The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

PREVENTION, ETC., OF FIRES IN TOWNS. The following are the clauses relating to this subject in the " Towns Improvement Clauses Bill" now before he House of Commons: — CLAUSE 107.—The party-walls of all buildings which shall he erected after the passing of the Special Act within the limits thereof, shall be carried through and above the roof, to form a parapet of not, less than twelve Inches in height, measured at right angles with the slope of the roof above the covering of the roof of the highest building to which such party-walls belong ; and the external walls of all buildings to be erected after the passing of the Special Act, in or near any street, or within the curtilage of ji n y house adjoining any street, and the coverings of the roof thereof, shall be constructed of incombus tible materials ; and it shall not be lawful for the owner of any building within the limits of the special Act, Laying at the passing of the special Act a roof covered with thatch or other combustible material, and con tiguous to or adjoining to any other building, to suffer such covering to such root to remain for a longer periodc.t than seven years after the passing of the sp ecial A akad every person who shall erect any building, or over any roof, or suffer the covering of any and e who contrary to the provision herein contained,roof to n e tinue shall not remove or alter the same, within one month (after notice shall have been given to him for that pur rose by the Commissioners , lbe liable to a nalty, 'hot exceeding one pound , for every day that such build ing or covering to such roof shalwl hso c sh on al t l in w u i e lf . ully set or CLAUSE 135. —Every person chimney vk ithin the limits of sense to be set on fir e any the Sp ec i a l Act, shall :an b e liable to a penalty not ex ceeding pr ovided always, that nothing lerein contained shalln ex empt the person so setting or fivnPn "causing to b e set on fire an y chimne y from liabilit y to Xe indicted for felony. 136.—1 f any chimney shall accidentally catch CLAUSE go be on fir e within the said limits, the person occupying pr be us i n g the premises in which such chimney shall be 'situated, s hall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten ahillines : provided always that such forfeiture shall slot be incurred if such person shall prove to the satis faction of the justice before whom such ease shall be beard, that such fire was in no wise owing to omission, n lect, or carelessness of himself or servant. CLAUSE 137.—The Commissioners may purchase or provide such engines for extinguishing tire, and such water-buckets, pipes, and other appurtenances for such engines, and such fire-escapes and other implements for safety or use in case of fire, and may purchase, keep, or hire such horses for drawing such engines as they shall think fit, and may build, provide, or hire places for keep ing such engines, with their appurtenances, and may employ a proper number of persons to act as firemen, and may make such rub s for their regulation as they shall think proper, and give such firemen and other persons such salaries and such rewards for their exer tions in cases of fire as they shall think fit. CLAUSE 138.—The Commissioners may send such (engines with their appurtenances, and the said firemen, beyond the limits of the Special Act, for extinguishing tre in the neighbourhood of the said limits; and the (owner of the lands or buildings where such fire shall Lave happened, shall in such case defray the actual ex pense which may be thereby incurred, and shall also pay to the Commissioners a reasonable charge for the use of such engines, with their appurtenances, and for the "attendance of such firemen; and in case of any difference between the Commissioners and the owner of the said lands or buildings, the amount of the said expenses and charge, as well as the propriety of sending the said engines and firemen as afore said for extinguishing such fire (if the property thereof be disputed), shall be determined by two justices, whose decision shall be final; and the amount of the said ex - penses and charge shall be recovered by the Commis sioners as damages. CLAUSE 139.—The Commissioners shall provide and maintain fire-plugs and all necessary works, machinery and assistance for securing an efficient supply of water in cases of fire, and for this purpose they may enter into any agreement with any water company or other party, and they shall paint or mark on the buildings and walls -within the streets words or marks near to such fire plugs, to denote the situation thereof, and do such other things for the purposes aforesaid, as they may from time to time deem expedient. CONVICTS (WOOLWICH,`. There has been issued by order of the House of Com mons a copy of the report ma d e by. the Superintendent of Convicts to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, respecting the treat ment of convicts in the hulks at Woolwich. The docu ment (which with the appendix occupies about 30 folio and closely printed pages) was moved for by Sir W. Somerville, and in consequence of allegations made in the public prints of cruelty to those convicts. The fol lowing are extracts from the superintendent's report :-- "To all these charges I beg leave to give a most posi tive and distinct contradiction. The general health of the prisoners as a body of men , an d t h e num b er o f th ose admitted in a state of sickness, who have, by the judi cious treatment they received, speedily regained health and strength sufficient to enable them to undergo a long sea voyage, furnish the best evidence to prove the correctness of my assertion. The prisoners are not bid from public view, as in a gaol, but work daily and openly in the presence of hundreds of individuals, both in the dockyard and in the Royal Arsenal, who must of necessity be perfectly aware of any acts of cruelty towards them. They perform their work cheerfully, and reference to the officers of the naval and ordnance departments will prove that there is no complaint made by them, and that the amount of labour performed is satisfactory. Strangers are permitted free access to both those establishments, and have continued opportunities of witnessing their treatment. The visitors, alio, on board the hulks are numerous, and they have invariably express( d themselves in terms of approbation at the cleanliness and order apparent to every one. •`lt cannot be said that the prisoners are overawed by physical force, fur, in compliance with instructions I had received, no vacancies occurring among the officers or guards for the last three years have been filled up ; and the prospect of the establishment being broken up in duced many to seek and obtain other employment. The consequence has been, that for a long time past the Lrisoners at Woolwich, averaging upwards ot 600 daily, ave, as you, Sir, are aware, from reports which ha%e been laid before you, until very recently had a staff of officers and guards totally inadequate in point ot num bers to overlook and superintend them by night as well as by day." The subjoined case is an instance of one of the charges made, and the answers made thereto by the superin tendent : .The next case of cruelty is th a t o f J ames B ran di s h a maniac. This man was admitted whil e i n a fit, roaring out very lustily. This was his second time of admission into the hospital. When I saw him, he was shouting out on each occasion. The first time when Mr. B ossey saw him he began to laugh at bim, and told him those fits would not do there.' Brandish had a fit after this, which appeared to deprive him of the poner of opening ibis jaws; Bossey placed his thumb on his cheek, and pressed against his cheek; he then opened his mouth; Bossey began to laugh, and said, all garcmon, Mr. Brandish; I will have you well flogged if you do not alter your course of conduct; I will have you sent to the Justitia and well flogged.' After the doctor went away examined his mouth, and I found that his cheek was cut opposite where he pressed his thumb. They fre quently handcuffed his hands to each side of the lbed, and kept him lying in this position, in his (dirt and water, until a large piece mortified out of ,the bottom part of his back, about the same place es that of George Monk. Ho became completely (childish. The doctor frequently threatened to have him dogged. He allowed him wine before he died, a part of -which he took off a few days before his death, with his usual threat of having him flogged. He died 6th 'October, 1844." "The treatment in this case will be found detailed at 3ength in Mr. Bossey's own report, which it is believed -will disprove the charge. I cannot b,lieve that the sur geon laughed at this patient; and the officers are positive ;that such a wordl as ' gammon' was never, on any occa sion. used by him. " The charge about opening the prisoner's mouth to Teed him is explained by Mr. Bossey's own statement, from which it is clear he fed this prisoner with his own Land, when no one else could accomplish it. tio restraint was required. " The threats of flogging, repeated more than once in this case, are a mere fabrication; the very fact of the pri soner being placed upon full diet , with wine and porter for sao long a period, and the entry in th e surgeon's own hand writing proves that he thought him in a dying state on the 18th of September, after which date must have oc curred the usual threat of having him flogged' on the slay he took off his wine, which was the 26th, as the patient died on the 6th of October. " There is a record in this case on the hospital jour ;:bl.,;ko an officer that on one occasion the surgeon was compelled to for n eg l ec t o f d u ty in not changing this patient faiffirieritl 'desired effect tired often ; the reproof given had the 3 mention this circumstance further complaint was necessary. continued neglect ijtl to prove that the charge of i.astand a preceding case is without :foundation. The re 'which .` mortified out l' of it i,.? n h ere at the 'large piece' real circumat p a e n r c s e o s us a rwe uho h av detailed in thnetrsuuer.geTonh,es bee awwitnessed long sickness TeporL All in their own families . must tunes, of preventing what is colleen! :t th e difficulty a ; ed - soe.' ' SOLIAM.—TIIE INCENDIARY PIRES.