The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Oct. 3.

The October quarter session of the peace for the county
of Middlesex commenced this morning, at the Sessions
House, Clerkenwell, before Mr. Serjeant Adams, the
assistant judge, and Mr. Witham. There were 76 pri-
soners for trial— 64 for felony, and 12 for misdemeanor.
The Assistant Judge briefly charged the grand jury.
Charles Waller, 23, omnibus conductor, pleaded guilty
to an indictment in which he was charged with having
feloniously embezzled the several sums of one shilling,
one shilling and fivepence, and eightpence, received by
him for and on account of John Wilson and another, his
employers.
Mr. Bodkin, on the part of the prosecution, stated that
the prosecutors were the proprietors of the "Favourite"
omnibuses, and had about 300 men in their employ.
During the day each omnibus performed so many jour-
neys ; and it appeared from a calculation which he held
in his hand that if 6d, per journey were purloined by the
conductor the loss to the prosecutors would amount in
the year to no less than 6,700/. The prisoner at the bar
had been in their service as a conductor, and had pleaded
guilty to three distinct charges of having defrauded them
of fares he had received. Conductors in the employ of
Messrs. Wilson were paid four shillings per day, and in
addition received various articles of clothing, which
ought to place them beyond temptation. It had been
Mr. Wilson's unfortunate duty to prosecute parties for
similar offences on a former occasion, and he then hoped
that his doing so would have had the effect of deterring
others ' • but it did not appear to have done so, and he
trusted that on this occasion such a sentence would be
passed as would act as a warning for the future to per-
sons employed in the same capacity as the prisoner.
The prisoner was sentenced to 9 months' hard labour.
John Davies, 50, was indicted for having stolen the
sum of 231. 10s., belonging to John Shore.

From the evidence of the prosecutor, a, simple-looking
young man, it appeared that he had been in business
as a baker and confectioner, at Bungay, and having
given up his trade and sold off, he carne to town by the
steamer fi om Yarmouth on the 25th of August, with the

intention of emigrating to Australia. Whilst taking
dinner at an eating-house he got into conversation with
a young man to whom he communicated his intention of
emigrating, and the young man informed him that he
was also about to proceed to the same destination—
Australia, and it was arranged that they should go to
Liverpool together next morning. At the young man's
request they went to a public-house and called for beer,
and as they were drinking it the prisoner entered, and
the young man informed him that his companion and
himself were about to leave this country for Australia.
The prisoner observed that he thought it was the best
thing a young man could do nowadays, and in a few
minutes they were all three in a deep conversation on
the subject of emigration. The prisoner said he had
just come home from the colonies in the Sarah Sands to
look after some property which had been left him in
Worcestershire, but he found that his money commanded
so low a rate of interest at home, that he had determined
to invest a little of it at Geelong, where the interest
would be considerable, and he wished he could meet
with some young fellow going out there, with whom he
could trust 1001., and who would look out for a store
for him at Geelong. To show that this was not mere 1
boast, the prisoner pulled out a piece of paper, which he
alleged was a 501. note, and he showed the prosecutor
the word " fifty" in the corner of it, and a massive ring,
which he said was made from the very first "nugget"
he got at the " diggings." The bait took effectually.
It was suggested that the prosecutor should be the young
man entrusted with the task of finding a store, and tak-
ing charge of the 1001. ; the plisoner was willing that it
should be so, and it was at length fully determined upon.
The prisoner said if a proper receipt stamp was produced,
he would at once advance the money, and the "young
man" said he would fetch it, and asked the prosecutor
to accompany him. The prisoner remarked that they
would return as a matter of course. The young man
declared he would return immediately, and was about to
leave when he turned round, pulled out his pocket book,
and threw it into the prisoner's hat, as much as to say,
" There, take that, it is all I possess, and therefore you
may rest perfectly assured that I shall return." Before
depositing it in the hat he opened it and showed the
prosecutor its contents, which appeared to be gold or
imitation gold coin, and the prosecutor, anxious to show
his good faith in an equal degree, unhesitatingly pulled
out his purse, which contained 231. 10s. in gold, and left
it with the prisoner as security for his return. He and
the young man went out ; the prosecutor went into a
shop to get a stamp—when he came out his companion
was gone, and when he got back to the public-house ho
found to his dismay that the prisoner, the pocket-book,
and the purse were gone too. Passing through the
Minories last Saturday fortnight the prosecutor happened
to see the prisoner, and he gave him into custody. The
" young man" had not since been found, nor had any of
the money been recovered. The prosecutor positively
identified the prisoner.
The jury found him guilty.
The Assistant Judge said there could be no doubt that
the prisoner was a regular depredator, and that the
"young man" was his accomplice. He sentenced him
to be kept in penal servitude for four years.

