The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-09 00:00:00

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LXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) at Nisi Prius, before the Lori CHIEF BanoN and a Common Jury.) This acti• BABY V. AUSTIN. goods on was b roug h t to recover 22/. 9e. 9 a . f or sold and d e li vered. The defendant ph aded never Mdebted. ti Pr• Watson and Mr. Pollock appeared for the plain ' and Mr. Hawkins for the defendant. ilk fl ow • amount sought to be recovered was for artificial J u l y era and by the plaintiff to the defendant between be (7:etand November, 1840. The original account a the parties was 30/. 9ii. 9d., but 8/. had been ps . i ff c T ",._ account, which left the balance claimed by the plainti defence was that the goods were not purchased ofthe on , but of a d Vardeaux, who carried tb person name tqothe cosiness of untirtificial flower maker in Nicho.l -/7‘,l7are, It appeared that Vardeaux disposed of his i noss to the plaintiff, who was a dyer residing in 'graore-street the early part of 1849, and that the :at , Plaintiff removed the business to Jewia-strect, Alders ,B reet, where he carried it on with the assistance of A_,. r aectux and his wife, who became his servants. The scielendant had been in the habit of dealing with Var treaaux for several years, but it was proved by the b u il . 6ll er to the house that he was informed the it i ross had changed hands, that for the future Mr. le ; Y Would be the person on whose behalf he would di:* Mr. Vardeaux was also called, and proved havi . rg Beau tlos r e t e h l o e f his interest in the business to the plaintiff. tiqd ITAwiuss said, the defendant had always been impression that he was dealing with Var ks and contended that the plaintiff had been the l up f en. , oi proprietor of the business to prevent . e - - nha u_a it pleading a set-off in the shape of a bill of ex - Tae which he held from Vardeaux. T he jury found a verdict for the amount claimed. 11AN KRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FARE.) TO IN RE E. T. DELAFIELD. t 4 "Y was appointed fur a dividend meeting, un d der Th e v._ l4 te of the bankrupt, late lessee of Covent-gar en r atr ke sereo about 1001. by members of corps de ballet, admitted. Ni d : ll ' , . l 3 at present impossible to state the amount of di.. ft 4courately but the general opinion is it will be n ta 1 s. _ to le. 6d. ti e 4 "' ll be recollected that some time since a pr?po t s h i p 1 ) 04 0 a3 made by the bankrupt to set aside 10s. in tti ea out of any subsequently acquired property, and • 4 r te r rl 'ig into a bond, the certificate was to be granted. they r ; on behalf of the bankrupt, now said that tan t ,,?° l,l not agree on the terms of the bond, and the Ittiq would submit to the judgment of the Court, k r - T "e a certificate without entering into the bond. 4 4ty ; ` 44wR ENcE said in th a t case h e s h ou ld f ee l i t his A f ° go full further (Its y into t rsatiohe grounds of opposition. conve krti e IIoNo QP said it mus t be very inconvenient for all , )111 ; i 8 to go into the case on such short notice, and it *441,, be better that the case should be adjourned. e solicitors on each side assented, and the hearing 4diOLlllled till Monday week. COURT.---(THIS DAY.) (Be fore Mr. U n d er -Sh er iff B URCHELL .) Thi s PEEL v. CIIETWYND. /I Sile r " a s an action to recover the sum of 4,840/. ]4s. Od. kfille following circumstances:- 4 r 'Vent suffered judgment to go by default. said that t hi .1- "INELE, who appeared for the plaintiff, said _ i 8 40 4 / el , i° , 4 was brought to recover the sum of V ll B , under the fliowing eireumstances:i— solda3,;' t he plaintiff, Colonel Jonathan Feel, and the ! 3 , e — lo Lord Chetwynd, entered into an annuity . deed 9 4 -11 ,; 1 ',, e ,t° a geoticman named Nutall, an annuity . o ' b oa ~- " ,r ' ng the life of the defendant; the consideration :el t li t . ' i: (l l Di., was paid in full to derendant, Colonel t o t iug the only surety. Plaintiff paid the annuity of Mr. Nutall, and afterwards to his , 11 11it y °it% bath it Was ultimately arranged that the arn n c eel meld be redeemed, and for that purpme Colonel reco ver a further sum of 1,030/. 3s. 4d., and Lord ",;', 1,4 00/. The present claim, therefore, .was to s't , r ‘"e various sums advanced by the plaintiff and 1 , 1 3 t th ereon. d t ee d wasput in, and witnes tes were called to o 4 ,3' , fhent s b Colonel Peel to the amount of 'NO/ "' A., the interest thereon making a total of 14 s. hi, '4lO (10letters were put in, Lord Chetwynd admitting 41 5° 4T41 Promisin g to p ay . 4e, .tiry gave a verdict for the amount claimed as ~ tkr ; - hi, ‘%'as REEVE V. EVANS. m of J an action to recover the az 6 tl a 4,41'4 and da mages for dilapidat . i ! ons to 2 a 1 o 1 ; t h ta a g lf e - the rl t 4 i' ll g to plai nt iff in Clapham-road. It t It appeared s by t A i : Aet ee that th e prem i ses h a d been let 1 t t 4 , , fer five years. One of a n t hde keep conditions ih repair o f . thethe tkid -Els that he should repair . t i lt ° 4t :b ;I n :, e i stes; m,Dleefaevnidhagn thehadpqr e u tm i t t i e s d e s b e i h f o rise dilapidatedhee x ira a b e r A the rent to be dpi 4tdaut by non- leading admitte- esttheimatedgland Tl i , 34 tY gave a verdict for 30/. s DAY.) C'44l AL CO U ItT--(TH I Nf o , F p I. ' kr. Baron OL D AL 6 D 'V ER U s Ii orr and M . r. Justice ZektPo,a;)"ed.,,T4sutstsuriitlgßeeorßfons.hsw2E2EN,LoLT.)Es. jeweller, In this case three S'aul Laurio, 22, jeweller, B&nard Gor h': tt e i e i;id r e l ?e CI . Ul for ftk e feloniously r and S° d i a e engraving, g -F r a a y d i e r f l r g m r e,aZzgn Federman, /64e. Bernard a a nn a t a P e er , a rdr t c o thGo f fn i r t ra : fur t! ' llia, the payment of money of 11 'ettbtnPlre. Yesterday the indictment that the forged Nistr,'4alf of the prisoners, on the groundor that no party ~Nilvf4'l,o,t was not properly described, was demurred t'.4!tellndieted for for in an incomplete i d n t s h tr e u c m o e u n r r t . glibgo, rrer was fully g arg g ued yesterday, an kt ,to time to consider the point, 414 .1. tlar r , now gave judgment, overruling a' qeh, 4 ALDERSON 4t th . n rr er, and declaring the tgh opinion pee notpile convicted. hy n vei ofctfth whollythu the Court u Court gratonotdod ;144,1,4n Ilitdictment, thou d gh "1-lilt: *lll4ettLontpariiiiseonearscitocuombutldpbr 17,,id-11(1ther slid more difficult question.reaedm_edi_here for nen were now gt,j e. Oatnely, whether or no the Lht,,'?tit,(),.tinal Judgment. 1 0 D1 1 ,11- ;' 1 that this demurrer was plea All demurrers then, e pr is prisoners the o of confession wer e ~°N4l°'clance, and not of abatement. t • ' . 'a d ,, f 4 1 9 1 j at i t ; e i Zt tl e P_ a a ti prisonerbl e with m t t h g e h i t n n reasonablyo c e e') o f e rt e p o r e i g s h on d e e r_, Iliql, Il_ tl4 e,, ,, " 4 ,7 ° lt iu i riscli . c l t t io nt o o t f h the e charge e t i a n b . ,:_ h u e t to indictment.t ry him , 4 , , 1.,_._ gui y which could a demurrer In h gvwever, was ii t *tts ~e , United with a plea tl 4il l i '. - ta ' a ft i t i l e." a general goingdem . urrer eof th againstthud charge, N:h ' ImPlying a confession il / 4 1 40t-Lt 41116 L therefore be final, now and the l tit t liu"li Stlistailied. In demuriera t t h o b i indulgence of t tkli a ' c l the power of granting _ _ I d but in cases o 4Niflt lifter th demurrer had fat e , tatbhaetelimemenutrrtehre 1 ,,k,', 111`44414eaur re;lik e e na this the Court had no such au 'tiller; l'Ottur applied to the Court h to ci permit the p t r h i e - N ,-) ' with their demurrer a w . f h ;,Nr 14-4 guilty . ' i l t S s.4r ti ° , 4 .i AI.D.. ERSON refused the ripplieat t io h n e , o d b e - - h ]c ad , i, ' toe. prisoners were warned sefore oh_ kelue• ti°4 b 14 might be the result of their technical 10r, t„_ , overruled. 4 A4 tt ' e did not wish of the tN•reidi t , _ judgment in the remotest Count, b modern l degree e h t to tlt4ll jimt_reinild the Court that in sovera ed par. ti1,,10 otir `mild the higher emiinednecmeuhrraedr.alloTwhe legal th tk r , .4 even after a genera ;4, 4 e den, P the judgment 'l4 of these parties never would he.ve t p u er p m on it t t h ed e rt, tir hat they thought 1 4 1r, h" would have been final. h‘klltttinlit°4 A LDEnsorr replied that t t h h e e pe pr h i l v ic il , e a g e e d o i f t 1 IWa all beneficial to ou„ 11.( lob t „,, 4 not at suggested by the Learned tt - oti i i : - " the course augb-' ,faitilrere would be no end to the raising tf these t,,,,, Ile e hIt,S. 1 1 %. 11 1 l took time to look over the depositions be etle "Itlit Fieute ti: 444 ' tne nee. Moir, T ii _ (1 t)t, --... .ra . ndes l i i„ e Iltj ac„ the wilful murder a of ba S k u e s r a , nagAeldoi4r,6his .vas iwife.n- ' Nei "r% who was respectably dressed in black, kr, h4ot guilty.tl,.l'4l'l,hni with whom was Mr. Clarke, prosecuted, 44, h'''llEtiatine defended the prisoner. as they tftt ,401:,„ . „ P Wil d• ' ll4 , 11l detailing the facts of the ca . th ,` j r,,,1 aPPeared in evidence, took 1i14 11 4 ' that although the unfortunate ttlp Y ihrf tie t „ t 4 ,_ . athe 1114 " tli gt d i habit of drinking she i w soe a n s t b o -v te n l o l Plbadt.°uoracter that was generally t°eidnecdcae:ra:teoded°eacnad th.°ll,44o? the term " a drunkard." 1 11:` 1 1l tk_44 WAS the first witnes w s a c s a a ll n ed. ~°%, Dri to ",.! ... mole hof March last ”_a_Pdpgrireesen.. stsitatcrareeeteehttdo., op t Ot.,, li Zr, and lived with himd 1 . i '" teller 4,„`",en• He recollected Fri ay, th th e hee 22 bs d ak ts,k;ll. th e ' l ' a t ia e o g. of whin' _h day he a w d. a u s the in d t Ati, tl 4l 4l lo „ . y• The parlou d r j til+tet htiOnrao4l:4"t "'as With, P a hi t s l y late ub e w r, itfbe.e parlour, tl l ,° e 1 t ti t Was occup i e d b y lodgers. W I e as _usipbhpwoaeu h hkrt o eellepre p hhael:ru a v tut s n hes:a d ee: he Priso,„llight that he went int o o ut t a n i tr e, d so that i,, Nlki,ft bolting the door " shop, tit "eh i not get to the parlour.llia d„ty 4, iliAht was his habit of do , ing .a . ll his mat _ tti L ll .