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RAILWAY CO HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) Room E: LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND IvEvr _ CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION. --- - - - - Their Lordships declared the preamble of this Bill to be proved. The next Bill which the Committee decided upon proceeding with was TUE EAST LAIQC &SEXISM (SOUVRPOILT MIANCIP, e•,idence in favour of which occupied the Committee during the whole period of its sittings. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. .110 USE OF COMMONS, June 30. ABUSES OF THE RELIEF FUND IN IRELAND. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) . tord JOHN RUSSELL said it would be seen by the 'report that the distribution of rations amounted to between three and five millions daily ; and, looking at the difficult duties the relief committee had to perform, he could not help thinking that a great degree of credit was due to them for the systematic manner in which they had fulfilled their functions. No doubt there had been several instances of gross abuse, but that was no more than was to be expected from the magnitude of the system of relief. It was asked, why not have a general inquiry? He confessed that he did not think a general inquiry - would be productive of good—a general inquiry over all Ireland, to ascertain who had and who had not per formed their duties with regularity and efficiency in the relief committees, would give rise to a good deal of amongst the gentry, would necessarily lead to acrimonious statements and counter statements, and he therefore did not think it at all ex pedient. to institute a general inquiry into the conduct of the magistracy throughout Ireland. It would be much better, he thought, to leave it to the officers of the I Executive Government to eradicate these abuses than to resort to a general inquiry. He could not sit down without referring to what had fallen from the Noble Lord opposite, who designated the system of relief afforded by the Government as a general scramble. No doubt many of the landed proprietors of Ireland had erroneously looked upon it in that light, and had felt that they were justified in availing them selves of its aid to the utmost extent. Lord CLEMENTS said he described the relief to be a general scramble, b e c aus e the Governmert did not define the parties who were to be entitled to relief. Lord J. RUSSELL did not think the Noble Lord had mended his statement at all by the explanation he had just given, but he would not pursue the sub ject farther, and he would sit down, expressing his belief that generally the magistracy and gentry of Ire land had performed their duty with cheerfulness and efficiency.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HAMILTON was unwilling to throw any blame whatever upon the Relief Commissioners for publishing these charges, but they ought to have pointed out by name the parties who had been guilty of the dereliction of duty complained of. He was, however, not disposed to support a proposition for a general inquiry, but he would gladly support any motion which should have the effect of supplying them with further information on this painful subject. After a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, Sir R. FERGUSON said it was difficult to recon cile the report of the Commissioners with the letters of Sir John Burgoyne, and he thought, therefore, that the suggestion of the Hon. Baronet the Member for Mallow ought to be agreed to.—(flear, hear.) ,Mr. P. BORTHWICK also thought it was the duty of the Government to supply the House with further information of the charges of the Commissioners. The subject then dropped. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills, which their Lordships have agreed to : Marine Service Bill—Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branch from the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway to Barnsley, and Extension of Holmfirth Branch) Bill—Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway Deviation Bill —South-Eastern Railway (North Kent and Brick - layers' Arms Junction) Bill—Westminster and Part of Middlesex Sewers Bill—Falmouth Waterworks Bill— London (City) Small Debts Bill, without Amendment;— wansea and Amman Junction Railway Bill—Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Purchase of Navan Branch) Bill—Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 2) Bill—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railways, and Manchester and Lincoln Union Railways, and Chesterfield and Gainsborough Canal Amalgamation Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 2) Bill—Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Extension from Athlone to Galway) Bill—Northamp ton and Banbury Railway Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 4) Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway (No. 1) Bill—Eastern Union and the Ipewieh and Bury St. Edmund's Railways Amalgamation Bill—London and North-Western Railway (Portobello and Wolverhampton Branch) Bill—Newport, Aberga • venny, and Hereford Railway (Extension to Taff Vale Railway) Bill—Chard Canal and Railway (Extension and Amalgamation) Bill—Caledonian Railway (Branches to Canonbie, &c.) Bill—South Staffordshire Railway (Cannock, Wyrley, and Norton, &c.) Bill—Lynn and Ely Railway (Lynn and Wormegay Navigation) Bill — East Lothian Central Railway Bill—York Improvement (Lendal Bridge and Approaches) Bill Edinburgh Waterworks Bill, with Amendments; —Ashton Gas Bill, with an Amendment. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Sir G. GREY expressed a hope that before going noe into the order of the d a y f or the second reading, the . Member wh o h a d c h arge of the Bill would not press e it upon the House then, for many Hon. Members bad left town upon the understanding that the Bill would no t be proceeded with in the present session. The Govern ment intended in the course of the ensuing session to take measures to prevent the frequent o ccurrence of accidents whi c h t oo k pl ace i n these mines and collieries. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that he was very anxious that this Bill should be read a second time, even if it should proceed no further, for it was one in which a very large and influential body of gentlemen in this country took great interest. Many accidents—and those of the most serious nature —were constantly taking place, and he did think that it was quite time that some interference on the part of the Government was put in force. In many of these instances it had been proved that these accidents arose from neglect, and from the waist of a proper system of inspection on the part of the Government. Besides this evil, it was well known that the grossest impositions were practised upon the men, by a system of making them work by measure instead of weight, and this was particularly the case in Staffordshire and Lanca shire. The Acts which had been framed to supersede the payment of wages at a public house had been ev a d e d by putting the men in classes, and paying them by a money order, which they would only get changed at the public-house, and by each man paying a certain sum for beer, as the charge for changing the money order. Ile could see no reason why an adequate protection should not be afforded to the labourers in mines as well as to the labourers in factories. He hoped that the House and the Government would allow this Bill to be read a second time, as its rejection would disappoint a great number of the industrious labourers of Great Britain. alone! SIBTHORP had had great satisfaction, iu hearing the speech of the Hon. Gentleman, and he only regretted that, in spi te o f all the opposition offere d b y the Government, he did not trust to the support or the House, which would carry the measure through all its stages. The Hon. Member had brought before them the accid e nt s which were liable to take place in he might mines and collieries; have added to these the accidents whi c h h a d taken place, and were daily taking the l place on rail ways, and if Government refused to in veetigate the causes of these accidents, he could only say that it w o uld prove his were utterly un wort h y of the position positi correct, that they to on they occupied. He tendered his thanks the Hon. Member for Fins bury fur his Bill as far as it i w t went, but he s h ou ld h ave wished that he h a d carried prov.ismioenmshfeurrtth. or i er.F.ns- He did not always agre e w i t h the son bury, but where th e i nterests of the people were con cerned he trusted he had never been found backward in coming forward.—(Laughter.) Mr. to felt called upon he r b e y ad a sense of mit) . to move that the Bill time . that a second three months. He anxious thinslZ, was not less Hhnourable Member for Finsbury to adopt collieries,measubret:tesh h e ich would prevent accidents hemine s and purpose should be inteweeecluld wish that measures for that Bill of the Hon. Meralaerletel by proper authority. This in its provisions that it e h lrte one of the most ridiculous and it required no great ei se Z e Teeen his fortune to see, Member had made the ac c te e - ,i7'"'t to see that the Hon. mines and collieries the peg en ~,s h r e Z ei l sag• ht happen in for the furtherance of his other eni eete 7 l *%og re , measures vided that three inspectors should ILI% Bill pro superintending the working of mines " s e :14Zer of England, to examine into petitiona, a n n l ee • a very extended authority under mf this Bill. Now there were three -- " e rit fields in England—the Northumberland and Du t ra, ' - e t the Staffordshire and part of Yorkshire, and the Wel—ah coal:-Belds, and there was, besides, the extensive coal - fief of Scotland. If S co tl an d was _ to be takeni toconsideration, one of these districts would require to be a supernumerary one. He was unprovided with docu ments, and could not, therefore, say at that moment what was the number of mines and coilieries in Eng land, but be believed that in Northumberland and Dur ham alone there were between two and 'three hun dred. Could it be expected that one gentle man could pay that attention to this district which 'was contemplated by the Bill? The other portions of the Rill were equally detective. He thought that the course to be adopted would have been to have a Select Com mittee appointed on the subject ; then, when they had certain and established facts before them, the Govern ment could bring in a Bill which would receive the at tention of the House, and be calculated to be of some real utility - . He would move as an amendment that the Bill be read a second time that day three months. Mr. BERNAL said, that whatever absurdity was in the Bill, as the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just !eat down had stated, it could be remedied in Committee. MB did not think that the number of commission ers .daep pointed should form the entire ingredi ent in theensl 'ration. The Bill was i n t en d e d to give prot ect ion o°t"ion -to tha lives, limbs, and fo r t unes o f those who were engagedengagedin these mines and co lli er i es, and he thoug ht that ea attempt to remove the causes of those accident% which were of such frequent occurrence in these plate was dest Irving of their best attention.. He did not think, however, that ft would be of any use in his Hon. Friend to press ore the Bill to a Committee this session, but he was of opinion that he had acted rightly in bringing it before the Iroise, as it would attract public attention to Til-E SUN, LONDON, TH URSDA Y EV'EN I N Gr, I MITTEES , the subject, and be the means of getting a measure passed with reference to these evils in a future Parliament. Sir G. GREY said that his Hon. Friend who had just sat down asked what peril would there be in reading the Bill a second time? He (Sir G. Grey) asked of what advantage it would be to read it a second time if it proceede no further ? (Hear, hear.) The Go vernment were fully alive to the importance of the subject, but he did not think it right that they should interfere so sweepingly as this Bill pro posed to do, for they would' be entirely preventing those who were most interested in the prevention of those acci dents from adopting such steps as it was their duty to take, and as they would take, in the absence of legislation. He begged the House to suspend its decision on the Bill at present, as he believed such a course would lead to great public advantage, and while he admitted the duty of some Parliamentary interference, he thought the course he proposed would be the most judicious one under pre sent circumstances. Mr. BECKETT DENISON was not opposed to the principles of the Bill, but would suggest to the Hon. Member for Finsbury to adopt the suggestion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary, and withdraw the Bill for the present. Lord HARRY VANE concurred in that suggestion; for, by those means, time would be given for more mature consideration and more deliberate inquiry; and he believed his Hon. Friend would exercise a wise dis cretion in adopting it. Mr. WAKLEY did not know how his Hon. Colleague could adopt that suggestion. Every one admitted the principle of the Bill, and yet, because it related to the interests of the House, there was an extraordinary hesi tation manifested to incur the expense of carrying it into effect. If a Noble Lord lost his life by an explosion in a mine, he believed it would cause such a sensation that legislation would take place with regard to such accidents in the earliest part of the next session, and he was not sure but that it would not be mentioned in the speech from the throne.—(Laughter.) He thought they should not hesitate a moment to legislate upon this subject, for the cause of humanity demanded it. It was said there was not time to consider it. He would ask why there was not time? He saw no necessity for the House rising on any particular day, and he trusted that this plea of want of time would not be made with regard to this measure. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought the subject was too im portant to be disposed of at the close of the session when there was not time to discuss it properly, and he quite concurred with the Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary in the propriety of withdrawing it for the present. Mr. AGLIONBY did not agree with the observations of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Finsbury. If the Government and the coalowners opposed the Bill the Hon. Gentleman would be placed in a most unfortunate position. He thought, therefore, as no good could arise from proceeding with it in the present session, that it would be better to withdraw it, and that the Government and the Hon. Gentlemen should well consider and revise the measure during the recess, and bring it forward in an amended state next session. He had withdrawn the Medical Registration Bill notwithstanding so many petitions had been presented in favour of it, and he could only regret that, on this occasion, he did not adopt a similar course. Mr. P. HOWARD also considered that the Hon. Gentleman should withdraw the Bill. At the same time he considered that the mines ought to be subjected to a more rigid supervision ; and as this could only be done properly by the Government, he trusted that they would support the principle of the Bill, and if he held a seat in the next session, he promised them his earnest support. Mr. FORSTER considered the Bill a most absurd one. Everything that science or art could supply had been taken advantage of by the owners of mines for the pur pose of protecting those in their employ from injury. They were not to blame, because nineteen out of every twenty accidents that occurred were caused by the care lessness of the workpeople themselves, and how could he prevent by this Bill carelessness on the part of workmen? Whenever an accident occurred the owners of mines lost several thousands pounds, and this was surely far greater punishment, if they were guilty of neglect, than the fine of 100/. Coalowners did not object to inquiry.—(Hear.) In fact, he thought that inquiry was necessary in order to set the public mind right in the matter. But if any interference was necessary it should be in the hands of the Government.--(Hear.) Mr. B. OSBORNE said if the Government would give a pledge that they would bring in a Bill on the subject, no doubt the Hon. Gentleman would withdraw his Bill. Sir GEORGE GREY admitted that interference was necessary, and that it might be advisable to recommend legislative measures on the subject. The subject had received the attention of the Government, and would continue to receive their attention ; and if, on inquiry, they found that legislative measures were necessary, the Government would bring them forward. Many of the coalowners had shown the utmost desire to aid the inquiries of the Government. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said it appeared that he had to contend against a great body of coalowners, against nearly as large and as powerful a body as the cotton lords.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Durham (Mr. Liddell) ridiculed his Bill, but he represented the coalowners—he was a coal-field in himself—(Laughter) —but when he did so he ridiculed the report of the inspectors appointed to investigate the causes which had led to the loss of 73 lives in the Barnsley colliery, who recommended such a measure as the one he had brought forward. He had only done his duty in introducing the Bill; it contained no extravagant provisions, although some parties might think so. After the statements of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home De partment he would cheerfully leave the measure in the hands of the Government. The Bill was then withdrawn. LUNATICS BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of the Lunatics Bill. Sir G. GREY trusted that the Hon. Member for Finsbury would not press this Bill at the present moment, as it contained provisions so absurd that the Hon. Member himself would object to be a party to them. It proposed, among other things, to place the care of' luna tics in the hands of the bishops.—(Laughter.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE must confess that he was not so confident with respect to this Bill as to the last, but still the measure contained some excellent provi sions, and such as he felt convinced were much required. No one could doubt that the . present lunacy law was most defective, and that under it many persons were confined as lunatics who were no lunatics at all. The present Bill was intended to amend the law, but he was afraid that at the present period of the session it would be useless to press the measure. He should, however, keep his eyes fixed on the commissioners under the present law, and if he was a Member of the House in another session, tie should introduce a similar measure. Lord SEYMOUR defended the conduct of the com missioners. Mr. WAKLEY thought his Hon. Colleague had acted wisely in withdrawing the measure, and his only wonder was where he got it.—(Laughter.) The idea of placing the lunatics of the country under the care of the bishops was absurd.—(Laughter.) It was well known that religion often caused insanity. He was ready to admit that in some, nay in a great number of instances, lunatics had been improperly, if not cruelly treated, but he thought nothing of the sort had occurred since the present law was in -existence. He thought that private lunatic asylums were objection able, and he hoped shortly to see the day when they would be abolished altogether. Mr. V. SMITH said that the paid commissioners under the present law had ever since their appointment had their time constantly employed in visiting lunatic asylums, and he believed had, by their great exertions, effected considerable improvement. He agreed that the sooner private lunatic asylums were abolished the better. The Bill was then withdrawn. SEDUCTION AND PROSTITUTION SUPPRES SION BILL. Mr. SPOONER moved the further consideration of the report on this Bill. Mr. C. BERKELEY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he allowed this Bill to pass ? Sir GEORGE GREY said it was not his intention to offer any opposition to the Bill. The report was then agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR BILL. On the question being put for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. WILLIAMS expressed a hope that the Bill would not be persevered in during the present session, because it would involve a useless expenditure of public money, without producing the desirable object the pro moters of the measure had in view. He begged to move that this Bill be committed that day three months. Mr. WARD said that he should very shortly answer