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.
The special report of the directors of this company
alludes to the public discussion which is taking place in `
Canada with regard to the railway policy of that country,
as to the attempt now being made by the Grand Trunk
Company to construct a rival competing line to the Great
Western Railway, and thereby forde it into an amal-
gamation with its gigantic opponent. 4. The report
states that, between the years 1834 and 1839, acts
passed the Canadian Legislature; by which the present GUILDHALL.—Edward John Pickering was placed
Great Western Railway was constituted, and which gave ' at the bar before Alderman Lawrence, charged with ob-
it power, to construct lines bf railway from Niagara taining a bill of exchange for 6001. under false pretences.
Falls, through Hamilton and London, to Windsor and Mr. H. F. Wood appeared for the prosecution, and
Port Sarnia. The scarcity of capital in Canada itself, stated that the bill in question was what was termed a
and other circumstances, tended to delay for several '., geritleman's" bill, and it was intrusted by the prose-
years the progress of a work which .had always been cutor to the prisoner on the reeresenta,tion that he knew-
looked upon as 'of such great provincial importance.. "-Mr:' Hodges, ' the distiller:, of Lambeth, and that that
The board at length, therefore, endeavoured to create a gentleman would discount the bill. But on the day
foreign confidence in the undertakind. In their pub- appointed for prisoner to hand over the money he wrote
lished reports they shadowed forth the idea of a trunk to prosecutor to postpone the appointment, on account
line of railway, passing throughout the whole length of of Mr. Hughes not being in town. Several appoint-
Canada. In 1849 they succeeded in obtaining an act of ments were afterwards made between them, but the pri-
Parliament, permitting the Government, under certain Boner made a variety of excuses for not keeping them,
conditions, to guarantee the interest upon the bonds of and the prosecutor having at length heard that prisoner
railway companies in Canada, and in 1850 they procured had negotiated the bill without handing over the pro-
the passage of an act authorising municipal corporations ceeds, gave information to the police and had him appre-
to become shareholders in railway companies. Acting headed.
upon the faith of these proceedings, which were always Mr. W ontner appeared for the prisoner, and said he
held to be the recognition of the Great Western as the was prep: bred to show the bona fide nature of the tran-
first step of a great provincial system of a trunk line of saction, a s far as his client was concerned ; but that as
railway, the directors were enabled to procure the the preset alter bad proposed to let the matter stand over
support of, the leading railway authorities in the for a few - days, he was willing to accede to it, in the
United States, who had lines abutting on the two hope th at an amicable arrangement might be made.
extremities of the peninsula of Western Canaria which Alderman Lawrence said he could not adjourn a case
found their best and most natural connection along the without bearing any evidence, and the prosecutor was
Great Western line. The Canadian Parliament on the then call:ecl aasworn.
30th of August, 1851, passed, an act by which it was Jas.: leott said—l ant a commission agent, and live
proposed to construct a main trunk line through Canada, at 10, P r ospect-place, Gravesend. I had a bill for 6001.
under a guarantee from the Imperial Government. The intruste d to me for discounting purposes, in the be-
report quotes several clauses from the Railway acts, to ginning of September last. It was drawn by me, and
show that the Great Western Railway was intended tobe accepte dby Mr. Mickleham, of Bryanstone-square, and
a part of the main trunk line through Canada. Upon the was (I: sted September 7, 1853. I received the accept-
faith of this and certain provincial guarantees, the direc- ance in. blank, and showed it to the prisoner, and told
tors were enabled to induce English capitalists to ein- him I would not draw it until I knew if it would be,
bark money in the undertaking, particularly as it seemed discounted. He said Mr. Hodges was a friend of his,
by the acts of the Canadian Parliament to be protected and he ;thought he would discount it directly. I told
against the adoption of a wild and reckless system of cola- him to 111 ake inquiries about the acceptor, and ascertain
petition. The Great Western Railway Company and its iif he was sufficiently respectable to induce Mr. Hodges
friends applied, in 1852, to parliament for authority to to discount the bill, and if satisfactory, I would draw it.
make a railway from Hamilton their then eastern termin us This conversation took place at the prisoner's residence,
to Toronto, which was granted, the act of parliament con- 5, Caroline-place, Brompton, on the sth or 6th of
taining the following words in the 2d clause, viz. ; —lle i S9pternber,, kind on the following day I met him, aud he .

