The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1853

THE EMBARRABSWITS AT GIBRALTAR.
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her in Dickens's " Coppertield," who lived in the hope that
" something would turn up." There bas been great excite-
ment lately at the Becuigo diggings in particular, in con-1
empaesee of a portion of the diggers refusing to pay the
usual monthly license fee of Sib which they considered
was too eaorbitaut au amount. The affair eventually as
mimed such a formidable asieet that it was leered blood-
shed would follow; happily, however, such has nut bees•
the case. Government, inning the dils rums they were
placed in, immediatel♦ passed a temporary bill, reduc-
ing the license fie to 49r. for three month. instead of 30s.
per month, as hitherto; the whole amount to be paid in
advert*. This measure seems to have given general
satisfaction, and the excitement la now nearly blown
over. 1■ consequence of the late threatening
dsrup-
tion, the 40th lteginient :of Infantry has been sent to
the diggings, where it is reported they are to remain
for a considerable time, and the 99th ReAment has been
seat from Van Diemen's Laud to Melbourne, in order
to strengthen the power of government in case e f an
outbreak. There was a grand fife at Geelong on Tuesday
list, on the occasion of the turning the first sod of the
Geelong ;and Melbourne Railway. His Excellency
the Lieutenaat•Governur of the colony was the principal
personage in the ceremony. A fallacy between Melbourne
and Hobsen's Bay was commenced some months ago, and
in all probability will be opened in less than twelve months
from this date. A canal and dock company between Mel-
bourne and the Bay has also been formed, and will very
likely be carried into effect without delay. The Poet-office
has been made three times as large as it was twelve months
ago, and is now carried on in as efficient a manner that it
certainly reflects great credi• ou the 11)21,k/et' of that depart-
ment. The arrangements, lam of of inion, cannot well he
surpassed by any of your first-class cities at home (London,
Manchester, and Liverpool eaccpted). A college is about
to be established. A large amount has been granted for
the public library, and a grant for the formation of a
museum of natural history is now being brought before the
legi lative council. What with tlte.e and other things,
which time and space will not allow me to mention, Mel-
bourne bids fair to become eventually one of the must flou-
rishing cities in the world.