° p r l e fi a _s to make dough, d a 'i. n bou ‘ t half au bent tr, 4 ! he h tr „ u Pe e r, at three O'clock. illAkr4.: en in the bakehouse hscre l am be .n h g eard his nais- . 1 continued Indic ducat rile tiTthgreveery.lou.‘ d. i Th:scretinis seemed to in . iii , t'Peatotrittim his luis(t)rLe uscw"eriin; hut he heard a no . k..i 4,,tH3llle;'Y through the ni a ht a; if a person was dragging t il q - tt I,th 4hunt the floor of the parlour. The appeared h Icte(),,:""as dragged, whoever it was, tha 4 evil 'it W as the ~ o f his mistress, 1 t - . i t voice of a hil i j' r ise tiee.. to be the vole() tl a ‘"aie r. w i ` h wife. At three the bakehouse. into the ho called hiNtl4till tioth9nr.",nl2 him about in what he had - , Ai ti ~,' her di a l -....— — anything to him. t ol -.4 . 3 te e , e _ . els master say (iti,"h4if, ell then in the bake s h ir o s use about aAnbhnonut.rB - tt i , 4 1 1 1 C 00 t7 le " a 11 1 . en_ went up thetii.4ll:ip.ttztteiribrrotwlfaitearday morning he saw his mistress ni . the middle Wee dreadful state, indce2, al s with la a a n d the day, when his mistress appearedtrheet r right THE SUN, to be "rather heavy," and said she was not well. Ile saw her again in the evening, about six o'clock, in the shop with a person named Mary Ann Bryant. She tried to take some breed out of toe wiedow, but as she turned round the fell down on the floor clear of every thing. Trio prisoner was there, and Mary Ann Bryant asked him to lend his assistance to lift up his mistress, when the prisoner replied, " Let the d—d le-- wait there till she comes to herself." Mary Ann Bryant, however, lifted her up, and he then left the shop. He never saw his mistress again. The next day (Sunday), between nine and ten in the morning, he saw the pri soner, whom he asked how his mistress was, and the prisoner replied that she had been in a very bad state all the night, and he did not expect her to live, adding that ho v, as astonisht d that "it " had lasted as long as it had done. Before this occurrence he had only teen in the prisoner's service a week. Cross-examined—The family of the prisoner consisted of his wife and a couple of children, two boys, the youngest seven and the oldest thirteen. Thoy occupied the ground-floor and the bakehouse. They kept no servant. Ile was the prisoner's journeyman, and not his apprentice, as the Learned Counsel on the other side had supposed. It was usual for a man to be left in the bakehouse all night. During the week he was there he saw the wife of the prisoner the worse for liquor, but he could not say that it was the day before this happened; it was either on Wednesday or Friday, between three and four o'clock. She came down to him in the bake house to give some instructions about the bread, and it way her thick speech that showed him she was drunk. She did not stagger at all, but her left eye was black. Mary Ann Bryant, examined by Mr. BODKIN—She was a married woman, the wife of a carpenter and joiner, and second cousin to the prisoner's deceased wife. The shop, parlour. bed-room, and kitchen of the priso ner's house in Brydges-street were all on one floor, and the bakehouse was underneath. The children slept in the kitchen. She remembered calling there about one in the afternoon of Saturday, the 23d March. The pri soner and his wife were there. His wife appeared very ill indeed from being knocked atiout. Der face was swollen, and her hands of a dark colour, as if they were bruised. She wore spectacles, and she, therefore, could not say whether her eyes were black. Witness cooked the dinner for the deceased to give her time to rest, and whilst she was so engaged the prisoner came, in when the younger child told him that the elder child would not take out the bread as his mother had desired. The deceased was there, and upon hearing this the prisoner s :id d— and b— her oyes, and began hitting and kicking her on the back, and boxing her ears with his open hand. He must have struck her a'lczeu times, and the blows were of such violence that the y were sufficient to knock her up for the afternoon. Be said he would make her remember not sending the man with the bread instead of the boy, and she replied that she thought she should have done wrong had she sent the wan, as he was making York biscuits. lie then sat down to dinner, and on eating a mutton chop he said to his wife, " Oh, this is something like gravy, not the watery soup you make," and then he began beating her again. Afterwards he threw about a quarter of a half-quartern loaf at her, which hit her in the forehead; the eldest child took it up and placed it on the table, when the prisoner threw it at her again, but it did not hit her that time. Before they sat down the prisoner told her that he had been very much put out by her, as on the Friday evening previously she came home drunk, and refused to shut up the shop as he ordered her. He had t 3 do it himself; and on going into the parlour he found a ginger-beer bottle under the pianoforte, full of gin, which made him very vexed. He asked her where she fetched it from, and she told him from the Cheshire Cheese pubiic•house. The deceased, who heard this, said she did not fetch it from the Cheshire Cheese, but from a house in Middle-row, Holborn. After the bread was throw❑ the deceased got_up,when the prisoner said, "If you don't sit down, and finish your meat, I will seed for a rolling pin, and force it down your throat." She :at down, but she could not eit the meat, which made the prisoner get up, and kick and beat her again about her sitting-place. She said, " Man alive, don't beat me, don't kill me," and he replied, " I will nut murder you outright, but I'll murder you by inches, so that the law shan't touch mr, for I can cheat the devil, and I am d—d if I don't think I can cheat the Government over ou." She afterwards went into the bed-room, and the prisoner sat down by the fire, smoking a pipe. He now told witness that he thought he had hurt her head very much indeed, and he, therefore, wished witness to get some water and bathe it for her. Witness then went into the bed-room and examined her head. It was in a dreadful state, the colour of a sheep's liver, and in some places it was terribly swollen, cut, and bloody. Her hair was clotted with blood, and witness having got her some water, she told :her she must bathe her head herself, as it was so dreadful a sight she could not do it. She then returned to the prisoner, who was still smoking a pipe, and told him that he had better let her go to bed, but the prisoner said he could not spare her from the shop. She then went away, about three o'clock, and returned about a quarter past five. She found the pri soner and his wife in the shop. The deceased appeared to Le very stupid indeed, as if she had been drinking a good deal. She took her into the parlour, and soon af terwards the prisoner came in and asked his wife if she had sent the twopenny loaf, as he had ordered. The deceased replied that she had not, when he asked her about a great many loaves which were to have been sent to a Mr. Robinson. She replied, " No, it had not come up stairs, but she would send the twopenny loaf then." The prisoner replied, " No, it's of no use now, it's a d--d shame;" and boxed her ears, telling her to go and put the bread in the window. lie struck on this occasion about a dozen E. mes, and immediately afterwards she saw her fall down, and blood flowing from one of her eyes. Witness said to the prisoner, " Why, good God, she is is a fit ;" when the deceased looked up and said, " Yes, Mary Ann, I am in a fit that I shall never get over; for God's sake, don't leave me." She asked the prisoner to assist her in getting the deceased up, but the prisoner only made use of some bad lan guage, and saying she was drunk, told her to let her be there. The sight was so horrible that it made witness faint, and she was obliged to go out into the open air. On her return in a few minutes she found the deceased in the kitchen standing at a sink, where she fell Own. She was now quite insensible, and the prisoner was still in the shop. She asked him to lift her up and put her on the bed, but he said, " No, she shall never lie upon a bed of mine again." He, however, went in to look at her, and in trying to arouse her he kicked her several times, saying, "You drunken b—, get up." The deceased could not get up, and she lay there fully two hours. About eight o'clock witness's husband came in, and washed her lace, but she never came to again. Her husband afterwards put her in the children's bed. Witness repeatedly asked the pri soner to send for a doctor, but the prisoner said, " Oh, no, there is no occasion for one," and none was sent for. Witness end her hus band waited till between one and two o'clock in the morning, when the prisoner told them that if his wife got no better he would send for a doctor, and he asked witness to come early in the morning. About eight o'clock the next morning witness returned, and J found the deceased still in the same insensible state. She asked the prisoner if he had sent for a doctor, and he replied "No." She said " You had better send for one directly," and eventually a Mr. Watkins was sent for. She remained there till half-past twelve that night, the deceased still continuing in the same state, and