The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-09 00:00:00

4 THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1861.
IMPERIAL P.IRLI.k3IENT. a certain sum should be raised for public purposes witbin ! adjourcieg the debate, end, Mr. Berkeley lowing withdrawn in every respect, and the present indictment was come. who in a few moments were past all need of succour. Above to 465. inferior ; palm oil firm, at 44.. 10d.; fine Lego
the metropolis': That was • question which every gentlemen its amendiume as , the bill w read a second thee. quently preferred against him, the 'bus rolled and splashed the water, and it went smoothly horse-grease, 3ss.; rough fat, 2a. 11d.-(From the Circular--.•- -
could answer for himself. He route only sec. net he had The Exchequer Dills Bill was read a third time and .1 person named Hawaii, in whose employment the poi- on its way, eve where the maimed and drowning horses of Messrs. Smith and Charles, dated Monday evening.)
HOUSE OF COMMONS-Mt• N DAT, APRIL 8. ho Perseus' interest 10 pressing the matter en the conrisle- i passed ;as were the Mutiny Bill, and Marine Mutiny Bill. caner bad been sea hay-binder, came forward and stated fought for life and made the oak planking of the break•
ration of the house, awl that the government were perfectly The Consolidated Fund (3,000,0000 Balms,' readaiecoed that he bore a very good character • and he also handed in water, at whose bane they died, resound with the kicking of -
The house re-mumbled th i. ,lay after the Euter recess. wimp, to ewe by the SILK.-We have to report a menthol= business in silk.
• written statement, signed by the rector and a good many their hoofs. When the water was let off, so as to reveal a ',ere hes
can much hesitation end and eau
THE Eisesit'lli Ni /nee y verdict which the house time.
might pronounce upon it. He relied on the re- Mr. GLADSTONE obtained the appointment of a Com• of the principal inhabitant" of Great Stanmore to the same portion of the upper section of the omnibus, true heroism ''"'
still large quantities have found their way into consumption
Mr. T. I 01' Nl'. Of HE awl. -corm the Secretary of State eommelelatien of the committee * and hie belief • meter on Public Accounts, in conformity with a recommen- effect. was evinced by two men who deserve the highest honour-
-the deliveries being the largest for the last eight months.
for the Home I eiertment us his place, be would oak him a wee that unless they continued this 'tax, which was not dation of the Committee on Public Monies. The Recorder sentenced the defendant to twelve months' police-constable Gaffney, 143 E, and private Smith of the
At one moment the presence upon the market was rather
question. .1 w heti he had given him notice. The right found a leery Ironies, on any clue of comet-cm in the me- The house adjourned at twenty minutes to 1 o'clock. bard labour. 4th Light Dragoons. Cleavers and hatchets having been ob-
severe, and prices were pushed to a very low point for
hem ensiles...en Orte.l the other 'par that one "(the Kossuth ttnpulic, there was au other feasible method by which the Mined from the neighbouring shops, these two men, at the
_common silk, but that is rather passing away, the arrivals
note" WWI Imeeht to sir Richard Mayne by A policeman, Thames emhsukineut, or any similar works, could be NEW COURT, imminent risk of their lives, descended to the top of the
. being less heavy, and in some came an advance of 6d, to Is.
Ile wished t.....k the right boo. eenterzain what was the executed. With regard to the principle trl a port duty on Kato inttllignut. (Before the Common Serjeant.) 'bus, with the aid of a ladder and broke away a portion or
per lb. has been realised. Japan silk shared in the gene.
einalo.l .m.I letter ef the policeman from whom ter Richard ceale, he would remind hon. members connected with the
--ii.---- James Owen Rubinson, 38, shopman, pleaded guilty to
stealing 12 pairs of loots value 61,, the,
property of Cyrus the roof, through which was 'to be seen, in the uncertain
rally large business and depression of prices, and is now par.
ii one reerisel the testa, and the mode by which the said coal &strict. ix the north, that there was net • single one
ticipating in the partial improvement. Chinese thrown
Pellsee•en I vcslee ported of the mt.. sal abetter he of the Liege ports in the north from which coal was ex. INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.-APRIL 8. Clarke and others, his masters, and Charles Hearn Ranner, light, the horrors of that fatal night. 'There lay huddled
together six dead bodies. Without delay they were taken
28, bootmaker, was indicted for receiving them- kno-wing.silk continues to be completely, neglected. In Bengal silk
t their death. The first
wso .ial . member ef the police force, eiel if bet when be pone.' in which a port duty on coal was not collected. From
(Before the Chief Cammiasionerethe deliveries are decidedly beyond those of previous
from the place in which they met . .
was borne by Gaffney up the ladder, and was carried to Dr.
left it. • return made to the house in Mel, it appeared that at
them to be stolen. months, but this has not yet induced any improved demand.
ear te C. LEW is-I stated on aIN RE JOHN EDWARD RTEPHENIL -THE LONDON AND
Monks. of Ratbmines, who, throughout the fearful scene,
review occasion when Newcastle, Stoehton, and tiunderhiud, such n duty was le-
EAsTERN BASIL Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Kemp prosecuted ; and Mr. Sleigh In Italian, Brut* and Persian silk, nothing worth notice.
my hen. hem' breueht this subject under the attention of vied On .41111 fur municipal purposes, end he believed in all
defended Rayner. exerted himself in the most energetic manner to have every-
-(From the Circular of Messrs. Durant and Co., dated
I she he that neither flit Richard maitre e. , ',elf hee the other tert. in the north of England and in Scotland a si. This insolvent, who had heen manager of the London cud Mr. Kemp said that the prosecutors are wholesale boot-
ie Victoria street, an prisoner, whothing done that afforded a chance of resuscitating the vie- A „nil 8.)
41441.1 ASV inernetious to obtain any informaeon on the sub- miler ImPeal waa levied- Therefore teethentmen Coming Eastern lbankiog Corporation, and who had been examined makers •e d the • had tims. It weekend to be most bezardous to bring the other '.l.
II guilty, was one of their snopmen, and the other
es e end I elm. stated that if airy impeoper use heal Leen Dem the eual district,' would not object principle of ain &edam' under a sequestration, applied to be discherged le";l'ea
CATTLE.-LrymmooL, APRIL 8.-The supply of stock
I amok. •-f the informatics.' by the govertencrot. I was re- muoicimal duty on coals. With these explanations, lie under the act.
one kept a boot and shoe shop in F bin One of the
otter- e. bodies to the bank by the ladder, and ropes were adopted
Ismisidle l'reler these circumstances, 1 de net thick it begged to move the second reading of the bill. Mr. Dowse and Mr. Archibald appeared in opfeeition on
e___.`,,,, prosecutors' foremen, upon • the 'hop of Raner for that purpose in the other cases. Three of the bodes
were immediately taken to the Meath Room . lel They WS/ larger than on last Monday i the demand very slew for
both beef and mutton, at lest week's prioes. Cattle, 1,906 ;
IwoMil fee me to give say isfurmatisro sue. bas the hon. Mr. W. WILLIAMS hoped the right hon, bareoet would
______ „the Purl of the olYmiel menagem of the Isulh i Mr. "'3""" saw some of the utors' stock in theand ..est:eni.in cow .1 .irra. I will, however, .tote that no step conaent to iced e the bill, to give the inhabitant.' of the sef'Per'eu• es' in found that nearly all tbe goods were from the
window, upon' were-Mrs. Byrne. of No. 29, South King-street ; sheep. 3,053.
Mr. Aspe, professor of music, of No. 31, Pleanant-street ; I --
he . b's-u taken be the government for ti. timovel of the metropolis,l4llll .. .•
Ilv the poorer chews, whom it would On the schedule the debts were set forth at 61,242 t., and henl__, .
wh. h had t been ld b them • and
,s 41WCIA COALS. -Losecer, Aran 8.-Bell's Primrose Gas, 13..;
jolicerneu note the establiehment. - • of that sum upwards of reeetue was the amount of several e"'".'s P.remleel, le not .ee . 7 ,
it turned out that Robinson ILS4 been about -Cuntungharn, night watchman of the North Docks. The
i ...newly effete. an oppertunity of comidering its provisones.
claims nude by the official newagers of the Liedon and uPew legul remaining three bodies were at once despatched to Homers Bowe. west Henley, 17e. 6d. ; canoe.) Steam, 16e. 6d. ;
I NOTICE 4 or MOTIONS. He hail himself only seen the bill on his return to tewn twelvemont I robbing his employers, and selling the goods HeelYle!. They wer.:-Mee•rm:iill'9°_,_neelel, wife of Holywell, 18s. 6d. ; Lambert's West Hartley, 17s. &L ;