--MTL '‘,,T (the mother of Josiah Munson, wh o was tries];ll.,"°n quitted at the recent Cambridge A ss i zes, upon ~,- ne ` i: a c . of arson), who was remanded some time back for setatrir Fire to some premises at Soham, in the occupation of Me. :Liles Cooper, of that place, was on Saturday last fully committed for trial at the next assizes. During the examination, which was holden at the Crown Inn, at Soham, her son, the aforesaid Josiah, was anxiously waiting outside the room to hear the result.. It •VI a s found necessary, however, to send for a witness from Mildenhail; in the interim, the magistrates sent for Josiah, who came boldly into the room, wondering, no doubt, %hat they wanted him for ; and his surprise sod mortification may he pretty well imagined, when Dlr. Wilkin, solicitor, rose and said, that he appeared to prefer a charge of arson against him, viz , for having set re to a stack of straw, on the let of November, 1846, the property of Mr. Thomas Peck, of Soham, whereby _. sever4 Lvt- buildings were destroyed ; upon wh i ch .111.: 1 /.. c b er Olht prisoner stood remanded until Tuesday, when .-..--",,,-- be aat the Crown Inn, Soham, at eleven o'clock ~.<"- '' 21e "s la r y committed. Well might he exclaim, ~ H a d fii.7/7! pled was i.- f t hi s I would never have come to Sohan3 I I uclgeu n .4( .1.-:'11 sgain."--,X9r ,fifh C hron i c l e. \- , TheiA A nd most celebrated dame of Eton, Mrs. °:.":0 , Angek;; has st expired, in the 88th year of her age. ---- Xot , near y years the deceased lady Was c:nnected I\l Nritli-t • at public ostabliihAat THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1847. TE-SANT-RIGHT BILL. The following is an abstract of Mr. Sharman Craw ford's Bill : The Bill is entitled, a " Bill to secur e the ri g hts of occupying tenants in Ireland, and thereby to promote the improvement of the soil, and the employment of the labouring classes." in The lrel Ireland preamble letting i recites n land that h e a r t i t t h e r e m practice inab lel h e a a s s e l s o , n e g r existed at without suitable buildings or other appendages, and without any allowa nce in rent for the want thereof, also without any a g reement for impjust be improvements tomade, and and that this pr actice has led to complaint on the part of the tenant, on account of his liability to eject ment without a n y ' securit y for com p ensation for labour and c apital e xpended—thus checking improvement, pre venemployment, and creating violence and disorder. Clause ting 1 gives compensation to any ejected tenant who shall have made permanent improvements, for the value of his tenant-right created by such improvements. Clause 2 enacts that a tenant claiming under this Act, on receiving notice to quit, or a demand of increased rent, or service of a declaration in ejectments, or within ten days afterwards shall serve a notice in writing of his claim on the landlord, and an offer, in case of terms not being agreed on, to refer matters to arbitration. If agreement not made, landlord to appoint an arbitrator within ten days, to act with the tenant's arbitrator, which two shall appoint a third, and these three, or any two of them shall settle the amount of compensation. Clause 3 enacts that if the landlord proceed with the process of ejectment, the tenant may prove on trial that the landlord refused to appoint an arbitrator, or that the award was made in his favour, and is not paid ; and then, unless the tenant be settled with, he shall be entitled to judgment in his favour ; b u t if no award have taken place through default of the arbitrators, the court shall, if required by landlord or tenant, appoint an arbitrator, with power to award ; no hilifre to issue before award paid, and if not paid within time fixed by court judgment o be for the tenant. Clause 4 enacts that if award is not made by arbitra tors according to regulations of this Act, appeal lies to the court, which may cancel, alter, or amend the award, or appoint an arbitrator as if no award had been made. Clause 5 enacts that arbitrators may, if required by the landlord or the tenant, name a fair rent fi r the pre mises; and if landlord accept the tenant at the rent named, and the tenant refuse, the tenant cannot then claim compensation. Rent to be computed by that which a solvent tenant would pay, according to the usual let ting value, not charging an increased rent for buildings erected by tenant at his own cost. Clause 6 enacts that no tenant shall claim tenant-right who cannot show that he has expended labour or capital, so as to increase the value of the premises. Claimant to be in sole occupation, and rQsiding on the premises, which must be in tenantable condition. Clause 7 enacts the mode in which the arbitrators shall proceed in determining the award. Clause S enacts the manner in which the value of buildings, and also of improvements of the soil, shall be ascertained, the main principle being that they shall cause a permanent increase of the value of the pro perty. Clause 9 enacts that the landlord may set off against the tenant's claim any injuries to the property resulting from bad management on the part of the tenant, and also all rent or other debts ; and if an overplus in favour of landlord, he may recover same as rent, or else by action, or by civil bill. Clause 10 enacts that any tenant who shall, after the passing of this Act, sell or sublet any portion of the premises without the landlords consent in writing, or who shall without the like consent erect houses for cot tiers, or give ground for the erection of such houses, or bring such persons to inhabit on the premises, ex cept as hired servants, such tenant and the holder of the transferred portions shall forfeit all claim to tenant right. Not to be construed to apply to any sub-divi sion or sub-tenautcy created previous to the passing of this Act. Clause 11 regulates the principles by which the torn of tenant-right in Ulster shall be brought within this Act, and enacts that the tenant may offer evidence of the sem which a solvent tenant would give for the right of occupancy, and the arbitrators may make their award without entering into a detailed examination of improvements, which in other cases they must do, ac cording to the 7th clause. Clause 12 enacts that in case of ejectment for non payment of rent there shall be no claim for compensa tion except in two cases—firstly, if landlord shall refuse to allow tenant to sell his interest; secondly, if the rent payable exceed by one•tenth the poor law valuation. Clause 13 enacts that the landlord shall get just credit for the improvements made at his entire or joint expense, or for which a reduction in r,rit has taken place. Clause 14 defines the term used in the Act " Tenant" to mean a person in occupation of land let for purposes of agriculture or pasture, but not of land let for building, or in conacre, or for special or temporary purposes, and which shall be held at will or from year to year, or for a life or lives; " Landlord," the person entitled to the immediate possession on the determination of the interest of the tenant ; " Improvements " all buildings and works tending to increase the permanent value of the property ; and " services of notice " may include service by post-office as well as the service usually adopted in legal transactions—the address to be the last known ad dress, and the letter to admit of being delivered within the time prescribed for the notice being given. Clause 15 limits the Act to Ireland. Clause 16 is the usual alteration and amendment chuses. SUSPENSION OF TRANSPOR- TATION. The following official letter from the office of the Se cretary of State has been forwarded to the visiting ma gistrates of the different gaols in the country . "Gentlemen,-1 am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to acquaint you that in consequence of the sus pension of traneportatio❑ of male convicts to Van Die men's Land, it w ill be requisite to make immediate provision for the confinement and employment, in this country, of a great number of such offenders. "In order to facilitate the measurei requisite for the accomplishment of this object, it appears to Sir George Grey that the temporary imprisonment in the county and borough prisons of a proportion of male convicts under sentence of transportation, may be necessary where there is sufficient accommodation for their recep tion, and where appropriate arrangements exist for re formatory discipline. I am therefore to request that you will state, for the information of Sir George Grey, what number of prisoners can be conveniently lodged in the prison under your superintendence, without interfering with its discipline and good order, what has been the greatest number of prisoners acually confined in the prison at one time during the present year, and what system of discipline is in force in the prison. " Sir George Grey requests me to inform yeu, that a vote having been taken in the last session of Parliament for defraying the cost cf maintaining convict prisoners in gaol, no additional expense will be imposed on the counties and boroughs in respect of the maintenance of prisoners who may be retained in or sent to any prison n pursuance of the contemplated arrangement. I um, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, " S. M. PHILLIPPS. " Whitehall." ADMINISTERING POPPY -WATER TO CHILDREN IN EDMONTON UNION.—VOTE OF CENSURE ON TWO OF TELE NURSES.