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RAILWAY COMMITTEES. 110 USE OF LORDS.—(YESTERDAY.) Room B. COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD. The Committee were occupied during the whole day with the examination of Mr. Blyth, C.E., in support of the proposed line, and Mr. R. Stevenson, C.E., in oppo sition thereto. The Committee adjourned till eleven to-morrow. Room D. S01:7171 Tonmsnxitz (DONCASTER AND GOOLE). Mr. Cubitt, C.E., and other witnesses were examined in support of tbis line. Room F. /LEADING, REIGATE, AND culLpronD. The Committee met this morning at eleven. The object of this proposed Bill is to enable the Guildford and Reigate Company to construct a portion of their lino between Dorking and Gomershall, wh'ch, in the original Act, it was stipulated should be made by the Direct Portsmouth R tilway Company. Mr. David Salomons and other witnesses were called in support of the Bill. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) GROUP VI. SOUTIEAMPTON AND DOZWECESTER. (ways- BORNE AND nz.aNDroam BRANCH). Evidence in favour of this line was offered. Captain Moorsom, C.E., was also examined with re spect to the engineering features of the line. The Committee adjourned till twelve to. morrow. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 7. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) REGISTRATION OF VOTERS BILL. On the order of the day being read for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. V. SMITH urged the Government to withdraw the Bill, as no practical good could come from proceed ing with it at this late period of the session. Mr. WALPOLE was surprised that the Hon. Member should have offered any opposition to the Bill. The Bill was so framed as to do away with the objections which were anticipated from Hon. Members. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that the Committee was a truly impartial one, and the clauses in the Bill had been agreed to unanimously. Mr. HEATHCOTE thought that the House were losing time in discussing a B:11 which, at that late pe riod of the session, could not be carried out, and which would not be entertained by the Parliament which would succeed them. Mr. CHARLES BULLER said that it was impossible that such a discussion could be brought to a successful determination in the present s e ss ion. It was impossible that they could get through the clauses this session, and it would be better to leave this unprofitable debate at once than waste two or three hours more in doing that which could have no beneficial result, especially when a dissolution of Parliament was so near at hand. Mr. S. WORTLEY said that it certainly was not in his opinion desirable that the Bill should be forwarded in the present session—for, even supposing that they could bring it to a conclusion, it would be productive of no beneficial effect. After a few words from Sir G. GREY and Mr. HEN LEY, which did not reach the gallery, Mr. WALPOLE said that nothing was further from his intention than to press this Bill against the desire of the House, but he thought it but fair that if this Bill were withdrawn that the other Bills upon the same sub ject should be also withdrawn. Sir G. GREY said, that with regard to the Parliamen tary Elections No. 2 Bill, which was upon the paper fur a second reeding. that Bill should be postponed until to-morrow. There was some doubt as to whether it would be advisable to proceed with that Bill during the present session. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that it was not quite fair to avoid the discussion upon this subject after the repeated promises which had been male since the beginning of the session to take the matter into the consideration of the House. He thought that the termination of these Bills with regard to the Parliamentary elections was most unsatisfactory, and reflected very little credit upon the House. After a few words from Mr. B. ESCOTT and Mr. CHRISTOPHER, Mr. WALPOLE suggested that the Committee upon this Bill be deferred until to-morrow, when the Noble Lord at the head of the Government would declare what his intentions were with regard to the other Bill.—(No.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was perfectly competent to the Hon. Gentleman to postpone his motion until to-morrow, for it was per perfectly impossible that it could come on.—(Lsughter.) He thought that the course suggested was a very fair one, and the Hun. Member could is the meantime decide what course he should pursue with regard to it. Mr. NEW DEGATE said, that after the principle of this Bill had been admitted by the House, it was not quite fair to the mover of the Btll to shrink from its discussion in the present session. He (Mr. Newdegate) thought that the Bill was one which ought to be passed as speedily as possible. He should in every way he could throw ob stacles in the way of other measures which were taken in the place in which this Bill ought to be. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that this postponement was not the act of the Govern ment. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of the Bill.—(Cries of " Divide.") Sir G. GREY said that if this motion were persisted in he should be compelled to oppose it. Mr. T. S. DUN COMBE said that the Bill was then in the hands of the House, and if the Government wished, they could, doubtless, postpone it till to-morrow. After some further conversation, Sir JAMES GRAHAM proposed that the order of the day for the second reading of the Bill should be postponed. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he had already, in the ab sence of his Hon. and Gallant Friend, the Member for Westminster, assented to such a proposal. (Here Sir de Lacy Evans entered the House.) Now, however, that his Hon. and Gallant Friend had come in he trusted the second reading of the Bill would not be postponed, but that his Hon. and Gallant Friend would proceed at once to take the sense of the House upon the question. If his Hon. and Gallant Friend would pursue that course they would know at once who in that House was for reform and who was not. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN said he for one should give the Bill his decided opposition, and in order that the opinion of the House might be tested upon it, he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Dor chester would withdraw his proposition fur adjourning the second reading. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said his only reason for making that proposal was the absence of the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman who had charge of the Bill, and now that the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman had come in, he had no objection whatever to withdraw his proposi tion.—(Hear, hear.) Sir DE LACY EVANS, in rising to move the second reading of the Bill, took occasion to thank his Honourable Friend the Member for Finsbury for having taken care of his interest in his absence. He was in the House just before the discussion camp on, and he had merely gone out to have a conversation with some of his constituents.—(hear, and laughter.) It was a rare occurrence to see so large a House on a Wed nesday's sitting, and on that account he felt he had no right to adjourn the second reading of this Bill. He should, therefore, persevere in his motion for the second reading of the Bill at once.--(Hear, hear.) The object of the Bill was a simple one. It was to alter the date at which it became necessary for rates to be paid by voters, that is to say, the rates payable on the 20th of July would be those due in the preceding month of October, instead of the preceding 4th of April. The House then divided, when there appeared—. For the second reading 2 Against it Majority against it POOR REMOVAL AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. BODKIN moved the second reading of this Bill: The Poor Removal Bill passed last year provided that no person who had resided in a paris h five y ears should be liable to be removed. the spirit of such a provi s i on , but infietimes not ofdistresstject to pressed heavily upon the parishes, a nd was excessively inconvenient to the poor, whom it was meant to ser ve. It threw so many , were unable t o jurf full upon the parishes that th e y justice to th e i r own poor; an d the object of this Bill was n so to amend the law t h at th e maintenance of the on to relief through having re e n T d i p o or, who were entitled e-e- in a mon fund of th e un i on , parish five years should be thro wn upon the es instead of upon th e i n di vidual "' parishes. to make the mea sure temporary, w"willing Mr. CHRISTOPHER objected to the Bill on the ground of its centralizing character. After a few words from Sir W. JOLLIFFE, wh o opposed the Bill, Mr. SPOONER did not intend to object to the reading of the Bill, but h e th oug h t i t quite true s t e h e rt d a very great burden was laid on th e t owns , and that s ures should be taken for the purp ose o f relieving tLeraa. He thought it fair that those towns which were unions. in themselves should have the same privileges as those which formed only a part of unions. Sir GEORGE GREY said, that as the principle of the Bill had been already so fully discussed he did not think it necessary to take up the time of the House by further discussing it. Ile would not oppose the second reading, as he believed it would remove many of the evils of the Bill of last session. After a few words from Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, Mr. FLOYER was opposed to the Bill. He believed it would be Found quite inoperative. Mr. HENLEY supported the Bill. The evils which at present existed in the law required a remedy, and believing that the Bill would have the effect of removing them he would support the (1 . second reading. Mr. WAKLEY thought theßillwa in s g necessary, but from all he saw and heard they must come eventually to a national rate for the support of the poor, and until that was the case the poor would never be treated as they ought. Mr. BANKS was in favour of the repeal of the Act e of last session, and he was ve r y h appy to hear the Hon. Member for Finsbury admitting th at t h ere were evils' hn . that measure.l:lier s e ivese many att em pt s to amend tbgt 11.44 41: 1! nre,ont measure proposed to teak 6••• _ = suit in it, he wuutd Out Oppose it ; buts t did not go far enough, and he hoped it wintlldtirertiii“tAaily improved when it went into Com mittee . -27- '7l - e4 9 14.1. 