The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

THE CURRENCY QUESTION, LETTER NO. X. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN Tllif. Sire--On a former occasion I was under the necessity of lecturing your correspondent, who persists in styling himself CURRENCY REFORMER, not for his partiality to his ! yi n Plan, of which he has given us a short outline in his last tatter, but for his erroneous definition of the word— M ONEY, and his gratuitous abuse and misrepresentation of the plans of others. I regret to say that, in his letters Published by you on th e 11th and 18th of thi s mon th, h e manifests no symptoms of amendment. In his letter of Yesterday, he says that " I. W. an 1 his friends" advocate a creme which, so far as it is explained, proposes an issue of Pal ' er '" whose only title to be called Money, is that which an Act of Parliament, a strong police, and a standing army, can Rite it —paper, which may sometimes require the sort of credit ris ilee tied by th e p a p er rou bl es o f R uss i a, which were recom mended to th e p a t r i ot i c acceptance of the good people of ,lOdessa by a general at the head of a l arge army , w h o s t oo d with lo a d e d muskets and fixed bayonets, ready to enforce his argu ment." W hat Does vonr corresp on d en t mean t o sa y, th a t paper o ed unde r th e sanct i on o f t h e I mper i a l P ar li ament of Great Britain and I re l an d, li m i te d b y t h e annua l amount of our -11ti en$ and every pound of which would be received in full NYthent of Twenty Shilling; at all our public offices—does he mean to say th a t suc h paper wou ld on l y b e l ega l tender at the b ° _,tt of th e b ayonet? H o knows very well, for I do not eileve that he is incpable of puttin two and two tgether, th a , $ even without an a act of Parliament g . such paper, o in this Pest, enlightened country, would b e d e facto a legal tender, e v en though it were not so, de j'ere. If he continues to in- V'ige in th ese m i srepresentations, I must continue to lecture rn occasionally. two As to tters his definition of Money, contained in the first of the spile to which I in referiine, I beg to inform him that one of these " constructed philosophers," who, in te „ of his assertioi respecting GOLD, that, " strictly speak r,c." noth.ny else is MONEY— " entertain the visionary, and i i °7l itts] almost incomprehensible theory," that, strictly speak -49, COLD ts not MONEY. trAs, theref ore , our premises are wide as the p o l es asun d er, i n i l 'etY speaking, we cannot both be C urrency R e f ormers. but 4 de tinition of MONEY i s , th at i t i s va l ue — G old, nothing 1,„ . I 'd, —and he ma i n t a i ns t h a t w h atever i s not value, but " l i f 'lgo of value, " strictly speaking, is not MONET." definition o f M oney i s, t h at i t is a sign of value, and I e?airitein that whatever is not a sign of value, but the value n9"1.1781, strictly speaking, is not MONEY. Accordin gi t o hi s t h eory , M oney, str i ct l y speak i ng, eeeer lea'"Y possesses an intri ns i c va l ue , an d t h e B ank N ote, secured r "'Y lane, mus t b e ma d e paya bl e i n G o l d, whenever presented I° ' Payment at the Bink of England. According to my theory, Money, strictly speakin7, does not be ""aeilv posses an intrinsic value, and the Bank Note ured by th e G oo d F a i t h o f t h e N at i on, is made receivable ever ywhere as a type, or representative, of value. is th It e s monetary s y s t em rests on t h e assumption, that money substance of all the good things comprised in that ono I°N, Wealth. MY syste m rests , as I t hi n k more securely, on the axiom, ,a Money is the type of the value of all the good things that constitute the wealth of the world. 1 . We had better, therefore, agree to travel each on his own th He, on the narrow guage lino of a Currency, limited by oe producti on o f G o ld ; I , on the broad guage line of a e e lirr neY, limited only by th e p ro d uct i ve power o f every .et of industry. • v er aught I know, these may be parallel lines, but they st art a „, "mu different points, and lead to different results, and awa re there are some switches to connect them, that I am not e w are of there is no danger of a collision. S e now that wee f der stand each other, let us avo id th e unp hil osop hi ca l course ZPutting our heads out of the windows of respective car- g e ss to ab use each other's theories. But our before my train cs,Zeds any further in its Course, I may as well say to " A ee-re Reformer," that if his definition of Money be the -ertect one, then our devotion to gold, which he says is the l tl e :," of our present dangerous position, is only "our reasonable i, bc e" and instead of being lowered by a repeal of the act of Itt rt, it ought to be raised to a loftier height, by a still more ho ,P6'ent act, compelling every Bank of Issue to biso all its ..88 exclusively on gold. I L A. to our friend "A Spartan," whose playful, and, perhaps, eZt critique on my railway simile has amused me not a little, h ut me remind hi m th a t an ill ustrat i on mey be faulty and b. PP, roPriase, though the doctrine it was chosen to illustrate be itectly sound and orthodox. t o !think, however, he must admit that if the Government were 1, 0 , down my trial line of a taxation currency, the country e a ,, 1 , 1(1 he amply supplied with money enough to circulate its ko - sith for years to come. It would at all events perfectly dioe''cuplish all that it was designed to accomplish, namely, to 2 1 2 the inhabitants of the United Kingdom with a currency 14'46501 to p a y a ll t h e i r taxes. B y and b ye I hope to show p o °4 „,, that my system of currency does not stop short of that s ec tion' T he so j us tly a d m i res . c ite regret that your "J. H." (not the original " J. H") as he says, essentially from the views I have already s• il led• This is rather s t range , as he says th a t I h ave anti the ed hi m i n pu bli s hi ng a portion of his scheme, namely, that ' Nt t axes of th e y ear b e t h e b as i s o f our legal paper circulation, 1:141;4(1 of the absurd and restricted limit fixed by Sir Robert to 8 act. When lie knows a little more of the way I intend I„otsePPly this principle, I think '.se will see that the legal tender 7 ,,0f my system will he practicably convertible into spe . cie. l ett lito adoptio n of the system advocated in my two previous tom s, would afford immediate relief to the commercial teO -14 nnity, and by removing that growing distiust which is th e ; Par ent of p an i c an d b an k ru pt c y, g i ve a f res h i mpetus to fec o ` Ado tnitahle energy of our merchants, and to the world %let! i ndustry of the masses of our people. The now notes gr eat b,e gradually i n t ro d uce d so as to prevent any su dd en elevation of prices. ite the first issue were to consist entirely of one pound notes, eh,eecinal amount of gold w ou ld soon b e w i t hd rawn f rom t : l ation and so incar rease the metallic reserve of the Bank Tbs al lay all o ur fes respecting the present drain of specie. toe° Co ntinental demand for gold could then be proriptly fo r t ,:. l h fact it wou ld a ff or d us muc h gratif i cation to supply it, es s hould soon discover that we hail enough, and to spare ; I t t l gn to supply our own wants, and the wants of all the world. ltb_ b as been objected by some, against the system which I valo -v acating, that it would create a great apprecia.ion in the ati t o f gold ; and, singularly enough, it has been objected by • t hsl it would create a great depreciation in the value at met a / . h e ix all deal first with the latter of these objections. It has etoeandatiOn in the silly idea, that if gold were no longer fit, 84 Money, it would lose east amongst the metals, that, in 11:n . , e no longer used as money, it mus t b ecome d ross, thtt'"l3 t not absurd to suppose th a t it i e t h e co i nage of gold it tel st l4 t he cause of its great val ue ?