The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-06 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken before 111-i.
Stirling, at the three Pigeons Inn, Brentford, on view of
the body of Mr. Francis Herbert Woodham, who was found
dead in his chair under the following circumstances :
Elizabeth Stracy, barmaid at the Three Pigeons, deposed
that the deceased was on a visit for the benefit of his health.
On Sunday night, between nine and ten o'clock, she left
him in his room sitting in a chair. He wished her good
night, and appeared in his usual state of health. As the
family had not seen him the following morning she went
into his room about nine o'clock, when he was sitting in
the chair in the same position as she last saw him. He was
dressed, and had not been to bed. She felt alarmed, when
Mr. Cooper, a surgeon, was sent for, who said that he had
been dead some hours.
Mr. J. E. Commendon, licensed victualler and proprie-
tor of the Three Pigeons Inn, said that he had known the
deceased, who was of the medical profession, 25 years.
He was about the middle age, and of a delicate Gonstitution.
His diet consisted mostly of milk. When he came witness
observed that he would not live many days. He was
of very temperate habits. a Pan
The jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased did
by the visitation of God."

ACCIDENT BY FIRE ARMS.—A Coroner's inquest was
holden before Mr. Higgs, at St. George's Hospital, to in-
quire touching the death of John Streadwicke, aged 24,
a shoemaker, whose band was blown to pieces by the burst-
ing of his gun.
W. Atley, of Ealing, deposed that last Monday week he
saw the deceased, whom he knew, crossing a road with a
gun in his hand. In a few minutes he saw him fire at some
larks, which were in a field. The gun burst. Witness
went towards him, and found that the barrel had burst in
three places. The deceased went to his father's, where
witness followed him, and there saw that his left hand was
shattered to pieces. He went to Mr. Dickinson's, a sur-
geon, who said that his band must be removed to save his
life. He was then brought to this hospital in a coach.
By the Coroner—The deceased had discharged the gun
several times that day. It was his own gun, and the charge
was a common one.
Mr. Stafford John Berkeley, house-surgeon, said that
the hand was amputated shortly after the admission of
the deceased. The operation was performed with pro-
per skill. In two days he became delirious, in spite of the
attention shown him, and died on Sunday. Verdict—Ac-
cidental death.
Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was held by Mr. W.
CARTER, the Coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at
the Hanover Arms, Rye-lane, Peckham Rye, on view of
the body of John Bulham, aged 73, who was found lying
dead on the floor at the back of the premises. Medical
assistance was immediately sent for, and a post mortcm
examination took place. On separation of the scalp from
the skull, a quantity of gravel and numbers of small
shot were found imbedded in the skull, which seemed
from their appearance to have been in that position for a
great many years. There was a quantity of blood on the
base of the brain, which was the immediate cause of the
deceased's death.

The wife of the deceased stated that she believed that
the deceased, when a young man, was fired at by some high-
waymen in Edinburgh, when some of the shots entered his
head. Verdict—Apoplexy.

Mr. Hewitt, formerly a warrant officer in the Royal
Navy, residing at Navy-row, Plymouth, recently deceased,
has left by his will the sum of 2,000/. to be appropriated in
the following manner :—The Money is to be vested in Go-
vernment Securities. Mr. Sims, of Morice-town, black-
smith, in the Dock-yard, is to receive 20/. per year, on con-
dition that he visit and distribute annually the remainder of
the interest among the most deserving of the religious poor
of the parishes of St. John's Anthony, Maker, and Stoke
Damerel—Western Luininary.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Glasgow dinner to Sir Robert Peel is fast ap-
proaching, and we must, of course, prepare ourselves
for a skilful exhibition of Tory principles and Tory
prospects. We are not of the number of those who
entertain a low opinion of the abilities of the Right
Hon. Gentleman, and certainly we do not think less
favourably of him because his prudence in yielding a
guarded deference to the wishes of the Tories induced
them to estimate him far below his deserts, and to

make, the more reckless Lyndhurst the god of their

id6latry. Sir Robert Peel is unquestionably the first
Than among the Tories, and we trust that this country
will never be so indifferent to certain considerations as

to allow the patrons of Lord Lyndhurst to place him
with impunity above the Right Honourable Baronet.
The Times will of course praise Sir Robert's
exhibition as straightforward and candid. It was,
it is true, but the other day that the character of
‘, Subtle" in The Alchemist was assigned to him,
but then that of " Dol Common" was assigned to
Lord Lyndhurst. A new set of characters will be dis-

covered by our " powerful Contemporary," or our "ad-
mirable Contemporary" (for with such titles it has

been invested), for the two Tory leaders. The Duke
of Wellington is no longer the most insignificant man
in the empire, Sir Robert Peel no longer the most in-
sincere, and Lord Lyndhurst the most unprincipled.
We shall no doubt be told at Glasgow of the immense
debt the nation owes to the resolute resistance of the