—Mr. Higgs, the coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, held two inquests in Edmonton Union, Chase-side, on Thursday, on the bodies of Foundling Burke, aged nine months, and Eliza Cave, aged ten months. Harriet Stolworthy said that about five weeks ago Mary Ann Cave, the mother of one of the children, was admitted with her illegitimate child, and the other deceased. At that period the children appeared per fectly well, and they remained so until last Tuesday week, when they seemed in a complete state of stupor. From the symptoms witness thought they were suffer ing from the effects of some narcotic. She immediately informed Mr. Burke, the master of the union, and a surgeon was sent for, who attended the children until their decease. One died on Sunday last, and the other on Tuesday. Mary Ann Cave had told witness that she had given one child some decoction of poppies. The mother of the deceased child Cave, hav ing been cautioned by the coroner, said that about a fortnight since she sent for a large poppy-head, and put it into three pinta of water, which she boiled until the liquid was reduced to one pint. She gave two tea spoonsful to the child Burke on several occasions to make him sleep, because she wished to wean him, having to suckle both children. She gave the mixture openly in the house, and was recommended to do so by Catherine Bradshaw, one of the nurses. Mr. John Vale Osbury, of Silver-street, Enfield, surgeon, said the two children were brought under his notice on the 22d of March last. He attended daily till they died. He had opened their bodies, and found that Burke had died from inflammation of the bronchial tubes and lungs, anti Cave from inflammation of the pericardium. lie could not say that death was occasioned by the opiate taken. Verdict, in accordance with the medical testi mony, and the jury censured Catherine Bradshaw for having advised, and Mary Ann Cave for having ad ministered the poppy-water ; and they expressed their abhorrence of the practice of giving preparations of opium to young children for the purpose of preventing their being troublesome to the nurses. EDINBURGH -QUEEN'S DRIVE.—The gigantic en • terprise by which a carriage way is formed round Arthur Seat and Salisbury Crags is now on the eve of comple tion. The lowest part of the drive, namely, from St. Leonard's to Parson's-green, has been open for a consi derable time, and carriages pass daily, either for pleasure or for the easy access which is thereby obtained to the (_)lit town f rom P or t o b e ll o r o ad, and vice versa. The higher p7tion, which extends from the further end of It ,, s-walk to Samson's Ribs, is in most places quite finished, but rock had Very 1 ,, ,h , the ascent from the walk is still in a other places ha . d (.3 be displaced, while ', a ki n... ~?, ~,Alte. The great obstacles presented in Ribs a . V a t. e: a r.u y rtoa fr o nu m nt a e b d o . ve li D o u n d d t e li r r o ig u s s to m ne ass t e o s S of am na so ti n v ' e s the road, altho te be parapet wall from twenty to y abyss, is now filled with mounds portion i great chasms at ugh „ emingly a oun sof earth ; but as safe as a n terrace above a deep of the drive. A side, inclose% this part, and wtl.lilly feet high on the out consequences which might ensueprfevent any dangerous near the .precipice. Immediatel from horses going too the road is all excavated, and th!c *' ,3 aose Samson's Ribs between it and the fine crescent round etin- link formed —Caledonian Mercury. Salis bur y Crass, MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--On Saturday morning, the the 25th ult., at a few minutes p as t s i x o clock asg, young man, Peter Littlejohn, 24 year s o f age, a of the parish of Birse, employed in one of the saw-mills on the Inches, was in the act of stopping the circular saw at which he wrought, he incautiously took hold of the shaft, and part of his clothes becoming entangled, dragged his head down on the saw, by which it was almost cut in two. He has left a wife and two children. —Eigin Courant. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT.----Gloucester, April 10. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice MtULE and Special Juries.) CHRISTY AND OTHERS V. PONTELL, PIDGEON, AND OTHERS. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Gray were Counsel for the plaintiff; ; Mr. Whateley and Mr. Selfe for the de fendant Pidgeon. The plaintiffs ' as trustees of the London Joint-stock Bank, recovered judgment for the sum of 2,0031. 2s. Bd., damages and costs, on the 25th of August, 1843, against Walter Scott, the public officer of the Newcastle-upon- Tyne Joint-stock Banking Company. In January, 1846, that company suspended payment, and the present suit was a proceeding by scare facias upon the judgment against the defendants as shareholders in it. The test of the writ of scare facias was the 6th November. Powell allowed judgment to go by default. Pidgeon, who alone appeared now by counsel to defend the action, pleaded " that he was not, nor is he now, a member of the company, in the manner and form as in the declaration alleged." The plea of the other defendants was to the same effect. The main question in the cause was whether Pidgeon was a shareholder. On behalf of the plaintiffs, a transfer of 250 shares in the Newcastle Bank, in the month of September, 1843, to Pidgeon, by one Thomas Richardson, an original shareholder, and vs hich transfer was signed and sealed by him (Pidgeon), was given in evidence. Upon this trans fer the name of Pidgeon was entered and registered in the books of the bank as shareholder ; and it was proved that three dividends were actually paid on his written authority. His name appeared in the register of share holders lodged at Somerset-house, under the 7 George IV., cap. 46, and it still appeared on the books of the bank as that of a shareholder. The deed constituting the company was put in, and it contained the following clause:—" That every person to whom shares shall be transferred, and who shall not then be a member of the company in respect of any other shares, shall, as to all duties, obligations, claims, and demands upon or against him in respect of such shares, be considered a member of the company from the time of the same shares being so transferred or so becoming vested in him ; but as to all profits and rights, privileges and benefits to arise from the same shares, such persons shall not be consi dered as a member until he shall have executed the deed of settlement, or some other deed of accession thereto." It appeared that Pidgeon had not executed the deed of settlement, or any deed of settlement thereto. On the close of the plaintiff's case, WHITELEY submitted that as the defendant (Pid geon) had not executed the deed of settlement, and that deed deprived all mere transferees who had not executed it of all right to the profits of the company, and various cases had decided that a community of profit was essen tial to constitute a partner, Pidgeon was not one, and consequently the issue, member or not member, should be found for him. Mr. Justice MAULE said that this company was not a corporation, or constituted under any Act of Parliament, but in effect an ordinary partnership, and although con stituted by deed, there was nothing to prevent the com pany from coming to any new agreement they pleased, by parole, to vary the terms of the partnership; and that although the deed might have had the effect of prevent ing Mr. Pidgeon from having zny claim to receive a share of the profits of the company as between the members themselves, yet when the company dispensed in practice with the effect of the deed, and allowed him to receive his share of the profits, and to be registered both in their own books, and in the public register at Somerset house, as a shareholder, it did not lie in the mouth of Mr. Pidgeon, or of the company, as against the public, or those persons who might give credit to the company, to set up the terms of the deed, or to say that he was not a shareholder. He felt not the smallest doubt upon the subject, and he should direct the jury accordingly. His LORDSHIP then told the jury that the question for them was whether, upon the evidence before them, they were of opion that the defendants, or any of them, were members of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint stock Bank ing Company. Mr. ‘S.' HATELEY said he should except to this ruling, on the ground that his Lordship should have told the jury that, upon the evidence before them, they could not find a verdict against Mr. Pidgeon. The question was one of the greatest possible importance, and in reality involved a Mil of upwards of 200,0001, and would be. if neces sary, brought before the highest court in the realm. The jury then found for the plaintiffs against all the defendants. The biil of exceptions is to be drawn up hereafter. PARRATT V. LAMBERT. ..... - This was an action by a London advertising agent against the defendant as provisional committeeman of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and Northern Railway Company, to recover the sum of 6401. for advertising the prospectus of that company in divers newspapers. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Phipson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Godson and Mr. Pigut for the defendant. The evidence of the defendant's liability was, that he was a member of the provisional committee up to the 16th of September, 1845, when they appointed a manag ing committee. The defendant being displeased at not being placed on the managing committee, stated then, to one of the directors, that he would not attend again, and did not attend again at any meeting, though he occasionally called to hear how matters were going on. Some orders, to the extent of 1481., had been given for advertisements up to the 16th of September, 1-y the Secretary of the company, in pursuance of directions given at preliminary meetings, at which the defendant was present. Those for the residue were given after that day. The def,.ndant had not sent in a formal Mr.o resig nation. oosoN having addressed the jury for the de fendant, and His LORDSHIP having summed up, The jury retired for about ten minutes, and then re turned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 148/ This was the last of the special jury cis( s. The following case was tried before a common jury:— FERREBEE 7). PONTING Mr. Godson and Mr. Greaves were counsel f,r the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Gray for the de fendant. The action was for an assault. The defendant pleaded only that he committed the assault in his own defence. The plaintiff is an ironmonger at Stroud, in this county, and the defendant a butcher. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 40s. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE Josiah Gregory arid Edward Bynes were put to the bar to answer to an indictment, which charged that a certain die with the impression of a lion passant being used by the Company of Goldsmiths of the city of Exeter, for the purpose of stamping and marking silver wares, they had, at the parish of St. Andrew, in the city of Bristol, feloniously counterfeited the said die, and had in their possession divers silver spoons stamped with such counterfeit die. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Jr. Whateley, and Mr. Gor don, appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Greaves and Mr. Ings for Gregory, Bynes being and Mended. It appeared that the prisoner Gregory, who was about fifty years of age, had carried on business for nearly fifteen years in Bristol as a respectable silver. smith, and that Bynes, who was an old man about seventy, had been his foreman and shopman. The motive imputed to them for the forgery in question was, a wish to avoid the payment of the small duty payable on having their silver wares properly marked with the die of the Goldsmiths' Company, within whose jurisdiction they were. A policeman, who went to arrest the prisoners, found in Gregory's house a box containing a punch, a piece of brass, and various other implements of forgery, and some silver spoons. Some of the spoons were marked with the counterfeit die, and the mark on those which had the genuine stamp was slightly defaced, or, as it was called, guttered. A young man, who had been formerly an apprentice to Gregory, and who appeared to-day to be in the last stage of con sumption, swore that he had been in the habit of seeing for years silver spoons, and other silver ware stamped by the prisoner with the die used by the Company of Goldsmiths of the city of Exeter. It appeared that the impression was taken off a genuineiy-stamped spoon, and transferred to the spoons sold by Gregory, in somewhat the same manner as the Post-of f ice authorities were said to have taken the impressions off the seals of letters, and so made Lew seals to reproduce the same impressions. The apprentice swore that Gregory was in the habit of carrying the box found by the policeman up stairs every night, and of bringing it down every morning, and that it usually contained nearly the same articles that were found in it by the policeman. This witness admitted, on cross-examination, that he had been discharged by Gre gory. It appeared iu evidence that the die used by the Exeter Company of Goldsmiths had, besides the lion passant, three other mysterious symbols. At the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. GREATER submitted that there was a variance between the allegations in the indictment and the evi dence, inasmuch as the indictment described the die as bearing only a hots passant, whereas the die proved in evidence had three other marks in addition to the lion. Mr. WHATELY had no objection to the point, if there was anything in it, being reserved. His LORDSHIP reserved it. Mr. GREAVES then addressed the jury for Gregory, contending that they could not rely on the evidence of the apprentice, who was an accomplice at the least, even according to his own statement, and was altogether un corroborated, and was, moreover, hostile to Gregory for having dismissed him. Several witnesses spoke highly of the good characters formerly borne by both prisoners. Mr. WHATELEY having replied for the Crown, and his LORDSHIP having summed up, The jury, after five minutes' deliberation, found both prisoners Guilty, but recommended them to mercy. On the prisoners being called on in the usual manner to say why the Court should not pass sentence upon them according to law, Bynes said that he had been already very severely punished, having been frost-bitten in his hands and feet during the severe weather of the last winter, from the coldness of the cell in which he was confined at Bristol. His LORDSHIP, after severely animadverting on the cruelty of such treatment to a prisoner, sentenced Gre gory, to eighteen and Bynes to twelve calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labour. There are still 13 Crown and 12 Nisi Prius cases un tried, and it is probable that the business will not be over before Wednesday. The Nisi Prius Court cannot sit beyond that day, as the distringases are returnable on Thursday, the first day of term. The B e ll e i i l e Transport, with the 16th Regiment, arrived at C orfu, on the 24th of March. The mortality amongst lambs in this county during the pre sent season has been of serious consequence. We have heard of one farmer losing as many as 100, and another 90. It is remarkable that whilst this has been going on in liert,fordshire, in the southern counties of England the lambing season has been particularly favourable, healthy, and prolifie.--lierciord Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK. IVitliain _Hutchinson, a waiter at the Bridge House Hotel, Low on-bridge foot, Southwark, was charged be fore Mr. Sucker with stealing a reticule and pocket handkerchief, dropped by a lady in one of the rooms of that establi iihment. It appeared that on the previous night a ball and sup per took place at the hotel. In the course of the even ing a whiter hankerchief was missed by one of the com pany, and the waiters were questioned by the prop r i e t or on the subject, when they all denied any knowledge of it. At a later period of the evening a lady dropped her reticule in the supper room, and although every inquiry was again :made of the waiters, nothing could be heard of it. The proprietor, however, when the company de parted, called in a policeman, when on th e p r i soner being searched, both the reticule and handkerchief were found in bis possession. The prisoner said the reticule was dropped in the ball-room, and on seeing it he picked it up and put it in his pocket. Ile denied that h e h a d been asked about the things , and said that things found on such occasions were considered " waiter's perquisites." The Magistrate, doubting the truth of that assertion, the prisoner assured him that things so dropped were considered so by waiters generally, unless they were claimed by the owners, or asked fur at the time. Mr. SEeKER said the line of defence set up by the prisoner greatly aggravated the offence with w hi c h h e was charged, and he committed him t) prison for one month, with hard labour, for the unlawful possession of the property. The prisoner exclaimed against tho decision, saying that he considered lie was hardly dealt with, f or on ly doing that which others in his situation were in the habit of doing without punishment. The MAGISTRATE said it should go forth, then, to waiters, that they rendered themselves amenable to the law if they appropriated property they found to their own purposes. WANDS TT William FrQderick Beadon, Esq., of the Bedford Circuit, took his seat on Saturday upon the Bench, as the successor to George Clive, Esq., who has been appointed Judge of the Southwark County Court. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. THE HEALTH. OF TOWNS BILL. On Saturday, at the meeting of the Mary lebone Vestry, the Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair, The Rev. CHAIRMAN said he had to bring before the vestry a subject which was of vast importance to the country—he meant the Bill which had been introduced into Parliament by Government for the Improvement of the health of Towns in England. It would be remem bered that the vestry had appointed a committee to con- sider the provisions of the Bill, and they had now pre. pared their report, which the vestry•clerk would read. Mr. FLOOD then read the following report to the vestry:— " St. Marylebone, April 9th, 1147. " At the committee appointed to take into considera tion the Bill now in Parliament, intituled, A Bill fox Improving the Health of Towns in England,' " Present—The Rev. Dr. Sory in the chair, Mr. M•Evily-, Mr. John Williams, Mr. Henry Charles Wil son, Sir James John Hamilton, Bart., Mr. Michie, Mr. Joseph, Mr. Powell, Mr. Calder, Mr. Armson, Mr. Ball, " Your committee beg to report to the vestry that they have taken into their serious consideration the provisions of the Bill referred to them, and are unanimously of opinion that the Bill is calculated to destroy the right enjoyed by the people of England from the earliest period of conducting their local affairs; that it great!) extends the baneful principle of centralization, is subver sive of the principles of representation, as secured by Hobhouse's Vestries Act, and is calculated to anni • hilate the powers heretofore exercised by the vestry of Mary le bone. " Your committee, therefore, unanimously recommend to the vestry that the most strenuous and unqualified opposition be offered to this obnoxious measure, and that the other metropolitan parishes be immediately com municated with, with a view of strengthening and orga nizing an opposition which may be effectual in defeating the proposed invasion, at least en far as the metropolis is concerned. (Signed) "J. HUME SPRY, Chairman. JOHN APEVILY, A. MICHIE. JOHN WILLIAMS, FRANCIS CALDER, EDWARD JOSEPH, GEORGE DANIELL, JACOB BELL, JAS. J. HAMILTON, THOMAS POTTER, CHARLES lIARBUT." THOMAS POWELL, Mr. G. DANIELL moved the adoption of the report. He was happy to inform the vestry that the opposition to this Bill was unanimous, and most determined. — (Hear, hear.) Should it pass into a law, it would rob the country of its right of representation, deprive them of control over all their local funds, and even their charitable institutions. According to the provisions of the Bill a central board was to be appointed, who would possess all control over the commissioners and the funds, so that while every responsibility rested upon the shoal ders of the commissioners, who should be men possessing 5,0001., they would be quite powerless as far as the disposal of the parish funds were concerned, for the Bill completely annihilitted Hobhouse's Acts, and the prin ciple of local government.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. H. C. WILSON, in seconding the motion, said it was impossible for centralization and representation to co-exist. Those two principles were so antagonistical that they could not work together. The same men who concocted the disgraceful and degrading New Poor-law Bill, which had given such universal and unqualified dis gust to the country, and which proved a decided failure in every respect, also prepared this messure, so impro. pc rly called " The Health of Towns Bill."—(Hear, hear.) they were all of the Chadwice school, of whom William Cobbett said it was an unfortunate occurrence that he eves ever allowed to interfere with the laws and liberties of the c , untry.