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

said he had seen Mr. Hodges and required the bill for
6001. I then made an appointment to meet him at the
Bay Tree Tavern, in St. Swithin's-lane, on the ensuing
day, on which occasion I met him and gave him the bill,
having previously drawn and endorsed it. An appoint-
ment was then made for the next day for the prisoner
to hand me over the money, but instead of coming to
meet me he sent a note,, in which he stated he had not
been able to see Mr. Hodges, but that he would bring
me the money on the following day. He did not do so,
and a few days afterwards I received another note to the
same effect, stating that he was to meet Mr. Hodges at
four o'clock on the same afternoon, and wishing me to
make an appointment to meet him in the evening near
the Strand. I (lid so, but he never came ; and I subse-
quently received a third note, in which be said he had
no intention of doing me out of the bills (alluding to
two other bills in another transaction as well as the ono
in question), but that he would act fairly towards me. I
heard afterwards that the prisoner had received 3001.
for the 6001. bill, and in consequence I gave information
to .he police to apprehend him.
Cross-examined--I gave no consideration for this bill,
because I was the drawer. I wished to oblige Mr.
Mickleham with an advance of money, and he was to
have had 4001. as his share of the bill.

in his own collection, although it properly belonged to
a different walk. Mr. Fricker followed him out of the
branch office, and asked him if he had such a letter in
his possession. He replied, in the negative. Mr. Fricker
then took the prisone.r s bundle of letters from his hand
for the purpose of examining them, and asked him if he
had any others about him ? He stated that he had not ;
but, on being searched, no fewer than 63 were taken
from his hat, besides two others from his coat, the whole
of which bore the stamp of Sept. 28, and ought, there-
fore, to have been delivered three days previously.
The prisoner admitted that he had detained the letters
from sheer laziness. They were subsequently delivered
by Inspector Cole.
The prisoner was committed for trial for the misde-
meanour.

SOUTHWARK.—SeveraI occupiers of common lodg-
ing-houses in the vicinity of Tooley-street and Snow's-
fields, very low localities, and densely populated by
Irish, were summoned before Mr. A'Beckett for unlaw-
fully allowing a number of persons of both sexes to sleep
in their rooms, such not being properly cleansed and
registered according to the new act.
The first case taken was against Daniel 111‘Cartity,
an old man, occupying a dirty house at No. 11, Mag-
dalen-court, Tooley-street. This house has been some
time one of the filthiest lodging-houses in the Borough,
and Sergeant Wright, 42 A, proved serving a notice on
the defendant, signed by the Commissioners of Police,
on the 13th of November last, calling upon him to have
his house properly cleansed, and put in the condition re-
quired by the Act of Parliament, previous to its being
registered under the Common Lodging-houses Act. The
defendant had neglected to do so, and on the 14th of
last month Sergeant Smith, 54 A, accompanied by Ser-
geant Wright, proceeded to the house in question be-
tween one and five o'clock in the morning. The house
only contained three small rooms. There were two
beds in each room, in which slept twelve persons. They
were covered with filth, and there were no partitions to
separate the sexes. The water closet was also very bad,
and all in such a condition that the Commissioners of
Police could not register it. The whole of the occupants
of the rooms were low Irish.
Mr. A'Beckett stated that the Act of Parliament re-
specting houses of that description was one of the best
that had been passed for the health of the poorer classes
of her Majesty's subjects, and he should always be happy
to put it in force, especially when cholera was spoken of
in some of the thickly populated parts of London. He
should therefore inflict a penalty of 40s. and costs on
the defendant, advising him, at the same time, to have
his place properly cleansed and registered before he ad-
mitted other lodgers.
The next case was against Patrick Connell, another
Irishman, renting a filthy house containing three small
rooms, at No. 3, Palmer's-rents, Snow's-fields.
The officers found three married couples in one room,
all huddled up together, on the floor, with no partitions.
This house was also not registered, and in a most filthy
state and full of vermin.