&eh:re Bank. In the sum mentioned was a claim ofChas. ()Connell, solicitor, En is, 'eagles e" et Tanfield Moor, 13a. 3d. • Tanfield Moor Bastes 13a. 3d. ;
"Wee. -Mt. I. tl tau, to ask the se :11.0,. 1. r belie no after the recem.
13,000/. advanced by the bank to the insolvent soil Colonel to Raynee who well knew where they came from.
Pixley whether, e ewithstaseline the ismese.. / the Lew Sir G. C. LEWIS said he believed the bill was in the Mr ale' having partially heard the statement of Mr. Walls End Halloo, Ife.'Bd. ; Walls Sod Hedll.lse. 6d.
Waugh, on a speculation in Brankies Castle, Poole, Dorset. Kern' • '
' SWISSAt rilLien. r.l Bengal no the rep. it • f the Melee Ilan& of member. on the 29th of March.Kp, that he should not take up the time of the court George's-place ;Mims Matilda
ahau O'Connell,
a boy about two-and- y
is 16, _ Walls End Hilda, 15s. 3d. ; Walls Pad Riddell, 15s. fad, ;
The insolvent was described in his schedule as of 84J:clues's-
, eremitic,. a Lill hae hare introduced Mt • the legislative Mr. WI LLI AMs eael that as yet no portion of the me-
nilof Gothic Lodge,T ..ic hbeerlondatiigghtetor ;Mr":
doctor of medicine, a
everything that human skill or land' and generous melt/
reelect' to sq.-use soatracta with the astir. sCy agf,eoltural Despoils bad expressed any opinion on the measure. In the Owe,
peed rue' A:• to ask whether the right lee. erroneous% first plane le• thought it most objectionable to tax coals, bated H. e had made a settlement on his wife, and attn. The jury found Rayner Guilty, and he was sentenced to
could . Y. . 17s. ,• Wall" End Huwell, 18s. 6cl. ;Walls Heston,
fifteen months' imprisonment ; and Robinson to twelvelBa. &I. ; Walls End Kepler Grange, 17e. ; Walls End South
Laid objeet t... 1.9. Hi. mines, is ple.tion to the t.1.7e. which, next to bread, might Iv looked upon as almost 'eted his •appearance before the court to the claims made
months' imprisonment. accemphish was tried, but alas it was of no avail,
were past earthly aid, and each lay in their beds as if they situ.. 18e Bd. ; woe hid ste„erte, lee. ed.. woe
upon him bv the official
Ins et elle 1.," 1.511 rise. • -Sir E. Set td, on the 1.-rL ioth, a n-ee...ire of hie. He •dsjected to placing in the The .„., . mehell's• Richard Wells who pleaded guilty at the February seg. WC.• alleep. All seemed, from thei
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_,Pl'^--ied,il dhat marh""l- Sod Harter, 18s. ; Walls End Heir Hall, lie. 3d. ;
s. t icf Commissioner said he had ouly heard of the
to rall attenti .11 to Co report of the corensee an. i. epos the hands of the Metropolitan Board of Works power to tax sion of this court emberslihg a sum of 3001., was brought their countenances, as if they had WI without a Walls End aloe. let 3d. ; web Ew. south Beetleped,
.
case since he came into court. He hod heard the law from . ,
mewl and tuueseenent .4 the deekyerds. awl n scecord- the mumpelis for ten years, involving a sum of two cc
cudthe f from the other side. All ' up '"een'enee' struggle, and it is thought the shock of the fall was in
itself sufficient to occasion death. Miss Matilda O'Connell 18e. fad ; Walls End Thorpe, 17a. • Walls End Trimilon
ewe with its oceetemeadetios to lOW, CU' revised esti- three minium of mossy, and thought it would be better to one side,
.the acts rom
-:llnewe Mr. Gifford and Mr. Metcalfe appeared. Thornley, 16e. ; Walls End WhitwOrth, 15s. 6d. • Carway
mete. he .uletieitel leer those sou. Leber the !...use, en as estrus' that power to some department of the goveniment. was 44'ti: insolventi commences
_a sequestration m
Mr. Metcalfe said that the whole of the ' and Duffryn Anthracite, 20a. • Carway end Duferyn Malt.
lash ow the sows proposed In be expended o 5:.a building He was opposed to tbe continuance of this tax except for awe in e middle of t. The insolvent hail goue to Scut-
fions had been made good to the prosecutor, who wished
at...deface: was a beautiful young woman, not more than 18 years of
sad essverting .1 slue. la the reargue m yerds. the embankment of the Themes, without which he knew me'', like many others, from the foolish motive, he might ~,_ to be mercifully dealt with on account of his hall ememhled" last
sge, and was one of the mea admired of the beauties that in& 249„..gbips at market, 96 ; said. 74.
Patrick's ball at the Castle. She was
say the improper motive, of gettineaway from his creditors ""e prisoner -
BANK DUPTCI AND INsoLVENt 1. BILL that the lower portion of the propmsel main sewers could ee e.. . ,- e • . ' wife and family. He had already been three months in
that he shou resume hos case in beautiful in death, as she lay beside her mother, and at
their feet lay poor little Byrne, looking as if he had been
The bile efter a few went. fneu 34t. w.m.r, waa mad a not lie carried out. He, however, thought that the money "PP Pa ImPreemee wasprison.TßAFFlC RETURNS.
&edam!.
might ILL S 0 be exclusively applied to embanking the mirth ,„
said . . The Common Serjeant sentenosd the prisoner to three
l tbird time and passel. (Cheers.)
side of ths Thames, L 4 the south side required a skeeter ern- . -"r. Sergood the insolvent was ready to go hack, andtired at play and had gone to rest. We will not harrow
our readers by attempting to describe the painful scene
moeths'ia.prosonniene Miles Pam Mee Total. Total,
POSTA trEll'E SA VINCS ItANKs BILL if moderate bail would be takes for 6,0001. he would go to
beakmeet quite as niece- Alexamdtr Bryant, 23, clerk, pleaded guilty to stealing 'UMW"' open 'engem than dim 1261 1380
Th. house wen; sat • committee on the Pose Mee riarieee Mr. le )(TELL. in rem ing the adjournment of the de- Scotland which occurred on Saturday night and yesterday, when the
bodice of the deceased were identified by their friends : it
warrants for the delivery of goods of the value of 7004, Week ending April 8. C 2 L L
Batiks Rill.
bate. expressed his surprise that the secretary of State for The Chief Commissioner said he wanted some facts. He
the property of Alfred Lana), his muter, will be enough to say that the hospitals were besieged by London, Brighton, .4g.
In answer to Mr S. remorse th ht the the insolventwent back to Edinburgh
the Home I apartnieut should be totally ignorant of the ex. ',lll sooner Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Poland appeared for the prosecution, and • few words at the doors or gates gave Coast anxious inquirers, . _
ma
um.... 304 k 15.404 3,403 IEBO7 17,875
'lna ('lli AN I 'FLU tit of the F.X ri: rQ t . El: state' that isteoce of the committee oo local taxatiou and metropolitan the uetter.
hope to some, and developed in other the most painful Do - 14581 A 531 21,165 22,031
and Mr. Metcalfe for the prisoner. the eereant• • t .I.pton would be lodged in c central *elle!. ensinent. He wield. not properly refer tuthe pro- Mr. Sergood asked whether the other aide really wished • demonstrations of human . sorrow. The news of the sad
The prisoner hall been clerk to the prosecutor, who is a
the i , vent us I to go back. disaster spread far and wide, and it sou remarked by all
office in Lon :n, soil week' Ls male tLe aubicct of at flIU4e. media..., haute that committee, but he might mention that wine merchaut, of Marielane, and the warrants in
Mr. Dowse said he was not bound to answer the uestion. question, that a kind of gloom haul settled on the city yesterday. In WEATHER REPORT.
aunt with ree,,ol to check wed coated leteete the Pest- they dem-andel free* the corporatios authorithe of London . , . 9 which were for wince, had been weed la the pawn y prisoner.
motet ti: wrap sod I's-al P"tos"Ion• 'al the •••.• Plan as certain information, which was at first refused, hut MU As it was past five °clock the case was adjourned to „,e
salary
was 2001..
ye...adta.many a pulpit in the several churches the Portobello
that now ..V.: I.; ill tLe care of moms, one" the good LoW, he believed, about to be granted. It was said that Thursday, the Pith instant, "to go into facts," as the '‘'
He was sentence(' to four years' penal servitude. disaster was made the theme of the discourse, and Lothing MONDAY. APRIL 8, BTOB AL
•erhing of "ad h was shown by the !.t..1 tlu,t in the trans- this tax hasl beeu mortgaged to pay certain debts of the cor- lismed"a"misii°"'r observed' else was talked of in the streets, clubs, reading rooms, in
moan's of et treeeillime the bee by defalcation "I
---• lien : but what was the nature of the mortgage? The - - fact it was the alhateorbing tamic. The omnibuses ceasing
. a/meanie.' "L'e P• 'ls"
e. When • deposit t W -.aught ught cerporation issue' their ordinary bonds for the amount bor. to run from the pillar to Rathmines, Rathear, Ronndtown,