(mum A CORIILbi..,SPCNT )
The Wyk** trim Gibraltar, by the Balbee, are to
inst.. at v. hith date some alight amelioration
tae ie.i.eot affairs had taken place, in consequence
of Ls Spaniards having allowed the introduction of
--roetsiods teto Gibraltar. 'The grand jurors, after
11,,„,0ug of the very light business in the calendar,
IA made a formal presentment to the Supreme
c,.ar, denying, in the most explicit term, the official
gi.c4r.ition of the Governor respecting " the scanda-
km, meow( riot, dm kermess, and attempted mur-
go. *hick had disgraced the Bay;' as the grand
1,,,ra pointedly remark, that no offenders for these
eiolations of the law had been brought to
his;, and the light calendar (only five trivial cases)
in, the best refutation of the calumny of the
Gocroot, with respect to " the deep moral turpitude
of the place." A letter front one of the moat iutelli-
gent merchant says :—" Very urgent remonstrances
lime been sent from the merchants here to Lord
Hoed. u, through Mr. Brackenbury, our consul at
)I.tdritt. urging his lordship to move the Spanish
vernment to put an end to their quarantine ; but it
y(arid no hopes can be entertained that the Spanish
government will relax in their regulations so long as
Sir Robot Gardiner continues Governor of Gibraltar,
m th it a single case of cholera exists in England.
The central government has authorised General
filanci',, the commandant at Algeciras, to permit sup-
plies to be sent to Gibraltar, but no hopes exist of
being released from our present bondage unless we
obtain relief from England.
The following is an extract from the grand jury
presentment before mentioned :
From our personal experience we know that the poorer
classes of this community have for some time been reduced
to a degree of misery and privation unusual in this city.
This unfortunate change in the circumstances of the
poorer classes is attributable, in our opinion, to the
peculiar state of circumstances to which this city has
lately been subjects d—we mean to the suspension of our
open end unrestricted communication with Spain. The
inhabitants of this community are all more or lees
dependent for their means of support on the commerce of
this city, end any circumstances which affect the more
affluent classes must necessarily act upon and effect the
lower ordi re. We deeply regret the existing misery and
distress, more especially among the labouring classes, and
that there is at present no prostect of its immediate
cessation. Under these citcumatances, we cannot do
lea than express our satisfaction and gr4tifica-
boa that the misery now endured by these use
fortunate people has not been attended by it
usual concomitant, the commission of crime, poverty, and
physical sutferingr, being almost universally the forer
of crime. Having expressed our satisfaction at the state of
the present calendar, we will now respectfully refer to a
subject to which we think it a public duty devolving upon
as to call the attention of your lordship (this subject being
in fact the more immediate end express object of our ad-
dress to your lordship). In the month of July, 18,53, we
were, in common with the rest of the community,
nrprised by the appearance of the following parr
rapli in an official paper published in the Gibrany
Chronicle : " That one of those disgraceful scenes of risk
drunkenness, end attempted merder, which had .0 Wag
disgraced the Bay of Gibraltar, renders it ineumbenton the
Governor to direct the attention of the port and revenue'
authorities to a more rigid enforcement of the existing
orders in council for the prevention of such licentious in
tractions of the peace and laws, &c." We say that we
were surpriad because, until the appearance
of this official paper, we had not been aware either in the
discharge of our public duties in this court or from any
other source that crimes of the character and atrocity al-
luded to were frequently committed in the pert of Gibral-
tar. We know that the captain of the port and the port
loostabulary are invested with the most ample power for
the suppression of crime and the apprehension of criminal
lenders. We had every reason to believe that she police of
the bay was an active, energetic, and efficient body of men,
We feel it to be our duty to call the attention of your lord-
ship to the criminal acts thus publicly announced in the
Geto•alar Chronicle from the highest authority in this city,
and submit that if such crimes have been of frequent 043-
euneigt, the duties of the police of the port must have
been carelessly performed. We say this, because during
oar rapt rime in this court as grand jurors, the commis-
sion of crimes of the nature and magnitude referred to
as of frequent occurrence in the bay, has never been brought
to our notice and consideration. This circumstance appears
to us to be singular and unaccountable ; and we deem it to
be oar bounden duty to intimate as much to your lordship.
We feel it incumbent on us to state that we art convinced
that the present energetic and efficient captain of the poet
has not been cognisant of the perpetration of the ae crimes and
Weans. We feel assured, if be bad been, that he would have
taken every necessary step to bring the offenders to justice.
Oar surprise is that such crimes should have been of frequent
eccurrence, ani that the captain of the port, and the
mi-
Material officer, of justice employed in the pia: department
seder him, should have been kept so completely in igno-
rance of their perpetration. We humbly pray your lord-
if to pardon us for trespassing thus on your lordship's
Olean attention; hut we deemed it necessary and expe-
lling to refer to this matter, holding the public office we
ilk this court and community of grand jurors, and to
spar lordship's attention to the extraordinary fact an-
usenotd publicly by the highest executive officer in this
innonaity—viz., his Excellency the Governor—in order
. such iaquirses may be made, and such measures
gifted, as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of
tisp so offending.
Signed by all the Grand Jurors in attendance.
Supreme Court, Gibraltar, Dee. 13, 1953.
[A true copy, Euvr. Leon, Master Clerk of Arraigns.]

INFANTICIDE I. THE PCNJACB.