when she got there the following Monday morning, between leven and twelve o'clock, the deceased had been dead two or three minutes. Cross-examined—She had never mentioned the con versation of the prisoner about murdering the deceased inch by inch till to-day—that was publicly and in the presence of the prisoner—nor had she mentioned about the rolling-pin. Amelia Mendez, the wife of Abraham Mendez, who had lodged in the priscner's house, the front room en the first floor, remembered coming down stairs on Sa turday, the 23d of March, when she heard the deceased crying and screaming dreadfully. She said, " Oh, you'll kill me, you'll kill me ;" to which the prisoner replied, " and I'll murder you be fore I have done with you." One of the children was in the room at the time, and witness heard him call out, " Oh ' don't father, you will kill mother !" Alexander George Muir, the eldest son of the pri soner, aged 13, was next examined. lie said he remem bered the Saturday before his mother died. He was in the parlour with his father and mother at dinner time. His father threw bread at his mother twice, saying that he,could murder her, but he would not do it direct, because of the laws of the country, he would Co it by inches; he could cheat the devil, and he would cheat somebody else. Cross-examined—He bad repeatedly heard his father any he would murder his mother during the of his grandmother. He heard Mrs. Bryant re peat her evidence to a gentleman yesterday. By the COURT—His mother was always sickly. Mr. Watkins, the medical gentleman who was called in on the 24th of March to see the deceased—He was called in about eight o'clock. She was lying on a bed. He examined her head and neck, which were covered with contusions. Her features were swollen and dis torted, and she was perfectly insensible. He appre hended a fatal result from the first. She died on the follow ing Monday morning. He made a post nior tem examination, and found that she died from compression of the brain. produced by the contused state of the head and neck. •fhe brain itself was in a remarkably healthy state, but the liver was rather paler than usual, but that probably was produced when death took place. The viscera was generally healthy. There were bruises on the back, but the death he attributed to the bruises on the head. He discovered no alcoholic smell about the viscera, nor did the appearance of the liver at all indicate that the deceased was a drunkard. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the jury for the de fence, stating that it was impossible fur him to answer the charge of manslaughter preferred in the verdict of the coroner's jury, eo unjustifiable had been the conduct of the prisoner, but he did most particularly insist that the evidence as produced did not make out a case to justify the jury finding j the prisoner guilty o! the capital offence. The Learned JUDGE then summed up the whole case, after which Tho jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter, committed under aggravated circumstances. The COURT sentenced him to transportation for life. WE 6V COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Mr. AI Lerman MooN.) MALICIOUSLY CUTTING TREES.—Joseph Keene, 28, described in the calendar as a labourer, was i nd i cted with maliciously and feloniously cutting and destroying pwards of 100 va l ua bl e f ru i t trees , the property of oseph Philp, in a garden then and there gtomns. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Cocide appeared for the Prose cution. The prisoner was (10 - ended by Mr. Carter. From the statements of the Learned Counsel, and the evideuce adduced on the part f the prosecution, it ap • peered that the prisoner had been in the employ of the prosecutor, who was a fruit gardener, carrying on his business r.t Hartuandsworth, in the county of Mid dlesex; that in Novemher last, in consequence of his not having sufficient employment for him, he was obliged to discharge him, and that, after be had done so, the pri soner vowed to one of the witnesses that he would 1 e revenged for it before the summer was over. The pri soner lived in a small cottage, within 200 yards of tLe prosecutor's orchard, and everything wenC on as usual till the 30th of March last. On Friday, the 29th cf March, the trees were standing as usual, but on Sunday the prosecutor discovered upwards of 130 apple, pear, plum, and cherry trees cut down and destroyed. Suspicion falling on the prisoner the prosecutor accom ranied by a policeman, went to his cottage, but he de nied all knowledge of the trees being cut down and de stroyed. In the grounds of the prosecutor, there were discovered several footmarks, and in com paring them with tho shoes belonging to the prisoner they were found to match exactly. (The case was proceeding when our report left.) MAItLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) RUFFIANLY ASSAULT.—Patrick Hagan was charged before Mr. Hardwick with violently assaulting his wife, Mary Hagan. The complainant, whose face was much cu►, stated, that she had been married to the prisoner twelve years, and during the last seven years he had continually been in the habit of ill-treating her. This morning, at eight o'clock, as she was going to her work, he came behind her, and, without saying a word, struck her on the back part of the head and knocked her down. While she was lying on the pavement he hit her in the face, and followed up this violence by kicking her about her body. Her screams brought several of her neigh bours to her assistance, and the prisoner was secured and handed over to the custody of a police-constable. She was much hurt, and was rendered unable to go to her work in consequence of the blows inflicted upon her by the prisoner. Mr. HARDWICK, after severely lecturing the prisoner on his cowardly conduct, fined him 51, and in default committed him for two months, with bard labour. LONDON, ADELPHI THEATRE. A new comic drama, from the practised pen of Charles Selby, is drawing all London to the Adelphi. It is en titled White Sergeants; or the Buttermilk Volun• teens, and the chief of the White Sergeants is, of course, Madame Celeste, who has drilled her corps of non-commissioned officers, composed of Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss E. Harding, and Miss IL Coveney, most efficiently. These ladies are the wires of certain members of a "Yeomanry Ca valry" corps (represented by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Cul lenford, Freeborn, and Linden). These gentlemen are determined to lead a jolly bachelors' life of it during the week of training, but the White Sergeants agree to follow them and spoil their sport, and most effectually do they succeed in so doing, for a party of Hussar officers, who have come down to inspect the Yeomanry, do their best to induce the White Ser geants to enlist in their corps, by making hot love to them. The Yeomanry White Sergeants, however, out-manceuvre the regulars, for they send for the wives of the officers, and so manage that the yeomanry shall make love to these ladies, and thus, by carrying the war into the enemies own territories make them beat a retreat. We have, in addition, a deliciously humorous episode of the loves of a boots and a chamtermaid, and of a fancy baker and a lady's maid, the first couple being re presented by Mr. Wright and Miss Woolgar, the last by Mr. Munyard and Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam. With such materials and with such a cast, success, (success we mean, as it is understood at the Adelphi, triumphant, unmistakeable success) was certain, and we have no doubt that the White Sergeants under the very efficient command of Madame Celeste, will be on duty at the Adelphi for many weeks to come. Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam is a most valuable addition to the Adelphi company. She sung some ballads most deliciously in the course of the drama. The costumes are very beautiful, and the macceavres of the White Sergeants, when drilled by their commanderess, are most graceful sad picturesque. EXETER HA LL. WEDNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS. The concert last night was one of the most brilliant of the season. Several novelties were brought forward. Mademoiselle Angri, the contralto at the Royal Italian Opera last season, was encored in everything ■he sung during the evening, and she was obliged to repeat three times the popular Brindisi from Lucrezia Borgia. llerr l)reyshock displayed all the brilliancy of his execution in two charming fantasias of his own composition. We prefer " L'lnquietude," which is a gem. The principal novelty of the evening was the debut of an excellent tenor, Mr. Gustavus Geary', who sung the grand air from Der Freischutz with taste, power, and artistic finish. We understand ho is a professor from Dublin, his voice is a pure tenor, round, sweet, and powerful; he sung A several times during the evening, tnd sustained the note with power and perfect intona tion. He was rapturously encored in the popular ballad, " O'er Life's Pleasures Roving," from Charles the Second. His singing altogether was full of expression, and in perfect keeping with the music he interpreted. Sims Reeves was in full force, and sung splendidly, as he always does, and was encored three times. The gem of the evening was a fantasia from La Sonnambula, played upon the concertina by Giulio Regondi, with such ex quisite taste, refined expression, abandon, and brilliancy, that he was recalled and encored, when he performed an aria from Lucia, which, for facilite of execution and igenious and original arrangement, could not be sur passed. Miss Lucombe, Mr. Henri