be withdrawn, en application to the keel teem:oder a rowed, which were we charged on soy specific source of CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THE EXTRAORDINARY OMNIBUS ACCIDENT Irbibtown, and Saneymount reminded people more of tbe sad & X XD. 1. C. 1. 8.
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lona would le Intel up he the depeiter, which would be their revenue but upon the whole property of the corpora. IN IRELAND. catastrophe, and induced those who had not heard about it
tresendttel t- th. central once in Lotalse. anti en ita being tion. a Hear hen.) He thought the bill ought to he post- .-.. • • • to inquire the cause of the usual modes of conveyance not
or al 'ant Vire Dawson Hunt, a tall, gentlemanly-looeing 30.41 al 38 8.8. E. b 2
refuelled del!' •enilted the amount would be paid dY the posed till th;a committee on the suleect Lel reported. This (From the Preeman's Journal.) plying. Thousands flocked to see the place where the fear- NAII9I
man, who was stated to Live been formerly a capticiu ins the c 3
hue Ake. The .mount uf intereet peels'. Ott shimmies was a question effecting several millions of people, and in- One of the most fearful cataatrophea that has Lisp tragedy was enacted, and round Sweeuy's yard, in Cam- AhleolllB • ••• 10_1)1
_t It S.
c I
would be Sae !at 2/ Ite. per cent., wheel weal secure as. nevi - large fand it that ' lig sums 0 money, II WWI permutein army, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment
harginc him with obtaining 2.1 t by f u perhaps ever taken place in the centre of a populous city cc- denetreete where the fatal omnibus was placed, handfed,. Emmet
.4.,. . it
1444 lame kudg 4 from undue comPetitien• It was Pro- dealing web it, there should be no undue haste. He con- ce - Poland retained tee ret.peek • • rred fi ' t 9 • clock Saturday upon hundreds poured in to look at the vehicle and scan its 811291083411 30.47 43 41 R. W, c 3
pored by the .......cd 2...au8c ia carder to give the depeitur • dated-by' 'sing that the debate should be adjourned Mr. Metcalfe and M.r Po coaduc the prosecution •-u at twenty. ve minutes pas o on
- .night,when (ewer than six h beiperishedunder evea part. The aneogernenta of the police to prevent POSTRCSII 3O 55 44 EAR. b S
iaineotis y tile. er a reenrity for his depoit, to make for six vere.. Sernentllelhostaie was specially retained (with Mr. Ribtun)
en.
ta were adminesly arranged under the direction of Menthe 30.45.48 44 40 RE. e 4
rt1e9.41" "'h aff"l'd that skis far a lin.ded time- tea Sir J. SHELLEY seconded the motion. far the defendant. the most melancholy circumstances. They did not lose .
Mr. Superintent Mlbahou, Mr. Superintendent Raption, In- amour
da - •
ys try we. I. tone he would receive the ackuowledernent V This case, it appeared, was removed by certiorari from the
iscount 1101. M ESDALE understood from the right hon. • . their lives where danger could be even remotely anticipated,
but in one of the ordinery conveyances by which thousands ',Peelers .
- Cue' Lo h Donovan W rd, sad Het ~ aThe ficessORMIGH RICA 43 4' S.
ow,* LIVISPOOL
c 1
44 the Peetieee r•• ;corral, which would c doplete the title. mei 110 that the °beet of the measure was not to extend Middlesex Seesiona. The prouscuter was a geutlemau
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safety W trod f driver of the omnibus, Patrick Hardy, was rescued from the vajw.m 30.30 49 48 8.8. K f 1
Mr. Al' P.TO \ sawed that mine statemect sbould be lee Z.:I emit j ofthe bat hf od that met the area tax ;a ounamed Hackbleck, residing at Reigate. sod the charge arose upon 1•••••• d• Poised year eller, year in lO
canal at the time of the accident by Police-constable SWIM 30.27 i 60 49 13.8. E. o 2
gives el the %minable ex of the cerryiug tat of the out of the following circumstances:-It t -It appeared that there homes. Shortly before 100 clock a report ran through
E Gaff and 89 B, to hem leei praise is due as well as re. trill/MI 30 46 43 42 L m 4
tiraveotad, Nortleleet, and Dertford would become liable the defewhant end ea.. other had .41. iei thecity that one of Mr. Wilson's omnibuses had run into t • ne7
pawns es... 1L1... a W 'lodi will this Lo - . ' XN P.. b -
prepared *puny, ea • doute whether it would be to it fer the first time if the bill passed. dr. ed. The ward. The inquest on the es be held day EDON 30.60, 45 41 .
sort of horse registry in the metn.polis, and professed to act Grand Canal, and that all the passengers were
DOVER
self eappteeter. eiel if so it would become a clisr:e 0o the .tldernrin sl ON EY denied that there was any necessity as brokers between the selle tat twu tfi t regarded man idle and beanie's rumour, Vicadat3l.
es and purchasers of horses, the s emeu • m PORTSXOI7III 1 3834; 47 45 P. m 1
civil service se : imates.
t . see for the report of the committee, for the subject bad but in a short time it was proved to be unfortunately too true. PORTLAND-- 30.341 46 53 X. c 4
After some 1 .m*ersation. principle of their businees being to receive a commission of
3lr GLAIseroiNE ' . . 1114ki that the officials of the le. t-office already been inquired into four times during the last seven five per cent. from both parties. In January last the delete Almut the hour indicated persons, very many, were to be
years. Neither could it be "eel that the City laid made soy dent • e • in • l list seen rushing in the most distracted haste towards the Pm-
sent to Mr. Lox, aso icitor Lo eman-street, a of THE POLICE OF LONDON. 1'171100311 80.27' 47 44 X N.E.
MUNN
o 4
bed Dads '-'l`'''''"ll'-e" which showed adieferl"ri4 that the unoreper use of the money which it bad raised he the tan. horses that were upon his register, and it appeared that at tobello bridge of the Grand Canal, to ascertain if any of Jour 1
unposed eystem would be aelf•supportiog, walla a. its pro- Correnteme mei. 36 - KN.!. - c 6
, , Einensnes improvenienta were needed in the metropolis, this time the prosecutor, who Wll., a friend of Mr. Cox, was their friends or relatives were amongst the ill-fated dead ; TO THE EDITOR Or THE EXPREMS. Mumma 8843 44 -104. K 4 c 2
Cm mold ho IfrolooL end each year's exPeodtturo .wOup widish were for the bees& rather of the nation at large thanothers were to be seen driving in all directions to ascertain io want of a pear of carriage* hones,and lie asked the defers- Bun
laid 644" rii....-. it would "en early Pert"° u° of tits citizens : and he did not know how the money dant to let himif e - Beam/N.__ nen es - N.W. 4 r 5
amertaised, at • might he dealt with. Every item of ex• know be heard of two that were to
,• could be raised au a better nuneer. The honour- suit. In the us of a few ears the defendant wrote a theatre, or whom business detained them in tows, had come cient to draw the attention of the public to the present emus - N.N.E. 4 - m St
famailma hail 1,,,a remfulll calculated. •1•1 it was elst," able gentleman the member for Lambeth sad that letter the effect that he had foundeeiof horses that out by the fatal bus. Old people who had not stirred out inefficient condition of the Metropolitan police, as also of
mated that on an average trasesetions which cost the pre. a tan upon bad u one upon t° re a 4-r
an upon coals was as corn, would just snit, and that the owner wanted 1504 for them, of their homes after nightfall for years were to be met the polio. of the City of London.
EXPLANATION.
e"..e.eet wring. 1"1" ewe e,hreeilliwg.e_weuld, ,___Pewhw, the Pew But the tax upon weals did not affect any poor man beyond but that after a deal of trouble he had induced with asking with ainful eagerness whether " the bus was The pewter number of the members of both forces are 8.-Barometer corrected and
se,
eau to 32 deg. st mean see
emeeeY"""'" elee,el'etwee
eetsweeem'ilsfee,°. °.••nes. .1 poll- 64. ~r Is in th,,,,,,.... of the year. (Oh.) He maintained him to Lake 1:15/. for them, but not • thillin lam This Pius out or coming in," and years of misery was con. inexperienced men, and are consequently almost valueless level : mettle feet, of vertical rise, muds, about one-hundredth
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''''..... to those of the that there were mandid t g ted in thousands of AinfOWS hoes apprehensive of the for the purpose of protecting progeny, or for the detection of an Inch dinemaion: and 1 poor Per.oo, who n" "Immo was communicated to Mr. Hackblock, who went to see the rendre each 10 def., above 32 deg., coming
money-order off.
,nose .1101. •\ .11•1 .n ft turalomnmnll• liesielme itlm. m••• 1.,. • • ••• ... . . . 1..1_ s.
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W!LLOI'GHBY 'l:premed Lie doubts whether
amine' hsok w &Matto be established on safe prin-
ciples. Wes there my pr.:Midas for the settlement of tiis-
pud ehlians?

