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MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1849.

made to the Commissioners of Sewers as well 89 to your
committee, and as the Commissioners are by law em-
powered to deal with many of the evils therein
described, we refrain from discusing its details. It
would, however, be unjust to Mr. Simon, if we did
not, in this our closing report, express the opinion
of the committee that the public and the corporation
are under the deepest obligation to that gentle-
man fur his zeal and industry in exploring the
abodes of misery and filth, and in fathoming to
their depths the causes and means of propagating epi-
demic and contagious disease, as well as for the ability,
firmness, and courage with which he has given his opi-
nions to the world in a form calculated to awaken rea-
sonable apprehension and to lead to their mitigation and
relief. And your committee cannot close their report
without expressing their opinion in the strongest terms,
and their conviction as the result of information they
have received in the progress of their labours, that it is
the paramount duty of the corporation to appoint some
permanent committee, composed of representatives of
the several wards of the city, to devise and carry into
execution some broad and comprehensive measures for
improving the sanitary state of the city and the condi-
tion of the humbler classes of its inhabitants; and for this
purpose we are of opinion that your committee should be
dissolved.
" All which is respectfully submitted to the judgment
of this Hon. Court•"

The report was ordered to be printed.
NEW GAS COMPANY.

Mr. T. DAKIN brought up the petition of the di-
rectors of a company called the " Great Central Gas
Consumers' Company," for leave to contract with
the corporation to supply the Mansion-house, Guild-
hall, and other public establishments under their
control, with gas, upon the same terms as the con-
tracts entered into with private consumers, for the
purpose of enabling the company to ascertain the
probable amount of their consumption, in order that
they may adapt the extent of their works to the
extent of tbeir requirements.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR, having elicited from the peti-
tioners who appeared at the bar that Mr. Charles
Pearson, Mr. Thomas Dakin, and other members of
the corporation were shareholders of the company,
submitted that the petition could not be received,
because it was opposed to the 40th standing order,
which declared that no member of the corporation
should be at liberty to supply the corporation with
any article for profit.
the objection was, after some discussion, overruled
by the Court, and the petition was received.
Mr. DARIN then moved that
" The prayer of the said petition be complied with,
and that it be an instruction to the several committees
superintending the lighting of the various buildings and
establishments connected with this Corporation to git e
the needful directions therein."
Mr. NORRIS seconded the motion.
Mr. ANDERTON thought that it would not redound
to the credit of the Corporation to accede to the
motion. It had been got up merely with a view to
St. Thomas's-day, and nothing else.—(No, no) He
moved that the petition lie on the table.
It was then moved that the consideration of the
question be adjourned.
On a division it was found that 19 voted for the
adjournment, and 38 against it.
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS opposed the motion of
Mr. Dakin, on the ground that the company existed
as yet only on paper, and that it was premature
to make any arrangement of the kind proposed with
them.

On the motion of Sir P. LLURIE, the question of
adjournment was again put, when there appeared 1$
for it and U against it.
Alderman LiWILENCE maintained that it was ridi-
culous to ask the Corporation to connect themselves
with a company who, it was clearly understood, never
intended to open a single street or lay down a single
pipe. The object was merely to secure a compromise
with the existing companies.
Mr. DAMN denied the truth of this assertion.
On the motion of Mr. TowsE the Court was counted,
and, there not being a quorum present, the Court
adjourned at ten minutes to five o'clock.

IRELAND.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 14.—The case
of Catherine Devine: against Captain M`Manus,
which had been five days on trial, concluded this
afternoon, at half•past three, by a verdict for the
plaintiff-3501. damages, and sixpence costs. The
announcement of the verdict was received with great
satisfaction by a crowded court. The jury were in
consultation only 45 minutes. Not a point has been
reserved for the defendant.

