho,t gentleman would undertake the Wince of master of a WOrktoilsZ,i one fortnight. Mr. BOND, having repeated his desire to assist the au thorities, requested that Mr. Sutton would in future in form him as to the pttstious character and conduct of the parties accused. - Mr. Ryder thanked the maristrate, and withdrew. LAMBETH. Augusta Hamilton, who represented herself as the v%idow of an officer, was charged with robbing her readrfurnished "Mre. Rayner, of No. 1, Mason.street, Walworth, stated that the prisoner came to reside at her house a short time ago ; the prisoner was then dressed in a very genteel manner, and seemed lady-like in her appearance. She stated that she could give no reference, as she had just come from the country, and that she was the widow of an otlicer in the army, was highly connected, and that her boxes and luggage would arrive on the following morning. The prisoner, on obtaining possession of the lodgings, commenced pledging every thing she could lay her hands on. Richard Davis, P 55, stated that he found a quantity of duplicates in the possession of the prisoner, some of which related to the missing property of the prosecu trix. The officer Informed the magistrate that the pri soner was well known, and had already been tried at. the Surrey sessions, and received six months' imprisonment. The prisoner made a long statement, and said she was the widow of a midshipman, and had come up from Ilastitgs, Mr. HENRY said it was a very bad case, and he should send the prisoner to the Criminal Court for trial. Remanded for a week. _ James Jenning!, Patrick Ford, and Henry Robin son, were charged before Mr. Henry, by police-con stable P 112, with a robbery ender the following cir cumstances : The constable stated that on Tuesday night he was on duty at Mill row, Brixton, when he heard the creaking of a basket, and on putting his lamp over into the garden he saw the three prisoners, and on going up to them, he asked them what they were doing, to which the prisoners replied that they were going to sleep in an open shed ; they had been to Croydon, and had no money, and were quite tired. He took the prisoners to the station-house, and went back to search the garden, when he discovered a basket full of lead ready to be carried away. On examining the premises of No. 8, he fund there was a bed-room which projected from the building, and on examining the roof he ascertained that upwards of two cwt. of lead had been cut from the roof, rolled up, and ready to be carried off. The gardener of Mrs. Whittaker stated that yes terday the lead of the roof was all right, and the garden-gate was bolted ; and the prisoners must have climbed over the fence. Remanded for a week. SOUTHWARK. Cato Fernando, a seaman belonging to the ship Taglioni, lying in the West India Docks, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with stealing three cotton shirts, the property of Joseph Frowski, a Jew crimp, residing in East Smithfield. Complainant stated that the prisoner was in the habit of lodging at his house on his return from sea. About eleven months ago, previous to the last voyage, he sold the prisoner some clothing, and lent him 7s. 6d. After he was gone he missed several shirts, but had no suspicion of the prisoner. Yesterday he heard that the vessel had arrived in the docks, and that the pri soner, instead of coming to his lodgings, had taken up his quarters with a prostitute in Martin-street, Borough. He, however, proceeded on board the vessel yesterday afternoon, to seek payment for the debt due to him, amounting to 1/. 12s. 6d. Although the prisoner had been paid, he refused to settle with him. At a latter part of the evening he came for his chest, when it was searched, and the shirts were found therein. He identified them as his property. The prisoner (a coloured Portuguese) gave quite a different version of the story. He said that the shirts had been placed in his chest without his know ledge ; in fact, he did not discover that they were there until he arrived at sea, when he thought the com plainant, who packed up his chest, had placed them there in return for a quantity of cigars which he gave him. As for the money, he certainly should have paid him, but he was drunk last night. The com plainant had been in the habit of robbing him for many years, which made him quit his lodgings ; and he believed the charge was made through spite. Frowski said he did not think he should have given him in charge if he had paid him and returned to his house as usual . He denied robbing him ;he treated the prisoner as he would one of his children. The prisoner paid the crimp the 1/. 12s. 6d. and was discharged. George Elliott, described as the secretary of a public school at Battersea, was charged with violating the per son of a woman named Wilson, a widow, advanced in life. The complainant attended at the Court on the pre ceding day, and made a statement to the effect that an outrage of the above description had been committed on her the Friday before, by a person named Elliott, at a house in Wellington-street, Walworth. When ques tioned by the magistrate as to the reason she had not given information before, her reply was that she had been so ill since the occurrence, that she was unable to leave her room. Mr. Traill directed the woman to re pair to the station-house at the rear of the Court and give a description of the person whom she accused and that he would be taken into custody and brought up to the Court in the usual way. Late the same afternoon the prisoner was apprehended, and when placed before the Magistrate, The complainant proceeded to state that she was a widow, and obtained her livelihood by going out to work at gentlemen's houses. That on Friday last she was at the house of 1,11 Dr. Lipscombe, in Wel lington-street, for whom she was in the habit of charing, as he kept no servant. In the course of the evening, while she was engaged washing in the kitchen, she was called by the prisoner, and the moment she arrived at the head of the kitchen staircase she found he was waiting in the hall, and she, expecting that he wanted to give her some clothes, asked him what he required. The prisoner, however, instead of ans% ering her, got her round the waist, and began taking improper liberties. She endeavoured all in her power to extricate herself from his grasp, but could not ; and, with a pen knife, he cut her stay-lace, and the strings of her petti coats, so that all her clothes, with the exception of her chemise, fell off on the floor of the passage. That she still resisted the efforts of her assailant, but he, being a strong man, pushed her into the back parlour, and from thence on the bed. The complainant here described the particulars of the alleged outrage, and added that she became insensible, and found, on her recovery, that the prisoner was still at her side. - In reply to Mr. Traill, the complainant said that the only person in the house besides she and the prisoner was Dr. Lipscombe, who must have heard the noise, but he did not interfere or render her any assistance, and seemed to treat it all with unconcern. Mr. TRAILL asked the accused if he wished to put any question to the woman who made so serious a charge against him ?