GLAIYSti/NE said that an divputed claim. wonld
100 disposed of is the saute way ea was the awe io the pre•
seat Resins Weis.
la Use course of Coe diectsdon,
thr H. WILLOrIiHBY moved as addition to cleave 10,
to the elfeet that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should
not have the • ant power of dialing with the ilepovitv in the
proposal sane, banks as he with regard to the
preload heal.. It W.UI by Mr. Clusistunc, hod ne-
gatived without a ilivisios.

-11• bill 'wed throu4Teosmittee.
LONDON COAL AND WINE DUES CONTINUANCE

BILL

Viscount 1101.1ESDALE understood from the right hon.
gfttleitian that the object of the measure was not to extend
lint to contract the area of the tax ; but he found that
Northtleet, and Dartford would become liable
to it foe the first time if the bill primed.
.tldermAn sl ON EY denied that there was any necessity
t r w:ot for the report of the committee, for the subject had
&treaty been enquired into four times during the last seven
'tan. Neither could it be said that the City had made any
lacce,,per use of the money which it had raised by the tax.
Eioensavet improvenienta were needed in the metropolis,
which were for the benefit rather of the nation at large than
of the citizens ; and he did not know bow the money
could be raised an a better manner. The honour.
able gentleman the member for Lambeth said that
■ tax upon coals was as had ax one upon corn.
But the tax upon coeds did not affect any poor man beyond
fiat. or Is. in the course of the year. (Oh.) He maintained
that there were many poor persons who did not consume
more than a ton in a twelvemonth. Besidee, there wax no
demi more interested in metropolitan improvements than the
labouring population, for it provided them with a great
deal of lii„thly remunerative employment. The opposition
to the bill proceeded from nothing .but a feeling of jeslousy
which metropolitan members felt towards the City. He
could wish that the boroughs which they represented had
lord mayors and corporations, but the fact that they had
not was no reason why the City should give up its ancient
rights. (Cheers.)