House of Peers to the measures passed by the Com-
mons. The Times, too, which has never abandoned
one principle it ever advocated, will, however, we fear,
notwithstanding its tenacity of principle, take care, in
trumpeting forth its praises of Sir Robert's speech,
conveniently to forget what it told Lord Grey's Admi-
ninistration on the 23d May, 1832, that their duties
" Did not end with the Reform Bill, which at bestis but
a means to an end ; the means free agency—the end good
government. There are a dozen other questions after Re-
form shall have passed, requiring extraordinary influence
over the Commons, no less than direct power in the other
House of Parliament. According to the present constitu-
tion qf the House of Peers, it will be impossible to carry on
the Administration, for any man who has not the confidence
of the Tory party ; in other words it will be impossible—
without an extensive creation of Whig Peers—to counter-
act the old, established, and indefatiyable forts of the
Tory Peerage, which itself has been the growth of the last
sixty or seventy years, for the downfall of a Liberal States-
man."

This is both true and powerfully expressed ; and ii
opposite principles be advocated on the day when Sir
Robert's eloquence is ushered into the world, the power
of the unblushing impudence of the Times must be
at least equal to any other power it possesses.—
Morning Chronicle.
The Yearly and Quarterly Account of the Revenue
published by the Treasury does not present a very
flattering picture. It is true that in the whole year
there is an increase of 2,570,9571., but the quarter's
increase, as compared with the corresponding quarter
of 1836, is only 16,231/. ; while, with respect to the
immediately preceding quarter, there is a decrease of
no less than 1,292,1681. ; the difference between
the October and January quarters of the former
financial year being only 281,9401. In looking at the
tables it will be seen, that the increase on the quarter
is in the items of excise, taxes, and Post-office duties ;
the decrease in the customs, stamps, and miscella-
neous taxes,—the increase amounting to 524,4291.,
and the decrease to 508,1981., leaving a balance of
16,2311. This is certainly no occasion for any flou-
rishing note from the penny trumpets of the Trea-
sury ; nor can we derive even a modicum of comfort
from the paltry item called a surplus in the table of
income and charge. We must first see the details of
the charge before we shall be satisfied of the esistence
of even this meagre residuum : we wait to see whether
all the expenses of the commissioners of a hundred
names—whether all the extravagant outgoings for Lord
Palmerston's Peninsular " non-intervention war," have
been regularly brought to the account. We almost
pity Thomas Spring Rice, whom we already fancy we
see now jumping about the floor of the house " like
.Jim Crow," now weeping, according to the phrase of
one of his countrymen, " like a crocodile with his
hands in his breeches pocket," while attempting to ex-
plain and justify to the knowing, to inveigle and mys-
tify the unknowing, he developes the uncalled-for ex-
penses of his colleagues, and the rash blundering of his
own Right Hon. and Right Ridiculous Self.—Times.
We present to our readers elsewhere a tabular state-
ment of the Revenue for the year and quarter ending
yesterday, and a more gratifying document we have
rarely had the satisfaction of laying before our readers.
Upon the year there is the enormous and unprece-
dented increase of upwards of two millions and a half,
notwithstanding the equally enormous and unprece-
dented reduction of taxes on various articles of general
.use and general necessity. The increase on the Cus-
toms alone is upwards of a million, and in the Excise
there is an increase of a similar sum. On the Stamps
there is a gratifying increase of 181,000/. ; and in the
Post-office of 72,0001. So that on the whole year, in
almost every department, there is an increase which
must not only be exceedingly gratifying to the Go-
vernment, but to all his Majesty's subjects—a distinct
proof being afforded by it, that taxes have only to be
reduced to a certain extent to increase the aggregate
amount of the Revenue. So far as the quarter is con-
cerned, it will be seen that owing to the panic at-