—lt s use as a me di um of tint 1 ,; (1 e is the effect, and not the cause of its value. We do i tata l . e diamonds, and many other valuable productions of 40 if :„as ston e y, and yet their i n t r i ns i c va l ue i s ma i nta i ne d cas te : the world were t o f o ll ow our examp l e i n adopting a hap " e 7 equally efficacious with, and far m ore econom i ca l tettioi"r Present golden one, th e i n t r i ns i c va l ue o f go ld wou ld alel4,nualtered. The master of th e m i n t i s no t t h e m i g h ty 11 4141 140 that many suppose, he cannot impart a value to the 'llye l Yhich it did not previously possess. The stamp with 2hce be • . . • ie o trupresses the coin is simply a certificate that it con :4, - ,.,corthiu__quantity of gold, or, silver, of a certain degree rki a e-es s. With a national paper currency, the value of the ,leit t ,, 4 " Metals would vary like that of all other commodities, •ch e ° g i 'veraed, like them, by the laws of supply and demand. ti4le. natio nal note bei ng th e on ly l ega l ten d er, wou ld a l one b e ' 4 tei n te. an unalter a bl e nom i na l va l ue, an d wou ld a l one b e ellneo-o,tntarying measure of tho relative valise of all other t The services of the mint mi g ht s till b e re t a i ne d . asteit'usnaith and s il versm i t h wou ld constant l y avail of these %N es, a s they do at present. If the consignee of a cargo of !N it was desired to invest the proceeds in gold, he would sea bars of gold, marked at the mint, to certify their tl4 T re In fact, under the new system, cotton and gold, P t "'I la merchandise • „etu d ,_ go , of every description and gold, 'oe "'" Convertible into each other at the pleasure of holders, le =e titt4 national being the adjuster of the relative value of hangeable commodities. 41364.1aY be th oug h t t h at I h ave wasted too much ti me i n k t cse t 7lfith the objection,. that a national paper currency would Peat depreciation in the value of gold ; but I nave 241 C --and am not easily diverted from my purpose— elitt - `f„ t 'c're I conclude this series of letters, I sh a ll no t l eave 4,iJeetions against my system se - much as a leg to stand on, °t help it if, like Withrington in Choy, chase— s " After their legs are smitten off, ti l tie k , 4 They fight upon their stumps." • Br et ' 3 g them to their fate, I must now proceed to deal with „,,cthiectiou, namely, tat if the system I am advocating - '7Pted, it would create a great appreciation in the ki la lste :: e. `ar g te o a l in a . W ell, what h arm if it did? Indeed, it is o that, a natural paper curren c y would greatly l O'cti; Price of gold in England, as it would enhance the 1 it teoe , eve ry other article of merchandise. If it did no t do 4:ter a be a f a i lure . It woul d not e ff ect t h e object which f 4 - ` l 4B j 84 4 it is able to effect. It would not enable the latio_n bullion, the goldsmith, and silversmith, to add ttlite euroto price. But this, so far from being a valid objection, 4 ti t at ati w o nt . g excellency of my plan. Its adoption would tet e e,ileia b " to the price of gold, as well as to the price of " old w a "e ; dealers in bullion, as well as dealers in old lad 414 equally •edi t Wo ._ benefit by a change of our monetary eys kmcct),enable them to pay their taxes (direct or , b l est n , 114 ,Lh ; met the slightest inconvenionce—without the ie sere t - ' s tole curtailment of their profits. 44 1° yet : i t oi with anet e er chess of objectors--though last, not ) ere ee ,whem I shall deal very plainly in my nex t. Nov., 1855. J. W 7ib Le T e S ll . ti l 1 h e p . 74EGRAPM COMPANY OF IRELAND.—At a t e 4 011 '4 In this matter, at the chambers of the Master Ati ti t he rli: e 'it Was reported to Mr. Whiting, the chief clerk, 1 t on of suLors had not been able to carry out their pro— ue 11.1. 1 , 1 siag by subscription sufficient money to pay i h sat .. "uluties amounting ‘ 4 4e / t he or ' to some £20.000, and .e.3nse ltiot,eo4o. der to wind-up the affairs will be carr i ed out - gad * It is understood, however, that it will be ardriit, SLAVERY-WHAT IS SLAVERY ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES Sir,—Once, again, I ask what is slavery ? I might occupy columns of your space, week by week, in recapitulating this oppressed condition of the artisan—this disgraceful, odious practice, I should rather say—so much carried on by the bulk of our tradespeople ; but what I have already addueed may suffice to show the great and gigantic evil which this abominable grinding system produces upon those miserable, half-clad, half-starved creatures, who are so far ignorant of the value of their labour that they are doomed to be cooped up in miser. able hives, to endure late hours, ill-paid wages, scanty fare, and work such as dim the sight, and ends in utter darkness ; of failing ltmbs, toil-worn fingers, sinking hearts, despair, and, too often, the premature yielding up a life of misery and woe. This hidious picture, which I have faintly endeavoured to pourtray, will occur to every searching mind, that our poorer brethren ought, for various reasons, have better wages for less work, as well as more constant and equally-timed employment. Unless this is the case, tell me how is the hard driven labourer, who is often compelled to work 18 hours a day, allowed the opportunity of attending to his moral culture, or improving his intellectual faculties? Has he not a right to sip at the foun tain of knowledge as well as those moving in a higher sphere of life? Has he not evety right to enjoy the same privilege of frequenting public libraries and other useful insti miens, in order, in some way or other, to store his mind— however slightly it might be. Some may remark, that to such a class of people as this, it would be absurd to suppose that a little learning would prove advantageous to them; hut, on the contrary, tend to evil results. Whet ! a little learning absurd ! W:iat ! knowledge tend to evil result - ! Ilow did Lord Pal merston speak on the subject of (elite ttion the other d ,y, while ho was addressing the ruse!, teics of Salford, in that magnificent, thriiling speech, which it is impos ible to convey in any other language titan his own. That great statesman ' wisely observed, " 1 say, those who afford to the labouring classes the means of acquiring knowledge, not only contribute to their advancement in life. bat contribute to their innocent and laudable enjoyment. There is great respect due to axioms and savings, but they soineltnes mislead; although they may, generally, be right. We have often heard it said, quoting from the words of o to of our great poets —that, A little learning is a dangerous thing— Drink deep, or taste not of the Pierian spring.' I hold that that is a mistake; and much error has it produced. A little knowledge, is better than no knowledge at all. The more knowledge a man has, the better; but if lie cannot—if his time does not allow—if his means do not enable him to acquire great and deep knowledge, why, let him have as much as he can ; and, depend upon it, he will be all the better for it. And, although he may not bo able to drink deeply of the spring, d , pend upon it, if his lips have once tasted its waters, he will go back t , the same source whenever he has an op portunity of doing so, and that the draughts, bo they great or small, will refresh his mind, will invigorate his intellect, will raise him in the scale of society, will contribute to his indi vidual happiness, and make him a more useful and more honourable member of society." Yes, Lord Palmerston is unquestionably right, " a li tae knowledge is better than no knowledge at all," and no one, save those whose time is so selfishly engrossed in this world's affairs—the love of money— would so cruelly and heartlessly keep their victims chained up in all the misery, filth, and wretchedness I have described, and which, as I have already endeavoured to show, as is too often exemplified, the root of all evil. These tradesmen, I assert again, who not only display that avaricious sprit of acquiring wealth, that they not only grind the poor working people down to the utmost, but in many cases they moreover cheat the public. For instance, they have two or three prices for the same article, according to the presumed position in life of the customer. This, to say the least of it, is by no means an honest practice. A purchaser who pays 3s for a given article in the shop Ito casually walks into, will be charged 3,9 d, if they find out that he lives at Aigburth, Abercromby square, or in any other aristocratic district of the town ; but .if he happens not to be very fashionably attired, and resides in a more hutnblo locality, they will give it him, most likely, for 2s 91. They all, more or less, I fearlessly say, impose upon the public—some by adulterating their goods —some by unscru pulously insisting upon keeping up prices which they ought to lower—others by retailing at high prices some article with a fine name, which, after all, is manufactured from common materials, and in endless other ways taking advantage of the credulity of the people. We all feel this in a greater or less degree, and find seriously to our cost we are too frequently the dupes of the shopkeeper, but few, it is to be lamented, will step out of their way to expose such business frauds, existing in every day life. Really this is monstrous. 