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possessions had not power to interfere to intvent it. It wait
pez fectly true that in the Queen's proclamation there was
contained a general warning at the end addressed to all the
Queen's subjects, that they do not either in violation of their
duty to the Queen as subjects of a neutral sovereign, or in
violation and contravention of the law of nations in that
behalf, do various things, one of which was to carry articles
contraband of war ;:and the proclamation stated that if they
did they would incur the penalties provided by the law of
nations, which were the seizure and total confiscation of
the vessels and of the cargoes, They were also by the law of
nations deprived of the right of looking to the Government
of their own country for protection. The hon. and learned
gentleman then quoted the opinions of eminent American
jurists for the purpose of proving that their view of the
power of Government to interfere, and of the law of nations
being the only law operative in such cases as those referred
to, was identical with that which he had stated. He
thought the house would see that the Government at home
and in the colonies had taken the only course possible to
take consistently with the law of the land or the recognised
custom of nations, and more especially the law of nations
as recognised in the United States.
The O'DONOGH UE withdrew the motion.
Mr. LINDSAY asked the Under Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs whether any British ships had been seized
and destroyed in attempting to run the blockade, and if so
under what circumstances ?
Mr. L NYARD said that if any such had been seized and
destroyed it would appear by the papers which he would
lay upon. the table of the house.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.