(trout The Priroof of India.)
Another chapter in the black history of Indian
crime. It is not the least among the many obstacles, in the
path of the Indian governmeat, that it is called upon to con-
tend with crimes which have become almost national cus-
toms. Founded like suttee upon superstition, like infanticide
upon a social prejudice, or like Theme upon the mere love
of plunder, they have spread in the course of years over whole
races, and have become part of the daily life of organised
communities. It is not that the strength of the government
is unable to cope with them on account of their magnitude,
for government could have exterminated the Thugs in a
twelvemonth. The difficulty is, the utter impotence of the
ordinary aids to authority. It receives no information,
for the entire pup!, is guilty. It can gain nothing by
treachery among the criminals, for, in the people's idea,
there is nothing to betray. Its European experience is of no
value, for the European theory supposes that natural affec-
tions ate stronger than social prejudices. Its European
agents are at fault, for the proofs of good character and of
heinous crimes are often united in the same person. The
respectable, well-born, intelligent Rajpoot who g his
estates with an ability which extorts the admiration of the
collector, has murdered his female children, and who would
have assisted to burn his mother alive but fur the law. The
wife, whe would kill herself rather than allow a European I
to see her (see, and towards whom her sons express the
deepest respect and affection, has consented to the slaughter
of her own children. The manner in which • native retains
occasionally, midst great virtues, • criminal side to his cha-
racter, might form one of the most curious chapters in
psychology.
We make these observations, which many of our Indian
readers will consider Nome w hat trite, because it is the dogged
adherence to English ideas which feeders our system so un-
intcllieible in England. To proceed to facts. Late in the
year 1831, Major Lake, Commissioner of Goordaspoor in
the Punjab, became aware of the existence of infanticide
among • class in his own district. He reported the facts to
the Board of Administration, and inquiries were immedi-
ately commenced. All the commissioners received orders to
report upon the previdecce of the crime within their rupee
rive jurisdictions, and to suggest measures for its removal.
Considerable delay appears to have occurred in collecting the
information required, but at last it was obtained in a form
which enabled the Judicial Commissioner to report upon it.
It was found to prevail more or less in the Mistretta,
Ferozepore, Jullundur, Hooshearpore, Lahore, Mullen,
Jhelum, and Leia =strict. ; in fact, over a tract of country
as large as an European kingdom. It was not, however,
practised by all the inhabitant.. It is confined chiefly to
t e Bedeea or descendants of Nauuk Goons°, men gene.
rally of great wealth and ii.fluenee, and to the Rajpoots,
geaerally poor, bat among whom the custom is one of im-
memorial antiquity. The Khetrees, however, sonic Dram
buns, and even several of the Muuulman tribes, maintain
the pectic' ; and the higher the rank, the more certain arc
the female branches of destruction. It is believed, also, by
the most experienced officers to have infected all classes in
a greater or less degree; and we may readily imagine that,
even where the motives which influence the highest class
wets absent, the lower orders would acquire from their
example a degree of carelessness for their children's lives.
The motive for their crime differs among the different
classes. With the Rajpoots of the Ponjaub, as among the
Rajpoots everywhere else, it is simply pride. They must
marry their female children, and they must marry them
to their equals. This is occasionally difficult, and they
slay them to avoid the inconvenience. Then even if
they find bridegrooms, they must give a dower more
than proportioned to their means. Their extravagance
sometimes reaches a point which is almost incredible among
a parsimonious people. One chief gave hie daughter 17
niche of rupee., another expended 10 lakha, and a third
gave alakh to his niece married to a poor Branches of the
plains. Their insane pride, to which that of the Highland
chief is almost humility, forbids them to diminish its
amount. It is a question, as Major Edwardes has observed,
between the father's wealth and the daughter's life, and the
life is taken, and the wealth retained. Thee again, in some
instances, it is regarded simply us • means of proving the
purity of their race, mere habit of imitating the upper
classes. The Munha Raj poets, for instance, when in the
hills, are the lowest of their tribe, and their cbildrer
are consequently safe. But in the plains they become
the highest, and in order to prove that they are such,
they slay their children. Yet the Rajpoots are the
noblest of the Indian races. The same causes are in opera-
tion among the Mussulmans. The highest tribes, jealous
of the purity of their lineage, are jealous also of their
wealth, and the female children are sacrificed to savethent
from an unequal marriage, and their fathers from tooliberal
donations. Added to all this, the principle of consanguinity
is pushed to the wildest extreme. Almost every Itajpoot
is the relative of every other, all who are descended from
STATE AND PROSPECTS OF MELBOURNE. one common ancestor consider themselves blood relations
after the lapse of centuries, and down to the last degree
The Manchester Guardian publishes a letter from marriage is forbidden. Every Itajpoot Campbell consider
a gentleman resident at Melbourne, received by the latest himself not only the kinsman of the Duke of Argyle, but
within the forbidden degrees. It is among the Bedees only
mail, from which the following passages are taken
that a different set of motives appears to come into opera-
Melbourne, Sept. 26, 18.13. tion. They are the descendants of Dhurm Chund, the
We still continue to have a large influx of immigrants grandson of the great Nanuk Gooroo, and considered them-
from all parts of the world, though the recent accounts selves of the priestly ante—the Letitia of the Punjab
They murder en the strength of tradition, and add wee
received of the prosperity of the mother country, coupled •
ineisally a mocking ceremony to the crime. The child is
with the unsatisfactory statements of parties who have buried; • piece of coarse sugar is put between its lips, and
been disappointed with this land, will, I haven doubt, a hank of cotton in its hands, and the father cries—