tempted to be got up by a certain Old Lady, who for
the moment shall be nameless, a decrease has taken
place in the Customs department of somewhere about
half a million, but the loss in that quarter is relieved
by a nearly similar amount of increase in the Excise.
In the Stamp department, as might naturally have
been expected, in consequence of the reduction in the
duty on newspapers, from three-pence and one-third
of a penny to one penny, there is a decrease of 46,0001.;
but that is a mere trifle compared with the benefit al-
ready conferred upon the public, and another proof that
another quarter will shew in this, as in every other in-
stance, that the reduction of a tax does not carry along
with it a reduction of the revenue. Into other matters
connected with the Post-office, Miscellaneous, &c., we
deem it unnecessary to enter, inasmuch as the amount,
on the one hand, either of increase or decrease, cannot
affect to any great extent the results of the more im-
portant matters already alluded to ; and that, on the
other, it would not furnish those satisfactory tests of
the state of trade or the condition of the people which
are afforded by the Customs, Excise, and Stamps.
How our Tory contemporaries may digest these state-
ments it is not for us to say ; but they may to breakfast
with what appetite they may.—Morning Advertiser.
The official tables of the Revenue for the quarter
ended last night have been received, and will be found
in another column. They present, certainly, a very
favourable report of the state of the public income.
With all the disadvantages of the boisterous weather
for the last three weeks, and which, it will be seen, has
had its influence upon the produce of the quarter, the
receipts for the whole year exceed those of the preced-
ing year by two millions and a half. This improve-
ment is equally observable as regards the general result
in the two great sources of public wealth—the Cus-
toms and Excise—though in the former there has
been a material falling off for the quarter, probably
owing to the causes above stated. The exact increase
in the Customs for the year is 1,093,5341.. and the
decrease upon the quarter, 450,477/. ; in the Excise,
1,199,414/. for the year, and 456,0011. also increase
for the quarter. The Stamp Duties have produced
181,1121. more than last year, but 46,0181. less upon
the quarter, attributable to the repeal of the newspaper
duties. Under the head of Taxes also there is an in-
crease for the year of 13,2381., and an increase upon the
quarter of 19,0141. The Post Office revenue shows
returns of 72,0001. more for the year, and 4,0001. for
the quarter. The taxes called " Miscellaneous," on
the other hand, present a decline of 19,036/., and
11,7031. for the two periods respectively. Repayments
of public money, previously advanced, have also in-
creased upon the year to the amount off 30,6951., and
upon the quarter to 45,4141., forced probably in order
to turn the scale to the right side, for with the excep-
tion of the Excise, the Post Office. and those repay-
ments, the income of this last portion of the year is
inferior in productiveness to that of the year preceding.
The main saving of the credit of the quarter has
been the increase of the Excise receipts ; and it will
be seen that, under this head alone, the improvement
in the revenue for one year has amounted to very

nearly a million and three-quarters of pounds. As
this revenue has been generally held to be a test
of the condition and comfort of the people, we

congratulate them upon this result, under whatever
Government we live. The exact increase upon the
year is 2,570,9571., and upon the quarter, 16,231/.,
which is just tantamount, upon so large a revenue, to
an escape from a deficiency in comparison with the
corresponding period of last year. The probable
amount of Exchequer bills required for meeting the
engagements of the present quarter is estimated at
5,236,0221. With two million,: and a half richer now
than when they met the Parliament last year, what re-
duction of taxation ought not the people to expect at
the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—

Morning Herald.
It is one of the extraordinary anomalies of the times
in which we live, that in a country professing and