—(Hear, hear.) The object of thie Health of Towns Bill was manifest. It was to take all the remaining power from the people, and centralize it it the hands of a board appointed by and who were the creatures of the Government. Sir PETER LAURIE denounced the Bill as a base at. tempt on the part of the Government to rub the people of the last remnant of their liberty. Ile assured the vestry that the city of London were already on the alert in this matter, and would assert their right and go to the Queen for the purpose of inducing her Majesty not to allow so obnoxious a measure to become the law of the land.—(Hear, hear.) What Mr. Wilson had said about this measure being one of that class which might justly be termed of the Chadwick school of legislation was quite correct. Why, it was well known that Mr. Chadwick went to Belgium and Germany to see the workings of tyranny there, that they might introduce a similar system into England. — (Shame.) This was no Health of Towns Bill at all, but a mere subterfuge to create influence and place and pa tronage for the Government. Only yesterday he (Sir P. Laurie) met a friend of his, a Commissioner of the Westminster Sewers, and on asking him if they did not mean to oppose this measure, he replied, " We are ap pointed by the Crown, and how can we, as officers of the Crown, oppose our own masters?”—(Laughter.) He (Sir P. Laurie) could only say that the Commissioners o; Sewers of the City and the Tower Hamlets meant to oppose it, and he hoped every commissioner and parish in the kingdom would do so.—(Hear, hear.) Sir JAMES HAMILTON said, without any reference to what party it might be who had introduced the measure, whether it be Whig or Tory, he viewed it as a most tyrannical invasion on popular rights, and as such he felt bound to give it his determined opposition, and he roost cordially, therefore, joined in the report of the committee. Mr. JOSEPH denounced the Bill as a tissue of the grossest absurdities that were ever suggested for the im provement of the public health. Amongst its provisions were the following:—ln the first place there was to be an office of health—(Laughter) —streets to be managed; also crossings and scavenging; order houses to be white washed—(Laughter)—no interment to take place less than two feet six from the surface; to prevent noxious businesses, and compel manufactories to consume their own smoke—(Laughter)—to approve of places for pub lic meetings; menas s ement of cellars for letting or not; regulation of lodging-houses, which are to be registered cleansed, and ventilated; lighting streets, and supplying water by public cisterns; to provide slaughtering-houses and license them ; to affix penalties for having chimneys on fire ; commissioners may provide engines, firemen, and plugs, and affix rewards ; to provide places of public recreation, public bathing places, and public drying grounds ; payment of rates ; and to provide public clocks.—(Renewed laughter.) In fact the Bill was to provide for everything but that which its title really in dicated.—(Hear, hear.) It was altogether a complete piece of Irish legislation ; for, while it ordered the votes to be taken by ballot, it directed that each person should subscribe his name to the voting paper, and that the papers should be left a month for inspection, so that it might be ascertained how the votes were given. Mr. GEORGE DANIELL said there was 'not one word in the Bill about light and air—two necessary things to ensure health. The CHAIRMAN considered that it conceive a more ob nox i ous me asure, which took a wa y even the right of a pp ea l. If the surveyor ordered gentlem an ' s mansion, i n t e rnally or exter nally,change in a was impossible to and persist e d i n i ts necess ity, there was no appeal , and the building wou ld h ave t o be altered according to his order.—(Sh ame .) The report was unan i mous ly adopted and a committee appointed to wat c h and oppose the B ill, and to call on all the other m e t ropo li tan par i s hes to co-operate in that object. ELECTION or Cuuncrievenoress. -- The following gentlemen were appointed churchwardens and sidesmen for the ensuing veer :—Crown churchwarden and sides man, the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon and George Spencer Smith, Esq. ; parish churchwarden and sideman, Mr. John Williams and Mr. James Nisbet ; St. Mary's, Richard Adams,Skypre" and Mr. Thomas Potter ; All Daly r, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wing field ; Christchurch, Est 1., Admiral , Souls, Robert and Mr. Richard Hickman ; Trinity, Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Ben j amin Halph. After som e routine business the vestry se parated. ------------- ANOTHER SECEDER THROUGH YRACTARIANISM TO P . O PERY. —lt is r umoure d that an Iris h g entleman, son in-law of a Noble Earl, and who made himself very con spicuous last year by his advocacy of reproductive la bour, is about to add his name to the list of perverts to the Romish Church. Ills bias tow ards popery has for some time shown itself by the support invariably given to the Roman Catholic candidate for any office in the disposal of which he had a voice, no matter how well qualified the Protestant competitor. Having lately, as foreman of the Grand Jury, a sum of it money for distri bution to charitable societies, he gave all to the Romish charities of the assize town, t hough there are several most meritorious Protestant charities in it. To crown all, he appeared in the crowded streets on the Monday before Easter with palm in his hat—a melancholy exhi bition truly I—Church and State Gazette. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL B.—The most lamentable feature in the reports from the country this morning is the increas ing disorganization and the more frequent occurrence of sanguinary crimes. Some very shocking murders are reported—one connected with the land eviction system —another in which the possession of a small sum of money was the object. This latter is a description of crime hitherto very rare in Ireland. There is also an account of an attempt—fortunately unsuccessful—to murder a magistrate in the county of Limerick. There are again more heart-rending reports of the ravages of famine in some southern and western counties. - The accounts of the progress of tillage continue to be favourable from most parts of the country, and this is almost the only gratifying and hopeful feature in the state of the country. Drainage works on an extensive scale are also undertaken in various counties. Land- lords, in many more cases, are suppl) ing seed to their tenantry. The reports of the grain crops are highly encouraging. The northern agricultural reports state that the young wheats are making great progress, that the breadth of land sown with oats is much beyond an average, and that the better class of farmers are prepari:,g to put down a greater quantity of turnips, parsnips, and other green crops than usual. Notwithstanding the perils attending such a crop, a considerable brearithof potatoes has been planted, chiefly by large farmers or country gentlemen; but the culture of potatoes has been abandoned almost entirely by the small occupiers. In consequence of the refusal of several relief com mittees to undertake the duties assigned to them under the Temporary Destitution Act, the Relief Commission ers, it is stated, are determined to avail themselves of the powers conferred by the Act in re- constituting com mittees in the various localities where this very dis graceful conduct has been practised. STATE OF THE PROVINCES. From the northern division of Tipperary, the Dublin Evening Post contains the following very gratifying report : " NENAGII, APRIL 6.—The relief committees in this locality, twenty in number, are forming, and all goes on well under the admirable arrangements of Mr. Hatchell, inspector, whose kind and gentle deportment endears him to all classes. American flour is rapidly pouring into us every day from Limerick and Waterford. India❑ meal has fallen 61. per ton. The farmers are busily em • ployed, and every effort made to cultivate the land. Our excellent countryman, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., freighted a vessel at Glasgow, and brought over 1,2001. worth of seed oats, which his active and intelligent agent, Mr. Walker, is distributing amongst his tenantry on the Ormonde estates. Thus are we going on with the good work. All is tranquil here ; order is restored, and the country, I earnestly hope, will soon prorper." The following most heart-rending report of destitution appears in the Waterford Chronicle:— " DUNGARVAN, APRIL 5. —To whatever direction you turn you are appalled by the most direful starvation, and shocking dk aths. In the rural parts, the poor are lying like rotten sheep ; in fact, they are melting down into the clay by the sides of the ditches ; no roof to shelter them from the cold or wet of the night, no hand to relieve them, or reach a drink to the gasp ing, dying person. During last week, six or seven persons were found dead on the road sides, in the vicinity of this town. The bodies remain for whole weeks in those places unburied. Fever and dyr.entry are spreading here to an alarming extent, so much so that our venerated and zealous pastor, Doctor llally, ever alive to the spiritual and temporal wants of his flock, lost no time in procuring the assistance of two additional curates. What extraordinary fortitude and zeal the Catholic priest must possess to support him in the faithful discharge of so important and dangerous a duty !" " KING'S COUNTY. PARSONSTOWN WORKHOUSE, APRIL 7.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. Stack, the respected master of the workhouse of this union ; he died this morning of fever, after an illness of only about a week's duration ; and we are also deeply concerned to learn that Mr. Richard Robinson, the clerk of the union, has also been dangerously ill of fever for about the same length of time." LITIGATION. The Dublin Evening Post gives the following very gloomy picture of the condition of trade in Ireland:— " We hear, on all sides, of the increase of litigation in the Civil Bill Courts throughout the country. The num ber of processes for rent—a cheap and convenient mode of clearing estates'—and for small sums on I 0 U's, passed for meal and other necessaries, have increased to an enormous extent. But in the higher courts, also, we are likely to have a vast amount of litigation. 