—The accused replied in the affirmative, and he proceeded to ask her if, after what she now com plained of, she did not have some meat pies and gin with him, and remained in the house for upwards of two hours !—Her reply was in the affirmative. She was then asked if she had complained to any one of the neighbours, or had even made such a noise as could be heard by those living right and left of the house? —She said that she was so frightened she had not the power. She had no person to bring forward to say that she had been laid up in consequence of the alleged outrage. The prisoner then proceeded to address the magis , trate, and declared that the complainant had told a tissue of falsehoods with respect to his having used any force towards her ; and that if it were true he had acted in the manner described, the people in the next houses must have heard the noise ; that it was true they had meat pies and gin together on the night in question, and that she went away afterwards without making the slightest complaint ; and that he was both shocked and surprised when a policeman mentioned the nature of the charge brought against him, and took him into custody. He added, that Dr. Lipscombe, an old man of soner' 80, was in court, and prepared to corroborat e his (pris) state ment. With respect to any violence having been exer cised towards her, if there had he must be cognizant of it. Mr. TRAILL said that, after the complainant's own admission that she stopped in the house for upwards of two boars after the alleged outrage, and both ate and drank with the accused, he should dismiss the case, leaving it to her to adopt any other steps she though* proper. THAMES POLICE. CrtEATING A JEW.—Tuesday James Lindsay, a sea man, was brought before Mr. Broderip, on a charge of obtaining a suit of clothes and other articles, value 41. 4s. 6d., from Mr. Harris Lazarus, an outfitter and slopseller, of No. 112, Upper East Smithfield. The prosecutor, who is a Jew, stated that the prisoner called at his shop on Monday evening and represented himself as an old customer, and was so well satisfied with his former bargains that he wished to deal with him again. The prisoner then produced a written order to the following effect :—" London Dock, January 20, 1845. Sir,—Please to let tho hearer have Necessaries to a reasonable amount, and I will acknowledge the same. John Brown, master of the Kelsick Wood." He was not quite satisfied with the prisoner's assurance that he belonged to the ship, but he protested that he did. Wit ness observed that he did not want the clothes that night, and asked him where he lodged. The prisoner said he had just arrived in England, and had no lodging, on which he passed his word for a bed, supper, and breakfast, and desired him to call the next m o n % • ing. The prisoner did so, and waited upon him in a most deplorable condition.. He supplied him with a suit of clothes, a new hat, and other necessary articles, and when he put on his new rigging the change was so complete that he hardly knew him again. He then asked the prisoner to accompany him to the dock to ascertain the genuineness of the order, and they proceeded to the ship Kelsick Wood, and the prisoner stepped up . to the captain and asked him to pay him his wages. Witness then took the order from his pocket for the purpose of showing it to the captain, and the prisoner immediately snatched it out of his hand and made away with it. He saw it no more, and gave the prisoner into custody. The captain of the ship informed him that he had never written anything of the kind. . ''''''''''' who looked very smart in the Jew's clothes, said the ordiir Ilss not a written one, and that the last time he was in London lie went to the same shop, and the Jew made him drunk and robbed him of 71. Mr. Lazarus was recalled, and he said he never saw the prisoner before, or had an'; dealings with him, to his knowledge. Mr. BRobEntp remanded the prisoner until Tuesduy nexi. Inspector Walker, of the Thames police, then preferred a charge of smuggling tobacco against the prisoner, which the Magistrate ordered to stand over till the same day. A policeman of the II division, who apprehended the prisoner, asked if he might be permitted to take the new clothes away ? Mr. BRODERIP declined giving any directions on the subject, and the prisoner was sent to prison in his new suit of blue. A WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBANDS.—Tuesday middle-aged man, with a sorrowful-looking countenance, made an application to Mr. Broderip for a warrant to apprehend his wife for robbing him under very peculiar circumstances. " Please your worship," said the man, " the woman to whom I am married has robbed me of 1231. on Christmas night. Gone off with all." Mr. BRODERIP—Is she your wife ? The applicant— tell you that presently. One hundred and thirty two pounds in money, a silver watch, gold rings, and silver spoons. Mr. BRODERIP—Have you reason to suppose that any one assisted her in carrying off your property ? The applicant—l believe not, Sir; but there is— Mr. BRODERIP—Stop. Have you any reason to believe that she has a paramour, and that her companion has robbed you of the property ? The applicant—l don't know who she's gone off with, but she is a regular bad an. Mr. BRODERIP explained to the applicant that no woman could be put on her trial for carrying away her husband's property. Ile could not interfere. The applicant was about to leave the box, when, sud denly recollecting himself, he turned round and said, " Oh, Sir, since she has robbed me I have discovered that she has a lawful married husband in Buckingham shire. She had him before she had me." Mr. BRODERIP—Then all you have got to do is to speak to the police on the subject. The applicant—And, what is worse, she has married again since she has been my wife. Mr. BRODERIP—Then give her into the custody of the police. The applicant—l will if I find her.—He then hastily left the Court. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 22. (Before Sir J. WIGIAM.) EMPERINGIIAM V. SHORT. This case had been before the Court - on Saturday and Monday last, and his Honour, on the conclusion of the latter day, stated that before giving his decision he would read the notes of the common-law judge before whom certain issues directed in the cause had been tried. In Fehruary last the case came before the Court on ex ceptions to the Master's report, when the validity of a sale of property, as between father and son, was im peached. On that occasion the two issues above mentioned were directed, to try whether a con sideration had been paid, and, if it had, whether the conveyances were executed, on the part of the son, to the purpose and intent to delay, hinder, and defraud the plaintiff; also whether certain moneys were receiv able under a sequeitration. The issues having been tried, a motion was made for a new trial, and this mo tion was now to be decided. 1119 HONOUR, having informed himself of the opinions of the Learned Judge who tried the issues on the various questions then decided, thought that there were no grounds to warrant a new trial ; he therefore refused the motion, with costs. . COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, Jun. 22. The Court took the Crown paper to-day, and were occupied with cases which were totally devoid of any public interest. BAIL COUR7', Jan. 22. (Before Mr. Justice WiLLIAMS.) IN RE DAVIS.-IMPORTANT TO ATTORNEYS. Mr. OGLE moved for a rule to show cause why certain proceedings, instituted against Lord Suffield upon a war rant of attorney, should not be set aside for irregularity. The circumstances of the case may be shortly stated as follows:—Some time ago his Lordship, while residing in Brussels, contracted a debt of 3002 with M. Legrelle, a wine merchant there. His Lordship, at a subsequent period, in order to get rid of this claim, gave an attor-. ney, named Davis, a warrant of attorney in the penal sum of 2,0001, and, in consideration, Davis under took to compromise the wine merchant's bill. He contended that this warrant of attorney was useless, inasmuch as his Lordship did not sign it in the presence of a professional man acting for him; and, therefore, it was to be presumed his Lordship was ignorant of the force and effect of the instrument he was signing. He at first had doubted whether that Court had jurisdiction in the matter, as the warrant of attorney was executed abroad; but he found a case clearly establishing the point, recorded in 2d Strange, the case of Fitzgerald v. Plun kett, to which he would refer his Lordship. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—Take a rule nisi. Rule granted accordingly. ARCHES COURT, Jan. 21. (Before Sir IL JENNER FUST.) THIL OFFICE OF THE JUDGE. PROMOTED BY TROWERS V. THE REV. JOHN HURST. This is a proceeding of articles promoted by letters of request from the diocese of Chichester against the Rev. Mr. Hurst, Vicar of Thackham, in the county of Sussex, for the " reformation of his soul's health," &c. The charges against the reverend defendant were con tained in a series of articles, charging constant and pro miscuous adulterous connexion with two of his ser vants, and with many of the wives of his parishioners. The facts are wholly unfitted for publication, though• dwelt upon at very considerable length by Drs. Hag gard and Bayford, who were civilians in support of the articles, and they submitted that the Court ought not to stop short at anything but a total deprivation. The Learned Advocates contended that habitual adultery in barns, in the fields, in the furze, &c., had been fully esta blished. That on some occasions he had brought his son and daughters to the house of one of his parishioners while acts of the grossest immorality were perpetrated by the father up stairs—that he had attempted the chastity of a young servant while two others of the household were in the same room, with whom it is pleaded he had afterwards and previously had sexual in tercourse. Dr. ADDAMS was heard on behalf of the Rev. Mr. Hurst. It was a case which ought to have undergone a preliminary investigation before the Bishop,: and then probably the party might have submitted t• suspension. the Court could not, upon , the evidence adduced pro nounce a sentence which could have the effect of de pnving the wife and family (eight children, as was stated) of a home. The parties to prove the criminality were evidently influenced by a most determined spirit of hostility. He (Dr. Addams) could not justify the language made use of by the Rev. Mr. Hurst, nor in. deed some facts that had been proved against the party. That there had been improper conduct could not be de nied—that the Rev. Gentleman was liable to censure— to admonition—to suspension for a longer or shorter time, could not be denied ; but, looking to former cases, MARYLEBONE. His Excellency the Belgian Ambassador, residing in Portland-place, attended at this Court, when the follow ing charge of extraordinary conduct on the part of a well dressed young man, named John Julius Koch, was gone into before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Rawlinson. The prisoner is a young man of foreign parentage, and is the son of a gentleman holding a highly respectable situation in a large mercantile house in the City. Susanna Bryan, nurse in the family of his Excellency, deposed, that fur a long time past the prisoner had been in the habit of following her whenever she went out with the children, and that his conduct was altogether of a very annoying nature. He would frequently come be hind her and, by making horrid grimaces, frighten an infant which she was carrying in her arms. The oc currences which she had last alluded to took place six or seven months ago ; he had since annoyed her repeat edly, and on that morning, when she went with the children into the broad walk of the Regent's Park for an airing, he (prisoner) was there. He spoke not a word, but kept close to her wherever she went. Witness concluded by stating that she at last contrived to get away from him and reach home without any fur ther molestation. Mr. RAWLINSON—During the whole time of his acting in this manner has he never assigned any reason for his behaviour ? Witness—None whatever, Sir. He has never offered a single word in explanation. Hardwick, 80 D, corroborated the first witness's evi• (knee as to the conduct of the prisoner in the park ; he (Hardwick) had received information of what had been going on, and was employed by his superintendent to keep watch. Stanley, 48 D, stated that in November last he saw the prisoner follow the witness Bryan, and the children who were with her. He informed his Excellency of it, who then declined to give him (prisoner) into custody. Witness added, that on that day ha saw the pri soner in Portland-place, and by his (the Ambassa dor's) directions took him in charge. The Ambassador here stepped forward, and said that the prisoner once spoke to him as he was leaving home of an evening, but what the purport of his address to him was he could not say ; he (prisoner) was the son of a foreigner, and his father, who was a highly respectable man, seemed unfortunately to have no control over him. The Ambassador concluded by expressing an opinion, that the state of mind of the