Sir J. SHELLEY felt precluded from entering upon any
diseusdon of the bill, because he was a member of the com-
mittee ; and on that account he should support the amend-
ment. Indeed, it did seem to him a very extraordinary
course for the right hoe. baronet to take, to give his support
to the appointment of the committee, Sllll then, while it bod
the subject under its coesiderstion, to bring forward the
second reading of this bill (Hear, hear.)

Sir W. CUBITT denied that the object of the com-
mittee was to inquire into the right of the corporation to the
tax. If such had been the avowed purpose of the motion
for its appointment be very much doubted whether the
house would ever have been induced to accede to it. Meer,
hear.) Neither did he sgree that there was no need for
promsling at once with the bill. In times like these six
weeks were a long period. A great deal had been said about
the right of the City to collect the 4.1. and to do what it
liked with it. That no doubt was the fact ;
but the corporation took far higher ground. They
asserted not ouly that they had pmperly expended the pro-
ceed, of the tax, but that they had also laid out a great
deal mom upon objects of public benefit. (Hear, hear.)
Every one that ever watt through the City must be aware
how pressing a demand there was for improreinente ; and
the only mode in which money could be raised for them was
by taxation. The only question, therefore, was whether
that taxation should be continued in a form to which the
public had been long accustomed, and which pressed very
lightly upon them, or whether they should attempt to frame
some untried scheme fur raising the money by means which
they might fancy would press upon the inhabitants with
less weight! He did not think himself that there was
rattly any possibility of finding a better tax. (Hear, hear.)
Cannon street they knew had cost half-a-million ; and the
melioration had been compelled by clamour to spend a
scarcely smaller amount in the removal of Smithfield.
market. They bad also had to spend 100,000/, in buildiog
a prison, for which • far leas sum would have sufficed if it
had been intended for the criminals of the City alone.
There were many other special circumstances in the case of
the City which took it out of the category of ordinary
towns. It was, for instance, seated on the bank of
a broad ricer, and it had several bridges, each of
which cost a malice. It was absurd to sup-
pose that • town of 1:30.000 inhabitant, could itself
bear all these espouses. With the increasing traffic of the
City, it would be as impossible to go on without further im-
provements as it would be to find as easier mode of raising
the necessary funds. There was no tax collected with lees
expense. When a collier came into the river a clerk had
merely to go on board and ask for the money, and it was
paid without any detention or personal inconvenience. He
should not like to see the town surrounded with walls and
a hundred gnus, at thirty of which DO commodity was
allowed to enter, sad at the remaining entente octroi was
! taken on all that came in. But it was absolutely aaossaary
to devise some means of indirect taxation, for they had
already carried direct taxation to Its utmost limit. Depend
upon it, if they threw away this impost epos cotes they
would involve themselves in difficulties from which they
would fled it no easy matter to extricate themselves.

Sir (I. C. LEWIS movoatieaetned reading of this bill.
The right bou. gentleman said the horse tons aware that
&dim were now moed on all coal imported into the city of
Londoe and withiu a reline of 20 miles from some oentrol
part of the metropolis. The amount thus raised COO.
sated of three portion,. Fourpenee a ton wan levied
for the benefit of the corporation of London, and
there were two sums of eightpence and one poesy
levied under the authority of sevenl acts of per-
il-meat, the pr,reeds of which hail been appropriated
for works of public utility. During the hat passim a sow •
mittes sat to consider the question of the enthookrisent of
the Thane., en I they unanirnouely collie to the followlog
r,solutitio That ao io 1%1 the eizlitpenoy sect the mei
Teeny duties on coal and the halfpenny duty on iris., whisk
were imposed and continued by parliament for the mimeses
of public itopoieenieut, in the metropolis, would cemm they
recommended that these duties he renewal fur • limited
period, and that the whole or • part of the probable coot of
the Theme, einlxinknieut be made a first chase no them."'
The present measure was introduced with the object of
nirryiret that recommendation into effect. The main
feature of the bill was to continue for ten yearn the nine-
limey duties described in that resolution. With regard to
the question of the Thames embankment, the committee
recommended that that great and useful work should be
executed. siuce that time her Majesty's goveintnent had
issued a commiesion composed of persons having a profee-
iiional kaowledge on the subject, and others who were likely
to be affected by the execution of the work, with • view of
whetting the hest of the different plans piopowl. The ilea
mon of that conimissiou would be of an engineering elm-
racter, and when their report we, made, the house
would be in a position, if it thought fit, to I. eisliste upon
the subject ; alloy when they agreed to • plan. it would then
be in their power to appropriate the produce of the nine-
penny coal dm', towards, the expense of the eiolenkment.
In eddition to oinepenny duties the lidl would likewise
continue the f eartemny now levied by the City. 'flint tax, I
Ice understood, had been levied oteitionous:v by the city for
many years. He was informed by the otticere of the oor-
poratioo that their books showed it had leen levied nein-
temoitedly niece the year of the fire of London. at which
time many of th., ardlives of the city were destroyed.
How long before 1666 the tax had been imposed it could not
be aseertaiussL hut that was unimportant as regarded the
question With respect to the +I. duty on coal he was
aware that a great deal of dieeneeimi would he raised. I
I I loar, Lear.) It nii,ht be said that a corporation ought i
not to levy for their own purposes this duty of 4.1. on all
consumers of coal iu Loados and within It miles of it.
(Ilear, hear., The City, however, maintained that
they had a right of property in the impost. lie I
was unovillio T. however. to eater totes cootroverev which he
koew from t• Fa% ;oils esperiesce was not madly determined
in that how-. owiui to the greet differences of opinion
which exietol unn it. lie would propose to the bowie •
plea for abridging that controversy by inserting in the bill
when in committee • clause appnupeintiny the whole of the
41.1. to the estilis.tiou of the d.hrt crested by the corporation
foe purposes of pehlic utility under the aothority of acts of
terliamect. II that were dons, there would be no dimes-
the on the pert of the corprortim, and they would have
to apply the moor iu the meaner pew-riled. The City,
having raised 510,01AY. for the purpose of forming CROWS.
street, obtained power WNW act of parliament to charge
that arm oo ass of their revenues and the Common
Canted, by revollition, ordered the clisr4e to be made on the I
ed. coal duty. He hoped that loth the house and the cor-
poration woeld a;mrove of thin propoeition, that the whole
produce of this 44. for the seat ton years slionl.l he appro.
printed to the Inimical of interest on the 7,10.4004., and the'
e,,,jeteptionoif tluv priuci pal. The hill would roan, the radios,
and therefore *Orr 'what diminish the ire-e, .enrinna from
the tax, lie calsuilstr,l that the tax yowl., prishies fir Jill. •
near, of which ?Awl/. would be required Inc intent, lea,-
tag, 01,00 N, to be applied to the rc.leniption of the debt,
which he trusted they would effect in the "urns of the 10
rears. With regard to the Oil. tat, he proreeol that it
should be applied to the purposes of the That.** ems
bankmost. He also week! propose that the ndi n of the
tax should he reduced from 20 to 10 mile., which was the
limit of the metropolitan' police district. Bohn, railways
were opened the metropolis was almost entirely supplied
with sapbonse curl., upon which duty was paid to. the
but so drawback allowed, saesepoch they mtght have
bees conveyed beyond the limit of 2) miles. Korn* yaw
:igo the (Ate contested to allow • drawback female seat le-
t'otel :be 90 miles, and thus whet was remmested ass peer
at and mammas act os the part of the City of London,u
mia in truth • roticemioe to the consumer. Iltrer. I l taw
the realest bill orals coasetned in places beyesd the metro-
iolitan police district would he entitled to a drawback. He
cad entered unto this explaeation in the hope that it would
.wlnce bon. members to &hernia from antiquarian or bpi
.linv visions on the aegis of the 4.1. duty, on which hie im-
patient:4 led Lim to anticipate a 'trot deal of irrelevant
'natter, orrupyine neneceesanly the time of the
hoot.- He hoped the liuSse would look at
the .meetien sot as one of law, hot as me
of expesbency. (Hear. hear) He was informed hr the
cluormso of the Metropolitan Beard of Works that direct
theater on the metropolis had already reached the extent
to which the ratepaven were willing to go. Laughter.)
The mats drainage scheme had added to their burdens, and
he did not think that any gentlemen who came famed
lad prepaid to raise a large sum for works of public uWity
by direct taxation on the metri pia lis would ha,....ery
Noy irk. (i rr, UN.) We. it then desirable or sat thot