This morning's Freeman contains a correspondence
of immense length between the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt
and Mr. J. o.Connell, and the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt
and Mr. Maurice Leyne, on the subject of the proposed
junction of the Repeal Association and the "Irish
Allance." The clergyman above named has been
making strenuous exertions for the amalgamation of
both sections of Repealers, but it seems without suc-
seas, notwithstanding the fervent desire expressed by
both for an union. The summary of the negotiation is
this : Dr. Spratt suggested that there should be a con-
ference of the Conciliation Hall and Alliance Repealers,
and that this conference should consider the terms of
union. To this proposition the Alliance acceded, and
appointed a deputation, composed of nine members,
to meet a similar number from the committee of
Conciliation Hall. The latter, however, through Mr.
J. O'Connell (who is the entire committee himself),
declined to meet the Alliance in conference, until
they (the Alliance) should unreservedly adopt the
" peace policy " of the Association. Mr. Leyne, on
the part of the Alliance, declared their willingness to
accept the fundamental rules of the Associa-
tion "as founded in 1840," but not what
is generally called " the peace resolutions
of 1846," which Mr. Leyne designates an " unhappy
document. Mr. Leyne likewise offered to refer the
matter to Dr. Blake, R. C. Bishop of Dromore, Dr.
Spratt, Robert Holmes, barrister, and Sir Colman
O'Loghlen, to prepare a fundamental rule to keep the
new agitation within the limits of the Constitution.
Mr. J. O'Connell, in reply to the propositions of his
"misguided and unfortunate relative," says that if the
Alliance party be sincere in their avowed wish to have a
perfectly legal organization, they can have no difficulty
in adopting the resolutions of 1846 (which reserve
" physical force" for self-defence), and the adoption
of which he makes a sine qua non. So the matter
rests—both only agreeing to differ, and apparently,
as far from union as ever. The fact is, neither party
is sincere, for the self-interests of both are antago-
nistic, in 'a way I need not explain just now. So
far as this question of " union ' goes, reason
lies on the side of John O'Connell, for pugna-
cious gentlemen—such as those we hear of,
by the last arrival, boxing in the streets of
New York, and who, by the way, were amongst the
most respectable of the party—would scarcely stand
tamely the supremacy which John O'Connell apes,
in sadly ludicrous imitation of his father. But this
correspondence is marked with a slander upon vir-
tuous misfortune—a dastard stab at fallen greatness,
Which I did not think John O'Connell capable of
uttering or inflicting, I could scarcely believe my
eyes when I read the following passage in his long
letter closing the correspondence, and in reply to Mr.
Leyne's proposition :
--
"I shall not waste time with the totally and Judi.
criously unfounded assertions in his letter, as to the pre-
eminence of the seceders in education, property and
intelligence; and as to their carrying with them the
opinion of the country, Neither shall I trifle with you
by discussing Mr. Ley nk's heroics about Tell and
Washington, to whose names he certainly does not do
much honour in aFsociating them with those of the un-
settled, vaAllating, and dreaming Lamartine, the mock
Rousseau of his day ; and
.the knave and terrorist,
Kocsuth. And the republication of the document of
1846 will answer, sufficiently for all right-minded men,
the strained references to America, Belgium, and poor
—poor Poland I—more enslaved by the distractions
caused by a small faction among her own children than
by the power of Russia."
Such is the competition amongst the steamers at
this station, and the lowness of fares, that immense
crowds of poor people are leaving, even in this cold
tempestuous weather, for Liverpool. Feeling curious
to know the fares, I inquired at one of the offices this
afternoon, and found that the Dublin Company were
charging ls. 6d. each for deck passengers, without
changing the cabin fare; whilst the Waterford Com-
pany, who have put on boats to annoy the Dublin
one, is carrying deck passengers at one penny per
head, cabin 2s. 6d., horses la. each, pigs 3d. a piece,
and other freight at a similar preposterously low
figure.
THE Xusnas.,"(Fernair).—Three per Cent. Consols,
for Opening, 96 /; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent.
Stock, 97* k; Midland Great Western, and Royal Canal,
238 24; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 58 6; Great
Southern and Western, 311; Ditto, Preference, 4 p. ;
Wicklow Copper Mine, 91; Dublin Consumers' Gas, 5.

AWFUL FATALITY IN A FAMILY.—About two
years ago a boy, named Jones, in the employment of Mr.
Robert Grier, of Quatsford, near this town, was sent to
lead a horse, and it is supposed that he tied the halter
round his waist. The horse took fright and ran away,
dragging the poor fellow after him, gallopping across a
hop-yard, jumping two gates, and killing the boy in-
stantly. About six weeks ago a brother of this lad was
killed by falling down among a team of horses and the
waggon wheel passing over his head, leaving a wife and
two children to lament his death. Another brother, in
the t mploy of T. France, Esq., of Marley Hall, was
taking a lot of turk.sys home in a cart on Tuesday last,
when they made a noise which startled the horse, and he
gallopped t.ff. The boy, in endeavouring to stop him,
was knocked down by the shaft of the cart. The wheel
going over his chest and head killed him on the spot.
Thus three fatal accidents of a similar nature have oc-
curred to three brothers within two years. It is but
justice to say that they were all honest and industrious
young men.— Worcester Journal.
A PROLIFIC HEN.—A chicken the property of Mr.
F. Lee, Allendale, Northumberland, which was hatched
about the latter end of April, was discovered on the
9th instant to have brought out seventeen birds upon
some planks on the attics of a cart shed. The mother
of the same brought up twenty-six birds this season.—
Carlisle Journal.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 15.

JUDGMENT-THE ATTORNEY••GENE&AL V. JONES.