prisoner was defective, and that he might, unless restrained, do something of a serious nature. The Ambassador was about to enter into fur ther particulars relative to himself and his lady having been annoyed by the prisoner, when Mr. RAWLINSON desired that he might be sworn, His Excellency objected, stating he would not be al lowed to take the required oath in this country, holding the situation which he did as one of the corps diploma tique. Mr. RAWLINSON (to whom this doctrine seemed quite new) asked his Excellency if he, while residing in Eng land, and therefore under the protection of the laws of this country, would, in the event cf his pocket being picked in the street, or his house being robbed, object to give such evidence upon oath as might have the effect of bringing the guilty party to justice? The Ambassador signified in a few words that he should, from the position which he occupied, object to be sworn. Mr. RAWLINSON (to the prisoner)—What is your ob ject in annoying the Ambassador's family in this way? Prisoner-1 must acknowledge my fault; I have no more to say. Jones, usher of the Court, said, a few months ago the prisoner was brought up charged with firing off a pistol in the Regent's Park, and that for that offence he was fined. The prisoner was remanded, and will be brought up again next Tuesday; and, ad interim, an examination will be made by the surgeon of the prison as to his state of mind. QUEEN. SQUARE. On Tuesday George Gilcon, John White, and William Burgess, three boys of about sixteen years of age, were charged with misconduct at St. Luke's Workhouse, Chelsea. Mr. Sutton, the master, said that about seven o'clock on the previous evening, having missed the defendants from the house, he watched for their returns and just be fore the hour of going to bed he saw them get over a wall from the churchyard. As he had frequently cau tioned the boys he gave them into custody. Prisoners made no defence, and were committed for fourteen days. Mr. Sutton observed, he was quite at a loss to know what to do with the boys. They set the authorities at complete defiance, and, notwithstanding that he had re sorted to every means in his power to keep up proper discipline in the house, they were in the most insubor dinate state. How the present state of things was to be, remedied he really did not know. Punishment in the house, or punishment inflicted by the magistrate, did not seem to check the evil ; several of these boys had been brought by him before the magistrate a few days ago, and on hearing their sentence of fourteen days' impri sonment, they laughed at him, and on being removed to the cell set up a shout of defiance. One of the three de fendants in the present charge had been concerned in the desperate attack on him a little time back. Mr. BOND said he should have mentioned the circum stance before. Mr. Ryder, the chairman of the board of guardians of St. Luke, Chelsea, hoped he should be excused for offering a few observations on the subject. How to maintain that discipline so necessary in a large establishment with such a refractory set of boys was indeed a matter of great difficulty. All their efforts to restore order were unavailing, and they were placed in the most unenviable position. But a short time since a number of the most desperate of them were charged with a premeditated attack upon the master, and, although that person was half murdered by them, and it was shown at the last Middlesex Sessions that their conduct had been of the very worst description, Mr. Sergeant Adams had sentenced several of them to 24 hours' imprisonment. He had committed—it was true— two, he believed, for three months, and three to two months' hard labour ; but there never was a term more falsely applied than this term " hard labour." The very slow pace at which the wheel turned, with the circum stance of their scarcely having to raise their feet, added to the fact that they were not on for more than a quarter of an hour, or at most twenty minutes at a time, ren dered it anything but the term which had been misap plied to it ; he would undertake to say that there would be more hard labour in running three or four times up One-tree•hill, Greenwich Park, than there would be in working at the tread-wheel. He would also make an ob servatio❑ with respect to the food. He had been over Coldbath-fields prison, and had been informed that the allowance of food to the prisoners was twenty ounces of wheaten broad per day, and meat four times per week, while that in Chelsea workhouse was twelve ounces per day, and meat three times per week ; and it was con sidered that the paupers fared better (and he made the observation with thegreatest respect to the ratepayers)than tnaay who were compelled to contribute towards their support. After such decisions as those to which he had adverted, he would ask what protection there was to any one administering the New Poor•law ? The parish authorities had difficulties of no ordinary character to contend against ; it was their anxious wish to treat the poor with kindness and liberality, but it was at the same time their desire to keep up proper discipline and order in the house. After the triumph these boys considered they had gained the law appeared to have no terrors for them, and the authorities were perfectly at a loss to know what course to pursue. It having been suggested by the clerk that when they had been guilty of such gross misbehavour it would per haps be the best course not to re-admit them, Mr. Ryder observed, that the magistrates had said that in some cases they should adopt that course ; in others that they should visit the boys with corporal punishment. If they refused to admit these boys, and they were found in a destitute and starving condition in the streets, the authorities would be held up to public odium and contempt, and stigmatised as monsters in human form. The view he (Mr. Ryder) took of the de cision to which he had before alluded was concurred in by many masters of workhouses whom he had spoken to on the subject. Mr. BOND said he should be happy to assist the autho rities iu enforcing proper discipline in any way that lay in his power. It was perhaps desirable that boards of COURT OF EXCISE, Jan. 21. Before Captain PERCY, J. F. STSPIIENDON, Emq., and J. C. FrERRIES, Esq,) EXTENSIVE ILLICIT DISTILLATION AND ATTACK ON THE EXCISE OFFICERS. Frederick Jones, alias Frederick Timbermere, of No. 5, Little Collingwood- street, Bethnal-green, was charged with carrying on illicit distillation, and also with re sisting the officers in the execution of their duty. Mr. W. Cartwright stated, that he went to the above premises, accompanied by Messrs. Kiddie, Jones, and Wallis, officers of Excise. After considerable trouble they succeeded in effecting an entrance, and found a large quantity of fermented