his Hon. Friend, for really the subject had been so re peatedly discussed, that it would be unnecessary to tres pass at any length on the House. It had been proved that the harbour was a good one, and from the reports of the engineers, he believed that the termination of the ope rations would be satisfactory to the public. Those evils which had been complained of by the Hon. Member were founded in error, and perhaps existed only in his Imagination. The gallery was then cleared for a division. On our re-admission we found— For the motion (I LO! a emendment The R;Z a s Jorlt) for going into Committee —Bl The vane "":,° 'went into Committee upon the Bill. Lord G.TBRENII44°-rAtIN ordered to b e were agreed to, and the Bill was some importance to the orrow. *tailed to put a question of He wished to know wheth - ei' that every man in the %TON STATUE. e t ubl unt t. and which, he believed, for knowing that the removal Majesty's Government had n t/16 Noble Lord and her arch, and the retractation of her l ot the :mt f t t il d e feel iii e terested stvo no s t reason m the hat isa si f7 t nd e tahgb f o o ees, r ewf i e t hwl , toh w seoev o geunlrde subscribed ba military inl i i n t a i nd i gn i tyt r h yt e o det highest ehda M st tio a n e tisftgos'il? memorial forai intent m eo f tem: e t tfi e morate. Lord J. RUSSELL--I certainly received info atio n from a gentle man w h o cal l ed upon me in Downin g -street that the Duke of W e lli ngton h ad expressed to him in a, letter that the removal of the- statue from the arch would be considered by others as injurious to his reputation— or words somewhat to that effect. The letter was written a considerable time ago —in February—and since that time her Majesty has been pleased to order not only that a more fittin; pedestal should be placed for the statue whenever this House should grant the funds, but also that whenever this House does grant the funds for that he, that the arch should be ornamented after more approved manner in which triumphal arches were formerly ornamented, and ornamented in honour of the Duke of W e lli ng t o n, and, in fact, to mike it an arch - dedicated to that illustrious personage. I cannot suppose that the Duke of Wellington can any longer entertain the feelings which he has expressed in that letter. Lord G. BENTINCIC begged also to ask the Noble Lord whether he had not seen, under the hand of that illustrious personage, since the time when that noti fication was given to that House, an intimation to which he (Lord 'G. Bentinck) had before referred, and whether he did not know that a letter had been written, which left no doubt that the feeling of that j illustrious individual was that the arch should remain unchanged. Lord J. RUSSELL said that since the intimation re ferred to by his Noble Friend had been first received from the Duke of Wellington upon this subject, they had received no further intimation of the feelings of the Noble Duke ; and, in fact, he did not himself believe that such was at present the feeling of the Noble Duke. It was always in the power of any person to ask the Duke of Wellington what were his feelings upon the subject, but he believed that the Noble Duke would consent to that site being made for the statue which her Majesty's Government thought most fit for it. Mr. Wakley, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Newdegate ex pressed their belief that it was the opinion of the public that the statue should be allowed to remain whero it was. The subject then dropped. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. SERIOUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. On Tuessday, about one o'clock, an explosion of fire damp, fatal in its consequences, we fear, to a number of persons, took place at the colliery, known some times as the Hier Patricroft Colliery, but more pro perly as the Kirkless Hall Colliery, near the boundary line of the townships of Ince and Aspull, on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool canal, about two miles from Wigan. The result of the accident, as far as we could learn, up to five o'clock yesterday afternoon, was the death of two persons, the very seri ous injury of eight or ten others, and the injury, more or less, of at least a dozen more. From information hastily collected on the spot, it appeared that the cause of the explosion arose from the blowing up a quantity of coal by one of the men, which set it on fire ; and before the fire could be blocked up or extinguished, the accident occurred. We must here state, on the best authority, that the firing of coals by miners, which is doubt less practised to save their own labour, is against the rule laid down by the proprietors of the colliery, and on this occasion was practised without their know ledge or consent. About half-past eleven in the morn ing, one of the men had been having a" blow up," and the consequence was the setting on fire the coal in that part of the mine, which we are told is of a highly bituminous and inflammable nature. The under looker, George Evans, on the first alarm being given, directed all his efforts to extinguish the fire, collected his best men for the purpose, and sent several out of the pit for safety. The reports in the neighbourhood being much exaggerated as to the number of persons in the pit when the explosion occurred, it may be well to state that the pit is divided into two sec tions, one of which only felt the effects of the acci dent. In this section, we believe, thirty-two persons were the full complement employed, or sent down in the morning. Of these, six or eight were sent up, and had given in their lamps, and the remaining portion were at the place of the explosion. After an ineffectual attempt to put out the fire, all the efforts of the men appear to have been directed to the closing or building up that part where the fire was burning ; and the confinement of the air, and consequent stopping of the usual current in that direction, is supposed to have caused the explosion ; but the underlooker being severely in jured, and the other men on the spot knowing little of it, or being incapable of supplying any in fiirmation, no positive facts can be at present stated. Immediately after the accident, the efforts of all were directed to the getting out of the injured parties, and up to five o'clock twenty-three had been brought to the top of the pit ; of these, two or three belonged to the other section of the mine. It was found, however, impracticable to prosecute the search with safety until the fire had been effectually blocked up ; but at five o'clock one man only was said to be missing. The following is, we believe, a correct list of all those brought up after the explosion, none of whom, it is said, escaped unhurt:— John Cartwright—dead. Joseph Wilkinson, a boy—said to have died on his way home. Robert Wilkinson, father of the above—seriously in jured. John Berry—very badly burnt, with no hopes of reco very. Very badly burnt—John Rhodes, George Evans, underlooker, Henry Hawson, John Riley, Ashmore, a boy, and Samuel E i vans. More or less injured—William Dainty, John llol craft, John Bolton, James Naylor, Joseph Penman, Eli Monk, William Jackson, Richard Currie, John Web ster, James Belshaw, John Mills, Thomas Laurenson, Samuel Simkin. Robert Southern, the only one said to be missing, and supposed to be dead.—Manchester Guardian. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 29. —The favourable change in the weather, the marked decline in the price of grain, and the advance in the Liverpool cotton market, have all tended to improve the demand here ; and, to day, there has been an extensive inquiry for yarn and goods. Spinners and manufacturers, however, have raised their demands to an extent which has materially limited the amount of business. What has been done has been generally at an advance, on yarn, of about id. per lb., and on goods of about lid. to 3d. per piece, with the exception of fabrics required for the East India trade, for which, at present, there is little inquiry. ROCHDALE, MONDAY, JUNE 28.—There have been rather more buyers in the market to-day, or rather, those who usually purchase largely have been present. There is little change in the demand for goods from the two or three preceding weeks, as on account of wool rathergiving way the merchants want the pieces for less money. The wool-staplers complain much of the limited demand for the raw material. HALIFAX, JUNE 26.--This is a holiday time, being Halifax fair ; and the attendance in the hall to-day was but slack. There is no noticeable change either in goods or yarn ; and in wool there is, if anything, more doing in short, at rather easier rates. The low woollen trade of this neighbourhood is reviving, and prices have improved, there being a fair demand for the American market. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, JUNE 29.—We have again had an improved market: fine goods of new pat terns are in request, and low goods have found pur chasers for next winter's trade. Considerable business has been done amongst the woolstaplers. LEEDS, TUESDAY, JUNE 29.—We had an improving market last Saturday; and there has been also more doing to-day, both at our cloth halls and at the ware houses. Light tweeds and fancy cloakings are in good demand, as well as the lower descriptions of cloth.— Manchester Guardian. HOP INTELLIGENCE. BRICIITLING, JUNE 26.—1 n this district the bine is vary growing, and the vermin have decreased within the last few days. Bualessu.—The hop plantations continue to be in fested with vermin, not only with fly, but with myriads of lice, and in not a few gardens honey begins to shine. The bine is still in a growing state, but there are more farmers who believe in the possibility of a blight than there were a fortnight ago. FLETCRING.—The hops in our district are growing well at the present time ; but some of the gardens have fly, though very little. There is a little honey -dew in some of tho gardens. GAR DENER -STREET.—The hops in this parish are considered to be progiessing favourably, although some grounds are still affected by the fly. This last week having been cold for the season, a change of the weather would be very beneficial. soe except e G te ehr o pea o tby n it eeh n a. ec r r ;fi n at. a s i . tt yt s eyet O at oir u nf, r ag bp h oro o tal he p t fieContinuewhich, s. u t os We r a el o ah w t a vt f a h a s i as t , et an d e. dew, in some gr oun d s, whilst others nklei l i c e , otso:tlscegoraolaldsb b l ack. w y h e c o a l n e t llhae enr-; shouEldATn D the vermin ,TUNEroainstie 26.