have their influence in checking the tide of emigration Eat your goer and min your thread,
which at we time assumed suck an aspect that it almost But go sad mod a tem Indeed.
Be the motives what they may, it is certain that, in hen-
threatened to decimate the old country. If we may judge
deeds of families in the Puejaub, there has been no
from the busy state of the wharves, there is no lack on the daughter born for a g lion. It is certain that in
part of our friends at home in sending us out merchandise thousands infanticide is a custom, to which no member
of almost every description. Many articles aro already of them probably would hesitate to allude, that all over
cheaper hire than at home, so that some parties must thefe %stub t
ths nhoetreto a
lea a dispropor
ccounted itoieenbyinottroantyumeabear of,
already have " burnt their fingers." Of course, when any and that in certain districts this disproportion rises
article becomes a drug in the market, • general order is to a height which implies the extinction of the female
sent home to stop the supplies, and the article eventually sex. The evil must be remedied, and the authorities
Inas its paying price ; but not before great lutes have have resolved upon the means. They are utterly op
less posed
sustained. Parties in England cannot be too cautious to English ideas. A London magistrate would redoublethe
vigilance of the police, and, if possible,increase the certainty
ihmatehing the exports to these colonies, in order to ensure of punishment. Such measures by themselves would be
fillemipment of such goods as are likely to be scrim useless in India. It is the social police which in England
Oseshe should also he exercised in shipping goods by a firm prevents crime, and we have no social police. The autho-
ef Mum respectability. A friend of mine has just received rities, guided, we imagine by Mr. Raikea, whose success at
Mytipoorits has given him an European reputation, have
*quantity of goods, the freight of which was paid •at Liver- attempted to strike the evil at its root. They have taken
pool in advance, with a written agreement that they should advantage of the dawning abhorrence of the crime among
be landed free of expense at Melbourne Quay. In the face the people themselves, and have endeavoured to induce
of this agreemeat, the intent in Melbourne has compelled them to remove the temptations to it. The people are to
my friend to pay the expense of lighterage from the bay,
nberadisetiof.ecttelyasinafoenerlde, he actpe is regarded by their
thaacet be drawn up distin-
the amount of which is considerable, or otherwise he would guishing male and female children ; and, lastly, a great
not deliver the goods. The worst of the matter is, the meeting has been called of the chiefs of districts, aided
'hipping agent at Liverpool has failed, and consequently by the commissioners of the Jullundur, Lahore, Cie-
it would be utterly useless to sue a bankrupt shipping Sethi divisions, and presided over by the chief
agent for damages. The only way lett for my commissioner. All the native chiefs who can be
!Head is to pay the lighterage under protest, and expected to attend will be invited,. and new
net himself content. In regard to the price rules for marriage and other ceremonies will, it is
of land, it still continues high, and affords hand- hoped, be formally adopted. The meeting is to take place
some profits to the wealthy land jobbers. The goveromept on the 29th and 31st October, in the holy city of the Sikhs,
are throwing more land into the market, notwithstanding and can scarcely fail to produce the result intended, viz.,
which, ate. competition amongst the land speculators is as an unanimous declaration of opinion against the practice.
Peat as ever. Rents are equally high, if not higher, than That every effort has been made to secure a favourable re-
they were some two or three months ago. Good permanent salt, we need scarcely affirm, and the interest taken in the
stone buildings are springing into existence in every part of matter by the Governor-Oeneral is sufficiently manifested
Melbourne, nor ere the suburban portion of our population in the following sentences from • minute, dated 7th
behindlised with their wooden erections. In eleven every September:
Part of the district surrounding Melbourne wooden houses, " 2nd. The Governor• General in Council his read these
stores, he , are shooting uas it were by magic, and it almost papers with deep interest and much gratification. He can
seems like a fairy trine rather than a reality. To walk a conceive no purer or higher source of pride for the public
little way out ol Melbourne to a thriving locality reminds officers of • state than such a record as this of the wide and
else of a country fair or wakes at home ; the continued rapid success of their exertions on behalf of the honour of
lamer* and bustling resembling the noise made in our rule in the rescue of suffering humanity.
Patine up the shows and other paraphernalia which is " 3rd. The Governor-General in Council desires me to
'serially heard on the day before the fair. The great express in the strongest language of cordiality and sincerity
peumptiou of timber in the erection of these buildings the high and grateful approbation with which the govern-
llrr up the price of that article, until the anent of India regards exertions on the part of its officers,
nem heavy arrivals, which have had the effect of which are so eminently calculated to reflect honour on the
motile a downward tendency. The diggings still continue ; British name, and to add largely to the material happiness
to yield well. The individual instances of " lucky finds "1 of the people whom Providence has lately confided to our
are net so numerous SA they were at the commencement of care.
the gold dlrreirs. But there are still some fortunate dig- " 4th. lam directed to say that you, and the officers
happengenaho to be eitsremely successful in their opera- under you, may rely with implicit confidence upon the
!met .e party at the Ballarat diggings lately hit upon a desire of the Governor-General in Council to manifest his
mid you
have
'lllls teltl"flold which was dugont by the cwt. Such appreciation of the wise and benevolent object y
lucky tits as these inspire the more unfortunate part of the proposed to yourselves, and of his readiness.to afford you at
which can be sup-
4,flore =immunity with fresh vigour, and they go on toil- all times every encouragement and aid,
mg with a patience nulling that exhibited by Mr. Mims- plied by the full measure of his power."