11 1 4 ). e Y 49. Mr. P. BORTHWICK was opposed to the Bill, but would not move an amendment. The Bill was was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL. The Lords' amendments on this Bill were considered and agreed to. COMPENSATION FOR ILL DAMAGES (IRELAND) B. This Bill was postponed till to-morrow. NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS BILL. This Bill was read a second time. STOCK-IN-TRADE EXEMPTIONS BILL. The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed to. Several other Bills were postponed till to morrow, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Six o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, JULY 6.—There has been a fair de mand for goods to-day, and a tolerably large business would have been done, if manufacturers would have accepted the prices current last week. Many, however, demanded a further advance, which the buyers were unwilling to give ; and the transactions were, consequently, on a more limited scale than they wouli otherwise have been, and generally at last week's prices. The yarn market was not quite so active ; the spinners generally holding out for prices which the buyers are unwilling to give, and very little business has been done. We learn that, at a meeting of the spinners and ma nufacturers of Ashton-under-Lyne, held on Moniay last, a resolution was adopted (unanimously. we be lieve, with the exception of one firm) to the effect that it was desirable, at once, to reduce the full time of working to ten hours per day, provided the same course was generally resorted to by the trade in other lo • calities. We understand that a general meeting is to be held in this town on Tuesday next, to take the sub ject into consideration. Of course this diminution of time will involve a corresponding reduction of wages, or at least an offer of reduced wages on the part of the employers. Whether the offer will be acceded to by the workpeople, is, at present, exceedingly doubtful. ROCHDALE, JULY s.—There has been fully as good a demand fur goods to-day as last Monday, but no im provement in prices. Wool has been rather more in quired for, and upon the whole more . business done; but prices remain much the same. HUDDERSFIELD, JULY 6.—We have not had a better market for many months than the one held to-day. Every variety of winter goods have met with ready sale. There has also been a considerable business done in wool. LEEDS, JULY 6.—Our market continues to improve. There has been a fair business doing to-day and last Sa turday.—Manchester Guardian. RECENT DEATH OF A YOUTH OF COLOUR. On Tuesday an exceedingly full meeting of the board of directors and guardians of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, was held at the board-room of the workhouse, King's-cross, Camden-town, specially con vened for the purpose of further investigating- the cir cumstances attending the recent death of a youth of colour, named Daniel Hunter, upon whom an inquest was held by Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., on Thursday last; the deceased having been alleged to have died from the treatment cf Mr. Pindar, chemist and druggist, High street, Camden-town, and in whose employ he was a servant. The chair was occupied by Mr. Churchwarden Ho worth, who, having made a few prefatory observations, Mr. Pindar was introduced to the board, and ex plained the real circumstances of the case in his own exculpation. At the conclusion Mr. Pindar was questioned at much length as to the construction of the sleeping place of deceased, who, it was clearly stated that, although the room was not the most comfortable apartment, it was far superior to what had been represented, and deceased had occupied it about twelve months, during which period he never once complained of it. Tiffin, the officer, was now called and interrogated by the Board, but his testimony was of a generally unsatis factory character, and the direct , ,rs unanimously ex pressed their dis ipprobation of his conduct, and after some further examination a long discussion took place between various members of the Board, including Messrs. Wagstaff, Douglas, Smith, Hunt, &c., all deeply incensed with the injustice that had been done Mr. Pindar, and at length, after a protracted investigation, the following re solution was passed : " That in the opinion of this Board, the summoning officer or beadle has greatly exceeded his duty, in hav ing interfered to prevent the funeral of Daniel Hunter, without the written authority of the coroner, and that he be reprimanded and cautiuued to be more careful in future." Tiffin was here recalled to hear the resolution read, and The CHAIRMAN, addressing him, said he trusted from the feeling and sentiments he had heard expressed by the Board, that Tiffin would in future be more cautious. It was not his (Tiffin's) duty to abuse his office to the prejudice and annoyance of the ratepayers of the parish, though it was the duty of the guardians to protect them from any improper interference on the part of an officer belonging to the parish. After some further remarks the proceedings termi nated. REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS DURING THE WEEK ENDING JULY 3. Deaths registered in the week. Births registered in the week. Males 484 Males 643 Females ... ... 440 Females ... 634 --- Total . 933 Total ... 1,277 FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN THE MILE-END ROAD. On Tuesday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital on the body of Elizabeth Blyth, aged 36, the wife of a shoemaker, whose death took place under the following shocking circumstances: — Benjamin Fearn, of IS, Maps-row, Stepney-green, turncock to the East London Water Company, said that on Friday night last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, he was walking up the Mile-end-road, when he saw a waggon, drawn by three horses, in the act of passing through the new toll-gate, at White Horse-lane. Wit ness also saw a light spring cart come from behind the waggon, in which there was a man driving, and five other persons. The cart was drawn by a single horse, and was going at eight or nine miles per hour, and, whilst attempting to pass the waggon on the off side, the wheel of the cart caught a post placed to pro tect the toll-house, and in an instant the lighter vehicle was upset, and the whole of the passengers and the horse were thrown under the waggon. The wheels of the waggon rested on the deceased and also on the head of the horse. The animal was saved only by its collar. Witness saw the waggon pass over another persou, also heard the bones in her body crack. Witness laid hold of the horse and held it until the parties were all extricated. George Webb, of James-street, Globe-fields, Mile-end, confirmed the evidence given by the last witness as to the accident, and added that if there had been a light on the top of the toll-house the occurrence would not have hap pened. Mr. John Nash, one of the house-surgeons, said that deceased was admitted with a severe compound fracture of the left leg; the right leg was broken and quite crushed. There were also several bruises on the head and over the body. The deceased never rallied, but died almost immediately after her admission. The Coroner—How are the other parties? Witness—They are all very bad ; it is doubtful whe ther any of them will recover, and ono party is fast sinking. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," at the same time requesting the coroner to write to the clerk of the trustees to have the place better lighted for the future. CHILD MURDER AT ROCHESTER.—OII Saturday, and by adjournment on Monday, an inquest was held at the Aorden Arms, Rochester, before Mr. Lewis, the borough coroner, touching the death of a male infant, of which Eliza Hewlett, single woman, had delivered her self on the previous day. From the evidence it ap peared that the mother of the infant, who is 38 years of age, had lived servant at the Falstaff Inn, Gad's-hill, on the road between Rochester and Gravesend; that she bad recently left her place and come to l o d ge w i t h h er sister in Rochester in consequence of her approaching accouchment. On Friday morning she was found by Mrs. Brown, the wife of a mariner, and sister to the accused, on the side of the bed in a very weakly state. A nurse and a medical man (Dr. Ely) were called in, but she refused to lie down or move from the spot she occupied, and from the state in which she appeared Dr. Ely sent for Mr. Stephenson, surgeon, in order that under the alarming state in which she appeared he might have some one to share the responsibility with him. They at length succeeded in getting her to lie down, and on searching about the nurse found the body of the infant wrapped in a coarse cloth, lying between the bed and blanket at the spot where she had been sitting. There wa s a cord wound tightly three times round the neck , an d on a post mortem examination the medical gentlemen wer e of opinion that the child had healthy state. They were of lived; the lungs were fully developed, and all the vital of strangulation, but the opinion also that it had died ' t to have in which it was found was sufficie . n , parts were in a perfectly . position caused its death. The sulation, returned a verdict of" Wilful murder against the after a few minu4es o. c . on t . the mother. F i lieKToN.