—Thektothema, some Unusually d for the season of the last week or ten days has consi derably retarded the growth Of the bine, especially in exposed situations, and also where most infested with vermin. Fly and lice are still very numerous near the hedges in most gardens, but are comparatively clear, or, at least, much clearer in the central parts. Some grounds are looking yellow and cowardly, while others, despite of the ungenial temperature, are of good colour, and growing vigorously. HOESMODEN, JUNE 26.—The bines have made consi derable progress this week in some gardens, and wear a very healthy appearance. In some plantations the fly is h ve e r a y g r m o e o r g o u a s o , d e n i t o ! x t u h r e i a w r e e h i n o c p r e e a t s h i n a g t , t b u w t t ll h e e a b r i n r y e itself through. If we were to judge from present ap pearances, we should predict that the crop would be partial, . - HURSTGREEN, JUNE 27.—The hop plantations in this neighbourhood are progressing, and begin to throw out shoots for fruit. Some grounds are tolerably free from vermin, while others are much affected, particularly the low and brook grounds. NEWICY, JUNE 37.—At present we are in general looking well for a very fair crop, the branching out of the bine has a very favourable appearance, but there are some complaints of vermin. RYE, JUNE 26.—The hops in this neighbourhood, generally, are looking quite as well as can be expected, but they do not make that rapid and vigorous progress they did during the warm nights of the latter end of May; neither upon the whole are the fly so numerous. TUNBRIDGE, JUNE 26.—The bine in this neighbour. hood is strong and growing well, although the lice and fly within the last few days have been a little upon the increase. The hops are generally clean, and no serious results as yet may be anticipated. WADHURST.—The hops have made very great pro- Ryes* in this district, and in some grounds they are quite °tit qf the reach of the tyers. The vermin are plentiful P lk t s, but we think not su ffi cient to caus e any a l arm at p ' :44 . —Susses Advertiser. The India nail was conveyed from Boulogne to gation Company's Dover, yesterday morning, by the General Steam Nail froth leaving Boulogiu, until the mail was landed at Dover having been 1 hour 55 minutes only. A STIBURTON—..It is with continued pleasure that steam-ship Star; the time occupied we can report tnost is of the growing crops of potatoes in this part--not the smallest sign of the dis ease; The early sown potatoes are being taken from the ground, and are of an exceedingly fine flavour and excellent quality. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, .111 , 1 e 30. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Mr. Jus tice WIGHTMAN and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN v. SEPTIMUS RAMSAY, CLERK. Upon this case being called on, only two special jury men answered to their names. The absentees were fined 104 each. A tales was then prayed on behalf of the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. Boville were eounsel for the defendant. This case excited the greatest interest. The Bishop of London, and several other gentlemen were on the bench. Mr. Sergeant SIZEE, in opening the case, stated to the jury that this was a case of the very highest importance, and he begged their most calm, and patient, and dispas sionate attention to it. The defendant is a clergyman attending St. Michael's Church, Burleigh-street, Strand, and he was called upon to answer a charge of having in decently assaulted Mrs. Emmerson. It would appear that the husband of this lady had formerly been in business at Bristol, but was unsuccessful, and, his wife having a very fine voice, she determined to take advan tage of it, and she accordingly engaged herself in the choir of several churches in London, and thus obtained a livelihood for her family. She was about 29 years of age, and the mother of five children. In 1845 a proposal was made to her by the defendant to leave her then situation, at the church in the Savoy, and accept an engagement to lead the choir in his church. She acceded to this, first to sing-only in the evenings, and afterwards mornings and evenings, in St. Michael's Church. She had not been long there before the defendant sent for her to the vestry, and, upon that occasion, he endea voured to take improper liberties with her. It was to be regretted that she had not at once disclosed this to her husband, but, feeling that if she did so she must lose her situation, and her children must starve, she refrained from doing so , an d t h e d e f en d ant had taken advantage of this, and had several times repeated his conduct, until it had arrived to such an extremity that she felt she could no longer keep it from her husband, and she at once charged the defendant with his conduct, the matter was brought before the churchwardens, and then this indictment was preferred. As we give the evidence at great length the speech of the Learned Counsel, which was merely a statement of the facts, is abridged. The following evidence was adduced : Charlotte Emmerson—l have been married twelve years. My husband was formerly in business in Bristol, and was unsuccessful. I then turned my talent of sing ing to account. I was leader of the choir at the Savoy , Chapel from 1843 t o 1845. I n t h e latter year I made an engagement with the defendant to sing at his church in the evening. I attended there, and after. wards gave up the Savoy Chapel and attended alto-, gether at the d e f en d ant ' s. After I had been at the defendant's six or eight months, in July I was sent for to the vestry, and I went there; it was in the evening of a Sunday. In the vestry I found Mr. Ramsay. I was talking to him about making arrangements to sing in the morning. He had hi s surp li ce on. He said h must have a kiss. He kissed me, and behaved indecently to wards me. I told him to remember the position he was in, for I thought some one would come in. I rushed from him, dragged myself from him, and went up into the organ loft. On the fallowing Wednesday he sent for me, and I went down into the side aisle, and Mr. Ramsay came to me there. He said he had very nearly got into a dreadful scrape through last Sunday evening; that he had received a letter stating that he had been seen taking liberties with a lady in the vestry, and that that lady was one of the choir, but that I need not be alarmed, as, though the letter was addressed to Mrs. Ramsay, he had got hold of it and had answered it in the name of his wife, stating that the lady was his cousin. He said he believed the letter had been written by one of Deville's men. I was then residing in Liver pool-street, Walworth. The defendant called there about two months after this, between three and five o'clock. A person of the name of Manning was at my house on that occasion. lie was an acquaintance of my husband's, and was in the kitchen at the time. I opened the door, and showed the defendant into the parlour. I went into the front parlour with him ; the folding doors were open. The defendant said he was very happy to think he had got my husband into a situation, at Mr. Hunt's, 10, White hall, and he should only expect me to pay him by giving him a kiss. He then endeavoured again to take indecent liberties with me. I resisted. The strusgle lasted about five minutes. He then turtaxl it off, and began to talk, and begged me not to say anything about it. My husband afterwards went to Mr. Hunt's., The defendant was in the house altogether about half an hour. Mr. Manning afterwards questioned me as to what had taken place, and I told him of the defendant's conduct. I was at that time pregnant. I bad four infant children living. I saw the defendant on the following Sunday. He said that on going home from my house on the Wednesday a little boy had struck him with a crowbar, which had made him very ill. I was confined in April, 1846. The de fendant called at my house about three months after my confinement. I was then living at Warwick-place, Pim lico. He then stayed about twenty minutes or half an hour. He. then took liberties with me by kissing me and pulling me about. He came again in October, at one or two o'clock. He then proceeded in the same style he had before. He endeavoured to pull me on to his knee. I resisted him very strongly, and he said he would soon take that modesty out of me, and exposed his person. It is impossible I can state what else he did. He did nothing more. My husband was then in the employ of Messrs. Ackerman*. in the Strand. The defendant had procured that situation for him. One of the firm was a member of Mr. Ramsay's congregation. In the beginning of the present year some differences arose between the choir of Mr. Ramsay's church, and I addressed him a letter ; and the defendant shortly after wards called upon me, and destroyed the letter I had written him. I wrote to him in consequence of my saliry having been some time due, and I told him that I had been very ill, and it had cost me Bd. every Sunday to go to the church ; that he had very much reduced my salary, and I thought it would be better for him to have paid my salary, for I had heard many things about his character that had astounded me. He told me he had come to ask me what I had referred to about his character. I told him I had heard he had ruined his nursery-maid, and sent her to Canada ; that she had since applied to come home, but he had sent her 501. to keep her there. I told him Mrs. Ward, the pew-opener, had said so. He made no reply. I then said I hail heard remarks about him and Mrs. Ward. He asked me if I thought it was likely ; that if she had been a young woman ,of thirty it wo u ld b e a different case. He said he thought he should turn her out of the church. I told him to be careful what he did. I then told him I had heard her say if he did discharge her she would blow him to the devil. He said, " Well, I must be careful what I do, and I had better burn this letter " (alluding to my letter) ; and be then burned it. This was on Monday or Tuesday. I went to the church next Sunday, but did not sing, and the choir was discharged. A. letter bad been sent me, from - Mr. Jones, the church warden, dismissing the choir, and I then wrote the de fendant this letter:— " In answer to Mr. Jones's letter, I wish you distinctly to understand that we have given the choir an engage ment far twelve months. As regards myself, I suppose you have been calculating whom it would be most expe dient to get rid of, me or Mrs. Ward, but if you do not pay the 25/., you will find to your sorrow the result, and unless matters are arranged to my satisfaction before Sunday I shall make my husband acquainted with all your conduct, and I would rather see you in the claws of a lion than in his." I then received a letter from Mr. Manning, the de fendant's solicitor's : " 9th of January, 1847.