AUSTRALIA.
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COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.

Yesterday the half-yearly general court of gover-
nors of the Commercial Travellers' Schools for Orphan
and Necessitous Children, wu held at the Loudon
Tavern, Mr. Isloont, treasurer, in the chair.
The SICHETARY read the following rt port :
"The termivation of the year brings the Board of Ma-
nagement and the governors once more together Under
happy circumstaiiets hitherto they have invariably met,
and taking a general glance at the prevent position of the
I institution. the board expect that the present meeting will
not prove an exieption to the experience of 10/111vT years.
' It is true that the year has been one te unusual anxiety,
questions of grave responsibility involving lung and seri-
ous deliberations have bad to be cotriderell and decided.
Hawever, in taking a retrospect of the events of the past
twelve months, the board have not only the happiness to
feel that they have desired to do right, but the gratifies-
, lion to hslieve that the deternsinatioas they bars come to,

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE
IN SOHO.

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Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest on the
body of Bardolph Theodore Hearse, who bad committed
suicide after making a desperate attempt to murder his wife.
Francis lhys, who lodged at the same house as the de-
ceased, No. 15, King-street, said he had known him fur the
last six months. He was about 34 years of age, and a tin-
plate worker. Last Saturday evening, about nine o'clock,
witness beard he cry of " Murder," and rushed up-stairs
to the second floor landing. lie there saw a woman in her
night dress; she said, "I am murdered." Witness helped
her down to his own room, and soon found that she was
covered with bleed. Witness ran for a policeman, whom
he found at the corner of Nassau-street; and they pro-
ceeded up-stairs and found the deceased making a gurgling
noise in ►is throat, and the blood pouring out from a very
large wound. He was lying on the bed, with one leg and arm
lunging off it. There was also a very young child lying on
the bed, and it was covered with blood. The pc/Haman
sent +Bova for • doctor, but he had to go to five or six
places before one could be found at home. When witness
returned tco surgeons had arrived in the house. The poor
woman was subsequently removed in blankets to the work-
house.