that if all parties had not concurred in the Piabticea com-
plained of, they could not have been indulged in ; and it
was a principle known to the law to make a hundred re-
sponsible for the damage done in any riot that might take
place within its boundaries. He had been in hopes that the
Government would at the earliest period this session place
a bill upon the table anticipating this motion, and rescuing
the house from any difficulty on the subject. It would
certainly not be constitutional to go on postponing the writ
from time to time in the mere hope that something might
hereafter by some possibility be done to afford a remedy;
and he should not therefore oppose the present motion.
The delay would not, however, be barren, if Parliament
should be led by it to determine that in future such cases
should be expeditiously and vigorously dealt with ; that not
only should the constituency be dealt with, but that per-
sons reported against for offering as well as for taking
bribes should be punished. (Hear.) He was thoroughly
convinced, from the experience ha had had at the bar before
committees of the house, and also upon the royal commis-
sion at Wakefield, that if the law were put in force against
persons offering bribes, the number of such offences would
be greatly diminished, and the thing would be done much
more carefully than it was at present. (Loud laughter and
cheers.) He should recommend that the list of persons
reported against in any case for offering bribes should be
at once handed to the Attorney-General, in order that he
might see whether there was any chance of sustaining a
prosecution against them. With regard to the boroughs,
there were of course different degrees of criminality. In
some cases they should be visited with disfranchisement,
and in others with a suspension of the writ; but, in one
way or the other, they ought all to be dealt with when a
royal commission had reported against them. (Hear.)
Mr. BENTINCK agreed with his right hon. friend and
with the hon. and learned gentleman, that it was not expe-
dient to leave questions of this kind to be dealt with ac-
cording to the mere caprice of the House of Commons. It
appeared to him that the right hon. gentleman (Sir G. Grey)
had very nearly approached the true remedy of the evil,
when he hinted that the seats should in every case be taken
from corrupt constituencies and transferred to others ; but
he did not agree with him that the number of electors in any
particular case was any reason whya different course should
be resorted to.
Sir G. GREY said he had referred to cases where there
were a large number of electors who were not compromised
by the corrupt practices complained of.
Mr. BENTINCK reminded the right hon. gentleman
that he had himself said there could not be extensive corrup-
tion without the entire community being implicated in it;
and therefore the distinction he had drawn between a large
number of voters and a large number of innocent voters was
perfectly immaterial. Bat he (Mr. Bentinck) could not
help pointing out that Parliament had dealt with small
boroughs in a way that it would not venture to adopt
towards large ones. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman (Mr.
Berkeley) said the conduct of the house towards Gloucester
bad been both unjust and unconstitutional. He (Mr. Ben-
tinck) entirely agreed with that, for ho believed that if the
house had acted towards Gloucester in a just and constitu-
tional manner it would have disfranchised it long ago.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) The house ought to be ex-
tremely obliged to the hon. gentleman for his extreme can-
dour ; for he had told them that a large liberal constituency
in which he was interested had resorted to every possible
illegal act. He stated, it was true, that there were
1,200 electors who were perfectly honest, nay, he
said they were perfectly " enamelled." Now, they all
knew that enamel was often used to conceal imperfections,
and he was afraid that that was the case at Gloucester.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He stated, also, that forty
borough constituencies were quite as bad ; but be (Mr. Ben-
tinck) believed that if they searched the archives of the
house they would find a much larger number than 40 had
been convicted of bribery within the last few years. He only
hoped the hon. gentleman would hear in mind the facts he
had stated the next time he was disposed to advocate amea-
sure for lowering the suffrage. (Cheers.)
Mr. NORRIS hoped that some member of the Govern-
ment would explain to the house how it was more unconsti-
tutional this year than it was last year to suspend these writs?
If there was no limit to the power of the house in that re-
spect, he hoped they would exercise it to the utmost in the
case of guilty Gloucester. (Hear.) If the corruption com-
plained of had been confined either to the householders or
to the freemen, there might have been some pretext for the
present motion; but it had been reported by the commis-
sioners that bribery had become so settled a practice in
Gloucester that in 1852, when the three candidates agreed
to try the experiment of an election without it, the voters
stigmatised that resolution as a conspiracy to rob them of
their rights. The number of persons reported against by
name was 28 per cent. of the gross constituency; but if they
included all that were guilty he had no doubt they would
amount to 36 or 37 per cent., and they comprised persons
of every class, from an alderman of the borough down to the
lowest class of freemen, He considered that it was quite un-
worthy of the government to allow the writ to issue. (Cheers.)
The motion was then put. Thero were a few cries of
"No," but the writ was ordered without a division.
WAKEFIELD WRIT.
Major EDWARDS, amidst some marks of impatience,
moved that the writ also issue for the borough of Wakefield.