practising the charities of life in a manner and to an
extent never surpassed, if ever equalled, its Legislature
should pass, and its Government carry into effect with
unrelenting rigour, an Act which violates every one of
those charities in its most obvious and called-for charac-
ters. The history of civilised society scarcely affords an
instance of a Government retrograding as the people
advance, or, as is here the case, of the latter carrying on
a war of humanity against their rulers. That such, how-
ever, is the fact, the general abhorrence felt throughout
the country at the cruel features of the new Whig Poor
Law, and the efforts which private charity are every
where making to avert calamities brought about " ac-
cording to law," afford ample and convincing proofs.
Happily the late rigorous weather appears to be leav-
ing us. But no sooner was its visitaticn experienced
than one universal feeling seems to have pervaded
the community, of hastening to the rescue of the suf-
ferers by the inclemency of the season, aggravated, as
they were and are, by the grinding harshness of this
new law. And why do we reiterate, why do we so
often appeal to these facts, but to impress upon the
Government (if it be susceptible of such impressions)
that is its duty to yield to and be guided by the
spirit of the age, not, as hitherto on this subject,
to oppose a dogged obstinacy to the unequivocal
testimony of public opinion ? We never have de-
nied or defended, nor ever shall, the abuses which
had arisen in the administration of the old Poor
Law. But this we are prepared to contend, that
such abuses were but as a drop of water in the
ocean, compared to the cruel, heartless severity, which
in its operation this pretended amendment of them
has brought about, and is inflicting upon the aged, the
helpless, and deserving. Let us suppose for a mo-
ment that these cruel results were never contemplated
by the framers of the new law—that they contemplated
a kind of beau ideal in theory, which in practice dis-
appoints their expectations—is there any apology or
pretence for persisting in an experiment which has
been found to fail, and not only to fail, but to stir
up a spirit of exasperation in minds which it is both
the duty and the policy of their rulers to satisfy ?
When Parliament meets, which it must soon do, the
operation of this new law must, we imagine, be one of
the first objects brought before them. When that takes
place we shall, no doubt, hear some of our cold-blooded
political economists extolling the new law, on the score
of the saving which it has brought about. As well
might a parent boast that, by the death of his children,
his household expenses have been diminished. The
people of England have shown, and are every day
showing by their conduct, that they are not to be
caught by, or enlisted into the ranks of those heart-
less sophists. But what is to be said when it turns
out, as we have little doubt that, on a fair statement of
facts, will prove to be the case, that the new law has
not even this merit of producing the saving imputed to
it. Much of the diminution in the': poor-rates has
been notoriously produced by two very different causes
—the abundance of labour and the cheapness of pro-
visions ; and when to the saving resulting from these
obvious causes is added the enormous charge upon
the Consolidated Fund, brought about by large work-
house loans, high salaries, and other expensive machi-
nery of the Act itself, we should not wonder if this
boasted diminution of expenditure were to vanish en-
tirely, and the balance be found on the directly oppo-
Isite side of the account.—Morning Herald.
Our contemporary of the Morning Chronicle is
wonderfully charmed at his own ingenuity in the dis-
covery of what he deems a strange inconsistency in
our poor selves. 'We blamed, it seems, the foreign
policy of Lord Palmerston when Bilboa was on the
point of opening her gates, and we still blame it when
Villareal has been driven from her walls. That, in
the judgment of the Morning Chronicle, is an incon-
sistency. We attributed more than half the evils of
the Peninsula to British interference, when that inter-
ference seemed rather more contemptible than hateful ;
and we still attribute more• than half of the evils of
the Peninsula to British interference, when that inter-
ference is become rather more hateful than contempti-
ble. That, in the judgment of the Morning Chro-,
nicle, is an inconsistency. Unluckily, the opinions
we form and express are not quite so depeuslent on
results as our censor would have them. We have
said that England ought to have taken no part in
the war of the Spanish succession : we shall say
so still, whether we see the dynasty of Isabella
Secunda consolidated on a throne or extinguished
on a scaffold. We have said that if a part was to be
taken it should not have been taken openly, avowedly,
and decisively; not disguisedly, hypocritically, and
ineffectually. We shall say so still, whether we see
Don Carlos triumphantly escorted into Madrid, or
exiled from the last foot of his patrimonial kingdom.
For this adherence, through good or evil fortune, to
the principles from which we have never swerved, we
must be content to be accused of inconsistency by an
opponent whose hard task it is to believe Lord
Palmerston, Member for Tiverton, consistent with
Lord Palmerston, Member for the University of Cam-
bridge ; and to fancy the Lord Melbourne of to-day
consistent with the Mr. Lamb of twenty years ago.
Seriously, why is the success of Colonel \Vylde at
Bilboa to draw from us praise of what we have hi-
therto condemned, or to make that seem honour-
able to us which hitherto we have deemed most
mean and base ? Has the war ceased to be a civil
war, to which no foreign Power may justly contri-
bute a regiment or a frigate ? Has Don Carlos
ceased to be the Prince designated for the Spanish
throne alike by the letter of the Spanish law and
the voice of the Spanish people ? Has it become
less certain that we have uniformly held it that
to terminate this civil war we must have recourse
to other measures than those of naval co-opera-
tion—that to expel this Prince we must send
out other levies than those of the Isle of Dogs ?
Suppose we, in our turn, inquire of our contempo-
rary, whether there is a strict adherence to consistency
in two particulars of his own daily ratiocination. The
Morning Chronicle zealously supported the cause of
the Queen, when it was professedly the cause of consti-
tutional monarchy and aristocratic institutions. The
Morning Chronicle as zealously supports the cause of
the Queen, when it is the cause of military revolution
and democratic insubordination. Is that quite consis-
tent ? The Morning Chronicle styled the party of
Don Carlos a " wretched faction" when their chief
was a fugitive, their leaders unknown to fame, their
efforts confined to the incursions of guerilla warfare,
amidst inaccessible mountains. The Morning Chro-
nicle still styles the party of Don Carlos a " wretched
faction," when, to rescue a rich commercial city from
their hands, we read of " batteries formed by Captain
Vicars"—batteries " worked under the immediate di-
rection of Major Colquhoun ;" of " two 32-pounders
in the Desierto, which Capt. Lapidge and Lieut. Le
Hardy directed personally, having the men of two Bri-
tish men-of-war to work the guns ;" of a " bridge of pon-
toons, thrown over the river, at the back of the Desierto,
under the superintendence of Col.Wylde;" of the Carlist
musketry, outstripped by "the boats of the Ringdove
and Saracen, manned by British sailors ;" of the
p(ritietpyar;:tion of boats and rafts, in which " the English
i had entirely the honour of executing this important
the rightfaunld,,pofiveuaially, of the assurances of General
Espartero, CO
maiv
niedri,ng the best army in the service of
(land adorable Queen, that " he
could not have re
; he felt all would have
been useless withoute. the British co-operation 1"
the partisans of Don Ic!'artria:tat aid he received from
quite consistent ? If
seteistuttey,
foint dteheed,di.
is a
" wretched faction," where theennesi