awl the steps taken, have in the main heml those best cal-
culated to promote the real interests of the institution.
The receipts for the past sear have been as follows:
presentation, 1051 ; donation for general purposes, 119/ 44;
sulenriptiona renewed, 2,0811. Is.; new subscription',
537/. 10s ; donations to the building fund, 3,8281. 15s. Id. ;
subscriptions to the building fund, 511 9s. total, 7,6221.
19s. Id. This summary of the year's receipts is very
satisfactory. The hoard nave felt some anxiety lest the
exertions being made in favour of the building fund should
interfere with the urdinary income of the society. Many
who previously were only annual subscribers have during
the past year become life governors, and it was feared that
on this account a considerable diminution wi uld appear in
the amount of annual subscriptions. But it is pleasing to
tied that whilst a sum of no less than 3,861)/. has been lidded
to the building fund, the amount of annual tmbscriptiuns
exceeds the amount received from the same source in the
preceding year. The number of children in the institution
at the present time is 132—three are about to le Lye, basing
completed their term, and twelve candidates are to be
elected this day ; so that the number on the books fur
the next hslif.year will be 111, consisting of 94 boys and
47 girls. The board have to report that sit.ce the einem-
bling of the last half-yearly court, a cuntr iCt bill been en
tered Into for the erection of the new building at Pinner,
eta cost of 16,1831. In August last the roost eminent
builders in London and the country were furnished with
specifications of the proposed edifice, and were invited to
tender for the works. In reply to this invitation many tenders
were sent in, and when these were opened and compared, it
was found that that of Mr. Parker, of Thrapatone, was the
lowest. The board had no option but to accent Mr. Pars
her's tender, and entrust to him the erection of the schools;
and from the different works that he has completed, and his
high standing in his bushiest., the board feel great confidence
that the edifice at Pinner will he finished ins solid and satis-
factory manner. The board grieve to say that the amount of
the contract considerably exceeds the original expectations of
the board ; but this is to be ascribed, not to any design on
the part of the board to erect an elaborate and costly build-
iag, but to the fact that labour and building materials ger...-
rally have risen in value, within a short period, between 3d
and 40 per cent. The works have been commenced, and
some considerable progress has been made. The building
stands out of the foundations about tour feet above the
ground line; the various door frames, sills, and floor joists
of the basement are in part fixed, and a large portion of
the basement windows ore worked. The builder is hound
under a heavy penalty to oomph to the building within
eighteen months from the date of the contract, and, from
the progress already made, there is no doubt that the
building will be quite completed, and fit for occupation,early
in the spring of 1835. It is proposed that the building,
when finished, shall be opened with a suitable inaugura-
tion, at which his Royal Highness Prieto Aibert shall be
respectfully requested to preside. Whether his Royal
Highness will condescend to honour the occasion with his pre-
tence can only be ascertained when the proper time armee.
But from the gracious manner in which his Royal High-
weee received the deputatiox appointed to wait upon him a
kw months since, to request him to lay the foundation
Mime of the new building, the readiness with which lie
MOW to that request, and the kind interest he then ex
in the prosperity of the institution, induce the
=d
to hops that his Royal Ilighneu will countenance
ay his presence the ceremonail in contemplation. Against
that day a combined, a vigorous, and a self-denying s (fort
should be made to complete the building fund. Far, how-
ever joyous in other menet' that occasion may be, however
imposing its formalities, nod though honoured by the cons. '
pany of the good and the great, and graced by the prewar*
of royalty itself, its joy will be clouded and its Williston
dimmed if the building is unpaid for grid the institution k
in debt. To the long-tried and faithful friends of this in-
stitution the beard would say, per . Other object!,
worthy in themselves, no doubt, mir invite attention and
challenge support, but on commercial travelleie this in-
stitution has a paramount claim. An offspring of their owsk,
it has a tight to look Ito them especially, in these its early
and, therefore, its tender years, for succour and support.
Eight years have the friends of this institutions now labari
ously toiled, but their labour has not been in vain. The*
exertions have been great, but they have not been or
They have hitherto sown, and now the fruit et
their labours begins to appear. An edifies destined to hail
its place amongst the permanent institutions of the land
already rises from the ground. Let the cheering eight
awaken gratitude for the past, and stimulate to further
efforts fur the future. The great object now is to complete
the building fund. A little more pi , a little more
labour, a little more eel-denial, and this object will be
attained. 'the stewards this yew have especially exerted
themselves, and to them the warmest thanks are due.
Many of them are amongst the oldest friends of the insti-
tution. Let theism who have worked at the foundations, and
borne the heat and burden of the day, continue their efforts
so that they may share in the triumph when the top stone
is est on."
On the motion of Mr. M'Cuto.oen, seconded by Mr.
GuretoN, the report was adopted.
Mr. Moors was re-appointed treasurer for the ensuing
year. Mr. Charles Blowers, Mr. William Skelton, Mr. G.
Malden, Mr. F. Wood, and Mr. W. !'otter, were appointed
on the board of management, in the room of Mr. Alderman
Finnis, Mr. It. M. Phillippe, Mr. W. J. Powell, Mr. M.
Putter, and Mr. William Tilt. The following gentlemen
were appointed auditors for the ensuing year :—Mr. J.
Bradbury, Mr. A. Caldecott, Mr. J. Greve, Mr. G. Red-
msyne, Mr. R. Ridley, and Mr. William Smith. Mr. Saul
was reappointed secretary.
After the meeting the subscribers rroceeded to the elec-
tion of 12 children to the charity.