This case, it appeared, was removed by certiorari from the
Middle-sex Sessions. The prosecutor was a geutletnau
named Hackblock, residing at Reigate. and the charge arose
out of the following circumstances:—lt appeared that
the defendant sal some other penons had established a
sort of horse registry in the metropolis, and professed to act
as brokers between the sellers and purchasers of horses, the
principle of their busies. being to receive a commissiuo of
five per cent. from both parties. In January last the defen-
dant sent to Mr. Cox, a solicitor io Coleman-street, a list of
horses that were upon his register, and it appeared that at
this time the prosecutor, who was a friend of Mr. Cox. was
io weut of a pair of carriage horses, and be asked the defen-
dant to let him know if be heard of two that were likely to
suit. In the mune of a few days the defendant wrote a
letter to the effect that he had found • pair of horses that
would just suit, and that the owner wanted 150/. for them.
lint that alter • great deal of trouble he had induced
him to take 135/. for them, but not • shilling lea. This
was communicated to Mr. Hackblock, who went to see the
horses, and liked them, and agreed to purchase them if they
were passed by a veterinary surgeon as sound. The horses
after this were sent to Mr. Field, the veterinary surgeon, to
be examined, and he gave • certificate that was satisfactory
to Mr. Haekblock, who agreed to give the sum mentioned
for the horses, and he handed to the prisooer 140/. in Bank
of England notes, 135/. of that sum being the price agreed
upon, fit 15e. for commission, and le. for the groom. The
hones were then delivered to Mr. Haokblock, and shortly
afterwards one of them was discovered to be restive, and
unfit for the purpose for which he had purchased it, and he
was therefore anxious to return them. This, however, he
found he could not accomplish, and upon his making inquiry
he ascertained that the defendant had purchased the horses
in question from the person to whom they belonged for
110/., and that he hadisocketel the 25/. in excess of that
sum that was paid to him by the prosecutor. It also ap.
peered that the highest price ever asked for tho horses wee
120/ and that the sum of 1501. was never mentioned.

The Recorder, at the close of the case for the prosecution,
expressed his opinion that the present indictment could not
be supported. lu order to make out ► charge of obtaining
money by false pretences it was necerisary to prove that
there was a false statement to the knowledge of the party
in reference to some existing fact, but here, all that was
proved was that the prisoner stated that he should pay over
the money he received from the prosecutor to some other
person at a future time, which, in his opinion, did not
amount to a false pretence.
The jury, therefore, under his lordship's directions, re-
turned a verdict of Nut Guilty.
There was another indictment against the defendant, in
which he w.is charges' with the offence of larceny arising
out of the same transaction, but no evidence was offered
in support of it, and the jury, therefore, again returned •
verdict of .Not Guilty, and the defendant was ordered to be
discharged from custody.

•
One of the most fearful catastrophes that has
perhaps ever taken place in the centre of a populous city oc-
curred at twenty-five minutes past 9 o'clock on Saturday
night, when no fewer than six human beings perished under
the most melancholy circumstances. They did not lose
their lives where danger could be even remotely anticipated,
but in one of the ordinary conveyances by which thousands
upon thousands passed year after year in safety to and from
their homes. Shortly before 10 o'clock a report ran through
the city that one of Mr. Wilson's omuibuses had run into the
Urand Canal, and that all the passengers were drowned. This
statemeut wiw at first regarded as an idle and heartleas rumour,
but in a sheet time it was proved to be unfortunately too true.
About the hour indicated persons, very many, were to be
seen rushing in the moat distracted haste towards the Por-
tobello bridge of the Grand Canal, to ascertain if any of
their friends or relatives were amongst the ill-fated dead ;
others were to be seen driving in all directions to ascertain
whether the members of their families who had been at the
theatre, or whose business detained them in tows, had come
out by the fatal bus. Old people who had not stirred out
of their homes after nightfall for years were to be met
with asking with painful eagerness whether " the bus was
goiug out or coming in," and years of misery was con-
centrated in thousands of anxious faces apprehensive of the
worst. Some said the omnibus was going "to Rathmines"
and others asserted that it was coming "to town," and
between the conflicting statements people were sy per.
plexed with the excitement of fear for the safety of those
who were dear to them. The streets leading to the scene
of the disaster, very soon after the report obtained circu-
lation, became blocked with crowds, and all the approaches
to Portobello-bridge were soon rendered impassable. In the
distance was to be heard nothing but the coutinuous and
mournful fall of the water over the canal floodgates, and
the exclamations of those who were trying to render assist-
ance to those who had just passed beyond the reach of
human aid, and that, too, within a few yards of hundreds
of brave men, who would willingly have risked their lives
to save the sufferers ; but effective help was impossible.
The catastrophe was as instantaneous as it was terrible.

Herbert William., 44, a very gentlemanly looking man,
described as a surgeon, pleaded guilty to several indict-
ments charging him with embezzling money, the property of
the Royal Medical Benevolent College.
There were also four indictments against the prisoner,
charging him with forging receipts, with inteut to defraud
the urns institution. To those charges the prisoner at first
pleaded not guilty, but he eventually withdrew that plea
and confeend judgment.
Mr. F. H. Lewis, who appeared for the prosecution, in.
formed the court that the prisoner had been employed as
assistant secretary and collector to the Royal Medical Be-
nevolent College, and be had taken advantage of this posi.
Mon to keep back several annul of money which he had
received on account of the institution, and ho had also
obtained money by means of forged receipts.
The Recorder inquired the total amount of money that
the prisoner had misappropriated ?
Mr. Freeman, the Secretary to the Institution, said that he
believed the entire amount was about 2001. He also said that
the prisoner hail been connected with the College almost
from its formation, and the utmost confidence was reposed
in him. He received a regular salary of 1001. a year, and
he was also paid commission that would amount to between
80f. and 401. mom _ _

Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prisooer, said that he
was SIDZiOUII to lay some facts before the court in mitig6tion
of punishment, and the Recorder respited the judgment, in
order to afford him an opportuuity of doing so.