'Why can we not " live and lot others live." I contend that abuses of every kind should he made known to the world at large, and it is only a moral obligation wo owe to each other to use every effort in our power to sift them thoroughly, and, if possible, as far as we are able, to eradicate them. It is quite clear, then, as will at once be seen, that many shopkeepers are nothing else than middle-men, who stand between the public and the artisan that slaves for them, who screws Loth parties to the very utmost, and take all the profits to themselves :—Sic transit gloria mundi. I have not yet exhausted this theme, sl»uld you, sir, have no objection to my continuing it ; and, if the asguments and facts which I have already urged should not be acceptable to the minds of some of your readers, I say, let them boldly come forward and answer. V ERITAS. Liverpool, 18th November, 1856 THE POFESSIONAL ABILITIES OF PARIS SWINDLERS The eeriudiers, or chevaliers d'induset ie. as they are whimsically termed, are certainly the most accomplished professors of the art of thieving to be found i❑ any Earopean capital. A case has just occurred which shows the cleverness, address, and cunning of this class in a striking light. An old gentleman, stopping the other day on the Boulevards to examine the engravings displayed i❑ a shop window, used a very handsome gold eye-glass to assist his vision. In a few moments, having ceased to employ the glass, and being about to do so again, he found that only the string to which it had ;been attached remained, The glass itself had dis appeared, abstracted by some skilful hand. Upon discovering this loss, the old gentleman grew touch excited, and drew upon himself the attention of all the bystanders near by his agitated manner. A stranger among the crowd, seeing his embarrassment, politely offered his arm to the old gentleman until ho had recovered himself. The offer was gratefully accepted, with all the unsuspectingness of an old man who suddenly finds himself disturbed from his usual state of mind by an untoward occurrence, and the two walked away along. the Boulevards. On the way the old gentlemen grew confiden• tial, charmed by the sympathising conduct of his companion. He entered into details about his domestic matters ; gave his address; described very minutely a service of plate that had been presented to him some time before ; told the name of his servant; and stated where and with whom he was going to dino that day. The stranger listened very attentively, and, after seeing the garrulous old man to the door of the house occupied by the friend with whom he had engaged to dine, bade him adieu, and promised to call and see hint in reply to the invitation of the other. He kept so firmly to his word that he immediately went to the old gentle man's house, addressed the servant by her name ; said he had been requested by her master to ask for several items of the service of plate, which he minutely described, and as credentials showed the eye glass of the old gentleman. The servant, ima gining that every thing was right, gave the articles required to the stranger, who carried them away. Almost directly after he had left the house, however, with his valuable parcel, he was aecosted by an officer of justice, who had been watching his movements, and who recognised him as a man of good education and family, who for some time had become a skilful member of the honourable fraternity of swindler's. The chevalier is, of course, safely lodged in prisen, and awaits his condemnation. INSOLVENT DEBTORS AND THEIR PROTECTION.—In the London Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Tuesday, an applica lion was made for the discharge of an insolvent, named John Luff, from a commitment of the judge of the Marvlebane County Court. The insolvent petitioned under the Protection Act,. and was: h int.] on the 3rd November before Mr. Commissioner Phillips. His case was adjourned with protection to the 24 h inst., to serve some creditors. One of the creditors opposing was a Mr. Brolkes, an ironmonger, who some days after the adjournment with protection obtained a commitment from the Marylebone County Court for 14 days, and on Monday the insolvent was lodged in Whitecross street prism. Mr. Commissioner Phillips made some inouiries in order to ascertain whether the warrant of commitment was subsequent to the protection of this court, and being satisfied on that point intimated his intention to discharge the insolvent from the commitment of the county court judge. The registrar remarked that under the recent County Court Act these commitments, he thought, were settled. His Honour ordered the insolvent to be discharged from prison. A BOY KILLED BY His BROTIIER.—On Wednesday last, a respectable young man, named Thomas Blundell, son of Mr. Blundell, of the Barley Mow Tavern, Runcorn, was brought np at the Town Hall, charged with the man slaughter of his brother William, a boy about fifteen years of age. It appeared that, on Saturday evening, the prisoner asked deceased to puta pony in a sh andry, and upon the latter refusing; struck him on the face with the back of his open hand. The deceased cried a little, but took his tea, and made no complaint, except that some time after he lay down on the sofa and slept for about three hours, and then went to bed. About e l even o ' clock, the servant girl was in his room, and finding she could not awake him, gave au alarm, but though every effort was used to arouse him, he did not awake, and expired about five o'clock on Sunday morning. Mr. Wilson, who made a post-mortens examination of the body, said he found no external marks of violence on the bead or body; but on removing the scalp, an d expos i ng t h e temporal muscle on the right side, he found a great portion of it bruised and blacked with effused blood. On removing th e upper part of the skull, he found on the part correspond ing with the bruise, Ave or six ounces of clotted blood, and further examination disclosed that a ;mall portion of the temporal bone was broken off. These appearances, Mr. Wilson was of opinion, were quite sufficient to account for the boy's death, He added, that the fractured bone was unnsnally thin, and much less violence would, therefore, produce fatal conenuences than in ordinary cases. IMPORTANT TO CONFIDENTIAL CLERKS AND THEIR EMPLOYERS. GARTSIDE V. OUTRAM.—In the Vice Chancellor's Court, on Tuesday, Sir Wm. :Page Wood heard and do c ded upon a ques • tion of the u most importance to merchants and brokers, and their confidential clerks. The plaintiffs in this case were wool brokers, carrying on business at Liverpool, and the defendant had been originally their apprentice, and afterwards their sales clerk for three years up to July, 1855, when be left their service. The prayer of the bill was, that t p h a e rti d n e g fe w n i d th a , nt dis m tr i i g b h u t ti b n e a,or otherwise strained frm c o om mun copying icatin p g ub o i r isi m 'in ak g ing known any copies or ex tracts or enrries made or obtained by him, or in his possession, of any of the books, accounts, letters, or documents of the plaintiffs, or in anywise relating to their business,' or from disclosing any of the dealings and transactions of the plaintiffs in relation thereto ; and that the defendant might be 01 tiered to deliver up all such copies, extracts, and entries as had been obtained by him. The plaintiffs, by their bill, stated that they had no reason to suppose that the defendan,t had possessed him self of any such copies or extracts until about the middle of January, 1856, when some of their principal customers applied to them for explanations as to various items of their accounts. and at an interview which took p'ace in consequence, it was ad. mitted, that they had obtained privat e i n f orma ti on as to the plaintiff's transactions ; and had been furnished with extracts from their hooks and accounts, but they refused to state from whom such information had been obtained. But the plaintiff. afterwards discovered that the defendant had availed himself of the facilities afforded- by his situation to obtain the extracts and copies aforesaid ; and they alleged that the documents from which the copies and extracts were made were of a cone dential nature, and that the publication of them would b e attended with great injury and inconvenience to their busi— ness and to the interests of other parties. The defendant put in an answer, in which ho alleged that he had discovered that the plaintiffs carried on their business in a manner which was fraudulent towards their customers, and in consequence of that he had left their service ; that his suspicions having been aroused, he made the copies and extracts for his own satisfac tion, and instanced specific cases in which customers had been. according to his