Hannah Hodgkin, the mother-in-law of the decent el,
stated that she lived in Spalding, in Lincolnshire, and came
up to town on last Wednesday, to attend her daughter in s
her confinement, which happened on the Wednesday morn-
ing. The deceased sent the letter and the money for her.
He seemed very good to his wife ; in fact, so much so, that
his wife said they were more than usually comfortable. On
Saturday night last, a little before seven o'cloek, he asked
her to go out to market with him, and she did so. lie left
her at a tea shop in Urafton street, Soho, saying that he
would be back in a minute. Witness being a stranger,
waited for two hours, lest she should be lost. At last she
was fetched home, and what she saw there nearly sent her
out of her mind. Iler daughter and the deceased had been
married eleven months, but she had had eleven
minutes comfort with him. lie bought a razor last eurauseri
and in a quarrel stated that they should both go off toge-
ther in one bloody bed. She wrote to witness about his
I bad treaement and jealous temper, and witness sent ter her
to come home. She had left him upon one occasion. On
Saturday, he appeared very kind and considerate the whole
of the day—so much so, that witness was rather surprised
lat it. Ile never showed any disposition to do his wife harm
I before witness.
I Diana Brand lived with her husband at 15, King-street,
Soho. She only knew the deceased by lodging in the same
house. She did not associate with them, because her husband
had an objection to foreigners. Witness was present when
the deceased's wife was confined. He cams and looked
closely at the infant, shook his head, and said, "enough,
enough." He appeared otherwise very kind.
After some further evidence,
Mr. Walter Bullo.k, 16, Rupert-street, Haymarket,
. 1 master tin-plate worker, stated that the deceased had
worked for him about fuur years. He was a sober man,
but of very irritable temper. Witness believed that he had
spoken to the men in the shop about being jealous of his
wife, but nobody noticed him. Re has been of late very
. irregular in his work, fur the last few weeks, sad witness
• had ciuken to him about it. No one thought that he es as
! insane. _ _ .

LINUSARIAN BENEVOLENT LOAN SOCIETY.

lhe Coroner untamed up the evidence, and the jury re-
turned a •erdict to the effect that the deceased destroyed
himself whilst in a state of temporary insanity.

THE LEIGHTON BUZZARD BURGLARY.

Yesterday the four prisoners, Lewis Myers, Charles
Marshall, John Saunders, and George Parker, we re
brought up on remand at the Town-hall, Leighton Buzzard, I ,
before Colonel Gilpin, M.P., Colonel Himmel., and Mr.
W. J. B. White!touse. The hall was densely crowded.
Mr. Parry, of the home circuit, appeared on the part of
the prosecution ; Mr. Solomon!, for Myers ; and Mr. W. F.
Howe, 107, Blackfriars-road, for the other prisoners.
Mr. Perry, after a few opening remarks, called the fol-
lowing additional evidence:
Edmund Tearle—l am the driver of the omnibus from the
Swan Inn, Leighton Buzzard. On the 25th of November
last I Wee at the station to meet the down mail train. It
arrived about a quarter to eleven. Three men gout out of
that train. Saunders and Marshall were two of them. I
saw the other man, but he is not here. I can speak posi-
tively to the other two. I saw them jump out of the train.
They then went into a luggage shed instead of going into
I the waiting-room, where there was • fire and a light.
Sounders came out and asked a porter what time the mail
train arrived either at Triag or Bletchley, and if it stopped
there. The man could not tell him. They then crossed
the line towards the gates. Marshall called to them
come back, as that was not the way out, ani they came
I out of the departure door. Saunders asked another porter
the same question regarding the mail train. This porter
went into the office to look at his book, and Saunders ran
out after the other men. Marshall had a small bag or parcel
under his left arm at the time. I then loot sight of them.
Cross examined by Mr. Ilowe—l had never seen them,
Saunders and Marshall, before that day to my knowledge.
I only saw the back of them after the last examination. I
let them into the omnibus, but there was such a crowd
of people round that I could not see their features at all.
By Mr. Parry—l have no doubt whatever that those two
men are the men I saw.
Nathaniel Smith—l em a painter. I worked with Mar-
shall about two or three years ago. I saw Marshall and
Saunders on the night of either the 16th er the 9th of
October last, on the Linslade•road, about one-and.a-half
mile from here. I asked Marshall what he was doing then,
and he said he was at the old trade. I then asked him
what trade Saunders was, and he said he was a brother
brush.