Mr. lIANKEY oPpreed the adjournment of the debate.
No better mode of raising fonds for effecting improvements
bad been suzzeetwi than the coal-tat, which woe easily
collected sad fell lightly on the poor.

In the immediate scene of the dreadful occurrence was
now being enacted ono of the moat heartrending eights of
horror that the mind can picture to itself. Near one of the
great thoroughfares from the southern side of the city, and
in a chamber of one of the locks of the Grand Canal, six
human beings—six fellow-citizens— were struggling for
their lives within the narrow area of an omnibus sunk be-
neath the water. It was a saddening, a sickening sight to
look upon, and deep and intense must have been the pain
it created in every --heart of the vast multitude which
surrounded the scene of the calamity. Men called on
men in loud and vehement language, and each
vied with the other to render assistance ' • but no help, no
matter bow vigorous, could avail. Midst the darkness ren-
dered melancholy visible by the sickly flickering. of the
lamps on the bridge, excited crowds pressed forward to get
a view of the omnibus in which were etigulphed the lifeless
bodies of six persons. The din and confusion which pre-
vailed were great, and the effect was much aggravated by the
desperate struggling of the horses as they are and fell,
snorting, reighrog, sod plunging in their death agonies.
Impetuously, desperately they fought, and vainly strove to
sink their iron-shod hoofs in the whiny walls of the lock, but
the sullen water still kept rolling over those who but a few
minutes before were full of hope and life ; and who, no
doubt, were expected at their firesides at that particular
moment. It was one of those eights which live in the
mind as a great horror. Accident* at sea, involving loss of
life, railway disasters or shipwrecks, or death resulting
from causes in which peril is incurred, are things for
which people are more or less prepared ; but six human
beings to be drowned in an omnibus before the eyes of thou-
lauds le • terrible novelty, a fearful warning, a desperate
illustration of the insecurity of life, even where it was re-
garded to be most secure and protected.
While the most strenuous efforts were being made to
rescue the drowning, many an anxious heart besought
in vain the surging crowd to make way to let her
or him pins, to know if father, brother, sister, son, wife
or husband was amongst the dead. One young lady,
who believed that it was the 'bus for Rethniines, in
which her sister was to have gone home, and thinking that
her sister had been drowned, became so districted that she
seemed to hare lost her reason fur the time, from the very
intensity of grief, and while bewailing the loss which she
thought she had sustained the afflicted creature unconsciously
walked into the water. She was rescued from what appeared
to lie certain death by the praiseworthy efforts of two gen-
tlemen, who saved her by wading nearly up to their shoul-
ders into the renal. This is only one of the many painful
episodes of this appalling calamity, as from one end of
Rathmiues to the other, in every house a member of whose
family was absent there prevailed the must agonising ap-
prehension.
The omnibus " Favourite," No. 7, due at Nelson's Pillar
at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night, was proceeding
into town at the usual pace, and when it had rimmed at the
centre of Portobello-bridge, the conductor, Patrick Costello,
called to the driver, Patrick Hardy, to " pull up." The
driver stopped at the point where he was erected, when
Mr. John Keeley, of No. 4, Camden-villa, got out, along
with a child who accompanied him. There then remained
in the 'bus six passengen—three ladies, two male passen-
gers, and a child. The conductor gave the usual signal.
" all right," and, it is stated, when the driver proceeded
to make the horses go onward, they both got restive, anal
began to hack in the direction of Hathmines. He turned
their heads to the eastward for the purpose of making them
go up the incline of the bill at an amrle. This involved the
partial locking of the fore wheels, and the horses continuing
to back, brought the 'bus round the south-western side of
the bridge, on the road near the old turnpike. The horses
still kept backing, despite every effort to urge them for-
ward, and the hinder part of the vehicle came in contact
with the wooden harrier between the lock and the road,
but after some slight resistance the frail timber work gave
way, and backwaida rolled the 'bus down to the very edge
of the stone-built basin, in which the disturbed and dirty
water foamed below at a .listauce of not less than 15 feet.
This was a truly terrific sight, and it instinctively close
their eyes when they contemplate it. _throe this stone-
prismied water, from which there was no escape by day,
much less in "the pitch of night," for the omnibus or its
fated inmates, hung the lives of seven of God's creatures,
six of them as mutely doomed to die as if they had been
lashed to an enemy's cannon about to be fireiL In this fear-
ful moment all depended on the bores. and the poor aci-
ma's now seemed to be almost seeable of their own danger,
but it was too late. The hinder wheels passed over the
granite kerb—the horses, as if moved by one impulse, pulled,
but pulled in vain, and, with distended nostril. and strain-
ing eyes, they sought to hold the pima ground. Cries for
help now broke forth from the rolling prima. Every moment
the cries grew louder, but they only served to urge the inst.
tiate brutes to make another effort to save themselves, or to
lure plethoric languor from vesper somoolism at his fireside
to monies " what way the matter," or briug crowds together
to behold one of the most appalling tragedies competent
foe man to witness. Of mune it is impossible to describe
the scene which was now being enacted midi. the 'bus, but
faint and muffled cries were heard to issue from within, as
with one surge down went the 'bus into the gulf beneath,
and • loud splash and an agonising scream told the sad tale
of death.
For a short time the omnibus stood in an upright pari-
ties, with the dear downwards. What was the position of
those inside! The horses then fell between the 'hus
and the bridge, but being still held by their traese
they pulled the vehicle on its wheels in their s
and as downwards it settled on the stop:lure::
tag of the bee* despairing shrieks broke from those

Mr. CRAWFORD could not agree to adjourn the debate,
and hoped the house would read the bill a setsmil time.
Mr. TITE said unless the cord duties were continued, or
some other mode of tazation could be found, the great im-
provements now in operation and contemplated must be
given up, and London be left as it is.

Namur! James Morrie, 19, clerk, pleaded guilty to an
indictment charging him with embezziug money belonging
to his employers, Messrs. Lightly and Co.
Mr. J. E. Palmer, who appeared for the prisoner, urged
in mitigation of the menteDoe that he had paid over the
whole of hie Wary for the support of his mother, who was
the widow of a lieutenant in the navy, and four brothers
and sisters, awl that he had not a single farthing left for his
own use either for pleasure or any other purpose. He was
also instructed that the total amount embezzled by the
prisoner did not exceed 23/., end that the offences extended
over a period of three months ; and he had also to state that
the money did not appear to have been expended in any
vicious pursuit, but was expended in clothes to enable the
prisoner to 'cut a figure.'`
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution, mid he be.
Hever' that the statement made by his learned friend was
substantially true, sad lie had only to add that the penmen.
tors had • Dumber of other clerks in their employ, and they
felt it to be their duty to institute the present prosecution.
Having done so, they had no desire to press the case harshly
against the prisoner, soil they would be quite satisfied with
any course that hislerdship plight think proper to take in
the matter.