view, defrauded. He alleged that the plaintiffs, whenever wool was sent to them to dispose of, with a limit of price winch was below the market price, were in the habit of taking it themselves, and sending fictitious sold notes by which it was made to appear that the wool was sold at the price limited, and then they sold it at the real market price, and pocketed the difference ; and he set out one particular case, in which a person, from information furnished by him, had had his accounts investigated, and had recovered from the Vaintiffs £1,500 by the award aim arbitrator to whom it bad been agreed to refer the matter. The defendant then filed cross interrrogatories, and called upon the plaintiffs to answer quest. tions with a view to extract from them evidence to substantiate the case he had set up. To these interrogatories the plaintiffs put in an answer, but declined to answer those which related to the alleged frauds, upon the ground that they were irrelevant to the real question at issue. To this the defendant took exception, and upon that the case came on for argument. Mr. James and Mr. Giffard appeared for the defendant in support of the exceptions. They contended that there was no privilege in cases of this description, that although under ordinary circumstances the court would restrain an agent or other confidential servant front disclosing the transactions which came to his knowledge from the position in which he was placed, yet when those transactions were based in fraud the privilege vanished. This doctrine was based upon the principle that it was for the good of mankind that there should be no confidence between scoundrels. Mr. Eddis, for the defendant, contended that the present was a case in which the general privilege of masters and clients, that their confidential transactions shall not be revealed, must be maintained, The cases in which that privilege was held to be lost were cases iu which the fraud was apparent upon the face of the transaction, and was founded upon the principle that the court of equity would not lend itself to assist in a fraud. Here the defendant only made roving suggestions of fraud, and sought to get evidence to establish them. The Vice-Chancellor, after reading the prayer of the bill, sail the equity was plain, well recognised, and most salutary, by which confidential servants were prevented from disclosing the transactions to which they became privy. But there were cases in which the confidential relationship never really existed. No one could make another his confidant in a crime or fraud, so as to bind him not to reveal it. The argument was, that the defendant was not entitled, on a roving sugx gestion that there might be fraud, or on a general suggestion that he could disclose fraud, to ask for an inspection of the plaintiff's books to substantiate such statement. But here the case was not one of roving suggestion, it was a clear, sharp, plain, marked, and defined statement of fraud. The statement was in effect, " You employed me to copy transac tions which were fraudulent ; you took to yourself the purchase of your customer's goods whenever the limit was below the market price, and sent fictitious sold notes, and these notes came under my notice. Patties have been defrauded, anti have, in consequence of my information, recovered money." And, in particular, he specified one Rathbone, who had recovered £1,500, and numerous other cases of the same sort, and stated that others might recover; but if his mouth was stopped they would never be able to do so. The question was, whether a party could say that the protection which was extended to persons in confidential re lationship was to be extended to those who have had fraudu lent transactions brought under their notice. Thole was no such protection in such a case, even between attorney and client. There was some little discrepancy between the de cided cases which were collected in Mr. Pitt Taylor's Book on Evidence, section 851, but he preferred the opinion of Mr. Juati, e Pattoson, who compelled an attorney to produce a forged will upon the trial of his client for tho forgery. lie could not put the argument better titan it was put by Mr. Setj7 , ant Tisdale, in 6 ' Annesley v. Lord Anglesea," 17, St. Trials, p. 1229, " If an attorney is employed as an attorney in any unlawful or wicked acts, his duty to the public obliges hint to disclose it. No private obligation can dispense with that universal one, which lies on every member of the society to discover every design which may be formed, contrary to the laws of the society, to destroy the public welfare." And the judgment of Baron Mounteney, in the same ease, was to the same effect. Suppose, in the case of the fictitious dock wars rants which had been before the court lately, the party charged with the forgery had had a clerk, could he have filed a bill against the clerk, to prevent hint front disclosing the facts con nected with the transaction ? He cou'd not admit any such doctrine ; to do so would be to encourage fraud. If the de fendant made out the case set up in his answer, it would defeat the bill, and therefore he was entitled to interrogate the Vain tiffs with respect to these transactions, for the purpose of establishing his case, and the exceptions must be allowed. DARING ATTEMPT TO ROB THE BANK OF IRELAND A most impudent and daring attempt to eff-xt an entrance into the branch of the Bank of Ireland, Carlow, occir red on Monday night, About ono or two o'clock several per sons got into the rere of the premises in question witl^ut being perceived, although they had to pass several wicked dogs, and having cut a pane of glass out of the window of the bask door, they endeavoured by means of a chisel or. lever, to force the lock of an iron gate which protected the back of the house. After several strenuous efforts they had to give up the task in despair. According to the regulations of the bank, a porter slept in the office, provided with arms, but being wrapt in the arms of Morpheus he did not hear the noise. The ruffians next proceeded, by means of a ladder, to try their luck on Mr. Stoyte's premises, which adjoins the bank, but in this they, were likewise unsuccessful. They tore the wirework which was on the outside of one of the windows, and cutting a p ane o f g l ass out w i th a diamond, one of the fellows put in his hand and found beneath a large quantity of delpht, Fearing that the noise that must nec-ssarily be created by treading on the ware, they abandoned the place and tried their fortune in the next house, Mr, William Whitmore's, where they were more successful. They effected an entrance, and proceeded to break open doors, desks, drawers, Sze., in various apartments. Having secured a number of silver spo3ns, knives and forks, and other valuables, they lighted on a mahogany box, belonging to the Friendly Brothers, which they conveyed to the yard, and broke open with some blunt implement, It contained a gold snuff-box, value £5O, a valuable silver cork-screw, a case of pistols, and some papers, but in their hurry, the first two artioles escaped the netice of the thieves, and were found with the b )yt in the place this morning. it is not yet known what amount of property was stolen from Mr. Whitmore, but the police are on the scent of the ruffians, who are supposed to be some of the disbanded militia or ticket-of-leave men who are at present prowling through the c )untv. LANCASTER ELECTION.—In reply to a letter from the secretary of the Ballot Society, Mr. Garnett, the candidate for Lancaster, declares himself an opponent to the ballot, because there is no necessity for its adoption, and because the logical consequence of the adoption of the ballot at elections is its adoption in the divisions of the House of Commons. It may consequently be assumed that Mr. Garnett desires that voters may be either paid or punished for their votes, and, therefore, that (in Mr. Cobden's celebrated phrase) a record may be kept against every man how he votes. As to Mr. Garnett's second argument, a would-be M.P. should be aware of the unanswerable refutation of it given by the late Sir W. Molesworth. INSECURITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN PADDINGToN, LONDON.