—1 have been consulted by Mr. Ramsay and his friends on the slanderous reports raised by you, and particularly respecting a very extra ordinary letter which Mrs. Ensmerson addressed to Mr. Ramsay-, and which, if brought before the proper au thorities, would lead to the conclusion that it was an attempt to extort money. As the offencecharged is a very serious one, I would caution you in a friendly spirit to avoid a repetition of the same, but, at the same time, in justice to the character of Mr. Ramsay, I must call on you and Mrs. Emmerson to retract, in writing, all your slanders and reports against that gentleman ; otherwise, it will be my painful duty to adopt such proceedings, both civil and criminal, as will lead to ruinous conse quences. With regard to the salary, I shall be in a posi tion to transmit it. That letter was received by my husband. On the Sun day afternoon another letter came from Mr. Manning : " In furtherance of the view we mutually took of the matter, yesterday, and with a desire to afford an oppor tunity for explanation, I have arranged a meeting with Mr. Ramsay, Mr. Ackermann ' and the chapelwardens, at my offi ce t e - morrow; and I beg to invite you and Mrs. Emmerson in a friendly spirit to attend such meeting. I shall not act professionally, but only assume the part of a friendly mediator." My husband and myself attended at that meeting at Mr. Manning's house- We did not take any friend with us. I found there Mr. Ackermann, Mr. Ramsay, the two churchwardens, and Mr. Manning. Upon our going in Mr. Manning said my letter insinuated many things against the character of Mr. Ramsay, and they had met to know what was the fact. He said it ap peared to him it was the effusion of an angry woman because I could not gain my end. It was then pro posed, that if I did not like to state all the facts before all the gentlemen, he would request my husband to re tire with two of the married gentlemen. Mr. Manning had asked me if I could adduce anything against Mr. any liberties with you?" I sa id "Y es ." H e then Hatnsay. I said I could. H e said, " Has he ever tak e n pro posed my laaving the room with two married gentlemen. regard for his own charact er an d t h e c h urc h as I h ad I then said to Mr. Ramsay, "If he had had as much he would never have brought me to that meeting; that he had brought me there, and that I was bound to speak the truth as he had tasked me to it." He made no answer. I then retired with the two gentlemen, Mr. Manning and Mr. Junes. Down to that time my husband was not aware of the particulars of what had taken place. I made a statement to the two gentlemen, and they retired into another room, and then into the room of the meeting. The defendant was in the latter room, and Mr. Manning then said that Mr. Emmerson had a wish that all I had said should be de tailed before all the gentlemen. That was done, and I asked the defendant if lie could say it was untrue? He made no reply, and Mr. Manning repeated the question, and the defendant said, "Of course I deny it." This was in January last. Cross -examined.—l can't fix the time when I was first engaged at the defendant's church. I was singing at the defendant's church in the evening only up to the lat ter end of J u ly, 18 45, and it was the last Sunday in July, I believe, that the conduct of the defendant first took place. My salary was 51. a year for singing in the evening at the defendant's church. It was on the 30th of July that I entered into the engagement, mornings and evenings, to sing at the defendant's. It was about a fortnight before that that the first assault took place. It was ten minutes before the defendant was about to commence the duties of the evening. I struggled, but I did not call out. There is a door that leads from the vestry into the church—it was shut, but not locked. Any one could have walked in. After this occurred I went and performed my duties, as did Mr. Ramsay. I was to have 161. per annum for singing morning and evening. My husband was not a singer, but his name was nominally used. On the next occasion, in Liver pool-street, it was the 10th of . September, 1845, between three and five o'clock. Mr. Ramsay did not go through the kitchen to go into the parlour, but he could see Manning smoking in the kitchen whea he went into the parlour. There was a window in the parlour looking into the garden. There was a very large flower-stand before the window, which was painted in imitation of ground glass. I struggled from five to ten minutes. 1 did not call out at all. I knew Manning was near at hand, and that was the reason for not calling out, as I did not wish to expose Mr. Ramsay, and, from the situation I was in, I knew what the end of it would be if I raised any report; and the feelings of my husband formed another reason. I was able to defend myself, and therefore did not need assistance. My gown was torn out of the gathers and my hair disturbed when I came nut of the room, and Manning said there had been something. wrong, and therefore I told Manning, but begged him i.ot to tell my husband. At Christmas, 1845, my husba n d presented Mr. a n d M rs . R amsay with a turkey. I never consulted Mrs. Ward as to what would be a suitable pre sent to make to Mr. Ramsay. After Christmas, 1845, four of my children were christened by Mr. Ramsay. Manning was godfather for one. My children are all fair- haired. They were christened with my maiden name Sugden first, as "Sugden Emmerson." There are two or three days that I have not been asked about. I mentioned what took place three months after my con finement, at the meeting. I wrote a narrative after the meeting. I said Mr. Ramsay had called several times, but I did not state particular dates. His conduct was repeated six or seven times. I did not present a purse to Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay on the day following the 27th of October, when he took very great liberties with me. I had made purses some time before, and my husband asked me for them, and he gave them to Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. I have some at home now. Sir F. THESIGER—I don't care about that. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—That's to show it was not made for Mr. Ramsay. Sir F. TUESIGER—I don't think my friend has a right to interfere. Mr. Sergeant SUEE—Because I don't think you are treating the witness fairly. Sir F. THESIGER—I would appeal to your Lordship whether I am acting unfairly. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—.I think you are not acting unfairly. Sir F. THESIGER—I have a very difficult task to per form in examining this witness. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—And my friend must recollect that the witness has a very difficult task to perform. Witness—l have not spoken in high terms of Mr. Ramsay since October, 1846, either to Peters or Mrs. Ward. I attended to my duties afterwards, because it was my bread and cheese. Mr. Ramsay has lent my husband 101. My engagement on the 30th of July was , by the churchwardens, but I have a written en gagement with Mr. Ramsay. After we had indicted Mr. Ramsay, we called upon Daville's men, but what took place be tween them and my husband Ido not know. I did not say that I had written the letter in anger, and that if Mr. Ramsay had paid me I should not have said any thing about it. The proposal to go out with two married men was not my proposal. I showed great reluctance at having to give these details before men. I did not state the particulars myself to all the men at the meeting when I returned into the room. Mr. Manning said that if it had only been a kiss he should not have thought anything of it ; but as it was so black a charge he could not be a party to a compromise. He said that any man would take a kiss from a woman where he thought it would be well received. Mr. Clark, the organist, told me to go to Mr. Hobler, and I should have justice done me. I know Mr. Braithwaite; he has sung in the choir at St. Michael's. I was at Mar gate, singing, about five or six years ago, at the Tivoli gardens; I sung there as Miss Sugden. I don't know that Wright was the cash-taker at those gardens. I have seen him to-day. No complaints were made of my conduct to men in those gardens. I never heard of such a thing in my life. I w as not di sc h arged in consequence of my bad conduct. I know Mr. Walton; he is here. I never asked him to introduce me to men, but he en deavoured in every way to seduce me; and he told me if I would submit to him he wouldlntroduce e me to,alrthe noblemen and gentlemen in London; and because I would not he has done all he can to injure me. I never offered him a percentage, and said that rich old men were best. Oh God! it is too bad; it' is shameful. ' I never walked with a man in my life at the gardens. They tried to defame my character e and could not succeed; and when my husband threatened to horsewhip them they begged his pardon. I had before that sung at Belgrave Chapel. I was not dismissed, but in conse. quence of my sending a deputy the clergyman said I must come myself. We lived in the house of a Mr. Mitchell; we left before the last quarter was due. He afterwards came drunk, and demanded his rent, and I charged him with brutal conduct to me. I never told Mr. Reekes . & that a Mr. Blat c h, of mem% was the father of one of ray children. I fOrnierly sang at the Opera; I was discharged in consequence of my refusing to sing alto instead of treble. I did not state that Mr. Costa had taken liberties with me. I did not tell Mrs. Ward or Mr. Case so. I never told Mr. Braithwaite that I was passionately fond of Mr. Ramsay and adored the ground he trod on, or that Mr. Ramsay had kisied me, and my husband knew of it, but did not care, or that I was intimate with Manning and