Afton a. few words from Mr. LIAJorm.r.D. which were reri...
dered inaudible by cries of " Agreed, agreed,"
The motion was agreed to.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS
(IRELAND).
Sir R. PEEL moved leave to bring in a bill for the re-
gistration of births and deaths in Ireland.
THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.
The O'DONOGHUE moved an address for return of the
number of British vessels, with the names, as far as can be
ascertained, of their captains and owners respectively, that
have succeeded, within the past six months, in running the
blockade of the Southern ports of America. Similar return
as to the British vessels that have been captured or de-
stroyed in the attempt to break the blockade. And return
of the number and description of British vessels, if any,
that have put into the port of Nassau, New Providence,
and other colonial ports, laden with articles contraband of
war, and with supplies for the Confederate States, and that
have been permitted to refit and supply themselves with
stores by the authorities in those places, in contravention
of the Queen's proclamation, and of the neutrality which it
is the expressed desire of her Majesty's Government to up-
hold. He hoped her Majesty's Government would not re-
fuse the returns for which he asked. Unless these returns
were produced, it would be impossible to discuss the ques-
tions which were likely to arise on the unfortunate condi-
tion of affairs in America, whereas their production would
go a long way to enable them to form an equitable opinion
on many important points, such as the efficiency or non-
efficiency of the blockade, the nationality of the different
vessels that ran the blockade, and as to whether her Ma-
jesty's Government had faithfully endeavoured to carry
out that policy of neutrality to which they were
pledged by the terms of the Queen's proclamation,
and by their own declarations on many occasions. An
hen. member had given notice of his intention to move
a resolution to the effect that the blockade was a mere paper
blockade. If that resolution passed, it would be tantamount
to a war with America ; but in the consideration of that
motion it was indispensable that the fullest information, and
from the most reliable sources, should be in possession of
the house. No doubt vessels had run the blockade, but the
distress existing in Lancashire and Lyons showed that it
was not a paper blockade, and that vessels had left the
Southern ports arose from the fact that the Federal Govern-
ment were not able to effect a physical impossibility, namely,
the hermetical sealing of the ports along 3,000 miles of
coast. The returns he asked for referred to British vessels,
and for this reason, that from general rumour and state-
ments in the newspapers it would appear that British ves-
sels only had attempted to run the blockade. It was noto-
rious that many persons in this country were anxious that
the South should be recognised, and that Br;tish vessels
had left this country and the port of Nassau with munitions
of war for the Confederates in defiance of law and of her
Majesty's proclamation. Tho attention of her Majesty's
Government had been called to these facts, and they had
not interfered to prevent their recurrence. Ho trusted that
no objection would be made to laying on the table of the
house the return for which he moved.
Mr. LAYARD said he regretted being unable to give the
returns required by the hon. member. He did not think it
would be convenient to the h- use that he should then enter
into a discussion of the question as to the blockade. Notice
had already been given that the subject would be brought
before the house in a few days, and probably to-morrow,
but certainly on Monday or Tuesday, papers relating to the
blockade would be laid on the table. He declined to give
the returns moved for for two reasons—first, because the
Government had not got the information ; and next, they
would not feel justified in giving it if they had, He (Mr.
Layard) was quite certain that the hon. member was one of
the last persons who would wish that the Government
should furnish a list of wrong-doers and violators of the
law of nations. The papers that would be laid on the table
of the house would no doubt be deemed sufficient by the
hon. gentleman.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the hon mem-
ber had totally misconceived the matter of law to which he
had referred. His motion implied, and he had stated in his
speech, that owners of British merchant vessels which had
run the blockade with articles contraband of war had been
guilty of illegal acts, and had acted in violation of her Ma-
jesty's proclamation, yet that the Government had not in-
terfered. He had also suggested that the authorities at the
port of Nassau were seriously to blame for having permitted
ships to take on board articles contraband of war, which,he
seemed to think, her Majesty's proclamation had made
illegal, and which, therefore, they could not be permitted to
carry without a violation of neutrality. In all these re-
spects the hon. gentleman had totally misconceived the
power of the Government and of the law. Except so far
as her Majesty's Government had power by law to control
the acts of British subjects they could not interfere.
The only law which would warrant an interference in any
such case was the Foreign Enlistment Act, the whole scope
of which was shortly expressed in its title : An Act to
prevent the enlistment and engagement of her Majesty's
subjects to serve in any foreign sera ice, and the fitting out
in her Majesty's dominions vessels for war-
and equipping
like purposes without permission of the Government." That
act did not apply to vessels carrying articles contraband of
war from this country balmy port, 'whether under blockade
or not, and the Government of this country or of the colonial