Alderman Lawrence —And how much were you to
have ?

Prosecutor—The prisoner undertook to get 5701. for
the bill, 4001. of which was to go to Mr. Mickleham,
351. to the prisoner, a similar sum to myself, and the
balance of 1001. was due to me upon another transac-
tion, and was to have been given to Mr. Johns, a gen-
tleman living at Dalston, who instructed me to get the
bill discounted for Mr. Mickleham. I have seen Mr.
Young frequently on the subject, but did not receive the
bill from him. These are the written instructions I re-
ceived from Mr. Johns. I heard that prisoner had re-
ceived the money, and the information came through
Mr. Hawker. I do not know Mr. Clark, of Oxford-
street.

Daniel May said—From information I re,...eived I went
to 5, Caroline-place, Brompton, and ascertained the pri-
soner had removed from there on Friday night last. I
traced his goods to Manor-gardens, Chelsea, and from
there to 1, Charlotte-street, King's-cross. I went there
yesterday, and the prisoner was denied to me ; but I
went up stairs, and found him in an apartment he occu-
pied, and which was very poorly furnished. I told him
what was the charge, and he said the bill had been taken
to Mr. Hodges and returned to him, and he subsequently
gave it to Mr. Kirk, and it would be produced here to-
day.

Cross-examined—He said he wondered be had not
received the money on Saturday, but that he certainly
would have it on Monday. He said he had been offered
3001. for the bill, and refused it ; and Mr. Scott had told
him to take 4001. for it, if he could get it.
Alderman Lawrence asked if Mr. Hodges was present
to negative the prisoner's assertions.
Mr. H. F. Wood said he was not, as the prisoner bad
only been apprehended on the previous evening, and the
officer had not had time to make all the necessary in-
quiries.

Mr. A'&ckett fined this defendant also 40s. and costs

Mr. Wontner said he was quite willing to agree to an
adjournment if the prisoner were admitted to bail in his
own recognisances.

John Guirley, the occupier of No. 2, Palmer's-rents,
was also fined 40s. and costs, his rooms being filthy in
the extreme, and the house in such a state that the com-
missioners could not register it. There were children,
men, and women all lying promiscuously together, and
the defendant had refused to put it in a condition for
registration.
Three other cases were withdrawn, sufficient notice
not having been served on the occupiers.

Mr. 'Wood said he should decidedly object to such a
course now, as the prisoner had been keeping out of the
way, and would probably do so again.
Alderman Lawrence suggested that all the bills should
be given up to their respective owners, as it was without
doubt a downright swindling transaction altogether.
Mr. H. F. Wood and IMr. Wontner denied that there
was any swindling on the part of their respective clients.
Alderman Lawrence said ho believed it was a swind-
ling transaction, but the parties concerned need not feel
aggrieved by his observation, as he had mentioned no
names, and it could therefore injure no one. He there-
fore remanded the prisoner, to afford him an opportunity
of adopting the suggestion thrown out; but he could not
part with him till something satisfactory was done.

THAMES.—Florence Driscoll, aged 23, a powerful
and tall Irish labourer, was brought before Mr. Ingham,
charged with violently assaulting a respectable young
woman named Emma Gooding, and attempting to vio-
late her person.

This was one of the most flagrant cases ever brought
before a police court. The offence was perpetrated in
the open street, the complainant resisting and screaming
in vain until released be the police, after receiving many
bruises.