Drayton, Mrs. Alexander Newton, and Herr Stigelli, contributed much to the success of the concert, which was crowded, and which gave universal satisfaction. RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. ABERDEEN. An adjourned special meeting of this company took place at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, yesterday, to receive the report of the committee ap pointed at the meeting held on the 25th ult., for in vestigating the affairs of the company ; Mr. Perry in the chair. In answer to a question from Mr. WiLsote, The CHAIRMAN said the secretary had received a letter from Colonel Fraser, intimating his intention to resign his seat at the board. The CHAIRMAN then read a letter which he had re ceived from Colonel Fraser, protesting against the le gality of the meeting of the 25th ult., and also the ap pintment of the committee of investigation. Mr. SPICER (the chairman of the committee) then read the report, which recommended as indispensable the raising of a supplemental capital cf 200,0001., to meet existing liabilities—such sum to be raised by an issue of preference stock, at five per cent., con y ertiblo into stock of the company at the end of a fixed term of years, and the committee expressed a confident exrectation that the increased traffic of the line would be found sufficient to meet the ad 6itional charge upon revenue. The committee fur ther advised the appointment of a general manager, an appointment which would enable them to reduce the number of directors. They recommended that the vacancy caused by the retirement of Colonel Fraser should not be filled up. They advised the directors not to extend the liae beyond Ferry-hill, until the increased traffic should justify such a required outlay, and without such measure received the sanction of the proprietors. A desultory conversation followed, in the course of which it was stated that when the line was twenty miles from Aberdeen the traffic was only 5501. a week, but that since the line had been ex tended to Aberdeen, the traffic had increased to 1,1501., exclusive of mails. The report of the committee was then adopted, and a resolution Empowering the directors to proceed with the Bill for raising 200,000/. carried unanimously, it being an instruction to the directors not to pro ceed beyond Ferry-hill without the sanction of a special meeting. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the day. THE LATE MR. WORDSWORTH'S U NPUBLISHED POEM AND BIOGRAPHY.—Mr. Wordsworth has left a poem consisting of fourteen cantos, descriptive of his life, reflec tions, and opinions, with directions that it should be pub lished after his decease, together with such biographical no tiers as may be requisite to illustrate his writings, under the editorial care of his nephew, the Rev. Christopher Words worth, D. D., Canon of Westminster, whom he has appointed his literary executor, so far as his biographical memoir is concerned, with an expression of a desire that his family, executors, and friends would furnish his biographer with such materials as may be useful for his assistance in the prepara tion of the work. It is a remarkable and touching coinci dence that Wordsworth died, not only on Shakspere's birth day, but also on the day of his death , Shakspere having died on his fifty-third birthday, 1616.—Post. SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE COMPANY.—The directors of this company are in treaty with the Corporation of the city of Lyndon for the sale of the bridge. Yr. Halevy, the celebrated composer, arrived Yesterday from Paris, to superintesd the production of his opera La Tempesta, at her Majesty's Theatre. Mr. Scribe is hourly expected. GRAND DINNER TO LORD GOUGH AT THE Mmssiox-Housx.—The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress have issued cards of invitation to a banquet, to be given to Lord Gough, on the 30th instant. The company will consist of Peers and Peeresses, of Members of the House of Commons, of Lord Gough's companions in arms, and the Directors of the East India Company, and their ladies, &c. The number of cards issued is about 400. SOCIETY or FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DIS- TitEss.—The anniversary festival of this society took place last evening at the London Tavern. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the society, was in the chair. The majority of the foreign Ministers accredited to thiS country were present. TRAFALGAR MODEL.—On Tuesday the admirable model of the Battle of Trafalgar was visited by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the Week ended blay 5, 1850 -C. and 11. Main Line, 2,099'. 115. 7d.; Mold, 82/. ss. Bd. ; Steam-boats, 17. J. 96. td. ; Total, 2,357/. 6s. 3d. The sorrow, of which no one speaks to us, - which gains no change from time, cuts deeper than reiterated blows. E iza Cook's Journal. ► MAGAZINES, &c.— (CONTINUED). DAVID COP PE RT'l ELD. No. XIII. By Charles Dickens. Mr. Snewing's St. George, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b ...(Smith) 0 Mr. E. R. Clarke's Rodney, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (1 , 1 Ford) 0 Mr. Cowley's The Miner, 4 yrf, sst 101 b (Simmons) 0 A good race. The Roodee Produce Stakes of 15 sovE. each, &c. One mile and a half. (13 Subs.) Lord Cl.e , terfield's Concertina c . Mr. ilowlio's Shilmalta West . The Queen's Pitt() of 100 Guineas. Thrice round. Sir C. Mook's Vanguard, 4 yrs, 9st 21b Sir J. riawky's Fernhill, 5 yrs, lOst .......... Trot discovers by experiment the difficulties at tendant upon the solution cf the mysteries of steno graphy. All reporters will appreciate the exquisitely humorous description cf learning to write shorthand given in the cpening of the prteient number David marvelling much upon "the changes rung upon dots, the wonderful vagaries played by circles, the unac countable consequences that resulted from marks like flies' legs, and the tremendous effects of a curve in the wrong place." It is with no small degree of accu racy that he designates the mere alphabet of steno graphy "an Egyptian Temple in itself." Daisy tries his hand after much practice on one of the crack speakers in Doctors' Commons. " Shall I ever for get," says he, "how the crack speaker walked off from me before I began, and left my imbecile pencil staggering about the paper as if it were in a fit!" Ultimately he begins to manage better by means of a sort of private Parliament in Buckingham-street, with Traddles impersonating all kinds of illustrious orators, with "my aunt and Mr. Dick representing the Government or Opposition (as the case might be)," and with David Copperfield himself fagging after Traddles with all his might and main. A little further on, we have a formidable interview between Miss Murdstone, David, and Mr. Spenlow—the latter having discovered, through the united aid of Jip and Miss Murdstone, the love passages with Dora. The soene is admirably described : with Mr. Spenlow more than ever like Punch, and Miss Murdstone looking as if she might be broken, but could never be bent. Next morning there is, as the title of the chapter intimates, a "dissolution of part nership," Mr. Spenlow being found dead on the road to Norwood. Dora is, of course, disconsolate—her state of mind being vividly portrayed in certain excerpts from Miss Julia Mills's diary. This same diary is one of the richest things in the number. The interpolated ideas of the writer—flashes of genius evidently in her own estimation—form a picture infinitely natural in its absurdity. " Rush of grief admitted. (Are tears the dew-drops of the heart ? J. M.). . . Also referred to Patience on Monument. (Qy. Why on Monument ? J. M.)." But the purloining of J. by man with " broad nose, and legs like balustrades of bridge," is the climax— " Towards evening, strange boys calls. Brought into parlour. Broad nose, but no balustrades. Says he wants a pound, and knows a dog," &c. M r . Di c k ens must have had a peep i nto some such diary, penned by a sentimental young lady, and, like his own immortal Captain Cattle, " when found, made note of." I journey dow n t o D over affords us once more the delight of seeing Agnes. The after-dinner quarrel between Wickfield and Heep is powerfully depicted. When Mrs. He e p as k s D av id , " How do you think my Ury . looking, sir ?" we quite chuckle at heart when David says, "I thought him looking as villanous as ever, and I replied that I saw no change in him." The sketch of this detestable character is singularly replete, and excites a wonderful degree of abhorrence. Returned to London, David Copperfield encounters the "Wan derer," one snowy night, in St. Martin's lane, and turns with him into a room at the Golden Cross. Mr. Peggotty, who has aged much in his travels, recounts, in his own style of rough eloqu ence , his ineffectual journeys on the i continent. The fol lowing portion of his narrative ▪ s beautiful : " When I come to any town,' ho pursued, I found the inn, and waited about the yard till amine one turned up (some one mostly did) as know 'd English. Th en told how that I was on my way to seek my neice, and they told me what manner of golitie.olk was in the holm, and I waited to see any as seemed like her, going in or out. When it waru't Em'ly, I went on agen. By little and little, when I come to a new village o r th at , among the poor people, I found they know , d about me. They would set me down at their cottage doo rs , an d give me what-not far to eat and dri▪ nk, and show m e w h ere to sleep; and many a woman, Ma found a -waiting f o r r Davy, a:4 has had a daughter of about Em'ly's are, I've me, at Our Saviour's Cross outside the village, fur to do me sinflar kindnesses. Some has had daughters as was dead. Anil God only knows how good teem mothers was to me!' RACES T 0 COME. Chester Spring Newm. Second Spring l4 Shrewsbury ... 