Snc,—l beg you to kindly grant me space suffi-
cient to draw the attention of the public to the present
inefficient condition of the Metropolitan police, as also of
the polioe of the City of London.
The greater number of the members of both forces are
inexperienced men, and are consequently almost valueless
for the purpose of protecting property, or for the detection
of thieves and rogues in the commission of offences.
The raw countryman of yesterday is the London police-
man of today—A mere automaton in police uniform. When
this is generally known the public will not be surprised at
Use observations made by magistrates with regard to the
want of Deese and discretion in the police; and well might
Mr. Mansfield, the magistrute at Marlborough-street
police-court, my a few days since that "Their frivolous and
vexatious complaints are calculated to cause them to he
despised and hated, and the law to be brought into con-
tempt."
This effect is the inevitable consequence of ignorance and
incapacity.
There is now a considerable deficiency in numbers in the
metropolitan police, and the Commissioner of the City of
London Police is advertising for men, but if recruits arrive
they will not remain unless greater encouragement is
offered than the police now receive. At present a great
number of men enter the police service as a temporary
refuge in distress, and do not even stay long enough to
learn their duties.—l am, Lc.,
April 8. A POLICE CONSTABLE.

_ .
Mr. PI'LLER was iadifferent whether fonds for improve-
ments were raised by aerial tax or as additional rate on
homes. proviihal the area of taxatio• was a Mo. one ; but
the bill, in his opinioe, entailed the area unfairly.
Mr. AVRTON objected to pecesediag with the. bill,
which, be remarked, gave to the city cif London corporation
itil. duty, which bail out been claimed as a right.
Mr. NORRIS supported the bill.
General PE L, objecting altogether to the area proposal
hp the bill, Mould vote aping the second reading.
Sir G. LEWIS, in his reply, °Fennel that the pmpuml
for postponieg the bill indefinitely was equivalent to
• modes to defer the second reading for bill months.
Upon • division, the motion for adjournment was nega-
tived be En to 20.
Mr. AYRTON moved so an amendment a resolution
which, at the suggestion of the Speaker, he afterwards
altered, and which then declared it to lie the opinion of the
bowie that the enaltax and the wine dues should be con-
Bawd till the 31,1 of July, 1,472.
Sir I. LEWIS summated that this was an amendment
of the details of the Lill which might he moved in the
committee.
Some furtherdiemmion ensued, and, upon • division, this
amendment was likewise negatived be 119 to 10.
The bill was then read • second time.
Sir G. LEWIS moved the second reading of the Indus-
trial Schools Bill.
A few remarks were made on the subject of the bill by
Mr. CA'S and Mr. Aorienter, end it was read a second
UMW.
Sir 0. LEWIS moved the wood reeding of the Election
Law Amendment Bill, which, he observed, involved no new
paella principle.
Mr. 11. BERKELEY objected to discussing the hill at so
Wean hour. and moved to defer the mound reading for six
menthe.
Yr. PEAC(VICE obsereet that the bill legalised the
providing of conveyances for voters for counties and not
for boroughs, and he objected to the &attention.
Mr. H. B. Jonnittnne and Mr. CAVI opposed the bell,
which was se by Mr. GlurriTs•
Mr. DEED for the postponement of the second
reading of the bill
pu
Sir O. LEWIS thought oo advantage would arise from

The Recorder said that the offence of robbery by servants
in whom confidence ought to bo reposed was oue of a very
serious character, and almost invariably met with severe
punishment, but taking into consideration the fact, that had
been stated on behalf of the prisoner, he should not pass so
severe a sentence as he otherwise should have felt himself
compelled to do. He then ordered the prisoner to be kept
to hard labour for six months.

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Edarard Hartrare, 29. pleaded vilty to a similar offence.
The prisoner mut clue of the clerks to Dr. Swabey,D.C.L.,
and he was charged with embezzling about 100 i., the
amount of fees he bad received on behalf of that gentleman,
and which he neglected to hand over to his master.
Ho was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for eighteen (-pleader mouths.
Rirkelrdl•OX, a labouring man, surrendered, and
pleaded guilty to a charge of wilful mid corrupt perjury.
Mr. (bland, who appeared for the prosecution, said that
the charge was permed by the direction of Mr. Bodkin,
the Assistant-judge of the Middlesex Sessions, under these
circumnsacce. A brother of the prisoner, tamed John
Richardson, was tried for the offence of housebreaking at
*Ammon, and stealing some fowls, and the robbery was
alleged to have been committed about eight o'clock at
night, and a cap was left behind by the thief, which the eel.
' deuce went to show belonged to the prisoner. The present
defendant was calledas a witness for his brother, and he swore
that in the evening on which the robbery was committed
they were together from five ..'clock until half.peart Dios ;
and he also swore that the cep that was found is the home
where the robbery was committed did net belong to hie
brother, end be produced one which, he WO, he was always
in the habit of arming.
The jury convicted the prisoner ; and inquiries that was.
subsequently made by the direction of the court left so
doubt that the statements; made by the defendant were fates

ANOTHER SHOCKINO MURDER AT DUNDRY,
NEAR BRISTOL.

The excitement consequent on the terrible murder
of old Mrs. Waterman, for which her murderers, Matthew
Wedmore and Charles Wedmore, were executed at Taunton
as recently as Friday last, has not had time to subside ere
the committal of another very barbarous homicide has been
discovered in the same neighbourhood. The circumstances
connected with the dieoevery are aa follows :—At edistance
of • hundred yards or so from the cottage in which the
former terrible tragedy was enacted is an Mu called the
Three Compasses, kept by a person named Stallard. At-
tached to this house is a field, which, strangely enough,
formed part of • farm the occupier of which,
an elderly man named Hazell, was murdered under
circumstances which have never been thoroughly
elucidated some nine or ten years ago. In this field is a
pond, to which on Saturday afternoon a daughter of Mr.
nl went for the purpose of getting some water. On
approarbiug it she observed something floating, which she
for the moment thought was • sheep's head, and supposing
that there had been some sheep stealing going on, she called
her brother. He procured a stick and got it out, and they
then discovered to their hrwrar that it was the mutilated
body of a child. Shortly afterwards, concealed in a hole at
one side of the pond, they discovered some clothes which
bad apparently belonged to the same child. Mr. Sturlaud,
the eurgeon, was at once applied to, and discovered on ex-
amiuiug the body that the skull of the demised had
been fractured apparently by being beaten in on the
top with • three-cornered stone, and also that • wound
six inches long had been indicted on the back of the neck.
Intimation was given without delay to the police, and Sn•
perintendent Jones, Police-sergeant I>rewett, and acting-
sergeant Morse, of the county constabulary, were immedi-
ately engaged in investigating the matter. Suspicion falls
on a woman of loose character, who is well known to the
police as cohabiting with, and having had children by, a
man who lives at Bedminster Down, near Bristol. A abort
time ago she was at Dundee, and hod with her a child of
about four months old, shinier to that found. She called
at the Compasses Tavern, and Mrs. Stallard noticed that
the little creature appeared as if neglected, end mentioned
her opinion to the mother. Some days after the woman
was there again, but without the child, which she said she
had buried at Bristol. The clothes found were submitted
to Mrs. Stalianfa inspection, and she expresses the
strongest belief that they are the same which the chili had on
on the evening when the woman brought it with her to the
house. The police feel so well grounded in their sueri•
cione that an officer has been despatched in pursuit of the
woman ; and it is believed, from the information received,
that she will soon be iu custody.

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