Last night, the annual dinner in aid of the funds
of this charity was held at the Crown and Vulture, Corn.
bill. Mr. K. Costello, president of the society, in the cl.air.
The society was eetabl.•shcd solely by gentlemen of the
Jewish faith, and is still principally supported by members
a that body, but the object of the charity, which is the
very laudable one of advancing money on loan without in-
terest to poor bat honest and industrious persons, is not
confined to the members of any particular creed or country.
After the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Gerstenberg proposed the
prosperity and success of the society, aad congratulated its
friends en the fact that during the past year it had not re-
trograded, but progressed. During the first year of its ex-
istence the society had only &capital of 721. 19s.,with which
they effected 66 loans, amounting to 961, and last year they
had a capital of 2811. 12s.,with which they effected 207 loans
amounting to 4021. Up to the let June last they made 1,504
loans, altbgether amounting to 2,8321. Small as this
amount might appear in so large a population as that of
London, it still did great good by its means, fur it enabled
them to give many a poor man a start in life who after-
wards rose to independence. (Hear, hear.) The toast
having been duly honoured, Mr. C. Clarke proposed the
health of the president. The Chairman, in reply, stated
that his most anxious desire was to see the society flourish.
Unlike other benevolent societies this society required but
two tests in the recipients of its bounty—poverty eau
honesty. It was not confined to any sect or country,
and he was sure that it required only to be made more known
in order to attract towards it more extensive support.
(Hear, bear.) All that he could say was, that it had his]
best wishes, and that he would do all in his power to in-
crease its funds. (Hear, hear.) The health of the Bey.
Dr. Adler was proposed. by Mr. Defries, and several other
toasts were also drank in the coarse of the evening. Se-
veral subscription lists were announced, hut 'their united
sums would not reach a very high figure. Mr. Hind, Mr.
Fielding, and Mr. Percy sang some excellent songs during
the evening.

Cron-examined by Mr. Hiswe—l was in court last week.
I saw the prisoner Saunders, and I knew him, and I then
heard him called by his name. I never heard Marshall
call him by his name. I have worked with Marshall fur
three months at the Swan Inn, Leighton Bustard, and at the
village of Egginton.
Thomas Cook—l am a groom, and reside at Chelsea. On
the night of the burglary I was in the smoking-room of the
Elephant and Castle Inn, Chelsea, a little before eleven
o'clock at night. One man came in, • straoger, and then
two others came in after him. I identify Marshall as one
of the two that came in last, and I have not the least doubt
of his identity; but I cannot identify either of the other
two.
Job Denson, superintendent constable of the county el
Bucks.—l produce • great coat, upon which there were
droppings of green was ; and on the counter and various
other parts of Mr. Matthews' shop there were similar drop-
pings.
Sergeant Thomas Richards, of the Metropolitan Polies,
said—l know all the prisoners well. I saw Marshall three
'or four days before the robbery at the Bell public house,
Friar-street, Bleckfriars-road. He had carratty whiskers I
at that time. (lie has none now) I have seen Parker
with Saunders many times. I saw them together a very
few days before the robbery. I have known them to be
acquainted for about three years. At the time I saw Mar-
shall at the Bell public-house, he had on an overcoat like
the one now produced. I have never seen Parker and
Marshall together, with the exception of their being both
if them in a public house at the time.
Mr. Parry believed he had now established • prima
MO case against all the prisoner*, and, therefore, be had
so doubt that their worships would commit all of them for
trial upon this charge.
Mr. Howe then addreesed the court for his clients, bat
more especially for the prisoner Parker, against whom he
imetende4 there was not the slightest evidence, except the
gasman Hervey ; and he did not think that their worships
would believe his statement in preference to those of all
the respectable witnesses brought before them.
Colonel o.lpin, the Chairman, said the bench had come
to the conclusion, after • very careful consideration of the
case, to commit all of the prisoners to Bedford Gaol, to take
their trial at the March Assizes.
Mr. Solomon applied to the magistrates to admit his
client, Myers, to bail. If they refused he should then
apply to • Judge at chambers.
Mr. Howe would also apply for bail for his clients, and
more especially Parker.
Colonel Gilpin declined the request with respect to
Myers, Saunders, and Marshall, but with regard to Parker
they would consider that.
Captain Boultbee, the chief constable of the Beds con-
stabulary, believed that if Parker was admitted to bail
the ends of justice would be frustrated; and some docu-
ments having been produced by Sergeant Richard, refer-
ring
to the former character of Parker,
ST. GEORGE'S HALL, LIVERPOOL.—This magni- Colonel Gilpin stated that the magistrates had come to
ficent structure is now approaching completion, and, the determination not to admit him to bail.
according to pressnt arrangsmeuts, it is intended to be The prisoners were then asked what tLey had to say why
opened early in the month of September, with the perform- Y theshould not be committed
asce of an oratorio fur the benefit of the local charities.
We understand that the total cost of the building will MMr. Solonions stated that his client would reserve his de-
about 200,0001.—Lircrpoot Standard. fence for a future period, when he bad no doubt he should

be in a position to prove that he was Innocent of this
chap.
Parker said that there was no evidence to implicate him
in the robbery. It was only his character that had brought
Lien down there, and the police knew very well that he
was not concerned in the robbery.
Marshall and Saunders both stated that they would re.
serve their defence.
The witnesses were then as bound over, and the pro.
mit:Hogs terminated.