15 Manchester O2 Epsom Summer 2B Edinburgh r NE. JU: Newton Ascot Newcastle Bibury 26 Stockbridge 27 Hampton Newmarket 2 Liverpool lO Nottingham l6 Stamford l7 Salisbury lB Winchester 23 Goodwood Ripon Brighton UST. Reading York Stirling :DEER. I Doncaster Manchester Autumn 26 IBEIL Newmkt. Second 0ct.... 14 Newmarket Houghton.. 28 "It Vtai Martha at the door. I saw her haggard, listening face distinctly. My draed was lest he should turn his head, and see her too. " They would often put their children—pattielar their little girls,' said Mr. Peggotty, upon my knee; and many a time you might have seen me sitting at their doors, when night was coming on, a'most us if they'd been my Darling's children. Oh, my Darling!' " Overpowered by sudde❑ grit f, he sobbed aloud. I laid my trembling hand upon the hand he put before his face. Thankee, sir,' he said, don't take no notice.' " In a very little while he took his hand away and put it in his.breast, and went on with his story." Some inkling is obtained, through post-marks on let ters, of the whereabouts of little Em'ly, and we ex pect, therefore that Mr. Peggotty's new expedition in search of her will proved successful. Tne number closes with his second departure. HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Part I. Conducted by Charles Dickens. . _ Apart from ail other attractions, the n ame o f Charles Dickens alone, was certain to secure for this cheap weekly periodical thousands upon thousands of purchasers. A name so dear to the hearts of the people of England could never prove otherwise than an object of attraction—au attraction too beyond the reach of resistance. Itself already a " household word " among so many millions, it could not but prove potent in introducing other Household Words in the language of Shaks pere. Hence the immense popularity which welcomed the present publication on its first com mencement, and which at once placed it above the help of approval or even of panegyric. The numbers from the first have, as complete portions of the under taking, steadily and perceptibly improved—although two contributions contained in th e secon d num b er we regard as immeasurably surpassing anything that has subsequently appeared in Household Words. Both these papers it is easy at once to father on Mr. Dickens himself. No other man living could have penned th at " C h i ld ' s D ream about a Star," which is worthy the creator of little Nell and little Paul Dombey. And no other hand but his could bare written that ch a pt er on " Perfect Fe licity—in a Bird's Eye View," hich in its humorous of equal length and grotesque extravagance is comparable to any chapter great in Rave ns — w i tness t hi s hi s Gripa and his reference to hi s own ravens i n sketch Dickens e of always is in Rab e l a i s . B u t Mr. the preface to the cheap edition of " Barnaby Rudge." And a raven—the raven of the Happy Family—is the hero of the chapter on "Perfect Klicity." We should be tempted to transcribe a few fragments from this and other pages of Househ o ld W ords, but that we are satisfied our so doing would be with th e vas t majo rity a work of needless repetition. Altogether the present portion, Part 1., of H ouse h old Words, while not exactly equalling our exp ec t at i ons, w hi c h were great, gives large promise of their rapid and complete fulfilment. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES. RACECOURSE, WEDNESDAY, FIVE o'CiucK. The following races were decided at the time our parcel was mad© up:— The Scramble Handicap of 5 sovs. eac h , w i th 30 says. added. The winner to be sol d for 80 sous., & e . H a lf a mile. (12 Subs.) Mr. r Jones's s O 7st ( W.Sharp) 0 'st r h m e s ll b l y, 4 y ease, 4 yrs, Bst 101b......q Evans) 1 Mr. B J rs, 7st 9lb ......(G. Harrison) 2 046 y, 1 31 b (Bazham) 0 s t , Mr air. . B s t a e n b e b r i o n f g e , s s b o r s f; b Mr. G. Palmer's 'Pity, 4 yrs, 7 st 121 b ...... (G. O a te s ) 0 Mr. Armstrong's Chieftain, 3 yrs , 6 st 1 3lb (Hazelq) 0 Colonel Ilertey's Ranelagh, 3 Yl'', Est Cib (Kee gan ) 0 Mr. Lawson's Eunuch, 3 yrs, bet (A rnold) 0 Mr. Nicoll's Greenwich, 3 ) re, Est ............ (th at) 0 Mr. G. Barton's Leonidas, 3 yrs , s st 10 Ib...(Osborne) 0 Mr. PeMoy's Golden Lady, 3sr, Set 7 , 1 b ...... (Wells) 0 b s lyd thee s t o P n r , vo 3 yrs, st, 5 to 2 agst Eunuch, and 5 to 1 each agst O s b e ld eston and Greenwich. Won by a neck; Eunuch, Prov os t fill y, and Golden Lady, well up. Run in 57 sec. Sixty Guinene, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 says. each. Once round a:id a distance. ___ Sir C. Monch's Vanguard ..................... .......7 .—..- - Mr. Jamieson's Tower ....................... (J. Evans) 2 Mr. Lawson's Cauriri (Noble). 3 Mr. Hobson's Gladiole, 3 yrs ...... : ........... ,coshorne) 0 Mr. Campbell's Saucy LIO, 4 y:rs ......... ((v.x Abdttle) o Mr. Meeson's Doubt, 4 yrs ............. .(%N intehouse) 0 Mr. Jones's Stepping-stone, 3 yrs Mr. M. Kenna's Charlotte, 3 yrs (Megan) 0 Mr. Foster's Osbald wick, 3 yrs ...... (Wakefield, jun.) 0 Mr. Cowper's Mite filly, 3 yrs ...............(Simmons) 0 Mr. Copeland's Candlewick, 3 yrs ......... (W. Sharp) 0 Mr. Pedley's The Cantab, 4 yrs 7to 4 agst Vanguard, and 7 te . 2 agat Doubt. W on cleverly by a length. Run in 2 nun. 7 see. The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sovs., added o a handi cap of 25 sovs. each, 15 fr., and 5 only if declared; the second t 3 receive 50 1 , and the third to s ave his M r. Thels Isaac following stake. Two miles and a quarter. (189 Subs., 85 of whom declared.) Mr. H. Pitt's Mounseer, 4 yrs, Est 91b ... (Dockeray) 1 5 y rs , 84 51b (Marlow) 0 Mr. Eddison's John Cosser, Day's Caloscoksetrarnrtoeudthb,u6t st were lolb n. ;: t . : p CB ( l h ( i a l n e rp t d r is u ti c a)) ) 0 2 1 Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 6 yrs, 9st 21b ... (Templemun) 0 Lord How th's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs, 9st (A. Day) 0 Captain Ilarcourt's Ellerdale, 6 yrs, bit 31b (Maroon) 0 Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yrs, 7st 51b . (Flatman) 0 Mr. F. Nicoll' s W oo l w i c h, 4 y rs , 7st 31b (liiott) 0 Mr. H. Stebbiog's Westow, 4 yrs, 7st 2:b (Basham) 0 Mr. Oshaldeston's Fugletnan, 5 yrs, 7st (G. Brown) 0 Mr. Hill's Ostorley, 4 yrs, 7:t ...............(G. Sharp) 0 Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st-- ~...(W. Sharp) 0 Mr. Jaqut•s's Cht.ntrey, 4 yrs, Est 10 1 h --(Charlton) 0 Mr. Bowes's The Knout, 4 yrs, 64 81b (Trcen) 0 Lord Warwick's Grief, 4 vrs, E s t 71h (line tt) 0 Mr. S. G eorge ' s Whi m c, .4 yrs, 6st 71b (Keegan) o Mr. C. Green na Keleshea, 6 yrs, 6st 6113 ...(Evans) 0 Mr. J. Robinson n Fleur de Seine, 5 yrs, 6st(Osburne) 0 Mr. Osbaldestone's Minimum, 4 yrs, sst i011;(Barker) 0 Mr. Thempson's Lily c, 4 yrs, sst 1 01 b ...(Uarrison) 0 Mr. Meiklara's Roland, 4 yrs, sst sib (Arnold) 0 Mr. Holdforth n General Sale, 4 yrs,sst 121b(Cowper) 0 Captain Fraser's Emma, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Wells) 0 THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1850. their position as becomes the executive of a great commercial country. But the direct re verse is the case in every particular. The trus tees demonstrated, to the entire satisfaction of the Commons' Committee, in the teeth of an astute and energetic opposition, first, that they had the will to advance in the right direction; secondly, that it was their interest and the interest of all connected with Birkenhead to do so as rapidly as possible , and, thirdly, that the Bill would give them the power to do so ; while without the Bill they and the works must be forthwith paralysed. The Woods and Forests never Lave yet contributed a farthing to an undertaking without which their foreshore and all the rest of their now valuable possessions of a like kind would be worthless ; nor have they given the remotest hint that if they had the whole concern in their hands to morrow they would go on one inch with it; as indeed how could they without money ? And is it to be supposed that Parliament would sanction the devotion of the funds of the State to the confiscation of private property, whose value can only progress, and is pro greasing, with the progression of public convenienceand advantage, as the Commons' Committee have declared. No person has shown more lucidly or more em phatically than the noble head of the Woods and Forests, in his reports on the Navy, &c., Expendi ture, the waste and inefficiency and mischief in herent in the whole system of Crown management of what should be left to private enterprise ; and if it could be supposed for a moment that Lord Seymour, when he comes to examine into the present case and to judge for himself, could really recommend a persistance in the course threatened, such conduct would be a thorough burlesque upon those very re ports, which have done him so much honour, and which rendered his acceptance of his present . office so gratifying to all who were cognizant of the unavoid able deficiencies and short-comings pertaining to the department he now presides over. However, should his Lordship be so far ill advised as thus practically to refute his own doctrines, and to exhibit a free-trade Ministry in the odious light of opponents of all trade in one of the most favourable and most promising haunts of commerce in the world, he must lay his account to meeting with a resistance resolute and determined in proportion to the magni tude of the interests now imperilled. Liverpool is fully alive