MANSION-HOUSE.— William Brewer was brought
before the Lord Mayor in custody of George Scott, the
detective officer, charged with having robbed his em-
ployers.
Scott said at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th

Mr. Ingham said this was a case that could not be
properly punished under the old or the new statute re-
lating to aggravated assaults on females, and ho should
commit the prisoner for trial.

of September, I saw the prisoner go from Wood-street,
from the warehouse of Messrs. Brettles, in a titled cart.
He turned down Gresham-street, and went along Alders-
gate-street, Goswell-street, and Great Sutton-street,
where he stopped. I saw him very busy at the back of
the cart for about a quarter of an hour. I then walked
up to him and observed him sewing up a bale which he
had in the cart. After he had completed the sewing up,
he raised the board of the tilt of the cart, and shoved
the needle underneath out of sight. About twenty
minutes had elapsed by this time. He then went
through St. John-street, turned and passed into Smith-
field to the Rose Inn booking-office, leaving his cart,
and I directly got up and opened the horses nosebag
which was in the cart, and in the nosebag I found the
parcel containing a quantity of cotton. He then re-
turned to the cart, and I told him that I was an officer,
and that I took him in charge for stealing the truss or
bale he had just booked. He made no reply, and I con-
veyed him to the station-house. I afterwards found the
needle in the tilt.

NAV AL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT, 3,

The gunner (Thomas Webber) of the Crescent, re-
ceiving-ship at Rio, was tried by court-martial this
morning, on board the Victory, on a revolting charge.
The charge, after due investigation, was declared not
proved.
The Sidon, 22, paddle-frigate, reported as coming up
last evening, made Spithead to-day.
The Banshee sailed for Woolwich, to be paid off.
The Stromboli, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Hall, left
Spithead to-day for Rio.

The Encounter, 14, Captain O'Callaghan, was un
docked to-day, refitted.

The Tribune, 30, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie,
came into harbour to-day to be docked.

SHEERNESS, OCT. 3.
The Tyne, 4, store-ship, Master Commander, Peter
Wellington.—A fatal and most distressing accident—if
it may be so called, happened on board this ship yester-
day, between 6 and 7 o'clock a.m., in getting up anchor
her below the Nore, from a cause well-known to all
sailors. The anchor, when nearly up to the bow, ran
away with the capstan, by which one poor fellow was
killed on the deck, by being hurled with terrific violence
against the ship's side, and several others received most
severe injuries. The Tyne has only an assistant-sur-
geon on board, and it is much to be regretted that the
poor sufferers, instead of being sent down to the sick
bay of this ship, had not been sent in here in the steam-
tender Wildfire, and put on board the Waterloo, where
the whole naval staff of surgeons in port could have been
immediately summoned by signal to their relief.

Isaac Edmonds, a person in the employment of
Messrs. Brettles and Co., said, we received an order to
send some goods to Evans and Co., of Monmouth, and
I looked over part of the goods, amongst which was a
quantity of cotton. I put a red ticket upon it, and I
believe the parcel produced is the one.
Frank Hooper, warehouseman to Messrs. Brettles and
Co., said, I examined the bale addressed to Messrs.
Evans and Co., and compared it with entries made in
my book. There was a packet of cotton deficient.
The prisoner was remanded in order that the depo-
sitions might be made out.
Charles Barham, was charged under the following
circumstances

11. J. Webb, clerk on the Eastern Counties Railway,
at the Brick-lane station, said—the prisoner is a market
porter in the same employment with myself, and it is
his duty to come to the station and receive from me
paper, called a delivery sheet, on which is written the
description of the packages, to whom they are to be de-
livered, the weight and the amount charged for the
carriage, &c. His duty is then to make out a copy of
that delivery sheet, and receivefrom the persons to whom
the packages are directed the amounts charged, and
after receiving them to hand them over to the clerk or
collector at the market. On the 12th of September I
delivered to the prisoner the delivery sheet produced, on
which there is the following entry "Newby, 67 baskets
and 8 bags, weight 43cwt. 3qrs. 101bs., and a charge of
41. 11s. 4d." He should then have copied that on the
freight note, and receive the money and pay it to the
collector. The frieght note produced should have cor-
responded with the delivery note, but instead of corre-
sponding it has been made out as weight 45cwt. 3qrs.
101bs., instead of 43cwt. 3qrs. 101bs, and the charge 4/.
14s. 4d. instead of 4/. lls. 4d.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 3,

Tier Majesty's frigate Leander, Captain St. Vineeni
King, sailed yesterday afternoon for the :Mediterranean

The Desperate screw steam-frigate, 8, Captain W. W
Chambers, came in yesterday afternoon. She was de-
tached from Admiral Corry's fleet in consequence 01
having sprung her foremast.