—On Tuesday afternoon a deputation of upwards of eighteen gentlemen, from the parish of Paddington, waited upon Sir George Grey, by appointment, at the llome 7 office, for the purpose of bringing under the notice of the Home Secretary the insufficient number of the police force doing duty in that district. A varifty of outrages against person and property were brought forward which had not been detected by the police ; and it was stated that the rateable value of the property in the parish of Paddington is £522,570 ; the population upwards of 50,000 ; the streets repaired by the parish, twenty-two miles— not taken to by the parish, ten miles ; and the payments to the police £10,750 a year. The deputation did not complain of the inefficiency of the police individually, but strongly urged upon the Home Secretary the propriety of increasing, without delay, the number of police in the parish of Paddington. Sir George Grey paid marked attention to the statements laid before him, asked many questions bearing p ract i cally upon the subject,and promised immediate enquiry. LOVE AND SUICIDE. A most painful enquiry took place on Monday, before Mr Wakley, the coroner, at the University College Hospital, respecting the death of Caroline Hobbs, aged 19, who poisoned herself under the following melancholy circum stances .—The deceased had formerly been in the service of a gentleman's family, whose name was given, in Burlington • gardens, and by whose wife she was greatly esteoned. A connection between her and some young man, a former acquaintance, arose, which ended in most unfortunate results. In order to bide her shame she left her situation, and took lodgin g s in the ho use o f a Mr. Maskell, at 5, Augusta-street, Regent's -park. As she was a very well conducted young woman, Mrs. Maskell also became interested in her. She had no visitor of any kind, except an elder sister, durirg the time she lodged there. On Tuesday morning last, between nine and Ken O'clock, this sister was with her, arid she was then very t low in spirits, and said she could never live separated from him. She went out afterwards, and returned at half-past eleven o'clock, when she cooked some beef s t ea k , and ate a portion. Between half-past one er two Mrs. Maskell heard a moaning, f dlowed by a heavy fall on the floor of the deceased's room, and upon running up to a=certain the cause, found her lying iaseusible, and frothing at the mouth. Two small bottles, labelled respectively Laudanum--Poison," and " Essential Oil of Bitter Almonds," together with a wine glass which had recently been used, were found upon the table. A medical man was at once sent for, and by his directions she was rern , ved to University College Hospital, where she arrived in articulo mortis. Mr. Price Jones, the resident surgeon, examined her, and, finding whet she had taken, and that she had lived more Ulan forty-five minutes after swallowing the prussic acid, at once concluded that • the opium had retaraed its action, thereby offering a chance of recovery. On this account, and from the weak state she was in, he was afraid to use the stomach pump lest he should produce esphyxia and destroy the only hope left. Other remedies were applied, but. she died at ten minutes before four o'clock. A post mortem showed that, in abeut ten weeks, the poor unfortunate creature must have become a mother, and this it was that impelled her to terminate her existence. Shortly before she swallowed the poison she wrote two letters, addressed to her mother, and Mrs Maskell. The letter to Mrs. Maskell said :—" lam greatly obli4ed to you for your kindness to me since I have been with you. God will reward you and your children. If you will go to my mother, at 6, Polygon Clarendon-square,she will tell you w hat t o d o w i t h ma. I have been driven to deep sir ! My sister will be up at five o'clock." The letter to her mother began by saying that her case was a fearful one, '‘ For you don't know half my sufferings . . . . Don't fret for me -I will go before and be ready to reelive you. Give my love to my father and brother, and I hope they will be goad to you. I hope my poor dear sister wili be well provided for. I beg you will not scold my dear Harry; it is not his fault, and I love every hair of his head. Write to him and he will pay my funeral expenses. Pray doe% wrong him fur my sake. Don't scold him. I could not die happy if I thought you would do so. My dear Jane (her sister) will give my love to Mrs.—, and tell her all about it . . . . I am not yet nineteen years of age, and don't forget my birthday (the 26th of December). Tell my Harry I love him, and can't bear to be separated from him." She then alludes to some one who has spoken against her to a former employer, but does not intend to retaliate, as it would "do her no good," and she would " not hurt a hair of anybody's bead but my own." and thus concludes :—" I have put all my things right for you to lay me out in, which you will see, and I have sent him my likeness. I have only my clothes to leave you ; I wish I hal more. Good bye ! God bless you I—Your affectionate daughter, " CAROLINE." There was scarcely a dry eye in the room on the reading of this letter, and deceased's sis' er fainted away. The Coroner said he had rarely met with a more melancholy case, and the jury returned a verdict of death from swallowing poison, bat leaving the state of the deceased's mind an open question. SHOCKING DEATH OF A NATIVE OF GLASGOW IN CANADA. We find the following in the Spirit of the Times, of Oct. 29th, published at Woodstock, Western Canada :—On Mon day evening last, an inquest was held at Bird's Tavern, East Woodstock, on view of the body of Alexander Bell, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who came by his death in a manner which I should serve as a warning to all persons addicted to the exces sive use of ardent liquors. The jury, empanelled before Die Laycock, coroner, was composed of gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood. The witnesses examined on the occasion, were----Mr. Robert Bird, (proprietor of the tavern,) his son, Mr. Robert Bird, jnre, and Dr. John Turquand. The coroner, also, made several important additions to the chain of evidence, which, beginning with the unfortunate man's first arrival in Bird's house, terminated with an account of his death, which took place that morning. From the evidence of the witnesses, we learned the following . :—Deceased first came to Mr. Bird's tavern on Sunday, the sth instant, where he remained until the morning of the Tuesday following. Ho returned, however, about six o'clock in the evening of the same day (7th), and shortly after went to bed. On the. fol lowing morning he came down stairs about seven o'clock, and proceeded to the bar room. Ho asked for breakfast, and subse quently for drink, both of which Mr. Bird refused to give him, on account of him owing tin co dollars already. Mr. Bird, being called to breakfast, thou retired to a back room, leaving de ceased sitting alone in the bar-room. When Mr Bird had breakfasted he returned to the har-room, which he found bad been vacated by the deceased, and lie naturally concluded that Bell had left the house. A few minutes after, the younger Mr. Bird entered the travellers' sitting-corm which he found partially filled with smoke. He at once ran up stairs to see whether anything was wrong in that quarter, and on arriving on the lobby adjoining deceased's room he encountered a dense and offensive smoke emanating therefrom. Looking in he saw deceased lying on the bed, and the bedclothes as well as the victim's own clothing burning. An alarm was given, water procured, the flames extinguished, and then was discovered the cause of the catastrophe—the deceased's pipe, which he had been smoking when he lay down, was still filled with smouldering tobacco, and laying upon his bosom, it having fallen from his mouth, while the wretched creature himself, notwithstanding the dreadful injuries he had sustained, lay in a state of stupefaction, occasioned, as it seemed, by his having drank an immoderate quantity of spirits. A messenger was instantly despatched for Dr. Turquand, and in the meantime the bar-room was examined, when it was discovered that two decanters which Mr. Bird had that morning filled with spirits were nearly emptited of their contents. The sufferer was not neglected, however, for in the interval which elapsed before the arrival of a medical man, Mr. Bird, aided by members of his family, applied linseed oil, and other emol lients to the weunds of the deceased. Dr. Turquand was not at home when the messenger arrived at his house, but Dr. Laycock, having heard of the off sir, hastened with speed to attend to the suffering stranger. On Dr. Laycock's arrival the sufferer was awaking from the stupor into which the liquor had thrown him, so that the doctor had to witness the distressing sight of a human being burned within a hair's breadth of his life yet in a state of furious drunkenness. When Dr. Tur quand saw his patient in the evening, delirium tremens had set in—hence his first effort, in connection with Dr. Laycock, was to avert the consequences of that dreadful result