to the injustice of which Birkenhead is sought to be made the victim, and has spoken out in a memorial not a little significant, perhaps, of ap prehensions on its own account; for it the Woods and Forests are to usurp the function and seize the pro perty of the Birkenhead trustees, where is the gua rantee that the Duchy of Lancaster may not, one of these days, carry the centralizing predilections of the age to the extent of becoming administrators of dock affairs in Liverpool ? The manufacturing districts of Manchester and the neighbourhood, Stafford shire, Shropshire, and Wales, will of course exhibit a keen sensitiveness, and are doing so through their representatives, at the prospect of their rising port, with all its means of cheapening and facilitating trade, being rendered useless, and the works suffered to fall into decay. Such must inevitably be the case should the Woods and Forests execute their threat of stopping the Bill, and thereby inflict irreparable evil on three or four millions' worth of property in vested in dock bond?, warehouses, railways, and the township generally, on the faith of the Great Float being gone on with, the walls built, manufactories established, and warehouses erected as required. All this is now being done, and the removal of the forfei ture clauses is alone wanted to ensure its continuing to be done in a vastly accelerated degree; for was shown in committee that those who were eager to become a resident trading population and pur chasers of property‘wc.re seared away by the natural fear that the Woods and Forests would have their pound of flesh; though at the time the bond set:tiring them that power was executed, the idea of its ever after being mooted, much less enforced, never crossed the thought of any one in any way concerned with the business—the ten ears' proviso being looked upon as purely nominal, and of no more real obligation than the Duke of Marlborough's annual flag is an equiva lent rental for Blenheim. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Oa Tuesday the Commissioners assembled at the Guildhall ; Air. Deputy Peacock in the chair. Tee report of the Committee of Health was read. It referred to the investigation into certain alleged nuisances, more particularly noticed in the report of the Medical Officers of Health, given below, and re- commended that the Court should not interfere with the subject of the Bill in Parliament on Metropolitan Interments, as the Parliamentary Committee of the Corporation were engaged in the consideration of that question. Mr. Deputy Lorr hoped the Court would not allow so important a subject as the Metropolitan Interment Bill to pass by without some peculiar notice, particu larly as there were come clauses in it which showed a spirit of jobbing of the most resolute and nefarious character.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. IL L. TAYLOR said, the Bill alluded to af fected every ward in the City, and ought not to be given the " go by" to by the Court in consequence of the interference of any other authority. Ile should move as an amendment, that the part of the report he particularly adverted to be referred back to the com mittee. Mr. BLAKE disapproved of the idea of mixing up in the discussion anything of a political kind, and thought it was quite enough tbat the subject of the Bill for metropolitan interments was referred to a committee of the corporation to be dealt with. Mr. Deputy HARRISON said the Bill had been re ferred to the Parliamentary Committee in order that a double expense might not be incurred. They all concurred in support of the plan of extramural inter ments, and if the Commissioners found that there was any hesitation upon the part of the Parliamentary Committee to act upon that principle, then he hoped the Commissioners would take up the question them selves.—(Hear.) Mr. ELLIOTT would wish to see the Corporation cast aside the antiquated prejudices which stood in the way of the most important improvements at tempted to be accomplished for the benefit of the sani tary condition of the community. The means pro posed for effecting these improvements were de nounced as being part of a system of centralization. Now he would say that centralization was anexcellent thing.—(Laughter and No, no.) Mr. Deputy °BEARD supported the amendment. The report was then received, and Mr. Simon, the Medical Officer of Health, then read the following report as to the alleged nuisances, the complaints of which had been referred to him : " According to your desire I have inquired into the condition of the burial ground adjoining the church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate. "In your inspectors' reports the area of this ground is stated at 1,783 square yards. I have found, ou ex amination c•f the parish record, that, during the last five Years (1845-9 inclusive), 547 burials have taken place. This number is excessive in proportion to the space ; and I entertain no doubt that it would be both offensive and hurtful to make, during the approaching summer, any fresh disturbance of a soil so saturated with decom posing animal remains. . ~ " For the information of those who are nett acquainted with the locality, I may state that the burial ground is for the most part surrounded by houses (those, namely, of Little Britain and Bull and Month street), by the back windows of which it is overlooked. It is from in habitants of these houses that the complaint originated « which led your Hon. Court to desire my report on the matter. "On inspection, it appeared to me that the graves tarnod were crowdei together, and that the soil, whereo up for present interment, contained a quantity f ani mal matter as yet but very incompletely, deca yed. "I hatvhea view visited tot the determine almshouses sage vc Iwhethern Jacobs there w a e r l; - paansy -1 Court for their more effectual drainage circumstances renderingit necessary that the order issued by your Lon. circumstancesthat charity. should "Entertaining be complied an withopin opinion the that t eer a s of l l an open cesspool is inju rious to the nei g hbourhoo d in t trustees which it stands, I cannot certify that the order in ques tion has been unnecessary, or that its enforcement would be inexpedient. Nev ertheless, owing to the very small number of inmates having recourse to the privies of these almshouses; owing also to the privies in a spac e w hi c h i s comparat i vely an d cesspools being situate at a distance of some feet exterior open and ventilated; (Ring further to th e f ac t th at i n the to the residences, opposite direction they abut only on a warehouse and not on occupied dwellings, there are certainly some peculiarities in the case which enable me to admit that inconveniences of the highest degree do not result from the present arrangements. "At your last Court a memorial was submitted by certain inhabitants of Fore -street on the subject of nuisance experienced by them from the drysalters' esta blishment of Messrs. Gaby and Wills, situate in Moor lane, and this memorial having been referred to me I have inquired into its subject matter. I find that the chief inconvenience sustained is that of smoke, which is evolved in immense quantities from the furnace of the establishment in question. Owing to the defective height of the chimney the smoke does not clear the level of the adjoining houses, but frequently pours down on them to the level of .the ground floor, and renders it impracti cable f.)r the inhabitants of such houses to oxen thedoors and windows sufficiently for the purposes of ventilation. An adequate length of shaft would, no doubt, relieve the immediate neighbourhood from this serious evil, but a still better remedy would consist in the employment o f such a furnace as would consume its own s m o k e ' a nd but would relieve not only the immediate neighbourhoode. the city generally from this nuisance of wastedefu I likewise "In compliance with your desire, Brown e , "'a and visited the refining house of Messrs. . have as certainedWin- grove, situated in Wood-street, C beaPgaeionally diffined by Messrs. and that the acrid material occasionally of the from this house thrcugh neigh bourhood, and complained of especially consists of nitrous Webber and Harris, of Milk-street, considerable quantities at elle in acid, which is evolved ofthe stwo,speheieny pfining. The greater stage of the proses gold . share of these acid fum es s recondensed by a peculiar' apparatus' , so as not to escape from the :bac of the rsfining house, nor to be perceptibl e or injnrious t o the neighbourhood: and I am in formed that it would be practicable to condense, also, that AUG Wolverhampton l2 I Eglinton Park ... 13 or 14 SEPTE Warwick . Lichfield . .......