Mr. WHALLEY moved for a return of the number of
persons who had completed their education at the Royal
College of Maynooth (Ireland), from the year 1845 to the
year 1861 inclusive ; specifying their names, and, so far as
was known to the authorities of the college, their desti
nation on leaving the college, the position now occupied by
them in the Roman catholic church, and the place of their
ministry; also stating whether any, and, if any, which of
the three Roman Catholic archbishops and the twenty-four
bishops were educated at Maynooth College, or are now
officially connected therewith as visitors, trustees, or
otherwise.
The return was ordered.
PROCEDURE IN COUNTY COURTS AMEND-
MENT ACT.

Mr. BI'M AMON obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the procedure in the county courts.
me bill was brought In ana read a first time.
The house adjourned at half-past 8 o'clock.

PAIRS ON THE MARRIAGE AFFINITY BILL
Ayes. Noes.
Mr. T. Mills Mr. Nicol
Mr. Hussey Vivian Mr. It. Ormsby Gore
Mr. W. Lee Mr. Bernard
Mr. St. Aubyn Sir Charles Mordaunt
Hon. C. Fitzwilliam Sir A. Hood
Mr. Hodgkinson Mr. Muro
Sir J. Johnstone Sir James Fergusson
Mr. Lsatham Mr. Greenwood
Mr. Glyn, jun. Colonel Bathurst
Mr. Beale Colonel Pack°
Lord Enfield Mr. Ducane
Hon. W. Monson Mr. Dawson
Mr, Bristow Mr. Torrens
Mr. Dillwyn Sir E. Kerrison
Colonel Smyth Mr. Dawson Darner
Mr. Roupell Mr. A. Baring
Mr. R. W. Crawford Mr. Richardson
Baron L. de Rothschild Hon. J. Cole
Captain Jervis Mr. Cobbold
Mr. R. Davey Mr. Kekewich
Baron M. de Rothschild Hon. It. C. Hill
Mr. Tite Lord H. Thynne
Mr. Coningham Lord Stanhope
Sir J. Ramsden Colonel Bernard
Mr. Horsman Lord Ingestre

COM Y OF MIDDLESEX.

The ordinary meeting of the magistrates of Mid-
dlesex for the transaction of the business of the
county was held yesterday at Clerkenwell. Mr.
Pownall presided, and there 'ins a very full attend-
ance of justices, there being over 50 present.
The reports of the visiting justices of the prisons
were presented, and considered. In Coldbath-fields
House of Correction there were 1,655 prisoners:—
Felons, 918 ; misdemeanants, 543 ; vagrants, 185;
military offenders, 9; there were 120 boys under 17
years of age. There were 9 prisoners in the infir-
mary, and 101 under medical treatment. One death
had occurred from typhoid fever. Although the
conduct of the prisoners generally had been good,
the committee reported that since the last court
day they had been under the necessity of ordering
corporal punishment on three prisoners for distinct
cases of violent assault, viz., on two of the warders
and on the instructor in the mat room, and they

sentenced them to receive respectively one dozen,
two dozen, and four dozen lashes with the cat-o'-
nine-tails. In the HouEe of Correction at Westmin-
ster there were 533 prisoners, all females. The
committee reported that they had found it necessary
to suspend from further duty the chief wardress,
Frances Pigram, who had been 17 years in the ser-
vice of the county. For some time past the justices
had suspected her of intercourse with prisoners and
their friends out of the prison, and finding that ar-
ticles were privately introduced into the prison, but
by whom the keeper could not detect, they directed
that vigilant attention should be paid to the conduct
of the officers when off duty. They soon had reason
to believe that the chief wardress Pigram, was in the
habit of frequenting a most notorious house, well
known to the police as being frequented by thieves
and other bad characters, which, after much equi-
vccation, the officer reluctantly admitted. The jus•
tices therefore recommend that she be dismissed.
Agreed to. The salary of the keeper was recom-
nieuded to be increased .C 250 to £3OO a year.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL•

Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, a (Court of Common
Council was held at Guildhall for the desploil of
business, the Lord Mayor in the chair. Mr. Wel-
lington Vallence, chairman of the Bridge-house
Estates Committee, presented a report from that
body, to whom it had been referred to watch the
progress in Parliament of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway till and the Thames Embank-
ment Bills. They stated that it did not appear
that the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
Company proposed to take any property forming
part of the Bridge-house Estates, but they contem-
plated an interference with the stairs on the SGUth -
east side of Blackfriars-bridge and the road and
footways in front of Albion-place, which the com-
mittee were of opinion should be opposed. It was
also proposed to repeal a section of the company's
existing Act, which fixes the headway under the
soffits of the railway bridge at 37 feet, and pro-
vides that the headway shall be of such height as
may be prescribed by the Thames Conservators
not being more than 27 feet, nor less than 20 feet.
The company likewise sought powers to lay down
four sets of rails on the level of Holland-street,
Blackfriars, which appeared to the committee
highly objectionable. Turning to the Thames Em-
bankment Bill (north side), the committee find that
its main line will project into the river 130 feet
from the north-west pier of Blackfriars-bridge, and
if carried into effect will interfere with the erection
of stairs on both sides of a new bridge at Black-
friars, and that no provision was made for extend-
ing the embankment eastward of Blackfriars-bridge.
The line also of the proposed new street from the
Mansion-house differs materially from the plan
recommended by the Thames Embankment Com-
missioners. Again, it was proposed by the Bill to
appoint a commission to carry out the works autho-
rised by it, to be called the Thames Embankment
Board, to be composed of the chairman and four
other members of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
and two members of the corporation of London—a
constitution to which the committee strongly ob-
ject. With respect to the Thames Embankment
(South Side) Bill, it is intended to embank the
Surrey side of the river between Southwark bridge
and Lambeth steamboat pier, the embankment pro-
jecting 180 feet into the river from the abutment
of Blackfriars-bridge, and stopping up two of the
present arches. The committee also state that the
embankment at that spot will be six feet above
Trinity high-water mark, and that unless some
satisfactory arrangement can be made with regard
to the Southern side of Blackfriars bridge they
consider the Bill should be opposed. On the
recommendation of the committee the Court adopted
certain petitions to Parliament against the objec-
ionable portions of the Bills in question.