'We are assured, by a correspondent, that already nearly two thousand writs have been issued from the Court of Queen's Bench alone for the term which commences next week. Another very significant fact has been communi cated by the same correspondent. Judges' fiats, to the number of six daily, on the average, are issued against absconding debtors. In ordinary years, perhaps, the number would riot exceed twenty for the twelve months. We mention these facts as they have reached us, and we rear that the information is too true. They afford la . mentable evidence of the effects upon trade of the pro- Tacted sufferings of the country. The shopkeepers and small traders, in all parts of Ireland, have been utterly paralysed. The large wholesale houses in Dublin and in other large towns have, from prudence and necessity, greatly limited their operations. In fine, business is at a stand, and the constant Cry is. There is no money to be had.' Most happy should we be to press nt a less unfavourable report; but, for the present at least, facts will not warrant us in doing so. One thing satisfactory and creditable to the parties we can siatii, namely, that amongst the wholesale hous a, gen. rAly, there is great fOrbearance. The struzgling shopkeeper is not forced to extremities; and, consequently, notwithstanding the unparalleled severity of the pressure, there are compa• ratively few bankruptcies or even compositions." ATROCIOUS AND VINDICTIVE MURDERS. Monday morning, about eight o'clock, immediately titer three policemen had left the house of Philip liouri 4an, at Ball)cullen, near Glen-Bevan, in this county, for their station at Ctoom, three armed men entered his habitation in search of Hourigan, who, fortunately for nimself was out, having gone a little before to the house a brother, about three or four fields off. The in truders turned upon his wife, as she sat by the fire to prepare breakfast, and deliberately fired at her, inflicting mortal wound in her breast. Not content with this barbarous deed, they struck the dying woman on the head with their guns, until she lay apparently dead upon the floor. They next turned into a room where the son of the unhappy couple lay on a sick bed, and dragged the lad, about eighteen years of age, about the house, and then commanding him to stand against the bed-post, another shot was levelled at him, which entered his head, ind he fell at once an easy victim before his murderers. Having glutted their vengeance by the immolation of mother and son, these ferocious miscreants departed, re gretting they had not got the husband and father, to complete the tragic spectacle. Hourigan's little daughter would assuredly have been the third victim, as they were determined to spare no human being in the house to tell the catastrophe, only that she, providentially, was in the out-offices milking the cow for her pcor mother. This little girl came in as the murderers departed, and saw them going off, but unperceived by them, and sus pecting no harm, the first objects she beheld inside he ther door were her mother in the a gonies of death, and brother a naked corpse ! The affrighted child gave the alarm, but before any friend or neighbour came in Hou rigan's wife breathed her last. The distracted father soon found his peaceful home the abode of desolation and mourning—his wife and son in one half hour mangled and bloody corpses, and no one to point out the accursed murderers, or trace their route, though seen to pass the river Maigue, after the satanic outrage, and without any disguise on their persons. The afflicted and persecuted man, Philip Hourigan, at last assizes, brought to convic tion four persons for having in November, 1846, attacked his dwelling by night, and assaulted him barbarously in the presence of his wife and children. They broke his skull. These fellows were ;sentenced to seven years' transportation, the judge having first designed to double that penalty, so gross did the outrage appear to him. Hourigan's life was threatened since this prosecution, and the magistrates found it requisite to have police in the house at night for his protection. But the unfortu nate man was doomed by those who regard not law or mercy, and watching the departure of the police on the above morning, the murderers accomplished their in fernal purpose, and as they could not sacrifice Hourigan, they butchered in cold blood those most dear to him, the unoffending mother and son.—Limerick Chronicle. BARBAROUS MURDER.—On Monday night a most cruel and savage murder was committed in the county Kilkenny, at a place called Bishop's Hall-gate, within about three miles of this city. The murdered man was a steward of Mr. Milward's, and was proceeding from Waterford to his own home, at Ballynamorahan, where he was attacked. It appears that he left this city about six o'clock on the previous evening, and when within half a mile of home he called at a public-house kept by a man named John Halligan. He left Halli gan s at nine o'clock, and went in the direction of his own house ; but when within forty perches of it he was attacked and murdered.' He was found on Tuesday morning, and his head and face were so mutilated that he was only identified by his clothes. He was robbed of 41. Walsh was a most inoffensive and peaceably-dis posed man. No trace of the murderers has yet been discovered.— Waterford Freeman. ATTEMPT TO MURDER JOSEPH WALLPLATE, ESQ., J . P CASTLE•CONNELL —TIuS day (Wednesday), at about half-past eleven, as Mr. Wallplate was pro ceeding to a farm of his, near Woodlands, from which he had dispossessed the late tenants a few days ago, be was attacked by tato men, armed with pistols, near Doonas. The men jumped over a wall on the road, and Mr. Wallplate, seeing their intent of attacking him, seized one of them and tore the coat from his back. He then seized a large stone and threatened the other, when two shots were fired at him. One took effect under the left breast, the other hit him somewhere in the face. Doctors Griffin and Kidd, who were visiting the Rev. Mr. Sconlan, who is in fever, passed about ten minutes after the occurrence. Mr. Wallplate was taken across the river to his own residence. The police went in pur suit of the assassins.—Limerick Examiner. MONSTROUS HAVOC.—About 1,500 pauper labourers entered the town of Gort, on Monday, and paraded the streets, exclaiming, occasionally, they should have "blood or bread," to the great horror of the inhabitants. They eventually retired without any outrage on person or pro perty ; but their threats were not idly meant, for during the night 154 sheep, the property of William Lahiff, Esq., of Gort, at pasture, near the lands of Bunnahort, were killed, and carried away ! On Tuesday morning Head-Constable M`Carthy, of Gort, arrested seven of the suspected principals in this daring onslaught upon private property.—Limerick Chronicle. THE CORN MARKETS—IMPORTS. NEWRY, APRIL 7.—The reaction in the article of Indian corn meal continues, and the price is now 14s. 6d. per cwt. for both descriptions of white and yellow. Wheat, oats, flour, oatmeal, &c., remain without altera • lion, LIMERICK, APRIL 7.—The Pool is almost in a state of blockade with shipping. while several large vessels are at anchor at Tarbert, Foynes, Beil ; li CaAtle, Grass Island, &c., unable, owing to their great burthen, to get a berth at the quay. Since Saturday last 28 vessels arrived in the Shannon, laden with Indian corn, wheat, flour, meal, and beans for this port, from Vianna, An cona, Marseilles, Alexandria, Boston, Genoa, Trieste, Valencia, Seville, Malta, New York, Smyrna, Corunna, besides the Channel Forts. Messrs. J. N. Russell and Sons, who first lowered the market prices in Limerick, have further reduced the price of Indian meal to 151. per ton. Quantity of " bread-stuffs" imported to Limerick in the last week :-19,300 quarters Indian corn, 9,500 barrels and sacks of flour and meal, 900 quarters of wheat, 1,000 quarters rye, 1,356 quarters beans, and 1,100 bags rice, besides seeds, &c. THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS AND THEIR PRETENDED BENEFACTORS. WAR OFFICE CIRCULAR. The Government have at length interfered to put a stop to the proceedirgs of certain individuals who usually take to themselves the credit of being the origi nators of almost every measure brought forward for the benefit of the service. The following is a copy of the circular issued on the subject froin the Horse-Guards, but, for obvious reasons, the name of the individual more particularly referred to is omitted:— " War-office, April 1, 1847. " Sir,—l am directed to state that the Secretary• at• War has observed, with considerable surprise, a circular purporting to he on behalf of the Newcastle pensioners, suggesting a subscription being made for a person of the name of , through whose ager_cy, it is alleged, the poundage on pensions has been removed. " The Secretary-at-War requests you will prevent any imposition of this kind on the pensioners, by ex plaining to them that the remission of poundage has in no respect emanated from the exertions of Mr. that the hardship of the deduction from the pensioners, in these severe times particularly, has been repeatedly brought under the consideration of the Secretary-at- War, and ultimately of her Majesty's Government, through the representations of the staff officers of pen sioners, which is the proper channel for the statement of all grievances, whether individually or collectively, on the part of those under their superintendence ; and that it is to this circumstance, coupled with the general good conduct of the pensioners themselves, and the readiness they have expressed on all occasions to perform the duty which her Majesty's Government have required of them, that they are indebted for this boon.