wash, and other materia's used in distillation. They then proceeded to the house No. 7. They inspected the lower part of the house, and afterwards wished to examine the upper part, which was refused. The defendant then came in, and, taking up a bar of iron, with a dreadful imprecation, said he would clear the house, and made a blow at the officers, which fortunately missed them. They then returned to 'the house, No. 5, the officer Kiddie climbing the back wall to prevent anything being removed . in that direction. When defandant saw the o ffi cer upon the wall he took a pole about fifteen "feet in length, with which he attempted to knock the officer down, and said " he would smash the head of the first man that entered ;" but was prevented from doing so by the arrival of a body of police. The officers then pursued their search, and a cart being obtained they were about to deposit their seizure in Kwhen defendant said that if they did take it he would clear the house, and he would get forty men to help him, and left to fetch them. In a short time he re turned with about that number, when a general melee took place : bricks and other missiles were thrown at the offices, the finch -pins were taken out of the cart-wheels, and it was with considerable difficulty the mob were prevented from cutting the harness to pieces. Eventu ally, however, the officers succeeded in carrying off their seizure. The, other officers corroborated this testimony, and the Court inflicted a penalty of 501. John Nicholson and William Nicholson, wine-mer chants, of St. Martin's-lane, were fined 251. for having the words " Licensed dealers in foreign wines" over their door, having no such license. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MAIVSIOIV-HOUSE. A respectably-attired female, who gave her name as Diary Keele, and stated her age to be thirty-nine years, but whose appearance denoted that she had seen some twenty summers more, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor, charged with bigamy. The facts of the case are somewhat novel and curious, the charge being preferred by the mother of the husband by the second marriage, a young man who only at tained his majority in the month of August last. Mrs. Sarah Keele, the prosecutrix, stated that she was the wife of George Keele, who was not in. any business, and that she resided at St. Stephen's, near Canterbury. The prisoner at the bar had contracted marriage with her (the witness's) son some time about last Michaelmas. Witness had known the prisoner for about a fortnight before the marriage took place. The prisoner's husband by the first marriage was a man of the name of John Weller, who went to Aus. tralia about three years ago, and there, as the pri soner had stated, died. Weller has a sister living at Canterbury, who had informed the witness that her brother (the husband) was still living, and in perfect health, in Australia, and that a letter had recently been received, which . could be proved to be in his 'handwriting. On learning this, the witness came up to town and gave the prisoner into custody as she was getting out of a Hackney omnibus in Bishops gate-street. The Loan MAYOR—Is there anybody here to prove the former marriage ? Witness—lt can be proved by the first husband's sister, who resides at Canterbury. William Gurney Keele, who appear e d to g i ve hi s testimony with great reluctance, ,c&ted that h e li ve d in Back-lane, Hackney, and. was in the service of Messrs. Marnett and M.anley, nurserymen. He was married to the pris,arer some time in the month of October last Qr.e could not remember the day), at St. George's, lianover-square, which was the church in which the first marriage was solemnised. He had become acquainted with the prisoner from going to ner house on the business of his employers at Canter bury. Witness believed her to be a widow—indeed, he heard about three or four months ago that her first husband was dead. He heard this from the prisoner' whe told him that some person had called upon her and told her that her husband was dead, and that in formation had been corroborated to her by a gentle man, who had stated that he had seen " the last of her husband" in Australia. This the prisoner told witness before the marriage, or he would not have proposed to her a marriage. He had engaged to marry her about a fortnight before the marriage ac tually took place. John Dixon, 619 City Police, proved that he took the prisoner into custody yesterday morning on a charge of bigamy, preferred by the prosesutrix, Mrs. Sarah Keele. He had not had time to obtain a certificate of the first marriage from the register of St. George's, Hanover-square. The prisoner, when called upon for her answer to the charge, and when questioned by the Lord Mayor, manifested the most perfect self-possession, and evinced, both in manner and deportment, that she had moved in a superior station in life to that into which she had descended by her marriage with the son of the prosecutrix. She stated that when she mar ried the young man Keele she fully believed that her 'first husband, Weller, had died, and her belief had been founded upon the information of a female, four years ago, and also of a seafaring man, who had called upon her about the same time, and stating he did so at the dying request of her husband, of whom he had seen the last in Australia. She did not know the name of either of these parties, nor could she pro duce them ; the last told her he was going back im mediately on a voyage to Australia, and she had never seen him since. The LORD MAYOR—Have you any objection to state when it was you were married to your first hus band ? The prisoner—Not the least, my Lord, as far as I recollect it. I think it was in the month of June, twelve or thirteen years ago. I forget the pre cise day. My maiden name was Mary Frances Witham. The Loan MAYOR directed the constable to search the register of St. George's, Hanover-square, for the certificate of the first marriage. The LORD MAYOR intimated that the prisoner . Must be remanded, in order to procure the attendance of the witness from Canterbury, and inquired from the prisoner if she had any friends in London who would be answerable for her appearance. The prisoner replied that she had been out of London for many years, and she had been so unex rectedly taken into custody that she had not had an opportunity of communicating with any person. She hail, however, friends to whom she could send. The husband . (Keele) hereupon came forward, and expressed his readiness to be answerable for his wife's appearance on any future day the Lord Mayor might appoint. The Loan MAYOR, addressing the young man, said—Well, as you are the aggrieved party, I will take your recognisance in 501. that the prisoner shall appear here this day week to answer any charge that may be then