In the House of Detention there were 248 pri-
soners. The resignations of three officers were ac-
cepted, two females and one male. The two former
were recommended for superannuation allowances
on the usual scale, according to their length of ser-
vice. The committee had directed the governor not
to allow for the future solicitors or their clerks to
visit prisoners on Sundays, as they had found that
such a practice, which had been allowed at this pri-
son, was not allowed at Newgate, or the county
gaols of Surrey, Kent, and Essex. The report stated
—" A complaint having been made at the sessions
before the Assistant-Judge thaCa clerk to one of
the judges had been refused admission to this pri-
son, the visiting justices deem it right to lay before
the Court the circumstances which gave rise to the
statement referred to. On Saturday, the Ist inst.,
a solicitor's clerk, accompanied by a gentleman, ap-
plied to see two prisoners. They were passed into
the prison by the gate-warder, and upon being asked
by the warder inside, whose duty it was to receive
them, for their authority, the gentleman declared
he had no authority, but the solicitor's clerk pro-
duced his, and said the gentleman had come with
him. The warder then said that before he
could admit the latter without an authority he must
ask the instructions of the governor, who was at that
time in the male prison. On the warder's return
to the waiting-room to say that the governor was
coming thither, the gentleman informed him that
he was a judge's clerk, whose authority he had re-
ceived to administer an oath to the prisoner. Be-
fore the warder could again return from communi-
cating this information to the governor, the gentle-
man had left the prison. The warder assured the
visiting justices that the period occupied for this
inquiry was considerably under five minutes. The
visiting j astices are quite satisfied with the conduct
of the warder on this occasion, who did his duty
by referring to the governor for instructions,
when a circumstance hitherto novel, such as the
official visit of a judge's clerk to the prison,
came before him. The governor having requested
instructions for his future guidance, the justices
have directed him to admit persons authorised to
administer oaths to, or receive declarations from
prisoners, who shall satisfy him of their authority
to do so."