—l am, your obe dient servant, " L. SULIVAN. To the Staff Officers of Pensioners, District." THE LATE GENERAL DROUOT. General Drouot, a year before his death, drew up a little memoir of his military career. We publish it here in its brief and noble simplicity, as a new trait of that character at once so modest and so pure, that Napoleon compared it to the more striking specimens of antique virtue. It will be seen by this memoir, that in the year 1823 Louis Philippe, at that time Duke of Orleans, offered to General Drouot the post of governor to his children. It will be seen also, that the General, unfortunately, leaves no more leng4hy memoirs relative to the great scenes of history in which he played a part, and disclaims beforehand everything that may be hereafter published n his name : " I was born at Nancy, 11th January, 1774, of poor parents, who earned by the sweat of their brow the bread of a numerous family; they made many sacrifices, and even submitted to many privations, in order to procure me the means of instruction. They endeavoured, above all, to inspire me with religious feelings, and to inspirit me with the love of industry and virtue. " I had just terminated my studies at the College of Nancy, when the wars of the revolution com menced, in the month of April, 1792. On the Ist of June of the following year I was admitted into the School of Artillery as Sous Lieutenant Cleve: A month afterwards (on the Ist of July, 1793), I was nominated Second Lieutenant in the Ist Regiment of Artillery, by means of a decree of the Convention, which gave this rank to the ten first eMves to be promoted. I then rose through the different ranks to that of General de Division, to which I was pro moted on the 3d of September, 1813. "I was nominated member of the Legion of Honour on the sth of August, 1804; Officer of the Legion at Wagram, and Commander of the Legion at Mos , kowa ; Grand Officer, the 23d of March, 1814 ; Great Cross the 18th of October, 1830; Baron of the Em pire, the 14th of March, 1810; Count of the Empire, the 24th of October, 1813 ; Peer of France, by Im perial decree of the 2d of June, 1815 ; Peer of France, by royal ordinance of the 19th of November, 1831 ; this last favour my state of ill health no longer allowed me to accept. " I have had the , good fortune to serve under men who encouraged, supported, and protected me; and I owe my advancement principally to the Generals Loriboisiere, Ebli, and Gassendi, and to my former colonel, General Parnety. The kindness they never failed to show me exercised the most favourable influence on my destiny : their memory will be dear to me, to my last breath. "I had served for several years in the Imperial Guard, when, on the 26th of January, 1813, the Emperor attached me to his person ai aide-de-camp. On the 3d of September following he gave me the supervision cf the Guard, with the title of Aide- Major of the Guard. The marks of esteem, confi dence, and affection which the Emperor never ceased to bestow upon me have been the pride and happiness of my life : they will remain for ever engraven on my heart, as well as the remembrance of the favours with which he overwhelmed me. • " After the abdication of Fontainebleau, the Emperor granted me the permission to accompany him to the Isle of Elba, of which he appointed me the governor. The year following he took me back to France with him : I was at his side at the battle of Waterloo. " The provisionary committee which was placed at the head of the Government after the second abdica tion of the Emperor nominated me Commander of the Imperial Guard. Under the important circum stances of the times, I looked upon it as the first of my duties to devote myself entirely to my country, and to shrink back from no personal sacrifice in order to contribute to its welfare. This duty appeared to me all the more imperious as I had myself taken a part in all the events which had brought about our unhappy position. In consequence, after having consulted the Emperor, who approved of my resolu tion, I accepted the command bestowed upon me by the Government; and I separated myself for the time from my benefactor, with the intention and the hope of joining him once more as soon as the country should have been saved. The events which followed destroyed my most dearly cherished hopes. I was left neither the consolation of endeavouring to miti gate the rigours of his captivity, nor the happiness of dying on the field of battle for the deliverance of my country. " Having been included in the ordinance of pro scription of the 24th of July, 1815, I left on the Ist of August the army of the Loire, in order to return to Paris and render myself up prisoner. On the 6th of April, 1816, I was taken from the prison of l'Abbaye and placed before a court-martial, which was to decide my fate. I was accompanied by my friend Baron Girod (de l'Ain), who defended gene rously and warmly my cause. I was declared not guilty,' and acquitted. " The next day Louis XVlll.isent for me to the Palace of the Tuileries. After having addressed me in the kindest manner, his Majesty gave orders that I should be immediately set at liberty. I set off shortly after for my native town, where ever since that period I have given myself up to the charms of a quiet private life. " I have refused to accept either the half-pay or the traitement en disponibilite that were offered me under the Restoration. This refusal arose from my fear of being obliged to return to active service, or to be placed in the necessity of taking up my rank and my duties, while my benefactor was languishing a captive upon a rock in the Atlantic ocean. I accepted, how ever, a retiring pension, which was offered me by the Government in recompense of my former military services. " During my retreat I endeavoured to write an historical account of the great events which passed before my eyes ; but my bad health, my utter blind ness, and, above all, my want of talent, forced me to give up an attempt which was beyond my powers; I threw my manuscript into the fire, and I entirely disavow everything that may hereafter be published in my name upon any events of the time, or any other subject. "In 1823, the King, who was then Duke of Or leans, offered me the post of governor to the young Princes his sons. So marked a proof of confidence and esteem has filled me with the deepest gratitude. But I did not venture to accept the important mis sion thus offered me, because I considered myself unable to fulfil it properly, as possessing neither the talents nor the qualities it would have required. " The return of the ashes of the Emperor, in 1840, fulfilled all my last hopes and wishes. Every day I bless that royal wisdom to which the country o wes this great act of reparation; and I return thanks to Providence that I should have been permitted the consolation of living to be a witness of this great event. " Arrived now at the term of my earthly career, I await in peace until it shall please the Lord to recal me to Him, and to admit me, as I hope, to that ever lasting dwelling, where those who have well loved, and well served their country will meet their recom pense. " GENERAL DROUOT. "Nancy, April 13, 1846." LEAMINGTON, APRIL 7.—The foundation stone of the Leamington Proprietary College was laid this after noon, by Dr. Jephson, amidst a large concourse of spectators. A grand public dinner took place in honour of the proceedings of the day, at the Regent Hotel, which was attended by upwards of oue hundred guests, offer whom Dr, Jephsou presided, STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL 9.—The demand for wool this week has been steady, and prices stationary. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, APRIL 9.—About an average business has been done in foreign wool during the past week, at recent rates. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL B.—Easter is generally a holiday week, in which little business is done, and we have no alteration to report from last week. LEEDS.—There has been some large deliveries of goods direct from the makers this week, but entirely of low qualities, for shipping ; but in the cloth-halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday, although there was a little more done in finer qualities, yet, on the whole, the markets: were of the same dull character as of late. Prices rule steady, and stocks are moderate. The cold weather, and the lightness in the money market, keeps the buyers from the market, and business has, in conse quence, been dull in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, APRIL B.—There is more in quiry for wool, owing to the increased production of yarns; but the spinners do not buy freely, as they anti cipate that the new clip will be purchased on easier terms. Short wools are in good request. and, being scarce, improve in price. The shipping houses are busy exporting yarns, and numbers of the spinners are em ployed to order, at a slight advance in price ; but the advance is neither of moment, nor general enough to render the trade profitable. B ,th, however, for home and export trade, yarns are in fair request. There has been an average market for dress piece goods, but we can report no advance in price. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had 4 very little business transacted either in goods or yarns since this day week, arising from the fact, that in gene ral neither manufacturers nor spinners will sell unless at an advance equal to those on the staple. Time only can determine which will first give way. The market closes very firmly at the rates current this day se'nnight. There are extensive orders from India and China, as well as from America. NOTTINGHAM.—No improvement can be reported as to this market, either in sales or prices. The silk glove branch is a shade better; the other branches are as pre viously stated. LEICESTER.—The market continues in a very inani mate state, and with the exception of a few shipping orders, there is little or nothing doing in either the country or town trade. The hosiers, having worked up their cotton stocks, are turning their attention to worsted goods, and owing to the distressed state of the yarn market, they are enabled to buy in for cash at extreme low prices, though no reduction is professedly made by the spinners. The American packet, due next week, is expected to bring in large orders, and its arrival is looked forwards to with anxiety. Woels keep their prices, and seem likely to do so.—Leicester Journal. RAILWAY SHARE IVIARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Arm, 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We cannot note any improvement in our share market to-day. The transactions are limited. The sales are—Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North-Western, Preference, 1 1 4 p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, dis.—East Lancashire, New (Scrip), 16s. 3d. p.—East Lincolnshire, 2 1% p.—Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston, 3 p. —Great Northern (Nos. 1 to 108,000), 3 / 4 dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 28s. 9d. p. —London and North-Western, 173—Ditto, Fifths, 13 p.