The LORD CHANCELLOR delivered judgment in this
case this morning. The information was filed by the
Attorney-General, seeking to charge the defendants
with legacy duty upon certain legacies left to them by
a testator named Morgan. The funds arose out of
the dues from the lighthouse erected on the Skerries
Rock, off Holyhead. The lighthouse was originally
constructed under a grant by patent from Queen
Anne to a person named Trench, who was stated to
have ruined himself by the expense incurred in the
erection and in keeping lights in the house. The
patent so granted WAS confirmed and continued by an
Act of Parliament, in the second year of Geo. 11., to
Mr. Trench and his heirs, who were bound to keep
up ,the lighthouse, and they were empowered to levy
a sum of one penny from every vessel coming within
sight of the light. Subseluently, by an Act of 6 and
7 Geo. IV., powers were granted to the Trinity-house
to purchase all lighthouses erected and kept up by
private indiviluals ; and among others the lighthouse
in question was purchased for the sum of 445,0001.,
and the money was paid to the heirs of Mr.
Morgan, who succeeded Trench under the pa-
tent; that sum was then divided between the
family, and one of them died and bequeathed the sum
of 220,0001., being a portion of the money paid for
the lighthouse to the defendants, and the question
now raised was, whether these legacies were liable to
the legacy duties. If it was decided that the money
issued out of personal property, the legacies would,
of course, be liable to the duty; but if from real pro-
perty, then it would follow that no legacy duty would
be chargeable upon the legacies.
The Le.ai CHLNCELLOR, after going through the
circumstances of the case, and the various statutes
under which the patents were granted, said he had
examined the authorities cited, and the only one
which, in his opinion, affected the question was that
of the Rev. Mr. Cooke (5 Barn. and Cres.), where
the point was, whether certain lighthouse dues were
liable to be rated to the poor-rates. In that case the
ultimate decision was, that the place was not within
the parish, but from the opinions expressed by the
judges, it appeared that they were in favour of con
sidering the lighthouse dues as arising from real pro-
perty. In this case it was evident that the person to
whom the patent was granted was bound to build and
maintain a house for the purpose of keeping up the
light. He thought, therefore, that the dues did arise
from and were connected with real property, and that
they were not liable to the legacy duty.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Dtc. 15.
(Before Sir J. KNIGHT BRUCE.
THE DUKE OF ST. ALBAN'S V. HUGHAM.

The bill in this case was filed for an account of the
property secured under the will of the late Duke of
St. Alban's, and of the proceeds stated to have been
received by the Earl of Yarborough and others, the
defendants, Rho were the trustees of the will, and
the Dowager Duchess of St. Alban's, guardian of the
infant plaintiff, and mother of the late Duke. An
account was also sought of the salary and emoluments
of the office of Hereditary Grand Falconer of Eng-
land, held by the Dukes of St. Alban's, and of the
income of the Bestwood Park estate. The bill prayed
that the income from the above sources might be se-
cured to the plaintiff, and that a receiver should be
appointed during the minority of the plaintiff, and
that an allowance might be made for his support and
education, and that a fit residence might be approved
of by the Master for the plaintiff and the Duchess
Dowager.
His HONOUR made the order as prayed, giving
liberty to the Duchess Dowager to propose herself
as receiver of the salary of the office of Hereditary
Grand Falconer.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 15.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Mr
Justice COLERIDGE, and a Common Jury.)

lIERESFORD V. PHILLIPS.
Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Willes were counsel for
the plaintiff. For the defendant no one appeared.
The defendant was a widow, and had for some
time enjoyed the distinction of being the landlady of
the Plough and Harrow public-house, at Leytonstone.
The plaintiff's father kept another public-house at
Lea-bridge, and it entered into the head of the plaintiff
that he should like to supplant Mrs. Phillips in the
management of the Plough and Harrow. Accord-
ingly negotiations were entered into, and the plaintiff
was informed by the defendant of the quantity of
beer which was consumed upon her premises. She
wanted 1001. a year for the premises, which she held
under a lease at 601. a year, and she also required a
considerable sum, no less than 6001., for the goodwill
of this Plough and Harrow. The defendant had been
supplied with beer by Messrs. Charrington and
Head. The plaintiff therefore went to them to
know something of the " doings" of the house,and
he also wanted a little assistance from them in
the way of capital. Messrs. Charrington and Head,
however, first informed the plaintiff that the widow
had a little exaggerated the state of things, and they
added that they could not advance him any money
unless he procured the original lease. In consequence
of this the parties again came together, and it was
agreed that the plaintiff should pay 2001. for the
stock, 600/. for the goodwill, and should have the
lease; but the defendant expressly covenanted that
she would not herself set up a public house or beer-
shop, or assist any one else to do so, or become servant
to any one doing so, within a mile of the Plough and
Harrow, under a penalty of 1001., as liquidated
damages. The plaintiff took possession, but in a
short time, to his surprise, he found the widow busy
at work in one of her cottages, about 20 yards off,
fitting it up as a beer-shop, and afterwards endeavour-
ing to get custom there ; and she was extremely par-
ticular in procuring a sign, called the Anchor and
Hope, to be put up, and she gave express direc-
tions that this sign should be taller than the
Plough and Harrow, which was completely put
in the shade. The defendant told a :gentleman,
when taken a little off her guard, that she
was determined to ba revenged on Messrs.
Charrington and Head, and she had actually been
endeavouring to dispose of this beer-house, asking,
with great modesty, 160/. for the goodwill of the
Anchor and Hope. The plaintiff then brought this
action upon the covenant into which the defendant
had entered. Witnesses were called who made out
this case, and there being no defence, the jury found
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001.