rection of Major Colquhoun and the superintendence
of Colonel Wylde—the two 32-pounders, worked by
the men of British men-of-war—and the boats of the
Ringdove and Sancen, manned by British sailors ?
If the quarrel of Don Carlos be the quarrel of the
majority of the Spanish people, what place is there
for an English uniform in the strife which is to decide
it ? It is difficult to find words for the scorn and hate
with which we regard that crooked policy which is
risking the best blood of our gallant countrymen
where reason can neither sympathise in their disasters
nor exult in their successes !—Morning Post.

The depth of the snow in some of the hollows be-
ween Lincoln and Boston was eighteen feet. The Lon-
don Express only arrived thrice, and there was only one
coach out of Lincoln to Nottingham during the week. The
Tally-ho to London, the Magna Charta to Nottingham and
Hull, the Imperial to the same places, the Union to Lei-
cester, and the Louth coach, &c., were all stopped, and it
was only yesterday that a few of them ventured to proceed.

—Lincoln Gazette of Tuesday.
A few days ago an icicle was was taken down from
on outbuilding in the stable-yard of Mr. Dunhill, in West
Laith-gate, in this town, which measured in length six feet,
was seventeen inches and a half in circumference, and
weighed ten pounds and a half.—Doncaster Chronicle.
GILBERT GURNEY A FATHER.—As things look
at present it seems most probable that I shall attain to
the dignity of a father " before four moons have filled
their horns." A thousand new ties will then bind me—a
thousand new duties devolve upon me. Well, I have thus
early in life seen enough of the world to qualify me for a
guardian and guide—to he sure, if I should have a son,
he will not require much of my guiding' for some years
to come, and then I may look more ;sternly at the world's
" follies" and become a severer parent, as the young beau
generally become an old sloven ; but I think I shall be
able to make my son my friend—a course of education fa-
vourable to a boy who is born when his father is young.
There are, however, men—and I could point out a very
remarkable instance—who can not bring themselves to
such a line of proceeding—who see in their sons rivals for
" golden opinions," and opponents in the race of life, who
hear with no pleasure the shrewd remark, the pointed
phrase, or witty observations of the youthful aspirant for
fame and honour, but who, feeling as parents do
towards their offspring, and would feel if they lived to the
age of Methuselah, that they are still children, endeavour
to check and subdue the ebullitions of their genius, and
keep them subject to themselves. Towards daughters the
feelings of fathers are totally different—there is no rivalry
to be feared there, consequently there is no jealousy. The
more lovely, the more accomplished, and the more attractive
a girl is, the more delighted is the fond father. In some
instances mothers are found somewhat to partake of the
feelings of fathers towards their sons with regard to the
young ladies. Many a poor creature has been embargoed
into the nursery or the governess's room for at least four
years after she ought to have been out, because she unfor-
tunately happened to be born when her mamma was not
more than seventeen, and who at three and-thirty did not
like to have a beautiful repetition of herself at that age,
constantly associated with her, to induce comparison.—The
New .Monthly.
THE RIVER THAMES.—The removal of the old
London-bridge has caused a considerable change in the
river above, and also, though in a less degree, below the
bridge. Owing to the contracted arches through which the
water had to make its way at the old bridge, there was a
fall of from 4 feet 9 inches to 5 feet at low water. This
fall is now reduced to about 2 inches, so that the low water
line above the bridge is nearly 5 feet lower at spring tides
than formerly. In consequence a greater increased body
of tidal water now flows up and down the river ; and, as it
meets with no obstruction, it flows with a decidedly greater
velocity. The effect of this is to scour and deepen the
channel of the river, its influence in this respect being sen-
sibly felt as fir up as Putney-bridge, 74 miles above London-
bridge. The shores above the latter that were formerly
foul and muddy, arc now becoming clean shingle and gravel ;
and near low water the beach is quite hard and firm. The
shoals are also decreasing below the bridge, and there can