had been out a week together with him, or that I had been in France with him. Manning sometimes called for me at the church. I know Mr. Clark. I never threatened Mr. Ramsay in Clark's presence. My husband said at the meeting that if he found anything wrong between his wife and Ram say he would turn him out of the church or rot in a gaol. loslid not, state to Walker that Ramsay slept one night with Mrs. Ward, and the next with her daughter. I know. Daniel M`Cormack, the bellringer at the church. I sent to a beer-shop for him, as I wanted to ask him a question. I asked him if he ever saw Mr. Ramsay taking liberties with me in the vestry through the sky light ; he said he had seen nothing of the kind. I did not offer him a purse and say, " Always make a friend when you can ; you had better take this and witness the vestry for me, and I will take care you shall be well rewarded." Nor did I tell him that I had plenty of money, and bad a friend who had plenty, and that we were determined to spend the last farthing in exposing Ramsay, unless I was reinstated. I was not present when my husband charged Mr. Jones, the churchwar den, with taking liberties with me. My husband was discharged by Mr. Ackermann after we indicted Mr. Ramsay. I have had two situations in churches since, and through Mr. Ramsay's insinuations I have been turned out. I have been told so by Staples, the organist of St. Mary's, in the Strand, and I have his letter to prove it. I never heard from my husband that he had told Ramsay that he was a needy man, and if he gave him 2001. he would hush up the matter. This witness was four hours under examination, and conducted herself with extreme propriety. She was about to leave the Court, when Sir F. Thesiger called out, "Don't let ber go out of court." One of the jury interposed, and said such an examina tion was no joke, and she ought to be permitted to go out and get refreshment. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN said—Yes, with an officer, because she should not communicate with the other witnesses. . James Manning—l am a bookseller. I know Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson. In September I was in the house when the defendant came there. Mrs. Emmerson opened the door to him; they went into the back parlour. I was attracted by the child crying, and I went and listened at the parlour door, and there I heard a bustle or struggle. It continued for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. I heard nothing said. I then re turned to the kitchen, opened the yard-door, and knelt down on the step and looked through an opening in the window, and I saw Mr. Ramsay pulling Mrs. Emmerson about, and pulling her towards him; she was endeavour ing to get away, and at last, by a desperate effort, she succeeded in getting from him, and sat down in a chair, and took the child, and appeared to be much exhausted. I then saw her putting up her hair. When she came out of the room I perceived the gathers of her gown were torn out. She looked confused and exhausted. She said, " I'm glad the fellow's gone." I then asked her about it. She said, "He has been pulling me about, and that it was not the first time." I said, " Where was it, then?" She said, "In the vestry." I asked her why she did not tell Mr. Emmerson? She said, "If Emmerson knew it, he would pull him out of the pulpit, and he would lose his place, and my family be deprived of bread." She went on her knees, and begged me not to tell Emmerson of it. Cross-examined—On the previous Sunday I had pro mised Emmerson to go to the rehearsal at Burleigh street, and I called on my way. I drop in as it suits me to take my pipe. When before the grand jury I made a mistake in my description of the window. When I heard the bustle in the parlour I did not go in, because it was no business of mine; but I went to the parlour window to satisfy my curiosity; and I then saw she was sufficiently master to gain the victory, and therefore there was no necessity for me to interfere. I never was in France. Emmerson was put into the box by the prosecution. Sir F. THESIGER said, as he had been in the Court all the time, he should not ask him a question. This was the case for the prosecution. Sir F. THESIHER then addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, and said, as they must be aware, he did so under circumstances of some difficulty, because this case had occupied a considerable portion of their time, and he had been engaged from the time of the Court sitting that morning, and he must necessarily be to a certain extent exhausted and incapable of performing satisfactorily the important duties devolving upon him ; but still he felt they must all be sensible of the extreme importance of this case, that they would consider how much depended on their determination, and would exer cise their own careful judgment and discretion upon all the circumstances, and form their judgment out of their own minds rather than from the imperfect view he might be enabled to give them. He had the honour to appear before them as 'counsel for a gentleman who for a long series ofyears had held the highest character, and bad per formed in a most exemplary manner all the sacred duties he had been c a ll e d upon to discharge. There never had been the slightest blemish on his reputation; but was now called u p on to answer c h arges which, if the jury should come to a c onc l us i on a d verse t o hi m, w ould _naot ° o a n as y render it i mposs ibl e t o con ti nue hi s sa cred faati , but would prevent his entering into any state of society. He most earnestly entreated their most painful and most careful consideration of all the circumstances of this case. He called upon them, as the best safeguard and protection that innocence could have, to consider the AMMO , .7 f.cts before them, and the circumstances under which t' ley were produced. The Learned Counsel then went t lrough the evidence given by Mrs. Rmmerson, eom ' menting upon almost every sentence of it, urging that her conduct was not that of an injured woman ; that no one could for a moment imagine that a woman who had been so treated would continue to attend a church where a man who had acted in so base a manner preached the Gospel, and this for the paltry pittance of 16L a year for the services of herself and her husband. He contended that her whole story was such that no one could believe it. Would any woman have permitted her husband to make presents to the man who had en deavoured to seduce her? But, as the case was without support, so must it be without contradiction. The de fendant, however, must endeavour to destroy the credit of the only witness upon whom the charge rested. In 1843 she was a singer at the Tivoli-gardens, and dis charged for her immoral conduct, making overtures of the most disgusting description. Mr. Sergeant SHEE said, his Learned Friend could not go into such matters. Sir F. THESIGER said, until he was told he was pur suing an improper course he should proceed j,o show the utter worthlessness of her character. He would show this woman tampering with witnesses, and end eavour i ng to induce th em t o g iveldse testlinony,andifhe found awoman endeavouring to pollute the pure source of justice what must she be, and what credit could they give to her— and doing this for the purpose of ruining a man against whom, except from her polluted lips, the breath of ca lumny never issued? When he found such a woman, whose reputation was so blasted, thus charging a man of so good and excellent a character as he should prove him to be, he felt it his duty to call upon them to dis miss him with the same high character he had hitherto enjoyed. Tremendous applause followed the address of the Learned Counsel, which was delivered in the most ener getic manner. The case was then adjourned until to• morrow morning, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP -STREET. A lady named Nowlan, the proprietress of an edu cational and boarding establishment at Upper Clapton, made application to Mr. Broughton for his advice under the following circumsnces. The applicant stated, that in the early part of this year a man, of very respectable appearance, called at her establishment, accompanied by a little boy, and, representing him se lf as a merchant in the City, handed her his card, and requested to be made acquainted with her terms for the board and education of a child of the age of the one he had with him. She laid before him one of her prospectuses, and having drawn his attention to a note there, specifically mentioning that the money would be payable quarterly, the terms, about thirty guineas per annum, were acceded to, and the child received. On the first quarter expiring the account was sent in to the residence the parent had given, but no notice was taken of it, and, all subsequent applications having met a similar result, She made a personal appli cation at the house specified on the father's card, in Fenchurch-street, and found that no such person lived there. By means of an acquaintance of the parent, however, she had succeeded in again communicating with him, but had been unable to find out his real address, which he carefully concealed, and although she had written occasionally to him, desiring that he would fetch his son away, or she must herself adopt measures to get rid of him, be had made nothing but paltry excuses, evidently with the intention of leaving the child upon her hands until the vacation expired, when she felt satisfied he would place it in some, other estab lishment and defraud the proprietor in the same manner, and she therefore wished the magistrate's advice how to act, as she did not like to turn the poor child into the street, even if she were justified in so doing, and it was evident the father did not care what became of him. Upon hearing this statement Mr. BRJUGHTON directed Holland, the warrant officer, to make inquiries into it with a view to induce the parent to come to terms, and prevent a further exposure, and Holland now stated, that he had called at the residence the father had given, which he fo un d t o b e a most re spectable mercantile house, and on obtaining an inter view with one of the partners was informed by that gen tleman that the person complained of had certainly had chambers there formerly, but that he had vacated them a long time since, and was wholly unjustified in giving a reference there, as he was certainly