The report of the Committee for Accounts and
General Purposes recommended the payment to
Wakley, the coroner, of £450 65., for disburse-
ments on 190 inquests, held from the Ist of January
to the 13th instant; to Mr. Humphreys, £361 125.,
for 195 inquests, held in the same period; and to
Mr. Bedford, £6B 18s. 6d., for 33 inquests, the like.
On the consideration of the report of a committee
laid before the Court on the last county day, as to
the propriety of petitioning her Majesty in Council,
under the statute '7th and Bth Vic., c. 92, relating
to coroners, to divide the Western division of this
county into two districts, whenever a vacancy shall
occur, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. KEM-
MEAD, that such petition be presented.
Letters from clerks of the peace of Birmingham
and other places, respecting the inadequacy of the
scale of allowances to prosecutors and witnesses,
were laid before the Court, and replies ordered,
Mr. P. NORTHALL LAURIE moved that it be re-
ferred to the Committee of Justices of the House of
Correction to consider and report upon the expe-
diency of obtaining a Bible woman for that prison.
It was agreed to after a short discussion. The
Court granted the sum of £3O a year for the use of
the vestry-hall at Kensington, for the holding of
the petty sessions of that division. It was com-
plained by several magistrates that the county
ought not to have to pay for the use of local vestry
halls, where they had to attend to parish, and not
to county business, and that applications for the
hire of such places out of the county purse were
shabby, coming from large, populous, and rich divi-
sions which had the gratuitous services of the jus-'
flees. It was urged, on the other hand, that a
suitable place for divisional business should be pro-
vided for the justices, instead of their being com-
pelled to hold their meetings at public-houses.
Agreed to.
The report from the asylums at Hanwell and
Colney Hatch, presented to the Court on the last
I county day, were brought up for consideration.
Some discussion took place upon them, in which
Major Lyon made some very strong remarks upon
some entries made by the Commissioners in Lunacy
in the visiting book of the asylum. Having gone
into the details of a very voluminous report, which
showed that the establishment contained 514 men
and 886 women, the gallant major said the magi-
strates themselves were by law alone responsible
for the condition, management of the asylum, and
the care of the patients, and the commissioners had
acted in a domineering manner in a matter is which
they were as but schoolboys. He protested against
the interference with the proper functions of the Com-
mittee of Visitors of the Asylum upon matters they
did not understand, as was exemplified in the case
of the county of Kent, in the matter of ventilation
to begin with, and he trusted the Court would
pass a resolution approving the course the
committee had pursued, and expressing confidence
in their management of one of the most important of
the county establishments, which- by law was en-
trusted to their sole care. The case of the patient
Geoghan, who was assaulted and subsequently died,
was referred to.
Sir A. Y. SPEARMAN, chairman of the committee,
made a few remarks, in which he said there was
nothing to justify any charge of laxity against the
medical staff, although the appointment of an addi-
tional medical officer war recommended to be made.
In one case, however, he admitted that there had
not been a sufficiently careful examination of the
patient on his admission, or it would have been
found that his ribs were then fractured ; but the re-
marks in the report were not intended as a condem-
nation of the medical officers.
The resolution was adopted.
The report from Colney Hatch was then proceeded
with, and a long discussion ensued upon incurable
patients being sent to the asylum instead of recent
cases. It was strongly urged that it should be im-
pressed upon parochial authorities that the asylums
were erected for the care and cure of the pauper
lunatics, and not receive patients to die and be
buried at the asylum. The report was adopted.
Mr. ANTROBUS moved for a grant of £350 for the
purpose of increasing the domestic accommodation
of the chaplain of the industrial school at Feltham,

s! and.