preferred against her. The parties then withdrew. Sinops Kent, charged with bending a threatening letter to Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co., was brought up for re-examination. No further' evidence was adduced, but the depositions taken on a former day having been read over to the witnesses, they were hound in recognisances to prosecute, and the pri soner was committed for trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. BOW-STREET. Eleanor Eyndell was charged with being found in the streets with a quantity of bedding in her possession, not being able to give a satisfactory account of herself. A policeman of the E division said that at about three o'clock this morning he met the prisoner in Church oreet, St. Giles's, with a large bundle under her arm. He asked her what it was, and she said it was a child, list, on pulling her cloak aside, he saw that it was something wrapped up in a sheet. He examined it and found that it was a pillow, a pair of blankets, and a pair of sheets. He then took her to the station-house. Prisoner said that she had quarrelled with her hus. baud, who had turned her out of doors a few minutes before she met the policeman. The bedding was her own, and she wanted to sell it to pay for a lodging. Her husband lived in Church-street. A policeman went to the address she gave, and saw her husband. On his return he stated that the husband denied all knowledge of the bedding, and said that she had been drinking for three days, and had not slept at home during the whole of that time. itemanded till Friday. CLERKEIV WELL. Jane Brown was charged with being an accomplice in robbing Mr. Coop, of No. l, Sandwich street, Burton crescent, of a pocket-book and 81. The prisoner met the prosecutor returning home to his family, and he was accompanying her to a public house when she suddenly attacked him, and six men started from a dark p assage an d struc k hi m w i t h great violence. They rifled his pockets of their contents. The men escaped, but the woman was arrested.—Remanded. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. STEALING A PAIR OF GLOVES.—Henry Alfred Menne& a person of respectable appearance, was charged with having stolen a pair of gloves. One of the E division constables, who took the accused into custody, said there was no prosecutor in attendance to press the charge. Mr. Mesnel said his character was so affected 'Dy th e proceedings which had been taken against him, 'chat he begged to be allowed to explain the circumstance s which led to his being taken into custody. lie was at a c onvivial ' party at a public-house the previous evening, wh an one of the company, worse for the good cheer of which he had too freely partaken, began to fight with anot/Jer of the party. 'He (defendant) interfered. Ih reven ge for this interference, the person in question charged him with BRIGHTON POLICE. A MILITARY AMATEUR.—John Field, a shoemaker, who has been several times in custody on charges of drunkenness, was on Friday placed at the bar before Borrer, Esq., on a similar charge. Private Drunton, of the Inniskilling's, deposed that while on duty as sentinel at the southern entrance of the Palace, opposite the Blue Coach-office, about one o'clock that morning, the prisoner came up to him in a state of drunkenness, swore at and abused him, and then said, " D---n your military laws ; you can't try me by court-martial and give me three hundred for breakfast." Witness took no notice of this, and the man proceeded, " D--n your eyes; if I had a pistol I would blow your brains out." He then went away; but in about a quarter of an hour he returned and said, " I will take your piece, and blow your brains out with it." Witness then took him into custody, and called a policeman, who took him to the sergeant. - Prisoner—What time was this ? Witness—About one o'clock. Prisoner (to night-constable Thohurn)—What time was it, I say ? Mr. BORRER—No, no; this won't do. Prisoner—l only want to test his evidence as to the time; because I don't recollect a syllable about it. Mr. BORRIM, (to Sergeant Smith, who attended to charge the prisoner)— I suppose you have no reason to believe that the man would have done anything if he had not been under the influence of liquor ? Sergeant Smith—No. Mr. BORRER (to the prisoner)—The sentinel has done nothing more than his duty. He has a cat-o'• nine tails hanging over his head. What have you to say for yourself ? Prisoner—Why, I'd been having a little, and a little's too much for me. That's a fact. But I can't think how it was. I must have tumbled over some friend.—(Laughter.) Mr. BORRER—I think you have been here before ? Prisoner—Yes, I have, that's a fact. I was taken up drunk, and I was fined ss. Drunk, and drunk I was —there's no denying it. Mr. BRORER (to the sentinel)—l suppose he didn't mean to do you any harm ?—No, Sir; he was only drunk. _ _ _ __ _ Prisoner—Do any harm to a soldier ! Lord bless you, Sir ; I wouldn't do any harm to a soldier for the world.—(Laughter.) I love the army, and can shoulder a musket with any of them. Look here, comrade (and prisoner, who is a little spare man, with anything but a soldierly demeanour, went through the imaginary process of shouldering arms, presenting arms, and firing, with a rapidity that would have startled a drill-sergeant). Look at that, comrade, and say whether I'd harm a soldier. Nature intended me for a soldier myself, only father bound me to a shoemaker. _ _ _ Prisoner was running on in this way, when loud sobs were heard in the Court, and, looking round, we saw a neat little body, who, with her hands up to her face, made her way towards the dock, ejaculating in her progress, " Oh, Field—oh, Field ?" This inter ruption put a stop to prisoner's military exercise, and, turning to the female, " Oh, be quiet,' he said, " It's all right now—it's all settled. I'm coming, my dear." Mr. BORRER—You must pay ss. for being drunk. Prisoner put his hand in his pocket, and then turned to the little sobbing lady below—" You've got ss. my dear ?"—Yes, I've brought as." " That's right. Pay the ss. Be quiet. It's over now." But the little woman continued to sob until Mr. Field had been let out of the dock, and then, as she took his arm, she gave a little stamp with her foot, and, with an indescribable look at the culprit, who still kept up a little of the militaryair, she exclaimed, " Oh, Field, how can you make such a fool of yourself?" . " Hush, hush, my dear," responded Mr. Field to this ejaculation, and, with a somewhat crest-fallen look, made the best of his way out of Court.