a person not to be trusted even to the extent of 101.; and, from what he had heard of him, he was convinced that he was in the habit of practising similar impositions. He (the officer) had also used his endeavours to ascertain the man's residence, but had not succeedectin - doing sn, and he felt assured that he was keeping out of the way in tentionally: Mr. BROUGHTON told the applicant that she should have made proper inquiries as to the father's respecta bility before she received the child into her house, and as it was now quite manifest that she had not the re motest prospect of obtaining her money, he would advise her to apply to the parish officers of Stoke Newington, and, upon laying a statement of the circumstances before them, it would be their duty to receive the child into their workhouse. The applicant thanked the magistrate and quitted the court, and Holland yesterday announced that Mr. Dos sett, the overseer of the parish, had given directions for the child to be placed in their union on the preceding night. The magistrate requests us to acknowledge his receipt of 1/. Os. Gd. from " X. Y. Z." for the poor-box, which the donor desired might he noticed in this paper. TH A M E S. Caroline Mitchell, a young woman who has given much trouble to the magistracy, tise police, and the sur geons of the London Hospital, by her repeated attempts to commit self-destruction, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with making another attempt of the same kind, in which she had very nearly succeeded. A respectable woman named Clark stated, that on Monday night, at half-past eight o'clock, she saw the prisoner running towards the swivel bridge, over the London-dock entrance in Old Gravel-lane, exclaiming, " I will—l will do it." In a moment the prisoner slipped under the chains on to the pier head, and plunged into the water, which is there more than twenty-four feet in depth. Witness was thunderstruck, but as soon as she recovered from her surprise she screamed aloud for help, and the servants of the dock company and others procured the drags, and threw ropes towards the prisoner, who sank twice, and came up again, when the prisoner caught hold of one rope, and a young sailor was lowered down by the side of the perpendicular wall, and, while she faintly held on, he seized her round the waist, and saved her. The prisoner was taken to a public-house near, and after some time had elapsed she was restored. When the prisoner came to her senses, she raved and said, " Why did you not let me go to the bottom ? I will destroy myself." John Putt, a police-constable, 177 K, said the pri soner once threw herself into the Thames, and after a great deal of trouble was resuscitated, and since then had made other attempts on her life. On Monday night he met the prisoner in Old Gravel-lane. She was then drunk, and said " I intend to do it, I will ;" and ran away from him. The prisoner was a woman of the town, and had just come out of prison, after being confined in default of finding sureties to keep the peace, in consequence of her having attempted to commit suicide. He knew that she had made, similar attempts repeatedly. James Wittleton, a police-.constable, No. 173 K, stated, that the prisoner was charged with attempting to drown herself about three months ago. She then selected the same place as she had done on Monday night, and was with difficulty saved by the medical attendants and others. After she was locked up in the station-house, he heard a rattling in the throat during the night, and upon open ing the door of the cell in which she was confined, he found a lump of oxalic acid in her mouth, which he took from her, and he had got it now. She was taken to the London Hospital, where she remained for several weeks before she was cured. The prisoner, who treated the affair with much uncon cern, said she had nothing at all to say. Mr. YARDLEY doubted whether the prisoner was a fit person to be at large at all, and said, that the public ought not to be shocked by these repeated attempts on the part of a woman to commit suicide without taking some measures to restrain her. He should commit the prisoner for trial for the misdemeanour in attempting to commit self murder. SOUTHWARK. Thomas Buck% was charged with breaking into the premises of Mr. William Jeakinaon, leather merchant, of York-place, Kent-road, and stealing forty-five dozen of dressed skins. On the night of the 16th ult. the complainant's pre mises were forcibly entered, and forty-five dozen of dressed leather skins carried off. Two days afterwards nine dozen of the skins were discovered in the house of a man named Armfield, a tailor in Bermondsey, who with his son, a young man in the leather trade, was taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery. After undergoing two examinations, however, the Armfields were discharged, it appearing, that three days subsequent to the robbery the prisoner Buckly met the younger Armfield, told him that he had forty•five dozen of dressed skins to dispose of cheap, and entreated him to become a purchaser. The latter, however, by his own account, declined having any dealings with him, and they separated on that understanding. The pri soner, however, not deterred by the refusal, the same evening conveyed nine dozen of the skins to the house of the elder Armfield, informing him that he had had one interview with his son, who agreed to become the purchaser of them, and adding that he should leave them there for him, t o b e paid for on a nother opportu nity. Armfield senior expressed his unwillingness to have the skins deposited in his house, but the prisoner hurried away, and, as already described, in a day or two afterwards they were traced to the place by the police, and both father and so n were apprehended on the wer e taken before th e mag i strate charge. Wh en t h ey they related precisely the manner in which the skins came into their possesston, and gave such information on the subject that they were admitted to bail until means were devised for the appreh ens i on of the real offender. This, however, was not effected until within the ho t few days, the prisoner since th e b urglary and robbery of the complainant's premises having ablilenit(to pick d h i mse lf from his usual haunts. He, however fell t h e hands of the police by h av i ng attempted to n g entleman's pocket, and, w h en he was taken before magistrate at one of the \Vest-end police-courts, he was identified by a constable who happened to be present as the man who had absconded and was " wanted" upon the present charge. When th© prisoner was asked what he had to say in answer to the charge, ho admitted taking the nine dozen skins to Armfield's house and leaving th em t h ere b y the m h desire of his s on , w h o, from price h e ( pr i soner) offered them f or , must have the e own they were not honestly come by. The prisoner also asserted that h e was not concer ne d i n t h e burglary, and in accounting for s th es e si ; o v n ay , s il d w t h b i a ch t o t n he thstoe 17th ult., c ame i nto his pos th ult., as he WAS standing JULY Y , 1847. Mr. SECKER committed the prisoner, and bound ove the Armfields as witnesses on the trial. ------- RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are — Birkenhead, Lanca shire and Cheshire Junction, 31s. 3d. dis.—Blackburn, Cli theroe, &c., Preference, 2 p.—Chester and Birkenhead, Halves, 20—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 4 dis.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 17%—Great Northern, 265. Bd. dis. ox int. — Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 2 p.—Leicester and Bedford, % dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1% p.—London and N ort h-W estern, 184—Ditto, New Quarters, 113 p.— Ditto, Quarters (G. J.), 18 !,1( p.—London, Man chester, and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 6% p.—Lond on , Brighton, and South Co as t, 56 1 / 2 — Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5 p.—Ditto, 32/. Shares, 1 / 2 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), % p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 1 1 4 dis. ex int.—Matlock and Mid land, % p.—Midland Stock, 133—Ditto, 40/. Shares, 8 1 / 2 p.— Ditto, New, 4% p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3 p.— North Staffordshire, 3 1 / 2 p.—Runcorn Gap. 28—Ditto, New, 12 3 4—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 5% p.— Ditto, New, 2 3 4 p.—Shrewsb ur y an d Bi rm i ng h am, 15L 7s. 9d. Shares (A), % dis.—Ditto, 9/. 12s. 3d. Shares (B), 1 / 2 dis. —South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, % dis. ex int.— York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p.—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 13 dis. MANCHESTER, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Not tingham, and Boston, 1% dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1% dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7% p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preferentials, 2 p.—Eastern Counties, York Exension, dis.—East Lancashire, New, % dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), 3-16 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1 1 / 2 dis.—Great Northern, 1% dis.—Kendal and Windermere, 24—Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials, 11-16 dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 4 p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 41 / 2 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 1 / 2 p.—Mancbester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshi re , Quarters, No. 1, 3 1.16 p.—Ditto (Grimsby), 201. Shares, `2 11-16—Ditto (Grimsby and Dock), 3 3 %—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 2 7-16 dis.—Manchester and Southamp ton, 1X c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 8-16 p.—North Staf fordshire and Churuet Valley Junction, dis.—Preston and Wyre, Halves ( B), % p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 2, 3 p.—Ditto, No. 4, 3-16 dis.—York and Newcastle, Prefer ence, p. _ LEEDS, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting.. ham, and Boston, I% dis.—East Lancashire New, is. 3d. dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), 3s. 6d. p.—East and West York.. shire, 245. 6d. dis.—Great Northern, 1% c. dis.—Hudders field and Manchester, 1 3 4 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 4 c. p. —Ditto, Extensions (green), 1% dis.