be little doubt that the change will, at no distant period, be
felt from the Norc up to Teddington. Before the removal
of the old bridge a barge, starting from the Pool with
the first of the flood, could not get further than Putney-
bridge without the assistance of oars ; but, under similar
circumstances, a barge now reaches Mortlake, four miles
further up, before using oars, and, with a little help, she
may reach Richmond, and, taking horses there, get to Ted-
dington in a tide. The descent down the river has been
equally facilitated ; the mean velocities of the flood and
ebb between London-bridge and Westminster-bridge are—
flood, 3 miles an hour, extreme, 34 ; ebb, 34, extreme, 34
—.3l•Culloch's Statistical Account.
It is known to our readers that the intelligeni
operatives of this city have prepared a congratulatory ad
dress to Sir Robert Peel, to be presented on his arrival a,
Glasgow. A sheet, nearly filled with names, was in its
progress through the newspaper offices, and had reached that
of the New Liberator for signature, when a fellow, others
consenting, threw the paper into the fire On such des-
picable conduct it is needless to expatiate. We feel assured
that the editor, Mr. Taylor, would.give no countenance to
such a base act. But does the miscreant who committed
the outrage not know that he is liable to severe punishment
—perhaps to a couple of months' confinement in Bridewell,
for destroying such a deed ? The wretch is known ; and,
to show we are not altogether ignorant of the circum-
stances of the case, and that we know the actors, whom, in
pity, we name not—we ask, was the paper. not snatched
from the fire by a sti anger present, and again shoved in by
a dastard whose name would rhyme with Bear f—Glasgow
Constitutional.
A report having obtained circulation in Thaxted,
on Monday last, that John Edwards, the walking post-
man from that town to Danmow, had perished on the
road the preceding night, an active enquiry was insti-
tuted, when it was ascertained that he left Thaxted post-
office at the usual hour (five o'clock in the evening), and
that two persons had met him about a quarter of mile
from the town ; it appeared also that two labourers had
shortly afterwards found am umbrella, a basket, and a
box, belonging to Edwards, by the roadside, which, from
the hope of obtaining some trifling reward from the owner,
they took home and kept till the next day. News having
arrived from Dunmow that he had not reached there, an
active search was commenced near the spot where the
above-mentioned articles were found, and on the removal
of a quantity of snow drifted over the ditch during the
night, the corpse of the unfortunate man was discovered.
From the state in which he was found, it appears that
he had gone to the roadside for a particular purpose, and
had fallen backwards into the ditch ; his umbrella, basket,
and box, had been placed on the ground in the mean-
time, and it is believed that when they were found, their
unhappy owner had just met with the fatal accident. The
nostrils of the deceased were filled with mud, and in his
right hand was a letter containing money which he had
received at a house scarcely 100 yards from where he was
lying, and the grasp was so violent that it required some
strength to release it.—Essex Herald.
On the sth inst., Mr. Joseph Edwards Bullocke,
the only son of Mr Joseph Bullocke, of Penzance, and who
has for some time past resided with Mr. Beard, chemist, in
that town, delivered a lecture on the gases, at the Me-
chanics' Institute recently established here ; and on the
19th he exhibited a series of experiments to illustrate that
lecture ; and amongst others he hazarded an experiment
with the arseniated hydrogen, procured by sulphuric acid
poured on arseniate of zinc ; and the gas-jar not having so
much water in it as he (being near-sighted) supposed it had,
and the atmospheric air above the water diluting the gas,
he inconsiderately applied his mouth to draw up the atmos-
pheric air while the process of generation was going on
and unhappily inhaled a portion of the gas, which, bell];
highly poisonous, affected his whole nervous system, and
ultimately his lungs ; the case baffled the skill of his medical
attendants, and although for several days no alarMing ap-
prehensions were entertained, to the great grief of his father
and sister, and a circle of attached friends, he died on the
30th ult.
STATE OF PUBLIC FEELING IN GLASGOW.--.

