The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-12 00:00:00

NEW BILLS.

Mr. BOURKE obtained leave—to bring in a Bill for
the better preservation of sheep, and the more speedy de-
tection of receivers of stolen sheep, in Ireland.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtained leave to bring in a
Bill to continuo., for a limited tine, certaintemporary
provisions relating to the collection of grand jury cess in
Ireland.

Both Bills were afterwards brought in and read a first
time.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
On the motion of Mr. CHARTERIS, the following
gentlemen were nominated as a Select Committee on the
Eastern Counties Railway Company:—Mr. Charteris,
Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Roebuck, Mr.
Henley, Mr. Ord, Mr. Disraeli. Sir David Dundas, and
Mr. Monsell.

Tho House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock till
Monday.

THE RATE IN AID BILL.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 11.
The following are lists of the Majority and Minority of
he Peers who voted upon this Bill:

CONTENTS.
Effingham Clanricarde Colborne
Spencer Carlisle Minto
Montfort Lansdowne Campbell
Scarborough Cremorne Grey
Cottenham Eddisbury Westminster
Yarborough l'onsonby Dowoshire
Carrington Erskine Breadalbane
Craven Teynham Longford
Camoys Granville Waldegreve
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Westmeath Saye and Sele Leigh
Strafford Lilford Beeborough
Devon Byron annors.
Foley Cowper Durham.
Devonshire Bruce Manchester
Burlington Elphinstone Ripon:
Fortescue llowden Worcester

NON-CONTENTS.
Roden Downes Hill
GlasgoW De Iros Ashburton
Redesdale Sandys Galloway
Lucan Blayncy Abercoru
I lawarden Winchilsea Ralifurlf
Lorton Mont eagle Abin ger
Caledon Wicklow Drogheda
Stradbroke Sligo Londonderry
3lountcashel Beaumont Romney
Clarina Crofton llar rowby
Enniskillen Egkiont Wharnclilfe,

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posse Boston Comberinere
Templemoro Fitzwilliant ARCHBISHOP.
Desart Belle Dublin
Ely Dow•usbirs BISHOP.
Castlemalne Manchester Cashel

PARLIA.MENTART COMMITTEES. SMITLIFIELD
MARKET.—On Thursday, on-the re-assechbling of this
Committee, Mr. Mackiuuon in the chair, additional
evidence WB3 taken as to the nuisances connected with
Smithfield-market. Mr. Langbam, butcher, of Edg.
ware-road, was of opinion that the substitution of 'two
markets on the north-eastern side of the Thames
would remedy the evil,
and obviate the great incon-
venience that now arose from the driving of animals
through London. Of the 4,000 butchers in the metro-
polis not half slaughtered their own meat. There was
no combination in London to keep up the price of
meat, though there was a combination of butchers,
bankers, and salesmen, to keep up Smithfield-
market ; and witness had been " mobbed," and
threatened with violence the other day in Newgate-
market, on account of his having given evidence be-
fore the Committee. Several sergeants and inspectors
of the City Police were then examined, and spoke to the
rushing of bullocks into the London Coffeehouse, tied
the smashing of glass iu Fleet and Bridge-streets.
There ware thirteen police b.) day and seven by night
to keep order. There was by no means sufficient space
for the animals. This occasioned what was called
the "ring drove," the main cause of cruelty ;
and this might be avoided it the room was
adequate. The habit of "pething," or hitting
a bullock hard behind the horns, was a very great
cruelty ; and twisting the tails until they broke,
another ; though there was no more cruelty exer-
cised by drovers at Smithfield than by jockeys at
Newmarket. Comparatively speaking, no accidents
occurred. Mr. Norris, a member of the Common Coun-
cil, said he had constantly occasion to pass through
Smithfield, and the violence inflicted, from attempts
made to accommodate the mass of beasts on the insufficient
space, were disgraceful and provoking. The drivers
were almost educated in cruelty. There were 67 houses
in Smithfield-market and 13 public houses, or one in
every five. The other shops were where butchers' and
drovers' tools were sold, and coffee and eating-houses
which depended on the drovers. Iu the streets imme-
diately leading out of Smithfield the public houses were
one in seven; in other ordinary streets, one
0 in
0 19.
the whole of the city of London there were 15, houses,
and out of these 650 were public-houses,
or at the,rate
of one in 25. The chief trade encouraged in Smithfield
was that of public-houses and gin palaces. Other trades
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were proportionably discouraged.
The
-, and there was
a difficulty iu letting lodgings.
The e gave the worst
kind of lodgers.
accommodation, and took iu the lowest trades within
The market encouraged the most offensive
p of
the market deteriorated house ro p arty; propinquity
_making, cat-skinning,s
kitnsancekigerhsb,oyuarhrdoso,d,bsounceh as .
b
bone-boilers',
the entrails of sheep into islaerusb', gea
and etublishments
fiddlestrings.for Those
portions of parishes abutting on the market were the
poorest o. any 11,k London, r •and the health, safety, and
convenience of the inhabitants demanded its removal.
The present market could not be enlarged to the extent
of halt an acre without very great outlay. About 2,000
cabs and carts had to go round the market on market
days. Tho managers of the Eastern Counties and Great
Western Railways had told him that thousands of bu!-
locks came by rail without blotch or blemish, leaving it
to be interred that they were injured after leaving the
rail. The Committee thee adjourned.