• 10 - --- Newmkt. First October 1 I Chester Autumn 8 1 THE FLOWER SHOW OF THE BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S-PARK. It is the misfortune of exhibitions of this kind that " come fair weather, come foul," they must be held on the appointed day ; the show that took place yes terday in the society's gardens in the Regent's-park, was necessarily a failure as an outdoor fete, although the magnificent collections of plants and flowers may unhesitatingly be said to have been unsurpassed in excellence and perhaps in number. His Royal High ness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Seymour, honoured the society with a visit on the occasion, as did also his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The example, however, set by these illustrious per sonages was not generally followed, the inclement weather prohibiting the usual concourse of visitors. Those who did congregate were entertained between the intervals of inspecting the flowers by the band of tke let and 2d Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards, who endeavoured, with their accustomed skill, to lessen, as much as lay in their power, the influence of the discouraging circumstances of the weather. The heaths were not numerous, but were very good. The azaleas were more plentiful and were, v p e a r r y t i rich cula r a l y those n dre of m arl a lVr b l ly s . well grown;Lawrence, of indeed, nde Ealing-park, ed,itm ay be remarked with respect to this exhibition, that it was wholly without what may be called fill-up plants ; almost each specimen was a first-rate example of its kind. There was also an abundant supply of roses, which, for perfume and beauty, were all that could be desired. The greenhouse collections were both ample and choice. Of the orcbidaceous tribe there were not many exhibitors, but, as said before, whatever there was, was fine and deservedly attracted much attention. The whole assemblage of flowers, however, seemed to lose much in effect and brilliancy fur want of sun shine brightness. The following is a list of the principal prizes awarded : EXTRA. GOLD.—To Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Law rence., for 30 stove and gr( enhouse plants; Mr. Williams, gardener to Mr. Warren, for 25 orchids. MEDIUM GOLD.—Mr. Cole, gardener to Mr. H. Collyer, for 30 a )ve and greenhouse plants ; Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, for 20 stove and green house plants; Mr. Mylam, gardener to Mr. J. Rocker, for 15 Cape heaths; Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Law rence, for 12 greenhouse azaleas; Mr. Schroder, for 15 orchids. GOLD MEDAL.—Mr. Taylor, gardener to Mr. J. Foster, for 20 stove and greenhouse plants ; Mr. Smith, gardener to Mr. W. Quilter, for 15 Cape heaths; Messrs Rollieson, nurserymen, for 12 Cape heaths ; Messrs. Fraser, nurserymen, for 12 greenhouse azaleas ; Mr. Dobson, gardener to Mr. E. Beck, fur 10 orchids; Mr. Cock, fur 12 pelargoniums; Mr. Dobson, gardener to Mr. E. Beck, for 12 pelargoniums ; Messrs. Lane and Son, nurserymen, for 12 roses ; Messrs. Paul and Son, nurserymen, for 12 roses. LARGE SILVER-GILT MEDAL.--Mr. Croxford, gar dener to Mr. H. Borne, for 10 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, for 15 orchids; Mr. E. Roland, for 8 roses. LARGE SILVER MEDAL.—Hr. Cole, gardener to Mr. H. Collyer, for 15 Cape heaths; Messrs. Fairbairn, nur serymen, for 12 Cape heaths ; Messrs. Veitch and Son, nurserymen, for 12 Cape heaths ; Mr. Robinson, gar dener to Mr. J. Simpson, for 12 pelargoniums ; Mr. Gains, nurseryman, for 12 pelargoniums ; Mr. Parker, gardener to Mr. G. H. Eghtoun, for 6 pelargoniums; Mr. Robinson, gardener to Mr. J. Simpson, for 6 pelar goniums ; Messrs Lane and Son, nurserymen, for 12 greenhouse azaleas. SILVER-GILT MEDAL.—Messrs. erasers, nurserymen, for 20 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Ley bank, gardener to Mr. T. Maudsley, for 10 stove and green house plants; Mr. May, gardener to Mr. Goodhart, for 6 Cape heaths; Mr. Falconer, gardener to Mr. E. Pal mer, for 6 greenhouse azaleas; Mr. Gains, nurseryman, for 6 pelargoniums ; Mr. Gains, nurseryman, for 6 fancy pelargoniums; Mr. Mosley, for 6 fancy pelargo niums; Mr. Stains, for 6 fancy pelargoniums; Mr. Par ker, gardener to Mr. G. H. Eghtoun, for 6 Cape pelar goniums; Mr. Terry, gardener to Lady Fuller, for 8 roses, in pots; Messrs. Lane and Son, nurserymen, for 6 yellow roses, in pots. SILVER MEDAL.—Messrs. Pamplin, nurserymen, for 20 stove and grecnhnuso plants; Mr. Bruce, gardener to Mr. B. Miller, for 10 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Denuet, gardener to Mr. W. H. Gilliot, for 10 stove and greenhouse plants; Messrs. Veitch and Son, for 'wadi nilla'bracteata ; Messrs. Lucombe and Pince, nurserymen, for gardenia malifara; Messrs. Lucombo and Pinu., nur serymen, fur clarodendron benthemians ; Mr. Williams, gardener to Miss Trail, for 6 Cape heaths; Mr. Dennet, gardener to Mr. W. H. Gilliot, for 6 greenhouse aza leas; Mr. Stains, for 12 pelargoniums; Messrs; Messrs. Henderson, nurserymen, for 6 cinerarias. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS AND THE GOVERNMENT. (From the Liverpool Albion.) The report of the Select Committee of the Com mons, unanimously sanctioning the extension of time and the repeal of the forfeiture clauses, as sought by the Birkenhead Dock Trustees, was to have been brought up in the House on Friday last ; but the Woods and Forests authorities having sent to the Speaker intimating that they objected to the Bill, and would not allow the report to be then considered, and accordingly it' stands for consideration for to-morrow, Tuesday. This department does not generally interpose to pre vent the "third reading" of a Bill even to whose provisions it is opposed ; consequently the course now adopted is a precipitate as well as unwonted stretch of prerogative, and has necessarily increased the alarm of the vast and varied interests to whom the refusal of the relief afforded by the Bill must be destructive, and that swiftly and sweepingly too; for the first effect of stopping the Bill will be to stop the works al most instanter. If the Bill be vetoed the docks must be closed on the 22d of July next, and the evidence before the Committee abundantly showed with what disastrous results, not merely to the locality of Birk enhead, but to several important branches of the trade frequenting the Mersey, especially the river trade. The docks once closed, there must follow in due course, and as a matter of course, the confiscation of the bondholders' property to the Crown, who have never advanced one shilling towards the works ; and even should the Crown shrink from the exer cise of their full powers in such respect, the property in question will be just as effectually destroyed as regards its present owners, for its value is entirely contingent on the precise assistance the Commons' Committee have unanimously declared it entitled to— the non-closing of the Woodside entrance in July next being of primary and paramount importance. This con fiscation, whether partial or complete, involves, or rather would be preceded by, the ruin of the Dock Warehouse Company's property, whose value is ex clusively dependent on the advancement of the works as they are now advancing, and as they will continue to advance, if the development of the resources of the place is not annihilated in the mode threatened. Once the 'Warehouse Company are prostrate, there must be a virtual abandonment of all the goods traffic on the various railways in connexion with Birken head, and which were constructed with an immediate and almost exclusive view to those warehouses, and to the trade they necessarily symbolize. Nor does the demolition of property stop here. The Birkenhead township must become a compara tive waste and desert, a sort of premature Tadmor in the midst of all the elements of prosperity, and with prosperity full in its view on the opposite side of the river—once its facilities for cheapening trade are with drawn. This latter result would be especially de plorable at the present moment, for the Township Bill, just sanctioned by both Houses of Parliament, removes a variety of impediments to the full expan sion of the social welfare of Birkenhead, irrespective in some measure of the more commercial considera tions adverted to; and it would, if coupled with the Dock Bill, immensely increase the rateable property by increasing the resident population, both of the gentry and the mercantile classes, owing to the well-known advantages abounding there as compared with far heavier taxed and more pent-up localities. If the question between the trustees and the Woods and Forests were this—that the former either could or would do nothing to carry out tho matter they are engaged upon, and that the latter would do everything conducive to the interests of the Crown and the welfare of the community, or even of any fraction of the community, then it would be easy to comprehend why the Board of Woods should be anxious to supersede the trustees, aed to fill c ;niparatively small portion which now escapes from the eoa , ilishment, and that AL:ssre. Brown rand Wingroi e w ulci be willing to do so in case of your deeming it ❑e ce;iary. lam of opinion that it would be advantageous to the public that this course should be followed." The report was, after son:e remarks from several of the members, agreed to by the Court, only two hands having been held up against it. One or two matters alluded to in it were referred at the same time. THE RATE COLLECTORS. Upon the motion of Mr, BLARE, a liberal change was made in the mode of paying the rate collectors of the city. SEWER WORKS AT PUDDLE DOCK. Mr. MOFFATT applied for leave to open a commu nication with the Paul's 'Wharf and Thames -street sewers, for the purpose of obtaining an increased supply of sewage for his works at Puddle Dock, where he deodorises the sewage and makes it into dry manure for agricultural purposes. He also applied for a lease of the place for 21 years instead of the agreement for seven years, already entered into between him and the companies. The application was referred to the General Pur poses Committee, and after the transaction of some business of minor importance the Court adjourned. FIRE INSURANCE. An account is published among the Parliamentary papers of the payments made into the Stamp -office in Great Britain and Ireland on insurances from fire for the four years ending December 25, 1849. The London offices paying the largest amount of duty are—the Alliance, 9,0451. in the first quarter, 7,6661. in the