—Leeds and Think, Preference, 13s. dis.—London, Brighton, and South Coast, Preferentials, 41 4 p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Hud. and Sheff.), 31 r% p.—Ditto, 82/. Shares, 9 s . p .— Ditto (West Riding Union), 3 6' n. p.—Manchester, Bus ton, Matlock, and Midland, Is. 6d. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, 9% p.—Ditto, New, 3 p.—N ort h B ritish, Thirds, 1 3 / 4 p.—Ditto, Extension, 2s. • 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 336 c. p.—North-Western, 245. 6d. dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p. HULL, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 283.—Great Northern, 465.—Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), 7s. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, 1% dis.—Newca s tl e and Berwick, New, 21. 19 s. p .— North British, Quarters, 96r. —Ditto, Thirds (scrip), 565.—Northern Counties Union, 265. North Staffordshire, 314 p.—Shropshire Union, 335. York and Newcastle, Pref erence , 4% p. SHEFFIELD, JUNE 30. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting. ham, and Boston, 1 1 / i dis.--Manchester and Lincoln Union, 1 1 j. dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 20/. Shares, 468. dis.—Ditto, 12/. 10s. Shares, 275. dis.—North British, Thirds, 134 p.—North-Western. dis. EDIBUGH, JUNE 29. STOCK Excrasar.. N -The ß sales are-Aberdeen, 304.._ Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 1 0s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 261. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. 10s.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. 35.- Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, New, 21 . 4 5.-Caledonian and Duns bartonshire, 1/. 155.-Clydesdale Junction, 494 -Deeside, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Doune, and Callender, 1/. 7s. 6d.-Dun dee and Arbroath, 37/. 10s.-Ditto, New, No. 1, 28/. 7s. 6d. -Ditto, New, No. 2, 30/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 31. 2s. 6d.-Dundee and Northern Junction, 1/. IN.-Dun dee and Perth, 32/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 131. -Ditto, Quar-. ters, 3/. 75.-East of Fif e , 11 . 18 s.- E ast LothianCentre/. 21.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 71. IN.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, Halves, 224-Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181. 10s.-Ditto, Pre ference. 20/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 2/. Is.-Ditto, Quarters, 145,. -Edinburgh and Northern, 181. Ios.-Ditto, New, 3/. 18s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 71. I ls. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, 21. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 14 is. 6d. -Ditto, Halves, 65.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 1201.-Ditto, New Stock, 41/. IN.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 81. 195.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 61. 155.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/. 2s. 6d.-Glas gow General Terminus, 12/. 155.-Glasgow and Greenock, 171. 10s.--:-Ditto, Halves, 8/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, FM-Glasgow. Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4/. 5 5 . -G reat N orth of 81.--Glasg ow, 11. 17s. 6d.-Great Northern (late Direct Northern). 4/. I lg.-Ditto (late London and York), 11. 125.-New. castle and Berwick, 291.-North British, 331.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 10s. -Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 145.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 165.-Ditto, Thirds, 2/. 148.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 10s. -Scottish Central, 271. 17s. 6d. -Scottish Grand Junction, 195.-Scottish Midland, 18/. 10 s. -Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 9/. 10 s. -Ditto. New, 1/. 25.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 5 4-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 65.-Wishaw and Coltness. 491.-Yo r k and Newcastle, 381.-Ditto, New, 164 155.-Ditto Preference, 25.1 55.-Direct Bombay an Madras, 6d.-Great 2s. 3d.-East Indian, 9d.-Great North of India, 2s. Southern, of Madras, 28.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, Is. 6d. GLASGOW, Juwz 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 30% -Cale donian, New, 445.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 348.-. Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 675. 6 d.-East Indian, 35.-- East Lothian Central, . 123 . -Edinburgh and Northern, 18% -Ditto, Newport, 71. 13s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 548.-Edinbugh Halves, No. 2,6 L and Perth, Halves, 6/. 6s. 9d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, a n d Ayr, 1204-Ditto Halves, No. 1. 9/.-Ditto, 145.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 5/. Great North ern, 90s. ex int.-Manchester and Southampton, 168 land, Halves, 10 1 4-North British, Thirds, 545. 9 d.-Ditto, Quarters, 925. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 16s. 6d.-. Wishaw and Coltness, 4 814-York and Newcastle, 38%.... Ditto, Prefere nce , 127/8. THE GREAT BRITAIN.--011 Friday we paid a visit to the Great Britain, for the purpose of witnessing per. sonally the operations which are in progress to raise he; previous to being floated off. The arrangements are certainly very ingenious, but cannot be clearly described to those who have not seen them. On each side of the vessel are driven upon their ends into the sand, until they reach the solid rock, a number of logs of timber in an inclined position. Near the top of two of these logs is to be a box or case filled with sand, weighing about fifty tons. Upon the top of each log is a sheave of iron, in a groove in which runs a rope which communicates with the box and with the vessel. The boxes are supported by large chain cables, and their object is to raise the vessel, for according to the principles of mechanism, as they sink the ship rises. There are to be twenty of these boxes, ten on each side of the vessel. Eight of them are at present in the position intended for them, and in process of being filled; the rest will soon be corn. pleted. The greater number will be placed towards the ship's bow, where she is deeper in the sand, nearly to the depth of tour feet two inces, and fewer towards the stern, where she is not so deep. The ship had been sunk seven feet, but by means of lightening, that is, pumping out the water, and placing stones underneath, she ban been raised to her present position. She is now perfectly water-tight. Mr. Bremner, the eminent engineer,. Is constantly on board, su p er i nten di ng the operations. All is expected to be ready for the final effort by the end of the next month. A Government steamer is expected to be present on that occasion, lending her assistance.-- Downpatrid Recorder. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.50 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.55, it follows that gold is 0.20 per cent. dearer ii London than in Paris. Ey advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 178. 10 1 / 2 d. per ounce for standard gold, give* an exchange of 13.8 i; and the exchange at Hamburgh OR London at short being 13.9*, it follows that gold is OAS per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 106,i and the par of exchange between 'England avid Amence. being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the et-xi:eh:7er: 3.33 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' must be deducted from the above difference. BIRTHS. On the 18th of May, at the Union Estate, St. Lucia. West Indies, the lady of the Hon. Melcher Garner Todck of a BOa and heir. , r , On the 24th ult., at the Rectory, Hulau alampflower , Somerset, the lady of the Rev. J. WuadhcasO, of a daughter. of a s li lin near W' On the 17th ult., at ow . g, I n g h am, Kent, pre. C o ( y ) s n g the arn maturely, the lady of John Riggs Miller, Esq., of twin boys, e 2 s 6t i h m, ult., at Clifton place, Hyde -park, Mrs, John still-born. On the 27th ult., the wife of John C. F. S. Day, Esq., of a, daughter. On the 27th ult., at Rose-hill, Cheltenham, the lady of Captain W. H. Delainain, Bengal Artillery, of a son. On the 27th u l t., at Calverley -park, Tunbridge-was, the wife of Neville Ward, Esq., of a son. On the 28th ult. in Sussex- gar d ens , I lyde-park, the wife of H. M. Boodle, isq., of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Rye-lane, Peckham, the wife of C. Lodge, Esq., M.D., of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Lowndes-square, the wife of the ley. W. Pennefather, of a daughter, still-born. On the 28th ult., at Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, Mrs. A. Keppel, of a son. AfARRIED. On the 15th nit., at Dijon, in Burgundy, Sarah, eldest daughter of the late William Robinson, Esq., of Bury-street, St. James's, to Joseph Bregenzer, of the caaton of Lucerne, Switzerland. On the 28th ult., at Chester, Francis Pinney, Esq., of Tyndwr Llangollen, to Dorothy, fou r th d aughter of Henry Gisby, Esq., of Hollycurdane, Thanet. On the 14th of M a y, at Georg g etown, British G u i ana, M r. Alfred Fisher Abb o tt, merchant, aged 30. On tho 22d ult., M r . John 'Sewell Paget, of Store-street, Bedford-square, aged 31 On the 25th ult., at Cologne, Lieutenant -General Sir Henry Askew, C. 8., tate of the Grenadier Guards, aged 72. On the 28th Cornelius Haynes Butler, Esq., of Ingate. stone, Essex, aged 35. On the 28th ult., Edwin John Quekett, Esq., M.R.C.S. and F.L.S., of Wellclose-square, aged 38. On the 28th ult., at Hadley, Jane, second daughter of the late John Read, Esq., aged 26. or:(4011 : ►'rinted and f'ublislied by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112 st , and, Printer, at The Sun OLllce, No, 112. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tbo County of Andtilesex, Thursday, July 1. 1847. near Bermondsey Church, a young man whom he mgt s`ced him to sell the skins for him, and offered to pay him for his trouble; that he (prison e r) a t once assente d, end knowing the Arinfields to be persons not very par ticular as to what they bought, so that they had it cheap, he concluded a bargain with the son as already described. Both the Armfields, however, repelled the insinuations east upon their characters, and declared that their ver sion of the transaction was precisely what occurred on the occasion. 1