The Lady Arabella Hesketh was safely delivered
of a son at Rutford Hall on Wednesday last.
POISONING AT BATH.—The adjourned inquiry into
the death of Henry Merchant was yesterday renewed at
the Guildhall. The prisoner Mrs. Harris had so far
recovered as to be able to 'be brought up. She and the
other prisoners were accommodated with seats. Several
witnesses were examined to show the terms of intimacy
subsisting between Mrs. Harris, then Mrs. Marchant,
and the male prisoner Harris, and to prove the purchase
by her in April last of arsenic at the shop of Mr.
Bright. The Rev. Dr. Starner, rector of St. Saviour
Walcot, deposed that on Friday before the marriage the
male prisoner Harris applied to him for a marriage
license, and said he wished, if possible, to be married
the next day. He was told the license would not be re-
ceived till Sunday's post, and he then said he would be
married on the Monday. Inspector Sutton deposed to
having searched the apartments of the prisoners the
Shaylors. In u box of linen he found a small bag, con-
taining 40 sovereigns; another bag, with 150 sovereigns
and 32 halt-crowns; and a third bag, containing 6 halt-
sovereigns and LWO half-crowns; a fourth bag, containing
5 crown pieces and 16 half-crowns; a piece of rag, con-
taining 8 half crowns; a fifth bag, containing 45 four-
penny pieces and some sixpencLa; a purse, containing 92
farthings and some halfpence and penny-pieces; a
stocking, containing a half-sovereign; a silver watch, a
duplicate ticket of another watch, 12 women's dresses,
&c. The inquest was then adjourned.

THE PHONETIC NEWS.—The following joke ap-
pears in the Man in the Moon:—
Sakred
2 do memmuri oph
DE FONETIC NUZ,
witch expiured Martsh, 1849,
aphtur lingering 4 sum weex,
in de gratlst pane
oph de publisher's windo,
knott witi itself, but de core oph wit in edits;
itz desees will be sinseerli regretted
by itz survyvivg publisher.
Afflixyuns soar long time it boar,
Fizishunz was in vane;
It wood knot sal, so down it pbel,
And eye hope dey, went tri it agane.
WitEes.-witx-xfs-m•T ITN irAilisy!!

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I MAGAZINES, tcc.—(CONTINUED.)
THE BELLE ASSEMBLEE.
The Belle AssembVe is adorned with a fanciful
portrait of Effie Deans, the hapless " Lily of St.
Leonard's." One of the best, because the most prac-
tically useful, of the many excellent articles in this
Magazine, is from the pen of Elizabeth Youatt—" A
Lament and a Lesson." The lament consists in a
v.idow's tear falling cn the bridal dress of her
friend; and the lesson is suggested by her heart-
touching exclamation —" I was not grieving so much
for his death, but because I am afraid I did not make
him as happy as I might hare done !" In the
hands of Elizabeth Youatt, this simple sentence
becomes the text of a most beautiful and
impressive sermon. It concerns not those who weep
for friends departed, but all who are blest with living
ones to love. It gently exhorts them so to act that
they may never have occaion to cry in heartbroken
accents, " I did not make them as happy us I might
have done." The accomplished edicress of the
Belle Assemblee this month adorns its pages with
one of her always-interesting papers.

THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN.
Because the Journal of Design contains a variety
of designs, and descriptions of those designs, it maV
be supposed that it is chiefly adapted to the artist or
the manufacturer. It is likely to bo v:ry useful to
both these individuals without doubt, but it will he
chiefly useful to that vast holy entitled general
readers. To these it may be of essential service, it
will convert them into general observers, and
tend greatly to develop their pewerS of Per-
ception and discrimination.. It is difficult, in-
deed, to say for whom the Journal of
Design is not designed. In the drawing-room
and boudoir it will be invaluable, its suggestions and
its criticisms will be of infinite advantage to the fair
arbitresses of taste and fashion ; and, moreover, it
gives no inconsiderable exercise to the reasoning
faculties, for it is not content with telling us that such
a thing is beautiful, and such another is the reverse,
but it shows the why and the wherefore in a manner
that is as interesting as it is instructive.

MAY 12, 1349.