—l n ' 0 ' constabulary at f ' the morning journals of Satur dayTiin DAGENHAM MURDER.--APPREHENSION OF a paragraph e c Police e mo stoners inormation from the had received of Isaac of she of the apprehension,,.division Hickton, on e Police, against whom Essex. The following con spiracy was found onl a true bill for perjury and con be particulars relating to constables of the .8.. of.. hemion, &c., will with . interest. t the last assizes for the county of missal from the poli,cvverloaedrreee, h in is to tr W ad his appr.e agleosf a currier. h© himself states that After his dis ire obtained work for some t h i e m w e en at t learnt that a true bill had been From Wales (having perjury, he became fearful that found against him for and having become known to the he police be arrested, bourhood, he went to Liverpool. Aa t i t T in the neigh tinued until his apprehension, confident that r ice he con not be found out. His confidence, however,tat he would the bills recently issued for the apprehension o(Ths'eenig" and Sergeant Parsons was shaken, and he at once wrote to his father at Derby, telling hi m to give inl e r e mation to Sergeant George Hardy, of the Derby police,. where he was to be found , so that Hardy, who had b een a schoolfellow of his, might capture him, and get the reward. Hardy accordingly proceeded to Li verpoo l on Wednesday, and brought Ilickton to London. On the fellowing day he was taken before Mr. Justice Erle, at the Judges' ~ s Chamb,. . , who issued hi warrant for his committal to Ilford gaol, where he will remain until the assizes at Chelmsford. He is stated by those whose duty it is to attend on him to be in a most depressed state of mine, DISTRESS (IRELAND). THIRD REPORT OF THE RELIEF COMMIS SIONERS. Relief Commission-office, Dublin, June 17, 1847. May it please your Lordships,—We have the honou to submit the third monthly report of our proceedings under the Temporary Relief Act, 10 Vic., c. 7. Of the 2,049 electoral divisions in Ireland, 1,677 are now under the operation of the Act, and are distributing 1,923,361 rations per day, gratuitously, at an average cost of 21d. per ration ; and 92,326 rations are sold. Of these 1,677 divisions under the Act, 1,479 have re ceived loans or grants, and 198 have not yet required any advance. Of the remaining 372 electoral divisions not yet under the Act, we have reason to believe that 60 will not desire to come under the Act at all ; and 312 have not even yet sent in any returns or demands, although many of them are in much want. If the number of rations necessary for the returns still to be received shall bear the same proportion to the number of electoral divisions as those of which we already have cognisance, the entire number will be 2,388,475; and if the ordinary proportion for children at half rations be added, the number of persons to receive relief will be 2,729,684, of whom '2,622,684 will receive relief gratuitously. The time and opportunities have been so ample for a suitable provision for the really destitute, since the Act was in force, that if the dreadful cases of actual starva tion that have occurred in consequence of the calamitous failure of the potato crop ar a still to be found, the cir cumstance can only be occasioned by the neglect of local bodies, with whom rest the means of prevention. We believe, however, that these cases are now rare, and that an organisation is provided for arresting for the present so :general a calamity with more complete effect than was probably ever before attempted. We will not deny that this result has not been attained without an enormous expenditure, many abuses, and the adoption of some inconvenient principles that it will be necessary hereafter to counteract. As the working of the measure becomes more and more developed, we are enabled to judge of the effect of the organisation under which it is proceeding, and of its final results. Your Lordships are aware that the principle of the Act was to enable the different electoral divisions to provide in each locality for the prevalent destitution by moderate exertions and a reasonable expenditure on their own part, aided by loans and grants from Government when required, and that the Acts of these divisions were to be subject to the superintending control of a finance committee for each union. The electoral divisions in Ireland vary in extent in area from 257 acres (Blackrock, in Rathdown union) ; to 145,598 acres (Belmullett, in Ballina union) ; in population, from 514 (Seacor, in Letterkenny union) to 135,661 (South City, Dublin) ; and have been valued at from 3311. 10s. (Mullaghderg, in Glenties union) to 402,5161. 3s. 4d. (South City, Dublin). For the purpcse of fixing upon an administration for relief in each division, the Lord-L'eutenant, by his order of the 4th March, defined the classes of which it should be composed. consisting of some who had the greatest interest in the welfare of the district, and of others who were likely to be most thoroughly acquainted with its wants. There are very few cases wherein, notwithstanding the difficulty existing in some localities of finding competent agents and machinery, the objects of the Act might not have been attained with comparative facility, if the per sons so designated had entered on the undertaking with earnestness and honesty of purpose. We regret, however, to report that in very many districts such is not the case ; and one result from the working of the measure appears to be manifest, viz., that for a general arrangement a trustworthy local management, in most cases, cannot be ensured for smaller limits than those of a union, although we are ready to acknowledge that, in a great number of dis tricts, the complaint is not applicable. The finance committees, composed of from two to four gentlemen of each union, have, with very rare excep tions, acted with zeal and intelligence, correcting many instances errors of system introduced by the relief committees ; but they cannot always control details re quiring very accurate knowledge of the circumstances of persons and families. Where all classes of members of the relief committees have combined in good faith and spirit; the administra tion has been nearly perfect, affording effectual but reasonable relief to the really distressed, while maintain. ing a due check on the attempts at fraud and imposture that are naturally attendant on gratuitous distribution. From this degree of perfection, however, we notice the gradation to some counteracting spirit in the body ; a wrong feeling of one entire class ; a degree of apathy or neglect on the part of some or the whole ; a yielding to intimidation or seeking for popularity, leading to the abandonment of any attempt to check unreasonable demands on the supplies ; down to the last degree, namely, that of actual connivance at the grossest frauds, and misapplication of the means at their disposition, which last two are frequently effected by previously driving any well-disposed members from the committee by violence or insults. In justification of ourselves, and as a proof of the dif ficulties we have to encounter in the endeavour to obtain a proper administration of the measure, we cannot refrain from laying before your Lordships instances of the kind of abuses practised. The first to be mentioned is the demand, in whole sale way; of rations for a greater number of destitute than there are individuals in the entire population of the district: this has occurred in several cases, and for thousands in excess. It is difficult to conceive the motive of such a reckless course. With some it appears to be an idea that, as an opening is afforded of drawing largely upon the public resources, it should be the endeavour of each locality to get as much as they can; while others who are not blind to the future consequences of such proceedings upon pro perty, would completely drain it for distribution among the poorer classes, under the delusive hope, it is presumed that the lattcr would then be permanently raised to an easy and independent state of existence. In several instances the government inspecting officer, on the occasional visits he is able to make to any one committee (having perhaps the charge of sixteen or twenty), found no difficulty in striking off hundreds of names that ought not to have been placed on the lists, including sometimes those of servants, and men in the constant employ of persons of considerable station and property; these latter are frequently themselves members of the committees, and in some cases the very chairmen, being magistrates, have sanctioned the issue of rations to tenants of their own of considerable holdings, possessed of live stock, and who it was found had paid up their last half-year's rent. Intimidation (a very common cause of abuses) has, in some places, been openly encouraged by members of com mittees. It is a remarkable fact, however, that wherever intimidation, or the violence of the populace has been met with perseverance and energy by the committees and the inspecting officers, it has in all instances been suc cessfully resisted. When the efforts of the inspecting officers are unavail ing in checking such abuses, the only remedy in our power is to reduce the amount of the advances to what we see reason to believe, on the best information we can obtain, ought if duly administered to provide for the really destitute. Although we have no doubt that, even under such cir cumstances, our issue will he in excess, we shall expect that it will be in part misapplied, and an attempt made to charg e us with a failure in supplying those who are really distressed. In enlarging on these unpleasant facts we would beg that it m a y b e un d erstoo d t h at t h ey are clearly ex ceptions, although sufficient in number to be deserving of notice, and to show in parts of the country a great want of the principles necessary for minute self-go vernment. In other districts the measure