the Excise-office sales, the produce of parties who
had eluded the law. There was a large body of
Excise-officers, whose duty it was to protect them in
carrying on their legal trade, but they had neglected
to do so. If the law gave them further powers by
the recent enactment, he wished to see them carried
out fully, and it would be for the benefit of all. He
had carried on a legitimate trade, until he found that
his legitimate trade dwindled down to nothing at all.
An illicit trade was no advantage to him, but he
found himself completely undersold by his neigh-
' bours, that he sold under it for four or five years, and
no notice had been taken, which he hoped would be
a reason for mitigation. HA he had the slightest
knowledge that they had power to seize this polish
he must have been a madman to run the risk, for he
had other business besides selling this article. Had
he received notice it would have prevented the in-
fraction of the law, which was rather the object than
the punishment for it. _

The COURT gave judgment in the penally of 1001.
W. Sykes, oilman, 7, York street, Middlesex
Hospital; Vin. Gilbert, 64, Tottenham-court-road,
oilman; Philip Chambers, 4, Red Lion-street ;
Thomas Macaulay, 47, Curtain-road, Shoreditch,
varnish maker ; Edward Smith, Aylesbury-street,
Clerkenwell, oilman ; George Gee, Wood•street,
Old street road ; and Thomas Hahon, 58, Bath-
street, St. Luke's, were similarly convicted in
penalties varying from 50/ to 2001.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
LAMBETH.

Julia Collins, a notorious character, was finally ex-
amined before the Hon. G. C. Norton, on a charge
of being concerned, with four persons already com-
mitted for trial, in drugging and robbing a gentleman
named Stone of a valuable gold watch, chain, and
seals, and a purse containing about 141. in gold and
silver.

The prosecutor identified the prisoner, and said,
that upen being forced into the house No. 2, Sussex-
place, Dover.road, by two women named Plummer
and Hills, he saw the prisoner, who was the owner of
the house, come down stairs.
A witness named Davis deposed that on the day
after the robbery the prisoner came to where he lived
and exhibited a gold watch, chain, and seals, and
mourning ring, which she said she had taken from a
gentleman on the night before. She also said that Plum-
, mer and Hills brought the gentleman to her house;
that two pints of gin had been brought in, and that the
gentleman was " dosed" by a mixture of snuff in
the glass of gin which he drank; and that as soon as
he went to sleep his purse had been taken from him
and its contents shared among the two women,
Plummer and Hills, and two men, Stephens and
M'Donnell, who went away. The prisoner then en-
deavoured to get away the gentleman's watch, but,
though perfectly stupid, he held it so tight that she
was obliged to cut the bottom of his fob off, and get
the watch in that way.
The barman at a public-house and the constables
swore to having seen the prisoner in company with
the four persons already committed for trial on the
morning of the robbery.
Sergeant. Goff, 8 L, said that from information
given to him on Wednesday last he :apprehended the
prisoner at Croydon on that night, but found none of
the stolen property on her.
In reply to the questions of Mr. NORTON,
Sergeant Goff said that he had been informed by
the witness Davis, who had been examined on Thurs-
day, and who was not now present, that he had given
information to two sergeants of the M division of the
fact of the property stolen being in the possession of
the prisoner, and said that if they had used the least
exertion the property would then be found on her;
but they refused to have anything to do with the case,
and finding this he (Davis), in ten days after, came
and told him (Goff) of the matter.
Mr. NORTON, on hearing this, charged Sergeant
Goff to communicate the particulars to the superin-
tendent of the AI division, that an inquiry might be
instituted, as it was a matter which, in his (Mr.
Norton's) opinion, should receive the fullest investi-
gation ; and if it was found that the witness had given
information as he had stated to the police, and that
they had neglected to act upon it at a time when the
stolen property could be recovered, the officers so
acting were unfit for their situations, and should not
only be discharged frois them but severely panished.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, DEC. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to .day was very inactive,
the less satisfactory accounts of the London Stock Exchange
producing a depressing • influence. But little business was
transacted.