including minor alterations in the kitchen arrange- He also received bakes'ar cheque_
meats. orders, which he o have entered and ac-
counted for.
The motion was ultimately adjourned until the •
Mr. Vincent Robert Burgess, socretary to the
nest report of the committee was presented. South London District of the Manchester Unity of
The routine lousiness having been disposed of, the
oe, a che
Odd Fellows, said that on the d
th of October,
ue for
1860,
Court adjourned. he forwarded to prisoner, at the q.l g
£7, payable to him as the funeral money of a mem-
ber's wife, and, on the 23d, witness received an
acknowledgment from him. On the ISt h June he
for warded another cheque for £lO for asimi.lar thing,
and he received the acknowledgment on the 24th of
the same month.
Thomas Henry Barnes said he was a member of
the Bud of lope Lodge, any in March, 1861, he
was at the financial meeti,ig the the South London
district when £lO was granted ter the funeral of a
member, and the sum of £2 13s. id., the balance,
was handed to him. Witness paid it te• the prisoner
the same evening, and•he gave the r;ceilot produced.
Ichs
James Pellatt, the pipprietor of the Dlack Bull
public-house, 98, Thames-street, said he a7as
ttreea-
-
surer to the South London District of the Inv'
ter Unity of Odd Fellows. He issued the' two
cheques produced for Ile and £7, and they la ere
returned cancelled by the Bank of England.
Thomas Villiers, secretary of the Providential aM
Humane Lodge, Portsea, said that on the 19th off
June last he sent to the prisoner two post-office
orders for £1 13s. 11d. and £4 10s. as contributions
of a member of the Bud of Hope Lodge named
Thomas Willard.
William Dubbens, secretary to the Brunswick
Lodge at Brighton, said that on the 23d of Septem-
ber last he forwarded to the prisoner a post-office
order for 14 Bs. 10d., the contribution of Mr.
Wigmore.
Mr. Samuel Lovell, secretary to the Social
Design Lodge, Woolwich, said that on the 19th of
November he sent two Post-office orders to the pri-
soner for £5 and £2 4s. Bd.
John Brown, a clerk in the General Post-Office,
produced the Post-office orders spoken of, with the
prisoner's signature to them.
The present secretary to the Bud of Hope Lodge
produced the books kept by the prisoner, and ti:ere
was no entry of either of the sums mentioned,
neither had the prisoner accounted for the money.
In January last the prisoner resigned, and after that
a committee was held, at which the prisoner was
present, and he was told then that his defalcations
were upwards of £250. A list was made out, and
he said he supposed it was right. Witness knew
that the prisoner had received £3 14s. 3d, and
£3los. 6d. to pay the surgeon, which he hail not
done.
Mr. Francis Smith, physician and surgeon, 184,
Blaekfriars-road, said that the lodge was indebted
to him in the sums mentioned by last witness. The
prisoner had not paid him.
Police-constable, 92 L, said he took the prisoner
into custody, when he said it was a bad job.
Mr. Burcham fully committed him for trial, when
Mr. Edwin asked his worship to accept bail.
Mr. Burcham declined to do so, and the prisoner
was committed to Newgate.

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HAMMERSMITH.—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY
A FRENCH WomAN.—Madelene Mohise, aged V,
who was described as a native of Paris, with no fixed.
residence and in no occupation, was brought
before Mr. Dayman on remand, charged with at-
tempting to drown herself in the Grand Junction
Canal.
It appeared that on the evening of Friday, the
7th inst, the prisoner threw herself into the water
from the towing path at Kensal-green, but ,qie was
foitunately rescued in time and taken to Paddington
workhouse, in the Harrow-road. She was unable
to speak a word in English, and after she had been
remanded it transpired that she came from France
with the intention of obtaining a situation, but los-
ing her passport and certificate of character, she was
unable to succeed, and she was reducedto starvation,
and she thought to end her misery by drowning. The
chaplain of the House of Detention kindly interested
himself in her behalf, and communicated with M..
Fleury, the Consul-General for France, and he wrote
to Paris for a confirmation of the prisoner's state-
ment. She was remanded a second time for an
answer from Paris, and yesterday Mr. Dayman re-
ceived another letter from the chaplain, enclosing"
one from M. Fleury, and also a certificate of charac-
ter for the prisoner. M. Fleury's letter was to the
effect that the answer he had received from the gen-
tleman at whose house she was living on the 26th of
January, was, that he had nothing to say against
her, and that he hoped it would be a lesson to her.
He enclosed a certificate of character, in case she
was willing to look for a situation in London, M.
Fleury, in his letter, solicited the chaplain to speak
in her behalf, and, in the event of her being dis-
charged, h€r travelling expenses to Paris were to be
paid, if she wished to return ; or, if she wished to,
obtain employment in London, she would receive
pecuniary assistance.
Mr. Dayman waited until four o'clock, before be
dealt with the prisoner, in expectation that some
person from the Consulate Office would attend to.
take charge of her. However, no person came ;
and, as it appeared that the offices of the
Consulate closed at four o'clock, Sergeant
Warren, of the D Division, was directed to take her
to the Paddington Workhouse for the night, and to
take her to the Consul's office in the morning.
The prisoner, who appeared very poorly attired,
then left the court in the company of the officer.

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MANCHESTER—FEB. 20.
Dry samples of English wheat held for late rates, but
few sales occurred, and damp sorts were quite neglected.
American wheat was taken slowly at ld to 2d per 100 lb less
money. Flour in buyers' favour. Oats and oatmeal were
difficult to quit. Beans and Indian showed little change.