— Brighton Herald, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MAN CHESTER. Last evening a fire was discovered in the warehouse of Messrs. Smith and Ingle, paper manufacturers, Piccadilly, which spread with a rapidity very similar to that of the conflagration which destroyed the ware house at the corner of New Brown-street, about two years ago, and soon ravaged through every floor of the warehouse, and left merely the shell standing. The alarm was given about twenty-five minutes past nine o'clock, the police constables in the neigh bourhood of the warehouse springing their rattle:, ; but, from what we could gather, no one seems to have perceived the fire till it was bursting forth from the windows. Mr. Superintendent Sawley, of the borough police, states that he was past the place at a quarter past nine o'clock, at which time there was no appearance or smell of fire. Intimation was given at the police-yard about half-past nine o'clock ; and, in ten minutes af terwards, the Niagara engine was on the spot, The warehouse of Messrs. Smith and Ingle is a long building, four stories in height, with the end (four windows in breadth) fronting Piccadilly, and one side (ten windows in length), forming one side of the Mosley Arms Yard, which is a narrow yard, open through, from Piccadilly to Back Piccadilly ; the other side of this yard being formed by the Mosley Arms Hotel. We believe the upper part of Messrs. Smith and Ingle's warehouse was occupied by Messrs. Taylor, Humphreys, Hurst, and C. 0 ., flannel and drugget manufacturers. Adjoining the warehouse, in front, to the west, is the White Bear Inn; and the aspect of the conflagration, when we reached the spot at twenty minutes to ten o'clock, was truly alarming. The whole of the ware house of Messrs. Smith and Ingle appeared to be in flames, which rushed from the side windows, spread across the yard, and soon communicated to the wood work of the Mosley Arms Hotel, the cornice and window frames of which house were re peatedly on fire. Fortunately, the latter were immediately forced outwards by men stationed in the different chambers ; and the interior was thus preserved, though not without the greatest exertions of the firemen. The heat was so intense that it was impossible for any one to enter the yard, and the chief efforts of the firemen were directed from within the Mosley Arms and from its roof. Meanwhile the White Bear Inn was in the most imminent danger, and many bystanders declared that nothing could save it. Under this impression, the furniture, bed ding, &c., were hurled out of the chamber windows, and much mischief was done by the hasty and thoughtless way in which the property was thrown about in removal. Much of it was conveyed across the street, to the Talbot Inn, for safety. Behind the White Bear is a crooked yard, which also leads through into Back Piccadilly ; and several branchmen were stationed in this yard, and played their jets on the walls and roofs of some low cottages and other tenements and outbuildings, so as to pro tect the White Bear premises from the impend ing peril. In one tenement in this yard was a poor woman confined to her bed by sick ness; she was hurriedly removed in her night dress, and conveyed away, seated on a . pile of bedding, &c., in a lar g e p orters cart, filled with goods removed from the premises. Some pigs and other animals were also removed from the outhouses. Both the Mosley Arms and the White Bear were re peatedly on fire, both on the roof, the cornices, and the window-frames ; and as often the firemen suc ceeded in extinguishing the flames; not, however, be fore they had penetrated into the bar of the White ........ _,, n p. , Bear, and quite destroyed on e side o f that ;i i ds Some idea may be formed of th e rapidity wit „ t pa the flames raged, when we s tate that ill a"`Lrtiou minutes after the alarm of fire was gives), ° ri o ute of the roof of Messrs. Smith a nd Ingle 's vili re nearest Piccadilly fell in. sclja ce°t But little damage is done by fire to the ,„ y inns; but in both the injury will be considersib'isf the removal of furniture, and the floods 01 foi l poured from the engines. We have not heard e speculation as to the cause of the fire. There was a large body of the police pro the spot, under the command of their Po ° t lo officers ; they rendered great service by keepiltors streets from being impeded by the curious sPe r the who speedily collected in a large concourse; initt. illumination of the atmosphere, from the blesin,g rift mises, must have been visible for miles around ' o f one during the fire. did not hear of any personal injury sustained 3reir —.Manchester Guardian ° I --,------ —... ri Al.) --- MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERPI'4 Although the C s O u a pp N ly of fn ffer - VI avteat on 0 only moderate, we have to report a very inactive ... 0 51 for all except the finest qualities, at prices abOj s t eg t , fel those obtained on Monday. In Foreign r' ..e d. e TO little was doing, yet previous rate s were supe:l,o i Si supply of Barley being more than adequate to r o f the trade, the inquiry for that article was m is R l , O o barely Monday's depressed rates . Malt, Ostsgop ar.d Peas ruled dull, yet we can n otice no Otero' their value. ARRIVALS. Oite. 11 Wheat. I , Barley. I 1.2i0 1,790 qrs. 4, 240 gre . 7 ,7g0 English • . • • • • Irish .. ••• . • • Foreign - - I Malt, 2,850 gni. 141 12711ITECUILPSS. , o te For each kind of prime Meat we ils° is tets• mand, and prices were readily dUPri. frail qualities exceedingly little was doing. P ee ",,, sci to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8 d ; 'Veal, 8d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 81bs. COAL 3111118. 110 ' t Prices per ton at the close of the marlie• ijsswy w o West Hartley, 19s 6d ; Chester Main, 19 , 5 e 1%1; Hartley, 19s ; Old Pontop, 17 s 6d ; ac416.4P-ilf 18s 9d ; Wylam, 18s 9d • W. E., A c°r° s ic), W. E., Killingworth, 20s id ; W. E., N ew° 1 60,3 W. E., Belmont, 21s 3d ; W. E., Hatton' 2'11641..171 mour Tees, 21s 6d ; Townhill Elg in, 185 arrived since last day, 137. TO' ) MORTALITY in the ME leef ivotott The following are the results of " A 'Mu: mato% 11 1 in the Metropolis, showing the Number ot..'"tiodslijo all Causes registered in the Week entlia4 gptri 18th of January, 1845." The Table i s issued 10'4110 of the Registrar-General: 04 0 Teal l ' 110 251 1 0 Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious DileaSe§ 8 1 0 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat ........• .I°,„ Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses..• ri i gl gl Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ....................................... o °',„ Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ....•• Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and o ther Organs of Digestioi ................... . .... " 8 II Diseases of the Kidneys, he .................... 10 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c... .... 5 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles... 1 Diseases of the Skin, &c... ...........»