-- Ditto, ditto, Quarters, New, 10 1 4 p.—London and South- Western (scrip), % dis.—Manchester and Leeds, R., 2% p. —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 2 dis.— Midland Stock, 113%—Ditto, New, 2% p.--North Stafford shire, 2 1 4 p.—Preston and Wyre, 3414—Ditto, Halves (A), 3T s p.—Shrewsbury and Chester, New (N.W.11.), 2" IN- - South-Eastern and Dover, 36 ex div.—Ditto (No. 4), Thirds, % p.—West Riding Union, 1 1 4 p.—York and Newcastle (late N. and D.), Preference, 3 p.—Demerara, 1% p. MANCHESTER, Aram 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 7-16 dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7% c. p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preferentials, 1 3-16 p.—East Lancashire, New (scrip), 1 / 2 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, % dis.—Great Northern, 11-16 dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 1 1 4 dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, 68—Manchester and Leeds, 32/. Shares (late Extension), 2 p.—Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 2% dis. —Manchester and Southampton, 18s. 3d.—North Stafford shire, 2% c. p.—Preston and Wyre, 34%—Ditto, Halves (A), 3 3 / 4 p.—Shropshire Union, 9-16 dis.—West Riding Union, 1 3-16— Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, % Eastern Counties, 184. LEEDS, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—A continuous decline in the value of all stocks has marked the little business done during the week, and the closing characteristic of the market is dulness, with prospect of still further depreciation. The sales are--• Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 173. 6d. dis.—East Lancashire, New, 15s. p.—Ditto, New Scrip, 15s. p.—Great Northern, 15s. di?.—Leeds and Bradford, 43 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 3 c. dis. —Ditto, Preference, 20s. p.—London and Brigh ton and South Coast, 51s.—Ditto, Fifteenths, 2s. p.—Maltoti and Duffield Junction, 3s. p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Hud. and Sheff.), 2 p.--- , Ditto, 321. Shares (late Ex.. tensions), 11. 18s. 9d. p.—Ditto, West Riding Union, 225. p• —North British, Halves, 14% —Ditto, Thirds, 40s. p.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 9s. p.—North Staffordshire, 2 Northern Counties Union, 40s. dis.—North-Western, 205 " dis.—York and North Midland, Preference, 8 1 h p. SHEFFIELD, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Manchester, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Shef f ield), 6 1 . c AI7I, Midland, New, 2 1 4 p.—North-Western, ch: Rotherham, and Goole, 11. dis.—West Riding Union , 1 A P . —Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, Is. 6d. dis. Sheffield, 'NEWCASTLE-UPON:TYNE, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The only sale is-North British, 32. HULL, APRIL 10. STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sates are-North British, Quar ters, 695. 6d.-1/itto, Extension (scrip), Bs. p.-Ditto, Thirds, 60s. 6d. cash-York and N ewcastle, Preference, 3 p.-Amber g tte, Nottingham, and Boston, 1%-Buckinghamshire, dis.-Fieetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 12s. 6d. North. Western, 18s. dis. -West Riding Union, 21s. p. EDINBURGH, Arm. 9. Srocx EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 271. I7s. Gil. -Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 18s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 271. 155.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. ls. Caledonian, 26/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 21. 55.-Caledonia n and Dumbartonshire, 2'. 24. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 39L bs. -Deeside, 31. 55.-Dunblane, Donne, and Callender, l , 95.-Dundee and Arbroath, 42/. 10s.-Ditto. New, No. 1, 301_-Ditto, New, No. 2, 301.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 41. 15 5,; -Dundee and Northern Junction, 2/. Bs.-Dundee apu Perth, 38/.55.-Ditto, New, 191.-East of Fife, 2/. 1 6 / 1 . -- East Lothian Central, 2/. 175.-Edinburgh and Bathgat e ' 6/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 711. 15s. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 19/. 102. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 17/. 15s. ex clif -Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 20/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Pre' ference, 211.-Ditto, New, 2/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters, 1 45 ' 9d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 161.-Ditto, New, 3/. 1 85 * -Ditto, Newport, 7/. 7s. 6d.-Ditto, ditto, New, 2/. 11s. Edinburgh and Perth (New), 3/. 45.-Ditto, Halves, 11. 3f• 6d.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 61/. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 381.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1,5/. 55.-Ditto, ditto, No. 2, Ditto, Quarters, 151. 15s -Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car' lisle, 5/. 155.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391.-Glasgow Genera l Terminus, 121. 55.-Glasgow and Greenock, 181.-Ditt ° ' Halves, 91.-Ditto, Preference, 81.55.-Glasgow, Kilmarnoc k., and Ardrossan, 5/. 18s.-Great North of England, 2321. 1 01 * -Great North ,:f Scotland, 21. I Is.-Great Northern (late Direct Northern), 31. Bs.-Ditto (late London and York)' 2/. 155.-Manchester and Leeds, 1031.-Ditto, Sixteenth s '.b Si. 55.-Newcastle and Berwick, 26/. 155.-North 33/. ex div.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters,' 3/. 175.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 1/. ss. 6d.-Ditto, Thirds, 3/. 73.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 155.-Scottish Central , 221. 12s. 61-Scottish Grand Junction, 1/. 3s. 6d.-Scot tish Midland, 201. 155.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 125. 6u -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 10/.-Ditto, Ne l4 :4 IL ls.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 4/. Is. 6d.-Stirling a n Midland, 2/. 75.-Wishaw and Coltness, 49/. 7s. 6d. ex dry': -York and Newcastle, 341. 155.-Ditto, New, 15/. 7s. O. -Ditto, Preference, 71. 10s.-Direct Bombay and Madill 45.-East Indian, Bs.-Great North of India, 3s.- re„SA G Southern of Madras, 35.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, is. 7u. GLASGOW, APRIL 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ayr and Gallows'' , 41s. 6d.-Caledonian, New, 455.-Direct Bombay and Air dras, 45.-East Indian, 7s. 3d.-East Lothian Central, h°' 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth (New Co.), 625.-Ditto, Halves' 225. 6d.-Glasgow General Terminus, 13X-Glasgow, . I S-D .. marnock, and Ayr, 37 V I -Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 38s.' Manchester and Southampton, 265.-Midland, Halves, 4k" Scottish Central, 22N -Wishaw and Coltness, 49%. NEW FISHING STATION.--We understand 0 20 . Freswick is about to commence operations immediatelP, on his estate at Nybster, parish of Canisbay, to clear s e c al and erect a pier called Summerbank Harbour, to be u oni " e as a fishing station. Mr. Oag is said to have b rit dlr. lessee, and has engaged the boats in the Auching trict.—John e Groat Journal. A model MODEL LODGING-HOUSE IN Si. GILES'S.- - - . this an j, lodging-house for the accommodation of the labouring classes has just been erected in George-street , St and is now ready for use. It is proposed by i simtihlaereevsetnatbloirsh,mheenptrse,swenhticohnewiallnstfroing the purposerthwith formed. in for which it is designed, to accommodate 100 labourer ° rer night, each of whom will have a separate sleeping place, with the use of a large living roo m , kitchen'store-room, washing-ro om , an d every convenience. Tbef whole to be fur n i s h e d to t h e occupants at the rate ° tourpence per night. Th e cost of the new build ie g o including 1,2701. paid for the site, has been 6,000/. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--A CASE OF ULCERATED P i tt. LEGS CURED BY HOLLO WAY ' S O INTMENT AND P ILLS. E x t rac t els - SO S. ter from Mr. W. K emp, 37, William-street, Edinburgh, dated for 10, 1840.—" Professor Holloway—Sir, I beg to inform you ail: oa five years I suffered dreadfully from a great number of 1 11 c e n c al both my legs, during which time I was attended by several mo d s, and men besides a dvice rio remedies recommended p urpose nIY Anir and I also had from Minto House, but all to n05..,t0 however, truly happy to say, I have got my legs as well as ever W _, were in my life by using your Pills and Ointment. (Signed):.of Kastp."—These Medicines are sold by all Druggists, and at pro fm-- Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Loudon. BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., Mrs. Richard Hunter, of BraysTri ck ' square, of a son. On the Eth inst., the lady of the Hon. W. A'Court IWO M.P., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., in Duchess-street, Portland-place , Slaughter, of a son. asi On the 9th inst., at Camberwell, the wife of Jeremiah w Pilcher, Esq., of a son. On the 9th inst., at Somers-place, Hyde-park-square/ the wife of 11. 11. Oddie, jun., Esq., of a daughte r. MARRIED. Tito / On the 6th inst., at Christ Church, Hull, Henry I c i e st Bourne, Esq., solicitor, Alford, Lincolnshire, to Mary , e' daughter of the Rev. John King, M.A., Hull. DIED. n Of On the 4th inst:, Horatio Duncan Read Bloomfield, it a Noah head Bloomfield, surgeon, Wapping, in the 2d y e "' his age. On the Ist inst., at Nice, Major-General George Craif ibri' late of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. On the 6th inst., in Torrington-square, Mrs. S. Adams; pf On the 6th inst., at Teignmouth, Devon, Harriet, relic" the late Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Phillips. , z , 4 411 On the 7th inst., Mr. Robert Carrell, of Ann Cottage, x'w Brixton, aged 73. Jose' On the Bth inst., at Durham-place, Lambeth, Jo ie pbine Henrietta, the lady of Major-General Philip lot ?J O On the 9th inst., in Cambridge-street, Hyde-Parst Marianne Thesiger, __ _ , -------- 112, 4 0. g London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 0.1,,,,jpe Strand, Printer, at The Bun Office, No. 112 , Strand, in the ~..,11 - 191 of the Savoy, In the County of iiiddleeea, Monday. iir7 1847. ~::, f;~ `-•, ~ ~~ •i ,~?';