The address to Sir Robert Peel, recently agreed to
by
the
operatives of Glasgow, and which has received many hun-
dred signatures, affords a tolerably strong proof that the
spirit of Conservatism prevails to no inconsiderable extent
amongst the industrious classes of that important city. The
reader will be able to judge, from the following incident,
whether that may be taken as a true test of the feelings of
the majority of that body, or whether Radicalism is still in
the ascendant at Glasgow. That consistent and renowned
champion of Radical principles, Mr. Feargus O'Connor,
announced a lecture, to be by him delivered, on Saturday
evening last, on a variety of subjects connected with the
interests of the industrious classes, or, as explained by a
Mr. Walker, who took the chair, " on the subject of
Trades' Unions ;" the proceeds to be devoted to the relief
of the family of one John Tait, deceased, and of certain
" quarriers now on strike." The place appointed for the
meeting was calculated to accommodate some 700 or 800
people : but when an hour after the time announced had
expired not more than 60 persons had assembled, and the
Mr. Walker above-named having been called to the chair,
stated that Mr. O'Connor thought it better, on account of
the thinness of the meeting, that all proceedings should be
deferred till the month of March, when he intends to be in
Glasgow. This announcement gave great umbrage to those
who had come out of curiosity to hear Mr. O'Connor, and
one gentleman operative, with much spirit, declared that
" Mr. O'Connor never was a man, nor had shown himself a
man on this occasion." A motion of adjournment was then
put and carried.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

John Macpherson, aged 53, was indicted for stealing a
gold watch of the value of 101., the property of Mr. J. Roe.
Tho prisoner declined saying anything in his defence.
Some witnesses gave the prisoner a good character, who
stated that he had formerly been in good circumstances, and
had carried on business as a schoolmaster for many years ;
that he had been in the workhouse, and at times appeared
to be insane.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing under the
value of 51., and recommended him to mercy.
William Coveney, aged 28, was indicted for stealing two
bank notes, one of the value of 1001., and the other of 501.,
from the person of William Burton Newingharn, on the
afternoon of the 2d of December. _