•••.. 88 Old Age, or Natural Decay ..................... 10 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance ••' lO O7 Causes specified 1010 Or Deaths from all Causes ...... . CAUSES OF DEATH. DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DIED THE ABOVE HEADS. fte,, t , Total. f Consumption ... ... 146 Scarlatina 45 P Pneumonia ..... D --- •••••• 29 _dropsy . .. Hooping Cough 24 . 0 Typhus Small Pox 54 Disease of the Heart ___ 3'i 0 .0 Measles Apoplexy .......... ... .... ... 2 1 7 IS .. Diseases of the Brain Diarrhoea.. 04° Sudden Deaths ll nisraicrs. w tlf„,/ ''}" Deaths • • e a % 0 ~, 0,4 ill A, le „ r Folt 1,1 the Week. / 0 " e ' 9 14 2 dt West North Central E as t 2OB n 2 South 95$ jir a , -----_-__ ci. or m t ~... RUINOUS EFFECTS OF INTEmPBEAS'-'lo4oyi —On. Tuesday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held s i f erts sao h. y Masons' Arms, Upper Berkeley.street, Per 01 ) 1,9 on the body of James Green, aged 32. It in, deceased, in his youth, bad been empinY ht aLst )1 0 of the Duke of Richmond, Genera C toe persons of distinction, but lost sucCe 3sl o Pray tions from his intemperance. lie, br a ebA d, four years obbing helper in live folivipy West-end, anon Sunday morning "-: to p the paved floor of one of them, belong,,,egest,..lo,. oil ton, of Williams-mews, Adam-street ba d ti stables, for the last nine months, be re I" i times in the hayloft, hut latterly,' for p 0 re straw, in one of the horse stalls. 1 ,, b° ,0 14 • 9 11 0 / 4 , enter an infirmary or hospital, he al" - flOt e r ( i pressing dread of them. The Coroner dr iolc i ly may be truly termed gin beds. The gi n . ,, joy - „! them for the convenience they afford 11; 1•„ or spi r , and getting up without the troubl e fii - to ifr, dressing again when he wants to ret tl. ; ;le" ' that is destroying him. The gin drink i e r g et, t olft i ; hospital, though he knows there be I li " 00'0 (' soro..ble comfort, but from fear of being e o ot,/ prefers disease and death, in the enjor n if eetw . I, to health and long life with temperate ' 9 f I ) 1 diet, " Natural death." AN AGED LADY BURNT TO n OA I TO I I O/4 fr ., i kp id 0 WoRTH.—Mrs. Johnson, a lady age,,,,60. 04 . s i , wife of a retired calico printer, resin l 7 s o o 4 , fs to i hill, was, on Monday night, between In ri „ t . PP' . l or burnt to death. It appears that ab°l o o o , 1 o'clock, the servant went out to Illak e ,:atll, h e ~,4 chases in the neighbourhood, leaving "" e , n',.'", J r parlour reading, and alone in the bo un d, r :o vp ' A s' as she states in about ten minutes, n' b io ' front door open, called police COnstj chanced to be passing. They Wee', fler,o the house, and were horror-struck 0 ,". t r il' Johnson in the passage burnt to dent 10P6 1 / were entirely consumed, her hair her f l some some parts of her body, especially P pd .) 0049 ) shoulders, appeared almost roasted. le d itlo dis ,+ ) dical attendant to the family, was ca that Poi 1 vices were unavailing. It is suppos e 'djeo l U who occasionally held the lighted elher h,. 4. a reading when the candle set fire to d the' trje communicated itself instantly to the for i po 4 her dress. She then must have with tiliesitifi door, and succeeded in opening it iv „ l ,ht e' s o 1 ting assistance, when the extra dral' e itCo flames greater power, and her ag e l ogia w " 4 4/ she was unable- to render herself all o f t 'y ..) V I DREADFUL MURDER IN ' D TP° igla i- t r iirr o il 1 Correspondent of the Dublin .Evoin 4‘i g st 1 4 s o gall, Sunday, Jan. 19.—1 al° i ce bid` witnessing a dreadful sight, in - o n &0; 4 1 1 of poor old Samuel Smith, i t I P froln li r quest was being , held. Ile r; e n d 0 , 0 4 yesterday morning, to his ir - 0 4.0 ) , I W passing by Robert White's of I' li the otatl t i, his return, about two o'clock in an d P o d )jr murdered, his skull dreadfully' P boo o o oo , '' slvi i tured, on the road between Wilit e'll o oloy , 'ff ferny. Nothing particular (as Y be iog,` on, spired on the inquest, the verdieo . . 00 1 .0 it:i ", came by his death from violent 0 " It, ir inflicted by some this horrible addition to the cataloke u p 0 00 ; s i consequence of his endeavours to .tel o A t, W it ty a defaulting tenant, and to give l o p, tilov ie loe persons u nknow ts ' e of 0061,0 t, who are the immediate perpetra' , 0 0,44 sent, remains a secret. Providence, tote them to light yet; but it is an O V ‘ fill 5 1010 Total ~ ______--_---""'"'--------- --.- ile('11. To O tt n on, 1 06 , IV, the of alsth daughter.ul t. ,a at Bangr , theS . ° ire c ° ro e , 4,0, ,: On the 23a ult., at Quebec, the lady 0 ,agl4le, Esq., Royal Engineers, of a daughter. pst , i. - 0 1 0 ?4? On the 17th inst., at the Vicarage,a6toliteiile, rough, the wife of the Rev. C. W . . 14",.-fe t, ',..j' s , I On the 17th inst., in Cambridge-rpeoctor" liio('' wife of Montagu J. Tatham, Esrk , °. 0 141t, 50 a son. La: n ee:: ts 913'00/1 ef late T. Banning, of twins, boy and girl, Li' t he e On the 19th inst } .. :s a q t " C o la f On the 18th inst., at Varier stre" ei cir e d i t ie l l io 7 i t i h an i d n , st., at Shipton, 1130,,e g irl icio 0. I'A • ,00i,, Or nson, jun. William O n ti r Henry, of a son. Green° Abe pandasrau .g e h o tg iv ' 0 ,0 3 ~ 4 o if. f On the 19th inst., the lady of J• oy-terrace, Maida-vale , of a syn. _t, .- e 1 I ' 1 1 9 19th inst., ilei i n a g, Loyin addlTurgstb-trur: .10 iff.4.ool)* church' OW On the 12th ult., at St. Geore's e ,,, fsg t io I . l , l g •iL i i Christopher's, Robert Murray lll lr lier f,. C ev ' f l , , tary, to Louisa Frances, third clang, jestY° oseili, Wharton Rawlins, member of her l‘j'" I,P4,r'j,' island. ,„s CI 111 , 1 '„ e st ,l X' 0 # On the 16th inst., at St. George pro-1'1)0" Af dterOConfb M.D., her Britannic ‘ j titer of 1 41' 4v wood, : 0 n . d . u c: oafEsst Esq., , 1: nB I f a eo r nr i (g a tiale _ l c t h l ieivs:it:sd:acii u ,, sv e g s ic : e . : 0:0eel: t ji b e e s. e , c, e j Li : d ' ttll.. R. ~ iqj y h h e el l a B t th 3 i i nst r at.n St i .Jno,h: j..,,_ Pfl e er st:.:rt,4/ •.. ec tO v . f i t 13 O D' of 11 ,0. 1 ` 3 ' 10 3 _On the 20th inst., in the Seth 3,, e late Or , I ,T aged 29 Kent, Mrs. Jane I\l'Lean, relict of !_.‘'../„otts, ~,er On the 25th of October last, at Ca l c e OW 9 4 Esq., 11 il °° ' ft lj° On the 7th inst., at Chesterwe „li f e o Clifton, 115thg Esq., Chest 93. the nol " On the hist' at Cheltenhsne. _,, e v l c Martin, of Maisemo"re, GloucesterT:ob tP ,g, Onsthheeadl,7atghedinss7t.., at Bic h "' -:, fte oiogi ' ..,' 10 1 ) " . 0 ' Pit _ E A on the 180.1 ir...,.,.._.................,...:5t:,...:...............1 ,t,Triaiii, l :O g r . n e : a tt g le ed lB B t 2 h . inst., at Rea lln" fi e rle, Ogici'rie''' Esq., aged 58. London O L . -./120-• sw- ,‘ : Printed and Published bY • ipt Strand. 112, Strand, Printer, in the Precinct o ' the Ddiddleaex, Thursdays