is subject to the decep tions and petty frauds practised by many of the order immediately above the class of actually destitute, and which cannot entirely be checked by the best exertions of the best committees. Thus even in the districts where the service is most correctly performed, the numbers on the lists will, no doubt, exceed those of the really destitute ; and it will become very necessary, i n any permanent arrangement, to provide for better secu rity and tests than can be adopted under this act. Of these we have little on which to place reliance, but the precaution of issuing cooked food, and we have every reason to believe this, wherever it can be resorted to, to be a most useful and beneficial practice; nor have we heard any valid objection to it, since it has been under • stood to consist of a thick stirabout of meal, rice, &c., and not of thin soup. It has been reported to us that the introduction of cooked food has been universally productive of the best effect. on the health and appearance of the people. In several places those who were at first clamourous against it, now request to receive no other; the ration that as a pound of meal appeared so small, when mixed, well cooked, and swelled in its cold state to a mass of substance weighing from three to five pounds, exhibits manifestly a very reasonable amount of subsistence, and is frequently acknowledged as such even by those who have to depend upon it. In many respects, although subject to many of the evils and abuses to which we have before referred, we can report that the principal objects of the Act have been attained. The absolute starvation that was widely spread over the land has been generally arrested, as has also the progress of the particular diseases engendered by the . great destitution previously experienced. As an instance we may give the union of Skibbereen, with its dependent electoral division of Schull, the sufferings of which districts were so notorious. Although much wretchedness is still to be found in them, there is now a provision made for every part of the union, the population is gradually amending from their former emaciated state, and the people are be ginning to turn their attention to future occupation and tend to their permanent employ fnm, the h y one p n o p f n l t a h t e i o v n e r r y e q w n o i r r e s t r i e n l e l f r , e t l h a n e r d e , e nonththise latter same w m i m h e l p e n nr r t a v five-sixth n e dm o extended find that the cost of r o d utteruce d p e b r y v a n d i g n e g n t e hm r e a i s l per d re) i s. s ,e t ranintbdut relief, e ch a eas s s e s a beenwt io e of n p as it is, will not much exceed relief works, which left vast m des titute totally unprovided, though assisted at the same numbers two-thirds theof that nsos o t f the t t i i m on e s. b y large donations from the great charitable associa- Since our last report, the Temporary Fever Act, 10 Vie., c a p. 22, has come i nto opera ti o n. We h ave reason to bel i eve t h at t h e power given to re lief committees to attend to the proper burial of those who die in a state of destitution, and to clear away nui sst o a i v n uep c ,l r e ‘.3,‘ ~.; ) Ba p en i i d tu, dot v h( ,rp n e so t dp i n l r a , ea t a, e ntndd a d n o, s d raetty c hea l e e n a mp n ,ot s eed e vmea c t a l o b i t temporary yxd , hsheeanoas expense, ep b e en will e x te tendu i ta b ls e have been dir ecte d by the Central Board of Health to esta blished, which are intended to serve so many of 481 con tiguous electoral divisions as may require to use them. THURSDAY EVENING, jETLy 8, 1847.! The measure has been too recently in operation for us to be able to report on its effects, except that in the North Dublin Union, by energetic proceedings and with the advantage of the resources of this city, some seeds were speedily prepared, and patients in fever, for whom there was no previous provision, were at once treated, and several discharged cured. We annex a variety of returns and the circular orders which have been issued since the last report. We have the honour to be, my Lords, Your Lordships' most obedient humble servants, J. F. BURGOYNE. T. N. REDINGTON. B. I. ROUTH. HARRY D. JONES. E. T. B. TWISLETON. D. M'GREGOR. The Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, &c. &c. &c. THE REPORT OF THE FRENCH COURT OF PEERS ON THE AFFAIR OF GENERAL CUBIERES. This report, which in its entire state would make a good sized printed volume, has just been made public. It begins with a printed notice of the origin of the prosecu tion of General Cubieres. Our readers are already aware that, in a suit between the General and M. Par meatier, respecting a dispute about a salt mine, M. Par mentier published some letters of the General for the purpose of making it appear that he had obtained a large portion of the shares on pretence of using them as a bribe to persons in authority to promote the interests of the company, but had converted them to his own use. These letters excited public attention, and, the affair being noticed in the Chamber of Deputies, the Government resolved upon an investigation. The Chamber of Peers formed itself into a judicial court, and General Cubires, who is himself a peer and an ex-minister, was called upon to answer two charges —one of having, by false representations, obtained possession of property, to be employed, as he said, in the corruption of public functionaries ; the other, of having employed, or attempted to employ. the means of corruption. M. Parmentier was included in this second charge. •As the investigation proceeded facts transpired which induced the commission appointed by the Court to report upon the affair to include in the prosecution M. Pellaprat, an ex-Reeeis ar-General, as a party to the corruption, or the attempt: to corrupt, and Baron Teste, ex-Minister of Public Works, on the charge of having accepted a bribe to induce him to favour the scheme in which the other three defendants were engaged. A large portion of the report is devoted to an account of the;mining affair in question, and to the pecuniary interest taken in it by General Cubieres, who is stated to have had in the first instance only a hundredth part, but to have obtained subsequently by purchase six other hundredths, making altogether seven, at a total price of 159,000 f. In order to make this spe culation complete, it was necessary to obtain certain concessions of grants from the Government, and accord ing to the report the negotiations were intrusted to Ge neral Cubieres, who informed the other shareholders that nothing was to be obtained without bribery, and induced them to set apart a number of shares, valued at about 25,000 F. each, which were, he said, to be given to the high functionaries, in whom the power of concession was vested either in a direct or indirect way. The re port, which is nut a very clear document, is, however, divided into periods for the purpose, as it states, of ren dering the matter more clear than it would otherwise be. In the first period, the history of the case is related from the 24th of April, 1841, to the sth of February, 1842. General Cubieres and M. Parmentier :are stated to have made their arrangements for bribing the Minis ters of Public Works and Finances, and long extracts are given from their correspondence, and their answers to the interrogatories of the commission of the Court of Peers to show that they were really engaged in the attempt to corrupt these Ministers and the public functionaries whose reports were necessary for the obtaining the concession. The letters of Gen. Cubi eres, in which he urges the mining company to set aside funds for the purpose of corruption are quoted at great length. The second division, or period of the report, comprises what took place from the sth of February, 1842, to the 18th of June in the same year. The shareholders of the mine of Gouhenans had, it is stated, yielded to the suggestions of General Cub eres and M, Parmentier, and set aside twenty-five shares for the purpose stated by them. These persons are spoken of as having been actively engaged in the prosecution of their illegal object, and M. Pellapra is alluded to as an accomplice called in to aid the efforts of M. Cu- Wses, it being supposed that he had an influence with M. Teste. In this part of the report, we find strong allusions to the accusation of M. Parmentier against General Cub:e -es of having been guilty of fraud in obtaining possession of shares on the pretext of employ ing them for the service of the company, but in reality ippropriatini them to his own use. All this is denied by General Cubieres, who declares that he never offered M. Teste a bribe, and expresses regret that in his correspondence he should thoughtlessly have compro mised the honour of that Minister. The report states that in the papers of General Cubieres, which have been laid before the commission, there were various proj:cts of divisions of the forty shares, which were considered necessary to be used as bribes, and that in one, twenty five of them were entered in the name of M. C—, and in another ten are put down to C—, and fifteen to P.C. These papers were acknowledged by Gen. CuUres to be in his own hand-writing. An extract is given from the answer of Parmentier to the interrogatories which were put to him. When asked by the commission what he understood from the letters addressed to him by the General, he replied, three things, viz., the necessity of corruption, the power of corruptine, and the will to corrupt; but he said: he did not believe the General ; and if ho did not tell him so, it was because he would not mako him the enemy of the company, as he might in such a case have acted secretly against it. General Cubieres is stated to have replied to the question as to whom he meant to designate by the initial P., that it was M. Pellapra, but he denied that the shares set against him were to be given to him for