The Queen is discharging her powder in the Sound ;
she will go up Hamoaze this evening at 6 o'clock, or to-
morrow morning at 6. The Agameninon's foremast is
sprung. The Vulture's main cap is defective, and por-
tions of her machinery are out of order.
Admiral Corry will probably cruise for three weeks
longer.

WOOLWICH, OCT. 3.

APPOINTMENTS.

Mates.—John C. Patterson (1852), from the Excellent
gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, to the Amphion, 34, screw
steam-frigate, 'Western squadron ; Spencer M. 'Wilson
(1852), from the Terrible, paddlewheel steam-vessel, of
the Western squadron, to the President, 50, at Chathm,
for service as flagship on the Pacific station ; Robert H.
Boyd (1851), to the Arab, 12, sloop, at Chatham.
Assistant-surgeon.--Owen J. Llewellyn (1851), to the
Boscawen, 70, guardship of ordinary, at Chatham.
Midshipman G. T. Key, to the Excellent.
Clerk.—Gabriel J. Kenyon (1850), to the Madagascar
receiving-ship at Devonport.
Clerks' Assistants—H. F. Alldrichs, to the Madagas-
car ; 'William 'Ward, to the Ajax, 58, screw steam-ship,
at Devonport ; John Rivers, to the Boscawen ; R. Nut-
ford, to the Impregnable flag-ship, at Devonport.
The Rhadamanthus steam store-ship, Master Corn-
mander Belam, left Woolwich this forenoon for Chatham.
The Banshee steam-vessel, Commander Hosken, ar-
rived at Woolwich to-day, to be paid off about the end
of the present week. She will then be repaired and have
her defects made good, and, as her commander was re-
cently promoted, it is probable Master Commander
Allen will be appointed to re-commission her, and the
crew of the Lightning be turned over and serve under
their present commander in the Banshee.
The Lightning steam-vessel and the Rosamond steam-
sloop were taken out of the docks to-day and into the
basin, and the Janus out of the basin and into dock.
The Spiteful steam-sloop was also taken out of the basin,
and remains in the stream, ready to he docked to-morrow.

William Gaven, inspector of the Eastern Counties
Railway, proved that the prisoner, upon being appre-
hended, said that his handwriting was at the foot of the
freight sheet.
W. Minell, collector for Leadenhall-market, in the
employment of the Eastern Counties Railway Company,
said—lt is my duty to receive the money from the pri-
soner which he had previously received at Billingsgate
Market. On the 12th of September he brought to me
the delivery sheet produced, and paid to me 4/. lls. 4d.
for 67 baskets and 8 bags, as delivered to Newby.
The Lord Mayor said he would send the case to the
Central Criminal Court, as Fart of a most dangerous
system of robbery.
Five able-bodied Jersey seamen, who were sent to the
Lord Mayor by the Consul at Hamburgh, applied to his
lordship for relief in their destitute condition. They
stated that on the 19th of September they bad been
wrecked in the Albatross, of Jersey, near Cronstadt, on
their voyage to the Baltic, and that they were anxious to
reach home, but had no means whatever of defraying the
expense to be necessarily incurred.
The Lord Mayor—Then, I suppose, you are not sub-
scribers to the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners'
Royal Benevolent Society.
The seamen said they regretted to state that they did
not belong to the society.
The Lord Mayor—lt is a society which does an im-
mense amount of good. I find by the public documents
connected with it that the numbers relieved last year
are—of shipwrecked persons, 2,948 ; of fishermen and
mariners, subscribers, to replace clothes, boats, nets,
&c., 1,930 ; of widows, orphans, and aged parents,
1,664. I shall read a. passage from the last report cal-
culated to show how essential it is that all seamen should
contribute to the support of so admirable an institution.
" The objects are carried out by local committees and
500 honorary agents established at convenient distances
on the coasts, who, on all occasions of shipwrecks in
their districts afford immediate relief (including medical
aid, if necessary) and as soon as possible send the suffer-
ers to their homes. In the performance of this duty they
act on the broadest basis of Christian charity, foreigners
as well as natives being equally cared for. In order,
however, to encourage moral and provident habits
among our fishermen and. mariners it has been judged
expedient to establish a scale of relief in addition to
aid afforded at the time of the shipwreck, available
to those who subscribe so small a sum as half a
crown annually. These receive an allowance agreeably
to the scale, either to replace their sea stock of clothing
or restore their boats, nets, &c., as the case may be ;
and in the event of their being drowned or killed, their
widows and orphans are immediately attended to, and
relief from 6/. and upwards where there are four or more
orphans, is sent from the Central-office as soon as the
case is established."