Mr. Maxwell, clerk in the banking-house of .Sir James
Esdaile, identified the notes as being the same which he
paid to the prosecutor on the 2d of December.
Luke Nixon is a police constable of the B division of
police, and was sent after the prisoner, whom he traced to
Portsea, and from thence to Brighton, where he appre-
hended him. He had on his person a watchguard, and
some gold rings on his fingers. The prisoner succeeded in
runnino. away. He pursued him about half a mile, and re-
apprehended him. While conveying the prisoner to the
Town Hall, he said that his wife had picked up the notes
between Belgrave-square and Chelsea, and that she thought
they were ballads. On the road to London he said the
notes had been given to him ; and he subsequently said,
" They cannot hang me for it ; all they can do is to lag me."
Mr. Justice PATTJSON summed up the evidence, and the
Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The RECORDER, by the desire of the Judges, sentenced
the prisoner to be transported for life.
The Judges retired at six o'clock, and were succeeded
by the Recorder, who sat until nine o'clock, trying cases
of no public importance.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday a charge of embezzlement was brought by a
master carman against two of his men. The case was ren-
dered important by the disclosure of a system of plunder
which has for a long time been carried on against dealers,
wine-merchants, tobacco-merchants, and a great variety of
tradesmen. Samuel Cope and John Herbert, who have
been a considerable time in the employment of Mr. Punton,
of Northumberland-alley, Fenchurch-street, master carman,
were put to the bar.
Mr. Punton said that the two prisoners, in the first of
whom he placed unbounded confidence for ten years, had
not only been in the habit of giving to him less than they
received from his customers for labour, but of plundering the
chests and casks of property with which they were entrusted.
Mr. Smith, a grocer, invariably paid to Cope a shilling
for the carriage of each chest of tea delivered, and upon re-
ference to the books of the prosecutor there was uniformly
a receipt for less money, although the men received beer for
themselves. The prosecutor paid to the prisoners 235. a
week each, and treated them in all respects with great kind-
ness and liberality. They, however, were in the habit of
staying out so long with the horses, and brought them home
in such a heat, and complaints of defective quantity having
been made as to the goods they delivered, that the prosecu-
tor made inquiry into their system, and set a watch upon
them. The consequence was, that three distinct cases of
embezzlement were made out against Cope ; but, unfortu-
nately, from want of judicious management, the more serious
charge of robbery could not be sustained.
In a very strict and ingenious cross-examination by Mr.
Staples, Mr. Punton stated, that there being great competi-
tion in the trade, he was content to take from some custo-
mers less than he received from others for work ; that he
could not tell to what his deficiencies might amount ; that
Cope was a man of very good character ; and that he never
looked after him or the other prisoner until lately, in conse-
quence of his belief that he was safe in their hands.
Mr. Staples—lf your charge should be ninepence, and
they happened to get thirteen or fourteen pence per chest,
would you expect the latter sum ?
Mr. Punton—Most certainly.
Mr. Richard Gibbs, a tea-broker, had a few observa-

tions to make with respect to the tea-dealers both in town
and country. Within the last twelve months there had
been a vast number of complaints made by grocers to those
who purchased tea from them that the chests were fre-
quently deficient in weight, and it had been ascertained that
the carmen employed by the master carmen were in the
habit of boring holes in the bottoms of the chests and
drawing away pounds of tea when they had to go to any
dis6nee. In a case which had occurred a few days ago the
prisoners had been employed to take some chests of tea to
the Hampstead-road. He (Mr. Gibbs) employed a person
to weigh the tea at the West India Docks, and privately
sent the same man toreweigh it upon its arrival at its des-

tination, and the deficiency amounted to 9ilbs. There was
a way of boring the chests and getting the tea out by means
of a pierce and a wedge, and it was impossible to ascertain
the difference between the aperture made by thieves here
and by thieves or by accident in China.
The policeman who apprehended the prisoners produced
instruments corresponding with those mentioned by Mr.
Gibbs, which witness had found in a place where Herbert,
the second prisoner, kept his horse's furniture. He also
produced a bar, which had been found in the same spot, and
which contained a small quantity of tea.
This bag, Mr. Punton said, was one of two bags in which
the prisoners used to carry their dinners.
Mr. Gibbs said that complaints had reached him from
Maidstone and other places of deficiencies in chests of tea.
Another tea-broker confirmed the statements made by
Mr. Gibbs, who added that it had been also ascertained
beyond question that tobacco-dealers and wine-merchants
had been plundered by carmen under similar circumstances.
Mr. Punton, since he had discharged the prisoners from
his service, had gone round to the places to which they
used to go, and he accomplished the- business in less time
by two hours and a half, and brought home the horses in
proper condition.
The LORD MAYOR then committed Cope for trial for
the embezzlement, and remanded Herbert for further exa-
mination.
An application was made by the friends of a young man,
about 31 years of tr,e, who had, on the 21st of December,
disappeared, and about whose fate serious apprehensions
were entertained. He was stated to be about five feet
seven inches in height, dressed in black, with a brown great
coat ; of pale complexion, light brown hair, and reserved
manners, and had been lately affected with determination
of blood to the head, in consequence of which it is appre-
qended some accident may have occurred to him. Direc-
tions were given to the Marshals upon the subject.