the purpose of bribery. He was, he said, to purchase them of the company at a price to be discussed. M. Pellapra, when interrogated, says the repo r t, energet i ca ll y pro• tested against the deduction to be d rawn f rom t h e paper "of General Cubieres. The report now arrives at the name of M. Teste. All the ac cuse d , a ll t h e w i tnesses, " T ss e y s s te th f e rom thereport, ~ were unani mous i n exculpat i ng M. accusation or suspicion of corruption. All declared that an equivocal word had never come from his lips, and that no proposition of bribery had reached his ear." But this tardy reserve of the authors of the letters, which would be laid before the Court, is declared by the commission to be in disaccord w i t h the gravity of the imputations contained in their correspondence. Amongst the letters mentioned, and from which extracts are given, is one from General Cubieres, in which he alludes to an observation said to have been made by M. Teste, that another competitor for the concession was in the field, ' and he suggests that this might be a mere trick to compel the company to yield more readily to extortion. M. Teste, when called upon to explain the meaning of General Cubieres, replied, "General Cubieres only can a'do i o n tw d e u or e f ine to take an interest in the affair of Crou henans, and that my inflexible rule e say what he meant. All th at I can aay is that never p a er p s r o o n p , osition or over directly or in directly,dtui d r having e Nic e mea for ulcb its Cubieres i raree object or et nh3' to h of conduct has alwaYs been, ne ver to take part, not merely in any affair connected with my m i n i stry , b ut in any other affair." M. Parmentier, on the other hand, declared tha t M. Cubeses had p os iti ve l y men tioned M. Taste to him as be fines the person whom he intended to br ibe. The third division or period of the report comprises the proceedings from the 18th of June, 1842, to the 3d of January, 1843, the date of the ordinance of concession for the mine. M. Pellapra, who is described as a very rich capitalist, having, it was sup posed, peculiar influence with M. Taste, is much spoken of in this part of the report ; b u t we d o not fi n d any direct evidence against him. It is by deduction from that correspondence that he is chiefly implicated. Large extracts are made from the letters of General Cubieres to Ai. Parmentier, in which the General speaks of the exertions that he has made, and insinu ates that he meets with obstructions which he attributes to the determination of the persons in authority, with whom he had to deal, to extort as much as they could. From what is stated by the commission, M. Pellapra had been iu close relation with M. Teste on the subject of the concession, and had communi cated to the company some information obtained from the Minister ; but M. Pellapra, when interrogated, de clared that he had not sought to influence the mind of the Minister improperly, and that what M. Teste had said and done was in a friendly but disinterested spirit. I. Pellapra had, it appears, up to this time, been heard by the commission as a witness, but some supposed prevarication in his evidence had induced the commis sion to inform him that he would in future be heard, not as a witness but as a person accused. M. Teste, when pressed with questions on this subject, replied as he had before done, that if he had g iven information to the parti es who applied to him, it was chiefl y wit h a view of pointing out the difficulties in the way of the concession, and that he had acted towards them in the same friendly and open spir it as h e would have done towards tany body else. A l etter from General Cubiezes, in w hi c h he speaks of M. Pellapra as having discovered through M. Teste that there were difficulties opposed by the Minister of Fin ances, and that, i n co nsequence of the informa tion thus re ce i ve d , he had been able to change his tac tics, is quoted at great length. This letter being laid before M. Teste, he said there was some truth and some falsehood in it. It was very possible, he said, that he might have talked to General Cubeses of difficulties arising from the attributions of the two Ministers, but he denied that he had said anything to lead General Cu bieres to suppose that the Minister of Finances had inter posed obstacles, and had pointed out how they were to be overcome. The result of the interrogations of the accused parties, and of the examination of the correspondence, is stated to have been that the commission felt it right to change the character in which M. Teste had appeared— viz., that of witness, and to announce to him that he would in future be heard only as a party accused. M. Teste replied that he was thankful for this notice, as it would enable him to get rid of the passive character of a mere witness and to stand fully upon his defence. The fourth and fifth periods or divisions of the report are filled with the correspondence of General Cubieres, M. Parmentier, and M. Pellapra, before and after the resti tution of the 25 shares set aside for the supposed pur pose of corruption, and with an account of the action at law brought by M. Parmentier against General Cu bieres„of which we have already given a report. In the resume of the Commission it is statod that the most po sitive proof of the different public functionaries whose names had been involved, had resulted from the labours of the commission, with the exception that there was something as regard to M. Teste yet to be eeplained. With respect to the other defendents, the commission leaves it to the Court to declare the view that it takes of the factz which hue been adduced. TREATY OF CO MMERCE AND NAVIGATION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY. Signed at Florence, April 5, 1847. [Ratification exchanged at Florence, June 12, 1847.] Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, being equally animated by the desire of extending the commercial relations be tween their respective dominions have agreed for this purpose to conclude a treaty of commerce and naviga tion, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable Peter Camp bell Scarlett, her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany. And his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Alexander Humbourg, Knight of the Mili tary Order of Saint Stephen Pope and Martyr, Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, with the title of Saint Joseph, Commander of the Order of Civil Merit of Saxony, Knight of that of Leopold of Austria, Privy Councillor of State, Finance, and War, Director of the Royal Secretaryship of War, Minister of Foreign Affairs of his Imperial and Royal Highness. Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : Article I.—From and after the date of the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, British vessels arriving at, remaining in, or departing from, the ports of Tuscany, and its dependencies, and Tusc in vessels arriving at, remaining in, or departing from, the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad, shall be subject to no other or higher dues or charges, of whatsoever nature they may be, than those which are now, or shall ht reafter be, imposed upon national vessels, on their arriving at, during their remaining in, or on their departure from, such ports. Article 1. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Tuscany and its dependencies, which are or shall be permitted to be exported from the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in Tuscan vessels, shall likewise be permitted to be exported from those ports in British vessels, either to the ports of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to the ports of her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad, or to the ports of any other foreign country. _ 2. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the dominions of her Britannic Majesty, which are or shall be permitted to be exported from the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland i❑ British vessels, shall likewise be permitted to be exported from these ports in Tuscan vessels, either to the ports of Tus cany and its dependencies, or to the ports of any other foreign country. 3. - Ail articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Tuscany and its dependencies, which are or shall be permitted to be imported in British vessels, from the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies, or from the ports of any other foreign country, into the ports of the United Kinudom of Great Britain and Ireland, shr,ll likewise be pemaitted to be imported in Tuscan vessels. 4. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which aro or shall be permitted to be imported into the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in Tuscan vessels, shall likewise be permitted to be imported into those ports in British vessels. Article articles whatsoever which can be le gally imported into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Tuscan vessels, or into the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in British vessels, shall, on their importation, be subject to the same duties of importation, dues, and charges, and be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, whether such articles be imported in vessels of the one or of the other country. Article IV.—All articles whatsoever, which can le gally be exported from the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Tuscan vessels, or from the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in British ves sels, shall, on their exportation, be subject to the same duties of exportation, dues, and charges, and be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, whether such articles be exported in vessels of the one or of the other country. Article V.