of Bell's intemperance. The immediate danger arising from this cause was successfully baffled, but notwithstanding the most unre mitting care on the part of Dr. Turquand, and his assistant Mr. McLaren, as well as of Mr, Bird and his family, the unfortu nate man was unable to bear up against the results of the inju ries he had received, and he sunk beneath them, as above stated, after nineteen days of severe suffering. The view we obtained of the wretched man's wounds was sickening beyond description. The utmost praise is due to all parties coheerned in this case ; and it is to be hoped that those of the deceased's friends in Scotland who may read this melancholy acconnt,will not suffer Mr. Bird, nor Dr. Turquand, nor arty others who would have nobly done their best by personal exertions and liberal contributions, to avert the final catastrephe, to be " out of pocket" longer than is absolutely unavoidable ; for they, no doubt, are aware, that in Canada there is no legal provision for the relief of the poor and unfortunate. The decea s ed was extremely reserved during his suff er i ng , b ut un d er a promise that Dr. Turquand would not divulge the following communi cation, unless ho died, he stated that his name was Alexander Bell ; that his wife kept a butcher's shop at No. 3, Govan street, Glasgow, and that she haul six children to support. The jury returned the following verdict :—" We find that deceased came to Isis death fron the effects of a severe burn received when in a state of intoxica.ion.' THE ROYAL BRITISH BANY..—A rule has been granted by the Court of Common Pleas, calling upon one of the share, holders to show cause why execution should not issue against him, HOW TO MEET A GAROTTE ROBBER. -1-The following appears in the columns of a London daily cotemporary : " Some few years since I held the situation of chief warder at a northern county prison, and had charge of several fellows convicted of the crime of garotting, or, as the slang phrase of that county termed it, 'Putting on the Hang.' The London cant phrase is, Clapping on the Flimp." Having heard some of the younger bands speak with enthusiasm of the wonderful dextrrity displayed by one of their number, an adept at his business, determined to put his powers to the te s t. H av i ng i n f orme d hi m t h at I was desirous of ascertaining whether I could not release myself from his grasp (hy which I was assured he could hold the most powerful man), and having another warder with me to see that he did not ' hang' me in earnest, in the event of my plan not succeeding, I turned my back towards him, and was instantly seizul by his right arm round the throat, and held back in such a manner that convinced me no man could escape by the usual instinctive means of raising the hands, grasping his arm ant endeavouring to b rea k h i s hold. The mome nt I Lit myself ' gripped,' I passed my right band rapidly behind me, and grasped a portion of my assailant's body ;—with an agonising shriek he not only released me, but also fell fainting on the floor of the cell. This, then, i s say mode of defence in the event of a g aro tte attack, the efficacy of which I have proved in several instances, THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERS STARVING IN MARYLEBONE On Monday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Wakley -- coroner for the western division of Middlesex, and a jury of Seward, the party spoken of by Agar, the. convict the inhabitants of Marylebone, assembl e d a t th e at ary l ebone witness, in his evidence at the Mansion-House, en Monday , Workhouse, New toad, to investigate th e d ea th of Elizabeth last, as the person through whom he had disposed of 600 Mann, alias Franklin, the unfortunate woman who was found ounces of gold, a prtiin of the proceeds of the robbery, at in a dying state, hu.hiled no with her tour clrldren, in a state £3 2s 61 an (mace, has not yet been captured, n or , a lth oug h of nudity, in a room o f 7, Waimer_phee, Crawford.street, he is said to h a re b een previously pretty well known to the under shocking circumstances. The proceedings excited . intense police (but not criminally), does there appear to be at the interest, and a l arge num b er of directors and g ua r d ians o f the present moment any precise clue to his whereabouts. The poor wereany original statement of Mr. Bodkin, a fortnight back, that present The Coroner enquired . if there were relatives of the deceased women present to give evidence : Mr. Agar would be produced as a witness, was probably suf f icient Boyls, the summonin g officer, said t h e w h o l e o f th e childreu to induce any party likely to be criminated by the revela were in bed in the w or kh ouse , b u t th a t Mr. Musket, the lions of suc h a witn e ss to take measures to secure surgeon, stated that it would endanger the life of the elder girl his personal safety ; while the fact that Agar m ide if she were removed to give ev id ence . The respective ages of his statement w i t h re f ereuee to Saward for t h e fi rs t the children are , Eli za b et h , 13 ; Eli„, 12; Susan, 10; an d time nnMonday, i ns t ea d o f a l lu di ng to the circumstance James, 6 years. M r . W i lli am B oy d M us h et was t h e first in his i nterview with Mr. Rees, solicitor to the South witness examined. He said he was surgeon of the woikhouse, Eastern Railway Comp any, put i t beyond the power of the and at present me di ca l officer of t h e i n fi rmary. Th e d ecease d prosecution to secure their man before warning was given, was brought there about seven o'clock on the evening of that . his dealing with th e gold-thieves might be called in Thursday last, Sh e wa s qu it e i nsens i b l e. H e saw h er question. Tester, the fou:th party implicated in the rob on Friday morning, when she was in the same condition, berg, and who, according to Azar, received £.300 as his Her pulse was low, but she was able to swallow a littl e share of the proceeds of the gold which had been sold up to wine. She died about eleven o'cloc ton that morning, the time of the apprehension of th e l atter, as was stated by He had made a pose snorteet examination of the b o dy t wen ty Mr. Bodkin, is not at present i n E ig l and. He did not, hours after death. The b o d y was i n a d i rty state. T here was however, fly this country, as has been supposed by many, slight ecchymosis about the thighs. Deceased appeared about in consequence of Agar's revelations, or the capture of 42 years of age. and was a well-formed woman. The immediate Pierce and Burgess. He is, it is believed, at present C . :MSC of death was in the head. There was a tumour about in Switzerland, or Italy, employe] upon a railway hay the size of a walnut, only perfectly round, at the base of the inn oly:ii:4ed an appointment before quitting England. brain. There was about 2oz of se rum at the base of the sk u ll, As there is no treaty of extradition existing between and there was conflation of the blood vessels of th e m em b ranes the G .vernmant of this country and that of Switzerland, of the brain. The heart was healthy and the stomach was some difficulty may arise in the way of his capture; but empty. The cause of death he should take to he effusio n int o little doubt is entertained by the prosecution that he will the brain, Mrs. Mary Spilman said she resided at 7, Wdlmer_ be in England within a fortnight at the furthest. It has niece, Crawford street, and was about leaving the house on been stated that Pierce, as welt as Burgess, was formerly Thursday night last, as the la n dlady said she expected the a guard in the employ of the South Eastern R dlway broker to be p u t i n for rent. Sh e w as not aware t h at any one Company ; but thi s a p pears not to h ave been the case, was up stairs un til Th urs d a y e ven i ng b etween four and five although he i s un d erstoo d to h ave been employed as a t o'clock, wh en , on go i ng i n t o th e b ac k yar d , she saw a boy ticket-porter by the compa n y some y ears b ac k . Both he and perfectly na k e d pi c ki ng up some crum b s o f b read lying about Agar lived in a q siet way whe n a t l arge , an d t h ere was and eating the m . Sh e was muc h aston i s h ed, and told her no thing in their appearance to i n d ace any susp i c i on as to husband, who was sitting at t ea , an d th en brought the littl e ' their real characters upon the part of th e i r ne i g hb ours. child into the r oom , an d, see i ng some b rea d on the table, he Agar was closely questioned by Mr. Bodkin on Monday, as craved for it, and her husband gave bins some. They then to whether he kne v antthing of a person named Seal, who d ascertained from him that h e h a d a anot h er an d some s i