second, 7,0151. in the third, and 12,3961. in the last; the Atlas, 10,0851., 7,8801., 6,4801., and 8,726/. for the four quarters respec tively ; the County, 16,397/., 11,2411., 9,494/., and 13,931/. ; the Imperial, 13,2281., 9,425/., 9,5261., and 12,036/. ; the Phoenix, 36,1201., 27,9341., 25,855/., and 30,2851.; the Royal Exchange, 23,1421., 16,8181., 14,7141., and 19,623/. ; and the Sun, 56,981/., 42,719/., 38,196/., and 42,9061. Of the country offices those paying the largest amounts of duty are—the Bir mingham, 3,9101., 2,888/., 2,519/., and 2,9081.; the Leeds and Yorkshire, 4,753/., 3,2281., 2,408/., and 3,1691.; the Manchester, 5,960/., 4,2671., 3,671/., and 4,504/. ; the Norwich Union, 21,633/., 15,191/., 13,6901, and 21,7261. ; the West of England, 12,426/., 10,415/., 9,955/., and 11,085/. ; and the Yorkshire, 5,510/., 3,497/., 3,4671., and 4,428/. The total amount of duty col lected from fire insurances in Scotland, in 1849, was 64,2681.; the offices paying the largest sums being the Scottish Union, 22,2911.; the North British, 16,0831.; the Caledonian, 7,7761.; and the Northern, 5,300/. The sums insured on farm stock amounted to 4,069,936/. In Ireland the principal amounts of duty paid into the Stamp-office in Dublin in the four quarters reported on have been furnished by the following offices:—The National, 1,965/., 1,188/., 1,0981., and 1,595/. ; the Patriotic, 1,124/., 707/., 791/., and 1,231/. ; the Royal Exchange, 872/., 6691.., 759/., and 1,1071.;, and the Sun, 7761., 531/., 718/., and 1,025/. The principal amounts of duty collected from the country have been paid by the Alliance, 681/., 531/., 722/., and 1,052/.; Atlas, 685/., 467/., 725/., and 1,270/. ; the Royal Exchange, 501/., 284/., 593/., and 673/. ; the Sun, 1,092/., 861/., 1,0301., and 1,389/. ; and the West of England, 1,0101., 876/., 1,269/., and 1,668/. The sums insured on farming stock in Ire land during the four quarters respectively have been, in Dublin, 35,535/., 16,915/., 95,4801., and 23,9141.; and in the country, 24,416/., 14,120/., 101,8201., and 78,753/. In England the sums insured en farming stock, during the year 1849, have amounted to 3 6,503,994/. in London, and 58,292,239/. in the country. • FATAL AFFRAY. - - An inquiry took place on Saturday last, at Shriven ham, Berks, before Mr. IVashbrough, coroner for the county, on view of the body of William Robey, 29 years of age, who came by his death under the following circumstances, as detailed in the evi dence of several witnesses :—Oa Thursday was the annual pleasure fair at Shrivenham, and between 10 and 11 o'clock at night there was a disturbance at the public-house kept by Mr. llazell, who turned out the company and shut his door. The deceased and another man went thence to a beerhouse kept by a yerson named Norris, and a quarrel soon ensued between the deceased and a itan named Thomas Harman, and mutual challenges to fight took place. Young Norris interfered to prevent blows passing, and both men sat down, but, soon jumped up again, and proceeded to acts of violence in the room. 'They then, by mutual consent adjourned to a neighbouring field, where a ring was formed by about thirty persons present, and, being equally matched, the deceased and Harman fought for nearly an hour and a half, seconded by young Norris and John Morse. Both men were knocked down many times, and in the last round the deceased said to Harman, " Now, Tommy one more knock down blow shall decide it." Immediately after wards Harman gave the deceased a violent blow upon the temple, which felled bim to the ground, and he became insensible. Deceased was carried home about two o'clock in the morning of Friday, and placed upon the floor of his father's house, and soon after Mr. H. Mantel], surgeon, saw the deceased, and found him dead. Upon a post rnortem examination being made, there were marks of extravasion upon the left temple, and in the interior of the head an ounce of coagulated blood, and injuries corresponding with the exterior marks, which in the opinion of the medical man clearly accounted for death. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Harman and the two seconds, all of whom were committed to Reading Gaol under the coroner's warrant. SCENE AT A BOSJF:SMAN EXHIBITION. Those singular species of human nature, the Bwjes mans, who were recently exhibited at the Town-hall, paid a visit to Devizes, and on Thursday last a most exciting scene occurred. The room was crowed, and Mr. Tyler had given his lecture upon their habits, &c., when some person et the further end from the platform caught the eye of one of the male bushmen, and riveted his attention by making grimaces and shak ing his face at him in a menacing manner. The Boa jesman eyed him intently, and evidently with rising indignation. His eyes glared, his nostrils were dilated, and his whole frame became strongly agitated. These circumstances were observed by several of the audience in front, and by some it was sup posed to be a part acted for effect, and by others to be a demonstration of real passion. This continued for some seconds; at last the savage, unable to endure the irritation any longer, suddenly drew an arrow to its point, and let fly at the head of his foolish tormentor. Fortunately it missed the man. The arrow struck his hat, piercing it through. Then, apparently in a frenzy of passion, he sprang, like an ourang-outang, from the platform among the company; and the rest of -his companions were preparing to follow him, when the lecturer (who had witnessed a similar evidence of their irascibility whilst exhibiting them in London) immediately rushed for ward and knocked the foremost down. A struggle ensued; some keepers came to Mr. Tyler's assistance, and it was with great difficulty the Bosjesman could be prevented rushing on his assailant. Three or four men had this little creature (only about four feet high) in dscr from the the Those room whoa fast could as their grasp, and it was all they could do to prevent hi m ge tting free; ultimately he was secured and t a k en out of the room. In the meantime the confusi on among the al r l ush d e e possible; the women shriek e d, an d getcompany to the a baffles s or caught ho l d of the men with a deathlike grasp; and even the men them selves were welinigh frightened from their propriety by so strange and sudden a turn in the performance. .The whoop and the y e ll o f t hi s w i ld African were terrific, and brought scalping knives and tomal:awks vividly to the imagination.—Cheltenham Journal . FOREIGN CORN.—The Customs' authorities having considered the report of their principal officers on a proposi tion of the Inspector-General of the Waterguard Department, that he might be allowed to withdraw the revenue officers_ hoarded on vessels laden with corn discharging in the port of London, and that the landing; account of such cargoes be ta ken board from the account furnished by the City meters, the of have issued directions dispensing with the boardin g henever a tidewaitera on vessels laden with corn account of such render such a course necessary, and that the acco pressure of business in the Waterguard Department s of the ,certified return cargoes may be taken from the understood that this sworn City meters; but it is to be h d eck upon atyilieeeivnpnea.rtc,r 0 f Lambeth, mode of proceeding is to be strictly discharging in the several metropolitan "t is w be employed as frequently as practicable a tidewai Southwark and Lambeth confined to vessels a as GREAT INDUSTRIAL bitants theh ithertoC ity tom meters. GREAT account of t of ec at the Horns, Kennington, for file objects of this undertaking; p o r n e e s e whichn t oc casion,oncgeedings of the evening by in the the chair. The took t he public place purpose y meeting yesterday e or promotingdf the Rev. C. B. Dalton, Chairman opened E x s h i ur ea cargo o g N o docks, asor a awcnlBs 1....... A. pressing the pleasurethe a fe e lt su in bj p ec r t u b id e i fo n r g e on th e t t e the deepest interest,. not only to ti • • this nation, but the involved Ile believed that it would mutually benefit world at large. d would tend to cementevery• kindly feeling of all glasses, an a heart. The reverend speaker then entered at the human the meritsof l en gth into the subject, and concluded som e m i n g his sincere hope that thepublic in general by ex pre in would come iOrWard and do all in their power to assist the as he cons idered cause. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting—all con curring in the opinion of the beneficial results likely to accrue from this undertaking. Resolutions, pledging the meeting to adopt all possible means in furtherance of the industrial exhibition, were then carried unanimously. The subscrlp tious announced for the night txeeeded 200 L, and several schemes were proposed for collecting small amounts from each individual in the locality. After a vote of thanks to the Rev. Chairman, the meeting separated. The aim of an honest man's life is not the happi ness which serves only himself, but the virtue which is use ful to others.--Eliza Cook's Journal. FUNERAL OF THE POET LAUREATE. The Teo , mains of Wordsworth were consigned to the earth, at the little church of Grasmere, on Saturday last. The funeral was intended to be as private as possible, but many persona as sembled to pay hontur to the remains of the illustrious dead. There was a long procession of carriages and horse men, and the church was filled with ladies and gentlemen of the neighbourhood attired in deep mourning.— Westmoreland Gazette. Pig 8, t; 141 each Belo, 5i to rang' ra 3° 1 6di full wag Id to and is to Lilob If t" Villa !As; a gl , es, pg ler re- r