—The lonian Islands being under the pro tection of her Britannic Majesty, the subjects and vessels of those islands shall enjoy in the Tuscan dominions all the advantages which are given by the present treaty to the subjects and vessels of Great Britain, as soon as the Government of the lonian Islands shall have agreed the same reciprocal advantages in those islands to the sub jects and vessels of his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany ; it being understood that to prevent abuses, every lonian vessel claiming the bene fits of the present treaty shall be furnished with a patent signed by the Lord High Commissioner, or by his re presentative. Article VL—The present treaty shall be in force until the Ist of January, 1857, and further until the end of twelve months after either of the high contract ing parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same ; each of the high con tracting parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other on the Ist of January, 1356, or at any subsequent time. And it is hereby agreed between them, that at the expiration of twelve months after such no tice shall have been received by either party from the other, this treaty, and all the provisions thereof, shall altogether cease and determine. Article VII.— The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Florence, at the expiration of two months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the above•named plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty in two originals, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done at Florence, the sth of April, in the year of our Lord 1347. (ES.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (L.S.) A. HUMBOURG. DECLARATION SIGNED BY THE BRITISH AND TUSCAN PLENIPOTENTIARIES ON THE EXCHANGE OF THE RA- TIFICATIONS OF THE PRECEDING TREATY. The undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, having met together for the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of the treaty of com merce and navigation, signed at Florence, on the 6th of April last ; The plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty hereby declares, by order of his Government, that the provi sions of the treaty shall extend to the British possessions of Malta and Gibraltar. The plenipotentiary of his Imperial and Royal High ness the Grand Duke of Tuscany hereby declares by order of his Government, that British steam-vessels may enter, remain in, and depart from Tuscan ports, without being obliged upon each occasion to pay the port charges of any kind which may be due, but that the account thereof shall be settled by the end of every six months, and the Consul of her Britannic Majesty in Leghorn shall arrange with the authorities in Tuscany as to the measures to be takon for regulating and assuring the payment thereof. The plenipotentiary of his Imperial rind Royal High ness further declares, by order of his Government, that British steam-vessels are permitted to maintain in Tus can ports coal-hulks for their express use, and at their own charge. Done at Florence, the 12th day of June, 1847. (L.S.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (L.S.) A. HUMBOURG. JENNY LIND.—In Jenny Lind we see realised our ideal of the Teutonic maid. She is the loving, earnest creature, German authors so delight in depicting ; the embodiment, in short, of the creations of De la Motto, Fouqu6, or Auerbach, the last mentioned of whom, in his " Tales of the Black Forest," pictures many a Jenny Lind, singing in the greenwood in all the fresh simpli city of nature. She is not one of your regular beauties, whom novelists have such a facility in painting ; indeed, according to the general acceptation of the term, she is no beauty at all; nevertheless, she is the most enchanting creature imaginable—" In that we all agree." What is it, then, that fascinates the whole house, and makes it rise, as one man, with loud acclamations directly she appears? It is the mixture of earnestness, simplicity, and genius we see stamped upon her features, lighting them up with an expression a thousand times more ravishing than the most Cleopatra like beauty. Like a little child, she makes friends with the great company at once. She sits in no car, like the tairy in the pantomime, surrounded by golden beams ; but from her, as from some exquisitely tuned nervous centre, invisibly ray out the trembling chords of sym pathy to every human heart by whom she is surrounded. Great as is her singing, pure the flute-like tones of her voice, swelling with all the delicious sweetness of the lEoltan harp, still to us her acting is the great attrac tion, and this for the reason, that although we have many fine voices, we have no singer who, in the highest sense of the term, has any very great conception of cha• ratter. Indeed there appears to be a tacit agreement in the public mind that acting in an opera is not only quite a secondary matter, but that it might be of a perfectly conventional character, and many of our greatest singers seem to think that their arms are only necessary as vocal air-pump handles with which to fetch up the deeper chest notes; and one is often annoyed by seeing, in the midst of a scene of intense passion, the arms of the prima donna swinging mechanically in the air. In Jenny Lind, on the contrary, every utterance of her transcendant voice is accompanied by an emotional rather than a volitional action; in other words, by an involuntary working of the muscles: and this is the great reason of the utter absence of effort which distinguishes all her performances.—People's Journal. which,o2ausnn.and the 05t a ,h tfei for the rehfxeos exchange hlEaoannwndgsgal standard English thatt gold, i dr n o l t sdgo p i inv r s i e price oe Lou.. 2a on t MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris 3 i s 1. 1 il aa7 tns per g. sehi 000 r nf td2 i .1 being p 5, enorg; which, c c h e , n a t . t t dearer he E English ish London m in t than i i e n ofParis. 3t 17s. B odterx:onnemileHfoarrulsttuarngdharttlitegopldr:egeivoefs gaonldexisch4a3n2gepeortlm3a.:l:: By advisesd.per and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.9, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. ORANGE PROCESSIONS.—We regret to learn that the addresses issued by some of the Orange leaders, urg ing the abandonment of party processions, in the present lamentable state of the country, had been utterly disre garded in various districts. In Dungannon, llathfriland, Newry, and other places, the Orangemen walked, and riot and stone-throwing followed as usual. In Tyrone and other northern counties there are to be large processions, with the usual accompaniments of banners and party tunes, on the 12th inst., and considerable alarm is expressed in some if the letters than, have reached us as to th,.: consequences. is another lamentable evidence that the demon spirit of faction is still rampant amongst the Orange Lodges. The Government, no doubt, will adopt all due precautions to protect public order.—Dublin 4vening Post, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, July 7. BOYBE V. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE INSURANCE COMPANY. This was a claim for the constructive total loss of a vessel in her voyage to Sydney in 1843. The ship, it appeared, was abandoned on the assumption that the expense attendant upon an attempt to recover her would amount to more than her real value. There was a ver dict for the defendant. A rule was subsequentity ob tained to set aside that verdict o❑ the ground of its being against evidence, and of misdirection of the Learned Judge at the trial. The arguments in the case involved the prudence of the owner in thus abandoning his vessel. Lord DENMAN having reviewed the objections urged, and the authorities quoted by the Learned Counsel on both sides, said it was the opinion of the Court that the application failed upon all the points raised, and the rule must consequently be discharged. THE QUEEN V. DUNN. The only question to be considered was, whether the Registrar of tha Court of Bankruptcy had the power of administering an oath to the defendant under the pecu liar circumstances of the case, upon which affidavit the indictment against the defendant was framed. Lord DEN3IAN said that the Court were of opinion the affidavit was sworn before a competent authority, and the rule obtained by the defendant to arrest the judg ment must be discharged. WESTMINSTER COUIV7'Y COURT, July 7. (Before D. C. MOYLAN, Esq., Judge.) HARVEY V. HANSARD. In this case the plaintiff, Mr. George Harvey, a printer, carrying on business in Charlotte-street, Black friar's-road, sought to recover of the defendant, Mr. Luke James Hansard, the well-known philanthropist, the sum of 151. 93. 6d. It appeared from the statement of the plaintiff', in the month of August last, soon after the flogging case at Hounslow, a society was established having for its object the " abolition of flogging in the army," and a meeting was called at Exeter-hall in furtherance of it. At this meeting the defendant attended and most liberally sub scribed. He became a member of the managing com mittee, and was appointed treasurer. For the meeting bills and tickets were printed by the plaintiff, as well as prospectuses, the orders for which were given by a Mr. Plume, the secretary. The s@ciety became extinct, and as the plaintiff could not obtain his money, he summoned the defendant in his capacity of member of the committee of management. The defendant denied his liability, contending that he knew nothing of the society until after the meeting on the 19th of August, and that he could not be made liable for those articles which had been supplied prior to that date. The plaintiff produced his books and copy of de prospectus of the society, printed on the 12th of August, in which the name of the defendant appeared as one of the managing committee, and the JUDGE accordingly made an award in favour of the plaintiff. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Justice MAULS, William Smith surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with publishing a libel con cerning John Broome, the pugilist. In some of the counts the intent of the defendant was laid to be to extort money. Mr. HUNFREY, who appeared for the prosecution, said he was instructed that it was the intention of the defend. ant to plead guilty to that count of the indictment which merely charged him with publishing the libel, and if he did so, it was not the intention of the prosecutor to offer any evidence upon the other counts of the indictment. He would only be required to enter into his own recog nizances to appear and receive the judgment of the Court if he should be called upon to do so ; but if he did not offer any further molestation to the prosecutor, he would hear no more of the matter. • Sergeant WILKINS, who was instructed for the defence, said there was not the slightest foundation for those counts charging an intention to extort money, and he thought his Learned Friend had only exercised a proper discretion in abandoning them. The fact was that Mr. Smith had listened to some gossip about Mr. Broome, and he had foolishly published it, and he felt that there was no defence to the charge of publishing the libel in question, and, acting under his advice, the defendant would plead guilty. The defendant then retracted his plea of not guilty, and one of guilty was recorded upon the first count in the indictment, and upon his entering into his own re cognizance to appear and receive judgment, if called upon, he was discharged. Mr. lIUMFREY applied to the Court to allow the trial of a person named Pollard, who had been com mitted on the previous evening upon a charge of stealing certain bills of exchange, the property of Prince Louis Bonaparte, to be postponed to the latest period of the session that would be consistent with the convenience of their Lordships. The defendant was most anxious to meet the charge, but having been committed so recently there had been no time to prepare the defence. Mr. Justice MAULE inquired what was the nature of the charge ? Mr. CLARKSON, for the prosecution, said the case would assume the shape of larceny, and he considered that it might be advisable to have it disposed of by one of their Lordships. The Court ordered the trial to be fixed for Friday. Joheph Willett surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment for wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Phinn prosecuted; Mr. Ry• land and Mr. Ballantine were for the prisoner. This was a prosecution instituted by the assignees appointed under a fiat of bankruptcy issued against the defendant in October, 1844, the alleged perjury having been committed by the defendant upon his examination before the Court of Bankruptcy, and having reference to one of the items of his balance-sheet. It appeared that in 1843, a year preceding his bankruptcy, the defen dant, who carried on the business of a currier at Cog gleshall, in Essex, was indicted at the Essex assizes for an assault, and two professional gentlemen, named Bick more and Smoothey, were engaged to conduct his de fence. On the day the trial took place, and just before the jury returned their verdict, it appeared that the de fendant handed to Mr. Biakmoro a canvass bag contain ing money, and the contents of that bag formed the na tural subject of the present inquiry. It seems that in 1844 the defendant got into difficulties, and was declared a bankrupt, Messrs. Hackblack and Emsworth, the prosecutors of the present indictment, being appointed the assignees. A balance-sheet was filed by the bankrupt, and in the account he gave of his estate he said that upon the occasion above referred to he gave Mr. Bickmore 921. in the bag, and made him a creditor to his estate in that amount. This assertion was contra dicted by Mr. Bickmors, and the result of that proceed ing was that the last examination of the bankrupt was adjourned sine die. The defendant applied again to the Court of Bankruptcy in 1846, and an examination took place on the 4th of May, when he again repeated his former statement relative to the 921., and declared that he gave that sum to Mr. Bickmore. A person named Wilisher was examined as a witness in confirmation of that statement; but after hearing the depositions of Mr. Bickmore and Mr. Smoothey, and a full investigation of all the circumstances, the Commissioner again ad journed the examination sine die, and the present pro ceeding was then instituted against the defendant, the sole question in the cause being whether the defendant did really give the sum of 921. to Mr. Bickmore at the time referred to or not. Mr. Bickmore was called, and he deposed that he defended the prisoner at the assizes at Chelmsford, with Mr. Smoothey, and a day or two before the trial the defendant handed him 201. on account of the expenses. He required some more money from the defendant on the day,of the trial, and just as the proceedings concluded he handed to him a bag containing money, which he examined afterwards at the inn, and found it contained twelve sovereigns. He declared positively that the bag contained no more than that amount, and it appeared that about two months after the transaction the defen• dant applied to him for a loan of 21., and no claim was made upon him respecting the 921. until after the bank ruptcy, when he was applied to by the official assignee. The witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr. Ryland, but no material fact was elicited. He de clared most positively that the bag only contained 12 sovereigns. In r e-examination, Mr. Bickmore said that no de mand or application of any kind was made to him for the restoration of the 92/. until he received a communi cation from the official assignee. Mr. Smoothey proved that at the time of the trial at Chelmsford, Mr. Bickmore came to the inn, and pro duced a bag containing money, which he counted, and said that the defendant had given him 121. He met the defendant after he came out of prison, and on his asking him when he intended to pay his bill, he promised to do so on the February following ; and he at the same time said he did not think he owed Mr. Bickmore much, for ho had given him 201. before the trial, and had handed him a bag containing twelve sovereigns after he was convicted. A witness named Knight also proved that the de fendant told him that he had only given Biekmore twelve or fourteen pounds. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. RYLAND addressed the jury for the defence, and said that the question the j ur y h a d to d ec id e was whether the story told by the defendant, or that told by Mr. Bickmore, was the truth. He said that the prisoner had all along persisted in the same statement, and he trusted he should be able to satisfy them, by the evidence he should adduce, that he had really handed over the sum he had stated. Benjamin Willsher was then called as a witness, and he stated that at the time of the trial at Chelmsford he was in the defendant's service, and about ten o'clock in the morning on which the trial took place he saw the defendant count out 921. in gold and notes, which he placed in a canvass bag, and ho said that the defendant had given the same bag with its contents to Mr. Bick more. In cross-examination, he said that at this time the defendant owed him 261. 103. He then said it was 30.105., and eventually, upon the deposition he had m ade at the Bankruptcy Court being produced and read, he said he then recollected that the amount was 72/. He stated that that money had been given him by his wife's grandfather, hut when he was examined before he represented that he had saved it. Ile was a witness at the trial at Chelmsford, but he did not know what he was called to prove, and he had forgotten what he swore on that occasion. He had been accused of assisting the defendant to remove his goods, and prevent the creditors from getting them, and he placed a quantity of leather in a false ceiling. He admitted that he had told the solicitor for the prosecution that what he had stated at the Court of Bankruptcy was not true, and that he had been led into it by his master, and ho said he believed it was a false statement that Mr. Bickmore had the 921. defendant, he said, upon one occaiiun told him that he only gave him 121. The mother and a brother of the defendant were then exam i ne d, w ith a view to show that they had asked Mr. Bickmore to come to some settlement respecting th money, but the evidence given by them was very incon clusive and unsatisfactory. Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up the case to the jury, and they immediately returned a verdict of Guilty. The defendant was then placed in custody, and the Learned Judge, after observing that there could be no doubt of his having committed, in a most deliberate manner, the serious crime ()I:wilful and corrupt perjury, and that there was also too much reason to fear that he had endeavoured to defend himself by perjury and fraud, which was a great aggravation of his offence, said that the Court felt it an imperative duty to pass a severe sen tence. He then ordered the prisoner to be confined fo r one month in the House of Correction, and at the expi ration of that period directed that he should be trans ported for seven years. Thomas Truman, the rate-collector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, who, it will be recollected, was convicted at the last session of embezzling money belonging to the overseers of the Saffron-hill district, the point of law being reserved, whether he was properly described as being the servant of the overseers, was placed at the bar and arraigned upon another indictment for em bezzling other sums of money belonging to the overseers. Mr. Claikson and Mr. Robinson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Huddlestone for the prisoner. Mr. CLARKSON said there was no dispute in this case as to the facts, and the only question was whether the prisoner was properly described as the servant of the overseers. He was appointed by the board of guardians, under the authority of the Poor-law Commissioners, and he gave a bond to the guardians for the due perform ance of his duties, but he was entirely engaged in the service of the overseers, and collected the rates and paid the money over to the bankers on their behalf. The question was, whether he was properly described as their servant. After a brief technical argument, which it will not be necessary more particularly to allude to, Mr. Justice PATTESON, after conferring with his Learned Brother, said that they were of opinion that the indictment could not he supported : and it appeared to him that a number of sections had been jumbled together in the Poor•law Act which rendered it impos sible to indict any person in the position of the prisoner for embezzlement. From the character of the appoint• ment of the prisoner he did not appear to be the servant either of the board of guardians or of the overseers. The jury then, under his Lordship's direction, re turned a verdict of—Not Guilty. Mr. ROBINSON said there were two other indictments against the prisoner, but as the same point was involved, it would be useless to proceed with them. A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly recorded upon both these indictments. Mr. HUDDLESTONE applied to the Court to order the prisoner to be discharged. He was convicted at the last session upon an indictment for embezzlement, but the same legal objection was then taken, and was reserved for the consideration of the Judges. After the opinion expressed by their Lordships, that conviction clearly could not be sustained, and therefore the prisoner was entitled to be discharged. Mr. Justice PATTESON said that application must be made to the Secretary of State, who would refer to the Judges, and, upon their report, no doubt the prisoner would at once be liberated. It was stated upon the last trial that the prisoner bad embezzled money altogether to the amount of six hun dred pounds and upwards, and the effect of the present decision will be, that he will entirely escape punishment except the short period of imprisonment he has already undergone. The prisoner was afterwards brought before the Cow' mon-Sergeant in the New Court, and ordered to be St once discharged. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) Robert Austin, 50, shoemaker, was indicted for bigamy, in feloniously marrying Mary Ann Rush, his wife being alive. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Payne, who defended the prisoner, that this indictment was pre• ferred under rather peculiar circumstances. The pri soner married his first wife nearly twenty years ago, and they shortly afterwards separated, and he then con tracted the second marriage, and also separated from the second wife, and no communication had taken plae B between them for many years. At length a relation or the second wife died, and left her some freehold pro perty, and upon her desiring to dispose of it, her mar•, riage with the prisoner was found to present a difficulty , and the present prosecution appeared to be adopted Solely with a view to annul the validity of the ceremony The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprison' meat. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. AIANSION-HOUSE. George Silverton, jun , and William Clewley were brought before Alderman Gibbs charged with having, to the obstruction of the navigation of the river Thatnest which the recent circumstances connected with the con' iervancy of the river as affecting the Government And the City authorities have made a subject of considerable importance, thrown a quantity of rubbish overboard. W. T. Bridges, inspector of the Thames police, stated that at a quarter-past one o'clock on Tuesday morning he saw off the Temple pier a boat driving down the river, and something very bulky upon the water under the stern. Upon going to the spot he saw Silverton on the cabin-head, and upon questioning him was told that ho was only throwing over a little elean straw. Wit nessltook a sample of the clean straw from the boat, and found it to be very noxious rubbish, and that Silverton said he had got it from the Magnet steamer. Clewlel was rowing the boat at the time.—Guilty. Silverton, the elder, was then charged with having worked a barge on the river without being free of the Waterman's and Lightermen's Company. The beadle to the Waterman's Company stated that, on the 21st of June, he saw the defendant in a barge lying alongside of the Magnet steam-boat, on Brewers quay, taking in ashes. He also saw the defendant and his son navigate the barge to the tier at Horsleydown• and leave it alongside of a steamer called the Caledonian. There was no person of the name a freeman of the Company. It was proved that Silverton, the elder, was in the habit of taking away the ashes from the Magnet. This defendant was also found guilty. In the first case Alderman GIBBS sentenced Silvertont jun., to pay 51. p ena lty, and Clewley to pay 40s. ; end in the second case he sentenced Silverton, sen., to Pei 5/. penalty. The Alderman said that persons wh° violated the law, in regard to the River Thames, should feel the penalty in a severe manner, and that each of the persons who were fined 51. should, in default of the par ment, be confined one month ; and the person who was fined 40s. should, if likewise unable or unwilling to pats be confined seven days in the common gaol. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Edward King, collecting clerk to Mr. Burton (late Rippon and Burton), furnishing ironmongers, in Oxford' street, was brought before Mr. Hardwick for final exami' nation, charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to his employer. Martin Matthews, cashier to Mr. Burton, said the pri' Boner was employed as collecting clerk from December to June last. It was his duty to account to him for all suing of money received during the day. In consequence of some irregul.trity in his payments an investigation took place, and then it came out that the prisoner had received money from several customers without accounting for it in the proper manner. The following cases being complete in their evidence , were selected. Richard Fenniston, clerk to Messrs. Grey and Son , m erchants, Great St. Hele n ' s , sa id h e paid a sum of 1/. 14s. to the prisoner for Mr. Grey, and took a receipt for the same. Mr. William Pugh, chemist, of the Edgeware•road' proved that he paid the prisoner 31. for Mr. Bixrton. The page of Mr. Clark, of No. 29, Upper Gower' street, proved that he paid 6s. 6d. to the prisoner for Mr• Burton. The prisoner made no defence, and was fully CO l. witted. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-NERVOUS DEBILITY, IND/GES• TIDY, AND LOWNESS OF SPIRITS CURED By HOLLOWAY'S PILLS; 11: tract of a letter from Mr. Medealf, of Beverley :—" June 17, Wt. To Professor Holloway.—Sir, For six years I have been troubled with indigestion and nervousness, causing a complaint common/9 termed the nightmare, frequently so severe that I dared not go to bed for weeks together. I obtained advice from the most proficient' in the medical profession without any good result, When suffering from it in its worst stage I was prevailed upon to give your pills 6 trial ; by th.tir use lam now quite well ; I never slept better in life, nor enjoyed sounder health." Sold by all druggists, and Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult., at Munich, the wife of Francis 0. Et Bridgman, Esq., of a daughter. On the 2d inst., at Faringdon, Barks, Mrs. G. F. CroWdif of a son. On the 2d inst., the lady of Alfred Griffin, Esq., of a a m. On the 3d inst., at St. Mark's Parsonage, New Swindon , the wife of the Rev. J. Mansfield, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., at Surbiton, Surrey, Mrs. William Pater' son, of a son. On -place, the lady of the Hon. Richard the c a d inst., vendi in am sh,of C a n d e a s u h ghter. On the 3d inst., at Newbury Cottage, Gillingham, the lady of the Rev. W. Lloyd Collett, A.M., of a daughter. On the 3d inst., the lady of Dr. Wythe Daniel, of Park House, Southall, of a daughter. On the sth inst., in Upper Gower-street, the wife of G. Jacobson, EN., of a son. On the sth inst., at Ladbroke-square, Notting-bill, the lady of George Hutton Ullathorne, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at St. James's Church, Paddington, C. Robert Kitsell, to Janet Scott, of Arlington-street, Camden town. On the 30th ult., at Ashford, Middlesex, Christopher Browning Emmott, Esq., M.D., of Hounslow, to Caroline, youngest daughter of Rob er t T enc h, E sq ., of Ludlow. On the 3d inst., at Clifton, Mr. Francis Ryley, of TrOW" bridge, to Harriet Emma, eldest daughter of the late Ur. Robert Sutton, of Taunton. On the 6th inst., at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, John Dun stone Tidd, Esq., of Basing-lane, to Mary, second daughter of the late Mr. William Giles, of Great Surrey-street. DIED. On the 17th ult., at Edward-street, Hampstead-road, Mrs , Susanna Stewart, wife of Alexander Chisholm, Esq. On the 22d ult., in the Lea-bridge-road, Clapton, Miss A. Borland, aged 79. On the 24th ult., at Caen, France, Madame S. M. Targets widow of the late Colonel Target, aged 64. On the 3d inst., at Newport, Barnstaple, Devon, Susanna, second daughter of the late Captain Peter Fisher, R.N. On the 3d inst., James Seater, Esq., Grove-place, Brompr ton, aged 40. On 4th the inst.,in Gloucester-place,Portman-square, Caro. line Maria, wife of Robert Forbes, Esq. On the 4th inst., at Leyton, Essex, Louisa, youngtat daughter of R. Barclay, Esq., banker, aged 13. London : Printed and Published by KURD° YOUNG, of No. 11 9 ' Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Freda° of the BMW', tl2 the County of Middleaee, Thursday, July 8, 1847. r