sters up had been apprehended on suspicion of being concerne d i n stairs, and, at the desire of her husband, she went up with him the robbery, and admitted that he knew such a person, but not of his being employ e d t o se ll any o f th e sto l en to the first floor back roo m , to which he pointed as tieing :he place where she would find his mother and sisters. gold, or being connected in any way w i t h t h e ro bb ery. She opened th e door an d a s h oc ki ng picture presented There is no reason to q ues ti . n th e t rut h o f t hi s state, but the cir cums t ances attend i ng the apprehension itself ; the p oor mo th er l ay i n one corner of the room, ' men t , and the other children crouched near her, one of the elder of Seal were somewhat renaarkabie. He offered for sale gold in bus to the am oun t o f £lO , OOO to a dealer children bei ng d ou bl e d qu i te up, h er head being on her feet. They all were as naked as they were born. she named Montague, and the robb er y b e i ng th en f res h i n the endeavoured to r ouse th e woman, b ut she appeared quite public mind was closely questioned, and taken into custody insensible. She then came down and told her husband what upon suspicion. He was cha rge d a t th e M ans i on house, had happeced, an d th a t she thoualit he haul better go for a and several times remanded, but he stat e d t h a t h e h a d t h e policeman, or do something. He went for M r . C o ll ett , ono gold , from the captain of a ship in th e A us t ra li an trade, of the workhouse i ns p ec t ors , w h o procured blankets and who was not then in London, and th a t even i f i t h a d b een a covering from his ow n h ouse , an d t h en, under the direction of portion of that stolen, could not have been identified, owing Mr. Tubbs, the relie v i ng overseer, sent f or M r. Elkins, the t o the fact that two descriptions of gild had been m e lt e d surgeon of the district. Mr. Elkins attended to the mother down ti2ether. He was u lti ma t e l y di sc h arge d . U pon and the childr en were remove d i n a ca b to the infirmary, wt ,' that he demanded the restoration of the gold, but Michael Mushet, in an s w er t o a quest i on, sa id the prostration of the Hayden, the detective, r efu se d t o g i ve it up. Th e Lord two elder children w a s s o great h e did not think it would be Mayor declined t o ma k e any or d er i n t h e matter, and advisable to remove them from their beds to come before the while Seal was threatening proceedings for its recovery, it court. They we re , h owever , qu i te sens ib le. The younger was taken possession of by hi s cre di tors, h e being an un,, children were b e tt er . S usan , th e t hi r d c h i l d, an intelligent certificated bankrupt. little girl, ten years, was shortly brought into the court. She was placed in a chair, and appeared to have suffered very THE FOG IN LONDON. —THREE LIVES LOST. much. She was exceedingly pale, and her eyes much --- sunken, but otherwise there was not that extent of emaciation A . lamentable occarrence took pl ace d ur i ng a dew() fog which might have been ex p ec t e d, cons id er i ng the amount of winch prevailed on M on d ay even i ng, ia the vicinity of Hackney Wick-Isne, at the so u th eastern extrem i ty of Victoria Park. privation she had underg one . I n answer t o t h e coroner she On die towing path o f S ir G eorge D uckett ' s canal, near the said she could read and w r it e , an d k new i t was very wicked to state that which w a s unt rue . Sh e reco ll ected be i ng in the North L on d on R a il way arch, lived a man named Hayes, who workhouse before. When they went out her mother went to had elnrge of the lock gates, his wife and five children. On live at Walmer-place. Her name was Franklin, and her 'Monday af t e rnoon , a M rs. C hubb, the wife of a cooper, Jfio,ilieusiointilostrv, Stepney,. ,;, ac v e c o e n r a s pat o si f ed ag b e y i l l ie v r g dau l g n ht ß er i , n a father was a carpenter. Si nce t ney h a d b een at Walrner place their father had se n t th e i r mot h er some money to buy food. Her mother did not get tipsy, but she had comp"ained of called to sec Mrs. Hay. s pains in the I cad for a long while. The had cried to her for two females and child, ls' br LATEST PARTICULAR boat half-past even, tho. , _- -- ...•.._. ..k../vtigu LIM _a tog was 80. -- -.-. dense as t o p revent t h e water being distinguished from the ct, hut for the last fortnight b , fore the l a d y f oun d t h em land, they strangely enough pr ocee d e d a l ong the towing-path she had never sp o k en a wor d . Th ey did not have any food till they were f oun d on Th urs d ay a f ternoon from the previous for the purpose of meetin g H ayes , w h o at the t i me was Monday.lock That was got by h er e ld est sister. Her mother returning from the upper gate. N o thi ng more was seers would not go to th e wor kh ou e, b ecause she said she had no or heard of the m unt il yester d ay morning, when their bodies answer clothes to go i n . M r . T u bb s, t h e rel i eving officer, i were discovered in th e mea l. I t appears that Hayes. reached ii to a question, said th a t th e mot h er, w h en i n the house, was of his l inme a few minutes after they had l e f t w i t h out see i ng anything of them. and was almost immediately called out by a very sullen disposition ; and, when brought in bt•fore, she as cries of "Help!" He ran down to one of the lower locks, and ,__ ,_ ~......... torA.ll state ati found that -a private wa'clrman, attached to some of the neigh'muring new works, had fallen into the canal, and was struggling for life. Hayes, after some difficulty, got hire out, and had him removed to his own house, where he recovered. The night passed without hearing any tidings of the missing women. At length, however, abort half past eight, a brother in law of Hayes discovered the body of a little girl coating on the water in the lock, and having got it out identified it as that of the child of Mrs, Chubb., The drags were then used, and near the spot, just outside the lock, whore there were seven feet of Water by the bank, were found the bodies of Mrs. Mayes and Mrs. Chubb. At this part of the canal the towing-path suddenly turns off. The poor creatures, no doubt, could net observe the turn, and so walked 'straight into the water, The bodies were removed to the White Hart, public house, Old Ford lane, Bow, to await a coronet's inquest. Mrs. Chubb was far advanced ha pregnanoy, and has left five children. Mts. Hayes has &Ist', left a similar family, they were found on this occasion. Site demanded to go out three or four times, and on the last occasion Mr. Potter, one of the guardians, was for nearly a quarter of an hour endeavouring to dissuade her from doing so, but she persisted. She went out with her children on the I lth of September, and nothing more had been heard of her until the discovery was made on the Thursday afternoon. The Coroner remarked that he was quite willing to adjourn the enquiry until such time as the elder children might be in a fit sta e to appear before than, if the jury thought proper; but ho really could not see what advantage would result from further pursuing the history of this case, which, aliltottth very shocking, was very simple. From the state of the poor woman's brain, it was quite clear that it had rendered her wholly incapable of doing anything for herself or her children, and hence the dreadful state of destitution into which they all fell. Efis only surprise was that the ,elder girl, thirteen years of age, had not sense enough to apply at the workhouse. It appeared, however, that had rot been done, and, therefore, there could be no blame whatever attributed to the parochial authorities. The infferings of the poor children must, however, have been frightful in the extreme. The jury, ultimately, returned a verdict of " natural death." • MURDEROUS ATTACK ON FACTORY OPERATIVES NEAR BRADFORD. Since the recent disturbances and destructive attack upon Mr. Taylor's mill at Baildon, a township near Bradford serious apprehensions have been entertained of further out: breaks, and rumours have been current of another physical demonstration against the two-loom system of weaving —that is, each weaver attending to two looms, as is the case in Bradford, the plan not havinsr hitherto been favourably received in the out-townships. The local authorities, however, elected 140 of the principal inhabitants, and had them sworn in as special constables, which `Circumstance, combined with the precautions taken by the West Riding Constables, has had the effect of repressing disturbances in the immediate vicinity of Mr. Taylor's mill, but has not prevented the nno•lootn weavers