THE ADMIRALTY INSPECTION OF HOLY-
- HEAD HARBOUR.
On Saturday Sir James Graham, Admiral Dundas,
and Captain Milne, Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, accompanied by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir
Baldwin Walker ; Colonel Greene, director of works :
and Captain O'Brien private secretary, inspected the
progress of the works of the new harbour. They pro•
ceeded in the Admiralty barge to the proposed entrance
of the harbour. Their lordships, on landing, entered
two of the railway waggons, which were fitted up for
their accommodation ; these were attached to one of
the steam-engines,. carrying them along the line of
railway on the timber stages (a height of nearly 40
feet above the sea at low water, and from which the
stone is deposited) to the end of the north break-
water. After inspecting the mode of depositing the
stone from the iron waggons, and the arrangements
adopted for carrying on this portion of the works, they
proceeded to visit the stone quarries, in which some largo
mines had been previously charged, of similar magnitude
to those witnessed by her Majesty and the Royal party,
upon their recent visit to Ireland.
Soon after 12 o'clock their lordships witnessed the ex-
plosion of the mines, by the voltaic battery ; the first
fired with a charge of 3,000 lb. of gunpowder, was shortly
succeeded by the simultaneous explosion of! two mines,
in which were contained nearly 7,000 lb. The heavy
rumbling noise, resembling distant thunder, and a dense
volume of smoke, ascending from the floor of the quarries,
indicated the disturbance that bad taken place in the
mountain, bringing down a superincumbent mass of
about 50,000 tons of stone, and manifesting the power
of science in reducing nature to its service on so grand a
scale ; enormous masses of rock lying piled upon each
at ihoa
other, ready, as it were, to the hand of the quarrymen
for loading into their waggons.
b akTheir lordships then proceeded to the landing place of
the harbour,oh
t be
their
gratification
inclinetifi ca ti
on railway for
attentionre-em theyr
expressing
received from Mr. Bendel and Messrs. Rigby, and at
the satisfactory manner in which the works of this great
national undertaking
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arlerdsip
being conducted.
returned to
Shortly after
to the Black
Eagle they left for town, by the Chester and Holyhead I
Railway.

His lordship then sent Munday, one of the confiden-
tial Mansion-house officers, to the society, for the pur-
pose of representing the condition of the applicants.
The messenger soon returned with an assurance to his
lordship that the most prompt attention was paid to the
case, and that the poor seamen should be immediately
relieved and sent to their home.

His lordship said that the exertions of the society
would be powerfully seconded by the public liberality.
The answer was scarcely received by his lordship when
three other applicants, in similar circumstances, ap-
peared before him, and equal attention was paid to his
lordship's recommendation in the latter instance.

BOW-STREET.—Thomas Thompson, a letter-carrier,
of six years' standing, in the Pimlico district, was
charged with having 64 letters in his possession.
Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, prosecuted.
It was proved that, owing to the frequency of com-
plaints respecting the non-delivery of letters in the
neighbourhood of Vincent-square, the district inspector
of letter-carriers, Mr. Fricker, took means to ascertain
with whom the blame rested. He watched the course
of a letter addressed to a Miss Manning, and supposed
to contain cash. It was placed with*" to be sorted,
and while the letter-carriers were ass g in this duty,
the prisoner was observed to include the (irk° in question

TURKISH TRIBUTR.—The second series of the deben-
tures on the loan effected for the Pasha of Egypt in this
country last November, in order to enable him to pay
the Turkish tribute in advance, fell due on Saturday,
and the amount, with interest, 137,8001., was paid to
the holders at the offices of the Peninsular and Oriental
Cornimuy.