from threatening harm to those weaving 'on the new system. No actual violence (worm,' until Friday nieitt. The pre cantion has been adopted of aliening the two-loom weavers to leave work earlier than the others, and on Friday evening a party of ten or a dozen, residing in Bradford, three miles distant, left Mr. Taylor's premises about half-past 6ve o'clock, and proceeded on their way home. They walked along Man ningham Lane, the high road from Saltaire, Baildon and Shipl e y to Bradford, until nearly opposite Redbeck mill, a place where a footpath joins the highway after creasing some fields by a shorter route from Shipley. A largo party of men, between 20 and 'IQ, rushed across the fields, armed with hedgestakes and other weapons, attacked the two•loom weavers, and bela• boured them most brutally. The two-loom weavers at last got away from their assailants, with the exception oi a poor fellow, named Thomas Manghan, residing at White Abbey, a suburb of Bradford, who missed his party in the midst of the scuffle, and on one of the attacking party pointing him out with the exclamation, " There's another two , loorner," they beat him most shamefully with their cudgels, felled him to the ground, and continued their brutal ill treatment until the unfortunate man became insensible. It is presumed that his assailants were alarmed by footsteps and ran away, for on some of Manghtin's companions returning in a short time, they found him laid on the ground, weltering in his blood, with no sign of the whereabouts of the cowardly ruffians, Ile was carried to the Bradford infirmary, where prompt assistance was rendered by the medical gentlemen in attendance, who found that the principal injuries inflicted comprised two very severe wounds at the back of the head, one on the right hand, and another on the left leg. He remained for a eonsiderabte time in a state of semi-insensibility. On his return to consciousness he in formed the medical attendants that he did not know any of his assailants, and expressed his belief that none of them are employed at Mr. Taylor's mill. 011 en quiry at the Bradford Infirmary, our reporter ler,roed that Manglian was slightly improving, and that ho.pes are entertained of his recovery, In ')0 meantime, the local " constabul- DRAM PROM FALLING INT . ) A TAng Op BOILING WATEa.—On Tuesday morning Mr. Carttar, coroner for Kent, held an inquest at the Druids' Arms, Greenwich, on the holy of a fine lad, 16 Years of age, named James Loammi Go'ding, The deowed was employed at the colour work of Messrs. Parker az Co,, near Deptford-creek. Near the engine belonging to the factory is a tank about 10 feet deep, which receivo4 the condensed water of the boilers. On S turday afternoon the deceased crossed the tank, which was partly covered with s , lme planks, for the purpose of procuring a towel and soap, and in jumping back he missed his foofing, and fell into a depth of seven feet of boiling water. His cries for help brought to his assistance his father and other workmen, and having been extricated with considerable difficulty, he waq tlken on board the Dread nought hospital ship, and after lingering in the greatest agony for four hours, death put au end to his sufferings, The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, the coroner at the same time rec mrnending that proper protection should be afforded in future, by having the tank Wholly covered. LORD DERBY AND LORD ITARDWICKE IN THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—The Bradford Investigation Committee has elicited letters from these noblemen in answer to the question, " Whether you have been summoned in your capacity of a Privy Councillor to advise the sovereign as to the policy which England is now pursuing towards Naples." The reply of Lord Derby is :—" I have to inform you that it has not been the practice in modern times for the sovereign to consult the members of the Privy Council on political matters. Indeed, the members of that body, amounting to nearly 200, would make such a reference to their advice impossible. Her Majesty has an undoubted right to command the services of any and every Privy Councillor; but none have a right to obtrude their advice, except those members of the council who are nominated by Her Majesty as a committee of the whole body, and which is comtn , inly known as the Cabinet. It is unnecessary for me to add, that I have not been e , ,i;sulted as to the present fo7eign policy of the government." Lrd Ilardwicke says —" F-r a number of years political action of the Privy Council has beep purely of a formal character, no on; being summoned but the Queen's Ministers. I need hardly, therefore, add, in reply to your question, that I have not bee❑ summoned !" e ever pol►ce an _ s cary are insti tuting stringent endeavours to trace the nieutbers of the brutal THE FREE LIBRARY MOVEMENT IN LANCASHIRE.—The inhabitants of Heslingden, at a public meeting held last week, entertained the question of applying the recent Free Libraries Act in that town. The desirableness of providing a suitable building as a Free Library was discussed and approved, and at the termination of the meeting a subscrip tion list was opened, and though only seven gentlemen named their subscription, £3BO. was promised. The town is to be canvassed for additional subscriptions, and all so far consulted are favourable to the scheme. There is now, therefore, every probability of one of these excellent institu diens being established in Haslingden. One gentleman has promised £lOO and a valuable library of 400 volumes to the HANCOCK'S INKSTAND. —One of the most desirable object in an inkstand is to avoid the exposure of the ink to the air as much as possible, so as to ensure italimoid supply. This is accomplished in the above inkstand.—lllustrafed Zonden News. [We have seen the article here referred to, and can safely endorse the description of our London cetemporary. Valuable MSS. are often damaged by careless clerks or ser vents through the upsetting of an inkstand, but the " Paten PtPurnatic inkstand" offers a guarantee against such mis fortunes.] —The Northampton Herald.—Advt. THE. CALIFORNIAN PEN.—The everlasting question of. " is this a good p en " h as b een answered by Mr. lA. T. Hall of South John street, who has succeeded in producing metallic pen, which he designates --not inaptly—as above: There is hardly anything more annoying than a had pen—, every one knows the misery. The pen made by Mr. Hall f ik fit for any hand to use—light or heayy—,and, what is of the ( n A w d ilt last nearly greatest value, it does not corrode, but will wor k w i th equal facility in any ;nk. From experience of meta l l i c pens, we which t one w is ehavepolishedv r se as e r gold, can say tha a t a th on long, e is , the As ICIANTLES and JACKETS are so very generally worn this Season J. MAC LENNAN, 36, CHURCH-STREET; (OPPOSITE PARKER -STREET), Has male arra gemlnts to have a Care of Paris MANTLES and JACKETS, in Velvetß, Reversible Cinras and all th,'" other Fashionable Materials, delivered Every next Two Months; therefore, those . Ladies desirous _ c ag a having the Fashions as soon as they make their apP r e a a v "_. in Paris , conlbined with moderation in prices, are , cc., Week for fully solicited to inspect the Stock. London, JUST RECEIVED, Two Cases contain.- at the extraord re. ing abo ut 700 MANTLES, commencing arily Low P r i ce of 4s. lid. each. SHAWL AND MANTLE WARE IiOUSE S OPPOSITE PARSE R from STREET, M A CD I A It Al I TEACHER OF v IGATION AND NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY,, ABLY ASSISTED, PRAcTlemAir, RP CAPTAIN A. MAC NAUGHTAN, ACADEMY, and the LIVERPOOL MASTER MARINERS' ASSOCIATION'S ROOMS 24, GREAT GEORGE -SQUARE, LIVERPOOL. Inrolre.tor full copy of prospectors at any of the Opticians, promoters, SIR JOHN PAKINGTON AND THE MANCHESTER EDy • CATIONAL PLANS. —We understand that, on the suggestion of Mr. Cobden, an endeavour has been made to arrange a conference between Sir John Pakington on the one hand and a few leading representatives of the National Public School Association and of the late Manchester and Salford Committee on Education on the other, to endeavo ur to assimilate on the remaining points on which these resp ec ti ve bodies disagree. An unofficial private conferen ce , w i sh a view to united action, will be held this evening, in York Hotel Buildings, when the right hon. bar onet w i ll take part in a friendly discussion of tile salient points in the education controversy with some of the leading supporters of the respectiye plan s . Si r John has cordially accepted dan invitation from the comm i ttee to visit the DI Y ode e l e Secular e School, which he will inspect this morning.